Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1923, Page 1

N WEATHER: Falr, 8nd continued cold tonight, temperature near freesini increasing cloudiness a watiher, ming unset : tomorrow somewhat by night. Temperature for 2¢ hours ended at 2 p.m: today: Highest, 50 a 4 p.m. ye terday; lowest, 34, at 7 Full report on page 2. a.m., today. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 . No. 29,038, Enteres as second-class marter post_office Washington ) D — POINGARE DEFINES ABSOLUTE LINIT OF ECONOMIC PARLEY Can Fix Present Capacity of Germany to Pay, But Cannot Cut Total. v REAFFIRMS FIRM STAND TO FORCE FOE TO SETTLE Premier Lays Misery in Rubr to Juggling of Money by Ger- man Rich. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 1.—Premier Poin- care made a speech at Nevers today in which, is interpreted by the French foreign office, he recognized four points as within the. jurisdiction of the committee of experts which Is to make a reparation inquiry as a re- sult of the recent negotiations of the European chancelleries and the Wash- ington government. The premier, by his recognition, it is held, excluded consideration of any other point. The four points indicated are: First—Germany's present capacity for payment Second—New methods of payment. Third—The renovation of German Sinances. Fourth—A new monetary system. This program, the foreign office Points out, is in line with that indl- cated in the American note to Lon- Premier Poincare, it is declared, ders that Germany's debt to the allies was fixed once for all and can- not be changed, any more than the total amounts advanced by the United States to the allles during the war can be changed. BLAMES GERMAN RICH. Denies Nation as Whole Is in Grip of Poverty. NEVERS, France, November 1.— remier Foincare, speaking yesterday t the Inauguration of 4 soldlers’ me- morial here, stated that Germany had been forced into a systematically or- ganized bankruptcy and that-certain classes of the population have been reduced to misery for the sole bene- fit of wealthy industrial and commer- cial leaders. For this reagon he deems it neces- | sary, he sald, to hold Germany's pledges until France is pald in full, and pointed out the progress made in the Ruhr during French occupation toward a resumption of economic ac. In conciusion he defined the scope | of the inquiry of experts appointed by the reparation commission by stat- ing that it must only deal with Ger- many’s present capacity to pay. The premler's speech, after a lengthy introduction dealing with the part the local troops played in the Wwar, gave a rapid sketch of how France had been treated by the Versallles treaty and of the disap- pointments resulting from it. This brought the premier to the question of the moment—the committee of ex- perts and the role it will play under the reparations commission. Wil Not Alter Stand. “This is not the moment to change our conduct, and we will not change it the premier declared. “We have a keen desire to solve as rapldly as possible and in full agreement with our allles. the grave question of re- parations, in which we are more in- terested 'than any, but we will neither reconsider fixing our credits, abandon our rights, renounce our pledges nor destroy the treaty signed | by so many nations. “Let an examination be made to disoover what Germany can pay this moment, or during a_ short space of time,” continued M. Poincare. “That is well. That is the very role of the reparation commission, ~ enlightene: by experts it can appoint; that the sreparation commission determine | arrangements of payment is the | jon it received from the treaty;| it search for means of raising an finances in a purely mone- Yary ¥ashion is its right, but let it not aftempt either to change deci- sions i\t has already taken regarding 1 amount of our credits nor In future attempts indefi- | Taft injustice, what risk, 1t in a me Germany should be freed! rt of its debt, and if in some | e should present herself be- resurrected, enriched, to hu- us by a renewal of her power sh us by her supremacy! We be taken in such a snare.” Pperoration Premier Poincare that France's conduct was simplest and frankest nature , without any hidden motive. 'would not be ruined, he said, r to increase the shameless of certaln German magnates ligarchy still remained true overeign German republic. ?lo not intend,” continued the premier), “that the reich shall harbor | Ydeas of revenge and go even as far as America 'to conspire against French junity and protest against the restitution. of Alsace and Lorraine to the mother country; nor that it re- constituite 1ts military formations and {in the hotel {Latvia Is Asked fo BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. PARIS, Notember 1.— With Ger- many perhaps on the verge of clvil war, the situation in eastern Europe has suddenly becothe exceedingly tense. s | Soviet Russia gives every sign of {contemplating armed intervention in Germany in behalf of the German communists, opposing, if necessary, even Poland and France. The soviet garrisons on the Polish and Lettish | frontiers recently have been consid- | erably strengthened. From secret re- ports it is known that the soviet war | council at a recent meeting dis- cussed possible plans of campaign. At the same time the third Inter- nationale has renewed propagandist {activitles in all the principal Euro- {Pean countries. A serles of suspiclous | strikes have broken out in Polish "industrial centers. A . communist | “university” has just been opened !in Amsterdam. Karl Radek, agent of ;the third internationale, recently i flooded French and German commu- nist newspapers with incedlary and | threatening editorials, promising Rus- slan support to all militant commu {nists and giving assurance that "Rus- {sia’s bayonets are not blunted. To relieve the German communists’ fear of famine in case they attempt a T5 HURT IN WRECK IN'WEST VIRGINIA Two Coaches of B. & 0. Pas- senger Train Turned Up- side Down in Field. By the Associated Press. ORLANDO, W. Va, November 1.— More ‘than seventy-five passengers | were injured, four seriously, when | | Baltimore and Ohlo train No. 62, a| | 1local, running from Clarksburg to | Richwood, was deralled near here to- !day. Two coaches, crowded with pas- | | sengers, jumped the tracks and rolled | about forty feet into a fleld, where they came to a stop, upside down. The injured were brought to a hotel here. Doctors and nurses from nearby | towns were summoned to Orlando, and an emergency hospital was set up A number of women suffered broken bones and other injuries, while one| mall boy was hurt seriously. Prac- ically every passenger on the two coaches suffered hurts, he attending physicians sald that a majority of the injured sustained cuts and bruises and were not in a serious condition. 3 TAMPANS LASHED BY UNMASKED MEN Cries of Help in Halloween Crowds | Fail to Bring Aid—Warned by Q Q. Q By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla, November 1.—Un- masked men last night took at least three residents of Tampa to the woods about six miles east of here, whipped them and left them wounded and bleeding to make their way back to the city, according to reports made to Chief of Police Willlams to- ay. Leo Isaacs, restaurant propriejor. under the care of physicians, as a're- ult of the lashing he got, told news- paper men that four men seized him at the door of his cafe, carried him in an automobile to the woads, about six miles from town, where they gave him a whipping. His physiclans sald he had lost considerable skin and that his body was covered with Welts and discolorations. Isaacs said his assailants handed him a letter warning him to close up his business in ten days and not to open it under threat of death. 'He has been arrested many times on federal warrants charging liquor law violations, say the authoritie: The written warning stated: “If th officers cannot handle you, we can and . ™ Enrique Rosa, head waiter of a well known Spanish cafe here, was spirited away by a band of men t the woods near Oldsmar, fitteen mile west.of Tampa, where he wds las and left to make his way home 4An rew Wililams, negro restaurarft pro prietor, was taken to a pdint near Myrtle Hill cemetery, fiwe miles north of here, and beaten. < Both men re- ceived ‘written wafnings similar to that given Isages. They were signed o ue Que. Fieo ivea took place aliout the ents. That is all” & Pealingg with the peace treaty, the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. China’s Boy Emperor, Too Poor | To Pay Debts, May Sell Relics By the Associatied Press. PEKING, Noveraber 1.—The last of the rulers of the great Manchu dy- nasty, Hsuary' Tung, the “boy em- peror” of China, sitting in 1 some grandeur{in his, isolated ace of the bldden city, been sued by {a Peking goldsmikh for 500,000 t and_has applidd partial payme! of the .impe allowance of 34, 000,000 (Mexican early, acco! 30 the Asiatie e during the helght of the! een celebration and their cries at, present is unable tq ralse suf- clent funds to pay officlals and other public servants. As a result, it is expected: that - further relics of the once mighty Manchu house will be sacrificed by the “boy emperor” to meet his debts. 3 The court in which the goldsmith's | sult was filed, it is sald, taking into consideération the extreme poverty of Hsuan Tung, has agreed to treat the case leniently and give the youthful ex-ruler time to raise what- gver cash-hie can to satiaty his cred- tor: - For many months the “boy em- peror” has been trying to adjust his expense to his income. The lat- ‘ter, during recent political upheay- | | ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1923—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. SOVIET ARMY’S THREAT STIRS EASTERN EUROPE r Free Passage of Troops~Third Internationale Re- news Propagandist Activities. . revolution, large shipments of wheat have been made to Saxony. At the me time strong diplomatic pressure, of .which the Washington State De- partment has been fully informed, has been brought to bear on the Baltie states to oblige them to enter the soviet confederation. It is reported that Victor Kopp, & soviet agent, in the course of a recent trip through Latvia, Esthonia and Poland, - demanded whether Latvia was ready to insure free transit of soviet troops and supplies toward Germany, and added that refusal would be considered a casus belli. On the other hand, it Is known that not yet everything the soviet leaders could wish, and especially that Rus- sia's war industries leave much to be desired. It is even probable that the whole menacing military and diplo- matic.movement is merely one more soviet bluff and that in the last anal- ysis_the Russians, whatever happens in Germany, will' not dare fo carry out their threats. Cling to World Revolt Pians. At the same time there is rio doubt that the soviet leaders have never wholly abandoned their plans for a world revolution. With communism everywhere waning, with reactionary (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Turkey May Send {Dr. Adnan Bey AsEnvoytoU.S. LONDON, November 1.—De. Ad- nan Bey, natlonalist leader, s ex- pected to be the first ambassador from the Turkish republic to ‘Washington, according to & dis- patch to the Morning Post:from Constantinople. i TIMELIMIT IS SET FORWALTON'SPLEA Request for Extension of Time Meets Reiection;by Oklahoma Senate. : By the Assoclated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, November 1—J. C. Walton, suspended governor, ‘was given until 1:30 p.m. teday teenter his plea to impeachment charges pre- terred by the House when his tounsel asked for ten days’ extension of time for preparation of an answer today. The senate court of impeachment then recessed until that hour. i Gov. Walton appeared personalfy, ac- companied by his five attorneys. who sought the delay in the arralgrment. The house board of managers urged an immediate plea. H Counsel for the executive sal¢ that an effort would be made to disqualhy some of the members of the genate court of impeachment and to Ruash some of the artwies in the impeach- ment bill, : No New Statement. The governor has made no addition to previous statements that Ku :Klux Klan members of the lower house con- spired to impeach him. It is assumed he will base his defense on the Klan issue, which, he s3ys, will detefmine whethet “Invisible government” or’ con- stitutional government shall rufe in Oklahoma. = Rumors persist in political quarters that the governor will resign the trial is well begun, but are in_official circles. The senate court before procecding with the trial will give attention to charges of bribery against ceftain senators in connection with Gov. ¥al- ton’s c: , The edltor of the Muskogee Times- Democrat has been summoned to ex- plain a news article charging that two senators had been approarhe with $10,000 bribes. The new 2 staff representative here also w; asked to divulge the source. alleged evidence. < : Gov. Walton emerggd-¥ictorious to- day in his ghallcpe® of the legulity of @ state-wid, clal election on:Oc- tober 2, whicl passed a constitutidnal smendment empowering the state leg- to meet on its own call t¢ in- be - the islatu vestigate state officlals. Draws First Blood. Judge Tom Chambers in .district court hers late vesterday granted: the executive’'s application to make per- manent a temporary Injunction: re. straining the state election baard irom certifying returns election because the legislative pro- posal, as well as five other amend- ments, had not been given the:re- quired publication. An appeal will be_made to the state supreme courz. Willlam' Joseph Simmons, emperor of the Ku Klux Klan, conferred a lite membership in the Klan upon Gov. Walton, “in just 'recognition: of your constant loyalty,” according : to a letter to Walton dated September 10, 1923, Gov. Walton declared io- day. The governor sald he requested the certificate of membership be ot mailed him, as he was not in sym- pathy with Klan ideals. Gov. - Walton reiterated that ‘he had mever applied for membership in the Ku Xlux Klan and denled the statement of Imperial Wizard Evans at Atlanta that he is a “klansman ‘at large.” “I would rather be right and work in'a ditch than to be the highest official of the Invisible Empire and dwell inthe palace of the king,” the governor declared. 2 Gov. Walton displayed on his way to the court chamber a letter from:a. { Boston theatrical company offering him $3,000 weekly for a lecture toar through New England of six weeks or longer. THREE DIE IN WRECK. PHILADELPHIA, November 1 Three men were killed early todéy when a Reading rallway milk train als of the capital, has had virtually nothing. He even dismissed from rvice in the Forbldden city 1,000] eunuchs in &n attempt to halt a; proaching poverty. Also he has sold News Agency, But there is lit tle chance of governmen! payment . pledg HSUAN TUNG. ipg to the’ partial -finance. [ many priceless family relics to aid the family exchequer. But at pres- ent the ‘financial outlook for Hsusn .-y 7 struck an open awitch and plungéd twenty feet over a trestle siding hete today. The dead, all of Reading, Ps, were: L L. Willlams, engineer; A. Folk, fireman, and H. W. Deiche: brakeman. . The accident occurred on a spur of the rallway running frora the Port Richmond coal wharves tb ‘Wayne Jjunstion, - the condition of the Russian army is| | trom :the | A WHATRE @ EY 4 KicK ABouT” R AR LAPORTE EXPLAIN U.S. HOSPITAL DEAL | Assistant Treasury Secretary | Takes Stand in Probe of Veterans’ Bureau. Ewing La Porte of Pittsburgh, former assistant secretary of the Treasury, explained to the Senate veterans committee today why he had rushed | through an agreem.nt, just at the end | of the Wilson administration, for | lease of a hospital site at Excelslor Springs, Mo., from E. L. Morse, prom- inent in republican ‘politics In Mis- sourl. “I rusheéd- all sorts of things through at that time,” La Porte said. | “These veterans were suffering and were out on the streets, and they had to be cared for. I had to provide beds for them, There wasn't any appro- priation from Congress for bullding hospitals and we had to do the best Wwe could under a leasing system. Asserting that the Excelsior Springs site had been strongly recom- mended .to_him by the public health | service, La Porte testified that he never ‘had seen any public health service memorandum objecting to the | place, such as previous witnesses had been sent to him. He added that Surgeon General Cumming was in favor of the Excelsior Springs site and “naturally he would not send me an_objection to it.” La Porte denied that he had in- ‘creased the ultimate purchase price fixed by the public health service| from 377,000 to $90,000, as former offi- clals of that service had testified. Explains Action. ‘The only thing I W14, he said, “was to reduce the rentals. Morse | was to spend a large sum on an addition to his home and they wanted | to pay him back in one year. I in- sisted that the payments be spread over a serles of years. The reconls must show that, unless they have been destroyed.” John F. O'Ryan, general counsel for the committee, said the !nference in previoys testimony was that Lal La Porte was concerned, “with Morse’s interest in this matter.” - “I am sorry for that, Porte sald. “I was concerned-Bolely with the interests of the government and the service meni~ ! La Porte on to say he had| known Morse only easually up to the time of M lexse of the Excelsior Spripgisite He said a friend of his told -film not to lease Morse's | iace; that if he did. it would be made ! “Political issue in Missouri. For that reason,” the former as- sistant - secretary sald, “I was more suspicious of this transaction than any other, and I drove a hard bar- gain.” Denies Stratton Testimony. La Porte denied testimony of Charles H. Stratton, formerly of the construction - division of the public health service, that he had torn up a page of the original draft of the agreement with Morse and had ordered another one drawn providing for a $13,000 increase in the ultimate purchase price. “I dldn’t think these men would testify to a thing like that, because it s not frue,” he sald, adding that he knew from what he had heard that he was particularly unpopular with the construction division, because he had undertaken to abolish that dlvi- sion, leaving its work in the office of the = supervising architect of the ‘Treasury. “That probably Is a dellberate falsehood. I think it 1s” he added, with reference to the charge that he had destroyed the paper concerned. La Porte, who testified that he was twenty-six years old when assistant secretary of the Treasury, was sub- jected to a long and sharp cross-ex- amination by Senators Reed, republi- can, Pennsylvania, the committee chairman, and Walsh, democrat. Mas- sachusetts. He was questioned par- ticularly about his visit to Kansas City in February, 1921, to inspect the Excelsior Springs site. ‘His testimony was that he was met at Kansas City by representatives of (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) tiori in the District of suburbs is concerned, accounts for its extraor. dinary supremacy in the ndvartumg field. 1D LooK R AS GOOD AS\ Hill Says Home Padlocking Move Illegal, in Reply By the Assoctated Pres. BALTIMORE, Md., November 1.— The answer of Representative John Phillip Hill of Maryland in the “padlock” injunction proceed- ings several weeks ago, which re- sulted in the sealing up of Mr. Hill's wine cellar and stopping his manufacturing of home-made wine, denied that the procedding is a civil action, but claims that it is a criminal action. It further declares that fllegal and unconstitutio tempt to padlock for a year a pri- vate dwelling because nature has taken its course with grape juice and made it attain an alcoholic content of more than one-half of 1 per cent. The answer raises also the Issue as to the meaning of “non:{ntoxicating” in section 27 of the Volstead act. SEEK T0 PROTECT DISTRIET BORDERS Board of Trade Committee- man Urges Body to Control Suburb Building. “it is Recommendations for the creation of a commission to co-ordinate the devclopment of territory adjacent to the District of Columbia in accord- ance with plans made for the city ot | Washington, is cgntained in a report of the committee on municipal art of the Washington Board of Trade, sent. to E. F. Colladay, president, today by Appleton P. Clark, jr., chairpeh. Calling attention to thawfecommgn: dations in a previeGS report;”Mr. Clark says that th€ subugps-fiow de- veloping acpe€s the e lines will be a part of thg-éity, even if not lawfully” so. _ e urges that steps bgstaken_td have created a commis- Tsfon>of representatives of the Dis- ftrict of Columbia, Maryland and Vir- ginia, which would have authority to make plans for deveiopment along lines on which Washington has grown As a part of the plan to improve I the design of buildings, the commit- tee announced that it is planned to make medal awards annually for meritorious designs, and that circular letters had been sent out to archi- tects, builders and others, requesting them to send a list of bulldings which they wished to have consid- ered. The first bronze medals will be limited to buildings erected during the three years prior to January 1, 1923. Several hundred buildings have been examined by a jury, the personnel of which was announced for the first time in the report, as follows: Theodore Wells Pletsch and Howard Sill of Baltimore, Md. and T. J. D. Fuller of this city. Announcement of the awards is to be. withheld until a later date, and the presentation of the medals is to be made at a full meeting of the Board of Trade. WILL REQUEST FUNDS FOR CRIMINAL BUREAU Department of Justice Ready to Proceed With Identification “Center Plans. Department of Justice plans for e: tablishment here of a centgal criminal bureau of identification, to co-operate with Scotland Yard and other foreign agencies, has progressed so satisfac- torily that Congress will be asked for an_appropriation of $100,000 as an inftial fund for the bureau. Records of the federal penitenti- aries already are being assembled for concentration here, subject to the ap- proval by Congress of the program. The unchallenged dominance’ of The Eve- ning and The Sunday Star,'so.far as circula- Columbia and nearby 1.6, PAYINGREASE WILLNET LY 8 Labor Department Employes to Receive $74—Smith- sonian, $129. The 626 employes of the Department of Labor in Washington are to get an average net increase in salary, above base pay plus the $240 bonus, under reclassification of $74. The 1,479 employes of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington are to get an average net increase of $8. The 484 employes of the Smit] 1 net increase of $129. In the Department of Labor the nine | persons in the professional and scien- tific service get an average net in- crease of §165 each; one person in the subprofessiongl service gets a net increase of $240; the §33 employes in the elerfeal, administrative and fiscal service are to get an average net in- crease of $78, and the 83 employes in the custodfal service of the 1epart- ment get an average net increase of $32. - In the Interstate Commerce Com- sional and scientific service are to get an average net increase of $19; the 131 employes in the subprofessional serv- ice get an average net increase o; $124: the 957 in the clerical, ad trative and fiscal service get age net increase of $2; wJ the 141 employes in the custodél service get an average net incpease of §17 a year. In the Smithsenian Ipstitution, the forty-seven-€mployes”In the profes- sional amd sclengific service get an ayerge net inortase of $844; the fif- one emple¥es in the subprofession- al servjee’get an average net increase of $T45: the seventy-six in the cleri- w81, administrative and fiscal serv- ice’receive an average net increase of $59, and the 310 in the custodlal sery- ice get an average net increase of $35 a year. A table showing what reclassifics tion means to the employes of the La- bor Department, the Interstate Com- merce Commission and the Smithso- nian Institution by services, will be found on page 2 of The Star today. QUASHED COAL CASES APPEALED BY GORDON TU. S. Attorney Carries Prosecution of Eleven Capital Dealers to Higher Court. United States Attorney Gordon, in open court this morning, noted an ap- peal to the District Court of Appeals from the decision of Justice Hoehling quashing the indictment for alleged conspiracy against eleven coal mer- chants, The court sustained a plea in abate- ment for the defendants, who claimed the indictment was invalid because returned by a grand jury on which George H. Van Kirk sat. Van Kirk was recelving disability compensa- tion from the United States, and Jus- tice Hoehling held him to be thereby disqualified for jury service. The matter will probably be heard by the Court of Appeals early in the new year. 3 — 18 TO DIE [N MOSCOW. Sentenced for Bribery and Corrup- tion, as 23 Draw Terms. MOSCOW, November 1.—Eighteen persons were sentenced to death to- day and twenty-three given prison sentences as a result of the trial of sixty-elght Individuals charged with bribery and corruption. The prisoners were employes of the naval technical department and con- tractors alleged to be in collusion with them. PORRAS CANNOT.VISIT U. S. Panama Presideiit Unable to A tend Monroe Doctrine Fete. PANAMA, November 1.—President Porras today announced that it would be impossible for him to attend the centennlal -celebration of the proc- lamation of the Ménroe doctrine, at Richmond Va. His proposed trip was canceled on receipt of a message today announc- ing the arrival, December 3, of a French diplomatic mission for the inauguration of a memorial to Fre canal diggers. L) hsg- nian Institution are to get an -vernl' mission the 250 men in the profes-| aver- | “From Press to Home The Star is delivered every Sunday morning to month. 60 cents Within the Hour”, evening 4nd Felepine. bain 3000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 92,525 ‘Learn jn Sleep, Radio System Is Success in Navy ‘The “learn-while-you-slee tem of radio fnstruction was given credit by the )yavy Department to- day as explanation for the fact that every student at the Pens: cola air station had made a factory mark. ° Notwithstanding & controversy over the efficacy of the system un- der which students go to sleep with the receivers over their ears. the Pensacola authorities reported all of those with low ratings had been pulled up through the agency of the subconscious mind, which had absorbed those things missed in the classrooms. CUTIN GAS RATE EXPECTED T0DA Public Utilities Commission May Reduce Price Five Cents for Thousand. A decision reducing the price of gas 1a expected from the Public Utilitles Commission at Its regular weekly meeting this afternoon. The present rate to private house- holds 18 $1.05 per 1,000 cublc feet. Al- though the commission has not inti- | mated what its decislon will be, the | bellet prevailed today that if a cut is | decided upon the new rate probably will be $1. The Washington and Georgetown gas light companies have filed a | last-mint&e brief, setting forth a | series of reasons why they feel the rate should not be reduced at this time. Claim Valuation Too Low. The companies argue that the com- mission’s value of the properties, which is the basis for rate fixing, is too low and that no actfon should be taken until the valuation cases are settled. They further contend that the al- Jowance for maintenance and amor- tization should be increased and that & cut now would imperil the credit of the companies. The commission also will consider this afternoon the question of wheth- er an effort should be made to reach a settlement with the Potomac Elec- tric Power Company in the long-pend- ing valuation dispute. The members of the commission will discuss this proposal with for- mer Corporation Counsel Syme, but it is not expected that they will make up thelr minds today. ‘ Corporation Counsel Stephens will advise the com- mission as to what steps it should take. Commissjoners Rudolph and Oyster are known to be considering the ad. visability of entering into negotia- tions with the company with & view to bringing the court fight, which has already extended over six years, to an early end. 5 Randle Highlands Busses. A third mattér of importance to be decided by the commission this atter- noon is the improvement of tra: tation service to Ruldl:-%;»i ‘The commission has Te it posal from the CapHal Traction Com- pany to es; h a bus line from 17th street ‘ennsylvania avenue south- | easgfto Randle Highlands. '/? opposition to that, Col. A. E. [Randle, president of the East Was ington Heights Tractlon railroad, is | advocating through bus service from | the highlands to the center of the eity. If it has time the commission also may take up the application filed yes- terday by Col. Randle for authhority to establish motor bus lines along the routes of every street' car line in the {eity. CUT IN GRAIN RATES REFUSED BY ROAS I. C. C. Told President’s Re- quest for Reduction on Ex- ports Turned Down. Railroad executives representing nearly all the trunk lines in the United States notified the Interstate Commerce Commission tbday that they would be unable to grant a voluntary reduction in freight rates on grain for export, which President Coolidge recently asked of them. No mention was made in the rail- roads’ announcement, which was de- livered through a committee of trunk line presidents, of thelr conclusions on. the request of the President for a readjustment in rates of coal for export. Railroad men had concluded, the committee sald, that a reduction in grain rates would not bemefit Ameri- can farmers, principally because Ca- nadian railroads ‘would immediately follow the policy of cutting rates to the seaboard, as they had in the past. In addition, they sild, western rall- roads would be obliged to share In the losses in earnings which would result from an export grain rate reduction, and also_would have to make reduc- tions to Pacific and gulf ports to meet the new rates suggested in the traffic to the Atlantic seaboard. Declaring western roads were in no position to stand any loss of revenue Whatsoever, the executives sald it would be necessary to reduce rates on flour and all types of grain as well as on wheat if the change in export rates was made and this also would adversely affect the western roads earnings. he roads have every desire to help the wheat farmer,” the commit- tee's statement concluded, “and have approached the matter in’ that spirit, but they belleve that a reduction in the export rates will.not benefit the wheat grower for the reason that conforming to long established an well recqgnized economic laws, any reduction in the rates on American grown wheat will be immediately fol- lowed by correspending ‘lowering of rates or prices on wheat grown in Canada, Argentina and other ‘wheat exporting countries and consequently no_change in the situation. would re- sult other than a lowering of the g:lce to the foreign consumer without nefit to the American farmer and at the expense of the rallroads.” TWO CENTS. 13,0 SEE MASONS AIDED BY PRESIDENT LAY CORNER STONE Bishop Freeman, in Urétion, Warns Against Religious'and Racial Prejudice,. ;" WASHINGTON’S TROWEL USED BY MR. COOLIDGE Charles H. Callahan Presides at Rites, Representing Virginia Grand Master. By a Staff Correspondent, ALEXANDRIA, November 1.— Found “true and trusty” by the mas ter's square, the corner stone of t National Memorial, America’s Free- masonry shrine to its most revered craftsman, George Washington, was 1ald here today “in due and anclent form.” Assisted by President Coolidge, in the presence of high government of- ficlals and the greatest gathering of blue lodge Mgyons in the history of the fraternity* the ceremonies were conducted according to Masonic ritual by the Grand Lodge of Virginia. The dusty foundation around which a throng estimated at 13,000 persons gathered today offered no adequate suggestion of the great structure that is to rear its shining granite walls high above the Potomac river five years hence and take its place with the Lincoln Memorial as one of the nation’s most magnificent shrines. From the summit of Shooter's Hill it will look over the broad waters of the Potomac to the Capital, where the splendid figure of the nation's tribute to George Washington, the gigantic obelisk, points_ eternally heavenward. Down the Potomac it will stand guard over the vast estate that once was Washington's home, and spreading in panorama before it Jies this quiet little Virginia city, . Where the first President presided as, the master of a blue lodge. / Honored in Alr, Land, Sea. . If the spirit of Washington éhin- gled today with the throng thay gath- ered here from the farthest #nds of the continent to pay him age, It exemplified the evolution gf the coun- try he founded and the/ great fra- ternity he served so welf. From the sky soarfng airplanes saluted his memory, od the water a mighty battleship that could have humbled the pride of his whole navy in a few brief moments sal im, and ashore the Arm. citizens pald reverent r a manner that he woyld deemed beyond the realm of 3. a$eRibility had he even dreamed e ectemonies that took pi % on the heights abové Mc Alexandria, which has' grown the brief span of & century from 8 tiny colontal outpost to a thriving city. In song and story his unselfish de- votlon to liberty ‘was extolled and held up as the {deal for modern Amer- ica to follow. The story of his patri- otism was rehearsed in eulogy by Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Epis- copal ~ Bishop of = Washington, who voiced a plea for the nation’s re- dedication to those principles of un- selfish devotion to liberty and human brotherhood of which he called Washington “the great exemplar.” Warns of Prejudices. It was the principal address of the day, and in his oration the bishop warned against influences which tend to create ractal and religious hatred within the nation and those which would alter the fundamental basls of its relation with other people. “We are met here today,” Bishop Freeman said, “not so much to think of Washington the soldier, the com- mander-in-chief and ultimately the President of the republic, as of ‘Washington the high exemplar of those splendid ideals for which this nation ought to stand. More and more we are realizing today that if our nation is to endure and occupy its just place and prestige and power among the nations of the world, it must stand squarely and without evasion or modification for those great principles for which the father of the nation stood during those pregnant and tremendously ~Impo: tant days that marked the gen and evolution of our form and sy tem of government.” Callahan Presides. Among the influences which havi helped shape the destiny of the re- public, the speaker continued, none have had more far-reaching effect than that resulting from the princi- ples for which “Freemasonry has ever stood, namely, the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” In Washington, Bishop Freeman said, were exemplified these principles of life, and he appealed for _their larger expressions “in this present critical age.” Charles H. ‘Callahan, deputy grand master of Virginla, who first sug- gested the Washington Memorial, presided at the speclal request of Grand Master James H. Price, as a special testimonial to his work for the advancement of Masonry In America. He was assisted by the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SEASON’S FIRST ICE IN DISTRICT TODAY Official Weather Temperature 34.30 Degrees, But Freezing in Low Places Is Admitted. The season's first ice formed in exposed places in the District early today. Ice an inch thick was report- ed in water buckets at -the Rock Creek golf course by enthusiasts who went around in the morning. Formation of Ice Was, reported from other points. The thermometer at the weather bureau early today register- ed a low mark of 34.30 degrees, but the local forecaster sald that un- doubtedly in low, exposed places, a temperature of 32 degrees was reach- ed. % Fair and continued cold will ‘be th: District's portion tomorrow, accord- ing to the weather .bureau. Close to ireexing weather will prevall, h probable frost. ‘There was a heavy frost this morn- ing, which lay on the ground seve bours after sunrise, & wit] -