Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1923, Page 1

Cloudy and unsettled tonight And tomorrow; somewhat ocooler tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 78, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at § a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 No. 228,998, Ihtered & econ post office. Washington, D. C. lass matter CHANCELLOR GALLS * ALL GERMAN CHIEFS 0 PARLEY ON RUHR Cbnference Believed to Be Forerunner of End of Passive Resistance. ENTIRE SITUATION TO BE THOROUGHLY CANVASSED Reports Continue of Efforts of Bel- gian Minister to Bring Berlin and Paris Together. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 22.—Chancel- lor Stresemann has summoned the premiers of the federated states of Germany for a conference on the Ruhr situation, it was announced to- day, Fhe conference is expected to oc- cur Tuesd: It is looked upon in volitical circles as presaging early action on the of abandoning passive resistance. Municipai officials and industrial and labor leaders from all sections of the occupied areas also will be pres- ent at the meeting The situation in the Ruhr and the Rhineland will be canvassed care- fully, both with to_its eco- nomic and political aspe The chancellor is desirous of hav- the héads of the allied German states come into personal touch with representatives from the occupied regions and has adopted this method of bringing them together. Despite the recurrin ing from Paris itical circles in knowledge that the Belgian minister here has been actively seeking to a point of contact between Chancellor Stresemann and Premier Poincare for the purpose of inducing the latter to accommodate the chan- lor with ncession that will enable Dr. Stresemann to call off passive resistance in return for am- for all the Germa 2 the occupied areas by the al- lied authorities. RUHR DISSENSION GROWS. sue respect and denials em- and Brussels Berlin _profess Workers Feel That Passive Resist- ance Must Come to End. By Cable to The Star.aud Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923, i ptember News that - Berlin government had decided to e up passive resistance until now as been received in the Ruhr with dull acquiescence, growing out habit. But new there that new arrangements are air. The trades unions have already been informed that the Berlin gov- ernment must cease its financial sup- port. They are, breaking the news slowly to the rank and file. But the rank and file had made their own dacision lier that further contin- vance was impossible and had in- formed the ~government that re- sistance no longer could be carried on. The money situation is chaotic. firm is issuing money as it The Krupp Works already is issuing larger notes than the Reichsbank, upon which it profits enormou, Throughout the whole Ruhr almost no productive work is being done. The whole population is 1iving on false money issued either by their employers or by the bankrupt German govern- ment. This money is accepted only because there is nothing else. The population feels that Berlin has deserted it. In the trades unfons it has been decided that pas- sive resistance must be given up at the earliest possible moment. Berlin has been so informed, and the unions now are awaiting Berlin's response. Meanwhile, the potato shortage is causing a panic. Today 3,000 people gathered in_front of the Krupp Works, standing in line for hours in the rain because a rumor had spread that the spre: Krupps had pota- SEE GERMAN BREAK UP. in the rict Observers Believe Bavaria Rhineland Will Secede. By Cable to The Star and Chic Ds N+ Copyright, 1“21"0 e LONDON, September 22.—Premier Baldwin’s return from his prolonged holiday has been signalized by an un- usual tension in political and fi quarters. His Visit to Premier Beie! care is now interpreted as the first step toward solidarity among the allies in the face of a disintegrating :w‘irlgdm];n}‘)un!}?l\ 4\(éenlion centers on G ¥, where a ST e ecisive movement ritish experts see onil: - blo result In German. surrendoc s France—complete downfall of the Reichbank. The separatists in the Rhineland, as well as in Bavaria, have completed their initial organization work in preparation for renunciation ©of their allegiance to the Berlin ernment, according ports received here, Britain Undisturbed. Berlin's recent juggling o money exchanges Doints cleariv i1 thought, to a lack of faith in . the stability of the reich. Messages from Berlin business men confirm the statement, that the Reichbank hag aken the lid off the market and al. lowed foreign bankers to get all the foreign stocks they are ablé to pure chase before the break off by the Ithineland and Bavaria occurs, Discussing the effect of the impend- ing collapse of Germany.upon British trade, a well informed British diplomat revealed the fact that Great Britain has little fear of the eventual results upon her trade. The purchasing power of Europe is already at its lowest possible ebb. Therefore, it may help matters slight- Iy to have the Rhineland and Bavaria under separate governments, strong- ly nationalistic, bent on rebuilding small but self-contained elements of the German republic. The Bavarians and the Rhinelanders long have dis- trusted and antagonized Berlin, and have clung to their state rights in- herited from the old imperial days. w Currencies Ready. They already have prepared new currencies to replace the worthless jerman mark, and otherwise have prepared to leave Prussia to her fate, Tf the crash comes soon Great Brit- undoubtedly will co-operate with France in extracting from each ele- ment of the disrtpted reich guaran- ties for reparations. Hitherto Brit- ish officials, as well as business men, , have been confident the Berlin gov- ernment would be able to hold the reich together. But that confidence has been completely dissipated by reports piling up from every quarter. and gov- to impartial re- its social deported | | snorter. of | is a feeling| ]in a foot, |Sweetser pitched to within three feet [his five-footer. |terrace green, while Jess was straight {was 1 up. ZR-1, Flying Hig Defies Rain to Reach Capital Mistress of Air Settles Down Majestically Over Pennsylvania Avenue; Pays Several Calls, Makes No Stops. Flying an hour late in a misty rain Which enshrouded her, the ZR-1, the Navy'’s new aerial leviathan, visited Washington today, fiving over the Capitol, the White House, Mount Ver- non and the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington, where she drop- ped a wreath. The big ship made the flight from Lakehurst apparently without inci- dent, and as her trim silver-gray form slipped through the misty cur- tain which almost obscured her thousands lined the streets and crowded the tops of buildings to see her. Just at 1:30 o’clock the big ship loom- ed up out of a fog bank and swerved to pass to the south side of the dome of the Capitol. Her commander pointed her nose up Pennsylvania avenue toward the White House, flying so low that from the ground her great silver-tinted body seemed to be no higher than the SWEETSER LEADS FOR GOLF TITLE Near Second Consecutive Victory—Leads Marston at End of 18 Holes. By the Assoclated Press. FLOSSMOOR, September 22.—Max Marston of Philadelphia today man- aged to hold a champion, Jess Sweet- ser of New York, to a lead of 2 up on the first eighteen holes of the final round in the national amateur golf championship at Flossmoor, although the Pennsylvania champion took forty strokes for the first nine. Sweetser shot very good golf for a final ses- sion, going out in 2 above par for a 38 and coming home under par for a total of Hole 1, 518 yards, par 5. Sweetser dréve 250 stralght, while Marston was ten vards shorter. Marston’s second was to the edge of a trap short of the green and Sweetser pulled to a sandpit twenty vards Jess niblicked to fifteen feet over the oup. while Max chipped | ten feet short. Jess all but holed for a birdie and Max bobbled the cup, halving _in 6. Hole 2, 213 vards. par 3. Both iron tee shots fetched the green, Sweetser twenty-five feet to the right near a trap and Marston eight feet closer to the hole. Sweetser putted to with- in two feet, while Marston was with- and they halved in par. Hole 552 yards, par 5. Their drives_were side by side 230 yards out. Sweetser was just over the brook in 2. Max reached the far edge forty-five feet from the flag. of the pin and his ball jumped back two feet from the back spin. Mar- ston was eight feet short on his downhill putt, but holed his par 5 and halved when Sweetser missed Break Comes on Fourth. Hole 4, 342 yards, par 4. Their 230-yard drives were even again, but Marston, playing the odd, pushed his ball to the bottom of the bank of the on twenty feet short. Marston pitch- ed eight feet past the flag, while Sweetstr grazed the cup. Marston ran two feet over and lost, 5 to 4, and was 1 down. Hole 5, 447 yards, par 4. After 260- yard drives, Jess pitched within five feet of the cup, while Marston struck short but trickled up to within twelve feet. Marston's putt missed by a foot and Sweetser also missed, halv- | ing in four. Hole 6, 417 yards, par 4. Sweetser sliced to the woods in the bow of the dog leg, while Marston pulled to the rough. Marston was so close to the fence he could not get a stance and he played left-handed with his putter, going only five feet and was short in three. Jess was behind a tree and had td_chip out fifty yards at an angle. Sweetser pitched twenty feet short, while Marston’s fourth was twelve feet over the cup. Jess was two feet to the right in four and Max missed twice, taking seven to Sweetser’s five, and was two down. Hole 7, 126 yards, par 3. (Pond hole.) Jess' pitch was, twenty-five feet, over while Marston narrowly missed the drink and was eighteen feet short. Jess was six feet short in two while Max ran over a foot and laid a stymie which Jess essayed to pitch but missed, taking four, and was one up. Even Score at Eighth. Hole 8, 335 yards: par, 4. Marston outdrove Sweetser ten yards, getting 240 yards, and after Jess pitched forty feet short of the pin Marston ran up to twelve feet. Jess bobbled the cup with his long putt and Marston got home for a birdie 3 and squared the match. Hole 9, 387 yards; par, 4. Marston again outdrove Sweetser, getting 230 yards uphill. Jess was on in 2, twenty-two feet to the left, while Marston overran the green and was twenty, yards over the cup. Marston ran up elght feet to the pin and again stymied Sweetser. Jess tried to eng- lish around it and failed, but won, and Sweetser took the turn in the morn- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) DRY ENVOY USES SUASION ON CITY’S SOCIAL CLUBS| Urges Prominent Members to Show BALDINGER T0 HEAD | to rhake the arrangements for the re- he WASHINGTO. D. h Above Clouds, towers on the Post Office Department building. Blades Seen Churning Fog. So low did the great ship fly that the whirling blades of the propellers of her six motors could easily be seen churning fog and mist. Thou- sands of motor cars cluttered on the broad Avenue below where all traffic stopped and sirened a welcome. The big ship slipped along so silently and 80 swiftly that spectators got little more than a glimpse. A squadron of airplanes from Bolling Field dipped and darted around the ZR-1 like a lot of falcons after a carrier pigeon. By the time the big ship had passed over the White House g and headed down the Potoma ircle over the tomb of the soldier and visit Mount Vernon she was lost in another fog bank. Fliex Above Clouds. Flying most of the way above the clouds, which steadily showered the land below, officers of the ZR-1 were (Continued on Page-2, Column 2.) AIR CIRGUS STARTS ATBOLLING FIELD Aviators Present Thrills and Comedy to Crowd From Stage of Clouds. The air circus presented at Bolling Field this afternoon will be repeated again tomor- fow at 2 pm. Bolling Field pilots and their| brother officers from other fields in the Army air service shook oft mili- tary dignity this afternoon and turn- ed performers and actors before a large crowd that gathered at the air service station in Anacostia to wit- ness the premier aeronautical carni- val of America. Promptly at 2 under way. clouds, while o'clock the show got The condition of the presenting a certain element of danger for the® pilots participating in the show, ob- scured the sun and made visibility for the spectators more comfortable, as they were required to turn”thelr eyés skyward a majority of the time. Comedy on Program, Aslde from the regularly announced program of events, a large number of incidental and auxiliary entertainments were scheduled to be presented, most of which were along the line of comedy. The program this afternoon to include low-flying formation of five | observation planes, a photograph ex- | pedition of the spectators with ulti- mate distribution of the pictures, a parachute jump, a twenty-mile race of three SE-5 pursuit planes, a_bomb- ing formation attack on ground forti- fication, a race of three VE-7 speed planes, display of a smoke screen by a Martin bomber, a pageant of air- planes used by the Army, headed by the largest and diminishing in size to the smallest, and presentation of free “hops” over the city to holders | of lucky coupons. Fireworks Tonight. Tonlght a great display of pyro- technics is to rbe given, Including night bombardment, bringing home to the audience the war-time exploits of American bombers; attack of anti- aircraft guns on the bombing, planes and the dropping of messages attach- ed to illuminated streamers. . Aside from these main points other pyro- technic exhibitions will be given, Dancing t6 music by the Army Band Orchestra also will be held oy eld in hangar WHITE HOUSE FORCE Will Remain as Military Aide to President Under Col. Sherrill. ~ Maj. Ora P. Baldinger is to be in command of the White House police, it was officially announced at the ‘White House today. Maj, Baldinger, who was at one time an employe of the Marion, Ohio, Star and a close personal friend of the late President, was assigned as a special aide to Mrs. Harding dur- ing the period of the funeral arrange- ments for the late President Harding. He will remain at the White House as military aide under Col. Sherrill, superintendent of public buildings and grounds and military aide to the President. Col. Sherrill was at the White House today at the request of Secretary Slemp sumption by Maj. Baidinger of the com- mand of the White House police, which was one of Maj. Baldinger's duties prior to_the death of the late President. Good Example by Observing Prohibition Law. By the Associated Pres: PHILADELPHIA, Pa., September 22.—An agent of the federal prohibi- tion commissioner, it became publicly known today, is moving among the prominent soclal clubs of the city using moral suasion in baving their members observe the prohibition law. No threats are being made, it is un- derstood, but the officers of the clubs are being urged, as a better means, tc have their prominent members show a good example to the member- ship, with the idea of making the clubs “bone dry.” The agent has had no relations with federal or'other prohibition officers stationed here, A “white list” is sald to have taken form upon which is entered clubs that are shown to be 100 per cént dry. E) It had been expected that Maj. Bal- dinger would be assigned to duty out- side of Washington. There was talk of a clash between Col. Sherrill and Maj. Baldinger, acting for Mrs. Hard- ing, over arrangements made at the time of President Harding's funeral. GIVEN MEXICO DETAIL. Lieut. Col. Russell to Be Attache. at American Embassy. Lieut. Col. George M. Russell, gen- eral staff, at Fort Sam 'Houston, Tex., has been detailed as military attache at the United States embassy, Mexico City, Mexico. He will relieve .Col. Francis LeJ. Parker, general staff, Wwho has been ordered to this city for duty in G-2, War De ent, gen- eral staff. Col. Russell is ordered to this city to_receive instrustions be- fore proceeding to Mexico City. Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION B SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, BETTER f DETOUR. "BOTH oL ROAD. ARE IN !‘A ME ciubineN MAY ASK MCRAY T0 RESIGN OFFICE Indiana G.\ 0. P. to Decide Next Saturday, as Governor Shows Defiance. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, September Whether Gov. McCray should be asked to resign as a result of his financial difficulties will be a question sub- mitted to the republican state com- mittee at a’ meéting to be held here mext Saturday at 10 am., ac- cording to reports in well informed republican circles today. The call for the meeting of the state committes was ispued Friday mid- night by Clyde A. Walb, state chair- 22.— man, 2olloWing a series of conferences i participated in by such republican leaders as Harry S. New, ' Post: master Genéral; United States Sena- tor James E. Watson, Joseph B. Keel- ing, republican national committee- man from Indiana, and James P. Goodrich, former Governor of Indi- ana. Gov. McCray is understood ito have been informed of the movement Fri- day afternoon at a conference with Senator Watson and the other repub- lican leaders. Later he expressed his determination to remain in office. Creditors Wil Be Pald. “T'll not resign,” the governor declared. I have done nothing wrong. _All' my creditors will be pald if they will onl{ glve me a little time and there will be plenty left for e The first public information that the governor was in financial dis- tress came recently when he called a meeting of his creditors to be held at a hotel here. Before his creditors he made a statement proposing to turn over to them holdings which he values at $3,323,417 to be liquidated or managed so as to meet his obli: gations, which he listed at $2,652,- 682. A creditors’ committee has been named and a trustee appointed to handle the governor's properties. BEES JUDGE 10 PUT SONBAGKINPRISON Mother Wants Boy to Stay in Jail Unfil He Learns His Lesson. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, September 22.— “Judge, send my son.back to peni- tentiary—he hasn't learned his les- son in good citizenship yet.” This appeal was made today by Mrs. Alice Devlin, mother of Leo Devlin, when the youth was ar- raigned before Magistrate Lindell on a charge of highway robbery. Devlin, was arrested last night by Patrolman Katzler after the youth had attempted to rob Joseph Hedge. Katzler, seeing Hedge facing the robber's revoiver, chased the latter until he caught-him. Devlin didn't surrender, however, until after a struggle with the policeman. who re. ceived a broken finger in the fight. At the hearing it developed that Devlin had been released on parole from the Eastern penitentiary after serving two years of a three-year sentence for highway robbery. When this was brought out, the prisoner's mother, her face seamed with care and worry and her cheeks stained with terrs, begged Magistrate Lindell to listen to her plea. “What is {t?" the magistrate asked. +I want to ask you to ‘send Leo back to the pen, said Mrs. Deviin. “He is out on parole.and he has shown he doesn’t appreciate what the authorities have done for him. ' He still_has his lesson to learn. Please send him back to prison immediately, udze. 3 d Siagistiate Lindefll expisinéd ‘that] the prisoner was charged with a new crime and would have to stand trial before being recommitted to the penitentlary. BANDITS GET $3,067 PAY ROLL BALTIMORE, Md., September 22— Two bandits held up George H. How- kins, paymaster of the Willlam ‘Wilkens & Co. hair factory at Fred- erick' avenue and Wilkens street, southwest Baltimore, this morning, and robbed him of :l.ocg‘.‘m com. pany's weekly roll. 6 robbers escaped. An oflu of the company said the loss was covered by insur- .ance. R 207 e g Can’t Let Work Stop Golf Play, Husband Holds By the Associated Pre: YONKERS, N. Y., September 22. Michael Rohaly, twenty-four, when arraigned before Judge Boote, charged by his wife with failure to support her, told the court that he was too busy playing golf to earn money. “But some day. win a championship on and earn fame and fortune. need to practice all the time.” Judge Boote thought differently and set the case down for hearing Sunday. “But that's my best golfing day,” Rohaly remonstrated. The case was changed to Fri- day, and Rohaly ordered to earn some money in the meantime. WOMAN SOLE HEIR 1020 MILLIONS Vast Key Estate in Heart of New York City for Mrs. W. G. Mahone, Atlanta. he said. “I may the links 1 Special Dispatch to The Star. ATLANTA, September 22.—A for- tune of twenty millions, twice re- fused by members of the Key family, at last has found a claimant in At- lanta. Mrs. W. G. Mahone, eighty- three years old, of 33 Westwood ave- nue, has virtually established her right as the sole living heir to the tremendous Key estate in the heart of New York city. Mrs, Mahone's daughter, Mrs. J. C. Brinkley, has just retucned from New York, where she interviewed lawyers In the case, among them former President Tatt. Mrs. Brinkley says that business interests now control- ling the property are seeking a com- promise with Mrs. Mahone. Mra. Mahone 15 & daughter of Caleb Key, formerly presiding elder of the Augusta, Ga.. district of the Method- fat " Church, "and granddaughter of Johrt Key, whose father received a jand grant from the King of England. At ¥he death of the original Key, the land was left to two sons, John and ‘Wilitam. Records _show that they never divided it, but attended to the business of the estate jointly. Sohn_ Key had a son Caleb. who migrated to Georgia and becime a Methodist minister. After John and Willlam- aled, Caleb, who “was the only helr, wrote to the administrators hat he was happy In his work, had though to live on and did not want the New York estate. This letter and Sihers of the same kind are still in existence and in the hands of lawyers in the case. . Meanwhile, a ninety-nine-year lease on the property, under which New York business men had erected sky- sorapers ’and - factorles, expired. Records show that Caleb Key ignored repeated Wnd insistent letters of ad- ministrators that he attend to the Tenewal of the lease. Some arrange. ment was made, however, through the administrators. 1%9A¢ his death Caleb Key left the ! property to his son, Joseph, and his Suaghter, Belle (Mrs. W. G. Mahone). A younger daughter had died when a girl, Joseph had gone to Texas as a- Methodist minister, had_married a 1Soung woman . who owned many Jacres of il lands and \as thersfors Wealthy. _ Belle had married Wi G. Mahono of Atlanta and also was “pretty well off,” as she said. Fortune Goes Begging. Nelther of the two helrs seemed o realize that a fortune equal to {the Tansom of kings was waiting for them in the heart of New York |city. Joseph Key. jbecame a -bishop, was busy- with af- ifairs in Texas,. Mrs. Mahone was ecupied in caring for her family of | Seven children ang furnishing & win- ter home in Florida. While the Key fortune went beg- ging, the big business Interests in | New York which owned the build- {hes remewed the leases with the adiainistrators and erected other Dulldings. One of the structures is 2 great Hotel, another ‘a mlant office butiding-and- another a well known church. s The death of Mr. Mahone in Atlanta left his family in sreatly reduced circumstances. - Mrs. Mahone wrote fier ‘brother in. Texas, asking how She cogld get some money from the New York ‘estate and he wrote back that she could have the whole thing. “Take it he said. "I have emough for myself, sister, and my wife is independent. FIRST GAME CALLED OFF. The first game of the double-header scheduled between the Nationals and Cleveland Indians today was called oft on account of rain, but a single engagement, starting -at 3:30, was planned, weather permitting. A double-header is slated. for to- morrow, starting: at 2 o'clock,. - who. afterward | | t | ny Sta 1923 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes . as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 91,110 » TWO CENTS. LOWER LK PR SEEN BY FOWLER Health Officer Thinks War Between Dealer and Farmer May Bring Cut. A reduction in the retall price of milk In Washington next month was suggested today by Health Officer W. C. Fowler as a possible development it the war between distributors and producers continues. ' Dr. Fowler, who has followed the controversy closely, pointed out today thet If both sides carry out their an- nounced plans there is likely to be a surplus of milk in this territory after October 1. He admitted that he had no Information of a proposed cut in price, but he-cited this aspect of the situation: “The local distributers. who are un- willing to buy through the producers’ assoclation, say they have other sources from which to get an ample| supply of milk. The producers say that they are prepared to deliver their milk in Washington, anyhow, if the| local dealers do not take it “If such a situation should develop competition wi petition would be keen and might | ot lead to a change in prices.” Dealers Are Silent. Neither the local dealers nor the Maryland and “Virginia producers, who are at loggerheads over a new contract, have as yet given any in- timation of a lower price. - There were no outstanding “new developments in the controversy to- day. The distributors are said to be going forward with their plans to get milk from farms outside the producers’ association. Although the health department has not yet issued temporary per- mits to new producers to ship to ‘Washington, a large number of ap- plication blanks have been called for and it is generally expected that they will be returned to Dr. Fowler for approval before October 1. The health officer said today that if such applications are received showing the cattle have been tuber- culin tested temporary permits will Ibe issued promptly, pending inspec- tion of the farms. If the inspection satisfies the health | Frial. office the farms are properly equipped permanent permits will be issued. BULGARIA IN GRIP OF MARTIAL LAW Reports of Provisional Revo- lutionary ~ Government - Strongly Denied. By the Associated Preas. PARIS, September 22.—Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Bul- garia, according to a dispatch receiv- ed by the Bulgarian legation here. The legation announced that it had recelved an absolute denial from Sofia of reports that a provisional revolutionary government had been proclaimed in ‘some parts of the country. According 10 the official version outbreaks are confined to southern Bulgaria. e e CHINA REFUSES RUSSIAN RECOGNITION DEMAND Declines .to Discuss Any Questions Before Opening of Conference. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. \ PEKING, September 22.—Demands of the Rus delegation to the Sino- Russ conference that China recognize the Moscow government immediately or no conference will be held, have been rejected by Dr. C. T. Wang, head of the Chinese delegation, with a refusal to discuss any matters scheduled to come before the confer- ence until the mesting actually open: Dr. Wang's attitude is reparded as signitying 's readiness to drop all further negotiations with the so- | | | | | testified, should have been transferred | | morning [lated in detail the arrival of the bo. | nis_agony. | the courtroom, broke into tears. ! Cruelty to Bean Laid to Stores by Humane Body By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sep- tember 22.—What constitutes cru- elty to a bean? The Santa Bar- bara Humane Soclety has entered a fight to settle the question. Merchants here have offered “Mexican jumping beans’—Ilar- vae-infested legumes — for , sale and, to instill energy into the in- sects which dwell within, have placed their displays in hot sun- shine. The result is somewhat similar to the inside of a popcorn popper. Now the humane soclety holds that exposing the larvae to sun- shine s cruelty in the worst form and has started a campaign to prevent the exploitation of the beans. The state humane society has been asked to decide the contro- versy. LEGLESS SOLDIER INPROPERLY CARED - FOR, SAYSCAPTAIN Witness in Court-Martial of Maj. Cook Says Case Poorly Handled. Capt. James R. Bibighaus, Medical Corps, U. 8. Army, today told a gen- | eral court-martial at the munitions | building before which Maj. George W. Cook, Medical Corps, is being trled for malpractice, that, in his opinion as a doctor, he felt that Pri- vate Guy Pendleton, suffering with a fracture of both legs, should have been sent to a general hospital “at; the start.” ! Private Pendleton, Capt. Bibighaus | to a general hospital on account of | his “fracture of femur by-lateral.”| The boy, Capt. Bibighaus sald, was in such condition that only at two | particular times in his treatment could he have been removed to a! general hospital, viz,, shortly after he | recovered from shock and many | weeks later, when he was finally re- moved to Walter Reed Hospital, here. Charged With Fallure to Aect. the specifications in | charged aganist Maj. Cook by me‘[ prosecution alleges fallure .of the, Army doctor to transfer the patient, who later lost both his legs here by amputation, from the station hospital at Fort Eustls, Va. where he was| first taken to a general hospital | Questioned by Albert W. Kenner, | Medical Corps, for the prosecution. Capt. Bitighaus said he thought the | boy should have been transferred (0‘ a general hospital because such al fracture “calls for skill over and above ed by the general medical One of the | man.” | Capt. Bibighaus, in describing the | treatment accorded Privite Pendleton at the Fort Eustis Hospltal, where he was on duty at the time, said that| when the posterior plaster of paris shelis | in which the patient’s legs had been resting were removed ey were found | to have ‘buckled.” This buckling, the | captain explained, had raised a ridge | in each of the shells. Asked if he could account for this buckling, the physician declared he could mot. He did not know, he said, how the shells had been prepared, nor who had pre- pared them. Previous testimony by Private Pen- | dleton himself and nurses from the | hospital had revealed that when Pen- | dleton’s legs were removed from these casts sores developed on the calf of | each leg which gradually grew worse | until his transfer finally to Walter Reed General Hospital. Capt. Bibighaus testified that the boy had first been attended in the operating room at the hospital by Maj. Cook, the accused in this case, | and Capt. Samuel C. Gwynn, whose trial under similar charges place at the conclusion of Ma. Careful examination of the boy's! feet during the time his legs were | in these piaster of | paris shells had | failed to reveal, Capt. Bibighaus tes- | tified, any Indication that anything| was wrong farther up his leg. Capt. Bibighaus sald that when Private Pendleton was finally moved to Walter Reed Hospital “he was stronger physically than for some time, less septic than for some weeks | prior, mentally and emotionally far|y, better, and suffering far less pain.” Pathetic Touch Added. A touch of pathos was added to the business-like trial court martial this | when Capt. Bibighaus re. at the hospital when he suffered | “excrutiating pain” and cried out in The boy's mother, seated beside her son in his wheel ¢hair in Miss Alice M. Tappan, chief nurse at Fort Eustis, told the court today what she knew’ of Private Pendleton’s | case, explaining that when one of the nurses under her, Miss Julia Mc- Kenna, who testified yesterday, com- plained of too much responsibility in the Pendleton case and asked to be relieved of making the dressing: Maj. Cook had been notified. When | she had asked Maj. Cook if he wanted the" chief. nurse: to put on a night| nurse in the Pendleton case, Miss Tappan testifled, Maj. Cook said he did not “think it was necessary. When | first admitted the boy with the broken legs was considered by the chief nurse as an ordinary fractured case, she said, but after it was dressed fol- lowing removal of the plaster of paris shells she said. she considered it a| “very serious fracture case.” TWO BANKS INSOLVENT IN SAME INDIANA TOWN Institutions in Crothersville Face Losses of $100,000—Receiver to Be Asked. L By the Associated Press. + SEYMOUR, Ind. September ‘The Crothersville State Bank and the Citizens' State Bank, two institutions | at Crothersville, a town twelve miles south of here, are insolvent, and ap- pointment of a receiver will be asked, Thomas Barr, deputy commissioner of la twenty | gun or an automatic in France 1are all slow speaking, STATE LEGISLATORS SAY BULLETS ONLY CANSTOP MEETING Young Oklahoma Lawmakers Confident They Will Im- peach Walton. GOVERNOR DETERMINED TO PREVENT A MEETING Says Session Will Be Klan Gath- ering—Highest X. K. K. 0f- ficial Arrested. Special Dispatch to The Star. OKLAHOMA CITY, September 22. Only bullets or bayonets will prevent the legislature of Oklahoma from convening in extraordinary session Wednesday to start an investigation not only of gang floggings in this state, but also an investigation of Gov. Walton’s administration; unless there is a backdown before that time either by the Walton or the anti- Walton forces. That was the statement mate after four-hour session of the legislative committee, headed by W. D. McBee, which adjourned at 2 o'clock Saturday morning. By that time the ranks of the house members already here, who are determined to in- vestigate not only gang floggings but the Walton administration, had been swelled to more than a score. They are bronzed, determined set of men. That their numbers will be increased by Wednesday was made evident by the telegrams which pour- ed in today. A message from Repre- sentative Wesley Gage of Sapulpa, Creek county, said. “Ride "em, cowboy Stay with it. Will be on deck for the finish. Wesley Gage.” It was typical of the others. Mostly Young Men. Most of them are young men, ex- cept for a grizzled ranger here and there. None looks more than forty at most. Many are in their twenties or early thirties, and of the latter there are few who did not carry a They with a south- ern drawl that somehow impresses un outsider the more strongly with their stern purposefulness. . There are two or three who look to be mere boys, but there was little levity during the long hours of the session Any tendency to break the tension was modified by the realization that there may be serious trouble if Wal- ton holds to his avowed statement, quietly but forcefully made, that “there will be no meeting of the leg- islature.” Even the older men of the legis- lators are young, as time goes in state politics, for it must be remem- bered that the state of Oklahoma is one of the three bables of the nation in commonwealth sovereignty, being senior only to New Mexico and Ari- zona. Walton Determined. To Walton, at his usual evenipg conference on ay, was carried news that the legislators would meet at any cost. The governor grew tense and bit out the two words “They won't." He then turned the subject to teles graphic congratulations on his stand he said he had received from Wash- ington, New York, Phoenix, Ariz., and s. He got a good laugh one of the newspaper men 2 him if it was true that the state militia had stopped his machine twice the night before and had made him prove he had a right to be out after midnight. He turned to the writer, who happened to have been with him when the incident occurred, and said: “That's what I get for be- ing in that kind of compan: That was the first time, according to those who have seen him daily for a week, that he has thrown off the res which he said today were “mak- ing him jumg Both Sides Worried. In the matter of convening the legislature, however, much of the con- fidence shown by both sides Is on the surface. Nevertheless, it plainly worries both the pros and the antis. Legislative leaders naturally are hoping that Walton will weaken at the last minute, call the legislature and fight it out with them. as_was the case with Sulzer in New York. pointed also to the Ferguson in Texas in this connection uson called the legislature, and gned almost immediately, thus alling impeachment proceedings and now he is back again in the policial market In the event, how Walton stands firm, legisla agdvisers say that under the state constitution the legislature has the power of in- quiry and that it will be as a legis- lative body of inquiry that it is In- tended to meet. The determination to have grown sfronger plan first was broached. but two of the older members are known faintly to have ur that if the members are turned back physically from the capitol building it would be better to disperse peaceably and gather elsewhere. This argument so far has fal being set out that papers and a necessary to such A proceeding are accessible only at the statehouse and that much of the dignity of the proceedings would be lost the_sessions were not held e tentative plan is for the mem- ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) DISTILLERY SEIZURE 10 FOLLOW THEFT U. S. Orders Two Be Held Pending Probe of $2,000,- 000 Robbery in St. Louis. ver, that to meet seems since the one or The internal revenue collector at St. Louis ,was today ordered to seize the warehouses of the Jack Daniel Distillery and “the Parker Distilling the Indiana state banking depart- ment, announced today. The two banks face losses of approximately $100,000, Mr. Barr sajd. Company pending investigation of the theft of approximately two mil- llon dollars of whisky from both Dplaces.