Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1923, Page 2

LIGHTVOTEISSEEN [*%r saren ion INMINNESOTA RACE 14 in Free-For-All Primary [ Today for Senate Seat; Big Fight-to Come. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn, June 1S.—Minne- Bota voters in a special primary to- day are selecting three men—a re- publican, & farmer-laborite and a democrat—to contest in the July 16 final election for-the unexpired term of the late Knute Nelson, senior United States senator, Fourteen candidates are seeking fa- vor at the polls today—nine on the republican ticket, three in the farm- er-labor fold and two bearing the democratic stamp. It is one of the greatest election free-for-alls in the state’s history. Folls opened at m., and before they close at 9 o'clock tonight ap- proximately 400,000 ballots are ex- pected to be marked. Unless there are exceptionally close races, the re- sult probably will be known definite- ¥ twelve to fifteen hours after the polls close. Preus Among Leaders. Recent political upsets in Minnesota have made “expert” prognosticators cautious, but they are agreed that Gov. J. A. O. Preus and Oscar Dallam, who recently resigned as a state supreme court justice, should furnish the main competition in the republican fight. Magnus Johnson, one of the farmer- labor candidates, ran only 14,000 votes behind Gov. Preus in the gubernatorial race last fall, and he and Dr. L. A. Fritsche, mayor of New Ulm, are con- stdered 'principal contenders in the Zarmer-labor group. James A. Carley of Plainview, state senator, has the indorsement of the democratic state organization for that party’s nomination, and party leaders say he will overwhelmingly defeat Francis Carey, Minneapolis attorney. Besldes Gov. Preus and former Jus- tice Hallam, the republican candi- dates are former Gov. A. A. Burn- quist, Representatives Sydney Ander- son and Thomas J. Schall, former Representatives Ernest Lundeen and Halver Steenerson, Victor Power, mayor of Hibbing, and John J. Mar- tin, Minneanolis attorney. The third farmer-labor candidate is former Representative C. A. Lindbergh. Predictions as to the probable size of the vote in today's primary are based on the apparent lack of inter- €8t in the election in the state as a whole, compared to that shown in most general elections. This condi- tion .is expected to cut the actual voters to one-half of the 800,000 eligible to vote. Big Fight Later. It is in the July 16 election that the main fight will come, and that will be-between the republican and farmer-labor candidates, as it has in recent regular elections, unless there s an unforeseen result in today's pri- mary. The farmer-laborites elected their first Minnesota senator to Congress last fall, when Dr. Henrick Ship- stead decisively defeated Senator Frank B. Kellogg. Dr. Shipstead will take his seat the same time the July 16 victor is sworn in. Senator Nelson's death lessened the repub- llean grip on the senate and party leaders are watching closely the re- sult of today's primary. Before the Anal election in July natlonally known “spell binders” are expected to campaign in the state for both the ~republicans farmer labor candidates. The senator chosen in the final election will hold office only until March 4 1925, when he will be suc- ceeded by a'senator chosen for a gixyear term in the fall election of DAUGHERTY’S SON FLE!ES SANITARIUM Leaps Into Car While .on Stroll With Attendant; No Effort to Find Him Expected. and By the Associated Press. STAMFORD, Conn.. June 15.—Offi- olals of the Stamford Hall Sanitarium ®aid today they did not expect any attempt would be made to locate Draper M. Daugherty, son of Attor- ney General Daugherty, who fled from the institution yesterday. Daugherty came to the sanitarium fn April at the direction of Probate Judge Bar- tram, who ordered him to spend six months at the institution after his wife and other relatives had made oomplaint to the court. Supt. Robinson of the sanitarium maid that Daugherty was given per- misslon yesterday to go for a walk with an attendant He met several friends in an automobile and stopped to talk with them. Then he jumped into the machine and was driven away. The attendant made no at- tempt to hold him, it was sald. Supt. Robinson said Daugherty had not permission to leave the attendant. He said he did not know of any pre- vious attempts by Daugherty toleave. the sanitarium. ©C1 Is Found. An automobile believed by the offi- gers of Stamford Hall Sanitarium to have been that used in assisting Draper M. Daugherty in leaving the institution yesterday was found to- day half a mile from the place. It had been abandoned beside the road. It was a coupe bearing a New York number. . The institution officers expressed the opinion that Daugherty had transferred from the coupe to an- other machine, which was in wait- ing. They say they intend to- try to locate him, as he is under court commitment. U. S. DRY LAW PROPOSAL DISCUSSED BY COMMONS | Suggested Treaty to Govern Carry- ing of Foreign Liquor in Amer- ican Waters Taken Up. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 18.—The proposal of the United States for a treaty where- by foreign vessels coutd carry liquor under seal in American territorial waters if the right of search was ‘extended to twelve miles from the coast’ was discussed in the house of cothmons today. Ronald McNelll, undersecretary for foreign affairs, in answer to a ques- tion, admitted such a treaty had been proposed. He said the' matter was under consideration and added that the question was not involved of al- tering international law with regard to territorial waters. The only ques- tion arising was with regard to. spe- olal treatment for the nationals of the two nations within territorial waters. A Hard Mental Job. From the Detrolt Free Press. Somehow it is pretty difficult stock !: (ll.’hunltrlfl:: PRESIDENT REVEALS (Continued from First Page.) 000,000 as late as May. The budget bureau set the estimated deficit at $697,000,000 last July, to which later was added $125,000,000 in payment on war savings stamps, which the budget felt ehould have been charged against several years, but which was finally added in a lump sum to thjs vear's flnuncing. In January the defieit was $92,000,000. Gen. Lord Spenkn. Tnstead of piling one deficiency bill on top of another, with frantic appeals at the last minute to Con- gress for funds to complete their fiscal year, government departments under budgetary reform have changed their system to try to live within their appropriations, Director Lord of the bureau of the budget declas in his address. This year, in_ fact the actual net deficiency for the whole government, he pointed out, was only $300,000. This amount was of course not the total of all supplemental and defi- ciency estimates, but did represent, he claimed, “the total of actual defi- clencies.” 4 ch a result, Gen. Lord declared, had been due to co-operation on tha part of all, in response to the Presi- dent’s_call for efficiency and econ- omy, which in_this particular item, he said, had been stressed by the President in a letter of April 30, 1921, as follows Dangerous Tendency. I do not know of any more danger- ous tendency in the administration of governmental departments, and I am very sure that we can never fix ourselves firmly on a basis of econ- omy until the departments are con- ducted within the provisions made by Congress.” Gen. Lord explained that since that call by the President “ihere has been a noticeable. continuing progressive reduction in the number and amount of deficiency estimates submitted to Congress.” “It 1s true,” he added, *‘there should have been a lessening of the number and amount of such Tequests as the war period receded, but constant ex- ecutive pressure to confine operations well within the limits of appropria- tions has been the controlling and de- termining faotor. This vear has been notable in that respect. The total of all supplemental and deficiency esti- mates submitted to Congress during this fiscal year amounted to $236,411,- 6 ss_appropriating thereon 365. Of this amount less than tive ‘control, while approximate! $500,000 represented the total of actu- al deficiences. we of Remainder. “The remainder was needed for claims, judgments, refund of taxes, to provide for laws enacted and agree- ments entered into after submission of the regular estimates, for scrap- ping naval vessels under the treaty, for modernizing battleships, for in- surance of war veterans, for needs of the postal service, and for expens incurred because of the coal and rail- road strikes. The imposition of exec- utlve pressure and more scientific es- timating_have practically eliminated deficiencies.” The fight to balance the budget for Tncle Sam, and its attendant difi- cultles, together with a number of amusing sidelights were reviewed in detail by Gen, Lord. He took the high points of President Harding's revelations on the government econ- omy program and got down to brass tacks, inecluding storles on soa brooms, towels, upper berths, ral road tickets, etc While glving high praise to th budgetary system, and the co-ordi- nation of the routine business of the government in many v en. Lord Was frank to explain that “while we felicitate ourselves and the country on the successful outcome of our campalgn, a large measure of credit must be given to extraordinary in- creases in receipts, with especial ref- erence to customs, while actual ex- penditures from capital funds will bel many millions less than we estimated on July 1 would be the case. Means of Success. “Without the help of these im- portant factors,’ he sald. “unex pectedly large receipts.and redu tions in estimatéd capital fund ex- penditures—we would have ended the year short of the desired goal—a bal- anced budget. If, however, we had not effected material reduction in the operating expenses of the gover Tt or, Would stil have failed, and a balanced budget would have proved an iridescent and disappoint- ing dream, rather than a triumphant tion." T portance of building up the general reserve from npl:";p:li:lf;r‘;ls. to guard against emergency, Was em= PhaNized by Gen. Lord, who said the bureau of the budget would require for the coming year “reports of ap- portionments made under the pro- vislons of the anti-deficiency act, and also quarterly statements of actual expenditures or obligations against such apportionments.” = The upper berth situation was re- ferred to in a discussion by the gen- eral of “Economy With Efficiency.” The chief of one of the Agricultural Department’s big bureaus, sald Gen. Lord, had requested one of his assist- ants to procure Pullman reservations for the western trip. “During the journey.” Gen. Lord said, “the bureau chief slept in an upper berth. His assistant's explana- tion that an upper cost the govern ment less than a lower effectually silences any criticism the bureau chief may have been disposed to make. With this concrete example of where savings can be made, is it too much to expect that from now on all officials traveling on government business will be found luxuriating in the better air and higher altitude of upper berths?” Needless Traveling. Great savings had been effected, Gen. Lord said, by the collector of internal revenue in Ohio by cutting out the needless traveling. Tribute was paid to the chief co- ordinator, Col. II. C. Smither; his im- mediate assistants, the members of the co-ordinating boards, the area co- ordinators and the officers and mem- Dbers of the federal business assocla- tions scattered throughout the coun- try. Discounts should be taken by gov- ernment departments wherever pos- sible, said the general, adding that “the procurement slogan from now on will be ‘Prompt pay, better prices, more discounts.’”” The War Department was commended for great savings in discounts, Among the various helpful organ- izations which had contributed to the general scheme of efficlency and economy, Gen. Lord discussed the work of the Federal Specifications Board, the Federal Traffic Board, the permanent conference on printing and the Federal Liquidation Board. Motor truck transportation in the District of Columbia had been so re- organized, Gen. Lord sald, that it had contributed to the savings of area gocordinators which totaled 31,232, “This total,” said Gen. Lord, “includes material ‘savings effected by the co- ordinator for motor transport, District of Columbia. These economies are made possible - by themlv&lutlon of hu.:nm ‘common sense operations of the various federal agencles in a city or lo- cality. When a truck controlled by one branch of the government is standing idle, with its driver under pay and wait- ing for a job, it is inexcusable to com- pel another government agency to en- gage a commercial truck to do the work that the idle mzk':.:fl and -!}:;M do.” Classification employes was discussed by the ‘who sald any disoussion_of in the govern- THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TEXT OF ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT ON FEDERAL ECONOMY (Continued from First Page.) the fiscal year, but should arrange to conduct your business with a minimum of " expense consistent with efficient admimstration. 1 expect you all to effect some sav- ings from your appropriations f the coming flscal year. To accomplish this and also to enable you to have funds on hand with which to meet unanticipated re- quirements, you should not fail to set agide ‘a reasonable reserye from jour appropriation. Text This Year. The coming fiscal year will afford us a real opportunity to demon- strate our ability to carry on the policy of economy in the conduct of business and retrenchment in expenditures. ‘ongress has grant- ed for that year funds approxi- mately in the amounts requested by the chief executive as being NECESSATY to cArry on the govern- ment’s business, To accomplish what is necessary to be done with w limited amount of funds, as will be the case this coming fiscal year, and at the same time effect sav- s, affords an opportunity for cally distinguished service. 1 am suré” that-you all welcome this opportunity, and that you will en- ter upon the coming year with the firm resolve to make a new record in_ efficiency and economy in the transaction of the business of gov- ernment. 1 reallze that this will call for further and greater de- mands upon your ability, a closer scrutiny of your activities and the installation “generally of more ef- ficient methods.. Let us here re- solve that we will establish in federal opergtion®not only for the coming but®or succeeding years. an earnest, friendly competition between the nation’s multitudinous operating agencies — competition for the honor of achleving the maximum result with the minimum of expenditure, I have noticed from the hearings before the appropriations commit- tees of Congress that some of the officials of the government have not yet realized that under the budget and accounting act the es- timates which are before Congress are those submitted by the chief executive, The officials to whom I refer were apparently of the im- pression that the estimafes which their respective departments or establishments submitted to the bureau of the budget were the offi- cial estimates which they were authorized to advocate before the congressional committees. I trust that this erroneous impression will not prevail hereafter. If Congress desires estimates other than those submitted by the chief executlve, it hay reserved unto itself in the budget and accounting act the au- thority to request such estimates and defined the methods of ob- taining them. But the administra- tion officialy, who are operating under the executive, are expected to subscribe cordially and loyally to the budget estimate. Preparation of Budget. Another task which will shortly confront us is the preparation of the budget for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1925 1 contemplate a substantial reduction in the estl- mates of appropriations for 1925 as compared with the appropria- tions for 1924, In fact, I have ex- pressed to the director of the bu- reau of the budget my desire that the 1925 estimates, exclusive of the amount required to meet the reduction in and the interest on the public debt and the amount re- quired for the Post Office Depart- ment. will not be in excess of $1,700,000.000. To reach this amount the estimates for 1925 must be $126,000,000 less than the appropriations for 1924. This will tax vour best efforts, but 1 have confidence in your ability to find ways and means for lessening the amounts of your requests for funds. 1 realize that in vour efforts to comply with this constant and In- sistent call for economy and re- trenchment in expenditures you may sometimes become discour- aged. And so as a heartening thought 1 ask you to keep in mind that as the trustees of the tax- payers of this naslon the people are 100king to you for the utmost care and supervision over the things which you administer. It i8 a sacred trust involving not only dollars and cents, but the care and proper utilization of public sup- plies and materials. It extends also to your application to your respective tasks, so that govern- ment time as well ag its funds and property may be considered the measure of your responsibilities to the people. Certainly it is an honor to be intrusted with these respon- sibilities. Trial to Patience. 1 can understand how the con- stant call for reductions some- what tries your patience. But a day will come when we must deal with increases, because there must be expanding activities and at- tending growth of cost in the gov- ernment of a growing nation. Our big problem is to find the irre- ducible minimum upon which we may consistently enlarge. I know, too, the unpopularity of insistent reductions and enforced economies. The spender is freely though often thoughtlessly .ap- plauded. But in the sober reflec- tions of the people whom we serve, the honest and zealous endeavor to reduce the cost of government, which has an intimate relationship with the cost of living, is sure to win abiding favor. We are do- ing more than serving ourselves, more than helping our own people, we are proving to the world that the way to recover from war ex- cesses is to halt the outflow and bulld anew, with exacting watch- fulness in all public outlay. Gen. Loni, the director of the bureau of the budget, will tell you in mors detail of the work of this year and what confronts us for the coming year. Before yield- ing to him I wish to thank all of those present here today and all of my other federal colaborers for the services whioh have been ren- dered. And I say that the recrod of the past two years makes me confident as to your future ac- complishments in our onwanl march for greater efficiency and greater economy in the conduct of the buslness of government. —_—————————————— the need of adequate pay for federal personnel and equal pay for personnel doing the same work."” As chief of the personnel classifica- tion board, to which Gen. Lord appoint- ed Judge W. W. Warwick to be the ac- tive chairman, Gen, Lord’s remarks are of vital interest to Washingtonians. “Inequalities in pay,” sald the gen- eral, “exist in the service as they do in private employment, and consti- tute an undesirable condition that should be corrected. The classifi- cation act of 1923, form the basis for applying a remedy. That this legislation was secured is due to the active interest of the President, who recognized the need of action of some sort not only from the standpoint of Jjustice to the employe, but from the standpoint of public interest. To give the taxpayer a public service commensurate with the public ex- penditure we must be able to secure and retain In the federal employ those people best fitted to serve. That such persons be adequately pald for service rendered—not underpald, not overpald—is essential in the effort to make the civil establishment & model institution.” At the conclusion of the meeting Gen. Lord asked the business mana- gers of the government to rise, and before the President, they declared, year, SRt your taepiFing Leadcramin: year, under your insi e A to thI!lmNtlnlllhI;\lt :& 1 & task of making. in the world, one of the most ef- ficienty Pee NS death from i mearch being made for the body from DIVEFROM PLANE- INTORIVER FATAL Clarendon Man Killed While| Wife and Children .| Watch Drop. Holding a six-month-old infant in her arms and surrounded by her five other children, Mrs. Aaron T. Rossignol, Clarendon, Va., yesterday afternoon saw | her husband, Aaron T. Rossigmol, thir- | ty-six years old, jump from an alrplane | into the Potomac off Arlington Amuse- | ment Park, south of Highway bridge, and meet instant death. Rossignol had hoped to make a success of diving from | alrplanes, In order that he might give | such exhibitions at river resorts. The | body was not recovered until two hours later Felix R. Rigau, 938 New York ave- | nue, pilot of the plane, took Rossignol up. only after the latter had assured | him that he was experienced in giving | such performances and was told that | {he would maks the effort on his own re- | jsponsibility. In order that there would | be no mistake about the conditions | under which the feat was to be per- formed, Rigau had witnesses affix their signatures (o a statement Rossigno! made. Claimed Former Success. ! Rossignol, employed as an automobile | mechanic in the garage of Chestnut Farms Dairy, was an athlete deeply in- terested In #ports, especially in airplane stunts. It is sald he made it plain that | he had succeeded in such a stunt on former occasions, which induced Rigau, | owner of a commercial plane, to co seut to take him into the air Mrs. Rossignol and her children Were at the hangars when the hus- band made the deal, and, it is stated, | she offered no objection to_the flight, 50 far as the pilot heard. Taking his family to the park, Rossignol return- €d to the airplane, donned his bathing suit and soon was being taken through the air, After circling about Bolling Fleld, Rigau returned to the vicinity of the | amusement park, clearing both | bridges, and when the plane was! about ten feet from the water he| suggested that his passenger dive. | The distance was not great enough | for the Clarendon man to give a! thriller, and he waited until the plane | reached an altitude of about fifty feet before he decided to drop. 1 Cltmbed on Wi | Police were told by the pilot that! Rossignol climbed out on a wing of | the plane as if he had been uccus tomed to such craft. His drop was | lverfec!‘ the pilot said, but soon his body turned and he landed in the water on his back. Even then Rigau' saw his legs moving about in the wa- ter and thought the stunt had been a | jsuccess. Presently, however, he re- alized the man had been hurt. ‘ Rigau sald he discovered the body had disappeared and muddy bubbles were rising from the spot where he hed gone in. He furnished a bond | for his appéarance at an inquest at| the morgue this afternoon. ‘ Police of the harbor precinct, as- sisted by many volunteers began a ! search for the body, which was re-| covered by William T. Reynolds and | Louls Wood, volunteer searchers, two | hou later. The nec! ‘was found | broken. | Rigau is un experienced pilot, hold- | ing licenses from the Army and Navy| board and the Aeronautical Associa- tion. He served in the Navy during the war. He says when Rosignol ap- proached him he asked him if he had succeeded in such stunts before and was answered in the affirmative, Ros- signol adding that he wanted to give the demonstration as he thought he would be able to contract to give similar demonstrations for the com- pany conducting the amusement park. It was only after he had convinced the pllot he had had prior experi- ences with airplanes and that he was going up on his own responsibility, Rigau stated, that he consented to take him. It was the first fatality of its kind that has happened in Dis- trict waters and the coroner deemed it advisable to hold an inquest. Too Busy With Own Affairs to Take Office ; Terms Rumors Newspaper Talk. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFILD, Mass., June 18.—“1 have no desire to be President of the United States,” Henry Ford said while stopping over the week end here on bis way from Providence, R. I, to Poughkeepsle, N. ¥, “I am too mu occupled with my own affairs to be- come the next President and I do not intend to run. All this you hear about my name being associated with the presidency is newspaper talk. There is nothing in it’ GOLF TITLE T0 WHITNEY. BATON ROUGE, La., June 18.—N son Whitney, five times southern champion, throned Frank God- chaux for the Louisiana state cham- a score of 3 5 “2 :'l thrilling thl:r’- ix- airplan D MONDAY, "JUNE 18, 1923. muxement Beach a few minutes after Aaron T. Rossignol of Clarendon, » bonts: and the vlane still in flight. AARON T. ROSSIGNOL, DISCHARGE ASKE FOR POLENDNAN Trial Board Finds Miss Stan- berger Guilty of Disobey- ing Orders. A verdict of guilty, with the recom- | mendation that she be removed from the force, was returned today by the bourd which tried Miss Helen Stan- berger, policewoman, Saturday the charge of disobedience of order. . The policewoman an oppor- tunity under the law to appeal to the Commissioners before the recom- mendation of the trial board is car- ried out It was alleged that Miss Stanberger failed to comply with an order to report at the office of Commissioner Oyster ut a stated time to give him fnformation concerning an investigu- tion she made. feut. Mina . Van Winkle, chief of the woman's bureau, and Miss Helen Schofleld, an attache of the bureau, testified at the trial as to the order and its transmission. HYLAN CHALLENGED TO DUEL WITH FISTS Controller Craig’s Offer Declined by New York Mayor—“Liar" Starts Uproar. on an Las By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 18—Controller Craig today challenged Mayor Hylan to a fistic duel, but failed to get an acceptance. The ‘challenge was hurled at the weekly meeting of the committee of the whole of the board of estimate, which almost invariably is the sceno for caustic debates between the two officfals. Today's clash, however, was even more heated than usual, the mayor and the controller calling each other liars. The trouble started during a dis- cussion of sewer assessments, when Borough President Reigelmann of Brooklyn charged Mr. Craig with breaking a pre-election promise to abide by a new law permitting the assessing against the city of two- thirds of the sewer cost. “I think this Is an ordinary case of grand larceny to take money from one set of citizens and give to an- other,” the controller retorted. “It is nothing but an attempt by the board to pay off political promises.” “Your statement shows what kind of a liar you are,” the mayor retort- ed, flushing red. “You can't call me a lar,” shouted the controller. “You are a liar,” the mayor in- sisted. “Now I ask you to step out- side,” yelled Mr. Craig, leaping to his feet. ‘“We can setfle it in the hall.” Hauled back into his seat by other board members, Mr. Craig cried: "I say you are a dirty llar when you say what you do.” The gist of a remark about the mayor's “friends down in Wall street” was lost in the ensuing uproar. After the mayor had called the controller a liar once more and the controller had failed to get action on a motion to adjourn “to give me a chance to make good,” presumably with his fists, excitement simmered down and business was resumed. ——————— STIEHM SERIOUSLY ILL. ST. PAUL, Minn, June 18.—The condition of “Jumbo” Stiehm, Uni- versity of Indiana foot ball mentor, who recently resigned because of il health, and who arrived here yester- day to consult with specialists in re- gard to an abdominal allment was reported un rday Was announced that Stie condi- tion was serious 3 28 | | twenty {day by the grand jury on two charges {of grand lar elix R. Rignu, showing patrons of the beach watching TWO YOUNG WOMEN HELDFORLARCENY Grand Jury Indicts, Alleging Thefts From Stores—Others Under Charges. Lillian Poole, Waite and Virginia E. voung white girls about years old, were indicted to- 1t 21 ny on March 15 and is alleged that last the girls ! visited a local store and on one oc- sion took & and dress valued at $49.30 the other one worth $539.50. Bootlegging Plot Alleged. A new indictment was reported against Blanche Brown, colored, and seven colored men for alleged con- spiracy to conduct the bootlegging business. The eight persons were in- dicted a few weeks ago, but because of some matter of phraseology the United States attorney desired a new indictment. Seven persons are charged with peddling dope or otherwise violating the Harrison anti-narcotic act, and seven alleged recreant husbands are charged Wwith neglecting wife and children. The grand jury ignored u charge jot false pretenses against Mrs. W liom Penn and a charge of ass against Edward Thomas Indictments and Offenses Charged. Those indicted und charges against them are: Mary Burton, Annie Lowery, alias Annie” Holland: Daniel Thomas, Fd- ward G. Richardson, Robert Edward Gayle, Luther Bell Spencer and Iid- ward Richardson, violating Harrison narcotic act; Lillian A} te and Virginia E. Poole, alias Virginia Brown, grand larceny (two cases); Frank Proctor, joyriding; Lawrence ‘Wilson, Harold Nelson, Harry E. Smith, Ernest Ferguso Hollaway. William Hawkin C. Higdon, non-support; Brown, Lawrence Hall, Edward Blackwell, William Blackwell, Clar- ence Brannum, William Wright, John Phoenix and James Braxton, con- spiracy. AUTO RACE FATAL TO DETROIT DRIVER ault Thrown From Machine, Instantly|. Killed, at Grand Rapids—Others Hurt, Result of Crash. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. June 18 Bernard J. McCale of Detroit, was in- stantly killed when he was thrown from his machine during a 100-mile automobile race here. MgCale was thrown fifty feet and his neck was broken. The machine was overturn- ed when It struck a machine driven by Byron Daley of Jackson, Mich., which had stopped because of a blown tire. Glen Howard of Indianapolis, com- ing up behind McCale's machine struck it and shunted it through the fence, injuring Roy Rich and Guy B. Cole, spectators. "Both Daley and Howard were injured in the crash, but Howard continued to drive for another 1ap and was awarded fifth place by the judges. Aura Smith of Bay City, M another driver was internally injur- ed when hlg car plunged through the tence and sped backwards com- ing to a 8top with its rear wheels in Grande river adjoining the grounds. Ralph Ormsby of Fort Wayne, took the lead at the start of ru;e and finished first. 1:52. TO GIVE KLAN HEARING IF MASKS ARE DROPPED New Jersey Governor Replies to Protest That Meetings Are Being Broken Up By Mobs. TRENTON, N. J,, July 18.—Members of the Ku Klux Kian must sheq their masks If they wish their grievance appeals listened to, Gov. Silzer de- clared today, in connection with let- ters broadcast by the Klan protesting against disruption of its meetings by “organized mobs.” The governor sald he had not received the letter the Klan announced it had sent to him on the subject. “If the Ku Klux Klan leaders will appear in person, their masks off, and show a real grievance they will re- ceive consideration ang action,” the governor. said. ———— OFFICIALS GET DEGREES. PROVIDENCE, R. L, June 18— Honorary degrees conferred by Rhode Island State College_ today included: Doctor of laws—Ira Nelson Morris, United Sll-!egl lfil‘nllhr to flwad}n.hn Doctor o ucation—Dr, _Jol James Tigert, United commis- asloner of education, d., : the His time was | | | i Sebbon | death ir and Earl |road on Blanche | jurors moved swiftly i ! f Injured Fireman | Sues Wreco for | $20,000 Damages | Anthony J. Wernig, a fireman, today sued the Washington Rail- w and FElectric Company for $20,000 damages for injuries sus- tained while he was operating a fire engint automobile across 12th and E streets nérthwest, Decem- ber 1, last. Mr. Wernig, through Attorneys Alvin L. Newmyer and Milton W. King, alleges that the deféndant did_not properly pave the street between the rails and as a c se quence of which the same became worn and sunken and in an unsafe and defective condition, and when he was responding to & fire alarm and crossed the depression be- tween the tracks the first engine was jolted and he was thrown from behind the steering gear to the ground, landing on his head and suffering concussion of the brain and other serious injuries, FRENCH NAKE RUAR RAL CONTROL TIHT 170 Locomotives and 2,000! Cars Seized in Last Move; Food Situation Serious. Assoclated Press. June 18.—The French today selzed 170 locomotives and 2,000 freight cars on branch lines between Dortmund and Essen, thus virtually completing French control of the Ruhr transportation lines. The food situation at Dortmund, Bochum and other points is growing more serious daily as the result of the French seizure. Yesterday 412 freight cars, with fcod, were brought in by the Ger- mans over private lines, not vet oc- cupled, but the great difficulty is to distribute the food to the consumers who need it. The Germans are planning to use in- terurban tramways and automobile trucks for the distribution, but this method is as yet incompletely or- ganized. The Germans declare that Dortmund and Bochum are without butter, eggs, milk and cheese. The town of Witten also is said to be hard pressed. Some 2,500 of the inhabitants there are being supplied with bread, according to the French, by commun- ist relief organizations, which received supplies of wheat from Moscow. BELGIUM READY TO QUIT. By th Willing to Control Ruhr With Small Body of Technical Experts. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, June 18.—The Belgian government, according to a reliable source, is ready to return to the origi- nal idea of controlling the Ruhr val- ley through a squad of technical men, with small forces of troops for pro- tection, provided Germany abandons her passive resistance. This abandon- ment, regarding which Great Britain has questioned France and Belglum, would consist in the German govern- ment recalling its various decrees and instructions forbidding Germans to work under or co-operate with the French and the Belgians, —_— MRS. BUZZIE ON TRIAL FOR SCHNEIDER’S DEATH By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK, June 15—Mrs. Anna Buzzie was placed on trial today for the murder of Frederick Schneider, wealthy contractor. who was shot to his automobile on a lonely February 2. Selection of i | i | ! | Mrs. Buzzle, who admitted having lived with 'Schneider for several years, is alleged to have slain him because of jealousy. —— D. C. BANK DEPOSITS ! FAIL TO INDICATE SHRINE SPENDINGi inued from First Page ) ! deposits for the last two years andl we do not attribute our increase in deposits to the convention.” Explains Low Deposits. Milton E. Ailes, president of Riggs National Bank, sald that at t time of the yesar the deposits al-| ways are low because two things lx'et: involved: The District taxes a income taxes. These taxes o in United States Treasury and unlike other communities are not rede posited in local banks. The conven- tion didn’t mean anything one way or the other to the Riggs Bank, he said. although there is no doubt that the Shriners left some money here. Cash is_not the only source of de- posits, Mr. Ailes said, “which may have 'a slight misleading effect on the question as we are working on the deposit angle.” Harry V. Haynes, president of the Farmers and Mechanies National Bank of Georgetown, said that his Qeposits showed a slight increase, but not due to the convention. Everybody in Georgetown went downtown and spent their money. Hence, he figured that the banks there were bound to get it. He said they had estimated that 300,000 persons would spend $10. ing $3.000,000 that would be re- d in the deposits. harles O. Bright, manager of the Clearing House Association, said to- day that he could not account for the absence of a showlng in_ bank de- posits resulting from the Shrine con- vention. He expressed the opinion that railroad companies, sightseeing companies, small concession men that operated on sidewalks and similar enterprises garnered in much of the cash of the week. d the ) the WILSON SUPPORTS WORLD COURT PLAN (Continued from First Page.) his undoubted “vote-getting” ties, Mr. Wilson feels that as undeclared democrat,” the motor mag- nate does not seriously come within the party’s purylew as a presidential candidate. A story is current that one of Woodrow Wilson's warmest friends_and former cabinet officers, David_F. Houston, is identified with the “Ford movement.” From that deductions have been made that Ford MALTREAT PRIEST BEFORE KDNAPING Chinese Brigands Also Sur- round Missionary Com- pound After Women Flee. By the Assoclated Press. HANKOW, Chi lundred brigands Father Malotto, Ttalian pri about 100 miles north of here on Saturday, maltreated him before they carried him off. The outlaws also seized and bore away several hundred native prisoners, according to reports brought here today. The same or another gang of brigands is reported to have sur- rounded a British missionary pound at Tsaochin, about fifty miles of Hankow. All women with the mission however ously been sent to a s: place. The men of the mission still at their posts. ASKS BIG INDEMNITY June 18- Five who kidnaped Italian Captive to Present Claim for 500,000 Taels. By Cable to The Star and News. Copyright, 1 SHANGHAL June 1% ty of 500,000 $365.000 g is propos pense for Commander ¢ prominent Italian attorney of Sh hai, for his sufferings while a Pas zuky ptive. Although f mal demand for this sum has not ye been made to the Pekin, v rn ment, it is understood ’h;‘! el speci ng this amount has been se to Premier Mussolini, in Rome, re-: Questing him to instruct the Italisn minister in Peking to present su claim. A dditional itemized compe ton also is asked by Musso for ables ost in he Linchi Hold-up e One of the British captives, 1t is said, proposes demanding the same sum as Musso, Al] victims of the out rag €xXcept Americans have been notified by consula of their coun to present their claims imme. Lo enable the diplomatic TP to submit them to the Chinese at a meeting to be held in Peking »ext Wednesday. ek icago Da An inde equivalent E. Mus bandit c tratn U. S. Agents Criticized. The silence of American repres: atives in China on the phase of the kidnaping has arc severe criticism certain quart. Lere. The Weekly Observer, ian-owned, but newspaper, today ca ed asking whether Dr. Jacob Go urman, United States minister 1 na, is representing terests or “coddling the Ci preliminary to securing a lu position as advisor to Peking." A grie ice voiced by American captives is that the acting American consul at Tientsin refused to forward messages to their families which been smuggled out of the Paotzuku bandit stronghold b that official ¢ failed to provide bursing consular ofticials graphed such message Sevaral of the American captives already have met and decided to present their claims and a majority of them have decided to act in uni son showd their government show disinclination to stand behind then —_— RECLANATION WORK UNDER NEW LEADER D. W. Davis’ Appointment To- day Beginning of Sweeping Changes in Department. co Americ who tele- Sweeping changes in the organizav tion of the reclamation ser: wers en today in tthe announcement b Secretary Work of the abolition the office of director, effect 1. D W. Davis. former Gover: Idaho, will assume charge service, with title of commissioner Orders for the reorganization foi- lowed the Secretary's study of data gathered on his recent western trip. when he personally inspected se of the most important projects n operation and 2 number of proposed site: At various points he met re atives of farmers interested ! sovernment reclamation oper. and listened to complaints a gestions from them. The Secretary announced last week that the program for the coming s cal year would be most comprehen- sive, entailing the examination more than a score of projects in dozen states. Dav a Already in Service. Former Gov. Davis has been nected with the department as cial assistant secretary for about three months. The retiring director of the reclamation service, Arthur Davis, is a native of Decatur, IIL, ar has been a civil engineer and topo rapher in the government's empl 1885. He was appointed to tf 1914, AMUNDSEN DROPS NORTH POLE FLIGHT Proposed Trip by Plane Given Up Because of Very Unsatisfactory Trial, Is Report. a By the Associuted Press. CHRISTIANIA, June 18.—Capr. Roald Amundsen has abandoned his proposed flight acros the north pois by airplane, it was announced _this afternoon by the Norwegian mintster of defense. The minister received a from Leon Amundsen, Roald, reading; “Just receivéd the following teir gram dated Norwick, Alaska: ‘Tri flight held May 11. Result very u satisfactory. Sorry forced abandon proposed flight. Have written.’ " BRITISH ARMY. POLOISTS messag brother is the Wilson candidate. No one who visits § street obtains the remotest suggestion of that kind of an impres- n. i Vilson 1s confident the democrats will carry the country in 1924. Their chances will only be marred, in his judgment, by adoption of the wrong issues. With the right issues, he thinks “any good democrat” can be locted. Democratic issues, if they are to win, must, in the Wilson view. be unquestionsbly afirmative and not merely partisan hostility to re- publican programs. (Qopyright, 1928.) ACCEPT U. S. INVITATION LONDON. June 18.—The Britisn army council has authorized .accept- ance of the American invitation for a British army polo team to play representatives of the _American Army week in September says the Morning Post The newspaper adds that the four players likely to represent Great Britain are well known in the sport but that. the selection committee will postpone its_final choice until after the interregimental polo tournament in July.