Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1922, Page 1

[ =~ 30 Suspended Members. WEATHER. out settled; probably shawers tonight and toniorrow: un- in after: noon or night; little. change in_ tem- perature. Temperature for 24 hours <nded ai 2 p.m. loweat, 4 day. oda; Full report on page 15. No. 28493, 'Enterss, SENATORS 10 ASK HARDING APPROVAL OF BONUS MEASURE Finance Committee Repub- lican's to Seek Backing for McCumber Plan, DIFFERS ONLY SLIGHTLY FROM THE HOUSE BILL Would Provide for Immediate Loans Equal to 50 Per Cent of Adjusted Service Pay. President Harding is to be asked by the Senate finance committee re- publicans to approve a soldlers’ bonus bill differing from the House measure only in minor esséntials. This was decided at a conference of committee republicans . today at which, senators said, the Smoot plan of substituting a twenty-year endow- ment life inpurance plan for the ad- justed service certificate was dis- carded without a record vote. The Smoot plan would have provided for no specific loans on the policies. The mgasure to be taken to the President is what is known as the McCumber plan, which ‘would provide for immediate loans to the veterans equal to 50 per cent of their ad-: justed service pay at the rate of $1} a day for domestic service and §1.25; & day for overseas service. At'the end of ‘three years the loan value oll the certificates would be $0 per cent of the adjusted service pay, plus 4% | per cent Interest annually. Joseph S. McCoy, the| government actuary, presented estimates -to the committee, showing the cost of the McCumber plan for the .fiscal year 2s $77.000,000; 392,000,000 in the sec- ond ,year, $73,000,000 in the .third year ‘and’ $376,000,000 in the fourth year, with the ultimate cost approxi- mately four billions of dollars. These costs incl payments on account of deatbs, cash to veterans entitled to not more ‘than $50, vocational training and farm and home ald. The land settlement option has been eliminated from the bill. OFFICIALS PROBING PASTOR SLUGGING Cbl;ilty Attorney Takes Hand in Lawton Case—Calis LAWTON, Okla., May 2.—The Law- ton Presbyterian Church controversy got outside the confines of the church today. Cotnty authorities took hand. A civil court of inquiry was under way, directed by Fletcher Riley, county attorney, who announced hc: would go td the bottom of the whole dissension 4n an effort to determine the identity of three men wko last Saturday night apducted the pastor, | . the Rev. Thomas J. Irwin, and threw | him in & ditch Weside a road outside Lawton, half conscious and securely tied and gagged. Filing of criminal charges, he said, would depend upon the outcome of the investigation. The county attérney started .about his inquiry today by preparing sup-| poenas for about thirty persons wto had been syspended from Pastor 1rwin's church. They were ousted by the. church session or executive| board, with the sanction of Mr. Irwin, | and have been aligned against the minister in the movement.-to have him expelled fram the Lawton pulpit on formal charges drawn up by the governing El Reno Presbytery. Will Question Factionists. County Attorney Riley said all the suspended members and anti-Irwin factoinists would be interrogated about the abduction of the pastor, and It was indicated trat eack would! be asked to expldin his whereabouts | on the night the aileged slugging and kidnaping took place. Pastor. trwin and taree members of the church Session were called in last night and questioned at length when the county attorney decided to con-| ‘Vene the inquiry court. Their testimony was kept sebret, and it was Yot known whether Mr. Ir- win gave any ciue to the idenuity of his abductors. He has publicly stated that he did not recognize the three wen. w! Wi a Centers on Trial. Speculation today centersd ~upon whether Mr. Jrwin' would" submit to trial’ before a commission appointed Ly the El Reno presbytery on charges of “conddct unhecoming a minister.” The trial is set for May 9. The pastor asserted he was going to carry his icase before the Okla- homa synod, and intimated he planned a strategical move. 353 Irwin's mainstays in the dis- sension,” which has been seeghing in the congregation for months, the members of the church session, re- ned yanerdn?v after ‘condemning e presbytery for alleged “persecu- tion” of the pastor. 5 They announced. they were still In - the fight in support_of the minister and that their withdrawal from the church and the presbytery did not| mean -they had folded their tents. e May Question Authority. With new turn of events, observers of the fray interpreted the predicte strategy was possibly a refusal b, the pastor to admit the state synod autharity. .~ Recourse to courts, where the pastor alréeady has obtained an injunction to prevent in- i i d | B] y considered as a choice of another 1 in following of the executive board in resignin; but 1L sticking by his guns on t! Lawton battle ground. --All this, ho , €ver, Was.in the nature of undfficial i speculation befora: the agreements. A marriage bond tied by the pastor at a bathing-pool; church movie ex-|who by the | Cat hiditions, and remarks made pastor lo“his funeral sermon a year | Coal of ] 2g0 over the bbdy of the late Jake L. | the time of the fi teeman, from Oklahom: 2 p.m. today: Highest, t 6 a. reduction of.the service. b some %en R scrvice ranging from ffteen rs and who have not yet oo bs 0 ports tha retired above fifty-five years of age and who' had had fifteen years or more of service. ports that_ forty-nine men who were ffty-five years of age and over and ho had fifteen years or more of | service were dismissed, due to re- duction of forces, who had not at- tained retirement age. ni; largest 'rom 'SBove: terference With his church, also was | uhe basties in battle and jarmed men and state forces. the course | bullets were falling on all sides. - ‘While he was escorting a band dt] growing out of the war. between Clothier and Blair,{ The lizsard. L:flcg. was | the money leged to I'the inadequacy of t vicinity by | tions, know | that refugees he said, he met Bl have been dropped in lanes, ‘but said he'did not ho wned the planes. 2 o -8 Dickens, treasurer of the Mont 78, at m. to- ap second-class matter lce - Washington, D. C. CHILDREN “CRUSADERS” | TO PICKET WHITE HOUSE IN PLEA FOR PRISONERS By the Assocjated Press. NEW YORK, May 2.—Wives and children will resort to picketing the White House In a renewed Plea to President Harding to re- lease the 114 men still jn federal prisons serving sentences imposed during the war, it was announced today by officers of the American Clvil Liberties Unlon. Each day they will parade to the Executive Mansion, the Senate and the Department of Justice bearing banners inscribed “I never saw my daddy,” “Free all political pris- oners, and *Is free epeecn a crime?” ‘According to Prof. Harry F. Ward, chairman of the unlon’s beard of directors, this campaign will be augmented by a drive upon the President through the malls by its members; throughout the na- tion. No date for the start of the picketing campaign was set. “The campaifn for the release of those men. is going on without a let up whatever the attitude of the administration,” declared Prof. Ward. Public criticism of Mr. Harding .and Attorney General Daugherty for “releasing Eugene Debs and seventeen of his fellows last Christmas day was responsi- ble for the administration’s re- fusal to consider any more cases, he asserted. President Harding, it was learned today at the White House, while holding a most sympathetic_ atti- tude toward children, could not allow any “program of picketing or parading to ever influence the opinion of the executive.” NAVY YARD RELIEF BILL BEFORE HOUSE Annuity Rights of Dismissed Veterans Protected Under . Fairfield Measure. Designed primarily to take care of veteran employes recently furloughed without pay from the Washington navy yard, favorable report on a bill to do justice: to the veteran gov- ernment workers, protecting their an- uity rights, was today laid before the House ‘by Representative Falr- fleld of Indiena. . This measure was the subject of hearings before the House committee on reform in the civil servicd. The |Great Britain and the United States, bill is intended to take care of an emergency arising out of the sum- mary dismissal of employes due to | tion. Yukuchi Obata, ‘The report | ter to China, who points out that the retirement bill}Visit to Tokio to return contemplates that all the employes |Carries instructions to this effect, it Wwho had’ been for many years in the | Wa. service would reach the retirement age _and be able to avall themselves of the provisions of the retirement in the |l cp -worked -3 Ereat injustice to Il °The sudden yeduction of the old employes who had age of retiremént. Small Number Involted. “The number is not large, and the committee believes that as a matter of simple justice this legislation | shotld pass, so that all inwhom had arised the hope of ultimate retire- ment might not be left absolutely helpless by an arbitrary reduction of the forces through no fault of '.helrl own,” the report says. “Every care has been taken to in- form the House as to the probable number involved, and to that end r ports from the yarious departments have been zecured.” ‘The De,-rtment of Commerce rre- only nine were arbitrarily ‘The Department of the Interior re- ports the number of employes who bave Dbeen since August 21, 1920, who were at the time of separation fifty-five years of age or over and had rendered fifteen or more years of service in the government, as only two. ° involuntarily “separated The Department of Agricuiture reports show that but one employe was dropped who was fifty-five years of age and over and who had served at least fifteen years. Few Veterans Dropped. In the War Department but few such veteran employes have been dropped. The Washington -navy yard re- The Boston navy -Yard reports ne. Foh It will be noted that by far the number of men involved orked with “their hands at hard labor, the report says. Letters from the various departments are made part “of the report. ‘The government actuary, Mr. McCoy, bas prepared a table, which accom- 'panies the report and which gives full information as to.the amount every annultant would receive, starting at the age of fifty-five and coming with- in the provisions 6f the bill. This re- port gives definite. information as to the expense for every close approximation™ of the total ex- pense. case and a T'he bIH was reported favorab) et it passed by House at the earliest possible + - IN'WEST VIRGINIA By the Associated Press. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., May 2.— ‘W. B. Lepage, & coal company supers intendent of Sovereign, W. Va., te: fled today the trial of Willlam lizzard, di the : civil | ment that he 'was'in charge of the ‘work of removing women and chil- | Harding. gn last fall durifig | explaine mountains between estioned - about bombs he Miner: Hamon, republican national commit- .vld.nu‘ u!n‘:ul “ah« 8, are some of the weed from which ‘the dissension $1,69! '| which the conterees’on the appropria- t by the ynanimous vote of the committee, with slight amendment, and an_e; fort will be made to the date. DESCRIBES FIGHTING official of the United | tion Of $500,000 to be used in prose- Mine Workers, on a treason indict | Cution of war fraud cases was sent. He sald. HEAVY CASUALTIES MARK RENEWAL | - OFPEKNG DRVE | Two Generals Fall as Chih- " lites Batter Fengtien Lines. AMMUNITION SHORTAGE TEMPORARY MENACE Offense Checked . After Vigorous Attacks Upon Flank Armies. i By the Assoclated Pres PEKING, May 2.—Wu Pei-Fi's drive for Peking was vigorously re- | sumed in the vicinity of Changsin- tien, twelve miles south of the capital yesterday afternoon, the Chihlites at- tacking gallantly and striving to turn both of the enemy's flanks. i The Fengtieners, under Chang Tso-Lin, at first were handicapped by a shortage of ammunition, but | 8taved off the attacks until supplies | were brought up from Fengtai. The | Chihlites were unable to make head- way against this opposition and eventually retired to Liuliho, fifteen miles to the southwest, last night. he casualties of the Fengtleners were severe, and the Changsintien station s fliled with wounded. No} details have been recelved regar ing the losses of the Chihlites. | guThere also has been brisk fighting on the ‘Hun river at Kuan, forty miles south of the capital, the Chihlites driving General Chanz Tao- Lin's forces from the town. It is reported that General Tung Chang-Kun of the Chihlite forces and General Lian Chou-Tung of the Feng- tieners were killed. JAPAN REMAINS ALOOF. —_— Will : Take, No Action in China’s Disturbed Conditions. By the “Associated Press. TOKIO, May 2.—Japan, accordin to the foreign office. is adhering to her policy of non-Interference in China, and will take no action in_connec- tion with the present disturbed con- ditions in that country without con- sultation with the powers, especially it action seems necessary, and will observe the agreement not to supply either faction with arms and ammun Japanese mini broken off his to his post, s stated.. of the southern o ::"pe J’l“: L Yernment is w 8, 0 Cabingt LR FeRavd 1o The. n with Chang Tsao-lin, so that what-| ever the result of the present n.m".'n. conditions in China are likely to re- main unsettled. FISCAL RELATIONS STORM THREATENS Break Over Provision Expect- + - edin House Late, Today. The storm over the fiscal relations provision ‘n the District appropria- | tion bill, which would make residents | of the National Capital contribute from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 more than they are now paying, for the next five {vears, is expected to,break in the House late this afternoon. { Representative Fred N. Zihlman of M.r:l!nd will probably lead the fight again$t - _the proposed amendment, Lo A | tion bill have unofficially agreed upon. Chairman Davis of the Hoaése con- féroes will probably offer the amend ment from the floor, asking the House to authorize the House conferees to agree with the Senate conferees on | this provision. Representative Evans !of Nebraska, the—other House repub- | lican conferee, has been studying the question so as. to be prepared to de- I%’nd he amendment against a point of order. No_question that has \eome before the House for some -time involving & point of order has aroused so much interest and the parliamentarian ex- perts on both @ides have. been devot- ing the last three or four days to (3 close study of the precedents. House Leader Mondell did not’ ex- pect that the conference report on the District-appropriationbill would come up at all this week. The legis- lative program has been upset, how- ever, by the inability of Chairman Butler of the al affairs committee 'EG what is. commonly. avy scrapping bill. ‘Therefore, & numbér of conference reports’ were considered today with the probability that the District- bil} lwlll be the last considered. NEED OF $500,000 FUND. IN THE WAR FRAUDCASES: Prldd‘ ent Md-‘ Request for Appro- Prosecutions, A request for a special -pmpr{n- .to the House today by President e, budget eonimunication ned” that the - fund would b used for ‘fuvestigation or progesutin) a1l cases, whether civil w)ufiin!n;{ g 3 o ‘communication_expl was n.:lbd_ it the o e .ov. ; 6 money Qistely and T Do up | Mrs. Tayl charg strin he for the g ha 0 board of 1 of: thrée, a8 at ] 3 two being provided for in the meas ure 68t of DENIES PARTIALITY INREDUCING RENTS Mrs. Taylor Defends Action of Board at Hearing Be- fore Committee. The House today granted Representa- tive Reed of West Virginia, in caarge of the House District committee’s hear- ings on flie resolution, which has al- ready passed the Senate, to extend the lite of the Ball rent act for two. years, permission \to hold sessions “afternoons | and evenings while the House is in ses- | Pacific, framed at the Washington con- sion, and hearings on the measure were resumed ‘this afternoon. When efforts failed at the meeting today to limit tae length of the hearing, and when Rep- vesentative Millspaugh of Missouri de- clined to consent to night hearings, it was decided to ask permission of the WASHINGTON; D. 0, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1922 time ware more than sevén members of the committee in attendance. and most of the time only five. Focht is out of town and the hear-| ings are in charge of Represen Reed of West Virginia. R::re tive Roy O. Woodruft of Michigan, on whose gotion the Ball-rent bill was taken up, and Representative Ralph Gilbert .of Kentucky, i democrat, who is emphatically op- |ordered following the questioning of fo-the bill, were nat present. ein| 1 the time today attempt by Mr. Sii r or to justify the action of loner Hammond sald ‘the éxamination the rent board of its own initiative | probably would take several days. in taking up the task df fixing rents in the Meridian Mansions, 2400 16th. street, while nearly a thousand cases of poor people *vere awaiting action. {rman the ranking taken nd wi ” Mrs. Taylor Denies Partiality. M 'aylor protested in reply to that the rent commission’ had shown partiality toward senators and other wealthy and “influential per- sons that nothing but her own honest i convictions had swayed her judgment in the least. An explanation of why rents on cer- | cupied hy tain apartments, including those oc- Senator Wali and other prominent people, 1 resentative Millspaugh “then we have a $50 reduction for cracks on the wall amd $30 for cock- “"Ew“h“‘"' sh of Montana Rep- to remark . Taylor insisted that a Wi TR e itted by Mrs. Taylor that been ‘charged . schedule. was fi e -t o fatr and Just’ rental, Mrs. critical: situation jn regard to rents still exists in sentative Millspaugh spread “of newspaper clippings, which | id was more than three yards long, clipped from last Sunday’s Star, carrying advertisements in small type for places, both fu nished, which ark lor said that was and said that as & tically. none of those . places reajly for rent ° R admit e occUpan! - § m%:t part wereperfectly will- continue paying the rents that ington, Repre out ‘- & ished and unfur- rent. Mrs. Tay- t of propaganda stter of fact prac- were dian. Mansion them; but a new xed because dered it ix uty un- what it considered In clearing. up séveral point. now. reat alsa_expl com: Taylor insisted that '.hqfi tification for @ny peop] t their rent becausé thelr chse Wi fore the rent’ board. ' The Y | said, ‘does not ,1=£rfen with“thes usual processes for. e cases of.; desirnble’ { Court dees. } of the tion by & la; B::-xllim not acti it Was no. Jlul- snot. paying. e ve e indlord in t.4L rent or- un- ‘i ithe Municipal u‘,’not fault she ;. ‘the. 1 five. com der ith ion <) decrease . priation to Cover ‘o 50 P» Expense of the - el e five ‘commission ible to hear all cases Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to Che use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to It or not otherwise credited in this | APANESE PREMIER ASKS CABINET TO RESIGN Takahashi Wants New Government in Synfpathy With Him—Party Break Likely. By the Associated- Press. TOKIO, May 2.—Premier Takahashi is reported to have requested the resig- nation of his cabinet, with a view to forming a new government in sympathy with his views. A break In the Seiyukal, or government party, is possible in con- sequence. Viscount Takahashi, who became head of the cabinet folowing the assas- sination of Premier Hara, is one of the leaders of the Seiyukal part: He_has several times declared in favor of speedy ratification by Japan of the quadruple Areaty for maintenance of peace in the ference. |SUSPECT POISONI E D, Ohi6, May ‘2 —Acting ‘upon. orders of County Prosecutor Ed- ward C. Stanton, Coroner A. P. Ham- mond was expected today to exhume the body of a man buried here and to exsynine it for traces of poison. ‘which, if found, is expected to result nta- | in the prosecution of & woman on|ate,” sald Senator Caraway, “alops the charges of murders committed for $11,000 insurance. A The post mortem examination was the woman, who is being d in the county jail on charges which have no connection wjith the murders. Cor- Married Five Thaes. The woman under suspicion: is {known to’ have been married five times and recently is said to have acquired ‘her sixth husband. Three of her husgbands, Prosecutor Stanton said. died. under mysterious circum- stances.. In addition, he said, two children by her. first marriage died from what was claimed at the time be accidental poisoning. The ‘woman s divorced from her first two husbands. Her third husband died in Pittsburgh in March, 1917, and her fourth In the same city in 1919, Stanton. said. The children also died*in that city. ‘The third husband, Stanton said, carried $1,000 insurance, while the, fourth was insured for $5,000. Her fifth husband was a former sol- dter. She married him in Pittsburgh seven months after the death of her fourth husband and e here to live. He died-suddenl; out a year ago, “leaving government insurance ot $5,000. fforts. to have this in- creased to §10,000 ls‘led. Gas Gfven as Denth Cause. The woman claimed that death in this instance was due to hser hus- ';nd having been gassed overseas, a sal d no physician was called, Btanton . No traces of disability in the gov- ernment records of .this man coul be foupd, according to ‘Stanton. The Buspicious circumstances were reported to Prosecutor Stantoniby of- ficlals of the Red Cross, which since her arrest -has been caring for two children ‘of ‘the' woman by HNer sec- ond marriage. 3 Fl‘c;u'zei_s' Sizod;efé@ 67_; ‘Homefolks’at Rickmond —_— SAYS MORSE PAID DAUGHERTY $25,000 Caraway Chai‘qes He Took ; Fee to Use Influence to . Secure’ Freedom. A charge that Attorney General ,Daugherty before he took office, re- ceived a fee of $25,000 for “influencing the administration to get Charles W. Morse out of the penitentiary,” was made on the floor of the Senate to- day by Senator Caraway of Arkansas, democrat, during an attack on the administration. The charge was emphatically denied by Senator Watson of Indiana, who declared that the Attorney General had told him that he had never re- ceived'a fee from Mr. Morse for that purpose. Two Resolutions Fail. _ The attack on the administration ¥y Senatar.CassWey wea launched in connection- with the adverse report made yesterday-upen two of his res- olutions s6d4king ‘o obiain :frors (he a@ministration all the facts relating to the recent dismissal.-of Director Wilmeth and other duployes of the burcau of engraying and printing. *The resolution was referred io the ciwl service committee of the Sen- with two other resolutions. I knew that when that course was taken they were being:sent to their grave. Two have come out of the civil service committee with adverse reports. The committee has done well, and has done just what was predict t has strangled . these resolutions. Ic has done what the sdmipistration wanted to do. v Cites Case of Children. Senator Caraway then made his charge that & member of the cabinet, the Attorney GGeneral, had received a fee of $25,000.for getting Mr. Morse out of the penitentiary, mented upon the fact that he may have to take action now fo put Mr. Morse back in the penitentiary. “The President, who appointed Mr. Paugherty Attorney General, has that to his credit,” continued Sznator Caraway. “Recently a lot of chil- dten, misgulded, perhaps, in their belief from the newspapers that the President had a heart, went to the ‘White House. They came to ask par- don for their fathers. They were re- 'tused an audience. Perhaps if they had, been able to pay $25,000 .to an attorney to represent them, they might-have had a hearing.” ‘Has No Persomal Knewledge. Senator Watson of Indiana ques- tigned Senator Caraway as to his knowledge of the glleged occurrence. and com- paper and also dispatches All rights, of publication of special the local news published berein. hereln are aiso reserved. Yesterday’s LIGHT VOTE IN INDIANA; ‘FARMERS STAY IN FIELDS Total Will Not Exceed 500,000, Leaders Predict—Both Candi- dates Confident. By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. May 2.—A light vote in the Indiana primary seemed almost certain today when the day dawned clear and bright. S Little hope was held out for gefting out the farmer vote, the farmers being 50 far behind in their work because of the recent heavy rains and they were making the most of a clear day. | Forces of United States Senator Harry 8. New, who s seekjng renomi pation. ‘and former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who also is seeking the nomination, were equally confident {early today that their candidate would be nominated by a majority from 60,000 to 100,000. It was predicted by leaders of both major political parties that the total vote would not exceed 500,000, while the vote at the last general election was more than 1,000,000. In the state-wide contest for the dem- five candidates, among whom is former Gov. Ralston. ~Candidates for the na- tional House of Representatives, state legislature, county and township offi- cers are to be nominated today. SAY BRITISH GET RUSSIAN OIL FIELDS Report of Contract to Control Entire OQutput of Country. DENIED BY BOTH PARTIES / Complications Seen in Areas Where Standard 0il Holds Prior Concessions. { By the Associated Press. o LONDON, May 2.—A gigantic indus- trial agreement was signed on Sun- day at Genoa by representatives of the Russian soviet government and the Shell group of British oil com- panies, telegraphs the Genoa corre- spondent of the Evening News. Under the agreement, he writes, the Shell group will control all sales, and under certain conditions all produc- tion of oil in every part of Russia for an agreed period. The concession may be renewed by mutual consent. Half Profits for Soviet. Fifty per cent of the net profits will be allotted to the soviet government and 'the other 50 per cemt to the Shell group. The working of the oil tlelds will be ‘administered by the British cpmpanies -under-the provisions of the Russian juridical code and “the Proviso that flot mobs than' 5v per ceiit of the workers employed shall be foreigners. The correspondent understands that the Shell combine has arranged to apply the agreement almost im- mediately to the Caspian fields, tak- ing charge of the pipe line from Baku to Batum, and also to develop the vast potential fields in Uralsk province. Standard May Be Involved. Leonid Krassin, the soviet minister of trade and commerce, signed the agreement at the Hotel de Genes, the decision to. sign being reached, says the dispatch, only after the Russians on several occasions had played off the various groups against one an- other to obtain better offers for the privileges, _ involving millions of pounds worth of output from .oil flelds which, next to those of the United Stat are the most prolific in_the world. It is mqre than possible, adds the correspondent, that difficult compli- cations may result over the working of important areas in which the Standard Oil Company had conces- sions prior to the soviet nationaliza- tion of the fields. BOTH MAKE DENIALS. > S——— - Russians and Col.. Boyle Say No Pact Has Been Signed. By the Assoclated Press. GENOA, May 2—The Genoa cor- respondent for the London Evening News, in a dispatch to his paper this *afternoon, quotes Col. Boyle, representing the Shell group of Brit- h ofl companies and-Royal Dutch IRterests here, as denying that an Senator Caraway admitted that he|industrial agreement was signed here had-no personal knowledge of the At- torney General having received a.fee fd { of $25,000 for obtaiymg a pardon for Mr. Morse, but declared that the story had been: repeated so. often that i was & matter of ibije information.” Senator Moses ew Ham; republican, decla hat Willlam G. McAdoo had ‘taker-large fees from Mr. Morse: » : rm Lax_{j/Astor face and sald: “Oh, 16rd,” in true Brit- 1sh-style,” “No hotographs, please. I haven't had /9, shave .this pshire, yesterday_ between these interests and the Russlan. soviet government, as had been reported. s Reuter's ' correspondent here says the Russian delegation to the eco- momic conference also flatly denied having made apy concession to the Shell interosts. AWAITED m' INCH VIEW. . Contract Drawn Up in London in . February. PARIS, May 2.—The contract be- and the Shell group of British oil companies by which the latter ob- tains a monopoly of the transporta~ tion and sale of Russian:petroleum, says a dispatch tor L'Information from Genoa, was drawn up in Lon- as soon gdr?hou of thé Fiench Genoa delega- tion on the gquestion of the recogni- tion of - private property rights in Russla became known. TS Today’s News in Brief. burdens for District. . - Board of Trade directors plan vigor- our protest - against proposed Im: “crease in D. C. taxes. Page 3 * South Washington Association favors Roger Eastlake t ‘extension of Ball rent law. Page 3 5 l:ong:flnd ht: agains 0X, ac- c‘:'jt‘kan::y-unr of his wife. Page Irish armies clash following latest . peace move. e Page . aise fund for Capt. Law- 'r:::: who Jost wite and E—lllgren in river tragedy. . e age 24 House votes to-enlarge Botanie Garden grounds. L ‘Page32 es son in > | Sazyant ocratic senatorial nomination there are | tween the Russien soviet government | g, Dupont citizens protest proposed tax || Page net circulation, 92,453 TWO CENTS. EXPECT POINCARE AT GENOA SESSION; BARTHOU DEPARTS French, However, Do Not Think Premier Will Talk Reparations. LOOK FOR FINAL ACTION ON RUSS PLANS TODAY Lloyd George Insists Barthou Im- press Need of Allied Council Meeting. By the Associated Press. GENOA, May 2—It was annoane- ed by the British representatives here this afternoon that the mem- orandum to be handed to the Rus- sians “embodies the maximum the powers are willing te give the Rusuian government and the miui- mum which the powers will aceept from Russfa.” “If the soviet delegates do mot accept the gemeral lines of this document,” it was added, “then it in certain all megotiations with Russia will be suspended for some time, probably until another form of government arises in Russia.” By the Agsociated Press GENOA, May 2.—Premier Poincare of France may come to Genoa for the closing sessions of the economic conference. President Millerand's return from his African trip will make it possible for the premier to leave the capital, and the question whethe: he will join the other premlers here will be & subject he will discuss with M. Barthou, head of the French dele gation here, who is leaving today fo. several days’ conference in Paris. The most important question to be talked over by M. Barthou and his chief, it s understood, is that of | France's attitude on the non-aggres- sion pact proposed by the British prime minister, Mr. Lloyd George Whether M. Polncare will consent to a meeting of the signatories of the treaty of Versailles to discuss Ger- man reparations before May 31 is an- other subject for the parley in Paris Not Likely to Talk Reparations. Frenchmen here believe it unlikely that M. Poincare will agree to talk reparations at Genoa. The subcommission on Russian af- fairs was to meet this afternoon for final approval of the memorandum to the Russians, the. details of which were completed Iate last night. The mmonmlum will probakly be sent 16 -Rugsians later In .The document vid bid lishment of & MILed b ecn:lt sion for coptrolling thé debts owned to holders of Russian government bonds, the chairman of which would be named by Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court. Mixed tribunals will be set up to deal with the question of property of for- eigners in Russia, which has been nationalized. France Abandons Objection. Belgium alone was against the later feature, France abandoning her ob- jections to Great Britaln's project. The Belgians insisted on restitution of nationalized property to its former owners. Vice Premier Barthou, head of the French delegation, left for Parig to- day for a conference with Premie: Poincare and the cabinet. He, is ex- pected back Sunday or Monday morn- ing. Before leaving he conferred with Prime Minister Lloyd George. The interview with Mr. Liloyd George took place at the Villa de Al- bertis. an hour before M. Barthou's departure. The atmosphere of the meeting was said to be most cordial. Mr. Lloyd George, it is understood. impressed again upon his French col- league his view of the desirability that a meeting of the signatories of the treaty of Versallles be held at the earliest possible moment in some Mediterranean town. Russian Status Crux. M. Barthou's reported decision not to return before the end of the week was in view of the status of the Rus- sian negotiations, it was said, as.the ussian reply to the memorandum the allies will present fs not expected be- fore Monday next. M. Barthou is due to reach Paris at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. Be- fore leaving he answered the ietter written by M. Tchitcherin on April 30, in whieh the Russian foreign min- ister denied the existence of secrét military or pdlitical clauses in the Russo-German treaty and declaren there was no real reason why the most friendly relations should not be established between Russia and France.. M. Barthou in his reply voiced his satisfaction at the letter and declar- ed the French government and people were only dissatisfled with the Rus- slans who had signed the Brest tovsk treaty, and desired to main. tain only the most cordial relation: with the -Russian people ygenerally. Wil Ask Taft to Aet. Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court will be asked to name the chairman of the mixed arbitral commission to be established for controlling the debts owed by the ussian government to foreign bond: holders, according to the n ar ranged. The other members of tl commission will represent all the bondholders and the Russian govera- ment respectively. The commission will have power to remit interest and decide all questions affecting foreign bondholders and Russi. l::.ulyl to meet her obligu- t tions; a e t will be fixed in which bondholders may own arrangements with government, if they desire. Mixed arbitral tribunals, one for every interested nation, will be set up to deal with the question of the property of foreigners' which has been nationalised; the chairman of In the plan adopted practically ev- erything which savored of capitula- tions or Infringement oi: Russia’s eignty was waived. The French sugges! -of a provisional administra- tion, pending Russia’s estal courts on the basis desired by western Europe, was not George Russian soviet delegation here, sent Foreign Minister Skirmunt, chief of the Polish delegation, another -note reiterating the soviet protest against Poland's action in joining the nfi powers in' questioning the right Russia and Germany to sign the Eas- treaty at. Ra] ‘The note | = nounced that Poland's reoent to the soviet delegation did mot ex- plaia away the Russian charge that on Bk 3 blishment_of. roved. - Tehitcherin, head of ‘the.