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Evening star., 1922-09-16
D. c. NAVAL RESERV|STS
ON PRACTICE CRUISE
Begin Second Fifteen-Day Tour on
U. S. S. Eagle 56-Leaves
Dock at Noon.

On the second of her cruises for
training the United States naval re-
servists resident in the District of
Columbia, the L. S S. Eagle Sc left
her dock shortly after noon today
The vessel will be gone for fifteen
days, and is scheduled to return here
September 80.
The ship is commanded by Lieut.
Commander John Ralch Blood. She
will steam down the Potomac and
cruise for short period in Chesa-
peake bay to give the recruits aboard
chance to get their sea legs. After
taking fuel oil aboard at the naval
base at Hampton Roads, the vessel
will put to sea and head for Boston
Mass. where she is due September %
and will remain until September 25
1t is probable. Commander Blood
said before the ship sailed, that short
stops will be made at Nantucket anc
Marblehead, Mass At all of these
places the crew will be given ample
liberty.
The men assembled at the reserve
armory. Water and o streets south
west. early today, and were imme-
diateIy taken aboard the ship and as
signed their billets. Later the work
ing parties were engaged in carrying
aboard the stores for the trip.
In addition to Commander Blood
the officers on the vessel are Lieut.
G. NJ James, chief engineer: Ensign
Robert n. Wilson, supply corps;
Gunner Fred B. Monar
The crew follows: W. n. Shay. F.
w Long. W. l. Stafel, VIM. John
ston, ]. E. Mettee, c. c. Frick, G. NJ
Bradley. A. r. Rupley. V. G. Austin
W. S. Rhodes. s. G. Hauser, ]. p
Slattery, S. E. Boswell. ]. c. Fred
erichs. NJ. c. Talley. C. r. Stephen
son. a. Fl. Dudley, r. F. Rowley, r.
F. Campbell, R. Fl. Dickey. c. A.
Lusby, r. B. Rothwell. c. E, Blade. J.
sauer, R. Haring. R. B. Bridgeman
]. f. Motley. E. Court, c. w. Rankin
P F.. Dawson. A. W. Ramsay. B. T.
Frick, J. E. Hogan. R. F. Moore. r.
K. Arts. w. r. Holiday. W. NICK.
Lewis, E. T. Smith, NJ. c. Albaugh
r. H. Groggan, P. E. Hardie. L. w.
Brickhouse, A. A. Pleasant
Evening star., 1922-09-16
PROGRESS SHOWN
BY MRS. HARDING,
PHYSICIAN SAYS

Continued improvement in the CON
dttion of Mrs. Harding was reported
officially today at the White House.
Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the Harding fam
ily physician. said her progress was
all that could be desired and that her
pulse, temperature and respiration
are satisfactory.
President Harding made no engage
ments for today and therefore did not
go TO his office, but devoted the
greater part of the time near MS
wifes bedside.
DIR. Carl sawyer. son of Gen. saw
YER who was one of the physicians
cailed in consultation during the
critical stages of Mrs. Hardings ILL.,
ness returned to the White House
today. after a four-day visit to his
home in Marion. Ohio. He explained,
however. that his return did not IN
dIcate that Mrs. Harding's condition
was growing worse. but was by
nreyious arrangement with his father:
FLORAL tributes and messages of all
sorts expressing qualification at her
Improvement are being received oy
Mrs. Harding daily. all Of which ada
to her good cheer.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
PARK RADIO CONCERTS
PLAN OF D. c. STATION
Woodward & Lothrop to Install
Receiving Set Also at Chevy
Chase Lake.

With an elaborate program. station
WAY of Woodward & Lothrop,
Washington's newest and most power
full broadcasting station, with the ex-
ception of NOF, the naval air station
in Anacostia, will open this evening
at 7:45 o'clock. This station has a
$50 watt set. which will enable radio
listeners-in within a radius of 1000
miles or more of Washington to pick
up the broadcast programs.
The department store will install
receiving apparatus in Lincoln Park,
Dupont Circle and at Chevy Chase
Lake for the entert ainment of the
crowds that frequent these places.
This is the first time a broadcasting
station has introduced such an in
novation in Washington.
High amplification, obtained through
the use of JM-6 radio frequency
amplifers and Western Electric Com
pany amplifers in Lincoln Park.
Dupont Circle and at Chevy Chase
Lake. will assure clear reception of
all the broadcasted numbers. provid
ed conditions are favorable.
Beginning Monday. WAY will
broadcast concerts daily from 1890
to 1880 am. and from 2 to pm.
Special programs will be broadca st ed
every Saturday evening at 7:4o
o'clock.
Evening star., 1922-09-16

PARIS, September 16.-Analysis OF
the air breathed by criminal Is the
newest aid to the French police IN
Identifying malefactors. They scien-
tifically examine the air In the room
in which he operated. then examine
the man and reach a definite answer
to the question whether he breathed
in that room at particular time. II
by chance the man expectorated
while at work he can be traced as
surely as If he had left his calling
card.
The machine which does this is part
of a crime detecfsr system which was
shown to Police Commissioner En-
right of New York city on his recent
applied to the detection and fdentin-
cation Of criminals. II the Paris po.
lice wish to show that a mar. was at
q given place at a given hour they
do not spend days trying to MID VIII
nesses They prove it by the air ne
breathed, by the clothes he wore ana
by several other scientific records
which, they say, cannot be denieo.
Scientists Rush to Scene.
When q crime has been committed
the scientists. in their well equipped
laboratory. are notified. They crewd
into q big automobile, filled with
the scene. There is the expert
photographer. the artist to make
sketches, the chemist, and the man
to operate the spectroscope. The
takes section Of the
air for future careful anatystss each
Evening star., 1922-09-16
DEATH FARM HEAD
RUNSSTATEP PRISON
Fenitentiary Plantation on
Paying Basis for Its
First Time.
OTHER C0NvIcTs CoWED
Georgian, Found Guilty Of Peonage
Murders, Is Chief Trusty
in Two Years.
Special Dispatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
MILLEDGEVlLLE, Ga. September
16.-Less than two years after his
Of murders in the history of Georgia,
John S. Williams. owner of the death
farm" in Jasper county, where eleven
negroes were killed like beasts, has
been made straw boss" of the state
prison farm, where he is serving a
life sentence.
During the day he rides horseback
over the farm. seeing that his direc-
tions for the crops are carried out.
He says what to do and the guards
see that his orders are obeyed by the
other convicts 1t is declared that
even the most hardened negro crimi-
nal on the farm steps lively at the
slightest word from Williams.
His new job is a mans sized one.
He has practically complete charge
of the planting, cultivation and har-
vesting of the crops on the 5000 acres
that are titled by the prisoners. He is
declared to be getting the farm on a
paying basis for the first time in it's
history.
Sleeps in InArmary.
At night Williams sleeps In the in
firmary instead of in the big dormi-
tory called the bull pen" There
are three kinds of uniforms at the
prison, stripes. brown and gray cloth
ing. the latter for first-class men.
Williams is garbed in gray and is
treated in every way as trusty of
the truStiest.
Recently he and the prison superin-
tendent. b. III. Dunaway. drove in an
automobile to Jasper county. and the
rumor became current that Williams
was allowed to visit his home and at
tend family barbecue. An investi-
CATION was forced by the prison COM
mission. but 1t was explained by the
superintendent that the trip had been
necessary to a point near the Will
liams plantation in order to purchase
clover that was needed on the farm.
The allegation is made that the state
farm practically is Williams farm and
that he conducts himself there exactly
as he did when he lived on his own
Jasper county plantation.
History of Conviction.
Williams was tried and convicted of
murder in April Of last year. The
was convicted on the evidence of a
negro. and he was sentenced to life
Imprisonment instead of to be hanged.
At his trial he was charged with the
staying OF only single negro, but
the chief witness against him. Clyde
Manning, who admitted doing the
actual killing, told with most graphic
detail how seven of the eleven were
tied up, weights attached to them
and then thrown from a bridge to
drown; three killed by being hit in
the head with an ak. and one shot,
The murders were to prevent the
negroes testifying before federal
agents about how thew had heen held
in peonage by Williams and his sons
Manning, like Williams, received a
life sentence. In all of his testimony
he referred to the latter as Mr.
Johnnie"
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1922-09-16
DISTRICT KU KLUX KILN
HOLDS BIG CEREMONIAL
Many Candidates Take Oath Before
Fiery Cross-Col. Nolan Defends
Order at Cherrydale Meeting.

Of the United States But we don't
want Methodists, B4ptists. Episco-
palians. Catholics or Jews to mix into
politics as a church or religion. We
are for separation of church and
state. If anybody should say close
this church or that church we would
strenuously oppose 1t. for every one
in this country has the right to wor-
ship God according to the dictates of
his own heart.
We are friends of the coiored man.
We believe in helping him and edu-
eating him and giving him the rights
obtained by him under our ConStltu-
ton. But we don't believe in mixed
marriages or social equality. God
did not mean it SO to be.
100 Per Cent American.
Our order is 100 per cent Ameri-
can We don't want English-Ameri-
cans, German Americans or Italian
Americans and 80 on. Those phrases
are an insult to our nation. They
are either Americans or are not
Americans This country is menacej
by immigrants who come here and
do not learn our language or believe
in our institutions.
1--WE are for free speech, free press
and free schools and the right OF
every man to follow the pursuit of
happiness as long as it does not con-
f1ict with our laws. We are for the
sanctity Of the home and believe
in restoring the old home life that
is gradually disappearing.
People that malign us do it for
two reasons. One that they are
ignorant. or that .inwardly they are
disloyal to this country. Our pur-
pose in coming before you tonight
is to set clear in your minds our
principles. and why we are here. All
we ask is to be fair with u.s."
Col. Nolan ended his talk by de-
scribing the original order, which he
stated had been maliciously maligned
That order then" he said. saved
the womanhood and manhood of the
south; the order today is to save
the womanhood and manhood of
every real American in our country -
At the conclusion the colonel and
the ten weird figures paraded out
and were gone. Col. Nolan left a
short time later for Atlanta
Evening star., 1922-09-16
WOULD PUT CURB
!. ON SUPREME COURT
A. F. of |. Chiefs Also Dis
cuss Fixing of Age Limits
for Child Labor.
BUILDING TIE-UP LOOMS
Council Winding Up Work at At
lantic City-Gompers Plans
Consultations.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY. \. j.. September
l6.-Faced by mass of business I'M
portant to organized workers, the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor today prepared
for the most strenuous session of its
annual conference here. in the hope
that it would be able to adjourn to-
night
Included in the unfinished business
was the ANNOUNCE lnent of several
constitutional amendments and new
national legislation, already framed
by committees of the council, and
which it will sponsor as labors pro-
gram for the coming year.
Child Labor Taken Up.
In addition to the amendment pro-
posed to limit the powers of the
United States Supreme Court. the la
Dor leaders have drafted one which
would give Congress the power to
prescribe age limits for child labor
and another aimed TO make the Con-
stitution more elastic to fit the needs
Of labor"
Labor's policy on immigration re-
striction, state industrial courts and
its attitude toward legislation which
would compel unions to incorporate
also was expected to be defined.
Another important subject was the
definition of the attitude of the
American Federation of Labor toward
the controversy between national or
ganizations of carpenters and sheet
metal workers over the allotment of
certain interior construction.
Building Tie-Up Feared.
The sheet metal workers already
have been awarded the disputed work
by the national board of jurisdic-
tional awards, but the carpenters re-
fusal to abide by this decision, and
hostile action against the carpenters
by other building trade crafts, were
said by the labor chiefs, to threaten
a tie-up of building operations In
several large cities.
Heads of the crafts involved in the
jurisdictionai controversy have ap-
peared before the council to plead
their cases and that body will. before
II adjourns. announce which side ii
will uphold.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
federation. announced today that he
would remain here over Sunday to
attend an important conference with
international labor chiefs, who came
here to consult him.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
INSPECT FLOWER
PL0TSAND LAWNS
Coils. Keller and Sheriff. Aid
in Judging Community
Prize Winner. .

More than forty lawns and flower
gardens of the Woodbridge and Lang
don sections were inspected yester-
day afternoon by Engineer Commits
sioner Charles Keller, Col. Clarence
o. Sheriff., in charge of public build
ings and grounds. and Furman L.
Mulford, horticulturist. of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Accompanying the inspectors, who
acted as judges in the annual lawn
and garden competition of the Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Association.
was the committee on lawns and
gardens Of the organization, headed
by Oscar F. Ellis as chairman.
There was no announcement of
contestant will be totaled tonight by
the committee in charge. and an
nouncement of the successful con-
testants will be made tomorrow.
Judges Praise Residents.
This is as the whole city should
be- said Col. Keller. referring to
the condition of the residences.
Plenty Of open space about houses
and well cultivated lawns on every
side. I am a great believer in de-
tached houses in residential sec
tions. and I think that the situation
here is an ideal one"
Col. Sheriff., who ought to be an
expert on homes since the White
House is one of the residences under
his eye. also declared that the show
ing OF Woodbridge and IAngdon this
year was one In which the residents
of that locality might take a profit
able pride. Time after time he made
special personal tours to the rear of
some of the homes to make a more
m inSnacfinn nj No r.
dens and the lawns.
At the conclusion of the inspection
each Of the judges was presented
with huge armful of dahlias grown
at the Woodbridge Gardens.
Members Of the committee who ac-
companied the inspecting party were:
Chairman Ellis, William S. Torbert.
John L. Knopp. c. NJ. Cheney, r. H.
Ellsworth. l. B. Nutter, R. v. Bailey,
Robert E. Bolen, c. Brashears. and
NJ. E. Sabin-
Members of Committee.
At one time on the trip the auto
mobile containing Editor Torbert of
Neighborhood News, the community
publication, some newspapermen, and
ing party and travelled around the
neighborhood for almost an hour
looking for the inspectors. They
found them in the rear Of Mr.. Bra
shears home, on Kearney street
northeast. between 17th and 18th
streets, eating grapes.
The party wound up activities at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nutter
where the floral presentations took
place, with Mr.. Torbert acting as
master Of ceremonies. and where re-
freshments were served. Engineer
Commissioner Keller was not In on
the finale, hurrying away to keep a
dinner appointment at Camp Hum
phries.
Evening star., 1922-09-16

Continued from First Page)a
organization which Senator Watson
has built up and is building, to indulge
in any such dangerous byplay. No
complaints are heard Of lack of sup
port by the regular republican ma
chine of Mr.. Beveridge. Senator Wat
son, now the republican leader Of the
state, is coming into thirty or more
counties to make speeches for the
ticket.
Beveridge for President.
In this connection they are grim
ming over an incident in which SEN
ator New figures. He was invited to
make some speechesin the state. He
replied, in effect, that his itinerary
would be just the same as was MIR.
Beveridge's in the campaign of 1916,
when Senator New was up for cleo
tion. In that year Mr.. Beveridge was
back in the republican fold from his
excursion with the bull moosers and
made speeches for the republican
ticket from coast to coast. but only
one in Indiana, when he closed the
campaign in an address in Indian
apolis
Is there any talk about Mr.. Bever-
idge as future candidate for the
presidential nomination. 1t Is taken
for granted. The politicians don't
look for anything else. There are
the makings of another bully politi-
cal row in the republican party in
Indiana.
The democratic candidate for the
senatorship has been indorsed by the
State Federation Of Labor. This ac-
ton is discounted by the republicans
with the claim that the bulk of labor
is democratic anyhow.
Mr.. Beveridge is very popular with
a large section of the German vote of
the state. but the democrats are
angling for it. One Of their leaders
said to the writer: "If I knew how
all the Germans would vote I could
tell you how the state will CO."
The democrats are counting heavily
on winning back the third and fourth
congressional districts, which they
lost in 1920, and they have more than
a fighting chance in the twelfth.
These are regarded as the only doubt
full congressional districts, the re-
publicans expecting to carry all the
others easily.
Evening star., 1922-09-16

The District members of the ku
Klux Klan staged their first large
night ceremonial and initiation in the
city when they gathered between the
hours of midnight and 2 o'clock this
morning on hill above a large sand
pit fronting Rittenhouse street near
Georgia avenue. More than fifty can
didates were present to take their
oath of allegiance to the invisible
empire.
From 200 to 800 klansmen gathered
in their weird robes and hoods. and
in a slow orderly file climbed the hlli
some 900 feet in height, which gave
commanding outlook Tor miles
around, and formed a large rectangle
its ghost-like shadows through the
treed summit down on the roadway
Of Rittenhouse street beneath.
Machines filled with men began ar
riving shortly before midnight, and
by the time the last one had arrived
and parked on both sides of the road
there were about seventy in number
Silently the large crowd moved about
and 1t Is unlikely that residents OF
nearby dwellings were aware or the
strange happenings so close TO tnelr
homes
ceremonial was held. The strange
dress of the order was not put on
until the party had ascended tne MIL
and then almost instantly each figure
appeared in costume.
Candidates Take Oath.
At the time set reporters of the
various papers who had been tipped
off to the event were allowed to pro-
ceed up the hill in plain sight OF the
ceremonies. AS the members OF the
press. tired by their long wait, slowly
made their way to the scene, they
were stopped every hundred yards or
so by men with flashlights who were
acting as pickets. After the accom-
panying klansman whispered few
mystic words into the ear of those
" no had stopped them the party was
permitted to proceed.
The sight that lay before them was
similar to preceding limitations of
the khan. The candidates. with COW
cred faces, knelt before the altar in
front of the fiery cross. while one OF
the officials read the oath and per-
formed the rites. Then, as silently
as they came. they departed.
1t was evidently khan night" last
might. for four hours previous to the
ceremony in the District Of Columbia,
Col. ]. Q. Nolan, khan lecturer from
ATLANTA, Ga. addressed an open meet
ing on the subject of The ku Klux
Klan" in the assembly hall above the
fire department station in Cherrydale,
Va, just across the Potomac. Nearly
800 people were in the audience,
which was composed of both men and
women and several children.
Shortly after 8 o'clock. Col. Nolan
marched up the aisle to the stage,
followed by ten fully robed klansmen,
one of them carrying large Ameri-
can flag. The procession was greeted
by applause. it being noticed that the
women added their help as well as
the men.
Col. Nolan, after a brief introduc-
ton, gave forth the principles of the
order. He stated that the khan was
law abiding and believed In upholding
the arms of the law, liking the khan
to Aaron and Sh.ur upholding the
arms of Moses when the Israelites
drove the Philistines back. He en-
phatically declared that the khan was
not anti anything but wrong.
I'VE are not intolerant of religious
beliefs" he stated, that is right
given every man by the Constitution
Evening star., 1922-09-16
PRESIDENTS MIND
SET AS TO BONUS
Action to Be Expected Soon
After Bill Comes From
Treasury.

President Harding was declared at
the White House today to have made
up his mind" with respect to the SOL
dier bonus bill on which congressional
action was completed yesterday.
This statement, however, did lit
tie or nothing toward answering the
question in the minds Of foes and
friends of the measure as to whether
the President would sign or would
veto the measure.
The White House spokesman also
said that the bill, following the usual
course, would be referred to the
Treasury Department and that the
Presidents action might be expected
soon after its return. Secretary Mel
lon was out OF the capital for the
week end, but Treasury officials said
his absence would not prevent trans
mission to the White House of the
Treasury views if the President
should ask for an early report. The
Treasury, it was stated, had not in
any way changed in its opposition
to the present bill.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
10000 SHR|NERSPLA
ATLANTIC CITY PARADE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. y. j.. September
16.-Three thousand Shriners last
night attended the first ceremonials
of the annual pilgrimage of Crescent
Temple Trenton, held on the steel
pier. where addresses We're made by
Imperial Potentate James McCandleSS
of Honolulu and other Masonic dig
nitarieS.
A feature of the program was ex-
hibitions by the crack patrols of Mec-
ca. New York: Boumi, Baltimore; Cy-
press, Albany: Pyramid. Bridgeport,
Conn, and Crescent.
There will be street demonstra-
ton this afternoon, in which, 1t is
expected. 10000 of the feZ-tops with
their bands and patrols will be In
line. Temples registering last week
included;
Acca, Richmond, Va: Almas. Wash
ington, d. c.: Khedive. Norfolk, Va
Medinah. Chicago: Nemesis. Parkers-
burg. w. Va; Osiris. Wheeling, w.
Va. and Yaarab, Atlanta, Ga.
Evening star., 1922-09-16
CHEW OF,TOBACCO
OLD.TIME REWARD
FOR RUNAWAY BOY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star. .,.
WINCHESTER; Va, September 10
A reward In the form of a chew of
tobacco and 6 cents was offered nearly
100 years ago by Peter Ham of Win
chester for the return of an appren-
tice named Robert Beatty. aged nine
teen years. according to a copy of an
advertisement found her among old
newspaper files. Beatty is thought to
have run of from his employer before
his apprenticeship had expired.
In the old days It. was the custom
for youths to be bonoed, or 'indented,
as legal papers read, to an employer
for a term of years. and violation of
the "indenture" provisions was pun
ishahle by severe penalties. The
bonding Of employees was . practice
now regarded as peonAEe. which Us
prohibited by federal lava
Evening star., 1922-09-16
PAY
MORE RAIL FARE,
,GERNANY'S PLAN

sy Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1922.
BERLIN, September 16.-ln order
TO cut down the deficit under
! which the railroads are operating,
the German government plans to
charge foreigners railroad fares
based on the rate Of exchange of
their money. Americans would
have to pay more than citizens OF
any other country, because the
dollar is to be the standard for the
calculations. Every person buying
a railroad ticket will have to show
his passport proving his nation
ality.
The French and British will pro-
test against any such measure as
constituting q violation OF para
graph 173 of the treaty OF Ver-
saiIles. forbidding Germany to
charge allied subjects more than
..,tiye Germans