Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Generally fair tonight row, slightly warmer ton. ate Southwest winds. and tomor- ight; moder- Temperature for 23 hours ending at : Highest,. 64, n. 24, noon to day; lowest, 47, at 7 Full report on page at noon to- today, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 post office s Wasl matter hington, D C. MLTAISEALLED AS FOUR ARESHOT INNLESKLAN VAR Three Other Men Injured as Flaming Circle Combats Ku Klux Parade. SERIES OF DISORDERS IS STAGED IN STREETS Ohio Governor ,Prden One Regi ment Mobilized for Duty at Riot. Ty the Associated Pross COLUMBLUS, Ohio, .\'ov\&mhar 1.—One regiment of the Ohio Nttional Guard ™as ordered mobilized| for duty at Niles shortly after 1) o'clock this fternoen, by Gov. Dofiahey, follow- g receipt of official infformation that Zour men had been sho The official word wi National Guard ofoserver on the scene, who recommenfded the sending ot troops to Niles atf once. 1.100 Called. Approximately 1000 troops are in the units ordered mobilized by Gov Donanhey the trocps ed reported to be uni- 4 and waiting in_their orders to move to Nile ginecrs of Cleveland try units from Cleveland, Akron, Warren and motilized, an “ormid, army 145th, Inf: lfvr:‘y Can Youn/estown. 135th 1eld ANtilley. three battalions o Akron Two cavalry uMits from Akron and Youngstown. Mavor Kistler of \Niles, phone conversation YWh Gov. Dona- hey early this afterfoon, told the ¢ executive about thy shootings at Niles, saying “even now there is mob outside my office réady to start trouble should I go out.” Eevrything in Readiness. Everything was ali day to move Niles should riots orders result from a Klux Kian there at 2 o'clock. While Gov. Donahey and Adj. Gen. Hender- son expressed the beiief that trouns would not be needed, the governor admitted that “every precaution” had heen taken and troops could occupy the town immediately should actyal warfare develop between Klan and anti-Klan forces Unmoved by urgent messages from Sherifft Thomas and Mayor Kistier of Niles. the governor has steadfast- v refused to send military aid “in mere @ pation” of loc&r~trouble. Several times during the last few days he has warned the officials that they will be held to “strict account- abiity” in the event of disorder State investigators are on the ground and are keeping the governor in close touch with every development Slightly angered by the refusal of Mayer Kistler to for the Kian parade. after he had been urged to db <o by a mass meet- ing of approximately 500 citizens, the governor is prepared to carry out his pron to “use every force at the State's command to quell dis- order and restore peace” should the threatened clash actuall Two telegrams were dispatched to +riff Thomas yvesterday. One sent late last night was of a secret rature, The governor was his office throughout readiness to official should an emergency demand The State of Ohio will pro and property of its citien was his only comment as he awaited information from the trouble center. in a_tele- in readiness here State troops r serious parade of the Ku & remaining the d: at in orders issue FOUR SHOT IN CLASHES. Three Others Injured in Series of Disorders. Ey the Associated Press. NILES, November fare betw {u Klux Knights of the Flaming sisting plans for a Klan parade through the city streets, blazed into a series of street disorders today which four men were shot and three injured by mob viole Three men were shot this after- in the third outbreak of the in the community.strife raging about the parade. Joe Mahone, Dominick Terone and Arthur Davis, all members of the Knights of the Flaming Circle, op- posed to the Klan, were shot from an automobile about a half mile from an outlying ball park at whieh sev- eral hundred. Klansmen had assem- bled for the parade. Major Christie of the Youngstown unit of the Ohio National Guard, im- madiately wired Gov. Donahey, urg- ing that troups be sent into Niles im- mediately. Two Men Beateu. Sheriff John E. Thomas of Trumbull County and Chief of Police L. J. Rounds Joined today in a recond urgent appeal 10 Gov. Donahey for troops to preserve order in Niles after a second clash, in which two robed Klansmen were attacked by several score of exeited nedestrians. A boy was shot in the first clash. The pair were seized near the head- quarters of the Knights of the Flam- tng Circle. The crowd of more than a score of men dragged their vietims from an open car, beat them and ordered them out of the neighborhood. Feeling ran high in the city after the clash. Sherift Thomas and Chief of Police Rounds conferred immediagely on steps to preserve order. Boy Shot Three Times. Frank McDermott, 19-year-old son of one of the lcaders in the movement to stop the parade, who was shot three times early today, was the victim of the first clash in the com- munity feud. His assailants escaped in the automobile from which ‘they fired. Spokesmen of “the Klan interpreted the attack on their partisans as reprisals for the shooting of Mec- Dermott, and declared they would be prepared for further violence. Prior to the attack on the robed automobile passengers, whose identity was not revealed, Chief Rounds described the city- as “ominously quiet.” Knots of men were gathered on the strest corners in the residential sec- ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) War- <lan and rele, re- and wounded. | received from | into | dis- | revoke the permit | 'Prospective Gains Leave G. O. P.| Without Dependable Congress This is the second of a serics of four dispatches written after a 9.000- mile journey through virtually every one of the Northern and Western States. It is suppiemented by tele- grams received in the last 2§ hours from reliable sources in doubtful States. BY DAVID LAWRENCES President Coolidge will not have a | Congre«s that he can depend upon { to support him. The Republicans | will make gains in the House of Rep- | resentatives but the balance of power in the Senate will continue to be { held by the group of so-called pro B essives and independents more or le La Kollette of Wisconsin. Only the psychological effect of an increase in conservative seats in the House, together with the over- whelming popular vote for President | Coolidge may affect the situation. Thus the control of Congress in both houses will remain nominally Re- publican. All the Western Inde- pendents are running on the regular Republican ticket for the Senate, with the exception of one, Magnus John- son of Minnesota, who, however, has ta real fight on his hands against Thomas D. Schall. FOG OF FORECASTS 1S MARKING FINAL - DAYS OF CAMPAIGN jRivals Busy Making Clai’ms i as Active Electioneering Winds Up. i | By the Associated Press The great American political classic {of 1924 is approaching its day of de- | cision in a shower of sharp words and i a fog of rival predictions. 1 In its final stage it ha: brought into ‘nhl)‘ all the old familiar strategems, modernized to fit an age of ra o, movies and senatorial investigations, nd laid > ¢ on aqew scale to appeal |to ever remote subdivision of the ever-growing American electorate, The last day of active campaigning finds most of the principals east of | the Mississippi, sceking advantage in {a sector long regarded s almost | dominant. Meantime, in every nook and corner of the Repub lesser |lights are shining their brightest to | Buide the feet of the wavering voter | along the pathway of party rectitude. | Coolidge Follows Policy. | Keeping to a policy adopted at the i inception of the cal aign, President Coolidge alone amon the candidates | for highest office will remain outside the rushing maelstrom of oratory | that heralds to the world another pre-election Saturday night. While the New York Democracy is rallying to hear John W. Davis conciude his platform campaign in Carnegie Hall tonight, and Senator La Follette is summing up his case against the old parties in Convention Hall at Cleve- land, Mr. Coolidge expects to remain quietly at home in the White House, a spectator with a front seat beside the,quiet Potomac. But on Monday night the Presi- dent will deliver u final election-eve message to the American people by radio, speaking after Mr. Davis lik wise has addressed the great invisible jury of sovercign voters through a Nation-wid~ system of broadcasting stations. Thus for the first time will |the Nation listen to two presidential | candidates as if from one piatform. Charles (. Dawes, who has borne the brunt of the forensic battle for | the Republican ticket, w close his | campaign tonight at 'outh Bend, | Ind., after having followed his fa- {mous dipper pipe across many States. ! Gov. Charles W. Bryan will wind lup in his home State of Nebraska | after a speaking trip that has taken | him over much of the Western coun- | try, wherc the name of Bryan for | many years had beem a political in- | stitution. Senator Wheeler, the only | nominee on any of the three tickets to carry his campaign all the way | to the Pacific coast, will conclude it ith a night meeting in New York. All Camps Confident. From all three camps today there issued the usual pre-election expres- sions of absolute satisfaction and unbounded confidence. Each group insisted most emphatically that its particular candidates had not been New House May Be Tractable, But La Follette Will Hold Senate Balance of Power. | under the leadership of Senator Foening Sta | | | The Senate situation may be sum- | med up as follows: 1. Not enough seats are vacant this year—-the Senate elects only one-third its membership every two years —to_enable the Republicans to reap the benefits of the Coolidge tide. No matter how many gains are made by the Republicans the, Demo- | crats and the independent Republi- |cans can continue their coalition, as they have in the present Congress.| Two years hence will furnish the| next chance for a turnover in the| Senate if the'country retains its pres- ent conservative mood. | 3 The Democrats next Tuesday cannot possibly win control. Even if they won every seat for which they | have a remote chance they would, only have 19 or a majority of 1. 4. Thirty-two seats are voted upon this yvear for the Senate. Seventeen, seats would appear to be Democratic and the rematning 15 Republican. Of ! the 17, however, 5 are really doubt- | ful for the Demoerats. Of the 15, | the Republicans are not sure of 5 Thus the present Democratic strength of 43 might be diminished by a loss | of 4 they now have, but on the other hand there is a good chance of pick- | ing up 2 Democratic seats in Re-| | publican States, so the net loss would |be 2. There is a fair chance of the ! Democrats winning 2 seats in New | Mexico and Wyoming. Thus, giving ' (Continued on Pag CUBANS ELECTING PRESIDENT TODAY General Holiday Closes All| _ Business on Island and Censors Broadcasters. | 15 the Associated Press. HAVANA, Cuba, November 1.—After one of the quietest election eves in the history of the republic, according to al available early reports, Cuba’s electors went to the polis today to decide be- . Gerardo Machado and Gen. Mario G. Menocal as the man to become President next May 20. The day was a public holiday through- out the island; with stores and factories closed and only necessities being sold, | and it also was one day in which Cuba | was legally dry for the law bans the! sale of all liquors on election das. i Expeet Big Vote. The weather generally was reported | to be good, and the tense campaign be- tween Gen. Menocal, former President and head of the Conservative ticket, and Gen. Machado, head of the Liberal ticket and backed by the popular party, | promised to draw out a big vote between | the opening of the polls at 7 am. and | their closing at 3 in the afternoon. Half the members of Congress also are to be | elected. i To forestall any possible disorder | troops were placed at strategic points and police and rural guardsmen werc ordered on duty throughout the day. while a censorship was imposed upon radio sending stations. Alarmist re- ports published recently in som newspapers have credited intentions to start a revolution in event of defeat to each candidate, and while government | officials decried these, the precautions | taken showed that the Zayas govern- | ment desires to be ready for any even- | tuality. Aside from scattered acts of ' violence the ony outward sign of dis- | satisfaction of late has been the fre- | quent charges by the Conservatives | that government officials are showir g partiality toward Machado LABOR PLAYS PART. | Blacklisted Sugar Strikers at Polls | to Sell Votes. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. HAVANA, November 1.—Labor uny rest in Cuba is expected to have con- siderable influence in the national| election being held today. Of some 10,000 employes of the sugar centrals | in’ Camaguey and Oriente Provinces | who went on strike and suffered an ignominious defeat hundreds who refused re-employment and are idic | are on the market to vote for either | or both political tickets as long as | the polls are open and the candidates | will pay for depositing marked bal- lots in the ballot boxes. The situation as to industrial dis- | quietude will not subside, no matter which of the rival presidential can- didates—Gererdo Machado or Mario | G. Menocal—is elected. The sugar strikers, whose cause was lost when the Northern Railroad trainmen re- turned to work after tying up the | road for a time by carrying on a sympathetic strike, are being blac- listed among the sugar centrals. The (Continued on | Election Tuesday The Evening results are known. Bulletins by Telegraph and Radio will be shown by Stereoptican, and will be amplified and interpreted by Frederic William Wile Over a Glorified Loud-speaker which will make his voice clearly audible for a great distance. Reports from the election will be interspersed with cartoons and musical numbers. An extra edition of The Star will be issued as soon as {(Continued on Page 4, Column 1) Returns Night at Star Building | genorally | tending WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION , D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1924 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. LA FOLLETTE HOLDS MINNESOTA EDGE, WITHG.0.P.GAINING Drift to Coolidge Noticeable With Possibility for Victory Growing. INDEPENDENTS LAY CLAIM TO PLURALITY OF 100,000 Race Between Schall and Magnus Johnson for Senate Neck and Neck. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. MINNEAPOLIS, November 1.—If You could assure the Republican lead- ers here that Minnesota would go for Coolidge and Dawes next Tuesday by 500 votes you would be in danger of being kissed on both cheeks. Fear, ! uncertainty and hope fill the atmos- phere. Botk Republicans and the La Follette supporters are working feverishly in the final drives for thelr candidates. The La Follette people . ! appgrently have greater confidence in the outcome than the Republicans. On the other hand, some of the La Follette workers admit that the cam- | paign of the Republicans during the last fowg weeks has made inroads upon the La Follette strength. Coolldge Drift Seenm. The Coolidge arift, which has made itself felt in the rest of the country. has put in its appearance. When I was here six weeks ago, my impres- on was that Minnesota would cast ita electoral votes for La Follette. It still may do so. The impression of La Follette victory still lingers. de- spite the hopeful reports from vari- ous cities and counties around the State. But if Coolidge should make a big sweep throughout the country and there is strong evi- dence that he will do =o, then Minne- sota probably will be found in the Coolidge column, La Follette has had Minnesota of the Farmer-Labor party organization, which has been a great help to him. The two United States Sen- ators. Shipstead and Magnus Johnson, are Farmer-Laborites and working hard for La Foilette. Much will depend upon what Minne- polis does. The city has been a Repub- n stronghold. A huge effort is being made to get the vote out in the belief that the bigger the vote the better it will be for he Coolidge-Dawes ticket. Approximately 185,000 persons are regis- {tered in the city, 36000 more than ever {at 29 Dingman place. before, and the workers have pledged themselves to zet the people ta the poils. not only here, but in other parts of the State. Hope to Carry City. Republicans hope to: carry Minne- apolis by 25,000 to 30.000 votes and to break even in St. Paul. The La Fol- lette people. on the other hand, are con- that they will break even in Minneapolis and will carry St_Paul by from 5,000 to 10,000 votes. 1t is expected that $50,000 votes will be cast the State over. The number may Tun even higher. The La Follette lead ers expect to get the support of many | former Defocrats, and it is conceded by the Republicans that they will do so. The highest estimate of the probable vote for Davie that T have heard here was §0,000. Many believe that it will be much below this figure. When former Gov. John Lind, Democrat, announced his support of La Follette and intro. duced Senator La Follette to the audi- ence which greeted him here recently, it was considered a signal to the Demo- crats to get on the La Follette band wagon if they wanted to prevent Cool- idge carrying the State. It is true that the party in Minnesota had earlier been largely absorbed by the Labor party, and that there may not be many more Democrats to get on the La Follette band wagon, but it is equally true that in recent elections the Farmer-Labor party has been suc- cessful. That party elected a Senator in 1922, Shipstead, and another in 1923, Magnus Johnson. Republican hopes are based some- what on the belief that the people, while willing to vote “radical” for a senatorship, are unwilling to vote so when it comes to the election of a national administration—that they are willing to make their protest through support of a Shipstead or a Johnson, but are not willing to vote for a La Follette against a Coolidge. It must be said, however, that La | Follette has no terrors for many of the people of Minnesota. There may be peovle in other parts of the coun- try who do not know the difference between Bob La Follette and a new Parisian hair cut for women. But not here. Labor for La Follette! La Follette will receive a very large percentage of the labor vote, it is conceded by the Republicans; of course, many of these votes were at one time Democratic, many of them in St. Paul, which is a black spot for the Europeans anyway. But even the labor vote has re- ceived several jolts in recent days that may have the effect of reducing La Follette's strength. It is a long way from Broadway to the Twin Cities, but when it became known here yesterday that the executive council of the Central Trades and La. bor Council of Greater New York had withdrawn the indorsement earlier given La Follette and gone over to John W. Davis, it was some- thing of a cold water douche for the La Follette group. ' Furthermore. the overwhel - feat of the British Labor epz‘r‘t';g:;d victory of the Conservatives in Eng- land has not been an encouragement to those members of organized labor who have believed that a Labor party in this country was to be the outcome of a La Follette Government. One of the greatest factors in the election in Minnesota will be the Ger- man-American vote. La Follette will recelve a large number of these votes. He will receive a great num- ber of the Scandinavian votes also. It has been estimated that the Ger- man-American vote in Minnesota will run - between 200,000 and 300,000, practically one-third of the vote in the State. G. 0. P. Campaign Speeded. Realizing that much depends upon the way the German-American vote i§ cast in the State, the Republicans have been at work for weeks-seeking " (Continued on Page 3, Column §,) Democratic ! Farmer- | SVIOLENT DEATHS | ATTEND CARNIVAL 1 One Man Murdered, Two Kill- ]> ed in Traffic During Hal- loween Festivities. ! | Two traffic | fatalitics and a murder, the benefit in {13 minor traflic injuries and 3 false | of the carnival spirit which enveloped | Washington last night. | The victims of the fatal traffic ac- | cldents were Hugh Boyd. 84, of 1408 {Chapin street, and Dr. William A | Pethel, colored, 54, of 1904 Ninth | street. ' i The murder victim was Noble Gales, | 29, colored, who ‘was shot and killed lin an argument at x Hallowsen party The two trafic deaths occurred ! within &’ block of each other. Boyd i was crossing U strect at Twelfth { when struck by a street car during ! the height of the carnival. He was rushed to Garfield Hospital, where. he | died within two hours after arrival. i Strack by Auto. | Dr. Pethel was knocked down by lan automobile as he was crossing Thirteenth street at U street. A j costumed group of merrymakers were in the machine, and they sped on their merrymaking way as the victim lay fatally injured in the street. Police are seeking the group and the car today. Police Start Probes. | And today, after the celebration has {left streets’ and avenues, which last fnight were streams of billowing hu- manity, littered with confetti and wastage, police started on investi- { gations of the false alarm fires and lof the murder. [~ The false alarms of fire were turned lin at Fifteenth and Newton streets inortheast, at Twelfth street and {Maryland avenue northeast, and at |Fourth and T streets. _Although police attribute these to Halloween pranks, investigations to fix responsi- bility were set on foot this morning. Dry Agents Busy. And the dry agents celebrated also —but officially. At L'Aiglon three were arrested on charges of illegal possession of liquor; and then the agents went to Wardman Park Hotel, | Where another arrest resulted. Two others were taken at Harvey's restaurant, Eleventh street and Penn- sylvania avenue, while another pair were arrested by police from the first precinct on charges, similarly, of {llegal possession. Each of these un- fortunate. celebrants posted $50 as collateral for appearance in court today. The traffic accidents in which the more important minor injuries result- ed are in the following paragraphs: As L. L. Ware of 230 Second street southeast swung the automobile he was operating around sharply at Sixth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue, to avoid striking a pedestrian, it capsized and landed on its side in the street, Mr. and Mrs. Ware, the occupants, sustaining slight bruises about thé body. They were treated at Emergency Hospital, where Dr. Deck pronounced the injuries not serious. Thrown from Bicyele. John Roberts, 30, of 12 E street southwest, while riding a bicycle south on North Capitol street near R street, was struck by an automobile operated by R. J. Thomas of 51 L street northwest, and thrown to the | ground. His injuries included bruises to the knees and legs. One of the false alarms of fire was the cause of an injury sustained by Clyde Gates, 13, who was struck by Engine No. 24 at Fourteenth and Mon~ roe streets northeast. He was as- sisted to his home at 1521 Monroe street northeast by Policeman Pen- kert of the twelfth precinct, > Mrs. Mary D. Marks, 69 years old, ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) — > | The United States | Every American to Do His Duty— VOTE {fire alarms today trailed in the wake | ON THE EVE - ELECTION “PARTY" WONDERFUL FALL WEATHER AND Yoy KNoy WHAT THAT OF THE L 4 I “From P, The Star’ every city bl ress to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,902 i 'q;[l" 7 CLAIMS G.0P. GIVEN BULK OF MONEY BY VESTED INTERESTS La Follette Attorney Says Many Contributors Now Have U. S. Suits Pending. DECLARES MORGAN FIRM UNDERWROTE CAMPAIGN | Holds Iaw Against Corporation HARVEST. EVIDENCE OF MAN’S DESCENT FROM LOWER LIFE PRESENTED Humans With Tails, Apes That Talk and Mysterious ..52%.0. 255 Realm of Before Birth Adduced by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. There is overwhelming direct, or-| ganic evidenca that human beings are | of distinct evolutionary origin, Dr.| Ales Hrdlicka, head of the depart-| ment of physical anthropology of the | Smithsonian Institution, told a distin- guished audience of clergymen, phy- | sicians and scholars yesterday after- | noon. Dr. Hrdlicka is presenting in a se- ries of lectures the entire body of evidence In possession of scientists on this disputed subject. During the| past few years notable strides have | been made beyond the position of| Darwin and Huxley, who still remain | in the minds of the general public the | archpriests of the theory of human ovolution. These lectures, in which | comsiderable data collected and de- rived by Dr. Hrdlicka himself are heing made known to the public for the 'first time, are considered as among the mast notable contributions to discussion of this disputed subject | in recent years. Dr. Hrdlicka is rec- ognized as perhaps the foremost au- thority on physical anthropology now nivin STARWILL HOLD Special Equipment and Aux- iliary Features Arranged Tuesday Night. With the Pennsylvania avenue side of The Star Building as the stage, and the dramatic climax of a national presidentfal campaign as the featured attraction, The Evening Star on Tues- day night will hold its quadrennial election night “party” for the Wash- ington public, augmented this year by special equipment and auxiliary fea- tures designed to give those present the benefit of every bit of action in the national political arena on that memorable evening. Star's Plans for Election News. . If you have a pair of good eyes you will find ample opportunity to use them in front of The Star Building election night, for there will be two gigantic stereopticon and motion-pic- ture screens there, flashing spot news bulletins, sidelights and cartoons of the Nation's presidential poll as the results race in sporadically from every nook and corner of the country over wires of the Assoclated Press and Western Union and from this paper's special and staff correspon- dents. | i | New Type Loud Speaker. ‘Whether your eyes are good or not, however, does not matter materially, for, in additien, The Star has arranged to have an extraordinary loud-speak- ing apparatus of new type on hand to send forth an expert analysis of the important returns by Frederic Willlam Wile, special writer for The | Star, and well known to radio.audi- ences of Washington and the East through his radio reviews of political events. | Right here it would be well to say | a word or two further about that loud speaker mentioned. This will be no ‘ordinary domesticated sort of . - i - loud speaker. If there should occur a landslide for any particular candi- date on the night of November 4, 1924, Mr. Wile will be able to make himeelf ' heard amid ~the crash. In fact, without nmoticeably raising his voice as he sits before a microphone in The Star Building, with the latest returns before him, he could hurtle, that-familiar voice of his almost as far as the Potomac and with so little distortion, due to a patented mecha- nism never before demonstrated here, that every syllable will be clearly understood. -This invention, created Jn the Marcus C. Hopkins laboratories of Washington and New York, is said to herald a new era in sound ampli- fication. Speeial Telephone Serviee. For those who will be unable to be present at The Star Building mass meeting and who depend on The Star and ‘the world's greatest news-gather- ing organization, the Associated Press, for authentic and late infor- mation on such important occasions a8 a presidential eleotion, The Star { d on 4, Column 5.) |or. He devoted his lecture yegterday to the mass of evidence secured by phy- icians and others from autopsies on the bodies of men and animals. In summing up he stated that it is defi- nitely proved there is not a single organ or physical function of man for which an exact duplicate cannot be found in the inferior animal world, particulariy among the an- thropoid apes. In many cases, said, organs have reached a higher | stage of development in some of the | inferior animals than in humans. In following this line of evidence Hrdlicka penetrated the dim, mysterious realm of before birth when that which is to become a hu: man body is undergding various transformations. With long chapters cut out, he said. the embryo of the human child passes through the va- rious stages of life upon earth = the first appearance of the vitalprin- ciple in nature. Even during the first ten weeks of embryonic existence, ac- | cording to Dr. Hrdlicka, there is a continual recapitulation of the va- Continued on Page umn_ 9 MOURNERS DIE AFTER FUNERAL Officials Study Strange Mal- ady With Which 18 Are Stricken While at Rites. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 1.—Ci county and Federal health author- ities are endeavoring to determine the | which has | nature of the malady caused the death of Mrs. Luciana Samarano and nine persons who at- tended her funeral here a week ago, says the Los Angeles Times. Nine other mourners at the funeral are critically ill. Mrs. Samarano, aged 30, died Octo- ber 19 last, and her funeral was held a few days later. October 26, her hus- band, Guadalupe Samarano,. 39, died of apparently the same malady, and since then eight of those who attend- ed the funeral have died. The symptoms in each case includ- ed congestion in the #nu, high tem- perature and other eumonic char- acteristics, though the malady ran its course much faster than pneumonia. Autopsy reports in the hands of city health authorities, they an- nounced tonight, indicated the dis- ease might be pneumonic plague. All persons known to have been in contact with any of the 10 dead or the nine patients now in the hospital have been placed under quarantine, and every effort is being made to con- fine the spread of the disease to the immediate neighborhoods affected. S A FEDERALS JOIN RE‘IOLT. BUENOS AIRES, November 1.—Fed- eral garrisons of the Brazillan state, {of Rio Grande do sul, located at Santo Angel, San Luis, Cruz Alta and San Nicholas, have jolned the revolutionary movement and taken possession of those towns, according to reports from Argentine corres- pondents on the Brazilian border. Rebel troops proceeding to Porto Alegre are reported to have been de- feated by government forces. - —— i The United States Expects Every American to Have The Right to Vote,— Therefore, VOTE . for National Representation for the Distriet he | ce | Contributions Has Been Violated. | In an analysis of evidence placed | before the Senate campaign fund in- vestigators, Frank P. Walsh, counsel | for Senator La Follette, declared to- day it had been shown that at least 75 per cent of the Republican con- | tributions reported to date, “have come directly from the representa- tives of great corporate interests. The La Follette attorney declared | further that “even more shocking is | the circumstance that contributions | are listed from numerous individu: directly interested as defendants i | anti-trust suits, prosecutions for fraud upon the Government and per- sons directly interested in tax re- | fund cases, oil leases, flexible tariff adjustments and other proceeding | now pending either in the courts or |in the executive departments at | Washington. Backed by Morgans. of the data now said, “it can 1 stated as a fact that the banking jfirm of J. P. Morgan & Co. has und |written the Republican campai fund.” | “The big bankers, | the magnates 0o monopolize oil | steel, coal, uminum, leather, sugar, | copper, textiles, the railroads, ra |Toad equipment and supplies and p |lic utilities,” he continued, “have ifurnish#d the bulk of the Republicar | campaign fu | “Not one industry which relies upon {exhorbitant tariff duties to main extortionate profits is missing lrmralians and individuals interested |in the Mellon plan of tax reductior are abundantly represented.” 1 Afd by Morgan Men. The statement s=aid that althoust! {the name of J. P. Morgan himself did {not appear on the list of contributor. | “five members of the firm of J. P. Morgan either collected money or cou- tributed to the fund, or both, as fol- |lows: E..T. Stotesbury, George Whit- ney, W iara M. Porter, Dwight Mor- row and Thomas Cochran, all listed as partners in J. P. Morgan & Co. “The Federal statutes, | continued, “provide that no_corpora tion shall contribute funds for for political purposes. yet the great est banking house in this country provided not only the brains but also much of the money for financing the Republican campaign fund. “It combed every great corpor: interest with which it is identified and started the flood of gold which is now pouring into the headquarters at_Chicago.” Walsh declared that Guy Emerson, vice president of the Bankers' Trust Co., “a Morgan bank.,” collected the greater part of the Republican cam- paign fund in New York and that | William V. Hodges. treasurer of the Republican national committee, was first approached and induced to ac- |cept that important post by Richard V. Scandrett, jr., nephew of Dwight Morrow of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.” the packers and Many Large Gifts, Contributions of $1,000 and more, Walsh said, made up more than 81 per cent of the Republican fund. Of the individuals making these contributions, he said that more than per cent are found listed in financial manuals and directories as officers and directors in large industrial and financial corpora- tions. TUnder the heading of ‘“‘contributions grouped according to corporate conne tions” the statement names tributors Lester Armour, Ph mour, Arthur Meeker, Edson White and Fred W. Croll. ! " 'The “oil interests,” he eaid, “made large contributions through John D. | Rockefeiler, Jr., and through members of | the Mellon, Dawes, Pratt and Black- | mere families.” “Standard Oil, the Mid-West Oil Co, the Gulf Oil Co. and the Pure Oil Co. are | all represented through contributions by | officers or directors of the corporations, | the statement continued. Utilities Contributions. Contributors from the public utilities, electric manufactures and wateg-power groups, Walsh said, inciuded “Coffin, Rice, Lovejoy and Mitchell of the Gen- eral Electric Co., directors and officers of the Weatinghouse interests and the { Dukes of Southern power interests.” Mining and smelting are represented, he continued, by the Guggenheims, Jackling of the Utah Copper Co. and Steel of the | Kennecott Copper Co. | "Under the list of contributors from steel, iron and coal interests the etatement named the “Laughlins, | Fricks and Maderas of Pennsylvania,” while power and other industrial concerns, he said, are represented by members of the du Pont family, and the wool, cotton and textile industries by “contributions so numerous that they cannot be listed wit the compass of this digest.” The shoe and leather industry, attorney said, is represented ws Simmons, Chagles F. Pfister of waukee and “a score of others” The statement declared that out of the list of “more than u score of offi- cers and directors in sugar com- panies who have made contributions practically all are directly interested in the sugar tariff investigation of the United States Tariff Commission.” All the textile interests, Walsh added, and “many other highly protected industries are similarly directly in- terested in proceedings before the United States Tariff Commission.” CALLS CHARGE RIDICULOUS. Mil- By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 1.—An offi- cial of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. issued the foliowing statement upon the assertion of Frank P. Walsh, counsel for Senator La Follette, that the Morgan house had “underwritten the Republican campaign fund”: “‘Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co. have no statement to make, the assertion being ridiculous” of Columbia, 'Radio Programs—Page 2.