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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
MEXICAN TROOPS JOIN
SEARCH FOR AMERICAN
Rancher of Sonora Believed to
Have Met Foul Play-Miss-
ing Since Thursday.

By the Associated Press
NOGALES, Ariz., May "A SQUAD
OF Mexican soldiers from the 64th
Regiment at Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
and a detachment of Nogales, Sonora
police left there this morning to join
cowboys and ranchers in a search for
George Jarrl, American rancher, who
has been missing from his home, near
Qu1Jano, Sonora, since last Thursday
1t is feared that Jarrl, who is a we'll
to-do cattleman and rancher of So
nora, has met with foul play and the
soldiers, police and cowboys will comb
the vicinity of his ranch home in an
attempt to find him.
Jarrl's riderless horse, with the
saddle turned underneath and bearing
the marks of a hard journey, return
ed to the ranch last night. Officials
say they have nothing on which to
base suspicion of foul play, but they
believe it possible that he has been
shot by bandits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
BABY FARM DEAD
INCREASED T023
Added Victim Said to Have
Died of Neutrality-suspicious.
an Held for Inquiry.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 9-The baby
. death toll of Mrs. Helen Auguste
Geisen-Volk's East Eighty-sixth street
baby farm" has reached %, it was
ANNOUNCED by the authorities today
The woman, widow of a Prussiar
army officer, and a former German
Red Cross nurse, was held for investi
CATION by the grand jury.
The twenty-third victim, a 2-year
old boy. died at Bellevue Hospital last
night. His father had taken him from
Mrs. Gefsen-Volks S baby farm" yes
terday morning to the hospital for
treatment of ailments said to have
been caused by malnutrition and neg
lect.
Mrs. Geisen-Volk was held on a
charge of fAving attempted to give
a strange baby to William Anferer
when he called for his own child
stephen, months old, last Tuesday
The Angerer child still is missing, and
a half-dozen children taken from the
baby farm" remain at Bellevue, un.
identified and unclaimed
Held i'm S36, 1000 Bail.
Mrs. Geisen-Volk offered no defense
when arraigned. Her bail of S35, ,OOO
on the substitution charge was con.
tinued and the magistrate imposed
additional bail of 81, 900 when chill.
dren's society agents charged the
woman with having violated the terms
of her city license in that she had
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column e.
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TR0TSKY BACK, SHIFTS
IN SOVIET CABINET DUE
Likely to Be Chief of Supreme
Economic Council-Trend to
Right Indicated.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 9.-Leon Trotsky's
return to active political life, 1t is
believed in diplomatic quarters, is
likely to involve an early rearrange-
ment of the cabinet portfolios. Leo
mid Krassin, recently appointed am
bassador to France, probably will
be transferred from Paris to the
vice presidency of the Soviet Repub-
lie, assisting Premier Rykoff. Kras-
sin may be succeeded at Paris by
Christian Rakovsky, charge daffaires
at London.
Trotsky, it is thought, will be chief
of the supreme economic council,
succeeding Djerjinsky, who is likely
to be appointed commissar of internal
trade.
Also, Zinovieff may be relieved as
head of the Communist International
and assigned to other duties, while
Leo kameneff of the council of COM
missars is rumored to be slated to
take over that post and modify it's
policies and activities.
These and additional changes, in
dicating a trend to the Right, prob
ably will be announced at the Fed
eral Congress of Soviet States which
opens at Moscow Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OSLO, Norway, May 9.-Since
no direct news has been received
for two days from RoaId Amund-
sen there is speculation here of
possibility that the explorer may
already have actually started upon
his attempt to dash to the North
Pole by airplane from some point
near SpitZbergen and that news of
the effort has been withheld until
his return.
Those who advance this con-
lecture, despite the fact that all
weather reports have shown un-
favorable conditions in the North
that would be calculated to prevent.
the proposed flight, point out that
Amundsen delights in startling the
world and that a spectacular way
of doing that would be the an
nouncement not that he has started
a dash to the pole, but, instead,
an announcement that he has al
ready dashed there and back.
The understanding in Oslo (the
Norwegian capital, formerly known
as Christianity was that Amundsen's
final start by airplane for the pole
would be made from Virgo Bay at
Danes Island, where Walter Well
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
RUM ROW BREAKS
UNDER BLOCKADE;
LARGE SHIPS LEAVE
Signs of Disintegration, First
in Years, Reported by
Dry Fleet.
ENFORCED HOLIDAY CUTS
BIG HOLE IN FINANCES
Officials Here Seek Means to Ex-
pand War on Liquor
Smugglers.
By the Associated Press.

BoS Inc AssOCidteu 1Tess
NEW YORK, May 9.-Wireless re-
ports from the rum row blockade zone
TO Capt. w. V. f. Jacobs, command
ant of the Coast Guard at New York,
today told of signs of the disintegra-
tion of the whisky armada that has
been off the mid-Atlantic coast, on and
off, ever since the prohibition law went
into effect.
Capt. Jacobs said no details had
been given in the MESA ges, which
were sent from the cutter Mojave,
Flagship" of the blockading dry
navy. The messages coincided with
reports received at the New York dry
feet headquarters stating that sew
eral of the largest vessels had pulled
hp anchor and departed because of
their enforced holiday since the block
ede went into effect last Tuesday.
Movements Are Checked.
Patrols and converted submarine
ehasers of the dry fleet bobbed along
through the fog after the departing
craft, to make sure they moved sea-
ward and not merely to new positions
on the row. 1t was not known where
the contraband carriers were bound.
With the arrival of the fog-the
DlOCkdQ0 up 10 To-Day was Conducted
with all conditions favoring the Gov
ernment forces-the Guardsmen in
creased their forces, a dozen patrols
and a few more chaSers, some of
them with new engines capable of
80 knots, went out to the blockade
zone.
The rum runners were expected to
take advantage of the swirling mists
to seek land to some of their liquor
for the week end trade of the Great
White Way, along which approach
ing aridity has been reported in the
past few days. One of the shore to-
row runners made a try at it today,
but failed.
Rum Boat Escapes.
The rum runner got to one of the
guarded whisky carriers in some
manner and started for shore with
100 cases of the contraband. But a
vigilant Government boats crew
sighted it and gave chase, firing as
1t pursued. The fleeing rum boat
jettisoned its cargo to increase its
speed, and made it's escape. But the
Government men said it took no
liquor ashore with it.
Two of the twelve dry Navy boats
which returned to the Staten Island
base today had been rendered virtually
useless by mechanical trouble. Ones
engine was disabled, while the second
had lost a propeller. Guardsmen said
they were convinced the bootleggers
had either bribed hitherto trustworthy
mechanics in the Government en-
ploy to make inferior repairs or had
placed some of their men in the Gov
ernment service.
Capt. Jacobs, admitting that he and
other Coast Guard officers had re-
ceived threats of violence and death.
said that bootleggers also had
threatened to bomb the barge office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
MISSISSIPPI HOLDS
VICTIMS OF WRECK
23 Listed as Dead; Reason
for Disaster Undetermined.
Hulk Located.


MEMPHIS, May 9.-The Missis-
slppl River tonight still held the
bodies of those lost when the steamer
NJ. Z. Norman sank last night.
IWenty-three persons remained un-
accounted for and are believed dead.
Others who escaped the Inflated
steamer, chartered for a river trip by
the Engineers of the Midsouth, were
listed as safe. after a check by city
officials
Plans to lower diver from a barge
anchored above the ill-fated Norman,
which sank 16 miles south of here.
were abandoned temporarily late this
afternoon, when wind and a driving
rain made the venture impracticable.
Buoy Marks Hulk.
Two Government boats. two barges,
and a buoy which marks the spot
where the Norman went down, re-
manned on the scene tonight and to-
morrow the work of reclaiming
bodies of persons believed to have
been trapped in the cabin of the YES.
sci will go on.
Maj. d. H. Connolly, chief of the
United States Army Engineers in
the Memphis district, announced to-
night that Col. Charles H. Potter,
president o. the Mississippi River
Commission, and two divers will ar
rive tomorrow from st. Louis. They
Will go to the scene of the disaster
from the train.
Since the hour of the tragedy, $40
O'Clock yesterday, every means avail
able has been in operation to re-
claim the Norman wreck and it's con-
tents.
The Government boat, Viola Puc-
kett, put out from Memphis this
morning with Government officials,
diver and salvaging equipment
aboard. The Choctaw, towing a
dredge, was plying the waters when
the second ship arrived.
Ship Is Located.
After more than eight hours
dredging, the Sunken ship was To-
Gated early this afternoon when an
anchor brought piece of the wheel
to the surface. Soon after a bucket
plank came to the surface. the anchor
lifted a curtain from the Normans
pilot house, and with the location
thus fixed, a buoy was fioated to the
spot.
During the morning scores of per-
sons from the Memphis vicinity lined
the Tennessee side of the river,
watching the ponderous Choctaw as
she drug her anchor along where the
ship went down.
Maj. Douglas Gillette, assistant to
Maj. Connolly, today explained for
the first time why passengers failed
to find lifeboats available when the
ship capsized. BY Maj Gillette's in
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MAY 10, 1925.
GERMAN DELEGATES HESITATE
TO JOIN UNKNOWN HERO RITE
TeutOn WOmen at World Meeting Fear UnpIeasan
Incident or Misunderstanding Might Result
From Participation.

The German delegation to the In
ternational Council Of Women con
vention probably will not attend the
exercises at the tomb of the Un-
known Soldier today for two reasons:
First, they fear that some American
or allied mother might be offended by
the presence of the wife of man
who might have killed her son. per
haps the Unknown himself, on a
French battlefield.
Second, they feel that the partici-
patton of American Army and Navy
officers in the ceremony gives it a
slightly different tinge than il it were
purely gathering of mothers
The question of attending the cere-
monies has been a vexing problem to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10

the German women here, entirely out
of respect to the American women
and for fear of some incident that
might lead to misunderstanding.
This was explained last night by
DIR. Van Huelsen Reiche, wife of the
celebrated German novelist and
daughter of the former mayor of Ber-
lin.
The delegation will attend Mother's
day exercises in the churches, Mrs.
Van Hue1sen said.
THE members of the German dele.
CATION she said, 'honor the memory
of Americas unknown as they honor
the memory of all who died in the
terrible catastrophe from which the
world has suffered. We would be
glad to go to Arlington and pay
Continued on Page 8, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
TODAY'S STAR.
PART ONE=36 PAGES.

General News-Local, National and
Foreign.
Schools and Colleges-Page 18.
Current News Events-Page 26.
At the Community Centers-Page 20.
Girl Scout News-Page 26.
d. A. r. Activities-Page 27.
Y. w. C. A. News-Page 27.
Around the City-Page 28.
You and Uncle Sam-Page %.
Veterans of the Great War-Page %.
Radio News and Programs-Pages 80
and 81.
Campfire Girls-Page 81.
Army and Navy News-Page 80.
Boy Scouts-Page 80.
Fraternal News-Page SO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
Dry agents Poker
Debts DisulIO,Ued
In McCarI Ruling

Government agents may be reim-
bursed for living at high priced
hotels. making lavish expenditure
on social events and buying liouor
10 obtain evidence for prohibition
enforcement, but Controller General
McCarl draws the line on gambling
debts.
In decision made public yester-
day' the controller general declin-
ed 10 approve prohibition agents
expense account that included
losses of about $50 at rouletta
poker and faro. The opinion was
brief, but positive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
AGED BIOGRAPHIES
IN SCHOOLS TO CO
Kaiser, Gar and Pre-War
Things in General Are in
Text of 16,500.

All obsolete Biographies now IN use
in the District public schools will be
replaced at the close Of the current
scholastic year with modern and up
to-date text books 1t was announced
last night by Supt. Frank w. Ballou.
Approximately 16,5o0 Of the anti
quated Biographies which speak OF
the Kaiser of Germany and the Car
of Russia and abound in other in
formation conspicuously inaccurate,
are still in the hands of the pupils.
but orders have been given for their
condemnation when the schools close
in June. They will be replaced, be
fore the beginning of the new term in
September, with new books, replete
with modern maps and authentic data
showing the historical and geographic
cal changes wrought in Europe as a
result of the World War.
DIR. Baflou also has ordered from &C
tive use 10000 biographies purcha sec
since 1921 which are no longer on the
Board of Education's authorized list o
text books. These will be retained
however, for reference purposes only
Issued Prior to 1921.
The obsolete geogra phies now used
were published prior to 1921. Virtual
ly all of them are in the fifth. sixth
and seventh grades of the elementary
schools. Many are ragged and torn
others are filthy from long use.
Replacement of the out-of-date geo
graphies will cost the public schools
about $4,000. 1t will mark the first
definite step taken by school authori
ties to rid the system of antiquated
books. and has been made possible
through the practice of rigid economy
by every employe from teacher tc
janitor. Congress gave the schools
only $4,000 more for supplies for the
current fiscal year than it did in 1924
and large portion Of this increased
appropriation went to provide supplies
for the enrolment increment.
Purchase of the new books will bt
| made for the first time on a large scale
under a vertical open list recently
adopted by the officials. Heretofore
purchases have been made on a CLOSED
list. Under the new policy the super,
vising principals will be permitted tC
select from a list of authorized books
the texts which they think best suited
for the pupils of the schools unde,
their supervision.
The replacement program of the
school authorities contemplates the
early condemnation of all other obso-
lete text books and supplemental lit
erature.
Will Cost $4,000.
Maj. Raymond o. Wilmarth. bust.
ness manager of the school system
estimates that it would cost approx
mately $4,000 to replace all other an
tquated text books. exclusive of the
geogra phies.
OF the s50,000 needed to modernize
the textbook situation, Maj. Wilmartl
has figured that $4,000 would have tc
be spent for new geographical read
ers, $4,000 for new globes and wal
maps, $4,000 for modern civic books
for the seventh grades. $4,000 to com.
plete the replacement of language
books in the fourth grades, $4,000 tc
complete the replacement of physi.
ology and hygiene books in the fifth
seventh and eighth grades and s3.5Ot
for up-to-date arithmetics for the
fourth grades.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
PART THREE-12 PAGES.

usements-Theaters and the Photo
play.
Music in Washington-Page 5.
Motors and Motoring-Pages 6, Z, s,
8, 10 and IL.
District National Guard-Page II.
Serial, 1.-The Seven Sleepers'-Page
IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
1000, ,0c0 Lumber Mill Burns.

|. GROVELAND, Fla, May lA.Pl-
Fire that started In the planning room
of the j. Ray Arnold lumber mill to-
night completely destroyed the plant
causing loss of 81 900 900, estimated
by the owner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
PART TWO-18 PAGES,

Editorials and Editorial Features.
! Washington and Other Society.
Notes of Art and Artists-Page 4.
Reviews of Spring Books-Page 4.
! Tales of Well known Folk-Page IA
News of the Clubs-Page Is.
Parent-Teacher Activities-Page 1S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
FIRE RISK SURVEY
OF D. c. PLANNED
Underwriters Inquiry Ex.
pected to Aid in Campaign
for High Pressure.

Shortly after the Washington Board
of Trade officially starts it's cam
paign tomorrow for the installa ton
of a high pressure water system in
downtown Washington, the National
Board of Fire Underwriters will un-
dertake an exhaustive survey of the
entire fire-fighting facilities of the
National Capital to decide on a con-
tinuation of the present insurance
rates. or whether new rate is nee
essary.
The survey, which will take from
three weeks to n month to complete.
probably will be started the latter
part of this month by a special group
of engineers. The National Board of
Fire Underwriters, under whose aus
pices the investigation will be made,
is the official body representing all
the fire insurance companies III the
country.
The intention of this organization
to conduct this survey i'm the Ma
tional Capital was learned by David
NJ. Lea, chairman of the insurance
committee of the Washington Board
of Trade on Il recent visit to New
York City, where he conferred with
L
row, Mr.. Lea and Samuel j Prescott
president of the Board of Trade, will
officially visit the District Commits
sioners on the part of their organiza-
tion to urge the city heads to include
estimates for a high pressure water
system in the downtown area IN the
next budget.
Plan Survey in Baltimore.
n similar survey will be under
taken in Baltimore, and immediately
that is concluded the survey will be
started here, probably under the di-
rection of the national boards chief
engineer, G.. w. Booth, who will be
assisted by other expert engineers.
This examination will include the
testing of hydrants. the water flow.
the water pressure, the distribution
and amount of fire apparatus as well
as its efficiency. the type of buildings
to be protected, their inflammability,
the number of men on the fire force
and other data.
According to Mr.. Lea it is about
Continued on Page S, Column g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10
NEW HAGUE PARLEY
PROPOSAL PLANNED
Way to Induce America to
Join a World Court
Thought Found.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Proposals for third Hague confer
ence to discuss the attitude of the
participating nations toward war with
a view to framing new code of inter
national law will be advanced for
adoption at the International Parlia-
mentary Union meeting here Oc-
tober /.
The belief is strongly entertained in
congressional and administrative cir
cles, it developed yesterday, that
should the nations find they can agree
upon a code of international law to
be applied by a world court, as the
Supreme Court constructs laws OF this
country, and imposing conditions MAX
ing war Improbable by prohibiting
the annexation of territory and the
imposition of indemnities, the United
States would then join a world court
without reservation.
Senator Mckinley of Illinois, who
saw President Coolidge yesterday on
his return from Paris, where he was
member of the executive committee
arranging details for the meeting of
the union here, made comprehensive
report and predicted an attendance of
approximately 200 delegates from the
Old World, with liberal representa-
tiOnS from the Latin American ma
tions and about 25 delegates from Can
ada, to whom special invitations were
sent by Secretary Kellogg.
Senator McKinley's Report.
Senator Mckinley reported that Eu-
ropean statesmen had abandoned all
expectation of the United States join
no ha r - rnkt
European nations this Government is
recognized as the most powerful ma
tion in the world. he stated, and all
are anxious to obtain its moral sup
port. They want the United States in
some kind of world court he added
ana II this country is opposed to the
machinery now provided the present
member nations will be found willing,
ne predicted, to change it.
In certain Republican congressional
quarters there is a feeling, attributed
In part to the knowledge that the re-
cent speech of Ambassador Houghton
at London was an expression of a part
OF the administrations policy; that the
fresfdent believes there is a strong
evidence of national sentiment in this
country for an Americanization or
Amerfca-first policy, and that the ad-
minlstration will direct such a policy
giving close attention to all matters
! aHectlng American interests.
In these circles it Is asserted the
President has reached the conclusion
that the time has come when Ameri-
can interests must be closely guarded
1t Is believed that the proposals to
be made for another Hague conyen-
ton is part of the administration g
program to bring this question to the
front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10

Magazine Section-Fiction and Fea-
lures.
The Rambler-Page 3.
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PART SIX-12 PAGES.

PART SIX-12 PAGES.
Classified Advertising.
Civilian Army News-Page 8.
Financial News-Pages 10, IL and II.
GRAPHIC SECTIONS PAGES.
World Events in Pictures.
COMIC SECTION PAGES.
Mr.. Straphanger: Reg'lar Fellers; Mr..
and Mrs; Muth and Jef.
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PART FOUR PAGES.
PART FIVE-8 PAGES

Pink Sports Section.
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WEATHER.

90. q. Weather Bureau Forecast1
Unsettled today and tomorrow; prob
ably occasional showers; not much
change in temperature.
Temperatures-Hig 69 at
pm. yesterday; lowest, Al at pm.
yesterday. Full report on page s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-10

The Star is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to Washington homes at
90 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000
and service will start Immediately
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GRAPHIC SECTIONS PAGES.
COMIC SECTIONA PAGES

World Events in Pictures.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-03
UdelIe Corson

Udelle Corson, aged % years, the
eldest child of Walter and Kate
Leavitt Corson, died at the home of
his parents on the River road,
Thursday about noon. He had been
critically i'll with double pneumonia
with typhoid symptoms about two
weeks and has had two trained
nurses in attendance, who were as
sisted by the family and Ralph
Ames, a member Of the Skowhegan
lodge, knights of Pythias. Mr.. Cor
son was pressing hay in Hartland
when taken i'll and continued to
work for several days before giving
up and coming home. He was born
In Athens and was the oldest of 10
children. He was a very small
child when his parents purchased
the farm on which they now reside,
SO nearly all his life he has lived IN
this town. He was educated at the
Parker school on Nthe River road. He
is a member of the Hartland knights
of Pythias lodge. He has many
friends who are grieved by his
death. He is survived by his par
ents and the following brothers am
sisters: Mrs. Viola Gustafson OF
Clinton; Vernard, Vivian. Velma.
Stanley Albion, Aubrey Raymond
and Hilda, all of whom reside at
home.