Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1923, Page 1

Falr and continued cool tonight, and tomorrow; probably’ light frost to- night. Temperature for twenty-tour hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Gl, at 3:40 p.m. yesterday. 38, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on Page 5. Hi t, u‘:’:g : \ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 Fntered as second-class matter No. 29,014. D. C. post_office Washington, . RENCHNEARPACT HITH RUBR BARONS T0 RESUNE WORK Early Agreement Seen for De- livery in Kind on Repara- tions Bill. DUESSELDORF PARLEYS ROUSE FRESH- HOPES Stinnes, Wolf and Von Vlissingen Groups Confer With Occupation Officials to Renew Activities. B the Associated Press. PARIS, October 8.—Negotiations be- L 30 1 representatives of German in- Gustrial groups and the Franco-Bel- | Eian authori of occupation, look- fng toward complete resumption of work in the Rubr and deliveries in Bind reparation account, sare in ¥ faiv way to succeed, it was said at fihe French foreign office today. groups have been represent- thus far in the conversations at sseldorf—the Stinnes-Glockhein, whe Otto Wolf-Kapp and the Von Vlissingen groups. The results of tiese conferences, when they reach a Fluge promising the actual resump- Tion of reparation deliveries will nec- essarily be referred first to the al- Jied governments engaged in the! Jubr occupation and then to the Brit- dxh government and to the repara- tions commission. With regard to in on PY n ©f lord Curzon, the British foreign #ccretary, before the imperial con- ference, in which he said Great Brit- &in was awaiting the next French move. it was declared that France had no proposals to make to Great Brita The proposals, it was de- tlared, must come from Germany. When they do come they will be sub- mitted to the British Government as & matter of courtesy in any event, und as & matter of right in case they involve other phases of the repara- fion problem than the occupation of the Rubr, in which Great Britain is not interested. A chilly reception has been given the speech of Chancellor Stresemann e Reichstag on Saturday in Paris al circles. Tt is considered to have Deen a strange blending of humility and veiled threats and totally * unsuccessful ‘in allaving French suspicions against German: While recognizing the chancellor eloguence, parliamentary skill and courage, it was pointed out in official | quarters today that his attitude ward the nationalists and Bavaria remained equivocal. The belief was expressed that the new German cabinet, after it has ob- tained full powers and dissolved the reichstag, may develop into a dicta- torship of the parties of the right after all the socialists are dropped and replaced by nationalists. It was said today that the- s; ¥rench opinion that Berlin needs watching as closely as ever. GROWING REBELLION SEEN. the recent speech | | $ocialists Rising Against Agree- ment With Capitalists. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. BERLIN. October $.—A menacing Ktillness hangs over Berlin as Chancel- Jor Stresemann works out the de- tails of his “legal dfctatorship.” While Hugo Stinnes is negotiating “girectly with the French, the socfalist rank and file is rising in_rebellion Bgainst the party leaders for enter- ing a government with the “capital- 4sts,” and the industrialist party is| yreparing to go over to the nation- | ulists. Details of the feverish intrigue which is now going on are not espe- cially interesting, but the split be- tween the right and the left is hour- 1¥ becoming more marked, and the | feeling grows that Germany’s future Wwill eventually be decided by fo: of arms. REDS OPPOSE VON KAHR. Communists Join Cabinets in Other Btates, Fearing Bavarian Fascism. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, October 8.—Dr von Kahr's go-called reactionary rule in Bavaria as led to counter measures in Thur- jneia and Saxony whereby communists aill enter the cabinets of those Gers man states, says Reuter’s Berlin cor- Yespondent. Conversations have been in progress etween the Saxon and Thuringian | remiers with regard to the formation | of an alliance of all the central states of Germany against the growth of ascism in Bavaria, and it is stated hat these negotiations have led to the ecognition of the need for the creation ©f a “red bloc.” The communists wil mccordingly, join the Thuringian gov- ernment. In Saxony conversations be- Tween the soclalists and communists have already resulted in the assign- | fuent to the latter of the-porttolios of | jabor and education. During the negotiations in Saxony, | gontinues the correspondent, both par- | {ies agreed that the government of the | eich was powerless against Dr. von ahr and Adolph Hitler, and it is stat- ed that the communist participation in fhe Saxon government is the begin- ning of a determined defensive. fight Rgalnst reaction. g As a_result of thesé developments hancellor, Stresemann has asked remiers Zeigner of Saxony and Froe- ich of Thuringia to come to Berlin or a discussion. ASKS POST FOR MACNIDER. Representative Dowell Would Send Ex-Legion Head to Italy. DES MOINES, Iowa, October Representative C. C. Dowell today a nounced he would recommend ap- pointment of Hanford MacNider of ason City, Towa, as ambassador to taly if MacNider would accept the 08t. 3 ¥MacNider is a former national com- mander of the American Legion. STRIKE INEFFECTUAL. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., October 8. Practically no_effect from the strike f 2,500 longshoremen here and at Norfolk was felt yesterday, John T. Campbell, spokesman for the steve- tores, announced today. Non-union labor, hurriedly recruited ~Saturday afternoon and vesterday, proceeded with the loading and the discharge of cargo and no serious delay in the goillng of any vessel resulted, he | ton increased 1 per cent from August | Labor announced today. Washington | higher than during 1919, when food { year Big Mud Geyser Found in Valley Of 10,000 Smokes By the Ansoclated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., October 8.— C M. Fenner, a sclentist from the Carnegie Institution, \Washington, D. C, here today from ah extensive exploring trip in Alaska, announced he had discovered an enormous mud geyser in the depths of the smok- ing and rumbling crater of Mount Katmal. / Fenner stated it was his bellef that within a few years “the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes” would be a thing of the past owing to the rapid disappearance of smoke-emit- ting vents. VOODOO AN SLAYS PHTTSRURGH NURSE Confesses Murder in $395 Agreement to Banish “Love llls.” By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, -Pa., October 8.—Miss Elsle Barthel, twenty-eight-year-old nurse, was killed by Alonzo Savage, negro voodoo doctor, when she re- fused to give him $395 for “curing her love ills,” according to a conféssion which city detectives saig the negro made early today. The confession, according toCaptain of Detectives Louis Leff, was made after Savage was taken to the scene of the crime shortly after midnight. Under the glare of automobile head- lights, Cant, Left said, Savage re-en- acted in detatf his movements when he met the nurse beneath the portico of; a deserted East End mansion. Crushed with Marble Block. The negro confessed, Capt. Left said, | that he struck the nurse in the face when she grabbed the money out of his hand; felled her with a brick and then dropped a seventy-pound block of marble on her head, As she fell Miss Barthel cried, “I'll give it to you,” Savage is saig to have told the detectives, but the negro dropped to the outside of the portico and pushed the loose slab of marble from the wall, crushing the victim's head. Details of the confession made public by Detective Leff recited how Miss Barthel met Savage while they re employed by an East End physi- cian, the woman as a nurse and the negro as a butler. The nurse learned | of Savage's ablilty as a “fortunel teller” and approached him when she | had_difliculties with her sweetheart. Savage gave her six cards, held to- gether by a black pin, and told her the, “charm” would work if she-re- turned the cards to him and paid him $395 on Saturday might. They met under the portico late that night and Miss Barthel handed Savage the cards and an envelope containing the money. When Savage announced that “the “cure” had worked, the nurse grabbed the money from his hands. Then followed-the killing. Cards Lead to Arreat. Savgee plcked up the money. but in hié haste he dropped the blood- marked cards. It was these cards that led the police to arrest the but- ler. In his home they said they found a deck of cards with six missing. The cards found near the body completed the deck, Capt. Leff declared. Walter Haule, a taxicab driver, and friend of Miss Barthel, was taken to central police station for questioning. When talking with detectives, Haule spied Savage, who.was being held as a suspect. ' Haule then identified Savage as the negro he had carrled in his cab to the east district on Sat- urday night. Savage up to that time had maintained his innocence, but when Haule confronted him the negro confessed, Capt. Leff declared. FOOD COSTS INCREASE HERE IN PAST MONTH Range from 15 to 58 Per Cent Over Pre-War Costs in ‘Washington. Cost of food at retail in Washing- 15 to September 15, the Department of / EFFICIENCY REPORT ON PRINTERS MADE 730 at Bureau Rated—Scale May Cost Jobs of Some Near Bottom, Efficiency ratings -for 730 plate printers, constituting the results of the first survey of the bureau of efficlency, were handed to Louis A. Hill, director of the bureau of en- graving and printing, today by Her- bert D. Brown. director of the first namegd establishment. Mr. Brown said that the survey re- vealed that approximately 500 plate printers could handle the work at the bureau. About 540 plate printers are now on the pay roll. There are about 210,plate printers out on furlough or separated from the service. Director Hill stated that the report from the efficlency bureau would re- ceive his approval without comment; changes n- the text, or ‘any requests for deviations in the context of the report. The report will then go to the Treasury Department for further action, and further comments, Mr. Hill said, would come from the de- partment. Some ‘May Lose Jobs. This_report, it was learned, will form the basis for dismissals—when needed —and appointments — during shortages. In addition it was stated a number of the plate printers. now on furlough or out of the service may réceive back thelr positions on ac- count of the ratings given them by the bureau of efficiency’s surve: Others, who still hold jobs at the bureay, may lose them because of lower’ ratings in the report. ‘As the report lists the relative ef- ficiency of all employes, dismissals will {be made by chopping off those at the + bottom of the list. those at the bottom of the list. The bureau -of efficiency hereaftery Director Hill stated today as his opinion, will be responsible for the appointinent or dismissal of plate printers. Protest on Report. From headquarters of the Plate Printers’ Union today came the state- ment that the report of the bureau of efficiency should not be used for dis- missals or reappoinments until after such a time as a protest against the manner in which the report was com- piled might be filed. Differences of opinion have arisen, it was explained, was one of eighteen cities in which food costs showed an increase. Food costs here on September 15 were 7 per cent higher than on the same date 2 year ago, and according to the de- partment's figures, approximated costs at the peak of war-tfme prices. In some commodities the prices were prices in Washington reached their peak. Food prices here on September 15 were 58 per cent higher than in the 1913, Only one city eclipsed this increase, Richmond registering an increase of 059 per cent over the pre-war year. - AUTOISTS KILL TROOPER, Man Was Shot Through Heart by Supposed Rum-Runners. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N..Y., Oc- tober 8.—State Trooper Roy Donovan, stationed at the Troy barracks, was killed early today when a bullet fired between members of the Plate Print- ers’ Union and the bureau of effi- clency_experts as to the weight to be accorded various considerations in sizing up individual efficiency. The plate printers maintain that these differences should be adjusted before the report is made the basis for action. Meanwhile, it is expected that-the special committee appointed by Direcw tor Hill from employes and sub- alterns in the printing division to probe sweatshop charges leveled at that division by the Plate Printers' Union will make a report today or tomorrow containing the result of in- terviews with employes regarding the charges. 3 LOSE LIVES AT SEA. HAVANA, Cuba, October 8.—Three members of the crew of the American bark John S. Emery, wrecked in the gulf last week, lost their lives when the mainmast was blown away, ac- cording to a story told by ome of the survivors and published here today. Capt. David Ernest and nine members of the crew Were rescued and brought by motorists, believed to be rumyrun- ners, pierced his heart. The shooting occurred south of Wilton and about six miles north-ef this city. into port vesterday by the Belgian liner Samland. The Emery was lum- ber_laden, from Moblle to San Juan, P. R. Cry of ‘Earthquake’ Stampedes London Crowd, By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 8.—Shouts of “Earthquake! Earthquake!” in a crowded street market in the East End yesterday caused a stampede in which a number of people were trampled, hundreds of caged ani- mals destroyed and miscellaneous property ruined or, stolen. The scene of the disaster was, the narrow later street, Bethnal Green, a noted center for the sale of animals for domestic pets. Local traders say that an auction was in progress in the open street when a band of toughs rushed into the throng of marketers and spectators and yelled “Earthquake!” The ‘crowd fled screaming, while the stalls were overthrown. The other caged birds and animals snd Injuring Scores property that fell in the path. of the mob suffered severely, many of the creatures being trampled to death, and many of the people fall- ing among them to be trampled themselve: Women and children shrieked, maimed dogs howled, parrots screeched and chickens squawked. A number of birds escaped, flutter- ing wildly about the street after gaining a freedom which was des- tined to end in starvation. The Dally Mall says sixty per- sons were injured, 2,000 small cage birds were either killed or escaped and 100 dogs and cats and scores of Kul'—l‘y ‘were killed. ‘The terror of the crowd was in- creased by the explosion of bottles of gasoline in one of the over- * thrown stalls, which led to the beliet that shooting vl‘% in prog- ress. The dealers assert that the whole affair was an organized rai@ Y & gang of thieves, MERELY LISTENING |Sues for Share of Heirlooms Sult to effect a division of family relics and heirlooms of George Washington and of Gen. Robert E. Le¢, commander-in-chiet of the southern Army, was insti- tuted today in the District Su- . preme Court by Mrs. Mary M. Lee of Fairfax county, Va., widow of Col. Robert E. Lee, a grandson of Gen. Lee. Named as defendants are George Bolling Lee of New York, May Tabb Lee of Fairfax, Va., and the National Savings and Trust Company of Washington, the latter being the custodian of a trunk sald to contain the precious articles. Among the contents of the trunk are said to be a sword belt, camp stool, gauntlets, flasks and brush used by Gen. Lee during the civil war; a red sash worn by Lee while a cadet at West Point; his com- mission as lieutenant general 16,000 ANTHRACITE MINERS ON STRIE ]Scranton Men Allege Griev-| ances Not Adjusted—Call 22,000 Out.” By thie Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa.. October §.—Fif- teen thousand anthracite mine work- ers employed by the. Hudson Coal Company were on strike today, ac- cording to claims of the general grievance committee representing the workers. s The employes voted to strike at a mass meeting held here Saturday night and the general grievance committee issued a call for 22,000 workers to quit at the twenty-two collieries of the company between Carbondale and Nanticoke. Failure of the company to adjust numerous alleged griev- ances was the cause of the walkout. Several of the local unions met yesterday and decided to remain at werk. Officials of the company de- clared today that half of their mines are operating. Declare 19,000 Out. At noon strike leaders claimed that 19,000 men were on strike. Accord- ing to the strikers the chief griev- ances are alleged fallure of the com- pany to adjust rate sheets in ac- cordance with the new wage contract, objection to being forced to drive gangways from twelve to twenty feet, refusal to pay double wages in tun- nels of extra size, suspension of men | who refuse to work longer than eight ! hours and objection. to a special test. system under which bosses and other Hudson - Coal - Company men enler‘ mine chambers to start new methods of cutting coal. The company refuses to discuss the alleged'grievances. Prior to leaving for the American Federation of Labor convention at Portland, Oreg., Rinaldo Cappellini, president of district one of the United Miners, expressed the hope that the men would not engage in illegal strikes, George Isaacs, vice president of the | district is said to have apparently de- cided that the refusal of the .company officials to meet the general grievance | committee of the miners warranted . the suspension. ‘It is said the com- | { { H | pany officials declined to meet the committee 8o long as three collieries of the company remained on .strike because of the refusal of the company to_discharge a miner for not.paying a.$25 fine imposed by his local.union:| for an infragtion of the union “rules. NAMED STRIKE MEDIATOR, Thomas Davis Goes to Scranton to _Ald Settlement. Commissioner of Conciliation Thomas Dayis of Pennsylvania was assigned today to the “outlaw” strike of miners in the anthracite district No. 1, near Scranton, Pa., where, about 15,000 miners walked out today. He will advise the Labor Department of his progress in effecting a settlement of thle controversy. J Officials of the Labor Department today expressed the hope that, the strike, if of major impoftance, as dis- patches appear to - indicate, ‘Will be ©of short duration. Officers of the ‘United Mine Workers of America, in the absence of President Rinaldl Capellini, president of district No. 1, have declared the strike to be an “outlawth trike, . . . . N Of George W ashington and Le signed by President Pierce, his razor, a red, cravat and a knife. The ‘trunk also contains a gold watch once owned by George Washington and two pistols sald to have belonged to the “Father of His Country.” Mrs. Lee says ap- praisers have valued the contents of the trunk at $15,000 and that her share is_worth $7,500. The plaintiff, through Attorney Sidney F. Taliaferro, tells the court that April 25, 1919, the trunk and its contents were given to Mrs. Mary Tabb Lee and her two sons, Robert E. Lee, the plaintiff’s hus- band, and George Bolling Lee. The valuables were placed with the trust company subject to order of the owners to await a division. Mrs. Lee declared the defendants declined to divide with her and she fears the trust company may honor a request of the defendants for the trunk and the valuable heirlooms be removed from the District. She asks the appoint- ment of a receiver pending the di- vision of theMrunk's contents. PUSHCART VENDORS WINRIGHT T0 SELL Judge’s Decision - Reopens Congested Area After Com- missioners Ruled It Closed. Pushcart vendors, prohibited by a recent police regulation from selling their products in the so-called con- gested area, and who have been ar- rested numerous times for ita viola- tion, today won thelr fight for the right to enter this zome. Judge McMahon today handed down an opinion which in effect sald that the Commissioners exceeded their author- ity promulgating such a regulation. The contention of counsel for de- fendants was that they are licensed street vendors and as such are en- titled to sell their goods wherever they can find customers and as such licensed vendors the District of Co- lumbia Commissioners, are without authority, in their official capacity, to make a regulation that excluded them from the public streets in the prose- cution of thelr business; that if such a regulation is enforeed that the de- fendants would be deprived of their licensed right. as authorized in their. licenses, I Columbia government demands the payment of $12.50 annually. This Tontention is upheld by Judge Me- Mahon. . There will be no more arrests of these street vendors when they make their appearance in the restricted zone. They have returned to that district on hearing of the decision of the court and are selling. Should any of them be arrested for violating this regulation and be brought to-court the case will be dismissed. However, it is not likely that the opinion of the court will be ignored by the police. PALS FREE BANDIT IN JAIL HOLD-UP Lockhart's Friefids Force Jailer to Open Cell— Posses Scour Countryside. ' By the Associated Press. JAY, Okla., October ‘8.—Five un- masked men held up the county jail here last night and released Ed Lock- hart, bank bandl The bandits south in & motor r. The actual hold-up was commit- tba by & youth not more than eighteen vears old. The other men" stationed themselves about the jail to fight off \any resistance. “Get your ‘clothes on, Ed, we've come atter you,” the youth called. “I'm dressed and ready,” was Lock- hart’s reply. Lockhart was given a gun and climbed into the automobile, whose driver had kept the engine running. The boy who held up the jailer was ized by him as a youth lving near the Pete Baker farm) six miles west of Kansas. Lockhart was cap- tured at the Baker place last Thurs- y. ¢ Lockhart - is_under twepty year: sentence for bank robbery. He I said to_have been a member of the Henry Starr gang and is suspected of having Al Spencer, bank bandit and train_robber chiet, following the death of Stare ness 6%y for which the District of |- VISIT 70 SCHOOLS IMPRESSES PLIGHT ON BUDGET CHIEFS Officials Shown Vast Over- crowding From Shortage of Building Funds. D. C. HEADS HOPE SURVEY WILL RESULT IN RELIEF Effort Made to Bring Most Serious Cases to Attention of U. S. Authorities. Conditions in Washington’s public schools due to the shortage of ac- commodations were deeply impressed on representatives of the budget bu- reau and District government au- thorities who accompanied school of- ficlals today on a tour of inspection of the school system. Schools in vir- tually all of the thirteen divisions of the system were visited, particularly those where the situation is most se- rious and in imperative need of im- provement. Although the budget bureau au- thorities made no comment after the trip, school officlals hope the result will be shown iIn the school esti- mates for the next fiscal year, the fate of which will be determined soon by Gen. Lord’s bureau. The inspection party was composed of Capt. Redmond D. Stephens, assist- ant chief of the budget bureau, di- rectly in charge of the District’s esti- mates; E. Kennedy, budget bureau investigator; Capt. John E. Wood, assistant District Engineer Commis- sioner; Ernest Greenwood, vice presi- dent of the board of education, and Superintendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou. 2 Visit Thomson School. Leaving the administration head- quarters of the school ‘system at the Franklin School shortly before 10 o'clock, the party went to the Thom- son School, at 12th and L streets, where it viewed the work on the third-story addition to the building which will give the school six more classrooms. The work on this bulld- ing, which is featured by an engineer- ing feat of raising the roof and bufld- ing the third story under it, is ex- pected to be completed before Christ- mas. The party next went to the Shaw |Junior High School on M street north- !west between New Jersey ayenue and 1st street. which is in need of im- provements, Them {twent 10 tho Tear of Dunbar High Schioob*at 1st-and N streets northwest, where is located Arm- strong High School's “portable col- consisting of ten one-room, flimsy frame structures, in which is| housed the overfiow from the latter | school. Arranged in rows of five| each, with a narrow street dividing the 'buildings on either side, this | “portable colony” gave the party the impression of a congested alley set- tlement instead of a modern high school. The party made its inspection of these foregoing buildings from Capt. Stephens’ automobile. The car was parked at the curb near each of these schools while Dr. Ballou familiarized {the members of ‘the party with the { conditions inside, as well as his plans | ‘[(or relief. I Portable Colony Studied. Among the other schools visited was the greatly overcrowded Pet- worth, the new Macfarland Junior High, which is under construction, and the Allison street “portable col- ony,” which is located at the edge of the Macfarland School site. Dr. Bal- lou pointed out that this “portable colony,” comprising four-of the one- rcom buildings, is only accommodat- ing the overfiow from the schools ot Petworth ‘and that two additional portables are needed in this location, but are not available. It was called to Capt. Stephens’ at- tention that there is an item in the school budget for the next fiscal year for the construction of an elght-room building on the site where the Alli- son street portables are located. The retention of this item in the budget will be strongly urged by the school officials when they appear before the budget bureau to defend their esti- mates. S Ballon Outlines Plan Plans for the extension of the junior high _school system, which will ulti- mately result in a 6-3-3 system of education in Washington, were out- lined to the members of the party | by Supt. Ballou. Four of these schools {are now in operatoion—the Hine, Co- | jumbla, Randall and Shaw—and two new ones are under construction—the Mactarland and the Langley. The school estimates for the next fiscal year carry items for several additional buildings of this type. |°"The junior high school extension plan is designed to give virtually every community its junior high school, which will draw its student {body from the elementary buildings lin the contiguous territory. Thus, with a complete system of junior high schools, few additional expensive sen- for high schools will be needed and the congestion will be relieved in the senior high hchools as well as the graded schools. [ Dr. Ballou and other 'school offi- clals, it is expected, will soon be called before the budget bureau to discuss schoo] estimates. ,With a first-hand knowledge of existing con- ditions in the school system, the School officials believe that Gen. Lord Will not be severe with the pruning knife. WHOLE FAMILY ENDS LIVES, POLICE BELIEVE By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 8—Police were investigating the disappearance of George J. Schiefelbein, his wife Rebecca and their infant boy. Their automobile was found last night near the Kaw river here. A note found in the car addressed to the husband sald: “We waited for you until 7 o’clock, and you did not come. We ended it all in the river. I love you so much “From Press to Home Within the Hour” my h aches. I hope your mother is satisfled.” ® Police are working on the theory that Mrs. hiefelbein drowned her- self and baby, and that the husband, upon finding the note also committed o %bodles had ‘been found this Tke Star’s ‘carrier system covers every city bl k and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday's Circulation, 89,686 . Sunday’s Circulation, 97,008 TWO CENTS. CLOSE VOTE IS SHOWN ON KITCHIN SUCCESSOR Judge Kerr Lacks 345 of Majority Over His Rivals in North Carolina Primary.” By the Ausociated Press. RALEIGH, N. C, October 8.—Ac- cording. to unofficial returns received by the News and Observer, Judge John H. Kerr of Warrenton lacked only 346 votes of having a majority, with 6 of the 110 precincts of the sec- ond disgrict still unheard from fn the special primary Saturday to deter- mine the successor to the late Repre- sentative Claude Kitchin. According to The News and Ob= server'’s returns, with the six pre- cinots missing, Kerr received 11,839 votes; R. G. Allsbrook of Tarboro, 9.696."and N. J. Rousse of Kinston, "None of ‘the candidates made state- ments coneerning the resuls of “the election, reserving words for use when the official returns are an- nounced, GOVERNORS CALLED TOHEAR, NOT TALK Ten-Hour Conference to Be Devoted to Outlining of Fed- eral Enforcement Ideas. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Governors of the several states’who | have been invited to confer with the federal government on the subject of law enforcement will be- told what is wanted by the Washington admin- istration and' virtually no time will be given for the airing of the views of the respective governors. The announcement that the entire body of governors would come to the National Capital ‘and would be here for a few hours on the afternoon of Saturday, October 20, occasioned much_surprise owing to the brief period allowed for such an important conference, but on investigation it develops that the federal authori- ties decided they wanted to do all the talking and wished particularly to avold a repetition of what occurred in the first prohibition conference, when one or two of-the governors took the Umelight and carried on a discussion of the merits of prohibi- tion itself. Politically, there is no better oppor- tunity for a man on either the wet or | dry side of the controversy to get publicity than at a governors’ confer- ence or the prohibition question itself. Broadens Scope. President Coolidge has let it be known that he wants the federal go ernment’s plans for co-operation with the states to be fully explained and that the object of the conference is to get the fullest co-operation in law enforcement. He has broadened the conference from its original program, which was to have been devoted to prohibition alone. Now Mr. Coolidge wants all questions of law enforce- ment brought to the attention of the governors. As if‘they were not satisfied with the ambunt of time and emphasis given to prohibition, the “dry” side will stage a citizenship confergnce at Washington in the days immediatsly preceding the governors® to Washington. Gov. Pinchot of Penn- sylvania is to preside and there are enough political subtleties in this oc- casion to excite already a good deal of gossip. Mr. Pinchot is a potential candidate for the presidency or vice presidency—his friends say they are aiming_for first place only. Mr. Coolidge hasn't taken as pro- nounced a stand on prohibition as has Gov. Pinchot. Nor has the Chief Exe ecutive made himself 100 per cent dry to the satisfaction of the Anti-Saloon | League as_did the late President Harding, who at Denver appealed to the people of America to cease drink- | ing intoxicants and even to give up | stocks of liquor they had lawfully acquired. This was generally regard- ed as about the most effective appeal that had come from the White House since_the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law were adopted. Will Address Meetings. There are those in the “dr; who believe President Coolidge would gladly have evaded the question of & governors' conference on prohibition if he could have gracefully done so. He found out, however, that Pre: dent Harding had pledged himself to call such a conference. Mr. Coolidge did consider for a time a plan where- by the governors would not be asked to come to Washington, but their views solicited and the federal gov. ernment's plan explained by an ex- change of memoranda. This, however, Was abandoned and the brief program of a few hours in Washington sub- stituted. Originally Mr. Harding planned a conference that would have exterfded over several days. Mr. Coolidge will, of course, speak at both the citizenship conference and the governors’ meeting. He will have an opportunity to advocate law enforcement in as general or as specific terms as he likes. So far as the drys are concerned, he will'be on trial. Will he go as far in the advo- cacy of prohibition as dges Gov. Pinchot? This will be his opfortunity to remove all doubts, for be it known Mr. Coolidge was at one time an at- torney for brewing interests in Northampton, Mass., in the days when the local option fight was at its height. Since that time his veto message of a beer bill passed by the Massachu- setts legislature’ won the comnyenda- tion of the Anti-Saloon League: Mr. Coolidge comes from a state in which the wet-and-dray question is not all one-sided, and there are those in his own following who wish he would simply come out for law enforcement and let it go at that. They do not want %4m 17 become committed to a prog.ax e€ ro modification of the ex- isting sltuation by Congress or the states. = With most questions. Mr. Coolidge can wait till the December session of Congress before he makes known his views on pending issues. On_ prohibition he will have to de- clare himself within the next ten days. (Copyright, 1998 MEMBER FOR BRITAIN. ‘Buckmaster One of Jurists to Inter- pret League Covenant. NDON, October 8.—Lord .Buck- NN Sepresent Great Britain on the commission of jurists ap- Dointed by the council of the league 5¢ nations to consider questions re- garding the interpretation of the Govenant of the league. : NAMED TO ATTEND PARLEY. . J. M. Gries, chief of the buiiding aivision of the Commerce Department, has been instructed by Secretary Hoover to attend the conference of national park superintendents at Yel- lowstone Park October 22 for the pur- pose of drafting a uniform building code for all future construction within the parks. The assignment was made 3KILLED BY TRAIN INCROSSING CRASH NEARDISTRICT LINE Man, Girl and Youth, Takoma Park, Md., Residents, Vic- tims of Accident. AUTO DEMOLISHED, BODIES DRAGGED BY LOCOMOTIVE Driver Apparently Failed to Hear Warning Bell, of Which Com- plaint Was Made. Three residents of Takoma Park, Md., occupants of a small closed au- tomobile, were instantly killed at La- mond grade crossing at 7 o'clock this morning, when the car was hit by an express train on the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rall- road, The dead: Samuel D. Coe, thirty-five years old, 114 Elm avenue, Takoma Park, Md. Miss Dorothea Hoogland, twenty- five years old, same address.. Herman Steiner, tiwenty years old, 118 Elm avenue, Takoma Park, Md. The train, the Cincinnati-Loulsville express, thirty-five minutes late, was golng sixty miles an hour, according to eyewitnesses. When it struck the machine, the engineer said, he applied his emergency brakes, but it was half a mile before he brought his heavy train to @ stop. The body of Coe and the engine of the car lodged on the pilot of the locomotive. That of Miss Hoogland was tossed aside on the westbound track, while Steiner’s body fell under the train. All of the dead were badly crushed .and mutilated. They were removed to the District morgue in the patrol wagon of the tenth police precinct. An inquest will be held at the morgue this afternoon. No arrests were made. Witnesses summoned for the inquest include members of the train crew, Edward Smith, Woodburn; Roy J. Linkins, Lamond station; J. E. Denty, 120 Van Buren street; A. B. SchecKels, 6319 Blair road; Ernest Bladen, rear of 6307 Blair road, and J. T. McKnight, 69 Eastern avenue, Takoma Park. Crossing Is Hidden. Motorists approaching Lamond crossing from the east are mot only handicapped by a left turn, but a small building and several piles of lumber and terra cotta pipe virtual- Iy shield the tracks from a clear view. The crossing is, however, pro- tected in both directions by signal lis, which ring-autematicaily. ‘@emplaint has beemw=made before that the bell does not ring ciently loud for occupants closed car to hear it. John- Hammond. who lives near the crossing, witnessed the accident. He <aid he noticed the sedan, occupled by a young woman and two men, ap- proach the crossing “at .a good speed.” Apparently failing to hear the bell, the chauffeur drove upon the tracks before he saw the ap- proaching express almost upon him. Stepping hard on the gas he tried to cross the track. The automobile was hurled high in the air and the { train continued for half a mile be- | fore it could be stopped. Nothing was left of the automo- bile but its engine, which was drag- {ged with the locomotive. Small bits of the car were scattered along the tracks. The bodies of Miss Hoog- |land and Mr. Coe were terribly | crushed. i Engineer Tells Story. | G. M. Cage, engineer of the train, | told Policeman Lineburg of the tenth precinct that he did not see the au- ](omnblle until his locomotive was al- | most on it. He said he applied the emergency brakes immediately, but the speed of his train was so great that the wheels virtually slid down | the rails for the half mile before it | stopped. Five poligemen were rushed | from the tenth précinct to the scene of the accident. The bodies were placed in the precinct patrol, which 00k them to the city morgue. The Emergency Hospital ambulance also made a quick run to the scene, could do for the victims. All had died | the instant the locomotive struck the sedan, physicians said. Conductor G. E. Selby of Baltimore was in charge of the train, and Cage. the engineer, reported off duty after the accident and went to Baltimore to attend an inquiry by railway officials. They will be present at the inquest this’ afternoon. Near Previous Wreck. The accident occurred only a short distance from the scene of the Terra Cotta wreck the night of December 30 1906, when forty-one men, women and children, passengers on 'a train_en route to this city from Frederick, Md.. were killed and, fifty more infured. An engine drawing a traigof empty cars crashed into the rear §hd of the pas- senger train that had stopped. Three cars of the passenger train were telescoped. An exhaustive inves- tigation followed, and ever since that time residents of the vicinity of Terra Cotta bave displayed an anxiety to get rid of the grade crosgings. \ LONDON GALLERY DENIES REMBRANDTS ARE BOGUS Takes - Issue With John C. Van Dyke, Who Says 19 of 21 Can- ‘vasses Are Merely Copies. By Wireless to The Star and Philadeiphia Pub- lic Ledger. Copyright, 1923, LONDON, October 8.—London art experts contradict the statement of John C. Van Dyke in his book just published that of twenty-one Rem- brandts in the National Gallery here nineteen are flat forgeries, “If the Rembrandts were forgeries the loss to the National Gallery would, of course, be enormous,” said the assistant’curator. “To give some idea of a Rembrandt's commercial value, no less a sum than $500,000 was paid for ‘The Mill' by P. A, B. ‘Widener of Philadelphia. “I note that Van Dyke says there is not a single genuine Rembrandt inany public gallery in America. We have no sort of doubt concerning_ the genuineness of our Rembrandts, It is not merely a question of tic instinct,’ for many of the paintings at’ the request of Secretary Work of j chaljenged by Van Dyke are authenti- the Iaterior Lepartment, by, cotemporary documents, but there was nothing the surgeons .