Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. ‘ Fale tonight and tos much change in temperature; lowest tonight about freesing. for twenty-four hours ended at 3 tod, Higheat, b1, at terday. Lowest, 32, at 6 t — Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 morrow: not Temperature pm. 0 p.m. 0 a.m. t No. 28,794, Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington, D, C. CITIZENS BATILE BANDITS CAUGHT DYNAMITING SAF Many Shots Exchanged as Robbers Escape From Ber- ryville, Va., Post Office. FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS WITH POSSES IN PURSUIT xplosion Rocks Building—Only $14 in Stamps and $5 in Cash Is Taken. - pecial Dispateh to The Star HAGERSTOWN. Md. Mareh L— osses were scouring the mountains fu this section this morning in search ©f four armed bandits who dynamit- £d the safe in the post office at Ber- yyville, Va, this morning at 3 o'clock ‘mnd then fought two battles With rmed citizens and the authorities be- ¥ore making their escape to the hills gomewhere near Leesburg. Explosion Rocks Bullding. The terrific explosion which shook the building aroused Miss Betty Les- ser telephone operator in the ex- change on_the second floor of the yost office building, and she gave the mlarm. Charles M. Fellner, former yolice sergeant, residing across the rtreet from the post office, rushed to the window when notified and fired at one of the robbers who stood guard at the post office entrance. This rob- ber is believed to have been wounded after he returned the fire. Three men, & few minutes after Fellner gave the alarm, fled from the | bullding and up an alley, where a high-powered automobile had been Lield ready for their escape. By this time scores of citizens, in- cluding police authorities, had been aroused, and, heavily armed, rushed | 10 the center of the town. 100 Shots Exchnnged. The three robbers who had been working in the post office, when they heard the firing, escaped from the kide window. After they reached their automobile they discovered they had left behind them one of their members. The car was then driven through the center of the town and the stranded member picked up. About 100 shots were exchanged between the armed citizens and the bandits as tho automobile sped out the pike toward the Shenandoah river. Most of the money in the post office safe had been taken to the bank last ntght, and all the robbers got for their trouble was $1# in stamps and $5 in cash. AO0DRIDGE LEADS N LETTER BIES Woodridge community and its post- ! a) sation led the District today in equipment of homes with letter boxes at the front door. or mail slots inj doors, on the first day of the enforce- | nt of the “no box—no mail” oider. “hile city letter carriers upon the| m delivery today began stopping ivery of mail to homes without h_equipment, it developed that the odridge community had but three | mies out of 1,097 houscholds without 1ail boxes at the front doors. Supt. Edward W. Turner of the Woodridge postal station reported this fact to City Postmaster. Chance 4t a meeting of station euperintend- ents today to consider ways and means of handling the mail for the approximately 5000 houses that had failed to meet the requirements of the Post Office Department. Mail Held at P. O. Supt. Turner said that by tonight e community served by his office would be 100 per cent perfect, as all three households without boxes had promised to put them up. before lightfall. Carriers had no trouble today mfk- ing the first morning dellve as wsual to all homes, whether with or without mail boxef, bLut passing fhe 20x1 by on the noon de- livery. As the ecarriers were mnot given the mail for such homes on the sec- ond delivery. and will not be given any mail these howes until the residents notify the postmaster, that they hove complied with the ' new regulation, the letter carrlers have no «h in the matter of passing by such houses. They simply have no meil to deliver, and it will do no good for any one to rail at them. Tpou the first delivery today car- rs left notices, as printed in The r yesterday, informing _such householders as had not placed hoxes that their mail is being held for them either at the main city post office or at a nearer substation. Tt is believed that the inconvenience of going to a post office for one's mail, while one’s neighbor gets his at home, simply through having an in- expensive box at his door, will finally drive those who have not provided boxes into doing so. Many Put Up Boxes. A few dave' experience, it is be- lieved by officiale, will prove to the satisfaction of any one that it is much easfer and much better all around to put up a box t a slot in the front door. By nightfall the number of homes without mail boxes is expected to be cut down to a minimum, as carrlers reported today that hundreds of boxes were seen going into position today. s homes European Cities Bogus U. BY WILLIAM SH. ¢ Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. WARSAW, March 1.— Coincident th the arrest of counterfelters in W York, police officials here bave :en energetic steps toward the ap- henslon of malefactors belonging the same band llving in Holland. old man named Iglijicki, who ars a fine white beard and resem- »s a former Russian governor of warsaw, is alleged to be the leader of the band. It has been discovered that his cons are implicated in the crime. Accomplices aid in the work by circu- lating the bogus money-in- Danzig . | ognition of the Iriskr republic. | these occasions his eloguence was at f House Grieves Over His Death /fimzwmo P W. BOURKE COCKRAN. BOURKE GOCKRA DIES SUDDENLY New York Representative Victim of Apoplexy This ! Morning. i 169 YEARS’ OLD YESTERDAY Spent Active Day on Floor of House and Made Spirited Speech. Representative W. Bourke Cockran, democrat, New York, died suddenly today. Mr. Cochran, who celebrated his sixty- ninth birthday anniversary yesterday, became {1l last night and died early to- | day. He was on the floor of the House last night and made a spirited speech in oppositon to the pending farm credits bill. Mr. Cockran's death, which cceur- Ired at 7:10 o'clock, came as an im- mediate result of a stroke of apoplexy, it was sald at his home. A native of Ireland, educated in France and the United States .and actiye for many years in the legall profession and in politics, Mr. Cock- ran was one of the picturesque forces in American public life. He was an orator of the old school, endowed with a remarkable voice and with a de- livery and diction that long ago won him a place among the most eloquent orators of the country. In politics Mf. Cockran was a wheel- horse of Tammany Hall, whose bat- tles he fought in New York and else- where on many occasions. At the lagt democratic national convention | at San Francisco he made the speech nominating Gov, Al Smith for the| presidency, an oratorical effort which rried the convention®into a pro- longed demonstration savoring of old- time “revival, meeting” politics. He also addressed the convention in favor of a plan indorsing the manu- facture of light wines and beer. Urged Irish Freedom. In recent years he had devoted much attention to the fight for Irish freedom, appearing before congres- sional committees and on the public platform prior to organization of the Free State to plead for American rec- on its best as he recounted, from per- sonal observation, the privations of the poorer class in Ireland, from which he Sprung. Mr. Cockran first was elected to the House of Representatives for a term in 1887. He came hack In 1891 for !two more terms, but in 1896 he de- ed to follow 'the free silver ban- ner of William Jennings Bryan, broke with his national party organization and left Congress. He returned to | the party in 1800, when he campaign- ed for Bryvan, and in 1904 he was again elected to the House. This time he remained there for five years, at the end of which time he declined to become a candidate for re-election. In 1420, however, he elded to the lure of the parliamentary give- and-take he loved so well, and was again elected to a seat in the House, He was re-elected last November. Apparently in Good Health, He had been especially active dur- ing the present session of Congress and had planned a trip to Europe this | summer. Until a few days ago he ap- parently had been in perfect health. Although he liked to take part in debate, and had raised his voice in many recent discussions on the House floor, Mr. Cockran was not a seeker after committee honors. His only committee assignment in the present Congress _was as a member of the. foreign affairs committee, but in that capacity he found an opportunity to study and influence action on most of the questions of forelgn poifcy with which the House has had deal. An unrelenting foe of ‘the prohibi- tion amendment and the Volstead act, Mr. Cockran never lost an oppor- tunity to denounce what he term thelr_ “Invasion ©f personal libert Often on the House floor he would in (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Flooded With S. Bills Made in Russia and other places. Dollar bills are being manufac- tured by the wholesale in sou Russia, ‘it is said, and $10 méhi% bills, bearing the signature of Gus. tave Glass or Jean Buschke, are sent into Poland from the city of Kovno and then circulated from the head. quarters here through Germany and the United States. Jewish newspa. pers in Warsaw published full par. ticulars: today about the counter- feiting gang, which is declared to {have ~issued 81,000,000 worth of bogus greenbacks. American paper money has come into use in Poland to pay for com- modities like furs, jewels and auto- lnmbflo vlb;hlch !w::lll?l o ‘l ridicu- ous number of ons if bought Sith Polish marke. @) WASHINGTON i { I | | | doubt but that ENGLAND AROUSED BY CHALLENGE OF HARVEY ON DEBT Officials Displeased by Dec- laration U. S. Loans to Al-~ lies Were Not Guaranteed. REMARKS ARE REGARDED AS UNUSUAL FOR ENVOY e American Ambassador’s Discussion of War-Time Obligations Stirs Criticism. Ry the Associated Press. LONDON, March 1.—Ambassador Harvey's speech of last night, in which he discussed the underlying causes and the nature of Great Brit- ain’s war indebtedness to the United States evoked expressions of displeas- ure in British official circles today, and gives indications of causing con- slderable discussion, The foreign office declined to com- ment on the address, but it is relia- bly stated that Ambassador Harvey's remarks, particularly when, as the case was put, he virtually challenged the British government to issue a statement refuting the Balfour note of last August, were considered to be | unusual for a foreign env Ambassador Harvey's assertion that Great Britain had not been asked to guarantee and never did guarantee “the payment of a single dollar loaned by the United States for the use of any cou try other than Great Britain herself” stood out today as one of the note- worthy utterances of his address at the Pilgrims’ dinner last evening. Col. Harvey quoted from the Balfour note of last August the phrase: “Under the agreement arrived at the United States insisted. in substance, it not in form, that though our allies were to spend the mouey it was only on our security that they were pre- pared to lend it 4 The ambassador said he did not the British govern- ment would “with equal formality and no less explicitness remove the mil apprehension created by this unfor- tunate allusion.” Notables at Banquet. The dinner was glven in honor of Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the exchequer, who headed the recent financial mission to Washington. Mr. Harvey said that the United States did not intend to ruin the credit of any other country by canceling.its debts, Recalling_ the conditions under which the British debt had been in- curred, he sald that 90 per cent of the sixty million persons in the United States who contributed to the great war loans were of British descent. This fact, he said, surely implied that if the Americans had thought they were aiding exclusivel. although indirectly, the other alll through the British government, th money could not have been raised. The Prince of Wales surprised the Pilgrims by dropping in unexpected- ly. He is a member of the Pilgrims, and he explained he did not want to make a speech or be toasted, but came simply as a member to hear the speeches and to have dinner. This was the first public dinner the Prince of Wales attended since his Indian tour; he Is getting plenty of American _atmosphere, which ap- arently he likes, as tonight he will e’ the “guest of honor and. principal speaker at the American University Union dinner. Others_at_the dinner included the Duke of Devonshire, the Brazilian ambassador, Dr. Harry Garfleld, Vis- count Peel, SIr Roberf Stevenson Horne, Sir Phillip Lloyd-Graeme, Vi count 'Davenport, Sir Hamar Gree wood, _Sir Laming _Worthington- Evans, Capt. Charles L. Hussey, naval attache of the American embassy, and Robert P. Skinner, the American con- sul general at London. Text of Speeches. Ambassador George Harvey said: “We have met to celebrate a great achievement; I do not think I exag- gerate when I pronounce it the first conclusive settlement of a really V! tal world problem since the armistic It involves far more than the grea est_financial transaction reported in (Continued on Page 12, Column 1.) OFFIGER SNATCHES GIRL ASMOB IS HELD AT BAY Her From Arms Husband on Order of Court. Seizes of Special Dispatch 1o The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 1.— Snatched from the arms of her hui- band, Mary Marinkovic, girl-wife, was hurried away to Baltimore this morning by Deputy Sheriff §. E. Grayson, while an angry mob of sev- eral hundred was held at bay by court officials. The young wife, about fifteen years of age, had been in court with her husband who was charged with *ar- jury in connection with the marr - <e. When the father of the girl tesi that he did fiot know how old girl was the court ordered the dismissed. Happy the newly married co left the courtroom amid the gratulations of their scores | friends. There were just leaving tus building when Deputy Sheriff Gray- son foreibly took the girl away. The husband put up a fight, in which he was backed by his friends. Court officials rushed to the ald of Gray- son, who barely succeeded In pulling the' girl to the walting auto and speeding away. The deputy sherif” was acting under orders of ventle court in _Baltimore, .. the girl is wanted for escaping 1 om the House of Good Shepherd, to which place she had been sentenced for incorrigi- bility. ! —_—— SIX BURNED TO DEATH IN BLAST ON U. S. SHIP By the Associated Press, MANILA, March 1—Six _enlisted men on the United States destroyer Hulbert ~* *“a ’ datic burned u explosion in the boller sed_by flare- baok of ofl. ~4T8 ‘were injured. T / £ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, THURSDAY, ROBBED OF 5200 ONTRAI HESYS New York Real Estate Man Alleges He Put Big Roll tnder Pillow. TWO PERSONS SUSPECTED Mystery Deepens When Victim Fails to Go to Hotel He Men- tioned to Detective. While he slept on a train roiling from New York to Washington, Louis Fichandler, 56 West 111th street, New York, was robbed of-$62,000 in cash, which he put under his pillow last night shortly after midnight, so he reported to Detective J. T. Newkirk of the local detective force when the train arrived here shortly after 1 o'clock thls morning. Fichandler could give little aid to the police which would help them in finding the thief. The car was a through one of the Seaboard Air line from New York to the south, and was flled with through passengers. The porter and Pullman conductor were questioned a5 to whether they saw apny strangers moving about the car at night, but they could not aid. Railroad detectives boarded the train here and will proceed to its destination. Suspicion was directed at two indi viduals in the car, and telegrams have been sent ahead to various po- lice departments along the line to be ready to assist the railroad detectives in the investigation. Not Found at Hotel. When Mr. Fichandler reported his Joss, he informed Detective Newkirk that he was going to the Capitol Park Hotel to remain until an investigation here was completed. Several inqui- ries there In person and by telephone elicited the Information that no such party was a guest there. Detective Newkirk said that Mr. Fichandler informed him that he pur- chased his ticket early in the even- ing in New York, He boarded the train at 12:45 o'clock this morning and immediately went to his berth. He had with him in one roll, he said, fifty-seven 1,000-dollar bills and ten 500-dollar bills. These he placed under his pillow and placed a hand- kerchief over them. Mr. Fichandler informed the police that he was in the real estate busi- ness, was en route to Savannah, Ga., to negotiate for some real estate and was carrying the money to pay for it. He was not awakened during the night, and did not discover his loss until he arose this morning shortly before the train pulled into the Union Station here. —_— REPORTS RAVORABLY ON U. S. HOTELS BILL A favorable report was ordered by the House committee on public build- ings and grounds today on the bill authorizing the President to lease land and pay rental to the Baltimore and ©Ohio Railroad Company. from the rev- enues of the government hotels at Union Station plaza. The committee wlso considered the bill to establish MARCH 1, 7, - < \WELCOME, s HRICE 3 WeLCOE- CAME IN FINE, Chaplin Too Poor To Marry Pola Now, He’s Quoted By the Awsociated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif.. March 1.— Charles Chaplin, film comedian. is “t00 poor” to marry Pola Negri, film tragadienne “just now,” the Los Angeles Examiner quoted him today. The Examiner anticipated that midsummer was apt to be upon the couple, whose engage- ment recently was officially an- nounced at Del Monte, California, before they are married. “I am too poor to get married just now,” said Chaplin. “This is a working world and we've all got to stay busy and co-operate and keep away from climaxes of sen- timent.” CLASSIFYING BILL ' CAUSE OF CLASH Senator Sterling Will Seek Consideration of Measure Later in Day. ANYHOW! A effort to get the reclassification bill before the Senate for consideration will be made later today by Senator Sterling, chairman of the civil service committee Early in the session today Senator Curtis, the republican whip, proposed a unanimous consent agreement where- by. following the vote on the so-called filled milk bill at 5 o'clock this after- noon, the Senate would hold an execu- tive session and then tonight would hold a session for the consideration of unobjected bills on the calendar. Senator Sterling Objects. Senator Sterling promptly interpos- ed an objection, declaring that in his opinion the reclassification bill should be given consideration today and that it was more important than any other bill now on the calendar. Senator McCormick of Illinois, re- publican, and Senator King of Utah, democrat, demurred to this statement. Senator McCormick said that in his opinion the proposed constitutional amendment. giving Congress the power to prohibit child labor, was more important. He said he would move to take up that measure. Sena- tor King, on the other hand, insisted that the President’s proposal that the United Sgates take part in the world court was more important than either one of the other proposals. Tnsists on Objections. Senator Sterling insisted, however, upon his objectcion to the unanimous consent agreement proposed by Sen- ator Curtis. It is the plan of Senator Sterling, if there is a lull this after- noon in the debate on the filled milk bill, to ask to have that bill tem- porarily laid aside, until it is time to vote on it, at § o'clock, 50 that the reclassification bill may be taken up. If this is not feasible, after the vote on the filled milk bill Senator Ster- ling will move to take up the reclag- sification bill and make it the un- finished business of the Senate. It is realized by the supporters of the reclassification measure that un- lless action can be had on it very soon, there will be no chance of its becoming a law before the adjourn- ment of Congress. President Har- ding has expressed to Senator Ster- 1ing and to Senator Smoot his desire tional conservatory of music in|to this legislation put through, &glfl ut took no action upon it. ! it possibl Beginning in “The House of Mohun” - By George Gibbs A Big Stofy by a Leading Author A story with every into the making of real high-class fiction. Beginning on Page 37 of Today’s Star .Today’s Star element which goes ¢ Foening Sfar, | Yesterday's Net Circulation, 96,731 1923—FORTY-TWO PAGES. = BIDS T0 BE OPENED FOR MUCH PAVING $500,000 of Concrete Work to Be Let at Once—Funds Now Available. FOUR MONTHS GAINED Change in System Permits Con- struction in Spring—May Com- plete Program by Fall. Bids for approximately $300,000 worth of eoncrete gtreet paving will be opened by the District Commis- sioners this afternoon, For the first time the District ap- propriation act provides that money for street work shall be available im- | mediately upon approval of the act, which means that the engineer de- par!meqt will not lose the four months of good weather that will be i enjoyed between now and July 1. In previous years the money was not available until July 1, no matter how | early the appropriation act was passed, with the result that the con- struction work ran into the follow- | ing winter. May Complete Work by Fall. Engineer Commissioner Keller, who | was instrumental in obtaining author- ity to spend the money promptly, pointed out today that it will be pos- sible to complete by November 1 all of the new paving projects provided for in the recently enacted appropria- tion bill. A feature of the bids to be opened today is that a seven-inch concrete roadway is called for on the follow- ing main arteries: Connecticut avenue between Porter and Tilden streets; Connecticut ave- nue between Van Ness and Fessen. den streets; Rhode Island avenue northeast, 16th street to the District line; Bladensburg road northeast, L street northward and Nichols avenue southeast, from the end of present n‘ghall: to uParlllnd street. Nearly all of the concrete e heretofore paved have heen"e::: inches. The addition of an inch on the heavily traveled highway is ex- pected to add greatly to the life and durability of the pavement. Other Streets to Be Paved. The “other streets that are to be paved with concrete, under the bids now being received, are: Alton place between 38th and 39th; Spring and| Perry place, from 16th street east- ward; Spring road, 14th to 16th; 13th street, Spring road to Shepherd; Shepherd street, 14th street west. ward; 13th street, Hamilton to Jeffer- son; Ingraham, 'Georgia avenue to 13th; Jefferson street, Georgia ave- nue to 13th; Ingraham street, 8th to 9th; Crittenden street, Georgla ave- nue to 8th; Sth streei, Buchanan to Crittenden;’ Buchanan,” Georgia ave- nue to Sth; 8th stfeet, Buchanan to Crittenden:” 7th streef, Varnum to Webster; Varnum street, Grant Circle to 4th street; 4th street, Varnum to Upshur; Ascot place northeast, 2d to 3d; 3d street northeast, Adams to Bryant; Taylor street northeast, 10th to 12th; Sigsbee place northeast, 10th to 12th; Shepherd street northeast, 10th to’ 12th; Kenyon street north- west, Mount Pleasant to 18th street, and Kansas avenue, Quincy to Shep- herd street. This program represents a total of iproposed would consist of twelve “in- 1000 each and their number would be | iake advances to producers of liv 140,160 square yards of concrete, the largest amount allowed by Congress for new paving for several vears. Field men of the highway division are hard at work preparing to go forward with the actual laying of the paving as soon as the contracts have been.awarded. BANDITS STEAL TRUCK. ‘Woolen Goods Valued at $10,000 Seized Near Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, March 1.—Seven bandits held up three men at Nesham- iny Falls, twenty miles northeast of this city, early today and escaped with & motor truck containing woolen goods valued at $10,000. Milton Goodman, the driver, on his way from New York to Philadelphia, said he and his two helpers were knocked unconscious and thrown into a motor car. The truck was recovered empty. Goodman gave the police information which caused the arrest of four men. They gre Morris Steinberg, Edward Crilly, Abe Konmar and Joseph Shear, all of Phil. J | adelphia. city block as the papers U.S.Native Angry At Oath Required For Citizenship “I never considered myself any- thing but an American citizen,” indignantly declared Mrs. Florence Campbell Forrester of 1700 Rhode Island avenue northwest, when asked by the clerk of the District Supreme Court to swear to an ap- Pplication for citizenship. Mrs. For- rester was a native of Maryland, but lost her citizenship by her niarriage in London, England, to John Forrester, an Englishman. She returned recently to America and began preparations to regain her citizenship, and found that she had to go through the form re- Quired of an alien to become nat- uralized. ‘When the clerk asked her to hold up her hand and take the oath to her application in which she ex- presses her desire to “become an American citizen,” Mrs. Forrester resented the idea, claiming she had always been an American and had never intended to surrender her citizenship through her marriage. Under the new naturalizaton law a married woman may secure natu- ralization papers independent of her husband. Mrs. Forrester's ap- plication will have to wait for three months before court action. FARM CREDITS BILL PASSES IN HOUSE Measure Proposing to Estab- lish Two New Banking Sys- tems Goes to Conference. VOTING IS 305 TO 36 Chief Opposition Is Registered From New York and New England States. The farm credits bill, proposing tol establish two new banking systems, one government and the other private, to meet the financial needs of the agricultural industry, was passed today by the House. It now goes to conference. The vote was 305 to 36, chief op- position being registered by members from New York and the New England, states. The new federal banking system termediate credit banks,” located in the same citles as the federal” farm loan banks and with a capital of $5.- 000,000 each. They would be author- ized to.issue tax-free debentures up to a total of $600,000,000. giving them aggregate resources of $660,000,000, or nearly twice the amount which the War Finance Corporation has been called upon to advance to the agricul- tural industry. Private Corporations. Private credit corporations which would be authorized by the bill would have a capital of not less than $250,- unlimited. . 1t is these organizations that will stock on long-term paper. There also would be private rediscount corpora- tions having a capital stock of not less than $1,000,000 each. TUnder an amendment adopted by the House, the War Finance Corporation would con- tinue to function until next January 31, by which time it is assumed that the new farm credit systems will be in_operation. Consideration of the bill was com- pleted at a sion lasting until nearly midnight last night, but a final vote went over until today because of the absence of a number of members. No Important Changes. No important changes were voted in the bill during its consideration for amendment at the night session, after it .had been brought up during the day under a special rule limiting de- bate to four hours. A provision was added, however, extending the life of the War Fi- nance Corporation until January 31, 1924. Representative Byrnes, demo- crat, South Carolina, who offered the amendment, ~ stating the extension Wwas necessary to insure adequate credit facilities while the new bank- ing systems provided under the bill were being organized. The bill received almost solid sup- port among members from the west and south, the main opposition being ~voiced by representatives from east- ern states. The House last night voted down an amendment by. Representative Luce which sought to strike out a provision of the bill exempting from taxation debentures of the govern- ment-financed intermediate ~ credit banks. ‘Those Opposing. Party lines disappeared, both dur- ing consideration of and the vote on the measure. Those opposing the bill were: Republicans — Ackerman, Parker, Radcliffe_and Taylor, New Jersey: Andrew, Frothingham. Greene, Luce, Rogers. Underhill and Winalow Massachusetts; Burdick, Rhode Island: Burton and Stephens, Ohio; Edmonds, Gernerd, Graham, Kirkpatrick, Tem- ple and Kreider, Pennsylvania: Fenn, Glynn, Merritt and Tilson, Connecti- cut; Greene, Vermont; Hill, Maryland; Husted and MacGregor, New York: Layton, Delaware; Moores, Indiana, { that charac: The Star's carrier system covers every ind the regular edition is delivered to Wa ington homes as fast nrepm'ned. . TWO CENTS. PHIPPS SAYS D. C. SURPLUS REVENUES REPORT IS CORRECT Chairman of Joint Committee Declares $4,000,000 Be- longs to the District. WILL STAND ON RECORDS MADE AT INVESTIGATION Criticism of Findings Is Not Justi- fied, He Tells the Senate. Declaring that in his opinion there Wwas no doubt of the $4,000,000 surpius Tevenues belonging to the District now in the federal Treasury, Senator Phipps, chairman of the joint ‘committes which recently reported on the surplus, today told the Senate that he was prepared to 'stand on the records made by his The discussion of the surplus came up during the, consideration of the third deficiency appropriation bill. Amendments proposed by the Senate appropriations committes provide for the payment of $1,000 to C. Brooks Fry and another $1,000 to Thomas A Hodgson for expert personal services in connection with the investigati of the surplus. Rt Questions Committee Report. Senator Phipps also has been au- thorized by the Senate committes on appropriations to offer as an amend- ment from the floor his proposal to translate into legislation the recom- mendation of the joint committec that the District be allowed to use these surplus revenue i Tr&“uw.p revenues now in the “hen the amendments pre vay Mr.' Fry and M Hodgasn Sror services in connection with the sur- plus investigation were reached fenator King of Utah questioned Mr hipps In regard to them. The Colo- rado senator explained that while his j committee had expended only $13,000 of the $20,000 provided for it, it w not permissible for the committes to ese two items out of - inal appropriations, St Senator King then raised a question a8 to the investigation conducted by the commiltee and its findings, say- “Much criticism has come to me {from persons who claim to know—i do not know about it—who state that the finding of the committee was per- haps unwarranted, that is, some said it was warranted from the evidence submitted to them, but that there Wwere other facts to which their at- tention was not invited, which would have compelled a different conclusion from that reached by the committee and would have demonstrated that the government was not indebted to the District, and that this appropri- ation of $4,000,000 should not be made " s Committee Finding. 7ing, Mr. Phipps said: clieve that if the senator would take the time required to rcad * majority report of the committee - a minority report which was signed by only one of the six members of the joint special committee, he would be convinced beyond question that the committee fully performed its duties. “Personally. I am willing to stand on the record that has been made. 1 think there is no question as to the finding. I believe bevond any per- adventure of doubt that the citizer of the District of Columbia p: taxes amounts in excess of th propriations which _were prope. chargeable to them, ‘resulting in th accumulation of a surplus, and that. the money properly pald by the tax- payers should be devoted to the up- building of this community and to the conduct of the government of the District of Columbia. “It is within the power of this Con- gress, if it chooses to do so, to declars that money forfeited, but T say that when there is an understanding and agreement whereby the federal gov- ernment has undertaken to pay 50 per cent of the expenses of the District of Columbia, and the citizens the re- mainder, or 40 per cent. as against 60 per cent contributed by the citizens. 1 for one. will never vote to violate that understanding and agreement. Resort is had to subterfuge in order to becloud the issue, and try to con vert into the government Treasury money which properly and absolutely is_the money of the citizens of the District of Columbia.” Senator King 'replied that he ex- pressed no opinfon as to the merits of the finding or the rightfulness of the conclusion reached by the com- mittee. He sald that he:only knew there had been some criticism to the effect that not all the evidence had been obtained. He sald, however. that he was convinced the owners of property in the District do not pay an adequate tax. He said that he thought the 50-50 plan and the 60-40 plan were unsclentific, improper and irra- tional. He argued that the property of the District should be taxed at its full fair cash valuation and upon that valuation a reasonable tax should be Jevied. and after imposing a tax of er, “whatever deficit ma: be left—and there would be a ver) large one—the federal government should meet it.” Amendments to BilL In reporting the deficiency bill to the Senate the appropriations com- mittee added $93.899.50 in amend- ar and Stafford, Wisconsin, Democrats: Carew and Riordan, New York; Tague, Massachusetts; Deal and Tucker, Virginia. The bill as passed by the House was called up immediately it reached the Senate and conferees appointed. Russ Prince Gets ments for the triet, divided as follows Repalrs, streets, 000. Americanization schcols, $2,730. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Death Threat; to suburban roads and work, public Asks Aid Against Hidden Foes By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 1.—Search was begun by the police today for the writers of letters threatening the life of Prince Dmitry Michael Alexandro- vitch Obolenski of Russia, whose mother was a Romanoff. The prince, who came to the United States several months ago to seek a livelihood, has turned over to Police Commissioner Enright four letters, each bearing the signature, “Agents of Free Russia,” and threatening his life if he did not leave this country by March 6. In addition, he-complanied, he had received three anonymous telephone messages threatening his life. “The tyrant: Till now we have been silent,” "read the last letter of the series, “but in America, as in Ru sia, you have gone too far, and our eyes are on vou. We give you until March 6 to leave this country. Stay, and you will go the same as Sponselki in_the spring of 1918."* Prince Obolenski, whose family dates back twelve centuries, has de- livered several local' lectures advo- cating for Russia a return to an im- proved form of government modeled on that of the days before the revo- lution. His father died in the revo- lution and his two sisters were killed. A brother, Prince Nicolas, lives I Paris. o — ¢