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Evening star., 1925-08-21
Nurses Acquittal Scored.
Evidence Warranted Con-
viCtion, He Says.
QUANTITY OF RUM FOUND
ON TRANSPORT BEAUFORT
Two Men Lose Numbers in Pro-
motion and Others Are As
sessed Money.

Imposition of fines and loss Of num-
bers upon four naval officers found
guilty in connection with discovery
Of liquor aboard the naval transport
Beaufort at Norfolk, Va, last Febru-
ary, was approved today by Secre-
tary of the Navy Wilbur, and at the
same time he announced that the evi-
dence in the cases of the two Navy
nurses, acquitted of charges of inn
porting small quantities of liquor into
the United States, warranted a con-
viction, and the acquittal was not ap-
proved.
Secretary Wilbur's action in disap-
proving the findings for the two
nurses will have no practical punitive
effect, for under Navy regulations a
verdict of not guilty cannot be re-
scinded nor A new trial ordered.
Sentences Imposed.
In the cases of the four officers
aboard the Beaufort the findings of
the court-martial boards were ap-
proved by the Secretary and the fol-
lowing sentences imposed:
Lieut.. F. NJ. Hollow, the loss of
five numbers in the line of promotion
for having liquor illegally in his pos
session on naval vessel.
Lieut.. Junior Grade) Roland D. Hill,
the loss of so numbers for importing
liquor and having it in his possession
illegally.
Chief Pay Clerk james P. Gala.
CHER. a fine of $40 a month for 10
months for importing liquor into the
United States and having it in his
possession Illegally.
Machinist Frank NJ Hendricks, the
loss of seniority for 10 months and a
fine of $40 month for IL months be.
cause Of conduct to the prejudice of
good order and discipline importing
liquor and having it in his possession
Illegally.
Comdr. d. w. Fuller. the command
ing officer of the vessel, and Lieut.. C.
W. Baker. the other officers tried
were found not guilty.
Liquor Supply Found.
The Beaufort upon it's arrival at
Norfolk was surrounded by a Gordon
of marines under the direction Of high
naval officers at the port. and a search
uncovered a considerable quantity OF
liquor. The findings of the resulting
court-martials were received at the de
partment some time ago and held for
action by Secretary Wilbur upon his
return from the West coast For
several weeks the officers involved
suffered loss Of pay during the legal
proce edings.
The nurses were charged with il
legally importing small quantities OF
liquor when they returned from the
West Indies last April on the naval
transport kittery, which docked al
Norfolk.
Miss Anderson is chief nurse at the
Washington Navy Yard, and Miss
Clancy is on duty at the naval dis
pensary here.
When the verdict of the court-mar.
tial was announced, Secretary Wilbur
indicated a belief that some of the
evidence at hand might not have beer
presented to the court. A report on
that situation was requested of the
prosecuting officers, but the result
never was announced
Evening star., 1925-08-21
OF TAYLOR
0UST|NG LOOMING
Cooperative Milk Group
Plans to Ask Inquiry
by Congress.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 21.-John d.
Miller. president of the National Co
operative Milk Producers Federation,
said today a congressional investi-
cation may be asked to determine
the causes for the removal from office
of DIR. Henry G. Taylor, chief of the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
DR.. Taylor resigned at the request
of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine.
I'VE view this action with grave
concern" said Mr.. Miller, on behalf
of his organization, representing be-
tween $40 900 and $500 milk pro-
ducers.
Last Winter there were two CO.
operative marketing bills pending in
Congress; one was known as the
commission bill being supported by
the chairman of the Presidents s agri-
cultural commission, the other was
known as the Dickinson bill.
The commission bill was opposed
by substantially all of the cooperative
marketing associations of the country.
The Dickinson bin was supported by
many cooperative associations.
The struggle in Congress was
strenuous. Attaches of the Depart
Ateiit VI NoHIiiiSiSC "ctc hlio"h "
openly favor the commission bill.
Attaches of the Department of Agri-
culture, including DR.. Taylor, were
known to believe that if any legisla-
ton on the subject was to be passed,
the Dickinson bill was for the best.
We will make an investigation to
ascertain the facts in the case and if
it be found that public servants who
supported the commission bill are con-
tinued in office and that DIR. Taylor
has been removed because he favored
the Dickinson bill. then it may be
we'll that cooperative associations will
request congressional investigation of
the entire matter"
Evening star., 1925-08-21
ESTATE TAX REPEAL
OPPOSED BY GREEN
House Ways and Means Chairman
Proposes State and Federal
Split on Inheritances.
By the Associated Press.


DES MONIES, Iowa, August 21.-
The Des Moines Register printed to-
day a statement by W. r. Green.
Council Bluffs, chairman of the ways
and means committee of the House of
Representatives, opposing repeal of
Federal estate and inheritance taxes.
After reviewing criticism leveled
against the estate tax, he suggested
a remedy: II propose that the full
amount of State inheritance and
estate taxes be credited on the Federal
tax, if the latter exceeds the State
tax. Neither Florida nor the Dis
trict of Columbia have any inheritance
tax. The result is that a large num-
ber of very wealthy people have
houses there. The evil results of the
States thus bidding against each other
for the exemption of the wealthy are
so apparent that they do not need to
be stated.
Another potent reason why 1he
Federal inheritance tax should not be
abolished is that it furnishes the onIv
practical means of reaching by tax
alton what are commonly called tax
exempt bonds, which are exempt from
the Federal income tax"
Evening star., 1925-08-21
HIT
BY LACK OF SPACE
Activities CurtaiIed Greatly.
Van Ness Cited as Example
of Acute Need.

Washington is fairly well sup
Piled with Fairgrounds. as far as
number is concerned, but the grounds
are sadly cramped for lack of space,
except in two or three locations, The
Stars survey of Fairgrounds has dis
closed.
The mere fact that there are i'm
operation this Summer 25 municipal
does not provide an adequate picture
of the conditions existing.
Some of the so-called municipay play
centers are so small and shorn of
equipment that it would take a broad
definition to include them in the regu-
lar category of Fairgrounds, and keen
perceptive powers to recognize them
for what they are supposed to be.
Simply Small Eot.
The Van Ness municipal play
ground, on NJ street southeast, front
Ing the navy yard, rs a typical ex-
ample of what playground should
not be, in the opipion of Probation
Off1cer Sanford of fhe Juvenile Court.
This center with the aristocratic
name is simply a small corner lot
decorated with "a tiny field house, a
couple OF swings ana one or TWO
other pieces OF equipment. There isn't
room enough on the whole lot for a
game of base ball, tennis, or, indeed,
scarcely any other game requiring
moderate amount of space. There is
no fence inclosing the lot, and the
topography of the ground Is anything
but desirable for play purposes.
There are but two other play
grounds available for white children
Of the Southeast-the Garfield Park
and the Virginia avenue grounds
Neither of these is as large as a.
playground should be and none has a
swimming pool, now recognized as an
important adjunct to recreation facili.
ties.
On but two or three Fairgrounds
in the city is 1t possible 10 play two
games of base ball at once-a condi-
ton necessary to insure attendance
of older boys, according to Mr.. San
ford. Most of the Fairgrounds have
but one small diamond, to which the
younger boys are given preference
in use. with the result that boys of
the age most conducive to ''ganging"
are forced to seek the diversion of a
street corner "loafing bee"
Mr.. Sanford contends that every
Evening star., 1925-08-21
Judge Puts Limit
On Wives Power
To Jail Husbands

The application of wives to have
their husbands locked up TO pre-
vent payment of alinony based
only on a casual remark OF the
husband that he would leave town
il taken into court to settle mari
tai troubles has become too COM
mon, according 10 Chief Justice
Mccoy. who today expressed his
disapproval of the custom.
1T is a serious thing to deprive
a man of his liberty" said the
chief justice, and lock him up
on mere impressions of his wife of
what he. casually said to her.
There must be a sworn affidavit
showing that the man really in
tends TO go away and thus evade
his duty to support his wife. 1t is
not at all likely that a man who
has been living here a number of
years and Is engaged in business
is going to leave, even If he does
make such a threat to his wife in
a casual way"
Evening star., 1925-08-21
ONE OF LUIS ASSASSINS
KILLED BY CANTON GUARD
Slain Finance Minister Was Rab-
idly Anti-Foreign and Leader
in Bolshevism.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CANTON, China, August 21.-One
of the men who participated in the as
sassination yesterday of Liu Chung
hoi, finance minister of the Canton
government, was killed by guards
while fleeing fro mthe scene, and an
other wounded. The remainder es-
capped.
Liu Chung-hoi was a leader of the
Canton workers and was regarded as
the real power behind the present anti
foreign strike. At one time he was
minister of finance in the national
government at Peking and was three
times governor of Kwangtung prov
ince. He was known as violently hos
tile to foreigners and to Christians,
and as leader of the bolshevist ele-
n1ent in the Canton government. a
previous attempt on his life recently
was unsuccessful
Evening star., 1925-08-21
SUBURB is PERILED.
California Town in Path Of Onrush.
ing Flames.

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, August
II CP.-Flames last night leaped
across a burned-out area on the west
side of the Santa Ynez Mountains
and headed up San Ysidro Canyon
in the direction of Montecito, the
suburb of wealthy home owners ad-
joining Santa Barbara.
Starting a week ago yesterday in
Blue Canyon, IL miles east of here,
the flames have steadily eaten their
way up the east side of the Santa
Ynez range, over the top and down
the west side, but, owing to an old
burned-oyer area, the forest officials
until yesterday feared no danger to
the City Of Montecito. However, a
high wind swept the fire across the
old burn and into heavily timhered
canyon that leads directly into Mon
tecito.
Supervisor Chester Jordan of Santa
Barbara Ma tional Forest hurriedly
recruited all the men he could Sc
cure and left for the canyon with
hose and an engine. He said he be-
lieved the flames could be checked
Evening star., 1925-08-21
STRIKE PICKETS LAY
BRICKBAT BARRAGE
Two Hurt in Battle to Enforce
Wildcat Walkout at
Coal Mine.
By the Associated Press.

by tne Associated frcss.
ZIEGLER, ILL.,, August 21.-Two
persons were slightly injured and
several automobiles We're battered by
flying bricks and clubs today as
approximately $50 miners passed
picket line at the Bell and Zoller
mine No. l. here, where a wild cat
strike is in progress at the mines
Guns We're in evidence. but no
shots were fired. Most of the miners
got safely past the barrage of mis-
siles and went to work in the mine
About 200 men composed the picket
ing party
Sheriff Henry Doris, at Benton
hastily summoned every available
deputy and constable to have them
at the shaft at pm. to protect the
men when they quit work.
The streets today were crowded
and the feeling was tense. Adjt. Gen.
Carlos Black, at Springfield, was noti
fed of the outbreak, but no troops
were asked.
F. Kendrich, a miner, was treated
at the Zeigler Hospital for an in
jury. He was able to go to his home
An unidentified woman received
bruises.
Evening star., 1925-08-21

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, August 21.-Col. f. M.
House, once personal adviser to
President Woodrow Wilson, on
making his first visit to the League
of Nations he helped to evolve. re-
vealed that he took an option on
1000 acres along the shore of Lake
Leman, six miles outside OF Geneva,
when the covenant was being draft
ed in Paris. The plan was to erect
a league palace and a great gate
way of peace" in honor to the war
dead, but the idea was aba andoned
when the United States did not en-
ter the league.
Col. House told newspaper CORE
spondents that the league was only
half a league while the United
Evening star., 1925-08-21
Lowered Tax Schedules Fail to Impair
Federal Income; More Cuts Possible

were considerable gains from tobac-
CO and corporation taxation.
The total collection of income tax
from corporations and individuals
during July was s34,953,218. In
July last year it was S29, ,264, 1877.
Miscellaneous internal revenue
sources in July, 1925, yielded $780,
913,470. against $S1, ,550,747 in July,
1924. The capital stock tax on cor
porations yielded S20.563,000 last
month, while in July, 1924. it yielded
but S6,l72,000.
There was a slight falling off in
the tax receipts from cigar con-
sumption, while cigarettes furnish
ed $22.83 900 in Federal revenue
for July, 1925, against S19,749 900
in July, 1924.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
CHARGES LIFE GUARDS
LET GIRL. g. DROWN
Rochester Attorney Says Protector
Played Ukulele and Refused to
Heed Cries for Help.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, August al
Charges that one of the life guards
employed at the city bathing pool in
Genesee Valley Park played a ukulele
on the pool bank while Genevieye
Breen, 9, drowned, and that another
guard answered calls from the chiId's
playmates that they were having
pipe dreams" We're made TODAY by
Leo Rice, attorney, who announced
he had been retained by the child's
mother to bring a $4,000 negligence
action against the city. Rice said
he would attend an inquest TODAY
into the death of the girl and pre-
sent witnesses in an effort to prove
that three guards, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Raymon and Roy Benson.
were negligent. The three guards
have been suspended by Park Com
missioner Riley pending the outcome
of the investigation,
Evening star., 1925-08-21
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Tax reduction advocates received
additional comfort today from a
Treasury tabulation showing that
in spite of the lower schedules
which became effective this year
internal revenue collections for
July amounted to S125, ,s66 $50, COM
pared with $110,S14.SS5 during the
same month of 1924.
The decrease, due to the new law,
included a drop from $4,000 900 in
July, 1924. to $1,500,000 in July.
1925, on amusement tickets, and
there were also reductions in re-
ceipts from various other forms Of
sales ana consumption taxes. There
Evening star., 1925-08-21
LOST FLYERS NOT FOUND.
Naval Station to Aid Hunt for
Three Young Chicagoans.

CHICAGO, August 81 CP.-Search
for the Maiden Gertrude. the Chicago
airplane missing since July 27, with
three young aviators, was continued
today. Belief was expressed that the
plane must have gone to the bottom
by this time, If an accident occurred on
Lake Michigan. Comdr. Evans of the
Great Lakes naval training station is
preparing to send a Navy hydroplane
to help in the search.
Coast Guard station boats have
combed the shore line of the lake
near the point where the flyers were
last seen. but no sign of the miss
ing airnen or their plane has been
discovered.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
PHILIPPINES FOR PARLEY.

MANILA, August 81 CP.-Both
houses of the Philippine legislature
have approved a resolution providing
for the sending of a mission to the
United States to confer with President
Coolidge and others regarding a
definite solution of the Philippine prob
lem.
President Sergio Osmena of the low
er house and another yet to be select
ed will sail August %.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
Col. House Had Option on l,OOO-Acre Site
For Peace Palace at Geneva, He Says

States, Germany and Russia were
outside, and urged American asso-
ciate membership without covenant
obligations.
Had the United States main
tanned her wonderful enthusiast SIN
and Joined the league, war would
have been banished for all time"
declared Col. House. He added
that he had embodied the essen
tials of the peace protocol-arbi-
tration, security and disarma-
ment-in the first draft of the cove
nant he wrote in 1918, but Presi.
dent Wilson thought he went too
far
Evening star., 1925-08-21
OUSTING WAS EXPECTED.
Jardine and Taylor Differed Widely
on Policies.

Secretary Jardine's action in per-
emptorily ending the services of DR..
Taylor yesterday as chief of the Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics had
been expected ever since the Secre-
tary took office as it was known that
he and Dr. Taylor differed widely on
major agricultural policies. AS time
pa assed. there wa no indication that
the two could Grc together, and on
several occasions the Secretary init
mated that Dr.. Taylor's resignation
would he acceptable.
The Secretary's statement was is
sued from his sick bed at Walter Reed
Hospital and the action constituted
another step in the reorganization Of
the department, a task which has en-
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1925-08-21
INDIAN WOMAN Is TRIED
IN KILLING OVER EVIL EYE
One Member of Canadian Tribe
Convicted in Death of Witch
craft Suspect.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PRINCE RUPERT, British Column
bia, August 21.--Edie Loot, an Indian
woman, went on trial today charged
with participating in n ''witchcraft
murder" Big" Alex, Laird River
Indian, was found guilty of man
slaughter late yesterday in connection
with the case.
The victim was Wastelia Moccasin,
also known as Atol, an Indian youth
who was suspected of using an "evil
eye" against other members OF the
tribe.
In March 1928. the youth was taken
out on the ice. bound and left TO
freeze.
Big Alex. three brothers named
Loot. and E,die Loot were captured
by Royal Canadian Mounted Police
party from Vancouver late in 1924.
after an arduous trip during which
the TROOPERS Travelled 2.42o miles.
charges against the three Loot
brothers later were withdrawn.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
Windstorm Sweeps Italy.

MILAN, Italy, August q P).-
Considerable property damage was
caused by a violent wind and thun-
derstorm which swept Milan and its
environs during the night. Many
buildings were unroofed and trees up
rooted.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
League Documents Stolen.

MILAN, Italy, August 81 R).-
Police are investigating the theft of
a handbag belonging to Amdul Ain
Bey Mafaz, Egyptian delegate to the
forthcoming League of Nations meet
ing in Geneva. The satchel contained
several important documents.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
THREE DOOMED TO DIE.
Alleged Communists Taken After
Battle in Warsaw.

WARSAW, Poland, August II P).-
Death sentences were pronounced to-
day against three alleged Communists
captured in one of Warsaw's busiest
streets on July IT after a gunfight
with detectives and subsequent chase
in which a score of persons were
wounded, several fatally.
The sentences were passed in the
face of the receipt by Premier Grab
ski of threatening kilograms from
French and German Communist
grOupS.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
TO Be TRIED SOON
French Flyers Await Plane for
Proposed Paris-NeW York
Nonstop Hop.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 21-Lieuts. Fran
co.'s Coli and Paul Tarascon, manned
French veterans, plan to start on a
nonstop airplane fight from Paris to
New York within a few days.
In an interview with Excelsior, Coli
and Tarascon said that Immediately
their 420-horsepower nine-cylinder
plane is ready they would start wing
ing their flight westward across the
Atlantic. Tarascon will pilot the ma
chine, and Coli. who is a skilled navi-
gator, will direct his course.
Coli, while admitting the difficulties
were great, said he did not believe
them insurmountable. Allowing for
the spherical shape of the earth, the
distance to be covered was only 1000
kilometers (3.?2S.29 niles. The great
thing, he added, was to find attitudes
where the wind would be favorable.
The plane, which already has been
given a successful trial flight at the
Fillacoublay flying field, is fitted with
a navigraph. This is considered an
indispensable accessory, since the
course will have to be changed every
quarter of an hour, once for every
degree, to allow for magnetic declina-
llOn. AnOlneT accessory Is a small
canvas buoy line, to be used as a
sheet anchor, and which, in case the
machine falls into the sea, will keep
its head to the wind. To save weight
in the flight the landing wheels will
be dropped at the start, and the plane
will make it's landing on its outer
shell. the body and wings being pro-
tected by sprays.
Plan Trip I'm New York.
NEW YORK, August 81 Op).-Two
French aviators, Lieuts. Anton Moore
and Georges Kirsch, who plan a trans
Atlantic flight from New York to Paris
late this Fall, arrived today on the
steamer Rochambeau, to make pre-
liminary preparations.
The airmen. both Of whom ga serv-
ice during the World War in the
French Air Corps. will compete for
the $25 900 prize offered for the Paris
toNew York flight by Ramona Or
teie. Two fellow countrymen compel
ing for the same prize plan TO hy
from Paris TO New York late this
month.
Weather conditions will determine
the date of their take-off, the aviators
said, expressing hope that they
might launch the fight this Fall or, at
the latest, early next Spring.
Evening star., 1925-08-21
Baird Urged by Gary.

The administrator recommended by
Judge Gary is Frederick Baird, for
merly general traffic manager for
the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad.
He takes the post of Pittsburgh.
Salaries of the new administrators
will be on sliding scale, with
maximum at $4,000 instead of $500,
which Controller General McCarl de-
clared might be paid. The $4,000
limit was fixed. Gen. Andrews eX-
planned, because there is not one in
the Internal Revenue Bureau, under
which the prohibition unit operates
who receives more than $4,000.
Budnitz was appointed prohibition
director for the state Of Maryland by
Roy Haynes July 21, 1921. and has
served in that capacity since. When
he first took over the office he re-
ceived considerable opposition from
the Ku kluN klan. Several charges
also were made against his enforce
ment of the prohibition laws by Mary
Continued on Page 3, Column u
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Continued on Page 4. Column 81
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WEATHER.

20. S. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair and continued cool tonight; to-
morrow fair, with slowly rising tenn
perature.
Temperatures: Highest, IA, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, 65, at am. today.
Full report on page Z.
Evening star., 1925-08-21

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed
Evening star., 1925-08-21

Continued on Page 3, Column u
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-19

storeroom looked ais though It
might be serious, he entered the
building. Old rags and refuse in
and Gresh came out Of the building
and sank to the ground. Artificial
respiration by firemen and hospital
attaches was in vain.
When Gresh was seriously i'll
Christmas he told his family he
wanted to die with his boots on
and not go like this"
Gresh was first cousin of Mayor
Shank and was one of the best
known fireman in the department.
Besides his wife, a brother, three
sisters and two grandchildren sur
vive.