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A “From Press to Home i oy e Within the Mo [ The Star is delivared every evening and * Sunday morning %0 Washington lomies at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 WEATHER. (U. & Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly cooler today; to- morrow fair with rising temperature; gentle northeast winds. Temperatures: llighest, 2 83, at pm. yesterday; lowest, 6: Fuil report on page 7. at 4 am. No. 1,110—No. 30,007. Entered as s, ond clas: tter post_office, oD, hington, D. C. he WASHINGTOXN oa/000,000 SPENT INILLINOIS PRIMARY CARAWAY CHARGES, Senator Says $500,000 Was Contributed by Samuel Insull at Chicago. REED TO DEMAND PROBE INTO ALL ACTIVE GROUPS Churches, Klan, Anti-Saloon | League, Wets and Other Bodies May Be Investigated. ried Prose By the Ao Another 1 nia primary, was vith the pres charges in the Republ 8 1 primary h. chairman s commission, de- B. McKinley unted by Arkan ed manu- allegations srmous con- is of public Insull, either 1 his utility or alone contributed over that o wtility deal in- 20,000,000 in property the interested bankers, & Sons, more than of Allen ger.” ened up ion 1o 3,000,060 that nosi fn which of the feated S The Sens iam Democ A prep 1 wway, reript th tributions uti indivic muel thr ties: il fon. 000, an from Rollir nto " $100.000 NMoore Demand & be an invese money was g and Fra X handled the ters” ress $enair ces from th “great quanti used to xe hands s campaign ma <o was made t m of how to John the much Walker vote in Illinois’ palatial headqua ces in the Con- and of the -opresenta- headquarters with of currency freely co “the of the H Investizgation to Follow. to zes, Senator 0 in his ef. ominated. while the had distributed - as much in the uncovered in If of the thre pent £1,000 that Sm twice that aggremate Pennsylia State 1 Iny of ation the Tilinois situa tion has been ecampaign funds committee a soon A= the inquiry into the Pennsylvania primary ind the activities the Anti-Nalos lLeague is completed and Congress has adjourned The committee held on! gession vesterda but N Senator Ileed Democrat, Announced if inform be obtained wi gators wor brief its course Missouri, tion could i inquire info the political tions, “whether it is church, or netivitias of any and all organiza- x Kian. or Anti-Saloon League, or Volstead, or antieighteenth emendment, or anything else.” Wheeler Promises Data. Tayne B. Wheeler, general counsel bf the Anti-Saloon League, whom Renator Reed was addressing, id his organization had “plenty” of infor- tion along that line and would fur- h it Previously iam P iation emendment stioning ¢ wtion Reed had announced that head of the the prohibition he summoned for for political pur- pose Eefore My presented rep Wheeler was excused, he ) the committee fina m_the State Anti-Saloon n New York, Ohio, New Indiana, showing total from 1920 of $3, and total disbursements of $3,603,5 The New York totals were §1.856,823 =, and $1,927,060 in expendi- 0.865 and $882,317, and $40 and $3: Jers ion New included contributions to! the national or: or anizations. the purpose of obtaining per- tinent data from the books of Antis League at Westerville, Ohin, the committee will send an ac- countant to that village Monday, and il defer the further questioning of heeler until the audit ha eompleted. s Return to Pinchot. Tomorrow the senatorial investiga- tors will 1 back to the -»:.n{p(::f:n ®n hehalf of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsyl. vania, who was defeated for the sena. forial nomination. To that end it has summoned George W. Woodruff atiorney general, and William B “.‘,"‘M' deputy attorney general, The committes has been informed that these officers were active for Pinchot and also that they were among the trustees for the $130,000 futd raised Ly the Y fan Temperance Union of Penns: vania for the enforcement of the new | Arm der prohibition law in The charges involving the Illinols primary were presented by Senator ¥ in the midst of consideration of the veterans' relief bi The Sen- ator had been talking on another suh Ject when he announced that he want- ed to discuss the Tlinois contest. He then read a statement forth that charges I been that Senator McKinley had million dollars and Smith had tributed” twice that amount CHARGES CALLED “SILLY.” made “dis- Smith’s Manager Denies Huge Cost of Campaign. DECATUR, 1il, June 26 (#). at there | of | planned by the Senate | rranting it, the investi- | Ku | the expenditures of | | the | Women's Chris. | setting | spent a | 'DEAD HUNDREDS IN MEXICO FLOOD/ 'BURIED IN PITS TO AVERT DISEASE umn Ordered By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, June 26.—Burial of the several hundred victims of the flood at Leon, Guanajuato State, in trenches and without identification if has been ordered by the ies as a precaution against epidemic. Rellof trains have reached the flood- ed area and reifef wo re now engaged in caring for the thousands of refugees, many of them weakened exposure and iack of food. yet there is no definite news to the number of persons who lost { thetr lives, but the indications are that {1t will reach several hundred. Large numbers of bodies are believed hidden under debris. Tens of thousands of homeless families are being sheltered {in public buildings and pri mes; 1tk nds of others are roaming the | debwis-clogged streets without shelter {and fa Further relief trains are | beinz made ready with tents, hospital | supplies and clothing, and it is hoped | | withi short time all the sufferers | will be provided for, The flood waters are reported to be diminishing and the rivers to be reced.- | ing, leaving perhaps a third of the | city of Leon choked with mud and | debris. Many of the surrounding Hpmeless Thousands Roam Streets While Rescuers Toil to Prevent Further Fatalities—Looters arily Executed. towns are In a similar condition. Tt is estimated that 6,000 houses were de- stroyed in Leon and many others dam- aged beyond repair. The authorities have ordered the summary execution of all looters, after a few criminals took advantage of the confusion to rob houses. Special dispatches tell of herolc res. cue work by the Catholic bishop, Val- verde Tellez, of Leon and a number of his priests, who risked their lives in saving hundreds of persons. Father Villanueva was almost swept away when a bridge, onto which he was dragging men, women and children to safety, broke. Those he had suc- ceeded in bringing aboard the bridge had a chance to run to shore before the collapse, but the priest was thrown into the water. e clung to the wreckage until he was and then insisted on help othérs to safety. Worse Than 1888 (atastrophe. The National Agricultural Credit Bank has appropriated 5.000.000 pesos for relief of the farmers whose crops were ruined by the flood Congressman Pascual Padilla of Leon, who is in Mexico City, has re ‘'ontinued on Page 2, Column 1) EX-SENATOR WALSH T0 OPPOSE BUTLER Massachusetts Democrats Pledge Him Support in Coming Campaign. By Jne Asa ted Prese. WORCESTER, Mas —Former Senator Da candidacy for the Democratic {torial nomination next September | was formally announced at a dinner lof the Democratic Stats committee here tonight. His opponent will be enator William M. Butler, Repub- n. e former Senator was in Chicago and unable to be present, but an- | nouncement that he would run came { from former Gov. A. Owsley Stanley | of Kentucky, principal speaker of the evening. Beyond the bare announce- | ment of his candidacy, no statement from Mr. Walsh was made. The com- mittee pledged him solid support. A long list of speakers assalled the | Coolidge administration, while former { Gov. Stanley declared that the “time | is ripa for an overthrow of the pre: | ent administration. There is insu: | rection in the ranks and Calvin Coc {idge one by one is losing his best | friends by the vote of the people at tha polls.” | Although soveral State Issues were sugested, none was framed. The riff_“advocated by Senator Butler” s described by former Gov. Eugene {Foss as leading to “the industrial rangulation _of Massachusetts,” whila former Mayor John F. Fit i gerald of Boston advocated modifica- | tion of the Volstead act as an issue. EMUSEUM EXPEDITION ! SHIP AT NORTH SYDNEY | Schooner Will Await U. of Mich- | igan Members Before Leaving ! for Greenland. By tho Associated Press. ! NEW YORK. June 26 (®.—The schooner Iffie M. Morrisey, bearing the American museum Greeniand ex- pedition, arrived at North Sydney Nova Scotla, today. A wireless mes: ge picked up by an amateur radlo | operator and relayed to George Pal- mer Putnam, organizer of the expedi- tion, at Rye, N. Y., sald the expedition would await the arrival at North Syd- ney of the University of Michigan sena- lic SCOTT HELD SANE: FACES GALLOWS Date Remains to Be Set for Execution—Jury Reaches Verdict in Two Hours. By the Associated Press. CHICAG —Russell Scott, stwhile Canadian financier, tonight was found to be sane by a jury in a sanity hearing, thus paving the way for his execution for killing Joseph Maurer, Chicago drug clerk, in a hold-up two years age Scott by the jur verdict faces the shadow of the gallows again after a desperate fight during which he was once saved by being found insane. At that time he was committed to the Chester Insane Asylum under the provision that if he should again be. come sane he was to be returned here and the sentence of death ried out. The next step the gallows execution. Jury Out Two Hours. The jury deliberated two hours. It was reported that the first ballot was seven to five to find him sane, the next nine to three and the third unanimous. During the hearing Scott paid lit- tle attention to the proceedings to all appearances, but was aroused from his lethargy today when George E. Gorman, istant State's attorney, in his closing arguments referred to i letter Scott had written saying he had no use for his mother. Scott leaped to his feet, shouting “You're a liar, a_hypocrite and rat,” and him he exclaimed, “I'm not insane.” William _Scott Stewart, Scott’s at- torney, who once before him from the gallows, declared in his closing argument that this is the first time in history that the State has gone to the insane asylum, taken a man out and asked a jury to hang him. in sending him to is to fix the date for his Accused With Brother. Scott and his brother Robert were accused of shooting a drug clerk ,in a hold-up two years ago. Robert re cently was found serving a sentence in a California prison and returned here and is now awwiting trial for the same murder. Russell was con- victed, although he charged that Rob- ert did the shooting during a drink- ing party at the drug store. { Greenland _expedition = members, ~ in charge of Prof. lobbs, expected to- { night or tomorrow. North Sydney is 800 miles from Rye, the starting point. The Morrisey is owned and com- {manded by Bob Bartlett, once the skipper for Rear Admiral Robert k. Peary, whose son is a_member of the expedition. The expedition is to col- lect sea mammals and fish for the American Museum of Natural His- | tory. BORNO ALMOST PASSES UNNOTICED AT SESQUI Former Marine Recognizes Haitian President and He Is Of- ficially Welcomed. By the Associated Prese. PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—Phila- delphia Was host to a President toda and didn“t know it he was almost ready to leave. President Louis Borno of the { Haitian Republic, with Mme. Borno land the President's staff, toured the | city, visited the Sesquicentennial Lx- { position and, not until they were eat- {ing lunch in the exposition grounds, {were they recognized. Then an expo- { sition policeman who had served with ithe United States Marines in Hatli saw them and he was officially welcomed. “New Toy” Kills Child. BALTIMORE, June 26 (P).—Seven- vear-old Elmer Pritchett found a new %oy in a bureau drawer todgy, and died a few minutes later when the new plaything, a loaded pstol, dis- charged into his body. 1l Russeil was sentenced to be hanged but later was granted a reprieve and then was given a second reprieve when u fake message signed with his brother’s troit in which the writer sponsibility for the Finally, on the night before Scott assumed re- was to have been hanged, his attor- | hearing, | asked for a sanitary ning he had become insane ince conviction. A jury declared him insane, and Jast August he was sent to the asylum, but last month State alienists examined him and decided he is now sane. Scott heard the verdict without ap- parent emotion. He sat erect as it was read, in contrast to his former listless attitude. When court ad- journed he walked with two bailiffs to the, bull pen to be taken to the county jail, where three times pre viously he has awaited the gallows. Asks for New Trial. His attorney immediately moved for a new trial, and the hearing was set for July 8. If this motion fs demied the court will fix a new date for Scott's execution. Attorneys said that while the ac tion is unprecedented in Illinois law. it is not believed there can be an appeal to the Supreme Court on the sanitary hearing. The court does not convene until October. Thomas Scott, Russell's father, who has worked for months to save his! sons from the noose, stood alone, a pitiable figure, when court had ad- journed. “What do I think of it?” he repeated. “What can I think of 12 Jacob Maurer, father of the slain drug clerk, also was in court. *‘The verdict speaks for itself,” was his comment. Robert Scott goes on trial Monday for the same murder. Charges of Senator Caraway of Ar- kansas in the ate today that Frank L. Smith, Republican candi date, who defeated Senator McKinley, had spent §2,000,000 in his campaign were characterized here as “absolutely silly” by Allen F. Moore, campalgn manager for Smith. He also branded as false the state- ment of Senator Caraway that E, JI. Rollins & Sons, bankers, had con- tributed $100,000 to the Smith cam- palgn funds, coincidental with the issuance of orders from the Illinois | Commerce Commission affecting a $20.000.000 public utilities deal, “1 know nothing whatever of such @ deal” Mr. Moore xaid. “No snch ~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) By the Associated Pregs. ISLAND OF MALTA, June 26.—A sharp earthqual occurred here at 8:50 o'clock tonight. It was followed by a still sharpes shock and rumblings. People in the streets were panic- stricken and ‘rushed for the open spaces. So far as is known there were no casualties. 26 (). LONDON, June dispatch tog the Exchanze.‘ A Caire ‘elegraph Island of Malta Rocked by Earthquake As Crowds Bush in Panic to Open Spaces reports a severe earthquake lasting more than a minute. The first shock came at 9:50 o'clock tonight. Earth tremors, which began at 2:58 p.m. yesterday and continued for four and one-half hours, were recorded on the Georgetown University selsmo- graph. Director Tondorf, estimating the distance at 5,400 miles south of Washington, said it apparently was a “gigantic” disturbance, as bailiffs struggled with | name was received from De- | Cg WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION g D. MOVE BY LENROOT GIVES RETIREMENT BILL NEW CHANCE | Senator Will Propose That Upper Body Agree to House Measure. VETERAN WORKERS GET FRESH HOPE OF RELIEF C., SUNDAY Conferees May Report Disagree- ment Tomorrow—Stanfield Has Emergency Plan. The Government emploves’ retire- ment bill, which was reported vester day as destined to die in the closing days of Cong between Senate and House, took an- other lease on life last night when it hecame known that ‘| Republican, of Wisconsin, will be pre. pared to move that the Senate agree | to the House measure when the ques tion comes up. Senator Lenroot takes the position that since the employes have signi fied a willingness to take the House bill rather than have no legislation, wishes should be granted. Senator Stanfield, Republican, of 1 on in,the Senate, was preparing tomorrow Joint resolution to give temporary relief in the form of a higher annuity to the 12,000 employes |already retired without increasing the contribution of the active employes until Congress at some later can agree on a permanent revision of the retirement law Await Conferees’ Report. Senator Lenroot said he would be agreeable 10 such a resolution, but pointed out that there is no assur- ance the House would agree to that proposition, The entire question may come be- fore the Senate tomorrow. if Senator Stanfield is ready to submit the report of the conferees, setting forth thelr inability to reach an agreement with the House. At the same time he will present his resolution, which would grant a 40 per cent increase in the present annuity of $720 to those now retired or to be retired in the near future. This would make the annuity substantially equal to that car the House bill, but would not increase the 215 per cent contribution now paid into the fund from the salaries of the active employes. would place the added cost of increas. ing the annuity of the retired em- ploves on the Government. there are tome who heifeve ft will support a motion to accept the House bill in view of the desire of the employes' spokesmen to have that in preference to complete failure of the legislation. Fluctuations in Hopes. Since the retirement bill went to conference several weeks ago. with {each branch of Congress insisting o different terms, its chances of enact- ment at this session have fluctuated up and down with the regularity of a see-saw. One day the conferees were reported to be serfously considering a compromlise. The next day it would | develop that the compromise was un | acceptable to one side or the other and hope would vanish. Then a new pro- { posal would be broached and a spark i of hope would return, only to be shat- |tered at a subsequent conference. | Meanwhile, these intermittent flashes {of hope, followed by forecasts of | failure, have proved a strain on the nerves of the veteran workers, striving to get along on existing annuities and looking forward lematical, but pending legislation. Whatever the outcome, indications are that the question will be finally { determined within a few days. The next definite development is practi- cally certain to come in the Senate with the presentation of the disagree- ment of the conferees. Senator Stanfield probably will make a brief statement in the Senate as to why the confreres failed to agree. The position of the Senate managers has been that the House bill does not place a fair proportion of the cost of the increased annuities on the Gov- ernment. WIDOW WANTS DIAMONDS IN FITZSIMMONS’ TEETH Asks Permission to Have Fighter's Body Exhumed to Get Stones Set in His Mouth. 1 Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, June 26.—Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons. widow of one of the greatest fighters that ev pulled on a glove, appeared before Chief of Po- lice Collins toony and made a re- quest that startled the chief. She asked for permission to have the body !of her husband exhumed so that she | could recover the diamonds set in his teeth. Mrs. Fitzsimmons is struggling in the grasp of poverty and her friends are of the opinion that the diamonds, now supposed to be glistening in the skull of the former champlon, could {be put to better use in providing food and shelter for his widow. Chief_Collins asked her to call in a few days. He will ask the opinion of his counsel and coroner. Those who knew “Lanky Bob” in his prime recalled the settings. There were two diamonds, one a carat stone and the other a carat and a half. Fitzsim- mons died here of double pneumonia in 1917. Mrs. Fitzsimmons is at pres- ent an inmate of a hospital. The question ‘“Are the diamonds still there?” is puzzling several. They look with suspicion upon undertakers® assistants. Mimic Battle Staged in Stadium. BALTIMORE, June 26 (#).—Sev- enty-fives roared from opposite ends of Baltimore Stadium tonight, one- pounders _growled, machine = guns crackled and rifles snapped in a sham artillery and infantry battle staged by the Maryland National Guard be- fore 30,000 persons. The battle was a reproduction of the attack on the San Mihiel sallent in France in Sep- tember, 1918, » s owing to differences | Senator Lenroot, | and since they will pay the cost, their | Oregon, in charge of retirement legis- | yvesterday to introduce in the Senate | date | Thus the resolution | | What the sepate will do is prob- | to the increases contemplated by the | MORNING, Government | | administ JUNE 27, DAD 1S AGAIN TAKING 1926 —104 Star. PAGES. (#) Means Associated Pr HIS SUMMER OUTING. G. .. PROSPERITY KEYNOTE SOUNDED Senator Phipps Points Out| Virtues of Coolidge Rule for Fall Campaign. under Republican rule | was the keynote of the senatorial and congressfonal campaign of 1926 sounded in the Senate yesterday af ternoon by Senator Phipps of rado, chairman of the Republican | senatorial campaign committee, in a carefully prepared addres Rbeiting the benefits accrued to the American people, in cluding the workers in industry and | the farmers, under the Republican | enator Phipps said: | ven a cursory examination will | «how that the application of certain | fundamental principles under a strong | national administration has built up | our existing prosperity, and that it can only be continued through the re- | election of men committed to thase | principles and pledged to that admin- | istration. | “I have confidence that the unfail ing common sense of the American | people will answer the question aright next November." Cites Deplorable Conditions Senator Phipps declared that con ditions in the United States were de- plorable in 1921, when the Republican | party took over the administration | of affairs. He said: “There can be no question that in 1921 there were 5,000,000 wage earn ers out of work in the United States, that agriculture and manufactures were languishing for lack of trade. and that Liberty bonds were selling | at 85. Millions of dollars’ worth of goods produced where labor wa cheaper and where the American | standard of living did not prevail, | were coming to our shores to compete | with our unprotected industry. A} million of immigrants a year had heen coming to compete for a living as well. Both goods and immigrants were coming, not because of any re action following the war, but because they sought the greatest market in the world. Just so the loss of this market to ourselves, because of lack of protection had previousiy thrown 1,000,000 workers out of employment from 1913 to 1914 and caused our greatest financial depression from 1893 to 1897. “However much those who advocate the principles of the Republican party may differ as to details, they are united by the one certainty that a protective tariff sufficlently” high to cover the difference between the cost of production here and abroad does enable our industries to meet foreign competition. In the even distribution of the benefits of protection the farmer, the laborer, the business man, the manufacturer and those in the professions are alike remembered.” Senator Phipps made it clear that the party is to depend very largely upon President Coolidge and his rec- Prosper which have | i | 1921, (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) CALIFORNIA REQUESTS DAVIDSON'S RETURN Ex-Bootlegger and House Witness Is Wanted on Bad Check Charges. alitornia of Wil- Davidson, alias Willlam Caine, B atolul - ~reformed bootlegger” and recently a witness before the House _alcoholic traffic comumittee, Tow under arrest at Alexandria, Va., has been asked of Gov. Byrd of Vir- ginla by California officials. Gov. F. W. Richardson of California yesterday issued a requisition for the Temoval of Davidson to San Fran- cisco for investigation in connection with bad check transactions. Davidson caused a one-day sensa- tion when he testified that certain California banks had taken part in bootleg transactions. Shortly after his testimony, he was arrested in Alexandria on complaint of the chief of police of San Francisco, which was relayed through the \Washington de- tective headquarters. He was ar- rested on June 18 and has been held in custody since. He is charged in Extradition to | Tales of Well Known 12 | Betty: Reg’lar Felles Today’s Star | PART ONE—38 PAG 3 1 General New and | Foreign. Schools and o Girl Scout News: A. R. New: The ional v Skies in July—Page 27. Veterans of the Great \War—Page 30. Boy Scout New Page 30, Radio News and Programs—Pp: Serinl, 1 and Longitude,” Page 33. | <jumish War Veter: ¥ Parent-Teacher Activities- Financial News—Pages 34, 35 and 37.| PART TWO—12 PAGES. itorials and Editorial Features ashingtor. and_Other Society. view of the New PBooks—Page 4. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 4 ‘olk—Page 10. News of the Clubs—Page 11. PART THREE—11 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the | Dlay. Music in Washington—Page 4 Motors and Motoring—Pages 5, 9 and 10. District ional Guard—Page 10. . C. A. News—Page 10 Army and Navy News—Page 11. Fraternal News—Page 13. Serfal, “The Law of the Talon"— Page 13. Civillan Army N PART FOUR—i PAGE! Pink Sports Section. | PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures, The Rambler—Page 3. ws—Page 13 GRAPHIC SECTION—12 PAGES. World vents in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 PAGES. Mr. and Mes.; Mutt and Jeff. TWO ARE DROWNED WHILE IN SWIMMING E. G. Nolan, Chemist, Dies in Poto- mac—Colored Youth Goes Down in Eastern Branch. Swimming claimed two lives here vesterday, a young man and a boy be- ing the first victims of the season. Edward G. Nolan, vears old, a student at George Washington 1'ni- versity, and chief chemist of the Washington Gas Light Company, was drowned about 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the Potomac, three miles above Cabin John Bridge. Charles mith, 14, colored, of 620 Fifth street northeast, met death in the Eastern Branch near Benning Bridge. Nolan went down before his com- panion, A. G. Evans, could render as- sistance. Evans notified the police. and the body was recovered about two hours later and taken to the under- taking establishment of A. J. Schip- pert. 2008 T street. The young man was a member of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church and Ail Chemists® Soclety. His father, E. J. Nolan, is department commander of the United Spanish War Veterans. The mother also survives. The family home is at 19 Grant place. The Smith boy disappeared after diving from the Benning Bridge, and playmates, alarmed, reported to the police. _Policemen Harry Bauer and Frank Howard, in charge of the bor precinct launch, recovered body shortly afterwards. Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate of accidental death. Foreign Office ST;fe Robbed. WARSAW, Poland, June 26 (#).— The safe in the Warsaw foreign office the litems carries & was broken open last night by bur- glars. It contained, however, only an insignificant amount of money and no diplomatic correspondence. CHARGES FLY AGAIN INPROHIBITION ROW Representatives Gorman, La Guardia, Upshaw and Hill Involved in House Debate. By the Associated Press. Indulging in one of its favorite pas- times of the present session, the House yesterday participated in a round of prohibition debate. Consideration of the second de- ficiency supply bill, which among other 686,700 to supplement the $10.635,685 already provided for prohibition enforcement during the fiscal year beginning Julf 1, served as the vehicle for bringing up the sub- ject. While Representatives Gorman, Re- publican, Illinois, and La Guardia, Progresive-Sociallst, New York, vigor- ously assailed the dry law and condi- tions under it, Representative Upshaw, | Democrat, Georgia, urged his party to come out with a “ringing” pronounce- ment in support of the eighteenth amendment in the 1928 presidential campaign, Lays Blame to Prohibition. Mr. Gorman with a gr: crime wave: cago, while trated his charged prohibition e responsibility in recent in his home city of Chi- Mr. La Guardia congcen- tack on Lincoln C. An- Assistant Secretary of the ury, o is in charge of prohibi- tion enforcement. Assailing Andrews as a vpical, inging office holder who is seeking to and the wets,” La Guardia shouted hat the proposed distribution of the 235 additional dry agents to be em- ployed under the new appropriation “is not to prevent liquor coming into the country, but to facilitate the entry and to c sions at certain ports f purpose. Mr. Upshaw reviewed the last presi- den elections, accused President Coolidge of not taking a definite stand lon the Ku Klux Klan and sald the Democrats had been afflicted with “too much Madison Square Garden." Says Poison Has Replaced Beer. Comparing conditions in Chicago as he knew them as a letter carrier eight years ago with those at present, Mr. Gorman said that his route lay in an “‘orderly community” but now ‘“there is much crime.” “Young boys and girls,” he said, “in the d: I traveled there, now grown into early manhood and womanhood, instead of drinking beer in their own home: s was the custom of their parents, now drink poison at house parties, dances, cabarets and else- where. “There is more drunkenness among these yvoung people today than there was among the adults of eight years ago when I worked in their midst. The girls who don't drink strong liquors are rare exceptions, and they all whiff that eternal companion of drink, the cigarette. “‘The young men all drink and they get stupldly drunk from the rotten stuff they drink. Other vices have come among these plain folks as a result of strong drinking. Indulgence in Intoxicating liquors at their dances, parties and other gatherings have pro- duced immoral and suggeasive danc- ing among them and a combnmtion of both drinking and dancing has brought on aggravated immorality. Community of Drinkers. “These simple people are no better off since prohibition. They are worse off. For the most part, they were a temperate people before prohibition. Now, they are a comunity of drinkers. They make their own home brew and they distill their own booze, strong, vile and_unaged concoctions that are (Continued on Page 4, Column 8.) Blind, One-Armed Boy Kills Stepfather Who Assaults Him at Home With Razor Special Dispatch to The Star. 2 PITTSBURG, Kans., June 26.— Roy Atkinson, 21 years old, blind and one-armed, fought a battle for his life with his, stepfather, John Wesley Buffington, at their home in the coun- try, at Kirkwood, four miles south- west of here, at 4 o'clock this morn- ihg, and killed the elder man. Atkinson told the officers his step- father attacked him and that he fought back with the only weapon he San Francisco with having forged checks for $2.800 and $1,780 and with having obtained money under false pretenses, could find—a window weight. His stepfather, 39 years old, with two good arms and two good cves, wielded -\mm'. Atklnson teok the razor away from him. Tt was found in a room where the battle to death raged. The blind youth graduated this Spring from the State School of the Blind at Kansas City, Kans. He had been assisted at the school by the Pittsburg Rotary Club. Last Tues- day he appeared before the inembers and told of his work. Apparently, a story in a paper about his spesch be- fore the club angered the stepfather. “He wanted me to sit on the sireet and beg rather than go to school,” Roy told a reporter this rorning. “He was angry because the paper “old about my talk at the club.” please the administration. the drys | and service will start immediately FIVE CENTS. FESSBILL'S DEFEAT FORECAST AS LINES SPLIT BEFORE VOTE Administration Must Muster Support of Democrats to Pass Measure. FARM BLOC CLAIMS 20 REPUBLICAN SENATORS Both Sides Accept Delay as Chance to Strengthen Stand—Influence of Administration Seen. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Farm legislation, which seems to have more lives than a cat, still loomed as its principal issue when the Senate rested from its labors last night. With the President openly and squarely back of the Fess bill, now offered as an amendment to the hill creating a bureau of co-operative mar- keting in the Department of Agricul- ture, the Fess bill is stronger than it has been at any time since the de bate began. Whether it votes to pass, muster enough however, will depend largely upon the attitude Demo cratic Senators. It must have a suff cient number of Democratic votes to offset the defection in the Republican ranks, defections due to the fact that some of the Republicans insist they will support nothing that does not contain the principles of the McNary Haugen farm relief bill 20 Opposing Republicans. Teaders of the McNary-Haugern bloc in the Senate figured last nizht that they had a minimum of 20 votes on the Republican side df the cham ber, including Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Labor, against the Fess bill. It was sald that the vote in opposition on the Republican side might run as high as : But, ad mittedly, some of these Senators max be pulled off before the vote is taken by pressure brought to bea: by the dministration. It was said to be doubtful Ahat more than half a dozen Demoératic Senators would vote for the Fess bill on the roll call. Unless this eleventh hour effort to pass the Fess Dbill is successful. it appears certain that no farm relief legislation, except the bill for a c operative marketing bureau, will enacted before adjourament. Administration Working Hard. Desperate efforts will be made by the administration forces to line up votes for the Fess bill in the breath ing space permitted by the week end adjournment. On the other hand. the corn belt committee and some of t farm organizations which have stood for the McNary-Haugen bill as the sine qua non in farm reiief legi tion, will do their utmost strengthen the lines of opposition. Both sides in the contest agreed yesterday to aside the farm bill temporar| can v and to take up the bill proposing an amendment to the vet- erans’ act. The supporters of the F bill were willing to let the farm bill ride for a day, believing that time is the essence of success, time in which to bring pressure to bear upon Re- publican Senators who have been sup- ! porting the McNary-Haugen bill and have been opposed to the Fess propo- sition. They believe also that some of the Democrats from Southern States will be urged by farm co-operatfves in their sections of the country to sup- port the Fess bill, which provides a revolving fund of $100,000,000 to loan to farm co-operatives to aid in the better marketing of the crops. Opposition Glad of Delay. The dyed-in-the-wool McNary-Hau- genites, who will oppose the Fess bill on the ground that it merely provides another method of loaning money to the farmers and is not wanted by the farmers, were glad of an opportunity to reform their lines bLefore the iinal debate and vote on the Fess measure. Last night leaders on both the Re- publican and Democratic sides of the chamber expressed the opinion that the Fess bill would fail when it came to a showdown, but they admitted that this was surmise and not based on any careful polls to see how the Senators all stood. The President's strong appeal for legislation for the farmers before the close of the present session is having its effect. It brought a right-about- face on the proposal advanced by Sen- ator Watson of Indiama, a McNary Haugente, that the farm bill be defi- nitely laid aside and allowed to die for the sessiop. Senator Watson with- drew his motion to lay the bill aside. The question fs, Will the effect of the President’s demand for legislation be sufficiently strong to deliver the necessary number of votes. May Alienate Democrats. His definite appeal for the Fess bill may have the effect of alienating some Democratic support, for the Demo- crats are not anxlous to give the ad- ministration a chance to claim it has enacted farm ralief legislation in the coming campaigr. The proponents of the McNaxy- Haugen bill are planning a finai Grive for inclusion in the farm legislation of the principle of the equalization fee as applied to farm products. Senator Howell of Nebraska has prepared a substitute which he will offer for the Fess bill when the proper time ar- rives. The Howell substitute will combine provisions of the Fess bill with those of the Lenroot bill, which is the pending amendment in the Sen- ate, and add to them a_provision for applying the principle of the equaliza- tion fee to just one crop—wheat. Senator Howell will propose that this experiment with the equalization fee be limited to three vears. If it can be made a success with wheat in that time, then Congress would be in a position to apply it to other crops by further legislation. If it does not prove a success, then Congress could repeal the provision even before the three-year period expires. Chance for Supreme Court. Furtherniore, Senator Howell argues, the Supreme Court woula have a chance to pass upon the con- stitutionality of the equalization fee system. which has been questioned by number of Senators, including Sen- ‘Conunuod on Bog0 & GARD ©