Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 4

DROP IN MIDDLE WEST INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY Slackening of Manufactures Some Lines Brings Increase in Surplus Labor. in EMPLOYES IN OTHER FIELDS Railway and Highway Construc- tion Attracts Scores. BY J. C. ROYLE. Special Dispatch 1o The Ntar. NEW YORK, May 31 of manufacturing activity in some lines undoubtedly has made holes in e employment fabric of the coun- y. but the surplus labor released the mills and factories fully and readily sections by railr highway building Sluckening trom being most tion, work. Activity the middle states in industrial plants has un- doubtedly fallen off, especiully in Ii- linois and Wisconsin, vet outdoor ~easonable have almost done away with unemployment. Most of the men made idle have gone to the farms or-road gangs. In Ohio the changing of some of ‘the steel mills to an eight-hour day, which oc- later than in other steel com- es, has helped to reduce idie- is now absorbed in construc- and farm | in western | occupations bor Pay MHoldx Firm. Pay for turm labor is holding firm throughout the eastern and middle western states and is seemingly on the increase some parts of the | west. The suu.aecast still is short of workers for the cotton fields in spite the relatively high wages offered and this has already started a move- ment for the abandonment of acre- age in Georgia. Labor in the cotton tields of other sections of the south seemingly has been adequate so far The farm labor bureau at Fort Worth, Tex., expects to be called upon to supply 200.000 cotton pick- ers to gather the 1924 crop in that section. Picking will start in the southern counties late in July. The general average farm wage in_ the southwest at present runs from $30 to $35 a month and board. with cotton vhoppers paid more. Picking is paid for at the rate of about $1.25 a hun- dred pounds. In the berry fields of the southwest the usual pay is about U3 cents crate of twenty-four boxes. Hequirex Army of Laborers. The so-called “big wheat belt. from Texas to the Canadian line, which grows 75 per cent of the wheat crop, will require a vast army of la- borers. The work of reeruiting and transporting these men been started. Harvest will start in Texas within the next few weeks, be- ing late this year. By the time the cutting is nearing completion work will start in after about three weeks in that state the harvest army can move on to Kansas, where thirty thousand to thirty-five thousand men will _be needed this year for wheat alone. The northern wheat states are then vis- ited Pay for harvest hand work is higher than that given the regular farm hand. ranging as high as $5 and $6 and board in certain localities un- der stress of immediate demand. La- borers must pay their transportation to and from the harvest fields, and this year no special rates have us yet been announced by the railroads for farm workers. Few colored men are emploved in the wheat fields, and gov- ernment labor authorities warn ne- groes against seeking the wheatdis- iricts unless they have definite as- surance of émployment. Tn_the northwest the rate of pay for farm workers has risen to from $45 to $60 a month, and demand for teamsters and common labor is in- creasing in parts of Montana. The road and farm work of the Pacific northwest is absorbing the men re- leased from the sawmills and lumber camps. Farther south in Nevada, California, Oregon and Arizona rail- rcad construction is active. Bullding Six nels. The Southern Pacific has started six tunnels to facilitate freight move- ments to Pacific coast terminals, and the Western Pacific is double track- ing 183 miles between Winnemucca and Wells, Nev. The Atchison, To- 1eka and Santa Fe is also following extensive construction programs in California and Arizona. Railroad construction work west of the Rock- fes will require at least 25,000 la- borers this summer. New England is not so fortunately placed with regard to unemployment us other sections. Not all the textile and shoe workers now off their reg- ular pay rolls have been provided with work. The Ipswich Manufac- turing Company has cut wages 22% per cent in its plant at Lowell. The Middleboro Boot and Shoe Workers' Union has accepted a 20 per cent re- duction at Leonard & Barrows fac- tory. Work is scarce und jobs few. with larger numbe: after each opening — TOBACCU OF LOW GRADE ' LOWERS PRICE AVERAGE Sales During April at Virginia ‘Warehouses Totals 777.911 Pounds, at $13.23 Per Hundred. By the Assoviuted Press RICHMOND. Va.. grade of tobacco, sold during April, the last month of the 1923-24 sea- son, was responsible for the low average price of $13.23 per hundred nounds, according to the Monthly Re- view of the Richmond Federal Re- serve Bank. issued for publication today “Durin, the month of .April there were 777,911 pounds of tobacco sold on the open markets of Virginia, ac- cording to warchouse reports to the commissioner of agriculture,” the Re- View stated. “Only the dark and sun- cured markets were open during the nonth. Virtually all the tobacco was andled at Bedford, Lynchburg and Richmond, the other dark markets réceiving very littie tobacco. “The 1923 Virginia tobacco crop amounted to 151,908,000 pounds, ac- cording to the calculations of the Virginia agricultural statistician, compared with 156,750,000 pounds grown in 1922. Prices during the season just closed averaged lower than in recent years, the greatest de- «line occurring in the price of bright tobacco, which dropped nearly §9 per hundred pounds. The average price of the different types wa follows: Hurley, $23.12, against $26.49 in 1922; bfight, $20.57, against $29.36: darl 318.09, against $19. suncured, $13.22, against $14.2° “Danville was the leading market id the number of Pounds sold during ;Se season and also reported the ghest average price. This market d 29,395,956 pounds of producers’ 1gbacco, more than halt of all the bright tobacco sold in the state. Iivnchburg was the leading dark rket and ranked next to Dan- lle in total first-hand sales. The ingdon market sold nearly all of e burley tobacco grown in Virginia, d the suncured tobacco was sold in Richmond. “The warehousemen estimated the season’s crop at 21 per cent good, 35 per cent medium, 44 per cent common, compared with averages during the previous season of 36 per cent good, 36 per cent medium and 28 per cent common. The inferior quality of this season's crop largely accounts for the decline in price pre- viously mentioned. e R May 31.—A poor # _ Diabetic patients who take insul p; treatmen t carry candy with them to has already | the | Oklahoma and | Col. House May Aid Irish Parley COL. E. M. HOUSFK By the Associated Press LONDON, May 31—Col. E. M. Ho onfidant of Woodrow Wil- son, is spending the week end at Chequers Court, the country resi- dence of Prime Minister MacDon- ald, and there is speculation as to whether his presence concerns the Irish boundary question. A conference today at Chequers Court between Premfer MacDonald and the heads of the two Irish governments, Sir James Ciaig and William T. Cosgrave, is under- stood to be in the nature of an in- formal talk designed to prepare the way for a friendly solution of the boundary trouble by discus- sion among the Irishmen without articipation by the British gov- ernment. The government hopes to bring about an all-Irish conference which would reach an agreement through mutual good will and which would not be concerned with article 12 of the Anglo-Irish treaty. providing for a commission to delimit the boundary. The treaty would mean- while remain in the background, but it is suggested that a boun- dary commission might eventually be formed merely to ratify the friendly agreement if such were achieved JAPANESE PROTEST DELIVERED TO HUGHES (Continued from First Page.) ador Hanihara should remain in Washington. He is regarded as the best man for the post, despite his failure to prevent enactment of the exclusion law. Meanwhile, specula- tion is rife as to his possible succ sor. In the event of his return, To- kiohi Tonaka, for! y counselor to the embassy at Washington, is re- garded as the strongest candidate. U. S. REBUKE DEMANDED. Economic and Diplomatic Boycott of America Asked. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 31.—Several minor in- cidents illustrate the growth of the anti-American spirit throughout Ja- pan engendered by the passage of the exclusion act by the American Con- gress. yama, & city forty miles from Osaka, say that the Young Men's Association there passed a resolution demanding the withdrawal of the American mis- sionaries from that district. Three women's organizations Tokio have passed resolutions urging women not to buy American toilet ar- ticles, and the press reports a move- ment among Buddhist and Shinto leaders to bar Christians from Japan. The majority of the newspapers continue to fan the flame of resent- ment. The Yokurimo Shimbun says that the situation cannot produce war, but “we must draw away from America. Hitherto we have always considered America first in any in- ternational situation. Now we m change that. We are convinced that the further we hold aloof from Amer- ica the safer it will be for the peace of the orient. Advocates Boyeott. The Hochi comments in the same strain, urging economic and diplo- matic’ independence of the United States. Publicists, journalists and former officials have formed the “Taibei Doshikai” (anti-American _associa- tion) to carry on a nationalagitation against exclusion. The leaders in- clude Mitsura Toyama, an aged po- litical agitator, imprisoned for siding with the rebels in the civil war of 1877; Kotaro Mochizuki, who was in America during the Washington con- ference, and is a member of the diet and Shinkichi Uyesugi, & professor of the Imperial University. ispatenes from Osaka indicate that the agitation for a boycott of Amer- ican goods i8 gaining ground in west- ern_Japan. ST (The Young Men's Association is a nation-wide organization that in the past few years has grown in numbers and takes the lead in national demon- strations.) Ends Life ax Protest. An unidentified Japanese today committed suicide in the street near the ruing of the American embassy destroyed in the earthquake and fire of last September, as a protest against enactment of the American immigra- tion law_excluding Japanese from the United States. The Japanese who was apparently about forty, and was dressed in the formal dress of a Japanese gentle- man, committed harakari with a Short sword in the fashion prescribed by ancient custom. Two letters were found on the body, one addressed to the American peopie_and one to the Japanese peo- Ple.. The police retalned the letters without revealing their contents but it is understood the one addressed to America condemned exclusion in bit- ter terms. That addressed to the Japanese, it is said, urged the nation to'rise 6 avenge the insult embodied in the action of\America. The inci- dent has created a sensation in Tokio despite efforts of the police to sup- press details. ASTORS ENTERTAIN QUEEN Marie of Rumania on Visit to Childhood Home. PLYMOUTH, England, May 31.— Queen Marie of Rumania is spending the week end with Viscount and Lady Astor here, visiting her childhood home, where she lived when her father, the Duke of Edinburgh, was commander-in-chief of the naval sta- tion. This morning, in company with Lord and Lady Astor, she visited the Mayflower stone, marking the site of the pilgrims’ departure and the land- ing place of the American airmen in the NC-4 on_ their record-making transatiantic flight The major of Plymouth presented an address of welcome in a golden casket in the presence of a crowd of several thou- nd persons A _banquet in honer of the royal visitors will be gf ven Lord pa AT e SN AP, of Press dispatches from Waka- | PINE LUMBER TRADE FOR 1923 ANALYZED Distribution of Southern Output Aggregating 2,132,429,000 Feet Reviewed by Association Officer. By the Associated Pr NEW ORLEA 31.—An anal- sis of a survey of distribution in 1923 of shipments of southern pine lumber and timber aggregating 2,132,- 429,000 feecr. to forty-two states and Canada, by 102 mills in Loulsiana, Texas, Arkan Mississippi, Ala- bama and Flg was made public by Secretary-ianager H. C. Borckes of the Southern Pine Association. gh the quantity upon which Sed represents s cent of the total tribution that yvear, the fligures are regarded as indicating, with approxi- mate accuracy, the percentage of the total output of southern pine that was taken by the retail, wholesale, rail- road and industrial trade in the vari- ous states, and the approximate per- centage of consumption of pine by each of the states. excepting. probably, those on the south Atlantic seaboard. Texus Leads Retaill Distribution. Texas held its lead in retall distri- bution and in total consumption, as did 1llinois in the wholesale field, while Michigan took the lead in in- dustrial consumption from Texas, which ranked first in 1922 In the retail field twenty-six states took u larger percentage of the total distribution in 1923 than in 1922, while sixteen states showed a smaller 1923 consumption, Despite the larger number of inerei retail distribu- tion as a whaole, in its relation to total distribution, decreased from 1 . In the wholesale ficld fifteen states reg- istered ine s over 1922, while twenty-seven showed declines. The most pronounced gain in wholesale shipments was to Texas, which in- c <ed from 5. per cent of total dis- tribution to wholesalers in 1922 to 9.3 per cent in 1923. Notable gains in wholesale takings also were recorded in Alabama, Kentucky. Louisiana and Mississippi Increaes in Thirteen States. Thirteen states showed increases in industrial distribution in 1923, w"ile twenty-three reflected declines. The outstanding gain was in Michigan, which took 13.7 per cent, as compared to only 4.5 per cent in 1922, Other no- table gains in this class were record- ed in Tllinois, Indiana and Missouri In the railroad field the gains and decreases were about evenly divided, nineteen states showing increases c 1922 and twenty states showing | decreases. total distribution showed that 1923 inerea tates and C the survey twenty-two states in ed over 1922, while twenty nada recorded decreases. MURDERED FRANKS BOY, /SONS OF TWO RICH MEN CONFESS UNDER GRILLING (Continued from First Page.) | sions, young Leopold had made a lengthy and-direct declaration of in- nocence. asserting that if he were guilty he would say “punish me." 15N w was killed by a the head, and _then State’s Attorney Crowe declared. H Killed With Chisel. “A chisel wrapped with tape was used to strike the blow.” The chisel was found by Herald and Examiner reporters about four blocks from the school which the Franks boy attend- ed. State's Attorney Crowe added that ether wa be used if the boy had not been killed as he was. This. he said, was all explained in the confes- sion. The killing Crowe said, bile of the Leopold. The boy was killed on a heavily traveled street not far from the spot where he was lured into the car. He resisted and was struck on the head with the chisel and then gagged, Mr. Crowe said. They had used acid in an attempt to disfigure the body be- yond recogmition and then stripped it of clothing in the lonely spot where it was taken, Prosecutor Crowe as- serted. Leopold and Loeb each accused the other of striking the blow with the chise Leopold was calm as he made his confession, Mr. Crowe said. “Leopold was nonchalant,” he added. together the the two admitted, Mr. as done in an automo- same make as owned by Both youths were night of the kidnaping and after the killing when Mrs. Franks. the mother, was called to the telephofie by & man who told her her son had been kid- naped and was saf The following day, Mr. Crowe said, oung Loeb telephoned from a drug store to the Franks home, directing the method of delivering the $10,000 ransom Would Have Paid $10,000. Mr. Franks, the fatber, had with- drawn the $10,000 demanded from a bank and had it in his home, wrapped and sealed as directed by & special delivery letter received the morning of May 22, the day after the kidnap- ing. He was ready with the money when the telephone call attributed by the state’s attorney to young Loeb was received that afternoon. Because he did not understand the location of the drug store to which he was directed to take the money, he was unable to deliver it. He then supposed his son still was alive, although the boy actually had been slain the night before. Mr. Ettelson, who has devoted virtually all of his time toward solving the mystery, congratulated State's Attorney Crowe on the de- velopments which Mr. Ettelson ac- cepted as a full solution of the affair. Leopold, after making his state- ment to Mr. Crowe as composedly as though he were going about his or- dinary daily routine, posed for news- paper photographers, and, after the cameras clicked, calmly lighted a cigarette. Young Loeb appeared the most affected by what had taken place, but in spite of the long, grinding ordeal he did not appear crushed. Hit, Then Gagged. The state’s attarney amplified that the Franks boy was struck with the chisel as the three sat in the rented automobile, and then the gag was thrust in the boy's mouth, strangling him. The clothing, Chief of Detectives Hughes said, was hidden in one place and the shoes in another, Mr. Crowe emphasized that the so- lution had depended entirely upon the spectacles, Leopold's arrest following the discovery that the prescription for the lenses was identical with one for glasses sold to him. Taken into custody at his home within three squares of that of the Franks family, young Leopold readily admitted that he had visited the isolated spot where the Franks boy's body was found, possibly “hundreds of times” pursuing his interest in the study of bird life. He even admitted that he had been to the spot on the Saturday and Sunday preceding the finding of the body on Wednesday. Asked if the spectacles found there ‘were his, young Leopold replied that they might have been, but he did not think they were. Young Leopold’s room is filled with ecimens of birds and fowls. all of his rambles Leopold was watching for birds, alert for some unusual specimen. He had written many articles on birds and was con- sidered a brilllant student Loeb, too, was rated a good student. Both Families Wealthy. The wealthy Léeb family 15’ very ‘well known. Leopold's family, less rich and less well kno ver- been prominent. The district on the south side, immediat 1y north of the University of Chicago. Leopold's father, on the verge of collapse, apparently, and accompanied by Jacob Loeb, wealthy insurance man, former president of the Chicago school board and uncle of Ricl Loeb, went to the state’s attorney office, accompanied by an attorney. Neither would say anything, although the lawyer sald they had come find out what it is all about.” Leopold, sr., appeared to have ovtrnlshl, the state's attorney's al said. Mr. Crowe declared the case would be presented to the new June grand jury, the first case to be placed in the jurors’ hands. The stenographic notes of the alleged confessions, he d, were locked up, and although he said they might be made public late today, he was taking every precaution to make the case complete. Face Death Pentlty. The kidnaping statute consequently makes it possible for the prosecutor to place the boys, when indicted, on trial for two capital crimes. If mur- der were not probable, the kidnaping charge still would provide the ex- treme penalty. The statute says that any person convicted of kidnaping for ransom shall “suffer death, or be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life or any term not less than five vea A = ed speedy trial for the two vouths indicated today by Chief Justice ‘averly of the criminal court. Speak- ing from the judicial standpoint, he said: Plans Speedy Trial. “This murder is no different from any other. 1 shall urge that the case &0 to trial as speedily as possible. Within_ thirty days justice should be served.” In connection with the statement of the prosecutor that the kidnaping plan had been hatched months ago, it was said that both youths estab. lished small bank accounts outside Chicago, using assumed names. Leopold’ was sald to have admitted he deposited a small sum in a ia, 111, bank, using an assumed name. Loeb, similarly, it was said, registered at a Morris, 111, hotel, and under a different name opened an ac- count with a bank there. Disappeared on Way Home. The Pranks boy disappeared late in the afternoon after he had started for home from the playgrounds adjoin- ing a fashionable private school he attended and to which young Leopold also went before he matriculated at college. Franks' body was found by a pass- ing workman the next morning as he traversed the Pennsylvania railroad tracks through a wild seétion on the far outskirts of Chicago. The body had been stripped and stuffed, face downward, into a culvert under the railroad between two lakes. A score or more persons were seized by city detectives and oper- atives from Mr. Crowe's office, but the state's attorney and his assist- ants let it be known that they at- tached chief importance to finding the owner of the spectacles, found about thirty feet from the lad’s body. the same spectacles which for nearly twelve hours had prevented identifi- cation of the body. The glasses were turned over to an undertaker, whe, assuming the murdered lad the ow: er. had fixed them in place on his ace. Demanded $10,000 Ranwom. While vain attempts were made to identify the body, Jacob Franks re- ceived a neatly typewritten, perfect- Iy phrased special delivery letter de- manding $10,000 for the return of his boy. The letter assured the father that young Robert still was safe. The letter was signed with a type- written “George Johnson,” with dic- tation marks “Grk.” It was followed up by telephoned instructions to Mr. Franks as to how to seal the money and deliver it to the kidnapers. He had followed their instructions as to obtaining the $10,000 in old bills of 320 and $50 denominations and seal- ing it, and was awaiting further in- structions when a relative, acting on a faint hope of finding the Franks boy. went to the morgue and identi- fied the body found in the culvert. Loeb Aids Police. After the Franks body was found detectives said young Loeb aided newspapermen and the police in try- ing to locate the drug store from which two telephone calls were made on May 22 to the Franks home. Leopold, it is said, had talked of plans to go to Europe June 11. The typewriter on which the ran- som letter was written was reported to have been thrown into a park la- goon. There was belief that the let- ter was written some time before the kidnaping, as it was addressed “Dear Sir,” and might have been sent to any one Follow Auto Clme. At an automobile rental agency, the state's attorney's assistants said, they learned that on the morning of May 21, a red automobile of the same make as Leopold's car, had been rent- ed to him and Loeb. » The records showed the car had been returned in twenty-four hours after having been driven 118 miles. At the automobile rental agency the state attorney’s men learned Leo- pold, using the name of “Morton D. Ballard,” established credit on May 1. He gave as a reference the name of “Louis Mason” and a tetephone num- beér, the agency manager sald ‘Ma- son,” the investigators declared, was admitted by Loeb to have referred to him, and when he was called by tele- phone by the agency he sald “Bal- lard” was of character. On May 9 “Ballard” rented a car and re- turned it properly, so that on May 21 he was considered a regular cus- tomer when he obtained the red car. Young Loeb collapsed in a faint when identified today by Mrs. Ger- trude Barish, owner of a olgar store, as having gone there with Leopold on May 22—the day after the killing —and used the telephone. He was rushed to a hospital. PUNCTUALITY ASKED OF ORATION AUDIENCE (Continued from First Page.) on the air of that hotel's orchestra has been given to the oratorical con- test. The six orators who will come here from. other cities will begin to ar- rive in Washington early next week. ‘The formal program for the enter- tainment < begins Thursday night, when the seven contestants will be the guests of the Monarch Club at a box party at Keith's. The club will entertain the competitors at luncheon at 12:30 o'clock Friday, June 6, at the Raleigh Hotel, after which there will be & parade to Memorial Conti- nental Hall, whers the speakers will “try out” the acoustic properties of the auditorium. After the contest the Washington Chamber of Commerce will give a re- ception at the New Willard Hotel in honor of the young orators. The next day, Saturday, June 7, The Star will take the orators and members of their families on an all-day sight- seeing tour of Washington. HOFFMAN PLANS APPEAL. Slayer of Mrs. Maude Bauer to Go to Sing Sing Today. NEW YORK, May 31—Harry L. Hoffman announced that he will seek an appeal from the verdict of the jury which convicted him of the mur- der of Mrs. Maude A. Bauer on Staten Island, in March. Hoffman made this Meanwhile the prisoner will be sent to Sing Sing today to begin his sen- tence of from twenty years to life. i THE 'AR, WASHINGTON, D. © ,- SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1924 UNCALLED WITNESS STIRS OUTBURST IN DAUGHERTY INQUIRY (Continued from First Page.) Fink and have declared he came here of his own volition. Gaston B. Means then was put back on the stand. He said again that he was charging no wrong against Sen- ator Lodge in the liquor permit mat- 8. Suppert of League. “The Associated Press report of my testimony the other day carried the statement that I set up the Women's Clean Government League, with H. L. Scaife, one of my assistants, in charge.” Means continued. “If I said that I gave a wrong impression. The voluntary contributions I made to Capt. Scaife were given with the dis- tinct understanding that there was rothing wrong in their use and that they came from the highest officials in ‘the government. The Women's Clean Government League was organ- ized in June, 192 Means said that he had told Scaife he “could investigute anybody he de- sired” in tahing the funds. He ex- plained that Scaife had written to Secretary Mellon asking questions about alleged liquor scandals and ob- tained an interview. Rends Magasine Article. Means read a recent magazine arti- cle declaring there had been whisky releases from the Overholt distillery. “I first came in contact with Sec- retary Mellon when I was working for H. C. Frick,” said Means, *in a deal when each one thought the other was gyping him. They worked like a couple of banana sellers on the street.” i Paul Howland, attorney for H. M. Daugherty, took up Means' examination. “When you came on the stand, you said you intended to ask no quarter, and give none,” Howland said. “Did that refer to the Attorney General?" “Oh, no” said Means, “that just referred to the charge that 1 was seeking immunity for myself. I have nothing against the Attorney Gen- eral” cross- Refers to Diary. Howland asked when Means first got in touch with Senator Wheeler. The detéctive drew out his diary, and said it was “within two or three days after February 10." W. T. Underwood, the man named in the testimony as Means' assistant in a_prohibition investigation for President Harding, he said he met in “the spring of 1922 on introduc- tion by Jess Smith. Continuing his identifications. How land suggested that “Sidney Thomp- son was the money carrier between Means and Underwood after Jess mith died. ‘Sidney money as Means. derwood Offers to Find Underwood. *“This staff about Underwood and Sidney Thompson has been bother- ing me ever since you came on the stand.” Howland observed, Means offered to find Underwood and bring him here if the committee would pay his expenses to Havana, Cuba, and Senator Wheeler remark- ed that he had a subpoena out for Underwood. “You don't want everybody vou subpoena—there was one here this morning,” said Howland. , Wheeler Turns Pink. “lt me say that that gentleman has been conferring with W. J. Burns.” Wheeler put in. “He was brought here by the defense. It's only in line with what has been done the Attorney General and Mr. Burns. That gentleman never saw My, Vanderlip. ‘Am #I in error in_supposing that Fink took you to Roxie Stinson?" ed Howland. said Senator Wheeler. “I went with Fink and Mr. Stern, who is right here, to Miss Stinson, and when Fink says he or anybody else gave liquor to Miss Stinson to get her drunk he's just a liar and per- Thompson late ax assume it brought me April,” replied came from Un- Boxes 11 mnmcmmnammng % H Iy i il il i L Rl | [] COURTESY EIESEIEIEIE] EFFICIENCY KERR CONFESSED AID TO CHINESE, IS CLAIM (Continued from First Page.) lawfully happened to meet him that day, Korr is alleged to have told Nor- ton, offered him $50 at the crucial minute and the vice consul is sald to haye admitted taking it. J. Fred Saunders, who described himself as a notary public of Van- couver, startled the hearing chamber when he calmly admitted, as a wit- ness for the government, that he was engaged in the business of ob- taining vises for aliens who were “not sure” they could obtain admis- sion to the United States legally. He described how he had bribed Mr. Kerr to use his influence to obtain Mr. Kyder's vise in the case of Chin Jan uen, Ryder Not at Hearing. “I met Mr. Kerr one day in the Peking Cafe in Vancouver, in 1922, Saunders said. “He told me he was short in his accounts at the consulate and did not know what to do. I said: ‘Well, T have just come back from China and haven't much money. But T have a man who does not think he is exempt. I get $100 if I get a vise for him. Half of that is yours if vyou use your influence’ Later Kerr brought me the passport. vised by Mr. Ryder. Then 1 paid him the mone: Mr. Kerr was not placed on the stand by his counsel. The hearing was held merely to determine wheth- er the government could establish a prima facie case, and the defendant was held for the grand jury. Mr. Ryder, who has been in Washington on detached duty for more than a month, arrived at the nearing too late to hear the testimony rclating to him- self. Denien Any Urginsg. When the nature of the testimony was described to him, Mr. Ryder ex- plained that he relied upon Mr. Kerr and a clerk in the consulate to pass upon the legality of an application for a vise and that his signatire was attached without investigation on his part. As a rule, he said, such inves- tigations were made by the clerk. Mr. Ryder said Mr. Kerr had never urged him to sign a passport and that the mere fact it was presented by the vice consul was sufficient recom- mendation for him to affix the vise. In the course of the hearing the secretary of a senator from the state of Washington appeared, bearing a telegram from Mr. Kerr's father in that_state, appealing to the members of Congress to do all he could to see that his son got a fair trial. Lawyers were amazed at the government bringing Mr. Kerr all the way to the National Capital to arrest him when the trial could just have easily have been held in Seattle, where the de- fendant would have experienced less difficulty arranging bond and obtain- ing counsel Honduras to Elect. lections will be held in Honduras June 29 to July 1, to establish a constitutional government to replace the present provisional regime. The American legation at Teguci- galpa today reported the provisional president had promulgated a decree to that effect. , ———eeeeeen. forming in line with the Attorney General's attempt to blacken the character of every witness. Senator Wheeler said Fink had told this lady here,” pointing to another person, that e was going over to the other side because there was more money there Fink, Senator Wheeler said, also had_declared Howland got him out of the jail “to frame her (Miss Stin- son's) story.” Howland took a new tack. “When the Attorney General found he had done you a wrong,” Howland said, “in suspending you as a secret agent of the department and then put you back, he ousht to get credit it. That's right”” said Means. “I never knew a man with the kindness of a mother and the bravery of a lion as Harry Daughert “I never knew ry Daugherty to do a cowardly thing but once, and that's when he allowed them to indict Senator Wheeler. afe Deposit OUR 17TH & H ST. BRANCH THE WEATHER District of Columbia and Maryland —Fair tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy and slightly warmer; moderate westerly winds. Virginia—Fair tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and slightly waimer; moderate variable winds. West Virginia—Mostly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight and to- morrow. Records for Twenty-Kour Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 65; 8 p.m., 61; 12 midnight, 52; 4 am. 48; 8 am., 57; noon, 66. Barometer—4 p.m., 29.86; 8 pm, 12 midnight, 30.01; 4 a.m., 30.01; 8 a.m., 30.05; noon, 29.99. Highest temperature, 66, at noon today. Lowest temperature, 47, occurred at 5:50 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 76; lowest, 51. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at Great Falls at 8 pm— Temperature, 60; condition, very muddy. occurred Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coast and geodetic survey.) Today—Low tide, 12:40 am. high tide, 6:36 am. and and 03 p.m. Ny Tomorrow—Low _tide, 1:58 p.m.; high tide, 7:45 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 4:45 a.m.; sun sets 7:27 p.m. . Tomorrow—Sun rises 4:44 a.m.; sun sets, 7:28 p.m. Moon rises 3 and and 1:33 am 16 am. 3:51 am.; sets 5:39 p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one-half hour after sunset. ‘Weather in Various Cities. Temperature. == Stations. Weather. Cloudy Clear’ Pt.cloudy Clear Abilene, Tex. 30.0¢ Albany L2984 Atlanta 3002 Atlantic City 29.96 Baltimore .. 30.00 Birmingham . 30.06 Bismarck .. 30.10 Boston LT Buffalo ... rieston H 82 2y 23 588 P £33 Pcloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt.cloudy Cloudy Cloudy P.cloods Pt.clouds Ptcloudy 3 BEE xmuu.’mlm' Los Angeles. Louisville .. Miami, Fl w Orleans New York Okla. City! Omaha ... Philadelphia. Phoenix Pittsborgh . Portiand, Me. Fortland,Ore. Raleigh ... 8. Lake City San Antonio. Diego. Francisco. St Louis. . Paol. PREETE5555822258 Lo 4 EEBRELRE Raining Clear Cloudy Cloudy Ptcloudy Clear ¥ & nEEE ERRI 2 clouds Ciouds Clear “louds Cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear Clear FOREIG) (8 a.m., Greeowich t Statios London, Paris. Copenhagen, ‘-mn.\m ‘Sweden..... ime, today.) Temperature. Weather. Part clondy Part cloudy Part clondy Part clouds Clonds Part cloudy Tear Clear Part cloudy England. .. Horta (Fayal), Azores.... Hamilton, Bermuds....... San Juan, Porto Rico.. .. Havana, Cuba....... Colon, Canal Zon French Living Cost Shown. PARIS! May 31L—"Ive counted these potatoes from curiosity,” said French housewife at dlaner one eve ning this week. “They come to just seven sous each and o think that be- fore the war we bought sne pound for the same amount ™ Seven sous before the war meant seven cents in American money. it does not represent nearly as much to- day in either foreign exchange or purchasing value, but the difference in price gives an idea of the rise in the cost of livinys in France since the war DECLARES MAYFIELD '~ EXPECTED OIL FUNDS Senate itness Tells of Alleged Query if Interests Were “Kicking In.” SMALL GIFTS ARE REPORTED Series of Letters From Texas Brought Into Inquiry. Another series of letters from Texas relating to Individual contri butions to the 1922 campaign of Senator Earle B. Mayfleld were en- tered today upon the records of the Senate committee investigating the contest brought against Senator May field by George E. B. Peddy. H. M. Farrier of Omaha, Tex., said he contributed mothing to the Max- field campaign in 1922, bot he had possibly spent $200 for traveling expenses. T. L. L. Temple of Texarkana re- ported that he made no contribution Reece. Allen of Wichita Fall wrote that he gave $150 to J. I Hun ter, to be used in the Mayfield cam paign. Bonner Gave $250. Bonner of Houston said ne which he B. F. made a cash contribution, thought amounted to $250. George B. Latham of Dallas report- ed on advertisements he had placed in periodicals in the Mayfield cam- paign at a cost of $400. Part of the money, he said, was paid to him b Senator Mayfieid. Cyrus B. Frost of Eastland state that no money was solicited of hir and he made no_contribution. J. K. Morris of Dallas, who testified he was a member of Dallas Klan 6o in 1821, was put on the witness stand and asked whether an assessmen’ was made upon Klan members for the campaign. He replied that he was told that he had been assessed $1.45 as his share of the fund the Klan was raisin Questioned Ol Men's Stand. Joseph 1. Dickey, a Hennetia Tex., lawyer. testified that he wa- present during a conversation be tween Senator Mayfield and ‘“Mike McNamara, deputy supervisor in the state railroad commission, in which Mayfield asked whether the “oil mes, were kicking in” to the campaig fund. McNamara, he testified. replied in the negative, and Mayfield said “You tell the * * * that if T am not elected senator I will be railroad commissioner_four years mor Frank C. Davis of San Antoni chairman of the Democratic state executive committee, identified an ar ticle he had caused to be printed in the newspapers which counsel for Peddy declared had threatened voters with exclusion from voting in futur- democratic primaries if they voted for_ Peddy. F. Littlejohn of South Carolina was recalled, “Did the Klan threaten they would burn at the stake anybody who voted against Mayfield?” = asked Senator Watson, Republican. Indiana. “No." replied Littlejohn. Counsel for Peddy told the com- mittee they would conclude Mondav their examination of witnesses re- garding campaign expenditures, but said it might be necessary later to call witnesses on other phases of the case. Dairymen to Hold Picnic. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 31. A dairymen'’s picnic will be held June 9 at the home of Dr. J. S. Andrews near Orange, in the interest of better dairying for the dairyman and the general farmer. The picnic is to be an all-day affair and a basket dinner be served on the grounds. In the afternoon there will be an ad- dress by a prominent dairyman and Frank A. Buchanan of the dairy ex- tension department at Blacksbure will point out the gualifications of a good dairy cow. Mr. Buchanan will have several cows from Dr. Andrews’ herd to work with PR3 CONVENIENCE BSOS B BERIS ANNOUNCING " the opening of the LINCOLN NATIONAL BANK 1 BRANCH 7th & H Sts. NW. Open Monday From 8:30 A.M.to 9 P.M. TTH& D 8TS. N. W, AT sSANITaNT a4 B HLONTHLS & Convenient to thousands of clerks and business men and women who have long known of the Lincoln National serv- ice, but who have found our downtown location inconvenient. Come in Monday and get acquainted with this new branch bank. Whether you wish to do business with us now or not, we will be pleased to show you our new banking quarters. Lincoln National Bank Main Bank, 7th and D Sts. N. W. RESOURCES, $6,660,000.00