Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1920, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight. rising temperature tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended 2 p.m. today: Highest, 50, at 5 pan. yesterday; lowest, 41, at $ a.m. today. Full report on page 21. Closing New York Stocks, Page 20. Ghe pei * " WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Star, Member -of the Associated Press ‘The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special Gispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 96,031 No. 27,741. JOHNSON'S GAINS GEORGE T. SUMMERLIN “ON WOOD PLEASE CALLED FROM MEXICO 7 were ss {slated for transfer to a more im- Drganization Wants Field | rrtsns Poe wecico Sh now ne Cleared for Free Action | at Convention. Mr. Summerlin has been in charge BY N. 0. MESSENGER. George T. Summerlin, charge of the American embassy at Mexico City, has been summoned to Washington. | State Department officials said today jhis visit had nothing to do with returned to Washington, nearly a year ago. Henry Morgenthau, for- mer ambassador to Turkey, has been appointed ambassador to Mexico.~but WASHINGTON, D. C., TWO-THIRDS RAISE OF LOCAL TAX RATE HIGHLY EXCESSIVE Only Tiny Tax Increase Need- ed, Even if Full State Tax , Unfairly Imposed. WE DNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1920—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. °* TWO CENTS. NATIONS SEEKING BERLIN PROTESTS SELFINTERESTS AGAINST FRANCE’ AS ALLIES DIVIDE: OCCUPYING CITIES French Action Regardea as '“Would Shake Republic if Step Toward Return of Not Opposed Politically Old Policies. and Economically.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE. International nervousness is spread- of the embassy.at the Mexican capi- tal since former Ambassador Fletcher ator Hiram Johnson's progress an the primaries is causing satisfac- SHOCK TROOPS ENTER his nomination has not yet been con- [Editorial Correspondence of ‘The Star.] firmed. by the Senate. He probably | }ing. France’s occupation of German will Shot go to Mexico for several | zn E tion to the old-line repub:icane, who| months. as it will require some time THEODORE W. NOYES. | | territory against the Judgment of the ESSEN. HAMBURG ALSO are against Gen. Wood. and is quite / for him to famil himself with | Int. i | United States, Great Britain and other 7 jn consonance with their plans. Sena-| the Mexican situation | tions com- jallfed powers is but one symptom In the House appropri | Throughout the world, as it bee mes seorailans cit eee ter Johnsor is rapidly undermining + ; inerea i 1 tle rt th two-thirds increase 1 6. the foundation of the Wood strength— | ee san ietaneitae Seen rae saath] | apparent that there is no central, co- “°7™M@nS Fire on French Cavalry support of progressives and old’) adeae ain Cease Ab beet swimealate: | Resive, effective instrumentality to en- Patrol at North Roosevelt contingent. The old guard | (oS seats ' | force the peace treaty, each nation is expect. Johnsor eliminate “Wood | je Vals |and prospective District deficits under | beginning to 1 1 i Frankfort AAS clears tine the grand the half-and-half law. In the House/ eginning to look out for her own in- - Ret-together in th ention, when ie vineseaacianaal (ex eda sciences | terests. Conversations between the United Japan. being nervous about the ) proximity of the boisheviki and their | doctrines to incipient radicalism in | the land of Nippon, has seized Viadi- | vostok. Italy is tacitly behind D’Annunzio's occupation of Fiume. Poland has reached out for pieces, They hope to select a candidate. Their plans, as understood here, <ontemplate aiding Senator Johnson to certain states and up to a limited roint for the purpose indicated—to suppress. Gen. Wood. They _soft- yedaled on their campaign in Mich- | n to- let Senator Johnson have States, France, Great Brita Italy on the Ruhr wv are now in progress, it wa: day at the State Departm cials would not say who had in- itiated the negotiations nor dis- a whip to lash the “undertaxed” Washingtonian into paying the whole cost of capital maintenance, with the half-and-half law dead and buried, or eather buried alive. In the House debate it. was asserted, REJECTS JOHNSON, HOOVER BACKERS | » aid him in California, in Nebraska | for instance; that if state and county of Russian territory. | close Just what was being din- and in Montana. They will not in-| taxes as well as city taxes were taken | [se SSA is a tangle of British| cussed. They may, terfere in New Jersey—and beyond; | A jinto the account an increase of two- | Syria. Pretensions in Turkey and| that the conversations were a that they are through. j Uninstructed Delegation to jtniras in Washington's tax burden Germany's socialist government, “natural development” of the movement of French troops into the Ruhr valley neutral zone. Jules Jusserand, the French Dbasaador, delivered to the State Department two dayx ago 2 mes- sage lfrom the French government regarding the French advance, and {claims her economic ruin is sought! dy! France, and unless it is permitted jt put down the revolt in the Ruhr {valley the» monarchical party will vome back into power. | Marshal Foch and the French gen- | Repressing Johnson in New York- It will be noted that they repressed him in New York, where it was no parc of their intention to let him get # foothold. His candidate for delegate would not suffice to put it on a level in tax paying with other American cities. And some men, misled by hasty con- sideration of tax rates combined with | Convention Is Elected. Women Are Active. AHEAD. PROBABLY FAIR: WEATHER at large. fdrmer State Senator Ben- | Rett. polled 23,851 votes against about | 5.000 for the old line candidates, The | party organization in New maintained itself in the primaries. Mr. | Hoover's friends were unable to break | York | state's “big four” uninstructed dele- gation to the republican national con- By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April New York ltalse reports of the relation of as- | sessed to true value, have charged / that in such comparison Washington | would be found not merely half-taxed | but third-taxed or quarter-taxed. HAMILTON DENIES SAYS ADMIRAL SIMS/COL. KUTZ ASKS erals, putting little stock in German | {pleas, have influenced Premier Mille: rand and the French foreign office to | | take no chances on the allied counci: of'.diplomats, which was trying to dissuade France, but to go ahead and | of the national asked for an expression of opinion from President Wilson. Special Session of Assembly. BERLIN, April 7.—A special session assembly wi'l be neld he line in the seventeenth congres-|Vention rolled over the position of | 4eke German territory first and talk! Two-Thirds Rais Grossly Excessive. ‘wo. se ly Exee | Saturday. The call for the session was mal district, where they centered | their efforts. i The Empire state delegation will go to the republican convention. unin- | structed and will yote for Nicho~| las Murray Butle? for President until; the time comes for real business and they set out to help choose the nom- fnee of the convention. Johnson’s Victory in Michigai To get back to Johnson; as stated, tthe plans of the old-line republicans fare to let him paddle his own canoe fas soon as he hi scotched the ‘Wood boom in the states where he is to be allowed a free hand and to have Ptacit assistance through the old guard ebating efforts for their own choice. The Johngon campaigners are thor- wughly alive to this plan and are re- garding it with the grim suggestion that the old guard may find that hav- ing started something, it may not be 50 easy as they think to stop it. How- ever, that is a chance both factions wre ‘willing to take.-The undeniable ,fact exists that up to this time Gen. ‘ood is showing more actual strength in_ the primaries than apy other can- nddgeMichts Cu ae nas anid that. he must " before the other candi- Jdates can get anywhere, and_for the! “present” Senater Joknson is looked ‘upon as the one to do the stopping. Johnson's Vietory Im Michigan. Senator Johtson’s victory in Michi- ian is counted upon to be of incalcu- lable value to him in his fight in Cal- ifornia with Herbert Hoover. The old-line ‘republicans in California | were with Senator Johnson before} Mr. Hoover entered the lists. From} now on they will redouble their ef-! forts, with the twofold purpose of en-! abling the senator to carry his own| State—and rebuff Mr. Hoover. "| The calculations of the oid-line re-{ publicans do not go tp the extent of | gomputing. a majority of the con- ‘vention for Senator Johnson; and the nomination. - His: attitude of irrecon- cilability ‘toward the league of na. tions and the peace treaty does not fonform to the ‘policy of the greater | ‘number of republicans, it is contend- | «a. The cautious old-line leaders ‘cannot visualize the republican ‘party going before the country on @ plank ef frreconcilability to the league. Moreover, Senator Johnson ‘in his Pveechmaking campaigns has been taking a very radical attitude upgn a umber of questions. It was "ob- erved with gome concern that his fradicalism appealed to the great in- ‘dustrial community of Detroit and brought unmistakable response in the primary balloting. 5 So the old-line politicians in Wash- {ngton, conversant with the plans and strategy of that faction throughout the country, do not yet “see” Senator | Johnson getting the republican nom- Gnation. at the same time observing with satisfaction his inroads upon the Wood strength.- 7x9 Heover Gets Democratic Votes. It was noted as a curious outcome | ef the Michigan primaries that Her- ert Hoover received more votes in the democratic primaries than any of the regular democratic candidates: | this, toa, in spite of the fact tha Mr. Hoover is assumed to be a can-j{ didate for the republican, and not} the democratic, nomination. At thi same time he received 40,000 vote: in the republican primaries. But thai he should-run ahead of Gov. Edwards «the wet candidate) and of Bryan, | McAdoo and Palmer in the democratic | esteem 1s classed as remarkable. | The incident has been seized upon by Mr. Hoover's friends to lend sup- port to their contention that he| would be a’ wonderful “vote getter” for. whichever party should nominate | him. Also has it revived the sug- xestion that if the selections of the two oid parties in regular convention should prove either too reactionary er too radical, Mr. Hoover is ~stiil | vailable as the recourse of a possible | Lining Up for WcAdoo. Democratic politicians in Washing- Yon are hearing every day, from the <ountry at large, echoes of the sug- gestion, which seems to be spreadin everywhere, that “McAdoo is the man’ the old-line and administration dem- ecrats are beginning to center upon. it is quite evident, it is said, that frome one has succeeded in getting the word around that Mr. McAdoo is the gdministration’s favorite at present. BTREET CAR SERVICE IS RESUMED IN TOLEDO ' {Patrons Now Paying Seven-Cent | they had an opportunity to participate ! of the polls. | morning that, aside from the close | the history of the party in the state jand argumentative | sent to the San Francisco convention former States Senator William M. Ben-! nett, pledged to the presidential can-} @idacy of Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, in yesterday's primaries, according to virtually complete re- turns early today. With only 126: election districts out of the in the city missing, the vote for the “big four” was: Nathan L. Miller, 70,043; Senator W. Wadsworth, jr., 70,396; Senator Wil- liam M. Calder, 73.501, and Col. Wil- liam Boyce Thompson, 68,104. Ben- nett's vote was 25,561, of which his home borough, Brooklyn, contributed 14,617. The vote here was lighter than anticipated by party leaders. i i Up-State Returns. Scattering returns from up-state. where the vote was also light. indi- cated that the organization candidates had won over Bennett by a wider margin than in this city. No candidate favorable to Senator Johhson was elected in any of the twelve congres- sional districts here where contests were waged. ~ . The organization men also defeated two candi ma pledged to Hoover in’ “seventeenth ft stonal district in Manhattan by a ra- tig.of about two and one-half to ore bie eas Lee only di sick iB bas tes rig Hoover were entereti. Z There were. no contests bmpng democrats and the party vote proportionately smaller cast for ‘the republicans. < The inter: women here took in the first presidential contest in which the was than | that in thig state surprised party leaders. They turned out in large numbers and proved active workers, particu- latly as watchers after the closing Jt was the city’s first “dry” primary. and political I@aders and police ot cials declared it was the most .or. derly. ever held here. The.-mpagis- | trates’ courts remained open: until. o'clock last. night, but not a: eftigle arrest in connection with the primary was brought before them. Michigan Situation Unchanged. DETROIT, Mich., April 7.—Belated returns on Monday's presidential pri- mary, coming in slowly from the sparsely settled sections of the state, added but few votes early today to the totals already compiled from ap- proximately two-thirds. of the pre- cinats. These figures gave Senator Hiram W. Johnson a lead of 42,251 over Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood on the republican ticket, and Herbert Hoover's advantage on the demo- cratic ticket was 4,446 over Gov. Ed- ward I. Edwards of New Jersey. The vote stood: Republican (1,661 precincts out of 421)—Jobnson, 124,949; Wood, 82,698; Hoover, 40,624. Democrats (1,472 precinct. Hoov- er, 17,662; Edwards, 13,196; McAdoo, 12,602: Bryan. 11,641; Palmer, 7,570. Complete returns had been received | from only a few counties, and five— ‘Alger. Baraga, Benzie, Biosco and Montmorency—had not been heard from at all, as a result of the Faster snowstorm, which crippled rural tele- phone lines and rendered country roads impassable in some districts. It was generally conceded this race that had developed among demo- cratic candidates, it was unlikely that the present standing of the candi- dates would be altered, owing to the small vote yet to come in. All the cities in the lower peninsula were practically complete. . Burt D. Cady, chairman of the re- publican state central committee, in a statement on the primary, said he believed Senator Johnson's victory was assured ahd deciared the large republican vote was “a forerunner of the greatest republican victory in and nation.” Minnesota Democrats. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. April Fred B. Lynch of St. Paul, democratic national committeeman, was elected a delegate at large to the national convention of the party after a long session of the democratic state convention here yes- terday. On the delegation with him were A. C. Weiss of Duluth, D. D. Daly of Minneapolis, chairman of the state central committee, and Mrs. Peter Oleson of Cloquet. They and the twenty district delegates were A i j eo free of instructions. Mrs. Oleson was chosen by accla- mation after she had attempted to withdraw her name in favor of Mr. Weiss, both party leaders hailing from the eighth congressional district. \Severat delegates protested against ceeded the ‘state, county’ and city tax cinnati, Milwaukee and Seattle, and its her action, leading democratic suf- Fare and Two Cents for Each | fragists of the state having been in- dorsed by their county conventions Transfer. 4saturday 2nd the delegations coming here with fronbound instructions to TOLEDO, Ohio, April 7.—Street }eupport her for the honor. debate was marked by an at- service, suspended last Saturday rs pon Lynch by Frank Day, a zy.| TH n council refused to ratify wage | tack@® S.crease. was resumed here today.; Fairmont, Minn. editor and former ‘ar riders, who prior to the strike |chairman of the state central com- n paid 6 cents and 2 cents for mittee. He demanded that Mrs. Ole- ansfer. began today to pay 7/sc1 remain @ candidate for the gen- in addition to the transfer tax long the new rate will rule S11 be determined by United States! eisirict court, through whose order | rvice was restored. The court order | provides that the company pay the | ‘age increase retroactive to April 1, | nd that the car riders contribute to ibe cost of meeting the advance. This was the point on which coun- #11 balked and which reaulted in the #'rike, tral delegation and added: \ { do not like to see a man come nere from New York and dictate to this convention.” ‘The Minnesota delegation will go the San Francisco convention nev only uninstructed, but without the unit Fule. a tto: h ie rm the convention in- dorsed the Wilson administration, de- Slared_th can leaders in the (Continued on Page 2, Column.) % We have already considered what| realty tax Washington would have, had to pay in 1918 if the 2%2 per cent rate had been substituted for 115 per cent, and how that tax would: have compared in that year with other American cities. Let us now consider what Washington would have had to pay in 1918 in total general property taxes, including personalty with realty, at the 243 per cent rate; and let us compare this aggregate and the per capita based upon it. with the total property tax aggregates and per capitas of other American cities In 1918, including all kimda of ‘prop; i erty taxes levied—state, county and | { elty, school district, poor district, district; ete., ete. If.2% per cent be substituted for 1% per cent in the tax levies of 1918 upon realty and tangible personalty our total city property tax levy (in- cluding realty, tangible and intan- gible personality and personal tax on gross earnings of certain corpora- tions) would be $13,058,810, giving a per capita of $85.11. ‘These figures are ci compared following table: ‘15,887,425 » 12,703,779 11;406,720 8,525,670 22.92 gui substituting 2.50. ra : for 1.60, on realty and taxable" persoualty)... 13,058,810 © 35,21 If Washington -had been taxed in 1918 2% per cent instead of 14 in its city tax levy alone it would have ex- levies of such cities as San Francisco, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Newark, Cin- per capita would have exceeded that of every great city in the United States, except Detroit. Detroit's 1918 per cap- {tas are out of proportion with those of | M: other cities, largely because the city, by extensidns, has nearly doubled in tax- able area since 1910 (adding 39.43 square miles), while the increase of pop- ulation since 1910, as-estimated by the census, takes no note of this doubling in populated area. The 191% census esti- mate for Detroit, the figure used in cal- culating the per capitas, was only 629,- 000, while in that year Detroit was claiming vigorously over 986,000 and in 1919 over a million population. Obviously, | Detroit's per capita is unduly enlarged ag a result of crediting it in 1918 with less than two-thirds of its actual pop- ulgtion. AE EVER CALLED . WAS “INDISGREET" ~ THURSTON "WEAK" Former Head of Board Says Superintendent Not Given Proper Co-Operation. George .E.- Hamilton, former. presi- dent, of the board of education, denied It appears from the table that if the 2% per cent tax rate had been substi- tuted for the 1% rate in 1918 there would | ning to go abroad then. have been collected from the 371,933 res- idents of non-industrial, non-commer- cial, ‘comparatively resourceless Wash- ington, from its restricted personalty and a fraction of its realty almost a8 | mistake.” much in city taxes alone as the 694,637 citizens of great, rich and busy’ Balti- more paid in all kinds of taxes—city, county, state, schoo) district etc., etc. —and its city tax per capita would have been 52 per cent more than Balti- more’s per capita of total city, county and state taxes. Total Per Population. population. capita. Washington... 371,083 18,008,810 "39.11 Baltimore. 594,687 13,699,903 28.04 Let us make similar comparisons with some others of our great, rich, commercial, industrial cities, practi- cally all of whose realty is on the tax list, and which do not suffer elimi nation, as Washington does, of 368 mil- lions of exempt realty. Washington city property taxes alone would be more than the eom- bined city, county and state taxes of Newark by $1,290,319, of Milwaukee by $2,375,627, of Minneapolis by $2,356,899, of Cincinnati by $1,788,456, of Seattle by $1,662,090, of New Orleans by. $5,767,786, of Indianapolis by more than six million, of Kansas City by five and a half or six million nearly double Jersey City, consider- ably more than double St. Paul and Louisville, a little more than In- dianapolis and St. Paul combined. In per capita the other cities would have to be increased from 25 to 84 per cent to reach that of Washington. Seattle is an exception. Its per capita would have to be increased only 12 per cent. Like the other great Pacific coast cities, Seattle produces big things, big vegetables, big fruits, big thoughts, big projects, big expendi- tures, big taxes. Even’ the smaller Pacific coast cities have caught this spirit. San Diego, for instance, shows in the census the largest property tax per capita in the United States. Wash- ington is not in the Pacific coast city class for the purpose of these com- parisons. Comparable cities are its conservative neighbors of Atlantic slope and southern and middle west environment. State and City Tax Comparisons. Let us. compare Washington's per capitas under both the 1% and the pro- i today, ‘at the senatorial inquiry. into the school system, that he ever said that Supt. Ernest L. Thurston of the schools was “weak.” ; “It has been said here that I called with | Mr. Thurston Weak,” sgld “Mr.-Hamil- other comparable cities*in 18 in the t co-operai tf « Cart See ges Tne writneds sald’ that’ thes shes schoois fon’ ot the boar expres! 5? ot beer, os : athe ‘ ran Pie ts motbers of the basta: Shroritical se'hir, Thurston; ye tems. ton. spoke in high praize of the super- intendent, and gaid he wis in no way responsible for the trouble that arobe out of the suspension of Miss Alice ‘Wood. : : “Blame” in Wéed Caie. “The board is responsible from be- ginning to end forthe way the W Case was handled. in. the, school: said the witness, “ind if che! person + is more responsible than another it ig myself.” Mr. Hamilton had left ‘the board,-;however, béfore the question of appealing from ths décision: of the District Supreme Court came up, and the board decided not to appeal. The committee did not finish with Mr. Hamilton today, aud consequently Cant. James F. Oyster was not ‘called. It ia expected he will’ be heard to- mérrow. Approached by Dr. Van Schaick. “Mr. Hamilton told ‘the committee that he had first been approached about going on the board of education by Dr.“Van Schatck in 1917.“ He said he -had served with Dr. Van Schaick as a member of the board of charities. Hamilton said. he told Dr. Van Schaick that. because of pregs of busi- ness it was practically impossible for him to take a place on the ‘board of education, if-it was offered to him. Later, he sald, Chief Justice Coving- ton talked to him about going on the| largely one of liaison | board of education, and said that the | ess said. recommendation ‘that he be appointed had been made to the judges of the District Supreme Court. “Did he say who made the recom- mendation?” asked Senator Harrison. “No,” said Mr. Hamilton. “He did say that-Dr. Van Schaick was anxious that I be appointed. Judge Covington said that Dr. Van. Schaick’s work in Europe would probably’ detain him only until November. He was plan- Judge Cov- ington urged me to go on the board as_a matter of public service. I agreed to consider the: proposal and I consented. I think that I made a Mr. Hamilton said that he resigned from the board in October, 1919. His controlling reason, he said, was the pressure of business. The demands of | COTES OF RATES “PAIDFOR WATERS ington: Pay. Engineer Commissioner“ Kutz’ has adtiressea letters -to Various cities comparable. in. size. to Washington asking for information as to their water rents, in an effort. to find’ out how they compare 'with-the proposed increase of 28 per cent’in’ water rents | Admiral Rodman _ Disap- proves Public Criticism of Navy’s Part in War. - Admiral Hugh Rodman, commander- in-chief of the Pacific fleet, told the. Senate investigating committee today | that Rear Admiral Sims" letter to Sec: retary Daniels criticising ‘the Navy's part.in the war was “very indiscreet.” “Admiral Sims’ indiscretions,”: he said, “lay very particularily in his breach of confidence in making public an intimate and confidential conver- sation which should haye been held secret.” Comment ‘on Disclosure. referred .to Admiral 4 in PBime* 7 ; “eight isereet,”. Adiniral Rodman said; : 5 th a Beet thad he Gnitited reterence to conver: |b charged: td genera!’ tunas™ sations which. as 5 have, sald, -he|than met. fy: increasing ‘the ould have held sectet and canfidep- | the present: water, us i tial, had it’been couched in moderate : . terns, uch a8 are usually used inj The proposal to inttease the-water official correspondence; had it been | rent to meet expenditures for extend: less antagonisti¢, it'would, no.donbt,} ing the system has laid emp! is have followed the usual course of| Upon the need for a, more equitable such communications, received .due| plan for the support of the watér ¢onsideration bythe proper authori- | works. * oe ties and doubtless some good would f Ba have come from i Pacers Teese et tin i Says Publication Was Censarea. | the federal govermment, the Distriet “His- mention and the subsequénht | government: -and /the i ‘ publication~ of a- certain admonition Blent Conteibuted ; toward «tite cofi=. which he stated he received prior t truction of the syst 26° it is -t6- his departure for London no doubt{day, the. finanelal ~ history’ -af thé has had its effect upan ‘the cordial fe- {‘waterworks'16:som@what involved. lations which heretofore existed be-| J. 8. Garland, superintendent of the tween us and one of our closest allies. | Water department, believes an expert In every expression of opinion which |in no way connected with these three, Ishave ‘heard concerning it,. both in|#ources be authorized by Congress: to and out of the Navy, it has received |make a veluation of: the water .sys- the deepest censure.” tem and determine exactly how much Deelaring that he appeared entirely jeach government and the water de- at his own request to “defend the |Partment has. invested. _ good name ‘of the Navy,”’ Admiral| With these figures definitely estab- Rodman, who commanded the Ameri: {lished a rate of return-to the federal can battleship squadron with the Brit-;8nd District "governments on - the. ish grand ‘fleet during the ‘war, told;™money they have irivested could be’| the committee that the ‘American |"xed and an amount of water. equal Navy did its full share most efficient-{t? that rate of return could be al- ly and splendidly In helping to-bring |!0Wed them free. Mr: Garland reasons the war against the Huns to a suc-|thst with such a procedure both the ceasful and vi¢torious conclusion.” ath seen axes governments Status of Liaison Officer. ear aniaetns cess of that allowed them aa a return AdWiral Sims’ status: abroad was|on their investments. officer, the wit- ‘30,000,000 Gallons Free. At the present time the federal and District governments are. using free of charge 30,000,000 gations of water Ja day, which is half of the entire “His title as “commanding United States naval forces in European waters’ is partially misleading,” said Rodman. “He was in reality a sub- ordinate part of naval ®perations, with nis pice: ur Boron: He. did pet consumption. personally direct the movenjents of! ~ our fighting ships in the Zone, |. Te best figures the Commissioners as the public so generally believed. For example, every operation of the battleship force under my» command was ordered and directed by. Admiral Beatty of the grand fleet, of which my command wes a part.” Admiral Sims’ communications and recommendations “received the. same consideration in the Navy Department as those-of-any other officer, the admiral said, but Admiral Sims ‘was not the department's only source of informa- tion from abroad. Foreign allied naval attaches were (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 5:) Ce A ee aS een t property tax per capitas of other Amer- ican cities. See table 30, Census Bulletin, 1918. ‘The total per capita general property “tax, including city, county end state taxes, for the 227 cities over 80,000 in population, is aes ‘The total per capita of city taxes fs. Washington's total city tax alone ( ting the personal tax on gross ings of certain corporations) is. Washington's total city tex alone, in- cluding. the personal taxes derived from the tax on the-gross earnings of. certain: corporations, oe Washington's total city tax slone, if” 2% percent rate instead of 11%. per cent, on realty and tangible personality 85.11 Comparing Washington's $20.68 per capita with those of the other 226 cities: (A) Washington's -city “tax alone compared with the combined city, coun- ty and state taxes of the other cities makes the following showing: Of these 226 cities, 99 are less than Washing- ton and 127 are more. (B) Washington's city tax against the combined city and county taxes of these other cities makes the following showing: Of the 226 cities, 130 are less than Washington, 95 are more and one is the same. (C) Comparing city taxes alone of the 226°¢ities, 176 are less than Wash- ington and 50 are more. = Compazing Washington’s $22.92 per capita and making proper correspond- ing increases in, cities with similar personal taxes that have been omitted, Washington's city tax alone ts more than the city, county and state taxes combined of 132 of these, other cities and.is less than 94, Comparing city taxes. alone of all these cities with ‘Washington 190 are less than Washing- “at 5.79 25 68 8 22.92 ‘|ton, 35 are more and one is the ‘sam The census groups of cities marked I end-IIl are those. whose « popula. tions approximate most closely Wash- posed 2% per cent rate, with the.total) ington’s population’ above and below y it. Combine the figures. of, groups IT and III.in order to compare them with Washington. Total: per capita (11) 26.16 plus (111) 28.77, equals 49.93, divided by 2, equals: 24,965. City per capita (II) 23.98 -plus..(11I) 17.55, equals 41.53, divided by: 2, equals 40.765. a Compare these average per capitas with Washington's 20.68 and spectively. ‘Washington's city tax-per capita, in- cluding personal tax on gross earnings of corporations, $22.92, is $2.04 less tan average per capita for these groups, including state, county and city taxes in the calculations ($24.965). and $2.15. more than the average per capita of these two groups, including city taxes alone.. This Washington per capita is between 8 and-9 per cent less than total tax per capita of these groups, and 10-per’cent more than city, tax alone. | 22.92, Fe) BERLIN, April 7 (by have show that the United States has in round numbers $7,500,000 invested in the construction of the water system. The wholesale rate for sumers of . water. i thousand gaHons.: States wat i 2-year. it Joa soineidence that: amount is-equivalentt “pers ae on $5,800,000. Ee oe we that’ with these. figures shown thatthe United. States ereerae mont! in the water it uses receives a per cent. return .on its” Inv. [in the water system. ee MILITARY CONSPIRACY. DISCOVERED IN MUNICH the Associatea ress).—A great military conspiracy, ‘which was to, have been’ a Bavarian: Parallel to the recent Berlin Yevolu- tion, has been. discoveréd in Munich, it was announced today. , Part of the plan’ was‘ that “Gen. Ludendorff be made‘dictator over Ba- varia and Dr. Heim of the Bavarian separatists a sort of civil and eco- nomic dictator. Seoee Jarge con- is Pe per paid for the water. it eis bill would -be about $460,000 this BRITISH UNDISTURBED BY PERSIAN SOVIET MOVE LONDON, April 6.—British official circles declare themselves not alarmed at the reports that the Persian gov- crnment had manifested a willingness to conclude an understanding with: With these small percentages of al- leged under-taxation as # pretext, it is proposed by the House. to. increase Washington's per capita from 22.92 to 35.11, the latter figure to be compared’ with 25.79, the per capita for city, county and state property taxes of all American cities, and 24.965, the per capita of all property taxes of the groups of cities with which Washing- ton is.most appropriately: compared. If full state taxes are to be consid- ered-in the calculation, Washington's per capita of $22.92 might naturally be increased to $25.79, the per capita of all American cities, an increase of 12% per cent. . The House proposes an increase (on the basis of the 1918 fig- ures) ‘to ‘35.11, an increase-of 53 per cent. 2 ‘Why use a sledge-hammer to kill = fly? If Uncle Sam entitled, he thinks, to exact 12 per cent, extoris from. the helptess 53 per cent is he not profiteer- ingt ee ne a ee the Russian soviet government. - This in some quarters has been in- terpreted as meaning that such nego- tfations might be a preface to military action, which. would menace British interests in Persia. . ee “Ocean Freight Rates Go Up. LONDON, April _7.—Increages « to 50. percent’ on more valudble-er- ‘ticles, according to the London Times. Dot in | the ocean freight rates from. the United | “The aviator was forced to descend Kingdom to North America will take|at shat‘ height because the face of effect on April 19 and will range from | ME. .. 25 .per-cent:on lower classes of goods | was+! about it afterward. France's Action Understood. This summary of the world situa- tion, as gathered in official quarters ‘here, involves no accusations agains other governments or nations of im- Proper motive. France's action in ‘occupying ‘German cities is deplored, issued today following a conference be- tween the heads of the political parties and the government. Germans Near Duesseld: AIX LA CHAPELLE, Rhenish, Prus- sia, April 7.—German government | troops ‘are marching in Duesseldorf. Oc- - |cupation of the town is expected late but, mevertheless, thoroughly under- {his evening or tomorrow morning. President Wilson sees his charges | BY the Associated Press. of militarism against the party now; BERLIN, April 6—The German §n‘control of France as vindicated by |charge d'affaires in Parts was instructed events. But while the military un- today to hand to the French government Questionably have affected the views|a note protesting against the French ofthe French foreign office. there is occupation of Frankfort and other terri- |® disposition here to regard the |tory on the right bank of the Rhine. | vice and action of the French military | The note, after referring to the con- as. a natural and logical outgrowth | tents of the French note of April 5, noti- of the policy of abandonment of | fying Germany that the occupation had France, which -has been gradually |been ordered, asserts that the occupa- adopted involuntarily by the powers |tion of the towns mentioned in the associated with her in the war. French communication. occurred before | | The British people are sick of war/|the note was presented to the German and Prime nister Lioyd George | government. could promise no military support to Text of Protest. the’ French move. Moreover, large | elements of Great Britain's popula~; “We must in the name of justice, rea- tion; nota biy "xpi party. hallove be and humanity.” the German’ note z ‘are in | cqntinues, sharpest protest Rie Rais Te coe Raren |ughinet the action of Ge Sheer good of the world. ‘It cannot possibly have been the inten- In America, which the French pean the treaty of Versailles to prevent there is a con-|Germany from restoring order as quick- rs in the |ly as possible in the part of its territory . : enced by the most seriously disturbed by bands of stteans ‘the Senate toward the robbers, be eriban - British defensive | “The movement in the Rubr region, . nent’ which President Wilson if it had not been quickly opposed, itted to.thé Senate nine months | would have shaken the republic to its 4gb, ‘and which has,not even been re- foundations both politically and eco- ported from: the Sehate foreign rela- nomically. The German government tions cbmmittee. Feeling that she | would have acted inexcusably if it had can-.get no physical help from the waited long, in the optimistic hope United States, France is taking mat-|that the insurgent movement in the terd:in -her own hands to prevent Ruhr district would end without mili- rouble on her frontiers. tary intervention, and events so far a have shown that it was right x May Maintain War Spirit. 2 While: there tsa good ‘deal of sym Siar sida nega bae ter With the plight of France, there “Everywhere that the troops arrived “nevertheless a feeling that France \the movement quickly collapsed, and ‘not-acting wisely for her own best the fears expressed by the allies that ifiterest, and that by her action in oc-;the very entry of the troops would cupying German cities she will keep | ™ake the disturbances worse and lead \alive-the:germs-of war and unrest in| to the destruction of most important central Europe, the rehabilitation of | industrial works has, up to the pres- which has been so earnestly sought to | ent, not proved justified.” stabilise European and world finance.; The note points out that alleged ~The French military are nervous.| Violations of the treaty must, under Promises and advice from America|the terms of that instrument, be re- seem to mean nothing with a Ger-| dressed by all the signatories on the many at the front gate, and the | allied side, and not by a single one, —— rlompaint is that, regardless | acting independently. . ons. and pledges, | Shock Troops Essen. France must_prepire to enforce the . cpplgemael : treaty herself. | BERLIN, April 7.—Advance troops of the reichswehr and shock troops The foregoing line of reaso 1 J casoning iS! entered the suburbs of Essen yester. day afternoon. Another detachment not altogether peculiar to France. Others:in the. allied family, notably : England and italy, and now Japan i, occupied the Essen town hall. last the far-east, are looking out for their ¢Vening. Long columns of the red own interests. There 1s no central 2fmy_ in motor lorries and on foot compellirig,moral force to say any na. | Passed through | Elberfeld | yesterdas . nas | Mo: ende! eir arms cuigned by President Wilson te rect | At. Blberfeld. Others marched into he occupied territory, chiefly to So- Sentaned. by President Wilson to meet lingen, where they were disarmed by exactly the. situation that has arisen. it ows to. ney lve any territort: - 7 ix ae y territorial pre- | the Britih. Other insurgent bands, | still armed, are wandering about the tenslons.or arbitrary interpretation of the peace treaty. Article X was a : pledge to preserve territorial integ- | mountains. rity. “Had the United States and the | - Five hundred insurgents were tran ction. | ferred by the British to a camp n Copel pt the leagne been Zunction- | Cologne. Ballway traffic in the sen region probably will be resumed 1s ing, the question wouid have required aun ous vote before France could have ted in occupying German ter- ritory. ; Japan would have been pre- vented’ from» entering Vladivostok without consulting the allies and get- ting thelr consent. Italy would have been haled before the ieague of na- tions-and required to expel d’Annun. zio from Fiume under penalty of eco- nomic ‘boycott. ‘Show Lack of Faith. None of these outbreaks on the part of the allies themselves, either in central Europe, the near east or far! ‘east, might have occurred if each of the associated powers had had more respect. for the league of nations. Their present attitude is convincing evidence of their lack of faith in any international concert which lacks the pltysical-and moral-balance of the United States. So far as its effect upon our own government is concerned, France's ad vance into German territory is dee; ly regretted. It serves to cool such enthusiasm as the executive branch of ‘the government here had in sup- ‘porting the tripartite agreement with France and England whereby the United States and England. would come to the assistance of France in the event of “an unpovoked attack” by Germany on France. e blicans’ and democrats look askance at the action of France, and wonder what America’s obligations mi have been if the triple agree- m ‘were in effect at present, when the French advance ‘into German ter- ritory‘is blamed upon German ins! cerity fn the Ruhr valley. France’ acfion. probably seals the fate of the special. Franco-American treaty, and, it 4g feared, means a return through- Sere or tee lana grabbing, gos- | Pane ot Sorting protection © ergentem, looting. what. Policy which President | Some of the large shops were com- Wilson has predicted would eventual- | jctely emptied. It is said that among ly mean chaos and more bloodshed in| tne red guards there were some genuine the world. ‘Russian bolsheviki, who were prominent (Copyright, 1920.) in the looting, but took only a modest part in the fighting. There was some ‘desultory shooting in the suburbs to- day, where the reichswehr are clearing ut the few remaining reds. Fired on French Patrol, MAYENCE, April 6.—The only inci- dent in the occupation of North kt today. ‘Work was resumed fully Tuesday in all the mines and works in the Dochum district. The members of the red army who were arrested at Duiseurs have |mostly been sent for trial by an extra- ordinary courtmartial at Wesel. Hamburg Occupied. METZ, April 7.—French troops on the right bank of the Rhine, continu- ing their advance today, occupied Homburg, nine miles north of Frank- fort. a FRANKFORT, April 7.—The occu- pation of Homburg by French troops. announced today, virtually completes ithe operations outlined to Gen. De- gouette, in charge of the occupation | movement, in his orders from the war office. The entire plan has been car- ried out without any significant in- dent. Clthe inhabitants of Frankfort are accepting the occupation with com- plete outward M™difference. The city presents no indications that such @ notable event, had occurred, aside from the posters bearing the French government's proclamation. Business fs going on as usual, the people gen- erally following their customary, oc- cupations without paying much" at- tention to the few French uniforms seen in the streets. The number of these apparently hae been reduced to a minimum, in order to avoid cause for irritation. Plundering in Essen. ESSEN (via Bern), April 7—The latest hours under the communist regime in Essen were marked by extensive plundering, some of the main streets being blocked by red troops for the pur- LIEUT. PEARSON MAKES -RECORD BORDER FLIGHT ” A record altitude flight on the bor-} der of 23.400 feet above sea level by |fort by the French consisted of a few Lieut, -Alexander Pearson, Jr. atighots fired. According to reports by as, Ariz., was reported today to| aviators German gun detachments fired two or three shells on a French cavalry patrol before which detachments of t! reichswehr and the security police were retiring. The latter, although yesterday that occupation had been de- cided on, refused to believe that !t would be carried out, one of the officesa Department. eee arta eee a e top of the fijght the. temperature was ten below a 4