Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1923, Page 2

WILL PROBE OTHER OKLAHOMA OFFICES, Investigation of Governor to Extend to Some of His Appointees. By the Associated Press, OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, October 27.—The house ‘investigating commit- tee, which submitted the charges of official misconduct on which trial of Gov. Jack C. Walton will start next Thureday, prepared today to extend its Impeachment inquiry to other state officials and departmente. Declaring that their work had just started, members of the committee saild that no condition found would be “whitewashed.” The committee already has before 1t a resolution yequesting an investi- gation of the office of John A. White- hurst, president of the siate board of | agriculture, and it is predicted by elose | followers of the situation that other | state officials would be made the ob- Ject of possible impeachment pro- ceedings. Its next session will be held Monday. Ordered to Trial. The senate court of impeachment ordered Gov. Walton to trial next Thursd: after the lower house yes terday had approved the last of the twenty-two charges which constitute the impeachment bill. These arc: Il- | 1egal 1ssuance of state police commis- | slons 1o irresponsible persons: cen- | sorship of the press; issuance of two | deficiency warrants when no occasion | existed: falsifylng the report of his| campaign expenses: abuse of the par-| don and parole power, recelving funds | from various persons for his personal | benefit, and general Incompetency. ‘ All 0f the charges come under the! meneral allegations of misconduct in | office, moral turpitude, willful neglect | of duty and incompetency. Tn setting the triul date the senate | court allowed the executive six days| in which to answer the charges and | enter his plea_ If these conditions are | complied with before the prescribed | time has elapsed, the court said, the | trial would begin at once. A board of house members will act &s the prosecution. ov. Walton refused early todoy to o nent on the proceed!n declar- ing only that “the entire matter is in the hands of my attorneys.” UTILITIES BODY WINS FIGHT TO REVALUE PEPCO PROPERTIES (Continued from First Page.) thad the commission had before it sufficient evidence upon which to reach a conclusion and that the use of the word ‘investigation’ does not imply the necessity to get more evi- dence. The chief justice points out that | if the investigation suggested in the | Court of peals opinion, hich would have enabled the commission to determine with substantial ac- curacy how much in fairness should be added to the earlier valuation” was for the purpose of getting evi- dence necessary for a decision, then the valuation order must be vacated, as the District Supreme Court is not permitted to consider evidence which was not before the commission and 2 valuation by the court now would be_futile.” The opinion of today is based only on the view taken of the Court of Appeals’ opinion, says the chief justice, and no examination of the record was mad# by him for the rea- son that it is the duty of the court on the present motions to {nterpret the language of that opinion and not to ascertain the basls for its state- ment of fact PUBLIC UTILITIES OFFICIALS ELATED AT M’COY’S ACTION Officials of the Public Utilities Com-~ misston this afternoon characterized the action of Chief Justice McCoy today as a victory for the commis- sion. | 1t was explained at the District | bullding that the commission took | the position that the court should procesd to adjust the valuation placed on the power property along the Mnes indicated by the District Court of Appeals. From what they were able to learn of today's de- cision, officlals of the commission sald it would have the effect of mak- ing such an adjustment instead of following the company's viewpolnt { that the oid valuation could be de- clared null snd void The principal changs that will have to be made in the commission's valu- atlon will be to increase the allow- ance for war-time prices as of 1916, | ‘The Court of Appeals held that the | commission did not make proper al- | lowance for those prices. The decisior: today, so far as could be learned, will not immediately ef- fect the rate of 10 cenis per kilowatt hour paid by consumers. Users of clectricity have continued to pay 10 cents since the Iitigation began in 1917, but the company has only been | ailowed to use approximately & cents. | The difference has been set aside, | in accordance with a court order of 1917, and now amounts to $4,400,000. 1t’ was explained by an offictal of | the commission that the commission | based its S-cent electric light rate in 1917 on its valuation. If, as a resuit | of the revaluation, now to be made in the District Supreme Court, it is determined that an increase should be made in that valuation to take care of the war-time prices, the elec- tric light rate might have to be in- creased slightly above 8 cents te give | the company a reasonable return on such increased valuaton. { It appeared practically certain to- day that the impounded fund will remain in its present status until the valuation is finally adjusted, at which | time it will be determined how the more than $4,000,000 is to be divided between company and consumers. NAVY COURT-MARTIAL SET LOS ANGELES, October 27.—The general court-martial of eleven naval officers implicated in the destroyer disaster off Honda, Calif, September 8, last, was set for November 1 ntl San Diego in an order issued aboard the flagship California last night by | Admirzl Samuel 8. Robison, com: mander-in-chief of the battle t. : MISSIONARY CAPTURED. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI October 27.—A dispatch grom Changsha received here today says a German missionary by the pame of Strauss has been captured by bandits, who are holding hlm for $10,000 ransom. Conditions In Hunan province are reported to be rapidly getting wors PANAMA LEADER COMING. PANAMA, October 27. — President Porras has accepted an invitation ex- tended by Dr. Clarence J. Owen preaid ent of the Southern Commerciai Congress, to attend the international centen! celedration of. the promul- gation of the Monroe doetrine, to be held at Richmond, Va. | The | Mr. \Washington Elm, \Famed in History, Crashes .to Earth By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 27. ~—The old Washington elm, under whose wide-spreading limbs 148 years ago, in 1776, George Wash- ington assumed command of the continental army, crashed to earth last night as workmen were be- ginning to remove limbs which had become a menace to the safety of the publtc. Desplte every effort to save it, the last spark of life faded fr-m the aged tree last summer. Sho a of most of its 1imbs by the storms of a hundred and fifty vears, the solitary elm, on the roadway be- side Cambridge common, had atood throughout the autumn with an alr of solemn dignity, awalting its final dlsposal. When the workmen too Hhrd on a nearly saw- imb the anclent trunk split and fell. - Five hundred persons were soon on the spot. Police guarded the venerable trunk, but the crowd carrled oft every available scrap of bark and fragment of wood broken off in the fall. A policeman paced back and forth last night, guarding the fallen monarch. {AMERICA AWAITING PLANS FOR PARLEY ntinued from First Page.) sabotaging tempts” to formal di; of all onvoke sussions imo initiative of Prery viewed by subsequent at- »nferences for & the allies. er Baldwin is this newspaper as a -step ©f supreme nportance, caleulated to @etermine the future of the world's present political nstellation Doubt of France's sincerity pressed by the Lokal Anzcige professes to see mo progress having been made toward a <olition of the reparations tangle in the exchange of not: between the London and Wash- irgton governments. The creditor na says the Boe sen Courier, should, first of all, make cure of & primary pre-condition for reparations and international eco- nomie reh: itation living Ge: many. In order to make sure of thi the organ of the bourse declares, tw things are necessary—credit nations must put an end to the policies which economically are throttling Germany and permit the proposed conference to take place. PARIS PRESS HOPEFUL. is_ex- which Le Matin Warns Against Expecting Any Vast Benefits. By the Associated Press, PARIS, October 27.—The projected international conference to determine Germany's capacity to pay repara- tions_temporarily at least has placed the Rhineland republic in the shado as a ple of dlscussion. As accepted by Premier Polncare, the plan for the conference meets with no objection, but with much skepticism. Le Matin, which is supposed to re- flect the views of principal supporters of M. Polncare, ays this morning. “As it stands, the conference ought not to arouse too vast hopes. It is vain to expect to reach any final set- tlement of reparations or to fix tho amount of the German debt 80 long as the United States will not agree to join to the discussions the problem of the interallied debts.” Le Journal welcomes the. presence of an American expert on the pro- posed_body. Le Petit Parisien holds that by ac- cepting the British proposal France has given not only proof of her entiry good will, but has made possible an agreement among all the Interested parties. It is generally understood that the conference will not assemble before Decembuer, and it Is expected that its work will last a very long time, if it is to make a thorough Inquiry into the financial condition of-Germany. LEAGUE WELCOMES MOVE. Believes, However, Interallied Debts Should Be Considered, Too. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, October 27.—The proposal to hold a conference on reparations is favored heartily in league on na- tions circies. Indirectly, but warmly. the proposal was strongly supported at yesterday's session of the interna tional labor conference, when the la- bor leaders, headed by E. M. Poulton, British delegate, lald emphasis on the urgency of remedial economic mea ures for Europe, if mankind is to be saved from annihilation.” “Unless we wish to be completely bmerged, we must find help for the men, women and children who today are suffering, for millions of them do not know where to turn for their next meal,” said Mr. Poulton. Officlals of the league of nations ex- lained that the league has not acted Pecause the principal powers prefer- red to keep the problem in their own hands; but they said the machinery of the league was ready to be put at the disposal of the powers, as in the case of the reconstruction of Austria and as it will be for Hungary. The financial experts of the leagus incline to the view that there can be no real settlement of the repara- tions question without the help of the United States or without a simul- taneous settlement of the question of Interallied debts. LONDON OPINION VARIES. By the Assheiated Press, LONDON, October 27.—Editorial comment in the London newspapers. on the proposed conference on repara- tions is as far from unanimity is the opinion regarding Franoe occupation of the Ruhr or the British government's attitude to occupation. The newspapers which champion France evidently fear the conter- ence may ease Germany’s burden and they insist that Great Britain must stand by France and Belgium. The Morning Post, defending France's distrust of conferences on reparations and expressing the bellef that M. Poincare by accepting the present invitation has risked offend- ing_many of his supporters. adds Frho. American attitude is delight- fully simple and commendably frank, Hughes say. France can reduce thelr claims on Germany, but our claims on both re- main fixed’ Premier Smuts and our British pro-Germans do not assail Mr. Hughes with invective for this busi- | nesslike attitude; but when M. Poin- care takes much the same lines and puts the ballitf In the defaulter's house he is described almost as an assassin. 2 An_inquiry which cannot take into consideration the question of inter- allied _indebtedness cannot really solve the reparations issue, although it may possibly reach some valuable conclusions _concerning__Germany’s capacity to pay. * * * The proposed inquiry will_bear frult only If the French and British governments are able in the immediate future to keep in close contact and deliberate in 2 triendly atmospher The Daily Mail expresses the hope that the British representatives will act in close co-operation with France at the conference. . “The only bedrock for a lasting peace in Europe,” says the Dally Mail, s a close understanding between. Great Britain and France. There is no half-way house between friendship and antagonigm for them. If Ger- many is let off and ‘put on her legs' it would spell collapse for this cou try and deflance of justice.” SATISFACTION IN BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, October 27.—Amerlea’s promised Pe-entry into EmmnnP,:L d visible satisfaction ‘England and | WATERGOLOR CLUB | EXHIBITION OPENS 222 Exhibits of Rare Charm and Technical Skill to Be Seen at Corcoran. The Washington Water Color Club | opened today its twenty-eighth an- | nual exhibition in the Corcoran Gal- | !lery of ‘Art, and a better showing it {has never made. There are 222 ex-i { hibits, occupying not only the semi- circular- gallery for special exhibl- | tions and the anteroom, but the first American gallery as well. Much of | the work s by local artists, but al- most every plcture which has been hung s of exceptional interest and merlt. It is amaalng that any jury exhibition could attain and maintain 0 high a standard. { The first impression onc has upop entering the rectangular gallery is of freshness. of color and crispness of exocution. These artists have had something to say and have sald it ad- mirably. For a long timo water ave had a bad name and have boen agsociated in the minds of many with amaieur effort: but here Is pro fessional work which possesses viril ity and evidences of skill. Further more, it {s of a joyous sort, apparently dgne’ with zest and so engendering enjoyment, | And how varied are both subjects and technical methods! There = are figures, genre, lundscapes, architec turai themes, boat pictures and ma- rines, and last, but not least In the matter of churm, flower paintings. Childe Hassam, Charles H. Wood- bury and Frank W. Benson, foremost | among the water colorists of our day, have each made oné or more contri- butions to the oollection, but the fact that thelr works do not stand cut un- duly from among the others goes to show that the collection as a whole | is made up of “all star” pictures. i In the first gallery, on the dong wall | to the west, hangs a group of water | colors by Willlam H. Holmes, presi- | dent of the Washington Water Color | Club and director of the Natlonal Gal- | lery of Art—Ilandscapes all, showing broad views of sky and country, love- iy fn tone, charmingly rendered, with an evident keen sense of the pictur- esque and a large understanding of those qualities which constitute a real work of art. French Viewa Charm. On either side of the Holmes group | hang groups of little pictures by Les- | ley Jackson—views in a French vil- laie, - Oisilly, Cote d'Or, quaint, pic- | torial and full of character. Miss | |Jackson spent five months recently | |in this little village and has brought | back and displays in this exhibition not only this group but number of jother beautitul little “portraits of i place,” most artistically rendered. Of "consplcuous merit and interest is a landscape by Annle D. Keily, | Monocacy Valley,” and of rare in- ! terest, likewise broadly painted, is a | picture by Elizabeth Spaulding en- | titled “At 8ix of a Summer Morning— Colorado.” Arthur F. Musgrave, presi- dent of the Arts Ciub, is admirably represented by a leafy wood Interior, | “The Woodland Pool” and a study, | charmingly picturesque and at the | same time toneful, of “Back Yards" | Felicle Waldo Howell. who, as a | rule, paints town and city pictures. | shows a very attractive composition | entitled “Pines,” reminiacent of views | on the north shore of Massachusetts, where one looks through the trces to | the sea. 1 There is'a profusion of blossom pic- tures and all of exceptional merit. A | number are by M. W. Zimmerman and | | very Japanese in appearance. Others | by equally well known painters are more subtly handled, { Dee Bezbe aends pictyres somewhat English method, of “Lake | and of a Swise.“Aountain | which add. vatiety and in- terest. L. M. Lelsenting, on the other | hand,” contributes a most engaging | series of Nantucket subjects, one of | |which is of two colonial houses | {standing slde by side, of great archi |tectufal beauty. There is a fasci- | Dating portrait’ of u littie boy., by Hilda Belcher, and two very at- tractive {llustrations for children's | books by Blanche reer. Clara R.| Saunders sends two rather vague but, | with all, artistic “Impressions” of two figures and a very handsome {flower plcture. From Alfred Hutty has come a group of water colors and aiso a number of etchings, the former | rather high-keyed and rendered | somewhat in the impressionistic | mood. Harriet Roosevelt Richards sends an engaging dittle picture, very well painted, of children and rabbits, entitiéd “Runaway Rabbits.” Benson Moore is well represented by a group of landscapes done in his | characteristic and very acceptab! n Thu House, manner. Yarnall Abbott is repre sented by a group of Gloucester pic- tures. Jane Peterson sends “A Scene fn Old Prague” and “A Southern Bay,” and F. M. Lamb adds to the interest of the exhibitlon by con itributing two very iovely subjects, “Indian Bummes” and “A Sunlit Hill- side,” both rendered poetic with fe ing. An exceedingly attractive wood in- terior comes from Klisabeth Hunt ! Barrett, and Herbert Francis Clark | makes a definite contribution in two ilittle pictures, crisply and knowingly rendered, “Sundance Mountain, Wyo- ming,” and “Near Sundance, Wyo- ming.” Flower Paintings Unusual. i As has been sald before, the flower | paintings in this exhibition are of an| unusual character, modernistic and yet sufficiently conservative, colorful, | but of a sort of which one does not tire, . Elisabeth Mulhoter, Mary K. Porter, Alice Willoughby, Susan B. 8. Peter Wagner, Rose Wag. Miller Keplinger and Dor- | , all show work which mer- its special commendation. There are an attractive picture of a; San Francisco misgsion, by C. H. Ben- | jamin;. two very interesting noc- turnes by W. C. L. White; a broadly rendered mountain . picture, and “A Brook in February,” by Gertrude B. Bourne of Boston, and .a_handsome composition of boats seen under a dramatic effect of sunset light, ad- mirably rendered by Theo J. Mor- gan, besides an attractive village street scene by Mary Nicholena Mac- Cord, to mention only a few. This exhibition, which opens today, will continue until the 20th of No- vember, and should afford opportu- nity not only for enjoyment during the period that these works are on view, but also possibility of. acquisi- ition. They are not expensive pic- tures, the majority ranging in price from' $26.to $250 or 3360, yet in al- most every instance they are of such merit that they bear comparison with the best. - From first to last it is an uncommonly fine exhibition. LEILA MECHLIN. RAIL STRIKE IN POLAND. WARSAW, October 27.—A railway strike continued today, with the gov- | ernment able to maintain &' few ex- i press and freight trains for the con- veyance of fpod. These trains were manned by soldiers. The strike ap- pears to be most serious at Krakow, where the strikers are reported to be committing acts_of terrorism and sabotage. i 3 ‘though doubts are expressed as to the value of the Practical results of the proposed conferénce. Belgian officials call attention to the Belgian diplomatic correspond- ence as showing the cabinet’s earnest desire to have the United States par- ticipate in a European financial over- hauling, as“it Nas alwiys: considered Amerfcan aid a capital factor in any settlement, - s { month's notice. i dence. | ring charges against Davis | time. | when 'the automobile was stopped, LAKE THUN, by Dee Beeb POLICE TRIAL BODY HEARS DAVIS CASE (Continued from First against him It was reported that the case was:-based on his vacating an tment~ without giving one | a Burrels First Witness, W. E. Burrell, former prohibition | agent, was the first witness called. He | testified thst, while on a detail at the second precinct with Agents Fowler and Packard, he went to Rhode Island avenue northeast, near Mount Rainier, | where he gave chase to a large tour- ! nx car. A jar was thrown out of the | fleeing car. Private Bauer, who was ! accompanying witness, after catching the machine, it was testified, picked | up & revolver from between the cush-, lons. A rifle also was found in the! large touring car. Charge Rottle Filled. 0 After arrival at the second precinct, with prisoners, witness added, a bot-: tle, fliled, was produced, supp d to be used in the case as evidence. “I| know thero was no liquor in the car when we searched it Burrell said Witness declared the defendant in the case “got eighteen months” as a pen- alty after conviction in the case. H Under grilling cross-exanintaion, | Burrell said he had seen a bottle in /| the pocket of the automobile door, but that it was uncorked and empty. Fowler Takes Stand. [ George Fowler, prohibition agent. | now under suspension, was the next witness cailed. He testified on the same charge as Burrell. involving Pomeroy Brown and James Pritche ard. "He testified that after catching the automobile alluded to by Burrell he found a rifle, several cartridges and a bottle in the car. Parenthetically, this charge | Davis consists in the alleged ing” of a prospective - prisoner by | producing—for use as evidence—a | bottle of -liquor which was not cap-, tured from an automobile. | Attorney Wampler, defense counsel, cross-questioned Fowler at length. Fowler testified, however, that ‘he did not see Duvis put anvthing in évi- Under grilling Wampler forced Fowler to admit that he could not aesign any reason for not prefer- E at the Fowler also sald he knew that Davis had preferred charges against him which resulted in his (Fowler's) suspension without pay from his posi- tion 85 prohibition agent. ‘Wampler produced a statement turned into the office of the district attorney in this case wherein he, Fow- ler, was sald to have recovered a rifie, several rounds of ammunition d “a half pint of liguor” from the seizod car. Fowler admitted he knew the contents of that statement. Chark H. Packard, another prohibi- tion agent under suspension, was next called. He gave testimony greatly similar to the witnesses preceding him. : Packard was given a close exami- nation by Attorney Wampler. Wam- pler continued to make the point that the charges were flled against Davis after Davis had flled charges gainst prohibition agents by ex- tracting statements frong Packard regarding the filing of the charges. Wampler asked if this was “spite- work” —filing of countercharges. Witness denled that it was “spi work." Pomeroy Brown did not answer when his name was called as a wit-| ness. James Pritchard also did not answer. Sergt. J. D. McQuade was next called. _Declaring he was present McQuade testified that he was given a bottle of corn whisky by Fowler, who sald, witness continued, he had taken It from the car. He returned the bottle to Fowler, witness testi- fied, who took it away. Private Harry G. Bauer ne: the stand. Bauer declared F xt took owler ihad turned over a bottle to Sergt. McQuade after searching the car. Bauer, however, declaréd the bot- {t1e to be a round one, with a paper stopper, while McQuade said the bot- tle Fowler gave him was flat. Lieut. Davis then took the stand s own behalf. e never seen the bottle that was spoken of here,” declared Davis. He added that Fowler dictated the statement of the night's work to Sergt. McQuade, in which it was stat- ed that half a pint of corn liquor) found in the automobile. He emphatically denied he ever filled any bottle in an attempt to fabricate evidence. Attorney Wampler, following the cross-examination, filed as an exhibit the original information against Brown and_Pritchard, as well a court record showing that these two men pleaded guilty to the charges against them. Linton S. Evans, prohibition agent, was called as a witness against Lieut. Dayis on the second specification. Evans testified that he was un- able “to get & buy” in a prospective case, and that Davis su sted the placement of a_ business sign on the prémises in which a still was: sus- pected to be in operation, so that a search might be facilitated. Evans gould ‘not tell where this place was. In cross-examination he admitted he could not tell whethet this house was in Georgetown or Anacostia. Fowler Tells of Plans. in ‘Agent Fowler also testified on this |agal: charge. He explained that it was the desire to get a warrant for a place of business, which 1s easier to ob- tain than one for a private dwelling. He mentioned a “smelling warrant,’ explaining that this warrant could be obtaiped upon deposition that the mash could be “smelled,” provided the scene of the proposed raid was @ plase of business. Under cross- exam{nation Fowler testified that h could not remember: when such a suggestion was made. Questioning Fowler as to his_mo- tive in making charges—after Fow- ler had adeitted he made this charge after charges by Davis.had been filed against . him—Attorney Wampler en in spirit “of retallation, after he had preferred charges sgainst IN GLOUSTER, ENGLAND, BY MARY NICHOLENA MACCORD, | OINWELCONE TOLLOVDREORGE Visitor Introduced at Hotel Reception as ‘Past and Future Premier. David Lloyd George was introduced as “premier of Great Britain, former | to an assemblage of | 1,600 persons at the New Willard | Hotel, last night, at a meeting of the Pennsylvania State Soclety, by Rep-| resentative Clyde Kelly, president of the soclety. The British statesman, Dame Mar- garet and daughtem Megan appeared for a few minutes at the reception, and warmly greeted a large num- ber who shook .hands. He did not speak. The Lloyd George party was| ushered to the hall by Secretary| Hoover and Secretary Davis. Motlon pictures of the late Presi- dent Harding in Alaska were exhibit- | ed and sidelights of the trip were told by Secretary of the Interior Work, while C. J. Blanchard of the | Interior Department, who also was with the presidential party, gave a | detalied account of the wonders of the northwest, shown on the sgreen. “Revelation in Plctures. The plctures of the late President Harding revealed many hitherto gen- erally unknown features of the Alas- kan tzip. They were taken by R. B. Dame, photographer for the Interior Department. Pictures also were shown of the twenty-one-day trip Into McKinley Nationdl Park, on which the departmental expedition went long distances afoot. to photo- graph first-hand stenes about the| tallest mountain in North America. Introductions during the evening were made by Maj. Harjey Coope, ex- ecutive officer of the War Depart- ment. The Columbia Quartet of the .Interior Department entertained with an excellent short program and danc- ing completed the program. WILL CONVENE PARLIAMENT. PARIS, October 27.—A decree con- voflnfi the French parliament in ex- traordinary session November 18 will be published shortly, it was learned today. s you, you thought you'd prefer charges inat him “Yes, sir,” replied Fowler. “Fowler, 'in repeating the alleged conversation with Lieut. Davis rela- tive to the business sign, said that Davis suggested an ‘“express” sign or a. sign saying, “We do white- washing,” might be a means for ob- taining & séarch warrant. Called to. the stand in febuttal Lieut. Davis derfled “in toto” afl of the alleged charges made regarding the placement “of ‘a sign. ‘Every word they uttered is a de- liberate 1 declared Lieut. Davis relativé to the testimony of Hvans and_Fowler regarding the ‘“white- wash' sign. . . - - Davis added that there was il feel- ing_between Linton Evans and him- self- since he “threw Evans out? a; econd precinct on January §, VISIT TO GETTYSBURG PROVES TO BE REAL TREAT TO LLOYD GEORGE PARTY {Continued:from First Page.) from Here, and a quick run to Wash- ington over the Pennsylvania rallroad main_line. The party will reach the capital about 6:30 o'clock, in ample |time to permit the guests to go to thelr hotels and dress for the festiv- itles of the evening. Mr. Lloyd George is to be the guest tonight of the Overseas Writ- ers, an organization of newspaper men, at_a dinner at the Hamilton Hotel. Members of the cabinet, the United States Supreme Court, the House of Representatives and the Senate will be present, and the dinner will be Mr. Lloyd George's farewell to America's capital. Today proved a decided contrast from the hustle and bustle of his previous two days as the guest of the nation in Washington. Tlere he, hi; wife and daughter were the victims | of an incessant round of official ca and dinners. Today they all relaxed and enjoyed the bracing mountain air and the quiet of the countryside. It was plain that the former British pre- mier enjoyed himself every minute of the trip. VISITS WALTER REED. {Lloyd George Tells Wounded of Thrill U. S. Uniform Brought. Lloyd George visited the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital yes. terday afternoon about 5 o'clock, making a brief inspection of one ward and speaking in the Red Cross house, He expressed the thanks of himseif and England to the wounded Ameri- cans for the “contrtbution they made to the freedom of Europe, and by that to the freedom of the world.” “We owe a great debt to you for the Joy and courage it brought us to see your uniform in 1917, the former prime minister of England sald. “I can't tell of the feeling I had when, in that great conflict of 1918, I-heard a report that an American division was storming here and another the: “We knew then that the days of trial were over and the days of tri- umph were coming,” concluded Lloyd George. He received a rousing wel- come at the hospital from the wound- ed veterans. SERVICE FOR ROOSEVELT. ‘War Veterans to Hear Addresses and Singing Tonight. Addresses and the singing of ba- triotic airs will feature the annual Roosevelt memorial exercises to be held by veterans of all wars in the Metropolitan M. E. Church, John Mar- shall place and C street, tonight at 8 o'clock. Addresses will be delivered by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, Judge Willlam H. De Lacy and Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball of the Ladies’ Loyal Legion. ¥ he program will include the blow- ing of assembly by Bugler Loveless of the United States Army, presenta- tion and salute to colors by the au- dience, invocation by Rev. Harry D. Mitchell, the singing of “Amerfca’ and “The Star Spangled Banner” by the audlence-and “Taps” by Bugler Loveless. Benediction will ered by Rev. Mr. Mitchell 1 be deuv-l ROOSEVELT CAREER HAILED BY GOOLIDGE President Links Him' With Washington and Lincoln as “Greatest.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 27.—President Calvin Coolidge's tribute to Theodore Roosevelt, in the fori of a letter, was read today at the dedication of the Roosevelt House, No. 28 Fast 20th Memorial Assoclation. President Cool- {1dge’s lotter was as follows: i1t is impossible for me to take part fo pefson in the dedication of Roose- velt House. On a previous occasion {1 Indicated my deep intefest in the clatlon, In re-creating the house where Theodore Roosevelt was born and making it a center for the promulga- )tlon of his ideas, has made not only |the friends of this great American, but Americans, its debtors. The great collactions of their brother society, the Roosevelt Memorial As- sociation, will bri before the eyes ‘llld minds of the generations to come the agpirations, the achievements, the exuberant and captivating personality of the great Interpreter and apostle of the. American spirit, To do that i to render a great mervice. If I might speak for the American people, it would bé to express thieir thanks. Paya Great Tribute. “It was no mere poetic fancy which | impelled the anclent Greeks to pesple the firmament with thefr mythical heroes. A great natlonal hero, a | #¥ashington, a Lincoln, & Roosevelt, {does shine llke a star to the pesple Who come after him. In them they find light, and by them they can steer their course over uncharted and stormy s “Fourteen years ago, standing also at a birthplace which has become 8 national shrine, Theodore Roosevelt sald of Washington and * Lincoln: | ‘There have been other men as great tand other men as good, but in all the history of mankind there are no other two great men as good as these, no other two good men as great Among the great who were also good, {among the good whoswere also great, {we may now inscribe a third name, | forever memorable, { "The fame of other men may fear | the onslaught of time, but the fame iof Roosevelt need not fear it. The {glory of his statesmanship may be jobscured by the passage of the cen- turies, but the memory of the man himself will endure, for great as his jachievements were, the man was even | greater than the work. Such gifts as his are rare, such a combination of {gifts is still more rare, and those gifts, backed by a certaln elemental | force, projected on the last genera- | tion a personality which holds & place j Which not our own natlon only, bit 1all nations reverence, Saved American Unity. “We Americans have deep cause to be grateful that sixty-five years ago |teday Theodore Roosevelt, half of the {north, haif of the south, & son of the |cast, an adopted son of the west, came o this nation to shape Its destinies {in a critical hous. Roosevelt, like Lincoln, was in & true sense a pre- server of our national unity. Lincoin {saved us from sectional cleavage, | Roosevelt saved us from class cleav lage. 8o swiftly at times does the |irue word, courageously spoken, es- tablish itself, that today we have almost forgotten that there was & time when the regulation of corpora tions seemed to many minds unnec sarily radical. He gpoke stern words whers needed without fear.and with- out favor. He pointed out the road of straight Americanism, where all could walk in amity toward the same goal. We are a united nation; we will re- main a united nation. It was Roose: velt who taught us that unjustified discontent finds no lodgment in a na- tion where the dlscontent which is Justified secures a prompt remedy. “All eyes may well turn reverently today to the birthplace of Theodore Rooseveit, given back to the world Ly the women and children of the nation. All artificlal distinctions have fallen from him; he belongs to all Americans. Reaching beyond our shores, he is the possession of all men, whatever their race, whatever their color, whatever thair creed, who are willing to llve by his principles and follow his example.” —— MORGAN IS READY TO ASSIST AGAIN (Contirived from First Page.) { | | | mental conditions of American par- ticipation were, in my opinton, unanimity among {ts leaders and the | establishinent of the éredit of the bor- rower. Showed Difference of Opinion. Mr. Morgan then pointed out that a difference of opinion had arisen in the committee as between the Frenca and English texts of the instructions from the reparations commission as to the scope of the pariey, the discussion ending in a definition by the repara- tions commission to the effect that the committee should discuss all ques. tions Raving a bearing on Germany’ external credit. The Fronch member Qissented even from that. Then off- ial statements began to be made in Paris saying the bankers' .comniittee was attempting to decrease the amount of the German obligation and that “this could not be tolerated by e commitics had nes e com never thought,” sald Mr.. Morg: and o ohls 1 greed completely,” that it. had-any BOWer to Base updn the sums owing by the Fan | government, but merely that it had been requested advise the feparations commission a: to a badis upon which Germany could raise a loan. There had been no dis. cussion of the capital amounts of reparations, buti only. of a. possibl arrangement of the annukl payment: annusl payments elther in cash e “the .only methods { | id shall continue to be ready to do everything in my power to assist in the solution of the problems which confront the edo- nomic life of Europe, but I believe that in so far as such problems de- pend for their solution_upon an in- ternational loan to Germany, in which the American Investor would take part, the solution is not pos- sible without a general settlement of the reparations question. Undoubt- edly settlement of this question in- volves the consideration and arrange- ment of many other questions which must be settied between the govern- ments in order to arrive at the unanimity required for the first con. dition of a loan. I shall be ready at any time to return and do anything in my power when conditions permit and the reparations commission may ire.” de’!.'hl 's the way matters have ted for more than & year. And before encouragement can be derived from the acceptance in principle by the French of the British-American proposal, it must first be learned ex- actly whilt the French now are will- ing to discuss. Will they let the ex- perts fix the amount Germany can pay? Will the experts be permitted to say what the penalties for non- payment by Germany will be and who wiil enforce them? (Copyright, 1923.) street, by Mrs. John Henry Hammond, | {Dresident of the Woman's Roosevelt |mouth, ‘Lt me “It {8 'a source of deep regret that| Enmjaat. now happlly completed. The | |Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Asso-| a = &y can e.l'lect. pay- | ! TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAI’S GUESTS With the same old sparkie in his fascinating eyes and voice as clear as ever it was back in the memorable campaign when he publicly ret be “crucified®on a cross of gold,” llam Jennings Bryan, three-time dem ocratic candidate for the presidency, fresh from a pleasant hour spent with Britain's great former premler, Lloyd George, tarried long enough in the lobby of the Hotel Shoreham to ex- press an opinton on the political sit- uation. ‘Whom do I think will lead the two ©0ld parties in 19247" The Commoner repeated the question, as the well known smile encircled his expansivo mouth. “Let me answer that ques- It vou were dab- bling 'in stocks and had decided to make quite a plunge, say a4 month from now, would you figure your speculation from today's ticker or wait until later to consider quota- tions 7" “Later, Mr. Bryan, just beforo the horses—that is the stock exchange— was to close.” . "Naturaily.” continued the former Nobraskan, “Well, it {8 the same with predicting political candidates.” This s the fall of 1523, and much may happen before the summer of 1924 Were the republicans to hoid their convention today President Coolidg would be nominated almost by ac clamation, but they will not o vene today. There is & Congr sit. Much will depend upon Congress. The eyes of the co will be glued upon its Chief utive, and the manner in whi conducts himself, More than aspiring statesman have come to g after certain experiences with ti august body. No., my boy, Ing political candidates so carly in the game is an amateurs pastime not one for an old warhorse like me Catching his breath, the expatriated westerner added: “The same is true of the democratic candidates. 2 hear this, you hear that, but what does it all amount to? The mu doesn’t live who can tell certainty what shape conditions w take in this country during the next ten months. We “are living in hectic period, and to predict wha will transpir ear in advance is, I just said, a pastime for the ama- teur.” Mr. Bryan delayed his after attending the ference, purposely to pay his spects to Mr. Lioyd George. Thir teen years ago the Brit tained the noted American in don, and it was to renew oid friend ships he walted over. He will return to Florida immediately that untry trip south citizenship con- Hardly had the curtain dropy, the Typothetae convention than ti. New “Wiliard Hotcl managemer quickly put its house in order for t annual meeting of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, which opens at the hosteiry Monday and will continue through Wednc of next week Bristling with enthusiasm over the prospects of bringing their delegate to the heart of the nation for thr first time, Frederick R. Fenton of Chicago, secretary, and Harry b var, director of public were fou in their rooms at the hotel up (o their ears in work arranging programs for the huge gathering, which will draw more than 1,300 investment banke from every section of the country “I can’t’ tell you how delighted teel over coming to your ¢ity to hold our convention. Fenton a8 he stopped work for moment. “It is our first session he and as 800on as our organization is 4 quainted with the marveous hospi tality extended its advance guard it is quite possible that Wasnington will be our meeting place for many years to co! The local committ under the chairmanship of Eu; Thompson of Craner Parie & hag literally gone the 1 to n us feel at home, and maybe it won't be_appreciated '™ The Chicago man said ness conditions in the were in tip-tov shppe, that money was plentiful _and . ‘heap and that while merchanis are not loading un with merchandise, they are buying consistently, “which is the best sign of prowperity.” “You know we are optimists in th west.” continued Mr. Fonton it takes more then a few setbicks 1o ut us in the dumps, and, while a few armers may be crying over their wheat erops, we all know that the wise agriculturist diversifles hls crops and refuses to risk his all on weath- er conditions and one product.”™ Asked about the political situation in’ Illinols, the banker smiled when he said: “I am a republican. and am much taken with our present Exec- utive, but then you must quote me as aking for_myself, not for the or- ization. Many in our state, how- e my feolings for President n bu; Windy trains conveying delegates will ur- rive from New York, St. Louls, Chi- cago and the far west tomorrow. A, spedial assiatants Mr. Fenton h with him Miss Mary Lincoln and Miss Emily Black, both of Chicago, who {also. are stopping at the hotel But as propitious as conditions ap- pear in Illinols, just the opposite is the case out Wyoming way, accord ing to James H. Burgess of Sheridan. who is making a short stay at the Raleigh Hotel. “Rain has played havoc with our crops this year,” said the tall wes!- erner as he puffed his etgar. “Th cattle men, too, have had a toush time of. it, and while ofl is produred in one rectlon of the state, It has t offset losses from agricultural pur sults. No, I couldn't truthfully say that the vear has been a good one for Wyoming.” “How about politics out your way. Mr. Burgess? “Quiet, very quiet. We have been too busily occupled with our own do- mestic troubles to think much about politics. No. I have not heard much from the democrats about Mr. Mc- Adbo. Of course, he is well known in our seetion, but there has been no boom for him or anything like that President Coolidge Is well thoukht of, and it might be safe for me to say that the republicans of Wyoming would be glad to see him nominated to succeed himself. ~Washington beggars are certainly the most polite of any I countered in ail my 'Gsorge H. Whiteomb, oll magnate of Texas, as he drank in_the sunshinc at the entrance of the Hotel La ette. “How so. Mr. Whitcomb “Why, last night, 1 was standing over there at the curb when a man very poorly clad, and in a most wo« {begone condition approached me and asked if 1 wouldn’t let him have u quarter. I hesitated a minute as | gave him the critical up-and-down When he raised his hand, and in th. politest manner added, ‘Now, pray don't do it, Mister, 1f yeu think vou can't afford it’” 'HZ MIXER. ——eee FOREIGN POLICY BODY LAUDS HUGHES’ OFFER By the Assoclated Press. New York, October 27.—Congrat ulating Secretary Hughes upon his | proposal that the United States par- ticipate with allied nations in a rep- arations conference, the executivo committee of the Forelgn Policy As- soclation sent a message to the Se retary of Btate yesterday waying there could be no doubt that the ex- tablishment_of sound economlic con- ditions in Burope would make our people much more willing to con. sider a generous readjustment of in terallied indebtedness, The council 6f the Foreign Policy Association, which numbers among its_members Thomas W. Lamont of J, P. Morgan & Co., Gov, Gifford Pin- chot_of Pennsylvania and Dean Ro coe Pond of the Harvard Law School. was instrumental In bringing Lord Robert Cecil to this country last spring.