Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and moderately warm tonight and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at noon today: Highest, 80, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 62, at 5:30 am. today. Full report on page 5. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of thé Associated Press The Associsted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited 1t or not otherwise credited in this All rights of publication f special dispatches aerel are also reserved. l Paper and #lso the local news published herefn, Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 88,486 9 No. SETTLEMENT SEEN “IN LLOYD GEOREE , TERMSTOIRELAND Concession of Fiscal Auton- omy Declared Most Im- portant Peace Offer. MEDIATION ALSO LOOMS " WITH GEN. SMUTS’ VISIT 28,209. t South African Premier Expected to Entcred as second-class matt post office Washington, D. O HUGO STINNES, GERMAN CAPITALIST, SERIOUSLY INJURED IN AUTO CRASH By the Associated Press. BERLIN, July 23.—Hugo Stinnes, the German capitalist, suffered concussion of the brain and a se- vere cut in the forehead when an automobile in which he was motor- ing in the vicinity of Wiesbaden, Prussia, was overturned today. Stinnes was accompanied by his daughter and granddaughter, both of whom were injured. He was taken to Wiesbaden, where he re- ceived treatment, and is reported to be resting easily. CLEAN-UP ORDERED ON CHANNEL FRONT " Tender Services to de Valera - |COl. Sherrill Wants Appear- and Ulster Premier. Ry the Associated Press. DUBLIN, July 23.—The impression ¥s growing here that the Irish peace offer made by Premier Lloyd George to Eamon de Valera, the republican leader, will work out in a settlement. The terms of the offer are still being held in the strictest confidence. The outstanding feature of the gov- ernment’s Irish peace proposals to Uzamon de Valera Is a concesslori of fiscal autonomy, it was stated on high authority here today. The position of Ulster is amply se- cured. Smuts to Visit Ireland. Gen. John C. Smuts, the South African_premier, is expecied to leave o ¥ MOxU WEeK, probably Monday, to place his serv- ices at the disposal of both Eamon de Valera, the republican leader, and Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, dur- ing thelr critical consideration of the Irish peace proposals made by Pre- mier Lloyd George. This statement was made today in a quarter close to the South African Statesman. In circles which are closely observ- ing the developnients of the Irish situa- tion much satisfaction is expressed at the prospect of Gen. Smuts’ re-entry into the negotiations in_ the manner ~ indicated. This is particularly the case in view of the persistent reports that the British prime minister’s offer, sub- mitted to” Mr. de Valera Thursday, in- cludes a plan for dominion home rule for Ireland on the lines of the South African constitution. Concerning the ‘workings of this form of government ¢ Gen. Smuts, it is pointed otit, will be ab:e to give inforowmtion of the greatest Value. Influence as Mediator. Perhaps even more important, in view of many students of the situation, is Gen. Smuts’ reputed influence as a mediator due to his former ition as cne of the anti-English leaders in the South African war. This, it is held by these observers, has established a com- non bond between the southern Irish I-aders and Gen. Smuts which renders his advice more aceeptable ta them that of almost any. other outsider. _Before Premief Si 3 jected trip to Dublin it is expected . de Valera will have sumbitted the ‘British prime minister’'s proposals to the Irish repub- lican parliament, or &t least hive can- vassed the situation with the Binn Fein leaders. Irish Meve Awalted. Rritish circles today apparently had settled down to await the next move in the Irish negotiations, which are expected to come from the southern Irish capital soon after leaders of the yepublicans have had a chance to study the document which Mr. de Valera received from Prime Min- ster Lloyd Geor; Yyesterday. & A meeting of the Dail Eireann for ' the purpose of considering the Brit- ish offer is looked for next week, but Sinn Fein leaders here appear to feel that ten ‘days or more will elapse be- fore notable develppbments can occur. Meanwhile publication of the pro- posals is not anticipated immediately ‘unless Premier Lioyd George and Mr. de Valera reach and agreement to that effect. % Two important points which seem to have considerable bearing on the Unegotiations are, first, whether an- other meeting between Sir James Craig, premier of Ulster, and ,de ‘Valera can be arranged in Ireland, and, second, whether an amendment 1o the present home rule plan‘ would be satisfactory to the Irish republicans, should such a solution be advanced. A comprehensive statement cover- ing the entire negotiations is expect- ed to be made by Mr. Lloyd George in the house of commons next week. Equal Dominion Authority. 1t probab.y will be found on publi- cation of the cabinet’s offer to Ire- land, the parliamentary correspondent of the London Times declares, that, with a single exception, certain mili- tary safeguards are reserved for the imperial parliament and that a full range of dominion authority is to be oftered alike to the parliament of the south and to the parliament of the rorth. “If the north were to decline the new powers,” the correspondent says, “the southern parliament would b able to exercise them in the twenty- six counties under its jurisdiction. The powers include control of taxa- tion and customs and control of the police and, apparently. the establish- ment of a territorial force is not ‘ex- cluded.” . The correspondent asserts that Mr. De Valera expressed the wish that 1he terms be not published before he communicated them to his principal supporters in Ireland, to which Pre- mier Lloyd George agrced, and that an arrangement is to be made for simultaneous publication in Ireland and England. “One.-deflnite fact.” says the corre- spondent, “is that the demand for an Irish republic is made no longer.” He then declares that the document presented to Mr. de Valera is under- Btood to give in broad but exact out- Jines the new arrangements approved by the eabinet. It avoids details and is concerned only with the large lines of future relations between north and fouth Ireland, and between Ireland and Britain. “Partition” Likely. Explaining that the ~{Continued on Page ‘ ance of Wharves and Build- ings Improved. Col. C. O. Sherrill, engineer officer in charge of public buildings apd grounds, yesterday issued orders for cleaning up at once the entire section of the water front under federal juris- diction. His order is in accord with the movement revived by Commis- sioner Oyster for improvement of the Washington water front. The section under Col. Sherrill's Jurisdiction comprises the frontage extending from the Washington bar- racks reservatlon to the southern curb line of N street south. Most of that space is leased to private parties, but it includes also the wharves of lighthouse establishment, of the Naval Reserves and of the packet Bartholdi of the Potomac Park ferry. In" Excellent Condition. Col. Sherrill says that the wharves mentioned are in excellent condition, but that the section under lease has been allowed to deteriorate. The lessees are Jesse Holmes:~ John H. Thomas and A. H. Gregory. All the sodden and unsightly pilés are to be removed, the buildings repaired and painted, the walls whitewashed and the surroundings generally irhproved. These Improvements at the extreme southern end of the water front are expected to remind the holders of other wharf privileges, extending to the other end of the line near 14th street, of the desirability and advan- tage of making similar improvements without further delay. “The present unsightly appearance of the Washington water front,” said Col. Sherrill, “is_considered very dele- terious to East Potomac Park as well as to the city generally, and Army engineers. stationed in the city are pleased to have co-operation of the District Commissioners in the removal of objectionable conditions.” Twenty-Four Whatves. Discussing._this subject in a recent report, Gen. Beach, chief of enginvers, sajd that the terminal! and transfer facilities at Washington were not only inadequate, “but presenta most dilap- Mdated and unsightly appearance, the wharves as a rule being in very poor condition except those operated by the municipal and federal governments."” ‘According to his report, all' of the wharves in the Washington channel, twenty-four in number, are owned by the federal government, twenty being under the supervision and control of the District Commissioners and four under the control of the chief of engl- neers of the Army. These latter four are the ones under improvement by Col. Sherrill. ————— LKELYTOVAGAT CAMPMEADE, 1D Secretary Weeks Says Aban- donment for Active Post Is Practically Decided. Camp Meade, Md., where thousands of District men were trained for serv- ice in the world war, has practically been decided upon as one of the camp sites to be abandoned, Secretary of War Weeks said today. The con- gressional committee which is investi- gating disposal of the camp sites, it is understood, will recommend its abandonment as an active Army post. The camp site, however, will be re- tained in the possession of the War Department, and summer training camps will continue to be held there. 1t s’ the largest camp site in the 3rd Corps _area, and at the present time approximately 8,000 troops are based ere. The report that the camp is to be abandoned also has it that the troops there probably will be transferred to Camp Dix, N. J. said to have been selected as the permanent camp for troops in the north Atlantic territory. The proposed reduction in the num. ber of camps is due to the general policy of retrenchment how under way, and s one of the results of the reduction "of the Army to a total strength of 170,000 men undep the provisions of the latest Army @ppro- priation bill. PROBE OF LABOR TROUBLE. KINGSTON, Jamaica, special commissioner will leave for Cuba in a few days to Investigate, on behalf of the Jamaican govern- ment government, the labor troubles on the Cuban sugar plantations, which have involved hardships to Jamaican laborers. The British foreign office is.to be asked to use its influence in an endeavor to get Cuban banks and roposals are| planters'to pay wages due Jamaican ‘Column 2.) Jaborers. et ROCK CREEK PARK ‘SWIMMIN’ HOLES’ TO BE PURIFIED BY CHLORINATION | Satisfactory results of direct. chlorination of the water at the bathing beach in the Tidal basin has led*Col. C. O. Sherrill, the en- gineer officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, to adopt a ! similar method for purifying the water in the bathing pools in Rock Creek Park. Dr. G. W. McCoy of the public health service recently made a chemical examination of the water in the Tidal basin and reported it of much better quality from a hygienic standpoint than he had found the water at an exam- ination a year ago, before the in- troduction of the chlorinating s tem. Similar tests of the water of Rock | | | creek - showed that .it was con- taminated by sewerage and other deleterious drainage in_the upper reaches In-Maryland. Desiring ta. maintain the small bathing ols in the park for the benéfit of the boys and girls, if it could be done without danger to their health, the chlorination of the pools has been determined upon in the belief that constant dosage of the pools will remove all contaminating influ- - ences and make them clean and sanitary. N To that end automatic chlorinat- ing apparatus will be placed at the upstream end of these pools and ‘ kept im operation continuously. There are several of these pools, the location of whigh ia weabiEBVWE to the boys. July 23,—A WASHINGTON, D. C, YOUREALIAR, CRY INBERGDOLL CASE Braun’s Retort Causes Rep- .resentative Johnson to Spring at Him in Attack. UPROAR, WITH WOMEN SCREAMING, IN FLIGHT Chairman at Once Brings Sessions at an End—Bergdoll’s Brother Accused of Not Answering Questions. The Bergdoll investigating commit- tee's session broke up suddenly today after Charles A. Braun, a witness, hadg called Representative Johnson, democrat, Kentucky, of the commit- tee, a “liar” and the lattgr made an attempt to reach the witness. Members of the committee and spec- tators seized Mr. Johnson before he could reach Braun. The latter was taken huriedly from the room by the |sergeant-at-arms of the House and Chairman Peters announced an ad- journment. Women Screa; The trouble arose while Mr. John- {son was cross-examining Braun, al- leging that he was refusing to answer questions. At one point during the very heated exchange Braun, who was sitting not far from Mr. John- son, screamed, “You aer a liar.” Mr. Johnson rushed at hime and several women in the room, expecting a fight, screamed and fled. _ | Before the incident which broke up | the hearing, Mr. Johnson saked Bruaa -about the visit of John H. Sherburne, committee counsel to Mrs. Bergdoll, {just before evidence against Camp- bell was presented. Mr. Sherburne, Braun declared, sug- gested that she dismiss Harry Wein- berger, a New York lawyer, from her case concerning the seizure of Berg- | doll's property. Mr. Sherburne is in | Boston, ad nChairman Peters suggest- ed that it would be proper to get his version of the interview. Questioned About Letters. “In any of Grover's letters to his mother, did she mention the name of an officer or an attorney?” Mr. John- | son persisted. | I don’t know. “Did your mother tell you about | ¢ y_of her letters being opened?” ‘She did not mention a particular i one, but said several letters had been | intercepted,” Braun replied. | _ Braun, by direction of Chairman Peters, was dismissed. from lattendance in the midst of the’tur- !mofl. Taken hurrfedty-from the Capis. | tol by the sergeant-at-arms, he went immediately to the station, to return to his home in Philadelphia. At the point where the clash oc- curred Mr. Johnson, looking un squarely in the eye, declared. *You know you are not telling the truth.” { Without rising from his seat, Braun shouted, “You are a liar,” but no- body could hear what was said after that. ~ As he left the room Braun declared he was tired of being persecuted. Brother of . Bergdoll. Braun is a brother of Grover Cleve- land Bergdoll, escaped draft dodger, and was called a 8 aiwtness by Maj. Bruce C. Campbell, against whom Mrs. Emma C, Bergdoll of Philadelphia, mother of the draft dodger and Braun, who change dhis name becuase of the fmaily truoble, has charged that accepted 35,000 to aid in her son's e cape. ASKS SAFE TRANSIT " FORFRENCH FORCE i Briand Calls on Nation Pre- paratory to Sending New Troops to Silegia. | By the Associated Press. | PARIS, July 23.—Premier Briand. following a meeting of the council of {ministers at- Rambouillet yesterday, has dispatched-a telegram to Berlin requesting that the German govern- | ment take all necessary steps to_ in- sure safe conduct through Germany of a new division of French troops, which, it is said in official circles, will be ordered to Silesia within a ' few hours. This morning’s newspapers - give considerable prominence to the coun- cil meeting, which was the second to be held-at Ramboulllet since the elec- tion of President Millerand. It is understood that the Silesian question was the chief subject under discus- sion, and although the officfal com- munique_fails to say.so, the news- ipapers declare unqualified approval | was given the premier's position after |he had explained it in great detail. The_ministers are reported to feel | that France should not retreat an {inch from the determination to send i reinforcements to Upper Silesia, de- spite opposition to such a move by David Lloyd George, the British prime minister. Word Sent to British. Instructions were sent late last night to the French ambassador in London requesting him to tell the British government that France con- siders it. useless for the allies to es- tablish a Silesian boundary without providing sufficlent troops to enforce the provisions, and adding that France intends to dispatch another divisioll without waiting for action by_the other allies. take a more hopeful view of the dead- lock of this morning, and to Delleve that England will recede from her po-| sition. The Petit Parislen says, however, that tha French decision to send re- inforcements is “irrevocable” and that the troops will go forward, no matter ‘what happens. Premier Briand s sald in some quarters to hold the view that Eng- land will consent to & postponement of the supreme council meeting until the middle of August, when the French reinforcements will have ar- rived and the experts have completed |a detailed report of conditions in the Silesian industrial area, thus allow-. ing the council to reach a satisfactory | kil compromise, probably based on sug- stions by - Count vSforsa, former s.alhn minister o8 §oNeign affairs. urther | B Several newspapers are inclined. to NEW PENSION BODY NAMED BY GARDNER G. B. Buck to Be Working Actuary of Board, With ! Two Advisers. Commissioner Washington Gardner of the pension bureau today an- nounced the selection of George B. Buck of New York city, Dr. James D. Maddrill of Philadelphia and Joseph | S. McCoy, government actuary of the | Treasury Department, to constitute the board of actuaries provided for in the civil service retirement act of May 22,.1920. The board will meet at the pension bureau at 11 o'clock Monday morning for the purpose of organization and reliminary work on the large task % it of surveying the first year of“the operation of the retirement w. = A report showiig the operations of the act for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921, including specific recom- mendations in regard to proposed smendments, will be formulated by the board, and it is expected that the report wiil be ready for transmission to Congress not later than the time for convening in regular session in Decembar. Mr. Buck will be known as the “working actuary” of the board, and the other two members will act’in = consulting capacity. The retirement act provided that the commissioner of pensions should select the board of actuaries, one of whom was to be the government actuary, and that he shall submit with his annual report to Con- gress the recommendations of the | board. Valuation of Fund. | The bodrd is authorized to make a i valuation of the civil service retire- | ment and disability fund at the end of the first year's operation and at intervals of every five years there- after, or oftener, if deemed necessary by the commissioner of pensions. The board of actuaries will start wark with 6,500 annuitants on the rells and 329 cases still pending. The work of the retirement division, under the leadership of John S. Beach, s practically current, it was stated at the office of Secretary Fall of the In- terior Department. The “working actuary,” Mr. Buck. has had _broad experience in the ac- tuarial fleld, particularly in connec- tion with retirement systems. In 1914 he was appointed actuary for the New York city commission on pensions. He also is acting as consulting actuary in the reorganization of the pension systems of Providence and Boston. Dr. Maddrill also has had mature ex- perience In the actuarial and statis. tical fleld, and during 1917 and 1918 rendered . important service to the | committees.in Congress which were then considering retirement legisla- tion. : Ex-Officlo Member. Mr. McCoy, the government actuary, is the ex-officio member of the board, and has been for years an adviser to the committees in Congress handling tariff_and revenue bills. Under reorganization plans recently put into effect in the pension bureau, 11,625 claims of all kinds were han- dled during June, which number was 2,623 more than were handled during May and 7,000 more than in June, 1920. . There still remain 99,000 claims, re- sulting mainly from the new pension legislation of last year increasing Spanish-American war pensions, and the Interior Department is sanguine that these cases will be’ cleared up speedily. P he areat Increase in the ability to handle the accumulated cases, it was stated, has come about solely as the [result of more efficient operation put linto effect during the past few months, although the ranks of em- ployes at’the pension office have been somewhat reduced. e $10 PRICE FOR ‘STICK-UP. This Is Scale of Gunmen for As- l sistants, Prifoner Says. 'NEW YORK. July 23.—Ten dollars per stick-up is the scale offered by New, York hold-up men for assistants, according to a_story. detectives say they obtained from Gerald -Chair_of Denver, held for complicity: in' the robbery of two cigar stores. "According to the detectives, Clair admitted he held a gun while his em- e two robberies, for which Clair. is said to have gotten $20, netted his com- panion $140.. = ployer rifled the cash registers. SHOT FROM AMBUSH. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., July 23— Deputy Sheriff A. J. Pate, fifty-five, was instantly Kkilléd when he was shot from five otfier officers. "a large whisky still they “Into their automobile. occurred near. Godwin, miles north of this city, ‘three she aml ‘as he were loadi: had being fired into.the pérty, but only-one |- taking- effect. i | FLYER ESCAPES FROM VOLCANO PIT BY BEING “BOMBED By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.— When his engine suddenly stopped 15,000 feet in the air above remote Crater iake, Oregon, Thursday, Raymond G. Fisher, forest service pilot, was forced to land on a tiny island in the lake, which is in the pit of an extinct volcano with walls 1,000 feet high surrounding it, for- estry officlals announced here to- day. The plane was not damaged in the descent, but Fisher upon ex- amination found four of the spark plugs of the engine broken. Using the wireless set MMOB LYNGHES MAN AWAITING HANGING Convicted FSIayer: Aof\ Wolhah Wields Razor as Jail Door Is Broken Down. By the Associated Press. - HATTIESBURG, Miss., July 23— Casey Jones, white, recently convict- ed of the murder of Mrs. J. S. Mosely, | {and sentenced to be hanged July 18, but whose case was pending before | :(he state supreme court, was taken from the county jail at about 1:15 this morning and hanged in the courthouse yard by a mob of about seventy-five men. Sherift Will M. Edmondson, Deputy Joe Gray and Jailer F. H. McKenzie were sitting on the back steps of ‘the courthouse, facing the jail, when they saw the mob bearing down on them. | They were surrounded by the men, Who were heavily armed, and ordered | to surrender the prisoner. McKenzie, who had the keys, re- fused to surrender them and -the mob thereupon broke down the door of the jail, entered the building and broke open five other doors between them and the prisoner. Although not a shot was fired, it is understood, that the prisoner put up a desperate struggle, getting possession of a razor and badly cutting one of thej members of the mob, and hitting another over the head with a chalr, He was overpowered, however, and given a terrific bléw over the back of the head, and then carried down to the tree. Two Reported in Hospit: A report was current that two of with the rhen concerned in the lynching rdonfirmation that Kutala, occupied by were taken, badly injured. to a\local hospital. This could not be verified, owing to the refusal of Supt. G. 8. Harmon* of the hospital to give out any information as to the truth of the rumor early today. An attempt to lynch him was made on the night after the alleged crime for which Jones was convicted, which occurred in the latter part of April, but was frustrated by Rev. Dr. Har- | mon. The prisoner was at that time ( lying wounded in a hospital and (hc‘ mob which attempted to remove him was held at bay by Dr. Harmon with a pistol, earning the sobriquet lo- cally as “the fighting parson.” Mr. American Taxpayer! * What Does the Disarma- ment Plan Mean to You? Do. you know ' that Uncle Sam may save about a billion dollars a-year if an agree- ment isteached with other world powers? Read ‘the first authentic article on just what the big plan means/to’the United States’ in‘the Magazine of M Tomorrow’s Star g Where t"he'gr'eat confetence will be held in * - - ‘Washington, probable delegates and date. . - Order your copy -of fihé‘Sunday - Star today. SATURDAY, JULY -23, 1921—EIGHTEEN' PAGES. ” WITH NEW PARTS which the machine was equipped, he succeeded in getting in _touch with dnother forest service plane. This second flyer hastened to Medford, Ore., and obtained new spark plugs for Fisher's plane. Arriving back at the lake, however, the rescue pilot found it impossible for another plane to land on the island to get the plugs to Fisher. Other forest service planes came up and sets of spark plugs were sent to earth by means of para- chutes. Hunting with a torch Thursday nifht, Fisher found one of the parachutes, and yesterday morning repaired his machine and “took off” from the island, reaching the forest service airplane base at Medford safely. TURKS AT ANGORA REPORTED FLEEING City<Being. Evacuated, Says Greek ‘Agency—Planes Drop Bombs. By the Assoclated Pres. ATHENS, July 23 (Greek Official Agency).—Reports that the Turkish natiogaliat capital, Angora, is being | evacusted and the populace fleeing in the direction of Sivas, 230 miles to the eastward, are contained in the | latest. advices from the interior of Anatolia. The situation in the na- tionalist capital is described as criti- | cal. (These reports have not been confirmed from other quarters.) Gen. Ismet Pasha, the Turkish gen- eral who led the nationalist army in the = defense of Eski-Shehr, was wounded and his chieZ-of-staff was killed in the fighting which resulted in the capture of the city by the Greeks, other reports declare. May Alse Lose Inmid. | The pursuit of the Turks along the road toward Angora continues. Greek airplanes are bombing the retreating Turks. The Greek artillery is oper- ating parallel, to the railway line leading_to Angora. The Turks, according to the ad- vices, now are faced with the nece: sity of evacuating Ismid, some fifty miles to the southwest of Constan- tinople. Details of the battle for, and the occupation of, Eski-Shehr are given most of the space in the Greek news- papers. They tell of the disorder which _exists among the soldiers of the Kemalist army, and how the enemy, in his hurried flight, was forced to abandon munitions and food supplies. One of the papers, quotes orders taken on prisoners as | ks two days before Eski- glllcehl('}r;:! taken, was to be defended at any price. | CUBAN BOND ISSUE ASKED. | HAVANA, Cuba, July 23.—Two pres dential messages were read in con gress yesterday asking glegislation authorizing an interior bond issue of figty million dollars to meet the gov. efnment's deficit. The other requesi permission for the president to in- Crease or decrease tariff .duties a maximum of 30 per cent 8o as to. re- | duce the cost of prime necessities and ) retaliate against countries which di ariminate against Cuban products. ! said, declined any WOMAN IS APPOINTED . ASSISTANT CHIEF OF U. S. FOREIGN MAILS Postmaster General Hays today appointed Mrs. Mary K. Macarty, a clerk in the Post Office Depart- ment, as assistant ‘superintendent of foreign mails. Mrs. Macarty is the second woman to hold such a position in the history of the de- partment. Mrs. Macarty s a native of Ports- mouth, N. H. She has been con. nected with the department since April 3, 1900, when she was ap- pointed a clerk at $900. She wor! ed her way up through the various grades. Her new position, which pays $2,000, has to do with the handling of the entire forelgn malls of the United States. Mrs. Macarty has been known for her interest in the entire postal service and is regard- ed as one of the best informed women on postal matters. MORDCCAN REBELS DEFEAT SPANSH Disaster Is Reported When Tribesmen Win Victory at Melilla. By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 23.—Rumors of a startling nature relative to the situ- ation in the Spanish zone of Morocco. where Spain is engaged in a cam- paign against rebellious tribesmen, have been {n circulation since late last evening, but no confirmation was pos- sible up to shortly before noon today. King Alfonso, said a San Sebastian message received here, left there sud- denly last night for Madrid. His pres- ence in the capital, it was said, was necessary owing to the seriousness of events in Morocco. SPANIARDS GET SETBACK. Rebellious Morocco Tribesmen At- tack and Hundreds Killed. PARIS, July 23.—A serious setback has been suffered by the Spaniards in the fighting with the rebellious Moroccan tribesmen, says the Madrid | TWO CENTS. HOW T0 GET TAXES 1S REAL QUESTION FACING CONGRESS Revenue Cannot Be Decreas- ed, But Burden Shifted, Is Legislators’ View. MONEY-GETTING SOURCES NOT SO MANIFOLD NOW Diminishing Incomes May Be Deathblow to Excess Profits Plan. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. With the tarift bill out of the way until such time as it sall come back with divers and sundry Senate amend- ments, the ways and means commit- teemen will now turn their attention to another big problem, the framing of a new tax law. Upon this subject there will be found as wide a division of opinion on methods of taxation as upon theories of protection and free trade. At the outset, the committee will be confronted with the proposition of how to raise enough money, and by Wwhat plan, to meet the future ex- penses of the government, rather than how to reduce taxes. It is pretty well agreed that no material lessen- ing of the burden can be expected, but only the shifting of it from over- chafed ~ shoulders to others. For months, men'in official life have been sradually breaking this sad prospect o the publicy—getting the people into a proper state of res a Droper ignation to the One thing to be borne in mind is that there will not be as many re- sources subject to taxation as for- lmerly. Profits in business and incomes correspondent of the Journal today. | who quotes dispatches from Melilla. on the northern Moroccan coast. A large contingent of the tribesmen attacked the advanced positions of the Spaniards near Melilla and des- perate hand-to-hand fighting ensued. in which hundreds were killed or wounded, the correspondent declares. Gen. Silvestre, commander of the Spanish forces, is said to have been wounded. The fighting is still con- tinuing. Information from other sources, considered reliable, tends to minimize somewhat the gravity of the situa- tion. The Spaniards. it is declared. have evacuated one of the positions they previously had occupled. but no especial seriousness is attached in Spanish military circles to this. The Spanish battleship Alfonss X111 and several gunboats have iled from San Sebastian for an unknown destination. REPORT SPANISH DISASTER. London Hears They Lost Heavily in Clash With Rebels. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 23.—Private advices received here from Madrid today indi- cate that a critical sftuation obtains on the Barbary coast owing to what unofficially characterized as a Span- ish disaster in a battle with the at- tacking rebels at Melilla, Morocco. The officials in Madrid, the advices information. By way of Paris, however, come reports that the Spanish lost heavily in a desperate engagement, and that Span- ish reinforcements are being sent to the scene. Dispatches from Madrid quote the newspapers there as commenting on news of a serious Spanish reverse at Melilla, which the press says is now generally admitted. Some of the newspapers hint at treason on the part of a native corps as partially re- sponsible for the adverse develop- ment. > Information from an official source in Madrid states the .Spanish troops have evacuated good positions they held, but declares their reverse was not particularly sefous.- COL. McCAIN RETIRED. Former Adjutant General in Serv- ice Over Forty Years. Col. Henry P. McCain, formerly adjutant general of the Army and now stationed at Chicago as acting general of the 6th Corps Area, was placed on the retired list today as a qialor general, on his own application, fter more than forty years' service. He is-from Mississippi, and was graduated from the Military Academy in June, 1885. He was awarded a dis- tinguished service -medal during the world war, and has the further distinc- tion of being the only officer who ever declined appointment to the grade of brigadier general of the line. —_— PLANES LEAVE ROADS. Eight Naval Bombers Take Off for New York to Join Fleet. NORFOLK, Va., July 23.—Eight Navy bombing planes, which partici- pated in the air maneuvers off the Virginia capes in “June and July, left the air station at the Hampton roads base at 7 am. for New York. to rejoin the Atlantic fleet. The ten- der Harding salled for New York last night, and the flagship SMamut at 11 a.m. today, carrying Capt. A. W. Johnson, fleet air force commander. The fleet will go to Newport, R. 1., August 1. \ The_naval bombers taking off for New York this morning, included six .lr.fi-L'l and two NC blanes. 1 i o as well will show a falling off from previous years. The fact that five million workers are out of employ- ment is an indication of a slump in business which the tax gatherers will encounter when they go questing for revenue. o 2 Half Bul From Tariff. The new tariff law is estimated to produce half a billion in customs du- ties. It may and it may not, it is realized, but even if it does, where are the other three or three and a half billions to come from is the question y equally as important as the method by which it is to be wrung from the taxpayers. Foreseeing a prospective wide gap between the upper an nether fiscal garments of Uncle Sam, the administration is practicing rigid economy in expenditures, but with the r‘;:u!l‘t efl:nns in this endeavor there yet remain 2 Sig ma; - - l;vn“. ; . g rgin of dif- hether there is to be proposed a tax on sales will be the most hotly debated question, great differences of opinion existing among the lawmak- ers, regardless of party. The problem of excess profits may settle itself in the disclosure of vast diminution ‘of excess profits in_many directions and total disappeararice in others. Levy- iny upon supposed excess profits may be like summoning spirits from the vasty deep; they may be summoned, but will they come? 2 It remains for the Senate yet to de- termine the legislative program for the tariff bill and the expected tax bill, as to which will be passed first by the uppr body of Congress. Senti- ment is said to be increasing in the Senate in favor of soft-pedaling on tariff legislation, if the House Igown reasonable progress in sending over the tax bill, with a view to putting the last measure ahead. To Appense Public Demand. If that course s adopted it will be to satisfy public demand which at present seems to be in favor of Con- gress dealing with taxes first. Even if the public cannot be given the re- lief it expects, the mere act of Con- gress “doing something with taxes” may . serve, it is thought, to allay popdlar irritation and ease up the criticism of Congress. And Congress, it may be said in passing, is very sensitive on the score of the criticism to which it has been subjected in this regard. The present feeling in Congress is said to be sym- pathetic with the sentiment displayed on the legend in the frontier dance hall: “Don’t shoot at the pianist, he is doing the best he can.” A fine spirit of co-operation is found to be existing at the outset between the Treasury Department and Con- gress, and Secretary Mellon will work in harmony with the ways and means comminttee in setting up_the frame- work of the new bill. The recom- mendations of the Treasury Depari- ment and the ways and means com- mittee will be subject to the collective judgment of the House and Senate, when the bill gets into the legislative mill and what changes may be af- fected there are of course conjectural POWERS WARN BULGARIA. Call Attention to Certain Alleged Intrigues in Thrace. SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 23.—The min isters of France, Great Britain and Italy tolay presented Premier Stam- bulinsky & joint memorandum calling the attention of the Bulgarian gov- ernment to certain alleged Intrigues calculated to cause unrest in Thrace and bring about disagreeable conse- quences to Bulgaria. ‘The premier, in reply, affirmed Bul- s desire for peace in the Bal- and declared she had taken measures to insure peace, not only in Thrace, but also along the frontiers of the neighboring countries. Bul- garls, he added, would always re- spect the desires of the powers and would never be the center of trouble. BER. N IS CENTER OF RED EFFORT TO STIR WORLD-WIDE REVOLT BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. *BERLIN, July 22.—Berlin is the seat of the Russian soviet govern- ment’s principal bureau for dis- seminating bolshevist propaganda in Europe and America, according to official documents. which have failen into the hands of the gov- ernment agents here. Other cen- tral points in Europe are London, Vienna, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Riga and Helsingfors, where well .equipped staffs, includlog newspa- per men and military experts, are conducting propaganda campaigns among the working classes and organizing them for a world revo- lution. Scores of, couriers from 211 paris of Europe pass through Berlin every week with reports of the progress of the work in_the vari- ous countries. and from here Mos- cow’s Instructions are issued. ‘Bo!- shevist pamphlets are printéd here in all langueges and large quan- titles. A considerable percentage of them grs |{: E:xlug s Steamsnips leaving Cei n ports for Mexico and Central and Son American countries carry.tons of , soviet literature, the ultimate des- tination of which is the United States if the soviet agents are suc- cessful in smuggling it across the frontiers. -