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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
; CHINESE CHIEFS
NEARLY LOSE LIVES
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright. 1924.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1924.
PEKING, March 5.-Three OF the
most prominent Chinese officials mar
rowly escaped death in the past fort
night, Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian
war lord, through the handling of q
German automatic pistol he thought
to be unloaded; WI Pei Flu. through
the apprehension of q guest he was
entertaining, and Gen. Yen Shih-
through an assassination attempt,
which was frustrated by bodyguards.
Chang Teo-Lin was displaying a
new type Of automatic revolver pur-
chased from Germany before several
empty gun. but one cartridge was
left In the chamber and the bullet
grazed his forehead.
WI Pet-Fu was entertaining Gen.
Chang Ching-Yao, former governor OF
Human province. for the purpose Of a
lights suddenly went out. Chang
Ching-Yao because suspicious and
drew out a pistol, instructing his
bodyguards to do likewise. All were
aiming At WI Pei-Fu when the lights
again reappeared. WI laughed of
of his guests, and the reconciliation
was effected the next day.
At Taiyuan. Shansi province. a
man claiming to be q personal guard
Of Gov. Yen gained entrance to the
governors private apartments. but
was frightened OF and forced to dis
card three pistols as he fed. The plot
is said to have connection with the
general political efforts being made
/ BY recaicitrant factions to Dust Gov
Yen, who fs keeping cut OF Peking
politics and devotinK. hts energies Ia
peace, order and industr1af develop
ment Shansi declines TO be drawn
into outside iaterprovlucaal embrog.
lios,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
PRISON HEADS sKEPTIcAL.
Thurber Said to Have Told Fake
Stories About Self.

Stories About Self.
SAN FRANCISCO. Calf, March o.
Prison and police officials here pro-
fessed to be skeptical concerning the
story told to London authorities by
Ralph Thurber, who has admitted.
according to dispatches. completely in
the Wall street bomb explosion of
1920.
A man named Ralph Thurber was
arrested here in February. 1920, fol-
lowing an attempted robbery of a
prisonment in San Quentin peniten-
tiary for forgery and was released in
February, 1922.
During his incarceration Thurber
told prison authorities stories later
found to be false concerning his re-
puted exploits as member of the
princess Pat" regiment, and cita-
tions for bravery. Stories of his
birth in Scotland and OF his previous
whereabouts were investigated and
found to be false. ofhcials said today.
Rev. Herbert Wilson. who Is said to
have been mentioned by Thurber in
London as one of those implicated in
the Wall street blast, now serving a
life sentence at San quentin prison
for murder, denied today that he had
ever seen or known Thurber. He
was shown photographs of the Lon
don prisoner. but said he could not
remember having seen the man be-
fore
Previously Wilson had talked about
the Wall street bombing to William
J. Burns, chief of the bureau Of in
vestigation. Department of Justice,
and had told the latter that he be-
lieved he had sold the n.troglycerin
which was used
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Showers this
afternoon; fair and cooler tonight; to-
morrow fair and cooler; moderate west
erly winds
observation-disclosures this afternoon
fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler to-
night moderate westerly winds.
Virginia-Fair and cooler tonight, ex-
cept showers in southeast portion; to-
morrow fair, cooler in east portion
fresh south. shifting to west winds.
West Virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow: cooler tonight.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
Thermometer pm. 81; 8 pm, SIS.
IL midnight, IS; Am, SIS; am. Sc;
noon. So.
Barometer PM. 1888; 8 pm.
1851; IL midnight. 1852; 4 am, 29.74
s am, 1914: noon. 29.74.
Highest temperature. So, occurred at
2 pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature. So. occurred at
10 pm. yesterday.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, so: lowest, "a.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of the wa
ter at am: Great Falls-Tempera-
ture. 40. condition, very muddy.
Weather In Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
CONFESSION FAILS
|. TO SOLVE BOMBING
Police Say Thurber, Held in
British Jail, Had No Part in
Wall Street Blast.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. March 5.-Whatever
hopes the New York police had Of
solving the mystery OF the famous
Wall street explosion through the re-
ported confession of Ralph Thurber
fiickered and vanished today when
the police were advised that Thurber
was In San Quentin penitentiary.
Calf. when the explosion occurred.
Thurber's story. which was made
known to District Attorney Banton
through a telegram from Secretary Of
State Hughes to Gov. Smith. was
seriously questioned by detectives
after they had failed to md the ad-
dresses of two men whom Thurber,
in an affidavit in a London prison.
had implicated in the explosion. Re-
ports from other cities. the police
said. indicated that other details In
the confession were valueless.
Sentenced in 1920.
Thurber. advices said. was SEN
fenced to San Quentin prison in Feb
ruary, 1920. for a three-year term.
He was released two years later. The
Wall street explosion, which killed
thirty persons and injured scores, oc-
Cured on September 16, 1920.
Messages from London said Thur
Der had made his confession to the
American consul general in London
and that that official sent it to Secre-
tary Hughes; who forwarded it to
In touch with District Attorney Ban
ton. who ordered an immediate
check-up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
farm Subsidies"
|DENOUNCEDBY:D|AE
Bill to Lend SIS, 200, 900 for
Divefsification of Crops
Attacked in Senate.

Opening the third day of debate in
the Senate upon the Norbeck- Burt
ness bill. Senator Dial. democrat
South Carolina, denounced the meas
ure as IAN attempt to make one tax
payer pay for the mistakes of an
other"
The bill would appropriate $751;
100000 to finance diversification of
crops. particularly in. the wheat
growing sections.
1T indicates the inevitable effect
of establishing bad precedent" said
the South Carolina senator, referring
to the recent appropriation of $1,000
goo to aid drought-stricken farmers
In New Mexico.
Recalls Civil War Days.
Il do not like to disclose tho pow
TO go west to find privation. The
difference Is that southern farmers,
having the correct conception of in
dividuai responsibility and courage,
are pulling themselves out.
The situation after the civil war
was certainly far worse in the south
than 1t Is now in the west, yet the
southern farmer asked no help. 1
was grown before / heard Of farm
mortgage; 1t was considered a dis
grace to have one on your property
Senator Dial said the farmer should
bend every energy to making his
plant self-sustaining, and thus will
be Independent OF those interests
which now live of the farms"
Increased wheat production during
the war, he asserted, was due just az
much to the attractive prices then
offered as to government propaganda.
In Favor Of Aid.
President Coolidge is in entire ac-
cord with the desire to aid the farm
ers of the northwest section and those
throughout the country during the
present period of depression. 1t was
stated by a spokesman for the Presi-
dent sterday. But what form this
aid should take has not yet been de-
termined by the President. He will
OF Agriculture on the various meas
ures now taking shape in Congress.
The first Of these measures--the
Norbeck- Burtness bill proposing a
$75.oo0,000 federal fund to finance di-
versifcation of crops-occupied the
attention of the Senate for the entire
session yesterday and was still the
unfinished business when a recess
was taken.
Opposition to the Norbeck bill
voiced by Senator wadsworth. repub-
lican. New York, who classed II az
fruitful paternalism." to that of
Senator Cooling, republican. Idaho.
who held that 1t should be laid aside
in favor of the McNary-Haugen bill.
proposing 100000. 600 corporation to
export surplus farm products. The
latter measure would aid all agricul-
ture, Senator Gooding insisted. and
would accomplish the same purpose
designed to be effective locally" by
the bill before the Senate.
OppOsition Expected.
The Idaho senator announced that
he had withdrawn a bill prepared by
himself because he believed the ex-
port corporation idea was far better.
There were indications, however, that
the McNafy bill, sponsored by SEN
ator AcSary, republican, Oregon,
would also meet with determined OPP
position both in the House and SEN
ate. Representative Anderson, repub-
lfcan. Minnesota, chairman Of the
Congressional Commission for Agri-
cultural Inquiry, ANNOUNCED he would
practicable"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
From Yesterdays $3.50 Edition Of The Star.
MT. PLEASANT LIBRARY r.
Z BIDS OPENED BY CITY
All Keep Within 100000 Avail.
able-Contract Award Expect

Bids were opened yesterday afternoon
by Roland n. Brennan. chief clerk OF
the engineer department, for erection Of
the Mount Pleasant branch Of. the
Free Public Library at 18th and La
mont streets
The Carnegie Corporation has con-
tributed 100000 for the building, and
all contractors estimates were well
within that limit.
The bidders and their prices fol-
low: Schneider-Spliedt Company.
$17S,s0o; Charles II. Tompkinsr Com
pany. $177.soo: Lipscomb Building
Corporation. s178.617: George e.
Wyne. $f79,700; Boyle Robertson Con-
struction Company. s17s.77ss; ". E.
Mooney. $lS5,sS4: Arthur L. Smith
Company. S1s6.686; William p. Lips
comb Company, Inc, $lS9,995, and T.
+. Taylor Company. $1s7 900.
The Commissioners probably will
award the contract within a few
weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
MYSTERY IN ENGLAND.
News Of Thurber First Received
From New York.
" the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. March deep mystery
and profound secrecy surround Ralph
Thurber, a prisoner in Pentonville
Jail, who has confessed to being i'm
plicated in the Wall street bomb ex-
plosion in 1920. in which many per-
sons were killed. Thurber claims to
be an American citizen.
The news received from New York
that such a confession had been made
was the first London knew of 1t. and
the American officials who first in
formed the Washington government
and who have been handling the case
for several weeks, declined to give
any information, except to say that
"si,ch large interests are involved
that IL would be impossible for them
to talk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
RATE-cASE WITHDRAWN.

RALEIGH. N. c.. March 5.-The
action Instituted by the Virginia
corporation commission before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
charging determination between in
traste&e freight raes In North Caro-
lima and tnterstate rates between
North Carolina and Virginia has been
withdrawn. according to a telegram
received today by the North Carolina
corporation commission from the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
L1NDENFELD SUSPECTED.
False Admission Caused His Arrest
Two Years Ago.

The first arrest in connection with
the Wall street explosion was made
more than two years ago, when Wolfe
Lindenfeld was apprehended
Lindenfeld was taken into custody
in Warsaw on the basis OF his own
TO New York December l, 1922, and.
after much Investigation, was found
to have had no connection with the
New York disaster.
William J. Burns. heal OF the ou.
Justice. regarded Lindenfeld at the
time as the master key" to the
tragedy. He was loter deported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
ARGENTINA.
PORTO RICO BILL. OUT.

The bill to give Porto Rico the
light to elect its own governor was
vote of Is to S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
February Circulation
Daily 1O1,478
Sunday 1O6,135

District of Columbia, SIS:
FLEMING NEWBOLD. business Manager Of
THE EVENING and SUNDAY STAR, docs sol
smnIv swear that the actual number OF copies
NJ the naper named. sold and distributed dur
inr the month Of February, AID. 1924, was -
nj
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
Opposition to knight.

While the oil committee was OBJ
tanning more important information
in a private examination of tele-
grams today opposition developed to
the confirmation of Samuel knight
of San Francisco to be special gov
eminent counsel in the litigation for
the recovery OF California oil lands
from the Standard Oil Company of
California.
Senator Walsh of Montana, prose-
cutor Of the oil inquiry. announced
that he had been reliably informed"
that thai, MI IT.. knight is counsel for the
York. which is Rockefeller bank.
According to this information, Sem
ator Walsh saids Mr.. Knight now is
engaged In litigation for that bank
story proved to be correct it would
be basis for opposing confirmation
by the Senate.
Mr.. Knight was selected by Presi-
dent Coolidge to bring actions. under
a resolution offered by Senator Walsh
and unanimously adopted by both the
House and Senate. Senator Walsh
was not consulted in the selection.
Foregoing It's usual public hearing to
examine telegraph records sent here
from Palm Beach, the oil committee
today found further reference to the
principal" mentioned in one of the
Mclean kilograms previously read
into the record.
Ira e. Bennett. an editorial writer
on the Washington Post, was the
author OF one Of the principal" mes
saGes sent from Washington January
90 to Edward B. Mclean, publisher OF
formation that the reference was
not to Attorney General Daugherty
az he was himself in Florida at that
time.
The Bennett message said there
no resiGnationsr and added that the
principal, was expecting . reaction
from political attacks"
Some committeeman said they re-
Sarded these kilograms as Of possible
high Importance. Every effort will
be made to- establish the identity OF
the '.prtncipAl"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
M'LEAN EMPLOYEES
HEARING DELAYED

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from TdSe.}
Orleans have not yet been furnished
to the committee.
Among the Mclean kilograms was
found the one from which the pub
Usher was told by one of his en-
pIoyes to eliminate odd words"
With these words omitted, senators
said, the telegram called attention
that Senator Walsh had received two
stories-one that Mclean was too i'll
to come to Washington to testify and
the other that he was playing golf
In Florida.
There also was furnished to the
committee the copy of the telegram
sent to Mclean by Chairman Lenroot
advising him oficfally that Senator
Walsh was leaving for Palm Beach
with full authority to question the
publisher and to subpoena other
persons he might desire to call. This
telegram was not found in the batch
delivered by the Washington Office of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05
Committee PROPOSES
TWO.FOLD BONUS PLAN

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proposition, some members of the
committee favoring restricting the
bonus entirely to such a plan. but
Considerable opposition has developed
to incorporation OF such q Limitation.
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ton as to whether the Klingle Valley
tract Is to be purchased.
Frank G. Coldren, chairman of the
committee on parks of the Washing
ton Board OF Trade and vice chairman
lean Civic Association, told the COM
mittee the urgent necessity for ac-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-05

national concerns. which seem to me
to urge strongly against independence
| for a moment some domestic concerns
Of the Philippine Islands. which seem
also to argue against present inde-
pendence. The American government
has been most liberal in opening to
the Filipino people the opportunities
of the largest practicable participa-
tion in and control of their own ad-
ministration. 1t has been a matter OF
sure 1t must also have been to your
ipeople, that this attitude has met with
| so fine q response. In education, lin
| cultural advancement. in political
conceptions and institutional develop
| strated capacity which cannot but
, justify high hopes for their future. But
/! it would be idle and insincere to suE-
i gest that they have yet proved their
noca eapaeap
necessary to minor nation assuming
the full responsibility of maintaining
itself in the family of nations. / am
frankly convinced that the very mis-
me is itself an evidence that some
thing is yet lacking in development
Of political consciousness and capa-
which are based the protests against
the present situation Is forced to con-
clude that there has not been, thus far,
full realization OF the fundamental
ideals Of democratic-republican govern
ment. There have been evidences of q
| certain inability, or unwillingness, to
recognize that this type of governmental
organization rests upon the theory of
complete separation Of the legislative,
! executive and judicial functions. There
have been many evidences Of disposition
| to extend the functions Of the legfsla-
| ture, and thereby to curtail. the proper
authority Of the executive. It has been
charged that the present governor gen
eral has in some matters exceeded his
proper authority, but an examination Of
the facts seems rather to support the
charge that the legislative branch of the
| insular government has been the real
offender. through seeking to extend its
oHm ,,,a nroney,r he tba sxAr,.tfvs "a rs.I,s
1.-THE government of the United
States has full confidence in the abil-
J ity, good Intentions. fairness and sim
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26
SAVE PIETRO NIGRA FROM MUSSOLINH
For United Front Against Fascist Assassins
Statement by the Red international Aation Committee

MAYHEM Jacob Tori italian gathered
bers Of the w. w. imprisoned
released he straishtway
Fascist murder
Coolidge Secretary Deportation
Mr. Davis
and Rosson
Today Petro Nga revolutionary
j. w. w. Leavenworth
custody
constitution existing Italian
American treatiesto follow
monster fastO
Petro Ns will shipped mercy
Italian dumped
overheard" Or disappears sanspank
and his Italian village
It is the organization individually
collectively
capitalist deported
Italian
nps Fascists the class bateheds
evouonsts
Red international of Labor
Of the sravede oers
will
Of the Paris Especially public
exposure.
protest. and by
letter and formal resolution
Washington
Fascist Italy.
The points Illus
the W. W. relationship
revolutionary
workers
do all their this
government accountable
depo
him to italy
INTERNATIONAL AFFILiAroN COMMITTEE
Harrison Chairman
H.. r. Richards
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26
Government Fairness

The Pennsylvania Railroad has long been an
avowed enemy Of organized labor. Without doubt
this road is the most "hard boiled" of all the sys
TENS which resisted the continuation of union
among the railway workers after the end of the
war.
Time and again this railroad has defed every
government order which masks under the pretense
of fairness in labor disputes. The Pennsylvania
even went so far as to turn cold shoulder to the
late President Harding who, in turn was forced
to manifest publicly his disapprova of it's too
blunt and patiently rough shod labor tactics.
1t seems as if we are about to be treated to an
other dose of government fairness in contro
versy between the workers and the Pennsylvania
System The Order of Railway Telegraphers has
been in a struggle with the powerful Pennsylvania
for union recognition. In this contest the Rail
road Labor Board has tacitly lent aid and comfort
to the manipuations of the magnates, but the rail
way workers held their lines fast. 1t was evident
to all that the employers could not put over their
fake union schemes. Consequently, the Railroad
Labor Board was compelled to pretend disinterest-
edness in the bitter struggle
1t is on this basis that the picked strkebreakers,
under the thumb of chairman Ben Hooper, have or
dered a secret ballot to determine whether the
bona-fide union the fake union has the majority
support on the Pennsylvania System. No one will
be deceived by the sudden fit of impartiality the
Railroad Labor Board is now showing No one
knows better than Mr.. Hooper that the company
union is an outright fraud. No knows better
than Mr. Hooper that the Order of Railway Tel
legrahpers is an established railway organization
that has won its spurs in the trade union field.
The attempt of the Railroad Board to secure a
so-called fair vote is only skillfully camoufaged
maneuver to prevent the workers from, hitting
back at the Pennsylvania System. The telegraphers
are talking strike. They are preparing to lock
horns with the Pennsylvania magnates. The Rail
road Labor Board is simply stepping in to secure
excuse for denouncing the workers if they strike
for the right to organize This is the only fairness
that the United States government knows in fights
between workers and exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26
The Textile Crisis

A serious crisis is brewing in the textile industry.
1t appears that the cotton mill barOns have de
cided that the time is appropriate for general
wage cut ranging from ten to twenty per cent.
The Amoskeag has already reduced wages by ten
per cent. Turnout the South similar cuts have
gone into effect There are loud rumblngs of sharp
and bitter discomfort among the workers whose
strike talk is becoming widespread.
Present indications tend to lead to believe
that the textile overlords will attempt to repeat
their move of 1921. Then, the manufacturers tried
to set the pace in wage reductions They were the
to take the first step, to strike the first blow
in the grand offensive launched against the work
ers on the eve of the great depression OF course,
today as then, the capitalists will talk of the
necessary readiustments and will hide their real
purposes behind vagaries.
The textile workers should lose little time IN
preparing for a fight to the finish The workers
insthe other industries must be prepared to take
every step to assure the textile workers unstnted
support in their struggle against wage reductions
Once the wages of the textile operatives are cut,
a wholesale reduction of wages turnout the cOun-
try will be next in order and only matter of
weeks.
There is no possible, tangible excuse for the
proposed big cut in the already too low wages of
the cotton MILL workers Thru the of increased
machinery per worker, to the extent of nearly
twenty-five per cent, the manufacturers have in
creased their profits in recent years. Then, there
has been a reduction in the cost of cotton prices
totaling than thirty per cent In the last few
months Besides, the robber tariff, the Fordney-
McCumber Act, has been putting into the pockets
of every textile baron at least fortytwO cents on
every dollars worth of cotton goods sold. Finally
Il. ntC1
manipulations, the New England capitalists have
been hiding the real volume of their profits.
In the last strike the textile workers put up
magnificent battle Their resistance took the bosses
by surprise We feel sure that with the aid of the
workingmen of other industries, the New England
mill hands will decsively trounce the vicious align
ment of dollar and bayonet.