Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1926, Page 2

CALLES T0 FIURE INCOLORADOVOTE Democrats May Lose Cath olic Support Due to Sweet’s Mexican Stand. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Special Dispaten to The Star DENVER. b.. October 11.—Gen. Plutarcho Calles, President of Mexic may be the deciding fuctor rado's closely a race. That is to say, alie Roman atholic Gov. William K. Sweet of some publicly opi about the Mexican government be just enough to elect his opponer Charles W. Waterman, Coolidge Re publican. weet visited lust Wwith some Colorado Frotestu men, of whom he ix a leader. It just before Cidles’ clash with Rome Sweet suid he was inclined to think the Mexican government's attitude on in Colo senatorial ion of the ormer contes vote expressed ico Sprit chu veligious und other issues seemed sound and right. That inflamed Colo rado Romanlsts. Their dete ination to punish Sweet is siid to be cor respondingly fierce. Democratic man agers acknowledge it ix the principal barrier (o his victory. although enough pro-Calles” Klan it tie 1o Sweet 1o offset Cat tions h may i P Lead, Concerned. Where the Lulk of the Ku Klux vote in Colorado will go is, in fact the probl and D m causing both Republlean ratic leadets grave anxiety, The primaries left things badly dled. The successiul candidates for governor and Senator on Republican and Democratic ticketn alike all made opposition to the “invisible empire’ thelr chief battle cry. In particular Senator Rice W. Means, Republicun, 7ailed of venomination wainly because his opponent. Charles W. Waterman Colorado Coolidge pre-convention man ager 10 1924, lubeled and fought Means as one of the darlings of the Klan gods Oliver 11 lican candid 100 per Sweet, ul te for governd cent anti-K Democratic noy Benate, and Adams won Democratie gubernatorial nom ‘The primaries were widely halled as knocking the pins from beneath Ku Kiux domination of bDenver and Colo rado polities. but for whom (he 30,000 100 odd Klunsmen and Klans for ve the women of this “realm” are now going to vote remains a secret which the shrewest politicians are not able to solve. Klan Split Wide Open. The Klan mesntime open in Colorado. Its vnce all power il grand dragon, Dr. John Galen Kocke, heads o rival “Kian” called The Minute Men” 10 has 13,000 voters in Denver County alone, 1t Locke lines up the “Minute Men™ for Waterm: Republican s, will be materially promoted. | was deposed from his grand d *hip ninly, use of the mauching N I Means. In gratitude ting Means in the Republ primary Locke' finute Men,” some authorities think, “wre certain to support Waterman, The situation is quite as complicated s splt wide a8 these Statements theuse .. Waterman ix # native Vermonter who clalms ax his birthplace u spot not fur native heath on a Stralght upport Coolidge” platform. 1t is wdmitted even by Democrats to be an appealing plat forn ho President fs strong in Color part from hiy econom taxation and “prosperity vgramn Jis attitude on the s tarift purticularly pleasing to Colorado Sugar beet raising ix now overwhelm tugly the State’s parmmount industry 11 long ago displeced wining from first vank from esident campaigning Neck-and-Neck Fight Uile Sweel-Watermar senatorial Aght 18 « neckand-neck aff; with neither side ut this writing brimming with confidence. Denver s the buttle ground, as Louis is the lattle ground in Missouri The Colorudo Republican Senate seat will not be held ugh any enthustasm on t ®d fucumbent, enator Means left the Btate shortly’ after his prin dis aster, 1o occupy himse!f with the at fairs of the Spanish-American War ! Veterans, of whon: he recently was elected national commander Another Republican lewder con spicuously mbsent from the fray, Is William \° Hodges of Denver, treas urer of the Republican natfonal com mittee. There ix still another di tinguished absentee. Senator Lau rence . Phipps, chuirman of the Re- publican senatorial « Dudgr conmit tee. Senator Phipps flitted Tienver last week after cu GO P leaders, in the his cross-country survey conetsts. but he will t the battle to elect Wa It these cure publican discord. Color cluims 1o pres the front in its bistory. Tt vifts i the ) Tormer Sonator who 15 not support stor. But by ocrats this v Iy behind their by with of of senztortl e no part in raan s re il 1iost unit are some such as s H Swent for Sen Calorudo Dem arching solid torial and guber natorial tickets v in that their chief woe is luck of fynds and they fear a deluge o Phip Water man gold” at the eieveuth kL FORD SEES BUSINESS GAIN FROM FIVE DAYS' WOR Labor Needs Time to Win Higher Liviug Standard. He Says Gives Credit Warning By 1he Associated Pross NEW YORK, October 11 Rusiness sense and not human an motives induced Henry Ford to put the five day week in force in his s, explains {n an interview Letor Crowther published it American Bankers nal The workingmen—who are the largest buyers in the country cannot alti he without leisure have the tit vate a higher standard of yeasons Mr. Ford cash business and pay interest to us, rather than p interest to the ba Likewise, he decries Installment buying (o the ex tent to which the custom hus grown in this country. “Instaliment buying w strong advocate for “to have the but has been usetul under vertain circum: stances,” he says. “lt may be a method of sav wnd may stimulate saving, bul the thing has gone too Zaxr now. Morgenthau Prizes Awarded. Patrick Gi. Nelson of New York took first honors in the Henry Morgenthau $1.000 Golden Rule Sunday poster poem-slogan contest, Near East Relief headquurters annourced today. None the District of in the running of the entries from Columbia showed 1ouis Caldwell of New Jersey. Miss F. L. Warren of Brookivn and Mrs Madeline D). Van Wart of New Jersey were second, third and fourth, re- spectively mud Repub- | Conlidge's | e part of the reject | thgougeh | do Democracy | Thomas. | ] troops tirin THE EVENING |Haunted Castle, Once Bluebeard Den, Discovered By the Associated Press. Si NGHURST, Kent, England, Octobes H. Beard, an antiguary, has discovered a six- teenth century ‘Tudor castie here complete, with moat. secret cham ber, murder story and ghost legend - of an Engilsh Blfiebeard. The castle was bullt in by Sir John Buker, a chancellor under Henry VIIL, ‘who was responsible for the burning of a number of heretics during the refgn of Queen Mary. 2 John.” "says Dr. Beard, | ‘may be called an English Blue! Leard, for there is a definite tradi tion that he was in the habit of inducing women to visit him and ! then murdering them for their i v, tie kept the bodies of his, | Victms in a wecret uber be- | neath the main stalrcase and his ghost s supposed roum to this day. Dr. Beard intends to renovate the astle and probably will live in it when the work Is completed. to haunt that QCalls for Facts in Corruption Case—~Grand Jury Probe Is Ordered. | By the Associate INDIANAPOLIS, Thomas H. Adams Vincenn had red Press. Ind.. October 11 publisher of the Commercial, said today he ived a request from United States Senator William 1. Borah of Idaho for Information to the churges of political corruption whi Adams hus been making Judge Jume: Collins today: in structed the grand jury in the Marion ‘County Criminal Court to give its fullest conslderation 1o Adan charges. Judge Collins appointed At { torney Generul Arthur H. Gillicom and Halph Kane to assist in the in vestigation. Wil Remy, Marion | County investigutor, requested their 1 uid. | Adams has declared iu his charges that a D, Stephenson, forme: grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, exercised a corvupt influence on high political leaders. In his charge to the grand Jury Judge Collins ‘said that Stephenson would be among {he witnesses led by the prosecuting attorney. Stephenson is now In the State prison at Michigan City serv ing a life sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholt Kane, who | was appointed as assistant o Remy Loday, wus also assistant (o the prese- cutor in Stephenson's murder trial. Adams Wil be called as a witness tigution there were indications that he planned to cooperate with the authorities In the inquiry Just started Prosecutor Remy said he would ot make public immediately the per- sons he would cull, but that Adams and Stephenson certainly would be among those brought before the grand Jury Gov Jackson cided that 1t would unnecessary | for him ta appoint an investigating committee to inquire into the Adams charges. The governor took the posi tion that the grand fury probe would { be sufficient. “This decision was made | After a conference with Attorney Gen | eral Gilliom last de be late night »1SAYS COTTON FARMERS | LOSE IF THEY SELL NOW { Charles J. Brand, Fertilizer Execu- tive, Places Present Loss at 5 Cents Per Pound [ By the Awsoctuted Press | An averuge of & cenis u pound {is lost by the Southern furmer who sells his cotton at the prevailing price of approximately 13 .cents, Charlés J. Brund, executive secretus of the Nutional Fertilizer Association, declures in u statement based on u {study of production costs on 1,405 { farus Jast year ‘A farmer who raises 160 pounds of cotton to the acre this vear.” Brand Isaid. “must receive at least 18 cents 1 pound to equal his production cost {"Phe cotton problem will require grad usl marketing, with a wise holding of the surplus, producing at a lower {cost per pound oud reducing the 1927 |acreage. The erop is produced and | must held by some one until it is consuwd. The holding should be so finunced thut when it is ultinately jdisposed of the price advance over {present levels, which will surely come 1if w constructive plan is adopted. will Jinsure benefits of the advance to the {farmer and not solely {lative b Brand forterly wus consulting spe clalist In marketing in the Department | of Agriculture und chief of its Bureau {of Markets. . i { TRADE BOYCOTT LIFTED CALMLY BY CANTONESE | British Commerce Had Been Under Ban 16 Months, Following Shooting Affray. i By the Associsted Press | THONGKONG, October 11.—Scauty { news from Canton regarding the lift- ing Sunday of the trade bovcott, ‘hichi has long been in force to the detriment of commerce between the British _colony here and iuterior points, indicates there were no un- { toward incidents to mark the ending of the demonstration. * {7 The boveott on British trade was { extablished 16 months ugo. It was {intensified Ly an incident occurring {June 23, 1925. when several Chinese were Kkilled by British und Frenc from the foreign settle- went at Shameen into a crowd of BORAH SEEKS DATA ON INDIANA CHARCE Although Adams previously has ex- | pressed frank skepticlsm as to the [ thoroughness of « grand jury inves 1o the specu { DETROIT " OPENS DOORSTOA.F.OFL. Church Pulpits Also Occupied by Labor Spokesmen to Ex- pound Spiritual Aims. By the Asaociated Press. DETROIT. Mich., October 11.—The doors of the Detroit Y. M. C. A, were opened today to a spokesman for the American Federation of Labor. Ac ceptance by John P. Frey, president of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, of an invitation to address the week- 1y meeting of the Detroit Ministerial Association in the Central Y. M. €. A. Dbuilding paved the way for ex- position of the spiritual a'ms of the American Federation in tha building in which William Gres ‘dent_of he federation i { to speak vesterday, mntil i rescindad lost we Qitactors n spoke yesterda. 1 i s of Detroit the iirst president hes, hich denomi- Lann the Detr presided at clergymen repre tions ook pa Aims of Labor St f Detroit yesid ho a ne addresses the spirituai aims af the Plabor anovement score pulpits vicinity Bighteen mestings in the city and *bs were held under the auspcies Feder 1l of Churches. esentatives the American tion expounded the spiritual s of their organization in six of { the meetings. and soctal welfare work- | ers and represen ¢ labor anizations prescuted the same me befors the remaining 12 con- tions. shn's Eplscopal Chureh (he uttitude of the Nutional Council of the Episcopal Chu was outitned by Rev. Charles Lathrop, executive secretary for 1 service, who came from New York especially to deliver last night's sermon. Catholic Church Services. es in St Aloysious were attended by a number of convention delegates, who heard Rev. Dr John A. Ryan, secre- tary of the soc tion department. National Catholic Weltare Council, in a sermon devoted to the relations he- tween the church and labor. Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of Temple Bethel spoke at the morning services on “The Synagokue and Labor.” Dr. Worth M. Tippy. executive | retary of the chureh couneil’ | dustrial commisseion, explained that S natlonal religious organizat were reported 1hrough affiliation with | the counctl in the enterprise of ar | runging the meeting Mr. Green spoke for 15 minutes | | bundreds usands of ia 1 serv * Church e in Il wish it were possible for me adequately to express an apprecia | tion of the service 1 the Federal Council of Churches of Christ lin America thrgugh its represent | atives who ave ;gmmm.lm with us this solemn and dignified servi | There is no bitter: or resenin {in my heart wnd mind over the | dents of the past week.” Porto Rican Issue Up. |, The arrival yesterday of Gov. 11 M. Towner of Porto Rico to conter with Mr. Green centered attention in the convention today upon two resolu- tions toucking upon administration of the Island possession which still ave in the Lands of the convention's commit tee on resolutions. Gov. Towner, who stopped in De troit en route from Washington to a E\llwhh.:un vacation resort, was pre | sented to President Green late last { night by Santiago Iglesias, president {of the Free Federation of Working. men of Porto Rico ‘and secretary of the Spanish section of the Pan American Federation of Labor. He sald before his conference he had not heard of the resolutions, one of which requested creation of a con gressional commission to investigate conditions in Porto Rico and the other to transfer the island administration trom the War Department to the De partnent of the Interior Resolution Pledges Aid. The convention lust Thursday adopted u resolution by Iglesias pledy- ing the assistance of the tederation to the workers of Porto Rico. The report of the committes on resolutions was the special order of business in the afternoon session to- day. iglesias conforred with President Green last nlght on a strike of Porto Rican cigar makers and upon the re cent migration of 4 number of native workers to the Arizonu cotton fields. The federation approved « resolu- tion favoripg civil government for Porto Rico in its 1925 convention. AMERICAN LIFE STUDY BY CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT English-Speaking Union Indorses Educational Peace Program of International War Veteraus. in nt invi Ly the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 11.—The Eng- lish-Speaking Unlon of the United States announced yesterday It would co-operate with the educational peace program of Fidac, the inte organization of World War As & beginning, a fellowship has been provided in the University uf Michigun's Graduate School “tv pro- mote fuller understanding of Ameri- can lite.” The first holder will be Miss Katherine Garvin, daughter of J. Garvin, editor of the Obeserver Loudon, now a student at the versity. The fellowship will be under the joint auspices of the two American or gunizations and the English-Speaking Union of the British Empire. of unt- | Chivese demonstrators at Canton By The Associated Press PARL October 11. Queen of Rumania on arriving in Par had the usual won s complaint—"noth. ing to wear.” Now she has too much. All her original trunks were filled to capacity and others have been or dered to take the creations of rx{nlous modistes and milliners to the United States. So, large is the Queen's new | wardrobe that another baggage car must be added to the train that will {take her and her party to Cherbourg { tomorrow to board the Leviathan for New York The royal party will make the jour ney to the «boiard in the sanie cars ! Which brought them from Bucharest | At first it wus thought the cars were too large for the tunneis on the way to Cherbourg. but measurements taken by railroad men show that they will be able to pass through. Marie |Queen Marie Buys “Something to Wear™ In Paris; Charters Extra Car to Carry It The Queen is beuding wil her en |ergies toward completing her arrange jments to department. Nevertheless, she is still having relaxation in visits | here and there in the city. Yesterday Marie visited the salon of the “French Palette” to see some of the modern paintings and other works of art there. Many persons who recognized her commented on her striking beau- |ty regal bearing, friendly manner and attractive clothes. | The Queen spent so much time at the salon that she was unable to ob- serve all she desired to see at the automobile show, which she visited |later. She said today that she would try to get away from the task of su- | perintending the packing of the ad- ditional trunks long enough to have |a good look at the latest marveis of road transport on-exhibition at the automoblle showy national | veterans. | | Upper—Member of boy patrol cond of youngsters acros superyising movement Ce ng the cross-walks. Lower—Twelfth and L at 9: STAR, WASHINGTON, D. NEW SAFEGUARD THROWN ABOUT LIVES OF CAPITAL’S CHILDREN 0., MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1926. ing group of Thomson school pupils through trafiic muze as plan for 2 street_was put into effect this morning. ter—Stopping a bad practice with a warning against crossing between parked automobiles instead of 5 aam—Traffic virtually cleared up after peak load of Government employes has been transported to work; an argument for opening the schools later as a safety precaution. LABOR WILL STRESS CULTURE IN ASKING SHORTER WORK DAY Time to Develop That Slcie of. Life Sought. Efficiency Held to Justify More BY JAMES M. LYNCH. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘ DETROIT, Mich.,, October 11.—-A sustained effort to compel considera- tion of the cultural and spirtual ele ment in the fxing of hours of labor will be made by the American Federa- tion of Labor in the coming year, it has heen decided by leading labor spokesmen, attending the convention of the Federatlon here. X This decision gives an. added ob- jective in the wages and hours pro- gram of labor. One year ago the A. F. of L. convention at Atlantic « adopted a new declaration of polic on wages und hours that aroused much discussion among industrialists and economists. Thix action was re- affirmed and amplitied here. The declaration, originally intro duced by the president of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, reads: inequality, industrial instabil- ity and Injustice must increase unless the worker's real wage: ~pur- chasing powers of his w anced In proportion to creasing powers of production.” Proposed Shorter Day. To this, the present writer moved an amendment proposing “a con- tinual reduction in the number of hours making up the working day.” Proponents of the wage declaration were reluctant to accept that amend- ment at that time, but the report of the shorter work day committee at the present convention in strong terms upheld the joining of the shorter work- ing week and day proposal with the increased wage plan. “One phase of the questi shorter hours and higl So on involved er wages n has been neglected,” said T. W. Me- Cullough of Omaha, delegate from the | International ‘Typographical Union. o far the discussion has turned ex. clusively upon the material uspect of the problem. “I want to present the broader and deeper question of the cultural and spiritual element. Whether the pur- pose of our civilization is merely to create wealth, the tangible things that we can see with our eyes, feel with our hands, store in our ware- houses or_put in the banks, to pass from hand to hand, or whether it is to increase that intangible but more vital and important element of human life which is designated as happiness. Increasing Happiness Goal. “If the purpose is entirely material- istic then we are on the right track. If we have the greater object in view of increasing human happiness by giv- ing to men and women the oppor- tunity for full enjoyment of the triumphs and achievementd of our modern civilization, then we should not only accept the letter but the spirit of the committee’s report. Our movement, 1 believe, is directed to the object of securing fer the workers the fullest and most complete oppor- tunity to enjoy all that civilization can offer them to make the world a better and brighter place in which to live s or purely eco- On the materialistic Leisure. nomic side, the program of labor was amplified by the commitee assert- ing the doctrine that the Nation's continued well being depends upon recognition of the need for an eco- nomic system to enable the people, as consumers, to enjoy the goods, which. as producers, they can make and want to make; wage standards sufficiently high to make possible ab- j sorption of commodities produced and hours of labor short enough to stabil- ize employment and make jobs for all. “On every hand,” sald & commitiee Kesman, “there is evidence that we are at the beginning of methods of production which will rapidly in- crewse man’s present power to pro- duce. American ingenuity, efficiency of management and capability of workers have carried this country into almost unbelievable prosperity. The world never before saw one nation 80 far outstrip all others. Great Productive Capacity. “So great is the present capacity of our industrial establishments that many of them are compelled to close their doors many weeks each year. Government reports reveal that sev- eral of our basic industries, if oper- ated at full capacity for six months each year, would produce more than their present annual output. It fs our proposal that this efficlency of machine equipment should be used to alleviate the lot of the worker and to make the lives of all citizena fuller and richer, rather than being jockeyed about constantly in efforts to draw greater profits from the markets at the expense of the public.” Proponenta of the shorter working day and week will undertake to prove to the industrial world that reductions in hours of labor made In the past have invariably resulted in increased production. The history of the ten- hour day. the nine-hour day and the eight-hour day will be recited in that connection. It will turther be urged that modern super-machinery and im- mense power developments have in- creased productive possibilities until, as one writer has pointed out, if this machine power should be divided on a per capita basis, every man, woman and child in America would have the equivalent of 30 human slaves In his service. The high tension of machine opera- tion on modern methods of specializa- tion, which require thousands of work- ers to perform monotomous tasks are also given as reasons for urging shorter working days and, as early as soaull\le. a working week of fewer ays. e BAND CONCERT. TOMORROW. 4 The United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 5:45 o'clock, John 8. M. Zimmerman, leader; Emil A. Fenstad, second lead- er. Ttaly’s electric power associations have started a movement. toward use of only Itallan material for Copstruc: | ¢ WORK ON REVENUE BUILDING DELAYED Details Still to Be Decided Before Wrecking Crews Can Start on Site. Wrecking work on the' site of new Internal Revenue Ruilding scheduled to start this morning, was delayed to permit tinal details to be worked out,'and it was said it would be several days before operations that will mark the construction pregram’ authoriged under the $50,000,000 ap- propriation for Government buildings here could begin. 5. L. Hechinger, the who was awarded the contract for tearing down build- ings in the square bounded by Eleventh and Twelfth, little B and ¢ streets, was ready to go ahead this morning with his crew tearing off the first bricks, but details in con- nection with the contract remained to be worked out. Survey of the block this morning disclosed the fact that, although ten- ants had been served with netice to vacate by October 4, scarcely any of them were out of the government- owned buildings. In fact, only one corner of the block is empty and ready for the wrecker's men. Moving was under way from several business establishments today, how- ever, und it is expected the places will be ready for tearing down as rapldly as the Hechinger men get to them. Operators of the Pennsylvania Drill- ing Co. are busy on the site making tests of the under ground to deter- mine what kind of foundations will be necessary for the big building. - HUGH S. GIBSON HONORED luiuiutst to Switzerland Commis- sioned Colonel in 0. R. C. Unit. Hugh §. Gibson, United States Min- ister to Switzerland, today was com. missioned by the War Department a colonel in the Military Intelligence Division, Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army. Residents of this city also commis- sioned in the Organized Reserve Corps are: Howard R. Ellason, 1314 Colum- bia road, as a second lieutenant in the Military Intelligence Division; Edward A. McMahon, 2213 First street, as a first lieutenant of Engineers, and Howard H. Buice, 4711 Davenport street, as a second lieutenant of In- fantry. o I|DEAD QN HOSPITAL STEPS. CHICAGO, October 11 (#).—The body of & comely, blond woman, prob- ably 25 years old, was found on the back steps of the German Deaconess Hospital today. She had been shot through the left breast, and the throat was bruised. The body, still warm when found, was clothed in a house- dress and a black fur-trimmed coat. ‘The police belleved that the young woman had been carried alive to the hospital receiving door.in hopes that she would be taken in for treatment. PRESIDENT AGAINST AN EXTRA SESSION Believes Special Committee Able to Cope With Crisis in Cotton States. President Coolidge sees no reason to call an extra session of (ongress be- cause of the present widespread de- pression in the South, growing out of the slump in the cotton market, as has been urged by Representative Pou of North Carolina. He realizes that the situation in the cotton States is serfous, but he feels that the spectal committee appointed by him Saturday to assist him in solving the problem is all that is necessary at this time. The President’s reply to Repre- sentative Pou’s appeal for an extra session, besides making known this attitude, s understood to have made clear his interest in the situation and his desire to extend every possible aid Absence from the city today of Secretury Mellon caused postpone- ment until tomorrow of the first meet. ing of the President's ('ommlll_e:-. Eugene Meyer, jr., head of the War Finance Corporation, and ecretaries Jardine and Hoover are the other members of the committee. SPECIAL SESSION URGED Mr. Pou Appeals to President to Ald _Cotton Farmers. SMITHFIELD, ., October 11 (®).- President Coolldge was asked to call a special session of Congress in November to consider the depres- sion of grain and cotton prices in a telegram sent today by Representative Fdward E. Pou of the fourth con- gressional district and ranking Demo- crat of the House rules committee. “‘Cotton farmers are threatened with financial ruin because of the recent ecline in price,” his telegram said. “If they are forced to sell at prevail- ing quotations they must accept from $20 to $25 per bale less than the cost of production. In this desperate situation I earnestly urge that you call the Congress to meet in extra session on or before November 3 in order that opportunity be given as quickly as possible to pass emergency Jegislation which may save from ruin the grain producers as well as the cotton producers of the Nation. “I have a profound conviction that any recommendation you may deem wise and proper to submit to the Con- gress to avert threatened disaster to the farmers of the Nation, or any legislation reported from any com- mittee with the same purpose in view, will be considered in a spirit of utter disregard to any partisan advantage whatsoever."” SCHOOLBOY PATROL T0 GUARD CHILDREN SUCCEEDS IN TEST wontinued from First Page) terest in their work by the announce- | ment of Director Eldridge of prizes totaling $100 which he will award for proficiency in patrol duty. An award of $30 in gold will go o the patrol- man who has served best during the present school term, u prize of $30 to the next best patrolman and third prize of for the boy ad- Jjudged: third best. The initial response to the school- hour ballot plan announced yesterday by The Star was gratifying to police nd traffic officials, who are urging change in school opening hour as primary step toward making the streets sufe for school children. In. spector Evans called attention this morning to the marked decres traffic noted just after 9 hour at which most office workers must be at their desks. Traffic Jam Vanishes. As if by ma the jam of passen r vehicles traversing Twelfth street etween 8:30 and 9 o'clock “this morn ing disappeared seemingly into mno where, and ut G minutes after the school doors had closed, with the children safely their class- within rooms, the thoroughfare that a few moments before had been precariously congested became virtually free of all but a few “strugglers. “If the children had been kept home a few minutes longer they would have had no serious traffic problem with which to contend,” Inspector EEvans remarked. The question of staggering the school hours in such a way as to avold the morning and afternoon automobile rushes was scheduled for consideration by the Washington Council of Social Agencies at a meet- ing this afternoon at 4 v'cluck in the Burlington Hotel. Would Not Add Last Two. 1t school hours are moved back to 915 or 9:30 aum., 4s has been sug- gented, there will be involved the further question of letting the stu- dents out of their classes correspond- ingly later and that much nearer to the peak hour of afternoon traffic. J. E. Hoover, special assistant to the attorney gencral, advanced the opinfon toduy that the time taken oft in the opening hour should not be added to the last hour. In a letter accompanying his ballot in favor of delaying classes until 9:30 Mr, Hoover says “It is my humble judgment that the time off should not be added, par- ticularly with respect to the first three primary grades. Urges 10-Mile Speed. “Five hours are obviously too much for children from b to § years of age to be confined in a schoolroom. The halt-day, in vogue for generations, was long enough and worked, I fancy, very satisfactorily. Besides, in these modern duys, when the automobile has become such an engine of destruc- tion, the lives of the adults, who have to wee the children safely to school, are likewise increasingly imperiled by the greater number of visits which they are obliged to make to and from the school.” Grover W. Avers of 8§10 Thirteenth street wrote on his ballot that he has been advocating 9:30 as an opening hour for more thun a year, and that he also favors u longer school year. Edward M. Van Loock of 104 Fif- teenth street northeast suggests on his ballot that 10 miles an hour be fixed as a speed limit for automobiles in all ®hool blocks, with policemen stationed there to see that the regu- lation is rigidly enforced. WILLIAM G. BURNS DIES. Associate Meteorologist at Norfolk Weather Station Succumbs. William Gunton Burns, 68 vears old, associate meterologist in charge of the Norfolk, Va., Weather Bureau for the past 15 years, died there yi terday. He was a native of Wash- ington and served In the \Veather Bureau here from 1895 to 1898; then in Phoenix, Ariz.; Springfield, 11 Norfolk. He was a member of Osiris Lodge, No. 26, F. A. A. M., of Wash- ington. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Taylor Burns. and two daugh- ters. Misses Catherine E. and Anna E. Burns. Funeral services will be conducted in this city upon, they pletion of arrangements. » and |f; MPHERSON CASE LETTER 1S STOLEN Paper Containing Ransom Demand Disappears From Police—Inquiry Continues. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Callf., October 11, ~Theft of a letter from Police De- partment files, which demanded $500_ - 000 for the safe of Aimee Semple McP'herson today Sent State detectives into a new phase of the investigation of the evangelist's kid- return naping story, as the pastor's pre- liminary hearing on conspiracy charges entered third week. The letter was sent from San Francisco May 4 to Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother f the Angelus Temple pastor. It was supposed fo have been written by kidnapers wh Mrs. McPherson declares. forced her into an automobile at Ocean Purk Beach on May 18 and held her cap tive for five weeks, part of the time in @ desert shack in Mexico ne the Arizona border. The letter signed “The Avengers,” and threat ened the life of the evangelist unless the money was paid. In compliance with the demanda an emissary was sent to @ hotel ! San Francisco, where he was to hat. been approached by the kidnapeis The emissary was 1o be reconized by an Angelus Temple badse. I'olica prepared a trap for the senders, who failed to appear. Is Second Disappearance. The loss of the letter is*the s ond case of disappearance of doc mentary evidence during three inves tigations of the case. In the second inquiry handwriting grocery lists were lost which the State contended were in the evangelist's handwriting and showed that she spent the first 10 days of her mysterfous abeence at Carmel-by-the-Sea, an ocean re sort, with Kenneth G. Ormiston former Angelus Temple radio ma The grocery lists disappeared In the grand jury room. With investigation of the theft ¢ the letter occupying a part of tha State forces, District Attorney Keves indicated he would call more Arizoni witnesses today in an_effort to prove his charge that Mrs. McPherson was not in the custody of Kidnapers when she arrived in Arizona. Thus fat the prosecution has been unable to establish her whereabouts during the three weeks prior to her reappear- ance at Douglas, Ar Ferryman's Story Important. The State expects trace the movements of the evangelist from Carmel to Blythe, Calif.. through the testimony of Arthur Walts, ferr man at Blythe. Watts had identi fled Mrs. McPherson as & woman who crossed the Colorado River into Arizona during the early part of lus Jun E Hagmes, Yuma contry expected to testify that he tha evangelist in that city June 13. ila was brought he; k and siid he recognized Mrs. McPherson in the court the woman he had seen William Blevins, telegraph operator. and Frank Daly, frelght akent at Gila Bend, also have heen sub- poenaed as witnesses. Bleving de- clared he saw Mrs. McPherson Juna , when she sent a telegram Irom his station. GROUND IS BROKEN HERE FOR LUTHERAN CHAPEL Special Ceremonies Attend Start of Construction for St. Stephen’s. Ready March 1. to “tor 1w is With impressive ceremony. groutd as broken yesterday for the « of the new St. Stephen’s Evangel Lutheran Church at Eighteenth st and Queen Chapel road. of D. earth ». The first shovelful A wus Hauncher missionary supe: turnet by Rev of Richmand. Va intendent of the Southern district of the Lutheran Churech who also de livered the dedicatory sermon. Others who spoke were Rev. Georse W. Diffenderfer, pastor of the Luth Place Memorfal Church: Rev. J Huddle, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and Rev. H. Dennington Hayes, pastor of St. Mark's Ev cal Lutheran Church. Greetings were extended from 1t Lutheran Ministerium of Washington by Rev. Henry Mankin, president of that body. The Rev. Sumuel orn mann, pastor of St. Stephen’s, pre sided. St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church was started three years ago with a congregation of 40 persons The membership has increased so that the need is felt for a church build ing of its own. The chapel will have a commodions auditorium and a basement for sociul gatherings and will be completed by March 1. LAUREL ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY. FIRST RACE—Purse. $1.100: maiden 3-year-olds: bl furlonis Bar . 118 Irish Smile Billie Burk 115 Wasfar Fairness . 113 sun Mel Naussovia 1 Also’ eligib) Rockemeraid 0 118 Acorn . Spanish Aster. . 1 ight D: 1 s Kiity 0 Grier. 11 115 Quaker Lady... Gilded Easel.”. 115 Rougette Glorious 118 tPorthols’ . Lzetta e 1Glen Riddle Farm entry SECOND RACE—Claiming: purse, $1,300, -olds and up: 1 mile. *Blow Horn. Mayer .13 Byron e Cocoon.. .. 100 Nimrod Zeod D108 e . Also eligible: H. Hackworth lenister i1 Buitercup. and *Rigel King O'N Hramton Kufiya *Marat . Delusiv $Dream Maker *Midinette *Sonny ... THI 25%ur-oids RACE—Claiming; purse. $1,300. 6 furlongs. - Policeman D 100 W Trapstock 10 C Handclasp 1 FOURTH RAC cap: purse, $1,500; agon Claiming Handi ear-olds and up; 14 mlles. ulwick .. 108 s Cow 11 g wheol id s ™ nf(.h. ) e 9 : Al $ Starof Goia.”'% 110 Arbitration” 1 3. Liviugston and Suunyland Stable entry. FIF' KMAC ~The Columbus Handicap: purse, $2. year-olds and up: 1% miles igh Star. . 105 Big mu;& Baki ondin By Hissel SIXTH RACE—The $1.500; 3-year-lds aud uj Isabella 6 turlongs. Pures. RACE — Claimi olde and up; 14 nu *The Engineer SEVENTH