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tonight, with frost. ended at 2 p.m. today: H 2 pamn. yesterday; lowest, a.m. today. Ful_report on page 23. WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; Temperature for twenty-four cooler hours ighest, 76, at 48, at 6:30 l Closing N. Y. Stecks and Bonds, Page @ No. 28,661 Enterel as second-class matter rost office Washington, D. «. STRANGE WOMAN - OF SILENGE FAGES RECTOR'S WIDOW . May Hold Key to Double Murder Mystery, Authori- ties Indicate. STARES AT MRS. HALL UNDER EXAMINATION Attorney Describes Experiences of Client and Others of Family. BY DAN RING. Statff Corr The Star. SW BRU N. J., October 18 —A woman, :he prosecu:or to hold a key to one gate that guards the many paths of mystery in the Hall-Mills murder ase, sat quietl® in the rear of the courthouse room while Mrs. Edward Wneeler Hall, widow of the slain rec- tor, walked back and forth, clad in el she wore on the night d and his choir leader were SWICH womarn said nothing. She just 1c at Mrs. Hall and made no comment. Mrs. Hall had been re- quested to take off her hat and don <he wore on the gedy. Attorney Tim- N. Preiffer, retained by Mrs. to protect her interests. reported n what his client had told him of her interv with the prosecutor. Tie to ques m with ry ratherers hour. inter an e suaid to have effer said that he wouid re- 1a, what took and her iwo questioned. Handkerchiefs Inspected. Henry Stovens was asked as to the type of his handkerchiefs. He pulled two out of his pocket. One had no initials. the other had the initial “S. Later he discovered that the non-ini- taled one was a handkerchief which ha had purchosed one day when he un short of the commod Incident- | Wiy, there has been @ rumor running nd here that the authorities -hav 1 handkerchiets, found o y_some one whose name Ir. Ificffer denied that f was suown Stevens very litt'e time. com- d the door with the < was also true in the Stevens. Both were aionz the same line been 15 previous ex- they had aminatior Mrs. 1211 was quizzed at jenzth. point in the questioning. was the quizzing as to Di She W w of his having one. She denied <. She went further and denied knowledge of him ever possessing any reyolver at all. Hall, it 3 was sald by her at- torn, At t S point was in mation regarding the silent woman. ‘Some woman was ushered into the roan d Mr. Pfieffer. “Mrs. Hall was requested to take off her hat nd put n th wom room from say nothing. Coat Not One Dyed. The coat that Mrs. Hall wore was not the one which had been sent to Philadelp to be dyed. That was irely different garment, Mr. Pfie said, Questioned Hall' on right of s sat at the other end of the the rray coat she wore ptember 14. The Alrs. Hall heard her “n directly as to Mrs. f in the letters reported 1 written by her husband, id: in_Dr. Hall's integrity She still believes in e is unshaken. R ad_her to believe that the tributed to him are genuine. seem, however, to be in milar to that of handwrit Dr. Hall He declared that she was absolutely not hostile to Mrs Milis, but that, a8 s the case with m ve in churc she was ame into iendly with her when contact with her in dently believed by | 2-caliber re-: whether she | uspects no one of the crime. | ed the infor- | of the women | in Dr. Hall's | ]247 Passengers | Rescued From Stranded Liner By the Ansaciated Press, ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, October ! 18.—All the :47 passengers have been safely transferred from the | Clyde steamer Lenape to the steamer Arapahoe and efforts to { float the Lenape, which went aground yesterday, are continu- ing, according to the United States wireless station at Anas- tasia Island. Two large lighters have arrived to assist in the operation and a large tug has been requested. BEWARE TANMANY, 15 0.P. WARNING i.lersey Candidates Flaunt Specter of Boss Murphy | Before Voters. WET ISSUE A BUGABOO Democrats Expect to Garner Many 3 Ballots by Opposing Dry Law. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Staft Correspondent of The Star. TRENTON, N. J.,, October 18.—An |issue which the republicans are ! seeking to raise in New Jersey Is the | alleged intent of the democrats to | “Tammanyize” t! state. The demo- crats have a new boss In Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, who, it charged, Is seeking to extend his Tammany model machine to the state and ultimately. it is asserted, to con- trol the congressional delegation 1o Washington. It may be remembered by habitual addicts of the political {columns that in a mayoralty cam- | paign in Greater New York several years ago. when Tammany was mak- |ing its fisht for the citv hall, all | Brooklyn was stirred by the charge that Boss Murphy was trying to con- trol the City of Churches. Horriic placards were posted, showing tne | fearsome Tammany tiger, with a red | light hung around its neck, stealthily stealing across the Brooklyn bridge. i “Don't let the tiger cross” was the war cry of the opposition. . Now they picture the tiger crouch- ing through the Hudson tube, con- | necting New Jersey and New York, descriptive of the reputed intention ! of the democrats to extend Tammany ‘methods to the control of New Jersey politics. Woof! It is to shudder. One thing which is worrying the | republicans a good deal {s not only | the practical certainty that they will !lose several congressional districts ' but the possibility that they ma: part with others, whose loss could inot be excused on the ground of a jreturn to democratic normalcy. { Wet Issue Important. i Pis The wet issue, 80 joyfully espoused by the democrats and so enthusiasti- cally acclaimed in the cities and large towns by the working classes, 18 ex- i pected to figure in the election of candidates for the House of Repre- Sentatives as well as for the senator- ship and the governorship. The republicans will probably lose the third district. In 1916 the repub- licans carried it by 200. The demo- crats captured it by 2,000 in 1918 and in the landslide of 1920 the repub- licans swept it by 27.000. The eleventh. in the northern part |of Hudson county, which has been alternately democratic and republican ! in past years, is expected to go demo- | eratic this time. ‘Two districts in Newark, the eighth and ninth. now republican, are re- garded as doubtful. In the eighth the democrats have nominated an_ ex- service man, Warren E. Coon, who is In the ninth, repre- { very popular. sented by Gen. Wayne Parker, there | | is a large negro vote, which, it is said, ! has beeen alienated by Gen. Parker's | opposition to the Dyer anti-lynching bill. In the Trenton district it is thought that Hutchinson, republican, will win, : has no information which , aithough there is discernible a great | i deal of radicalism among the indus- itrial voters, which.ls worrying the leaders. The Camden and Atlantic | City districts are counted by the re- { publicans as safe, and also the Plain- :fleld and Elizabeth districts. Feud Splits Democrats. The Paterson district s fighting ground for both parties, the demo- church work. crats being handicapped by a feud (_This int r\imw w!‘n-.t MF' P;l‘bfl’or :as f between the Edwards faction and the e outstanding point of a heavy day Pl Eetinty-tive newopapey | OPPOsition. The sixth district, Gergen men are on the case here. jand Warren countles, although it Information indicates that the| gave the republicans 28,000 plurality connty prosecutors do not regard the | two years-ago, is not regarded as Qay in the light of a disappointment. | (ool for them this year. The sentiments of authorities are | deseribed as “sanguine” and mystert. | The legislature is expected to con- busly there has crept into the air tinue republican, but by less ma- an indefinable feeling that the big |JOKity than now obtains. news wiil break before another week is turned over on the calendar. Dr. Hall's Letters Awaited. ecutor Beekman today was waiting for«.Miss Florence North to return the Leen written by Dr. Hall to Mrs. tils, which she sold to a New York paper. She declared yesterday she entered the case from a fiered her services to Charlotte Mills, aughter of the murdered woman, hout expectation of a fee. he admitted she sold the letters which gave the public eye an insight into the character of the mother of her client. sixteen year-old Charlitte. She sald it was with Charlotte's onsent that the letters were sold. «nd that jhe money received In the transaction would be put into a fund for her client. VALUED GEMS IN OYSTER. Two Pearls Enrich Veteran Opener of Bivalves’ Shells. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., October 18.— Albert Franks, proprietor of an oyster house, has released thousands of bi- valves from their shells in the many vears he has been in business, but not until last night did he find a pearl. Then he found two large ones. Estimates as to their value vary, but it is generally agreed that Franks could close his establishment. _ ®o to Palm Beach for the winter and still call it a profitable season. His father related how he had been in the oyster business for fifty years but found only one pearl, smali and jmperfect, in all that time, S letters allesed to have | irely humanitarian standpoint, and | | The upper branch cannmot, in the { circumstances, be lost to the repub- licans, for if the democrats should elect their candidate in each district where new senators are to be chosen they would still lJack a majority. The present complexion of the legislature Is forty-five republicans and fifteen democrats in tke house and sixteen | republicans and five democrats in the senate. In 1920 President Harding's plurality in the state was 354,654, In the election for the legislature in 1921 this vote showed a falling off in percentage of the total vote cast for the republicans. It cannot be |taken as a_ basis for hope or com- parison in the present campaign. Republican “Nerves.” Some of the republican leaders ap- pear at this time to be suffering from a case of nerves. It is the unknown and invisible menace in life that usually terrifies more than the ob- vious peril, and in this case it is the extent of the “wet” sentiment among the voters which causes uncertainty. The _republicans, as has been pointed out in previous dispatches, believe down in their hearts that the 1 last word expression at the polls will voice the preponderance of “dry” sentiment, and give them a majority on the tickets for United States sen- ator and governor. They have their | bad days when their faith is weak- ened by outward demonstrations to the contrary, the result belng to stimulate tiem to renewed activity. Oldtimers among political observ- ers say that experience shows that the best thing for the republicans in the course of a campaign is to get good and scared along toward the end. It perks them up powerfully by election day. . 2 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION — ¢ Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1922—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. as the papers “From Press to Home Within the Hour” . The Star’s carrier system covers every city block aud the regular edition i delivered to Washington homes as fast || are printed. | Yesterday’s * Circulation, 90,735 TWO CENTS. DRASTIC SKATIG AND SPEED CURB PLAN OF OYSTER Would Hold Autos to Twelve Miles an Hour and Ban Children. TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS l FIRST TO BE WATCHED Commissioner Considers Action ' Necessary in Making Streets Safe. Two drastic steps are being consid- ered by Commissioner Oyster to make the streets of Washington safer. They are: That the speed limit for automobiles be reduced from elghteen to twelve miles an hour, and that roller skating in the streets be prohibited. The Commissioner said he would arrange today to have members of the motor corps of the Home De- fense League take a count of vehicles that exceed the present speed regula- tions to find out to what extent the existing rules are Iznored. Capt. Oyster sald he had not dis- cussed the question of reducing the speed limit with the other Commis- sloners as yet, but that he is turning the matter over in his own mind. The present resulation provides that a machine may go twenty-two miles an hour in outlying sections where there are not more than two houses in a block, eighteen miles an hour in the remainder of the city, twelve miles an hour at intersections and six miles an hour across sidewalks, Few Observe 12-Mile Law. Commissioner Oyster declared that comparatively few motorists observe the twelve-mile limit at intersections. He will ask the members of the motor corps to take a count of the number of violations of that rule. “If motorists would adhere to the twelve-mile limit at crossings I do not believe cighteen miles would be too fast between intersections,” the | Commissioner said. “But observa- { tions made in the past in; majority of drivers.” Capt. Oyster made it plain that he {has not made up his mind definitely ito recommend a twelve-mile limit j to the Commissloners, und added that he is always open to suggestions as to the best course to purspe in re- ducing accidents on the highways of the city. Next to failure to slow down at in- | tersections, the Commissioner sald, the most dangerous practice of motorists is the careless use of glar- ing headlights in the city proper. Plan for “Skating Streets.” In connection with his suggestion that children be prohibited from skat- ing in the streets, the Commissioner {is consldering again the advisability hours. ‘William F. FEam, chairman of the public safes committee of the ifor a conference of the trade and {civic organizations to discuss the { problem of street safety from every {angle, to be held in the boardroom of | the District building at 4 o'clock the | afternoon of October 26. j Mr. Ham was authorized to call such |a conference at a meeting of his com- mittee in the rooms of the chamber yesterday afternoon. The chairman of the committee said he had no defi- inite program to recommend to the | conference. “The idea is” Mr. Ham continued, “to get these interested organiza- tions together and determine upon | the best way to approach this ques- tion of reducing accidents. “Of course, we are in favor of a Safety First week. but look upon that more as a means to the end rather than the end itself. Another sugges- tion made vesterday was that we form a Washington branch of the National Safety Council. To Discuss Check-U Harry Allmond, secretary of the Home Defense League, told Commis- sioner Oyster today he would have officlals of the league call at the District building this afternoon to discuss the proposed check-up of au- tomobiles that exceed the present speed regulations. It is probable that the Commission- er's tuture course of action will be guided largely by the conditions as reported by the motor corps men. FASCISTI-COMMUNISTS’ ROW AT PARMA BLOODY City, Held by Alleged‘Boluhevht Gang, Is Virtually in State of Siege. By the Associated Press, ROME, October 18.—Disorders, the outgrowth of the animosity between the fascisti and the socialists and com- . munists, are taking place in the princi- pal centers of the country. At Parma an entire quarter of the city is said to be in the hands of an alleged bolshevist gang. The city is virtually in a state of siege. Reports from Parma say that inter- mittent rifle firing and explosion of bombs In the affected district can be heard. Armored cars are being used by the carabineers and royal guards, who are attempting to separate the opposing factions. The reports say many per- sons have been wounded, among them members of the carabineers and royal guards. —_— ENGLAND PROTESTS U. S. CONTINUING DRY RAIDS State Department Receives Com- munication on Operations Out- side Three-Mile Limit. By the Associated Press. A protest against continued seizure of British vessels by prokibition’ agents operating outside the three- mile limit was presented to the State Department today on behalf of the British government, icate that | the siow-down rule is ignored by a| of designating certain unfrequented | streets for skating during specified | | Chamber of Commerce, has arranged | ENTRY OF TURKS ] BARRED BY ALLIES) Order Keenly Disappoints Constantinople, in Gala Attire for Event. BRITISH NAVY TO ACT i Will Stop All Ships Carrying Na- tional = Police—French Had Sanctioned Plans. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPEE, - Octobér 18— The allied missions reached an unani-| mous decision today forbldding the | Kemalist gendarme destined fori Thrace to enter Constantinople. The British navy has been ordered to stop all vessels bearing Turkish national police. The order produced keen disap- pointment among the exuberant Turkish population which had made preparations on a vast scale to wel- come the Kemalists. Constantinople has been donning its gayest dress for the reception ot the Turkish nationalist gendarmerle. Triumphal arches were erected all along the railroad, immense colored lithographs of Mustapha Kemal dis- i played and the whole city festooned with flags and evergreens. Sanctioned by French. The French and Italian high com- missioners sanctioned the Kemalist entry into the capital, but the British commissioner held his deoision In abeyance. Turkish patriotic societies chartered excursion boats to escort the transperts carrying the national- ists across the Bosphorus. The Turkish population has believ- ed that the entry of the gendarmerie would mean the beginning of formal oc- cupation of the capital by the Kemal- ists. The Christians viewed the mat- ter with some apprehension, but the allies reassured them, explaining that the real occupation will not take place until final peace is ratified. Meanwhile, the wholesale exodus of Greeks and Armenians continues. ANl Capitulations to Go. Hamid Bey, the nationalist repre- sentative, in an interview declared that all the European capitulations: will be abolished if the Kemalist de-! mands are approved at the general | peace conference. “All the old. treaties are null and void and the peace conference will have a clean slate,” he sald. “We pro- pose to build on an entirely new. foundation all conventions relating to our contracts with the western world. | We have no objection to President Wilson's fourteen points, the modern ! principies Of _na 1103, or viner large ideas -which have been pro- claimed in the past few years as part of the new gospel of international law, but, on the other hand, we shall demand extension to Turkey of all the elementary rights of a soveriegn (Continued on Page Z, Column 2.) Daily Shopping Guide The advertising columns of The Star are of service to the public and .the merchant. The store news in The Star is so clean and dependable that it is the veritable daily shopping guide for all Washingtonians. VYesterday’s Advertising of Local Stores Lines, The Star................39811 2d newspaper..... ..:25461} 3d newspaper..... ...12,519; 4th newspaper. 5th newspaper .. 2,387 ‘The latest newspaper census shows that the circulation of The Star in the Homes of Wash- ington is practically double that of its nearest cotemporary. 150 Thefts in 2 Years Confessed By Jailed Sisters By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif,, October 18.— Mrs. Minnie Darrington and Mrs. Gertrude Styles, sisters, under ar- rest here today in connection with a robbery, admitted, according to the police, that they were impli- cated in 150 robberies in the San Francisco bay district in the last two years. According to the police, the young women said “the game was fascinating and we needed the money.” Both have children. Two automobile loads of property were found in tWéfr homes. The value is estimated at §10,000. WITH GEORGIA RACE Nominated for U. S. Senator With 304 of 402 Possi- bie Votes. HARDWICK FAR BEHIND Gets But 76, With Wright Obtain- ing 22—Cooper Completely ‘Whitewashed. 5 By the Associated Press. 3 ATLANTA, Ga., October 18.—Waliter F. George, former justice of the state! supreme court, with a total of 304 county unit votes, was overwhelm- ingly nominated as candidate to be- come successor to the late Unitea | States Senator Thomas E. Watson in yesterday's special democratic pri- | mary, according to complete unotficial returns compiled by the Atlanta Con- | stitution today. The victory of George marked the second defeat of Gov. T. W. Harad: wick within as many months, and. according to political observers, i showed that the Watson block of voters, estimated at 50,000 at full strength, remained intact and voted almost solidly for the former court Justice. Hardwick Way Behind. Of the 160 counties in the state, George carried 125, giving him 96 more convention votes than required for nomination, according to the Con- stitution's compilations. Gov. Hard- wick carried 28 counties, with 76 unit votes; Seaborn Wright, 7 coun- ties. with 22 unit votes, and John R. Cooper, none, the newspaper's figures showed. Definite reports of the popular vote in 71 counties gave George 27,914; Hardwick, 19,026; Wright, 7,063, and Cooper, 400, it was stated. Election Held Certatn. C. E. McGregor, who, as Watson’s spokesman, a short time before the latter's death spoke throughout the state in opposition to the renomina- tion of Hardwick as governor, was nominated state pension commis- sloner over a fleld of four other can- didates, according to the Constitu- tion’s returns. The state democratic convention meets in Macon October 28 to con firm the results of yesterday's pri mary. The convention nominations are considered equivalent to election in the general election November 7. iRISH IRREGULAR FORCE STORMS POSTS AT SLIGO Strong Detachments Assault Jail, Courthouse, Ulster Bank and Town Hall. LONDON, October 18.—Strong bodles of Irish irregulars attacked the na- tional posts in Sligo last night and vee 9,364 tnis morning, including in their as-| saults the' jail, the courthouse, tg Ulster Bank and the town hall, say: & Press Association dispatch from Beltast. The din of rifle and machine gun fire and the exploding of bombs was terrific. Some of the principal thoroughfares were riddled with bul- lets. Many of the inhabitants, who were asleep in their beds, had narrow gscapes, concludes the -dispatch. P.O.SafeBlown, NOVe ELECTIONS Colonial Beach Approximately $1,000 in stamps, money and liberty bonds w23 r2- cured Ly robbers who “blew” the safe in the post office at Colonial Beach, Va., at an early hour to- day. Local postal officials have been notified, and will send an in- spector. About $800 in stamps and $100 in cash was taken by the thieves. In- cluded in the booty was a regis- tered letter containing liverty bonds to the value of $100, bring- ing the total to $1,000. Postmaster Robert T. Montgom- ery said that he had no clue as to the fdentity of those who entered the office, having early given up what he believed might lead to the solution of the robbery, when he discovered that an abandoned automobile near the post office be- longed to some hunters. PRESIDENT WARNS AGAINST GROP CUT| Tells Wallace Union of Farm- ; i ers to Boost Food Prices Calamitous. LETTER IS READ IN OHIO! 30000 LEEION NE INANNUAL PARADE {Dead Comrades Saluted in| ! Big Demonstration at | New Orleans. i {Says Administration Has Done Much to Help Agriculturist Get Back to Normalcy. It would be a real calamity if the farmers should unite to bring about a diminution of production, such as would force famine prices, President Harding said, in a letter to Secretary Wallace of the Depariment of Agri culture, which was read by the Sec. retary during an address today at Washington Courthouse, Ohio. The President sald a farmer had told him recently that farmers could themselves rchabilitate agriculture | promptly if they would unite on at program of reduced production. Among the world's industries, that B of agriculture has been most rapidly Southerner Enters List to Succeed | rchabilitated since the war, the : President said. He congratulated th- | ! MacNider—Bonus Is | farmer on' his leadership in bringing Issue. HOT FIGHT FOR OFFICERS | the world back to normal conditions | and declared that the farmer would | get substantial recognition of what | he needs. The text of the President’s letter | tollows: “My dear Secretary Wallace: 1 am giad you mentioned at the jcabinet meeting this morning that you were going out to Washington | Courthouse, Ohio, to.address a farm- | ers’ gathering there. I am going to | ask you to convey my greetings to | the meeting, in which I know there | will be a good many of the friends {LEANS, October 18.—The American | Legion, foliowing a brisk business | session today, paraded this afternoon. {More than 30.000 men “fell in” for ! the parade, and the brisk autumn !air, & contrast to the balmy weather $1,000 T aken,at | | ARE GIVEN ONE BIG FEDERAL WORKERS WELFARE BUREAU Sherrill to Co-Ordinate Ali Departments Under One Head and Enlarge Work. PHYSICIANS AND NURSES FOR ALL U. S. BUILDINGS Rest Rooms, Libraries and Athletic Fields to Be Given Those Who Labor for Uncle Sam. All government welfare bureaus in Washington have been combined into one department and placed under the di ion ef Col. C. O. Sherrill, super- ndent of public buildings and crounds, under an order issued by Secretary Weeks of the War Depart- ment, Under Col. Sherrill's direction this service is to be ma self-supporting and will be rapidly extended so that every zovernment building «n Wash- ingion soon will e airactive rest rooms, libraries, resident nurses and medical = ants for the benefit of federal emy In addition,” Col. Sherrill plans to take over :ii concess rented out to priv suteresis in Washingion's parks use the profits to help maintain the comprehensive welfare ser. i fit of gover be done gradually in order 10 save the holders of these concessions from financ.al losses. To Pay Own Way. Heretofore there has been only War Department welfare bureau, direction of Mrs. Olive Ross. charge o while werrill effect complete re- organization and eet ) a staff of ver, he is conducting an in to determine the imme- eds of such a service so thar ney will not be impaired at T Under the new order all government cafe: rias will come under the Inter- deparunenial Weifare Service, as the organization i to be known. The s from se paces will also be used to defray the expenses. Hereto- fore Congress has been calied upon to pay part of the expenses, but this sp- propriation will be discontinued in the future. Col. Sherrill intends to provide cheerful recreation rooms for ail gov- ernment empioyes. He will also pro- vide them with nurses and physicians to whom they may go for advice or actual assistance shouid they become ill while on duty. The service will go even further and provide workers to call on government employes who be- come il and havé to remain at home to sce that they are being accorded Proper treatment. “Many times our emploves who be- come ill don't know what on earth of thc first two days of the conven- tion, lent added zest to the event. It was a day to make one throw cut his chest and step out proudly, and the buddies, after a night’s sleep, | apparently were as full of “sip” as ever and in their regular spirit— “rarin’ to go.” Through miles of narrow, stone paved streets, down the broad con- | course of Canal street, winding in {and out along the tortuous courses {of the “Vieu Carre” (old town) es- | founders of New Orleans, the vet- erans of 1918 marched. Fluttering bravely in the autumn air, borne by the men who carried them to victory four years ago, went i the national colors, flanked by the | silken colors of legion posts from very state in the Union, from Alaska, Hawali, the Panama Canal Zone, Porto Rico. the Philippine Islands, Great Britain, Africa and China. Campaign for Commander. Today's business session was slow in getting under way, as has been the case ever since the convention opened. The announcement by Alvin M Owsley of Texas that he would accept he nomination of the national com- mandership, if it were offered him, | appeared to be crystalling the senti- ment of the south. { Mr. Owsley, a former attorney gen- | eral of Texas, and chairman for two | years of the Americanization commis- sion of the legion, brought in a re- port this week, as spokesman of the | tablished by the Spanish and French: | i commission, in which it was declared | cymstances of their industry. 1 to do with themselves.” Col. Sherill 1 have so greatly prized. | said. “They are living away from Tribute to Wallace. | home and have no one to take care “It you, Mr. Secretary, were mot of Uhem. It is our purpose 1o hav e | competent members of the inter-de- going to be present at the meeting. | ;- mental welfare bureau who will I should feel freer to say what is in ! cail on tiem and make sure they my mind. Your well known modesty | are comfortably fixed.” causes me to hesitate in paying my | ALhctics Wil be provided for those tribute to the service you have ren- crciging Tennis. bLasket ball and dered to American agriculture since other outdoor games will be made vou have been at the head of the. €asily available to the government ; = ie | employes. Other de are to be department. But even at the risk ,4jed s the organization becomes ! of embarrassing you. I am going 1o . perfected. say that the department, in the past two years, has rendered a particular- 1y notable service along a somewhat new line. “There was a time when the De: ‘ “ FORGOLF CROWN ducing constantly larger and larger ! production from the farmers, rather | regardless of the quesiions ruet District Champion Turns In Lowest Score for First Round in Title Play. and marketing, of transportation. of | financing and other things of that| sort. Latterly we have come upon | a time when these other questions demand attention, and 1 think the! country owes a great deal to the| fact that we have had a mnew di- rection given to important activities of the department. 1 mean that ! these broaler questions have been given a_consideration and attention which formerly was not always | recognized as due to them. FWVORIE Bem Kty Guy M. Standifer, the District cham- “The other day a farmer said to|pion, led a field of nearly fifty golfers me that the farmers could them-|in the first round of the District cham- selves rehabilitate agriculture very ! pionship today over the course of the promptly if they would just unite on Columbia Country Club, with 2 scor: a program of reduced production. |of 79, r; rgeplged that the farmer would F:’mllr, strglgefrb‘y;( nrb"-m"d'd"é were never unite on such a program be-| . Dunthy of Columbia and George s Voight of Potomac Park, with cause of the pecular cconomie celr-i ras of 83, Albert R McKenzle of Columbia was next, with 85, a shot Every | that a deliberate effort was being | farm js an economic energy by itself. | jmade to inject a pro-German account { Every farmer is a captain of indus- of the world war into the text books | try, “The elimination of competition | in_many parts of America. among them would be imposs ble | The report also contained a decla- | without sacrificing that fine individ- | ration for total exclusion of immi-|yalism that still keeps the farm the| grants from the United States, and |real reservoir from which the nation asserting again the stand of the le- | draws so m:ny of the finest elements gion in opposition to the recognition | of its citizenship. by this government of soviet Russia.| «Moreover, it would be a_calamity The “bonus” convictions of as- |if the farmer should unite in such a pirants for the honor of national {giminution of procuction as would ahead of Miller B. Stevinson of Co- lumbia, at 86. ‘The scores this morning were un- usually high, due to a gale of wind which swept the course. Standifet’s 79 was considered remarkably good golf under the prevailing weather comditions. Forty-Eight Seek D. . Title. Forty-eight of the leading amateur golters of the District of Columbia, commander are subject to consider- able scrutiny by many of the dele- gates, it is reported. Maj. Allison Owen of New Orleans, was marshal of the parade. Leading the parade was the “guard of honor,” comprising four men each from the !Navy, Army, Marine Corps and Na- tional Guard. Passing a cenotaph In front of the customhouse, in Canal street, the marchers honored their dead, 'com- memorated by the monument. Bands were silenced, and the dead saluted. D. C. LEGION IN LINE. Bands Compete for Prizes in An- nual Parade. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW ORLEANS, October 18.<~Mem- bers of the District of Columbia del- egation to the leglon convention were in uniform, headed by the George Washington Post Band, early this afternoon, and the Vincent B. Costello Post Drum Corps was hold- ing a prominent position In the line of march for the big parade. Both the band and the drum corps are com- peting for prizes today, this being an jannual event. | A feature of the opening session | this morning was the recitation by Charles B. Hanford of “The Star | Spangled Banner,” in the presence of the largest gatbering since the con- vention opened Monday. Hanford is commander of George Washington Post, No. 1, the pioneer post of the American Legion, and is one of Amer- ica's foremost Shakespearean actors, q . 1 i l amine prices, or something ap- o imate o them, The world can et along without a good many other Phings, but it cannot get along with- out the products of the farm. including four past champions and the present titlcholder, today began the seventy-two-hole medal play com petition for the District golf cham- s e, pionship over the course of the Co- On Way to X H { lumbia Country Club. Two rounds of «It 1s rather a striking fact that eighteen holes cach were played to- 3 with two more rounds eched- among the world’s industries that of| .; for tomorrow, the player with agriculture has been most rapldly re-| the lowest score for the seventy-two v i holes to be the champion. habilitated sinco the s T:c Sror ] “Columbia is in top-notch shame for statistics of the world for the past| .’ cnampionship, as it usually is two seasons are proof of this. We! ot this time of year, but, notwith- ttribute it to that very indi-!standing the excellent condition of el el ' | the course, it is expected four 80s vidualism and self-sufficlency of thej oy “Gip {he title. The tee plates farmer, to which I have referred.: are on the back ends of the tees and Agricuitural production is very nearly | Columbia has been stretched out to restored, taking the world as a whole: | 4 gistance of something over 630 but “agricultural prices are 80 10w yards, a course that would baffle the that it is apparent to all of us that the | joaqing amateurs of the world. For farmer is not being adequately com- | this reason it is estimated that four Ppensated. $0s or a seventy-hole tetal of 329 “The Washington administration has | wii win the title handily. recognized ‘this condition and has; " Guy M. Standifer the present title- done everything in its powers to re-|pg)der. is playing well, but is not gen- store a normal balance between prices | erally favored to win again. The men and cost of production. most renerally picked to win are W. “A great deal has been accomplish- | R, Tuckerman, M. B. Stevinson, A. R. ed and 1 am glad to say that the| MacKenzie or C. J. Dunphy, all of trend is strongly toward better con-|whom are playing well and are thor- ditions for the farmer. He has been oughly famillar with the course. the leader In the difficult task of | Tuckerman on the strength of his bringing the whole industrial world vack | known ability at medal play, is prob- 5 mormal conditions, and that con-! ably a slight favorite over the seven- tribution is everywhere recognized. . ty-two-hole route. “Our own country, as evident by| ~The entry list of forty-eight play- every index of business and commer- | ers is one of the largest in the Dis- cial conditions, is on the way now to . trict titular event in several vears. a new era of activity and prosperity. | and includes & majority of the players In that new era we can be very sure | with handicaps of twelve or under in that the farmer will be among the | the District. The winner of the eveut first to get the substantial recogni- | wil! receive a gold medal and his name tion which he needs and must nave|and that of his club will be inscribed for what he has done to make these on the de Sibour-Reyburn trophy. A improved circumstances possible. silver medal will g0 to the runner-up “Most sincerely yours, and bronze medals will be awarded te “WARREN G. HARDING.” |third and fourth place winners, ’ % TR, » 1