Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1923, Page 2

) * CONERESS SUPPORT FORHEH PRESSIRE Members Promise Aid in Move to Give Washington Safe Water System. drive, backed by all the busi- . to give downtown shington a ressure water upply will have strong support in Congress. This is shown by the em- phatic way in which the indorsed by individual members. Members of Congress concerned over the fact that government build- ings are in constant ¥anger. some if not all of which, in the absence of an archives building, arc housing val- uable documents that could not replaced would 5 not project is an avalanche of claim government which might fought an the successfully View of Ci As an illustration of how members ot gress feel Representative ‘larence sGregor of Buffalo. N. Y., who is chairman of the committee on accounts, Linst be wirmnn. o that the whole water supply svetem of Washington should be overhauled. From what has been told me the ty is in denger all of the time not ¢ from fire, but also dulle to be cut off from use of water for any purpose ai any time “The ational Capita! should have & model system, 2nd 1 think that the Deople of ‘the country would not be- Erudge it ‘1 believe Fayors Ecrly Start. Representative Roya New York city comes out with equal vositiveness, and pledges his best ef- forts to put through legislation for guthorization of the high-pressure system, with an initial appropriation early next year. He says: am in favor of a high-pressure water tem for Washington, and believe. after our expericence in New York, that it is the only safe protec- tion againt fire to help the people of Capltal in this matter Plen by Trade Board.” Formal request was made of the District Commissioners today. that they inet 1 the cstimates they now are making up for the city for - next fiseal year one for the in- lution of & “high-pressure iwater ten. The request was sent in & letter today David M. Lea, chair ittee on insur ance and f 1 of the Wash ington Board of Trade, which co mittee is charged with the duty of nducting the movement to bring nnection with the movement @ provision for the water . Mr. Lea said that the opinion cemed to prevail in some quarters that the cngines would have to he used even when a fire pressure is installed. Fe pointed out that abso- lutely no pumping cngibes would be Deeded. as the pumping is done by powerful. high-pressure pumps at the central station, which would be lo- cated on the Potomac nearby and would draw its supply direct from the Natio « 1de c the river, and would not consume any | of the filtered water which now brought from expense, Merchants Send Plea. A petition requesting the Commis- sioners to seek a high-pressure sys tem also was sent today by Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- jon, following a meeting of the h'v-ard of governors of that organiza- ton, The petition says: “The board of governors of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion respectfully petitions the Dis- trict Commissioners to include in the necessities for the District of Colum- bia that will be presented to Con- gress a provision for the institution is Great Falls at great of high-pressure water service in the | downtown section. Such appeals have been made by this association in the past, and we are indeed grati- fled that other Washington organ- fzed instrumentalities are ate this pealing to the honorable board nissioners to make such rep- itions to Congress as will in- the establishment of this serv etition asking that the Pennsyl- Avenue bridge be floored with cte was turned over to the Com- missioners by the chants at the same time FINGERPRINTS MAY © SOLVE KEPNER CAS (Continued time today. It was Miss Tucker who was recently divorced and assumed her maiden name again, who accom- vanied B. rd Kepner, husband of the slzin woman, and Miss Lulu Rick et1s, the pretty bookkeeper, on sever- | al of their numerous trips to Balti- more and Hagerstown. Mr. Anders wants to Know every- thing Miss Tucker knows about those trips and it was hinted that he may also interrogute her about some here- tofore unmentioned purties she has supposed to have chaperoned. In- dignantly den had ever been onc of Kepner's personal friends, Miss Tucker culled the state's attor- ney this morning and immediate interview. The time was set for 11 o'clock, but at that hour the girl still sat before her plano in a local! lunchroom, grinding out popular airs o the delight of a score of patrons. Letter Ixsue Comes Up, Still another important link in the chain of evidence that is to be de- cided for a certainty within the nexty is whether or not | twenty-tour hours the letter Mrs, Kepner is supgosed to | have written her pastor, in which she referred to her maiden sister, Miss Eleanor Houck, as “a thorn in_the flesh,” was changed after the clergy- man had loaned it to Mr. Kepner. The document will be returned to Rev. Dr.-J. T. Gaehr, pastor of the fash- jonable Frederick ~ Presbyterian Church, who said several days ago that he could not remember several passages that were read in court and printed in the newspapers as having been in the letter Mrs, Kepner sent him last February. Twice he demanded that Leo Wein- berg, counsel for Mr. Kepner, return the missive for his examination, and twice Mr. Weinberg sharply refused. Following closely upon State Attor- ney Anders' threatto have the circuit court compel him to return the letter, however, Mr. Weinberg was in con- ference today with Chief Judge Urner. Upon that jurist's promise that the court would see that the letter is produced upon demand, Mr. Weinberg said he would return the much-dis- cussed document to the clergyman this afternoon. Announcement as to whether or not it was tampered with 19 awalited with feverish anxiety here. Kepner Returns to City. Mr. Xepner, who had been visiting relatives in “Harrisbufg, Pa., since Saturday, returned to Frederick last night and went into immediate con- ference with his lawyers. Again thir morning ;he was closeted ‘with Mr. ‘Weinberg for more that an hour, and the only time he appeared on the street was during the few.steps that separate his suite in the Francis Scott Key Hotel with the lawyer's office, in @ loocal lodge bullding. His meals were gerved In his room, nd the destruction of which | “1 wil be glad to do all in my power " {at the City Club. demanded an | School Teacher Shoots Aunt in Old Ozark Feud By the Assoctated Press. 1ELD, Mo. July 18.— women Shave written the latest chapter in the feud in a re- mote region of southwestern Doug- las county between the Hicks and the Rancock familieg Hanceck, twenty, school is in juil at Ava on the of £ho ng her aunt, Mrs. Hicks. latter is in a ! condition ou'li have to eat those words,” | the Haycock girl is =aid to have | uttered, as she is alleged to have | { ' fired 2 Shotgun. which fore the left | arm frem her aunt The Hancock girl asserted that her aunt had ‘been “running down” | { her character for some ne. i t S . URGES MT. ALTO -~ WORKBE RUSHED 'Disabled Veterans’ Com- | mander Also for Pressing Archives Building. | wo | | | | tertha teucher, ciarg, 1 Jobn B | of i o ] | | { Il | | i | | /| | JAMES A. McFARLAND, ! Immcdiate completion of the Mount | ! Alto Hospital, on Wisconsin avenue, {&nd the erection of the proposed fed- | { eral archives building in Washington | jwere urged today by James A. Me- | Farland of Dalton, Ga., recently clect- ed natfonal commander of the Dis {abled Veterans of the World War | Commander McFarland came here to hold a serfes of conferences with | | Bovernment authorities on problems | jaffecting the war's disabled | More room is vitally needed in Mount Alto for the veterans of the fourth district who are now being shipped to hospitals in other sec- | tions, against which the men object | because of separation from their i familles here, said the new command- j'er. “At Mount Alto the government | owns the property and the money fis| available for the completion of that i plant. Our disabled men in Washing- ton are being sent far from their) | homes because Mount Alto Is not large enough. We want that hospital | completed with emergency speed { Would Avoid Loss, |, Commander McFarland fecls that | the government will some time erect | {an archives buflding. and he wants | jthe work done now before some ir- | {reparable loss is suffered. At pres- {ent, he pointed out, the war records | | are stored in the temporary buildings | ion 6th street, in the midst of a num- jber of war-time structurcs that offer fconstant fire hazards to the paper {that could never be replaced . 'o¥ The disabled American veterans' pro- | : gram for the year con ns thirty- {three points, and tomorrow morning Commander McFarland will meet with Director Hiney of the Veterans' Bu- reau and Maj. David Arnold of the | i senatorizl investigating committee to | {discuss all phases of | men's &ituation. : Tomerrow afternoon will be given over to a personal inspection of the the maimed | {local conditions, when the commander will be guyest of the District of Co- l!umbia department of the D. A. V., of | which E. W. Pumphrey 1s commander. | { The party will motor over to place a | wreath on the grave of the unknow soldier at Arlington, will then visit {the different hospitals here, with a | | short address at Mount Alto at 5:30 | jo'clock, and later. will have dinner | Commander McFarland came to Washington from national headquar- ters at Cincinnati, and will leave to- {merrow cvening for his Georgia home, | j where he practicos law. His war dis. |ability came when he was struck by a machine gun bullet while leading hig| !platoon through the Argonne in Oc- | l‘lober‘ 1918. {PHILIPPINES RUN i BY WOOD AND AIDES | (Continued from First Pags.) { unworthy of the attention of serfous- minded men.” ‘The resignation of Dr. 1Laurel, gecretary of the intérior, and of Mayor Pamon Fernandez of Ma- nila resulted from theé exoneration and reinstatement of Ray Conley, { United States secret service agent, | charged with bribery, referred to in the statement. The members of the cabinet who resigned yesterday are: Fight to Finish Seen. Alberta Baretto, secretary of fi- Jose Abad Santos, secretary of justice; Rafael Corpus, secretary of agriculture, and Salvador Laguda, secretary of commerce. Manuel Quezon, president of the senate, and Manuel Roxas, speaker of the house of representatives, wore the legislative leaders who left their POsts. % The resignations of Secretary Lau- rel and Mayor Fernandez had not' been accepted at the time the othdr | resignations were tendered yesterday, | but it is assumed now they will be The statement was. made by Pres dent Quezon previous to the general | walkout that if the governor general | accepted the Laurel and Fernandez resignations “there will be a fight to ‘the finish to test the power of Gen. Wood.” . Issue is Independence. Pending the solution of the situa- tion, subordinate officials and em- ployes. are carrying on the non-ad- ministrative. details.of city and ins lar governments. - Quezon, leadér af the opposition to Gen. Wood, was-Jjoint chairman, to. gether with Sergio Osmena, of an in- dependence mission to the United States which on Jun&>22, 1922, pre- sented @ petition to President Hard- ng at Washington for independence for the Phlilippines. ——— Judging from the way in which It 1s used, many a man's mind s som &hing to guess with, Jose P. { 1 { { { their departure ; highway ‘| Raflroad Company ithe agrecment to confirm the Ottoman | served the right to intervene to protect {half of the Washington government | Turkish Petroleum ~THE EVENING STAR, “’L\SfiIN(iTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY PRESIDENT 10 GET Boards Transport at Seward After 1,000-Mile Trip in Heart of Alaska. By the Associated Press. SEWARD, Alaska, July 18.—Presi- dent Harding and three of his cab- inet officers, having visited the in- terfor of Alaska for five days, travel- ing more than 1,000 miles and confer- ring at every opportunity with the people concerning their jroblems, were today ain aboard the Na transport Henderson here, awaiting. te row for Valdez, President’s time after here from Fairbanks was with a fishing trip to the| river. while Mrs. Harding Part of the his return occupied Mis, Harding Better. Doctors in attendance upon Mry Harding expressed their beliet toda that she wus recovering her strength, and that her fatigue, which caused the President to cancel a proposed automobile trip over the Richardson was yielding satisfactorily to_treatinent I'resident Harding, although appre- ive of an invitation extended by Farrington and_the legislature Hawail to visit the island terri- tory before completing a_tour which < tken him 500 miles into Alaska, considers it impoesible to accept. The invitation was laild before the chief executive by Secretary of the Interior Work - "Mr. and Mrs. Harding were ing southward over the government's Alaska rallroad. A trip to Hawali would delay the President’s return to Washington by two or three weeks, whereas he con- giders that his tour as at present arranged and on which he left the capital June 20 will keep him away from his désk longer than he desires. Mr. and Mrs, Harding will arrive at Washington August 28, reaching New York the day before that ISMET AUTHORIZED BY TURKEY TO SIGN (Continned from First Page.) oV after Joseph C. Grew had said that the American government Was grat- ified that a way bad been found to solve the difficult question of conces- sions, and that he tok it for granted that the protocol affecting the French and the Vickers- Armstrong Company would not be applied in such a way as to prejudice the vested rights of American citi- zens or companies. . This was an_allusion to the aer ment of the allies to drop their de mand for preferential rights in future contracts. A sensation was Horace accused the Turks of v ing their promise to accord tr approval to the acquired right: the British company. he charged, refused to agy to the slightest mention of the eompany. and the British government wished to give notice in the most categorical manner that it deemed all the obli- gations of Turkey toward the com- pany as binding. Refers to Chester Gramt. England recognized no rights which would conflict with the British con- cession, he added, and which may have been given by Turkey to third parties, (This was an allusion to the Chester grant.) caused when Another feature of last night's ses- | session was an appeal from all the delegations to the Turks to permit the terriory. The sovicts are invited by telegraph to sign the straits convention at Lausanne or at Constantinople within three weeks. All the allied delegates urged the Turks to apply _amnesty liberally. would be mpplied according to the treaty and that the Angora govern- ment must be free to use its own judgment regarding the extension of amnesty to exiled Armenians, as the allies have requested. Consider Debt Binding. The allied delegates read & joint state- ment charging Turkey with repudiating ; debt obligations in the treaty, and gave notice that their governments regarded | Turkey as bound by her debt; they re- the rights of their bondholders. Ismet retorted that Turkey could not Ismet Pasha. | Armenians to return to Ottoman | Ismet Pasha replied that it - KWAY TO VALDEZ { Henderson in quiet. | 1 was fo Sweeney (right). Negro, Held as Slayer of Three Policemen, Identified, However, by Jail Officials. ! Although positively identified by jail officials, members of the police {force and others, as Herbert Cope- i{gan, Policeman John Conrad and Constable L. H. McParlan of Charles county, Md.. the morning of May 21, 1018, the colored man arrested in Ak- Iron, Ohio, as the slayer, denied be- ing Copeland when he reached here today. Even in Union station he was identified by Alice Washington, re- ligious worker at the jail, who told him she would be down to see him. Taken to police headquarters, the and the detectives. He repeadedly asserted he wag not Copeland and declared today was his first appearance in this city. “If & hundred and fifty preachers and others, said T was Cope- land,” he sald, “I would still deny it." Worked In Tire Factory. be bound by such a declaration and could never pay the interest on a gold basis, as the allies desired, because she was {00 DoOr. Japan, which has had a somewhat effaced role throughout the conference, caused a flutter when K. Otchiai, am- bassador at Rome, announced that Japan would not sign the concessions protocol, because she was determined that Tur- Key should maintain the open door. Temet Parha, somewhat startled, then arose and declared that it was for Tur- key alone to decide her future economic policy. U. S. LIKES TREATY TERMS. Lapsanne Pact Said to Assure Equality of Opportunity. Agreement of the negotiators at Lausanne to complete the near east treaty and -leave the question of the Mesopotamian ofl rights of-the Turk- ish Petroleum Company to be threshed out later is wholy satisfactory from the American official point of view. In the coursé of the Lausanne nego- | tiations it has been emphasized on be- that the only possible agency for final determination of the status of the Company's claim would be through arbitration, Presumably the British sponsors of the claim have not felt it would be likely to be sustained in arbitration proceedings, and are preparing to take the subject up again when the east- ern boundaries. of Turkey.are finally determined. The ~Lausanne treaty leaves the question of those boundaries open. Demanded Equal Chance. The American delegation at Lau- sanne has maintained two major po- sitions relative to Turkish natural re- sources. The first point was that there must be ho grants made to al- lied nationals under the treaty which were not equally-open to American citizens. . Thé second position was that there shoutd be no &ction at Lau- sanne which would interfere with any such previously - established vested right. The American position rela- tive to the Chester concesslons stands upon the latter basis. The American view has been ever since the conclusion of the war that the United States must not be de- prived of advantages which the al- lied powers claimed merely because it was not at war with Turkey. Since the defeat of Turkey was directly due to the defeat of Germany on the west- erm front, where American troops were in action, it has been maintain- od that the Washington government must be recognized as an equal par- ticipant with the allies in the deci- sions reached at Lausanne. MELLON AT LONDON 'CHANGE. LONDON, July 18.—Andrew W. Mel. lonfi American Secretary of the Treas- visited the London stock ex- this morning and was con. ducted.through the institution by th: managers, When the questioning was finished and he had been measured and photo- graphed, the prisoner was returned to jail from where the triple slayer e caped the morning of April 21, 1919. Inspector Grant had the fugitive Jocated in Harnpayne, Ontsrio. some time ago. He was reported to have gone from there to Winnepeg. The prisoner was arrested in the plant of the Firestone Tire Company, where he was a worker and where he had made so many friends that he was employed at several clubs during his time away from the factory. Persons working in the factory were 10th to belleve the colored em- ploye was the slayer. He was ar- rested by Chief of Detectives Welch, and in his room the detectives found a number of .4b-callber cartridges. His gun_ was not located, and In- spector Grant thinks it is secreted in the plant where he was employed. Inspector Grant said Copeland w: alleged to have slain Charles Robin- son with a .45-caliber weapon on the Mallory line dock in Galveston, Tex., before coming to this ecity, and the weapon used in the triple murder in this city was of'the same caliber. The prisoner sald he was born in New York and was taken to the Mexican border when he was a child, but de- nied having ever beeh In Galves ton. He declared he was acquainted with Pancho Villa and other noted Mexicans. Herbert Clinton, slayer, was born in Clinton, 8. C.. pelice say, and dur- ing his employment at Indian Head, Md., he was reputed to go armed with a big knife, alarming other col- ored employes, there. police say they found bullet scars /and other marks on the prisoner similar to those reported by jail physicians at the time of his examination, when he reached there after his discharge from a_ _ local hospital, where he was treated there for wound: received the night- of the triple tragedy Scars ‘on Body. ‘When arrested in Akron he sent for a lawyer. Counsel heard the police TepoTts of the Scars on-the.prisoners body, including a burn scar on his stonfach, and advised his return to this eity. 2 The prisoner declared his real name is Love Golden. - His wife, Lovie Gol- den, he said; left -him about & month ago. A photograph of "a colored woman found in his room was taken in this city. —— LEASING TO CONTINUE. Alabama Refuses Change ir’n Con- vict System. MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 18.—~Con- victs in Alabama will remain under the lease system for another four years at least by a house resolution in by the senate, 19 to 14, yesterday. ‘After a bitter battle in the senate the house resolution providing that no further oonsider: -ghould be given any pr chauge in- the system was passed. HE 1S COPELAND land, slaver of Lieut David T. Duni-} people, | ~ ! By the Associated Press LONG BRANCH, N. J, July Fashionable New Jersey resorts, which received a shock vesterday when raids netting $300,000 worth of liquor were made in Lakewood and Point Pleasant, got another jolt today, when detectives swooped down on five alleged gambling casinos in Pleasure Bay, West End, ! Allenburst and Wanamassa. Gambling paraphernalis valued at $20,000 was confiscated and the proprie- tors of the five resorts were arrested but their names were withhe!d Minnesota Vote For Farmers,SaysG. O. P. Chief | Commenting on the election to the Senate of Magnus Johnson, farmer- prisoner was questioned at length by | labor candidate, Chairman Adams of | | Inspector Grant the republican national committee in a statement last night declared that “In a general way the result in .\(ln-; nesota was a voice of protest against conditions temporarily affecting. the | farming interests adversely.” Agri- cultural conditions are bound to im- prove, he sald, adding that the Amer- ican farmer “can be depended upon in the long run to support the cguse of &00d goverpment, sound economics and stable institutions.” Chairman Hull of the democratic national committee also took occasion to discuss the election result. declar- ing in a statement that it constituted general condemnation of dominant republican national leadership since 1919—a leadership that has resulted in the affairs of the nation and of the | world drifting aimlossly along, while our domestic business conditions are temporary, artificial and uncertain. Mr. Adams. pointing out that re- turns indicated the democratic candi. date polled about 5 per cent of the total vote, said that “certainly the democratic party cannot get much comfort out of this result.” Farm-Labor Support. “On the face of the returns,” con- tinued the republican committee chairman, “it appears that the farmer- labor candidate, indorsed by several other organizations, including the communists, received the bulk of the democratic vote. Conservative demo- cratic leaders in Minnésota supported Goyv. Preus. “As the situation stands today the republican party-is the only organ- ized influence around which the con- structive, progressive forces of the country can rally. In Minnesota and other states the democratic organi- zation has been completely wiped out by third parties of radical tendencies. The indications are that the demo- cratic party in the ‘next campaign will make common cause Wwith those radical influences and indorse part of thelr socialistic program. . “In a general way the result in Minnesota was a voice of protest against conditions temporarily afféct- ing the farming interests adversely: At such times candidates who prom- ise the most, regardless of whether their promises can be redeemed or not, are the beneficiaries in popular elections. “Comditions to Tmprove. “Conditlons in Minnesota and else- where in agriculturgl sections of the country are bound to improve, and with their improvement public opin- ion in those sections will right itself. The American people, and especially the Ameriéan farmer, have the great saving quality of sober second thought, and they can be depended upon in the long run to support the cause of good government, sound economies and stable. institutions. Mr. Hull, in the course of his state- t, declared: “The American farmers have ex- perienced a complete tryout of typical republican high tariffs—tariffs that have never increased the prices of farm | products, but have tremendously in- |cnued the prices of most com- modities the farmer must buy. he ; i l verdict of. the Minnesota farmers is that such republican high tariffs are and always have been a colossal fraud upon the American. farmer and that there is no greater handicap to faTmers’ rosperity. Thé farmers ‘were told *two years .fi that high tarifts would increase the prices of their farm products, whereas they two Washington detectives, 18— | ,- JULY 18, 1923 Herbert Copeland, who fled from the District jail four years ago, where he was held for slaying three officers, in Akron, Ohio. He was brought back manacled Kelly (left) and Fashionables Twice Shocked SUSPEGI DENIES By Jersey Resort Raids| | were not mole: The raids were made by | tective cour, The biggest “nd and was York Club. The y men and wom- ¥ T | known as the New raiders surprised thirt en in evening dress. At Pleasure Bay the ra entered a roadhouse noted for its shore dinners, {in the rear of which a gambiing house | was found. | . The raiders confiscated three truck- loads of roulette wheels and other gam- bling devices, which were stored in As- | bury Park. Several attempts were made | to recover gome of the wheels, the truck driver being offered $20 for each. a Protest ‘hn\e gone down 1o almost nothing in | many instances, with the result that the Tepublicans are now telling the same farmers that the only remedy | for price increase of wheat is not a | tarift, but a reductioh of wheat acre- |age, ‘or for the people to &at more bread. Indication of Public Mind. “The temper of the Minnesota voters, as shown by Monday's elec- tion, is indicative of the temper of | the voters generally, not only among the farmers, but of all classe: “Unfortunately for the Harding administration, it cannot take ad- vantage of the lesson given it by th, voters of Minnesota. It canne repudiate its high protective tarift policy without alienating the great manufacturing and other special in- terests which supply {ts campaign funds and control i{ts economic policy. It has no choice but to re- main true to special privilege and | protected interests and continue to | resort to sophistry, misrepresenta- | tion and other reprehensible methods in further attempts to fool the sreat body of voters upon whom these special rosts pre: “I therefore renew my hat in 1924 the country | turn to the democratic party, with its sound economic policy, with its defi- nite and constructive program, its initiative and aggressivé leadership and efficient administrative ability. LA FOLLETTE JUBILANT. prediction Johnson Election Triumph for Peo- ple, He Bays. v By the Associated Press MADISON, Wis., July 18.—In the election of Magnus Johmson to the isenate yesterday “the people of Min- nesota fired a shot which will be heard in every section of the cocntry, says Senator Robert M. La Follette, who supported Mr. Jobnson, “The people of the northwest have again spoken their conviction that if representative government is to survive in the United States private monopoly must be driven out of con- trol,” the statement says. “The no- tion with which the reactionaries comfort themselves—that the election of Johnson expresses merely a sec- tional protest of disgruntled farmers and workingmen against economic conditions and governmental policles—is a ridiculous delusion ““The voice of Minnesota fs the voice of the common people of this coun- try, constituting 30 per cent of the citizens, who are determined 'to free themselves from the monopoly power over their lives whith had been built up over a long period through favors for the few extorted from the gov- ernment of the many. “The old Lincoln .spirit is again eeping the west. M- will *find its 0. in the east, the south and mid- dle west just as soon as courageous and able ieaders ot the type of Mag- nus Johnsor® arise to champion the common people. “Partisan politics and their press cannot long decefve themselves con- cerning this fundamental movement. The people are awake. The old party slogans do mot deceive them. They are not to be misled by the ridicule and abuse which has been directed at their leaders. They have learned to know the real enemies of their politi- cal and economic liberty.” —_— You ne can tell. The fellow who bets on a sure thing may come around tomorrow mornipg and Dorrow break- fast money from the fellow who took a chance, ST will again | present | { | | i | | { { | terday Harding Silent, While Regretting Minnesota Vote By the Assoclated Pross. CURRY, Alaska. July 18.—Ne of the election of Magnus John- son, farmer-laborite candidete, to the Senate from Minnesota over Gov. Preus was received by Presi- dent Harding when his. special train on the Alaskan railroad was stopped here for breakfast. Tho chief executive read the Assoclated Press dispatches saying Gov. Preus had conceded his de- feat and giving returns from about half the state, but he would make no comment, on the grounds that the voters had spoken and any statement from the President would be unseemly. Tt was obvious that the Presi- dent was greatly disappointed. Other members of the party who might be regarded as reflecting the views of the executive were inclined to the view that Gov. Preus brought about the present situation through his refusal to make an ad inferim appointment of a senator. LAW CHANGE ASKED BY PHOTOGRAPHERS e Vice President of Body Urges! Revision of Postal Rules to Aid Business. Change in postal rates for photo- | graphs wl continue to be urged by the Photographers’ Association of America, Clafence Stearns of Roches- ter, Minn, first vice president of the organization sald, in an address be- fore the delegates to the forty-first annual convention of the assoclation at’ Convention Hall today. Under present laws photographers must send a package weighing four pounds before they are allowed the benefit “'i parcel post rates or the advantages of the postal C. O. D. service, pointed out Mr. Stearns. He declared photog- raphers should be allowed to use the mails as other business men. Mr. Stearns sald photography was the only branch of the arts that was advancing at this age. He stated |thea the ancient Grecks reached the highest point of perfection in sculp- ture, the period of Raphael dominat- ed in painting, that no modern Shake- speare has been produced and that in the modern realm of music no Mozart or Liszt was to be found. Discuss Child Pictures. A lecture on “Portraiture of Chil- |dren” was given by Peggy Stewart, who gave practical demonstrations with children selected from the audi- Later the manufacturers and dealers group held a session. This afternoon Walter Scott Shina will address the delegates on “Psychology of Child Photography,” and the in- dustrial section of the convention will listen to an address on “Indus- trial Photography” by W. A. Bartz. This evening trom 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. the exhibits will be open to the pub- lic and music will be furnished by a military band. The California delegation to the convention will entertain the dele- gates with a surprise program in the armory adjoinin Convention Hall later in the evening ence. SEEKLAWLIMITING TYPE OF BUILDINGS Lincoln Park Citizens Urge Legislation to Protect Pub- lic Building Surroundings. A petition was forwarded to the District Commissioners by the Lin- coln Park Citizens' Association yes- asking them to bring before Congress the need of legislation which |will grant to the Zoning Commission the power to govern the type of building construction In the vicinity of valuable municipal or federal property. This was the final action taken by the association in its desire to pre- vent the erection of two-story cellar- less dwellings in the vicinity of the | Resolu- | new Eastern High School. tions had been sent to the Cemmi stoners, following the meetings of the assoclation in May and June, respec- | tive?y, requesting them to forbid the on of this type of dwelling. After an investigation of the mat- ter by a speclal committee appointed by the association, it was found that there was no power resting with the Commissioners or the Zoning Commis- slon to restrain the construction of such buildings. This being the cass, it was decided to request the Com- missioners to obtain legislation through Congress which would en- able them to comply with the request of the association. The main objection registered by the association against the erection of dwellings of the above mentioned type in the vicinity of the high school has been that they are un- sightly and that such buildipgs would encourage the erection of cheap buildings in that vicinity. PAYNE DEPOSTION ONMORSES READ Former Shin Board' Head De: nies Noting Anything Suspicious. f ‘The deposition of John Barton Payne, former head of the Shipping Board and now on & special mission to Mexico, was read today at the Morse conspiracy trial before Juatice Stafford and a jury in. Criminal Di vision 1. The deposition was taken last April, shortly after ‘the begin« ning of the trial, in order not to in< terfere with the departure of Judg: Payne on the Mexican mission | The examination of Judge Payna was conducted originally by Attor- ney Nash Rockwood, but when' tha deposition was read Attorney Wilt J. Lambert propounded the qur land Judge Rockwood impersoni | the witn reading the respc When the cross-examination reached Assistant Attorney Gen Allison read the questions and Atic ney Nottingham of the prosecution the responses of Judge Payne. Counsel for the defense made sev- eral attempts to get Judge Payne say that the Morses in their s building transactions with the g erament acted in good faith. On ob- jection by the prosecution Jud Stafford refused to let these j tions of the deposition be read the record. On the cross- tion, however, it was broug that' whilo Judge Pavne was eral counsel for the Shipping Board, no facts were brought to his atten- tion that indicated the Morses were impeding” the work of bullding the ships. Judge Payne referred to Charles W. Morse a3 a “business man whom I looked upon as having experience and abllity, and 1 was glad te =meve the benefit' of his suggestions.” The former chalrman of the Fieet Cor- poration denied that Morse had ever told him that $1,000,000 in cash had been paid In for the stock of the Vir- ginia corporation He told of visits to his office by Mr, | Morse and the pavment by Morse of a | nuthber of checks to the fieet core poration. On cross-examination the rnment inquired the reasons for 's visits, and Judge Pavne jclared that it was the gencral | pression that he was easily acce: | ble, and that he would see that thinzs { were done. He saw nothing objec- tignable in the Morse visits The prosecution showed 4 memo- randum signed by Judge Payne, in { which he “referred to the Morses | “skating off thin ice.” His explan ition was that he considered Mo | “was simply trying to do too m j without adequate capital.” GORDON LAUNCHES VICE HOUSE SUITS United States Attorne iday began a crusade against alleged | disreputable houses Southwest | Washington. Through his assistants, Vernon E. West and Charles S. Baker, he instituted three suits for “padlock” infunctions under the Kenyon “red- light” law against the owners and oc- cupants of three houses in Armory | court southwest. He charges the defendants nave per- mitted use of the premises for im- moral purposes. He acks that the de- {fendants be enjoined from such i further use of the premises, that the | forniture and fixtures be removed and 0ld and that the buildings be closed for one year. Those” named & | Herbert A. Dav | premises and + od Gordon to- are defendants 4 of as owner 334 Armory court: Ivia Robinson, as occupant of Nc 332, and Hattie’ Diggs, as tenant c 334: FEllen T. Keane, as owner of premises 457 Armory court, and Irenc Harrison as its occupant The government claims notice to the owner of the alleged unlawful use of the premises was contained in notifications from the superintendent of police to the rental agents of the property. The defendants will be served with notice that_an application will be made next Tuesday to Justic Bailev for temporary injunctions pending hearing of the matter in court {URGES RACE TO YIELD IN TUSKEGEE DISPUTE Colored Educator Proposes Com- promise for All in Hos: pital Fight. By the Assocjated Press. BOSTON, July 15.—A suggestion that negroes show a magnanimity-and vield to the white people of Alabama in the controversy over the negro veferan hospital at Tuskegee Institute {nas beem put forth in a statement here by Wallace A. Battle, presidcut and founder of Okolona Industrial School of Okolona, Miss., who is him- self a negrg. Battle would have the hospital put in charge of a white superintendent. a southerner, recommended by mnegro physitiags and appointed by ‘the fed- eral government, the other physicians and nurses to be all negroes. In ca of the death or removal of the su- perintendent, the negro medical staff always would recommend first the southern white superintendent they wished to work with. Mr. Battle's statement points out that the controversy is of national concern, and that the three elements involved—the federal government, the white people of the country and ne- groes of the United States—have ap- |parently all set out to vield nothing. |Tts wise solution, he believes, means incalculable good to all concerned. PERSIAN LANGUAGE SAME TODAY AS 3,000 YEARS AGO, SAYS ALAI The language of modern Persia has changed little in 3,000 years, says Mirza Hussein Khan Alal, minister of Persia to the United States, who addressed the Arts Club, last night. He was the honor guest at the din- ner given at the club for the cast of “The Pastime of Eternity,” Gideon A. Lyon's drama of historic Pers recently produced at Chevy Chase. After the dinner a program of Per- sian music was rendered, one of the most unusual musicals ever offered this club. More than 150 members ttended. *!fhe program included piano and vocal Interpretations of Persian mu- s, both the original and with European modifications, by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bleyden, Very Little Change. “There is not nearly so great a difference between the language of the anclent Persians and that of the present as between old German, Ita jan and French and the modern lan- guages of those countries,” sald the minister. “The people today can eas- ily read the Persian literature of thousands of years ago. There are only a few archaisms that cannot easily be understood by the modern Persian_reader. Of course, since Mo- hammedism_became the religion “of Persia, Arabic has become the lan- guage of all religious works, ‘The Koran® is_written in Arabic and all cultured Persians must know Arabic. “Perslan is an easy language to learn. It is something like English It does not have much grammar. T difficulty for an European or Amerl- can _in learning Persian would not be in mastering the actual words, but in securing all the background for appreciation of Persian litera- ture that is so essential and so dif- | ferent from the European ideas. Our religion, our philosophy, our history, our arts are all so totally different from yours.” Poetry and Music. Mr. Alai sketched the history of Persian poetry, emphasizing the im- portance that his people attach to poetry and the high honor Persian rulers have mccorded the poets. He said stringed instruments are the principal musical instruments of his land and only recently have pianos and other - Buropean instruments been introduced’te-any extent. Mrs. Bleyden pliyed ‘the’ gaw na- tional anthem of P#tamCwrittenIpg Gholan Reza Khan Splar Moazzaz, & leader in present day Persian music. She also played a number of this | composer's other works. Mr. Alal | delighted the audience with a piano i number, ~Which, he declared,” was typical ;both in arrangement .and { melody. Mr. Bleyden sung a group of quaint Persians sangs -arrahged, by Rubln- feln from:the lyrics of Mirza Schaf< fay, a famous Persian poet. t