VOTERS REJECT
POINCARE STAND
IN RUHR VALLEY
Landslide for the Socialists
Looms—Premier Is Ex
pected to Resign
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BY C. F. BERTELLI
Universal Service Correspondent
Paris. May 11.—A crushing defeat
for the Poincare government and its
nationalist policies In the Ruhr Is
now assured beyond a doubt by re
port.-, from Sunday’s general elections.
Early Indications of a sensational and
unexpected strength on the part of
the socialists have now reached a
point wore a left bloc landslide seems
highly probable.
Premier Poincare’s resignation is
■certain and President Mlllerand
stated Sunday night that he would
also leave office if the socialists came
into power. Edouard Herriot, leader
■of the opposition in the present parli
ament. who was elected to the cham
ber from Herault, will replace the
premier, it Is generally beleved.
Victory Surprise
The most significant part of the
socialist victory was that It was
wholly unanticipated. Moreover, tha
entire, “big press" for the first time
in modern French politics abandoned
tho tradition of neutrality and cams
out for Poincare. In the face of this,
therefore, the heavy opposition vote
Is accepted as a bursting out of the
•suppressed desire of the people to put
an end to Poincare’s policy of nation
alism.
In the provinces the antt-Polncare
forces have taken 80 per cent, of the
votes which are now in. Lyons, Bor
deaux, Marseilles and Lille have all
gone against the government. So far
the national bloc Poincare’s partly
—Is leading in Paris but-lt is followed
-closely by the communists who are
polling the biggest vote on record.
The socialists have won Caillaux’s
home Sarthe, and the communists are
leading at Bourges.
Opponents Elected
A number of conspicuous op
•ponents of the government have been
Assured of election. Besides Aristide
Brland, whose socialism has always
been somewhat modified, but who Is
nevertheless ranked as an opponent
of Poincare, Paul Painleve and Her
riot there will be numbered among
the new deputies M. Maivy, former
minister of the interior, who at the
beginning of the war was exiled for
five years by Clemenceau.
Maivy was elected from the de
partment of Lot. He is a friend of
■Calllaux and a bitter political enemy
•of Poincare.
The election of Andre Tardleu In
Sene-Et-Otse Is conceded as that of
War Minister Maginot in the Meuse.
CLEAR DECKS
FOR FARM AID
McNary-Haugen Bill to Have
Right of Way in
House
Universal Service.
Washington, May 11.—With the tax
reduction bill practically out of the
way, Senate leaders Sunday ^ald
plans to clear the calendar for early
action on farm relief measures to
insure adjournment June 7.
While there is a great diversity
of opinion as to the form fanners’
relief should take, congressional
leaders are still liopefull that some
agreement can be reached satisfactory
to the various groups and to the
farmers themselves.
The McNary-Haugen bill is to be
given the right of way In the House
next week. It provides an appropria
tion of $200,00,000 to finance the ex
portation of grain. From present
Indications the bill faces rough sled
ding.
Should the bill meet with defeat
then the Norris-Sinclair bill pro
viding for an appropriation of $100,
000.000 to establish warehouses to
hold wheat until a satisfactory price
can bo obtained will be submitted for
consideration, Chairman , Norris, of
the Senate agriculture committee a»
nounced.
Ainlnistratlon leaders candidly ad
mit they are opposed to both of the
farm relief measures mentioned. They
are hoping some kind of a compro
mise measure can be framed which
will eliminate some of the objec
tionable features. In their present
form they are convinced President
Coolidge would veto either or both
of them.
WOMAN KILLS
SPOUSE, BABY
AND HERSELF
Saltvllle, Va., May 10.—Mrs.
Rosa St. Clair, 36 Years old, shot
and killed her husband, Robert
St. Clair, and her daughter, 2
years old, today and then ended
her own life.
Scores Killed in Fight
Over British Mandate
I»ndon, May 10.—The British man
datory occupation of Irak (Mesopo
tamia), has been so long a subject
of political contention, that the dis
turbance at Kirkuk, reported FYiday
by the colonial office, bids fair to I
reopen the controversy.
One hundred townspeople and alx
native soldiers were killed after an
altercation between soldiers and
shopkeepers.
HOUSE TO TAKE
UP FARM BILLS
Washington, May 10.—Definite de
rision to have the House consider
the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill
at this session of congress, was
reached today by republican leaders
Assurance was given supporters of
the measure that it would bo taken
up by the House tihe last of next
week or the first of the week follow
ing.
FAITH OF WIFE
NEVER SHAKEN
Mi-s. Martin Always Confi
dent Husband Would Be
Rescued Alive
Universal Service
San Diego, Cal., May 11.—“I wa.
supremely confident that my hus
band was alive and well In spite of
what all the world might believe to
the contrary. 1 never doubted for a
moment but that I would hear from
him eventually.
“Of course, 1 am delighted to get
definite word of his safety and health
but my faith in his welfare has never
wavered, night or day.''
Her voice vibrating with happiness,
Mrs Frederick Martin, wife of Major
Martin, thus discussed the news of
his rescue at Port Moller, Alaska. She
continued:
“I believe I am the happiest person
in San Diego. I received an unsigned
radio message from Cordova at 8
o'clock Sunday morning telling me
my husband was safe. Now I want
to express my appreciation to Uni
versal Service for giving me the
details of his experiences in the wilds
of that northern country. Certainly,
any wife, under similar circum
stances, would be as happy as I am
this minute.
“One of the reasons why I felt cer
tain he was not dead was because he
mentioned in his last letter to me that
he and his mechanician each had
thermos bottles filled with concen
trated food, and that If any disaster
should compel the mto make a forced
landing in the wilds, this food would
sustain life for several days.
“I am glad to know that this timely
precaution was the means of saving
both men under the unforseen cir
cumstances."
Irving Fisher’s
Weekly Index
New Haven Conn., May 11.—Last
Week's wholesale prices of 200 rep
resentative commodities averaged
145.0 per cent, of the prewar level
according to Prof. Irving Fisher y
weekly index number. The purchas
ing power of the dollar is 69 pre
war cents, this week's index number
ehow3.
Both the, commodity prices and the
purchasing power of the dollar are
relative to the prewar period of
1913. Thus the “low" prices In Jan
uary, 1922, for Instance, exceeded
prewar prices on the average by 38
per cent., that Is the dollar was
worth 72.5 prewar cents.
A summary of conditions follows:
Index Purchasing
Year Number Power
1913 (Prewar) .100. 100.00
1920 (Peak) .247. 40 5
1922 (Low) .138. 72.5
1923 average .157.7 68.4
March average.148.7 67.2
Last week ..145.2 68.8
First quarter 1924 .150.5 68.2
(Mr. Fisher is a noted professor at '
Yale university. His weekly index
is appearing exclusively in Sioux
City In The Tribune every Monday.
It is the only weekly Index of general
prices in the world.—Editor's Note.)
Plane Killed Husband;
Asks Double Insurance
Chicago.—A unique point In life
Insurance was raised In a suit for
610.000 against the New York Life
Insurance company, filed In the
superior court by Mrs. Valentine
Gits, of Oak Park.
Mrs. Gits’ husband, Alphonse, a
wealthy Oak Park manfaeturer, was
killed in an aeroplane fall last August
In Estes Park, Colorado, and Mrs
Gits received 610,000 Insurance from
the company. Now she is suing for
$10,000 mors under a double indem
nity clause which was to take effect
If death was instantaneous.
The company claims that the policy
stated that the insured was not te
operate a submarine nor an aero
plane. Mrs. Gits holds that her hus
band was a paesenger. not aa
operator
STRIFE IN BELGRADE
Belgrade. May 10.—Armed strife
Is reported to have broken out In
consequence of a conflict between
the Albanian government in Tirana
and a number of deputies who da
mand that the capital of the countrj
be transferred to another town
Dispatches from the Albanian fron
tier say the deputies have occupied
the town of Kron. •
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HOW MANY FORDS*
It i« estimated that there are 13.
000,000 automobiles in the world
Reparations Issues Is
Blamed for Ruhr Slack
Berlin, May 10.—Both sides to the
mine conflict in the Ruhr and
Rhineland blame the uncertainty of
the reparation*) issue for the situa
tion. Frit* Theisen and other
operators declare it is impossible to
decrease the working hours of the
miners while (lermany is loaded with
tiie “mlcum" and reparations bur
dens.
Last Photograph of Martin, Missing Yank Flyer
Major Martin, standing in front of his quarters next to th#
postoffice at Kenatak, Portage Bay, Alaska, where he was forced
down by a leak in his crank case. Reading from right to left,
Lieut. Commander Wishaar, United 8tates coast guard; Major
Martin, Evan J. David, special correspondent of The Tribune
ana 80 other newspapers, and Captain Gabbett,’ of the United
States Coast Guard Cutter Algonquin and his son.
Major Martin (In the small boat), and the plane in which he
went Into a forced landing at Kanatak, Portage Bay, Alaska,
waiting for a new Liberty motor.
Word Received From Major Martin
Sunday; Airplane Wrecked Against
Side of Mountain During Heavy Fog
Accident Happened April 30—Located Trappers’ Cabin
In Port Moller Bay Region After Wandering for
Hours—Men Owe Lives to Supply of
Concentrated Food
Universal Service
Cordova, Alaska, May 11.—MaJ. Frederick L. Martin and Berg. Alva L.
Harvey have been found alive and well.
Word from the missing round the world fliers was received her«
Sunday.
They became lost in a huge fog bank and crashed into a mountain of
the Aleutian range.
The accident occurred April 30. the day after they left Chlgnik for
Dutch Harbor, to catch up with the three other planes of the world journey
which had preceded them to Dutch Harbor.
Message From Martin
This message was received here
Sunday from Major Martin:
"Port Moller, Aleutian Island,
Alaska, May 11:
"Shortly after leaving Chlgnlk
bound for Dutch Harbor on April
30, we lost our way In a large fog
formation and crashed into a moun
tain of the Aleutian range. The ac
cident occurred at 12:30 o’clock in
the afternoon of the 30th.
“Neither Sergeant Harvey nor I
was hurt, but the airplane was a
total wreck.
"The fact that wo managed to
exist in tho frozen wastes is due to
the concentrated food reserve wu
carried.
Find Trapper's Cabin
“After wandering aimlessly about
in the fog for hours we located a
trapper's cabin. This proved to be a
point in the southernmost region of
Port Moller Bay.
"At this cabin we found food and
drink. We rested there for three
da?*.
"Leaving the cabin, we walked
along the feeuch for three days and
arrived at Port Moller, where wo
will remain awaiting further instruc
tion*. ”
tsigned) "Martin".
Weather Around Zero
Further information from Port
Molier, said that the men slept in zero
weather, that they trudged along day
after day, until May 7 when they
reached th# trapper's cabin all but
exhausted.
Ftve miles a day was the rate of
their pcagress. They tramped along
tire he«*h *n th# Bering side of the
Aleutian peninsula. After resting at
the cabin they (K>attaued te Port Mul
ler, unaseirted.
They are now resting at the Pacific
America* sannery gnarterg at Port
Mailer.
Majar Martin says he feels wall
“A bath and a shave will be about
all both of us wilt need to feel per
fectly ov k.," Major Martin said with
a laugh.
Major Martin's message was like
word from tho dead. Botli lie and
Sergeant Harvey had been given up
for dead after a desperate search
In the frozen silences of the north.
The escape of the two airmen is
Over Production Causes
Drop in Crude Oil Price
Pittsburgh, Ta., May 10.—A cut of
25 cents a barrel In the price of nine
grades of crude oil was announced
by the principal purchasing agencies
today. Over production It was said,
caused the drop.
The new prices Include: Pennsyl
vania grade oil in New York tran
sit company lines and Bradford dis
trict oil In national transit company
lines, 14.25.
considered a miracle. Their adven
ture will ever be one of the epics of
the arctic.
A pall of tragedy that lias mantled
itself all over Alaska as the result
of the disappearance of Martin and
Harvey dissipated into thin air when
Major Martin’s message was broad
cast from end to end of this north
ern empire.
Frenzied searchers who were still
hoping against hope breathed as they
had not breathed for 10 days.
The coast guard service, the coast
and geodetic survey, trappers, Es
kimo fishermen—scores of them—
had tried in vain to locate the miss
ing fliers.
Sunday's wireless from Martin
puts a happy end to their efforts.
The missing men have been found.
They are safe and well.
Manila Suburbs Fear
Outbreak of Colorums
Manilla.—Residents of the villages
of Caloocan, Novallches and Pason
gluma, on the outskirts of Manila,
have appealed to the authorities for
protection against a possible out
break among the bands of Colorums
religious fanatics, which are at pres
ent in these localities.
Colorums in northeastern Minda
nao and some of the other south
ern Philippine Islands have of late
keen on the warpath against the
government authorities, having
killed 4(1 constabulary soldiers and
necessitated the sending of the
United States gunboat Sacramento
t® help restore order.
The Manila Colorums. however,
deny they contemplate violence and
have assured Brigadier-General
G rente, through their leaders, they
wilt remain peaceful.
CHINESE FLEET
The naval base at Tslngtan, China is
practically established with the a«ju -
sitlon of buildingh to serve as admini
strative offices and barracks for the
marines. The si* vessels composing
the Chinese fleet there are undergoing
repairs and will, it is said, be put »n
as good shape as possible considering
their age. which Is from 30 to 40 years.
“ON TO MALLE"
Halle, Germany, May 10. (A. P.)—
“On to Halle,” is the cry of the
German fascistlc who propose to
make the unveiling Sunday of the
re-erected monument of Von Moltko
an impressive nationalistic demon
stration.
D’OISY SPEED8 ON
Rangoon. India, May It*.—Lieut.
Pelletier IYOtsy. French long distance
flier, who was forced down here by
motor trouble bVlday, departed today
for Bangkok, Slain. D'Olsy had loft
Calcutta Friday morning
70 PERISH IN
WRECK AT SEA
Toklo, May 10. (A. P.)--Seventy
persons are believed to have perished
us a result of the capsizing of the
motor boat, Klnga Mam, near Keel
ung, Formosa, Associated Press dis
patches received today from that
port say. One hundred persons In
cluding passengers and crew were
aboard and It was reported ther«
were only 30 survivors.
TWOKILLEDAS
TRAIN HITS CAR
Mother and Son Meet Instant
Death Near Denison
Sunday
-—
I'enison, la., May 11.—(Special)—
Mrs. Felix Sadowsky of Kenosha,
WIs., and young son, Edwin, were
Instantly killed at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning, when a west bound Chi
cago and Northwestern fast mall
train, No. 9. hit the automobile In
which they were riding.
Her husband, Felix Sadowsky. and
older son, Felix, ,Ir., were thrown
approximately 20 feet by the Impact
and escaped with minor Injuries.
Mr. Sadowsky wa« cut about the
head and shoulders and the son re
ceived only slight body bruises. It
was necessary, however, to take
them to a hospital to dress their
wounds.
Mr. Sadowsky, who was driving,
•aw an approaching train, which wae
going east, and slowed down to let
It pass them, and without Investigat
ing further again started up and was
practically across the tracks, when
an east bound train hit the auto
mobile In the rear, completely de
molishing the car.
The family were on their way to
Colorado, where It was necessary to
go on account of the poor health of
Mrs. S%dowsky.
The accident occurred at McHen
ry's crossing, north of town.
SENATORS
PASS TAX
MEASURE
Washington. May 10.—The tax re
duction bill was passed today by the
I Senate. The vote on final passage
was 84 to 15.
It provides for a 26 per cent cut
in Income taxes payable this year
and permanent revision downward
of practically every federal tax.
The democratic proposals for re
duction in the income schedule mod
ification of the corporation tax and
full publicity of tax returns consti
tute salient provisions of the measure.
These and other changes made by
the bill as passed by the House must
now be taken up at a conference be
tween members of the House and
Senate.
Without a record vote the Senate
adopted Just before the final roll call
an amendment by Senator Simmons,
democrat. North Carolina, increasing
from $2,000 to $2,500 the exemptions
for heads of fumllles with incomes
of $5,000 and over. Heads of families
with Incomes of less than $5,000 now
have such an exemption.
Twenty-nine republicans and the
two farmer-labor senators voted with
a solid democratic lineup for the bill.
The opposing votes were cast by
Senators Ball, Delaware; Cameron,
Arizona; Colt, Rhode Island; Cum
mins, Iowa; Kdge, New Jersey; Fees,
Ohio; Lodge, Massachusetts; Mc
Kinley, Illinois; Moses, New Hamp
shire; Norbeck, South Dakota; Pep
per and Reed, Pennsylvstnia; Phipps,
Colorado; Wadsworth, New York,
and Watson, Indiana, all republicans
WIFE OF STATE’S
RICHEST MAN DIES
AT DES MOINES HOME
Des Moines, la.. May 12.—(Special)
—Mrs. F. M. Hubbell, wife of Iowa’s
richest man died here Sunday after
noon at the family home. Terrace
Hill, where the Hubbells have lived
since 1884. She was 88 years old.
Senility was the cause of her death.
Mrs. Hubbell was the adughter of
Isaac Cooper, who was one of Iowa’s
earliest and most prominent pioneers.
In 1840 she came to Des Moines with
her mother and father and In 1888
she was married to Mr. Hubbell.
Besides her husband she la survived
by one daughter. Countess Beulah
Cooper VVachmelster; two sons, Fred
i erlck C. and Orover C. Hubbell, and
one sister, Mrs. Florence Ginn.
Funeral services will be held at
the home Thursday afternoon.
SKATES 57 YEAKS OLD
William B. Kendall, of Bowdoinham.
t Me., went skating last winter on a pair
of skates that his father made 57 years
ago. The runners were made from an
old saw and on one of the skates was
one of the original heel straps.
Escaped Insane Man
Causes Death of Four
Chicago, May 10.—Four men are
reported dead and two injured, as
the result of a crash of & Milwaukee
passenger train and an automobile
near the Mayfair station in the
northwestern section of the city to
day. The automobile was owned by
Benjamin Xvorahr, who had been In
the psychopathic hospital from
which he Is believed to have es
caped Friday
GERMAN REDS
DEFY ORDERS;
SEVERAL DEAD
Hundred Wounded, 500 in
aJil, Following Demon
stration at Holle
BY O. D. TOLISCHUS,
Universal Service Correspondent.
Halle, Germany, May 11.—Two po
licemen dead, several dangerously
wounded, eight or 10 communists
killed about 100 wounded and close
to 600 communists In Jail!
This Is the red record of the na
tionalists' "deutsche tag" or "German
day" which was celebrated here on
the occasion of the re-erectlon and
unveiling of the first Von Moltke
statue.
Defying the government's order
forbidding the communists to make a
counter demonstration to the nation
alists "celebration," communists
attempted to Invade Hatle, known as
the "red citadel" of central Germany.
Strong police reserves occupied all
the roads Into the city. A troop of
2.000 communists coming from Tjetp
elg, according to police reports, sud
denly broke up Into small groups and
opened fire on the police. Six of the
latter fell.
The police fell back, then returned
the fire. According to an estimate
given by police headquarters, the
communists casualties were about 60.
About 460 of the Invaders were
rounded up during the fighting and a
thousand others were taken from a
communist meeting In a beer hall in
another part of the city. The police
locked all of them up but released
the latter Sunday night.
The police are In full control.
The nationalists affair here with
Dudendorff at the head was the
largest demonstration of that poli
tical element since the end of the
war.
Following the ceremonies about
60.000 members of the nationalists
organizations carrying 8,600 flags and
banners, marched past Generals I,u
dendorff and Hutler. Admirals
Sehroeder, Scheer and other war
leaders at the race track where 150,
000 people had assembled.
The national song "Deutschland
Tiber Alles." rolled wave-Uke again
and again over the long line. Luden
dorff raised the battle cry of down
with communism." _____
COUNT HINTS AT
SUIT FOR LIBEL
Denies He Accepted $100,*
000 to Surrender $40,
000,000 Bride
by c. f. bertelli
Paris, May 11.—“The story that
1 accepted $100,000 to surrender my
wife Is not only outrageous and In
sulting, and positively untrue, but
warrants my taking Immediate pro
ceedings for libel,” declared Count
Balm Von Hoogstraeten Sunday on
the train enroute to Vienna.
"The real facts are as follows:
While It Is true that In the begin
ning, my relations with Mr. and Mrs.
Rogers might be termed strained,
this has all been altered by recent
developments which I am not at
liberty to disclose.
"Mr. Rogers has been extremely
affable and courteous to me through
out his stay In Europe. He asked my
permission to allow Milllcent to re
turn with him to New York as ur
gent family matters necessitated her
presence there.
Will nay lonms
"I would have gone also, but at
the last moment I received ft tele
gram asking me to enter the lists In
behalf of Austria In the Davis tennis
cup elimination which shortly be
gins with Switzerland.
"I am not yet sure whether I
shall play, but I shall certainly at
tend. Furthermore. I am scheduled
to take part in the Olympic tennis
contests, after which 1 shall compete
at Wimbledon.
"Under all these circumstances 1
considered a Journey to America at
the present time unjustified."
From private Information which
comes from sources closest to the
count, I am able to confirm that
Count Salm really believes his wife
will return to him at the end of the
summer. It Is declared that the ut
most concession Colonel Rogers was
able to extract In exchange for the
payment of the bills of his daughter
and her noble Austrian husband, was
Mllllcent’s Journey to New York with
her father and unaccompanied by her
hueband.
Dad Wins First Trick
It Is positively declared that both
MtlMcent and the count refused to
consider separation proceedings. It
Is conceded, however, that Colonel
Rogers wou the first trick In the
game.
On the principle that “absence
makes the heart less fond," Instead
of "grow fonder" Miillcent's father
hopes to change the temporary sep
aration into permanent divorce, but
no actual negotiations to this end
have as yet been started.
Eleanore Duse Funeral
Attended by Thousands
Universal Serblce.
Rome. May 11.—The funeral ser
vices for Eleanore Ouse, world famed
Italian tragedienne, were held before
an Immense crowd of the liigest dig
nitaries of the nation at St, Mary’s
church Sunday.
After the ceremonies at the church,
where thousands. Including the coun
try’s leaders, wept openly, the body
was taken by train to Asolo wtiers
she will bb burled tomorrow,