The Washington Post
June 3, 1928

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> , morning The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every in the year. Re —— Re — moderate north and $3; lowest, 66. Weather—Fair and slightly cooler “today; tomorrow probably showers; Temperature yesterday — Highest, Weather details on page 16. northeast winds. NO. 18,980. AS SECOND CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON. D. ©. L. WASHINGTON : SUNDAY. JUNE 3, 1928. % COPYRIGHT, 1928, * BY THE WASHINGTON POS11 CO | RIVE ¢ CENTS. WASHINGTON & SUBURES | TEN CENTS. - ELSEWHERE POST-SCRIPTS | GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN iene J “Up and down, :and in and_ out, Here and there, and round about.”’ . 2 * * George W. Olwany explains that Tammany is a charitable but not an eleemosynary institution. Tammany! Tammany! Only those out in the sticks, Think that it’s in politics! Tammany! Tammany! Oh, my word, it’s too absurd! Tammany! - ~~ » a Jim Good, prominent spontaneous upriser, laughs off the farmers’ cru- sade to save the new Jerusalem from the Eastern infidels. “What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, And smile, smile, smile.” hd ” ¢ we It is understood that the Federal Trade Commission is considering calling Laissez Faire as a witness to ascertain if he is in the pay of the power trust. ° * e . . The centenary of the C. & O. Canal serves to remind us of how the story of our great Capital City ia the story of transportation—first, the Indian, with his bark canoe, the sloops of the English voyagers, go- g ing up the river as far as Little Falls, . » . - the Father of his Country, on horse- back, fording Rock Creek at what is now P street, on his way to the famous elm in Cambridge, the Federal Government shipping the archives of state from Philadelphia by packet-boat, President Adams, arriving by stage coach, the first rail- road train, puffing from Baltimore in the Thirties, the old-fashioned bicycle, and then by the application of the gas motor, its evolution into the automobile and the airplane. Who remembers when pleasure boats plied the old canal, and jaunts -o Captain John’s Run were made by water? a . . oe And what has become of the pic- turesque canalboat people, a race as marked and_ distinctive the Gypsies? The old-time canalboat was at once a common carrier and a home, for every captain sailed with his wife and babies, and generally the kids were the largest part of the eargo. Only the Army mule is now left to promote and maintain the vigorous American vernacular. . _ . Me “He that fights and runs away May turn and fight another day.” The Chinese reputation for phil- osophy is sustained by the brilliant retreat from Peking of Chang Tso- Lin. It is a wise dictator who knows when to stop dictating. “Es ae » The side-shows are in full blast at Kansas City, and the sword- swallowers and India-rubber men are doing their stunts, but the ground and lofty ‘tumblers are reserved for the opening of the big top. . oe 2 ~~ 7 y » x ©» Jim Reed is going to Houston and as he isn’t a delegate he won't be thrown out. The stone rejected of the builders at San Francisco may yet become the capstone of the temple. * a + * Fifty corn-belters meet in Chicago fo prepare the ice-pack for the ele- phant’s spine. * 7 * + The present Western movement of discontent springs from the great bread-basket of the Republic which has been more or less afflicted by an ache for more than a hundred years. It made Henry Clay Speaker the day he first entered the House, brought on the War of 1812, pre- cipitated the Free Soil issue, gave its support to “greenbackism,” pro- moted Populism, pacifism and anti- imperialism, and lost its reason en- tirely over the free silver craze. It would be a pity for a great political party to yield to clamor about an economic ill that in all probability will be cured by the t:me the next crop is harvested. *s *« * ¢& The Government clerks enjoy their first Saturday half-holiday in a spirit of true humidity. « s ms By the time West Virginia is reached on the roll call Jim Reed’s share of the delegates will be as nervous as an honest man before a Senatorial snooping committee. ’s ¢ *® »& The militant ladies will demand of both political parties this year “equal rights between men and women,” which sounds like the most self-sacrificing movement on the part of the fair sex since the dawn of chivalry. es: -* 6 ) ‘» Gen. Hines deplores the ridicule of Congress and of men in public life, but when did it ever injure true worth? As Pope well says, **Tis not enough your counsel still be true; blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do,” but he > also adds: “Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise.” CHANG QUITS PEKING AS FOEO APPROACH: TROUBLE {3 FEARED War Lord Yields Capital of China Following Report of Defeat. DEFENSE POSITIONS BY FOREIGN TROOPS Elders in Charge of City Until the Arrival of Victorious Southern Soldiers. Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, June 3 (A-P.). A Rengos Agency dispatch from Peking says that in anticipation of possible disorders with the arrival of the Na- tionalist vanguard this morning at that city, commanders of foreign troops there ordered their soldiers to take po- sitions in defense of legation quarters. American, British, French, Japanese cided on this action shortly after the departure of Marshal Chang Tso-Lin for Mukden. Heavy guard details were placed at all entrances to the foreign quarters, i Chang off for Mukden. Peking, China, (Sunday) June 3 (A.P.).—-Chang Tso-Lin, for two years ruler of Peking and Northern China, renounced his power and left the an- clent capital at 1:15 o’clock this morn- ing. He departed on a special train, which had his old stronghold at Muk- den, Manchuria, for its destination. Chang sent members of his house- hold on ahead of himself. A bodyguard and smal] retinue traveled in a pilot train which preceded that in which the former dictator rode. ~ He left behind a committee of elders in charge of the city and issued a farewell message expressing the hope that China would survive the civil war and the threat of Bolshevism. The city was orderly this morning and the committee of elders said that satis- factory arrangements had been. made for handing over control to the vic- torious leaders of the Nationalist, or South China, armies. Early End of War Seen. In his farewell message Chang Tao-Lin predicted early cessation of civil war- fare. “This fighting,” he said, “has reduced many to homelessness and starvation of an extent beyond description. If we continue to fight these people will only suffer more “Such a condition was not con- templated nor expected when I started the anti-red campaign. My assumption of my difficult post was with the ob- ject of saving the state. “Even though my desire has not been fulfilled, 1 can not bear to con- tinue military operations. 1 am, there- fore, ready to evacuate Peking with my troops. Henceforth political issues are left in the hands of the people. Seeks “People’s Welfare.” “I have been a military man half my liife and have encountered many CONTINUED ON PAGE 1%, COLUMN 2 TORNADO HITS TRAIN; KILLS 1, INJURES 9 Two Heavy Passenger Cars Picked Up and Dropped on Embankment. Stanbridge, Quebec, June 2 (A.P.).— Sweeping out of the West without warning today a tornado killed one man and injured nine other persons and left in its wake a trail of ruin 200 feet wide and 6 miles long. The dead and injured were all pas- sengers on a local Canadian Pacific pas- senger train between Stanbridge and Bedford. The tornado struck the train broadside, lifting two heavy passenger coaches from the rails and dropping them on their sides against an embank- ment. A third coach and the locomo- tive remained on the tracks. The dead man was identified as a Mr. Lapointe, of Montreal. His wife was seriously injured, as was the Rev Estaithe Breault, a teacher in a Sher- brooke theological school. Seven others received slight injuries. The cyclone started at Pike River and twisted and tore over a distance of 6 miles to Mystic. The area over which it swept is mostly sparsely popu- lated farming country. Several barns and other buildings were wrecked. Girl, Jilted, Hides Self 14 Years; Now Dead Key West, Fla., June 2 (A.P.).—A girl who fourteen years ago imprisoned her- self with a vow that her lover never again would see her face, is dead, faith- ful to her oath. The girl, Julia Colon, pretty Cuban senorita, whose hair reached her knees, quarreled with her sweetheart when she was 13, “I never want to 3ee your face again,” he told her, in a flare of anger. She re- tired to a room in her aunt’s home, where only once since, prior to a fatal illness, had any one, even a close rela- tive, seen her. The lover returned and ‘pleaded for forgiveness, but the door remained closed. Food was given her through a | small door opening. and Italian commanders met and de- | as | ‘CRITICALLY ILL . T. MEREDITH, Des Moines, Iowa. June 2 (A.P.).—-E T. Meredith, publisher and Secretary of Agriculture in President Wilson’s Cabinet, is critically ill at his home here, his personal physician announced today. Mr. Meredith, it is understood, 1s suffering from high blood pressure and resulting complications Several weeks ago he was returned from Johns Hop- kins Hospital at Baltimore, where he has been under observation. APPROVAL OF MERGER LOSES IN FEDERATION Resolution re Wales Revers- ing Previous Stand Goes to Committee. -—-~ — = —--- —_ ROWS ENLIVEN SESSION — Advocates of the street car com- panies’ merger plan threw the Federa- tion of Citizens Associations into tu. - moil last night in an effort the disapproval of the pending con- solidation schen.e, twice. voted by the federation at previous meetings, and to indorse the merger by approving the House District committee’s report fa- voring it. The effort failed. Considera- tion of the resolution of approval of the merger was deferred until the next meeting, which will occur following the summer vacation. The attempt had ali the earmarks of a carefully prepared surprise. Ma}. Clayton E. Emig, who has not at- tended a meeting of the federation since he was uuseated as vice chalir- man of its public utilities committee last winter, was present and took part in the debate and voting. All the other promerger delegates were pres- ent except Jesse C. Suter. There were many vacancies in the ranks of the delegates who are opposed to the pend- ing merger plan. As soon as preliminaries had been disposed of, President James G. Yaden called for a report from the committee on laws and iegislation, which had no matters coming up for action, and then from the public utilities com- mittee. William McK Clayton, chair- to undo lof the flight, 'a possibility that the Southern Cross 'might take wing to the southward to- CONTINUED ON PAGE 10, COLUMN 2. FLIER WILL OTART HOP TO Fld! TODAY: ARE NOW AT KAUAI Cross-Pacific Machine Is Ready for Take-Off at Barking Sands. QUICK TRIP PLANNED AS REPLY T0 CRITICS Called “Nonhop Fliers” by Some, Ulm Says; Map of Islands Studied. Barking Sands, Kaual, T. H., June 2 (A.P.).-—The monoplane Southern Cross landed here shortly before 6 p. m. to- day from Wheeler Field, Honolulu, to prepare for its filght to Sydney, Aus- tralia, by way of Suva, Fiji Islands. Honolulu, June 2 (A.P.).—The mon- oplane Southern Cross hopped off from Wheeler Field for the Island of Kauai at 4:30 p. m, today. Kaual is to be the plane’s starting point for its flight to- ward Sydney, Australia, by way of Suva. Just before leaving, Charles Ulm, co- pilot, announced plans to hop off for Suva at daybreak Sunday. Determination to resume their long flight to Australia “not later than Mon- day’’ was expressed today by the four men of the monoplane who arrived here yesterday after riding through the air 2,400 miles from Oakland, Calif. Nothing even remotely resembling postponement was contemplated, they said, as they started for Wheeler Field. 24 miles away, to inspect the great plane which had borne them through day and night to a safe landing on the first stage of their 7,800-mile flight to Sydney. Capt. Kingsford-Smith, indicated that there wos morrow. He sald that the plane with 300 more gallons on board than was carried from Oakland, could easily cover the distance of 3.138 miles to Suva, Fiji. The plane left Oakland with 1,200 gallons aboard, and arrived here with fuel to spare. Criticism for Late Start. Charles Ulm, who with Kingsford- Smith, pllots the giant plane, explained that his determination to maintain the original schedule was an outgrowth olf ‘criticism in Australia for our long delay in getting started.” “Some of our critics have even been so kind as to dub us the ‘nonhop fliers,’”’ continued Ulm, “but we have paid no attention to that sort of stuff and have batted right along. “We have gone into this thing as ex- | private electric launch of Ree commander | haustively as is humanly possible and | CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 3 | Cigarette Addict, 3, i ’ | ' smoothly PAGEANT FEATURED CANAL CENTENNIAL ON POTOMAC BANKS 9,000 From Capital and Alexandria Witness Colorful Events. PROCEEDINGS HALTED BY TWO ACCIDENTS Admiral’s Launch Aground and 2 Mules, Towing Barge, Leap Into Canal. The wooded ravines Bridge yesterday reverberated of men long dead, as time harked back a hundred years to the day when | President John Quincy Adams turned | & spade of earth, and opened the Po-| tomac River basin to carriers of com- merce. The green banks of the river were a riot of color, quaint and many-hued costumes of the early nineteenth century blending with their sylvan setting, as the citizens of Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria joined hands in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the opening of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. More than '5 000 gathered at the historic spot for the ceremonies. The pageant Chain Bridge, however, was delayed nearly an hour by a series of unforseen mishaps that be- fell President Adams, and his party of Government officials, “respectable citizens” the river aboard canal boats. above diplomats and on their trip up Navy launches and “Respectable Citizens” Grounded. The first of these occurred when the r Admiral piloted by Boatswain's Curtis, bearing a score of “respectable citizens,” A. L. Willard, Mate J. H. the ran aground about 600 yards below Fletcher’s Boat- | house, where the transfer from launch to canal boat ‘hile ca- nolsts and swimmers rom nearby | camps paddled about them tn the river. was | the craft swung idle for fifteen minutes from a sand bar Two of the launches had preceded it to the Fletcher wharf. One of these, commanded by Quartermaster Bernard Vollmer, returned to Admiral boat with tow lines, /illard’s and with channel. Moore Forrest, the several! and bewigged delegations were loaded upon waiting canal barges. those who made the arrangements had not counted on the traditional disposi- tion of the Army mules, selected from the Fort Myer stables to do the towing then Mules Defy Teamsters. Th first barge moved away and with little slowly, ado, but the Is Blamed for Fi ire | ‘second encountered trouble on the tow- Montreal, June 2 (A.P.).—A 3-year- old cigarette addict was blamed today by his mother for a dre which damaged the home of his parents last Wednesday Mrs. Henry LaMarche, the mother, told Fire Cenjmissioner Quinn in court that all efforts of herself and her husband had sof ar failed to keep cigarettes from the boy. “Well, the insurance companies are not going to protect you.” said an in- surance representative. Coolidge Seeks Own Farm Plank, Reports Here Say Departure of Jardine for Kansas City Emphasizes Story—Mellon Still Hoping President Will Consent to Run, Some Believe. With the exodus from Washington already begun by statesmen and poli- iclans alike, there still remained here today—nine days before the opening of the Republican convention at Kan- sas City—an active political interest revolving around both President Cool- idge and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Information that Secretary of Agri- culture Jardine is leaving Washington for Kansas City emphasizes reports that the President is determined to have a plank inserted in the Republican plat- form which is consonant with the ad- ministration’s agriculture policy and the President’s recent veto of the Mc- Nary-Haugen Dill. t is reported that the President has conferred 4vith both Secretary Hoover and Mr. Jardine on this question. The President yesterday talked at somes length with Representative Fort, Re- publican, New Jersey, one of the oppo- nents of the McNary-Haugen measure. Following his talk with the President, Representative Fort predicted that the convention would stand by the veto, and he added that the party could not hope to win in the November elections if it repudiated the administration. Interest in the position of Secretary Mellon and the Pennsylvania delega-~- tion to the national convention is high because it is still generally accepted by observers here that Mellon, at the head of his delegation, is still in a com- manding position to choose the party’s presidential candidate. Along with this conviction is the belef that Mr. Mellon has not entirely given up his hope that President Coolidge may in the last an‘ ester h'r the savior of the party. Secretary Mellon, accompanied by the entire Pennsylvania delegation, will leave for Kansas City from Philadelphia Friday. Although the friends of Secretary Hoover have. believed, ever since the statement of Secretary Mellon at Phil- adelphia, that the Pennsylvania sup- port will go to Hoover, the opposition to Hoover has refused to accept this as 100 per cent true. Other candidates and their friends are insistent that the Pennsylvania delegation will go to Kansas City in a position whence It can swing to the support of any candi- date who looms up as the best solution of the Republican problem and that both Mr. Mellon and the delegation will await dveelopments and sce how the tide runs on the early ballots. The opposition to Secretary Hoover is trying to make the utmost of letters coming here from the middle West and Northwest which indicate the farmers are aroused and prepared to CONTINUED ON PAGE 19, COLUMN 7, The two mules lines defied the of their Fort | path from the start. attached to its soothing ministrations tow CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 3 FIRST HALF-HOLIDAY HEAT CAUSES DEATH Dominic Sullivan Is Victim of Sudden Temperature Rise. Marine Stricken. One death and a prostration were at- tributed to the heat wave which yes- terday ushered in the initial Saturday half-holiday of the season. Dominic Sullivan, 50 years old, a lather at 340 L street southwest, last night was found dead in an alley at the rear of his home, apparently from an illness super- induced by the heat, and Thomas Ho- gan, 30 years old, of the United States Marines Corps, was treated at. Emer- gency Hospital for heat prostration at Eighth and F streets northwest, short- ly after 4 o’clock. Sullivan’s body was removed to the District Morgue, where Coroner J. Ram- say Nevitt will perform an autopsy to- day to determine the cause of death At Emergency Hospital it was said that Hogan’s condition is not serious Although the report of the Weather Bureau, from readings from the heights of the Naval Observatory, gave the dav’s high temperature as 83 degrees at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue showed that there had been a steady rise in tem- perature from 69 degrees at 6 a m to 8914 degree at 2 o’clock, at that loca- tion, and the humidity also was high. Train Porters Called To Strike Meetings New York, June 2 (A.P.).—Calls were issued today for strike meetings next Wednesday in the principal railroad centers of the United States of Pullman porters and maids to receive the re- turns of the strike vote just completed. The demands are for increases above the $72 monthly scale now prevailing. better working conditions and recogni- tion of the union. Pending presentation of the strike vote returns to the United States Rail- way Board, the figures are withheld It was stated, however, that the ma- jority in favor of a strike was over- whelming i above Chain | to the) songs of the past and echoed the voices | the

W. Good is in charge, the tendency wag to laugh off the pilgrimage, although there was no concealment that it was thought to be directed against the Come merce Secretary’s candidacy. Rather than comment on it directly, Mr. Good produced a sheaf of letters from corn belt writers declaring “politics” back of the movement. At. Lowden headqvwarters, under the management of Kansas City boosters of the [Illinois Governor until Clarence F. Buck, his campaign manager, arrives tomorrow night, care was taken to point out that Lowden and his followers had not inspired the pilgrimage and were doing nothing toward its fruition. First of the three cabinet members who will attend the convention as delegates was Secretary Work, who ig helping Good frame the Hoover strate egy. Mrs. Mable Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General and a dele-e gate from California, was busy at Hoover headquarters along with Mrs. Louis M. Dodson, of Pennsylvania, who is directing women’s activities there. “Who But Hoover?” Good has an office tohimself. Across the way are three or four large rooms, one of them piled with Hoover came= paign literature. Prominently displaye ed is a large lithograph of the Come merce Secretary with the words: “Who but Hoover?” and these also have bee gun to appear in shops and business house windows. Pictures of the other candidates have not yet been put up. The Security Building, where the na- tional committee is ensconced, was the first building to be draped in the na- tional colors and G. O. P. emblems. The entire downtown section is to be so decorated during the coming week. with flags and elephants fairly de- luging telephone poles and street car wires. The _ principal namegraph in which the elephant in red, white and blue. At the auditorium, built to nominate | Bryan in 1900 and the scene of this cons. vention, workmen were busy disman-_ tling the improvised cathedral which. had been raised within the structure { for the recent Methodist convention. Here again flags and bunting were to ' be drapéd and the hall put into = gala — appearance for the thousands who will — CON es ON PAGE 10, COLUMN a : national }\ committee was at his desk at come i emblem is &. +5 letters — G. O. P. have been constructed into an ~ . ‘