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by the national commander, Ralph r.
O'Neil, gives 1t in a nutshell, as fol-
lows:
Legislation to relieve dependent
children of veterans who lie helpless
in hospitals.
Legislation to aid widows and
orphans of veterans.
Immediate construction of the vet
Grams hospitals authorized by Con-
gress.
Legislation to increase the disabil-
ity allowance of World War veterans
to the same level as the pensions pro-
vided for veterans Of the Spanish
American War
The Veterans of Foreign Wars plans
to ask Congress to amend the World
War veterans act to include for COM
pensation the widows and orphans Of
World War veterans who have died Of
non-service- connected disability
The Disabled American Veterans of
the World War, who cfampioned pay
ment OF the cash bonus loan up to so
per cent of the face value. differed
from the Legion, which at Its annual
convention before the legislation OPP
posed the so per cent loan.
Prom certain Congressional sources
are seen evidences that a drive may
be made in the next session of Con-
gress to allow veterans to take the full
face value of the bonus in cash. This
would entail another big load on an
already overburdened national Treas
ury, but support for the legislation is
said in certain quarters to be growing
substantially.
1t is the proposal Of Gen. Hines.
however, to set up a new national
policy destined to evoke the most in
telligent and searching interest OF Con-
gress. How far the generals proposal
viii get in the short session. when
legislators will have many other big
problems, is a question
But the general Is in earnest So
is his entire organization. They will
have q mass Of facts and figures and
perhaps a specific plan.
tCopyright, 1891, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
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hibition CLAUSE II / am nominated for
President It will Be as . DRY. pledged TO
rake this country dry as the Desert
OF Sahara, and could dry II up, too
and would co IT,
i would have q plank denouncirs
the giving Of vast sums BY corpor-
atoms to presidential campaigns. That
is what caused the big scandals IN the
Harding administration, but don't be-
ieve Doheny ever bribed Fan. He was
Falls friend and lent him that money.
But Fail had to be made the goat to
cover up the real fact that oil Of the
naval reserves was given in return for
financial support in the presidential
campaign
Il haven't any campaign fund" he
went on. II became Governor without
q campaign fund. I came into this Of
nee with my conscience clear and my
hands free. I would want to 20 into
the ONCE Of President IN the same way.
wouldn't want to be President II my
hands we're tied"
But how can you run for President
without money for expenses?" his In
terviewer asked
Governor" he replied II organized
the Blue Valley Farmer through which
I could talk TO the people Of Oklahoma
l wrote my arguments and printed
them In that paper. and In II called
for funds to print more Of the papers,
so I could put the paper In every mail
box in the State. And the funds came
in. from the people, in little dabs and
drills had the election won + ore
my opponents thought ! had stai
Program to he Repeated.
II am going to repeat that veI. pro-
gram in my plan to be sent to the
Democratic national convention at tine
head of the Oklahoma delegation"
And II you go, and II you get on
the Platform Committee, you viii plan
to make speech that viii sweep the
delegates of their feet and win you
the nomination, as Bryan got It in Chi
cago in 1882"
He laughed as he lifted another ripe
peach from the tray and broke 1t open
with both hands and crowded one half
into his mouth.
Just suppose should be nominated
for the presidency" he said at last. "If
could put four successive copies Of
my paper into every mail box in the
United States / would be elected"
There is no question about Murray
being q powerful orator. He sways
crowds into the highest pitch of enthu-
siasm. MurTay's friends think he is q
greater orator than was Bryan. They
say II. he ever gets a chance to speak
in the Democratic national convention
he will arouse 1t as no other man Of
today could.
(CopyriEht, 1891. BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine)
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MISSISSIPPI is USED
DESPITE LOW WATER
Federal Barge Line tsill Operating,
Although River Stage Is Low
est Since December, 1910.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ST LOUIS, Mo, August ie.--The
present low stage OF the Mississippi
River. recorded 1T one foot yesterday.
has not hampered operations Of the
Federal barge line finland waterways
Corporationl, officials Of the barge line
said today
The river stage here was recorded at
five-tentaS OF foot Monday, the low
est since December, 1910.
The low stage, barge line officials
said, began last Winter and continued
through the Spring. with the result
that the usual deposit Of silt and other
Misunderstanding material resulting
generally from Winter and Spring
freshets. had not obstructed the chan
mel this year. What little silt did ac-
cnmnlate was removed by the COM
pany's dredges operating IN conjunction
with the engineering service which
keeps q close check on channel narrow
ing and flling
An official reading OF zero, the lowest
stage At Dubuque. Iowa. since 1854. was
recorded there Monday. Various points
between here and Dubuque also re-
ported exceptionally low readings.
Cairo. III, reported 3 slight rise yes
eerday.
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preference. This is being worked out
by the Civil Service Commission.
Special legislation was passed grant
ing new privileges of compensation Il
emergency officers of the World War
Additional status has been given men
who have arrested tuberculosis" They
get $50 month.
Among the numerous other things ac-
corded are collins and the American
flag to be draped over the collins OF
veterans, whsther they are buried at
Arlington, any other national cemetery
or elsewhere. Arrangements have been
completed whereby postmasters will CO.
operate with the administration in de-
lvering as quickly as possible to the
family Of dead veteran an American
flag and for the services at the grave the
War Department will provide rifles for
the firing squad.
What Uncle Sam Has Paid.
The financial story of how extensively
veterans have availed themselves OF
these principal privileges and countless
smaller ones runs into tremendous fig-
ures.
To pick only few:
Compensation has been paid to the
disabled to the total of $l.sf2. 956 .2s3.
Vocational training to rehabilitst:
men for new careers has cost S644,-
OO0. 600.
War risk term insurance totaled about
$4,000 900 900.
Government life insurance in force
now is estimated at more than
SO 900, 000. 00O
Patients receiving treatment in hos
pitfalls under the Veterans Adminlstra-
ton total 1886, divided among 81 ole
Veterans Bureau Hospitals. ii National
homes, 43 other Government hospitals
and 202 contract hospitals.
Late figures show that there were on
file in the former, Veterans Bureau, on
May 81, 1,242.02S compensation claims,
Of which 227 ,2l1 were death claims. OF
these 599,394 were allowed, 117,9o9 be-
ing death claims In addition, there
were on file 507,5 disability allowance
claims, OF which 20S,67i had been al
lowed.
Total loans on the bonus. both before
and since the SO per cent proviso, were
81, las. 432, 1853 80. The total net amount
of the bonus now in force Is $3,453,-
7p3. 23o.
For the further better treatment Of
veterans Uncle Sam is still building
hospitals Congress In the last short
session authorized SCOTT 900 worth
of new hospitals and home facilities.
while sl6,350,0 600 was appropriated for
the construction of hospitals authorized
at previous sessions and for beginning
construction Just authorized.
The veterans organizations are awake
to future possibilities. They never sleep
on the job
The American Legion outlined the
legislative program 1t will push at the
next session of Congress An official
summary prepared from a statement
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Will ''Alfalfa Bill Run?
little Too Early to announce" Says Oklahoma
Governor, But He Wants to Write
Democrats Major Pdnks.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
n-~ %~rrv 49,.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, August 10
MAMA .-Everybod in Oklahoma
believes Gov William H. Murray CAL
falfa Bid is running for President.
His friends throughout the State are
weDing Murray President" but
tons and are organic NC "Murray-for-
President" clubs, and Murray's secre-
tary. Claude Weaver, Is making speeches
to these clubs
Murray himself will not authorize
the statement that he is a candidate
for the presidency; he says that. even
II he were a candidate it would be "a
little too early" to announce it now, but
he does admit he is planning to go to
the national Democratic convention at
the head of the delegation from Okla
homa and that he hopes to write the
most important planks in the Demo
cratic national platform.
His friends go so far as to assert Gov
Murray is hoping and expecting to cap
ture the nomination by these planKs
and by fiery speech that will voice the
aspirations of the farmers and the
working men of the West, as Bryan
captured the presidential nomination
in 1896 by his "cross-of- gold-and-
crown-of-thorns" speech in the Chicago
convention.
His Newspaper Quoted.
Murray's weekly newspaper, the Blue
Valley, farmer, said in its issue this
week:
The Murray for President boom has
gotten OF to flying start and nothing
can stop it."
In the same issue is verse, BILL
Murray" containing the lines:
He may eat fapjacks with shovel
or pick
And be dubbed by the mob as coun-
But he cant be swayed by the glitter
He has stood the test with a courage
bold.
In another column of his newspaper
Murray takes shot at Gov Roosevelt
OF New York, whose supporters are
working hard to Zine up" the dele
cation that will be sent next year from
Oklahoma to the National Democratic
Convention. One paragraph says:
Gov. Roosevelt of New York is
after the Democratic nomination on a
wet platform the principal plank of
which is, Elect me and you will get
beer Murray says what the people
want is beefsteak. There is plenty of
beer now, but nearly all Of US have to
hustle these days to get the beefstesk
and II Bill can prove that he can make
the beefsteaks come easier and oftener
it's all over but the shouting"
Becomes National Figure.
Alfalfa Bill Murray has become a
ne tionaI figure within the last few
weeks. Since he called out the Ma
tional Guard of this State to close the
private toll bridges and open the States
free bridges, across Red River into
Texas, thus defying a court order, and
since he called out the militia to close
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u. S. PAYS TREMENDOUS SUM
TO CARE FOR WAR VETER ANS
Since First Pension Act In 1889, and Cover
ing All but World Conflict, More Than
Eight Billion Has Been Spent.

This Is the third in a series OF seusn
daily articles telling iDhdt the United
States, Great Britain and France hare
done for Their 1gar DctcraHs and trhGt
they contemplate doing.
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the oil wells of Oklahoma in an effort
to raise the price of oil. the East has
been calling frantically for more light
on Alfalfa Bill
what sort of man is hep Is he a
! four-f1usher. a braggart. an ignorant
hill-billy, playing to the galleries? is
he sincere? Is he honest? Has he AIRY
ability? What Goes he look like? How
does he act?
This reporter came TO Oklahoma Cit,
To ask him II he is a candidate, or ii
he will be a candidate, for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination next
year.
He found Gov. Murray at a meeting
OF the State Equalization Board in tn.
State capitol, in large room adjoining
his private office. The Governor sat in
huge easy chair at one end of a long
table. He was in his shirt sleeves. the
cuffs rolled uu showing a hairy length
OF forearm. His cravat was carelesslv
tied and hanging awry. His suspenders,
diScolored with Precipitation. wer,
twisted into rolls. and only one strand
was connected with his trousers behind.
for one button there was gone. Hi;
white cotton trousers were wrinkled
His shock of iron-grav hair wss tousled
end mussed. and on his face was a graz
stubble of beard.
Works With Shoes on.
He vas Numbered down in his biz
armchair, both forearms on the table.
his head held low and turned sidewise
as he peered UP from beneath bushy
eyebrows into the face of a lawyer who
stood beside him earnestly arguing that
the corporation he represented had
made fair return of its taxable prop.
erty. Murray pulled at a cigar as he
listened
The reporter sat down on a sofa be-.
hind one of Oklahoma'S leading citizens
who leaned back and whispered: Are
you going to write about the Governor?
If you are, and you want some high
art to go with it, look under the table
at his feetl"
The reported looked Murray's low
cut white canvas shoes were of. His
feet were in white cotton socks; there
was hole in one of them and the side
of one big toe was exposed
Does he often sit that way, with his
shoes OFF," was asked
Nearly always in this hot weather
and generally there is more bare foot
on display than there is today" was the
reply.
There was long argument, during
~nlcn the Governor expressed himself
fully regarding corporations
AS the meeting broke up and Murray
started for his private Office a dozeE
newspaper reporters ficcked after him
for a conference. They asked many
questions, and he answered them al
and told several stories that aptly Illus
trated his meaning. He has a keen
sense of humor, laughs heartily and
often, and has an inexhaustible stock
of original stories from his life in
Texas and the Indian Territory in the
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NOTE HINTS SUICIDE
WAS TO WOUND GIRL
Assistant Purser of Liner South
ern Cross Found Dead in
Cabin, Bullet Victim.
BY me Associated Press.


NEW YORK. August 19--Joseph
Apud. 20, assistant pllTser of the liner
Southern Cross, was found dead In his
cabin early Monday with bullet wound
in his temple and a pistol in his right
hand, officers OF the ship reported yes
terday when the liner docked In Brook
lyn
Authorities said note left by Apud
indicated he had been respondent over
q love affair and that he had COM
mitted suicide TO wound the girl.
Ship officers said Apud had slipped
into the room Of q passenger and OBJ
tanned a pistol belonging to William H.
Murray. son Of the Governor Of Okla
homa. with whom he had become
friendly on the voyage here from Rio de
.Janeiro.
Apud's mother. Mrs Carmen Apud Of
Brooklyn said she did not believe her
son had killed himself and would seek
Q further investigation.
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Hoover's Son to Teach.

Los ANGELES, August ls fP).-The
California Institute of Technology an
nounced yesterday Herbert Hoover, IT,.
son Of President Hoover, will become a
member Of the faculty late in Septem-
her. He viii teach business economics
and radio engineering as an assistant
professor on the staff of the Engineer
ing and Research School.
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FANNY BRICE is CALLED
Supreme Court Orders Questioning
on $125, 900 suit.

NEW YORK, August 10 (R.-Fanny
Brice, musical Coincidence, was or
Court August IS to be examined ss
to the details Of her suit against the
Art Cinema Corporation for SI25, 900
for breach OF contract.
She charges the Art Cinema Cor
poration failed to carry out contract
to make picture in 1890 starring her.
Her husband. Billy Rose, is suing for
$4,000 as supervisor of the picture.
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Gronau Reaehe. Greenland.

TYTGUT. Greenland, August 10 GEa.
Capt Wolfgang won Gronau German
aiFnaf. arrived here last right from
Godthaah on the way TO America acrnsv
The Arctic route He pians u pFoeeea
e plsko Hay. where II alll tske 90 %
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Noted Chilean in City
En- Route to Europe

Senior DR.. Arturo AlesSandri, son Of
the former President of Chile, arrived
in Washington last evening and win
spend some days at the Mayf1ower. He
is en- route to Europe, where he will
spend some months in travelling about,
going first to France,
DR.. Alessandri Is a distinguished
scholar. being a former dean of civil law
at the University Of Chile and the
youngest professor ever to MI so impor-
tant post in that institution. He will
be entertained by the Ambassador of
Chile and Sonora De Davila while In
the Capital. -
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Ambassador From Italy
EntertainS With Dinner
Brazilian Diplomat, Transferred to japan, VIII
Leave Washington April 8-New Belgian
Envoy Arrives.
War College.
Underwood Photo.

The italian Ambassador and Donna
Antoinette de MARITIME entertained at
dinner In the embassy, when their
guests included the Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Charles Francis Adams,
the Ambassador of Poland and Nine.
Filipowicz, the Minister of Sweden, Mr.
w. Bostrom; the Assistant Secretary Of
State and Mrs. William r. Castle, the
Assistant Secretary of Labor and Mrs.
W. w. Husband, the director general
Of the Pan-American Union, DR.. L. s.
Rowe; the counserol of the Polish
embassy, Mr.. Stanislaw Lepkowski;
Mr.. j. Theodore Mariner of the
State Department, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adolph Caspar Miller, Miss Mabel
Boardman, Mrs. Frederic A. Keep,
Mrs Clarence Wilson, Princess Mar
garet Boncompagni, Mr.. and Mrs.
David Lawrence, Miss Helen Patten,
Miss Mary Randolph, Senorita Maria
Padilla, Mile Maieli Pfaefli, niece of
the Minister of Switzerland and Mme.
Peter; Comdr. and Signora Rossi and
members of the embassy staff, includ-
ing the counselor, Conte Alberto Mar
chstti di Muriaglio; the naval attache,
Capt. Di VillaroSa; the second coun-
selor, Signor Giuseppe Catalani; the
commercial attache, Signor Romolo An
gelone. and the first secretary. Conte
Roncalli q &cntoEio.
The Ambassador and Donna Antoi-
nette have loaned the embassy for the
piano recital this afternoon at 3 o'clock,
which Signor Carlo Zecch will give for
the Italy-America Society and for
which the society has issued cards.
The Ambassador of Brazil, Senior S.
Gurgel do Amaral, will leave Washing
ton April 8 for New York, from where
he will sail the folding day aboard
the s. S. President johnson for Japan.
Upon his arrival he will assume his new
duties as Ambassador Of Brazil to
Japan.
The Ambassador Of France and Nine.
Claudel will entertain at luncheon to-
day In the embassy.
The Ambassador of Chile and
Sonora de Davila are in New York to
remain over Sunday.
The newly appointed Belgian Ambas
sador, Mr.. Paul May came to Wash
ington yesterday from New York,
where he arrived the day before from
his home in Belgium. He was ac-
companied to Washington by the first
secretary Of the embassy, Fiscoupt de
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MAJ. Herridge Coming
To Washineton Soon
As Canadian Minister
Ottawa Attorney, Veteran of
World War, Succeeds Vim
cent Massey at Post Here.
Underwood Photo.

For the second time since 1927
Washington will receive a Minister from
Canada, this time Maj. w. D. Herridge
Of Ottawa, who will, on his arrival in
the Capital in few weeks, assume his
first diplomatic post. He succeeds the
Hon. Vincent Massey, who came from
Ottawa as the first Canadian Minister
and bought the legation on Massachu-
sets avenue, which has since then been
an important social center. Mr.. Hume
Wrong, who became charge d'affaires
of Canada on the departure Of the
Minister, August 4, 1880, has with Mrs.
Wrong, sustained his position as head
of the legation with much dignity and
satisfaction.
Mai Herridge Is an attorney OF
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Capital Society PauSeS
For Holy Week Before
Musical Series Begins
Season of Opera, Latin-American Concert and
Performances of Princeton and Rochester
Clee Clubs Awaited
NpI IT =
Underwood Photo.

z. Dawley and Miss Alice Clapp. The
list of subscribers extends along t1a
most important ranks Of the elite in
the social and musical world, assuring
for the two evening performances,
April "A and Is, a well filed house.
Among the less gorgeous but equally
beautiful and not less interesting
musical events Of the near future is
the concert of Latin American music
arranged to take place on the esplanade
Of the Pan-American Union the eve
ming of Tuesday, April ID, for which
the director general, DR.. Leo S. Rowe,
has issued invitations. The concert at
9 O'Clock could not have a more Won
derful setting than that afforded at
the Pan-American Union and the music
will prove the fitting close to an ella
borate Pan-American days program,
for which invitations are in great de-
mand. Indeed DR.. Rowe has asked that
all acceptances be in by the evening
OF April 4. Besides the music Of the
Marine Band there will be famous
artists to assist in the program.
Assistant Secretary Of State Valance
is sponsoring Little Symphony Orches-
ira and the Glee Club of Rochester
University, which will be heard Mon
day night April IS, at the Willard
under the auspices of the New York
State Society. Appetizer concert to be
given a little later on, April 81, is that
CT Maxim Karolik at the residence OF
DR.. and Mrs. Cary Devail Langhorne,
at 1920 Twentieth street. which has
among its pstroneSses Nine. Claudel,
Nine. Debuchi, Nine. Van Royen, Mrs
Harlan Fiske Stone, Mrs. Sol Bloom,
Miss Boardman and others and is for
the benefit OF Russian exiles now in
Sofia, Bulgaria.
Much nearer at hand is the Prince
ton Glee Club concert, with Mrs. Pat
rick Jay Hurley and Mrs. Arthur M
Hyde chief of patronesses. This ever
popular affair will take place at the
Mayfiower the evening OF April and
dance will follow the performance
Charming old Georgetown with its
narrow, rolling streets. rather UMPIRE
tentious front steps and glorified gar
dens in the rear again attracts atten-
ton and under the auspices of ST.
Johns Church on the afternoons OF
April lo-ll, tours to these interesting
homes will be given. Georgetown wom-
en- will direct and guide the tours and
charming little historical booklet,
"Doorways and Dormers of Old George
town" prepared by Miss Alice Coyle
Tcrbert and illustrated by Mr.. Charles
tContinued on Page 5. eDlumn a.
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Lantsheere, who has been charge DAT
flares since the departure of the for
mer Ambassador, Prince de Ligne, and
went to New York to meet the Am
bassador. Mrs. May Is expected to join
the Ambassador later In the Spring.
The Minister Of Portugal and Wis
countess d'Alte will leave today for
New York, where they expect to remain
for two weeks.
The Minister of Hungary, Count
Laszlo Szechenyi, and his daughter.
Countess Alice Szechenyi are expected
to return early this week, after pass
ing some time in the South, accom-
panied by the latter's rance, Count
Bella Hadik.
The Minister Of Greece and Nine.
Simopoulos will be hosts to the Greek
colony in Washington this afternoon
in celebration of the 101st anniversary
of the Greek independence day. Later
this afternoon the Minister will speak
at Central High School in honor Of the
occasion.
This evening the Minister viii go
to Baltimore, where will make an Ad-
dress in the Lord Baltimore Hotel,
when another celebration will be held.
The Minister of CzechoSlovakIa and
Nine. Veverka will be hosts at dinner
tomorrow evening.
The Minister Of Nicaragua, Senior
DR.. Don Juan B. Sacssa, has returned
from New York, where he passed few
days.
The newly appointed Minister of
Panama, DR.. Harmodio Arias. Is ex-
pected to arrive in New York today.
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