Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1922, Page 1

f - l WEATHER. I H Partly cloudy weather; showers late | K | tonight or tomorrow; warmer tonight. | Temperature for twenty-four hours | High, at | ended, at 2 p.m. today m. today: lowest, t, 80, at a.m. to- Il report on page 11. Closing N. Y. Stocke and Btind:, Page 18 No. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. 28,611. \Britain to Pay U.S.EveryCent, PRESDENT WA POWER 10 SEEE | By th sociated Press. i NDON, August 29.—Prime Min- g RUAUS AND MlNES‘ e 0 O S I-IVINB WAB[ PLEA[ with Col. E. M.’ i House who s breakfasted Wit i " the premier this i Uesires Congress Authority, morning. relterat- Gannot Go Beyond Provi- | ed Great Brita ac Great Britain was |financial assistance from tes, but not the United rnestly But Will Not Use It Un- Inention 1 s, SiONS of Transportation | Jless in Necessity. S Act, Says Hooper. . —— the last farthing. S T | ABANDON COAL AGENCY” theatsaviaica AMENDMENT TO LAW | PLAN WITH HARDING O. K. Bt sa IS SOUGHT BY GRABLE | Situation Declared Not to Demai:dl_fll e :.hulse’ ; at $ n.-...]pl \ Following Decision, Union Headi Proposal—Only to Supervise aesired o r continued moral supp: President do s not intend to push his | 1 | opinion or to make a formal pubnrl‘" the peace terms. for the power, it was said, adding that he doos not be- t there is any present neces- r acti under such a grant. Believes Situation Cleared. |land Wednesday for Boston. COAL'STRIKE END ation, although for the purpose | aying public excitement andj clearing the atmosphere, he was said | to feel that Congress ought to make the powers definite and certain by enactment of legislation. Will Not Press Action. At the same time, while he has in- licated his desire for such enact- vent and further has fiugges(e'l its mmediate desirability, he is not pre- paring the conclusion against opposi- tion. which already has been voiced by some congressional leaders. Definite abandonment of President Harding's proposal to Congress for a federal coal agency, with capital to |’ buy, sell and distribute coal, was an- nounced to the House today by Chair- an Winslow of the interstate com- pierce committee at the beginning of -4 debate on the bill to create ma- chinery to supervise distribution oniy. The’ change in plans, Mr. Winslow <ail, had been acquiesced in by the President, whose suggestion for a purchasing and selling agency had been thrust into the background of congressional consideration almost as xoon as it was submitted. minous District Also Believed - Near—Meet on Scale. By the Associated Press. ure of mines remained the outstand- ing feature of the anthracite situa- came from an authoritative put con- fidential source last night. the source of information, and prob- will sign a peace pact and workers soon thereafter will to their jobs. Overcome Stumbling Blocks. This agreement, To Pursue Other Course. Quoting the recommendation as ontained in the President's address © Congress on the rail and coal sit- | Will which presented themselves last week Says Premier! n's seeking d Distribution of Fuel. 1 "“The conve n between the two \Asking Aid. i - gely reminiscent and re — f! trosped overing the war, the J B il Assoviated Press. | mistice the peace conferenc ated Preds President Harding believes that tand the < ‘aftermath. Col. Ho: \ugust 29.—The Rail- Congress should grant him immediate d e LIII.I:;xl«I M(y;.l ‘I‘:l:.“:\" 1‘.'.-1‘»:';‘:‘0_(::‘5 road Labor Board today denied the | wiGutte (G tas er railroad and | view of things —sanguine that a solu- Motion of W. Jett Lauck, labor ining properties, it was said today ' tion would be found for the present | statistician, that the board imme- | { the White House. but has assured | 8rave difficulties of Europe. especially | diately define the principle of a “liv- | i [if America lent its great influence. : N £ ungressio spokesmen that only ' The premies ineuired affectionately | "8 Wag¥” in the case of the main- | he grimest public neefssity would jafter the health of former President | ténance of way employes, who are | ve him to ¢ e such powers if ::I’::::“o;‘n‘l‘h(\phk\p\'"i:l'lrl'an“w::m::l‘: | seeking increased minimum rates of sranted. | peca conforence. when Mr. Wilson, | Pa¥- At the request of E. F. Grable, If Congress indicates unwillingness | Mr. Lloyd George, Premier Clemen- | President of the maintenance organ- to enact the legislation recessary, the | ¢eau and Col. House were throughout | close relations in the working out Col. House plans to sail from Eng- . ',’,1 the ;,lfm‘ur {ml'ls ur‘t; nl;.:;l 1[» !to Congress an amendment to the act oday’s cabinet meeting, e esi-{ vhi. i dent was sald to belicve that the | Which would make it mandatory on bituminous coal producing situation the Labor Board to “nunciate the had Mrl:nr--vl i ltx; up, lhail" Ihen'e. iprinciple of the ‘living wage.'"” 1t would be an anthracite settlemen S : ] within a very short time, leaving the 3 Cannot Exceed Rights. i B Ir T condition of railroads and the shop- i The board in its ruling on Lauck's | : . L D s | request dectared it could not go b HOPE for Men Trapped in It was declared the President had | . yond the transportation act, which | & a . s ot Suttiha by o steewen of | Operators and Miners Re- | prescriva the estabtisnment of ~sust | California Gold Shaft Slim, it Bower e AcHeral . |and reasonatle” wages. overiment couli Vin | Smergency | ported Near Agreement in | The boara's ruling. as announced| Rescuers Say. Move to the control of essential pub- . by Chairman Ben W. Hooper, fol-| « vices without additional au-| Anthracite Fields. v i WOULD AFFECT 155,000 Settlement of Difficulties in Bitu- PHILADELPHIA, August 29.—Defl- | { nite statement that there would l.",fboa\rd to establish wages that are|midnight Sunday nearly a mile below no govegnment intervention or seiz- | tion here early today. The statement | ‘RAIL LABOR BOARD DENIESTRACKMEN'S Wires President and Cummins, | ization, the hearing then was adj Journed until tomorrow morning. Mr. Grable announced that he was | telegraphing President Harding and Senator Cummins, one of the authors of the transportation act, at Wash- ington today, asking them to present | “On the motion submitted yesterday on behalf of the employes by Mr. Lauck the board announces as fol- | o | “Buddies” Boring “Way Through “It is superfldunus for the board to announce in advance the principle or | s Mountain in Effort to Tunnel Under Inferno. GRIEVING FAMILIES PRAY | | theory on which it will fix wages in | | the pending dispute. It may be as-| | sumed by the parties in this case thai the board will zive full consideration | to every circumstance set out in the | statute fo* its guidance, but it will | { not go beyond that. 3 | By the Associated Press. i (P O RO | JACKSON, Calif., August 29.—Fam ’ ilies and fellow workers of the forty- “The transportation act requires the | ejght gold miners imprisoned since ‘just and reasonable.’ It Is within the | the carth’s surface in the Argonaut ! province of the parties herein tomake | mine today clung stubbornly to the| such contentions as they may respec- | gnred of hope that their husbands, tively see fit as to what will consti [ fathers and buddies mighs stul live, tute a just and reasonable wage. If|.1though at least eighteen hours must | the wage which the maintenance of {)upse before rescuers can reach| el e o A TN Within a short time, according to ably within ‘a week, representatives of the miners and hard coal operators | | way organization finds to be the ‘liv- | ing wage’ should be demonstrated to |be a ‘just and reasonable’ wage, th board will adopt it, otherwise it woul. | not. “The board will neither limit nor enlarge the right of either party to | | them. Dawn today found that tense group | till waiting and praying. The pink | tints of sunrise touched !colors a serene rolling into gentle| b, yyc Agsociated Press. landscape, | {present to the board this conception ! typical of the Sierra foothills and the of what constitutes a just and reason- ! rogion of the mother lode. Light of ble wage within th i i Tawe T AES Within the meaning of the {, .\ day chased long shadows west- 222 Are Drowned BLAZING GAS LU[}KS{ When Ship Sinks. | OFf Chile CoastiS[EN IN CALIFORNIA By the Associated Press. _ SANTIAGO, Chile, August 29.— The Chilean steamship Itata, 2,200 tons, sank today off the Chilean coast near Coquimbo. All the pas- sengers, numbering 130, and the crew of seventy-two were lost. NEW YORK. August 29.—The Itata, the Chilean steamship which sank off Coquimbo today, was a coastwise steamer, usually plying between Valparaiso and Arica, ac- cording to information obtainable here. Agents for Chilean lines said she was owned by the Na- cional De Vapores, which does a coastal passenger and freight trade. TRAIN WRECKERS HELD FOR MURDER ]Five Accused After One Tells of Loosening Rails, Caus- ing Gary, Ind., Crash. CHICAGO, August 29.—Five men were charged express” on th murder today, ac- | cused of wrecking the “million-dollar the Michigan Central; Fffi?fémf. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1922 —1TWENTY-SIX PAGES. THERE'S A GOoD i Nominations Today for Every ! | . | ship Downward. Montana to Select U. S. Senatorial Candidates, South Carolina Filling State Offices. { By the Associated Press. | 'SAN FRANCISCO, August 29 Generally fair weather, a record regis- | tration and a sharply contested race for an impor- were factors com- | pining today to indicate a heavy wote in Califor- Fnia's primaries. . The posts for! which nomina-| tions are to be made comprise everything from United States sen- ator to justice of | HIRAM JOHNSON the peace. The registration | Member - of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied te | _the use for republication of afl news dlspatehos credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published berels. HUGE PRIMARY VOTE| Office, From U. S. Senator- | OTHER STATES BALLOT ' |have been engaged by tant nomination !Growers' Express. Al righ dispatches berein are also reserved. i ts of publication of special : * e Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 83,334 — | TWO CENTS. |Maxim Puts Ban On All Perfume By the Associated Press. be Father Neptune to be held here in connection with the contest { for the title o | the country’s me beautiful bathi | ®irL. has succeec ed in having pe: fumes banned. For mansy years while ex perimenting witi smokelesy pow - ders and other explosive mate- rials.” the inven- tor wrote, “I was obliged to work mh an ull‘riu)sphere Ar g e with HUDSON m pore of aceton, acctate of amyl, benzol and other volatile solvents of guncotton. So offensive have perfumes become to me that when I give a reception at my house I seml all the invited 3Uests a printed slip requesting them to refrain from wearing any per- fume.” ! Miss Margaret Gorman of Wash- | ington, "D. C. last year's winner, will have only fifty opponents in this year's contest for the title and golden mermaid trophy. SO0 OFFE BULDING FORD.C. iStructure Will Occupy Site of Richmond Hotel, at 17th and H Streets. | SACSNY I {IN PROGRESSIVE SECTION Officeseekers—Remainder Is Under Negotiation. Another big office building is to rise in Washington, on the site of the Richmond Hotel, at the northeast igorner of 17th and H streets north- {West, razing of which is to begin Oc- tober 1. The proposed new structure, which is to cost between $3,500,000 and $4,000,000, and,-it is said, will be larger than the Southérn building, is to be completed by June 1, 1923. It will be known as the Transportation building. The two top floors already the Fruit The Richmond Hotel and adjoining | property was transferred today to a !a8ainst militarism than New York syndicate. The building site, which comprises 22,000 square At Beauty Show ATLANTIC CITY, August 29.—Hud- son Maxim, the inventor, who is to in the pageant Much of Space Already Rented to | MCUMBER FLAYS LAND AMENDMENT 10 BONJS MEASIRE | Declares McNary Proposa | Would Add Billions to | Present Program. CAPPER WOULD MAKE PROFITEERS PAY COST IFi)ul Action Today Unexpected | With Many Changes Still i to Be Considered. Opposing the McNary land reclama ition amendment to the soldiers | bonus bill. Senator McCumber, re | publican, North Dakota, in charge of the measure, told the Senate to |dny that the proposal would add hun dreds of millions and perhaps bil {lions of dollars to the cost of the | bonus program. “I wonder if the senator believe: iwe can attach his amendment an¢ bring this bill before the Presiden! and have it signed,” asked Senator McCumber. “I think 1 can say that the Presi dent thinks more of this amend ment than of other features of the {bilL" retorted Senator McNary. ‘I you want the President to sign the bill the surest guarantee is to adc | this amendment.” | McCumber Suspicio “I cannot imagine, if that be true what all the objection of the Presiden and the Secretary of the Treasury i{has been about.” returned Semator { McCumber. Both based objection tc | the bill as it then stood upon the cost to the government and the interfer | ence with the refunding of the short. | time government obligations.” Senator McCumber declared tha {when the enemies of the bonu: “come flocking” to the support o |the reclamation amendment, he wa: {*a bit suspicious adding that f i was desired to test the ““good faith’ of the supporters of the amendmen it should be put through as a sepa | rate bill. 4 | Announcing his support of the sol diers’ bonus as “nothing more thar |@ square deal for the boys who dic the fighting,” Senator Capper, repub lcan, Kansas, told the Senatc |that “the war profiteers and the | peace profiteers owe a bonus to the | soldiers of the world war.” | “There is no better guaranter to require the men who profit out of war to pay for it,” he said. “Those who remain eet, fronts 120 feet on H street and | ©d at home made enough here in the 206 feet to a fifteen-foot alley on 17th | United States to enable us to pay street, and its cost was placed at $30 | Many times over the debt we owe i a-square foot. [the men who fought our battles The building will be of Indiana lime- | Wall Street wants to pay it with 2 stone, and while the architects’ draw- | ®ales tax, which would be paid large it was declared, | will overcome the stumbling blocks uation, the committee chairman said in his report on the distribution bill: nce the utterance of the fore- soing suggestion by .the Presideat,| including members of | his advisers, the voluntary committee appointed by the President, and those have advised and assisted in the prep- aration of this bill, have determined and agreed that the possible plan suggested by the President could be well se: aside, and another method followed in working out the probiem. “The President is in_accord with this conclusion. This bill is the out- srowth of such determination and as Such has been considered and report- od favorably by the interstate com- merce committee. Adequate Transportation Seem. Belief that the railroads will be able to handle the current coal needs the country this winter was ex- pressed by Secretary Hoover, who id the test would came within the next two weeks. In the past, Mr. Hoover said, the vest continuous performance of the roads in handling coal, both bitumi- nous ‘and anthracite, was approx- imately 13,500.000 tons a week, while for the next si lled upon to move 17,000,000 tons it eck. je said that total, however, could be'cut down by not attefpting to build up stocks and by confining distribution to current needs alone. “We believe,” said the Secretary, “ihat we will be able to take care of the current needs-of the countr: One of the difficult problems in the situation, Mr: Hoover explained, was he accumulation of loaded cars on the southern coal-carrying roads. He +stimatéd that there now are between 20,000 and 25,000 cars of coal unde- Jivered on the five southern coal lines ymewhere between the non-unio zinja and the northwest, Mr. Hogver ed, there also is approximately 0.000 tons of coal consigned for the reat lakes region under priority or- ders of the federal fuel distributer. 1.200,000 Tons a Week. The central committee, Mr. Hoover said., is discussing methods that can be organized under the Jnterstate Commerce Commission’s friorities to enable movement of nec- cssary, fuel supplies to the north- coal also who | 1 fields of Kentucky and West Vir- | | miners and operators came to a dead- lock in the ofiice of Samuel D. Warri- ner, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company} and chairman of the operators’ policies committee. Neither side, it would have to recede from its deter- 'minalion not to make any more con- cessions. | the United Mine Workers, and by Mr. was further said, [d¢chared that Forced Down to 17 1-2 Cen: | The wage scale for maintenance of | way workers prescribed by vhe board when the joint peace econference Ofiln its decision, effective July 1, and| {against which the trackmen voted to istrike, ranged from 23 to 35 cents jan hour. he strike of his organization in beyance pending the present hearing, wages on some roas ave been forced down as low as 17 cents. - e L | | | [ Meanwhile the series of conferences | {held by John L. Lewls, president of | 1Us Us { Warriner and other operators has i been continuing. United States Sen- | ator Pepper, Secretary of Labor Davis, Mayor John Durkan of Scranton and | others have conferred with the labor {leader in the last few d: He has nsistently declined to comment on the situation. - Priest Calls on Lewls. - The Rev. J. J. Curran- of Wilkes- Barre, veteran priest and friend of President Roosexelf, who was active in seeking peate in the 1902 strike, was among” Mr. Lewis' callers yester- day. Later Father Curran visited Mr. rriner, after which he issued a weeks they might be |sfatement in which he said that he i believed the mine workers, who are opposed to a permanent board of ar- | bitration, would be willing to agree { to the creation of a “fact-finding com- i mission” to report its findings at a | conference of operators and miners, { the information to be available in ne- gotiating a new wage agreement. Meet on Wage Seale. PITTSBURGH, August 29. 3 nation of the coal strike in the Pittsburgh bituminous istrict was i forecast today when the district offi- cers of the United Mine Workefs an- nounced _they would meet the scale committee of the Pittsburgh Coal Producers’ Association this afternoon discuss signing a scale | Cleveland agreement. | Members of the Producers’ ation include the most under the Asso- impertant commereial coal producing companies {in the district, with the exception of | the Pittsburgh Coal Company, which yesterday announced its withdrawal from the association. and which, coal | authorities predicted, would continue on invitation of the assoclation _to| \west with the least confusion. If!firm in its attitude against the check ihe total existing facilities can be | °™ utilized, he declared, it is hoped to: 17 OPERATORS TO BE SUED. move 1.200.000 tons of coal a week e to the' lake ports Before the close of | Miners Claim Between $300,000 navigation. But this fuel supply, he, and $500,000 Back Pay. added, would have to be supplement- | ed during the winter by all-rail ship- | PUEBLO, Col., Angust 29.—Suit for ments-of coal to keep the norfhwest | Gamages 2gainst seventeen Colorado supplied with fuel until spring. |coal operators probbaly will be What might develop during the next | brought within a few days by District wo weeks if the railroads of the|No. 15, United Mines Workers, in an country should find themselves un- | effort to collect between $300,000 and able to handle coal ‘movements for | $50f 0 in back pay alleged to be current needs Mr. Hoover did not|due the coal miners employed In indicate, declaring that the problem | those mines, according to Felix Pog. in such an event would have to be|liano, secretary of District No. 15 to. solved upon the basis of conditions | day. 2 which might prevail at that time. Mr. Pogliano declared the operators Figures setting another high record | broke their contracts with the union for daily coal loadings during the !several months before the contracts xirike period. made public today by’cxnlnd on April 1, and the men were the Association of Railway Execu-|forced to take a lesser wage for sev- . showed that on Saturday ‘u eral months previous to that date. He cars loaded. totaled 22,178, said that the mine workers are bas- ding by 312 the total for Friday.ling their action along lines similar "'he total for the whole of last ek]w a sull brought in New York by | (Coniinued on Page 2, Column (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) B Ls = t iFoIIy to Present Matter to I Congress at Present, White ‘ House View. | The administration plan for reor- | gunization of executive departments lin all probability \will not be sub- { mitted in the form of proposed legis- | 1ation to Congress this session, it was | indicated today at the White House. Officials, however, it was added, are constantly at work smoothing out nu- i merous difliculties and not a week _!was said to pass but that the subject largely occupied the minds of several , of the officials of the-administration. | Although the reorganization plan {is deemed to be extremely difficult | to_effect without wide divergence of opinion on the part of various de- { partment officials, it was declared at i the White House that definite prog- {ress had been made. The reorganization proposal, it was pointed out by a spokesman for the { administration, “is very near to the ! heart of the President.” He was | represented as believing it to be not | only desirable, but practicable. | " President Harding feels, however, ‘it was indicated that to submit a 1 bill to Congress at this session would ! be “perfect folly. {ORDER CONCRETE-PAVING President Grable, who held | . PUANIS DELAYED {ward at the mouth of the black pit. But one it could not dispel. The shadow of death still hung over those who worked and those who waited. From the mouth of the pit from | which these men have helped to take | fortunes in gold at an average qf a million dollars a year came no token | of hope. i hell of flame and smoke and poisoned | air that raged between the imprisoned miners on the levels below 4.000 feet ! and the workers who vainly struggled to reach them. Rescuers Near Death. During the night men attempting in mine “skips” to ride down ghrough the flaming levels were dragged back to the surface, their faces blackened. They | came to gasp eagerly for fresh air and | to tgll of the hopelessness of the trip | below. The tracks on which the skips run were warped and distorted with the heat, in some places even,mclted away. Canary birds told the rescue workers lof tne futility of attempting further descents into the shaft of the mine. The birds were lowerea into the Shaft by workers from the state ‘bureau of { mines at Berkeley. The strings tied to | the canary cages were let down and carefully measured. Some of the birds came back with wings fluttering feebly. Others were dead. The tests showed that the descent to 2,700 feet could be made, but that further it was perilou ~'The flames which started vesterda ‘morning at the 3,000-foot level today had worked abové the 2,400-foot level. | A half mile below the earth’s surface, working frantically with drills and picks to break through a concrete barrier which long has sealed the shaft of the Argonault from the shaft of a' neigh- boring mine, the Kennedy. other miners sought to make a possible channel of escape for their trapped comrades. It was a slim hope. Eighteen Hours From Men. One miner at the mouth of the pit, his face showing ‘pale beneath the pallor of years underground, spoke with the knowledge of a workér from the drifts when he said: wall in a month.” i Supt. Virilio Gabavini said every- LR T L P :1}::‘-15 to‘vlvlrd the rescue of the en- {tombed men. He said that workers | expected to establish communication | with the miners, it any still are alive, vithi ighteen ours. :orrllle'll a:egbroulh! out, the hope that Until théir From it came no sign of the : “The boys can't get through that} being | | of the train crew were killed. near Gary, Ind., August 20, when tWo [ js overwhelmingly republican, 927,046 | persons—a plurality in every county | Five others were held in connec.j:fi:g a majority in most--having signi- | tion with the wreck invéstigation and at least two more who are known | were sought, according to the police. Confessions obtained from some of | the prisonerg not only solved the {wreck of the express, but bared a plot to wreck the Twentieth Cenluryi limited, crack New York-Chicago train, near Elkhart, Ind., the police said. The five who face murder charges are: Joseph Papourvitch, Charles Uselis, John Petrowski, Albino Ales- sio and James Prohetsh. All were said to be striking shopmen Three C t. Uselis, Petrowski and Papourvitch are said to have confessed the wreck plot. The men are Russians and be- fore the strike were emplpyed in New York Central shops. Théy named Al- essio in their confessions and he ad- mitted knowledge of the plot, accord- ing to the police, but maintained that Uselis, Petrowski and Papourvitch were responsible for the wreck. Taken to the scene of the wreck, Uselis, the police said, described the work of the wreckers in pulling spikes and loosening rails. According to the story of Uselis' confession, he and his companions had attended a meeting of strikers and radicals in Chicago the day before the Gary wreck. A speaker whose name the police sald they have, admonished Uselis and his friends because they nfess P had not “done much to help the Mrlke' along.” Conmgratulated for Work. Uselis and his companion, the al- leged confession went on, talked with the speaker after the meeting, schemed the wreck of the express train, went to Gary that night, and upon their return were congratulated for the work they had done. The plot to wreck the Twentieth Century Limited then, was hatched, according to Uselis' alleged confes- sion, with the idea that a disaster of that magnitude would cause travelers to_fear to ride on trains. Uselis, declared that at the union meet- ing on Saturday a speaker, whose name 1 their allegiance to that party. | | The recorded democratic strength was 305,658, the socialist 22,511 and the ! | prohibitionist 21,250. Those who de- | {clined to state their politcial prefer- ences when registering number 172,- |ing gives more evidence of solidity than ornamentation, both are said to be amply provided for. trance will be on 17th street, with an- other entrance on H street. In addi- The main en- owners have planned the most modern conveniences. Forty-Six Offices Each of the nine upper floors will and the remainder of the total of “miscel- in Sematorship. | Chief Interest The contest attracting chief inter-| lest is that between Hiram Johnson. | incumbent, and C. C. Moore for the republican nomination for senator. | Upton Sinclafr of Pasadena, writer, is | unopposed for the socialist senatorial | nominaton, and the democrats also have a candidate in the field without | opposition. ! The races for the republican guber- | atorial nomination and for the lieu- | tenant governorship on the same' ticket also are receiving much inter- | est. These were contested vigorously | by’ Gov. William D. Stephens and | Friend W.' Richardson, state treas- | urer, and C. C. Young, incumbent, and | Joseph A. Rominger, respectively: Democratic Aspirants. | Maltson B. Jones, Los Angeles at- | torney, and Thomas Lee Woolwine, | district attorney for Los Angeles, are seeking the democratic gnherhamrlal! nomination, and Jones also seeks pro- | hibition indorsement for the office. | Alexander Horr of San Francisco is| unopposed for the socialist nomina- i tion. S. Webb. attorney general and | a republican, is the only candidate | having things all his own way. He | 1is the only candidate seeking noml-] nation to suceeed himself. i The polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. MONTANA VOTERS AT POLLS. | Will Name Cangjdates for U. s. Senator and State Offices. HELENA, Mont., August 29.—Mon- tana voters went to the polls today to nominate’candidates for United States senator, representatives-in two districts and, exclusive of governor, for various state ofices. There were | contain forty-six offices. i floors, he did-mot give althcugh the police are | many candidates for the senatorial said to know it,"did.not instruct him | and congressional nominations, both some of the forty-eight stilllive will endure: tion of the main shaft below the 2,700-foot level had caved in, and workmen could remain at the 2,400- oot level to fight the flames only a few minutes at a time. The trapped men are belleved to be on the 4,500- lower levels. foot AN o erable establishment for firefighting and rescue work has been set up at the 2,400-foot level. Tele- phone linés were repaired and other arrangements made: I NEW PROHIBITION AGENCY. ! ON CONNECTICUT AVENUE e first step toward putting per- { maent, durable surface on the main ! inighways of Washington Was taken by the Commissioners today when they ordered the paving with con-l crete from Newark street to Porter strest. The work will cost approxi- mafely $15,000 and will be done by George B. Mullin Co. » This is in line w:‘n the announced intention of the engineer department: not to'use macadam in the future ex- ( RICHMOND, Va., August 29.—Harry cept for small patch work. After the | B. Smith, pregident of state pro- concrete has given vears ofeffictent | hibition commission for Virginia, has service, it will be covered with as- |been made prohibition director under phalt. the attorney general, the state de-) The Commissioners also awarded apartment of prohibition having been contratl to William S. Cugh to con- | abolished as of September 1. next, by ; tinue the construction ‘of Broad | the last gencral assembly. "Aunounce- Branch (runk sewer on Nevada ave-,ment of the appointment was made nue from Keokuk to Northampton l“" night by ‘Attorney General Jobn street at a cost of $28,000, R. Saunders. and his_three companions to wreck a train, He said the speaker.spoke as follows : “You go to Gary, or somewhere in that neighborhood and jimmy up the track to cause trouble and make it ap- pear that equipment is in bum eondi- tion and that it's dangerous for train crews to ride trains.” Tt was on the day after the wreck, Uselis asserted, that plans were laid for hira and Alessio to go to Elkhart, Ind., next week and seek work if the New York Central shops supposedly as strike breakers in an attempt to derail ,the 20th Century limited. - The arrests, the police “Ueclare, ‘probably prevented fur- ther violence. MUST GO TO GALLOWS. ATLANTA. Augu:%na.‘—cov. Thom- as W. Hardwick y refused to commute the deatli sentence of Frank B. Dupre, Atlanta youth’ convicted of the murder of y C. Walke; ivate detective. is ui " sentence to be han ext Friday, A% the republican and demoecratic races i for the major office having four en- trants. . l One woman and five men are can-| didates in the first congressional; district for thé democratic nomina- tion, gie Smith’ Hathaway of g:eiunlvllls being the woman candi- re. " ‘The republican contest in the sec- ond district has eight men entered for the office to be vacated by Carl Riddick of Lewistown, who is a can- didate for the senatorial nomination. In the first district Washington J. McCormick, incumbent, is opposed by John McLaughlin of Stevensville for e 'republican nomt: on. The lemocratic contest in the second dis- | trict dlso has onjy two candidates. * Polls opened af nobn. The senatorial candidates are: Democratic—Judge J. F. O'Connor of Livingston, Tom Stout, editor, of Lewistown; B. K. Wheeler of Butte, 2 on umin . ! the courtroom was crowded to c The lower according to present will have one large banking room on the corner, and the remaining spac for stores. age of the office space is under lease or under negotiation. The George A. Fuller Company will erect the structure, on which Donn & (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) FIRST BOOKIE GASE 15 UP FOR HEARING Test Being Made to Deter- mine Whether Police Court Has Jurisdiction. Hearing of the first of a dozen or more handbook cases which have a cumulated in the office of the ass ant district attorney of Police Court within the last year was opened to- | day before Judge Robert Mattingly in the United States branch of Police Court. The case is that of Norman S. Bowles, former attorney, who is charged with making a handbook about a year ago. The Bowles cases is d&signed to test whether the Police Court is vested with the jurisdiction to hear or determine such cases. Arguments for the defendant, who is represented by Attorney T. Morris Wampler, are being based on a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Moreland case. 1If the Bowles case is decided‘in his favor, the other defendants in handbook cases -will be taken before the grand jury. Courtroom Crowded. When the Bowles case was called pacity. Many of those in the crowd were attorneys, who are manifesting unusual interest in the arguments of Attorney Wampler. In the Moreland case the United States Supreme Court held that the Juvenile Court, in which this case originated, is not vested with the jurisdiction to hear such cases whére the court, by a jury or otherwise, con- victs a defendant and sentences him to serve time in the workhouse, jail or penitentiary at hard labor. The high court also held that it fs the right_of the defendant to be first in- dicted by the grand jury: TRepresenting the government in the Bowles case are stant Dist Attorneys Frank elly and David Hart. tion to six high-speed elevators the | Each Floor. ® | plans, | Already a large percent- | 1y by the farmers, the laboring peopls | and others in the form of a fax or {food and clothing and other neces | sities. 10 Use “Stolen Millinns.” “Profiteering during the war pro duced one American millionaire fo! | every three American soldiers killec in France. I would like to see the { ®overnment recover the hundreds o { millions of dollars stolen from the | Treasury by the crooks and grafter: who profiteered oft the governmen in war contracts and then use tha | money to pay the soldiers’ bonus. “Then there's another way we car |raise the money. Let's go after the | billions that the foreign govern ! ments owe us, collect the interest : promptly and pay it to our soldiers There is no use disguising the fac! that our international bankers want us to wipe out this foreign debt. It will make their foreign securities that _much stronger. If we decline to cancel this debt these govern ments probably will try to borrow more money from us to pay us what they owe. So far as 1 am concerned 1 will never vote to cancel one dolla {of that debt and I wili never vote o lend another dollar of government funds to any foreign nation Only 55 Per Cent Voted. Senator Capper said the most pow- erful influence against the bonus | was the United States Chamber of ;(‘ommerce. which, he charged, hac taken @/ referendum of its member- {ship not upon the measure before | Congress, but upon a measure of its | own “conrcocting.” ! “Only 55 per cent of the chamber's { membership voted upon the propo- | sition,” he continued, “and a large | proportion of these votes came from {the large centers of industry. I | spite of this, only one propositior | ot of the four recelved less voter |in favér than it did against, and of | the total votes on the four proposi- | tions submitted 4,116 votes were cay |in favor of all propositions to 2.65 against them.” Would Use Debt Interest. Under an amendment by Senato Simmons, democrat, North Carolina the bonus would be made a specific charge against the interest on the | foreign debt. In the event that it lehould prove insafficient at the start | the Secretary of the Treasury would be authorized to issue certificates of indebtedness to be redeemed out of i future Interest payments or frow the sale of the refunded securities receiv- ed from the allied governments. Supporting_the bonus, Senator Colt i republican, Rhode Island, told the | Senatte that “though the pending bil i should fail to become a law ‘the cause | will not die, and In the end the Amer- {ican people will insist upon the pas- sage of a similar measure.” Ceonsideration Near Ead. Senate consideration of the soldiers bonus bill neared an end today, but some senatars doubted that the hope of those in charge of the measure for a final vote before adjournment to- night would be realized. Half » dozen or more amendments remained to be acted upon and, in addition, s number of senators desired to deliver addresses on the bill itself a8 well a: the various changes D; A Amendments included ‘.'#h- McNary $350,000,000 reclamation plan means of raising the necessary funds umm 1) ‘lmc Smoot sales tax proposal as 4 (Continued on Page 2,