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THE WEATHER Fair Saturday; Sunday increasing cloudiness, probably rain in extreme west portion; moderate temperature. ! THIRTY-FIRST YEAR Durham Moxnjng MEDIUM DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1924. ■v - TEN PAGES TODAY NOtICB CITY ICMCRIBEEI Fleaoe report to Ufa Circulation De partment, phone 131, on any moraine ?our Herald \t not delivered by 0:M. P^KrE—-Daily, 5c; Sunday, 7c. I Will DEPARTMENT Consideration of Problem Postponed Until Monday, Waiting Report ■STUDYING BILL Fate of Underwood Measure Depends Upon Report 1 From ^Department NEW PLANS OFFERED In Main, However,-the Con tention Is Between Under wood and Norris Bills (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Dec. 5.—Considera tion of the Muscle Shoals problem In the senate went over today until Monday to await the report of the war department on the Underwood bill. Secretary Weeks conferred late today at the capitol with admin istration leaders and promised to submit the report of the military experts on the measure Monday. Realizing that little headway could ■* be made toward settlement of the Muscle Shoals question until the report was received, the senate ad journed until Monday. The fate of the Underwood bill, in the opinion of senate leaders, hinges on the war department. President Coolidge referred the Un derwood bill to the military experts and it is understood he expects to be glided in a measure by their report. If the Underwood bill is disap proved by the military men, it is believed that the whole question will be referred to a joint commit tee of the senate and house to act as a commission to recommend a solution of the problem. Today’s session of the senate was devoted entirely to debate on Muscle , Shoals. Senator Harrison, Demo crat, Mississippi, spoke nearly two hours in favor of the Underwood bill, and Senator Wadsworth, Re publican, New York, advocated ac ceptance of the Hooker-White-At terbury offer. Some time also was spent in a discussion led by Sen ator Bruce, Democrat, Maryland, on his amendment requiring the se lection of employees at Muscle Shoals in event the government operates the plant on merit and not for political reasons. Before the discussion got under way, two amendments to the Under wood bill were introduced. Sen ator McNary, Republican, Oregon, presented an amendment to place the power developments at Muscle Shoals under the federal water power act, and Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tennessee, proposed one to restrict the lease of the prop erty to an American citizen or an American controlled corpora tion. The Muscle Shoals question also cropped up In the house today, two bills being introduced for disposi tion of the property. Representative Reese, Republican, Tennessee, Introduced a bill identical to the Underwood measure and . Representative Wood, Republican, West Virginia, presented a measure providing for a federal corporation to operate the properties. Senator Harrison declared the act under which Muscle Shoals was constructed provided for utilization of the property for the production of nitrogen for explosives in time of war and for fertilizer in time of peace. He asserted that fer tilizer was the prime need of the country and that all of the power necessary for southern enterprise could be developed from power sites in the Appalachian section exclu slxe of Muscle Shoals. The Mississippi senator praised President Coolidge’s recommenda tions for Muscle Shoals in his mes sage to congress and declared the chief executive would veto the Norris bill if passed but would not yeto the Underwood measure, i Senator Wadsworth said it would be impossible to keep politics out of government operation of Muscle Shoals, and declared the best solu tion of the issue would be obtained 'toy a partnership between the gov ernment and a private corporation, Which knew “their business." He declared that the bidders be hind the Hooker-WhKe-Atterbury proposal had furnished valuable suggestions for the development of the property and not only would f -fcower be developed and fertilizer manufactured but that many by products would be produced at Muscle Shoals to make a success •f the operations. He criticized the Norris bill for separating the operations of the power and fertilizer developments at Muscle Shoals and said “by all means the property should be placed tinder a single management." He criticised the Bruce amendment, which would place the Muscle Shoals employees under government operation in the hands of the civil service commission because it would restrict the right to “fire and hire." Senator Norris, Republican, Ne braska, frequently challenged state ments of the speakers and defended his measure. He declared govern ment operation could be free from politics under the provisions of the bill if the right men were selected to operate the property. Senator Underwood, Democrat, Alabama, said his bill provided first for private operation under gov ernment ownership and he himself preferred private operation but if a proper lease could not be ob -iained the property “must" be de veloped by the government. Some confusion over the Muscle Shoals question was created today by the introduction of a bill by Senator Wadsworth giving the sec retary of war authority to sell nitrate plant number 1 and Waco quarry, a part of the property. He explained he introduced the measure as chairman of the military affairs committee solely as a routine meas ure and these provisions probably would be stricken out in the sen ate. CIPRIO CASTRO. FORMER DICTATOR, For Ten Turbulent Year* He Guided Affairs In Venezuela DIES IN EXILE Had Been Out of Hi* Na tive Country Since Driven From Presidency FUNERAL IS SIMPLE Lowering of Star* and Stripes and Firing of Gun Only Honors Paid Former Ruler (By the Associated Press.) San Juan, Porto Rico, Dec* 5.— General Ciprlano Castro, the man who for almost 10 years as dicta tor held the destinies of Venezuela in his hand, was buried here la^e this afternoon in alien, but not un friendly soil, shrouded in the flag of his native land from which he was an exile. General Castro died at midnight Thursday from hemorrhage of the stomaqh, after a lingering illness. The last rites over the body of the one time dictator were simple. This was due to the fact that his family desired a quiet funeral. Lope Bello, a Venezuelan exile, delivered an oration at the grave, to which the body was borne by nephews of Cas tro after a service in tho Catholic church. As relatives of the dead man were placing wreaths on the newly-made mound the sunset gun at the army post at El Morro, v, hich overlooks the old cemetery, was fired and the stars and stripes were lowered, giv ing to the scene a suggestion of the honors which once were Castro’s. A member of General Castro’s family said today that although he frequently had been urged to at tempt to return to Venezuela and make an effort to regain thV reins of government, he always refused to do so. Although it was reported that Castro had large fortunes in Europe, especially in Germany, he lived here in modest style. The big period In Castro’s life be gan in 1899, when at the head of a successful revolution he drove out President Adrade and entered Cara cas, October 24. From then on un til the coup by which he was un seated in 1908 he held full sway in Venezuela although his persistently belligerent disposition led him and his country into many stormy periods. DR. ROYSTER LOSES ACTION Miss Nash Wins Damage Suit Against Doctor (By the Associated Press.) Raleigh, Dec. 5.—Miss Mary White Nash of Louisburg, was awarded a verdict of $6,000 in su perior court here today in her suit against Dr. Hubert A. Royster, prominent surgeon of Raleigh, in which mal-practice was charged. While no appeal was taken from the verdict, it was understood .to night that Dr. Royster’s attorneys were contemplating such action. The jury deliberated 26 hours be fore bringing in a verdict in favor of Miss Nash. The amount she had asked as damages was $25,000. Disposition of the case at this term of court marked the second time it had been tried, a mistrial having taken place in Louisburg last year. The physician was charged with having been negligent in caring for Miss Nash, after an operation per formed by him upon her knee, the result being that it wan adjudged she was permanently crippled. It was asserted that the physician had left the girl shortly after the oper ation and that the case had been turned over to other physicians. The doctor in reply declared that he had left the child only after her condition seemed to be improv ing and that complications set in after he departed from the city. He testified that the mother of the child had agreed for the other doc tors to take over the case. STOCK PRICES DOWN SHARPLY Large Amount of Selling Forces Market Down (By the Associated Press.) New York, Dec. 5.—Stock prioes crumbled under an avalanche of selling orders in the closing part of today’s market after an early out burst of bullish enthusiasm had carried 113 Individual issues to new peak prices for the year, a record high for all time, and five above the previous record established two weeks ago. The volume of trading, which totalled 2,585,000 shares, has been exceeded only once since the cur rent bull movement started. The enormous volume of selling origi nated with professional bear trad ers, working for a technical reac tion, and gained added stimulus by unsually heavy week-end profit taking and the touching off of "stop loss” orders. Despite the tremendoqf volume of offerings, the decline, with, a few conspicuous exceptions, was an or derly one, net losses in most of the active issues ranging from small fractions to two points. So furious was the pace of trading when the reaction was at Its height, that the official ticker at times was nearly 30 minutes behind. Confidence In Mussolini Rome, Dec. 5.—Premier Musso lini, gained a vote of confidence today in the senate, the vote be ing 206 to 54, on a resolution ap proving the government’s internal policy. i Hoover Withdraws Support Of Radio Regulation Bill Declares Too Much Progress Is Being Made in the Art of Radio Now For the Government to Attempt Any Complete System of Regulation Over the Industry. (By the Associated Press.) "Washington, Dec. 5.—Rapid and continuing progress In the whole art of radio communication, with un predictable alterations In prospect, makes inadvisable the establish - llshment at present of any complete system of federal regulation over the the industry, Secretary Hoover to day told. administration supporters in congress. In a letter to Chairman White of the house marine and fisheries com. mlttee, which reported a bill at the last session in line with proposal^ for such regulation advocated time by Mr. Hoover, the s' today declared that epr ^ -u convinced that the was not justified in estabkjS* ^ £ definite policy at this time. * * He proposed as a substitute a short measure re-affirming the govern ment’s power to control the ether, and to re-inforce the degree of present regulation, by which the commerce department assigns wave lengths to different types of radio users, and endeavors to minimize in terference. Chairman White with held comment on the letter. The White bill, incorporating the broad regulative provisions which Mr. Hoover now deems impractica bio Is on the house calendar, he pointed out and can be removed by action of the whole house. The measure was drafted by the com mittee with advice from the secre tary and officials of the commerce department after two national con ferences or radio users and experts had been held In Washington to con. slder the problems involved. Mr. Hoover set forth at length in his letter tqAhe chairman his reasons for ing his support for the geiv-»iEtfc jatory measure. Madio ffBMP?) ’ by inter-connection of ' ‘ -asting stations, was enabling simultaneous presentation of matter over the entire nation. The inter-connection might be worked out independently of existing wire systems, he added, and higher power stations were reaching out to get a continental scope from a single sta tion. At the same time, he related, advertising possibilities are being exploited and there also is a possi bility that radio broadcasting sta tions might decrease in number in the future, instead of increase as in the past, thus eliminating the need for arbitration. Extensive regulation at present, he indicated futher, might embark the government on an unnecessary process of censorships. MURDERERS PAY EXTREME PENALTY IN M’LEARY CASE Mortimer King and Frank Harrell Electrocuted At Columbia BOTH ARE PENITENT Harrell Claims That He Did Not Get Justice, Having No Part In the Murder (By the Associated Press.) Columbia', S. C-, Dec. 5—Five months and three days after they had robbed and slain their bene factor, Mortimer N. King and Frank Harrell, went to their death here today, both penitent and remorse-' ful and both with a plea for divine mercy and forgiveness on . their quivering lips. They were electrocuted shortly bet>re daybreak this morning in. the state penitentiary for the mur der of Major S. H. McLeary, of the United States army, -" ho was slain on a lonely highway near Cheraw, S. C., JUly 2, last, after he had giv en the youths a "lift” in his auto mobile. Both faced death calmly, sustained by the belief—repeatedly expressed while stltting in the wooden chair awaiting the death-dealing electric current—that their "sins had been forgiven.” ' Harrell—the first to go—while ad mitting participation in the crime, complained bitterly of his fate, de claring that his part did not war rant the death penalty. He said he did not know his companion was going to kill the officer and they had planned to “tie him up,” and rob him. The crime, he said, net ted them $8, a watch and some clothing. Harrell held out hope to the last that something would happen to save him from the electric chair King maintained ti.e stoic atti tude and air of resignation which has characterized his demeanor from the time he heard the death sentence pronounced upon him. He admitted he fired the fatal shot but maintained that It was not his original Intention to kill the offi cer. The disgrace he had brought himself seemed to concern him more than his impending' death. “Oh, I’m so sorry, so sorry,” he was repeating, when his faint voice was silenced by the destructive cur rent shooting through his body. Harrell was placed in the chair and the current turned on at 6:24 o'clock and four minutes and ten seconds later, he was pronounced dead. Sixteen minutes later. King followed him. He was dead three minutes and 53 seconds later. The bodies of both were claimed by relatives, King's being sent to his home at Canton, K. C., and Harrell’s to the home of relatives near Union, S. C. Both were mar ried. Harrell was 24 and King was 25 years of age. Neutrals Shot Reval, Esthonia, Dec. 5.—Two air force officers were sentenced to death and shot today for remain ing inactive during tho Communist outbreak last Monday. HIGH SPOTS IN WASHINGTON NEWS President Coolidge returned from Chicago. Debate continued in the senate on Muscle Shoals. The bouse considered the interior department appropriation bill. The civil service commission re ported a decrease in the number of civil service employes. Secretary Hoover withdrew his support of pending legislation for federal radio control. Federal prohibition forces. Com missioner Haynes reported, made 68,161 arrests In the last fiscal year. The Mai Daughterty case, Involv ing the power of congress to compel the production of books, was argued before the supreme court. The senate committee investigat ing the internal revenue bureau de. elded some excessive allowances for amortization were given war-time POLICE OFFICERS OF WEEH1KEN ED FOR COURT Charged With Aiding and Abetting Bootleggers In Their Traffic DOCK UNDER GUARD Volunteers Now Guarding Waterfront to Prevent Further Smuggling of Liquor — (By the Associated Press.) Jersey Oity, Dec- 5.—Indictment ot Police Commissioner Harry J Stearns, of Weehawken, 'William Griffin, a Jersey City brolor and 10 Weehawken policemen, including two superior officers, tonight by the Hudson county grand Jury climaxed a day of many developments in Weehawken’s bootleg scandal. Having Its origin In an affidavit by a man who admitted he was for merly engegad In bootlegging ac tivities, the investigation has spread until It now threatens to reach throughout Hudson county. “We are after hgher ups now,” was the only comment of John Mil ton, the county prosecutor, who yes terday brought the matter before the grand jurors. Home guards recruited for ser vice during he war have arranged to patrol the docks at Weehawken where, according to the affidavit by John Dorsey, great quantities of liquor have been smuggled Into New Jersey with the protection of the police. Evidence gathered by Father Benentt. the “crusading rector,’* of St. Lawrence Catholic church, sit uated In the heart of the affected area is also expected to play an lm portant part In the official inves tigation. It was learned today that Father Benentt, night after night, disguised himself, went to the docks and there saw the liquor smuggling forces in full swing. With the exception of Stearns, Griffin and Patrolman John Me Mann, those indicted already have been arrested and released under heavy bond as material witnesses. Conspiracy an malfeasance In office are the charges mentioned in indict ments. LOVE TRAGEDY AT ROCK HILL Wife, Mother and Friend Are Dead (By the Associated Press.) Rock Hill. S. C., Dec. 5.—That Mrs. Frank Simpson, 35, came to her death as the result of a pis tol shot wound inflicted by J. T. Cornwell, 38, and that he came to his death by firing a second shot into his own brain, was the verdict of the coroner’s Jury an nounced late today following an Inquest into the circumstances sur rounding the death of the man and woman whose bodies were found seated In a parked automobile be side the old York road near here early today. , The woman had a bullet wound in her left breast that punc tured her heart, while her escort’s temple was punctured with a bul let fired from a .38 calibre pistol which lay on his knee clutched In his right hand. Blood was stream ing from the wounds of both bodies and trickling to the ground when found by John Kee, rural mail carrier. Testimony before the coroner’s Jury was to the eitect that Mrs. Simpson, who Is survived by her husband and live young children, had earlier today tenderly bid den one of her little sons good bye and remarked that it would be her last farewell. This oc curred, It was reported, when she and Cornwell took him to school this morning. It was testified also that she had given her wrist watch to a little daughter. Cornwell leaves two children and an aged mother. His wife died about five years ago. The Corn well home and the Simpson home are about three miles apart In the Ogden neighborhood of York coun ty. — Intimated That Other Trips Will Be Made In the Same Manner HAS HIS JOKE Closes Up Dining Car Stew ard With Dry Bit of Breakfast Humor FEW STOPS MADE Crowd At Only One Station, Connellsville, Pa.; Rail Officials Re lieved (By the Associated Press ) Washington, Dec. 6.—Having set a precedent in manner of travel. President and Mrs. Coolidge re turned to Washington at 8 o’clock tonight after their visit to the Chi cago livestock exposition. The executive seemed well satis fied with his economy experiment in the use of regular trains and tho usual accommodations rather than special trains or private cars, and members of the party that ac companied him to Chicago, declared it would not be surprising if on all future trips he should choose to travel as he /lid on the one ended tonight. Railroad officials, however, sighed with relief when tho train drew Into the Union station. Transpor tation of a presidential party al ways places the greatest respon sibility on the railroad over which the executive chooses to travel, and the trainmen who took Mr. Coo lidge to and from Chicago frankly asserted that his use of regular equipment hardly lessened this re sponsibility. The train on which Mr. Coolidge returned was more private and spe cial in its nature than the one on which he made the trip to tho Illi nois city. Because of the addi tion of the two cars occupied by tho party, the regular train was split at Willard, Ohio, and these coaches with a through Chlcago Washington sleeper and observation car were made into a first section. The executive passed most of the long daft ride resting after the busy homa In Chicago. He and Mrs. Coolidge, as on the westward trip, took their meals in the diner, and at breakfast, he discomfited the dining car steward with one of hlfl dry bits of humor. That official appeared near the end of the meal to Inquire If the President and first lady had found their coffee to their ljklng. "It was delicious,’* replied Mrs. Coolidge smilingly, whereupon the President with solemn face asked: "Why, did you think there was something wrong with it?” The train made only a few stops during the day and at only one of these—Connellsvllle, Pa.,—had a crowd gathered to greet the Presi dent. Tho same town had given him a greeting on his westward trip, and today there was a gather ing of several hundred at the sta tion with a band and a basket of flowers. Both the President and Mrs. Coolidge left the luncheon table to acknowledge tho greeting from the rear platform. The for mer shook hands with several members of the band and thanked them for their music. When the basket of flowers was handed up, a man In the gather ing stepped forward to explain: "Mr. President, we want you to know that these flowers are from a girls' musical organization and that these girls persuaded a lot of Democrats to vote for you.” "Well, X guess somebody did a good deal of that sort of work,” the President replied with a faint smile. The day's rest appeared to have brought complete recovery to the President from the nasal Irritation he had contracted at the pavilion, where he inspected tho champions of the international livestock ex position. Whether any of the dozen or so conferences, tho r*resldent held while in Chicago, had anything to do with the task of cabinet build ing, he soon must undertake, was not made known by any members of tho party that returned with him. FLOW OF GOLD STARTS AGAIN Europe Now Getting Some Real Money (By the Associated Press.) New York, Dec. 5.—First evidences of a return flow of gold to Europe, after four years of heavy Importa tions by the United States which have given this nation more than a third of the world's supply, were seen today when two shipments ag gregating $12,000,000 were consigned to Germany and Great Britain. An initial shipment of $5,000,000 gold coin by J. P. Morgan and company to the German relchsbank represent ed the first transfer of proceeds of the German loan. Weekly withdraw als of about $5,000,000 will be made by Germany until a substantial por tion of the balances created by the sale of $110,000,000 German bonds in this country have been transferred. Exportation of $7,000,000 In gold bars by the International Acceptance bank to London constituted what was said to be the largest single shipment of gold from the United States this year. The metal was con signed to a London bank for re shlpment. Influences contributing to the out ward movement of the gold have been the enormous volume of loans and cerdlts granted by American bank ers to European governments and return of several continental cur rencies, Including Dutch and Swiss exchanges to parity. Several ship ments also have been made to India. \ Japanese Exclusion Act Was Disaster of First Magnitude, Woods Says FAULTS FRANKLY OPENED TO VIEW AT STATE MEET Speakers At Literary Asso ciation Meeting See Some Improvement DR. ROBINSON SPEAKS Speakers Willingly Face the Collective Faults of the Community, State and Section Herald Bureau, 707 Lawyer's Building. (By R. E. POWELL.) Raleigh, Dec. 5.—North Carolina and a New South willing to hear a frank rehearsal of what ails them, a people that will read books against the section even as those given to overmuch boosting ahd boasting, these were the theme of the State Literary and Historical association in its second session to day, a season marked by the final address from Dr. James Harvey Robinson, noted amongst the phil osophers. and by the organization of a fine arts section of the whole as sociation The frankness of the assaults on our corporate complacency was marked. The censoriousness was welcomed because It came from peo ple with the sectional no less than the Bperiority complex common to the provincial. The association had run through its two whole days without a speaker who did not take his job seriously. And when it closed tonight with the man who wrote "The Mind in the Making" It had won its right to be known as a body that seriously desires to re gain the lost art of meditation In this busy world of America. The association was the guest at luncheon of the Kiwanls, Rotarians and Civitans In Peacock Alley where after the eating there was a Jumped up series of speeches which greatly entertained the folks. S. Wade Marr was toastmaster and a tableful of oratory followed the sal lies of the Interlocutor. Dr. Rob inson was a guest at the luncheon but saved his speech for the night session. The morning desslon opened with the papers of a pair of newspaper stars. Miss Nell Battel Lewis of Raleigh and Gerald W. Johnson, professor of Journalism at the state university. Their subjects were "Culture and the Art of Living” and Miss Lewis spoke first. However, this is too fast. Prof. Benjamin B- Kendricks of North Carolina College for Women really opened the session . The crowd had become excited over the prospect of a battle between the Journalistic pair. Dr. Kendricks talked on the proper interpretation of history. He began with Homer and his super men and superwomen. The Iliad and the Odyssey were attempts tolnterpret historical phenomena and how the divine Intervened In the affairs of men. He came on through the ancient gods and their evolution from a tribal to the uni versal god, leaving to the Founder of Christianity the revelation of God as the Universal Deity. The ancients did not succeed In divest ing Him of jealousy and attributes of great wrath, but the God of the New Testament was a very different conception from that of the old. Mr. Kendricks then asked If the world’s history has been a revela tion from God, that Is the process of this revelation. Here he went Into the motive behind great wars and Incidentally discussed the more re cent interpretation of German Dar winians who thought It tho law of national life that the weak always be subject to the strong. Getting down to the last two cen turies Mr. Kendrick talked Interest ingly of the historians of those periods and how they meticulously stuck to the facts. He read like lightning and only when he dls gressed to Insert a clever observa tion did the audience always as a whole get him. When he got Into the realm of economics with Its Adams Smith and Ricardos, they took notice- The North Carolina realtors had not always understood the Ricardo law of diminishing re turns he said, whereupon the folks knew exactly what he meant. The committee on nominations offered the ticket composed' of Fred erick H. Koch, president; Dr. Rich ard Tllman Vann first vice presi dent; Burton Craige of Winston-Sa lem second vice president, and Miss Annie F. Petty of Raleigh third vice president. R. B. House of Raleigh was re-elected secretary-treasurer. For a few minutes then the asso ciation discussed the organization of a fine arts section of the association and then adjourned for lunch at Peacock Alley returning to Its work at 2:30. Bluebird Is Located New York, Dec. 6.—A wireless message from the coast guard cut ter Seneca announcing It had located the four masted schooner Bluebird with 16 met^ aboard, and was towing It to Norfolk, was picked up here to night by the Independent Wireless Telegraph corporation. Confederate Reunion New Orleans, Dec. 6.—Major General Hampden Osborn, of Co lumbus, Miss., recently appointed adjutant general and chief of staff of the United Confederate Vet erans, announced today that May 12 to 15 had been selected as the dates for the Dalian re-union. Identifies Demand Note Given to Thompson and Black For $15,000 GAVE FORBES $5,000 Accused of Holding Out Because He Didn’t Divide It Equally With Di rector (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Dec. 5.—Testimony of the chief witness and presentation of the chief document In the gov ernment's conspiracy charges against Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former director of the veterans bureau, and John W. ,Thompson, St. Louis contractor, closed the first part of the government's evidence In the Forbes-Thompson trial late today. Ellas H. Mortimer, one of the al leged members of the conspiracy to allot war veterans hospitals to favored contractors and divide the profits and- now the principal wit ness for the government, finished his testimony by Identifying a $15, 000 demand note he had signed to Thompson and Black. Of tills, Mortimer testified, he gavo Forbes $3,000. The government makes no charges that the conspiracy ever resulted In the division of any profits, and thus far has presented only the $15,000 noto and Mor timer’s testimony to show that Forbes received money from the contractors as "advances.” James W. Black, partner of John W. Thompson, also of St. Louis, and allaged to have been associated . In the conspiracy. Is dead. The note presented today was found by government attorneys In Thompson’s papers, when the lat ter turned over his files to the government last winter for use before the grand Jury. Many other government exhibits also were taken from Thompson’s files. The note, government coun sel said, was "an Impounded paper.” It never has been paid, defense counsel asserted. At the time, ; Mortimer said, Forbes had accused him of ‘‘dou ble-crosslng,” because Forbes got only $5,000 of the $15,000 "ad vance.” Mortimer said Black told him that Thompson had given Forbes about $30,000. Mortimer said he denied to Forbes having “double crossed” him, explaining the other $5,000 was for the expenses of the Pacific coast Inspection trip taken by Forbes, the Mortimers and Black. Hotel bills at San Fran cisco and other places during the western trip were Introduced by the government as having been paid by Mortimer. Forbes’ counsel strenuously op posed the Introduction of nil Mor timer’s testimony after the dat? on which Mortimer said Black had decided to "cut loose from Forbes and not pay any more graft.” Judg% George H. Carpenter, how ever. overruled this objection and Mortimer Identified a letter and a $500 check from Black. The money was to be deposited with the army quartermaster’s department to ob tain five sets of plans for the Chlillcothe (Ohio) hospital. In re turn Captain F. Charles Starr wrote Black he was forwarding the five sets of plans. Captain Starr, It has been Indicated by the defense, would be one of the prin cipal witnesses for Forbes. He will be used to show. It was said, that the control of the hospital bids was left as nearly as possible un der the law, In the hands of the construction division of the army quartermasters corps, and that Forbes merely gave his official ap proval to the army officials’ de clslon. Mortimer will be cross-examined by the defense at the resumption of the trial Monday. I During the afternoon session, Forties was served with papers In a physicians suit for services dur ing Forbes’ recent Illness. "Forbes Is now dead broke,” said one of the defense counsel In explaining the Incident to news paper men. DEATH WON GOAL IN RACE WITH LOVE (By the Associated Press.) Chicago. Dec. 5.—Private fu neral services will be held tomor row for William M. McCllntock, known as the "millionaire orphan" who died as his fiance waited at his bedside with a marriage license. It was a race between death and love, and death won—the latest time death has snatched away the McCllntock millions before they had been long enjoyed by the hold er. McCllntock and Miss Isabelle Pope had been sweethearts since school days. He attended Dart mouth college but stopped his academic training to take up bus iness courses to lit himself for di rection of the >6,000,000 estate which had come to him only seven months ago. Then he fell 111 and he and Miss Pope planned to wed In - the hospital. She obtained the marriage license but death Inter vened. Toung McCllntock was the fifth whose life was cut short before the fortune was enjoyed tyng but ft is reported he had remembered Miss Pope In the will he had executed a few months ago. Former Ambassador Sends Let*er to Federal Council, Giving Views M O R AL WRONG Declares What Congress Sought to Do Could Have Been Done Otherwise QUOTA BASIS WORKED Japan, He Says, Does Not Object to Limit Placed On Immigration, But to the Discriminati On Against the Race; 22,000 Fewer Japanese Men In Country Than When Quota Basis Was Agreed to (By tlio Associated Press.) Atlanta, Dec. S.—"The Japanese exclusion act was an international disaster of the first magnitde; a disaster to American diplomacy In the far east; a disaster to religion and effective - -ork of our American churches in Japan,” Cyrus E. Woods, former United States ambas sador to Japan, said in a letter sent to the federal council of churches, in session here, for reading tonight. The exclusion act also was brought to tho attention of the council by Dr. A. K. Reischauer, Tokio, representing the national Christian council of Japan, who recommended tho appointment of a "high commission” composed of "representative Americans and Jap anese’’ to work out a readjustment of tho present situation "That which now needs to be done is to follow the suggestion of Secretary Hughes,” said Mr. Woods. "Ho asked that Japan be placed on the quota basis. This would admit only 146 immigrants annually Un til July 1927, and thereafter only 150. This amount Is negligible and I am sure in the enforcement of such a provision. America will have tho loyal cooperation of tho Jap anese government." Tho “ultimate consequences” of the act cannot yet be “fully fore cast,” he continued, adding that what "we do or fall to do during the coming year or two will de termine the degree of the disaster.” Tho right handling of the question in the hear future, ha stated, would go "far toward wiping cut the harm" which he said has been done. I "Failure to taka appropriate ac tion will confirm, deepen and ex tend It,” he predicted. j "The purposo of congress was, no doubt, to stop further Japanese Immigration, on the assumption that a flood of Japanese was still enter ing the United States. Congress could not have realized that Japan accepted the principle of exclusion in 1908. Since that time, the Jap anese government has been loyally cooperating with the government of the United States In carrying out that policy. “As a result of the gentlemen s agreement, then entered into, more Japanese males have left the United States than have entered by 22,737. The coming of Japanese women to join their husbands, or to be mar. ried to young men already here, permitted by the government, has resulted in an Increase of foreign born Japanese in continental Ameri ca during the 10 years for which we have the figures (1909-23) of only 8,081 "Japan, moreover, had officially stated more than once that she was prepared to make the provisions of the agreement even more rigid. She officially stated that the drastic re striction of immigration into Ameri ca is a domestic matter concerning which she has nothing to say. "It is, therefore, clear that what congress wanted could have been secured with Japan’s cordial con sent and cooperation. It Is also clear that tho issue In the mind of Japan was not Immigration but something else. “From the standpoint of my special opportunities of knowledge, I wish to state with utmost clear ness and emphasis that what Japan resented was not exclusion but hu miliating race discrimination. And “ the tragedy lies in the fact that con gress could have secured what it felt needful and yet have secured it in a way that would have avoid ed affronting Japan; would have preserved the historic friendship and promoted the practice of co operation in dealing with this and with every difficult issue In the ’ problems of the far east. "Without one compensating ad vantage congress has thrown away one of the most important asseta In solving the problems of the Pacific and has, at the same time, created utterly needless feelings of morti fication, humiliation and distrust, with fresh and as yet unknowable potential factors of difficulty In maintaining the permanent peace of the far east.” Before the passage of the sacclu- J slon act, the former ambassador said, America had a strong Influ ence in Japan. ■"Seldom, if ever, has the poten- j tial Influence of one nation on the free inner life of another nation been so ascendant as was Amreica’S influence in Japan in January, 1924," he pointed out. "It was pow erfully affecting every phase of Ja pan’s mental outlook, political de velopments and alignments, busi ness relations, educational proce dures, and international friendships and policies.’’ With the passage of the act, Ja pan became "bewildered, disap pointed, dismayed and indignant,’* he said. After outlining in detail the present sentiment in Japan, Mr. Woods said: “I believe congress had no deliberate intention to humiliate and affront Japan,” but, “It never the' tss in fact did so.’’ (Continued on page two.) * 1
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