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WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and probably to- morrow; cooler _tonight; continued cool tomorrow. Highest, 103, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 75, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 The Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 30,033. post office, ‘Washington, Entered as second class matte, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1926—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ¥ The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday’s Circulation, 93,542 (®) Means Associated TWO - CENTS. Press. SIX EX-PREMIERS GET PORTFOLIOS IN POINCARE CABINET All Parties Represented in Ministry That Will Try to Rescue Franc. WILL ATTEMPT HONEST SETTLEMENT OF DEBTS Americans Rescued From Paris Throngs by Police—British Also Are Insulted. By the Associated Press PARIS, July care, three times premier and presi- dent of the republic during the World War, today constituted his fourth cabinet after 36 hours of effort. The cabinet is composed exclusively of political veterans, including, with M. Poincare, six former premiers. All the others have heen cabinet mem- bers before, with the exception of the labor minister, and he is a son of the late President Fallieres. After visiting the Elysee Palace to Inform President Doumergue of his success, M. Poincare said to the news- paper men: “We wanted to form a cabinet of the largest national union in which all parties-would be represented. with- out taking account too closely of the representation of groups. We have tried to fulfill our task in the most high-minded spirit possible.” Finds No Difficulty. He added that he had found no dif- ficulties in his path, because he in- sisted upon forming the cabinet with- out regard to personal preferences. He is holding an informal cabinet meeting at his home this afternoon, and expects to present the new min isters to the President this evening. The premier announced that, at the same time the new cabinet faced the Chamber of Deputies, next Tuesday, he would introduce his financial bill. M. Poincare was loudly cheered by & crowd outside the Elysee Palace as he left after seeing the President. The official list of the new ministers is as follows: Premier and minister of finance— Raymond Poincare. Minister of justice—Louis Barthou. Foreign affairs—Aristide Briand. Interior—Albert Sarraut. War—Paul Painleve. Marine—Georges. Ifiy‘ue!. Public work—Mautice Bokanowski. Education—Edouard Herriot. Commerce—Andrew Tardieu. Colonies—Leon Perrier. Pensions—Louis Marin. Agricuiture—Dr. Andre Queullle. Will Take Other Duties. M. Poincare announced that in ad- dition to his other duties he would take over the ministry of de\'nsmledl regions, while M. Barthou, in addition to acting as minister of justice, would take care of the affairs of Alsace- Lorraine. One of M. Poincare’s principal cares will be what he regards as an honest and practical settlement of inter- allied debts. Both M. Herrlot, the re- tiring premier, and M. de Monzle his minister of finance, hinted in the Chamber of Deputies that their in- tention was to realize on‘France's national wealth, notably, as M. de Monzie specified, on the Alsatian potash mines. It is understood M. Poincare shares this view. In regard to debts, Luciene Shas- sagne, chief editor of the Journal, to- day quotes from a letter he received recently from M. Poincare: “The difficulty of the transfer be- tween France and America will make money payments so often impossible that in my opinion it is necessary to anticipate having recourse for a large part to payments in kind if one desires to form anything but & pro- gram which will prove illusory and consequently dangerous for both countries. Police Save Foreigners. Police reserves h{d to be called out last night on the boulevards to pro- tect American and English tourists in a recrudescence of anti-foreign mob sentiment. “Seeing Paris” busses filled with tourists were jeered and the situation became so threatening that the oc- cupants of two qf them got out. ‘When, however, two other attempt- ed to drive through the throngs which barred the streets the police were forced to go to the rescue of several American and English tour- ists against whom the demonstra- tors were particularly aggressive. HARRY BAUM RETU_RNED HERE IN ROBBERY CASE New York Man Is Accused of Hav- ing Part in Williams Gem Theft Last Winter. Harry Baum, alias Cohen, 20 years old, giving his calling as that of book- maker, indicted for alleged complicity in the robbery at the home of Norman Willlams, 1227 Sixteenth street, four months age, when members of the family and others were bound and the home robbed of $2,000 worth of jewelry, reached here from New York last night in custody of Deputy Mar- shal Norton and Detective Bernard W. Thompson. Baum is said to have been named by David Davidoff as one of the par- ticipants in the robbery, and Detec- tives Keck and Thompson, who brought about his arrest, claim to have obtained other evidence to offer at the prisoner's trial. Davidoft is serving 30 years for his pasticipation. American Schooner Aground. FORT DE FRANCE; Martinique, July 23 (#).—The four-mast American schooner Barnsdall, loaded with coal and anchored in the harbor here, has gone aground as the result of a power- ful windstorm and tidal wave which struck this district last night. The windstorm began at 6 p.m. and continued all night. It followed a tidal wave that caused the rivers to overflow thelr banks. Little material damage was gkwsed. e 23.—Raymond Poin-| Sees No Threat of War, But Fears Grave In- ternal Strife. Declares Moderil State Must Curb Rights of Individuals. BY P. H. WINNER. By the Associated Press. ROME, July 23—Premier Mussolini, watching with keen interest the diffi- cultles besetting Europe, believes that no international crisis brewing war exists, but that a grave internal and economlc struggle, wracking the na- tions separately, is in progress. He has firm faith that Europe will emerge into a period of stability, but that. sacrifices Will be necessary. “Tell the people of Americ: said, “that Europe is traversing a pe- riod of acute—most acute—crisis, but that 1 have firm faith that she will | overcome her difficulties. Afterward I am convinced that she will have a period of stabilization and peace. “Make it clear, however, that the grave crisis of which I speak is not international; that it has nething to do with relations between nations, and hence in no sense brings up the spec- ter of war. It is an internal crisis that is wracking the varlous nations separately, not their political lives, but ALL EUROPE, TORN BY CRISES, NEEDS FASCISM, SAYS MUSSOLINI 1 PREMIER their economic and social organiza- tions. It is pre-eminently social. am- confident that the nations will solve it, but to do so all the people of FEurope must use all their energy and must be prepared to make every sac- rifice in the cause of peace and stabil. ity.” Premier Mussolini received the cor- respondent in_his lofty-ceilinged office in the Chigi Palace. He first engaged in a light friendly conversation, the tenor of which may be illustrated by the fact that the premier constantly shifted from Italian, French, German (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) MUSSOLINL. HOTVAVEPASSG SHONERS TONGHT WL BRING RELEF Mercury to Hit 90 This After- noon as Parting Shot for | Several Days. The tenacious grip of the torrid speli, which has so far claimed four lives and caused extensive suffering here, was being loosened slowly RQut surely today under the pressure of shifting breezes from the northeast and impending thundershowers. The sun was expected, as a parting shot, to send the mercury to 90 or above this rnoon before retiri: tor an indel %@"fi/efifir 3 taln of clouds, heralded by heavenly pyrotechnics. Thundershowers this evening, Fore- caster Mitchell declared, would mark the final collapse of the heat wave and cooling breezes from the north- ern regions then will hold sway for several days. Tonight to Be Pleasant. The forecast for tomorrow was “cooler and -cloudy,” with possible showers and northeast winds. The temperature, beginning tonight, he said, should be ‘“very pleasant,” and this condition will prevail tomorrow and probably Sunday. Mr. Mitchell explained that by “very pleasant’” he meant a tempera- ture around 80 degrees. ‘Washington, he added, is one of the last citles to shake loose the hot spell, Baltimore and other cities farther north having been greeted by cooler weather last night, in the wake of thunderstorms. The condl- tions overhead are changing rapidly, however, and by tonight the record- breaking “sizzler,” with successive high marks of 104 and 103 to its credit, will pass into weather history. Yesterday's Highest 103. Yesterday's maximum of 103 de- grees was registered on the- official instruments at the Weather Bureau at 3.30 p.m. This figure equaled the highest mark ever recorded in this Jocality for July prior to the present warm _ period. The thermometer reached 103 on July 18, 1887. The death toll reached four yester- day when Thomas Brown, colored, 32, 907 Half street southwest, suffered a sunstroke at Fourth and E streets northeast and died three hours later at Casualty Hospital. The day before another colored man died from sun- stroke and two persons were drowned while seeking relief in the water. Jefferson Hallstone, colored, 62 years old, of 230 G street southwest, suffered an attack of heat prostra- tion about noon today while in front of 341 G street southwest. He was taken to Gallinger Hospital, where physiclans say he will recover. Two other negroes were overcome by the heat yesterday, according to the police records. Richard Hagie, of 2818 T street southeast, collapsed in front of 2002 Georgia avenue and was treated at Freedmen's Hospital, and Grady Mitchell, fireman on the steamer District of Columbia of the Norfolk & Washington line, was stricken while at work on the ship. was treated at Emergency Hospital. Federal Offices Close. Most of the Government depart- ments were affected by lay-offs neces- sitated by the extreme heat yesterday. District Building employes were re- leased at 3 o'clock this afternoon, but no plans had been made in any of the large Government departments for an early closing hour today. The chief clerks of the various branches said they had received no complaints about the heat today. However, recognizing the emergency nature of such weather situations, the acting. Secretary of War today issued standing orders authorizing the chiefs of bureau and services in that department to “‘excuse employes-when, in the judgment of the chief, the excessive heat renders it dangerous to the employes’ health to remain on duty.” Action taken under this au- thority_will be reported to the assist- ant and chief clerk, it was stated. This order superseded one issued Wednesday “to close the department at 4 o'clock p.m. until further notice,” placing entire responsibility for clos- ing upon the judgment of the respac- tive bureau chiefs. Shower Forecast Misses. Failure of thundershowers to miate- rlalize in this vicinity last night re. sulted in another hot night for the perspiring residents, who sought on Page 3, mn 2. (Co Mitchell, a resident of Norfolk, Va., | INQUIRY UNDER WAY INTO LIQUOR SALES ABOARD LEVIATHAN Customs and Justice Agents Ordered to Establish Facts of Charge. By the Associated Press Charging of liquor selling aboard Shipping Board vessels, including the Leviathan, are under investigation by Federal authorities in New York. Taking cognizance of public charges by W. H. Stayton, head of the Asso- PRESIDENT IS NEAR A DECISION ON NEW D.C.COMMISSIONER List of Candidates Reduced, " Executive Now Awaits Replies to “Feelers.” ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY CONSIDERED POSSIBLE Acceptance of Fenning Resignation Expected to Take Form of the Naming of Successor. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y., July 23 —President Coolidge today spent the greater part of the forenoon giv- ing consideration to the appointment of a successor to Fredegick A. Fen- ning as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the District. He was engaged at this task for more than two hours and had closeted with him at this time E. T. Clark. his per- sonal secretary, who has been han- dling the papers and correspondence incident to the making of this appoint- ment. % The President has his mind open and he is eager for suggestions. He has, after going over all the papers relative to the more than half a hun- dred candidates, made out a pre- ferred list, and there are at least two names on this list in which the Presi- dent is seriously interested. It was said also that the President is anxiously awaiting several *'‘feelers’ which have been put out in Wash- ington for him, and if these bring back replies to the effect that the gen- tlemen to whom these indirect offers have been made will accept the com- missionership if formally offered it is thought the President will quickly reach a decision. It was intimated further that if anything is heard from these "feelers” between now and 4 o'clock this afternoon, when the President will hold his bl-weekly con- ferencé with the newspaper corre- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) clation Against the Prohibition Amendment, officials said that cus- toms authorities and Department of Justice agents already had been“dl- . s The investigation is entirely in the hands_of the field administrators at New York and no reports have been received here. Difficult to Get Evidence. Frank Dow, acting chief of the pro- hibition and custom service, said con- siderable liquor undoubtedly had come in on both United States and foreign vessels, but it had been impos- sible so far to secure evidence suffi- cient to confiscate any ships. The Shipping Board has co-oper- ated with the prihibition service, Mr. Dow said, and in come instances had discharged large numbers of seamen implicated in the importation of liguor. In making his charges in a piiblic statement, Capt. Stayton called at- tention to suggestions that padlock proceedings be instituted against the offending ships, but it was pointed out here today that an even more drastic penalty could be applied to vessels which illegally transport in- toxicants. Buildings where the law is violated can be closed and pad- locked, but ships, like automobiles are subject to confiscation. Would Penalize Individuals. The ships in question already are the property of the United States; Government, however, and it was in- dicated that any penalties imposed probably would lie more heavily | against the individuals responsible than against the vessels themselves. Shipping Board officials expressed surprise at the charges made by Capt. Stayton. It was recalled that the question of the sale of liquor aboard American merchant ships outside territorial waters had come up several years ago and that orders than had been issued which removed beverage liquors from the ship’s account and required captains to see that there were no liquor sales aboard. LIQUOR CHARGE DENIED. Capt. Hartley of Leviathan Says No Sales Made. BOSTON, July 23 ().—Capt. Hart- ley of the United States liner Levia- than today flatly denied that any liquor has been sold on board the steamship, as charged in a statement last night by Capt. W. H. Stayton, chairman of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. POLISH POLICE REPORT HUGE UKRAINIAN PLOT Band of Galicla Working Both for Germany and Soviet, War- saw Changes. By the Assoclaled Pross. = WARSAW, Poland, Juiy 23.—The police report that they have discov- ered in Galicia a huge Ukrainlan or- ganization working both for Germany and the Soviet government. One hundred persons have been arrested in Cracow, Lvoff and Pzemysl. They are mostly university students and Ukrainians serving in the Polish army. Detalls of the situation are being :(‘ept secret pending further investiga- on. SUHELV, there are 100,000 “Washingtonians who will gladly send one dollar or more to honor the living and the dead of the 26,000 from the District of Columbia who served their country in the armed forces in the Great War. Send to John Poole, Treasurer, District of Colum- bia_ Memorial Commission, Federal-American . Nationai 20 COAST GUARDS -NAMED N BIG PLOT Accused of Aiding Landing of Liquor at Barnegat Bay District. By the Associated Press. ASBURY PARK, N. J, July 23. —Co-operation on a wholesale scale between coast guards and rum run- ners has been disclosed by confes- sions of men and officers of stations in the vicinity of Barnegat Bay, ac- cording to officials. Capt. M. W. Rasmussen, super- intendent of the 5th Coast Guard Dis- trict, has announced that 10 guards- men have been placed under arrest and more than that number sus- pended. Reports say many more have been dropped pending further investigation. ¥ In one instance 18 men, the en- tire personnel of a station, when faced with the confession of their commanding officer, asserted that the question of co-operation with rum runners had been put to a vote and that they unanimously decided to participate. Admits Wife Helped. One station commander admitted that his wife had acted as a go- between, telephoning agents of the rum runners and giving them in- formation' for movements of liquor, ‘was learngd. u(,‘out G officlals have refused to reveal the names of the men in- colved or their stations. ‘oComdr. W. Wheeler, assigned from Washington as a special inves- tigator, and ‘Walter U. Brower, un- dersheriff of Ocean County, are assisting Supt. Rasmussen in the in- quiry, which is planned to cover the entire patrol in this section. Coast Guard officials declined last night to comment because of strict orders from Washington headquar- ters. But the early disclosures of the present investigation developed from alleged Coast Guard oposition to the activities of Game Warden Hamilton Evernham. Eighteen Are Fined. ‘With the ald of Mrs, Mary Arnold of Point Pleasant, 18 persons were arrested by him for selling wild ducks and geese illegally and fined $200 each. Included in this number was Tom Beers, jr., a son of the captain of Love Lady station of the Coast Guard. Evernham drove to a hearing of the accused before Justice Potter of West Creek in a borrowed automobile and during the' trlal a member of the Coast Guard appeared with a bottle game _warden's car. Evernham charged the whisky was placed {n his machine by a guardsman, and last Tuesday Rasmussen and Wheeler ap- peared in Sheriff Grant's office and obtained certain affidavits. One of these, signed by Thomas Driscoll of Tuckeiton, alleged that the captain of a station near Beacl Haven, the machinist’s mate and two members of the crew had transported eight cases of liquor across Barnegat Bay. The machinist mate in his con- fession said the captain helped load the whisky. "The captain's confessiop was, ob- tained and he implicated another of- ficer, who admitted receiving $2 a case for allowing liquor to come in. The money, he said, was split four wa: with captains of three adjoining sta- tions. 5 Radio Programs—Page 14. of whisky he said was found in the |TY IDKILLED, 38 HURT - INRUNAWAY BUS No Member of Party Return- ing From Bear Mountain Escapes Uninjured. By the Associated Press. NYACK, N. Y., July 23.—Ten per- sons were killed and 38 injured when a bus returning from Bear Mountain with a party of Brooklyn excursion- ists overturned at the Erie Railroad crossing near Sparkhill last night. The driver of the bus is held in the New City, N. Y., Jall. Three other passengers were on the danger list-ag the Nyack Hospital. No passengers escaped Injury; 24 were in hospitals today; the rest were sent home after hospital treatment. Witnésses said the bus, driven by Daniel J. Lastro, was not speeding prior to the accident. The machine bumped over a crossing in the heart of Sparkhill, N. Y., and 15. feet east of the crossing swerved, then started rolling down a slight incline. Wit- nesses saw Lastro working frantically with his levers and heard the fright- ened screams of the women and chil- dren as the machine gathered mo- mentum. - The brakes refused to hold and when the machine reached the bottom of the incline and crashed against a store window, it rolled over. Every available conveyance was used to take the injured to the hos- pital. The first to appear was a lum- bering ice wagon. The dead are: Mrs, Catherine Barth, Mrs. Margaret Reiper, May Reiper, 12; Mrs. Englehard, Mrs. Henry Schultz, Catherine Albert, 5; Mrs. Swenke; Mrs. Emma Billings and two unidentified women. The bus had been hired by a group of Brooklyn families in order to take their children out of the city from the heat. The children played in the woods of Bear Mountain during the day and the party started on the return trip early in the evening. QUARRY BLAST KILLS FIVE, INJURES FOUR Lightning Sets Of Dynamite Charge Left in Abandoned Shaft 15 Years Ago. By the Associated Press. STRASBURG JUNCTION, Va., July 23.——A forgotten charge of dynamite yesterday sent flve men to their deaths and critically injured four others when lightning struck a niche in the abandoned Powhatan Quarry, where the explosive had been placed 16 years ago. The men were at work in the quar- ry when the deafening explosion sent tons of rock and debris hurtling through the air. Several of the men were thrown through the air for rods. The dead are: Géorge Hoffman, Jack Rainor and Cecil Rinker, white, and Hunter Boyd and Asby Mitchell, negroes. The in- jured are Lester and King Stros- neider, Oliver Spinnard and a man named Rainey. The men, all of whom were in the vicinity of the discarded blast hole, sought shelter in rock crevices and in tool houses near by. Rinker was found in a pump house, where he had taken refuge from the flying debris. He died en route to a hospital. The charge of dynamite was be- lieved to have been placed in the quar- a decade and a half ago for blas- ing purposes. NAVAL HERO RESCUES BOY FROM DROWNING h | Lieut. Cooke, Bringing S-9 to Har- bor, After Fighting Fire, Leaps Into Bay When Child Falls In. By the Associated Press. MONTEREY, Calif,, July 23.— Lieut, J. B. Cooke, commander of the United States Submarine S-9, which arrived in Monterey Bay from San Francisco yesterday after fighting a fire in which he and seven others were overcome by fumes, again fig- ured as a hero when he from the Monterey municipal and saved Tom Hayase, 9-year-old Jlfil- ese, from drowning in the bay. e boy fell from the wharf while fl shing. —W/ A, o/ 4 257 JAPANESE TELLS POLICE HE STRANGLED FIANCEE Patrolman Believes Man Is Unbal- anced by Heat, Until Shown Body of Girl. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 23.—Kogurro Mogl, a Japanese, was in jail here today because he insists that he strangled his sweetheart, Adelheid Brunjes, recently of Germany, for recklessly spending money he had given her to save for their weeding. The German girl came to America two years ago and met the Japanese while both were working as servants in the same neighborhood. Mogi sob- bed his story to a patrolman, who thought at first he was .unbalanced by the heat. The Japanese said he had sat in Central Park for half an hour thinking it over before he re- ported the slaying. Police went to the furnished room and found the girl’s body on a couch. §500 000,000 RAL MERGER PLANNED Southwestern Lines, With Mileage of 6,000, Involved in Completed Proposal. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 23.—Plags for the great Loree railroad merger in the Southwest, combining the Kansas City Southern, Missouri - Kansas- Texas, and St. Louis-Southwestern systems, were'completed at a meeting of the Kansas City Southern directors today. An early application will be made to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to approve the consolidation. The Kansas City Southern directors ap- proved the plan. Directors. of the o:.hur roads previously had taken ac- tion. The merger, which has been in the process of formation for more than a year, will unite raflways with total as- sets of approximately $600,000,000 and a combined ‘trackage of more than 6,000 miles. —_— MOROQCCAN TRIBES YIELD. 2,000 Familles and Leading Chief Submit to French. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 23—The work of restoring peace to the more remcte districts of French Morocco is pro- ing rapidly, according to reports received by the foreign office. Dis- patches received today told of the subimission of 2,000 familles and the well known chief Sidi Raho. The date of Abd-el-'Krim's voyage to Reunion Island, to which he has been exiled, has not yet been fixed. The voyage probably will not take place for several weeys, when special transportation will be furnished to the former Riffian leader and his family. HOME OF THE PROPHET OF A HEATLESS SUMMER. IMEXICO REPORTED MOBILIZING ARMY Troops Said to Have Been Ordered Ready to Act in Church Row. By the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz., July 23.—A semi- official dispatch to the Herald from Mexico City today said that the sec- retary of war in the cabinet of Presi- dent Calles had ordered all federal troops in the republic to be under arms and ready for instant action on August 1, at which time, reports pre- viously have stated, the Catholic churches throughout the nation will be closed under orders from high ec- clesiastical officials. Theydispatch said that the serious- ness of conditions throughout the re- public, as a result of the government’s decision to enforce the new religious measures, had thus been recognized by federal officials. The secretary of war’s order was dispatched to military commanders in the different Mexican states today, the Herald message said. The dispatch continued that at the time the report was sent from Mexico City more than 40 priests had filed pe- titions received from the government for passports insuring safe passage from Mexico. Great secrecy is declared to prevail regarding future actions of the clergy and nothing definite is known as to what attitude will be taken by the church when enforcement of the new religious laws starts, other than the churches will be closed as a pro- test to the measures. The message further stated that confirmation had been received in Mexico City that an intended boycott on pleasures and luxuries would be enforced by the thousands of church followers upon the closing of the houses of worship. The dispatch concluded with the statement that Mexico is looking to- ward August 1 as a momentous day in its_history. CHICAGO, July 23 (#).—Cardinal Mundelein, in a letter to be read next Sunday in all Catholic churches of the Chicago archdiocese, criticizes the Mexican government for what he terms a ‘“conspiracy” in “attempting to stamp out religion in general and the inherited Catholic faith of its people in pacticular.” The letter, made public today, bids the parishioners to use the “spiritual weapon of world-wide prayer” in obey- ing the designation by Pope Pius XI of August 1 as a day of universal prayer for the stricken church of Mexico. “And down in Mexico,” said the cardinal's letter, “there is nothing very original in the methods that are being pursued; the procedure follow- ed is quite crude and bungled, and because of the very stupidity dis- played by those conducting the con- spiracy it has been difficult to arouse the American people to honest indig- nation or to irritate us into decided action, for our people seem convinced that all such attempts will naturally fail again, even as they have In the A Great Picture Beat! The Mummy of King Tut-ankh-Amen and Treasures Hidden for Centuries Revealed at Last! Photographs Will Be Published Exclusively in Washington in The Sunday Star This big Epicture feature is the last chapter in the -remarkable gyptian explorations of Howard Carter, The mummy of King Tut has been uncovered and photographed, together with the marvelous treasures of the royal casket—a full page of pictures. " .In The Sunday Star ORDEE YOUR COPY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER TODAY. NATION'S LEADERS SUPPORT DISTRICT Letter to 2,000 Prominent People in Various States Wins Hearty Response. NOTABLES IN MANY LINES SYMPATHIZE WITH QUEST “District Day” at Sesquicentennia] to Be Demonstration for Full Rights. “Voteless Washington™ nas car- ried its protest against “taxation without representation” to the lead- ers of public opinion throughout the United States. During the past few days 2,000 men and women of promi- nence, North, South, East and West, have received personal letters from the joint committee on national representation for the District of Co- lumbis calling attention to Wash- ington's plight. Time enough has elapsed for re- plies from every section of the coun- try. The response is overwhelmingly favorable. Opposition exists in so few quartrs as to be virtually negli- gible. It is already apparent that the fair-minded citizenship of the Re- public has only to be informed of Washington's political disabilities to show readiness to remove them. Text of Appeal. The appeal to these persons of dis- tinction reads as follows: “Under separate cover I am tak- ing the liberty of sending you a copy of ‘Hearings’ held in April, 1926, before the House judiciary committee. They tell the story of the District of Columbia’s long-stand- ing effort to secure national suf- frage rights. . wFo these ‘Hearings’ we are inviting the attention of representative citizens throughout the United S‘t‘ate;‘.‘ 1;\" th; confident hope that Vashington' plight will appeal to them. The District of Columbia seeks only one of the fundamental political rights enjoyed by other sections of the country. It wants its own spokesmen in both houses of Congress and a vote in the electoral college for President and Vice President. It does mnot seek. Statehood. It does not even ask for local self-government. It craves merely a square deal on national affairs and a voice in them commen- surate with its population, importance, wealth and bigh character of citizen- ship. “You will not, perhaps, have lelsure to read the ‘Hearings' through. May we in that event direct your notice to pages 2 to 17, inclusive, and anticipate the eventual favor of an expression of your views?" The appeal i3\ signed by Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the National Representation Joint Committee. T he co-operating organizations from the membership of which the committee is drawn are representative of every form of organized life and activity in the District of Columba. Their names and identity disclose that the citizens of Washington are marching shoulder to shoulder in demanding a voice in the making of the laws which govern them. Backed by Leading Groups. These are the organizations that united in asking for Washingtonians a square deal from their fellow coun- trymen: ‘Washington Bar Association, Wash- ington Board of Trade, Washington Chamber of Commerce, Washington Real Estate Board, Washington Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tions, Federation of Women's Clubs, Associated Retail Credit Men, Wash- ington Florist Club, Monday Evening Club, District Delegate Association, Advertising Club of Washington, Cen- tral Labor Union of Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia League of Women Voters, City Club of Washington, Women's Bar Association, Twentieth Century Club, Association of Oldest Inhabitants, Susan B. Anthony Foun- dation, Northeast Washington Citi- zens’ Assoclation, East Washington Citizens’ Association Women's City Club of Washington. Few appeals for national causes have ever reached a more influential cross-section of the American people. Those addressed include governors of States, United States judges and dis- trict attorneys, members of State Legislatures, mayors of leading cities, editors of newspapers and magazines, labor leaders, leaders of the churches, presidents of colleges and universities, presidents of chambers of commerce and trade assoclations, presidents of women’s clubs and federations, State regents of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, members of the Re- publican and. Democratic national committees, bank presidents, manu- facturers, merchants, lawyers, writ- ers, politicians, cartoonists, physicians and surgeons. Men formerly high in the councils of the National Govern- ment, in both the executive and legis- lative branches, and now influential factors in their own communities, have been addressed. These men, once residents of Washington, are particularly cordial in their advocacy of political justice for the District. Many Praise Effort. The following are characteristic re- sponses to the appeal: Gov. Hunt of Arizona—"I am in favor of allowing the District to vote. Anything I can do within reason to secure the vote for them will be done lleve your contention is a just one and that citizens of the District should be accorded national suffrage rights.” Tom C. Gooch, vice president Times< Herald, Dallas, Tex.—"“The Times- Herald, is very glad to support your cause. ‘William E. Brigham, associate edi- tor Boston Transcript— ‘The great community of Washington should not be deprived of the common rights of American citizens.” Fred 1. Kent, vice president Bank- ers’ Trust Co., New York—“It is in- conceivable to me how there can be any objection on the part of any one to your proposal.”” Former Gov. Goldsborough of Mar: land—"1 have always believed that the citizens .of Washington are enti. ! (Continued on Page 2, Column o