Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1924, Page 1

Unseitled tonight an probably occasional showers ing temperature tomarro Temperature for twent ending at 2 pm.; p.m. yesterday: lowest, o today. Full réport on pag WEATHER. Highest, tomorrow, slowly ris- v-four hours 81, at 2 _at 8 am. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 ch ¢ T WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. Si “From Press to Home The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s_Circalation, 93,763 unday’s Within the Hour” Circulation, = 101,284 )Y, 29,25 0. post tered as second-class matter office Washington, D. C. MOTLEY OF NAMIES MIXED IN RACE FOR SECOND PLACE ON . REPUBLICAN TICKET Hoover, Dawes, Beveridge, Kenyon, Dickinson of lowa, Dr. Burton, Harbord, Hyde and Borah Boomed. LOWDEN MEN LOATH TO ACCEPT REFUSAL Slemp Confers With Warren on Platform; Delegations Busy Caucasing: Vice Presidential IToves Swirl, Furnishing Excite- ment With New Prospects. e © Assaciated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, june 9—The vouvention swirl is running at high 1 Vice presidential candidates being carried about in its cur- without being landed an where. Delegations are busy caucusing, choosing their selections to the con- vention committees and naming their catatives on the incoming na- committee sisi platiorm builders today were g preliminary conferences, and atf itseli began to take pe with the arrival of C. Bascom secretary to President Cool who conferred with Chairman the resolutions commit- William M. Butler, the Presi- . campaign manager, and Frank his friend and War- orm Stearn Lowden Men Heartened. omers got ind their wernor of himself ¢ the n wden their fecling Iilinois yester- nination e 1ate is in Ohio_today making Oxford. Word was sent n there that his friends at the hoped he would not_close door further at this time. Mean- time this buzzed about and found a so0d many who expressed the view {hat Lowden ought to be drafted and 1 not possibly refuse. o convention the Kansas for Dawes. Th Kunsas to other Looms were loss active. caucus voted twenty-two Charles W. Dawes. The went for Albert J. Bever- Desipte the Tows for Representa- deal in for at vote of Indiana. delozation's decision tive Dic 0, there was a good kins LA F WASHINGTON, OLLETTE FACTION DEMANDS BLOW AT FALL AND DAUGHERTY Praise of G. O. P. in Probes | | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 8.—Re- publican insurgents, acting through the Wisconsin delegation, will ask the | Republican national convention to formally condemn the official acts of Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney General and Albert B. Fall as Secre- tary of the Interior. This is disclosed in an official copy of the insurgent platform made pub- lic today by Robert M. La Follette, | the name of the Wisconsin delega- tion. The statement says further that Daugherty and Fall “be forever debarred from holding amy position of honor or trust within the gift either of the Republican party or of any future TIicpublican administra- tion.” ‘Want Special Session. | The insurgents also would have President Coolidge summon Congress into extraordinar: sion on Mon DRAFT LOWDEN, CRY HEARD IN CLEVELAND Sentiment Revives for Illinois Man Despite His Withdrawal in Vice Presidency Race. | ELIGIBLES FOUND SCARCE Ardently Desired. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Staft Correspondent of The Star CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 9.—A de- velopment of the da desence of | Lowden, despite his emphatic decla- | ration that he would not accept, if | nominated. The complication of the | Vice Presidential situation occasion withdrawal has become more by hi appreciable after the field was looked |over and the paucity of available material was realized. Ono Republican leader said to The Jr.. son of the Wisconsin senator, in Hint From Coolidge to Settle Issue | Wisconsin Delegation Insists on Condemnation and for Senate Leaders of Abuses. day. July 7, 1924, for consideration of emergency legislation for relief of agriculture, to provide funds for pay- ment of soldiers' bonus, for consid- bill eration of the Howell-Markley for the settlement of disputes be- tween carriers and employes for amendment of the rate-making sec- tion of the transportation act, look- ing toward the reduction of “extor- tionate railroad rates” and for recla- mation relief legislation, extending the time of payment to farmers on government reclamation projects. It is further declared that the con- ventan system of nominating presi- dential and vice presidential candi- dates “has failed” and the Senate and House members should be urged to itiate | tienal amendment and legislation as |may be necessary to provide for di- | rect nomination and election by the cople of the United States of can- didates for President and Vice Presi- The convention will be asked by the insurgents to extend its congratula- | tions to thirty-one Republican sen- ators and 211 Republican representa- (Continued on Page 2 ) |LODGE SHUNTED ASIDE - BY OWN DELEGATION | | Senator’s Usual Place on Resolu- tions Committee Is Given to Speaker Gillett. CHAIRMANSHIP TO GOV. COX .Khn Issue May Be Dodged, But Stiff Fight Threatened. BY G. GOULD LINCOLY Staff Correspondent of The Star. VELAND, Ohio. June 9.—The b @ ¢ was a recru- | Massachusetts delegation to the na-| sentiment for Frank O.|tional convention today went through | | with its plan to discipline Senator Henry Cabot Lodge because of his failure to back up President Coolidge | on came before the Senate. a Massachusetts was named chairman “nd support such constitu- | At a caucus of the delegation to- | |day Senator Lodge was ignored in | the honors passed,out. Gov. Cox of lof the gelegation and Speaker Gil- |1ett was eclected to represent Massa- | chusetts on the resolutions committee, which will handle the platform. Declined Empty Honor. | Senator Lodge could have had the delegation’s nomination for vice president of the national cenvention, it was said, a minor nomination, but Star correspondent: “The convention ought to nominate him and adjourn, as it did in the case of Fairbanks once. Being drafted, T have no doubt | he would not decline to take it.” | Plight Like Demoerats’, The embarrassment of the Repub- licans over their vice presidential candidate s analogous to the plight |of the Demacrats over their presiden- |tial candidates, only that with the | Republicans their potential candi- dates are running away from the Inomlnanon. while with the Democrats | those who'are rushing forward are |each found to be handicapped for one |reason or another. Tt may turn out that Illinois will have no candidate to present for the | viee presidency. The Iilinois dele- is understood. Reports that Senator Lodge would make a fight before the delegation cmanating from some quarters last night were erroneous. to sa least. There were no speeches. The slate prepared in advance by the delegation, all ardent supporters of | President ~ Coolidge, went through expeditiously. The meeting lasted only a few minutes. he déclined it before the maeting, it | the | MC D. C, DAY, | JUNE 9, 1924 — i '"HIRTY- TWO PAGES. - 'TOKIO BOYCOTTS U. S. U. S. to End Year |125,000 MORE LOSE MOVIES AS PROTEST | Theaters Say Action Follows Pub- lic Demand—Officials Probe Dance Riot. | ANTI-AMERICAN WAVE RISES | of Exclusion Ban Suicide. number of issues that recently | By the Associated Press TOKIO, June 9. action to “public demand.” owners of motion picture theaters in Tokio, at a | general meeting today, launched | boycott against American films. | Beginning July 1. the theater pro- | priators will not buy or rent Ameri- can films or show them in their the- | aters, according to a resolution passed | at the meeting. Another resolution | was passed pledging the owners to co-operate in an effort to make the boycott nationwide, The boycott is believed to be due partly, at leaét, to intimidation of the | theater owners by “patriotic” bands | incensed at the American immigra- | tion measure excluding Japanese from the United States. Theaters Forced to Close. Several motion picture theaters showing American films were forced to close when they were invaded by —~Attributing their | {NEW FRENCH CABINET | a Thousands Pay Homage at Grave | | With Surplus of Near $400,000,000 The government books for this fiscal year on June 30 with a surplus of between | $350.000,000 and $400.000,000, Direc- tor Lord of the budget burea today informed President Coolidge. The estimate, Director Lord said, | took into account the 25 per cent reduction in income taxes, pavable this year. Larger customs receipts and a greater return from miscellaneous internal revenue taxes account for the increase over the estimated surplus of $329,000,000 which was counted on last’ November. will close its MAY END ABRUPTLY Will Go Before Legislature Tomor- row and Will Probably Be Voted Out Before Night. | SPELLS MILLERAND'S DOOM Unfavorable Action in Assembly Means Resignation Wednesday. By the Associated Press "ARIS, June 9.—The “ministry of a message” is one of the names given to RAISE IN FINAL JAM Field Service Workers Reclassified 1o Get Neither New Salaries Nor Bonus. X | MEASURE STILL UNSIGNED Cannot Act, Lacks Legis'ators’ Signatures. President as One of the strangest mistakes of the Saturday night today out of the clearing storm like 4 specter, bringing a $26.000,000 loss to the field service of the gov- ernment, and depriving about 125,000 field service employes, many of them in this city, not only of their antici- pated reclassification salary raise, but also of the $20 monthly bonus. Both the Senate and the House had passed the House resolution appro- priating, $36,302,767.84 for reclassifi- cation of the field services, to bring the salary scale up to a level with that to be pald ‘&l workers in the District of Columbia. and for other purposes, but the measure failed. It was signed by meither the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, nor President Coolidge. Bill Remains Unsigned. In the last hours of the great rush the biil was sent to the government printing office to be printed, it was time hectic closing hours of Congress | rose up for the first | Walton’s Appeal Fhrown Out by Supreme Court Impeachment of former Gov. J. C. Walton of Oklahoma by the leg- islature of that state is not sub- ject to review by the courts, it was held today by the Supreme Court. Former Gov. Walton challenged the validity of his impeachment on the ground that the charges brought against him were inspired by the Ku Klux Klan, and that a lorge number of the members of the Oklahoma senate who sat in judgment upon him were members of that organization SIX DEAD IN STORM FARM LOSS HEAVY; WIRES BLOWN DOWN Four Marines Drowned at Quantico, Man Electrocuted, Woman Killed by Tree. Swirling from the northwest with staggering suddenness, a northwest storm swept around Washington late yesterday, descended upon nearby places in Maryland and Virginia with tornado-like force, and left in its wake half an hour later a trail of {death and destruction. Six persons known dead, scores of cattle, sheep and horses kiljed, homes razed and barns blown down, auto- mobiles wrecked either by wind or falling trees, acres of wheat blown flat and ruined, and miles of tele- igraph lines torn from their poles, was Bill | drowned | Alexandria by the known damage today. with ad- TWO CENTS. WAY T0 PAY POLICE, FIREMEN, TEACHERS RAISES IS OUTLINED Controller General Asked if D. C. Can Anticipate Decem- ber Appropriation. WOULD SAVE HARDSHIP TO FAITHFUL WORKERS Plan Proposed by The Star Supple- mented by Suggestion Banks Would Lend Money. The Evening Star has the deepest ympathy for the plight of the 4,000 police and firemen and public sehool teachers who today face a tcmporarsy reduction—tor six months or more— of $20 a month due to the failure of {lhe deficiency appropriation bill jcarrying funds to pay the new schd- ules of salaries authorized in sepa- rate legislation, designed to absori the 3240 bonus which these employes have been receiving. The Evening Star intends to do all in its power to find a way, and have it used, so that there may not be an actual reduction in pay, with |the attendant hardship to these thousands of faithful workers and their families—and believes that it will be successful Community In Aroused. The seatiment of the entire com- munity in the National Capital, and beyond, is behind The Star in thi effort to do justce to th se employes. :;‘X‘I:;““' reports adding to the toll[ypon whose conseientious devotion to 5 !duty the City of Washington is so Deaths in Virginia. dependent. All of the known human deaths oc The facts, briefly, are these curred in Virginia—four at Quantico. a woman crushed to death near Mount Vernon by a tree that fell across an auto- | mobile and a man electrocuted in which had been ripped from its fas- tening. The dead are Private Willard W. Weiman, twen- ty-four years old, of Livingston, N. Y. Private Edward V. Cooper, twenty- one vears old, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Private John H. Johnston, twenty- | one years old, of Henderson, Ky. | Trumpeter Daniel H. Lewis, twenty | vears old, of Cross River, N. Y. (All of these were drowned at Quantico, the Marine Corps base.) Mrs. Elizabeth Buckley, seventy véars old;"of New Orleans, erusfied be- neath a tree mear Mount Vernon. William Deve, twenty-eight vears| old, of Alexandria, electrocuted Cireled Washington. Although the storm drove through Washington at a force that once reached forty miles an hour, the full | marines a high-tension wire | Congress, after careful consideration | 7 the proper legislative committees | in both the House and Senate, passed | laws establishing new schedules of | salaries for the police, firemen and public school teachers. 1In those hedules the $240 bonus was ab- sorbed. o that. unless those' new schedules are opcrative after July 1 these employes actually suffer a re- duction in salaries, which have been recogmized by Congress as alread: below a living wage. Increase Fully Approved. President Coolidge, the budgret bu reau, the appropria’ ns committees of both House and Scnate, and both branches of Coungress recognized that the amounts needed pay the in- creases under these nuvw laws to the police, firemen witd public schoel teachers were deficiencies and placed them in the_d eac!ency appropriation bill, The pher hich car- ried the funds to pay theme increases was approved by each branch of Con- «Continued on Page -, Column 7.) | PRESIDENT CONFERS ON DEFICIENCY ISSUE of talk for Judge William 8. Kenyen, | gation will caucus tonight, and today > & feot former leader of the Senate farm |there developed within the delegation Lodge In Applauded. | gangs of ronin (political ruffians) |the cabinct forced by M. Francois- |learned today and returned too late :,m“:‘:l;,h‘":‘::“:s £ et h’l"d; |2 c : ¢ evening. e Tokio R e : : e was reported | bloc, who was offered tre post of ;“';;:f';‘;':‘;dmi;flngn of [MoBUIItY | Senator Lodge was given hearty fi:::::o;;::n:wl:t: th "T(m, Marsal, inasmuch as it was constituted |for the signatures. Officials both at |y ooy oo SRMSE MIEPhon:s o:u v Secretary of the Navy, but declined |name by the delegation. It certainly | applause by the dclogates when he | o 28/5F OWAST O B Comten 10 |primarily to lay before Parliament Presi- | the Capitol and in the administra-|,,0"0¢ commission by the lightning, | Discusses Problem of Lack of Ap- it. James W. (ood, former lowa |could not be done unanimously, OWing | entered the meeting, and on the sur-! .| urge extension of the boy- | dent Millerand's message explaining the [tive branches of the government 06 ot = e e 2 consreseman and wedtern “campain | o' factional differences. e e ems ot Boroi 1] oot to thatisection political sitaation as he sees it and al- |arecd the measure s absolutely dead | ARPArSHLY it circled around the cits. | propristions With Budget munager for the Pr ‘;Mn‘sm\;‘;ak‘.“»‘ i Bt dee Dawen oo e | Thoroush linvestigation .will be|iowing the new majority of the kft to|unUl the mnextisession of Congress, ,:flr:irle::::l‘nom all sides recounted i " S5 iia g z s | made of the demonstration staged at | zo on record against him if it chooses, [!7 llecemper - e | - innesots added a new name (o |5, FOTMer Assistant Secretary of the| William M. Butler. manager of the | ;s F (1% TrTORTIAIGE Flased at A The failurc of the fleld reclassifi-| oOfficers who came to Washington | the Tist with a candidacy for Charles | Lieasury Clifford announced that he ntinued on Page 2, Column 3.) | day evening by a group of “political | 7 Tich case he will resign. cation bill was an entirely separate |today from Quantico said the nur. | 1 March of Litchfield. Tho state | it Put It up squarely to_ the dele- = | ruffians.” the Japanese foreign offic Another appellation for the admitted- | proposition from the failure of the | ricane broke over the Potomac River| Failure of Congress to pass the sco zation decided to indorse him. jEadon e nathec ey ere illnr | informea the Associated Press today. |1y stop-gap administration is the “min- | 320014 Sefeiency BIlY which, carfied | there less than ten minutes after the |ond deficiency appropriation bil R B : -‘n;r Dr. Il“u:'lnn. - ':p;h:izg:wn S e s e e D. c_ REPRESENTAT'ON sofaders of the Great Forward|jury of a day.” However. if the antici- ."?"‘ «lm;:b teachers in” e D(im-m first blach 1&2’.?.173{555‘,53‘[\.”’,;,_%22 carrying among other items one for n the dark horse list more tal opposition. o | ctety organizations, said 1o have | Pdted program proves correct, the day [of Columbia and many other impor-len route to picnic grounds in small |administering the bonus law, Wwas was heard again today of a boom for | | Fresident Coolldge has made it| PLANK Is APPROVE | founded the demonstration in the Lal- | will be considerably over twenty-four | {ant defictoncy itoms Like the soldlers | boats, officers ‘and”their families. | aiscussed by President Coolidge and Dr. Marion Leroy Burton of the Tni- | Broia borate et avention | {Toom, were summoned before the | hours, for if and when M. Millerand re- | urc died in the Senate in & THbUStEr. | Soves” of “citizens” = CLUe4TtS and | ugget Director Lord today at versity of Michigan, who will place |be representative of the general pol- = |ehlet of -police to hey denied | ¢ he will ask M. Francois-Marsal to | The field reclassification bill, H. R. White House conference, after which 3 A | icies of the Harding and Coolidge ad- e demonstid oy e stered with v a 561 ved by both All H ! President Coolidge in nomination. | icies ] |any intent of intimidating or insult. | CATTY on until new premier is appoint- | 9561, had been approved by bo urry to Harbor. lit was indicated that the action was D wo of Burton's friends hoped that there Id be no definite crystallization sentiment on the vice presidency til after Dr. Burton makes his h and gives the convention an rtunity to see him in action. was apparent that a program of lotting the vice presidential situation simmer awhile was being fostered all round. _Secretary Hoove name intinued to hold its prominence in «ll the discussions. It was coupled with Dr. Burton and Maj. Gen. Har- rd, now president of the Radio poration of America, in a list of T hich it was said would be mong those acceptable to the White House Senator Spencer of Missouri, mean- whi continued his activity in behalf of Gov. Hyde, and Jowa delegates, who have been instructed to vote for Repre scntative L. J. Dickinson, were empha- sizing that mings and were busy canvassing arriv- als. Much talk also centered about Charles B. Warren, ambassador to Mex- ico and chairman of the resolutions committee, and the names of Senator 8 L. Jones of Washington and Gov. Dixon of Montana have been added to the list May Force Night Session. Mr. Warren's arrival yesterday was followed by confirmation of state- ments that. although material was on hand from Washington and some of it represented the views of the administration, he built in Cleveland, after a hearing, probably Wednesday, of interested purties. This might delay presenta- 1 of the platform until Thursday, day set for nominations, and force night session to conclude the con- vention. The declaration of principles is to zo through a process, beginning to- dav with the mecting of the advisory committee to formulate suggestions, which includes the platform commit- tee’s hearings, and then the actual work of making the draft by a small subcommittee. The final stage is ex- pected to consume all of Wednesday. World Court Planks. Leaders say they look fér little dif- ficulty in getting together on‘a world court plank, but there is some dif- ference of opinion over the advisa- bility of inserting an immigration plank. A declaration pointing to the restoration of diplomatic relations with Mexico, and one afirming the principle of collective bargaining and the right of the individual to labor, o regarded as likely. Both wet and dry planks are being advocated, hut they already subject to a great deal of discussion and maneuvering. The Ku Klux Klan question also per- s in much of the preliminary dis- cussion on the side. One of the principal platférm fights i= expected to find its source in the proposed constitutional amendment to give equal rights before the law to men and women. Both cnds of their candidate would be | aced in nomination by Senator Cum- | the platform would | ministrations. That would appear to be good political logic. At the same time, he indicated that he would not dictate the choice of a candidate to the delegates. Want Coolidge Choice. { The fact of the case is there is widespread feeling among the dele- gates that they, in fact, not only de- ire but expect him to indicate the | man he would prefer as his running | | mate. They argue that this is his! convention, that the kind of a plat- | form he wants is the one that will be adopted, and he is entitled to | assist in the selection of the candi- | date. | Yesterday was a day of confusion | and doubt over the vice presidency. None of the leaders would profess to utter a prediction as to the probable | selection. ~ There were conferences | and confabs innumerable, but getting nowhere in definite results, as the |day wore on, the leaders began to | realize a serious situation was de- veloping out of this uncertainty and lack of masterful leadership, threat- ening confusion and chaos in the| convention. It was all right as a| political idealism to say that the con- | | vention itself should be left free to | choose the man, but their first ques- | tion would be “What Man"? Lowden's Move Lamented. | Mr. Lowden's withdrawal further complicated the case. If he had stood pat his name would have been presented backed by a formidable following which would have formed a nucleus certain to have received | growing accretion. There are only_two others declared candidacies, Gov. Hyde of Missouri, and Representative Dickinson of lowa, head of the farm bloc. There are several suggested or possible candi- dacies, Gen. Dawes, Secretary Hoover | and Marion Leroy Burton of Mich- | igan, the man who will nominate President Coolidge. So, after a_day of discussion and conference, the conviction chrystal- lized among prominent leaders that the case must be taken in hand and a bloc of leadership created with some semblance of backing to Sug- gest a Moses to lead the delegates out of the wilderness, possibly more than one Moses from which they could take their choice and feel free from being actually bound. Between now and tomorrow night the task will be taken up. Opening for President. This action, naturally will not be |taken should a hint be received from |the White House through an author- | G. 0. P. Subcommitte Favors In- corporating of Provision in Party Platform. By a Staff Correspondent. CLEVELAND, June 9.—The Dis- trict's national representation plank was today forwarded to the Repub- lican nutional convention resolutions committee with a favorable recom- mendation by the national commit- tee's subcommittec on poiicies and platform. This step brings the plank before the committee which is to draft the platform with excellent standing. The subcommittee acted at the instance of National Committee- man Edward F. Colladay, who has rived here today. including V am T. Galliler. Thomas L. Jones and James A. Cobb, the first two being delegates and the third an alternate. C. C. Glover, jr., another alternate, is due to arrive tomorrow. Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the Republi- can state committee of the District, also reached here today. Others from Washington included Edgar C. Sny- der, United States marshal for the District of Columbia, and Mrs. Vir- ginia White Speel. John T. Rhines, who was picked by the Bradshaw faction of the District Republicans to serve as a delegate Bradshaw. reached Cleveland today. Julius I. Pevser is expected here to. day or tomorrow to present the con- test of the Bradshaw faction against the Colladay-Prescott delegates be- fore the committec on credentials of the national convention. The District delegation, at a caucus today, elected Edward F. Colladay to succeed himself as Republican na- tional committeeman for the District. W. T. Galliher was elected chairman of the delegation, and the following assignments were made to the com- mittees jof the national convention: Committee on credentials, W. T. Gal- liher; committee on permanent or- ganization, T. L. Jones; committee on order of business, T. Jones; com- the District’s honorary vice president of_the convention. Samuel J. Prescott was elected to committee to notify the nominee for Vice President of his nomination when those nominations shall have becn _made. litative channel, indicative of Presi- 2t Coolidge’s preference. It ight_be that he would say that ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column L) i (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) |Radio Programs—Page 18 to the convention along with Aaron | ing foreigners and declared they only wanted to shame the Japanese who were dancing there with a number of Americans and nationals of other countrics. ! Rioters Mostly Student | Al but six of the demonstrants | were students of Chuo University, !most of them jiu jitsu experts. The leaders were older agitators. It is understood that the police believe the demonstration does prosecutions. As an outgrowth of the demonstra- |tion the imperial hotel management 'has announced that no more public dances will be held there. The ruffians entered the ballroom | when the dance was at its height, | took possession on the floor, bran: | dished swords and made several pro- been very successful in urging the |fane and bitter anti-American cause of the District here. The plank | speeches. calls_for voting representation for Tokio's Sunday largely was given the District in Congress and in the qaver to various phases of anti-Amer- electorial college. an agitation. Members of the District's delega- Throughout the day the grave in| tion to the national convention ar- | ma cemetery of the “unknown de by b against eractment of the American exclusion measure. wWas a mecca for Uiousands of pilgrims, who came to pay their devotions to the man who | has become a martyr in the public eve. Crowd at Suicide’s Grave. A mammoth crowd attended a pub- lic memorial service over the grave. Hundreds of wreaths were banked around the small mound of earth where the body lies. Viscount Kato, newly named premier. and former Premier Takahashi sent wreaths. The Kokumin “Taibeikai” or “Na- tional sociation to Direct Americ Pol and the “Black Dragon So- ciety,” another patriotic organiza- tion, were the principal promoters of the public services. Mounting_the pulpit of the Ginz. Methodist Church after the services yesterday, the group announced that they inténded to campaign for a separation of the Japanese Christian churches from American bodies among all the native Christian or- ganizations. Buddhist priests held an anti- American meeting at the Central Budhhist hall in Tokio last night. mittee ‘on Tesolutions, W- . Galliner | SeYCrHl, STEATCRLEN, °f, “FreeR The delegation elected District tual love aseoelacton” Commissi. [ H. Rudolph as | Japanese mu oo sloner Cuno H. P with the avowed purpose of promot- ing an anti-American boycott. l_ltana. | 3 the committee to notify the nominee | Record Snowfall in Mo for President of his nomination, and | Charles J. Bell was elected to the MISSOULA, Mont., June 9.—Kali- spell was emerging today from one of the worst snowstorms In the his- tory of Flathead Valley, in which all records of precipitation for twenty- four hours were broken. According to a telegram received here 2.24 inches of moisture fell. 1 not warrant any | cct” of the mikado who commit- | ra kiri as a protest | | Francois-Marsal is as follows: I vote ed by the new president, and it is the present premier who will accompany the new chief executive from Versailles to Paris after the clection, in accordance with tradition. ‘The new French cabinet named by Premier and minister of finance— M. Francois-Marsal. Foreign affairs—Edmond Lefevre du | Prey. Justice—Senator Antony-Ratier) Interior—Justin de Selves. War and pensions—Andre Maginot. Labor and hygiene—Paul Jourdain. Navy—Desire Ferry. —Yves le Trocquer. I3ducation—M. Landry. Commerce—Pierrc Flandin. Agriculture—M. Capus. Devastated region—Louis Marin Colonies—Jean Fabry. Thé Matin forecasts the week's po- litical events as follows: | Tuesday—The Marsal ministry will | present itself before both chambers: | | the president's message will be read | land a vote taken. If the chamber’s | against the president, he will immediately send a second message, resigning_from office. Wednesday—President's message of | resignation will be read in both| houses. i Thursday—A caucus of all the Left| parties will nominate a candidate for | the presidency. i Friday — National assembly. com-| posed of both houses, will meet at Versailles and elect a president. Saturday—The new president "I‘l‘ assume office. Sunday—A cabinet will be formed by the new president. SLEMP SOUNDING OUT DELEGATES’ SENTIMENTS Confers With Stearns and Butler | Upon Arrival in Cleveland. Discusses Details. | Dy the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 9.—Fully in- formed as to the views of President Coolidge on platform, Vice President and other questions coming before the Republican national convention, C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to Mr. Coolidge, arrived here today and at once set to work canvassing the sen- timent among the arriving delegates. Secretary Slemp first saw Frank W. Stearns . of Boston. the President's close personal friend, and then had a conference with Willlam M. Butler, chief of the Coolidge organization forces. The situation witn respect to the vice presidential nomination was discussed at both of these con- ferences, but no conclusions were reached, all participants agreeing that further crystallization of senti- ment must be awaited. branches of Congress, and by some mistake, denounced by officials every- where oday as ‘“absolutely tnex- cusable,” it failed to become law. A storm of indignation and protest was rising on all sides throughout Washington today among officials At the first sign of the approaching danger all hurried to the nearest harbor of protection. Only a few reached it before the wind whipped across the waters and in less than whose field services were drastically | five minutes had piled up a sea that deprived of the approved appropria- | tions, among employes who suffer the double disappointment, not only of losing their anticipated substantial reclassification increase, but of losing the $20 mor* 'y bonus which has been paid since war days. Seey Personnel Demoralized. the officers said endangered ever: small boat afloat. Escapes were many and scores of women reached shore hysterical. Privates Weiman and Cooper were in a canoe with Private Charles Mot- ley. the latter an expert swimmer. “This bungling mistake of some one | The wind literally picked the frail in cvidently minor position will absolutely demoralize for several months_the entire personnel of my service,” declared a high official of one of the government departments n charge of an extensive fleld serv- ice Exactly what happened had mot been clearly revealed today, except hat the official copy arrived ‘too late to be signed by the proper officers of the government. Who was to blame had not been definitely determined today, but it was understood a search- ing probe would be instituted into the matter to find out just what took place and where the delay was. Pres- ident Coolidge, it was understood. would have signed the measure imme- diately upon presentation to him Sat- ur. night_at_the Capitol, just as (Continued on Page 2, Column _ OFFICIAL WASHINGTON SHOWS UP AT CONVENTION | Representation in Cleveland Rein- forced by Arrivals of Cabinet Mem- bers and Congress Leaders. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June cial Washington's representation wa. heavily reinforced today when Post- master Generai New was added 9.—Offi- and Speaker Gillett, Senator and various other congressional lead- ers came in by one train, while Sena- to| the cabinet group already on hand, | Lodge | craft out of the water and turned it upside down, dumping all three men into the river. ‘Weimer was never seen to come to the surface, but Motley succeeded in reaching Cooper and getting him on (Continued on Page 5, Column 2. e {U. S. REPLY TO JAPAN TO BE SENT SOON Change in Tokio Cabinets to Cause No Delay in Forwarding Document. The reply of the American govern- | ment to Japan's exclusion protest will g0 forward according to previous plans, despite the change in cabinets in Tokio. The date for delivery of the note | to the embassy here is still withheld, being dependent upon completion of | arrangements for making the reply public simultaneously in Washington s |and Tokio. It was considered prgba- | ble these might be ready late toj or- row or Wednesday. Acceptance by Viscount Kato of the regent's command to form a new cabinet was received with intcrest by department officials. He is tor Cummins. president pro tempore | familiar with the whole modern his- of the Senate. and Longworth, Republican House leader, by another. "Those on the two trains cal conferences on the way up. distinguished travelers going to bed and leaving the the peacefully talking to be done here. The coming of these party digni- taries proved a boon to the assem- bled hosts of newspaper men and pho- tographers. They were promptly surrounded by interviewers, but dis- claimed inside knowledge of events to come, the talks going on to the mufiied ‘boom of flashlight guns as the new arrivals were duly photo- graphed. Representative | tory of American-Japamese relations and has been In close association with every outstanding development in ted that there were no signs of | them. e Chinese Bandits Free Prisoner. By the Associated Press. PEKING, June 9.—Bandits who kid- naped A. G. McKay, a native of Aus- tralia, May 16, at Pichikow, 280 miles up the Minkiang River from Foo- chew, have released him without sue- ceeding in their demands for a high ransom, according to advices received from Foochow. One of the bandits is sald to have been captured. not expected seriously to delay ation of the compensation law It has been pointed out by officials | that scveral months must necessaril | elapse before payments under the law could be started, and that pend- |ing that time administrative expens: | would be the oniy necessity. Favor- |able action on the bill in December it was Indicated aftcr today's con- terence, would meet the situation Federal infome _taxpayers, how- {ever, who made . full payments on March 15 will not be able to gl their 25 per cent refund allowed by the new revenue law until the biil is passed. An appropriation of more than $16.000,000, to be used in mak- iog the refunds, was carried in the b Silent on Special Session. The whole situation created by | tailure of the deficiency bill was gonc over at the conference, and after ward it was said that only one pre vision in the bill would be earried out in full, an item for $3.500,000 1 | fight the foot and mouth disease | California. Director Lord said for this were available from a plus in the Agriculture Departme but that cther provisions would bz to wait until December. There were no indications whateser that President Coolidge had any in- tention of calling a special session of Congress to pass the , which car- ried appropriations of about $195,000.- 000, aithough Director Lord declared there was no way of obtaining th funds otherwise. The President couid not under the law, he said, decl 2 deficit except in an emergency Yolving life and death. Can Protect Settlers. The reclamation program carried in the bill was discussed today with the President by Senator Borah, Re- publican, Idaho. Semator Borah held it would be possible for the Secretary of the Interior to take care of set- tlers on the reclamation projects by postponement of forfeiture clauses to meet the immediate emergency. The State Department and coast suard service are among other goy- ernment agencies roost severely al- | fected by failure of the bill. Funde | to meet the increases in salaries ana changes authorized by the .Rogers bill, reorganizing the foreign service of the State Department, were con- tained in the measure. Likewise the money to meet the cost of the pro- posed increase in personnel of the coast guard service was provided. It was explained, however, that the new coast guard vessels authorized in geparate bill, probably would not be available for eight months and that by time & deficiency bill would be oper n nds { in-