Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Falr tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, 61, at 3 p.m. today; lowest, 36, at 6:45 a.m. ended at 2 p.m. today today. Full report on page 7. lesin_g N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28,662. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. « h ¢ 7y 1 4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITIOR — ening The Star’s delivered to Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922 -FORTY-TWO PAGES. city block and the as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system every regular edition 8 ‘Washington homes as fost | Circulation, 90,483 ®* TWO CENTS. LLOYDGEORGERESIGNS [REEN AUTO NEW AFTER CONSERVATIVES) BOLT FROM | MAY RESULT IN l A CENTRAL PARTY ! Fall of Cabinet Pre- sents “Profound Puzzle.” Bonar Law or Earl of Derby May Reorgan- ize Government. Er the Associated Press. LONDON, October 19, 7312 pm— Andrew Honar Law has consented to form = ministry in succession 10 the ministry of Prime Minister Lloyd George, the Evening News says it learns. King George sum- moned Mr.. Bonar Law, asking » him to undertnke the task, de- clares the newspaper and he agreed to eomply. | LONDON, October 19.—The govern- | ment of Prime Minister Lloyd George ! resigned this afternoon. i Several of the unionist junior mem- | hers resigned from the cabinet imme- | Ziately after unionist meeting. se included Stanley Baldwin. pres- ! tdent of the hoard of trade; Sir Ar-) thur Grifith-Boscawen, *minister of asricultare and faherics; Lieut. CoL | 1. C M. S. Amory, parliamentary and | financial secretary to the admiralty Sir Philip Llovd-Greame, minister of j John Baird, under- ( or the home office, and Col. Lesiie Wilson. joint parlia- mentary secretary to the treasury and chief unionist whip. capt. H. D. King, another of the unionist whips, and Col. Albert Buck- istant unionist whip, also re- ihe G overseas trade; S secretary of state signed. King Accepts Resignation. After a brief audience with Kingy sre this afterncon Mr. Lloyd George returned to Downing street, where ha received a miners’ delega- tion, but according to Frank Hedge: who headed the delegation, Mr. Lloyd !} as prime minister, since he had re- COALITION LLOYD GEORGE. 2231 W.W.AREHELD INPORTLAND RAID Police Swoop Down on I. W. W.’s Gathering for Wa- terfront Strike. FEAR INFLUX OF 25,000 Slogan “On to Portland” Stirs City Officials to Take Drastic Steps. By the Assoctated Press, © PORTLAND, Ore., October 19.—More than 200 men were under arrest here today, following Mayor George L. Baker's declaration that Portland wus threatened by an here to participate in th ewaterfront invaslon of | | thousands of members of the Indus- ! George said he could not consult them | (rig) Workers of the World, coming {if She saw them, altho I don’t care | MURDER CLUE AS ' SHED THEORY DINS iFine Car Seen at Hall Home . Morning of Crime Discovery. CHEMIST SAYS KILLING WAS AT PHILLIPS FARM Test of Bloodstained Soil Discounts Affidavits of Two Men. BY DAN RING. Staff Correspondent of The Star. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., October 19.—An ox[lrrnsh-:\ green automobile was in front of the residence of Dr. Edward Wheeler Hall on September 16, a few Jhours after the bodies of Dr. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were found. Into it were loaded desk draw- ers filled with papers, letters and sim- | llar documents. The machine was the property of a member of the Car- penter family, which @s close to that of Dr. Hall, and one of the foremost in the county. Last night Mrd. Addison Clarke, re- ferred to as “Minnie” and regarded I:l! one of the closest friends of Mrs. Mil. ssued a atement to the local i newspaper in which she said: “An article appeared in your paper on October 17, and it h several t s been stated that I was a member of the choir of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. This is not true. Alsa the statements as to my ving Rev. Mr. Hall a cake and pie un- true. As for my ing 1o church on Saturday afternoon with a rela- ive of Mrs< ilai: ana S a | | 1 package, this true. The pac contained Rev. Mr. Hall's burial vest- ments and was taken to Undertaker Hubbard's office. and not to Mrs. Hall's. lic right “MRS. ADDISON CLARKE.” Pictures In Hymn Book. In one of the letters Mills to the rector ferred to: “Honey, you put the dear plctures in my hymnal. Oh, you sweet, ador- {able babykins of mine. Minnie used hymnal at the organ and I wonder Hoping this will sct the pub- from Mr “Minnie” is re- one bit. She provokes /me so at i | PERSHING GREETS LEGION “BUDDIES” A. E. F. Commander Gets Warm Welcome on Arrival in New Orleans. OWSLEY GAINS STRENGTH | Texan Has Good Chance to Suc- ceed MacNider as National Commander. | By the Associated Press, signed. Members of the minws’ delegation | strike, and his orders to the police to | | times and tonight if her flowers are! NEW ORLEANS, October 19.—~The | still here I'll put them in the Kitchen. i g o o ao0 o6 the national convention said Mr. Lloyd George had told them the king had accepted his resignation. | ‘Austen Chamberiain aud some of t! other cabinet members —mmfi the prime minister immediately after; the unionist meeting. The conservative members of the house of commons and government isters at their meeting in _the lton Club voied by 186 to 87 cpeal to the country as the conserva- tive party. The party lines upon which the elec- tions will be fought present a pro- found_ puzzle. One suggestion is that Mr. Lioyd George may form a center party, which he could count round them up. In wholesale raids in sections of *-a city where most “of the dock workers reside, 350 men were arrest- ed. When they had been checked fover 225, most of them believed to | be members of the Marine transport were jailed on charges of vagrancy. ! The others were released. i Head Out on Bail ! Portland I. W. W. organization, was 1 Not that I am jealous of Minnie; why, darli ng, there isn't anything to be {jealous of. But.l hate her to do for | you what I thought of first. Oh, well, ! poor Minnie, she is easily contented | with crumbs, isn't she, dear?” Last night James Mills, referring 0 his wife and the rector, said: “1 know now that Nora did not have t 10 | Industrial Union, No. 510, of Portland, | 8 many letters in her scarf pockets ! {as were found scattered around nea® | the bodies. When she put on the | shawl on the night she never came |back I noticed two or three letters”@ers an | sticking out of her pocket. When I first they showed me parts of some iletters written by my wife. There {of the American Legion was marked by the arrival of the commauder of i{the American expeditionary forces, Gen. John J. Pershing, who reached L here today from Washington, after a ay spent in Atlanta, Ga. The general, official dignity laid iastde, leaned from the platform of his !sleeping car ahead of his staff ofii- d grasped the hands of the { “buddies” who had come to the sta- ja Witliam Ford, said to be head of the | was called to the prosecutor's office | jon 1o meet him. Tomorrow the legion will select a upon Auster, Chamberlain and Lord!among those arrested. He was re- and perhaps Lord Bal- | the three cabinet members| ~ adherence to him has been re- pudiated by today's conferen This new party, it Is sugzested, would probably command the supnufll of a goodl proportion of the con- servatives who stood by the coalition | and also of the coalition liberals. | This formation might put the labor party in the position of the chief op-! position party. sibility that Mr. Lloyd 1 try to seturn to the rship of the liberals is not to be ooked either. Health an Interference. Bonar Law's friends question | Birkenhead, four, Mr. whether hi to take office even for a short time.| Lord Derby seems the most probable alternative selection for prime min- ! ister. although it is suggested that| Lord Curzon, who gained greatly in ! prestice by his work in_ the recent! near east negotiations, and is belleved | 1o have been a lukewarm coalitionist might be summoned to form a gov- | errment. = The vote of the conservatives at the Cariton Club was taken on a motion by Col. Pretyman, unionist member | for the Chalmsford division of Essex,! which read: i “Resolved. That this meeting of con-, servative members of the house of; commons declares its opinion that the} conservative party, while willing to; co-operate with the coalition liberals, | should fight the election as an inde- t party, with its own Iender| and its own program. i Today's vote, it is forecast, will be proclaimed as a great victory for the | “die hards" group of conservatives in ! parliament, who for several months| past have been advocating the with- | drawal of the party irom the coali-| tion and its resumption of its normal | party organization. i Influence of By-Election. Two events of yesterday are con- sidered to have contributed largely| to today’s decision. One was the re- | sult of the Newport election, which in so for as it was any test, confirmed | the belief of the “die-hards” that the conservatives, going into the election | as a party, could sweep the country. The second was the decision of the: committee of the unionist organiza- ! tion to hold an emergency meeting ! to consider the course of the party hecause of the feeling that today's caucus, eomposed solely of the coa- lition members of the party in the house of commons with such of the ! members of the House of Lords as, were cabinet members, had no right to assume to decide the future for the whole party. ' If the conservatives control the next parliament they may be dependedi upon, it is considered, to carry out! 'he treaty made with Ireland by the ‘Lloyd George government. That this day in sympathy ith the employes of the Toulea - and_Mexico City Brewing iast Monday. The general results of today's col- lapse of the coalition promises to be after a period of upheaval, the length of which is difficult to predict, the reversion of Great Britain to the tra- ditional system of government on strict party lines. 24-HOUR STRIKE CALLED. MEXICO, CITY, October 19.—The Federation of Syndicates of the fed- eral district has decreed a twenty- four-hour general strike for next Mon- leased on $500 bail furnished by Frank Cornel, a member of the Inter- natiocnal Longshoremen's Union here. Two of the men, according to the police, were identified as I. W. W. or- anizers from Chicago. Their names ere given as Elmer Hanson and Swen Swanson. George Quinlaber, secretary of the Portland branch of th; L. W. W, also was taken into cus- tody. “On to Portland” Slogan. Reports in the hands of the officials were faid to show that L W. Y/, pa- | pers in various parts of the country have adopted the slogan “On to immediate march of more than 25,00 members of the organization to Port- land and other points on the Pacific coast. During a conference yesterday in the mayor’s office word was sent to the city council concerning the situa- tion and an ordinance appropriating $10.000 for the immediate hire of sev- enty-four special officers to aid in combating the 1. W. W. was passed as an emergency act. Within an hour after the conference police and men from the sheriff's office were comb- ing the city for members of the I. W. W. known to be active in the present waterfront strike, and also in meet- ing freight trains sald to be loaded with “wobblies.” One incoming freight train was re- ported to have harbored more than fifty members of the organization, some of whom were arrested. Mayor Baker announced that he would ask railway officials to co-operate in the ! present movement and prevent, as far as possible, the entrance into the city of the “brakebeam” riders. Mayor Baker said that the officials were not taking up the standard of the employers in the strike, but in- :‘t'enev were waging war on the I Strike Not Authorized. Prominent Portland labor leaders have informed Mayor Baker that the strike it not authorized by organized labor, according to the mayor. Mayor Baker, in a statement to the public, said: “With the outbreak of a general I W. W. strike on the waterfront and an influx of I. W. W. from over the country, Portland faces a critical labor situation, which must be met | forcibly and immediatefy in order to| prevent serfous disorder, reign of terror. The strike is an- nounced as an I W. W. strike and is sponsored by that organization, and will be attended by the blackjack tactics of that organization, which has for its only known purpose the overthrow of law and order, the ruin. ation of industry and the Russianiz- ing of the worl —— FOR FULL BRITISH NAVY. LONDON, October 19.—Great Brit- ain should fully maintain the stand- ard of naval power laid down by the ‘Washington conference; Admiral Earl Beatty, who received the honorary de- gree of doctor of laws-at the Univer- sity of Leeds today, declared in an address. @ The world recognized that the gov- ernment’s acéeptance of, that stand- ard was unimpeachable evidence of the British empire’s desire for peace, he said. The standards of strength adopted at the Washington confer- ence were those which offered the it not a; would be done was stated by the Marquis of Salisbury in his speech Company, who have been on strike brightest prospects for peace, he de- Zor thirty-five days. clared, { | wasn't anything in the letters they successor to Hanford MacNider, na- showed me the: o mike m e on, {1 know now my wife loved Mr. Hall a great deal. They certainly made {a sucker out of me. I am sure a | woman committed the murder out of | Jealousy.” . Holds Faith in Husband. | After publication of the love notes | Fritten by Mrs. Mills to the rector, Mrs. Hall, the widow, said: “I still believe in my husband. He was a man who was pure of soul and wrapped up in doing the ‘Lord’s work.'"” She be- | rated Charlotte Miils for selling the i letters. “What do you think of a girl health will permit him | Portland,” and that plans call for the | Who would do such a thing?" she asked. Mrs. Hall said that she was not !even sure yet that the letters were | genuine i~ New Brunswick is suffering from { rumoritis. Somebody starts a new yarn about the murder and the town | gets all worked up. Last night the re- port cropped out that two affidavits i were in the hands of the prosecutors ! which told of screams of a woman being heard on a road in the opposite end of the town from the Phillips farm on the night of the murder. Gontinuing, the report stated that i two men had heard a yelling. “Help, police!” They were returning from !Red Bank, N. J, so goes the yar and noticed two big aufomobiles park- ied on the roadside. They came into | town and had some supper at a res- ! taurant, and then headed toward the ! outskirts on Eastern avenue, when two machines whizzed by them with lights out, going toward the city. The machines ‘were identical. Witnesses Contradicted. The affidavits discredit several reliable persons. Mrs. Leo Harkins, well known here, stated that on the night of the murder (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Election Law May Prevent | i By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J.,, October 19.— Decision by the Mercer county board of elections to enforce the New Jersey election law of 1920, which provides that a voter m\,st cast his ballot in the district “in which he actually resides and not elsewhere” probably will deprive former President Woodrow Wilson of his voting privilege in New Jersey this year. Mr. Wilson formerly lived in Princeton, which is a part of Mer- cer county, and voted in the col- lege town, while he was President of the United States. He cannot vote in the District of Columblia, where he now lives,.and the ruling made yesterday bars him from voting here, according to the view of local officlals. The county board of electlons has rejected the ap- plications of half a dozen persons who formerly voted in this county and who now live elsewhere. Among them were several govern- ment employes 'h.i”lm in Wash- ington and have been voting in New Jersey. : Mr. Wilson’s registration has not been received and he has until Oc- tober 24 to make application to vote, Weilson Voting| _tional commander of the -organiza- | tion. ! Says Legion Is Dying. | Late 1ast night Maj. Hugh Scott, a | medical officer, whose home is in ! Oklahoma City, Okla., and who Is !now serving as executive officer to Col. C. R. Forpes, director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, told a representative of the Assoclated Press that Col. Forbes' decision to re- turn to Washington followed a long- distance telephone conversation With | high officials in Washington, in close touch with the President. According to the sources usually reliable, the | chief executive said that Col. Forbes !was at liberty to use his judgment as to_remaining here. Dr. Scott late last night told the Associated Press he regarded the legion as a dying organization, and !that he believed that the last blow !had been administered to it when President Harding vetoed the measure for adjusted compensation last sum- | mer. it has been openlyscharged by Wil- ltam_F. Deegan of New York, com- mander of the legion in his state, that | Col. Forbes actually came to the con- vention by direction of President Harding in an effort to procure the selection of a man for national com- mander who would maintain a luke- warm attitude toward proposed na- tional legislation for a soldier bonus. Campaign for Commander. Alvin T. Owsley, head of the legion's commission on Americanization, ap- peared early today to be the outstand- ing candidate for national commander. | Supporters of William F. Deegan, New York state commander and the first candidate publicly to announcé that he was running for the office, appear- ed discouraged by unconfirmed rumors that the Missouri delegation and the predicted “midwest coalition” had split, and that the south, with the Jossible exception of Alabama, was i lining up In favor of Owsley. | Gen. Pershing was on the program las a speaker before the convention | today. Others included Rear Admiral Pickett Magruder, U. S. N.; Brig. Gen. Eli K. Cole, U. §. M. C.; M. Ba- darau, representing the Rumanian veterans; G. J. C. Dyett, president i of the Australian veterans, and Capt. ‘William Appleby of the British legion. Other of today’s events were the presentation of the city of Paris medal to New Orleans, an aerial cir- cus and derby over the dity in the afternoon and a banquet to Gen. Pershing and other distinguished visitors at the Southern Yacht. Club in the evening, awarding the Mac- Nider trophy and reports submitted to the convention by the rehabilita- tion, naval affairs, constitutional amendments, resolutions, internal or- ganization, ~Americanism and me- morials committees, ‘With the adjusted compensation is- sues finally disposed of yesterday by 2 unanimous vote to fight on, the dele- gates settled down today to the fight for commander-in-chief. D. C. POSTS WIN APPLAUSE Yeomen F. Also Loudly Cheered in Legion -Parade. NEW ORLEANS, October 19.—Mem- bers of the District delegations to the Legion conyvention were toda (Continued on Page 2, Column 64 i ’ SOME oF . THE SEVEN o MILLION }"fi, ARE SORRY, 7 Legion in Vote DemandsRemoval of Gen. Sawyer BRIG. GEN. C. E. SAWYER. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La., Octoher 19—Removal of Brig. Gen. Charles E.S8awyer, eo-ordinator of the Fed- eration of Hospitalization, and President Harding’s personal phy- sician, charged with blocking tke American Lezion Hospitalization program, was demanded by the legion mational convention here today. by a vete of 601 to 375. A roll call on the resolution de- manding the removal of Sawyer from the hospitalization post was ordered after three states—Illi- nois, Minnesota and Alabama—had demanded it. A viva voce vote was twice taken, but the chairman declared he was unable to decide it. On the roll call North Carolina voted 13 yeas, 2 noes; South Carolina, 9 yeas; Virginia, 12 yeas, and the District of Columbia, 10 yeas. READY AS -WITNESS. Otto Heinz of New York, former { president of the Bosch Magneto Com- pany when alien property custodian and sold to American Interests, visited the office day to sce if his presence is desired before the special grand jury, whizh is understood to be invesiigating the disposition of the company’'s assets. Maj. Gordon referred him to the spe- cial assistants of the Attorney Gen- eral, who are conducting the inquiry before the grand jury. AR AR ERD AR Economical and Productive The Star reaches nearly every one of the over 90,000 families in Washington. Yesterday’s circulation.90,483 Same day last year...87,339 GAIN 3,144 Less a few hundred left- overs mnot yet received. That advertising in The Star is the most economical and productive is attested by yesterday’s advertising fig- ures. Yesterday’s Advertising of Local Stores: 3 Lines The Star .............40386 2nd newspaper .. 20,151 3rd newspaper .. .12,693 4th newspaper . ...10.239 Sth newspaper ........ 1,168 [ T T T ¥ Terrorists Rule Vladivostok as Red Army Nears By the Associated Press, TOKIO, October 19.—Lawlessness relgns in Viadivostok as the result of the approach of a victorious “red” army, official dispatches say. The French consulate was attack- ed yesterday, and foreigners have appealed to their governments for Pprotection. The American consul has en- gaged as a refuge for Americans a building flying the American flag and guarded by the guns of an American crulser. Two Japaness cruisers and three Japanese destroyers also are in Vladivostok harbor td aid in the Pprotection of foreigners. Recent reports have related the practical annmihilation of the “white” guards under Gen. Diert- richs. The invading army of the Far Eastern Republic of Siberia apparently was marching on Viadivostok unhindered, and the capture of the Siberian port was expected momentarily. CIVIGBETTERMENT COMMITTEE FORMS ' TOBOOST DISTRICT Organization Will Co-Ordi nate All Efforts Toward Public Welfare. FAVORPUNSHNG RECKLESS DRVERS Rudolph and Keller Prefer Regulation to Cut in Speed Limit. Pledged to act as a clearing house affecting the welfare of Washing- ton, the joint committee for civic betterment came into being yester- day at a meeting of representatives from the city’s leading trade organi- zations and clubs in the Chamber of Commerce. After careful considera- tion, it announced its functions to be: Aims of Committee. 1. To co-ordinate clvic endeavor so that the constituent organizations may be heard as one through the Jjoint committee. To consider questiong of public welfare and suitable report to con- stituent organizations. 3. To investigate, or cause to be | investigatea, puviic and individual undertakings and report on the same, which reports are to be made avail- able to all constituent organizations. To Eliminate Uselesn. 4. To strive for the elimination of AUTOISTS ARE BLAMED Oyster Says Failure to Throttle Down to 12 Miles at Crossings Caused His Attitude. A regulation to punish reckiess ariving rather than a stringent cut in for the consideration of all matters ' D. C. POSTAL HEADS PUT ON PROBATION FOR POOR SERVICE Lax Discipline and Slowness of Mails Chargéd by U. S. Inspectors. i | | WARNED TO “TIGHTEN UP” WASHINGTON DELIVERIES 1 Dismissals May Follow Charges of Too Many Local Em- ployes. City Postmaster Chance has placed on probation all supervisory officials ‘a: the Washington city post office, | following charges made by postal inspectors to the Postmaster Genera! { that lack of discipline existed &t the {local post office. i The action follows transmittal to | the Post Office Department by the in- | spectors of a huge report on the | method in which the Washington city jpost office is being conducted and | suggestions for changes. | It is understood that Postmaster | Chance called the supervisory offictals together and announced that they { might, from now on, consider then: iselves on probation, although n. changes will be made in the staff f. the present. Told to “Tighten TUp” | While no “czar-like methods” are * ibe used by the supervisors, it is un- derstood, they have been instructed ‘tighten up” in all departments, cluding the actual handling and del of the mails. money onder and registr sections, parcel post and motor vehicl: sections, all other departments of the cily post office. | Allefed lack of discipline at the ¢ Dost office, as reporied by the inspecto who spent several months checking uj methods of operation, led to the matter being brought to the attention of the pos:master, who in turn placed th charges before his lieutenants at the | meeting mentioned. 00 many employes 18 one of the charges, it is understood, although ef- forts were made shortly after the 1§ spectors began their work to meet this charge. more than fifty employes. be- ing discharged or placed on furlough It "is also understood that a certain laxness was discovered by the insprc- | tors in the handling of employes, they ! being permitted to use methods such as may grow up in any business establis! ment after the organization is the present speed limit is favored by Commissioners Rudolph and Keller, it became known today. In view of the fact that two mem- bers of the board hold this view. it is not likely that Commissioner Oy- ster will press his suggestion for a speed limit of twelve miles an hour in the city proper. Capt. Oyster made it plain in dis- cussing the speed question yester- day that he had not definitely made up his mind on the twelve-mile lim- it, but had considered it because of the useless and wasteful, and €o- ' on a smooth-working basis. gotteg ordinate the energy of the constituent! It is to correct such small discrep- organizations in productive and con- 3Ncies between practige and theory t ive di /that the supervisory officials have structive directions. een ordered to enforce strictly every 5. To take final action 6n no matter ' postal regulation, seeing to it that until a majority of the constituent or- .the employes of the office are “on ganizations have authorized the same. . their toes” at all times, although of In its inaugural statement the joint'ficials have been told specifically mo: commiitee flals announced that itsto use harsh or dictatorial method:. mission is to unify organized activities | as the surest means of getting for the Postal Officials Silent. District of Columbia broad public im. Postmaster Chance could net be questioned upon the matter of the re- provements—to take an “interest in Washington, the nation's capital, and | its residents and offer its services as a | Port and its resuits, it being stated clearing house of matters pertinent to at the post cffice that he had gone to it was seized by the| of United States Attorney Gordon to- ! public welfare.” Organizations Represented. Its membership represents a power- Hopes Drivers Obey. {ful group of organizations. Those or- Commissioner Oyster said he dia |Fanizations are the Rotary Club, not believe eighteen miles an hour, | Kiwanis Club, Civitan Club, Lions the present limit, would be too high | Club, Cosmopolitan Club, Optimists if motorists would obey the regula- | Club, Chamber of Commerce and the tion to throttie down to twelve miles | Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- | soctation. :a! crossings. The Commissioner ex- o pressed the hope today th | Membership Is limited to two repre- P ay that machine | o CHiVes from each club or organ- owners would adhere to the twelve- | jzatjon, one of whom shall be the mile limit at crossings in future. | president of the body he represents The theory expounded by Commis- | and the other a duly selected dele- i | gate. There is to be no permanent Somers udolph and Keller is that|Ghgiiman, the presidents of the con- motorists should regulate the speed!stituent organizations ‘taking the of their vehicles according to traffic | chair in turn. Should the president conditions in the locality through|for a particular day be absent the which they are passing. | day his turn arrives, his delegate will Favors New York Pl | assume leadership for him. For example, a speed that would be| _ T rovabllities for Inflmence. perfectly safe on an unfrequentea. In briefly explaining its functions, the disposition shown by a majority of drivers not to slow down at inter- sections, as required by existing law. thoroughfare. Commissioner Keller said he was! | wield, its statement declaring: “While the joint committee for civie | standpoint of recklessness. Commis- | may hereafter be affiliated, except sloner Rudolph statcd that he had. when specifically authorized to do so, observed the same rule in Connecti-|yet composed as it is of past or cut. Plans are going forward rapidly | resent officers of the respective or- for the conference to be held in the | €anizations, its action should have e ek iatrlct Dlding ot | e et mceting wes dcvoted en ernoon - all organizations that hyave shown aonhlrely to organization work and no active interest in the campaign to re- | mention was made of the improve- duce street accldents. ments the body intends to seek fir: Ham Arranges Meeting. ! The meeting is being arranged by {Willlam F. Ham, chairman of the pub- lc safety committee of the Chamber | of Commerce. Mr. Ham expects the meeting will mark the beglnning of may pe called at the request of three a city-wide movement to make_ the members, who must designate the highways of the National Capital| time, place and purpose of the meet- safer both for motorists and pedes- | P8- 4 trians. § | The Commissioners for two weeks have been considering the advisabil- | ity of declaring another safety-first |serve for one year. He is at the same week in Washington, but thus far no!time secretary of the Merchantsand action has been taken. The whole; Manufacturers’ Association. He has problem of street safety probably will | established headquarters on the come up for further discussion when | ¢ourth floor of The Star building. The ads meet in. bo i e ard session | o 1lowing men constitute the present membership of the joint committee: James P. Schick, Sefton Darr, Ru- NEW TRIAL FOR MURDER |osm,.m 2 S e el ter, L 0] eim, John Poole, - OF EX-D.C. HOTEL MAN Gen. Anton Stephan, Charles Roberts, Albert Schulteis, Claude Woodward, Son Wins Appeal on Charge of | Frank Parsons, Joseph Burkart and Slaying H. J. T Charles J. Columbus. {are foremost in the minds ‘of all j citizens, however, are likely to ke ! sought without delay. | No dues are to be paid by the constituent clubs and organizations or delegates. Meetings are to be held monthly, but special meetings Members of Committee. Charles J. Columbus was elected | Seymour, William Knowles Cooper, salat. FINDS REST ELUSIVE. Special Dispatch to The Star. -~ WICHITA FALLS, Tex., October 19. —Henry John Toussaint, who was found guilty of the murder of his fa- ther, O. H. Toussaint, and given the death ‘penalty, will have a new trial, | his case having been reversed and re- ! manded by the court of criminal ap- | here a few days ago to enter a sani- peals. The decision was handed down tarfum, denied today his visit was ne- yesterday and the cause assigned for | cessitated by iliness. reversal was misconduct of the jury. “I am not sick. I merely came here 0. H. Toussaint, a former hotel.pro- ; for a rest, but it doesn’t look as prietor of Washington, was mur-|though I were going to get it,” the dered in this city on the night of|financier said. February 6, 1921." The son was ar-| Mr. Rockefeller has been interview- rested next morning and has been in|ed repeatedly by newspapermen since the county jail ever since. He made | his arrival on subjects ging from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Seeking Quiet, Dubious Over Prospects. BATTLE CREEK, Mich, October 19. street in an outlying section would|the committee gave some indication ! be reckless on a crowded downtown | of the influence it may be able to| much impressed by New York’s meth- ; betterment can not speak in the name | od of handling speed cases from the ! Of the organizations that are now, or | Those needs of Washington, which | secretary of the committee and will | —John D. Rockefeller, jr., who came | a confession at the time of his arrest. At the trial he pleaded insanity., unionism in industry to “who is the richest man in the world?” . i New York city and would not return ; until Monday. Officials at the Post Office Depart ment refused to discuss the sugges- tions for betterment of the Washing- ton city post office made by the postal inspectors, who were detailed by the department to make the local inspection as part of the work of in- specting 100 of the larger offices of the country. Such reports are kept very secret, i being seen only by the inspectors, the ckief inspector of the postal service and . the Postmaster General of the United States. It is understood thar the postmaster whose office is die- cussed in such a report does not see the report, but is made acquainted in a general way with the charges and suggestions made in it. 116 TAKEN FROM SHIP AS FIRE RAGES IN HOLD { Blaze Aboard Concord, Of New England Shore, Put Out After Hard Fight. | BY the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R." I, October 1%.- One hundred and sixteen passengers were taken off the Colonial line steamer Concord early today by the | freighter Mohegan while a fire raged lin the cargo hold of the passenger | carrier. | The fire was controlled after men from the Mohegan helped the Con- |cord’s crew fight the blaze for an { hour. The transfer of passengers was done with the vessels twelve miles from | shore, and the wind blowing thirty | miles an hour from the northwest. No one was injured. } The cargo of the Concord, whicl | consisted of silk, tobacco and general merchandise, was damaged. {FRENCH COMMUNISTS ! EXPEL TWO MEMBERS i“Exeeuflons" Ordered From Mos- cow, Is Belief—Two Others Quit. By the Associated Press, PARIS, October 19.—The French communist party, in Congress here, has decided to exclude from the party former Deputies Pierre Brizon and | Raffin Dugena, who during the war ! were among the most violent extrem- | ists and who braved public opinion by | meeting the Germans at the inter- inational socialist conference in Switzerland in 1916. | Verfuil and Poldes, two other lead- 1ers who came into promifence when | the former deputies became too vio- {1ent, also voted to quit the party. This action is_understood to involve th ultimdte breaking away of M. Fros. sard, present secretary of the party’s executive committee. These “executions,” which are un- derstood to have been effected on or- ders from Moscow, appear to be all the congress has accomplished in its efforts to bring about harmony in the ranks of the party. A secret session of the delegates which began laaz night _had not broken up at a Iate { nour this morning. = I i