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WEATHER. Fair tonight; tomorrow cloudiness, morrow night; continued T.mperature for twenty. ended at 2 p.m. today: at noon today; lowest, a.m, today. followed by showers to- Hl‘he:t. Full report on page 7 * increasing warm. -four hours 78, 48, 30 Closing N. Y. Stocks lgd Bonds, Page 27 No. 28,844, ntered as, second-class matter post_offico Washington, D. C. B SLAN N FGHTIG T0 TAK MUELHEM FROM COMUNTS 300 Police Recapture City in Sortie From Fortress on Rear of Reds. ARMED BANDS CAUSING TROUBLE IN OUTSKIRTS Defenders Seize Youthful Revolt- Spank Them—Thirty Leaders Arrested. ers, Ry the Associuted Press | MUELHEIM, April 20.—After being ‘errorized for three days by the com- munist mobs which heid it. Muelheim today is again under control of the ronstituted German authorities. The ‘orce of 300 police and city offlcials which had been besieged in the TRathaus made a sortle from this great ; fortress-like bullding this morning, cut through the lines of the besiegers, aught them in the rear, arrested any and again took control of the city, Thirty leaders of the besiegers were arrested. One of them, a man named Kurten, is said to have been the leader of the Kiel revolution in 1918, He resisted arrest and was wounded, robably fatally. Sixty to Seventy Wounded. The casualty list for the period of | @ sorders, fur, as this showed six | s made up dead and from wounded, some of morning, sixty to seventy whom may die The Fr »ut curity troop Juble in barrack They n remained n. whic took they the 1t or re- local i with 300 | a detachiment of | garded Burgon ty security police. who are supnosed to e been summoned from Duisburg aml elsewhere in antielpation of trou- ble. Tad been besieged since Wednes- . They had an ample supply o food and ammunition. and were easil able to hold the building, which is surmounted by & 230-foot tower, the lighest point iu the city. On this lofty “perch the burgemaster sta- ied sharpshooters. who were thus Me to pick off members of gltack- Snattics P = as purely Lempke ey es, and | Beslegers Number | The besieging forces, themselves 2,000, who called | the “unemployed.” num- | bered about 2000. but the burgomas- | Rumania, he said, have become mem- | ter declares there are ouly 500 un- | employed men in Muelheim. Many of | the besiegers were ly trouble- wakers, led by communists, he de- | clared. This encircling army, among | Which were many youths armed with vabbit rifles, bullt Larricades and tore “up the pavi ot They broke seve in_th Bre The bur te for ang ¢ me: | | | shed | dows ster sent out his 4 mixture of sceurity police rks. carly this morning. through the barricades, r besiegers and quickly | routed mathering in only the leaders, | Nt wis short and sharp, and Alowed up quickly | 5. who spread out 1 of the tows Spank Youtkful Ones. viet 1 sue the clry Witk fe Bained contr rious defenders tempora- rily detalned numbers of the youthful adventurers, whom they spanked with extreme vigor and then ordered them © 10 bed on exploring the city streets after tae dispersal of the besiegers the authorities found many of the stores S0t hiefly of firearms and cloth- | ng of the dealers fu foods had n molested. The burgomaster pointed to this as dence that the besiegers were only trouble makers, who were well fed «nd took only things of value or such s they could use. The Stinnes steel vlant.” employing 30000 men, was running on full time. the officfdl sald, The Rathaus. although relleved om siege, looks as if a storm had struck it. The security police were still guarding it this afternoon mping on the marble floors and eeping their rifles close beside them while they ate. On the tower aloft the sharpshooters still were main- taining their lookout, read possible trouble. FeriEny, 8 REPORTED DEAD. %0 h d, Non Tolice Reinforcements Force Bar- vicades Across Roads. By the Associated Press. BIERLIN, April 80 far reported dead and more thirty wounded s a result of | e disturbances in Muelheim, accord- ing to dispatches this noon, which state that although the city has been ced from the communist grip, wrmed 1ds are «till causing trou- le in the outskirts. e Forty of the rioters’ leaders were csted when the municipal authori- ties again took coutrol. The dispatches telling of the rais- iug of the sicge say the beleaguered plice were able to nold out until the artival of police reinforcements from Oberhausen and Duisburg, who forced ihe barricades across the roads lead- ing Into the city. 20.—Light persons than Wounded in Barracks. The disturbers are said to have be- come well armed through plundering the shops. Messengers had to be used in summoning help from the nearby iowns because Muelheim’s telephone servied had been idle for weeks. The communist “Red Guards,” as the special dispatches refer to the rioters, removed all their dead and wounded. rhe messages state that some of the vounded were taken to the barracks «f the French occupation forces, French Bar Police. Dispatches to Berlin newspapers as- | sert that the French refused the re- wuests of Muclheim authorities to al- tow police from other towns to enter the city to cope with the communist orders of the past two days. Since vesterday. says the Vossische 7eitung. Muelheim has been experi- ~ncing a reign of terror. Murder is common occurrence and many dead ‘a4 wounded have been taken off the ireets. I'given by the Overseas Writers. { night he will be entertained at din- Russians Inciting 30,000 to Revolt Rule by Berlin By the Assoclated Press, LONDON, April 20.—A dispatch to the Times from Duesseldorf says the unemployed council there is reported to have informed the Berlin government that unless the conditions of the 30,000 unem- ployed are improved they will vol- unteer to work for the French. The dlspatch adds that it is sald two Russlan bolshevik speak- ers at a meeting at Bochum on Tuesday advocated violent action by the unemployed. It is asserted by the French that twenty-five more carloads of cereals from the soviet govern- ment have arrived in the Ruhr. LEAGUE COVENANT CHANGES POSSIBLE The assembly of the league of tions would “listen to any proposals made by the United States for amend- ments to the league with an open mind,” Lord Robert Cecil, adviser to the British delegation at the Ver- sailles peace conference and co- operator with former President Wil- son in working out the league coyenant, sald today upon his arrival in” Washington. Lort Robert made it clear that any proposal of amendment of the league Che "~ WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT WARNED WORLD COURT PLAN WOULD SPLIT PARTY {Chairman Wood Urges Let- ting Project Drop, But a Harding Is Firm. SEES MORE OPPOSITION THAN AGAINST LEAGUE | | Republicans Fear Schism and No Clear-Cut Issue With Democrats. | Espressing the belief that repub- lican opposition to the administration world court membership proposal was even stronger than that against en- trance into the league of nations, Representative Will R. Wood of In- dlana, chairman of the republican congressional campaign committee, | today told President Harding he be- | lteved it was a mistake for the party to urge the proposition. | Mr. Wood's statement to the Pres- |ident constituted the first open op. Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star. every cit “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 97,346 D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1923—FORTY-f | A | PATHETIC RECORD! & | covenant, or revision, such as has | position to Mr. Harding's proposal| been suggested by Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania and other in public life as a means of bringing about the entry of this country Into the league would have to come from the government cf the United States as a government. Only Proper Course. In his opinfon that would be the only proper course, a course, by she way. which Senator Pepper also ad- vocated recently In making his sug- gestion that the league could be s amended that the United States might enter. His reception in America, Lord Robert said, had pleased him greatly. The interest evinced by Americans in the subject of the league of n | tions during his tour had been great. 0 e that do not. of courge, scek to con- any impression that 1 belleve Americans as a_whole at tils time desirous of eutering the league, eaid lord Robert with a twinkle in_ his eve n the opinion of Lord Robert there lias been too uch readiness to read “force” into the league covenant. He ffered this suggestion when his at- itfon was called to the fact that Senator Pepper's to divoree the league and “fo “Thera {s only onc article in the covenant that deals with force at all. Ariicle 16, he said. He said that he belicved the famous Article 10 had been misinterpreted very brgeiy Lord Robert 1s strongly of opinion that Germa a member of the league of nati Ho said he had no doubt that the ns. - | many would be aumitted by the nec- ary two-thirds vote if she would make application to join. Three other enemy nations, Austria, Bulgaria and bers of the league. In reply to a question as to why the league had not bLeen entrusted with the settlement of the trouble over the Ruhr valley, Lord Robert d no member of the league had come forward with a proposal that | the controversy be turned over to the | He said that the league would be e the settlement of this and that it would be suc- league. ultimately trusted with dispute cessful. Distinct From Treaty. he belleved Th rague of natlons covenant 18 dtstinet from the terms of the treaty of Veisailles, Lord Robert said in reply to a suggestion that in some quaiters in this country the bellei cxisted that the league was intended as an agency to carry out the pre visions of the treaty. The league, he said, had accepted the handling of the ‘Saar valley and Danzig under the terms of the treaty, and had been most successful The world court, to which Presi- dent Harding has proposed the ad- herence of the Unlited States, with certain reservations, Lord T ert said, was entirely dfstinct from the league in its operation “Just as distinct.” he said, “as the Supreme Court of the United States i from the Congress, and more so. Lord Robert will be the guest of Henry White, a member of the Amer- ican delegation to the peace conter. ence and an old friend, while he is in Washington. It fs expected that he will be received at the IWhite House while he is here. = During his stay he will visit former President Wilson, and it is expected he will talk also with Samuel Gom- pers, president of the American Fed- | eration of Labor, whom he met fre- quently during the peace conference. | Upon_his here this after- noon from wert to the Hotel Hamilton, where he was the guest of honor at a luncheon To- arrival mer by Mr. White and tomorrow night at the British embassy by Sir | | Auckland Geddes. When he leave: Washington it will be to go to New York. with a break in the trip to visit Princeton, where he is to receive an honorary degree. OIL PROMOTERS INDIGTED IN TEXAS By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH. Tex., April 20— Ninety-two oil promoters were in- dicted here today by the federal grand jury on charges of using the mails to defraud. The oil companies involved have taken in over $7,000,000 in cash, and into three of the companies were merged 458 companies which had sold $136.000,000 in stock, United States District’ Attorney Henry Zwelfel de- clared the investigation showed. Among those Indicted whose names | were made public: Marshall Spoonts, former county at- torney; E. C. Kingsbury, aspirant and 1epublican choice for the Fort Worth postmastership; Dr. Frederick A, Cook, sole trustee and president of the Petroleum Producers’ Assoclation; S, E. J. Cox, aviator oil man, formerly of Houston and New Yor! of the Petroleum Producers’ Associa- tion; J. W. Carruth, trustee of the Hog Creek Carruth Company; John C. Verser and Albert H. Shepherd, secretary-treasurer and vice president of the Revere Oll Company; Warren H. Hollister, George M. Richardson and H. E. Robinson, trustees of the Pilgrim Oil Company’; J. Frank Heard, sole trustee of the Dorado Oil Syndi- cate; Charles Sherwin and Harry H. Schwarz, trustees of the Gen. Lee de- velopment interesis: Fred K. Smith, secretary-treasurcr of the Petroleum Producers’ Association. ! Americans | should become | in those operations. | Richmond Lord Robert ! employe | among republican leaders outside of the “irreconcllable” group of sena- tors. Mr. Wood sald afterward the | President was not weakened in his advocacy of the proposal as outlined i a messuge to the Senate just be- fore adjournment of Congress. Democrats Favor Court. Continued advocacy of the wortd ourt proposal, in the opinion of Rep- resentative Wood, would either cre- ate a schism in the republican party or deprive the party of a clear-cut issue with the democrats in 1924, inasmuch as the democrats seemed generally favorable to American membership on the court. The congressional campaign com- mittee chairman sald he presented his views as his own. but added that he was sure they were shared by a large group in the republican party. He told the Prestdent he had recently visited Indiana and found there and in other parts of the middle west strong opposition to membership in any tribunal connected with the | league of nations. | Will Clarify Plan. The President Wood in his talk with Mr. is understood the position that the opposition was based largely upon a misunderstand ing of the conditlons which would attend acceptance of membership, and it was learned that the chie? executive planned shortly to make a statement or an address explanatory of the proposal a8 advocated by the | administration. “The world court is so closely ked with the league of nations Uit T cannot see how it can ho sep. arated in the public mind,” satd Wood. “There are many in the ye- jublican party who belleve in ghe general proposition of adhesion to un international court 1o adjust difffer- ences between nations, but they are of the opinion that the court Shaoula be established separately fromy any of the existing agencies such us the {lgague of nations.” SEVEN MEN KILLED IN TWO EXPLOSIONS Many Also Injured in Tampa Mill and Chicago Fac- Yory. - | By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., April 20.—Four men jwere instantly killed and several in- | jured near Seffner, ten miles from jhere, today when the boiler at a saw | {mill exploded. The dead: Archer Sean, W. B. Alexander, J. A. Stagger | jand R. Johnson. All were white men employved about the mill. 1 Resldents Flee Hom CHICAGO, April 20.—Three men were reported killed and nearly fif- teen others were injured, some serf- | ously, in an explosion today in the starch factory of the Corn Products | Refining Company at Argo. The explosion was terrific and so larmed residents of the village of { Argo that many fled from their homes. The police of Argo were authority Ifor the statement that three men were killed. The injured were taken | to various outlying and suburban hos- | pitals, Details of the blast were diflicult to obtain, first statements at the plant minimizing the extent of the accident. 1 'JUST BEFORE DYING ON GALLOWS' \ | the District jail women attended an execution today, when three nurses witnessed the hanging of George Spencer Banton, confessed slayer of Samuel Frye of Seat Pleasant, Md., last August. who paid the penalty of bis crime on the gallows. The drop fell at 10:10 and at 10:23 Dr. W. J. Smith pronounced the man dead. The three women present were Miss Irene Henderson of Casualty Hospital, Miss Minnle Lawhorn and Miss Adele Herbert of the Gallinger Hospital. Miss Henderson served on the jury. Representative Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma was another witness to the hanging, and sald later that he had a bill prepared to present at the next Congress to substitute electrocution for the gallows in the District of Co- lumbla, Banton showed remarkable calm- ness on his march to the scaffold, joining with his spiritual sdviser, Rev. W. J. Howard of the Zlon Bap- tist Church, in singing a hymn. When the black cap was adjusted he shout- ed to those Dresent, “Good-bye, all. i After Maj. W. L. Peak, assistant | superintendent of the jall, had, read . the death warrant to the condemned to have taken | i i i i GUILTY HELD SAFE INU.S. SUGAR WAR | Those Who Use Exchange ! to Rab Public Will Escape,” ! B. M. Manly Says. | | URGES DEEPER DIGGING Records Should Be Immediately Investigated, View Following | Legal Step. | | | i { | 4 The gevernment's procedure ew York against gambling futures on the New York Coffee and | Sugar Exchange will not reach | “those” who are actually responsible | for fhe existing conspiracy to in- flate’ sugar prices.” according Basll M. Manly, director of the Peo- | Ple's Legisiative Service, in a state- {ment today, tn which he further sug- | gests Department of ia)\mxhl go after “those higher up.” ! The civil suit filed by the govern- ment to prevent trading futures, except it is backed up by ac- tual ownership or control of the sugar, Mr. Manly declares. is brought against the officers and directors of | the New York Coffec and Sugar Ex- {change and mot against those who {have used this exchange as a means !for outrageously infiating sugar | prices during the past two months.” | Would Demand Records. | To dig deeper into the causo of in inflation, Mr. Manly suggests the Department of Justice ‘“could find sound basis for effective crim- inal action” if it would “immediately subpoena the original books of the sugar brokers and carry on search- ing investigations both in the United | States and Cuba, which will cover, not only the blg sugar producers, but also those American banks that now absolutely control the produc- tion and sale of Cuban sugar.” “The sensational decline points in sugar prices, Manly's statement, “following the announcement of injunction proceed- ings by the Department of Justice | completely vindlcates the contention i of the people’s legislative service that the sugar market is purely arti- ficial and not based upon sound eco- nomlic conditions. “The form of action taken by the Department of Justice does not. how- ever, seem to offer any probabiiity of permanently curing the situation or Teaching those Wwho are actually responBible for the existing conspir- acy to inflate sugar prices.” Exchange Mere Instrument. The injunction, Mr. Manly points out, is not against those who have used the exchange. “So far as evi- dence alleged in the government's petition is concerned” he said, “the sugar exchange has been merely the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) of \SLAYER WARNS HEADLONG YOUTH ¥or the first time in the history of |man. he asked that the following message be sent to the Young people of the city: “For the young people of today. You had better stop and think, instead of going heedlessly along. The church is your best friend. Stick by the church. Don't just join it through form or fashion, and when you are once in the church, bewars of the wrong kind of amusement, lest it alienate you from God. The wrong kind of company and amusement alienated me from my home and God and it will do the same to you, s0 watch your step and keep from being one of those who are going to help fill the bottom- less pit.” The crime for which Banton was i hanged today was committed the night of August 10, 1922 in a grocery store at 405 6lst street northeast, where Frye was employed as a clerk. The motive was robbery. John P. Taylor, manager of the ~store, was also shot in the neck. The same night Banton and George W. McGoines, also colored, were arrested by Lieut. Guy Burligame of the ninth precinct. | At his trial Banton admitted the shooting and told such a clear story of the crime that Justice Stafford complimented him for his frankneys. The execution was conducted under the supervision of Willlam H. Moyer. general superintendent of penal in- stitutions of ie District. _ in' N sugar | to; Justice in sugar said Mr. | DESTRUCTIVE DANCING. Mprs. Shipstead To be Secretary | For Her Husband | By the Associated Press | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 20 Mrs. Henrlk Shipstead, wife of the farmer-labor senator-elgct Minnesota, will accompany husband to Washington as his sec- retary, it became known today “Mrs. Shipstead cumpaigned with me and played an import in my clection.” Dr. Ships in_announcing her appointment. he has an intimate knowledge of my business nd will Le a val asset X ington.” i { | from | | J0POTTERY FIRM HEADS CONVITED {Eight Given Jail Sentences. Fines Totaling $171;500 ' . Imposed by Court. | { NEW YORK, April 20.—Eight pris- on sentences and fines totaling $171,- 500 were imposed by Federal Judge Van Fleet today on twenty individ- uals and twenty-three corporations, all engaged in the pottery industry convicted Wednesday of conspiracy in i restrainteof trade. Archibald M. Maddock, president the Thomas Maddock’s Sonx Comp: of Trenton, N. J., onc of twenty in viduals eonvicted with twenty-three pot- tery manufacturing corporations for | | conspiracy restraint of trade, was sentenced by Federal Judge Van Fleet today to serve ten months in the ls- sex county (New Jersev) penitentiary and pay a fine of $5.000. Seven other defendants described by Judge Van Fleet as members of the executive committee of the Sani- tary Potters' Assoclation. and active participants in its price-fixing opera- tions. were given sentences of six imonths imprisonment in the Essex | county penitentiary and fines of 135,000, Fines of $5,000 apiece were imposed on the following: James K. Slater, president of the Abingdon Sanitary Manufacturing _Company of Abing- don, 11L; Bert O. Tilden, president of the B. O. T. Manufacturing Company L of Trenton, N. J.; T. Munroe Dobbins, president and treasurer of Camden Pottery Company of Camden, N. J.; | Harry J. Lyons, president and treas- urer of Keystone Pottery Company of Trenton, N. J.; Harry FH. Weaver, secretary and general manager of National-Helfrich Potteries Company, ansville, In Newton W. 1 i in of tern, president of P: cific Sanitary Manufacturing Com- pany, of Richmond, Calif.; Theodore H. Harker, secretary and treasurer of | Pottery Company, of Chicago, I1L.; ward V. Brigham, vice president and | general manager of Kalamazoo Sani jtary Manufacturing Company, Kala mazoo. Mich, Fines of $250 cach were fmposed on the following: James A. Dorety, sec- retary of Acme Sanitary Pottery Com- |pany” of Trenton. N. J.; Walter F. Drugan, vice president of Cochra F. Smith, treasurer of Resolute I'ot- | tery Company of Trenton, N. J.: lard C. Chamberlin, sales manager of Standard Sanitary Manufacturing | spir { others are | frauding | states U |of his ! Drugan & Co., of Trenton, N. J.; John,, Company, of Kokomo, Ind., and Tiffin, Ohio. The each: Camden Pottery Company, Camden, ~. J.; Eljer Company, Cameron, W. Va, and Ford City, Pa; Kalamazoo anitary Manufacturing Company. Kalamazoo, Mich.; Kokomo Sanitary Pottery Company Kokomo, Ind.; Lambertville Pottery Company, Lam- bertville, N. J.,, and Wheeling Sani- tary Manufacturing Company, Wheel- ing, W. Va. The following were fined $2.500 | each. Chicago Pottery Company, Chicago; Cochran-Drugan & Co., Trenton, N. J.; Keystone Pottery €ompany, Trenton N. "J.; Resolute Pottery Company. Trenton, N. J. and Horton Potte Company, Chiliicothe, Ohlo. $55,000 FOR INJURY. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 20.— Louis Kolker, a Philadelphia silk salesman, whose back was broken in a wreck on the Reading railway at Winslow Junction, N. J.. was award- ed $55,000 damages yesterday by a federal jury. Kolker's wife, who was is5,geriously Injured, was awarded The Kolkers, who had been married only four hours, were bound for At- lantic City on their honeymoon, when the Readlng fiyer the tracks last July, killing seven persons and injuring fifty-six. They sued the rail- road company for a total of $650,000. Kolker was carried into court on hospital cot. Physicans testified hi injury was permanent. following were fined s;.nnn{ | SIX PAGES. MORSE TRIAL ON; NEW JUDGE DENIED iDefendant’s Objections to Justice Stafford as Biased Overruled. Harry 14 onn Thomis prejudi afford T F. Morse of New London, through Attorney W. Bissell today filed an affidavit of > against Justice Wendell P. presiding in Criminal Divi- und before whom the con- trial, at which Morse and defend the charge of de- government through war contracts commenced. Morse ask- ed that another justice be assigned 1o’ the case. Justice Stafford over- ruled the motion and directed the trial to proceed. sion th The morning session was occupled | with by the identification of the case United States Attorney Gordon to the talesmen now in service in the court, the reading by Assistant Attor- ney O'Leary of a list of about two hun- dred ,prospecttve - witnesses for the prosecution and the examination of | the prospective jurors. Mr. Morse his that the justice has a personal bias and prejudice against him and in favor of the United States, the other party to the cause. He narrates an incident when Attorney E. T. Bell, one of his jawvers, had occasion to < the signature of the justice to a subpoena duces tecum, which he aMdavit alleges the lawyer had mad: United States atto what w sired. gain, he asserts. Justice Staf- ford ¥ Ame ang when Attorney Thomas asked concerning the grant- ing of a separate trial to Livingstone and other officials of the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation without no- tice to the other defendants. The re fusal of the request of Morse for separate trial because of h illness, the manner in which the justice cross- examined Mr. Morse yesterday after- noon when he took the stand to tell illness and of his consultation With his lawyer at Bridgeport, Conn., about coming to Washingten, and the declination f the court to permit George W. Ray to continue as bonds- man for Mr. Morse, when Mr. Ray is duly qualified, are set forth as fur- ther reasons why some other j ce should hear the case. Yesterday afternoon Justice Stafford heard the testimony of Drs. Ruffin, Acker and Parker, who were sent by the court Satunlay to New London to examine Harry F. Morse. All three of the physicians declared Morse fit to be tried. and said no fll-effects were to be expected even should the trial be protracted morec than one month. Attorney Henry E. Davis, then rep- resenting Morse, flled a motion for a separate trial on the plea of fliness as disclosed by the medical testi- mony offered by Drs. Barton, Hick- ling and Lee. The court overruled the motion and allowed Morse to give bail of $10,000. Bond was arranged with Dr. W. W. Stewart surety, and Morse was released from custody. de- {ASKS RELICS CACHE IN LINCOLN SHRINE | Representative Wood Favors Hous- ing Civil War Mementoes in Building Here. Placing of many of the relics and important documents of the civil war | in the Lincoln Memorial for preserva- tion was suggested to-the President today by Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana. Attention was called Yo the fact that many of these invaluable relics and documents of those four years of domes- tic_warfare are now resting in cellars and warehoues and other obscure and insecure bulldings of the government. The Indiana representative said it was only a question of time before these nteresting and valuable documents and evidences of those years would either be lost or mutflated. Fitting Resting Place. Representative Wood said he could not concelve of a more fitting place for the valuable records than the Lincoln Memorial building, which Congress provided as a shrine to Abraham Lincoln, who was at the helm of the republic during the civil war. It would be his idea to place these documents in steel safes to be stored in the basement of the me- morial. The only objection offered to his proposition #o far, according to Rep- resentative Wood was one from Col. C. O. Sherrill, oficer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who sald that the interior of the memorial might prove to be too damp for storing these records. court refused to sign until! known to the, * MRS. COOK TWO CENTS. SELECTED FOR HIGHEST D. A. R. POST IN CLOSE RACE Defeats Mrs. Hanger, District Woman, for President Gen- eral by 161 Votes. |‘ MRS. THOMAS A. EDISON, FIRST TO SPLIT TICKET, Bitterness | Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, former state regent of Penns: of Election Forgotten Candidates Thank Delegates After Results Are Known. MADE CHAPLAIN as Ivania, was today elected president general of the National Society of the D. A. R., after one of the most bitter and closest contests in the history of that ! organization. By the narrow margin of 161 votes she defeated Mrs. G. | Wallace W. Hanger of this city, but failed to carry her entire national ticket to victory with her. | Hanger. Mrs. Thomas A | | | prise of the congress. a solid D. A. R. ticket. Cook Ticket Winn. T ad Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Edicon, other national officers were |elected as follows, all of whom were imembers of the original ticket sup- [ ported by Mrs. Cook: { Mrs. Frank H. Briggs. Maine, {cording secretary general, §7 Mrs, Franklin P. Shumway. chusetts, corresponding secret re- votes Mass: gen- s, Walker, Washing- secretary gen- William ton state, organizing eral, 924 votes. ; Mre. James H. Stansfield, Illinol registrar general. 972 votes | Mrs. Alfred J. Brousseau, lMicl treasurer general, 924 yotes. Mrs. George De Bolt, West Virginia, historian general, 919’ vote % Mrs, Alvin H. Connelly, Missouri, re- porter general, 953 vote Mrs. Larz Anderson, District of Co- ., librarian_general, 980 votes. rgan, lumb: Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, New York, | curator general, 947 votes. Seven Officers Named. The seven vice presidents general were all elected, as follows: Mrs. Henry A. Beck, Indiana; Mrs. Charles Booth, California; Mrs. Henry D Fitts. New Jersey; Mrs, William Mc- Gee Wilson, Ohlo; Mrs. Gerald Liv- ingston Schuyler, Colorado, and Mrs. ! Lllet G. Drake, Nebraska. were candidates without opposition, lall ‘were selected by acclamation. | The congress, however, will be obliged to ballot all over again for the selection | presidents general. as nonme of the { four nominated succeeded in polling the required number of vot Mrs. Cook’s total vote was 240, out of a registered strength of 1,7119." She polled 120 ballots more than number required for_election. Hanger was given 7170 votes, Mrs 161 less than ber required and but The result was | her successful rival. a distin t Mrs. Cook. whose niost conservative \ timates had placed her strength in | excess of 1,200 votes. Applaud Mrs. Hanger. A few minutes after the results of the election had heen announced Mrs. Hanger asked the privilege of the floor. Dressed in a becoming black | gown, with hat to match, and wear- ing a corsage of orchids, she step- ped to the front of the rostrum. |stantly pandemonium broke loose. | With one accord the congress rose and greeted the defeated but still | smiling candidate for what is wide- 11y considered to be the highest gift within the power of American womanhood—the presidency general of the D. A. R. For two minutes the delegates stood and cheered and ap- | {plauded Mrs. Hanger. In vain incumbent president general, George Maynard Minor, rapped for | order, but the congress was bound to |let loose the emotion it had kept | pent up since the polls closed late 1 last night. ! When order had flnally been re- | stored Mrs. Hanger began to speak lThEI’e Was not a trace of sorrow or nervousness in her voice, but rather the Mrs. the pride which she later expressed in the course of her remarks. Glad for Service. " | “First of all,” she said, “I wish to | thank you for the privilege You have igiven me of serving you as organiz- ing secretary general. T have con- | sidered it to be an especial privilege of our beloved Mrs, Minor, and you ‘have glven me three vears of joy land service, which will always be among my tenderest memoriads. The | friends 1 have made here will remain with me always. “I wish to thank every woman who {supported me in a_campaign of which I'am entirely proud, and to my friends |1%ay that I consider it an honor to i have been your candidate. And now to those whe so loyally supported me earnestly ask you to give that same loyaity to our president general elect, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook.” ‘A Mrs, Hanger retired the dele- gates once more let loose an ovation fhat made the staid atmosphere of Memorial Continental Hall fairly ring. Twico she was called back to bow her . acknowledgment before = Mrs. Cook, ‘the victorious candidate, ad- Ganced'to the edge of the platform. Shaking with emotion, she waited al- host a rull half minute after the roar of applause that greeted her had | 8led” down Lefore she began to speak. 1 Mrs. Cook Speaks. “] am here to acknowledge your selection of me to be your president general,” she sald. “Your faces are all in a mist to me, and I belleve I am thinking in a mist. I fully realize the signal honor you have paid me, and I wish to be worthy and feel wvery humble. But, yet, I feel proud that I have been called upon to fill so high an office. If I should feel proud in the wrong way the sight of that flag waving before me (in- dicating a huge American flag that She received 940 votes against 779 given M idison of New Jersey who was Mrs. Hanger's choice for the offic Mrs. Rhett Goode of Alabama, who had been named on the victorious ticket of the Pennsylvania candidate. wife of the noted inventor, of chaplain general, defeated It was, perhaps, the biggest sur- since it accomplished the unusual feat of splitting hung from the ceiling) will keep me steady. “'Keep steady'—that is my keynote. It is surging up in my heart now and will always be the sobering thought that will come to me in the crises. The work we must do 1s a work of honor as well &s u work of necessity. To make the efforts b for us, no one officer can succ fully do without the help of whole society. “Benjamin Franklin, in thos ing days when our forefathers were founding this a nation, sald to hi fellow patriots: ‘We must all hang together or we will all hang sepa- They hung together because knew what they wanted. And their daughters toda: know what they want now and will, 1 am surc. hang together. To thank you for electing mo to this high office, I can- not do {n words, but I shall try to do it with deed.” Thanks Mrs. Hanger. “I wish to acknowledge the good will and graclousness of Mrs. G Wallace W. Hanger and to say in conclusion that I sccept this honor with love toward all and malice toward nonc.” th try- Since they | of three honorary vice | the | aney. which | waus only 81 votes short of the num- | surprise to the friends of | In- | to have been one of thesassistants | | victory for Mrs. Hanger. The hour that preceded the nouncement of the election this norning was one filled with tenss anxiety” and the congress attempted to conduct its preliminary business with one eye on the president general and the other toward the door through which they knew the tellers would enter. an- Results Delayed. Since 10 o'clock yesterday mo iWwhen the polls opened, the congres: tot the Daughters of the American Revolution had seethed with expect- All day the delegates had stood in a long, tired line, waiting to announce through the ballot box their choice for the high officers t iety liad to cffer. It had been expected that the tellers would an- nounce the result during last night's session, but when 11 o'clock arrived they sent out word that another threo hours must clapse before they could complete the count. When this intelligence was com- municated to the convention, it promptiy voted to adjourn and await the results until this morning. Th. who expected an announcement mediately after Mrs. Minor had rapped for order at 10 o'clock this morning. however, were disappointed. Moment scemed to lengthen into hours and in a half-hearted sort of a delegates tried in vain to spectfully to those who were called upon to address them. Hush s on Crowd. in- It was just exactly twelve minutes of 11 o'clock when the president gen- eral rose and in her business-like tone announced: “The teilers will now" come forward.” A hush that could almost be leard fell upon the crowded auditorium and Mrs, Charles H. Bissell mounted the steps to the rostrum. In her hand she carried the fatal typewritten paper. Every eve was upon her as sho be- gan Madame President General, T have 1 the honor to report that vour tellers have found the following results of the election: For president general. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Penn—-—" Bedlam Breaks Loose. Bedlam broke loose as the name of the Keystone state's first candldato for that office was mentioned. The congress knew that it meant her elec- tion. Time and again Mrs. Miror brought down her gavel vigorously, but the delegates. who herctofore had been so respectful of that fata! hammer. paid no heed to their cn- thusiasm to_honor the president gen- eral-elect. Finally the result was an- nounced, and & murmured note of sur- prise ran through the entire audi- torium when it became known that Mrs. Hanger had run so close. Most of the delegates had expected either a landslide to Mrs. Cook or a close The action of Mrs. Willlam Cumming Story. however, in abruptly swinging her votes to the Pennsyivania candidate had done the expected and proved more the help to Mrs. Hanger than a detriment. Hanger Ticket Totals. The result of the voting oa Mrs Hanger's associated candidates fol- lows: Mrs. Samuel E. Perkins, In- diana, to be organizing secretary gen- eral, 790 votes; Mrs. F. Eugens Chub- buck, Illinois, to be corresponding secretary general, 789 votes Harriett Perkins Marine, Maryland, to be registrar general, 7456 votes; Mr: Robert J. Johnston, Jowa. to be treas- urer general, 794 votes; Miss Florence Crofut, Connecticut, to be historian general, 796 votes; Mrs, Ida B. Mac- Farland, Texas, to be reporter gen- eral to the Smithsonian Institution, 792 votes; Mrs, Edward L. Harris Ohio, to be librarian general, an Mrs. Wilson Barnes, Arizona, to be curator general, 769 votes, and Mrs. 7 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3-2 H