Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 4

1 = PINCHOT IN SECRET PARLEY ON COAL Governor and W. M. Inglis Meet to Discuss Phases of Mine Strike. opened quest f ion on the anthra sension in a three-hour his home here with W wesident of the Glen Alden crantor tors mmi and M Ing il what was said and the statement » governor sand T h following ve just finish nd ‘iate very mu Peunsylvania. s from the fact ; sylvania Seran Ir n lis wel on th to suspension, effect two we which now has been in ks Note Hits Strike. TON, P emplc al ¢ HAZL ley (¢ today ve We coal being made new eem Say sett the NATION-WIDE STRIKE IN SOFT COAL MINES IS PREDICTED SOON Page.) they have Aniz: k to the union keeps, sence in all from th when t hot, no does can prophe combatants Bitter Battle Forecast. - strike will be different old when the This from the ot operators ar sported t odds fi the time the ders with ba e and the put as usual, will be the victim. Non-t reached tion-wide some of ic, mines, however, have velopment storage, be able country on the D Year before the full effects of the strike will become apparent. SUICIDE DISCLOSED AS U. P. INSTRUCTOR| Dr. Joseph Warren Miller, De- spondent, Hanged Self—For- merly at Annapolis. Spactal Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, September 12.— It developed that the J. W. Miller, who was reported Fr night to have mv:mn:;.-d suicide at his home today hematics at the during + ation United States Naval Academ) the World War. In re ’ the police of the seventh di pressed this informs g n other sou committed f from a wate his home with towels and rags. His body w: by Mrs. Miller and their two when they returned from Harrisburg where they had attended the funeral of Dr. Miller's father. Dr. Milier, who was given a_leave of absence from the university before the close of the last term, is believed 10 have killed himself in a fit of de spondency over his illness and the fact that it prevented him from at tending the funeral of his father. He was 49 vears old and for several months had been suffering from a nervous breakdown, which was aggra- vated by the death Dr. Miller received bachelor of science at Penn State College and his of arts degree at Columbia University three years later. In 1901 he received the degree of soclal philosophy also at Columbia. Dr. Miller was known for his pedagogical works and math. ematical writin He was also t author of “American Men of Science. disclosed f Dr. M hangi the cel today sulcide by pipe in knotted ative | T | September 12 (). man | t will land the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 13, 1925—PART 1. HOW CARS HERE KEEP SCHEDULE Car Lines. Seventh and Pa. Ave.-Navy Yard. Rosslyn-14th and P: venth St. Wharves-Re »urteenth and D Fourteenth and Colo: Re n-Sth and F e Eighth and F N.E.-Potomac Park. Fourteenth and Park Rd.-26th and Georgetown-Peace Monument ad --Union Stat) Average speed Car Lines. Soldiers' ‘Home-Wharves . Le Droit Park-Wharves . Tre: % Lincoln Park-( Mt. Pleasant-13th and D € Fifteenth and N. Y. Ave.-Dj Sleventh and Monroe-Brookland Eleventh and ) Center Market-Takon Mt. Pleasant-1st an. Central High Sc Center ket fte 4 NY Wis Ave. and P Ave omerset o speed . STREET CARS HERE KEEP TO SCHEDULE, (Continued from Fi passengers to ious types, following e required for iwched the 1sions: Time for Steps. ge time for a stop is delays due to time D lighting ling or passenger inter- made on the on the r the street railw: n Washingto Beeler ed that at Traction Co. > operation o tuation At the pr raction the sam t time the schedules call for the operation of more cars than in 1918, and Was| nd Electric call for tr rs than in 1918, less than 5 r yeriod the fa 1panies hav net_decrea cent. Durl s of the street been es of this type. Revenue Passengers Decrease. “In 1924 the revenue passengers carried by the combined street railway ems were approximately 10 per in 1918." report 10ws, the the same of street railway vice but withe estion ers prove down- A c with pr * | lines in Washington, the report An ex ion of the individ v lines of the two street rail- es shows that routes of r ¢ types are used. Some of these routings as well as certain other ures of ope: the res the independen ition of two s ng these may be mentioned irough route: trips, or or rented and duplic ge and the downtown Permits of Economy. through routes as pos by both_ companies of routing permit economical operation if the service sirements on the two ends are me. “As many wre used 1-Seventeenth avenue southeast line of Traction Co. and the In Park line of the hington Railway and Electric Co. ese two lines serve residential sec tions at either end, the central por- tion of the route sing through the } downtown aistri | The engineers included in their re- port an analysis of the accident re- ports of the two street railway com- panies for the year ended May 31, The report shows for those 12 Washington Railway and i1 street accidents, ction Co., 2,800 street and Cap! sing accidents, the accidents. report continues January Worst for Mishaps. “The worst month for accidents, ac cording to the records of the railway companies, {s January, when one-sixth of the year's accidents occurred. The worst month for the bus company was April, when a little over one-ninth of the vear's accidents occurred. How- ever, this company has been Increas- ng its operations, so that the true | seasonal effect is probably not appar- lent in the table. The Police Depart- ont records show the greatest num Der of accidents in the hours } |4 and 5 p.m., with 68 accidents one-eleventh of the day’s total. greatest number of pedestrians are struck by automobiles between 8 and 9 p.m., when 14, about one-eighth of the total, were struck. Visibility is |low at this time. Collisions between automobiles and fixed objects, however, cour largely in daylight, the worst hour being from 11 a.m. to noon, when 6, or one-ninth of the total, occurred. The worst hour for collisions between automobiles is that between 5 and 6 p.m., with 45, or about one-tenth of the total. The cordon vehicle count shows that the maximum vehicular traffic oc- curs in the hour from 4:30 to 5:30, when approximately 10 per cent of the total flow of vehicles passed the check- ing line.” The report contains a detailed de- scription of the various kinds of trans- fers issued in Washington, both intra- Scheduled. Observed. Cr. Bridge Washington Railw: Scheduled. ict Line The table below shows for each line the average speed, in miles, per hour, based on scheduled round-trip running time, and the average speed based on observed running time. Capital Traction Co. Average Speed Miles, Per Hour. Scheduled. Observed. 10.73 9.71 10.68 12.6 9.8 10.2 11.3 11.4 10.2 10.6 1.5 11.1 10.3 10.6 10.9 Running Time, Minutes. 58 81 85 116 6434 8419 87% 114 1% 595 50 6234 ion 10.9 ay and Electric Co. Tunning Time, Minutes. Observed. Average Speed Miles, Per Hour. Scheduled. Observed. 9 9, 10. 12 9 6 9.0 9 5 o North Capitol Kenilworth. and intercampany, but general comment. The re- neludes a tory of the va rious rates of fare t have been in effect in Washington and explains the method of fare collection used here LOCAL MARKSMEN ET THIRD PLACE Service Guard Team Makes Good Showing. Andrus Is Winner. company makes Nnc port al Al Spocial Dispatch to The Star. CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September 12. The end of a week's hard and fast hooting finds more laurels tc to those already taken by the marksmen lct of Columbia. all-service Nal , for which Lieut ster Sergt. F. F neers re picked from citizen sol all over the coun surprised the Regular Army team and shot them down into fourth place. The Marine Corps took first place as avy second, the National and the Regular Army . with_the picked team of civil- s fifth. The District of Columbia an group was called on to furnis! four of the All-American civilian team, James M. Andrus & Winner. 'ward D. Andrus, Company ngincers, scored a 78 with Army automatic, firing 10 vards n eight-inch rackl it up with a ith the Army Spring- field in the offhand position at 200 vards. This was high enough to put him up in the official citation of the winners. Marcus W. Dinwiddie close to winning the rifle match he was being called a winner yesterday until Maj. J. K Boles, captain of th United States internat 2 along and ruined h Another shingtonian and ex-world cham- Sergt. Morrls Fisher, was Dinwiddie also shone to ex- advantage in the N. R. A, v kind of rifle, scoring ut of a possible 100. Three Win Distinction. Three Washingtonians distinguished themselves over on the small-bore range in the national individual champlonship contest. Firing three stages of 50 yards, 100 and 200 vards, with .22-caliber, Hugh Everett, jr., and Col. C. E. Stodter each took | medals and high places with scores of 246 and 245, respectively, out of a possible 250 R. H. McGarrity also won a prize | place with a 245, outranked by Col. rrity, however, squared ounts with his sm: | friends in the grand aggregate match and walked off with both a meda a cash prize. TAKEN FOR HOMESTEADS. All Federal Public Lands in Florida Absorbed. ated Press. to Florida has absorbed all 1 public lands there | E the heavy t” 50 and score of 44 fired came so R. A. free cellent 201 the valuable open to home 8 On July 1, . the public domain in Florida amounted to £0.000 acres. Last July 1 it had dwindled to 20,000 acr Yesterday the Interior Depart- ment announced that none remained open for entry except tracts of little value. The mipst valuable of the property, considered useful for resort purposes, has been withdrawn and held in the name of the ¥ 1 Government itself for future sale lorida prices. PAGEANT IS PLANNED. Wild Flowers to Be Theme XKenilworth Production. Plans are being made to hold a wild-flower geant at the Shaw lily gardens, Kenilworth, D. C., some time soon. The pageant will be Flowers,” by Mrs. Minnigerode An- drews. Children interested will see Mrs. Anne T. Renshaw, 1608 Connectl- cut avenue. The pageant is being sponsored by the Wild Flower Asso- ciation and the Parent-Teacher As- sociation. ‘The Little Princess,” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, will be read by Miss Maftland Thompson of this cit i 0 p.m. arden: At this time Mrs. Andrews will discuss plans for the pageant. Parents and children are invited to attend. There will be no admission charge. of Lightning Strikes Barn. A barn_at Riverside Helghts, by lightning during the storm last night and destroyed by fire. The barn contained agricultural ments and was valued at $800. The flames lighted up the sky for miles around and attracted many passing motorists. The Riverdale Heights Fire Department was the first to respond to the alarm. — Natives employed in the gold mines of South Africa now number 170,000. ed on ““The Voice of the Wild | owned by W. G. Shipley, was struck | imple- | AR OFFGERS HER PGKED FOR RACES Army Announces Entrants for National Meet at Mitchel Field in October. Three Army Alr Service officers on duty in Washington have been select- ed to fly in two airplane races in con- nection with the national air meet to be held at Mitchel Field, N. Y., the early part of next month, it was announced last night. They are Maj. H. A. Dargue and Lieut. E. E. Harmon, office of chief of Air Service, and Lieut. E. R. McRey- olds of Bolling Field. Maj. Dargue and I McReynolds will pilot De Havilands in the Liberty engine build- ers’ trophy race, over a course of 180 iles. They and 10 other officers were ected from 55 pilots nominated for e coveted nment. Lieut. E. E. Harmon will pilot a Martin bomber in the Detroft News trophy race, which covers a course of 120 miles. He is one of 10 entrants selected from 21 nom- inations i@ the Army. her pilots for the bomber of whom are well known Lieut. K. B. Wolfe, Brooks n Antonio, Te: apt. E. W, Lieuts. J. F. Whiteley and Willlams, Langley Field, Hamp- Lieuts. . A. Johngon and trandias, McCook Field, Day- ; Lieut. J. D. Barker of Phil- s Field, Aberdeen, Md.; Lieuts. L. J. Carr and O. Moon of Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex. Army pilots for the observation plane race are: Lieut. E. P. Gaines, Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield, Ohio: Lieut. H. B. Chandler, Mitchel Field; t. R, H. Clark, Fort Bliss, W. B. McCoy, Brooks y, Crissy Field, Francisco, Calif.; Lieut. V. H. Strahm, Middletown Alr’ Intermediate Depot, Pa.: Lieut. H. C, d, Maxwell Lieut. M. Stenseth, Minneapolis, .; Lieut. J. G. Willilams, Rockwell Field, San Diego, Calif., and Lieut. J. E. Parker, Shoen Field, Indianapolis. The Navy already has selected and announced “their pilots for these two while the two services jointly have published their selections for the mportant high-speed Pulitzer trophy & a1, ton ¥. The fordgoing pilots were selected n Air Service board composed of . Gen. Jan chet, assistant of the Majs. W. G. Kiiner and Carl Spatz and Lieut. Earl §. Hoag. . DROUGHT AND HEAT ENDED IN CAPITAL; CONTINUE IN SOUTH (Continued _from First Page.) beneath the ground in preparation for more critical emergencies. The drought conditions have been growing constantly worse the last two weeks, following several light showers in various sections, which had given hope of a thorough drenching of the parched vegetation and a restoration of reservoirs and rain barrels. Those living along the larger rivers and creeks have not suffered becau: of the proximity of water from the: sources, but back In the higher re- glons, where freshets and small creeks are depended upon when the springs and reservoirs are overtaxed, there are many suffel GOVERNOR ASKS PRAYERS. Virginia Proclamation Follows Havoe From Drought. RICHMOND, Va., September 12 (#). —The protracted drought which, ac- companied by high temperatures, working havoe to Virginia crops, dry- ing up whole rivers and threatening sources of water supply, caused Gov. E. Lee Trinkle to issue a proclama- tion today calling on Virginians to pray tomorrow for rain. The situation is said to be acute in nearly every part of Virginia, but especially has the drought been costly to southwest Virginia, where pas- tures have been burned brown and rivers drled. Cattlemen have been forced to throw thelr stock on the rkets weeks in advance of the ular shipping period because there is little food and scanty water sup- plies. Tobacco and corn crops have been greatly affected by the lack of mols- ture. Agricultural officials announced today that the tobacco leaf was in many instances drying in the fleld before it reached maturity. Many canneries in the State have virtually abandoned operations be- cause truck crops supplying them are dead in the fields. In the country side it has been noticed that large trees have died for lack of moisture and smaller vegeta- tion has either been killed or, in the case of the more hardy plants, wilted and browned. HEAT RECORDS BROKEN. Mercury Reachies 100 Degrees at 1 PO in Hagerstown, Md. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., September 12.—All previous September heat records were shattered here this after- noon, when the mercury reached 100 degr at 1 o'clock at the official Government weather station con- ducted by J. A. Miller at Keedysville. Last_night was the hottest night since July 31, 1917, Miller's records revealed. The highest previous Sum- mer temperature was on September 1, last year, when the mercury reached 99. Last vear on the night of September 11 the frost was so heavy that corn was killed in the lowlands SUBDUE FOREST FIRES. BRISTOL, Tenn.-Va., September 12 (#) —Light showers yesterday after- noon, coupled with strenuous efforts of fire fighiters, have enabled foresters to establish fire lines about all the burning area in the forest on Unaka Mountaln, near Erwin, Tenn., and near Unaka Springs, Tenn. More than 3,000 acres of timber- lands no the eastern slopes of Unaka Mountain have been burned, while another 2,500 acres near Unaka Springs have been destroyed, accord- ing to word received at the local forestry office. It is doubtful if the damage by the fires will ever be fully known. Mil- lions of feet of valuable timber were consumed, and whole sawmills and buildings have been burned to the ground. ATLANTA, September 12 (#).—The people of four Southern States tomor- row will kneel in supplication for Di vine deliverance from a disastrous drought, in response to the appeals of their governors. These States are Virginia, North Carolina, Georgis and Alabama. South Carolina set the ex- ample last Sunday, and reports from many sections were to the effect that | immediate response was made to their prayers. The ministers of Chattanooga had called on the Governor of Tennessee to issue a like proclamation, but he did not think it necessary, saying “it appears that rain is coming and it may rain too much.” Reports from Washington sald that relief from the drought was promised all Southern States either tonight or tomorrow. 1s | [SNOW IN JUNE, FROST IN JULY ARE PROMISED FOR NEXT YEAR Summerless Summer, Crop Failures and Famine Are Predicted by French Abbe of Wide Renown As Prognosticator of Weather Conditions. If next Summer jsn't next Summer at all, but a diluted dose of this Win- ter north of the Potomac— If it is necessary to shovel snow off the front walk instead of worrying over how fast the ice in the refrig- erator is melting on the 6th day of next June— If the good citizenry must wear mittens on July 4 to keep the frost from nipping their fingers— It will be, as Mohammed sald, a “devil of a mess.” The prospect may seem inviting in this present hot spell. But it actu- ally would mean starvation and mis- ery over large sections of the world. Probably a summerless year would take a_greater toll of life and happi- ness than was taken by any single year of the World War. And this is what {s predicted for the Northern Hemisphere by L'Abbe Gabriel, French ecclesiast and ama- teur meteorologist, who happens to have some standing in his own coun- try as a prognosticator, having on soveral occasions guessed or reckoned correctly on weather some time in advance. French Peasants Frightened. I’Abbe Gabriel, there is no doubt about it, has the plain people scared. During the past four days conversa- tion in street and marketplace has concerned itself much with the weather. “Whew! T wish I was In Green- land!” says perspiring John Doe, meeting his friend Richard Roe. “Never mind,” returns the said Roe. I sce where some Frenchman has doped it out that we ain’t going to have no Summer next Summer.” John and Richard have indulged in the above dialogue 67,896 times, con- servatively estimated, in Washington during the past week. The venerable abbe, together with numbers of other prognosticators who have arrived at somewhat the same conclusions througheut the world during the past two vears, bases his predictions on weather cycles. There are all sorts of possible cy- cles in weather. Two of them, at least, are recognized and used for purposes of predictions by every body. 3 The day is a perfect cycle. Barring unforseen and headachy meteorogical complications, it is safe to predict that tday at 12 M. will be warmer than today at sunrise. It usually happens that way and has so hap pened through the period of human records. Larger Cycles Possible. The year is a perfect cycle. It is safe to predict that there will be a sharp rise in temperature between February 1 and July 1. The farmer is justified in going ahead with his crops and the city dweller in ordering his coal on the exceedingly great probability of the correctness of the year cycls, without taking into con- sideration ~the movements of the earth around the sun. It has always, within human memory, happened that way. Millions of years ago that may not have been the case. There is some evidence to show that there were no'seasonal changes in the days when Northern Greenland .was a semi-tropical garden—no Summer, no Spring, and no Winter, but all merged in_one. Conditions were somehow different then. Nobody knows just how. It was before the days of man. Since he has lived on earth the vear cycle has been safe to base predictions upon, Now meteorologists long have had a sneaking hunch that there may be other cycles—periods extending over vears, decades or centuries—with as regular and rellable variations as the day and yeer. 1’Abbe Gabriel, for instance, holds that there is one of ahout 300 years with regular, undeviating returns of cold and hot vears as easily predict- able as it is to predict that Summer will be warmer than Winter. Great famines, for instance, seem to have struck Europe throughout his- troy with uncanny regularity. A famine is almost always due to un- favorable crop iweathers. Rev. Wil- liam Veveridge of England, another amateur prognosticator, last vear pre- dicted that from the record of past famines 1925 would be a famine year. He withdrew his prediction, however, before it was too late for the year to prove him wrong. But L'Abbe Gabriel sticks to his. He sees hard times ahead on the boulevards of gay Paree. United States Limit Three Days. Is there any reasonable basis for what he says? Dr. Charles F. Marvin, head of the United States Weather Bureau, has slim faith in long-range predictions. It would be fine to tell the weather a year ahead, he says, if it were pos- sible. He has not found any system to date by which this can be done. The Weather Bureau confines its pre- dictions to three days in advance, and | its system to calculations from ob- served atmospheric lows and highs, moving storm centers and so on. In fact, relations between the Weather Bureau and the Smithsonian Institution, it is rumored in scientific circles about Washington, are not as cordial as they might be because the former institution looks with susp! on the solar radiation method of weather prediction, which allows prognostications for a week and a month in advance, which is founded upon observations taken under the direction of the latter. Dr. Marvin would no more venture a prediction for next Summer than he would jump off the Washington Monu- ment. He is among the most con- servative of scientists, moving only upon proven fundamentals. He spares no effort, however, in ef- forts to go to the bottom of any theory propounded, in the hope that something will come’ along eventually which will allow long-range predic- tions with reasonable accuracy. Con- sequently he is one of the world fore- most experts on weather cycles. He has spent long hours in the study of tables of observations of weather as far back as weather has been recorded. Every pow and then, he says, there is a fi of hope. There seems to have been a regular recurrence of ‘weather phenomena at definite perfods during a century or so. But invari- ably the deductions fall down upon ocloser observation, especially if any efforts are made to predict with them. Satistics Prove Anything. As he grows older, Dr. Marvin says, he grows more and more pessimistic on this subject. He belleves that any one who Is convinced that there are weather cycles and goes looking for them in the deserts of statistics can find them without much trouble. They stick out all over the tables. But when & man with an open mind, not convinced that there are any such things, looks for them, they are very elusive, indeed. That much on the official viewpoint on L’Abbe Gabriel's Summerless Sum- mer. The Weather Bureau wouldn’t bet a plugged penny that next Sum- mer won't be as hot, or hotter, than this one. A Summerless year, however, has been experienced, one would judge from a superficial examination of the records. 3 “In 1816,” says an old record, “‘there was ice and smow 1in Connecticut every month of the year. I well re- ‘member the 7th of June, while on my ‘way to work, about & mile from home, dressed throughout in thick clothes and an overcoat on, my 2 = got 5o cold I was obliged to lay down my tools and put on a palr of woolen mittens I had in my pocket. It snowed about an hour that da% On the 10th of June my wife brought in some clothes that had been spread on the ground the night before, which were frozen stiff, as in Winter. On the 4th of July I saw several men pitching quoits in the middle of the day with thick overcoats on, and the sun shin- ing bright at the time.” Many Crops Failure. The Summer of 1816 remains the classic of the pessimistic prognosti- cators. Most of the crops falled. Thers were, without doubt, very cold day at most unseasonable times. But, ac- cording to Dr. Marvin, records were very incomplete in those days. The greater part of the population of the United States was concentrated in the Northeast. In that section only were any records kept. Records for the whole country, he belleves, might tell a very different story. But even in the Northeast condi- tions were not so bad as they have been made to appear. There were ab- hormalities. There were freezing days, but also some very hot days. The records kept in 1816 at Williams- town, Mass., show that, after all, the average temperature for that Summer was only 3 degrees below normal. This wouldn't make much difference if spread out regularly over three months. And the cold weather probably was due to an understandable cause. That vear witnessed one of the great vol- canic eruptions of history at Tambora, Africa, and there were a number of minor eruptions. Great quantities of volcanic dust precipitated into the at- mosphere anywhere in the world are certain to lower the temperature by cutting off rays of the sun. There are nosgreat volcanic erup- tions promised for the near future. So much for Dr. Marvin's opinion of the predictions, but— “Would you be willing to predict that there Will be any Summer next year?”" he was asked. No, sir,” he answered. “I haven't the slightest idea what will happen so far ahead.” SUPPORT COOLIDGE BY NAMING WILCOX, IS LENROOT’S PLEA (Continued from First Page.) electoral votes of Wisconsin were their tribute to La Follette. The man who carries the Coolidge standard in Tuesday’s primary, former State Senator Wilcox, twice a defeat- ed candidate for governor, is a Catho- lic, while young La Follette is a Prot- estant. He was strong anti-German- American during the war, and the Jerman-Americans of the State, many of whom at one time were “regular Republicans, as opposed to the La Fol- lette followers, are now pro-La Fol- lette and numerous. A considerable slice of the German-American vote is included in the Catholic_vote which might otherwise go for Wilcox. And finally, Wilcox was a bitter enemy of the late Gov. Philip, leader of the old stalwart faction. While many of Philip’s friends are working for him, many others may refrain from going to the polls, being unwilling to vote for Wileox or for La Follette. Talk With Confldence. ‘Wilcox and his supporters talk with confidence of carrying the State where the regulars have indeed a better or- ganization to get out their votes than for many vears. But it is a fact that stalwart leaders in the State will count as a Victory a defeat in which Wilcox loses by no more than 25,000 vote La Follette victories in the past have been so overwhelming that a =mall margin against the stalwarts would be regarded by them as a sign that conditions are changing rapidly and that they may expect to come into power again. Some of the most optimistic La Fol- lette people are claiming that Bob, Junior's, vote will be as great or greater than the vote cast for both Wilcox and McGovern. McGovern Lost Chance. 1f former Gov. McGovern, who is a third candidate for the Republican nomination, had played his cards dif- ferently, he would be the most formid- able candidate in the field today. Al- though he was at outs with Senator La Follette, dating from 1912 when he supported Roosevelt, McGovern re- fused to support Coolidge in the cam- paign last year. He staved out of that campaign. He refused to stand strongly for the Coolidge administra- tion this vear, and the stalwarts would not permit his selection by the Oshkosh “regular” convention as the choice of their faction for the sena- torial nomination. He has been con- sistent, and as a consequence he is “going it alone.” Had he been the choice of the stalwarts, with the strength he has among the Progres. sives he might have been unbeatable. Even now his vote may be & surprise. There are many of the Progressives who feel that “Bob” La Follette, jr., has done nothing yvet to deserve a nomination and election to the Senate of the United States. The highest re- ward for public service which may be given by, the people of a State. New Fight Looms. ‘What will happen if La Follette gets the nomination? Wilcox is slated to run then as an independent candidate in the election September 29. He will fight through to she finish. Much will depend upon the size of the vote cast for La Fol- lette, for Wilcox and for McGovern in the primaries. If La Follette has a very large pluralty or a majority, the actual election is probably all over but the shouting. But If his lead over Wilcox is small, and McGovern gets & good sized vote, then much will de- pend upon where the McGovern vote goes. Both sides claim they will get it. If it divides evenly there would be no chance for the stalwarts to beat La Follette. La Follette's youth is the prineipal thing mitigating against him. That and the fact that he has never before held public office. His father began as prosecuting attorney for his dis- trict. He went to the Legislature and to Congrees, and served as governor before he was elected to the Senate. The fear is that many of the old La Follette voters will stay away from the polls, not being willing to vote for young La Follette. On the other hand, some of the stalwarts wha dislike Wilcox may take the same course. The vote may not run much more than 300,000 or 400,000, though poten- tially the vote is 700,000 plus. Explains His Stand. McGovern, who has been criticized because he would not abide by the decision of the Oshkosh convention, tells in a whimsical way why he de- clined to be bound by the action of that convention, and announced prior to the convention that he would not be _so bound. “I was told,” he said, “by a man who knew absolutely what he was talking about that, the Oshkosh con- ‘vention would never agree to unite on me as the candidate for the Repub- lican nomination. I can still see a grave when it lies open before me." Mr. M 2lso ins that the Oshkosh convention fs a means HOOVER LAUDS U. S. SYSTEM OF RADID Untaxed Listeners Furnish Foundation—Big Audience Could Be Addressed. Prophecy that in a case of great emergency the President of the United States could address an audience of 40,000,000 or 50,000,000 was made by Secretary of Commerce Hoover last night, addressing the fourth annual radio exposition in the Grand Central Palace, New York City, by means of the microphone at WRC of the Radio Corporation here, hooked up with WJZ of New York and WGY of Schenec- tady. Mr. Hoover also laid stress on the opinion that “the listener in the Amer- ican home is the foundation and fur- nishes the support for the whole radio industry in the country, and that if the interest of the home listener fails, the whole radio structure will fall as quickly as it has grown.” Five Year’s Growth. Speaking of the growth of the in- dustry in five years from less than a miliion dollars” expenditures and few broadcasting stations to an amount of probably $400,000,000 and more than 600 stations, with approximately 6,- 000,000 home sets, Mr. Hoover de- clared the methods used in the United States are wholly responsible. He said in part: ““We differ from the methods of for- elgn countries which seek to support broadcasting by tax on the listener. A few years ago anxiety was expressed that we could not maintain good pro- grams of entertainment and the de- livery of public information without devising some system of tax upon the listeners. It has been my aspiration that we should keep the home free from constant annoyance of any at- tempt to assess the cost of broadcast- ing upon each recefving instrument. And I have believed that the industry would develop far more rapidly in this matter than if we pursued the Euro- pean plan. “I am today confident in the an- nouncement that our policy that there shall be on thie air every broadcasting station for whic there is an available | channel and that the cost shall be borne indirectly or. by public service institutions, has proved far and away the most successful, and has finally settled our policies for all time. It is a great accomplishment and one for which the manufacturers, the broad- casters, and even the sStaff of the De- partment of Commerce deserves some credit. “Only over-optimistic prophets would attempt to predict radio advance. One thing we are sure of—that the radio industry is only in its youth; that it will continue to grow with incre: strength. If it will succeed it mu: continue as in the past to devote i self to actual public service, to which it is already dedicated. CHARITY DELEGATE IS DEAD IN HOTEL John W. Wills, St. Paul Lawyer, Was Attending Catholic Conference Here. John W. Willis, about 50 years old, of St. Paul, Minn., was found dead in a room in the Powhatan Hotel yester. day afternoon. Police believe he dled of heart trouble. Cards were found in the room signifying he was a lawyer, writer and lecturer. He had a dele- gate badge to the National Council of Catholic Charities, which met this week at Cathollc University. Cards were also found showing that he was a member of the Elks, Knights of Columbus, Sons of the American Rev- olution and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The body was discovered after Mrs. Emma Benedict, a maid at the hotel, had gone to the room and found the lattice door fastened and a_newspaper outside the door. She called a be boy, who looked under the lattice door and'saw the upper portion of the hoc lying_on the floor in the bathrom. The third precinct police were notified, and Policeman R. W. Trump entered the room. Mrs. Benedict stated that Mr. Willis had come to his door at about 10 o'clock yesterday morning, opened the inner door to his room and closed the lattice door. This was the last time he had been seen by any one at the hot until his body was found. Mr. Willi registered at the hotel September of defeating the intention of the pri v law of the State, for which he and other progressives struggled o hard in order to permit the people to make a choice of their candidates instead of having them “hand picked by & group of political leaders. The Ku Klux Klan strength in the State 1 heard estimated today at 40, | 000. The Klan candidate, Woodward will not be nominated, but the votes he recelves may have a considerable bearing on the fortunes of the other candidates, particularly McGovern and ‘Wileox. It is not likely that any of the Klansmen would have voted for La Follette, since Senator La Follette last year denounced the Klan, and called _upon Pgesident Coolidge and John W. Davis to do likewise, and Gov._ Blaine has been an enemy of the Klan. The Klan, however, will have a candidate in the field in the election as well as in the primaries, for a Klansman has filed as an inde- pendent candidate. Catholic Vote Split. The Catholic vote in the State is perhaps the largest single block of votes, some 200,000 strong. It could nominate very likely on Tuesday any candfdate it chose, provided it would all go to one candidate. But many of the Catholics are German-Amer- icans and many of them will vote for La Follette and not for Wilcox. ‘Bob” La Follette is coming back to his home town, Madison, to wind up | his campaign with a mass meeting herd Monday night. This is regarded as a La Follette stronghold, and he will be mccorded a warm welcome. Wilcox will finish his active cam- paigning in and about Milwaukee and then hop a train to take him home to Euclaire, where he will vote, and McGovern also is concluding his stumping in and about Milwaukee. Wilcox laughed today at the charge made by the La Follette organization that a huge ‘“slush” fund was being used to elect him Senator. He de- nied that any large amount of money had been expended, and that any money had been brought in here from outside. He called attention to the fact also that speakers have been fmported from outside the State to help La Follette, while the regulars have brought in no one. It was plan- ned at one time to bring Senator Wat- son of Indiana, Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the next House, and other prominent Republicans here for a whirlwind finish, but this was aban- doned. The Wilcox supporters insist that the slush fund charge “was to be expected” from the La Follette organization; that it has always made similar charges, particularly when In a tight place. HONORS AWARDED AT FLOWER SHOW Takoma Park Horticulfural Club Contest Brings Out Wide Variety of Exhihits. The most elaborate flower, fr: vegetable show ever conducted by Takoma Horticultural Clyb w cluded Friday night at the Takom Library with the announcement winners of the 33 different cl of ‘exhibits. The show was atte ople. ty of flower to be found rict, ranging from brilliant gladioll to tiny fleld blossom arieties of frults and uded in the show was direction of a comm: Roy G. Plerce of the Agriculture garet Lan Perez Simr 3 is president of the club and ) C. Heffner is secretary cor Departm d including Miss er, 1 k Outside Grapes Best. Winners the exhibits w Apples—R. M. Shenks, nue. various classes of second; L. nue, third y Quinces—I Burrows, 6 Raspberr winner. Asters—Mrs avenue, first; Doris Fifth stree: arroll ( Roses ( C. Skeets Snowberrie Best in. and b Pierce Tomatc Lancaster Win Prize. largaret C b ‘Sunflowers—First, 108 Willow avenue. Nasturtium: COL. T. S. CRAGO DIES AT PENNSYLVANIA HOME For Ten Years Perez Simmons, in Congress and Was Also Spanish War received health for Col. Crago v ing his term of 10 ve he served for a time on ry committee. He £ Princeton Univ 1 the law. I to the Pennsylva He serv Penn ippine ir war he be ment W Foreign Wa Surviving him are a w three children. Injured in Auto Crash. Carmine T. N 1444 Oak street, w tained a cut arte when his automot collision with a car Butcher, 34 years seventh street nort R streets vesterday afternoon. was taken to the Ho pital in a passing autc his condition was reported to bs n serious. old, heast, at F on Savings Deposits SAVINGS DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK HAVE INCREASED 1409 SINCE MARCH 10th, 1925. The Morris Plan Bank Under Supervision of U. S. Treasury 1408 H St. Northwest