The Washington Post
October 4, 1926

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The only paper in Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the year. —— a> and tomorrow, showcrs | southerly winds. |. Temperature y est, 87; lowest, Weather—Partly cloudy today | Tuesday ; followed by moderate esterday—High- 63. _NO. 18,371. POSTOFFICE, ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON: MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1926.-EIGHTEEN PAGES COPYRIGHT, 1926 BY THB WASHINGTON PO ———————> TWO CENTS. ST CO. BUSINESS SEEKING | ANOTHER TAX GUT IN SHORT SESoION Leaders Say Step Would Guarantee Continuance of Prosperity. ® COOLIDGE AND MELLON HELD OPEN-MINDED Appeal to Be Made to Mem- bers of Congress to Forget i ' Politics in Proposal. | By WILLIAM P. HELM, Jr. | New factors which have entered | into the tax situation since Con- ress adjourned three months ago are tending daily to bring the tax reduction prominently to the front at the next session, beginning early | in December. | | | The first of these factors is a'| nation-wide and concerted effort on) the part of many business concerns ‘and trade associations, working quietly while Congress is in recess, | to line wp enough votes in the House | and Senate to push through another | tax cut before adjournment on | March 4 next. This movement is gradually per- | meating the chief business enter- prises of the country. In many sec- tions, bankers, manufacturers and other men of large affairs, are de- voting considerable time and atten- tion their representatives and senators convince them that taxes should be reduced again and without delay. to to B¥c Increase in September. The pected is the unex-| the amount of) money involved the September tax collection the Treasury. Latest figures.show it at over $100,- 000,000 more than collections for the corresponding period last year. This development, quite recent, calculated, proponents of tax reduc- | tion hold, to warrant reopening the | question ascertaining if it is/ not safe to cut rates once more. Field work is being done largely) among the Republican majority in each house.- The Democrats, al- | though not committed formally as'| a whole to another tax cut in De-| cember, expected to follow their whom some, nota- bly North Carolina, have out during the political | campaign another cut. Some) pf the leading business advocates | for early reduction regard it as unfortunate that the move should | have been espoused so warmly by minority leaders. They profess to see in such es-) pousal a tendency to make tax re-| duction political nomic. And they profess to advo- cate the early reduction purely on an economic basis. They have hopes of swinging over to their second factor increase in in by . | is | and entirely are leaders, of Simmons, of come tor | city | abodes. | trict, rather than eco- | | Level lowlands of the central West, viewpoint Secretary has seemed to have open on the subject, President Coolidge. They are, addition. trying to convert, on economic grounds, the House leaders held his. mind and possibly, and Senate who have the say as whether another cut shall be made, | town ‘began at 2:57 p. m., and was de- a scribed as “quite severe.’ or not. Greater Than Politics. In other words, the business m of the country who are at cna advocating an early reduction are) trving to remove their cause from | the political battleground. They say it is greater than politics and does not deserve injection into a political campaign. With that view many Republicans in both houses are: reported to be thor- Oughly in keeping. As a matter of record, it does not appear anywhere in the debates of the last sessions, so far as a somewhat casual investigation dis- closes, that Republican leaders in either house have come out flat- - footed against another reduction in taxes at the next session. It does appear that these leaders have fol- lowed the President and Mr. Mel- lon in wanting first to be shown ‘that such a cut could be made with- 4 out running into a Treasury deficit his fiscal yearsor the next us ¢ Business advocates of.early tax _ reduction therefore have taken the stand that it is up to them to show a the majority leaders that this can 3 be done. They are devoting their , energies and eloquence to that pur- pose.. They claim to be able to ing a "abe array of facts and ures support of their argu- a For the past month they have ng to make’ converts, and | ey claim to have made some. The ork will be speeded up as the oS Mellon—who | in | purely | they assert, | Index to Today’ s Issue | Pages. 1—Cardinals Defeat Yanks, 6- Judges Favor More Jurists. New Tax Cut Sought Now. Five-Day Week Is Labor Goal. Flood Hits Illinois City. . 2——Pride Held to Block Relief. Coolidges Guests of Masons. 3——Daugherty Defense Secret. » Seward Quits New York-Racre. | 4—-Packers Decree Into Court. Financial News. 5—Quiz Asked in Klan Activity. At the Local Theaters. 6—Editorial. 7—Tuberculosis Experts Here. Society News. 8—East Indian Found in Bay. rged. 10—Magazine Features. 11—Senator Praises Jews. 12——Classified Advertising. 13, 14, 15—Sports. World Series Pictures. 16—The Post’s Funny Folks. 17—Supreme Court in Meeting. Daily Legal Record. 18——-Red Cross Meets Tonight. Olga Nethersole in Capital. The News in Pictures. 2 DEAD, 1,000 HOMELESS No FLOOD SWEEPS CITY Many Seonutl From Trees as Waters of Caney River En- gulf Bartlesville, Okla. BEARDSTOWN | LEVEL DOWN Beardstown, Ill., Oct. 3 (By A. P.).—Two serious breaks in the levee protecting the city from the Illinois river tonight forced work- men attempting to patch the breaks to retreat before the rush- ing waters. River men fear that the‘ levee is doomed and that the will be flooded as in 1922. Bartlesville, Okla., Oct. 3 (By A. | P.).—Flcod waters of Caney river, swollen by two days of torrential rain, today deluged the lowlands of Bartlesville, submerging scores of homes after approximately 1,500 residents had fled to high ground and safety. Many inhabitants of the. flood- swept district took refuge in trees and were rescued in boats when the waters raidly engulfed their flimsy Two persons are known to have lost their lives, and reports that several others had been drown- ed were not verified today. Bartlesville’ was an island city without water or electricity. The Caney flowed over its banks at mid- night and steadily crept into: the yards of the lowland residential dis- while the river continued to rise about 12 inches an hour early today. Crops along the river bot- toms were inundated and much live stock was lost. William Clark died of fright ‘when the flood waters crept into his | home, and Ike Ingles was drowned in the raging stream. Heavy rains fell in other parts of Oklahoma last | night. Chicago, Oct. 3. (By A. P.).— PAGE 3, COLUMN 5.) Georgetown. Records Severe 4-Hour Quake (By the Associated Press.) An éarthquake which. continued (CONTINUED ON more than four hours and had its | majority | center about 4,500 miles southwest | to | of Washington, was recorded yester- day on the Seismographs at George- university. The disturbance HALL CASE DETECTIVE IS RELEASED ON BAIL Di Martini Gives $10,000 Bond; Will Fight Extradition to’ New Jersey. New York, Oct. 3 (By A. P.). Felix di Martini, charged with be- ing an accessory “after the fact” in the murder of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Hleanor R. Mills, of New Brunswick, N. J., four years ago, was released in $10,000 bail today for hearing in Brooklyn Friday. He announced that he would fikh't extradition. Di Martini is the fifth person to be arrested in the case, ,Chief coun- sel for the ‘four others had refused to produce him. He was arrested last night in Brooklyron a warrant signed by Justice Cleary, of Somer- ville, N. J. He is charged with in- timidation of, bribery of and at- tempted bribery of w es after the discovery of “ boat : Septem- ber 16, 1922. Greek Mutiny Heads Sentenced for Life Athens, Oct. 3: (By A. P.).— Cols. Zervas and Dertilis, le leaders of the mutiny ae ans against the ¢ | ONY WEEK. 6OML OEE WE LF. L HEADS VOTE President Green and His Cabinet to Urge Plan Upon Convention. 40- HOUR WEEK HELD TO INCREASE OUTPUT Soviet to Be Shunned by Dele- gates; Debate on Mex- ico Is Sarred. stesniieaslanlabilinemnnai Oct. 3 (By A. P.).—The five-day week for all workers came to the fore as a definite goal of the American Federation of Labor pro- gram today in the final meeting of the executive council of the federa- tion, preliminary to the forty-sixth annual convention, which opens to- morrow morning. President William Green and his cabinet, composed of international officers of affiliated unions, agreed upon the five-day forty-hour week as the cardinal point in the ad- vancement program of organized labor and determined to recom- mend the policy to all affiliated or- ganizations as a basis of negotiation for contract renewals with employ- ers. “The forty-hour week is inevi- table in American labor,’’ Mr. Green said in a public statement after the meeting, ‘“‘for thé-simple reason that it is economically sound and profitable. ft is profitable for the worker and for the employer, and has been tremendously success- ful in the numerous crafts in which ii is already partially effective. } Detroit, Increase in Productivity. “High-pressure production and the physical demands of modern industry are such that only with the shorter day can we attain not- able progress in mechanical produc- tion. In the printing crafts, gar- ment trades and building trades, where the five-day week is effective in some sections of the country, the results have increased production as much as 40 per cent on certain operations with an actual decrease in the unit cost. Scientific study of fatigue, charts in mechanical opera- tions point to the shorter week as the most promising method of maintaining the prosperity of Amer- ican industry, for. it will reduce the labor turnover and increase produc- tion, as well the quality of work, create more leisure for the enjoy- ment of life and add to the general high standard of living for the American worker, .the best-paid worker in the world.’ Under the constitution of the federation, the executive council may not go further in the advance- iment of such a policy than a mere | blanket indorsement of the aims, ‘for the actual working out of the program must rest always with the autonomous ‘international organi- zations in the negotiation of -con- tracts. Still The council reaffirmed its deter- mination to have no contact with soviet Russia or its sympathizers and agreed to recommend to the convention .non participation in a Russia Barred, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8, COLUMN 4.) ‘Post’s Radio Hour) Tonight Offers Variety Varied features will mark The Post radio hour program whica& will be broadcast from Station WRC this evening at 6 o’clock. Mrs. Virginia White Speel, presi- dent of the District Federation of Women’s Clubs, will tell of the plans for the observance of Dis- trict day at the Philadelphia Ses- quicentennial celebration. Fol- lowing a recital by Miss Juanita Froehlich, soprano, accompanied by Miss Hope Ross, Miss BElisa- beth BH. Poe, of The Post staff, will give another five-minute talk on ‘‘Little Journeys Around Washington.” Instrumental music will be played by the Del Ray Serenad- ers, Miss Camille DeLane, pian- ist; Wade Luckett, banjoist; | George Corley, saxophonist; H. J. Kremer, violinist, and A, Cun- ningham,— “drummer. Duncan Thomas will sing old Scotch balla te: The hour will be con- Ne ik Bleyden, tenor and Mrs. Big den, pian- fs gad - : et Pa i s i wn pe na ther fo agaahes § Piet > ; JUDGES WANT U6. DUGKETS CLEARED AND MORE JURIGTS Taft Reports on Findings Made Here by Senior Circuit Members. PROGRESS IN CUTTING DELAYS IN BUSINESS 42 Per Cent Decrease in Un- tried Criminal Cases ° in Four Years. (By the Associated Press.) Further clearing of dead cases from Federal court dockets and ap- pointment additional were adopted of among by the conference senior circuit judges here last week, the findings of which were made public yesterday by Chief Justice Taft. The report declared past year in reducing delays and congestions of business which cently added judgeships had created to remove.” During last four years there has been a. 42 per cent decrease in the number of criminal cases awaiting trial, it added, but in the same period the| number of civil cases on the docket increased 50 per cent, -while with suits, the courts held their own. Lack of Statistics. Again urging Federal district | judges to dismiss any case which might have been brought to trial, but. in which no action has been | ceiving 30 days’ notice, the confer- ence advised the Federal district judges that they should exercise the same control over criminals as they now do over civil cases, indictments and should be ordered for trial and tried or dismissed for delay sub- stantially as has been recommend. ed in respect of pending cases gen- erally.”’ The administration of justice has been obstructed because of the ab- sence of intelligible: statistics show- ing the exact condition of the dock- ets and the real business of the courts, the conference asserted, ex- pressing the opinion that as soon as the public realized conditions which prevail in the Federal courts, corrective measures could be ex- pected. A committee consisting of Cir- cuit Judge Hough of the Second, or New York circuit and Circuit Judge Denison of the Sixth circuit, was ap- pointed to devise a plan for reports by the district judges which will disclose actual court conditions. Ask More Circuit Judges. The circuit courts of appeals were declared to have continued their admirable record and to be substantially abreast of their dock- ets. Nevertheless the conference found more judges are needed so cases can be tried within a reason- able time. It renewed its recom- mendation, made last year, for the appointment of an additional cir- cuit judge for the Second circuit ».) (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8, COLUMN MARTIAL LAW AGAIN EXPECTED IN MADRID a ee ee Barcelona Also Likely to Be Under War Law, as Mutiny Spreads. London, Oct. 3 (By A. P.).—The Mail says today he learns from the Spanish border that further trouble is brewing between Gen. Primo de Rivera, Spanish premier, and army officers and that since yesterday all troops have been aguieen to bar- racks. The correspondent has heard a | report that the engineer officers will join the artillery officers in demand- ing the retirement of Primo de | Rivera and that a state of war will again be proclaimed, but restricted to Madrid and Barcelona. Reports reached the French fron- tier town of St. Jean de Luz Satur- day of a revolt by Spanish cavalry |regiments and engineers at Valla- dolid and the confining of the troops torbarracks as a consequence, Passengers from Spain reaching Cerbere, at another ‘point on the || Franco-Spanish frontier, reported hee was calm when they left. lik bap a month — ago ae ap = Spe of OP on de pele ais bet rt ie pra } ? iy a ie taken within a year and the parties | Biarritz correspondent of the Daily CARDS WIN, | judges | recommendations | of ‘‘substantial | progress has been made during the re- | been | the | | | | are not ready to proceed after re-| ! | | Ruffner, 35, Southworth, Cardinal outfielder, landing well up in the right ficld stands. makes first the game. home run of the series. Two runners crossed the plate ahead of Southworth, clinching Acme The ball traveled far and high, FORMER CAPITAL MAN respect to private and bankruptcy) DYING AFTER SHOUTING Newspaper ie: iat Em- |. ployed Here, Shot Down by Rival in New York. BLAME FIGHT OVER WIFE Gerald Dwyer, 26 years old, for- “and | meriy of 638 East Capitol street, informations |). .+ night in N and critically wounded Joseph received here last night. city up until a few weeks ago. Dwyer, it was said, ner’s wife, Gwendolyn. he called at at 209 West Ninety-seventh street, waiting for Mrs. Ruffner in the ground-fleor corridar. “T’ll attend to him,’’ said to have told. his wife when the switchboard operator that Dwyer was calling. The men Dwyer, according to police, drew) a revolver and proceeded to fire at Ruffner. Dwyer fled, but was caught a block away by Patrolman Hahn, who subdued him and placed him under arrest. The weapon was found on him. He was charged with felo- nious assault. Ruffner was removed to the Knickerbocker hospital, where he was operated on. early this morning. Physicians held little hope for his recovery: He was’ shot in the breast, back and left side. Mrs. Ruffner became hysterical upon learning of the outcome of her husband’s attempt to settle ‘the affair and had to be given medical aid at the station, where she was brought for questioning. Soviet Takes Wrandel: U.S. Flag Lowered Tokyo, Oct. 4 (By A. P.).—A dispatch to the newspaper Nichi Nichi, from Hakodate, Japan, says the Russian volunteer fleet asso. ciation’s ship Stavropol has arrived from Wrangel Island where it re- moved the American and British flags and raised the Red banner. Fifty Russian emigrants placed on the island after a thor- ough exploration by airplane. The area of the island was reported as 2,925 square miles. Motorcyclist, ist, Killed By Racing Automobile Louisville, Ky., Oct. 3 (By A. P.). Jaines Hareld Anderson, ‘a motor- |cyc)ist, practicing at a speedway here, was killed today when his machine collided with a racing au- }tomobile driven. by William Cleary, got Beat ; Rs h 3 Ruffner is} TWO SHOT IN HOLDUP announced : ew York city shot’ formerly of the Plaza | |apartments here, according to word Both men ' ‘had worked on newspapers in this | had been pay-| ing unwelcome attentions to Ruff-, Yesterday | the apartment house | where the Ruffners live, and sent | up word by telephone that he was, spied each other as Ruffner alighted. ' | Five shots took effect | and Ruffner slumped to the floor. | “were | WORLD SERIES ‘STATISTICS (By. the: Associated Press.) STANDING OF THE CLUBS. WwW. ke Pet. New York Yankees. 1 1 .500° St. Louis Cardinals. 1 1 = .500 RESULTS OF GAMES. First game—Yankecs, 2; dinals, 1. Second game—Cardinals, Yankees, 2. FIGURES ON SUNDAY’S GAME. Attendance—63,600 (new rec- ord). Total reccipts—$201,828. Players’ share—$102,982.25. Advisory council—$30,274.20. Kach club's share—$17,- 155.388. Each 155.38. TOTALS FOR TWO DAYS. Attendance—125,258. Total receipts—$400,804. Players’ «#hare—8204,410.04. Advisory council—$60, 120.60. Each club's sharc—834,- 068.34. Each Car- 6G; league's share—§$17,- league's -share—$34,- | Oee-88. a ATTEMPT AT BANK: ‘Messenger Returns Fire and Saves Cash; Man and Boy . Wounded wie Bandit Gang. Oct. 3 (By A, A man and boy were here tonight when bandits at- tempted to hold up a _ bank - mes- senger of the Brotherhood of Rail- way Clerks National Bank, was entering the bank satchel, containing $6,000. Earl Siebert, 11, Norwood, was wounded probably fatally. Mark Bugar, 32, received several buck- shot wounds in his legs. The bank messenger, John Hughes, 50, was returning with the receipts. from a theater. When he reached the bank entrance an au- tomobile drew up and the occu- pants ordered him to throw up his hands, at the same time firing a shot that missed the messenger and wounded the Seibert boy and Bugar. Hughes dashed to the door of the bank, and returned the fire from the door. He said one of: the rob- bers crumpled as if struck. No loot was obtained. Dawes Gets Quota Of Prairie Chickens Wood Lake, Nebr., Oct. 3 (By A P.).— Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Gen. John J. Pershing and their hunting party were without means of communication with the outside world last night when the telephone line, a barbed wire affair Cincinnati, P.).— a wounded as he with a to Red Deer ‘ranch, was found to, be out of order. Efforts to tele- phone to Mark and George Woods, of Lincoln, hosts of oo nuae party, | a proved futile. - Vice President Denes; who got his first ae of pr ae |who was arrested on Serer et) hicke al ae) | te a ®. 4 oe a5 ma # . “Fo wte y, b 5M j |visory storm warning d BURNED WHEN MATCH --FTRES GAS-FILLED ROOM Women od eaten severely Injured in Explosion That ignites Apartment. WERE HUNTING FOR LEAK Three persons were severely | ah , burned as the result of a gas ex- 'plosion ‘and fire early yesterday in lan apartment at 1829 G northwest. The explosion 'caused when a match ‘in an effort ‘gas pipe. The fire which followed was confined to the kitchen of the |apartment and did only slight dam- age. | The injured were taken to Emer- i gency hospital and treated. are Mrs. Myrta. V. Stalcup, 40 'years old, burned on hands and face; Miss Hazel Stalcup, 22 years old, her daughter, burned on the street was was ignited to locate a leak in a paeoee and face, both occupants of | the apartment, and Alfonzo John- ‘pie 35 years old, colored janitor lof the apartment house. : Mrs. Stalcup and her daughter awoke in the early morning hours and detected the odor of gas. Their ihvestigation proved fruitless and they summoned the janitor, telling him from the kitchen of their quarters. Johnson began his investigation. Going into the gas-filled kitchen accompanied by the two women, ac- cording tq police, he lighted a match in an effort to examine the pipes about the gas range. There Was an explosion, followed by cries of the injured three. Occupants of the house awakened by the explosion cries, and seeing smoke from the apartment, turned in a fire alarm, which brought a truck and four engines to the scene with a police patrol. The fire was quick- ly extinguished and the injured taken to the hospital, where it is reported they will recover. were and coming New Tropical Storm Reported Off Havana (By the Associated Press. ) A tropical disturbance, centered in the Caribbean sea about 400 miles south of Havana, was report- ed by the weather bureau in an ad- issued at 10:30 a. m. yesterday. The move- ment of the disturbance was said to be to the northwestward, The bureau received wireless message from ‘the steamship Tolca, then in a position about 70 miles northeast of the storm center, re- porting a 42-mile-an-hour wind and a barometer reading of 29.80. Mexican Troops Seize ‘And Kill Bandit Chief oe ca pend nT They | the flow was coming 6.2, AND EVEN SERIES: ALEXANDER HERO, ALLOWING 4 HITS; _ SOUTHWORTH’S HOME RUN DECISIVE CARDINAL ACE HITS OUT FIRST HOMER OF SERIES | Veteran Pitcher Strikes Out 10 in Masterful Performance. THEVENOW ALSO GETS FOUR-BASE WALLOP New York Is Beaten at Own Slugging Game; Shocker Re- lieved by Shawkey, Jones. ST. LOUIS INFIELDERS PUT DASH INTO WORK: Hornsby Men Dverouail Nerv- ousness and Will Start Home Series Even Up. By NORMAN W. BAXTER. New York, Oct. 3.—Baseball’s temporal and fleeting crown passed this afternoon from the brows of, the New York Yankees to those of the St. Louis Cardinals. More than 63,000 persons, a record crowd in the history of the world’s series and baseball, witnessed the transfer by a count of 6 to 2. And out of it came Grover Cleve- and Alexander. near the end of his baseball span, but tonight more fa- mous than in any of the days when fame and adulation came his way as regularly as the passing minutes. Veteran of all those who took the field today he was the focal point of the New York. attack, but formed the firm defense that the Yankees could not penetrate. Twenty years ago, far enough back for Nick Altrock to Count it as in his day, Big Ed Walsh, of the White Sox, struck out an even dozen batters in a world’s series game. This afternoon Old Grover Cleve. land—-he would not bear the Chris- _tian name if he did not date back | to the eighties—-struck out ten of the men who murderously clouted 'their way through the American Teague. Karl Combs, of the nine game, was | Yankees who started the ‘at the finish the only one who had | not fanned at least once. Alex Pitches Wisely. The wisdom of the years flowed | from Alexander’s right arm and fin- He was an even greater ‘pitcher than Pennock was the day before, regardless of. the fact that he allowed one more hit than the New York veteran did. His ‘‘hook’’ broke over the plate from all directions, going on its way either without resistance or to the accompaniment of back break- ing swings that only mortified the New York team and its supporters Before the game they said that Alexander would not last, but at its finish his toe was still against the pitching slab, a place that three of the Yankee twirlers had oc- cupied. Behind him | ger tips. the Cardinals came to life. They conquered another at- tack of initial nervousness that helped to give New York its two runs, but then broke out—ag is so ~ often the case in the world series— in just the place where most of the experts had wasted neither time nor skill in preliminary speculation. ‘Bill Southworth, who yesterday failed even to survive the game's course because of weak hitting, parked one of Shocker’s slants intod the favorite sun parlor of Babe the Blistering, with two of his col- leagues on base. Cardinals Hit Timely, Tommy Thevenow, whose offen- sive strength puts him in eighth Place in the batting order, hit a home run within the park, a celir- cumstance that must be blamed in au measure on the clumsy way: in which the same Blistering Babe | played the short fly along the Lay a field foul line. Few of the Cardinals were have: ia ing much trouble at the bat. A dos is en hits were interspersed judi- — ciously while Urban Shocker and a Sad Sam Jones were in the box, and ‘ r after six innings of nip and tuck ~ baseball these safeties began to tell — the story of the game. 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