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Evening star., 1923-07-18
La TOILETTE JUBHANT
Johnson Election Triumph for Peo-
pie, He Says.

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, July 1s.-In the
election of Magnus Johnson to the
senate yesterday "the people of Min
nesota fired a shot which will be
heard in every section of the cocntry,"
says Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette.
who supported Mr.. Johnson,
"The people of the northwest have
again spoken their conviction that
II representative government is to
survive in the United States private
monopoly must be driven out Of con-
troll" the statement says. The no.
comfort themselves-that the election
of Johnson expresses merely a sec
tional protest of disgruntled farmers
and workingmen against present
economic conditions and governmental
policies--is a ridiculous delusion.
''The voice of Minnesota is the voice
of the common people of this coun-
try, constituting 80 per cent of the
citizens. who are determined to free
themselves from the monopoly power
up over long period through favors
for the few extorted from the gov
ernment of the many.
THE old Lincoln spirit is again
sKeeping the west. II will find Its
echo; in the east. the south and mid
die west Just as soon as courageous
and able leaders of the type of Mag
nus Johnson arise to champion the
common people.
Partisan politics and their press
cannot long deceive themselves con-
cerning this fundamental movement.
The people are awake. The old party
slogans do not deceive them. They
are not to be misled by the ridicule
and abuse which has been directed at
their leaders. They have learned to
know the real enemies of their politi-
cal and economic liberty"
Evening star., 1923-07-18

Immediate completion of the Mount
Alto Hospital. on Wisconsin avenue,
and the erection of the proposed fed
eral archives building in Washington
were urged today by James \. Nc
Farland of Dalton, Ga. recently elect
ed national commander of the Dis
abled Veterans of the World War.
Commander Mcfarland came here to
hold series of conferences with
government authorities on problems
affecting the wars disabled
More room is vitality needed in
Mount Alto for the veterans of the
fourth district who are now being
shipped to hospitals in other sec
tions, against which the men object
because of separation from their
families here. said the new command
'er. AT Mount Alto the government
owns the property and the money is
available for the completion of that
plant Our disabled men in Washing
homes because Mount Alto is not
large enough. We want that hospital
completed with emergency speed.
Would Avoid LOSS,
Commander Mcfarland feels that
the government will some time erect
an archives building. and he wants
the work done now before some ir-
reparable loss Is suffered. At pres
ent, he pointed out. the war records
are stored in the temporary buildings
on 9th street, in the midst of num-
Der Of wartime structures that offer
constant fire hazards to the paper
that could never be replaced
The disabled American veterans pro-
gram for the year contains thirty
three points. and tomorrow morning
Commander Mcfarland will meet with
Director Hines of the Veterans Bu-
reau and Maj. David Arnold of the
senatorial investigating committee to
discuss. all phases OF the manned
mems situation
Tomorrow afternoon will be given
over to a personal inspection Of the
local conditions, when the commander
Will be guest OF the District of CO.
fumbia department of the D. a. ". of
which f. w. Humphrey is commander.
The party will motor over to place q
wreath on the grave of the unknown
soldier at Arlington, will then visit
the different hospitals here. with a
short address at Mount Alto at $50
O'Clock, and later Will have dinner
at the City Club. T..
Commander Mcfarland came to
Washington from national hcadquar-
ters at Cincinnati. and will leave to-
morrow evening for his Georgia home
where he practices law His war dis
ability came when he was struck by a
machine gun bullet while leading his
platoon through the Argonne in Oc-
tober, 1918.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
GORDON LAUNCHES
VICE HOUSE SUITS.

United States Attorney Gordon to-
day began a crusade against alleged
disreputable houses in Southwest
Washington. Through his assistants.
Vernon E. West and Charles S. Baker,
he instituted three suits for paddock"
injunctions under the Kenyon red
light" law against the owners and oc-
cupants of three houses in Armory
court southwest
He charges the defendants nave per-
mitted use of the premises for i'm
moral purposes. He asks that the de-
PENDANTS be enjoined from such
further use of the premises that the
furniture and fixtures be removed and
sold and that the buildings be closed
for one year.
Those named as defendants are
Herbert A. Davis. as owner Of
premises 332 and 334 Armory court:
Sylvia Robinson. as occupant of No.
332. and Hattie Diggs, as tenant Of
334: Ellen T. Keane. owner Of
premises 457 Armory court, and Irene
Harrison as its occupant.
The government claims notice to
the owner of the alleged unlawful
use of the premises was contained in
notifications from the superintendent
of police to the rental agents of the
property.
The defendants will be served with
notice that an application will be
made next Tuesday to Justic Bailey
for temporary injunctions pending Il
hearing of the matter in court
Evening star., 1923-07-18

Koran is written. in Arabic and all
cultured Persians must know Arabic.
persian is an easy language to
learn. 1t is something like English.
1t does not have much grammar. The
difficulty for an European or Ameri-
can in learning Persian would not
be in mastering the actual words.
but in securing all the background
for appreciation of Persian litera-
ture that is so essential and so diff
ferent from the European ideas. Our
religion, our philosophy, our history,
our arts are all so totally different.
from yours"
Poetry and Music.
Mr.. Alai sketched the history of
Persian poetry, emphasizing the i'm
portance that his people attach to
rulers have accorded the poets. He
said stringed instruments are the
principal musical instruments OF his
land and only recently have pianos
and other European instruments
been introduced te any extent.
Mrs. Bleyden played the new ma,
tional anthem of PefAtaE write n ibg
Gholan Reza Khan Salar ,Moazzaz, a
leader in present day Persian music.
She also played number of this
composers other works. Mr.. Alai
delighted the audience. with q piano
number, which, he declared. was
typical both in arrangement and
Mr. Bleyden sang a group of quaint
Persian songs -arrahged :, by Rubin
.stein from. the. lyrics of Mira Schat-
fay, famous Persian poet.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
PAyNE.DEPOS|T|ON
ON M0RSES READ
Former Ship Boart Head De:
MES Noting Anything
Suspicious.

The deposition of John Barton
Payne, former head OF the Shipping
Board and now on special mission
to Mexico was read today at the
Morse conspiracy trial before Justice
Stafford and q jury In Criminal Di-
vision 1. The deposition was taken
last April. shortly after the begin
ming of the trial. in order not to in
terfere with the departure of Judge
Payne on the Mexican mission.
The examination of Judge Payne
was conducted originally by Attor-
ney Nash lockwood, but when tho
deposition was read Attorney Wilton
J. Lambert propounded the questions
and Judge lockwood impersonatcd
the witness. reading the responses.
when the croSs-examination was
reached Assistant Attorney General
Allison read the questions and Attor-
ney Nottingham Of the prosecution
the responses of Judge Payne.
Counsel for the defense made sew
say that the Morses in their ship
building transactions with the gov
ernment acted in good faith. On OBJ
lection by the prosecution judge
stafford refused TO let these poT-
tions Of the deposition he read into
the record. On the crOss-eXamina-
tion. however. it was brought out
that while Judge Payne was gem
eral counsel for the Shipping Board.
no facts were brought TO his atten-
ton that indicated the Morses were
impeding" the work Of building the
ships.
Judge Payne referred to Charles
w. Morse as a business man whom
L looked upon as having experience
and ability, and I was glad to .Sve
the benefit of his suggestions" The
former chairman of the Fleet Cor
poration denied that Morse had ever
told him that $1,000 600 in cash had
been paid in for the stock of the Vir-
ginia corporation.
He told of visits to his office by Mr..
Morse and the payment by Morse of a
number Of checks to the fleet cor
poration. On ross-examination the
government inquired the reasons for
Morse's visits. and Judge Payne de-
ciared that ii was the general i'm
preston that he was easily accessi-
BILE, and that he would see that things
were done. He saw nothing objec-
tionable in the Morse visits.
The prosecution showed memo
randum signed by Judge Payne, in
which he referred to the Morses
skating OF thin ice" His explana-
ton was that he considered Morse
was simply trying to do too much
without adequate capital"
Evening star., 1923-07-18

Continued from First Page)
time today. 1t was Miss Tucker who
was recently divorced and assumed
her maiden name again, who accom-
panied Il. Evard Kepner, husband of
the slain woman, and Miss Lulu Rick
etts, The pretty bookheeper, on sever
al of their numerous trips to Balti-
more and Hagerstown.
Mr.. Anders wants to know every
thing Miss Tucker knows about those
trips and it was hinted that he may
also interrogate her about some here
tofore unmentioned parties she has
supposed to have chaperoned. In
dignantly denying that she had ever
been ono of kepner's personal friends,
Miss Tucker called the states attor-
ney this morning and demanded an
immediate interview. The time was
set for IL o'clock, but at that hour
the girl still sat before her piano
popular airs TO the delight of a score
of patrons.
Letter Issue Comes Up.
Still another important link in the
chain OF evidence that is to be de-
cided for a certainty within the next
twenty-rour hours is whether or not
the letter Mrs. Kepner is supposed to
have written her pastor, in which she
referred to her maiden sister, Miss
Eleanor Houck, as "a thorn in the
flesh" was changed after the clergy
man had loaned it to Mr.. Kepner. The
document will be returned to Rev.
DR.. j. T. Gaehr. pastor OF the fash
Church. who said several days ago
that he could not remember several
passages that were read in court and
printed in the newspapers as having
been in the letter Mrs, kepner sent
him last February.
Twice he demanded that Leo Wein-
berg, counsel for Mr.. Kepner. return
the missive for his examination. and
twice Mr.. Weinberg sharply refused.
Following closely upon State Attor--
ney Anders threat to have the circuit
court compel him to return the letter,
however, Mr.. Weinberg was in con-
ference today with Chief Judge Urner.
Upon that jurist's promise that the
court would see that the letter is
produced upon demand. Mr.. Weinberg
said he would return the much-dis-
cussed document to the clergyman
this afternoon. Announcement as to
whether or not 1t was tampered with
10 awaited with feverish anxiety here.
Kspner Returns to City.
Mr.. Kepner, who had been visiting
relatives in Harrisburg. Pa, since
Saturday, returned to Frederick last
night and went into immediate con-
ference with his lawyers. Again this
morning he was ctoseted with Mr..
Weinberg for more than an hour, and
the only time he appeared on the
street was during the few, steps that
separate his suite in the Francis Scott
Key Hotel with the lawyers office, in
q local lodge building. His meals
Were served In his room.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
LAW CHANGE ASKED
BY PHOTOGRAPHER
Vice President of Body Urges
Revision of Postal Rules
to Aid Business.

Change in postal rates for photo
graphs will continue to be urged by
the Photographers Association of
America, Clarence Stearns of Roches-
ter. Mimi, first vice president of the
organization said, in an address be-
fore the delegates to the forty-first
annual convention of the association
at Convention Hall today. Under
present laws photographers must
send a package weighing four pounds
before they are allowed the benefit of
parcel post rates or the advantages
of the postal c. o. D. service, pointed
out Mr.. Stearns. He declared photog-
raphers should be allowed TO use the
mails as other business men.
Mr.. Stearns said photography was
the only branch Of the arts that was
advancing at this age. He stated
thaA the ancient Greeks reached the
highest point of perfection in sculp-
ture. the period of Raphael dominat-
ed in painting. that no modern Shake
speare has been produced and that in
the modern realm of music no Mozart
or Liszt was to be found.
Discuss Child Pictures.
A lecture on "Portraiture of Chill
dren" was given by Peggy Stewart,
who gave practical demonstrations
with children selected from the audi
ence. Later the manufacturers and
dealers group held a session. This
afternoon Walter Scott Shinu will
address the delegates on Psychology
Of Child Photography" and the in
dustrial section of the convention
will listen to an address on Indus
trial Photography" by w. A. BartZ.
This evening from $50 to $3.50 pm.
the exhibits will be open to the pub
lie and music will be furnished by a
military band
The California delegation to the
convention will entertain the dele
gates with a surprise program in the
armory adjoining Convention Hall
later in the evening.
Evening star., 1923-07-18

(Continued from First PageD
after Joseph C. Grew had said that
the American government was graf
fled that a way had been found to
solve the difficult question of conces-
sions and that he tok it for granted
that the protocol affecting the French
Railroad Company and the Fickers-
Armstrong Company would not be
applied in such a way as to pre)udice
the vested rights or American cltl-
Zens or companies.
This was an allusion 30 the agree
rent Of the allies to drop their de-
mand for preferential rights in future
contracts.
Horace accused the Turks OF violat-
ing their promise to accord treaty
approval to the acquired rights OF
the British company. 1smet Pasha'
he charged. refused to agree 10 the
slightest mention of the COMPANY and
the British government wished TO
give notice in the most categorical
manner that it deemed all the obli-
cations of Turkey toward the com
pany as binding.
Refers to Chester Grant.
England recognized no rights which
would conflict with the British con-
cession. he added, and which may
have been given by Turkey to third
parties. (This was an allusion to the
Chester grant)
Another feature of last nights ses-
session was an appeal from all the
delegations to the Turks to permit
the Armenians to return to ottoman
terriory.
The soviets are invited by telegraph
to sign the straits convention at
three weeks. All the allied delegates
urged the Turks to apply amnesty
literally. Ismet PaSha replied that 1t
would be applied according to the
treaty and that the Angora govern :
ment must be free to use Its own
amnesty to exiled Armenians. as the
allies have requested
Consider Debt Binding.
The allied delegates read joint state
ment charging Turkey with repudiating
the agreement to confirm the Ottoman
debt obligations in the treaty, and gave
notice that their governments regarded
Turkey as bound by her debt: they re-
served the right to intervene to protect
the rights of their bondholders.
Ismet retorted that Turkey could not
be bound by such a declaration and
could never pay the interest on a gold
basis as the allies desired, because she
was too poor.
Japan, which has had somewhat
effaced role throughout the conference,
caused flutter when X. Otchiai, am
bassador at Rome, announced that Japan
would not sign the concessions protocol,
because she was determined that Tur-
key should maintain the open door.
-Ismet Pasha, somewhat startled. then
arose and declared that it was for Tur-
key alone to decide her future economic
policy. -.- ID. .. --.-..
Evening star., 1923-07-18
Harding Silei,t,; -;
While Regretting
Minnesota Vote
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CURRY. Alaska July 1S.-News
of the election of Magnus John
son, farmer-laborite candidate. to
the Senate from Minnesota over
Gov. Preus was received by Presi-
dent Harding when his special
train on the Alaskan railroad was
stopped here for breakfast.
The chief executive read the
Associated Press dispatches saying
Gov. preus had conceded his de-
feat and giving returns from about
half the state, but he would make
no comment on the grounds that
the voters had spoken and any
statement from the President
would be unseemly.
1t was obvious that the Presi-
dent was greatly disappointed.
other members of the party who
might be regarded as rejecting
the views of the executive were
Inclined to the view that Gov.
Preus brought about the present
situation through his refusal to
make an ad interim appointment
of senator.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
School Teacher
Shoots Aunt in
Old Ozark Feud
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, July 1S.-
Two women have written the
latest chapter in the feud in a re-
mote region of southwestern Doug
las county between the Hicks and
the Hancock families,
Bertha Hancock. twenty. school
teacher. Is In Jail at Ava on the
charge of shooting her aunt, Mrs.
John Hicks The latter is in a
critical condition
.. You'll have to eat those words"
(. the Ha4cock girl is said to have
uttered. as she is alleged to have
fred a shotgun. which tore the left
arm from her aunt.
= The Hancock girl asserted that
, her aunt had been running down"
: her character for some time.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
FashionabIes Twice Shocked
By Jersey Resort Raids

were not molested
The raids Were made by county de-
tectives and state troopers The biggest
place raided was at West End and was
known as the New York Club. The
raiders surprised thirty men and wom-
en- in evening dress.
AT Pleasure Bay the raiders entered
roadhouse noted for its shore dinners,
in the rear of which a gambling house
was found.
The raiders confiscated three truck
loads of roulette wheels and other gam
bling devices. which were stored in As
bury Park. Several attempts were made
10 recover some of the wheels, the truck
driver being offered $40 for each.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
URGES RACE TO YIELD
IN TUSKEGEE DISPUTE.
Colored Educator Proposes Com
promise for All in Hos
pital Fight.
Rr the Associated Press.

BOSTON, July 1S.-A suggestion
that negroes show a magnanimity and
yield to the white people of Alabama
in the controversy over the negro
veteran hospital at Tuskegee Institute
has been put forth in a statement
here by Wallace A. Battle, president
and founder of Okolona Industrial
School of Okolona, Miss, who is him
self a negro.
Battle would have the hospital put
in charge of a white superintendent
southerner, recommended by negro
physicians ana appointed by the fed
eral government, the other physicians
and nurses to be all negroes. In case
of the death OF removal of the su-
perintendent. the negro medical staff
always would recommend first the
southern white superintendent they
wished to work with.
Mr.. Battles statement points out
that the controversy is of national
concern. and that the three elements
involved-the federal government, the
white people of the country and ne
groes of the United States-have ap-
parently all set out to yield nothing.
It's wise solution, he believes. means
incalculable good to all concerned.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
u. S. LIKES TREATY TERMS.
Lausanne Pact Said to Assure
Equality of Opportunity.

Agreement of the negotiators at
Lausanne to complete the near east
treaty and leave the question of the
Mesopotamian oil rights of the Turk
ish Petroleum Company to be threshed
out later Is wholly satisfactory from
the American official point of view.
In the course of the Lausanne nego-
tiations it has been emphasized on be-
half of the Washington government
that the only possible agency for final
determination of the status of the
Turkish Petroleum Company'S claim
would be through arbitration.
Presumably the British sponsors of
the claim have not felt 1t would be
likely to be sustained In arbitration
the subject up again when the east
ern boundaries of Turkey .are finally
determined. The Lausanne treaty
leaves the question Of those boundaries
open. .-'..... '..f
Demanded Equal Chance.
The American delegation at Lau-
same has maintained two major po-
sitions relative to Turkish natural re-
sources. The first point was that
lied nationals under the treaty which
were not equally open, to American
citizens. The second position was
that there should be no action at Lat-
same which would interfere with any
such previously established vested
right. The American position reia-
tive to the Chester concessions stands
upon the latter basis
The American view has been ever
since the conclusion of the war that
the United States must not be de-
prived of advantages which the al
lied pOwerS claimed merely becaiIse it
was not at war with Turkey Since
the defeat Of Turkey was directly due
to the defeat of Germany on the west
ern front, where American troops
were in action, 1t has been maintains
cd that the Washington government
must be recognized as an equal par
ticipant with the allies in the deci-
sions reached at Lausanne.
Evening star., 1923-07-18
SUSPECT DENIES
He IS COPELAND
Negro, Held as Slayer of
Three Policemen, Identified,
However, by Jail Officials.

Although positively identified by
jail officials. members of the police
force and others. as Herbert Cope
land, slayer of Lieut. David T. DuHi-
gan, Policeman John Conrad and
county. Md. the morning Of May 2l,
1918, the colored man arrested in Ak
ron, Ohio, as the slayer, denied be-
ing Copeland when he reached here
today. Even in Union station he was
identified by Alice Washington, re-
ligious worker at the Jail, who told
him she would be down to see him.
Taken to police headquarters, the
prisoner was questioned at length by
Inspector Grant and the detectives.
He repeatedly asserted he was not
Copeland and declared today was his
first appearance in this city.
IF hundred and fifty people,
preachers and others. said was Cope
land" he said, II would still deny it"
Worked In Tire Factory.
When the questioning was finished
and he had been measured and photo
graphed. the prisoner was returned to
Jail from where the triple slayer es-
capped the morning of April 81, 1919.
Inspector Grant had the fugitive
time ago. He was reported to have
gone from there to Winnepeg. The
prisoner was arrested In the plant Of
the Firestone Tire Company. where
he was a worker and where he had
made so many friends that he was
nly he
time away from the factory.
Persons working in the factory
were 10th to believe the colored en-
ploye was the slayer. He was ar
rested by Chief of Detectives Welch.
and in his room the detectives found
a number of .45-caliber cartridges.
His gun was not located, and In
spector Grant thinks II IS secreted in
the plant where he was employed.
Inspector Grant said Copeland was
alleged to have slain Charles Robin
son with a .45-caliber weapon on
the Mallory line dock in Galveston,
Tex, before coming to this city, and
the weapon used in the triple murder
in this city was Of the same caliber.
The prisoner said he was born in New
border when he was a child, but de-
MED having ever been in Calves
ton. He declared he was acquainted
with Pancho Villa and other noted
Mexicans.
Herbert Clinton. slayer. was born
in Clinton, 8. c.. police say and dur
ing his employment at Indian Head.
Md, he was reputed to go armed
with a big knife. alarming other COL
ored employees, there. The police say
they found bullet scars and other
marks on the prisoner similar to
those reported by jail physicians at
the time OF his examination, when
he reached there after his discharge
from local hospital. where
he was treated there for wounds
received the night Of the triple
tragedy -.
!. - Scars on Body.
When arrested in Akron he sent for
a lawyer. Counsel heard the police
reports of the, scars on, the prisoners
body, including a. burn scar on his
stomach. and advised his return to
this city.
The prisoner declared his real name
is Love Golden. His wife. LOWE Col
den, he said, left him about @ month
ago. A photograph of q colored
woman found In his room was taken
In this city.