Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1923, Page 2

CANADKSWARROLE EXPREVIERS TOPL Lloyd George Thanks Do- minion Late,Today for Aid in Beating Germany. By the Associated Presi MONTREAL, P. Q. October 8.— Lioyd George will deliver the first formal address of his American- Canadian tour at & mass meeting late this afternoon in the Mount Royal arena, where he will thank Canada for its aid In winning the war. Arising early today, Lloyd George was the guest at a breakfast glven by Mayor Martin and then was taken on a drive around the city to visit indus- trial plants and points of historic in- terest. The program in Canada has been curtalled as a result of hoarse- ness which developed from his speak tng in New York city and en route here last week. Affiiction Not Serlous. The affliction id not to be seri- ous nor o require the services of a physician, but it is felt that as a pre- cautfonary step there should be a re- duction In his speaking engagements. He appears vigorous, with face tan- ned by sun and.wind. The program arranged for his American tour, it 13 said, at this time at least, Tequires no moditication. v Hlis program today included attend- ance at a luncheon tendered by Sir Frederick Willlams-Taylor, general nager of the Bank of Montreal, _and t a dinner as the guest of Lord Shaughnessy, chalrman of the board i the Canadian Pacific railroad. will leave for Ottawa tomorrow. rope is in the midst of a grim struggle between hope and despalr, and in that struggle is becoming ma- terlalistic, Mr. Lloyd George declared in an address yesterday. Plague of Materialism. Speaking briefly at open-alr serv- fces, during which he turned the firat sod for the new West Mount Bap- tist Church, he declared he was glad Montreal and Canada were mnot the victims of “the plaue of materialism which is threatening to engulf the world."” “I am glad,” he adde here do not live by bread Accompanied by Dame Margaret and Miss Megan Lloyd George, the former prem teénded morning services at the First Baptist Church and then went to the home of Lansing Lewis, president of the W s of St. David, for a rec He was the guest af lunch of Senator J. B. P. Casgrain, where he met prominent #rench-Canadians, and in the evening was the dinner guest of Lord Athol- stan, proprietor of the Montreal Star. Will Conserve Strength. Rexlizing that he had a strenuous program of several weeks before him 3 Lloyd Gearge made it cles he intended: to conserve his strength and' his volce. At all stops made on Saturday by his special train between New York and Montreal, he was greeted by great crowds, while bursts of cheering and applause greeted him upon his arrival in thls city. Wherever he went yesterday he was surrounded by eager hundreds who had waited patiently to vbtain a glimpse® of him. Traveling in_an open automoblle from the Mount Roval Hotel to the First Baptist Churel erday morn- ing, he passed between a continuous line of people, to whose cheers he re- sponded by dofiing his silk hat and bowing. At the close of the church service, at, which the Rev. Dr. M. F. MecCutcheon preached the sermon, he was formally: welcomed to Canada by speakers im behalf of the Baptists of Ontario_and Qugbec and responded with a words ot appreciation, in which he cgpressed his pleasure at being present. LONDON WEIGHS GREETING. 2t you one." Political Effect Seen From Recep- tion Lloyd George Gets. to The Staf and Philadelphia Pub- By Wire ¢ Ledger. Copyright, 1923. LONDON, Oetober 8.—News of Lloyd George's reception in America i3 eagerly recelved herc by friends and foes of the former premier. The London papers give ocomprehensive accounts of his arrival and enter- tainment in New York and mention tho fact t American newspapers devoted from one to two paxes to of the scenes which marked hig arrival. The fact that the tory government just now ix coming in for angry criticism ‘beoaush of its alleged lack dequite poli or any policy in the face of the precarious European situation makes tho reac- tion of the United States and Canada The | all the more interesting here. politicians are watching closely to see how Lloyd George will utilize de- velopments on his tour in rehabili- tating his own political fortunes. FRENCH AUTOS HIGHER. Price Increase Blamed on Rising| Raw Materials’ Cost. PARIS, October 8-—~French automo- biles were found to be marked up on | the average of about 10 per cent when “the 1924 models were presefited at the | automobile salon, officially rated by President Millerand. The increased prices are mainly at- tributed to the steadlly mounting m;z‘ts of raw materials, particularly coke. inaugu- . September Circulation l District of Columbia, ws.: FLEMING NEWBOLD, Business Manager of THE EVENING and BUNDAY STAR, does solemnly r that the actual number of coples of the paper named, sold and distrib- uted duriug the month of September, A.D. 1923, was as follows: DAILY. Coples. Days. a4 11 18 Days. Coples. 1 20713 91516 ESRSLINCEIRSES b2 SRNERREEES 2,221,603 SIS B S W e R s Less adjustments... i VENGEANCE MOTIVE SEEN AN EX-SOLDIER’S DEATH Police Seek Comrade of Charles Mc- Gregor, Found Decapitated After Father's Statement. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., October 8.—De- tives Investigating the murder of Charles McGregor, whope decapitated body was found last week, are await- ing word from the disciplinary bar- racks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans,, in checking up a statement made by James H. MecGregor, father of the slain youth, to the’ effect that his son was involved with another soldier in a case before court martial during his Army service. McGregor turned state’s evidence and recelved a light sentence, ac- cording to the father's statement to the police, while the other soldier, he said, was given a three-year seritence, and 'had been recently discharged. It was this soldier, according to McGregor, who tattoed a number of figures and inscriptions on his son's arms. | — VENEZUELA SEES REVENGE IN MEXICO Says Reason Assigned for Severance of Relations Was “Pretext” for Rupture. i By the Associnted Press. CARACAS, Venezuela, October 8.— The action of the Mexican government in suspending the exequatur of the Ven- azuelan minister at Mexico City, accord- ing to the Venesuslan minister of for. elgn affairs, was not in conformity with international procedure, and has led to the belief that the exclusion of a Mexi- can theatrical company from Venezuela, upon which the action of the Mexican government was based, was only a pre- text for a rupture by elements there openly hostile to Venezuela The foreign minister declares that the government has reason to believe that undesirable forelgners have been se- oretly attempting to enter Venezuela by intermingiing with theatrical troupes. This called for special police vigilance, resulting in the uflluq{on of the Mexi- can company. TRis was the unques- tioned right of Venezuela, the minister declared, involving no hostility to Mes. ico, which had neither asked for an e planation nor formulated a diplomatic protest. 2 Mexican consular affairs here have been entrusted to the American con- sulate. SPEAKS HERE IN CAUSE Capt. 0. P. Beeman Seeks.to Have More English Histories in American Schools. For the purpese of promoting a apirit of greater comradeship between the United States and Great Britain, Capt. O. P, Beeman, sccretary of the Reunion of the British War Missions to the United States, arrived in Washington today, where he will re- mafn for several days, during which time he will make various speeches. Capt. Beeman desires that more American_histories be placed in the Schools of England and more English historles be placed in the American schools. He lectured upon this sub- ject today before the Women's Na- tioral Press Club at the Cosmos Club. Tomorrow he will place a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldler at Arlington and hold a reception at the General Federation of Women's Clubs in_the evening. Wednesday he will be received by Preatdent Coolldge, following a talk in the morning at St. Alban's School for Bovs. In the afternoon he will meet the editors of the National Geo- graphie Soclety, following which he will be thé honor guest at a_ tea by the American Assoclation of Univer- sity Women and In the evening he wiil speak at the dinner given by the board of governors of the Arts Club. OKLAHOMA CALM AS SESSION NEARS Legislature to Convene on Thursday—Martial Law Ends in Tulsa. ’ By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, October i 8.—~Oklahoma's political elvil war was lulled today by a calm enveloping both gubernatorial and legislative eadquarters on the eve of an extraor- dinary session of the state assembly lled for Thursday by Gov. J. C. ton. Gov. Walton's ecall demanded in- yectigation of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklehoma on the basis of testimony glven before various military courts since August 16 last. Impeachment proceedings begun by the house and laid befofe the sen- ate as a jury may be legally instituted at any time, it is generally believed. The Walton call theréfore apparently brings Investigation of his owsP office dne week nearer. TROOPS LEAVE TULSA. TULSA, Okla, October 8.—DMartial law, whick came upon Tulsa county as & llen August 14, passed like a lamb in the early hours of the Sab- bath yesterday. Tulsa military commission numbered 121 at the time of the last public statement from the inquiry boar: dated September 23. Of thirty 1 formations filed. by the military in the county or district courts, foure teen have reached thé stage of pre- liminary hearing. Because important state witnesses were missing in the | court hearing, five of the fourteen cases have been dismissed for want of evidence, and two have been in- definitely postponed for the same )r\euor;}. T}}I‘bmremalnln! 86ven mer ave been held for criminal tr: oharges of riot. on i i OF BRITISH-U.S. AMITY| l SA0 KUN FLECTIONCommissioners Will Back Fighs to Eliminate [LLEGAL S CHARGE Title of. New Chinese Presi- dent Attacked by 158 Mem- bers of Parliament.’ BY JAMES L. BUTTS. By Cable to The Stay and Chicago Daily News. {J Ooby. ight, 1928, SHANGHALI, October 8.—One hundred and fifty elght members of parlia- ment, following a meeting here today, issucd @ manifesto scoring Marshal Tsao Kun, new Chinese president, saying he secured the presidency by fllegal means and declaring. that members of parllament, who are re- sponsible for his election, are un- worthy of representing tho Chinese people, Plan Opposition Program. The same members of parllament already have held confefences with former President Li Yuan-Hung and with former Premier Tang Shao Y1 in endeavors to formulate a program in opposition to President Tsao Kun. 1t is belleved that a strong coalition will be formed agalinst the Chilhi party, which is responsible for Tsao Kun's_election. Former .President Ll Yuan-Hung denifes that he will make any efforts to organize a separate government of south China. A mass meeting in which 5,000 mer- chants and students patticipated here today also enacted resolutions pro- testing against Tsao's election. ‘Proclaim - “National Disgrace.” It was resolved by the meeting that all Chinese flags will be kept at half mast on October 10, the tenth annl- yersary of the birth of Chineso re- public, as emblematic of the “national disgrace” resuitant from Tsao Kun's election. Plans also were formulated for enlisting the afd of southwestern and northeastern provinces in a con- centrated move to oust the new pres- tdent and dissolve parliament. All Chinese newspapers here bitter- 1y condemn the action of parliament in electing Tsao Kun and _declare members were actuated by bribery. HALT ANNOUNGED INZR-3BUILDING Failure of German Firm to Complete Zeppelin Disap- points U. S. Navy. By tho Associated Press, BERLIN, October 8.-—The Zeppelin airship ZR-3, being bullt in Fried- richshafen for the United States gov- ernment, cannot be completed before early next spring, it was announced by the Zeppelin Company today. delay has been caused by difficulties ot a technical nature in the May- bach engines and other difficulties of a non-technical nature, the an- nouncement stated. Consequently the trial flights projected for this fall have been postponed. Navy Oficers Iiisappointed. Disappointment was expressed by naval officials today upon receipt of confirmatjon of reports that delivery of the ZR-3 by her German builders would be postponed until next spring. #lans had_been_completed for the addition of the ZR-3 next month to the Navy's experimental equipment and to have her in some active com- mercial gervice by tho first of the year. A dispatch to the Navy Department, announcing the abandonment of the proposed transatlantic flight in No- vember, follows:" “Owing to technical difficulties en- countered in the perfection of the new Maybach engine and other nat- ural difficuities of a non-technical na- ture, the Zeppelinh Company does not expect to complete the ZR-3 before the edrly part of 1924. Due to the above arrangement and on account of the unfavorable weather conditions often encountered in Germany in win- ter, the Zeppelin Company has decided to ‘postpone the -trial of this airship \;?"ljl“thc early part of the spring of A Friedrichshafen dispatch on Oc- tober 5 sald there was a disposition among the workers of Friedrichshafen to nurse the job. of constructing the glant alr cruiser, as the completion of the alrship would mean an end to the fndustry In Friedrichshafen, the treaty of Versailles providing for the destruction of the plant after the ZR33 is finished. SIX MINERS KILLED IN GAS EXPLOSION By the Assoclated Pross. DENVER, Col, October S.—An ex« plosion of gas in the Mid-West coal mine at Palisades, Col, yesterday, killed six of the seven men working in the mine. The dead arc: Robert P. Scott, manager; J. M. W. B. Keys and Robert T. Keys, and W. B. Keys and Robert Keys, and George McKee. McKee had entered the service of the company today and {this was his first shift. The government mine rescue crew that was fighting the fire in the Book- cMff mine arrived an hour after the explosion. squad, wearing helmets, entered the mine and located four bodies. One body was recovered yesterday. Jim Benda, the other miner in the workings at the time of the explosion, ‘was badly burned. He crawled three- quarters of a mile through the smoke and gas to safety. It Is said he will recover. The usual force at the Mid-West mine i8 forty men, but only a short clean-up crew was at work yester- day. Superintendent Scott had en- tered ‘the mine on an inspection trip. The explosion wrecked the mine badly, it s said. The mine entry is far up on the side of the Grand Mesa, above Pallsades. % ROVING BOY, HOME FROM SEAS, The | jquainted with any of the persons to Members of the rescue | - Grade Crossings Menacing Several Yet Remain in Outlying Districts. Slash in Budgeit| Halted Plans Heretofore. The three District Commissloners united today in declaring their willing- ness to fight for the elimination of all | grade grossings that still exist in Washington. 1t developed at the District building today that for two years the Commis sloners have had before them an esti- | mate of $65,000 for the construction | of a viaduet to carry Van Buren street | under the Baltimore and Ohio tracks which would eliminate the necessity for persons crossing the tracks at nond station, where today's fatal| accident occurred. But last year, the Commissioners <aid, the ftem was cut out because of the restrictions placed upon their esti- | mates, and it is understood that the | $65,000 has been omitted from the reg- | ular estimates again thls year. Following a vigorous campaign many | years ago, District officials and cfti-| zens' associations succeeded in having | Congress abolish all of the grade| crossings within the thickly settled portion of the National/Capital, Cite Many Remaining. Ohio express struck an automohile tos The cross shows where the accldent oc of train and automobil lodged on the locomotive pilot and fo #top half a mile away. engineer department say, number of highways. Maj. Bell, Engineer Commissioner, indicated today that he wotld give immediate consideration to a pro- posal that the engineer department make a survey of all points where roads cross railroad tracks and find out how much it would cost to elimi- crosses a Today’s tragedy, howevgr, has served | to emphasize the fact that in the out- | lying suburbs of the city several of | these dangerous crossings remain in | use. At Michigan avenue and Sth street, Brookliand, there is a grade crossing over which, seores of machines paes daily, There is another at Bates road | in Brookland and one in Takoma Park | There is another rallroad line that {runs across the southeast extremity {of the District, which, officials of the | STOKES DIVORCE TRIAL S OPENED Wife, Smartly Dressed, in Court as Tentative Jury Is Selected. Walter C. Irey, secretary of the Takoma Park Cftizens' Askociation, wrote to the Commissioners in Sep- tember, 1922, calling attention to. the need for a safe crossing in the vicln- 1ty of Lamond station. In reply Daniel E. Garges, secre- tary to the board of Commissioners, informed Mr. Irey that the Commis- sioners already had prepared an timate of the cost of building a via- duet at Van Buren street The letter said. in part: “I am directed by the Commission- LAUREL ENTRIES | | | two-year-olds; five and Whiskalong ..... 116 onfallon 115 rince Hamlot. .. 115 Goldmawr . 115 Suppliant 115 Indian Roo 15 { Rolana 18 1H. P 5 en 33.8. Cosden entry. SECOND RACE—Purse, $1,300: fillies and mares; three.yesr-olds and up; mile and a sixteenth. Jewell V D.. By Jiminy Ty Belphrizonia . *Thessaly *Brilliance 107 *Haidee ~ THIRD RACE—Purse, $1,300; claiming; two-year olds; six furlongs. ‘one-half’ furlongs. $Warrenton . Beaux Art. NEW YORK, October 8.—The second trial of the divorce sult'of W, E. D. Stokes, wealthy hotel proprietor, agalinst Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes began to- day before Circult Justice Mahoney with both principals present in the courtroom. A dogen feet from Mr. Stokes, who was dressed in black, and in vivid confrast to the somberness of his garb, sat his wife, modishly dressed in a blue traveling gown and veil, & chic blue turban, gray shoes and .sheen stockings and furs. A short time after court opened twelve tentative jurors were selected as satisfaotory to the pldintiff. Prior to. their selection, all the tallsmen were assembled before the judge and were asked whether they were ac- Quiok 102 : R, Scherer and S, Louis entry. udley Farm entry. FOURTH RACE—Purse, $1500; for three- yoar<lds; one mile and seveuty yards. Golden Rule. 110 Sunguest . Luminist. 110 Glentilt 107 Valley of CE—The Calvert handicap; purse, $2,000; for all ages; six furlbngs, 120 Blazes . 118 tWellinder 114 Apex . 4Throe pounds claimed for rider. SIXTH RACE—Purse, $1,30014 claiming; for three-year-olds and up; sif furlongs. e d in the case as princie be_mentioned in D o pals; corespondents or attorneys. The courtroom was crowded to capacity with witnesses and specta- tors, many of the latter stylishly dressed women. The first talesman examined by Max D..Steuer, counsel for Mr. Stokes, was Edward W. Hilchc;mk, in the arage business and a former con- B ioiion engineer. After he. had been questioned as to whether he would be biased against the testi- imony of a negro, he was accepted as foreman of the jury. Steuer Questions Venire. One of the questions Mr. Steuer asked talesman was: “If it is shown that an indictment has been found against one of the parties in this ac- tion in a foreign state, would that have an Influence on your verdict?’ He also asked whether the fact that Mr. Stokes had brought the suit would influence them. Samuel Untermyer, counsel for Mrs. Stokes, interrogating the talesmen, asked 'whether tnethlogild hse‘ ‘lln- fluenced by the fact that Mrs. Stokes # . P eesrrisd & man much older than | Results of the °°m9“‘";= sxhnl herself. He also asked them whether nation of candidates for the 1923-25 the testimony of a few witnesses K band leaders’ course at the Army Mu- would in their minds discredit that of | siec School have been announced. The & large number of witnesses. i examinations were held at Washing- torneys for both sides agreed |ton. barracks, September 20, 21, 22 not to bring into question the legitl- land 24. The successful candidates are 108 108 SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $1,800; claiming; {i‘.".‘.’;.’.‘f""""' azd up; one mile and & wapie . 116 *Vitamin m High 8 D114 *Bmarty . BE rorimer . e Fitarue *Gondolier ....... 111 *Poor Bport. *Apprentice allowance olaimed, ‘Weather clear, traok fast. WIN IN TEST FOR TUITION IN ARMY. MUSIC SCHOOL (Successful Condidates in Recent Competition for Band Leader's Course. 3 Upper: Grade crossing at Lamond st Lower: All that was left of the sedan after the wreck. nate them with bridges or viaducts.| FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,300; for maidens; | Lives in District ] | svliables of their last name: m, D, C., where a Baltimo: y, killing its three occupants inw curred. The two arrows show direction This motor was und after the train was brought to a | {ers to inform you that, while they recognize the desirability of con- | structing a suitable crossing at this i point, it was not possible, with the |pressure of other items of relatively |greater importance and the strict | Timitation of the bureau of the bud- | get on estimates of appropriations to include the item.” |, The $65.000 item was placed before the city heads by the engineer de- | partment this summer, but it was re- | ported at the District building today that this was one of the items elim |nated in bringing the original esti- | mates down from $32,000,000 to $25, {000,000 at the direction of the budget | bureau. Commissioners Rudolph, Oyster and Bell each made the statement today {that Le was in hearty accord with the desire to have all grade crossings abolished. DRY ACT BIG ISSUE INSENATORIAL RACE ‘Candidates to Succeed Dil- on Volstead Act. By the Associated Press. prohibition issue has figured largely in the campaign for the republican nomination for United States senator {from Vermont, which ends with a spe- cial primary tomorrow. The Anti-Saloon League has in- dorsed Porter H. Dale, who opposes | changing the Volstead act. Mr. Dale | resigned as representative to run for senator. Another candidate, John W. Red- mond, raflroad attorney, favors up- holding the eighteenth amendment, but has expressed the belief that the alcohollc content of beverages can be increased beyond the percentage al- lowed under the Volstead act without making them intoxicating. Stanley C. Wilson, a third eandidate, has aeserted that he would have the Volstead act administered “with com- mon sense.” The fourth candidate, Marshall Hap- £ood, is running on a forest conserva- tion platform. The successful candidate at the No- vember election will have the seat of the late William P. Dillingham. Park H. Pollard has no opposition as the democratic candidate, ELECTRAGISTS GATHER FOR CONVENTION HERE Approximately 800 Delegates Ex- pected at Sessions to Continue Until Friday. Approximately 800 persons from all parts of the United States and Can- ada will attend the twenty-third an- nual convention of the Assoclation of Electragists, International, which opened with a meeting of the execu- tive committee of the organization at the Hotel Washington today. The first general session of the con- vention will take place in the hall of pations at the hotel tomorrow morn- MONTPELIER, Vt., October 5.—The | MRS. WYLIE WEDS W.R. BENET, POET Former D. C. Society Woman .in Third Matrimonial Venture. By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, October §.—A third romance in the life of Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylle, daughter of iHenry M. Hoyt, solicitor general upder President Taft, was revealed today in the announcement of her marriage here last Friday to Willlam Rose Benet, poet. e When she wds a' Washingtop - belle Miss Hoyt' married Phillp 8. Hichborn, wealthy writer and attorney, in 1996, Next door.to the home they chose lived Mr. and Mre. Herace Wylie. Four ' years later ‘Washington was startled to ‘learn that Mrs. Hichborn had eloped with Wylle to Europe. Hichborn, the son of an admiral, com- mitted sulcide. Wylle and Mrs. Hich- born, llving in Corsica with their | three ¢hildren, were married in 1916. | Three years later the Wylies sepa- rated; the wife obtained a divorce and | came to New York to take up literary work. STIRRED D. C. SOCIETY. Mrs. Hichborn Later Wedded Man She Eloped With. The marriage of Mrs. Elinor Hoyt | Hichborn Wylle, whose romances have {often stirred Washington society, is { believed here to have been the culmi- {nation of a romance. begun through {mutual literary work, following Mrs. | Wylie's residence in New York, after {having secured her divorce from {Horace Wylie of this city. | Soclal circles were shocked in 1911 {when Mrs. Hichborn ran off with { Wylle, going to Europe, where they {lived as Mr. and Mrs. Wyborn, using {a combination of the first and last ‘The fol- lowing year, Mr. Hichborn, who had entered sulf for & divorce, naming 4 as corespondent, committed at_the home of his sister, ul 8. Pearsall, 1102 street. | long time Mrs. Wylie. whose Ihushand had eloped with Mrs. Hich- | born, refused to allow her husband a | divorce, but changed her mind in 1916 iand secured a divorce herself. The ame year the “Mr. and Mrs. Wyborn." { who had three children born to them, | were married and became Mr. and Mrs. Wyl In 1919 th returned from Cor- sica, where they had been living, to {ashington. A short time later Mrs. ylie sued her husband for a divorce, alleging desertion. The final decrea was awarded her last March, and since that time she has been engaged in literary work in New York city. A marriage eng e Benet's sister, Miss Hoyt, to Lieut. F. lark of the British roval mavy, was broken off abruptly the day before the we ding, May 15, 1923, no definite rea- son being glven. JURORS 70 RENEW WEBB DEATH PROBE Evidence on Poison in Wom- an’s Stomach Expected to Be Presented. cMichael ! ‘WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., October §.— The grand jury investigation into the death of Mrs. Gertrude Gorman Webb, wealthy society woman, who dled at the Westchester - Biltmore Country Club, in Rye, N. Y., thirteen day ago, will be renewed today with the promised introduction of evidence that a “certain person” dissolved poi- sonous tablets and gave the solution | to Mrs. Webb for some time prior to {her death. | Dr. Willlam J. Mever, who 2ttended {Mrs. Webb during the Jast month of her life, stated last night that the evidence was in the form of a state ment he declares sho made to him Jjust before she died. Dr. Alexander O. Goettler, toxicol- ogist of Bellevue Hospital, who ex- amined ‘parts of the body, will_read the report of his findings, which Show: that some poison was 1n the body although not enough to cause deat! without contributory causes. Westchester county authorities stated they did not expect the grand jury to return a murder indictment, but sald they looked for a sudden new turn to the case, with an indict- ment alleging one 'or more lesser crimes. The two nurses who attended Mre. Webb “are .expected to testify today, as is Mrs. Robert S. Johnstone, wife of a former New York judge, and Dr. Meyer. The physician has indicated he has a quantity of detafled testi- mony and evidence which he did not disclose when he appeared before the grand jury last week. LABOR BODY SCORES LEADER OF RADICALS Chicago Federation Denounces Wil- Liam Z. Foster, Charging Hypoc- risy and Publicity Seeking. that By the Aseoctated Press. CHICAGO, October §~William Z. Foster, radical labor leader, vesterday was denounced’ at a meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor after he charged' the recent state convention was one of the most reactionary labor meetings ever held, and that its re- jection of amalgamation of labor unions, & new labor party and recog- nition of soviet Russla did not repre- sent the sentiment of the working men of Illinols. Speaker after speaker accused Fos- ter of hypocrisy, of antagonism to the labor movement and of publicity { it doomsd; | ton i With and About., . CAPITAL’S GUESTS It’s not the failure of his crops. nor prices hard to bear, but the farmer’s inoressed taxes that are making him despairt 5 At least eo thinks C..C, Hanch of Indianapolis, vice president of the Na- tional Automobile, Chamber of Com- merce, and one of the most widely known automotive engineers in the country, who is making a short stay at the Hotel La Fayette, Mr. Hanch is chairman of the taxa- tion committee of the N. A. C. C., and is in Washington to fight against war excise taxes. The former chief of the automotive products’ section of the war industries board is con- stantly in touch with midwestern farmers “The Indlana farmer—and for that matter those in other agricultural states—is being taxed to the hilt” #aid the engineer as he made little rings with his pencil. “Aside from the tremendous increase In state taxes he is forced to meet a war excise levy every time his automobile gets out of gear, and his oft-heard y of ‘hard times' is more attributa- ble to this than to anything pertain- ing to crops or prices. For instance, & 120-acre furm in Marion county, my state, is taxed 3600 a year at present, where in 1914 the owner was assessed but $120. Add to this Uncle Sam's 5 per cent ‘misfortune” tax every time his flivver gots fidgety. and he just naturally up and yelps ‘Wolf." Otlierwise, general farming condi- i tions in Indiana are quite go0od.” Mr. Hanch was optimistic over the strides in new automoblie machinery during the past eight months. “It has also been 4 record-breaking year for automobile production.” he added He said that everybody was hard at work in his section, and all ap- peared well satisfied with the ad: ministration. “On their own merits modest men are dumb.” Several days ago mention was mede in this column of Prof. M. Richard Schuster of Germany, noted chemist who, after visiting his son in Macon, Ga., was so enraptured with America that he had decided to remove his $100,000,000 laboratories from Berlin to this country and remain here the rest of his days. Not once during the course of his talk did Prof. Schuster Tefer to any specific work of his oW, touching for the most part on gene: conditions in his homeland. By the merest coincidence it was learned later in a chat with former Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia at the Shorcham Hotel that the German is the Inventor of a patent that promises to revolutionize electrical , and_ that not only has an syndicate been formed in to place the “child of his brain” on the market, but patents have been applied for fo protect the vention in this country. I D dehuster .15 & remarkable man,” sald Senator Smith. “He was an instructor at the University of | Agmich ror, i Ye b stats elightes o W make |55a Eore, for Swhat will be Germsny's will be Georgia’s gain. 10:?\ method has long been sought, but never reached, to prevent produc- tion of gas in batteries, but the Munich wizard has undoubtedly solved the problem. I will represent him In this | country, and as soon as arrangements can be made he will take up his resi- dence in the south. He has applied or citizenship paers. o e further learned that the former governor and cabinet officer will be the legal adviser for Peru in that country's forthcoming arbl- tration with Chile. “I have not Been able to leave my offices here in Washington all sum- mer, because of business, but expect to return home shortly, where three childen ahd seven grandchildren are waiting,” added Mr. Smith. Like all true Georgians, the tall attorney enthused over the growth of Atlanta, and said:he could talk un- ¥ on the wonderful strides faken by that city during the past few years, -“We have a regular city down there, my hoy, and the first thing you want to do is pay us a visit. Oh, yes, conditions are won- ! derul in our section right now. Cot- selling for 30 cents a pound, menufacturing is great, and all told we have no complaint whatever. And out came the cigars. There may he many more interest ing vs to utilize the fleeting moments of a busy day than by inter- viewing a member of the tail-end base ball elub that has just finished {ts last game of the season, but wien that player happens to be Howard Shanks, the clas thrid-sacker of the Boston - Americans, it is quite nother matter. = Howard gave eleven of his best cars to the sport-loving populdce of this fair city, and during that time made hosts of friends by his:clean- cut, gentlemanly behavior, so, when the Boston Red Sox were about to cheek - out of the Raleigh Hotel it would have been nothing if not dis- ! eourteous to let him get away without a bit of a pow-wow. “1.lov- the old town, pal whis- perad - the brown-eved Monaca lad who during his stay here enjoyed & per<onal acquaintance and was highly Thought of by the late President, ail members of hig cabinet and Secretary George Christian. “Boston is all right in a way, but, gee, I wish I were I?y.:k hol‘:'nnke most of his fellow players in the American League, H?Wl{d rather fancies John Joseph McGraw's husky Glants to put the skids_under Miller Huggins' ~walloping Yank: MeGraw has a tough bunch to beat aughed the Penneylvanian, as he hopped into a taxl. “Remember me to all the boys.” Sénator Oscar Underwood of- Ala- bama 1s unquestionably the outstand- ing chofce of Tennessee for the demo cratic presidential nomination, and aceording to Thomas J. Tyne, well known lawyer of Nashville, the atate’s delogates will go to the ‘convention instructed to stick until the last for thérn legislator. oy me. who served as special assistant to Attorney General Palmer fo Investigate the Old Hickory pow- dor plant during the war, ran up to Washington to deliver an address at the recent insurance men's banquet and is stopping at the New Willard Hotel. 2§ most enthusiastic_over the He was o rowth - of Nashville remarkable. & . desthring T the past few year: A ¥he Tannessco caplital was fast | being_ transformed from a banking center’ to an _industrial metropolis, With the population of nearly 180.000. “Building in_Nashville “has_ been unprecedented in the last.year,” sald Mr. Tyne, “We are- going right ahead. - Conditions in ail sections .of e ‘state are in tip-top shape, farf- ers are happy over bumper crops and. all told, seldom as the community a8 a whole enjoyed better prosperity.” THE MIXER. NAVY DAY INDORSED BY NATIONAL LEADERS ‘Hoover, Gompers and Capper Ex- t i 1 ¥ i press Approval of Staff Sergts. John A. Grable.and Ken- | ing, at which time they ‘Will be wel- | seeking. Total daily net circulation. Dalily average net pals 1ation Dally & copies for service, etc. Daily average net ciromation. § e 2700808 Less adjustménts,.'i... Total Surday net olfemiation. Tous idasv. gy cligpiaden: Average hiituber ot Sovt Service, ete.: o Average Sunday net ‘ciroula- tion . ..A.m iy |gervice on ships goin 9 ANSWERS HIS MOTHER’S PRAYER Back home from an odyssey to En- | avenue and 10th street northeast. A gland, France, Germany and contln-x;!;tl:iu strategist, he took one of his ental Europe, bringing-to his parents| friends In his confldence and made Kniok knacks, mementoes and & sense | home® He realiy Aidnt moed to do i of vast rellef, last night came fifteen- | Open ‘arms ‘were waiting for him. year-old Norval Taylor Anderson, son| c‘{:‘ et d’l'r.i:. 0:;.!':0 ;"‘:fig trip of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur M. Anderson. | (hat"his parents, Knew he. was o1 Mrs. Anderson sald today that his|right. and then fo returh and “ship return whas-iit answer to her prayers. | Over. 3 e o0 R Shortly after his disappearance |, Fie¢ Walked overito his piano—which weeKs ago, the boy sent wWord to his ?‘l! b(em.lh\]l; 3:1! ::{lflenwlntu hig eparture. He i pirente: that hp. had enilated for.|meloaies and ariag. e looked o abroad. He |the pleased lon on his mother's upon his return home, that he | face and heard the words of plead- ‘bad mailed cards from fore m coun- tries, but his parents had led tp ing she poured outito him. He met Tecelve them. AR of ips. o ool 3 e came back home late yesterday and visited the Ingram Memorial Con- just now and—he tore up gregational Church, at Massachusetts o ticket, .. tae return b3 how gool old northeast was looking'| macy of the two Stokes children. MRS. A. D. MIDDLETON DIES ‘Was Member of D. C. Society of , Colonial Dames. Mrs. A. D. Middleton died here last Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lucian Dent Booth. A’ daughter of the late Col D. D. Tompkins, Mrs. Middleton was born in New Orleans, La., in 1865. In,1884 she married Austin_Dickenson Mid diston of Brooklyn, N. Y. Until aff Mr. Middleto: dbath in 1917 they lived - in New- York city, when Mrs. iddleton here and made her B on. hor. daughter sha leaves Besides her three grandchildren. Mrs. Middleton was a member of the Soclety of Co- al.. Dames, .the . Society = of the Club of Colonial Dames. | Daughters of Holland Dames and the ti comed to the oty by Tranklin J. Bell, Engineer Commisioner of the Distrizt of Columbia. This'morning the executive commit- tee considered and -liscussed plans for the administration of the organi- zation during the coming year. The association, which is made up of elec- trical contractors and dealers, will continue tn convention until Friday. LICENSE VOTES IN LEAD. neth B. Watts, Sergt. Horace E. William ' E. Rice and lasy) John B. Veron- neau. - 5 In. addition to these candidates for the band-leadeérs’ course, the follow- ing warrant officers, all band leaders, are detalled to tend the special course of one. year's duration at the Army Music Béhool: Myer Cohen, Frank A. Bowen, Simon A. Dapp, Ete Innocenzy, Simon: Tresing, Louis J. Yassel. ~Warrant Officer Yassel is leader of the orchestra of the ‘Army Band, which is also staf at Washington barracks, Master Sergt. Robert “W. Mueller, llllmnhlblnd leader of thé United States litary ~Academy at West Point, also has been ‘detailed to the Arm‘yl Musi¢ School for the. melnl\ ban eaders’ course. Statistics show that xnine-tenths of he women of /China cannot write galr own names. Q' Liquor System !nvqrpd. Figures thus far recéived on the voting on 'the liquor question show hat 169,688 votes have been cast in vor of wntlnu:gu- otl:h- u"'""i conse syatem; o B mntion and 12,050 1a. favor of stals mansgement, e Australian Figures Show Present Australis, October 8.— | &nd “You have been boring from within long emough. Now tear up vour card and bore from the outside Oscar Nelson, vice president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Chicago: al- derman, declared in dénouncing Fos< ter. “Capitalists of America have spent millions and millions of dollars con- Spiring to weaken the labor move- ment, but all of them together have not done as much toward that end as Willlam Z, Foster." Nictor A. Olander, secretary-treass urer of the Illino{s Federation .of Labor, in an address that lasted an hour, ‘asserted Foster's union educa~ tional league and the Iliinois federa- tion ure antagonistic one to the other, joged the league's purpose s strife among workers. tion of soviet Russia, s0 dear to Mr. Foster's dectared, “would be & rec; ism. ere Who' want, ‘ oo “fio'le *“Reco which 16 heart” ognition ot commur mt bs Us hér League’s Plans. ; Indorsement of representatives of businegs, labor and the farmer inter- ests for the proposed national cele- bration of October 27 as Navy day was announced today ‘by the Navy League fbrough the receipt of com- mendatory letters from Secretary Hoover, Samuel Gompers and Senafpr Capper’ of Kansas. Since “nations are like individual Mr. Gompers wrote istant Secre- tary Roosevelt, there will ever be occasions when' “a mation fhust fend her people and institutions” "It fs- fhe American hopel tho veteran labor leader ddded, “that the Navy shall be the envoy of peace not only of our country, but of the whrld.” 3 I Senator Capper expressed his opin- lon that th,i “relative naval ro\ur (of' the United States) should-" be maintained at the highest possib] ficiency"™