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WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; mod- erate temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: at 3:10 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 6 am. tod Full report on page 3. Highest, 34, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 17 28,586. FEntered as sccond-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WITE \SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1922—TWENTY-TWO PAGES. ' COAL AND RAIL STRIKES JANGEROUS ROADS TAKEN UP BY CABINET; .MINE TROOPS FIRED ON _ Distribution of Fuel yAlready Under Way, Hoover Reports. 1. C. C. TO ISSUE NEW PRIORITY ORDERS Southern Railway to Meet With Leaders of Shop Strikers. Members of President Harding's cabinet took to today's meeting re- ports on the coal and rail strikes as gathered by their respective depart- The session, it was indicated, iven over almost wholly to a on of the sitvation in the two Hoover announced that of coal by the federal 4 emergency control committee had been started under informal ar- rangements. These arrangements. he explained, have been made pending completion ‘of the committee’s organi- | zation and issuance of orders to take care of strategic points and neces- sarv industries, Attorney Generay Daugherty on ar- riving at the White House for the inet session sald he had authorized appointment of a number of deputy marshals for duty In the vicinity of Des Moines, where, according to re- ports received by the Department of Indiana Battle Goes Onfor Hours With- out Casualties. ATTACK FOLLOWS STARTING OF WORK {Ambush Swept by Heavy Machine Gun Fusillade. i Telephone Wires Cut. { By the STAU. TON, hostilities in commection with the tak- Ind., August 4.—First ing over of the mines by the state oc- { curred today when national guardsmen ion guard duty were fired upon from i ambush. i The fire was returned by the guards iand later the firing was taken up over the entire area. Automatic rifles were | brought into action by the troops, and i the firing continud for hours. | _Reports recelved by Maj. Gen. | Robert Tyndall, in command of the | iroops, said that no one was injured. Tt was said, however, by some of the men on duty that one man was slight- ly injured. = * Out to “Get” Soldiers. Investigation by miiltary officials in- | dicated that. although the firing jinsted several hours, the attacking j party was small. It was reported that | se¥eral men from nearby towns came to !this city and announced that they were i zolng to “get a flock of soldiers.” They fired on an outpost, and the fire was immediately returned. As a result of Justice. disorders have occurred Mn |(Tie firing whenever thers was amy tion with the rail strike. ! movement in the woods nearby the Secretary Weeks announced We had | Suardsmen fired. Several men who. received telegrams from officlals of | Wher Giled upon to halt by the guards the striking shopmen denying that strikers were returning to work In large numbers, as has been claimed some railroad executives. All of the cabinet members receiv- ed with gratication word that an at-| tempt is to be made at a conference | here tomorrow to settle the strike| so far as it affects the Southern rail- | way on the basis of the President's| settlement proposal. WILL SEEK SETTLEMENT. Strikers on Southern Accept Invi- ] tation to Parley. Representatives of the six striking | shoperafts unions on_ the Southern railway will meet in Washington to- morrow with H. W. Miller, vice pres- ident in charge of operations on the system, to consider proposSi¥-for set- tiement of the strike on_the basis suggested by President Harding to executives of all the rallroads. The conference is a result of an invitation extended the general chair- men of the unions concerned by Mr. Miller. Che Southern railway, acting sepa- rately from the other large lines of the country, has made no attempt to break the strike nor has it refused returning strikers seniority privileges. | No statement would be made in ad- vance of the meeting by Southern officlals as to what prospects they saw for success of the conference. The Association of Rallway Execu tives in a statement issued yesterday formally announced that the action of the Southern railway “does not in any way indicate a change in the position taken by the railroads in the meeting of August 1.” The Southern, the siatement said, was not a member of the association. had not voted on the President’s plan at the New York meeting, and “unlike the great ma- jority of railroads of the country, has empioyed no new men." NEW ORDERS PLANNED. Control of Coal to Be Well Under | & Way by Monday. The Interstate Commerce Commis- were fired upon when they failed to obey the guards’ command. Officers In command of the troops belittled the affair, saying that it was a_minor skirmish. The situation was regarded as quiet despite the firing which began shortly after mid- night and continued until daybreak. Take No Chances. The continued firing was the result of the “take no chances” orders given the militia. No one is supposed to be in the occupied zone without a pass and the men with passes are sup- nosed to travel only the public As a re- sult. when the attacking persons fired. the milltia swept the spot with machine gun an? rifle fire. Temporary telephone wire strung between general headquarters and the outposts were cut in some place: before the firing etarted and squad: were busy today repairing them. New outposts.were established at varfots strategic noints snd several new ma- | chine gun nésts were installed at | points where they can rake every | Vulnerable point ~ of the occupled | zone. | Slip Through Lines. | The outpost fired on was in com- | mand of Capt. Willlam Brann, and !was near mine 2, which is due west of Staunton, only 200 yards from i Gen. Tyndall's headquarters. How ithe persons firing there ever got { through the outer lines of defense is !a mystery, but it Is presumed that on hichways, out in the open. i B under some pretext they obtained i passes, entered in the daytime and |lay corcealed in the woods until inight. * The fact that the troop tele- iphone wires had been cut created a i tense situation around the camp, for it was not known for some time just | what was happening. | _Five men were at work today in the | Nos 2 and 9 strip mines, which are to be opened first. Because of the fall- ure of local miners to respond to Gov. McCray’s call for volunteers to work them. It may not be possible to start actual coal production for sev- eral days. They are being prepared rapidly for the beginning of opera- tions. Men will be brought from In- | dianapolis to the mines. The situa- { tion south of here in Owen and Sullf- van counties, where troops werz sen ! THROUGH SUBURBS BRING COMPLAINTS Increased Funds Needed to Repave Thoroughfares Out of City. W HEAVY TRUCKS CUT DEEI RUTS INTO POOR STREET Few Repairs Now Under Way Will Not Bring Needed Relief From Conditions. / Need for Increased funds to be used {for repaving many of the suburban |roadways leading Into and out of the District is indicated by an examina- tion of the principal thoroughfares and the constant complaints that are being made of their poor condition. A trip made today by a reporter for The Star along Connecticut ave- nue from Klingle Ford bridge to the District line and return gives a good cause for wonder as to why that thoroughfare is not. strewn with aa- tomobiles with broken springs and other damage. The narrowness of the | driveways on either side of the poles, making it necessary for automobiles in passing to use the ofr tracks. and the condition of the paving just out- side and between the tracks aiso make ne marvel that there have not been more accidents from motor vehicles running into the poles. Track Paving Bad. For the most part the paving be- tween the tracks is in a very bad i condition and narrow ruts along the rails make it dangerous for an auto- mobile driver to go there, as a wheel could easily catch and throw the car against a pole supporting the trolley wires. There is one District road gang working on the ruts in the vicinity of Rodman street. The treatment con- sists of digging out the ruts a little and filling them with broken asphalt, !a little crushed rock with a binder of tar. As fast as they leave one place the heavy trucks which now | use this thoroughfare in great num- bers press the fliling out of the holes |and the paving resumes its bad con- 1dition. The road gang had just completed filling a number of extremely large ruts just north of Newark street on the east side of the avenue, when a reporter for The Star passed along there this morning. Every truck that {came along just pushed the patch- work out of the holes a little, and | within a few days they will be just as bad as before. That the founda- tion In the repair work was insuf- clent was evidenced by the fact that when the big heavy wheels passed over they could be observed pressing the patchwork from a quarter to a half of an inch down, and pressing the materials-outside of the patched space. Must Travel Cautiously. Passenger cars either have to travel at a very slow speed. or take the consequences of bouncing over the ruts. In the section where the new patches were made, practically all of the passenger cars seemed to prefer the ruts of the street railway tracks to the rough patchwork of the District road gans. The heavy volume of traffic and particularly the heavy truck traffic would seem to point to the great ! need of replacing thie roadway with { T (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) MUNSEY AGCUSED SEE STEADYING UP OF 6. 0. P. POLICIES Platform of Party Convention in lowa Satisfying to Ad- ministration Republicans. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Advices reccived today in high ad- ministration quarters from Iowa of the action of the republican state convention yesterday upon thff fram- ing of a platform for the coming campaign In that state are declared to be emincrtly satisfactory to the administration and thé regular re- publicans. The work of the convention is re- garded by republican national lead- ers as of more than passing im- portance, and designed to, have far- reaching influence upon republican platform-making efforts to follow in other states. It is expected to have a” stabilising effect upon republican policies and marks the first “stead. ing-up” of republican politics in ne middle ‘west. As reported to Washington by pri- vate advices the convention voiced a “wonderfully enthusiastic’ indorse- ment of President Harding and Sena- tor Cummins. The_ significance of this action lies in the fact that Col. Brookhart, recently nominated for the Secnate on a platform of highly radical declarations, did not dominate the convention and did not stampede the regular republicans of Iowa into an advanced progressive position. Brookhart Supports Platform. Satisfaction was expressed that Col. Brookhart subsequently announced his support of the platform as adopted, and, although he was not mentioned in it, while Senator Cummins. his politi- cal antithesis, was, he will go along with the majority faction and will not endeavor to make a spiit. At the same time he declares he will proceed with the advocacy of the radical proposi- tions he has put forward and will no retract any of the promises he made in tle primary campaign to effec wond\rful things for the plain people. Regublicans here were encouraged by the senatorial nominee’s course ye: terday to hope that if elected to the Senate, as there is every reason to = \ 4 Z# Hailstones Split Watermelons, Still on Ground By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C.. August 4—Hail- stones large &nough to split water- melons wide open fell in one of the most spvere hailstorms in years in western and Pledmont North Carolina, late yesterday, causing damage to cot- ton, corn and other crops, according to reports received here this morning. The storm swept parts of Cabarrus, Rowan, Wilkes, Alexauder, Catawba and Iredell counties. The hail reach- ed a depth of twelve inches in Ire- dell county, it was reported at States- vilie, and ice was still on the ground at Concord this morning. AINT ANACOSTIA VALLEY \PARKING HALF DONE Maj. Tyler Reports Ten-Yeér Accomplishments on % $1,500,000. Park development of the valley of the Anacostla river from its mouth to the District line just this side of i Bladensburg, a distance of six and one-third miles, in accordance with the approved project, is about one- half completed as a result of ten \vears' work and an expjenditure of | approximately $1,500,000, according} {to the annual report of Maj. Max C. |Tyler, the engincer officer in charge, |just submitted to the chief 8t engi- Ineers of the Army. | Owing to restrictions imposed by {Congress, operations to date have been confined entirely to that section ' of the valley between the mouth of he river and the Benning Highway bridge. The placing of draw-spans iin that bridge and in the adjoining ibridge of the Washington Rallway and Electric Company has been sus- pended until Congress authorizes ireclamation work in the large sec- JiM REED, THAT GUY'S OTA 1 . > 2 o 00 PRUNED FROM GTY BUDGET |Two Commissioners Slash Figures Submitted by Heads of Various Departments. The Commissioners in board meet- ing today began their consideration of the estimates for the District gov- ernment by cutting approximately $2,000,000 from the items prepared by the various department heads. In- jcluded in this cut, it is understood, was about $1,000,000 taken from the estimate of $8,400,000 for operapion of the school system next year. The original wtal of estimates sub- mitted to the Commissioners today was $31,358,000. As revised the esti- mates submitted to the budget bu- reau will amount in round numbers -Member - of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published hereln. AlL rights of publication of spectal dlspatches berel 4180 reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 83,865 Germans, Fearing Seizure, Remove Funds From Paris By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, August 4.—German banks within “the last forty-elght hours have transferred to Holland and Switzerland between 60,000,000 and 70,000,000 French francs which had been on deposit in American and other foreign banks in Paris, the ‘As: soclated Press learned this afternoon. The. money was hurriedly with- drawn, it is understood, in anticipa- tion of its being seized by the French jovernment as part of the penalties 0 be imposed upon Germany for her refusal to pay the £2,000.000 install- ment due for private debts contract- ed before the war with Frenchmen. RIVAL CONCEDES KELLAR VICTORY Senator Has More Than 20,- 000 Majority in Tennessee Senate Race. SANDERS G. 0.-P. CHOICE Democratic Nominee for Governor Apparently Peay, Who Has 4,000 Lead. By the Assoclated Press. i MEMPHIS, August 4.—Kenneth D.; TWO CENTS. U. 3. SHOULD HELP TO END DEBT ROW, BRITONS DECLARE Press Expresses Hope That America Will Participate in Allied Conferences. ELECTION MAY FOLLOW MEETING OF PREMIERS Lloyd George Believed Ready to Submit Whole Matter to People’s Vote. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 4.—The attitude of the United States Treasury De- partment toward the allied dedt question, indicated by Washington dispatches saying the Balfour note would not affect the American policy toward the payment of war debts, has attracted universal attention here. This, together with the emphatic statement by the chancellor of the exchequer in the house of commons that Great Britain has no Intention of suggesting any alteration of her financial obligations to the United States gave a somewhat new direc- tion to this morning’s newspaper McKellar, junior senator from Ten-|Comment on the question of inter- nessee, whose renomination in yes-|allied debts. terday’s state-wide primary as the| There was, on the whole, a less democratic senatorial standard-bear- er has been conceded a plurality of approximately 15,000 votes on the face of unofficial returns, had a ma- jority of more than 20,000 over hi: nearest opponent, Capt. Gus T. Fitz-| hugh, when the count cf belated re- turns was resumed today. Newspaper returns compiled early today from more than fifty counties gave McKellar a total of 46,485; Fitzhugh, 26,263, and Noah W. Coop- er of Nashville, 4,727. Peay Leads for Governor. In. the contest for the democratic gubernatorial nomination Austin W. Peay of Clarksville was leading Ben- | ton W. McMillin, former governor and minister to Guatemala during the administration of Woodrow Wilson, by almost 4,000 votes. Mr. Peay had a total of 36,124, according to unoffi- ! cial figures; McMillin, 32,468; Harvey Hannah, state railroad commis- sioner, was credited with 11,103 votes and L. E. Gwynn of Covington, 9,174. Capt. Fitshugh conceded the nomi- anxious note to the editorials. The prospect of next week's conference now tends to overshadow the Balfour note, and hope is eagerly expressed that it will lead to some arrange- ment between the European allies which will avert the ugly menace hanging over the continent through the reparations and cognate ques- tions. Want T. Furthfr hope is ventured that the meetings will prepare the way for a wider conference, in which the United States can participate. Referring to this hope, the Daily Mail says the conference in Washington for the funding of the British debt may as- sume greater significance, and that i Sir Robert Hopne, chancellor of the exchequer, will probably be the prin- cipal British delegate. It adds that Ambassador Geddes is taking back important information regarding the British view for communication to the Washington government News dispatches from Paris to the London newspapers today indicats also some increase in hopefulness { through France, and the conference { which opens here Monday is conse- According to reports the city heads|nation of Senator McKellar at mid- | quently looked to with growing ex- to about $29,000,000. did not materially change the item of $1,200,000 for new street improve- ments. Under the heading of play- grounds it is reported the revised | three of which Congress faiied to ap- ipropriate money last vear. The consideration given the esti. mates today by Commissioners Oy: ter and Keller was of a preliminary nature. The flne-tooth comb exami- nation will not be made until Com- missioner Rudolph returns to the city, which will be sometime next week. FOREST FIREMEN IN LOSING BATILE | Three ‘National Parks Affect- | ed as Northwest Blazes Spread. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., August 4.— seventh, night and issued @ statement pledg- ing his support in the November elec- tion. 2 Newell Sanders Former Senator the republican senatorial nomination. Apparent Nominees. Finis J. Garrett, minority leader in the House of Representatives, and Gordon Brownirg, who was defeated in the election two years ago by Representative John W. Clouse, re publican, apparently has won renomi nation in two of the three congres !sional districts in which there were ontests. In the other district, the available returns indicate a majority of the votes polled cast for Lemuel, P. Padgett, who died in Washington Wednesday, but whose name was retained on the official bal- lot. Under Tennessee primary pro- cedure, the democratic state com- mittee would call a special primary in the event official returns show a majority cast for Mr. Padgett. Tn the contested republican con- gressicnal races in_east Tennessee, Representatives J. Will Taylor and Carroll Reece apparently have won renomination, with the race in the third district between R. L. Burnett and Vernon Agee close. WALTON LEAD STRONG. pectations. Discussing the agenda of the con- ference, the diplomatic expeft of the Daily Telegraph says the earlier im- ! budget asks for five new grounds, for { was well in the lead in the race for | Pression that the Balfour note wouid preclude examination of any project for a broad settlement the intef- allied debts i ne longer wiselv held, and it 'is belleved that =* rhs “ary least an explanation of this = . iem i will be essaved. The supposed division of opinion i in the cabinet regarding thc British policy toward the debt problem seems responsible for another revi of the report that Prime Minister Lioyd George contemplates an early e'ec- tion. It is stated that, if the con- ference ylelds nothing of value and conditions drift from bad to worse. the premier is likely to resort to the dissolution of parliament, with an election in the autumn. Canceling Policy Approved. Speculation in this regard extends in several directions, one idea being that the policy of canceling the Eu- ropean debts regardless of her own debt to the United States will be adopted by Great Britain, but that | the work of carrying out this pro- jgram will be transferred to other | hands, to be chosen by an appeal to the pecple. The Star, advanced liberal news- paper, yesterday asked editorially INTARIFF FIGHT Senator Gooding Declares Oklahoma Candidate’s May Be 30,000. By the Associated Press. il OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., August 4. | think he will be, he will not bolt from | tion above those bridges. Plurality the regular organization of the party, ! Navigation Ch: 1 but will follow a reasonable policy inj the Senate. ! The general project provides for a Republican leaders here today, in|navigation channel 700 feet wide and From the Rocky mountains in Mon- tana to the Columbia river in Wash- ington and up to 100 miles from the Canadian border thousands of men whether the critics of the arguments set forth by the Earl of Balfour in his note thought that the British were going to work twenty-five years to repay the United States, while the last night, was reported quiet. COAL TRAIN ATTACKED. sion will issu¢ new priority orders| for the transportation of fuel, with | the purpose of facilitating distribu tion of coal under the administration’s | emergency program, Fuel Distributor i conversation upon yesterday's actlon, \Spencer announced last night, cording to the Associated Press. The district committees represent- ing the federal organization in the producing coal fleids will be function- ing by Mondoy, Mr. Spencer sald. Yesterday's discussions by the com- | mittee. he declared, were confined to routine matters, and no important conelusions were reached. Efforts to bring government in- fiuence to bear upon coal mine oper- ators who have been unwilling to at- tend the central competitive wage scale joint conference which John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. has called for Monday at @leveland. Ohio, with support of ®ome operators, was understood to have been the purpose of the here of Samuel Glasgow, general at- torney for the union. Mr. Glasgow held "a prolonged interview today with President Harding. being ac- companied to the White House by Secretary Hoover. Both refused to discuss ‘the purpose of their visit, however. Mr. Glasgow was understood to have suggested that Illinois mine |\ owners. who have so_far refused to join the Pittsburgh Vein Operators’ Association of Ohio and the, scattef- ing list of individuals in O vlvania, Illinois and Indidn ill meet as emplovers the union, might be induced to change i+ their position if President Harding ‘urged it. CREEL’S EX-SECRETARY IN $1C0,000 BALM SUIT Miss Ransom Charges John B. Woodward, Advertising Man, Twice Promised Marriage. NEW YORK, August 4.—John B. ‘Woodward, newspaper advertising man of New York and Chicago, was sued for $100,000 today by Miss Edith L. Ransom, secretary to Geerge Creel when he was wartime director of the bureau of public information. The young woman contends that Wood- ward twice promised to marry her. Miss Ransom, who is twenty-three, alleges that Woodward, a, widower with several grown children, promis- ed to make hér his wife while they ere dining one Sunday eveming in une, 1920, at the Hotel Majestic, in Chicago, and that he repeated the ‘promise in October of that year while they were in Summit, N. ac-| L.| Shots Spatter Against Fngine as Non-Union Product Is Hauled. By the Assoclated Press. CARBONDALE, Ill, August | coal train running from Paducah, Ky |to Carbordale. 1L, on the Iilinois ! Central railroad was fired on near i here last night, the train crew re- ported today. Signs were found in scattered sections along the railroad ! reading: “Notice, rgjlroad men—Quit hauling scab coal. The tirainmen, including the engi- { neer, fireman and brakeman, said they | stooped below tife windows of the cab | while the shots spattered against the | sides. i The crew of another coal train re- | ported finding a trestle afire near here | shortly after the shooting. | _Coal from the non-union fields of : Western Kentucky is Being trans- ! ported on the Illinois Ceftral via Pa- ! ducah and Carbondale. 'QUITS ARTS COMMISSION. ‘Col. Sherrill Resigns as Executive i Officer and Secretary. Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge {of public buildings and grounds, an- .nounced today that he had resigned as executive officer apd secretary of !the United States Fine Arts Commis- sion, to take effect immediately. H. P. Camaerer, who for a number of years has been assistant secretary {of the commission, will be named for the post. Until the recent enactmént of a law by Congress, the positions of ex- ecutive officer and secretary of the Fine Arts Commission went along with that of officer In charge o’ pub- lic buildings and grounds. * Bacause of the mnay and varied duties of the latter it was deemed advisable to make a separation. officer in charge of the various government buildings and also supervisor of the hundreds of acres of parks in the District and directly responsiblg for here, Col. Sherrill in direct, contact very frequently with the Fine Arts Commission, and because _the former is an executive office and the latter x'ohur:lg a‘: """’1‘3 ono:lit wes though: at better results would be obtained by. relieving public bufldings-and grounds of’ his direct duties with ‘the arts sion. 4.—A { commis- Publisher’s Opposition Is Based on Own Interests. Frank A. Munsey, publisher of the New York Herald, was charged today in the Senate by Senator Gooding of Idaho, chairman of the republican lagrlcullural tariff bloc, with fight- ing the administration tariff bill in the interest of his investments in Europe. Asserting that Mr. Munsey had in- terests in steel plants, mines, glass factories, pottery plants, woolen mills, sixteen beet sugar factories and other industrial institutions in for- eign lands, Senator Gooding declared it was “not hard to understand why Mr. Munsey has turned his hounds loose on those senators who are try- ing to protect American industries and American labor.” Tariff Bloc Attacked “Nor is it strange that he has singled out the members of the tariff bloc of the Senate,” he continued, “for without the steadying influence of the tariff bloc this propaganda that has been go- ing on by Munsey, Goldman and theé in- i ternational bankers and their kind, would have defeated any attempt to pass a protective tariff measure at this seesion. “So I say to Mr. Munsey and his hounds, let them come on. I will take my dullcel with the American farmer, the American manufacturer, the Ameri- can laborer, and the American people, regardless of what occupation they fol- low, while he hobnobs with royalty and exploits the poorly pald labor of Eu- hope.” ‘Would Investigate Munsey. Urging adoption of his resolution proposing an investigation of Mr. Munsey and republican newspapers opposing the tariff, Senator Gooding told the Senate that “in ‘view of Mr. Munsey's great newspaper holdings in America and his effort to prejudice public opinion against American leg- the ~superintendent of | islation in the Interest of his foreign investments, the people of the United « on 1) | said that too much stress ‘cannot b convention. of a supposedly rampant insurgent spirit prevailing in an important re- publican state of the middle west. The more radical progressives were predict- ing that lowa was to lead a revolt: against the regular party and reflect, by indirection, upon even the Harding administration and the republican Con-* gress. With Iowa taking the lead, the revolt was to spread throughout the west, and the G. O. P. was to be head- ing straight for the rocks. That forecast was _apparently strengthened by the senatorial pri- maries, In which Col. Brookhart so signally defeated all the regular and old guard republican candidates, and upon the apparent indorsement of his radical theories and glowing prom- ises, as shown by the vote he rolled up for himself. Refuted by Conventien's Action. But in the adoption of the platform yesterday Iowa has, it is said, refuted the doleful prophecles of G. O. P. dis- gruntlement and discord and really set a standard for adherence to con- servative republican policies. It is recognised . .that had an _opposite course been followed by the conven- tion and the platform makers, the de- moraljzing effect in other states might have been’ serious. Towa and New York, two important states to. the republicans, will be in the lead of states upholding the ad- ministration and supporting the-char- ter of the republican party, to: wit, | the platform of the last republican national convention upon which the republicans..went to victory in 192¢. It will be recalled that the repub- lican state committee of New York a fortnight ago, in Issuing the call for the republican state convention for September 27, gave a ringing indorse- ment of the administration and the republican - Congre: ‘This will be re-echoed in the state convention later and offered as a standard for the guidance of- republicans throughout the country. 2 TEN DIE JN RUSS WAR. SEATTLE, Wash., August 4.—Ten sdldiers were killed and- several score wounded in a battle June 13 between whites and reds seven miles inland Petropavlosk, on eastern oast of Kamichatka, W. J. Fitspat- rick, engineer. of the gas schooner Bender Brothers, lost in’the Okhotsk sea, June_ 3, reiated |16 fcet deep from the mouth to the ine of Massachusetts avenue, de- reasing gradually to a width of 300 eet and a depth of 9 feet near the ! District line, to be paralleled along the western shore of the river with a basin or lake, six feet deep and of varying width, extending from just above Massachusetts avenue to a point near the Boys' Industrial School at the District line.” All the soil dredged from these two long water areas is being used for the reclamation and evelopment of the adjacent banks {and the islands in between. The esti- mated cost of the project is $3,740,696. Part of Gemeral System. Congress has provided that the im- proved area shall be part of the gen- eral park system of the District, and has named it “Anacostia Park.” Maj. Tyler reportg that $173,167 were expended on the improvement during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, mainly in seawall construction, build- ing and repairing levees, cutting brush, building waste weirs and dredging the channel and the basin. Regarding the acquirement of land required for the park, he says that 1.86 acres were acquired by purchase during the past year and .925.acres of land lying be- low the high-water shore line were quit-claimed without cost. Negotlations have been completed, he says, for the purchase of approximately 65 per cent of the land for which condemnation proceedings were instituted in 1920, and he expresses the belief that tie office will be able to obtain the re- mainder of that land at advantageous prices without resort to, condemnation proceedings. The big_ basin under con: struction has been named “Kingman Lake™ in honor of the late Gen. Kinl man, who was chief. of Engineers of the Army, when the park project was adopted, 3 NORTHCLIFFE WEAKER. Great Anxiety Felt Over Condi- tion of British Publisher. By the Associated Press, LONDON, August 4.—Great anxlety was felt today over the condition of ‘Viscount Northcliffe. There was some increase in the heart weakness pre- viously noted and he was in_a state of general exhaustion. ¢ are fighting forest fires which, with nature apparently siding with them, have, accordinhg to Theodore Good- year, assistant state forester, ren- dered Washington virtually helpless before them. Calls for help are going unheeded in many instances, he said, with the fire wardens fighting the worst fires "and leaving the others to burn them- selves out. One firefighter on Foehl creek, was &illed yesterday when a burning tree fell on him. The particularly hot, dry weather of the past two months, which re- cently had culminated in severe thun- derstorms, has made the forest condi- tion extremely critical. Lightning has started many more fires than the rain has checked and in most inac- cessible places. Many hundred acres of fine govern- ment ‘or private stands of timber have been burned over or are op fire. Glacler National Park the Blackfeet forest and the Kan: = b iksu forest are af. TO GO BACK Within a few weeks the Flannery statue of Abraham Lincoln, which for S0 meny years graced the wide side- walk in front of the old courthouse in Judiciary Square, will be replaced. The monument will not be replaced on exactly its former site, this be- —A plurality in excess of 30,000 on final returns for Mayor J. C. Walton of Oklahoma City, democratic nomi- nee for Governor of Oklahoma, was indicated today as the unofficial count of the balloting in Tuesday's primary neared completion. Walton, the choice of the anti-Ku Klux Klan and farmer- labor forces of the state, had a lead of more than 27,000 votes over R. H. Wilson, state superintendent of pub- lic instruction and alleged “invisible empire” candidate, with returns miss- ing from only 608 out of the 2,387 precincts in the state. The vote: Wal- ton, 90.84 Wilson, 63,779; Thomas H. Owen, 7 John Fields of Oklahoma City, the republican nominee, who will meet ‘Walton at the polls in November, was assured a majority of around 12 to 1. Latest returns from the first con- gressional district gave Representa- tive T. A. Chandler of Tulsa a lead of 1,127 votes in his sharp contest with B. B. Schwabe of Nowata for the republican nomination. Miss Alice Robertson, republican, of Muskogee, the only woman in the present Congress, again will meet W. H. Hastings, democrat, of Tahle- (Continued on Page ‘olumn FLANNERY STATUE OF LINCOLN T0 COURTHOUSE plans for the new base and pedestal. | In his work he has endeavored to have the statue harmonize with the beautiful building in front of which it will stand. The plans call for a pedestal of soft granite, which in height will be about a trifle less than one-half the height | other allies repaid nothing. | " The newspaper warns its readers that those who answer this question ! airmatively are living in a fools’ paradise and are likely to be rudely awakened by the advent of a labor government, which will act with { courage to obtain “fair play for the men who risked their lives against those who risked only their money, and get the country out of this web of organized rapacity. The intended inference is apparently that a labor government would in- stitute the confiscation of, or a levy upon, capital for the purpose of paying the debt. Another incident which is taken as {a straw indicating the change in the political wind was an important | private meeting of unlonists, under {the presidency of Austen Chamber- lain, held last night to consider the | growing desire for the independence of the unionist party. The meeting. according to the Dally Mall, decided to press energetically for the premier's acceptance of a more pronounced conservative policy. Laber Approves Note. The labor party has given its of- ficial benediction to the Earl of Bal- i four’s note. This was done through Arthur Henderson, secretary of the party, who, in a speech at Heywood last night, said: “The only satisfactory method for relieving Europe from an intolerable burden and removing and sterilizing | the uncertainty due to financial em- barrassments . is o arrange an all- round cancellation of mutual in- debtedness. We welcome, therefore, i the note issued by Lord Balfour. It is a great step forward in the right I direction and indicates, I believe, a | sincere effort by the government to ing impossible .because of chln‘en'og the original pedestal, which was | solve the difficulties in which Eu- made when the courthouse was re- built, but it will' be given a position oply a short distance away, on. the concrete plaza at the foot of the main terrace at the south entrance of the courthouse building. It was made known in the office of public_buildings_and grounds today that plans for the construction of a ) new base and pedestal for this statue have been completeq and -approved, and within the next few days the ac-: tual work will be In progre: Be- ~guse he -was the designer of the| courthouse, which {s.conceded by ex- | perts &s one of the beat "mLh.‘ of Greek architecture in Ame . Pierson, of this city, drew the s P twenty-three feet. In making his plans Mr. Plerson has been aided by Henry Bacon of New York, one of the foremost architects in and who has tgken an unusual inter- est ip the beauties and architectural magnificence of the courthouse build- ing and in the Flannery statue itself. ‘When this statue was ordered re. moved from its former site several years ago and recommended for a po- sition at Fort Stevens, near Bright- wood, there was a storm of protest from many eitiszens of the capital, and it was only after powerful influences, including that of President Harding, ‘were brought into play that the statue waeg ordered to be replaced in front of the courthouse at & point “near its former site.” the country | { rope finds herself.” {Mr. Henderson added that the gov- ernment policy, however, was condi- tional on what the United States i might or might not do. But it was his opinion that the question of Great Britain doing the right and wise thing ought not to be condi- tioned on America also doing the right thing. “Better trust the good sense of the American people to fol- | low our generous example in their own | good time,” the speaker added. i Mr. Henderson regretted that the | note did not zppear to contemplate Russia as being a party to a general settlement, asserting that a prospef- ous Russia was just as important i a_trade revival as a prosperous " (Continued on Pa jurmn |