Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler tonight. Tempeérature for twenty 130 p.m. terday; low (45 p.an. yesterday. | e 3 | 8. | “Full report on page 7. i -four hours nded at 2 p.m. today—Highest, 91, at est, €9, at Closing N. . Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 Entered as second-class matter past_office Was hington, D. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1923—TWENTY-FOUR FRENCH ACCUSE CURZON OF SUPPORTING GERMANY AND DISAVOWING ALLIES Situation Tense as Britain in Note Declares Ruhr Inva sion Illegal Under Treaty. PARIS EMBITTERED BY DEMAND SHE PAY WAR D High Official Flays Baldwin Policy—Sees | EBT TO ENGLAND Effort to Influence U. S.—~French Will Not Yield. B the Assoclated Press. PARIS, August 13. official circles as a po. The Bri allies and a frank espousal of the German cause. Premier Poincare will reply in d'Orsay it is held the document smacks so much of propaganda | it might properly be ignored. itish note,is regarded in French | itive disavowal of Great Britain’s war It is thought due time, although at the Quai “This amazing document proposes to haul France and Bel- gium before a tribunal to answe many carry out her treaty obli foreign office today. ans r for their efforts to make Ger- gations,” said an official of the ‘rance and Belgium are not ready to; r such a summons, even from Great Britain. The same official, whose statements, while unofficial in a strict sense. BERLIN MAY HALT | | ‘ ' | i ALL REPARATIONS 10 AID REFORYS i :Coalition Ministry Favors : Drastic Step—Rioting Goes On—Strike Called. | i NEW CABINET FORMED BY DR. STRESEMANN { Three of Cuno's Aides Retained by Premier—Communists Clash With Police at Many Points. By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, August 13.—The German government has announced, says & Central News dispatch from Berlin, that the stoppage of reparation con- tributions to France and Belglum will be extended to all the allles, as other- wise the financlal reform of Germany is impossible. The new German cabinet was offi- clally announced today, according to a Central News dispatch from Berlin, as follows: Premier and foreign minister, Dr. Gustav Stresemann. WITH SUNDAY. MORNING EDITION ANGED In ErriG Y KEPNER, ON STAND BARESLFE STORY Choked With Emotion, He Unfolds Tale of Clandes- Prep, Ay ECESSOR DOG DAYS 1 Coolidge in ’24 To Be Slogan Of New England CONCORD, N. H. August 13.— United States Senator George H. Moses in 2 statement issued today declared that President Calvin Coolidge would be a candidate for the republican presidential nomi natlon fn 1924 and that he ought GERMANY PAGES. GER MAN CHANCELLOR ' GOOLIDGE WORKS AT WHITE HOUSE Takes Over Harding Desk; But Will Not Occupy Man- “From Press to Home The Star” every city b Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’ Sunday’ Circulation, 83402 's Circulation, 97,643 L SECRETS OF BURIED MAYA CIVILIZATION WILL BE REVEALED Carnegie Institute to Wrest Facts of Pre-Christian Race From Jungle. EXPEDITION WILL RIVAL EXPLORATIONS IN EGYPT Study of Mexican and Guatemalan Ruins May Reverse Ancient History Concepts. BY HAROLD KAMES PHILIPS. The burled secrets of the long lost Maya civilization, an aboriginal race that flourished on this continent cen- turfes before the coming of Christ, reached an amazingly high state of intellectual culture by that period, and then disappeared with a com- pleteness that has baffled science, are to be wrested from the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala by the Car- negle Institution of Washington. Formal announcement was made here this morning that that institu- tlon has been’ granted permission by the governments concerned, through agreements, setting forth definite ar- rangements, to begin immediately a serles of excavations and investiga- tions in the ruins of anclent Maya cities that are expected to cover a period of at least ten years, and per- haps Jonger. Noted Sclentists Going. The expedition anticipated by the Carnegie Institution will be the largest and most {mportant archeo- logical vonture ever attempted on this continent and perhaps equal to {opments. TWO CENTS. U.S. CALLS MINERS AND OPERATORS T0 CONFERENCE HERE Federal Officials Act to Pre- vent Anthracite Strike on September 1. COOLIDGE HEARS REPORT OF COAL COMMISSION j Agreement to Be Sought to Keep Mines Running Until Final Settlement Made. The federal government moved to- day to avert an anthracite strike by inviting representatives of both the operators and miners to confer wi the Coal Commission here immed tely. A telegram conveying the in- vitation to both sides went forward shortly after noon. It was signed by Coal Commission officials after they had conferred with President Cool- tdge. For the present, at least, it was in- dicated that the President desired to leave the situation entirely in the hands of the Commission. Whether he would take any more direct step later to insure an agreement has not been revealed. Coolidge Watches Developments. There i3 no doubt, however, that Mr. Coolidge is fully advised regarding the break between the operators and miners, which is threatening a sus- pension of work in the anthracits mines on September 1, and will re- main in closest touch with all devel- Recently he conferred with John Hays Hammond, chairman of the commission, and today he had a 1 i | reflect the tense feeling aroused in the higher French circles, said the } fany of the pretentious explorations to have a solld New England dele- long talk with George Otis Smith, an- note obviously was intended to influence American opinion. He was| curious to know, however, how the Americans would receive a document which made all scttlements of the reparation question depend upon the payment of the debts to the United States, which he remarked amounted to throwing the responsibility for the European chaos on the United States. Deny Invasion Illegal. The most surprising feature of the note to the French government of- ficlals, it was said, was the contention that the occupation of the Ruhr was fllegal “The legality of the occupation of the Ruhr or any other German terri- tory the allles might choose was rec- ognized in & document signed at Spa i July, 1820, by the British as well as the other allies, and by representa- tives of the Germah government an otfivial said He referred to the protocol in which were set forth the decisions of the Spa conterence regarding coal deliv- on reparation account, in which use read It by November 15, 1920, it appears that the coul deilveries for August, September and Qectober have not reached a total of six million tons the allies will proceed to_the occupation )i uew territory in Germany, in the <gion of the Ruhr or elsewhere.”, The ofiicial characterized as an “un- lieard-of proceeding’” the comparison ade Lord Curzon between war debt and the reparation ernment to speak out and that “its frankness is all the more Impressive | for the unparalleled forbearance it has shown.” “Englishmen,” it adds, “would nev- er have dreamed of using this tone to | France if they had not been lutely driven to doing so by herselt.” The ~Westminster Gazette con ments: “No other course was con- sistent with the dignity and interests of this country. * ¢ ¢ We have reached the point whereat there can be no turning back on our part.” Rap Delay in Reply. The Daily Chronicle asks indig- nantly why the British position was not made clear long ago, before the Ruhr was ocoupled, and says that the failure of the goverament to display the strength of the British case to the world has been one of its worst faults. France, it adds, has been far ahead In the arts of publicity, with the result that “we have nothing llke the solld, wide- spread backing from neutral, espe- clally American, opinion, to which | the moral excellence of our case en- titled us.” Germany. ! _The independent Dally Express ap- | 1l Pay War Debts. {proves of the position adopted re- | bl : ’ | karding_the debts question Our war debts,” he sald, “enabled | B57, N6, (50, FobEs, HUSSHON. 1 etween us to win the war and helped us 10 (Joyaity to the government sag e 1 i lchanged, being headed. Minister of finance, Herr Hilferding, radical. Minister of economy, Hans Raumer, German people's party. Minister of railways, Herr Helnrich, director of the Deutschwerke Minister of justice, Herr Radbruch, socialist. Minister Fuchs, The m telegraphs von of home ter party. stries of defense. posts and and labor remaiu un- respectively, by Dr. Gessler, Herr Stingl an 3 Heinrich Braun. 5 e Sangulnary fishting between com- munists and the militia oceurred to- day in Seitz, Saxony, according to a Central News dispatch from Rerlin. A large body of communlists stormed the town hall, occupied by the soldlers and there was considerable fighting in the streets. The bodies of nine com- munists were recovered. Thirty were injured and many of the troops were wounded, the message adds, COMMUNISTS HOLD CITY. affalrs, Herr Force Senate to Retire in Luebeck. Reichswehr Troops Arrive, DBy the Ausoclated Press. LUEBECK, Germany, August 13.— Communists are holding this city, after having forced the senate to re- tire. Reichswehr troops have arrived to attempt to restore order. Luebeck is one of the three city- states of the German empire and is governed by its own senate, presided over by the burgomaster and a house of burgesses. The city proper was make a greater military effort to save British and American lives, while the | vocacy of the French cause, is deeply {concerned with the profound differ- founded about the middle of the twelfth century and soon rose to tine Trysts. By a Staff Correspondent FREDERICK, Md, August 13 B. Evard Kepuer, on trial in the cir- cuit county court here. charged with the murder of his wealthy wife, Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner, took the stand in his own defense this morn- ing and bared the story of his life. as to compel him to halt at interva mony proceeded, the quiet looking man who once helped control the re- ligious, business and soctal life Frederick explul,\cd his home life the last few months precedlng his wife's death. With head hung low, his face deep- ly flushed. he unfolded his clandes- tine trysts with Lulu_ Ricketts, the prefity waitress-bookkeeper upon whom he had lavished gifts of lin- gerle, silk hose, jewelry and money. Recalied All Details, The accuracy with which Kepner remembered the details of the con- dition of the death chamber in Which he found his wife's body last June 18, |through her brain, astonished the | hearers. A sensation was sensed in the crowded courtroom when, u few | minutes after the judges had taken | their seats amid the usual cer monles, Leo Weinberg, chief of coun |sel for the defense, rose from h chalr, turned to the clerk of the !and sald in & firm volce, | Evard Kepne In a volce so choked with emotion | 1 that grew more frequent as his testi- of | {a pistol in her lap and a bullet hole | gation. - MEACT ACREENENT NEAR CONPLETON Terms Expected to Be Con- cluded in Two or Three Days. Conclusion of the agreement under negotiation in Mexico City between Mexican and American commission- ers, designed to pave the way for recognition of the Mexican govern- ment by the United States, Is expect- | | ed within the next two or three days, {1t was sald today by a spokesman for | the government here. When the commissioners have con- {cluded their work the conclusions i reached will be submitted to the two governments for approval. In the | meantime, officials here decline to {discuss the subject in any way be- ond expressing gratification at the progress made toward an agreement. sion at Present. President Coolidge hung up his hat; in the executive office today and went Ito work in the private office of the | President in the executive office wing {of the White House. This was the first time President | | Coolidge has occupled this room since ' his succession to the presidency, and | {although he will ! continue to use the | Eolfiu(-. he and Mrs. Coolidge will not take | {up their abode in the White House | proper until Mrs. Harding has com- | ! pleted her packing. Mr. Coolidge arose at his usual early hour, but did not take his customary morning stroll. Accompanied by Charles | 1. Hatfleld of Newton, Mass., former ! chairman of thé republican state com- { mittee of Massachusetts, and Edward; T. Clarke, his secretary, President | Coolidge motored from the Willard} Hotel, where he is living temporaril to the White House executive office, | arriving there at 8:50. § The new executive was greeted at! jthe main doorway by Sergt. Clarence | Dalrymple of the White House police, ! | who has been detailed at the White |House for more than a quarter of a . century. The President shook hands warmly with the veteran police officer | and after a moment’s conversation hek (hurried along the corridor td the large circular room in the rear of the | building which has served as_the: {office of Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, | | Wilson and Harding. | i Desk Cleared for Action. 1 The large, handsome manogany desk | purchased during the Wilson adminis- i Egypt carrfed out in ancient Europe and Some of the best known clentists of both America and Eu- rope will head the various depart- ments of the expedition and thelr discoveries may literally turn pres- ent_conceptions of primitive history upside down Pla.s adopted by the Carnegie Tn- sitution include not only archeolog- fcal studies of Maya engineering, architecture. &rt, cultures, physicai anthropology and language, but they embrace also a thorough Investiga- tion into the conditions under which the Maya people lived. study of their geology, Eeography, climatology, _meteoroiogy, ethno- botany and ethnozoology it is hoped to solve the mystery of their vir- | tual disappearance from the face of the earth as a separate race. Preliminary Jungle Study. To accomplish this end the institu- tlon expects to invite the leading authoritles on the varfous subjects under consideration to join {ts ‘staff and go into the Latin American jun- gles for a personal investiwation of conditions exactly as they exist. Sach of these experts will spend perfods of two or three months at a time with the expedition. Dr. Sylvanus G. Moreley, associate of the Institution in middle Amerl- can archeology, who has been con- ducting _ explorations and archeo- [ logical studies in Middle Amerlca for the past nine vears, is now in Yu- catan to begin preliminary work clearing the bush from the group of structures which will form the first subjects for study. Thev are at Chichen Itza, the religious capital of_the Mava people No venture of recent vears has ex- «ited so much interest’ in sclentific circles as the institution’s announce- ment that it intended to excavate the ruined cities of what is generally Through 2| other of its members. The text of the conference invi tion was withheld, but it is und stood that the messages to operators and miners were identical in terms. One went to John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, at Atlan- tic City, and the other to S. D. War- ringer. chuirman of the general pol- icy committee of the anthracite mine operators. Agreement Ends September 1. The men addressed are the official heads of the groups which embarked upon negotlations at Atlantic City last month with the purpose of fix- ing terms, wage scales and conditions to govern the continuance of anthra- cite operations after September 1, when existing wage contracts explre. The negotlations were suspended upon the unjon's {nsistence for in- | stallation of the “check-off” system, by which unfon dues would be col- lécted from all miners by their em- ployers and paid directly to the union. The | commission had refrained from taking any part in the discue- sion between the miners and their employers untll today. It is known that the government now will seek to bring about a com- promise by which operations in the anthracite field will continue, even though final agreement upon the mat- ter under dispute cannot be im- mediately attained. At the same time it has been dis- closed that a study of exiating coal stocks has led some officials to beliove sufficient quantities of an thracité are above ground to protect the public from danger even in case of a suspension of production There is zlso before the Coal Com- mission & proposition from bitumi- nous mine operators made through the | ences between the two gove Gierman debt represents blood of the | thA®.PELW R etV Eovernments allies that was shed. France does |which those differences, if parmitted wot repudiate her debts. She has | to develop, may some day lead.” It wiped off the war debts owed her by !is convinced that separate action by fome of her allies, but she intends to j Great Britain “will lead only to the her own.” D | abyss. The French reply—if a reply Is sent fonal Coal Aseoclation, to provide, under government control, large quantities of bituminous coal as a ubstitute for anthracite in case the iracite supply should be cut off. The administration’s request, through the United States Coal ‘ommission, commerclal ~importance, taking | Kepner was sitting beside his at- leading part in the founding of the | torney at the time, dressed in a neat Hanseatic league, of which it became | gray suit, black tie, white shirt and the head. It declined rapidly in Im- | black shoes and stockings. Behind portance, however, after the Refor-|him the room was crowded with the | mation. Its population fs about §0,000. | usual throng of bobbed-haired girls in their teens and bejeweled matrons. that [tration and which was used by the|accepted to hays been the first hu-| H - {man race to inhabit this continent. ‘:’le [president arding up to the day | it what the explorers will find no {he left Washington on his fll-fited |iman can predict. but suffice it to say !Alaskan trip had been cleared of an | that hefore going into the venture accumulation of papers and personal! tFe Carmegie Institution conducted a! | NATS LEAD CHISOX Daily Mall finds the note bad Jhelr Laone e ety preliminary investigation which sat-| 155 —will but reaffirm the position of this ind stupld and says it will make the STRIKERS SLAIN IN CRASH. {firm and anxlously aggressive, Kep- situation much worse than before. FRANCE SEES RUPTURE. country as repeatedly set forth here- tofore, the official declared. France, he said, would never conscnt to the British demand that Gerimany may pay less and France may pay more, which is the offici interpretation here of the statement in the note that Great Britain must collect 14,- 500,000,000 gold marks and that, if she does not receive that sum from Germany, she must get it from the allies. BRITAIN FEARS CRISIS. Plan to Collect War Debt. { By Cable to The Star and Chi Copyright, 102 August 13.—Great Britain's reparations note, challenging | the legality of the Rubr occupation, | announcing the intention to call the Nation Generally Supports Strong | French debt presently, and threaten- Ing a s © undes v Nos ity & a separate understanding with the g0 Daily News. PARIS, | latest Extremely Bitter Against British! Violence at Hamburg Shipyards | but later he grew weaker and experi- {enced alternate spells of palenes: Brings Big Casualty List. More than once his voice shook so By the Assoctated Pres. such that he was obiiged to hang his hewd and halt. However, BERLIN, August 13 — Several | pulled himself together and | strikers were killed and many wound- | tinued. ed ut the Hamburg shipyards today in & clash with the police; according to a dispatch recelved here. The | oo on €his rioxning of 1. strikers are alleged to have pre- | BUSIRGE A"\ o "Saltimore and vented thoss willing to work from |yisited a prominent dentist to be entering the shipyards, whereupon | yionted for an aching tooth. The fhe“polfee Intervened and’ were at- | brirution necessitated the bone_be: O et e Dr. (Continued on Paj Column 5.) con- Visit to Dentiat. The defendant started out by ex Just what atdtude Stresemann, the new chancellor, will take toward “big business,” mow that he is installed as head of a soclalistic- i Gustay {ner answered the first few questions, | he | N 4TH INNIG 42 iBlankenship and Zachary Are Selected as Mound Opponents. BY JOHN B. KELLER. Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary, south- paw, opened for the Nationals against the White Sox this afternoon In the | {belongings of the late President and {was in complete readiness for its new |occupant. The large leather chatr lused by Mr. Hardlng has been given jto his widow to take with her into {private life as an intimate association :nf her husband's office, and a new one | {of a corresponding design was at the | {desk today ready for Mr. Coolidge. | | The framed portrait of President | Harding’s mother and the small oval iframed engraving of George Wash- !ington, which were familiar objects on his desk during his life in the | [ White House, had been removed and ' {turned over to Mrs. Harding for preservation. The only picture in the large office room was a steel engrav- ing of Abraham Lincoln which was | to isfled {t that the story which has lafn burled in the tropical jungles of Mexico promises to become one of the mest_intriguing chapters in primitive histors Were Master Architects. The dazzling veil of vanished cen- turies has obscured the history of the Mava peoples up to the present gen- eration. That they were ter ar- chitacts. unsurpassed & mers, greit engineers and deeply religious, before the dawn of the Christian era Dbeen established beyond the ow of a doubt. How long be- that period they emerged from rtive savagery can only be estl but the most conservative entists have judged that time to [to the operators and miners of the anthracite industry to meet with the commission roused hopes here to- day that such a conference may re- sult in n adjustment of differences and in pre a strike, ptember 1, in the an mines. In the an rike of 1902, President Roos: Inally prevailed upon the operator: the miners to agree to an arbitration of their dif- ferences by. the then anthracite coal strike commission, appointed: by him Coolldge May Act. The suggestion was made today that if the miners’ and operators | continue to be unable to reach an | agreement, following their confe | ence with the Coul Comrmission her | President Cooliage may seek to hav | Germans, is regarded in inner circles By the Associated Py first game of the double-header. Ted | brousht th cutiv v 4 ] i es agive to i ) B e vt accwlnites & o header. Ted ) brousht to the executive office by |have been fully 100,000 years before| both parties agive to arbitration here as the first step on Great Brit- LONDON, August 2in’s part toward a rupture of the entente. The real aims of the note are con- sidered to be: F the bolstering of German ice at the moment of the fall cabinet of Chancellor Cuno and the accession of Gustav Stresemann to the chancellorship. Second, a preparation of a juridical 13.—The British | note to France and Belglum, in which the Buldwin government says it re-| gards the Ruhr occupation as illegal under the Versailles treaty, but is willing to submit the point to arbi- tration, has made a very deep im- pression here. For the most part it is regarded as creating a new situa- tion, which may have serious develop- ments. Even where the government's ac- tion is approved the plain-spoken phraseology of the note caused as- tonishment, although that astonish- ment was mingled with satistaction that the government used language which the commentstors indorse. Among those who oppose the line the government has taken there is excitement, anger, even alarm, and the position s considered to be one of grave crisis. A maljority of the morning news- papers approve the Britlsh note to France and Belglum. “The note is strong, but not tos strong,” comment~ The Times. “It was high time such a clear statement of the British case wus made” It adds that the case regarding the al- lied debts was put with “gratifying firmness.” and contends that the tak- ing of separate action by Great Brit- ain_would “be the logical result of such a frank expression of policy. The Dally Telegraph describes the note as “pro-British from start to finish,” adding that on that account alone’ It should gain the support of a great majority of the British peo- ple. | { i Sce Changed Situation. The newspaper adds that if the phrases which underlie the incompat- ibility of the French and British standpoints, accurately represent the facts, “the spirit of mutuality which made the alllance a strong, living thing, animates it no longer and we shall have to deal with a sadly changed situation.’ ‘The liberal newspaper while recog- nising the seriousrness of the situa: tion support the note.. The Daily ews says it was time.for the gov« basis for escaping from the bonds of | the Verszailles treaty. Third, a preparation of the British &nd world opinion for changing sides and openly helping Germany hence- forth against France and Belgium f the purpose of restoring continental | counterpotse preventing agreement. The French are particularly bitter over the British. declaration that whatever happens, either the allies or Germany or both together must_pay Great Britain's war debt to the Unlt- ed States, and that whether Germany pays or not, France must pay. There is 'not the slightest indica- tion that the French people or any fraction thereof will ever consent to the British proposal, which, in their opinfon, means simply that the coun- try which lost & million and a half killed and had a hundred billion francs of - material damage in the war which was fought for common ends; must deliver everything it col- lects from Germany for reparations, to Great Britain snd the United States. These countries, say the French, unprepared for War, were not even giving gold, but merely lending to help France bear the brunt of the common struggle. GLORIA SWANSON ILL. Undergoes Operation for Intestinal Trouble in Private Hospital, NEW' YORK, August 13.—Gloria Swanson, moving picture actress, un- derwent an operation for intestinal trobue at a private hospital here last Mon it became known today. It was sald she would be able to leave the hospital in three weeks. The operation, it was stated, was made necessary by a breakdown, re- sulting from overwork. to French power and a direct Franco-German | bourgeois which is already actively agitating the minds of the politiclans. They re- call that Chancellor Stresemann was wholly indebted to the influence and support of industrialists for his political advancement. Streseman Once Rebuffed. When the old political lines were forced to dissolve after the revolution of November, 1918, Stresemann, then a reichstag leader of the old natlonal liberty party, suddenly found himself marooned as the newly created demo- (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) CHINESE STUDENT Must Die for Putting Arsenic in Food to Cover Up SHANGHAI, August 18.—Yu E | heng, former head of the Students’ Self-Government Association of the Hangohow Normal School, and two cooks, Chien Ah-Li and Pi Ho-Song, were eentenced to death yesterday by the Harigohow district court for par- ticipation. in a plot to poison the en- tire student body at the school. The plot resulted in the-deaths of twenty-seven persons and the fllness of scores of other teachers and stu- dents last February. Testimony at the trial.disclosed that Yu was facing exposure,of a shortage of $200.in. his accounts as chajrman of the student organization, and that he undertook ta kill every one at the school to cover up his shartage. He was nlleged to have bribed the cooks to steal arsenic from the laboratory of the school .and to put it :in rice served at the opunlni.wgmr of the school term. The caoks ehortly after their arrest declared they had been paid $30°by Yu for' thelr share'in thie viot. KILLS 27 IN SCHOOL| SEVEN MENKILLED N COLORADD GRASH | Passenger Trains on Santa Fe Tracks Smash—Train- men Victims. | By the Associated Press. | PUEBLO, Col, August 13.—Seven | raflroad trainmen were killed in a { head-on collision between Colorado | and Southern passenger train No. 609 from Pueblo, and Santa Fe No. 6, through traln from the east, at the | west switch in Fowler, Col., early to- | day. Number 609 was detouring over { Santa Fe tracks via La Junta, because of washouts at Walsenburg on the i | Colorado and Southern tracks. “The following is a partial list ot { those "killed, all trainmen: A. Hengon, engineer, La Junta. J. T. Pearson. engineer, La Junta. T. Schmanke, engineer, Pueblo. G. H. Gray, engineer, Denver. G. L. Chewning, firgman, Denver. A baggageman, named King, and a Colorade. and Southern train mes- senger, whose name and address are as yet unknown, also were killed. Two tralnmen, one named Burlejgh and another named Hirch, were in- jured. One.woman passenger received a slight injury. So far as known she was the only passenger hurt. Rellef trains were sent to the scene from Pueblo and La Junta. Fowler doctors were oalled and the injured were taken.to hospitals in La Junta. Three locomotives .and one . baggage car ‘were destroyed, and one baggage car deralled. No passenger coaches :were derailed. - Fowler is. about twenty mlles east of Pueblo, Blankenship, right-hander, went to the slab for the visitors. | Manager Donie Bush placed himself sore leg again putting Ossic Bluege, regular hot-corner guardianm, out of action. FIRST INNING. CHICAGO—Hooper grounded to Har- ris. Mostil singled to center. Collins walked, Sheely singled off Bush's glove and Mostil scored, while Collins took third and Sheely second when Bush hit Mostil with a throw to the plate. Col- tling scored after Leibold caught Falk's fiy. Elsh fiied to Rice, Two runs. WASHINGTON—Collins threw ‘out { Leibold. A third strike was called on Bush. Goslin flied to Falk. No runs. SECOND INNING. CHICAGO—Peck threw out McClel- lan. Schalk popped to Ruel. Blanken- ship lofted high to Peck. No runs. WASHINGTON—RIice walked, Ruel walked also; Judge singled to center, Rice scoring and Ruel stopping at sec- ond. Harris took a third strike, Peck popped to McClellan, Zachary singled to right, scoring Ruel. Judge, trying for third, was out, Hooper to Mostil. Two runs, THIRD INNING. CHICAGO—Hooper flied to Rice. Peck threw out Mostil. Peck threw out Col- lins. No runs. WASHINGTON—Leibold walked. Bush, sacrificed, Mostil to Sheely. Goslin flied to Eish. Leibold taking third after the catch. Rice tripled to center, scoring Leiboid. Ruel tripled to left, scoring iRice. Judge fenned. Twp runs. ' FOURTH INNING. CHICAGO-—Sheely lined a single to right. Falk -hit into a double play, | Peck to Harris to Judge. Elsh walked. Leibold ran in far for McClellan's loft. No runs. WASHINGTON—Harris _popped_ to Mastil. - Elsh got Peck's fiy. Zachary fanned. No runs, fat third base for the home crew, a | which has been kept in its position on the man telplece by each succeeding President. Stearns First Caller. The first caller to be received by President Coolidge in the executive office was Frank W. Stearns, promi- | nent business man of Boston and inti- | mate friend of the President. He re- | mained closeted with the latter only | a few minutes and on his way out | sald he expected to return to Boston very shortly. % | For more than halt an hour the| President listened to George Otls| Smith, secretary of the Fact-finding | {Coal: ‘Commission, explain the oai| {situation. It is bélleved by those who | lare in a position to know that the| | President proposes to give consider- !able attention to_the coal situation | 1 priests left calendar, a series of stone m which has enabled science to trace cheir cult definitely k to at st ninety-one years before Christ. the same period they had mastered a” written language and there are strange stories of a complete written history that lies buried in the tomb of & chief priest among the ruins of Chichen Itza. There are many royal tombs In that half-burfed city and none of them has yet been opened. Some archeologists have declared the Maya race antedated every other race known to man, and one or two, after years of study, have gone so far as to’assert that the great Lgyptian empire was founded by Maya colonlsts. to pos engraved upon numents, Although most scientists dispute this | bellef., strange similarities in the re- (Continued on Page 2, Coluion 2.) i When death overtook him in San Francisco President Harding, al- though apparently.confident of his ‘re-election, already had begun to formulate plans agajnst the time when he finally should retire from the White House. At a private luncheon in a west- ern city before he went to Alaska “he told some of his close friends ~the reasons 'which had impelled him to dispose of his control of the Marion Star, and ~discussed the part he expected to take in other flelds of activity after his public service was over. "As the story was told here today by those who took part in the co! versation, Mr. Harding said that in all probability he would accent an’offer of $26,000 a year made by (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) \Harding Longed for Day When | He Could Write Editorials A gain one‘of the leading newspapers of the .country for editorial contrib tions. This would give him a much-desired opportunity of get- ting his views before the people and, aselsting in solving national and international problems. He also_had open, he added, an offer of $750 for each speech he might deliver after the expiration of his term as President. These two offers had caused him to fegl that he would be able after leaving the White House to give little personal attention to the edi- torial management of the Star. He said that he had sold the Star “be- cause he could not afford to reject the offer” made him, explaining, it is sald, that he was to receive for the property in the neighborhood of 13500,000.° While it had been eagning about $30,000 a year, Mr. Hgrding sald, it was not prabable that he would again receive such ari advantageous offer. bring about a settlement as i | 194 It may be that the Coal Com | mistion might be selected as tu | arbitral body. On the other han un entirely new body might be d. manded. President Roosevelt, it is kno {had fully determined that if there was no ugreement to arbitrate, he would take str pous steps to bring about resumption of work in the hard coal mines. He had made complete plans for this end, us he confided to certaipn lof his intimates These plans wers I never mude public. He planned, how- lever, to give complete protection to | workers in the anthracite mines, us- |ing the military for .that purpose. | He had gone so far as to select G | Connor to handle the situation, it v said today. Mines Could Be Worked. Given complete protection, it | the belief that the anthracite mine would be worked—not to their fuil capacity, perhaps, but to a very con- siderable extent. There had becn much violence during the anthracite strike in 1902, President Coolidge, it was pointed out today, under the powers.vested in hini, could take such steps to protect men working in the mines as were planned by President Rooseveit, if no other way of settling the present con- troversy is worked out. No law giving the President author- ity to take over and operate the coal mines is on the s ute books, a search revealed today. Recommendations that hc be given that authority to meet emergencles like that now threatening have been made to the President by the coal commission But Congr would have to enact the law. In neither the law providing for the appointment of the coal comi- mission nor the federal fuel director is there any authority found for such action, it was sald today. But under the plan proposed by President Roosevelt, had his arbitra- tion plan not been put intg effect, the President today could act, and act effectively. One subject of controversy may make it difficult to obtain an agree- ment for _arbitration today—the check-off system. It is this that caused a breakup of negotiations re- cently, and it Is the biggest bone ef contention. | ar i