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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-03
B|)RAH OBJECTS
TO CONGRESS
QUIT TING
Joins La Toilette and Norris
as Plans for FiIibuster in
Senate Take Shape
By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON,
international News Service.

BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON,
international News Service.
The rumble of an approaching
insurgent filibuster today marred
the plans of Republican and
Democratic leaders to adjourn the
Sixty-eighth Congress June Z.
The answering opposition of
Senator La Toilette, (Rep.) of
Wisconsin, insurgent leader toward
adjournment was not feared half
so much by Senate leaders as his
implied threat to filibuster for
the remainder of the week. With
a score of supporters, it was
pointed out that La Toilette might
block final action on four pending
appropriation bills, a dozen lesser
administration measures and force
administration leaders at last to
agree to a. summer session.
Has Strong Support.
La Toilette was known to have
the support of Senator Borah (R.)
of Idaho, and Senator Norris (RD
of Nebraska in his tentative plans
for a filibuster.
In addition, he was said to COM
mand the assistance of a dozen
Republican and Democratic farm
bloc members along with his tried
and true insurgent group.
BY speaking several hours each.
1t was admitted that this group
could block the legislative machin.
cry from now until Saturday night,
thus forcing a recess until after
the political conventions instead Of
adjournment.
Il have joined with several othsr
Senators in an effort to prevent
adjournment until Congress has
passed relief Legislation for farmers
and reclamation projects, Borah
told International News Service.
THE situation in the Senate, how
ever, Is so uncertain do not know
whether we will be successful"
Resolution To Pass.
Senate leaders were not worried
about passing the June Z adjourn.
ment resolution, which was adopt.
ed by the House yesterday. When
brought to a vote, it was known
the resolution would win enough
support to insure its easy passage.
The Administration also com.
manded enough votes to defeat La
Follette's substitute proposal for IL
recess of Congress from June TO
July 8.
To this substitute was attached
clause providing for successive
votes upon farm relief, railroad
and reclamation legislation IL Con
gress should return. A poll by
CONTINUED on Page 3, Column g.
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MRS. COOLIDGE ATTENDS
GRADUATION OF SON

MERCERSBURG, Pa, June g.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. accompanied
by Mrs. Frank w. Stearns, Of
Boston. is here today to attend the
commencement exercises at Mer.
cersburg Academy, where the two
sons of the President and Mr0.
Coolidge, John and Calvin, jr., are
students.
John will be graduated tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-03
KHAN ROW
ENL|VENS
PROBE
MayfieId's Counsel Objects to
Mer Rouge Killings Being
Introduced In Senate Case

Disorder that threw the room
into confusion disrupted the Peddy-
Mayfield Senate contest commit
tee today, when Luther Nickels,
counsel for George e. B. Peddy
challenging the seat Of Senator
Earle B. Mayfield Cd Of Texas
attempted TO question a witness
about the s'Ku Klux Khan muir
ders at Merrouge, La"
r. N. Littlejohn, of Charlotte,
N. c., who said he investigated
the alleged murders Of Thomas
Richards and Watt Daniels for the
Imperial Palace Of the Khan, was
on the stand.
Unfair, Says Counsel.
ibid you investigate the Ku Klux
Khan murders at Mer Rouge, Lar"
demanded Nickels. after w. F. Zum-
brunn, Of counsel for Mayfield, had
subjected Littlejohn to a half-hour
cross-examination about a contract
with e. Y. Clarke, formerly imperial
wizard Of the khan, and others, to
sell articles exposing the khan to
newspapers and magazines.
yes" replied Littlejohn.
And didn't you make confidential
reports to the Imperial Palace on
those murders?"
Yes"
IS Before Nickels could continue,
w. P. Mclean, also counsel for May.
field, demanded that Nickels' ques-
tons and Littlejohn's answers
should be stricken from the records.
Il will say alleged MURDERS" IN.
terposed Littlejohn.
This line Of questioning Is as
Stunning fact against the Ku Klux
Kan, said Mclean, land It is not
only unfair but 1t is not relevant to
this investigation. 1t has nothing
to do with the case against May
Senator Spencer, Republican of
Missouri. chairman, said he hoped
the matter would not be gone into
further and Nickels excused Lit.
tlejohn.
F. G. Van Valkenburg. who said
he handled khan campaign funds in
Dallas, Tex, in 1922, then was
called at the request Of Zumbrunn.
Offered 81 100000 Bet.
Van valkenburg said he was sub.
poenaed to Washington by counsel
for Peddy, and related a converse
ton he had with Niclxels last week
outside of the committee room"
What did Nickels say?" asked
Zumbrunn.
"Nickels told me that IL there
was a vote now Mayfield would
keep his seat but IL the case could
be put over until next fall, Mayfield
would be ousted."
I'm other words" interrupted
Humbrunn, "he told that If he could
get by now he would prevail later"
Yes. that's 1t. He said Congress
would adjourn this week and he
wanted to continue the case.
told him I'd bet he wouldn't. He
said he would bet 81 900 he would"
None For Mayfield.
zumbrunn then dropped this line
OF inquiry and questioned Van
Valkenburg about disposition of
khan campaign funds.
mot a damn cent went to May.
tield," the witness asserted heat.
eddy. II wouldn't allow it. Why,
they (Mayfield's friends) came to me
to pay for a band, and I wouldn't
even allow that. would not have
thing to do with the Senatorial
or State campaigns. We were in.
terested only in the local fights, be.
cause the citizens committee said
they wouldn't allow a klansman to
hold office"
II George K. Butcher, kligraff OF
the Dallas khan, made any contri.
buttons to the Mayfield campaign
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
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PRESIDENT
URGES TAX
REFORM
Signs Reduction Bill, But Will
Make Amendment Cam
paign Issue
By II. X. REYNOLDS,
Internntional News Service.

The tax burden of millions o.
Americans was lower today thar
it was twenty-four hours ago az
the result Of the signing Of the
tx reduction bill by President
Coolidge, but the great tax fight
Of 1924 is not ended.
Into the presidential campaign
and finally into the second session
Of the SixtyiEighth Congress,
converting in December, the Presi.
dent has determined to carry his
demand for "tax REFORM" and foI
the elimination from the new
revenue law of the "unsatisfac-
tory provisions" which he was
compelled to accept against his
will in order to effect any kind of
tax reduction at this time.
Reform To Be Pressed.
Referring to unfortunate in
fluence" which was brought to
bear in Congress to defeat the
Mellon income tax schedules and
put the Democratic.insurgent Re-
publican rates into the tax bill,
the President declared that the
law. as now written. docs not
represent a sound permanent tax
policy"
"A correction of its defects may
be left to the next session OF
Congress-" he said. II trust a
bill less political and more truly
economic may be passed at that
time"
The reduction in Federal revenue
under the new law, most of which
goes into effect on July /, is es
timated at $3.50, 1000, 900. but Treas
ury actuaries do not anticipate
that deficit will result.
One-Fourth Cut Now.
The immediate effect of the Law
will be the fiat 25 per cent re-
duction in all income taxes pay
able this year, that is, due for the
cdIeHudr4 year 1875
This reduction can be put into
effect by the taxpayer himself. Two
methods have been suggested fOI
accomplishing It.. They are:
~ Take the amount of the total
tax due on March Is. 1924. Deduct
rs per cent from that amount
Deduct the amount of tax paid on
March Is. Divide the remainder in
three parts and pay 1t on June Is
September Is and December is.
~ Cut the second installment Of
tax, due on June Is, in half: and
deduct 25 per cent from the install
nIents due on September Is and
December is.
Refund On Full Payments.
Persons who paid the full taN
on March Is. will receive a 25 per
cent refund from the Treasury with
out asking for it. Secretary Mellon
has already submitted to Congress
an estimate of $20,000,000 to make
these refunds.
Not until next year will the
principal effect of the new law bs
felt. That IL the" 80 per cent re
duction in normal income taa
rates. The reduction applies to in
comes of 1924, but the tax is moi
due until 1925.
The surtax schedules under the
new law range from l per cent or
$4,000 UP to 40 per cent on $500,
600, compared with the old max
imurn rate of so per cent. Secretary
Mellon had sought to have thi.
maximum reduced to rs per cent
but his efforts were futile.
A % per cent reduction also
goes into effect next year on al
earned incomes up to $4,000, anc
within thirty days the taxes on the
Continued on Page 2, Column S..
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WAR REN IS
TODRAF 7
.PLANKS
Ambassador Heads Commit
tee on ResoIutions-StiII.
Seeking cooIidge's Mate
By GEORGE r. HOLMES.
international News Service.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June a.
Frank w. Mondell of Wyoming,
former Republican floor leader
In the House of Representatives
and now 4 member nf the War
Finance Corporation, has4 been
selected to be permanent chair
man Of the Republican national
convention, which opens here q
week from today.
J Announcement of Mondell's Sc
lection was made today by Will
liam NJ. Butler Of Massachusetts,,
President Coolidge's campaign
manager, who is destined to take
over the craftsmanship of the Re-
publican national committee next
week.
Warren Resolutions Head
simultaneously with the an.
nouncement Of Mondell's selection to
be permanent chairman, Butler also
confirmed the fact that Charles B.
Warren, of Michigan, now ambas-
sador to Mexico, will be chairman
OF the resolutions committee which
will draft the platform.
Ambassador Warren is now en-
route to the United States from
Mexico City.
Mondell's selection came somewhat
as a surprise, for he has not
figured in the pre-convention
reckoning nor has he taken any
prominent part in the Coolidge cam
paign.
He retired from Congress two
years ago after service in the
Lower House Of twenty five years.
In order to run for the Senate. He
was badly defeated by his Demo.
cratic opponent, Senator John B.
kendrick. Following his defeat he
was given an. appointment to the
war FINANCE Corporation, where he
has since served.
Dictated By Coolidge.
His appointment was dictated bv
the desire of the President and his
campaign managers to Ego West"
this year for all the honors nos.
sible in connection with the oonven.
ton and because of the ex.floor
leaders familiarity with conditions
IN the agricultural regions.
Only last winter MondeIl and En-.
gene Meyer, jr., also of the War
Finance Corporation, made a 10. 900
mile swing through the West in.
Vestigatlng the agricultural depres.
sion, and at its conclusion thew
T n1ereG lengthy report to the
Congressman Theodore Burton Of
OHIO, already has been selected as
temporary chairman and keynoter OF
the convention. and President Mar.
ION Leroy Burton, of the University
MIchigan' to place President
Coolidge in nomination.
Inc completion of these details
!eaVes the convention next week
but two outstanding problenos-tha
nomination Of a Vice Prasident
and the writing of a. platform.
In both of these tasks the pras;
dents hand will be the dominatinp
one on the reins, despite Mr.. Cool.
loges reluctance to give any appesr.
ance OF "dictation" in the selection
or his running mate.
No White House Choice.
The Presidents first selection WA.
Ex-Governor Frank o. Lowden. Of
Illinois. but he has declined to serve
and there the situation rested to.
day with the leaders here having
no outstanding choice, Mr.. Butler,
1t Is understood. has informed his
colleagues on the national com.
mittee here that the White House
has no other particular choice at
this time.
The platform win bear heavily on
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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D'oIsY MAKES NEW HOP
IN PARIS. FLIGHT

LONDON, June S.--Lieutenant
Pelletier D'oisy, French long dis.
lance flyer has arrived at Pyong.
yang from Mukden, Manchuria, said
a dispatch from Nagasak this
afternoon.
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Urged for Vice President

The name of Edwin Markham,
author and poet, will be presented
to the national conventions by the
international Longfellow Society for
nomination as Vice President of the
United States in the coming cleo.
tons. 1t was learned here today.
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FRENCH Filler IN KOREA
ON FLIGHT TO TOKYO

PARIS, June 3.-Lieutenant Pei
letter p'Oisy, French aviator, who is
flying from France to Tokyo. has
reached Pyongyang, Korea, where he
landed. the French ministry of avia.
ton announced this afternoon.
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THE WEATHER

Showers tonight and possible tomorrow
morning; no change in temperature; moder-
ste shifting winds.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17

Dants's Massius Brain

Dante was not a Nordic, as some
anthropologists have asserted, but @
member of the Mediterranean race,
So declared Prof. Fabio Fassetto of
the University of Bologna, in paper
presented to the American Association
of Anatomists at their meeting In Buff
falo, N. Y. The evidence is from a
recent examination of the bones of the
great poet.
The most important feature Of the
skeleton is the large capacity Of the
Uranium or brain case. This is 100
cubic centimeters, or much more than
the average even among men Of high
intellect. Dante's height was about 8
feet inches. The shape Of the bones
of the head definitely Identifies Dante,
according to Professor Fassetto, with
the Mediterranean race, contrary to
the opinions Of those who believed
the poets name and family to have
been Of German origin.
Compared with the size Of his head,
Dante had small face, the bones
show; and his features were not SYM
metrical, there being marked devil
alton of the nose toward the right. |
Spinal bones showed evidences of ar
Thrills. or Inflammation Of the joints. !
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17
New Coal Vein Located Near Lewiston

The TEX Coal, Oil & Mining COM
pany, operating on city property adj
joining Delsol park, yesterday cut a
6foot vein of high grade Ignite. The
strike was made in new tunnel and
at a depth of about IS feet. The
vein appears solid at the face of the
tunnel and can be mined cheaply and
in large quantities 1t is believed the
vein has width of at least several
hundred feet as Ignite of the same
quality has been secured by prospect
holes extending along the base of the
hill for 500 feet.
The company was forced to abandon
the first tunnel on account of a large
flow of water encountered and also
because the timbering was considered
faulty. The new tunnel was started
below the Porter ditch at a point
near the west end of the small slough
or pond south of the railroad track
and the Ignite was encountered af-
ter the tunnel had been driven to a.
point beneath the hill embankment.-
Lewiston Tribune.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17
Summons.

In the district court of the tenth Ju-
dicial district, state of Idaho, IN and
for the county of Lewis.
Cordelia A. Schneider, plaintiff, VS..
Henry Schneider, defendant.
The state of Idaho sends greetings
to Henry Schneider, the above named
defendant.
You are hereby notified that com
plant has been filed against you in
the district court of the tenth judi
cial district of the state of Idaho, in
and for the county of Lewis, by the
above named plaintiff.
The object of said action is to OBJ
tain divorce from defendant, and
for the restoration of plaintiffs name
as Cordelia A. Hegel, and to have it
decreed that the NWA sec. 81, Twp.
"a N. r. 8, w. B. M, situate in Nez-
Perez county, Idaho, is the sole and
separate property of plaintiff, and you
are hereby directed to appear and an
swer the said complaint within twenty
days. of the service of this summons,
if served within said Judicial district,
and within forty days, if served else
where; and you are further notified
that unless you so appear and answer
said complaint within the time herein
specified, the plaintiff will take judg-
nent against you, as prayed in said
Witness my hand the seal of said
district court, this 18th day of July, /
1924. W. R. Emerson,
'SeaD Clerk.
J. H. Nugent,, attorney for plaintiff,
esidence and postoffice address,
Idaho. SO
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17
Reflections Of a
Bachelor Girl
up HELEN RowlANp

| WHETHER girl appears lndle-
nant, delighted, or merely bored,
at an unexpected" kiss, depends on
how long she has been expecting Il.
Every young husband Is a little
Christopher Columbus, as far as dis
covering new way to conquer wom-
an is concerned
The tragedy of most marriages is
that they are just one long-continued
state Of "company-without compan-
ionship" or Loneliness for two"
A woman is never satisfied The
woman with nothing but money
would gladly spend her last dollar to
buy romance and a Prince Charming;
and the woman with nothing but '1ove
In cottage wishes that she could
mortgage the cottage to buy a motor
car.
In love, some mon are born Wise,
few acquire wisdom, but most of them
refuse even to permit Wisdom to DO
thrust upon them.
8 Girls may have changed; but, wait
ing for a man to discover that he's In
love, is still the same old maddening,
process that 1t was be-
fore the petting party made us so
frank and spontaneous.
Yesterdays quarrel, like yesterdays
kiss, and yesterdays dinner Is buried
with mans dead past; and nothing
so aggravates him as to have woman
dig them up and try to perform an
autopsy on them.
The saddest sight on earth Is that /
of bachelor sitting alone before the
fire and musing over his collection of
openers.
In spring flirtations, as In gambling,
the cheerful loser" is the only sure
winner.
60 by Helen Rowiand.y
n
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17
ANOTHER ONE FOR THE MINUTE
MEN

A report that Washington State
College chemists win conduct series
of tests to determine the energy CON
tent of the new potato gas has been
submitted to Dr. G. G. Todd, head of
the department of chemistry at the
State College, and to E. L. Green,
chemist at the agricultural experiment
station laboratories. Neither Of them
have any knowledge of such investiga-
tons.
"The only gas I know of that is
made from potatoes is alcohol" said
DIR. Todd, "and that would require
special kind of motor, so is not adapt
ed to general use Besides it is ex-
pensive. know of no new potato
gas -
There are no such Investigations
being made in these laboratories, =
said Mr.. Green eff it is alcohol from
potatoes they are speaking of, then / |
would say it is too expensive to be
commercially profitable. Residual mo
lasses from the making of beet and
cane sugars, and cornstarch, are the
usual sources Of alcohol now for com
mercial purposes, being the only pro
ducts here that are cheap enough to
make the product profitable. The spo-
tato gas story sounds to me as though
someone had some stock to sell. We
have not been approached on the mat
terd of making any tests.''
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17
INCREASED PRIZES AT SPOKANE
FAIR

Spokane, Wash, July 14--Ten per
cent more prize money will be given
exhibitors of all classes of registered
horses at this year Is Spokane inter
state Fair and Livestock show, Sep
TENDER / to 6, than ever before. The
increased prize money, amounting to
$4,000 in all, was announced recently
by Thomas s. Griffith, president of the
fair association, when deciding to act
in accord with Governor Hart s wish
that there be no assemblage of live
stock in the state because of foot and
mouth disease. Governor Hart s ex-
preston related to "cloven hoof
cattle only.
cit is with considerable regret that
we have given up the livestock show"
said Mr.. Griffith, "because breeders
have given us more early cooperation
than ever before. However, we arc
glad to observe the wishes of the gov
ernor and thereby protect every man $
herd of cattle.
Abandonment Of the livestock
show does not mean abandonment of
the fair as we are planning the larg-
est horse show and running meet in
fair history. We have increased the
registered horse purses and are plan
ming special divisions for other horses,
both fancy draft and work horses"
Mr.. Griffith said that greater money
is being appropriated for grandstand
entertainment than ever before as a
result of the doing away of the live
stock prize money. He will announce
a revised horse show program in the
near future.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17
"a
ROMANCE OF WORDS
REPUBLICAN"


& DERIVED from "RepublIc",
& - which, in turn, obtains its
& meaning from the Latin res, a
& thing, and publica, public, the
8 name Republican as applied to a
& political party In this country.
8 came Into being early In the Nine
Z teenth century. But 1t is inter-
8 esting to note that the ARepub-
Z Leans" of that time are the
s Democrats of the present day, a
Z complete exchange In the tenets
5 Of the two parties.
I When the original Republican
party split up into the Demo
cratic-Republicans and the Ma
tional-Republicans In 1923, the
latter party gradually dropped
! the prefix to their title, while
the former dropped the SUNK.
( But the present Republican
party, as such, was not formally
organized until 1896, when,
with opposition to slavery as the
principal plank in Its platform,
1t commenced to take its place
as one of the two leading politi-
cal Organizations. This new
party was fusion or coalition
Of the anti-slayery Wings, the
Free-Soilers, the Know-Noth-
ings, the Abolitionists and some
Democrats who were opposed to !
slavery. /
The first Republican conven- 1
ton was held In Philadelphia, l
June IL, 1856, where John O.
Fremont was nominated for
President, but Buchanan, the
Democratic nominee, was elect
ed.
20 by Wheeler Syndicate. Ino.)
II u u Il II q II q xsSx
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hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of Sheriff of
Lewis county at the Primary Election
to be held August 5, on the Democrat
ic ticket. w. @. Duncan,
Craigmont, Idaho.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17

WHETHER a girl appears Indlo-
- nant, delighted, or merely bored,
at an unexpected" kiss, depends on
how long she has been expecting Il.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17

The season now approaches when
the blue-sky peddler will be out In
flocks getting his N =; laying for the
minute men,
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17

McAdoo's ., like Senator Joe Bailey's,
might be termed sshard oil finish. =
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-07-17

If you have worked hard for the few
dollars you'v laid by, you can i'll af-
ford to listen to the get-rich-quick
scheme the fellow who never works
wants to tell you.
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Foreign Advertising Representa- tive
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATiON
poN,r BIZ rHE .orHER FELLOW,


About 1900 lives were list in motor
vehicle accidents exclusive of grade
crossing collisions between motor We
hieles and trains) in the United States
during 1928, an increase of nearly 20.
90 over the 1922 record. Grade eros
sing fatalities make total exceeding
1900.
This estimate was made by the Ma
tional Safety Committee of the Auto
mobile Department of the National Blu
reau of Casualty and Surety Under
writers on the basis of statistics of 155
cities.
It may be all right to insure your
car against fire, theft, collision, public
liability and property damage, and SO
long as the accident which may be due
to your carelessness merely hurts the
other fellow, you let the insurance
company worry about the cost. But
if you happen to be the "other fell
low,'' insurance collected by your
heirs may not help you in the place
to which you go.
No insurance has yet been found
which will prevent death and injury;
hence, it pays to be careful.