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Evening star., 1925-08-26
DISTRICT Toned
. S645,9DO TO WIDEN
12MA|N HIGHWAYS
Property Owners Must Pay
Virtually Half of Sum if
Plans Carry.
M. & NJ. ASKS MEMBERS
TO APPROVE PROPOSALS
Connecticut Avenue Improvement,
Largest Single Item, Will
Cost $4,000.

Widening of IL of the main thor
oughfares of Washington located in
the downtown section of the city will
cost approximately S645 900, under es-
Inmates already made by the Engineer
Department, submitted today to En-
gineer Commissioner Bell for consid-
Grafton. The program of street widen
ing, If all the items suggested are ap-
proved by the Commissioners, will
cost the abutting property owners APP
proximately half this sum, less the
cost of widening streets on which
Government owned buildings are To-
Gated.
The street widening proposals,
grouped into IA separate projects, al
though they involve but II thorough
fares, will be considered by the Com
missioners at a public hearing al the
District building at 10 o'clock, Thurs
day, September 3.
While Commissioner Bell had be-
fore him figures indicating a cost of
street widening of nearly S650.000. the
Merchants and Manufacturers hsso-
citation, many of whose membership
conduct places of business along the
thoroughfares affected in the plan,
announced its support of the project
and urged those of its members af-
fected to attend the public hearing.
1T is an axiom of good business that
wide streets and reasonably narrow
sidewalks are best for business" an
announcement by the association said.
Project to Cost $4,000.
Most expensive of the street widen
ing projects for which estimates
were made today is the one involving
widening of Connecticut avenue from
K to Dupont Circle. This is one of
the most pretentious street widening
projects ever undertaken in Washing
ton; will cost $4,000 and will involve
the construction of two 2o-foot road
ways where the sidewalk is now To-
Gated between the trees along the
Do
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Two Movies Vie
For Possession
OF Same Screen
BY the Associated Press.

CASPER, Wyo., August 26.-
Motion picture patrons at two of
Casper's largest movie houses yes
terday witnessed the unusual spec
tacle' of two pictures being project
ed on the same screen at the same
time and of rival ticket sellers at
the doors. Fight for possession of
the theaters started over a con-
troversy involving the lease.
Officers of the investment COM
pany that leased the theaters to
Denver motion picture concern ap-
peared at the theaters with the an
nounced intention of taking them
over because of failure of the
lessees TO pay the monthly rent in
advance. Managers of the houses
protested, and the double projec-
ton and double ticket selling
= enSued.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
TONG BULLETS FIND
BALTIMORE VICTIM
Chinese Restaurant Keeper
Is Shot Five Times-Nine
Cities Now Involved.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Assoclatc0 HrcsS.
BALTIMORE, Md. August 26.-
Louie Kwong. proprietor of a Chinese
restaurant in Druid Hill avenue, was
shot and fatally wounded by two un-
identified Chinese today Kwong died
en- route to Maryland General Hospi-
tai. His assailants escaped.
Five bullets had entered Kwong's s
body.
Six Chinese. including George Chan,
proprietor of a laundry next door to
kwong's resta urant, are under arrest.
Police were unable to say whether
Kwong had been member of the On
Leong or Hip Sing tong, and declined
TO divulge what had been learned from
three Chinese, reported tong leaders,
who were closeted with Police Capt.
Charles Lastner.
Escape I'm Auto.
Two negro patrons were in the
restaurant when kwong's believed as
sassins entered. They told of two Chi
nese who held a prolonged parley with
kwong and Charlie Lee, the restau.
rant cook. They left before the con-
ference was ended. but the shots rang
out as they reached the street The
two Chinese visitors ran out of the
door, the witnesses said, leaped into a
sedan at the curb and fled
Police of the western district seized
sedan which they believed to have
been that in which the slayers es-
capped. 1t was registered in the name
OF San Lee, who is among the prison
erS. Police also were trying to deci.
pher scrawled chalk markings over
the door of kwong's restaurant.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
BIG LINER, AGROUND,
ASKS AID BY RADIO
World Tour Steamer Hits Shoal Off
Nantucket-Is Reported in
No Danger.
By the Associated Press.

BOSTON. August 26.-The Dollar
Line steamship President Garfield was
aground on Half Moon Shoal off the
Island of Nantucket today, radio dis
patches to Coast Guard headquarters
here stated. The Coast Guard cutter
Acushnet was proceeding from Woods
Hole to her assistance.
The steamer, which was being navi-
gated by coastwise pilot, ran
aground in the fog at daybreak. Off
cials in the lines Boston Office said.
She sailed from Boston for New York
last night with 70 passengers aboard.
The liner, officials said, is in no i'm
mediate danger and it is expected that
she will get off the shoal at high water
this afternoon.
Among those on board the grounded
vessel is Capt. Robert Dollar, the
president of the Dollar Line Steam
ship Co. The other passengers are
all New Yorkers, most of whom will
end a three-month world cruise when
the liner docks in New York
The President Garfield, a 21,000-ton
vessel, built in 1920 in Philadelphia,
carries a crew of 95 officers and men.
The sea off Half Moon Shoal this
morning was smooth, Coast Guard
authorities said and weather condi-
tions also were ideal for floating the
liner.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Won HOETZENDORF,
WAR LEADER, DEAD
Baron Was Field Marshal and
Commanded Austrian Troops
in World Conflict.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, August 26.-Field Marshal
Baron Franz Conrad Won Hoetzendorf,
chief of staff of the Austrian armies
in the World War, and later COM
mander-in- chief on the Italian front,
died today at Mergentheim, in Wurt-
temberg, Germany.
Franz Conrad Won HoetZendorf, born
in PenZing, a suburb of Vienna, No
vember IL, 1852, was chief of staff of
the Austrian armies when the World
War began. In the first month of the
war he commanded the Austrian
forces on the Russian front, but lost
prestige owing to the Russian vic
tories In 1915 he was credited with
having planned the strategic prepara-
tions for the Austro-German attack,
which swept cIlicia virtually clear of
the Russian forces. He was promoted
for the recapture Of Lemborg in that
campaign. When Italy entered the
conflict he was given command of
Austrias forces on the Italian front.
He served on that front until July,
1918. when successive failures led to
his replacement by Field Marchal Won
KoeveSS.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
PAYING TO CAPACITY
0. K. IN PARIS; ITALY
SEEKS EASY TERMS
Coolidge Debt Declaration
Held Fair and Just by
French Authorities.
ROME WANTS AGREEMENT
BETTER THAN BELGIUM'S
Postwar Difficulties in Italy to Be
Stressed by Envoy in
Negotiations
Rv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. August 26.-The French
foreign office appears to be in entire
agreement with President Coolidge's s
reafIirmation at Swampscott of the
principle of capacity for payment as
affair and just rule to apply TO Amer
icas European debtors.
That was the first quick reaction
to unofficial accounts of the Presi'
dents point of view, as outlined in
press dispatches received here.
1t is pointed out here that Finance
Minister CaillauX's discussions with
the British chancellor of the ex'
chequer in London turned almost eX-
clusively upon Frances capacity to
pay. NJ. CaillauX, it is declared In un-
official but competent quarters, is
making no question of the sums due,
nor of Frances desire to pay, but only
of what installments she is able to
transmit yearly to England and Amer
lea.
Hypothetical Case Cited.
The French treasury in its calcula-
tions of revenue unites the two ques-
tions. If, for example, France is able
TO find the equivalent of 100000. 900
more than now to apply on her debts
abroad, the treasury holds, the entire
amount could not in equity go to one
creditor. but should be divided pro-
portionately.
NJ. Callaux is not expected TO re-
turn from London in time for the
cabinet council set for tomorrow;
hence the meeting, If held, will prob.
ably not consider the composition OF
the French debt commission to the
United States, as had been expected.
Foreign Minister BRAND has returned
from his vacation in southern France.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
STUDY Is DELAYED.
Belgian Parliament Takes Up Debts
After Christmas.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 26
CP).-Parliament's discussion of the
Belgo-Amer1can debt accord recently
reached in Washington, now is set
for after the Christmas vacation, al
though the agreement will be laid be-
fore the November session of the
Chamber OF Deputies.
The newspapers are aiming consid-
cradle criticism at the Belgian official
note concerning the outcome of the
Washington negotiations, declaring
the terms OF the communique too
optimistic.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
BANDITS WITH AMERICAN
ELUDE CHINESE TROOPS
DR.. Howard Carried $50 Miles Up
River From Fuchin by Man
churian Brigands.
BY the Associated Press.


HARDIN, Manchuria, August 26.-
The Manchurian bandits who are hold
ing Dr. Harvey J. Howard, American
eye specialist of the Peking Union
Medical College, for ransom, have
evaded the Chinese troops who had
surrounded them and have taken their
prisoner by boat up the Hwachwan
River to a point $50 miles from Fu-
chin, in the Manchurian province Of
Hoiungkiang.
This information was received here
today in a telegram from Roger S.
Greene, general manager in China for
the Rockefeller Institute, who added
that Manchurian troops of the Ho-
lungkiang forces are pursuing the
bandits.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Union Workers Swear They Won't Cuss;
Public Is Asked Not to Make Them Mad

pany they announce that their
union has resolved to place a ban
on the use of bad language by its
members while on the job" and
they ask that the company cooper
ate in the enforcement of their
resolution. This has been promised.
The public is being asked by the
union to assist in the carrying out
of it's endeavors by not causing
such irritation to the workmen as
might lead them to use forbidden
''cuss words"
Evening star., 1925-08-26
DOG STARTS BUS STRIKE,
500 Employees Walk Out When Con.
ductor Is Dismissed.

LONDON, August 26 P.-Because
the conductor of one of the East Sur
rey Traction Co. busses refused to
carry a dog belonging to a woman
passenger. the company's rural service
is tied up by strike of 600 conductors
and drivers.
The other men went out in SYM
pthy when the offending conductor
was dismissed. He told the company
officials he objected to admitting the
dog to his bus because it was apt to
spread disease. a
Evening star., 1925-08-26
WANTS EASY TERMS.
Italy to Stress Postwar Difficulties
i'm Negotiations.

ROME, August Is OP.-Although
the reports received here OF Presl-
dent Coolidges statement regarding
the Belgian debt settlement still are
extremely meager, enough OF his gen.
eral viewpoint has reached Italian Of
ficialdom to create an impression.
This first impression is favorable, In
that authoritative Italians see in it
an opportunity to seek even better
terms than were accorded Belgium.
In this sense they are glad of the
Presidents opinion that the Belgian
settlement does not set precedent
for the refunding agreements still to
be worked out with France and Italy.
If the details of the President
statement develop any hint that the
terms to be granted Italy VIII be
heavier than those for Belgium, then
the Italian attitude is likely to be-
come more reserved.
Loath to Express Opinion.
Even now the government is loath
to express an official opinion for the
press, but it has been made clear all
along that Italy expects to pay to
her full capacity in conformity with
an equitable appraisal of both her
moral and human contributions to the
common cause and her present and
future economic powers.
When all the phases of her ma
tional problems are given due consid-
Grafton, therefore, the chief possible
controversial point is likely to be in
Judging her capacity to pay.
1t was to amass arguments in PROOF
that this capacity was low that Am
bassador De MARITIME returned from
Washington for his extensive confer
ences with the Rome government.
While on the general principle of
the business of the debt Italy will
instruct Signor De MARITIME to assume
a tractable attitude when he returns
10 the United States, the Italian gov
ernment, according to those in a posi-
tion to know, will expect him to make
the utmost of 1taly'S postwar difficult
ties.
Will Explain Handicaps.
He will emphasize her lack of
natural resources and raw materials,
her contribution in man power to the
allied cause in the World War, and
her overpopulation, with emigration
to the United States restricted.
1t is underst Jod that he will be
further instructed to make lucid COM
parsons between Italy's situation in
some of these respects with those of
France and Belgium.
The feeling here is that Italy has
points in her favor which should more
than offset any sentimental feeling
that might prevail in favor of Belgium
and France, as the nations which bore
the brunt of the German invasion.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Medals for Dog Team Drivers.

Gold medals will be awarded the 10
drivers of the dog teams which oar
ried antitoxin to Nome. Alaska, last
March when an epidemic OF diphtheria
was raging. Gov. Parks will bestow
the medals at Juneau to the 10 drivers,
who include Jackscrew, Gunnar Kas-
sen, Tonnie Papsey, Dan Green, Henry
Pitka, Sam Joseph, William Shannon,
Henry Idanoff, Leonard Fettala and
Charles Olson.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
THIRTY HURT IN CRASH.
Trolley and City Ash Truck Collide
in New York.

NEW YORK, August 26 R.-
Thirty passengers were injured in a
collision today at 109th street and
Third avenue between a trolley and a
heavily loaded city ash truck. The i'm
pact derailed the car, shattering win
dows and creating a panic among the
passengers, including many women
Seven passengers were taken to hos
pitfalls but only two remained there
for further treatment.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
FRENCH POST CAPTURED.
Druse Tribesmen Take Garrison in
Important Syrian City.

LONDON, August 26 LP-An Ex-
change Telegraph message from Cairo
reports that the French garrison at
Deir-ez-Zor, an important city of
Syria, on the right bank of the
Euphrates River, has been captured
by the rebellious Jebel Druse tribes
men. The message says that the re-
bellion of the Druse tribesmen against
the French regime in Syria is
spreading.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
TWO DIE IN DOCK RIOT.
Workers Shot Besieging Police Sta
ton in Shanghai-4 Hurt.

SHANGHAI, August 26 P).-Two
persons were killed when Chinese po-
lice today fired into a crowd of dock
yard workers besieging the police sta
ton and demanding the release of
four arrested workmen. Four be-
siegers were wounded.
The workmen held by the police
had been arrested for assaulting a
coolie. The crowd which gathered
about, the police station numbered
about 300. The first efforts of the
police to disperse the gathering were
greeted with cries of derision. Shots
fired into the air failed to intimidate
the dock workers. whereupon the po-
lice turned their guns against the
from. ranks. Seeing their comrades
fall. the remainder of the demon
StrantS fed.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
'The Roof Leaks-Cood-Bye," Says Note
Left by Dying Trappers With $1,000 Furs

the furs and cached them. Then
in q little hut they were overcome
by sickness and the note of fare
well was written to tell an only son
of Williams, residing in Edmonton,
where the furs, valued at $4,000,
might be found.
The cabin in which the bodies
were discovered was Uttered with
furs which the trappers had failed
to hide. They had been scattered
all about the room by wild animals
which had entered the hut through
the open doorway.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
FRENCH MAY DELAY LOAN
Caillaux Planning to Prolong
Period of Gold Issue.

PARIS, August &c P).-Excelsior
saws that finance Minister Caillaux is
likely to prolong the period of issue
of the new gold loan until the end of
September, partially on account Of
the strike of bank employees, which
has hampered the sale. but more on
account of subscriptions from the
country, which in a large measure
depended on the harvest returns.
The cabinet will decide at Thurs
DAYS meeting whether the extension
shall be put into effect. Under the
original program the subscription
books were to close September 5.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
By the Associated Press.

MONTREAL, August 26.-The
modest claim of the well bred cap
tain of the Pinafore" that bad
language or abuse 1 never, never
use," shortly may be the proud
boast of the workmen of the Mon
treal Light, Heat and Power Co..
If the efforts of r. Blanchett and
w. p. Lavertue, president and Sec
retary, respectively, Of the Elec-
tricians' Union, are successful.
In a communication to the com
Evening star., 1925-08-26
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, August 26.-The Brit
ish chancellor of the eXchequer,
Winston Churchill, and the French
finance minister, NJ. Caillaux,
reached an agreement today i'm
principle on the funding of the
French debt to Great Britain.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 26.-Alanson B.
Houghton, the American Amba Ssador
had a conference at the foreign office
today with the British foreign secre-
tary, Austen Chamberlain. Their meet
ing caused much speculation and Reu-
ter's says:
1T is believed the conversation in
cluded the debt negotiations now in
progress, the security pact and the po-
sition in China"
British official circles are silent in
regard to the nature of the converse
tion, and in American official quarters
a similar reticence is observed, al
though it IS stated that the AmbaSsa
dor did not discuss the question of the
interallied debts.
The general impression this after
noon among persons close to Winston
Churchill and NJ. CaillauX, British and
French negotiators on the question of
Frances war debt to Great Britain.
was that the Anglo-F'rench conversa-
tions could not reach a definite conciu-
Evening star., 1925-08-26
TOXIC DELUGED BY RAIN.
City Flooded by 36-Hour Contin.
uous Downpour.

TOXIC, August 26 Op).-Tokio was
flooded today. AS a result of almost
SO hours continuous rainfall, electric
light, telephone and street car service
Is impaired.
HOMO, the lower section of the city,
in inundated and thousands of homes
have been flooded.
Few casualties have been reported,
but heavy damage is expected.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Steck Gains SO Votes.

A further gain of SO votes for Dan.
iel F. Steck, Democrat. over Brook.
hart, was made today in the Senate
recount for Taylor and Union Coun.
ties in the Iowa senatorial contest
to S55
Evening star., 1925-08-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne AssOclattu ETtss.
VICTORIA, British Columbia.
August 26.-"The roof leaks-good-
bye"
Thus ended a note found yester-
day with the badly decomposed
bodies of Peter Alderman and
George Williams, trappers, who
went more than a year ago into
the wilds of northern British
Columbia in quest of fur-bearing
animals.
They found thems and obtained
Evening star., 1925-08-26
GALE UPSETS STEEPLE,
FALLING DEBRIS KILLS 3
Hungarian Storm Wrecks 500 Bath
Houses-Bathers Lose Their
Clothing.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SZABADKA, Hungary, August 26.
Three persons were killed today
when a storm blew down a church
tower here. Six men who were boat
ing are missing.
Hundreds of bathers were compelled
to return home in their swimming cos
tunes after the storm had wrecked
500 bathing cabins on the water front.
Szabadka, also known as Maria
Theresiopel, is an important town of
southern Hungary, with a population
of 81, 900.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Unemployment Mounts in Britain

LONDON, August 26 R.-The
number of unemployed persons in
Great Britain continues to mount.
The increase last week, according to
figures issued today was 29, 900, bring
I ing the total to 1928, 900.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
EIGHT CITIES ON GUARD.
Deportation Likely as Move to Halt
War of Tongs.

NEW YORK, August 26 CP).-Wide-
spread precautions were being taken
today by police in nearly every large
city of the East and Middle West in
an attempt to cut short a new Chinese
tong war which four Chinese have
been killed and three wounded in the
last "a hours.
Extra details of police guarded the
Chinatowns of eight cities. More
than 100 Chinese have been arrested,
some being held in connection with
the murders and others on suspicion.
The death toll score seems to stand
four to nothing in favor of the Hip
Sing Tongmen. Police here learned
that rs kilograms to this effect were
sent out from New York and Boston
to Chinese leaders all over the
been murdered in New York. Chicago.
Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, one in
each city while a former Hip Sing
king in Chinatown in st. Louis has
been wounded.
DepOrtations Threatened.
Seventy-five Chinese were rounded
up in Philadelphia on orders from Gen.
Butler, Is being detained for further
investigation. After telephone CONVEX
sations with Washington immigration
authorities, Gen. Butler intimated that
all Chinese without Government cre-
dentials would be deported. Thirty
were rounded up in Newark Mime.
apolis police were ordered to disarm
all Chinese in anticipation of trouble
during the national Hip Sing meeting
there next month. Efforts to trans
fer the convention to Cleveland were
described by Tom Chan Poy, secretary
of the Cleveland On Leongs, as an ex.
cuse to import gunmen to fight the
On Leongs.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
PARIS ASKS BERLIN
TO ACT ON PEACE
Suggests Negotiations Based
on League Entry and
Treaty Execution.
BY the Associated Press.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 26.-The French
note to Berlin on the security ques-
ton suggests that Germany open nego-
tiations for a security pact based on
membership in the League of Nations
and execution of the treaty of Yer
sailles.
While convinced an agreement is
possible, the French emphasized that
the treaty of Versailles must not be
tampered with.
"The entrance of Germany into the
League of Nations is the only solid
basis for mutual guarantee and Eu-
ropean accord" the notes says.
A Havas agency dispatch says that
it is believed that Alanson B. Hough-
ton, the american Ambassador to
Great Britain, when he called at the
foreign office in London today. hand
ed Austen Chamberlain, British foreign
secretary, a communication regarding
Frances answer to Germany on the
proposed security pact.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Caillaux Asked to Farley.

LONDON, August 26 CP).-After a
conversation this afternoon with Alan
son B. Houghton, the American Am
bassador, Austen Chamberlain, British
foreign secretary telephoned Joseph
CaillauX, French finance minister, and
asked him to call at the foreign office,
where the two ministers had a con-
ference.
Evening star., 1925-08-26

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Evening star., 1925-08-26

10. S. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler
tomorrow; moderate to fresh north
erly winds.
Temperatures: Highest, IS, at noon
today: lowest, so, at am. today.
Full report on page Z.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-09

O. How can the approximate age
Of ducks be ascertained?
A. Young ducks can be Identified
by the dcriblity OF the triHd pipe,
,ohich Is rigid later. The uin0
muscles under the tcing are far
more tender tn young duck. also,
and The keel bone should be fer
ibIe.
O. What animal spends its life
upside down?
A. The slofh. purely arboreaI
animal Of Central and South Amer
lea. These animals hang head dorm
In the trees and rarely IcaUe them.
O. What are the calories per
pound Of the following foods: But
ter. wheat bread, cornfneal, cheese
(American), string beans, canteloupe,
prunes. raw eggs, rice, oatmeal, boil
ed potatoes, sugar.
4. Butter. 1906 caiorics per
pound: i1teat bread. 1926; corn
meal, 1876; American cheese. 2O5j;
string beans, 1870; cdntcioupc, 30;
prunss, 335: unlocked eD0s 720;
rice. 1850 oatmeal. 1860; boiled po-
tatocs, 40; sugar. 1850.
@. What is a simple test for dis
tingulshIng tungsten from plsti-
mum?
A. Heat the specimen to red heat
or aJore. Platinum 1iH remain IN
altered. Tungsten tcill be coated