Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1922, Page 2

BEASKSARREST | REPRTEDORDERED Mexican Papers Says He| " Will Be Seized on Seli- Abduction Charge. | By the Associated Press. ! MEXICO. July 6.—EI Universal Grafico | Yesterday ®Tternoon declared it learned from official_sources that an order for | the atrest of A. Bruce Bielaski on a | charge of self-abduction was issued yesterday by & Cuernavace.court. kI Mundo elso asserts that such an “is about to be issued.” Up to Vester- @ay. however. the, United States em- bussy had receivel no advice of any arrest. Bielaski, and subsequent whose abduction by rebel escape were reported Yast week, is still at liberty. The onl lcgal process to which he b been Su\ fMcted was @ Summons to APPEAT. court tn_ Mexico City vest noon ard make # complet v The government is continuing its in- wvestigatic of the case in o lnt'C{ lon wi the Cuernavaca authoritics. S eral arrests already have been made. REPORTS ARE UNCONFIRMED. i Mexican Government Has Not Con- fided Suspicions to U. S. Reports in Mexico City that legal| Mroceedings are contemplated by | Mexican officials 3 against A. Bruce{ Biclaski on charges that he had con- | ) mived at his own abdu m LY M dts recently near Cuernav 3 at the State De- confirmation toda partment. No_ word has come ibu far. it was said. from Cl merlin to indicate that he ha mdvised formally or inform ¥ i Mexican federal authorities that they jooked upon the Bielaski incident] With suspicion HARDINGS START Party Tells Marien Good-Bye and Will Make First Stop Utah Lawyer Given Hioh Post bv President | 6. ATHERTON MARR | Of Salt Lake City, Utah, Who has juat been appointed general counsel for | C0 the War Fimance Corporntion, suc-! ceeding Gerard C. Henderwon. \] ! | tional” fure be ! Would repeal the tax prowision. URGEEXTRAFAR BRIGE g Ready to Extend Trolley Tracks if - Crossing Charge Allowed. { The Capital Traction Company is ready to begin extension of its M I street tracks across the new George- town bridge If the Public Utllities Commission authorizes the collection of an additional fare of halt a cent from passengers crossing the struc- ture. This statement was made to the commission by John H. Hanna, vice président of the company, at & pub- lic hearing before the commission at the District building today. ~The purpose of the extra fare, Mf. Hanna said, is to meet the tax of half a cent which must beé pald to the federal government by the company on every person carried across the bridge. The Capital Traction Company, &c- cording to Mr. Hanna's testimony, does not sez why a street railway mpany should be required to pay such a tax when automobiles an busses will cross the bridge free o tax. Seeks Fair A@justment. Mr. Hanna explainéd. however, that it would be unfalr to require the com i pany out of its own funds or the gen- ieral car-fiding public of Washington | to meet this special tax. He proposed { therefore, that the cemmission Au- { thorize collection of this tax frem those passengers who ride across the bridge, and suggested that such addi- abolished if Congress | Mr. Hanna explained that if the pe- jtition is allowed conductors would sell passengers two bridge tickets for 1 cent Wiiliam McK. Clayton of the Federation of Citizens' Association opposed grantlng the company per mission to extend its tracks across the bridge on the ground that the Mr. Summerlin ed the case g ; > o < ministers b cost of the - extension—3$150.000— e S T el at Columbus. j would indirectly become a burden on feld. © By “of ihe State De- ! the car riders of Washington. fiartment he He" representations ; IF (e Axeciuted Lress This ‘burden, he argued. would take Urging the rescue of the former head Ohio. July G —President | the form of the annual darryiiig cost of the Departmeat of Justice in- rion at 10:30 a.m. this Investment, which would be Vi ation bureau. and later n.; :R:t“‘h! for Columbus on the first lap | §1sd08 S eaEhborho LA I i o7 his journey to Was <ton after| \ir. Hanna interposed to point out abductors. Reported to Department. pendine nearly three d. among abitance ot Tese home-folks and attending the cen- was reported to the depa itennial celebration ¢ home town o far as known b | Prior to the President's departure was said during thess conversatic 10 indicate Mexi officials thought ¥t possible the incident wue anything other than a bandit outbreak. Prompt were taken by the Obregon Atzhe ) iment to capture the bandits. = d if it has since develo i e y - hie ahduet { Williany Mexico discl | bank. and -camstunces, the « situation has npot been comamuni- | to the American embassy to far | £ known i t i he motored newspaper, | meeting. When Bislaski reached Mexizo City to the Marfon Star, his and attended a directors’ of whiv he met Coudity Bank s a dire or. chaftner, president of thei Washington ther =cquaintances. The president shook hands with numerous old friends who crowded aréund him. inrenells Are Said. Alter his escape frem the buadits, he | The President and Mrs Harding paid miade a full statement as to his | farewell o friends and relatives with periences to Mr.. Summerlin. Thi# manifest relactance. Aside from four document. the charge telegraphed, had been placed in the mail for the Statr Department. Pending its ar- #val the department has no detailed fpformationl with regard to Bielask &hduction. = —_— 1. P, KINKAID DIES; i night he we jand there, wi {dropping into old haunts for a ¢ ©poi were {he waiked o I mot again ! section i parade. | fair groun Representative i Y lovaes - febraska Had Been Ill Here Since Last May. M. P. Kinkaid. member of the House | or presentatives frem the slxlh] braska district, died here today. %The death of the Nebraska con- ! &rcssman occurred at Garfield Hospi- €Al here and resulted from a compli- o n of discasee from which he had | brief Been {ll since early in May. Funeralthousand vetel services will be held at O'Neil. Neb., | home. " e cance. leave part Mr., today So long as { American ure, Presi ep 5 { charged “Mr. Kinkaid. who would have com-, than the. Pleted twenty years of continuous gervice in the House next March. re with 2o down except to review y Three trips were made to the Attorney Gener: Alarion late vestefday from Washing- tton Courthouse, !been visiting his mother. who is ill. address re. Reminding thém that they were now Mr. Har@thg t pretty inuch Un arriving Mond nt to his father's home, “h members of his family friends who diopped in for inorth of Hume avenue ecting, he remained much | Where the cars of the Washington and | < who had exp oid days when he was roll downtown, v at, ted. On one occasion > the Star office. but did to the business sterday’s to partieipate in cele- Dauglierty came to Ohio, where he had here, it was‘sdid, was without signifi- Daugherty with planned the presidential Tribute Paid Legion. the American Legion is consecruted to the preservation of the Constitution an law and order, the is everlastingly se Harding asserted in a yesterday to severxl rans who held a. reunion ubl a greater responsibility were on the battlefislds of nce, he dectared the destiny of the nited States was in the hands of contly announced that he would not | former servics me: The Preside: geek re-clection. He was chairman nt started off his last day of the committee on irrigation of arid {2mong the home folks with a morning nds and was author of the Kinkaid [Tound of golf on the new links here, | withQ. S- Rapp, a close Marion friend: as born in Gen. Pershing ‘and Charles G. Dawes, ‘ormer budget bureau director. After ! 3 Tuncheon At the home of G B mmg.‘!\!‘n‘.—"”"" the Commissioners with a Huarding's brother, to a reviewing ctand to witness a parade which_depicted various stages of Mar mestead act. ZRepresentative Kinkaid Aonongalia county, W. Va.. in 1854, here he received his common and | school education. He gradu- n law from the University otl ichigan in 1876, as president of his| oot €ePIC and began the practice of law ; °7L5 history. su Henry county, Ill, shortly there- 3 He moved to Nebraska in 1881 | g, #nd became a member of the Ne-|eve Republica ibraska state senate’ in 1533. He Wwas'The President {¢trcuit judge of the twelfth district |fiomt from 1887 to 1900, and_entered Con- |y; fress from the sixth Nebraska dis-!gign: trict in 1903 r. Kinkaid was a Mason, Odd Fel- aw and Elk. -¥YOMAN, 20, INDICTED ON BIGAMY CHARGE ing_were ‘No Taking Second Husband Be- fore Obtaining Decree. Margaret E. Fahnestock, formerly |, Margaret E. Nash, twenty years old, | ot Alexandria, Va., was indicted to- day by the grand jury on a charge of ®igamy. The young woman was mar- ffed In Washington three years aga @ Roy L. Fahnestock and about one $aar later began a proceeding for a Hmited divorce in Alexandria. With- 6t awaiting the action of the court, &¥en on the request for a limited di- wbrce, it is stated, the young woman, Jbne 17 last, went through a mar- ge ceremony here with Charles Wood. =Two_indictments for grand larceny | copies of the yeere reported today againat Richard | during the & Allen, a law clerk of the Bhipping | % follows: Board. One indictment alleges that !, len stole an automobile from Har- | D}7" R. Burkette April 18 last. aThe other charge relates to an @gtomobile tire, inner tube and rim 1valued at $54.50, and being the prop- 4fty of Blanche I Browning. The s and rim were &tolen May 7. fWhen arrested by Detective Alligood, i€ was stated. Allen offered him $50 dar his relea; “Frank Whalen and Harry Wilson @re indicted jointly on a charge of housebreaking and larceny. They age alleged to have broken into the atpre of Hyman Zirkin June 9 last, =nd to have made away with fur cgats valued at §2,050. ZOthers indicted and the charges| =gainst them are: George Forrest and Georgd Pinkney, grand larceny; pnald and John L. Mel Tiusebreaking, and John T. Hawkins, rbbery. iZ HOOVER NOT MEANT. - “The story 14st night quoted W. H. Jahnston, president of the Interna ttonal Association of Machinists, ui:‘ésu.'fi:o.'.‘::n sikying that the railway exgcutives | AVerae n ) to. understana by’ Secre: | Service. that “our move tow neral strike was a mere bluff. . Johnatén explained today that referred to Chairman Hooper of Rallway Labor Board and not to Sucratary Hoover. Thé similarity of | “{seal. ulmes 1gd to an error. + 2 The_norm One | solemnly " swear RS @ooaneeton, Daily e copies for Dass. & arks was 238 cents each. June Circulation - . 85,506 LEROY W. HERRON, of THE EVENING apa SUNDAY SEAR. Poper pamed month of June, A.D. 1922 Daily average net circulation. Coples. Days. ¢ 18 . etc. Average Sunday net circula. the President went i During & forty-five-minute wait for ithe procession to siart, Mr. and Mrs. serenaded by the Buck: n Glee Club of Columbus. grinned broadly when a passed on which a colonial mother Mklng a cradle placarded with a apper rocked in this. NEW LOW FOR MARK. !G,mnn Money Falls to 100 for P! About 22c. NEW YORI K. July 6.—The price of | the German mark, which has been on | duct complained of is not carried on | Margaret E. Fahnestock Accused of | the toboggan for = today to a new low record. One hun- dred marks were quoted in this market at between 22 and 22% cents. veral weeks, fall , or pre-war, Edition Daily or AR, doen the “actaal number of s0ld and disteibuted . was th 8100 RS NOROBENIE RSt SeRNaRENESena, Less adjustments: Total daily net circulation Dlll 2 average net pald circu- number " “of rvice. etc.. SUNDAY, | Total Sunday not circulation. 381377 paid Sunday bei oF coplen tor o0 on LiROY . HERRON. P . Adrertising Manager. Db ad cwocn to befice e (Y L) " " BLMER ¥. YOUNT, . * Notary. Publle. to ! 84841, WARRIED IN ROCKVILLE. that this ann currying cost, dis- tributed among 75,000,000 passengers a year, would be infignificant. Benefit te Virgini Mr. Clayton also argued that th {proposed extension would be prim ¢ for the benefit of the people zinfa and for the United States gov Officials of the company with him on this plont, v Delief that the people of would be efitted much as the reeidents of Vieginia. | Mr. Clayton then made the legal int’ that under the uthities sct _the commission may only authorize ack | extensions which proinise (o be reason: ! ably compensatory within a reasonable itme. He argued that the_ evidence | does not show this extension across | the bridge.will be such a case. { “He cited the action of the commission {in declining to order extension of gas | mains_to the Conduit road and Ken worth sections and of telephone service o Benniug. { 1tis the plan of the Capital Traction i Company to run through cars across the Géorgetown bridge to a terminus in_ Rosslyn, 0id Dominion and of the Washington- i Virginia railway would be met. CITY POLCETOAD- Co-Operation in Stopping Automobile Custom. Fullest co-operation will be given the park police by members of the Washington pelice force in the ef- | forts of the former under the direc- { of_public -bulldings and grounds, to break up the parking of “spooner” cars along the roads and high in ‘the District of Columblia. iDaniel Sullivan, superintendent olice, has ordered all police of the Washington force to give any co- operation necessary to the park po- |lice. He said he had considered the {matter of discussing the quéstion few to having a regulation adopted which would assfst the local police. Maj. der directing that no cars may be parked in Rock Creek Park after July 24, thereby automatically rid- ding the park of “spooners™ in cars parked along the secluded driveway! of the park. -‘Recently complaints have reached the . police depart. {ment _of . annoxance -- caused by { spooning couples in cars parked along Massachugetts avenue beyond. i Sheridan Circle and in other pilaces in the District of Columbia. Maj. Su livan s: he belleves residents of tie thoroughfares where objectionable ersons park their cars are entitled | to the fullest protection, and the po- lice will do thelr best to give such protection. He said, however, that he thought the objectionable con- jto a great extent. ‘The police department has been waging war on the promicuous park- ing of cars at night on federal reser- yations and elsewhere, Maj. Sullivan said, adding that the fight will be t!earrned on as long as there Is any reason for it. Park police will be given the fullest co-operation, the superintendent sald. If the parking’ laws are obeyed and occupants of the cars deport themselves properly, he .Old &, there is nothing for the police to de. —_———— "MAY CROSS U. S. IN DAY. Kelly Field Flyers Await Author- ity From Air Service Chief. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 6.—Cros: ing the American continent from Jack- one day by airplane will be attempted soon by Lieuts. James H. Doolittle and L. 8. Andrews of Kelly Field, according: to announcement made yesterday at Kelly Field. b the first lap of the coast-to-coast trip by fiying from San Diego to San An- n eleven hours and thirty min- |- Authority from the chief of the air gervice ’i now awaited 1v: MiaKine . one-day flight across the country. Special Dispatch to The Star. "ROCKVILLE, Md., July 6.—Mrs. {Alens A. Hale, forty-five, of Rogers, Ark., and Ulys 8. Vaughn, firty, of | Washington. were married in Rock- ville yesterday by Rev. P Rowland . Wagner, pastor-of the nngd Chutch, ':n the home ‘of the miniater. Aceord- ng to the license book both’were divorcees. B 3 | FOUND UNOONSCIOUS, DIES. Harry 8. Anderson, Afty-two years | old, found unconscious in his rodm at 120 E street yssjerday aftarnoon, was taken to Casualty Hospital, whers h was pronbunced dead. A certificate :s death from natural causes was THE _EVENING STAR 1N “SPOONER” WAR | The presence of-the Attorney General . a F 7 tured. .. Yo 1 {Chief Sullivan Orders FuEI" ere was fome Turiher oot - tlon. “of Col. Sherrill, superintendent: of.j Col. Sherrill recently issued an or-! i *land O'Kelly in Paris. sonville, Fla.,, to San Diego, Calit., in NEW LAW RAISES TAXES 7 PER CENT, DESPITE 52-GENT CUT N RATE ‘Althcugh the new ‘tax’ rate of $1.30 fixed by the Commisslonérs yestérday is 52 cents lower tham laét year's rate, it means an ac- tual [ncrease of about 7°per cent in’the amount of taxes to be paid. This Is due to the provision of the new appropriation law which directs the Commissioners to tax reil estate on'a full value asgess- ment instead of a two-thirds val- ue. as heretofore. 4 : Here Is how the increase wijll oceur: s If'a two-thirds assessment on a home last year was $2,000, the. tax at_last year's rate of $1.82 would | be $30.40. | This year the same house will have to be assessed at full value, which would be th hirds, or \BELIEVE DE VALERA " HAS FLED DUBLIN; " FIRE LOSS HEAVY (Continued from First Page:) Batkville atreet stronghold. R The miaterial loss to:the citizens of Dublin {& Very heavy. ' The value of the bulldings destroyed is estimated iat betwéen £3,000,000 -and £4,000,000, i while the destruction aiso means the {1oss of very large sums in rentals and probably conslderable uhemployment. { According to the Irish Independent. Richard Barton, afterward arrested in the Childefs home, was a participant {in_the Sackville street fighting and { escaped: trom the stronghold with Mr. | De Valers i Women Ameong Prisoners. | Describing yesterday's sutrender, this newspaper notes the remarkable Talbot street and Amiens street, {when the prisoners, including two women, .were marched down the iremoye them to their varfous places !of detention. . Enormous trowds col- |lected- to watch the progress of thc {removal and theré were some dem- |onstrations, especially on the part of the youthful element of both sections. Some of the wmale prisoners were dressed_only in shirts and trousérs }and_looked very battle-worn, as, in- deed, did their escorts. ‘the provisional Free State govern- ment haa instructed the general head- quarters stafl of the volunteer organ- ization to place its entire establishment on an active service basis. ‘The headquariers staff is directing {peal to ali_members to accept service ifor three months. Free State Call lssmed. A dall to arms was issued today b the provisional Free State government tin the form of a proclamation opening itlie way for the enlistment of those citzens who last week were “declined by the government because it weas confident of the ability of the army single-handed to meet and defeat any attack made upon it.” The proclama- tion concludes: “Although the armed conspiracy is !overcome, elements which- seek to substitute the spitit of anarchy for the spirit of order. remain, and may iatiempt to continue to cwrry out acts of brigandage and other acts of in- |terference with the moral and eco- nomic life of the country. Such at- tempts must be summarily and dras- tically dealt with until the person. home and. property .of every law-re- citizen is rendered absolutely | secure. 3 During ~“fighting ‘detween national my- forees and-irregutare at-Muilin- ar today & sergeant major of the fosuiars was Killed and Tour others were wounded. A mumber of the -ir- tivity in Dublin today, and two wom- en were seen attempiing to despoil a jeweler's shop. They fled when dis- {covered and were fired af. { DE VALERA IS ELUSIVE. Whereabouts of RBepublican Leader Puzeles All Correspondents. By the Assoclated Press, LONDON, July 6—Complete mys- tery surrounded the whereabouts of Bamonn De Valera, tae Irish republican {leader, after the surfender of his be- {sleged comrades In Dublin to_the forces of the provisional Free State government. The rumors reachink here from Dublin are almost as varied as the number of correspondents sending them. One declares it is un- known whetiter De Valera is alive, another that he has been wounded afid captured and a third’that he ‘es. cuped on Monday. Yet another apeculation is that he has joined Erskine Childers, who i§ reported to ibile force of fghters in the ills {around Dublin, while elsewhere it is suggeated that he has gone to give the benefit of his counsel to the south- ern republicans centered at Mallow. i “The Daily Mail says it is reported { early- this morning that Eamonn De {Valera has been wounded and cap- i tured by Irish Free State forces. The { newspaper adds that the report s ifar cannot be confirmed. i "The Dublin correspondent of the {Times understands that the Iris labor party has invoked the help of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin in ian effort to end the loss of life and property, and ]nn important confer- may result. e Daily Mail quotes b Red Cross motor driver who arirved at Holy- {heud, Wales, from Dublin, as saying Roty O'Connor, Ifish républican com- {mandant, was dangerously wounded {while defending " he Four _ Courts {building, whers he wi R0, 9¢'Ta aieo reported tha Swiney, of Terence Mac- Bwiney, late lord mayor of Cork, to- | gether with a sister of Koven Barty, en_arrested. . ra o Brien and Sean O'Kelly, who were arrested in Dublin by the pro- visjonal Free State government Tues- :;rym:lg'nt‘é an Exchange Telegraph dispatch. They were formerly.forelgn representatives of the dail -eireanm, O'Brien being stationed .In. London " Mrs. Mac: FREE STATERS CAPTURED. Republicans Then Agree to Btop Fighting at Once. By the Asspeiated Press. CORK, July G—An offieial state. ment {ssued by the republican he quarters at Mellowes: says ‘the re e staters to ~TTé two Army fiyers are now at Jack- | publicans forced the fred sonville, Barly in May they completed] surrender the Skibbereen barracks on Tuesday after which an agresment was signed. by the rival commanders 1 ties should ceass once. m;: ‘);::n:l‘ ::a that the free staters ighould hand over their rifies and am- Imunition to the republicans, the lat- promising not to use thém against [the free staters, “but to return them A the-event of & NEht with:the com: mon enemy.” - i ¥ RATLWAY SERVICE ORENED. :mnengm Allowed to Enter Dub- lin From l_lorih_. ,F-ly the Associated Press. BELFAST, July -6—Railway com- “munication between Dublin and Bel- fast was re-established today. Pas- ]senten from the north were allowed | | Dublin without permits, but ’:ll:tn:; Pass & must be obtained if .the persons thus admitted desire to leave Dublin again. . National army troops descended the Ballyjamesduff district, in g:n" Vavan, today and made many arrests, . The -prisoness. tak scenes that followed in Earl ""“'I streets to the armored carg ready to! {officers commandiny local units to ap- { be at the head of a mo- | captured June | have been relsaned,' nc- | 33,000, and the tax at the new ‘rate of $1.30 will be 339. & . In the case of personai tix on tangible property. however, the property owners will enjoy a re- ductlon, for .the reéason that sach property has always been ansessed | at full value, and consequently will not have the reduced rate of $1.30 offset by & higher assess- ment. . For instance, an automoblle as- sessed last year for $1,000 as full value_will have :the same basis of. Agscssment this year. Last year a rate of $1.82 made the tax on such ,&n automobile $18.20. This year the rate of $1.30 will make the o] | tax $13. Intangibie.. personal . property, 1lke .real estate, will bring in higher taxes this ar, because Conrress itself increased the rate on that class of property, such as stocks” and bonds, from three- enths of 1 per cen FISCAL PROPOSAL GIVEN CONGRESS (Continued from First Page.) with the “joint congressional cem- mittee in having the question ndjudi- cated Jn a calm and thoughtful, busineas-like way, unrufed by par- !unn bickering. | In ordér to assist the committee |In_avoiding any appearahce of hav- Ing’ gtanted a hearing, Mr.. Colladay sent his létter to Chairman Phipps, tasking that the citizens' joint com- mittee might be allowed to file a brief, .and be allowed to have an | auditor rerruonnng them observe the work of auditors for the congres- slonal committee. There is 8trong probability that the | inveatigating committee wlil ~allow the brief to be filed, and will with- hold its decision until later re- | #arding an auditorial vise—carrying fout its purpoee to avold contro- versy. { In his letter to Chairman Phipps i Mr. Colladay safd: | _“Referting to my conference with ou yesterday and your expressed de- ite ‘to limit the worl of your eom- mittee at its session today to a con- ! ference “with the Commissioners of | the District of Columbia and the offi- | clal representatives of the Treasury | Department and the Department of ) Justice. leaving conference with the i representatives of citizens and tax- payers organizations to a later dale. | T have the honor to request that this !letter be presented by you 1o “the joint congreesional committee, in ses- alon today, as an entry of appear- ance.of the citizens' joint committee, and that leave be granted our com- mittee as follows: 1. Leave to file a brief. 2. "Leaveé {o, from time to time, ob- | serve the work of the auditors and accountants in the service of your committee.” OmMmcial Representative. The Commissioners will ask to have an officer of the District government | represent them during the investixa- tion into the surplus revenues of the {city, it waa learned at the District | building today. The request probably | Wil be made when the city heads go to the Capitol this afternoon to con- fer with the members of the joint; | committee. It is understood that Maj. Daniel J. Diatrict auditor, {s the man fathers have In mind as bes qualified to represent the municipality. The District Commissioners do not jbelleve there Is any question of the legitimacy of the city's claim to about $4.650,000 of surplus revenues, which have accumulated chiefly because dur- ing the war period District appropria- tion bills were not made large enough 1to use up all of the tax money col-| lected by the IGcal goernment. | Commissioner—-Rudolpk—said - todry{ that, as he views the situation, the task of the Investigating.committee fshould- resolve itself into one of de- | termining . whetber the federal gov-j| ornment has any claims against the| surplus. { The outcome of the probe will have | a far-reaching effect on the tax bur-; |den of the property owners of Wash- ington. 3 I Ralsing of Surplus. Congress, In the appropriation act for this fiscal year, has decreed that| the city government shall raise with- | in five ycars a.surplus suffcient to put the government on a pay-as-you- !go basis by 1927. H ! Auditor ' Donovan has’ determined ithat to oafry out this direction of Congress the’ city must raise $3,000,~ iflo()‘ at the rate of $600,000 a year. If, s a resuit-of this inquiry, Con- {@ress should recognize the District's iclaim to. the more than four milllon | |of surplus funds now in the Treasury, | Ithe necessity for raiting a new sur-| {plus of $3,000,000 within five years; would be removed. This, in turn, would reduce by that amount the city’s tax dburdea. i In discussing the proposal to ask the joint committee to allow the {municipality representation durin Ithe investigation. one of the Com: imissioners pointed out that the fed- eral government Is to be represented by an officer of the Department of; Justice. ———— SEEKS HEAVIER SENTENCE FOR SLAYER OF PREMIER Public Procurator in Japan Roused by Criticism of Foreign Lan- suage Newspaper: | By the Astociated Prees. TOKIO, July G.--The sentence of Konichi“Nakaoka, slayer of Prefier Hara, to an indefinite prison sentence, instead of belng placed behind the { bars for life or being executed, caused one_ foreign language newspaper of | jTokio to “label thé court's action a i “practieal condonation of Hara's as- | saxsination™ and has rou: the pan lic procurator to seek an appeal. Despite the public procurator's ac- tion in seeking an appeal from the igentence, which he believes too mild, | the majority of the vernacular-news- I papers consider the court's judgment | reasonable ‘and falr. The court had considered the pris- joner unbalanced mentally and easily influénced. = — {ASKS TO LEASE RAILROAD, Ford Would Acquire Tracks to « - Get -Coal. ! By the Ashocipted Press. Sl DETROIT, Mich, July 6.—~Henry | Ford has.offered to leans that part of | the Louisville and Nashville raiiroad | ]uunam: between Panner fork and | Corbin, Ky., and-from Cordin to Cin. | cinnati, and opérate it with the pres- | ent fotce of rallway employes ‘“in | nrdleg that coal. may be moved to De. ot made the offer to the Prnmem of the Loujsville and Nashville after the e ey 2l g t wWas un 0 \ve 8, Cal coaT "Consigned 2o Datrolt (AStHGL becauss of labor troubies. l The banner Fork-dranch 18 the gol. carrying division of the railroad. - Mr. Ford's offer included the taking over of the railroad's eqiipment on this-branch under the proposed lease, conveyed to the free state barracks ni! the town of cavan. The affair was (e i seque! 6f a raid by insurgents on tuc Ballyjamesduft barracks Monday.. A Tallway wreck ing crew proceed- ing. todAy to repair the dJdamaged bridge becween Dundalk and 8- heda ran into & miniaturs battle that was prooseding between fres and republican inkurgents who "D, ¢, THURSDAY, JULY 6 1922, AST: CHANCE TO CHANGE |MAYOR DEMANDS JOB iTennesges Central shops. of the Conneligville region h: I'strike. - i fects about fort: 110,000 tons of. coal i fell more than 30 per {condition. It became known Mr. Word | PROPOSALS ON SHOALS Letters Will Be Sent to Bidders Inviting Them to Appear . Here July 13. A final opportunity to offer further modifications to their proposals for dovelopment and operation—of the fovernment’s power and nitrate proj- ects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., will bei iven to ull bidders whose ofters Rave Deen considered by the Senate sgricultural -committes, - Chairman Norris announced today After an executive meeting of the committee, Chairman Norris said let- | ters. wohild be sent to the: bidders| inviting them to appear at a meetl: called at his home here on Thlln-‘ Qey evening, July 13. it was the committee’s intention, Chairman Norris sald, to interview sgain the variousybiddcrs or their ) representatives before it proceeded with sctual preparation of recom- mendations to be submitted to the] Senate. 4 e e | IN RAILROAD STRIKE (Continued from First Page.) tl 11 1 of the strike occurred in the south. At Alglers, - across the Mississippi river from New Orleans, clashes oc- curred hetween striking shopmen and guards for the Southern Pacific. One man was shot. At Nashville, Tenn.. a striking ma- chinist was arrested, charged with| attempt to murder a Worker In the %! Railroads, for the most part, an- nounced passenger and freight traf- fic still to be unhampered. The Chi- cago and Northwestern withdrew a few short-run trains. One of the traine annulled formerly ran between Amts and Boone, lowa. Two regular freight trains bétween Cedar Raplds and Clinton will be run“cvery other day, officials announced. Report Many at Work. At 'St. Paul, ralroad oficials an- nounced that 30 per cent of the men n the Omaha shops had returned to work. The Great Northern reportad 213 men at work in St. Paul, ofcials declaring that many of them did not quit last Saturda; The Northern Pacific reported fifty still at work. An official statement from the Nor- folk and estern general office at Roanoke, Va., said that fewer than 100 of the 800 clerks struck in -re- sponse to an unauthorized strike cail issued by C. B. Lane, general chair- man of the clerks. Williag to Grasp Olive Bramch. A strong willingness to grasp the olive branch of peace was expgessed today by Mr. Jewell. Several ol the ratiroads entering Chicago today reported that a mae Jority of the men atill wers out on strike. Officials of a number of the roads announced that after July 10 the men who did not return to their work would lose seniority rights and would be taken back only as new em- ployes. The report foilows: be- | 1, vi Chicago and Northwestern, tween 7,000 and 8,000 men out on strike; Tliinois Central, 60 per cent at work: Santa Fe, 3,500 out of a total of 16,000 at work: Burlington, 1,409 out of a total of 15,000 at worl Rock Island, 8,000 out on strik: Southern Pacific. 50 per cent out; Unlon Pacific, 7§ per cent out. PLAN COMMISSARIES. Wives of New York Strikers Ar- range to Feed Depsndents. By the Astociated Press. W YORK. July 6.—Wives of strik- ing_railtoad shopmen in the Bronx made plans today to open commissaries to feed thie strikers and their dependents. LA woman's auxiliary of female rela- tives of the strikers at the Nest ¥NoPE of the Néw York. New HaVen and {Hartford railroad, was formed, with Mrs. H. Frank as president. The com- iminsaries will be operated in connection with co-operative shops alreadys main- tained by the Van Nest shopmen. PENNSY SETS TIME LIMIT. Men Must Return by Noon Mon- day or Be Marked Out. By the Associated Press, PITTSBURGH, Pa., July €.—S8trik- ing shopmen of the central region, Pennsylvania railroad system, were today notified that unless they re- turned to work by noon next Mon. day, and “re accepted,” they would be marked “out of the service. More - than 300 men to replace | jstrikers at the Glenwood shops of the Baltimore And Ohio Railroad Com- pany have been brought into the city, E. Peck, general superintendent, today announced. “Conditions are very much improved in this section,’ he added. At Connellsville, Pa., M; Peck said, new men were taking the places of striking shopmen. He termed conditions there “‘very good.' Officials of che Pittsburgh and Lake ; Erle road reported “so few of our men are out that wé scarcely know there is a strik N. P. Good, representing the shop- men's union, said there had been no defections from the strikers’ ranks. OOAL SHIPMENTS STOP. Lack of Cars Affects Forty Min in Smithfield Ooke District. By the Astociated Press. UNIONTOWN, Pa. July 7.—Coal shipments from the Smithfield rac- tically ceased because of the strike of railroad chopmen Accordlns ports from BaMimore and Ohio of- clals and operators here today. Smithfield. district is-one of the hw] sections of the -great coke region which was unaffected by the miners’ The present suspension af- mines. Last Friday 180 cats, carrying about ! were sent out of | the district. By Monday the shipments | ent, and yester- | left the region. | was_the chuse, day only a few ca: “Lack of facllities’ ralisoad officials eaid. - They saded || that shop workers from other points ‘were being rushed to the Connellsville region in an effort to get the cars in informed him | - coat and resume work where he [LIBERTY AND FRIENDSHIP Everlasting Relationship Desire of | Connecticut avenue B the Associated Press. hat the Philippines soon will perpetual bers of the Philippine parliamentary | Connecticut Avenue Citizens' Asgsoci- commission at a dinner them by _ the Chamber of Commerce here last night. { ground trackage now in preference to ‘The party is en route to Vancouver after presenting with a petition for the Independence | spending $i0.000 in moving the of the Philippines. they also }Mn in authority to serve the PFilipinos in their best manner. home with the picture of hav best earth. | “COALS TO NEWCASTLE.” |iven int iracic churia, country of the east, has been import- | From the Louisville C ink ued at shipped from Kobe and Osaka since Kovember last to Manchurian porte. looked for pared cake were shipped out in as- SUBWAY OPPOSED_ HTCAVERTBRIGE Hanna Declares Project Would Delay Reduction of Car Fares. Extension of the underground system of trackage at this time wouid tend to postpone the day whe: the rate of car fare can be further reduced, John H. Hanna, vice president of the Capital Traction Company told the Public Util- | ities Commission tod: He made the statement during a hear- ing on the quefition of whether the Cap- ital Traction Company should build un- derground construction at this time o1 from the Calver bridge to Newark street, or whether i jshould merely remove the dungerous trolley poles from the center of the track and place them at either curb. Mr. Hanna testified that underground trackage over that area would c 6. — Confidence | the neighborhood of $325,000, whereas be | the company can remove the trolley pole '6¢ and that friendship between the | menace by placing the poles at the curb ands and the United States will be | for $40,600. f was expressed by mem-| J. P. Crawford. appearing for th BACK AFTER GIVING UP REINS TO SUCCESSOR By thie Associated Pré: YOUNGSTOWN, Ohlo, July 6.— Despite City Solicitor Jesse Leign- ninger’s unofficial ruling that Wil- liam B. Reese is mayor of Youngs- town and George L. Oles' resig- nation stands, Oles announced this morning that he would go to the mayor's office today, take off his 1eft off last Friday nigit, when he turned in his resignation. “I'm _still mayor and I'm going to work at the job,” Oles declared this morning. “I may yet have to let the court reinstate me,” he said. —— OF U. S., FILIPINO AIM Island Folk, Declares Presi- dent of Senate. NEW YORK, July tendered | ation, urged the commission to com- Philippine-American | pel the company to build the under- | merely moving the pole: Harding | He said he could see no reascn fo poles and in two vears from now scrap Manuel L. Quezon, prezident of the | ping those poles for the undergrourd hilippine senate, said that while the | system. ilipinos want their independence,! At this point Mr. Hanna interrupt want u relationship with!ed to explain that out of the $40.000 country that shall be everlast-{only $2,500 would be wasted, the Lal- He said he found that all those | ance being spent to put the high- at Washington “want|tension feed wires underground at this time. This work. he said, wouln not have to be duplicated when th: time comes for building under- ground _construction. Mr. Crawford deait &t length upon | the serious situation existing on Con- {necticut avenue with trolley poles be- President and that he was “golng & the | triend that we could have on| OBAKA. Japan, the great June 12—Man- | bean produoing | Enough of Communism. jer-Journal “What cured that parior socialist e inherited money.” Weli? “And had to divide with his lawyer bean cake from Japan. more than | 600,000 tone of this commodity, val- | 180,000.000 yen. having been This “sending of coals to New-, arose through this eur’'s | i crop. baving been . over: | Getting Even. mated. A’large crop having been | From the Boston Transcript. large amounts of pre-| Hub (after the spat)—I suppose arc going home to your mother's. Wife. No, I'm not. I'm_ going nce orders. The crop being poor, | o Manchurta has had to send to Japan ' the most expensive hotel I can find for bean cake for her own uses. ‘and have them send You the bill. EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. Bet. F and G Sts. A Sale of Genuine Palm Beach Suits $9.85 Regular $12 to $15 values. In plain gray, tan, sand and light green. Regulars, shorts, stouts, slims. The biggest values in town. while the assortments are complete. Come at once, to Follow The Living Room Fireplace IN A Shannon & Luchs HOME In Their Intown Suburb 14th Street Terrace Landlords can'’t put this touch of realnéss in your Home Life. Their dealings with you must be based on return. It remains for you to decide HOW LONG you are going to put up with living the way you are as a tenant. R With a moderate cash payment we are sell- ing . wonderful Homes here on monthly pay- ments about the ssme as you pay rent for poor flats. ‘Why Put Off? To . Inspect Take 14th $t. car o corner of Jefferson St. N.W. Sample homes at various prices open until 9.