Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1923, Page 1

‘WEATHE] - Partly cloudy, with slightly lower temperature, today; tomorrow Tampern&\lre for twenty-two hours ended at it n Highest, 84.6; lawnn Full report on page 14. R. fair. ight 496, No. 943.— No. 28,846. Entered as second-class mlllel post office Washington, PAID FOR CONVICTS BRUTALLY FLOGGED, WITNESSES CHARGE Hoboes Herded 'by Scores and “Railroaded” by Drunken Florida Officials Is Claim. SCENES ‘OF TERROR IN CAMPS DEPICTED Victims Lashed Fifty or Sixty Blows With Straps—One Man's Grave Filled With Water. nber alleged to been ad- ered to Martin Tabert North a youth who died while serv- Apr the nu ve I ing camp at Clara, Fla., marked the testi- mony presented today to the joint legislative committee Investigating reported brutalities to prisoners. M. B. Bell, a former guard at the Putnam Lumber Company, where Ta- t died fourteen months ago, said he counted blows struck by Wal- ter botham, whipping boss. indictment of fir wi i under murder in connection kotan's death Higginbotham testitied that he hit Tabe 't ten “gentle” blows #nd that the boy was able to return to work the following day. now the D Buried in Isolated Spor. Other witnesses testified today that they prepared the body for burial, and one Arthur Johnson, a former convict. said he acted as a pall- bearer for the body, and stated that it was laid away across the river from Dixie, in Taylor county, at an is lated spot and in a hole filled with water, Witnesses for the lumber company have previously testified that he was burled at Mingo cem- etery, near Clara, amid the snging of hymns by townspeople, and that an itinerant preacher of- ficiated The committes at the reauest of representatives for tha lumber com- a convict in a private leased | t degree | Thursday | \Civilized World SoonGoinglnsane, | Belief of Doctor | By the Associated Press. MONTREAL, April 21. — It nothing is done to stop the rapid increase in mental derangement, nearly the whole clvillzed world will efther be insane or on the Wway to insanity in the next quarter of a century, in the opin- ion of Dr. A. H. Desloges, direc- tor of asylums of the department of public health. The past year, he reported, has = been a record one in the number ©of cases of insanity treated, not only for the province of Quebec but throughout the world. The reason, he believes, was the ex- traordinary intensity of life to- day. “Nobody works or plays or does anything normally these days,” he sald. “When we work, ‘we work like mad: when we play ‘we play llke mad; whatever we do we do it with all the intensity of a crazy enthusiasm.” 0.C. MAN FOURTH AIR CRASH VIGTIM 1l i Bureau of Standards Worker and Three Army Flyers - Killed at Dayton. | ' D\\ TON, April 21.—Four men were almost instantly killed and one other probably fatally injured this afternoon when a Martin air| service bombing plane nose-dived into the Great Miami river here. The dead are: Capt. W. R. Lawson. pilot, Langley Field. Va. Technlcal Sergt. i Fleld Sergt. Wesley ridge Field, Mich, Civillan U. M. Smith, bureau of standards, Washington, D. C. The injured . is: Technical Sergt. ridge Field, Mich. Smith died after the accident at the | Miami Valley Hospital. All five men suffered fractured skulls. Bidwell, Langley H. Rowland, Self- : e , | F. B. Shaw, Self- PRESIDENT IS FIRM ONFULLY APPLYING “FLEXIBLE TARIFFS” Holds Commission Can Ini- tiate Investigations After Consulting Him. DISPUTE ON PROCEDURE SETTLED AT CONFERENCE Culbertson’s Plan for Action With- out Applications Being Filed Upheld. The President has not abated one jot his interest in and determitation to have "fully applied” the flexible provisions of the Fordney-McCumber tATIT act, according to a statement wade public at the White House late yesterday. Furthermore, the position taken by Willlam S. Culbertson, vice chairman of the Tariff Commission, that investi- gation under the flexible provisions should not be limited to achedules and subjects upon which applications had baen filed, is sustained by the Presi- dent. The statement was issuel in 2o nection with the settlement by President of the controversy has ranged for months among inem- bers of the con'mission as to proced- ure under the flexible tariff provi- slons. These provisions authorize the President, following investigation ard report by the Tariff Commission, to lower or raise duties within a radius of 50 per cent of the duties set up by the act. w Brought to a He: More than two months ago these differences in the commission were brought to a head when Mr. Culbert- son, who took a prominent part in drafting the flexible provisions of the tariff act, at the instance of the President, while the tariff bill was under consideration, put through a resolution providing for investiga- tions under these provisions of sub- jects related to others upon which applications had been filed, and upon new subjects. TODAY’ PART ONE—40 Pages. General News—Laocal, National, Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 22. Spanish War Veterans—Page 26. Financlal News—Pages 27, 28 and 29. Radio News and Gossip—Page 30. Aviation Activitics—Page 30. Classified Advertisements—Pages PART TWO0—16 Pages. Editorlals and Editorlal Features. Washingtan and Other Soclety. Army and Navy News—Page 11. Veterans of the Great War—Page 12. | GIrl Scout Conventlon News—Page 13. | Community Centers—Page 13. Parent-Teacher Actlvities—Page-14. Around the City—Page 14. Girls and Their Affalrs—Page 15. Arts and Artists—Page 15. Review of New Books—Page 15. PART THREE—12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- pla. | The Swundiny Star. | WASHINGTGN, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1923.—_NINETY-TWO PAGES. A4 ’/,r s "’:, i {l STAR (Civic Leaders Join in Plan To “Sell Washington” to U. S. |National Association Pledged Through)| 2w Jis President to Develop Capital—Steps Forward Are Outlined at Dinner. A long step forward in their plan to “sell Washington to the nation”! was taken vesterday and last night by members of the American Assoclation who met in conference | with Washington members of symposium of the needs of Civic | presented, The dinner last nig which the capi- aspects was day “full of| tal and their present concluded a interest to the Washington members | the | of the organization. and of education | association to join hands and minds | and instruction to the members from | in a plan for greater development of | other cities, the federal capital by enlisting the | co-operation of civic leaders all over | the nation. Executive Board Early in the day the executive “From Press to Home ke Within the Hour” tar’s carrier system covers ever‘y block and the .{e;url.;r edition ivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. - FIVE CENTS. $500,000 IN LUMBER AND 26 HORSES BURN IN SPECTACULAR FIRE W. A. Pierce Yards on Rhode Island Avenue Northeast Swept by Flames. FIREMEN FIGHT FUTILE BATTLE AS WATER FAILS UNDER DRAIN Foreman of Stables and Wife Overcome. General Alarm Puts Every Plug Within Mile in Action One and a half million feet of dressed lumber in the yards of the W. A, Pierce Lumber Company, at 616 Rhode Island ave- nue, mgether with stables, outhouses and twenty-six horses, were destroyed i in a fire early today which called out every piece of apparatus in the city on a general alarm. Damage was estimated at $500,000. At 3:10 a.m. Fire Chxcf Watson announced the fire was under | control. | Fanned by a high northwest wind which swept the flames | from the northwest corner of the yards diagonally across the com- pany’s property, the fire swept virtually unchecked for hours, i while firemen fought desperately to save other buildings in the I neighborhood. Inadequate water pressure and the intense heat. which prevented firemen from coming near the blaze, handicapped the fire fighters in their work. The fire had progressed two hours iwhen firemen gave up trying to save the lumber vards and | exerted their efforts on saving nearby property. RUSH FOR MORE HOSE. Fire Chief Watson, arriving on the scene shortly after the second alarm, turned in about 1:30 o'clock, immediately dis- patched apparatus to every station in the city for more hose lines. Water plugs on every street within a radius of a mile of the burning lumber and buildings were pressed into service. John Fitzgerald of the water department rushed a crew ;yrom that department and worked strenuously to increase the | water pressure. John English, foreman w®of |board of the assoctation met and Asstrance that ‘every co-operstion|drew wup final plans for “selling”’ wouid be given the association by the| Washington to the nation by asking | nation was offered by J. Horace Mc-|the co-operation of fifty .cities in Farland of Harrisburg, Pa.. president|plans for beautifying and improving of the association, at a dinner last| Music In Washington—Page §. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 9. Fraturhitles—Page 10.” | Boys and Girls’ Page—Page 11. Serlal, “JI.Bett"—Page 12. the | the lumber yards, was threatened stables, and Mrs. English, Were|from the start of the fire to its end. taken to Emergency hospital over- | Firemen exerted every preczution to come by smoke. They were first| yeep it from catching aflame. aroused by Revenue Agent Fowler,| One of the features of the fire was Were Returaing East. The accident occurred as the men | were taking off for Langley Fleld| after having been here for several pany took under adyigement a trip to Clara in an cffort {0 get straight the conflicting versions of his funeral. J. W. Jackson, who testified before | the Madison countv grand jury Chairman Thomas O. Marvin of the Tariff Commission and Commissioner Burgeess took issue with this pro- cedure. The matter was carried to the weeks. President by opponents of Mr. Cul- which indicted Higginbotham, iden- tified himself as a former guard at tue lumber company and testified that on the night Tabert died he was one of the men ordered by Higgin- hotham to prepare the body for buri The witn said there were laccrations on the face Prepared Body for Burial. Tom Pope. a negro, said he served & sentence at the logging camp for running away from a turpentine man" Pope said he saw Tabert whipped. was with him when he died and was one of those who bathed him preparatory for burial. The blood from his wounds had seeped through his night clothes and the bed sheet looked as if a piece cof “bloody beef had lain on it.” W. . Mathews. former steel gang foreman at the camp, thought until an lhour before he appeared before the committee that the man he saw given 117 blows by Higginbotham was, Tabert, but that he got Into an “ar- gument” with another man who wit- nessed it, named Reeves, just before his appearance before the committee and had come to the conclusion that it was a boy called “South Carolina” Boatright who recelved that flogging. the thirteen months he was em- ployved by the company he said he saw virtually every one of the some 200 convicts whipped and not one, to his knowledge, was held to the regu- lation ten blows, the floggings aver- aging around fifty or sixty blows. He based his first opinion that it was Tabert he had seen whipped on the fact that he saw Tabert after death and his head was bruised and lacer- ated and his nose broken. It was fre- auently the practice for Higgin- botham to piace his foot on the neck of the victim, he testified. 1. B. vurch testified from the view- point of an experienced whipping boss, but now retired and farming in Taylor county. He worked for the ! DE ROODE, IN $52,000 The big plane left the ground heading south, but owing to a heavy wind, witnesses sald, it was evident | that the pllot realized that he could not clear the Herman avenue bridge just south of McCook Field, and sought to turn his plane to avoid crashing into it. The strong wind caught the machine and twisted it ! into a nose dive, which ended in the river. All the men in the plane had para- | chutes on their backs, but were un- | able to use them on account of the | suddenness of the fall and the near- | ness of the plane to the ground. The crew were plunged into the water, most of them out of the ship, as the bodles were seen to come to the surface one by one. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assist- ant chief of the air service, and| Maj. L. W. McIntosh commandant at McCook Field, were the first air service officers to reach the scene. Gen. Mitchell was at first reported in the plane, but it was later learned | that he was lunching near McCook | Field. Gen. Mitchell immediately appoint- ed a board of investigation to deter- i (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) —_———— FRAUD CASE, INSANE By the Associated Pres e BALTIMORE, April 21.—Louis Rem- sen de Roode, charged with obtain- ing $52,000 under false pretenses from five local brokers, has been declared insane. This conclusion was given de Roode's attorneys Friday, follow- ing a four-hour mental and physical examination of the defendant at the city jall by Dr. Percy R. Smith, psycheatrist of the United States Pub- lic Health Hospital at Perryville. Dr. Smith was appointed by Chief Judge James P. Gorter and Judge Charles F. Stein of the supreme bench, ' Putnam company four weeks as offi- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Dancers Shuffle to Marlboro, ShuMing their way steadily along toward thelr goal of 100 hours’ con- tinuous dancing, Washington's four contestants for international honors had danced themselves out of Wash- ington and into Maryland early this morning, and were still going strong. The “Coliseum bunch,” composed of Elsie Weber, Eddie Fluery, Walter Keffer and William S. Farrell, hopped into waiting touring cars, with tops thrown back, when midnight neared, and were whisked away from a rear sntrance of the Coliseum, with a mul- titude of curiosity seekers in auto- fnobliles vainly trying to follow. The three machines were spotted by two wigllant cops near the Capitol, who started after them in swift pursuit. The machines separated, ouiguessed the cops, met again on the road to Marlboro, and when that village was reached empticd their “crews of | steadily shuMing contenders into the dancing hall at Duckett’s, a road house. There an orchestra, waiting, ,roko into wyild- jass music and with as personal alienist to De Roode to ascertain his sanit: bertson’s plan. The President was about to depart for Florida. A deci- sion in the mafter was held up pend- ing his return to Washington. Friday afternoon the President called /in the members of the commission and went fully into the matter of procedure. The statement issued at the White House yesterday covers the decision of the President It follows: White House Statement. “At a conference Friday afternoon at the White House, President Hard- ing considered with the Tariff Com- mission a program to put into effec- tive operation the flexible provisions of the tariff act of September 21, 1923. The President laid stress upon the usefulness of this statute to the public, the producer and the con- sumer, and indicated a strong desire to see it fully applied. “Petitions and applications for in- crease or reduction in rates are to be considered by the commission in accordance with the executive order of October 7 to determine whether formal investigatfons are warranted. If the nature of the subject so re- quires, the commission will exercise the power to limit the inquiry or broaden it to include related subjects. “In cases where no petition has been filed, whenever a preliminary survey discloses sufficient grounds, under the law, the commission, after a conference with the President, will order such formal investigations un- der section 315 as the facts may warrant and the public interest re- quire. “Each formal investigation, how- ever instituted, will begin with an order giving public notice to all in- terested parties.” Can Start Investigations. It is clear from this statement that there is no intention to limit the com- mission in its investigations to sub- jects upon which applications for change in duties have been filed with the commission. It is just as clear that the commission has the author- ity to initiate investigations, follow- ing conference with the President. The commission is authorized, the statement says, to order formal in- vestigations under the flexible pré- visions whenever a preliminary sur- vey—such as are made by. the com- mission constantly into all manner of subjects—discloses sufficient grounds, and after conference with the Presi- Slipping Crowds and Police renewed vim the dancers started again on the gruelling task of lasting each other out. The two men at the Arcade—|dent Aubrey Gilbert, a marine, and Joset| Specific mention is made in the state- Boltrotsky, a former soldier—sole | ment of the authority of the com- survivors of the merry group which | mission, when considering subjects started so gayly Wednesday night,|upon which application has been were hustled out of the dance hall | made for a change in duties, to limit and rushed to an apartment house on | the inquiry or to broaden it to include Belmont street, where it was under- | Telated subjécts. This is interpreted stood they were to continue their |88 §iving the commission full author- dance unmolested by the crowds (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) which choked the Arcade all night. They were removed from the Ar- cade by a ruse which included the| HARVEY WILL SAIL sending of two men as “decoys” out of the back door of the hal Into a FROM LONDON MAY 3 waiting truck. A dense crowd took out after the truck, and other on-|Ambassador to Return to United lookers were more bewildered by the Btates ona Teave of: suspicious actions of a second truck which also left the Arcade. Absence. In the meantime the men were| LONDON, April 21.—The American placed in automobiles and, still shuf- | ambassador, George Harvey, who is fling along, taken to the apartment|going to the United States on leave house, where they were reported early | of absence, plans to sail May 3, it was today as -still going it strong. learned foday. = f PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S Fige: Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. ROTOGRAVURE—S Pages. World Events in Pictures, COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mr. and Mn. WATER GRAVE YARD CLUETOVOODOOISM More Bones Discovered Crisfield, Md,, Pond—0f- ficers Quiz Negroes. Special Dispatch to The Btar. CRISFIELD, Md, April 21.—Hand- fuls of human bones, undeniably those of infants, have been gathered from a pond on the outskirts of this little city. There were bones of every de- scription. Little ribs were gathered out of the muck to be washed and laid beside others, including a skull. And the number of them gave rise to the belief that the pond had been used as burial place of many infants. The finding of the bones followed closely on the discovery in the same waters of the bodies of two colored infants late Thursday. These bodies were tied in a sack, which also con- tained the head of a colored child, five or six years old. Police here say they have informa- tion which leads them to believe that “Voodooism™ was practiced by negroes in or near Crisfleld. “We have several under suspect in connection with this phase of the supposed crime,” said Chief of Police James W. Kirwin, “and we intend to go into it thoroughly. Negroes Being Questioned. Police and offictals who are investi- gating already have had one man, a ‘egro, before them for a grilling. Negroes throughout the city are be- ing questioned to learn if thg dead infants had been human sacrifices to the relic of barbarism from dark- est Africa and the West Indies. There are some here who accept the “Voodoo” theory without ques tion. The negroes are bound . to silence by scme cabalistic oath of a sorcerer or doctor of witchcraft. It_was ohildish ourlosity of three _ (Continued on Page %, Column 1) _lfeeling in Japan. Page 2, Column 3.) How to Play fascinating old game Monday’s Star i BY Also Known as Mah Jongg BY L. L. HARR The first of a series of articles on this night at 1634 I street, at which he‘ told members that his dream of a : Washington that would “bump” Bal- ! timore, and would include z\lexln-‘ dria, was at last in sight. g Replying for the citizens of Wash- | ington, Theodore W. Noyes assured | the association that the people of the |near Willow Tree alley and its pla: capital would work whole-heartedly and with thelr best efforts with any v.crth while plan for the future de- lopment of the cit: JAPAN LANDS 16,000 | TROOPS IN RUSSIA! Enter Alexandrovsk, Opposite Is- land Long in Controversy, Says Dispatch. | I the Associated Press. MOSCOW, April 21.—A dispatch | from Chita, seat of the Far Eastern Republic, reports that a Japanese expedition of 16,000 men has landed at Alexandrovsk, in the Priamur ter- ritory, opposite the northern part of the Island of Sakhalin. X Hanihara Japan, | when advised of the report ifrom | Chita by way of Moscow that an Ambassador of expedition of 16,000 Japanese had been landed near Shangalin, said he had no advices of such & movement and was certain that the report was incorrect. Japs Seised Island. The Island of Sakhalln was divided by the treaty of Portsmouth in 1905, by which the Russian government ceded the lower half, or the territory lying south of the parallel of 50 de- grees north latitude, to Japan. Dur_ ing the war the Japanese seized the northern half ostensibly to protect the Czechoslovakian forces in the course of their retreat, as well as the Japanese subjects who were at that time in Siberi& The strategic importance of = the island has caused it to figure largely in the discussion of far eastern ques- tions and upon the recognition. of the far eastern republic by soviet Russia in 1920 the Japanese let it be known that they did not regard Sakhalin included within the territory-of the new republic. The government of the far eastern republic was abolished last November, the assembly at Chite voting to join soviet Russia. Recently the soviet gavernment granted an oll concession on the is- land to the Sinclair oil interests, and dispatches from Japan at the time indicated that this had caused some feeling in Japan. Pung Chow of China appears in The Entire Series Contains Eighteen Lessons t " o the National Capital. who was passing the vards, and told Testerday - afternoon threescore|Of the fire. Before Mrs. English men and women, all civic leaders m!“‘“‘d dress, the house they ocoupled Washington and other cities, some;Was blazing. English succeeded in from as far west as Kansas City, removing half a dozen animals from were driven over the city in auto-|the stables. ' The rest of the horses biles, visiting the points considered | Were burned to death. |Of greatest interest, from the slums| oy P The fire started in the northwest, corner of the yards. About the time| that Fowler saw the flames, J. A. Mc- Gee and P. F. O'Connor, passing down Rhode Istand avenue, saw the flames shooting up from the yards and turned in an alarm from a box at the corner of 2d street and Rhode Island avenue. The first alarm was followed in a few minutes by a second, a third and finally a general alarm which brought apparatus from every part of the city. Meanwhile, when the proportions of | the fire were learned, Inspector Har- rison, of Headquarters, sent in a gen- eral alarm for police reserves who brought rushing in machines from every city precinct. They had a job on their hands keeping fire lines main- tained as the flames, shooting high and visible from every section of the oity, brought thousands of specta: tors on foot and in automoblles. Orphan Asylum Near, ground to the aristocratic residences |in the northwest section of the cit Summing up the svmposium pre- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) lANGlEY 10 PRESS DRIVE FOR BUILDING Says Time Is Ripe for Gov- ernment to Stop Paying Rent Here. Declaring that the time had arrived “when Congress should authorize a building program for the District of Columbia, having in view ultimate housing of all government activities here.” Chairman Langley of the House committee on public buildings and grounds, in a statement last The fire was spectacular in every respect. On a hill not far from the lumber yards is located the orphan asylum of St. Vincent's, with its five night, announced his intentions to | °F, 8IX hundred inmates. Although “reinroduce in the next Gongress my | (19 PILCS Was in 10 actual danger at bills for these purposes whish I 1u. |27 time, the flames threw a bright troduced at the last session, and press | IENt 0f the side of the asylum walls, them for early considerution.” and '““’h‘:;"“ ‘“ “‘:" “‘;‘ it oo e Sttt _ [ woutd catcn afire from the sparks. ley, “that the construction by the | ThS, Yarehouse of Burr Brothers government of a number of buildings in Washington s imperatively neces- sary, including an archives building, a spacious office bullding, a building for the housing of the general ac- counting system, the internal reve- nue force, the Departments of Jus- tice, Labor and Agriculture, ‘Would Save Rentals. A bullding program to house all government activitles here in gov- ernment-owned buildings, Mr. Lang- ley said, “would not only save the large rentals that are now being paid annually by the government, but it would” inure- greatly to the eco- nomical expedition of government work, which cannot be had so long as various units of the different branches.of the service are scattered hither and thither in different and sometimes in more or less inaccessible parts of the city, to say nothing of the lack of sanitary and fireproot | facilities. These buildings should, of | course, be constructed as far as prac- ticable on land already owned by the e | government,” and they - should, of course, harmonize with the general plans for the Arlington Memorial bridge and.the other structures al- ready completed. or in contemplation which are. in" keeping with the gen- eral program of the Fine Arts Cam- mission and other experts and with ‘what seems to be practically the unanimous sentiment of Congres Mr. Langley is of the opinion that the Botanic Garden should not only be retained its present location, but that additional land to the south- ward -should be acquired, cultivated and beautified, o0 as to make that Special Dispatch to The Star. NORTHAMPTON, Mass, April 21.— Vice President Calvin Coolidge and his friends in New England are con- siderably disturbed over the gossip that the republican ticket should be strengthened In 1924 by substituting for Coolidge as President Harding’s running mate & midwestern man, preferably a pragressive. Mention of other names sends cold shivers down the spines of New England Repub- lican; leaders. The suggestion of dropping Cool- 1dge has started a lot of lively specu- lation. The talk of a new deal on the national ticket next year prompt- 1y brought from the Vice President the statement “of course, Mr. Hard- ing will be renominated and re- elected.” But-that was'“days ago. And up to date Mr. Harding has not in turn declared for the renmomina- tion of Mr., Coolidge, much tog the discomfiture of the latter’s support- ers. Frankly, they say the Presi- dent ought to come out falrly and squarely for thelr man. They say they will not be satisfled with eva. sion and are inclined to look for a way to compel a showdown. The chief reason suggested for dropping Coolidge is that Massa- chussets now has too many leading plnel—the Vice Presidenocy, the .<a~4wv { the crowd. It looked for a time as it the whole city had turned out in au- tomobiles. Rhode lsland avenue was Llocked with the machines and traffic was at @ standstill for hours. Men in dress suits, women in boudoir caps. children in their nighties, staring sleepily, were there. Seize Hold-up Man. A disturbante was created in the crowd when the fire was at its helght when some man in the dense crowd shouted “Murder!” at the top of his voice. Half a dozen policemen rush- ed toward the spot and found two men on top of a third. Some man had attempted a hold-up in the thick of the crowd, and two others had seen him and jumped on him. The hold-up man, whose name was not learned, was taken to No. 10 precinct and locked up. Chief Watson pronounced the firo un der control at 3:10, over two hours after the first alarm had been sounded. Officials of the company, W. A. Pierce, president, and Percy Thompson, a vic president, were early arrivals on the scene. Neither would estimate the dam- age. The company offices, housed in a brick building, were partly burned, but rec- ords and files of the company were e moved undamaged. LENIN'S FEVER HIGHER. e By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, April 21.—It was an nounced today that during the past two days there had been a rise in the tem- perature of Premier Lenin to 37.8 centi- srade (100.04 Fahrenheit), which had resulted in a certain general weakness. but that despite this the improvement in his speech and in the movement of truckers, which immediately adjoins the right arm and leg was continuous. Friends Resent Rumor That ‘Cal’ Will Not Be Vice President Again speakership of the House, the Sec- retary of War and the leadership of 'the Senate majority. There are certain friends of Mr. Coolidge, however, who want him to step down and run for the Senate against Senator David I. Walsh, but S0 far the Vice President has re- fused to Indicate how he feels to- ward such a proposal. Change in Man, Calvin Coolidge never has been des feated in a political contest, but he always has been prepared to accept defeat. Two years in Washingtofi have changed him, his neighbors sa. He {8 a little more communicative. His smile has grown into a chuckle and he is more of an optimist than in the old days. He resents sugges- tions the last Congress was of the o-nothing” oharacter. He will bombard you with facts and figures to show that no other Congress equalled the Sixty-seventh in its ac- complishments. He s strenuous in defending the President, citing innumerable in- stances to prove that Warren G. Harding not only {s & man with back- bone, but that he works and worries over public questions as hard as any of his predecessors, not excepting Roosevelt. 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