Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1924, Page 2

RENT BOOSTING PLOT 'CHARGED IN DISTRICT §men and Realtors Seen Conspir- * ing to Guuge People With Com- 3 mission Crippled. APPEAL TO JUSTICE CHIEF Attorney A. S. Lanier Asks Action Under Anti-Trust Laws. . con Charging a “combination and spiracy” among Washington real es- tute owners and realtors, with a view 1o keeping up high rents, Alexander Lanier, an attorney, has writ- letter 1o Attorney (General stone demanding action by the De- partment of Justice under anti-trust I Sidney tin “There exists here a combination conspiracy by tacit understand- & 3 g apartment house owners D Seiltars. Sald Mr. Lanier in his letter. “to maintain the exorbitant ivartment rentals that now prevail and to increase them whenever op- Bortunity offers, in fagrant violation Of the anti-trust aw Comminsion's Power in Doubt. The fate of the Rent Commission is in doubt. with a strong possibility that th will hold unconsti- titional “reating it_on the around that no longer justitied B An emerkency . in which event, and unless the Vlied, a condition will at once bere that will be intolerable Blcels o lead to grave consequences. frerring to anti-trust laws, Mr. Lanicr continues, “with the enforce- ment of these statutes, there will e no need for the Rent Commission. And now that the matter has been thus called to your attention, it is Phestly hoped that you will direct T diirerattorney | to proceed Without delay under these statutes to dissolve this criminal conspiracy ind to secure the appropriate pun- ishment of its promoters. Laws Quoted In Letter. « quoted by Mr. Lanier in his Clude the following: contract cambination _in trust or otherwise or con- spiracy in restraint of trade or_com- merce in any territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia. or in restraint of trade or commerce brtween any such territory and an- cther or helween any such territory or territories and any State or states or the District of Columbia or with foreign nations, or between the Dis- trict of Columbia and any State or states or foreign nations, is declared fegal. Every person who shall ke Such contract of engage combination er con- be deemed guilty of a and, on conviction shall be punished by fine dini $5,000 or by impri onment not exceeding one year, or by Voth said punishments, in the discre- tion of the court. (26 S., 209)." several district courts of the ates are invested with jur- to prevent and restrain yio- s of the act of July 2, 1590, 26th Large, chapter 647, being 5 to 7108, inclusive, and } tn 7118, inclusive, of the United States: and it | be the duty of the several dis- t attorneys of the United States, their respective districts, under the dircctien of the Attorney General, fo institu: proceedings in equity to prevent :hd restrain such violations. Such pro—cedings may be by way of petition sctting forth the case and praving that such violations shall be enjoined or otherwise prohibited When the parties complained of shall ve been duly notitied of such peti- lon the court shall proceed as soon ax may be to the hearing and deter- mination of the case, and pending Such petition and before final decree the court may at any time make such temporary restraining order or pro- hibition 1all be deemed just in the: pernise and ourts the | rise and form any such shall isdemeanor, SCORES DEMAGOGUES Thousands Brave Rain to Hear Nominee as Neighbors Tender Felicitations. Br the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 15.—No quarter will be the demagogue in the com- ing campaign by Brig. Gen. Charies G Republican vice presiden- tial nominee, he declared last night in first extended utterance since his selection running mate to President Coolidze. He spoke to a gathering of friends and neighbors foelicitating him _on_his nomination, at home in Evanston. Wiliiam M. Buttler, chairman of the Republican national committee, at- tended the reception, at which Dr. Walter Dill Scott, president of Nort western University; James A. Pi ten, grain operator, and John C. Shaf- f newspaper publisher, spoke. «veral thousand gathered in a pour- ing rain to greet the nominee Putrid Fog." h an extent has grown the demagoguery among politi- ieneral Dawes said, “that the real facts and the economic principles involved in questions of national policy are continually obscured by a dense and putrid fog of demago; arzument. designed simply fo purpose of forwarding selfish souai political and groun interests.” The dynamic banker and soldier. author of the Dawes reparations re- port. 1eft no doubt that he will be seen and heard in a speaking tour of the nation. calling for an end to preachments of prejudice and passion. The reception amounted to an un- cfficial notification of his nomination. The official notification Is expected to come next month, also &t the Dawes home. ten. in words of neighborly praise and pride, tendered to Gen. Dawes the felicitations of his friends and neighbors. The general then, in response, speaking to members of all parties and avoiding partisan uttefances, scored demagoguery and called for an_erw of common sense. “I have recently returned from Europe, where 1 have seen in_pros- trated industry and human suffering the effects of five years demagogic political uppeals to the passions and prejudices of the different peoples as Qistinguished from appeals to their reason and common sense. To the very brink of the abyss has Europe been brought by this method of treat- ing serious quéestions, involving great alemental and ecomomic principles. To save herself she has abandoned the demagogue and returned to com- mon sense. Demands Common Sense. “An orgy of demagogism has been running rife. in the world and we, here in the United States, are feeling its devastating effects. All good Re- publicans and all good Democrats, who put their country above their party. demand the beginning of an era of common sense in public dis- cussions. “As human beings, whatever may he our party, we are bound to dif- for on many subjects. but as good citizens we can unite to demand from those who represent us in the poli- tical debate that they present our Aifferénces honestly and from the standpoint of truth—not from the standpoint of passion and preju- el Y e “In the campaign which.is before me, and as a duty which 1 owe not simply to a party, but to the citizens of the United States, 1 pledge my- Self t0 adhere to the truth and to the common sense conclusions to be drawn therefrom.” given Dawes, as “Obxcured by a i the per- i | | | | | Statutes mentioned are in- | City Heads to Act To Stop Day-Off of Policeand Firemen The Commissioners will issue an order, probably at the board meeting Friday, declaring that an emergency exists which will prevent the grant- ing of one day off a week to firemen and policemen, as provided for in the new salary bill . Because of the inadequate number of men in both departments, the city heads asked Congress for additional privates to make the forces large enough to grant the day off without leaving the city weakened in pr tection Due to failure of the second de- ney bill these additional men can- pinted until that bill is passed by Congress in December. The law stipulated that the Com- missioners could set aside the d; off clause whenever, in their jud ment, an emergency existed. To grant the day off before the new men are appointed would mean a reduction of one-seventh in the number of policemen and firmen on duty at all times. The day off will begin as soon as the deficiency bill passes. M’ADOO ACCLAIMED BY CAPITAL THRONG Promises Enthusiastic Admirers to Have “'Real Reception” Here March 4. VISITOR AT WILSON HOME Accompanied by Wife and Daugh- ter—Goes to New York. Wildly acclaimed by several hun- dred admirers, William Gibbs Mc- Adoo, former Secretary of the Treas ury and one of the two leading Demo- crats for the party's presidential nomi- nation, arrived in Washington today Immediately the contender for the presidential nomination stepped off the train he surrounded by a crowd that surged around him and fought so hard to shake hands that on two occasions he was torn from his daughter, Sally McAdoo, and could not reach her in the enthusiastic mob for some time. was Confident and Smiling. Confident and smiling. the former Secretary of the Treasury, in a state- ment to a Star representative, de- clared: I am confident of victory and what the results will be, no mat- ter whether they adopt the two-thirds rule or whether they enforce the ma- jority rule.” He was torn from the questioner, shouting thanks the crowd as he went. A way bill for his train from Bernadino to Washington with the signatures of 13.000 railroad men and the photograph of President Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, attached, was presented to McAdoo by E. C. Davidson, secretary treas- urer of the International Association of Machinists. In presenting it Mr Davidson said, “its from California to the White House." As the vears of way bill was almost torn from his hands by the eager crowd, Mr. Mc- Adoo replied. “Ail right, that order shall be carried out" “Let's take him to the White House and sit him in the chair,” velled some one as W. E. Tucker, a brakeman and F. Timke, a fireman. attached to the Washington B. and 0. vards hoisted McAdoo on their shoulders amid shouts. to San Promises “Clean Up." “‘Here is a slogan,” shouted some one, “Keep cool to Coolidze and warm up to McAdoo.” “Say, that's fine.” dential contender. “Look after things and clean them up when you get to the White House,” shouted a fair admirer. “I'll purge this bunch down here; you won't have to worry." “Don’t let them get vou." shouted some one “You bet I won't. I know them all.” was the reply Mrs. McAdoo went ahead of the for- mer secretary, who after a struggle entered the auto that was waiting for him with daughter. Standing on the steps, he declared: “Well, good-bye, I'll be back and stage a real reception for you all myself. on March 4, 1925." As he left a shower of hats containing the slogan “Mac’ll do,” showered his car. Mr. McAdoo and his daughter fol- lowed Mrs. MeAdoo to the residence of the late President Wilson, at 2340 strect. They stayed a short while and returned to the Union station, where they left for the Democratic national convention in New York. — HUGHES, AT AMHERST, PRAISES PRESIDENT Calls Coolidge Most Notable Con- tribution of Bay State School to National Life. shouted the presi- anything on By the Associated Press. AMHERST, Mass, June 18 Secre- tary of State Charles E. Hughes, who received the degree of doctor of laws at the Amherst commencement toda: prefaced an academic address with a tribute to “the most notable con- tribution of Amherst to our national life—Calvin Coolidge, 1895." The Secretary, who is a Brown man, mentioned various Amherst alumni with whom he had been associated in public and private life, including William Travers Jerome, Robert Lansing, former Secretary of State, nd Harlan F. Stone, Attorney Gen- eral. The Secretary proceeded: Praixe for Coolidge. “And there is our chief, than whom there is no better example of the integrity. the self-control and intel- lectual "discipline which commands confidence and ennobles leadership, the most notable contribution of Amherst to our national life, Calvin Coolidge of 189| The Secretary said the greatest need of the day is cultivated under- standing. and added that in no part of our activities is understanding so difficult as in foreign affairs. “There are those among us,” he said, “who try to make it appear that this government is the agency of in- ternational bankers and concession lhlupu . What grotesque perversion is NOTED JUDGE COLUMBLUS. Ohio, June 18.—Judge R. M. Wenamaker, associate justice of the Ohio supreme court, who had attained wide recognition for his advocacy of legal reform, jumped from the fourth-story window of a hospital today, dving instantly. * He had been suffering from & nervous breakdown. “He was elected to the Ohio court in 1912 and re-elected in 1913, He was fifty-eight years of age and start- ed his public ENDS LIFE. veyor, areer as a public lur-l PRESIDENT GREETED BY CANADIAN EDITORS Party Here as Guests of Railroads Planning New Service to Capital. MRS. UPTON ANOTHER CALLER Former National Committeewoman Sure of G. 0. P. Victory. President Coolidge hearty greetings today received from a number of Canadian editors and newspaper who were on a one-day visit Washington. They assured the of the continued friendly existing among the people of for the United States. After telling the President briefly of cond tions in the Dominion they left f sight-seeing tour before leavi this afternoon for home. The newspaper men were from treal, Ottawa and Quebec and the guests of the railroads | ested in the establishment of first through train service betw Montreal and Washington railroad officials accompanied them on their visit to the White Hous Find Capitol Interesting. Those in the newspaper party W Leadley. Montreal Gazette Fortin, Le eil. Quebec: E Smith,” Daily Telegraph, Quebec: Lowrey.” Ottawa Journal; C. A Bowman. Ottawa Citizen: Alfred Seward, L'Evenement, Montreal; C. L. Sibley, Montreal Herald: Arthur Pe ny, Chronicle, Quebec: J. Rene Coteret. Le Canada, Montreal, and Tremblay, La Press, Montreal, Among the places visited by the Canagians was the Capitol where they™showed great interest the press galleries Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton, who retired last week as vice-chairman of the exccutive committee of the Re- publican national committee, and who for four years has heen the directing head of Republican organi- zation work among women through- out the country. called at the White House today to pay her respects to the President Hopes to Be Elected. After thanking the Executive for the support he has given her in her work among woman voters, Mrs. Up- ton assured Mr. Coolidge of her con- tinued loyalty and support, and told him that probably the next time she comes to the White House she hopes to be the congresswoman-elect from the Youngstown district of Ohio. She said she is leaving Washington at once to campaign for the coming primaries. Besides her party inter- est, Mrs. Upton is also anxious to be successful in this campaign, inasmuch as her father, many Years ago, rep- resented_the same’ district in’ Con- gress. Mrs. Upton is succeeded as Vice chairman of the executive mittee by Mrs. A. T. Hert of tucky. THOUSANDS ARE READY FOR McADOO GREETING ON ARRIVAL IN N. Y. (Continued_from First Page.) owners to Executive apirit Canada Mon- were M 3 in Party leaders on the ground invari- ably express a belief that candidates for the post will be scarce until all but one of the score or more of “first strin spirants to the White House have been eliminated. Democratic woman delegates and workers from all parts of the coun- try began to arrive vesterday for the convention Among vanguard of women were seasoned workers like Mrs. Anna Oleson of Colquet, Minn., demo- crotic candid for United States senator in 1 a committee- woman: Mrs ewell Blair, Washington. chairman of the national Kathryn Van Leuven, istant dis- trict_attorney of Oklahoma, said to be the only woman to hold such a position in any state. There were civic workers like Mrs. D. A McDougal, committeewoman of Sapulpa, Okla.. Dr. Jennie Califas of Lincoln, Neb.. who practices medi- cine with her husband; Mrs. Gertrude Bowler of Sheboygan, Wis.,, who calls herself the youngest grandmother to attend the convention: Mrs. Churles F. Donohue of Oakland, Calif.; Mrs. Bernice Pike of Cleveland, Mrs. Leroy Springs of Lancaster, S. (', and Mrs. Weston Vernon of Logan, Utah. But friends of Miss Mary Archer of Reading, Pa. contend she is the champion housekeeper and farmer- ette; while to Mrs. Florence (i. Far- ley of Wichita, Kan., goes the honor of being the youngest woman im the national committee. Junior Democrats Busy. The National League of Young Democrats, a first voters' organiza- tion, announced that formal inaugura- tion of the league as a campaign unit would be undertaken at the close of regular business next Wednesday. the second day of the natlonal con- vention. Spakers will include William Lewis Butcher. who has instituted branches of the league in colleges and uni- versities of “doubtful” mid-western states; Mrs.'Emily Newell Blair, Mrs. D. A. McDougal, and J. W. A. Kelly, vice president of the New York city organization of junior democrats. A welcoming committee of which John D. Rockfeller, jr., is a member, scoured New York city last night in search of a man, identity unknown, who disappeared after having un- wittingly received a pretentious wel- come intended for the Florida dele- gation to the Democratic national convention. He arrived on a Clyde line steam- hip, and the welcoming committee, informed that the Florida delegates te were coming. went down the bay and [ committee met him. mastheads of boat: a band of New York speci layed * Several | might bright a ray | P Woman, Long Invalided in Chair, Seeks Comfort Star Radio Fund Can Give| YRGED UPON SCOUTS Crippled Man Also Asks for Means of Keeping Contact With World. Boy Scouts Will Devote Vacation Time to Collect Sets. more appeals for radio sets donated to The “shut-in were ived from invalids who have been shut off from the great outdoors and recreation for long periods came from a woman, who spends the long hours of the day, alone, in a wheel chair. The other is also a cripple, who has not step August 31, 1923 The appeal of the crippled was made by her daught mother.” she said. * has been an valid for eight years time she has been confined to a chair n her room. 1 feel like a t of happiness into She is home all the father's wages her with have wo Star's fund rec today a mas, walked a since woman her lonels life day alone. M too small to provide With the close of the Boy Scouts teered io insta nated t The fund” will launch a concerted campaign complete the tremendous task us soon as possible. Although only working in the afternoons and evenings work the scouts undertook has pro- gressed rapidly Boy Scouts Colleet Sets, Assistant Deputy Scout €ommis- sioner Thomas A. King, in charge of the activities of the boys assigned to The Star's radio installation squad. has ordered the report to their base building this afternoon at to receive additional The schedule for reportin, will be revised tomorrow as sult of the end of the school term. Additional cash contributions dur- ing the last twenty-four ours brought the total today to $47§8 This money will be used to purch head phones, antenna and lead-in wire, aerial poles and other necessary equipment for installation. Any surplus will be used to buy crystal @ets that may be needed. The equip- ment fund has been swelled to a total of 144 se sixty aerial posts, crystals, and lead-in wires and ment for installation. sot today volun- sets do- boys to antenna other equip- HOT WAVE INCREASES WATER CONSUMPTION 900,000 Gallons More Than Aver- age Used Yesterday Despite Warning Issued by Officials. When summer heat descended on ashington vesterday the consump- tion of water increased by 900,000 gallons, despite the plea of District | ment that he is able to compete with officials to reservolrs save water have gained they lost during the conduit last week Monday's consumptlon was 63 000. and _Superintendent Garland announced this morning that sterday consumption went up to 66.620,000 gallons. Offsetting this. however, was the encouraging state- ment that the McMillan Park reservoir gained eight inches in its reserve level yesterday In order to set a good example to private consumers. the District gov- ernment is curtailing_use of water wherever possible. Morris Hacker, superintendent of street cleaning, has discontinued the flushing of streets until the reserve in the reservoirs has been replenished. Although the break in the conduit above Cabin John Bridge has been repaired and water once again Is flowing to_the city, Engineer Com- missioner Bell wants the community to continue to economize in the use of water while the reseryoirs are low. Should another break Yeaug it is regarded by officials as essential that the reservoirs be full in arder to allow time to mend the breach until the the reserve break in the and women from the Everglades to the Bankers' Club for luncheon. The big ship loitered into her pier. with the little escort puffing along- side, blowing its siren and quivering with suppressed importance. But the Florida delegation was not aboard. ~Steamship officials insisted they had brought at least one con- vention delegate from Florida, but didn’t know hig name. At any rate, he escaped. Porto Ricans Arrive. It happened, however, that a sec- ond contingent of the Porto Rican delegation was on the ship, coming unheraided to join those who arrived last Saturday and become the first official convention badge bearers. In a resolution introduced at a meeting of the board of aldermen yes- terday Alderman Falconer asked for a detailed statement showing how the $200,000 appropriated by the city for entertainment in connection with the national convention was being spent. The resolution, which the board ta- bled, would require Commissioner Whalen, vice chairman of the mayor's special committee, to state whether any of the money would be used in repairing or furnishing Madison Square Garden, in hiring bands, in renting office space for any person or excepting the —mayor's Fiags flew gaily from the | committee, or in sight-seeing trips 1ty chartered | for delegates. ‘The Sidewalks| city employes would be assigned to motorcycle policemen | work in connection with the entér- waited at the pier to escort the men ' talnment. It asked also Whether are | 'COMMISSIONERS URGE the | of operations in The Star | 34 pairs of head phones, | its entertainment and |erystals One | other 7 \ | My | During that | crystal se | | | | { | during the last twenty-four hours fol- | good I Radio Fund Receipts Cash contributions to The Star's “radio shut-in fund” received during the last twenty-four hours follow Pre Iy acknowledged. . .34 HW. i Sy Poor Government Cler Putnam Mrs. Geo et north, Crystal Sets and Equipment. Crystal sets and equipment received low Previously acknowledzed—140 sets pairs of headphones, 60 aerial posts, antenna and lead-in wire and equipment for installation K Gibson. Cherrydale, Va., crystal set E. B., 603 Hibb set_with complete equipment Benson Pierce, 1762 Willard, miscel- cous part Waldo, Wood H Fo west, apartment LW R building. one crystal la dge, 1905 D. C.. parts 15th &treet north- crystal set heridge, 7710 Blair road, and headphones. Total—144 pairs of head- phones, 60 posts, cry 1s, an- tenna ‘and “lead-in wire and other | equipment for installaty HIRING OF VETERANS | Appeal to Local Employers—Say Rehabilitated Men Are Well Trained. A procla Washin every possible habilitated employment m ion business appealing to men to give consideration to re- ex-service men seeking | sued by the Com- | The Bureau is about to graduate men loca and the Commissioners point out that it is “in the interest of the general public that the Commissioners urge upon employer in the District of Columbia who may need workers in any capacity to consider the pos- sibility of using some of these men Who have demonstrated their merits by their service 1o the country. The employment of these men not a matter of charity, as they have heen trained under conditions where every requisite employment must be met.” Of the total number graduating, 155 are professional men and 112 are me- chanics and tradesmen. The pfocla- mation further states it is undoubtedly ci s of the Veterans is every of the duty of all | District to show their appreciation of the service rendered by these men and to that they are given employment in the vocations for which they have been fitted by their cducation under the direction of the Veterans' Bureau “The bureau does not ask an em- ployer to accept a man for emplc ment in any occupation where hi disability will constitute a vocational handicap and not until he has been trained to such a degree of employ- normal workers. The return men to employment is vitally with the economic interest classes of our people f these linked of all Harding Camp Has Initiation. Representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic and allled patriotic srganizations were guests of Warren Harding Camp, Sons of Veterans, . S, A.. at a class initiation held Jgst night in G. A, R Hall, 1410 Penn- Livania avenue. “The old guard. composed of medal-of-honor men of the civil war, was in charge of the iniation. Addresses were made by eral Grand Army men. e Several Injured in Riot. KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 18— LOYALTY TO PARENTS Dr. Abram Simon Addresses ‘Par- ent Night” Meeting in Y. M. H. A—Judges Also Speak. Loyalty to parents by children was cited as one of the greatest virtues in an address by Dr. Abram Simon before Troop 73, Boy Scouts, and their parents at a “Parent night” celebration of the Jewish branch of scouts, in the ¥. M. H. A. building, 11th strect and Pennsylvania avenue, last night i Misunderstandings are responsible | for children breaking away from their parents at the age of twelve or | fourteen, he said. He advised that children assure parents they will for- ever remain loyal. Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juve- nile Court, in a brief address. said that she did not know a great deal | about the Boy Scouts. but added that | She had observed thet very few Scouts ever committed an act which warranted their being brought before her court. Judge Mattingly Presides. Judge Robert E. Mattingly, who presided at the meeting, delivered a | brief address, in which he stressed | the importance of patriotism and urged the scouts develop themselves into the highest type of manhood. | Special “acts’ on the stuge by the scouts and music were features of the program. Among the scouts taking | ! tional ASKS CIVITAN CLUB’S AID. Raymond Crisp Discusses Ameri- canization Work at Meeting. Raymond Crisp. commissioner of naturalization of the Department of Labor, asked support of members of the Civitan Club for Americanization work at the Civitan meeting in the Hotel La Fayette yesterday Paying & tribute to the local Americanization School and the prog- ress it has made under the principal- ship of Miss Maude E. Aiton, he re- quested that the support of such work by the Civitan Club be contin- ued along lines as generous as in the past. President James . the \chair. G. H. Coale was admitted to Mmembership and Leonard Ruoff won the weekly prize. FIRST RED SUCCESS AT ST. PAUL MAKES OPPONENTS ALERT (Continued from First Page.) Proctor was in party, a party that in a few short years will dispose of the two capital- istic parties that hold the power to- day, and take over the power in this nation in the name of the workers and producers of the realm, up a government of the workers, for the workers and the workers" he eyes of the exploited work yes of the dispossessed farm every part of ovr lund toward St. Paul toduy “Their hope is staked upon Shall w il them? To befray t would be a crime. 1t would done: we shall succeed.” Thousands of farmers, said, have left their furr g0 to the ' industrial centers to compete with the already increasing numbers of jobless workers. Those remain- ing on the farms have boen “reduced to the position of the serf,” he as- serted M Taylor Small Boiness Failing. "On the other hand, the small busi- ness men are failing by the score and are joining the ever-growing ranks of jobless men.” he said. In the face of this, he added, “the dividends of the owning class ever grow larger and larger.” He criticized the recent conventior at Cleveland, said. “sat Harry Daughe representatives of the stole millions from the our boys were makin for democracy; sat bootlegger of the age waxed fat and grew labor of the babies ® * ¢ Ina few d; more the ¢ party of the international bank and * industrial organization meet in the very citadcl of int capitalism and there rati platform and name th lected for them by the national of capitalism heny and Murphy, and A Mitchell Palmer, millions while the thousands. * « Cholee of Axsocintes. “So we do not need much about who are sit providing that they the ending of the tr thralls us: to join with us to the present injustices. * “The fact that we are here framing & great political party Republican n which, he ¥ and the burglars whe peopi our indu men like MeAd men wk Republican: ng wit are 7 syste t part were J. Permut, J. Morris, Na- than Wasserman, B. Goodman. H.| Goodman, A. Phillips, A. Ehrlich, A. Silverman and M. Mondell Vocal | solos were given by Mrs. J. G. Shell “Taps’ and other bugle calls we | blown by lIsadore Gladstone and Wil- | liam Kelly, buglers from Fort Myer, | Va. Prizes were awarded to scouts mak- | ing the highest average for attending cout meetings and performing other scout duties. Those receiving prizes were Jack Permut, Harry Goldstein, Nathan Wasserman, Harry Sherman, | Fred Roxenthal. Philip Goldberg, Har- old Applebee and Bernard Sherman. They were presented by Barry A\lohun.i scout commissioner of the District. i An address of welc e was de-| livered by Paul C. Robbin, deputy | scout commissioner and scoutmaster | of Troop Yollowing there was | “open hous: during which refresh-| ments were served and parents and | children intermingled. | s | POSSE EXPECTS BATTLE FROM FUGITIVE BROTHERS Instructed to Spare No Quarter in Maryland Mountain Hunt, Following Ambush Attack. Special Disparch to The Star, HAGERSTOWN, Md,, June 15.—"Get the Weigle brothers at any cost,” were instructions given to a posse of heav- ily armed men who set out before daybreak this morning In search of the gang who ambushed four Berke- ley county officers and probably fa- tally wounded Constable C. M. Wilson of Martinsburg. The Weigle brothers, mountain des- perados, for whom the officers were searching when fired upon, are be- lieved to have led the attacking band. The search is being made over Sec- ond Mountain, a rugged range near the Morgan-Berkeley county line Prohibition Agents L. M. Stotler of West Virginia is representing the federal authorities. Members of the state constabulary and Sheriff G. W Dyche of Berkeley Springs and a num- ber of deputles are in the party. The posse have word the outlaws are reav- ily armed. Claude File, who was ar- rested yesterday, is being held in jail. = — Mrs. Fakler Recovering. Mrs. Theresa L. Fakler, Winona, Minn., mother of Herman Fakler, sec- retary to Representative Sydney An- derson of Minmesota, injured in an automobile accident at Columbia Several persons were wounded, three seriously, in a labor riot last night a Port Anfonfo. A crowd of malcon tents “attacked laborers who were working on a fruit steamer and who had agreed to take the reduced nay offered by the employers. A battle followed and the police were forced to fire on the rioters. road and 14th street last Friday night, is still under treatment at Gar- field Hospital. She was severely bruised and shocked, but an X-ray picture failed to disclose that any bones had been broken. Mrs. Fakler probably will be able to leave the hospital next week. {Wife of Impeached Texas Governor Seeks Same Office to Vindicate Him TEMPLE, Tex., June 18.—Fighting for vindication of her husband at the hands of Texas voters, Mrw. Miram A. Ferguson, wife of former Gov. James E. Ferguson, has launched her candidacy for the Democratic nomina- tion for governor. With Mr. Ferguson, who was im- peached by the state senate in 1917 at the beginning of his second term as governor, frustrated in an attempt 10 seek office again, his wife has en- tered the political arena as the family standard bearer. First Woman Seeking Office. The first of her sex to seek a Bubernatorial office, Mr: Ferguson opened her campaign yesterday with an appeal to.citizens to support her 80 that the family name may be cleared, and as a rebuke to the senate that voted her husband’'s impeach- ment, ' In a statement she said that she was our ability, tempered with love and gratitude, can produce.” Thinking of Grandson. “I have a little bright-eyed grand- son that I love dearer than life itself,” the statement said. “Some of these days he will grow up to be a man and maybe he might want to run for office and serve his country. If, when he does, somebody wants to point the finger of scorn at him and say, ‘Your grandfather was impeached: by the senate of Texas’ 1 want that grand- son to be able to say “Yes, and as a rebuke to that impeachment that de- nied grandfather the right to go to the people, my dear grandmother was elected governor by the people of Texas—the first woman governor in the world. Impeached on charges of using his office wrongfully to obtain money for his personal gain, the verdict of the scnate court forever barred Mr. Fer- 1o thase who accuse some of the f. here of entertaining ideas of ex methods. * ¢ “1 would rather sit with the Communists in the world than the aggregation that met the of at Cleveland or who wil York. ¢ ¢ » “We must form a mass-class Farmer- actors legal reddest t with day New [ Labor party: we must declare for land | for the users, jobs for the w liberty and equality for all men. “No work of man is sacred. What man has done once, he is justified in doing again. When our Constitution does not meet the necessities of the when our form of government inadequate or obsolete it br right to change it. Right of Revolution. “I say with Lincoln, that the right of revolution is a sacred inherent right of the people, and cannot be restricted or abridged. Besides, the revolution has taken place. economically and industrial- ly. A complete revolution has occurred in the past twenty years, and the time has arrived to turn our political institu- tions into a position of harmony that has already occurred in our industrial institutions That we would effect tion by means of the possible is the reason here today. The impend mands vision, action, are here to act.” Points of Difference. Mrs. Jessie Bullock Kastner Washington, assistant secretary of the convention. next was called upon “We differ on all things from evolu- tion to bobbed hair,” she said. think it would be a great m to debate here things on which differ, “I call on you to frame a platform in_harmony “with the call for this convention and nominate s candidate who stands for those things for which we stand. We did not come here to set up the millennium.” A further report of the credentials committee added nineteen names to the convention roster. The total was announced as 522. The roll of states was then called for appointments on the thre cipal committ organizatio| form and candidates. re this revolu- ballot box if that we are g crisis de coura tak we Lixt of Appointmentx. The importance attached to the first of these was reflected by tion of William Foste Alexander Howat, Kansas: Mahoney, Minnesota; A. L. South Dakota; Wi the selec- Hlinois two chief factions of the convention. Howat also was named on the plat- form committee, which included J. H. Ryckman, California; Duncan McDon- ald, Ilinois; C. A. Hathaway, Minne- sota; Stanley J. Clark, Missouri: Ju- liet Poyntz, Rhode Island; Joseph Manley, New York: Willlam MecAllen Pennsylvania; Tom Ayers, South Da- kota, and J. H. Ryan, Washington The nominations committee, which will recommend to the convention either the indorsement of Senator La Follette or the actual nomination of him or some other candidate, in- cluded W. J. Taylor, Nebraska; C. k. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Federal Farmer-Labor party, Ohio; lkdgar Owen, Michigan; Charles = Krumb, New York; Earl Brawden, Illinois. and Alexander Bittleman, Connecticut. Swiss Newspapermen. Chairman Mahoney, taking the floor on a question of personal privilege, sai “I have been deceived by newspaper men to admit that we might walk out. Their stories on this point are a part of the attempt to disrupt this convention. “I was asked: ‘What will be the at- titude of you folks if the communists get control?’ “1" answered that the Minnesota farmer-labor party was not a com- munist party, and if this convention developed into & gathering controlled by the workers' party, we would not go along. “But 1 added that,I did not believe guson from holding public office in adopting the platform announced by her husband before the courts ruled that he could not be a candidate, and, with a promise to carry it out, assert- ed he “will help me give the people of Texas the best adminlstration that Texas. The former governor sought to have his name certified as a candi- date for the democratic nomination, but the case was taken into the courts, where: the-- impeachment bar ‘was held to be legal the convention would take that course. 1 belleved then, and still be- live, the members of the convention are in harmony with the purpose of the call. 1 ask, therefore, that the delegates be patient and wait until they are certaln that the communists setting | s answer enough | We | William Putnam, fam Weinstone, New York, and other leaders of the DAUGHERTY POLICY DEFENSE CONTINUES Department of Justice Officials Of- fer Further Testimony Before Senate Committee. CRIM AND STORCK TESTIFY | Former Denies Giving du Ponts | Reports of U. S. Case. Offici s of the Department of . continued today the defense of } their administration before the Sen ate Daugherty investigating commit- | tee, with the Old Hickory Powder Company case at Nashville, Tenn., as- suming a position of prominence. John W. H. Crim, former assistant attorney general, was recalled, while Henry W. Anderson, head of the war | transactions section of the depart- lm‘nL and his assistants also were examined on the subject. | George W. Strock, an accountant for the Department of Justice, who was | wssigned 10 a preliminary investiga- | tion of the declared he had re- | ported to Mr. Crim that the govern- ment should Tecover between $5,000 any und ¥ Deny I Mr. Crim furnis to the du Ponts the |aid Mr. Anderson Senator Wheeler, Di tana, the committee prosecutor, Senator Jones. Republican, Wash read extracts from Storck's tes- given the committes several which the accountant Crim and Anderson were | present at conferences with the du Pont representatives in which Store found that the du Ponts had hus | memoranda. The (wo Witnesses botn | said they considered Storck mistaken { altho crim said he considered the best men the service Given du Ponts. denied that be furnished Storck report mocrat, Mon- and = ton, timony, hs ago, in | gover: Mr. ment Cri the committee Strock's_findings serinus” because the “people were powerful” He he said, just before leavi get th organized for Tried to Prevent Slip. furnishing of the informatir Duponts about what the ge s working up was “pre t Anderson and I were tr)- prevent,” he said ¢xplained the the Department of J civil suits in own attention said, had been take preparation of 1 proceedings. svst | Police Also Search Swamps f | C. D. Sheldon’s Remains. | POUGHKEE N. Y. June 1S All the lakes and wells on haunt | Claren D). Sheldon. cighty-ye New York publisher, have |dredged and examined without | in the search being conducts for the aged man by attaches of sheriff's office and posses of citizenx Mr. Sheldon disappeared from hi: Verbank summer home last Thursday | night | A | tance soft earth a short dis Sheldon summer « up tod, v order ot who also gave instru: ns that the several swamps in the ighborhood be raked over. The yesterday expressed the be € the aged man was murdered robbers | Relatives Mr | clair. J. hav | xraphs and ‘descriptic patch of from the s dug Sheriff Davis tage w 1 Sheldon ng man to numerow: hope of locating hin switched athering before ction M of the Mahone the purpose they take is national chairman Party, seconded M saving irty not here on. We understand f the Farmer-Lab cessful it canne who Foste Works « remark capture this convent perfectly well that maveme be be a_co We ot convention pro organization ¢ dates “Wo want to a platform and an organization that will attract the great m: | |n |& |a | { is t 18 s Tt t party expect arrange the the committee on ttec on can s of furmers and workers sse press stutem are for the destroying the Farmer-Labor no other reaso purpose « Party and have Financial Troubles. Faced with financial troub ing on top of a Communistic delegates convened in an uncertain state of mind Senator Magn tentutively pr guest of the c Mahoney. temr the init s Johnson had beer as a speaking on by William chairman, bu f the Commu nce before t posed dou sts made was not 4 senator would be to the n d from newspaper Minnesota s would r the formally although he reports that make & b i n vited b} t t arose from of St 1 clvic he $150 convention hall auditorium if the the action of customary here yciation of Public to assume this conventions rawal ¢ present cor ched C. F The financial troubles the unwillingness organizatio dafly rental in_the mun extremists the conventior for the St and Busine burden for News of the possibl the guarantee from vention last might Bugg manager of municipa auditorium, and he thereupon &n- nounced that unless three days’ renta forthcoming he would bar the ntion from the hall. Mahones punced that he would be respon for any portion of the rent ot med by the association Communists hailed their victory of yesterday as an indication of ability o put over their program for an im- mediate third party organizationy They based that on the result of « vote which blocked immediate selec- tion of standing committees and forced an adjournment until today. The vote was taken on a division of the individual delegates, irrespective of the voting strength of the various delegations under the convention call Three hundred and seventy-seven out of 454 seated delegates were counted on the vote and 232 voted for the communists’ proposal. The negative votes numbered 145. That left the attitude of 107 accredited delegates undetermined. Another doubtful element in the situation was the fact that the vot- ing strength under the call totaled 971, The conservative forces, under the leadership of Mahoney. hoped that the absentees would swing to their column,enough delegation votes to prevent consummation of the communists’ program. Neither side, however, was able to calculate just what the effect of the absentee Vote would be upon a formal roll call by states. The real test on that question ma, come late today. when the party o ganization committee reports. A definite cleavage that will produce majority and minority reports fs likely fn that committee and a vote would settle the question definitely, the ipal controlled It the re