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Evening star., 1925-04-24
WINFIELD JONES
INDICTED WITH 10
Accused by Federal Grand
I Jury of Dry PIot-TriaIs
in Baltimore.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 24.-Indict-
ments were returned by the United
States grand jury here today against
IL men who are charged with con-
spiracy to violate the Federal prohi-
bition law. Among them are Winfield
Jones and n. T. Jones, sons of the
Rev. Charles Jones, superintendent of
League.
A separate indictment was returned
against Thomas A. Nolan, Federal
prohibition agent at Pittsburgh. He
was accused of having accepted a
bribe of $3.50 from the Maryland Drug
Co. of Baltimore.
The arrests of those concerned were
made recently at Atlanta, Washing
ton and Baltimore. The Government
alleges a conspiracy to defeat the
prohibition law through the diversion
of alcohol to illicit channels by fraud
ulent use of permit held by the
Maryland Drug Co. to withdraw alco.
hol ostensibly for the manufacture of
toilet waters and other patent prepa-
rations.
Mrs Eva England. bookkeeper for
the company. and Milton Summers.
shipping clerk, were not indicted
They were granted immunity for tes-
tifying before the grand jury and will
be used as Government. witnesses.
United States. Attorney Amos w
w. Woodcock said he would immedi-
ately have steps taken to transfer
to Baltimore the men arrested in
Atlanta and Washington. All the
cases will be tried here. it is said.
The arrests followed a raid made
on the Offices and storerooms of the
drug company at "a South Charles
street where a large quantity OF
alcohol was seized.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
STATE DEMORALIZED.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BUTTE, Mont, April 24-king
Winters most bitter Springtime on
slaught yesterday unleashed the ele-
ments on Montana and left a snow
covered State, high running streams
and partly paralyZed transportation
and communication systems.
Small hamlets were marooned, high
ways were blocked with huge drifts,
wires were down, industrial traffic was
demoralized and railroad traffic seri-
ously affected by the Winters fieeting
lash. Clearing skies over a greater
portion of the State today promised
relief, along with the weather man s
predictions that the storm would move
eastward.
Butte prepared to dig itself out of a
20-inch blanket of snow left by the
Storm. which diminished last night
and was followed by rain. Corps of
workmen began to repair the damage,
estimated at $4,000, which the storm
caused in the city to power lines and
traffic lanes.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
President to Receive Descendants
Of Capt. Coolidge of Lexington Fame

has the distinction of being the
nearest relative of the President
outside his immediate family.
Others in the group will be Mrs.
Frances L. Smith of Battle Creek,
Mich: Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Coolidge,
jr., of Atlanta, Ca, and DIR. and
Mrs. Marion E. Cady of Takoma
Park, d. C.
Mr.. Coolidge today tentatively
accepted an invitation to make an
address at the meeting of the Ma
tional Council of Congregational
Churches in this city on October
20, next.
The invitation was extended to-
day by a committee representing
the National Council, headed by
Rev. Charles f. Carter of Hart
ford, Conn. The introductions were
made by Rev. Jason Noble Pierce,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church, where the President and
Mrs, Coolidge worship,
Evening star., 1925-04-24
BALKANS MOBILIZE
ARMIES IN FACE Of
BULGARIAN THREAT
Three Nations Act to Check
Spread of Terror Across
Their Borders.
ALLEGED BRUTAL MURDER
OF RED SUSPECTS DENIED
Rumania and Jugoslavia Rumored
Ready to Act Against
Sofia if Provoked.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Dispatches from Sofia continue to
minimize the seriousness of the Bull
earian situation. but indirect reports
from other Balkan centers picture
conditions as grave.
Balkan states are said to be taking
military precautions against the spread
of the terrorism in Bulgaria. which
Jared to its high mark with the re
cent attack on King Boris. assassina-
tion of Gen. Georghieff and bombing
70 Of the Sveu Kral Cathedral. where
$50 persons were killed
Rumania is reported to be moving
troops toward both her Russian and
Bulgarian frontiers. Jugoslavia is
guarding her border. indirect advices
say. Greece is mobiliZing a part of
her army. but will not intervene un-
less Greek frontiers are threatened.
Greece Sees Threat.
Greece. according TO these reports.
will regard an increased Bulgarian
army as a menace to the Balkan
status quo. Greek agents are report
ed en- route to Belgrade to renew me-
eotiations for a Greek-Jugoslav ALI
ance.
Rumanian intervention will follow
any attempt to esta blish a Communist
republic in Bulgaria, II is declared in
dispatches from Bucharest, where
sensational accounts of the Bulgarian
situation have been received.
Belgrade dispatches to London say
a serious diplomatic conflict between
Rumania and Bulgaria appears pos
sible unless Bulgaria abandons her
suspicion of Jugoslav completely in
the campaign of terrorism in Bull
garia. Jugoslav officials deny that as
sistance has been given Bulgarian as
ss sSinS. -.-f
Sofia dispatches quote Minister of
the Interior Rousseff as declaring
that not over ], SEQ persons have been
arrested throughout Bulgaria during
the campaign against, terrorists, He
asserts that Moscow furnished arms
and money for the subversives.
Denies Reign of Terror.
Premier Tzankoff declared the state
party members recently in Sofia that
many had been killed in Bulgaria
without trial is sheer calumny." He
declared the situation is calm
throughout the country.
Other indirect dispatches, however
continue to report that King Boris of
Bulgaria is virtually a prisoner in the
royal palace at Sofia under Gen.
LaZareff head of the military junta.
Sofia continues apparently under
virtual martial law. The Bulgarian
militia is being increased as author
ized by the council of amba ssadors at
Rumania. Jugoslavia and Greece are
protesting that increase.
COUNTRY REPORTED CALM
Evening star., 1925-04-24
GREECE AND TURKEY SIGN
PACT TO END explosions
London Hears Two Nations Agree
to Bring Differences to
a Close.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 24.-Advices to the
Exchange Telegraph from Constanti-
nople say an agreement has just been
signed settling all the problems affect
ing Turkey and Greece.
The principal cause of friction be
tween Turkey and Greece has been
the operation of that part of the
treaty of Lausanne providing for the
exchange of minority populations.
The question was apparently settled
at the meeting of the League of Ma
tions Council in Brussels last October,
but 1t was suddenly reopened early
this year when the Turks expelled the
ecumenical patriarch of the Greek
Orthodox Church, the Most Rev. Con-
stantinos, from Constantinople on the
ground that he was one of those ''ex-
changeable' under the treaty. Greece
appealed to the league, and the coun-
Gil on March IA referred the case TO
the Permanent Court of Information
Justice at The Hague.
Evening star., 1925-04-24


The President and Mrs. Coolidge
late this afternoon will receive
several relatives of the Executive
in the blue room of the White
House. While this meeting will
not be full gathering of the
Coolidge clan, 1t win be the first
getting together of this many rela-
tives of the President since he has
been in the White House.
The group to be received are all
descendants of Capt. john Cool
idge of Plymouth, VT, who re-
sponded to. the Lexington alarm
April 10, 1775. These relatives for
the most part came to Washington
at this time for the meeting of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution,
In the group will be Mrs. Lettes
McWain- Morgan, music teacher, of
Claremont, N. H., accompanied by
her daughter. Pauline, The former
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Cairo Evacuation
By British Force,
London's Proposal
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 24-The Daily
Mail says proposal has been made
to evacuate Cairo and concentrate
the British army in Egypt on the
Suez Canal, probably a; Al-Kantara
(2S miles south of Port Said, appar-
emily with the idea of placating
Egyptian susceptibilities.
The newspaper adds that the
proposal is causing dismay to those
In the limited circles in Great Brit
ain and Egypt, which are cogni-
zant of the situation, as such a step
would mean abject surrender tc the
subversive elements and have dis
astrous results on British prestige
and trade throughout the East.
Declaring that Egypt would rap
idly sink into chaos if the British
army were withdrawn. the Daily
Mail predicts that some other pow
er, probably Italy, soon would step
into the British shoes in Egypt.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
FRENCH CHAMBER VOTES
1925 BUDGET FOR NAVY
Only 90 Communists Oppose Pro-
gram for Increased Efficiency
I. on Seas.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 2G-The French naval
program included in the 1925 budget
was voted today with only the com
munists opposing, the vote being 422
to.29.
In urging the adoption of the naval
budget, NJ. Dumesnil, former naval
minister under Herriot, declared I'VE
wish vigorously to observe our pledges
signed at Washington. They allow
the present program Is not voted the
French navy, in 1888, would consist
of only two battle cruisers, six
destroyers and four torpedo destroyers
mostly obsolete"
Evening star., 1925-04-24
TRIAL OF WHEELER
MAY CLOSE TODAY
Arguments Expected to Be Ended
in Time for Judges Charge
Before Nightfall.
By the Associated Press.

GREAT FALLS, Mont, April "a
The fate of Senator Burton K.
Wheeler may be in the hands of the
Federal jury by night. The Montana
legislator is accused of wrongfully
appearing before the Department of
the Interior in the interest of a client
Taking of testimony in the case
came to an abrupt end late yesterday
when the defense gave up the plan
of calling additional witnesses to con-
trovert the testimony of the Gov
ernment's star witness, George p.
Hayes.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
ABANDONS CABINET TASK,

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, April 24.-Emile Van.
dervelde, the Socialist leader. today
informed King Albert that he had
found it impossible to fulfill the mis-
sion intrusted him of forming a cabi-
net to succeed that of Premier
Theunis, which resigned April 5.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Broad Study Proposed.
Public Utilities Commission
of the District of Columbia,
L.

of the District of Columbia,
Washington, ID. c.
Gentlemen: This will review our
conferences concerning A transporta-
ton survey OF the District of Colum-
bia and record our understanding
with respect to the following matters:
I'D The Public Utilities Commits
sion has found that thorough study
of the transportation situation in the
District of Columbia is essential in
order to procure ultimately for the
District the best and most economical
transportation service by co-ord1na-
ton of existing facilities and the adop-
ton of additional transportation
agencies.
'(2l The North American Co. at
present has a substantial investment
in TRANSFORMATION systems in the Dis
trict. and accordingly is interested IN
a solution of the existing problem. AS
a result of q preliminary investigator.
the North American Co. has reached
the conclusion that a thorough STUDY
Of the present transportation situa-
tion is essential. ...
''(3) Because Of this mutual interest
the North American co: agrees 10 nave
made through Mcclellan & Junkers-
field. Inc, engineers, at cost not
to exceed $50, 900. fact-flnding survey
under the regulation and supervision
of the commission. The results of this
survey shall be reported to the COM
mission and shall be available 10 the
street railway companies operating In
the District, to the North American
Co. and otherwise, as the commission
may direct.
"(D Attached hereto, marked An
nay " is. an outline of data to be
assembled, which is understood TO
renresent the general scope of the
survey proposed to be made.
"(5) This survey will be undertaken
ar the earliest practicable date and
will be carried out as rapidly as may
be consistent with the securing of the
necessary basic data, including data
presently available in the files of the
commission.
"(6) In addition to providing the
services of Mcclellan & Junkersfeld,
Inc, for this survey the North Amer
ican Co. will defray any extra ex.
CONTINUED on Page 4. Column ~
Evening star., 1925-04-24
d. C.. Woman, Badly
Hurt in Jump From
Italian Bus, Maybe
Bv the Associated Press.

TURIN, Italy, April 24.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Murray of Washington,
d. c., was seriously injured today
when she jumped from a motor
omnibus while touring with
party of Holy Year pilgrims. She
became frightened by the nearness
of the omnibus to a precipice.
Mrs. Murray was taken to a hos
pitsl here, where it was stated she
may not recover. She is 5S years
old
Evening star., 1925-04-24
POLICE CLUB EBERT, JR.
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN, April "a. Friedrich
Ebert, jr., son of the late President of
Germany, and Fritz Koch, chairman
of the Berlin Reichsbanner organiza-
ton, were arrested last night and al
legedly struck with police clubs when,
in response to cries of Down with
Marx! they called: Long live the
republicp'
When the chief of police was noti-
fed he ordered their immediate re-
lease.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
COUNTRY REPORTED CALM
' Bulgarian Premier Says Quiet Re
stored Generally.
By the Associated Press

- BY the Associated Press.
SOFIA. April 24.-Premier Tzankoff
declared to the Associated Press today
that the charges made by the British
members of Parliament who recently
visited Bulgaria regarding conditions
here were sheer calumny." The
premier said the Laborite NJ. P.'s had
not seen the things they alleged they
saw.
Statements that hundreds have
been killed in Bulgaria without trial
are sheer calumny," he said. THE
I-aborites have not seen anything
themselves, while in Bulgaria if they
speak as they are reported to have
done in Belgrade"
Will Punish Prosecutors.
1T is absolutely out of the ques-
ton that summary executions such as
they make out have taken place. The
question of those involved in the
bombing of the Sveti kral Cathedral
is in the hands of justice. If there
have been s-which l can
not admit-the authors thereof will
be pursued and judged.
THE situation is calm throughout
the country. Justice is pursuing its
normal course and we are constantly
discovering fresh evidence. /, as Bull
garian premier, ask how these
llaDOiIIeS,. WIN III ei1Luoi inCt Ohis
rassed two or three days in Sofia, can
make such grave statements"
Three members of the British House
of Commons were quoted in Belgrade
dispatch Wednesday night as declaring
after a visit to Sofia they were con-
WINGED several hundred persons had
: been killed without trial and on the
merest suspicion after the recent bomb
explosion in the Cathedral there. The
number of arrests, they said was
estimated at 5000.
The men quoted We're Josiah G.
Wedrwood and w. Mackinder, Labor
members, and y. d. Malone, a
Unionist.
Ivan Manoeffe. a member of the Sc
cret committee of the Bulgarian Com
munist party, was shot and killed by
the police today when he refused to
surrender. Another store of arms has
been found by the police in a search
of the home of a suspected conspira-
tor.
Says I,5O0 Arrested.
Gen. Rousseff, the minister. of the
interior told foreign correspondents
TODAY that the number of those ar
rested in the entire country since the
. beginning of the government cam
paiCn against the terrorists did not
exceed 500.
The minister declared that Moscow
had individuals and bands in its pay
on regular monthly wages in Bulgaria
and gave special premiums for crimes
committed. =
A campaign of calumny against-Bul
Saria was carried on, he charged, by
agrarian communists who had gone
from this country to Jugoslavia, and
at the same time, Macedonian and
Thracian refugees, expelled from their
homes, formed an element of disorder
In Bulgaria.
Gen. Rousseff, however. was careful
to avoid any suggestion that the
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Evening star., 1925-04-24
SNOW AND FATAL HEAT.
Relief Promised in Both Tempera-
ture Extremes Today
By the Associatcd Pres

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 24.-Forecasts of
thunderstorms and lower temperatures
today brought back topcoats to the
Middle West, which yesterday swelter-
ed in record breaking heat.
Relief also was promised to central
Montana, which shivered under a
blanket of SNOW reaching a depth OF
II inches in Butte. At the same time,
the prairie and great lakes States We're
mopping brows and consulting records
of previous April heat.
A forerunner of the cooling rains
came last night in Missouri and
Kansas, accompanied by wind of
tornado proportions in South Dakota.
Jefferson City, Mo, reported a tenn
perature yesterday of 81 degrees. the
highest reached in the hot weather
area.
/ The soaring mercury in several sec
tions ran close to the Missouri
capitals record. st. Louis reported a
maximum of 81, and the same point
was reached in various sections of
Kentucky.
Heat Kills Two.
St. Paul. Mimi. which reported an
so degree temperature. attributed two
deaths in Hennepin County to the
heat. Detroit. Which, with other
Michigan sections, had weather of
the 90-degree variety, had one pros
tration. and Milwaukee reported two
Indiana and Ohio, included in the
forecast for today's relief. had weather
that broke records for years, with
temperatures in the sos
All Chicago's records for the day
for more than half a century were
broken when a peak of So degrees
was reached at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. The former highest of
S4.6 was reached April %, 1915.
Throughout the gulf and cotton
States temperatures ranging from So
in Mobile to SS in Vicksburg, Miss.
and Birmingham, Ala, were reported
Some sections of the East expert
enced Midsummer touches. New York
reported SO degrees as the warmest
yesterday.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
DELEGATES DENY
NORTHWEST PLOT
TO RULE COUNCIL
0epIore Raising of Sectional
ism-PIedge to Vote for :
Best Candidates.

Characterizing as a tempest in a
teapot" the sectionalism injected into
the campaign for election of the Citi-
zens Advisory Council, northwest
delegates to the Federation of Citi-
zens Associations, in whose hands
lie the proponderance of votes, gave
assurance today that there is no con
spiracy on their part against the
three other sections of the District
of Columbia. nor is any move con-
templated to. prevent the representa-
ton of these sections on the council.
A canvass of the northwest dele
gates today disclosed their general at
titude as one of whole-hearted SYM
pathy with the other communities in
the eastern and southwestern parts
of the city and, at the same time, of
deep regret that sectional strife" has
been stirred up without cause"
If the word of some of the prom
inent northwest voters is a criterion
of the prevailing opinion among the
majority delegates, the residents of
the northeast, the southeast and the
southwest sections need have no fear
either that their communities win not
have direct representation on the
council or that their sections will be
neglected in favor of the fast-growing
northwest district. --- So i='
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Next Congress Can Act.

This move is believed to have a spe-
cial significance at this time, in view
of the passag by Congress a few
months ago of an act authorizing
merger of the local railway lines, with
proviso that any scheme of consoh-
dation agreed upon be ratified by Con-
gress at the next session.
Officials of the commission did not
conceal the fact today that they look
upon the investigation as an impor
tant step toward a merger.
Although officials of the commission
have had several informal conferences
at which the proposed survey was
discussed, no intimation of what was
being arranged was given until today.
Maj. Covell made public the follow
ing letter from Edwin Gruhl, vice
president and general manager Of the
North American Co, so Broadway,
New York
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Enthusiastic Delegates Con-
tribute $4,000 Toward
Building Fund.
VISIT TO MOUNT VERNON
IS ON THIS AFTERNOON
High Army and Navy Officers Ac.
company Delegates on Most
Solemn Annual Pilgrimage.

Within less than an hour after the
Thirty-fourthf Continental Congress of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton had voted this afternoon to au-
thorize the erection of d beautiful new
auditorium here, costing nearly 81
100000. enthusiastic delegates had
pledged initial donations from the floor
of the congress totaling nearly $4,000.
Never before in the history of the
ID. A. r. has a Continental Congress
been swept by such spirit Of spon-
taneous enthusiasm as the approval
which marked the adoption of the plan
for the proposed auditorium which is
to be erected on the ground already
owned by the society, directly behind
Memorial Continental Hall
Evening star., 1925-04-24
$50, 900, 900 in Eight Years.

Radio Programs--Page 3.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
100000 Questionnaires.

One of the first things the engineers
will undertake will be to find out from
at least 10000 residents of the city
how and when they get to and from
work. This will be sought by the
sending out of QUESTIONABLE cards.
The Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Co, the Capital Traction Co. and
the Washington Rapid Transit Co.
all have pledged their cooperation in
collecting information for the survey,
Mai. Covell said
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Suburban Lines Join.

The Maryland Public Service Com
mission has been consulted by Maj.
Covell, and has requested that the
survey be extended into those Mary
! land communities bordering on Wash
ington and served by local transporta-
! ton systems. The Virginia Public
Service Commission also will be con-
suited.
The engineering firm which is to
+. make the survey already has en-
gagged offices in the Earle Building. at
| Thirteenth and L streets, and work is
/ expected TO start next week on the
gathering of great mass of data
as to the movement of street car, bus
and private automobile travel.
| Maj. Covell declared the study about
to he undertaken will be far more in
elusive than was made here during
! the war by John A. Beeler. which re-
suited in the introduction of the skip
stop system and the loading platform.
Evening star., 1925-04-24
RAIL MERGER STEP
IS SEEN IN SURVEY
Of CAR LINES HERE
$50, 900 Inquiry Is Ordered
Begun by North American
Company.
LINES INTO MARYLAND
AND VIRGINIA C0vEfsD
Chicago Engineers Will Start
Work by Sending Out 100000
Questionnaire Cards.

A $4,000 survey of transportation
conditions in Washington, which may
result in the long-sought street rpil-
way merger, will be undertaken iL1.
mediately, the Public Utilities Com
mission announced today.
The investigation is to be made by
the firm of Mcclellan Junkersfeld.
Inc, engineers. under the supervision
of the commission.
The expense is TO be borne by the
North American Co. of New York
which is represented as having a
substantial investment in transporta-
ton systems in the District"
Evening star., 1925-04-24
Deplores Raising of Issue.

'It is deplorable that this sectional
ism was brought up at aH,' he con-
tinued. The second president of the
federation was a northeast citizen,
and never, in the history of the asso-
citation, has the sectional issue been
raised prior to the present election
campaign.
There is absolutely no foundation
in fact for fears that the northwest
residents are so unmindful of their
obligations as citizens of the National
Capital or so unfair to their fellow
citizens in other sections as to even
think of misusing their voting power,
especially at a time like this, when
good faith Is of paramount impor-
tance.
THE attitude of the Brightwood
citizens is that the question should
never have been raised, but that as
long as some persons have seen fit to
stir up all this talk, we would answer
1t with a concrete move designed to
emphasize our interest not only in
our own community, but in the Dis
trict of Columbia as whole.
Others Attack Issue.
I'm voting for candidates for the
council the delegates, | am certain,
are going to consider not where man
lives, but whether he is the very best
type Of man to serve in the important
capacity for which he is an aspirant.' y
George II. Wales, member OF the
Civil Service Commission and delegate
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