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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-20
la TOILETTE To
NDR|VE IN
CORN BELT
Candidate Feeling Fit and
Enjoying Every Minute
OF Fight"
llITERlisTIollAL NEH REEI
BY KENNETH CLARK.
international News Service.

ABOARD LA TOILETTE sPE-
cIAL ENRoUTE TO OMAHA, Neb.,
Oct. 20.-Swinging through Iowa
and Nebraska, Senator Robert M.
La Toilette, Independent presidential
candidate today began his final
Invasion OF the corn belt.
After a series Of three speeches
In this middle western farm region,
the first in Omaha tonight, then in
Illinois, at Rock Island Tuesday
and Peoria Wednesday, LaFollette
will leave the Mississippi valley and
head eastward via Michigan to the
Atlantic seabcard for a ten-day
campaign. In his next three
addresses La Toilette plans to deal
chiefly with transportation, taxa.
ton, farm relief and foreign rela-
tons.
To Attack Coolidge.
He also announced he expects to
renew his attack upon President
Coolidge and other high officials OF
the Republican Administration.
From Peoria La Toilette viii go to
Grand Rapids, October %, Syracuse,
N. Y, October "a, Baltimore.
OCtODCE 81 anu DEOOhIyu OCtODCT
%. Saturday and Sunday he plans
to stop his private car at some
small town between Syracuse and
Baltimore in order to rest and
prepare his speeches for the last
week of the drive.
Boston and Providence have
tentatively been listed on La
Follette's itinerary after his
Brooklyn engagement. II this plan
Is carried through La Toilette then
will go to Pittsburgh and close his
campaign in Cleveland on the
Saturday night before election.
Freshened by two-days rest in
Sioux Falls. La Toilette declared
that he never felt physically more
able to carry on a whirlwind speak
ing campaign.
i've never felt better in my
life," he said. I'm enjoying every
minute of this fight"
La Toilette was particularly en-
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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COOLIDGE VISITS NEW
U. s. c. or c. HOME

In the course Of an early morning
walk today President Coolidge In.
spected the new building OF the
United States Chamber Of Com
merce, across Lafayette Park from
the White House. He Is to deliver
an address there Thursday night.
After going through the building
the President went to a photograph
studio on f street and posed for a
photograph.
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CustomariIy, they are built at
party conventions, but this year La
Toilette sprang an innovation by
building his own platform and lnvit.
ing all and sundry to climb upon Il
and stand there with him: and It il
said with more or less authority,
also, that the Republicans at Cleve-
land received their platform, ready
made, hot from the workshop Of
CALVIN Coolidge. Though Davis ap-
parently had little to do with the
building OF his, he Is having much
to do with its sllperstructure.
Political platforms, In fact, are
built for candidates to stand upon,
and upon some d the planixs they
trample 50 hard that these are
ground into the dust aud never
again heard Of.
Some of the older party planks
have been used in 30 many cam
paigns that they have become fix.
lures, never to be thought Of ex.
cepting for the period Of each quad
rennial hustings. Here and there
Q plank is ripped up by a candidate,
trimmed and smoothcd, sand
papered. and polished to his liking,
and set back into a place where
It will be certain to focus the at
tention Of the voters.
AS the campaign advances, each
candidate inlays his platform with
such choice planks until he has a
nice little dancing floor from which
he seldom II ever permits his feet
to stray, and upon which he tries to
keep the eyes and thoughts Of the
voters centered. ..a
Look EN- Over Well.
Look 'em over as they shine to.
day. three weeks before the election.
Laak 'em over well, because It Is
from among them, and not from
the other units of the big, rough.
hewn party structure, soon to col
Continued on Page 2, Column IL
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JuryTrialWon
for Railway
Strikers
VNTEllRATloSlAl NEWS REn

Strikers charged with con-
tempt of Federal injunctiOns
during the railroad strike
of 1920 are entitled to trial
by jury, the United States
Supreme Court ruled today.
A similar ruling was made
in the case Of persons aC-
cused Of violating injunc-
tions issued ii other labor
disturbances.
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THINK GIRL
MISSING,
N n. !.
James McLynn, Suitor, Says
Family Rows Drove
Her Away

J Repeated rows with her mother
and father over her fiance, James
McLynn, twenty-seven, I'LL p
street northwest, caused comedy
eighteen-year-old Dorcthea Jones,
1919 Twelfth street northeast, I'd
disappear nysteriously from in
front Of the District National Bank
Building Saturday afternoon.
This is the statement of young
McLynn, made today following his
release from the Twelfth precinct
station, where he was held for in.
vestigation on the theory that he
had knowledge of the young girls
whereabouts.
Shows Letter.
McLynn today proudly displayed
q letter purporting to have beea
written by Dorothea's mother, dated
December z, 1928, in which she
sanctioned the marriage which he
now declares the parents have been
trying hard to avert. The letter
follows:
Jim: Tomorrow is our blessed
Mothers Day and the big herald
Of Christmas time.
MARY and her Divine Son are
all love for us and give us all
we have, and now at Christmas
time, when Gods will is peace
on earth, good will to man,
cannot come between you and
Dorottea IL you really love each
other, but all ask is please do
not marry till she Is of proper
age and oh, always be good to
her.
II am writing this because
have had so many attacks with
my heart lately and, well, you
win understand. You may tell
Dorothea. Sincerely, Mrs. x. p.
Mccoy Jones'"
Denies knowledge.
McLynn stoutly declared today
that he does not know where hiC
fiancee is, and that he spent al
Saturday afternoon, all Sunday, ans
until. he was arrested, in searching
for her. He said that he went tioWT
and searched the, Norfolk and Wash
ington steamboat, and that he Rlse
went through any number Of trains
In the Union Station.
"This is not the first time that
Dorothea has left home on account
Of her parents hostility to me-" he
said today. IT remember no. &C
long ago she left and ! took her tc
Monsignor c, F. Thomas, at st
Patricks, and got him to persuade
her to return home"
Search In Chester.
At 3 o'clock this morning two
brothers Of the missing girl began
an automobile trip to Chester. Penn.
gylvania, in the belief that she
might be hiding at the home OF
McLynn's sister, Mrs. Mary Ward
Harris.
Enraged because McLynn was re.
leased by the police, Charles r,
Jones. 1919 Twelfth street northeast
father Of the girl, said today that
he would Immediately take the
matter up with headquarters and
make every effort to have McLynr
held In custody until his daughter
u returned home.
That the young couple planned
marriage was evident from the fact
that the police found in McLynn's
pocket q baptisrnal certificate, dated
October IA, last, which would be
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Candidates Fix Limits
To Parties Pledges

The Washington Times herewith presents
cres b. Jonathan WicUe GnGzing Supreme
Court relations and sM0tiORs
the neat four naturalization defeat Coolidge
DGv La Toilette Nth these IN the White
On Monday October s Mr. We NIL his final analysis
figures fOrecGsng the election article present
ed which still used By campaign their claims
Mr. WcOre O De recalled as the OTter o forecast the monG-
of Davis and BTydR three ees before the Democratic convention
By JONATHAN WICKWIRE,
Copyright washington lines op
What do the expect hope from the administration
which will navigate the American ship of state after March
next2
Almost anything conceivable may be found in the platforms
Of the eight political parties which this year bidding
favor, by free interpretation may be read into the plat
forms of the three chief Democrats
and Progressvebut political platforms Of themselves
fIo rnofhu
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ALIENISTS
.GR0()N|ED
FOR new
BAT TIE
Fighter irresponsible" From
Blows Received In Ring,
Is Defense
By COPELAND C. BURG,
Tnterna tionaI News Service.

n
Los ANGELES, Oct. 20.-Nor-
man SeIby, professionally known
% 'sKidn Mccoy, entered the lists
here today IN his battle supreme,
IA fight to the finish for his.
life.
McCoyss opponent Ia chief Ii the
law, represented by District At
torney Asa Reyes, which. charges
Mccoy with the murder Of his
sweetheart, Mrs. Teresa Mors, the
woman the former pugilist claims
he intended to make his ninth
wife.
''Teresa killed herself; she was
the light of my life and ! never
loved q woman really until / met
her" declares Mccoy.
responsibility but not insanity
will be McCoy's defense.
Alienists Line Up.
Striking q parallel with the
Leopold-Loeb case, there was on
hand in court today an array Of
legal talent and alienists to battle
over McCoy's mentality.
Eve will show that Mccoy has
been mentally irresponsible. but,
mind you. not insane, for soma
time" is the announcement Of his
chief counsel, =. L. DAWN. He be.
came that way from punches taken
in his long ring career. When Mrs..
Mors died in his arms after shoot.
ing herself, Mccoy was almost mad
and was not responsible for what
followed"
Backing up his defense DAWN has
had taken in all parts OF the coun.
try dispositions to show Mccoy re.
ceived many blows and went
through many hard fights In the
ring. How these blows affected
him at the time they were delivered
and for subsequent periods win be
testified In the dispositions, DAWN
said.
Normal Says State.
Alienists for the State will tes-
tify the former pugilist Is sane. AL.
ready they have submitted q report
on McCoy's sanity to District At.
torney Asa Reyes.
Mccoy is perfectly normal and
always has BEEN" reads the report
OF these specialists.
Just before midnight on August
IL last shot was heard In the Not.
tingham apartments, Los Angeles,
In room on the second floor where
Norman Selby, known as kid" Nc.
Coy, had been living. for three or
four days with Mrs. Teresa Mors,
antique dealer. Mccoy and the
woman had, registered at the place
as Mr.. and Mrs. j, Shields q week
after Mrs. Mors was divorced from
her husband. Albert A. Mors,
wealthy former New Yorker.
Shoots Three Persons.
The morning after the shot was
heard, Mccoy appeared at Mrs.
Mors' antique shop. Mccoy was
searching, he said, for Mors. In.
stead he found in the shop several
customers. He pulled a gun and
ordered clerks and customers to
line up. He shot William Ross, a
chance visitor, in the leg and
threatened to shoot others
Running from the shop, Mccoy
hurried to a nearby store, where he
shot Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Schapp, In.
nicting slight wounds
About that time the body Of
Mrs. Mors was discovered in the
Nottingham apartments. The body
was draped with a table cover and
a photograph Of Mccoy was
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HUNDREDS
SEE GUN
FIGHT
Fugitive Who Shot Former
Employer Caught After
Exciting Chase

Because he had recently been
discharged from the employ Of
the National Benefit Insurance
Company. Arthur JoadsCn, colcred,
800 T street northwest, went to
the offices Of the insurance COM
pany at 900 r street northwest
today and shot Samuel w. Ruth
erford, colored, president and
general manager Of the company.
Rutherford was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital n ! passing auto.
The bullet was found lodged in
the jaw and extracted, His con.
ditioh is not believed to be
critical.
Shot 1T Police.
After shooting his former aT1g.
ployer. Joadson, who goes under
an alias Of Robert A. Luke. fired
several shots at Policeman John r.
Larney and Robert H. Rutherford.
son Of the wounded man, in order
to escape. The shooting took place
in a running duel along F street
this morning while a large crowd
looked on.
When Joadson emerged from the
building after the shooting, he was
AZ 1Hwy. RnH RafA
was going by on his way to Police
Court. Joadson raised his gun on
the policeman and said:
Stand back and don't put your
hands In your pocket"
But before he could make hts
getaway, Robert H. Rutherford, as.
sistant to his father in the insur-
ance business, came out Of the
building with q gun, and the two
men excharg ed shots, with the
policeman standing between them.
Nobody was hit, but the officer
was standing so close to Joadson-
that his coat was singed by the
bullet. Young Rutherford's coat
tail was cut by the bullet as Il
whistled across his lack. Joadson
started running after the exchange
of shots and was closely followed
by the policeman.
Cop Follows in Car.
The two ran along F street
toward the Pension Office, and as
they reached the Pension Office
grounds Charles Lippold, q former
policeman, living at 447 Newton
street northwest, picked the POI
liceman up in his car and the
chase continued with Joadson on
foot.
Joadson fired two or three shots
at the officer, all Of which missed.
When they reached Washington
street, McLarney fired a shot so
close to the fugitive that he sur.
rendered. He was taken by Nc
Larney to tho Sixth precinct, where
formal charges viii be preferred
against him later today.
When the first shooting occurred
in the insurance office, the 200
employees Of the large company
were thrown into an uproar. Two
stenographers who were in the
inner office at the time Of the
shooting were near collapse. They
are the only eye witnesses.
Hundreds See Chase.
The shooting was heard by hun.
dreds OF pedestrians walking along
r street, and by the time the men
emerged from the building a huge
crowd Of excited curiosity seekers
was surrounding the doors. When
the shooting started on the street
there was a mad scramble to get
out of the way.
The National Benefit Life In
surance Company, Of which Ruther.
ford is the head, Is said to be the
largest colored life insurance COM
pany in the country. Rutherford,
who lives at 1890 r street north.
west, is one OF the wealthiest colored
men In the city, and is well known
Continued on Page ., Column g.
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AllllPRESI ONE HIPICAS

clones, y muy habiles, no cabe du-
da, pues no hay hfpico que nc
haya gustado de los resultados dc
la administration sufrido per-
iuicios por culpa de ella. Negar-
10 seria ridiculo. Sin embargo este
es historic antigua. Con la actual
Comision Hipica Insofar 10 hay
la mas remota posibilidad de ad-
ministrar cuadros. Ell p1blico pue-
de sellar sus cuadros Y esperar
tranquilamente ell final de las ca
rreras. 81 no Sc ha pegado ha sido
por que no combine bien que los
incidentes de las carreras lie fue-
ron desfavorables, pero no por re-
sultado de administraciones. Los
senores de la Comisi0n Hipica In
sular, Sc han convertible en- poll
cias, detectives, cuadreros, V has
ia cualquier dia veremos a Mr..
Richardson corriendo un caballo
81 fuere necesariO garantizar IL
legalidad de las carreras. Podra
perderse ese caballo por exceso de
peso, pero no por malta. Ellos Sc
han multiplicado Y estan en- todas
parties. Sc les teme, pucs Sc sabe
que son implacables en- sus casti-
gos, Y que con ellos el favoritismo
no eXiste. En- fin que podemos ez-
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Continuation de la pagina 14)

dos sc ha de pegar, bien en- un
cuadro 0 en- otro. Al terminar las
carreras, Sc lie puede dar cualquier
eXcusa a los que no Sc pcgaron
con sus cuadros, Y al que Sc peg0
Sc le dice que sino hubiera dado
su cuadro administrar Sc hubie-
Sc quedado en la Gale, pues habia
malta para tai cual cabal,o, pc
TO Sc pudo desbaratar tempo.
etc. Y no es que yo ataque a estos
administrators, pues ellos hacen
perfectamente bien en- recibir los
cuadros que lis llevan. La tenta-
ci6n eS muy Srande. dc SECURE
que con muy raras excepc!oncs
todo dueno de caballo que lleve un
buen animal en- la ultima carrera
Y le entregan un cuadro para que
retenga la mitad del importe del
pool, 81 su caballo CANA, Sc veria
muy tentado dc ac2ptar dicho re-
galo. Los administrators de cua-
dros hacen, 10 que tcdo hombre
hace cuando le ruegan que aceptc
IN regalo.
FL error esta en- el pubIico que
cree en- la administration de cua-
dros. Que ha habido administra--
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Las carreras de hoy domingo
no son en- NADIA faciles. Requieren
buen juicio para seleccionar rs
probables vencedores, sobre todo
que en- casi todas las carreras hay
dos tres probables Candidates
para primer puesto. En- la PR
mera carrera del programa tene
nemos Sunoco como primert car
didato por estar Shell corriende
bastante NAL ultimamente, aunqul
no por este debe descartase. No
Banana, Velour Y Ruban tienen
magnificas oportunidades 81 les IA
vorece la salida por ser esta una
carrera sumamente corta.
La segunda carrera debe ser
una lucha entire la Deliciosa Y Va
gabond con Della con bastantes
oportunidades.
La carrcra a una milla sera mas
facil para escoger candidates des-
pues de vistas las carreras del
vicrnes, pueS Eva aun no ha CO.
rrido a distancia larga Mientras
tanto Jorge c. es un candidate Sn
discutible pues pesar de llevar
1872 libras. Santa, el lider de
nuestros Jockeys 10 pilota siempre
con suma maestria. Spinball pa
rece aun no ha recobrado su con-
| dici6n desde sus iiltimos contra
tiempos, pero hay que tenerlo
siempre en- cuenta a largas dis
tancias.
La cuarta carcrra esta llena de
posibles vencedores pueS tanto
Alma Llanera, pilotada per Qua
rema que la quiere como II fuera
suya, asi como tambien Irene,
! Turpin V Mascota, tiene records
muy cerca unos de otros, sin en-
barge, la carera esta entire Tur-
pin MaScota.
La carrera donde Sc di5putara
ia copa SAN JUAN RAGING
AND SPORTING CLUB debe de
ser un paseo para Vice Regal, pc
TO he aqui otra carrera que depen-
de mucho del rcsultado de las del
yiernes, Vice Regal tiene, Ia Ken
taja que en- esta carrera no va
caballo de velocidad que Id apure
puedc hacer ell recorriao con
toda facilidad. Cliquot Club es
siempre tcmible a largas distan-
cias. Little Dear mejora 4diaria-
mente. Este caballo puedeh ganar
esta carrera Y sin embargo, 81
esto sucediera Sc considerable,
como un gran tajo, cuando en rea-.
lidad debe jugarse en- todo cuadro.
La sexta carrera, sin duda, esI
un problema. Estos chongos SON
enigmaticos y casi siempre As sor-l
presas ocurren donde ellos eorren.
Sin embargo, de entire esa gen-1
/ te menuda Sc pueden sacar conf
pinzas Velatucuadro, Dollap john
son Y Sevilla.
4 Ultima carrera debe ser
! Pandereta a pesar de las I25 !
reglamento, sin olvidarse de ST
Muchachos', por 81 sale y! d. !
eanar. Wreckless por llevar 9
| peso lihre, no debe descartar;
! esa distancia.
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Las flores de aZahar Sc uSdn pa-
ia las coronaS de las nOviaS por-
que cl naranio produce flores Y
frutos nj miSmo tempo, 10 que cS
Sfmbolo de fccundidad.
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DATOS CIRIOSOS

Cuando en- cl Arco-iriS prcdonfina
cl color verde cOnSidGrase como Sc
nal dc que va haber lluvia Y tiem-
10 frio 81 el rojo domina habri llt-
via Y vicnto
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tar orgullosos de la actual Co
mission Hipica InsuIar. La Cor
poracion tambien merece aplau-
SOS, pues aunque esta obligada a
corregir todos los males indica-
dos por la Comision, nos eonsta
los remedia con el mejor gusto
sin reparar en- molestias, nj esca-
tlmar gastoS, hasta actua mu-
chas veces por su propia iniciati-
va.
Los duenos de caballos actual
mente estan pYestando toda clase
de ayuda al deporte Y al eject
han tornado un club o asociacion
para fomentar la hermandad Y
protection de ellos mismos. Esta
es una felz idea. seria muy Ia
mentable que pOr roZamientos qur
apenas tuvieron importancia a.
principle fuese este club restar-
Sc dc la avuda y consejo dc buc-
nos elemcntos tan necaSarioS pa
ia el deporte hipico. Este club So
ha tornado para protection del
deporte, Y no para protegerSe de
las corporaciones explotadoras del
negoclo, nj tampoco para prote-
gerse contra la Comision Hipica
lnsular, sino que al contrario es-
tos tres organismos trabajan uni
dos para el meior desarrollo de
las carreras Y mayor protection
para el publico. Los premios ac-
tuales son bastante lucrativos, al
extreme de constituir una entra-
da considerable para los ducnos
de los meiores corceles. Los dueno
de caballos que mas dinero perci-
b'crOn durane el mes de JUNO Ill
timo, por concepto de premios son.
1.-Manuel Dones S2465. Sc
2.-Tomas CAIRO 148O.65
3.-Antonio Pacheco 1O72.36
4.-Ermelindo Amy 856.82
4.-Robert Denton S55.04
Los jockeys actualmente forman
un grupo de muchachos honrados
respetuosos. Montan sus caba-
Hos para ganar la carrera, Y son
lncapaces de acciones indignas. rs
verdaderamente sorprendente yer
como algunos de estos muchachos
que constituian el terror de la
pista por sus combinacioncs su-
cias, sus mafias Y sus descaros.
para llevar cabo estas irregula-
ridades, hoy dia son modelo de
perfection, habiendo sufrido un
cambio tan favorable que tienen
la confanza absolute de todas las
personals conectadas directa in
directamente con el hipodromo.
Evening star., 1924-10-26

| man who sat next to me drowned a
fly at 10 PAGES and said: II didn't
think Dick had it in him, That's
what I call argument"
Things looked blue for the last
speaker. He talked of patriotism in
fervid way, brought in home, the
tireside and mother and then gave
way to splendid utterance about the
starry banner, the palladium of lib
erty, the aegis of freedom and the
spotless escutcheon of our party. But
the crowd was not much moved. 1t
was waiting for him to knock out the
arguments of Tom and Dick. Finally.
when he had done his worst by 1.-The
matchless and heroic record of this
grand old Commonwealth in war and
peace" he said: Il will not reply
to my eloquent and illustrious
predecessors in the language of
Rome" The crowd was depressed.
| But" he said, raising his voice,
throwing his clutch in high and step
ping on the gas, Il will answer them
in language that was painted in
splendor on the clouds ares before
the she-wolf sucked Romulus and
Remus. Aye! long ages before Caesar
turned his eagles loose! l will meet
the arguments of my learned friends
and hurl the words of Cicero and
Tacitus in their teeth! I say to you
Evening star., 1924-10-26

Good Hope stories verse written by
one =. Ovidius Naso. who is better
known, though not very well known
to some of us, as Ovid. The Rambler +
is not quite sure at this time what
the verse was about, and is quite
sure that he did not know what 1t
was about when he gave it to you.
Eut it was decorative and impress
sive. The Rambler's first acqualnt-
anCe with the power and influence
of Latin quotations came about IN
this way:
There was a political speaking at
little cross road place in a county
near Washington. There were three
candidates for Office. Tom, Dick and
Harry. 1t was IA joint debate. Tom
got himself into d iather of perspIra-
ton over the perils Of the Govern
ment and the danger to the ConstItu-
ton. The crowd was attentive but
not enthusiastic
Tom took off his coat and let cut
4 gust of oratory that raised the dust
in the road and said. in voice that
made the store porch crack. Il say
unto you, chevaiiers. of this county,
in the immortal words of that great
chieftain, Cicero, II lud oraculum
Delphis.' >
The applause was tumultuous. An
old farmer at my side bit chaw off