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WEATHER. fees. 4 pm. toda; No. 28425. NEW RESERVATION 10 HPOWER PAGT OPENSWAYTOVOTE Senate Committee Will Act! Tomorrow, as White House Gives Approval. COMPROMISE SHORTER THAN ORIGINAL TEXT Definitely Defines Limit of U. S. Obligation and Eliminates “Con- sent of Congress.” A medified blanket reservation to the four-power Pacific treaty, said to be satisfactory both to President, Harding and to a majority of the members of the Senate foreign rela- tions committee, was debated by the committee today and an agreement reached to vote on the treaty itself and all proposed reservations at to- morrow's session. The new reservation was laid be- fore the committee by Senator Bran- Gegee, republican, of Connecticut. afier a conference with President Connecticut senator was sald T rot to have represented it as embody- e President’s views, but the un- of committee members would be acceptable =i ifou Specifiex No Pledge of Foree. - text of the reservation follows: he United States understands that under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no ob- lization to join in any defense. | Although apparentely acceptable to most of the republican and democrat- i sts on the committee, reservation according to today's n will not receive unanimous approval. Senator Johnson. | Californ was said to opposition during tie & and it was generally expected | Senator Borah. republican, of | who was absent, would take a similar position. The compromise reservation is more direct and shorter than the original Brandegee blanket proposal to wilich a majority of the committee | ! members previously had indicated their support. Under the original reservation the Tnited States would huve set forth | in detail that it was to assume mno| “moral “or .legal” _ebligation under| the treaty or any @ffistments re- | sulting from it without “the consent | of Congre: Particular reference to the pre- amble of the treaty is said to haye been made in the mew draft:because the preamble states that the agree- ment is made “wWith a view to the peace preservation of the general and the maintenance of” the of the signatory powers. The “maintenance” ~ does not appear, | however, among the commitments of | the treaty proper. Johnson Would Define Yap. Committee acceptance of the com- i formally agreed to tomor xpected to shorten the reser- =ht which was develoning in | Senate, although ft appears cer- n that various other proposed res- | itions will be brought forward boih in committee and on the Sepate floor and will lead to considerable de- b: Senator Johnson aiready has - pending in the committee which would attempt to define the word ht” as used in (he treaty. al favorable action on the res- ervation_and the treaty in the com- nittee 15 not expected to result in an mediate report to the Senate, the Jeaders indicating that they will hold | all the remaining arms conference | treaties in committee until a report o all of them is ready. It is the hope ¢ the leaders to have such a report com- | rleted by the end of next week, by | which time it is expected that Senate | debate will be concluded on the sepa- | rate treaty with Japan relating to the | Island of Yap. ! Today the ate met an hour ear-| lier in order to expedite the y debate, the treaty be- ing given right of way and republican leaders hoping for early action. | Plitman Opposes Plan. Exception was taken to this plan | of the Scnate managers by Senator | Pittman, democrat, Nevada, who sug- | sested in a speech on the floor today that action on the Yap treaty be de- | ferred “until we have determined our naval policy and our policy with | regard to ailiances affecting the Pa- | cific and the far east.” No definite stand for or against the treaty was taken by the Nevada sena- tor, although he declared that by its! acceptance the United States would | Jose the ieterest it now has in sov- creignty over Yap. while “the abso-| lute and exclusive sovereignty by | Japan will be confirmed.” He alSo at- tacked Senator Lodge's previous decla- | ratiofi .im the Senate that Americana | and Japanese would have entirely equal rights on the island, and quoted the treaty to show that equality was to exist “only in regard to all that relates 10 the landing and operation of cables. Similar rights regarding radio facill ties, Mr. Pittman said, could/not be ex- reised so long as an efficient radio ation wis maintained on the island by an. ‘Our press associations,” continued the Nevada senator, “have long been complaining that they could mnot get adequate service through the elec- trival communications controlled by Japan. It is true Japan contracts 'to conduct such service effectively, but if in our opinion, she fails to do’ this, what action shall be taken? Who would settle the dispute? Would it be settled under the four-power pact?” Senator Pittman also quoted the fortifications article of the naval treaty, and asserted that if the Senate ratified this treaty, “we will have, in my opinion, abandoned our influence and our commierce in the far east.” D. C..SURVEY COMPLETED. Subcommittee Ready to Take Up Appropriation Bill. Senator Phipps, chairman of the Senate appropriation subcommittes in charge of the District appropria- tion bill said today ‘that the mem- bers of the subcommittee had practi- cally completed the personal inspec- tion of the various projects around the District for which ney s asked, and that the sul mittee would get down to work on_the bill without delay. He said that he hoj to be able to report the bill to th 1ull committee, . and. that the. committee would be able to it to the, Fair tonight and tomerrow; colder Ight; lowest temperature about 23 1 4 terday; lowest, 35, at 8 a.m. ull report on page 7. “Closing New York Stocks, Page 21. intered a3 second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. i r hours 73, at ening EDITION Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922--THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. " e assoncron MIRE STALLS AUTOS Understbod to Have Paid Over $2,- 000,000 for Property—Board Probing Rents.’ Alfred I. du Pont and his wifé, Mrs. Jessle Ball du Pent of the Delaware du Pont family, have contracted with Felix Lake, owner of the Chastleton apartment house, at 16th and R streets northwest, for the purchase of that building, it was learned today. Rents in the Chastleton are now being ex- tensively investigated by the Rent Commission. % Announcement of the pending sale of the Chastleton was made this week during the hearings conducted by the Rent Commission, but, out of; respect for the wishes of W. Gwynne Gard- iner, attorney for the F. Smith Company, agents, the commission would not divulge the name of the person acquiring the building. In the course of the testimony re- garding the Chastleton it was brought out that the new purchaser had paid | "about the same price” as did Felix Lake when he bought the property last July from the District Apartment Cor- poration, now defunct. The considera- tion was said at the time to have been over the $2,000,000 mark. Actual title to the building, it was in- dicated at the hearings, has not been conveyed to Mr. and Mrs. du Pont. It is understood they gave as part payment a large tract of land in Virginia. SEEK HIGHER PAY FORU.S. LAWYERS Bar Associations Take Step to Attract Legal Talent Into Government Service. Establishment of salary schedules which will tend to attract and retain in government service the best legal | talent was asked of Congress in a resolution unanimously adopted at to- day’s session of the conference of bar associations at Memorial Continental Hall. | The resolution, presented by the Federal Bar Association of the Dis- trict, recommended that Congress take this action in its consideration of the pending biils providing for a classification of civilian positions ‘in the government. Judge Clarence N. Goodwin of Chi- cago, presiding, asked for and re- ccived unanimous consent of the con- ference to put the motion, declaring e believed it to be one which should meet with the approval assembled delegates from bar ' asso- ciations of the country. Following the unanimous passage, Judge Goodwin congratulated the conference upon its action. Ex-Seeretary MecAdoo in Chal William G. McAdoo, former Secre- tary of the Treasury, was warmly re- ceived when cailed to the platform to preside at the morning session, which was given oyer to the considecation of the general subjeet of technical education for lawyers. Mr. McAdoo said that, although he himself had not gone to law school, he was in favor of the increased educational standard which the American Bar As- soclation seeks to require from law- yers of the. future. Speakers on this general ‘opic in- cluded James Byrne and Charles A. Boston both of New York: Georze Price of West Virginia, Frank H. Sommer of New York and Wil Draper Lewis of Pennsylvania. Guests at White House. President and Mrs. Harding are to receive the delegates to the confer- ence at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon at the White House. It is expected that by this time final action will be taken by the conference on the proposition to require two years of college edu- cation as a preliminary to full legal traiming. ¥ The two-day conference will be brought to a close with a dinner at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the New Wil- lard Hotel. Attorney General Daugh- Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania and William L. Frierson, former solicitor general of the United States, will speak. Cor- denio_ A. Severance, president of the American Bar Association, Is to pre- side. Wickersham Raps Lawyers. Assertion that there are men now holding high legal offices and even sitting on the bench in the United States who have no conception of the Lasic principles of English law, was made by George W. Wickersham, for- wer Aticrney General, in an address before the conference. . These men are called upon to inter- Jret the laws, the former Attorney (Continued on Page £, Column 4.) C. A. RAWSON SWORN AS SENATOR FROM IOWA Senat)r Kenyon, Who Accepts Post On Bench, Will Be Guest at Farewell Gathering Today. Charles A. Rawson of Des Moines today was sworn in as senator from Iowa, succeeding Senator William S. Kenyon, who resigned today to ac- cept appointment as judge of the eighth circuit court of appeals. Gov. Kendal} of Iowa, the state congressional delegation and many friends of the new and retiring sena- tors witnessed today’s Serator Cummins of Iowa presented Senator Kenyon's resignation ana Senator Rawson's credentials. 1 Senator Curtis of Kansas, republi- can vice chalrman and presiding while Vice. President Coolidge was at 's cabinet meeting, admin- istered oath.- of the 400 : ceremony. | linhugsen, follows: | ON STREETS LINED BY FINE RESIDENCES Survey by Star Representa- tive Shows Imperative Needs in Northwest. RECOMMENDATIONS LOST BEFORE CONGRESS VOTED jExamination of Estimates Show!] Most Drastic Cuts Were Made 1 in Budget Bureau. Imperative need of improving many of the new streets in the norshwest section of the city, aside from the resurfacing of many of the old Streets, is apparent from an inspec- Ition between Wisconsin and Con- necticut avenues made today by a representative of The Star. The Commissioners had made recom- mendations for the resurfacing of eertain sections of these two:main highways. Their recommendations either were lost in passing through the bureau of the budget or the House of Representativs. Go Over Situation. Civic bodies aré fully cognizant of the condition in which Congress will leave Washington if it does not pro- vide sufficient money with which to i improve many of the city streets, and particularly those new streets opened. The subcommittee on streets of the Washington Board of Trade, composed of W. W. Everett, chairmaz; W. G. Henderson and Henry E. Bettinger, has been in conference with Daniel Garges, secretary of tne board of District Commissioners, during which they went over the entire street situ- ation. This committee plans to visit, the | subcommittee on District approbria- tions of tne,Senate appropriations committee, which now is considering the District appropriation bil, with a view to getting more liberal appro- priations for District streets than were allowed by the bureau of the| budget or the. House. While the House would not consider any street improvement recommendations which did not come through, the burceu of the budget. it allowed the Commis- | sioners to put in a statement at the| hearings showing their full recom- | mendations to the bureau of the budget. Cut in Budget Bureau. An examination of, the regom o t’tlons of the Commissioners and the estimates as they emerged from the {bureau of the budget after' former | Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman had used the pruning knife on them, show- | ed that most of the cuts wers made | |In that department of the govern- ment. Some example of the effect of re tusing to provide funds to istreets on which been built was seen by The Star representative during the inspect.sn |tour. A District water’ department truck was mired deep in mud on ebraska avenue trying to reach| Wisconsin avenue from Alton place. | it is a daily story for trucks! {as well as other vehicles to become stalled in the streets of th's general section. The Dfstrict.truck had been | in the mud for three hours, and the | four men had given up the task of | trying to get it out. It was observed { the body of the large truck was near- Iy below the surface and the wheels had made a hole about thras feet idegp. The time of these four men was being lost while waiting for ad- ditignal equipment to come and drag (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) PRESIDENT'S HANDS! TIED BY CONGRESS, {Mr. Harding Suggests Means i of U. S. Obtaining Share of Declaring that Congress had tied {the hands of the administvation in dealing with ihe reparation comm sion, President Harding in A letier iSenator Frelinghussen, republican, iNew Jersey, has suggestcd that some | legislative action be taken > permit the United States to get its quota of German reparation dyes | The President’s views us set forth {ia tne letter werc presented tuday { to the Senate committee investigutin | charges_of dye monopolies and lob- bies and in connection with an appeal lof the Textile Alliance, ouce the {agency for the government in receiv- |ing and distributing German dye> al- ‘lotted to the Jnited States 2s an as-. sociate sower in the world war, for >f scme method by which re- has creation the receiving of dyes could be sumed. The State Department. it been developed, abrogated 1lis rangement with' the alliance last cember, saying it had no legul thority to continue it. Text of Letter. The President's letter, which was into the record by Senator Fre- Senator Rawson, who is republican state chalrman, was appointed to fill Mr. Kenyon's term, expiring March 3, 1926. It has been announced by Sen- ator Rawson that ho would not be a candidate next November when. a nent sucoessor to Mr. Kenyon is to be chosen. Associates of Mr. on _on the agricultural bloc will"bid him good- bye at a_meeting late today, and plan to elect ‘Senator Capper, republican, Kansas, as chairman of the bloc to succeed him. e 'PRESIDENT T0 GET BILL. ‘The Senate today accepted | the use amendment to the:Senste b “At the moment my best judgmenti is that we will get no effective ar. rangement made except through a resolutioni by Congresa. I quite agree that we ought to get the benefit of such reparation credit as might come | to us through. the German export of | dyes to this country, through the! reparation commission, and we ought to protect our textile manufac- | turers against the grant of undue ad- | vantage to their competitors in the old world, It would be easy-to do: this if Congress had not tied the! hands of the administration in deal- | ing with the reparation commission.- 1 am m;t‘thsn; lo sugtem: thet: vou| conf Wi some of your assoc! 8 Taing. a resolution which will. deal with the dye question definitely and y "GUIDE WEDS D. C. GIRL, - CHANDLER, Aria. February 24— W. W. “Bill” Huggell, for many ye: chiit avide in un Gemnt Céion set 1D \ghter of: ate) o J it lendly . words'.re; i ) SUSPECT IS TAKEN INBLACKHAND CAS Man, Closely Guarde&, Se- verely Grilled by Grant and Burns. Acting under instruction from the Department of Justice, the local polics this afternoon took into custody the ! suspected , author of blackhand let- ! ters, which have been mailed in the last few weeks to four promfnent Washingtonians. Closely guarded, the man, whose name' was withheld pending exami- nation, was taken to the Department of Justice this afternoon and put through a severe grilling by Inspector Clifford Grant, chief of the detectivei att; and Chiet. W.-J.Burns of the burean of investigation, who are conducting the examination. Was Under. Sarvelllance. The suspect has been under sur- veillance for more than a week, it was learned today, and while not in actual custody of the police, has been in a place where they could put their hands upon him at an instant’s notice. It was decided today to make the; final effort to clear up this angle of: the case. For almost a month the local police and Department of Jus- tice operatives have been trying to bring about a successful end to the case. Twenty missi By re er s or more. accord- | When the engine of Company < became disabled while responding to | ¢1imination of the reparations ques- an apartment house fire this morn- | tion ing, the downtown section of the ity | uestion of cha allied debts, for the | two are close.y connected.and this in turn eliminates various allied pacts now under negotiation, notably the | Anglo-French | j was left y the Associated Press. THEODORE MARBURG, JR., SUCCUMBS AS RESULT ALLIES PREPARED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS | NOGALES, Ariz., February 24.— ceived here. Mr. Marburg, ashing into his head. Ones in Service Now. without the son of Theodore Marburg, sr., of Baltimore, former Cnited States minister to Belgium, accidentally shot himself last Fri- day while examining a gun front of the offices of the Mar- burg-Kibbey Cattle Company at Magdalena, Sonora. discharged accidentally, the bullet Capt. Theodore Marburg, jr., shot Friday at Magdalena, morning, according to a message died this in = ! By Cable to The The gun was l 1 HEARTOFDC LACKS Both Large Apparatus Out of | Commission—Inadequate 6 large type of fire apparatus needed in the business ing to Mr. Burns, were received by | district, Chief Watson announced this the prospective victims. It seems that the author or authors of the “black hand” notes became discon- tented when the first batch were not answered promptly and dispatched a two weeks ago. afternoon. The other large downtown engine, No. 14, went to the repair shop about A large sum will total of approximately sixteen more,| have to be spent to put these two in some cases sending half a dozen to each intended victim. Those Threatened. dition. Those who received the notes are Two New Engines Asked. Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mme. Chris-| 1pe Commissioners about tian Hauge, widow of the former minister .from Norway: Mrs. Scott Townsend and Henry White, former ambassador to France. Mr. White was one of the first to receive a second “black hand” threat. chase of two new much-needed engines back into con-Y three Mary | Weeks ago sent to the budget bureau a supplemental estimate for the pur- engines of the {large type needed in the heart of the It was definitely .established today | city, and today's accident emphasizes that the threats demanded money placed in a small container and dropped from an automobile on one of the roads to the west of this city, the place being designated in each! letter. 1 The threat was generally ghat if such action was not taken explosives would be thrown iito or dropped on their homes. The amount demanded in most instances was $15.000, and the writer made it plain that those to whom the threats were addressed could easily afford to hand out this money, As a decoy, Mr. Burns said today, Mrs. Van Winkle, lieutenant in charge of the- women’s bureau of the police department here, journeyed out in an automobile impersonating Mre. Thomss F. Walsh 2 few days ago, Nothing resulted when she dropped a can from the machine atthe desig? rated spot, although the operatives and police’ were ready to arrest any suspicious character. Mr. Burns declared that, in his opinion, the author of the niissives was_a “crank” with a tendency to- ward mania. The notes were ob- viously written by a man, and the first pf them appeared approximately 2 month ago. Three weeks ago the police were called into-the case and Inspector Grant and Chief Burns since that time have been co-operating in run- ning down all available clues. In the meantime, every precau was_taken and a guard was plal at each house to arrest any sus- it i the to old of the several hom®s involved. BY GEORGE WITTE. K Star_and Chl Daily Dy Wireless o The Star and Chicago BERLIN, ‘Februaty 24— Althqug! the shop owners, mo.‘nkeqwr-\ud movie proprietors regret the depar- ture of the greater part of the Amer- ichn troops from the area’ in Ger- thany occupied by ‘them, the majority of the people in Coblenz are glad td gee- them go, in the hope that food prices and the cost-of othier neces- sities will go down and that the na- tives will once more be able to show their faces in stores, cafes and the- ters.’ x Ge! Brookland these will have to be used tempo- rarily in the business district, Chief ‘Watsen said today, they are toe small The German People M | By Departure of U.S. Troop But Coblenz has had families over and these into the ¥omes of the Germans. Thi was especially - unpleasant whe: that it will ‘no s pointed out. for Anacostia. factory and assignment render adequate service in apparatus horse-drawn stéam engine, Offers to Loan Masks. Happy to suffer was only one Kitchen. no end to the rows among- the the importance of having that sup- plemental estimate written into-the new District bill before it is enacted, New engines recently arrived from to ‘While the section of town where big fires occur. which developed serious trouble this morning was an which a few years ago was mounted on a motor tracior. | fore apparently disposed least for the present. wfimfnmy mutual concessions. | i Howard S. Reeside, president of the There. complaints.” Now that the-number of ‘troops and also of officers lias become ‘eomparatively small, it is expected longer be necessary. to wish American families on . the 1 i 1 | pacts. i Lloyd George and Poincare Will FORU. 3. INACTION Uncertainty of Attitude Now Dissipated as Bar to Ne- gotiations. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. r and Chicago Daily right, 1922, Con PARIS, February 24—One of the| chlef obstacles to diplomatic agree- | ment between England and France, |namely, doubt as to the course the| United States intended to pursue, has nations | jare convinced that the United States| [intends to do nothing whatever, at| EBoth are there- to make now been dissipated. Both T Yow “eertain thav thé Genoa conference for the economic recon- struction of Europe will duly take but It has there | shall be no discussion of near eastern or reparations questions at this con- ference, nor shall thi existing trea- The place, not indeed on March 8, within a few weeks zfterward. seemingly been agreed that ties be considered in any w automatically eliminates Anglo-Belgian ~ and the most important point on Genoa agenda will be Russia. their neighbors. On the economic side the main ef- | fort of the Genoa Premier Poincare meet at Boulogne! !0 be a widespread inquiry into the tional consortium to facilitate the | economic reconstruction of eastern | and central Europe. Present _ind: Prime Minister Lloyd George and |frst result. tomorrow important steps will taken toward harmonizing French | and. British policies preliminary ! the Genoa conference. to be a failure. Discuss Genoa Parley. By the Associated Press. BOULOGNE, France, February 24.— The French premier, M. the. coming international The under-prefect of Boulogne last night received instructions from the foreign office to prepare the under- prefectural building for the meeting, ‘which is. set for 3 p.m. M. Poincare is being accompanied here only by Count Peretta 1a. Rocca, director of the department | of forelgn affairs, and M. Camerlynck, | U. 5. TO REPLY SOON. Answer to financial conference at ture of the American reply. the “propased conference, and that" - -through ews. the It is therefore clear that by far the Next in importance will be a British pro- posal for a generil pact or resolution in which all the signatories will ag: ree | ci 48 to refrain from aggression against|P2d With him a tentative nst | conference will |an entirely new program for the de- seemingly be to set up an interna- | Velopment of lighter-than-air craft in cations are that when | that branch of the service. Baare !l volved Benes, premicr of Crechoslovakia has | Which could have been derecied in cen largely instrumental in bring- | {ing nll;_o“t (hisdmeellnfi, for asy he | Pressed himself has said the smaller nations | e 8 n of central and eastern Burope -ali! with/Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the | feel that unless France and Britain reach Some Bort of an agreement in 1€y Field, where he conducted a per- advance the Genoa meeting is bound WILL CONFER TOMORROW. Poincare, | and Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain will meet here tomorrow to Washington Gas Light Company, to- | iScuss various questions bearing on day offered to lend Chief Watson ten gas masks bought by the gas com-|and financial conference at Genoa. pahy -until the city can buy its own gas masks through appropriations. The gas company sends a hurry-up wagon {n respoise to every alarm of fire. Eight of the masks will be kept | on the downtown truck of the gas company.and two on another wagon | 0% [in Georgetown. When these wagons | official interpreter. . remeh the fire ground the masks will | picious person approaching! any one bsdflval‘ldable for the firemen, Mr. Ree-| side said. % economic Invitation to Attend Ge- | noa Parley to Be Sent Shortly. The attitude of the American gov- ernment toward participation in the proposed international economic and Genoa will be' set forth in a note respondiig to sionth, which equals 7,000 marks,| the invitation of the allied supreme was liberal enough with the money) council to b€ sent forward in a few in trying to take advantage of ‘thedavs, it was sald today at the State !low rate “of the German currency.|Department. The State Department, goodlit was learned yesterday, had made deal under the occupation, especially| formal acknowledgment of the in- as many of the officers brought'their{ vitation n a communication to the were crowded | Itallan government. 18| State Department officials today Te’ fused to give any indication of the na i elay in | geryi ield here for the thirty-four {answering the invisation, it was said,; vy 4 ‘was occasioned by the American gov-) ernment’s desire to e fully informed re- position now has been made in a mote setting forth in detail views, which had been re- the French embassy ‘That note, it was said, was the Member of The Associated the use for repubilication of wll news diapmtekts eredited 10 it or wot otherwise eredited in this Paper and aiso the local news published herein, Al rights dispatches the Associated Press || . Press is oxclusively entitied o of poblication of wpecial herein are miso reserved. . GIRL AT TRIAL KILLS MAN ACCUSED OF ATTACKING HER,WHEN 15 YEARS OLD By the Assoctited Press. WACO, Tex., February 24.—Miss Maréine Matthews, seventeen years old, shot and instantly killed J. S. Grosslin today during proceedings in the district court here.. He was charged with criminally attack- ing the girl two years ago. Grosslin, aged fifty-nine yeas was triea and convicted and sen- tenced to nine years in the peni- tentiary, but the case was re- versed on an error in the admis- sion of testimony and remanded for trial. The preliminaries had been com- pleted and Miss Matthews had been called to the witness stand. “He disgraced me, ruined my health and deprived me -of school privileges,” she stated after thec killing. “But he will never ruin another girl.” Miss Matthews walked to the tness chair, then turned witk a pistol in hand and fired straigh: at Crosslin, wio sat in a chair 1 side his attorneys, fifteen fy away. She then took two or ihree steps forward and fired again. A vaneing to within three fee: of the man, who had collapsed in his chair, she shot a third time, the bullet penetrating his_ side. Officer Burton seized the girl in his arms and carried her ou: of the courtroom. He took the weapon from her and locked her in a room in the sheriff’s office Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,858 | Now Feared Coalition May Provide TWO CENTS. U. 5. LACKS A WAY TORAISE SOLDIERS" BONUS, IS REPORT House Subcommittee Takes Flop-in Attitude Regard-~ ing Measure. OPEN FIGHT LIKELY OVER SALES TAX PLAN Payment, But Specify No Way of Raising Money. _ Inability to find any means for rais- fng funds to pay the doldiers’ bonus is to be reported to the full repub- lican membership of the ways and means committee when it meets this . -nernoog- by the special subcommit- tee which has been considering CABINET DISCSSES RONA DESTRUCTION NEWAIRPLANSEEN Secretary Fall Offers Pro- gram for Developing He- lium Gas Fields. The Roma disaster and possible necessary changes of aireraft policy resulting therefrom were understood to have been discussed at today's cabinet meeting. ing said Congress would be asked through the War and Navy depart- ments for an appropriation of $5,000,- 000 for production of helium gas, the non-iuflammable gas used for dirigibles. The Secretary took with him into the cabinet meeting a map showing gas Kansas and Oklahoma, which might, in addition to the Texas fields, furnish helium. The value and Importance of helium has mr w ¥ the atteation of the sever overnment departments. Experiments in the extraction of the gas have been conducted jointly by the Army, Navy and Interior de- partments, Secretary Fall said. The government has a plant at present operating in northern Texas. where. the Sccretary -said, about 2.400.000 cubic feet of helium gas is in stor- Secretary Fall on entering the meet- |1, fields in Pennsylvanfa, Ohio, Indiana, ! (Yield a total of $124,000,000, Mr. An~ means. This decision was reached by the subcommittee this morning and represents a decided flop from the attitude yesterday afternoon. It was predicted today by those favoring a sales tax that this would mean an open fight on the floor with the republican membership of the Ways and means committee in oppos- ing factions. Those who are in favor of a soldier bonus express belief that such a report from the full republican membership will mean that Presiden Harding will veto the bonus legisla= tion if it ever reaches him. z . What is causing the most worry to the members of the ways and means commitice, and cspecially td the republican leaders in the House today, is the growing suspicion that many republican members msy join with the cdemocrats in putting through a Honus bill which will not contain any provicion whatever for raising the necessary funds. leaving it to the Treasury Department iof work out some way of getting the money. The thought hs been ex- pressed by some republican mem- bers that such a bill has a good chance of being passed even over resident Harding's veto. New Plan to Raise Bonus. Representative Andrews, republican, of Nebraska, introduced a bill yesterday proposing to finance the bonus partly through collection from twenty-six states of $25,101,644.91 loaned them by the federal government eighty-six years ago. His bill would direct the Treasury Department to call for a refund of the principal, with interest at 4 per cent from tae date of the loans. This would drews estimated. The balance needed for meeting a $ol- dier bonus could be met through con- version of . ihewBritish debt into mar- ketable securities, according to the New: braska member. = * z Explaining the’ existence of the fund he proposes should be collected from states, Mr. Andrews said that in 1836, withra surplus of funds on hand and no secure place to store them, Congress en- acted legislation transferring the fund to states on the basis of population, with the stipulation that it was to remain age, produced at a cost of about 13 cents a cubice foot. S Favors Other Plants. Secretary Fall declared that government hoped to be able to bring the production of helium gas { to the point where it would be avail- able for commercial purposes in use in the lighter-than-air machines. He | expressed ‘himself as in favor of es- { tablishing other plants similar to that at Fort V/orth, Tex. Mr. Fall raft of a the jbill coverlug thiz subject. Out of the Roma disaster may come the Army air service, for the loss of the big dirigible has completely up- |set tr@ning and operating nlans for One of the is cxpected of the wrecl be | Whole question of the milita~y value f lighter-than-air craft. There were no structural defecis in- o | % . in _the wreek of the Toma {advance, according to the opinion ex- yesterday by Secretary of War Weeks following a conversation air service, on his return from Lang- sonal preliminary inspecticn of the wreck. His opinion, as outlined by the War Secretary, was that the acei- {dent was due to a break in the mech- anism of the elevating rudder. No Complaint From Crew. { Maj. Gen. Patrick told the Secre- tary there were no indications of complaint by members of the crew {of the Roma of their inability to control the ship. Motor difficulties | had been remedied by replacing the original motors. with American-built Liberty engines, he said. B ! Messages of sympathy from all over the country were received yesterday and today by officers of the air serv- ice, and those from abroad included one 'from Gen, H. M. Trenchard, chief of the British air service, and one from the German chancellor. Ambas- | sador Ricci of Italy, in-a Statement !smude public by the State Depart- de | ment, said: “The tragic end of the brave men who, in the performance of their { duty, lost their lives will be mourned j by all in my country, and I wish to express our heartfelt condolences to their families. I beg to extend my government's and my personal sym- pathy- to Secretary Weeks and the | Army air service.” Condolences on the Roma disaster were received today by President | Harding from King Albert of Bel- gium, it was announced at the State Department. PUBLIC FUNERAL SERVICES. | All Business Snnpende; in Norfolk ‘7 and Nearby Places. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., February 24. —Ali business here and at Norfolk and re- | other surrouzding communities was sus- | pended today during the public funeal victims of the disaster which befell the { Army dirigible Roma. During the brier with the states until Congress directs otherwise. Congress has authority, Mr. Andrews contends, to require repay- ment. MOSES OPPOSES BONUS. Scnator Moses of New Hampshire, republican, today declared his oppo- sition to the passage of the proposes soldier bonus bill at this time. “In common with the great majori- ty of the members of this and the other branch of Congress,” said Sen- ator Moses, addressing the Senate, “I have been under a promise to sup- port adjusted compensation legisia- tion. 1 am rising here now in sd- wince of the measure’s coming to us, in order that those to whom such promise has been made may lLnow that I cannot go forward with it at the present time. “No one will undertake to minimize the country’s obligation to the young men whom the long arm of the gov- ernment reached out and seized for military service in the world war. Neither will any one undertake to re- buke the whoily proper feeling of re- sentment which these young men feel toward their associates of like age and physical strength who sought shelter in the essential occupations &t home, and who received the unduly swollen compensation which those oc- cupations provided. ut we must bear in mind the scriptural admonition that _there 1s time for things—and this is not the time for pressifk legislation of this character. No plan thus far ad- vanced can possibly be carried out without unwarranted dislocation of the impelling and unavoidable finan- cial readjustments growing out of the existing debt of the war, or without continuing for an indefinite period featurés of the existing taxation sve- tem which I regard iniquitous, inguisitorial and unjus Senator Moses said that he was in favor of doing everything possible to aid the disabled soidiers of the wgr, and that he had supported every measure for that purpos He said that he favored the sales tax sug- gested by the *President as a mean: of raising revenue to pay the sol- diers’ bonus, in principle. He sgid, however, that he was unwilling® 16 impose further tax burdens on the people at this time. When the tax laws are taken up for revision again, he said, he hoped a sales tax would be included in the system. Today’s News In Brief Appeal again made for ailey dwell- ers. Page 2 Miss McCormick's_wedding expected u‘).mke place in May. Page 2 Plame ZR-2 wreck on structural de- Tects. Page 3 Senate agriculture committee to- visit Mascle Shoals. Page 3 bled soldiers protest publication D fatures of crippled Boldiers &8 bonus propaganda. Page 4 Referendum _issue fought out im Afaryiand dry-enforcement bill bate tle. 5 !‘uN‘e-C Canada to free négro wanted in Norths Carolina. Page 4 Plane announced for settling damages | in Treland. Page § Russian children:saved by firs M"Y, Food o be distributed. Page 3 ident owns a Kentucky thorougli- Presi o 71 i | services' conducted by Army chaplains andeeveral of the local ministry, air- planes from Langicy Field flew over the grounds of Casino Park to drop floral tributes on the row of flag-draped cas- kets. They cartied tributes irom the city, the state and the Americaa Legion, as well as from friends and relatives. f Virginia was represented eral John R Saunders brief tributes| make July bred, gaid to be & gift. copdition still criti- cal. s Page 13 Representative Hammer favors. reforms. Page Blizzard in west claims twelve 1i losses in millions. ‘ oman suspected of faking hold-i fln two states. p.,.‘g ; esident approves women’s plan {0 e ’r‘cw day.” ,«’ 3 Mabel Normand's