Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1922, Page 2

RENT COMMISSIO NOMINATIONS SOON ‘Senator Ball and Committee- man Colladay See the President. Senator Ball, chairman of the Sen- ate District committee and author of the Ball rent law, and Edward F. Colladay, national - republican com- mitteeman for the District of Colum- bia, conferred with President Hard- ing today at some length, on the new Rent Commission. The confgrence was of an advisory nature concerning the general make- up of the commission, Senator Ball said. Whether any recommendations for membership on the commission had been made was not revealed by either Senator Ball or Mr. Colladay. who declared the matter of the per- sonnel of the commission would be entirely in the hands of the presi- dent. 3 Patrick Ryan Suggested. Patrick J. Ryan, member of the bar, former editor of the Flate Printer and vice president of the Harding Democratic Club of this city organ- ized during the presidential cam- paign, has been suggested for appoint- ment. Oliver H. Metzerott, former state senator of Marvlarnd from [Irince Georges county and for many years a prominent business man in Wash- ington, h been indorsed by the en- tire Maryland delegation in Congress for appointment as a member of the commission Representa «e Fred N. L:himan of Maryland, wia wae active in having the Rent Cu#dmission ece passed. pointed out tc8Ay that Mr. Metzerott is no longer in the real e: te busi- ness here, although thoroughly fa- miliar with conditions in the Dis- trict. He is practicing law. Labor Leader Favored. Robert Aleorn, well known in labor eircles here, is understood to have been favored by certain influential members of Congress and a petition has circulated in the House building in his behalf. Much interest attaches to whether A. Leftwich Sinclair and Mrs. Clara S rs Taylor will receive Treappointment. In view of the recently announced declaration of William F. Gude, mem= ber of the commission, that ne would esign if appointed to the new com- Tission. it hs mot expected that he will be given serious consideration. There no_indication at the White House as to when the Presi- dent might send the names for the five memberships on the commission o the Senate, but it was expected in certain quarters that, in view of the housing situation, there would be no delay in the President’s consideration of the matter. WATERLOGGED AMERICAN SCHOONER NEARING PORT Marion Cobb Being Towed to Jack- sonville; No News From Yacht Florence. . By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, The American schooner Marion M. Cobb of Mobile, which became water- logged and was abandoned by her five miles off S v night, was towed river early today and was being brought to Jacksonville. The vessel was en route~to Jacksonville from Venezuela with a cargo of guano when she sprang a leak during a ale. E%No report had been received early today from the coast guard cutter Yamacraw, which went in search last night of the steam yacht Florenc reported late Monday by a British steamer as disabled and at anchor ,twenty miles off St. Johns bar. The ‘Florence was en route to Miami from eastern ports. The British schooner Perceler, which went ashore on St. Georg bar, near the mouth of the St. John: Sunday afternoon, later was washed over the bar and now is resting in shallow water. It is believed it will be necessary to dig a channel to float her. ARBITRATION REJECTED BY CHILE, SAYS REPORT Peruvians Disappointed, But See Some Chance in Counter Suggestions. By the Associated Press. An _unfavorable reply by Chile to the Peruvian proposal to arbitrate the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica Is understood to have been presented at today's joint session of the Chilean- Peruvian conference. The Chilean re- ply, although not considered of a final character, was received with manifest disappointment in Peruvian eircles. The meeting ended, however, without definite action. ‘There were Indications that despite the Chilean refusal to arbitrate the question of a plebiscite in Tacna- Arica, the door to further exchanges on forms of arbitration had been left open by certain counter suggestions on the part of Chileans. JOINT MUSIC FESTIVAL. Langdon and John Burroughs Schools to Unite in Performance. The pupils of the Langdon and John Burroughs schools, from the kinder- garten to the eighth grade, will give a music festival on the grounds of the Langdon School, 20th and Franklin Btreets northeast, tomorrow morning between 0 and 12 o’clock. ‘With the ald of the teachers of both achools, Mrs. William S. Torbert, in- structor of music in the fifth division, has arranged a program that prom ises to surpass the spectacular festi- val of last year. ~ The program of music is a varied one, ranging from “Sing a Song of goxpence" and “When Little Birdle es to Sleep,” sung by the kinder- garten puplls. to the barcavolle from “The Tales of Hoffman,” by the eighth grade pupils. The children will be in costume and will number, approxi- fnately, 600. AMUNDSEN TO HUNT LAND D. C. MAN CLAIMED EXISTS IN THE ARCTIC By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, Wash.,, May 31.—Capt. Roald Amundsen, who starts on his polar expedition Saturday, has announced that one of the primary objects of the trip into the arctic is a search for the great undiscov- ~ered continent of the north, sup- posed to lie somewhere in the vast unexplored region surrounding the north pole. “The theory that there is a large “continent near the pole,” Capt. Amundsen said, “was first ad. vanced by ‘the late Prof. Harris of ‘Washington, D. C. He came to his conclusion from a close study of oceanography. Our expedition will ~attempt -to establish whether the | continent is there.” t. Amundsen Indicated that he o mame May 31— Johns bar into the BARBAROUS TREATMENT |SPECIAL GRAND JURY OF GREEKS IS CHARGED | AGAINST THE TURKS By the Associated Press. | LONDON, May 31.—Acts of great barbarity are being committed by ! the Turks agalnst the Greeks in the Trebizond district of Asta Minor, Cecll ‘Harmsworth, under- secretary for foreign affairs, told the house of commons today.® He save independent witnesses who | had just left Trebizond as the au- thority for his statement. He sald it was reported that little boys were collected in compounds and allowed to starve to death. The British government is doing all in its power to accelerate the dispatch of the proposed com- mission of inquiry, he sald, but no further action can be taken until a reply is received to the in- vitation extended to the American government. - The reply Is expect- I ed today or tomorrow: MARYLAND'S TAX ON“GAS” ATHAND New Levy, Starting Tomor- row, Expected to Boost Sales in District. A big jump In gasoline sales in the District of Columbla is predicted to- morrow with the mmauguration In Maryiand of a 1-cent.tax on every galion of gas sold for automotive transportation. farylanders living near the District ine will flock into Washington, fill up their tanks and fit back Into their native state, with the thought that they are making money by sav- ing the extra cent on gasoline, ac- cording to a motorist, who is in touch with the situation on the out- sk 8 of the District. While the extra cent. viewed by itself, does not mean so much, con- tinues the motorist, it means a whole lot when ten or more gallons of gas is bought a day. It makes motor- ing, already expensive. much more expensive for those who are com- pelled to use their cars on Maryland roads. Although every effort has been made by the authorities of the neighboring state to influence the District to adopt a similar tax, no appreciable progress in this direc- tion has heen made. Maryland au- thorities wished to avert the very situation which now arises; Mar: landers on the border will certainly take advantage of the cheaper gas in Washington, especially those who work in this city Offered Reciprocity. Reclprocity was held out to the District in the hope that some action would be taken.by the local authori- ties to levy a tax in this city. So far, it is understood, no action has been taken on the proposition. In studying the matter to find out just what Maryland offers to the District in return for the levying of a gas tax it is found, according to the motorist, that with a gas tax in the District local drivers would be paying five taxes for the privilege of operating their cars in Maryland and the District He nows pays for his tag in Wash- ington; usla uuvers‘omd\ tax in Wulfl\‘; H ington. In Maryland he pays cents per horsepower for operating { A|JR RULE SOUGHT TO | his car. With the gas tax both | here and n Mamyland B v Chiaces| CURB FLYING SUCH AS ‘ MARRED MEMORIAL DAY | a gas tax in both places, and a per- (Continued from First Page.) sonal tax ip the District. Maryland hopes, according to the by the office of public building: and grounds to stay outside & motorist, to do away with the large fee for the tag in a few years, mak- ing only the gas -tax to pay. The reason advanced for the charge for the tag and the tax at the present S Pas™a $17300000 rond defcit. land has a $1,200, road deficit. two-mile radius of the memorial “This is all right,” says the local| perween 2 and & pm. yestorday. driver, “but why should the District | “The “only aviator who violated drivers assist Maryland in paying| this request, Col. Sherrill stated, off its road deficit, when these same | ‘oo Irerhert Fahy, who flew the plane, containing a photographer of a New York newspaper. twice around the memorial while the President spoke. The aviator not | only had notice, but had been | called up personally by an_nilicer drivers and owners have no part in the expending of money for roads in at Bolling Field, Col. Sherrill rxe Topham, foreman; Walter McK. Sloan, elerk; F. A. foreman; F. E. GIRL’S TESTIMONY HELPS ACQUIT EX-DRY AGENT Declares Man Slain at Still Forced Officer to Shoot in Self- Defense. By the Ansociated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga., May 31.—Grover C. Roger, former prohibition enforce. ment agent, charged with murder in connection with the killing of Bruce Kirby In Jeft Davis county, last Sep-{ tember, was acqu‘ited by a jury in the United States court here yei terday. The jury reached its verdict within thirty minutes. A fifteen-year-old girl, Alli Moore, who, dressed as a man, was employed as lookout at a_still in Jeff Davis county, operated by Bruce Kirby, was the star witness for the defense. She testifled that only she and Kirby were at the still when the officer was sighted. She gave the signal, she said, and she started to flee with Kirby. When it was seen that the officer was about to overtake them, she testified, Kirby swung his rifle about and fired, but a charge from Roger's gun brought him down. Thirteen buckshot penetrated Kir- by’s back and side, and he died within a short time after reaching a sani- tarium, at Hazelhurst. The prosecu- tion sought to shake the girl's testi- mony. She claimed she had been detained at the still through fear of Kirby and others connected with the still. 1 Maryland. Reciprocity May Come. stated, and asked not to fly dur- ing the hours stated. “When Maryland can come to the District with the road deficit wiped out, and say we are ready for reci- procity, there will be nothing but the cost of making the tags that the mo. torist ! ave to pay for, bu ere Aerial regulations for Washington will be a gas tax; then I think that| gy result from an investigation the District will be more willing to | 42, (%0 day by Commissioner Oye- listen and co-operate with Maryland | Se27 /R0, (00a¥, bY Taliesoner, O¥os attention at the dedication of the Lincoln memorial yesterday. “Aside from the danger of having airplanes flylng over open air gath- erings, yesterday's occurance proved in_the installation of a gas tax. an annoyance to those who had as- ‘There is no reason why the motor- ist should have to pay a large fee sembled to hear the President's ad- dress,” said Commissioner Oyster. for the tags and a gas tax, too. One The Commissioner said that he or the other should be cut out, and when this s done reciprocity between would ask Corporation Counsel | Stephens for an opinion as to how the Digtrict and Maryland will be much easler. to obtain and will cer- the Commissioners might regulate airplane traffic. tainly have the support of the mo- Commissioner Rudolph suggested torist. “It has been shown by Maryland au- that the board of Commissioners un- doubtedly would have the right to thorities that the gas tax will bring in approximately as much revenue as the fee for tags. So that until the deficit is wiped out, double the revenue will ac- crue to the state from motorists. Why should the District help in paying dou- e for the privilege of Wiping out Mary- | jicense aviators, land’s deficit?” In his last annual report to the In the meantime District motorists | Commissioners, former Maj. Harry L. contemplating Maryland trips should lll | Gessford, superintendent of police, up their tanks before starting, and, if |called attention to ‘the danger at- necessary, take an extra can along. Also | tending _the unrestricted use of air- gas dealers, especially those on the bor- | planes during public celebrations in der, should take on an extra amount. |the District. ‘| It will be needed for the thirsty motors; He said, in part: “Fortunately there have been no serious accidents of this nature, but it is felt, in view of the increasing number of machines, that some restrictive legislation should be enacted which would pre- vent the flight of machines at a dan- belonging to Marylanders. TAX ONE CENT PER GALLON. gerous altitude over such assemblies and provide a guarantee of safety to the public.” Bill Asks Penalty. Representative L. M. Gensman of Oklahoma, republican, today intro- | duced a bill carrying a severs pen- alty for such airplane stunts over a crowd of more than 100 persons. Representative Gensman was In one fall of an airplane himself and pays that he knows the best of.air- craft are liable to fall when least ex- pected. Flying over a crowd within 500 feet is the most dangerous thing that could happen, he said—worse than lightning. Representative Gensman points out that an aviator who takes a nose i dive or an air spin and comes right down close to the crowd 4s very likely to kill a great many persons. His bill provides a penalty of $1,000 or one year in the penitentiary. This bill applies only to the District of Columbia and is referred to the House District committee. However, Representative Gensman said that he is working on a bill carrying the in- terstate commerce features, which would apply to all of the states, and that he would introduce this gen- era} legislation as soon as possible. Mr. Stephens said that the Com- missioners undoubtedly’ have the au- thority under their police powers to make regulations to prevent airplanes. from disturbing the peace at such gatherings as the memorial dedica- tion yesterday. —_— SCHOOL SUPPLIES CHOSEN Preliminary plans for the purchase wf supplies for elementary publiq school children for the next schol- stic year, beginning in September, ere begun today by a special com- mittee of schocl officers. The com- mittee is“composed of Supt. Ballou, Assistant Supts. Kramer and Wilkin. son, Alexander T. Stuart, director of intermediate instruction; John A. Cha herl;lgh lup-nlgr of manuai] training, and Harr: . Hine, secre- tary of the board of education. The following supplies, for which, t New State Levy Goes Into Effect Tomorrow—Wholesaler to Pay. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, May 31.—The new state gasoline tax law, taxing all “gas” used by vehicles on public highways 1 ‘cent per gallon, goes into effect tomorrow. Every wholesalers bringing gasoline into Maryland after today will be re- quired to make returns to the state comptroller on all sales and make the necessary payments to the state once a month. ‘The tax will doubtless be p: on by the wholesalers to the vidual dealers and by them to the ultimate consumer, so that an in- crease of 1 cent a gallon on gaso- line may be expected. The pur- chaser, however, will not be re- quired to make direct returns, since the tax is paid to the comp- troller by the wholesaler. The funds derived from the gas- oline tax will be devoted to re- ducing the long-standing deficit of more than $1,000,000 in the maintenance fund of the state roads commission, which is ex- pected to be wiped out entirely by January 1, 1934. On that date a tax of 2 cents per gallon, d signed to replace the present sy: tem of license taxation, will go into effect. ed i- AIDS “TIN CAN” CAMPERS. City Post Office Will Handle Mail in General Delivery. “Tin can campers are welcome to Washington and “thrice welcome to its post office,” City Postmaster M. O. Chance announced to in_special placards placed for the special benefit of the tourists. Mail addressed to the auto campers, care of general dellvery, may be ob- tained at the maln office, Postmaster Chance stated. “In addition to our helping you In postal matters, the bureau of information in the Post Office ent building is at your service in advising you on' matters of a_ general nature,” the placard stated. $d ~ “We want you to feel that dur! our stay in the Capital city are & guest of Uncle ), and Uncle, T ropriation bill, now pending: in| ug' ress, aré being passed on by ihe e: Crayons, ink, pen- g ewman, Louis Kulle, Arthur ack, Joxeph Loughran, Corcoran Thom, Philip Happ, B. A. O acting in strictly good faith, has not jconstituted mainly a comparatively 'the 100,000 is provided in the District| b Farran, John D, Gorm: ‘arr, Thomas Noacey, John J. Schwartz, Noble D, Larner, D: Leary and John J. Dickerson. ENGLAND WILL NOT TOLERATE STARTING OF IRISH REPUBLIC GRAND JURY UNDER WAY. New Body Starts Probe of War Fraud Cases, in Strictest Secrecy. The additional grand jury em- paneled last Friday to hear testimony concerning alleged war fraud con- tracts began its work today. United States Attorney Gordon declined to give out any information as to the particular case under consideration. It was rumored that witnesses had been summonéd to bring certain books and papers relating to a Ship- ping Board contract, but the rumor +could not be verified. i The new grand jurors met prompt- 11y at 10 o'clock and have been a | signed one of the additional cour: { roc for their sessions. A depu marshal, sworn not to divulge an thing that occurs in the grand jury room, is posted at the door and no one but members of the grand jury, | witnesses and assistants to the| United States Attorney is permitted to get near the room. HOOVER WOULD FIX FAIR COAL PRICE (Continued from First Page.) long and so loftily proclaimed their devotion. It is also a reflection upon the government, which, while urging us continuously to withdraw our forces in order to make the whole of the Irish people see that we were been able in the whole of the six months that has elapsed to organize an efficient and adequate police force capable of maintaining the treaty position. Notes Amazing Changes. “The second reason advanced was that the progress of disorder, law- lessness and soclal degeneration had | been so rapid and extensive in the twenty-six counties since the de- parture of the British troops and the disbanding of the royal Irish con- stabulary that the provisional gov- ernment could not possibly guaran- tee the ordinary securities of life and property if these securitles were challenged by an active and violent republican minority. “This minority, it was explained, (Continued from First Page.) conference was not concerned With | wages or other guestions, but solely with the question of price and di tribution of coal now being pro- duced. Speaking of present conditions throughout the country, he said that! production was now about 5,000,000 tons a week and consumption be- tween 8,000,000 and 8,500,000, this! necessitating withdrawals from’ stock ! of 3,000,000 to 3,500,000 tons a week. Production will increase slightly as! time goes on, he added. | “The time has arrived,” Mr. Hoo er ‘said, “when the unwise virgins who did not heed my recommenda- tions for stocking up with coal must go_into the market to get it.” Mr. Hoover recalled that the last time there was a coal crisis coal rose as high as $12 to $15 a ton at the mine, which, he declared, repre- sented millions 'of dollars a week loss to the public, while at the same time lending a color of profiteering to_the operator. Coal prices throughout the country today, Mr. Hoover continued, range from 'about two dollats and twenty- five to two dollars and fifty cents a ton at the mine, but what the public is interested in is dollars and not cents, although the margin of fifteen to twenty cents a ton on coal may be the margin between profit and loss! for the operators. The public, Mr. Hoover contended, should understand | that the problem at hand is one of al- most stupendous difficulty. Easy to Denounce. “It is easy,” he said, “to denounce profiteering. With some it is a fa- vorite sport, but the vast majority of operators do nmot wish to tolerate profiteering in coal.” What ‘a fair price for coal is de- pends upon conditions in each dis- trict, and where profiteering begins and ends is a question of definite fair | price, determined upon facts and not upon theories, the Secretary told the operators. There is not, Mr. Hoover explained, a single shred of law to enforce a fair price or, prevent profiteering, and the law prohibits operators agreeing as to what a fair price may be. Combinations in thi public interest, he stated, are just illegal as combinations against pub- lic_interest. “In times of Mr. Hoover sald, “some one must take the responsibility, assume the leadership and say what is fair. I do not be- lieve & man is worthy to hold public office. who will not assume respon- gibility in times of emergency and I will not ask any agreement or com- bination to restrain trade or prices wrong _in law. I propose to inquire through you as to the situation in various districts and I will take the responsibility on my own back and { will ask every operator to accept this basis in his own district.” small number of armed men, violent in method and fanatical in temper, in many cases disinterested or imper- sonal in motive. But behind these, strengthening, disgracing and multi- plylng these, were a large number of common, sordid rufflans and brigands, raiding, murdering and pillaging for personal gain or private revenge. “These bandits pursued their dis- interested course under the glamour of the republic and were inextricably intermingled with the bona fide re- publican visionaries. Not Hiding Grave Possibilities. “The provisional government de- clared they found themselves unable to deal with these bandits while at the same time they were engaged in an armed struggle with bona fide republicans. They declared that the agreement which they entered into with the republicans would isolate the brigands and enable them to be struck at and suppressed, and that a greater measure of liberty and se- curity would immediately be restor- ed, and that such conditions were in- dispensable preliminary to any free expression of the national will of the Irish people, to which they looked forward at an early date. “They further said it w: in the power of the minority in Ireland, by murdering British soldiers and ex- soldlers, retired rich men, or Protes- tants in the south, or by disturbing Ulster, to produce a series of epi- sodes which, if prolonged, would de- stroy the relationship between Great Britain and Ireland "and render the carrying out of the treaty impossible on both sides.” Mr. Churchill said he was bound to say there might be great force in that, and on these grounds the provi- sional government declared it felt compelled to enter the compact. He was not concealing from the house the grave possibilities of the fatal disadvantages of such a compact. Envoys Praise Churchill. After Secretary Churchill's speech Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins sald the colonial secretary had made a perfectly fair presentation of the situatiofi. Mr. Collins will return to Ireland this afternoon. Mr. Griffith will re- main in London for a few days. The government's motior for the ‘Whitsuntide adjournment of the house of commons until June 12 was carried in" the house this afternoon by a vote of 207 to 39. PRESIDENT RETAINS FAITH IN INTEGRITY ~OF MR. DAUGHERTY emergenc; ‘The agreement, he continued, would be between the operator and the Sec- retary of Commerce, and If the op- erator failed to live up to it, it wou! be upon his conscience. Mr. Hoover stated that he wished it brought em- phatically before the public that the administration was seeking the co- operation of the coal operators and “ontinued from First Page.) his friend did anything ethically un-|that if the plan failed it was not wise or morally wrong. a failure of the operators, but a fail- The paradox of the situation which|ure in law and of administration is much & mystery to the adminis- | official tration as people outside of it is why the Attorney General should be at- tacked today for helping to free Morse a decade ago when today the Department of Justice is doing every- thing in its power to put Morse back in jail. It is a fact that when the Shipping ,Board developed its case against Morse and asked the Attorney General about it he unhesitatingly told the Shipping Board to go ahead and then end there mentioned his early connection with the Morse case and the possibility of misunderstand- ing if he himself were to undertake prosecution personally. He authorized, however, the appointment of a spetial assistant attorney gen- eral to handle the prosecution of Morse, and it wi not until several weeks after this was done that the attack came in the Senats All_sorts of conflicting rumors are to the purpose of the at- gg:,..tor Caraway is held im- any “connection with the influences" at work to discredit Mr. D::sher:y, “l:u‘t Iltiln ?éi"l?d wln in nformatio; %‘rnl:g:d flar:ol:nuc senato; he charge of the trafic arrangements i1l keep u h aand, it is stated, there was general BB et ot the Depatbment of | copliance with' the trame regula- Justice: s to stave off possible prose- | tions provided for yesterday's ob- cutl of )11705_" rl:ml% :t l{lrl it mvnutm SARStE b NS Sourth oV iminis % t. Ira etz o e four re- Kiviaje e Sh B sy ; Memorial Day Traffic Mishaps Below Normal No mishaps occurred yesterday to mar the celebration at Lincoln Me- morial, Arlington and other places where crowds assembled to pay tribute to the dead. While large crowds motored to Arlington over the Highway bridge, there was no jam- ming such as caused trouble on the occasion of the burlal of the unknown dead soldier. ' Maj. Sullivan, chief of police, and Col. Sherrill, superintendent of pub- lic buildings and grounds, had their forces on duty early in the morning to look after the crowds and direct trafiic. Inspector Albert J. Headley, chief of the police trafiic squad, was In and counter| inct wxs on the Highway bridge, bat. answer of the ad- had i o 142 dacision (5 €o wneed | Zhege B AS 8 PURbSC S membnis ! o ts occurred in the belng SELECTED TO SERVE-IN CONNECTION WITH WAR FRAUD CASES BIG Jacob Zarin, R. M. Jackson, John P. Sullivan, John Ford, E. C. Davix, secretary; Mark I bluff it through, and we gullible crea- | tures | the principal and interest of the bank AUTO THEFT RING REVEALED IN CHICAGO Police Claim .Over 300 Cars Stolen by Gang Working Under Labor Leader. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 31.—Operations of an alleged nation-wide automobile theft ring with headquarters in Chi- cago and of which “Con” Shea. labor leader, now under indictment for murder, in connection with the deaths of two policemen, following labor bombings, is said by the police to be the head, were revealed by the au- thorities following the return from St. Louls of officers with William Smith. Smith was arrested as an allegeq “fleld agent” of the ring. According to the police, operations of the ring extended east and south, and resulted in the theft of more than 300 cars valued at about $500.000. Thomas Carey, who signed the bond for the release from jail of Fred Mader and Big Tim Murphy on condition that they withdraw from all activities in connection with the ago Building Trades Council. said that union labor here would be in- vestigated in public by a committee of twenty representative citizens and officials. The committee, he said, would consist of aldermen, bankers, judges, members of the clergy and Persons “not friendly to union labor.” HUNT FOR CLUES INHOME OF WARD Police Head Reports Alleged Blackmailer May Have Been Slain There. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 31—} d B. Fegan, C. J. Goekeler, assistant CABINET MAY DEBATE RETURN TO OLD HOURS IN BUREAUS (Continued from First Page.) Westchester county authorities today took official cognizance of a news- paper report that Walter S. Ward, wealthy baker's son, shot Clarence Peters in Ward’s home on the night the exception of the government|of May 15, and that evidence In the printing office and the bureau|form of bullet-torn woodwork and of engraving and Printing are |possible bloodstains would be found still working' on the early re- |there. Distriet Attorney Weeks went into conference with Sherifft Werner, Po- lice Chief Cody of New Rochelle and other officials, and later drove to Ward's home at New Rochelle. When Ward surrendered on May 22 his lawyers stated that he had met Peters, who was demanding $75,000 blackmail, bw appointment, that he drove with him to Kensico reservoir and there shot him in self-defense after Peters had threatened him with a pistol. The newspaper report now under investigation quoted the man alleged o have been wounded by Ward as saying that although there was a blackmailing plot, it was not directed against Ward. Father to Be Questioned. Examination of George §. Ward, father of Walter S. Ward, as to what he knows regarding the events leading up to the shooting, is desired by the au- thorities. They hoped to get in touch with the head of the baking company today and ask him what was in the message he received from his son that caused him to hurry back from Europe. According to the younger Ward's statement of the kiliing, the black- | mail ring of which he savs Peters; was a member began their threats and efforts to get money about the time his father left for Europe. The officials believe that Ward was acquainted with the facts by his son and hope through him to clear up the mystery. Cheek Peters’ Actions. Marine Corps officers at Paris Is- | land, S. C, have made it plain from their records that Peters could not have arrived in Netv York until about twelve hours before he was killed. It also became known that Peters, while in the marine barracks there, boasted that he “had rich friends up north who would aid him whenever he desired.” Another member of the marines, now living in Brooklyn, who was discharged about the time Peters was rejected, stated that Peters had de- scribed to him how he rode around in motor cars in New York and that Peters had said a telegram would bring him all the money he needed. This angle of Peters' history is be- ing run down by investigators, who | are searching telegraph offices to see | {if messages were exchanged by Pe. | ters with any one in or near New | York before he came up from Paris Island to be shot to death. porting and _quitting time. The majority of the business houses al- ready have returned to their former hours, being forced, it was said, by the demands of the trade. For that reason, it is said. any more look- ing to the return to the regular hours of reporting must come from the government departments. Government business is belng af- fected by the daylight-saving system as now practiced, according to one writer, signing “Government Em- ploye” who said that “tardiness is becoming apparent, sleepy-eyed clerks take a Ralf hour to an hour to get down to real work and their for- mer efficiency, to say nothing of the school children and their teachers. The officials, the clerks, the teacher and the pupil all sympathize with one another and laxity is overlooked.” “Why isn’t the matter sifted down as to the authority for the change, rather the authority for the stat ment that a vote had been taken and the majority favored,” writes a War Department employe, disputing the statement that a vote was taken in the departments. “I haven't found anybody yet who voted. There is ever too much vagueness about changes, etc., that take place in the government. All one hears is: “It's to be done,’ And sometimes far more important | changes are made—by whom? Usually by somebody who has the nerve to start a thing and must swallow it, and those of us who are not so easily ‘gulled’ are helpless to defend ourselves.” McCUMBER BONUS PLAN IS REPORTED | T0 SENATE TODAY (Continued from First Page.) rate of 4% per cent compounded an- nually. Should the veteran die before the bank loan matured or six months thereafter the government would pay to his beneficiary the face value of the adjusted service certificate less loan. Direct, loans Later. After January 1. 1926, the govern- ment would make loans directly to the veterans in the following amounts: Before three years after the date of issue of the certificate, 50 per cent of the adjusted service credit plus interest at the rate of 41 per cent compounded annually from the date of issue. Three years after and before six i years after the date of the certificate 85 per cent of the sum of the ad- Justed service credit, plus interest at 434 per cent compounded annually. At any time after six years after the date of issue 70 per cent of the sum of the adjusted service credit in- creased by 25 per cent plus interest from the date of the certificate to the date of the loan at th= rate of 4% per cent compounded annually. Scheme for Payments. Payments of the loans to the gov- ernment by the veterans would be| upon an amortization. Should a veteran fail to make any payment when due the Secretary of the Treasury at any time prior to the maturity of the certificate would cancel the note and restore the cer- tificate to the veteran upon receipt from him of the total amount due! thereon, principal and interest to- gether, with interest at 41 per cent per annum compounded annually upon all payments that were in arrears. If a veteran failed to redeem his cer- tificate before the maturity of the, same the certificate would be can- celed. Under the House plan if the veteran failed to make payments to the gov- ernment for a period of one year the certificate would have been canceled and he would have been paid 80 per cent of the difference between what he borrowed and the maximum which he was authorized to borrow. —_——— BRITISH TO EXECUTE CONFERENCE TREATIES Will Not Await Formal Ratifica- tion by Domimion Par- liaments. BY HIRAM\ K. MODERWELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1822. LONDON, May 31.—Great Britain, according to official information, is proceeding with the execution of the ‘Washington conference treaties, de- spite the fact that they have not yet been formally ratified here. Worry has been caused in certain quarters by the delay In ratification,. but it is explained that King George is waliting for - ratification by the Deminion parliaments before signing the treaties as emperor, Meanwhile Britain is-already scrap- l some of her warships, controlling he_construction of foreign war craft in ‘British shipyards and introducing other necessary laws. (A —_— Amethysts have the reputation of calming and soothing the nerves. Of sho RALEIGH ADMITS VISITORS. Visitors will be admitted aboard the British warship Raleigh at the Wash- ington navy vard, daily, except Mon- day, between 2 and 5 o'clock, during its stay here. 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PARIS, May 31.—Sudden opposition to the reparations commission's ar- rangement with Germany developed among French deputies today, and word reached the commission when it was ready to begin its session this afternoon that a third of the cham- ber of deputies was opposed to ac- cepting the German reply to the com- mission's proposals. The commission had intended, It was said, to inform the committee of international bankers who are con- sidering a foreign loan for Germany that the reply, with certain expected changes, would be accepted. But in view of the French parliamentary op- position it was oconsidared doubtful whether the French member of the commission, Louis Dubols, who also is president, would feel inclined to act without further consultation with the French government. German Promise and Proviso. The German reply promises to com- ply with the conditions imposed by .the reparations commission, with the proviso that Germany must have aid in the form of a forelgn loan. The commission has insisted upon uncon- ¢iticnal compliance, but the question of the loan is consideresd = detail that will be arranged without com- plications. The reply dealing with this question says: “The German government, deter- mining to make the most strenuous endeavors to prevent any further in. crease in the floating debt, are, how- ever, convinced that in the present financial conditions such efforts can- not be carried through unless Ger- many receives reasonable assistance in the way of a foreign loan. Prescribe Basis of Action. “Provided such assistance becomes available without undue delay, the German government will undertake to deai with the matter on the fol- lowing basis: “The amount of the floating debt as it stood on March 31, 1922, is from now on to be the normal maximum If at the end of June or at the end of any subsequent month the amount exceeeds the normal maximum, steps will be taken to secure repayment of the excess, within three months fol- lowing by means of excess receipts or by raising credits otherwise than in the form of giving rise to fiduciary inflation.” The German government promises that in case the maximum is exceeded jagain it will endeavor to impose new taxes, sufficlent to make up the dif- ference. Pending the receipt of the proposed foreign loan, however, the government asks that the floating debt may be increased in paper marks to the equivalent of payments of forelgn currency, made and to he made since March 31 under the terms - of the treaty of Versailles. . Doubt as to Co The condition imposed in the reply that Germany must have help from a foreign loan was @rst thought to be a mistake in the French transla- tion, since German text was inter- preted as expressing the “mere hope” that this help would be given. In- quiry in Berlin, however, developed the fact that the German government intended to make that proviso. The impression made by the Ger- man reply was not unfavorable, it was said at the French foreign office this afternoon unofficially. The Temps remarked that the re- ply was silent on the question of a forced loan which was expected to produce 46,000,000,000 marks, but the newspaper forecast its acceptance by the reparations commission. _ WIFE POISONER EXECUTED By the Associated Press LONDON, May 31.—Maj. Herbert Rowse Armstrong. a leading Welsh solicitor, who was convicted last Monday. on a charge of poisoning his wife, was executed in the Giou- cester jail today. He is the first member of the English bar to be executed for murder. Maj. Arm- strong was originally arrestd or & charge of attempting to poison Os- a fellow solicitor, but went to trial on the capital charge after the exhumation of his wife's body and the discovry that she had been poisoned. Aftr his conviction, on April 13, his petition to carry appeal to the house of lords was dismissed way. Only systematic gainst such disappoint- his company to enable exceed $5 or $10 per unds for your deferred “SYSTEM SAVING” &HenseyCo. NW,