Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and continued cool tonight and tomorrow; heavy frost tonlght; mod- erate northwest and north winds. Temperature for 24 hours ending at 2 pm. today: Highest, yesterday; lowest, at 7 Full report on page 2. Closing K. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 70, at 2 p.m. a.m, toda; No. 29393 post oflice Was| . DAWES PLAY SAFE, SAYS MARK; SEES COALITION CABINET Chancellor Declares Election Will Not Menace Major Policies of Government. MINISTRY HOLDS POWER UNTIL AFTER DEC. 7 Balloting Exi}ected to Result in New Group, Which Will Up- hold London Agreements. October 21.—The dissolu- tion of Reichstag and the advent ©f i new Parliament in no way en- danger the fulfillment by Germany of | the London agrecement on the Dawes reparation plan, Chancellor Marx told Ure Assoclated Press today. Aithough the political complexion the new Reichstag is wholly con- Jectural at this hour, the chancellor i< convinced that the election, which Yas been officiall set for December 7, Wwill return sufficient of supporters of the Dawes plan and of the foreizn and internal polic of | the present government to insure the construction of a workable coalition Rovernment. This government, clared, would b pledged to strict Yarious laws san Relchstag August honorable fulfillment agreement. These cperating, the adding that which would BERLIN a number Dr. Marx de- automatically xecution of th oned Ly the providing for of the London laws are already chancellor remarked, the present cabinet, continue in office, was possessed of complete constitutiona authority to protect these laws and 10 vouchsafe their honorable execu-! tion ‘The dissolution decree signed by | President Ebert obviates any further ! session of the Relchstag and the sit- ting scheduled for Wednesday, there- | fore, has been canceled DEMOCRATS ARE JUBILANT. Believe Election May Result in Majority—Big Possibilities. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Dally News BERLIN, October 21.-~The dramatic dissolution of the Reichstag, which| burst like a torpedo Mon ay, has completely altered the German politi-| cal situation and opened the door gn Infinite possibilities. The new elee- tious are not expected to change the | situation greatly, but even a small| change giving a predominant strength to either the right or left, which| enable the formation of a ble majority would be welcome. | Today the Democrats are jubilant! and declare their strength in the' teichstag will be greatly increased, while the conservatives are embitter- od. ¢The Deutsch Zeitung declares that the coming election will declde Whether Germany is to be ruled by the Germans or the Jews and other, comment is similar. Yet the real change was the result , not of a_political, but of a moral | @rama, which is thrilling as only a personal story can be. | i i Marx Accedes to Cabinet. The moral drama is the Chancellor Marx. Marx is man, and an ardent Catholic. Politi- cally he beiongs to the group of | Rhineland Democrats who before the | war fought a bitter struggie to hin- | der the dominion of the Prussians east of the Elbe. He came to the chancel- lorship at the wish of the Social| Democrats and the Democrats, and al- | though his radicalism is entirely theo- | retical, he cannot forget the past. How ever, he I8 a man without political am- bition who has stayed. in office against his own desires for a peaceful life as provincial judge because he was urged to do 50 by all the parties. Therefore, when the political lead- ers, including the entire German cabinet, came to the conclusion that the Nationalists must enter the cab- inet, Marx acceded, although unwill- ingly About this time, Nunzio Pacelli paid | & visit to Berlin and may have in-| fluenced the Catholic party. Marx | Loped that the Catholic center party | would drag the Democratic party with it. Therefore, he allowed the ne- gotiations to be carried out, although specifically requesting that he be left | out. drama of | a_pious | Democrats Refuse to Ald. | The Nationalist entrance into the cabinet would have compromised his future political life and this was pre- cisely what he desired. When, how- ever. the Democrats refused to fol- | low the Catholics in the formation of a new burgher bloe, the movement came to a dead center The majority of the cabinet favored the formation of the conservatlve government under the control of moneyed interests, but Marx hesitit- ed. A conservative government would permit him to withdraw into that peace for which he longed, but it | would mean a compromise with all his political past, and it would enable his former companions to accuse him of going over to the enemy. This the old judge's moral scruples would not permit. Election Hel Moraover, a cabinet without the @emocratic minister of the Reichs- wehr, Gesler, would have been weak, for Germany fears trouble with the Reichswehr. Therefore. despite his feeling for political expediency, despite his ‘weary distaste for his present occu- pation, with its heavy responsibili- ties, Chancelior Marx at the eleventh hour changed his mind and decided that the Reichstag should be dis- solved and that new elections should be_held. Many Germans and, Indeed, the chancellor himself, probably feel that new elections are inopportune, but against this argument was the thrust of moral conscience, and in this case, contrary (p the phiiosophy of cynics, moral conscience won. , (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) LOAN IS OVERSUBSCRIBED ¢ GENEVA, October 21— Switzer- and's £1,600,000 portion of the $200,- 00,000 Dawes plan loan to Germany, which was offered to the public today, was subscribed several times over, «coording to Swiss bankers. The Books were to have closed tomorrow, | | Inopportune. i | agaln | the | fleet |deck fore and aft. Entered as second class matter hington, D. C. g Dirigible Hits Pace ch WASHINGTON, D. C, £ 'Shenandoah Beats Out Storm In'420-Mile Race to San Diego Averaging 50 Miles! an Hour—Pushed Backward by Wind Once. Iy the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif., October 21.— The Navy dirigible Shenandoah, de- layed for a time by heavy fog, was brought to the ground at the North nd naval a'r station at.11 o'clock The T. S S Shenandoah t time for 420 miles down the California coast from San Fran- cisco to San Diego during the night to reach her mooring mas Island before sunrise toda big dirigible passed the I¥ing off San Pedro, at 1:55 a.m., he race was as good as wo Through the moolight the Shenan- doah was hitting the ball at a speed averaging 50 miles an hour. Lieut. Comdr. Lansdowne, captain, and Lieut. Anderson, meteorologist, were sanguine after receiving weath- er reports by radio from all of the stations on the Pacific Coast, that the storm had passed and caly weather might be expected. The familiar looking weather chart, with its circles of red and blue, which he sketched in the navigating gon- dola high in the air, showed that the dirigible had fought its way out of the storm and that the last entan- raced GKILLED IN BLAST ON NAVY GRUISER: 4 OTHERS MAY DIE Cause of Trenton Explosiol During Target Practice Is Still Unexplained. n By the Associated Prews. NORFOLK. Va. October 21.—Six men, one a commissioned officer. are dead, four are in a dangerous condi- tion and sixteen more are as the result of an explosion aboard the U. S. S. Trenton about 40 miles east of Cape Henry late yesterday. The explosien occurred in_ the ship's forward turret and was of such great force that the rear steel door was forced open and five men were blown overboard, of which one was drowned The ship was engaged in target prac- tice at the time of the accident. A message from the Trenton re- ceived by naval officials here said powder and shell were being hoisted into the gurret at the time of the explosion, and that “all safety pre cautions had been observed.” No shot had been fired, and electrical trouble was not regarded as the cause. Four F Overboard. “Immediately after the explosion,” the message ndded. “the access door in the rear of the turret was opened and feur men fell overboard because of the overhang. Three were rescued. One (Walker) apparently was badly burned and drowned. but his body was not recovered.” The scout cruiser Raleigh took up the search for Walker's body as the Trenton sped to port, where hours seriously |later a casualty list of 20 names was made public, although prior to the death of Cholister it had been re- ported that 4 were dead and 18 in- jured. The less seriously injured in- cluded one officer, Jehn Arthur Sedg- wick, lieutenant. junior grade, of | Winthrop, Mass., the others being en- listed men. Ensign Drexler's was the outstand- ing name in the stories of heroism told by some of the men taken to the Portsmouth hospital. He was near the turret when the explosion rocked the ship, throwing men to the Rushing into the blaze, he dragged three men to safety. His face a mass of burns and his clothing in flames. He was turning back’ into the fiery turret when he dropped dead. The Trenton was commissioned about six months ago, shortly before the turret explosion aboard the bat- tleship Mississippi off the California coast, which caused 47 or 48 fatal- ities. She had just completed a shakedown cruise around Africa by bringing home the body of Robert W. Imbrie, American vice consul, who was killed at Teheran by a mob of Persian religious fanatics. She commanded by ‘Capt. E. C. and is designed to carry a crew of about 400. Rushex to Hampton Ronds. Immediately-after the accident the Trenton headed full speed for Hamp- ton Reads, where arrangements had been made to remove the injured to the naval hospital at Portsmouth. Several men who were not seriously injure¢ were treated on board ship. Most of the men were burned about the face and body. In some instances the dead were so badly burned that recognition was almost impossible. The men in the ill-fated turret were holsting and loading shells in the guns when the explosion occurred. It 1s belleved that the powder became ignited in some mannmer before the breach of the gun was closed. There was no powder outside the maga- zines except that which was being used tc load the rifles, Capt. Kalbbus, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) —_— The United States Expects Every American to Do His Duty— VOTE battle | not expected to live, and | injured | is | Kalbfus | gling wind would be left behind at | Point Conception. | A message was radioed ahead to have a landing crew on the naval sta tion grounds at 5:30 a.m. When the moon shot above the peaks of the mountains after 10 o'clock, reflecting the trailing shadow i GERARD ESTIMATES FINAL DAVIS FUND NOT OVER $750,000 Total of $548,440 Collected to Date, Democratic Treas- urer Declares. McADOO BACKER IS BIG of the long tube on the smooth wave the storm had disappeared and the Shenandoah started reellng off & miles an hour with regularity. The past 24 hours had shown | vicissitudes of air navigation. | of the time the ship had been going backwards with all engines driving at full sveed ahead and at other times speeding through the air faster [ than any ship of the sea, merely be- cause the interference of the air had failed. The Shenandoah the fastest tralns Lewis and San Diego eight hours, of .the railroad between the two places being 48 hours 48 minutes. With almost continuous head winds on the North-bound voyage, the Shenandoah covered the 1,500 miles in 48 hours. Fogs concealing the mooring mast and sunshine warming her gas bags added 11 hours of aim- less circling over Tacoma before she | could moor without valving the | precious helium. | TWO CONDEMNED MEN WIN EXECUTION STAYS Justice Siddons, Criminal vision No. 1, today postponed until Monday. December 8, the execution of Herbert L. Killing Police Ralph Thoma killing his throat. | Both cases are pending for an ap- i peal in the Court of Appeals. De- | cisions are not expected until next | month. “The men, both colored, were | to have been hanged Friday | | ‘SPREAD OF MANILA - RIOTING IS FEARED | | the Leat the time of between Camp by more than | | « Lieut. Dunnigan, and who was convicted of wife Dby cutting her | Eight Chinese Hurt in Provin- | cial Attack—General Un- | e ! easiness Felt. BY WALTER J. MANILA, October | tears that an overwrought race feel- ing, engendered by rioting agalinst the Chinese in many parts of Manila during 48 hours, would spread into {the provinces where foreigners have till less protection were confirmed last night when irresponsible ele- ments incited by rumors from Manila attacked a large rice mill at Cabana Tuan, the capital of Neuva Ec; province, seriously injuring ROBB. damaging the property before constabulary could control them. A force of 260 constabulary has ar- rived since, under orders from Man- ila, to prevent further outrages, but nefther in Manila nor throughout the provinces is any real security felt by the Chinese who reopened thelr stores, shops, restaurants, laundries, fac- tories and wholesale and retall places today only upon agreement with Gov." Gen. Wood and his assurance that they would not be molested. For 12 hours now within the city the but the Chinese uneasiness is shared by others because of the manner in which the police handled the rioters. Official delays and temporizing have twisted the whole situation into a national issue with political aspects. Politicians have addressed excited crowds in the Mehan Gardens. Speaker of°the House fRoxas is bail- ing out gangs who were arrested dur- ing the riot. If trials ever occur con- victions will be doubtful, because it is practically impossible to obtain evidence. Therefore the inescapable conclusion shared by the best opinions of the most reputable persons is that the rabble will feel safe in the future without strict oceasional depredations upon isolated Chinese towns will be frequent. i’rompt police action without political intervention would not involve a single respectable Filipino, it is gen- erally believed. (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Datly News Co.) 870 13 DEAD IN WAKE OF TROPICAL STORM Cubans Killed in Pinar del Rio. ‘Eleven Inches of Rain | in Florida. | By the Associated Press. HAVANA, October 21.—Reports that from 8 to 13 persons had been killed and about 50 injured when the tropi- cal storm hit Arooyos de Mantua, in Pinar del Rio, were.received here to- day. Almost every bullding in the town sustained heavy damage, and it was estimated that the tobacco crop suffered severely. Communication by wire was almost paralyzed. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., October 21.— After a night of torrential rains and high winds, reaching a velocity of 68 miles an hour, southern Florida re- ported but little real damage. Shipping which was tied up yester- day and last night is again being re- strained ad a result of & new warning of & storm expected to develop about Key West and Titusville. In the Palm Beach section, flooding of lowlands and impairment of rail and highway motor service resulted from the wind and rain of the past three days. Precipitation from Satur- day morning until Monday night was announced at 11.21 inches. Punta Gorda and Fort Myers were partly isolated, but no serious dam- age ner fatalities have been reported. — e e Part | the actual runuing time | i Di- pelund, convicted of | 21.—Testerday's | eight Chinese, looting the stock and | there have not been many encounters, | in making similar attacks, and that | constabulary control | CONTRIBUTOR TO FUND Ryan of Anaconda Copper Identi- fied on List—Other Wit- nesses to Appear. | been made to the Democratic national | campaign fund todate, James W. Ge- | rard. the party's national treasurer | testified today before the Senate in- | vestigating committee. Mr. Gerard estimated that the final total of the campaign would not ex- ceed $750,000. i Identifies Contributors. | Going over the list of contributors, | most of which was made public last ‘highl in New York, the committee {members asked the Democratic trea lurer to identify some of them_ Thom- | as L. Chadbourne of Greenwich, who | contributed $25,060, was idantified as banker. Senator Caraway, Dem- |ocrat, Arkansas, developed that Chad- bourne was a chief supporter of Wil- | llam G. McAdoo in the pre-convention rganization John D. Ryan, $5,000." read Chair {man Borah from the list. “Who | Ryanz" “He i3 president of the Anaconda Copper Company,” Mr. Gerard replied. C. W. Watson, who ntributed $5. 000, was identified as a former Sen- | ator from West Virginia. “I think he is & coal operator,” said the witness a Untermeyer Gave $35,000. who _also identified as He has agreed to Ish, counsel for Sen- Samuel Untermeyer, tributed $5,000, was New York lawyer.” assist Frank P. W ator La Follette Edward T. Stotesbury. Philadelphia banker, and Samuel M. Vauclain, presi- dent of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, are other Philadelphia witnesses. Sena- tor Borah said eubpoenas had been is- sued for them. Nathan T. Folwell, treas- urer of the Manufacturers' Club, Phila delphia, also is to be questioned on the basis of a letter sent by the finance committee of the club to its members | soliciting funds for the Republican cam- palgn “and emphasizing what was de- clared to be the importance of keeping a protective tariff act on the statute books. Seek 1o Get Facts. Chairman Borah plans to keep the | investigation to the purpose of devel- and the purposes for which they are expended. He is determined, he said, to fellow every lead In this direction, to get at all the facts and, once hav- ing established that a man made a large contribution, to develop whether he had a selfish interest in so doing. Grundy in one of his letters stated that he was authorized by the Repub- lican national committee to make col- lections in Pennsylvania “outside of the Pittsburgh district.” Senator Bo- rah said he would seek to find out who was charged with the collection in_that district. During the inquiry into the alleged | Republican “slush”” fund, Frank P. | Walsh of Kansas City, personal coun- sel for Senator La Follette, probably will be given the right to cross-ex- amine witnesses, Mr. Walsh have associated with him Samuel Untermyer of New York, whom he has described as a supporter of John W. Davis and the Democratic ticket. After the La Follette charges are | disposed of, it iy the intention of the committee, as expressed by Senator | Borah. to go into the question of the | | have been expended by the American Federation of Labor on behalf of the La Follette-Wheeler ticket. Chairman Borah said also that he would telegraph to Gov. John J. Blaine of Wisconsin for the facts as to the charge of Chairman Butler of the Republican national committee | that the La Follette forces in that | State are seeking to raise a fund of $500,000 for use in the congressional election in Wisconsin. | FRANCE’S “BIG-FAP;ILY" PRIZE TO PARENTS OF 10 Quadruplets Born During War, Sponsored by Kings. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 21.—The “big fam- 1ly” prize of 25,000 francs has been awarded by the French Academy, at former Premier Poincare's request, to Devouste Dubreuil, whose family has been struggling against the high cost of living, with 10 small mouths to feed. The children include quadruplets— | two boys and two girls—born during the war, for whom M. Poincare, who was then President of France; King Albert of Belgium, King George of England and the Empress of Russia were godfathers and godmother. M. Poincare induced the academy and the multimillionaire founder of several score such annual prizes to waive the rules, ‘which limit the awards to families in which the pa- rents are under 40 years of age. Du- breull is 55. The United States Expects Every American " to 'Have The Right to Vote,— Therefore, VOTE : for National - Representation for the District of Columbia. L1l WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Contributions totaling $548,440 have {oping the source of campaign funds' will | ! source and the amount of funds which | | Childrén of Poor Couple Include | * 4 { JUST PASSI | NEWREGULATIONS CONFUSE TRAFFI Jams in Streets Follow Rule { of Blowing Whistles at Cross- | ings for 30 Seconds. Downtown traffic was thrown into i confusion this morning when crossing | { poticemen attempted to hold vehicles |for 30 seconds after blowing their whistles before they turned on the “go" signs. | This new traffic scheme was tried out {in order to allow pedestrians to get safely across the street and to pre- ! pare vehicular traffic to move more | promptly when the signal was turned. Because of the many complaints traffic policemen hereafter wiil blow ‘!helr whistles 15 seconds before turn- | ing_the “go” sign. | When the trafic officers went on | duty thif morning they had orders to blow their whistles 30 seconds before changing the sign, but Inspector Al- bert J. Headley sald this resulted in such criticism that he immediately | reduced the period of warning to 15 | seconds. | “We will try this for a while,” said | the inspector, “and if 15 seconds ! proves too long, it probably will be turther reduced.” Trial Given Plan. | Inspector Headley said the idea of blowing a whistle in advance of changing the sign is not new, but | that he directed his men to give the | warning 30 seconds in advance, to | find out just what the effect would | be. The results, he said, | him to cut the time in half. There were indications that some of | the confusion which occurred this i morning may have been due to mot- |orists not understanding what the blast of the whistle meant. At one intersection an observer noticed that at the blowing of the whistle some drivers, thinking it was | a signal.to move, started ahead. The | traffic officer gave these motorists an order to turn into the slde street. Upon getting this order the drivers | seemed to be still more perplexed. | One Man Insaficlent. Inspector Headley said that while he is willing to try out the rule of blowing the whistle in advance of changing the sign. he is of the opin- |ion that one officer standing in the center of an intersection cannot make this method of directing traffic prac- | tical. | “There should be more than one { policeman to a corner to operate this |system, as they have It in other cities,” the inspector declared. The head of the traffic bureau said |he wanted to emphasize the point that ! the first thought of a traffic policeman | is to regulate vehicles for the protec- | tion of pedestrians. Pedestrians, he {added, do not seem to be as partic- ular about the whistle signal as mo- torists. The inspector pointed out that | Pennsylvania avenue is 108 feet wide {and that it might take an 0ld or | crippled pedestrian 30 seconds to get {across, but he said the effect of hold- ing the traffic 30 seconds.was such that it had.to be modified. —_ s FRENCH BALLOON SEIZED ON LANDING IN GERMANY Pilot Courteously Treated, But Paris Press Sees Confiscation as Tll-Considered Policy. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 21.—A story re- counting the 'alleged confiscation by the German authorities of a French balloon which landed near Emden is printed in this afternoon’s newspa- pers. The balloon, participating in a competition, left St. Cloud October 11. When it was forced to descend upon German soil the pllot received every attention and aid from the authorities and was invited “to lunch by the mayor of the city, but he was de- tained for two days pending instruc- tions from Berlin. When thése came they ordered that the pilot be re- leased, but that the balloon, with its instruments, maps and all of its ma- terial, be confiscated. The newspapers point out that the French balloon was confiscated at a moment when the German' Zeppelin ZR-3 was fiying over France with the authorization of the French govern- | ment. 30 Hurt in Street Car. CHICAGO, October 21. — Thirty street ‘car passengers were injured, some seriously, when a car collided with a motor truck early today. Rain had made the streets and rails alip- pery, \No one was fatally hurt, 4Finds License Ta Jams were common everywhere. | prompted | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1924 -THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. w1} BY o i OF g NG THE DISTRICT Lost From Auto Given to Johnson! ] When H. V. White of Sheldon, Mo., iearns that he has one of Wal- ter Johnson's automobile tags in his possession he will probably be one of the proudest citizens in the “Show Me” State. Mr. White wrote the following let- ter to Wade Coombs, superintendent of District licenses, toda “Please give me the name and address of the owner of license No. 100,000, D. C., 1924. I found this license on the night of October 16 near the Missouri-Kansas line." Mr. Coombs went through his rec- ords and found it was the number assigned to the limousine presented to the great pitcher by the base ball fans of Washington during the world series. STORM CUTS OFF TOWNS, FLOODS ROADS IN FLORIDA | i | { | | i | | | No Communication Had Today With Punta Gorda and Fort Myers—=8hips Overdue. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fia., October 21.— | | Punta Gorda and Fort Myers, report- ed to have felt the full force of a lTurricane which swept out of the! Gulf of Mexico yesterday. remained cut off from cummunication today !and little was known of their fate. | Several other places virtually were solated. Numerous highways of this region were water swept, and in places were barred to traffic. Four vessels, the steamships Ophis and Dio and the schooners Corinthia | and Wilson, believed to have been in | the path of the, storm, were reported | overdue. Several washouts along the line of the Florida East Coast Railroad crip- Dpled traffic. |HELIUM SHIPMENTS FOR ZR-3 ARE BEGUN| | First of 24 Cars Leaves Texas. Will Be Completed This Month. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., October 21.— ( The last of the heiium for the ZR-3 will leave here by the end of October, it was announced today by Lieut. Wicks, In command of the local plant. The first cars of the 24 necessary to flll the biz dirigible left late yesterday for Lakehurst, N. J. Enough helium is on hand for refliling the Shenandoah, which is expected to tie up at the local moorinz mast Wednesday night or early Thursday. Orders call for 2,000,000 cubic feet of hellum, which will fill about 14,000 { metal drums for the ZR-3. “This amount of helium, which will | be sufficient to cary the ZR-3, already has been manufactured,” Lieut. Wicks sald. “The last carload probably will leave here the latter part of the \month.”™ POLES BUILDING PORT TO REPLACE DANZIG Fear Communications Might Be Cut Off in Case of Emergency. By the Associated Press. PARIS, - October 21.—French con- tractors have begun the work of bullding the first all-Polish seaport at Gdynia (Gdingen). The port will | soon be available, according to- Le Matin, %8 a base for submarines, “which alone can insure freedom of communication with the Baltic, now sontrolled by the German-Russian eet.” ' Gen. Sikorski,-the Polish minister | of national defense, is in Paris, the paper say, with the object of provid- ing for the maintenance of sea com munidations between Poland and France. Poland was unable-to rely upon Danzig in the event of a crisis, Le Matin asserts, in view of the ‘nationalist tendencies” of the Danzig authoritles. . Chilean Regime Recognized. SANTIAGO, Chile, October 21.— Venesugla has recognized the new Chilean government. The govern- ment purposes to enter Into a con- tract with an American expert to {'i:fl'l nize the sanitary service in Chile. 1 | | | | i 1 I | Snow Falls in New York State. GLENS FALLS, N. Y., October 21.— | Snow yesterday whitened the ground at Indian Lake and a flurry, which lasted about an hour, was reported at North Creek, g “From Pre: Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers every citf. tion is deli [ 5" COLUMBIA. RENT BOARD HEAD DENES CHARGES i Chairman Whaley Recalls Of- fer to Retire if Real Estate Men Would Submit. Branding as absolutely unfounded “tatements by Robert McKeever before the District Building and Managers ociation yesterday. in which he declared that some mem- bers of the Rent Commission were “fostering the activities of the Tenants' League in order to keep their jobs at any price,” Richard § | Whaley, chairman of the Rent Com- mission, declared that he reiterated his statements made to Mr. McKeever in answer to similar charges by him before the House investigating com- mittee in May. “I told Mr. McKeever then, when he made similar charges, that if the | landlords of the District would agree to help extend the rent act for another two years that I, and I was sure the rest of the commissioner: would not accept any reappointments | from the President, but they would not agree. I see no reason why the tenants should not organize as well as the owners,” declared Mr. Whaley. Mrs. Taylor Deniex Bias. Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor of the com- mission declared she was indignant at the assertions made by Mr. Mc- eever. Mrs. Taylor said that if it were not for the fact that she felt that she could do more good for the | housing situation by remaining on the commission she would be tempted to | resign and work for housing better- terment on the ontside. “Being a member of the commission I feel that | I should take no part in outside or- ganizations,” she stated ome time ago I had hundreds of women coming to me about rent troubles and eviction notices. visited me at midnight and at all hours. 1 suggested they organize for their portection. They have a right to organize, but this does not prevent my impartial decisions as a rent where I have not considered the land- lord or tenant impartially or fairly in_any case.” Mrs. Henry C. Brown and Edward H. Schirmer of the Tenants' League visited the White House today to re- celve C. Bascom Slemp's reply to their requests left last Saturday. Mr. Slemp told the representatives that Peyton Gordon port to the President on Thursday. He also told them that Secretary Weeks had informed him that it was | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. PAPER UR(;ES RETURN OF HANIHARA TO U. S. Nichi Nichi Says “Immigration Upheaval” No Reason for Am- bassador’s Recall. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, October 21.—The English edition of the Nichi Nichi, a publica- | tion close to the Japanese foreign of- fice, today editorially urges the re- turn of M. Hanihara as Ambassador from Japan to the United States. “Hanihara's return to Washington would be a graceful act after th. unfortunate “immigration upheaval, the Nichi Nichi says. “The immigra- tion bill was painfully hard on Japan, but that is no reason why the am- bassador who happened to be at Washington at the time should be recalled.” The editorial says Hanihara would be willing to return to Washington and disregard the momentary per- sonai hurt which came to him at the time of the passage of the immigra- tion law. German Mails Show Profit. BERLIN, October 21.—The post office department today reported a surplus of 50,000,000 marks since Feb- ruary 1. It is expected that business firms dealing with foreign countries will urge reduction of rates on let- ters and post cards destined to for- elgn points. The present rates are 30 and 20 pfennigs,- while the pre-war rates were 20 and 10 pfennigs, re- spectively. Bread Price Takes Boost. PARIS, October 21.—The price of | bread was increased by sou to 1 franc 35 centimes a kil today. The new price, which goes into effect on Thursday, was made necessary by the steadily increasing Drice of whea 1 their | would make his re- | block and the regular edi- vered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’: s Circulation, 97,242 TWO CENTS. GOOLIDGE T0 CARRY INDIANA, BUT KLAN WILL HURT PARTY Democrats Likely to Elect -Governor Because of Split Over Masked Order. LA FOLLETTE MEN HOPE TO GET SECOND PLACE Radical Sentiment in State Slight ! and President Seems Very Popular. | | s BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star INDIANAPOLIS, October diana two weeks from today will fun tion normally, delivering her 15 electoral | votes to Coolidge and Dawes, there should be a great reversal of senti- | ment in the meantime. This will be ti | normal thing for Indiana to do, since, in Ithe last seven presidential elections from the days of McKinley and Bryan to Harding and Cox, Indiana has gone Democratic only once. That was in 1912 | When Wilson won, due to the Roosev | Taft eplit in the Republican party, 1 | won by 22,000 votes less than the con | bined strength of his two opponents ! But Indiana has been consistently | Republican on national affairs during the last 28 years. Not infrequently State has chosen a Democratic gov- | ernor and Democratic Senators, and this year the Democrats stand a good chance to elect their gubernatorial candidate not particularly because he is a D crat, but becau: is anti-Klan, the Republican nominee has the | ment of the Ku Klux Kian. —1 unless | idorse- Status of La Follett Follette in Indiana, other causes a certain amount of un- v as to the outcome of the ele tion. But La Follette in Indiana is cu! ting both ways into the Democratic :s well as Republican ranks. He does not have the organization in this State that he has in some others. Partly this is due 1o lack of funds necessary to campaign. The prediction that Coolidge will carry Indiana is based on statements privat 1y made by leading Democrats and eup- { porters of La Follette. There is a grow ing hope in some Democratic hearts. that the same element which expected to make it possibie for D Carleton B. McCulle Democratic nominee for governor. to defeat his Re- publican opponent, Ed Jackson, may aiso make it possible for John W. Davis 1o win the Opposition to Kian. If McCulloch is to win, there must be fa considerable number of Republican otes cast for him. The opposition to the Klan is strong among many well to and leading citizens In Indiana who v Republican ticket. It is exceedingl strong among the negroes, who ha voting strength of about $0,000. Now the Democrats are hoping that a large number of the negro voters will go right down the line, voting a straight Demo- cratic ticket, and thus cutting severely into the Republican normal strength. Of course, the Republican business me who may not support Jackson are not expected to vote against Coolidge. And a very large number of negroes will vote i for Coolidge, undoubtedly, aithough they support McCuiloch. The so-called League of Independ ent Colored Voters is fostered by the Democrats. It holding meetin in varfous parts of the State in of position to Jackson and in favor of McCulloch, and the Democratic lead- ers are insisting that they shall go “right” on the national ticket, : well as on the State ticket. Sunday afternoon the league held a meeting here, attended by five or six thousand negroes, at which anti-Klan and anti- | on speeches were made by their {leaders. William S. Lewis of Bosto colored, a former assistant Attorne General of the United States, ad dressed the meeting, and strongly | commissioner. T defy anybody to show | urged his hearers to vote for Davis whom he is supporting for the presi dency. Onme colored man, with h ears cropped close to his head, sai to be a deed of the Klan in Okla | homa, was exhibited at the meeting | Unable to “Split.” Many of the colored voters, how ever, are able to vote a “split” ticke without danger of ruining their b | lots and having them thrown out. The Republican leaders feel confident that the colored voters will not give the support to the Democratic national ticket from which they say negroes can expect nothing. If the Demo- | erats go far in insisting that the col- |ored voters shall vote a raight™ Democratic ticket, it may®have the result of throwing some of the col- ored voters back into the Republicar f{column on the governship. | In Indiana, President Coolidge is | well liked, generally. The people | have vespect for him. In this State veto of the bonus bill has made n more friends than enemi Some of the members of Congress, who failed to support the President on this issue, are having their troubles now. Nor do the people generally believe that Coolidge is pro-Kla: though that is an idea the Democra are endeavoring to instill. Strength of Klan. The Klan strength in Tndiana variously estimated ail the way from 1200,000 voters to 400,000. Many | the Republicans, who are opposing Jackson because of the Klan, believe that steps must be taken to elimina | the organization as a political factor in_the State. “If eventualiy. why not no th Republicans s they annour their intention of supporting McCul loch. Jackson 1 was Secretary of Statc | when the Klans' charter was sub mitted. He accepted it, holding that under the law he was compelied to do so. When Juackson's candidacy for | the nomination for governor was & nounced, the Klan immediately went to work for him. The word was passed around openly to work for Jackson. He defeated a half dozen other candidates for the nominatio. The former Republican governor, Warren T. McCray, Is now in the penitentiary, found guilty of high and |low finance. He resigned last April I before he was sentenced. But appar- ently his present position is having little or no effect on the election. The Democrats are laying considerable stress on the labor provisions of their State platform, which were written in at the instance of organized labor. But the real issue which has the State standing on its ear is the Kilan. (Continued on Page 14, Column 3.)