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Evening star., 1924-04-21
COOLIDGE VICTORY
SEEN IN new JERSEY
Dry League Fights Edge and
Stokes, Presidents Backers. as
Delegates at Large.
Rv the Assn..iated Prrss

By the Associated Press.
NEWARK. n. J.. April 21.~Support-
ers of President Coolidge are confident
over the outcome OF the presidential
primaries tomorrow in New Jersey when
thirty-one delegates will be elected
to the Republican national conven-
ton. The Democrats are expected
to choose solid delegation of thirty
two pledged to Gov. George S. Silzer.
Interest in the Republican cam
paign has been aroused by injection
of the prohibition issue in discus
sion of Coolidge candidates for dele
gates at large.
Declaring that the attitude of Sen
ator Edge and former Gov. Stokes.
both candidates for Coolidge dele
gates at large, has been against
the national prohibition act" the
New Jersey Anti-Saloon League has
urged that they be defeated.
a complete slate of delegates
pledged to Hiram w. Johnson of Cali
fornia will appear on the ballot.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Visits of Comets Periodic.

Comets return on periodic visits.
and two Of the best known periodic
comets are Hallcy's and Encke's. The
former has been observed since 246
B. c. and it's visits come every 1858
years. It's last call was in 1910.
F,ncke's comet comes more frequent
Iy. timing itself about every forty
months. 1t has been observed regu-
larly without a single break from
1919.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
ACTRESS RECOVERING.
Clara Kimball Young to Remain
in Hospital for Month.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, April 21.-
Clara Kimball Young, actress, who
underwent an operation in a local
hospital Saturday night for the re-
moval of an abdominal tumor, was
resting easily tonight, and her
ultimate recovery is looked for, ac-
cording to DR. B. T. Weaver, her
physician. Dr. Weaver said Miss
Young rallied "splendidly" from the
effects of the anesthetic and regain
ed complete consciousness yesterday.
Her condition. however. he said, was
still serious and it will be d month
before she will be able to leave the
hospital
Evening star., 1924-04-21

)
Justice Holmes An opinion dissent
Ing in part was given by Mr.. Justice
Brandeis.
Case Test of Law.
The opinion of the court is lengthy
and replete with technical phrase
ology covering legal aspects of the
case from its inception The corpo-
ration sought to restrain enforce
ment of rental increases ordered by
the Rent Commission August :, 1922,
and had carried its fight successivety
10 the highest tribunal. The case has
attracted general interest among
property owners and tenants, being
regarded by them as test of the
constitutionality of the rent act.
The court, referring to the coSe of
Block VS.. Hirsh, in which a previous
attempt to attack the constitution
atty of the rent law was made, points
as follows:
The original act of October %,
1919. considered in the case of Block
vs. Hirsh, was limited to expire in
TWO years. The act of August "a,
1924, purported to continue il in force
with some amendments until May %.
1891, purported 10 continue it in force
clared that the emergency described
in the original title. too, still existed
re-enacted with further amendments
the amended act of 1919 and provided
that it was continued until May %.
1924
I'VE repeat what was stated in
Block VS.. Hirsh as to the respect due
20 declaration of this kind by the
legislature. so far as it relates to
present facts. But even as To them.
4 court is not at liberty to shut it's
eyes to an obvious mistake when the
validity of the law depends upon the
truth of what is declared. And still
more obviously SO, so Gar as this
declaration looks TO the future il can
be no more than prophesy and liable
TO be controlled by events
Law Ends With Emergency.
ence of an emergency or other GER
tain state of facts to uphold it may
cease to operate ii the emergency
ceases or the facts change even though
valid when passed.
1.-The order, although retrospective,
was passed some time after the latest
statute and long after the original
act would have expired. In our
opinion it is open to inquiry whether
the exigencies still existed upon which
the continued operation OF the law
depended.
at is a matter of public knowledge
that the government has consider
ably diminished its demand for en-
ploye5 that was one of the great
causes of the sudden affiux of people
to Washington and that other causes
have lost at least much OF their pow
CT. Ii is conceivable that, as is
shown in an affidavit attached to the
bill, the extensive activity in build
ng has added to the ease of finding
an abode. IF about all that remained
If war conditions is the increased
cost of living, that is not in itself a
justification of the act.
without going beyond the limits
of judicial knowledge, we can say
at least that the plaintiffs allegation
cannot be declared offhand to be
unattainable and that it is not impos-
sible that a full development of the
factS will show them to be true. In
that case the operation of the statute
would be at an end.
Other Cases Are Cited.
we need not inquire how far this
court might go in deciding the>quess-
:
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Bill to Increase
Veterans Pensions
Passed by House

Without record vote the House
today. passed the Bursum bill, al
ready approved by the Senate.
carrying pension increases for vet
Grams of the civil, Spanish. Mex
lean and Indian wars, and of the
war OF 1872.
The House approved the bill
without amendment, and it now
goes to the President. measure
for the same object was vetoed
by President Harding, but sup
porterS Of the bill passed today
said that features objected to by
Mr.. Harding had been eliminated.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
FOUR CARD PLAYERS
FOUND DEAD IN CAR
Bullet and Knife Scared Bodies
Discovered by Freight Train
Crew in Alabama.
By the A Associated Press.

by tfIH zfssV-IdItu ITes5.
MOBILE, Ala, April 21.-Members
of an l.. and n. freight train dis
covered the dead bodies of four un-
identified negroes in an empty gon-
oola car at Flomaton yesterday, ac-
cording to a report by officials of the
company The bodies were covered
with bullet and knife wounds, and a
deck of cards was scattered on the
floor of the car.
The Gondola left New Orleans Fri
day night. remained in the Mobile
yards all of Saturday, leaving here at
IL 30 Sunday morning. The bodies
were piled on top of each other and
the men had the appearance of being
dead several hours. The county coro-
ner OF Escambia county, at Brewton,
Ala, is making an inyesti cation.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
FORD NAMES PROXY
TO EXPLAIN HIS BID
W. B. Mayo, Chief Engineer, Will
Give Shoals Information
to Senate.
HOOKER PLANS ARE HEARD
Rival Says Chemical to Destroy
Wheat Insect Will Get Test.
HOOKER PLANS ARE HEARD

Henry Ford Informed the Senate
agricultural committee today it would
be impossible for him to appear in
person before the committee to ex-
plain his Muscle Shoals bid, but that
w. B. Mayo, his chief engineer,
would testify.
Experimentation in the production
of chemical to destroy the black
wheat rust insect would be made at
the Muscle Shoals plant if the Hooker
bid Is accepted, a. r. Hooker, chemist
associated with the bidders, told the
Senate agricultural committee today.
To Provide Insecticide.
The bidders also plan to produce
on a large scale at Muscle Shoals
''paradiclor of benjol," an insecticides
now used TO kill the peach borer, and
calcium arsenate. used against tho
cotton boil weevil, Hooker said
Francis r. Weller, consulting ene-l-
neer interested in the Hooker White
Atterbury proposal for the operation
of Muscle Shoals. reiterated to the
committee today that Under the pro-
posal the government would receive a
large total net income. EARNINGS
Were estimated by Weller Us follows:
First year. s!.03S. 500; second S1,S9S.-
coo; third, S3,O44 900; fourth. s&.S2o-
COO; fifth, S4,o94.000; sixth, S4,100,GCu:
seventh, s3,635 900; eighth, $3,S91,G 500.
ninth, $i.2lS.300: tenth. s4.5l1. 900,
eleventh, s5.364 800; twelfth, S5,727.-
800; thirteenth to forty-second oper-
year. inclusive. $3.50, 900: forty-third
to fftieth. $4t,S92 coo; afty-tirst to fifty
sixth, $3414l6,000.
should Deduct sS5-526.OOOs
If the government income from saja
of fertilizer is omitted, Weller said,
$S5.52G.000 should be deducted. In
addition he said the total amoun1
paid to the government for research
during the lease period would be s1U-
900. 600.
ON the same basis Of estimates,
Weller said the Ford proposal would
yield the government only s90,99S, 200,
and the biz of the associated power
companies S136.400,0OO.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
$4,000 Cotton Gin Fire.

HICKMAN. KY. April 21.-The
largest in this section. located in
West Hickman, was destroyed by fire
yesterday, entailing a loss unofftcially
estimated at $4,000. Two residences
and n feed mill nearby were partially
burned. Children playing in a seed
house connected with the gin are
to have started the fire.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
HOLDS DECISION LOCAL.
Representative La Guardia Declares
Ruling Applies to d. c.

The decision handed down by the
Supreme Court today was commented
upon by Representative f. FL. La
Guardia of New York. one of those
most active in the House last Monday
to rush through the Lampert bill, as
follows:
'The courts decision concerns it,
self with local conditions in Wash
ington only. The decision today SIM
ply send back the case appealed to
the local courts for additional proof
on the emergency condition.
Needless to say the membership
of the House cannot agree with the
viewpoint expressed in the courts
decision. 1t is another instance of
Legislative progress being retarded
by judicial decisions"
Evening star., 1924-04-21
HOLD EASTER SUPPER.
Entertainment Follows Affair al
Wv. c. A. HEADQUARTERS.

An Easter supper was given last
night at the headquarters OF the \.
w c. A. The fifty guests were
served by the committee from the
council OF which Miss Bertha Thom-
as is chairman, assisted by members
of the Girl Reserve department. Be
tween courses violin solos Were
played by H. D. listed of Seattle
Wash. accompanied on the piano by
Mrs. Stewart Anderson of Philadel-
phia and Frank J. Scott, with the
guitar. Miss Ruth VeSta Pope, eN-
ecutive of the educa tional depart
ment. and Miss Alice Hutchins Drake
spoke.
An Easter Monday luncheon was
served today for the benefit of the
convention delegates fund and a sup
per also will be served tonight be-
tween and o'clock.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
RATE REVISION HALTED.
I. C. C. Order Affecting Transporta-
ton From Seaboard.

New schedules for revision of class
and commodity rates from the At
lantic seaboard and defined terri
tories to points in Arkansas, Kansas
Oklahoma and Texas on
the water and rail and all-rail routes
were ordered suspended today to
August ~ by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. The new sched-
ules would result in both increases
and decreases III commodity rates to
the southwest
Evening star., 1924-04-21
DEFER WHEELER INQUIRY.
Senators Delay When Witnesses
Fail to Appear.

to arrive here from Montana, further
investigation of the charges against
Senator Wheeler was deferred today
by the special Senate committee con-
Quoting the inquiry.
Chairman Rorah will call the COM
mittee together as soon as the wit
nesses reach Washington. The pres
ent expectation is that the investiga-
tion can be concluded in one or two
more Sittings
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Police Take Truth Serum.

Seven policemen and a newspaper
reporter voluntarily took the so
called truth serum" recently at the
Los Angeles harbor station in an ef-
fort to find out who had taken out
Of the police station safe a gun which
will be needed in 4 felony case.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
URGE FARMER FEE PLAN.
House Agriculture Committee
Backs Substitute Amendment.

A substitute for the Rubey amend
ment to the McNary- -Haugen agricul-
tural export bill, which would have
eliminated the scrip provision, was
unanimously agreed upon today by
the House agriculture committee.
Drafted by Representatives Clague
Republican, Minnesota, and Rubey,
Democrat. Missouri, the substitute
would leave determination of a
method of collecting an equalization
fee from farmers in the discretion of
the export corporation, which would
be set up under the bill to market
surplus farm products abroad.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Commemorate Easter Revolt.

DUBLIN, April 21.-Republican dem
onstrations commemorating the Easter
rising of 1916 were held in Dublin and
other parts of Ireland yesterday. A
procession marched to Glasnevin cem-
etery and placed wreaths on the re-
publican graves there. after which u
meeting was held in O'Connell street
Evening star., 1924-04-21
FOREIGN.
CARUSI WILL FILED.
Bulk of Lawyers Estate Is Left
to Sons.

The will of Eugene Carusi. promi-
nent member of the District bar, dat
ed April 19, 1915, has been filed for
probate.
He leaves his law books and the
furniture at the National University
Law School to his son Charles +.
Carusi and n gold watch and certain
household effects to his other son,
Eugene d. Carusi. His executors are
directed to purchase suitable gifts as
mementoes of him for his daughters
in-law and his grandchildren. The
remaining estate is left to the two
sons, who are also to act as exec
utors The value of the estate is not
given
Evening star., 1924-04-21
MOB LYNCHES NEGRO.
Victim Accused of Attacking
Woman in South Carolina.

ORANGEBURG. s. c., April 21.-
Luke Adams. negro, was found lynch
ed this morning about three miles
from Norway in OranEeburg county.
Adams was accused of attacking a
white woman. He had been recently
released from the county chain gang.
The coroner has gone to the scene.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Will Entertain City Heads.

The membership committee of the
Washington Board of Trade will ten
der luncheon to the District Com
missioners tomorrow, Immediately
following the ceremony of taking
the oath and entering upon their
new terms. The luncheon will be
given in the Fairfax room of the New
Willard Hntet - ---r-
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Masher Rough With Victim.

A masher at work in Poraland,
Ore, has adopted cave-man methods
developed to the highest degree in
attempting to carry out his designs.
Mrs. Vivian Harris, who ignored his
advances after he had followed her
several blocks, was slugged with a
black jack when she stepped into her
apartment doorway and it was OBJ
vious his conquest" was about to
end unsatisfactory.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
PLEA OF VETS HEARD
BY HOUSE COMMITTEE
Modification Proponents Present
Views on Beer Bill Before
Judiciary Body.
DRYS TO APPEAR LATER
Labor's Arguments to Be Given
Early This Week.

Proponents of modification of the
prohibition laws were given the first
word today by the House judiciary
committee in hearings on proposals
to permit the manufacture and sale OF
275 per cent beer under the eight
eenth amendment.
Bills seeking the same end have
been introduced by fifty-nine repre-
scntatives, and it is expected that
proponents. including Samuel Com
prrs president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, Will he given the
entire first half of the week to pre-
sent their cases before the opponents.
headed by Wayne B. Wheeler, general
counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. are
heard.
Julian Goldman of Boston headed
the delegation of proponents appear
ing today. He was selected to con-
duct the presentation of the argu-
ments on behalf of the joint legisla-
tive committee of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
the Constitutional Liberty League of
Massachusetts and the Moderation
League, 1Ec.
Support of the bills centers chiefly
upon the alleged failure of enforce
ment efforts, the contention that law
lessness and disrespect for law has
resulted from the attempt to bring
about prohibition, and the argument
that Congress has the power tn fix
the alcoholic content of beverages 1T
IT'S per cent by weight, as proposed,
without notification of the eighteenth
me a M
Evening star., 1924-04-21

The Italians breed turkeys by the
thousands. but they are intended for
export. very few being eaten in that
country.
Evening star., 1924-04-21

The tropical year Is the interval
between two consecutive returns of
. the sun to the vernal equinox.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
scouts War with L. :.

A declaration that war with Amer
ica over the inmigra ton question is
impossible, but assertion that it would
take years for Japan 10 forget the
insult" imposed by the United States
Senate when it voted to exclude Japa-
nese from America were among state
mcnts by Admiral Count Gombei va
mamoto, former premier of Japan, to-
day.
There is no possibility of war re-
sulting from the action Of Congress" :"
Namamoto asserted. Our sword
leaps from the scabbard only when
the motherland is EleHaced or our
obliga tionS TO our allies call il forth.
But the immigration issue does not
involve the national safety. With
such an affrOnt hurled toward Japan
our attitude must be calm, dienitied
ana restrained.
The Japan Printing Association at
a general meeting held here soday
voted to place 4 boycott On all goods
from the state of California.
This was the first rcprisai to be
noted in connection with passage of
the immigration bill.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
RENT ACT VALIDITY
TEST CASE REFUSED
BY SUPREME COURT

CONTINUED from First Page.l
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Stayton Gives Views.

Social unrest in the United States
at present was attributed in q state
rnent by w. II. Stayton, founder and
head of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment. primarily to
the enactment of the Volstead act.
THE red agents in this country"
he said, have just as much interest
in keeping the Volstead act intact, or
amending it to make it more drastic.
as the bootlegEers, Anti-Saloon
League and other dry organizations
NO law ever written into the
statutes of the nation" he declared.
has been so universally scorned and
nouted by many of the very legis-
lators who passed it. Under these
circumstances, it can hardly be a
matter of surprise that the average
man treats the law both with ridicule
and contempt.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Says obligations Unequal.

at is absurd to speak of all laws
as having equal obligation. Every
one knows that it is far worse to
commit robbery than it is to exceed
the speed limit, or to commit arson
than it is To break the Nolstead law.
THE only people who will benefit
by leaving the law as it is are those
who are making money out of it, and
it is these people who, under the
cloak 70 morality, are its most ardent
supporters.
the point of view of the smuggler,
the bootlegger and the corruptionist,
it could hardly be bettered if they
had draftd it themselves"
Summing up the evils arising
from the Nolstead act, he said 'it
has wholly failed to prevent the
drinking of alcoholic beverages, has
failed to decrease crime. has in
creased drinking, has increased cor
ruption, has promoted bootlegging
and smuggling to an extent never
world has spread illicit distilling
over this country until no part is
free from taint and has taught our
people to make wine and spirits in
their own homes"
Gompers Gives Views.
Samuel Gompers testified that in
his Judgment "a per cent beer
would transfer the people of the
United States from a whisky drink
ing people to a beer drinking people"
and that it was not a question of the
amount of kick, but the fact that il
is drinkable.' Near beer, he ex
planned, is not good" not "paia-
table and cannot be considered a
Asked what definition he placed
upon the word "kick," Mr.. Gompers
said, warmth" He added there is
no such thing as kick unless it is a
real kick"
Mr. Gompers said chemists had rec
commended to the courts that ga per
cent beer was not intoxicating and
that was why he favored SUCH per-
centage. The eighteenth amendment,
he said. is the first shall not" to the
Constitution, but he did not urge re-
pealing it because he realized how
utterly mpracticable' such a sug-
gestion would be.
Mr.. Gompers said that "a per cent
beer is mot Intoxicating and not in
jurieus," and urged modification of the
VOlstead law Ito avoid a great cal
amity.''
The danger in the Volstead law. he
continued, lis to the young men and
women" Stories that a young fellow
must have something on his hip to be
popular are serious" he added.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Elder Statesmen Informed.


the government considered the stu
alton Of sufficient gravity TO merit
the attention of both the elder states
men Saionji and Matsukata and thar
the matter had been reported to
them.
"One feature of the situation which
IS most comforting 10 Japan" the for
eISn minister commented ''is the
sympathetic attitude Of a majority
Of the American newspapers The
Japanese people may still pyara hone
IN the greatness of American Charac-
ter, and trust that President Coolidge
mat far-sighted though taciturn
statesman. and Secretary Hughes will
20 all that is possible 70 prevent q
J2p2neSe-A merican eStranrrment"
Both official and unofficial Japan are
trying to keep the position OF Cyrus
y. Wood, the American ambassadors
as unembarrassed as possible. Two
barquetS planned TO welcome him
back 10 Japan from his recent trip 10
IN" United StateS-One BY the Amer
lean = ssociation Of .fapan on Tuesday
evening. and the other by the Amer
lea Japan Society Wednesday even
tng-have been postponed. Mr. Woods
requested the poStpOncncmt, saving
that at this juncturc x would be I'M
possible for him to speak publicly
without discussing iu.Ini grafton, and
that on the other hand. Il would be
subject in a public address. Foreign
Minister Matsui and other Japanese
leaders are said - concur with this
view.
Evening star., 1924-04-21
Other Cases Are Cited

we need not inquire how far this
court might go in deciding the>quesS-
Evening star., 1924-04-21
JAPANESE LEADERS
DISCUSS U. S. BAN
Issue Considered Sufficiently Grave
to Merit Consideration of
Elder Statesmen.
MASS MEETING IN TOXIC
War Secuted by Yomomoto-Hope
Rests on Coolidge.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC April 21.--A two-hour con-
ference between Foreign Minister
Matsui and Marquis Saionji, one of
Japan's two elder statesmen. and an
open-air mass meeting, which pro-
tested against exclusion OF Japanese
from the United States. were fea-
lures today in the Japanese Amer
lean immigration situation.
Marquis Saionji returned TO Toxic
from Okitsu solely because of the
political situation which has develop
"d since the United States Senate
voted 70 bar persons ineligible to
American citizenship from American
soil
Approximately 1000 persons attend
ed today'S mass meeting, which was
under the auspices of several pa
triotic organizations. Resolutions
were passed urging the rise of the
japanese people, resolved TO sacrifice
everything, if. necessary, to preserve
the national prestige"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-06-04
Tetanus in Lambs Often
Follows Spring Docking

Tetanus is quite common among
lambs at this time Of the year. since
1t frequently follows docking If the
operation is not properly performed
Tetanus is otter spoken Of as flock
Jaw" though that is really not the
correct name because the locking Of
the jaws does not always occur.
Little can be done for animals that
are already diseased. The scab that
has formed over the stump of the tail
after docking should be removed and
the stump painted with tincture of
iodine two or three times daily. Wher
docking lambs again the stump should
be painted Immediately after the oper
ton. Some stocknen make a practict
Of soaring the stump with hot iron
The latter sterilizes the wound am
also controls the bleeding.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-06-04
Winter Swine Slaughter
Shows Decided Increase

During the winter months of Deem
Der, January and February, 1881, 291
hogs were slaughtered In establish
ments operating under federal meat
inspection. This number exceeds the
previous record for three months,
made December, 1918, and January and
February, 1919, by more than one mil
lion hogs.
Those who have studied the reasons
for this enormous increase say that
many factors are involved. Increased
breeding, due to the successful corn
crop for the last two years and sat
isfactory public purchasing power,
have contributed to the record-break-
ing slaughter. The hogs have been
somewhat lighter in weight, however,
than in former years and the large
number does not mean such a record
breaking quantity of pork as the hog
slaughter might indicate.