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" tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, %, at ended at 2 2 p.m. toda; .m. today: lowest, 66, at WEATHER. Generally fair, without material change in temperature tonight and 6 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 21 ¢ Foen 4 n \ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star. Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press ls exclusively entitled to the use for republieation of al news dispatches credited to it or Dot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news publisbed hereln. All rights of publication of special ¢ dispatches berein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 83,530 ! No. 28,619. - Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. URGES INPEACHING, OFDAUCHERTY AND JUDCE WILKERSON Initiation of Proceedings Ask- ed of Borah by Eastern Strike Leader. UNION OFFICIALS DENY ; POLICY BODY TO MEET Secretary Intimates, However, Shop Creft Heads “Moving East.” Jewell Still Missing. : Y.~September 6.— iation of proceedings for the im- ~ veachment of Attorney General erty and Federal Judge Wil- kerson of Chicago on the grounds that the. strike injunction granted by the latter at the former's request was in violation of the Constitution Wwhs urged on Senator Borah in a telegram , dispatched today by John J. Dowd, chairman of the general strike com- mittee of the eastern railroad shop- men “Thls injunction,” the message con- tinued, “has not only violated freedom of speech assemblage and the press, hut has made the Department of Jus- tice and the federal courts accessories 10 the crime of union smashing which a small group of railroad executives is seeking to perpetrate at the ex- pense of the nation. Such conduct can- not and must not go unrebuked by an outraged people.” Sees Public Support. David Williams, se ary of the committee, declaed in making the ram public that it would have the Jver 100,000,000 people.” believe the Department of 1 even attempt to enforce it,” le continued. “As far as I and the members of this committee are con- support ot w cerned, we are going about our lawful busin s free American citizens, without interference. If there are any process servers on our trail, I haven't » scen them. If I knew where the were I would call a taxicab and present my- for s se Deny Executives to Meet. Railway executives today denied a that a hurry call had been sent out for a meeting of the rail- way executives. Robert S. Binkers, assistant to Chairman Thomas De * Witt Cuyier, said that no Such mieet- ing to be called and that the unfounded report. which originated in Washington, has nothing whatever in the present plans of the executives to support it At the office of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, on behalf of Daniel Willar president, a denial was is- sued today that he or any other rail- road pre )¢ 5 «d with him in the New York ting with the five tral service brotherhood chiefs had conferred with Mr. Jewell or any of the striking shop jeaders since the beginning of the , strike. RUMORS CALLED PLOT. report was Union Official Says Effort Made to Decsive Shopmen. By the Asse ted Press. CHICAGO, September 6.—Union offi- s at the headquarters of the rail- employes’ department of an Federation of Labor, today to deny the published a ‘meeting of the policy had been summoned to neet here tomorrow in_connection with peace moves in the railroad shopmen's strike. Intimation that there possibly would a meeting of union chiefs in the east was given by John Scott, secre- tary of the railway employes' de- partment, but he would give no defi- nite information. Asked if the policy committes men were on their way . to Chicago, Mr. Scott said: ' “They are going the other wa Jewell Still Missing. He said B. M. Jewell, head of the rail mployes' department, had not returned om the ®ast. Mr. Jewell's whereabouts has been a mystery hee the government obtained an injunction 1 Friday against any in- terference e strikers with the railroad s reported that he would arrive at his office today, but Mr. Scott_said he did not expect him. Mr. Jewell is said to have been regis- tered at a Baltimore hotel on Satur- day. Government agents are known to he looking into Mr. Jewell's moves. He has not been served with the notice of the injunction, although papers were left at his office by representatives of the federal mar- shal. Wi Am continued ports that committee b b It Only Shopmen Involved. Mr. Scott, at union headquarters, intimated that the movement of union leaders toward the east in- cluded only heads of the six strik- ing shop crafts. He indicated that no meeting of the full policy com- mittee had been called Inference that Mr. Jewell had been fn conference in Baltimore with Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- timore and Ohio railroad, was con- tradicted by Mr. Willard. U Coupledy with the denial of Mr. Willard thit he had seen Jewell was a statement from J. F. McGrath as- serting that he did not believe the strike leader had been in the vicinity of Baltimore. Rumors “Part of Plot.” Mr. McGrath declared that rumors of a contemplated meeting of the pollcy committee Thursday was a part of a plot to deceive the shop- men. Judge Wilkerson, after dismissing contempt proceedings against three men arrested in Chicago under the injunction, announced he would be absent from his court until next Mon- day, the day set for hearing on the government’s application to make the restraining order permanent. Meantime Attorney General Daugh- erty explained ‘Washington that the government's injunction would not be used to abridge personal lib- erty or to interfere w!*h the freedom of speech or the press. White House spokesmen said the purpose of the injunction was not to endanger con- stitutional rights, but was to prevent interference with transportation. Strike conditions generally were re- ported quiet throughout the country. Two men, said by United States marshals to be striking shopmen, were arrested at Key West, Fla, on charges growing out of the kidnap- idents who had been asso-: the | SHOP CRAFT HEADS MEET EXECUTIVES IN BALTIMORE By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 6.—Seven representatives of the striking fed- erated shop crafts were declared b John Scott, secretary of the railway employes department of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, to be in Baltimore today for a conference with railroad executives on a propo- sition to end the strike. NEW YORK, September 6.—If any conference is being held in Balti- more between striking shopmen and railway heads it involves only a few individual roads and does not look toward settlement of the strike on a nation-wide basis, it was said today at headquarters of the Association of Railway Executives. RAIL INJUNGTION CORED IN SENATE Government Action Arouses Protest by Senator Robinson. UNION CHIEF DISAPPEARS William Johnston Sought in Ef- fort to Confirm Strike Settle- ment Report. ‘The government’'s injunction pro- ceeding in the rallroad shopmen’s strike was flayed in the Senate to- day by Senator Robinson, Arkansas, democrat; was questioned as tto its scope by an Omaha, Neb., federal judge, and was supported by the De- partment of Justice in a day which saw added delay in its enforcement locally. Meanwhile, William H. Johnston, president of the International Broth- erhood of Machinists, one of those at whom the injunction was aimed, dis- appeared mysteriously, following his known presence yesterday in this city. | An interesting phase of local de- | velopments in the strike situation was the statement, from a usually re- liable quarter, that the question as to whether the injunction applied out- side of the federal district over which | Judge Wilkerson of Chicago presides has been raised, and meanwhile there the service of in- on the is a delay over | junctions pending a ruling | question. 3 Marshal Ready to A-t. | The Department of Justice, how- | ever, was represented as going ahead on the strength of its belief that the injunction has national scope, as it | was issued under provisions of the | Sherman anti-trust law. | Whenever the Department of Jus- | tice sees fit to ask United States Marshal E. C. Snyder of this city. to | on Johnston or others no difficulty is anticipated by the marshal in per- forming his assignment, it was sa Senator Robinson, in his speech, sisted that the injunction trans- | States, and violates the Clayton act amending the anti-trust laws. Senator Robinson proclaimed crime, but insisted that “lawiese { courts represent anarchy in its worst form." “This injunction,” said Senator Robinson, “will have the effect of co- ercing the laborers into acceptance of | the labor board's decision when ad- verse to them, and of leaving the rail- roads apparently at liberty to disre- i gard the rulings of the board at will. “The sober, final judgment of the }lawyers of the United States and of citizens generally will condemn this as oppressive and unjust.” Cars in Bad Order. Senator Robinson said that the in- terstate commerce commission had re- ported that one-half of the railway locomotives and cars are in bad or- der. Press reports, he said, are to the effect that the attorney general claims one-half the cars and locomotives have been injured, the implication be- ing that the strikers or their sympa- | thizers are responsible. “It may be that instances have oc- curred,” said Senator Robinson, “where strikers or their sympathiz- ers have deliberately contributed to the impairment of railway equipment, and in all such cases penalties should be imposed with promptness and with firmness. The correct procedure, however, is by indictment and prose- cution, so that the accused may have a trial and pe confronted with the witnesses against him.” On the other hand, Senator Robin- son pointed out the diminution, in the railway repair forces caused’ by the strike and the employment of less skilled workers has caused bad order conditions in many cars and locomotives. He said that every bad order locomotive and car in the pas- senger service menaced the safety of passengers and operators. “Why has no effort been made to enforce safety appliance and inspec- tion laws?" demanded Senator Rob- inson. “The answer, of course, is thaf their rigid enforcement would make more effective the shopmen’s strike and increase the difficulties encoun- tered by the railroads in defeating the strike No other explanation ex- :uu for the failure to enforce these aws. Raps Injuncti “In a manifest effort to end the strike by injunction the Attorney General has prompted the district judge at Chicago to issue an order which is not only plainly in violation of the Clayton act, but which likewise transgresses the Constitution of the United States in the following par- ticulars: “By abridging freedom of speech. “Freedom of the press. “The right of the people peaceably to assemble. “The Chicago federal district court {esuing the injunction has only such powers as are conferred upon it by law. The Congress has not attempt- ed to authorize the federal courts to abridge the privileges mentioned, and could not do so if it tried.” Senator Robinson said that the rail- way employes had the legal right to Strike. He sald further that Congress dollbente|l¥ left (bt’)‘l: u;; {;1‘1‘:.,—. and heir employes at liber serve or :u.,-.gu»d’ decisions of the Labor Board, subject only to the influence of public opinion. fContinued on Page 2, Column 1.) _At the moment when of im-| (Continued on Page fi serve the necessary injunction papers | gresses the Constitution of the United | him- | self an opponent of lawlessness and | WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1922—THIRTY PAGES. : ATTACK ON PORTE FEARED AS GREEK | ROUTISCOWPLETE 10,000 Turk Nationalists Are Preparing for March ! on Constantinople. SITUATION HELD SERIOUS; ALLIED GENERALS CONFER Vanquished Army Reported to Have Only 100,000 Men Left. Further Disaster Threatens. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, August (Delayed).—With the excitement over the Greek threat to invade Constanti- nople barely subsided, a new menace against the capital has arisen. The danger no longer comes from the Greek ' side, but from Ismid, where the Turkish natlonalists, wunder Mustapha Kemal, have concentrated an army of more than 10,000 men whose avowed purpose is to march on Constantinople, drive out the Greeks and claim the ancient me- tropolis in the name of Islam. In anticipation of an offensive by the Kemalists the British are with- drawing all thelr troops from the Chataldja lines, where they recently were sent to keep back the Greeks. and their places will be taken by the French. The British troops will be used to forestall any forward movement by the Kemalists on the capital. Only 100 Miles Awhy. Ismid. which is an important sup- ply base of the Turkish nationalists, is less than one hundred miles from Constantinople, and it is pointed out that the only formidable obstacle the Kemalists would encounter on a march toward the Golden Horn would be the long-range fire of the allied fleet in the Sea of Marmora. The British. French and Italian troops garrisoning Constantinople num- ber only 5,000 or 6,000. Greeks in Utter Rout. PARIS, September 6.—Latest advices | reaching official circles here on the Asia Minor situation declare that all that remains of the Greek army is 100,000 men fleeing in utter rout be- | fore the victorious Turks' nationals, and now les than sixty miles from the Mediterranean. The advices declare it probable that only half that number of Greeks will reach the sea., as organized fighting units of Turks are now within fifty miles of Smyrna and forty miles from | the Sea or Marmora. ! The Turkish advance since the of- fensive was launched ten days ago is stated to be more than 130 miles, which | experts here say is one of the fatest | advances in all the history of wars. | Turk Attacks Repulsed. | | B the Associated Press. et { ATHENS, September 6—Fresh at-| ! tacks by the Turkish nationalists have | been repulsed by the Greeks, who in- | | flicted severe casualties on_ the Kemal- | ists, according to an official commu- | nigue issued last night. The statement says: ““The enemy’s offensive toward Akar- | dag met with stubborn resistance from { X | T (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BIG GOLF MATCH ALL EVEN AT TURN Jones and Gardner in Terrific Struggle—Other Favorites Lead in Tourney. By the Associated Press. BROOKLINE, September 6.—The struggle for advaricement in the sec- ond round of match play in the na- tional amateur golf championship tournament was a keen one today. A few matches reached the halfway mark of eighteen holes with wide mar- gins of advantage. Jesse Sweetser, the metropolitan champion, leading Willie 1. Hunter, former British titlist, by 5 up, was one of these, and Chick Evans’ margin of eight holes on W. C. Fownes, another former champion, was another. But Robert A. Gardner and Robert T. Jones, battling before the biggest gal- lery of the day, first to Jones’ advan- tage, then to Garner's, finished all even at eighteen holes, and “Jimmy” John- ston of St. Paul overcame a two-hole handicap to young “Billy” McPhail of Boston at the ninth, to make it all even on the trip home. Sweetser was fortunate in his match with Hunter. . He holed a mashie shot at the second and at the fifth holed another mashie of thirty yards after a hooked second. Tolley apparently was troubled by the suitry air and the heat, while Aulbach carried his diminutive self better. P ‘Auibach holed three Dutts of more than 25 feet. Tolley's driving, the strongest feature of his play, was off and he topped three times. On the greens he was not strong, his miss of a three-foot putt on the seventeenth allowing -Aulbach to get on ‘even terms. At the eighteenth hole Tolley sliced his drive and then his iron was in a trap. Tolley’s recovery at the eighth was sald to be sensational. His drive was topped and his brassie shot lodged in trees in a difficult je. He grasped his_iron and laid down his ball in wonderful recovery three feet from the pin and putted to halve the hole. This is how the players stood after eighteen holes, the midway mark of t.h; l;f!o;d dny’:( match pla; . T. Jomes, jr., Atlanta, and R. Ihn-.m Glll(un. all even. A mepper, Sioux City, led Francis Ouimet, Bosto: 554 led Cyril J. H. Tolley, British, 1 uj Jesse Guilford, Boston, led Reggie Lewis of Greenwich, 8 up. F. A. Godchaux of New Orleans led G. V. Rotan of Houston, 1 up. * LAFOLLETTE LEADS BY 11150 VOTES Count Little More Than Half Over in Wisconsin Senate Fight. BLOW TO PROHIBITION | Gov. Blaine Shows Decisive Vic- tory Over Two Op- ponents. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., September 6.—| Indications today were that Senator Robert M. la 7] Follette has i1 been overwhelm- ingly renominated in yesterday’s pri- mary election over | W. A. Ganfield of | Waukesha, as re- publican candidate | for United States! senator at the No- vember efection. The vote reporied from 1.415 pre-| cincts out of 2,523 showed 188,096 for | La_Follette and! 76,506 for Ganfield. According to the | returns, it appears that the people of | this_state indorsed the issues which La Follette had advocated at Wash- ington, and upon which he sought re- nomination. These were: Opposition to the Esch-Cummins act, Newber: ism, the four-power treaty, and opposition to the policies of Presi- dent Harding. Lenroot Backs Gaafield. Mr. Ganfield was the candidate of the citizens' republican conference, | which had the backing of Senator Ir- | vine L. Lenroot, Wisconsin's junior senator. He was supported also by | the Anti-Saloon League, which as- serted that the fight in Wisconsin| this year was “the most important wet-and-dry election in the United States.” Mr. Ganfield made more than 300 speeches during the cam- paign, in which he asked La Follette's retirement from public life because, | he said, the senior Wisconsin senator | is an obstructionist in Congress, and | as such is of no use to his state in the upper house. Mr. Ganfield also charged La Follette with being radi- cal in his tendencies. Returns from 815 precincts show that the entire La Follette state ticket decisively overcame its opponents by large majorities, with the exception; of Solomon Levitan, who was leading, in a close race for treasurer against Henry Johnson, incumbent for six suc- cessive terms. Gov. Blaine Leader. Gov. John B. Blaine led the state ticket, his victory being decisive over) Attorney General William J. Morgan. The vote in. 1,289 precincts was: Blaine, 148,328; Morgan, 72,323, and McHenry, 7,887. The Anti-Saloon League indorsed all the candidate opposed to La Follette. Of the present congressmen who sought renomination, H. A. Cooper, in the first; Willlam H. Stafford, in the fifth; J. D. Beck, in the seventh, and E. E. Browne, in the eighth, heve been successful. A close battle developed in the) eleventh district, where Representative A. P. Nelson, one of the Anti-Saloon League leaders in Congress, is run- ning behind H. H. Peavey, a “wet." Representative James A. Frear was unopposed in_the tenth district. The Anti-Saloon League and the Assoclation Against the Prohibition ‘Amendment, Wisconsin Division, took active parts in the congressional cam- paigns. ARENTZ LEADS IN NEVADA. LA FOLLETTE. G. 0. P. Senatorial Primary Re- turns Favor Representative. RENO, Nev., September 6.—Repre- sentative, Samuel S. Arentz had a Jead of sixty-seven votes over Charles S. Chandler for the republican nomi- nation for United States senator early today, when one-fourth of the votes cast in yesterday's primary were counted. About 15,000 votes were cast, divided about evenly between demo- cratic and republican candidates. For the republican nomination for Congress, A. Grant Miller has a lead of 100 votes over Col. C. H. Moore, Senator Key Pittman had no opposi- tion for renomination on the demo- cratic ticket for senator. For demo. cratic nomipation for Congress Archie L. Crgss had a lead of 4,000’ Notes over les L. Richards, Democrat May Take Seat MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND. 100 BLIND ORPHANS TRUDGE IN SAFETY THROUGH TURKEY ALEPPO, Syria, September 6.— One hundred blind chiidren from the American school for the blind in Harpoot have arrived here safely after a 500-mile hike across the Turkish interior, during which they passed through mountains infested with bandits and over long stretches of desert where camels carried water and pro- visions. > The children are from seven to fifteen years of age. Their pil- grimage is part of the plan of e Il l \ the Near East Rellef to remove R several thousand Armenian or- B phans from Asiatic Turkey.' The ¥y journey from Harpoot took a \ month” to_complete. On the last twenty miles the children floated down the Euphrates on barges. They now are housed in the re- established school in Aleppo, which is the capital of Syria under the French mandate. s o uin GOVERNOR QUIZZED BY MAINE WOMEN Baxter, Candidate for Re- election, Shows Stand in Answering Questionnaire. Republicans Expected to Carry All Should Justice Day Resign| it by Substantil Mejoriy Next Monday. Senator Shields of Tennessee Being Mentioned. Obstacle, in Fact, That State Has Representation. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Retirement of Associate Justice | Day from the Supreme Court of the United States, as officially forecast by the White House, will probably mean the nomination of a democrat in his place. Although there is no statute re- quiring the appointments to the Su- preme Court to be evenly balanced between the political parties, most Presidents have followed that cus- tom. There are only two men on the supreme bench now who are not re- | publicans. They are Justice. McRey nolds, who, it is said. departed from the democratic ranks when Mr. Br was a cand ate for Pre ent, istration _as a Justice Brande the democratic p ed in the first W the presidenc: been known publican. Two Recent Changes. The death of Chief Justice White, a democrat, was followed by the ap- pointment of Chief Justice Taft, re publican. ~The resignation of Justice Clarke of Ohio. democrat. has just been followed by the appointment of former Senator Sutherland of Utah. a republican. That's why it is morally certain that Mr. Harding will nominate a democrat to fill at least one of the two places hitherto filled by democrats, and into op- for counsel, b v dev ilson campaign special a progre re- nently Mr. Brandeis had | ! ! i i | | il i | likely who served in the republican admin-| H } his personal relations are pa The name of Senator Shields, demo- | friendly tow. crat, of Tennessee is being |yroml-({;‘r‘“dl) towardidngitennessoctaenn mentioned for the vacancy! ' omj caused by the retirement of Justice } BY N. 0. MESSENGER, Staft Correspondent of The Star. AUGUSTA, Me, September 6.—As next Monday approaches, when the electorate of Maine will go to the polls to vote for United States sena- tor, representatives in Congress, §ov- ernor and other state officers, there is no diminution in these closing days of the campaign of indications of a substantial republican victory on all the tickets, by a majority less than that of the figures of two years ago. The campaign has lacked the vigor and interest of some former contests between the democratic and republican parties for the reason that there are no vital issues at stake. There is, indeed, quite marked apathy in the democratic ranks, and there will be, the leaders here predict, a large stay-at-home vote. The only uncertainty in the equa- tion is the drift of the women's Vote. The indications are that there will be more republican woman vofers than e demoeratic, based on the registration always voted” with the republican |figures, which show apathy among Irreconcilables., the democratic woman voters, espe- State Represented. cially in the French-Canadian and One of the obstaclés to the ap-|Irish communities. JUSTICE DAY. pointment of Mr. Shiclds, however, is 3 . the fact that Justice McReynolds e e Ve hails from Tennessee, ‘and it is mot| But that there will be a heavy that the senators from south- ern states will be content ta see the appointment filled without suggesting candidates of their own and makig3 the point that two men ought not to woman vote, just the same, in the total, is forecast by the interest taken in woman civic organizations, whose efforts are bent along lines peculiar e appointed from a single state. |5 woman's solicitude for health and This circumstance, however, would ; not be as controlling with President | morals. A number of these organi- Harding as another fact, which is|zations recently submitted to Gov. that Mr. Shields is over sixty years | Baxter, candidate for re-election as old—the age limit which Mr. Harding | governor on the republican ticket, a questionnaire to elicit his stand on some measures of legislation deemed of importance by the women espe- cially. The governor found it the part of wisdom to reply to these interroga- tions, and today issued a statement addressed to “the woman voters of Maine.” One of the questions pro- pcunded to him was, “Will you accept the Sheppard-Towner bill (the ma- ternity act) or assure the mothers of Maine of your approval of an appro- priation equal to the five-year money benefits of the bill?” has et for the appointment of new judges. It is true he made an ex- ception in the case of Mr. Taft, but Mr. Harding explained at the time that this was not to be construed as a precedent, but as a peculiar situa- tion affecting the post of Chief Jus- tice. It is doubtful whether Mr. Hard- ing would make another exception in the case of Senator Shields, though ticularly The chances are that Mr. Harding ill not close upon Senator Shields y. Mr. 1ds w ime } 2G4 jus“cf"n‘; O D tions fme o anxbody else as quickly as he did Reply of Governor. Ex on former Senator Sutherland. The S : . E;nnxe)#::{:[‘pnnlndflfl:dl:’:éghl}:rh teemed | jatter's appointment was determinea| In @ previous Qispatoh RL Cwas Hex dent developed his admiration for|UPOn a long time ago and it was ex- plained that the governor and his Mr. Shields while in the Senate. observed that Mr. Shields risked the ' {antagonism of many constituents by departing from the Wi because he sSincerely differed with the former President. Mr. Shields was one of the earliest opponents of the league of nations. and CHASTLETON DEAL FAIR, LAKE AVERS Former Owner, Answering du Pont Suit, Declares Prop- erty Worth $3,000,000. Felix Lake, former owner of the Chastleton apartments at 16th and R streets mnorthwest, today filed answer in the District Supreme Court to the suit of Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont of Wilmington, Del., for the vacating of the sale to her of the apartments at $3,000,000. Mr. Lake denies there was any misrepresentation on his part as to the value of the buflding or as to the actual rentals being re- ceived at the time of the sale last February. Hearing on the application for a receiver for the property and for an injunction against the #fansfer by the Potomac Corporation, which took title to 2,100 acres of land near Great Falls, Md. where a gold-mining operation has been conducted and which figured in part payment for the apartment, was continued today by Justice Bailey until next Monday. Through Attorney W. Gwynn Gar- diner, Mr. Lake tells the court that he never met Mrs. du Pont or her Wilmington attorney and that he accepted & contract signed by Mrs. du Pont through the brokerage firm of W. E. Fowler & Co., and paid the broker $50,000 commission after he had received & letter from Mrs. du Pont refusing to pay any commission on the sale. ~Every opportunity was afforded agents of the purchaser, he says, to hie!(l“ta the value of the property and the income from rentals. An expert on leadership most | He | pected th | 't accountant selected by thel at Justice Day would make the vacancy for Mr. Sutherland. The news about Justice Clarke's desire to leave the bench was unexpected. The President will probably deliberate a long time béfore selecting a successor to Justice Day. (Copyright council had refused to accept Maine's allotment. In his reply the governor avoids alienating the class in the state which opposes federal aid by saying: “As governor, I have advocated, and under the direction of the governor ) and councih there has been taken from the state contingent fund, an RING FIGHTER, FOR | i vuse s Coramn 50 NINTH TIME, TAKES COUNT FROM CUPID Kid McCoy, has taken the count’ of nine from Cupid, it became known to- day, having secured a marriage li- Senator Jones Withdraws Motion to Reconsider Vote on Ball Measure. 1922, cense to wed Mrs. Jacqueline Arthur McDowell of Baltimore. The applica- tion recited that Selby had been mar- ried eight times previously. Mr. Selby said he expected this marriage to be a success. —_— AIR TOUR OF ALPS. Thirty-Two Planes Start in Big Following a conference today with Exhibition. Chairman Focht and Representative BERN, Switzerland,-September 6.— | zihlman, members of the House Dis- Thirty-two airplanes started a flight | trict committee, Senator Jones of around the Alps today in connection | washington withdrew the motion to with the international aviation meet |reconsider the vote by which the at Zurich which opened today. A A lot "took the lead. He was |Senate recently passed the Ball followed by eighteen other Swiss |street railway merger bill. This will airplanes, six French, four Csecho- |have the effect of allowing the bill to go Slovakian and three Polish machines. |to the House, where it will be con- N |sidered by the House District commit- tee. Senator Jones ‘said that he had purchaser was given access to the | peen nrged to withdraw his motion by books of the Chastleton and a report|yr. Focht and Mr. Zihiman, who de- made to mrs. du Pont's agents. Mr.|gired to have the street railway mer- Lake declares he has been reliably ger bill, passed by the Senate before informed that Mrs. du Pont sought in- | their committee in the hope that the dependent advice from one of the|committee after amending the meas- leading trust companies of Wash-|yre would be able to report it out ington and from one of the lead-|gng get action on it in the House. ing national banks as to the market- X Amendment Promixed. able and rental value of the Chastle- ton before closing the sale. e Lake asseris that the building | Assurances were given Senator Jones is worth the price and that he re- |that a merger bill would not be report- fused an offer at that figure shortly |ed to the House from the House Dis- before receiving the du Pont offer |trict committee without it having been because the sale was not all cash. He | amended so as to provide for an excess says he sold his interest in the gold- | p: tax on the street railways, in ac- mining property April 14 last and now ce wih the plan advocated by has no interest in’ that property or |Senalor Jones. A bill providing for the in the Potomac Corporation, in the profits tax and authorizing a name of which the title stands. . er is now on the Senate calendar, The court is asked to discharge the {35 or Jones said today that that rule as to @ receiver and to dismis: 8 the bill which the Senate should ihe pegition of Mrs.. du Pont to rescin passed instead of the ome upon: the et b5 -t tools action. G. 0. P. VICTORY CERTAIN! TWO CENTS. STO0MOTAX VALUE 1S PLACED OND. . PROPERTY Record Amount Added to Rolis for New Buildings and Additions. $9,450,000 IN REVENUE TO BE COLLECTED HERE Figures Larger This Year Because of Full Valuation Law. The total full value assessment real estate in the District of Colum- bia for purposes of taxation during this fiscal year will be in round num- bers $727,000,000, Assessor William I* Richards announced today after a check of the new ledgers. The new tax rate of $1.30 per $100 of assessed value applied to this as- sessment will produce approximately $9,450,000 in real estate taxes this year. The new assessment figure an- nounced today is made up of two items—old property and land, $708 000,000, and property added to the sessment books during the past year. $18,954,635. New Valuation Record. This is the largest amount ever added in one year for new buildings and additions. Last year new prop- erty was assessed at $9,339,000. It must be remembered, however, that that figure represented a two-thirds value. Congress, in passing the new appro- priation act, directed the Commis- sioners to assess property at full value for taxation purposes. If the old rule had remained in effect the new property added this ygar would have amounted to $12,636/423, on a two-thirds value. Taking them at full value, the new structures and addi- tions came to $18.554,635. A staff of clerks in the assessor's office is now busily engaged in the preparation of this yvear's tax bills, and they will be ready for property owners to call for them carly in Oc- tober. Two Tax Payments. Taxes this year must be paid in two equai _instaliments—half in November and the balance in May. A table prepared by Mr. Richards today shows how Washington has been gradually recovering during the past few years from the building slump which occurred in 1915-1916, just before this country entered the war. . In 1911 new structures erected were valued at $10, t down gradually to $5,582.269 in 1915. 1In 1918, the vear of the armistice, new building projects went up again o a total of $8.934.400. In 1919 there was another drop to $6,214,220. From that time to the present the trend has continued upward. AGREEMENT 1S NEAR T0 RESTORE FRANCE Likely to Accept Plan to Rebuild Regions With German Materials. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 6.—An agree- ment for the restoration of France's war-devastated region utilizing chiefly German mater came up for consideration today before the special governmental committee charged with consideration of de- liveries of merchandise by Germany. The plan has been under negotia- tion at a series of conferénces be- tween Hugo Stinnes, German indus- trial magnate, and Senator de Luber- sac, president of the Federation of Co-operative Societies of the French kberated regions, representing 130,000 persons with war losses aggregating more than 13,000.000.000 francs. The negotiations were held under the sanction of the French gzovern- ment, which is expected soon to give final ‘approval. Advices from Germany indicate that the agreement is also meeting with approval there, as it promises to in- sure steady employment in many lines, at the same time applying on the reparations bill. RESCUE WORKERS WITHIN 24 HOURS OF BURIED MINERS JACKSON, Calif, September 6.— The fate of forty-six miners en- tombed by fire since a week ago Sun- day night in the depths of the Argo- naut gold mine here probably will be known within the next twenty- four hours, it was predicted today as rescue crews tunneling toward the imprisoned men were nearing their goal. Opinion was divided as to whether the men still were alive. Belief thst the men had not per- ished was revived yesterday when rescue workers had heard what sounded like blasing signals emanating from far down in the Argonaut shaft. As the work of excavation from the adjoining Kennedy mine toward the subterranean vault where the men were entrapped was nearing an end, preparations were under way for the task of bringing out the living or the dead. ranged with forty-six men. —_— THREE DIE IN VOTE WAR. Political Feud Breaks Out at Polls in Texas Town. HOUSTON, Tex., September 6.— Three persons were killed, pne shot and another stabbed last mnight at Sealy, Austin county, Tex., as the re- sult of a political feud between two familles. The feud was fought out on the main strget of Sealy. - Hospitals are being ar- accommodations for