Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1922, Page 1

v ! < WEATHER. Unsettled, with showers tonight and tomorrow; no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: at 2 pm. today; lowest, 6 today. Full report on page 9. Highest, 7, at 6 83, a.m. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 No. 28518, post office *Vasl Entered as second-class matter hington, D. €. b ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1922—THIRTY PAGES. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entifled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited ia this vaper and also 1! Al rights dispatches he local news published herein of publication of special Lerein are also reserved. | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 87,471 TWO CENTS. U. 5. INTERVENTION N COAL STRIKE DRAWING NEARER President Will Insist Govern- ment Have Part if Par- ley Is Called. PLAN DRASTIC MOVE IF CONFERENCE FAILS Union Policy Altered, Says Lewis, | Insisting That New Scale Be Set Up. Tndications were given at the White suse today that the government soon vould be able to make an announce- nt in the coal strike situation and 1hat the step contemplated was a 1.ove to bring the Jleaders of the ion miners and representative oper- | ors together for a discussion of | age differences. ! President Harding was represented feeling strongly that the govern- rient would sponsor no conference on the coal situation, however, at which © government itself was not repre- sented, either in an official or un- ¢Hicial manner. Although not revealing the nature the government's plan, it was de- < White Houst that if the by plan for adjudicating persuasion and volun- nts should fail, the gov- ,uld look toward more vinted and drastic action. Plans for Conference. In other quarters today it was said e government was already formu- lating plans for a national conference ! itors and miners to gather s the issues at stake in the | ent mine controversy. With the United Mine Workers, sugh its president, John L. Lewis, esenting an unbroken front and de- «d to be growing in strength da iditions to the ranks of the strik- government leaders to- see no alternative tharn| calling of a conference if a coal famine this fall and winter was to be averted. | Although approximately 000,000 tons | of coal is being mined ¢ v, chiefly n the New River and Pocahontas tields of West Virginia, government/ officials_declared the I°reserve is rapidly being depleted, and added that public utilities and industries not well stocked with coal will face, a crisis unless some means of ending the strike are set in motion within a :nonth. It.was estimated today that | the available coal stocks above ground | have shrunk to approximately 20,000,- 000 tons, with about half of this amount in the hands of the railroads. of ope 1 dis | | | Opposes District Parleys. Mr. Lewis yesterday expressed him- | seif as absolutely opposed to district conterences in the several mining dis- | tricts. He added that the strike situa- | tion was unchanged. An attempt to secure a general con- ferenee of minerssand. operators has not been made in the present strike, although Secretary Davis was in fre- quent conference last March with both operators and miners. Retusal of the operators last March to meet in the wage scale negotiations of the central competitive fleld was one of the controversial points in the strfke. The reason for withholding the def- inite program for settlement of the difficulty, it was expiained at the White House, was said to be the same which prompted the secrecy surround- ing delicate negotiations of the re- cent arms conference. There had| Leen some complaint from the public | ind even on the floor of the Senate concerning the closed doors on deli- cate subjects at the arms conference, | hut even in open diplomacy, it was| pointed out, there were certain ex- igencies which practically demanded secrecy. Concerning the recent “atrocity” at | Herrin, TIl, officials at the White! House hesitated to comment, but stat- | cua tnat there was never any comment | to make on murder except that mur- der was murder wherever committed and by whom. And there could never be any extenuation of it. ! Little progress toward settlement | of the strike resulted yvesterday, al-| ugh conferences continued, with | retary Davis and President John | Lewis of the mine workers being | closeted with President Harding for some time at the White House. Mr. Lewis announced following the nference that the union policy still | ered and unyielding in its| that a new wage scale| must be set up for the strike-ridden ! mining districts by national or semi- | national conferences with operators. Officially no statement was forth- coming, though Secretary Hoover was also called to the White House for a word with the President about the situation immediately after Mr. Lew- is left. “We talked over the general prob- lems of the bituminous industry and the strike,” Mr. Lewis declared on Jeaving the White House, “its over- development and intermittency, and projects for its stabillzation. The strike situation is unchanged. “I explained to the President the futility of attempting Settlements in individual mining districts. There are no groups of operators willing to hazard their competitive relationship with other producing sections by fix- ing a wage scale until they know what their competitors are going to pay. The country will be facing a serious shortage of coal Wwithin a few weeks and if the strike contin- ues the- railroads will be unable to transport enough to take care of n- Jdustries and domestic consumers.” —_ BATTLES EIGHT BANDITS. HOBOKEN, N. J., June 27.—Eight bandits, believed to have planned to seize a $25,000 liquor shipment, tried to hold up a fast Erle freight train near Waldwick, north of here today, and wounded George Hamilton, rafiroad de- tective, who ran along the top of the cars and gave them battle.” Armed with a shotgun Hamilton ex- changed shots with the men, who had revowers. The bandits fled when Ham- iiton fell. BATTLE AUTO BANDITS. EW YORK, June 27.—Four automo- bile bandits fell upon two messengers ©of the Brenx National Bank today as ihey were carrying a $3,500 pay roll to 118 JInternational Handkerchief Com- pany, the Bronx, and escaped with the money after a battle. ’ DOG RESCUES MASTER AND MISTRESS FROM DROWNING IN LAKE By the Assoclated Press. TACOMA, Wash.,, June 27.—Rex today is basking in the sunshine of his own glory, which has made him the most talked-of dog in the state, following his herolc rescue of his master and mistress, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Smith, as they were near drowning in Spanaway Lake yes- terday. The Smiths were bathing together when Smith stepped into a deep hole and became confused. His call for help brought Mrs. Smith, and he clutched his wife in a hold she was unable to break and her croes were added to those of her husband. The dog heard his master's calls for help, swam out and brushed across Smith’s half-submerged face. Smith caught at the dog's collar, got a firm grip and the canine started for shore, snorting and struggling hard to prevent Smith's weight from dragging him under. Freed from her husband's grasp, the wife was able to swim back to shore alone. RAIL STRIKE JULY 15 5 LATEST THREAT Unions Continue Confer- ences—Tie-Up Date May Be Set for August 1. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 27.—Raflway union officials continued their conferences today on the threatened railroad strike. With informal statements by union leaders indicating that the referen- dum of shopmen, maintenance of way emrloyes and clerks throughout the United States discloses a strong sentiment in favor of a strike as a protest against wage reduction, J. C. Smock, assistant to the president of the maintenance of way men, pre- dicted the walk-out would be called July 15. Others said conferences with railroad cfficials probably would delay the call until August 1. Word came out of the secret con- ferences that a meeting of union executives within the next few days might include the “big four” brother- hoods of trainmen, who are unaf- fected by the wage-cut decisions of the Railroad Labor Board. Sure, “The strike is sure to be called July 15" sald Mr. Smock. “We are preparing for concerted action against the railroads, and with that end in view have called for a meeting here within the next few days of the ex- ecutives of the sixteen standard rail unions. The invitation includes the ‘big four’ train service brotherhoois but we do not know,K whether they will attend. Their uhions have re- ceived no wage cut, but I think they will be represented.” B. M. Jewell, head ployes’ department of the American Federation of Labor, said an “important announcement” will be made Thursday as a result of the meetings on strike plans and policies. The executive council, composed of the international presidents .of the rail unions, held a secret meeting last night while the general committee of ninety chairmen speeded the canvass of the strike vote. Proposals to Be Heard. Any proposals from the railroads to prevent the threatened strike will be heard, union officials said, but they ad- vanced little encouragement of devel- opmentg in that direction. Union headquarters here also awaited returns from the strike vote by railway signalmen on approximately one-third of the roads in the country. The United States railroad labor board resumed its hearings on contract cases. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buf- falo, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Newark, Jersey City and Washington, D. C., have been chosen as cities where “war chest fund” headquarters would be opened within the week. R U — SEEKS VOTES AT CIRCUS. Woman in U. S. Senate Adopts Novel Tactics. RENO, Nev., June 27.—Mrs. Lydia Adams-Willlams, candidate for the re- publican nomination for United States senator, has taught her male oppo- nents a new political maneuver, and her tactics are arousing lively inter- est. Mrs. Williams i{s following circus companies across the state, and in this way finds opportunities to ad- dress large audiences. He Declares. Race GIRLS STARVING “GO WRONG,” POLICEWOMAN FI, Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. PITTSBURGH, June 27.—“Jazz and parties shouldn't get all of the blame for juvenile delinquency. It is the girl who Is starved for pleasure who ‘goes wrong’ when she gets her first taste of it. It is the boy who never has been allowed to keep money he has earned who goes ‘wild’ when he rebels and keeps it.” From her wealth of experience with juvenile failings, Mrs. W. C. Butterfleld, policewoman of the bureau of missing persons, made this declaration today. She has carefully investigated hundreds of cases reported to her. And as a result she is convinced that “80 per cent of the parents” who seek runaway children are themselves responsible for their disappear- ance. It is the girl or boy sent out too early to earn a living, rather than the pampered child, who becomes #corrigible. “If juvenile delinquency is on the ‘increase,” she said today, “the parents have much to answer for. Eighty per cent of the runaway girls and boys that I handle are Soungsters who have been sup- porting, not alone themselves, but sometimes an entire family. It ‘'t the young people’s good times—dances, parties. and mod- ern freedom—-that makes 'them wayward. It is a father and mother who send them out into the economic world at an age when they should sponsibilities of any of the railway em- ! BRITISH WARN IRISH | CRIMES AIMED AT | * TREATY MUST END Uf Provisional Government | Fails London Will Act, i Orders Say. CRUCIAL TEST TO FOLLOW | - WINNING OF ELECTION Action Not Ultimatum as No Time Limit Is Stated—Four Courts Blamed. i | By the Associated Pr ! LONDON, June 27.—The Evening News today says the British govern- ment sent a warning last Saturday to the Irish provisional government, de- | claring that if the latter govern- ment's authority to restore order were not exercised the British gov- ernment would have to take action. The British communication, accord- ing to the mewspaper, requested the provisional government “to act promptly and vigorously to break up the organization for intimidation and murder which is designed to wreck the treaty and Is directed, 'In the opinion of his majesty’s governmen from the four courts in Dublin, The warning continued: “It the provisional government, now that the elections show they possess the support of the majority in the south, do not exercise their authority to restore order, the im- { perial government will be obliged to take action.” The News says the warning does not contain_a time limit and cannot be described as an ultimatum. It also offered certain advice to the pro- visional government. Given Vote of Confidence. | Prime Minister Lloyd George and | Colonial Secretary Churchill appar- | ently have turned the edge of the op- position’s thrust, based on the Irish | policy. A virtual vote of confidence was given by the house of commons last night when it defeated, 342 to 75, a motion proposed by the “die hards” for a reduction in the salary of the chief secretary for Ireland. in dis- approval of the government's policy and the fallure properly to protect Field Marshal Wilson. The. secretary for colonies made it clear in his statement that south- ern Ireland would not be allowed to coerce Ulster and that the provisional government in -Dublin now-must as- sist complete authority, the alternative { being that the imperial government { would resume complete freedom of action. | The prime minister, again outlin- ing the policy toward Ireland, sald the elections had shown that the provisional government had the Irish people behind it and that it must now prove whether it was fit to govern. | Mr. Churchill's warning has met with widespread approval, most of the newspapers declaring the country will indorse the line the government has taken. The exceptions are the Daily News and the Westminster Gazette, which regret the secretary’s “threats.” NEUTRAL ZONE TEST STARTS. Triple Agreement in Effect on Ulster Border. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, June 27.—The big neu- tral zone experiment, establishing a five-mile strip of neutral territory in the Pettigoe and Belleek districts of the Ulster-Free State border, under a triple agreement betweed the Brit- ish, the provisional and northern governments came iInto effect today, Premler Sir James Craig of Ulster told an interviewer. Priemer Cralg said the military took complete control of two and one half miles on either side of the bor- |der, the Royal Ulster constabulary’ taking one side of the border and the Free State police, unarmed, occupy- ing the other side. BOYCOTT LEADER ARRESTED. Provisional Government in Dublin Acts to Aid Belfast. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, June 27.— Commandant Henderson, director of the boycott against Belfast goods, has been ar- rested by the provisional government authorities and.removed to Mount Joy prison, says an announcement issued by the headquarters of the army dis- sentients in the four courts. FOR PLEASURE S “Many girls of sixteen or sev- enteen leave home and are forced to find work because there is not enough money at home to main- tain the family. Sometimes there are several younger brothers and sisters for whose food and cloth- ing her earnings must go. The girl naturally becomes despondent. She sees no future ahead. She wants her money for the nice clothes she sees other girls wear- ing. Frequently she runs away. If the bureau finds her before she has joined the great army of those of the older occupation the bureau detective finds herself facing a’ difficult problem. “What can you say to & @irl of sixteen who never has been al- lowed to spend a cent of the money she earned upon herself. Usually she has not been ill-treat- ed at home. But she has no pretty clothes, and her parents and fam- ihly neobc} the little {noney she has een able to earn. It's pretty h: on the girl, len't fty | Do wy.hard “S8o many boys in similar situa- tions also run away. When a big, strong, ithy man comes to me and sa; ‘want you to find my boy. He's run away and he’s teen and I nee 1 feel like using stron than a policewoman a is warranted to. For ers are the wo - fenders along this line. "l‘l:n‘y eome countries where wom- en and children are beasts of bur- den while the lordly male can loaf, nd they attempt to carry on the same method here. The mothers are old and unwilling to change. The daughters and sons, educated to American ways, find the bondage of tho old worid maddening.” {Copyrisht. de! s THE HERRIN VIEWPOINT. SEES ST9SI00 HGHER MEATBL Senator Walsh Charges Pro- posed Tariff Will Cost Each Person $3.77. By the Associated Press. Dutles on fresh meats and meat products proposed in the pending tariff bill, if effective, would increase the nation's meat bill $379,500,000, Senator Walsh, democrat, Massa- chusetts, declared today in the Sen- ate. He was discussing the agricul- tural schedule and announced that from time to time he would “submit figures, staggering In their size, showing what an unbearable burden these -duties on agricultural products will be'to the consumers* Senator Walsh estimated that the duties on beef and veal would in- creage prices of those commodities by $281,000,000 a year; that mutton and lamb would advance by a total of $31,500,000; pork, by $105,000,000, and lard, by $12,000,000. He said the total would be §3.77 for each man, woman and child in the country, or i $18.85 for a family of five. ~The MasSachusetts senator contended that the increased cost to the people of his state alone would be $15,140,000. No Benefit to Farmer. The speaker argued that the pro- posed tariffs could not result in any benefit to the farmers, for reasons which he outlined as follows: “A tariff upon agricultural prod- ucts, except in a very limited number of instances, may not have at all the effect of raising the general level of prices to the producer. “To whatever extent it will raise the price to the producer it will (a) react in higher cost of living to the eople of the country, and (b) react rn higher costs of the things the farmer must buy. This was well il- lustrated during the war. As the prices_of agricultural products in- creased, an increase in price of things the farmer purchased closely follow- ed, and the result was littie net ad- vantage to him. ‘Wages Depend on Costs. “The wages of labor have been and are becoming more and more depend- ent upor: the cost of living. Increased costs through tariff rates of those things the laboring peopl2 of the country must eat means Increased wages, and increased wages in the industrial and large centers of popu- lation means that labor will be scarce and will demand corresponding!y high wages on the farms. “In those cases where the duties on agricultural products will he most ef- fective in increasing prices they are levied upon commodities produced in restricted sections by a small per- centage of the farmers of the United States. Thus high duties are pro- posed on lemons, almonis, walnuts, figs, and wrapper tobacco, of Wwiich the great majority of farmers are con- sumers rather than producers. “An examination of statistics and well known information 1n regard to some of these agricultural article Senator Walsh continued, “will prove, I believe, beyond question, that this schedule will not meet with the suc- cess claimed for it, but wil! result in very serious losses to the American people as a whole, and will impair and injure materially the growing and expanding_ export business of the country. If this is true, then these tariff duties are mere paper duties and will be of no benefit to the farmer.” Today’s News in Brief. h rn Irish provisional gov- B:?n‘:nen‘lv:hat order must be restored in Ireland. : Pl:g;‘ J.. H. Von Herrmann, prominen a- ‘son, victim of apoplexy. Page 2 Credit for soviet first issue at The Hague. Pltu 2 . Morgan expected to accept ap- u;:lntme’lt to school board. 'Pl.ge : Democratic leaders discuss party mat- ters at “pow-wow” he";’ 3 Plcl’o 2 D. C. guardsmen ordere 0o Camp ks of training. Simms for two wee : ining Dakota primary tomorrow in- "35?3- renomination of Senator Mc- Cumber. Page 4 Penfleld bequeaths $80,000 to Cath- olic University. Page § Kidnaped girl escapes after thrillin adventure. Page s into insurance duties 'v‘l}:l;ep](}“:fith still holds keys to desk. Page 7 tic conference chairman calls Dg;wfllmul housecleaning in Wis- conlm Page 10 Civil Service C%l;;mlu:on land; r;p‘re. tative to college in search of ap- =nlelntl for U. S. jobs. Page 15 leave for Y. M.C. A. porfienve or ¥ ool One hundred ormby All the terrors of a “high school education or its equivalent” are to be taken out of civil service examina- tions through new tests for ascer- I taining the “Intellectual level” of ap- plicants. Modern psychology is bringing its guns to bear upon the problem of de- vising falr examinations, so that in | the future a man or woman who real- 1y has the “Intellectual level” of a Ligh school graduate, no matter if he lacks the training, will be able to take the “exams” with the best of the | graduates. This s the intent of further re- search started this week by Dr. L. J. { O'Rourke, who has been secured by the Civil Service Commission from the |ctvilian advisory board of the war | plans divisior attached to the office | of the chief of staff o%he Army. { Advised by Psychologists. Sinee the world war the commission has been securing the advice of men who have achiéved prominence in psychological flelds, and, as a result, has been able to adapt some of the principles evolved by them to its own testing methods, not only in the me- chanical arrapgement of tests, but {also in the examination itself. Increased appropriations for the next year now have enabled the com- mission to secure a highly trained URDER OF MINE WOUNDED FEARED 12 Men in Herrin Hospital “Marked for Mob” May | Be Taken to Safety. By the Ansociated Press. HERRIN, Ill, June 27.—Removal to safety from “bloody” Williamson county and the southern Illinois coal flelds of wounded non-union men now in the hospital is one of the problems coming in the wake of last Thursday's mine massacres. Twelve wounded survivors of the forty-seven guards and workers who were sent on the death march out of the Lester strip mine still are in danger, according to information reaching state and federal investiga- tors. Lying on their hospital cots, their wounds swathed in bandages, some of the wounded say they sensed anger and express fear of further violence if they leave the hospital unprotected. Herrin's law-respecting citizenry believes a body of state troops would solve the problem and dispel any fur- ther danger to the imported guards and workers from the wrath of strik- ing miners. Fate of Nineteen in Doubt. Herrin was speculating todsy on the fate of nineteen missing men who completed the gang of sixty-six in the bunk cars Wednesday night. Allen P. Findley of Chicago, timekeeper. who is in the hospital with forty buckshot in his side and a bullet in his foot, 18 authority for the state- ment that there were sixty-six men in | the cars when the attack was made. Whether the missing nineteen escaped or were killed in the cars and burned when attackers fired the train was unknown still today. Angered because their town has been blamed for the atrocities, Her- rin citizens say other mining towns should bear part of the responsibilit: for having supplied rioters who joine the mob which stormed the ster mine. Sheriff Melvin Thaxton said he had been unable to get any in- formation leading to the identity of any member of the mob. Authorities Warned. That the massacre victims fear violence if they are forced to leave the hospital unprotected was con- firmed by four of the men. Their fear was also held by Howard Hoff- mann, 621 Webster street, Huntington, Ind., one of the mine guards, and an- other unidentified guard, -both of whom died in the hospital Hoffmann, in a dying statement, ‘warned hospital authoritiets, it is said, that nome of the. wéunded would ever leave Willlamson county alive. He was among the six men tied together and shot down in a cemetery near the mine. Three were killed instantly. -Hoffmann and one other died in the hospital and one still ‘is there. Hoffmann said he fell at the first on 3 Horse Sense Above Book Learnin’ In New Tests by Civil Service psychologist to continue the work along these lines already begun by the commission. The first job Dr. O'Rourke is tackling is that of the ;flgh school education “or its equiva- ent.” The work now going on, to be com- pleted within several months, will re- sult in civil service examinations which will contain up-to-the-minute tests to determine the degree of in- | telligence and actual everyday gen- | eral knowledge of the applicants, ‘xuch as would be useful in an office. Find Selves Handicapped. Applicants with plenty of horse sense, but perhaps limited schooling, will not find themselves handicapped by their lack of orthodox “book learning,” but will have the oppor- tunity to demonstrate what they know, if they really know anything. ‘The exact nature of these new tests cannot be made public at this time, but it is understood that the final results “will be different:-in -many| ways from anything hitherto used in| the so-called general intelligence tests of the Army or psychological | tests used in Industrial concerns. The result will be that the examina- tions, using this system of practical, { everyday common-sense tests, well be no more formidable to the appli- cant of intelligence and real practical knowledge, but with limited school- ing, than it will be to the man or woman fully equipped with high school training. NIP PLOT T0 BURN | Officials of Fifteen Counties Called to Meeting to Deal With . W. W. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kan, June 27—L. T. Hussey, fire marshal, and W. T. Clark, president of the Peace Officers’ Asso- ciation, have called a meeting of sheriffs, chiefs of police and county attorneys of fifteen central counties in Hutchinson for tomorrow to study the I. W. W. and complete plans to forestall the activities of the “wobblies.” C. B. Griffith, assistant attorney general, will attend the meeting to advise the county attorneys in methods of prosecuting the radicals junder the anti-syndical and the| : vagrancy lawa Thus far one fire has been attrib-{ uted to_the I. W. W. It is easy for the I. W. W. organizers to work | in the Kansas flelds this year, it is said, as there is considerable com- plaint on the part of a large num- ber of harvest hands. Last season $7 and $8 were paid, but the workers | are now receiving but $4 a day and ‘boart “With twenty organizers under ar- rest and every indication that a con- certed and well planned movement is on foot to terrorize the wheat fields, we are going to throw .ver!] force available into the fields from now on, until harvest is over,” Mr.| Hussey sald in a statement last night. GOLF-GOING “BLIMP” IS THE LATEST; HITCH HER TO TREE AND GAME IS ON Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HAMPTON, Va., June 27.—Lang- ley “Field today boasts its first golf-going “blimp. And Col. A. G. Fisher of the airship school is confident that the problem of reaching golf courses quickly in the future has been solved. A small hangar in the back yard or on the roof, & pony blimp, a quick sale across city and flelds to the golf course, a convenient tree to tie the old bus up to, and then eighteen fast holes of the anclent and honorable game, to say nothing of the quick return home to dinner on time and no trouble at all with the golf widow. All_of-this is not a theory with Col. Fisher. It is a fact. “Lieut. Anderson, the engineer, and T went over to Virginia Beach a day or so ago,” said the col- onel today. “‘Come on, Anderson,” 1 suggested, ‘I go over in the A-4’ That sul him. We jump- ed into the car, or, as you know it, perhaps, the basket of the dir- * igible, and, started out. Caddies Give Hand. the ik wo il o e Skt \ examinations which have called for a | indemnity. This fact, more than any- | | the good offices of the Department of PROPOSES GERMANS RECONSTRUCT FRANCE AND TUNNEL CHANNEL By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 27.—A huge war reparations plan, under which the Germans would reconstruct France and build the long-planned tun- nel under the English channel, has been submitted by the minister of public works, M. Le Trocquer, to Premier Poincare, who has laid it before the French member of the reparations commission. The plan involves the use of German labor and materials to the extent of twenty billions of francs. The newspapers assert that if Germany is able to carry on the construction of railways and tele- graph lines at home, she is able to reconstruct the war-torn areas in France, and also to help build the canals, electric power plants and raillways, which are needed in France and which are now under partial construction. LOW MARK SAVES ALIEN PROPERTY iGerman Government Rules Confiscatory Taxes Can Be Paid at Berlin Value. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Germany has given the United States government official assur- ances that no confiscatory taxes will be levied upon the property returned to German citizens by the alien prop- erty custodian here. The German government realizes that if existing statutes were liter- ally interpreted it might mean that the property of Germans seized here during the war would find its way into the hands of the Berlin govern- ment, and eventually would be part payment to the allies on the war | thing else, has deterred American ! | officials from recommending the re- lturn of the German property to its owners, it being urgued. that while the American government may_have sentimental objections so confiscat- ing private property. the same prop- | erty would be confiscated anyhow by |the German authorities. Value of Mark Factor. Publication in the United States of this argument led the German government to take up the question in an effort to persuade the United | States government that Germany would not confiscate the property. The Gepartment of finance in Berlin has examined the laws and issued a rul- ing to the effect that the taxes may be paid in the present value of Ge man marks. This makes all the di ference in the world, for the Ger- man tax laws were adopted in July, | 1919, and December, 1919, respec-| tively, and in the former case the! value of the mark was thirteen to! a dol'ar. and in the latter, forty-nine to a dollar. Will Not Exceed 10 Per Cent. If taxes were to be paid on that valuation it would mean virtual confis- | cation. officiaily that it has no intention of applying the value of the mark as of July or December, 1919, but as of the date on which the property is returned. Ac- cording to the statisticians of the Ger- But the German goyernment man finance department the tax would | RPEWHEATFILDS 22 in no case go beyond 10 per cent, and in many cases where the property re- tax would range from 2 to 4 per cent. | hese taxes, it is admitted, are high, but they do not mean the takin the whole thing as was supposed would be the case if the tax laws were in- terpreted as the American government thought. The German government is naturally | interested in seeing the property of its | rationals restored, and was quick to point out that fears of confiscation | by the Berlin authorities need not be | entertained. The United States gov- ernment had. of course, no power to| intervene as between German citizens | and the German government, though State were frequently suggested as a l&ll&fl! of preventing German confisca- on. Not to Penalize Nationals. Instead, the German government has voluntarily interpreted its laws of 1919 and made it clear that it will | not penalize its nationals simply be. | cause the difference between ex- change rate today and three years ago is so large. It is believed this action will make it difficult for Con- gress to withhold approval of Pres- ident Harding's plan on that ground, though it is anticipated a lively figh will_ensue in both the Senate and the House on the question of paying | American citizens the claims they| hold against Germany for acts com- mitted during the war. The adjust- ment of these claims, which will be taken up by a mixed commission, may be sought first before all the German property is returned. The present plan _contemplates returning _indi- vidual properties up to $10,000 in value and would keep in trust ap proximately $350.000,000 to $450,001 000 other properties of German own- ership pending further developments in American policy. (Copyright, 1922.) green a while, beckoning to the colored caddles. Siowly we came down. The delighted caddies held the blimp while Anderson and I got out. Then we tled the ship to a couple of small trees and played eighteen holes. After the game we climbed aboard, the cad- dies untied the ropes and we came home. It was a fine trip. Col. Fisher believes an airship as safe as an automobile. Motor fail- ure does not mean disaster in the lighter-than-air craft, for in such a contingency one can come to earth gradually by letting out a little gas. The inflammability of the hydrogen gas now used is the only danger. _ Cost About $15,000. “That will shortly disappear,” he says, “for non-explosive helium soon will be about as cheap. In about five years you can have a blimp about the size of the A-4 built and filled with helium cost of approximately $15,00 In a few days the golf-goin “blimp” is to be sent to Scott Fiel in Illinois, near St. Louls, and Col. Fisher is going to Brook Field, in ‘Texas, for training in heavier- than-air service. “I will hate to part with my advises the United States| g of | { Barcena, FORTY AMERICANS HELD FOR RANSOM BY MEXIGAN REBEL “Gen. Gorozave” Seizes $250,000 Oil Property and Employes Near Tampico. U. S. DEMANDS ACTION TO PROTECT PROPERTY No Mexican Federal Forces in Re- gion—240 Armed Men Swoop Down on Holding. Forty American employes of the Cortez Ofl Company, near Tampico, and destructible property valued at a quarter of a million dollars, are being held by a rebel general until ransom cf 15,000 pesos is paid, accord- ing to a message -today from the American consul at Tampico to the State Department. The dispatch was dated yesterday and said that the “rebel general, Gorozave,” had seized the company's property and was holding it with 240 well armed men. Prompt instructions were sent by the State Department to the embassy in Mexico City and to the consul at Tampico to urge the Mexican authorities to take Immedi- ate action for the protection of Amer- ican lives and property. No Troops Avalilable. The consul reported that Gorozave had demanded payment of the 15,000 pesos within forty-eight hours from vesterday morning, when his forces seized the property. The message also said that there were no Mexican federal troops in the vicinity. The consul's message contained few details. It said in substance that the Cortez Oil Company’s Aguada camp was in the hands of the rebel, Gen. Gorozave, with 240 well armed men; that Gorozave had demanded payment of 15,000 pesos within forty-eight hours 'from yesterday morning and that he was holding a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of destructible property and the lives of forty {American citizens as security. Asked for Protection. The message added that there were no Mexican forces in the vicinity, and tkat the company had asked for pro- tection for its American employes and property. As the message was dated yesterday the time for payment of the 15,000 pesos fixed by the rebel leader probably was due to expire some time today. The State Department sent the fol- lowing message to the embassy at Mexico City, similar instructions go- ing to the consul at Tampico at the same time: “Urge the appropriate authorities tg adopt vigorous measures to extend adequate protection to the lives and property of American citizens report- ed held by the rebel general, Gorozave, and to punish the perpetrators of this outrage.” No Detalls of Bielaski. Meanwhile, the department was still awaiting advices from Mexico as to action taken by the Mexican govern- ment to obtain the release of A. Bruce Bielaski, captured by bandits and held for ransom not far from Mexico City near Cuernavaca. The embassy has communicated no additional details of Mr. Bielaski’'s capture since it received the department’s instructions to press the Mexican authorities for prompt action in the case. MEXICANS RELEASE BIELASKI'S FRIEND American Expected to Be Freed as Ransom Is Tele- graphed for Kidnapers. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 27.—Manuel Mexican lawyer, who was idnaped, with A. Bruce Bielaski, near Cuernavaca on Sunday, has been released and news is expected of Bie- laski’s freedom. Late. advices from Cuernavaca said Mr. Bielaski was safe and that negotiations with the bandits were under way. Mr. Bielaskl, former chief of the American Department of Justice's in- vestigation bureau, and Senor Bar- cena were seized while motoring | with their wives. The negotiations for his rele are being carried on by friends and the ransom is being pald on the order_of Richmond Levering & Co., New York, of which Mr. Bielaski is the head. Rescue Effort Thwarted. Travelers returning from Cuerna- vaca said an unsuccessful attempt was made to obtain Mr. Bielaski's freedom by the payment of $1,000 in cash, camouflaged to represent ten times that amount. The effort was thwarted, however, whei spectators in automobiles approached too close- ly and the bandits became suspicious. NEW YORK, June 27.—Business As- soclates of A. Bruce Bielaski, former head of the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice, who is re- ported kidnaped by Mcxican bandis, announced last night that an order had been telegraphed to a Mexico City bank for 10,000 pesos for payment of the ransom demanded by his captors. Bitterness Among Rivals. . The order was telegraphed . by Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne, bankers for the Richmond Levering Company, of which Mr. Blelaskl is president. Wall street men conversant with oll inter- ests last night declared that there has been much bitterness among rival concerns in the San Miguel fields. Re- cently the Mexican Petroleum Com- pany appealed to the Mexico City courts to enjoin other corporations in the neighborhood from operating. The Sinclair Ol people fought them in the courts and won. Mr. Bielaski went o Mexico to oppose a similar injunction ‘o& -going boat,” said this pioneer and also, it was stated, to take in a new branch of aviation. steps against some of the come o (Copyright, 1022) os. IR o