Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. . Fair tonight and tomorraw; Ilttle change in temperature; light to gen- tle variable winds. Temperature for 24 hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 84, at 3 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 64, at § a. Full report on nage 1, m. today. L ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Q CluiLgN. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 28,932. ‘N ECRECY 10 CLOAK ALLIED PARLEY ON REPARATION REPLY London and Paris Zealously uard Nature of Policy Toward Germany. post office Wa FRENCH ATTITUDE LESS BITTER, OBSERVERS FIND Hopes for Adjustment of Differ- ences Grow—Cabinet to Act Tomorrow. B the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 18.—Owing to the non-completion of certain clauses in the British draft of the reply to the | German reparations memorandum and the explanatory letter 1o’ accompany 1t, the cabinet meeting that was to| be held today was postponed until tomorrow morning. The most rigid silence is being observed by every one connected with the foreign office regarding the mature of the| British response. | The task of Lord Curzon, secretary | for foreign affatrs, in composing this, document, which s intended to con- | | tain at least some element pleasing | to all sides, is admitted to be one of exceptional delicacy and com- | ple and no intimation of the| contents of the forthcoming com-! munication has escaped the lips of | any government officlal. The only | thinz reasonably certain is that the | draft reply will contain allusions to! Germany's passive resistance as a barrier to the opening of negoti-| ations, together with a statement! that Great Britaln is ready to accept | the judgment of an international eommittee of experts regarding Ger- | many's capacity to pay. | Analytical Document. Tt is understood the covering letter | will be a long Iytical document | explanatory of the broader phases of the reparation problems as Great Britain sees them, which do not quite come within the scope of the formal | reply to the last note from Berlin. Some observers here think there is a change noticeable in the French attitude toward the note which Great Britain is to propose as a joint all reply to Germany and that the situa- tion’ indicates an Increased willing- ness of France to consider the Brit- | ish draft when it Is submitted. j i | See Hints of Change. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: “The change may be purely atmo- spheric and tactical and may not im- ply any inclination of an abatement of the French official standpolnt. On the other hand it conceivably may be the outcome of considerations urged by Belgium which is working for| conciliation, or by friends of the en- | tente, like' Premfer Benes of Czecho- | slovakia." | Referring to the secrecy with which | the contents of the draft are being | guarded the Daily Mall says: | “Apart from the usual reticence of | the foreign office, requests have been | made trom allied quarters that the greatest discretion ha observed. This | i% not a bad symptom, since if there was nothing to hope for there would be less reason for silence.” EXPECT REPLY FRIDAY. British Note Will Not Be Accepted or Rejected, Paris View. Bs tie Assoclated Press. PAR July 18.—The French for- eizn office indlcated today that it ex- pected to receive on Friday the Brit- ish communication on the reparations problem. It has been prearranged by both the French and. British forelgn offices that the precise terms of the note shall be guarded with the great- est secrecy until the two govern-| monts have reached an agreement or | have become convinced that they can- not agree, 1t is not supposed in the highest! political levels here that. the note | wiil be such that it can be either ac- ' cepted or rejected as a whole. Some | important points, according to hints recelved from the French embassy in London. will be of such a nature that | there will have to be a further ex- change of views | The Rritish note. it is understo here. is meither being " sent - sy a finality, nor is it expected that it will be received here as such. Consequently, seereey has been determined upon for the present. The prevailing idea is to close no doors to an agreement, but to keep the conversations going in an earnest spirit on both sides, with the hope of finding a common ground for agreement. Lord Crewe, the new British am-! bassador, is regarded here as more largely responsible for this attitude of mind than any other person. It is asserted it was through his influence that the British government did not make public certain conclusions ar- rived at by the London cabinet a| month_ago; which would have irri-| tated France and made further co- operation more difficult. - KING OF HEDJAS PLANS TO FIGHT BRITISH PACT | ‘Will Not Sign Protocol Which Con- | tains Declaration for Home for ! Jews in Palestine. JERUSALEM, July 18 (Jewlsh Tele- graphic Agency).—The executive com- mittee of the Moslem-Christian Union announces recelpt of a letter from ing Husseln of the Hedjas, in which ke declares he will not sign the Brit- ish-Arab protocol unless Great Brit- xin agrees to nulllfy the Balfour dec- laration. (The Balfour declaration said the British government would use its best endeavors to facllitate the estab- Jishment in Palestine of a national | home for the Jewish people, with the | clear understanding that nothing be done to prejudice the civil and re- ligious "rights of the existing non- Jewish esommunities. The letter con- cludes with an appeal to the Arabs to have patience and confidence in him. Hussein was recently the ob- fost of an attack by Arab congress leaders because of his previous ap- grovll of alestine fuence.) e _draft treaty excluding fom the zome of "Arab in- i never get there because their parents !B. & 0. BRIDGE WRECKED. Entered as sceond olues cantter hington, D. C. ch ~ " WASHINGTON, INVESTORS FLEECED OF UNTOLD MILLIONS Bucket Shops Reap Golden Harvest in Two Years Legitimate Business Hurt, as' Failures Raise Suspicions. BY R, K. TREVOR. The past two vears have been the greatest cleanup of bucket shops and | of crooked promotions that the! financial world has cver known. The public was staggered in the spring of 1922 by the series of bankrupteles | which swept In upon scores of stock | brokerage houses in New York, and the astounding total of liabilities and comparatively few assets which were revealed in those failures. In the past few months court proceedings have revealed how most of these fail- ures were part of a giant bucket- shop swindle, the greatest bucket shop swindle,"in fact. of all time. | In the Intervening months there was witnessed the collapse of promotion houses that had sold the public mil- lions upon millions of dollars of stocks ' through the “one call” system, and | similar systems of high-pressure sell ing by salesmen on personal calls. | The collapse of these latter houses 1 revealed to the people who had bought | these stosks that the securities were, in most cases, worthless, and In most other cases were nearly xo. Also in the intervening months came the firs: of the raids by the post office author- | ities on gangs of promoters who, op- | erating out of Fort Worth and other Texas cities, had been flooding the mails for a few yvears with literature resulting in the sale of millions of dol- lars of worthless oil stocks to the un wary. Today, the post office authori- tiew are working feverishly to pre- vent another army of crooked pro-! moters from effecting similar thefts through the sale of worthless s ties incident to the oil boom that has developed in the new California fields. It was the speculative enthusiasm created by the tremendous boom ket in war shares in 1915 which a foundation for these mighty raids by thousands of denizens of the finan- cial underworld on the savings of the American people. The extent of the depredations staggers belief. The full extent is not so casy to estimate. The mightiest haul was made by the| bucket shops that had their head-| Guarters in New York The vast disparity between the size of liabilities #nd the size of as: in bucket shop failures in the past few years tells part of the story. But it is oniy a comparitively meaier part. A figure much nearer correct 1 estimating the amount stolen from TContnued on b Tamn 3.) URGES DOZEN MORE PLAYGROUND POOLS, Mrs. Rhodes Points Out Thousands of Children Have No Places to Swim. ke 4, Co ashington needs at least twelve more municipal swimming pools in| residential neighborhoods, Mrs. Susie | Root Rhodes, supervisor of play-|as compared with $23,731,562.56 grounds. believes. year previous, it was announced today The city has only six municipal|at the Treasu In a preliminary pools for children. Three are in the | statement showing classified expendi- Monument grounds. One fs for col-| tures for the past fiscal year. ored children in Howard Park. This| The Veterans' Bureau, caring for leaves two neighborhood pools for |the wounded of the world war, show- | white children, one in Georgetown |ecd a large increase in expenditures, and the other on the road to Benning. | jumping from $376,749.664.2 in the Cost About $12,000. | vear 1022 to $461,719.433.83 for last year, although part of the increase Mrs. Rhodes estimated today that the present cost of a pool would be about $12,000, including locker rooms. This would put the cost of a dozen pools at approximately $140,000. Among the suburban sections that should have pools Mrs. Rhodes mer tioned Petworth and FPark View. There are other large centers of pop- ulation that are entirely without a place where children can swim, Years ago the boys had their favor- But you can't ite “swimmin’ holes. build up a modern city and lcave “swimmin’ holes” Besides, Mrs. Rhodes points out that it is safer and ore sanitary to construct clean con- crete pools. Pools Kept Clean. The existing pools are supervised by F. J. Brunner, an expert swimmer, who has under him a corps of compe- | tent life gyards. Each pool is emptied | at night #hd scrubbed with soap and stiff brushes. In the morning fresh water is run in and at noon the pools | are flushed. Near the top of each peol there is_an overflow spout. Health Officer Fowler takes samples of water at regular intervals to make sure it is kept pure. The three pools in the Monument grounds are visited daily by scores of boys, but hundreds of children are unwilling to trust them on so'long a journey from home. Fund Provided Once. Several years ago Congress appro- priated $10,000 for two new mun pal swimming pools. Bids could not be obtained with that limit, however, and the money reverted to the Treas- ury at the end of the year. Mrs. Rhodes succeeded in having it re-appropriated with an additional $5,000, but the cost had gone higher, and again the money went back to| the Treasury. Whether the playground estimates for the next year contain a request for new pools could not be learned today: but Commissioner Oyster is known to desire more pools in the neighborhoods in which large num- bers of children live. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, July 18.—A| two-span steel bridge on the Jerome branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rallroad, near Holsopple, was wreck- ed by a heavy charge of dynamite arly today. A strike of coal miners has been in progress in the Jerome and Holsopple ditsricts since April of 1922. No arrests have been made. { vears have STATE SEEKS CURB ON SWINDLE RING New Law Invoked to Prevent Further Activity of “Bil- lion-Dollar” Operators. BY RODERT T. SMALL. NEW YORK. July 18.—What is described now a “billlon-dollar swindle ring” has been operating in the fipancial district of New York for the past three vears. The activ- ties of this ring are being unearthed day by day and as the amazing tale unfolds ftself the state authorities are being spurred to still greater ef- forts to wipe this blot from the| escutcheon of the country’s financial center. It was estimated today that the bucket shop failures of the last few involved $100.000.000 in losses to the innocent traders in Wall street securities, instead of the $30.- 000,000 announced a few days ago. Martia Law Invoked. For the second time within a week | the state authorities have applied the new Martin law against a stock romotion enterprise. This law pro- vides for injunctions to stop the sale of stocks believed to be fraudulent. 1t is, the latest development in deal- tng with “blues-ky” promoters. It was applied today against the Motion Pictura Producing Company of Amer- fca, Inc., and the National Exchange. Inc., as well as against Johnson & Hopkins, and Walter L. Johnson, president of the three concerns It is charged that $750.000 worth | s of stock has heen sold'in the various Companies without the production o a single picture, and today. instead being able to operate, the motion pieture concern is $25,000 in debt The state claims in its petition that Johnson pocketed $475,000 of the $750,000 patd into the concern. and | that the remaining $275.000 went for salaries, office rent. furniture and commissions to selling agents. State Watches Many Firms. lost The total amount of money in these stock promotion concerns. which never get beyond the organ- izing point, cannot be estimated ‘That Is has reach- ns at this time the en Zareds nunued on Pag §24.063,105 SPENT BY D.C. LAST YEAR Increase of $322,143 s Shown Over Preceding Fis- i cal Period, Renort States. ; Expenditures for the District of Columbia during the fiscal year just ended June 30 totaled $24,053,705.47, the due to a change in accounting. This was the heaviest single departmental expense for the federal government, with the War Department coming sec- ond, with the expenditure last year of §152,733.634.86, as compared to more than $450,000,000 the previous year. The legislative establishment spent £14.165,243.89 last year, as compared with $17,088,112.87 the previous vear, while the “executive proper” showed an increase, rising from $218,690.36 in| the vear 1922, to $349,350.15 in 1923. The statement showed that there was invested during the past year in the District of Columbla teachers’ re- tirement fund,’ $199,517.91, as com- pared to $23M958.69 the previous year. Civil service retirement fund invest- pents for the past year were $8,091 48, as compared with $9,283,135.54 4 the year before. iPOLICE SEEKING RING | LOST IN HOSPITAL Patient Reports Giving It to Ordesly—No Records Found. Loss of a $200 diamond ring. prop- erty of Clarence J. Coats, 1713 Lincoln road northeast, while he was a pa- tient at Gallinger Hospital several days ago, is being Investigated by the police. Detectives Keck and Charles Mans- fleld learned that the ring was taken from the patient's finger by an order- ly and turned over to a nurse. It is said to have passed through several hands. Hospital records contain no entry to assist the detectives. Police also are ‘investigating a re- port of §200 having disappeared from a colored woman under arrest Satur- day night. The woman, Carrie Warm- ley, 312§ L street. was taken on a charge bf receiving stolen property. She missed the money after being l‘lken from the seventh precinct sta- tion. THREE KILLED IN AUTO. Machine Sfruck by Freight Train in New Jersey. FREEHOLD, N. J., July 18.—A. S. Curtis, eighty-three years of age, farmer: his wife, Mrs. Emma Curtls, sixty-five years ol and Arthur Fletcher, forty-five years old, another farmer, all of Hamilton, were killed here early today when their auto- mobile was struck by,a Pennsylvania, freight -train.- - - - - - D. C, i “THE ISMET AUTHORIZED Treaty to Be Indorsed July | 24 Bears Trade Reserva- of | | tions by U. S. and Britain. i+ Assaciated Press CONSTANTINOPLE, July 13.—The | Turkish government today authorized |Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation at the Lausanne near east conference, to sign the peace treaty. Authorization followed receipt of {approval by Ismet of the agreements reached with the allled reprosenta- tives The question of concesslons of for- |eign companies and the withdrawal iul warships from sottled in a manner not dangerous to ;the national interests and without | prejudice _to the economic independ- ence of Turkey, the delegation chiet linformed the government. Japan has definitely ranged herselt | by the side of the United States in in- | sisting upon maintenance of the open | door in the near east. This is what con- | ference circles deduced today from Am- bassador Otchlai's somewhat unexpected atement last night, announcing Ja- pan's decision not to sign the special | protocol of the treaty dealing with con- | cesslon Sign’ Treaty July 24. The last scene but one in the near east conference was enacted last night at Ouchy Chateau; the entire | text of the treaty was examined and larrangements were made for its form- al signature on July 24. It was a night of reservations, | which included, notably, reservations | by the United States and Great Brit- | ain concerning the valldity of the ! Britieh-Turkish Petroleum Company | concession, which conflicts with the | rights accorded in the Chester con- | cession for unknown ol riches in the { Mosul area i The silent battle between the { United States and England over oil | concessions, which had dominated the | conference in the past few days. be- |came an open contest last night, { when Sir Horace Rumbold. after pro- { testing Turkey's refusal to ratify the { British concession in the treaty, de- | clared that it seemed very uncertain {on what ground the American gov- { ernment wished to intervene between i the Turkish government and the | Turkish Petroleum Company. Sir_Horace made this statement (Continueu on Page 2, Column 3.) ARREST EXPECTED Letter Written by Frederick Woman Throws New Light on Case. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md. July 18.—Ar- { rests at an early date in the Sister { Cecllia kldnaping case, which focused nation-wide attention on Frederick | during February, seom likely. A let- { ter, said to have been written by a Frederick woman to a friend In Bal- timore, has been turned over to the authorities, ‘who have for four I months been quietly investigating the case of Sister Cecllia, Notre Dame nun, this city, who says she w étruck down In her music room Feb- ruary 12, taken to Baltimore and im- prisoned in a hovel in South Baliti- more, from where she escaped and returned to this city. The letter, linking up a Frederick woman, known to police authoritle came yesterday following the an- nouncement that the guimpe and headdress worp by Sister Cecilia the day she disappeared had been re- turhed by a mysterious messenger to the Notre Dame convent, this city. This letter was turned over to De- tective Charles A. Kahler, Baltimore, who has been working on the case, by a Baltimore woman, who it Is belleved has become consclence- | stricken over the part she might have played in the kidnaping. The identity of the Frederick woman is carefully concealed by the authorities. She has been grilled thoroughly and has steadfastly main- tained her innocence of all complic- ity in the kidneping. ] WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, GOOD STORY BY TURKEY TO SIGN, i the straits were IN NUN KIDNAPING Woman Steals Jail Keys; Aids Lover’s Escape B the Awsnctated Procs. WARREN, Pa, July 18.—Her fea- tures concealed beneath a black hood and flowing cape. a Young ! woman late last night engineered, eingle-handed, a daring jafl de- livery here which freed Patrick Tonsoll, believed by authorities to | be the woman's fiance. The woman forced an entrance to the sheriff's home while that a pis- and the keys to the county | jail. Then she went to the jail, | herded more than a score of pris- rs into a single tier and re- leased Ponsoll from a cell where he was held in solitary confine- ment With a sharp command to the remaining prisoners to “keep still” the masked woman fled with her “hostage." Ponsoll had been held in $7.500 bafl on a serlous charge. i Bt el e [ D.C-HEADS REDUGE official was absent and st t i | i Commissioners Compelled to i Cut $11,000,000 Asked i ! by Board. The Commissioners, it was learned ) today, will have to reduce the esti- imate of the board of education for the next.fiscal year, which, | mately $11,000,000. The city fathers went Into execu- Itive session with a committee from | the school hoard this morning to | take up the school items one by one |and declde upon the items that could be stricken out with the least harm to the educational system. + The board of education’'s expense { account constitutes the largest single {item in the local budget and is one of the most difficult subjects to cut, because the need for more class- rooms is so ereat that all of could be classed as essential if the estimates of the Commissioners were | not limited. Must Trim Figures | ‘Since the bureau of the budget | ment just as It does for the Federal departments, the commissioners have no aiternative but to trim not only the school figures but the requests of practically all departments. More-than @ third of the $11,000,000 requested by the board of education, it 1s said, is for the purchase of sites and the erection of new buildings. The balance covers a multitude of miscellaneous maintenance charges, such as salaries, purchase of supplies, Ameri- canization work, janitor service and community center activities. Just how much the Commissioners will subtract from the school board's figures 1s still an uncertainty. Even the tentative figures agreed upon now may have to be revised again after Director of the Budget Lord glances over the preliminary report presented to him by the city heads on August 1. The Commissioners will not know for several days what their first estimates to Gen. Lord will total. It is practically certain, however, that they will not be !far from $30,000,000. ! Ask For More Money. One thing is certain. Many of the department chiefs have asked the Commissioners for . more money this year than they did a year ago. These department heads aré not unmindful of the demand for economy. in gov- ernment expenditures, but they have such large volumes of necessary work awaiting execution that they find it difficult to keep down their estimates. Englneer Commissioner Bell called atténtion to that situatfon yesterday, when he remarked that it is a very difficult matter to draw the line and |say what is essential and what Is not. | The point at which the line is drawn must be determined by the total amount the Commissioners are al- lotted. That amount will not be known until Gen. Lord peruses the preliminary estimates. With less than two weeks of July remaining, there loomed up today the possibility that the Commissioners might have to hold night sessions in order to have their first budget ready for submission August 1. SCHOOL ESTIMATES it s understood, now amounts to approxi- | them | | fixes a limit for the District govern- | Sta 1923 —-THIRTY-TWO PAGES, A MINNESOTA VERSION. PHILIPPINES RUN Islands Without Native Of- ficials in High Offices Since Cabinet Quit. tha Assoctated Press, MANILA, Juiy 18.—The Philippine {1siands and the city of Manila were virtually without native part lin the higher departments of their | governments today as a result of the resignation of four cabfnet members, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representa- tives. The secretary of the interior nd the mayor of Manila previously a resigned. Insular administrative affairs were wholly in the hands of Gov. Gen. l.eonard Wood and his American ap- pointive assistants. He and Ameri- can assistants wjil aseume the burden of government untll succéssord can be found for the resigned officials. So far Gov. Gen. Wood has not officlally indicated how he will meet the situa- tion. Yesterday's resignations fol- lowed all-night and all-day sessions lof members of the varlous Filipino political groups, of the council of state. and of the legislative council at the governor general’s official resi- dence, Malacanan palace. By fa 1 ¥ Glve Reasons For Aect. | Lea by Manuel Quezon, president of !the senate, the officials marched into the office of the governor general and tendered their resignations, in con- nection with which they read a state- I ment giving their reasons. The offi- cials sald they resigned jointly as members of the council of state and dividually as department heads The reasons given for the resigna- | tions consisted of objection to what | the officials characterized as the gov- | ernor general's policy and desire to | intervene and control. even to the | emallest details, “our government, {both fnsular and local, in utter dis- | regard of the authority and respon- | einility of the department heads and other officials concerned.” and which “pellcy recently culminated in an un- | fortunate incident which shook to | jts foundations the public opinion of { the country, when you, by undue in- terference with the powers and juris- diction of the secretary of the inte- rior and the mayor of Manila, rein- stated a member of the secret service ! of the city who had been legally sus- { pended from office and whose resig- | hation you subsequently accepted on | your own initiative. And. to make matters worse, you took this actibn without hearing the proper officials.” Wood Denles Charge | Replying to the statement, Gov. | Gen. Wood accepted the resignations. although he sald they came as a surprise and that he did so with re- gret. He also declared the actlon was not based on any previous pro- test or camplaint and that it was wholly uncalled for. The resigna- tions, the governor general averred came in the nature of a threat and challenge which he could not ignore, adding: “It means an abandonment of your posts and obligations at a time of | great responsibility and on alleged fssues unsupported by evidence and tin | BYWOOD AND AIDES ipation | 'From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s cartier system covers every city bl tion is delivered to Washington homer as fast as the papers are ock and the regular edi- printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 88,034 Decalogue May Antedate Moses, Methodists Told By the Associated Press. LAKE JUNALUSKA. N. C., July 18.—A theory that the ten command- ments were In existence before Moses; that the early history of Ts- rael prior to Abraham was founded on “Helpful Myths,” and that the first five books of the Bible are works of unknown authors put to- gether by scholars was advanced | here todsy hy Dr. 8. G. Bland of Toledo. 1fe spoke on the Old Testa- ment before the Sunday school lead- ership conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, “and his views, which he sald were accepted by the majority of Bible students in Great Britain and America, were not accepted by Bishop James Can- non, who also addressed the gather- ingz. The first five books of the Bible, Dr. Bland eaid, together with the Book of Joshua, form the hexateuch, and were probably pleced together. The eariy history of Israel, he be- licved, was not founded on fact, but is expreseive of the effort of honest | people to explain the beginning of thinge. All of these questions, he added, have no bearing on Christ or Chris- tianity, but are only argued for “in- tellectual satisfaction.” FINGERPRINTS MAY SOLVEKEPNER CASE Ignored During Month of | Probe, They Now Loom as Important Clue. By a Staff Correspondent FREDERICK, Md., July 1S-~The elrcult court at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon ordered the Frederick county grand jury to convene here in special session at 10 o’clock Monday morning to conduct an ex- haustive investigation into the murder of Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner and determine who was her mssasain, The order was fin- sued in response to a formal peti- tion submitted to the court by State’s Attorney Aaron R. Anders and a verdict was unanimou: FREDERICK, Md, July 18.—While the circult court was still debating this morning whether or not to sum- mcas the grand jury in special ses- sion, the arm of the law was reach- ing deeper Into the mystery that | shrouds the death of Mrs. Grace Sim- imons Kepner and bringing to light new important evidence. Bloody fingerprints, left on the | deathbed in the old country home of | Esra Houck, wealthy father of Mrs. afe to be examiifiéd by a Bertillon expert after remaining ig- nored for an entire month, State's Attorney Aarcn R. Anders announced early today. When the authorities made a cur- sory examination of the room in which Mrs. Kepner was shot to death Kepner, | June 18 numerous persons had al-| ready examined the blood-stained body. The presence of the finger- prints. plainly visible on the foot of |the bed, failed to attract serious at- tention as a result, and in the e cit~-ment and sorrow of the first few days they were ignored, congealed | and became part of the varnish. To Call In Expert. Since coming into possession of more tecent evidence, however, State's Attorney Anders has been paying considerable attention to the stains, which are still easily dis- cernible, and he declared this morn- ing that he wished to satisfy him- self bevond the shadow of a doubt that they had not been uncon- sclously left there by the assassin | He sala a finger print expert would | be called in shortly. In the meantime the state's attor- | ney has taken stens to make sure | the marks will not be erased and has also requested Mr. Houck to see that the bullet which tore its way | through Mrs. Kepner's brain and buried itself in a jolst near the ceil- ing s not removed. The ball was | never lifted from the structure in which it burfed {tself. and to this | day no person can go into court and | trutnfully swear that the ball which was found in the wall is the same one that was fired from the pistol | that lay beside the body of the mur- dered woman. All Frederick looked forward to a decision from the circuit court some time today. and on every hand the| citizens declared they would welcome | a verdict in favor of an immediate and exhaustive investigation. No re- sponsible person doubted that the de- cislon would bring the grand jury intb special session by Monday morn- ing at the latest, and possibly cause it to reconvene the latter part of this week. New Woman In Case. Miss May Tucker, who has been mentioned as “the third woman in the case,” was to see State's Attorney An- ders_on_her own volition at lunch i | ! (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Her Farm Work By the Associated Press. 2 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. July 18— When Magnus Johnson goes to Wash- ington to take his seat in the United States Senate he may go alone. Mrs. Johnson has not yet made up her mind as to whether she will accom- peny, him, as there is the farm to look after. ““Looking after things” on the Johnson 140 acres at Kimball - has been Mrs. Johnson's contribution to her - husband's campaign. He says that by assuming that responsibill- ty and leaving him free to make his campaign she “put him over. Mrs. Johnson doesn’t take any such credit to herself. Mrs. Johnson may not be interested in women in poll- tics; she says she never had time to worry much about such things. Mrs. Johnson is a quiet, plain sort of woman. She says very little. She was born on a farm near Kim- ball adjoiiing that on which she now. Of Senator Johnson Back Home (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) May Keep Wife lives. She has never lived anywhere | elae. Her father was born in Maine, her mother in Kentucky. She is a di- | rect descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam | of revolutionary war fame. She mar- ried Magnus Johnson in 1899. They have six children. i Gets Along Very Well. he boys run the farm, and the: giris do the house work, while I take care of the garden and the live stock and sort of manage things,” she said. “We've got along very well. We've had to hire outside help only once this | summer. Besides. looking after the farm and | raising her children, she has time to | dsvote to the schools of her township. They have a consolidated school up there and Mrs. Johnson is clerk of the school board. Between them, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have held that job for | twenty-two years, but aside from that she has had no particular inter- est in public affairs. After doing a bit of shopping, Mrs. Johnson_plans to return to Kimbali today. She has been in Minneapolis with her husband for the last three or four .days. : WO CENTS. G. 0. P. BREAK SEEN ON GREATER SCALE INWESTERN STATES Johnson Victory in Minnesota Held Forecast of Menace to Republican Party. LIBERAL MOVEMENT SEEN GAINING STRENGTH Held Encouragement for Third Party, Which Waits Only a Leader. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ST. PAUL, July 18— The adminis- tration and the republican national management might as well look the facts in the face, the Minnesota sena- torial clection was not only a mani- festation of protest against an in- tangible something laid to the party in power, but it was indication of further disintegration of party lines, signs of which are visible in other states in this region. The most dangerous phase of this situation is that In order to register their protest and make it tell, the voters were willing to elect their candldate on a platform containing declarations of a most radical char- acter which would work an economic revolution in this country if enacted. The fact that it must be years be- fore the radical propositions could be put into effect does not concern them; they are willing to stand for them now and throw to the winds old party principles and cast loose from old anchorages. Monday's result was accomplished by a combination of farmer-labor votes, Non-Partisan League votes, union labor votes, a small faction of progressive republicans, and the gen- eral floating radical vote. Vietory a Shock. The victory of these combined ele- ments in a state formerly so con- servative as Minnesota must come &s a shock and a revelation to the na- tion of the great radical movement in the west, which is gaining in strength and which independent writers and observers have been warning against for a year with a volce as one cry- ing in the wilderness. It is aiso strong encouragement to the movers for a third party. The elements of waiting for discontent gre existent, the man who can assemble them and lead them Minnesotd will be the only state to be represented in the next Senate by two senators who are not members o€ one of the cld parties. North Dakota has two senators elected with the backing of the Non-Partisan League —Ladd and Frazier—but both are nominally _republicans. Senator Wheeler of Montana, though elected with the aid of the league, is nomi- nally a democrat. Magnus Johnson and Senatar Shipstead from this state are tarmer-laborites. G. 0. P. Majority Cut. The regular reputdican majority in the Senate is now reduced to six, with Senator La Follette and his as- soctated radicals holding the balance of power in reorkanization of that body and in legisiation The revolt against the old parties will take on new impetus after Monday's clection. The farmer- laborites have an extensive program for extension of the movement in neighboring states in 1924 and this result has given them unbounded confidence and courage. The troubles of the two old parties for 1924 are just beginning. As far as Minnesota is concerned, looking to next year, the republicans and democrats are out of business and the farmer-laborites are in the saddle. MINNESOTA WATCHES 1924, Johnson’s Opponent for Six-Year Term Is Considered. By the Associated Pre ST. PAUL, Minn, July 15.—With the United States senatorial situation settled untll the 1924 fall election, interest of political observers is turn- Ing to probable developments when the six-year-term senatorship is up for determination. Magnus_Johnson, farmer-laborite, chosen in Monday's special election by a plurality of more than 80,000, wiil serve under that mandate through i unexpired term of the late Sen- ator Knute Nelson, which ends in March, 1925. His friends declare it “a natural conclusion” to assume that he will scek the six-year term, and the usual speculation began cropping out to- day as to his likely opponent in the republican ranks. Gov. J. A, O. Preus, republican, who met his first polit- ical defeat at the hands of Johnson Monday, continued silent today, say- ing he had no intention of issuing a statement at this time. His term as governor expires Junuary 1, 1925. Senator-elect Johnson is back on his farm at Kimball ready to “pitch in" and help get the harvesing out of the way betore he formulates his program for action in Washington. He is expected to confer frequently with his Minnesota colleague, Henrik Shipstead, also a farmer-laborite, who was elected to the Senate last fall over Frank B. Kellogg, republi- can. Mr. Johnson has declared he intends to affiliate with the La Fol- lette group in Congress. : KILLS WOMAN IN ROW. Slayer Then Shoots Husband and Takes Own. Life. BUFFALO, N. Y. July 18.—Paul Cherenke, twenty-eight, today shot and killed Mrs. Pauline Justin, in her home at Lackawanna, and then shot down her husband Summar Justin Justin was taken to a hospital, seri- ously wounded. : Cherenke left his. victims lying as they fell, went to his own room in another part of the Justin home and hot himself. He died instantly. The shooting was sald to have been the result of an argument in which Mrs. Justin was involved.