Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1923, Page 1

“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is deliverced to Washington homes WEATHER. Flair tonight and tomorrow; continued cool. TR, 7 Temperature for twonty-four “hours ended at 2 pan. today: ~High 10, at 3:30 pam. yesterday; lowest, 4§, at 6:30 a.m, today. Full report on page 12. 1} 1 g M. Y. Stocs 29,007, g No. GERMANS REVOLT, ATTACKING FORT; GENSORSHIP - HIDES TOTTERING REICH Nationalists in Attempt to Disarm Garrison at Kues- trin, Near Berlin, Repulsed; and Leaders Imprisoned. ! | TROOPS ARE MOBILIZED; MINISTRY NEAR BREAK | » General Uprising Reported Un- avoidable, With Warlike Atti- tude of Populace Increasing—So- cialists Threaten to Quit Cabinet Because of Stand on Bavaria. | By tie Associated Press. 1 LONDON, October 1.—A rev- olutionary movemeut, originated by nationalist organizations, has | broken out at Kuestrin, fifty miles from Berlin, says a Reu- ter’s dispatch from the German capitai. The' insurgents attempted to disarm the garrison and occupy the fortress, but the commander | of the reichswehr arrested the | nationalist leaders and drove! back the attackers. i Reichswehr Summoned. Detachments of reichswehr from | neighboring towns have been sum- moned to Kuestrin, the dispatch adds, and the troops have been crdered to ! suppress the revolt ruthlessly. As { | a result of the insurrection, Dr. Ge! sler, the minister of defense, has im- Poséd a censorship on all news of a wilitary chasaeter. Kuestrin, a city of approximately 20,000 inhabitants is located in Bran- denburg. The chief industries are the manufactyre of copper and brass ware. Profound apxiety and doubt as to the maintenance of the unity of the German reich is expressed in die- patches by British newspaper cor- respondents in Berla, v General Revelt, Feared. “It appears at the.moment that nothing but a miracle ‘ean hold the reich together much longer," says one correspondent, and his view is sup- worted by several others. A break by .lavaria 1s written of not as a possi- Jllity, but almost a certainty, an opinion which is strengthened by the remarkable royalist demonstration that took place in Munich on Sunday when Prince Rupprecht and his wife, attending a military memorial cere- mony, are reported to have been ac- clatmed with frantic shouts of “Long live our king and queen!” The central government, the dis- patches say, is inwrigued against not only by the natfonalists but by the socialists, and according to some o1 the writers the cablnet shows signs Yf immedlate disintegration. ! CABINET CRISIS NEARS. 1 B the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 1.—A German par- liamentary crisis is pyedicted toda Political ‘circles say/the socialists will withdraw from the government as a protest against the manmer the party has been discriminated against in Bavaria, and that Chancellor Stresemann will form a purely bour- geols cabinet, retaining the chan- cellorship. * A censorship has been imposed on all military news sent from Germany. FRENCH TROOPS ON GUARD. By tho Associated Pres: { DUESSELDORF, October 1.—French | troops are patrolling the streets of| Duesseldorf -today, baving assumed the entire responsibility of maintain- ing order. A formal state of siege Thias not been declared, but the cur- few law, closing activitios from 11 pam. to 5 am., is being rigidly en- forced. These measures have been deemed necessary as a result of yes- torday's outbreak at a separatist neeting, resulting in the killing of half a ecore of Germans and the woumding of many others, the French finally intervening. A “easualty list shows that ten persons were kill ind more than 200 serlously wound- | ed. Probably ~another 100 were slightly injured. The French still hold all the se- curity police In a state of arrest pending a decision as to their r sponsibility for vesterday's violence. Their investigation so far has shown that the police on duty were men aoting under proper authorization d - that' no outside “police parti ipated in the trouble, as some of the reports have had it Outward quiet’ had been restored today, but nervousness was in evi- dence among the population. The German version of the out- hreak at a separatist meeting vester- day maintains that the security po- | lice, whom the French hold responsi- Tile for starting the shooting, made no move until a civillan policeman had been killed by the separatist “self-protection. | This force, says a statement issued | Ly the city authorities, attacked the | ‘bive policeman, took away his sword | und had begun to beat him when the compiled today wecurity police appeared. Thereupon a shot was fired, the Germans allege, from the ranks of the separatists. This brought out the rest of the green force and the pitched battle Tollowed. Friends of the Rhineland separatist sovement had made’ extensive prep- aretions for yesterday's meeting and twenty-five train loads of “Rhineland yopublicans” came Into the city from yarious Rhineland communities. Jorming in.a great proecession, the Gémonstrators, numbering about 15,000 but argumented to 40,000 from ihe ranks of the cyrious, marched to the Hinderburgstrasse, where the | separatist . leader Joseph . Matthes DLegan a speech. e had sald scarce- 1y more thah & dozen words when everal shots were fired. As a small xroup made a rush for Herr Matthes The security police fired a volley. The shooting then became general, caus- ¢ ing the dispatch of French trogps to the scene. - Accerding to the nch officers, the security police refused to obey their orders to cease fire, where- upon French cavalry surrounded the yolice barracks and after taking sev- (Continued of 24 Columa. 4 | world's | the recent cataclysm in Japan, said IR FIGHTS GALE j of her trip to St. Louls, where her air and Bonds, Page 25 Entarea as second-class piarter post_office Washington, D Finds Mountains “Marching” Over American Continents Dr. Bailey Willis, B ack From Clule In- quiry, Says Range Movements Cause of Disastrous Vast geological changes, in the course of which the Andes moun- tains slowly are being pushed east- ward over Argentina, and the Cali- fornla coast ranges forced steadlly northward, are in progress as a re- sult of irresistible pressure exerted | from within the earth, beneath meJ Pacific deep. offering ample explana- tion for recent disastrous earth- quakes, Dr. Bailey Willls, one of the | leading geologists, has dis- | covered. | Dr. Willis, who is professor emeri- | tus of geology at Leland Stanford | University, has just returned from | South America, where he was sent | by the Carnegie Institition of Wash- ington to study the earthquake that rocked Chile last year, killing more than 800 persons and destroying property worth millions of dollars. He {8 in- Washington to submit his report to the institution. Expects More Shocks. Both the Chilean earthquake and Dr. Willfg, were due to the process of geological changes, and many more equally serious seismic disturbances | may be expected for generations to come. They may never cease, he add- ¢d, and pointed out that man must | learn to construct houses capable of withstanding seismic vibrations If he (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ON T LOU TRP Mékes But 17 Knots an Hour" Against Strong Head Wind. Air Proves “Bumpy.” By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa. October 1.— The dirigible ZR-1 passed over Har-| risburg at 11:20 am. tod: Strony head winds were encoun- tered by the ZR-1 from the beginning of her jourmey early today from Lakehurst to St. Louis, the naval bu- reau of gerenautics was advised by radio from the big dirigible, As a result, speed was decreased by more than 60 per cent of her cruising speed. At 8 am. the dirigible was 3.000 feet over Mount Holly, N. J, with her eix engines turning up forty-one knots, but, because of adverse winds, with a “ground speed” of only sev-| enteen knots. The air continued bumpy” as the ship pushed west. Word was received at the air sta- tion from St. Louls that it would be impossible for the ZR-1 to land there tomorrow morning because of’ ad- verse weather conditions. This news was wirelessed to the dirigible while it was flying over Reading, Pa. Commander J. H. Klein, jr, chief executive officer at the alr station, sald he believed the airship would fly over St. Louls tomorrow until the | weather permitted a landing or else it would make a non-stop fiight, re- turning at once to its home station. STARTS AT 6:59. ZR-1 Carrying Crew to St. Louis for Part-in Air Races. By the Associated Prees. LAKEHURST, N. J, October 1.— Uncle Sam's newest and largest air| leviation, the ZR-1, left here at 6:69 o'clock this morning on the first leg Navy crew will pnruclgnte in the in- ternational air races which begin next | Thursday. { Jt \was not yet dawn <when the ground crew of the big naval dirig- | ible warped her out of the hangar | and pald out the cables until she had | reached an altitude of 1,000 feet. Me- chanics and officers spent more than an hour in a final inspection before overything was pronounced in perfect trim. At the thousand-foot elevation the | ZR-1 encountered ,a thirty-five-mile northwest wind. As she turned her nose to the west Commander Frank- R, McCrary sent a wireless message to the ground, say- ing: “On way to St. Louis and return, Flying 2,000 feet altitude. Speed forty-four knots. Among_the forty-two officers and men in the crew is Col. C. G. Hall of the United States Army, who is on board as an observer for the Army. The ZR-1 is acheduled to pass Read- ing, Pa., at 10 o'clock, Pittsburgh, at 1; Columbus, 4; Dayton. 5, and Cin- cinnati 7. From Cincinnatl the big ship it to go slower than on the day- light part of the journey and fs-ex- pected to arrive in St. Louis not farlier than 7 o'clock tomorrow morn- ¢ ing. 1 HUSBAND OF LEOPOLD’S DAUGHTER DIES IN PARIS Count Mattaschich Eloped Thirty} ‘Years Ago Wlth_rxjncess Louise of Belgium. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, October 1.—Count Geza. Mettaschich, who thirty years ago cloped with Princess Loulse, daugh- ter of King Leopold II of Belgium, is ead here. The count and the prin- ead arrived tn Paris five weeks ago Snd. were living In obscurity -in -an Out-of-the-way - hotel in the center ¢ the oity. ©f e Drinicess s heartbroken : and refuses to see visitors. TROTSKY ASSURES U. S.. INTERESTS OF RESPECT By the Associated Press. LONDON, «October 1.—A Reuter dispatch from Moscow Qquotes Min- jster of War Trotsky as ing in Teply to &' auestion: “As long as private property exists in America Rimerican intercsts in Russia will be T it the Saviata. i) he tere In o 5 e aer L rupuiously kept. :}con':m be “suicidal.” Toctober 1. Earthquakes.. New Shocks In Japan; California Is. Shaken By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, October 1.— Seven earthquakes oceurred shortly Before 6 o'clock yesterday. Tel- ephone messages from Osaka stated that the tremors caused a swmall panic there, although mo mention was made of any actual damege belng moon today. LONDON, Weat Bromwich seiwmograp! 1125 o'clock yesterday morning recorded a severe earthquake. The diaturbance probably was . about 1,500 miles distant. DENVER, October 1.— An earthquake of mevere intensity wan recorded on the nclamo. graph at_Regis College heve a @138 o’clock Saturday night. The graphs indicated a shock mearly as great as those record. ed by the recent earthquake i Japun, Father Forestall sald. CALEXICO, Calif., October 1. —A light _earthquake shock traversed the Imperial valley, both above and below the Mex- fean border, yesterzay. No @umage was done. RAILBROTHERHOODS DEMAND PAY RAISE Engineers and Firemen Re-| quire Restoration of 1920 Wage Schedules. By tie Associated Press. CLEVELAND, October 1.—Wage in-| crease requests for restoration of schedules in effect before the ap- proximately 12% perccnt reduction handed down by the United States railroad labor board on July 1, 1921, were being presented to many rail roads throughout ‘the country today by representatives of the Brotherhopd of Locomotive Engineers and Broth- érhood of Locomotive Firomen Enginemen, ‘here contracts Joint action was being tuken in many fnstances. This became khown today with th announcemént by Warren S. Storne, president of the engineers, that & cireular of instructions had been malled to the general chairman and secretary-treasurer ©of all general committees of adjustment of the en- gineers’ brotherhood, instructing them to “service the required thirty days’ notice on their respective man- agements at the expiration of the present schedule.” The ‘instructions are that the thirty S days' notice be served on all roads| where the present schedules expire on or before October 1, 1923, not later than today, asking for a restoration of the reduction in wages and placing 2 day’s minimum wage at $8. The engineers' circular of instrus tion reads in part as follo: At the time you serve the required thirty days’ notloe of your desire to open your schedule present the following { articles: “(1.) That all rates in effect under decision No. 2, United States Ratlroad Labor Board, effective as of May 1. 1920, and applicable to locomotive engineers be restored in their en- tirety. “(2) In all classes of service the earnings of engineers from mileage, overtime and other regulations &p- plicable for each day's service per- formed shall ‘not be less than eight dollars ($8) per day.” “Wherever you are working jointly with firemen or have & joint schedule we would recommend that you take the matter up with their general com- manding chairman and work in con- junction with them,” the inetructions conclude. ‘With the engineers. jolning in the increased wage movement all. four transportation brotherhoods have in- itiated movements for wage increase: The Brotherhood of Railroad Train men and Order of Railway Conduc tors took joint action here last week favoring a request for an increase ranging from 12 to 15 per cent. This action followed a referendum vote of members of the two brotherhoods, Circulars of Instruction to general chairmen of these two brotherhoods ! will be malled out this week, and the requests presented to the' rail- out the coun - Tober 10, & }i¥en 0o The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen sent out a clrcular of instructions on Soptember 11 to chalirmen of its general griev- ance committees instructing them to present requests, as contracts expir for restoration of the 123 per cent . cut handed down by the United States Rajiroad Labor Board on July 1, 1921 D. B. Robertson, president, sald today. SHIPS IN COLLISION REACH LIVERPOOL By the Associataf Press. LIVERPOOL, October 1.—The White Star lner Cedric and the Cunarder Scythla, which collided’ during a dense fog Yesterday off south Ireland, arrived in the Mersey today, the Ced- ric having continued her inward-bound voyage from New 'York and the Scythia, outward bound, for Boston, putting back. The Cunarder has a starboard side forward, wide and twelve to fi above the waterline. had a list as :::fn'fygut‘t":h"’ The Cedris ape of the cargo. The ap- was not so badly damaged. Thers. were several :narrow. escapes among 'the , many of whom on both liners Were: on the. decks rent in her elfht feet n feet deep, ‘whenthe .collisfon cccurred. e WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION : _ WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1923—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. D.C..GUARD ARMORY 0°E SOUGHT WHEN . CONGRESS MEETS Gen. Stephan Launches Drive to Obtain Adequate Build- ing for Militia. PROPOSES STRUCTURE | | TO HOUSE MANY BODIES | fWould Have Room for Patriotic| «nd Veteran llee_tings—stlrtl Formation of Committee. Provision for gn’ armory in this city for the National Guard of the | District of Columbia is to be actively | sought from the coming session of Congress. The machinery to bring about the authority for such a structure, which | would be designated as a memortal | for the soldiers and sailors of the| city who sacrificed their lives during | the wars of the United States, was | started today when Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the District of Columbia Militia, sent letters to heads of civic and patriotic bodies asking | them to name two members each for 2 joint committee which will meet this month to discuss ways and u | means for obtaining the structure. | Would House Many Activities. | | 1n addition to providing much-| needed housing for the troops com- | posing the National Guard of thel District of Columbia, the forces of which are increaging monthly, it is proposed now, according to Gen. { Stephan, to provide quarters in it | for the various veteran organizations! fand to make it available to the fed-| cral government for assemblies and | functions of a national and interna-! 1 character, i years there have been ef- s to have C ss provide ad armory facilities for the local Guard, but without result. organizations have been forced {into rented buildings entirely unsuit- led for the work of training forces for war. There could be no more fitting memorial to those who lost their lives in the wars than to erect a building in which the youth of the day would be trained for service in war, and where the veterans whose buddies had been killed could hold their meet- {ings, aid Gen. Stephan. The present armory facilities are alveady cramped, und plaus.Dnow are Deing miade the crganization of s0ditionsl umits, including a military pollce company and a battalion of ast artillers. Many times the local {itard has been unabie to take federal | government equipment because there! as no adequate place to keep it. ! ‘Will Head 20th Division, 1t is the intention of Gen. Stephan to form a powerful committee of lo- cal and civic veterans' organizations to push the proposal before the next sesslon of Congress. In addition to the uses already stated, it will be the headquarters for the 29th Natlonal] Guerd Division, comprising all of the organized troops of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. { Gen. Stephan seon will bdcome com- nding general of the 29th Division, | rith headquarters in this city. The fact that this will be the headquar- ters for that unit {s expected to bring to the proposed committee in its ei- forts the support of the congressional | delegations of Maryland and Virginia, backed by the military units of those two states. The letters asking for appointment of committeemen were sent today by Gen. Stephan to the heads of the City, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and Civitan clubs, Disabled Veterans of Foreign Milltary Order of the World deration of Citizens" Associa- n Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Assoclation. As soon as Gen. Stephan recelves the names of those deslgnated to work for the ar- mory he will call a meeting for the purpose of organization and then will Ta¥ is plana for getting the armory provided for at the next session of Congress. WILL QUIZ WEBB N DEATH F WIE { Analysis Demanded to Deter- mine if Society Woman i Died of Poison. By the Associated Press. NEW TYORK, October 1.—Charles ‘Webb, whose wife, Mrs, Gertrude E. Gorman Webb, wealthy New York and Philadelphia society woman, died at the Westchester-Biltmore = Country Club, in Rye, N. Y., last Tuesday, will be questioned today at police head- quarters here regarding the causes of her death. Mrs. Webb's relatives have insisted that an analysis of the dead woman's kidneys be made to discover if she was a victim of poisoning. She first became {1l over a month ago .and| gradually grew worse, while a num-| ber of physicians were at a loss to ‘alagnose her disease. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam T. Hunter of Devon, Pa., who were with Mrs. Webb when she died, charged that she was the victim of slow poisoning, admin- istered over period of at least a month. The symptoms of which she com- plained, the Hunters said, were iden. tical with those suffered by her mother, who died just before the Webb marriage last November. The 'mother had strongly objected to/ Webb's courtship, they added. ’ Although the chemical analysis has not been completed. Coroner ald announced last night that he reparing . to make an inv ¢ the findings warranted. Mre, Webb left an estate estim: “between $2; and M . Webb ull' wfll,n‘g‘ made a ne; jeath. The previous will | posed of her estate among' relatives. fa body |n | eSS st UPREME COURT 1Is Set at 103,000; OPENS FALL TERM Convenes, Hears Motions and Then Calls on President. Heavy Docket Awaits. The Supreme Court of the United States, meceting tos for its new term after a recess since last June, found & heavy docket awaiting its attention. All of the justices returned to their seats upon the bench much refreshed by the vacation rest, and Jus- tices MeKenna and Holmes, the two egenior members, when they were ment, seemed well prepared for their exacting labors. Only motjon admission to pra: wefé in ordér toda receiving them baving declded to ad- journ in order fo call at the White ‘I;au <e to pay Its respects to the Pres. ent. incloding those for before the court, the eourt after Call at White House. It was the first time th has met President Cooclidge. much ceremony in the visit. The President received the court in the historic ezet room. There it lined up in a horseshoe, with the Chief Justica at one end and the jus- tices following in the order of‘senior- ity. Reginning at the end where the Chief Justice stood, President Coolidge passed aleng the' line, giving each member o handshake and expressing his pleasure upon the justices’ return from_thelr vacation strengthened in There i court will hear arguments to- morrow, the call peginning with the first case on the appellate docket, and it hopes to dispose of the first thirty !during the week, several of them be- ing noted for dismissal on motion -by counsel and & number being listed to be submitted to the court without oral argument. 380 Cases Are Pending. A total of 580 cases are awaiting disposition. Of these 368 were brought over from the last term, which ended in June. During the recess slightly in excess of 200 cases were docketed, most of them requests for permission to bring up for review cases disposed of in lower courts which could not be brought up as a matter of right under writs of error. When the court adjourned last June it carried over under advisement twenty cases in which the court's de- cision may be expectad any time after it _reaches its first opinion day, Oc- tober 8, Four present attacks upon the constitutionality of the alien land Jaws of California and Washington, four question the taxability of so- called “Massachusetts trusts’ under federal statutes, and the others in- clude controversies arising out of the use of water of Bitter creek, Wyo- ming, for irrigation purposes; what counties may do with money. paid them by the federal government under forest reserve laws; North Da- kota’s claim agalnst Minnesota for damages growing:out. of:flood condi- tions along the Bois de- Sioux river, ete. West Virginia wants to reopen the cases brought against it by Ohlo and | Penneylvania, in which the court held that West Virginia could not impose { restrictions upon the quantity of nat- ural gas which could be pumped into other states from wells located with- in_its borders. The government wants the court to review its construction of. North Car- olina statutes—in a case - brought against the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, in which the court sus- tained the contention that a state could pauthorize-its banks 1o impose a_colfection charge in the cashing of checks drawn upon them. also have the *“ key” Arnstein case reopened, contending that the deci- sion _rendered jin it by the court last ~{Continued on Page Tamn 2.) PRISON TERM- UPHELD . .- IN TRAFFIC :ACCIDENT Douglas C. Jones Fails in' Appeal From Sentence of Thrée' Years: . for Causing Death. Douglas C. Jones, a young white man, must serve three years 'in the penitentiary as the result of a trafiic aceident. - The ‘District Court of Ap- eals today dismissed his appeal from a sentence of three years' imprison- ment imposed on him in November, 1920. Jones failed to docket the ap- ite court in timé, R L A S S e Sreciicesly at §¢h strest and Khode e ewal and. Mruck &nd” kiried Shreve, a pedestrian. y long past the age! eligidle for retire-! | | | | | Progucers_and Dealers Bury| court in' 1t would | Quake Death List 235,000 Missing An official dispatch from Tokio to the Japanese embassy today places the number of known dead in the earthquake zone at 103,000, the injured at 125000 and the missing at 235,000. The number of persons who have'left Tokio is 1.068,000. A total of 534000 Touses was destroyed, and_the total property dumage was £¥d to be variously estimated at two and one-half to five billion dollars. MILK COMPROMISE FAILS TO HIT COST Hatghet and Supply Is b Uninterrupted. Peace reigned once move today be- {tween the milk dealers of Washing- i fact—that from -October 1, 1 | ton ang the farmers of Maryland and | Apriy 30, 192 Virginfa, following the reaching of a compromise settiement of their dif- ferences. As a result of .the treaty the city's milk supply came in today in the regular \way. For several weeks the possibility of a break between the dealers and producers on October 1 impended be- cause the largest distributors refused to sign a contract put before them by the producers. The producers wanted the distribu- tors to agree to purchase all milk through the- Maryland and Virginla Milk Producers' “Association instead of dealing with each farmer directly. | Direct Pay for Milk. TUnder compromise the dealers will continue to pay each farmer directly for his milk, but the distributors agreed to deduct and turn over to the producers’ association that organiza- tion's brokerage fee, provided the farmer requests the dealer to do so. The original demand of the pro- ducers was that each dealer pay the assoclation for the milk received and The assoclation, after deducting its fee, would pay the farmer. The set- tlement provides that the dealer shall pay thé farmer the cost of the milk, minus the fee to be glven the associa- tion. To Invite Representative. The dealers further agreed to in- vite a representative of the producers to be present to witness the testing and welghing of the milk after it reaches the distribution plants in Washington. During the fortnight of discussion the dealérs were making plans to get milk from other sources in the event they could not reach an agreement with the Maryland and Virginia pro- ducers. At the same time the nearby producers were arranging to ship their milk to Washington after today and .market it themselves, if the dealers did not, take it from them. The question’ of price to the con- sumer was not fnvolved, the farmers having decided ten days.ago: not to seck an increase this winter. The present charges for milk, therefore, will continue, U.S. HERO DEAD IN FRANCE RESTING IN CEMETERIES Budlm -Assembled in Designated 'y Sptcén—rWol:k of Beautifying . the Grounds Is Begun. ‘.PARIS, October 1.—The bédics of Américan soldicrs who fell on French battléflelds during the world war have now. all been-brought into sev- eral large cemeterics, .where they will lie permanently unless later trans- “{ferred to.the United States. ‘Work has:beén begun on the beau- tification -of.-the cemeteries. Thirty thousand trees and shrubs will be | set.out.at Romagne, the largest of the American cemeteries, 'EGAN SLOWLY SINKING. - Physicians See Little Hopes of Ex- Minister's Recovery. BEACH HAVEN, N. J., October 1.— Maurice Francis Iigan, former minis ter to- who s been seriou: 1y i1l séveral woeks, was slowly sink- ing, little hope of-recovery, hu?hyfl s° sald toda: Members :‘l o fs family were gathered in the as fast as t! he papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 89,247 Sunday’s Circulation, ! HARD COAL EXPORT ENBARE0 URGED %Representafive Rogers Is i Alarmed by Increased Ship- i ments to Canada. As und, permanent policy of ! conservation,” Representative John J, { Rogers of Massachusetts will urge in {the next Congress the wisdom of “de- sclaring a permanent embargo on ex- |portation from the United States of { anthracite coal.” In the meantime, in a letter re- ceived by the Interstate Commerce Commission today, Representative {Rogere proposes “as a brake upon ! excessive exportation of coal to Can- iada” until the more -efficient &top through embargo can be put in forec: “an adjustment of freight rates” to { protect domestic consumers within | the Tnited States. | Representative Rogers wrote to the ! commisgion as follows: Exports to C to call to your attention t—fo me an extraordinary 493 , the period of extreme stress, we exported to Canada alone 2,686,031 tons of anthracite. This fig- ure should be compared with the ex- |port to Canada of 1,785,368 tons of anthracite for the same seven months a year earlier, when production and distribution were substantially no; mal. These figures are official, ha ing been furnished me by the Depart- ment of Commerce. Nor did we scrimp on bituminous coal exported to Can- ada, corresponding figures ng 8,127,920 tons, as compared with 5.251,941 tons for- the same months of the preceding conditions were substantiail Thus we exported for this period per cent more anthracite and well over 50 per cent more bituminous coal than we had exported twelve months before. “Figures recently issued by the federal fuel distributor indicate that for the first seven months of 1923 nearly three million tons of anthra- cite were exported. During the en- tire year 1922 only two and one-third million tons were exported. More bitu- minous coal—a good deal more—was exported during the first seven months of 1923 than during the entire year 1922. Of course. it will be re- forted that 1922 was ihe strike vear. Hut 1923 Is a vear, especiall “r ! the ply and inflated prices. If anthracite exports continue at the present rate the total exports for the year 1923 will exceed those of any year in his- “Anthracite is a disappearing com- modity, whose extraction from the carth becomes yearly more costly, more difficult and more dangerous. Should not the retention of anthracite for our.own use be regarded as a proper measure of conserving one of the most_essential of our national resources? Futhermore, even in nor- mal times tho cost of anthracite has been increasing from year to year. A restriction of the market to domestic consumers would tend, under the fa- millar law of supply and demand, to keep the prices at a lower Jlevel. I have therefore been urging the wisdom of declaring a permanent em- bargo on the exportation from the United States of anthracite. I do not propose this solely, or even primarily, because of the terrible experfence we passed through last winter. I pro- pose it as a sound permanent policy Vof conservation. | FOR.ITALIAN PRINCESS i ; Giovanna, Third Daughter of Em- manuel, Suffers Grave Symp- toms of Hemorrhage. ROME, October ‘1.—A ‘serious ré- lapse has been -sufféred by Princess Giovanna, third 'daughter of King Vietor Emmanuel and Queen Helena, ‘who, with her sister Princess Mafalda, second daughter of the royal house, was believed to be virtually out of | danger after the attack of typhoid with which both were seized & fort- night ago, ! Grave symptoms of hemorrage and peritonitis made theif appearance yesterday ' in the case of Princess Giovanna and her condition is caus- ing the greatest anxiety. COL. McCOY DIES IN MAN! . NEW YORK, October 1.—Col. Henry Bayard McCoy, republican national committeeman for the Philippine Is- lands, died in Manila yesterday from apoplexy, friends were advised today. e formerly was collector of customs for the Philippine Islands. to | 10 the | anthracite world, of inadequate sup- | 96,631 TWO CENTS. WALTON DISMISSES | DRASTIC MOVE 10 FORESTALL VOTING Oklahoma Secretary of State { Refuses Order Until Validity Shown—~Ousted Body’s Ac- tions Canceled. i i i {EXECUTIVE THREATENS USE*OF WHOLE GUARD Defying Governor, Sheriffs Say Cit- izens Will Be Protected in Exer- cising Suffrage—Tulsa Judge Enjoins Troops From Interfering With Persons at Polls. i 1 | By thie Associated Press. { | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. Oc- itober 1.—Playing his trump card, Gov. J. C. Walton today reconstituted the state election board, and orders issued by the jnew board went out at once by telegraph to all county boards to halt the special state election or tomorrow. I W. C. McAlister, secretary of {the board, is the only elective ! member. The other two are ap- pointive, and give the governor i control over its actions. Removes Two Members. | The governor flled an executive orde | with the secretary of state, removing John P. Logan, chairman of the board and C. W. Kelly, republican member |Logan is a democrat. We named their places Ira Mitchell, democrat, and Claude Baker, republica: The removal order was dated 25, 1923, and for this reason . | secretary of state, refused to juntil he had obtained an oficial opini as to its valldity from George F. Short state attorney general. The new board members, however did not wait for -the epinion befor. { calling oft the election. Jafl for Imterferery. { Instructions to jail every person at- | tempting to interfere .with the specia! | state election tomorrow had bsen sent | ¢ tods I county election offi- fals by the old state election board. If any one attempts to interfere with you in the conduct of this election, have {him thrown in.jall at once,” the tele- | grams ordes | The eherifts in every county of thc £tate were urged by the state board to study the laws on elections and to { “provide a safe ballot The office of ~Attorney Genera! | Gearge F. Short was being delugea with_inquiries as to the legality of ;nm electio: All inquirers were told 11t was valia. Sheriff Tom courty Cavnar of Oklahoma announced he was ‘ready to deputize cvery man in the count: to prevent, disturbances at the pol He said fe would make no effort alther to insure or prevent the elec- but that he was prepared to v violenc = Conflicting Views, erilt Cavnar sald: “I have received written instruc- tions from the governor ordering me to stop the election in Oklahoma county. but I have also received in- stractions from George Short, attor- ney general, and J. K. Wright, county attorney, that 1 have no authority to stop any election and that my duty i8 1o see that the people have a peace- able election. I will do my duty to enforce the law, regardless of any orders from the governor. The peo- ger than a2ny one man.” Iridge, recretary of the election board, was rushing for holding the election and declared “there will be an elec- tion in Oklahoma county.” Tnterfere. Carglll, mayor of Oklahoma nnounced that “the people of Okiahoma City may be assured that the police department will not be used to interfere with the citizens in the free cxercise of their pight of suffrage on Tuesday.” The mavor so instructed Ray Frazier. chief of police. The governor has declared the whole armed force of the common- wealth will be in the field to bar the election and to keep down rioting. Opposing him, members of the legis- lature and’ sponsors of the initiated bill to permit them to review the governor's actions have conducted a hasty campaign to insurc a general effort to vote. Last night printing presses in every county ran off ballots, while speakers at meetings in rural churches and town halls called upon the peopls to 80 to the polls in deflance of the gov- ernor’s threat. Excitement Runs High. The state Is in a pitch of excitement unequaled since the inception of the rapid train of incidents which have led to the eve of an unparalleled elec- tion, with the outcome of the seem- ingly deadlocked situation awaited with open apprehension. | "Last night the executive mobilized the entire National Guard, numbering approximately 5,000 men, and called to lauty an army of citizens volunteers. which he said was 175,000 strong, fo prevent disturbances on election day. At _the same time he directed his {Continued on Page 2, Column 3.0 i {MRS. STOKES AWAITING HEARING BY GRAND JURY Will Back Charges Against Hus- band in Chicago Before Attending to Divorce in New York. CHICAGO, October 1.—Although her divorce case is set for trial fn New York today, Mrs, Helen Elwood Stokes will remain in Chicago until given an opportunity to testify before the grand jury in connection with her charges that W. E. D. Stokes sought to show that she had at one time i been an inmate of & notorious “club” | here. The grand jury will convene today, and State's Attorney Crowe.has indi cated that the Stokes case might b the first considered, iIf a final review of allegations brought to light dur- ing the last-two weeks by Assistant State’s Attorney Wharton justifies such action. i x % | | ELECTION BOARD IN