Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1922, Page 1

J Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitleq to the use for republicat! of news dispatehes credited to It or not ciLerwise eredited in this paper and also the local news published herein, Partly cloudy and warmer tonight; unsettled; probably followed by showers. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 78, at b ¢ Iq ening Star. All rights of publication of special | 3:15 p.m. vesterday: lowest, 53, at 4:30 a.n. today. Full report on page 7. |: dispatches Lierein are also reserved. | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 21 D M ORNTHG EDITION / Yesterday's Net Circulation, §3,858. No. 28,604 Entered as second-class matte: post office Washington, B. ¢ WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922 _TWENTY-SIX PAGES. COAL HOPES BRIGHT A5 SO0 TONS PRODUCTION NEARS Secretary Davis Assured | That Peak Will Be \Reached if Cars Are Furnished. ANTHRACITE PEACE NEAR AS PARLEY CONTINUES Philadelphia Confer;s Still in Deadlock, But Mines Are Pre- paring to Reopen. i Definite assurance that maximum | coal production will be resumed in | the mines of the nation was given Secretary of Labor Davis today by agents of the Department in the coal flelds of Pennsylvania and the mid- dle west. Based on reports from agents of the bureau of conciliation of the department, officials held out hope that a production of 9,000,000 tons of bituminous coal per week would be reached within ten days, provided the rallroads can handle it. This production, officials declared, would be one million tons in excess of the weekly average production of ast year. These figures, it was de- ared, do not include mines in the; uthwest nor in the Pittsburgh dis- t: 1 | 1 1 ! { Mines May Reopen Monday. The Labor Department is confident that operations in all the anthracite nfines of Pennsylvania will be resumed not later than next Monday. Advices of agents from the bureau of concilia- tion point out that the delays as a result of the conferences at Philadel- phia do not necessarily entail a seri- s mark in production, as-the mines e now being prepared to resume rations. - ‘ommi | Giomer of Conciliation Rod- | at Des Moines, Towa, telegraphed tary Davit today that operators n Towa have signed a contract based the U eland agreement calling for an annual production of 8,000,000 tans. the entire maximum production the state. 1,300,000 Tons From Michigan. Commissioners Dynes and Stewart | sorted today that Michigan has -igned up with a production of 1,300.- \ tons. They also reported their nfidence that deep and strip opera- | | tors will reach an agreement with | John Hessler, president of the Indiana ; tuiners. by tonight. Iilinois is expect- «d to be signed up by tomorrow. | Operators representing 5,000,600 in Indiana have signed, and the | are now producing coal. The | of production in Indiana, to ,000.000 tons annually, is ex scted to come into line by tonight. uty million tons in northern and: stral Pennsylvania have signed an | asreement since the Cleveland con ference, and all the mines in Illinois, with an ‘annual production of 85, 700.000, are expected to be in line! within a few days. | | | PARLEY STILL DEADLOCKED. Anthracite Mines, However, Are! Preparing to Reopen. Br the Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA, August 22.—The| anthracite peace-seeking committee | eutered another day today with no| sign of a break in the deadlock be- tween representatives of the ming| workers and those of the operators. | The fifth session of the conference was scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Both sides were said to have agreed | to restoration of the old wage rates | until next April 1, but 8o far it has apparently been jmpossible to agree upon a program for fixing wages after that date. Efforts to read into brief state- nents issued at the conclusion of yes- terday’s session a hope that a settle- ment was near met with little en- couragement from either side. As upon previous occasions, the state- ments merely said that the conferees had met in an effort to reconcile views of the opposing sides upon the terms of a possible agreement to cover ages and working commissions, and ' there would be another session today. Leports from the hard coal flelds 1 dicated that active preparations | were being made for a resumption of. iContinued on Page 2, Column BECK EXONERATED IN MURDER PROBE Army Report Indicates Of-é ficer Not Guilty in Day Case. | | | i Secretary Weeks has received a voluminous report made by the Army board of investigation into the killing of Lieut. Col. Paul W. Beck by Former Judge Jean Day of Oklahoma City, early last April. The War Secretary said today he had not read the report, but it was indicated that the Army officer was found by the board to be not guilty of_any misconduct. Reports that the Investigators hafl recommended that the evidence col- lccteds, should be given to civilian authorities with a view of reopening the case in civillan courts for trial of Former Judge Day, could not be confirmed. 80 ROVING COMMUNISTS ROUNDED UP IN MICHIGAN LANSING, Mich., August 22.—Michi- &an state police were ordered to Bridgeman, Berrien county, today to assist in rounding up-a band of about «ighty persons, alleged to be Russian communists, and who are said to have crossed into Michigan from Chicago. Iieports reaching the department of public safety were to the effect that The party pianned to hold a meeting sn_Bridgeman, An effort may be made to deport the arty, 8aid to have been ordered to e Chicago. | by mnoon. Proposes to “Buy” Husband Of Another and Pension Wife Get a Divorce and Pay Woman $100 ; {Former Mrs. “Jack” Spreckels Ready to Month for Newspaper: Artist. he Associated Press, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 22. —An offer by Mrs. Edith Huntington Spreckels Wakefield, first wife of the late Jack Spreckels, Californla mil- lionaire, in an- &nd herself prominent to society, to “buy’ other woman's husband from her for $100 a month for the rest of her life, me to light here today and is ud- mitted by all persons involved. The husband, whom Mrs. Wakefield credited with having offered buy,” is Rodney Kendrick, a news- paper artist. The wife, who is ill and admits she is ‘“considering” the offer, said she already had given her wedding ring to Mrs. Wakefield. Mrs. Wakefleld said she, too, planned a divorce. Promised Home With Them. A statement from Mrs. Wakefleld said: “It was a long time ago I told Mrs. Kendrick that I loved her husband and wanted to marry him. I promised her she would have a home with Rod- ney and myself as long as she lived. She is a very sick girl and I took care of her for weeks. A hundred times she told me how grateful she was, in the presence of her husband and his mother and sister. When | we left her I put $600 in the bank] for her to draw on.” The wife sald: “Mrs. Wakefleld wrote me a letter five or six weeks ugo when I was in a sanitarium_asking me to come to her home in Sausalito. I had met her a year ago and O thought her motive” was_one of kindness aml friendship. Soon after I arrived she PRESIENT WANTS INPARTIAL PROBE May Insist Body Be Made Up | of Other Than Dele- gates of Factions. AFTER LABOR MENACES Convinced of Benefit in Unions, But Believes That Purposes Can Be Served Better. ‘While the Senate labor committes was taking the first formal actlon toward creation of tne coal fact-find- ing commission recommended by ! President Harding by favorably re- porting the Borah bill, the President let it be known today that he was disposed to insist that the investi- gating body be made up exclusively of impartial representatives of the public without special representa- tion for either mine operators or em- ploves. President Harding was represented as belleving that labor unions, as at present _organized throughout the United States are of an incalculable benefit and that they should be pre- served, but to serve their purpose properly they should remove what he looks upon as existing menaces. No Reply to Gompers. It was made Kknown at the sam time that the President\ has not con- sidered replying to the recent publish-} switchmen and railway clerks’ union | ed statement of Samuel Gompers, pres- ident of the American Federation of Labor, in which the administration’s attitude in attempting to bring about an adjustment of the present indus- trial difficulties was criticised. The House interstate commerce com- { mittee continued work today on the Winslow bill proposing creation of a federal commission to make a sweep- ing investigation of all questions bear- ing on the coal industry, with repub- lican members hopeful that the meas- ure would be ready for presentation There was some prospect that it would be rushed through the House immediately under suspension of the rules, and leaders declared that in any event it would be put through before adjournment tomorrow. The ! proposed commission of nine members would be required to submit its first report with recommendations to the President not later than January 1 next. ——— SOON OFF TO BRAZIL. Secretary Hughes, accompanied by Mrs. Hughes. andthe other members of the honorary commission to the Bra- zilian _centennial exposition, will sail from New York city on the Shipping ‘Board steamer Pan-American Thursday morning, leaving here tomorrow even- ing for that purpose. During _the absence, of Secretary Hughes Undersecretary" Phillips will have charge of the affairs of the State Department. AMERICAN BOY, 14, RUNAWAY, FOUND, IN PARIS GARBAGE By the Associated Press PARIS, August 22.—When four- teen-year-old Herman Jasper ran away from his home in Bingham- ton, N. Y., bound for a personally . conducted sightseeing tour of Europe he did not visualize his journey as ending in a garbage can on the Boulevard des Italiens in Paris. ' But that is where a policeman found him wrapped in peaceful slumber at 4 o'clock this morn- ing—and now Herman is awalting completion of arrangements to re- turn him to Binghamton. The adventurous youth ghipped from New York as a stowaway on a liner. He was discovered dur- ing the voyage and was detained at Antwerp for deportation, but escaped, going to Brussels and thence over the French frontier. At Hirson he was again captured, this time by gendarmes, but once ‘more showed his elusiveness, finally - zeaching Paris, where was waiting & chance to visit the bat- tle fields. His parents are safd: to have of- tered a $500 reward fof his safe return. to| told me that she was in love \\'i':\\ my husband and that he was in love She sald she would give and would with her. me $100 a month for IIT see that my baby w care of if 1 would divorce Rouney 80 that she might marry him as 800 she secured a divorce from Mr Wakefle Ton davs awo she and. my husband both told me that it was & bargain and they left in her | car for a camping trip in the Lake | Tahoe district.” i Intended to Get Divoree. The husband sahi: “Long before this episode my wife told me she did not love me any {longer and intended to secure a | divorce. She had been ill with tuber- culosis and for some time was & patient at a Stockton sanitariu | Several weeks ago Mrs. Wakefleld and T brought her back to Sausalito and the three of us were living happily there together. There was no concealment of how things stood. | Mra. Wakefleld told my wife In the | presence of my mother that she loved | me and would marry me if we were | free. There was no longer any love | betwoen myself and my wife and | vet we were all friendly. It was the plan that everything should be done | for my wite's comfort and happiness and up to now no objection has been made.” Mr Wakefleld {s dascribed as “thirty-nine and good looking.” Kendrick’s mother and sister sald | they had urged the young wife to | accept the situation. | Kendrick s thirty-nine and his wife ls'tw(»nt)'-luur. riage she was a physician’s assistant. Mrs. Wakefleld is the mother of three children from her marriage | with Spreckels. The ollest is nine- SOUTHERN TIE-UP | OF TRAINS CLEARED Before her mar- Passenger Traffic From Washington Is Resumed. Freight Waits. | | i ‘TROOPS CAUSE TROUBL:_E | Meit - Rétase to Work While Sol. diers Stand Guard—MNilitary Re- ported Withdrawn. By the Associted Press. SPENCER, N. C., August 22.—All | passenger trains on the Southern | rallway have been cleared out of the Spencer terminal with crews made up of officials and others, it was stated at the office of Superintendent of Terminals Richmond at 10 o'clock this morning. 5 Southbound passenger trains from | Washington have-been cleared here since midnight, with the exception of freighters, which are being held here for the present. No trains have reached Greensboro from south of Spencer since the trainmen’s refusal to work as a rebuke to the presence of troops on the railro: property there, where approximately 1,600 striking shopmen are lidie. H Meet on Strike. ! Members of the brotherhoods, are holding a mass meeting this i morning to decide whether the action i taken by them last night in agree- ing as individuals not to take trains out or go on rallroad property is to be made permanent. Persons leav- ing the meeting shortly before 11 o'clock said that indications were that the unions would vote to make the walkout permanent as long as troops guard the Southern railway shops. Eight Negroes Seised. A party of eight negroes brought here to work in the shops was seiz night and taken out of town. negro was found_ early today badly wounded. The negro told the au- thorities that after the mob had car- ried them\ into the country _they were dumped into the road and told to run. As the negroes started to run, the negro said, the masked men fired on them. The other nesroes have not been accounted for. The situation around the shops where -troops are on guard remained quiet during the night. Troops Ordered Removed. | 'SALISBURY, N. C., August 22.—The soldiers have been ordéred removed from the Southern rallway shops at Spencer, according to a telephone message here from Spencer at 11:25 a.m. Transportation men in a meeting this morning voted to remain out as long as soldiérs remained on duty at the shops. TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN. The strike of enginemen on the Southern railway, following the occu- pation of the company’s yards at Spencer, N. C., by .troops last night ended abruptly today when the sol- diers were withdrawn and officis f ! the road issued denials that they had ever requested military guards take over their property. On the other hand, high officials of. the road in Washington intimated that extremists in the ranks of the striking shopmen themselves Had Te- quested military patrols be sent into the yards, osteneibly for the preven- tion of trouble, but in reality to force the enginemen to join the strike. - The railrond some days ago asked that soldiers be sent to a nearby point in case trouble arose. Accord- ingly, the Governor of-North Carolina ordered a detachment bf infantry to encamp three miles from the rafl- road yards. Last night, however, the soliders took over- the patrol of the yards and enginemen quit imme- aiately. At a meeting between the brother- hood representatives and officials of the road in Salisbury this morning, ‘Washington - headquarters an- :enneld. it was agreed that the sol- ‘would be ordered back to their camp immediately and the men re- turned ‘to their positions, i ed by masked men at Salisbury last| Oneg GERMANY SCORNS PLEDGING MINES FORNORATORIM | ECOnlroI of Ruhr Holdings as Guarantee Impossible, Min- ister Hermes Says. l IBERLIN BANK RESOURCES [ LESS THAN $5,000,000 ! France Refuses to Hurry Smaller Allied Debtors Despite In- sistance of British. i 4 i i 1 By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 22.—Minister of | Finance, Hermes was reported today | 1o have left no doubt in yeuterdly'uI | deliberations with members of the reparations commission that the | ipledging of state forests on the left |bank of the Rhine and the state {mines in Ruhr district as guarantees for the payment of Germany's repara- {tions was impossible. It is estimated that on the basis 1of 1,200 marks to the dollar, the | |present vatue, the combinea capital | |stock, reserves, realty and building | {n.ml reserves of the eight major: |hanks of greater Berlin, including the {four big institutions comprising “Die | Gruppe,” today represent a gold value | slightly less than $5,000,000, although | |these ansets are entered on the last | ance sheets of the bi { I‘ oo, e banks as worth | marks, The Tagleblatt, recalling the pre- vious visit of the reparations com- mission, calls attention to the fact that the dollar rate was then 250 (marks, whereas the present delibera- tions take place at a time when the dollar is quoted at 1,200 marks. Some | editors profess to see in the arrival \here of the Australian chancellor, | Ignaz Seipel, at the same time as the reparations emissaries anything-but {an auspicious omen, belleving the the synchronizing of the visits is not | calculated to stimulate optimism. In arllamentary circles curiosity is eing expressed as to whether Si |John Bradbury and M. Mauclere are }in full accord in view of the deadlock | of the recent London conference,’ The newspapers are outspoken in thelr opposition to the surrender of | the 8o-called “productive pawns” by | Germany. The Kbeuz Zeitung says {such a surrender would drive down the mark still further and only yield evenue for the French treasury. ‘The juice has been squeezed out of | the lemon.” says this conservative or- | gan. which declares that the sur- I H | { H - TWO CENTS. §4.500,000 NEEDED Over Four Years, District Engineers Assert. Approximately $4,500,000, =spread over a perfod of four years, would have to be spent to enable the Na- tional Capital to catch up to its ac- cumulated street-paving needs, ac- cording to compilations made today by the District engineer department. At the present rate at which new fore the'highways: of the city will-be in anything like normal condition. Hopes for Streets Blasted. It-bedameé khown today that in ask- ing for $1,200,000 in their original es- timates for next year the Commis- sioners figured on making up between now and 1926 the ground lost during {render of any remaining sources of - production would destroy the nation's | production. and that, therefore, it is time German statesmen once for all give up their “policy of fulfiliment. This newspaper warns against France's “pet scheme” of achieving a working union between French and {German industry, which, it says, would not only increase hostilities be- tween the two countries, but posi- tively polson Anglo-German relations. FRENCH STAND PLAIN. Will Not Press Small Debtors to Pay British. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily N Copyright, 1922, 1 T e PARIS, August 22.-—What Premier Raymond Poincare had already told anxious diplomats privately he has now proclaimed publicly, namely, de- spite British intimation that France must begin on October 15 the reim- bursement of the French war debt to Great Britain, France refuses abso- lutely for the moment to harry the smaller allied debtors to make them pay in turn. France owes Great Britain a war debt of 11,863,000,000 gold marks, but there is owing to France war debts to a total nearly as large, or 10,184,- 000,000 gold marks, as follows: From Great . Britaln, 1,092,000,000 gold marks: from Italy, 840,000,000 marks; Serbia, 1,314,000,000 marks; Rumania | 878,000,000 marks;: Greece, 417,000,000 | marks, and Russia, 5,613,000,000 | marks. Famous New Conference. France favors inviting all these| cotintries except possibly Russia, to & conterence, where the entire question can be taken up, not, however, con- jointly with the German reparations, Which Premier Poincare regards as s debt of quite a different character. 43 HOURS AT S By the Associated Prees. DETROIT, August 22.—Occu- pants of the seaplane for which an extended eearch was made off New York yesterday and last night, weré not helplessly adrift for forty-three hours, as pre- viously reported, but during prac- tically that time were passengers aboard & fishing smack after they had been taken aboard the vessel, Charles F. Redden of Cleveland, president of Aeromarine Alrway Company, owner of the seaplane, told the Assoclated Press here to- day. N YORK, August 22.—The th‘r'l!gewmen who were lost forty- three hours in a crippled seaplane on the ocean, landed early today in a fishing smack, at Long Beach, shed into the city and then {I‘:Amefllluly left for different parts of the country. tement Dutlln‘linz 'tiheirn:x. oriences was issued after they Igm‘l gone by Maj. ‘B. L. Smith, operating head of the company owning the lost seaplane. The rescued men were V. & Robinson of Pittsburgh, the pas- senger; W. T. Miller, pilot, and Harold Thompson, mechanician. Robinson went to Atlantic City. Miller and_Thompson ‘went to Saratoga. They were reported to have left In one of the company’s es. pl’l“;ll dtatement said that the sea- plane fell into the water about amilen ol g By oW mornf ng when' the engine went dead. The A stad and since the war in street-paving work. This hope has been blasted, however, by the edict of the budget bureau that the total estimates of the ! District for next year must not ex- ceed $24,600,000. A high official of the engineer de- partment calculated that on July 1 of this year $2,589.637 wAs the amount] needed to pave the streets of the city : in need of new that were urgently surfacing on that date. Looking forward to the prospective requirements of the next four ysars, this official has estimated that within that time $4,383,000 should be spent on street paving. Funds Held Far Too Small. Last year Congress allowed $141,000 for new street surfacing. For the current fiscal year the appropriation | for this purpose is $233,000. And if the restriction placed on the esti- mates for next year by the bLudget bureau is to stand, the Commissioners will not be able to ask for much more than $200,000. Thus, it will be seen that appro- priations for new streets are being made at the rate of about $200,000 a year, whereas, in the opinion of the engineer department, about $1,009,000 a year should be spent for four years. —_— GEN. HARBORD FAVORED. Under a bill changing the military law, passed by the House yesterday and sent to the Senate, the President would be authorized to appoint Maj. Gen. Har- i bord, deputy chief of staff of the Army, as chief of staff, to succeed Gen. Pershing upon the latter's re- tirement. Representative McKenzie, republican, Illinvis, in-charge of the measure, said Gen. Harbord was a soldier risen’ from the ranks, whose appointment as Per- shing’s successor would be in the best interest of the Army and the country. MYSTERY IN RESCUE OF 3 LOST EA IN AIRPLANE passenger and crew finally were Tescued by the fishing smack. Thi4 morning no trace could be picked up at Long Beach of the unnamed schooner credited with rescuing the airmen. “When Maj. Smith later was asked the name of the two-sticker, he said: “The name was not given Miller, nor was her destination or the time she expected to reach her port. I presume, therefore, she Was a rum-running schooner.” Maj. Smith said he understood the coast guard cutter .Seneca, which yesterday joined warships, tugs, speed boats and planes in the search for the lost Ambassador II now was looking for the schooner. Coast guard officials, however, sald she had received no such orders. Rum runners frequently have been reported 1ying off the Long Island coast. Later Maj. Smith, in conversation : with reporters, 'elaborated _the story of the rescue, as told by Mil- ler and Thompson, and expressed conviction that the. rescue craft Was a rum Tunner, The schooner, he sald, did not it- del? land at Long Beach, but put the three men into: a dory, about 2 half-mile off shore, and let-them' row in alone. Then she -slipped sway immediately into the dark- ness, abandoning the small boat, which” was swamped ‘when' it touched the sands. % According to Smith the skipper of the schooner, which kore no markings, declined to - tell Miller who he was, but the pilot gathered from remarks passed by meamen that the vessel had come from the Bahamas. She was about eighty feet over all v TOPAVESTREETS {Amount Should Be Spread | | treet appropriations are being made, | however, it will be many years be- { 1 [ | | 1 LONG SKIRT BLbW TO JAZZ DANCING AND HIGH KICKER NEW YORK, August Ned Gaynor of Culver Military Academy, in Indlana. clcomes back the long skirt, in his capacity as one of the leaders of the Amer- ican National Association of Mas- ters of Dancing, in session here, because the long skirt discourages kicking and the erratic movements of the jazz step The major insisted that dancing i an art, not a joke, and that if a man holds his feminine pariner more tha lightly against his breast the woman is more than 80 per cent to blame. He said the fox trot and tango had been combin- ed ‘into a fox-trot-tango, and also that the waltz was again to be a favorite this fall and winter. “Ninety-five per cent of baliroo. naughtin, due to’ ignorance. said the major. “The other 5 per cent s vulgarity. neing s an art. Any monkey can toddle. Nice weeple Are recalling that they are rot monkeys.” HOSPITAL SEHOOL Maj. RULING APPEALED Commissioners Ask Review of Injunction Against Upshur Site. The District Commissioners today filed a petition in the District Su- preme Court asking a review of the decision of Justice Bailey perpetually enjoining them from locating the school for tubercular pupils on the Upshur street tract. Residents of the vicinity and mem- bers of the Piney Branch Citizens' Association opposed the placing of the school there and Charles E. Hunt, Sallie E. Shock and Clarence 1. Gess- ford secured an injunction agalnst the Commissioners. The latter noted anappeal to the Court of Appeals, but failed to file the transcript of record in that court within the time specified by its rules and the appeal was-lost. - The Com- missioners now ask the lower court to réconsider its action. Dispute Court Power. Through Corporation Counsel Ste- phens and Assistant Corporation Coun- sel Williams the court is told that there was error apparent of record leading up to the final decree in that there was no limitation upon the dis- cretion of the Commissioners in se- lecting a site for the school contained in any law and it was beyond the power of the court to impose such limitation. The Upshur street tract, it is pointed out, was designated as a site for the tubercular hospital and as a site for the junior high school, and it is claimed the:school" for tu- bercular children partakes of the na- ture of each of these institutions and its location on the same tract is in no wise a departure from any policy of Congress. K Citisens Defendants. The suit is against the three citi- zens that brought the injunction pro- ceeding and the court is asked to sum- mon them to show why a review of the former proceeding may mnot be had. The injunction suit of the citi- zens was flled Degember 12 last and the decision of Justice Bailey ren- dered last Maroh. ‘Attorneys Darr, Whiteford and Darr, representing the citizens who brought the injunction froeeedinll, stated to- day they would oppose strenuously the new proceedings of the Commis- sioners. MISS TUMULTY BETTER, CABLE TELLS FAMILY «Qperation Entirely Successful,” Says U. 8. Vice Consul ° at Munich. Miss Tumulty, daughter of Joseph Tumulty, former private secretary to former President Wilson, is rapldly convalescing from injuries received in an automobile accident in Bavaria Augpat 13, sccording to a cable today from . Vice Consul Robert Murphy, at Munich. - T “The operation was entirely success- ful,” the -cablegram stated. “She is re- _covering her strength quickly. Her ppetite is excellent. - Every provi- sion” is being made for her comfort. The consulate is in daily touch with e hospital. Physiclans assure ‘nmie re is absolutely no cause for .- ulty 1s ted to eall nited States September §. ‘worry. Miss for the PONERENE RAKES (0P NKEYOTE !Senator Tells Ohio Demo- cratic Convention Regime Is Failure. By the Associated Press. COLUMELUS, Ohio, August 22— Plans for the coming political cam- paign in Ohio, iseek to change the make-up of the | solidly republican state administra- | tion and congressional delegation and ireturn to the upper house of Con- | gress Senator Atlee Pomerene, wer Dbeing made here today. Republicans, as well as the democrats. were hold- {Ing their state convention at which { ratification_of platforms and selec- { tion of a chairman of the republican | executive committee was the main | business. Charging that the republican ad- { ministration at Washington had re- i pudiated its campaign pledges of 1920 !and that a great part of the legisla- {tion by the present Congress had been ifor the benefit of big business rather than the ordinary citizen, Senator i Pomerene delivered the keynote ad- dress at the democratic conventlon, predicting a democratic. victory in November. “After March 4 next there will still be one democratic senator In Wash- ington from Ohio and more than haif will be democratic,” he said. Scores Tarift Pork Barrel. Bitter criticism of the republican !Q:\rifl bill, which he termed “the greatest pice of ‘pork barrel' legi: llation in the history of Congress i 1 tator Pomerene declared the complete failure of the administration to enact ! constructive legislation. Republican | fevenue legislation placed the burden nesses of smaller income and relieved wealthy persons and corporations earning excessive profits, he declared Only passing mention of the New- berry case and other senatorial mat- ters was made by Senator Pomerene, who declared that he had ‘“no apology to make for what 1 have said or done at Washington” and during the campaign -he would “give the voters of Ohio the opportunity to dis- tinguish between ialse charges, on the one hand, and facts, on the other.” Rumors that attempts would be made by certain democrats to insert in their platform a plank providing for jury triala for all violations of state laws—said to be aimed at pro- hibition enforcement—were belittled by democratic leaders. The league of nations issue, it was said, would not find a place in the state plat- form. According to custom, it was presumed that the 1920 national plat- i form, which supported the league of nations, would be reindorsed. The reported announcement from State Senator John F. Burke of Elyra and Collesgue George H. Bender of Cleveland that they would seek to insert “‘progressive” planks in the re- publican platform apparently was recelving only minor consideration in the republican camp. At a meet- ing last night, W. W. Durbin of Ken- ton, veteran of two previous cam- ipaigns, was re-elected chairman of Itha democratic state executive com- mittee. Arthur P. Black of Ashland, secretary to United States Senator Pomerene, was selected as secretary. Keynotes on National Issues. Willlam H. Miller, law partner of Carmi.A. Thompson. republican can- didate for governor, was the pre- convention choice for the head of the republican executive committee. ! Keynote speakers of both parties were oxpected to touch upon national issues, for both are members of the present- Congress and will oppose each "other as candidates for the United States Senate. EXPECT DU PONT TO WIN. DOVER, Del., August 22.—The re- rublican state convention assembled ac noon today, With no evidence of opposition to the nomination of Cole- man T. Du Pont for United States Senator, both for the remainder of {the term he is ;\mw{ serving by ap- t and the ful :?I?;u;l.\nrch 4 next. Nor was there any Intimation of opposition to the renomination of representative Caleb R. Layton, -which is a marked inno- vation in political procedure in Dela- ware, no congressman having ever been nominated for a third term by | the civil war. uxr::uhecomesu were in evidence iominations for state treas- ?:ert.h«a-;.le auditor and state in- surance commissioner. temporary _ reorganization . Robert C. Ho:hnon of Georgetown a8 temporary chairman, e Eonvention took & rocess until 3 pme e in which democrats |- of the House delegation from Ohio, ! formed the major part of the address | which also touched upon what Sen-| lof taxation upon persons and busi- | 11 term begin-! either political party since the days|. "TRIALS OF BODKIES MAY BE PRESSED DURNG SEPTEMBER Attorney Hart Anxious to Dispose of 71 Cases in D. C. Police Court. 'SOME IN PIGEONHOLES FOR OVER TWO YEARS | Long Delays Laid to Rush of Other Matters—Prosecutor Expects Thirty-Five Convictions. | | i Next month is Boing to Le open season for handbook men in the Police Court. If Assistant District Attorney D. 0. Hart has anything to say abou? {it. and he's the specialist in this list. The pick of seventy-one cases, some i of which have been pigeonholed for two years, are going to be brough® to trial. Bookmaking cases have piled up and piled up. according to Mr. Hart because of the Inability to obrtain j enough time to try them. A batter jof questions was shot at Mr. Hart today designed to bring out the rea- son for the apparent delay in bring- | ing tha defendants charged with tai- ing bets on the races from players to trial and, if found guilty, to pun shment. “Why aren't handbook case moving?’ was the first question Reasons for Delays. “Because there is just one d week allotted for those demafding jury trials,” is the comeback. “How come “Well, on Mondays there's a where from forty to sixty to eight | week end cases to be cleaned up. i You know, the police are arresting well over an average of 150 persons a day. Then one of the judges has traffic court. _And on Tuesdays gnd Wednesdays the District of Columbix cases have to be heard. Some Wed- nesdays are open and we take them, but not so extremely often. “Then on Thursday we have our day in court for handbook and liquor cases. There's scores of liquor cases. too. Now and then we have Friday and Saturday left. Friday is re- sevred for trials of cases of assault and a thousand and one other kinds of cases. Saturday is the week end clean up and a half day.” 71 Cases om Doecket. “How miany cases on the docke “Let's see. Forty, sixty, seventy- “Well, when are you going to try | them? H “As soun as we can get to them.” i *When will that be | “If 1 have my way, It's going to be jas soon as the jury gets back nex | month. They're on a two-week vaca- | o i tion. The jurors get back about Sep- | tember 8. E | “How do the cases stack up?" “We've got dope enough to convict, I think, in easily thirty-five cases. in ; some of the others the evidence might {be a bit shy or not sufficiently vincing for a Washington jury to hold a_man.” There's the way it stands. Police Want Action. | The police say: “What the deuce is the use making lall these bookle arrests if we can't | get convictions. Just pile up the dock- | et some more.” In reference to this, remember when | Messer and Sweeney and Fowler, | operating from Commissioner's Oys- | ter's office, began giving the bookies a hot time severeal months ago. They nabbed over a hundred. In sixty- eight cases settled out of this bunch, sixty seven pleaded guilty and oné Waiter Wade Davis, who was charg- ed with making a book, literally un- | | der the Capitoi dome and in_the House office bullding, stood trial, being con- ed to pay = $300 fine ety days in jail. He took victed and sen and served ni; an appeal, which is pending. Swan Gets Further Delay. The first case to throw a ray of light into the offices of the prosecut- ling attorney, however, was that of | Charles T. Swan. who is the first man 1in recent vears to receive a peniten | tiary sentence on charges of this na- {ture. He was sentenced under section | 565 of the code, which takes care of | gambling and gaming tables and so | forth, to two vears in penitentiary on {May 12. Only yesterday, however, the time for the filing of a bill of ex- ception for appeal of the case was ex- tended until September 21. He hasn't gone to jall vet. and he doesn’t expect to go. The bill of ex- ceptions will be presented and he cx- pects to win his case on appeal. But brightly against a dull background of acquittals and refusals of indictment. stands out the case to the United States attorney as one, at least, in Which & jury was found to convict in bookmaking cases. It squashed the gloating_ boast of the bookles that: “There's no jury in Washingten which will convict bookies.” POLICE TRAIL BOOKMAKERS. | Oyster Gets Dozens of Tips on Al- leged Law Violators. Commissioner Oyster's flying squad- ron of police today is on the trail of a number of men who have been re- ported as alleged bookmakers on the races. Announcement by the Commissioner yesterday that he had launched another war on horserace betting in the Dis- trict brought in the mail this morning more than a dozen letters from citizens giving information of violations of the handbook law. ¥ The Commissioner turned the com- ! plaints over to his special squad for | investigation. Commiseioner Oyster declared yester- day that he would endeavor to hold up the license of poolroom and pocket- billiard establishments known to the police as headquarters for handbook men. ‘Where Bets Are Made. The Commissioner indicated today that he does not regard billiard parlors as the only places where handbooks are made. He said he had no doubt that there are cigar stores, barber shops and some eating places where bets are made. Both Corporation Counsel Stephens on