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WEATHER. Showers probably tonight and tomor- row, slightly warmer tonight; moderate southwest winds. Temperature for twenty-four hours ending at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 75, at noon today ; lowest, 55, at 1:30 am. to- day. Full report' on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 _ Entered as second class matter post office Washington, No. 29,350. OY SLAYERS' FATE " FIXED BY CAVERLY N SEALEDVERDT Judge Decides Fate of Leo- pold and Loeb After At- tending Church Service. LAST SUNDAY IN OLD CELLS QUIET FOR BOYS “Dickie” Blames Girls Thought Him Devilish for His Predicament. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 8.—The fate of and Richard scions of old Chicago millionaire s, who kidnapped and murdered Robert Franks last May 21, has been Nathan F. Leopold, jr., Who D. C. By the Associated Press. MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y. Septem- ber $.—The Army's round-the-world fiyers reached the aviation field here at 3:30 p.m. today from Boston. BOSTON AIRPORT, September §— The Army's world flyers took off from the airport here today at 12:02:30 p.m., beginning the series of jumps that will complete, at Seattle, the circumnavigation of the world. Weather conditions were good. They expected to arrive at Mitchel Field at 3 p.m. The flagplane Chicago, with the flight commander, Licut. Lowell H. Smith, in the pilot seat, was first away. With the new wheeled under- carrlage that replaced pontoons here yesterday, the Chicago sped down the iong shank of the “T” runway of the airport and had gained the air and | fiving speed at 12:02:30. Lieut. Smith was off with a wave of the hand, 43 seconds in advance of the Boston II, @) ¢ Foenin 7 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION n Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER® 8, 1924—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. World Flyers Reach New York After Flight From Boston Forecast of Rainstorms Moving Toward -Capital From Ohio May Delay Start From Gotham. the first of three escorting planes, was up and away a few moments later. and when the world fiyers re- turned over the airport after circling the city proper, he was up to join them. In the wake of the world cruisers was an escorting fleet of three De Havilands, two Martin bombers, and a Navy De Haviland plane, piloted by Lieut. H. A. Brow. This escort by the Navy was in- tended as its last act In its participa- tion that had taken the Navy ships and men much of the way around the world with the men of the Army. The getaway from the airport here by the world cruisers was accomplished quickly. Returning from a box lun- cheon, Lieut. Smith and his fellow fiyers clambered into their cockpits, got the word from Gen. Patrick that all was ready, taxied out and were off. They passed over Boston again and then took up the flight to New York via Providence and along the Con- necticut shore of Long Island Sound. sealed. Judge John R. Caverly has completed the decision he will render Wednesday as the last act of his connection with the criminal courts of Cook County. Upon it rests whether the youths shall die upon the gallows or grow into man- hood in the Illinois State Penitentiary, to which counsel pleaded that they be sent for life. Three sheets of ruled manila paper, containing approximately 1,000 words, 15 the decision of Judge Caverly, wril ten yesterday after, under escort of a Police guard, he had attended church. Review of Case Terse. A short, terse review of the case, the record of which reached into the thou- sands of pages, and his decision, with the official form to be added as he pro- nounces sentence, was the result of the Judge’s labor. He has stated that after his responsibility in the case has become a matter of record he will fight for at least three judges to sit in capital cases where a jury trial has been waived through a plea of guilty. Using an ordinary lead pencil and a few sheets of paper, Judge Caverly sat at the desk in his library and wrote out the document which will go down, according to legal men, as one of the most criminal jurisprudence. Today the rough draft will be turned over to a stenographer, &worn to secrecy, to be typewritten. The world will know what the tired little man wrote soon after 9:30 o'clock, central daylight saving time, ‘Wednesday morning. To Require Half Hour. At that minute in a courtroom de- void of visitors and-with only the| defendants, guards, attorneys, rela- tives of the defendants and of their 14-vear-old victim, and reporters present, Judge Caverly will mount the bench, pronounce sentence, listen to what pleas the attorneys may of- fer and adjourn court. It is planned that the entire procedure shall re- Quire about 30 minutes. After that, the jurist, retiring to the divorce court from the criminal branch, will take his first vacation in three years. - It had been Judge Caverly’s inten- tion to retire to some far-removed spot to review the Franks case and write his decision, but he explained, the nervous condition of his wife pre- vented. Mrs. Caverly was unnerved several days ago when a crank tele- phoned tos her that the judge had been shot in a cemetery where he was attending the burial of a cousin. In the Cook County jail. Loeb and Leopold spent Sunday listening to an entertainment by several profession- als. It was the last Sunday they will spend in their old cells. By next Sunday they will be either in death cells awaiting execution or in de- tention cells awaiting removal to the Joilet penitentiary. Loeb Blames Girls. Girl friends, who tried to reform him, making him “feel so devilish and mysterious instead of stupid.” was ascribed as the reason for his downfall by Loeb, it developed yes- terday when a conversation he had held with a girl schoolmate was made public. The girl friend, who called at the county jail to see Loeb recently, re- called today that she had blurted to the young college student: “Your're Just plain stupid—I'd never have be- lieved it of you “His eyes fell and the most shamed expression crossed his face—you know, being stupid is the only crime in Dickie's lexicon,” she sald. “‘If the girls, who tried to reform me had made me feel as stupid as you do, I might not be here await- ing to learn whether I'm to be hang- ed or shut away for life. The others| made me feel so devilish and mysteri- | ous, GERMAN WAR-GUILT NOTE NOT RECEIVED IN PARIS Conviction Grows That Denial of Responsibility for Struggle ‘Will Not Be Made. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 8—The note which it was reported Germany in- tended issuimg to disavow her re- sponsibility for the war, has not yet been received by the French foreign office, and there is a well defined she quoted Loeb as saying. \PARTIES WATCHING | important decisions of modern | commanded by Lieut. Lelgh Wade. The New Orleans came down the run. way to take the air at 12:03:43. The world cruisers flew off for New York, their course taking them again over Boston Common, where they assumed the formation for the 225-mile flight. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, flying AIRMEN TO AVOID RISK. Aithough Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the Army Alr Service, notified members of his staff here today that the world fiyers should be expected to reach " (Continued on Page 3, Column 2. NATSLEADATS, 41, END OF 20 INNING Walter Johnson and Baum- " gartner Oppose on Slab in Opening Tilt. MAINE VOTE TODAY Democrats Fought Campaign on Klan Issue—Balloting May Set Record. By the Associated Press, PORTLAND, Me., September 8— The largest vote in the history of Maine is expected to be cast in to- day's biennial State election in which the contest for governor, waged largely on the Ku Klux Klan issue, overshadows all other consideration. As a result of the spirited campaign just closed and the fine weather promised for polling day, party lead- ers expected all records to be broken in numbers voting. Officers of the Democratic State committee today predicted that Wil- liam R. ‘Pattargall, former State -at- torney general and Democratic can- didate for governor, would carry off | a_plurality of from 15,000 to 30,000. Tn his campaign speeches Mr. Pat- tangall denounced the Klan, point- ing to the fact that State Senator Ralph O. Brewster, his Republican opponent, was supported by the Klan in his primary campaign. G. 0. P. Equally Co nt. Chairman George L. Emery of the Republican State committee, on the other hand, predicted for Mr. Brew- ster a victory by from 25000 to 40,000 votes. The Republican candi- How They St W. L. Pct. Win. Lose. ..78 56 .582 .585 .578 .76 58 .567 .570 .563 Line-up. PHILADELPHIA: Hale, 3b. Lamar, If. Miller, .1, Washington New York. ‘WASHINGTON: Harris, b, Rice, f. Goslin, 1f, Blteror . Bluoror3b. Peck, 3. T, o Baumgartaer, ohnaos, p. - 1 Umpires—Mossrs. Hildebran aad Gounelly. BY JOHN B. KELLER. SHIBE PARK, Philadelphia, Sep- tember 8.—Pilot Harris named Walter Johnson, - premier hurler of the American League, for the mound as- signment in the Bucks' opening game of their swing around the circuit. Connie Mack, ‘lean tactician of the Athletics. started Baumgartner, left- hander of the Quaker City aggrega- tion. ‘Whether the fighting Griffs start West | Thursday night for their all-im- portant swing through the outposts of the American League as front date in his campalgn made no men. | TUNNeErs or trailing the Yankees prob- tion of the Klan, but emphasized |ably will be determined by the out- national issues and his support ot |come of the series of four games to President Coolldge. be played with the Athletics starting Leaders of both parties declared | today. that a careful canvass of the State indicated that thousands who never before took an interest in political affairs would appear at the polls to- Judged by past performances this season the Nationals while here should have little difficulty in retain- day. The largest vote cast previous- | Ing the advantage of two games they lg&;ml:rfi:-io':_?a“\':z:t‘"iv‘:OU. In the 1900 | now hold over'New York in the race United States Senator Bert M. Fer- | (°f (¢ Pennant. as the records for nald and all four Congressmen from | " o o oudate be- Maine have beem renominated by the [ tWeen the Washipgton and Phila- Republicans. Considerable inteest | delPhia clubs show a wide margin in | attached to the result of the congres- | favor of the visitors, a wider margin, | sional elections, because of possible | in fact, than New York holds over the | bearing on National politics. Red Sox, who are being played in Races Cloxely Watched. Boston by the Hugmen while the Recalling the old political proverb: | Griffmen are engaged here. “As Mai th ountry.” s Maine goes so goes the c Y. FIRST INNING. Democrats everywhere watched the result of today's voting with keen WASHINGTON—McNeely tripled to interest. Two years ago when MI.|right. Harris sacrificed to —ocenter Tattangall was Democratic nominee| McNeely scoring after the catch. Rice flied to Simpson. Goslin singled to for governor he was defeated by Per- cival P. Baxter. Republican, by a|right. Ruel out, third to first. One run. plurarity of 23457 votes in a total B vote polled of 178963, 1In 1920 the| ooy yropp £ 0 —Hale flied to Me- Republican _candidate for governor | FRMLADELPHIATHale flie fe- Miller beat out a hit to deep short. was elected by a margin of 65, 3415 and the State gave Harding for Presi- Hauser went out, Johnson o Shivey. No runs. dent later in the year a pluarity of . SECOND INNING. 67,049, The Closest vote in the congres- sional contest of 1922 was in the second district, where Congressman _WASHINGTON — Bluege Wallach H. White, Jjr. received a]Dykes threw out Peck,Bluege stopping plurality of 3,569 over Bertrand C.|at second. Shirley bounced a triple off Meclntire, who also is the Democratic | the left field stands, scoring Bluege. candidate this year. Senator Fer-|Johnson singled over Hzle's head, nald is opposed by Fulton J. Redman, | scoring Shirley. McNeely scratched a who once was elected to the State|hit through Dykes, Johnson pulling up Legislature as a Republican. at second. Johnson scored and Mec- ge;ly took unrdl on Harris' single to HAR ), ight. Rice rolled to Dykes, who CouZEHEEIY D AELGHE e e second, forcing out Harris, and got the ball to first ahead of the batter. Three runs. PHILADELPHIA—Simmons singled to center. McNeely lost Dykes' fly to deep center in the sun and it became a double, scoring Simmons. Galloway fanned. Perkins fouled to Bluege, One run. walked. Michigan Primary Election Tomor- row Has Coolidge for Issue. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, Mich, September -8.— President Coolidge will be an issue in the Republican vote for a United States senatorial candidate when Michigan residents ballot tomorrow in a state-wide primary election. On one side Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle is aligned strongly behind Coolidge and Dawes. On the other Senator James Couzens, seeking nom- HUSBAND DIES OF GAS, WIFE IS NEAR DEATH TERRIBLE PICTURE OF NEXT WAR STIRS LEAGUE DELEGATES Chemical Devices Will An- nihilate Civilians Like Sol- diers, Say Experts. LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK WOULD BE DEVASTATED MacDonald Believes League Has Begun Move to Head Off Dis- aster to Nations. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. GENEVA, September 8.—A terrible picture of destruction of great cities like London, Paris and New York, by lchemlca.u in case no effective agree- ments are reached for preventing a new war, is drawn in a report just presented by the special commission on chemical warfare of the League of Nations. This report is not considered fan- tastic or exaggerated. It is based on consultations with the following experts: Professors Cannot of Har- vard, Zanetti of Columbia Univer- sity, Mayer of Paris, Angel of Florence, Pfeiffer of Breslau, Bordet of Brussels, Madsen of Copenhagen and Paterno of Rome. The experts agree that the next war will treat civilians the same as soldiers, and that it will striks at great cities by long-range guns and aircraft. They fear peoples fail to realize the awful dangers by which they are threatened. Protection of combatants against gases will be difficult, and protection of civillans almost impossible. No Limit to Devastation. While there is no conceivable limit to the power, efficacy and variety of chemical warfare, the principal chem- icals already used are tear gas, which blinds temporarily; sneeze gas, which causes uncontrollable sneezing, in- tolerable headaches and fits of suffo- cation; mustard gas, which blisters the skin, eats away the mucous mem- branes, and penetrates the earth and clothing and is dangerpus for days: asphyxiating gas, which kills by hemorrhage of the lungs, and syncope- toxic gas, which kills by instant paralysis. All ‘of the gases are fatal if highly concentrated, and, even In cases that are not fatal, if the lungs are affected the bad effects are lifelong. Furthermore, the possibility le seri- ously considered of dropping disease germs in glass globes on cities from aircraft, and Prof. Cannot thinks whole harvests could be ravaged by ‘similarly ecattering parasites. All of rthe!e chemicals are easy to produce, a nd factories can be turned from peace to -war ‘overnight, which fact, says Prof. Zanetti, “introduces an element of fear and distrust toward a chem- ically powerful nelghbor that can easily be understood by those famil- tar with the possibilities of chemical warfare.” Gives Vast Superiority. Prof. Mayer adds: “It gives immense superiority to a power with hostile intentions. An injurious substance studied In secret and manufactured in large quantities, launched unexpect- edly against any unprepared popula- tion, can completely destroy every shadow of resistance.” The report concludes that it may be said that chemical attacks by (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ZR-3 ROUTE PICKED VIA NORTH TO U. §. Naval Tender to Take Station Off Greenland—Dirigible to Start by September 20. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, September 8.—The dirigl- ble ZR-3, built in Germany for this Government by the Zeppelin Com- pany, will come to this country by the Northern Atlantic route this month, it was learned at the Charles- town navy yvard today. The tender Patoka, which has been serving the airship Shenandoah with her special- ly designed mooring mast, was pre- paring to leave here tomorrow to meet the dirigible. The Patoka’s orders are to arrive about 300 miles south of Cape Fare- well, Greenland, not later than Sep- tember 15. The ZR-3 is due to leave Frierichshafen about September 20, and the Patoka will be on hand off Greenland to proffer her services should the new dirigible’s command- ed find a midocean stop necessary. Commander George J. Meyers is in command of the Patoka. Departure of the Zeppelin ZR-3 for America now depends upon delivery of her engines with the latest modifi- cations, naval observers at Friedrich- shafen, where she is under construc- tion for the American Government, reported today to the Navy Depart- ment. Not until then, the dispatch said, will the airship be taken on the 35-hour flight which is to be her final test before starting the transatlantic journey. It was estimated, however, that the date of departure would not be later than Séptember 20. opininion that such a document will forthcoming. Official information given out today, | er, was to the effect that should | Thowe in foreign office quarters not be ination for the first time (he went to the Senate by appointment of Gev. Groesbeck) has stated he also favors Coolidge, but he has been attacked Police Believe He Turned On Jet in Despondency While such a note reach the Quai D'Orsay during a strenuous campaign because The second trial flight of nine hours was even more successful than the first, the report said. Traveling over Gabenburg, Stuttgarts, Nuremburg #nd Munich, the airship “behaved ex- a reply quoting the treaty of Ver- sailles as to responsibility for the | war should be immediately dispatched | to Berlin. B —— WOMAN, 102, Has 183 Descendants. BALDWIN, N. Y., September §.— Mrs. Hannah Eldred entertained 80 of her 183 descendants yesterday in honor of her 102d birthday by! dancing a jig with which they used | to enliven the Virginia reel when she was young. She said she could dance like that,| peveral times a week if birthdays After the jig she ate pickled beets and cold only came often enough. n cuts. [2 DANCES JIG. | Afterward She Eats Pickled Beets; his vote on several measures was registered against the President. His political adversaries also have sought to make capital of his failure to give positive indorsement to the Repub- lican vice presidential candidate, stress being laid on the possibility of the presidential election being thrown into Congress. Wet and Dry Issue Up An effort to inject the wet and dry issue has been made through the en- dorsement by the Anti-Saloon League of Judge Tuttle and an attack by the league on Senator Couzens' wet lean- ings, although Senator Couzens has declared he favors prohibition en- forcement. On the State ticket seven men are seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination, with Gov. Alex Groes- beck asking a third term. Democratic candidates generally are unopposed, cove She Slept. Hubert Randolph, 28, died today frém gas poisoning at Casualty Hos. pital, where his wife is in a serious condition and unconscious from the same cause. Randolph and his wife, Mrs. Gladys Randolph,, were, found .in ,their, room, | at 154 East Capltol atreet, yesterday morning by a roomer in the house, who had emelled gas. Two Tiotes wers found, both apparently written by Randolph, in which he stated that he had come' home at 12:45 and “Ms wife had just gotten in. One note declared that he loved his wite “better than anything -else in| the world,” and.indicated despondency as the reason for suicide In the words, “I am tired.” Police belleve that he turned on the gas while his wife slept and then went to bed himself. Mrs Randolph has a slight.chance to re. it was said at the hospital, cellently, and there was no trouble found in any of her equipment. — e GLASS HITS DAVIS TOUR. Does .Not, Approve of Candidate’s Policy, Senator Says. tfal Dispateh to The Star. "e!eucnuoun, Va., September 8.— Senator, Carter Glass, in a letter to & man in' this city, says that he sees little chance for getting into the campaign this Fall and that his phy- sician is not at all encouraging along that line. Senator Glass says he is delighted With the reports that are coming in of the campaign being con- ducted by the Democrats, but he says he does not much approve the idea of the presidential candidate swinging around ard mi & speeches, League Peace Plan Is Europe’s - Desperate Move to Avert War Visible and Invisible Dangers Marked on Many Sides—Full Co-operation of U. S. Held Essential. BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. Correspondent of The Star and the Chicago Daily News. (For 20 years Edward Price Bell, an American born and trained news- paper man, represented American newspapers in London. He came to know intimately all of the statesmen of England and many of those of oth- er countries. Therefore his interpre- tation of events at Geneva and threats of war in various parts of the world is that of a recognized authority.y Even the most stable and tranquil parts of Europe are shaky and nerv- ous.. Not one of the essentials of peace has been established. Inter- allied debts still threaten. Five-sixths of the total inhabitants of the globe, their voices heard through the delegates of 54 nations in the assembly at Geneva, are calling for a reduction of armaments, but practical statesmen see the ground FALL ASHS HALTG OF NEW O PRBE Declares Grand Jury Inquiry Is Blind to Secure Evi- dence for Prosecution. Albert B. Fall of New Mexico, for- mer Secretary of the Interfor, today made an attempt in the District Su- preme Court to halt the Government's new probe into the ofl situation which has been in progress before the Federal grand jury for the past week. Through Attorney Henry A. Wise of New York and Cooke & Bene- mann of Washington the former Sec- retary charges that abuse of the process of the court is being made by Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob- erts, special counsel for the United States in the oil prosecutions, by summoning witnesses before the grand jury on a “fishing expedition.” In his petition Mr. Fall asks that subpeonas already issued be quashed and the proceedings stopped. Justice Siddons issued a rule on the Government’s special counsel to show cause tomorrow why the proceeding before the grand jury should not be stopped. Lists Many Complaints, Mr. Fall points out in proof of his clalm that the proceeding before the grand jury is not for the purpose of securing additional indictments, but to gather evidence to bolster up the Government's charges, both in the criminal cases against Fall and othere and in the civil proceedings before Western courts to recover oil lands held in lease that during the session of the grand jury a stenogra- pher has been present who is not an attorney, nor an assistant to the at- torney general. Any indictment re- ported by a grand jury when an out- sider was present during the taking of testimony would not be legal, it is claimed, and the fact that the services of this court reporter have been used by Pomerene and Roberts proves they do not seek an indictment, but are looking only for evidence and using the power of the grand jury to make persons bring papers before that body which the counsel could not otherwise require to be shown. ‘Among the witnesses summoned and whose use Mr. Fall seeks to prevent are C. E. Crawley, vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Ofl Corpora- tion; R. W. Stewart, a director of the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Com- pany and A. E. Humphreys, formerly president of the Humphreys Mexia Company. Delay in Proceedings. Mr. Fall insists that the proceeding here is similar to one recently con- ducted by the same Government at- torney in New York City, where wit- nesses were called before the grand jury and no indictment secured. Attorney Wise had expected the oil inquiry would proceed today and had asked the court to issue a rule forth- with, but no learning that no wit- nesses were expected until Wednes- day changed his request and took a rule returnable tomorrow. Radio Programs—FP; agel'i- buried deep in obstructions that must be removed before this ideal can be more than an ideal. Stirring scenes have been enacted within the past week at Geneva. MacDonald and Herriot were given ovations by the earnest and deeply moved delegates of the assembly of the League of Nations. And. both premiers talked business. They did not wring their hands in the presence of difficulties. They did not waste time talking about difficulties, great as these are. They propose clear- cut work toward a feasible scheme of compulsory arbitration, national se- curity and progressive disarmament. Ruseia to Join Later. Russia was not there, but Russia will be; it is only a question of time. Germany was not there, but she will be—and probably very soon. And al- ready her leading statesmen, espe- clally Chancellor Marx, are reiterat- ing their devotion to the ideals of (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) LABOR HEADS MEET LA FOLLETTE HERE Discuss Means of Co-Ordi- nating Forces Behind Ticket in November. BY . GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Robert M. La Follette, head of the third ticket, today met with influential leaders of organized labor at the La Follette-Wheeler head- quarters in the Machinist Building. The labor leaders, who had gath- ered here for a conference over ways and means of co-ordinating the forces of labor in behalf of the Independent Progressive ticket, gave the Wiscon- sin Senator a hearty welcome and Senator La Follette addressed the gathering. With much impartiality, Senator La Follette rapped the Republicans and Democrats, insisting that the big questiow in the presidential cam- paign is: “Are the American people strong enough to possess themselves of the government originally designed for them?" “One of the fundamental issues in this campaign,” he continued, “is the high cost of living, as it was in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson clearly defined it in understandable terms. “Shall the people of America con- tinue to be subjected to the control of special interests which crack the whip in the corridors of the Capitol, swagger in the White House, dictate appointments in the cabinet and con- trol the markets of the country? These powers have been in controt, otherwise we would not have had a Palmer and we would not have had a Daugherty in the councils of the nation.” Senator La Follette called atten- tion to the false basis of reckoning “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 papers are printed. b. 0. P. CONGERNED OVER BUTLER ACT Chairman’s Indorsement of Gillett for Senate Causes Consternation. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. (Staff Correspondent of The Star.) { NEW YORK, September 8.—Con-| sternation has been created among Re- publican leaders here by the action of William S. Butler, chairman of the Re- publican national committee, in indors- | ing speaker Gillett of the House of | Representatives for the Republican | nomination for the United States Senate | in the Massachusetts primary election | to be held Tuesday. The explicit in- dorsement of the speaker by Chairman Butler in face of the candidacy of Rep- resentative Dallinger and of Louis A. Coolidge, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, not only has caused a| sensation, but has created alarm as to | the possible effect. It has likewise | served to raise a question in the minds | of Republicans as to the danger of the possibility of Chairman Butler “pulling | a bone” under more important circums | stances. It is remembered that Chairman Butler's course at the Cleveland con- vention gummed up the cards on the vice presidential nomination. The | thing the Republica.is are most afraid | of now is the possibility of tactical mistakes being made in the campaign, and Chairman Butler's action does not serve to abate the apprehension. A bitter factional fight exists over the Republican nomination for the senatorship in New Jersey, the out- come of which, as has been pointed | out in The Star's special dispatches, | may affect the presidential campaign. | It is thought that New Jersey Re- publicans will not view with equa- nimity the interposition of Chairman Butler in the Massachusetts primary campaign. Protest Causes Attention. = The vigorous protest of Representa- tive Dallinger against Chairman But- ler's action attracted widespread at- tention here today. Mr. Dallinger ex- pressed the fear that Mr. Butler's course will drive fair-minded Repub- licans from the party if they believe “the Republican party has become boss-ridden.” Mr. Coolidge, in his dignified statement, is quoted as say- ing that Mr. Butler had no authority to speak for the President, and cites a recent statement of the President that it would be manifest impropriety for him to take side in the primaries. Republicans here are looking for- ward to the elections in November with concern, well posted leaders be- ing not at all over confident that Sen- ator Walsh is doomed to defeat for re-election. They are disturbed by the suggestion voiced by Mr. Dal- linger that independent Republicans may resent Chairman Butler's course and vote for Walsh. Capital for Foes. It is expected that New Jersey Democrats and the La Follette men in that State will seize upon the Massachusetts incident to make capi- tal against the alleged “close cor- poration” tendency of the Republican party. Today's balloting in Maine is being watched with tense interest by the Republican leaders here. Getting down to brass tacks, they are pinning their hopes of a victory for the State ticket on an expected landslide of Coolidge sentiment. Last hour reports are conflicting as to the probable outcome of the election. While the Republicans are stoutly claiming that the Maine (Gontinued on Page 2, Column 2.) Prince Finds Kings Don’t Rank High In Democracy—Except in Pairs BY ROBERT T. SMALL. NEW YORK, September 8.— Several mysterious nocturnal ab- sences on the part of the Prince of Wales lately have led to the sus- piclon In some of our best Long Islang circles that the young heir to ‘the British throne may have been studying surreptitiously the American view of the relative im- portance of kings and queens—to say nothing of Jacks and 10-spots . The prince must be convinced by this time that a lone king doesn’t amount to much unless he happens to partake of the nature of a royal flush, or unless he chances to help make things “stralght” Most Americans prefer their kings in patrs or trios. Some have been known to welcome them most heartliyj when, like angels’ visits, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) they have arrived four at a time. It was reported, with all ‘the trimmings of verisimilitude, before the prince arrived in this country for a fortnight's hollday that he had expressed a desire to “sit in” at a real poker game. Poker is not unknown in England. As a matter of fact when an English- man once learns poker it is ex- tremely difficult to break him of the habit. Also it is reliably re- ‘ported that poker is not an entire stranger to the Western provinces of Canada, where lies the prince’s own wild Western ranch. In any event, the prince has been rather mysterious about his poker intentions. When some of the newspaper men who first greeted him asked “how come,’ the prince in the best vernacular of the day replied out of the cor- ner of his mouth: “Cut that out” {fire of both sides. iturday’s Circulation, 87,472 Sunday’s Circulation, 96,730 TWO CENTS. CIVIL AR IN CHINA GROWS OVERNIGHT 10 GREAT STRUGGLE Manchuria to Fight Peking Government and Canton Is Threatening. PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES WORK OF KIANGSU ARMY Chang Tso-Lin Declares Recog- nized Rulers of Nation Are Heartless Tyrants. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, September 8.—Armies of Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, war lord of Manchuria, were in the field today sweeping down from Manchuria toward Peking against the forces of Gen. Wu Pei-fu his old military rival, to create a new front in China’s civil war, which has been confined to fighting west and south of Shanghal, between rival mili- tary governors for the possession of the gateway city. The latest military gesture in China's Internal complications will make the territory between Mukden, principal city of Manchuria, and Peking in Chihli province, an armed camp, 1,000 miles away from the Shanghai line of warfare. Long Front Expected. Out of a series of reports today there was an indication that military orders issued from Peking showed that ac- tivities were under way in provinces dividing the separated fields of battle and before many hours the area from Shanghai to Pekinz would be one con- nected point of conflict, 750 miles in length. On the battle lines west and south of Shanghai, added fury was given to the fighting over Sunday by ghe extension of the battle line southwest across Taihu Lake at Changhing, 100 miles southwest of Shanghai to Liuho, 30 miles northwest of here. Claim Advances. Advances on all fronts, but par- ticularly west of Taihu (Lake) and near Kiating, in the Liuho sector, were claimed tonight at the Lungwha headquarters of the Chekiang troops holding back the Kiangsu advance on Shanghai. The second army, under command of Gen. Chen Yao-san, including the 4th Division and part of the 10th Di- vision of the Chekiang troops, as well as some forces from Fukien province, south of Chekiang, has been fighting on the west side of Taihu since yes- terday, attacking northward from Changhing, about 15 miles south of the provincial border. If this move can be carried out the Chekiang generals plan to attack thn Kiangsu troops simultaneously on two sides—on the west from Chang. chow, and on the east from Hwangtu, a present point of battle contact oy the railway. The objective of this attack is thg city of Changchow, on the Shanghaie Nanking Railway and the Grand Cae nal. Capture of that city would pers mit the Chekiang forces to cut the railway in the rear of the Kiangsu forces attacking Shanghai. That campaign. however, still is somewhat in the future. On the ba- sis of reports from the campaign west of Taihu today, Pak Loh, secretary to Ho Feng-Lin, defense commissioner of Shanghai, predicted the capture of Thing, about a ozen miles nort of the Kiangsu border, either today or tomorrow. Liuho ,Under Shell Fire. Livho was under heavy shell fire and continuous machine gun and rifie Gen, Ho Feng- Ling, defense commissioner of Shang- hai under Lu Yung-Hsien, the gov- ernor of Chekiang, spent the day in this sector, personally directing the Chekiang army. The Chekiang dead and wounded there vesterday numbered perhaps 200. The number of casualties con- tinues out of proportion to the tre- mendous amount of firing. The eye- witness related the haphazard meth- ods on the front lines, eaying that the soldiers were discharging rifles and even field pieces utterly regard- less of aiming, often simply pointing them at the sky. Lungwha headquarters of the Che- jkiang army claimed new gains along the railway. Desperate attacks were aimed at Anting. Driving for Railroad., Only the meagerest reports were received of the fighting, west and southwest of Taihu Lake, where the Kiangsu troops were said to be driv- ing for the Sungkiang-Hangshow Rail- way. The Chekiang Lungwha headquar- ters had not confirmed reports that two whole battalions of Kiangsu troops had deserted and joined the enemy, bringing with _them their arms _and equipment. Neither were the Shanghai settlement police able to confirm the rumor that Kiangsu supporters were secretly recruiting in Shanghai a regiment of “riffraft” | to strike at the rear of the Chekans army as soon as the Kiangsu forces score gains against Woosung, a su- burb. Although the invading armies of Chi Shieh-yuan, military governor of Kiangsu Province, have been battling for four days against the defending forces of Gen. Lu Yung-hsiang, mili- tary governor of Chekiang Province, for possession of Shanghai, no de- cisive battle has been fought. Inspired by Peking. Belated officlal permission of the Peking government to the invading forces of the Kiangsu governor to proceed announced yesterday, was sald to have prompted the move by Gen, Chang Tso-lin; an ally of Lu Yung-hsiang. Wu Pei-fu commands the military forces of the Peking government. The basis of the order against Lu Yung-Hsiang from Peking was that he had revolted and rallied around him outlawed elements of the popu- lation. and that Chi had stood for the gravest crimes w.lch cannot be tolerated under the laws of the Chi- nese nation. “From south Ghina reports were re- ceived that Dr. Sun Yat Sen was pre- paring to lend military support to his friend Lu Yung-hslang, in de- fending Shanghai and a new army was therefore expected to bob up in the field from the south today. Entrance of the Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin into the fray against the Peking government opens anew & fight for control of the machinery of Wm i~