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Evening star., 1924-11-04
URGES VOTE FOR D. C.
IN NATIONS AFFAIRS
David Lawrence Tells Ad Club
Why Voteless Washington
Should Have Ballot.

David Lawrence, nationally known
correspondent. today told members of
the Advertising Club at meeting in
the City Club why Washingtonians
should be extended the privilege of ma
tional representation.
. There are certain limitations, he
said. which must be recognized when
considering the votes for the people
of the District. Among them is the
fact that the Federal Government has
so great an interest in the Federal
City, hut brushing this point aside
for the time being, he came out with
a whole-hearted appeal for the exer-
else of suffrage by District residents
and the selection of members of both
houses of Congress and in determin-
ing points in national affairs.
The spirit of the city, he said, has
an essential ingredient in voting
powers as exercised by citizens He
gave a resume of the results of tours
across the United States. in which he
noted the growth of national spirit
in various cities, and he attributed
the spirit of the American city in a
great measure to the interest which
its residents take in national and
local politics.
This Is a subject" Mr.. Lawrence
said. referring to national representa-
tion. which is near to my heart. !
firmly believe that it will be a bene-
fit not only to the District of Colum-
bia, but to the Nation at large. And,
furthermore, / believe it can be ac-
complished"
Frederic William Vile. another
well known respondent, also spoke.
His address was general in scope and
touched upon the general political
situation in the Nation as a whole.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
Il DEAD IN TRAIN
CRASH WITH BUS
Three Others May Die, With
Only One Surviving Cross
ing Accident in Virginia.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS Va. November
4.-Only one of the four persons in
jured yesterday in the collision of
Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train
and a bus in North Hampton, Va, in
which IL others were killed, was re-
ported today to have more than a
fighting chance" to recover.
The dead are Floyd Insley, Albert
Furman, Gilbert InsIey, William For
rest, David ]. Hopkins. E. Forrest.
J. F. Furman, Mrs. Mary E. Dixon and
4year- r-old Nary Dixon, all of East
Messicks, near Hampton, and Mrs. ].
s. Cowherd and 4-year-old Virginia
Wade of Hampton.
r. NJ. Rand, driver of the bus, is
suffering from a fractured skull and
probable internal injuries: Joseph
Huggett is thought to have been
seriously hurt internally, and Mrs
William Dixon has a fractured skull
Little Florence Dixon, who escaped
with bruises and cuts. was the only
one regarded as out of danger. All
of the injured are from Hampton and
East Messicks, a farming and fishing
settlement in York County.
Fifteen Persons in Bus.
Fifteen persons were aboard the
bus, which operated between Hamp-
by the train. Eight of them were
killed almost instantly. one died on
the way to the Dixie Hospital at
Hampton and two others died after
reaching that institution.
Two coroners' juries worked far
into last night and got busy again
today TO fix responsibility for the
crash. One of the juries was sworn
In at Hampton to gather information
as to the death of those in the hos
pital and the other was at the scene
OF the accident in York County. The
railroad also was making an investi-
CATION.
railroad officials said the accident
was due to the failure of the driver
or the bus to stop at the crossing
as required by State law. The train,
they declared, was travelling at a
low rate of speed as indicated by
the fact that it was brought to a
sSop In six car lengths after striking
the bus"
The driver of the bus has been un-
conscious since the accident and no
statement has been obtained as yet
from any of the surviving passengers.
Merchant Sees Crash.
r. c. Lee, Hampton business man
an eyewitness to the tragedy. de-
clared he heard the train and turned
on the road in which he was driving
IN his automobile Ito go into an
other road in order to reach my
factory without crossing the tracks"
The bus passed me-" he added, land
slowed down just before reaching the
railroad tracks, coming almost to
stop. The bus then attempted to
cross the tracks and the train hit
1t squarely. The engine of the motor
car did not stop, but it appeared that
the driver lost his head"
Ben Catlin, engineer on the train.
SAID he did not see the bus until
the train hit 1t. He said he blew for
the crossing and that the bus ap-
proached the track from the side
opposite that in which he was stand
ing in the engine. He said he thought
the bus stopped.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
]AY-WALK|NG BAN
RULE STILL IN AIR
City Heads Undecided as to
Advisability of Regulation
for Capital.

District officials are undecided as to
the advisability or practicability of try
ing out new regulation at this time
that would require pedestrians to cross
downtown streets at the intersections.
Commissioner Rudolph conferred this
morning with Corporation Counsel
Stephens, who told the Commissioner
he was satisfied the board has power to
enact such n rule, to be applied to the
congested sections only, provided they
find such an ordinance desirable.
Would Apply Generally.
Mr.. Stephens said n walking
regulation that would apply to the en-
tire District probably would be held to
be an unreasonable requirement
Commissioner Rudolph has not made
up his mind as to the advisa bili.S of
proposing such an amendment TO the
traffic rules. but he sought the advice
of the corporation counsel in order to
find out il that official believed it would
have legal weight
The suggestion that pedestrians be
required by regulation to cross busy
thoroughfares at the intersections
grew out of the effort being made
to improve the movement of traffic
downtown by having the crossing po-
licemen blow a warning whistle be-
Aoi hiS lhO oI SSllOn VI tTdI-
fc
Cooperation Sought.
Inspector Albert j. Headley, chief
of the traffic bureau, contends that
pedestrians do not play their part by
crossing downtown streets when the
traffic is moving in the same direc-
tion. In the absence of a regulation
governing the movements of walkers
an effort is being made through pub
licity to get the voluntary co-opera-
ton of pedestrians. Motorists and
crossing policemen also are being
urged to follow out their respective
functions necessary to the success
full operation of the warning and in
terval system.
The traffic officers part Is to blow
his whistle and then wait a few sec
onds for the machines and pedes-
trians in the middle of the street to
get out of the way before turning
the sign.
The motorists duty is to stop at
the building line at the sound of the
whistle, or to proceed ahead IL he
has passed the building line when the
whistle blows
The pedestrians contribution to the
plan is to stop at the curb when the
whistle is sounded, or to hurry to the
opposite sidewalk if he is in the CEN
ter OF the street when the whistle is
heard.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
NILES SV0TERSFACE
RULE OF BAY0NETS
Ohio Town Under Martial
Law, Due to Recent KIan
Disturbance.
BY Consolida ted Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
NILES. Ohio, November 4.-Under
guard of bayonets, with military
government holding sway, the citi-
zenry of Niles went to the polls in
the national election today. a humili-
ating example to the country of the
consequences that come from the in
lection of racial and religious issues
into politics.
The heroic figure of the martyred
President William Mckinley sur
veyed this scene from the beautiful
memorial erected here near the site
of his birthplace-a silent observer
Of balloting which bore more re-
semblance to a plebiscite of European
mold than to an American election.
This city, contributor OF Chief
Executive to the Nation and home of
other illustrious national figures in
its history running back to the Re-
public's early years, today paid in
pride for it's inability to maintain ef-
fective civil government.
Khan Politics Cause of Trouble.
Klan politics, which led to the pres
ent trouble has been growing
power in Ohio, as in other Northern
! States At the September primary.
the klan candidate for governor,
Joseph B. Seiber, ran second in the
der the leadership of f.. A. Watkins
of Cirard. who claims to be unaffili-
ated with the Khan. that organization
elected mayors in four nearby cities.
| Just as at Herrin. where, under the
leadership of $. Glenn Young, who
also claimed not to be member of
| the order, the Khan took control of
local offices. SO here it became a
political force.
III a.. -.
klansmen in Niles have been unable
to carry out their meeting plans be-
+ cause of the opposition Of the Knights
of the Flaming Circle, a group of
about 500 Italians and Magyars led
by men Of Irish extraction. Stories
are told OF how this organization
broke up previous attempted parades
by physical force. and how they have
repeatedly routed klan meetings be-
fore the attempted parade of last Sat
urday.
Then came the general arming of
forces and preparation for slaughter,
which marked the demonstration of
the past week end. The 800 anti
Klansmen had sworn to die before
permitting the proposed parade of
$4,000 to pass the railroad track dead
line running into the city.
General and staff In Mayors once.
AS a consequence, a general and his
staff sit in the mayors office on ma
tiona election day. Troops patrol the
city. The municipal building is the
billet and military arsenal The
mayor. Harvey Kistler. is willing TO
sit at home guarded by soldiers
Such is the outcome Of the local
experiment with Government by ra-
cial and religious cliques. The. ma
ChiQPFV of civil {.oyerpmept fell
down when it permitted animosities
to develop into a situation where one
faction was ready to break into open
rebellion to overthrow city authority
by force of arms.
For its escapade, Niles sees itself
| today an example before the country,
going to the polls under protection
of the military-its Own government
ineffective. Local citizens are willing
to advise others to be watchful of
where they tread in, ,arousingt re
ligious and racial prejudices D., ia.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
FATHER OF PRESIDENT. .
FIRST IN TOWN TO VOTE

BY the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH, VT, November 4.--Col.
John Coolidge, father of the Presi-
dent, was the first to cast his vote
when the polls opened in this town,
the Presidents birthplace.
Col. Coolidge refused offers by sew
eral persons to drive him in an auto
mobile over the mile of hilly road
that separates the Coolidge home
from the polling place. in Frank H.
Moore Hall, at Plymouth Union. He
hitched up his horse and buggy and
drove to the hall accompanied by
his housekeeper, Aurora Pierce. There
the two ballots were deposited in
boxes improvised from butter pals.
1t has become a tradition in Plymouth
that Col. Coolidge will cast the first
ballot on election day.
Neighbors of the Presidents father
said today that one man had an
nounced his intention of voting for
Davis in order that Plymouth might
not go solidly for Coolidge.
There are 214 registered voters in
the town., of whom one-half are
women.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
TIGERT Is ASSAILED.
BY the Associated Press.

1 BY the Associated IrpSS.
NEW YORK. November 4-Coinci-'
dent with publication of communica
| tions with Commissioner of Educa-
| tion John J. Tigert, in which it
| charged among other things that the
promotion of National Education
week, November II to IS, had been
turned over TO q military organiza-
ton (the American LeCion), the
American Civil Liberties Union an
nounced last night that the national
board of the Young Women's Chris
| tian Association had declined to par
| ticipate" in the movement.
The announcement was made by
Roger n. Baldwin, director of the
! union, who said the information was
conveyed to lim in a letter from Ma
bel Crafty, general secretary of the
y, w c. A. He said that Miss Crafty
| wrote him that the decision was
made because of certain elements in
the announced program inconsistent
with the position of the organi8ation's s
national board in regard to world
peace and international co-opera-
ton"
Mr.. Baldwin declared that the Ger
tain elements" included various sug-
gested topics for speakers on the
Education weeks program denounc-
ing the red flag, pacifists and COM
munists. and the announcement that
organizations desiring speakers
should apply to the American LIE :
gion.
1t was also revealed that the union
had charged Mr.. Tigert with 'unwar-
ranted violation of trust in the con-
duct of a public office and its prosti-
tuition to the private propaganda in
terests of a military organization" :
A mass meeting will be held at q
community church Friday evening, it
was announced, to protest against
American Legion interference with
education"
Evening star., 1924-11-04

the number Of visitors to the park
has increased steadily until it reach
ed during the past year a total of
100000. 1t was largely through Mr..
HOLSTERS efforts that Congress was
persuaded a few years ago to pro-
wide funds for the purchase Of a
frontage of 625 feet at the Connecti-
cut avenue entrance to the park, thus
insuring for the future a dignified
and appropriate approach.
Mr.. Hollister was a fellow of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, a member of
the American Ornithologists' Union,
the Biological Society of Washington
president 1920, Washington Acad-
emy of Sciences. American Society of
Mammalogists (editor of the Journal
Of Mammalogy), honorary member of
the Sociedad de Estudios Biologicos,
Mexico, and member of the Cosmos
Club. He is survived by his wife and
by his mother, two brothers and a
sister.
A brother, living in Wisconsin, will
be here to make funeral arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1924-11-04

Continued from First Page)
Sweeney to Miss Hardesty. In fact.
Hart is said by the police to have
admitted that robbery, which was not
reported until after he was arrested.
Took Interest in Man.
Friends of Rev Mr. MacBryde
stated that the clergyman had known
the young man for seven years. Mr.
MacBryde had taken big brother"
interest in young Hart because of
the pathos surrounding his life. He
was married at the age of II and
about three or four years ago his
wife died, leaving him with young
child. Hart was a non-union brick
layer and work became slack for
those outside of the union. He sought
the assistance of the rector. Four.
five or six times the clergyman found
positions for the youth.
He never seemed able to hold them
And then, bit more than month
ago. at loggerheads with his parents
and having no place to turn, the min
lister took the youth under his own
roof.
Puzzled Several Weeks.
Efforts of Detectives Fowler, Flah-
have been centered on the clever lin
my robberies which have confronted
the police in the Mount Pleasant sec
tion with puzzling frequency, several
weeks. Yesterday, fer the first time
just before the Hardestry robbery
report-they found the man for whom
they had been looking. He was pick
ed up on description furnished by one
alleged to have seen him at an apart
ment house during the time a robbery
was being committed.
Inspector c. l.. Grant. chief of do
tectives, today displayed the loot and
the implements alleged to have been
used by Hart, to detectives at the roll
call assembly, pronouncing the ac-
complishments as some of the most
difficult to detect which have faced
~ for some time.
long the robberies was that of
$4,000 from Mrs. Ben Schwartz of
Apartment 21, 1863 Girard street,
which included a number of bonds.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
PLAGUE CASUALTY
LIST INCREASING
Los Angeles Death Toll
Reaches rs Since Outbreak
Begun October 19.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Los ANGELES, Calf, November f.
The death total since the outbreak
of pneumonia plague in the Mexican
quarter here. October 19, had been
increased to 25 today by fatal cases
reported yesterday. Health officers
continued efforts to bring under quar-
antine every person known to have
been in contact with sufferers from
the disease.
Five patients were under treatment
at the General Hospital, Is square
block of the Mexican and Chinese sec
tions were under strict police cordons,
an isolated house on the edge of the
main business district was under
quarantine and another sector under
guard was in Belvidere, about s miles
from here, in the county.
The Los Angeles County board of
supervisors yesterday appropriated
$25,0OO to carry on the epidemic eradi-
cation program, and at a conference
of public health officials with Mayor
George f.. Cryer, it was decided to
place the situation in the hands of a
committee of Federal. State, county
and city health authorities, headed by
DR.. Walter NJ. Dickie. executive sec
retary of the State board of health.
SERUM SENT BY PLANE.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
FAMILIES ARE DRIVEN OUT
IN S5OO,0O0 GRAIN FIRE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. November 4.-Fed
by hundreds of tons of grain, a fire
this morning destroyed the grain
elevators and building Of the Dwight
Hamlin Company, Inc, burned six
box cars on the Allegheny Valley
siding and drove six families from
their homes. Fire Marshal Thomas
Pfarr estimated the damage at
100000.
The flames broke out in the Ham
lin building, raked that structure
and its adjoining grain elevator. and
threatened to spread to nearby build
ings, causing police to order the.
families in the nearby residences to
leave their homes. Shortly after the
firemen arrived one, of the walls of
the Hamlin building collapsed.
The blaze was discovered by
watchman. who notified railroad
officials to get an engine to remove
the cars containing grain and
molasses, but before they could do
this the cars were destroyed. Tanks
containing approximately 10000 gal
Ions of molasses stood unharmed
among the burning ruins -.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
PAPER EXECUTIVE DIES.
A. W. Burch Long Prominent in
Charlotte.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., November f.
A. W. Burch, business manager of the
Charlotte Observer, died at his resi-
dence here early today. Mr.. Burch
had been in Ill health for two years, al
though his condition did not become
serious until about the middle of the
Summer. During the latter part OF
the Summer he was able to be at his
office as business manager of the OBJ
server only a few times.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
CREW REBELS; DEPARTS
WITH BRAZIL BATTLESHIP
Sailors on Craft Alongside Remain
Loyal, But Make No Effort
to Halt the Sac Paulo,

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
BUENOS AIRES, November A.
The crew of the Brazilian battleship
Sac Paulo is reported to have re-
belfed and to have departed from the
harbor of Rio de Janeiro with the
ship today for an unknown destina-
ton, according to advices received
here.
The battleship Minas Geraes, also
in the Rio Harbor, remained loyal,
says the report but apparently made
no attempt to halt the Sac Paulo.
While a state of tension exists in
Rio, the people were quiet this after
noon.
copyright. 1874. By Chicago Daily News co.,
Evening star., 1924-11-04
Gen. Bailey Of A. E. F. to Wed

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, November A.
Announcement was made today Of the
engagement of Maj Gen. Charles J.
Bailey, retired, who commanded the
S1st Division, American evolutionary
forces. and Mrs. Elizabeth Hegeman
Bailey of this city, a granddaughter
of Reuben E. Fenton. Civil War Gov
ernor of New York, and later United
States Senator.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
SERUM SENT BY PLANE.
Air Mail Carries Medicine for Cali.
fornia Epidemic.

PHILADELPHIA. November IA
serum, said to be manufactured only
in Philadelphia, was sent to Los An
geles yesterday by airplane to combat
the outbreak of pneumonia plague. 1,
was forwarded in response to tele-
graphic requests from the health au-
thorities of the California city.
More than 500 doses were in the
shipment. which was rushed by auto
mobile to New York, where the pack
age was transferred to the transcon-
tnental air service. 1t is expected TO
reach Los Angeles on Thursday.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
Vienna Schools Suffer.

VIENNA, November 4.-The havoc
wrought by the war in the birth rate
in Austria is brought out forcibly in
figures issued by the city school au-
thorities of Vienna, showing 100. .Oo0
fewer children inscribed in elementary
schools for the Autumn terms this
year than in 1914
Evening star., 1924-11-04
CANDLES BURN FOR MANY.
Little Sonora Mourns Dead and
Prays for Living Plague Victims.

Los ANG November A.
There are many candles burning be-
fore pictures of the Virgin in Little
Sonora, the populous Mexican quar-
ter of Los Angeles. They burn both
for the dead and for the living who
have been or may be stricken. OF
the dead there have been 25 in 10
days. Six are in the General Hospi-
tai fighting for life against pneu-
monic plague, or pneumonia pleurisy,
as some of the physicians have desig-
mated the malady in death reports.
Seventy-five policemen are patrol
ling the quarter to see that none en-
ters or leaves the quarantine area.
Citizens living in the district were
disfranchised in today's election be-
cause election officials could not get
in to establish polling places.
The disease has been confined so
far virtually to the Mexican settle
ment, where 1t had it's origin. OF
the "a fatalities. one was that of the
Rev. Father NJ Brualla, pastor of the
little church on the old Spanish
Plaza, heart of pioneer Los Angeles
the little church which is 100 years
old and whose Spanish name means
"Our Church of the Queen of the
City of Los Angeles
Second Outsider Dead.
Father Brualla was taken i'll after
having administered the last sacra
ment to one of his parishioners living
seven blocks away in Little Sonora,
near the house of Mrs. Luciano Sa-
manero, first victim of the disease,
who died October 10. There has been
one other death of person living
outside the immediate neighborhood,
that of an American ambulance
c.
tracted the disease while transport
ing Mexican patient to the hospital
City and county health officers say
that the people of Little Sonora,
where the candles burn, have done as
they usually do with the first cool
weather of late Autumn, closing their
doors and windows so that no possi-
BILE breath of fresh air may enter
their crowded dwellings. The physi-
clans insist, also, that there are too
many rats in Little Sonora, and de-
termined war is being made on the
rodents.
Doctors Blame Rats.
"The part played by rats in spread
ing the disease was discussed extern
siyely at the conference Of State,
County and city medical authorities
held in my Office" said Mayor George
E. Cryer in a statement today. THE
doctors said yes, rats did carry 1t.
The doctors also seem to think 1T is
almost surely a fatal disease, but
they are assumed that 1t is now abso-
Iutely within control.
"Dr. Brem, who was with Gen.
Gorgas in his cleaning up of Central
American plague spots made the
statement that this definitely is not
bubonic plague. He says the pneu-
monic plague is not so bad. 1t is
indicated undoubtedly that the cpl
demic here is pneumonia plague"
Evening star., 1924-11-04
TWO CABINET MEMBERS
BALLOT IN HOME WARDS
Secretaries Mellon and Davis and
Mrs. Davis Cast Their Votes
in Pittsburgh.
Rr tie Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, November A.
Two members of the Coolidge cabinet
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and
Secretary of Labor Davis, voted in
their home wards here today.
Secretary Davis and Mrs. Davis were
first to cast their ballots In the third
district Of the fifteenth ward. They
arrived at the polling place a few min
utes after the doors were opened.
Secretary Mellon voted later in the
day in the fourteenth ward
Evening star., 1924-11-04
3-Nation Airdrome to Open.

GLEIWITZ, Silesia, November A.
A three nations airdome" will be
opened soon ON large flying field
south of this city, at the place the
boundaries of Germany, Poland and
czechosioyakia meet ''-' -
Evening star., 1924-11-04
Woman, 104, Casts Vote.

q JAMESTOWN. N, Y, November T..
the first voters at the polls
in jamestown today was Amy E.
Price 104 years old. She took her
place in the line of voters, waited
her turn, asked no help iasthe manip-
ulation of the voting machine.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
Gabriel Faure Dies.

PARIS, November 4.-Gabriet Faure.
composer and director Of the National
Conservatory of Music, died today.
Evening star., 1924-11-04
SIXTH ,RACE-Purse, 81 900: The Glen.
more: for all ares: / mile and 10 Yards

SEVENTH RACE-The Hotel Herman Claim
ing Handicap; 3-year-Ods and up; purse,
81 500; furiongs