Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Generally fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; local thunder- showers tomorrow afternoon or night. Temperature for 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. today—Highest, 92, at 8:30 p.m. vesterday: lowest, 67, at 11:30 p.m. yes- “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers eyery city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes tepday. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as seco, post office Wa, GAS ROUTS SENATE INRAODE ISLAND: 1 " MADELL B PLOT . Victims, Republican With One i Exception, Refuse to Re- | turn to Chamber. No. 29,269. . DEMOCRATS SEE MOVE TO END THEIR FILIBUSTER Lieutenant Governor Orders Arrest of “Striking” Members—Sheriff Defies Him. D the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, June 19—As a result of the loosing of poisonous fumes in the state Senate chamber, the Republican members who consti- tute a majority, today refused to &itend the Senate session and were arrested on a warrant obtained by Licut Gov. Felix A. Toupin, the Dem- ccratic president of the Senate. Senator A. A. Sherman of Ports- mouth, Republican floor leader, wa: in & hospital suffering from the effects of the gas, and High Sheriff Jonathan Andrews refused to force the eighteen other Republicars to enter the Senate chamber. | Find Gas-Soaked Wad. A large wad of gauze soaked in a | fiquid thought to contain chlorine was | Startles Horrified Crowd Watching | found wrapped in newspapers in the | curtains behind the rostrum after the fumes had spread through the cham- ber. The persons nearest the parcel | were Mr. Toupin and other Demo- | nd-class matter shington, D. C. Drops 1,800 Feet LIEUT. SAVES LIFE BY NIGHT LEAP IN PARACHUTE MacReady Jumps 1,800 Feet From | “Dead” Plane Through Dark- ness Above City. JOHN MACREADY. iLANDS NEAR FLAMING SHIP Burning Wreckage. By the Assdciated Press DAYTON, Ohio, June 13.—Lieut. @h | Foster and Cohorts Agree Not to WASHINGTO PARTY ORGANIZED, REDS DEFEATED AT - ST.PAUL SESSION Minnesota Farmer Delegates Succeed in Delaying Adop- tion of Platform. MEETING MAY END TODAY Split—La Follette Blocks Use of His Name. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, n. June 19.—Adop- tion of a platform and nomination of | & provisional national ticket remained | before the new national l~‘armn-u-1 |bor party convention when it con- | vened today for what its leaders] hoped would be the final sessions i This stage reached in a ses- | sion which lasted until midnight ldst | night, the greater part of the eve- ning being consumed in a successful | fight by the farmer delegates from | Minnesota to deluy adoption of the | plattorm | Formation of party went | | through practically without debate | { when the convention learned that the | | Communists had given up their plan | for immediate launching of a right| | national organization. This left the' plan fathered by Willlam Mahoney. | St. Paul union laborite, the only one in fhe fleld Word From La Follette, La Follette blocked all |thought of direct indorsement by | this convention last night when he | sent word through John F. Sinclair was the | Senator WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., THURSDAY, BRITAIN BREAKS OFF MEXICAN RELATIONS | e [ American Embassy Intrusted With | Protection of Imperial i JUNE 19, Canadian Liner And Italian Ship Hit in Dense Fog By the Assoviated P ST. JOHX F.. June 19.—The Canadian Pacific liner Metagama 1924 — FORTY-EIGHT ¢ Foening Star. PAGES. TOWN IS TERRIFIED IN MINE GUN BATTLE| Strikers in Hills Stage Fight With Guards at Brady, W. Va.. $19,500,000 Fines taxpayers who overpaid their income as fast as th e papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,255 TWO CENTS. Imposed in Dry Law Violations Since prohibition became a law approximately $19,500,000 in fines have been imposed in federal courts for its violation, prohibi- tion headquarters here has an- nounced In a recapitulation of its work. In addition, nearly 6,300 vears in jail sentences have becn levied in 150,000 cases. Since July, 1922, When the con- spiracy section of the criminal code was invoked in enforcements, nearly a million dollars in fines and 450 years in sentences have been imposed in federal courts in a thousand cases. Offers to compromise aggregat- ing approximately $3,500,000 have been accepted in adjustment of the civil liability of breweries which have violated the law. SEEKS TO REFUND TAX OVERPAYMENTS Mellon Asks McCall for Ruling on Use of Cash Now in Treasury to Meet Million Claims. FUND IN DEFICIENCY BILL Decision by Controller General to Be Given This Week. On behalf of more than a million tax this year, and are now waiting for their 25 per cent refund authorized by Congress, Secretary Mellon today | asked Controller General McCarl if the | Treasury, under the law, may pay | these refunds immediately, in epite of | the failure of the second deficiency bill, carrying for the purpose an appro- priation of $16,000,000 Cash is in the Treasury for the pur- DEMOCRATIC TREND 1S BOON T0 SMITH AS WWADOO SLUMPS Vastly Stronger Force, Led by Brennan, Unites to De- feat Former Secretary. HEARST SUPPORT SEEN LIKELY FOR GOVERNOR Peace Reported Near—Two-Thirds Rule Virtually Certain of Retention. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Staff Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, June 19.—Here is Wil liam G. McAdoo, in “the enemy's country,” ready to do battle with his rival for the presidential nomination. And it is the enemy’s country, for a verity. Outside of his own group of instructed delegates, less than a majority and far less than the two- thirds vote required to nominate, every man's hand is against him, combined in a solid phalanx of votes, to “head him off” for the nomination Upon arrival, he found his chicf opponent, Gov. Smith, intrenched be- hind the Tammany breastworks. incident with his reaching town came George E. Brennan of Illinois, the great middle west Democratic leader Before the day was over he heard a proposed coalition between Wil- liam R. Hearst and Gov. Smith hitherto sworn political enemies Mr. McAdoo could hardly blame | other than himself for the unfriendls atmosphere In which he found him- self. For months he has been brand ing other Democrats, including uli who are not for him, as “reactionary 4gents of the predatory interests oppressors of the plain people,” and | pose of paying tax refunds, but there |are millions of dollars in claims pend | ing which are older than the 2 pel cent refund claim, dating back only | collided with the Italian steamer Clara Camus seven miles off Cape Race during a dense fog vester- John A. MacReady, veteran Army|of Minneapolis that he would not Interests. flier, last night added the most|consider any action in his behalf by thrilling chapter to the story of his|the new party. Word of this was| crats, but, with one exception, the « only senators who complained of the effects of the gas were Republican: Establishment. B ‘ Mr. Toupin declared that he was “in | first-rate shape,” and other Demo- sserted that the Republicans | luffing” as to their condition ®0 as to absent themselv from the chamber and hold up the Senate pro- ceedings | Gov. Willlam S Flynn declared that “an attempt has been made to| poison the lieutenant governor.” His | licutenants joined with the local po- | lice in an investigation to discover| who placed the impromptu “bomb. | Defied by Sheriff. | Sherift Andrews, in support of his| refusal to compel attendance by the Republicans, produced a certificate sizned by Dr. Herbert E. Harris stat- ing that the’ senators he had exam- ined were unfit for duty. Mr. Toupin then obtalned a warrant-for their ar- rest, and the Republicans were es- corted from the building under police guard. The lieutenant governor de- elared a recess, and a meeting n([ Democrats was held in the governor's | office to discuss legal steps to meet | the sheriff's refusal An ambulance took four senators to 2 hospital, but shortly after noon the authorities there said that Senators Harry A. Sanderson of Johnston, Wil- liam L. Sharpe of East Greenwich, Republicans, and John H. Powers of Cumberland, Democrat, had left in an gutomobile. Senator Sherman, it was said, '~ was “resting comfortably.” Senator Powers was the only Demo- cratic senator to be treated by a physician. Session Lasts 48 Hoars. When the gas episode halted pro- | ceedings, the Senate had been in ses- | sion continuously since 2 o'clock last Taesday afternoon, when an attempt by Senator Sherman to take control of the Senate led to a free-for-all Bght in the chamber. | The Senate has been in a virtual deadlock since the beginning of the present session last January. The Democratic minority has been try- ing to put through a measure for a yeferendum for a constitutional con- ~ention, but the Republicans have re- Fused to pass it. Mr. Toupin adopted a policy of refusing to recognize Re- Tublican senators, and the Democrats Tave been engaged in lengthy fili- busters to prevent the consideration | «©f_Republican business. When the fumes of the gas became apparent senators and spectators be- | came groggy. Soon Senators Sher- man, Sanderson and Sharpe, Repub- Jicans, and Powers, Democrat, sank into coma and were carried out. Presiding Officer Pale. Lieut. Gov. Toupin, pale and nau- gcated, mounted the rostrum after 1he recess, and announced that the Senate would proceed with business. The four stricken senators were not in their places. The Republicans agree to vote upon but refuse to pass the constitutional convention resolution. The Demo- crats have offered to vote for an emergency appropriation bill, which the Republicans claim would not re- Jieve the needs of the state employes, many of whom have not been paid for months. When the Senate reconvened and the lieutenant governor noticed the absence of the three Republicans who Swere overcome by the gas he ordered the deputy sheriffs to bring them into 1he Senate chamber. The deputies re- Jorted that they were unable to do so. The lleutenant governor then depu- tized fifteen civilians to compel the ittendance of the Republicans. He ordered them to break down the doors of the committee room where the Stricken senators were. A squad of Afteen Providence police was pre- pared to resist such violence. Doctor Certifies Iliness. Dr. Herbert T. Harris sent to the lieutenant governor a certificate stat- ing that he had examined nineteen Republican senators and found them physically unfit to_ return to the chamber at once because of gas poisoning. The lieutenant governor made a speech in which he ridiculed the Re- publicans and said that he had stood o the midst of the gas throughout the pgriod and that he had been ex- amined by a physician, who stated that he was all right Contrasting the statement of Dr. Harris with that of another physician Whom he did not name, the lieutenant Zovernor sald the latier had exam- ined Senators Sherman, Sharpe and Sanderson and pronounced them fit. ‘Senator Greene of Newport then moved that the Senate recess, and them began to discuss his motion, flay- ing the Republican party. | Crowds aerial exploits. He has flown across the continent in a day. He has as- cended to a height of more than 4.000 feet, and come down stiff as an automaton from the intense cold. Last night he crawled out on the wing of his airplane. the motor of which had gone dead, jumped and pulled the rip cord of his parachute. and started down through 1.500 feet of blackness. He landed without a scratch. The story of the flight and the jump, as told by MacReady today, sounded like the most imaginative of “fiction. One of the strangest features came after he landed. When his plane came down with & crash it was {m- mediately enveloped in flames. congregated and stood in horrified anxiety, helpless to make a move to extricate the aviator, who, they felt sure, was trapped in thé flaming wreckage. Walks Into Crowd at Plame. MacReady suddenly walked into their midst. He had landed a short distance away and had seen the plane crash as he glided through the air. MacReady was returning from a night airways flight from Columbus Wwhen the motor of his plane, a de Haviland, stopped. After he had de- termined his ship was “dead” he said his first thought was to land. if pos- sible, where no lives would be endangered. So he headed for the outskirts of Dayton, finding his position by means of ‘the city lights. “Then I prepared to jump.” he said. "My altimeter showed I was between 3,000 and 2,400 feet from the ground. I loosened my safety belt and threw one leg over the side of the ship, keeping one hand on the control stick. Plans Leap Carefully. “Finally I crawled out on the wing and attempted to nose the ship up, so I could leave without any danger of having the parachute catch. I had to work fast. I let go of the plane and let the wind blow me free. I decided to count two before I pulled the ripcord of the parachute, so as not to foul the plane. “I don’t know in what position 1 was in when I left the ship—whether 1 was upside down or not. But I heard the parachute open with a snap and I knew I would langd safely some place.” Edward A. Wuichet of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, walking down below in the summer darkness, was startled to hear a volce from the sky say: “Hello below! Hey down there!" MacReady had decided to call out to preciude, If possible, injury in land- ing. “I kept carrying on a conversation with those below until I felt a slight bump. They told me later I had land- ed on the edge of a 100-foot cliff. Not a scratch or even a good bump." Air officials here believe MacReady is the first person ever to make night parachute lean. THIRD TO PERFORM FEAT. Have Been Saved by Jumps. Lieut MacReady is the -third McCook Field pilot to be saved from death by a parachute. Several months ago Lieut. Harold R. Harris jumped to safety when his plane be- gan to fall to pleces, and Lieut. Eugene Barkesdale floated to earth under a parachute when he saw an imminent crash of his plan Lieyt. MacReady, recognized as one of the leading Army air service pilots, has been honored many times with_difficult flight assignments, He is the former holder of a world altitude record and is planning again to wrest the title from France, mechan- ical failures having halted his last two attempts. s SIX KILLED IN CRASH. Street Car and Auto Collide Near Genoa, Ohio. TOLEDO. June 19.—Six" persons were killed today when an inter- urban car struck an automobile and demolished it near Genoa. Two men, two women and two children, all un- identified, were the victims. A witness said the automobile was being driven at a terrific speed. The interurban motorman had no oppor- tunity to stop his car. So great was the impact that the bodies of four of the victims were stripped of their clothing. a| Two Other McCook Field rnoul | passed around the convention, but was ' not announced openly. | The new party is to start out on a provisional basis, with state and wa- | tional conventions set for some time | lafter the November election. The| 1924 campaign is to be devoted to or- | | ganized work in the states under lhr‘ {general plan of ‘‘enrolled member- | ship” in the Farmer-Labor co-opera- | tive organizations, and district polit-| ical units, used in Minnesota. The or- | ganization committee declared its creation “should be free from any al- |liance with or subject to the control | |of any organization existing in or| { controlled by any forelgn country. It | was equally emphatical in declaring the party apart “from any organiza- tion serving the interests of those who profit frem the private owne: ship of the great monopolies. Both the Republican and Democratis par- ties were in class. ? Economie, up! and occupa: tional groups were declared the proper foundation units upon which the structure might be built. Glves Up Own P Foster told ‘the convention that he and his followers had given up their | own idea of organization in order to promote harmony and prevent a split in the convention. The abandoned plan would have created an inde- pendent organization, functioning on {its own behalf and accepting af- filiations from other bodies only when they conformed to its tenets. The organization scheme was mod- eled upon the rural and municipal | communes and district and national | | Soviets of the Russian system. It| provided that 25 per cent of the per capita tax collected from mem- | bers of the party should go to the| national committee. This committee | will be selected by a national con- | vention, called once in four years if the committee deemed such action advisable. Opponents of the plan had pointed out that this provision might make a national committee self-per- petuating. “We gave up our plan to promote unanimity here,” said Foster, “but I want to assure those who favored it that we did not vield a single prin- ciple In doing this.” Morning Session Delayed. Delay in delivering printed copies of the platform held up the start of the morning session. It was thirty minutes late in convening and then | found itself without business. Speech- making filled the gap. John Curtis Kennedy, former So- cialist alderman ir Thicago and here as a delegate from Seattle, said that the Washington delegation would not withdraw on any pretext whatever. “You may be too conservative to satisfy us, but we will stick, any- how.” he sald. David A. Gorman, delegate from the Central Labor Council of Los Angeles and chairman of the nomination com- mittee, presented the following brief report from that committee: % “The committee on nominations | recommends to the convention that it | | shall proceed with nominations for | President and Vice President of the| United States in accordance with the | | provision of the organiaation report, which was unanimously adopted. ! Favors La Follette. W. J. Taylor of Nebraska offered a minority report, as follows: “We favor Robert M. La Follette | for President it he should become candidate.” “Please note,” he said, “that this is based upon a condition and a hope on my part that the Cleveland con- ference will result in some action that will give the basis for a real party that will truly represent| farmers and laborers: i | He accented the word “farmers.” | Fred Fraley, Kansas, speaking for | the. majority 'report. sald he was originally for the idea presented by Taylor. “But after the nominating com- mittee dld not want a nomination we did not wish to place either ourselves or him in an embarrassing position,” he said. | | Start of Platform. The proposed platform started with a preamble which referred to the Declara- tion of Independence and asserted the rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness had been denied by the “financial oligarchy, with its head- quarters in Wall street.” It called the farmers and industrial workers to throw off “the Erip -upon the government of the privileged classes.” The existing powers were accused of having looted the national Treasury and by legislation deprived farmers and laborers of a chance for a_“decent standard of living.” The Supreme Court of the United | it was decided, would be incompatible | : Cummins, ANGERED BY TONE OF NOTE| U. S. Task One of Most Delicate in Recent Diplomacy. BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. Cable The Star and Chieago Daily News. Copyright, 1924 LONDON, June 19.—Breach of dip- lomatic relations between Great Brit- ain and Mexico has come as a result of the indignation aroused here by the tone of Mexico's note explaining the recent controversy. British Representative Cummins in Mexico has been recalled as a result and Great Britain's interests in Mex- ico intrusted to the American em- bassy there. Affront to Dignity. In view of the harshness of the wording of the Mexican note, further steps toward an amicable settlement, By with Great Britain's dignity. | Prime Minister MacDonald confer- red today with Ambassador Kellogg regarding the necessary formalities surrounding the departure of Mr. Cummins and assumption of his du- ties by Americans. Very Delicate Task. No more delicate task has been in- trusted to American diplomacy in re- cent years, involving, as it does, pro- tection of vast interests, mines, oil wells, land, commerce and shipping. The fact that in many cates Ameri- can interests compete directly with the British adds complications to the situation, but at the same time offers a remarkable opportunity to the new- 1y constituted American foreign serv- ice to show its adaptability. The American ambassador in Mex- ico City will require the utmost co- operation from every consulate to safeguard British interests. Some hope exists that the period of broken relations will terminate at an early date. AMERICAN TAKES CHARGE. Handed Over British Archives in Mexico City. The archives of the British em- bassy in Mexico City, which have been in the custody of Herbert C.| the British agent whom the Mexican government has re- quested_London to recall, have been taken in charge by the American embassy, presumably as “an act of courtesy." Premier MacDonald discussed the situation at Mexico City this wee with American Ambassador Kello at London, and it is assumed that the transfer is one result of that conm- ference. The request that the American embassy take charge of the archives Was transmitted to Washington through Ambassador Kellogg and in- structions went forward today to H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld, American charge at the Mexican capital. He Was directed to inform the Mexican foreign office of his action "as a matter of courtes No information as to the next development in the case was avail- able at the State Department. Mexico Stands Firm. The Mexican embassy here issued a statement today announcing the de- termination of the Mexico City gov. ernment not to recede from its posi- tion in demanding the recall of Cum- mins. | A reply to the British government was dispatched yesterday, the state- ment said, disagreeing with the view that the request for the recall con- stituted a discourteous act. The reply, the embassy said, declared it to be an elementary principle that any sovernment at any time has the right to request other govern- ments to recall diplomats or official agents and that it is the duty under | international comity to withdraw them “and not to endeavor to impose them on other ocountries.” Defense of Mexico. The department of foreign relations likewise informed the British gov- ernment, the statement said, that it could never permit “Mr. Cummins Qiscourtesies toward the Mexican authorities in the discharge of his duties” adding that “to obviate fur- ther difculties it would consider as a sincere demonstration of his maj- esty's government the immediate re- call of Mr. Cummins.” It was fully realized, the state- ment said, “that this attitude of de- fense of the national honor would mean the cancellation” of the pro- posed mission to co_headed by States, it sald, was used to protect property interests and the Army and Navy maintained “to protect invest- ments in foreign lands ~(Continued on Fage 5 Columa &) Sir Thomas Hohler, “leaving to his duy. The Metagama's stokehold is reported full of water, and the Camus was badly damaged. Both vessels are heading for this port. The Metagama is a steel, twin screw passenger vessel operated by the Canadian Pacific railway. Her gross tonnage is 12.420. She left Glasgow on June 13 for Mon- treal The Clara 4416 tons, wi having arrived London on June Wireless messages from the two vessels sald that they hoped to be able to reach St. Johns tonight. The steamer Rocalind, bound from New York for St. Johns, has gone to their assistance. SKIPPER TO CLAIM WRANGEL FOR U. S. Capt. Louis Lane, Noted in Arctic, Leaves Nome to Raise Flag on Island. Camus, registering s last reported as Montreal from SEE TROUBLE WITH RUSSIA Soviet Government Seeks to Hold Grim Region: BY D. M. LEBOURDAIS, Correspendence of The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance ABOARD THE SCHOONER HER- MAN, OFF NOME, Alaska, June 18.— The American schooner Herman, com- manded by Capt. Louis Lane of San Francisco, put out from Nome for Wrangel Island ‘at noon today, open- ing another chapter, perhaps the most thrilling, in the island’s grim history. Capt. Lane will raise the Stars and Stripes over Wrangel and claim it for the United States. Tt is known that the soviet government is also plan- ning to send a ship to Wrangel this season to reaffirm its claim to the island. “Sourdough” Hans, a Nome seaman, who was with Capt. Harold Noice on his relief trip to Wrangel last season, and who was frozen In off the coast of Siberiz later in the vear, corroborated this fact. He talked with the governor - eastern Siberia, who told h?v:v oF the Russian plans and expressed great indignation that Noice had failed to secure permission from the Russian government to land on the island. Prepare for Struggle. Asked what he would do if he en- countered Russian opposition, Capt. Lane made a gesture that indicated he would not leave the island without attempting to carry out his plans at any hazard B’rn‘: Herman is chartered by Lomen rothers of Nome, who control Alaskan reindeer industry. They have taken over the interests of Vilhjal- mur Stefansson who, for three years has fought a losing fight to save Wrangel for the British Empire. Both the Canadian parliament and the Brit- ish government have repudiated the claims he established for them. Capt. Lane is one of the best known skippers in the Arctic. He has sailed among the ice floes for a quarter-century and took the first merchant ship to Wrangel in 1910, Harold Noice, who headed the relief party to Wrangel last year, and Lorne Knight, who died there, made thelr first Arctic trips with Capt. Lane. The latter found Stefansson on Banks Is- land in 1914, after hopes for the Canadian explorer had been abandon- ed. Plans Dash August The Herman will enter the ice fields almost immediately and skirt the edges until ice opens up enough to permit setting & course for the island. At this time of year the ice is drifting north and west. Great herds of Walrus follow it. The Herman's cfew will hunt these walrus until conditions are right for the dash to Wrangel Island. Captain Lane ex- pects this to be early in August. The Herman plans to take off Charles Wells and thirteen Eskimos left on_the island last year by Capt. Noice. This party was well eqquipped, and is composed of men inured to the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) majesty's government to determine as it may deem convenient for its interests the future relations since —_(Continued on Page % Column &) Radio Programs—Page 36. WOMEN, CHILDREN PERILED | TS e 1 Homes Shot Full of Holes—One| Man Is Wounded. By the Assnciated Press. | MORGANTOWN, W. Va. June 19.—| One man was wounded, the union hall | was destroyed by fire, and a number of houses occupied by miners were fired upon during a battle early to-| day between mine guards and a group of union miners at Brady, near here, Sherift W. M. Yost reported on his re- turn from the sceme. The battle, which began at midnight, terminated shortly after dawm, Four men _arrested by the sheriff and his deputies and brought to the county jall here ‘safd they were union miners formerly employed by the Erady-Warner Coal Corporation, owners of the mine, which resumed operations recently ' with non-union | labor. after the union men refused to return to work under the 1917 scale. Used Automatic Rifies. Special mine guards employed to| patrol the Brady property defended the | mine against the attack of the men, who | secreted themselves in a hill over-| looking the operation. Automatic | rifles were used, Sheriff Yost reported. When the battle started women and children of the working miners took refuge in the basements of their homes, which were in the line of fire. These houses, the sheriff said, were | “shot full of holes. i The prisoners. A. Huber. Byron Costlo, John Hutchinson and Ray Cottrell, were questioned by R. P.| Posten, prosecuting attorney, Huber, who suffered shotgun wounds in the back and legs. was found in the miners' hall. He will recover. The prisoners said the shooting began when an organization known as “the regulators” burned a large cross on a hiliside. As soon as the cross was lighted a large number of shots were fired. This was followed, according to the miners, by volleys from a house in which seven mine guards were quartered. In a mo- ment, the prisoners continued, the entire village was engaged in the | battle. The Brady mine has been the scene of a number of outbreaks since the operation was placed on an ope; shop basis. RAIL WOREKERS BALKED. Unable to Place Cars at Mine Un- der Fire. UNIONTOWN, Pa., June 18.—Mo- nongahela railroad men who returned from Brady. W. Va. to Uniontown this morning, reported they were un- able to place empty cars at the mines in that region because of a battle be- tween men guarding the Brady-War- ner property and other men in the hills surrounding the mine. When the railroaders reached Brady at mid- night, they said, they were forced to stop their trains about a mile from the mine, as shots were being fired by the guards and the men in the hills. They waited until 4 a. Spot the cars, but the battle Sontins nd_the ‘empties were b; back to Uniontown. G ccording to reports recei the ‘union miners Who refased. to° ® work at the Brady mine under the 1917 scale met on a hillside late last night. Shortly after this meeting ended, the battle started. The rail- road men said that in addition to rifle and pistol shots they heard a number of heavy explosions. The . mine guards, it was said, were barricaded along the railroad near a water tank, Tesisting the efforts of the men on the hills to fight their way down to the mine. AMERICAN SLAN IN CHINA Killed in Attack by Junkmen. Radio Message Says. By _Cable t Star T SHANGHAL June 19.—A British naval radio from Wahnsien confirms the killing by Chinese junkmen of Edwin C. Hawley, an American man- ager for the British import and ex- port firm of Arnhold rothers; last Tuesday. The message says that M. Hawley died aboard the British gun- bost Cockchafer after the attack by the junkmen. It gives mo details of "the attack, i | of the coast guard’s new war on rum- | runners, { until December. to March of this year. A decision by the controller is expected before the | end of the week. Failure of the second deficiency bill also is still holding up the prospect althougn it had been an- | nounced by Chairman Madden of the | appropriations committee following a | conference at the White House Satur- day that available funds could be used. Treasury and budget bureau offi- clals were in_conference today over the problem of how to meet expenses of the increased personnel for the coast guard, which was provided for | in an item of about $5,000,090 in the second deficiency bill which failed The roast guard already has avail- able funds from a special appropria- tion of more than $13,000,000 to build ships and repair Navy vessels to be turned over o it. But the snag struck by the last appropriation has caused officials such concern that they are trying every means to determine how the campaign authorized by Congress against the rum runners, may be car- ried on in its full scope. Tax refunds are usually provided for each year by Congress in more or less of a spasmodic manner. In the Treasury appropriation bill, it| has been the custom for vears to in- | clude an item of $12,000,000 for tax refunds. Each year this has to be augmented by~ supplemental esti- mates, and deficiency appropriations. The first deficiency bill, enacted April 2, 1924, carried $105,000,000, which was made available as of that date. In the Treasury appropriation act for 1925 is an item of $12,000,000, available July 1, for tax refunds. So rapidly have the rebates been | flowing out of the Treasury, however. that only about $30,000,000 remains out of the $105,000,000 of the first de- ficiency bill. This sum plus the $12,- 000,000 of the Treasury appropriation for 1925 had been expected to last The controller general is asked whether _the $30,000,000 remainder and the $12,000,000 new appropriation available July 1 may be used to pay back the 25 per cent tax refund. au- thorized by Congress. Although legislation was pending in Congress at the time of the tax pay- ments in March looking toward the 25 per cent reduction, a total of 1.- 050,000 persons paid their entire in- come taxes, the Treasury discovered. The total paid by these persons was about $64,000,000, of which one-fourth is to be repaid. Another government department feeling the blow of the failure of the second deficiency bill is the Depart- ment of Justice, which had an item in it for the war transactions section of the department. Plans for pushing this work ahead are being held in abeyance for the time being by At- torney General Stone, until the fiscal problem is adjusted, and the depart- ment can determiné just what law yers, under the law, it may engage. POLICE GUARD HOME AFTER KIDNAPING THREAT | Son of Irvin H. Hartman, Weaithy Chicago Furniture Dealer, Sought for $10,000 Ransom. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 19.—Police guards| were placed around the home of Irvin H. Hartman, wealthy furniture dealer, 1ast night after a special delivery let- ter had been received threatening to kidnap his ten-year-old son Irvin, jr., unless a $10,000 ransom demand was paid. The boy is one of several rich men's sons who were selected by Nathan TLeopold, jr.. and Richard Loeb, in jail awaiting trial for the kidnaping and Slaying of thirteen-year-old Robert Franke, as possible subjects for kid- naping re time after the threat was received a man's voice repeated the demand over the telephone and said further communications would tell how the money was to be delivered. The method of the threats followed closely that employed in making a similar demand of Robert Franks' family after he had been killed. The Hartman home is within a block of the Franks residence. About the time the ransom demand was made a large flery cross was burned in a vacant lot in the neigh- borhood. It was extinguished by fire- men. HARRIS GETS ANNULMENT. Former Banker Awarded Degree in New York. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 19.—Beverly D. Harris, former banker, was awarded an interlocutory decree of annuiment from Elaine Lee Harris by Supreme Court Justice Wagner, who sustained the findings of 2 jury which recommended the annulment after s public trial. S e that sort of thing, and pointing to his own disinterested motives. hones | and progressiveness, and to the ha of virtue which surrounds his own head, in his estimation. Two-Thirds Change Beaten. Mr. McAdoo found, soon after hi arrival, that he is facing strong op position to his proposal to abroga the two-thirds rule and substitute nomination by a majority. Brenna: of Illinois put his foot down hard Southern leaders who of course ex- ercise domination in the Democrati party deprecated the change. It an ancient practice in the party and they do not want to depart from cus tom. Besides, if that rule should be abolished, as Mr. Brennan pointed out. the unit rule must alse be changed the rule which causes the entire vo! of & delegation to be cast at the will of a majority of the delegation. It is amazing, however, to note the confidence of the McAdoo boomers in his campaign. Naturally it is com posed of a modicum of “bluff.” uncertain quantity, but one woul think that he had the nomination clinched and riveted to hear them talk. The real fight against him ha: not opened vet, it is said in the cir cles of his opponents. They are goinx to open fire on him very shortly with oil scandals and his_former connec- tion with Doheny. Effective domasr to the McAdoo isterests is expecter to be wrought by a sub-surface cam- paign along this line. Causes Bremnan Snort. McAdoo calls attention to one pos- sible element of strength. He say that with the exception of Go: Smith, all the other potential candi- dates who are allied against him are more intent upon preventing his get- ting the nomination rather than hop- ing or expecting they may get it. H¢ has. of course, more detegates in hand and in sight than any of the others He claims that he is going to be nom- inated on the fifth ballot, whereupon George Brennan snorts and says it will not be the fifth nor even the tenth nor any other ballot, and that the convention will be here a long time, 1f ‘Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall had lived he would have been recognized as the leader of the anti McAdgo forces. Now, with the Tam- many' leader held by a committee of practically unknown men, the anti- McAdoo forces and allies’ are being generated by Mr. Brennan Smith-Hearst Deal Sensation. The sensation of the day is the re- port of the negotiations said to be going_on to bring about a reconcilia- tion between Mr. Hearst and Gov Smith and to swing Mr. Hearst's sup- port to Gov. Smith. There is a question among some of Gov. Smith's friends whether the ac- tive and aggressive support of Mr Hearst might not be more of a liabil- ity than an asset to the governor. when all is said and donme. So, the negotiations, which at present are being conducted by Mayor Hylan, m: not result in anything more than M Hearst refraining from opposing Gov Smith. Mr. Hearst, although he and the governor have been at swords points for a long time, does not bear malice long. When Charles F. Mur phy was boss of Tammany, they used to “fall out” and “make up” at fre- quent intervalk, as suited their re- spective exigencies. As the deiegates and leaders begin to arrive in numbers the lines of the anti-McAdoo allies are being tightened to oppose him at every step. The states that have favorite sons, and same seems legion, are pre- paring to_keep in close touch with others and to lay down the general policy of opposing everything that the McAdoo men suggest or seem to want. Sweet Boom Started. The first vice presidential boom to make its appearance was brought by the Colorado delegation, who will present the name of Gov. Sweet of that state. Colorado, whose delegates are not instructed, will give McAdoo nine votes on first ballot, Underwood one and Smith two. Morrison Shaf- roth. son of former Senator Shafroth. predicts that unless the comvention nominates McAdoo or some other “progressive” the west will give a arge vote to La Follette. Another “favorite son” candidate for President set up his banner today, Jonathan M Davis of Kansas. BRYAN HITS UNIT RULE. Would Favor Abandonment of Two-Thirds Vote at Same Time. By the Associated Press. PITTSBRGH, Pa, June 19.—Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, leader of the Florida delegation to the Democratic national convention in a statement said today he would favor abolition of the two-thirds rule in the con- vention provided the present state unit rule also was abolished. Mr. (Contaiued on Page 4, Colwmm &3