Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1923, Page 2

Members of Merchants and, Manufacturers’ Association Off on Trade-Boosting Trip to Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland Boosters Off on Water Trip For Business and Pleasure With busines: officials of the c er Midland is ste tomao river today. Booster outing of the men and government | Neale, Carl Droop, John . Dunn, v aboard, the steam- | Joseph A. Fisher, 3. G. Gibbs, I L @ Goldheim, E. C. Graham, M. E. Hor- ming down the Po- | 4, Kafka, F. V. Killlan, with the annual | Phili . Henry Lansburgh, M. E. Merchants and | Leese. Louis Le L Manufacturers Association as its | 35 Charles W. Semmes, Sidne chiet mission. Away from the busi-|Zinmay KIn® Eugene Youns, Bess cares for w week end, the busi- | The boosters 1 F. Alexander, H. ness m e e ok len, W. P. Ames, R. P. Andrews, Eaes Ao let loose for a |y b Uglear, Dr. George A, Baker, W. L. Batchelor, Frank Baum. J. M. Beall, Isaac Behrend, Melvin Behrend: R B. Behrend, A. E. Beitzell, G. C Benzinger, Joseph A. Berberich, Andrew J. Beyer, Dr. J. Rozler BIggs, G. W. Bonnette, H. L. Bonney, Harry F. Boyer, M. J. Bouchard, D. W. Bowle, Thomas W. Brahany, Bruce Branson, Louis A. Brown, Norman E. Bull, Charles L. Finney, Joseph A. Fisher, W. Forsberg, A. Freedman, J. N. eedman, aac Gans, . Georges, Frank E. Ghls p bbs, Judge Willlam C. Gloth, §. E. Godden, 1. L Goldheim, E. . Graeves, C. L. Grant, B. H. Gruv H. Guggenheim Henry Hanford, Mitchell Hanson, F. W Harper, Robert N. Harper, Fred L. Harveyeutter, Michael Heister, Ernest E. Herrell, Lee Herrell, Fred A. Hes- sick, Louis A. Hill, Bynum E. Hinton, Achille E. Burklin, A. M. Burklin, Jr. Thomas W. Cadick, Morris Cafritz, 3. C. Callahan, Morgan B. Callahan, Willtam H. Callahan, P. J. Callan, H. H. Campbell, John J. Cannon, Wililam H. Clarke, J. E. Collifiower, Charles J. Columbus, Col. C. Fred Cook, Harry M Crandall, apt. Cornelius T. Daly, George S. De Neale, I. 8. Dengler, Mark Dobrin, M. M. Doyle, William T. Doyle, Jullus H. Duehring, John S Dunn, F. H Ehlers, George Emmois, Nelson Em- mons, Edwin G. Evans, H. H. Falcone: John W. Fenton, Frank I. Fenwick, Harry L. Hoffman, Herbert Hollander, James R. Hooper, M. E. Horton, C. L. Houser, Robert A. Humphries, Charles Jacobsén, Chris F. Jacobsen, C. T. Jess Ernest Johnston, . Johnston, J. T Jones, A. F. Joross, Theodore Judd, M H. Kafka, Charles E. Kendrick, F. V. Killian, George P. Kiilian Sam Kimbe ley, Frank H. Kimmel, Willlam M. Kline, Richard_L. Lamb, Willlam F. Lane, Henry Lansburgh, M. A. Leese, D B. K. Leon, J. J. Bernard Lerch, M. J. Lerch, Harold H. Lev!, Luther W. Link- ins, A. Linsenmever, Roger D. Little, Harry J. Loeb, R B. H. Lyon, Guy M. MacDowell, aynard, James R. Mays, A. C. McElroy, G. Percy McGlue, John J. Mclnerney, John P. McMahon, N. Miles, J. H. Miller, F. T. Mitchell, Willtam J. Mooney, Howard Moran, liam_L. Morrison, James M. Mount, H. Neumeyer, Jr.; John L. New Alvin L. Newmeyer, Bert L. Olmste L. G. Ostermayer, Claude W. Ow Frank Owings, James F. Oyste Ferd. W. Parker, John J. Payette, A. Payne, F. M. Pelrce, Leester_G. Perley, John P. Perry, Fernand Petit, P. C. Phillips, George E. Potter, Ben L. Prince, Milton I Redman, = Stuart Reed, John H Reeder, Samuel P. Richards, Frank F. Roge Dr. Joseph D. 'Rogers, D. Rosenberg, Sol Rosenberger, orge A. Rucker, W. W. mmisioner Cuno H. Rudolph, Russell, R. W. Sample, John A. acfer, Melvin I. Schlossberg, W. hmucker, Herman Schrot, Jack ulman, Charles T. Schwartz, Cla ence W. Scally, S. M._Selinger, C. W West, amuel n have been day and two nights of fun and recrea- tion the water, the boat is thelrs, The trip will e punctuated by three stops, two on the castern shore of Maryland, when the Boosters will acqu lace with the advantage trlp to the National Capital, wh ure can be inter- spersed wi ess Sail Away At 4 0'Clock. the trip assembled at the yesterday after- finary arrange- pass through the ordeal of having a photograph taken for preservation in the archives of the associatton. Promptly at 4 o'clock Brig, Gen, Anton Stephen, president of the association, gave the signal to the captain to proceed As the ves- sel moved slowly into ths stream the Dietrict fireboat Firefighter left her dock to act as éscort out of the har- Dor for the Boos a special honor to two © Commisstoners Wwho | were The fireboat steamed swift] ad of the steamer, sounding her siren, announcing the coming of the Midland with her busi- nees boosters aboard and warning all craft to make way And they all &ave way, too, for every nozzle on the Firefighter was turned out and streams of water reached to elther shore. Before the vessel cleared the dock, assignments of staterooms were made by Secretary Charles J. Columbus and e ything was ready for the fun to Jbegin. Many of the members, how- ‘ver, took advantage of the early sail- ing time to observe the scenery of the upper Potomac in daylight Everything has been done for the “comtort and pleasure of the boosters, A sick bay was established, with the hope, of course, that it will not have to be used, and there are threa doc- tors aboard and & well arranged drug store has been get up. There are all the comforts of home avallable. Music Special Feature. Thers was plenty of music, and if #ome of the memb s return a_little hoarse it will be because W, L. Bchmucker has tried them out on singing. The bulkheads of the Mid- land resounded with voices of all de- tacriptions as the vessel sieamed down the Potomac and across the Chesa- enke bay for its first stop, Cam- ‘bridge, Md. which will be rfeached in tho ‘ordinary course at 6:30 o clock this morning. Oratory is barred on the ship, of ‘courss, but when the Stops are miade ithe censorship Is let down to permit imembers to tell the peopls what a ¥reat town Washington is in which to buy materials. A few outbreaks on tha vessel were promptly stopped by the censors, but some of the offend- ers proceeded under the ruse of prac- .ticing for the specches to be made at “the stops. Semmes, = Georgs Shearer, & Fdle There were plenty of games of all | Sherwood, Al Sigmund, Dr. E. H. ‘kinds going on until lats last night, | Silver, V. A. Sisler, Waiter P. Skin- under the direction of the ringmas- , T. A. Slyder, L. Smithers, Fred ter, Charley Columbus, who also was{ Spicer, R. M. Stamp, Sam Stein- the regulator, to see that all laws|berger, Gen. Anton phan, James and regulations, local and natfonal,) A. Sterrett, F. H. Stephens, C. M. were strictly complied with. How- | Stretmater, B. T. Strobel, Maj. ever, ho couldn't be in ull parts -¢|Daniel Sullivan, Arthur J. Sundlu the ship at once. No violations were | Harry W. Taylor, L. B. Taylor, A Teported. bert T. Tennyson, Albert k. Thomas, reanels ; G. Milton Thomas, W. F. Thompson, Easells RiIMCERLY Wiimot W. Trew, U. B. Waldecker, The ve in accordance With| John R. Waller, Walter S. Ward, R. sohedule, will lewve Cumbridge this | T "Warwick, Harry AL Watkins, morning at-9 o'clock, after, having | Verner A. Welte, Willlam Werner, given every one an opportunity 1o at: | Edwin Weést, jr. Capt. John T. West, tend church. It will arrive at Ox.| William = J.' Wheatley, James R. ford at 10 o'clock, where it will re- | Wheeler, F. P. Wilcox, W. R. Win- imain until moon.’ Then *he. vessel | Slow, Dr. William P. Wood, Wootten TP stonm aceess the bav. to ihe|E. Young. Sam Zirkin and Joseph C. ‘western shore and up the Patuxent|Zirkle. ALLONS SEIZED Tiver to Solomons Island, where it * IN TWO POLICE RAIDS ‘have been made there for motor boats Eighth Precinct Officers Arrest to take the hoosters on fishing trips, ‘which they will be permittéed to en- Three Men—All Released on Bond. W w Joy until 9 o'clock, when the home- "ward bound pennant will be “broken” 1o the breeze and the cruise down the bay to the Potomac and up to Wash- ington will begin. On the cruise down the river last ‘night the Boosters passed, off River- eide, Md, the U. S. S. Eagle 06, which left here yesterday afternoon ‘with members of the United States Naval Reserve in the District aboard, Who are on their annual training cruise. A number of men on the naval vessel In civil life are em- ployes of boosters who were aboard the Midland. The vessels exchanged ~whistle salutes, and the sailors man- med the rails in honor of Brig. Gen. Stephan, who commands the District Natlonal Guard. Officers and Other Principals. ‘The officers and board of governors of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association are: Gen. Anton Stephan, president; M. G. Gibbs, first ~vice president; M. E. Horton, second vice president; Charles J. Columbus, sec- retary; Louis Levy, treasurer; M. D. Rosenberg, general counsel; R. P. ‘Andrews, Joseph A. Berberich, Joseph A. Burkart, Achille Burklin, Arthur \Burt, J. C. Callahan, Charles F. Crane, N, Maxon Cunningham, O, J. De Moll, Goorge S. De_Neale, M. G. Gibbs, &‘;\E. C. Graham, F. W. Harper, Maurice “Kafka, Phillp King, M. A. Leese, Louls Levy, Henry T. Offterdinger, H. D. Ormsby, Charles W. Semmes, George C. Shaffer, Gen. Anton Stephan, Albert Tennyson, Sidney West, J. Lee Whitmore, John H. ‘Wiikins and Samuel Zirkin. The booster committee in charge of this outing follows: R. P. Andrews, chairman; Charles J, Columbus, seo- orbattch, Harry AL , Berberich, Harry Harry -Cuiininghariy:Geo: - Led by Acting Lieut. Sullivan, offi- cers of the eighth precinct last night raided a store at 2200 1ith street northwest and arrested Robert B. Gordon, colored, on charges of selling and illegal possession of Intoxicants. The raiding party seized seventeen gallons. Gordon later was released on $1,500 bond. Those taking part in the raid were Precinct Detectives Smith and Barbee, Policeman Tram- mell and Revenue Agent Hines. Police of the elghth precinct made another rald yesterday morning on a garage In the rear of 1942 2d street northwest, where they found a truck and seventy-one gallons of corn whisky. They arrested Albert Misher and Clarence Taper, said by the poe lice to live In Wiley courts northeast. Acording to Lieut. Sullivan, the garage on which the raid was made was rented by the men. They were charged with transporting and illegal posgession and the truck was con- fiscated. The.men were released on bond. Capt. Plemmons and Revenue Agent Hines took part in this raid. g 1 Neumeyer, ! Rucker, | i | | District .of Columbia oficl; ARBUCKLE ADNITS CABARET FALURE Will Start on Road Next as Leader of Fat Men’s Orchestra. CHICAGO, June 16—Roscos Ar- buckle admitted tonight that his sec- ond attempt to “come back’—this ne via the medium of the cabaret— Is a failure. The former Falstaft of the movies cannot transfer his slapstick comedy from _the silent screen to the runway of a cabaret and so, when he completes his local engagement, he will give up the task. But this does not mean that Ar- buckle is through as & public enter- tainer. Rebuffed in his efforts to re- enter the movles, he will essay an entirely new comeback. He plans to turn to musle, or at least music's syncopated stepchild, which is jazz. Will Form Orchestra. Arbuckle iIntends to form a fat man’s orchestra to be billed as “Ros- coe Arbuckle and his ton of har- nony.” He longs to get back to hls drum and traps, where, he thinks, he can show folks reel comedy. Tonight ir his dressing room whence he was preparing to emerge as a ballet dancer for the burlesque act wherein a custard pie figures. Arbuckle was asked about his “comeback.” “Do you think it has been a suc- cess " was the question. “Professionally, no,” he replied. ‘But the people have been very kind They have come out to see me, and they have been extremely generous in their applause. In return I have done best to amuse them In a poor act” Denies Fallure, Ernie Young, who promoted Ar- buckle's cabaret venture, is behind the jazzs orchestra idea. Young has lined up three heavywelght musiclans and is searching for elght more. When they are obtained, Arbuckle will head the orchestra and go immediately on the road. Young declares that Ar- baret venture has not been “If Arbucle had been a flop, I would bave known it the opening night two weeks ago,” he added, “but the re- ception he received was spontaneous.” (Copyright, 1923.) — ATTACKED ON STREET. Miss Edith Croft, 1026 8th street employed at Childs' restaurant, was struck and knocked down by a young negro man at 10th and H streets while on her way to work at 11 o'clock last night, Miss Croft told the police the negro grabbed her arm and made an in- sulting remark. He struck her, she eaid, when she screamed and broke away. The man fled, but the police were furnished with a good descrip- tion of him. BERLIN SEES FRENCH AIM TO STARVE RUHR By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 16—Starvation of the rural populace through more stringent trafiic regulations is being attempted by the French, according to a number of special dispatches appearing in Berlin newspapers to- night, in order to bring Germany to her knees. The correspomdents in the Ruhr who sent the dispatches the conviction that the ‘blockade” Dbeing designed to make the" people either start an insurrection or ap- peal to the Berlin government to submit to the Frénch terms for. mne- gotiations and abandon the passive resistance campaign. It is gener- ally agreed that these memsures will strengthen the people’s spirit of re- sistance, 4 and captain of the Midland. Capt. Willlam Geoughegan and Maj. Left to right: D.C.-BornLawyer Appointed Judge GUS A. SCHULDT. G. A. SCHULDT MADE NEW POLICE JUDGE clerk, & republican, who has directed the destinies of the court's executive forces for many years, holds tenue of office by appointment of the two judges and there is no suggestion that there will be any change in his office. He has served as chief clerk under a number of the judges and s ltkely to hold his position as _long as he wants it There are spveral appointments as bailiffs of the courts and several in_ the clerical forces which Judge Schuldt will be entitled to fill. Then there is an attractive position in the probation office that belongs to Judge Schuldt. The appointment of the balliffs,’ clerical force and other em- ployes is by mutual agreement b tween the two judges on a fifty- fifty basis. OFFICER'S SLAYER SHOT BY AVENGING RELATIVE By the Assoclated Press. BUENOS AIRES, June 16.—The as- sassination last January of Lieut. Col. Hector B. Varela of the Argentine army by an anarchist, Kurt Wilckens, was avenged today by a soldier rela- tive of Varela, who shot and possibly mortally wounded Wilckens while he was asleep in his cell in the jafl here. The soldier, Jorge Temperly, was sergeant under Varela when the lieutenant colonel put down the in- surrection of ranch laborers in Pata- gonla last year. It was the putting down of this insurrection that Wilckens gave as the motive for killing Varela, d scribing the lleutenant colonel as “ dangerous militarist.” ‘Temperly recently was assigned to duty as a guard in the jail where ‘Wilckens was confined pending final disposition of his case. MINE SUES COUNTY. MARION, IIL, June 16.—The South- ern Iilinols Coal Company today filed suit ih circuit court for $175,000 dam- ages against Willlamson county as a result of the Herrin mine rioting last .{l‘mm in.which twenty-six men were Commiasioners Oyster ullivan, chief of police. and Rudolph, | PYTHANS DEDGAT * DU MENORAL Lodges Pay Honor at Grave| of Supreme Officer in E Cemetery Here. The Supreme Lodge and the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, | Knights of Pyvthias, vesterday after-| noon dedicated a memorial to Edward Dunn, past supreme chancellor of the fraternity, in Congressional cemetery Mr. Dunn died here June & 1922 i Commissioner v a . Plummer | of the United S hipping Board supreme representative in the!| Knights of Pythias made the princi- pal address. Mr. Plummer dficlured’ the deceased fraternal officlal “did | that which has de him a h"llflfflt'v. tor of all mankind” by his “faith, per- sistance and creative force more than a helf a century ago” in caring for the tiny fraternal twig “which now | has grown to be A glant tree, be- neath the beneficent shade of which mora than a million brethren have found help and happiness.” Saved Order From Death. When the Knights of Pythias was in infancy, it was in danger of dving, but Commissioner Plummer said Mr. Dunn “more than any other { man saved this order. Thus he made possible its growth to rugged youth |and stalwart manhood; and he lived | to ses it stand forth as one of the | world's greatest fraternities—saw it | achieving a work the full grandeur | of which may not now be measured. | He was one of those who were faith- {ful when no rewards, no glory, no | honors invited membership service in | this obscure organization.” | In closing his address, Mr. Plummer said: “May Pythianism continue to enroll upon its new world-spanding roster Knights who shall be worthy successors of Past Supreme Chan- cellor Edward Dunn.” Marine Band Pl The exercises were called to order by Ellery W. Helss, and the invoca- tlon and benediction_were given by | Rev. E. Hez Swem. Before and dur- ing the program the United States Marine Band played. Mr. Dunn was born in Philadelphia in 1836, but had lived in Washing- ton virtually all his life. He had a distinguished record in the United States Marine Corp, which was rep- | Bridge road, NEW SCHOOLS WILL NEITHER BIG PARTY |SAWMOUNTBURIED, OPENIN SEPTEMBER Rooms to Accommodate 2,500 Pupils Being Rushed for Readiness in Fall. Seven new buildings, designed to accommodate more than 2,500 chil- dren, will open their doors in the fall to help relleve the congestion exist- ing for several years in the District public school system. The assurance was given last night by Municipal Architect Albert L. Har- ris, who said work Is going forward 7apidly on all of the bullding projects thorized by Congress a year ago. All of the structures under way may {not be ready for use when the school ungsters back from play | bell calls the y in September, but Mr. Harris promised that the finishing touches would be applied and the children admitted be- fore the scholastic vear Is far ad- vanced. Contain Seventy-two Rooms. The buildings under construction contain a total of seventy-two class- rooms. Estimating forty pupils to a room, they will provide seats for 2,880 boys and girls Here are the schools on which me- chanics are now working at full speed Langley Junjor High. streets northeast, twent exclusive of shops: cost, $300,000. Macfarland Junfor High, Iowa ave- nue between Allison and Upshur streets, twenty classrooms and shops; cost, $300,000. Lovejoy, 12th between D and E streets northeast, elght rooms; cost, $115,900. Garrison, 12th between R and S streets northwest, eight rooms; cost, $136,350. Henderson, 18th and Newton northwest, eight rooms. Third-story addition to the Thom- n School, 12th and L streets, six ns: cost. $75,269. Chain_ Bridge School, two rooms Work Done Rapldly. By working his drafting force overtime Mr. Harris has succeeded in getting all of work authorized in the 1923 appropriation act under way be- fore the end of the fiscal year. With the dawn of the new fiscal year still two weeks off, the drafts- men already are wielding their pen. cils and trlangles on plans for th bullding authorized in the 1924 ap- propriation act. The municipal 1st and T reets r on Chaln architect will cali for bids not later than October 1 for, the twenty-two-room addition to Western High School, which should be ready for occupancy in Septem- ber, 24. This structure will cost $650,000. Bids will be sought September 1 for a new 16-room grade school at Spring road and Rock Creek Church road, to cost $130,000. Some time in August plans will be ready for an addition to the Arm- strong Manual Training School, col- ored, on P street, between Ist and 2nd streets northwest, to cost $500,000. e Y. W. C. A. BUILDING SOLD FOR $425,000 (Continued from First Page.) new administration building, which will contain a swimming pool and all up-to-date activities of the asso- ciation, the E street branch at 614 E street northwest, will serve as headquarters of the local organiza- tion. It will be occupled as such by June 25, it was stated. resented at his funeral last year and at the exercises yesterday. The joint committee of the Supreme Lodge and the Grand Lodge, which ar- ranged and conducted the services, was composed of Ellery W. Helss, John M. Kline, William™ A, Kimmel, Oden B. Gray, Brig S. Young, Ed- ward C. Plummer, J. Ed. Richardson, John B. Dickman and Perry P. Pat- rick. COMMUNISTS SPOIL PARIS RECEPTION TO MAYORS By the Aseoclated Press. PARIS, June 16.—A reception given by the city of Parls to the mayors of the surrounding suburbs today was spolled by a party of commu- nists who made so much noise while Minister of the Interior Maunoury was speaking that the guards were called to clear them out. Communist members of the cham- ber of deputies led the demonstration by orgaanising a chorus to sing the “International” when the minister ar- rived, but a military brass band came to_hia rescue with the “Marseillaise.’ Minor speakers were reduced to pers‘)lrln( ‘wrecks by constant inter- ruptions from the communists, but The free rooms registry depart- ment, the membership department, the offices and club rooms of the business girls’ division, as well as the offices of the director of health education, are being housed in the E street building. The Girl Reserve offices and club- rooms for the ‘“Teen-age” girls of the association have been given quarters with a spacious porch and lawn at the Elizabeth Somers Asso- clation residence, 1104 M street. The business office’ of the organization is also to be located there. The Y. W. C. A, has leased a site at 1311 G street, next to Epiphany Curch, where, on July 2, the cafeteria will be opened on the fourth floor of this same bullding, the Y. W. C. A. School will be located and the regu- lar classes and courses will be held there the opening 'of the fall term. The department of religous education is also on the fourth floor of 1311 G street. Although moving necessitates cl ing the F street building and su: pending cafeteria, information desk and the many other kinds of service rendered daily to the public there after June 26, those prl vllag(s- may be found 614 E street. (ember- ship renewals, registrations for vaca- tions at vacation lodge, free service to girls looking for rooms and to the housekeeper desiring to rent rooms, classrooms, | FFERS WE HOPES Even Gov. Al Smith Admits E Country Still Continues | Dry in Sentiment. 1 | BY ROBERT T. The tide of SMALL. which many persons thought would sweep the country on the heels of Gov. Al Smith's actlon in signing the dry law repealer in New York state, has signally failed to materialze. Even Gov. Smith himself has found it necessary to drop the intimation to some of his more enthusiastic fol- lowers that “the general sentiment of the country still seems to be dr An attempt to rush a dry law re- | pealer through the Illino's legisla- ture came to grief. A simlar at- tempt in supposedly wet Wisconsin has been met with a significant de- lay Gov. Smith's Lick, Ind., has no movement in progross to make him the wet candidate for President of the United States on the democratic ticket. On the other hkand, eve s0 “damp” an_ enthusiast as Tom Tag- gart himself has issued a statement saying that Indlana is for Senator Samuel L. Ralston firsr, last and ail the time—und Senator Ralston is a dry “wetness’” French arrival at found any viol Indiana's Attitude. nith, but it has let him know in veral significant ways that Indlana democracy will not join in the mak- ing of & wet presidential candidate nor In any attempt to nuilify the elghteenth amendment. When a man like Tom Tagaart lets it be known that he will have nothing to_do with a movement to liberalize the democratic platform, it can be seen that the hopes of the pronounced ‘“‘wets” in are doomed to the direst sort of failure Although Taggart for years | been regarded as a liberal of liberals, it is recalled that when In- dlana frst voted dry it was due to | Taggart's influence in democratle members of the legls- lature to the arid side that brought { about the atate's first prohibition | law. It is possible that Taggart may have different views on the modtfication_of the Volstead act. but if he hag he has never disciosed them publiciy. It is certain that he does not balleve the demooratic | party can afford to clamber aboard la wet band wagon at thls time The developments of the week in Indiana, Illinoi® and Wisconsin a both significand and interesting. They indicate vary plainly that a wet wave cannot aet very far from the northern Atlantic seaboard. Therefors, the fra=ly made pre- dictions of ‘the last few days that the next presidential campaign will be fought out on the Wwet and dry question, leaving other national and international issues iu the discard are not based upon a kmowledge of conditions in the couniry at large G. 0. P. to Be Boive Dry. It is conceded that the% republican | party will be bone-dry iW the nest | campaign. President Havtling and various other leaders have said The G. 0. P. will stand on' a pi form for probibition enforceqent up to_the hilt. It is also certain that varlons wet elements within _the demowratic party—and some of these ele: have great Influence—will ma effort to capture the democratic (3on vention of 1924, both In the mather of platform declarations and t& ingly liberal views. But, disappointing as It may be the wet adherents, even the most casual survey shows that the demo- cratio party nationally will repulse all wet onslaughts, and will come before the people almost, if not quite, as dry as the republicans. It is all very well to say that a wet democratic candidate, carrying a few of the populous states of the east and the solid south, could be elected to the presidency; It is all very well to assume that the south will vote for a democrat, be he wet or be he dry, but the amateur poli- ticians, who are fixing things up so beautifully, have first got to figure out how an avowed wet can win the democratic nomination over the pro- test of the dry west and the sull dryer south. it requires a two-thirds vote to win the democratic presidential nomination. There is absolutely no possibility of two-thirds of the delegates to the next democratic convention being wet, or even moderately damp. It is doubtful if even one-third will be wet or damp. Therefore there will issue from the convention neither a wet platform nor a wet candidate This situation is thoroughly under- stoad by the old hands at the demo- cratic wheel. It is admitted that if he were physically capable, Woodrow Wilson might win a third democratic nomina- tion, but he is the only moderately wet person who could. In Wilson's case, the larger policies to which he would be expected to devote himself would outweigh his liberal views on prohibition. Cold Analysts. The wet enthusiasm of the east, the climax came when M. Maunoury|club activities—in short, everything |Waxes warm every now and then as attempted to speak. ‘The communists littered the build- ing - with handbills extolling the that ever went on in the F street building, will function in the new location. Friends of the F street New York, New Jersey or Massachu- setts does some wet thing, but all of this enthusiasm fades when met by Black sea mutineer, Andre Marty, building are invited to visit the new |the facts of a cold analysis. who is serving a senteuy for treasom.” headquarters. This much can be put down as cer- Indiana has been hospizible io Gev. | this direction | throwing the| wents | a an| naming of a candidate of exceed- Youthtin Arizona Declares He Can Identify Students in Death Mystery. { By the Associated Pres CHICAGO, June 16.—Assistant State < Attorney Charles S. Wharton left Ct cago tonight for Clifton, Ariz., to i vestigate report of B. H. Rouw there that he was an eyewlitness to wha police believe Leighton Mount, versity student, under a pier in | anston, in September, 1921 Rouw reported to State's Attornex Robert E. Crowe today that he saw four boys lower a bLody under the pier the night Mount disappeared after a class rush, and that several others “with funny-looking caps” were standing about. He could lden- tify at least four of them, he sald. This message, coming shartly after a coroner’s jury had found that Mount “came to his death at the hands of some person or persons un- known” and a grand jury had investi- gated the mysterious disappearance of the student without results, is be- o be one of tho strongest inearthed since the Investiga- as started after a skeleton, be > that of Mount, was found r several weeks ago. Traced to Arizonn. “We traced Rouw to Arizona” Wharton said, “and told authorities to communicate with him and have him tell the state's attorney’s office whether he knew anything about the Mount case. The message today was our first response. “His statement that he can identify at least four persons involved would {make it appear he was an eye-wits ness to the death or burial of Mount." 1w was not a student at Northa but a visitor in Evanston . he said, adding that he w he was wanted in the ci until informed by the State’s Attorney Crowe said will be reopened if Rouw's) D. el nder a | story | Rouw. statements attributed | him and quoted in Chicago newspas ! iade several conflicting < arding what he said ha | Eht Mount disappeared. Ona | statement attributed to him quoted | Rouw as saying he saw a group of | boys lower a body into the pler about sunset, while another credited him with saying the time was late in the evening. At one time he is sald to have stated he was driving along the lake in an automobile with a friend, while another statement quotes him | as saying he was alone. i Says He Told Pblice. | _Rouw is said to have informed | Evanston police of what he saw, und | was told by the policeman at the s: tion that “if we investigated every | time the boys up at the university played a prank, we'd have no time t protect the citizens and keep law and order in Evanston.” ! Rouw is reported to have claimed | that he was so_close to the party cn {the pier that he will have no diff {culty fn identifying at least four, He |is said to have distinguished the rea ‘| hair of one student, noticed that a: | other was fat and he disinguished tl.- features of others. Rouw forgot about what he had |seen on the pier, he fs reported to | have said, when he saw no referencs to it in the newspaper stories abou the class rush the next morning. | ——— e ULSTER PARTIALLY DRY. BELFAST, June 16.—The new Mliquor laws having recelved royal i\ ssent, Ulster will go partially arv |temorrow. All publio houses will be clased on Sunday hereafter, and onlv | guasts in hotels will be allowed re | freahments of that kind. RIRES SWEEP VILLAGE. LAC \AU SAUMON, Quebec, June 16. This vA'lage, in which several miils are locared, was partly destroved by forest firy's today. taln. Thereh can be no change in the national proh ibitlon laws until some section of thes country known as dry territory turnst completely around an becomes wet. (It means nothing for New York and New Jersey merely to continue wet. ThaY have always been regarded as wet At sentiment. Their continuing to maka wWet moves means absolutely nothinda to the great stretches of country* Which have been dry for many years, When Iowa or Kamyas or Nebraska or Georgia votes wet,’ then the anti- prohibitionists can ind4°d take heart. In other words, it wAll require a change in dry sentiment, to make the country damp. There BA'S been no such change. The _prohibition peopla’ are so pleased with the situation irA the Unit- ed States today that some of\them are salling soon for Copenhagen, Where they hope to lay plans to ma ke the whole _world dry. Old Mr. Ve'lstead himself is going, and WayAe B. Wheeler and E. C. Dinwiddie ama lots of others. Perhaps the wet mice will \Biay while the dry cats ars away. but \Aey won't get very far. \ (Copyright, 1928.) e a 4 BOY TELLS POLICE —