Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 2

s » SCHOONER BURNS AFTER GAS BLAST Broken Barrel Causes Explo- sion on Potomac River Boat. Two Aboard Escape. The tw Foote wi north of of the tar i masted schooner Jennie L. troyed by fire two miles ‘miths Point, at the mouth stomac River, last night when s excaping from a brok- me in contact with lamp in the captain's 1sed an explosion. C. Lo n L. Grey, skipper rooner, respective- s aboard and v le & the boat without el abe ted cabin and ¢ Thompson and Edw nd mate of the 1y the they - bu v The ger min the after a ni oars. M oo ants and Miners® er Kershaw, hooner, which point for about 20 minute the explosion, rushed to the anee -w, which by th's wa the Marvland In so it round, but will be lighted up | aboa ran a I hE n ptain, he and n deck about the schooner, which years old, was moving the water by means of sail r. Suddenly flames were watside the cabin, and ned the door. He lamp which over- kerosene ran down 1 instant his hand 1 was severely burned could extinguish the A md later a 50-gallon tank on deck exploded, and of tar gas barrels the 8 oelock was throt an the a L ting lowered a t with their sel. A were picked up into Baltimore by the Marsland. Thompson Murphy Hospital, Balti- Grey was uninjured. taken aboard in Balttmore v added 108 more to the napolis. It left the latter erday morning at 3:30 o'clock jack Bay, Va. The live at Piankiatank, roy a another boat Thompson's—the Eva in command of J. B. ¢ father of C. L. Thomp- storm off Cedar Point, \d sank. All aboard RUSSIAN REPUBLIC SUTIS DISHISSED Supreme Court Lacks Juris- diction in Case Involving Status of Soviet. ago Were saved. The Supreme Court dismissed to- day for want of jurisdiction a case against the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republicd brought by M. Wulf- n & Co. raising the question whether the Soviet can be sued in the courts of this country. The plaintiff sought to recover for property it alleged the Russian Soviet Jiepublic had taken. The New York State courts held that the Russian government existed, although it had not been recognized by this govern- ment, but that it could not be sued without its consent. Troops Fight On, Ignorant of War End at Shanghai By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI October 13.— Che- klang forces holding defense lines west of Shanghal, unaware that they were fighting for a lost cause, uninformed that un armistice had been signed last night in which thelr leader virtually admitted de- feat, continued firing Into the enemy lines this afternoon. A train from Nansiang, 12 miles west of here, brought In 300 Che- kiang soldlers, who, when ap- prised of the turn of events, Jjoined other Chekiang troops at the railway station north of here, where an improsnptu auction of clothing and equipment was hold. A number of military motor cars were knocked down to bidders for $10 and upwards. EFFICENGY RATING WORK COMPLETED Bureau to Submit Report to Department Heads This Week for Consideration. An efficiency rating, by which all employes in_the civil service in the District of Columbia will be “welghed in the balance” after November 15, has been practically completed by the | Bureau of Efficiency, and will be sub- mitted to all departments and estab- lishments of the Government this week. This was announced today by Har- old N. Graves, member of the Per- sonnel Classification Board and of the staff of the Bureau of Efficiency, | who said the Government chlefs will be asked to constder the proposed new rating, and return to the Bureau of ficiency their commments. The rating will then be finally agreed to, and submitted to the Personnel Classification Board, which has the power under the classlfica- tion act to “review and revise.” Changes in salaries of employes may be made by departmental heads after November 15, when it is ex- pected the new system will go into effect. Some Unaffected. The new rating will not affect all of those persons who have been classifled under the classification act, but will operate only on those in the civil service who, however, con- stitute a large army of Uncle Sam's workers in this city, The matter which will be sub- mitted to the department and estab- | lishment heads this week will probably go forward by Wednesday, Mr. Graves estimates. Tt will include one sheet | of the efficiency rating form itself, and meveral pages of typewritten matter, containing a complete descrip- tion of the system developed. Govern- ment chiefs will be asked, to scrutinize the rating and return to the Bureau of Efficiency, with the frankest comment based on their best judgment. Already many of the lower grades of the civil service in this city are working under an efficiency rating, 50 _the problem of the Bureau of Efficiency has been to extend a 8sys- tem for the higher grades, and ar- range to make the system uniform in principle throughout. Workers May View Ratings. A new departure, however, in ef.| ficiency ratings of Giovernment em- | ployes will be employed when this| new system is put into effect, as, un- der the classificatlon act, each em- ploye will be permitted to see his own efliciency rating card and ob- Railrond Sult Loxt. Western rallroads lost in the Su- preme Court today their fight to com- pel the Terminal Rallroad Association 4t St. Louis to revise its present prac- s The Western roads had econtended that although some of them had | proprietory interests in the Terminal Association, the Eastern railroads were given material advantages over them in the matter of terminal charges. The Terminal Association was held by the Supreme Court mot to be in contempt, as charged, because of fail- ure to carry into effect the mandate of that cou issued in the case in which it was found to be a combina- tion in violation of the anti-trust law. The substance of the court's opin- ion w that questions relating to the reasonableness of charges and the division of rates should be sub- mitted in the first instance to the In- terstate Commerca Commission be- use the questions were legislative and not judicial. In advance of ac- tion by the commission the court re- fused to go into the merits of the con- troversy. ‘Will Grant Appeal. Supreme Court announced ould grant an appeal in a estioning the right of the Corporation of America to bring suit licensee of the De Forest adio Telephone and Tele- graph Company against the Inde- pendent Wircless Telegraph Com- pany for alleged infringement of a patent owned by the De Forest Compan he T The today case Radic it deral Circuit Court of Ap- in New York held that under exclusive license with the De Forest Company to use its patents for commercml wircless telegraphy, the Radio Corporation had the right to institute infringement proceedings. The De Forest Company was joined as an unwilling party to the suits. The Supreme Court today refused to Teview the conviction of R. H. Clements and other former employes of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe kailroad on the charge of con- spiracy to obstruct the mails and in- terfere with interstate commerce dur- ing the shopmen's strike in 1922. Appeals will be granted, the Supreme Court announced today, in cases involv- ing the right of the Federal Government to collect income taxes from bankrupt companies and corporations ahead of general creditors, when those compos- ing failed partnerships have invested all of their assets in the concerns. HARRY WAGNER EXPIRES. Harry Wagner, 40 years of age, a banker of Jackson, Wyo., and long a resident of Washington, died Sunday morning at Idaho Falls, Idaho, after an_operation. Mr. Wagner was born in Washington and was a_graduate of Business High School of this city. Shortly after leav- ing £chool he went to Cody, Wyo., with “Euffalo Bill" Cody, where he engaged in the banking business. Not long after the death of “Buffalo BNI" Mr. ‘Wagner moved to Jackson, Wyo., and at the time of his death was manager and cashier of the Jackson State Bank at that place. The funeral will be held from his home in Jackson. Mr, Wagner is survived by his widow, Mrs. Beatrice Scott ‘Wagner, formerly of Buffalo, N. Y.; his father, Willlam Wagner_ of this city, and six sisters, Mrs. L. F. C. Heintz, Mrs. Delmas C. Stutler, Mrs. E. P. Hutchinson, Mrs. Frank B. Wal. lace and Mrs. Elmer L. Irey, all of this eity, and Mrs. A. F. Kwis of Cleveland, Ohio, s‘ |are ailocated, and (d) dismissal” serve how his chief has handled his case. | Concerning this privilege for em- ployes, the classification act specif cally says: “The current ratings for each grade or class thereof shall be open to inspection by the represepta- tives of the board and by the em- ployes of the department under con- ditions to be determined by the board after consultation with the depart- ment heads.” Authority to department heads to make drastic changes in salary after November 15 s contalned in this paragraph in the classification act: “‘Reductions in compensation and | dismissals for inefficiency shall be made by heads of departments in all cases whenever the efficiency ratings warrant, as provided herein, subject to the approval of the board.” May Make Promotioms. Promotions, likewise, will be made within the grades on the basis of the new efficiency rating. 1In fact, the specific language of the act says that the new rating “shall set forth the degree of efficiency which shall constitate ground for (a) increase in the rate of compensation for em- vloyes who have not attained the maximum rate of the class to which their positions are allocated, (b) con- tinuance at the existing rate of com- vensation for employes who at the time are above the minimum rate for the class to which their positions November 15 is the date under which employes have been rated semi- annually under the previous system of efficiency rating, and It is expected that Government chiefs will go over their entire lists immediately after that date, provided the new system is ready by that time. There is every indication at the present time that | the Bureau of Efficiency and the Per- osnnel Classification Board will have promulgated the new system in ample leelsfor the rating to begin Novem- er 15. MARTIN RITES:THURSDAY.. { dent (G TO OBSERVE NAVY DAY OCT. 21 Will Share in National Dem- onstration Planned by Department Chiefs. Plans are being developed by the Navy Department and the Navy League for bix demonstrations | throughout the country on the third annual observance of Navy day, which this year fs to be on October 27 Ships in the vicinity of Wash- ington will be “dressed” for the occa- sion, and visitors will be urged to visit them. The air forces in the city also will_give a demonstration. Secretary Wilbur _will deliver a radio address from Washington, and will place a wreath on the statue of John Jaul Jones here. Admiral R. E. Coontz, commander in chief of the fleet, will speak at Salt Lake Cit Admiral E. W. Eberle, chief of operations, at Littie Rock and Fort Smith, Ark.; Rear Admiral Wil- liam A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, at Minneapolis; Rear Admiral H. T. Mayo at Chicago; Rear Admiral 8 E. W. Kittelle at Chatta- nooga, Tenn., and Rear Admiral New- ton McCully ‘at Charleston, S. C. Governors to Assist. Forty-one State chairman have ac- -epted invitations to serve in furthe ng the celebration; 27 governors have agreed to give y day official notice. In all coast cities a salt water tinge will be given the celebrations by active participation of naval units. Naval vessels have been assigned to different ports and “dressed ships” will welcome thousands of visitors and exercises and ceremonies of a naval character will mark the day. Air- planes of the naval air squadrons will help to carry a message to in- land clties and towns throughout the The training station at la, Fla, will send winged messengers through Georgia, Ala- bama, Loulsiana and Florida in ob- servance of the day. The central sec- tion of the country will be covered in extended flights by naval and Ma- rine Corps aircraft. starting from polnts as far westward as Minne- way easteward to the Atlantic coast. Richmond, Baltimore and Norfolk ill glimpse the represeutatives of the aerial Navy, as will New York State and New England. o NORRIS’ ATTITUDE CREATES FUROR IN NEBRASKA PARTIES (Continued from First Page.) decline to be drawn into a discussion of national candidates during the campaign. The Republican organizatlon, it was said today, will go right ahead sup- porting Senator Norris. It will take the position that Senator Norris has given a: rances by his statement that he will vote for Gen. Dawes for Vice President, provided the State! casts its vole for the Republican ticket. This, it will be said, is satis- factory. There are Republicans of the stal- wart variety in Nebraska who do not like Senator Norris, and who will like him still less because of his failure to say that he would vote for the Republican nominee for Vice Presi- if the Senate has to make the choice. of th tepublicans will vote axainst Norris. But Senator Norris is believed to be sure of vic- tory over his Democratic opponent, John J. Thomas. He is tremendously strong with the farmers and with the workers generally throughout the tate. In fact, the La Follette people are hoping that the men and women who vote for Norris will vote for their ticket. They are suggesting as often as they can that “a vote for Norris will be a vote for La Follette,” and vice versa. The Norris statement regarding the vice presidency is not such a direct blow at the Republicans as has been lealt by Senator Brookhart of lowa. But it is hailed by opponents of Coolidge and Dawes as a failure on the part of Senator Norris to indorse the Republican ticket. Senator Norris has made it plain that if the choice in the Senate is between Dawes the Republican and Bryan the Democrat, then he will vote for Mr. Bryan, provided Nebraska goes Democratic. He will vote for Gen. Dawes provided the State goes Republican. And in the event that the choice in the Senate should be between Dawes and Wheeler, the third ticket candidate, or between Bryan and Wheeler, and the Independent Progressives win in Nebraska. then Mr. Norris will vote for Wheeler. What could be' more impartial? On the other hand, if the State goes Republican, then the La Follette group in the Senate, and the Demo- crats, if they hope to have the sup- port of the Progressive Mr. Norris in a coalition to defeat Dawes, will hope in vain. Should Nebraska cast its electoral vote for La Follette and Wheeler, as it may yet do, and the Republican and Democratic nominees for Vice President receive the highest number of electoral votes throughout the country, thereby winning the right to be balloted for in the Senate, Senator Norris will, under his state- ment, retain the right to decide whether he shall vote for Bryan or i for Dawes. Respects People’s Demands. Senator Norris in his statement made it clear that he regarded the latest vote of the people as a mandate which should be followed. It is in line, as he explained, with the fight he has been making for years to-have the “lame duck” sesslons of Congress Bervices to Be Held Here for Flyer Meeting Death in TC-2. Funeral services for Lieut Bruce N. Martin, Army Air Service, who dled from injurles recelved at Langley Fleld, Va., when the TC-2 was blown up last Friday, will be held at Hines Chapel, 2901 Fourteenth street, Thurs- day afternoon at 2 o'clock. They will be private and the body will be cre- mated. Lieut. Martin was a native of New York and a graduate of Union Uni- versity. After five years' service in the National Guard of New York and alflwnsnlnglon. he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Regular A in October, 1917. In the following year he was assigned to the Alr Service, and served at San Antonlo, Tex. Columbia, S. C.; Lee Hall, Va.; Mineola, N. Y.; Mitchel Field, N. Y.; Ross Fleld, Calif.; Aberdeen, Md., and Langley Field, Va. He was rated as an air- ship pilot September 1, 1920, and commanded various airship and bal- loon compantes. New York Horse Show Open. NEW YORK, October 13.—~More than 1,000 horses from the stables of the most prominent breeders and owners of this cnunt? and Canada were entered In the Natlonal Horse Show which opened here today. The show, which is being held under the auspices of the National Horse Show Assoclation, will continue until Sat- urday night, SR eliminated and the newly elected Con- gress begin to function as soon as possible after it has been chosen by the people. He has proposed a con- stitutional amendment to bring about this end, and twice his resolution has been passed by the Senate by the necessary two-thirds vote. But twice it has been held up in the House. It is the old Senate—the present Senate—that must select a Vice Pres- ident should the electoral college fail to do so. In other words, it is the “lame duck” Senate which must make the selection. That, Senator Norris does not belleve is as it should be. Under the constitutional limitation the selection of Vice President by the Senate must be made between the two candidates who have received the highest number of electoral votes. In the House the choice for President is between the three candidates who have received the greatest number of votes. Senator Norris' suggestion that members of the House should be can- vassed also regarding how they would vote in the event of the elec- tion of a President being feft to that body has sent a cold chill down some backs, Here in Nebraska the six members of the House are evenly divided between the Democratic and the Republican parties. If they stick to their party lines, Nebraska will be unable to cast a vote for President. If Senator Norris' theory should be applied to other Senators what would be the ' position of Senator Brook- hart of Jowa, whe has sunk his Pro- gressive teeth into Gen. Dawes? If Iowa sghould ga Republican could. apolis and Omaha, and winging thetr | | has been ANATOLE FRANCE DEAD IN PARIS; NATION PROFOUNDLY IMPRESSED Writer Is Rated Best In- terpreter of French People’s Character. Style Marked by Great Lu- cidity, Simplicity and Forcefulness. By the Associated Press, PARIS, Octeber 13.—The death at Tours of Anatole France created a profound impression throughout the country and the newspapers print columns about his life and works. The aged writer's long struggle against death had heen watched with intense interest and admiration. His vitality amazed the doctors. Weeks ago they announced that his end was but & question of hours, yet he held his own and even made surprising rallies, Almost to the last he main- tained consclousness and lucidity. Only yesterday he lapsed into semi- consciousness, murmuring in a faint voice from time to time “I am dying,” and calling for his mether. The end cama peaccfully, without a struggle, shortly before midnight, in the presgnce of his wife and his faith- ful physiclan, while Lucien Psychari, his little grandson, who is also the grandson of thé late Ernest Renan, slept in an adjoining room. Not National Funeral. The desire of the French govern- ment to give M. France a natlonal funeral cannot be realized as parlia- ment {8 not in session, making it im- nossible to pass the special act which would be necessary to aceord national honors to the famous author. The state will, therefore, assume the costs of the funeral, as it did in the casc of the famous statesman, Leon Gambetta, who died when parlia- ment wWas not sitting. “INTERPRETER” OF FRANCE. Writer Showed Nation's Real Life | as Devoted, Spiritual. In the passing of Anatole France, there is lost to France and to the whole world the genius of a man who, as interpreter of the French spirit during the past 50 years, has been without a rival. He wrote for France, but the whole world read him, and the | world united in commending him in heartfelt phrases on the occasion of his 80th birthday, April 16, 1924. | Anatole France: showed to the world | the real France, compassionate, de-| voted, brilliant and spirftual, and he | dese ed as the ultimate flowering of French genius. Ramsay MacDonald said of him in 1924: ‘There 18 not any living writer who | is so fully appreciated in hiy own | country, or who has interpreted in so durable a manner the luminous| beauty and human sympathy of | French gens.” The writings of Anatole France are known for their imaginative and deli- cate grace, the simplicity of his and its beantiful translucency imagination France once said the imagination, with sows all the beauty and the virtue in the world. We are great only through our imagination Serious About Small Thisgs. France was a great French literary master, yet he was a very human man, given to gossip, serious about small things, light-hearted about weighty mat- ters, tolerant, kindly and just, and a most charming conversationalist. Thus he came to be called “le bon maitre” by his friends. France achieved his wonderful mastery of the French language by hard work. It is related of him that his first proofs from the printer were only the beginning. He rewrote his matter time and time again, “weed- ing” us he called it, changing sen- tonces ruthlessly and with shears changing the position and sequence of sentences. “It is a matter,” he once said to a friend, “of tearing up the ugly ‘that’ ‘which,’ ‘whose,’ ‘of which’ and ‘of whom." “These, my young friend, give a stift-necked air to the best style Banish also the semi-colon, that bas- tard period which is neither period nor comma. It was exactly the thing for an age of compliments, harangues and funeral orations. It marked a rest before the period. Now we are in the age of the telephone and the telegraph. Shorten a sentence when- ever you can. And one always can. The most beautiful sentence? The shortest Great Literary Sl ¥Beware of sentences too spaclous, too melodious. First they cradle you and then they rock you to sleep. Pay no attention to transition. The best way to hide from the reader the mo- ment of passage Is to jump quickly without beating about the bush. Senator Brookhart reasonably be ex- pected to vote for Dawes for Vice President? Of course, he might choose Dawes as & lessor of two evils. But Mr. Brookhart has made no such attack wupon Bryan or Wheeler, the other candidates for Vice President, as he has made upon his own party nominee. There are many Senators—two- thirds of them, in fact—who are not up for re-election this year. They may consider that they are entirely justified in using their own judgment in voting for whom they please in case the election of a Vice President devolves upon the Senate. To follow Senator Norris' proposal | a little further, Massachusetts is go- | ing to cast its electoral vate for Coolidge. Of that no doubt exists, even in Democratic minds. Shali Senator Walsh, Democrat from the Bay State, be called upon to vote for Dawes for Vice President, if the choice lies between Dawes and Bryan? If the election of a President is thrown iInto - the House there will, be a deadlock because of the po- litical complexion of the State del- egations. Senator Norris has pro- vided an excuse for members of the House to shift their votes, if it be- comes necessary for some of them to do so to make a choice of Fresi- dent. Nebraska s a real battlefield. The Democrats are counting on the “Bryan Brothers” to swing the State for them. But the Bryans will be used to honeycomb the State with speeches in the closing weeks of the campalign. The Republicans, and also the La Follette leaders are making plans for a whirlwind finish. Orders have been issued to the Demo- cratic workers in the State not to say anything derogatory to La Fol- lette. Orders have been issued also to persuade as many Republicans to vote for La Follette as possible, pro- | receive | seller. vided they cannot be brought to vote for Davis, no matter what some of the Democrats may think of the danger of the Progressives supplant- ing the Democratic party in the future, there are Democrats who by lieve that it would be better to throw Nebraska to La Follette than to let It go for Coolldge. If it becomes evi- dent at the close of the campalgn that Davis cannot carry the State and that Coolidge can, then word may yet go out to the Democratic lead: to “swing their votes to the Progr sive ticket.” It cannot well be done publicly, for it might arouse too many conservative Democrats, and cau them to vote for Coolidge, rather ‘m-u have the. State go for La Fol- otia, < / ANATOLE FRANCE. France was an essayist, a critic, a novelist, & poet, and he wrote also several historical studies. He was made famous in 1881 by the publica- tion of the “Crime of Sylvestre Bon- nard,” but the best of his many works, in the opinion of his admiresr, was ‘La Rof erie de la Relne Uedauque.” “Thals” is numbered among his his- torical studies, and “Le Lys Rouge” Is a sentimental novel. All through his books there is ever the beauty of his cultured taste and his great liter- ary skill, the result in combination of many qualities, felicity, grace, the harmonious grouping of words, a perfect measure. Anatole France was an the Legion of Honor and a member of the French Academy. In 1921 he was glven the Nobel prize for litera- ture, and journeved to Stockholm to the award personally from the hands of King Gustav of Sweden. His real name was Jacques Anatole Thibault, and he was born in Paris on Aprit 16, 1844, the son of a book- He grew up in literary sur- roundings, and was educated at Stanislaus College. He has been described as a skeptic in religlon, metapbysics, politics and science, yet in later years some of his ideals underwent a change, for he was in- terested in the Bolshevist experiment in Russia. Married Late in Life. In 1920 France, at the age of 76, was married to Mlle. Emma La Pre- votte, more than declaring that he was arting anew.” During the World War he enlisted in the French army as a private soldier, but his years pre- cluded his seeing active service France's opposition to war and love for human kind was expressed letter addressed to American women engaged In rebuilding the devastated regions of France. “There have been wars us long as there have been men, and nations will always be hostile s0 long as they continue to exint. But nations do not live forever. “Oh, women, mothers! children will see the United States of Europe, the world republi Noble women, Ro through the world and find your inspiration in those words Then' you will save Kurope and will bring happiness to the world.” officer of Pleaded for Prisonees. In later years France became ac- tive for the League of the Rights of Man, a humanitarian organization. With other intellectuals he signed an appeal to President Harding, pleading for the release of cco and Vansetti, two Italians, convicted for the mur- der of a paymaster and his guard in Massachusetts and whose case at- tracted world-wide interest. The works of France included a study of “Alfred de Vigny" (1868); a valume of verse, “lws Poemes Dores” (1873); “Les Noces Corinthiennes” (1876); “Jocaste et le Chat Maigre" (1879), “Le Crime de Sylvestre Bon- nard” (1881), “Les Desire de Jean Servien” (1832), “Le Livre de Mon Ami” (1885), (1586), “Balthazar” ' (1839), (1890), “La_Vie Litterair, “L Etuf da Nacre” (1592), martine’ Q1 . “les Oplnions de Monsieur Jerome Cogniard” (1593), “La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque’ (1893), “Le Lys Rouge” (1894), “Le Puits de Sainte-Claire (1895), “‘Le Jardin d'Epicure” (1395), “Poesies” (1596), “Le Mannequin d'Osier” (1897), L/Orme du_Mail” (1887), “L'Annean d'Amethyste” (1899), “Clio”™ (1899), **M. Bergeret a Paris” (1901), e Pro- curateur de Judee” (1902), “Mme. de Luzy” (1902), “Memoires d'un Volon- taire” (1902), “Histoire Comique” (1903), “L'Eglise et la Republique” (1905), “Sur la Pierre Blanche” (1905), “Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame” (1906), “Sainte Euphrosyne” (1906), ‘“His- torre de Jeanne d'Arc” (1908), “Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe Bleue” (1909), “La Revolte Des Angres" (1914) /R. C. WKIMMIE'S 79 BEST IN GOLF FIELD Bannockburn Star Low Among Early Starters at Town and Country Club. R. C. McKimmie of Bannockburn, the Middle Atlantic champion, led the field in the morning round of the first day's qualification play today in the Town and Country Club’s Fall golf tournament, with a score of 79. Me- Kimmie was out in 37 and back in 42 He played with M. A. Shipley, unat- tached, who had a score of 83. Other scores turned in up to noon today follow: Frank Roesch, Kirk- side, 85; H. G. Pitt, unattached, 86; W. J. Cox, unattached, 88; A. R. Mack- ley, Columbia, 96; Willlam H. White, Argyle, 96; John T. Money, Argyle, 97; C. C. Heath, unattached, 96; Wil- liam Illsch, Town and Country Club, 104, Several of the better players of clubs about the city will play their qualification rounds this afternoon and tomorrow. Matched play in the tournament starts Wednesday, with the finals scheduled for Thursday. —_— WOMAN DIVORCES “PERFECT LOVER” (Coutinued from First Page.) ‘would not return before Thursday and that the marriage of Mrs. Hall-Quest and Maj. Hart would not take place during the early part of the week, he was sure. As to the marriage plans of the couple, he referred inquirers to Maj. Hart when the latter returns. Mrs. Hall-Quest left her Cincinnati home with Maj. Hart in October, 1923. Dr. Hall-Quest carefully avoided any mention of Maj. Hart in his divorce hearing. The files of Mrs. Hart's di- vorce suit ignored mention of Mrs. Hall-Quest. Dr. Hall-Quest merely introduced into evidence letters from his wife, with the name of Maj. Hart deleted, in which she said she had not de- cided in haste, but had walited before going away until she knew she truly loved another. The social sanction for marriage, she wrote, would bring greater con- tentment and edse, but If that could mot be, she was prepared to go on in the new love. 40 years his junior, | it “rhams E. Chance is the Democratic | | Mudd will be held at 10:30 o'clock to- in a| | from | Mudd |CLUB ORGANIZATION Our grand- | | PLANS FORMULATED| { to be held at the Raleigh Hotel, Dew BROTHER OF MUDD WAY BE CHOSEN G, 0. P. Committee of Mary- land Called to Nominate Successor in Congress. Special Dispateh to The St BALTIMORE, Md., October 13.—The Republican State central committee will meet here on Wednesday at 1 o'clock to select a candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rep- resentative Sydney E. Mudd, candidate to succeed himself in the fifth Mary- land district. Galen L. Talt, chair- man of the committee, issued the call. The consensus of opinion among Republican leaders is that Thomas B, R. Mudd, a brother of the dead rep- resentative, who has handled the campaigns in the fifth district for six years, will be named as the logical can~ didate. While Mr. Tait would not commit himself on the question of selecting Mr. Mudd, other leaders say he is the logical candidate, although 1t is thought former State Senator Oliver Metzerott of Prince Georges County may make a bid for the honar. Two Partien te Act, Thomas H. Robinson, Attorney Gen- eral for Maryland, has announced that both the Republican and Demo- cratic State central committees must meet at an early date to designate nominees to il Representative Mudd's unexpired term. The elec- tion will be subject to call of Gov. Ritchie. Gov. Ritchie said he would be gov- | erned in his action relative to calling an election by the rulings of Mr. Robinson. He pointed out that the | election can be held at the general elections November 4 “The only difference,” he said, “will be that the ballot will contain two names, one to flll the unexpired term and the other to fill the full teri.” J. Enos Ray, chairman of the Democratic State central committee, said he will call his committee early this week. Mr. Robinson called attention to mection 2 of Article I of the Federal Constitution, which provides that ‘‘when vacancies happen in the representations of any State, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.” Mr. Ray #aid he could not indicate who the choice of the Democratic State central committee will be. | i | | nominee for the full term beginning | March 4. The funeral of Representative morrow at La Plata, Md. Many friends will go from here and also | Washington, D. ., where Mr. was well knowy, having at- tended the District public schools and Georgetown University. Catholic Men Act Upon Sugges- tions Presented at a Breakfast in St. Martin's Hall, Elaborate plans for a great club organisation, similar to the Catholic Club of New York, were discussed and | acted upon sterday by St. Martin's | National Council of Catholic Men, &t | a breakfast in St. Martin's Hall. The gift of St. Martin's parochial build- ing, adjoinging the rectory, offered to the men by Rev. M. J. Riordan, | rector of St. Martin's, was accepted for | use as & headquarters for the organ- ization. The building will be converted into an auditorium, library, and meeting room, with a bowling alley and dance hall. Tt is at present used as a school room, but as soon as the chil- dren have been transferred to the new school building on Mount St. Mar- tin, the dedication of which will take place in the presence of the papal delegate to the United States next Sunday, the present building will be oceupied by the council. President R. W. McChesney presided at the breakfast and meeting and made the opening address to the 100 men who attended. He outlined a| series of activities, which the coun- cil will at once inaugurate, embrac- | ing_educational, religious and social fields. George Melling, chairman of the committee in charge of the new club building, detailed the present plans with regard to the builling. In all respects, hs said, the headquarters| will be a complete modern club. | Rev. M. J. Riordan urged the estab- lishment of a ial study group in the parish, in line with the ideas of Archbishop Curley. President Mc- Chesney indorsed the plan and it was adopted by the men. Part of the plan of the organiza- tion will be the maintenance of a cir- culating library for the entire parish of St. Martin's, placing at the dis- posal of parishioners many valuable works not otherwise available. Rev. Francis X. Cavanaugh, assistant rec- tor of St. Martin's, will select the Dbooks and direct this activity. Francis de Sales Ryan was ap-| pointed chairman of a committee to: promote a more accurate knowledge of church doctrine and practice. Iim- mett Carr and G. A. Maurer were placed in charge of a fleld meet to be held Friday afternoon on Blooming- dale playgrounds for the children of St. Martin’s, who will be given a holi- day by Father Riordan on that day. Maurice H. Lanman was made chairman of the committee in charge of a “ladies’ night” entertainment October 20, and William R. Brennan was named chairman of a committee in charge of a card party and dance sember 2. OFFICIALS ATTEND MRS.M’KENNA'S RITES President and Mrs. Coolidge and Many Other Dignitaries at Funeral Services. President and Mra, Coolidge, jus- tices of the Supreme Court, high ranking Government officlals, includ- ing members of the cabinet, and dig- nitaries and their wives of the dip- lomatic corps, today attended the fu- neral services of Mrs. Amanda Borne.- man McKenna, wife of Justice Mc. Kenna, who died Friday. Father Buckey of St. Matthew's Catholic Church officiated at the services, which were held at 11 o'clock this morning at the residence, 1150 Connecticut avenue. Chief Justice Willlama Howard Taft and associate justices of the Supreme Court were the honorary pall bearers. Interment was in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Dr. Ely’s Lecture Canceled. Dr. Leonard W. Ely of the medical department, Stanford University, who was expeated to lecture at the Naval Medical School at 8 o'clock this eve. ning, will be unable to do .s0 because of unforeseen clrcumstances, | nese | with hatchets. TONG WAR NIPPED BY CAPITAL POLICE (Continued from First Page.) Immigration will this angle of the case. Police officials hope the arrests will have the effect of preventing blood- shed or other trouble in this city. One of the more communicative members of the local Chinese colony told & Star reporter today that trouble has been brewing the past several weeks, but it was not until Saturday that an outbreak neemed imminent. The On Leongs, he said, are quiet, law- abiding people. They control most of the business of their countrymen in this city, he said, and the Hip Sings are trying to wrest it from them. Chinese residents, members of the On Leongs, he said, have lived in fear and trembling the past few days. They are frightened and nervous, he naid, but realize it would be use less for them to go elsewhere. If members of the rival tong are really after them, he added, they would be followed. Think Danger Not Passed. While the arrests of the quartet brought happiness to the On Leongs last night, there were members of ing much excitement in the Chinese their arrests had not entirely remov- ed the danger. It has been about 25 years since trouble among local Chinamen called for drastic police action. A laundry- man gained the enmity of his fellow countrymen by cutting prices. He dis- played signs to advise the public that he had reduced prices, and his former Chinese friends deserted him. He heard threats had been made against investigate 2 his life, but he refused to restore the | higher prices or leave the city. day he was shot in the leg by One excitement in the Chinese quarter. City officials rallied to his protec- tion and of his American wife and two children. His alleged assaflant was arrested. The case was tried and the defendant acquitted, enemies al- leging that he had wounded himself to gain the sympathy of white friends NEW YORE WAR WIDENS. Chinese Move About With Death | Possible Any Moment. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. NEW YORK, October 13.—Furtive eyed Chinese, arms folded in their wide flowing sleeves, slip from place to place in the shadows of old Chinatown, fearful that at any turn of the winding, crooked streets an assassin's bullet will lay them low. The tocsins of the “Tong war” have been eounded and another of those mysterious feuds which sweep Chi- settlements is on. Just how the wars begin none but | “The hea- the orientals ever know. then Chine is peculiar.” He has his own axes to grind. But thus far the war is being fought at what might be called long range. It is with pis- tols. Later, if it follow cles, it will come to closer quarte The police dread t Always the murderer his hatchet in the crushed of his victim. The war then becomes silent and death rides on swift wings. During the gun-shoot- ing period it is easier to control. The danger then is usually to the by- standers. chet stgae. Gunmen Waging Fight. It is evident just now that this latest war in the metropolitan dis- trict, holding New York, Brooklyn and Newark, N. J, in its grip, being fought out by the professional gun- men of the two famous tongs, the Hip Sings and the On Leongs. These professionals shoot straight. When the war spreads to the amateur gun- men, then there is danger indeed. for the amateur Chinese pistol fighter usually closes his eves before he puils the trigger. Anything may happen then. Today Chinatown, with its tor- tuous Mott and Pell and Doyers streets, is no-man's land. It is a i patrolied by the police singly and in pairs. Plain clothesmen lurk around each corner. It seems there is a bluecoat about every 25 feet. The district is blockad The gay sightseeisg cqrs of the metropolis, with their vari-colored lights and Japanese lanterns, are de- serted at the strect corners. No one wants to go to Chinatown these won- drous moonlit nights. The trick Joss House and the fake “opium dens, maintained for the benefit of the wide-eyed country folk from the great American hinterland, are cry- ing In vain for customers. The Chi- nese merchants, who reap a harvest of greenbacks from the sightseers, are in an agony of despair that their unworthy countrymen should start a war just at this season. when the tourist trade was at its height ‘Wider Fight Threatened. The warring members of the tongs have threatened to take the beyond the bhorders of Chinatown. Already one Chinaman has been found dead away over in the Jersey mead- ows. This threat to take the war “uptown” has thrown the oriental restaurant keepers into a frenzy of fear. The Chinese restaurant has become a widespread institution in New York Some of the establishments represent investments of tens of thousands of dollars. The latest of the super- restaurants has just been opened in the building which was once the far- famed Palals Royal, where Paul { Whiteman made his first great hit in New York. The Chinese proprietors call the place the Palace of Gold. Already the police have been called upon to guard some of the restau- rants. The proprietors in Brooklyn seem to be especially fearful. Frantic efforts are being made by the Chinese merchants and the various “benevo- lent” associations to bring about a truce in the fighting, but it is ad- mitted that peace is not- in sight. Police Speelally Trained. New York manitains_ especially trained, police- for the Chinese dis- trictsk,” To the untrained eye all Chinamen look.more or less alike. But to the bluecoats and the plain- clothes men who live among the Orientals there is a vast difference. The police seldom try to figure out the causes of the Chinese wars. They say the prese@®® oullreak may have something to do with the revolution in China, but it is more likely a quarrel arising out of the illicit traf- fic in opium. On one or two of the victims, thus | far, powdered oplum has been found. The regular Chinatown police have been augmented by members of the bomb squad, the narcotic division, the special service prohibition squad, the radical squad end other picked men of the force. Their efforts at the moment is to Keep the war from spreading. Many Chinamen living uptown and conducting restaurants there have been caught in the China- town blockade and are afraid to leave. (Copyright, 1024.) Watchman Dies on Duty. James A. Murphy, §9, watchman in the Interior Department, died sud- denly early last night while at his place of employment. Murphy, a re- tired soldler, resided at Soldiers' Home. His death resulted from nat- ural causes. A sister of the dead man, Mrs. Annie P. Riley, Point Rich- mond, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Kather- ine Kennedy, a cousin, residing at 5900 Kenyon street, Germmntown, Pa. were notified of the death. P If you need work, read sthe want columns ‘m Star, an| alleged highbinder, the shooting caus- | !ing much the country over | the usual fight | COOLIDGE LAUDS NAME OF COLUMBUS Tribute to America's Discov- erer and to U. S. Citizens of Italian Birth. In a Columbus day letter to Vita Contessa of New York, president of the Italian Benevolent Society, and which was made public in New York yesterday, President Coolidge paid a glowing tribute to Christopher Co- lumbus and to those citizens of this country who are of Italian birth. Commenting on messages which he | #aid made apparent that this year Columbus day would be “observed very widely,” Mr. Coolidge recalled that Columbus, in his own time, “was repaid with little else than disgrace disappointment and ignominy | Ranks Among Greatest Men. | “Today,” the President said { lumbus holds place as one of the fe | great among men. Probably of | all achievements that may be credited i to a single individual, that of Colum | bus would be popularly accepted as the foremost in history. ; “With every celebration of this an- |niversary we all real more clear) | the significance of the revolution ir {human relationships which begaw with the voyages of Columbus ang the expansion of civilization to the outlying parts of the worl Tt is fitting that a son of ftaly should have heen marked by destiny for this sery ice; that Ttaly, long the at of ncient civilization, should thus pas: on the torch 16 a néw area and a new world “It is the fortune of our country to have attracted thither an impres #ive number of the sons and daugh ters of this land where leadership and lofty talent have so long found noble fruition ‘They have contributed richly of their industry, their love for | liberty, their genius for the sciences |the arts and the humanities. They | have given much to making our coun try what it is, and in turn I am sure | they have found advantage in the | opportunities which this new conti | nent has afforded. It is good to | know that Columbus day will be so ;g’?nbr:\l]y observed and that its cele | bration will furnish new testimony to the traditional friendship betweer our country and the ancient homelanc of the Italian people.” | SHANGHAI DEFENSE ARMY ROUTED, PACT WITH PEKING SIGNED (Continued from First Page.) semblics during the emergency, urges all residents to retire to their homes immediately after dari 1t warns all resid against spreading inflammatory rumors under threat of punishment,” and prohibits bution of handbills calculated to foment dis- turbances The order names tihe boundaries o the settiement d rules that no one be permitted to enter or leave un- less he can produce evidence of being engaged in peaceful pursaits. The ir ternational settlement defense force given the right of way in all thorough fares by the proclamation WU'S LIFE ATTEMPTED. ana Effort Made to Blow Up Train ot Peking Leader. BY JOSEPH ELDRIDGE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago I PEKING, October 13.—A dastardly attempt to blow up Marshal Wu Pei Fu's train early this morning in the vicinity Tientsin caused permanent damage the railway, but the train was not damaged. Wu Pei Fu arrived at Shanhaikuan with 2,000 men, three battalions of infantry and two of cavalry. Ameri can, British, Japanese and French officers accompanied him as ob- | servers, also foreign war correspond- | ents and $1,000.600 to pay the troops. } The government reports the sur- ¥ News render of Mukden's t general, Li { Chink-Lin, at ng. Vigorous fighting is in progress at Chiumenko. | the Feng troops taking the of- | fensive. government admits | accurat the enemy. | (Copyright, 1924. by Chicago Daily News Co.) FIGHTING IN CANTON. 10 or !5 Killed in Merchants- | Bolsheviki Battle. | Serious fighting in the streets of Canton last Saturday between mer | chant volunteers and bolshevist abor troops was reported to the |State Department today by Consul Douglas Jenkins. The battle occurred on the Bund and the were defeated. Consul Jenkins said |the situation remained tense with | prospects of more fighting. Ten or 15 men were Killed and as | many more wounded in the fight. A number of the defeated labor Lroops | were captured and turned over to the acting mayor, Gen. Li Fu Lin {On the following day many small { streets in the center of the city. had been barricaded. LAUREL ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY. —Claiming, $1,300; 3-year-olds labor troops FIRST RAC and up; 1 mile. . 114 B 1o i 308 17 10w 2 Al Shph " jou 2 Aise, * Tow orne Phrovian. & I‘. *Thessaly. Purse, §1,%00;- for mi year-olds; O fario - 116 Laddie Buck..... 116 L1168 Trince of Power.. 116 116 Gun Boat ; 116 Senuacherib. 11318 Courageons. Hend it 114 Major Finley. Eolembotrssese.e 116 HL. Waterbury entry. THIRD RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,800: 3 year-olds and up; 1 mile. 14 14 14 108 108 108 108 105 105 *Faith..... *Cimarron. Seth's Flower. *Vitamin... .. Kitty Troxell! Radtant Light Wild_ Goos Tiandi. ‘anorel.. . . *Marcelia Bo; SECOND RAC colts and geldings {Storm_Cloud. | tMcCully.. Tall Grass Harry Baker. Head Lins 103 108 13 100 . 109 114 I Alho eligibi *Quecreek Gayboy 2d. [ Trappean. . sGald Mark. 1111l 104 The Keaner. *Waukeag... g FOURTH RACE—Claiming; purse, §1,300; 2 year-olds; 6 furlongs. Ovory ... 115 Villager . | tWestover ....... 115 Lucifer *tTavers . 100 *Lustrous Clearview 115 *Fireaway Wubu ... Zimal S Betty Maloney... 11 *Bryn Dea: 110 *Subtle .. 110 P. H. Faulkner and Ral Parr entry. FIFTH RACE—Calvert Handicap; $2,000; all ages; 6 furlongs. New Hampsliire.. 120 Senator Norri Tiroomster 112 Champlain Comixa - 109 Hyperion . SIXTH RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,500; 3- year-olds and up; 1% miles, Fancy Free....... 111 Bar God......... 107 Rockpocket Lunetta SEVENTH RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,300; 2-year-oids and up; 1+ miles. .16 115 114 nm ut piee ance 108 108 100 100 100 100 100 *Spanish Name. porse, 106 108 165 102 Gray Gables. *Planet . Vice Chairman urbulent . *Serbian tSuppliant - Rock_Bottom 0ld Timer..