Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1923, Page 1

4 WEATHER. ' rtly cloudy today and tomorrow, probably showers by tonight; no change in temperature; light to gen- tle variable winds. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at last .nlght: highest, 84; lowest, 70. 1l report on page b. No. 955.—No. 28,929. - MRS. KEPNER SLAIN, JURY HOLDS; FALS T0 NAME ASSASSIN y Two Jurors Block Verdict Which Would Have Caused an Arrest. DECISION IS REACHED IN LESS THAN 2 HOURS Investigation of Two Days Ends Amid Uncertainties as to Next Move. By a Staff Correspondent. FREDERICK, Md., July 14.—A cor- oner’s jury, which has been invest gating mysterious circumstances sur- rounding the death of Mrs. Grace | Simmons Kepner, the daughter of an old and wealthy Maryland late this afternoon handed down a| verdict declaring she had been mur- dered and was not a suicide. It took the jury less than two hours to reach its decision. The inquest came to an end after two full days of testimony on the part of more than | & score of witnesses. ! Following the verdict Charles Wert- | heimer, foreman of the jury, said there was no doubt in the minds of the jury that Mrs. Kepner was mur- dered. family, | Whole Jury Convinced. i “There never was & question in the mind of a single juror after the tes- | timony closed this afternoon.” said Mr. Werthelmer, “that Mrs. Kepner was the victim of an assassin and not of her own hand. Most of us were wlilling to name in the verdict the one we belleved to be gullty, but one or two held out when they were asked to fix their names to such a decision. They felt the jury's work was merely to determine how Mrs. Kepner came to her death, and did not wish to assume the responsibil- ity of naming the one we believed gulity.” Frederick is wafting with bated breath for the next move. Although State's Attorney Aaron R. Anders told Charles R. Kahler of the Baltimore detective bureau that he might re- turn to visit his family for several days, the Baltimore investigator, who dug up most of the evidence in the case, was stopped almost as he was ' ready to board the train and request- ed to remain in this city until Mon- day. No explanation of the signifi- cance of this move could be obtained. It was less than a month ago, June 48, that B. Evard Kepner came rush- ing down from the bedroom of his | wife and said to her eighty-six-year- | old father, Ezra Houck: “My God, Grace has killed herself.” Two or | three hours later, without an inquest, Coroner A. M. Wood declared her a agicide. Burled as Sulcide. As such she was buried by her grieving father and two maiden sis- ters, Elizabeth and Eleanor Houck. Only a few days elapsed, however, before news of Kepner's relations with other women caused the fam- 1ly to begin an investigation. Within a week the body was exhumed, and three surgeons, one of them a prom- inent spécialist from Baltimore, de- clared after a post-mortem autopsy that it would have been physically impossible for Mrs. Kepner to have | killed herselt by means of the wound | that had actually ended her life. At the request of State's Attorney Anders, Detective Kahler was sent to Frederick, and he obtained further evidence tending to show that the bullet which had crashed through Mrs, Kepner's brain and buried itself in a ! joist near the ceiling of her bedroom had been fired by an aseassin. With- out further delay a coroner's jury was summoned, and yvesterday began the deliberation which today resulted in their reversing Coroner Wood's suicide verdict. This was a day of nerve-racking moments In the little courthouse where the Inquest was held. Ezra Houck, Mrs. Kepner's father, contra- | dicted the statements of Kepner yes- terday that only ten seconds elapsed | \between the time he went to his wife's room and rushed downstairs with the first news of his wife's death. Mr. Houck declared “at least ten minutes” had elapsed. He did not, however, hear a shot fired, nor did any one else in the house remember of hearing an .ex- plosion at any time. Deny Suicide Attempts. Both of the dead woman's sisters, Elizabeth and Eleanor Houck, vigor- ously denfed Kepner's testimony that Mrs. Kepner had been unduly de- spondent and had twice before at- tempted to destroy herself. While . they admitted she had undergone an operation a year ago which left her rather weak, they said her spirity recently had, in fact, been brighter | .than usual and that she had no rea- son to take her own life. Her hus- band's admitted friendship with Miss Lulu Ricketts, pretty Frederick book- keeper, had never been made known 10 her. On the other hand. both testi- fled that Kepner had complained that “the biggest mistake of my life waw when I asked Grace to become my wife.” On another occasion, it was declared, he had threatened to leave Prederick, and added that when he did “somebody else would be gon Miss Eleanor Houck asserted. Miss Ricketts, who is but twenty- three and decidedly attractive, frank- o admitted her friendship with Kep- er. She made no effort to conceal | the fact that he had given her money, clothing and jewelry, nor that fie had (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) | mons, | fogs | pay, | Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington, D. ENTENTE'S ESGAPE FROM DESTRUCTION LESSON TOPOWERS Neither England Nor France, Says Paris Report, Likely to Renew Clash Soon. BREAK CONSIDERED T00 GRAVE TO BE PERMITTED Visiting Official From Prague Says Convalescence Will Be Long With U. §. Ultimate Factor. By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. PARIS, July 14—Premier Bald- win's speech before the house of com- which has cleared the diplo- matic air somewhat after the heavy which have been enveloping | Franco-British relations for the past few weeks, is encouraging, but there is much to be done before the entente is again working with well oiled pre- cision. The machinery for the pPast fort- night has been badly shaken and must be thoroughly overhauled. Bolts must be tightened up here and there, and possibly worn parts will have to be replaced. What seems now Gefinitely certain, at least for the present, is that neither England nor France is going to steer the joint entente machine so close to the great | abyss again for some time to come. The scare which these two nations have given to spectatorial Europe outside of Germany was at a time when all Europe was wilting under unprecedented heat. Premier Bald- win hastened to make clear to the commons Thursday that the door to further France-British reparations talk was not closed, and, despite the apparent wishes of certain groups of British financiers, the government serlously considered breaking away from France too grave a measure to contemplate. Policy Defined Anew. But the events of the fortnight pre- ceding Baldwin's declarations to the commons served to throw a hi scare Into officlal France, whose lead- ers made sure, through a certain medium in diplomatic channels, what Baldwin was going to say before he sald it. Then the French government hastened to define its policy anew. This policy, which wi4 be a suide to future. negotlations from the Ftench side, since a parley with Eng- land is now assured, is officially divided into eight sections, which may be stated briefly and simply as | follows: First. That co-operation between France and England on the question of reparations 1s imperative and the only means toward the restoration of Europe. The entente cordiale must not only be maintained, but strengthened, and from this France asks mainly reparations and se- curity. Second. The French government deplores its ideas relatlve to Ger- many are not exactly those of Great Eritain, many unabie to pay. France sees a cunuing debtor hiding the ability to which it believes exists, and a nation which will show the world brazenly what Luer industrial mercial virility amounts to once has succeeded in avoiding the great- est part of its war obligations. The French have fisures which they be- licve should justify this theory. Third—France is convinced Germany's greatest power to pay s found in her groups of industrials— | which are more powerful government—and France than the believes ! that the only way to force a settle- ment is to put a finger on the prop- erty of these Industrials in the Ruhr. Fourth—Belleving her presence in the Rubr to be entirely lcgal, France is destined to remain there until Ger. many changes its opinion about es- caping reparations. France s pledged on that point and cannot withdraw. Neither the present gov- ernment nor any succeeding one could yield up a mortgage which the Ruhr represents, because all shades of French public opinion expect that Germany should be forced to pay not only for the devastated regions, but a considerable amount toward what France owes abroad. Fifth—France disavows any annex: ationist designs either on the bank of the Rhine or elsewhere and believes that such a policy would be ruinous to the peace of Europe. Sixth. The ocoupation of the left bank of the Rhine represents a poli- tical and military guarantee stipu- lated in the Versailles treaty which the allics, including England, signed. Evacuation s automatically pre- scribed in the treaty. Seventh. The French government stands on_record ready to examine (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) althy | Britain gees a ruined Ger- | com- | it that | WASHINGTON, D. C., I e | ! General News—Local, National, Foreign. Maryland and Virginia News—Pages 24, 26 and 27. | Radlo News and Go | serial, “The Evil Shepherd"—Page 31. i Financial News—Pages 32 and 33. Classified Acvertisements—Pages 34 to | e | Army and Navy News—Page 42. ! i 1 PART TWO0—16 Pages. | Editorials and Editorial Feature: Washington ‘and Other Soclety. Aviation Activities—Page 9. Veterans of the Great War—Page 11. ( The Civillan Army—Page 12. | Fraternities—Page 14 Giris and Their Affirs—Page 15. Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 15. Reviews of New Books—Page 15. Boy Scouts—Page 16. ! PART THREE—10 Pages. | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo. play. Music In Washington—Page 4. Araund the Clty—Page 4. Motors and Metoring—Pages 5 to 8. Boys' and Giris' Page—Page 9. Spanish War, Veterans—Page 10. PART FOUR—1 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. ROTOGRAVURE—S8 Pages. World Events In Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Req'lar Feller: Mr. and Mr WELCOME FARDING - INALASKA TOWN Anchorage Citizens Turn Out| ! to Greet Presidential ; Party. | | By the Associated Press. | "ABOARD PRESIDENT HARDING'S SPECIAL TRAIN, Alaska Railroad, July 14.—Several hundred people welcomed President Harding at An- chorage today. They gathered around a stand erected in the center of the city, and presented to the | President and his wife a painting of {Mount McKinley, North America’s | highest peak, which could be seen just 125 miles from Anchorage. Mr. Hatding also was given a.paper knife with a gold nugget handle and a wal- rus-ivory blade. The President in an informal ad- dress referred to the fact that An- chorage was founded in 1915. “It is the best nine-year-old town I have ever seen,” he said. g He assured his audience that the visit to the nation’s farthest north unit had convinced him and the three cabinet officers with him that if the| present generation should fail to see {its dreams for Alaska realized, its children would certainly have thelr aspirations fulfilled. The dinner at Tunnel yesterday, the President declared, was one of the finest served his party since they left Washington. The meal was served in a rallroad construction camp. It included grapefruit, fried chicken, custard ple and ice cream. Mec¢Adoo Sees No Bar to Ford Entry in Great “Free-for-All” By the Assoclated Press, % CHICAGO, July 14.—There is no reason why Henry Ford, Detroit manufactarer, should not enter the 1924 presidential race if he de- sires to be a candidate, according to Willlam G. McAdoo, former Sec- retary of the Treasury, who pass- ed through Chicago today on his ay to New York. “The presidential race is the great American free-for-all,” Mr. MeAdoo - sald, regarding Ford's chances. “I see no reason why he should not enter it if he desires to be a candidate.” The former Treasury Secretary said that he had made no state- ment in Kansas City last night, reported; that he had not decided if he would seek the nomination for the presidency. He sald that he had not discussed politics while in Kansas City. “My trip is a business one and it is important enough to bring me clear across the continent in mid- summer,” he said. “I am not dis- cussing politics at all on this trip.” | MEBBE SQUASH CENTER CHAT ON PR TODAY’S STAR |Cruikshank Ties Bobby Jones For Golf Title in Exciting Finish WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SAYS HERE HARDING 5 STANDIN' !: A RN RS COURT (R, DOPE 2 LL VISIT SQUASH IDENT’S Wee Scotchman Equais Young Amateur After Latter Falters on Last Three Holes—18-Hole Play-Off Today By the Associated Press. INWOOD, N. Y. July 14 T. Jones of Atlanta, peerl the world's amateurs, had Robert mong the na- tional open golf championship in his| grasp today after turning in a score card of 296 for 72 holes. when along came the wee Scotchman Robert Crufkshank, professional, and tied him, necessitating a play-off of 18 holes tomorrow for the title. The young man from Atlanta, long famous in the golfing world, had shot four 18-hole rounds of heautiful Eolf for his 206. Never was there a slip in his game until the last three holes of the lwst round when, with thou- sands of spectators-around him he seemed to become a bit nervous. the last three holes Jones was four ijover par. Like Gene Sarazem. Still his 296 seemed good enough to win, but Cruikshank, the Scot. was playing a great game. He had to equal par on the round to beat Jones, and could tle him with a 73, one over par. Cruikshaok, ENDING 12-HOURDAY STARTS ING WEEKS Gary, However, Says Com- plete Elimination of Shift Will Be Gradual. in so far as Jonmes was By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July ry today made It United States Steel which he is head, planned within six weeks begin eliminating twelve-hour day In its plants. It was reported in Wall street that the rest of the industry would follow suit, 14.—Elbert H. plain that the Corporation, of to and that the pledge made to Presi-| dent Harding concerning the much- attacked shift gradually would be re- deemed It was under the date of June that directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute wrote the Presi- dent that they were “determined to exert every effort at our command to secure in the iron and steel indus- try of this country a total abolition of the twelve-hour day at the ear- Ifest time practical.” Gompers Is Skeptieal. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and other labor leaders hit on the phrase ‘at the earliest time’ practical,” and expressed their skepticism. A little later, Mr. Gary in an inter- view, declared that iIncreasing labor supplies from the negroes of the south, Mexico, the Philippines and abroad led him to bolieve that the initial steps would be taken soon, but still no time limit was mentioned. Today, however, Mr. Gary declared that “we shall probably commence actively taking steps to reduce the| number of twelve-hour workers with- in the next six weeks.” Sees Need of Time. Declining to state the number of workers who would be affected with- in that period, Mr. Gary made it plain that a sudden and complete change was not to be expected. “Plans are now being developed,” he said. “It will require a considerable length of time to complete the change. “If I sald I was going around the world next week, what would it mean? It would mean that I was going to start around the world next week The actual trip would take a much longer time.” g. \:z'-f On | the | A(‘;)nsfl E -— . 0 P YBn%TYb ! €l TeuT So i |CEMW ALASKA TRIP. concerned, was like Gene Sarazen at Skokie last year. Jones appeared to have the championship won in the 1922 tournament when Sarazen be- an his brilliant work, nosing out voung Georgian by one stroke getting a 68 in the final round. Crutkshank went to the 1Sth tee needing a birdie 3 to tie Jones. The odds were one thousand to one | that he couldn’t make it, but We did. iHe had a long drive, straight down | |the fairway, a prodigious iron shot of 170 yards that landed & little over |five feet from the pin, and then the iputt, which he sank. Jones today ‘was shooting tha great- st golf of his career. But for the bad {luck that found him om that eight- | | eenth hole this afternoon he would | be the open champion of the nation. | Even with the unlucky shots on the | sixteenth and seventeenth that cost | him two strokes he would have been jout front but for an unfortunate le {on his second shot. The ball fell into | the edge of the crowd. The ereat gallery could not keep | (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) SEEK RECENERSHP * OF OLLINES PO :Solvency of $75,000,000 Con- ‘cern, With Branch Here, Is Challenged. 7 the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, - Ohio, July 14.—The R. L Dollings Companies of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, and the International Note & Mortgage Co., {a Dollings subsidiary, for which be- tween $75,000,000 and $50,000,000 worth ‘of stock is said to have been| sold to more than 80,000 persons| throughout the- United States, were today faced with receivership pro- i ceedings. Thirteen stockholders of the com-! panies brought action in common | | pleas court here asking: That a receiver be appointed for | the four companies. | That a complete investigation be made into the books, records and assets of the companies to “deter- mine their solvency.” That stock subscriptions be de- clared null and void. That the money paid by the plain- tiffs for certificates of stock be made a debt and obligation of the de- fendant corporations and subsid- ! faries. That judgment be awarded the plaintiffs for this amount and the remainder be divided among other { stockholders. 1 Nature of Charges. The plaintiffs also ask that Wil- liam G. Benham, president of the Ohio company, and Dwight Harrison, vice president and secretary, as ;well as all other officers be enjoined ifrom disposing of property or assets of the defendant companies. The petition alleges the companics have ideclared dividends arbitrarily regard- |less of whether they have been |earned; that the dividends have been paid out of the capital ‘assets of | the subsidiary companies and not from earned profits, and large oper- ating deficits for certain subsidiaries have been paid. Hoaring on the application will Ihe held next Friday. The petition alleges that the R. i | vocating improvement of the Water | weeks he has been Engineer Com- jand extending along | present that side of the channel is | Gen. Lord on August 1. !ed as a necessary future project, but L. Dollings Company of Ohio has 10 assets, but stock and securities owned by its subsidiaries. exoept *(Continuedon Page 4, Column 1.) SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1923. —NINETY-TWO PAGES. ICHANNEL BRIDGE T0 SPEEDWAY MAY GO IN ESTIMATES Commissioners Plan $100,- 000 Item as First Step in River Front Improvement. QUAY WITH BOULEVARD TO FOLLOW GRADUALLY Proposals for Next Year's Budget ‘Will Probably Include $25,000 for New Playgrounds. A small bridge across the upper end of Washington channel, con- necting the Specdway with Water street, may be recommended to Con- gress by the Commissioners this year as the first step toward recon- structing the National Capital's an- tiquated river front. The proposed structure would not cost much more than $100,000. Aside from the part it would play in the rebullding of Washington channel, such a bridge would oven up a new traffic exit for machines coming up from Hains point at the end of the Specdway. Commissioner Oyster has been ad- street front since he took office two vears ago and Maj. J. Franklin Bell has already displayed a strong in- terest in the—-project in the two missioner. Bridge Comes First. It is belleved tkat if the Com- missioners decide to begin estimat- ing this year for the river-front im- provement the first request will be for the bridge across the upper end of the channel. The entire scheme, of which this bridge would be but a small part, is a most elaborate one and would have to be carried out gradually over a number of years. It calls for the construction of a auay below the level of Water street the channel from the proposed bridge to the grounds of Washington Barracks. At lined by an irregular row of old wharves that stand in striking con- trast to the beautiful Potomac Park across the stream. ‘Warehouses Part of Plan. At a higher level than the quay there would be a boulévard drive and further back on Water street modern warehoyses would be bullt to take care of the city’s waterway commerce. Produce or other freight landed on the quay from boats would be taken under the boulevard to the ware- houses through viaducts. This is an outline of the plan as now drawn at the District building, but, it Is understood, the Commission- ers will pot seek funds for more than the small bridge across the channel in next year's budget. The Commissioners held several conferences on the estimates last week, at which they took up a few individual departments. They have not yet attempted to add up the fig- ures submitted to them by their sub- ordinates to find out what the tenta- tive budget will total. Main Items Not Reached. They have not yet conferred on the major items, such as schools, street paving, sewer and water departments. These four groups alone will aggre- gate close to $15.000,000, and will be | the deciding factors in arriving at the total. Last vear the tentative! budget amounted to $31,590,000, and present indications are that at least that much will be requested this year. o A year ago the budget bureau. upon | receiving the preliminary_estimates. directed the Commissioners to trim them to $24,500.000. What limitation the budget bureau will impose this year will not be known until the city heads present their first report to 1t was learned vesterday that the | estimates will contain a request for the purchase of several more sites for municipal playgrounds and a larger appropriation for the opening of school yards as playgrounds next summer. This year Commissioner Oyster has § €0, with which he opened thirty school grounds. It is belleved at least $25,000 will be re-| quested for nextyear. No Sewer for Deanwood. Although the sewer department has asked the Commissioners for ap- proximately $2,000,000 for next year, even that amount will not enable the department to begin construction of a storm sewer in the vicinity ‘of Deanwood, which has been flooded twice this year during heavy rain- falls, It was learned at the District building yesterday that a storm sewer for that suburban area is list- offictaly of the sewer department say they have many drainage conditions in other sections that are held to be more urgent. Not all of the $2,000,000 requested is for storm sewers. It includes op- eration of the pumping stations, cleaning of existing sewers and the money needed to install sewer con- necticns for the scores of new houses being erected in every cormer of the District. One official of the engineer depart- ment pointed out yesterday that, while $2,000,000 may seem a large sum in comparison with the amounts allowed the sewer department in the past, it is a modest request when the present condition of the sewer 8ys- tem 1s considered, | Paul is alleged 60 cents per and service month. Telephone Main 5000 will start immediately. FIVE CENTS. |Gives Life Trying To Rescue Chum From Drowning A fourteen-year-old colored boy, yesterday, gave his life for his twelve-year-old chum. Butler Polson, colored, twelve years old, of 2710 K street, was swimming in the Chesapeake and Ohlo canal, near the Key bridge, yesterday afterncon, when he was selzed with cramps. Ho came to the top after going down once and gasped for help. He sank. Willtam Nelson, fourteen years old, his playmate, was on the bank. He took off his shoes. Butler came up for a second time, thrashed about in the water and called for ald. Nelson dived into the water. Both were drowned, the latter locked and carried to the bottom in a death-grip of the boy he was trying to save. This is the report that came from the seventh precinct last night. Both were dragged out by Wil- llam Hill and Robert Martin, and Dr. G. P. Bregman of Georgetown University Hospital, pronounced them dead. The bodies were sent to the District morgue. ARREST 9 AGCUSED OF §6,000 THEFTS Police Lay Many Robberies to Men Taken After Hunt of 18 Months. By arresting five colored men yes- terday police belleve they have writ- ten “closed” against an epidemic of housebreaking cases that have been afflicting the detective bureau and precincts for more than a year and a half in which reported thefts aggre- gate approximately $6,000 in mer- chandise. The arrests were made in two batches. The first, according to the police, accounts for approximately $2,800 worth' of allegedly stolen mer- chandise. The men arrested were: Lorenzo M. White, twenty-two, of Cabin John, Md.; William Jones, eighteen, of the same place and John Brooke of 2461 P street, who, despite his eighteen years of age, is believed to have been the leader of the gang. It was the keen eye of Policeman James H. Fling of the seventh pre- clnct, one of the younger members of the force, that spotted an sutomobile yesterday morning while patrolling his beat_in Georgetown. He took steps that fed to startling disclosures. Fling noticed that the machine was a new small sedan type; that it had a shiny new bumper on the rear: that it was equipped with a number of “extras” and, all in all, that it was curiously like the machine into which | three men had hopped last Thursday night when he ran upon them at a gas station at 27th and P streets. He had noticed that the gasoline distributing point was dark, and from his place across the street saw a figure climbing out the window. As he started for the place the man ran and two others joined him and es- caped in the automobile, scattering spark plugs all over the street mean- while. Despite the fact that the license yesterday read “Virginia"” instead of “D. C." as on Thursday night, Fling picked up the men yesterday on Pop- lar street in Georgetown. Say Men Confessed. After being booked at the seventh precinct station the men were dis- | patched to headquarters for question- ing by Detectives Sweeney and Wal- dron, a quizz which - lasted from 1 o'clock until almost 5 o'clock ves- terday afternoon. Then the men told of elght roberrles, according to the police. The principal one was that of the Fashion Shop, which was re- { ported to be approximately $1,000. Through arrest of two men yes-| terday on charges of larceny of $218 worth of typewriters from the United States Treasury Department, police belleve they have cleared up four other cases of housebreaking and burglary, in which more than $2,000 is involved. Detectives Waldron, Sweeney, Jones and Jackson of head- quarters handled the case. The men arrested were: William Wells, thirty, giving his address. as| 35 P street, and Robert Joseph Paul, twenty-one, giving his address as 904 French street. Waldron, Sweeney and Jones ex- amined the men. During thé quizzing to have admitted breaking Into four other places and obtaining various articles of cloth- ing and miscellany, which “Reds” Wells is alleged to have disposed of at the race track. The robberies amounted to about $3,100. MUNICH RIOTERS HURT. Many Arrests of Nationalists Made After Hitler Speaks. By the Associated Press. MUNICH, July 14.—Several persons were injured and many arrests were made in a clash here today between the police and a large number of na- tional soclalists, following a meeting at which Adolph Hitler, the national- ist leader, and other speakers at- tacked the government. A fight ensued when the police at- tempted to seize the nationalists. MANY DEAD !N WRECK. GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala. July 14—Many persons were killed when two tralns collided on the rail- road to Puerto Barrios tod First ald treatment was given by an aux- iliary train to numerous passenger: who were injured. NATION TO WATCH MINNESOTA G0 T0 POLLS TOMORROW Campafyn Between Preus and Johnson Ends Today With Result Doubtful. RAIL UNIONS SUPPORT FARM-LABOR CANDIDATE Leader of Electrical Workers Issues Counter Statement Favoring Governor’s Policies. BY N. 0. MESSENGER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ST. PAUL, Minn,, July 14.—The Min- nesota senatorial campaign will for- mally come to a close tomorrow night with an address to a farmers’ picnic by Gov. Preus, republican candidate, and then one of the most important TUnited States senatorship elections in many years, in view of the effect the result may have upon the reorganiza- tion of the Senate and the party divi- !sions in that body in the next Con- | gress, will be placed in the hands of the voters Monday. The voting commences early Mon- day morning and closes at 9. at night, the polls being held open to allow the farmers to speed to the polls in ; their “Henrys” after the stock is watered and fed. The result, if the vote is close, may not be known be- fore late Tuesday. Expect Close Vote. It is the bellef of cautious poli- ticlans on both sides that the vote will be close. The Magnus Johnson leaders claim his election by 40,000. The republican leaders think Preus will win by 10,000. The sporting ta ent lays even money on Preus. I beard of one bet of $5000 and an- other of $1,500 that way. Visiting political observers from other states, realizing the many “ifs” and “ands” admittedly applying to the outcome, are cautious in predict- ing.. The “form" is with Johnson, the work and organization with Preus. “If* the republicans can poll their full strength in Minneapolis and the southern tiers of cov .ties “and” the farmers are busy with their crops on election day, the republicans will win Germans Also Factor. There are other ifs and ands re- lating to the way the big German vote goes and the way the demo- crats split JtHelr vote among their own candidate for Senator Carley and the two other candidates. Magnus Johnson, the farmer-labor candidate, has important support from labor, especially railway labor. A circular in his behalf has been issued by the chiefs of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, of the Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Tralnmen, of Shop Crafts, of Raflway Clerks anl of Mainten- ance of Way Men. Iet's see what kind of argument s put up to the labor men for Magnus Johnson. The circular first takes a wallop at Preus, who, it says, “will Rave the backing and ardent support of the Harding administra- tion, an administration replete with records of insincerity and incon- sistence, equaled only by the admin- istration of the affairs of Minnesota by Gov. Preus.” Called Efficient Man. The circular continues: “The farm- er, labor and business men chose Magnus Johnson as the candidate of the farmer-labor party for United States senator; a clean, able, effi- | cient, honest and capable man, an everyday man like you and we; & man so democratic that he dJelights to be called ‘Magnus’ He is the { modern Cinelnnatius adapted to Min- nesota conditivr called from his plow to serve t. people. “If elected he w.ll go to Washing- ‘ton to assist such senators as Ship- stead, La Follette, Brookheart, Fra- zler, Norris, Heflin and others of the progressive bloc who will endeavor to ascertain why, when sugar can be manufactured at $3.25 per cwt., cov- ering all costs, that the people must pay $10 and §11 for it. Also, when Ford can deliver coal in Detroit from Kentucky and Tennessee mines for $5 per ton, why do the coal mine owners gouge the people of Minne- sota to the extent of from $12 to $16 per ton. Would Enjoln Profiteers. “If workers can be enjoined in the interest of public welfare, why can- not the coal barons, the sugar profi- teers, the steel, building material | cement, woolen, cotton, _foodstuffs and hundreds of other profiteers ba restrained from robbing the people? We are vitally interested in that question. “We know the manipulators of finance have deflated the farmers, workers and business men of Minne- { sota out of many hundreds of millions |of dollars. The federal reserve bank, |by calling in their loans in 1920, in |an eighteen-month period deflated the | farmers of the country to the extent of $12,675,000,000—a loss sufficient, { had they had it in cash, td naT gone on the open market and bought up levery mile of railroad in the United States.” But Johnson also has the backing of an element not so desirable as the rallway brotherhoods. Today there came out an apveal for him from the workers' party, a radical organiza- tion, among the leaders of which are | the notorlous William Z. Foster and his fellow extremists. The call says 1 that_in the absence of a conventiom (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.)