Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers late tonight or tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Temperature for 24 hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 74, at 3 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 59, Full report on page 7. 8 a.m. today. No. 28,496. DAYLIGHT SAVING - FOR WASHINGTON - TOSTARTMAY TS N Federal Departments and Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 21 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. _ Business Houses Will Go to Work Hour Earlier. CLOCK TO BE UNCHANGED; PRESIDENT 0. K.’S SCHEME Favored by 80 Per Cent of U. S. Employes—October 1 May End Schedule. The District of Columbia is to have daylight saving during the summer months, commencing May 15. . On that date the working hour of all federal government employes in’ this city will be advanced one hour in the morning with a corresponding reduction of time in the afternoon, and mercaants' Bnd business concerns have signified fheir intention of rearranging their af- Tairs so as vroperly to co-operate with the plan. While withholding comment vending official notification, it was un- derstood the District Commissioners ‘were in accord with the proposed change and would act with the federal officials. That the federal government would Rdopt the change in working hours was mnade known today at the White House following a conference between Presi- dent Harding and Secretary of Com- merce Hoover, E. C. Graham and Charles C. Columbus, representing the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion; William C. Johnson, representing the Board of Trade, and A. E. Seymour, representing the Chamber of Commerce. Approved by President. When convinced that the introduc- tion of the plan would be practical and that unanimity of action readily could be obtained, the President gave his approval and immediately word was sent to the various departmental heads to prepare the necessary no- tices announcing the beginning of the new working schedule. There will be no executive order or proclamation regarding the plan, but it is the intention of President Hard- ing to issue a statement on the sub- ject this afternoon which will' for- mally and officially declare the inau- guration of the new working hours. The plan has nothing to do with turning back the hands of the clock, as was the case several years ago when day-light saving was given the District by law. As explained by the delegation that conferred with the President, it je merely the introduction of & co- operative plan agreed to by employes of the government and thé-business men and merchants of Washington. End of Period to Be Ffxed. Just when the old hours will again ‘become cffective has not been deter- mined upon, but Secretary Hoover, who appeared In the delegation as a representative of the government de- partment heads, intimated that Octo- ber 1 later will be agreed upon. He explained that department heads are convinced from inquiries made by them that more than 80 per cent of the employes are in favor of the ear- lier working hours, and all feel sat- isfled that the plan will work to the advantage of all concerned. It will.remain for the chief clerks of the varlous departménts and bu- reaus of the government and of the District government to arrange their various working schedules. It is ex- plained, however, in this connection, that those employes, who now report for work at 9 o'clock and are through at 4:30, will, after May 15. work from & until 3:30. Those who now g0 to work at 8 o'clock will report at 7. In_ether words, no hour has been set in the new plan, but simply the starting to work and finishing one hour earller than at present. During the conference today the dolegation explained that every phase of the matter had been gone into thoroughly and that the scheme was found to be practical and satisfactory in every respect. It was stated that 1hose in the departments known to be opposed to the proposed change in hours are vastly in the minority, which naturally causes the depart- ment heads to feel that the advancing of the hour would be most generally received by the clerks. According to the representatives of the three trade and civic organiz- mtions, the business interests of Washington are anxious for the ‘fhange in hours and have signified ‘Yheir intention to co-operate with the Wew order. It was explained further to the Tresident that a great number of cities throughout the country are now enjoying “more of God's sunlight” snd are realizing physical and men- tal advantages that accrue from day- light savins. Col. W. V. Shipley, local passenger Rgent of the Baltimore and Ohio rail- yoad, announced this afternoon that Je will take up with the main office ©f the company in Baltimore the ques- tion of changing the schedules of trains on the Metropolitan branch for the benefit of hundreds of govern- ment clerks who commute daily from nearby Maryland towns. At_present there are two trains on the Metropolitan branch, which, for the benefit of government employes, arrive at Union station at 8:20 and 8:23 a.n. For departments which will open at 8 o'clock, instead of 9, these trains would be useless. There is an earlier train, which ar- yives here.at 7:10, but the two later trains probably will be started earlier Blso. The Commissioners had a board mecting this morning, but declded to swait some official word of the ac- tion of the federal departments be- fore deciding to open the District building an hour earlier. SIX SLAIN, SIXTY HURT IN ELECTION DISPUTE Radicals in Mexican City, Aided by Police, Battle With Board. of Councilmen. By the Associated Press. = MEXICO CITY, May 6.—Six persons were killed and sixty wounded, sev- al of them seriously, in Uruapan, #n the state of Michoacan, yesterday Avhen & group of radicals, alded by the police, battled agalnst the city touncilmen and their sympathizers l‘ullowlng a disagreement concerning + b miner city election, says a dispatch 3o El Universal today. WILSON FOUNDATION IS NOT TAX-EXEMPT, TREASURY DECIDES. Secretary Mellon today informed Senator Glass of Virginia, by let- ter, that the Treasury, upon recon- sideration; had reached the same conclusion as held by Commis- sioner Blair, that contributions to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation were not exempt from federal in- come tax. The Treasury Secretary added, however, that he would be glad to hold the matter In abeyance and postpone a formal ruling until the Wilson Foundation might reor- ganize to permit exemptions under the law. Mr. Mellon'’s_letter was made public at the Treasury after the Secretary had called at the White House. "Accompanying the letter was a memorandum outlining the Treasury's conclusions on the legal points involved. BONUS PLAN TAKEN UPBY PRESDENT Conference With Senators Brings Out No Expression of Attitude. President Hardlng, after a confer- ence today with Senate finance com- mittee republicans, withheld decision on the soldiers’ bonus legislation until he can study the various plans pro- posed. Chairman McCumber and Senalox‘i‘l Curtis and Watson of the finance com- mittee, with Senator Lodge, the re- publican leader, were closeted with the executive for more than an hour. They explained in’detail the McCum- ber bonus plan, which is very similar to the House measure, and also out- lined the Smoot insurance plan. Executive Non-Committ Senators said the President had ex- pressed no opinion and that they did| most of the talking. Mr. Harding asked about the sales tax, which he previously -had recommended as a means of financing the bonus, and was told that this form of tax could not be put through Congress. Attention was called by the sen- ators that the McCumber plan would entail no large expenditures by the government during the next three years and that no immediate means ©f financing the bonus would have to be found. 2 Ne Intentions Volced. Asked whether in their judgment the President would approve the Mc- Cumber plan, the senators said Mr. Harding had given no indication of his_intention. One of the senators said he thought it was about “fifty- fifty.” Chairman McCumber said he was to-wend the President a completed | draft of a bfll embodying his bonus| plan. Senator Smoot also is to pre- sent his plan in person, probably early next week, and after studying the two the President will call the senators in for further discussion. SMOKEHOUSE GIRL'S PRISON TWO YEARS Father Arrested After Young Woman, 20, Is Taken From Iron-Clad Building. By the Associated Press. BUCYRUS, Ohio, May 6.—Sherift Ed- ward J. Knappenberger of Crawford- ccunty today continued his investiga- tion into the Imprisonmenf of Miss Irene Menges, twenty, released yes- terday after confinement of at least two years in an abandoned iron- sheeted smokehouse on the farm of her father, Jacob P. Menges, near Crestline. Prediction that developments of a startling nature would be forthcom- ing today was made by Sheriff Knap- penberger, who, with Marshal Charles Crawford of Crestline, arrested Menges after they liberated the girl from her prison. Discharged From Asylum. Investigation of the case began gev- eral days ago after neighbors of the family had informed the sheriff of the situation. Menges and his family voliced opposition to the sheriff's in- terference, declaring the girl to be mentally incompetent, which neces- sitated her being placed under re- | straint. Officials at the Toledo State Hospital said that the girl was dis- charged from that institution June 30, 1915, as mentally competent after eight months’ treatment. Taken to Bucyrus the girl is being cared for by the sheriff's wife. She made no attempt to speak and mere- ly smiled slightly when spoken to. She ate heartily. Had No Window. The prison, a six by eight structure, is hidden from view of the road, being directly back of the house oc- cupied by the family. The building had no-windows, and ventilation and a little light came from small holes near the'roof. Furnishings consisted of a cot, small table, an oil stove and a ]ttnl("tn' Adc?m‘:h'a. the only other article found in the room, accor to the sheriff. e The Menges family is considered well to do. FIND THOUSANDS DEAD. Melting Snows Bare Tragedy to Russ Famine Relief Workers. By the Associated Press: 5 MOSCOW, May 6.—Melting snows and spring floods In some of Russia’s famine districts have revealed evi- dences of countless deaths hid during the winter. e - Th WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY. 6, 1922 -TWENTY-EIGHT RIFT OVER RUSSIA IS HEADING GENOA - FORROCKSAGAIN Lloyd George Reported Threatening to Leave Un- . less French Agree. SOVIET ASKING BILLIONS IN GOLD FRANCS ALONE Tchitcherin Says Reply to Allies Will Firmly State Inability . to Accept Terms. By the Associated Pres: GENOA, May 6.—The most critical stage of the International economic conference was reached today aris- ing through the differences In the ranks of the allied delegates nver the memorandum to Russia and thr-ugh the attitude of the Russians them- selves, It was declared this afternoon by an official Italian spokesman. “This crisis,” he sald, “is more grave than the one the conference sustained after the signing of the Russo-German' treaty at Rapallo on Easter Sunday. The conference be- tween Foreign Minister Schanzer of Italy and Jaspar of Belgium, how- ever, created a good impression. There are difficulties, but they are not insurmountable. Create Bad Impression. “The Russians, on the other hand, created a distinctly bad impression at the conference at the Villa de Al- bertis with Sir Laming Worthington Evans and Prime DMinister Lloyd George of Great Britain yesterday evening. They (the Russians) ask billions and billions of gold francs, and they do not ask them in the form of credits with which they can buy goods, but in cash—in gold.” Asked whether the Russian de- mands amounted to as much as 3,000,000,000 gold francs, the Italian spokesman replied: “L wish it were only a matter of 3.000,000,000. It is far more, far more." The difficulties now confronting the conference. he continued, are two- fold. On the one hand, there was the difficulty of convincing the Belgians that they should accept the clauses of the memorandum sent to the Ru sians, and, on'the other, there was the difficulty of getting the Russians to accept them. “But the task of convincing the Russlans,” he said, “is far more difficult.” Depends on Loan. The Italian spokesman sald Rus- sia’s acceptance of the memoran- dam depended entirely upon whether the powers were ready to grant the loan asked by the Russlan delegates. “To say there is no hope left,” he _(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BIG TEMS STILL LIE ONDOCKSAT GENOA Vanderlip Finds Stevedores *Quarreling With Ships Aleak Frem Reparations. BY FRANK A. VANDERLIP. GENOA, May 6.—Preimer Lloyd George compared Europe to a ship load- ing cargo here at Genoa. The circum- scribed agenda of the Cannes resolu- tions, he told M. Tchicherin, was all the load she could carry. Loadlng of the ship has now been going on for four weeks. The steve- dores have done an_amazing amount of quarreling among themselves with an eve to personal interest, not to getting on with leading the ship. The two bulkiest items of the cargo—Russia and the non-aggression pact—still lie on the lock. The powers have tried to rescue the Russian cargo, and in fresh proposals, to which Beigium failed to subscribe and in which France now sides with Belgium; the present load Is so differ- ently from that the London conference first designed that they bear little re- lation. Russians Refuse to Get In. But the Russian stevedores refused to put their shoulders to this proposal and get in on the ship. The non-ag- gression pact looked fairly simple Tloya George to get aboard. Hus ton keen mind of M. Benes of Czechoslo- vakia discovered it was not feasible. France has insisted on reservatlons to the Russian agreement and the non- aggression pact. Both have numerous dents and tears in them. The load ac- tually gotten aboard is a light one, and there appears to be an irreconcliiable difference among the stevedores. I quite doubt whether the two chief items of the cargo will ever be put aboard. Meanwhile something potent is happening in the hold. The German indemnity is in the ship al- ready. Now the water has risen to a point approaching the collapse of Germany. This reparations threatens to sink the whole ship. Few Seeing Clearly, Not perhaps half a dozen men in the conference see the danger clear- 1y, except Lloyd George, who sees it through domestic politics. Benes sees it. The Germans are naturally awake to its Impotrllnce. Eurppe can cast no aspersions on Amulfle. for not understanding Eu- rope. Europe does not understand itself. Until it does, there is no use of American help. It is worth while examining the German situation. The Cannes agreement, which expires May 31, offered Germany a reduction in the demands, but imposed new taxation and financial control. The government is not strong enough to carry out the letter of these terms, even if it were possibl May 31 will find the Germans in de- At Aktubinsk, in the Kirghiz re- public, thousands of bodles were. washed from their shallow graves by a flood and deposited on the shore of the Elek Ilvcr. Elsewhére in the Kirghiz steppes are 1:ing many of those who died while' desperately endeavoring to reach the points of food distribution. Generally, according to advices to the American Relief Administration, the areas supplied by the Americans are quickly recovering, but in South Russia and the Crimea the famine is now. rivaling the worst experiended in the Volga region. fault and automatically the status of the London agreement returns. The reparations agreement fixed in Lom donl is notoriously impossible of exe- cution. Poincare’s Plans Harsh. Poincare threatens to . invade the Ruhr under the Versailles sanction: This_is a harsher step than i % manded by French public opinion, but the deputies are always harsher than the public. Poincare faces a critical domestic situation with the necessity of keeping in the air $6,000,000,000 francs of short term, unfunded debt. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION By the Assoclated Press. KERWIN, Tex., May 6.—Three ne- groes were burned to death at the same stake here at 5 o'clock this morning by a mob of 500 men, fol- lowing their alleged implication in the criminal assault and murder of seventeen-year-old Eula Awsley, a white girl, whose mutilated body was found near here Thursday night. “Snap” Curry, the first negro burned, was taken from the custody of Freestone county officers early last night as he was being conveyed from..Wortham to some point west: Ig¥is alleged that he confessed to the mob_that he had assaulted and murdered the girl, and that in his canfession he _implicated the two ather negroes, J. H. Varney and Mose Jones. The mob divested the sherif of his Keys to the Freestone coun:y sail. where Jones and Varney were being held as suspects. Hurrying to the jail, the mob unlocked the doors and took the two negroes in charge. Ail three negroes were then rushed to Kirvin, the home of the dead girl and an iron stake driven into -he ground on a small square in the heart cf the town. Wood was accumulated and saturated with oil. Flames Thirty Feet High. Curry was burned first. Then Var- ney and Jones. There was some de- lay In burning the last two, inasmuch as they steadfastly maintained their innocence. Third degree methods failed to bring a confession from them, and they were finally cremated on the strength of Curry’'s testi- ny. After the third negro had been HOPE OF PRISONERS BLASTED BY COURT Chief Justice Rules Moreland Decision Will Not Free Others at Occoguan. There will be no wholesale delivery of prisoners from Occoquan serving sentences from the Police Court by reason of the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Moreland case. Chief Justice McCoy of the District Supreme Court today ed a decision holding. that the :;’l‘:fieorn in-the Moreland case does not cover sentences from the Police C(;,l;ll':. chief justice points out that the Moreland case arose under statute specifically prescribing a sen- tence at hard labor, and there is no such provision in the sentence of tke Police Court. The careful reading of the opinion of the highest court sat- isfies him, the chief justice declares, that the court did not express any views applicable to a case other than the one before it. Attorney Foster Wood, represent- ing W. Wallace Blaine, who had sought a writ of habeas corpus to prevent the serving of a sentence at Bccoquan for three charges of as- sault, noted an appeal to the Court 5% Appapls. Assistant United States Attorney O'Leary appeared for tne ent. « 3 8O e e ‘Moreland case, Which arose in the Juvenile Court, a sentence of six months at hard labor was {mposed on & mnon-support charge. Moreland appealed to the Cofirt of Appeals, and that tribunal held that a sentence hard labor made the charge infamous and could not be imposed without an indictment by a grand jury. Corpora <on Counsel Stephens ‘took the mat- ter to the United States Supreme Court, where the Court of Appeals was sustained. A\ The decision of Chief Justice Me- Coy. will probably be followed mext week by Justice Hitz, who has under advisement about 100 petitions for writs of prohibition to prevent trials in tlie Police Court, where the ques- tion of possible sentences at Occoquan is involved. The business of the Police Court has been crippled by the action of lawyers applying for writs of prohibition whenever a case was set for trial against their clients, where a sentence to Occogquan was ely. ““l‘l &y Attorney Gordon hg:‘dwayl held to the belief that the Morcland de- cision would not interfere with the jurisdiction of the Police Court and -|'zave out this view immediately after the declsion In qj Court of Appeals. TEXAS MOB BURNS THREE AT STAKE IN GIRL'S DEATH Scene in Front of Two Churches at Home of Seventeen-Year-Old Victim, One of Negroes Confessing. . burned to a crisp, all three bodies were piled together and a mass of fuel and oil flung over them. Thiy was ignited, the flames soaring twen- ty-five or thirty feet in the air. Early today the flames were still burning flercely. The ‘mob rapidly dispersed. and as day dawned there were only a few persons remaining to witness the aftermath of the triple cremation. All three negroes were employed on the farm of J. T. King, prominent farmer of this community, and grand- | father of the dead girl, with whom | she lived, both her parents being {dead. Mr. King was present at the cremation, and the mob leaders are said -to- have- obtained: -his approval before lighting the torches. In Front of Two Churches. The lynchings were carried out de- liberatel There was no discharge of firearms. It was reported, however, that the negroes were multilated before being tied to the stake. With the’ex- ception of a few shouts and the screams of the condemned men there was little to disturb the early morn- ing quiet of the backwoods communi- ty. The plot where the burning took place is in front of two churches. One of the negroes is said to have died singing a church anthem. Kirvin, a town of about 500 inhabi tants, is situated in-Freestone county, east central Texas, about eighty miles south of Dallas. Miss Awsley was riding her horse home from school, several miles from Kirvin, late Thursday when she was attacked. Her body was later found near the road with twenty-three knife wounds in the head, neck and chest News of the murder spread quickly, and late Thursday ‘a band of several hundred men from Freestone and Lime- stone counties and a large sheriff" (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) REIGN OF TERROR INBOOTLEG WAR Virginia Residents Demand Protection as Life and Property Is Threatened. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., May 5.—A “liquor ring reign of terror,” threatening life and property in Princess Anne county, Va., has brought forth a demand from residents for immediate protec- tion in a telegram today to Prohibi- tion Commissioner Harry B. Smith, in which conditions were described as “worse than in Mexico.” The telegram was signed “Citizens of Oceana,” who declared that they were willlng to co-operate in stamp- ing out the evil, but feared to sign their names because of the threats of bootleggers. Disregard for Law. These bootleggers recently have been displaying an unparalleled bold- ness and have been operating with utter disregard for law. Gun battles have become a daily occurrence and the shooting up of homes of persons suspected of alding .revenue officers is no less frequent. Princess Anne county, lying along the ocean front, has long stfetches of swampland, which offer ideal the coast and run’ up through the swamps to highway bridges where the daring of the bootleggers has been manifested in the transferring of the liquor from the boats to automobiles overhead on the bridges, while other traffic’ moved . by. “Tips” May Cost Life. The success of the bootleggers has been Ilargely "attributed to which threats the residents are. un- willing to give information to reve-. nue agents. Persons have come td making an arrest. Prohibition Commissioner Smith promised residents gpeedy action in clearing up the rum runners, He de- clared that he would stam; force If necessary, shields for rum running operations. Much of the whisky is landed along their threatening .of résidents, because of understand that it is as much as their life is worth to_assist any agent in “out the lawlessness through a trlplfllx of, his o (% Star. PAGES. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclustvely ertitied to the use for republication of all mews dispatcbes credited to It or pot otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news publisbed barein. All rights of publication of special @ispatches herein are also reserved. » Yesterday’s: Net Circulation, 91,880 TWO CENTS. HIGHER TAX PROPOSAL GETS COMMITTEE O. K'; D. C. DENIED ‘A HEARING Measure Report HENRY P. DAVISON DIES UNDER KNIFE Big New York Banker, Mem- ber of Morgan Firm, Noted for War Work. HENRY P. DAVISON. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 6.—Henry P. Davison, of J. P. Morgan & Company, died on the operating table today. This announcement was made at 2 o'clock at the Morgan offices. Mr. Davison died about 1:30 P.L Mr. Davison was placed on the table for a second operation to re- move a tumor resting on the audi- tory nerve. The operation was per- formed in a special room fitted up in his country home at Peacock Point, in_Locust Valley, L. 1. Five members of the Morgan firm, keeping vigil at the offices in Wall street, received first news of his death’ over a speeial telegraph wire. A short time before news of the death came, reports had been circu- lated in Wall street that Mr. Davison had passed successfully through the ordeal and was expected to recover. A few minutes after the flash of Mr. Davison’s death had reached the Mor- gan offices, the following statement, presumably dictated by one of the physicians, but unsigned, was receiv- PN d “Mr. Henry P. Davison died shortly after the conclusion of an operation upon an _infiltrating tumor of the brain, whick could only be partially removed.” Directed -Red Cross. A notable financier, Mr. Davison, will best be remembered, perhaps, as the man who at President Wilson's request directed the work of the American Red Cross in allied coun- tries for the two years the United States was at war with the cemtral powers. Taken out of the hurly-bur- 1y of Wall street, one of the most ac- tive of the fifteen partners in the firm, of J. P. Morgan & Co., the man whd twenty-eight years before had walked the streets of New York looking for a job..directed the first “drive” of the American Red Cross for funds, raised $114,000,000' and within a few weeks had: Red Cross workers at. their tasks in Italy, Bel- gium and Switzerland as well as war-torn France. Mr. Davison was one of the most trusted lieutenants of the elder J. Pierpont Morgan, who commissioned him to represent the firm in numerous financial negotiations _abroad. He made many trips to London, Paris and Berlin. He made a study of the financial system of Germany in 1908 and three years later, in that city, presided at a conference of inter- national bankers,regarding the Han- kow-Szechuen railway loan, in which the so-called six-powers group was interested. In 1915, he was one of the negotiators of the $500,000,000 Amer- ican loan to the allies. For his war work abroad he was honored by many governments and Columbia and other universities conferred upon him the ‘honorary degree of doctor of laws. Alded Europe’s . Children. Mr. Davison was especially inter- ested in the conservation of child life in Europe after the war, and, with Herbert Hoover and others, planned the children abroad. He also directed Red Cross rellef work in Russia, Po- land and. other countries in eastern and central Europe. his return from Paris in April, 1920, he._emphasized the gravity of condi- tions abroad and suggested that Con- gress appropriate $500,000,000 - European_relief. was cold to his appea! In 1919 he was one f President Wilson at Pari: b ;«' on Page %, Column 5) a world-wide campaign in behalf of Confren. however, of the advisers the. ed Back to the Senate for Action With - Only Slight Change. PLAN IS RAILROADED THROUGH WITHOUT REGARD TO PROTEST hipps Declares C ommittee Decision Unanimous—Bill May Be Called Up for Vote Late Today The District appropriation bi relations provision, with only a I carrying the conference fiscal slight change, was ordered re- ported back to the Senate today by the full Senate appropriations committee. The committee took quick’ action on the measure. It was determined that no hearings should be held on the fiscal relations the House action, with a slight tax oa real property. Hearings Had Been Expected. Tt was generally expected when the iations committee vesterday to comsider the fiscal relations provision, on a vote of the Senate, that an opportunity would be given the citizens of the District to be heard in regard to the matter. In fact the suggestion was made on the floor yesterday that such hearings should be given. The committee lo- day railroaded the matter through. however, without regard to such sug- gestion: { " Senator Phipps later said that the !action of the commitiee in reporting | out the conference tax plan with the slight amendment mentioned, Was unanimous. and that most of the members of the appropriations com- mittee were present when it was taken. = 1 The Colorado senator said that he | |intended. to_call the bill up at the! earliest opportunity, perhaps this} afternoon. There is only one matter unsettled” in - dispute “in~the District bill, and- that is the “fiscal relations provision. 4 < If_the Senate agrees to the motion of Senator Phipps to concur in the House action on this provision with an amendment”it will have to go back to the House for approval of the Sen- ate amendment, but as soon as the! House has concurred in that amend- ment the bill will be completed and ready for the approval of the Presi- is contingent. of. course adopting the mo- tion of Senator Phipps. 3 Senator Bhipps said that he did not believe the new fiscal relations plan would result in any increased ation upon the residents of the District. -He pointed out that the cople of the District are already be- ing taxed to raise revenue sufficien to pay 60 per cent of the expendi- tures of the District, and that the new plan makes the 60-40 arrange- ment permanent. ¥550,000 Surplus Rained. He saiq also that under this 60-40 plan the District had raised a surplus | of apprexiwmately $550.000 last year, {and that on that account the tax irate had been lowered this yvear. So far as putting the District on a cash-paying basis, he said, the Senate already has put through a concurrent resolution seeking to de- termine the District’s right to the ex- isting surplus of nearly $5,000,000 of District revenues which have ac- crued in past years. - He said that a bill would be intro- duced soon amending the law so that one-half of the tax on real estate would be payable November 1 and one-half May 1. In this way, he said, the District would have enough money on hand to pay on a cash basis as provided in conference fiscal rela- tions plan, without burdening the people with increased taxation. To Ask for Hegring. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi when he learned of the action of the Senate appropriations committee, in reporting the Dbill back to the Senate without hearings, sai = “I intend to make a motion when the bill comes up in the Senate to re- ter it back to the committee again with_instructions that the people of the District be given an opportunity to be heard on it. The people of the District have no representative in Congress. That is all the more rea. son why they should be.heard when important matters like this are un- der consideration. The District Commissioners should certainly be heard on the subject, Mr. Harrison added. The District appropriation bill, to- gether with the conference fiscai re- lation plan which has been vigorously attacked, was referred to-the Senate appropriations committee late yester- day afternoon, with instructions that the committeé give consideration to the fiscal relations provision. Special Dispateh to The Star. . RICHMOND, Va., May 6.—Lost foi fourteen years, Bernard Kerrick, sup- posedly an orphan, fifteen years old, has been located here after a long search working in a cedar mill at $1 2 day and informed that he is heir to several million dollars. The boy has been claimed by his fathier, whose narhe is bein® withheld, eclare is a promi- ::fitwg)i‘;é:fl?fl ot North Cavolin with residences in Washington, Phil delphia and New York city. Placed in Institution. i he bo: e or placed tn an institution, after Shortly after | the mother and father had separated. They were later divorced. Before the child was fifteen months old he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs: Richard B. for | Kerrick, and all trace of the boy was lost by the father until this week. A few days ago a stranger appeared at the home of the, Kefricks and asked regarding the child, and it was soon made clear that after ‘all the BOY, HEIR TO MILLIONS, LOST 14 YEARS, IS FOUND plan and Senator Phipps, in charge of the bill, was instructed to report the bill and to ask for the concurrence of the Senate in amendment, which would pre- vent the District Commissioners from ever increasing the tax rate on intangible personal property to a higher rate than the The motion for reference to the com- mittee was made by Senator Phipps of Colorado, in charge of the bill in the Senate, following a suggestion made by Senator Curtis of Kansas, repub- lican, a member of the appropriations committee, The conference plan also was attacked by Senator Harrison of Mississippi, democrat, and by Senator orris of Nebraska, republican, and enators Poindexter of Washington and Smoot of Utah, republican, called at- tention to the fact that it would lead {10 long debate in the Senate. Plan for Vote Abandoned. Senator Phipps had originally moved that the fiscal relations provision of the bill, as drafted by the conferees and agreed to by the Hox referred to the appropriations commit- tee. The plan to ask the concurrence of the Senate in the action of the House on the fiscal relations plan was abandoned. Senator Underwood of democratic leader, said he was in ‘hearty accord with the motion to send the matter to the appropriations com- mittee, but that technically the whole bill would have to be sent to the com- mittee with instructions. Phipps Accepts Suggestions. Senator Underwood added that the bill should be referred with instruc- tions to consider the fiscal relations amendment, and Senator Phipps a cepted this suggestion. The District appropriation bill has been completed, so far as Congre is concerned, except for the fiscal re- lations provision. The Senate yes- terday concurred in the recent House jaction on all amendments still in dis- pute. except the fiscal relations amendment. The water supply item. providing $1,500,000 and authorization to co! tract for another $1.450.000, was agreed to. and also the items pro- viding $25.000 for the playgrounds $75.000 for the Aight schools with- out restrictions which had been pro- posed; $100.000 for beginning erce- tion of an addition to the Armstrong \Manual Training School: $100.000 to begin a home for the feeble mindeed on a tract now owned by the govern- ment and on part of which the Home for the Aged and Infitm now stands. There were a number of other Senate amendments in modified form, which were agreed to. Gives Up Park Plans. The Senate receded from"its amend- ment which provided for the purchase of the Patterson tract, and the Piney Branch and Klingle Valley tracts for use as public parks, the House hav- ing refused to yield on this item. ‘When the District bill was laid be- fore the Senate by the Vice President, Senator Curtis said, with regard to the fiscal relations provision as draft- ed by the conferees and agreed to by the House: “This is an amendment agreed to by the House, and it comes to us not as a report from the conference committee, but upon & motion to con- cur in the amendment put on by the House. It changes existing law. It is of vast importance, and 1 think it is of so great importance that it ought to go to the committee. 1 hope the senator in charge of the bill will not try to put the amendment through in this way. If it came here as a conference report the amendment would be subject to a point of order. There is no question about that in my mind, because it changes a law which provides fd% an appropriation for one year to & pro vision for an appropriation for five years. It seems to me that this mat- ter is so important that the commit- tee ought to pass upon it, and I hope the semator from Colorado (Mr. Phipps) will ask that it be referred to the committee.” Norris Enters Desate. Senator Norris of Nebraska at thix point entered the debate, saying thai (Continued on Page %, Column 7.) years of searching the father had located his son. The caller met the boy, and then Mrs. Kerrick, whoi the child considered his mother, was hy ed a check for $2,000 and the man handed the boy $50 for pocket change. The man said he wanted to take the boy and place him in school that he may be properly edu- cated, and that when he attained his majority he would inherit a very large Bum—several millions. * Mother Reported Killed It is reported, but not confirmed, that the boy’s mother, after the di vorce from his father, married a second time and that a few months ago she was killed in a southern city in an automobile accident. ‘The father and son to have left the city, and’ Mr. Kerrick and his wife*ara deciining to talk for D“hllm?::t't::‘ the neighbors are saying reports regard boy and the check for $2,000 are Whese they have gone no o kgows will'say, ;= - © -~ understootl