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is MADE
TO PUBLIC FOR
MINERS AID
Contributions for Help of
Suffering Strikers in
Virginia.

By Scripps-HoWdrd Newspaper AllfGHce
NEW YORK, July 10.-A plea for
contributions to help striking coal
miners of the Kanawha valley of
West Virginia has been issued by
the emergency committee for strik-
ers' relief under auspices of the
League for Industrial Democracy.
1t is signed by Norman Thomas,
Socialist candidate for President in
1928, as chairman, and by John
Herring, as acting secretary.
Miners are fighting to restore
their union and get decent living
conditions, and there is much suf-
fering and hunger, says the appeal,
which follows:
This is a bitter cry for relief.
"On July 6, $4,000 coal miners in
the Kanawha valley of West Viz
ginia came out on strike against
starvation. Coal operators, arro-
CANT and entrenched, have refused
to meet the West Virginia mine
workers in joint conference.
AS a result, 10000 human be-
ings, workers, their wives, and the
little children are today crowded
together in the bleak mining camps
of West Virginia, putting up the
fight of their lives in the lowest paid
mining area in the country.
ITO their demand for decent con-
ditions and a more tolerable exist
ence, the coal operators have re-
piled with wholesale evictions, and
the guns of private guards.
"TheSe are the days when miners
children follow their mothers about
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the kitchen asking for food-and
there aren't any potatoes or -four
in the house. The child who gets
even canned milk is lucky.
Not new conditions these. but
those which have existed for years,
since the union was destroyed. Now
the miners are seeking through
their own endeavors to win freedom
and a little happiness for them
selves and their children. A strike
means suffering, but there is no
other way that they can win
through to better days.
This is therefore a blunt, per-
haps too blunt, request, to give and
give hard. Your contributions will
give these workers food and spirit
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DEMOCRATS TO MEET
Ward and Township Chairmen to
Be Publishers Guests.

Ward and township Democratic
chairmen of Marion county in the
Eleventh district and of Madison
and Hancock counties will be the
guests of Mark Gray, editor of the
Indianapolis Commercial, at water
melon feast Saturday night at his
home, 5621 Beechwood avenue, in
honor of Congressman William H.
Larrabee of New Palestine.
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DEBATE POLLUTION SUIT
Ogden Confers With Health Chief
on White River Problem.

DR.. William F.. King, director of
the state health department, has
conferred with Attorney-G General
James M. Ogden over the matter
Of suing the city of Muncie to en-
force the board of health order to
construct a sewage disposal SyS-
tenn there, which will stop pollution
of White river. Kings orders have
been defied by Mayor George Dale
of M1ncie.
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to carry on their struggles. Make
checks out to Forrest Bailey, treas
urer, and mail Immediately to
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LABOR MEETING is SET

Joseph zimmerman to Be Speaker
at Workers Center.
''Will Hoover's Program Solve the
Economic Crisis is the subject of
lecture to be given by Joseph
Zimmerman of the international
Labor Defense at 8 tonight at the
Workers Center, 1921 South Me-
lridian street.
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HOLY NAME UNION !:
MEETS IN LAUREL
Hundreds From Capital Will
Attend Session Tomorrow
Afternoon.

With hundreds Of local MEMBER ip
attendance, the Washington section Of
the Baltimore Holy Name Union will
hold its July quarterly meeting at St.
Mary's Church, Laurel, Md, tomorrow
afternoon at 8 O'Clock. George C.
Mantz, president of the Baltimore
Archdiocesan Union Of Holy Name So
cieties. will be the principal speaker.
Neighbc-b2g parishes are expected to
eend large delegations for the rally.
Invitations have been extended to each
of the SO affiliated branches of the
society In the Washington section.
Rev. Joseph A. Myer, pastor at Laurel,
will be the host, assisted by the follow
ing officers of st. Marys Holy Name
Society: John H. Collins, president;
Harold Street, vice president: George
Miller, Jr., secretary; c. S. Davis, treas
urer, and Frank Hurd. marshal.
Caesar L. Aiello, president Of the
Washington section, was assisted in
completing arrangements for the meet
ing by all the parish presidents and
the following officers: Patrick ]. Haiti
gan, K. S. S.. vice president; Francis
Anthony Mccain, secretary; John j.
Curtis, treasurer, and James Garvin,
marshal.
This will be the first time the Wash
ington section has met at Laurel. Right
Rev. Mgr. Peter L. Ireton. spiritual
director Of the Baltimore Archdiocesan
Union, and others will attend.
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RUM BATTLE CASE
OFFICERS GIVE UP
Customs Inspectors Will Face
Charges of Careless Firing
and Assault.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 25.-Customs Inspec-
tors Clarence E. Fish and Arthur
Weisolowski surrendered to county au-
thorities today to face charges Of care
less use of firearms and felonious as
sault because Of the wounding of a
passenger aboard an excursion steamer
while they were chasing rum-runners
Tuesday night.
They were taken to the county jail,
where they were registered and their
fingerprintS recorded. They will be ar
raigned in Common Pleas Court later
The complaint against them was
signed by Arthur Gajeski, who received
a bullet wound in his forearm when,
with a number of others, he crowded
TO the rail Of the excursion steamer to
watch the brush between the officers
and a rum-running craft.
Efforts are expected to be made by
the United States district attorneys
office to have the case against the two
inspectors transferred to Federal Court,
where the Government would defend
them,
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THE ghost of Philip Nolan. cursor
Of his homeland, who wandered
derelict over seven seas-a man
without a countrY-NOuld do

THE ghost of Philip Nolan, cursor
Of his homeland, who wandered
derelict over seven seaS-a man
Il without a country-would do
well to move into 1925 Sixteenth
street and establish there, at last, a
home. Nolan would find kindred spirit
in that house without country-the
dank and dusty, the decaying Russian
embassy.
Nolan, implicated in treason, was
exiled to the seas, where he was trans
ferred from ship to ship for So years
until his death. His architectural coun-
terpart, old Russia's embassy, involved
in political intrigue from its creation,
seemingly has been banished from its
former magnifcence through its trans
fer from master to master on the trail
to whatever death 1t is that awaits such
structures.
Government Nom Existent.
At present the four-story, white
stone and-light-bri structure has the
unique status of embassy from a gov
eminent which does not exist, in the
eyes of the United States State Depart
ment-the handsome building is the
embassy of the provisional government
Of Russia which KerenSky established
following the fall of the Czarist regime.
But Kerepsky's governmental house of
cards long since has collapsed and the
Soviet government has taken its place
In Russia. The State Department,
cognizant Of the fact that there are
only 100000 Communists in Russia
where there Is a population of 1907
000, 900 or so. holds that Russia today Is
lin a state Of revolution And so the
embassy here remains in waiting for
the establishment of a new provisional
government which the United States
can recognize.
Meanwhile, the building stands a
veritable ghost. Only room or two in
its chancery. a wing erected by the
Russians after they took over the splen-
did residence. boasts occupancy. The
rest, and that means the stately halls,
the drawing room. the reception room
and the grand dining room, Is empty
and dying. Dust lies thick like a blan-
ket over everything. bringing decay.
Once intricately lacey wrought-iron
stair rails are taking rust chips on dust
cached steps that rise among streaked
columns. The gold overlap that once
made brilliant the carved cornices and
colonades is furnished and dim. Rich
furniture that formerly served aristo-
cratic users Is gone.
That is the picture seen by Nathan
G. Wyeth, the architect, who, In 1910,
had watched his plans develop into
gorgeous reality.
Lawns Neatly Cut.
From the Sixteenth street sidewalk
the Russian embassy looks quite grand
and not unlike any town house that's
boarded up for the Summer absence of
its owners. The lawns are neatly
clipped and the walks are clearly swept
There's an communicative colored
man who attends to that And, too, he
keeps clean the quarters in the chancery
that are occupied. This man has been
performing these duties for several
years now, and he receives his pay from
Serge Ughet, financial attache Of the
Russian embassy when 1t served the
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Wyeth. 1t was a great house, too, as
the contract prices of 1909, still on
record in the District tax assessor
Office testify. Completed the house
cost 1851 ,477.64. OF this total more
than half was represented by costly
finish. The lighting fixtures, for in
stance, cost $4,000 and those wrought
iron doors that were executed by Ger
man craftsmen in New York, were
placed at q cost of $3.50. A vacuum
cleaning system added another 1898 to
the bill for extras and the mantels that
grace the stately rooms cost $1.238.40.
A special finish" which might mean
almost any kind of architectural glory
for all the records show, but which
probably applies to the cast plaster
panels Of the cornices and the wall
treatments. was contracted for at an
outlay Of $4,000.
Russia Acquires House.
Mr.. Lowden did not 90 to the Sem
ate. and through real estate trades, the
house came into the possession of John
Hays Hammond, internationally known
engineer, who sold the property to the
imperial government Of Czarist Russia.
The sale was consummated in Novem-
Der, 1913, when the American Security
g. Trust Co. presented deed of trust
to the District Commissioners, showing
that the residence and It's grounds had
ranks of diplomatic possessions, and, in
cidentally, removing it from the juris-
dict1on of the District tax assessor. Nor
have any taxes been paid on 1t since.
The District, in fact, does not antic-
ipate any attempts to realize returns on
the idle mansion. w. p. Richards, tax
assessor, says that as long as It is car
ried as an embassy, it is not taxable
Efforts to sell it for taxes in view of its
allegiance to non-existant government,
he believes, would be futile because no
one would invest money in a property
which-and quite legaily-at any mo-
ment might be claimed by a recognized
foreign power
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WEDDING CITY GAY.
Princess Illeana and Anton Greet Many
at Sinaia.

SINAIA. Rumania. July IS CP).-The
Summer castle of the royal family is
gay with flags and fowers-the town
is thronged with visitors-everywher
big limousines-everywhere brave uni
forms-for the prince and princess will
be married tomorrow
Ileana, daughter of Dowager Queen
Marie, and Prince Anton of Hapsburg,
whose bride she will become, were
happy and sparkling today as they
welcomed their arriving guests.
Sinaia forgot everything else and
gave itself over to romance Crowds
watched for every move Of the wedding
party, and on the slightest provocation
there were shouts Of long live Ileana,
child OF the people"
At the palace of Pelesch the trousseau
was displayed, along with the almost
countless gifts Ileana and her airman
Prince have received from foreign gov
ernments, ministers, friends and rela-
tives.
A stately dinner and reception were
the principal items on today's program.
and at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the
wedding ceremonies will begin.
Justice Minister Officiates.
At that hour the civil marriage will
be performed at the palace by the
minister of justice in the presence of
the royal family and the court.
An hour later, in the vestibule of the
castle, the religious ceremony will be
held. At noon King Carol. Dowsger
Queen Marie and little Prince Michael
will accompany the bride and BRIDE
groom to Prahova, where a wreath will
be laid on the graves Of soldiers killed
in the war.
The wedding breakfast will be held
at 1890 pm, and Immediately after
ward Anton and Ileana will leave for
dreamy castle in the hills of southern
Germany near Munich. where they will
spend their honeymoon.
Queen Helen, sister-in-law of Ileana
and former wife of King Carol, is the
only member Of the Hapsburg and
Rumanian houses not invited to the
ceremonies She is in London.
The King, at first reported opposed to
the match, has indicated his present
sentiments by presenting the couple
with an airplane. Anton is an expert
pilot and has given lessons in flying
to Ileana.
Among the other gifts are a silver
service from Dowager Queen Marie and
q Sevres porcelain service, presented by
the president OF Parliament.
Veil Of Gold Thread.
At the marriage ceremony the prin-
cess will wear over her bobbed auburn
hair a veil of gold thread, the work
of members of the Young Women's
Christian Association, which was estab-
1ished through her patronage.
neana, who Is % years old. is known
in America, as she accompanied Queen
Marie on a tour Of the United States
in 1925. at the conclusion Of which it
was run1ored the princess had received
nine proposals of marriage.
The bridegroom, 80 years Old Is the
son of Archduke Leopold Salvador, who
took his family into exile from Austria
as a result of the war. They lived in
Barcelona, where Anton first engaged
in the motor cycle trade and then be-
came an engineer and later an aviator
He's a speedy flyer, a tennis player,
skater and skiier-and Ieana Is as
much Of q sportswoman.
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Kerensky government Under the stew
ardship of Boris Bakhmeteff, AmbaSSa-
do of the provisional government.
Mr.. Ughet now lives and works in
New York City. His pursuits there are
private, but he pays the colored janitor
for his services here at the embassy out
of his own funds. The Soviet govern
ment, of course, has no interest In the
embassy, so far as the United States Is
concerned.
The occupants of the chancery Of the
embassy, Mr.. Ughet told The Star, are
Alex I. Krynitsky and his wife, Helen
Krynitsky. Mr.. Krynitsky, a former
Russian who now is citizen of the
United States, is a scientist employed
at the Bureau of Standards. Mrs.
Krynitsky Is a translator at the Depart
ment Of Commerce.
"Mr. Kdynitsky," Serge Ughet ex-
planned, Lives there as a personal favor
to me. He has only room or two and
he superintends what care the embassy
gets"
No Visitors Allowed.
No one may visit the embassy itself.
It is a matter of principle and it must
not be seen, Ughet said. There is
nothing Of interest in the embassy
building now-except emptiness and ST.
lence."
The former grandeur which marked
the furnishing Of the mansion, he re-
lated. disappeared when George Bak-
meter, Ambassador of the Car to the
United States, resigned his office with
the collapse Of his government, in
March, 1917. Despite the similarity OF
names of the Czarist and Kerensky Am
bassadors, they were not members OF
the same family and were very much
opposed to each other politically. So.
when Ambassador George Bakmetef
and Mime. Bakmeteff quit Washington
they took with them, Mr.. Ughet says,
most Of the grand furniture of the en-
basSy.
Then, when the second Ambassador
Bakmeteff took up his residence here
following the recognition of the pro-
visional government by the United
States, later in March II, 1917. he used
the embassy almost solely as IAN Office"
He was there only five or six months
when Communism ran riot in Russia
and the Soviet government was estab-
ished in November, 1917. Then he left.
And so did Mr.. Ughet. And the en-
baSsy has remained silent and empty, as
1t collected the debris of time, ever
since.
Some ships men who sail in them will
say, are "unlucky"; sort Of curse that
follows them from the ways brings
them i'll fortune And so it may be
with the Russian Embassy. That
house was built for a disappointment
that antedates even It's chameleon al
legiance to governments.
Built House for Daughter.
Mrs. George Pullman, the wife of the
inventor and builder of railway cars
that bear his name, so the story goes,
wished magnificent Washington home
built for her daughter, the wife of the
then Representative Lowden who was
plotting his political course for the
Senate chamber.
And so the great house at 3l25 Six
teenth street was designed by Mr..
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ACCUSED OF STRANGLING
HOUSEKEEPER TO DEATH
Fall River, Mass, Painter Arrested
as Slayer After Discovery Of
Flaws in Alibi.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FALL RIVER, Mass, July 25.-Peter
L. vaillancourt, AZ, a painter, today was
charged with the murder Of Miss Mari
anna A. Gauthier, As, housekeeper, who
was strangled June 16.
The body of Miss Gauthier was found
between the mattresses of her bed with
rope twisted around her neck. Vale
Iancourt, who lived in the same house
where Miss Gauthier was employed as
housekeeper for William Mcbride, was
subjected to a five-hour questioning
yesterday. Police said flaws had been
found in an alibi offered by him.
The motive for the Staying, police
said, was robbery. Among the articles
taken from the Mcbride home were o
watch, pair Of McBride's shoes and
small amount Of money.
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ponements in view of this emergency"
The President referred to the Treas
ury deficit in excess of 5000, 600, 900 at
the end of the fiscal year 1881 on June
30, and to the appropriations for the
current year amounting to approx
mately $4,000, 100000.
The situation Is serious one," the
letter continued, land demands that
we all make the most earnest effort to
eliminate or postpone all activities such
as may be so treated without serious
detriment to the public welfare.
You have been requested to furnish
to the Bureau of the Budget for my
information not later than August II,
a statement Of appropriations available
for expenditure during the current and
subsequent fiscal years, with an indica-
ton of the amounts expected to be OBJ
ligated therefrom and the contemplated
ultimate savings.
Pending the compilation and analysis
on this statement, I wish to suggest
that you refrain from obligating money
actually available for expenditure dur
ing the current fiscal year except in
those cases where such postponement
or elimination will clearly be to the
detrirnent of the public welfare"
This letter followed the recent re-
quest of the President that all high
Government officials supervise prepare
ton of the 1888 budget estimates to
restrict them to actual operation needs.
Earlier in the Summer through con-
ferences with the Secretaries Of the
various departments, Mr.. Hoover OBJ
tanned assurances that economies
reaching into the millions would be eff
fected, particularly in the naval and
military establishments.
While the expenditures in the past
fiscal year exceeded $4,000, 000, 900, the
revenues fell to low levels due to the
business depression and the consequent
decline in revenue from the income tax,
the largest source of revenue for the
FederaF Government. It was the first
time since the war period deflcityAc.
eurred Ia the Treasury.
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persons were given first-aiG treatment
on the lawn Of the burning building.
John Ryan, who resides in q small
town in Westmoreland County, drove
so miles to Pittsburgh last night.
Only o short time before Ryan had
heard over the radio the tragic story
Of the fire that was raging in the home
Of the Little Sisters Of the Poor. Ryan's
father was an inmate.
Today Ryan waited at the morgue
and scanned newspaper bulletins for
news Of his parentS-listed among the
missing.
Joe McConville. captain Of Engine
Company No. Z, Of the East End, was
on his vacation. He was taking it
when he heard the first alarm for the
fire at the home of the Little Sisters
Of the Poor.
He raced TO the scene, only few
blocks distant Soon forgotten was the
fact that he was of duty.
McConville was the first to scale the
wall, which surrounds the extensive
building, the first to climb the fire
escapes and the first to take up the
rescue work.
Between $4,000 and 10000 persons
crowded the streets about the institu-
ton. The great clouds of smoke, and
the bright tongues Of flame that red
dened the sky could be seen for miles
and attracted thousands of motorists
from all sections of the city.
The silence of the pense crowd as
the charred bodies were brought from
the flames, one by one, and laid upon
the lawns, was broken at intervals by
cheers as another was carried alive
from the inferno.
At daybreak, q while haired Capuchin
monk. Gather Paul. chaplain of the
institution, stood with bowed head be-
fore the charred building Tears
streamed down his cheeks as he raised
his eyes to the blackened cross atop
the main building and murmured
prayer for the dead and dying.
Patrolman Gabrial Voletto was on
duty at an East End police station last
night when word came that the home
of the Little Sisters of the Poor was
ablaze.
Voletto's mother long had made her
home there. Frantic, the officer searched
the hospitals-then the morgue.
Just before daybreak Voletto returned
to ore Of the hospitals He stopped sud
denly before one of the white COTS
"Exhausted-and the smoke she'll be
all right" nurse whispered.
And then Gabrial Voletto heard his
mother call his name.
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WILL FLY TO CASTLE.
Anton VIII Pilot Plane on Trip TO
Transylvania and Munich.
NV JoWN GUNTHER

BY Gable to The Star.
VIENNA, Austria, July 25.-GorgeouS
scenes are being witnessed today in the
pine -fringed mountain town of Sinaia,
Rumania, as festivities proceed for to-
morrow's wedding Of King Carols sis
ter, Princess Ileana, and Archduke
Anton Of Hapsburg.
A great effort has been made to make
the wedding something Of national
festival. Peasants from all parts of the
country in national costumes have been
summoned, and the decorations are
purely Rumanian.
Princess Ileanas bridesmaids are her
sisters, and her train will be carried
by six girls Of the Bucharest Y. w.
c. A., trained in the American spirit.
Her wedding gown is Of crepe de satin
with q veil of silver gauZe and train
of embroidered silver.
Among the gifts are the following:
From King Carol. an airplane and a
pearl necklace; from her mother. former
Queen Marie, furnishings of three rooms
in the national Rumanian style; from
her sister, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia
a diamond necklace: from former Queen
Elizabeth of Greece, a silver service;
from President Paul Doumer Of France
valuble set Of Sevres porcelain; from
Archduke Anton's family. a brooch and
family jewels and from Premier Nicho-
las Jorga, pearl necklace.
Wedding witnesses for Princess Ileana
are King Carol and Prince Frederick of
Hohenzollern; for Archduke Anton. his
brother, Archduke Leopold Salvador,
and Count Guelt.
After the wedding the royal couple
goes by airplane, with Archduke Anton
plotting 1t. to their castle in TranSyl-
vania, and thence to Munich, where
they have been given nearby Alberg
Palace as their home by the groom's
cousin. Prince Joseph of Hohenzollern
The marriage has some political sig
nificance. since 1t unites the Rumanian
throne with branch of the Hapsburg
family.