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\ WEATHER. \ Increasing cloudiness and ‘warmey fo- ','é‘f.m’ prgbably followed by rain tomotr- Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 59, at || [N 2 p.m. today; lowest, 31, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 4 . Closing New York Stocks, Page 19. ¢ Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D._ C. No. 28435. & Fhening WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1922—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. 4 3 sSta Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is “exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispate! credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published hereln. Al rights of publication of special L 4 dispatches berein are also reserved. * Saturday’s Net Circulation, 88551 Sunday’s Net Circulation, 93,108 TWO CENTS. SAVINGS BANK TAX LEVIED BY DISTRICT UPHELD BY GOURT Justice Smyfh Hands Down Important Decision in Ap- pealed Test Case. 4 PER CENT ON GROSS EARNINGS HELD LEGAL Security Savings and» Commercial Bank Brought Suit—Sub- stance of Ruling. - 3 The tax levied by the District of Columbia of 4 per cent on the gross carnings of gavings banks, less the amount pald to depositors as interest, 1s declared valid by a decision of the District Court of Appeals rendered to- day by Chief Justice Smyth. The de- cision was announced in a test case brought by the Security Savings and Commercial. Bank, which paid the tax ‘under protest and brought suit to re- cover from the District. Judgment was rendered in favor of the District by the lower court and the bank ap- pealed. Claims Made by Bank. The bank contended that its earn- ings included $16.517.33 interest de- rived from liberty bonds, victory honds, war savings stamps and cer- tificates of indebtedness of the United States, which under the law providing for their issuance are exempt from 1axation. The bank claimed that the tax sought to be levied under paragraph 7 of the act of July 1, 1962, as amended by act of April 28, 1904, is a property tax and therefore invalid. If that were true the tax would be void, the court admits, but it points out that the contention of the Dis- trict that the tax is a franchise or cxcise tax, levied in the right of the corporation to do business in the Dis- irict of Columbia is sustaimed by a fair interpretation of a number of decisions of the United States Su- preme Court. * Cases Considered Unlike. The bank had also claimed that thé Court of Appeals had decided In favor of its view of the law’s inter- pretatipn in the case of the Chesa- peake &nd Potomac Telephone Com- pany against the District in 39 Ap- peals 565. The court, however, differ~ entiates the two cases and declares the decision in the telephone case was placed on another ground and does mnot conflict with the present ruling. . ONE DEAD, 2 WOUNDED, _ IN UNDERGROUND DEN Three Chinamen, Members of Tong, Shot by Fourth One in Card Game. 3 CHICAGO, March 6.—Three China- men—one dead and two badly wound- ed—were found beside an overturned idol in an incense-filled, subterranean chamber in the heart of Chinatown | py, last night by the police, when they (battered their way through three doors to investigate reports of a shooting affair. The place was known as a gambling place for orientals, and when the police entered they found a luxuriously fur- nished and heavily barred room in the basement. The interior had been partly awrecked and the furnishings ‘were strewn about. One of the wounded men gave his name as Joe Lee, and said that the other two were his brothers, Tom and William. He said that he was a member of the Hip Sing Tong, but dld not know why he and his brothers| had been shot. He said, according to the police, that they had been play- ing cards with a fourth man, Joe Wing of Seattle, Wash., when the lat- ter suddenly drew a pistol and be- san firing. Wing had not been found late last night. FINDS AMERICAN GIRLS ARE “REAL HYPNOTISTS” Prof. Joshi of India Also Notes “Too Much Rush for Comfort” in Life in United States. CHICAGO, March 6.—America has “too much rush in it for real comfort” and the American girl is a “genuine hypnotist,” Prof. Samuel L. Joshi of Baroda College, Baroda, India, said here. Prof. Joshi is seeking 100 women to help bring to America for edycation 100 women of high caste from India. Prof. Joshi, post-graduate of Co- lumbia University and now touring America under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundsgtion in the interests of world peace, announced he is con- sidering a year's exchange service of his_department of English literature with the English department in the University of Nebraska. STATE RESTS IN TRIAL ~ FOR MURDER OF BROKER Defense of Mrs. Obenchain, Accused of Slaying Former Sweetheart, Begins in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Calif,, March 6.— "The swste was expected to rest today and the &defense to begin its efforts 1o prove the inrocence of Mrs. AMadalynne Obenchain, on trial for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, broker, her former sweetheart. One more witness, Mrs. Mary A. 1iff, whose illness with influenza lnzl was expected to testify for the prosecution. _ At the trial of Arthur C. Burch,! Jointly indicted with Mrs. Obenchain for the Mennedy murder, Mrs. Ailiff testified that Mrs. Obenchain told her several days before the slaying of Kennedy that “Belton is #oing to die. I can almost put my hand on the spot where it ‘will Lappen.™ L BURNS FATAL TO AUTHOR. o _VENICE. Caiif. Match 6.—John -,}‘éf':’"fi\w”s&c'm“m?' dI:d at his me here y - Zeved Saturday, o St m\ L : SECRETARY HUGHES BACK Arrives in New York Enthusiastic Over Bermuda Vacation. NEW YORK, March 6—Secretary snd Mrs. Charles E. Hughes returned on the steamer Fort Hamilton today from a vacation in Bermuda, driving immediately to the Pennsylvania terminal to take the 1:10 train for ‘Washington. The Secretary, his face wreathed in smiles, rode up the harbor on the Steamer’s bridge with the captain. He declined to comment on national affairs, wkich he said he had not fol- lowed closely during his absence, but Lad enthusiastic comments to make on the balmy weather he experienced in Bermuda and the almost as spring- like brand he found being served in New York upon his arrival. He declared he had had a “fine va- cation” and was eager to get back to his desk in the State Department. JOHN H. BARTLETT INLINEFORP.0.108 Head of Civil Service Com- mission Possible' Successor to Dr. Hubert Work. JOHN H. BARTLETT. John H. Bartlett, president of the Civil Service Commission, was most prominently mentioned today as pos- sible new first assistant postmaster general, to také the place left vacant by the appointment of Dr. Hubert Work Postmaster General of the United States, succeeding Will H. Hays. It is known that the administza- tion looks upon President Bartlett, head of the Civil Service Commission since last July, as perhaps the best fitted man in Washington to take up the duties left vacant in the office of the first assistant postmaster gen= eral by the promotion of Dr. Work. Former New Hampskire Governor. Mr. Bartlett, a former Governor of ew Hampshire, was postmaster of Portsmouth, N. H.,, for eight years, having served under the administra- tions of President McKinley and Roosevelt. This work as postmaster, it is held, ideally fitted Mr. Bartlett to become first assistant postmaster general of the United States. The position of first lieutenant of the Postmastér General carries with it the handling of all the personnel of the postal service. The first as- sistant postmaster general also has charge of all postmaster appoint- ments throughout the country, as ‘well as general oversight of the vast network of city carriers of the land. During his term as head of the Civil Service Commission Mr. Bart- lett has shown great interest in the| work devolving upon the commission in relation to postmaster appoint- ments, and has steadily pushed this important work forward. Sketch of His Career. Former Gov. Bartlett has had an interesting career. Following his graduation from Dartmouth College, he was made principal of the Ports- mouth High School and held this po- sition for three years, when he was made postmaster of the city. He re- fused a third term and began the practice of law, and then became in- terested in various business projects. This winter he sold his interest in a chain of thirty motion picture thea- ters in New England and put a por- tion of the money into the purchase of the Integstate building, on F street, here, in order to thoroughly identify himself with Washington. Mr. Bartlett holds decided views as to the, civil service and has been working away steadily to put into ef- fect broader examinations for the service, hoping to make character and personality play as large a part in admission to Uncle Sam's service as scholarship does at present. \Refuses to Comment on Rumor. Postmaster General Work, busy to- day answering the hundreds of let- ters and telegrams of congratulations which have poured in upon him from friends throughout the cduntry, would make no statement as to filling the offiee of first assistant, or that of sec- ond assistant, the latter left vacant through the death of Col. E. H. Shaughnessy, & victim of the Knick- erbocker Theater disaster. When asked regarding the Wash- ington city postmastership, Postmas- ter Genéral Work would make no comment, aside from a smile, and the remark: “It is being filled very well at present.” It is believed that City Postmaster Merritt O. Chance will serve out the two remaining vears of his term of office. - ' g GERMAN UNION PROPOSED. \ Three States May Combitie to Fur- ther Interests. DRESDEN, March 6.—The German states of BSaxony, Brunswick and Thuringla contemplate establishment of a union to further fheir common interests without impairing their separate independence. These :hree: states now have socialist govern- ments. A meeting of officials has been held | recently in Leipsig and it was decided to establish an office jointly support- ed to promote the common ‘welfare. The office will have to do essen- tially with labor problems, but in- quiry will be made of other German- governed states for opinions as to the practicability . of a comprehensive “league °,‘ t staten,” = IRATE, MUD-SOAKED RESIDENTS ARMING 10 STIR CONGRESS Petitions Being Prepa}red De- mand Immediate Relief From Impassable Streets. - AUTOS USE SIDEWALKS TO AVOID BEING 'MIRED Tenleytown Citi'zentr Exhaust Pa- tience in Waiting for Official to Remedy Plight. Residents out Tenleytown way are up in arms over their bad streets. They are preparing to storm, with petitions, Congress, the Commission- ers and any one else who has any thing to do with the improvement of streets. They are protesting against paying high taxes on their homes, and tken having to use the sidewalks to reach their homes in vehicles. And, incidentally, a few of them have pald some addftional funds which might be used for the pavement of the streets in the way of fines for driving their cafs over the gidewalks. - The streets in that section are in a terrible condition, &nd no truck ven- tures off the hard ground at Wiscon- sin avenue. Those thgt are willing to risk the streets find themselves deep in the mire. 'The women are protest- ing with &1l their vigor, and they are working up petitions to demand the pavement of the streets in their sec- ticn. Women Circulate Petitions. Mrs. Ralph A. Cellins, 5040 3i1st street, and Miss A. May At Lee toflay are plowing through the mud and mire getting signers to a petition de- manding that the street be paved, and saying that the owners of the prop- erty are ready and willing to pay their share of the cost, Although they do not admit the justice of the Borland law requiring the residents to pay half the cost of street paving, they are willing to do most anything to get streets that will permit them to enjoy the comforts of their homes to the fullest extent. Mrs. Collins said today that the property owners are all signing the petition, as they recognize that they will not be able to get to their homes without getting full of mud and mire until the street is paved. They, are asking, in the petition, for a concrete street. The residents are getting their own evidence of the condition “of ¢he streets there to accompany the - tion. They have many pictures of stalled automobiles, and they snap them every day. big car went down in the ‘mirs more than hub deep and required a few hours’ labor on the part of the ven- turesome driver before he could work it loose. Road Scraper at Work. Today a road scraper and about six men from the street repair depart- ment of the District were out there smeothing out the ruts. But Mrs. Collins said that does no good, as the first car fo come along goes down and makes the same ruts. R. E. Hamilton, owner of the pro- perty at 4415 39th street, on the cor- ner of Alton place, and sales manager of the real estate company develop- ing this section, says that mere than sixty-five families are seriously af- fected by the lack of street there. { They are willing to pay their share |of the street improvement, he said. A petition has been signed by all of the residents there and has been sent to the District Commissioners People are unable to use their cars unless they drive on the sidewalk. Many of them not wanting to use up all their money in paying fines, have interned their cars in the garages until summer, when they hope that the roadway will be dry and safe enough for them to take their cars out. Children becoming mired out in that section is a daily sight, and their parents have to keep a constant watch on them. 2 WEINBERG HELD IN BlAIL. Allegéd Impersonator of Officer Awaits Removal Proceedings. . By the Assoclated Pres NEW YORK, March 6.—Stephen ‘Weinberg, indicted by a federal grand jury at Washington fdr impersonat- ing an officer of the United States Navy, under which disguise he is al- leged to have conducted the Princess Fatima of Afghanistan on a visit to the United States, was held 'in $5,000 bail by United States Commissioner Hennessey today pending hearing on removal proceedings. Weinberg also is alleged to have duped Dr. Adolf Lorens, the Austrian orthopedic surgeon, for whom he act- ed as private secretary, until it was disclosed he had collected fees from patients who sought treatment at Dr. Lorenz's clinics. Today’s News In Brief John H. Bartlett, head of éivil serv- ice, likely to succeed Dr. Work as fi assistant postmaster gengral. Page 1 ‘Wage fight of shopmen opens before Railway Labop Board. Page 1 Mud - impedded citizens to petition Congress. Page 1, Conduit declared menace by enfineer. Page 2 Police believe man writing “confes- sion” had some connection wiih Taylor murder. p Page 3 Cavalry and artillery prevent dtrikers picketing textile milis. Page 3 Two killed, twenty-one injured: in week end outbreaks in:Belfast. Page 3 ‘Improvement seen in unemployment. Page 3 Realtors voice approval of Washing- ton as convention city. Page 4 Rev. J. N. Pierce preaches sermon on “God and the. Ku Klux Klan.” X ¥ Page § $34,978,033- bill for Department of Agriculture reported to House. Page 13 Farmer milk producers will distribute own product if agents refuse fair play. Page 13 Appellate court holds discharge of E?eui. Commander Berry from Navy was {llegal. Page13 Kahn seeks . authority - fof visit - to Page 13 Muscle Shoals. Calvary Baj in-one Only yesterday a| — ===7 Conceess =\ HAM ASSERTS FARE FORBIDS NEW LINES Tells Utilities Commission Extensions Now Would Be Losing Projects. Any track extensions made by the Washington Railway and Electric Tompany at this time would be losing propositions, for the reason that the rate of fare is inadequate for the needs of that company, William F. Ham, president, told the utilities com- mission today. = Mr. Ham made this statement at the hearing on the proposed exten- sion of the East Capitol street line from 15th to 18th street the new Eastern High School. Borrowing Rate, 8 Per Ceat. The president of the Washington Rallway and.Electric Company com- plained that the company would have to borrow money at 8 per cent to make track. extensions, whereas it ‘will receive a return of only about 4 per cent on its ‘valuation with the exist- ing rate of fare. 2 William McK. Clayton of the Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations, in arguing against the proposed East Capitol street extensiom, declared that Mr. Ham has a remedy in court action if he thinks the present rate of car fare is inadequate. Strong Argument Made. “If the present rate of fare will yield the W. R. & E. only 4 per cent,” sald Mr. Clayton, “then Mr. Ham could go into court on the ‘IDIII'_IG that such a rate is confisca- tory. And if he does not do so it may be that some citizens will” ° Strong arguments in favor of the East Capitol street extension were presented by Evan H. Tucker, presi- dent of the Northeast Washington Citizens' Association. Mr. Ham did not oppose the exten- sion, but, on the contrary, declared that when the District invests more than a million dollars in & new high school that institution should have street car facilities. He said he merely wanted to call the commis- sion's attention to the disadvantage under which his company is laboring of trying to borrpw money at 8 per cent to make extensions when the company's return on valuation is only 4 per cent. ‘Would Devel Section. Mr. Tucker told the commission that aside from the accommodation a forded the pupils of the new Eastern High School and the rendering of service to the new Gallinger Hospi- tal, the proposed: extension wonld tend to develop as a home section the surrounding land. He urged the commission to extend the line to 19th street, while Mr. Ham contended it should not go beyond 18th street. Mr. Ham testified that if the ex- tension ig ordered the company would prefer to build underground con- struction. He estimated it would cost $102,112 to run a double track of underground construction to 19th street and $83,979 as far as 18th street. These estimates include the laying of enother track from 14th to 15th streets, where only a single track now exists. Grounds for Opposition. The hearing® developed the fact from Chairman Keller of the commis- sion that the new high school will not be furnished for occupation be- fore February, 1923, althougi actual (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Capt. Weinberg, Helped Both Political Camps ‘The amazing Weinberg story is out at last. The arrest in Brooklyn of the man who introduced the Princess Fatima to President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes last July has released the details of the re- markable career of a most remark- able young man. In this:supposedly stone age of synicism and suspicion, Weinberg, or | was Wyman, as he dhooses now to call himself, has proved that human na- ture in 1922 s just as full of credulity as it was in the days of Barnum. . The gaudily clad princess from Afghanistan was but one of Wein- berg’s dupes. . Following ‘that adventure he at- tached himself: to the staff of the famous Austrian surgeon, Dr. Adoif Lorens, and became his secretary— to serve| -BUT B JHAT It T GUATEMALA SEEKS LOAN. National Assembly Considering i Project for $25,000,000. ' SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- vador, March 4.—The national .as- sembly of Guatemala, it is learned here, is considering a project for an external loan of $25,000,000. The loan would be guaranteed by permits for ‘the exploitation ‘of the rich Peten rci.'|irm. in the northern part of Guate- mala. PRENIER 10 DECIDE . WITHIN TWO DAYS Smash-Up or Patch-Up of Lioyd George Regime Still in Doubt. By the Assoclated Press. - “%.ONDON; March 6—It was = thoritatively reported im parlin- mentary lobbles this aftermoos, says the London Press Association, that the political crisis has beem terminated by the deeision of Prime Minister Lloyd George to continue in office in deference to the urgent appeal of his unionist” colleagues. The question of suarantees of loyalty from the _rank and file of the unionists has been temporarily waived, says the report. LONDON, March 6.—Within twenty- four or at most forty-eight hours the world will know definitely whether Prime Minister Lloyd George has decided to resign or continue as chief of the coalition government. This is the only substantial convic- tion emerging from a tangle of con- tradictory rumors in the crisis which engrossed political pbservers over Saturday and Sunday. Experts today were diametrically opposed in their opinion as to how the crisis stood as a result of week end conferences, some declaring that the outlook for a continuance of the coalition was improved and encour- aged belief that the prime minister would not resign. Others déclared all signs pointed to his retirement and that liberal colleagues in his ministry would go with him. Some were content to refrain from com- mitting themselves to any opinion ‘whether the result would be 2 smash- up or a patch-up. Even if the prime minister stays, nobody believes that the coalition can last much longer though it may be prolonged until the Irish legislation and Genca confer- ence are out of the way. It is gen- erally credited in certain quarters that nothing will be definitely an- nounced until the speech of Sir Ar- thur Balfour Tuesday. It is declared that the pre-eminent interest in Sir Arthur’s utterances will be a positive declaration as to the prime minister's decision. If this expression is for resignation of Mr. Llbyd George, Sir Arthug, will not imany event assumé the premier- ship, according to repeated state- ments made today, but will be will- ing to take office under Austen Cham- berlain as prime minister. (Mr. Chamberlain is government leader in the house of commons.) The day was virtually barren of new developments in the situation. Mr. Lloyd George remained in bed during the day with a touch of his old complaint, bronchial catarrh, which prevented him from attending the cabinet council, over which Mr. Chambenain presided. The prime minister, it was stated, intends to' go to Criccleth with his: or Wednesday for family Tuesday his holiday, and will be away from the political arena for at least a week and probably a fortnight. Fatima’s Escorl, New York bay one day 1ast fall and st- tached hlmse};l to Harold F. McCor- mick, multi-millionaire of Chicago, recently divorced from his wife, the| daughter of John D. Rockefeller ‘Weinberg, or. “Capt. Sterling Wyman,” o, St e o Mot oc “lal- e between Mr. and Mrs. lficComllik e;ml that no divorced contemplat But most amasing, probably, of all Weinberg's career in the last presidential campaign. Z Once more posihg as “Wyman,” he attached himself. to the republican national committee, and when he left he carried with him a letter express. ing the hope that his efforts would “insure to the party unrivaled vic- tory.” - 3 t content with this “unrivalea vli‘:orye'?n(ar the republicans, Wyman attached himself to ‘the democratic national committee. ) son_ officer” was HOUSING PROBLEM UPT0 COMMUNITY r. Hoover Tells Realtors Department Co-Operates All # Can. Secretary of Commerce Hoover to- day told members of the executive committee of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, in convention at the Willard today, that the Depart- ment of Commerce is co-operating to the extent of its ability in solving the housing problem of the nation apd that it was up to the various com- munities, knowing as they do their own needs, to work out their con- struction problems. In commenting on the buflding sit- uation generally Secretary Hoover said that the country was lamentably in need of housing. *“Those who keep in touch with the construction indus- try knew, however, that building is going on. During the Iast three months residential buildings exceeded in volume the activities for the same month in any vear since 1919,” said Mr. Hoover. “Building is not estop- ped, but on the other hand is accel- erated. N “I have a feeling that local com- munities can solve the public prob- lems of the building situation. Ef- ficiency of labor, costs of materlal and other factors entering into con- struction work necessarily vary in each stction. 1t i3 the province of you real estate men, through such organization as your local boards and your national association of boards, to stimulate community activity and _build your sections. I have found that you are actually doing this work at the present flime, and you are to be con- gratulafed for it.” Would Revise Codes. Mr. Hoover said that the Depar:- ment of Commerce is endeavoring to eliminate waste in construction in various wi He pointed out that the department has a special com- mittee engaged in the revision of munieipal building codes. ‘This committee, he sald, in some in- stances has found that builders are bearing some unnecessary burden by dwelling codes, this burden amount- ing to from 10 to 100 per cent added cost. The committee has made a complete study of the codes, the Sec- retary stated, and hopes to compile some sound basis on which cities of the country generally can revise their codes. : He pointed out further that the department is/striving to cut dgwn unnecessary waste in the manufacfure of building materials, by standardiz- ing and reducing the number of sizes and shapes of building material. He told how, recently, through the de- partment’s co-operation, paving bricks were so reduced in shapes and sizes that it is estimated from $5,000,- 000 to $6,000,000 will be saved in pav- ing brick manufacture for the benefit of the community. Secretary Hoover expressed satis. faction at the growth of such busi- ress organizations as the National Association of Real Estate Boards and expressed the bellef that they were helping to restore a community action and local government as con- trasted with the movement for cen- tralization of action and government. He said that the Department of Com- merce did not desire to stimulate centralization, but wished to co-op- erate in regaining a program of lo- cal community development. He ithanked the realtors for their co- operation with the department in the | matter of drawing up tentative zon- ing regulations for use as & general I Received by President. :“The appearance of Mr. Hoover at the meeting had not been definitely announced in advance. Preceding his ‘1 address, Irving B. Hiett, president of the National Association, in opening three-day convention of the ex- tive committee, declared that there is a nation-wide;scheme to sell real estate of questionable value in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala., and he recommended that the execu- tive committee take some action to investigate this matter in order that the ,public might be protected from any 'fraud. He explained that he had heard that marshland was being subdivided and put on sale in various parts of the country by unscrupulous promoters. < Heo sald that it was up to the real- tors to take cognizance of the situa- tion and he announced that Robert Jemison, jr., vice president of the Na- tional Association of - Real Estate Boards, a delegate from Birmingham, d make & report in this commection later. ¢ ‘At 1 o'clock this afternoon the dele- gates were received by President Harding at the White House. Fol- this reception, the members .hl.. Atendered a complimen HOLDS D. C. BLAMELESS. Court of Appeals Upholds Opinion in Personel Injury Case. The District Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Robb, today af- firmee & judgment of the District Supreme Court holding the District of Columbia not liable for an injury sustained by Adelbert Harris, minor, who lost a portion of a finger when a District employe closed a fireplug and caught the boy's finger. The question, of whether ~the sprinkling of streets is a public or governmental act of the District had been certified by the Court of Appeals to the United States Supreme Court and that tribunal had answered in the affirmative. This exonerates the Diétrict and sustains the ruling of the lower court, which had directed a verdict in its favor. U.S. THINKS EUROPE MUST SPEND LOANS ONLY PRODUCTIVELY Administration to Try to Keep American Money From Being Squandered. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The United States government is taking steps to prevent American money from being used wastefully in Europe and to compel foreign peoples who seek loans here to promise to use capital for reproductive purposes only. The full significance of what the American government insists is not a political but an economic defensive measure is just becoming apparent. With the failure of European coun- tries to balance their budgets because they are spending too much money for the maintenance of armies, there has developed a tendency on the part of municipalitles as well as central governments abroad to finance them- selves loosely on the expectation that they can always make up their deficits by borrowing through American banking concerns. This process, however, will be abruptly halted by the United States government through the use of its moral influence and its power of pub- licity. The views of the administra- tion are summed up by Herbert Hoov- er as follows: “America is today the remaining great reservoir of surplus capital, and we must remain strong and con- erve the rightful use of this capital if the world is to recover. We will need much of it for the upbuilding of our homes and our public utili- ties, stagnated today through in- equalities in readjustment between industries. But our surplus even then is greater than our needs, but it would be disaster if it were .dissipat- ed in wasteful expenditures abroad. Destruction of Capital “All loans to foreign nations which are not employed in reproductive work are a destruction of the capi- tal. It is vital that our bankers and investors should scrutinize the loans | to which they are asked to subscribe | that they may make sure that they are to be employed for reproductive purposes or the refunding of out- standing obligations. ‘The furnishing of raw materials, the construction of transportation facili- ties, public utilities, factories and work throughout the world is a use for American capital that blesses both the borrower and the lender. The upbuilding of the rest of the world and its consuming power adds primarily to world wellbeing, but it also adds to the demand for our own labor, the products of our own farmers and the services of our own merchants. “But loans that are dissipated in military expenditure or in unbalanced budgets in the bolstering up of in- flated currencies are a double loss to the world. They are not only a loss in that they add nothing to the in- creased productivity to the consum- ing power of the world, but they are a Joss in that they entail the post- ponement of those measures which are vital for the economic rehabilita- tion of the world.” Failure to Curb Armies. This viewpoint, on which President Harding and his cabinet are in unani- mous agreement, is in reality a sequel to the fadlure of the Washington arms conference to do anything on lan armament. It is protested that the move is made in defense of America’s economic situation. That is true, but the whole economic problem in Eu- rope is so interrelated to the ques- tion of expenditures for large stand- ing armies that the United States is taking its own protective measures and precautions, so that American money will not assist inflation, but ‘will tend to reduce its scope. The Department of State is the agency through which the adminis- tration hopes from time to time to function on this gquestion. Just the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) WIFE LEAVING HUSBAND LOSES PROPERTY RIGHT Court of Appeals Holds She Has No Claim to Joint S Interest. ‘When a man and wife own a parcel of real estate, purchased as joint tenants for use s a home, and the wife abandons her husband and he secures an absolute divorce, the wife cannot maintain a suit to recover the value of her interest in the real estate. This principle is sustained by the District Court of Appeals in an opinion rendered today’by Justice Robb. 3 In affirming a similar decision of the District Supreme Court in the case of Ida F. Moore against Elmer E. Moore, Justice Robb says: “This property was purchased as a home for these fes, and was so used until the wife abandoned her husband and went' to live with another man. After thus pringing disgrace upon herself and humiliation to her husband she seeks the aid of a court of equity to drive the husband from his wrecked home or compel him to pay her half its val.s, Had she remained true to her marriage vows she could not have maintained. such petition. The real basis of her contention, therefore, is her infidelity, resulting in the decree of divorce.”. By her actions, the court concludes, the wife violated the implied condi- tions of the deed making her a joint tenani and disentitled herself to any further integest ln‘myrn‘m. ol B 4| New, SENATE ASKS DATA FRONPRESIDENT ON LANSINGASHIl PACT Resolution Adopted Inquires as to How Four-Power Treaty Will Affect It. ‘NO ALLIANCE,” SAYS NEW, OPENING FIGHT Proposal Offered by Senator Borah. Senator Underwood Notes Dif- ference in Agreements. A resolution asking President Hards ing what effect ratification of the four-power Pacific treaty will have on the celebrated “Lansing-Ishii agreement” between the United States and Japan was adopted today by the Senate. The resolution was presented by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, one of the treaty opponents, and was agreed to without a roll call, after a short debate in which Senator Under- wood of Alabama, the democratic lead- er and a member of the American arms delegation, declared that in his opinion the “agreement” would be wiped out entirely by the series of conference treaties. Text of Resolution. The text of the Borah resclution follows: ‘Resolved, That the President be, and he is ‘hereby, requested, if mot atible with the public interest, the Senate as to the present status and binding effect of what is known as the Lansing-Ishii agree- ment between the United States and the empire of Japa “Secondly, as to the four-power pac Senate for consideration, if ratified, will abrogate, nuuify or in any way modify such agrecment, and as to Wual Will be the status of said agree- ment after the ratification of said four-power pact.” e whether or not now before the Follows New's Speech. - Senator Borah offered his proposal after the administration fight for ratification of the four-power pact had been opened by Senator New, re- publican, Indiana, in a prepared ad- dress declaring that the treaty con- tained no alliance, but was a long step forward in international amity and understanding. No general debate on the treaty de- veloped from Senator New's pres- entation of the case, but iatroduc- tion of the Borah resolution immedi- v ately brought & half dozen senators to their feet. Senator Underwood asserted that the four-power any one who had reas treaty and the Lansing-Ishii notes would see immediately that the Jatter have “no further binding effect,” be- cause a new arrangement had been substituted to define rights in the Pa- cific. Recognizing Certain Spheres. “The Lansing-Ishii agreement,” said the democratic lcader, *recognized certain spheres of influence, and of course all questions of spheres of in- fluence in the region of the Pacific are settled by this treaty. The Lansing- Ishii agreement is completely wiped out by this treaty.” Senator Robinson, democrat, Ark- ansas, and Brandegee, republican, Connecticut, suggested that the four- power treaty concerned only the Pa- cific islands, while the Lansing-Ishii agreement dealt with China, and Sen- ator Underwood replied that in any case the arms conference treaties as a whole “clearly negative any idea that Japan has any special influence in the affairs of China and the region of the Pacific by reason of her con- tiguity of soil.” Thus, he added, the “special interest” referred to in the Lansing-Ishii notes had ceased to have any status in international law. Senator Lodge, the republican leader, took no part in the debate, ex- cept to say that he had no objection to adoption of the resolution. Opening the debate in the Senate today in support of the four-power Pacific treaty, Senator Harry New of Indiana, republican, declared that the pact was in sense an alliance, as has been charged by its enemies. “It is not an alliance,” said Senator “in any heretofore accepted meaning of the word, and I.wish to emphasize that if it were an alliance in fact. if it were an alliance in ef- fect, if it were an alliance in. con- témplation, and furthermore, if it were not clearly understood by all the powers party to it that it was none of these, I should not venture to propose to this body that it advise and consent to its ratification.” “The inevitable effect of our faflure to ratify this treaty will be to re- vive and perpetuate the Anglo-Japan- ese alliance,” continued Senator New. “There can be nothing more impor- tant to this country than the sub- stitution of this engagement for that compact. We cannot attach too much importance to this. It should be ap- parent to all who give it a moment's thought.” Senator New said that the powers attending the Washington conference had come together for the purpose of dealing in-a practical manner with matters affecting their international relations, They had a mutual inter- est and incentivs for reaching a com- mon understanding. Happily, he said, they had been able to reach a satis- factory agreement. He continued: “The measures concerted at the- . conference, the conclusions embodied in these treaties, leave no power de- spoiled. The powers left the confer- ence possessed of every right, joying every power which was thelrs When they came, save only those they wlillingly and gladly gave up for the general good. They thus are more firmly united, more strongly willed for right and justice in internationsl relations, stauncher friends and neighbors, with - keener and more hetic mutual understandings, 3 thait everhefore. The spirit of sac- rifice which has flowed in and through the conference leaves the world a safer and better place to live in. No Deceat Altermative. “It wiil not do for us to think thess treaties may be dismissed with the contemptuous smirk that being merely treaties they mean nothing, are made only to b2 broken. that they are valueless. This is the dog- trine of despsir and must not be propagated. For what, I ask you, is the alternative? If nationg may not establish by mutual undertaking the rules and principles by which they are to be governed, if the sov- ereign plighted faith of mighty peo- "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column §.2. BT fre o dias 0 Sl i