The Washington Post
July 28, 1926

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Paris hoodlums recently bawled out by their own government for baiting foreigners will read with interest the admonition, via the Cit- ronella Trail, to American tourists abroad to behave themselves. The fact that Turkey has re- pealed the Koran’s prohibition amendment may turn the Moslem world -against her, but think how this will stimulate Constantinople’s trade in wet-drinking, dry-voting American tourists. . +. Andrews thrilled to tears by the success of his mission to induce Great Britain to help us enforce * * * = Lincoln is law, no English king until now having had the nerve to try it since ’way back in the good old days of George Ill when she enforced all of ’em for us. Is foxy Churchill trying to line up the dry vote in favor of debt can- cellation ? an American Lady Astor sails away, On a quiet trip, they say— She’s not coming here to stay, Pretty Lady Astor. Distinguished member of _ tke British Commons whets the appetites and arouses the sporting blood of the New York ships news reporters by the challenge of a mysterious mission. Maybe she’s coming over to help us enforce the Interstate Commerce act, or something. oe * a o Secretary Kellogg expects to purchase a bottle of citronella along about August 15. Vandal demolishes some of the figures of the statue in the place des Etats Unis erected in honor of the American volunteers who served in the French army. The manners of the Yankee tourists in Paris are indeed execrable. The ministerial decree whereby Belgium will impose especially high. taxes on American tourist# is a touching example of that fine sense of gratitude which the subjects of King Albert show for the people of the United States, who back in the grim war days voluntarily cut down their own bread ration that they might have more wheat to give to the starving refugees of Antwerp. » oA - Senator Borah must think those New York Republicans are almost as scared of Al Smith as the Hon. Bill McAdoo is. Lieut. Mina Van Winkle was very much opposed to uniforms for copettes until Congress made a clothing allowance of $75 and now she goes up to the mourners’ bench. a convert, but why this design of a natty one-piece suit—are the girls going to spend all their time at the beach? a = After a conference with Son Edse! the President learns of an abundant national prosperity visualized motor transport, and there is strik- ing confirmation as the record- breaking earnings of the General Motors Corporation for the first time exceed those of United States Steel. The parent industry has pro- duced a son richer than himself, who doesn’t seem to be bearing his share of the cost of the _American people have invested in their good roads. M. Poincare receives a vote of confidence from everything in sight except the franc, and the indications are that in time he will win that. a & . Cousin Tom Blanton wins sweeping victory over hard opposi- tion, Mr. Fenning’s assistance in stumping the district for him having been of inestimable value. — os + * In advising Ma Ferguson to re- sign her job immediately Texas ap- parently forgets all about woman’s traditional prerogative to change her mind. in ™ ~ + * © a Congress magnanimously grants $100 a month to the private soldier who voluntarily subjected himself to the sufferings and permanent dis- abilities which enabled the late Maj. Walter Reed to give to the world the conquest of yellow. fever. Who says Republics are nde grateful? - * Britain’s raat bill anes the third reading. We never have the heart to read one more than once. . . © * A hurricane that wants to do a big business makes no mistake in pick- ing out Palm Beach, and this one ' gets away with $1,000,000 damages in short order, as Lake Worth is filled with wrecked yachts and the old wooden bridge is blown away. ‘Here’s a storm we'd like to have watched from the Casa Marina at Key West. |deckhand, were r_.; ued from Lake |continued the greater part of the billions the/ un ‘| wife, presented a petition for clem- ONE OF TWO SHIPS STRUGGLING IN GALE ISAPPEARS AT SE Steamers Report No Sign of Ansaldo; Dutch Craft in Trouble. MANY FLORIDA TOWNS DAMAGED BY STORMS Wind Hits Back After Lull; Ships Flee to Deep Water; Launch Is Gone. —) Miami, Fla., July 27 (By A. P.). The tropical radio station here to-| night reported that the steamer) Gulf of Mexico had no success in: its efforts tonight to signal the, Italian steamer Ansaldo San Gior- Zio Secondo, which was caught in the hurricane off Jupiter inlet. The, Mexico played large searchlights on. the water where the Ansaldo was! last seen in the daytime. The steamer West Hanshaw reported it | was unable to locate the Ansaldo, although the air was clear. 40 Yachts Sunk, West Palm Feach, Fla., July a7] (By A. P.).—Property damage ag- gregating more than $1,000,000 was reported at Palm Beach and West Palm Beach today caused by a hurricane which came in from the Caribbean sea. Forty yachts and houseboats sank in Lake Worth, a body of water between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. The wooden bridge over Lake Worth also was washed away. Ocean front prop- erty in both towns was damaged considerably. | Mrs. Arthur Meade, wife of a prominent realtor, ed John Clark, Worth when the M¥ade yacht sank. The hurricane first struck West Palm Beach Monday afternoon and night. There was a lull this morn- ing and then the wind blew with renewed gale force. Roofs were torn off, windows shattered and signs leveled. There was another lull and at 2 o’clock this afternoon the wind arose again. Dey Ray and Pompano, both in the path of the hurricane and north of Miami tonight reported consider- able damage. Gale Moves North. Jacksonville, Fla., July 27 (By A. P.).—Riding on a wind which at times reached a velocity of 100 miles an’ hour, the storm which came out of the Caribbean sea yes- terday hit the lower Florida east coast today and was traveling up the Atlantic seaboard tonight, leav- ing in its wake distressed shipping, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 2.) American Is Robbed Of $50,000 in Sydney London, July 27 (By A. P.).—A dispatch to the Evening News from Sydney, N. S. W., says Saul New- bury, proprietor of the Boston Stores at Chicago, and his wife were robbed last night of jewelry valued at about $50,000. The art- icles were left in a money belt in an gs suitcase in their hotel ro and were taken in their ab- sence. WHITTEMORE TO DIE, GOV. RITCHIE DECREES Executive Refuses to Com- mute Sentence_of Gang Leader and Slayer. Baltimore, July 27 (By A. P.).— Gov. Albert C. Ritchie today re- fused to commute to life imprison- ment the death sentence of Richard Reese Whittemore, gang lIéader and slayer of a Maryland penitentiary guard. Whittemore will be hanged on Friday, August 13, for the mur- der of Robert H. Holtman. He killed Holtman in February, 1925, while escaping from the prison. The governor declined to inter- fere after a formal hearing in the executive’s office, at which Edgar Allan Poe, Whittemore’s attorney argued for commutation and Mrs\ Margaret Whittemore, the slayer’s ency bearing 2,000 signatures. Whittemore was convicted in Bal- timore last May after a jury at Buffalo, N. Y., had failed to agree on his guilt in-the killing of a bank messenger in a $93,000 daylight holdup in that city. He was sen- tenced by Criminal Court Judge Eugene O’Dunne. The Baltimore su- preme bench and the Maryland Commission Plans Series Of Pools Throughout City Local Groups Favor Smaller Swimming Basins at Rec-} reation Centers and Playgrounds., Work, Requiring Several Years, Awaits Funds From Congress. Development of a city-wide sys- tem of swimming pools, which will provide adequate swimming space in every recreation center and every large playground in the city is con- templated ‘by officials of the Na- tional Capital park and planning commission and the office of public buildings and grounds. Completion of the system will require several years, it is thought, but it is proposed to inaugurate construction of the system as, soon as money can be obtained from Con- gress. The first-year program will be submitted to the next session of Congress and probably will call for construction of white and colored pools costing in the neighborhood of $400,000. Congress already has approved | expenditure of $370,000 for con- ‘struction of one large white and 'one large colored bathing pool, but specific appropriation was not made because of the dispute over the loca- tion of the pool for colored persons. Officials in charge of the work of | planning and building the pools are confident that there will be no seri- ous opposition to an appropriation of an equal amount to carry out the new plan to build swimming pools throughout the city. The park and planning commis- sion, of which Maj. Carey Brown is engineer, some time ago spggest- | ed that the feasibility of btilding several smaller pools instead of one or two large pools be considered by Maj. U. S. Grant 3d, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds. The proposal to establish swim- ming pools as a recognized part of recreation centers and large play- grounds is carrying the first sug- gestion much further. The scheme is being. worked out by the coordi- nating committee of the various District and Federal bodies charged with some responsibility for the pools, among which is the fine arts commission. This body also is un- derstood to favor the plan for a number of smaller pools, although none of the committees or commis- sions has been called on to pass (CONTINUED ON PAGE 9, COLUMN 6.) WIFE AND 4 GHILOREN GET DODGE $20,000,000 Estate Split Evenly, Except for Minor Bequests; No Gifts for Charity. GAVE MUCH IN LIFETIME New York, July 27 (By A. P.).— The bulk of the $20,000,000 estate of Cleveland H. Dodge, financier, was divided evenly between his wife and four children. Relatively small amounts were left to other relatives, but the philanthropist left nothing to charity or institu- tions of any kind. “I make no bequest of that char- acter,” the will, which was filed to- day, read “knowing the hearty sym- pathy of my dear wife and children in such objects, and feeling sure that they will use the property en- trusted to them liberally for hu- mane and benevolent objects.”’ He expressed the opinion that it was wiser ‘‘to give liberally dur- ing my life’ than to leave his money after his death to such pur- poses. Numerous bequests were made to friends and neighbors, among them being $10,000 to his physi- cian, Henry Moffatt, of Yonkers. Employes of his estate were be- service. Each of his grandchildren was given $25,000. The widow is to receive one-third | of the residuary estate, and the other two-thirds is to be divided equally among the four children, Cleveland Earl Dodge and Bayard Dodge, of New York; Mrs. Julia D. Rea, of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Eliza- beth Wainwright Huntington, of Riverdale, N. Y., and Constanti- nople. T. F. Manville Estate _ Is $22,179,049 Net New York, July 27 (By A. P.). Appraisal of the estate of Thomas Franklin Manville, asbestos manu- facturer, who died October 19, 1925, filed today, shows gross as- sets of $23,572,844 and a net es- tate of $22,179,049. The principal beneficiaries are the Fifth Avenue hospital, New York, $1,000,000; Lorraine Man- ville Gould, daughter, temporary life estate until 60 years of age on $1,000,000, life estate in $1,000,- 000, half of the residuary estate; $7,221,250; Thomas Franklin Man- ville, jr., son, temporary life estate until 60 years of age, in $1,000,- 000, life estate of $1,000,000 half of the residuary estate, $2,221,250. General Strike Call On Subways Issued ~ New York, July 27 (By A. P.).— Striking employes of the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Co., who recently formed an independent union, today issued a general strike call for all men employed on the Interborough and the Brooklyn- Manhattan Transit lines, effective next Saturday morning. The call for the general strike, the leaders said, was based on the ‘recent referendum taken among I. R, T. and B. M. T. employes, which is claimed to have shown a wide- spread dissatisfaction with existing wages, court of appeals denied him a new trial. pe he work, queathed $100 for each year of} MKINLEY’S RACE COST $950,000, 1S TESTIMONY Known Total in the Illinois Senatorial Contest Now els $623,000. —_-__ DONATED TO SCHOOLS Chicago, July 27 (By A.. P.).— Senator William B. McKinley’s un- successful campaign for renomina- tion in the recent Illinois primary cost him personally $850,000, it was campaign funds committes. This compares with the $253,000 which Allen F. Moore has testified was the total expended on behalf of Frank L. Smith, who defeated Mc- Kinley. Each sum is considerably in excess of the $195,000 outlay for Truman H. Newberry in Michigan, which the Senate formally condemn- ed in the resolution by which New- berry was confirmed in his right to a seat. Counting the $20,000 which George E. Brennan, Democratic na- tional committeeman, has told the Senate investigators he spent to win the Democratic Senate nomination, the total expenditure in the contest for the Senate developed during the two days of the inquiry here is $623,000. _ This is exclusive of $129,894.63, which Roy O. West, secretary of the Republican national committee, testified during the day, was spent in Cook county by the Deneen fac- tion of the Republican party and which supported Senator McKinley. West disclosed another $10,000 contribution by Samuel Insull, utility magnate, this one to the De- neen group, and openly charged that the Crowe-Barrett Republican party faction in Cook county and George E. Brennan had a working agreement’ whereby they combined to support some Republican candi- dates and some Democratic can- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 12, COLUMN 2.) CITY DISBANDS POLICE; CALLS UPON SHERIFF No Money in Warren, Ohio, Treasury to Pay Force of Fifteen Bluecoats. Warren, Ohio, July 27 (By A. P.).—The city council of Warren, financially embarrassed, tonight passed an emergency measure abol- ishing the city police department and calling upon the sheriff of Trumbull county to patrol the streets and enforce the laws in the city. . The measure declared that the city has\no money with which to pay its policemen and that no money could be had from any source for that purpose. The abolishment affects Police Chief B. J. Gillen, with 26 years’ service, and fourteen officers, in- cluding Police Inspector Harry E. Laukhart, who was under suspen- sion pending a hearing on bribery charges. ‘Sheriff John Smith assured the council “he would do the best he could.”” The council also abolished one of the two remaluing: foresta- tions. , Archbishop me Gurley % U Fees All Oat Catholics . » Park Ave. and’ Clay Bt., hours and conditions — of in disclosed today before the Senate} WCAP 1S ACQUIRED. BY WAC; PROGRAM TO MERGE SUNDAY Features of Both Will Be Retained at Same Wave Length. DAILY TRANSMITTALS WILL BE MADE HERE Best of Washington and New ork Entertainment to Be Exchanged. The Radio Corpdration of Amer- ica has acquired station WCAP, it Was announced yesterday. Station WRC, beginning Sunday, will broadcast every day in the week and will continue WCAP pro- gram features including The Post’s radio hour. The same wave length—469 meters—vwill be used. Details of the financial arrange- ment between the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., and the Radio Corporation of America were not made public. A. E. Berry president of the telephone company, made the f6l- lowing statement: ‘‘We have decided to discontinue the operation of our broadcasting station, WCAP, afterJuly $1. Ar- rangements have been made with the Radio Corporation of America so that station WRC will broadcast thereafter every day in the week and will carry along the present program features of WCAP. Complete Daily Program. ‘“WCAP and WRC have been op- erating on the same wave length and alternating their time on the air. This has involved an uneco- nomical duplication of plant and personnel. Recent announcement has been made of the acquisition by the radio corporation of station WEAF, the broadcasting station of the American Telephone & Tele- graph Co. in New York. This will enable the radio corporation to transmit to Washington and broad- cast through WRC the many attrac- tive entertainment features from New York which the public has had through WCAP. Thus radio listen- ers may be assured of a complete daily program from station WRC. “The telephone company estab- lished station WCAP when radio broadcasting was in its infancy to keep abreast of developments. Washington, with its succession of events of national importance, of- fered a unique field for develop- ment of radio interest and. the Chesapeake & Potomac Co.’s con- nection with the Bell system’s long lines facilitated the bringing to Washington of program features from other parts of the country and the transmission in turn of Wash- ington events to other large cities for wide dissemination. “With the realignment of the New York broadcasting stations, these considerations, become less important. We have, therefore, con- cluded that the practical thing to do is to close down our station and turn the local field over to WRC, in full confidence that the public will enjoy every advantage - from one station that they have had from the two which have heretofore been serving them.’’ Anniversary of WRC, Acquisition of WCAP by the Radio Corporation of America was (CONTINUED ON PAGE 19, COLUMN 8.) Wu Troops Capture Capital of Hunan Peking, July 27 (By A. P.).— Changsha, capital of Hunan prov- ince, was occupied July 17 by Hu- nan troops, supported by troops of the Canton government. Gen. Wu Pei-fu’s northern forces there were driven out and retreated toward Yo- chow, in the same province, where preparations are afoot for the de- fense of the bordef of Huheh prov- ince. Reinforcements are beitg sent from Hankow. Meanwhile, southern seit after taking Changsha, are advancing to- ward Yochow. Plebiscite Measure _Is Voted in Manila Manila, July 27 (By A. P.).—The Philippine legislature today passed the bill providing for a plebiscite on the question of Philippine independ- ence, The bill now goes to Gov. Gel. Leonard Wood, who is ex- pected to veto it. The legislature is expected to override the veto, sending the bill to nt Coolidge, FARM AND TRADE PAUSPERITY GROWS, Edsel Ford Reports Big Sales of Tractors and Trucks. FINDS NATION STRONG FOR THE PRESIDENT Executive Attributes to Tax Reduction Much of Busi- ness Activity. Special to The Washington Post. Paul Smiths, N. Y., July 27.— President Coolidge is convinced from information received from a variety of authoritative sources that business conditions in the United States are excellent and that the country is justified in looking for- ward to a period of even greater prosperity. This judgment the President found reinforced today by what Bd- sel Ford has to tell him of the in- creased sales of automobiles, farm tractors and trucks to farmers in the greater part of the agricultural section and by reports of expanding railroad husiness given him by Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central. Mr. Ford re- ported the eauntry still strong for Coolidge and thought the third term argument would not be re- garded an obstacle to renomination of the President in 1928. Mr. and Mrs. Ford arrived.in a private car this morning to be the guests of President and Mrs. Cool- {dge for several days at White Pine camp, the President having invited Mr. Ford with the object of obtain- ing the automobile manufacturer’s views of business, industrial and agricultural conditions as indisated by the demand for new cars and by the reports received from the myriad of Ford agencies. No Summer Slow Down. The President, summing up his information, finds that the business of the country is more than meet- ing expectations. The administra- tion was advised at the beginning of the year that a general slowing down of industry and commerce probably would be felt this sum- mer. That expectation has not been realized. Business was good the first six months and since July 1 there has been something of an advance, which Mr. Coolidge at- tributes partly to the reduction of taxes. It takes some time to perceive the full effect of tax reduction, the President points out. The latest tax reduction, he believes, has stim- ulated business by releasing money to investment in private enterprise that otherwise would go into the treasury in the form of taxes. An illustration was afforded when the treasury recently found it possible to meet current bills from current revenue, not being obliged, for the first time since the war, to borrow on short-term notes. The banks had accumulated several hundred millions of dollars to meet the ex- (CONTINUED ON PAGBD 4, COLUMN 2.) GUOLIDGE 15 TOLD Index to Today's Issue. | Pages. 1—Gale Tossed: Ship Disappears. Series of Pools Planned. WRC Buys Station WCAP. U. S. Prosperous, Coolidge Told. Mexican Mayor Is Lynched. 2—Park Program Hits Snag. Women Police Seek Uniforms. One-Way Streets Opposed. 3—Tourists Blamed for Attacks. Admits Attack on Girl. 4-Andrews Agrees on Rum Pact. Ask Mrs. Ferguson to Resign. Says Public Aids Trucks. 6—Editorials. 7—Society. 8—Weather and Vital Statistics. 9—Lunacy Board Is Advocate 10—Magazine Page. 11-12-17—Financial. 13-14-15—S ports. 16—Radio and Comics. 18-19—Classified Advertisements. 20—The News in Pictures. Market Facilities Are Cited. Seek Food Display Rules. SMITHSONIAN EAPEDITION ESCAPES GHARGING HEAD Letter, Read Over Radio, Tells of Thrilling Flight From Rushing Buffalo. CAPTURE GNU SPECIMENS An attack on members of the Smithsonian-Chrysler African ex- pedition, from which they saved themselves by running through deep mud and scratching, tearing bushes and grasses, shooting into the onrushing herd as it charged on them, was described in letters from Dr. William M. ‘Mann, director of the National Zoological park, and head of the expedition, broadcast last might from station WRC by Austin N. Clark, of the Smithsonian Institution. The expedition, at the time of the adventures described by Dr. (Mann in his last letters, Lake Tanganyika region in East Africa. The party had left Dodomo by automobile and had proceeded some distance before they experi- enced the thrill of the danger of the charging buffalo. The party was on foot when one of the native boys accompanying warned them. of the approach of a herd of buffalo, numbering about 200 beasts. The buffalo continued toward them, and when about 300 yards distant, one of the party fired into the herd. “Look out! They’re coming,”’ one of the hunters shouted, as the herd charged. The party turned and ran, pausing momenta- rily to turn and fire into the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 12, COLUMN 2.) Girl Lifeguard Saves Boy From Drowning Chicago, July 27 (By A. P.). A girl lifeguard at Whiting, Ind., saved Fred Altenbach, 16, of St. Louis, Mo., from drowning today in Lake Michigan, far off the shore of a park. Miss Marie Bartuske, the only girl lifeguard in the Chicago re- gion, was sitting in a boat when she heard Altenbach’s cries for help. She dived and brought up the youth. Poincare Is Upheld Twice By Chamber on Finances Vote of Confidence, 358-131, : 1924 Elections—Treasury Bill to Be Reported by Committee’ Next Friday. Is Largest Given Since the Paris, July 27 (By A. P.).—The chamber of deputies today voted confidence in M. Poincare and the new government. On his declaration of policy, the premier received a vote of 368 to 131, the largest any French cabinet has received since the 1924 elections. _(M. Poincare then won a second victory, 418 to 31, on his demand that his bills for financial restora- tion be referred to the finance com- mittee of the chamber and that the committee be instructed to report them out for Friday's session, The national union character of the new ministry was never better illustrated than when Poincare, Herriot and Briand, sitting in that order from left to right, listened impassively to the extreme left on- slaughts on their past political ca- reers, and then exchanged smiles, knowing that their majority was assured in advance. The new procedure in the cham- ber, restricting deputies in inter- ventions, which was adopted just | and allowed the house to adjourn at 5:50 p. m. M. Poincare, despite his strenu- ous efforts in organizing his cabinet last week and in getting his col- leagues to agree to his financial measures, appeared as sturdy and vigorous as when he jumped into the chamber as premier in January, 1922, and even younger than when he announced his decision, Janu- ary, 1923, to occupy the Ruhr. He did not permit himself to become excited over the communist and so- ialist demonstrations, let pass many slurs on his former policies and stuck strictly to the job in hand. He was granted in advance over- whelming confidence and, from all indications today, when he presents his ministry to the senate he should be able to keep up his schedule and have all his financial projects voted before August 8. Expressing the profound con- viction that it was possible to im- prove the condition of French finances rapidly, the ministerial declaration announced the inten- 5—Navy Losing Oil, Report Shows. was in the ee ae MAYOR 1S LYNCHED BY MOB IN MEXICO: FIRED AT A PRIEST Catholics Now Fearful of Church Seizures if Clergy Retire. ROWDS OF CHILDREN BAPTIZED, CONFIRMED Pes Hat. -Hourly Masses Offes'ad Aged Archbishop Faintes: Worn by Ceremonies.» isoryy: oAfT Mexico City, July 27 (ByteoP.). As the time approaches for bifofce- ment of the religious regulations, on . August 31 and the withdrtewar bt — clergy from the Catholic étfurches of Mexico as decided upon by, the Mexican episcopate, the repart,hes been received of the firstoi@eath from violence as a consequénée of the controversy. ui , Mayor Humberto Cervanjer,.af Nochistan, state of Zacatecas, pae- cording to this report, sent by!@ Gee respondent of a Mexico City’ news- paper, was hanged by the inthifitea populace after he had fired at; a local priest and then orderati ‘hts arrest. Bi eONO Another newspaper, El Unt¥ergal, under the same ownership Seige Universal Grafico, has received: a special dispatch from Aguascalisti- tes saying the mob stoned the mayor to death and then killed all the members of his family because 3 the mayor had murdered a Cathole priest. This dispatch, like that of Bl Universal Grafico has not been con- firmed. The government has tsle- graphed an order for an investi- gation. The archbishop of Mexico, the Most Rev. Mora y Del Rio, suffered’ a collapse while performing his functions in the cathedral. It was feared that the attack might prove fatal and the great crowds gath- ered within the edifice knelt and prayed for his recovery. The arch- bishop is still officiating in the ca- thedral daily, but as he is 72 years old his associates are urging him to withdraw temporarily from his labors. | | “| ¢ o x Ask for Churches. The “Mexican Catholic church,” which does not recognize the Pope, has asked the government to turn over the Catholic church buildings to it in the event that these . churches are “abandoned.” The : Roman Catholics argue, however, that though services are to be sus- pended and the priests withdrawn, the churches will be left in the hands of Catholic laymen and there- | fore will not be abandoned. Additional distress is felt im . Catholic circles by reason of Pre- ports, thus far not substantiated by official orders, that the govern- ment may take over the church buildings because the priests, have abandoned them, and convert them into schools and libraries or use them for other purposes. While the governnfent has not said that it contemplates taking over the churches, Catholics are greatly agitated in the fear that they may do so, and many believe that such a development would cause &@ more serious situation than at present exists. Flock to Churches. Standing for hours in the broil- ing sun thousands, mostly women with babies in their arms, waited patiently their turn today to enter the Mexico City cathedral, where Archbishop Mora y Del Rio con- firmed several thousand children, Masses were said almost constantly from dawn to noon. Every square foot of floor space. was occupied by kneeling, praying humanity. Outside, long lines anxious to enter, curled through the entire extent of the cathedral courtyard, even into the adjoining plaza, on which the presidential palace also faces. The president, if he cared to do so, could have looked from the windows of the palace and seen | the great gathering in and _—“— the cathedral. dren have been baptized or con- : firmed in the cathedral alone with» a4 in the last week or ten days, asa great wave of Catholic people has been sweeping into that edifice well as all other Catholic church if in order to fulfill to the utmost the*> ~ rites of their religion before the suspension of the functions of the priests in Mexico. ? With three sets of directors of the League for Defense of Religious Liberty under arrest, ite work is — being carried on on under a fourth — prior to M. Poincare’s accession si ‘the premiership,- worked- magically {CONTINUED ON’ PAGE 19, COLUMN 7.) (CONTINUED ON PAGE . cnn ee a ‘ Between 25,000 and 80, 000 chile =