Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1923, Page 2

MRS WEBRFOUND VIETIM O POSON Experts Say Drugs Found in Body—Will Contest to Be _Launched Soon. BY the Associated Press. ‘WHITE PLAINS, —Polzon has been found in the kid- neys of Mrs. Gertrude Gorman Webb, wealthy New York and Philadelphia sbeioty woman, and the Westchester | county grand jury, it has been an- nounced, will investigate her. death in an cndeavor to discover if 'she was murdered. Several witnesses already havé bren heard by the new jury, among them Dr. William J. Mcver, who at- tended Mrs. Webb just beforo her death and t indicated that she died under mysterfous cizcumstances, and Mre. Margaret P. Joh one, wife ; of o former New York judge, who! declarod that her childhocd friend had been the vietim of slow poisnn-] t. who | ing. Dr. A. O. Goettler, toxicolo; Webb's vitai organ. reperted late yesterday ti:at co.tain . Y., October 4. | CIVIL!AN DICTATOR PLEA esamined Mrs. quantities’ of molzon wers found in | the bedy. The grand jury put the| over' until Monday. | elatives of i started o contest whkich dirpcesed of her estate, costi- mated to be worth between $3:000,000 ¢ and $3,000, The first will, made before her marriaze to Ciaries Webb | on November 4. 1922, left her estate | to ro! and to various Institu-' tians. The sccond. executed during| her last illne and composed of| only ten li left her entire estate | to herr husband Third Will Unsigned. | The third a last will, on which ! the contest will be based, was made | out just before Mrs, Webb's death, | ond Jeft unsizned by her. due to her | weakened condition. This last docu- ment. which w. refused by the sur- | rogate's offic left the gr er part | of the estate to relatives, and also es- | tablished a fund to care for a monu- ment to the dead woman. Former Surrog for the contestants, Surrogate O'Brien sn order to show se why a temporary adminis- or should not be appointed to nserve the assets of the estate pending the outcome of the contest er the th atives te Cohalan, counsel | obtained from elther today halan stated A jate de: the or tomorrow, Mr. Co- opment in the case was statement by Dr. Meyer that | he informed Mr. Webb that his | death was imminent, the latter e have® been together for ten vears. One day lost does not mat- k! isit the sick but he man Later Mr. Webb did room.” the doctor said, fested ne interest and left it in about He never saw his_wite AIR SPEED RAGERS INTODAY SEVENTS | St. Louis Meet, Biggest in A'vratiqn l-iisgqrg, Begins With:Fine Weather. By the Associnted Press. ST. LOUIS, October 4.—With fair weather prevailing and Louts | Fleld in good condition, the airplanes | were primed today for the beginning of the international air races, which were postponed from Monday on ac- | comnt of rain. The Initial day's program includes three speed events and four demon- strations. The racing events are the Flying Club of St. Louis trophy race for civilians piloting planes of less | than ninety horsepower engines; the Mitehell trophy race for official Army type pursuit machines, and the lib- erty engine builders’ trophy race, in which a sharp contest is expected between Army and Navy craft. Demonstrations of the smaliest bi- plane in the world, weighing 600 younds; arrival of a squadron of cighteen air mall servicc planes, ex- nhibitfon of bombing planes in action and a demonstration of how mall is carried on the transcontinental route at’ night by the post office aerial | service completes the program. With the visit Tuesday of the ZR-1, the largest airship in the world, the presence of the Barling bomber, the mightiest heavier-than-air craft ever constructed. and the successful trial fiight. vesterday of the RN-1, the world's biggest non-rigid airship, vir- tually every type of aircraft known 1o the world has been or is concen- trated here for the races, P Govérnment officials, attaches of forelgn embassles and prominent air: | craft builders and designers, who are here for the events, declare the races Ul surpass any previous aviatfon meet held in the world. The rages continue through Saturday. a5 LAUREL ENTRIES - FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,300; for maidens, all ages; six furlongs. *Protekt tBcotch Broom . uppliant . BSECOND RACE~Purse, $1,300: oclaiming; three-ysar-olds and up; six furlongs. ki Roysl : Oharlie. 118 *Lady Boss . 102 *Clough Jord 106 *Mary Maxim 97| Belmen . 108 *Poter Piper TDr. Ghas. ‘Wolls. 100 *Mabel K v *McKedna 110 "*Blue Hawk . *Doughmat o8- THIRD RACE. , §1,600; claiming; two-year-lds; one mile. 111 Altissls T 103 La Vegue 1100 *Tropical [ 43 ramton 108" $Tent Mak W, SteckionBal ‘Parr and J.-8. Gosden entry. “; YOURTH RACE—Olaiming handicap; . '\.Id'l!fllr fil‘.-m.m‘"l‘ up; !-’I 25d s sixteenth, 1101 o 103 : 101§ FIFTE RACE—The Avalon handioap: purse, 008 for threogeeralis; em mils and & xtoenth. s *Gelden Rule 101 Sosop SIXTH RACE—Purse, ' $1,300; d for three-year-olds; ens mils and & sixteenth. 106 108 108 104 109 104 108 108 103 | thorous| jtar { tempt wili be repe. { before GROWS IN GERMANY AS CABINET LEADERS QUIT r ™ le: tions 7 with b Stresemann firm repubt centration rees W t to the government. But hat it coincided with Hit- tiens for military opera- int Saxony and Eerlin, ana revolt within Chancellor own party against his n policy, shows a con- of monarchist military ich can only be interpreted a3 a far-reaching plot to overthrow | e onstitutional government and estab- e a rcactionary dictatorship in paration for an .eventual war of enge against France. The nationalists who seized Kues- trin were members of former mon- archist regiments, who had been obilged to hide since the fallure of the Kapp Putsch and who had been supported as day laborers on large :states of east Germany (which 1§ monarchist). The mili- units were thus kept together while their arms were hidden about the estates. re: Action Dramatie. They made their daring attack on Kuestrin at the exact moment when the plans of the monarchists were at a standstill, and a dramatic act was need- ed to start things going again. It is clear that the plotters-did not have suffi- cient forces to seize Berlin, and that they did not intend a monarchist rev lution in northern Germany. Their ob- Jéct probably was to provoke the sb- cialists and communists to take vigorous action, either dircetly by seizing mili- tary control of Berlin, or indirectly by forcing the government to call upon the proletarian battalions for aid. This would have giveu Hitler the excuse he needed for a union of his forces with those of Dictator Kahr of Bavarla for the long-promised march on Berlin. ‘The plan failed thi: , but many well_informe persons beliéve the at- ed on a larger scale long. anwhile, the people’s party, representing the big_industrialists, and of which Chancellor Stresemann is 3 member,. has revolted against the chancellor's dec ed intention to assert the zathority of the republican govern- ment against the Bavarian monarchists, and demanded the ejection of the so. cialists and the inciusion of the na- tionalists in the government, This would mean official brotection for the nationalist military organiza- tions, which it is generally belleved the big industrialists are supporting financially. - (The maneuver apparently has been successful for Chancellor Strese- mann’s cabinet resigned Wednesday and he now is engaged In forming a new one, in which it is expected the socialists will have no part.) Loyalty Questioned. The loyalty of the Reichswehr in the crisis is very questionable. Many republican leaders express the belief that not a single Reichswehr general 18 reliably republican. Detachments of the Reichswehr may obey orders in single instances, as they did at Kuestrin, but nobody can be confident that the army would fight loyally for the republic’ against a general up- rising _ of _the Hitler-Ludendorft monarchist forc: In Bavaria, many members of the Reichswehr are openly enrolled in the illegal monarchist regiments. and in more ces than one have bterayed Reichswehr arms depots to the monarchists. Recent events show that agents of Ludendorff _are exceptionally active in north Germany, and are being aided by powerful political. military and_industrial forces. The republic military situation, therefore, is highly serious, and this must be taken into consideration if a military censorship again Is enforced as it has been dur- ing the besinning of the present week. MUNICH IS QUIET. Bavaria - Watches Crisis in Cen- tral Government. MUNICH, October 4—Public inter- est here is entirely centered in the cabinet crisis in Berlin upon which the next developments in Bavaria de- end. P Government circles hope that the new cabinet will be formed from the right parties without the participa- tion of the socialists. Only such a2 cabinet, it is argued, can restore the confidence of the country and with uch a ministry it will be much easler to comc‘o an agreement with France. Such a cabinet, it is further be- 1leved, would promote harmonious re lations ‘between the reich and Bi varia. Under the Cuno regime, it is recalled, there was no friction be- tween the two governments. SUSPENDS RED PRESS., Saxony Military Leader Acts After Attack on Chiefs. BERLIN, October 4.—The military commander-in-chief in Saxony has suppressed indefinitely the entire | communist press of that state be- cause of a manifesto igsued by the communist party in which were con- tained ~insulting references to Dr. Wilhelm Sollmann and Dr. Rudolph Hilferding, ministers of the interior and finance, respectively, !n the re- 183 | tiring cabinet. DEATH OF BOY HELD _ UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT John L. Newbold Exonerated of Blame in Fatality to John Dorsey. A verdict of “unavoidable accident’ was returned by the coroners jury. today in the death of John Dorsey, thirteen, of 3212 7th street northeast, who was fatally injured when he ran in front of an automobile driven by John L. Newbold of the Bachelor tment, 1737 H street northwest, yesterday afternoon. The aceldent occurred opposite 1220 Michigan avenue northeast and wit- Toeses who saw it testified that Dor- sey was chasing two other boys who were interfering with a bundle of newspapers that he was about to perve on his news route. In chasing them, the witnesses said, Dorsey ran wcross the roal into Mr. Newbold's car from behind a truck that w2s going in the opposite direction. SPECIMENS OF DANISH MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD HERE IN INTERESTS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION Sir Nefly Bukh of Denmark present- ed his troupe of fourteen men and ourteen women, whose physical pro- rortions are described as perfect, to Iresident Coolidge at the White House today. He had earlier in the day given an exhibition with the troupe in the court of the pension bureau office, showing methods of physical culture, United States Commissioner of Edu cation Tigert remarked: “It makes | anything that we have in America | look like a joke.” ; The exercises for the womén con- isted mostly of bending and stretch- | ing exercises, which tend to produce grace and ease of motion, while the men were put through much more vigorous exercises. The men, starting with what Sir Bukh terms the “primitive” or “cave | the Russell Sage Foundation, { tion man” exercises, proceeded to bend from side to side and forward, touch- ing the floor, and swinging :neir! arms in vigorous fashion. | MLTARY ROER OPENS CONVENTION H Delegates Here to See Pres- ident Today—Program for Rest of Week. { The third annual convention of the Military Order of the World War was formally convened today in the ball- | room of the Willard Hotel, held a short business meeting, and ad- journed at noon so that its delegates might go to the White House to be received in the executive ofiices by President Coolidge. Several hundred delegates, including some of the most Aistinguished officers who. se#ved In tthe Army. Navy and Marisel Corps during the world war, are attending. Maj. Gen, George H. Harries, com- mander-in-chief of the order, opéned the convention and welcomed the | delegates. Without further cere- | monles the chairmen of various com- | mittees appointed at the last conven- tion began to read their reports, and this business occupied the entire morning. Immediately after the visit to the White House and lunch- | eon the delegates will reassemble for | |a short afternoon session, at which the reading of reports will be con- tinued. At 5 o'clock this afternoon the dele- gates, wearing their service uniform Wil be taken to the tomb of America's unknown soldier. There, with special military services, the officers of the or- der will decorate the tomb with a beau- | tiful wreath. The entire assembly will silently stand at salute for several minutes before the order to return to Washington is given. The general public has been invited to attend the official reception to be given by the commander-in-chief, na- {tional officers and general staff of the torder in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel this evening. Music will be fur- nished by the United States Army Band, | and after a special band concert an in- formal dance will be held. Tomorrow there will be a morning and afternoon session, followed in the evening by & formal banquet and a military ball in the grand ballroom. Saturday had been planned as a day of recreation for the delegates, a trip to Mount Vernon being the feature of the program. Owing to the fact that this morning’s session had to be cut in half, however, it will be ‘necessary to hold a short session Saturday, after which tho delegates may make their pilgrimage to the tomb of George Washington accord- ing to the program. The convention will close Saturday, but most of the delegates have planned to remain here over Sunday and make a tour of the National Capital. One of the most interesting events of the entire conventiop is to occur this afternoon when a portralt of Gen. Pershing is to be presented to the order by a £rqup of sixteen mem- bers. The painting was done in oil 1 by Mile. Mischeline Resco. It will be ‘hung in the national headquarters of \President Sees Perfect Athletes Trained by Dane in 5 Months They then proceeded to do hand- springs, stood on thetr heads and worked in palrs, going through vari- ous forms of bending and twisting. Finally, spreading a mat on the floor and putting a gymnasium horse in tho midle ‘of it, they proceeded to do more handsprings, running-dives over the horse and somersaults with and without the hands touching the floor. Sir Bukh chooses his pupils from just ordinary farmer boys and girls, he sald. The girls are given three months in the folk schools and the boys take five months' training. Sir Bukh and his troupe are touring this country under the direction of e Playground and Recreation Associa of America, the Country Life Association and the American and Scandanavian Foundation. Another exhibition similar to the one in the pension bureau s being given on the Ellipse, back of the White House, this afternoon. MGUIRE TOPS GOLF FIELD IN TOURNEY! Potomac Pérk Links Star Shoots 78 in Qualifying Round Today. Willlam A. McGuire of East Poto- mac Park today leads the field in the qualifying round of the Bannockburn Golf Club invitation golf tournament. McGuire had a card of 78 to lead by one stroke the score of 79 yesterday of J, F. Daliy. Albert R. MacKenzie of Columbia, the middle Atlantic champion, began his qualifying round at 1 o'clock, paired with Donald Woodworth, and may better McGuire's: mark. Other orés turned _in today follow: Frost, 80; M. B. Clarke, 91; C, M. Windpileg, 90; O. C. Murray, 93; Capt. H. H. Horton, $3; Henry Nicholson, 95; C. A. Slater, 95; Maj. F. Rowe, 96 T. H. Clarke, 97. J. F. Dalley jr, a student at Georgetown University and a member of an up-state New York club, led the first half of the qualifying field in the Bannockburn “Golf Club's fall tournament yesterday with a card of 79, three shote in front of John Shorey of East Potomac Park, who had a score of 82. Most of the com- petitors yesterday attributed their high scores to the keenness of the putting greens and the generally fast condition of the course, for the scores were far higher than had been antici- pated judged by the class of the entry list. George T. Cunningham and Mid- dleton Beaman, both of Bannockburn, turned In cards of 4. The last half of the qualifying fleld is playing today. Pairings for the match play rounds, which start tomor- Tow, will be made tonight. The semi- finals and finals in all four flights are to be held Saturday. Scores turned in_yesterday were as follow. 3 F. Datley, jr.. Georgetown, 79: J. C. Bhorey, Potomac Park, 82; G. T. Cunningbam, Bannockburn, 84; Middleton Beaman, Bannock- burn, 84; J. M. Johnson, Bannockburn, 86; Cbarles N. Agnew. jr., Potomac Park, 84: J. Holt Wright, Wasiingion, §7: Dr.J. T. MeCien: ; R, H. Brown, q rle Argyle. 01; J. A. Cox. Baanockburn. 91 D. Willlamson, Bannockburn, 91; Lynn Huines, Baonockburn, 91; J._A. Grifith, Bannockburn, A Washington, W nockburn, 92; J."W. Turner. Wash. G. Llewellyn. Bannockburn, 93; er, Colambia, 93; L. M. Benedict, Washiogton, 95; F. F. 95; L. 8. Pfantz, . 'Kendrick, Bannockburn, 96; J. A, White, Jr.. Bannockburn, 96; Waiter Durand, ‘Bannockburn, F. C. Alvord. Ban- 97; ¥. F.' Harrison,” Bannockburn, A Argyle, 980 Miles Taslor, ockburn, 98 'F. Moise, Bannockbura, F. Gilette, ‘Bannovkburn, 99: George nockbu . F. Anderson, Ban- 3 Kirkside, 99: L. . 100: H. A. Mc- : Tom Kennedy, Ban- Thomaes Moody, Banuockburn, . Kellerman, Bagnockburn, 102 pring, 1080 Dr. mockburn, 101; 101; De. ‘K. F. P. C. Knox. Indian 8§ the Military Order of the World War in New York city. {Coolidge Presents Honor Medal To Hero in Vera Cruz Affair High Officials See Naval Gunner Rewarded. t President Coolidge today presented the medal of honor to Chief Gunner George Bradley, U. 8. N., of Newport, R. I, for his bravery and meritorious sert- ice under fire on the occasion of the landing of American naval forces at| Vera Cruz in 1914. The presentation | took place at the White House in the | presence of Secretary Denby and high iranking officers of the Navy. The President highly commended Chief Gunner Bradley. | Bradley was attached to'the U. 8, S. Utah as caler gunner's mate and was in charge of the ammunition party and special details at Vera Crus. DAVID GAMBLE RITES. CINCINNATI, Ohio, October 4.— Funeral service for David B. Gamble, who for many years was se-retary of the Procter & Gamble Company, this city. and who died at Pasadena, Calif., July 15, will take place Saturday. aft- ernoon at the Gamble residence here. | CHIEF G Burial wil] be in Spring Grove ceme- tory, this bity. g NNER GEORGE BRADLEY Wearing medal of homer presested him teday, | strange MACHINE GUNS AIMED AT BARRICADED ROOM OF REBEL PRISONERS (Continued from First Page.) ' | and Gillihan were sent to a hospital in_Paducah. . The three convicts made the first move in their dash for liberty yes- terday. The trio shot Cunningham to death and started toward the main entrance to the prison grounds. When they met Guard R. L. Scoles they dis- armed and bound him. By that time other guards, attracted by the pistol shots, were pressing the fleeing men. *ut off from the main entrance the desperadoes sought refuge in the mess hall. Barricading “the lower floor, they used the upstairs windows as loopiioles, through which they stood off pursuers with a withering pistol fire. Citizens here and men from nearby farms armed themselves with such weapons as were available—shotguns, hunting rifles and revolvers—and re- | inforced the guards. The exchange ot bullets was brisk during the first hours of the slege, but before night the firing had become desultory. The slege wore through the night with outside walls of the mess hall 1londed with light from a score of actylene torches arranged by the guardi Early today Guard Lewis Hill, who was reported to have been caught in the mess hall by the convicts, appear- ed among the beslegers and sald he was able only after dark to escape from a small outbuilding, within the range of fire of the desperadoes where he was trapped when t shooting _started. That the trio watching from he- hind the dark second story windows of the barricaded mess hall are “play- ing the game.” notwithstandinz their | apparent relentlessness in shooting | down those who attempted to OT‘I'U""l them in the attempted escape and the {desperate position which they now are placed, was indicated by their action |in the case of Guard Mattingly. A bullet ripped through Mattingly's body and dropped him in a spot ex- posed to the fire of the hidden con- {Victs. He begged for water and for medical attention for his wound, but rison authorities rcfused to permit is fellow guards to risk their lives in an attempt to move the wounded men to safety. Finally A. a life-term convict from went to Mattingly. gave him water and later carried him to a shed. From the shed, with the aid of other pris- oners, Warner moved the woupded! guard to the prison hospival Matting was reported to have ob- Jected at first to proposals by Warner that the latter carry him away, fear- ing that the cornered convicts would shoot him_ to death in the prisoner's arms. When he accepted Warner's help his fears were proven ground- less. First plans today for driving the desperadoes from their stronghold without further loss of life included 1 | | ! | | | i t of the steam heating plant for forc- ing tear gas and red pepper into thei room wkere the men are hidden. ! The gas and pepper idea, however. was abandoned as impracticable aftes {a survey of the situation. Instead| {plans were made to train machine "Rl an ingenious scheme to use the pipes | P MAN FAKING BUR BOOKED AS SLAY California Butcher Will Not Plead Insanity in Alleged Insurance Plot. By the Associated Press. STOCKTON, Calif., October 4.— Alex A. Kels, the butcher of Lodi. whose supposed funeral was attended by 3,000 friends, was booked at the county jail here today on a charge of murdering the stranger to whose bier the countryside came to pay tribute. Kels scouted the idea of planning to plead insanity at bis trial. Officers here belleve him sane. A paradox in his character is noted in that while he says he “planted” the body of a to be identified as his, so that his wife might collect insurance money reaching $100.000, he now di plays no interest in her exeept when reminded. Mrs. Kels, an _expectant mother, is reported critically il and has not been told of her husband’s return from his supposed grave. STOOD HIGH AS CITIZEN. Kels, on Supposed Death, Given Biggest Funeral Tribute. Special Dispatch to The Star. LODI Calif., October 4. — What manner of a man is Alex Kels, who restlessly paces a jall cell in Stock- fton today, self-confessed principal in one of the cruelest, wierdest murder plots ever encountered outside detec- tive fiction tales? This little city where. everybody knows everybody else is asking iteelf that question. But Lodi people are not answering it—they can't It is & question which criminologists, psy- chologists and even eminent alienists might ponder without agreed results: Gave Him Big Fuseral. Seventeen days ago Lodi gave Kels the biggest, finest funeral in its history. Everybody knew Kels. He was considered a fine, big upstanding chap, meticulously honest; a hard man to beat in a business’deal, but always ready to lend a h nlng hand —generous to a fault. Lodi thought o well of him that it considered electin, im mayor. His body had been found in the wreckage of his automobile, which had been run alongside a haystack and set on fire. He was buried as the sincerely mourned victim of high- waymen and more than half of the population attended the funeral. Today Kels is back, alive and in the flesh, after wandering almost half way across the continent. He is back and facing a charge of murder be- cause of that indefinable urge which is said like a magnet to draw a criminal to the scene of his crime. Amits He Slew Man. Kels admits that it was another man's body his neighbors and friends buried, the body of a homeless wan- derer, a_poor itinerant farm worker whose identity probably will always remain a mystery; a ‘‘ragged stran- ger” whom he lured to a lonely spot, shot down from behind and whose body he tried to foist upon his towns- men and to collect $110,000 in life in- urance. But there is where the strange quirk in the plot comes in. All of the insurance policies were payable to his wife. 1f Kels planned, at date. to get hold of the money through her, she was not made a confidant in his plans. Sheriff Riecks and others are most emphatic regarding Mrs. Kels' innocence, and all Lodl, which has known her since she was an in- fant in arms, takes Sheriff Riecks viewpoint. 7 Briefly, Kels' story is this: Gen- erally credited with belng worth close to a quarter of a million, he says that recent, b) s reverses threatened of every penny. All of 34a veen amasted largely through the keen business judgment of his wife. The investments which threaténed to strip him clean were made against her Wwishes. Remorse- ful, ashame to tell her the truth, he planned to go away und never return. The insurance money. he savs, would haved cared for Mrs. Kels, their Daey 1fftie seven-yeur-old daughter and another child about to-be born. Meanwhife, - mourned as dead, Kels lanned to.go to Mexico, hide his identity and start anew. PICKS FUNERAL SERVICE AS SCENE OF SUICIDE guns on the building. maintain steady fire and at an opportune mo- ment rush the structure with the guards and state soldiers, who num- ber more than 100. During the fusillade yesterday a stray bullet cut one of the pipes. Clouds of steam in the room gave the prison authorities the first-intimation of that fact. Today they began prep- arations to load one of the mains leading to the room with gas and pepper and force it into the room with steam. [ 1,300 DEFIANT SALOONS FACE CLOSING DRIVE (Continued from First Page.) the proprietors are preparing for & legal battle. CHECK UP PROBABLE. Special Dispatch to The Star. . PHILADELPHIA, Pa., October 4.— The next step in the joint federal state campaign to deliver the knock: out blow to the rum traffic in Phila. delphia will be a swift and city-wide application of the padlock law. The next few days probably will be |devoted by agents of the Department of Justice and state troopers to a check-up of saloons served with the ultimatum. After that, according to the authorities, will follow action in the courts against recajcitrants, whose barrooms will be closed by in- junction and the saloon keepers them- selves probably prosecuted on-.con- tempt chargos. ‘As if to show that his_warning, “we mean business,” was to. be taken literally, Gov. Pinchot made a per- sonal tour of the downtown saloons last night. After making mental note of what was going on In half a dozen of the more notorious places in the Market street section and- looking in on a score more places, the governor concluded his inspection with the ob- servation that “conditions are a dis- grace.” Shouldering his way through the crowds, the governor visited sev- leral well known saloons and cafes in the vicinity of 12th and Market streets, and obtained valuable in- | formation. The first stop was at the | Venetian Cafe, 12th and Filbert streets where the governor pushed open the swinging doors and entered the bar. Men were lined up four deep receiving drinks, with apparent dis. regard of the closing order which had been issued the night before. About fifteen mey: in the uniform of sailors were in the crowd and a number of persons, unquestionably intoxicated, were arguing in one corner. The saloon men have been advi by the Philadelphia Retail Dealer: Association to keep their places open. James Pearson, the assoclation’s pres- ident, today sald: “The association will fight this pro- cedure to the limit. Just what steps we will take will not be decided until our executive committee meets. A meeting has been called for today. But there is no doubt the committee will decide to fight tooth and nail on behalf of the assoclation’s members. We are prepared to go into court and make a test of the matter.” George Coles, United States district attorney, when asked what steps he would take to assist the Department of Justice agents and state police, id: “I am_awaiting fnstructions from Washington. You may depend how- ever, ! Attorney means business and that he intends to push the matter to the limit, Californian Asks One Question and Shoots Himself in Presence of Mourners. LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 4.— John H. Pleasants, forty, walked into the chapel of an undertaking estab- lishment while a funeral service was being conducted yesterday, stopped at the casket and aske: s tnis a funeral?” “Yes,” some one replied. Pleasants_then drew a pistol and shot himself in the head. He died one hour later. - j the condition ome later | With and Abeut CAPITAL’S GUESTS “No matter what Tom Taggart might tell you, what political wise- acres may think, nor, for that matter, what the senator says himself, the man who polls more votes than Sam- uel ‘Moffatt Ralston at the next demo- cratic national convention will be the standard bearer of the party in 1924." Thus spoke J. B. Marvin of Frankfort, Ind, secretary, general manager and heavy stockholder of the Frankfort Water Works, who ls mak- ing a short stay at the Hotel La Fay- | ette. i A . Mr. Marvin is interested in many power companies throughout Indiana, 18 an old line democrat and enjoys a close personal friendship with the junior senator from the Hoosier state. “I appreciate Senator Ralston's posi- tion. He is not the man to seek the office, but oftentimes the office seeks the man, and today thousands of In- diana democrats, and not a few re- publicans, are firmly convinced that when the smoke of battle blows away their old governor will be at the heim of his party and putting up the fight that only he can. ‘With this sald, the Frankfort man switched to other matters. He displayed much concern over of Mr. Taggart, who suffered a breakdown at Boston re- cently, while on his way to Maine to join his family, and said he would visit the “Sage of French Lick” im- mediately upon arrival in Beantown. When ~asked about the political equabble in his own state Mr. Marvin refused to pass comment, but quickly started talking about the exceptional crops enjoyed by Indiana farmers this year. “Aside from the low price of Wwheat our people have nothing to complain of. Bumper corn crops, good prices for hogs and pasturage of a1l kinds in excellent shape, the In- diana agriculturist is having a chance to save money for the proverbial ‘rainy ’* he sald as he wiped off his glasse: Then, in conclusion, the Indianian added: ' “We all think much of Presi- dent Coolidge, and it is the sincerc wish of everybody in the state that he he given every chance by Congress to make good on the job. I had the Pleasure of sitting behind him at church last Sunday, and as I attended the same theater Saturday as -did former President Wilson, all told I would say my visit to your city had been most pleasant.” A hop, skip and jump over to the Shoreham Hotel was made just in time to see former Governor of Illi- nois Frank L. Lowden, rush through ::fl: lobby to catch a taxi for the sta- n. The distinguiched westerner had to fight his way past a delegation of World Dairy Congress Association enthusiasts, eager to shake his hand for the splendid &peech delivered at their conference dur- ing the afterndon, so determined was he to get back to his big Sinnissippi farm up_in northern Iliinois. Mr. Lowden has long since returned to the goil, and proudly boasts of being a practicai farmer. He divides his time between Sinnissippl and a huge planta- tion of more than 10,000 acres down In Arkansas. He was in too big a hurry to lclumx'ess himself on the political sit- uation. With no_thought of shattering the | 1deals ‘of those who figure the forty. cight great sovereign commonwealths of this mighty Union as happy little com- munities all living in perfect accord, the {fact must be recorded that right at pres ent representatives from the grand old state of Michigan are in Washington to learn from the Supreme Court the best method of bringing sult against their sister commonweaith, Wisconsin, the ! trouble being over some boundaries, about 250,000 acres of land and water 8 was learned from Attorney Gen- eral A. B. Dougherty of Michigan, who is stopping at the Hotel Raleigh. Mr. Dougherty had just left a conference with Attorney Generals Crabbe of Ohio, Ekern of Wigconsin and Wells of Pet sylvania. where another matter pertain- ing to Iake levels was discussed, and Teports drafted from those states bord- ering the great lakes to be presented to gla !gllcl‘lor gengral. This case, brought y the federal’government, is pen: in the courts. e Mr. Dougherty was most optimistic over conditions in his home state, de- claring that more automobiles were being turned out than ever before. He said that the Michigan fruit crops this year were record breakers; that the cherry growth in the western sec- tion of the state had been the hest ever. and that farmers were holding thelr own. | The Lansing oficial admitted he | had had considerable worry over the House of David troubles, but feit con- | fident things would shape themselves in the end. Mr. Doughert stranger in the city, he having served here during the Harrison administra- tion and:mumbers his friends'by the scores. Germany can never survive under the present government: she is bound to totter and fall. This is the firm conviction of Prof. M. Richard Schus- ter, noted chemist of Beriin, who. to pay a visit to his son, Dr. M. Richard Schuster, jr.. of Macon, Ga. stopped oft to visit the Capital and is at the ‘Washington Hotel. “Germany can look for no help | from the present government.” said |thing that can eliminate it. i much of the ASCIST! EETING Gompers - Backs Resolutlon Denouicing ‘Mussolini—Beat Saviet Motion. By the Assoclated Pres: ' PORTLAND, Ore., October 4-—Acd tion was due to,begin here today at the gnnual conventlon of the Amers tcan Federation of Labor, resolutiond all belng in the hands of committeed and the preliminary business of the gatnering having been disposed ofe Leaders, however. were not expecting |early dispesition of the more impors tapt issues. roposed participation of the feds eratfon in polities and suggesting changing of the basis of organiza- tions from craftg to ifAdustries, in line with the “one big union” idea. were among the matters to be decided. Defeat of proponents of a resolu- tion for recognition of soviet Russim in an attempt to have the resolution transterred from the resolution com mittee to the international affairs committee was interpreted by leaders as a straw in the wind showing strength of the conservative eleme: in the convention. Leaders and delegates who haveg far expressed themselves inform in the conventlon hall or at the hote, have indicated no movement on foc® for any change in the officlal familf of the federation. . President Samuel Gompers loses r‘x opportunity to reass oiNpes opposition to radicalism. “I believe the American labor mov(y ment prefers to make constructive and reasonable demands,” he said an address yesterday. “The labo movement in America has done much for American worker! l.‘! American people, that there isn't any not tha bitter antagonism of employers and big business and high finance, no- tha serpent which is trying to sting w3 in the heart.” Mussolini I, Denouneed. President Gompers as a delegate of the Cigarmakers’ International Union joined with three other delegates of that union yesterday in intraducing = resolutlon denouncing the fascisti movement and “establishment of: any form of tyranny in Italy or any oth- er country, under whatsoever name it may be launched.” - ‘This resolution declares that “Tha sti, under the leadership of Mus- has by force, violence and tyr- annous oppression, takem possession of the government of Italy and taken from the people the rights of freedom of assemblage, freedom of press, free- dom of speech, and. the .denial of workmen to cease work (strike) in defense of any furtherance of their rights and interests as wage earners, and in the process of such force countless outrages have been com= mitted upon the lives of the Italian wage earner: T am a Bavarlan, but have epent most of my life in Berlin. Conditions are in a shocking state. The communist party is at the botfom of it all. It will_not be long before Bavaria and southern country will break away entirely: the people can- not tolerate the injustice.” Prof. Schuster said that aside from bread and the necessaries of life be- ing unkfown quantities 1o the great masses, science was held in little re- spect, and that the salary of a pro- fessor was less than that of the man who sweeps the streets He compared Washington With Munich, and £0 enthused is hc over America as a whole, and the freedom enjoyed here, that he is seriously coa- templating removing his one-million- | dollar laboratories to this country. Prof. Schuster will atcompany hia son back to Georgia, and, if suitable arrangements cati’ be made, wiii In all probablifty rhake that saction his home in the future. . Yoot With' that martigl bearing so dis- tinctive_to military organizations of the old Bay state, a large body of Bos- ton delegates to the Military Order of the World War convention, which con= venes at the New Willara Hote] to- day for a three-day-sessionaswooped down on ghe New Hotel Hamilton and for several hours the lobby of that house reminded one of War timess Many of the soldiers’ wives accomi= panied the party and if all contem- plated programs are carried out there W(fl be no dearth of entertain- ment during the Visit Maj. Joseph W. Bartlett, command- er, and Lieut. Oscar C. Bohlin. adju- tant, were in charge of the delega- tion, and busy, indecd, were these (Wo officers in getting ail hands set Others in the company are Col. A. W. Paynes, Majs. C. W. Godfre W. Wade, C. R. Cabot, G. E. Maclver, Capts. W. A. Garton, C. M. Hutchin2 son, Lieuts. E. 0. Proctor, P. T Cusham, W. C. Hanes, F. L. Studley, Thomas' Gateley, W. V. Kane, C. W. Muldoon, Messrs. G. A. Estés. Paul J. Gulesian, Dr. H. J. Fitzsimmons and | Miss Edling. The visitors will be received by President Coolidge today and during their stay will be entertained by vari Prof. Schuster. “It is not neutral; the Prussians have carried things too far. | ous military organizations of the eity, THE MIXER. THE RIGGS NATIONAL BANK .A Strong Bank with “five convenient locations” Main Office 1503 Pennsylvania Ave N.W. Dupont Circle (On Mass. Ave.) NW. =~ Washington Heights (18th St. Near Col. Rd.) N.W. Tth & Eye Streets NW. 14th & Park Road N.W. Service and Security