Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER- Thufdershowers this afternoon or tonight; probably Tempe! ended at 2 p.m. toda: 4:30 p.m. yesterday; 5 am. today. Full report on page 7. slightly _cooler; ir, " Closing N. Y. Stocks __lll_ll Bonds, No.: 2;930. BRIISH 10 IGNORE FRENCH BLOWS 10 REPARATIONS PLAN Poincare Speech Not Re- garded as Definite Rejection; U. S. to Get Draft of Reply. FRANCE SEES EFFORT TO REND VERSAILLES PACT Fears International Commission Is Merely Coalition of Groups Opposing Her. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 16.—Prime Minister Baldwin announced in the house of commons today that he would com- municate to the United States for its information the draft of the reply he was preparing to the German repara- tion note. Mr. Baldwin's statement was made to J. Ramsay MacDonald, the leader of the labor opposition, in reply to the latter's question. In reply to Commander Joseph Ken- another questioner, the prime minister said the rccent German note on reparations was addressed to the United States as well as to the Brit- ish and allied governments, but that no recent conversations had occurred between representatives of the Brit- ish and United States governments in regard to reparations or the present European situation. British hopes of assuming the allled leadership in the negotiations for a roparations settlement with Germany are considered here to have had a gerious setback during the week end by reason of the speech which Pre- nifer Poincare of France delivered at Senlis Sunday. Nevertheless the Brit- ish officials who returned to Downing &treet early today to resume the task of draftipg a reply to the latest Ger- °n offer were not so sure that the situation was as gloomy as the news from Paris seemed in Indicate. The British attitude as reflected in official cireles is that the least sald about the Poincare address the better. Tt is recognized that the atmosphere of & war memorial unvelling was not a_suitable one for the announcement of any change in French poticies. and the fact that Premier Poincare merely reaffirmed the rigid French views without making them any stronger offered some little satisfaction and | encouragement To Draft Nete. The British, it is indicated, will proceed with the work of draftimg the note to be submittad to the ailies and the United States just as if M. Poincare had not spoken his mind. Tord Curzon, the forelgn secretary, arrived at the foreign office early this morning, and the completed draft of the document will probably go to the cabinet tomorrow. The French premier’s announcement has left the British undaunted in their efforts to make proposals which | will be acceptable to the allies. As for the French premlier's expressed | fear that a new international repara- tion commission would be —nothing ! more than “a coalition of the inter- ests opposed to us,” the British reply is that such a commission can easily | be formed with strict legal regard for the treaty of Versailles if the allies | are willing. They point to the prece- | dent of the bankers' commission, | | | | i { ! Iintered as second ~lacs raatier post office Washington, D. C. - Vivid Recollections of War Actuate France, Writer Finds ) United States should visit the devas- tomarrow ure for twenty-four hours' Highest, 81, at lowest, 3, Page24 'David Lawrence Begins Study of Issues Confronting Europe in AreaDevastated French were very much hurt. He did g0 many weeks later after the bulk of the work on the treaty of Versail- les had been completed. Had he gone sooner there might have been lass wrangling at g¢he conference, and the whole course of European history ”‘Z“M i3the it of Mr. Tawrease's dis- es from Europe de post Tar Taconstructian probloms as. they’ &p. Bosr & him after dve yoars® a! He inds that the Franch have made amaring progress in restoring those ons of their country that were devastated in the war, but that their mood after five years still ene of vivid war recollections. Th is why he started his survey of European reconstruction on the battleflelds of France, where, he says, every student of Fronch policy should start.) | ' . . by Enemy—Few Evidences of Fight. might have been changed. — | who ‘wishes to study the European {situation ought to' do is to examine PARIS, July 16.—When Woodrow |problem. It was nearly flve years Wilson stepped off the traln in Paris ago when the weiter last saw the X s. The changes that have him was Raymond Poincare. then {ien plice sinces then are %o heart ance, and now | not realize what has been done unless The first words that M. Poincare | !d,\cy pooming an the western front. whispered in Mr. Wilson's ear were The process has been gradual, and | parison based om France today and tated regions of France Mr. Wilson | France five years ago can the prog- Sl | WOuI(T End “Menace"—De-‘ Army Answer His Ultimatum ’ nies His Future an Issue. by 12 0’Clock Tonight. / BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Diplomatic relations and the ,'ond serles of political conferences, held | ©f Uncle Sam are nearing the fbreak- here during the week end, found former | ing point. It is an impendiag war bearer of the democracy in 1920, closet- | Which the Marine Corps. {through ed with Cordell Hull, democratic na-, Brig.’Gen. Smedley D. But¥:r, com- | So the first thing that any one e TAVER SAp N {the physical aspects of* France's five years ago the first man who met | battlefields with 'the ruins of cities it's oning that the average American will v | he saw the destruction when the guns a plea that the President of the only when some one makes a com. 4id not accept the invitation, and the (Continued on Page 2. Column 6.) i Conference in New York|Marine Leader Demands / ’ NEW YORK. July 16.—An important | Will of two of the fighting s frvices Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio, standard- | Over the battle of the gricAron, in tional chairman; Senator Pat Harrison | manding the marine east jooast ex- lald down the ultimatuly that his = b4 "l a gridiron s of Annap- from a long tour through the west; Joseph P. Tumulty of Washington, | fighting unit will not former secretary to President Wilson; | fiddle to any one, not e Frank Cobb, editor of the New York | battle between the tear World, and others of prominence in the A olis and West Point democratic party. | Gen. Butler made the/ Gov. Cox had nothing whatever .to do with his | manding the 34 Corfs Area with cers | headquarters in. Baltf nore, until 12 possible candidacy in 1924, but \«cra‘o,”a‘k tonight to cf .mply with an devated to @ diseussion @f democratie | yitimatum agreeing tf , take the game policies in the trying months that will | from Baltimore, Md., next year if the precede the conventions and campaigh | Army-Navy game iv. heid there. The next year. ;‘nu.r‘l:;s ha‘Ve squar ed for the fray, e, 1 Ford. | he heir yof e X & m M"“ o 20111, m?‘r. and .‘;.'&1,.: jd 1t {s knowh, Kowever, that amoiig | that if they once J iks the Eathe from the subjects discussed was the “men- | B?lllmzre{w)gdf.oiol \gu}l never go F:tki 9 ! n games of las! ace” of Henry Ford as a presidential I year and the fpreceding vear. in aspirant in ‘the next democratic con-|ywhich the Army had charge of the vention. It was the concentus of opin- x?r:\:, looked atf or the enter ulnmelnl fon at the conféerence that enough {f the men, and Aid all the advert| | ing, every on v 1t votes will be pledged to other cadi-| But last year] Gen: Tutler suid the dates in advance of the convention to | this year thef marines would be the heck ‘any early stampede to the De.|home team afi] would run the game, ‘troit automobile Croesus. It has further developed that a new and 1t is sti ted in the contract to which the /\fmy has agreed. line-of attack 18 to be opened on Mr. Ford. Y, stretch of the im- d be elected to the marines ar o select the place for | the gridiroy. fbattle. “Even it by an agination he cou presidency, he would resign in_ six months,” eaid one of the most promi- nent figures at the week end confer- ences. “Mr, Ford,” he continued, “is second last move, in ¢ avy Game. . [since that time Baltimore has set,T ht to capture the Army- Navy gamn k, and, according to present informa/: bn, has & good chance for insisted the conferences | Which he has given Gé¢ n. Muir, com- | The | Mile Auto Trip to Inte- rior of Alaska. By the Associated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 16— {of Mississippi, who has just returned | Peditionary force at Quag tico, had|Having reached the northern end of steel rall transportation, President Harding proposed today to go far- ther into the interior of Alaska by automobile. About the time people in Washington are having dinner to- night, and those in the middle west are quitting work for the day, Presi- dent and Mrs. Harding and a portion of their party will start from here on an gutomobile trip of pinety miles over Richardson trail to McCarty. on the Tenana river. The ride will take five hour: ‘18 ‘wan originally plannéd. that the v ovi B o rrias and Thire take the Copper River and North- western railroad to the port of Cor- dova, but the trip was abandoned a: possibly too strenuous, much to the! regret of Mrs. Harding, who has been urging it. / WIill Take River Ship. | As now planned, the panty’ on reaching McCarty, will go abbard a river steamer for Nenana, wHere, on Tuesday evening. they will board a train for a twenty-four-hour trip aBroad to i | ! I back over the government r. Seward. Secretary Wallace and Chief Greeley, however, will make/ the en- tire trail trip. i Train Abandoned for Ninety-! | | A woman with thirteen Peking- ese dogs worth $75 each does not need temporary alimony. Chiet Justice McCoy so ruled to- day, when he declined to grant alimony to Mrs. 1da Olga Desio, who asked limited divorce from Salvatore Deslo, jr. Through Attorney George C. Gertman, the husband informed the court that when his wife left him she took two bullding asso- ciation accounts totaling $4.000, about $75 In cash, an automobile, jewelry worth $600, and thirteen dogs. Desio, who works in his father's jewelry store. has noth- ing but his salary. he says. He also claims that his wife lives at Radnor Helghts, and is not entitled to maintain suit here. ‘Was Waltress Once. Pesio sayp his wite was 2 walts before fheir ' marriage and shortly after the wedding they es- tablished a home on the Conduit road, Where. sha ‘Was satishsd for a number of years. He denféd he HIGHER PRESSURE, FIRE CHIEF'S PLEA‘ \ | Watson Also Asks Pay Raise for Men and New Equip- which undertook a similar task lastan {ndustrial autocrat. The red tape yea {at Washington—and by this I mean | the necessary red tapé—wou choke Press Sges Bejection. Mr. Ford to death. The limitations A bad impression: was made here hy‘yw'gt Mpon lhs lzreuld;:t ‘by lth:- ‘onstitution and by organic law Premier Poincare of France in the (SRSHYINION S80 ¥o M Ford that | address he delivered at Senlis yester- : he would walk right out of the White | day which Is generally regarded as|House as soon as he discovered not v {what he could do, but what he a.n indirect li#l)l) to the outline of‘ couldn't do. T mean by this also that Great Britain's reparations policy by | the presidency and the traditions of ! Premier Baldwin. There is widespread the officc would not mean very much - disposition to treat It as an xmendearf‘"m}.ir- “!'no“r‘% ‘:::“M‘w:‘:f::(flldg:“?;; rejection of the views which Mr. Bald- {im put the Arudgers of It after- win projected. The only favorable comment in the | ward would not.” morning newspapers is made by the Urses O)inging: {o Felisies Morning Post which favers mainten-| Gov. Cox urged upon the leader nce of the entente at all costs. v v] k. The Times thinks that M. Poincgpe’s | ¥1th whom he talked that the par speech was unfortunate and protests |remain steadfast to its principles / his assumption that Great Britaln no | the coming session of Congress. A lb';r‘!fi:: supports the treaty of Ver-!democrats will have greater power ‘in The Daily News fears there Is little | the new Congress than at any y"me since 1918, and upon the record r. ade that France will receive the sh proposala favorably, but dep- | thereln will largely rest T.;,— D e P chh g | chances of winning the presidenrfy in 1924. utting an end to Great Britain's ione o, 1 G; {3 high hopes” and urges the country to cut loose from European connec- tions. The Daily Chronicle treats the speech | as finally slamming the door against| Great Britain and charges that France | 18 seeking nobodys interests but her own, paying no regard to the manner | in which Britich industry is suffering from her selfish action. The Daily Herald, labor organ, de- mands that Great Britain withdraw all support from France, forgive Italy and Belgium their debts, press France to pay hers and urge the United States to join an_ international con- | ference to decide the amount of Ger- many's payment, abandoning, how- ever, any claim to the British share. FRANCE TO KEEP GRIP.- Will Not Accede to British Plan, Poincare Indicat By the Assoclated Press. SENLIS, France, July 16.—In_this little town. the point nearest Paris held by the Germans on their attempt | to reach the capital, Premier Poin- | care gave vesterday what is consid- ered his preliminary answer to Great | Tritain's reparations attitude enunci- ated last week in both houses of parliament. H answer, of course. wiil be in reply to the-note that Great Britain will' propose as. a joint allied reply to Germany. France, he asserted, stands unalter- ably for the complete execution of the treaty of Versailles and the full pay- ment by Germany of 132,000,000 gold marks, the sum fixed at the London conference. France, he added, op- poses the appointment of an interna- tional finance commission to_recon- sider Germany's debt and supplant the reparations commission. 1 No More Comcessions. No more concessions will be made by France, was the gist of his ad- dress. After saying France had been mak- ing concesslons continually he con- tinued: “Then why have we said we have reaciiéd the end? . It Is because until now concessions always have been at | our expense. Hag not Germany bee: so_well looked alter during thre (Continued on Fage 2, Column 2.) -~ ‘The democratic ty has be & llbearer to all other W farties” ‘said Mr. Cox “an jeve we are to be called function again. We will oy slive all e others by remaining stef the guiding principles of tly { demo racy in the past. But If We 'go chas- ing wille-o'-the-wisp. if Yie go to vylng with some elemen’is of the republican party in chay ing all of the crazy palitical ideas s af the day, then we will have to call { lor the pall- bearers Instead of bein g the pall- bearers ourselve: : Sees World Issues 4 wcending. “The democratic par! § always has been sanely progressivi.s. AlL it needs to do now is to coj jtinue on that path. I said in 5omq of my speeches in 1920 that after an/fnevitable period of reaction, this coy! ftry would thank God for the demog atic party and I the Nitical "I be- fpon to c- | believe that time if. ‘now about to ar- rive. § All of those whg ‘attended the party conferences here/ are confident that (Conunued un [ ’age 2, Column 1.) — ‘Blood /is Taken jdfast to | it in 1424, This game would be held the lag t;' Saturday in November, @nd 1y icrk later is the usual time for #my-Marine Corps game, with representing the 3d Corps and the Quantico marines. «at's what aroused the marines, they insist on supremacy, and icede second in no_instance. n. Butler wrote to Gen. Muir, in- v ung his attention to the condi- ons. 7 Ae pointed out, it was learned, that t fis was the Marincs' year to select ! he place for the game and they were «illing to play in Baltimore, but in ~iew of the probability that the Arm: avy game would be held there the ollowing year, he suggested an agree- i ment whereby the Army would transfer | the game to -this city er some other i castern point. To this came the reply ! that next year was the Arm: choice {and-they would select the place, | that it would be Baltimore. | Then the ultimatum, in true mili- | tary terms, that unless there was an agreement the Army-Marine Corps game would not be in Baltimore this | year, and once it is taken away there Wwould be an awful battle to get back ithern ever again. the teany s are T} foy and It was a real ultimatum. There will !be no time for procrastination, for | Gen. Muir must answer Gen. Butler by midnight tonight. And if he re- | serves the right to run the game next year in Baltimore and play second | fiddle to the Army-Navy game, then | there 1s a likelihood that Washington always will have the game In the fu- ture. The Marines hold the upper hand, e KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Number Lose Lives When Serbian ‘War Stores Blow Up. BELGRADE, July 16.—A number are reported killed, others injured and considerable damage caused to build- ings by the explosion yesterday of a large depot of artillery ammunition at Kraguyevauz, sixty miles south- east of Belgrade. The disaster is be- lleved to have been due to sponta- neous combustion. From Patients, ed, Reinjected Into System blood, successfully car- ugh at the New Haven / Howpital, now a part of ical school of Yale Uni- , were made known by of- t the institution today. In instance the person's blood drawn off and injected back inty. the system thrdugh the vein 7'he first case was that of a plegnant woman who had a se- mfhmcn’n? in the abdomen. o surgeons drew off the blood ter filtering the blood, transfused it into her system. Shortly after a man was ad mitted with hemorrhage of the liver, following an automobile ac. cident. ‘The abdomen -was fllled with blood. The staff treated the liver, filtered the blood drawn off and injected it thrapgh the arm. Both patients sfe regarded as convalescents. . A week ago after a negro lad had been stabbed under the heart the surgeons opencd the heart cavity, washed the organ and mended a cut, drew the blood from the cavity and sewed up 8o | The presidential party arrived here | last night—Ilast night in [point of time only, though, for, although it was after 9 o'clock, the sun still was shining, and it never got dark, as the ; g wash needs three things to put it.in first- flays here now are twenty-foufjhoUrS |.oiaey condition. in the opinion of | The President. while here, visited|Chief George S. Watson. They are: ! the Alaska _ Agriculture College| A system of high-pressure hydrants | and school of Mines the farthest|, ‘i “buginess area. | D natead 1o fiiat student iait 31 New apparatus to replace eight | ment Next Year. The Washington fire department graduated its first student last June. Before he arrived at Fairbanks. the | wornout tractor engines. President drove the golden spike sig- 2 | nifying completion of the goypernment| AR Increase in salatics to STsris railroad from Seward through to|the department to get a high-type | Fairbanks in June. In a brief ad-|class of men. dress. the FPresident sald he was| The chief exprossed these views | Y1 ‘engineering work and . paid | upon returning to duty this morning high tribute to Col. Mears and other|from a brief leave of absence. Chief builders. Watson is plannipg to take an ex- Gridiron Club Meets. itended trip for his health next month The port of Valdez has been add-|after he has completed the fire de- ed to the President's itinerary, from | PArtment estimates. Seward “High-pressure mains would add | The Gridiron Club, ‘the National|ETeatly to the efliclency of the fire = " & ! department, id the chief, “but in Capital's famous organization of cor-) SePRrImEnt” s¢, the Sheh (UG 1 scharge, | It MmO e & respondents, held the farthest north meeting in its history last midnight in the land of the midnight sun, 150 miles from the arctic eircle.’ Eight members of the organization from the American correspondents accom- panying President Harding on his| Alaskan trip gathered at the Tenanal Club with Scott C. Bone, former, ‘Washington editor and correspondent and now Governor of Alaska. The meeting was_thus participated in by (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. HUNT GIRL IN SWAMP | AFTER WOMAN IS CUT: O:lcers Charge Attack on Mrs, Walter Lawando to Step- daughter, Twenty. By the Associated Press. 31 WAUSAU, Wiz, July 16 —Mary Lawando, twenty vears old, is being sought by imembers of a sheriff's passe in a swampd near Rothschild, six miles south of here. The gifl is wanted in copnection with an ‘attack on Mrs. Walter Lawando of Roths- child, who recelved twenty cuts and brul ‘Mary. who is Mrs. Lawando’s step: { daughter, has not been seea since the day before the attack on her ymother, and Sheriff, Arthar Siew- P afvactor of the search, said iast night he is con! {s the person who attacked her. Guards who were stationed about the swamp today declaged it would be impossible for a girl to live there lany length of time. Hordes of mos. | quitoes and deer fiies are to be en- countered at every move. even in the daytime, and at night the conditions are much worse. Sheriff Siewart announced he would make @ search several places where the girl mayybe with friends. ‘| trad, i the next District bill. ifiremen will lose $240 a year beginning fident that the girl | | the equaily urgent need for new ap- paratus and adequate pay for the +men who put out the fires. One Horse Company Left. “We have only one horse-dramwn ccmpany left, and that will be motor- ized soon. But it must not be (for- gotten that some of our original motor engines have now been in service moral ithan a decade. They are old-style] tractor: Touching on the salary question, the chief pointed out that for the first time in the history of the fire department thers are jobs vacant, without a wait- ing list of applicants. There are eight- een_positions unfill ) The chief ascribes this situation to the fact that the kind of men ‘who are fit to pass the examination and who would make good firemen can earn much money in the bullding d other outside employment. Commissioner er already has pledged himself to work for higher pay for both the police and firemen in Policemen and { twice July 1, 1924, unless Congress increase. their basic salaries this December. Not Provided For. These two groups of city worker: ow get the $240 bonus, but that will be discontinued when reclassification ! salaries go into effect next July. Po- licemen and firemen are not provided for under reclassification, but Com- missioner Oyster intends to make a trong effort to. have their |wages raised in’ the appropriation ac i Basic salaries of privates in the fire department, without the bonus, Would be $1,460, $1,560 and $1,680. It is_understood the Commissioner will recommend §$1,800, $1,900 and. $2,000, withi proportionate increases for the officers. Advocates of high-pressure see no reason why the Commissioners should not akk for that improvement, as well as for additional fire apparatus. Al- high-pressure system would 000, it could be installed! aver a period of years. s gradually sasy & WASHINGTON, D.. C., 'MONDAY, JULY 16, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. . ' / 13 Pekingese Dogs Balk Owner’s P&Efi%gflfifl?gfl;fifl Plea f%r Tem?)orary Alimony | gave her only $3 a week for household expenses and says this was “pin money.” He met all the expenses, he says, gave his wife from $20 to $50 at Christmad and sent her on a visit to Philadelphia to see her sister. The husband says the business of raising pedigreed dogs was a mu- tual one, and was not taken up by the wife to help out her income. Wife Blamed Father. The wife had alleged that Deslo's father was backing up his son's alleged cruelty because she de- manded payment of $1,200 which ahe lent the father shortly after the marriage. The husband denies that his father has urged him to mistreat his wife. and says he did ‘think Mrs. Desio unreasonable when she denied to renew the loan. He charges that she lately has come under the influence of her mother, and has been made dis- satigfied with her home. She was not intimate with' her relativ, until two or three years ago, states. Desio says his wife's chief rea- son for the #UIt fs to obtain money rathér than a divorce. He asks that the suit be dismissed. Padlock Rule ay Be Invoked To Dry Up Homes pecial Dispatch to The Sta: OMAHA, July 16.—One hundred private homes will be closed for one vear within the next few days under the padlock provisions of the federal prohibition law if James C. Kinster, United States district at- torney, makes good his threat. He has already ordered infunction pro- ceedings against these houses. He will seek the action, he says, under a recent ruling of Judge Faris of §t. Louis, who held that any place where the festive “hooch” is sold is & “shop” In the meaning of the law. This is a new attempt by officials to stem the bootlegging tide. They have tried almost everything clse. GIRL BACKS JILTING OF MANUEL HERRICK Promise to Wed Admitted by Miss Chrane, But Says He Be- came Unendurable. e Miss Ethelyn Chrane, a stenogra pher ,who was recently sued for $50.000 heart balm by Manuel Herrick, former representative from Oklahoma. todlay filed answer to the suit in the District Supreme Court. She admits making the promise to marry Her- rick during the fall -of 1921, but pleads justifications for her subse- quent refusal to proceed with the contract. She_tells the court that in June, 1922, Herrick proposed a secret mar- riage, which should not be announced until such time as the newspapers might comment on their relation When, according to the scheme said to have been outlined by the former Tepresentative, he would reveal his marriage to the newspapers for large sums of money. When she refused the secret mar- riage, the young woman states, Her- rick displayed toward her a violent temper, the possession of which had been unknown to her. He swore at Ler, she avers, and threatened physical injury to certain of her relatives un- less she consented to the secret pact. After she had promised sto marry him, Miss Chrane says, the character and characteristics of the. plaintiff be. came known to her. His dpenmnl"ty and habits became’ exceedingly dis- tasteful: to her,.and eventually so ob- noxious as to render his presence un endurable, she states. Attornéy An drew Y. Bradley appears for the young ‘woman. \ - 2 AVIATORS DIE IN SEA. Strapped to Seats, They Have No Chance When Plane Falls. VENICE, Calif., July 16.—Herbert Wilson and Cecil Coates, aviators, were drowned yesterday when the en- gine of a seaplane falled at an alti- tude of 200 feet and glided into the ocean. - They had no chance to es. cape, as they were strapped to their sea ‘Wilson was thirty-five years old and Coates twenty-seven. ‘The accident was witneased by sev- aral thousand persons. . "[Yesterday with “From Press to Home Within ‘the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washingtor homes as fas. as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Net Circulation, 79,200 Sunday's Circulation, 93,083 i / 'Rum-Mad F rogs, Drunken Turtles, In Liquor Orgy Detective Springman blew into headquarters today from an inves- tigation of a still on the premises of Thurston Goodrill at Burnt Hills, Md., close to which the body of James Adams was found yes- terday, bringing with him a fish story of a wierd variety. Only the story dealt with frogs, turtles and spring-keepers instead of fish. Near the home of Goodrill was a pond or small reservoir wherein was dumped eighteen barrels of mash. The water had no sooner become saturated that the Inhab- {tants became soaked. A drunken orgy followed, Springman declared. Turtles, the slowest of the slow. hopped around like kangaroos and were extraordinarily expeditious in their manner of walking and swimming. The frogs had a bully time; they crawled on logs and jumped off into space, caring not where they landed. Spring-keepers also got in on the party and several tried to make for land, but they were o ntoxicated they became groggy. r. Springman certainly had a - choice story—and He believes it. OR HARDIG POLIEY Voters Making Choice Be- tween Preus and Johnson for U. S. Senator. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, July 16.—Voters of Minnesota today are writing the verdict in the unprecedented contest inyolving the selection of a United States senator in succession to the late Knute Nelson. In 3.520 polling precincts ballots are being marked, determining whether a supporter of the Harding administration shall go to the Senate or If Mis state shall throw its complete senatorial strength to the La Follette group. While there are three candidates, publican and a Harding adherent, and Magnus Johnson, farmer-laborite and follower of Robert M. La Follette, that the real contest lies. James A. Carley, state senator and democratie choice, is the third can- | didate, but even his close political { friends counted him out of the race | before the polls opened at 6 am. todayiy Ends Bitter Campaign. The election ends a campaign un- usual in the political annals of the ! state. Called specially to fill the va- cancy Senator Nelson's death created, the June 18 primary was marked by balloting that attracted only a few more than 300,000 of the state's 500, { 000 votes. It had been expected that Gov. Pres would resign and accept ap- pointment to the Senate, but the chief executive, acting on an opinion of the state’s attorney general's office. held such procedure would be illegal and his call for the special primary and election followed. Immediately _after the primary there was no apparent change in the attitude of the average voter. politi- {cal. spellbinders cast their spell i vain, and indications were that to day’'s election ‘would roll round with a repetition of the primary vote in prospect. Then it appeared that the { country i | ested in the outcome—that it viewed it as a test between the policies of the Harding administration and things advocated by the La Follette bloc. | Large Vote Expected. | This national interest, many poli- ticians sa went a long way toward |arousing the voters of the state to !the importance of the conests, and |the expectation early today was that !a vote considerably larger than the | primary poll would be cast today. The usual expressions of confidence | | were available today at the several | party headquarters, {observers professing in analytical Iturn of mind found little tangible on | iwhich to base predictions on the out come with any assurance of acceurac: In the general election last fall, Minnesota chose as United States |Senator Dr. Hendrik Shipstead. a farmer-laborite, giving him a total of 325372 votes. as compared 341,833 for Senator Frank B. Kellogs, {republican. Beat Johnson Before. Competing in the gubernatorial race in the same election, Gov. Preus |delealed Magnus Johnson, 309,756 | votes to 295,479, with the candidates 1lhey do today. Preus supporters say the Johnson vote last fall was carried through by the Shipstead showing: Johnson ad- herents say the farmer-laborites made centrating on the senatorlal race and that today, with all interest centered on the single contest, Johnson will poll a vote in ratio to that given Shipstead over Kellogr There are other forms of conjecture today, but the best informed neutrals seemed content to await the closing of the polls at 9 p.m. and the tabula- tion of the votes, before making any “outcome _ statemen unburdened with “its,” years, has become & state of political upsets since the advent of the farmer- labor party. DO A MANLA CABIET THREATENS T UIT By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, July 16.—Political differ- nces in the Philippines, reopened the resignation of secretary of the intetior, J. P. Laurel, waxed warmer tod {to reports in official circles, all other departmental secretaries except vice Gov. Gilmore, notified Governor Gen- eral Leonard Wood of their intention to quit. | Gov. Wood has refused to accept !Laurer's resignation pending a con- ference. ~ The resignation of the, mayor of Manila will follow, accord- lna to reports in political circles here MINNESOTA TODAY PICKS LA FOLLETTE it is between Gov. J. A. O. Preus, re- | at large was vitally inter-| but the neutral to {bearing the same party affillation as | no fight for the governorship, con- | as Minnésota, in recent | when, according | TWO' CENTS. EPNER NURDER MORE MYSTIYING AS PROBE GOES O “Prominent Man” Said fc Have Purchased Maxim' Silencer Prior to Slaying. PROSECUTOR REOUESTS' CALL FOR GRAND JURY |Ready to Proceed at Once Witk Trial Should Arrests Be Made. Husband Leaves in Auto, By a Staff Correspondent, FREDERICK, Md., fling and unexpected developments in the still unsolved mystery sur- rounding the murder of Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner, member of an old Maryland family, and wife of & wealthy Frederick bank director, were brewing today, as State’s At- torney Aaron R. Anders went inte secret conference with Judge Ham- mond Urner and Judge Len H Worthington of the circuit court here. A special session of the Frederick county grand jury. charged with the duty of further inquiring Into the ctrange death of Mrs. Kepner, wheo was found lying on a bed in her father’s country home with a bullet | hole through her brain, was'éxpecteg {to be called within the next forty- eight hours. Mr. Anders requested the court for permission to summon the jurors and was told he would be given an answer ‘‘within twe days” Frederick confidently expects that answer to be in the affirmative. Report Sllencer Purchased. In the meantime the state's attor- ney was furnished with information today to the effect that some time previous to the death of Mrs. Kepner last June 18, a prominent business man had purchased a Maxim silencer at a nearby hardware store. The name ofthe store and the purchaser were given the county authorities, together with orders to run down the clue and report immediately whether or not is was true. Although the .38-caliber automatic from which the death bullet was fired would nct fit a Maxim silencer, the state's attorney regarded the infor- mation as highly important, and sald if 1t were true the alleged purchaser should be asked to explain what he wished (o do with the instrument. His informant i& Charles C. Mantz, a promi- nent retired farmer, who was a mem- ber of the coroner's jury which late Saturday returned a verdict reversing the previous sulcide theory concerh- ing Mrs. Kepner's death and declared her the victim of an assassin. Asks for Grand Jury. State's Attorney Anders went into { conference with Judges Urner and Worthington promptly at 9 o'clock this morning. It was after 10 when he emerged and sald: “I have re- quested the court for permission to summon the grand jury in epecial session. The court considered my argument, took it under advisement 2nd promised to give me an answer within two days. It may come to- morrow and it may not be announced until Wednesday. I am not at lib- erty to anticipate the court. 1 belicve Frederick wants this case c.eared up immediately. 1t ould be useless for me to make an rrest before the grand jury has considered the evidenco in hand and decided whether or not there bas been sufficient testimony to warrant an immediate arrest, or whother It would serve to conduct an inauiry of its own. 'Should an arrest be au- thorized I would demand an imme- diate trial and, undoubtedly, the de fense would demand a change of venue. | { July 16.—Bar- i Kepner Leaves in Auto. Mr. Anders said the Kepner case has left a blot on the name of Fred- erick which cannot be wiped out until a free jury determines who is gullty. For this reason, if for no other, he would like to finish the case {entirely this month. He expected cither Hagerstown or Rockville would be the scene of a trial if it werd j ordered, but seemed inclined to. ba- lieve it would be the latter place. B. Evard Kepner, the siain woman's husband, had not returned to Fred- erick this morning. He left in hje | automobile Saturday evening, short after the coroner's jury returned: lts verdict of murder, supposediy- o visit relatives in Harrisburg, Pa. Scout “K. K. K.” Threat. News this morning. that Miss Eleanor Houck, a sister of the late {Mrs. Kepner, had received a letter supposedly from the Ku Klux Klan, falled to create any excitement, most persons laying it to the work of a crank, who had been unduly stirred up by newspaper accounts of the murder. The letter was sent special delivery and was postmarked Wash- ington, July 13. The paper -usad, however, bore a Frederick letterhead. The contents of the document follow: “We have this day sent a letter to Leo Weinberg giving valuable infoe- mation and asking for certain infor- mation. Will you see on the quiet | that he does not suppress this infor Imation or destroy the letter by | Wednesday morning? If he does not | give this information to the press ! then you show this letter immediately {to States Attorney Anders. We wiil then show our hand at once, with some information that will wake old Frederick up. That murder shall be revenged.” It was signed “K. K. K.” Letter Turned Over. Beneath the letter was drawn .z cross and a poor effort was made to |decorate it with scrolle. Mr. Wein~ berg, who represented Mr. Kepner at the coroner’s inquest, declared he had not reccived his letter this morning. Miss Houck, however, turned her let~ ter over to Lieut. Charles H. Kahler of the Baltimore detective bureas, Sherrift James A. Jones and Mi: {Anders. < In view of the fact that the le {to Miss Houck bore a Washing! date line, It was understood that of the District police with the request’ that thev make an effort through. the’ Post Qffice Department to track down the person who mailed it in_ thi tlonal Capital.’