Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1922, Page 1

I Member of the Associated Press ‘ | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to || the use for republication of ail news dispatches | credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. WEATHER. Generally fair today and tomorrow; little change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m* last night: Highest, 76.8; lowest, 59. Full report ou page 7. No. 894.—No. 28504 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. FRENCH OFFER L. S FULL SWAY TO TAKE Proposes Giving Dominant! Voice on Commission, Un- shackled by Decisions. | WOULD ADMIT BOLSHEVIKH IF_AMERICANS ACCEPT French and British Still Deadlock- | ed—Lloyd George Calls Pri- vate Conference. | Ry the Assoclated Press, . GENOA, May 13.—France has ap- ipealed to the United States to par-| ticipate in the proposeg international jcommission to investigate the Rus- sian situation. The American am- bassador, ,Richard Washburn Child, informed the Associated Press to- night that such a proposal had been | submitted to him by the French dele- gation. The ambassador understood tha the French proposal suggests that the United States, if the invitation is accepted. would have a dominant voice in the action of the commis but would not be bound by her ac-| ceptance to any decisions of the com- | mission which she did not approve. | 1f the United States accepts, France | | PHOENIX, Ari - UP RUSSIAN TANGLE | Juage MISSIONARY HURT CAMERON MUST STAND TRIAL IN PERJURY CASE, U. S. JUDGE INDICATES By the Associated Press. May 13.—Fed- eral Judge W. C. Van Fleet of Cali- fornia, sitting in the United States district court here, today indicated he would overrule United States Sen- ator Ralph H. Cameron’'s demurrer to an indictment Charging the Arvizona senator with perjury. Senator Cameron, a republican, is accused of having sworn to a statement of campaign receipts in the 1920 election, which failed to account for contributions of more than $26.000. an Fleet at the conclu- sion of arguments intimated that unless more light could be thrown on the one question of issue— Whether the facts set forth in the indictment constitute “material matter”—there was slight chance of the demurrer being sustained. In the event the demurrer is over- ruled the senator's tiial is expected to begin early next week. possibly Monday, when a decision on the de- murrer provably will be announced. BY NEIGAN OB Miss Stfeator Hurled Into Ditch and Thigh Bone Broken. would agree to the Russians being Tepresented in the commission. | i 1 Allies Still Deadlocked. Premier Lloyd George and M. Bar- thou were in private conference for! two hours this afternoon, apparently | without reaching an agreement for| solving the Anglo-French deadlock on the plans to continue the discu: sions of the Russian problem. The | subcommission on Russian affairs | also met and argued for more than| three hours without definite results.| Mr. Lloyd George will have a confer ence at his villa tomorrow morning with | Baron Hayashi, M. Barthou, M. Jasper | and Signor Schanzer, in an effort_to | reach a compromise. ! Nothing Definite Reached. After the meeting of the subcom- | ission, Sir Edward Griggs, secretary | to the British prime minister, said there | had been progress, but save no definite | sexplanation of its nagare, The French and British delegat{®s, he' asserted, . were well on the road {0 an agreement, ‘but nothing definite was reached. Ac- counts of the meeting by members of other .delegations, however, give little Indication that a compromise is any mearer. The Russians have announced that | they will not accept any plan excluding | i:ies“dmn Female College, Meridian.i yo0t as a result of party manage- them from the discussions. On one thing. all the delegations agree, the in- | viting powers, the little entente and the | Baltic- entente as well as the neutrals, namely, that somehow the United States | must be induced to participate in the mixed commission. French Hope Revives. M. Colrat, French undersecretary of | state, informed the Associated Press | that he is still confident of an accord. | France is still unwilling to have Rus- sians sit with the mixed commission | discussing Russian finances, but sug- gestions have been made that a special | commission of Russian experts be formed, which may be called in by the | mixed commission when it desires in- | formation. Again the Russians declare that| they will not acgept any such plan. | as that would not be dealing with | them on an equality basis, and it is | difficult for, the delegations to find any plan appealing té both the French | and Pritish and vet not offensive to fthe Russians. Exposition of Views. The afternoon meeting of the sub- | commission was chiefly an exposition | of the views of the powers which had | not entered into the discussion at the morning. session. Japan, Poland, Swit- zerland and Sweden, as well as France and Grkat Brifain, set forth their views. Viscount Ishii support- ed the British position that the Rus- | sians should participate in the mixed | commission. He regarded the task of | the Genoa conference as too impor-| tant to be lightly abandoned, since it | really concerned e reconstruction not only of Europe, bat the whole world. He finally expressed the hoje | that the British and French would | agree on some method of procedure. Sees Hope In Truce. M. Motta, ex-president of Switzer-| land, preferred that the mixed com- mission should be named by the con- | | when she was thrown into an irriga- | Leaves for Europe FAINTS WHEN RESCUED One of Native Assistants Also Injured After Being Chased Two Days. By the Associated Press, EL PASO. Tex. Slizabeth Streator, sionary wofker of the Torrcon dis- triet, is at Durango City suffermg! from a broken thigh bone received May 13.—Miss| a Methodist mis- Mexican mob that! tion ditch by a drove her and five Mexican co-work-y ers from San Juan de Mezquital on| May 4. according tq reports receited | from the interior today. Rev. J. P. Lancaster, presiding elder | of the district, received news of the; mob’s action in a telegram at Torreon | y and hurried to Durango, accord- ing to advices received here by Mrs. Lancaster, who said her information was that one of the Mexican workers was also badly injured. The co-| workers consisted of one woman and four men. Taught in Mississippl. Miss Streator is about-forty vears! old. She formerly taught at the Miss Streator is a Methodist,| but an independent missionary, ac- cording to her friends here. She has been in Mexico several years and! moresthan once has narrowly missed | death during revolutionary days, her friends say. Letters reccived at the Effie Eding- ton School hére, but none direct from! her, say that Miss Streator went from | Nombre de Dios to San Juan de Mez- quital to perform missionary work.| She obtained permissioin from the| mayor to hold a public meeting, but| later decided not to do so and pre- pared to leave immediately, it Is re- ported. While the missionaries were eating supper the mob appeared and ordered them out of town, according to the letters. The mob drove thém from one ranch to another, refusing them rest or shelter, the letters said. The party was pursued until 1 o'clock the following morning, May 5. | Knocked Into Ditch. At one point, the letters said, the missionary and the workers were compelled to cross an irrigation ditch, Miss Streator jumped and cleared the; ditch only to be knocked backward| into the ditch by one of the crowa and falling on a bjg stone suffered a broken thigh bone. Miss Streator then was forced to drag herself on until she fainted, ac- cording to the letters. Then one of| the workers carried her on a burro. ! Miss Streator was brought into] Durango City last Tuesday, where, after telling her experiences, she re- celved medical attention, MISS CULBERSON SAILS. | v’iith Party of | T Tour. . Friends fo: Senator and Mrs. Culberson of Texas announced in a sthtement last night that their daughter Mary sailed from New | York today for a tour of Europe. The | {PEPPER BELIEVED SAFE| _—— | | Maj. Reed Assured of Nomination! |a week ago. {upon Attorney upon Mr. Alter, who is a man of WASHINGTON, D. C, Sunday Star. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1922.—NINETY PAGES. dispatches All rights of publication of speeial 1] FIVE CENTS. PRGHDT CORRALS STATEMDEVOTE G. 0. P. Gubernatorial Nom- ination Depends on Phil- adelphia. to Finish Out Knox-Crow © Term. Special Dispatch to The Star. HARRISBURG, Pa., May vote of Philadelphia will determine the republican nominee for govérnor of Pennsylvania at the primary ele¢- tion Tuesday. Gifford Pinchot has developed so much strength through the state and predictions are being freely made about the state capitol that the forester will go to the Phil- adelphia city line with a big ma- jority. This is the situation brought ment in the Keystone state in the first six months after the death of Boies Penrose. Mr. Pinchot could have been nomi- nated if the primary had been held It was expected his on- ward sweep would be arrested a fortnight since, but he kept on gain- ing after each temporary check in a| way that surprised the old political | leaders and forced them to bend ever: effort to halt him. In the last twenty- | four hours the word has gone out| from organization circles that while| the forester has been “turned.” it is| going to take Philadelphia to make | it decisive, and no questionable ma- Jority out rfl; e Quaker city is wanted. Pimthot's Foes United. Starting in a fleld of half a dozen, Pinchot's energetic campalgning and vigorous charges against the way the state government was conducted led the dominant group of state leaders to drop their differences and unite General George E Alter, the personal chdice of the gov- ernor, other candidates being forced out of the race. Bebind Alter were! arrayed at once the state adminis- tration, the republican state organi- zation and the orgapizations in the large cities and several of the coun-! ties. The record of the state admin-’ istration and the personal animosi- ties of varlous county leaders against Gov. Sproul were promptly unloaded, highest personal character, while the state organization turned out to have deteriorated since the death of Pen- rose and not able to hold in’line some influential county leaders., Only the Philadelphia city organ- ization and the half dozen or so ele- ments in Allegheny county, united under the influence -of Pittsburgh friends- and admirers of the attorney general, have been of much value to him. The state administration has been on the defensive for-months be- cause of the condition of the finances 13.--The } “MEANEST MAN” PUTS MOTHER IN STEERAGE, GOES FIRST-CLASS The meanest man. yet discovered in the opinion of the United States immigration authorities, ‘is a Spanish alien domiciled in Amer- ica. who returned from a visit to the old country recently travel- ing as first-class cabin passenger on a sumptuous liner, in the steerage of which he had estab- lished his old mother, classifying her as a “domestic servant.” Secretary of Labor Davis, al- though concealing = the man's name in honor of Mother's day signed an order terday de- claring that although the “facts astound one who has learned to honor and revere motherhvod.” the mother would be admitted to the United States for six moaths. The son was required, however, to give a $500:bond. to be held by the immigration authorities, to guar- antee that his mother “will re- ceive at your house the treatiment to which a mother is entitled In addition the son will be rc- quired to report monthly to Mr. Davis to assure that the aged woman gets consideration. STATIC ELININATED FROM RADID SIGNAL Device to End Buzzing Per- fected by G. W. U. Profes- sor and Army Expert. By the Associated Ps CHICAGO, May 13.—Elimination of the crackling and buazing accom- | panying radlo signals, which hag proved one of the greatest obstacle in the development of that. science. has been accomplished by United States Army experts, it was an- nounced today. The invention, Which separates zll static noises from the radio signal, was perfected by Maj. J. 0. Mauborgne, signal officer of the 6th Corps area, and Dr. Louis Cohen of George Washington University, cofisulting engineer of the War De- partment, after more than two years' experimentation. The separation of signals from static noises caused by the electrical charges in the atmosphere -is ac- complished by & drain coil of wire, the length of which varies with the distance from which signals are re- ceived. The strength of ‘the_signal is ‘ot _afrected by ti® darinin® proc- ess, according to Pr. Cohen, and the signals may even be amplified. " Electric Wires as Antennae. Another recent invention is a reso- nance wave coil by which a radio re- celving set ‘may be plugged into an FIGHT FOR “RIDER" ' HEARING PUSHED | Citizens to Urge Senate Date for Voice on District Tax Question. FAVOR PROBE OF SURPLUS | Biennial Payment of Taxes Also Would Be Acceptable Amendment. | The drive to bring about hearings n the conference fiscal relations rider {attached to the District appropriation | bil will be continued this week. | Senator Phipps. in charge of the bill, i I8 expected to be-in the Senate tomor- jrow, following his week end trip to {New Jersey with the Preside will be urged again to provide for { such hearings. t 1In the Senate itself there is strong { feeling that hearings on this matter, | of so great importance to the citizens of the District, should be allowed Support for the proposal is found on both the_ republican and the cratic ride of the chamber. Also there is growing a belief that the Senate, in handling the fax rider, should amend it so as to include a provision for an Investigation of the existing surplus of District revenues and also a provision for biennial pa | ment of the taxes, so as to aid in put- ting the District on a cash-paying | basis. demo- i { | i | will come before the Senate is prob- !lematical, owing to thé€ fact that the republican leaders are refusing to al- low any measures to come up which will interfere with the consideration jof the pending tariff bill. It may be ome time before the District measure will be laid before the Senate again. Fear Detriment to City. The Increase In taxes for properiy owners In. Washington as proposed to be included In the District appro- priation bill now pending In the Senate will prove detrimental to the growth and development of the Na- tional Capital, according to Represent- ative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland, a member of the House Disirict commit sections of Montgomery and Prince Georges county adjacent to the caplital. “Those who are responsible for the proposed amendment to the Distric of Columbia appropriation act in’ ref- ierence to the _fiscali relations be- the federal government may ,tend that it is not intended to in- crease the taxes of the propérty owners of the District,” said Repre- sentative Zihlman, but the fact re- mains thet by this_amendment it is con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) (Continued on Page 2, Column ) and | Just when the District bill and rider ' tee, and will force people Into those | tween the Distfict govermment and| Part of $70,000 Jewe Hotel | By the’Associnted Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., May 13.—Charged | Mrs. Mitchell’ Harrison of Washington, D. C., in New York city, recently, three | men and a woman were arrested in a hotel here today. New York detectives, | who arrested them, left for New York [later with the quartet. The four gave their 3. Beede of Hudson, s Norman ames Mass were found in the rooms occupied by the { quartet here. i Among the jewels recovered. the of- | ficers asserted, we more than five | hundred diamonds and a rope of 352 | pearls, ax well as many smaller pieces | The remaining articles stolen, the de- | tectives said, are expected to be re- covered in New York. The detectives declare the men as far west as Pittsburgh and then back to Harrisburg. They told local | officers the theft océurred in the Penn- | sylvania railroad station -when bags | containing jewelry were taken from ‘ington Woman Seized in | with the theft of $70,000 in jewels from | hnd Jack | rvin, David T. Bushnell and Ruth | De Haven, all of Chicago. Police said many of the articles of | ljewelry claimed to have been stolen HARRISON GEMS FOUND:; FOUR SUSPECTS HELD Is Sfolen From Wash- ’ Room. | among several pieces of baggage owned daughter, with the intention of sailing for Europe. | they came into possession of the jewelry by accident when, they asserted, it was | placed in their taxicab by a porter. lly in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, reported the 1o of the jewels to the New York police | two weeks ago, just before she sail- ed for Europe on the Aquitania case with her on the train from her summer home at Nokesville, Va. to New York. According to dispatches | from New York, as the train entered | the depot in the metropolis she laid | the case down to help her daughter | put on her wraps, and a moment later missed the jewels. | No word of the reported recovery ‘\,.r the jewels had reached the local | residence of the Harrisons, at 1726 Massachusetts avenue, last night. The family is now in Europe. 3 SENATEENLVENED BY NEWBERRY ROW IMcKellér Draws Fire of Spen- | " cer and Is Reprimanded | by Fellow Democrat. | se caused erday be- and demo- | | The Newberry election ca p clash ve: republicans |ancther ltween Senate s erats Senator McKellar. democrat, Tennessee, attacked Senator New- berry. charging him with purchasing W his seat, 1 when Senator Town- ond, republican, Michigan, defended the case the exchanges became 8o 'heated that Senator MeKellar was twice reprimanded for alleged viola- tion of the rules by Senator- Robin- Arkansas, presiding sen, democrat, tomporaril Senator Spenccr, republican. Mis- Souri, who had charge of Senator Newberry's case in the Senate. ob- jected to Senator McKellar's state- ment that Mr. Newberry hatl “bought Lis scat” and Senator Robinson ad- mwenished Senator McKellar, that he had violated the rules against reflecting upon a fellow, member. Draws Second Reprimand. The second time that Senator Me-) Kellar drew a remimaml from the presiding officer was when he de- clared” that Senator Townsend had made statements which, he were “absolutely false. This also, Senator Robinson ruled voluntarily was out of order and he directed Senater McKellar to take his seat. The flurry followed discussion of to curb senatorial cam- during which Senators democrat: legislation poign expe McKellar aml Pomerene, Ohio. urged early action to curb cam- ! paign funds. In this debate Senator Townsend charged that Mr. McKellar had “reflected upon the people of Michigan.” This was denfed by Sena- tor McKellar who said he intended only to charge that officers of Michi- gan had been “derelict.” | Senators Spencer and McKellar €X-{wouid direct a Senate committee to | ETOUP Sessio changed charges that their state- | ments were mate for partisan politl-|paye been made by some companies or | Ing the Mr. Spencer observed:y. g1 companies; whether there has | threshed out. | cal purposes. |that Senator McKeliar was “on the |eve of his political campaign, ruling | said. | ‘?CHARWOMEN MUST RISE AT 3 A.M. TO CLEAN UP FOR 8 0’CLOCK OPENING 1 One group of government em- ployes—the charwomen, who clean ’ the Distriet building—will have to rouse themselves from slumber some- where- round about 3 o'clock tomor- row morning, in order to comply with daylight saving. Ordinarily this advance guard of public servants, who tidy up the offices before the clerks arrive, start their labors at 4:45 and are out of the way at §:45 as the other em- | ploves begin to arrive. | With the offices opening at § | oclock instead of 9, the charwomen i will have to report at 3:45 and be | through their work at 7:45. | 1f you feel inclined to grumble as i You roll out of the covers tomorrow in order to get to work at 8 o'clock, | think of the charwomen and day- light saving won't seem so hard 1o vou. 15 ORDERED BY SENATE i Resolution Instructs Committee to Find Out If Firms Agreed on Boost. Investigation of the recent nation- {wide increase in the price of gaso- line was ordered yesterday by | Senate. { Without a roll call and after only ! brief discussion. the Senate adopted {a resolution proposing the inqquiry, offered by Senator McKellar. demo- icrat, Tennessee. The investigation | committee would determine and re- | port whether there had been an un- | derstanding between the various com- | i panies to raise prices. Urging his resolution, Senator Mc- { Kellar said stocks of crude oil in the, | country were greater than ever be- {fore and that prices for crude oil i were below what they were some |time ago when the price of gasoline wastless than at this time. Specifically the McKellar resolution | determine whether recent increases ibeen any understanding or agree- while{ ment between various companies to | facturing. merchandising, | by Mrs. Harrison, who had arrived in | New York from Washington with her | The four persons arrested declared | Mitehell - Harrison. prominent | Mrs. Harrison had carried the jewel ASOLINE PRCE INURY the | WORLD PROBLEMS TOUCHING BUSINESS OF U. 5. TO BE AIRED | National-Chamber of Com-- merce Convention Opens Here Tuesday. |MERCHANT MARINE HELD VITAL TO TRADE BOOST Hughes, Hoover and Lasker to Speak—Hundreds of Dele- gates to Be Present. Problems international in their |aspects affecting the business and | Prosperity of the nation will be dis- {‘A'uul,«d by four or five thousand | leaders in the commercial fields of the country this week at the sessions of the tenth annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, which will be formally opened | at Convention Hall, 5th and L streets northwest, Tuesday morning at 11 | o'clock. Hundreds of the delegates, repre- senting almost every line of busi are beginning to arrive in the city, preparatory to the opening of this | conference, out of which are expected to come plans for developing the trade of the nation, foreign and do- mestic, with a view to lifting the country’s husiness to the top notch of production, distribution and con- {&ummmv | Officials of the government of this country and of foreign countries as | well will take part in the diséussions, ! explaining their problems with the |1dea of bringing about a general | movement of world trade which will |rebound to the best interest of all | concerned. European Issue Vital. The main topic of the meeting. around which will center_all of the discussions, will be “European condi- tions and their effect upon American busine With the problem of “a | merchant marine.” one of the prime | necessities of trade extension. fur- | nishing an important sub-topic. The | main goal. which it is hoped to reach {as a result of the conference, is that i of outlining a national commercial | polic; | Secretary Hughes of the State De- { partment will be one of the Promi- ;nen! speakers during the sessions, and among the others on the list will }ba Secretary Hoover of the Depart- { ment of Commerce; Albert D. Lasker, chairman of the United States Ship- ping Board: Arthur Balfour. vice president Associated Chambers of Commerce of at Britain, Sheffield, England; J. C. A. Everwijn, minister from the Netherlands to the United State: Senator Carter Glass of Vir- ginia, Senator Howard Sutherland of West Vir; . Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & : James R. How- ard, president American Farm Bu- reau Federation; A. C man of the board of the Company of New Jersey Kiein, chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, and Silas H. Strawn, chairman of the board of Montgomery, Ward & Co., Chicago. Many Special Groups. | General sessions of the conference | at which problems affecting the com- | mercial world will be discussed will be held at the convention hall. In | addition, there will be a number: of ns, to be held in the sev- | eral hotels. at which problems affect- ! particular groups will be These special groups | include finance, foreign trade, manu- raw ma- | Senator McKellar said that. Semator| ..jce prices and whether there is any | terlals, insurance, transportation. etc. {Townsend had read “a carefully pre- | pared attack on me for political pur- | poses.” Lack of Evidence. Spencer, denying that had “bought” his )seat, sald that he had not been prose- {cuted by Michigan officers because, |Senator Spencer said, there were no {facts to warrant action. i “It was because he was not guilty,” sald Senator Spencer, declaring that ! prosecutions might have been brought Senator | Senator Newberry {in any one of the eighty-three coun- {ties in Michigan. Senator Spencer | charged that the animus of the prose- ‘cutiorr in the federal courts was an “outrageous plan” of the Department of Justice “under democratic stimu- lation.” Senator McKellar replied by questioning the department's in- fluence over “a republican judge and republican jury,” which, he said, in- dicted, trled and convicted Senator Newberry. “natural cause” for an Increase. | WILLIAMS SEEMS VICTOR IN TEXAS CONGRESS RACE Sister of Representative Blanton Runs Third—75 Per Cent of Votes Counted. By the Assoctated Press. WICHITA FALLS, Tex., May 18.—| With more than 75 per cent of the| vote accounted for Guinn Willlams| had a large lead In the special elec-| tion to complete the unexpired term of the late Congressman Luclen Par- rish in the thirteenth district, ac- cording to returns compiled ton:ght by the Witchita Falls Times. Wil- Mams carried eight countles, while S. A. L. Morgan led in two countjes. Annie Webb Blanton, sister of Congressman Thomas L. Blanton, ran i One of the most Important functions !in connection with the present con- ference will be the formal laying of the corner stone of the proposed new {home of the Chamber of Commerce {of the United States, which is being erected on the northeast corner of Connecticut avenue and L street northwest, and which will stand as a monument to American business. Preliminary to the formal opening of the general convention there will be a series of meetings tomorrow, beginning at 10 o'clock in the morn- ing with the national council meet- ings at the Washington Hotel. The council 1s made up of one representa- tive from each of the fourteen hun- dred business organizations connect- ed with the national chamber and acts In an advisory capacity to the chamber's board of directors. At | this meeting the council is scheduled | to nominate business men to fill sev- ! enteen vacancies on the chamber’s | boara of directors. The councll also ference, but it might be possible toattentions of Alexander E. Robertson, ) ¢ 3 losures following &n audit 3 £ : THE KING'S PILG e / e Lt in the conference name the commis- | Culberson recently attracted attention | O LN State fTeasury the last few ; § RIMAGE LIGHTER TAXES URGED. . il jutipssiies = sion outside of the regular sessions.|because of his charges of a plot to | %Y § ; candidate,.who was® indorsed by the Association Hends to Meet. M DR e e republican .state committes, Was| ., xational Assoclation of Com- He favored having the Russions par- | ticipate, sald that Switzerland was enthusiastic about the proposed truce and expressed the hope that the truce would be a preliminary to a lasting peace. pact. PREFERS KISSING FOOT. | Wife-Beater Convinced He Is Fit to Thus Greet Wife. CHICAGO, May 13.—After an at- ‘torney nad asserted Constantine Yodas, charged with beating his wife, “was not fit to kiss his wife’s foot” Judge Haas in police court today disagreed. “1 think he is fit to kiss his wife's foot,” the judee sald, “and I so order.” Yodas looked wildly about, slowly got to his knees and smacked his wife's shoe twicé, ) . “Now youwre on prebation,” Wudge told him, - - the kidnap him which were considered by | the British embassy. . The statement of the parents said: “Miss Mary Culberson, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Charles A, Culberson, who has been at home with her parents since her return from Texas, sailed from New York today with a party for a tour of Eurape, in pursuance of plans made several months ago.” METEOR'S LANDING FOUND Traced to Point Between Two Towns in Virginia. RICHMOND, Va., May 13.—The land- ing place of the meteor which passed over portions of southsias Virginia and North Carolina Thursday night, rock- ing the earth, illuminating the heavens and awakening people, has been traced, definitely, it is believed, to a point, mid- way between Lawrenceville and Black- stone in Brunswick county, ; 2 ~ jected him to a fire of personalities, such as has ngt been known in Penn- sylvania in’twenty years, and have also been charged with conducting a “whispering campaign” of virulence and magnitude, he %nquestionably has gained ground among the woman voters. Varlous hetrogenuous groups have been welded into a fighting er- ganization backed by most of the Philadelphia newspapérs. and social influential dailies up the state. Only one daily in Philadelphia has shown encouragement to Alter, who has the support of about two-thirds of the Pittsburgh papers. ) G. O. P. Papers Neutral. Influential papefs in Wilkes-Barre, Lancaster, Altoona and Willlamsport have cbme right out for Pinchot, while Scranton, Harzisburg, York and_Easton papers with records of (Continued_on Page 4, Céluma 7.) s LS A SRR A remarkable poem ByRUDYARD KIPLING . Written last week on the oc- casion of the visit of British and Belgian royalty to the graves of the dead in Flanders Field. [ z s -0 : s : 9 4 Q XIPLING. ] It is the most striking thing. Kiplingias done since he wrote “The Receéssional.” To be published exclusively in: Washington tomorrow (Monday) in The Evening Star DS DD S DO 6@-3«3‘«% ~ ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 13.—Adoption of resolutions commending the work of the armament conference and urging that “unnecessary government expendi- tures be reduced,” to lighten the tax burden on business, concluded the con- vention of the American Wholesale Grocers' Association, which until last Wednesday was the Southern Whole- sale Grocers' Association. Another resolution adopted approved the consent decree entered in the United StatestSupreme Court against the “big five” packers, which is de- signed .to prevent monopoly in the dis- tribution of foodstuffs. J. R. McLaurin of Jacksonville, Fla., was re-elected president. ‘A SENATOR FRANCE ANNOUNCES BALTIMORE, May 13.— Senator Joseph Irwin France has announced his candidacy for re-election in the fall.’ ; « fourth. All the other candidates are democratlc. Daylight Saving The Evening Star will be is- sued each week day, commencing Monday, May 15, to conform as nearly as practicable to the day- light-saving plan, Advertisements under the classifications of Wanted Help, Wanted Situations and Wanted .Rooms can be received until 9:30 am, for that day’s issue; Lost and Found and Death Notices up to 12 o’clock neon, All other'ad- vertising must be received at The Star Office the day before inser- tion is desired. mercial Organization Secretaries wiil meet at 7 p.m. in the crystal room of the Néw Ebbitt Hotel. The American Trade Association _Executives will meet at the same hour in the gold room of the same hotel and at 10 o'clock Monday night, in the rose | room of the Washington Hotel Presi- dent Defrees will hold a reception. Secretary Hoover of the Depart- ment of Commerce will address the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries at a lunch- eon to be given in the crystal room of the New Ebbitt Hotel at 182:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The first general sesslon of the meeting will be called to order at 11 o'olock Tuesday morning by President Defrees, Rev, Charles Wood, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, will lnronwnea the Invecation, after which the convention will proceed to for- on and reception of tha {Coniinued on vage 3, Columm &) mal orgemiz \ [y