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* lowers of Gov. WEATHER. Unsettled. prdbably thundefstorms with som temperature tonight Temperature for p.m. today: Highest today: lowest, 0. at 6 Full report on page 7. and 24 hours ended at howers and ewhat lower tomorrow. noon today. 85, at am. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 29,268, intered as second-class matter post office Washington, D, C THOUSANDS READY T0 GREET NADO INNEW YORK TODAY Supporters Plan Parade to Headquarters Democratic Presidential Aspirant. WALSH HEAVY FAVORITE TO PRESIDE AT PARLEY Fight Over Two-Thirds Rule Gains Force—Boom Is Started for Houston. B the Assaciated Press NEW YORK, June 15-—The cam- paign of William G. MeAdoo for the Democratic nomination for President enters on its final phase with his ar- al from Los Angeles today to take advisory charge of his forces. Sev- eral thousand, it is anticipated, will be at the depot to greet Mr. McAdoo The welcoming delegation will form & parade and conduct the former Sec- retary of the Treasury to the Hotel Vanderbilt, which will be his home during the convention. He has en- gaged the suite formerly oceupied by Enrico Caruso. National committeemen and dele- =ates already in town are displaving 4 decided seatiment In favor of Sena- r Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, ader in the oil lease investization permanent chairman of the con- vention. It is gencrully agreed that inasmuch as the oil scandals are vir- lly certain to be one of the chief issucs of the campaign. it would be wise move to capitalize the fana senator’s nationaily known con- on with the investizations, There a the feel that i the party to show Senator W appreciation for his efforts. Walsh sh this Likely Chairman. % Wa his choic: full national com- Although this makes Senator highly probable be ratified by the mittee. Members of the Democratic national committee let it be known last night that Homer S Cumminzs, often men- tioned for the « in the committee on rules, virtually is cer- tain to be chosen chairman of the eommittee on resolutions uniess un- axpected opposition develops A boom David F. Houston former Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of Agriculture. has been started by Circuit Judge Ewing Cock- rell of Warrenshurz, Mo.. son of the late United States ator Cockrell. | Headquarters for John W, Davis, Sen- | ator Underwood and Gov. Smith will be | opened today at the Waldorf Astoria. | Where the national democratic com- | mittee has its headquarters In the camp of both Mr Gov. Smith indifference A0 cca as to. tne Tesult of the fight Xhich may be provoked by the pro- posal to do away with the tradi-| tional two thirds rulc It is no seci how ever tain of the M pleased if ~the selection has yet to rmans of M doo ex- that cer- convention should adopt a rule providing for the nomi- nation of a candidate by ]:1 l:.uu'nl]) On the other hand, the fol- . mith, as well as the of several of the less prominent candidates, seem bent on édoing all in their power to have the two-thirds rule retained, Cox Openxs Headquarters. A staff_of boomers for the cand dacy of James M. Cox for_President set up headquarters in New York yesterda i ““The sight of their campaign tent. the third in a camp of aspirants that i< expected to number more than a score before the Democratic conven- tion begins its nominations, tem- porarily relegated to the Ilark:rnslnfl the talk of a struggle between Gov Smith and McAdoo over the thirds rule. Joel Shaup. sponsors a veteran political & er of Dayton, Ohio, is genera- Tlidimo of the Cox forces, and Charles Norris, Washington representative of the Cox newspapers chief of staff. They were accompanied by o Corps of enthusiastic aids, as pitened their camp at the Waldorf. Astoria. The convention would prove popu- and that Madison Square Gar- den's 14,000 seats would be filled to overflowing was indicated in the ar- Fival of an avalanche of demands for accommodations, which temporarily Aisrupted the business of the national committee's subcommittee on ar- rangements. Cordell Hull, chairman of that body, finally shut hiz his co-workers away from telegrams and long-distance telephone cal 1s, farred the doors to all callers, and daciared they would remain in execu- five session until disposition had been made of last-minute details of pre- nnvention arrangements. I "fhe meantime, the last of 3,500 flags was unfurled in Madison Square | Garden, the last row of seats was ! Wailed in place, and the las: star was pinned to the acre and a half of red, White and sky-blue background, un- Ao Sehich the gavel opening the Sonvention will sound next Tuesday. Herbert C. Pell, jr., chairman of the Democratic _state _committee, an- haunced that the New York delega- tion Gwhich will be the largest in the 'convention, would elect a chair- Ihan at the Hotel Commodore Satur- day. it was also announced that the national Democratic committee would held 'its first pre-gonvention session 8turday morning. Leaders declared The committee might. at that time, indicate its attitude toward the pros- et of a fight on the convention floor Beer “the proposed inauguration of majority rule. They pointed out that the commit- s it did at San Francisco Lo O ears "ago recommend to the committee on rules whether or mot the question should be :ubmi‘ued to ihe whole convention for & decision. Many early comers declared they had discovered a rift among McAdoo supporters on the majority rule, is- Sue. but campaigners at headquarters vontinued to declare the question Would come to & vote, and that, back- »d by the precedent set by the San Francisco convention in_adopting the procedure of the House of Repre- Rentatives, McAdoo would “win hands 90 e answer of Gov. Smith and klin D. Roosevelt, his manager Bt delegates in 1920, after hav- ing mominated Cox by a majority, con- Umied to ballot until he had two- ihirds vote. The Smith faction de- red 'that David Ladd Rockwell, the McAdoo chief, was “just building Rimself a little straw man.” ‘Thus far there has been almost no discussion of potential candidates for the __vice presidential nomination. ~{Continued on Page 2 Column 3.} Mon- | behooves | Adoo leaders would be | two- | they | Barber Shaves R. 1. | Senate Chairman PROVIDENCE, R Lieut. Gov. Toupin, who ha in the chair of the Rhode Senate continuously since yester- day afternoon at 2:05 o'clock, fol- lowing a fight on the floor be- tween Republicans and Democrats, called a barber at noon today and was shaved while he presided over the body Police were on guard vent further disturban question of adjournment the Democrats oppose 'RHODE ISLAND SENATE ' DEADLOCK CONTINUES Democratic Filibuster Now 24 Hours Under Way—Police Standing Guard. I, June 18.— s been 1sland | | i | to pre- s over a which NO CASUALTIES FROM FIGHT Free-for-All Required Officers and Governor to Be Quelled. B the Asoriated Pross | "PROVIDENCE, R. 1, June 18.—The Rhode Island senate was still in ses | sion this afternoon with no prospects | of either Republicans or Democrats giving in for a recess. The body has | been in session since vesterday after- noon, when Republicans and Demo- crats fought on the floor. Lieu. v. F. A. Toupin was on the rostrum today. He had not left his | chair since he took it yesterday. Po- lice were on guard to prevent further disturbances. Filibuster Follows Fight. The disturbance chamber into confusion and brought a squad of policemen on the run, cec- | curred as the culmination of many months of legislative deadlock. Hav- ing frustrated an attempt at adjourn- ment by the Republicans, the Demo cratic re-engaged in a fil which cast the minority ring sentiment | buster last night with the expressed | { determination to sit, if necessary, un- ! til they carried their point bagan when Senator Sherman of Portsmouth, Republican leader, took the chair a few minutes after 2 o'clock, in the absence of Lieut v. Toupin, and ordered the clerk to call the roll row Fearful that the move would result| reddest communist in the world than | in sudden adjournment, Senator Rob- ert K. Quinn of West Warwick, deputy Democratic floor leader, asked Senator John J. Barry of Central Falls, the Democratic floor leader, to call the lieutenant governor from | his chambers across the hall. Senator Quinn then advanced unon Clerk James M. Dooley, shouting:| “The clerk will not call the roll’ and in his own words, “grabbed him around the neck.” Governor Restores Order. Secretary of State Ernest A. Sprague, a Republican, ran to Dooley's aid und grappled with Senator Quinn. | The chamber was thrown into disor- der and @ woman screamed. High Sheriff Jonathan Andrews hurried in with five deputies to find senators and spectators engaged in a free-for- all fight around the main contestants. v. William S. Flynn, summoned from his office, took the platform and restorted order, but not before two spectators had heen borne bodily | from the room by the sheriffs. Sen- | ator Quinn, struck across the fore- head during the row. lost his gl but neither he nor other partici pants in the row were injured 'STRIKE THREATENED | "IN CANADIAN P. 0. | 10.000 Postal Workers Ready to Walk Out if Demands Are | Not Met Today. | By the Associated Press. OTTAWA. June 18.—Minister Labor Murdock was notified today | that the postal workers would strike at 5 oclock this afternoon unless their wage controversy with the gov- ernment was satisfactorily adjusted by that hour. A committee representing the 10, 000 postal service emploves arrived ference with Mr. Murdock and Charles Stewart, assistant postmaster general The workers have asked the gov- amend the wage award recently for- | mulated by the civil service com- mission, but the ministry has refused | to do so at this time, asserting that it might suggest a revision after the commission has made public its wage scale for the other branches of the civil service. Ultimatum Sent. The forty-eight-hour ultimatum sent to the government by the Postal Federation of Canada expired last night. An overwhelming majority of the postal workers favor a strike, it was announced. The conference between the em- ployes' committee and the govern- ment officials adjourned shortly be- fore 1 o'clock. It was announced an- other meeting will be held later in the afternoon. Meanwhile the cabinet council pre- |pared to take up representations from the workers. FORBES SERIOUSLY ILL. Former Veteran Bureau Head Con- fined to Hospital. BROOKLINE, Mass, June 18.—Col. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the United States Veterans' Bureau, is seriously Nl with intestinal trouble in a private hospital here, it was learn- ed today. Hig physician, beyond saying that several specialists had been called in consultation, and that no surgical treatment was involved, would not comment on Col. Forbes' illness. He sald, however, that the condition, though serious, was not dangerou: and that he expected his patient to | be discharged from the hospital soon. | While He Presides| reading | other sentiment th | here this morning and went into con- | self and | | ernment to take immediate action to | ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, FIRST RED SUCCESS ATST. PAUL MAKES - OPPONENTS ALERT {Conservative Delegates From ; Five States Pledge Union Against Communists. |OLD PARTIES ATTACKED AS TOOLS OF CAPITAL D. C, WEDNESDAY, Republicans Stole Thousands, Dem- ocrats Millions, Declares Chair- man, in Address. DBy the Associated Press, ST. PAUL, Minn., yesterday's June 18 ‘misunderstanding. | William Mahoney of St. Paul, leader | of the conservative national Farmer-Labor-Progressive convention, declared the conven- tion convened that delegates from South Dakota, Washington, faction in the as today assured him they “would be on their guard against a recurrence of yes- terday's communist successes.” Mahoney was named as the Minne- sota member of the organization com- mittee, where he is determined to [ fight for his decentralized national | organization plan. This movement is opposed by the communists, would have a highly centralized tional party. G Hathaway of St. Paul, in the pre-convention committee fight helped the communists disrupt | liamentary organization plans by blocking Mahoney's majority report was named on the nominations com- | mittee by the Minnesota caucus The call to order found many seats | vacant. Belated delegates straggled | In throughont Chairman Charles I | Taylor's address. which was prefaced with a statement that since his ele tion vesterday he had had “no con- ference or interview or other com | munication with William Z. Ioster. | Handclapping and cheers gre Chairman Tayvlor when he referred to Andrew Mellon as “the arch Loot- legier.” who a nu- who He Preferes Communists. “I would rather have sat with the to have sat with those in the con- vention at Cleveland or those who will | sit next week in New York. said the chairman, and again the conven- tion velled approval. “This convention must form a mass | class Farmer-Labor party,” was an- gained applause and yells arose when he added: “We want land for the users, jobs for the workers, liberty and equality for a | Duncan McDonald as vice chair- man. indorsed the “mass class” Idea and introduced the permanent secre- |tary, Alice Lorraine Daly, South Dakota. _ Miss Daly said she was graduated in a school of elocution and mot, as some had phrased it in “hellocution.” She said she was not interested in what the newspapers said about her. “I am not interested in trivial | things,” she said. “Only the unciv- | itized call each other names.” | Experience as Teacher. Miss Daly told her experience in South Dakota where she taught school. “When I was nominated for governor,” she said, “I knew they would say that a woman should not be elected because she could know nothing about business. So I studied the records and found that | the men who have run the political affairs knew so much about busines that they have succeeded in gettin | us in debt at the rate of one dollar a | minute since Christ was born. | _“Nothing can stay the hand of the militarists except a party made up of farmers and workers. Let us think | less of the practicality that resuited in a war that killed 10,000,000 men, and more of humanity. “I honor Senator l.a Follette, and | his forty years of serviee for human of lity, but let us not forget the thou- |two have died. sands and millions for whom we are standing and speaking at this hour. Call of Humanity. “Let us go not where practical poli- | tics lead, us, but where humanity calls us. Ané if we lay only a few | bricks of our party foundation here |1et us stand and hold those bricks until our hands decay.” | Miss Daly was then given | cheers and a tiger. | Prediction that the party eventually would “dispose of the two capitalistic parties that hold the power today,” was made by Chair- Taylor. - T hr. Taylor severely criticised the Democratic and Republican parties and issued an appeal to farmers and workers to unite more closely for political action and urged “a ballot- tion. 3 P e erectcd the delegates in “the name of thousands upon thousands of bankrupt farmers—farmers, who dur- ing the past few years have lost their all; in the name of the constantly i umbers of the - e "he Workers of tnis nation. Sees Greatest Party. “Out of this historic convention.” said Mr. Taylor, “is destined to gTOW ;reat mass-class Farmer-Labor e 3, Column 7.) three Granddaughter. By the Associated Press. ; BOSTON, June 18.—Theé two grand- daughters of Thomas W. Lawson, financier, whose fortunes have seen better ddys, prefer scrubbing floors in an humble cottage for their impover- ished father to living with their wealthy mother. The preference was revealed yes- terday in court proceedings by which Mrs. Henry Spring Blake, divorced wife of Arnold Lawson, seeks the cus- tody of the Misses Vera_and Jean Lawson. \ Arnold Lawson, reared amid the luxury of his father's country estate, now lives in a little $35 a _month rented house beside a railroad track in Milton. Two daughters and young twin sons live with him, braska, Montana and Minnesota had par- | that | Farmer-Labor | —Aroused | COLON ONWAYTO U. S. Explorer Rates Panama Natives as “Greatest Enthnological Dis- covery” in History. LINK IN NORDIC EVOLUTION Flaxen Says. Splendid Creatures, With Hair and Blue Eyes, He BY PAUL Stafr Correspondent of Newspaper Alliance Times. _ Copsright. Times Cnion and the Nos Allianee \. Canal Zone. June Richard 6. Marsh, organizer | leader of the Marsh-Darien expedi- BENTON. the North American the Rochester the Rochester American News 18 and 15 been exploring the jungle |ern Panama, has arrived in | with what he believes to be complete | proof of the success of his scarch for “white Indians.” The explorer brought with him three primitive white Indians and three other Indians. A slower boat is bringing three more Indians from the San Hlas coast. whence the party started for Colon Appear to Be Nordies. that the three to Marsh said whites he has with him appear | be primitive Nordics. They are a boy of eighteen, a girl of sixteen and a boy of ten. Physically they are splendid creatures. They have fine flaxen hair, blue-green eyes and white skins. The males are covere with a brownlike hair. Two of the other Indians scribed by Mr. Marsh as paleolithic or Cro-Magnon very robust. Four “mo “neolythic Mongolian” type them Ima Paguina. the chiefs” or “king” of the Indians'’; a subchief an wife and son are accom- panying Marsh to the States Bringing Natives to U. S. The explorer will sail for | York with his entire party soon as arrangements can be made, probably in a week. Fifty of the original party returned with {him, among them Harry Johnson of | Panama, naturalist ana official taxi- |dermist, and Charlton, official pho- | tographer. Of the others who left | Panama with him early in February Other were compelled {to leave the party because of iliness. All of the Marsh party's Indians |will be taken to the United States togbe examined by scientists, his own | scitntists, he said, being “either dead lor in the hospital.” Rated Greatest Discove: | He said that he could bring hun- dreds of Indians with him if neces- | sary ana expects to show scientists | that 40.000 Indians in Daricn demon- Mr. are de- of the type— rm’ or Indians, of New ordic white type lithic ma He considers this reatest eth- nological discovery in history. The hitherto implacable Darien In- dians are ready for civilization, Mr. Marsh sald. “The Darien Indians are now my friends. The head chiefs have agreed to accept modern civ ilization and schools under reason- able guarantees of liberty and free- dom to live their lives without bur- densome restraints or impositions.” —a King's Palace Looted. LISBON, June 18.—Persian tapes- z;les. carpets, porcelains and other tiques Lo the value of several thousand pounds have disappared from the royel palace of Tuilla Vico- sa, once the country seat of the Bra- ganza family and now the property of former King Manuel. The care- takers, their two daughters and a son-in-law are under arrest on Sus- picion. \Scrub Brush Preferred by Lawson’s s to Luxurious Life Mrs, Blake testified that her pres- ent husband is wealthy, and she wants her daughters to share with her the luxuries which at least a proach those that their father kne But Vera, the older of the two daughters, told the court that she would rather live with her father, who gets $40 u week as an automo- bile salesman. She testified that she was being properly cared for by him, even if he had bought her only a pair of shoes and some underwear within the last year. . And although she - washes his clothes and_scrubs floors, Vera in- sisted that she wished to remain with her sister by the side of her father and two little brothers at their home, from which their parent is absent trom early in the morning until 6:30 at night, while he is at work in an automobile salesroom. The case was continued for further hearing. Colon | members | strate the evolution of the so-calied JUNE 18, GQEORGIA — lhl\';!i?&‘i‘l YoRe.- \ ALFoRMA \ T Il S~ J to-Dusk Cross-U. S. Dash Held Up by Weather. MINEOLA. N. Y. June 18.—Lieut Russell L. Maughan announced to that he had decided to duwn-to-dusk transcontinental flight from Mitchel Field to San Francisco to- | morrow morning. He said he might hop | o Saturca The postpon report of tions in Mississippi valley | connaencor B o not start his ement was the result of a ble weather condi- oS li¥ in the “I am absolutely this year,” Lie Maughan said. “My plane is new. Ix am the only man who has flown it, and | have not taken it un much. The sooner I can get away the better 1 wiil like it." The aviator has obtained permission | to carry with him four pounds of news- papers, motion picture films and photo- graph. unfavor the w |SCHALL CUTS HALLAM ' LEAD IN SENATE RACE | Latter 3,800 Ahead in Minnesota | Republican Primary—Chris- { tianson Leads for Governor. B the Asanciated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. June 15.—Oscar Hallam of St. Paul had a lead of 3,800 votes over Representative Thomas D. Schall of Excelsior in the race for the Republican senatorial nomination in Monday's primary when tabulations of returns was resumed teday, but Schall headquarters in neapo were claiming victory. Returns last night margin considerabiy Theodore Ehristianson of Dawson, on the basis of incomplete unofficial returns, had a lead of 7.800 over his | nearest’ opponent for thé Republican | kubernatorial nomination and his | name probably wiil g0 on the November ballot. The Farmer-Labor guberna- torial race continued to be close. Tom Davis of Minneapolis had a slight lead over Floyd B. Olson of Minne- polis, with the outcome in doubt until the final figures are in. In the congressional contests, resentative Harold Knutson nominated on the Republican ticket n the sixth district. For the Farm- -Labor nomination S. C. Shipstead Brooten, a brother of Minnesota's cnior senator, led a field of nine candidates in the sixth. In the eighth district, Victor L. Power of Hibbing apparently had captured the Republican nomination and former Representative William L. Carss won the Farmer-Labor contest. Representative Charles R. Davis of | St. Peter of the third district was trailing August H. Andreson by 200 votes on incomplete returns MAINE RACE UNCERTAIN. M cut Hallam's ‘Farrington, Conceded Victory by Foe, Sees Lead Reduced. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me. June 18.—With | returns from two-score small towns in ten counties yet to be received, the |race for the Republican guberna- torfal nomination in the primaries, held here Monday, hung in the bal- ance today. The nomination, conced- ed to State Senator Frank G. Far- rington by his opponent. State Sen- ator Ralph O. Brewster., on the strength of early returns showing a plurality, of more than 1500, became again; rtain as late reports and revised gdgulations in the unofficial count ofit Into Farrington's lead, re- ducing it to 245 votes. ¥ Brewster received the support of the Ku Klux Klan as a result of his sponsoring a constitutional amend- ment to forbid appropriation of state funds for sectarian schools. United States Senator Bert M. Fernald maintained his lead of 10,000 over Frank E. Guernsey, former representative in the race for nomina- tion for Republican senatorial can- tion for the Republican senatorial can- didacy. BRITISH CAB;NET TAKES UP MEXICAN DEFIANCE Considers Obregon’s Effort to Oust Cummins—MacDonald Will Report to Common: By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 15—The British cabinet considered the Mexican situa- tion today, discussing the poll be adopted in view of Mexico's re- tusal to agree to the British proposals for settling the dispute over Herbert C. Cummins, British agent, whom the Obregon government is Seeking to expel. Premier MacDonald will important statement later House of Commons. |Radio Programs—Page 34. make an in the - Star. The Star's every city bl as fast as th “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes e papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 95,836 1924—FORTY-TWO PAGES. 'WHITE INDIANS REACH ~ FLIGHT IS POSTPONED. U, §, NOTE TO JAPAN WARMLY RECEIVED| | Answer to Exclusion Protest Re | garded in Tokio as Reasonable { and Friendly Document. COUNSELOR COMING TO U. S. | Yoshida to Preside Over Embassy Here When Hanihara Goes. Br the Associated Press. TOKIO. June 15 —The American reply | to Japan's protest against exclusion of | Japanese from the United States marked spirit of friendliness and reasonableness, and will be examined in | the same spint, it authoritativ | stated here today Decoding of the document after it | cabled, transmission from Washington was completed at the foreign office late today. Official comment was whheld pending a careful studs of its terms. | _The government has not decided on its further action regarding the exclusion issue. by a Yoshida Coming to U. &. | 1saburo Yoshida, the newly appoint- led counselor of the embassy at Washington, will sail from Yoko- | bama for the United States June 21 }un the steamer Empress of Australia, | his departure having been expedited | that as soon as possible he may take {up the embassy’'s work as charge d'affaires during the absence of an ambassador. | Mr. Yoshida will reach W about July arriving by way of Vancouver, B. C. He will have charge of the embassy pending the appoint- ment and arrival of a successor to the retiring ambassador, Masanao Hanihara, who resigned recently. Hanfhar: it understood here, | leave Washington about July 11 | Authoritative circles believe that the government is giving the matter of his successor serious attention, as it | desires not to leave a post of such importance to Japan vacant for a lengthy period. Mr. Yoshida formerly was selor of the legation at Peking. |CHICAGO OPERA STARS “Season”” Planned Here Next Win- ter; Week May Be Split With Baltimore. ington will conn- A “season” of grand opera will be presented in Washington next winter by the Chicago Opera Company, it was definitely learned today. Al- though Mrs. Wilson-Greene, local concert manager, is in Chicago at ! this time and unwilling to give de- tails until later In the summer, the fact remains that local music lovers are to enjoy several performances | presented by the Chicago organiza- tions early in February. The operas probably will be presented in the new auditorium. Word comes from Baltimore that arrangements with this opera com- pany have been completed for a sea- son there, also, and it is possible that the Baltimore opera nights will al ternate with performances in Wash- ington, the same week. If Baltimore's wishes in the matter, as expreesed by Dr. Hugh H. Young, chairman of the Baltimore guarantors, are grant- ed that city will have performances on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings and Saturday matinee in the week of February 9, and Washington audiences will have the alternate nights—Tuesday, Thursday and Fri day, with the midweek matinee. Garden and Chaliapin Star. Mary Garden, Rosa Raisa and Chaliapin are listed as leading stars to sing during these performances. The great Russian bass is to the role in “Boris Godounow, in which he created such a sensation, and it is suggested that Miss Gar- den will sing Melisande in Debussy's “Pelleas et Melisande.” It also is rumored as a possibility that Debiles’ “Lakme” will be given fine presenta- tion., Th® unusual interest displayed by Washingtonians season before last, when the Chicago company gave three operas here has not abated, and it is reported that all the complica- tions of the underwriting part of the arrangements have been completed. BUCENELL HONOES DAVIS. LEWISBURG, Pa., June 15.—Secre- tary of Labor James J. Davis today received the henorary degree of doc- tor of laws at the commencement of Bucknell University. Mr. Davis de- livered the commencement address, Mr. | ing | * TWO CENTS. Not Insane’—Won’t ! BeMade Appear So,| Leopold Declares| BY the Associated Press CHICAGO, June Leopold, who, Loeb trial on kidnaping and killing Franks, thirteen-vear-old boy, may not rely on a defense, he is quoted as saying. in spite of efforts of alienists find mental defects. “I'm not sane und I'm not going 1o be to appear insane.” he saying. He would not say wheth- er he intends to repudiate the con- fession he made (0 state's attor- ney. HANIHARA BESPEAKS U. S.-JAPAN COMITY | Envoy Says HTSVNVation Believes All Questions Can Be Ad- justed Amicably. 18 with charges Robert school Nathan Richard ir., awaits insanity made | in- | is quoted as | RELATIONS ARE CHERISHED Speaks at Brown U. on Receiving Honorary LL. D. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. L, June 1% !Jl]"l-fl. in its dealings with the United | States has always believed that, as between friends, there is no question thar cannot be adjusted amicably IAmhi>Sadm’ Hanihara ? Japan |clared today in an address at Brown ‘niversity., where he received the honorary degree of doctor of laws With “such unique and precious | history™ back of American-Japanese friendship. he said, “the one {question in the minds of my now is: 1Is it the true sentiment of the American people to make light of its friendship with the people of Japan, friendship which has heen built up by hard conscientious labor of the two peoples extending I nearly three-quarters of a century, not only to the good of themselves | alone, but for the good of ! of mankind?" | Relations Are Outlined. The Japanese ambassador sketched | the history of the relations of the | {two nations from the time of Com- | modore Perry set foot on the shores of Japan to the signing of the Wash- ,ington conference treaties He refrained from any specific men- tion of the immigration law, with its | | Japanese exclusion provision | | “If I fail to €Xpress myself ade- | "luaul\ " he said, “it is not because on any lack of appreciation of your =004 will, but solely g the unfortunate under in the use o | guage.” |, "It is indeed" he s | aid {to feel that one is am s among t |friends to whom he ‘may ‘open s | |heart without fear of bein 2 | understood o | After thanking Br | and the people of R | the compliment | which, he said, | Rood will and de- great people over the rest on account limitations 1 am ? the English lan- or “a blessing | wn University | Rhode Island for bestowed upon him, o in assurance of | | e shi - - | bassador began at once I"hvs“’lor.ll?i,:;e of the long friendshi oo e lonE, friendship between the Bespeaks Hope for Future. “And I may express the hope' he | said. “that that friendship may sur- | vive. Ave! It will survive, it we \rv!mzln true to our worthy tradi- n?ns of the past. which is an em- | bodiment of that great human spirit of natural toleration and esteem."” After relating Japan's efforts to be- | | come a bulwark of peace in the Far | | East, he said: | | “We Japanese have triea come a great nation, not onl | attainment of strength sufficient fto | | defend ourselves and protect our Weaker neighbors from dangerous aggressions, but also we have striven | [to be great because we are anxious. | to serve the cause of humanity. We | have been sincerely proud to serve | with the great nations of the west, | and we shall continue to serve as long as those nations will permit us to do so.” i Tribute to Envoys. He paid high tribute to the many envoys who have represented the United States in Japan, and to hun- dreds of other Americans who have | played prominent parts in the story | | of modern Japan. Japan, he said, had | | been confronted with many difficult problems, but “throughout these pre- carious vears of our national life it | was America more than any other | country that helped us, always with | ise counsel and friendly assistance.™ | “We of Japan.” he said, “all felt ! and still feel that we owe America a | lasting debt of gratitude, which so far we have not failed and will never fail to Tepay as opportunities open themselves to us.” He spoke of the great trade Japan | had furnished the western nations. | “Japan,” he said, “Is a factor for | security and commerce and progress which I sometimes fear is hardly ap- | preciated by the people of other cduntries. Sensational talk of rival navies and rival markets and trade | routes is prevalent always in dis- cussing and comparing the great | powers; the benefits of these powers to each other and to the smaller | nations is a less interesting subject. | Dinturbed by Russian W | “We are, and have been for vears, vour greatest customer on the Pacific, overwhelmingly so, and the United |Sla(es is the greatest market for our products. We saw nothing that | could mar these happy and mutually beneficial relations until after the Russian war, when certain evil forces began to work against the | best interest of our two countries, Fortunately, however, wise people on both sides of the Pacific were not slow in realizing the effect of this | sinister influence and spared no | effort for its removal. “The task was not easy, kept patienc At last, at the Washington conference of a little over two years ago, in which one of { Brown's worthy sons, Charles Evans | Hughes, played the leading role so | successfully, this unhappy symptom | of international discord was entirely removed, and the relations between America and Japan were restored to their old level of happy and glorious friendship. y ch has been, in brief, the his- tory of our relations. which were made immeasurably closer by the generous act of sympathy on the part of the American people at the time of our great calamily of last September." to be- in the but we 3 » | righ CHINA REJECTS U. § CLAIMS FOR LOANS ON FAR EAST ROAD Peking and Moscow in Deal to Control Line Exclusively, Reply Sets Forth. AMEF!CA IS CREDITOR FOR NEARLY $5,000,000 Arms Conference Pact May Be In- fringed—France and Japan Also Rebuffed. The Chinese governments have entered int rangement for the exclusive c and administration by Chinese Easter made by the half of citizen and Russian Soviet anar- trol the railway, and claims te Department American government estors have been re The State Department issued today a statem the situation has deve from with P them of and on spead eking and tween Mos Peking cited that American governm through Minister Schurman or form the Chinese government to American in- terests in the railw resolution adopted ton arms China was made bility rights o ow and the ¥ called atten tru and of Cause for Anxie In note, ply Dr ngton minister of foreign effect that concerned i future administratio: portation in the two gov The hat was n i other na and governm did not con was need for excessive anxiety points raised the American ernment agency rested rnmer Chinese reply the arrangement preju that Other Nations Send Notes. Because of the world war forces administered sion, and was itars nece while the fin, Ame. were ir ra ed kb governments. In States became a creditor to the extent of about $5.000,000 along with athers the allied powers, including Japan, Britain and France. It is understood that Japan France have made representations the Chinese government and have ceived replies similar to that comm cated to the United States JAPAN TOLD TO KEEP OUT Peking Note Gives Same Reply o Was Sent to U. S. By the Associated Press PEKING, Junc legation vesterday received from the foreign office to communication warning China the possible jeopardizing of Jap in the Chinese Bastern rail- way, disposition of which propert was an important ph, the 1 cently signed Russo-Chinese agres ment extending recognition to ti soviets In her reply China maintains th while certain obligations regardi the railroad had developed upon b a_result of the treatics concluded in Washington at the armament can ference. “in the opinion of the for eign office all such obligations ceased upon China’s signing the Sino-Rus- slan agreement, where, after questions concerning the railroad concern only China and Russia A clause of the Sino-Russian agree- ment declared that determination the raiiroad’s future would bhe con fined to China and Russia. to the cx- clusion of all other nations 0. S. FLYERS T0 HOP OFF ON 500-MILE TRIP TODAY Party to Quit Saigon. French Indo- China, and Stop Next in Bangkok. By the Associated Press. HANOIL, French Indo-China 18.—The American world flyers, arrived at Saigon on Monday, planned to hop off today for Bangkok, Siam, The Japar Japar Juna | about 500 miles west of Saigon An American torpedo boat de stroy- er has taken supplies of gasoline to Kompong-Som Bay for -the of the American aviators in case they should need additional supplies of fuel while en route to Bangkok Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, the flight commander. said he was entire satisfied with the progress so far made by the airmen in their worid flight. WO0D SEES PHILIPPINES STALLED ECONOMICALLY Fear of New Capital Halts Further use Development, Governor Gen- eral Declares. By thie Awsociated Press, MANILA, June 18—The Philiy pines have reached the end of their governmenta! and educational devel- opment under present conditions. Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood declared in an address before the American™ Chamber of Commerce today. “There can be no more forward steps until the government income is increased,” he declared. ‘“This is pos- sible only by economic development. Capital is regarded in the Philip- pines with a great deal of suspicion on account of the fear that its ad- vent into the country will retard in- dependence, but until this fear is al- 1ayed and capital is allowed to come here the economic development of the country will be at a standstill.”