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U. S. PEACE POWER
SEEN IN FINANCE
OF MANY NATIONS
Loan to Poland Insures It
Against Trouble With
Soviet and Germany.
AMERICAN CONTROL
OF CREDIT IS GUIDE
Influence on Kussia Cited in Ber
lin’s Seeking Aid in Big
Steel Project.
by PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
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PARIS, October 22.— Various events
in the l?st few days illustrate how
ihe United States is using its vast
financial power in the interest of
peace and stability and international
solidarity throughout Europe.
American influence over European
countries does not take the form of of- j
tidal diplomatic intervention, but It
is nevertheless unmistakable. The
• basis of the system is the ability and
willingness of the American people to
buy foreign bonds.
The United States is today the
world’s greatest reservoir of credit,
and no considerable international
financing can be done without Afri
can aid. By opening and shutting tne
sluices of this reservoir with respect
to any particular country, the United
States can affect not only that coun
try’s immediate prosperity but its po
litical destinies as well. The American
State Department and the big Amer
ican banks work together in exchang
ing information and viewpoints. The
Government maintains the right to
veto foreign loans in the interests of
America’s peace and policies and the
protection of American investors.
Heads of Banks Confer.
The heads of the British, French,
German and American national banks
meet periodically to discuss questions
of common interest. In these con
ferences the United States has the
most influence, because it has the
most money, and Great Britain is next
in influence and money. Usually what
the British and American bankers to
gether agree upon is ultimately done.
Thus, the international stabilization
loan to Poland, issued in New lork
and London and ohter centers a few
days ago, was a political event «
great Importance. Poland’s moral ana
financial credit long has been at low
ebb. Many people were even found
saying that the new state was
anomalous and could not continue to
exist. Germany talked of revising her ■
- eastern frontiers at Poland'sepensc.
Lithuania maintained and Ball main
tains a “state of war’* against Poland,
and Poland’s great neighbor, Soviet
Russia, was openly hostile. However,
following the Locarno pact and spe
cially Great Britain’s break with Rus
sia. the general attitude toward Poland
became more confident. The present
loan is the result. It is a symbol of
the confidence that Great Britain and
the United States and other govern
ments feel In Poland’s, future.
It will be difficult, henceforth, for
the Germans, the Russians and the
Lithuanians to think about over-run
ning Poland. The moral and financial
support of the United States and
Great Britain are now squarely be
. hind Poland and will doubtless con
tinue there so long as Poland shows
herself worthy of it by wise and mod
erate policies. Accurate information
as to this point seems assured by the
appointment of Charles Dewey of Chi
cago as “financial advisor” to the
Polish government. After president
Pilsudski. Mr. Dewey will doubtless
be, for the time being, the most pow
erful man in Poland, just as another
American, S. Parker Gilbert, head of
the Dawes commission, is one of tne
most powerful men in Germany.
Direct Interest In Plan.
The United States has a direct in
terest in the Dawes plan for the re
covery of costs in the Rhineland occu-
Strand for war damage, from Gar
many but even greater is the indi
rect interest In a satisfactory genera
reparations settlement which will
eliminate international disturbances.
The adoption of the Dawes plan en
abled Germany to recover her pros
perity by drawing enormously on
American credit. But whenever Ger
many tends to abuse this privilege,
restraints begin to come into play.
The new Prussian state loan of
$30,000,000 was vetoed by the Ameri
can State Department until a clause |
was inserted assuring the priority of
Dawes plan payments. And Mr. G
bert has Just precipitated something
like a political crisis in Germany by
calling attention to the ganger that
the government’s projected expen -
tures for salary increases and new
schools might, by unbalancing the
budget, endanger the Dawes pay-
Ilie \Vhile neither directly represents
the American Government, the pres
ence of Mr. Gilbert in Berlin and of
Mr. Dewey in Warsaw is a remark
able attestation of the strength of
American influence in Europe today.
U. 8. Al*o Influences Russia.
Our financial powers sre also in
fluencing Russia’s future. The
Soviets are in dire need of money.
Their currency, while nominally'
stable, is threatened by new’ inflation.
The number of banknotes in circula
tion in Russia increased in the last
year and a half from twelve hundred
million to nearly sixteen hundred mil
lion rubles. The banks show credit
inflation and of a total of 3,000.000
workers there are more than a million
'-.unemployed In Russia,
Germany is Russia’s ally. Germany
last year advanced the Soviets credits
of $75,000,000 partly, it is to be feared,
with the proceeds of American loans
1o Germany. Since the British break
with the Soviets and the recall of the
Soviet Ambassador from Paris, the j
Russians have been particularly eager
to get more money from the only pos
sible source, namely Germany. But
the Germans are reluctant unless the
American banks will also aid. There is
now a project for a new $40,000,000
credit to the Soviets, of which Ger
many will take and the
United States one-fourth. The inter
, c«ted American bankers are Dillon &
Head The proceeds would lie used to
build* steel mills in South Russia, the
materials being all purchased in Ger
manv It is probable the State Depart
ment will veto this loan so far as we
ere concerned because it is out of line
with our Russian policy.
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WEATHER.
(D. S Weather Bureau Forecwt.)
Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow
increasing cloudiness and warmer.
Temperature—Highest, 65, at 3:30
p.m. yesterday; lowest. 44. at 6:30 a.m.
todav. Full report on page 2.
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JAMES M. BECK.
PARTY PICKS BECK
TO SUCCEED VANE
Former Solicitor General Ex
pected to Get Senator’s
Seat in House.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
James Montgomery Beck, former
solicitor general of the United States
and one of the Nation’s foremost
orators and constitutional authorities,
is to enter Congress. He is to be the
successor of Senator-elect William S.
Vare. Beck will be selected within
the next few days by the Republican
city committee of Philadelphia for
nomination for the vacant represen
tation of the first Pennsylvania dis
trict in the low'er branch of Congress.
Gov. Fisher of Pennsylvania has
called a special election for Novem
ber 8.
Mr. Beck, who for years has main
tained a home in Washington, though
recently domiciled officially in Phila
delphia, w’ill be nominated for the
place just relinquished through resig
nation of James M. Hazlett.
Prefers Philadelphia Post.
Mr. who is a candidate for
re-election as recorder of deeds in
Philadelphia, was elected from the
first district in November. 1926, to
succeed his brother-in-law, William S.
Vare, elected on the same day to be
United States Senator from Pennsyl
vania. Mr. Hazlett chooses the Phila
delphia recordership in preference to
a career on Capitol Hill in Wash
ington.
Beck’s appearance in the House of
Representatives will be notable from
many standpoints. In the first place,
he is unquestionably in the front
rank of American public speakers.
He is also an outstanding exponent
of constitutional law. His “History
of the American Constitution” has be
come a classic. President Coolidge
wrote the foreword for one of its
later editions. Beck’s contributions
to congressional discussions will not
be confined to the Constitution or to
mere eloquence. He is a profound
student of international affairs, goes
abroad regularly, enjoys contacts with
the leading public men of Europe and
has more than once spoken before
political and learned bodies “over
there.’’ He has often been considered
for the ambassadorship to Great
Britain.
The first district of Pennsylvania,
for which beck w’ill speak in the
Seventieth Congress—for the Republi
can nomination, in that rockribbed
Philadelphia constituency, is equiva
lent to election—has been distinguish
ed before in the person of its spokes
man at Washington. Gen. Bingham,
long the father of the House of Rep
resentatives—roughly from the end
of the 70s to 1912, or thereabouts
—was the first’s member. Then came
“Bill” Vare. uncrowned king of
Philadelphia and now the center of
a bitter controversy in the United
States Senate.
Mr. Beck is a native Philadelphian,
66 years old, a graduate of the Uni
versities of Pennsylvania and Michi
gan, a former assistant United Btates
attorney at Philadelphia, and former
assistant Attorney General of the
United States.
CIDER CHRISTENS SHIR.
Wine Displaced at English Naval
Ceremony.
PLYMOUTH, England, October 22
OP). —Old shellbacks groaned while
prohibitionists smiled when the
10,000-ton cruiser Devonshire was
christened by Lady Mildmay of Fleet
with a bottle of Devonshire sweet
cider instead of the traditional wine.
The vessel is the seventh warship
to bear the name of "the shire of the
sea kings,” but the first to be built
on the shores of Devonshire, famous
for its cider.
Dogs Cost County $3,922.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md., October 22.
Ravages of stray dogs upon live stock
and poultry throughout the county
cost the county commissioners
$3,922.40, according to the auditor’s re
port just filed. This amount was paid
to persons who had animals killed by
dogs. This sum was paid from dog
tax receipts, which totaled $6,722.21
for the same period.
Russia to Establish Museum of Brains
To Assist in Study of Sources of Genius
By the Associated Press.
LENINGRAD, October 22.—A mu
seum of brains for the purpose of
studying the source of genius is to be
instituted with the sanction of the gov
ernment.
The “Brain Pantheon’' will preserve
the brains of illustrious Russians in
glass bowls.
The brains of three celebrities are
already in the care of Prof. Vladimir
Bechterev, psychiatrist and hypnotist.
They are those of Anton Rubenstein.
pianist and composer, who died in
1894: Dimitri Mendeleef, naturalist and
chemist, who died in 1907, and Alexan
der Dohni, writer, jurist and ranking
member of the Academy of Science,
who died last September. Prof. Beoh
t-.rt-v said that the Russian l-'eo
Uht %\smm Jfe.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927-THIRTY-SIX PAGES. *
3-BILLION SLIP
WIPES OUT RECORD
WALL ST. PROFITS
Sinking Spell in Rails and In
dustrials Continues at
Today’s Session.
U. S. STEEL COMMON
AT NEW LOW LEVEL
General Motors and -General Elec
tric Also Tumble in
Downward Movement.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 22.— Wa1l
Street observers, surveying today the
effects of a week of sharp reactions in
the stock market, estimated that $3,-
000,000,000 in quoted values have been
wiped out since the industrial and
railroad averages established their
record high prices a few weeks ago.
Five of the leading industrial shares
alone have lost nearly three-quarters
of a billion dollars and five of the
leading rails over $180,000,000. The
total number of stocks listed is nearly
1,100.
The market had another sinking
spell at the opening today because of
its inability to digest the large volume
of selling orders that poured into the
market overnight. Early losses ran
from fractions to seven points, with
United States Steel common, General
Motors and General Electric all touch
ing new low levels on the current
downswing.
Staffs Work Late.
Some of the leading brokerage
houses worked part of their staffs
most of the night in order to
up with the tremendous volume of
business that developed in the last
half hour of trading yesterday, when
prices broke wide open and delayed
the printing of the final quotation for
22 minutes.
Dinners and hotel accommodations
were provided for many employes, so
that the decks might be cleared for
the opening of the exchange this
morning. Thousands of margin calls,
asking for more collateral on specula
tive accounts, were sent out, although
the leading commission houses report
ed that the majority of such accounts
were strongly intrenched.
The recent reaction in prices, which
has dropped many of the leading
issues 10 to 30 points below the year's
high levels, is regarded by bankers as
a natural sequel of the speculative ex
cesses that have been taking place
in the market in recent weeks.
Prices have been climbing steadily
in the face of disappointing trade news
and poor earnings reports, but until
now these factor* have been disre
garded. On the other hand, cheap
money, regarded as the backbone of
the recent advance, has been over
looked’this week, as call loans dropped
to 3*4 per cent, the low level of the
year.
Figures Show Decline.
Brokers loans, however, are at the
record high figure of nearly three and
one-half billion dollars, or three
fourths of a billion above the total at
this time last year.
The following table illustrates the
extreme decline in 10 of the leading
industrial and railroad issues:
Lehigh Valley, $55,050,000.
New York Central, $49,825,000.
Atchison, $34,575,000.
Union Pacific, $21,115,000.
Chesapeake & Ohio, $20,665,000.
Total, $181,230,000.
Industrials.
General Motors, $243,C00,000.
General Electric, $155,950,000.
U. S. Steel common, $152,100,000.
American Telephone, $148,000,000.
Woolworth, $69,700,000.
Total, $769,350,000.
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BIGAMIST TO BEGIN TERM.
Rev. Willis T. Jordan Abandons
Plan for Appeal.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., October 22 C4>).
—-The Rev. Willis T. Jordan, convicted
of bigamy, yesterday prepared to ac
cept his sentence of 18 months to 2
years in prison without appeal. Attor
neys for the Columbus, Ga., minister
announced that Jordan would go to the
Raleigh Penitentiary next week.
The announcement followed a con
ference between Jordan’s attorneys
and Edwin B. Bridges, State pardon
commissioner. Mr. Bridges told the
attorneys their application for a par
don for the minister, who was con
victed of contracting a bigamous mar
riage with Mrs. Emma Langridge of
Washington, D. C., was out of the
question at the present time, and that
a parole was possible only after a
prisoner had started his sentence.
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MEXICAN ENVOY AT HOME.
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Tellez Bees Bright Future for U. S.
Relations.
MEXICO CITY, October 22 OP).—
Manuel Tellez, Mexican Ambassador
to the United States, who left Wash
ington October 17, to attend to per
sonal affairs, arrived here today.
Ambassador Tellez views Mexico’s
relations with the United States opti
mistically and said the outlook was
brighter than ever before He an
nounced he would return to "Wash
ington early in November.
dor Chaliapin, had willed his brain to
the new institution.
Before the brains are placed on dis
play they will be dissected and their
characteristics tabulated.
“There are a few things about the
brain already known.” Prof. Bechte
rev said. “But these are the mere
vague beginnings. We know the
brain’s weight determines nothing.
The developments of particular curves
seems all important. Great orators’
brains show unusual development in
the rear part of the left forehead
curve. Painters’ show development in
the rear regions controlling sight.
Athletes show marked development in
the central brain regions.”
Relatives of Leo Tolstoy have re
fused to allow the writer's brain to be
placed to the collection.
HAPPY I COULD BE
/ ViITH EtTMEIR..NA/RRE T'OTHER ]
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TROOPS TO GUARD
STRIKE ZONE ASKED
Mobilization of Colorado
Guard Sought After Arrest
of 100 Mine Pickets.
By the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo., October 22.
Moblization of the Colorado National
Guard for patrol duty in the State
wide coal strike called by Industrial
Workers of the World was advocated
today by the Huerfano County com
missioners.
The commissioners came here to
present their plea for mobilization of
the Guard to Gov. W. H. Adams to
day after arrest of more than 100 man
and woman pickets failed to stop I. W.
W. activities in southern Colorado,
where the strikers have concentrated
their campaign for higher wages and
shorter hours.
Opposition to the use of troops was
voiced by George M. Taylor of the
State Industrial Commission. He was
supported by A. C. Watts of Utah,
representing coal operators in the
Walsenburg area, where I. W. W.
leaders established headquarters.
Confers With Governor.
Watts conferred with Gov. Adams
last night, but declined to comment
pending a general conference to which
the commissioners have been invited.
Meanwhile, wives of strikers, led by
17 women who were released after
their arrest yesterday, led a campaign
to extend what they termed peaceful
picketing of mines today.
Arrest of more than 60 pickets at
Walsenburg filled the jail and caused
county authorities to express doubt
that sufficient funds were available to
provide enough special officers to pa
trol mine properties.
Confinement of the men for an in
definite period brought a demonstra
tion from the women, who left the
courthouse singing their battle song,
"Solidarity.” after they led the man
prisoners in a lusty song feet. The
women declared they would conduct
a house-to-house campaign to place
the wives of all strikers in the picket
lines.
Plan to Extend
Plans to extend picketing were en
couraged by Roger Francezon, chair
man of the national executive board
of the I. W. W., who told the idle
miners that raids would not stop ac
tivities of strikers. Paul Siedler,
I. W. W. organizer, who threatened
to arm pickets in case of bloodshed
among strikers, was arrested and held
without charge.
Operators in Huerfano County and
adjoining districts, where the larger
mines are located, showed that less
than half of the normal forces were
at work. While the strike resulted in
a partial tie-up in this area, virtually
all mines in the Boulder district, north
of here, continued at a standstill on
the fifth day of the walkout.
WOMEN STONE GUARDS.
Taunt Them to “Start Something”
As Male Pickets Look On.
WALSENBURG, Colo., October 22
G4>). —Embattled women, leading a
group of male Industrial Workers of
the World strike pickets, hurled stones
and other missiles at guards of the
Ideal mine of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Co. near here today.
The women taunted the guards to
"start something” as they directed
their volleys. The men pickets re
mained in automobiles while the
women took the offensive.
Terfof the women and 30 men were
arrested and brought here.
No action was taken by the mine
guards. The pickets peaceably sub
mitted to arrest by Sheriff Henry
Capps of Huerfano County.
Sheriff Capps said the women would
be released some time today, bift that
the men would be held.
Windows were kicked out of the
county jail by pickets who have been
in custody since yesterday when they
saw those rounded up today approach
ing.
All joined In singing "Solldarit,” an
I. W. W. song, which has been made
the battle cry of the strike called by
the organization in the Colorado coal
fields.
With the county jail in the base
ment of the courthouse filled with
pickets arrested prior to today, the
group from the Ideal mine was placed
under guard in the district court
room.
Pirate Prize Ship Sinks.
HONGKONG, China, October
22 (A*)—The steamship Irene, cap
tured by the notorious Bias Bay
pirates and shelled by the British sub
marine L-4, burned out and sank in
the bay today. The submarine’s
shells were fired in effecting the res
cue of the vessel’s crew and set the
ship afirs.
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HERRICK GOES TO RESORT.
Ambassador Plans Vacation at Hot
I Springs, Va.
CLEVELAND, October 22 <7P).—
Ambassador Myron T. Herrick of
France, who underwent several seri
ous operations several months ago,
. left today for a vacation at Hot
Springs, Va. From there he will go
to Washington for a conference with
State Department officials.
Parmley Herrick, son of the Am
bassador, said today that his father
was in "splendid shape’’ and expects
to return to Paris about the first of
the year.
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' IRISH PRIMATE DIES
: OF BRIEF ILLNESS
[ Double Pneumonia Proves
i
Fatal to Cardinal O’Don
i
; nell in Dublin.
By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, Ireland, October 22.
Patrick, Cardinal O’Donnell, primate
of Ireland, died shortly before noon
today at Carlingford, where he had
been 111 several weeks suffering from
double pneumonia.
Although the death of Cardinal
O’Donnell had been regarded as In
evitable by those In close touch with
him, the end came with unexpected
suddenness at 11:05 o’clock this
I morning.
The cardinal’s attending physician,
1 Dr. Finnegan, stated that the cause
of death was an embolus, or obstruc
. tlon In the circulatory system by a
blood clot.
Very Weak for Days.
The cardinal’s condition had fluctu
ated within recent days. At one time
he suffered a stroke which brought
death very close, but recovered. For
the last few days he had been very
weak. His illness was diagnosed as
influenza pneumonia, and pleurisy had
. developed on the right side.
1 Bonfires blazed on the hills of
Donegal on the night of December 14,
, 1925. They marked the elevation on
I that day to the cardinalate of Mgr.
1 Patrick O’Donnell, Archbishop of
l Armagh, who from a Donegal cottage
had risen to the rank of prince of the
l church. He succeeded Cardinal
• Logue, who died in 1924.
i The history of his family was for
f years the history of Donegal. From
i the thirteenth to the seventeenth cen
’ turies the O’Donnells ruled In Done
gal and no other princely Gaelic house
i produced as many able men. Cardinal
O’Donnell was born in Kilraine, Glen
ties, County Donegal, in 1856.
For some years he was the young
est bishop in the church, having been
’ appointed bishop of Raphoe by Pope
Leo XIII when he was 32. He had
previously been a professor of theol
! ogy in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.
' Won Hearts of People.
s Raphoe covers the County of Done
i gal and the young bishop had a dio
cese liable to poverty and largely
Irish-speaking. He was, himself, a
1 fluent speaker of Irish and won the
. hearts of his people by his devotion
3 to their needs.
Donegal had been a stronghold or
5 the moonshine industry. The young
bishop announced that to drink or
! buy or sell "poteen" was a reserved
offense for which only a bishop could
e <ve absolution. That might mean a
. journey of 40 miles to Letterkenny
and there was a disagreeable inter
view In prospect for the penitent
moonshiner. Consequently, within five
“ years "poteen” disappeared from the
1 diocese.
Cardinal O’Donnell was an ardent
supporter of the home rule move
ment and the trusted adviser of the
1 Irish parliamentary leaders from
‘ Parnell to Redmond. Conciliatory In
method, with wide economic and
1 financial knowledge, he was an im
portant force In Irish politics.
i Active in Movement.
“ Bishop O’Donnell’s prominence in
1 the home rule movement was marked
by his selection as chairman of the
national convention in 1897. When
Premier Lloyd George in 1917 at
tempted a solution of the Irish ques
tion by consent and set up a conven
r tion of all parties to debate it, Bishop
- O’Donnell was one of its members and
r took an active part in its discussions.
The convention failed, partly owing
i to the absence of Sinn Felners, and
} partly owing to differences on Irish
- financial autonomy. Bishop O’Don
j nell warmly advocated Ireland’s fight
for fiscal freedoip. >
; WILLIS OUTLINES
; PLATFORM PLAN
J Statement of Senator Seen
1 as Unofficial Announce
ment of Candidacy.
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E Senator Willis of Ohio, whose name
has been frequently mentioned in con
nection with the Republican nomina
tion for President in 1928, especially
to the extent of his receiving the vote
of the Ohio delegation, issued a state
ment at the White House today de
fining what be considers aB the proper
A platform for the Republican party and
i which has been interpreted by those
) who discussed it with him as an un
official announcement that he is
a candidate to succeed President
5 Coolidge.
When asked directly if his state
ment should be taken in that light, he
said the statement spoke for Itself.
He added that this time he is very
much more interested in the question
of program and platform than in the
question of candidates.
Urges Early Study of Platform.
"There are numerous Republicans,
e any one of whom would be an excel
i lent President and any one of whom
1 can defeat the Tammany candidate
, the Democracy is certain to nomi
nate," Senator Willis set forth in his
statement. “The question as to who
1 the candidate shall be will adjust it
• self in due time. However, the ques
i tion of platform performance and pro
i gram should receive the immediate
and thoughtful attention of every Re
-3 publican. The Republican party has
merited reputation of meeting and
. solving great problems, and it must
» live up to that reputation in 1928, both
. as to platform and as to candidate.
The Ohio Senator wanted it under
-1 stood that the contents of his state
ment was not discussed during tne
confererfee with the President, and in
answer to inquiries as to whether he
■ discussed politics w’lth the President
* he answered that he did not.
t “I gather from recent events that
- the subject of politics is taboo at the
. White House,” he added.
In his discussion of the proper plat
* form and legislative program of the
1 Republican party Senator Willis said
that the forthcoming session of Con
gress must meet l >ldly and unequiv
f ocally the problem of flood control. He
, considers this a national question not
i confined to any one section, and as
. the Republican party is a national
r party it should work in the interests
> of flood control legislation.
j Fears Toe Big Tax Cut.
He added that the problem is one
” for engineers in the first instance and
1 financiers in the second, but that until
- it is known just what ought to be
- done and what the approximate cost
i would be, it would be a mistake *'» so
1 far reduce the revenues of the vlov
• ernment as to imperil th® surplus in
the Treasury.
He favors tax reduction but believes
i that Congress should be careful to not
s reduce the revenues to a point that
l would bring about a deficit. It is his
- opinion that Congress would do well
. if it succeeds in making a reduction
this coming session of $250,000,000.
Not only does the Ohio Senator
- insist that the problem of flood control
. must be met, but likewise the situation
r which has developed as a result of
, the failure of the recent Geneva con
ference for the limitation of arma
; ments. He thinks the President acted
1 wisely in seeking further limitation by
international agreement and he is
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! College Flivvers Prepare to Race Today
[ Over 50-Mile Course for Goldless Glory
t
> By the Associated Press.
DES MOINES, lowa, October 22.
- Twenty-five knights of the rattling
' rod faced the barrier today in de
j crepit, wise-crack emblazoned motor
, cars, to race to glory but no gold
I in the first cross-country “aged fliv
■ ver” derby ever to be held.
The entrants were Drake Univer
slty students; their vehicles, five-year
old cars, some of which resembled
1 automobiles. Starting from the Drake
1 stadium, each will attempt to rattle
s and sputter his way over 50-odd
1 miles of road to the finish line at
‘ the Grinnel College stadium.
Fetters of the law will bind the
• contenders at either end of the course,
l but outside the jurisdictions of Des
1 Moines and Grinnel. the steel steeds
• and their collegiate jockeys may cut
% loose.
1 Motor cycle policemen will accom
: pany them to the local city limits,
• where Mayor Hunter will give them
t the starters’ flag at one minute in
tervals.
m
“From Press to Home
Within the Hour* 9
The Star’s carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,382
(A 5 ) Means Associated Press.
Sailor, 67, Seeks
New York-Florida
Rowboat Record
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 22—A new
record as the first man to row
from New York to Florida is being j
sought by Charles Seilitic, 67 year- (
old sailor, who announced yester
day he would leavo the Battery
Sunday morning in a 14 foot row- *
boat in which he plans to com
plete the trip to Miami in three
months.
Seilitic spent 14 years during his
youth in various capacities on sail
ing vessels.
PRESIDENI studies
FARM AID PROBLEM
Executive Hopeful That Some
Measure Agreeable to All
Can Be Found.
By the Associated Press.
With the problem of agricultural re
lief already causing dissens on among
the recently organized bloc of Inde
pendent Republican Senators from the
West, It has been made known that
President Coolidge, while not ready to
discuss a new farm relief bill, Is study
ing the situation carefully and is hope
ful that a measure the administration
can approve may be enacted at the
coming session of Congress.
The President went over the subject
this week with Senator Borah of Ida
ho, a member of the Western group,
who said later that he felt certain
Mr. Coolidge would leave the problem
to Congress rather than embody his
ideas in an administration bill.
The rock on which the Westerners
have split is the equalization fee pro
posed in the McNary-Haugen bill
which caused much heated controver
sy in Congress last Winter and later
the veto of President Coolidge.
Senator Norris of Nebraska, whom
the group has proposed for the presi
dency, is in favor of the fee, and in
this he has the support of two other
members, Nye and Frazier of North
Dakota. Borah, however, is deter
minedly opposed. Brookhart of lowa
is willing to go either way and has
suggested a. compromise under which
the equalization fee would be replaced
by direct governmental appropriation
as a means of providing funds for the
marketing of surplus crops.
A meeting of the bloc called for yes
terday, had to be postponed until Mon
day because some members were un
able to attend.
Meanwhile Mr. Coolidge’s desire for
passage of a sound arm bill was mad?
known at the White House, where it
was said that the President feels that
his views on farm relief in general
and the McNary-Haugen bill in par
ticular have been clearly set forth in
hie various messages.
BEUEVKILIDGE
WILL BE DRAFTED
Former Kansas Governor
Says Only Definite Dis
claimer Can Stop It.
By the Associated Press.
The prediction that President Cool
idge would be drafted by the Repub
licans next year unless he issues a
definite disclaimer was made by Henry
J. Allen, former governor of Kansas,
after a call today at the White House.
“I am equally guilty with Senator
Fess," he said, “in believing that
President Coolidge will be drafted un
less he does something about it.
“I believe that he was entirely sin
cere when he said in his statement
that he did not choose to run, but
there comes a time in a man’s life
when his duty to his country out
weighs his personal wishes.
“Mr. Coolidge could carry every
county in Kansas with a larger major
ity than he did before.’'
Gov. Allen declared that he believed
that Secretary Hoover was the second
popular choice, but that he thought
from a political standpoint Vice Presi
dent Dawes stood the better chance
for getting the nomination.
Kansas, Mr. Allen said, was not
insisting on passage of the McNary-
Haugen farm bill. He believes that
farm relief had been greatly exagger
ated as a political issue. Some legis
lation to help the farmer in market
ing his crop was desirable, he added,
but he felt that the farmer had come
to realize that the best thing that
can be done is to allow him to work
out his own problem.
Two Die, Eight Hurt in Crash.
MEXICO CITY, October 22 (JP)
Two persons were killed and eight
injured when a Juarez-Mexico City
passenger train was derailed between
Agua Nueva and Laguna, dispatches
from Chihuahua report. The engine
and five cars overturned.
The accident was due to the bad
condit'on of the tracks.
After that they may personify col
. legiate recklessness, except in pass
. ing control stations at Colfax and
Newton, half and three-quarters way
points, until they reach Grinnell.
J There the police, who have taken the
1 view that “they may commit suicide
■ en route but they can't do murder
here,” will take them in tow to make
- sure no Grinnell residents are killed
r of maimed in the streets.
t Elaspsed time will determine the
, winner, who for his daring will re
, celve prisses offered by Does Moines
I and Grinnell merchants. The owner
l whose “wreck” bears the cleverest
“wise-crack” will also be singled out
) for honors. Even the worst “also
, ran”—the first to experience a break
i down outside of Des Moines—will re
i ceive a prize. The driver whose
t conveyance least resembles an auto
mobile will likewise come in for re
. ward.
, Those whose “Junkers” fail to stand
i the gaff will be picked up by rescue
. cars, so they will not miss the annual
Drake-Grinnell foot game game.
TWO CENTS.
OIL TRIAL HIED
AS SIDDONS PLANS
TESTIMONY RULING
Statements of Sinclair Before
Senate Committee Are
Basis of Argument.
EVIDENCE IS CONSIDERED
VITAL BY GOVERNMENT
Case Hinges on Meeting of De
fendants at New Mexico
Eanch.
With court In recess until Monday
morning, Justice Frederick L. Sid
dons, presiding at the conspiracy trial
of Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sin
clair, today had under advisement the
question of admitting as evidence
against Sinclair statements made by
the defendant before the Senate's oil
investigating committee bearing di
rectly on one of the major charges
in the Government’s indictment.
The most important turn in the
trial thus far hinges on the admission
of this piece of testimony, which de
fense attorneys are seeking to bar.
U hen court recessed yesterday, with
the question still hanging fire, Justice
Siddons announced that he would take
“a day or so” for reflection before
rendering his decision.
Sinclair’s celebrated visit to Fall,
then Secretary of the Interior, during
El 1 ® Christmas holidays of 1921 at
Three Rivers, N. Mex., was ln
yoived in Sinclair’s testimony before
the Senate committee. It was during
this visit that the Government charges
the conspiracy was actually hatched.
Before the Senate investigators, Sin.
clair made the admission that the pur.
pose of his visit to Fall on that oc
was to discuss the leasing of
the Teapot Dome oil reserves.
Justice Hoehling's Ruling.
Since that time and during th*
present trial, Sinclair’s counsel have
contended that the oil magnate's visit
to Three Rivers was for other pur.
poses. To refute this claim, Owen J.
Roberts, of special Government coun*
sel, sought the right to read Sinclair’s
testimony to the jury and by doing
so to lay the foundation for the Gov
ernment's charge of conspiracy.
For more than twro hours opposing
counsel fought over the question, the
defense objecting on the ground that
testimony given before a congressional
; committee may not, under the law, be
[ introduced as evidence against the
. witness at any subsequent court pro*
i ceeding. To this the Government re
plied that in order to take advantage
of this provision, the witness must
make declaration of such intention
When Appearing before the committee.
In the Fall-Doheny conspiracy case
last year, a similar question was raised
by the Government in offering the
testimony of Edward L. Doheny be
fore the same Senate committee ae
evidence. The two Incidents, how
ever, are not identical, for in the case
of Doheny, the California oil man ap
peared voluntarily before the commit
tee and announced that he “wanted
the whole world to know his story."
Justice A. A. Hoehling, who presided
in the earlier trial, rendered a decision
upholding the Government’s conten
tion and Doheny’s testimony was read
in full to the jury.
Lawyers Cite Precedents.
If Justice Siddons permits the in
troduction of Sinclair’s testimony it
will knock a prop from under the
defense case, for the Government re
gards the oil magnate’s statements
as highly pertinent to the conspiracy
charge and to bolster up the claim
of secrecy in the awarding of the
lease.
Justice Siddons asked the lawyers
on both sides to present him with
further precedents on the subject in
volved, and this they did this morn
ing. It is not altogether certain that
the court will make its ruling Mon
day morning, when the second week
of the trial commences. Or is it
essential, for Government counsel
have other witnesses ready to testify
in the meanwhi’s.
These witnesses will offer testimony
planned to back up the Government’s
contentions that there was no immi
nent danger of oil drainage from Tea
pot Dome at the time the lease was
made. Despite the efforts of Martin
W. Littleton, chief of Sinclair coun
sel, to discredit testimony along this
line yesterday, the Government suc
ceeded in getting in one report and
the testimony of Dr. George Otis
Smith, director of the Geological Sur
vey. The meat of this evidence
showed that Fall w'as informed before
he made the lease to Sinclair that
Teapot Dome was not in actual
danger from drainage, as the defense
so stoutly maintains. Littleton made
an effort to prove that the report In
question was erroneous and that Fall
gave it no credence when negotiating
the lease. In this, however, he was
unsuccessful, for Justice Siddons ruled
that the burden shifted to Fall to ex
plain why he was not guided by the
report in the transaction that followed.
Offers Evidence of Secrecy.
Except for the fight over the ad
mission of Sinclair’s Senate testimony,
fraught with so much meaning for
each side, the first week of the trial
has passed without any particular
sensation. Public interest was stirred
when Fall arose in court to make a
statement in his own behalf, but the
issue involved, had no real signifi
cance.
While lacking the elements of the
spectacular, however, Government
counsel succeeded in laying much of
the foundation to the charges of con
spiracy and secrecy involved in the
leasing of the naval oil lands, both in
California as well as Wyoming. This
was produced mainly through the
presentation of letters and documents
passing between Fall and Edwin F.
Denby, then Secretary of the Navy,
and the testimony of Edward C. Fin
ney, First Assistant Secretary of the
Interior.
This evidence was enough to enable
the Government later to build up Its
case of secrecy involving the leases,
and bore effectively on the charge
that Fall had taken the reins in his
own hands and had declared that he
would not further consult with the
Navy with regard to the leasing.
The jury of two women and ten
men who are sitting in judgment of
Fall and Sinclair were excused Fri
day during the legal arguments pre
cipitated by Robeics’ move to offer
the Sinclair testimony in evidence.
Unlike the jurors in the Doheny trial.
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