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\ WEATHER Fair tonight and much change in tempera; variable winds. Temperatury 2 pm. today: st 6 day: lowest, 6:30 Full report on page 3. for 24 hou tomorrow; not ture; gentle rs ending at am. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 ¢ Foenir WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as secu post office Wa: No. 29,386. ond class matter hington, D C. WASHINGTON, D 0., TU EADER IN SENATE, ARESLIFEBY S Financial Difficulties Blamed for Act—Health Declared Poor for Long Time. NOTE TO DRIVER LEADS TO DISCOVERY OF BODY Senator Was High in Republican Councils—Aided in Fight Against League. Frauk B. Brandegee, senior Senator m Counecticut and nationally prom- inent Republican leader, committed suicide today at his home, 1700 1 street. *The cause of death was ven by Dis- trict Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt as “sui- «ide from inhalation of illuminating Worried and distracted, his friends waid, over financial difficulties, he went 1o an unusued bathroom on the third flo0r of his house and, just before dawr took his life. It wi declared also that Yie bad been in ill health. Although he once was a comparative- I \ man, some friends said today Senator J had suffered heavy lisses in recent vears. He was w- but for som interested in real a ce aer by Lus bes profession n heavily Niness. New friend Senator the Senate death New 2n no han ill health and Brandezee was suf- disease. of Senator to Hampshire closest ad i formed the long distance tel today. He could yur the act other licved Senator ring from an incurable called that Brandege: died Several was the ator Moses ned ountry place that he possessed i fortunc ator Moses stated Would lea ew York for Washir ton at once in order to assist in funeral arrangements. of over reason sister 1 cancer, relative ator Brandege house Virg “considerabl I rect 1 nearby Left Note to Driver. Senator - Brande left a note to his chauft George W. Jones, in which he toid him that he would be sound up on the third floor of his home. The note on the Senator's béd was found about 9:30 this morning by Mr. Jones and Senator's secretary, W. D. Lundy, who had just arriv Piuned on the note were—twe-$100 Lills, and the note itself read as fol- lows: “Dear George, I inclose $100 for you and $100 for Rufus and Em- ma. T am up in the bathroom on the top floor, nearest Seventeenth street, the room directly over my bedroom. If you and Lundy come up there, be- ware the gas. Good-bye.” The note was signed Frank B. Brandegee. The Rufus and Emma he referred to were servants, Upon reading the letter and Jones hastened up: here in the bathroom they found the body on & rug on the floor. Two pillows were under the head and his hands held a Fas tube which was connected at the other end to a jet, which was turned on fully. The window was tightly closed. The body was fully clothed. Dead Five Honrs, nding the body house and sum- Immediately upon the seeretary left the moned Dr. Kitired who i on Neventeenth street, just aro Lr. Kittredge caime and after o brief examination the Senator probably had been dead about five hours. The body was found Emergency Hospital and the Leadquarters were then informed. Colen arrived shortly Yinergency and gave the as Dr. Kittredge, sergt, b followed Dr. Cohen and afte 1nspection 1oft, when a man detailed from tie third precinct arrived, d corner at once police Dr. same verdict t O'Erien Nevitt Gives Verdict. Coroner Neyitt arrived aiter 11 o'clock and half an hour later appeared at the doorway where he mave the verdict of suicide to the waiting newspaper men. Mr. Jundy atso came out and showed them the n left by the Senator. Mr. Landy could give no reason for Mr. Brandegee's act, but intimated that’ the Scnator had been in poor health for a numbder of years and that that could be the only reason he could attribute. He said that when he left the home last night the Scnator scemed to be in good spirits. Mr. Brandegee was unmarried. He leaves no living immediate relative-. A sister died several years ago. Mr. Lundy took charge of the fu- meral plans and announced that the burial probably would be in New London, Conn,, Mr. Brandegee's birth- place and home. The residence Senator Brandeg Ly him some tim Judiclary Chairman. Senator Brandegee was chairman occupied here by ad been owned of the Senate judiciary committee and | one of the Republican leaders on the foreign relations committee. A close personal and political friend of Sena- tor Lodge, the Republican floor lead- er, he has been one of the circle of Senators who have had most to say in the conduct of Senate affairs since the Republicans regained a majority in Congress. A native of New Ldhdon, where he maintained his home until his death, Senator Brandegee had risen to prominence through a succession of minor offices, including the speakership of the Connecticut House of Repre- sentatives and membership in the Na- tional House of Representatives. He was 60 vears old and had been in the Senate for almost 20 years. Health Was Failing. The most conspicuous part played by Mr. Brandegee in recent years was in the League of Nations fght. Taking a position from the start with_the irreconcilable opponents of the Versailles treaty, he threw the powerful weight of his forensic abil- jty against the treaty and the league covenant during the long Senate de- bate, and Jater at the Chicago Reépub- Jican convention in 1920 was one of .those irreconcilables who laid down Lefore party leaders a verbal threat o leave the ranks of Republicanism unless_the national platform con- (Continued on Page 2, Colump £) was | York He | in the I street house | the | fierward from shortly | DIES BY OWN HAND SENATOR FRANK B. BRANDEGEE COOLIDGE WINNER I | FEAST HOLDS UP | La Follette’s Western Claims | Discounted—Davis Now i Given 178 Votes. i | } This is the first of two dispatches | analyzing the trend of political senti- | ment in the States from Iliinois to the Pacific. written after a visit of David Lawrence to virtually all the | States in that region in a trip con- suming 30 days of actual investiga- tion. | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ! MIDWEST AMERICA, October 14.- political divide from the agricultural West to the industrial last, with three weeks of the cam- | paign still ahcad, the territory left behind may vet show changes here and there, but fundamentally the lines of battle are drawn and the tide of prejudice or favor, as the case may be, has set in Four' conciusions, however, can be awn at this time without much ! expectation on the part of the writer that subsequent developments in the !'Western area will upset his analys: First, Senator Robert M. La Follette iias not been and will not be the de- factor in the coming clection s tihe West is concerned. | Crossing the. some 50 far May Not Equal Roosevelt. cond, the electoral vote of | Follette will be less than that | Col. Roosevelt in 1912 when polled 88 electoral votes. Third. In several States, La Follette | has taken away so many Democratic | {votes that he is in effect the ally of President Coolidge because Coolidge | pluralities seem certain to result from | | the big defection of Democrats to the third party ticket | | ¥ourth. La Follette will not get| enough votes to throw the election in | | the House of Representatives for de- | | cision unless John W. Davis shows a | | greater strength than President Coo- ! {lidge in the principal Eastern States. | |In that case, in all probability the| {drift in the direction of Davis would | {insure not merely a deadlock but a| | Democratic victory, because the East, | as a rule, is not spotty but general-| of the same political mind. : | La ot | ne Davix Not Sure of West. Giving John W. Davis the 51 votes | of the normally Democ ic States, ! I which mean Arizona. Oklahoma, Ten- | Kentucky and Maryland, in| to tha 127 electoral votes| by v. Cox in 1920 from | South, th total for Davis | [osee: | addition obtained the solid jis 178, i | Now there are no States in the { West of which Davis can feel abso- i lute ure. Or are there any West- ! ern States, with possibly two excep- tions—Wisconsin and North Dakota— of which La Follette can feel sure. | But assuming that La Follette were !to be given all the States in which he is running second, these would be lowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, and they make with Wis- consin and North Dakota only 58 electoral votes, Adding these 58 to the 178 for Davis, the total is 236 which may be called the non-Coolidge vote. This leaves votes, and if Coolidge could get all of them he would win, as 266 is the majority of the electoral college of 531, What are the States which make up that 2957 Some, like €alifornia and Oregon and | Colorado,.dre typical of the Western rength of President Coolidge, and ome, like Penn. ania and Massachu- setts and Maine, are the rock-ribbed Republican areas. What concerns the | analyst is the doubtful States, or, to| put it in another way, those States on which the Democrats this time pin their hopes. | " These are Indiana, 15; New. Jersey, { 14; New York, 45; Ohio, 24, and West | Virginia, 8. Of these, 106 votes, Presi- dent Coolidge must carry all but 29. ilf he loses those 29 to Davis, the elec- ! tion would be thrown into the House of Representatives, because even if all the 29 went to Davis they would not be enough with his 178 to make the neces. sary 266. If he lost them to La Fol- | lette it would still mean a deadlock, | Lecause no one of the three candidates | | would have a majority. All this would seem to indicate a close result, but it must not be for- gotten that, at the outset of this dispatch, the writer assumed for pur- might get a maximum of 58 votes in the West. That was the general opinion in the East when this corre- spondent began his tour. It was not found to be true on actual investiga- | tion. = For the 58 votes are imaginary, and while the popular vote for La Follette will be large, this writer would not carried only Wisconsin and North Dakota and these States by a close squeeze. * : So the situation would appear to be 178 votes for Davis plus about 30 for La Follette, making 208 non; Coolidge votes reasonably certain. This leaves 323 possible votes for President Coolidge. Now, the President can lose 56 votes and still win. Will he? The | German Voters, Bugaboo of the | Th | from | president of the Grand Trunk Rail- | way, attached to the special, poses of analysis that La Follette | be surprised if the Wisconsin Senator | LAFOLLETTE STIRS MISSOURIANS WITH HIS OLD-TIME FIRE Promise to End Economic Bondage Loudly Acclaimed in Kansas City. SENATOR ATTACKS DAVIS " AS WELL AS COOLIDGE| G. 0. P., Hear Strong Attack on i Versailles Treaty. | BY G. GOULD LINCO Staff Correspondent of The Star. 1 KANSAS CITY, Mo., October 14.— Launched at last in thé “world scries” of American politics after years of service in the “major league” of that | great game, with the White House | his goal, Senator Robert M. La Fol- | lette is making his bid for the farmer | vote of the great States west of the Mississippi. ¥or upward of a quarter of a cen tury he has struggled toward the leadership of the Progressives. In 1912 the “pennant” of the Progressives | seeméd to be within his grasp. Buty he was turned back A dominating figure, Whether you agree with his ideas or not—Senator | La Follette held enthralled here last night an audience that filled to ca- | pacity the theater in which he spoke. He continues his appeal to the people | of Missourt in an address at St. Louis tonight. He was not speaking merely to the 2,000 persons who crowded the theater here. By radio his message transmitted to thousands in Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska Crowd Rears Approval. To these farmers, who have suffered ! by reason of the depression in agri-| culture, many of them to the extent of ankruptey, Senator La Foilette held tp for rending the financiers, bankers, | the commission men and the railroads. | “cconomic bondage” of the Amer- n people was the text of his ad dress. He promised freedom “when I am elected President of the United! States,” and the crowd roared its ap- ! proval | The throng that came to hear him was made up largely of the worl ing people in the humbler walks life, but all who came had paid 25 cents to $1 for admission During the meeting the wual col lection was taken up amounting to | more than $1.200 though, as I have | said, 2,000 men and women were all the: ball would hold. Some were ! in their”shirt slee some without ; collars, but they were heart and soul with La Follette. For an hour and a half the veteran Senator hurled figures ate them?® in his discussion of “economic bondage,” from which he declared the people are suffering. Figures and more fig ures—which would have sent crowds away in boredom had they been de- livered by an ordinary speaker. But the crowd hung on his words. They | cheered and groaned and sighed when he told of the huge percentage: which had been demanded banks | for loans—"not of the banks' money, | but of the money of the depositors. the people. Hits Federal Rewerve Plan. | He held up to them the federal| T rve system as a heinous organi- | zation. controlled by the big inter- | emts. He took it up and shook it| (Continued on Page 19, Column 2) | i HOLD SPECIAL TRAIN WHILE PRINCE DANCES | Wales Goes to Detroit to Be Guest | Day of Henry i Ford. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 14.—After de- departure three hours to | h nearly all of threescore | women at an exclusive dinner party | at the Saddle and Cycle Club, the | Prince of Wales left for Detroit on a | special train at 3:30 a.m. today. i Smiling and affable, but tired after nearly 20 bours of constant activity, the heir to the British throne was driven directly from the club to the | private car of Sir Henry Thornton, | for which | had been held at the prince's request. | The prince’s progress throughout the city was hailed with outbursts of enthusiasm that several times threat- ened to overwhelm him and his hosts. Once surging crowds at the Field Museum brushed aside police lines and the prince’s party was pushed and jostled. In the melee the prince himself picked up a small boy and | saved him from being trampled. I The program for the prince's visit to Detroit, at his request, has not been announced, further than that he | will be the guest of Henry Ford dur- | ing his stay there. He is expected to &0 from Detroit to Toronto, Ontarlo. LANGLEY RETRIAL PLEA COMES UP IN COURT SOON Representative From Xentucky Out on $5,000 Bond After Con- viction in Liquor Case. By the Associated Press. MAYVILLE, Ky., October 14.—Ar- guments on the motions for new trials for John W. Langley, Repub- lican Representztive from the tenth Kentucky _district, and Milton Lip- schutz, South Philadelphia liquor dealer, were at the tqp of the calen- Gar in Federal Court here today be- | fore Judge A. M. J. Cochran, who in May sentenced Langley and Lio- schytz to two years' imprisonment for®conspiracy to cell and transport | liquor illegally. The Representative and the liquor dealer were convicted by a jury in Federal Court in Covington and, after sentence was passed, ‘filed motions for a new trial. Théy were released under bond pending the hearing, Langley's bond oeing fixed at $5,000. M. E. Huth of Alliance, Ohio, ani Walter B. Carey of Canton, Ohio, also were sentenced to like terms of im- prisonment at the same time, after answer is not to be found in the West but in the East. (Copyright, 1924.) they had changed their pleas of not guilty to gullty. 'EAGER INVESTORS | change was | tioned the readiness of the allies to BODIE FLec PN B € S TRROWN ;. 0 7 S OF ARCTIC EXPLORERS FOUND ABOUT 10-YEAR-OLD CAMP Skeletons of Four Men on Gale Swept Herald Island Prove To Be Scientists of Lost Karluk., | Stefansson’s Ill-Fated Ship. BY D, Special ) North M. LE BOU rrespondent of The Americrn Newspane W 11 sland NOME, Alaska. October skeletons of four men, about the ashes of their fire, built ten years ago, have overed on the gale-swept of lonely Herald Isiand in the ’cean Ly the schooner Herman e pedition. which arrived here tod Overcome by an Arctic storm. while slept in their well-munitioned with ample food stocks ounding them. Dr. Allister Forbes fackay and James Murray, British cientists; Henri Beuchat, eminent ench anthropologist, amd . Stanley Morris, American or Canadi all survivors of the wreck of the| Karluk, Vilhjalmur Stefansson's ex- | ploration ship, perished in swhat until} Als. star and Alliance tion. the | o 14.—The seuttered camp- been shores Arctic th camp. sur- ¥ n sailor, | TAKE GERMAN LOAN $110,000,000 Bond Issue| Oversubscribed 12 Minutes | After Being Offered. | By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, Octoher 11.—Sub- seription books for America’s $110.- 000,008 portion of the $200,000,000 | German loan were opened at 10| o'clock this morning, and closed 12| minutes later with an indicated heavy | oversubscription. The first sale of the new German bonds on the New York Stock Ex-| ot of 000 at 94%, or| offerini price. The | 0.000 worth at 941! the demand for the| ral large in- 2% above the next sale wags § So great was German bonds that se vestment houses were compelled to decline to take any more subserip- tions because their allotment of the loan had been sold. Wuch Trading in Bonds. In the first 15 minutes of trading approximately $350,000 worth of the honds changed hands on the New | York Stock Iixchange at prices| ranging between 94% and 92%, as against the offering price of 92 Simultaneously with the announce- ment by the Morgan syndicate that the bonds were r v, Mayor Hylan wrote his third letter to President Coolidge relative to the loan, again calling upon the President to inform the investing public whether or not the word of the bankers was the only assurance investors had of the uiti- mate collection of the moneys. As- serting there were hints in the state- ments of the bankers indicating that arms might be used to collect the debt if necessary, Mayor Hylan ques- 0 to war to collect American money for American investors, and asked if our own armed forces would be used. New Corporation Formed. Another development in conneetion with the German loan was the an- nouncement of the formation of a new corporation to be known as the American and Continental Corpora- tion. with an initial subscribed capi- | tal of $10.000,000 for the purpose of | making American capital available for industrial enterprises in Kurope. The new corporation was formed un- der the auspices of the International | Acceptance Bank, Inc, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., with Dillon, Reid & Co., and associates. The authorized capital of the cor- poration will exceed $25.000,000 and its chief centers of operations will be in Germany, it was said. SMITH OPENS TOUR. ‘Will Speak in Oneonta Tonight as Stump Trip Begins. ALBANY, N. Y., October 14.—Gov. Smith today begins a stump speaking campalgn seeking re-clection. Re- coveted partially at least from the rheumatism which compelied cancel- lation of his speaking campaign in New England in support of John W. Davis, the governor will leave this afternoon for Oneonta, where he will make an address tonight. He will continue on the stump up- Sl'ute next week. | among them wome | stand in the government building. This today, the Arctic Mack ris were Canadian tion, wh Karluk hand and who wer the comm They wer way across has been regurded of 0st mysterious tragedies of the as one { i | Murra cucl members of Eovernment v Mor- | nsson's Arctic expedi- fter the wreek of the| took fortune in their own | left the other camped on the v of Capt ice, under ob Bartlett seen naking their | the k toward Wrangell Isiand One of Bartlett advance | partics, returning the Karluk | camp, encountered them fighting | their way. step Ly step. Morris, al- | though suffering fr blood poison- | ing, was w the two scienti Beuchat, his hands and fect fro was a mile behind. This was the seen or heard of any of | tims o the 1914 tragedy until Capt. | Lane ty. of which [ was & menm ~1Continued on age 4, Column 1.) REPORT MEXICANS INBLOODY CLASH { More Than Hundred Killed or | Wounded in Political Row, | Dispatches State. | n, Llfl‘ these vie- | By the Aasociated Pross MEXICO CITY, October 14.—A bloody | clash between political factions at Tuxtla | utierrez on Sunday. in which more | than a hundred persons are said to been killed or wounded, is reported in press dispatehes. The Mexican war de- partment confirms-the news of the fight, | but is giving out no details, The press dispatches say the trouble | began when supporters of Gen. Carlos | Vidal, governor-elect of Chiapias, organ- | ized a demonstration for his receptiol a large crowd gathering at the railway | station. Upon Gen. Vidal's arrival a | score of shots were fired into the crowd, | allegedly by eupporters of Ramirez orzo, the defeated gubernatorial candi- | date. The volley caused many fatalities, and children, it is declared. Federal troops rushed to the scene were received with shots by the alleged Ramirez supporters, who had taken a building was captured by the troops aft- er a short encounter. All persons found inside were arrested. The dispatches state that the streets of the city at the scene of the encounter were srewn with dead and wounded. Two of Gen. Vidal's aides were reported to have been among those killed. / R TR | NEW MOVIE COMBINATION| RUMORED IN HOLLYWOOD | Douglas Fairbanks Admits Nego- tiations Are Under Way With Joseph Schenck. ¥ the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 14.—Ru- mors of a new merger in the motion picture ndustry gained support here today th an admission by Douglas Fairbanks that United Artists, an or- ganization including him, Mary Pick- ford and Charles Chanplin, had been negotiating with Joseph Schenck, producer, concerning the feasibility of a film combine involving the Enited Artists, Schenck and others. The actor-producer did not reveal whether any definite agreement had been reached. e RAISE AMERICAN FLAG OVER HERALD ISLAND Stars and Stripes Hoisted on Arctic Land 40 Miles East of Wrangell. By the Associated Press. NOME, Alaska, October 14.—Since Russia hoisted her flag over Wrangell Island, in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, August 20, the Stars and Stripes have been run up on Herald survivors. | { for incr | for next Island, a smaller body of land, 40 miles east, it was learned here today. St ISDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1924—FIFTY PAGES. “From Press to Home The Star’s carrier Within the Hour” system covers every c{’:y_ block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 97,230 TWO CEN DISTRICT HEADS PLEAD FOR FUNDS Commissioners Argue With Budget Officials to Maintain Budget Requests. District Commissioners the bureau of budget toda in t to obtain more liberal al s in the next District appro- bill for new school houses, axing the city’s water su piy. purchase of parks projects for the National Capital. he vity heads, assisted by their subordinates, expect to spend seversl days in testifying in su ort of their request a budget vear The budget bureau h tative limit of $31,551, on 1 estimates. but has conceded the Com- missloners the opportunity of argu- ing for th= additional $5,000,000, which the city fathers regard as essential. ‘This $5.000,000 list of supplemental upbuilding of the s fixed 1 went | tomatics and other deadly | | and similar | grucsome O of $36,500,000 | wer n a ten-| ful strict | sylvania avenu SAY TONG Geologist Reports | Big Coal Deposits | In Arctic Alaska By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash,, October 14.— Discovery of vi deposits of coal | within the Arctic Circle, in Alaska, was reported by Dr. Philip S. Smith of Washington, D. C., geologist of the United vey, who returned here yesterd #The foothills and great valley Just north of the Endicott range, which forms the divide between the Yukon River and the Arctic Ocean, contain some of the gre est bodies of coal on the conti- nent,” said Dr. Smith. “It is fur- ther proof that Alaska in past ages had a temperate, if not a sub- tropical, climate. At present there is no vegetation in that region suitable for forming coal.” The country surveyed is included in the United States Navy petro- leum reserve 5 | a territory about the size ew | AY TONG PLANNED MACHIE CLN WAR Police Declare Pitched Battle on Pennsylvania Avenue Was Contemplated. Amazing revelations tending to in- | dicate that a great climactic battle of | the nationally warring Chinese Hip | Sing and On Leong tongs was about to be launched in Washington's China- | town, with the United States Capitol | a background and historic Penn-| ylvania avenue as the battleground, have been unearthed by the pol depurtment Even bLlase were that factions headquarters detectives nded when they learned members of one of the incense had gon. far in their preparations as to negotiate for the acquisition of regulation machine guns and ammu in addition to ar themselves secretly with weapc D; sul- asto ion, Prompt action by Maj livan, chief of police, and In pector Clifford Grant, chief of detectives. | is believed to have frustrated, at least for the time being. one of the most ental feuds ever enact- in ntry, and planned with | National Capital as a staze | th Police Are S for ob reasons. disclosing d in Washington's col ection on lower Penn- and they divulge with whom the Chine making negotiations for the guns i “All T can say is tongs was negotiating for th: lent. = of the plotti Chinese guns w ftems is understood to include about | certain parties when the police stepped | $500,000 for school building in tion fo =chool construction work left in the regular estimates. $1,000,000 for Water Comduit. One of the largest items in the sup. plementals is $1,000,600 for speeding up work on the new water conduit from Great Falls to relieve the strain on the single pipe line which now conveys all of the water for the Dis- trict of Columbia. There is slightly less than $1.000.000 for the water conduit in the regular estimates. If the supplemental request is granted there would be nearly $2,000.000 avail- able for continuing work on the con- duit next vear. Several new buildings at the Gallin- ger Hospital, a fireproof structure for the recorder of deeds and two new police stations also are being asked for in the supplemental list. important item in the request for nearly $1.000,- onal Capital P'ark Com- sin the execution of its plan for the enlargement of the park tem of the city. This park item’is d to be divided between the regular and supplemental list ay Increase Raises Amount. The estimates for next year reach an aggregate far above those of last year, but since then police, firemen, school teachers and other emploses have been granted pay increases agsTegating more than $2.500,000, so that all of the in- crease does not represent new construc- tion work. g Those who went to the Budget Bureau today were Commissioners Rudolph, Oyster and Bell and Daniel J. Donovan, auditor. Various department heads will be called to explain the de- tails of their respective estimates. budget is th 000 for the mission to b SWEDISH PREMIE By the Associated P LONDON, October 14.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen tated that the Swedish government, headed by I'remier Ernst Trygger, has resigned. R OUT. Although few changes were made in the standing of the parties at the recent elections, the defeat of the government's defense measures is be- lieved to have caused the resignation of the present ministr addi- | in | | | zoing | whole | tong_district and took a hand.” Inspector Grant said today. “We believe we have nipped the uprising in the bud, and we are not to cease our investigation of the business until we have run every angle down. 1 went personally into the | yesterday and told those | fellows plainly that if there was going to be any shooting around here the Po- lice Department was going to do it.” All Appears Quiet. Meanwhile all appeared tranquil on | the surface in Chinatown today, with | scarcely a ripple to indicate the tur- | bulency that had threatened Sunday | to develop into a whirlpoul of un- der-cover warfare Alert police, detectives and Federal 1 immigration authorities continued to | scan the local “China Sea,” however, | cognizant of the fact that these tides of Oriental bloodshed ofttimes reach | a crest without a heralding sign to warn those on the lookout Withal there was a marked tension hovering over the 300 of the Avenue. Chinese stores narily wide open to customers. kept their doors closed and their inner lights dimmed. Tongmen stood at the oors to let in persons they kiew and keep out undesirab A police- man strolled up and down in front of the headquarters of the two tongs and nodded now and then to those who passed silently into the portals of the two buildings, only eral doors apart. The On Leong Tong, more prosperous of the business men, and Charlie Sco. proprietor of a Ninth| street restaurant, advertised its head- | quarters to the public with an attrac- tive sign: “On Leong Merchants' As. sociation.” The sign was over the doorway at 335 Pennsylvania avenue. | The opposing clan’s headquarters, re- | puted to be in a dingy looking im- | porting establishment at 3 five | doors away, bore no sign to indicate | that it was other than a Chinese im- | porters’ office. Here“the Hip Sing| group, headed by George F. Lee, is| said to hold swa Blame Each Other. The factions blame each other for the trouble in this city. Soo o fearful of his life that he asked that | a policeman be put on guara nigh " Colummn 6.) air of block ordi- embbracing the local Chinese said to be led by i e e { Drastic Safety Measures Taken " To Prevent Explosion of ZR-3 By the Ascociated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J,, October 14.— Drastic safeguards against possible inflammation and explosion of the hydrogen inflated ZR-3 went into force at this station, at orders of Acting Comdr. M. R. Pierce today. From now until the giant dirig- ible arrives and can be emptied of the treacherous gas, every lesson taught by the tragic fates of her predecessors, the R-38, the Roma and the Dixmude, will be kept in mind by every man on Lakehurst Field. When the ZR-3's 2,500,000 cubic feet of hydrogen are let into the air and the capacious chambers between her ribs are refilled with non-explosive helium such as floats the Shenandoah, the safety pre- cautions will remain rigidly in force. “Use only air-lock doors for com- munication between shops and hangar floor,” said the placard of orders Acting Comdr. Pierce dis- tributed among his personnel and posted throughout the field. “No smoking by anybody on landing fleld while ZR-3 is on the fleld. No smoking anywhere with- & in hangar, shops or offices opening directly into hangar. “No_automobile nor airplane to | enter hangar. Aircraft engines not to run in hangar until satisfac- tory ventilation has been provided. Flashlights not to be used in hangar. Gastight miners' lamps wil} be permitted. “No one will go aloft except when wearing rubber shoes. Men going aloft are cautioned of dang- er of sparks from tools.” The acting commander of field, upon whom will rest re sibility for the safety of the and her crew from the time lands, ordered further that there put out of commission at once: “The radio compass house, over- head cranes, all inside hangar mo- tors, elevator buzzers, and lights, | floor light circuits, starting equip- ment for helium deflation motor, radio compass, electric leads, gas oline tank lights.” Even the fire warden's telephone was ordered out of commission as a safeguard against sparks, fric- tion or electricity that might pen- l etrate the flimsy covering of the | dirigible and set off the devastat- ing force of her hydrogen con- tent. the | she be | | miles a | proportions there were, | throughout the [R3, 1,300 MILES AWAY, DUEINU.S. EARLY TOMORROW ‘Tour of Atlantic Coast Be- fore Landing at Lakehurst Includes D. C. WIND EARLY TODAY CUT ITS SPEED TO 25 KNOTS | Dirigible Then Hits Stride at 75 Miles an Hour, With Favor- ing Air Current. threatened u itic passasg dirigible voyaging from Friedrichshafe urst, was speeding alc air lane toward coast at noon today at of 75 miles an hour At th she was approximately 1 miles from her destinatio Mainte ance of the same speed would br rer carly the the to Lakehurst Refore dawn t from the Liz Zepp dicated w ward the North at approximately At S E tomorros she s plo Americar lard time. was encounter shap which wa the rat a brief period. howeve to ssibly seems have sh ot hours had progre 1 was travelin pace. She had wor iht the north of her for i still was in any ed out of the airline course for her s PREDICTS VISIT TO D. C d s Capt. Heinen Says Airship Will Arrive Tomorrow. By the Associated Press LAKEHU Ant ndo October took thach Mo arrivir here to await the tha Zt that they had she would make »f Atlantic coast ing onsiderable s before citi lang vill reach the Amerie: peets New Record. pt. Heinen declared he was cc d the dirigible wa ding t Dberthes than ecord the. the Zeppe nts were here cory the 1 ander of His stutem Mr. Von Meister, of the Ger manufactured the ZR-3. in th ation which carried Air Park All Read park, ordered 12 noon This huge air destine the ZR-3. was eney resime Tts officers and 100 marines were on their toes at dawn however. Word had flashed over the field during the night that direct com- municatic n established w the big dirigible and that all was well with her, and that she mizht be ex- pected late tonight or early tom row mornin So this earnest all the n phernalia and personnel been rehearsed long and often. Whir ring motors slid open and shut the ponderous docrs of the high-domed guest room which awaits the visitor. Signals Again Inspected. _Landing signals were inspected again and loaded up on trucks, ready for quick transportition the set- cld aerologists may de the big bag when it pokes nose over the horizon. nvas letters of heroic to be laid out skyward if landing wa: and rolls of cle lights milar disposition shin n at night Out of the dim vast of ngar and into the sunlight w led a Martin bomber and a DH-4 observation plane, big craft of their kind, that had looked like flies as they squatted overnight on the floor of the ZR-3's destined guest chamber. Planes Ready to Aid. are on special duty here. They will be fueled and kept at the taking-off line ready to dash seaward on a_moment’s notice if the Qirigible should mect any emergency as it nears the end of its long pil- age. chelors’ was und e t 5 there ancuvering which has began morni para- ot ignate f cautiou: White ¢ the tr if the the These planes Barracks,” the officers ablaze with electricity night. A jazz orche manned by lieutenants, captains ven lieutenant commanders, was doing stuff, when at 9 p.m news was flashed that the station communications tower had for the first time picked up a faint flash of wireless code from the great bag thai er from over the sea. ™ E all of the me this station was able to catch it was enough to send banjoes and flying in all directions. From that time on every offictr and man. from Acting Comdr. Maurice I FPierce and Acting Executive Officer Joseph M. Deemdown hovered near telephones and told of the increas- ingly distinet messages that passed from the ship in air to the ships of he sea. (from) tra nd its ge But