Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1924, Page 2

RORY PAST BRING SAVINKOFF NOOSE Sentencing of Former Petro- grad Military Governor Dramatic Incident. MENACE TO SOVIET CAUSE Stay of Death Granted Pending Pardon Plea for Russian Who Fought Reds Seven Years. Br the Associated Press MOSCOW. August 29.—The trial and conviction yesterday of Gen. Boris Savinkoff constituted probably the most dramatic case that has come before the Revolutionary War tribu- nal. Savinkoff, former military gov- ernor of Petrograd and assistant minister of war in the Kerensky cabinet, was sentenced to death on a multitude of charges growing out of his seven-vear struggle against the Soviet regime. A stay of execu- tion was ordered, however, to allow an appeal for pardon to the execu- tive committee, as Savinkoff ac- knowledged his guilt and expressed a desirc to support the Soviet. The case was regarded by the government as important to its safety and prestige. The courtroom was packed with members of the government, the central committee of the Communist party, the war council and the most active mem- bers of the Soviet political admin- istration. Acting Premier Kameneft, Premier Kliava of the transcau- casian republic, Commissar of Jus- tice Kursky and M. Kouybycheff of the state control board were among those who forsook their regular work in order to hear the proceed- ings. M. Ulrich, chairman of the ‘war council, was present sisted in the trial, Jurymen were members of office. and two of the the war Organized Assassination. There was neither prosecution nor defense. but every detail was dramatic and thrilling. Savinkoff. himself a revolutionary. organized the assassi- nation of Prime Minister Plehve and Grand Duke Sergius, which gave the first signal for the Russian revolution, He was responsible for the advance of the Russian army in July, 1917. After the bolshevik revolution he assumed Yeadership of the anti-bolshe: forces and organized the Yaroslavl rising, which ended in demolition of the town. with considerable blood- &hed. as well as numerous risings in Siberia and Ukrania. He raised an army to defend the constituent assembly in Samara and directed activities against the bol- sheviki from Poland. All of this Savinkoff acknowledged. Speaking with emotion. he said fo the court: “I know vour decision beforehand. I don't value my life and I am not afraid to die. I recognize all my Euilts, but they were all involuntary, as”T never sought anything for my- self.” Four Objections to Reds. His enmity for the Reds was based on four objections. he said, namely, the breaking up of the constituent assembly: the Brest-Litovsk treaty. which was at that time detrimental to the allied cause; his certainty that the Reds assumed the power for 3 short period, making way for re-es tablishment of the monarchy, and last, that the Russian people were against the Reds. He never was convinced, Savinkoft asserted, that the Reds were right and that he was wrong in regard to the support of the Russian people of the Soviet regime. It was not in Moscow, under escort, that he had changed his mind, but long ago in Paris he came to the conclusion that the bolsheviks were right, and now he stood unconditionally in favor of the Russian Soviets. Savinkoff asked the court to re- member, in delivering sentence, that he had never been an enemy of the | people; that he had spent his life as a revolutionary, and that he had had his neck in the noose a hundred times. He did not return to Russia with bombs and he had thrown his revolver away on the other side of the border. The general was arrested August 20 after passing the border under the name of Stepanoff. He apparently had been watched by Russian agents abroad. His arrest was kept secret and his trial was begun secretly. Question of Motive. It was first alleged that the former military governor had come to Rus- sia to organize terrorist acts. Com- missar Kursky and other authorities, however. repudiated this version, and it is understood that many responsi- ble Communists have been impressed with Savinkoff's sincerity during the trial. It is generally believed that the death sentence will hot be carried out. A trial on charges of counter- Tevolutionary activities among the Cossack population of the Kuban province has ended before the crimi- nal court of the Kuban district, sit- ting at Armavir, with the sentencing to death of 25 officers of the czarist army, the sentencing to various terms of imprisonment of 40 other accused persons and the acquittal of five per- sons. Those sentenced to death included Col. Orloff, Col. Nazaroff, Col. Kas- linin and a number of Cossack offi- cers The prosecution, charging that Col. Orloff and the 69 other accused per- sons, a number of them civilians, had carried out counter-revolutionary ac- tivities, alleged that they had re- turned in 1923 from Constantinople and Paris on behalf of various an! bolshevik organizations in order to organize uprisings against the soviet government. It was charged that they blew up railay stations, robbed the population and killed a number ©f communists. -— SEE PROHIBITION LAW “SETTLED FOR ALL TIME” Plank Proposed for Texas Demo- cratic Platform Declares Present Agitation “Work of Demagogues.” By the Associated Press. . DALLAS, Texas, August 29.—Pro- hibition written into both the natlonal &nd State constitutions, backed by an overwhelming public sentiment, and favorable both to the present gover- nor and to the Democratic nominee, Who is expected to succeed him, is Eettled for all time “so far as hu- man foresight can discern,” declares & proposed plank for the Democratic tate platform made public here. | The plank, which has received the ipproval of Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, e Democratic gubern: . declares that any emagogues and agitators to inject t into campaigns where vital issues e involved is to be deprecated. The plank favors legislation which will require physicians and drug- &ists who dispense whisky by means of prescriptions to flie detailed monthly reports with the county clerk, showing all purchases, all sales and providing that the gross profits shall pot exceed 25 per-centy Z and as-| Trees Destroyed Widening Streets Will be Replaced Al trees destroyed through the widening of the five streets in- cluded in the proposed street- widening program over which the Commissioners will hold a public hearing next Friday at the Dis- trict Building, will be replaced with Norway maples, it was an- nounced today. It is not the intention of the Commissioners, it was emphasized, to sacrifice the beauty of the city through the destruction of shade trees. M street from Twenty-ninth to Thirty-fifth is the only one of the five thoroughfares recom- mended for widening, which will not have trees. he thorough- fare is now trecles: The total cost of widening the five streets is estimated at $297.000. The Commissioners, however, are confident that not more than two will be widened. Sl LINGCLN GREETS DAWES AS FRIEND G. 0. P. Candidate Former Resident of Nebraska Capi- tal—Speaks Tonight. By the Asnociated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., August 29.—Charles G. Dawes came to his old home today to be received during the morning and afternoon, not as the Republican vice presidential candidate, but as a former resident and friend. Tonight, at the University of Nebraska Sta- dium, he will make his appearance as the candidate for the second highest office in the Nation, and is scheduled to begin speaking at 8 o'clock, Cen- tral standard time. The address will he radiocast. The program of the day provided for a motor cycle police escort, assist- ed by color guards and the appear- ance of a number of bands in a pa- rade which formed at the Burlington Station here and continued to the Lindell Hotel, where he will make his headquarters. Forty young women attired in white served as guards of honor to Mr. Dawes and members of his family en route to the hotel. Cornstalks in Parade. An important part of the parade was a cornstalk display, represent- ative of the State's foremost industry and indicative of agricultural condi- tions upon which the candidate is ex- pected to speak tonight. Woman Re- publican clubs lined the parade and continued to the nominee’s headquar- ters, while hundreds of automobiles and marchers ran the human gantlet in bedecked fashion. Numerous local organizations took part in the parade, as well as delega- tions from Oklahoma and nearby towns and cities. Entering the stadium tonight, Mr. Dawes, his party and the reception committee will parade around the half-mile track, while a community songfest will sing “Auld Lang Syne.” En route to this city early today Mr. Dawes was met by a number of old friends at Ashland, Nebr. While his business headquarters will be at the hotel, he and his family will be house guests at the home of S. H. Burnham, president of the First Na- tional Bank here. The Burnham and Dawes families are old friends. WASHINGTON IS THRILLED BY PENNANT PROSPECTS (Continued from First Page) licked.” licked. Out in front of the score board Washington's fans were milling in desperation. There was one man down, two runs had been sent home, the sacks were filled and good old Goose Goslin was at the bat. A mo- ment of sickening suspense; the crowd is hushed in its agony, sway- ing to and fro, praying for the best, fearing the worst! Suddenly a light flashes on the scoreboard; that fate- ful ball has left the pitcher's hand and is whizzing up to the plate— “Clang! Clang! Clang:!" No symphonic triumph ever rang down the centuries with more vic- torious melody than the song of that bell as it chorused the news that the Goose had tripled. cleaning the bases with the runs that virtually assured victory to Washington. The lights on the boards flashed the runners across the plate one by one, but those lights were mere blurs to the thousands of fans who were dancing in frenzied glee. The crowd had gone mad, and the roar that swelled from hoarse throats rolled up and over the surrounding build- ings and attracted pedestrians from several blocks away. Boy Hugs Policeman. Men threw their hats in the air, shouted, danced, ran up and down the streets, screaming and cheering until it seemed their lungs must burst. One small colored boy, blind with joy, was seen to throw his arms around the neck of a pop-eyed policeman. Witnesses stopped, ex- pecting to see the frenzied youngster escorted over to the first precinct station in due form. But to their amazement, it is said, the policeman wrapped his own law-enforcing arms around the ebony-hued rooter and the two danced together on the sidewalk. There was more to that inning— three more runs, in fact—but the fans out in front of The Star Building were too weak after circling the bases with Goose to scarcely more than shout a feeble “ray” or two. The story of the next two chances the Yankees had to even things up is glorious history for Washington now. Babe Ruth ended the fray in the ninth when, with two down and none on, he fanned. That drew from those sturdy Wash- ingtonians, who had stuck to the last strike, the very last yelp they had left in them, and the last seen of the whole crowd was when they were staggering toward street cars and automobiles, to hasten home and tell the old folks what they had missed— of how the Nationals were not licked because they just wouldn't be licked and came from behind three times to down the slugging Yankees at their own game by a margin that could not be disputed. CLUB SEEKS TICKETS. And Washington wouldn’t be Cosmopolitan Sure Nationals Will Capture Pennant. Expressing their confidence that the Washington team would win the pen- nant and bring the worid series game to the National Capital the Cosmo- politan Club yesterday appointed a committee of three to secure seats for the entire membership at the Clark Grifith Stadium. The regular lunch- eon of the club was held at the Franklin Square Hotel. The club is actively taking part in the National Defense Test day plans, and a special committee is working in co-operation with the War Depart ment and other civic bodids for the success of the demonstratien.: A meeting will also be hel xomng further the plans fof & THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, 5. 0P CONFIDENCE EROWING N EAST Workers on Their Toes as Decided Trend to Coolidge Is Believed Indicated. BY N. 0. MESSENGER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, August 29.—The most pronounced feature of the presiden- tial campalgn in its present stage is the genuine and enthusiastic con- fidence of the Republican campaign managers in a Coolidge and Dawes victory next November. From Pres- ident Coolidge and Gen. Dawes down through the entire management there is felt the sincerest confidence in a successful outcome of the cam- paign. Reports that have come in within the last few weeks indicate that this feeling also exists among the local managers and enthusiastic party workers throughout the States. Everybody seems to be on their toes and intent upon a vigorous and smashing campaign. Moreover, very recently the have been reports of a marked change for the better in conditions throughout the country warranting the entertaining of en- couragement. This is particular! true with regard to conditions among the farmers, among whom a better feeling exists. To be sure, this is due to the improved conditions of the farmers on account of better prices they are getting for their Crops, but whatever the cause, the fact exists that the Republican party is getting the credit for bettered con- ditions. Will Pursue Ememy. It is the purpose of the Republican managers to strike while the iron is hot and to further encourage the farmers with proposals for vet bet- treed conditions. To this end Gen. Dawes is to go into the heart of the agricultural region right away on an intensive speechmaking campaign appealing directly to the farmers to support the Republican ticket for their best interests. The Republicans also intend to assail Senator lLa Follette In his own State; they arc EoIng after Magnus Johnson with a pitchfolk in Minnesota. His recent admission that if the presidential se- lection were cast into the Senate he would vote for Bryan is to be played up in big headlines as a warning to the country. The menace of Bryan is also to be paraded in this State, where the name of Bryan brothers is anathema. Not as much stress has been laid upon Bryanism here as might have been done, but it is said that the near future will show a chance, and that the double mask of the Bryan broth- ers will be pointed out The Republicans claim that the trend of events beginning to in- dicate that Senator La Follette will not be able to be the pied piper to lead the labor vote away from its normal moorings. Successive labor organizations are showing signs of disinclination to be “delivered” to the La Follette ticket. Even where there have been indarsements they have been accompanied with open thraats of intention not to vote as they in- dorse. It is evident that Senator La Follette intends to make a strong drive for labor, Senator Wheeler opening with a foray into the East in his forthcoming Labor day speech at Boston. 1t is noted that he is going into protective tariff territory, where he is likely to encounter strong head winds. Want Coolidge to Speak. Many Republicans say privately that they think President Coolidge should lay out a more extensive pro- 8ram of public addresses on political topics. They contend that it will not suffice for him to rest upon his oars, depending solely on the latent Cool- idge sentiment to carry him through. They want to see him 8ealing in his characteristic vigorous fashion with political questions, pointing out that it is evident he has aggressive and formidable opponents in both Senator La Follette and John W. Davis. There’s reason to believe that strong Tepresentations have been made to President Coolidge on this question, and that they will bear fruit very shortly. The Democrats are found not to be without enthusiasm and confidence themselves. Proceeding upon the theory that New York and New Jer- sey may decide the presidential elec- tion, they are going to center their efforts in these two states, believing that they have a little better than an even break. In New Jersey there is peace and harmony among Demo- cratic factions for the first time in nine years. In Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City they have a boss who is a boss indeed, in that he commands 2 following of lcaders who will obey m. The Republicans are at each others’ throats over the senatorship. May Speak on Kian. In Gov. Smith of New York they pos- sess a valuable asset in his popularity with the voters. They think Gov. Smith can pass this asset on to John W. Davis. If Gov. Smith persists in his expressed intention not to run for the governorship again, they belleve it would be all the better for the aational ticket, as he can then devote his entire attention to a wholeheart- ed campaign for the national ticket. The Democratic managers counting upon John W. Davis' Ku Klux announcement to hold the Cath- olic vote to the national ticket. There had been threats that the Catholic vote would take revenge upon the Democratic party for the defeat of Al Smith for the nomination, but the Democratic leaders believe that this danger has been averted by the Davis announcement. Report is_current in_political cir- cles that President Coolidge may seize the opportunity of the great Holy Name demonstration in Wash- ington, in September, to deliver an utterance on the Ku Klux Klan which would put him on a parity at least with La Follette, Davis and Dawes on this subject. The outcome in New York State may be affected by the Democratic and Republican nominations for the governorship, which will not be made until September 23 to 25. —_ FORT REPELS RADICALS. Nineteen Communists Arrested After Attack in Portugal. LISBON, August 29.—Radicals and Communists last night attacked St. George's Fortress, but were driven off by the soldiers after an exchange of shots. Nineteen of the assailants, many of them well known in advanced politi- cal circles, were later arrested. training school in the District, the idea of which is being fostered by the club. The committee appointed to secure ticketa for the world series game if brought to Washington was appointed by Paul Brandstedt, presi- dent of the club, and consists of James E. Colliffower, Frank Fenwick and C. H. Hites. Ralph Weschler was cosmopolitan of the day, and winners of the booster prizes for the week were Pat Davis and George Laka 5 OLD-FASHIONED DANCES TO BE STUDIED BY FORDS Plan to Fit Themselwes to Enter- tain Suitably at<Way- side Inn. By the Associsted Press. v HUDSON, Mass, August 29.—Be- lieving that proficlency in the old New England square dances is “nec- essary” to the host and hostess of the Wayside Inn, Mr. and Mrs, Henry Fard of Detroit have invited Mr. and Mrs, Benjamin B. Lovett of this town to bb guests at the Ford home early in September to instruct the automo- bile magnate and his family in the arts and graces of the quadrille, lancers, caprice and mazourka. The Lovetts received the invitation vesterday, and accepted. They came to Mr. Ford's attention recently, when friends in Sudbury told him of their prowess in the oid-time dances. Mr. Lovett has been a teacher of dancing more than 20 years. After a conference with the Lovetts at the inn, Mr. Ford decided to obtain their services in anticipation of social events to come later at the old hostelry. After a week in Detroit the Lovetts will return to instruct some of the Kords' friends in the East, who are to be guests at social affairs at the inn. LAW 1S SET ASIDE BY “MA” STREFTER Widow of Fighting Mariner Defends Inherited “Rights” by Use of Guns. By Consolidated Prees. CHICAGO, August 29. Ma” Streeter, entrenched on her sloop Vamoose just outside her own “deestrik of Lake Michigan" again is mixing with the minions of the law. “Ma" believes in the precepts and practices of old *“Cap'n” Streeter, who for over 30 years fought the State of Illinois, claiming all that time his property rights, under ‘“squatter’” law. to about $100.000,000 worth of Chicago's front yard along the lake. The “cap'n” ‘always believed in gunnery to bring people around to his view of things. Ma,” who in- herited his sleep Vamoose, when accidentally rammed the other night by the excursion steamer, Mineral City, vowed revenge. She chased the captain and purser out of range when they came to settle for dam- ages. Bullet Finds a Mark. Courts would not have figured in this latest escapade of the “deestrik” if a bullet from the Vamoose had not taken the tip off the nose of John Biafore. fireman on the Mineral Cit a night or two later. “Ma” advi she *ain’t savin’ who fired the shot but admits one was fired. Now they are trying to get out a warrant for her arrest on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. With the same bravado that char- acterized her deceased mariner hus- band she .tells the ship's captain and the whole ship's crew to get any blankety blank kind of a war- rant they want: she “ain’'t skeered” of the whole outfit. “Ma” has other things to think about. One of them is her recently instituted suit to recover $100,000,000 in hard cash for property in the “deestrik of Lake Michigan.” which the “cap'n” claimed was his b squatter right and by creation. She is carrying on her husband's battle against the State unrelentingly with the $100.000,000 as the stake. Twice courts turned down his pleas and decided that 1.500 purchasers of the lake front property have title to the land which a few years ago was part of Lake Michigan. “Ma” Hasx Other View. No so, “Ma.” She won't even live on land because of the tactics of land lubbers who have beaten the captain in his fight. Her sloup Vamoose cruises up and down the “deestrik,” hopeful of a steady anchorinz place one of these days when some court can be found—if it can—to change ownership of the land The whole thing started back in 1885, when Capt. George Wellington Streeter was shipwrecked in the steamer Reutan off the Chicago shore. The captain fitted up the hulk and started raising his family right where the disaster occurred. He bullt a breakwater out into the lake. Nature took care of the rest, creat- ing a whole new stretch of shore line which the “cap'n” claimed as a squatter. First Tif in 1889, His first tiff with the law came in 1889 and was continued at intervals for the next 35 years. All the time old Capt. Streeter kept his shotgun handy and used it once with telling effect. Thereafter he spent a few years in the State penitentiary for manslaughter. But always he re- fused to budge from his district, which he claimed was a sovereign State, not subject to the laws of Tilinois, and under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government alone. Through these years the property he created by building his break- water became immensely valuable and now is the nucleus of Chicago's rich lake front. “Ma" Streeter out in her sloop con- tends that the land is her own, and she won't budge from her position,] won't have anything to do with the rest of the world until she gets it. Can Take Care of Hernelf. That is why a pot shot or two at following strangers fail to bother her. She tells interviewers that she can take care of herself and that others should watch out for them- selves. All she wants, she says, are her rights which as she sees it amount to something more than $100,- 000,000. [ More than 325 municipalities in the United States have adopted the city manager plan of government. GOULD HEIRS PETITION FOR CASH DISTRIBUTION Court Asked to Allow $8,000,000 Payment Pending Suit Over Accounting. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 29.—Contend- ing that “it would be highly unjust and inequitable” to withhold from them their share in the estate of their father, George J. Gould, until the litigation over the accounting of the executors and trustees of the es- tate of Juy Gould is determined, the children of the late George J. Gould began a proceeding yesterday to sep- arate a question of distribution from the accounting proceeding. Justice Cotillo signed an order call- ing upon all parties interested in the accounting proceeding to show cause on September 9 why the application of the Gould children should not be granted. The actual petitioners in the proceeding just brought are Lady Decies, Mrs. Margaret G. Drexel and Jay Gould, 2d, and it is expected that the other children of George J. Gould will join In the action. The distribu- tive share asked by them amounts to $6,000,000. * SEES TRAFFIG CURE INWIDER STREETS Maj. Holcombe Declares Plan Offers Only Logical Solu- tion of Parking. Widening of the streets in the downtown business section offers the only tangible solution to Washing- ton’s parking problem, according to Maj. William H. Holcombe, Assistant Engineer Commissioner, who, as chairman of the special traffic com- mittee appointed by the District Com- missioners, has just completed a com- prehensive study of the traffic situa- tion. Through the widening of the streets, Maj. Holcombe said, parking space will be virtually doubled, be- cause automobiles will be permitted to park at an ancle instead of paral- lel. A survey has shown the District engineers that two machines parked at an angle occupy about the same amount of rpace as onc car parked parallel to the curhstonc. Oppones Municipal Garage. The proposal to erect a municipal garage for the daytime storage of automobiles is strongly opposed by Maj. Holcombe, and probably will be shunted aside completely by the Com- missioners. The cost of erecting such a garage, he contends, would be almost pro- hibitive, because of the high reaity values in the business section, where such an automobile storage place would have to be buil. Moreover. it ig estimated that a fee of 50 cents a day would have to be charged tor the storage of machinas in the pro- posed ‘municipal garage, and Maj. Hol- combe does not believe the average motorist would willingly pay more than 10 cents Widening of the streets, Maj. Hol- combe explained. will not only create additional parking space, but will at the same time facilitate the move- ment of trafic and enhance the value of business property. Street Plan Economical. Although Maj. Holcombe has not presented his views to the Commis- sioners in the form of a written re- port, he has informed them verbally of the results of his tratho study. Maj. Holcombe contends it 1S much more economical to widen a street than to build a municipal garage. The widening of Thirteenth street, now under way. will provide park- ing space for about 500 more auto- mobiles. as angle parking will be permitted. The cost of constructing a garage to store 500 machines would be about $500,000, he estimated, while the expense of widening Thirteenth street will amount to less than $60,000. —— e FOLLIES TO BAN BOBS. Ziegfeld's Producer Tells Dancing Masters Bobbed Hair Is Going. CHICAGO, August 29.—Bobbed hair is going out of style—at least on the stage. The authority for this state- ment is Ned Wayburn, who stages the Ziegfeld Follies. In his address before the American National Association of Masters of Dancing here yesterday, Mr. Wayburn declared that bobbed-haired girls are losing favor. “I am not going to use any more girls with bobbed hair. The future musical comedies will not con- sider a bobbed-hair, because she has no chance to dress her features. 1 prefer girls of the Ann Pennington type.” Chicago Assassins’ 8th Victim. CHICAGO, August 29.—The eighth victim of assassins in six weeks in “Little Italy” on the North Side, was shot to death on the stairs leading to his home today. He was Frank Marotta, 30. Marotta was not entirely unprepared for a deadly encounter— three loaded revolvers and additional ammunition were found in his cloth- ing. But the slayers had shot him before he had a chance to use his ‘weapons. Governor’s Daughter Weds. By the Associated Press, HONOLULU, T. H.,, August 29.— Miss Frances Farrington, daughter of Gov. and Mrs. John R. Farrington, was married yesterday to John R. ‘Wittemore, jr., of Santa Barbara, Calif., at the official residence of the governor. Enrollment Card of One-Day National Defense Volunteers—Ages of 18 Years to 45 Years Inclusive volunteer 1924, T hereby September 12, for the and on that day agree to report in person National Defense Test of for the public demonstration when notice of time and place to report is sent to me. (a) 1 bave no preference for assignment to a unit. or (b) I prefer to serve for that day in.... (Indjeate preference above.) Former service, if any... Occupation ... (Regular Army «...{National Guard Organized Reservea (Unit) " (Bignature and age.) (Bace, White or Colered.) (Residence Address.) 306, District Bullding, 14th ‘asd Pa. Ave PSSR - Stk AUGUST 29, 1924. WHEELER RENEW. DAUGHERTY FIGHT Senator Ridicules Affidavit Made by George Remus, Bootleg King, in Prison. Senator Wheeler of Montana, prose- cutor of the Daugherty committee and La Follette candidate for Vice President, today publicly renewed his war on “the Daugherty gang” in pub- lic office. In a formal statement Mr. Wheeler dealt at length with an affidavit said to have been made in Atlanta Peni- tentiary by George Remus, once the Ohio bootleg king, repudiating the sensational testimony he gave last Spring before the Daugherty com- mittee. “Testimony before the investiga- tion,” the Senator's statement con- tinued, “disclosed that the present warden of Atlanta Penitentiary is a close friend and political associate of Harry M. Daugherty. The incident makes it clear that President Coolidge still has some house cleaning to do, because some remnants of the Daugh- erty gang are still in office under the Federal Government.” Repudiates Testimony. According to information reaching Senator Wheeler and other members of the Daugherty committee, the new Remus affidavit directly repudiated Remus’ testimony that he had paid about $250,000 to the late Jess Smith, ‘| Mr. Daugherty’s companion, for pro- tection from prosecution. On the con- trary, Remus said in the affidavit he had never met Jess Smith or com- municated with him directly or in- directly. Testimony to the contrary, it is added, was given before the com- mittee in the belief that it would aid him to secure his release from prison. Senator Wheeler's statement de- scribed in some detail the circum- stances under which Remus' origi- nal testimony was adduced. Got Anonymous Memsa: “The committee,” he said, “%ot sev- eral anonymous telegrams, which in my judgment Remus himself sent during its hearings, demanding that he be called as a witness, and sug- gesting that he had valuable infor- mation. We sent an agent down to see him. He volunteered to come. That any promises were made to him of any kind is absolutely untrue, and, of course, the assertion that either Chairman Brookhart or myself had any influence that would enable us to offer pardon, considering our attitude toward the executive branch of the Government, is and was highly amusing.” “he Senator added that before Remus had left the witness stand information reached the committee which led it to proceed very cautiously in its further relations with the witness, who shortly afterward was returned to prison. In another statement today Senator Wheeler reiterated that he was ready to go to trial at any time fixed by the prosecution on indictment pending in Montana charging improper legal activities after his election the Senate. “I have instructed my attorneys not to ask for a continuance,” he said. “I have repeatedly asked that the case be set for trial. I wanted it disposed of before the campaign started. 1 could get no satisfaction from the Attorney General's office in Wash- ington nor from Mr. Slattery, United States attorney in Montana It was only after I consented to run on the Progressive ticket for Vice President that it was even intimated when the case would be set for trial. I am ready to go to trial on the misdemeanor charge in Montana now or at any other time—knowing as I do that there is no truth in the charge.” Senator La Follette is being urged by some of his advisers to follow Senator Wheeler into New England for at_least one campaign speech. Mr. Wheeler will begin a stumping tour Labor day with an address on Boston common. In quick succession he will deliver speeches in at least a dozen other New England cities be- fore invading New York and probably other eastern states. Senator La Follette also will speak Labor day, but not to a ible au- dlence, arrangements having been made to have a dozen radio stations broadcast his address. Still of the opinfon that he should not launch his active campaign before mid- September. he expects to get under- way with a curtain raiser in New York city. Gilbert E. Roe. in charge of eastern campaign headquarters, who is here conferring with Mr. La Follette, is one of those advising him to make a personal appeal for support in New England after his New York speech. He says there is a favorable trend in New England to the La Follette- Wheeler ticket, and is recommending that every effort be made to round-up votes there. DENIES POLITICS IN WHEELER TRIAL U. S. Attorney Hits Nelson's Charge G. 0. P. Is Pushing Department of Justice. to By the Associated Press. GREAT FALLS, Mont., August United States Attorney John J. Slat- ter yesterday issued the following, answering statements by John M. Nelson of Chicago, La Follette and Wheeler manager, last night con- cerning the Wheeler trial set for hearing at this place: observe the press dispatch of yesterday, in which Representative John M. Nelson, National manager of the La Follette-Wheeler cam- paign, says that my action in ar- raigning Senator Wheeler on Sep- tember 1 is a clear indication that the Department of Justice is to be used as an adjunct of the Repub- lican national ~committee in _thie campaign and that the Republican party now seeks to prevent Senator Wheeler from ‘carrying the facts de- veloped in the Daugherty investiga- tion to the people of the country by bringing him to trial in the midst of this campaign. “There is absolutely no foundation for Mr. Nelson's statement. In the first place thers can be no aspect of Senator Wheeler's arraignment which would require his personal presence here on the 1st of September. At the arraignment his counsel may move to quash the indictment or demur to it before even entering the contemplated plea of not guilty. Is- sues of law raised by a motion to quash or demur must first be dis- posed of before the case is set down for trial. “Politics has in no way entered into this case from the Government's side. Since Senator Wheeler's manager claims that the case is to be brought to trial in the midst of the present campaign for political purposes. 1 will now state with a view of making it clear that politics has not entered into the case at all 8o far as the Gov- ernment is concerned, that I am per- fectly willing that both the arraign- ment and the trial of Senator Wheeler ghall go over until the next term of court hera, which will not be until after the November election has passed into history,” GARVEY ASKS REFUSAL OF LIBERIAN GRANT Negro Society Head Will Request Firestone to Reject Big Rub- ber Concession. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 29.—The Uni- versal Negro Improvement Associa- tion will ask the Firestone Rubber Company not to accept a 1,000,000~ acre cencession in Liberia which the association asserts had already been granted to it for a coloay, Marcus Garvey, president of the association, told its members at a convention ves- terday. The statement, which follow- ed a protracted argument, was in response to a news dispatch from Washington telling of reported oppo- sition by the Liberian government to_the colonization project. Garvey added that he thought French and British official pressure had led the Liberian government to retract its grants, asserting that France and Great Britain did not want a negro colony near their man- dated African territories. BRITAIN MAY OFFER PLAN T0 GURB WAR League of Nations Expects Proposal From MacDonald. Subject to Front. By the Associated V'ress. GENEVA, August 29 —Having de- livered a fatal blow to the famous pact of mutual assistance and guar- antees, elaborated by the disarma- ment section of the League of Na- tions, the British Government, it is expected, will come to Geneva for the fifth assembly of the League of Na- tions with some practical suggestions which can serve as a substitute for the pact. While nothing official has reached the secretariat of the league, the impression prevails that Premier MacDonald may favor on the floor of the assembly an extension of the policy of arbitration as the most feasible and most effective means of preventing war. Some experts here say they would not be surprised if Mr. MacDonald favored a tripartite arbitration ar- rangement among England, Germany and France as a practical proof of England’s desire for peace, or if he came forth with an announcement that England now is ready to accept the procotol clause of the World Court of Justice concerning compul- sory arbitration of disputes Great Debate Expected. Whatever England may do. it is be- lieved certain that this assembly whl witness a great debate on the whole problem of disarmament. News dis- patches from the United States re- afirming President Coolidges inten- tion to convoke a new conference on limitation of armaments at some fa- vorable moment stimulated interest in international circles in the great question of the reduction of land and naval forces. For France and Bel- gium particularly, this problem is linked with that of national security. Closely connected with the general disarmament discussion is the prob- lem of the military control of Ger- many, which, it is thought, v taken over by the League of ) when the allied powers are sat that the interallied military control can be brought to an end. A com- plete system of League of Nations control will have been mapped out by the time the assembly opens, and will figure as one of the features of the agenda both for the counsel, opening today, and for the assembly France and Belgium especially are expected to come forth with some suggestions concerning this problem of league control. The assembly will open Monday in Reformation Hall. On Sunday serv- ices will be held. in accordance with custom. asking Divine blessing on the work of the assembly. Motta Likely President. League officials are of the opinion | that Dr. Giuseppe Motta, President of Switzerland, will be elected president of the as- sembly. Dr. Motta failed of election last vear when Dr. Cosme de la Tor- riente of Cuba was named. But this year various delegations have shown a desire to pay a tribute to Switzer- land's hospitality and Dr. Motta's fitness. Latin American countries, it is be- lieved, are unlikely to press a new candidate, as they have twice held the presidency. The arrival of Thomas Lamont, New York financier, is heralded by the newspapers as highly important. Mr. Lamont, however, said he was taking a rest, although he might at- former probably tend a session of the assembly out of | curiosity. S —— ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDS ATTRACT SCIENTISTS Skeletons Discovered in France Believed to Date Back to Prehistoric Age. By the Associated Press. MACON, France, August 2! portant archeological find been made at Solutre-Pouilly by French and American scientists, in- cluding Prof. George Grant McCurdy of Yale and Drs. De Peret, Mayet and Ancelin of the University of Lyons. Up to the present there have been unearthed five skeletons which some of the scientists believe date far back into pre-historic times. Some of the searchers, however, believe the skele- tons are of the bronze age, basing their assumption on a bronze ring found with the bones. The digging is continuing and the news of the discoveries has brought a large number of scientists to the spot to watch the work. —Im- have FOUR DEAD IN EXPLOSION. DES MOINES, Iowa, August 29.— Deaths resulting from an explosion of an ammonia tank which yesterday wrecked a grocery store, increased to four this morning. Of the 23 per- sone injured, one is not expected to live. _é—v;at the Fly For assistance in the campaign against the fly The Star has for distribution a quan- tity of wire-handle fly swatters. Ask for One at the STAR OFFICE or Any of Its Branch Offices il e CAVERLY STUDYING 2000.PAGE RECORD Goes in Seclusion to Ponder Evidence Against Loeh and Leopold. GIVES VERDICT SEPT. 10 Cost of Hearing Is Put in Excess of $300,000—State Ex- pense, $58,000. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 29.—1n the r tirement he will maintain the next days, Judge John R. Caverly tod began consideration of the sentence he will impose September 10 on Nathan Leopold, jr, and Richard Loeb, confessed kidnapers-slayers of Robert Franks. He had before him the nearly 2,000- page record of the 32 days of testi- mony and argument in the judicial hearing which closed yesterday, in Wwhich the State demanded the gallow s and the defense pleaded for imprison- ment, offering a theory of menta sickness in mitigation In a private home within 100 miles of Chicago, the jurist, occupying a dual role of judge and jury, will weigh the evidence and prepare o written opinion, explaining the rea- sons for the sentence he will pro nounce. Before he abandoned the bench Judge Caverly had arranged to adm only the defendants, their reliatives and counsel, the State’s attornevs and newspaper men to his courtroom when he fixes the fate of the youths. Extra guards of policemen and depu- ties will exclude all others. Will Prevent Demonstration. The precautions were taken, he said, not because of threatening lot- ters he has received and which he attributed to cranks. but to preve any demonstration. He has requested other judges in the Criminal Courts Building to delay convening their courts until after the judgment has been passed In the closing moments of the hear- ing vesterday Judge Caverly ordered stricken from the record the remarks made by Robert E. Crowe, State's attorney, at the close of his final summing up argument, and also took to task those who criticized the court and “delays of justic The prosecutor's remarks dealt with an alleged statement by Leo- pold in which the slayer expressed the hope of escaping the noose “by pleading guilty before a friegdly judge.” Mr. Crowe declared that the conduct of the defendants and their attorneys indicated that “if Leopold did not say he would plead guilty befors a friendly judge. his actions have demonstrated he thinks he has one Judge Caverly called the prosecy tor's words “a cowardly and dastar 1y assault upon the integrity of th court” and said th, ould be used for no other purpose than to incite a mob and try to intimidate this court.” Mr. Crowe denied he had any such intention Case Cost $350.000, Relative to criticiem of “delayvs of justice,” Judge Caverly pointed out that the defendants were arrested 10 days after the murder. indicted promptly and brought to trial within six weeks. He called the case “one of the speediest trials of a criminal case ever heard in Cook County in which the State has asked the death penalty.” He commended the careful preparation of the State and the pol- icy of the defense in not seeking de- lay. An estimate of the cost of the hearing made at its conclusion placed it at more than £350.000. The State, incurred about $55,040. while the de- fense will expend about $300.600, it was calculated. Most of the defense costs are fees of alienists and attor- neys, the latter to be fixed by the Chicago Bar Association | STORMY WEATHER DETAINS FLYERS (Continued from First Page.) graphical aspect of Hamlet Inlet mar appear to the novitiate in these parts, Lieut. Smith and his wayfarers prob- ably will think it is the most beautiful place they have ever seen. It will virtually mark the end of their hazardous journey. From here to Nova Scotia, then to Boston and on to Sand Point. via Washington, will seem like easy sailing compared to what thes have been through and the final test that awaits them. Completes Circle of Globe. Although the world will be about willing to concede that the Americans have circumnavigated the globe by air when they land at Hamlet Inlet, the fivers themselves are unwilling to accept the honor of having buckeled the air belt until they have et the wheels of their planes down on Sand Point Field. Seattle, where they first hopped off on March 17. They do not want to leave any room for doubt about the honors that are to be America’s. This last bridge of ships that re- mains for them to cross is some- thing like 572 miles in length Every hundred miles of the passage they will be able to check their com pass bearings by an American naval vessel anchored in the sea below. There will be the New York, the de- strovers Coghlan, McFarland, Charles, Ausburne and Lawrence. and the cruiser Richmond, which is now per- haps the best known ship in the United States Nav ASSERTS DRY CHIEF ; PAID RAID EXPENSE (Continued from First Page.) called upon to show cause as to why removal warrants -should be issued The fight in all successive phases is now expected to take up at least a month. BAKCSY NOT ON PAY ROLL. Prohibition Unit Replies to Tes- timony at Trial. At the prohibition unit it was em- phatically declared by Assistant Pro- hibition Commissioner Jones that Capt. Bakcsy was never on the payroll of that unit, nor received any money from its_disbursing officer. The prohibition unit, however, Mr. Jones said, did transfer a “small sum of money” from its appropriation to the special intelli- gence unit of the Treasury, to be used by it in investigation of the Klorida conspiracy. Mr. Jones would not know. he said, whether the special intelligence unit had paid any of that money to Bakc BnnkiBinnrlits Attack House. FARGO, N. Dak., August 29.—Bandits raided the Farmers' State Bank of Wolford last night, sent a fusillade of bullets upon the apartment of R. H. Hopkins, two doors from the bank, obtained only a small loot and escaped. No one was injured. The cause of the attack on the apartment ‘Wwas. not, stated.” .