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WEATHER. Fair tonight and tom erate temperature. Tem twenty-four hours ending at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 84, at 2: terday; lowest, 66, at 4 Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 orrow, mod- perature for 30 p.m. yes- am. today. o. 29,266. tered as second-class matter post office Washington, D £ " FARN-LABOR GROUP HOLDS TIGKET OPEN FOR LA FOLLETTE Will Give Wisconsin Senator First Refusal of Platform and Leadership. COMMUNISTS READY TO ABIDE BY RESULT Willing to Accept Decisions of More Conservative Northwest Progressives. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. PAUL, J 16.—Senator Rob- La Follette of Wisconsin will ‘n another opportunity to run the presidency on the Farmer-La- Jrogressive tickdt. His repudia- of the wunists who are as- sembled he onference has led to bitter feeling, but the extreme radicals in 1t Farmer-Labor move- willing to abide by the tegy their more conservative rades d present the platform of convention to the Wisconsin sen- 1f he ac- on the ST. ert M for for his indorsement. he must agree to run adopted here. form will not be communis- rding e Ruthenberg, ry of the Workers Party of American and an avowed communist. He r that his group is in the here and simply says th is to receive the oEnizes inority La Follette numination of the delegates here, he | must agree to take the platform. Interested in Principles. We are not interested in individuals,” said Mr. Ruthenbers, “but in principles and parties. Out of this conference we hope will grow a third party. 1f Sena- tor La Follette doesn't accept, we shall probably nominate Duncan MacDon: of Iilinois, former head of the United Mine Workers of that state, and William Bouck of the state of ngton for President and Vice President, respec- tively. We expect to put a ticket in the field in at least forty states in the com- ‘ing election. We have already been or- ganized and have considerable strength in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, sbraska, Montana and Washington and we have organizations in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Kan- sas, Oklahoma and Colorado.” * The platform to be adopted will be along the lines of the Farmer-Labor party program, part of which demands social legislation for the farmer and worker. To understand the situation here, it is necessary to appreciate that in the Minnesota primaries this week the Communists, who are really the left wing or radica ki Party, ha entered complete et and even a man to oppose Senator Magnus Johnson, who, in the eves of the Communists, is a conserva- tive. The Communists realize they are in the minority and, of course, if their ticket loses they will support Magnus Johnson and any other can- didates who win the Farmer-Labor party nominations. this year a Is Dominant Party. Tt so happens that the Farmer- Labor party is the dominant political body in this state, as the Democratic party has been virtually obliterated, while large numbers of Republicans have joined the FArmer-Labor party. Tnder such circumstances it is in- evitable that the Farmer-Labor party should in turn develop a radical and conservative faction Mr. Ruthenberz explains that while the ultimate aim of the Commu- nists, which he represent s the dic- tation of the government by the pro- ietariat and the introduction of the soviet system” such a goal is mot readily reached and that it is wiser 10 follow the methods of political action through the regular constitu- tional processes until such times, of urse, as the Communists gain suf- ficient strength to overcome consti- tutional barriers, The writer asked Mr. Ruthenberg how he defined the essential difference between Senator La Follette and the «communists. Holds La Follette Conservative. “Well,” he said, “to our way of thinking Senator La Follette is not a radical. He believes in the capitalistic system but we believe in the soviet system. He has always been a Re- publican. He. did not even bolt the TRepublican party in 1912." This convention holds itself, more or less, aloof from the conference for progressive political action, which is to take place in Cleveland on July 4, and | which is expected to indorse Senator La Follette. Some of the leaders here are doubtful whethér the Cleveland conference will make any progress. They_have the idea that William Gibbs McAdoo, through his friend- ship with the heads of the railway brotherhoods, will have considerable following in that convention and that if by chance he has been nominated by the Democrats in New York there will be a determined effort made by his friends to secure an endorse- ment for him at Cleveland, in which case Senator La Follette might not Wish to run for he is represented here as believing he ought not make the race unless he has the united support of all the elements at the Cleveland vonference. Comments on Republicans. Asked for his comments on the Re- publican_ticket, Mr. Ruthenberi said: “Most of us feel that with a strike- breaker at the head of the ticket (referring to Mr. Coolidge's part in the Boston police strike) and a Tascisti for Vice Presidetn, the Re- publicans have done exactly what might have been expected of them and made it all the more necessary that labor should be thoroughly or- v sentss (Copyright, 1924.) President of Yale TIl, NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 16.— President James Rowland Angell of Yale, who has been suffering for some time from a slight organic weakness has been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore for spe- clal treatment. Dr. Angell's illness is not considered serious,. it was atated at the university, although he will be unable to be present at Yale's commenvement festivities. 1s of the Farmer-La-| Brilliant Leopold Finds Jail Books Mental Stimulants By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 16.—Alienists for the defense today continued thelr tests on Nathan Leopold, jr.. and Richard Loeb in their effort to find the reason for the kidnaping and killing of Robert Franks by the two millionaires’ sons. The examinations are under the direction of Dr. Karl M. Bowman of Boston. Defense counsel are explicit in stating that no great array of alienists will be used ju: because the indicted youths' fathe: have millions. Dr. Bowman, it Is indicated, will do all of the ex- plaining before the jury, and not more than six others are expected to be used as witnesses in support of his findings. g Leopold is represented as being displeased with newspaper reports of the tests. “I would infer,” he is quoted as having said, “that Loeb and I are being trained like fleas to jump through hoops for the entertain- | ment of curious. Leopold is even said to have conceded that while reading the jail house books he has had occa- sion to refer to the dictionary. DAVIS SPEEDING UP AS CHOICE 0 END DEADLOCKED RACE Support for West Virginian Reported Among Western and Southern Delegates. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 16.—Democratic leaders from all parts of the country |are here or on the way, ready for | the week of political maneuvering | which will precede the national con- vention. | Cordell Hull of Tennessee, chair- | man of the Democratic national com- mittee; Homer S. Cummings of Con- necticut, J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, | Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, George | White of Ohio and Burt New of |Indiana are among the leaders al- ready here, while William Jennings | Bryan is expected to arrive later in | { the day. By Wednesday other leading figures in Democratic ranks will here, including William G. | George E. Brennan of Chicago, | Ilinois Democratic chief, and Ed- | ward Moore of Youngstown, Ohio. ! Gov. Smith came from Albany last | week to stay until after the conven- McAdoo, i Cummings Platform Chief. It is said that Cummings will be | given the convention's third biggest i honor—the chairmanship of the com- | mittee on resolutions, which will It is de- draft the party’s platform. | signed to make this, reports have it, la brief document. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi already has been decided upon as the convention's temporary chafrman, while the per- manent_chairmanship is expected to | Ko to Senator Walsh of Montana. Most of the dark horses or the leaders of their hopes are expected in the city by midweek. Looming in the forefront of these today are the names of John W. Davis, former am- bassador " to Great Britain, and Senator Ralston of Indiana. Sentiment favoring the choice of Mr. Davis as the Democratic stand- |ardbearer in the event of a dead- locked convention was reported to be growing swiftly. He is credited with the assured support of his native West Virginia and with growing strength in Ohio, Indiana and Mis- souri, besides being the second choice of a considerable number of southern and western delegates. | Quiet Boom For Ralston. Charles A. Greathouse, secretary of the Democratic national committee, and Meredith Nicholson, novelist, are here in the interests of Senator Ralston’s boom, which is considered one of the quietest nomination quests tions. national committeeman and Indiana leader, is due in the city Wednesday. | ‘The'Ralston boom is to be a_thing | of unprecedented quiet, Mr. Nichol- son says, declaring that it will have {no brass band accompaniment. He declares that the senators name will not be presented formally to the con- | vention and that he may not receive | all of the thirty votes of Indiana on the first ballot. There will no Ralston posters and no Ralston buttons, Nicholson said, but the senator will continue as a dark-horse candidate to the last. A pamphiet briefly out- lining Senator Ralston's career was prepared for general distribution, Mr. Nicholson says, but was suppressed at_the senator's request. Charles Boeschenstein, national committeeman from Illinois, started today to find 100 additional hotel rooms for the use of his delegation. The Illinois delegates already have 100 rooms reserved. PLATFORM WOREERS BUSY. Committee of Six Tabulating Sug- gestions for Gov. Smith. NEW YORK, June 16.—So many platform suggéstions are poring in to the headquarters of Gov. Smith that an informal committee of six persons to answer, tabulate and turn over these letters to the state com- mittee has been formed, it was an- nounced today. More than twenty letters are com- ing in each day, ‘saild Franklin D, Roosevelt, in éharge of the governors campalgn. The topic uppermost in the minds of the writers is foreign relations, and next in importance is social welfare. The suggestions are coming fr all parts of the country, Mr. Rogor velt said. Many are from Republi- cans. BT 5 Family of 377 Meets. LILLE, France, June 16—A family party numbering 377 met vesterday at the home of Bernard Verley, who, with his wife and nineteen children, actgd as hosts to the relatives. Further connections bring the family to 951, the balance of which were un- able to attend the party. They are descendants of Claude Ber- nard, who was married 239 years ago, Gasoline Price Cut. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, June 16.—A reduction of one cent in the price of gasoline will be made today by inde- pendent dealers in every city in_the state except Sioux Falls, J. H. Cum- bow of Sioux Falls, president of the South Dakota Independent Oil Deal- | ers’ Association, announced. be | in the history of Democratic conven- | Thomas Taggart, Democratic | @h WASHINGTON, D. C, BIG PAVING PROGRAM LAUNCHED BY CITY One Hundred Trees Being Taken Out on 13th Street to Permit Doubling of Width. 61 PROJECTS TO BE PUSHED Bids to Be Asked for Concrete and Asphalt Construction. One hundred big trees on 13th street, from F to I streets, are being chopped down today as the first step in the widening of that thorough- fare as a means of improving traffic conditions. Since the establishment of ome-way streets in Washington 13th street has become one of the main southbound arteries for rush-hour travel, and at the present time it is only forty feet wide between the points mentioned. The new District appropriation act gave the Commissioners $50,000 to widen the street betweed F and I streets to elghty feet. Several years ago the city heads widened the same street to sixty feet between E and F streets. ‘When the job is finished 13th street will be one of the best thoroughfares in the city. After the curb has been set back twenty feet on each side the entire roadway will be resurfaced with a concrete base and asphalt topping. This will give an eighty-foot road- way with a_fifteen-foot sidewalk on each side. Because of the reduction in width of the sidewalks, the old Norway maple trees now being re- moved will not be replaced. Sixty-One Streets to Be Paved. Tt will be necessary for about a dozen merchants to alter the size of their storage vaults under the sidewalks. This marks the beginning of the big- gest street paving program the Com- missioners have had to carry out in many years. Bids will be opened at the District building Wednesday afternoon for the paving of sixty-one streets, in- cluding the 13th street job. ‘The new appropriation act carries a total of more than $2.700,000 for ail classes of highway _work, of which the bids to be opened Wednesday represent about $600,000. The bids to be opened Wednesday are for the paving of streets that were item- ized in the appropriation act under the heading of street improvements. They do not inctude the long list of highways to be paved out of the $300,000 gas tax fund. Neither do they include the streets that will be resurfaced during the year out of another lump sum known as “re- pairs to streets” and amounting to $600, 000 more. List of Bids Asked. The streets on which the Commis- sioners will open bids Wednesday are: Asphalt surfaces—Thirteenth street northwest between F and I streets, Massachusetts avenue southeast be- tween 15th and 16th streets, 16th street southeast between East Cap- itol and A streets, 27th street north- west between K and L streets, 12th street northeast between C and D Streets. Concrete streets—Varnum street northwest between 2d and 4th streets, 3d street northwest between Varnum and Webster streets, 2d street north- west between Upshur and Webster streets, 8th street northwest between Crittenden and Decatur _streets, Emerson street northwest between Georgia avenue and 9th street, Far- ragut street northwest between Geor- gla avenue and 8th street; Hamilton street northwest between Georgla and’ Illinois avenues, Webster street northwest between Tth street and Illinois avenue, Monroe street north- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MEANS TRIAL OPENS. Jury Being Selected to Hear Dry Act Charges. NEW YORK, June 16.—A jury to try Gaston B. Means, former Depart- ment of Justice investigator, and his secretary, Elmer W. Jarnecke, was being selected in federal court today before Judge Wolverton of Oregon. Means and Jarnecke are accused of conspiracy to violate the prohibition act through the illegal withdrawal of liquor from bonded warehouses. Thomas E. Felder, counsel for the two men, and himself under indict- ment with Means on other charges, | argued unsuccessfully in an attempt to have the court disqualify Special Assistant Attorney General Hiram C. Todd as prosecutor on the ground of bias. Col. Felder referred to Mr. Todd's testimony before the Senate Daugh- erty committee, in wnich Means was called a “crook, thief and llar.” traffic | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, DONS PRETTIEST ROBE BEFORE TURNING ON GAS Socialist Leader’s Secretary Takes Own Life in Greenwich Vil- ~lage Apartment. Ry the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 16.—Mrs. Mar- garet Martin, twenty-two vears old, secretary to Morris Hillquit, Social- ist leader, divorced and tired of life, attired herself in her pettiest loung- ing robe before she sought rest in death in her Greenwich Village apartment last night. After reading some passages from a Bible she seated herself in an easy chair and turned on the gas. Police, attracted by the odor of gas, broke down her door four hours later and found the body. In a note to her mother she wrote: “Forgive me for hurting you so, but I am very tired and hope to find some rest where 1 am going.” An dded line asked that she be buried my lace dress, and don't spend any money on me.” ' The police found a decree of divorce from Frederick Martin, which was to_have become final in three months. It was granted by an Oklahoma court for “gross neg- lect of duty and extreme cruelty” last February e EXCLUSION PROTEST ANSWERED BY U. S. Hughes Gives Reply to Hanihara. No Hint of Nature of Docu- ment Is Given. The American reply to the Japanese protest on the exclusion provisions of the new immigration bill was handed to Ambassador Hanihara today by Sec- retary Hughes At the same time it was announced that arrangements had been made with the Tokio government for simultaneous publication of the document in morning papers of Thursday, June 19. Meanwhile, American newspapers were requested as a patriotic duty not to attempt to forecast the contents of the reply. The communication will be translated into code and communicated at once by Ambassador Hanihara to his govern- ment. The care and caution with which the coding is done, it was ex- plained, necessarily make this task a slow and tedious one. For that reason, and in view of the fact that additional time is required for the cable trans- mission and the decoding, Thursday was said to be the earliest possible date on which simultaneous announce- ment could be made. . JAPAN CURBS AGITATORS. Anti-U. S. Demonstrations Ordered Suppressed Sternly. BY E. R. EGGER. Ly Radio to The Star and the Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924, TOKIO, June 16.—Determination of the Japanese government to check the (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) 14 KILLED. 20 INJURED IN WESTERN STORMS | South Dakota Is Hard Hit in Lives Lost and Prope!?y Damage Exceeding $100,000. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, June 16.—At least fourteen persons are reported dead and more than a score injured as the Te- sult of tornadoes, windstorms and heavy hail arid rain in the northwest Saturday night. Eight persons were reported dead at Bijou Hills, Brule County ; two at White Lake, Aurora County; one at Pierre and one at Blunt in South Dakota; while two men were reported swept into the Mississippi River at St. Paul Glad Valley in Seibach County, South Dakota, was reported virtually wiped out when a tornado struck over a terri- tory of fifty miles square and caused probably a score of injuries and prop- erty damage which may run over $100,000. At Mitchell four persons were injured, one perhaps fatally, and property dam.: age was estimated at several hundred thousand dollars. Between Mitchell and Sioux City, Towa, seventeen miles of telegraph wires are out of commission. Unusually heavy rains accompanied the storm. In the neighborhood of Murdo and Chamber- lain two inches of rain fell in ten min- utes. Huron reported 2.20 inches of rainfall in thirty minutes. The down- pour swept gway irrigation dams near raper and Vivian. JU E '16, 1924 —THIRT DRY AGENTS ACCUSE MARYLAND SHERIFF Declare St. Marys County Officer Declined to Aid in Find- ing Still. FAILED TO AID U. S. OFFICIALS Allowed Bootleggers to Escape, Ac- cording to Charges. High Sheriff Abell of St. County, Md., will be reported today to Chief of General Prohibition Agents Yellowley for failure to co- operate with federal officers in the enforcement of law. A thorough probe of the matter is anticipated. The report will be made by Chief Harry M. Luckett of the fourth divi- sion, following a series of raids in Maryland last week in which five Marys stills were destroyed in three days, | and culmihated in a hostile demon- stration Saturday night against four federal officers by & mob which sur- rounded a hotel in which they had taken “refuge” in Leonardtown. ‘There are two specific charges against the sheriff, it was learned today—refusal to help federal offi- cers locate a still and allowing two bootleggers to escape. In addition, it is understood the sheriff’s action Sat- urday night at the hotel will be thoroughly reported to higher offi- | clals of the prohibition unit. Says Sherift Gave No Aid. While the crowd stormed and threatened outside the hotel Saturday night, daring the four agents to come out, it is declared, made no effort to dispel the crowd, and did not so much as ap- proach the federal agents, knew well, with any offers of assist- ance, according to official reports to Luckett. The agents had been left stranded in Leonardtown Saturday night, following destruction of three stills, when their chauffeur was driven out of town, he says, at the point of a gun. Telephoning for assistance to Washington, the four stranded federal officers were “rescued” by agents who rushed from headquarters here. The chauffeur, who was driven out of Leonardtown, and reported to Agent King here, was asked to return im- mediately ‘with aid, to bring back the four, but was so frightened, said, that they could not get him to return to Leonardtown, even under threats of being deputized. The crowd about the hotel not only threatened, called out insulting taunts to the federal officers, and dared them to step outside the hotel, but were well armed, one of the agents said, and many of them had picked up 'sticks and stones. One slight incident might have precipi- tated a bloody riot, they declare. The high sheriff, they charge, made no move to restore order. When asked to estimate the size of the crowd, one of the agents said he could not tell how many there were, but it “looked as big as a crowd on election might." Comes as Climax. The charge of having refused to help locate a still is to be placed against Sheriff Abell on account of his direct statement, said to have been made to the revenue men on last Thursday when they asked him a specific question, and he refused point blank, they say. He is also al- leged to have made certain remarks about his attitude in general toward llha enforcement of the prohibition aw. Another instance is to be cited in which the sheriff is charged with al- | lowing the escape of two bootleggers n a car loaded with liquor, and with- in sight of the revenue officers, who were unable, without assistance, to effect a capture. The charges against the Maryland sheriff come as a climax to difficulties experienced between federal officers and Maryland authorities, who, it is said, in some circles here are blamed not only with failing to support the eighteenth amendment, -but with re- sisting efforts of federal authorities in enforcement. THREE KILLED IN AUTO. Car Plunges Off Road, Hitting Pole on Richmond Pike. PETERSBURG, Va., June 16— Three persons were killed and two others injured early today when the automobile in which they were travel. ing from Richmond to Raleigh, N. C., left the road and struck a telephone pole at the foot of a ten-foot em- bankment on the Richmond-Peters- burgh turnpike. The dead are: Mrs. Amelia Heller of Richmond and Gerson Heller and Morris Rosenthal of Raleigh. Miss Beulah Hutzler of Richmond and Stanley Kabn of Raleigh were in- jured. Neither Miss Hutzler nor Kahn is thought to have been serious- 1y injured. the sheriff was in the hotel and | whom he | officers | Y-SIX PAGES. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 16.—Drugs valued at more than $2,000,000 were seized last Saturday on a truck coming off a pier at Hoboken, N. J., it became known to- day. H. D. Esterbrook, chief of the spe- cial agents of the Treasury Department who conducted the raid, said the seizure uncovered one of the most elaborate and effective schemes ever divulged for smuggling narcotics into the United | States. The drugs were secreted in the han- | dles of 5,000 scrubbing brushes. The | cases in which they arrived had been watched since the steamship President Roosevelt docked June 9, Mr. Esterbrook said. On Saturday the* Treasury agents saw two men claim the cases and load them on a truck, which was seized as it started off the pier. The men, who gave their names as Abraham Palowitz and Otto Anderson, both of New York, were arrested. Breaks Up Syndicate. The seizure broke up a German syndi- cate, Chief Esterbrook said, which had smuggled drugs valued at more than | #3.000,000 into the United States in two | years. | Treasury agents working for two | vears in several foreign countries un- | earthed the smuggling scheme. A year ago an agent at Bremen, Germany, by chance opened eeveral cases labeled “brushes” and “returned German goods.” He found only bricks and stones wrap- ped in paper. The boxes had been LABOR GOVERNMENT * | IN FIGHT WITH LORDS Will Move to Reject All Amend- { ments to Own Anti-Evic- | tion Measure. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, June 16—Parliament re- | assembled today after the Whitsun- | tide vacation, with the prospect of long and arduous sessions and small | probability that the government will be |able to carry out several legislative measures to which it is committed. | Today's business brings the gov- | ernment for the first time into con- | flict with the House of Lords, which has so amended the administration’s bill for prevention of eviction of non- paying tenants as virtually to null- |ify it. The government's intention to move the rejection of all amend- | ments was |and rejection will be supported by the Liberals. | The chief debate this week will be lon former Premier Baldwin's reso- lutions giving effect to the imperial preference proposals of his govern- | ment. The government will leave | the decision to a free vote. | The public business s so congested that it is obvious that several meas- ures must be postponed until autumn. {MACDONALD RESENTS LEGATION BLOCKADE Calls Mexico City Incident Grave | Breach of International | | Courtesies. | | By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 16—Prime Minister MacDonald stated in the House of Commons today that the British gov- ernment regarded the action of the Mexican government against Herbert | C. Cummins, the British agent in | Mexico, as a grave breach of inter- national courtesies. The premier said he had informed | the Mexican government that in the | event of 1ts taking steps against Mr. Cummins in which Great Britain did not concur, the mission of Sir Thomas | Hohler to Mexico would be canceled. { Explanation of Mexico. | Mexico City dispatches Saturday | announced that the Mexican govern- ment had decided to expel Mr. Cum- | mins from the country, the act be- | ing explained in a foreign office state- ment accusing the British represent- ative of lack of respect and courtesy and even with having made wilfully rrect statements to his govern- Teat'in reporting local Incidents. The statement showed dissatisfaction With Mr, Cummins' acts on the part of Mexico had existed for some time, and that the government has sought to have him recalled, but without | UG eat Britain’s reply to Mexico's | protest was said to have stated that Sir Thomas Hohler, recently named by Great Britain to go to Mexico to look over the situation with a | view to the possible resumption of regular diplomatic relations, would Soon reach Mexican territory and that Mr. Cummins would then leave. Mexico, however, asked that the British government disavow state- ments made by Cummins, but, ac- cording to Mexican foreign office of- ficdals, Great Britain declined to do S0 and the Mexican government con- sidered this an affront to its dignity. ENVOY HOISTS FLAG. Continues to Defy Mexican Offi- cials From Legation. BY HARRY NICHOLLS. o Star and _Chicago Dail By CAble G Copyright, 1924, v MEXICO CITY, Mexico, June 16.— The British legation building in which Charge d’Affaires H. A. Cum- mins has blockaded himself is stiil surrounded by secret service agents. Telephones have been cut off and foodstuffs are not entering. Even the water was shut off for two hours Sunday. The diplomatic corps held a conference at the Chilean legation on Sunday, but the result was not an- nounced. The British consul general and several diplomats visited Mr. Cummins in the afternoon. When the details of the case were published on Saturday, it was noticed that the British flag was hoisted over the legation. This is unusual, except on holidays. The building is now an object of curiosity and the part of town in which it is located was visited by large crowds all day Sunday. U. S. Olympic Rifle Team Wins. RHEIMS, FFrance, June 16.—The United States Olympic rifle team to- day won _the 300-meter kneeling Olympic rifle shooting contest. Switz- erland was second and Argentina third. The American team won the 300-meter cempetition yes- terday. % Y # ¢ Foening Star. understood beforehand | The Star’ as fast as t Saturday’s Circulation, Sunday’s Circulation, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes he papers are printed. 88,795 100,476 Drugs Valued at $2,000,000 Seized In Handles of Scrubbing Brushes Shipment From Germany, Supposedly for Trini- dad, Captured by Treasury Agents When Taken From Dock. shipped to Germany in bond supposedly from Trinidad by way of the United States. Cabled to Treasury. This disclosure was cabled to the Treasury Department at Washington and agents here were instructed to watch all cagoes coming from Ger- many. A month ago it was learned that the same cases, repacker, were ship- ped from Bremen on the President Roosevelt, consigned to Trinidad by Palowitz. Chief Esterbrook and men, found that Palowitz, a bonded truck- man, who had hauled only three con- his year, was to transfer the cases to & South American steamship line in Brooklyn, and agents watched him closely. As scheduled three cases la- beled “brushes” arrived on the Presi- dent Roosevelt. They lay in storage several days until Palowitz and An- derson appeared. Under international regulations goods_shipped in bond through the United States to another country are not opened by customs officials. Treasury agents said the smugglers’ scheme was to haul the cases to a garage, substitute others stenciled in the same manner, but containing dad. From Trinidad they were sent back as “returned goods,” but filled with narcotics. Drugs thus flowed into the country, both from Trinidad and Germany, the agents stated. SLEMP DENIES BREAK WITH COOLIDGE GROUP Declares He Has Not Resigned Post—Will Aid in G. 0. P. Campaign Direction. FRICTION OVER CONVENTION President Able, However, to Avert Serious Rupture. €, Bascom Slemp, secretary to Pres- ident Coolidge, announced in a formal statement today before leaving for Cincinnati that he had not resigned his present position and would con- tinue actively associated in the Re- publican national campaign. The formal statement was issued because of persistent reports of the likelihood of Mr. Slemp's retirement, tween him and William M. Butler, the Coolidge campaign manager, during the convention last week at Cleve- land. Coeolidge Brings Reconciliation. The disagreement between Slemp and others on the one hand and Mr. Butler, Frank W. Stearns and their supporters on the other was generally noticeable after the adjournment of the convention, but President Coolidge, after hearing both sides, was able to bring about a reconciliation of views. The President was understood to have exercised his strongest tactics in diplomacy in bringing about the reconciliation, and it was not until a conference was had today that the break was averted. Mr. Slemp early associates and then went to the White House to talk with the President. Their conference was the determining factor in preventing a disruption in the Coolidge forces at the very start of the campaign. Text of Slemp Statement. This statement was issued by Mr. Slemp: “I am leaving this afternoon for Cincinnati to be present at an opera- tion performed on my cousin, P. W. Slemp, who is now in a hospital there. He is my chief dependence in my business affairs. I am taking Dr. Oden. The time of my return is in a cer- tain sense indefinite on account of this. When I do return I expect to be actively associated in the cam- paign and in my present position, which 1 have not resigned. In ali probability I will be on the advisory committee of the Republican national committee, which will have the real management of the campaign.” FEAR POLAR FLIGHT IS STARTING TOO LATE Norwegians Doubt That Amundsen ‘Will Succeed in Dash to North Pole. to The Star and_Chi News. Copyright, 1924, CHRISTIANA, June 16.—The state- ment that Capt. Amundsen is on the point of leaving Pisa for Spitzbergen and thence will go to the north pole arouses slight interest in Norway, where doubt is expressed that the explorer will reach the pole. The leader of the Norwegian Me- | teorological Institute, himself an ex- pert on Arctic conditions, declares that June is the only month possible for a polar flight, but going to the starting place now means that the final start for the pole is not pos- sible before the middle of July. TAKES $60, GETS 15 YEARS Former Convict Already Has Spent Thirty-One Years in Prison. By Radio way of the United States in care of | signments of goods from ships in a| only stones, and ship them to Trini- | owing to the open disagreement be- | Mr. | today conferred with several of his | I shall be away several days. | g0 muy} TWO CENTS. FRANCE GRIPS RUKR UNTIL BERLIN PAYS, 15 HERRIOT'S STAND New Premier’s Declaration to Chamber Will Accept Dawes Report. ACCORD WITH RUSSIA, LEAGUE AID, PROPOSED ueneral Amnesty, Abolition of Em- passy at Vatican, Tax Revision Are Domestic Policies. | By the Assorinted Paess PARIS, June 16.—The ministerial declaration of the new government to be read in the Senate and Chamber |at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon will be “fairly long, but at least precise Premier Herriot told mewspaper men at the end of his first cabinet council at noon today. “We wish the parliament to find, if |it can accord us its cinfidence and we | desire to tell it everything about our projects,” the premier said. “There bhas been no difficulty in reaching an agreement on the terms of the decla- ratios A semi-official resume of the con- | tents of the declaration, given out by | { the Havas Agency, says the principal points will be: Backs League of Nations. Foreign policy: | “Consolidation of the peace by | agreement among the peoples and by | extension of the roles of the league jof nations, the International | Bureau and The Hague tribunal “The restablishment of normal re |lations with Russta. “Acceptance without reservations of the experts' report, with mainte- | nance of the occupation of the Ruhr until the guarantees provided for in the Dawes report are constituted and handed over to international organi- zations qualified to administer the “Resumption of the control of Ger- many's disarmament and solution of the problem of security by the reali- |zation of guarantee pacts under league of nations authority Abolish Vatican Embassy. Domestic policy ieneral amnesty except for reb iand traitors. “Re-employment of discharged rail- | waymen. i Suppression of the French embassy |at the Vatican and strict application | of the law as to religious congrega- | tions. i | . “Reduction in military expenditur |in ‘a measure compatible with th | country’s security.” | The fiscal program includes the | abolition of the laws established b | decree during the latter part of the | Poincare regime: establishment of the government monopoly in matches; es- |tablishment of a rigorous inventory of the financial situation with a view to assuring a balanced budget: the prosecution of fiscal frauds: strict application of the income tax laws, {and a new arrangement of direc taxes, easing the charges created b the taxes on consumption and partic |ularly by the present tax on busin | turnovers. Eight-Hour Law Upheld. | The educational reform program in- | cludes the abrogation of former Min Labor |ister Berard's decree for the compul- |sory study of Latin in the high schools. | The interior and social programs demand respect for the eight-hour law and the rights of the syndicals the application of social insurance projects: recognition of the right « government employes to organize and administrative reforms. The document was to be President Doumergue at the min terial council in the palace of the Elysee at 4 o'clock this afternoon The final draft of the government's | first statement to parliament will be gone over tomorrow by the cabinet An active session of the deputies following the reading of the docu ment is indicated. Already numerous speakers have been listed for debate. notably Louis_Rollin for the bloc National, Leon Blum for the Socialists and Marcel Cachin for the Commu- nists. read t Firm German Policy. Premier Herriot, replying to a Matin reporter relative to the selec- tion of his cabinet, lays stress on the choice of the minister of war. “The competency of Gen. Nollet is unquestionable,” he said. “He knows better than any one the present mili tary condition of Germany. 1 desire that the fullest significance be given | to the appointment of Gen. Nullet. Germany is now engaged in the car- | rying out tactics similar to those after ) “he peace of Tilsit in 1807, raising a furge army camouflaged by gymnas- tic associations. “Qur cabinet is animated by a kindly spirit toward Germany and we are ready to assist to the best of our ability the young Germa democrac: but_we display merciles; ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) WARREN TO RETAIN POSITION AS ENVOY ‘Will Return to Mexico City After Brief Rest, State Depart- ment Announces. Ambassador Charles B. Warren will return to Mexico City, it was sald to- NEW YORK, June 16.—A maximum | o a¢ the State Department, after sentence of fifteen years in prison for | priar rest from his labors as chair robbery in the second degree was im- | map of the resolutions committee of posed today upon Henry B. Curtis,|ype Republican national convention at who was convicted of stealing $60 in Brooklyn. S Six years ago Curtis was released from a Connecticut prison after serv- ing_thirty-one years with the death of a woman who was killed in a house which he was rob- bing. Sugar Production Mark Set. HONOLULU, June 16.—The Ewa sugar plantation on the Island of Oahu, where Honolulu is situated, has set a new world record for sugar production with a fleld that produced 16.68 tons per acre. The approximate net value of each acre is $1,700. in connection | Cleveland. He will spend a short time with his family before his de- | parture for his post. | Rumors that the ambassador planned to resign in the near future, feeling that his work in Mexico City had been practically accomplished, { were met at the State Department | with the assertion that he had not communicated any such plan to Sec- retary Hughes. Tt is recalled that Mr. Warren was virtually drafted for the Mexico City embassy, and it has all along been understood by officials here that he would retire from the diplomati service as soon as the President Selt that he could be spared.