Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomo Trow; some- what cooler tonlght; moderate north- west winds. Temperature ending at 2 p.m. today: at 2 p.m. yesterday; lo 4:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. for 24 hours Highest, 69, west, 52, at - Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 No. 29,400. post Entered as second class matter office Washington, D’ C. PUBLY OF TAK REPORTSISLLEEAL CABNET CONINCED - Stone to Issue Statement This Afternoon—Says He and Mellon Agree. DECLINES TO FORECAST WHAT DECISION WILL BE President Believes Law Must e Enforced, But Knows of No Rul- ing Affecting Daily Press. While there were intimations from official circles today that the Govern- ment will decide that publication of income tax records illegal, the « muddie continued as confused as ever, Wwith the only definite promise sight a statement to be made by At- torney General Stone late this after- noon The Attorney General attended a €abinet meeting at the White House this morning, at which the was discussed. Afterward when asked hether he and cretary Mellon agreed as to the legality of publica- tion, the Attorne: neral replied that they were in accord. Secretary Mellon has expressed himself definite- 1y of the opinion that publication is unlawful Law Must be At the Department of Justice, however, it was plainly emphasized about noon that the Attorney Genera did not intend to give out in advance of his statement late this afternoon any indication to what his de- cixion is. In fact the impression was gained at the department that ab- solutely no definite intimations on his decision one way or another had been intended by the Attorney Gen- eral White House officials said President Coolidge was unaware of any decision to @ ruling for or against the ¢ of publishing the returns in pers. Mr. Coolidge was said to be of the opinion that Government officers must enforce the law, but that every one must be presumed in- nocent until proven guilty. The publicity of income tax returns occupicd attention at the Cabinet meeting it was learned, but how far the discussion had extended, or whether it had included any consideration as to the far-reaching effect the matter has already attained, was not re- vealed Many Questions Involved. problem before the Attorney is complicated, for It Involves legality of the act of thousands rewspapers throughout the United s publishing income tax re- iurns. but more than a simple ques. tion between the two apparently con- tiary provisions of the revenue law is included. Among the questions are these: What was the intent of Congress in Jeaving in the same revenue law the parate and apparently confus- ing sections? inforced. as . Th General the How far does the law authorize the | ary of the ning the Treasury lists for “public inspec- and does such “public inspec- " extend to newspapers? If the law means that publication is illegal, what course of should taken against inds of newspapers which N aggregate of names and figures? Unoflicial opinions among legal au- thorities of the city differ widely on these questions. to go in be the thou- ave printed millions May Press Test Caxes. Should the Attorney cide such publication the penalty law it s thoritics try out t either one stanc with Thix General de- s contrary to provision of the revenue the thought by some au- that the simplest way to matter would be to pick s, and view sinstitute 4 procecdings, to making test cases. could probably be expedited that the quéstion could be de- termined finally by the courts, In ull probability it would be taken to the Supreme Court, in hte opinion of some authorit Should another less likely course be | pursued the Department of Justice might send instructions to all district attorneys throughout the country to develop cases against newspape in their district This would be a tre- mendous undertaking, and is deemed Dby well advised authorities as hardly the likely course to be followed by the Attorn General Effect on Election Watched. Already. however, some collectors of internal revenue at vacious points 4 have been taking precautions to pro- tect themselves in case publication should be held illegal. Some have re- quired persons amining the lists to sign notices to which have been af- fixed the pe on of the law. Some have coples of news: papers to be in the evidence. Some have “certified” hewspapers to their district attorneys as having published the matter in dispute. With election one week from today, political with Kcenest interest on the outcome of the mixup with a view to seeing what effect it may have on the elec- tion. So complicated has the matter been, however, that according to some ob- servers, the only definite result which % can be determined with any degree of accuracy has ‘been a general reaction agaiwst the publication. The public seems to be in a daze as to who is re- sponsible for the thing to which the preponderance of opinion strenuous- 1y objects. MOB SHOOTS NEGRO. XKentucky 1zese of 200 Kills Man Accused of Slaying. PRESTONBURG, Ky., October 28.— “Kid” Shannon, negro, 28, was shot 1% times by a mob estimated at 200 en Sunday night at Wayland and ed from his wounds late yesterday, according to information reaching hwre today. Shannon was charged 4 With having killed a white man. Fif- cen men were guarding the jail at he time the negro was seized, Chief «f Police Vernon Castle said. Radio Programs—Page inl subject | procedure | of | or a few outstanding in- | forces bentytheir attention | 18. ! i Y . EDWARD BELL. EDWARD BELL DIES; - FAMED DIPLOMAT American Charge at Peking Is Vigtim of Stroke—Had Wide Experience." i | i By the Associated Press, PEKING, October 28.—FEdward Bell, the American charge d'affaires here, died this morning as the result of a stroke suffered last night. - Ferdinand L. Mayer, at the Ameri- can lagation, will succeed Mr. Bell as charge d'affaires in the absence of Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, Amer- ican Minister, who is in the United States. i | { | | i | { | | ILL, REFUSED TO QUIT. | | Bell's Condition ‘Was Aggravated H by Strain. | i BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Edward Bell, American charge d'affaires 4 Peking. who died | Ras Dbeen in alling health some’ time, | and his condition became aggravated junder the strain to whieh all foreign diplomats in. Peking latterly have | been_subjéctad. Nevertheless, le in- sisted upon ' “carrying’ on,” and has {ktpt Secretary Hughes' minutely in- formed of the kaleidoscopic develop- ments, which every day, and almost every hour, has been producing in and around Peking. Bell was one of the most brilliant and experiénced of the younger diplo- matic “career men.” Only 42 years old, he had been in the foreign ice continuously since 1909, beginning as vice consul general in Egypt. Af- terward he was secretary - of tion in Persia and Cuba. Wi ing as an attache of the Latin-Ameri- can division of the State Department in Washington, President Wilson ap- pointed him a member of the special mission to represent the United States at the inauguration of President Menocal of Cuba in 1913. Dixtinguivhed in World War. Bell's first important opportunity | for distingaished service came with the World War, which found him on duty as a second secretary at the American Embassy in London, Walter | Hines Page, American Ambassador to | the Court of St. James, looked upon | Bell as one of his chief supports in the tense days of our neutrality, be- tween 1914 and 1917. One of the | duties assigned Bell was to meet the | representatives »of the British and American press daily during the war, and it was in no small degree due to his tact and frankness that our offi- cial position in strenuous times was intelligently interpreted to Britain and allied Europe in general. When John W. Davis relieved Mr. Page- as Ambassador in 1918 Bell was pro- moted to-fbe first secretary of the London Embassy. As a reward for his wartime .sérvices in - England, the State Department promoted Bell in {1920 to be counselor .of KEmbassy at ! Tokio. { There, on the eve of the summoning | of the Washington Confersnce, .vital {duties again were imposed upon the | young American diplomatist. . Am- | bassador Roland ‘8. Morrts :had come {to Washington to. confer. with the | State Department, and Bell was left |in Tokio to conduct the extremely i delicate negotiations that had to be | carried on before Japan..consented to accept Secretary Hughes' . invi- tation to the conferenee which was to limit,paval armaments and read- just matters in the Far Edst. Mr. Hughes often paid tribute to the skill and finesse with which Bell ac- quitted himself throughodt “the months _which preceded ~the . actual assembling ‘of the ‘conference. % In order to avail himself of BeIFs first- hand knowledge of Japanese dondi- { tions, Secretary, Hughes regallédyhim | for the period of the conference, Once. more fate decreed,a. stellar role for him..“He was, assigned; to 5%“ apanese Commii { tically no effect on the Labor vote, WASHINGTON, D. C, LABOR'S CHANCES T0 GAIN N BRITRSH ELECTION DOUBTED MacDonald Forced to Bed by His Strenuous Campaign, Ending Today. CONSERVATIVES LIKELY TO WIN MOST NEW SEATS Tempers Grow Worse in Closing Hours of Fight—Curzon's Car Battered. v the Associated Press. LONDON, October 28.—All of the political parties and leaders are beating the big drum today in a last- minute effort to arouse their sup-| porters, and it is stated that the Labor, Conservative and Liberal spokesmen, in addresses which today were reaching thelr crescendo in intensity, Were hoping to reach the 5.000,000 electors who failed to re-| cord votes at the last election. | The most interesting feature of the day's campaigning is the Aberavon tour of the prime minister, whom | fatigue forced to take to bed this| afternoon. Former Premier Baldwin, leader of the Conservatives, is mak- ing a lightning tour of Lancashire,| in which he is utilizing a fleet of | motor cars, making speeches from} improvised platforms and receiving | an enthusiastic reception, as he| promises a thorough investigation into the high cost of living as well as utilising the usual Conservative! political arguments. i Former Premier Asquith, Liberal| leader, is remaining at Jaisley.! where it is expected he will have a hard fight for his seat, while former Premier Lloyd George has gone to his own constituency for a final chat with his supporters. | CONSERVATIVES GAINING. ad | Drive Home to Voters Meaning of | Campaign Issues. BY HAL O'FLAHERTY. By C(able to Tie Star and Chicago Daily News. | LONDON, October 28.—The short- | est general election campaign ever| waged in England closes tonight with the Socialist-Labor party. on the | défengive and’ entangled in 8 mass!| of explanations that are bewilderin to the working classes and wholly unsatisfactory to those .who inherit the; consel ve principles, but who might vote the Labor ticket. At nearly every stage of the cam- paign the anti-Sociallst parties have scored declded victories_by battering | down the Labor party's claims to| success during its eight months in office and by deluging the electorate with literature exploding such po- litical bombshells as the Zinoviev letter. All this, of course, has had pr: which, as in the last campaign, will | be cast solidly for Socfalist candi- dates. ! | 1 Few Expect Laboer Gal, The most optimistic conservatives admit that the Labor party will re- turn with nearly the same number of seats in the House of Commons | as it had in the past. At best it can- not gain more than half a dozen; at worst it may lose 20. With grim determination the Con- servatives have fought more valiantly in the brief space of two weeks than they ever did in the longer campaigns. They hope to be rewarded with a working majority, which on the eve of the elections seems an impossibil- ity, for they would have to win back the 90 seats lost during the disas- trous campaign of 1923. Regardless of the result of tomor-] row's voting, it is plain that the Con- servative press has succeeded in mak- ing the issues clear to the electors. 2 Times Thunders Anew. In one of the strongest editorials since the days of the old battle be tween free trade and protection in trade, the London Times today calls upon the British people to decide once and for all‘whether they are willing to throw ‘over the whole constitu- tional system for a socialistic com- monwealth, “A Labor victory,” says the Times, “Would mean a.constitutional rebel- | lion .which could. hardly remain con- stitutional for long. In the history of the world no such form of society as that advocated by the Labor party has existed. It is an ideal which has never been realized and which never can be realized while human nature | remains the same. “Bolshevism _Is a hideous travesty of the ideal, as many Labor leaders now admit, but they recklessly preach doctrines that lead to bolshevism. The fundamental principle of' the So- cialist doctrine, from which all others flow, is the complete subjugation of the individual to the state and the annihilation of' those abstract princl- ples denounced in Labor's manifesto. Other Papers Follow Sait. ‘Subjection of this degree and qual- ity is So repugnant to the inborn in- stincts of man that it cannot be im- posed upon him e mperfectly ex- i serve as Asierica’s official §obst on the (Confin Coluron-4.) | By the Associated Press. £ N g RENO, Nev., October 28.—Thg first detalled accountiofa’ buried Hueblo City which 3,000 or more .years ago housed probably = 20,000, people , in southeastern ‘Nevada, was brought to Reno yesterday by M. R. Hurrington of the Musgeum.of the American In- dian, New. York. Ciy, who. feturned from a 10-day investigatiom. = . The ruins, covered with sand, run in ‘a continuows ‘line six rhiles and wre about a half-mile wide,* he said. “The outlines of Wouses of stone.and adobe and stone pavements are clear- ly seen. Cornerstones jutted out of the -sand, #nd here and there the rec- tapgular ground plan.¢f:a house could be seen. ~ Everywhere were myriads of pleces of broken pottery. “Some thé stone dressed, 8 by 12 inches, and sometimes rough Buried City of 20,000 Is Uncovered In Southern:Nevada; 3,000 Years Old l l " "(Continued on Pag ‘olumn slabs were set on edge and the adobe Jjoined in and over $» make the walls. “The /dpnes covering the dwellings are in & valley In which are located numerous water mounds. Evidently i tured, i | tragedy [the plant there of the Standard Oil | popular ethyl gas. {be possible for a huma .. INVESTIGATES ETHYL AS PERL Fuel Which Caused Three Deaths in Laboratory Sold Extensively Here. | | | | Ethyl gasoline, are blamed for workmen in the where some of it fumes from the deaths of three New Jersey plant s being manufac- sold at most of the automo- bile service stations in Washington, Maryland and nearby points in Vir- ginia, and has long been known by attendants at the stations as a dan- gerous substance to handle. Interest has resulted here from the:| in Bayw J.. where as many- as a score of men employed in which Company of New Jersey are reported to be in hospitals suffering from tetraethyl lead poisoning, the most important substance used in the com- mercial manufacture of the new and Simult@neously it became that the Pittsburgh plant United States Bureau of Mines, under the direction of Dr. It Sayers, chief surgeon of the bureau, has been conducting researches for the past 10 | months to determine whether the presence of the deadl: tetraethyl lead in the fuel might be « menace to the public. Chargexs Sale Menace. Dr. Yandell Henderson, professor of applied physiology at Yale University, when consulted by New York physicians, who admitted themselves to be baffled by the mysterious poison that had killed the New Jersey workmen, charged that the sale of the gaso- line on a commercial basis Is a public menace. It is pointed out by some experts that since the tetraethyl lead is ad- mitted to be present in the gasoline before it is burned, it must neces- sarily find its way out of the auto- mobile engine in some form. Officials of the Standard Oil Co. declared that the lead is either burned up or re- mains in the walls of the motor. Dr. Sayres said the Bureau of Mines had used doves, pigeons, mon- keys, guinea pigs and rabbits in its efforts to determine whether it would being to be poisoned by the fumes from the e haust. It is possible to poison those birds and animals with the tetraethyl lead by other means, Dr. Sayres added, so that the effects of the lead on them might be accepted as a truthful indication of how it wouid attack a human being. Ne Danger Yet Foun Thus far, Dr. Sayres said, the re- search has indicated that there is no danger from that source, but he add- ed that the experiments are several months from being completed, at least, and until the tests are finished he would not wish to express an officlal opinion one way or the other. At that time the results of the e amination are to be published. Attendants at gas stations in Wash ington have known for a long time that the substanee they inject into the regular “straight” gas that makes it “ethyl” gas is dangerous to handle. They have frequently told customers | that they handle it with the greatest care and are especially particular to make sure that nome of it gets on their hands. Seek Effect on Uners. Part of the Bureau of Mines' in- vestigation is to determine whether or not the presence of thé raw mate- rial at the gas stations might not prove dangerous to the public. It is Faid that the men attacked in New Jersey were mever subject to large known of the Quantities_of the tetraethyl lead, but|; inhaled minute particles everal weeks. . O eore is & question whether or not tomers and employes at gas &t fions might mot be similarly affected evenfually by inhaling the vapor as the fluid runs into the tanks of their engines. This part. of the Govern- ment’s investigation also remains to be completed and a definite decision:| on it cannot be expected for several over ‘periods there was more moisture and water in the district in those early days than now exists. “We found. corn cobs about three inches long and evidence that the people lived on the fruits of the chase and urlculun‘AI products. We found arrowheads and benes of deer.' The first clue to the existence of the burféd city was from Jebediah Smith who, In a lett to Willlam Clark, superintendent of Indlan Affairs and member of the Lewls ahd Clark expedition, told of visiting - the district. However no' scientists ever had viewed the site until last wesk. g An expedifion . is being organized to uncover some of the hlllldllll! g g e written in 1827 | months, at least. THIRD VICTIM IS DEAD. Standard oll‘hbontory, ‘Where Injury Was Done, Closed: . By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 28.—A third victim of gas poisoning in the're- \ ASILY MF LOEB HIT BY NEWS OF FATHER’S |DEATH; CANNOT ATTEND FUNERAL Youthful Slayer Displays Emotion—Family Wim, i Not Request His Presence at Rites—Thought : Cut Off By Consolidated Pres« CHICAGO, October 28.—Death con- fronted young Dickle Loeb again {o- day, this time' by an act of Provi- dence—not by nis own hand, and he wavered. The hard, sinister surface of the 19-year-old boy that curled his lips into a socering smile at the thought of his killing of Bobbie Franks, soft- ened into emotion when the tragedy of the death of his father, Albert H. Loeb—another Indirect victim of his ne—was revealed to him today. There had been affection in the ‘Wayward youth for his family, fm- pervious as he pretended to be to ail sentiment or emotion. And death within that circle brought real tears to the éyes of the boy life-prisoner. But even the death of a parent for whom he had devotion will bring no FIND SLAIN WOMAN IN OLD MINE HOLE State Police- Depend on Testament and Bags of Clothes for Identity. By the Associated Press. OXFORD, N. J, October 28.—The body of a blond, bobbed-hair woman, about 40 years of age, with bullet wounds in the right cheek and over the heart, was found in an old iron mine hole near here today by Mrs. Matthew Mooney, who notified the State police. A bloodstained bed sheet bearing a bullet hole was found in one of three burlap bags which, filled with the woman's personal belongings, had been thrown into the hole on top of the body. The woman was clothed only in underwear. County Physician Cummings expressed the opinion that the woman had been shot while In bed. Name in Testament. A small Testament in which was written a name was found in one .of the .burlap bags and was taken pos- session of by State police pending an investigation. They refused to di- vulge the name in the volume. Questionihg of many persons in this, small town who came to the scene fajled to establish the identity of the turder victim, and the gonvic- tion was expressed that she Wad been killed and afterward brought to the mine hole in an automobile from some other town. Dead About Two Days. One of the burlap bags bore’ the name of Lance Brothers of Glen Gard- ner, N. J., where the firm conducts a feed store, while two others bore the names of feed stores in Asbury and Ludlow, N. J. In three bags were found three ladies' hats, necklaces, clothjng, yarn, embroidery and other personal belongings, which indicated that after the woman had been“-killed all her property had been gathered together to be thrown out ‘with ‘the body. County Physiclan Cummings sald the woman had been dead-about two _ Mrs. Mooney related that her year-old son, Matthew, Jr., told of Seeing a body in the mine hole:last night, when he came home late in the evening. This morning she went with her_son to the scene and immediately reported her discovery. T T R T BT l The. United States ‘Expects Every American to Do His search laboratory of the Standard Oil Company at Bayway, N. J., died here 'today in a hospital. He was Willlam \McSweeney of Elizabeth, N. J. | Two other. men are in the hospital in s serious condition with am unde- " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1924 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. MERIZED. | | i i | in Will. i | | break in the prison routine for Dickie | Loeb. He might attend the funeral under guard if his family should re- | quest—a privilege the Joliet warden/ alw: extends—bul relatives of the | family Intimated that no such request | will be made. | Instead, Dickie will keep his place in the prison factory. His relatives fear that presence of the boy outside | prison wou'd be the signal for the gathering of great crowds to get a glimpse of him, and, too, they wish to make no request that might even seem to result in the extension of apecial privileges: to the youth. His die wan cast thet My ‘evening, when to satfsfy_ap whim of curiosity e o rdef-=now the toll is belng enacted, = It isa toll that-airea; three gamilfes with - anguish and suffering. (Continued on Page & Colamn i) | “GUARD FLOTILLA ROUTS RUM FLEET New Squadron, Recently Au- thorized, Spreads Terror Among Atlantic Smugglers. Under command of two high of- ficers from headquarters here, the first major offensive of the new U. S. Coast Guard “special flotilla” was re- ported today to have driven the North Atlantic rum fleet into “panic.” Although modest accounts of the battle which has been waged off the New York and New England’ Coast within the past two weeks were avail- able at Coast Guard headquarters, it was learned from other -wdvices in the North that the rum fleet, terror- stricken by <the swoop of the Mew Coast Guard flot{lla, has been virtual- | 1y demorulized all along the shore. Numerous aceounts of captures and | seizures from Long Island north to| Boston throughout the past fornight | have - appeared uncorrelated and | from different ports, but, it was re- vealed officially today for the first time, they were accounts of casual- ties ‘In this first big_ drive by the combined new rum fleet, requested by President Coolidge and authorized by Congress. Veterans Lead Fight. The flotilla is in charge of two vet- erans of the sea, Lieut. Comdr. S. S. Yeandle, personal aide to the com- | mandant, and Lieut. Comdr. Fletcher | W. Brown, who have fought with the Coast' Guard colors “for years, each of whom has been shipwrecked and | een all-round service. These officers were ordered by the commandant,” Admiral F. C. Billard, about two Weeks ago to take charge of. this ‘major operation. In the flo- tilla_under their command are operat- ing many of the new picket boats, the regular Coast Guard cutters and ' ves- Sels of the new “Coast Guard de- stroyer force,” reconditioned Navy de- stroyers. * In characteristic Coast Guard fash- ion_ the operation was put under way and success was achleved in signal fashion before it was revealed to the public for the first time today that the new great fleet was even launched. Cites_Promoanced Succens. “Coast guard headquarters admitted that “pronounced success” had been achieved: during the last two weeks in’ operations against the smuggling fleets off New York, Block Island and the Massachusetts Coast. This success, it was said, has been principally: due to the operation of the speeial flotilla of picket boats, in co- operation with. the regular Coast Guard cutters, apd with the :“Coast Guard destroyer foroe.” Not only-‘have a large number of $mugglers and their crafts, which previously had been operating suc- cessfully. along ‘the Nprth Atlantic shores, fallen prey to the flotilla, but ‘Admiral Billard, who ‘is_supervising the -entire campaign frém his desk here in Washington; is being supplied with- the “latest and most accurate information to assist him «further I his campaign dgainst. the smugglers. Secrecy, however, shrouds detalls of the new flest: which has plowed its ' hag broken th, mental i | { 1 ~(Conti | coveted decoration | faithful “From Press to Home The S$tar's Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as t he papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 95,906 * Coolidge Breaks Silence to Predict Election Victory President Coolidge broke his si- lence to the extent today of saying that he expected to be elected No- vember 4. While discussing the possible outcome with callers at the White House today, the President said that after carefully considering all the reports that have come to him he feels very confident of the re- sult, and he is, therefore, making all of his plans on the basis of victory. The President said he has no in- tention of aitering his policy of silence regarding charges and challenges which are flying thick and fast now from the various battle fronts of the campaign. He told callers that criticism of him personally and his administration and of departmental heads and membérs of Congress must be ex- pected at this stage of the cam- paign. PARIS GOVERNNENT RECOGNIZES RUSSIA Full Diplomatic Relations Ex- pected to Be Resumed in Few Days. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 28.—The French government today officially accorded de jure recognition to the Soviet gov- ernment of Rus: The recognition was granted In a telegram, the text f which will be made public tonight. Dipjggatic relations, it is added will resumed immediately, M Rakovsky being accredited by th Soviet to Paris, and Jean Herbette, cousin of the Ambassador to Brussels | and former foreign editor Le Temps, going to Moscow. Quextion of E: to Krex. The commission on Russian affairs, | under M. Demonzie, wHl continue its work on the question arising out of recognition. A system of passports will be established. There is also the question of the Russian emigres. For those desiring to return to their coun- try the French government will ask full amnesty, and for those desirous | ities for | The | of remaining in France fac naturalization will be granted. commission may even consider an ar- rangement whereby Russians desir- ous of prolonging their stay in France may do so without losing Russian nationality. As far as the question of debts is concerned, Excelsior understands that certain members of the commission are preparing a plan for the economic and financial resurrection of Russia, with the aid of international credit facilities, which would permit satis- factory liquidation of the Russian in- debtedness and participation by Rus- | a in, the European economic system. EDWARD BOK HONORED BY QUEEN OF HOLLAND ' Philadelphia Editor Given Covet- ed Cross of eNtherland Lion Knight. | By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 28.—Ed- ward Bok of this city has been deco- rated with the Cross of the Knight of the Netherland Lion, the most highly within the be- stowal of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. The citation was sent to Mr. Bok by the Netherlands Minister to the United States at the order of the minister of foreign affairs at Hague. It was conferred of her majesty’s recogn attachment to the country of your birth and of your untiring efforts in providing a clearer appre- ciation of Dutch history, culture, traditions and spirit, whereby you have so largely contributed more intelligent understanding be- tween the two nations.” NEW STAR SIGHTED. Yerkes Observatory Locates Small Heavenly Body. CHICAGO, October 28.—A new hea- venly body. believed to be an asteroid, a small planet, has been photographed by the Yerkes Observatory of the Unj- versity of Chicago, at Willlams Bay, Wis., according to Prof. E. B. Frost, director. It is invisible to the naked eye. The photographs have disclosed the body is not a comet as thought by Dr. Baade, a German astronomer, who first espied it, Prof. Frost said. He estimated its diameter at less than 50 miles. “beca on of your NAVY FLYER RESCUED. Lieutenant and Two Passengers in‘ Hawaii Picked Up by Ship. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, . October 28.— After aritting three miles off shore for sev- ral hours yesterday, Lieut. H. C. razier and two passengers, flying i a first attempt to establish an inter- island air mail service, were rescued as their plane was on the verge of sinking. A United States destroyer which effected the rescue sank the wrecked plane by gunfire. The plane w&s bound from Honolulu to the Island of Molokai. Two other planes carrying mail to other island points, as part of the Navy day ob- servance program, arrived safely. - PR The United States Expects Every American to Have The Right to Vote,— Therefore, VOTE for National Representation for the District of Columbia. The | to a; TWO CENTS. ‘SMOOT, ANSWERING LA FOLLETTE, SAYS STOCK IS FOR SALE Utah Senator Offers Sugar Shares at $3—Denies Coercion of Culbertson. REAL FIGHT DECLARED GROWERS VS: REFINERS |U. S. Producers Battling Foreign Sources for Life, Says Re- | publican Leader. Replying to repeated attacks by Senator La Follette, in connection | with the sugar controversy, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah today offered to sell to Mr. La Follette for $3 a shar. his stock in the Utah-ldaho Sugar Co. He listed the holdings as 441 shares Senator La Follette, in Baltimor: last night, charged that Vice Chair- man Culbertson of the Tariff Commis- sion had been invited to the office of Mr. Smoot and there had found : group interested in sugar duties. H. also charged that members of Con- gress had tried to coerce the commis- sion to prevent a reduction in sugar duties. Calis Meeting On Square. The meeting in his office, Senator Smoot said, was altogether abov board and was arranged for the pur- Pose of presenting pertinent facts ii: connection with the sugar situation “This is a fght,” he said, “betwecn the sugar refiners of America, know: generally as the sugar trust, and the producers of sugar in America. | __“The meeting referred to by Mr. L. Follette in his speech last evening ir inallimnra was arranged in the foi- lowing manner: “The representatives of the Amer can producers of sugar complained t: {me that the tariff commission in ar- riving at the cost of producing sugir in Cuba, as compared with the cost ir the United States, did not confine il- self to obtaining the latest availabl figures of cost, but based the same the average cost over a period fro 1917 to 1923, which embraced a perios of most violent fluctuations in wages land values and prices and also car- ried years before the provision of la granting the President the power t. increase or decrease the tariff rates Again it was plain that the commis- sion ignored the agricultural costs in producing cane, except in the case oi Hawa - Refers 1o Methodn Used. “The commission secured the costs of producing beets in the United States, but refused to use that cost in determining the cost of production of beet sugar and substituted there- for a price based upon their return on the sale of the sugar. The commis- sion arrived at the cost of the pro- duction of sugar in Cuba by takinz factory costs based upon the Nev York price of sugar and included therein profits made by the Cuban cane producers, 80 per cent of the production in Cuba being owned and controlled by the sugar refiners and financial interests in the East. “This appears to me to be unfair and I doubted that it was a fact. I | then asked Mr. Culbertson to come to my office and meet a few representa- tives of the beet sugar industry in the United States and listen to their complaints because I thought he might have an explanation th would, at least, be satisfactory to me Two There He Didr‘t Know. “Mr. Culbertson came to my com- mittee room and met the above men tioned producers, some eight or nin of them. It is stated that Mr. Hodg (treasurer of the Republican nation { committee) was at the meeting. Ther: { were two men present that 1 did not know. It be that Mr. Hodges was one of thel@ The meeting was he but a short time, during which Mr Mead (the representative of the su- gar producers of Hawali) presented thé case to Mr. Culbertson along the above lines. Mr. Culbertson made very brief statement and left the com- mittee room. He stated he wanted to be fair with the industry and that was about all he said. No request w made of him by myself or any one els- at that meeting “The result of the meeting, so far as 1 was concerned, proved to n that the complaint made by the sugat producers was a just oné and that be- fore this thing is finally settled the American people will come to that conclusion. This is a fight between the sugar refiners of America, known generally as the sugar trust, and the profucers of sugar in America. Eyer. civilized country in the world raises |a good share of its revenues from duties upon sugar. America is about the lowest. Destroy the American sugar industry and the sugar trust will tell the American people w price they shall pay for sugar, they did in 1920. “It is true that 1 am a stockholder in the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., holding 440 shares. 1 have never owned more than this amount in my life in the said company. If Mr. La Follette wants to buy said amount, I will sell it to him at $3 a share.” BURGESS DENIES CHARGE. as Member of Tariff Commission Says La Follette Misrepresents. Charges made by Senator La Fol- lette in a speech in Baltimore lust night that sugar interests had at- tempted to coerce William S. Cul- bertson, vice chairman of the tariff commission, to delay the commis- sloner’s sugar report to the Pres | dent, were denied today by William Burgess of Pennsylvania, a member of the commission. Commissioner Burgess stated that Senator La Follette's references to the tariff commission and the charge that there has been a plot on the part of u so-called sugar trust in this country to hold up indefinitely any report favoring a reduction in. the tariff that might be made, and his charges of influence, pressure and coercion were merely parts of a cam- paign \yarn. He declared that there has not been the slightest attempt an the part of American sugar inter- ests or any one else to bring pressure to bear or to otherwise influence an action on the part of the tariff com mission in the matter of its sugar report. Vice Chairman Culber{son, who was Iy(crrod to by Senator -La Follette in (Continued on Page %, Column ¥.