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The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-04
Americans Mortgage
Their Homes To
Aid Officers
tBnreaI Publlsa ton and Education

(Bureau Publication and Education)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 81.
Word comes to Washington that
the citizens of Herrin, Illinois,
scene of a big parade in protest
against the "unrighteous verdict
of a special grand jury" that re-
Gently returned 80 indictments
against leaders of the Ku Klux
Khan and other active dry raiders,
are now busy mortgaging their
homes and automobiles to get
money for their bonds. About 70
aides Of S. Glenn Young, dry lead
er, were placed under total bonds
of about $4,000, 900.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-04
HEAR KHAN LECTURE

WILSONDALE, W. VA, March 81
A large class of candidates were tax
en- into the Ku Klux Khan here a re-
cent evening by a state officer for
the organization, it became known
today. In the afternoon prior to the
initiation ceremony, the state Khan
official delivered an address on Khan
kraft at the local school house. A
large number of persons were in at
tendance.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-04

II Is q tribute to the activities o.
hristian organizations that durin,
ne last 10 years In Denmark poll
I'VE been taken on the wet and dr.,
sue In 299 parishes. out Of q total o.
90, and that In only 81 places ha,
acre been liquor victory.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-04
Lone DETECTIVE CAPTURES
So men WHO SW|NDLED HIM
J. Frank Norfeet, Texas Ranger, Accomplished What
Federal Department of Justice and 1900 Operatives
Failed to Do-Was Promised Aid by William j. Burns.

Asked Repay Seuth for Actual Money Spent in Years
Through United States and Canada-Fulfed Vow
Taken When F1eeeed in Four Years Time.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
THREAT is DlSAV0WED
BY HANIHARA IN NOTE:
HUGHES is SATISFIED

Continued from First Page
Evening star., 1924-04-20

dicted today that the proposed mil
dollar national memorial to the
former President on the site OF his
historic home at Monticello, Va, soon
would become an accomplished fact.
Interest in the founda ton has been
greatly stimulated. Mr.. Gibboney
said. by the nationwide partcipa-
tion of school children in celebrating
Jefferson week, which concluded with
ceremonies at Monticello last Sun
cay, Jefferson's birthday anniversary
Organizations for financing the
memorial have been completed in
| every state, Mr.. Gibboney concluded
| and he expects soon to add another
! payment to the 100000 deposited
last December.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

establish markets would cost an i'm
mense sum of money. The Mexican
government is willing to provide only
the land.
As for the Japanese already here
remaining and working as farm
hands, that is something that Will be
highly agreeable to CALIFORNIA; white
farmers. There always has been
dearth of farm labor in California,
and the ousted oriental agricultur-
lists. denied the right to farm on their
own hook, would fill a long-felt want
Assimilation Expected.
So far as can be learned Califor
mans do not consider that they have
a serious problem in assimilating the
japanese already in California. TAX
ing the Japanese consulate's own
estimate. there are approximately
80. 600 Nipponese now here. OF these
approximately one-fourth are women,
one-fourth children, one-fourth mar
ried men and one-fourth single males.
The problem of assimilation is car
ing for itself in so far as the chill
dren are concerned. The single males
are footloose and able to shift for
themselves. Many of them already
are planning to return to Japan or
TO take up farming activities else
where. This leaves approximately v
22,5O0 married men and an equal
number of married women to be as
simulated into California's economic
structure. If they are willing to stay
as farm wage earnerS they prob
ably will be readily absorbed
In some quarters here there is a
tendency to believe that the belated
action of Congress on anti-Japanese
legislation is largely for political
consumption. 1t is pointed out that
when California. Oregon and Wash
ington were supplicating for federal
lst tsR .N,.,N
of little brown" farmers Washing
ton always turned a deaf ear Now
that these states. without any con-
sressional assistance have establish
ed their own effective barriers,
through anti-alien land acts. there is
a tendency to think that the long
delayed legislation will serve no use
full purpose
Evening star., 1924-04-20
CALIFORNIA NOT KEEN
FOR JAPANESE BAN
State, Through Own Land Laws,
Has Solved Problem, Is View
of Many Citizens.
CAN ABSORB 10000 THERE
Even Barred From Ownership, Nip
ponese Stay on Coast.
By Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19-Cali-
fornia. which really stands in the
, ckground as the pivotal figure of
congressional legislation against
Japanese immigration. today is seem
inEIy less concerned over the out
come of that legislation than is
Washington.
If there is any public feeling here
regarding the note of Ambassador
IIanihara, speaking of grave con-
sequences" or regarding the con-
@rsSSional action, it succeeded in
cvoking. such feeling is not largely
IN evidence.
Prevailing opinion seems to be that
California settled her own Japanese
immigration problem when she enacted
antialien legislation and had ii upheld
by the United States Supreme Court.
Having banned the NipponeSe from
agricultural actiyities-the one field
in which the white Californian could
not compete with them economically
and having achieved that end with
out congressional aid. the Golden
State isn't Interested any further.
Problem Held Solved.
The fact of the matter is, as has
been shown by developments OF the
past six months, and as is expected
tU be further proved by developments
OF the next six. California, together
with Oregon and WASHINGTON, which
have similar anti-alen land acts, have
no Japanese immigration problem.
The barring OF the Japanese from
agricultural activities in these three
states has taken care of that. The
three Pacific coast ,Commonwealths,
Ff.srrl rlsar Ia fA,.l
been the dreamed of goal of Japa-
nese agriculturists across the sea
Having been effectually denied this
goal, the japanese do not want to
so elsewhere in the United States.
This is proved by the efforts OF
tWenty-four other states during the
last six months to induce ousted
japanese farmers from the Pacific
coast to take up farming within their
confines. Practically every offer of
this kind was investigated. Several
thousand Japanese farmers made the
trip eastward in person to look over
the opportunities offered. But SEEM
lngly the outlook did not appeal to
them, for all but q few have re-
turned.
Prefer Coast Climate.
They would rather be day wage
earners on farms in California admits
Japanese Consul General Oyama of
San Francisco, than be farm owners
free of racial restrictions in states
further eastward, that boast less fa-
Norable climates
1t is probable that recent offers of
the Mexican government to estab-
]iSh Pacific coast orientals on farms
south of the Rio Crande will meet
with refusal. The obstacle to the
Mexican plan. states the Japanese
Association of America, is financial
one. The land offered is rich in agri-
cultural possibilities, but it lacks
warehouse facilities and, equally i'm
portant, a place to market crops.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Continued from First Page.)
from the adoption of a particular clause
in the proposed measure. 1t would Seri-
ously impair the good and mutually
helpful relationship and disturb the
spirit of mutual regard and confidence
which characteriZes our intercourse of
the last three-quarterS of a century. and
which was considerably strengthened by
the Washington conference as well as by
the most magnanimouS sympathy shown
by your people in the recent calamity in
my country.
Whereas there is otherwise every
promise of hearty cooperation between
Japan and the United States, which is
believed to be essential to the welfare
not only of themselves, but of the rest
of the world. it would create, or at least
tend to create. an unhappy atmosphere
OF iil-feeiing and misgiving over the
relations between our two countries.
Used Words Ingenu0usly.
''AS the representative of my coun-
try, whose supreme duty is to main
tain and, if possible, to draw still
closer the bond of friendship so hap
PLY existing between our two peo-
rles, 1 honestly believe such effects,
as | have described, to be grave con-
sequences In using these words,
which l did quite ingenuously, l had
no thought of being in any way dis
agreeable or discourteous, and still
less of conveying a veiled threat
ON the contrary, it was in a spirit
of the most sincere respect, confl-
dence and candor that l used these
words, which spirit hope is manifest
throughout my entire letter, for it
was in that spirit that l wrote you.
I never suspected that these words,
used as l used them, would ever af-
ford an occasion for such comment or
Evening star., 1924-04-20
REPORTS VETO IS ASKED.
Japanese Newspaper Says Woods
Has Cabled Coolidge.

HONOLULU. April 19.-The Nippu
paper, received a special dispatch
this afternoon from Toxic stating
that American Ambassador Cyrus +.
Woods had cabled President Coolidge
requesting him TO veto the immigra-
tion bill.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Gold, silver, lead, zinc and copper
to the value of nearly $50. 100000 were
produced In Idaho last year. repre-
sentfng an increase of so per cent
over the production in 1922.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
MONTICELLO SHRINE
PLAN HELD SUCCESS
President of Foundation Declares
Interets of Children Stimu-
lated Movement.

gy the Associate Press.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Stuart G..
Gibboney, president of the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Foundation. pre-
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Regrets Misconceptfon.
You know, I am sure, that nothing
could be further from my thought
than to give cause for offense to your
people or their government, and |
have not the slightest doubt that
you have no such misunderstanding
as TO either the spirit in which /
wrote the letter in question to you or
the meaning | intended for the phrase
that | used therein.
"Tn view, however. of what has
transpired in the course of the public
discussion in the Senate, | feel con-
strained to write you. as a matter
of record. that | did not use the
phrase in question in such a sense as
has been attributed to it.
II am, my dear Mr.. Secretary.
Yours very truly
M HANIHARA
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Quotas Giuen Principal Nations
In House and Senate Measures

The effect
the Senate
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Regrets Misconception.

Interpretation as have been givcI
them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27
WOMEN ASSA|L
D|CTAT|ON Of
DRY PLANK
Members of National Liberal
Alliance Attack Activities of
Bryan and Wheeler
By DAVID NJ. CHURCH,
International NeHa aerYicA.

NEW YORK, June 9Th
Democratic convention may have
a chance to test the truth Of that
oft-quoted wisdom that hell hath
no fury like that Of a woman
scorned."
Women of the National Liberal
Alliance fear they have been
tscorned by the resolutions com.
mittee, and furthermore, they feel
that their cause-modification Of
the prohibition laws - has been
scorned. They announce their in.
tention of taking their fight to the
convention floor. and claim that
they have sufficient support for
such action.
Attacks Bryan.
Helen l.. Baughan, director Of
women's activities, of the National
Liberal Alliance, let her fury go
In announcing the intention Of hcr
cohorts not to accept defeat, but
to carry the fight to the floor Of
the Garden. In making this an
nouncement, Miss Baughan also
took opportunity to denounce two
arch-enemies Of light wines and
peera-Wayne B. Wheeler and
" ALtdAl OCAlu1HSS Bryan.
Shall two representatives of the
anti,Saloon League be permitted
to dictate to the fourteen hundred
and odd delegates and alternates
OF the national democratic conven.
ton in the matter of wet or dry
Plank in the national PLATFORM"
ENORMOUSLY asked Miss Baughan.
The two anti-Saloon League rep
resentatives refer to are William
Jennings Bryan and Wayne B.
Wheeler. After comforting with
his colleague Bryan, who il sub.
chairman Of the subcommittee on
resolutions, Wheeler boldly states:
There will be no beer and wine
plank. in the Democratic platform. ;
This is dictatorial gall personified
and should be resented by every
outstanding delegate"
Wayne B. Wheeler isn't worrying
about wet" plank any more. HIS
present worries are about New York
liquor supply and its source.
Wheeler charges that the 'wet"
interests have flooded New York
with liquor in an attempt to de.
bauch delegates.
40 a pOoT sport IN the
opinion OF many delegates" said
Wheeler. ut is believed by many
that the boosted hospitality of the
city has a wet string tied to 1t to
pull across her brass rail and beer
foam governor.
Since Saturday there has been
seized approximately 1900 cases of
various liquors, 800 barrels of beer
and at least $500 gallons of alcohol.
Ninety arrests and forty-two seiz.
ures have been made. This liquor
was brought here by the sordid
liquor interests to obtain a wet
platform plank"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27

T. Robinson, of Arkansas, Demo.
cratic leader of the Senate, as q
compromise choice. This movement
is handicapped by Robinsons geo.
graphical location, Robinson is able
and fearless and his handicap may
be overcome.
Some OF the outstanding leaders
Of the McAdoo camp also are seri.
ously considering q swing to Homer
K. Cummings, of Connecticut,
chairman Of the platform commit.
tee, If they reach the point where
they feel McAdooo cannot be nom.
mated.
They believe Cummings for Pres.
ident and Senator Walsh FOR Vice
President would be a ticket appeal.
ing to all factions in the coriven.
ton and one that would carry the
country in November.
other dark horses, who will re-
ceive serious consideration before
the candidate Is finally selected, in.
clude Governor Albert M. Richie,
Of Maryland, who may be the sur.
prise" OF the convention; former
Secretary OF the Navy Josephus
Daniels, former Secretary of war
Newton D. Baker, and Governor
George s. Silzer, OF New Jersey.
The balloting will be long drawn
out and no one can predict the
winner at this writing. feel the
candidate will not be selected un.
I'll next week and the Sunday recess
probably will be used by the vari.
Gus leaders 70 reach an aRreenent
upon the Stccaasful nonainaa.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27

Sam Ralston, from Boone county
Indiana,
Mark you-and when I say mark
you it doesn't mean a thing-here
is a man with the best chances 81
all. Ralston is a one gallus old
roman from the corn belt. AL Smith
appears to me to be too citified. He
sports a gold tooth. He may gel
the dental vote, but that won't put
man in leisurely contact with tha
White House icebox.
His Second Choice.
Ralston smacks Of the soil. While
all the other candidates are here
leading their trained whoopers about
Ralston is back in Indiana busting
sod. Any man who has sense enough
to stay away from this convention
deserves a place in the hearts Ot
his countrymen.
I am making no effort to appear
uppity when / say that If this nomi.
nation does not nominate RaIston il
will nominate some one else. For
second choice 1 am thinking of a
sterling type-Madam, will you kind.
ly stop those little girls from litter.
ing-of America. So far he has
rever made public speech. He was
the first man to defend the pretzeI
after the armistice. His name has
escaped me at the moment, but If /
think Of 1t I'll tell you later on.
have still been unable to find
out who is Vice President now.
If you don't know, ask a friend.
And IL he tells you he's just toe
blamed educated for anything.
Inside the convention hall today
was a sign reading: IF finder of
upper set of false teeth will return
to the Iowa section he will receive
reward.
Hissers Have to Quit
The poor loser may be able~fo
cheer but I'll bet a cookie he'll
never be able to hiss. Nothing
puts the hisser out of commission
like losing the upper plate.
Perhaps the woman who attracts
more attention than any other al
the Garden is Elizabeth Marbury.
1t seems to me that nearly all~>of
the women delegates want to meet
her. Miss Marbury is large and
rather masculine appearing. She
dresses mostly in black and lie a
brilliant conversationalist.
The hot weather is causing most
Of the delegates to tug at their
leashes. when do we go homer"
they ask. Wiseacres say it will run
into next week-perhaps the mid.
die Of 1t.
The chief trouble with candidates
just now is nervousness. They are
nearing the ninth inning and
nerves are beginning to crack under
the strain. They bite their nails,
drink ice water and issue state
ments. Some of them are so nerv-
GUS you could put a ukelele in their
hands and they would play it with
out a rehearsal.
Where Dark Horses Craze.
In the pastures where the dark
horses Craze there Is more optimism
than is usutlly found. The lightn-
ing is liable to strike any place and
all the rods are up.
Not one of them will be seen
scuttling down the convenient man
holes.
Speaking of campaign slogans
and no one was-the best slogan of
all is that of Meredith Nicholson,
the Hoosier novelist. who is here.
He has been nominated for State
senator in his State. And his
battle cry is: Love and kisses for
one and ALL"
Oh, yes, the fellow whose name
was trying to recall for Vice Presi-
dent Is 0. o. Mcintyre.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27
WOMENANX|OUS
KHAN ISSUE BE
SETTLED
Representative Leaders Give
Views on Whether Plank
Should Be Adopted
By HELEN FOX,

NEW YORK, June 27.-"What
should the platform provide with re
gard to the Ku Klux Klan?"
Four representative Democratic
women who were asked for an ex
preston of opinion today lid not
like this question at all. In fact
they were positively afraid to say
what they really thought. Very evi
dent in their manner was an almost
painful WEAKNESS Of the dead seri
BUSINESS Of the Ku KIux issue.
After much urging, a symposium
Of opinion was finally extracted.
Mrs. Caroline O'Day, chairman Of
the New York delegation: per
sonally, am opposed to the x. X
X. However having the name
O'Day. people may think that my
opposition is due to the fact that
am an Irish Catholic. AS a mat
ter Of fact. I am neither IRISH MOI
Catholic.
Really, the problem is such q
serious one that I would rather moi
discuss it further Until after the
platform has been adopted. Il
would be so dangerous to antagonize
any side"
Mis- LIZ ouChuGE, QelC
gate-at-large from Texas and mem
Der Of the credentials committee
while on the other SIDE Of the fence
was no less reluctant to answer
the question. She said:
You can say this-I don't think
that a thing like that should come
up in the platform at all. It Is
not q thing to be discussed as a
political issue.
And mind that you add that ]
am a true Democrat"
Never once did Mrs. Buckner use
the words "Ku Klux Khan" She
referred to the organization as "a
thing" and at"
On the other side again, Mrs
Lillian r. Sire, president Of the
Women's National Democratic Club
when finally pressed contributed the
following with great emphasis:
1.-THE Ku Klux Khan ought to be
specifically mentioned and declared
against in the strongest possible
terms. You cannot state that toe
strongly.
More than any Of the others
Mrs. Frank B. Lucas, delegate al
large from Oklahoma, was anxious
to escape answering the question
Her desire to straddle the issue was
very evident. Finally she offered
the following contribution to the
symposium:
II feel that a mans religious an6
individual peculiarities should moi
enter into politics. However, lei
me first make it absolutely clear
that / am neither for or against
the Khan. I have friends on both
sides. to whom 1 am extremely
devoted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27

a little while. The gavel bore a close
resemblance to rolling pin. But
there was no Mr.. Kennedy in the
house, as the young lady is single,
50 no domestic discord ensued.
They tell me there will be about
twenty nominating speeches and
perhaps twice as. many seconding
speeches that will be limited to two
hours each. Can you imagine the
state OF mind in which this is going
to leave the delegates. II somebody
gets up and says."I nominate Her.
man Nozzlewaff1e. I thank you.
Herman will have a cinch.
lcopyright. 1884 BY the NeNaught
@ynd1catas 1na-A
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27
BOARD OF EDUCATION
TO ELECT OFFICERS

The Board of Education will elect
officers at a reorganization meet.
ing to be held at Franklin school
next Tuesday. 1t will be the last
regular meeting until September
Two new members, Mrs. William
II. Heron and the Reverend F. 1.
A. Bennett, will be installed at the
meeting. They succeed Mrs. Laura
ID. Morgan and William L. Houston.
Edwin c. Graham yin begin Q sec.
ond tarm.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27
Many "Dark" Horses
Are Hearing Voice,
Mcintyre Finds
By o. o. MCINTYRE.


NEW YORK. June 27-t not the heat that the candi-
dates to the Democratic National Convention worried about
it. 1t is the humility.
In few hours lot Of 25 per cent candidates will
face the prospect of returning home and explaining that
they were the victim of "the interests !"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-27
"FThunders' of YeUs
for Smith Worlds
Record, He Says
BY RUBE GOLDBERG.

NEW YORK. June I'll have been to Paris many times and
have often walked through hospital during operation
but in the history of my worldwide rambes have
heard such yelling took place in Madison Square Garden
when Franklin Roosevelt in the only speech have under
stood since the Democratic convention opened hurled the
New Britain herald., 1924-06-17
Ll0hS ID TAKE CHILDREN
 10 SHORE THIS SUMMER
Ntll hr,ot" "Wednesday Afternoons 10 IoN> and Girls in Need If
 Outings
Outings

At tl" regular weekly meeting of
 the Lions club held this noon at the Hurritt hotel q letter was read from the superintendent of the Crippled ChiIdrcn's Home in NcWington thank ! ing tn" members of the Lions club
 for the fruit trees which were do- hated and planted al the home, and also thanking them for the party given at the home 10 the children by the club. In continuing the work of the club in regard to the various childr"ns institutions in and about inc city It was suggested by Lion (. N. Buck"y that.durinE the summer months, at regular ntcivals, the club suspend tn" regular luncheon held on Tuesdays, and on Wednesday ar- ternoon take the children at the homes in the city 10 the shore. The club voted to do this and ii is eN- p"ctcd that the first Of these trips will be made within the next few weeks.
 Lions Hancock. MacCombcr. and Ramon gave short talks on Lionism and outlined the ethics and objects Of Lions. District Governor John l.. Davis spoke on the duties of the American people. He nrged tine members 10 forget what the world owes them and to think only of their obligations to the world and 10 their communities.
 AS the feature of the program ''Buttons," page boy at the Burritt hotel rendered a number Of vocal selections which were very well re- ceivod.
 It was announced that arrange menis have practically been com pletod for Lion James F.. O'Rrien's trlp to the Lions convention at omaha, Neb,, as a delegate of the local club He will be accompanied by Otto Henrich and Dr. Joseph II. ! Potts.
 There are 65 national bird reserAa- i tions in the United States.