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Evening star., 1925-08-22
PRESIDENT VISITED
BY NEW FOR STUDY
OF POSTAL DEFICIT
Post Office Head Plans No
Recommendations to Con-
gress on Rates.
BY j. RUSSELL YOUNG.
staff Correspondent of The Star.

SUMMER WHITE HOUSE. Swamp
scott, Mass, August 22.-Postmaster
General New came to White Court
today to discuss the $37 200, 900 post
office deficit with President Coolidge.
The President also conferred with
Senator Wadsworth of New York.
Mr.. New made it very plain to Eews-
paer men at White Court that he did
not come to discuss legislation to
modify the new postal rates. and de-
clared that he has no intention of
making any recommendations regard.
ing rates to Congress when it next
assemblies. Neither does he propose
to offer any suggestions to Congress
when it starts to work upon changes
in the rates.
VIII Give Opinion.
IF Congress wants the opinion of
the Post Office Department as to
rates l will be very happy TO furnish
it," Mr.. New said, however.
When asked what particular feature
of the Post Office Departments A.
nances he came to discuss with the
President, Mr.. New replied that 1t was
the 1925 deficit. Routine matters also
will be taken up.
This big deficit" Mr.. New said,
'is due principally to the increase in
the postal salaries and the failure of
the increased postal rates to go into
effect until April while the increase
pay became effective in January"
Says Country Is Prosperous.
In the opinion of Postmaster Gen
eral New, postal receipts to date are
clearly indicative Of good business
generally throughout the country. He
contends this prosperity speaks well
for the administration and the politi-
cal party it represents.
He thinks this prosperity will con-
tinue for some time. The official said
he bases his opinion on figures re-
ceived by the department from so of
the leading cities and so industrial
cities. representing SO per cent of the
postal receipts. These figures, taken
in July, show a gain in business gen
orally of 13 to IA per cent i'll SO of
the 100 cities over the corresponding
period of 1924. Boise, Idaho. was the
only city Of the 100 considered to show
a loss
Sees Jersey Leaders.
Another of the Presidents confer
ences was favored entirely with poll
tics-New Jersey politics. Senator
Edge, upon whom the administration
has always looked as the Republican
leader in that State, along with for
mer Gov. Stokes and State Senator
Whitney, the Republican nominee for
governor, came to tell the President
of the situation in New Jersey.
Then followed a long talk, during
which a variety of subjects were
touched upon, with Col George Har-
vey, former Ambassador to Great
Britain.
Following his conference, Senator
Continued on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1925-08-22
.BIG-GUN TARGET PRACTICE
BREAKS UP AN EXCURSION
She1l-Shocked Veterans on Steamer
Go Into Mysteries When Boston
Fort Fires Cannon.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, August 22.-Terrifying
memories of. their days in France
came back to six she'll shocked World
War veterans when the big guns at
Fort Andrews went into action for
target practice while an excursion
steamer carrying nearly 800 veterans
on a harbor outing passed the fort
yesterday.
Six of the men became hysterical.
Nurses and attendants quieted them,
and reassured other veterans who
were less seriously upset by the firing.
Ambulances from the United States
Veterans Bureau and Fire Depart
ment automobiles were called to the
dock to take the seriously affected
men back to their hospitals. Dane
ing and singing by theatrical stars
who were on board the vessel to en-
tertain the veterans helped to quiet
the men.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
PERSH|NG DEMANDS.
PERUVIAN RIGHTS
Protests Attack on Paper
Vendors by Chi'eans Armed
With Potatoes.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated fress.
RIACA, Chile, August eff the
view of Gen. John J. PershinS pre-
walls, there will be no further demon
strations of hostility, such as oc-
CURED yesterday when Chileans pur-
sued Peruvians selling newspapers
printed by the Peruvian delegation
to the plebiscite commission TO the
doorstep of Gen. Pershing, throwing
potatoes and otherwise maltreating
them. Gen. Pershing, Immediately
after the incident, in conversation
with Augustine Edwards. head of the
Chilean delegation, demanded that inn
mediate steps be taken to insure the
protection and free movement of
Peruvians inside the plebiscite area.
Senior Edwards promised that such
steps would be taken. He is under
stood to have asked Gen. Pershing
to notify the Peruvians that the
Chileans were ready to guarantee full
safety to the Peruvian paper sellers,
provided the Peruvians informed the
police of the time and place where
they would offer the paper for sale.
The Peruvian newspaper is being
published aboard the Peruvian trans.
port UcayaH. It's circulation has in
creased daily since it first appeared
on August 10. Chileans generally
have opposed the circulation of the
journal. The anger of the crowd yes
terday apparently was aroused over
the fact that the two Peruvian paper
sellers, who later were chased, were
accompanied ashore by Sarah Wam-
baugh, an American author, and Prof.
Albert A. Giesecke. director general
of education in Peru, both of whom
are members of the Peruvian plebis-
cite delegation.
Vendors Are Threatened
They stationed themselves on the
opposite side Of the road from where
the Peruvians were selling the news.
paper, having with them cameras
ready to photograph any incident. The
crowd is said to have thought this a
provocation to hostility. They com.
mented warmly on the situation, and
then began threatening the sellers
who hustled down the street to the
door OF Pershing's residence, where
they stopped. The Chileans here, in
the sight of Maj. John G. Quekemeyer,
William G. Dennis and Raymond c.
Cox of the American plebiscite delega-
ton, hurled potatoes at the Peruvians.
After some Snarp persuasion on
the part of the police guarding the
Pershing abode, both the Chileans
and the Peruvians were ordered to
move on. The Americans, however
demanded that the Peruvians be per-
mitted to remain where they were,
and then aided the police to disperse
the disturbers of the peace.
Eye witnesses say that during the
trouble the Peruvians were manhan-
died by the crowd, and that later on
resuming the sale of their newspaper
one of them, Jorge Garcia, was
knocked down. The Americans, de-
Tending the Peruvians, were also in
volved in fights in two cases, but
were not injured.
A police hearing was started yes
terday afternoon to obtain evidence
against Chileans of the attacking
party for presentation to the public
prosecutor for action. Mr.. Cox was
present in court for the Americans
The Peruvians We're represented by
Miss Wambaugh and Prof. Giesecke
About 20 Chileans are said to have
taken part in the disturbances.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
FRANCE KNOWS TERMS.
May Be Dilatory, But u. S. Has Made
Views Plain.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Cablegrams from France reveal an
extraordinary change in the attitude
of the government there toward the
payment of war debts. Not that the
United States Government has been
In any doubt that France ultimately
would cease talking cancellation and
begin talking payment but the in
terences that may be drawn from the
few semi official expressions that have
come out of Paris bear out the pre-
diction of an early settlement
Members of the American World
War Debt Commission have known
for some time that France would
scrutiniZe the Belgian settlement and
then shape her own policy. They
have known, also, that if Joseph Call
lauX, finance minister, did not come
in person to the parleys in Washing
ton in September it would mean there
was little chance of an agreement
1t is therefore regarded as very sig
ntficant that Immediately after the
terms of the Belgian settlement were
announced the dispatches from Paris
told of NJ. Caillaux's prospective de-
parture. 1t was reasoned in Wash
ington that if the French finance
minister saw a real chance of making
a settlement he would go to America
but if he thought the opportunity to
settle was doubtful he would not risk
the political consequences of failure
NJ CaillauX still is undecided about
coming, according to latest press re-
ports.
L. 5. Grows Impatient.
And there isn't any question about
the economic as well as the political
effects of any postponement of pay
ment. The American Government
has reached the point where it is
somewhat impatient with delay and
with al the hackneyed arguments
Continued on Page 4, Column 2)
Evening star., 1925-08-22
Officials See Belgian Terms
as Sweeping Away Hope
for Concession.
FRANCE KNOWS TERMS
AMERICA WILL GRANT
Vacillation End Seen in Apparent
Growing Impatience of United
States Officials.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
PARIS. August 22.-Reports re-
ceived by the finance ministry from
the French embassy at Washington
regarding the settlement of war debts
are Of such a disheartening nature
that Finance Minister Caillaux has
decided TO abandon, for the time at
least, his intention of going to the
United States, as head of the French
delega ton.
1t appears that the French basic
proposals have been received so
frigidly at Washington that NJ. Call
lauX is even contemplating postpon-
ing the departure of the mission,
which was fixed for September 16, to
await further developments, such as
the progress of the Anglo French
debt discussion, the end of the Moroc-
can campaign and the results of
the gold loan, which will close the
middle of September.
If all these problems are solved
satisfactorily, then NJ. CaillauX con-
templates again making unofficial
new proposals, which might be con-
sldered more acceptable by the
United States Treasury.
tCopyriEht. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Coz
Special Session Beaten.
BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 30
CP).-lt has been decided not to call a
special session OF Parliament for rati-
hcat1on of the Belgian debt funding
agreement reached in Washington,
but to postpone the discussion until
the Parliamentary reopening in No
vember.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
Cedric, Pet Turtle, Lover of Famous
Ancestral Pancakes, Is Kidnapped

a recipe for the pancakes. I'm
afraid the turtle will miss them
and be unhappy"
Mrs. Raynor, like many others
in Brookhaven, has made pets of
turtles, especially those with ini-
tials Of their ancestors carved on
their shells. When Cedric came
to her house with the initial "B"
on his back, Mrs. Raynor spotted
him Immediately as the pet of the
Barlow family, her ancestors, who
settled in Brookhaven two CEN
turies ago. Every morning except
during strawberry time and in
Winter when he hibernated, Cedric
would waddle up to the porch for
breakfast Of ancestral pancakes
A few days ago, Mrs. Raynor
said, man picked up the turtle
just after breakfast and drove off
with him in an automobile.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
SCIENTIST FIGHTS
CHURCH EXPU[S|O
Dr.. Henry Fox Says Baptists
Let Individual Fix
Own Beliefs.
BY the Associated Press.

R1NERTON. n. J., August 22.-Dr.
Henry Fox. Government biologist here.
who was dropped last year from the
faculty of Mercer University, Macon,
Ga, for teaching evolution, and who
has been asked by the Tattnall Square
Baptist Church there to quit the de-
nomination for alleged unorthodoxy
today said he would go voluntarily on
one condition.
Quoting from terms he said he sent
this week TO DR.. H. NJ. Fugate, the
pastor, DR.. Fox said he stood ready to
withdraw provided the Tattnall Square
deacons and congregation officially
went on record as denying the right
of an individual Baptist to be the sole
judge of the soundness of his doctrinal
views. DR.. Fox said this right had al
ready been asserted and won by Dr.
Harry Emerson Fosdick in accepting
the pastorate of the Park Avenue Bap-
tist Church, the Rockefeller Church, ="
in New York City. He cited DIR. Fos-
dicks stipulation that baptism by i'm
mersion there was to be optional.
1t was on assurance of this right
by a Baptist clergyman, DIR. Fox said,
that he himself was persuaded to
Tenn, in 1918.
Doing Research Work.
After his troubles at Mercer Uni
versity last Fall DR.. Fox came here
as an entomologist to do research
work in the fight the United States
Department of Agriculture is making
upon the fruit-feeding Japanese beetle.
When he applied to the Tattnall
Square Church several weeks ago to
transfer his membership to a New
Jersey congregation the usual form
letter to such effect was refused him,
he said, on the ground that his public
utterances were not consistent with
Baptist belief.
H. D. Chapman. Macon church
clerk, in a letter Of July 13, which
DR.. Fox revealed today, asked him
on behalf of the church specifically
to affirm or deny belief in the vir-
gin, birth and the divinity of Jesus
Christ.
Dr. Fox answered on July % that
the church authorities had failed to
acknowledge previous question he
Continued on Page 5, Column 2)
Evening star., 1925-08-22
GUARD Is SET AGAINST
MINE CLASH RENEWAL
Zetgler, Ill, Shaft Reopened, as
Roads Are Patrolled to Fore
stall Agitators.
BY the Associated Press.


ZEIGLER, ILL.,, August 22.-County
officers We're assembled here today
as guards against repetition of
yesterdays clash between workers and
strikers at Bell and Soller Coal Mine
No. l. About $50 men have resumed
work since a wild cat" strike of
August 8.
To prevent an influx of agitators all
highways into the city were patrolled
by deputies and constables last night.
Palmer Prftchfield, miner, inadvert-
emily ran down one of several woman
pickets, as he drove an automobile
toward the mining property. The
woman was slightly injured and
miner, F. kendrich, also suffered
minor injury when sticks and stones
were thrown at Pritchfields car.
Pritchfield escaped unhurt. Tran
Quillity returned upon arrival of the
officers.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
CRUSHED BODY OF BABY
FOUND ON BENNING ROAD
Believed to Have Been Hurled
From Auto or Abandoned
and Run Over.

The dead body Of new born child,
it's legs crushed as though the infant
had been run over by an automobile,
was found early today on Benning
road near Benning bridge.
John w. Robinson. of.315 Fifteenth
street southeast, saw a bundle wrap
ped in newspapers at the side of the
road and, investigating, discovered the
body, he reported to police. The body
was taken to the ninth precinct sta
ton and later will be turned over to
the coroner for an inquest.
Police are seeking the mother, be-
lievintg the child had either been
thrown from an automobile as 1t
passed the gardens bordering the
roadway, or had been abandoned on
the road and later run over by an
automobile.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
MURDER WARRANT
SERVED ON MAGEE
LYING HURT IN BED
Eight Witnesses Say Ex-
Judge Kicked Editor Before
Bystander Was Shot.
FORMER JURIST WOUNDED
BY HIS WRITER ENEMY
Slayer Was Storm Center of New
Mexico and Barred Part of
Oil Scandal.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EAST LAS VEGAS, n. Mex, Au-
gust 22.-Carl G. Magee, Albuquerque
editor, today was faced with first-de-
gree murder charges in the New
Mexico courts in which he gained ma
tional prominence as defendant in the
'NiaGee libel and contempt cases"
The charge was filed by the district
attorney last night and a criminal
warrant served on the editor as he lay
in bed in the Meados Hotel. bruised
from an encounter last night in the
hotel lobby with former Judge David
j. Leahy, during which John B. Las
setter of Santa Fe was shot to death
and Leahy wounded in the upper left
arm.
Eight eyewitnesses told practically
the same story. They declared Magee
was seated on a divan in the lobby,
conversing with newspaper reporters
when w. S. Patterson, a former en-
ploye of Magee, began talking to him
Magee, Patterson and a newspaper
woman noted Leahy's entrance with
the remark: There's Leahy."
Leahy Kicks Magee.
Witnesses declared Magee dropped
his left hand into his coat pocket and
continued his conversation with the
woman as Patterson backed away.
Leahy then approached the divan,
witnesses said, and struck Magee on
the cheek, knocking him from the
seat. AS Magee struggled to his feet,
witnesses declare, Leahy kicked him
in the ribs.
Magee then drew a pistol and fired
as Lassetter seized Leahy's arms. The
shot struck Lassetter in the throat
second shot struck Leahy's arm
shattering the upper bone.
The former Judge walked from the
lobby unassisted.
Magee fell. sobbing. on the divan
and Lassetter, lying on the floor near
by, died within a few minutes.
A coroner's jury. at the request Of
the assistant district attorney. ad-
journed until today. when Magee was
expected to be present with his attor-
neys.
Magee Grief.Stricken.
Il regret more than anything this
terrible occurrence, and am grief
stricken over it, Magee told news
paper men after the fight. He re-
ceived several bruises about the face
and body, and Leahy's upper left
arm was shattered by the second
bullet
The fight and shooting closed an
other chapter in the high-tension
career of Magee. In July, 1923, he
was convicted of libel by a Jury in
Judge Leahys court in connection
with the publication of editorial at.
tacks on Chief Justice j. w. Parker
of the New Mexico Supreme Court.
sentenced to prison by Leahy, he was
pardoned by James F. Hinkle. who
was then governor, before being taken
to the penitentiary
A year later he was hailed into
court by Leahy for editorially criticiz
ing the court while other charges in
connection with the libel case were
fC0ntinuaI ID,
Evening star., 1925-08-22
MIDWEST MOTORISTS HAPPY
AS GAS WAR SKATERS PRICES
National Concerns Attempting to Drive Independents
Out of Business Have Slashed Rates as Low as Is
Cents Callon-Some Have Succumbed.

plus State tax of cents a gallon.
The larger companies prices are 17.S,
1873 and 20.8, plus tax, the latter being
quotations of the Standard Oil Co. of
Indiana, which has remained aloof.
Two rivals in Woonsocket, S. d.
started it and neutrals were compelled
to follow suit for awhile, and then
suspended to let them fight 1t out
After six days the Lakeside Garage
was down to II cents and the TeXaco
representative to IS. The neutrals say
they will resume when the "battlers"
go broke or sign an armistice. In
dependent dealers in Kansas City,
Mo, have started making price cuts
in efforts to cut down competition,
with resultant price ranges from 1875
Continued on Page 4. Column 81
Evening star., 1925-08-22
By the Associated Press

BY The Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 22.-Motorists
are wearing broad grins and their
chariots are chugging merrily in four
sections of the Midwest today, as wars
between rival dealers have brought
toboSganinE gasoline prices.
The hilarity is highest in Decatur
Ill, where prices are the lowest
Three national concerns attempting to
drive out independents have trimmed
prices from % cents a gallon to Is
and II cents. Several of the smaller
stations have succumbed, others have
suspended until the war is over and
others continue to fight. In Wichita,
kans., where the fight has ragged for
months, approximately half of the sta
tions are selling at 1873 and 1879 cents,
Evening star., 1925-08-22
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, August 22.-
Cedric, the pet turtle of Mrs. Ed
ward Raynor of Brookhaven, L. l..
who came to her door Summer and
Spring for four years to eat PAN
cakes made from a family recipe
200 years old, has been kidnapped.
Mrs. Raynor advertised her loss as
follows:
"Lost-If this notice comes to
the man who took the turtle will
he please return him to Mrs. Ed
ward Raynor, who fears he will
miss .his pancakes, and also will
never be able to find his way back
to his Winter location?"
"I want only to know that the
turtle is we'll off," Mrs. Raynor
said. "If the man doesn't want to
return him, I'll be glad to send him
Evening star., 1925-08-22
ESCAPED KILLER TAKEN,
Convict Lured to Hotel on Pretext
of Planning Robbery.

CENTRALIA, Wash, August %
P).-Tom Murray, escaped killer
from the Oregon prison at Salem, was
captured through ruse today in a
hotel here.
Philip Carson of Portland recognized
Murray in Vancouver, Wash last
night and persuaded the convict to
accompany him to Centralia, where
he pretended they would rob a road
house.
Murray had separated, at White Sal
mon, Wash, from James Willos and
Ellsworth Kelley, convicts associated
with him in the escape, and had
agreed to meet them in the East.
After taking Murray to a hotel
room, Carson called policemen and
Murray submitted to arrest without
resistance.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
PLAN GREAT SLASH
IN HAYNES FORCES
Total of 1000 Likely to Be
Cut Off, With Personnel
Here Dropping to 200.

Personnel at prohibition headquar-
ters here will be cut half, at least,
and may even be reduced from its
present size of 500 to 200, under the
wholesale decentralization program
announced yesterday by Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Andrews,
transferring authority TO "a admins
traitors. Total reduction in prohibi-
tion forces may be 1000.
Already the headquarter's force
has begun to decline in numbers.
under program of cooperation
with the Civil Service Commission,
revealed today for the first time.
Knowing that the big change was
coming on. lessening the necessity for
such a large force here in Washing
ton, the Treasury made arrangement
with the Civil Service Commission for
notification of vacancies occurring in
other departments and branches of
the Government service.
Under this program already more
than so persons, mostly stenographers
and typists, have been transferred out
of the declining prohibition headQuar-
ters to other posts, thus saving en-
ployes from dismissal.
Will Seek to Provide Jobs.
This policy will continue to provide
jobs for az many persons at prohibi-
ton headquarters as possible before
the final reduction brings the number
down to the minimum.
Details have not as yet been worked
out as TO how the headquarters here
will function, but it Is fully expected
that all the principal officials will re-
main, including Prohibition Commis-
Sioner Roy A. Haynes, Assistant Com
missioner James E. Jones, General
Counsel James J. Britt, Chief Chemist
Doran and others.
Under the decentralization program,
however. as explained by Gen. An
drews, the power and authority vested
in Gen. Andrews himself will be trans
ferred in full to each of the admins
traitors in the % administrators Of
fees in the continental United States,
and the two insular, Porto Rico and
Hawaii. This naturally will greatly
reduce the authority of prohibition
headquarters.
Budnitz to Pick Aide.
Much interest here centered to-
day in the appointment of a deputy
administrator to have charge of
prohibition enforcement in the Ma
tional Capital, under direction of the
new administrator, Edmund Budnitz,
named yesterday for this local dis
trict, including Maryland, Delaware
and the District of Columbia.
Reached by telephone at his Balti-
more office today Mr.. Budnitz said
he had not yet chosen the man who
will be his deputy administrator for
the District of Columbia, but intend
ed to take it up among other prob
lens of reorganization the first thing
next week.
Mr.. Budnitz has already chosen two
men as counsel in his Office, Jacob G.
France and j. Craig McLana han, at
torneys of Baltimore. These men, it
was explained, are not TO appear in
court, but are to advise in the prepa-
Evening star., 1925-08-22
MOUNTAIN FIRE CHECKED.
Forest Service Controls Blaze in
California.

PASADENA. Calf. August % Up.
The brush fire which since Tues
day has ragged in the mountains back
of Pasadena vas under control last
night in one section on the north
side of the Big Tujunga region. the
Federal Forest Reserve headquarters
announced today.
On the remainder of the north front
the blaze was confined between the
42-foot firebreak which was COM
pleted yesterday and the Big Tujunga
Canyon.
Evening star., 1925-08-22
Mother of Sheik Killed by Riffs
Offers Two Sons ito Replace Him.

Homecoming body, taking two
younger sons with her. Without
stopping for more than a minute
beside the stretcher on which her
first-born lay, she threw herself be-
fore the officer who enlists tribes
men for action against Abd-el-
Krim.
The enemy has killed one of
my sons" she said to the officer.
Il give thee two to replace him."