Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1925, Page 2

g e IMACMILLAN RADIOS EAPEDITION PLANS Message From Bowdoin to| Geographic Society Here Is Picked Up. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, July 9.—A radio message from the stéamship Bowdoin of the MacMillan Arctic expedition was picked up here vesterday by A L. Alexander of Dormont, telling of the progress made by the party and outlining future plans of the expedi: tion. The message was signed “Mac Millan."" Alexander said the message came in strong, despite much static. It was broadvast from Hopedale, Labrador, and was addressed to the National| Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. He copied the message as follows Worried by Mosquitoes. BOWDOIN, July 8 “To the National Geographic Soclety Washington, D. ( “After bucking a yesterday, today mot a_breath of air has. stirred and the clouds of mos quitoes are fattening at our expense. “Day spent in watering both ships and in giving men a chance to hunt and explore country around Hopedale, center of Moravian missionary work ““Had it not been for the Moravians, whese service with utterly inadequate funds was li rort of marvelous there would not be an Eskimo alive on the Labradc ast today. Our men attended services here in a spot less little church with sand on the floor, with women. in a combination of native and foreign costumes on the right and men with their red capes eyeing them from the left Getting Arctic Clothing. “One Eskimo word makes a line of | ordinary hymn. Congregational sing- | ing by Eskimos was the feature of the service. Men are buying skin boots and-mittens and having made blanket bickies, buttonless blouses with hoods, which are excellent protection viators have Eskimo women sew ing together sealskin s Better than anything else for w ing. Splendid weather. mer day Hopedale has.had. this vear. We were first ship to arrive since October, but today there arrived a small. schooner from Nairn “All well. Stiff headwind “MACMILLAN.” Alexander is a school teacher and has frequently heard New Zealand, Australia and other faroff statiens. FOURTH CELEBRATED. Hopedale Joins Exploters in Observ- ing Independence Day. A colorful description of a Fourth of July celebration in the Far North was contained in _radiograms received today by -the Natiomal Geographic Society from MacMillan Arctic ex- pedition ships, which arrived at Hope- dale, a Moravian mission and Eskimo village, on the evening of July 7 The celebration took place while the ships were at Battle Harbor. It was begun at midnight with a bom bardment from the bridge of.the Bow- | doin, one of the expedition's ships. There followed shots fram a Govern- ment Springfield rifle, a shotgun, a | frontler pistol and a tiny revolver belonging to a member of the expedi tion and a blinding flash of po the contribtition 0f the-photographe Natives ashore were astonished a the’ performance, but the canine sec tion of the population returned the | salutes with their halfMog, *half-wolf | howl, Boat Races Held. Boat races were held during the day, the course being the length of the har- bor from the Bowdoin's anchorage to an iceberg at the entranes On the northward trip from Battle Harbor the Bowdoin and the Peary, | the larger ship of the expedition, | pushed off Kidlialuit Island’on Jaly 6; chewing their way through a sea of floe ice dotted with icebergs. Durin the night of July 6 there was a heav fog, but the Bowdoin picked up Bull-| dog Island at 5:15 am. July 7, and| Cape Harrison was passed five hours later. From that time until now the Rowdoin and Peary have been in con- stant radio communiction and fre- quently within hailing distance. During the day of July 7 the two ships fought their way through ice| ranging in color from silky mauve to deeép biue and jade. A warm wind blew out of Labrador and the ther- mometer mounted from 47 to 60 with- in“an hour. Numerous whales and seals were seen BIG CONSTRUCM ; STRIKE IS AVERTED; WORKERS TO RETURN (Continued om_First Page.) | { trines If Not BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Staff Correspondent of The Star. MADISON, Wis., July 9.—The Pro- gressive movement in Wisconsin s not buried with Robert Marion La Follette. It ‘will go on. It will be conducted along old lines. It will continue to oppose socalled regular Republicanism until the Republican party has liberalized itself in accord- ance with the Progressive program. There will be no surrender to ‘‘reac tion” in the meantime. That would be looked upon as treason to the memory of La Follette. No Wisconsin Pro- gressive worthy of the name dreams of committing so high a crime. This, In a nutshell, summarizes the situa- tion as depicted by those who were politically nearest and dearest to the depatted leader. They are qualified, of speak only for Wisconsin. They do not pretend to predict the course or fate of the Progressive cause in the nation at large. {ives concede that La Follette was the natfonal sense, and to admit that, the keystone having fallen, the arch ftself will probably collapse and into its constituent parts—Republican, Democratic, Socialist, Farm-Labor, Non-Partisan League, and the rest They see no one anywhere capable of donning La Follette's toga and con solidating, as he did, the Progressive forces of the country. They seem not unwilling to acknowledge that as a na tional movement, marching under a united leadership, Progressivism was so effectually checked on November 4 that it will not soon again be mar. shaled into an aggressive fighting force. course, to Disintegration Not Apparent. But in Wisconsin it is a different story. Here the movement, with the passing of La Follette, has suffered a grievous lo but except for some scrambling for his crown there is no evidence that the movement’s disinte gration is imminent. Republican lead- ers who cherish such an expectation are undoubtedly The cult that La Follette bred into the marrow of Wisconsin has been soaking into the consciousness of the State for 40 yea to turn its back on La Folletteism something like asking a people to change its religion. La Follettelsm has been Wisconsin's political reli- gion through a whole generation. Tt will not be easily or speedily re. nounced. Senator Butler is expected in Wisconsin in the Autumn for the purpose of preparing the ground for wresting the State from the Progres- sive grip. He will find his work cut out for him. If the chairman of the Republican national committee can uproot the political philosophy that is imbedded in Wisconsin he will be a miracle worker. Yet there are conserv atives who think it can be done, and that the time is now. No State was ever so carefully, ceaselessly and successfully trained in politics as this State was trained by Robert Marion La Follette. In a very literal sense, the people of Wisconsin have been going to school in politi and economics since 1585, and La Fol- Iétte was their teacher. ' His incessant campalgns up and-down the State, county, township by township, were not_political campaigns in the ordi nary semse. They were more like re vival meetings and they were always npaigns of education. “Fighting Bob” drilled into the Badger mind his theorfes and capitalistic tyranny and the right of the plain people to their fair share of wealth until they be- came a creed. He invariably filled their heads with hard facts and daz- zling figures to bolster up his argu- ments. Are Born Economists. The result today is said to be that every ‘second man, woman and child in Wisconsin is a born political econ- cmist. La Follette made no secret of his ambition for power, but he con vinced Wisconsin that he wanted pow- er only that he might use it for the many as against the privileged few. That his people came devoutly to be- lieve in La Follette and everything he stood for was demonstrated by their invincible loyalty to his cause It was always easier to misrepresent him outside of Wisconsin than within the State. At home “Bob” was al- most untouchable. Wisconsin today, with La Follette in his grave, is his monument. It is governed both by the laws and the leaders he gave it. Its great univer- sity, and its countless boards and com- missions for regulating railroads, ation, insurance, highways, farming, public utilities and business general- Iy—the life, in short. of the entire community—all bear the indelible im- print of La Follette. No other Ameri can commonwealth iz so saturated with the political spirit of one man. In the heart of Madison stands the supérb $7.000.000 capitol reared under Progressive auspices ten vears ago. (o architectural remnant left by a Caesar was ever so symbolical of an epoch. Wisconsin Progressives point to their magnificent statehouse and tell you that the structure La Follette created—namely, the Progressive movement in Wisconsin—will endure as long as the marble and granite in the capitol itself, because it rests upon equally indestructible foundations. Many Scramble for Place. Mern to “carry on” are as essential to the maintenance of a political move- ment as ideals. It is in the purely personal equation involved that the best prospect of destroying the house that La Follette built probably les, though the process of demolition can- not be rapid. It was not within the late Senator’s capacity to anoint his successor. He did not pass the scep- | ter of Progressive leadership to any designated person. The result is a free-for-all scramble for the place. No one can possibly occupy as fully or wield 8o supreme authority as La Fol- lette did. -He ruled at times like a czar. He brooked no internal oppo- sition. When sub leaders squabbled, a frown from Jove sufficed to calm the troubled waters, to whip all muti- neers back into line. There are able and younger men to perpetuate La Follette's work. but none in sight at this writing reveals anything approxi- mating the Napoleonic talent for high command that made La Follette om- nipotent. It Wisconsin Progressivism is doomed to disintegrate, as Republican regulars believe it is, it will mainly be because the lieutenants La Follette Jeft behind him are unable to suppress personal animosities and rally around a new leader. The special election for Senator La Follette’s vacant seat at Washington, and next year's general election, when the fate of Senator Len- root will be decided, probably will de- termine who is to be top dog. It may be “Young Bob,” La Follette's elder son and personal adjutant. It may be Gov. John J. Blalne. It may be Attorney General Herman L. Ekern. It may be Representative John M. Nel- son. If he were vounger, it might be Representative Henry Allen Cooper. All' these are graduates, magnum cum jaude, of the La Follette school of po- litical philosophy and are its creations. But now that there i no more rod of iron authority to stifie internecine who then urged them to submit. to arbitration by an impartial:board to settle the immediate-dispute and to| lay, down a basis for future peaceful | negotiations. The bricklayers, claim- ing that they had no men on strike, | refused to meet the Labor Secre- tary’s terms, authough the plasterers | had agreed to abide by Mr. Davis recommendation Secretary Davis pleaded with both | sides. to avert the threatened strike,| foresecing a practically complete tie- up in the Natiows construction indus- try, which, he said, was at a higher point than ever before, but his plea was turned down. Then the large contracting. firms, whose work had ldzm at a standstill for weeks, turned heir efforts toward peace. They resulted vesterday in a meet- ing with plastergrs’ upion officers, at which they agreed to return to work. This- was regarded yesterday as the atep which would precipitate a lengthy strike on the part of the bricklayers, which would further tie up consiruc: tion work and would result in an:al- most complete stoppage of building on a large scale. Instead the bricklavers will continue with their work and the negotiations will go on while both sides are at work. Into the fiight has also been jnjected a charge of inconsistency by the bricklayers, who point out that the contractors” have hitherto refused to negotiate with men out on strike walting until they returned to work efore negotlating. The bricklayers claim thewt have.not done this in the case of the plasterers, but will not press this point unless other griev- ances occur. While the contractors have been working in an attempt to avert a strike of both sides, Secretary Davis went to New York and worked for eral days on the situation, with Commissioners of Conclliation’ John A. Moffett and Thomas J. Willlams, placing before both sides the danger to the fabrjc of American business if a strike which Would tie up buflding construction entirely came about. The action of the plasterers, expect- o4 today, will result in immediate re- sumption of work involving about $25,- 000,000. In the meantime, however, the other work on the big construc: tion-projects involved has.gone ahead, hut ~must wait until 'the plasterers have fintshed their work, During the negotiations which ava. expected to end favorably today the executive committes of the, American Federation. of Labor ‘attempted 46 bring peace. but fafled, S - strife. rival ambitions are flaming forth furiously. Tt remains to be seen whether. they will burn themsélves out Wisconsin Progres. | tone of the Progressive arch, in a | crumble | hugging a delusion. | To ask Wisconsin | HE EVENING Wisconsin Firmly Progressive - If Ambitions Do Not Clash State, Taught Political Economy by La Follette, Will Adhere to His Doc- to His Aides. without burning down the Progressive house. On the expectation that these aspirations and enmities carry within them the seeds of Progressive dis- ruption the Wisconsin conservatives | pin their fondest hopes. They count, | t0o, on the State’s cumulative realiza- tion that the age of radicalism is | gone and that vagaries such as those | L.a Follette latterly espoused—Gov ernment ownership, Supreme Court reform and other extreme panaceas— have discredited the whole Progres- sive movement. The Reépublican who hope to bring Wisconsin back into the regular fold also bank heavil on the newest tax legislation passed by the La Follette State Legislature By requiring the people to pay bpth income and personal property taxes and doing away with a former “off- set” between those levies the manu- facturers, merchants and small busi- ness men have been hard hit. The farmer and the wage earner are cor- respondingly relieved. The net re- sult, Republican conservatives allege, is wholesale and unprecedented un- popularity for the Progressive's fiscal system. Could La Follette have done such a thing, he would almost certainly have Attorney General Ekern | is heir apparent No one was 1y closer to “Fighting Bob" | than this Norse lawyer, who once was speaker of the Wisconsin House and has built up a lucrative private prac tice as an attorney for mutual insur ance socleties. There is no dispar- agement of “Young Boéb” La Follette in that thought. The devotion be tween father and so dition |in Wisconsin. It “Young | candidate in the spectal election to name a successor for his father he will take to the polls all the love and all the faith that Wisconsin lavished upon the elder La Follette. That would be so in_perhaps even greater degree If Mrs. La Follette, the Sena- tor's widow, should be the candidate | Although Wisconsin would not turn |against them. one encounters in the | State fundamental objections to either | “Young Bob” or his mother as the | titular leader of Progressivism. The | son Is voung, and, despite the unique | training received at his father’s elbow, |is not regarded sufficiently seasoned {to command the Progressi | Nor is Wisconsin assured that a ma jof 30 is the type of representative | that it ought to have in the United States Senate, even if his name is La Follette, Mrs. La Follette an Intellectual. On the other hand, | lette | gnated is Mrs. La Fol is old—she was her husband’s junior by sonly four years. Her in tellectual capacity is admitted on all ands. Like the Senator, she was | graduated from the University of | Wisconsin Law School, Is a_deep stu- |dent of public affairs, and has be. | come a skilled politician through life | partnership with her distinguishad {consort. But neither the youth of ‘Young Bob” mnor the age of his mother will militate against them if |they feel the late Senator’s place | should be taken by one of them. Wis- | consin might deplore their decision, but there would be no sentiment for opposing it. The La Follettes can have what they want. The pertinent point in all this is that the La Fol- lette fetish is still all potent. It may not always be, but it is now. Any man or men who attempt to flout it will do so at their political peril. Will Open Field Wide. If the La Follette family relin- quishes its claim on Progressive honorsy, the field will automatically be wide open for others. Therein lies party’s ranks. The peril is obvious, and no effort will be spared to avert it. One way of doing so is commonly discussed in Madison. The com promise scheme, whereby the worst is to be avoided. provides for the nomination of “Young Bob"” for the unexpired La Follette term in the Senate, for the nomination of Gov Blaine as the Progressive candidate against Senator Lenroot in 1926, and for the nomination of Attorney Gen eral Ekern for the governorship nex: vear. If this slate can be put through, Wisconsin Progressives are confident that harmony and unity can be preserved. But sooner or later the {ssue of the supreme com- mand will have to be fought out. The interval will provide ample op- portunity for the clashing of am bitions, "and, as the conservatives reckon, for ultimate Progressive disunion. the regular Republican organization, State and national, is building. The elections of 1926 will provide the test, and show whether the hopes of Messrs. Coolidge, Butler, Lenroot, et al, are destined to be realized or wrecked. Even the most ardent Progressives recognize the strength both of the President and of Senator Lenroot, Coolidge gave La Follette the most desperate battle of the lat- ter's whole career in 1924. Since then the President’s stock, as elsewhere in the West, has risen appreciably. It is common in Wisconsin to hear that Coolidge is far stronger in the State today than when he was elected eight months ago. His invasion of the Scandinavian belt in June had a visibly favorable effect in Wiscon- sin, which, like Minnesota and tbe Dakotas, is {nhabited by hundreds of thousands of Norsemen. Lenroot Safe in Esteem. Senator Lenroot is well intrenched in the public esteem of his State. He is considered by doctrinaire Progressives to have strayed treason ably from off their reservation, where he once served under La Follette, but he has acquired wide prestige among the voters at large. Even if the full Progressive strength is mobilized against him next vear and behind Gov. Blaine, it will be exceedingly difficult to unhorse Lenroot. For one thing, the Progressives know that the full and formidable power of the Coolidge administration will be at Lenroot's back. Blaine's friends do not underestimate the effectiveness of such support, especially as they realize the desperate efforts that wiil be made to give La Folletteism a knock-out blow. Gov. Blaine is not as high as he used to be in the graces of Progressive stalwarts. They accuse him of self- seeking at the expense of the “move- ! ment,” and that is tantamount to Progressive high treason. But Blaine is audacious as well as ambitious. He is in his third term as governor and commands an immense personal ma- chine throughout the State. He is making eyes in the direction of the wets, in contradistinction to Lenroot's dry sentiments, and Wisconsin is very wet. The prohibition issue is bound to rl\gure in the 1926 Lenroot-Blaine uel. If the Republican party expects to restore Wisconsin to its ancient place as an old reliable Republican standby, it is painfully plain that certain things will have to happen, Progressives in Wisconsin: look upon themselves as | the one Simon-pure Republican organi- zation. It is the “reactionary” G. O. P. old guard, they say, that has,been recreant to the Republican trust. It is they—the organization now in power in Washington—that must re- cant, repent and mend their ways be- fore Wisconsin can return’ to the Re- publican fold, according to the Pro- gressive view. If and when this ig the danger of split and strife in the | It is on these shifting sands that | STAR, AUTONOMY OFFER . TORIFFS PLANNED Spanish Protectorate Pro- vision Expected to Bring Re- jection by Rebels, However. BY the Associated Press PARIS, July 9.—France and Spain will_offer Abd-el-Krim autonomy in the Riff region of Morocco under a Spanieh protectorate. This is one of the principal features of the Franco- Spanish accord regarding Morocco signed at Madrid yesterday. French ‘official circles expect Abd-el- Krim to refuse the offer, because the leader of the tribesmen now opposing the French and Spanish in Morocco has repeatedly sald that he would not accept a Spanish protectorate. 1t is understoed the Franco-Spanish agreement also provides permission for French military forces to enter the Spanish Moroccan zone in pursuit of Abd-el Krim's warriors and for such other military operations as may be necessary (The I'rench have for some time been seeking this permission and have maintained they were handicapped in combating Abd-el-Krim's invasion of the French zone by inability to pursue the Riffs when they retreat across the border into Spanish territory.) Although Abd-el-Krim has previ- ously refused a Spanish protectorate, he has said he would accept auton- omy under the French. This is im- possible, however, because his terri tory, the RIff, is within the Spanish zone of Morocco General Strike Threatened. Communist deputies. led by Marcel Cachin, began an attack on the French government for conducting warfare in Morocco against the invad- ing Riffians under Abd-el-Krim when debate commenced today upon Pre mier Painleve’s bill for an appropria tlon of 183,000,000 francs for the Mo- rocean operations. M. Painleve told the Chamber that nothing could be further from the truth than rumors that Abd-el-Krim has captured Taza.” He said he could not understand what interest would be served by the dissemination of such false reports. M. Cachf threatened the govern ment with the possibility of a general strike of all French factory workers to compel France to cease the Mo roccan war and offer peace to Abd-el Krim. He described a recent secret meet ing of workers from the principal fac tories in France in which unanimous opposition to the French military ac- tivities in Morocco was expressed. Riffs Mass Troops. Adb-el-Krim continues to mass his Moroccan warriors for a drive against the French lines in the upper Ouer- gha Valley. Information regarding v chief's plans has reached the intelligence service, and meas- ures to combat them are being taken Meanwhile the Riffian propaganda proceeds with some success., notably among the tribes south of the Ouer- sha. but it is hoped the appearance of troops raised by the sultan will serve {0 counteract it in a large measure Travelers arriving in zone say the recent evacuation of civ. {illans from Taza, on the rallway east of Fez, was ordered because the Moor. {ish tribesmen friendly attitude toward the French population as soon as the garrison left for the Kiffane fighting front. = Many of the male civilians, however, chose force of their own. Land Blockade Planned. a combined land blockade of the blockade already _established, was signed vesterday in Madrid. It was expected to be a subject for commu- nist interpellations of the government in the Chamber of Deputies today. The land blockade will seek to pre- vent trafic in arms, ammunition, foodstuffs and other commodities needed by the rebels, and to suppress suspicious maneuvers. Louis Malvy, head of the French delegation in Madrid, has advised the government that_a third “and more important” accord, providing for poli- | tical co-operation, is in the process of negotiation, with prospects of signa- ture today While the French are endeavoring to stave off Abd-el-Krim's attacks, the Spaniards in their zone are not maintaining a passive attitude. Te tuan advices say a column supported by aviators stormed the heights of Benl Ambran, a strategic point of ad- vantage, and dislodged the tribesmen, consolidating the position as a Span- ish outpost. ARMED POSSES CONTINUE HUNT FOR RALPH TODD Armed posses of Prince Georges and Calvert County farmers still are hunting for Ralph Tedd, young Balti- more street car conductor, reported to have shot his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Todd, and his motherinlaw, Mrs. Oden Lyans, Monday evening while a guest at the home of the wife's par- ents, at Huntington, Md. When last seen Todd was heading toward Washington. The wife is in the Calvert County Hospital in a serious condition suffer- ing from two pistol wounds in her body, and her mother is recovering from a wound in the back. They told Constable Polk Lyons that Todd had suddenly pulled a re- volver from his pocket and shot them while they were driving him from the country home to a bus stop where he | was to take a bus back to Baltimore. | Neither of the victims could give any reason for the shooting. done, Ta Follette's people profess a readiness to be “good Republicans.” That readiness, it is contended, has always existed. But if the Republican party con- tinues to be exclusively the party of “big business” and ‘‘corporate inter- ests,” with correspondingly less re- gard for the welfare of the “common people,” and of agriculture in particu- lar, then, by all the signs of the po- litical zodfac in this lake-fringed coun- try where Robert Marion La Follette is laid to rest, disenchantment and disappointment are in store for those who think Wisconsin is ripe for con- version to “regularity.” Read between the iines of this edito- rial from the Republican conservative Milwaukee Journal: That Wisconsin will not put an- other La Follette in the Senate and that North Dakota will not want to send another Ladd are both very likely. But that does not mean that either State will send a booster for New England tariffs and Butler control of Congress. Men ‘less radical” may not be so easily scout- ed. It is, after all, no easier to answer a_man with the facts like Senator Walsh. If Ladd's suc- cessor, instead of asking subsidy for farmers, should insist on' a reduction of subsidies to {ndustry, the situation would hardly be “easier.” The certain thing is that so long as a majority takes a high hand there will be criticism, and if the criticism is not answered there will be protest from within as well as from without party TARKS: Copsrikht. 1026 the Spanish { geira Hin 0., | Philadelphia | Tron Co. there abandoned their | to remain and organize a protective | The Franco-Spanish agreement for | Moroccan zone, supplemehting the sea | WASHINGTON, | D. C., THURSDAY, oo The mass of bowlders and debris which blocked the Chicago and lowing the recent earthquakes which swept that State. nosed against one of the slides. GOAL HEADS WAN MINES KEPT OPEN Operators Appoint Body to Confer With Workers to Renew Contract. By the Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. I, July 9 The anthracite operators’ conference last night appointed a subcommittee of six to negotiate renewal of the con tract with the miners expiring Au gust 31 W. W. Inglis. president of Glen Al den Coal Co.. of Scranton, was elected chairman on nomination by Frank H Hemelright, chairman of the confer ence labor committee. Mr. Hemel | \ right himself declined to serve despite | pleas of his associates. The other members of the scale sub. mittee are: Andrew M. Fine, vice president Hudson Coal Co.: Thomas Thomas, Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Jesse B. Warrin general manager Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co.; E. D. Suender, general superintendent Ma and George Hardesty, and Reading Coal and Want Mines Kept Working. The hard coal operators in replying to the demands of the miners at the | Joint conference today will propose a mutual * pledge 10 keep the mines working after August 31, whether a contract has been agreed upon or not according to relfable authority. They admit irritation over miners’ charges that they favor a suspension as a means of getting higher prices for an alleged surplus of coal. They say such a pledge would convince the pub. lic of the good faith of both sides. Mr. Hemelright's refusal to head the scale subcommittee came as a dis appointment to the operators as a whole. He is chairman of the confer. ence labor committes, and the confer- ence had apparently been banking upon his leadership in the scale dis- cusafons. For the past two days, it was learned, his associates have en- deavored to get him to change his de- cision, without avail. was sald to have regarded the task as too arduous. WELCOME CLOUDS HALT HEAT WAVE; COOLER TOMORROW _ (Continued from First Page.) stroyed by the wind was the drug store, not far from the Lake Harriet Park, operated by Charles R. Fiesler, 47 years old. Fiesler, although he escaped injury when the bulilding crashed, collapsed outside and died of heart disease a few minutes later. The fourth person killed was Wil lard J. Ford, 30 vears old, who was hurled 50 feet from the cab of a traveling crane at a local machine plant. Damage In St. Paul. The fury of the storm had abated by the time it crossed the river into St. Paul. Minor damage was done there by the wind and four persons were injured in a series of accidents incident to the driving rain and wind. The most serious of these was a policeman, who was struck by a plate glass window, which was blown out. Local storms of varying Intensity, from mild Summer showers to terrific bombardments of hail and torrential rains, were reported from many sec- tions of the State. At least 50 per cent crop damage was suffered in ‘Wright and eastern Meeker Counties, according to early estimates, by the wind, hail and near tornadoes, which swept that section. WEALTHY IMMIGRANT HELD FOR TAX PAYMENT 0il Millionaire Awaits Extradition. Charged With Failure to Pay $482,565.69. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 3.—Eugene Con- stantin, who after immigrating from France and working as a laborer in Jouisiana rice fields and a deck hand on a Mississippl steamboat, struck oll in Oklahoma and a fortune of $10,000,000, is here awaiting ex- tradition proceedings for his return to Tulsa. Accused of failing to pay income taxes and penalties for 1920 and 1921 aggregating $482,565.69, he was ar- rested vesterday by Federal agents in a hotel as he was about to depart for France. Bail was fixed at $3,000. Having been in poor health for some time, he intended to spend a vacation 1n a chateau in France pur- chased in more affluent days. Constantin immigrated to New Orleans in 1882 and the career that started in the rice flelds later saw him captain of a Mississippi River boat, a banker and sugar refiner. The Tisking of a moderate fortune in Tulea in 1910 was Jucky and there developed the Constantin Refinery Co., which after prosperous days | went Into a receivership and was re- organized without it: n Mr. Hemelright | | JULY -9, 1925. The line was tied up Balky Witnesses Pay Fine Quickly When Put in Cell | Four Government witnesses who failed to respond when the case of James A. Lemon, charged with joy riding, was called today before Jus- tice Balley {n Criminal Divison 2 were fined 325 each. The court or dered the men into custody until the fines were pald. A few minutes | in the celiroom in the basement of the Courthouse was enough for the men and the necessary $100 was turned over to Deputy Marshal Ceremile and they were released The witnesses, who had to be brought into court under attach- ment after the justice had waited about 30 minutes for them to ap pear, and whose forgetfulness was expensive, are Robert Lee, 230 Brooks court; John . Ruston, 43 Fenton place; Harry Green, 16 Fen- ton place, and Lenox Coibert, 20 Fenton court. All the witnesses are colored CENTRAL HIGH POOL OPENED TO PUBLIC Periods Arranged for Four After- noons and Three Evenings Each Week. | | | | | { Central High School's pretentious imming pool has been opened to the public and will be operated during the ummer under the direction of the Community Center Department of the public schools and the District Health Department. The pool has been reconstructed and is in perfect condition, according to school authorities. On sizzling days the water will be cool. It will be heated on tool days. A swimming director and a corps of guards will be on duty while the natatorium is open. Matrons also will be in attendance in the locker rooms. Arrangements have been | made to give free swimming lessons to a limited number. Children under 15 years of age will be permitted to use the pool for two periods on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons from 1:30 to 2:30 o'clock The admission charge will be 10 cents. The pool will be open to adults Tues- day, Wednesday and Friday evenings. Women will use the pool from 7:30 to 9:30. Men will be admitted after 9:30 The charge will be 25 cents. Women and girls will be required to wear caps, but stockings and shoes are prohibited. Patrons must furnish their own suits, caps and towels. Dur- ing the men'’s period suits will not be required. The rules require all per- sons usipg the pool to take a soapy shower Befors entering. WOMAN HELD IN SEARCH FOR SLAYERS OF OFFICER Trail of Alleged Rum Runners Shifts to San Francisco—Guns and Liquor Are Found. By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.—The trail of alleged rum runners who Mon- day night killed a special deputy sheriff in a gun battle near Salinas and wounded two others, last night had shifted to San Francisco, where Mrs. Emily Rahlin, in whose name one of the automobiles abandoned by the suspected liquor smugglers was registered, was arrested. Mrs. Rahlin, who said her home is in Fairoaks, Calif., was traced to her San Francisco address by the license number of her automobile. Several pistols and a quantity of liquor were found in her apartment. The three men arrested by Monterey County officlals _shortly after the shooting affray Monday night were still being questioned at Salinas. The machine gun ammunition found in a hayfleld after the battle, together with a Luger gun, was identifled as belonging to a Bergmann machine gun of a type used by the German army in the late war: |BANK BANDITS ROUTED BY POISON GAS DEFENSE Institution Halts Attempt to Force Door. By the Associated Press. EL NORA, Ind., July 9.—The practi- cability of gas as a defense against bank bandits has been demonstrated in the fruitless effort of several rob- bers to loot the safe of the Citizens’ Bank here last Tuesday. “ The gas, one of several varieties per- fected by Prof. Gilbert Newman Lewis of Northwestern University, is not deadly, acoording to Theodore Burglaff of a Chicago burglar alarm company, who, is here reinstalling the the gas system fn the bank. Chlorine is the base of the gas, and its effect is to choke and nauseate. The gas in a metal container inside the vault is not released until an ef- fort is made to force the locks or drill through the walls. Tiny wires cover the interior of the vault’ and when one of these is broken the me- chanism that releases the gas is put in operation. From 40 to 50 Tndiana banks have installed the gas system, wankee tracks at Lombard, Container Inside Safe of Indiana Mont., tol- for 39 hours, with the crack Olympian | CITIZENS MAY PICK STREETS O WIDEN Public Hearings Proposed to Determine Which to Im- | prove First. Before the new budget is completed and transferred to Congress the Com- missioners may hold a public hearing | to consider which streets should be recommended for widening next vear, Engineer Commissioner Bell said to- day. In the last appropriation act Con- gress provided for the widening of por- | tions of Bladensburg road, M street in Georgetown, and I street through the business section to meet the growing | traffic flow A suggestion already has been made that the lower portion of Connecticut |avenue south of Dupont Circle be wid- {ened next vear, and there probably will be others proposed Budget Report Nearly Ready. | Col. Bell said today that he was in favor of holding a hearing on such |changes in the streets before making recommendations to Congress The Commissioners have practically completed preparation of their first report to the Budget Bureau, which is expected to total approximately $3%,.- 500,000. In bringing the total down to this figure it was necessary to eliminate a considerable sum from all department estimat. and it is reported that the school budget was reduced from the original recommendation of $13,500,000 to not much more than $12,500,000. b s . HEADLEY DEMOTION DECLARED DUE TO FOE’S PROPAGANDA | __ (Continued from First Page.) ship in the Capt. Headley Commissioner Fenning sald that Odell S. Smith, chairman of the pub- lic order committee of the Board of Trade, called on him yesterday after- noon, but the board was about to go into session on the estimates and he arranged to see Mr. Smith later Intimate friends of Capt. Headley do not deny that there was some fric- tion between him and the office of the director of traffic, but point out that this was due primarily to the activi- ties of a high official in the Police De- partment. the requests of the traffic director’s of- fice and preventing him from dealing directly with that office, it was said, misunderstanding and friction was inevitable. One case was cited where Inspector Headley was not aware that the parking signs on New York ave nue had been changed until three day after it was done. While the reasons for Inspector Headley's summary demotion remain a “mystery,” as far as official an nouncement is concerned, the manner |of his reduction has not been veiled 50 closely. ~According to a reliable version of the incidents leading up to the action of the Commissioners, the Headley matter was as much of a “bomb” to Commissioners Bell and Rudolph as it was to the Police De- partment and the general public. Sought to Avoid Demotion. Commissioner Fenning did not con- sult his fellow Commissioners prior to deciding to demote the trafc in- spector, it has been learned, and con- sequently his recommendation, con tained in a' formal order presented at a board meeting, came as a complete surprise to his colleagues. One of the Commissioners is said to have started forward in his chair when Secretary Dan Garges, in his monotonous reading of the miscella- neous documents, read the curt para. graph proposing the “‘demotion of Al bert J. Headley to captain and his removal from the Traffic Bureau™ and the “promotion of Capt. E. W. Brown to inspector, with assignment as head of the Traffic Bureau. “W-w-what's that, Dan? Read that again,” the official is reported to have ejaculated. Dan read it again. “Do you mean that, Fred?’ Police Commiasioner was asked. } _When Mr. Fenning replied that he {abeolutely meant nothing else, a spirited discussion, involving words of persuasion, dissuasion and finally laconic submission, is said to have en- sued. Col. Bell, of military inclina- tions," thought ~Headley ought, at least, be given a trial, as is the pro- cedure in the Army. Mr. Rudolph believed that Headley might be shifted from the Trafic Bureau, but saved the ignominy of a reduction in rank by giving him supervision of a police division, embracing a new grouping of precincts. The other Commissioners finally gave in out of courtesy to their hew associate in office, it is related. All Commissioners are said to have agreed that Headley should be re- moved from the Trafiic Bureau, how- ever, because of “unfitness.” INQUIRY.IS ORDERED. Police Department the The Cosmopolitan Club, compesed of a number of the leading business and professional men of the distric. unani- mously adopted a resolution teday call- irig upon its civic affairs committee to begin an Wl‘tl investigation into | By the By withholding from him | GOVERNOR WARNS AGAINST 'L’ STRIKE 'Fuller Threatens to Oust Both Officials and Men in Boston Crisis. Associated Press BOSTON, July remove the five public Fuller wonld , trustees of the Boston Elevated and who the railway and discharge his men t a led the carman work 1 strike leaves of s chnicality,” the today. Employes of i suspend work to force the t recede from their demand for & chanze in the of diffe ences | asserted elevated system voted week to stees tn method am astonished should be contempl. ton Elevated Eovernor the trustees teem th desire Suy there is any Boston elevated 50 grossly unfair the pub a woeful disregard of the every one responsibly connected the ‘elevated, that 1 the power 1 should r of the trustees willi strike with its conseq its 1,500,000 patrons of the Elevated that never be emploved again long as I ma I know of trustees and is With trustees here 1 for and o 1 should cons emploves debati but 1 these nent poor juds who are no servants tha policemen nsider a to say nothing of seriously contempla ing such “There will be no strike ernor told newspaper men said he did not favor any the methods of arbitrating between the Elevated trustees anc employes. “The present form of arbitr tood the test of 14 ve: | “and has been adopied Imost every industry the gon He also oharia e dlsputes by BRYAN RAPS SCOPES AS TEACHERS’ FOE ON EVE OF TRIAL (Continued clerks the banks trary ployers.” | Mr. Bryan counsel from running to instructions of their who 5o school is associated prosec o tion of young instructor the belief that the welfare of tea expresse: is best system.” Under this system, he s views of the teacher are nd the control of what is to be is left to those who employ ers—"that is, to the taxpave parents, acting through {and boards of education | Evolutionists, in his {not idered the effect that “nulif cation” of the anti-evolution st {would have on the teachers in public schools { “Heretofore teachers have been se {lected without regard to their views upon disputed questions,” the for | Secretary of State declared. “This has been due to the fact that teachers | have, as a rule, respected the opinions | of their emplovers { _“Protestant teac | Catholic students and Catholt ers do not offen rotestant s and neither offend Jews. Republican teachers do not offend D students and Demos tic not offend Republican preserved under the ‘‘present igh legislatures opinion, have ers do not “ DEBT BI;(;USSIONS | OPENED BY LATVIA; SEVENTH TO NEGOTIATE (Continued from First Page) ropean debtors to possible tax reduc tion, which has prompted much dis cussion throughout the country ed to the explanation today that wh the total debts are more than §12,000 000,000, the annual payvments by for eign governments cannot be inter preted as having as large an influence on tax reduction as many other fa tors. Senator Smoot, chairman of Senate finance committee, for one, ex plained that such payments on the | whole could not be considered as ap. | Plicable _ directly to tax reduction Aside from the factor of foreign debt payments, Senator Smoot has esti | mated that taxes may be reduced from | $300,000,000 to $350,000,000, Will Not Bring Tax Cut. In other quarters it was pointed out that, all payments on principal of debts which represent money loaned under the Liberty loan acts, or their amendments, must be applied to re tirement of the public debt. Further. more, many payments on interes | from foreign powers, especially Grea Britain, the largest debtor, come i the form of securities of this Goverr ment, which can only be cancele thus having no bearing directly on the tax situation, except indirect] through gradual retirement of the public debt. The last payment b Great Britain, for instancy, which was only on account of interest, was paid entirely in securitlies of the United States. The total receipts from foreign pow- ers on account of their debts duri {the vear 1924, it was pointed 4 {amounted to only about 5 per cent of the taxes paid by American citizens. This calculation did not take into con- sideration other forms of Government revenue, such a&_customs. If the entire European debt te this country should be refunded on the ba- sis of the British agreement, which is |accepted as a criterion, it was further explained, the total income to this Gov-, {ernment annually on account of both principal and interest would total less than $450,000,000 Would Cut Interest Rate. One of the outstanding benefits to be derived from successful refunding ne gotlations is considered to be not only the money forthcoming, but the moral effect which accrues from recognition of the validity of an international ob- ligation. The successful culmination of funding negotiations removes in each instance, it is pointed out, a cause of friction, however small it may have been considered, between the creditor nation and the debtor. the the causes of the demotion of Capt. Albert J. Headley. Several of the speakers deplored the summary demotion of Capt. Headley. The final resolution, instructing the of ganization’s civic affairs committee 1 carry on its own investigation and re port next Thursday, was substituted for a motion which would have joined the Kiwanis Club with the Chamber of Commerce in demanding a “fair trial” for Capt. Headley.