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Evening star., 1926-12-04
NEW MONEY CRISIS
IS SP|NCH|NC FRANCE
Some Factories Closing as
Currency Value Rises.
Americans Are Hit.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOyyRER.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1926.
PARIS, December 4.-First signs of
an economic crisis are beginning to ap-
pear in France. Prices have reached
world levels. Americans. here now
have to pay for most things about as
much as they would pay in the United
States. and for some things they have
to pay more.
Exports are declining and interior
markets are languishing because of
high prices. Factories are beginning
to restrict production and discharge
part of their personnel.
All the economizing classes except
the peasants have suffered huge losses
on the Bourse, where practically all
stocks have dropped.
All this phenomena are due to the
government policy Of forcing improve
ment of the value Of the franc. Ac-
cording to the government, this i'm
provement must be carried still fur
ther. There still Is no definite sta
biliZation program.
In most particulars Premier Poin-
cares ultimate financial aim remains
a mystery. a certain amount OF cap
ital recently has returned to France,
and the treasury situation is good,
but the floating debt has increased,
and the future still is uncertain.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
MOTORISTS WILL GET
TIME TO PUT ON TAGS
Extension After January l Will
Be Granted-Duration of
Period Undecided.

Although District motorists will not
be permitted to put 1927 automobile
identification tags on their machines
until New Year day the Commission
ers announced today that an extern
sion of time would be allowed for the
use of 1926 tags after January |.
The Commissioners pointed out that
it would work hardship on the mo-
torists to require them to change tags
on the stroke of midnight December
81 and further, due to a delay in the
arrival of the plates. it is doubtful II
all motorists will be able to procure
them before the new year. Just how
long the 1926 tags may be used in
1927 will be decided later.
The order forbidding the use of 1927
tags before January l was issued by
the commissioners on recommenda-
ton of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super
intendent of police, who thought that
confusion might result If the old GUS
tom was followed of permitting mo-
torists to place the new tags on their
cars as soon as they were issued.
The District probably has been the
only place in the United States where
the use of a new years tags was al
lowed before new year. 1t was point
ed out by Col. l. G.. Moller, assistant
traffic director. and confusion has re-
suited not only locally but in outside
Jurisdictions where District cars have
gone.
When issuance of the new tags is
started next week the Traffic Bureau
has arranged to erect temporary
office on the basement floor Of the
District Building where motorists may
file applications for new drivers per.
mits when they call for the 1927 tags.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
ANT+-WAR PARLEY
OPENS TOMORROW
Hundreds Registered for
Conference on Cause and
Cure for Armed Conflicts.

| Several hundred delegates to the
second Conference on the Cause and
Cure of War registered at headquar-
ters today at the Washington Hotel
in preparation for the beginning of
| the conference, which will open to-
morrow afternoon with a public
mass meeting at the Belasco Theater.
Weekday sessions, all of them open
to the public, will be held at the
| hotel.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
York. Mrs. Clifford Pinchot Of
| Harrisburg. Pa, and Mrs. Maud
| Swartz of New York were among
| those registered for the National
| Woman's Trade Union League. Mrs.
| man Of the department Of interna-
tional relations of the General Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs. will be
| in attendance, and Mrs. Lewis H.
Lapham of New York will come as
| a representative of the national board
Of the Y. w. c. A.
AcceptanceS were received yeSter-
day from members Of the National
Business and Professional Women'S
League, the Women'S Department Of
the Catholic Welfare Association and
| the Temple Sisterhood, who have been
invited to attend the conference as
observers.
Washington women who registered
at the conference yesterday are Mrs.
Robert L. Lansing, Mrs. J. Jerome
Lightfoot, Mrs. E. II. Pitcher, Mrs.
Kate Trenholme Abrams, Miss Emma
Pettijohn, Mrs. Redwood Vandergrift.
Mrs G. w. Richards. Mrs. ID. o. Kins-
man. Mrs. Lyman Beecher Sworn
stedt. Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, Mrs. VIII
liam f. Chamberlin. Mrs. Virginia
White Speel. Miss Bertha Henderson,
Mrs. B. Youngblood. Mrs. David
O'Mears. Mrs. Alvin Dodd. Mrs. W. A.
Slade, Mrs John J. O'Connor, Mrs.
David Robertson. Mrs. A. Graupner,
Dr. Lois Rayden Meek, Mrs. Raymond
Morgan, Miss Eleanor Boswell, Mrs.
J. X. McClintock, Miss Alice Deal,
Miss Margaret Lambie, Miss E. NJ.
Gaver, Mrs. John Mel, Miss Elizabeth
+. Pearce. Mrs. Fred f. Wright. Mrs.
Luke Wilson. Mrs. Edwin B. Parker
and Miss Elizabeth Eastman.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
TWO HUNTERS KILLED
WHILE SEEKING DEER
One Slain Near Chambersburg, Pa,
When Mistaken for Game-Sec-
ond Victim Leaned on Gun.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. December
4.-The deer-hunting season has
claimed two victims here in the past
two days. Maurice Rhoades of
Chambersburg, Pa, q member of a
deer club near Caledonia, a few miles
from here, was shot and fatally in
jured this morning when a hunter a
quarter Of a mile away fired at him
thinking he was a deer. The bullet,
from a high-powered gun, shattered
his leg and he died from loss of blood
before help reached him.
The second hunter killed was Irwin
Jacobs of, York. Pa, member
of another club near here, who was
wounded yesterday by his own gun.
He was leaning on the muzzle when
1t was accidentally discharged He
died several hours later in the Cham
bersburg Hospital. He leaves a wife
and nine children.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
GIRL DEATH CLUE
SOUGHT IN MORGUE
Suicides Body Resembles
That of Youth Hunted in
Wisconsin Mystery.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Wis, De
cember 4.-In setting endowed
with all the starkness of an lbsen
drama. authorities today sought TO
tear away the veil of mystery SUR
rounding the Staying of Clara Olson.
Morse farmers daughter.
Three pathologists were summoned
to view the clay-cloaked body OF the
22-year-old girl in an effort TO deter
mine how she came to her death. Her
body was found in a shallow hillside
grave overlooking the home OF her
missing sweetheart, Erdman Olson,
who has been charged with her
murder.
Meanwhile the unclaimed body of
suicide in a mOrgue at Chicago ne
came new focal point in the search
for the boy who wrote in a fareWell
letter to his parents that II would
rather take death than captivity.
Officers found the youth. who killed
himself in 4 hotel four weeks ago.
to be closely similar to Olson.
Many Clues Offered.
Investigation also turned to Great
Falls, Mont, for a clue, through dis
closure that relatives there recently
had transmitted to Erdman's family
communication which 1t was
thought might have pertained to his
whereabouts. From surrounding
States came messages reporting the
arrest Of suspects, as the state made
the first move to discover whether
Clara died by firearms. club or poison.
When this is accomplished the
State will seek evidence to substan-
tiate the warrant charges against the
girls sweetheart. who has not been
seen .Since he quit Gale College on
September 27, the day after Clara's
father threatened him with arrest un-
less the girl was found.
Four years younger than Clara.
Erdman had kept company" with
her for more than year. but had de-
clined, according to the girls father.
to marry her, despite the knowledge
that she was about to become a
mother.
Will Call Dozen Witnesses.
The State today designated a dozen
witnesses who will be called before
a coroner's jury Monday to establish
whether officials were justified in the
unusual procedure of charging Olson
with the murder before discovery of
the body established that the girl was
dead.
Among the principals who will be
called Monday are Christ Olson.
father OF the GIRL Erdman's family;
Christine Anderson. said to have
danced with the youth the night the
girl vanished; others at the dance, and
neighbOrs.
Detectives employed by Christ Olson
held that the girl was lured by
3 kalr 90
ly logging road. slain and hastily
buried by young Olson.
The youths father. however. main
tanned that his son had nothing to do
with the girls death. and expressed
the belief that the body was placed
on Battle Ridge to direct suspicion
to the boy.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
VARIETY OF COLORS
IN LICENSE PLATES

Color contrasts seem to be the pre-.
dominating vogue in the 1927 auto
mobile identification tags. Those that
will he displayed in Washington most
prominently will be a riot Of color
Judging from the advance samples
received by Traffic Director M. O.
Eldridge.
The District tags will embody the
same color scheme as those of the
present year-chrome yellow and
black-except that the colors will be
reversed. Instead Of black figures on
a yellow background. the new tags
will have yellow figures preceded by
q letter on a black background.
Marylands 1927 tags will be done
in the conservative black and white
black figures on Il white background
Virginia, however. has selected some
thing new in a color combination. The
figures will be done in vivid scarlet
with a Nile green background.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
FUND FROM PARTY
WILL AID LA PLATA
$85 Received for Relief of Storm
Victims From Mrs. Mar
schalk's Affair.

La Plata's sufferers still receive aid
from WashingtOnianS who contributed
to the relief fund compiled by The
Star. Eighty-five dollars was received
this morning for addition to that fund.
That amount represents the proceeds
of a card party given by Mrs. f.
Bruce Marschalk at the Northeast
Masonic Temple Saturday. November
q.
This amount will be turned over by
this newspaper to the Red Cross for
it's relief work in the storm area of
Charles and Price Georges Counties
and 1t will permit the work OF that
organization to be done even more
completely than the amount for which
the Red Cross asked in its dire need,
Contributions received to date by
The Star are as follows:
Previously acknowledged. SO, ,50972
Proceeds of card party in
Masonic Temple. northeast,
conducted by Mrs. E. Bruce
Marschalk .............. $500
IOLdL %, ,0y4.IH
Evening star., 1926-12-04
|36 ARE INDICTED
IN POOL INQUIRY
Gamblers Said to Have Given
$4,000 to New York
G. 0.P. Campaign Fund.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON. December AFTER an i'm
vestigation Of base ball and clearing
house pools So defendants resident in
Massachusetts, and New York were
under secret indictment today on
charges of conspiracy to ship lottery
tickets between States.
The Federal grand jury had been
Investigating the so-called Albany
and Hudson pools for two days.
Federal authorities claim to have
found evidence that the pools con-
tributed $4,000 to the Republican
campaign fund in the recent New
York State election.
Other Pool Listed.
Investigators also said that another
pool with headquarters in Albany,
N. Y, was believed to have con-
tributed to the Democratic election
fund during the New York State cam
paign, and expressed hope that in
formation regarding the activities of
the organization would be obtained
from persons now under Indictment
While the names Of the defendants
listed in the indictment We're not
ment, 1t was made known that six
were residents of Albany and other
places in eastern New York, while 80
were of Massa achusetts cities.
Got $4,000 i'm Four Cities.
The pools handled staggering
sums" in weekly lotteries on base ball
and clearing house statistics, Federal
officials said. In four Massachusetts
cities sales Of tickets totaled SIS 900
weekly, while the total prizes awarded
were $1,000.
During the investigation, the corri-
doris Of the Federal Building were
thronged with witnesses, who includ-
ed detectives and police officers from
western Massa chusetts and northern
New York, as we'll as many buyers Of
tickets.
Federal officials indicated that the
new grand jury, which convenes next
Tuesday. might begin second in
vestigation based on information OBJ
tanned during the inquiry just COM
pleted.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
SPAiN'S new ASSEMBLY
TO BE NON-POLITICAL
National Body to Succeed Cortes
Dissolved Three Years Ago, De-
prived of Partisan Complexion.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, December 4.-The Ma.
tional Assembly which is to succeed
the Cortes dissolved by Primo de
Rivera three years ago will, it now
appears. be deprived of all political
complexion.
The plan to have the members
chosen by the government has been
abandoned, and the nominations will
be made by recognized scientific
educational, labor, commercial, ship.
ping and farmers organizations.
Neither the senators elected for life
by the crown nor the provincial presi
dents Of the patriotic union, Primo dt
Rivera's own party. will be members
as was first suggested.
The assembly will pass upon meas
ures drafted by the government, ant
the legislation so enacted will be sub
ject to governmental approval. The
new body will be convoked early next
year. probably February i.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
LUCIA AMES MEAD
SPEECH IS BARRED
Decatur, Ga, College Action
Is Due to Opposition to
Her Associates.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
! ATLANTA. Ga, December Am
! address by Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead
| Of Boston before the student body
| of Agnes Scott College for Women
! at Decatur, suburb. scheduled for
| today, was Cancelled because city
| fathers, including the mayor, and
! members of the American Legion are
, opposed to the people she runs with. y
Mrs Mead, vice president OF the
| National Council for. Prevention Of
| War, with headquarters at Washing
ton, was to have been the guest Of
the students at their chapel exercises
and to have spoken on international
peace. DR.. j. r. Mccain. president
, OF the college, Cancelled the invita-
ton in telegram from Jackson,
! Miss, where he is visiting.
No Personal Bias
| Charges that Mrs. Mead favors
Rolshevism rumblAd about the little
town. and finally Mayor Scott Gambler
| announced that while the American
! Legion post did not object to Mrs
| Mead personally, it did object to "the
people she runs with and certain of
her radical policies
Asa Warren Gambler, son of Asa
w. Gambler. is president of the Legion
post. Trustees of the college are un-
derStOod to have joined in the re-
quest that the date be Cancelled.
Mrs. Mead described as vicious
and false" the accusations against
! her.
States Her Position.
She addressed the Decatur League
| Of Women Voters yesterday afternoon
, on the same subject she was to have
discussed at the college, and members
| said she did not express any radical
views.
The college denied that the stu.
i dents planned an indignation meeting
| and scoffed at reports that the faculty
would resign unless the invitation
was renewed.
Mrs. Mead said: Il cannot see that
recognition of Russia by the United
States would mean approval of either
atheiStic or communiStic govern
ment.
''The idea that 1 take a contrary
view is preposterous."
Evening star., 1926-12-04
URGES FIRE STATION
IN TRIANGLE AREA
HOUSING FOUR UNITS
Continued from First Page.)


engine houses, eight truck houses, one
fireboat house, and one repair shop, a
total of 80 different buildings. The
personnel consists of uniform force
of 863 men, a civilian force of three
and nine per diem mechanics, making
a total Of 875.
Chief Watson in q series of recon-
mendations to the subcommittee SAID
he hoped that a drill tower and fire
college for proper training and In
struction of officers and men would
be provided this year. He recon-
mended an increase in the number OF
men, so that members may attend
drill tower and fire college without
losing their time off. He suggested
an additional engine and truck com
pany of 18 men each, which would
make a cost of about $55,O0O a year.
Urges Increased Pay.
Chief Watson also recommended an
adjustment Of pay of privates so as
to provide for a minimum of $1,000
and a maximum Of $2,4O0 per year,
with a corresponding adjustment OF
salaries of officers, so as to provide
commensurate increase in compensa-
ton for increased responsibility. He
also asked the committee to support
legislation authorizing an allowance
of $40 per month each to engineers,
drivers and tillers on trucks who are
obliged by detail to carry additional
responsibility in getting their COM
rades and costly apparatus to fire.
He advocated provision for full
80 days annual leave to firemen as
is allowed other Federal and Dis
trict employees. The firemen now
get 20 days.
Needs of Department.
Chief Watson told the subcom-
mittee that the department needs
three additional companies 20 cover
the growth Of the city in recent
years. One engine company in the
vicinity of Connecticut and Nebraska
avenues; one truck company in the
vicinity of Eleventh and w streets,
one rescue squad company at No. =
truck house to cope with the enor-
nous life hazard found in the
Northwest section of the city.
He said that additional motor ap-
paratus is needed to replace that
which has become obsolete and un-
dependable by reason of its length of
service and to create reserve to take
the place OF apparatus winch may ne
temporarily disabled. He also asked
for an additional rescue squad wagon.
AS one of the important and press
ing needs Of the department, Chief
Watson urged the installation in fire
alarm headquarters of a tel-auto de-
vice connected with the various quar-
ters of the department for expedit-
Ing simultaneous issuance, Of orders
and information, thus eliminating de-
pendence upon the telephone.
New Sites Advocated.
He said that the new site and build
ing for No. Engine Company. now
on Virginia avenue between Four-and.
a.half and Sixth streets southwest
should be provided with the new
location in the vicinity of Third and
f streets southwest. He also asked
for a new site and building in the vic
unity Of Fifth and Fl streets, for No
8 Engine Company, now on Massa
chusetts avenue between Fourth and
Fifth streets, and q new house fol
the fire boat on the water front.
Chief Watson recommended Or
Evening star., 1926-12-04
TaliaferrO Name
Pronounced as If
Spelled ''TOliver''

The new Commissioner pro-
nounces his name as if it were
spelled "Toliver"
The name Taliaferro. an old and
we'll known one in Virginia, is of
Italian origin. Mr.. Taliaferro.
He is descended from Capt.
John TaliaferrO, a distinguished
English gentleman of an ad-
venturous disposition. who came
to the Virginia colony in 1888 and
who was to be renowned through
out that section. Capt. John soon
was followed by his brother
Richard, who also distinguished
himself. and at the present time
there are many families in Vir-
ginia and other sections of the
South who trace genealogy to
them
Evening star., 1926-12-04
DIES IN BALTIMORE.
Mrs. Johanna Bieber, SO. Expires
While on Visit.

Mrs. Johanna Bieber. Sc years old,
widow of Samuel B;eber. died at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Myer
Rosenbush. in Baltimore, last night.
Mrs Bieber resided in this city with
her son, Sidney Bieber. and went to
baltimore several months ago to visit
her daughter. at whose residence she
died. Her husband for many years
was a prominent merchant here. He
died Ave years ago.
Born in Frankfort t,on-the-Main. Ger
many, Mrs. Bieber came to this coun'
try and resided for a short while in
Lynchburg. Va. but spent the greater
part of her life in Washington.
Besides her son and her daughter. in
Baltimore, she leaves two other daugh-
ters, Mrs. Isadore Kaufman and Mrs.
Harry S. Wolf. both of Washington.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the sons home in the Presidential
apartments tomorrow morning at 1890
o'clock. Rabbi Abram Simon will of.
ficiate. Interment will be in the Wash.
ington Hebrew Congregation Seme-
terX
Evening star., 1926-12-04
TALIAFERR0, new
COMMISSIONER, TO
TAKE OATH TODAY

Continued from First Page)
greed that if Mr. Taliaferro would ac-
cept his appointment would be splen-
did one. Other prominent citizens
were asked regarding this and all
We're unanimous in agreeing that the
President would be fortunate if he
could obtain the services Of this young
attorney.
The matter finally was brought to
the attention of the White House by
Mr.. Littlepage and later by one of
two others, and yesterday Mr.. Talia-
ferro'S consent was obtained.
Mr.. Taliafelro will enter upon his
new duties with an open mind, so to
speak. While he has been a close
observer of District activities, he has
taken no active part in civic or or
District government. While he has
no fixed policies at this time, he has
great faith in the people of Washing
ton and in the future of the Capital.
He is proud of it's beauty and is en-.
thusiastic over it's possibilities. He
will do all in his power to advance
the interests Of the city and to carry
out it's development upon the lines
which have been SO carefully laid out.
When asked for an expression he
said that he hardly knew enough
about the duties confronting him to
make any comment, but that he
would endeavor to perform them to
the best of his ability. He appeared
deeply appreciative of the honor con
ferred upon him by the President, and
hoped he would have the support of
those in the District Building and all
other citizens Of the city.
Described as Worker.
The new Commissioner is what his
associates and friends describe as a
worker and a plugger and not a
talker." He has worked hard all his
life, having been compelled to leave
school at an early age following the
death of his father, and he attributes
considerable of his success to the eX-
perience that he acquired while work
ing as a boy. His first employment
was that of Office boy in the Norfolk
and Western Railroad at Roanoke.
Later he became clerk in an insur.
ance office in Washington, where his
family had moved, and by serious ap.
plication he worked his way up until
he became secretary of a local COM
pany.
All the while he was not neglecting
his education. After attending night
Evening star., 1926-12-04

ing campaigns Of their own, nor the
enthusiastic sale begun by the pa.
tients at the tuberculosis Hospital
with a goal Of 100000 seals this year.
The growing popularity of the
Christmas seal in its fight against
tuberculosis has now won the sup
port of golfers in the arrangement
Of the national golf tournament to be
played at the Seaview Club Atlantic
City. next week, in which many ia.
nous golf stars are already entered.
The idea was sponsored by Jess
Sweetser, the winner Of the British
open golf championship. who is now
in a sanitarium at Asheville, y. c.,
making his own fight for health.
Sporting writer's in all parts of the
country are giving this contest at
tentioh just to boost the Christmas
seal sale.
Evening star., 1926-12-04
ESKIMO COLD IN JERSEY.

NEWARK, N. j., December 4 Cp)--
1kwa. an Eskimo from Pethal, Alaska,
went into cold storage yesterday to
get warm. Ikwa. in the role of Santa
Claus for local department store,
has been huddling near radiators, and
he explained that the cold Of Alaska
was dry. whereas here 1t was wet.
He spends an hour a day in the fur
storage room to flnd climate comma,
Fable TO that in his home town
Evening star., 1926-12-04
MORSE TRIAL JURY
STILL SEEKS VERDICT
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, December 4-The
Jurors in the Morse mail fraud trial
resumed deliberations today after
being locked up for the night. when
they We're unable to reach a verdict.
The case was given to them yester-
day at l PM, after d trial lasting
eight weeks.
Benjamin W.. Erwin A. and Harry
A. Morse. SONS of Charles w. Morse,
and George A. Burdett. Rupert NJ
Much and Henry r. Boughton are
charged with misuse of the mails to
promote an alleged fraudulent scheme
for sales Of stock in the various
Morse companies. Twenty-Five persons
were originally indicted. but the
charges against all but six were
dropped in the last few months.