Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1923, Page 4

' 4 POISON HUM KILL 5 MEN IN ONE TOWN Three Others in Critical Con- dition—Verdict Blames Fusel Oil. ssociated Press. PANA, TIL., October 12.—Five men are dead and three others are In a serious condition after having drunk a quantity of poisonous liquor described as “the | color of whisky” in soft drink parlors) here last Tuesday night. The dead are: Dwight Eilers, fifty, of Towerhil, Iil., grain and stock dealer; George Baldwin, ; forty, Pana, insurance agent;; Edward M. Gaughan, forty-nine, contracting painter, Pana; Charles E. Gaughan, thirty-two, Blue Island, Ill., and Edward Bichl, forty-five, a local building con: tractor. Two Critically ML Maurice Clark forty-five, stock buyer ra, and a foreigner whose name has not been asccrtained, are critically | ill_at a hospital, presumably from the effacts of the liquor. | Reports of other persons in nelghbor- ing towns having been poisoned by “white mule” whisky were reaching Pana today An inqu of held yesterday afternoon over the body of Edward Gauzhan, who was the first to dle, and a verdict of Geath from “fuself ol or wood +lcohol sold as ‘white mule.’ wbtained a ace of John Tokoly and at Mat sace™ returned. v o at Intervalx. The verd ased on the testi- 1ony of ¢ ughan, nephew of Zdward Gaug who himself died averal hours r the inquest. The other vietlms died at interval of reveral hours and all are belleved By authorities to have purchased th Hquor from Tokol win made a statement to his wife that he obtained the liquor trom “Tokoly All of the victims except Charles CGaughan were married and had fam- illes. No arrests have been made, but authorities. including Sheriff Flescher, declared t would issue a_warrant for Tokoly's arrest after more in- quests are held this afternoon. Tokoly refuscd to make a statement. MOST “BOOTLEG” POISON. Mayor Revokes Chicago Thou- sandth License in Campaign CHICAGO, fourd in el Ooctober ht out of e 12.—Polson is ery ten sam- vles uor taken in ralds on raloons soft drink parlors, ac- ing to Dr. Herman Bundezen, city alth commissioner. The statement ued as Mayor Dever revoked beverage campaign agalnet lators. which has | ore than 1.000 additional ing voluntarily. has killed at least the United States said Dr. Bundezen. rosulted places ¢ 0ison 2,000 ne this year, GONPERS ASSLRED AF L BEELECTION £l Faso and Detroit Fight for| Next Convention of Labor Body. By the Assccated Press PORTLAND, Ore. October 1 Election of officers and sclection of | the next conv n city was today's principal business of the convention ve American Federation of Labor. | o and Detroit were the prin ctpal contenders for the next conven. tion. samuel Gompers, who has headed the federation since its organization in 1881, except during one year, was | delegates generally to be ! certain of re-election and other offi- | cials 2lso were expected to be re-| tained. / Peter I v+ of New York and | Zdward Gaine hington were | delegates to | the British Trade n Congre: { Denvnciation of the Industrial | ‘Workers of the World and declaration | for more stringent immigration laws | were the outstanding features of pub in yestcrday's session. Quarry Engineers Upheld. i The convention has straightened a dispuie between the Quarry Workers® Union and the Union of Stationary i Engineers employed In quarries. up- | holding the contention of the Eng { Union for separate jurisdiction. | Jute arose as a result of a| ¢ Barre, Vi., and Concord, N. H. | A group of resolutions favoring remedial legislation asked by unions govermment employes was ap- proved More stringent Immigration laws, with reduction in present quotas, wil ‘be sought from the Sixty-eighth Con- | gress. Protest against importation of coolie labor Into Hawali was volced by ion, which adopted aring there is no la- y_ in Hawaii that would introduction of coolie labor. Broach Japanese Question. The Japanese question was brought up by Paul renberg, San Fran- isco, of th aman’'s Union, and Jere L. Sullivan, Cinclunati, of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union. Scharrenberg referred to conditions | in Hawail. Suliivan spoke of the rapid multi- lication of Japanese in this country, nd said this was a real menace. Ef- forts to orgzanize migratory workers and to assist these to assit them- selves were ordered by the conven- tlon, after It had taken action de- nouncing the Industrial Workers of the World. The executive council was instructed to turn_the batteries of publicity on the I. W. W., many mem- bers of which It was charged were in the employ of interests seeking to destroy organized labor. * for FACE DIPHTHERIA TESTS. Employes of District Architect’s Office to Undergo Culture. | A score of emploves in the office | of the municipal architect in the Dis- trict building will undergo cultures by the health department following the reporting of a case of diphtheria in_the office. Several days ago a young woman in the office wa» taken ill and it de- veloped she had diphtheria. The taking of the cultures of the others i% in accordance w'th the regular {Commissioner iments and members of all the cor | ings to be announced later. | Nation.’ i the consideration of reports of com- | tion of the United States be Nulll- MASONS TO PARTICIPATE IN COLUMBUS CEREMONY Boston Drum Corps Takes Place in Annual Celebration of Day. By the Assoclated Pres BOSTON, October ,12.—A Masonic organisetion will participate in the Columbus_day celebration here. The Aleppo Drum Corps, composed of Shriners and numbering more than 100 men, will give a concert on Bos- ton common after the sunset cere- mony tonight. This is the first time Masons have appeared as a body in connection with the annual observ- ance since the international parade of ten years ago. The Alhambra band, composed of members of the Knights of Columbus, furnished music for the municipal ceremonles on the common today in which representatives of many na- tions participated, and & navy band will play for the sunset ceremony. A police parade in the forenoon and a parade of Spanish war veterans in the afternoon were other features. THAYNES PROMISES DRY LAW “TRUTH" to Address Citizenship Conference Tomorrow. The Citizenship Conference to em- phasize the importauce of the observ- ance of the prohibition laws will hold its first formal session at 9:45 o'clock tomorrow morning In the ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel. Roy E. Haynes, federal prohibition commissioner, will deliver an address on “The Truth About the Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol- stead Act,” giving the latest facts about the enforcement problem. An address of welcome will be delivered by Bishop William F. McDowell. Col. Guy D. Goff of Washington, D. C., will speak on “Problems of En- forcement,” and there will be a “pre- sentation of survey facts” by Rev. F. Ernest Johnson, Dr. Charles Stelzle, Dr. C. A. Brooks and Prof. Herbert N. Shenton. ‘An informal meeting of the members of the “convening committee,” all dele- gates who may have arriv the Washington committee on & ence comimittees is to be held o'clock tonight in the Raleigh Hotel baliroom. At this meeting vital ele- ments of the program of the confer- ence will be considered in detail. ‘Wharren S. Stone to Speak. rarren S. Stone, grand chief of the heriood of Locomotive Engineers. is to address the conference at tgmor row afternoon’s session, which opens 30 o'clock. His subject will be “The Labor Organizations, the Eight- | centh Amendment and the Volstead | Act”” Justice Florence Allen of the supreme court of Ohio will talk ol “The Courts and Law Enforcement. Messages will be delivered to the con- | terence from organizations related to | the cnforcement of prohibition laws as follow: Women's Nationa! Com- mittee of One Hundred. Mrs. Henryi W. Peabody; Denominational S Rev. Arthur J. Barton; the 's Christian ' Temperance Anne Gordon; the Anti-| gue, Wayne B. Wheeler. | scesion various cumln(llr;!b e t thi and thewr recommendations will presented to the conference. Tomorrow cvening state meetings | will be held, the places for these meet- n.m. tomorrow the conference in_Central High School The speakers will be Rev. Dr. Stepnen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Sy New York clty whoze subject will be “Integrity o ential to the Morality of the and Col. Ravmond D. Rob- bins of Chicazo, whose subject will bo “The Soclal Perils of Lawlessness.” | Dolegates to Attend Church. On Sunday the delegates will at- tend church eervices and many of the visiting flll)l-\{kers will occupy ! Washington pulpits. A special session in the Ralelgh baliroom i3 to be held at 9 am. Sunday for college. university and high school faculties and st | only. with Chancellor Charles “'nt of Syracuse University An Giffora Pinchot, Governor of Penn- | svlvania. and E. Lee Trinkle, Gov- | tnor of Virginia, are to address the ! conference in session Sunday after- noon at § o'clock In the Central High ! School auditorium, on “State Govern- | ment and Law Enforcement.” Asaist- | ant Attorney General Mabel Walker | Willebrant will discuss “The Depart- | ment of Justice and Problems of En- forcement. Sunday_nieht auditorium. at 8 o'clock a session ! wili be held in the First Congrexa- | tional Church, 10th and G streets, | where addresses will be delivered by | former Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas | on “The People and the Eighteenth ! Amendment! William __ Jennings | an on “The Fruits of Prohibition.” | and, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia | on “Violation of the Taw: Its Signifi- cance in Economic Life To Call on Coolldxe. | The delegates to the conference will be received by President Coolidge at tha White House on Monday. Monday morning’s session of the conference will be devoted largely to mittees. Addresses will be delivered by Rev. Clarence A. Barbour, presi- dent of Rochester Theological Semi- nary; Rev. Charles Zahniser, exec- utlve secretary of the Federation of Churches, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Louis Marshall of New York. Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho is to address the conference at Mon day afternoon's session, opening 2:30 o’'clock, at the First Congrega- tional Church, on “Shall the Constitu- fled?” Bishop George C. Clement of Loutsville, Ky., will speak on “Th; Negro Race and the Government. Reports of committees will be re- celved and discussed. The final session of the conference will be held at 8 p.m. Monday in the Kalelgh ballroom. The session will be given over to the allocation of re- sponsibility for recommendations ap- proved by the conference. SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE. From the Kansas City Star.. The diameter of the universe is the length of 10,060 milky ways. And this milky way yardstick is thirty thousand times the distance that light, traveling 186,000 miles per second, covers in one year. Light comes from the sun to the earth In about eight minutes. This is the conclusion of Prof. Archi- bald Henderson of the University of North Carolina, given In a communica- tion in Science, the official organ of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Sclence. He assumed that space and the universe are constructed according to Elnstein's general rela- tivity theory. “It would take a ray of light, travel- ing at the rate of 186,000 miles per sec- practice of the health department. FORTY SHIPS EXPECTED. Naval Vessels to Spend Week End at Hampton Roads. NORFOLK, Va. October 12.—More than forty naval vessels, including the battieships Wyoming and Florida, will arrive at Hampton roads today from the southern drill grounds to #pend_the weck end. In some parts of England tractors , Rre used in place of horsés for towing Zganal barges. ond, 1,000 million years to go around the universe,” Prof. Henderson says. “To g0 around the universe it would take the fastest airplane three quadrillion years the fastest automoblle five and one-half_gquadrillion vears, and an ex- i press train, traveling at’ the rate of sixty miles an hour, eleven quadrillion | years. =i Work Together. From the Columbus Dispatch. Some devout Christian has evolved a motto card for motor car wind- shields, “Safety First—Obey God.” A rominent city official after seelng a ivver bearing: this motto standin; near the Carmegie Lib: reto! “And don't forget she t: police. Iless casual. } rather than a non THE EVENING STA R, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1923. INCLUDED IN EXHIBIT OF EUROPEAN ARTISTS AT CORCORAN GALLERY 3 £ A BACKLUND-CELSING. Cotemporary European Artists Work Exhib 9 | ited at Corcoran burgh Exhibition Includes Sixty Notable Works. A most interesting exhibition aintings by cotemporary European artists is now on view in the Cor- coran Gallery of Art. This exhibition, which opened on October 5 and con- tinues through October 21, comprises sixty works by the lea France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, | Sweden, Belgium, Holland and Denmark selected from the twenty-second Inter- national exhibition of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, held last April, May and June. These works were selacted abroad by juries of artists of foremost rank In France, for example, the ju composed of Maurice Denis, George Desvallieres, Ernest Laurent, Henry Lerolle. Henri Lo Sidaner, Henri Mar- tin and Lucien Simon; so there is no doubt that the groups in each instance v be considered representativ Furthermore these sixty pictures were sciected from the larger number shown in Pittsburgh by the directo of the various wherein they will be shown. Thus they may be supposed to be the best of the best. The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the st of the museums outside of Pitt rgh to show them, and the exhibit the first genuinely international in character that has ever been shown here. For the display of the collec- tion the semi-circular special exh tion gallery and the first American gallery have been given over, and no sooner does the visitor step into either of these rooms than he or she aware of a foreign atmosphere; ob- viously these paintings are not by American painters. There is a subtle Aifterence readily felt, but difficult to explain. That they are better than American works cannot be said; in many instances they are not as good, and yet they possess a quality which the works of our American painters do not have. For one thing, they are These foreign painters seem to the American observer to be very serious minded and rather intense. Probably this reflects the present mood of Eu- rope and the terrific tension under which life for the past ten years or morc has there been lived. To an extent, however, it bringe to mind the different attitude that Europeans have about art from that of the ma- jority of Americans—an attitude which reckons art a part of life ssential. These are not pretty pictures. In some instances there is little beauty to be found In strength and character, but the artists who have painted them have appar- ently had something to say. In Pittsburgh each nationality had a separate gallery, but in this smaller collection such ciassification was im- nossible, and here the works of French and Swedish and Spanish artists hang side by side. But in most s they are distinctive and the nationality can be discerned. The British works are very British; the Swedish savor strongly of the Scan- dinavian spirit; those from France are essentially French, and the Ital- lan and Spanish cannot be mistaken as coming from northern countries. Of all, the Spanish are perhaps the most_colorful, virile, individual. It was £o in the International exhibition at Venice in 1922, but Spain, with the exception of Sweden, perhaps, has been less merged with other nations than any country in Europe. In re- cent years Spain has produced two great” artists—Zuloaga and Sorolla. Zuloaga s not represented in this collection at all; Sorolla by only one example—a painting lent by the Car- negle Institute, which is not to be counted among his best, lacking the qualities of brilliancy in color and spontaneity of technique that disting- uish Sorolla’s works. In the Sorolla style is a painting entitled “Drawing the Boat,” by Enrique Martinez-Cu- bells Y Rulz. “The Lace Makers,” by Zublaurre, is a typical Spanish work, colorful and fine. A powerful and unforgettable work is a painting of a convict sitting on the cot in his cell—a bit of remarkable realism, by a Spanish painter whose name s quite unknown in this country—Ed. uardo Chicarro. A portrait of Am- bassador Cyrus Woods, by Sotomayer, lent by the commonweaith of Penn- sylvania is another notable contri- butlon from Spain. France has the largest representa- tion numerically, there being eighteen French artists represented, provided Olga de Boznanska, a Russian long resident in Parls, be rightly so listed. Among the French exhibiting are no less distinguished painters than Besnard, Menard, Le Sidaner, Forain, Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Mau- rice Denis. De Monvel sends an in- gratiating portrait of his mother in the Whistler tradition, an old lady standing beside a homely chair and seen against a gray, picture-hung wall. Maurice Denis” contribution i a curious composition entitled “Moth- erhood,” an outdoor scene with fig- ures and landscape and a little boat, bathed in a ruddy pink light. Denis, it will be remembered, is one of the leading mural painters of France, and has made especially no- table conmtribution through the me- dium of theater decorations. Half way around the semi-circular wall in _the speclal exhibition gallery hangs Plerre Laurens’ painting, enti- tled “The Widow,” awarded honor- able mention in the Carnegie Insti- tute's_exhibition; an enormous can- vas, showing a mother pushing .a lit- tle chap in a curious French peram- bulator, both sharply silhouetted against a broad, low-lying landscape. Had the picture been one-flfllf the Y ofsiz ding artists ofy American museums | them save. that of { would seem to have covered sufficient space. but it is exquisitely painted, with the same reserve and refinement and beauty that one would expect to find in a work of small di- mensions, and in its exaggerated size it still holds its own. It is more than a painting: it is a poem. British Tell Storfes. The British ar have alwa loved the story element in art, and Colin Gill shows In this exhibition a most elaborate composition, entitled ‘Allegory,” presumably the’ allegory of life, painted not a little as th great Flemings of renaissance day: might have painted had their imagi nations taken such flight. Undoubt- edly a painting of this sort appeals to the fancy, piques curiosity, but it would seem to heetir little esthetic or_emotional delight. The British are also, be forgotten, great There is a head in this exhibition by Augustus John which will interest those who have followed cotemporary British achievement in this % {There is a “Girl in White Dres: ¥ ir Willlam Orpen, evidencing his cleverness, but not his strength. Charles Sims shows a portrait of the “ountess of Rocksavage and her son, lent by the countess herself, which is quite out of the ordinary Among the Italians one notes with special interest an Interior with fig- ures, “Serene Hour. by Alessandro Poml, a young Venetian painter, who {has rapidly, in the last few years, won high prominence and renown. Italico Brass, who some call the Canaletto of today, is represented by a typical Venetian plcture, “The Ter- race,” purchased recently by the Car- negle Institute. Among the Swedish delegation one misses in this selected exhibition cer- brilliant paintings that in Pittsburgh, such as stad's “Winter Night With Orion” and Bruno Liljefors’ “White Rabbit,” but one may well be grateful for the opportunity of seeing Elsa Backlund-Celsing’s dra- matic figure composition of a woman and child, entitled “Forlorn”; Anna Boberg's superb rendition of “Arctic Winter ~ Splendor,” and _Anshelm Schultzberg’s “Sunset Glow In the Forest—Winter.” Belgian Work Good. There are five Belglan artists rep- resented, but among them all none makes quite so striking a display as Antg Carte, who shows an essentially modern “Descent From the Cross,” which has all the religious fervor and dramatic force of a primitive work, and doubtless for this reason was awarded honorable mention by the Carnegie Institute's jury. Holland has but one representative and Denmark one, neither particu- larly strong, but Holland and Den- mark have not been producing great artists in the last few years in equal measure with the other countries. The majority of Europeans have lit- tle idea of the art that is being pro- duced in America. Americans like- wise are in but few instances fa- miliar_with the works of cotempo- rary European painters. The reason for’ this in both cases is lack of op- portunity for observation. To become familiar with the literature of a foreign country dne must know the language. The language of art, how- ever, fortunately is universal. The pportunity of seeing such exhibi- tions as this removes all excuse for ignorance and gives a basls for bet- ter understanding, LEILA MECHLIN. SANE COSTS SLOGAN URGED BY SPEAKER Fair Dealing Also Advocated at Convention of Association of Electragists. it should not A movement, “back to quality, sane costs and fair dealing” in industry was advocated today by Charles L. Eldlitz, commissioner of the electri- cal contractors’ assoclations of New York and chairman’ of the board of directors of the New York Electrical Board of Trade, at the twenty-third annual convention of the Association of Electragists, International, at the Washington Hotel. Mr. Eldlitz told of his endeavors in New York to get the contractors to make “proper estimates” and urged the necessity of including in the esti- mates the office force salaries, ex- penses of the contractor's and house- hold, overhead, in addition to the usual necessary items. After this had been included, Mr. Eidlitz said, It was the time to declde upon what the margin of profit on a job should be. Economies to be effected by the eli- mination of overlapping functions were discussed by Willlam L. Good- win, New York city. This afternoon most of the dele- gates will go on a sight seeing tour of Washington and vicinity and the association’s executive committee will hold a meeting at the convention headquarters. : 8 Tonight the .convention will end ;l“h visit to the Congressional Li- rary. “PORTRAIT,” BY BERNARD BOUTET DE MONVEL. Colorful Display Selected From Pitts- Charles Hearn Indicted Today In Catholic School Fund Theft *harles Hearn by the grand jury grand larceny. Hearn robbed the school fund Gabriel's Catholic Church, Varnum streets northwest, of which Rev. John M. McNamara is pastor, last August ‘The amount named in the indictment is $209, but ported the peculations far that amount Parishioners had complained Father McNamara that th been given credit for contributions to the school fund, which had placed in the box provided near door of the church. A watch | placed and Hearn was arrested, is sald to have admitted to the priest |and to Detective Sergt. Th ‘nlhal he took envelopes co! | contributions from the box: Two charges of grand larceny are preferred by the grand jurors against Joseph Crage, thirty-five years old, and George Howard, twenty-two yvears old. They are said to have worked the confidence game two nights in succesvion last August Henry Cissell was induced to part with” $155, it Is alleged. and on the POLICE ARE CALLED indicted today a charge of said to have box at St at Sth and was on it is re- exceeded to the was nd Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants to Meet With Oyster Shortly. A more vigorous enforcement of the prohibition law throughout the Di trict will be one of the subjects dis- cussed at a conference to be held in the near future between Commi sioner Oyster and the captains, lieu- tenants and sergeants of the police department. The Commissioner said he wanted to impress upon precinct commanders his belief that they should be on the alert to uncover bootlegging and other violations of law within their respective boundaries. is doing good work, but he feels that precinct officers should not walit for this special detail of men to go into their neighborhoods to make cases. “It is my opinion,” said the Com- missioner, “that the sergeants are one of the most important groups of men in the police department. They should make it a point to become ac- quainted with every condition exist- ing in thelr precincts.” > Fhe police Commissioner Is more than gratified with the diligent man- ner in which the police have e forced the Volstead act since it was placed upon the statute books, but he belleves that even better results had not | been | FOR DRY PARLEY The vice squad, Capt. Oyster said, | next night William Barber is said to ave given up §229. Detectives Mans field and Ber who arrested the ac- cused, v they are sleight-of-hand and secured the loot by wrap- ping the money in a handkerchief and | then substituting another handker- chief containing scraps of paper. Twenty other indictments were re- ported by the grand jury to Justice Railey in Criminal Division 1. The and jurors ignored a charge of joy- | riding ‘against Charlie Mills and one | of carnal knowledge against John A. Jackson. Others indicted and the charges a : Marshall T. West, non-support; Aga- tino Restifo and Elizabeth Harris, as- ault with dangerous weapon; Theo- e J. Johnson, grand larceny; Ed- ward Campbell,” non-support; ~Ralph H. Geldart and Thomas McNickols | grand larcenv: Robert A. Mueller, Herman Hoimes and Willlam H. vann, non-support of minor child ott, joy riding: John H. Hay- |den and Oakley R. Dunn, non-support; Samuel Peele, housebreaking; Joseph Simms, grand larceny; Ralph H. Gel- dart, joy riding; Samuel Peele, house- breaking and larceny; Evelyn W. Fin- neil and Bennett Parker, grand lar ceny; Charles Diggs, assault with dangerous weapon. may be obtained by enlisting ‘the co- operation of the uniformed men as well as the speclal squads detailed to liquor enforcement. CARTOON A HOLLAND IDEA. Originating in the Revolution of 1688 It Migrated to London. Charles Dana Gibson, in the Mentor. In the modern sense, the cartoon originated in Holland, stimulated by the revolution of 1688. From there it migrated to England, and there found fertile and congenial soil. The most significant cartoons of the eighteenth century were directed against the “bubble manla” the speculative madness engineered by the South Sea Company in London | Cartoons such as the one picturing Fortune riding in a car driven by Folly were displayed in London shop windows and influenced by the art of Hogarth. who is accepted as the father of the modern cartoon. Fol- lowing Hogarth came Rowlandson, who devoted himself to social satire, and James Gilray, who stirred pub- lic_opinion against Napoleon. Benjamin Franklin was the first American cartoonist. His work w crude, still it inspired the colonist. America’s first great cartoonist, | Thomas Nast, was the product of | the civil war, and for years afterward he continued to influence public opin- fon. It was Nast who finally drove Boss Tweed out of New York. An- other great cartoonist of that period was Tenniel, who drew the reverent and_splendid_“The Nation Mourning at Lincoln's Bier,” printed in Punch just after the death of the martyred President. Following Nast came Keppler, Victor and Gilliam, Rogers, Walker and Herford, followed by men who have given the American cartoon & permanent place in our national history. —_— Every man is a fool at least ten minutes a day. Don’t exceed the limit. DUNLAP HATS 14th and ored Stein-Bloch Golf Suits that follows your every movement like your shadow. 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Thornton said that during the pre- vious trial of the case, at which he identified Mrs. Stokes as a woman he had seen several times at the East 35th street address, where Mr. Wal- lace lived, he received a subpoena to eppear before the district attorney. and subsequently was questioned by Stanley L. Richter, then an assistant aistrict attorney, who is son-in-law of Samuel Untermyer, chief counsel for Mrs. Stokes; Ferdinand O. Morton, also ormer 'assistant district at- torney and now civil service commis- sloner, and, finally, by Mr. Pecora. Activity in the Stokes case shifted today to Missouri, where Mrs. Stokes has gone with counsel to hunt wit- nesses in an attempt to disprove tes- timony that she was seen with Wal- lace in Booneville and Bunceton, Mo., in 1904, when, she declares, she was sttending school in Washington, D. C., and did not know the man. JOHNSON PETITIONS OUT. Nebraska Friends Want Name in Presidential Primary. LINCOLN, Neb. 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