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v Clarence WEATHER. ‘Weather Bureau Forecast.) cloudy and cooler tonight Gentle to moderate north and northeast winds. and tomorrow. Temperature—Highest, sterd: Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 lowest, 64, at 5 a.m. today. 80, at 3p.m. ¢ Foeni ’ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Sfar. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Saturday’s Circulation, 90,891 Sunday’s Circulation 103,905 No. 30,085. post office, BREWSTER MARGIN OF 20000 CLANED INAINE ELEGTON Light Voting Expected Today in Barometer State, With One Close Race. NINE STATES TOMORROW CAST PRIMARY BALLOTS Butler Opposed in Massachusetts. Weller Matched Against Hill. Run-Off in South Carolina. By the Associated PORTLAND, Me., September 13.— Maine today is holding its bienntal State eiection—the traditional politi- cal barometer, Usually the amount of the Republi- fan plurality for governor furnishes much argument as to whether it fore- casts the Nation’s view of a National edministration. A comparatively light vote was pre- dicted. Party leaders conceded the total ballots probably would be far be- low the record set two years ago when Ralph O. Brewster, Republican, was elected governor by 36,000. A governor, State auditor, four Rep- resentatives, a Legislature and county officers must be chosen toda Brewster, seeking re-election, and Mayor Ernest L. McLean of Augusta, Democratic nominee, have taken their campaigns into every the State. Republican leaders claim Prewste will win by 20.000. Demo- crats indicated they would be pleased if the Republican lead were half that ficure. Four incumbent Republicans are geeking return to the House of Rep- resentatives, but in only one of the districts have the Democrats made a yeal campaign. Representative Wal- lace H. White of 1 given vigorous opposition by Charles M. Starbird of Auburn. OTHER VOTING TOMORROW. Massachusetts, President’s Home State, and 8 More to Ballot. By the Associated Press. Voters of nine States trudge to the primaries tomorrow, to express their preference for State and national of- ficer: In Massachusetts, home State of President Coolidge, his__ personal friend, Senator Willlam M. Butler, chairman of the Republican national commitiee, is opposed for re-nomi- nation by Washington Cook, member of the Governor's Counci Cook’s campaign is based upon modification of the Volstead act, public ownership of railroads, oil fields, and power, and direct election of Pre dents. Former Senator David W is an outstanding figure in the Demo- eratic senatorial primary. More than 250,000 persons qualified to participate in the Democratic Loulsi- primary which is to determine her Bdwin 8. Broussard, the in- or Jared Y. Saunders, a jovernor, is 1o be elected Prohibition and toll ipal issue. while ana whet cumbent, former to the Senate. bridges have heen the princi Senator Broussard is a wet, Saunders is dry. In the Colorado primaries, observers gee the culmination of a two-year fight for control of the Republican party between Senator L. C. Phipps - Rice W. Means, the lat- & for renomination,” and Hamlin, Republican na- tional committeeman. Senator Means is the directing head of the State Ku Klux Klan, while Hamlin leads the anti-Klan ction of the party The campaign has been one of pe sonalities without a national issue. Jones Opposed by Six. In Washington, Senator Wesley L. Jones, chairman of the Senate Com- merce committee, is opposed for re- nomination by a field of six candidates, fncluding Frank E. Hammond, an avowed wet Senator Jones is a dry. In New York, nine congressional contests are to be settled and mem bers of the State legislature were to be voted on Senator Porter H. Dale is before the voters of Vermont for their approval. In Maryland, Senator O. E. Weller i& opposed for the Republican nomin: tion by Representative Jobn Phillip 111l of the third district. Representa- tive Hill has devoted much of his cam: pa advocating moditication of the Volstead act In Michigan the voters will act upon State officers and issues, in addition to nominating candidates for Repre- sentative in the South Carolina run-off elec- tion, Senator Ellison D. Smith is op posed by Col. K r A. Brow speaker of the State House of Repre sentatives, neither having obtained a majority in the previous primary. PARTY SPLIT IN COLORADO. Phipps Backs Means, G. 0. P. Com- mitteeman Helps Another. DENVER, Colo., September 13 (#). —Complete lack of any national issue and an abundance of personalities face Colorado’s electorate Tuesday, when it goes to the polls to nominate complete senatorial, congressional and® State tickets. Interest h it the st States Senator and Clarence centered almost wholly sgle between United Lawrence C. Phipps Hamlin of Colorado Springs, natiol committeeman, for control and 1 ship of the Repub- lican party in this State. Phipps has thrown his support be- hind John Vivian, Federal pro- hibition ad for Colorado, New , for governor, and tacitly at least behind United States Senator Rice W. Means for re- nomination. Hamlin supports former Gov. O. H. Shoup for governor and Charles W. Waterman, lawyer and at present counsel for the President's Ofl Board in Washington. A third randidate for the senatorial nomina- Gearge Luxford, Denver nty judge. generally credited with ieing the chvice of the Minute Men, a body formed here by seceding Ku Klux Klansmen. Vivian is reputed to have Klan indorsement Carl 8. Milliken. sec is a third candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. The Re- ubliean contest has almost over- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2J etary of State, part of | Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. His Victory Assured GOV. RALPH 0. BREWSTER of Maine. WASHINGTON, D. C, X\IQNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, MERTON DECLARES HEKNOWS NOTHING F FEE “SPLITUP" Says He Went to King for Aidf Having Distrust of Lawyers. JURORS ENLIVEN TRIAL BY QUIZZING WITNESS [4INCH RAINFALL CAUSES 3 DEATHS Hundreds of Square Miles Inundated in Kansas—Hun- dreds Are Homeless. By the Associated Press. EMPORIA, Kans., September 13.— The Neosho River, rising a foot and a half since midnight, today threatened to inundate new territory and increase the damage to buildings and the heavy live stock losses caused yesterday, when the flood waters of the Cotton- swept a section of southeastern Kan- 60 miles long. Today’s rise was caused by torrents pouring from the Cottonwood into the Neosho, seven miles southeast of here. The Neosho was approaching the rec- ord high of 2 flood of 1928, The raging Neosho today covered a territory from 3 to 10 miles wide from a point several miles west of here to Parsons, about 100 miles southeast. Burlingfon, Leroy and other points between here and Neosho Falls, 45 miles southeast of here, reported the high mark apparently reached shortly before midnight, but it was feared the | deluge from the Cottonwood River would force the Neosho to a new high today. lola_ reported the Neosho holding steadily at 23 feet at 4 o'clock this morning, the volume passing south into the Chanute and Parsons dis- tricts, where rapid rises were recorded, causing heavy damage. Three Known Dead. Three persons were known to have lost their lives and hundreds were homeless or marooned in their houses. Starting at the headwaters of the three rivers, the flood swept southeast through Emporia, Madison, Burling- ton and intermediate points, swelling in volume as it came. Water-threat- ened householders fled for their lives. Many, taken unawares, were rescued in rowboats from the roofs and second stories of their homes. A large section of the town of Neo- sho Falls, about 35 miles southeast of here, was reported as virtually in- undated at midnight, with some re dents forced to the roofs of houses. A banker who reported the situation to Wichita said he stood in water on the top floor of a building?while tele- phoning the report. The section hard- est hit apparently included a territory nearly 25 miles wide, starting about 10 miles west of here and extending more_than 50 miles southeast, along the Neosho and Cottonwood Valleys. Tola, a town of nearly 8,000 population, was’ threatened early this morning. The Neosho was reported at the high- est point in its history and rising slow- ly. The torrent had not reached the central section of the town, but had driven scores of persons from their homes in the western residential dis- trict. Rainfall Breaks Record. Rainfall at Neosho Falls broke all records for the storm with 14 inches. The village of Leroy reported 11 inches. At Florence 7 inches fell. About 4 inches was reported here and at Burlington, Cottonwood Falls reported 615 inches. Junction City re- ported 6 inches. Definite records were not reported at Iola, but it is esti- mated that upward of 10 inches fell there, Fourteen miles southeast of Burling: ton, on the Neosho, the town of Leroy and Moody were hard hit. Dan Braum, county agent for Coffey County, de- clared last night that 20 farmhomes were completely washed away in this neighborhood, with heavy losses of live stock. The damage in Burlington was caused when the waters of Rock Creek, cutting through the heart of the business district, could not empty fast enough into the Neosho, backed up and inundated the husiness district and about 50 homes. Drops Dead at Sight. Charles Rodgers, 60, a farmer near Burlington, who served as county commissioner during the disastrous floods here of 1 en he peered from {rapidly encroaching on his front steps. The herolsm of a telephone girl, Mrs. June Chubb, who stuck to her post in spite of the rising waters to spread the alarm, probably saved the lives of many Burlington resi- dents, who slept unaware of danger. She was rescued in a rowboat from the second story of the telephone exchange. Santa Fe, Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the Rock Island Railroads abandoned rvice to many towns. ! Burlington, Madison and villages in {this section are completely | from railroad service. FINANCE MINISTER DIES. S. Hayami of Japan Succumbs After Protracted Illness. TOKIO, September 13 (#).—Finance Minister S. Hayami died at 5 o'clock tonight. Hayami dled at his villa at Kama- kura, where he had been ill for some time.. Premier Reijio Wakatsuki is ex- pected to fill the vacated post tem- porarily. The premier formerly was finance minister and has actually been handling the post since Min- ister Hayami became ill. He miay continue in the dual tion. The present financi licy is ex- pected to continue wood, Verdigris and Neosho Rivers! sas, approximately 25 miles wide and ; feet recorded in the| dropped dead yes- | bedroom window to see the tide ! cut off | Question of Actual Date of Trans- fer of Stock Expected to Have Bearing on Case. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 13.— Richard Merton, German capitalist, and star witness for the Government in the trial of former Attorney Gen- eral H. M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custo- dian, testified today that he had no knowledge of a “split up” of a $441,- 000 fee between the accused and John T. King, former Connecticut national committeeman. Merton paid this amount to King, id, as a “fee” for recovering 00,000 ts of the American als Co. from the alien property custodian. The company was German owned and was seized during the war. The $7,000,000 was turned over to the Socletie Suisse, allegedly a neutral or- ganization, but contended by the gov- ernment to be German controlled. Merton said he saw King upon his arrival in New York vather than lawyers because he had a distrust for “unscrupulous”’ lawyers who were then flooding Germany with offers to regain seized property for a fee. Merton also testified that he told Col. Miller at their first meeting that the Socletie Suisse was owned by the s and that he tried to divert his ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) MEXIGAN BANDITS KIDNAP AMERICAN Tourist Believed Mistaken for U. S. Embassy Secretary. Others in Autd Robbed. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 13.— Jacob Rosenthal, retired New York City business man, who came to Mex- jco as a tourist, is held prisoner by bandits who attacked an automobile " | party 40 miles from Mexico City late yesterday afternoon. Others in the party were Jack J. Zahler, a_prominent American resi- dent of Mexico City, his wife, and Joseph Ruff, Mr. Rosenthal’s son-in- law, who also is a resident of the cap- ital. The party was returning from Cuernvaca from a week end holiday, when stopped by the bandits. All were robbed, and Mr. Rosenthal, who is more than 60 years old, was carried off. Mr. Zahler today sald he thought the bandits intended to kidnap Ar- thur Lane, undersecretary of the American Embassy, who also spent the week end in Cuernavaca, and be- lieves they stopped the wrong auto- mobile. Cuernavaca is a pleasure resort very popular with foreigners, who have felt themselves safe from bandits so close to the capital. No Demand for Ransom. Mr. Zahler is puzzled as to why the bandits selected Mr. Rosenthal for capture, and doubly mystified by the fact that they made no demand for ransom. AsS they were carrying off Mr. Rosenthal the bandits gave Mr. Zahler a letter, sayi “If you keep this quiet, nothing happen to him,” but nothing was mentioned re- garding a ransom. Mr. Zahler clings to the theory that the bandits Intended to seize some one else, probably Secretary of the Em- bassy Lane. The American charge d'affaires, H. F. Arthur Scheenfield, later today made diplomatic representations to the Mexican foreign office, asking that proper steps be taken for the release ! of Mr. Rosenthal and the apprehension and punishment of the bandits. Secretary Lane arrived safely from Cuernavarca and experienced no diffi- culties during the journey. Embassy circles do not believe the bandits ught to capture Mr. Lane or that they were after any particular individ- who appeared suitable for ransom pur- voses. CAR WITH 8 PLUNGES 200 FEET INTO RIVER One Body Recovered in Oregon In- | dicates Six of Victims Were | From Pennsylvania. By the Associated Press. MEDFORD, Ore., September 13. — Eight persons, partially identified as D. T. Norris and wife and four chil- dren of Mahaffey, Pa., and an aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Beige of Jacksonville, Ore., were killed Sun- day afternoon when a large touring |car, bearing Pennsylvania license 812,369, plunged off the Crater Lake highway at a turn in the road called Lookout Point, near Prospect, into the raging waters of Rouge River, 200 feet helow. Darkness compelled a halt in the search. and but one body has been recovered and identified as D. T. Nor- ris. . # Clay Walker of this city, a member of the rescue party, was lost in the canyon and a posse was searching for him early todays ual, but merely wanted any forelgner | 1926—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. K Poriticar \ PHRENOLOGIST —— EXPERIENCED The Republican party is “morally and intellectually bankrupt.’—Democratic “Book of Facts.” CONFESSES TO FAKE IN MPHERSON GASE Seamstress Admits She Was to Receive $5,000 for Seaside Cottage Tale. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, -September 13.— The Examiner in a copyrighted story today says Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman McDonald Seilaff, $18-a-week seam- stress, has confessed that her story of having shared a seaside cottage at Carmel_with a sister, the anonymous “Miss X" and Kenneth G. Ormiston, former Angelus Temple radio operator, was a fake, for which she was to re- ceive $5,000 from Aimes Semple Mc- Pherson, the evangelist. Some 'time after Mrs McPherson reappeared witnesse§ wére féund at Carmel, Calif., who said Ormiston had occupled a cottage at Carmel, a part of the time that the evangelist was missing, with a woman who looked like Mrs. McPherson. The admission was made in a sworn statement. The alleged confession climaxed a dramatic meeting between Mrs. Seilaff and her twin sister, Mrs. Virla Kim- ball of Oakland, and is said to have been made at the direct request of the latter. They met in the newspaper office, Mrs. Seflaff having been taken under guard from her cell in the county jail, where she had spent two ays, since her arrest Saturday on charges of issuing worthless checks. Was to Send Telegram. The sisters kissed, and after a con- sultation with her lawyer, Mrs. Seilaft announced her intention of “‘making a clean breast of the whole thing.” She then proceeded to dictate her state- ment, which was acknowledged later by a notary. Mrs. Seilaff began her afdavit by stating that she was approached in San Francisco on about July 30 by a man who gave his name as “Mr. Mar- tin” and who asked her if she would come to Los Angeles on “some work Which would pay good money and would only take a few weeks or not all of that time.” She sald the man could give her only a few details, but informed her the work offered was in connection with the McPherson case. She stated that she was instructed to send a, tele- gram to District Attorney Asa Keyes at Los Angeles, declaring that her sis- ter, who was in the East, had been with Ormiston at Carmel, and that she had wired the sister to return immedi- ataly. ] The same day Keves received a wire | from San Francisco, signed ‘‘Belle Owen.” Mrs. Seilaff said she left that night for Los Angeles. Unable to reach Keyes over the telephone upon | her arrival here, she said she went to Angelus Temple. Met Mrs. Kennedy. “I had some time getting in, because no one knew me, but I told them it was in regard to the Carmel case and that I had come to help Mrs. McPher- son out,” Mrs. Seilaft said. “I talked with Mrs. Kennedy and Mr. Veitch, one of her attorneys,” her statement continues. “I could not tell them much, because I did not know how to go about it until I had got some information. I met Mrs. Me- Pherson for just a few minutes that day.” Mrs. Seilaff said she remained in | town two days, during which time she went out to the temple “quite a num- ber of times,” talking with Mrs. Ken- nedy and Mrs. McPherson. “During these two days I at no time talked with Mrs. McPherson alone, with the exception of just a moment when Mrs. McPherson told me it was all right to go ahead,” the woman re- continued to dictate, “and they would bav all my expenses, and that if I | could do this I would be well paid. \ Sought to Forestall Divorce. | Mrs. Seilaff staved in Los Angeles a few days longer, she stated, and then left for San Francisco “and got in touch with the young lady she knew to be reliable to appear as ‘Miss X" “The reason of Miss X being there ‘was because Mr. Ormiston’s wife was coming to Los Angeles to sue him for divorce and name Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson in the complaint. With a Miss X there, Mrs. Ormiston could not do this. I then came south and told Mrs. McPherson and her mother that I could get in touch with a “Miss and that, while it would take a little while to get all the facts of the case and to produce her, it would not be advisable to rush in to it,” Mrs. Seilaff stated. She next went to Carmel and San Francisco to see if any of the persons who were reported to have seen Mrs. lated. “They told me to go ahead,” she: PREDICTS SPAIN’S RETURN Ibanez Tells League President Rivera Is Throttling Nation. GENEVA, Switzerland, September 13 (#).—Blasco Ibanez, Spanish writer and opponent of the Primo de Rivera regime, sent a telegram to President Ninchitch of the League of Nations assembly from Mentone, France, to- day, saying: ““As soon as the dictatorship s over- thrown by the efforts of the Spanish pecple the first aim of the new Spain Will be to resume its place in Geneva and contribute to the League's work of peace.” Ibanez said he made this declaration at a. moment when “Spanish_opinion is throttled by censorship and unable to express its adhesion to the League.” MME. ENTEZAM BLAMED N DEATH Coroner’s Jury Refrains From Holding Her Because of Diplomatic Immunity. Mme. Margaret Hume Entezam, wife of the third secretary of the Persian Legation, well known Wash- ington society girl, was held respon- sible for the death of Thomas J. Cadel, 77 vears old, a retired farmer, of 1948 Calvert street in an automobile col- lision; at Twenty-first and R streets Saturday afternoon by a coroner's jury at the District Morgue today. Upon advice of Assistant United States Attorney Neal Burkinshaw, however, the coroner’s jury refrained from holding Mme. Entezam for the action of the grand jury. Mr. Burkin- shaw advised against such action, pointing to the diplomatic Immunity granted to members of the diplomatic corps and their immediate families. Daughter Sobs Story. The accident occurred at the inter- section of Twenty-first and R streets when an automobile accupied by Mme. Entezam and Herman Besa, formerly of the Chilean embassy, and an auto- mobile operated by Miss Jessie May Cadel, daughter of the victim, in which he was riding, collided in a sideswiping crash which ended when the Cadel automobile turned turtle. In a broken, sobbing voice, Miss Ca- dell told her version of the accident to the coroner’s jury. She said she could see no automobile approachbing in either direction as she approached R street from the south on Twenty-first street Saturday. “As I got a little further toward the intersection,” she said, “I saw the other car. My impression is that it was not speeding, but that it was go- ing pretty fast. I thought that I had ample time to get across the intersec- tion. T did not put on the brakes an I did not pick up speed very much. Caught by Top. “The impact came just in back of the seat which I was occuping. It seemed to throw the back of the car around. It threw my father forward first and then outward from his seat. His head went through the window and the car turned over. I spoke to hi mfirst. He didn’t answer. I look. ed and found his head fastened down by the top of the car.” Miss Cadel said the other machine did not stop at the approach to the intersection and that it kept on going after the accident. Mme. Entezam, who was a popular local . debutante just a few seasons ago as Miss Margaret Hume, also took the witness stand. She said she was driving the big coupe automobile which figured in the accident east on R street just be- fore the accident. Tree Cut Off Vision. “As T got toward the intersection,” she said, “T slowed down a bit, but was unable to see the approach of the other machine because of an over- hanging tree on R street and a wagon underneath that tree.” She said she swerved to the north into Twenty-first street in an attempt to avoid the collision, but that she was unable to do so. The right front wheel of the machine she was driving struck the other machine, she said, and the two machines swung together across to the northeast sidewalk cor- ner of the intersection, where they mounted the sidewalk and then pulled apart again. The Cadel machine top- pled over. The other car, Mme. Ente- zam said, ran a short distance north on the sidewalk, and then she swung it out into the street, between two trees, parking it on the west side of Twenty-first street. She and Mr. Besa immediately went to the aid of the in- jured man, but were unable under the McPherson _in gthe northern citles, flmfi‘ & Column 1) (Continued on Page 2, Columa I3 S.ENVOY CONFERS ON CHINESE ISSUES Tokio Will Keep Hands Off in War, Foreign Minister Tells MacVeagh at Parley. By the Associated Press. - TOKIO, September 13.—The United States Ambassador, Charles Mac- Veagh, today called informally on Baron Kijuro Shidehara, foreign min- ister, and inquired regarding Japan's attitude toward China in the latter country’s troubled condition. It is un- derstood that Baron Shidehara stated that Japan does not contemplate any interforence, except what may be necessary for the protection of the lives and property of her nationals. The foreign minister declares that Japan s policy is virtually the same as America's, and hopes peace will come out of the present chaos. 1t is assumed here that Ambassador MacVeagh,, in his talk today with the Japanese foreign minister, merely went over informally the latest aspects of the problem of China, so that the Washington and Tokio governments might be in a better position to co- operate in their treatment of the sit- uation. For many years all the powers have acted collectively in dealing with Chi- nese internal dissention, and it has been the custom, particularly since the Washington conference, to exchange information freely and advise together regarding the steps to be taken If the present disturbances in China are leading to any change in the policy of the powers, there bas been no indication of it in Washing- ton. The foreign ships in Chinese waters maintain close liaison in their united efforts to protect foreign life and property, but have been careful not to interfere with the warring factions except when international in- terests become involved. LONDON MORE REASSURED. Firing Continues at Hankow, But Not at Foreigners. LONDON, September 13 (#).—The Chinese situation is regarded as more reassuring by British officlals because of the week end dispatches from the troubled centers in the Orlent. Cheng- tu and Chung-king are quiet, accord- ing to the British consul's reports, and a proclamation has been issued in the latter city declaring that British lives will be protected and their property must be respected. At Hankow, where the Cantonese general, Tang-Sheng-Chi. has arrived, firing on forelgn ships continues, probably owing to the lack of dis- cipline.” However, the foreigners in the city, known as the Pittsburgh of China because of its great industrial plants, are not considered in any danger except from stray bullets. Just what Chinese force holds Wu Chang, across the river from Han- kow, is still part of the Chinese puzzle as far as British information is con- cerned. During the last fortnight it was several times reported the city had been taken by the Cantonese forces, but British dispatches now say Wu Chang was still held by Wu Pei-Fu's forces on Saturday, although Wu himself was far to the north try- iarmy defeated at Hankow. The same British sources say the Chinese press in Hankow blames Wu's supporter, Yang-Sen, for the Wan-Hsien inci- dent. BRITISH SHIP FIRED ON. Steamer Kiangwo Carrying Wounded Sailors Target Last Thursday. SHANGHAI, September 13 (#).— A delayed dispatch from Hankow, dated last Friday, says the British steamer Kiangwo, having on board British sailors wounded in the recent attack by Chinese troops at Wan- hsien, was heavily fired on last Thurs- day while passing Shanking and was forced to return up the river. The Kiangwo made another attempt to pass Shanking Friday, but the fusil- lade was so heavy she again returned up the river. An American torpedo boat destroyer afterward took off the wounded from the Kiangwo and a British gunboat eventually escorted the steamer to a place of safety. e Two Die in Religious Fight. ALLAHABAD, India, September 13 (#).—Two persons were killed and 21 injured today in rioting as a Hindu procession approached the Moham- medan mosque. Most of the casual- ties were Hindus. The police stopped the rioting and restored order. Radid Programs Page 20 ing to round up the remnants of his| INOTED MATADOR TOSSED AND BADLY HURT BY BULL Mexico's Most Famous Fighter Believed to Have Waged His Last Ring Battle. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 13. —Juan Silveti, Mexico’s most famous matador, may have fought his last bullfight. On the eve of his retirement, Silveti, called “Juan Without Fear,” was wounded Sunday in a fight at Nuevo Laredo, Just as he poised his blade and prepared to kill the last bull of the fight, the animal charged, tossing the matador to the ground and severe- ly gashing his right leg. Silveti, clad in his bright silks and jewels, was carried, dripping a long () Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. WHITE-CLAD HOSTS FORM FOR SECOND UNMASKED PARADE OF KU KLUX KLAN Uncounted Theusands Flock to Capital by Train and trail of blood, to a hospital, where after an operation, it was announced that his condition was improved, but that he still was in danger. Hundreds of Americans saw the ac- cident. PRESIDENT COMING Auto—2,000 Cars Parked at 3 Camping Grounds. THREE-DAY CONVENTION HOME THIS WEEK Considers Returning Satur- day to Capital Through Wadsworth’s Territory. By the Associated Press. PAUL SMITH'S, N. Y., September 13.—This is “going home week” at the Summer White House. The President and Mrs. Coolidge will break camp either Friday night or Saturday, returning to Washington on the same special train that brought them to the Adirondacks early in July. Although the President has not in- dicated whether he will leave late Friday, arriving in the National Capital next morning. or make the journey by daylight Saturday, it is understood he is giving serious con- sideration to the day trip which would e thousands of people in New York te cities an opportunity to greet him. Such an arrangement, it is be- lieved, would be acceptable to Re- publican leaders of this State where Senator Wadsworth is a candidate for re-election. So far as has been indicated, the President will take no part in the Fall campalgn, in either New York or other States, but it is pointed out that a daylight ride out of the mountains and down the Mohawk and Hudson River valleys into New Jersey would take him_through a populous part of Senator Wadsworth's constituency. DEATH MAY AWAIT DUCE'S ASSAILANTS Mussolini Likely to Call Extra Session of Parliament to | Provide Penalty. By the Associated Press. ROME, September 13.—The assassin who attempted the life of Premier Mussolini Saturday by throwing a bomb at his automobile as it was passing the Pla Gate into the city now is believed to be Gin Lucetti, 26, a native of Avenza, Tuscany. When seized at the scene of the attempt he gave his name as Ermete Giovannini and said he was born at Castelnuovo di Garfagnana. He ex- plains, the police say, that he gave a false name to avold complications for his family. According to the new account given by the prisoner, he arrived in Rome on August 2, took lodgings in a third- class hotel under a false name and began patrolling the streets through which he thought the premier might pass. Carried Bombs in Belt. He constantly carried two bombs in his belt, with a piece of emery paper strapped to his wrist, this to set in operation the detonating apparatus on the missiles. The fact that the premier’'s car was driven over different routes between his office and residence baffled Lucetti at first. Then he noticed that, what- ever route was chosen, the car al- ways passed the Pia Gate, and it was there that he found his oppor- tunity. The prisoner’s personal character- istics are sych that the police are not inclined to take even his present | story at its full face value and are continuing_their investigations. He is evidently a man of education, although a stonecutter by trade. His family, at Avenza, s sald to be fairly well-to:do. Furthermore, he is a man of exceptional natural intelligence, and the police belleve his present at- titude is one of assumed stupidity. Lucetti is of medium helght, dark land very robust. There are many | scars on his body, and tattooed across {his chest are the words: “V la anru‘ " (Long live death.) N Lucetti fought in the war, serving | with Italy’s choicest shock troops. | Later he lived for eight years in | France, residing successively in Mar- | seilles, Nice and Paris. Although the Rome police have little information regarding his ante- cedents, he is known in his native village and all the French citles where he lived as a dangerous an- archist. The police now are busy investigat- ing whether in the perlod after his arrival in Rome he entered into rela- tions with certain Communist and So- ~(Continued on Page 5, Column 1) THREE DIE IN SHIP BLAST. Tanker Sunk at Dock to Prevent Flames Spreading to Others. YOKOHAMA, September 13 (A).— Three persons were killed, 14 seri- ously injured and 24 slightly injured in an explosion on the tank steamer Koyo Maru in the harbor here today. The ship had docked for repairs. It was sunk following the explosion to prevent fire spreading to other ships. The Koyo Maru was a vessel of 5,471 gross ton: It was owned and operated by the Toyo Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha. It is presumed the dead and injured were members of the crew. ‘What ‘caused the explosion has not been ascertained, TO FOLLOW PROCESSION Dr. Evans, Imperial Wizard, Up for Re-Election, Leads Spectacular March From Peace Monument. Veterans of Original Order Take Part in the Display. Re-enacting the scenes of a year ago, a mighty host of members of the Invisible Fmpire, Knights of ti Ku Klux Klan, gatiiered today in the shadow of the Capitol for their sec- ond pretentious parade down the Nation's Main street this afternoon. Responding to the invitation ot the District of Columbia Realm of the mystic order, uncounted thou- sands of men and women from many States, led by some 6,000 State and national officers from all over the United States, were prepared to it augurate their third biennial na- tional convention with a spectacular pageant along Pennsylvania avenue. Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, lately of Atlanta, Ga., but now of this city, who is up for re-election as Imperial Wizard at the three-day meeting in the convention headquarters in the Washington Auditorium, will march at the head of the big procession as it starts moving around the Capitol grounds at 3 o'clock this aiternoon, en route for the Washington Monu- ment. Opening the way for the parade proper will be a squad of motorcycle policemen, led by Maj. Edwin B Hesse, superintendent of police, in an automobile. Two of Originals in Line. Then will follow the impertal offi- cers of the Klan, including Mrs. Rob- bie Gill Comer, imperial commander of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, and various State officials of the or- ganization. One of the leading figures in the official vanguard as it gathered at the starting point, in the vicinity of First and B streets northeast, was R. P. Thrall of Culpeper, Va., said to be the oldest living klansman and one of the few who belonged to the original Ku Klux Klan of '66. He is 82 years old. Another veteran of the Klan of re- construction days was J. M. Fraser, 77 years old, of Houston, Tex. Radiating from the starting point were the columns of robed and hood- ed marchers, ready for the signal that would start them swinging on their way down the Capital's historic parade ground. At intervals were placed units of the women's branch of the Klan, each unit sporting large banners an- nouncing the name and home of the group. No single uniform was the vogue, except. that all conformed in | general design to the approved {of the fraternity-sorority. |and coats were of varied shapes colors. Klansmen Unmasked. Everywhere, if hoods were in use the faces of the wearers were open (o public inspection, in accordance with the rules soverning parades in \Wash- ington. No definite or reliable estimato of the number of visitors here for the parade and convention could he ob- tained today. It was known that a score of special trains have disgorged their passengers into the Union Sta- tion concoursa since early last night, but as to the number who came by regular train accommodations or b the highways leading from the South, West. and North no approximation was possible. Terminal officials estimated that between 5,000 and 5.500 klansmen came here by special train. The extra travel noted at the terminal vesterday was about 12,000 pas- sengers above normal, it was stated. No estimates were available a the number who came by coach, although it w were “a great numbe was a heavy influx by anto. 2,000 Autos Arrive. At the Potomac Park tourist camp and the cam, at. Pifteenth and H streets n t and across Highway B the Arlingten Horse Show grounds it was estimated that some automot were parked toda cense plates ran the gamut of States east of the Mis sissippl. Manager Madigan of the Potomac Park camp sald that about 700 Klan cars wero registered, and that because of the final rush for parking spaces this morning some 200 “crashed the gate” and failed to regis ter. These will be registered as thev go out, he said. Scores of Bands on Hand. As the afterncon approached fio camps became virtually descrted and there sprang up east of the Capitol grounds, as if by magic, the white robed, color-flecked army of men and women impatient to begin the march Literally acores o brightly-uniformed Klan bands kept the “arta>” in kizh spirits during the long hours preced- ing the parade—the tures ranging from popular jazz airs and patriotic selections to special Klan hymns in which a multitude of voices joined wholeheartedly No mounted year, in contr: jast August, when robed 'riders, mounted on white-: | keted horses, harked spec [ o the i f th original Klar i Sessions Start Tonigh The procession was to disband the foot of the Washington Monu- ent, the accredi onvention dele- units were apparent st to the parade N (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) -