Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Wecther Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 24 degrees; rising temperature tomorrow and Sat- urday. Temperature—Lowest, 28, at a.m. today: highest, yesterday. Full report ol Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 46. at 2 p.m. n page 5. i WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular e tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,311 “ntered o 0. . post _offic: 70,144, Wi second class matter ashington, D. C. PRESIDENT WARNS POWERS HE BACKS SENATE ON COURT Must Take U. S. on Its Own Conditions or Not at All, Is Deciaration. SPEAKS AT DEDICATION OF KANSAS CITY SHRINE Adequate Defense Forces, But No Competitive Arming, Declared Nation’s Policy. RY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star 3 P o | |in common with a reverent people, KANSAS CITY, Mo, November 11, i 1 | made its cighth annual Avmistice day 5 g ““::';f"“d:}’,‘fi Improving Fast, Physicians pilsrimage to the bivouac of the S : i calorous dead of ‘war. | yowers of 1 ~ of Nations that va the Totted & enter the World | Say, and May Be Called To prove that their country does own te Court sl Unless the requirements governing adherence to the court upon its s. or not at WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1926—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. L ] () Means Associatéd Pre {Children at Play Use Dynamite in By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn., November 11 —Children of St. Agnes School here had a delightful time play ing *“cops and robbers” with 25 sticks of dynamite until some one discovered them. Gilbert Graff, who found them, called an officer and the dynamite, which was frozen, was dumped into the river. The explosive was found by the children in an empty garage near the school. PIG WOMAN SEEMS “SURE 1O TESTIFY i Next Week. as| \meric lald dow {the Senato resolutlon. | By the Associated Press are met fully hy the other interested | pp (rR R o7 s hutions. the President sees mot the| JERSEY CITY, N. J., November Dightest prospect of this country ad., 11-—Mrs. Jane Gibson, whose eye- to that international tribunal,| Witness testimony of the Hall-Mills herd So far as he personally is concerned, | murder is expected to be the crux of | rests the tomb of America’s unknown | he has mo intention of asking the|the State's case, is improving so rap- | warrior, to the far heights of Mount | nate to modify its position to meetijdly in Jorsey City Hospital that she | St. Alban, where lies the nation's war | “,\,,n,; ;r ‘,“f‘. I....\fv] 5 ‘“(‘ hh:i} should be able to testify before the | President, there fell a mantie of w.n' ‘mn'|v\x" '\‘-'\:”" \-ky:.i\ld“l'ul\‘ !‘4‘ 3 :sut rests, physicians attending her | hushed veneration, disturbed only by | | able action on any proposal of modi- i ANNounced today ol Bpered S iy oSy SB0TE worde ¢ 0T Rl Auionson aneh secutor Simpson has said he | SUIOEY or the thunderous. but rev-| Speaks at Dedication. | iopedlitol naye ¥Nies. iiGibson don e | 7 PCtEL oA o fartlllery Hin inalute. | “iris plaim and candid repiy of the| Stand Monday ot Tuesday, and it was Throngs Visit Tomb. e President to the powers which have | understood unofficially that physicians | The Unknown's tomb was the focal | e fndicated an unwillingness to concur [belleved she would have recovered | point for most of the dess chiece. | e = | i the conditions adopted by the Sen-| sufficlently by that time, ances. From early morning until | Downfall Near if Time Ever ate in its World Court resolution, and | near sunset little groups of patriotic | which suggested that the of this country be modifie was made in the course of an address ineident | ¢ i0 the dedication of the handsome | COUFt Adjourns After Maid Reveals Liberty Memorial, erected in honor of Love Affair. the men of t Southwestern States who fougzht in World Wa e vations ARMISTICE HALTS TRIAL. SOMERVILLE, N. J., Game of “Robber” AT MURDER TRIAL November | CAPITAL PAUSES 10 PAY TRIBUTE T0VALOROUS DEAD Spirit of Veneration Reigns as Nation Observes Armi- stice Anniversary. {GOVERNMENT HALTED FOR PERIOD OF RESPECT | | Many Visit Arlington and Tomb of ‘Wilson—Legion Exercises Tmpressive. The Nation’s Capital paused from | work-a-day routine today, and | not forget, the respectful citizens of | the Federal city stood with bowed | heads at the sepulchres of the depart- | ed heroes—known and unknown—and { paid tender homage to their glorious | memory. i From across the Potomac on nyi = NOVEMBER 11, 1926, white-flecked hills of Arlington, where !- men and women came and went, halt- inz hefore the gleaming hrine o 1y | COMeS for Purchase of Pub- their wreaths of tribute | lic Offi He S Por the first time since such rites | e days. were instituted the Commander-in. | IGACHICE y Chief of the country’s military for T was not present at the tomb. Presi the percixes at the| 11 UP)-—The biggest drama in the his- | dent Coolidse was not nesnctful of | ™% iy Aromted Prese 3 prosfucntial party was| tory of this small town was stopped | the occasion, however, having gone to | g o HICAGO. November 11, o The il othe President Hotel,| for . patriotic interlude today. Missour! to dedicate a_war memorial | SOWPfAll of the United States will hot Iter 8 otren o\ caras A protest, which Alexander Simp-|there, and mutely evidencing his re-!| (hen public offices can be virtually o (b iver The presi. | 50n, special State prosecutor, said he | membrance of the local ceremontes | t and sold, either directly or in- dent then went directly to his train |had received from representatives of | Was the presidential wreath, which| Gen, John J. Pershing, war and at 3 welock was 10 be on his way {the American Legion, caused an |2 3000 fhe others on the tomb. 1t/ time commander of the Amer g Laclc to Washington, where he will | eleventh-hour change in the original | prosient's Tailinre oiaer) cone Of the {peditionary Force, declared today be- « shortly before midnight tomor- resident’s mliitary aldes, Capt. Leven | fore a meett Kiwanis clubs here. iplan to hold court as usual on Armi- row night | stice“day for the Hall-Mills murder President Coolidge plainly showed | trial, that he was delighted with the man- which he was received here to- duy. There was every reason, too, why he should have been. His long journey from Washington had been and comfortable and the ty way in which this stern city field out its: Spectators at the trial had their first intimate peak into the Hall home through the eyes of a witness late vesterday afternoon when the State called to the stand Barbara Tough, who was a maid for Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall when her hugband, the arms to him could not have failed to| Rev. Edward W. Hall, pastor of a imp him. New Brunswick church, was slain There was virtually a mass of hu- manity in and about the station or on ars ago with Mr: 3 . Eleanor R s, choir singer. the streets to welcome him. It wasan !~ Mrs. Hall and brothers, Willie and enthuslfastic crowd. From the mo-| Henry Stevens, are being tried for ment the presidential party stepped | the murder of Mrs. Mllls, from its train there was loud cheering and hand-clappin, Speaks With Scotch Accent. T nthusiasm was not confined to % the Prosident’s s 1, but continued| Speaking with a pronouncéd Scotch throughout his stay. There was no |accent, Miss Tough testified that noth- doubt about Kansas City being glad to | ing unusual happened in the Hall see him and proud to be his host, if | home the night of the murder, nor only for a few hour: immediately afterward. Simpson, con- tinuing his efforts to picture Mrs. Defends i Hall as a woman of reserve, drew Tn taking cognizance of criticism of | from the former maid the statement this counti and charges that it}that Mrs. Hall Lad never allowed her profited from the World War, the|maid to be Intimate with her. He President spoke forcefully in defense ! also brought out that the minister's of An 1 ideals and of the spirit|aged mother never lived with her son of the an people. He denied|and daughterin-law in the big house, that the United St that conflict and es profited during «d the enormous but that she lived in a rooming house until she died about two years after it incurred. which, he said, will | her son’s death. 1vy sacrifices extended over | Viss Tough said the love affair be- o wbout 30 vears, without | tween the minister and the choir ihe oblizations to the war| (continued on Page 4, Column 3.) before the losses of this country can be recouped PR = Regarding reports of a prevalence an feelinz, the President stated Ameri that *h reports ar indoubtedly ex- | aggerated and can be given altogether | 0 E A s agreed that the United States is a: credior nation: t we more = some others, all of | g« o {0 nis Viewnoint, | Prisoners, Now 400, Will Be Ban- that the interests of this coun- have come within the Europ rele, where rust_and suspicion nothing mwre. have been altogether 100 common v turn such afention 10 us, he added. indicates at least that ished—Attackers Near In- dian Stronghold. we are ignored. By the Associated Press Ha followed this with an appeal to | DGAL v, November Al avold any mational spirit of suspicion, rust and hatred toward other na Advices to the Herald state that in a -ecent advance by the military into tlons, saying that the Okd Worl form of luxury, and that the result tronghold, the soldiery had gained hate been ruinous. In support of this, | four positions at water holes .in close he said that it is not for Americans. | promixity to the main camp of Chief tely circum upon those cause, it we ht have werefore, it is the duty cording to him, to this example gnd to an their own who are or udgmen stunced, who by v Would Watch Own Opinions. Sa ume no re | ing sent to Guayma one on the | St ot oo £ of California, pending their ban. | ¢ he hold. seople of this nation nt to the Tres Marias lslands, ponstble for their own sentimen atan, or Guanajuato. To date, Realizing that the United o labout 400 Yaquis have been taken pies the place of a favored nation, | Prisoner. mericans, ace di to the President. | Sught not_ to fall to appreciate the| MEXICO CITY, November 11 ()~ trials and difficulties, the suffering and | The commanding officer and thre eacrifices of the people of the other | soldiers have been Killed by “fanatic pations and to extend to them at all, who attacked the garrison at San 1 ur pati our symw v and ! Juan de Lus Lagos. The war de- elp A5 we believe will enable | partment, in making the announce- o he restored to sound and pros- | ment. says four of the fanatics were ous conditions. slain and that troops have been rushed Ho ned to 1me- | 10 the scene to punish the other rehels. i come her i answer al monument ssist in Qedlcati ) those who ha i the people | is Matus of the Indians hree regiments of infantry, aided by four airplanes, engaged the insur- gent Indians in short, hot skirmishes | and caused them to scatter, the Yaquis | leaving many dead and wounded on | the field. | The newspaper said today that as a { vesult of orders from the Mexic tral government, all captives |1 he garrison at San Juan de Los ) Lagos is made up of 15 men. n cen- | C. Allen. 3 | “In the light of recent events in The entire machinery of government ! certain States.” he said, “some of our came to a halt for a period of two | citizens would modify methods of se minutes at 11 o'cloc] by Army posts a day while at ne: ! lecting candidates for office. If the | present system encourages or permits from the usual round of military the contributions of inordinate sums tivities was in order. There was the | by wealthy candidates or their sup- tramp of troops on parade, the dippinz | porters it should receive the most of colors to half-staff and the booming reful scrutiny by honest citizens. of the national salute of 21 guns “The presumption that large e orcampaign purpe {may be made without ulterior motive | does not appear to be warranted. To | sanction the expenditure of excessive amounts of money to secure the nom- i | | penditures Chaplains Place Wreaths. High lights of the Arlington exe 'ises were the laying of floral tokens v the quartet of Army and 3 Reserve Chaplains, who officiated at ' | ination of candidates for office would to be lude unjustly all but the the first services for the Unknown | ic,i0 exelude upjustiy o Soldier, in 1921, and by such veterans' | “§iinY e inE i e units as the American Leglon. the|ugreaf part taken by our country American Women's Legion and the ! phttencd the favorably coneluston of Disabled American _Veteran, The ! the World War,” adding that “there chaplains were Rt. Rev. Charles IL | ix Jittle doubt (hat the contest would Brent, Episcopal bishop of western New York, and senior chaplain with | the A. B. F.. Rev. Dr. Morris S. Lasarom, rabbi of the Baltimore Con- gregation; Chaplain John B. Fraser of | the Navy, and Col. John T. Axton, chief of Army Chaplain: have terminated otherwise had heen that the extraordinary sent by America arrived at the critic moment.” He made a plea for preparedness, contending that “if we could have armed and equipped even haif a mil- not sentatived discharged a_similar™ duty. | nance of law quoting_sta The wreaths of the Disabled Veterans, | tist to prove stence of “‘a the Woman's Legion and the Dr e reign of terror” in many dent were placed alongside the othe: before noon. At noon the I the American Legion hegan its observ ance with an impre: e indoor pro- places in the United States. SUN FORCED TO YIELD rict Department of Front in Effort to Hold Anhui Territory. Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, department commander of the Legion, in charge of the exerc Mothers wa gram of speeches and music, in| Keith's Theater. | orn. e ALL BUT 3 PROVINGES national _comr Amerlcan Le- | R glon, and Sen id A. Reed of | 4 | Pennsylvania were the principal | Marshal Said to Have Left for speakers. They were introduced by | ! es. A group of War seated on the stage. By the Associated Press, Lauds Heroism of Disabled. SHANGHAI November 11.—Recent | Ending of the World War, Gen. Military developments have reduced | Drain deelared, but signaiized ihe be-j Marshal Sun ChuanFangs onetime | ginning of a peace-time war having as ; five-province federation to three— e @ anabe Kiangsu, Chekiang and Anhul. its object to the | world the benefits which come from | the World War. n. Drain called |attention to the heroism of thousands (of disabled veterans who are carrying on in hospitals today, and declared that the American Legion represents monument of memory, of rever- {ence and of service.” One of the purposes of the Legion, | he said, is to see that the lives of the | noble dead are not wasted. Member The. province of Kiangsi has been entirely given over to the Cantonese, while Fukien is falling rapidly into the hands of the southerners. It is reported from reliable sources, but not confirmed officially, that Mar- shal Sun has left Nanking for the front, determined to hold Anhui, but impartial foreign observers are of the opinion he will soon be compelled to {of the Legion helped to bring peace | A foreign mylitary authority who out of war and hoped to keep war out | viewed the fall 87 the city of Kiukiang . he added. a short time back said it was due | eed, who was a major in g ¢ to the unwillingness of Sun's suid that the sc: of | jetter equipped troops to stand up nd that the auainst the better disciplined but tended with ler southern force. ng care and represent as distin-| The Cantonese claim to have in- {euished a place as an American can ' flicted heavy casualties on their foe | rest in. He told of the comradeship of | in capturing Nanchang, also in iwrms and sald that war, while terrible, | Kiangsi province. It ated that { was not an unmitigated evil, since it, Gen. Chang Kai-Shek, commander-in brought the people together {chief of the Cantonese, personally ipine cowardice and sentimental- | commands his prmies on this front jists who would let our national This informa disposes of rumors | muscles grow flabby,” he declared, “do that he was Killed or wounded {more harm to thix country than hos. —— ftile soldiers enator = Reed ex- SAVAGE SAYS LEGION WANTS NO MORE WAR ted Prese pressed thankfulness that the wave of | |intoletance which arose immediately | lafter the war is receding. and clo | (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) By the Assoc of this country with u luck of appre-y KA S CITY. November 11.—The ciation for the A things of li{'; American Legion went to war once, *Ie cannot look upon it.” he said.| “ 09 with honor. wants ne more of ithout seeing 2 reflection of all the * % % “LEST WE FORGET” * % % S i and vigor marks the mander of the Legion, declared in an e broad expanse of open intry and the love of sclences a; Pulse beats of 1918, at the the arts and the g expressed | | syrge through millions of hearts n the life of he rowing towns. | Mlese results are not achleved with out real sacrifice.” This he considered sacrifice of American youth. i | of another shrine, “Liberty Mem The Chief Magistrate leads all at Kansas | address here last night at a Legion day dinner. “While the Legion is pushing for- ward in endeavors of community bet- terment, providing good homes and an even chance in life for the orphans of high tide of victory, again today as they pay tribute to the heroic ¥, with dedication beloved warriors of the orial,” to s being an “overpowering answer to | e the veterans, it is not forgetful of those who would criticize. ! | great conflict. 7 , s f Columbi the horrors of war and the determina- He supplemented this by declaring In order th: xt Armistice day t!ge District of olumbia may tion of preventing future war,” that he was of the conviction that.| | be able more completely to pay her “measure of devotion” at a | |Comdr. Savage said. kssuming this eriticism is warranted, there 18 more hope for the progre o true ideals in the modern world. even from a nation newly rich, thai ym_a_nation_chron umn on Page 7. scription for this congressionally sought. Send payments to John Bank. treasurer,of the campaign. Doric temple of marble in Potomac Park. your support and sub- “It believes and Is imsistent that the best preventive is adequate defense. The Legion stood squarely behind the national defense act of 1920, and to. day 1t insists 1t be observed, ] authorized ‘memorial are earnestly Poole, Federal-American National The ceremonies ‘at Arlington began | Yion men and sent them to France | 9:30 a.m. with the laying of a|early in 1917, the probabilities are that wreath on the tomb by the Knights|the war could have been won that of Columbus. Half an hour later a | year. group of Central High School repre-| " He also appealed for the mainte- upon Nanking and then DETECTIVE WILL BRING JOHN PROCTOR TO CITY Goes to Baltimore to Get Accused in Connection With Busch Slaying. | John Proctor, 19 years old, under indictment for alleged_complicity in the fatal shooting of Policeman Leo W. K. Busch of the tenth precinct, in a battle with bandits several weeks ago, was reported by the Baltimore police this morning as_having suffi- | ciently recovered to enable him to be returned here. Detective Joseph Waldron went to Baltimore today for the prisoner. Proc@r is said to have admitted being at the scene of the shooting, but to have denied being armed or firing a shot. He also denied having been implicated in other affairs charged to his companions. PR COLDER WEATHER COMING TONIGHT Mercury Will Dron to 24 Above Zero Before Morn- ing, Forecaster Says. blankets and late-blooming Get out our extra throw mats over the flower beds tonight. It's going to get colder until, some- time shortly before sunrise tomorrow, the mercury will sink to 24 above zero. There is no possibility of snow, however. The night will be clear and starry. * Mercury Down to 28. There was a foretaste of real Win- ter this morning when the thermome. ter registered 28 early, and there was some ice in puddles left from Tu ¥'s downpour. The temperature soon went up, however, and it was 5. well above freezing, at noon. ding to Associated Press was in the grip of Win- ay ‘with freezing temperatures reported generally and snow flurries and frosts along the northern fringe of the Southern States. The mercury early today hovered ahout the freezing point throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Geor- s and the Atlantic Coast. States, while in Flovida temperatures ranged from at Jacksonville to 65 at | Miami. Coldest at Bristol, Va. | The lowest mercury reading was at Bristol, Va. where snow flurries forced the temperature down to 26 degrees. Louisville Ky., reported a temperature 4 degrees below the treezing point. A strong northeast wind prevailed | throughout most of the seaboard States. Weather bureau reports fore- cast rising temperatures for tonight. GALE HITS NEW ENGLAND. Atlantic Cold Spell Continue Tomorrow. NEW YORK, November 11 ().— The first touch of Winter experienced by North Atlantic States threatened today to last through tomorrow. Sharp northwest gales put an_end vy rains that drenched New 3 orm wirnings flown Tues- | day from Cape Hatte | have been shifted further up the coast, and the wind, which reached a maxi- mum veloeity of 65 miles here, is due to ubate with the rising temperatures. The cold belt extended from Que- Dbec to Tennessee, with the front ex- | tending through Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Northern Vermont and New Hamp- shire yesterday had snow flurries in some places with a 33-degree drop in the temperature North Due to | PARIL ovember 11 (). —Measures which s estimated will reduce the l‘n in the French Army to ap- proximately 400,000 will be introduced [in the Chamber of Deputies tomorrow | by v Minister Painleve. They cut | the period of military service from 18 | to 12 monthe. ‘e Missing Prisoner Is Taken. CPLUMBUS, Ohlo, November 11 | P).—Oliver Glaspy, Athens County, | onle of the 13 prisoners who broke out | of Ohio Penitentlary Monday after- | noon, was arrested last night in Grove | Port, Ohio, near here. He is the last | of the 13 to be returned to prison. progisions of """IR'.xdi(_) Programs—Page 0/ s to New York | 'FRENCH ARMY CUT URGED PERMANENT SLASH INTAXES OPPOSED Mellon Favors Temporary Rebate to Avoid Curtail- ing Future Receipts. Estimated income of $200,000,000 during the present fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, which in all probability will not recur from the same source: in succeeding years, makes it neces- sary, in the opinfon of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, to make no per- manent revision of thé revenue bill this session of Congress, but only to provide for ‘“credit” or “refund” in March and June payments, s sug- gested. This view of the situation, it was explained by the Secretary foday at the Treasury, appears o offer the clearest solution to the matter of how to return Some of the accruing sur- plus of about $250,000,000 this fiscal year to the taxpayers without dis- turbing the revenue bill in such fashion as to endanger revenues in the future. The 1926 law, the Secre- tary belleves, has not been in opera- tion long enough to disclose what it may do in producing revenue for the vear of 1928. The $200,000,000 “realization of cap- ital assets,” which will accrue during the present fiscal year, but may not bring in similar funds’in the future, include, it was explained, about $100,- 000,000 in back taxes, about $60,000,000 from farm loan bonds, and about $40.000,000 from railroad notes. There is bare possibility that the realization from railroad securities held in the Treasury may be increased if pending negotiations with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul should be consummated. —— CZECHS CHARGE REDS WITH ESPIONAGE PLOT Eight Arrested, One of Them Bul- garian—Cheka Delegate Is Released. By the Associated Press. PRAGUE, Czechoslo ber 11.—Discovery of an alleged com- munst espionage plot here has caused the Czechoslovakian foreign office to lodge a vigorous protest with the Soviet Legation. Eight persons ve been arrested, seven of them Czech communists and the other a Bulgarian student, Iljou Kratunow. One of the communists, a lithographer named Simunek, is al- leged to have- delivered secret docu- ments from the Czechoslovakian war ministry to’ the Soviet vice consul in Prague. Y Christof Dynoff, delegate of the Moscow Cheka (political police), was taken into custody but released be- cause of his diplomatic immunity. SIX DIE AT deééING. Train and Auto Crash in Florida Accident. WELLBORN, Fla., November 11 (#).—Six persons were killed here yes- terday in an automobile-passenger train crash at a grade crossing. The dead are: Mrs. Jack R. Har- dee, 30, Jacksonville; Mrs. W. P. Moore, 47, wife of the local postmas- ter; Mrs. Charles Hardee, 52, mother- In-law of Mrs. Jack Hardee; Mrs. Julia | Williams, 50, mother of Mrs. Jack Hardee; Louise Hardee, 9, and Betty Hardee, 3, both daughters of Mrs. Jack Hardee. | | Observatory will discontinue furnish- {Ing time by telephone, Capt. Edwin | T. Pollock, superintendent® of the ob- ervatory, annoupnced today through he Navy Department. { “The Naval Observatory,” Capt. Pol- |lock said, “finds that it is impractica- ble with the present equipment to con- tinue to furnish the time over the | telephone and to carry on the regu- lar_communication system of the in- stitution. “Since the Western Union Company has discontinued furnishing time by telephone the calls on the Observatory for the time have Inoreased steadily from 650 00v datly, ‘Naval Observatory to Discontinue | Giving Time Over Phone After Nov. 20 Liffective November 20, the Naval | [sm\w GETS NOBEL PRIZE. Literature Award Goes to British Author for 1925 Work. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 11 (®).—George Bernard Shaw, Brit- ish_author, today was awarded the 1925 Nobel prize for literature. The 1926 prize was postponed until next year by the Royal Swedish Acad- emy of Literature, which decides the awards under the terms of the Alfred Nobel Foundation. ‘BREAD TRUST' QUIZ IS NOW IMMINENT Senate Judiciary Committee to Handle Inquiry—Norris Likely Chairman. RY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Another far-flung Senate investiga { tion——this time of the so called “bread trust"—is imminent. Tt will be launch- | ed by the judiciary committee, at the instigation of Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, of Montana, and is aimed at the Continental Baking Cor- poration, the $600,000,000 organization of interlocking baking interests head- ed by William B. Ward. The Senate ordered the investigation on the eve of adjournment last July. While designed to explore an alleged fllegal monopoly in the manufacture of bread, flour and other food prod- ucts, the investigation will aim pri- marily to clear up the connection be-| tweeni Department of Justice pro- cedure and Federal Trade Commission he Continental Baking On April 3. 1926, Court at Baltimore, | argent's initia- tive, entered a ‘“consent decree,” or- dering dissolution of the $2,000,000,000 “\Ward Food Products Corporation. This Is the glant merger which was to have absorbed the vast and various Ward baking interests, whose annual sales approach $150.000,000 a year. Dismissal of Decree. The immediate the United on Attorney nsequence of the decree was thg dismissal by the Fed-| eral Trade Commission of the com- plaint it had filed against the Conti- nental Baking Corporation on Decem- ber 19, 1925, for violation of the Clay- ton anti-trust law. According to the minority (Democratic) members of the Trade Commission as then constituted, | . Nugent and Thompson, “the; 1 of the complaint | was to leave the Continental Baking | Corporation in the quiet, undisturbed and unchallenged ownership and pos- session of the capital stock corpora- tions owning and operating 83 bak- ing concerns, including some of the largest In the country.” The action of | the commission majority (Republicans) was assailed as having “not only exe- cuted section 7 of the Clavton act, but buried it unwept, unhonored and | unsung.” Senator Walsh declares that he is bent upon pressing the investigation because the millers of Montana and of the Northwest generally are alarmed over the situation which will arise if the purchase of flour falls into monopolistic hands. There have al- ready been serious results of that| character, Senator Walsh is informed. La Follette Began Probe. | The Senate's interest in the “bread| trust” was originally aroused by the | late Senator La Follette, who, in Feb-| ruary, 1924, introduced a resolution which was unanimously adopted. It provided for a_sweeping inquiry into | the whole baking industry, from the| wheatfields to consumers’ tables, with | particular reference to attempts to| create a monopoly or form combina- tions in restraint of trade. The Fed- eral Trade Commission was directed to make the investigation, but it never | came off. Barly In his career in thel Senate “Young Bob” La Follette took | up the “bread trust” issue where his| father left it, but matters did not| come to a head until Senator Walsh tackled them just before the Senate adjourned last” Summer. TTigh politics and an unusual array Mes: result of the dismi of battling personalities will ~distin- guish the forthcoming investigation. ! The “packing” of the Federal Trade| | Commisston with 1tepublicans friend-| |1y to corporate interests is one of the major charges the Democrats long! have planned to launch against the| Coolidge administration. The “‘bread trust” inquiry is apparently to be the| arena in which these accusations will | be aired. Persons {o Be Heard. The Federal Trade comm whose names will figure consp! | 1 uous- in the Democrats’ onslaught are Willi?m E. Humphrey, Charles W. Hunt and Vernon W. Van Fleet | The latter is no longer a member of the commission. But the man who took his place a few months ago is likely to figure no less prominentl Abram F. Myers, who was the special | Department of Justice attorney in| charge of the proceedings which end- | ed in the dissolution of the $2,000.- | 000,000 food merger. H No less interesting is the make-up | of the Senate judiciary committee, | which will hold the investigation. It will be headed, in all likelihood, by | Senator George W. Norris, Repub- lican-Progressive, of Nebraska, heir by seniority to the chairmanship of | the late Senator Cummins. | Other | committee members are Borah, Re- publican; Reed (Missouri), Walsh | (Montana), Ashurst, Caraway, King and Neely, Democrats, and all hard- hitting, experienced probers. (Copyright. 1926.) i ' Emperor Has Bronchitis. TOKIO, November 11 (®).—The condition_ of the emperor of Japan, who has been fll for many months, is causing some anxiety. The Emperor's | cold has developed bronchitis and an | intermittent fever, but physicians do not believe his condition fs serfous. *“As a result, the outside Chesapeake and Potomac telephone trunk lihes from the observatory are almost con stantly busy. This seriously inter- feres with interior communication be. tween the various offices here and the Navy Department, as all calls on the | Navy trunk line and outside lines| are handled at the observatory by the same operator.” Capt. Pollock added, however, that with the radio stations broadcasting the observatory time signals, “and with the large number of radios now installed in private homes, it should be an easy matter for any one to re- ceive the time signals and set their watches and clocks accordingly,' | Episcopal Church here. | old, who TWO CENTS. LA PLATA BURIES TS CHLD DEAD AS CHURCHBELLS TLL Heart-Broken Maryland Town Turns Sadly to Day of Funerals. CYCLONE VICTIMS LAID TO REST ONE BY ONE All Bodies Expected to Have Been Interred by Tomorrow—Relief Fund Grows. Heartbroken la Plata ioday ve- signed itself to the sad task of buv ing its dead. The deaths stand at 15, 14 of them being children Quietly and solemnly the whole town participated in the last rvites to the memories of the young lives snuffed out by a tornado Tuesday afternoon It is & day of funerals. Ail through the morning and through the after- noon tho tolling of bells at short in tervals marked another last journev. Rosy-cheeked, bright-eved bors ficlated as pallbearers. Churches are filled to overflowing with hushed throngs. The text beginning “T am the res urrection and the life,”” preached at many of the funeral services. typifie the spirit with which La Plata is ob- serving an Armistice day far different from that which marked the end of a world disaster eight years ago. Rites for All But Three. Funerals for all but three of the vic. tims had been held late this afternoon At the Episcopal Church serv were held for Mary Ellen Bowie, vears old; Lester Sinclair, 7: Henry Clagett, 8, and James Wright Mad- dox, 9. Requiem mass was solemnized three times today in funerals at Sacred Heart Church—first for Rufus Waits, the colored janitor of the school; then for Jack Clark, jr., 12, and La Viga Martin, his, 12-year-old chum; and shortly before moon for Mary Alice Cooksey, 9, and Edward Bean, 10. Lucille Miles, 12, was buried this afternoon after services at the Metho- dist Church. Lulu Patterson, colore woman, was burled late yesterd: after Methodist services. The body of Lucille Edwards, 10, has been taken to_Waynesboro, Va, for interment. Remaining to be buried are Tilden oksey, 8, brother of the girl who was buried this morning; Theresa Fistelle Bean, 9, sister of the bov who was buried this morning, and Lilliun | Della, S. The inability to transfer the three bodies from Washington to La Plata was the reason for the funerals ¢ these three children not being held today. Bishop James E. Freeman, in charge of the Episcopal diocese of Washing ton, attended the Episcopal services and read the funeral ritual at the This church, the largest in La Plata, was unabi- to accommodate the crowds which flocked to it. Relief Agency Planned. A meeting at 4 o'clock this after NoON. Wis exper manent relief agency J. B. Gwynn, from National Red Cross headquarters in Washington, meet with the members of the cf relief committee, already functio and representatives of the sal Army to work out a unified plan for distributing the relief funds now in hand. The first contributions for em gency work have been pledged already care for financial obligations in to nection with the funerals v did this all happen . J. Tynan in his sermon services over the hodies of Jack Claric and La Vega Martin. “Why does God allow it? That is the question that has rung down through the ages. Why is there suffering? \Why is there disaster? The answer is that the wages of sin is death. Sin has caused it.” And here Father Tynan turned to the cru- cifix above his head and said: “This wiil tell you more than I can. Look at the nalls at the hands and the feet Took at the crown of thorns. Sin causes this, and sin causes all suffer tng. “Man refused to accept the perfect life God had arranged for him and sin came into the world. After sin came suffering.” The burial of the two children tool place at Chapel Point. They were placed in graves side by side. * asked the Relief Fund Growing. While the day was devoted 1o funerals, the relief committee ar nounced that the fund was now reach- Ing $3.000 for aid and that a number of cames alrea had been taken care of. An iInvestigation was instituted to. day into the report that one of the dead was Marie Langley. The opinfon is that an error crept into the reports in some way. but the final announce ment has not been made. A check-up at Washington hos- pitals is being arranged as well as a general sarvey of the local fam- ilies. She was first reported as missing and believed dead, but resi- dents here falled to connect the name with any child known in the com- munity. ‘Watchers Still at Bedsides. The sun rose brighter this mornin for the anxious band of watchers the bedsides of the La Plata School bullding victims lying dangerously il at Providence Hospital. No more of the children have died and increasing bope was held out for the most critically injured. The hospital this morning issued a statement of the conditions of the patients. The most critically injured and those whom least hope Is held, are Maria Murphy, 11 years as a possible fracture of the skull; Benjamin Miles, a broken leg and a lacerated scalp, and Louls Swann, 10, lacerated leg and com pound fracture of the skull. Each of these children is regarded with grave concern by the attending physicians. Children said to be “getting along nicely” include Vernon Padgett, 7, badly lacerated scalp; Thomas Miles, 10, lacerated fdot and scalp; Rudolph Garner, possible fracture of the skull Harriet Lorenz, 5, fractured arm and lacerations. Included in the “doing nicely list,” are Mr. and Mrs. James 3, Padgett and Mrs. Jameson. wh ‘.animued on Puge o, Column 29