Newspaper Page Text
WF4THFR 1# ^5?7 A 1m ***> Member of the Associated Press WtAlMtR. ^ yr ^ I D ^~^mm / A m Y a ?W "" Awelstsa Trmm u oOMr entitled to Unsettled weather and probably f IB. . J X- J A. A .A A . A < A A. . A . A il the a? far repnWtratVw at an new dispateSoo *?s;7.ss,'j?,f<.vf,sg.'ss-I'm 1 r\ d\ ^wTwn nTTrri tr ^ \^HST\w'w*' 'f"Lr^-Lr"'-ir ndlng at 12 noon today: Highebt. fl B T I 1 IT SH B B / B fl Hill I J I nnt and aha tbo kaal am pabtUhad batata 85. at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, TO, at 4 I . B K Ir B B B B^ B B B B B B B B M A B H All rights of publication of eppdal ? *?14 J v ^dUviWiUj ^rrtairL ^ Closing New York Stocks, Page 20. ' ^ V ^ WITH SUNDAY MOBNING EDITION (0^ \S Sondes Net CircuUtion. **78 | No. 27,912. wasKon8 T'c WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1920-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS. fc ,i i MR WES! SHOWING UTILE ENTHUSIASM FOR CANDIDATES ' t people Disgusted With Pol- \ itics?Cox Allows League < 1 ' Flame to Flicker. ; BY X. O. MESSENGER. 1 SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. September . 87.?Who remembers when about this I ttime before election and you were | traveling on the train how the pests. I regular boll weevils, as Joe Tumulty ?alls them, would come through the 1 "train taking a straw vote, and how. I I in the smoking rooms you couldn't i | Jiear yourself think for the loud j "wrangling over politics? i , Well. I dropped in here last night I After thirty hours on the Overland I IL.imited and some four days and even- I 1ngs prior thereto on other transcon- I tinental trains, and so help me, never ieard politics mentioned. As for a straw vote taker."he would have been looked upon with amaze- ( went. In smoking room or observation car or wherever men gathered to smoke or gabble or ask "Where be iyou from, stranger?" they discussed luearly everything else under the shining sun but presidential campaigns. Which furnishes the text for a few observations in general on the whole state of the Union west of here, "before taking up the Utah situation tl later. The truth of the whole affair i< is the people of the far west are disjusted with politics and not enthused over the personality of either of the P candidates. " Cox Short of Expectations. y Gov. Cox, in my candid opinion, the result of close observation and as- j, siduous inquiry, has not come up to c. expectations of him nor measured up CI to the ideals of statesmanship set by CI the western people, who have pas- l\ sionate political ideals when they c: have any President Wilson was their ideal of a statesman and Roosevelt of 01 a politician and reformer. President P! Wilson set a portion of the democrats 13 of the west aflame over his league of rations, and Gov. Cox has not fanned that flame, but, if anything, has al- ^ lowed it to flicker while he blew the ? bellows otherwise. Those democrats who may have changed their minds on the league have not heard Gov. Cox offer them any engaging policies s to intrigue their interest. la Senator Harding is unknown in the bi west, beyond the introduction pro- o' vided in his discussion of national si and international subjects meagerly o reported in tne press, ine prevailing p impression ot him among republicans d< would probably be that of a dignified, statesman of the old school and iden- tl tilled more prominently with the con- tl servative wing of his party. There ia N ' no enthusiasm for the candidate, per- t< sonally. The republican promise lies t< In the fact that progressives and reg- v vlars. so long apart, are united at this * time to turn the democrats out. If h Harding ia turned in. it hfjfatifg he U Is the head of the ticket they want to o: elect, and not because he la endeared o to them. ji Drift to Luiillde. Even democrats admit, when talk- I; Ing sincerely, the great undercurrent ' of drift to the republicans, talk of * a - republican landslide. Now that J1 situation presents an element of dan- 1 ger to the republicans and of corresponding hope to the democrats. Democratic leaders are counting j heavily on the republicans overplay- t Ing their confidence, and many of t them staying away from the polls, j ss result of confidence coupled with t apathy. They say that the prevail- t ing spirit of desperation among the r democrats will, on the other hand, . drive every democrat to the polls on ? election day. Democrats out this t way are relying upon this considers- _ tlon as a drowning man clutches at a t straw, together with the hope that i between now and election day "some- v thing will happen" to turn the tide. Jj People Talking Business. 1 Tou ask what people are talking r about, since they are not interested tl in politics; they are talking business, the drop in prices and the outlook t for business in the near future. No- 1 body fears a panic. Many big bust- c ness men are glad the drop is on. I figuring that the sooner it is over d the earlier we will get back to nor- t mal. a One heavy California manufacturer told The Star correspondent that he and his friends realize that a drop must come, and are preparing to take a loss for the time being, and until readjustment sets in. This manufacturer, who sells as far east as Buffalo. says that from now on it will be a "buyers' market"?that is to say, the seller of goods cannot dictate prices, while the buyer will look about him. They also are talking crops and prices of food commodities. If the farmer gets hit pretty hard which political party will he blame? the politicians ask. The business men say they give it up. , i ? f Today's News in Paragraphs j Harding greeted by crowds on way to 1 Baltimore. Page 1 1 c League funds dwindling as nations ! wrangie. Page 1 ' Far west showing little enthusiasm in j either nominee. Page 1 j Senator Kenyon predicts drastic action > by Congress to stop rent profiteering I in Washington. Page 1 < Poles capture Grodno, taking prisoners J and war material. Page 1 Idaho is for Harding, says David Law- ] rence. Page 1 . Explosion in Cork wrecks department I store front. Page 1 1 /rnm onmmitnief no ntv rannrtn/1 3 "?'? VVIIIIIIUIIIOV F"' I C^UI Ltu ( to have aided reds at Baku. Page 2 New Jersey to hold primaries tomorrow. Page 2 . Baltimore mecca tor local G. O. P. i Page 2 : Racing balloons forced to land. Page 3 ' Air leaders abroad charge foul tricks in ' Bennett race. Page 3 Sixty-four American students awarded Rhodes scholarship honors. Page 3 Gov. Milliken of Maine tells anti-alcohol ' congress "dry" law has proved immense saving to V. S. Page 4 More Army appointments. Page 4 Run on Boston bank begins again. Page 7 Bituminous operators seek to avert famine by increasing output. Page 12 Pennsylvania motorists in license tangle. Page 12 Cox discusses league and farming. Page 13 Coolidge advises against vindictiveness. ! ' Page 13 Cox for progress, Gompers writes. Page 14 White denies Baruch is "democratic angel." Page 14 , V. S. gets no new idea* from captured German subs. Page 16 } Great Interest shown as debate opens < at world financial conference In Brus V sels. Page 1? , i Reports Jews are outraged. Page ZW1 \ 4 MOTHER POSTAL STATION flew Office to Be Opened on October 1 at 5510 Colorado Avenue. The first contract postal station to r?e established in the District since the ivar is to be opened for business Octo>er 1 at 5510 Colorado avenue. Charles rnrner is to be the clerk in charge. Several years ago druggists and tthers holding postal contracts with he Washington city post office began o give them up. so that during the var the number of these stations was educed. To make up for them the local post >ffice within the past year hat. estabished many classified stations, culninating recently with the inauguraion of the central station in the Southern building. DAMMING. YANTSANY CHANGE U JtnMIMKTDATinM ii numiniuiiiniiun Jlean-Cut Fight Promised in State on League of Nations Issue. BY DAVID LAWRKVCE. BOISE, Idaho, September 27.?Not that hey love Harding more or Cox even ss, but because they want a change, hat's the way people who know Idaho's olitical habits analyze the drift toward the republican national ticket this ear. Dissatisfaction and unrest are due to variety of reasons, some of which ave nothing to do with the Wilson ibinet. But, just the same, the demo-atic party will suffer because a demo atic administration happened to be i power when these ills and irritations ime upon the land. "They will be voting one man and ne party out." said a republican editor rivately, "and they haven't any particuir promise that the next administration .-ill be any better, but they want to jrn back. We will have to educate lem up afterward to understand that ney have chosen rightly, and we hope Sat events will justiry their votes." Harding \o Means Popular. The foregoing opinion indicates that enator Harding is by no means popu r ir. this stronghold of Senator Borah, t that the republican parte is. More ver, Senator Borah made about twenty leeches in this state against the league f nations, and all factions of the reublican party are united behind that oc trine. So it's a clean-cut fight between liose who favor some league and (lose who favor no league. Senator ugent, the democratic candidate for e-election voted every time he could i ratify the treaty of Versailles. He oted for it without reservations and 'ith interpretative reservations and e voted for the Lodge reservation^. Se made his record on the principle f a league of nations, and took every pportunlty to try to get America to >in. The press of the state Is predomlnantT republican. Out of about 140 pubcations only twenty are democratic nd four or five independent. The ulk of the newspapers are against he league and behind Senator Borah. Nugent to Rail Ahead of Ticket. Nevertheless Senator Nugent is conident that when the democrats get heir organization perfected they will ie able to swing the state to Cox. lugent himself will run far ahead of he presidential ticket and unless here is a landslide for Harding, even epublicans concede that he has a rood chance to win the senatorial race .gain. He defeated two years ago for he short term the same man who is unning against him now. Practically he same influences are lined up on oth sides. The Non-Partisan League las withdrawn its candidate from the enatorial race and indorsed Nugent, 'his strengthens the latter rvery such and the democrats think it also telps the presidential ticket. To this the republicans answer that he Non-Partisan League vote consists argely of farmers who are republian on presidential issues. The Non'artisan League newspapers openly leelare thev will not take Bides in he presidential contest. So it would tppear that as a league, the nonlartisan membership will be left to ts own devices and the bulk of its rote is republican for agricultural easons. Similarly the Mormon Church membership, which is the ither large factor in Idaho's situaion, is not being instructed in this itate how to vote. The leaders of he church in Utah, who are for the eague of nations, kept ands off, and mless something unforeseen occurs .he Mormons who have been im>ressed in Idaho by the Borah argunent will vote the republican ticket. Uphill Fight for Democrats. As matters stand today, even the iemocrats are not over sanguine, hough they admit they have an uplill fight and that it all depends upon ;he effectiveness in the next few veeks of the speakers and organizers vho are just being put into the race. The Mormon elders and the Nonpartisan League leaders could swing he state to Cox without any trouble, iut there is no sign of extraordilary interest on their part in the iuccess of the democratic presiden:ial nominee. The republican papers have fed the people practically Borah argument ind nothing else and the people in nany sections have been led to believe, for example, that the league if nations means America must dig Into her pockets to pay Europe's >ill& Gov. Cox made a fine impression. People liked his campaigning. They applauded him enthusiastically and ;ave him a reception that was termed ? loo /I i n cr rpmiKl ioo n o CJ 4 rrt '1 cr niflcent." But the effeca of the. Cox speech was to hold wa j ring- democrats and proselyte scattering votes. All the straw votes taken in this vicinity show Harding to be much stronger than Cox. The most conservative estimate in republican quarters is a majority for Harding of 14,000, which was about what President Wilson got four years ago. Borah Finishes Campaign. Among the democrats the estimate af a few thousand majority for Cox indicates how closely fought they hope the contest will be. Senator Borah has finished campaigning here, but will come back if his friends think the state is in danger. They haven't sent for him yet and say they will let the east have him. The state of Idaho would cast its electoral vote for Harding by a large majority if the election were held this week. As with other states, unless some sensational development occurs to switch public sentiment everywhere throughout the country. he result will be unchanged on November 2. Idaho is inclined to be republican. (Copyright, 1920.) WAGE DISPUTE DELAYS SHIP. HAVRE, France, September 26.? Sailing of the steamship France, scheduled for today, has been held up 5wing to a wage dispute raised by Mr firemen. fc J DM ACTION ON PROFITEERING IN RENIUIKELY Senator Kenyon Says Washington Pluckers "Make Capt. Kidd Look Like Piker." ' Members of Congress are aroused over the rent situation in Washington, according to Senator Kenyon of Iowa, and unless there is a change he predicts there will be drastic legislation aimed at the profiteers. Before leaving Washington yesterday for the west, where he is to take part in the campaign, the Iowa senator, in an interview, said he intended to act in the matter himself when Congress reconvenes in December, and added that many other senators would join with him. It will be remembered that Senator Sherman, chairman of the District committee, before Congress adjourned, issued a similar warning to the agents and owners of rental property in the capital. Rent Raining Arouse* Ire. "There is a good deal of feeling among members of Congress as well as others who returned to Washington this fall to find that their rents have been raised in most cases to a point beyond all reason." said Senator Kenyon. "People who are connected with the government to a large extent are compelled to live in Washington. They seem to be regarded as worthy objects of plucking and robbing by the apartment house owners. The extent to which this robbery is going on would make Capt. Kidd and his band of pirates look like pikers. Sees Way to Meet Situation. "There is a way to remedy it. Probably the capital will never be moved from Washington, but various departments and bureaus could be moved, reducing the number of peo- | jpie wno are compelled to live in | [Washington and pass through this [ I process of being plucked for the bene- ! fit of grasping real estate owners. During the war a portion of the Shipping Board was moved to another city. There is no reason why the Department of the Interior should not be moved to the middle west. That is where it belongs. Likewise, the Department of Agriculture. "There is no particular reason that I know of why the Treasury Department should remain in Washington, and it might be a good idea to have the War Department moved farther from the coast. So if these four departments could be moved from "Washington to other cities?and there are plenty of cities which would be ! glad to duplicate the buildings and i relieve the government from expense in the removal?it would lessen by thousands the number of people required to live in Washington. There is no reasoni why the Interstate Commerce Commission and Federal Trade Commission cannot be removed to other cities. "Might Have Beneficent Effect." "That might have a beneficent effect in holding rents to a fair return on the investment. Of fcourhe, the heads of these departments could be [in Washington, but the great mass of employes would be by this process removed to other cities. Practically every member of Congress who is compelled to rent an apartment is going to return to Washington with the idea that he has been the victim of unconscionable robbery. Of course, he may attend some banquets here to promote good feeling between Congress and real estate robbers, but he is going to have a feeling in his heart | that' there are things needing remedying, and I predict there will be some drastic rent laws passed by the Congress, and I predict further that a very substantial move will be made to remove many of the bureaus and departments from the city of Washington. I shall certainly do all I can to help in such a movement, and other members of the Senate have told me they would assist. Score* Alleged Combine. "People can have respect for those who hold you up at the point of a gun on the highway, for that requires courage, but for a combination of real estate men and owners of apartment houses to unite in a plan of robbing the people does not arise to the dignity or respectability of high- I way robbery." NEW LEADS GIVEN CAMPAIGN PROBE Senate Committee May Hold Session in Washington Prior to Election. "Leads" presented to Senator Kenyon, chairman of the Senate commit tee investigating the aampaign expenditures. after the hearings here had been closed Saturday, may bring about further hearings in Washington, Senator Kenyon said before leaving here for the west. If he and other members of the committee can so arrange, the hearings may be held prior to the elections in November. Bat if not, it is his intention to see that these "16045" are looked into. They have to do particularly with activities 1n the government departments in Washington. Senator Kenyon Talks. "Had these leads been laid before me before we adjourned Saturday i | afternoon." said Senator Kenyon, | ] "there would have been no adjournment until the matters involved had been investigated. If my committee | has no time to take them up. when Congress reconvenes I shall recommend to the various Senate committees on expenditures in the executive departments that they investigate them." An investigation of campaign expenditures in the southern states, where the fight has been for the democratic nomination for office, may be undertaken also by the Senate investigating committee, if it can find the Alabama Charges. The attention of the committee was directed to the published charges of Senator Underwood of Alabama that $250,000 was used in the primaries in Alabama to defeat him for renomination. The committee is thinking of looking into practices in Virginia. ! Georgia and Oklahoma, too. Senator ] Gore of the last-named state, who was defeated for renomination, was in Washington Saturday and talked with Senator Kenyon briefly. PRICELESS COINS STOLEN. LISBON. September 25.?The numismatic room in the National Library was entered last night and more than 1100 gold coins of inestimable valne were stolen. ^ ;//////s POLES WIN GRODNO,: V ! #% IK MTI Aft I A IAIK UNIIK MANY PRISONERS i Concentration Point of Red j Forces Falls?Victors Pursue Russians. By the Associated Press. WARSAW. September 27.?Grodno, an important city in northwestern Russia, near the Lithuanian frontier, has been captured by. Polish troops after heavy fighting, says an official statement issued here this morning. i A large number of prisqners and ' much war material were taken by the Poles, It is said. Per "some days Polish "forces have been gradually working their way around the city, which has been the concentration point of Russian bolshevik forces on the northeastern c Polish front. t "North of the Niemen," continues , the statement, "our detachments are pursuing the srattered enemy. Re- ' peated enemy attacks on Lubisz were t repulsed with great losses. "In t'.e region of Rozany and Vol- j kovysk (southeast of Grodno) the ( nemy has begun a gradual retreat r beyond the Sznazare river. ] "North of Rovno (Volhynia) we de- . ' 1Q + V? Srtviot Rritrnrlp etruyeu luc i?vh .. ^?.-c.??, e which had instructions to retake 3 Rovno. , "North of Volochysk (on the old Galician border, east of Tarnopol) we j took Medyn and Toki, forcing the en- t emy to retreat to the northeast. "The Ukrainian army is enlarging its positions east of the Zbruch river." Retirement Admitted. J LONDON, September tl.?A retire- i ment by the Russians in the Grodno 1 region is admitted by the Russian 1 soviet war office in Sunday's official f statement on military operations, re- 1 ceived by wireless today. An advance i to the southeast of Grodno, however, where the capture of Volkovysk is t claimed, is recorded by the statement, < which reads: 1 "In the Grodno region, after a num- 1 ber of battles, our troops were with- 1 drawn to the right bank of the Nie- ! men. After fierce fighting we occupied Volkovysk and a number of vil- j lages seven miles westward." J Conference Today. RIGA. September 26 (by the As t-??"Rn Rao-Polish SOClSleu i , too J. ?uw ? conference will be resumed tomorrow. The Soviets are expected to an- 1 swer the Polish counter proposals, M. JofTe having agreed to this at M. Dombski's request, in spite of the ' fact that the Poles are not ready to answer the Moscow declaration presented on Friday. ] The conference will begin working out the details of the preliminary peace proposals with a meeting of tho joint boundary commission after 1 the plenary session on Monday, both the Soviets and Poles considering it necessary to dispose of the question of the line of demarcation first. The boundary commission is the ' only one yet appointed, M. JofTe informing the Poles that the Soviets would appoint their members of the ] other commissions later. Trotsky Upholds Terms. LONDON, September 27.?In a statement to the Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, regarding the peace terms offered by the soviet . government to the Poles at the Riga conference, Leon Trotsky, the soviet war minister, declared: "If the Poles refuse peace on those terms this will convince the most ; backward peasant in the darkest cor- j ner that it is impossible to obtain neace without a fight to a finish." | ' Trotsky declared the bolshevik military situation was not so bad by a great deal as military circles in west- ' ern Europe imagined. WARSAW. September 26.?Poland has received from Lithuania a note expressing a desire to reopen peace negotiations. The note suggests that the Poles and Lithuanians retire to opposite sides of the Foch line. Prince Sapieha. Polish foreign min- : ister, in a reply which he intends to send to Lithuania Monday, accepts generally the Lithunian proposals. DECORATED BY POLES. WARSAW, September 26.?Edward Noble of Boston. Mass., a pilot in thej Kosciuszko Aerial Squadron, has been i awarded the Polish medal "Virtuti ! Militare" for conspicuous bravery, j and at the same time has been "promoted to a captaincy. A dispatch from Warsaw last month said Noble, then a lieutenant, who was wounded during the Kiev campaign. had been promoted to a captaincy and awarded the highest Polish military decoration. Previously a dispatch from Paris said Noble had. arrived in the French, capital to have a wound treated. M -. . DECEPTION FOR JUSTICES. President Will Act in Accordance With Custom. President Wilson will receive the rull membership of the United States Supreme Court at the White House next Monday at 12:45 o'clock. This reception is in accordance with the custom that was established many years igo. An arrangement for the visit R*as made today when Chief Justice tVhite and Associate Justice McKenna . "ailed at the executive office. Upon leaving the officf the two jurists stopped long enough to pose for a. picture. EXPLOSION IN CORK | RAZESSHOPFRONI Main Street Littered With Glass Today?Rifle Fire in Business Section. CORK, September 27 (by the Assodated Press).?A violent explosion ihook this city about 2 o'clock this norning. It was followed by the attle of rifle fire in various parts of he business district. When the townspeople ventured 'orth later in the morning, after the urfew had expired, they found the nain thoroughfare, Patrick street, ittered with glass, and the front of i large department store, which is laid to employ a large number of roung Sinn Feiners, completely vrecked as if by bombs. Windows were smashed in the upjer stories of almost every store in he vicinity. Four Dead in Belfast. BELFAST^ September 26.?The Falls nstrict or Belfast was seething with ixcitement today as a result of the nurder last night of a policeman, he wounding of two others and the tilling of three civilians, who were shot down in rapid succession by lands of men who visited their homes n acts of reprisal. All day Sunday large crowds con- I ;regated at the place where the trag- | ;dies had occurred, forming lines to new the bodies. Few police were >een on the streets, but armored cars vere patrolling the Falls section, and i large body of military was on duty. As a result of a conference, the nilitary authorities decided to restore :he curfew law, which had been susjended, but twenty-four hours' notice s essential. Sunday Night Panic. BELFAST, September 27. ? The Bhooting by snipers and others which occurred in the center of Belfast last night caused a panic among the crowds promenading on Royal avenue, the city's main artery, after church hours. The disturbance followed the shootings of Saturday night and early Sunday, In which one policeman ^vas killed and two others were wounded, followed by the assassination of three civilians in reprisal by parties of masked men. The opening incident of Sunday rticrHt'.e Hisnrdprs nmirrpd urhon cnin. ers in side streets of the Sinn Fein quarter fired into North street, which crosses Royal avenue. A tram car on North street came into the line of Are, and there was great alarm among the passengers who, with the driver, crouched on the floor until the car had turned into Royal avenue. The tram car traffic later had to be diverted to another route. The rush from the side streets caused the crowd in Royal avenue to swell to large proportions, and a stampede was created in this throng when volleys suddenly rang out apparently from the Sinn Fein side streets at the top of North street, the Bring rapidly increasing in volume. NATIONS WRA LEAGUE BY WILLIAM E. NASH. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1920. BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 27. ?The league of nations is in financial difficulties. While its budget is not large, serious questions have arisen as to who is to pay it. In accordance with the covenant the expenses are to be borne by the members of the league on the basis of the apportionment established for the Universal Postal Union. In practice, however, this arrangement has proved unsatisfactory. It appears that there is no definite system of apportionment in the Postal Union and that Canada and Australia pay as much as Great Britain. The total sum of the expenditures has been so small that no nation heretofore has raised objection to its luota. For the first semester of 1920 the league expenses were ?260,000 (normally $1,260,000). For the second semester they are estimated at ?500.-000 (normally $2,500,000). and a good V. . % f ^ '/// SIMPLY //\DRY THA HARDING GREETED BY CROWDS ON HI! JOURNEYTD EAS Candidate Will Speak in Ba timore Tonight?Talks From His Special. By the Associated Press. OX BOARD SENATOR HARDINC SPECIAL TRAIN, September 27 Traveling eastward on his seco ?>pe<iKiiig trip ui me L-<uupaigu, orn tor Harding, republican nominee 1 President, was greeted by cheeri crowds today at the stations wht his train m*4e short stops on its w across Pennsylvania. The first leg of the three-day ti will be concluded at Baltimore, whi the candidate will arrive late tl afternoon and will deliver tonight 1 second important speech of the cai paign away from Marion. Tomom r.ight he is to speak in Wheeling, Va., and the following day at Ashlai Ky. Running on a slow schedule, the si cial train traversed Pennsylvania a speed which permitted stops 1 rear platform speeches at several the larger cities. A still greater nu: ber of stops were scheduled for t other two days of the trip, howev and it was expected that the nomir would make numerous short speed in addition to three formal address | on his program. Speaks Without Collar. Senator Harding made his fl: speech of the day at Altoona, F where he told railroad employes tl the Cummins-Esch railway law "the best piece of legislation for t railway workers ever placed on t statute books." He was obliged to t pear without collar and necktie, o ing to the fact that he was not call soon enough. The nominee also told the Altoo crowd that he loved Pennsylvania t i cause it was a stanch republic state, but added that when the repc Mean party made mistakes the peo] should correct it. "It has been reassuring." he cc tinued, "to know that if we of c party have been unmindful, you ha turned to another party to corn i things. I am glad you did it. becav I when one party has failed you shot turn to another to put your wist into execution. I have a strong noti we are going to do something of tl kind very soon." Later the nominee made a short tj at Lewiston. Pa., and greeted still a other crowd at Harrisburg, where 1 train stopped for more than an ho Engine Swipes Car. As the train passed through Pit burgh during the night a switch t gine side-swiped one of the cars < cupied by newspaper men and jolt the senator's private car. Ideal, whi was directly behind. No one was i jured and the only damage done w the shattering of the vestibule wi dows of the newspaper car. The special was running slow when the impact occurred and few those on board were awakened. Trs officials said the engineer of t switch engine has misunderstood t signals. In his Lewiston speech the nomtn expressed confidence that the repu lican party would be put into pow at the NovetpJjer election, and told t crowd that it should oonsider t guvcx uuiciil ao juui unu, cuiu si look at It from a distance or rega it as something apart from th< daily lives. Necessity for some slight repairs his car gave Senator Harding an o (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) NGLING AS NDS D WIND Li average hereafter, according to an oi eial in touch with the situation will ?1,000,000 (normally $5,000,000). Ev this may grow larger as t league's jurisdiction extends. Just ps tition of this burden, therefore, is co sidered indispensable. The allocati committee met in Paris September 18 consider the situation, and it decided refer it to the congress in Brusse which represents the expert flnanc opinion of the whole world. Natlo which have not yet Joined the leagi like the United States and Germar may retire from the discussion. M. Gluckstadt of Denmark seems favor a system based on area and pop lation. The scheme that seems most ratior is one reckoned on national budge States with excess of revenue over e penditures would pay the most a those with the smallest deficit next, a so on. Finally a plan has been broach and, as I learn, has been received wi favor to make countries spending t most for military and naval armamei contribute the most to the league e Dense*, r WILLFLASHTALKS OVER CONTINENT BY RADIO PHONE XEW TORK. September *7.? Speeches by widely known engineers will be transmitted by radio telephone to gatherings of engineers in various cities of the United States during the celebration November 5 of the fortieth anniversary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, it was announced at the society's headquarters here. The observance will be held in forty-two cities. T* 1? /> nnonoVioe 1* i c nlonnn/1 * t~t Ix lie opcci-iirsj- iv. w flash by telephone, will be heard in Boston. San Francisco. St. Paul and New Orleans. The plans contemplate the use of the stations at Fort Leavenworth and Annapolis. the only two powerful enough to accomplish the feat, it was said. Alfilil LEGION OPENS MEETING IN QLEVELANDTODAV 50,000 Visitors Will Witness Parade of World War ? Veterans. CLEVELAND, September 27.?More than 1,000 delegates were In their seats at the Hippodrome Theater this morning when Franklin DDller. na| tional chairman, called to order the second annual convention of the | American Legion, equaling in impor ' tance ine national sessions 01 tne t)Fg political parties. The floor of the on theater resembled one of the national I conventions, state standards and penI nants designating seats allotted to S the various delegations. 1 Commander D'OIier presented Rev. Francis J. Kelley of Troy. N. Y., the "fighting chaplain." who delivered the invocation. Mayor William S. ,|- Fitzgerald welcomed the visitors and delegates in behalf of the city. Then, in order, came the report of the national commander, the report of the executive committee on the convention program, naming of convention committees, announcement of the time and place of the meeting of these committees and the reports "S of the national adjutant ahd the na tional treasurer. The convention prepared to adjourn nd at noon to witness the parade this ia- afternoon of approximately 20.000 >or former soldiers and ex-service women. the feature of the three-day conns vention. sre Questions Still Undetermined. *y Ob* of the flrst important mat tars to be presented before the convention after the preliminaries was a re>r? P?rt of the credentials committee. The r,? committee was in session early today ?J? to decide two questions, whlcn, after protracted debate, failed to end in a solution at a meting of the execuir tive committee last igbt. These are: Shall each department n<1' be allowed only Its five delegates at large and one additional delegate for each even 1,000 paid-up members, or at ghall it be allowed one additional '?J delegate for each 1,000 paid-up memof bers or major fraction thereof? Shall the posts in foreign countries ne be allowed votes in the convention? cr. The credentials committee comlee prises one member from each recogies nized department represented at the ses convention, including all states, the District of Columbia, Alaska and Hawaii. rst A'omber of Votes Involved. lat Whether an additional delegate is would be seated by states having a he majority of a thousand paid-up memhe bers affected twenty-three votes. IP- The question of the seating of delew gates or their proxies from foreign iea | countries or outlying territorial possessions of the United States involved naj86 votes. >e- ! Pending decision of these two quesan | tions the voting strength at the conlb ivention ranged between 1,047 and ?le 11,156. Legion organizations in Mexico, >n- | Panama, Philippine Islands, Porto lUr!Rico, Argentina. Belgium, British ive i Isles, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, ect | Prance, Guatemala, Japan, Poland. Ise Samoa and Santo Domingo were lld among those involved. les The executive committee decided on last night that representation in the lat I ir,n okm.M , V, ? 1 1- -? I paid-up natioal dues August 28 last, llk| which on that date totaled 818,680. J"- .There was strong objection to this "ls ruling by many states, National dues ur- for more than 1,000,000 men have been received now, it was said. R. G. Greviston. director of organ,n_ ization for the legion, said more than )c_ two million men have joined the lee(j jgion. He explained that the disparity ch between that figure and the number ! of national dues received represent delinquents and unacknowledged payn_ ments of national dues. Marshal Foek'i Homage to Valor, fly Greetings from Marshal Foch of of France were read to the American iin Legion convention today. He sent this he message: he To the American Legion in convention assembled. Cleveland, Ohio: ee Regretting my inability to find myb self among the former combatants or of the glorious American Army, my he heart is with them at the moment of he the second anniversary of the fighting they went through by the side of the rt allies for the common cause of right 5'r and liberty, I again render homage to the valor and to the tenacity which t0 they unceasingly showed on the batPL tlefields of France in the days of misfortune and the days of success; the ? magnificent enthusiasm with which ! they answered our call; the great part | they took in the sacrifices of war; the ! glorious remembrance of those who fell on our soil will remain a token ?-| of the profound gratitude and the inly destructible union of our two coun1J tries. I send my cordial greeting to Cleveland, the "Steel city," and to the great state of Ohio, which has fur_ nished to America so many illustrious ?" statesmen and to France so many "e faithful friends. F. FOCH, en Marshal of France. Dunri of rnmmaniipr DOIier. n- The greatest single service Amer- 1 on Mean Legion members have rendered to their country is their "virile stand for to the maintenance of law and order," is, I Franklin D'Olier. national commander ial of the American Legion, told the secns ond annual convention of the legion ie, at its opening session here today. iy. "We quickly served notice in no uncertain terms upon those wild radito cals who would by force attempt to u- injure those very institutions we had risked our lives to protect," Comial mander D'Olier said. "We stated . plainly we were ready for them and ' could meet their force with far greater force sufficient to stop them nd instantly. 'j "During these present days of unth rest and readjustment the American he Legion and the stand of the ex-serv t. ice man for law and order is the greatest possible Insurance policy our (Continued on Page S, Column 1) * JOINT COMMISSION SOUGHT BY JAPAN LACKSUIFAVOR Suggestion to Date Merely Unofficial, But Believed Unacceptable. By the Associated Preaa. Administration officials continue to decline discussion for publication of any of the phases of the negotiations with Japan growing out of the proposed anti-Japanese land law in California, but the impression has gone out that a proposal from Tokio that the question be referred to a joint commission for solution would be unacceptable. The conversations regarding the California law which have been going on between Ambassador Shidehara of Japan and State Department officials are continuing, and so far as has been learned the proposal for a joint commission has not been formally communicated to Washington by the Japanese government. Seeks to Prevent Alarm In P. S. What progress, if any. has beerf made in the negotiations has not been, disclosed. The attitude of the State Department is described as one calculated to prevent the development ri a feeling of alarm in the Unite , States that might approach even a A proximately that which appears to ^ growing in Japan. Conflicting opinions of both Amer.r can and Japanese authorities on irf ternational jaw are said to have m.--4 the tasi- of the State Department ot cials and the Japanese ambas.atl more difficult. Proponents of the Cai. * fornia law say that California. f enacting a measure barring the Jar^ nese from owning land in that sta m would be refusing to the Japanese W this country no rights or privilei % which are not refused by Janant \ law to Americans in Japan Japan contends that the Califori law which is to be voted on in Novel . ber is discriminatory because it dc ? not apply to all foreigners alike. V does the Japanese law The sugg> a tion has been made in Tokio t'oa. after the law is enacted it be teste' in the United States Supreme Court. Some Japanese authorities on international law doubt that this would be effective, as they state frankly that the proposed California law conflict^ neither with the Constitution nor witn the terms of the American-Japanese treaty. Think Legal Procedure Futile. Dr. K. Kobayashi, writing of the proposed law in the Japanese Review of International Law. says It is futile to attempt opposition by legal methoda "Neither the present California alien land jaw nor the proposed hasty and cruel initiative law," says Dr. Kobayashi, "can be dealt with as leral questions. All that mb bo done is to saftun them by political and diplomatic methods." Dr. Sakuye Takahsshl, the loading editor of the Japanese Review, writing in that paper in March. ISIS, and discussing the present California land law enacted in 1913, declared there was no basis for hope that the law could be set aside by appeal to the courts. He explained that the treaty between the two countries contained no "favored-nation" clause applicable, and that even if the treaty did concede the right of the Japanese to own land in California it would not be legal, since such rights lie not with the federal government, but solely with the different states. TOKIO WILL ASK JOINT COMMISSION WITH U. S. Action Said to Be Dependent Upon Developments in California Referendum Measures. TOKIO, September 26.?The newspaper Tomi Uri. in an article today I on the Japanese-American situation, says it understands the government will propose the appointment of a high commission to deal with the problems between the two countries if the anti-Japanese referendum measures in California are passed. The newspaper quoted Viscount Shibusawa as saying he believed the extension of the naturalization privilege to the Japanese in California would be the best solution of the difficulty, as they and their posterity would escape "further persecution" by Americans. TOKIO. September 25 (by the Associated Press).?An attack against secrecy in connection with Japan's diplomacy In the California problem is made in a statement by Marquis Okuma, former premier. He demands that the government respond to na i ATI O 1 nnlninn nrhinVi ekmilrl ? 1* ened to the gravity of the issues. The presence of 100,000 industrious Japanese is no menace to America, says the marquis; the real menace is from the anarchists and bolsheviki who are flocking to the United States from Europe. WORLD SERIES TO OPEN IN A. L. CITY OCTOBER 5 CHICAGO, September 27. ? The American League won the toss at the meeting of the national commission , today, and the first world'. series game will be played October 5 in tjie American League city winning the pennant. The first three games will be played in the same city. October 5. 6 and 7. ; On October S the teams will travel. J and on the 9th will open a four-game I series in the National League city. I On October 13 they will travel again, to play in the American League city on October 14. If a ninth game is necessary it will be played in the National League city, October IS. The commission also decided that if the American League race results in a tie between Chicago and Cleveland, a three-game series will be necessary to decide the winner. In that event the first game will be played in Cleveland. the second in Chicago and the third on neutral ground. SHIPYARD UNDER LEASE. Corporation Takes Over Plant at Wilming-ton, N. C. WILMINGTON. N. C.. September 27. ?With the payment of {37,500 to the city today the Liberty shipyard here will be turned over to the Newport Shipbuilding Corporation under a five-year lease. The company will retain Its plant at Newbern. but will put 500 men here, with an annual pay roll of a million dollars, to rush construction of three concrete tankers and four river steamboats for which It has ' contracts. V