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Evening star., 1925-07-25
OFFERS LIFE TO SAVE
SCOTT FROM CHAIR
Man, Who Asked District to Elec-
trocute Him, Writes to Illinois
Governor.

G.. p. McGraws, who recently in
formed District officials he wanted to
be electrocuted as a protest against
capital punishment, has written to
Gov. Len Small of Illinois, offering to
die in the place of Russell Scott. The
letter was believed to have been writ
ten prior to the stay of execution
granted Scott.
McGraws' offer to die in the place of
Scott, however, is impinged on two
conditions-that Scott's sentence to
hang for the murder of Chicago drug
clerk be commuted to life imprison-
ment. and that he will withdraw his
offer to die in Scott's place if the Dis
trict authorities permit him to die as
a martyr here in Washington.
McGraws said he was once sentenced
to die by an Ohio court, but that he
was later cleared and "the man who
committed the crime caught-so l am
naturally opposed to capital punish
ment. This statement, however,
brought a denial from Warden 2. E.
Thomas of the Ohio Penitentiary. He
declared no one ever had been SEN
fenced to the electric chair there and
later cleared when the man who COM
mitted the crime was caught He
could recall no man by the name of
McGraws ever having been sentenced
to die in Ohio. E. E. budding, presi-
dent of the Prisoners Relief Society,
has declared that McGraws is an as
sumed name and that he knows the
correct name Of the man in question.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
PLANE PHOTOGRAPHS
AUTO SMOKE SCREEN
Picture to Be Used as Evidence
When First Case Is Called
to Trial.

William Plummer and George Kelly,
the first to face trial for employment
or a smoke screen apparatus on an
automobile since the drastic law
against the practice became effective
in May, viii be confronted with an
airplane photograph of the screen in
operation when the case, postponed
yesterday, is heard by Judge Mac
donald Tuesday. Conviction carries
one TO five years imprisonment. They
were released on $1,000 bonds each.
The men were arrested Wednesday
night on Pennsylvania avenue by
Motor Cycle Policeman Foster Rowen
of the eleventh precinct, who stopped
their car to examine a defective rear
light. AS he approached, Rowen re-
ported, he saw one of the men hastily
putting an object under the rear seat.
Examination brought to light the
smoke screen apparatus. Rowen said.
Capt. Guy +. Burlingame and
Rowen took the smoke screen ma
chine to Boiling Field yesterday.
There pictures were taken from an
airplane while the smoke screen was
in operation.
Under the new code, mere posses
sion of an apparatus which produces
a smoke screen is an offense.
In an earlier arrest under the new
law the sole evidence in the case, the
smoke screen apparatus, was stolen
from the station house, police say.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
96 CENTS SPENT TO GET
HUGE CONVENTION HERE
Education Sessions to Bring $4,000
Delegates, Bureau Of
fetal Declares.

The convention here next February
of the department of superintendent
of the National Educational Associa
ton, which will bring $4,000 persons,
was obtained by the new Washington
convention bureau on an expenditure
of 96 cents in cash it was declared by
G. E. La Vigne, executive director of
the bureau, in an address before the
Cosmopolitan Club yesterday at the
Franklin Square Hotel.
Mr.. La Vigne outlined the attrac-
tions of the National Capital. which
he said should make it known to the
country and to the world as the nat
ural convention city of America.
He outlined the lines that the bu-
reau will work along and declared
that through the cooperation of the
25 hotels, members of the bureau, nor
NAL rates for rooms to visitors on all
occasions have been guaranteed as
far ahead as 1927. The bureau will
dispel any idea that Washington wants
to fleece it's visitors, the speaker am
plifed.
washington is the Mecca of the
American people and the soul of the
Nation" declared Mr.. La Vigne in out
lining the ways in which the bureau
will endeavor to make the Capital the
premier convention city of the coun-
try.
Announcement was made by Paul
Brandstedt, president of the Cosmo-
politan Club that the monthly meeting
and limitations would be held at the
Franklin Square Hotel next Tuesday
night. The annual garden party will
be held August 4 at the home of
Michael Heister, one of the members,
near Rock Creek Park.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
LIQUOR STILL RAIDED
NEAR 18TH STREET
100 Gallons of Product of Plant
in Bathroom Is Captured
by Police.

A 50-gallon still, % barrels OF mash
and $50 gallons of the finished product
were seized at 1921 Church street, just
off Sixteenth street, when Lieut..
Michael Ready of the third precinct
led raiding squad into the premises
today.
A note stating, Have gone for a
walk to Dupont Circle, will be back
shortly" was the only evidence of an
occupant about the place that the
police found. After reading the note,
Lieut.. Ready stationed a policeman
behind the front door to await the
return of the tenant, but the latter
evidently had been warned by friends,
for he stayed away.
The still was in operation when po-
lice entered the house. 1t was huge
copper container placed over a gas
stove, and the cooling apparatus con-
sisted of a coil and a condenser in a
tank which was kept full of water by
a hose connected with a bathroom
spigot.
Accompanying Lieut.. Ready on the
raid were Sergt. Lee, Detectives Bill
man and Casey and Policemen Agnew
and Slogel, all of the third precinct.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
FRANC0-GERMAN
PACT RIFT ALARMS
British See Deadlock in Wide
Divergence of Secur-
ity Treaty.
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, July 25.-Considerable
concern is expressed by some news
papers over the divergencies between
the French and German views as re-
vealed by the preliminary comment
of the French foreign minister, NJ.
BRAND. on the German reply to the
French note concerning Germany's
proposals for a security pact.
The diplomatic writer of the Daily
Telegraph says the latest develop
ments have aroused much disappoint-
ment among the British ministers,
and some apprehension regarding the
future of the existing pourparlers
aimed at bringing about a pact guaran-
teeing Germany's western frontiers.
The trenchant nature of NJ. BRAND s
counter demands, however mildly
framed, threaten, in the opinion of
the writer, a veritable deadlock. He
believes the British government will
make a very firm stand against any
excessive or dangerous stipulations
by either France or Germany, and
declares their respective attitudes
must be changed If Great Britain is
TO give practical effect to her desire
to quiet the fears and suspicious of
both.
Fears are voiced by the diplomatic
correspondent of the Westminster
Gazette that it will test all of the
skill and diplomacy of Austen Cham
berlain, the British foreign secretary,
to bridge the Franco-German diff
ferences. Therefore, he thinks it all
the more necessary that the proposal
for direct conversations between the
foreign secretaries at Geneva in Sep
tember should materialize. The West
minister Gazette thinks it possible
that the German foreign secretary,
DIR. Stresemann, viii be invited in join
the discussion.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
STABBED BY STRANGER.

An unidentified colored man made an
unprovoked attack upon Lewis Fur,
%, 907 E street. at Fourth and K
streets early last night while Furr
was III that neighborhood looking for
laborers wanted in construction work.
The attack was similar to that made
upon James Hickey, Berwyn, Nd, at
Ninth street and New York avenue
Wednesday night.
In neither affair were words passed
between assailant and victim, accord
ing to police reports, and neither vic
tim was seriously wounded. In each
instance the attack was made by a
man who alighted from an automobile
in which other colored men were
seated.
Hickey was dealt a blow on the
head with a blunt instrument, pre-
sumably an iron bar, while Furr was
stabbed in the upper lip with a knife.
Police investigated last nights affair
and reported that the assailant prob
ably mistook Furr for a revenue officer
or police bootleg agent. Hickey was
treated at Emergency Hospital, but
Furr refused treatment,
Evening star., 1925-07-25
DR.. ALBERT ]. OCHSNER,
NOTED SURGEON, DIES
Chicagoan, Member of Many Hon
orary Societies, Victim of
Angina Pectoris.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 25.-Dr. Albert
John Ochsner, famous surgeon, died
here early today
Death was due to angina pectoris.
A widow survives.
DR.. Ochsner, who was 81 years of
age, was the author of numerous sur
gical treatsies and text books and a
contributor to the medical press. Since
1898 he had been chief surgeon of Au-
gustana Hospital and St. Mary's Hos
pital here.
He held a majors commission in the
Medical Reserve Corps of the Army
and memberships in the American Col
lege of Surgeons, Royal College of
Surgeons Qreland), Royal Microscope
cal Society (England) and fellowship
in the American Surgical Association.
DIR. Ochsner was born in Baraboo,
Wis, and was graduated from the
University of Wisconsin and Rush
Medical College of Chicago. He later
studied in the universities of Vienna
and Berlin.
He was the author of works on ap-
penGicitis, clinical surgery and organi-
zation, management and construction
of hospitals.
A daughter, Bertha, was present
when he died. A son, Albert, is in Vir-
ginia.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
WORK AIDS PARK.
Buys First Acre for Shenandoah
National Reservation.

Secretary Work of the Interior to-
day took the initial step in the cam
paign to establish the Shenandoah Ma
tional Park in Virginia when he
bought the first acre in the 'buy-an-
acre" drive to raise funds for pur-
chase of the site of the proposed park
in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Each citizen of Virginia will be
asked to purchase one or more acres.
The price fixed for an acre is Sc.
and a public appeal is to be made
in support of the campaign. 1t is
the hope of the Shenandoah National
Park Association to have ample funds
for the purchase in hand by Decem-
ber 1.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
70 CALLED IN i. s.
LIQUOR RING PROBE
Alleged Capital Buyer Is Sum-
moned in Unusual
Case.
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated tTeSs.
NEW YORK, July 25.-Twenty
buyers of liquor in IL cities have been
subpoenaed by mail to appear here
before a Federal grand jury investi-
eating a liquor ring that supplied
20 900 Americans by trunk shipments.
Federal Attorney Buckner would
not reveal the names of those sub
pohaed. They will come from Wash
ington, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit,
Columbus, st. Louis, Kansas City,
Minneapolis, Des Moines, Sioux City,
Oklahoma City and Fairfax, Okla
Most of them will appear before the
grand jury next Wednesday. Others
have been cited to appear Monday.
Those summoned will be allowed 10
cents a mile for travelling expenses
one way only. Once in New York
they will have to pay their own hotel
and board bills. If they are unable
to pay, District Attorney Buckner
suggested the Government might
have to put them up at the Tombs.
Appearance before the grand jury
will render the liquor customers i'm
mune from prosecution. They Will
receive the customary fee of $3.50 per
day while actually testifying.
40 Statesmen Sought
This action, said to be unprecedent-
ed, was taken yesterday by Mr..
Buckner in an effort to round up and
indict 40 statesmen of the bootlegging
ring.
In addition, summonses will be
served on so New Workers to learn
what they know of the ring. which
was broken up last week with the ar
rest of a woman and seven men.
The liquor was shipped by the
trunkful to customers all over the
country Upon receipt of payment
keys were forwarded to unlock the
trunks.
There are no women among those
summoned. However, Miss Irene
Griffin. a cigar clerk at an apartment
hotel in Sioux City, already has testi-
fed before the grand jury. She re-
mained in the jury room a long time
and it was believed that she threw
considerable light on the ramifications
of the bootleg ring. While here she
stayed at the Hotel Astor.
If any of the liquor statesmen are
apprehended they Will not be offered
immunity, Mr.. Buckner declared.
Only in rare instances, where a per-
son might be little known as a boot
logger, will he be allowed to tell his
story with immunity to the grand
jury.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
Indian Comes to u. S. to Shoot Our Golf
As We Go to India to Kill Elephants
Former Is Far More ThrIing Says the Zanrindar OF
Palayanpatt, Whose Gold Sport Shoes Are
Sensation on Ship.

way of Canada on the way home, and
on the way he will play his favorite
game as much as he can.
The Zamindar wore an Occidental
blue serge suit, in addition to the
rose -colored silk turban and gold sport
shoes. He attracted more attention on
the vessel than sundry other notables,
such as Jim Barnes, back with the
British Open Cup, or Jack Pickford
and Marilyn Miller, returning happier
than ever, they said.
He has private course of his own
and has heard lot about Gene Sara
zen. whom he wants to meet.
The Zamindar vanished somewhere
in the Broadway canyons before all
curiosity could be satisfied about him,
such as how good his game is, whether
the rose turban and gold sport shoes
are part of his costume on the links,
and just where he rates in India, a
subject on which available material is
meager.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
HUCKSTER is HELD UP.
Robbed of $26 Early Today-other
TheftS Reported.

Three colored men held up and
robbed Winfield Shumate, colored, 919
T street, a hucksteE of $26 early to-
day at Barry place and Eighth street,
to get his horses for the days work.
He says he will be able to identify the
men.
Lawrence Chambers, 1882 Pennsyl-
vanfa avenue, manager of gasoline
station, reported last night some one
had stolen S106 from a waste paper
box. which he had been using as a
hiding place for his money.
Mrs. Minnie Shelby, 704 C street
southeast, told police a diamond locket
had been stolen from her home. J. c..
Davis of the same address reported
the theft of diamond setting valued
at $50.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
LIQUOR CASE JURORS
ACCUSED In COURT
Friends of Acquitted Defendants,
U. S. Prosecutor Says, in Ask
ing a Retrial.

Dissatisfied with the jury in Grim
inal Court No. l, which sat in the
case of George P. Rock, William F.
Rock and Harry Henderson. who were
charged with illegal possession of in
toxicants, Assistant United States At
torney David Hart has requested JUS
tice Htz to impanel a new jury to
retry the case.
The men were accused of operating
a near-bear saloon at Eleventh and G
streets southwest. when they were ar
rested May 8. Eighteen pints of whis-
ky, it was alleged, were found in their
possession, police charged.
A verdict of not guilty was re-
turned yesterday by the jury after
being out less than 10 minutes Mr.
Hart asked a new trial on the grounds
that he believed, he said, that mem
bers of the jury were acquaintances
of the accused.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
Assigned to Regular Army.

Seattle, Wash; Clifton E. High, at
Denver, Colo; Henry A. Roust, at San
Francisco, and Douglas S. Kellogg, at
Seattle, Wash, all of the Medical Re-
serve Corps, have been appointed as
first lieutenants in the Medical Corps,
Regular Army, and ordered to this
city for instruction at the Army Medi-
cal School.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
PASTOR PLEADS GUILTY
TO TAKING KLAN FUNDS
Former Official Jailed in Default
of $4,000 Bond-Girl Com
panion Not Held.
By the Associated Press.

by the AssOCldteu TTeSb.
LONG BRANCH, N. J., July IS
Rev. r. Carl Ziegler of Trenton,
brought back from Ell Paso, Tex,
pleaded guilty before Justice E. C.
Wainwright of Red Bank to charges
of embezzlement of funds from the
Ku Klux klan Of New Jersey Miss
Margaret Roberts, also of Trenton,
likewise arrested in Ell Paso, was not
held. The pair were traced to Texas
by William Chamberlain, Miss Rob-
erts' fiance.
Ziegler, in default of $4,000 bail,
was committed to Jail. The girl went
with Chamberlain to Elkwood Park,
the New Jersey Klan headquarters,
where a reconciliation was said to
have been effected.
Chamberlain undertook the search
for the pair when Arthur Bell, king
kleagle of the New Jersey Khan, re-
ported that Ziegler, former Klan
official, had fed with $1,000 to $1,000
of the Klan's funds and various Klan
records, at the same time the Roberts
girl was reported missing.
The Klan records were recovered
Ziegler's parents are said to have made
restitution of the money he took.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
ACTRESS ACCUSES MAN.
Former Star of "White Cargo"
Brings Statutory. Charge.

SAN FRANCISCO, July % R)--
Willard 1. Ledoiyt, As, treasurer of
an Eastern radio company, surren-
dered yesterday on a statutory warrant
sworn to by Miss Edith Randolph.
known also as Edith Ransom, late
star of the play White Cargo" Miss
Randolph said that the conduct ex-
cepted to came during a party in a
downtown hotel Tuesday night. Le-
doiyt was released on s2,500 cash
bail, and directed to appear in police
court tomorrow.
Recently Miss Randolph brought
a damage suit for 100000 against
Thomas Wilkes, theatrical magnate,
on the ground that he violated a con-
tract and insulted her in dismissing
her from the cast Of White Cargo"
Evening star., 1925-07-25
AUTO|STS WARNED
OF CROSSING RULES
Eldridge Threatens Arrests
Unless Rights of Pedes-
trianS Are Respected.

The police may be instructed to
make arrests. unless motorists gen
orally refrain from driving through
the cross-walks, indicated by white
lines. while they are occupied by
pedestrians, Traffic Director Eldridge
declared today, in appealing to both
drivers and walkers to respect the
rights of each other at intersections.
The motorist must remember"
said Mr.. Eldridge, that the pedes-
trian has the right of way in crossing
a street between the white lines, but
the pedestrian also has a duty TO
perform at intersections. He should
cross the street as expeditiouSly as
possible and not move across the in
tersection so. slowly as to impede
traffic. The pedestrian also should
observe the movement of traffic and
not start across at the wrong time"
Cooperation Is Asked.
Mr.. Eldridge said the public can
bring about the conditions desired
at intersections if all who use the
Streets-both motorists and pedeS-
trians-will consider their respective
rights.
K. w MackaIl representative of
the company which is manufacturing
-Ss automatic signal lights for Six
teenth street, advised Mr.. Eldridge to-
day that theelights should be erected
and in operation on that thoroughfare
by September Is.
Mr.. Mackall discussed with Director
Eldridge today the timing schedule on
which the lights will operate. The
interval between the red and green
signals will vary at different times of
the day to cope with the changing
flow Of traffic, but the amber light,
which will serve to warn all traffic of
a change in direction, will always
burn for five seconds. This will serve
TO clear the intersection before traffic
begins to move in the opposite direc-
ton.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
SPIDER BITE KILLS BOY.
Son of New Jersey
EVANGELIST Is Victim.

BRIDGETON, N. j., July 25 R.-
The bite of a spider caused the death
Yesterday of 12-year-old Leroy Let's
of this city. The boy was bitten under
the left eye while at a boys camp last
week. A swelling developed and a
surgeon operated on it, but the boy
succumbed in a hospital.
He was the son of Rev Clarence L.
Let's, we'll known evangelist At the
boys request the father administered
baptism to him at the bedside.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, July 25.-A rose
turbaned potentate. with gold sport
shoes, is going to chase a little white
ball with various sticks on cross
country walks through fairways,
jungle rough, desertlike sand traps
and velvety green's from the Atlantic
to the Pacific shores of these United
States and back.
The Zamindar Of Palayampatti and
Paladanathan-take it from the pas
senger list-came in on the Aquitania
yesterday
You Americans come to India to
shoot tigers in our jungles,' he re-
marked. II come to America to shoot
golf on your courses
He added that there was a bigger
thrill in making a lower score on the
links than in shooting an elephant.
He is going to Chicago and San
Francisco and return to New York by
Evening star., 1925-07-25
EFF. ANDREWS ARRESTED.
Son of D. c. Society Woman
Charged With Shooting" Home.


ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 25.-
Charged with disorderly conduct after
he is alleged to have shot up" a
negro residence near here last night,
Z. F. Andrews, son of Mrs. Minnige-
rode Andrews, who is socially promi-
nent in Washington, is under a $500
bond for his appearance at Falls
Church tonight for trial.
According to the police, Andrews
was passing the home of Vanderbilt
Shackleford, colored, when attacked
by dog. In the alteration that fol-
lowed he is said to have fired several
shots from a rife. He was arrested
and taken to Fairfax, where bail was
supplied.
Several months ago Andrews was
fined in Alexandria on a charge of
driving an auto while under the in
f1uence of liquor. He is 27 years old,
and lives on Seminary Hill, near here.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
INDUSTRY TO SHIFT.

MONTREAL, July 25 R.-The
Gazette says that the aluminium in
dustry will remove its headquarters
from the United States to Canada fol-
lowing an agreement between James
B. Duke, United States capitalist, and
the Aluminium Co. of America. A
huge plant will be constructed on the
Saguenay River in Quebec, which will
mean an investment of more than
800 900, 900 and the construction of a
city of $4,000 inhabitants.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
DEBT ABROGAT|ON
DENIED BY MEXICO
Treasury Official Says Ma
ton Seeks Modification
of Its Obligations.
BY the Associated Press.


MEXICO CITY, July 25.-Alberto
j. PAM, secretary of the Mexican
treasury, has issued signed state
ment denying an announcement at
tributed to him that the treasury
contemplated abrogation on August l
of the Lamont-de Ia Huerta agree
ment for payment of the outstanding
debts of Mexico.
What he did say he points out, was
that negotiations were in progress be-
tween the Mexican government and
international bankers with a view to
Tesuming debt payments by Mexico
in way that would be satisfactory
to the parties concerned.
Denies Two Reports.
Secretary Pants statement says:
lei Universal carried prominently a
story saying the Mexican government
would abrogate the Lamont-de Ia
Huerta agreement on August !. Fri
day it carried a similar story quoting
me as confirming such report. L
must declare both reports are untrue.
The Mexican government does not
contemplate abrogation of the agree
ment. l stated that the Mexican gov
Sl IllllcHl anu lIltIIletIIpIldI DeIIheI
are negotiating for a resumption of
the debt service in such manner that
both contracting parties Will be sat
isfied."
In connection with press comment
in the United States, which has reach
ed here, on the Mexican claims for
damages against the United States,
the foreign secretary, Aaron J. SaenZ,
declared today that no foundation ex-
yta MaNipan &
had been unduly inflated.
Follows L. S. Lead.
Mexico had done exactly what the
United States had done, he said, as
both governments had been obliged to
call the attention of their respective
citizens to the fact that they should
file their claims within the time speci-
fed 1t was not necessary to make
known how the Mexican agents pro-
ceeded in acceptance of the registra-
ton of claims, as the commission
must judge the legality of the claims.
He stated it was useless to speak of
the probable amount of the claims at
present.
Members Of the international COM
mittee of bankers on Mexico, COM
menting Friday in New York on the
reports from Mexico City that the
Mexican treasury intended to abro-
gate the Lamont-de la Huerta agree
ment on August /, said informal sug-
gestions for modification of the
agreement had been made by Mexico.
They added, however, that the idea
of Reputation by Mexico of an agree
ment signed and ratified by it's Presi-
dent and Congress could not for a
moment be entertained.
Evening star., 1925-07-25
Shipping Chief Killed.

HALMSTAD, Sweden, July 25 OP.-
M. Bronstroem, former managing di-
rector of the Swedish-American Line
and a former minister of marine. was
killed yesterday in an automobile acct
dent at Troenninge. His wife and
daughter had narrow escape from
injury.