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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-17
WIFE OF REALTOR LEAPS
FIVE STORIES TO DEATH

NEW YORK, Sept. II. - Mrs.
Gertrude Beck, twenty five-year
wife of a wealthy New York real
tor, committed suicide by leaping
five stories to Riverside drive from
her bedroom window on the fifth
floor of $50 West 141st street yeSter-
day.
She was instantly killed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-17

Friday Saturday will be two big selling days Of this and or
savings
ing seasonable merchandise at truly amazing reductions
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-17
BALLOT IS
FOUR FEET
LONG
Complicated Election in Free
State Will Cost Nearly
100000

DUBLIN, Sept. 17.-Probably the
most complicated election ever held
is taking place in the Irish Free
State today. One and a half mil
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-17
BOY, I, INJURED
WHEN HIT BY
AUTO
Jack FIeishman Is Suffering
From Bruises and
! Shock

Jack Fleischman, seven years old.
of 709 G street southwest, is suf
fering today from bruises and shock
received Yesterday when he was
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-17

d. c.: Lieutenant Colonel Kendall
Weisiger, adjutant generals depart
raent reserve, to Washington, ~
c.. Lieutenant Colonel Herbert
Franklin French, adjutant generals
department reserve, to Washington.
d. C..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-17
B. w. M. Sale Of
800 Mems Pajam as
Regularly $1.65

The thought of the money you
can save on these pajamas will make
you sleep easy. Finely woven per-
Gales and cambria, in pastel shades
of blue, tan, gray and white. Neat
printed effects. Sizes A, B, G, D.
Odain Floor
Evening star., 1925-04-30
ITALIAN REBELLION
MOVE IS REVEALED
IN MAY DAY THREAT
Communist Demonstration
and Strike Aided by Soviet,
Police Charge.
AUTHORITIES PREPARE
TO PUT DOWN DISORDER
Parades Forbidden in France, But
Officials Will Permit
Meetings.
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
ROME, April 30.-Police declared
today that they have discovered evi-
dence of an Italian revolutionary
organization affiliated with communist
groups in Russia, which has been
planning May day workers strike
and demonstration against the gov
ernment throughout Italy.
The police expressed the opinion as
p result of their discoveries that very
active organizations of Soviet propa-
gandists are established in Italy.
Police action to prevent trouble to-
morrow is being taken.
This was an elaboration of an an
nouncement by police yesterday that
they had raided several alleged COM
munist gathering places and seized
numerous documents.
Since the recent troubles in Bulgaria
Fascist organs here have been insist
ing that the same danger threatens
Italy, but the opposition newspapers
have maintained that the Socialist
Communist scarecrow has been pur-
posely Haunted by Mussolini's fol
lowers to rally support for fascism
The authorities have discovered, ac-
ccrding to the statement, $50 600
copies Of Communist propaganda pam
phlets intended for clerks, workmen,
soldiers and peasants. They estimate
that several million other copies were
printed and are wondering where the
Communists secured the money to
finance the project.
Police say some of the propaganda
urged a practical action" against
the ruling classes and said:
Italian brothers, show yourselves
worthy of the heroic revolutionists
who are fighting in Bulgaria for our
common cause"
Police also claim to have found an
Italian edition of a Russian newspaper
called Truth, which said, "Abstention
from working on May 1 is not suf-
flcient."
Fascist newspapers declare this
Communist activity is connected with
the Bulgarian terroristic movement,
that it seeks a revolution in Italy and
that "it is not possible for the Mos
COW government to be unconnected
with such an organization.
Police have taken the most ener-
zetic measures throughout Italy to
prevent May day disturbances. At
Florence several Communist leaders
have been arrested, including Advo-
cate Digiani, who is said to be re
sponsible for the publication OF
clandestine Communist newspaper.
AGRARIANS DENY RED ACTS.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
PARIS BANS MAY PARADES.
AirpIane Patrol and Wireless Will
Cope With Disorder.
"a the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. April 30.-May day in Paris
will be devoid of professions. Meet
ings of various kinds in the open
will be allowed. but all parades are
forbidden. '.''t
Action has been taken by the min
ister of the interior. NJ. Schrameck,
in cooperation with Gen. Gouraud,
military governor of Paris; the pre-
feet of police, the director of the
state detective service and the di-
rector of the municipal police, to
prevent the celebration of May day
developing into a series of demon
strations. The garrison will be con-
fined to barracks, and troops will
make their appearance in the streets
only in case of serious trouble.
A police airplane patrol over the
city will be in constant wireless touch
with the prefecture of police and will
signal any signs of disturbances or
gatherings of crowds anywhere around
the city.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
AGRARIANs DENY RED ACTS
Moscow Gold Blamed for Terrorist
Deeds in Bulgaria.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the AESOclaJeu Press.
SOFIA. Bulgaria, April 30.-The
Agrarian Peasant Union issues a
lengthy statement to the Bulgarian
neople denying any connivance in or
sympathy with the recent terroristic
acts, which are declared to have been
perpetrated by individuals tempted
by Moscow gold.
The union maintains that il IS
legitimate organization working along
legitimate lines, and that II has moth
ina in common with the Bulgarian
emigres abroad, notably those in Ju-
goslavia and Czechoslovakia. whom it
characterizes as traitors, because, it
says. they are aspiring toward foreign
intervention in Bulgaria s affairs.
The statement ends with ar appeal
TO all BuIgarians to rally around the
forces of law and order during the
most critical stage in the country's
history
Another of the ringleaders in the
recent cathedral bombing plot was
accounted for Yesterday when For
mer Deputy Grantcharoff was located
by the police and, upon his refusal
TO surrender. shot and killed.
Three Russians, the first of this
nationality to be arrested during the
recent troubles, have been taken into
custody at Philippopolis. They were
found in a cellar stocked with am
munition.
> The Agrarian party manifesto Wig
orously denounces the attempt on
the life of King Boris and the Sveti
Kral Cathedral outrage.
Among the eXiled Agrarians and
~o1!,.er members of the party it ad
,slts there are individuals who were
IMPLICATED in these "abominable
& lmes." but the party cannot accept
rr-pr visibility for their acts.
The people are exhorted to remain
c.,trl and assist the government in
Earring off the dangers threatening
3rsISaria
Evening star., 1925-04-30
BR|bE TALE Barred
IN SHEPHERD CASE
Witness Says SIS, 900 Offered
for His Affidavit by De-
tense Counsel.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 30.-Earl P. Clark
testified today in the resumed inquest
into the death of William n. Nc
Clintock that he had been offered a
$4,000 bribe by an attorney for Will
liam D. Shepherd. under indictment
charged with the murder of McClin-
took by typhoid incubation, TO sign
an affidavit which Clark said he never
had seen.
Clark Worked for Faiman.
Clark is a former employe of Charles
G. Faiman, who has operated a sci
ence school. where, Faiman testified
he taught Shepherd how TO administer
typhoid germs. He testified at Shep.
herds bail hearing after Shepherd s
attorneys charged Clark was being
coerced.
Today Clark said that he had two
interviews with w. S. Stewart of
shepherds counsel, arranged by A.
b. Benziger, reporter for the Chicago
Evening American.
Clark said Stewart at one interview
appeared in the newspaper Office with
some whisky and that all three had a
few drinks. Stewart and Benziger
told him, Clark alleged, that he was
likely to be charged with murder as a
result of an alleged illegal operation,
but that they could get prominent
attorneys to defend him.
Clark testified that Stewart and
Benziger said they wanted him to sign
an affidavit that the accusation
against Shepherd was a frame-up be-
tween the States attorney, himself
Faiman and J. P. Marchand, former
agent for Faiman's school.
Refused to Sign.
Later, Clark said, Stewart called
him to his office and offered S., 900 if
he would sign the affidavit. Clark
said he refused to do so.
Clark said he was next approached
by John E. Jones, head of a private
detective agency, whom, he said, he
had first met in company with the re
porter
Jones said he could guarantee me
$4,000 at least" said Clark II re-
fused. Jones finally told me that If
l didn't sign the affidavit l would
never be able to get employment"
When the inquest was resumed
Shepherd and his attorneys declined
to attend.
Although Shepherd is in Jail pend.
ing trial set for May IS, he was given
an opportunity to attend the session
today, which was expected to conclude
the inquiry into the death of young
McClintock last December.
With the finding of the verdict in
the McClintock case, the jury will
take up the inQuests into the deaths
of Mrs. Emma Nelson McC1intock,
mother of BILLY" McClintock, 16
years ago, and of Dr. Oscar Olson.
The coroner's chemist already has re-
ported finding enough poison in the
body of Mrs. McCiintock to cause
death within 10 days.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
FOREIGN AGENT PERIL
TO U. S. TRADE Barred
Many American Exporters Are
"Humbugged," Commerce
Official Asserts.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PRESS.
PROVIDENCE. r. l., April 30
The proneness of American business
firms to be ''humbugged'' in selecting
representatives in foreign fields is a
real menace to this country's present
strong position in world trade, julius
Klein, director of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. de-
clared in an address prepared for de-
livery to6ay before the local Chamber
of Commerce.
With manufactured commodities
now forming more than half of the
American export trade, American
firms must recognize, Mr.. Klein said.
the need of greater care in selecting
selling agents abroad than when the
great self selling" staples and raw
materials formed the bulk of the
Nations exports.
His bureau has succeeded in teach
ing this lesson to many firms, Mr..
Klein said, but he cited one instance
in which mo less than 325 reputable
American firms had designated one
representative in China who was
widely known for his dubious prac-
tees The prestige of American
business abroad, he said, suffers
seriously from such carelessness.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
GRIFFS CALL OFF GAME;
RAISE FLAG TOMORROW

Bad weather necessitated postpone
ment of the game scheduled for today
between the Nationals and Athletics,
when the American League pennant
was to be raised. The series will be
inaugurated tomorrow, with the flag
raising ceremonies preceding the con-
test, which is scheduled to get under
way at $3.50 o'clock.
The game tomorrow will mark the
inauguration for the season Of the
usual Friday ladies day program,
when woman spectators are admitted
to the park without charge. 1t is an
nounced that tickets sold for today's
game will be honored tomorrow.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
MEXICAN SCORES
ACTIVITIES OF u. S.
Delegate to Women's Con-
ference Says Policy Has
Been Unfair to Republic.

The part often played by the
United States in the affairs of Mex
leo neither has been creditable to the
United States nor fair to Mexico.
Until there is a clearer definition of
the attitude of the United States to-
ward Latin America, suspicious of
imperialistic ambitions will remain, "
declared Miss Elena Torres, deleEate
from Mexico to the second confer
ence of the AllAmerica Association
for the Advancement of Women, in
session yesterday at the -Ameri- :
ran Building here.
'At the Baltimore conference, three
years ago" she continued. I'VE adopt
ed seven working aims for the wom-
en- of the two Americas. Six of these
we accept without reservations. The
seventh reads as follows: To stimu-
late friendship and mutual under
standing between the two Americas,
with the aim of maintaining perma-
nent peace in the Western Hemi-
sphere. This, of course. is splendid
ideal. The women of Mexico ardent
ly desire to work along these lines.
But / regret TO say that at present
1t represents for us little more than
empty words.
Everywhere we hear the question
raised: What of the United States
Does not she seek only her own in
terests at the expense of our people ?
Events have justified this attitude.
What can we do to promote peace
and understanding with such SuSpi-
cions on every hand? We must have
a clear. unqualified statemen. as to
what the United States intends. We
must be given a practical working
basis to promote peace I'd under
standing"
Says Others Also Fear.
While raising this issue, Miss
Torres took any sting out of her elo.
quent Spanish by the friendly smiles
with which she brought home her
points. Miss Torres, one of the fore
most workers for women's rights in
the southern republic, spoke with an
earneStneSS, however, which con.
Vinced the American delegates that
their co-oworkers in Mexico had en-.
countered real difficulty in spreading
the gospel of an altruistic United
States. The same attitude persists in
Argentina, Mrs. Jean T. Raynes. dele
gate from Buenos Aires, told the con-
ference.
"On every hand" she said, we are
asked what the United States intends
to do. There is undoubted fear of and
resentment toward any American at
temptS to secure more control in
Latin America. Many of our repub.
lies, OF course. are greatly indebted
to the United States. They are afraid
that sooner or later pressure will be
brought to bear upon them"
Blames Greedy Interests.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, chair
man of the conference, said: LAS an
American woman / can answer the
question raised by Miss Torres and
Mrs. Raynes, but I am afraid NV
answer will be of little comfort or
helpfulness to them. In the first
place, the attitude of millions of the
American people toward their Latin
neighbors is absolutely friendly and
unselflsh. But unfortunately these
millions have very little to say about
the circumstances which have created
the suspicious.
we are government by parties.
We may change our party and the
men In office every four years. There
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1925-04-30
PROTOCOL TO BE ARGUED.
French Parliament to Take Up
Matter May IS.

PARIS, April 30-Ratif1cation of
the Geneva protocol for the peaceful
settlement of international disputes,
signed during the session of the
League of Nations last Fall, will be
one of the first questions for debate
when the French Parliament recon
venes, May 25. NJ. Paul Boncour, who,
with the present foreign minister. NJ.
BRAND, signed the document, has Just
completed report to the French Par
lament concerning the protocol. The
report concludes with the recommen-
dation, indorsed by the committee on
foreign relations of the Chamber, that
the pact be ratified
Evening star., 1925-04-30

One-cent stamps cut in half won't
get by as the additional II
cent postage recently inaugurated.
Many people have tried to put
them across, until finally the Post
Office Department had to issue an
order today fatty scoffing at the
idea of their validity. Possible
ignorance, but more likely stamp
collectors, is blamed for the mis-
take.
This is something new in the
gentle art of stamp collecting, a
practice both new and moribund,
for City Postmaster Mooney COM
planned of the apparent machina
tions of crafty philateliSts.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
SPANISH ENVOY HONORED.
Ambassador Riano Decorated With
Nations Highest Award.

Ambassador Riano of Spain was
presented today with the insignia of
the Order of the Grand Crown of
Charles the Third, the highest deco
ration of Spain, by a commission of
six Spanish residents in New York,
including the Spanish consul general
there.
The Spanish residents in New York
had some time ago petitioned the King
of Spain to honor Ambassador Riano
with this decoration. When the deco
ration had been awarded, funds for
the purchase of the decoration itself
were raised by subscription among
Spanish residents and sympathizers
in New York.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
Saves Murderer for Chair.

OSSINING, n. Y, April 3o.-John
Farina, who is to be electrocuted
tonight with Joseph and Morris
Diamond. brothers, for the murder
of two Brooklyn bank messengers in
1923, was prevented from an attempt
at suicide, Sing Sing authorities be-
iieved, when a keeper today took
from him the sharpened handle of
a toothbrush which he had concealed
in two oranges.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
NEW REBEL OFFENSIVE
LOOMS IN $40 PAULO
Attack on La Guayra, on Parana
River, Expected-Invasion Is
Indicated.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, April 30.-Border
advices say the Brazilian rebels in the
state of Sac PaulO. who retired to the
interior after the failure of their last
outbreak, are showing renewed activ-
ity and preparing to attack the port
of La Guayra, on the Parana River.
3 The Brazilian government forces at
La Guayra, which is fortified, are said
to number about 1000. while more
than 200 rebels are already gathered
at various points up the river.
The advices indicate that if the
rebels are successful in this attack
they intend to invade Matto Crosse
state and also to effect junction with
other rebel forces in Rio Grande do
Sui.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
Scissored "Half-Cent' Postage
Is Barred by Post Office Order

A score of mailing cards sent out
by local business firm each car
ried a 1-cent postage stamp which
had been cut in half
1T seems ridiculous to have to
publish an order that such a thing
couldn't get by u.s." Mr.. Mooney
said today. I'VE can hardly be-
lieve it was caused by ignorance,
and it probably was done with pre-
meditation by a philatelist who
wanted to get the half 1-cent
stamps franked and sell them as a
rarity"
The letters thus stamped were
held for postage and notice issued
that there is a 112 cent denomina-
tion of stamp provided.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
President Sets Example for
Workers by Guarding
Against Smallpox.
SURGEONS WILL BE SENT
TO FEDERAL BUREAUS
Two Deaths Yesterday Bring Total
to 10 Out of sd Cases
in Recent Weeks.
Only 3 Smallpox
Gases fascinated

OF the 54 persons who have
had smallpox I'm the District of
Columbia since January I, only
had ever been successfully
vaccinated, DIR. William c.
Fowler, District health officer,
declared today.
The three who had been vac.
cinated had mild cases. One OF
them had been vaccinated so
years ago, another Is years and
another IA years ago. None of
the persons who suffered severe
cases or died, according to
Health Department records, had
ever been yaccinated.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
Plane Has Chance to Reach Pole,
Dirigible You'd Fail, Expert Says

chance in a thousand of rescuing
anybody from the polar cap" Mr..
Wellman said. Shed be lucky to
get back herself"
Besides being impotent to aid
stranded explorers because of the
impossibility of landing without a
big ground crew, Mr.. Wellman
pointed out, there would be grave
danger of the Los Angeles becom-
ing marooned and wrecked through
the loss of her buoyancy through
temperature changes.
Airplanes today are dependable,
with very small element of haz-
ard, he said, but airships are "un-
wieldy and extrahazardous and will
remain so.''
Evening star., 1925-04-30
England FoUo,cs
Baln,y Morning
BY Euening Sno,o
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEEDS, England, April 30.-Now
that Spring Is here, so are the curl
osities of the English climate. This
morning there was warm sunshine
in Yorkshire. Then Winter came,
and a six-hour snowstorm ragged
over the moors. making travel
along the roads impossible. The
northern professional golf tourna-
ment at keighley was postponed.
the route of the Cycle Unions
thousand-mile ride was altered and
sheep farmers throughout the dis
trict were busy saving their lambs
from the storm.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 30.-Walter
Wellman, former Arctic explorer
and first man to attempt to cross
the Atlantic in dirigible, has de-
clared that he believes the MacMil-
Ian polar expedition this Summer,
which will be accompanied by
three Navy planes, has a good
chance for success. But he does
not believe a dirigible would be
able to reach the pole, nor does he
believe that the Los Angeles or the
Shenandoah could be used effec-
lively in rescue work there should
a rescue be necessary.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur
had announced that the dirigible
would be utilized as rescue craft in
case any mishap should befall the
party.
"A dirigihle wouldn't have one
Evening star., 1925-04-30
Fifty Drinks Daily
Vas Dry AGENTS
Quota for 2 Years

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.-Don
Okle, former United States Army
captain, today resigned from the
Federal prohibition enforcement
department as an "undercover
agent" ostensibly to enter business
for himself.
Unofficially, however, Okle dis
closed that as an 'undercover
agent" he found it necessary to
consume on an average of so drinks
of liquor daily. He said the num-
ber of drinks necessary for him to
obtain evidence had totaled about
SO, 400 in two years.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
Night Keys Giuen
Prisoners, Charge
Against Sheriff
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RENO, New, April 30.-CharG-
ing that prisoners in the Churchill
County Jail have been permitted
to go and come at will, Federal
authorities filed contempt proceed
ings at Carson City yesterday
against Sheriff J. B. Crane. 1t
was alleged that in some instances
keys to the Jail were provided
prisoners that they might attend
motion pictures and other forms
of amusement when they wished.
The sheriff was cited to appear in
the Federal Court and explain the
alleged liberties.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
Kaiser Reminders Banned.

FRANKFORT-ON-T Ger
many, April Boy a narrow vote,
The city council has decided to abolish
4ll monarchistic street names. One
of the thoroughfares will be renamed
in honor of the late President Ebert.
Evening star., 1925-04-30
Prince George Sails.

LONDON. April 30.-Prince George.
youngest son of King George and
Queen Mary, left London today for
the Far East to take up his assign
ment to duty with the British China
squadron.