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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-25

Mrs. C. n. McIntire and Mrs. Har-
old Dawson were shoppers in Cum
berland one day last week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-25

MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1924.
Ramon Navarro and Barbara LAMAR
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-25

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-12-25

Mr.. Milton B. Malan, of Oakland,
is spending the holiday season at his
former home in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1924-07-24

the hangman had been exhausted ex-
cept that Of appeal TO the United
States Supreme Court for write of
error. No train could bring the neces-
sary papers here in time: they could
not be telegraphed.
AirpIane Mail On Time.
In desperation the precious docu-
ments were entrusted to the Air
Mail Service: they had to be in Wash
ington in time for the order to be
signed today. Winging its way on
schedule time, the plane dropped TO
its station in New York late yester-
day and fast mail train sped the
papers to Washington. They ar
rived at midnight and were delivered
to william r. Stansbury, clerk of the
Supreme Court, this morning.
The papers disclosed that Ernest
B. d. Spagnoli. counsel for the con-
demned man. instead of complying
with the writ of error granted by
Chief Justice Meyers of the California
Supreme Court. for docketing an i'm
mediate appeal here is seeking an ex-
tension until November of the time in
which to file an appeal. Wolfgang be-
ing a pauper. the appeal is asked to be
heard without expense to the prisoner.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
Recommendation Unheeded.
SIX BURNED TO DEATH
IN TEXAS HOTEL FIRE
Thirteen in Hospital and Boy
Missing at Ranger-Property
Loss, $1,000. 600.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press
RANGER, Tex, July 24-Six per-
sons are known to be dead, thirteen
are in the local hospital and one boy
is missing as a result of a fire which
early this morning destroyed the en-
tire McClesky Hotel block in the CEN
ter of the business district with prop
erty loss estimated at more than
81. 900. 900.
The fire started in the hotel from a
gas pocket formed in the building,
according to belief Of fire officials.
The flames seen first on the second
floor, spread rapidly, threatening the
entire business section.
Hundreds of citizens were aroused
and aided those in the hotel and the
Southland Hotel to escape. MANY
were removed from the hotel with
ladders, while others jumped from
the second and third story windows.
None of the dead had been identi-
fed. Two bodies were recovered from
the burning building and two per-
sons who had been taken to the
hospital succumbed Two bodies are
known to be still in the ruins.
Billy Wallace. grandson Of Mrs.
Craig, operator of the McC1esky Hotel,
u the missing boy.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
RAIL PLAN FORMULATED.
Germany to Retain Title to Lines
Under Scheme.
Rv the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July 24.-Germany will
retain title to her system of federal
railways if the present draft law con-
verting them into a corporation, as
proyided for in the Dawes report.
meets with the final approval of the
entente powers.
Details of the measure, which soon
will be submitted to the Reichstag
and are being examined by the repair
alton commission, are published by
the Communist organ Rote Fahne
which is charged by the government
with violating the secrecy of state
document before it's formal enactment
into law.
According to the plans agreed upon
nv the committee of railway experts
the federal system will be capital
lied at $4,000, 900, 900 gold marks, OF
which $4,000, 100000 will be common
shares and 2.ooo,ooo,ooo preferred
shares. The German government will
receive one-fourth of the. proceeds
from the sale of preferred stock and
throo-fourths will revert to the hold
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ITALIAN PRESS GLOOMY.
Anti-French Note in Comment on
on London Conference.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
ROME. July 24.-The Italian press
apparently is resolved to continue to
take a peSsimistic view of the delib-
erations of the interallied conference
in London.
Throughout the comment there is a
subtIy injected anti-French note, be-
cause the newspapers accuse France
of throwing monkey wrench" into
the machinery designed to make the
Dawes plan effective.
The Serene says that the conferees,
in their declarations about harmony
early this week, perhaps succeeded in
fooling the reading public, but they
did not fool the English and Amer
lean bankers, who refused to lend a
cent to Germany as long as there was
no guarantee that a policy of 'vio-
lence would not be repeated. The
newspaper says it does not blame the
bankers for their refusal to lend
money under the present prospects
because they understand that the
Dawes plan has been completely de-
stroyed since the London conference
began"
Evening star., 1924-07-24
ORGANIZE BUREAU
OF IDENTIFICATION
New Federal Criminal Divi-
sion Will Aid Police and
Keep Extensive Records.

Formal organization of the Federal
unit to which police of the Nation
long have been looking as a help to
solution of crimes and detection of
criminals. has been completed at the
Department of Justice. it was learned
today. with the appointment of c. D.
Mexican as chief of the Division of
Identification.
The new division, for which Con-
gress appropriated $56,o00 has been
formed of a collection of about 1,oo0,-
600 fingerprints of criminals, from
two sources-the Department of JUS
tice records which had been centered
at Fort Leavenworth, kans.. and the
bureau which for years had been con-
Quoted in this city by the lnterna-
tional Association Chiefs of Police.
The new chief, Mexican. was pro-
NOTED from the ranks of the Bureau
of Investigation, of which the divi-
sion is a part, by Attorney General
Stone. Mexican was appointed in the
Bureau of Investigation in 1917, and
most recently was in charge of the
local headquarters of the bureau in
Pittsburgh and Baltimore. where, his
chiefs say, he performed excellent
service.
He is a lawyer. having graduated
from Georgetown University. He also
studied law in the University of
Michigan. According to Acting Di-
rector of the Bureau of Investiga-
tion j. E. Hoover, Mexican has been
named as administrative and execu-
tive chief Of the division generally to
direct it's activities.
The technical work Of the Identifi-
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Evening star., 1924-07-24
SHENANDOAH is GIVEN
THOROUGH ENGINE TEST
Giant Navy Dirigible Flying From
Lakehurst to Binghampton
and Return.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAkEHURST. n. j., July 24.-The
Navy dirigib1e Shenandoah left its
hangar here at 1880 am, daylight
time. today for an engine test run
to Binghamton, n. Y. by way OF
Scranton, Pa. and the Suspuehanna
Valley. The ship will sail over Scran-
ton, where Old Home week F being
celebrated, and return to her base
tonight.
After having been delayed for two
hours because of crOss-hangal
wind the giant dirigible finally took
the air at $50 o'clock. daylight time
She carried 40 men. the largest num-
Der ever taken on her flights The
officers and crew number 2S, most OF
the remainder being civilian mechan.
ical experts, who make the engine
tests One newspaper man also was
aboard.
After returning this evening the
Shenandoah will be piloted out tc
Barnegat Bay, where she will cruise
about until early morning, making
further engine tests.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
AIR NAIL BEATS DEATH IN RACE
TO DELAY EXECUTION ON COAST
Papers to Yin Respite for Isaac Wolfgang Signed
by Supreme Court Justice Just in Time to
Halt Hanging Scheduled Today

The United States air mail saved
isaac Wolfgang, the condemned
milk bottle bandit of San Fran
cisco, from death by minutes last
night.
The papers on which Associate
Justice McKenna of the United States
Supreme Court could grant the
doomed man "A short reprieve in
which to docket an appeal for re-
view Of his conviction for murder
arrived by air mail in Washington
today-the day Wolfgang was to
have been swung across 1.-The Great
Divide" at the end of the hangma n s
rope in San Quentin Prison yard.
Word FLASHED ny Wire.
Rushed to the associate justice the
minute they reached the Capital he
read the papers promptly and signed
an order giving Wolfgang's attor-
neys one week in which to docket
their appeal for the review. Back
to San Francisco was flashed the
word, and for the third time the gal
lows had to wait for its victim.
Convicted in Los Angeles of kill
ing a policeman who arrested him
for stealing a bottle of milk. every
legal means Of saving Wolfgang from
Evening star., 1924-07-24
Bumper Wheat Crop Brings
Kansas Farmers Sudden Riches
Men Who Borrowed Money for Seed and
Faced Bankruptcy No,o il, Midst of
Undreamed of Prosperity.

BY the Associate ted Press
KANSAS CITY. July 24.-Wheat has
replaced oil as the source of a rapid
wealth in Kansas
Poor tenant farmers who have
struggled for years, many of them
in the southwestern part OF the
state. and who were compelled to ap-
peal to the public for seed wheat
loans last Fall to seed this year s
crop. today find themselves wealthy
Many others who had purchased farms
with small payments and who ex-
pected to have mortgages hanging
over these farms for years. are IN a
position to pay them of. buy more
land. build new houses and barns. or
purchase motor cars and other
things they have denied themselves
for years.
Kansas unprecedented wheat crop
mas produced all this wealth, and,
with rising prices, promises to con-
Evening star., 1924-07-24

vert this wealth into even greater
amounts before all the crop Is
markete
Hold Wheat on Market.
Hundreds of farmers, anticipating
price rises caused by poor crops In
Canada and other wheat producing
countries, are holding their wheat
for the gain they feel sure will be theirs
by not marketing it at once
No one section is cornering this
wealth-the condition is similar
throughout the entire wheat belt
comprising the western two thirds OF
the State. But the contrast with last
years conditions is especially pro-
nounced in the southwestern part Of
the State, where busted farmers OF
IA counties last year appealed to
grain dealers, chambers of CONNIE rec
and other organizations throughout
the country for assistance in buying
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Evening star., 1924-07-24
Song on Radio Wins Prison Cook Liberty;
Maryland Governor Among Those to Aid

from the penitentiary through sta
ton WIP. Hardly had C1412 finish
ed when the penitentiary telephone
became busy with requests for the
identity of the man. Many letters
were received and a lawyer. who in
terested himself in the case, through
the convict's singing, and others sue
ceeded in obtaining a parole yester-
day. Among those who interested
themselves in the convict was said to
be Cow Rtchie OF Maryland.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
ROOSEVELT IN VIEW.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. manager of
Gov. AL Smiths campaign for the
presidential nomination and himself
the nominee of the Democratic party
for the vice presidency four years
ago, may be selected to have charge
of the Democratic headquarters in
New York City. AT the headquarters
of the Democratic National Commit
tee here today. it was admitted by
Glenn L. Shaver, chairman, that MI.
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Evening star., 1924-07-24
NOT TO RADIO SPEECH.
President to Address Scouts in New
York Tomorrow Night.

The address to be given by Mr.
Coolidge tomorrow night on the oc-
casion of a farewell dinner in New
York to a group. of Boy Scouts who
are sailing for Europe will be trans
mitted by telephone only to the
banquet hall, instead of being broad
cast by radio, as at first planned
The speech will be addressed pri-
marily to the Boy Scouts, and it was
decided to be Of insufficient general
interest . warrant radio broad
castiaG.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
By the Associated Press.

By the Associate ted Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.-The
sweet singing of a sentimental bal
lad BY an Eastern Penitentiary cook
and broadcast from local radio
station won parole for convict
C1412, who had three years more to
serve on a bandit charge. it became
known today. The name of the con-
vict was withheld.
Several months ago musically in
clined conYicts broadcast = concert
Evening star., 1924-07-24
Iridium Found in Canada.

EDMONTON, Alberta July 24.-Iri-
dium. valuable mineral, has been
discovered on the upper waters of
Peace River by the Canyon Gold Min
ing Company, said a representative
Of an Edmonton syndicate. who re-
turned from the North yesterday and
filed claims for ten miles along the
river.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
Hughes and Mellon Trying to
Effect Compromise to
Save Dawes Plan.
COPPER-RIVETED PACT
FOR INVESTORS SOUGHT
Paris Insists American Demand Is
Step Toward Destruction of
Versailles Treaty.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
LONDON. July 24.-The conflict in
views between French delegates to
the interallied conference and Ameri-
can and British financiers regarding
the safeguards for the protection OF
investors in the German loan pro-
posed under the Dawes plan, remained
unreconciled today, according to well
informed persons. Formal and in
formal meetings Of the delegates this
morning produced no indication of a
way out of the impasse.
The principal meeting was at Down
ing street, where Premier Herriot of
France, Premier Theunis of Belgium,
Italian Finance Minister De Stefani
had two-hour conversation with
Prime Minister Macdonald.
Hughes and Mellon Aid.
The greatest significance is being
attached to the comings and goings
OF Secretary of State Hughes and Sec
retary of the Treasury Mellon of the
United States, who are having a most
difficult task in convincing London
that their mission here is unofficial
Such high hopes were raised at the
outset of the conference by the par
ticipation of the United States that
observers still are optimistic that the
two members of the American cabinet
can yet find way, despite the unoff-
cial character of their good offices. to
be of assistance in solving the dead
lock between the financiers and con-
ference delegates.
While the all-important committee
on defaults and sanctions did not
hold any full meeting, its members.
whose preliminary report proved so
unsatisfactory to the financiers, had
conversation with both the British
and American bankers in an endesvor
to reach an understandings
Much Yet to he Cleared
All that can be said with certainty
about the deadlock is that misunder-
standings still remain to be cleared
away. The financiers express dis
satisfaction with the Reparation Com
mission as the arbiter of defaults and
sanctions and insist upon a copper
rivited pact against separate action
by any power before they will agree
to underwrite German loan.
The French delegation insists that
this is the first step toward the de-
struction of the Versailles treaty and
all that Il implies and an infringe
ment upon French sovereignty.
There was little abatment OF the
tension when all of the delegations
suspended their conversation to at
tend King Georges garden party at
buckingham Palace this afternoon
Evening star., 1924-07-24
2P0[|CEMEN HURT
IN SMOKE SCREEN
Blinded. Motor Cycle Hits OBJ
struction During Liquor
Chase.

With everything to gain and moth
ing to lose but paltry $40 fine. sus-
pected bootleggers in a speeding au-
tomobile early today let loose a blind
ing smoke screen at four policeme n
who were chasing them. nearly
caused the deaths or serious injury
of two of the officers, whose motor
cycle overturned, and escaped in the
midst of the black vapors.
This is the second time in a short
period that policemen risking their
lives chasing bootlegeers through
dangerous city streets at bewildering
speed have suddenly found themselves
enveloped in choking. impenetra BILE
gases released from the exhaust mech
anism Of a fleeing automobile
Virtually Outside OF Law.
Investigation has disclosed that
there is practically no law covering
the use of this dangerous method of
eluding arrest. Already faced by the
prospect of Jail or $1,000 in fines for
violation of the prohibition laws if he
is captured, the bootlegger may let
loose the toxic fumes with the as
surance that the only additional risk
he assumes thereby is fine of $40.
This may be imposed under law
that was originally drafted to handle
persons who caused annoyance by US
ing oils that created an overabun-
dance of smoke. The statute reads:
mo person shall operate a motor We
hicle upon any street in the District
of Columbia which emits from ex-
haust or muff1er thereof any pro-
longed. dense or offensive quantity
of smoke, gases or disagreea BILE
odors
When bootleggers first began the
use of smoke screens. about a year
ago. the police department Searched
in vain for law that would permit
them to make it very Improbable
for even criminal to attempt his es-
cape by such an extreme measure.
Failing, Maj. Sullivan embodied in
his last annual report to the District
Commissioners strong plea for such
a regulation.
Recommendation Unheeded.
Backing this up, Corporation Coun-
sci Stephens drafted regulation cal
culated to make the use of smoke
screens one of the most unprofita Bile
things a bootlegger could do. He
submitted it to the District Commits
Sioners. but neither it nor Mai. Sulli-
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Evening star., 1924-07-24
COST OF CAMPAIGN
MAY Be S15,0DO,OIO
Major Parties Likely to Use
Huge Sums-La Toilette
Plans on $3,OO0,O0O.
ny ROBERT r. SMALL.

Pians being made for the presiden-
tai campaign this year contemplate e
probably the largest expenditure of
money In the history of politics. The
use of money in pre- election fights
no longer carries with il the taint of
corruption. Legitimate expenses have
grown greater and greater as the
years have gone by and the high cost
of living has hit the huStings as we'll
as the home.
Senator Borah of Idaho. chairman
of the special Senate committee
which is to report campaign expend-
Itures, expects to have busy time of
1t between now and early November,
for all of the committees have decid-
ed to emulate the example of Chair
man Butler of the Republicans and
give Mr.. Borah detailed reports from
time TO time as the campaign pro-
crosses.
AnnoUnCement that the lndepen-
dent ProgreSsives. headed by Senator
Lid Toilette and Senator Wheeler. are
going TO attempt to raise a campaign
fund of at least $3,O0o.0O0 gives some
inkling of what the aggregate ex-
pepditures of the campaign may be.
This is far more than the Democrats
Democrats practically starved to
death that year, while the Republicans
reveied in plenty.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
SPURN
RAIL BOARD ORDER
Refuse to Testify in Engine
mems Dispute With West
ern Lines.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 24.-Railroad broth
erhood representatives today declined
to testify in the dispute with West
ern railroads before the Railroad
Labor Board concerning wages and
rules of the engineers and firemen
on the ground that the board was
acting illegally in attempting to hold
the hearing.
Donald r. Richberg. counsel for
the brotherhoods, submitted a state
ment outlining this decision in reply
to the boards order to testify.
The employees insist that the
board cannot deprive them of their
constitutional rights of liberty of
contract and their recognized legal
right of collective bargaining and
that the interference of the board is
unlawful and in aid of the railroad
program to delay negotiations" Mr..
Richberg asserted.
Power Is Disputed.
the employees to become parties in the
present hearing, through the device
of summoning them to appear is wit
nesses in behalf of the employees
The Labor Board has no more power
than a court to select witnesses for
parties and has no more power to
force either railroad or employees to
become parties to proceedings before
the board.
1.-The employees refuse to submit
their controversies to the so-called
decision Of the board, not only be-
cause the action Of the board is pre-
mature, but also because the board
is not an impartial tribunal. The
chairman has repeatedly and gratui-
tously made public attacks on the
representatives of the employees, and
upon the policies Of their organiza-
tion, and has disqualified himself as
acting as an arbitrator.
1.-The cost Of submitting controver-
sizes to the board is very large; de-
cision Of the board is not binding; the
board itself is biased, and the en-
ployes have the right (recently an
nounced by the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania) to
refuse to contest a matter before the
Labor Board.
Therefore. the attempt Of the board
by indirect means to compel them to
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Basis OF Instructions.


today will form the basis of instruc-
tons which the minister will take
back to Peking with him. instructions
which he will be able to interpret
In the light of facts gained on an
inspection trip through Northern
Saghalien which he made while away
from his legation. This return will
De made next week, and MIR. Yosh-
izawa is expected to resume his con-
versation with NJ karakhan shortly
thereafter
The vernacular press here declares
that the cabinet fully accepted Baron
Shideharas program, which was
framed in such terms as to satisfy
both the army and the navy. The
latter. always powerful force in
japanese diplomacy, long has desired
to retain for Japanese use the re-
sources of Northern Saghalien. a ter
ritory which Japan has held under
occupation for some time pending
reparation for the massacre of some
500 Japanese troops by citizens at
Nikolaievsk on March IL and 12, 1920,
by soviet forces.
While officials decline to discuss the
new policy, the vernacular newspa-
pers agree on its main outlines. They
declare that it means concessions"
TO Russia. 1t is indicated that the
principal items in the new stand are
that Russia shall apologize verbally
for the Nikolaievsk massacre and
shall grant longtime concessions to
Japanese interests for mining and
numbering in Northern Sakhalien. but
that claims for similar concessions in
Siberia shall be waived; that a Joint
Russo Japanese corporation shall be
given the right to exploit the oil re-
sources of Northern Saghalien; that
the provisions of the Portsmouth
treaty, which ended hostilities be-
tween Japan and czarist Russia, shall
be retained, with a provision extend
ing Japan's fishing rights in Siberian
waters, and that the question of pay
ment of debts contracted by the car
ist regime shall be left for settle
ment after conferences have been
held with Great Britain and Italy.
The vernacular newspapers declare
that If Russia accepts such terms ia
pan will cease her occupation of
Northern Sakhalien, withdrawing her
troops before the end or October. and
will grant recognition to the soviet
regime.
Evening star., 1924-07-24
May Total SI5.OOO.OOO.

This year the Democrats are hope
full that things will be different. They
may easily raise campaign fund of
$o,o00.000. The Republicans may
raise even more, SO there is reason
to believe that in the national po-
litical strong boxes there will be
gathered approximately sl5,0oo.000
for electioneering purposes.
Radio. an entirely new expense in
national campaigns, will get the Hons
share of the expenditure according to
present plans. The broadcasting
companies are going to reap real
harvest and get back some OF the
heavy sums they have spent in de-
veloping this newest art of COM
munication. Thus far there has been
no attempt to standardize the po-
litical charges for broadcasting other
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