Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1922, Page 1

1y colder tonight. ended at 2 p.m. today: WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; slight- Temperature for twenty- four hours Highest, 62, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 46, at 3 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28683, I Entered as second-class matter ost_office Washington, D. C Latest Returns Fail to Help Democrats. STILL IN DOUBT Many Ex-Members Succeed in Re- gaining Seats. With only one district in doubt, the republicans hold control of the House with 224 seats, against 207 for the @emocrats and a scattering of three— one socialist, one farm-labor and one independent. The only district now in doubt is the third Kansas, which is the old district which has been held for twen- ty consecutive years by Representa- tive Philip P. Campbell. chairman of the House rules committee. There the ballot boxes for two pre- cincts are being held. It is claimed that Charles Stephens, democrat. is there leading W. H. Sproul, repub- lican, by two votes. Two other distr| which have been in doubt, show Edward M. Beers, re- publican, elected in the eighteenth Pennsylvania district, which was held for fourteen years by Representative Benjamin K. Focht, now chairman of the House District committee, and an upset in the first Nebraska district held for eight years by C. Frank Reavis, who recently resigned to be- tant to the Attorney Gen- eral in the prosecution of war fraud cases. Mr. Reavis, at the time he left Congress, was a member of the joint committee « . reorganization of the administrative branch of the federal government. He is succeeded by John H. Moorehead, democrat. Tabulations from the late returns show that the republicans have solid delegations from the following states: Washington, lIowa, South Dakota. TUtah, Vermont, North Dakota, New Mexico, Maine, Idaho and Wyoming. Steenerson's Defeat Surprise. A late surprise in the election re- turns was the defeat of Representa- tive Halvor Steenerson, chairman of the House commitiee on post offices and post roads, in the ninth Minnesota district, who s defeated 1y Knud Wefald, farmer-lahor candidate. Min- nesota also furnished anotaer im- portant upset when Reprosentative Andrew J. Volstead, chairman of the House judiciary committee and father of the prohibition enforcement law, was defeated by O. J. Kvale, inde- pendent. Thus Minnesota {s_the only state in which a chalrman of an im- portant House committee was defeat- ed in the election Tuesday. Former Members Returned. A feature of the election was the return to Congress of many former democratic members who were de- feated in the republican landslide two years ago. as Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, Gen. aac R. Sherwood of Ohio, Robert er ‘of Ohio, Thomas L. Rubey Missouri, John J. Egan and D. F. ahan of New Jersey and W. A. s of Kansas, Representative Elliott W. Sproul, re- publican, in the third Tllinois district, was re-elected, according to late returns, although the reports yesterday showed that he had been defeated. Representa- tive Sproul is a close personal friend of Chairman Madden of the Houyse appro- priations committee, and one of the most active men on the House District com- mittee. Samuel Winslow Wins. The late returns assure the re-elcc- tion of Samuel Winslow of Massachu- getts, chairman of the House conimittce on interstate and foreign commerce, who is fathernig railroad reform leg- islation. Representative Winsiow had a close contest with William H. Dyer, ‘well known throughout the country as @ base ball player. J. Mayhew Wainwright is one of the prominent Washington men elected as a member of the House in the next Congress. He is assistant secretary | of war, and elected from the twenty- | fitth New York district, running on the republican-prohibition ticket. Representative Evans Defeated. Of unusual importance to residents of the District is the defeat of Rep- resentative Robert E. Evans, repub- | lican, in the third Nebraska district, | who surrenders his seat to his demo- cratic opponent. Representative Evans 1s one of the conferees on the District appropriation bill, and it was largely through his insistence that appropri- ations were made available for con- struction of a conduit from Great Falls to the District line, to give the vational Capital an adequate water supply. Representative William E. Andrews, republican, of Nebraska, who has been a resident of the National Capital for about a quarter of a century, is an- other conspicuous figure who fell by the wayside in the election. Repre- mentative Andrews first came to Con- gress on March 4, 1895 After serving that term he was appointed by Presi- dent McKinley as auditor for the Tnited States Treasury Department, and served continuously in that posi- tion for eighteen years. Clarence A. Cannon Elected. There is much gratification around the Capitol over the election of Rob- ert H. Clancy, democrat. in the first Michigan district. Mr. Clancy served as an employe at the Capitol for many years and was for several years private secretary to Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce Sweet, in the Red- field administration of that depari- ment. Many people in Washington are also pleased with the election of Clarence A. Cannon, former parlia- mentarian to Speaker Clark uand who is now engaged in compiling the Con- gressional Digess.. Mr. Cannon is elected to succeed Theodore W. Huk- riede, who defeated Champ Clark two Years ago. “Dryer Than Dry.” Volstead, author of the prohibition enforcement law, was the only re- publican committee chairman to go down, but he fell before an inde- pendent minister-candidate, self pro- claimed *dryer” than himself. This fact often was overlooked by those who professed to see in the defeat of Vol- stead a punishment for the dry law. While they had been expected to take a big hand in the election, the women of the country were unable to elect one of their number in the helter-skelter race for seats. There will be no women in the next Con- gress. Miss Alice Robertson of Okla- homa_will go out then, along with Miss Winifred Mason Houck of Illinois, elected Tuesday to flll the term of her| (Continued on umn 3.) | IN ONE DISTRICT @he WASHINGTON, Stunning Blow Just at a time when they expected to make their best showing, the woman politicians of the country have been dealt a stunning blow. After March 4 next there will mot ibe a single representative of the sex in the national Congress. The fecling of disappointment to- day, after the revised returns have made the situation perfectly plain, ranged from a yearning in some quarters to see the silver lining to unassuageable rage. “Women don't deserve anything better!” savagely cried Alice Paul. “Women won't vote for Wwomen. Women won't patronize women in business. Women won’t go to women doctors. Women won't take their cases to women lawyers. And this in {the year 1922. The women of tMe United States have deluded them- selves into thinking they are politi- cally advanced, when they really are far behind the women of the rest of { the world. The proud British parlia- | ment still has two women on its rolls, and the reichstag, in benighted Ger- BIG GAINS CLAIMED BY WETS AND DRYS Result of Elections Held Tuesday. CONGRESS TEST LIKELY Resolution May Be Introduced to Define Alcoholic Con- tent Again. Second only in public interest to the party control of the next Congress today is the question of how “wet” or how “dry” the Sixty-eighth Congress will be as a result of the elections on Tuesday. The “wets.” or liberals, as they are calling themselves, place their hope for a modification of the Volstead prohibition enforcement act in a realignment of Congre: Notwithstanding the fact that the “wets" apparently were victorious in referendums of various kinds in Cali- fornia, Massachusetts and Iilinois, the fact remains that the “drys” have in- the Senate, and have probably lost not more than a score of seats in the House. In fact, the Anti-Saloon League claims that the loss will not be more than five. ‘The “wets” elected Gov. Edwards of New Jersey. On the other hand, they lost a supporter in Senator Pomerene of Ohlo. In Missouri, Senator Jim Reed, a recognized “wet,” defeated Brewster, the republican. But Georgia and Mississippl are sending two “drys” to_the Senate in the place of the late Senator Watson and Senator ‘Williams. Rival Claims. The “drys” point out that in Ohio the referendum, on the beer and wine question was clear cut, and that it was defeated by from 150,000 to 200,- 000 votes. Tkey point out, too, that the senti- !ment in the great states of the west and middle west, and. in the south, which were dry long before the na- tional prohibition law became effec- tive, apparently is unchanged. It will be impossible, they say, for a few states, in which large cities are found, like New York, New Jersey, Massa- chusetts and Maryland, to swing the entire country to a modification of the Volstead act, permitting the use of beer and wine. - At the Treasury Department today, however, it was sald that proposals for legislation changing the Volstead act, and possibly permitting the use of beer and light wine, might follow on the heels of the elections Tuesday. It was admitted that the matter is en- tirely up to Congress, however, and the Treasury Department will con- tinue with a strict enforcement of the Volstead act, it was said. The sug- gestion was made that possibly a joint resolution would be introduced in Congress defining exactly what in- toxicating beverages are. Semator Weller's Comment. The passage of such a resolution is not Ukely, however. Senator Weller of Maryland, repub- lican, commenting upon the election results today, sald that, in his opin ion, now was the time for the “lib- erals” to press for a change or modi- fication of the prohibition enforce- ment act. The opposition to the Volstead act, he sald, had probably reached its high-water mark. and advantage of the feeling in the country should be taken, He sald he was elected two years ago as a “wet,” and that Mary- jand has just elected Mr. Bruce to the Senate on a very wet platform. Both the Anti-Saloon League and the Assoclation Against the Prohibi- tion Amendment are laying claim to increased represéntation, for the cause of strict enforcement of the Volstead act on the one hand, and for light wines and beer on the other. ADMIRAL LONG SAILS. Leaves Gibraltar, Expects to Be in Constantinople in Two Days. The United States cruiser Pitts. burgh, which recently sailed from Gi- braltar with Rear Admiral Long, commanding United ~ States navai forces in Europe, on board, is expect- ed to arrive at Constantinople in a day or two, Both Sides See Victory as| Dealt Woman Politicians in Congress Race many, where women once were rele- gated to the kitchen, church and chil- dren, his thirty women members.” Raps “Subject Class.” The consensus of opinion in Wash- ington is that the whole cause of woman’s advancement has suffered a setback. This reverse comes at a time when the women are preparing to make their strongest fight before Congress for the absolute equality of the sexes. Miss Paul's tirade against women today was extremely bitter. “The disgraceful situation in which women find themselves today is their own fault,” she declared. “They re- main a subject class because they have no sense of solidarity. Men will not allow women to have anything they want themselves. Seats In the House and Senate are desirable, and | that is why they have not been given |to women. Men will take all they can | get in the way of service and money from women, but they will not part | with one bit of their power. Women " (Continued on Page : REED MAY BE HEAD OF D.C. COMMITTEE |West Virginian, Re-Elected, Would Be Chairman by Seniority. 1 BENJ. FOCHT LOSES OUT Zihlman Among Friends of Wash- ington Who Will Continue Service. Representative Stuart F. Reed of West Virginia, now completing his sixth consecutive year as a member of the House District committee, has been re-elected in the third West Vir- ginia district. Following the sen- fority rule heretofore practiced. .dn appointments to chairmanships of im- portant House committees, Represen- tative Reed in the next Congress, be- ginning March 4, 1923, probably will | be chairman of the House District committee. Representative Benjamin Focht of | Pennsylvanta, the present chairman These include such men | creased their numerical strength in|of the District committee, was elim- Inated in the primaries. Representa- tive Loren E. Wheeler of Illinois, the next ranking republican, was de- feated by a democrat for re-election. Representative Reed comes next on the seniority list. He is deeply inter- ested in the development of the Na- tional Capital and has taken an active !part in all legislation affecting the ! District. He is now chairman of a subcommittee which is considering a i bill to give residents of Washington i the right to vote. Other D ¢. Friends Return. Other good friends of the District who are members of the District com- mittee have been returned in the ielection. last Tuesday. These include Representative Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland, Representative Florian Lampert of Wisconsin, Representa- tive Oscar E. Keller of Minnesota, Representative Roy O. Woodruff of Michigan, Representative Elliott W. Sproul of Illinois, Representative Roy G. Fitzgerald of Ohio and Representa- tive Charles L. Underhill of Massa- chusetts, all republicans. Among the democratic members of the House District committee who have been re-elected are Christopher E. Sullivan of New York, Thomas L. Blanton of Texas. Ralph Gilbert of Kentucky, Willlam C. Hammer of North Carolina, Charles F. X. O'Brien of New Jersey and Stanley H. Kunz of Illinofs. D. C. Committee Losses. Among the membess of the District committee who were defeated in the election were Representative Warren 1. Lee of New York, republican, who was defeated by a democrat; Frank C. Millspaugh of Missouri, who is suc- lceeded by Milton A. Romjue, demo- crat, who was formerly a member of the House District committee and deeply interesetd in the development of the National Capital. Representative Joe Brown of Ten- nessee, republican, and Representa- tive James P. Woods of Virginia, dem- lolcrlt, were not candidates for re-ele: tion. Representative Woods was one of itha most active members of the com- mittee in trying to put through leg- islation to effect a merger between the street railway companies in Washington. Representative Fred- erick N. Zihlman of Maryland worked closely with Representative Woods, and expects to continue urging this legislation until it is passed by Con- gress. Representative Millspauzh was very active in endeavoring to prevent the continuation of the District Rent Commission, and is father of a bill to prevent establishment »f branch banks throughout the country. —_— DIVORCE MILL OF RENO SAFE FOR THREE YEARS By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev.,, November 9—Two propositions to change the divorce laws of Nevada submitted to the voters at Tuesday’s election have falled. Proposition No. 3, which would have altered the residence require ment to one year, instead of six months, lost by 3,700 votes, and prop- osition No. 4, which, in effect, ratifies the present divorce laws of the state and forbids their alteration under constitutional amendment for a period of three years, had a plurality of about 3,200 votes. - e e e aee L cERL R WO oINS i o WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 1 D. C, G. O. P. SURE OF 224 HOUSE SEATS, CURTAILING ITS MAJORITY TO 145 REPUBLICANS FACE TASK IN SENATE Defeats Make Reorganizing Necessary. LODGE LIKELY TO KEEP REINS Many Committees, However, Must Be Revamped. The republican leadership and or- ganization of the Senate will under- go important changes in the new Congress, which comes in after | March 4 next. The election Tuesday jand primaries held still earlier have Iremoved from the Senate, as it will exist in the Sixty-eighth Congress, a number of outstanding figures, men who have been recognized as leaders, Important,committees of the Senate will have to be revamped. The severe cut in the republican majority in the Senate; the fact that a group of half a dozen so-called pro- gressives will actually hold the bal- ance of power in the Senate, will make the leadership of the republican majority a task even more arduous than it has been in the present Con- gress, when the farm “bloc” and other groups in the Senate caused the republican leadership great diffi- culty. Fifty-Three Semate Sents Likely. Late election returns make it prob- able now that the republicans will have fifty-three Senate seats, the democrats, forty-two. and the farmer- labor party, one. It may be. how- ever, that in the end the republicans will have fifty-four and the demo- crats forty-one. The returns from | North Dakota and Washington are not yet conclusive, but it no ap- pears that Lynn Frazier, the re- publican nominee (a Non-Partisan Leaguer, however). will win over O'Connor, the democratic candidate, | and Senator Poindexter, according to telegrams received at the republican national committee offices here, show him to be in the lead, instead of DI, the democratic nomiree. If the republicans finally win both these seats, they will have fifty-four. the democrats, forty-one, and the farmer-labor party, one seat. -This means a majority of twelve. But ghil mafority may be reduced to ten r even to eight. € Lodge Will Have Troubles. Senator Lodge, the present repub- lican leader of the Senate. if he con- tinues as leader in the next Congress, will have his troubles. Faced with a situation where it will be necessary to keep the party in line on all ad- ministration measures, he will have to deal with the proszressives, Borah of Idaho, La Follette of Wisconsin, Norris _of Nebraska. Brookhart of Iowa, Johnson of California, Frazier of North Dakota, Ladd of North Dakota and a number of others whose progressivism is mcasured in various degrees. It is believed that Senator Lodge will insist upon retaining the repub- lican leadership of the Senate, unless his health should be such as to re- quire him to relinquish the task. But unless he is able to weld the party together far more firmly than it has been in the present Congress repub- lican leadership will mean little in the Senate in the next Congress, and the administration may at any time be faced with a hostile Senate. Curtis May Succeed Lodge. Senator Curtis of Kansas is the vice chairman of the republican caucus and whip of the Senate. He acts as leader in the absence of Senator Lodge. The leadership in the event of the retirement of Senator Lodge from the office might fall to him, though there might be rumblings from the progressives, who regard Senator Curtis as belonging to the old wing of the party. Senator Curtis, however, has shown himself in the past an adroit leader, There has been talk in the past of the possibility of making Senator “Jim” Watson of Indiana leader of the Senate. There is absolutely no chance of such a selection, in view of_the election results, it is said. In the make-up of the committees of the Senate, a number of important changes will have to be made. Chair- manships of three of the most im- portant committees will have to be filled—the finance committee, which loses Senator McCumber of North Da- kota as chairman, and the committee ening on post offices and post roads, which loses Senator Townsend of Michigan and the committee on naval affairs, of which Senator Page of Vermont'is now chairman. Smoot May Head Finances. Senator Smoot of Utah is in line for the chairmanship of the finance com- mittee. He is chairman, however, of the committee on public lands—a committee of great importance to the west, from which he comes. He is a member of the appropriations com- mittee also. If he should take the chairmanship of the finance commit- tee, in all probability he would have to relinquish his membership on the appropriations committee. If* he should not take the chairmanship of the finance committee, however, it would place Senator La Follette next in line. The appointment of La Fol- lette to this chairmanship, however, would be vigorously resisted by the old-line republicans of the Senate. Three other republicans will leave the finance committee because they will leave the Senate March 4 next. They are Senators Calder of New York, ‘' Sutherland of West Virginia and Frelinghuysen of New Jernf. On the democratic side Senator Wil- liams of Mississippl will leave the committee. Sterling in Line. Senator Sterling of South Dakota is in line for promotion to chairman of the committee on post offices and post roads. He Is now chairman of the civil service committee. Senator France of Maryland goes off the post office committee, as well as Senator Townsend. If Senator Poindexter finally wins out in Washington_he probably will become chairman of the naval affairs committee. Should he_fail of elec- tion Senator Hale of Maine is next in line. The naval affairs committee will lose also Senator France of Maryland. Six Gome in Foreign Afiatrs. The foreign relations committee is (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) - e Star. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1922—FORTY-TWO PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers city block and the regular edition delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. “Yesterday's Net Circulation, 36,000 TWO CENTS. = 1 MURDER DETAILS T0 BE TAKEN UP | | | Judge, Grand Jury Foreman and Prosecutor in Jersey Confer Today. ! | | THREE MAY BE HELD i Member of Church Drove Auto to Scene and Concealed Facts, It Is Said. | ! By ssociated Press I NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J. Novem-| ber state of New Jersey expected to ob- .—The information on which the | tain indictments of three persons :..r! the murder of the Rev. Edward| Wheeler Hall and his cholr leader, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, was to{ be laid befozs Supreme Court Justice | Parker and Grand Jury Foreman Gibb i by Deputy Attorney General Mott to- day at Somerville. Persons close to the authorities say that the investigators have identified the man who Mrs. Jane Gibson says she saw shoot Mrs. Mills and the rec- tor. The authorities will ask that he be indicted for first-degree murder. They will seek also to indict the “woman in gray” for first degree mur- der on the ground that she was an accomplics but did not actually kill either Dr. Hall or Mrs. Mills. Church Membc * Third. The third person under suspicion is said to be a member of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, of which Dr. Hall was rector. Author- ities hope to obtain his indictment on a charge of being an accessory after the fact. They say he drove the automoblle which trailed Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills to the Phillips farm where they were murdered and also that he has concealed information from the authorities. The detectives, it was said, have traced a series of telephone calls which occurred shortly after the two tele- phone communications which called the rector and the choir singer from their homes on the night they were murdered. The last telephone calls, it is alleged, were made for the purpose of assembling the three persons now under suspicion. The mystery of the presence of the two automobiles—one an old-fash- ioned, high-back model, the other a small roadster—in De Russey’s lane, near the Phillips’ farm, on the night when_the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills were murdered, has been cleared up. Eyewlitness’ Story Stands. The lifting of the veil which has shrouded this angle of the case, it was said, by Special Detective Mason, finds the story told as an eyewitness by Mrs. Gibson unchanged. Her state- ment to the authorities that she saw two men and two women in noisy argument under the apple tree, where the bodies of the rector and the choir singer later were found, and saw a man fired several shots, still stands, the authorities assert. That account was materially strengthened in sev- eral aspects by the bringing to light of new evidence contributed to the case by two men who were near the lane on the night of the murder. Mrs. Gibson, in support of her claim that she could identify the characters in the drama which she claims she chanced upon while riding about the country in search of thieves who had looted her barn, had said that in turn- ing about in the narrow lane the headlights of one of the automobile accidentally flashed upon a powes fully built man with a bushy mui tache and & wWoman in a gray coat. Irvin S. Cobb’s An Event in the Fiction World! Has First Publication in . Next Sunclay’s Star Order your copy from newsdealer today Du Pont Forces Expected to Ask Recount of Vote Ity the Assoclated Press WILMINGTON, Del. November 9. —The republican state committee of Delaware today was expected to ask for a recount in the contest for the United States Senate, because of the small margin of votes Thomas Bay- ard, democrat, héld over the repubi can_incumbent, T. Coleman du Pont With the complete but unofficial returns showing a majority 563 < votes for Bayard, the du Pont last night refused to concede tion. FRANCE WILL MAKE PACTRESERVATIONS Naval Treaty Certain to Car- | ry Exceptions, Declares Edouard Soulier. NO DEBATE UNTIL JAN. 1 Critical European Situation May Cause Further Postponement of Consideration. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chiago Daily News. Copyright, 1922, PARIS, November 9.— after the American fashion will al- most certainly be attached to the Washington treaties for the limita- tion of naval armaments before they are - ratified by the French parlia- ment,” said Edouard Soulier, chair- man of the subcommittee on the Washington treaties, to the writer in the chamber of deputies today “Opinion throughout France de- mands reservations Based on those formulated by the United States Sen- ate in relation to the treaty of Ver- sailles. Moreover, it seems inevitable that the debates on the treaties will be postponed until January or later. Matters of more importance, such as the budget and the army bill. take precedence. Also the Yellow Book, which the French government intends to publish on the Washington confer- ence, has not yet been completed.” Reparations in New Crisis. Reservations From other sources the correspond- ent learns that the European politi- cal situation, which is more threat- ening now than ever before, may still further delay the debate on the Washington treaties. Maurice Bom- pard, chairman of the senate subcom- mittee on this matter, appointed French delegate to the near east con- ference at Lausanne, will be unable to attend to parliamentary business for weeks. Not only the near east imbroglio, but the reparations prob- lem has flared up into a crisis again. The negotiations between the allied reparations commission and the Ger- man government in Berlin apparently have come to naught. Were it not for the coming of the Brussels con- ference, which is awaited without op- timism here, it is believed the French government would have been froced t otake up the gauntlet in Germany before now. Bven internal affairs, usually sec- ondary in France, are now making a bid for speedy attention. The rapid decline in the value of the franc is watched with anxiety by all classes of the population. The deficit of five billion francs in the budget is viewed with concern by bankers. Louls Loucheur's critlcism in_the chamber of deputies of certain phases of the Poincare method of financiering is Tegarded as significant by politicians. Newest Story of only | 'TURKS' FIRM STAND AGGRAVATESGRISIS | | | Despite Allied Protests, Kem- | alists Continue to En- force Orders. HOSTILE MOVES FEARED ! Danger Seen in Postponing Lau-! sanne Parley, Nationalists Insist- ing on Original Plans. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 9.—The troubled state of affairs in Constantinople may not be getting any worse, but there certainly seems to be no improve- ment in good feeling between the| Kemalists and the allied commis- sioners. Two British soldiers were assassi- nated last night at Kassimpasha, ac- cording to the Constantinople corre- {spondent of Petit Parisienne. Col. Sharpy, commander of the French troops in the Constantinople area, told the correspondent he considered the situation one of the gravest na- ture. Allies Express Dissatisfaction. The allied generals and commis- ioners have informed Rafet Pasha. | he governor of Constantinople, and | Hamid Bey, Turkish envoy there, of | the decp dissatisfaction of the allies over the attitude the Kemalists have taken since they formally took over the civil government. Despite allied protests, however, Rafet has maintained all of the meas- ures recent:y taken by the national- | 1ists except the higher customs duties which he imposed on foodstuffs. The attitude of the Kemalists be- | comes stiffer every day and the ex- Itremists seem to be in power at An- | gora. An indication of this was the | reiteration yesterday of the demand that the allies evacuate both their | military and naval forces from Con- | stantinople-and surrounding districts, | Hostlle Moves Feared. : The attitude of the Angora govern- ment, which has been growing pro- gressively stiffer of late, is said here to depend largely on whether the Lausanne peace conference Is to be held as originally scheduled, or post- poned, and the French observers fear{ is finally determined upon. Ismet Pasha, the Turkish national- | ist foreign minister, now is in Con- stantinople awaiting word regarding the holding of the conference before proceeding to Lausanne. where he Is| to be the principal nationalist dele- | gate, and a delay in starting the con- ference would resuit in his return to Angora. This, it is the opinion of French officials, will be almost cer- tain to cause trouble. Disaster Seen in Delay. Ismet Pasha, has informed the al- lied governments that any delay in holding the Lausanne peace confer- ence would be a disaster, as it would be interpreted by the Angora assem- bly and the Kemalist army as a sign of hostility against the Turks and an indication that the allles did not intend to live up to the conditions of the Mudania armistice. The French government, therefore, is exerting every influence to have the Lausanne conference formally opened on_ scheduled time, November 13, in order to demonstrate to the Turks the good intentions of the allies. The Briush asked for a postponement be- cause of their approaching elections, but_the French now have proposed to the British that in view of the mes- sage from Ismet Pasha, all parties go ahead and assemble next week at Lausanne. The British reply to this proposal has not yet been received, As the French view it, the confer- ence should be opened on time next Monday as a demonstration of good will, and then the more important meetings, requiring the attendance of the plenipotentiaries, could be post- poned for a week or 80, during which the experts could occupy themselves in sundry preparations. KEMALISTS CUT CABLE. letn_n Company Permission to Re- pair Line. By the Associated Press. : CONSTANTINOPLE, November 8 (via Cairo, Egypt)—The Eastern Telegraph Company’s cable has been cut on the Kemalist side of the Cha- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) i} hostile moves by the Turks if a delay | n SHOTTOSHIELD HER HONOR, SAYS MRS. GOLDBLUM Wounded Woman Faces Mur- der Charge for Slaying of Ninth Street Barber. TELLS POLICE ALLEGRO PERSISTED IN ADVANCES Declares She Moved Her Home From Over His Shop Because He Annoyed Her. Confessing fn nervous tones that she fatally shot Samuel G. Allegro, a barker, “to protect the family name” when he made advances to her in her home at 768 Hobart place, yesterday afterncon, Mrs. Fannie Goldblum, thirty-year-old wife of Jacob Gold- blum, clothing store employe, today faces a charge of murder as she lles on a cot at Emergency Hospital, suffering from a bullet wound inftict- ed in her neck, she says, by the man she killed. Displaying but little emotion, out- side of her nervousness, Mrs. Gold- blum related in detail events which led up to a double sho,ting shortly after 3 o'clock vesterday, while Headquarters Detectives Bradley and Vermillion took down pencil notes of her account. Her husband, bent in grief over the tragedy, waited anx- iously outside the room during the confession, which for the first time revealed to him the secret ordeals which Mrs. Goldblum said she had labored under because of her victim alleged repeated attentions. Repulsed Him Often. According to her story to the de- tectives, Mrs. Goldblum was mopping the floor in the front room of her home yesterday when Allegro walk- ed in unexpectedly. He had called on her and she had repulsed him on previous occasions, she said, her hus- band being kept entirely ignorant of the affair. “I love you and want you. I must have you.” Allegro is quoted as sa. ing as he entered. “Get out of here asserted she replied. “I have a revolver in my pocket. the man is said to have warned, as he moved forward. Going to the sewing machine near- by, Mrs. Goldblum stated, she opened a drawer and took out a revolver of .38 caliber, which, she said. she pur- the woman { chased October 6 in the vicinity of 11th and E streets, to protect herself against Allegro's advanc You wouldn't shoot that. You're too weak and afraid,” the intruder is related to have said. Advancing When Shot. “So 1 showed him what a woman will do to defend her good name* Mrs. Goldblum told her interviewers, “He came toward me and I shot him in the chest Allegro hesitated and for the mo- ment Mrs. Goldblum thought she had missed him and struck a chair. The wounded man, however, grasped her, he explained, threw her bodily to the floor, wrested the smoking re- volver from her hand and, placing the muzzle against her neck, fired one shot. which plowed through the flesh, not seriously. Bruises on her arm where she landed against the floor were shown to the officers. Hair snagged on the gun corroborated the assertion that the weapon was held close. Allegro, if this version is true, must have then placed the revolver in an Easter basket on a shelf and stag- gered out of the open door and onto e porch of the adjoining premises, 770 Hobart place, cccupied by Mrs. Annie Glazer, When police. summon- ed from the tenth precinct by nelgh- bors, arrived they found Mrs. Gold- blum on the porch of her home and the dying man on the porch next door. ~ Both were rushed to Emer- gency Hospital, where Allegro died early this morning. Followed to New Home. Mrs. Goldblum's confession re- counted how she had become ac- quainted with Allegro while living over a shoe shop adjoining his bar- ber shop, 926 9th strect northwest. She said she first met him while hav- ing some repairing done in the shoe shop. Subsequently he saw her & umber of times in the shop, falling madly in love with her, she pointed out. _Allegro was married and lived with his wife at 905 9th street north- west. Mrs. Goldblum indicated that she paid little attention to Allegro's early attentions, but when he became ar- dent she was worried and repulsed him. When the Goldblums moved away from 9th street she foresaw re- lief, but instead, she declared, Alle- gro grew more persistent and visit- ed her in her new home several times. She asserted she repulsed him on each occasion, and when her nervousness over the State of affairs became more pronounced she went downtown last week and purchased the revolver, with the intention of defending her- self if necessary. Mrs. Goldblum is expected to re- cover. After the officers had finis! questioning her Mr. Goldblum allowed to remain with his wife. BRITTEN TO REINTRODUCE SOLDIER BONUS MEASURE Bill Will Include Additional Pro- vision for Tax on Light Wines and Beers. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 9.—The sol- diers’ bonus bill with an additional provision to pay the bonus by a tax on light wines and beers will be re- Introduced in Congress by Repre- sentative Fred A. Britten of Illinod, he announced here today. —_— MOVIE ACTOR DIVORCED. LOS ANGELES, November 9.— Herbert Rawlinson, motion picture actor, has been granted a decree ot divorce in the superior court here trom Minerva Rawlinson, known on the legitimate stage as Roberta Ar- nold. The suit was not contested. He charged incompatibility. Rawlinson recently has been de- fendant here In damage suits filed by Mrs. Ethel Clark in behalf of herseit and of r daughter, Dorothy Clark Elms, stage dancer. . . -