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WEATHER. {U. 8. Weather Bureau Mostly Full report on page eloudy today, probably followed by showers tonight or tomorrow: some- what warmer tomorrow. Temperatures— esterday; lowest, Forecast.) WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star 1s delivered every evening and Sunday The Sta.’s excll Maln 5000 to ¢ orning to Washington homes oy usive carrier service. Phone start immediate delivery Che Sunday 3t ITEN CENTS No. 1,224— No. THREE MEET DEATH AS AUTO PLUNGES OFF HAINS POINT: 30,805. NEW DRIVER SAVED Two Women and Man Die as Sedan Crashes Over Sea' Wall Into 23 Feet of Water as Crowd Looks On. Wntered as second elaxs matte . post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER -70 PAGES. (#) Means Associated Pre: FIVE WASHINGTON CEN AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE _ ] | i LOCKED STEERING WHEEL ; BLAMED FOR ACCIDENT| Efforts to Revive Trio Taken From Submerged Car Fail—Spectators in Boats Aid Police in Recover-| ing Bodies From River—Survivor in Hospital Due to Shock. Shut within a sedan car as it plunged over the sea-wall near Hains Point about 5:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon, three per- sons were drowned in the wa- ters of Washington Channel and a fourth, the driver, Armin A.} Kahler, 47-year-old navy yard! worker, narrowly escaped a simi- | lar death, under circumstances in | which fate played a tragic and freakish part. | A locked steering wheel that the driver failed to unlock and that was, consequently, disengaged ; from the steering shaft is held! 1657 Harvard terrace and Mrs. Le- nore Kahler, 47, wife of the driver of the car, whose address is 1739 North Capitol street. Just before it took the plunge into 23-foot depth of water, the car zigzagged across the grass, lit- : . The Democrats of Rhode Island feel primarily responsible for thep.y are going to the bat November 6| tragedy which resulted in the|yith the strongest ticket they have had almost instant death of Mr. and |in years, headed by Gov. Smith of New Mrs. William Attwill, both 60, of | York for President and Senator Peter Goelet Gerry for Senator. Their candi- | | date for governor is not yet finally se- | lected, but there is likelihood that he | wi Alberic ‘Archameault, & State senator, or Felix Toupin, former lieutenant gov- ernor. Wrecking crane pulling the automobile from waters of Washington Channel it had gone over the seawall carrving its four occupants, three of whom | after lost their lives. £.0.P.HOLDS EDEF N RHODE ISLAND But Democrats Feel They, Have Strongest Ticket ' Ever Presented. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN Staff Correspondent of The S PROVIDENCE, R. I., September 1.-— ill be of French extraction, possibly Theodore Francis Greene of CAR RETRIEVED AFTER FATAL DIVE ! FISCAL RELATIONS STUDY INCONGRESS * RGED BY CAPPER Senator Favors Creation of Commission to Go Into Capital Problem. \ BRANDS #’RESEI\H' SYSTEM! “UNJUST BURDEN” ON CITY] T | | Predicts Action at Next Session on Many Important District Measures. 5 | Congress should create a fact-finding | agency at the coming session to nr\xd\'i the fiscal relations between the United | | States and District governments and to | make recommendations on which fo | | base a fair settlement of the question, | —|in the opinion of Senator Capper of | Kansas, chalrman of tie Senate Dis- | trict committee. “I consider it unlikely that Congress will attempt, during the short session to deal with <he fiscal 1clations of the District and Federal governments,” the | Senator said. “However, the injustize L% 3 | to the District of the present arrange- el .| l risoners Lodetd m For {ment must be apparent to all who give | mer Apartment Before |the subject any thought whatever, 1 | strongly favor the creation of an able | All Tenants Are Qul. |and impartial fact-finding commission, LR or other similar body. early in the While cftisens-of sotithwest Washing- | N€Xt session, #o that when the Seventy- | ton sat on their front steps last nigm]““‘ Congress convenes there will be | and talked’of fnftimctions, pétitions and |SYsilable: defintte dats and recom- | Mindred means of stopping her, Lieut, | Fendations upon which to bese leglsla- Mina Van Winkle, chief of the Wom-| ton Without further delay i en’s Bureau, took & firm hold on the | Would Relieve Burden. Senator Capper said he favored bulls horns and hurried two women g i o) v . . | program for e prisoners into the new House of De- RNy *fegidents of an unjust bur- | tention at 908 B street southwest with | qea and result in (He fuli assumption | the remark that “possession is nine| by the Federal Government of its duty points in law.” to make this city a place of beautv, By Tuesday morning, When court|worthy of the great Nation of which it opens after the holiday, Mrs. Van|is the Capital.” | Winkle said she would have at least| pDuring the last session of Congress | 15 prisoners in their new quarters, u|chs\rmnn Phipps of the District sub- well as most of the furniture from the | committee of the Senate appropriations old home at Ohio avenue and Fifteenth | committee led a determined effort to street. | re-established the 60-40 or some other Mrs. Van Winkle moved into the B |fixed percentage basis of appropriating street apartment house Priday night |for the District, but finally was forced and has seen to it that the building|to yield to the House and agree to the Star Staff Photo, Neighbors Aroused As New Detention House Is Openec | | " roo MANY COOKS 'OF ALBANIA BY UNANIMOUS VOTE Chief of Mountain Tribe Takes Oath on Bible and Koran. | Threat of Violence Made by Enemies Fails to Mate- | rialize at Rites.’ | By the Assoclated Press. TIRANA, September 1.—Church chimes, frenzied popular acclaim, thun- derous cannon fire and one tense mo- | ment of triumph today marked the | final step in the rise of Ahmed Zogu | from a moyntain chieftain to King of | his native Albania. AHMED ZOGU BECOMES MONARCH|| FARIIF T0) SHUN Decide Issue Themselves, Costa Rica Told. By the Associated Press. roe Doctrine. MONROE DOCTRINE {Latin American States Must GENEVA, September 1.—Latin Amer- | ican states must decide for themselves | the real meaning of the American Mon- Such, in the opinion of League offi- | clals, is the cardinal point contained in the reply which the League Council tonight cabled Costa Rica's government (GALLES DECLARES HE WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT AGAIN , Urges Democratic Election to End Forever Era of Rule by Military Chiefs. | SEES OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW ORIENTATION | Asks for Representation of Al Minority and Reactionary Political Groups. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, September 1.—Presi- dent Plutarco Elias Calles in the most emphatic terms today refused to con- tinue in office after the expiration of his term November 20, solemnly assert- ing, moreover, that he never at any time will again be President of Mexico. | Tuis declaraticn. one of the most im- | portant nresidential messages in the history of Mexico, came in the course of the President’s address upon the con- | vening of the new Congress in its regu= | 1ar four-month session this afternoon. The President urged that only consid- crations of highest patriotism guide { Congress in its selection of a provisional | President to succeed him in December, {and he aopealed to the army and lead= ers of all phases of Mexican life to con- duct themselves with sober restraint for the best interests of the country in one of the most solemn moments of its his- tory. Deplores Obregon Loss. | President Calles deplored the “irrep- | arable loss” to the country resulting | from the assassination of the Presi- dent-elect, Gen. Alvaro Obregon. and lamented the situation which it had thrust upon the country. But, he said, this situation presented the opportunity for Mexico to attain new political orientation by establishing in- stitutions and law, not one individual, as the supreme government. The Presiden that if Con- " and the Mexican pe gress, the army, an can peo- ple will work unitedly and with patriotic motives at this crucial period of Mex- jcan history, Mexico can at last get away from the idea that only strong military chieftains can govern. In- stead, he said, will be established the Itu- erally squeezing its way between two stout trees scarcely six feet apart, mmgml the bark off the side of . A difference of but a few inches to either side would | twice been clected in a len have brought the ear and its help- | State, and that he is therefors’ ei- Imwlsoe'c;g-nnw 'n &.:d halt :fiun-.m. They say, too, that Gov. Smith or o of sea-wall. |45 the first Democratic candidate for o ilnin 15 minutes atter the accldent | presigent put forward in years who o o PREAESS mwlhd rom the | really makes an appeal to the citizens rater by rescuers, but emergency ald | of Rnode Island. They had no par- by use of a pulmotor failed to restore | {ojar’ Jiking for John W. the three victims They were tsked|1924 or former Gov. Cox of Qhio in “&“}mmm” Emergency Hos- | 1590, But Smith, with his wet appeal, SHE et S said they undoutt- | nis strong personality snd his interest S s St vt waa eaied | 1oz (s, via, comers 0, the couney:! 3 it ;1 on: at for severe shock. ey ill add great strength to in response to its expressed desire to have the Council’s interpretation before deciding the question of its return to League membership. | Providence, too, is mentioned as a pos- sible gubernatorial candidate. They argue that Senator Gerry has | f laws and insti sanctity of power of laws - tions which will whomsoever may be made President. Urges Full Representation. ‘The reply was made public today after secet.sessons lsting two daye. During | A SEEHE 0 S Prldene 'ad- this time the matter was discussed, at | yised that all minority and reactionary times. it Is known, more or less|groups, “even the clerical reactionaries, heatedly. ! have representation in Congress. Con- The reply is such that, according to tinuing, he asked Congress and the army the opinion heard in League circles, in- |so to conduct themselves that in the | cluding the views of Latin Americans, | elections for his successor Mexico would the League has succeeded in adhering | have a really democratic contest in to the last to its determination neither | which all men, ecivilian and military to wound American sentiment nor to alike. may engage. displease the Latin American states. | Congress was asked not to act hastily The reply declines to interpert the | in selecting a provisional President and has been occupled by her representa- | $9,000,000 lump sum as the Federal tives since. This move was made, she | share for ahother fiscal year. said, because of her belief that the | Discussing the outlook for District citigens will find it much harder to|legislation generally, Senator Capper eject her than it would have been to|sald. yesterday it was safe to p. et anevem her from occupying the build- | that before the Seventieth Congress ends g ‘next Spring new laws will be enacted Yesterday the apartment house was Iwnler diplomas and degrees in the | Distriet, and to provide a new method F. W. Treakle, S. H. Boon, W. G. Stone , pu and C. H. Willlams. |tal. These three subjects were con- rsons expressed | sidered at the last session, but_mnot spending the night in a *jail,” but their | gress. reluctance to relinquish their apart- | The Natfonal Assembly, without a dis- | senting voice, had proclaimed him King of the Albanians. ties, government officials and prominent civilians who packed the tiny legislative hall of the smallest state in the Balkans arose in | a and greeted the announcement with cries of “Long live our King." | They left the hall and marched, 200 | strong, to the palace, where President 3 f was waiting for them. | Italian guards formed a barrier against The salvo of 101 guns had scarcely | the possibility of a hostile act. i signaled the elevation of a plebeian He appeared profoundly moved and President to the dignity of Kkingship | showed of nervousness as he | when the new ruler started his triumphal | mounted the parliamentary tribune to journey from the palace to the assem- | take the oath. Falteringly, he raised {bly hall. He rode through densely |his right hand and swore to rule the | thronged _streets while Albanian and | ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 2) regulating the practice of the healing still occupied by eight persons whose |art, the regulation of institutions that| leases will not expire for 30 days. They were Miss Ann E. Brennan, Paul M. | Carey, H. H. Hart, Norval S. Herbert, | of Procedure in condemning land for blic purposes in the National Capi- Several of these great indignation -tpemr prospect of | completed by the two houses of Con- Sees Action on Airport. Surviver In Hospital The only survivor of the tragedy was 2t a hospital last night awaiting the | findings of a coroners inquest, which has called at . He was not informed of the death of his wife and friends until nearly two hours after his errival at the hospital. Though suf- fering severely from this ordeal, Mr. Kahler was fully conscious.. ceived the news in & dazed Physicians said he was running a fever. | The two-family party had driven to| Hains Point for a pleasure ride yester- day afternoon, and had parked the car | within a short distance of the point en it plunged over thc wall, about yards north of the tea house. hler had purchased the car from | ? Attwill only recently, it was learned Jast night, and had taken out a driver’s | permit Thursday. the first permit he has ever received. The car is equipped with a lock which makes the steering wheel movable in either direction without turning the front wheels. Mr. Kahler told the | police that he forgot to unlock and thus | % e the steering wheel when the | parties re-entered the car. ped | rn the gas apd the car shot ahead. | ¥ntirely out of control, it zig-zagged | across the plot of grass between the driveway and the water, careening from #ide 1o side. Spectators were astonished | when it between the two trees ; tustead of hitting one. Kahler evidently became too excited he found himself in this predica- to apply the emergency brakes or off the 1gnitiop, cither act of which bly would have averted the dis- s “The car was not going at gieat | swed. bul bumped steadily forward as| ering wheel kept furning from side. Boats Aid in Eescue. the sedgan were but in toppling into seemed 1o close au shutting off escape. Robert 1135 Sixth street, who was in t and Harry D. Murray, 2018 Yew Hampshire 2venue, 2 lawyer, who in a boat the “Iron Duke” are erodited by the police with pulling Mr Kahler w safety from the emerged | ror Mr. Jopes who also was in a boat, | was sajd to have been the first upon the scene Somehow or other either through the or the side aoor of the sedan efforts to get Kohler was pulled :meshed windshield | 0 the began frantic other oceupant Aimost unConuscious ed herojcally in ne ble to swim, Kahler .s said to have gone back Into ater in his desparate efforts to save his wife and two companions. “He did #1] anybody cou under the circumstances policemen xaid Ropes were furnished by sutoists, who athered slong the water bank, and in Unis manner the inert hodies of the three victime were finally brought to the surface after shout 15 minutes of hard work. When the harbor police arrived She rescue had been about sccomplished By means of ropes and grappling cheins, the submerged automobile finaily was brought to the surface, with the vindows broken. A wrecking machine Mr one of the was called from the city and the Car|runs who tuned in on station WFAA | phone and dictated an account of the finelly was pulled from the water fl"d‘mnu_ for & breakfast hour program | shooting of Orville Mathews, a bank towed away about 7:15 o'clock Park Policemsn P. R. Toland, who was patroling his best at that point was an eyewitness. He notffied Lieut H. Helms, night commander of the rk police, who hastened 1o the scene esnwhile, the fire vescue squed with @ pulmotor had arrived end also an smbulance from Emergency Hogpital (Confinued on Page 3, Columan 1) | Republicans have by no means lost | confidence. ~ They ‘"|Hmver makes business interests of the State, which lflel-lm of his humanitarian work ail over the admin] He re-|trator during the World War. B | 25 selected of | But Col. Patrick H. Qu Then ¢ Lippitt. | spends 1d possibly have done | strength: Republicans Confident. While the Democrats are cocky, the insist that Herbert a real appeal to the , and to the women because For rnor, the republican leaders are ing to nomigate’ Gov. Norman S. Case, who became governor when the late Gov. Pothier died in February of this year. And for Senator to run against = Gerry, they have virtually Felix Hebert, a French- American judge of a district court and a widely known inzurance lawyer How the political leaders in this State do love the French this vear—and for | tihat matter, every election year. Each side is intent just now on naming a | strong Prenchman on their State ticket to aid in bringing the French-American vote into line. This vote is estimated world and his work as food |at 40,000 or about 20 per cent of the| total vote cast in the State. With the | City of Providence, which has perhaps | 40 per cent of the total population and the total voting strength of the State, pretty evenly divided between | Democrats and Republicans, the big | | French vote, which is located almost|oreq woman wounded, in two affrays entirely out in the State, practically holds the balance of power. As indicat- ed in this writer’s dispatch in yester- day’s Star, the French vote has been strongly Republican in the past, though in sev- | iL has swung to the Democrats eral State electio Also, the French have been antagonistic | politically to the Irish-Americans which | 3qqreqs. ns, giving them victory. | ments proved greater than their ob- | jection to sharing the building with | prisoners. . | Although surprised and somewhat disconcerted by Mrs. Van Winkle's move last night, the group of citizens opposing the location bf the home plan to press their fight Tuesday. Led by their attorney, ©. Sullivan, half a dozen o them will go into court Tuesday and seek an injunction preventing the bureau from taking up the new quarters. According to W. K. Winstatt, whose home adjoins the new House of De- tention, Sullivan was_successful in a| (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) ‘ | The proposed new insurance code and the bill to prevent fraud in connection with the sale of securities likewise were mentioned by the Senator as meas- ures that should be acted upon at the coming session. Scnator Capper added that the meas- | ure to provide for the establishment | of an airport in the National Capital | would have early consideration at the| coming session. ' Referring to the market situation, Senator Capper sald: “Of importance secondary only to the street railway merger plan is the public market situation. Not only are; the people of the District in danger of | being deprived of a properly situated | farmers’ market, but the progress of | the triangle public building program threatens early closing of Center Mar-| ket. It is of vital Importance to main- tain adequate public market facilities for the people of the District, and legis- ONE MAN KILLED, WIFE SHOT BY MATE| Fatal Fight Laid to Quarrel Over| cram.” Quarter—Police Seek < : RENO SETS RECORD. | Missing Pair. . i | i A colored man was killed and a col- | RENO, Nev., September 1 (#).—Up | to 2 o'clock this afternoon, 47 marriage | licenses had been granted by the county L here shortly after last midnight. | clerk at Reno, breaking all records for | i R residing i the | one day in the history of Nevada coun- Preedmen's Hospital after he was shot | ties. Applicants straggled In from | at 1017 V street, reputedly in a fight | California at the rate of about five an ver a quarter, developing out of & Thour. ! craps game. Police are looking for & TODAY’S STAR Henry Griffin, colored, of the V street | ‘They were told by Wilson ‘ Bives the Republicans further cause for | Mdden aieo colored, of 13045 Tenth hope thix year Foresces Hoover Vietory Republican State Chairman W. C Pelty insists that the State will not only cast its electoral vote for Hoover, but is0 that it will elect Judge Heberl over Senator Gerry and that Gov. Case will walk into office again. He is backed up in this prognostication by Frederick 8 Peck, Republlcian nllll‘nna.I (;(::xmétlwlv- an, a power in politics in this State B e i inn, Democratic national committeeman, is no less sure that Smith will win the State electoral vote and that Senator Gerry will be re-clected Senator Gerry was first elected to the Senate in 1916, defeating former Senator He repeated in 1922, when he defeated former Gov. Beekman. He has built up in the State a strong personal Kahler | organization and following, and he hus | thie coins valued at $60,000 are on the rexcue work. | been ectively engaged in his campaign | hottom of the Missouri River where the nevertheless | for re-election for more than a YEAr | the stream is crossed by a bridge here. the | His Republican opponents insist that he | tho ‘machines and money were thrown | follows the Tammany method; that he greal sums of money . to en his position, The Democrats ay he is generous and contributes o (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) Announcer Sees Mu |Gives Eye-Witness | By the Assoctated Press | DALLAS, Tex., September 1.--Radio (today heard a running eyewitness ac- count of & murder. | Miss Vera Meade Grimes was pm%- | ng_“Moonlight snd Roses,” on the plano when Ralph Schulze, ‘m.m what he thought was an auto- { mobtle tire blowing out and looked out | the window, Below he saw & man run- ning acrose the streel, pursied by an- ! other man who wae shogging nhouncer, |only as “Albert Thomas," and whose Account Over Radio | street, that Griffin shot Mitchell while | | firing at him | PART ONE—I2 PAGES General News—Local, National | Foreign Political Survey of the United States— Pages 8 and 9. Financial News—Pages 10 and 11, PART TWO—I2 PAG Editorial and Soctety Section. i Review of New Books—Page 4. | | Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 9. | News of the Clubs—Page 9. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 12 { Radio News—Page 10 | police were in- In the other case, identified formed that a colored man and | address was unknown, shot his wife while they stood at Seventeenth street | |and Kalorama road, then dragged her | {into their car which was parked neai- | | by, and drove away. Police made a | survey of the hospitals, but were un- | able to get any trace of the couple. | Nejghbors did not know how serlously the woman was wounded. Baltimore | police were notified to be on watch | | for the woman and her husband. PART THREE—I14 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. | News of the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 and 7. i Aviation’ Activities—Pages 9 and 10, | Around the City—Page 11 | Cross-word Puzzle—Page 11, District National Guard—Page 11 Serial Stary, “The Fortunate Way- farer"—Page 12 ! | Civilian Army News--Page 12 | District Naval Resérve— Page 12 | Praternal News—Page 13 Aizv and Navy Union—Page 13 eterni:s of the Gireat War—Page 13 | Spanish War Veterans-—Page 13 Y. W. C. A. Activitles—Page 14. Army and Navy News—Page 14 PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section, | Throw $5,000 in River. KANSAS CITY, September 1 (#).— | Nickels, dimes and quarters valued at $6,000, 'and slol machines containing into the river by officers who confiscated | | them during a recenl drive against lotteries. ‘The police are not allowed to | open confscated machines and any coln | in them goes into the river rder From Window: PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Marine Corps News—Page 8. Cutting “Moonlight and Roses” off un- | cermoniously, Bchulze took the micro- PART SIX—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor, executive, by V, R. Adams, a farmer, who had disagreed with Mathews over an election bet, The shooting occurred at Main and Akard, the businest cor- ner in town, 1t was & notable scoop by the radio over newspapers, because listeners hun- | dreds of miles away got a narrative of | the shooting before Dallas newspapers | M I knew there had been a murder, | oy GRAPHIC SECTION—R PAGES, World Events in Plctures COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES, utt and Jeff: Reg'lar Fellers: Mr. and | Mrs | High Lights iy History. i {Backs Plan to ConsolidategFlies to | tion, wish to mssure you of my full SIMMONS INDORSES KAROLY! ARRIVES ANTI-SMITH MOVE FOR BRIEF VISIT Capital for Confer- ence—Will Sail for Spain on Monday. Foes of Governor—Ready to Co-operate. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 1.-—Count Michael Karolyl, who for a few month served as the first president of Hungary, arrived in the United States today for a very brief - isit. ‘When the count came to this country three years ago he was permitted to land only on condition that he neither write nor speak for publication on political questions. On his arrival this morning aboard the Spanish Royal Mail steamer, Cristobal Colon, bound for Barcelona from Mexico, he found that immigration officials did not seek to de- tain him, but were willing to let him ! stay the two days the little steamer will | be in port “I am astonished, utterly astonished!" he exclaimed when informed that he could land. “It is another of those quaint American paradoxes.” Count Karolyl immediately began to make the most of his brief sojourn. He addressed the enthusiastic crowd of sympathizers that gathered at the plor to greet him, hurried to the financial ! district to speak to an outdoor noon- | day gathering and then drove to the | Pennsylvania Station. It had wveen planned that he would go to Curtiss ‘;"ll‘ld to bo‘m;d a p{lm\e for W:;mn'mu sympathy with the movement to or-| or a special conference at the sm«: e and ‘consolidate antl-Smith sen- | DepSHiment and at the Alien Property timent. [ inasie "t Crien wleld. ien. hag “Shall be glad to co-operate in this | . el b @ ouition ia ane of uhcom | ccased operations for the day in re- promising opposition to Gov. Smith. It ‘]u‘w 0 the lr;‘&mory o 3 'l\ Merrill, promistng o aind that _since his | /4 mansger.who was killed in & crash. It was assumed that a* ihe last nomination, he has repudiated the, - s platform not in one but in several par- (Continued on Page 7, Column 6.) By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C, September 1.— Senator P, M. Simmons of New Bern, in a telegram to Frank R. McNinch, | recognized leader of the anti-Smith forces in North Carolina, expressed his unqualified indorsement of the anti- Smith movement and declared that he was “profoundly convinced that the election of Gov. Smith would be un- fortunate alike to the party and the countr: The senfor Senator from North Car- olina, a leader in Democratic circles in the State for more than 30 years, as- sured Mr. McNinch of his “full sym- pathy with the movement to organize and consolidate anti-Smith sentiment,’ and expressed his willingness to co- operate in the work In a statement issued by Mr. Me- Ninch, when he released the Simmons telegram, he announced that plans for a State-wide organization with the de-| feat of Gov. Smith in this State as its | object were nearing completion with the formal organization of the anti-Smith Democratic committee, to direct the fight, being scheduled for next week The telegram of Senator Simmons was as follows “Pursuant to our phone conversa- | doctrine on the grounds that it c | cerns only states having acceptes kind. Then it emphasize: covenant of the League as tions and equal rights. Ioull the reply of the Monroe Doctrine. | dent | ment at Washington. The the effect of avoiding the subject. g | | TWO STEAMERS CRASH, | ONE CALLS FOR HELP Collision Tatoosh in Pacific Between Coastwise Vessels. By the Assoclated Press. PORTLAND, Ore, September 1 The Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co. the Admiral Piske collided at 10:45 tonight. ‘The Floridian had a hole in the en- gine room and asked the Admiral Fiske to stand by to pick up the boats. The ships collided 65 miles south of Tatoosh. The Admiral Fiske was bound from Everett to San Francisco and the Floridian from San Francisco to Seattle. TWO BURNED IN AUTO. s Mother and Daughter Meet Death After Car Hits Truck. DUNKIRK, N. Y., September 1 (#).— Mrs. George Henris and her 18-year-old daughter Marian were burned to death in their automoblle today after the machine had collided with a milk truck and plunged over the side of a bridge. The driver of the truck was seriously injured. ticulars, turned the party over to Tam- many Hall and certain big interests hostile to Democratic policies and prin- ciples, and that_through his, its and | their actions, affliations and connec- | tions, the major principles of the party | have been either compromised, traded | or bartered off for expediency sake leaving but little of Democracy excepl its name. Babe Ruth happens to be & Demo- “To me the principles of the party |crat, At loast, he is supporting Al mean more than its name, Under theso | g, o Chreumstances, 1 am profoundly _con: Smith in the presidential race, and that Vihoed that the election of Gov. Smith | fact put him in rather an embarrassing would be unfortunate nlike to the party | Position yesterday afterncon when & and the country and I shall not, there, | photographer _conceived the idea of fore, vote for him.” having him photographed shaking hands | with "Herbert Hoover, the Republican oA nominee. ‘The Babe declined with No 5:30 Edition thanks, explaining It “as a matter of Tomorrow polities.” After the Jflmr yesterday a photog- ed to one of the gentle= Tomarrow baln1 Labor day, there will be no late edition of rapher appe men in the Hoover retinue for permis. ‘The Star, the home edition going to press at 1 o'clock, Says It's Just sion to take a picture of Babe Ruth with the former Secretary of Com- merce. He was granted permission and went tn get Mr, Ruth, but there he met a uumblw block. . M Ruth Ref;,lses to Pose With Ho;vcr: " “Matter of Politics Finally he enlisted the aid of Clark riffith, who weat gver to the Yankee on out and pose. But the Babe evi- dently ht of what his friend Al Smith say when he saw the pic- tnmi‘nnd he I'I"I:OR his head. “It's & matter of politics,” he ex- platned. Mr. Hoover all this time was bliss- fully ignorant of the plans which went ler Hu, , manager of the New York Yankees, qualified as a born non- partisan di At last night when he explained it he belleved there had been some misunderstanding and Ruth's | fallure to pose Was probably due to the game's heing called so soon after the request was made. “among themselves” engagements of this | s that the| a whole confers upon all members equal obliga- It is brought ol‘“ t&n inclusion in th:h covenant of such e ts as the Monroe Doctrine em not give them sanction or validity they did not previ- ly possess. As interpreted here it is held that indicates that under the Council’s explanation any Latin Amer- | fcan state which might desire to sub- mit a difference to the League of Na- tions need not be impeded by reason | It is understood that the reply to Costa Rica, which was cabled by Presi- to the secretary of state for foreign affairs in Costa Rica has/| also been cabled to the State Depart- Council’s agreement on the text of the reply to| Costa Rica, it is belleved, will hl‘le[ Reported 65 Miles of Reports that the steamers Floridian and | on- | not to call the election for the provis- d | lonal President’s successor too quickly. He said that the idea to be kept in mind always was that everything must be done calmly and in a democratic manner. Sees New Political Era. This will, he sald, bring in 8 new poltical era, giving every candidate an opportunity and would end an era of rule of Mexico by & “caudillo,” or mili- tary chieftain. The President said that although he never again would serve as President of Mexico he would not abandon his | civic duties, but would accept whatever post he considered in the line of his duty to his country and to the “revo- lution.” Civic virtue and ability to legislate and rule for Mexico's good alone should guide Congress in the selection of a provisional President, he said, appeal- | ing for the abandonment of personal | ambitions and for generosity and purity of ideals in making the choice. Particularly did he ask for an | abandonment of the old style of heated and undignified contest in the selection of & successor to the provisional Presi- dent which might lead to violence and disorder. The Mexican “revolutionary” | party was urged in the address to stand united and avoid dissension within its own ranks lest all the gains of the long revolutionary fight be lost Confidence in the loyalty and honor jof the army was expressed in “this | most solemn hour of our life,” and he begged that it not be beguiled by any- body into any action against the gov- i | | - | ernment. “In this poignant hour,” he said, “it | would be criminal for any man to at- | tempt to come into presidential power by any other than constitutional | means.” | “The death of the President-elect | constitutes an irreparable loss,” Presi- [dum Calles continued. “It leaves the | country in a particularly difficult situ- | ation Lecause of the total lack, not of { capable, well prepared men, which fortunately we have, but of unquestion- |able outstanding personalities whose | names and prestige have sufficient hold | on public opinion to merit general confi- |.dence. With the disappearance of Gen. ol n the country faces one of its | gravest, most vital problems, not merely of political character but affecting the very life of the nation.” Will Never Serve Again. “I first deem it necessary to make | final, unalterable declaration on my | word of honor to Congress, to the coun- try and to the family of civilised na- tions,” he said. “Perhaps never have circumstances placed the head of a | hation in & move propitious atmosphere to return to the principle of perpetu- | ation in office of one man, suggestions {and promises have been made to me, even certaln pressure exerted, all under guise that it wuold be for the best interest of the country for me to con- tinue n office. But I have decided solemniy with such clearness of words | that it cannot be misinterpreted that |1 shall not seek prolongation of my term either by accepting a prolongation of my present term of office or my ap- pointment as a provisional nt. Aside from other considerations, I do | this because of the need I consider categorical and final, to pass from the system of government by caudillos to @ clean one of government by . insti- tutions. Never, for any reason, under any circumstances, shall I return to the presidency. “This does not mean that I have even the remote intention of abandening my civie duties or of retiring from the life (Continued on Page 2, Column 8. | Y

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