Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 2

* LABOR CABINET FATE |La Follette May |HOUSE TO HOLD NIGHT | EUGENE F. SWITH NAMED [OKLAHOMA TORNADO |Post Office Flags |U. S. FLYERS T0 TRY IN BALANCE TODAY Official Party Organ Admits Issue in Doubt in Unemployment Bill Debate. LIBERALS MAY SAVE DAY Asquith Regarded as Likely to Back MacDonald. By the Associnted Pross LONDON, May 20.—That the gov- arnment’s fate is in the balance in to- | ate in the House of Com- mons, with the Issue doubtful, is ad- mitted by the Daily Herald, labor organ, while all the political writers concur in the declaration that the ad- ministration will find itself in tighter corner than ever before and ean in any case expect only a small majority Prime Minister MacDonald specch in the house of indicated that if his go be defeatcd tonight on would go before the country eral clection ‘The dcbate centers around a motion by the Conservatives to reduce the salary of Tom v, minister of tabor, being w technical way expressing disapproval with the gov- ernment's policy foward relieving inemployment. A similar motion was talked out in the house a week ago. Asquith Action Vital. night's det a in a today, crument shou'd test vote it in a gen- this depends Premier toda of the will be govern apparently advice former his followers ting, and believe this advic in favor of supporting the meut. Tt is conceded by X ents of the liberal papers that if the Mberals vote merely according to their feelings on the unemployment question the government will go down, but they do not disguise the fact that if the Liberals turn out the ministry, involving a dissolution of Parliament, they will make them- selves unpopular with the publ whywse last desire is for another ele tion. Former Tremier Bverything vpon the Asquith giv eve the correspond- I Lloyd George is eredited in many quarters with the view that the government has already had enough tether and is said to be prepared to vote against the Labor- ites, but it is not sugwested that he Ax in revolt against Mr. Asquith or that he is likely to discard the Liberal leader's advice. LA FOLLETTE'S ATTACK - ON REDS REGARDED AS CLEVER MANEUVER (Continued from First Page.) been run if the Democrats nominated rrogressive like MeAdoo. But Wisconsin senator wants to run be- he thinks he can be e hat he would hav time of it if both parties nomi- and left the pr 1 vote to be and liber o strategists of both fartics pr to be satisfled with the La Folette announcement in that they thi will help their resp tive causes. The Repubiicans will unite the of the country b jdge drawing tives to his The Democra victory of Li western states tical Democrat de in think it will me Follette in _certain which ordinarily would be carricd by President Cool- idze and which now would make Demooratic victory a8 easy us it was in 1912 when the Republican party was split None of the but they will be 1l election tim advantage of the ment in the wa party. It is not nomination of a would ke the paign cry one of “safe and sane” doctrine. on the other hand. would seek that their radical is not as - us La Follette, and so on. May Divide West. i the national political uation, it would seem that the Wis- consin’ senator enters the race at the psyehological moment and that rar Iy has there be r in which a man of his theories could commind as much strength today in west. In 1916 the Democrats a_combination of the west and south. The MeAdoo Demoerats have b wunting on the same line of atfack, as they virtually concede most of the eastern < to President Coolidge. But if La Follette divides the west with & Democrat, the chances are no ecan- didate will have a majority of the électoral vote and the contest will have to he decided by the House of Representatives, voting by state del kations, and the outcome of that is in doubt, because the party afliliation is practically even. views is convineing, pounded from now n an effort to take La Follette move- that suits each unlikely that the radical Democrat Republican cam- conservatism and The Demo- Analyz < There the La Follette group would | for they could influence dical Democrat ative Republ can—they would repeat the combina- tion they have been making in the present session of Congress on legis- Jdation. But the strategy of the MeAdoo Democrats isn't the only strategy be- ing_expounded. The friends of Gov. Al Smith and John W. is foolish to concede the east awlth move or less moist candidates fhe prohibition question could upset all caleulations in the east and win a few important states for the Demo- crats. . See Benefit in Revolt. s Then. with La Follette capturing a few Republican states in the west, the Democrats would weaken Mr Coolidge’s chances in the east and at _the same time western revolt Ppuablicanism, The La Follette announcement for the moment affects the Republicans much less than the Democrats, for ‘resident Coolidge is as good as nom- nated and no threat from La Fol- otte will change the minds of the viready chosen delegates to the Cleve- land convention. The Democrats however, will be influenced by the La Follétte decision to run indepen- lently. They cannot indorse La Fol- ctte, as_he professes to be a Repub- ¥iean. Would he indorse McAdoo? It he intended to do so he would Not be arranging to accept a_nomi- mation from his followers, who ex- ‘Pect to gather in Cleveland on July 4 to frame a platform. La Follette, who in 1917 was ostracised by his olleagues in the Senate and who was investigated for his speeches against the war, now has become one of the most powerful individuals in the Whole presidential campaign. ' (Copyright. 1924.) - -1, Wins Breach of Promise Suit. “NEW YORK, May 20.—A supreme court jury today awarded $7,500 dam- Ages to Miss Belle Levy, who sued Frederick S. Minott, former president of the Goodvear Rubber Insulating Sompany, for $100,000, alleging breach . _promise. Minott is fifty-six years Sl 3n his defense he contended that ‘ as subject to periodic mental Sfllnm — e Maccabees’ Club to Parade. -+ The Caravan Club of the Maccabees will observe Memorial day with a pa- rade tomorrow. Twenty-five decos rated automobiles will convey the club members through the city. The parade will be led by the deputy su. +Preme commander of the ordet, Thomas Osborne, president of the club. A trip to Gettysburg has been planned later in the year, again_control, the choice rather than sainst regular Re- | terian confession of faith and openly | accusea saving La Follette “would not | al the | | sembly, won | the | n by | the benefit of the | Hold Congress in ... Further = Session Senator La Follette of Wisconsin is expected to return to his office at the Capitol next uvon his attitude and that followers will depend in large measure whet Congress wia close the present session before the national conventions, or be re- quired to return afterward and #ive attention to further legisla- tion, The Wiscongin senator, who yes- terday indicated that his part in the approaching campaign prob- al would be strenuons one, is said to have recoveread to a sreat extent his accustomed vigor, but some of his friends sald he would be urged to conserve his strength for the political battles in the fall. Should he yield to this advice, they said, he would not make a protracted fight upon the "Iw” »f the Senate at the present tn enator La Follette Atlantic City Monday and of his a now is in JOIN CHURCH OR QUIT, DECISION ON FOSDICK | Presbyterians Insist fia]ltis! Min- | ister Change Sect or Leave Their Pulpit. By the Associated Pross, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May 2 Branded a yegr ago as an advocate | of doctrines contrary to the Presby- for utterances he is sald to have made from the puipit of the First Presbyterian Church, w York City, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Baptist minister, teacher and writer, vesterday was invited to join the chureh in which for the past year he has been the subject of constant controversy. The 136th general assembly of the Pre: 2 Church of the United States of America, sitting as a high court, directed the New York Prest tery to ask Dr. Fosdick, now and f the past five years a “special” pastor at the First Church, New York City, | to unite with the byterians, ac- | cept the prescribed doctrines of faith and thus terminate a situation which, | the assembly voted. has been the source of “serious disturbance. Claim Sttmation Tmpossi The existing situation, the bly said in adopting the report of its| Judicial commission, “cannot continue longer.” Dr. Fosdick s b 1 to establish a tionship” | with the denomi the report £aid, or his conuection with t Church €hould be terminated The assembly’s actlon was regard- ed as victory for the conservative or| {middle-of-the-road” group, which | of heresy Zihlman a | tion of the d. <ought harmony above a victory for ( er extremist unit, e“’l“lh‘ n:fjflr L te of the entire age | however, ln\nl\lvll ‘.u: ::;; dained nister of the Presbyterian | |1'|A1‘I;’rl':\ ;Ill.:v 1ft—Dr. William P. Merrill, pastor of the Bric York, Ax a result of Dr. Merrill he w: board of for: h had serv in his plac Carson of st. a4 from the | on which years, and was elected Dr. John F. 3rooklyn, a fundamentals Will Meet in Columbus. The assembly selected Columbus, Ohio, as the place for holding next year's ass mbly. Briefly summarized. th complishments of the h assembly we e Adopted a pension pla nr’:fl other workers of the church Adopted a_resoi drafted by William Jennings Bryan pledging th assembly to efforts to outlaw war. Approved a rotation plan for th holding of future general ssembli under which the count divided into five areas, the 0 be| held in rotation in each. Step Townrd Reunion. | Approached tep mearer union with the Presbyterian Church in the United States (South). Adopted foreign and national mis- sioné reports calling for further ex- tension of the evangelical and mis- sionary work of the church. Went on record insisting that theological instruction in seminaries and other institutions of the church accord fully with the church’s doc- trine Adopted resolutions favoring the San Carlos, Ariz, irrigation project. directly affecting the welfare of In- dians among whom Presbyterian mis- sionaries are working, and the Hull- Capper bill, providing for an increase in the number of chaplains in Army. . Voted unanimously Governor of Indiana to use his power and authority to prevent the boxing mateh between Tommy Gibbons and Carpentier. ; ave its approval to unified finance plan, details of which are to be completed during the coming year. SR major ac- general for minis- | the to urge the | KAFKA ELECTED HEAD OF ADVERTISING CLUB F. S. Wilson of U. S. Chamber of Commerce Speaks on Mer- chandise Distribution. Officers for the ensuing year were elected at the annual meeting of the Washington Advertising Club at luncheon in the City Club yesterday. Maurice Kafka cas elected presi- dent; Allan V. de Ford, first vice president; Frank Kimmel, second vice president; Sydney M Selinger, treasur- er; John F. Cassi- dy,, secretary, and the following di- rectors: Miss Mar- guerite L. greaves, E. Bull, Oppenheimer, George 1. Snow- den and Norman Kal. election was reached for time as if it become a withdrawing meeting, instead of election, as several of those whose pames ap- peared on the printed ballot got up and asked that their names be with- drawn, pleading pressure of business which' would prevent them giving sufficient time to the offices. George J. Snowden withdrew as a candidate for president: Sylvan Oppenheimer passed up a possible first vice presi- dency, and John E. Moore and J. O. Martin begged off as Second vice presidents. F. S. Wilson of the United States Chamber of Commerce, in a brief ad- dress, told of the great change in the modern distribution system of mer- chandise. He said it was almost im- possible now to classify stores as hardware, drug, or otherwise, as all of them sold &6 many different arti- cles that stores in the past did not. He told the club that efforts were be- ing made to have the bureau of the census make some effort to get a classification, the task now having be- come so big that it was impossible MAURICE KAFKA. When the it looked might for any private agency to under- take it SESSION FOR CAPITAL Minor Measures Will Be Taken Up Tuesday or Wednesday, Under Agreement. 1S PROMISED BY LONGWORTH | Acts on Recommendation of Lam- pert and Zihlman. The District of Columbia is to be given a special night session in the House, next Tuesday or Wednesday, for the disposal of a number of minor measures, ‘ording to agreement reached today by House Leader Long- worth and Representatives Zihlman of Maryland and Lampert of Wiscon- sin. Acting under in District committe ing Wednesday, tructions from the at the last meet- Acting Chairman mpanied by Representa- tive Lampert asked the House leader for an extra day for District legis- lation. Longworth explained that it was impossible to fin that was unmortgaged. and the atten- gation to the number ters of general legisla- being pressed for action of major m: tion that are before adjournment. 'he House leader, however, said he sure that he could gef unani- mous consent for a night session, ther Tuesday or Wednesday. Among the matters of District legislation which the delegation from the Dis trict committee told the House lead- er would be called up for considera- tion in the special night sessions are: Many Measurex Listed. . A bill providing for a rearrange- ment of public alley facilities, so that an addition can be built to the street vocational school A bill to regulate the practice of architecture and providing for exam- ination and registration of architcets in the District A bill to regulate the practice dentistry in the District. A bill providing for the payment of $67.000 due to retired members of the police and fire departments be- cause there was an insufficient amount in the retirement fund be- tween January 1, 1911 and July 30, 191 A bill providing for ment of a second deputy would receive pay only duty A bill to abolish capital punishment in_the District Another bill to abolish hanging in the District of Columbia ana substitute electrocution as the method of capital punishment A bill authorizing the wideni 4th street, south of Cedar stree fakoma Park, to eliminate a curve. ot the appoint- oroner, who for time on £ of in bad A bill declaring Lincoln's birthday | a legal holids HOFFMAN CONVICTED OF SLAYING WOMAN| Second-Degree Verdict Returned in Death of Mrs. Maude Bauer. Associated Press NEW YORK, May 29.—Harry L Hoffman, charged with slaying Mrs Maud A. Bauer on a lonely Staten Island road, today was found guilty of murder in the second degree. County Judge Tiernan imposed sentence of twenty vears to life im- prisonment in Sing Sing. Hoffman. on his way to a prison van after sentence had been impo passed within a few feet of District Attorney Fach and shrieked: “Now vou and your | can divide up your reward innoc t and yvou know it.” Hoffman collapsed in his cell 1 am a motion picture operator, is married and the father of two children Shot, Beaten and Strangled. On the afternoon of March 25 the hody of pretty Mrs. Maude Bauer, young mother of two daughters. was found by the side of a lonely Staten Island road. She had been shor, beaten and strangled, and there was had successfully ssault told of having seen Mrs. Bauer. driving her mother and daughters in her small car. stalling the motor in the mud when she swerved to avold collision with a truck. Her mother told of a passing motorist, a lone man in a coupe, who stopped and tendered his services to Mrs. Bauer as she was walking to- ward a distant house to seek assist- ance. Gun and Auto Clues. Hoffman maintained his Innocence, f n picture operator. Racey Parker, told the police Hoff- man had been with him in the p jection room of a theater at the time Mrs. Bauer murdered. But the police had learned that Hoffman, three days after the murder, sent to his brother a gun of the caliber of the automatic pistol with which Mrs. uer had been shots They also found a bullet hole_in the, upholstery of his motor car, a coupe identi with that described by those who had seen the mystery motorist. Parker. a few days later, repudiated the alibi he had offered for Hoff- man, declaring his fellow operator had ‘asked him to “frame” it, as he feared the police would arrest him for the Bauer murder. At the trial Barbara Fahs, a thir- teen-year-old schoolgirl, identified Hoffman as the man who had offered Mrs. Bauer a ride, and a firearms ex- pert declared that only buliets from Hoffman’s gun could have caused the death of Mrs. Bauer. The case went to night. WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT IN LEAP FROM TRAIN Jumps Out of Window of Speeding Express Near Baltimore—Believed to Be From Los Angeles. By the Associated Press, BALTIMORE, Md., May 20.—A woman, about fifty vears of age, be- lieved to be Mrs, Mary Ammerman of Los Angeles, Calif,, threw- herself from a window of'a rapidly running express train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near here today. She was brought to a Baltimore hospital, where her condition was reported eritical. Her skull was fractured and she was believed to have suffered in- ternal injuries. All her baggage was marked “Mrs. Mary Ammerman, 4429 Crocker street, Los Angeles. The woman hoarded the train at Washington, where she had recheck- ed her baggage to Philadelphia. Just as the speeding train was ap- proaching Relay, Md., she asked the Pullman porter to open her window. He did s6, placing a screen under it. He had ‘scarcely left her when she wrenched away the screen, lifted the window to its full height, and before fellow passengers could prevent her, threw herself out of the window. S DANISH TREATY IS SIGNED. Denmark was added todav to the countries which have entered into treaties with the United States simi- lar to that made with Great Britain the jury last for the purpose of curbing rum smug- gling into the United States. The treaty with Denmark was signed at the State Department and now goes Jto the Senate for ratification, K witnesses | Becomes National Geographic Trustee TO GEOGRAPHIC BODY District Specialist Takes Place on Board of Trustees, Succeed- ing Dr. MacDonald. Dr. John ton's hest of the the United elected trustees Foote, of Washing- known physicians and one foromost child falists in States, vesterday was of the board of onal Geographic one spe A member Society Dr. Foote children is professor of dises getown and member ttee of the Amer- Association, is and Child, a child magazine, and con rticics to general maga- health. al G es of at Univer- director Child Hygiene f Mother is a fcan edi iene is a inn.m‘-v- of 3 on chi the Nati br. Foot In ographic Maga- z les | which | their ficls, | eines ana | Fakers of an “The raphy of Medi- Fakes and Archbal rEetown K post-graduats and his practiced ington since 1906, He | dele 1o a4 number of medical con- ventions abroad, has been honored American move child hygien a infant mortality rate of “Essentinls of M- rapeuties” 1 books Pa., Dr Univirsits work in in Wash has been a by foreizn n has been a ments dut down ilea ive | promte the M and | Dr the G Chevy Dr phic's board of trustees /90 COLORED PUPILS " RECEIVE DIPLOMAS | Commencement Exercises at Dun- bar Mark End of Night School Course. | ¥ pupils who hav ur sompleted the elementary e night schools were at commencement in the Dunbar High |rium. Dr. J. Hayden Jo ber of th ard of education, was the comen ent orator. The diplom, were conferred by William L. ton, a a member of the school board. The invocation and benedi tion were pronounced by Rev. D, Rivers. Dr. Winfield S. Montgon |assistant director of the night sehools, {presided. The Dunbar High School Orchestra and Garey !isl, furnished the muste. | The graduates are Stevens School, Rosa Stokes Neth- erland, principal—Alfred De L. Brok- {enborough, Charles Ashton Dunkins, |James Gaskins, Lanzy Junius Gooch, rard Deril Levy, Alvah Harold Thurston, Horace Ward, Alice Era Anderson, Alla Gerdon Butler, Essie Maud Brown, Mattie Douglass Brown. Lena Elizabeth Butler, Fannie borough, Virginia Coley Edelin, lian lone Hill, Martha Elizabeth I uretta Scott Martin, Edna May ¥ ker, Christinia Jeanette Pendleton, Marie Elizabeth Randall, Jeanctte Mattie Scruggs, Creola Virginia Wat- gon, Della Anna Wilson and Florence Louise ¥ junbar Elementary School. D. David Houston, principal — Wallace Preston Abbott, Eunice Vernetta Bal- lard, George Henry Brooks. Joseph Cyrend Hackett, Oharles Alexander Harris, James Irving Wilson. Garner School. Albert G. Knorl, principal Leroy ~ Wiiliam Brown, James William Butler, orge Philip Coleman, Oscar Erving Collins, Willie {James Evans, Earley James Harris, Luther Hinnant, Joseph Allen Miller, Reed Allen Webb, Francis Theodore Scott, James Primas, Normal Pauline Carter, Lucy Elnora Davidson, Essie Jane Laury, Emma Alfonso McCrorey Annie Elizabeth Miser, Francis West- wood Taylor, Lucille Thomas, Theresa Caesar Thomas, Susie Couch Furr, Kate Myrtle Wright, Isabelle Daniels, Dorothy Pauline Fisher, Edna New- ton, Sallle Payton. Lovejoy School, Effie F. Simmons, principal—Oppie Ollious Baber, Wal- ter Brooks, George Edward Diggs, Lucius David Evans, Charles Grace< son, James Frank Jones, Joseph John Jones, Wilbur William Jordan, Ern- est Daniel Kirkland, William Reth- ford Minor, Linval Myers, Alphonzo Sullivan, Ernest John Taylor, Theo- dore Roosevelt Willlams, Eva Fran- ces Brooks, Minnie Carroll, Margie Martha Driver, Inez Evans, Alberta rdner, Caroline Jones, Gladys Helen avoy, Emma Washington. Randall-Cardoza School, Parks, principal — Shepard Beatty, James Thomas Van Buren Clark, James Hodge, Philip Young, Irene Ruth Golden, Alice Jane Johnson, Susie Isabel Hill, Susie Elizabeth, Beatrice Adelaid Lewis, Henrietta Bell Parker, Hattie Tolson, Raymond Franklin Allen. Spanish Teachers Elect. The Association of Spanish Teachers at a meeting last night at 1435 K street elected the Jfollowing officers for the coming year: Prof. Angel C. i Vasques, of the faculties of George ! Washington and Catholic universities, president; Prof. Jones of George Washington, vice president; Mrs. Marjorie Cade, secretary. A ‘program committee was named, consisting of Prof. Jose Llorens as chairman; Miss Reeve, Miss Cunradi and_Prof. 'Jones. / Dr. Guillermo A. Sherwell read the last chapters of his work on Quevedo, He has presented this work in a series of five lectures before the association this year. The meetings of the association will be resumed next October, and every one in-the city interested in Spanish culture is ked to attend. awarded diplomas reises last night School audito- son, ¥. Wardell Bromhead, of | { naa |a Louisville, | pe: |ing ana S 1or8d § pitlionair pital here mem- | Browne, violin- PRINTERS’ UNION HEAD Wins by 500 Votes From John W. Breen—Other Officers and Delegates Chosen. Bugene F. Smith was elected presi- dent of the Columbia Typographical Union last night at the annual ele tions. He received almost 500 votes more than John Breen. iffert was elected vice sident and George G. Seibold and T. C. Parsons were re-elected secre- tary and asistant secretary and treas- urer, respectivel Other officers clected were: Ed- ward W. Davidson, doorkeeper; John H. Hooper, trustee; Arthur G. Bate- | man, Joseph H. Cummings, Burton W. 'Doyle, Frank H. Hambright, George C. Lear and Edwin A. Sulli- van, executive committeeman for book and job printing offices; Edgar T. Brown, Clarence J. Desper, Percy I Lowd, Claude I. M W. Plantz, executive committeemen for newspapers; Robert J. Dillard, executive comnittceman for linotype machinists, and John F. Quinn, execu- tive committeeman for monotype ma- chinists. Delegates Choxen. Delegates to the international con- vention elected were: Charles F. Bauer, %. M. Miller, H. J. Broderick and J. L. Kelly. with Ola Mallory, Clyde D. McCurdy, James L. Sullivan and Jacoh Wagner, alternates. Auditors selec for the next vear were E. J. Elwood and E. N. Warner. In interna Hoting James M. Lynch received 1,108 votes and Charl P. Howard 699 £or international presi- | dent; Seth 1t Brown, 1,095 leach 675, vice president; Hewsin, 1,083, and William R. 641, sccond vice president; 70, and William A. Aldrich Walter Austin Trot- scher, 616; codore H. Freese, 584, and Anton J. Chramosta, $2, for trustees to the Union Printers’ Home. The vote for agents to the home was Joe Jerome fara, con s of Can Spalding, s, Fred Barker, S. Walker, 738. Delegates to_Ameri- can Federation of Labor, Max Hayes, 1,034; T. W. McCullough, nk Morrison, 896; John ( William Burton, 607; A. A. Couch, 49 William 0. Jag: 461; Raymond T. 560; George Hobinson, Chicago Hospital, Critically 111 in Louisville : 2y the Assaclated Press, LOUISVILLE, Ky, Heath hicago dru in P a May gist, condition a4t today and taken he is An a crit- was fou an unconscious a & house here 2 h wher fcal condition Police sald the ing implicated in the und slaying of Robert Franks in Chi- basing the statement on infor- »n from the hospital that Heath sed. Inquiry at the led that Heath nad ement co B authorities apparently derstood the message ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. spital man was suspected kidnaping e hos- nade the having misun- Heath Fled From Chicago Hos- pital During Search. CHICAC May —Ch: Heath, a former dryggist Ky.. hospital onneetion with murder of Robert Franks, thirteen-vear-old son of a Chicage disappeared from a hos- ast Monday, after he had apparently attempted to end his life Detectives were secking him when he | vanished. Heath rles . watched in as a s in had swallowed a_sleep-pro- cing drug on’Sunday, but when de- | tectives sought him the next had disappeared fram Me: He formerly had a drug s two miles from the Ay he Hospitut ore less than Franks KLAN AIDED MAYFIELD| RACE, SAYS CLARKE Former Imperial Wizard Admits, | However, His Knowledge Is Second-Hand. arges that the Ku Klux Klan put “men, money and power” into the elec- tion of Senator Mayfield, Democrat, of Te were made before the Senate privileges and elections committee vesterday by E. G. 3 or- zer and chief cfficer of the Klan. rke took the stand after Senator Mayfield had told his counsel to with- draw the legal objections they had entered to his appearance. Lacks Personal Knowlege. Although Clarke was the chief of- ficer of the Klan at the time, he ad- mitted that he did not know person- Iy of money actually sent into xas for the Mayfield election. He drew a sharp cross-examina- F. Zumbrunn, counsel for Senator Mayfleld, not' only citing Clarke’ nn act conviction in Tex- as, but bringing in the witness's con- neetion with mail fraud es, his “banishment” or expulsion from the Klan, and other matters. When Zumbrunn suggested that Clarke, in Houston, Tex., while be- fore the federal court, had entered an agreement with Gov. John M. Parker of Texas and R. R. Creager, Republican national _committeeman from Texas, to “get his white slave punishment mellowed up” by testify- ing in the Mayfield contest. Clarke denfed the assertion vigorously. He said he had talked with attorneys, and made “a speech to a social gathering” of some fift@n men of more or less importance about the Klan situation, but had agreed to nothing. When asked what “Gov. Parker was doing there.” Clarke said “I don’t know.” In his account of what did in Texas during 1922, Clarke said he, as Imperial Wizard, let Dr. H. W. Evans, the present chief of the order, have a “free hand.” Expenses of the organization were passed upon by a finance committee. with which Clarke sald he had nothing to do, but from it he heard some protests about what the Klan was spending in Tex- as. He did not know of men being sent into Texas for Mayfleld, he said, and_testified to various conversations with Evan: Library Open 2-6 P.M. Tomorrow. The’ central building of the Public Library will be open tomorro s, Decoration day, from 2 to 6 p.m., for both circulation and reference use of books. Library officials express re- gret at their inability to keep the library open from 9 to 9 on hotidays, as formerly, and as is customary in other cities, but, they point out, the fund for Sunday and holiday service was reduced in the last appropriation bill, making it necessary this year to limit the hours on Sundays and holi- days to 2 to 6 pm. Takoma Park and Southeastern branches will not be the Klan Alard and Earl | | Count | motishea. |near B | for | citizens of the state the kidnap- | KILLS 9, INJURES 20 Three Communities Swept With $100,000 Damage in Eastern Part of State. ALABAMA DEATH TOLL 21 Million Dollars’ Damage in Storm Area of Mississippi. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., May 29.— Nine known deaths, more than a score injured and property damage timated at round $100,000 was the toll paid by three communities in eastern Oklahoma swept by a tornado late yesterday, the second in twenty- four hours, At Wetumka, an oll town of 2,500 inhabitants, seven persons lost their lives when thirty homes were razed. At Warner, a small farming center near Okmulgee, two persons were killed and most of the town’s business section was destroyed. Checotah, in McIntosh County, suffered consider- able damage from wind and torrential rainfall. Three persons were unaccounted for at Wetumka. 21 ALABAMA STORM TOLL. Eight Members of One Family Die in Crash of Home. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 29.—Ala- bama's death toll in the tornado of Tuesday was placed at twenty-one yesterday, with belated reports that Mrs. J. S. Cofield was killed twelve miles of Hamilton, Ala, in Marion when her home was de- Her husband, son, Prine Cofield, and grandson, W. C. Cofield, were seriously injured. ctions swept by the storm were busy yesterday burving the dead and aring for those injured and rendered homel This was_especially true npire, in Walker County, which bore the brunt of the tornado and where ¢ight members of one fam- ily were killed in the crash of their home. About fifty persons were injured in | the state FOUND NEAR DEATH, Druggist. Who Disappeared From | RELIEF GIVEN HOMELESS. ississippi Property Damage More Than $1,000,000. JACKSON, Miss, May 29.—With the dead buried and the injured being cared in hospitals, Mississippi yesterday turned attention to the many families rendered homeless and destitute by the violent windstorms which swept sec- tions of the state Monday night and Tuesday morning, taking a death toll of twenty-one persons and injuring more than half a hundred, and causing prop- erty damage estimated at more than $1,100,000, Acting Gov. Dennis Murphree vester- day issued @ proclomation calling on for assistance for the storm sufferers. Units of the Red Cross have organized and have taken charge of the relief work in the stricken Reports yesterday from Summit stated practically every building in the was damaged. two churches, sev- busi: houses and many resi- es having been totally wrecked The loss there was estimated at The loss there was estimated at at Collins, where virtually the same con- ditions prevailed. He: damage also was caused at Increase, where thirty persons are homeless, and at Johnston Station. Wire communication, badly crippled in the storm areas, was gradually be- & restored today. Mi tow: eral dend GORE NOW LEADING WEST VIRGINIA RACE Clarksburg Man Nearly 1,000 Ahead of England for G. 0. P. Gubernatorial Nomination. By the Associated Prese. CHARLESTON, W. Va. May Howard M. Gore of Clarksburg had a lead of nearly 1,000 over Attorney al E. T. ngland for the Repub- nomination as governor in their close contest in Tuesday's primary, when additional returns today brought the number of precincts reported to 1.1530 out of 2,142 in the state. Gore's vote was 37.315 and England's 36,346 Former Senator W. E. Chilton's lead over Mrs. lzetta Jewel Brown for the Democratic nomination for United States senator continued to mount. From 993 precincts Chilton had 41,557 and Mrs. Brown 34,473, Guy D. Goff. former assistant at- torney general of the United States, was far ahead of his four competitors for the Republican senatorial nomi- naticn. His vote was 44,497 In 1,134 precinets, and Benjamin L. Rosen- blocm. now represcntative from the first district, and former Representa- tive Wells Goodykoontz continued on Imost even basis as poor sec- onds. Rosenbloom had 17,203 and Goodykoontz 17,170. Judge Jake Fisher, on reports from 1.072 precincts, kept his big lead on other Democrats seeking the govern- DV'FYEH\ . As against Fisher's 33,257, A. J. Wilkinson came closest, with 18,281, MUST CURTAIL FORCE. Standards Bureau Obliged to Lay Off Fifty Workers. Curtailment of the skilled and un- skilled staff of the bureau of stand- ards must be made on June 30 be- cause the bureau will be unable after that time to pay Increased salarles recommended in the reclassification act and still carry on its rolls the present personnel. About fifty em- ployes will lose their jobs on that date, according to Assistant Director F. C. Brown. Those to go have al- ready been selected, according to their efficiency ratings. The reduction in personnel is gen- eral, Dr. Brown said, and does not apply to any single class or group of employes. The reduction will bring the bureau’ staff from about 900, its present personnel, to 850. Dr. Brown said the bureau would try to continue its normal activities with the reduced force at the same peak of efficiency that has charac- terized its work in past years. An increase of $100,000 in the funds available for the bureau would save the reduction in force, Dr. Brown believes. WILL LAY CORNERSTONE. Bishop of Brazil to Preside a Cathedral. With Right Rev. Lucien Lee Kin- solving, bishop of Brazil, presiding, the corner stone of the National Cathedral's library will be laid at| :30 this afternaon. When completed the library of the cathedral is ex- pected to be the center of the educa- tional program in the church. The memorial wing is the gZift of Mrs. Violet Blair Janin of this city. At 5:30 this afternoon the American Leston will place wreaths on Wood- row wilson's tomb. 29.— Genel lica | at Arlington cemetery tomorrow. To Be Half-Staffed On Memorial Day Differences in the manner of dis- playing the United States flag on Memorial daye May 36, have been brought out through instructions is- sued by the Post Office Department to postmasters throughout the coun- try. Whether the flag should be display- ed at half staff only until aocon or throughout™the entire day never has been uniformly designated by gov- ernment authority. Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davls, adjutant generdl of the United States Army, says that on Memorial day at all Army posts the national flag is dis- played at half staff from sunrise until noon and at full staff from noon until sunset Instructions {ssued by the super- vising architect of the Treasury De- partment to custodians of all federal buildings, on the other hand, order the flag at half staff on Memorial day without limiting till noon the t=me it should be sc flown. Government-owned post ofloes bo- ing under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department, the Postmaster General has instructed all postmas- ters to follow the instructions of the supervising architect PRESIDENT TO SPEAK AT ARLINGTON RITES (Continued from First sota will speak at the Congressional cemetery services, which begin at 10 o'clock. There also will be services at Holy Rood cemetery at 9:30 o'clock, Oak Hill cemetery at 11 o'clock, Glen- wood, Prospect Hill an at 9:30; Harmony cemetery H Northeast and Woodland cemeteries. Wreaths for Tomb. In addition to President Coolidge's wreath, flowers will be placed on the Unknown's tomb tomorrow morn- ing by the District of Columbia Chapter, American War Mothers, and by Brig. Gen. George A. L. Dumont, military attache of the French em- bassy, on behalf of the French War Veterans of San Francisco. At the same time another wreath will be placed on the tomb of Le Soldat Inconnou in Paris by the American military attache, the gift of mem- bers of the American Legion of San Francisco. At 5 o'clock this afternoon mem- bers of the District American Legion will assemble at the main gate of Bethlehem Chapel, National Cath dral, and file past the tomb of Wood- row Wilson. Burnside Post, No. & G. A. R, held memorial services last night for its members who ave died during the vear. Rev. Dr. C. A. Stauffer deliv- ered the address and H. T. Dunbar presided. Chaplain R. E. McBride gave the invocation and pronounced the benediction. HONOR INDIAN'S MEMORY. Sioux Parents Travel 2,000 Miles for Exercises Here Tomorrow. Traveling two thousand miles to pay tribute to the memory of a sol- dier son, Joseph Take-the-Shield and his wife, Sioux Indians, arrived in Washington today from South Dak to attend the Memorial day servic The son, whose name was also Joseph Take-the-Shield, was killed in ac- tion in France on November 1, 1318. The parents, who live on the Standing Rock Agency in South Di- kota, called at the bureau of Indian affairs today and requested that they be given an American flag to take back with them as a memorial to their soldier son. Both parentsspeak English. Besides attending the serv- ices at the cemetery tomorrow they expect to decorate the grave of their son. HOLD MEMORIAL RITES. ‘Washington Hebrews Honor Dead in World War. Memorial exercises for who died in the world war ere held in the Washington Hebrew Congre- gation cemetery, under the auspices of the Vincent B. Costello Post of the American Legion and the Jewish Wel- fare Board, vesterday afternoon. Due to inclement weather and the lack of available shelter in the ceme- tery, the services were confined to prayers by Rabbi Abram Simon and Rabbi J. T. Loeb. These services have heen made an annual affair in order that the service rendered by Hebrews of the United States for their country in the great war might not be forzotten. Memorial addresses which were to have been delivered at the ceme- tery by Dr. Simon and Dr. Loeb but were postponed, will be supplanted by special services to be held in the synagogues in the near future, it was stated. LEGIONNAIRES TO PARADE. Hebrews Will Be Reviewed by President With Other Veterans. Seventeen hundred legionnaires will march in review past President Cool- jdge, with Grand Army veterans and Spanish war veterans, tomorrow morning, en route to the trains for Arlington. Tt was announced today that 500 men of the colored legion posts will assemble at & o'clock in front ef the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A and ‘will ceed at 8:30, headed by a sixty- _plece band. to the front of the District building. There they will be joined by 1.200 American Leglon men, headed hy the | Army Band. At 9:30 the procession will ‘start up Pennsylvania avenue to East Executive avenue, thence north to H street, each to 13th and south to the Mount Vernon station. As they pass up East Executive avenue they will be reviewed by President Cool- idge. Grand Army veterans and the Marine Band will lead the parade. 100 WREATHS FOR DEAD. Salvation Army Plans Tribute at Arlington Tomorrow. The Salvation Army in the District of Columbia will pay tribute to the soldier dead by placing 100 wreaths on different graves and monuments in the Arlington cemetery tomorrow morning _under direction of Adjt. Ernest Holz, divisional secretary of the Salvation Army in the District of Columbia. Adjt. Holz was a United States Army chaplain overseas during the late war. He will be assisted by Adjt. George Paxton, Adjt. Agnes McKernan, Capt. Harold Smith and Envoy Mary Billings, all of whom served GIRL sCOUT §ERVICES. Organization Will ?hit Arlington and Decorate Graves, Girl Scouts representing all the troops in the District of Columbia divi- sion will visit Arlington National Ceme- tery tomorrow and place upon the graves of the veterans of the civil war tributes of flowers in commemo- ration of their service to the nation. Approximately 110 °Girl Scouts act- ing in conjunction with the American Legion will leave for Arlington at § o'clock t¢morrow morning and will oceupy the whole day in decorating the graves. A picnic lunch has been arranged for them by the American Legion. The girls will be in charge of Miss Margaret Huwssy, local director, and V'Mrs, Julia Thomas of Clarendon, Va. The HOP TO KUSHIMOTO Hope Tomorrow to Regain Some of Time Lost on Account of Weather. CHANGE ORIGINAL PLAN Soon to Cross Yellow Sea for Land- ing on Asiatic Continent. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 29.—Lieut. Lowell H, Smith, acting commander of the American Army round-the-world flight, announced today that the avi. ators plan to leave Kasumigaura Sat- urday morning on the next leg of thelr journey, weather permitting. They will endeavor to make the flight to Kagoshima. at the southern end of the Island of Kyashu, in one day. stopping at Kushimote only for el Hope to Regain Time. By making the flight in one duy the flyers hope to regain some of the time they lost, owing to bad weathe in Alaska. _The original plan was to fly from Kasumigaura, fifty miles north Tokio, to Kashimurto, a port at southern end of the maln is Japan, distance of 350 miles, after a rest there, continue on other day to Kagoshima. From Kag, hima the aviators make their hop of 500 miles across the Yellow Shanghai, their first landing the Asiatic continent. DOISY REACHES PEKING. French Airman Completes 650- Mile Hop From Shanghai By the Associated Press. PEKING, May 20.—Cap. George Pelleticr Doisy Teached here late t day, completing a long distance sta of his flight from Paris to Tokic dashing French airman left Shanghai this morning and arrived at the capital after making a brier stop at Tsinan-fu early in the after noon. _The total than 630 miles. SAYS “HATS OFF TO U. S.” distance is more British Flyer, After Breakdown Admires Offer of Assistance. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, M 9.—Maj. Stuar Laren, the British aviator who crashed at Akyab, Burma, just after restarting on hi¢ around-the-world flight, has cabled Lieut. Commander Garnet Hulings, American naval al- tache here “Hats off to the Stars d Stripes for real sportmanship.” Maj. MacLaren had reference to the offer of the American Navy to transport his spare airplane from Hakodate, Japan, to India, to enabl him to continue his flight. The American destrover John Paul Jones is to take the new airplane from Hakodate to Hong Kong, where it will be transshipped to another destroyer to be taken to Calcutta. D'OISY NEARS TIENTSIN. Flies 450 Miles North in Day From Shanghai. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL May 20 —Capt. Georg: Pelletier d'Oisy, French aviator, fly- ing from Paris to Tokio, arrived at Tsinar-fu at 2 o'clock this afternoon He left here this morning, using & Chinese airplane in place of the ma- chine wrecked upon his landing here. Tsinan-fu is about 450 miles north- northwest of Shanghai and 170 miles south of Tientsin PR NATIONAL ARBORETU#i INDORSED BY CITIZENS Favor Bill Now Before Presiden- for Park Development in Northeast. Approval arboretum and Hickey of plans for a nationas on the Mount Hamilton Hill tracts, as provided the park development bill the President's signature, was given by the Rhode Isiand Ave- nue Citizens' Association, meeting in the Sherwood Presbyterian Church last night. The tracts mentioned are hetween the eastern branch of the Potomac River, Bladensburg road. the right of way of the Pennsylvania railroad and Benning road. A resolution requesting the Dis- trict Commissioners to build a perma- nent bridge over the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads somewhere in the loop made by the railroad south of South Dakota ave- nue was adopted. The railroads, it was stated, inter- cept all traffic into northeast Wash- ington between the avenue mentioned and Eckington place and greatly in- convenieute the population living north of the railroads by giving them no proper outlet to the main section of the city. “The private grade cros ing at Langdon is dangerous and the ‘camel back’ bridge across the rail- road track at 224 street is a dix grace of long standing to a respect able and intelligent community,” it was stated. Following a report of Kenneth P Armstrong, chairman of the commit- tee on streets and sidewalks, the as- sociation voted to ask for the various street improvements as recommended by the committee. A resolution was adopted to request the purchase of a tract of land in the vicinity of Rhode Island avenue awd uth Dakota avenue, to serve as # site for a new public school. Thanks were extended to Liew Col. €. O. Sherrill for his efforts in securing the development of two small parks in the neighborhood and in_having band concerts there. The following were installed new members: George E. Good. R. Ellis, Howard M. Carter, James M. Ridgeway, Frank Street, Mrs. L. A Gardner, Howard S. Gossage, Mrs Mary C. Winter, Miss Ruth C. Winter, Conrad H. Blanz, Samuel Alpher, James Dunn and W. C. Heltmuller SECOND MASONIC LODGE IN WEEK CONSTITUTED Another baby was born to the M: sonic family of the District of Co- lumbia last evening when Chevy Chase Lodge, No. 42, was constituted by the grand master of Masons and the officers of ,the Grand Lodge in accordance with ancient form and usage. Pt is only two days older than the next youngest child, Trinity Lodge No. 41, which arrived Monday evening. ‘The ghall above the Chevy Chase Theater was crowded to the doors when Isaac R. Hitt, master of Chevy Chase Lodge. accorded a graclous welcome to Grand Master Roberts and the official line of the Grand Lodge. The grand master, following the cersmony, delivered an address of congratulation that was replete witii good advice. Incidental music was supplied by a vocal quartet under the direction of J. Walter Humphrey. ' As was the case when Trinity Lodge was constituted Monday, a feature of the ceremony last evening was the presentation of officers’ aprons, jewels and lodge room paraphernalia by other lodges. The grand master and his officers made the annual grand visitation to § Takoma Lodge No. 29, Takoma Park, Tuesday evening. The next grand visitation will be to Pentalpha Lodge No. 23, next Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, in_ Masonic Temple, 13th street and New York avenue,