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4 %iaf. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY,. JULY 24, 1924—-FORTY PAGES. FRANGE OBDURATE £ UPON TEUTON LOAN:; U.3.1S MEDIATING Hughes and Mellon Trying to Effect Compromise to Save Dawes Plan. WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow showers and thunderstorms; not much change in temperature. Temperature for 24 hours ending at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 90, at 4:30 p.m. yesterduy: lowest, 68, at 6:30 am. to- day. g Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 29304, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the pavpers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 92,912 TWO CENTS. CHIEF COMMITTEE NAMED 10 DIRECT LAFOLLETTE FIGHT Nelson in Charge of Or. ganization—Spreckles Is Among Membets. Foening Entered as second class matter vost office Washington, D, C. .‘ HEAW EH|SE| USEH Bumper Wheat Crop Brings IO S, e PRODUCED N COURT w Faced Bankruptcy Now in Midst of Undreamed of Prosperity. Finder Describes Seeing| Taped Instrument Thrown From Passing Auto. No. 1'VE SPENT, By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY. July 24.—Wheat has replaced oil as the source of a rapid wealth in Kansas. Poor tenant farmers who have struggled for years, many of them in the southwestern part of the state. and who were compelled 10 ap- peal to the public for seed wheat loans last Fall to seed this years| crop. today find themselves wealthy. Many others who had purchased farms with small payments and who ex- pected to have mortgages hanging over these farms for years. are in a position to pay them off, buy more | land. build new houses and barns, or purchase motor ‘cars and other| things they have denied thnemselves for into even greater all the crop 18 vert this wealth amounts before marketed. Hold Wheat off Market. Hundreds of farmers, anticipating ( price rises caused by poor crops in Canada and other wheat producing countries, are holding their wheat for the gain they feel sure will be theirs by not marketing it at once. No one section is cornering | wealth—the condition similar | p - . N throughout the entire wheat |..>||.‘P"‘s Insists American Demand I Step Toward Destruction of comprising the western two-thirds of the State. But the contrast with last % Versailles Treaty. CLERK TELLS OF SELLING WEAPON TO SLAYERS COPPER-RIVETED PACT FOR INVESTORS SOUGHT WIDE POWER GRANTED IN PUSHING CAMPAIGN this | Druggist Testifies to Selling Leo- | pold Acid of Unusual | Conference Scheduled in Capital to Take Up Arrangements vear's conditions is especially pro- for Procedure. nounced in the southwestern part of the State, where “busted” farmers of 14 counties last year appealed to grain dealers, chambers of commerce and other organizations throughout the country for assistan in buying " (Continued on Page 5. Column 1.) TOKID RECOGNITION {ing street, where Premier Herriot of By thie Associated Press CHICAGO. July 24.—The heavily taped chisel with which the life of Young Robert Franks was beaten out | was introduced in evidence to the advisory hearing before Chief| Justice R. Caverly. which is to| | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, July 21.—The conflict views between French delegates the interallied conference and Ameri- can and British financiers regarding | the safeguards for the protection of |investors in the German loan pro- posed under the Dawes plan, remained unreconciled today. according to well informed persons. Formal and in- formal meetings of the delegates this morning produced no indication of a | Ten of the eleven members of the X = joint executive committee which will to | |manage the La Follette-Wheeler campaign—the independent progres- sive campaign—were announced John M. Nelson, | ber of Congress | chairman |as it was | cluded in spreckels, ! Senator Robert M in unprecedented wheat crop produced all this wealtn, and. rising prices, promises to con- watchman, told of seeing the chisel S ORT OF CAVPAGN ST MY BE SISO after the slaying. There was fresh it up.” said to the | toda: with from Wisconsin understood he would be. In- the committee are Rudolpi San Franc bankey razier of North Dakot La Follette, jr., son of ANTICIPATION AND REALIZATIO e Jenssenmier France, Premier Theunis of Belgium, | S | of Machinists, and Morris Hillquit Japanese Cabinet Revises At- |} n Finance Minisier De stefaniy | in that body since the opening of the ‘;pre.wm Congress John fix the penalty of Nathan Leopold, jr.. and his companion, Richard Loeb. d Hunt, a neighborhood night | or: chisel when I picked Hunt. The court Major Parties Likely to Use Huge Sums—La Follette Plans on $3,000,000. relic was given Tells of Selling Chixel. The chisel also was inspected by Al- bert Hubbinger, hardware store derk whe said that the State’s exhibit re- sembled a chisel he sold to Leopold and Loeb. Hubbinger told of BY ROBERT T. SMALL. having sold rope to the young men Bl e | Tihe iy laimediby e St e e R Sl have been that with which the young 3.y Shr ooptemplate S introduced in | PTOPably the largest expenditure of SHanee money in the history of politics. The use of money in pre-election fights no longer carries with it the taint of corruption. Legitimate expenses have &rown greater and greater as the years have gone by and the high cost of living has hit the hustings as weil as the home. Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman the special Senate committee which is to report campaign expend- s inta i isntiy s e J While the all-important commitree itures. expects to e a busy tme of [ g ot Dresent comvercaitony . up| o7 defaults and sanctions did not it between mow and early November. | pering between L. M. Katakhas, ro | full meeting, its members. for all of the committees have decld- | .0\ nomed soviet ambassader iy | ¥P05¢ Preliminary report proved so | Hughes and Mellon A Shidehara. s Eeeaent alsnificance | Papers to Win Respite for Isaac Wolfgang Signed attached to the comings and goings | 5 |of Secretary of State Hughes and Sec- |retary of the Treasury Mellon of the to- | United States, who are having a most | ward Russia. on which it is believed | difficult task in convincing London | the government would be willing to|that their mission here is unofficial. Srant recognition to the Soviet gov-|Such high hopes were raised at the ernment, was adopted by the cabinet |outset of the conference by the par- | at_an extraordinary session today. |ticipation of the United that i TP;v new policy was presented by |observers still are optimistic that the | the forelzn minister. Baron Shidehara, | two members of the American cabinet |2nd 1s generaliy regarded as fixing|can yet find a way, despite the unoffi- !Jflpa'l 5 terms toward Russig and as|cial character of thelr good offices, to making agreement between the coun inclor axsistance In solving the asas | tries Jooking 1o resumption of diplo- | ek becw. Kb o matic relations easier. Negotiations | rasps Ealetpanticn: i terenc, 1 es. | toward ihat end have been under | sroliape e being | titude Upon Advice of Barofl ;(‘rhhv Minister MacDonald. i ietx Republican Aid. also The powers given to the | executive committee the | Blinded, Motor Cycle Hits Ob- | ment of the La Folictte campaign are struction During Liquor tself represents Conference for Chase. by Supreme Court Justice Just in Time to Halt Hanging Scheduled Today. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 24.—A new policy je v broad was 18 the The United States air mail saved Progressive Political ion and the La Follette for President committes and pro the hangman had been exhausted ex- [saac Wolfgang, the condemned |cept that of appeal to the United “milk bottle bandit” of San Fran- | States Supreme Court for write of cisco. from death by minutes last|error. No train could bring the neces- | operation on night | sary papers here they r‘nu'd’ With everything to gain and nota- supporting the The papers which Associate | not be telegraphed |ing to lose but a paltry $10 fine. sus- |sive ticket. Justice McKenna of the United States Airplane Mail On Time. pected bootleggers in a speeding au-| The committee Supreme Court could grant the! 1In desperation the precious docu- |tomobile early today let 1oose a blind- | gether doomed man a short reprieve in|ments were entrusted to the Airling smoke screen at four policemen | meeting with Senator 1 which to docket an appeal for a re- | Mail Service: they had to be in Wash- |who were chasing them, nearly | formulate campaign ¥ view his conviction for murder | ington in time for the order to be|caused the deaths or serious injury | sentative <on larrived by air mail in Washington | signed today. Winging its way onlof two of the officers, whose motor | Chicazo t | trday—the day Wolfgang was to|schedule time, the plane dropped 10cycle overturned, and escaped in the | meeting ed to 1a e example of CJ - S ! : | have been swung across “the Great|its station in New York late yester-|midst of the black vapors. | A statement "i,‘, ‘:::]“2":"':“ ‘;:’T"‘u“:w:“‘:::d Cbina, and. Kenkichi Yoshizawa. ‘::;_'::‘;’:‘"i:;":‘x’”“""b:l"h‘“l‘:"e“k’r‘l‘!‘:.:imvida" at the end of the hangman's | day and a fast mail train sped the| This is the second time in a short | the powers and duties of the commiti oM Bt i e Japz;e:e minister to that eountry, azgeAmAsicad banicars in an endesvar P in San Quentin Prison yard. papers to Washington. Theyv ar-|period that policemen risking their | follows: e — the cxmpaien pro -r:n “"n :_fl(;:ndlum.v of recess, vend-i“_ Teddn’ an-understanding. Word Flasked By Wire. rived at mjidnight and were delivercd |lives chasing bootleggers through | | gresses i R e b R G Funhed o Ak ekussocial & Suatice the | to William R. Stansbury. clerk of the | dangerous city streets at bewildering | Annou that the Indepen-| : i !minute they reached the Capital. he |Supreme Court, this morning. speed have suddenly found themselves | dent Progressives, headed by Senator Basis of Instructions. | read the papers promptly and signed | The papers disclosed that Ernest|enveloped in choking, impenetrable | an order giving Wolfgang's attor- | B. D. Spagnoli. counsel for the con- | gases released from the exhaust mech- | Aaron Adler told of having sold a pint of “chemically pure” hydro- chlorie acid to Nathan Leopold. He had sold no acid of that strength for thiee ve the the strongest added. The n which the es kind of co- all those progres the closest th. a ises part of in time; independe witness said grade obtain- offered the acid was sold. ~ome on &ble will be called to- ate socn possible Follette to lans. Repre- return from : | of | Pientifies Typewriter. Eliz of Nathan fied on the wood portahle mbied the room weth Sattler, maid in the home e night or tomorrow for ti oday > Leopold. r., identi- Witness an Under- typewriter which she machine had of “her emprorerTT stz issued today. Gefininz ‘res a she ~oen in w as Powers Are Defimed. of the committes general campaign the joint n She added had seen use such # machine “many was wind of machine t were typed was called hy the hearing which “Tha chairman shall manage the under the direction of ecutive committee. “The joint shall be authorized | regional headquarters and branch fices as may be necessary, whose dut: it shall be to organize the territorics their respective diction Nathan, Much Yet to Be Cleared. times.” Sne cement All that can be sald with certainty i ab oc sunder- The government's decision as taken | oy, e deadlock s that misunder; standings still remain to be cleared | today will form the basis of instruc- | | 2sis of instruc- | 2 Jase ay. The financiers express di tions whie 3 | o0 aihe uninidter wIIINtaIce | oy iprition! withi e Rhpatatios Corrt | back to Peking with him, instructions | oy T | which he will be able to interpret| oo " &% bl ofidstsults and in the light of facts gained on ani"‘".' iTPe SNCLIDNISE Wpon) & copper- inspection trip through Norlhern;:’\‘“": EAC BEminst Sepacate action Bashaiia whittie e by any power before they will agree on this exy Jet Miss Sattler ollette and Senator Wheeler, are | S hitio o il o nevs one week in which to docket | demned man, instead of complying |anism of a fleeing automobile. fund of at least $3.000.000 gives some their appeal for the review. Back |With the writ of error granted by | inkling of what the uggregate ex- to San Francisco was flashed the | Chief Justice Meyers of the California the penalty of Nathan Leo-| penditures of the campaign may be. word, and for the third time the gal- | Supreme Court, for docketing an im- and Richuard Loeb for the | This is far more than the Democrats lows had to wait for its victim. mediate appeal here is seeking an ex- kidraping and murder of 11-year-old able to obtain 1n 1920, The | Robert Franks | Democrats practically starved to > executive committes to establish the state is to de- Virtually Outsi @ in of Law. termine Investigation has disclosed that there is practically no law covering | the use of this dangerous method of | eluding arrest. Already faced by the pold, jr were tension until November of the time in Convicted in Los Angeles of kill- ! ! which to file an appeal. Wolfgang be- uri ing a policeman who arrested him within Questioned on Car Robes. 8he was questioned also about the storing place of the automobile robes in the Leopold home. tsh and badly charred robe, said by the State to have been the remnants ©f the blood-stained robe which the two boys attempted to destroy by eoaking it in gasoline and burning it on the lake front, was offered in evi- @ence. The witness said she had seen & similar robe in the Leopold home. Cane Speeded Up. Bhe was cross-examined briefly. There was a noticcable speeding up ®f proceedings today. Robert L Crowe, with the assent of the de- fense, asked leading questions of his | harvest witnesses and dismissed the fourth student with this query: “Your testimony is substantially the 88 that of the other students?” | no attempt to standardize IRl “Yes, sir.” was the reply Open court proceedings layed in starting by chambers in which Mr Judge John R. Caverly some in- formation which. in his opening state- ment, he had indicated “not fit for public knowledge.” Clarence S. Darrow and Benjamin Bachrach, defense attorneys, were the only persons beside the judge who were given this material Four University of Chicago stu- dents. classmates of Leopold in the law school, were called to tell what they knew of the typewriters. The best they could do was to say the machines they saw at the Leopold kems were “portables.” The portable Underwood offered in evidence by the state was the one grappled from the bottom of a park were a session was lagoon by the investigators after the | confession of the two youths. As a part of their plans to cover their crime. the state pointed out in its opening statement yesterday, Loeb had jerked the letters from the ma- chine with a pair of pliers and strewn them in scattered sections of the la- goon. The bulk of the machine and its | cover was tossed of the lagoon. into another part Enthusiasm Dampened. Rain outdoors and the prospect of less dramatic developments in the hearing which is to determine the degree of punishment of Nathan Leo- pold, jr., and Richard Loeb for the kidnaping and murder of Robert Franks combined today to dampen enthusiasm of “court fans." Police guards, which kept the curi- ous on the sidewalks, and the knowl- edge that only a few could gain ad- mission to Judge John R. Caverly's court contributed to this result. Only a knot of curious stood about the building entrance this morning and they were mostly young men. Spectators with passes admitting them to the trial came to court early, however, and picked their - seats quickly. They feasted thefr early curiosity in the doings of the news- - paper writers and photographers,. rt E. Crowe, State’s attorney, B e c Page k- Colimn 1) A fuzzy, green- | ati same | Munication. | de- ini Crowe gave | death that year. while the Republicans { reveled in plenty i May Total $15,000,000. This year the Democrats are hope- ful that things will be different. They may casily raise a campaign fund of $5.000.000. The Republicans may raise even more, so there is reason | to believe that in the national po- | litical strong boxes there will be | gathered approximately | for electioneering purposes. Radio, an entirely new expense in national campalgns, will get the Jion's share of the expenditure according to present plans The broadcagting back some of the sums they have spent in de- this newest art of com- Thus far there has been the po- cal charges for brnnd(‘lnun!_o—}hz Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) and get heavy veloping —_— SHENANDOAH IS GIVEN THOROUGH ENGINE TEST Giant Navy Dirigible Flying From ! Lakeburst to Binghampton { and Return. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J., | Navy dirigible Shenandoah left its hangar here at 7:30 a.m. daylight time, today for an engine test run to Binghamton, N. Y. by way of | Seranton, Pa., and the Suspuehanna Valley. The ship will sail over Scran- ton, where Old Home week i being celebrated, and return to her base tonight. After having been delayed for two hours because of a cross-hangar wind the giant dirigible finally took the air at 9:30 o'clock, daylight time. | She carried 49 men, the largest num- ber ever taken on her flights. The officers and crew number 28, most of | the remainder being civilian mechan- | ical experts, who make the engine | tests. One newspaper man also was aboard. After returning this evening the Shenandoah will be piloted out to Barnegat Bay, where she will cruise about until early morning, making further engine tests. ; July 24.—The Maryland By the Associated Prexs, PHILADELPHIA, July 24—The sweet singing of a sentimental bal- 1ad by an Eastern Penitentiary cook and broadcast from ‘a local radio station won =a parole for eonvict C1412, who had three years more to serve on a bandit charge, it became known today. The name of the con- vict was withheld. Several months ago musically in- clined convicts broadcast & concert £15,000,000 | |to retain for Japanese use the re- | sources of Northern Saghalien, a ter- | | reparation for the massacre of some | companies are going to reap ai'bxl‘ Song on Radio Wins Prison Cook Liberty; Governor Among Those to Aid while away | from his legation. This return will | be made next | week, and Mr. Yosh-| | izawa is expected to resume his con- | versation with thereafter. The vernacular press here declares that the cabinet fully accepted Baron | Shidehara’s program, which was ‘. framed in such terms as to satisfy both the army and the .navy. The latter, always a powerful force in Japancse diplomacy, long has desired M. Karakhan shortly | ritory which Ja occupation for n has held some under | time pending | 600 Japanese troops by citizens at Nikolaievsk on March 11 and 12, 1920, by soviet forces. While officials decline to discuss the new policy, the vernacular newspa- pers agree on its main outlines. They declare that it means “concessions” to Russia. It is Indicated that the principal items in the new stand are that Russia shall apologize verbally for the Nikolaievsk massacre and shall grant long-time concessions to Japanese interests for mining and lumbering in Northern Sakhalicn, but that claims for similar concessions in Siberia shall be waived; that a joint Russo-Japanese corporation shall be given the right to exploit the oil re- sources of Northern Saghalien; that the provisions of the Portsmouth treaty, which ended hostilities be- tween Japan and czarist Russia, shall be retained, with a provision extend- ing Japan's fishing rights in Siberian waters, and that the question of pay- ment of debts contracted by the czar- ist regime shall be left for settle- ment after conferences have been held with Great Britain and Italy. The vernacular newspapers declare that if Russia accepts such terms Ja- pan will cease her occupation of Northern Sakhalien, withdrawing her troops before the end of October, and will grant recognition to the soviet regime. Iridiom Found in Canada. EDMONTON, Alberta, July 24.—Iri- dium, a valuable minéral, has been discovered on the upper waters of Peace River by the Canyon Gold Min- ing Company, said a representative of an Edmonton syndicate, who re- turned from the North yesterday and filed claims for ten miles along the river. from the penitentiary through sta- tion WIP.. Hardly had C1412 finish- ed when the penitentiary telephone became busy with requests for the fdentity of the man. Many letters were received and a lawyer, who in- terested himself in the case, through ghe convict's singing, and others suc- eeeded in obtaining a parole yester- day. Among those who interested themselves in the convict was said to .be Gow Ritchie of Maryland. apparently to underwrite a German loan The French delegation insists that this is the first step toward the de- struction of the Versailles treaty and all that it implies and an infginge- ment upon French sovereignty. There was littie abatment of the tension when all of the delegations suspended their conversation tend King George's garden party at Ruckingham Palace this afternoon. ITALIAN PRESS GLOOMY. Anti-French Note in Comment on on London Conference. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 24.—The Italian pre: is resolved to continue to take a pessimistic view of the delib- erations of the interallied conference in London. Throughout the comment there is a subtly injected anti-French note, be- cause the newspapers accuse France of “throwing a monkey wrench” into the machinery designed to make the Dawes plan effective. The Sereno says that the conferees, in their declarations about harmony early this week, perhaps succeeded in fooling the reading public, but they id not fool the English and Amer- ican bankers, who refused to lend a cent to Germany as long as there was no guarantee that a policy of vio- lence would not be repeated. The newspaper says it does not blame the bankers for their refusal to lend money under the present prospects because -they understand that the Dawes plan “has been completely de- to at-| stroyed since the London conference began.” RAIL PLAN FORMULATED. Germany to Retain Title ‘to Lines Under Scheme. By the Associated Press. BERLIN. July 24—Germany will retain titie to her system of federal railways if the present draft law con- verting them into a corporation, as provided for in the Dawes' report, meets with the final approval of the entente powers. Details of the measure, which soon will be submitted to the Reichstag and are being examined by the repar- ation commission, are published by the Communist organ Rote Fahne, which is charged by the government with violating the secrecy of a state document before its formal enactment into law. According to the plans agréed upon by the committee of rallway experts, the federal system will be capital ized at 15,000,000,000 gold marks, of which 13,000,000,000 will be common shares and 2.000,000,000 preferred shares. The German government will receive one-fourth of the proceeds from the sale of preferred stock and throo-fourths will revert to the flfl_—_ ~(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) Radio Programs—Page 18, 3 for stealing a bottle of milk. every legal means of saving Wolfgang from EMPLOYES SPURN RAIL BOARD ORDER {Refuse to Testify in Engine- men’s Dispute With West- ern Lines. By the Associated Press. 7 CHICAGO, July 24.—Railroad broth- | erhood representatives today declined to testify in the dispute with West- ern railroads before the Railroad Labor Board concerning wages and rules of the engineers and firemen on the ground that the board was | acting illegally in attempting to hold the hearing. Donald R. Richberg. counsel for the brotherhoods, submitted a state- ment outlining this decision in reply to the board's order to testify. “The employes insist that the board cannot deprive them of their constitutional rights of liberty of contract and their recognized legal right of collective bargaining anhd that the interference of the board is unlawful and in aid of the railroad program to delay negotiations,” Mr. Richberg asserted. Power Is Disputed. “The Labor Board is seeking to force the employes to become parties in the present hearing. through the device of summoning them to appear as wit- nesses ‘in behalf of the emploves. The Labor Board has no more power than a court to select witnesses for parties and has no more power to force either railroad or employes to become parties to proceedings before the board. “The employes refuse to submit their controversies to the so-called decision of the board, not only be- cause the action of the board is pre- mature, but also because the board is not an impartial tribunal. The chairman has repeatedly and gratui- tously made public attacks on the representatives of the employes, and -upon the policies of their organiza- tion, and has disqualified himself as acting as an arbitrator. / “The cost of submitting controver- sies to the board is very large; a de- cision of the board is not binding; the board itself is biased, and the em- ployes have the right (recently an- nounced by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania) to refuse to contest a matter before the Labor Board. “Therefore, the attempt of the board by indirect means to compel them te | I | | | g a pauper. the appeal is asked to be heard without expense to the prisoner. ORGANIZE BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION New Federal Criminal Divi sion Will Aid Police and Keep Extensive Records. Formal orgarization of the Federal unit to wnich police of the Nation long have been looking as a help to solution of crimes and detection of criminals, has been completed at the Department of Justice, it was learned today, with the appointment of C. D. McKean as chief of the Division of Identification The new division, for which Con- gress appropriated $56,000 has been formed of a collection of about 1,000,- 700 fingerprints of criminals, from two sources—the Department of Jus- tice records which had been centered at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and the bureau which for years had been con- ducted in this city by the Interna- tional Association Chiefs of Police. The new chief, McKean, was pro- moted from the ranks of the Bureau of Investigation, of which the divi- sion is a part, by Attorney General Stone. McKean was appointed in the Bureau of Investigation in 1917, and most recently was in charge of the local headquarters of the bureau in Pittsburgh and Baltimore, where, his chiefs say, he performed excellent service. He is a lawyer, having graduated from Georgetown University. He also studied law in the University of Michigan. According to Acting Di- rector of the Bureau of Investiga- tion J. E. Hoover, McKean has been named as administrative and execu- tive chlef of the division generally to direct its activities. The technical work of the Identifi- " "{Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) NOT TO RADIO SPEECH. President to Address Scouts in New York Tomorrow Night. The address to be given by Mr. Coolidge tomorrow night on the oc- casion of a farewell dinner in New York to a group of Boy Scouts who are sailing for Europe will be trans- | mitted by telephone only to the banquet hall, instead of being broad- cast by radio, as at first planned. The speech will be addressed pri- marily to the Boy Scouts, and it was decided to be of insuffcient general interest e warrant radio broad- castiag. prospect of jail or $1,000 in fines for violation of the prohibition laws if he is captured, the bootlegger may let loose the toxic fumes with the as- surance that the only additional risk he assumes thereby is a fine of $40. This may be imposed under a law that was originally drafted to handle persons who caused annovance by us- ing oils that created an overabun- dance of smoke. The statute reads “No person shall operate a motor ve- hicle upon any street in the District of Columbia which emits from ex- haust or muffler thereof any pro- longed, dense or offensive quantity of smoke, gases or disagreeable odors.” When bootleggers first began the use of smoke screens, about a yvear ago. the police department searched | in vain for a law that would permit them to make it very unprofitable for even a criminal to attempt his cs- cape by such an extreme measare. Failing, Maj. Sullivan embodied his last annual report to the District Commissioners a strong plea for such a regulation. Recommendation Unheeded. Backing this up, Corporation Coun- sel Stephens drafted a regulation cal- culated to make the use of smoke screens one of the most unprofitable things a bootlegger could do. He submitted it to the District Comm sioners. but neither it nor Maj. Sulli (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) SIX BURNED TO DEATH IN TEXAS HOTEL FIRE | Thirteen in Hospital and Boy Missing at Ranger—Property Loss, $1,000.000. By the Associated Press. RANGER, Tex., July 24.—Six per- sons are known to be dead, thirteen are in the local hospital and one boy is missing as a result of a fire which early this morning destroyed the en- tire McClesky Hotel block in the cen- ter of the business district with prop- erty loss estimated at more than $1,000,000. The fire started in the hotel from a gas pocket formed in the building, according to belief of fire officials. The flames seen first on the second floor, spread rapidly, threatening the entire business section. Hundreds of citizens were aroused and aided those in the hotel and the Southlarid Hotel to escape. Many were removed from the hotel with ladders, while others jumped from /the second and third story windows. None of the dead had been identi- fled. Two bodies were recovered from the burning building and two per- sons who had been taken to the hospital succumbed. . Two bodies are known to be still in the ruins. Billy Wallace, grandson of Mrs. Cralg, operitor of the McClesky Hotel, is the missing boy. in | and to supervise the campaign in such | territories. subject the direction ! of the national campaign manager “No neminations or indorsements congressional, State or local canc dates by State or local conferences or committees shall be official and bind ing unless submitted to and appro.e. by the joint ecutive committec. ““The joint ecutive committee hereby empowered, alter with the State executive committee to remove any State chairman fo sufficient cause. and. after conference with the State exccutive committee, te appoint another chairman with full authority to act, as herein provided. | any case where such removal mas necessary or where the position vacated by death, illness cause. 10 conferenc or ot Personnel of Committec. members of the committee which the poliey of i | The ten | executive | manage and direct { campaign follow: Representative Neleon, chairman Mr. Spreckels, president First tional Bank. San Francisco. H iorganized the San Francisco “grat prosecution™ in 1905, and is pron inent in the Waterpower League Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, Colorad a member of the executive committe Conference for Progressive Politica Action, vice president National Con- sumers’ League, ex-chairman living costs committec, League of Women Voters. Mr. Johnson, president Inter- | national Association of Machinists | chairman national committee of Con- ference for Progressive Political Action, vice president of the Mount i Vernon Savings Bank, Washingion director, Commercial National Bank of Washington. Mr. Hillquit, New York. lawser candidate for. mayor of New York City, 1917, and chairman of the na- tional committee of Socialist party Senator Frazier. Basil M. Manly, economist, director United States Commission on Industrial Relations; joint chairman National War Labor Board, director Peoples’ Legislative Service. Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans Boston, member of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission, 1911-12, and active in Wwoman suffrag movement. D. B. Robertson, Cleveland, dent Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen. Robert M. La Follette, jr. ROOSEVELT IN VIEW. N former presi Locomotive Franklin D. Roosevelt, manager of |Gov. Al Smith's campaign for the | presidential nomination and himselt the nominee of the Democratic party {for the vice presidency four years {ago, may be selected to have charge of the Democratic headquarters in New York City. At the headquarters of the Democratic National Commit- tee here today, it was admitted by Clem L. Shaver, chairman, that Mr, " {Contlnued on Page 2, Column < -