Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1924, Page 2

FARNERS TOPRESS * ONGRESS FORAD ‘Westerners Seek Ungrudging Republican Help in Return for Coolidge Votes. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Having rallied handsomely to the support of Calvin Coolidge in the campaign just ended, the farming West is promptly to the fore wWith a legislative program for which it ex- pects ungrudging Republican support. The program will be pressed with all possible energy during the expiring session of the xty-eighth Congress, which “will be convened on December Meantime the farmers hope that President will furnish timely ackground for their program by ap- pointing his long-projected agricul- tural commi: on. Aamnouncement of the commission’s personnel is be- lieved to be only a matter of days. It would have been named prior to election day except that Mr. Coolidge wanted to avoid the appearance of playing farm politics at a psyeho- logical moment. The President’s agricultural inquiry is not to deal with particular emer- gencies in the farming country, either recent or present. He has never been an apostle of sudden panaceas for the farmer. His commission is rather to delve deoply into fundamentals and to arrive, if possible, at solutions that will comprehend rural problems over a range of years. The Coolidge farm fnvestigators are likely to be at their job for a considerable period. The President will call upon them for remedies and ommendations that will stand the test of time. Pleased With West. Tt is an open scret at the White House that no phase of his landslide victory pleases Mr. Coolidge more than his winning of the West. No one can appreciate the magnitude and significance of that triumph who was not acquainted with the emotions of | the West a bare year ago. The writer had personal contact with it at that time. It surged with bitterness. It was in a mood to wreak ruthless ven- geance on anything and anybody bearing the Republican label. It had in particular a “New England com- plex.” It somehow held the ‘“tariff barons! rural West's trials and tribulations. Yet that same West has just given a New England Republican candidate for the presidency the heaviest vote of confidence it has ever bestowed on any one in a national election. Calvin Coolidge considers that his agricultural policy., which has been more or less the passive policy o ting nat take its course, s been vindicated by events. The farmers are getting back on their feet without any of the art‘ficial Federal stimu- lants they clamored for. like the Mc- Nary-Haugen export bill, which the President stubbornly opposed. Re- peatedly in 1924, Mr. Coolidge urged self-help, self-reliance and resort to modern measures like co-operative marketing as the farmers' surest re- courses. He recognizes that the Government 1d ought to do all in its power o promote the agricultural industry, just as it promotes the manufactu ing industry. But Mr. Coolidge is aeainst unconsidered help of a purely ephemeral sort. He thinks his ma- jorities in Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, 1daho and the f the farm belt indicate that nservative agricultural policy meets with approval in the communi- tles most affected Want Speedy Help. The farm organizations of the country will not wait for the Cool- fdge agricultural commission to as- semble, inquire and report. When Congress resumes in December it will find a formidable list of farm “wants” on its desk. Here are some of the outstanding items to be urged, more or less, in the relative order in which they appear. 1. Me -Haugen bill, providing for for ijon of a Federal export corporation to handle exportable sur- pluses of farm produce. This bill, which farmers urge in the name of “equality for agriculture,” i e, equality with industry, was defeated in the last House by a vote of 224 to 154. Farm representatives again will urge that the McNary-Haugen bill is indispensable if the tariff is to be made fully effective for agri- culture, The Muscle Shoals bill, passed by the House in June by a majority of 2. In the closing hours of the last session the agricultural committee re- ported to the Senate the Norris bill for Government operation of Muscle Shoals as substitute for the Ford offer 1o lease the plant. In being reported as a substitute, the Norris bill carried the Ford bill along with it to the floor, 50 that the Senate may have an oppor- tunity to choose or reject either proposition, 3. The Capper-Williams bill, pro- viding for a Federal system for co- operative marketing of agricultural products. It would create a market- ing board quite outside of any exist- ing Government department or bureau, and provide for co-operative commod- ity boards throughout the country. 4. The Capper-French truth-in-fab- rie bill, which a special House com- mittee was instructed to have ready for Congress in December. 5. A bill providing increased appro- priations for State agricultural experi- ment stations. 6. The Haugen bill, which clothes the Department of Agriculture with the right to dyve any imported fleld seed . Which, by test, has been found to be not generally acceptable to American farm- ers. Heavy imports of Italian clover seed are involved 4n particular. 7. The McNary-Vestal bill, stand. ardizing containers for fruits and veg. etables. 8. The Ketcham bill, to lodge the foreign marketing of ‘farm produce, and all work therewith connected, in the Department of Agriculture. ‘Would Control Interest. Another bill, which has had the ap- proval of farm organizations through- out the country, but has not been re- ported from congressional commit- tees, seeks to control Federal Reserve Bank activities in the interest of farmers. It limits the “spread” on Federal Reserve money loaned out to country or city banks in the rural re- gions to 2 per cent. That is to say, the bankers who obtain money from the Federal Reserve system would not be permitted to charge more than 2 per cent in addition to the interest they paid for the money, when the money is loaned to the general public, (Copyright, 1924.) — . GIRL HELD AS BANDIT. Accused of Being Confederate of New York Gang. NEW YORK, November 7.—Beatrice Kaufman, 20-year-old _bobbed-hair blond, was arrested in Brooklyn to- day as the “two-gun” woman confed- erate of four man bandits who held up the Kings County Post of the Vet- erans of the World War last Saturday night and robbed 15 members of jewelry and cash totaling $2,500. Two of the four men also were arrested. The young woman sat in the bandits’ automobile outside the build- ing where the robbery was committed and prevented Interference with the hold-up by displaving two revolvers. A of the northeastern Atlantic | board responsible for most of the | £ et |per | thing to do with the non-payment of E, WILKINSON, Labor candidate from the East Mid- dlesborough division of London, who was the firat woman member to be elected to the new Parliament. Miss her Liberal opponent PROMOTECANE Mrs. Taylor Tells City Club High Prices Make for Wilkinson had a plurality of 927 over | DECLARES RENTS Immorality. . “Many persons are being pushed| into immorality, crime and sickness by the crowded housing situation and | the necessity of paving high rents. | Some are turming to bootlegging and other crimes” declared Mrs. Clara Seqrs Taylor of the Rent Commission before a meeting of the City Club Forum at the City Club this after- noon. Mra Taxlor spoke before a large audience of prominent business men, including many engaged in the real estate profession. . Nrs. Taylor stated that the Gov- ernment salaries were fixed just after the Civi War and that since that time they had changed very lit-| tle, and further pointed out,that prior to 'the World War the awbrage cost room, including elevator and | telephone ‘service, was $10, while at | Present the average cost is $25. This, | she declared, a raise of 150 per cent. was a real hardship for the many Government employes, whose salary had not been materially Increased. The lack of houses for the wage- earning class. the shortage in housing facilities for tenants who cannot pay more than 350, little building activity in the cheaper priced properties and the great depreciation of this type of construction and the great adapta- | bility of this type for remodeling as garages, were some of the causes suggested by Mrs. Taylor for the housing shortage she declared ex- istent. In response to a question by Robert L. McKeever, prominent loeal | rael estate man, as to how many of the 2,000 cases cited by her in her letter to the President were due to non-payment of the rent, Mrs. Taylor declared that none of them had any- the rent tenants had previously paid. Denies Proteeting Delinquents. Mrs. Taylpr made it clear, however, that she did not at any time declare that the Rent Commission had or would give protection to tenants or allow them to remain secure in pos- session of premises because of non- payment of rent. She was unable to answer Mr. McKeever's request for proof that apartments were being v_&llhh(»ld from the market to maintain “the high cost of apartments.” In speaking of matters that came before the Rent Commission in the decision of ca¥es. Mrs. Taylor stated that the Rent | Commission had been asked to include upon some occasions such items as the funeral expenses of a former owner of an apartment; the payment of a policeman in front of an apartment house and Christmas Presents to apart- ment house employes, fn connection with the fixing of the value of an apartment house. She declared that the Rent Com- mission endeavored to fix returns on properties at a rate from 7 to 10 per cent, according to the condition of the property. “Only twice,” de- clared Mrs. Taylor, “has the Rent Commission ever of its own initia- tive gone into premises for the pur- pose of fixing the rental Rents More Than Double. Mrs. Taylor said the cost of rent in the District is out of all proportion to the cost of other commodities. The average rate per room in an apart- ment house with elevator and tele. phone service prior to the war was $10. Now the figure is $25, she said, while the average Government salary is sl between $1,400 and $1.500. Be. fore tho war, she declared, the $10-a- room basls was “just about all the Government worker could afford to DAy on the basis of 25 per cent of the income for rent. It is easy to see that with an increase of 150 per cent in rental and an almost unapprecia- ciable increase in salary, the Govern- ment clerk is in a pretty awkward predicament and, of course, the Gov- ernment work will suffer because of this _ situation.” ! Mrs. Taylor said the population here | is g large renting population due to | the fact that many of the positions | are temporary, in that the workers ho come from different parts of the country have an urge to &0 back home eventually. This, she asserted, keeps them from buying homes. Sees Crints Comis Rent conditions in the District, con- tinued Mrs. Taylor, are slowly, but surely reaching a crisis. Two im- portant features have developed this situation, she explained, sharply de- fining the issues and demanding solution: “First, real estate owners and managers have undertaken an aggressive policy in regard to rental increases preparatory to the signing of Fall leases, the request for in- crease being accompanied in many cases by a threat of eviction. “Second, tenants have organized into a research body designed to get at the real facts and to establish definitely whether an emergency exists.” Two Kinds of Shortage. There are two separate and distinct kinds of shortage here and two sep- arate and distinct classes of tenantry affected by the shortage, Mrs. Taylor declared. She gave them as follows: “First, the cold storage shortage and the salariat or Government em- ployes' class. Second, the actual lack of houses and the wage earning class. The first is caused by an alarming shortage of housing facilities for ten- ants, who are unable to pay more than $50 a month and by the with- drawal of a large amount of rental space from the market by means of prohibitive values. ““The second shortage is caused by three facts. First, there has been com- paratively little building in this class of property in seven years. Second, this is the class of property that depreciates the greatest by reason of change in tenancy and other features of usage, KINGASKED TOHALT DISORDER IN ITALY Mussolini Held Responsible for Fascisti Attack on Un- armed Ex-Soldiers. By the Associated Press. CHIASSO, Italo-Swiss Frontier, No- vember 7.—In ‘consequence of the Amistice day disorders in the Plazza Popolo, Rome, between Faseista and moembers of the “Italia Libera,” an organization of dissident Fascisti, the central committee of the latter or- ganization, as well ns Gen. Peppino Gavibaldi, has issued manifestos pro- testing against what they term the unwarranted attack by the Faselsti upon unarmed ex-soldiers, and accus- ing Premier Mussolini of being per- sonally responsible Gar{baldi’™ Manife Both manifestos were stopped by the Italian censor when the foreign correspondents in Rome attempted to cable their contents abroad. Gen. Garibaldi's manifesto follaws: “Thousands of combatants, while accomplishing their most saered duties today (November 4), the anni- versary of the victory in Romef were cowardly assaulted, revolver shots coming frem an ambush prepared and carried out by members of the Fascisti militia, “We, heirs to the Garibaldian tra- dition and representatives of the combatants for all liberties, denounce to the people the vile ambysh, which dishonors the nation. The Red Shirts have always fought on all fields for the liberty of the It is repugnant to our though today bands of the government, knowing we were completely un- armed, surpassed in baseness the past_tyrannies, “For what has taken place we con- | sider directly responsible the head of the government.” Protests Censorsh Gen. Garibaldi is indignant cause the newspapers published protest in censored form. He de- clared that, together with other ex- soldiers, he would Address un ener- ®etic protest to the king asking him to free Italy from turbulent factions and insure to all “tHat peuce which since the end of the war hus been vainly invoked.” He concluded: “I trust that the crown will not refuse to intervene in such a grave moment for the safety of the coun- try. be- his Ontbreak Held Insigmifica A Rome dispatch Wednesday night skid an officlul communication had been issued to the effect that, “ex- cept for an outbreak in the Piazza Popolo during which 11 persons were injured,” the celebration in Rome of the sixth anniversary of the Italian a-mistice with Austria had passed oft_quietly. Disturbances at Turbin, Naples. Trent and various other cities were declared by the offic:al communica- tion to be insignificant iacidents withaut any consequence.” A previous dispatch from Rome mentioned that several paragraphs in a story In the newspapur Sereno re- garding the disturbance had been obliterated apparently by government censors. Prefect Orders Sequestration. The prefect of Milan, it was added, bad ordered the sequestration of all of Tuesday's editions of the Courier de 13 Berra, the Avapti and the Guis- tizia, for having pyblighed “inexaot and exaggerated reports” of the incl- dents in Rome. Gen. Guiseppe baldi is a grandson Itallan patriot. CHALLENGES TO DUEL. (“Peppino™) Gari- of the great STAR, WASHINGTON, MRS. PETER GERRY SUES FOR DIVORCE Senator’s Wife, One of Most Admired Heiresses, Files Plea in Paris. By the Associated Press PARIS, November 7.—The latest list of casea filled for hearing in the! Paris divoree court contalns the names of sevem American couples, says the Paria edition of the €hi- cago Tribune. Among the petitioners are Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry of New York, wife of the Rholle Island Sen- ator, and Mrs. Alice Brskine Allen of Hempstead, N. Y., Wife of Horuce Bigelow Allen. Mrs. Gerry formerly was Miss Mathilde Townsend, daughter of Mrs. Richard H. Townsend, and has been ome of t t admired of American heire She is & granddaughter of the late Repre sentative Thomas Scott of Penn: vania, whose family\remained in Washington after his _retirement frem public life. Mrs. Gerry is & blande of much beauty, and during her young ladyhood had scores of admirers, among them the Duke of Alba, cousin of the King ef Spain, who was a recent visitor in Wash- ington. 5 Wedding Notable Event. That Mrs. Gerry married an Amer- ican was much commented upon at the time of her marriage in 1910. The wedding took place Massachusetts avenue, then cempara- tively new, was lavisly decorated with white orchids and greena. The company d to the wedding In- cluded officiala of this Governemnt, diplomats and membera of smart so- clety here. Mrs. Towngend has been a leading figure in Washipgton for many years, and since her retirement from official circles as the dgughter of a representative took her place among the residents of the District and became a leader in the more con- servative circles. R Senator Gerry is the son of Mr. Elbridge Thomas Gerry of New York and was elected to Congress in 1313, but was not re.elected. In 1916 he was elected to the Senate and will serve his State until 1929, CONSIDER DRAFT OF FIRE FIGHTERS (Cont ued from First Page.) across the Shenandoah River from Harpers Ferry for three days. fire was at its worst early momning, according to reports reach- Ing this city. The village of Neers- ville, Va., in the path of this fire, is in_danger. This fire broke out Tuesday and with great rapidity spread over an area of more than eight miles of timber land untouched by fire in the past 50 years. The burned area ex- tends along the side of the mountain for 10 miles. Volunteer fire fighters from villages at the base of the mountain in that section have been constantly battling the flames but have been unable to check them. Several times this fire has come within narrow margins of sweeping homes and barns, but the firemen al- waya managed to divert it by back- firing. , Smoke Obacures Sun. Warden Klein was contemplating asking the services of the local Na- tional Guard company as well as the Boy Scout troop of this city before he orders the conscription of fighters. A heavy pall of smoke hangs over the entire Cumberiand Valley and has obscured the sun in Hagerstown, Varini Resents Garibaldi’s Charges Against the Fascisti. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, Nevember 7.—Gen, Varini, commander of the tenth Fascist militia, today challenged to a duel Gen. Peppino Garibaldi, grand- son of the Italian patriot, beocause of Garibaldi's protest against the al- leged attack by the Fascist militia upon unarmed forfner soldiers on Tuesday. The first meeting of their seconds took place this morning. SOVIET CHIEF EXPECTS RECOGNITION FROM U. S. “We Have Warm Friends in Re- publican Party,” Rakovsky Bays, in Interview. By the Assoclated Press. . PARIS, November 7.—Christian Ra- kovsky, Soviet charge d'affaires in London, declares his conviction in an interview published by L'Humanite ~ zone of| that Japan and the United States will soon extend recognition to the Rus- sian Soviet government. “Negotiations with Japan already have started,” he says. “As for the United States, despite the result of the election, maintaining the former administration, I am certain that the question of recognition will be raised soon. It must not be forgotten that we have warm friends in the Repub- lican party.” MONKS PLACED ON TRIAL. Face Charge of Attempt to Kill American Missionaries. By the Associated Press. RANGOON, Burma, November 7,— The Buddhist monks accused of com- plicity in the attack last month on| Prof. P. R. Gleason, a missionary at- tached to Judson College, Rangoon, and Mrs. Gleason, today were com- mitted for trial before the high court of sessions, charged with having at- tempted to murder Prof. and Mrs. Gleason and with having caused them grievous injuries. Court’s Eyes Fill As Tongman’s Gas Bomb Springs Leak By the Associated Press. * NEW YORK, November 7.— ‘With tears streaming down his face and the entire courtroom weeping, Magistrate Goodman held Wong Chue, a Hip Sing, for the grand jury yesterday in Essex Market Police Court on a charge of violation of a State law. It was not the woebegone tong- man who wrung tears from the eves of all beholders, but one of several tear gas bombs found in his possession, which sprung a leak when Detective Moog ex- hibited it as evidence. and for that reason is most often con- demned by the Government and: subse- quently destroyed. ‘Third, this is the class of property best adapted to re- modeling into garages, for Which there is at the present time a great need.” KENTUCKY FORESTS BURN. Gale Drives Flames in Divergent Rarts of State. By the Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., November Whipped to menacing propertions by near-gale winds and coming at a time when prolonged dry weather had reduced brush and grass to a tinderlike condition, forest fires were raging at widely divergent points in Kentucky today. Volunteer fire fighters at Irvine, Estill County, where two mountains were reported to be ablaze, early to- day had succeeded in completing a belt of plowed ground around 700 crude oil tanks, and thus apparently had removed imminent danger of the flames reaching 10,500,000 gallons of oil in storage. Seven houses in that section had been destroyed and guards were watching to prevent sparks from the fires starting blazes in Irvine and the adjacent town of Ravenna. Destroy Farm Buildings. In western Kentucky McLean Coun- ty was hard hit, a number of farm houses and buildings had been de- stroyed, the towns of Island and Sac- ramento had been threatened and older schoolboys had been excused from classes to aid in fighting the flames. Near Louisville, in Jefferson Coun- ty, grass and brush fires were be- lieved under control after having swept an area three by six miles and causing heavy damage to orchard, fences and standing timber. Reports from Tompkinsville told of extensive damage In the Cumberland Valley in Monroe and Cumberland Countles and in Lincoln County the Stanford Fire Department had gone to the hill section to assist volunteer fire fighters. An estimate of the loss resulting ftom the fires was unobtainable. SAVE OIL STORAGE TANKS. Kentucky Fires Under Control Be- fore Reaching Explosives. By the Associated Press. IRVINE, Ky., November 7.—Forest fires which have burned flercely near Ravenna are under control and ofl storage tanks in the vicinity are no longer endangered, according to in- formation received at the sheriff's of- fice here today. A nitroglycerin plant which was menaced for a time apparently has been saved, the sheriff was informed. ‘Workmen and residents of the fire- swept section joined in fighting the fires and no exodus from the region has been reported. Information that seven homes in the path of the fire had burned Was not verified by per- sons arriving here this moring. e SERB CABINET FORMED. Sole Duty Will Be to Arrange General Election. BELGRADE, November I.—Premier Pachitoh has suocceeded i« forming a ministry, the sole duty of which will to arrange for a yeneral election, which all parties agree is the only way out of the situation that has been dragging on for weeks The cabinet consists of 13 radicals and 4 dissident Democrats, with Dr. Ninch- itch as foreign minister. Dismolution of the chamber is ex- pected at an early date. in_Washington | nd the home of Mrs. Townsend on| This | this | D. C. FRIDAY I Seeks Divorce i MRS, PETER GOELET GERRY, PURSE IS PRESENTED TO REV. M. LEO RIPPY| | that day does come the legion will Assistant Pastor of Mount Vernon Place Church Will Go to Memphis, Tenn. A farewell reception was given to Rev. M. Leo Rippy, assistant pastor of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Churel South, last after the regular Thursday evening prayer service. Mr. Rippy is leaving for Memphis, Tenn., where he is to become assistant pastor to Rev. Dr. Clovis G. Chappell, former pastor of the Mount Vernon' Place Church substantial purse was presented to Mr. Rippy by his friends in the congregation. Coming to the Mount Vernon Place Church direct from Y. M. C. A. work in which he was en- gaged after his graduation from Southern Methodist University, Mr. Rippy rapidly wory a place in the af- fections of the congregation, He was in charge of the Sunday achool, athletie and social work of the church and built the Sunday school up to a membership of well over 2,000, He also was In charge of the Summer camp held each year along the Potomac. His successor has not been selected. ———— 1925 ARMY-NAVY GAME WANTED BY WASHINGTON Enlarged Griffith Stadium Assured in Furtheranee of Demand for Foot Ball Classic. Every effort will be made to get the Army-Navy foot ball game here in 1925.° Clark Griffith this morn- ing informed Isaac Gans, president of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce, that he would further en- large the stadium at Georgia avenue in order to accommodate the large crowd that the service classic would bring to Washington. The stadium now has of 37,000. Mr. that accommodations should be pro- vided for 60,000. , Because of the ill- ness of Secretary/of War Weeks, who is confined to hisghome by a cold. Mr. Gans has not been able to ar- range an appointment with him. { was recently learned that Rep- redentative Fred A. Britten left Chicago for Washington with the purpoge of interviewing Mr. Weeks as to the possibility of getting the game for that city. The Washing- ton Chamber of Commerce immedi- ately made efforts to get in touch with the Secretary of War to urge upon him the desirability of bring- ing the game to the National Cap- ital. a capacity ————— 0NE-H6UR PARKING LIMIT EXTENDED IN NORTHWEST Order Applies to Fourteenth Be- tween Columbia Road and Monroe Street. The one-hour parking limit for auto- mobiles now in effect downtown was extended by the Commissioners today to include Fourteenth street betwken Columbia road and Monroe street, which has become a busy outlying cen- ter. . The amendment states that the one- hour rule shall apply in that section be- tween 8 o'clock in the morning and mid- night on all days except Sunday. Another amendment provides that on Fourteenth street between Columbia road and Monroe street no motorist shall turn his machine around between intersections unless such turn can be made without backing. The new’ rule will become effective 30 days from to- day. BURSUM STILL TRAILS IN NEW MEXICO COUNT Senator’s Defeat and Morrow's Re-Election Virtually Are Conceded. By the Associated Press. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., November 7.—Representative John Morrow, Democrat, candidate for re-election, had a lead of 5,840 votes over Felipe Hubbell, Republican, in returns from 522 of the State’s 751 precincts today. Senator Bursum, Republican, candi- date for re-election was 4,479 votes behind Sam G. Bratton, Democrat, on the same returns. A. T. Hannett, Democrat, was leading Manuel B. Otero, Republican, for governor, by 3.112 votes. Two counties are still missing. Republican headquarters here de- clare that the missing precincts will give Otero enough majority to over- come Hannett's lead. Little hope is held out that Bursum and Hubbell will be victorious and their defeat is practically admitted. FIND WOMAN ON STREET. An elderly woman found wander- ing.about the streets in the northern part of the city last night was taken in charge by the police, and turned over to the Woman's Bureau, where she gave her name as Jessie Wilson, Atlantic City. She had a large sum of money and a check for $5,000 in her possession. This morning, she was identifled as Miss Jessle Scott, a former Gov- ernment worker, by friends who said she was in Government employ fully 30 years. In recent years, it was stated, Miss Scott had spent the Sum~ mer seasons in Atlantic City, and she came from there this week. Lieut Mina C. Van Winkle is car- ing for her at the House of Detention, where she'is receiving every atten- tion. It is the intention of the lieu- tenant to make an effort to have Miss Scott and her wealth given legal pra- tection. night | Gans declared today | NOVEMBER * LEGIN SUPPORTS * CODLDGE' VEWS Drain Replies to Suggestion That Peace Be Emphasized on Armistice Day. President Coolidge today made public a letter from James A. Drain, national commander of the American Legion, who assured him that “your sentiments” as to the ohgervance of | Armistice day are the sentiments of the legion. i Mr. Drain's letter was in reply to a | communication from the President, who suggested that the legion e Dhasize the need of peace in its Ar- mistice day celebration, The legion desires peace, its con mander wrote, and “strives for peace as its opportunities for acquainting itself with “the alternative of pemce have been exceptional.” | Hopes for Armas Parley. 1 Mr. Drain said the legion “is doing | what it ean to advance the day when | armaments may be reduced and hopes | that its labors may help to hasten | the time when & convention of the powers will be called to reduce all’ military establishments, But until insist that the United States take steps of its own to put war and the prospect of war more remote. “To this end,” he continued, “the legion has long advocated and will | press for enactment at the coming | session of Congress, of what is popu- | larly known as the universal draft| bill, which would place on all citi- | zens an equal obligation in war by | utilization through the Government of man power to fight, man power to work, factory power to produce, and money power to finauce. This is a peace measure, because it-places the bur- dens of war equally upon all citizens. | It is a preparedness measure because | it provides the Nation® with the! means for defending itself with | maximum of efficiency and minimum | of costs. Wants Werld Court. “The legion believes there will never be lasting peace until we have justice between nations, and that this| means the erection of some form of | competent world court. It will put forth all efforts to attain this. “Uptil an- international concord is attained for the reduction of arma- ments and the adjudication of contro- versies on the principles of justice, the United States must maintain a Navy the equal of any in the world, a small but competent Army capable of quick expansion, adequate air forces, a Nationdl Guard and adequate reserve forces for air, land and sea duty. Furthermore, industry must be kept currently informed and pre- pared in peace time for its emergency obligations. “The legion will emphasize on Ar- mistice day the substance of your words that ‘humanity has more rea- son for unity than for discord. " REPRESENTATIVE HILL IS LEADING IN OREGON | 555 Votes Ahead of Republican, With 15 Precincts Uncounted. Lone Democrat to Win. By the Associated Press. SEATTL ‘Wash., Novefhiber As the few scattered precincts in the fifth congressional district were tab- ulated early today, Sam B. Hill, Dem- ocrat, indorsed by Senator La Fol- lette, had a lead of 555 votes over J. E. Ferguson, Republican, with 15 small precincts unreported. Tabu- lation of 500 incomplete precincts out of 515 in the district gave Hill 35,294, Ferguson, 34.739. Representative Hill was the only major candidate to survive the Re- publican landslide in this State. NO EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS TO BE CALLED IN MARCH (Continued from First Page.) mated to some that he is exceedingly anxious to have enacted into law the administration’s bill providing for the reorganization of the executive de- partments of the Government, and it is thought not undikely that if a favorable opportunity presents itself, he will insist that this legislation be given a chance to get some action, on the floor. ‘William M. Butler, who as chairman of the Republican national commit- tee, personally directed the campaign and who was with the President two hours late yesterday afternoon going over the details with him, returned last night to his home in Boston, Mass. Ambassador E. B. Houghton, Amer- fcan Ambassador to Germany, was a Juncheon guest at the White House today. PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR SATURDAY. FIRST RACE—The Autumn Green Spring Valley Steeplechane; purse, $2,000; 2% miles; for 4-year-olds and up. Damask . 146 $§Bthereal Blue.. 130 tCourteous, 1133 Lellipop . b +4Dunks Green... 137 Vicatre 1% thuettiste - L 154 {Walter J. Salmon entry. 1 Widener entry. §¥ive pounds claimed for rider. SECOND RACE—Purse, $1,300; 2-year-olds; Sumpter King Jimmy. Tony Griith Mountain _Oa Barbara Frietchie THIRD RACE—Purse, $1.300; 3-year-olds; claiming; 1 mile and 70 yard *Bagerness J Rive a King's Rans *Just . *Quotation Mary Agnes. *Tady Audrey. *Hroomfield *WHd Goose. *Vexation . ligo . : Leisch .. sWatch Charm. .. X Red *Royal ‘Qneen Altissimo ...... *Escoba d'Oro. RTH RACE—Pimlico Serial, weight- forage. rece. No. for all ages; $3,500 dded; 1 mile. arlie... 100 Senator Norri el 1126 Prince of Umi 1120 FIFTH RACE—The Annapolis Handieap, high weight handicap; all ages; purse, $1,500; 6 furlongs. ' Abu Ben Abdem.. 124 Off Color. 9 Settiog San 116 Tester . Vrana Wats SIXTH RACE—The Ruxton; 3-year-old | bidden ever to return. This averts all nels, and maidens at time of closing of entries; $2,500 added; 1ty miles. 120 Suburban . 120 117 Gladys V .17 SBVENTH RACE—The Arlington Handicap; claiming; all ages; purse, §1,500; 14 miles. *Ten ek, The Roll Cal Triumph ... su 2 Rigel . Cockney 04 110 108 105 120 s L 115 Redstone .. Rores *Apprentice allowanee of five pounds clalmed. fRalobrin Btable entry. 0 Weather ciear; track r. O'Neill 2ad.. 100 107 Eiedenant. aien {Rock Pockef Boy Emperor Ousted | PNOO D HSUANG TUNG, The deposed boy Emperor of China, who, with his family, has just been ousted from the palace of the Forbid- den City, Peking, by Feng Yu-hsiang, head of the military regime, and for- hope of a monarchist coup, as the enthronement is not legal unless| coronation take place before the an-|a cestral tablets in the Imperial Palace. | HUGE STILL SEIZED ON CAPITOL HILL | Once Exclusive Home Yields! | said. 1,000 Gallons of Mash and Brandy. An old Capitol Hill residence at 200 First street eoutheast,, dircctly acre from the House Office Building, today yielded up 1,000 gallons of n three | stills and much high-grade brandy. when police and revenue agents raided the premises shortly after noon The entire third floor of the old resi- dence, which in its day was an exclusive home in a fashionable section, was de- voted to the dis ing of prune and peach mash into & hybrid but high-test brandy. The raid was made after a of the house by Fifth Precinct Detec- tives Thayer, Tally and Prohibition Agent Tutt following the issuance of a warrant for J. E. Mortimer and his brother Leo after an alleged purchase of whisky at 1010 C street southeast | last night. Stumble Across Still. Searching the premises for one of | the men wanted on the warrant, po- lice sav they stumbled across the wholesale distillery. The ralders maintain that this house was a large source of supply for bootleg chan- because of a division be-| tween the selling point and the manu- | facturing source difficulty would have been encountered in obt. search directly for the premise: sales were made there. They H ted themselves lucky in happening on | the plant in the execution of the search warrant | In the confiscated articles, two 10- | gallon stills and one 20-gallon still| were included. They were hooked up | to gas stoves and the cooling coils | were ingeniously run through a trough of water attached to the or- dinary plumbing fixtures. i - Mash Is Ruined. | In three rooms on the thirds floor | of the residence were 20-30 gallon | barrels. Each of these was filled to| the brim with sizzling, fermenting | mash of prunes, peaches, sugar, raisins and water. When agents figured on | destroying these barrels or getting | them downstairs they met a problem | which they finally solved by pouring kerosene into the mash, which would | render it useless, and which would | soak into the barrels so that they could not be used for such a purpose | again. The strategic position of the House across to the House Office | Bullding, it was stated by police had | the effect of veiling it from suspicion. | It was built 8o long ago that it has | a block of stone inserted in the outer | brick wall on C street bearing the name Engle place, which was part of | the Carrol division of the southeast | in the days immediately contingent | to the Civil War. " S -— LEAD IN NORTH DAKOTA IS RETAINED BY COOLIDGE By the Associated Press. FARGO, N. D., November orth Dakota's five electoral votes, as a result of Tuesday's election, seemed assured for President Coolidge on the | face of nearly complete but unoffi- cial returns tabulated today. Although the missing precincts are in territory favorable to Senator Rob- ert M La Follette, the votes he polled in those scattered and sparsels populated sections are not cxpected to change appreciably the standings | of the two leading candidates for the presidency in this State. H Returns from 1,959 precints out of | 2,160 in North Dakota early today gave President Coolidge 94,809, and La Follette, 82,516. M’CARL FIGHTS SUIT OF COMMANDER COX | Controller General Says Naval Of- ficer's Mother Does Not Need Allowances Claimed. J. Raymond McCarl, controller gen eral of the Jnited States. today asked the dismiss the suit for injunction brought by Comdr. John F. Cox, U. , to test the ruling of the con- troller directing the deduction of 20 per cent from the pay of naval offi- cers to reimburse the Government for allowances for dependents collected Dby the officers and then disallowed by the controller. Mr. McCarl justifies his ruling and also questions the jurisdiction of the court to require explanation from him. The allowances set aside in the case ot Comdr. Cox were for the support of his mother, Mrs. Udora Cox of Spen- cer, Ind., the court is told. MecCarl says the mother is not dependent on lLer son, as she owns real estate and personal property in excess of $10,000 | perplexing | presents | Teau a trifle following one to made the boy's | Amendment to Constitution, i i { strict Supreme Court to || and has an income of $750 per annum. United States Attorney Gordon and Assistant United States Attorney ‘West appear for the controller. Comdr. Cox is represented by Attor- neys Price, Cox & Sherier. SUICIDE ATTEMPT PERPLEXES POLICE | Name of Walter Muir Inject- ed Into Inquiry Serves Only to Confuse. Information recelved by the police injecting the name of Walter Muir, American youth who was executed July 11 for murder in Valleyfield, Can- ada, into an investigation of the con- nections and identity of Katherige vear-old girl, who is i condition at Emergenc pital from a dose of liquid poison admipistered Wednesday, today served only to deepen an already mystery which the case When members of the Women's Bu- attempted to talk to the girl vesterday she had little to say. Her throat is so burned she can scarcely talk. She gave them the name of a man, however, who, she said, could furnish them with information. Al- most simultaneously with the above a long-distance telephome call ar- rived from Baltimore and & man on the other end of the line told the police Women's Bureau that the girl at Emergency Hospital h she was a welfar Canada, where herself in executi It w women's burcau that ficient information any source to for: of the girl's connections, she had der. ritted the ere is not suf obtainable from n a definite opinic identity or her Police Know Little. All the policewomen know thit on the second floor of Emergency Hospital lies a girl suffering from ar tempted suicide, who possibly has been connected in some way with the widespread movement that swept cer, tain parts of this country and Canada during May and June to prevent the is | executuion of Walter Muir. The informant of the Women's bu- reau, whose name not made pub- lie, volunteered the information, he because others to whom the irl had given his name as a refer, ence were repeatedly querying him about the e He added in his mes- sage to the Washington policewomen, via the telephone, that he could mot imagine the purpose of the girl in connecting him in the case, and he anted to state his position with frank= ness. His story was: On a train to Bale timore he met the girl some time ago. She told him she was returning from a. where she had been fighting to save Walter Muir from execution. She stated that.she was coming to Washington in connection with another case. She said her in- terest in the case was merely that of a “welfare worker Says Parents Ave De: As far as her ents are con- cerned, the girl said at the hospital they were dead, but full credence is not placed in the fact. The reason for her ta £ the poison has not been determined, either. Physicians refused today to allow outsiders except the police to inter- view the girl, and the physician in charge of case was somewhat wrought yesterday when it was learned th her condiition had been ravated by nervousness police interview. X Walter Muir was executed after of the most widespread attempts forestall the exec ner had been Lady Astor, Countess Richelieu, nother, and hosts of others on, not only the American State ment, but also ine British nment to obtain a reprieve. Up until the last minute hope was held. Not until the actual execution was the vigorous effort found fruitless. The murder took place in a bar- room in Valleyfield, Quebec, and the defense offered was that the shoot- ing resulted in defense of a cripple. FLORIDA VOTE PROHIBITS STATE INCOME TAX LEVY Also Barring Inheritance Assessments, ' Is Adopted, 6 to 1. By the Associa S JACKSO! Fla., November' T. —Florida’s amendment to the State constitution prohibiting the levying of income or inheritance taxes by the State was passed in Tuesday's elec- tion by . of six to one, late re- turns c Precinets from all sections of the State piled up an over- whelming vote in favor of the amend- ment, and with slightly less than haif of the vote recorded the ratio still was six to one for the proposal. apers and civic organizations campaigned actively for “to amend article eight of the consti- tution of the State of Florida relative to taxation and finance, and provid- ing that no tax upon inheritances or incomes shall be levied by the State, and exempting from taxation to the head of a family personal property of the value of $500." Keeps Observer at Vatican. PARIS, November 7.—Although the French government has decided def- initely to discontinue its legation at the Vatican, Le Matin says, jt will retain a semi-official observer. 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