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WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight and to- ‘morrow; moderate southerly winds. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 59, at 2 oday; lowest, 33, at 6:30 a.m. ull' report on page 12. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 @h ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as s: No. 28795, 5oif"omés Wi nd-class matter hington, D. C. HUGHES STATEMENT FAILS T0 PROMOTE WORLD COURT PLAN Senators Reaffirm That Con- gress Will Not Act at This Session. QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY STATE SECRETARY Administration's Desire for U. S. Membership Reasserted—No Ad- vance Agreement Necessary. The decision not to act at this ses- sion of Congress on President Hard- 18’s proposal for American member- ship in the International Court of Justice was reaffirmed by the Senate foreign relations committee today. after it had received a further ex- lanation of the administration's pur- from President Harding and etary Hughes. The committee, took its position auickly at a meeting called by Chair- 1an Lodge after he had reeelved a rief note from the President trans- mitting a long, technical letter from Mr. Hughes in respon to a list of questions sent to the White House earlier in the week. The communica- tions r rted the administration's desire for American membership in the court and emphasized that agree- ment in advance to compulsory arbi- tration of all questions was not nec- essary. noses Placed Into Record. ator Lodge had the two placed in the Congressi without reading. and comment that he understood they ad already been made public by the Secretary of Senator Lodge also called that there was working day of the tecord, Stat ent more ator Lodge and others urprise Hugh expressed of Secretary at the promptness reply, and some rs said they could not consider 4 complete response to the com mittee questionnaire The mittee’s list which was drawn up Borah. republican, Id D, the Senate frr nel dressed to the Presid referred by him te R The first query related o President favors an agreement obligating” powers who slgn the ourt protocol to submit for decision 1 questions relating to the interpre. tion of treaties, to questions of in- law, ‘to breaches of in- ational obligations, and to simi- subjects. e of questions, by Senato! « leader of bles, was ad- t. but ary Hughes. to whether Answers in Negative. “I understand,” wrote Secretary Hugi “that the question is not in- rended to elicit your purely personal opinion, or whether you would look Wwith an approving eye n an agree- ment of this sort made effective by the action of all powers, but whether you, as President, in the e ur constitutional authority to nego- | was coming to California to build a|upon tne Rahtaus, took the tiate treatles, favor the undertaking to negotiate a treaty on the part of the United States with other powers reating such an obligatory jurisdic- tion. “So understood. I think that the > be answered in s is for the reason that o clearly defined its »sition to such an agreement that until there ix ground for believing that this attitude has been changed it would be entirely tutile for executive to negotlate a of the sort described.” Labor Bureau Not Involved. epiying to the question ether court membership would involve recognition of the international ia- bor bureau set up by part XIIT of the Versailles treaty, Mr. Hughes sald: “I submit that the answer should be in the negative * * * The fact that the United States gave its adhe- sion to the protocol and accepted the statute of the court would not make he United States a party to treaties o which it was therwise not a arty, or a participant in disputes in ich it would otherwise not be a pant Uundoubtedly there are f treaties to which the United States is net a party, as well as part XIIT of the treaty of Versailles, which Would give rise to questions which anent Court of Interna- should hear and deter- _uf the signatory powers perating in the establishment and maintenance of the court make themselves parties to treaties, or as- W sume obligations under treaties, be- | tween other powers.” The President’s note of transmittal to Benator Lodge folows: “On Wednesday you sent to me the re- quest of the foreign relations committee on relative to the proposal we adliere to the protocol estab- lishing an intérnational court of justice at The Hague. [ immediately submitted the inquiries of your committee to the retary of State for detailed reply, m pleased to transmit to you here- with a letter from the Secretary of Stale covering the varlous questions aised in the committee resolution of in- quiry. T need not add that the reply of e Secretary of State has my most hearty approval. with | ad been | (o the | 18 Men Entombed When Explosion Occurs at Mine BLUEFIELD, W. Va., March Eighteen men were reported to have been entombed by an explo- Arsta, county, at noon today. The mine i owned by the S. J. Patterson Poca- sion in a mine at Mercer | hontas Coal Company. Detalls were not given in early reports. (0D AFTERTEAR | Broken Engagement Refuses| to Stay Broken and Cupid Kicks Up Heels Again. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 2.—Cupld was king again in Hollywood today and romance lived anew for Pola Negrl, Polish tragedienne of the sil- ver sheet, and Charles Chaplin, screenland’s most famous comedian. Thelr troth plighted over again after a six-hour desolate break, Miss Negri was “too happy to sleep” when she reannounced it in the small hours of today. And Mr. Chaplin was the tvpical “happiest man in the world” when he entered his limousine after a conference of reconciliation in which the new queen of make-be- eve said he told her he “loved me and could not live without me.” Denfes He Is Too Poor. Ipoor to marry just now; this is a | workaday world and we've all got to ay busy and keep away climaxes of sentiment.” It w that which {breaking of the cngagement. Miss Negri read the accredited statemeht. Without reference to Mr. {Chaplin the agreement to wed was | terminated abruptly. | A typewritten statement {newest star in America's movie capi- |tal considered herself *too poor to marry Charles Chaplin; he needs a Ithy woman.” Tears, her own, not the |#lvcerin _ of the profession, rolled jdown Miss Negri's cheeks as i neatly ‘typed statement was handed | newspaper men. 1t was these newspaper men who informed Mr. Chaplin first of the dashing of his hopes. Chaplin Is Surprised. Over the telephone they told him. Mr. Chalin replied: “Oh,” and “Is that 507" and abruptly the receiver in the said the i applied | Chaplin home clicked to its resting {place. Even his best friends there: latter were barred from his door: | Speculation was rife. Scores of reasons were advanced. There was talk of a rival, a Polish painter who | home, and for whom? The lips of the little tragedienne trembled and her eyes filled with tears as she added to the typed state- ment: “There were a thousand things. s another experience. I have learned. ow I will live only for my work. Al the rest, the happy days, are dead to me. It is all ove Charlie for the tima was lost sight of. It was believed he was in retire- ment in his home, thinking. While the early night editions of morning papers in the Hollywood movie district heralded, in the {talk of the newsboys, that “Pola | gives Charlie the air,’ Charlie made his way to Miss Negri's retreat. Just what happened then probably never will be given to the world in detail, but after midnight Chaplin went home with a smile on his face and Miss Negrl, her finger again weighted with the platinum engage- ment ring she had removed a few hours previously, was contemplating her Joy, “too happy to sleep.” she ! said. Miss Negri frankly admitted her i hapfyiness in “making up.” after Chap- |1in had declared he never had made the “tuvo-poor-to-get-married” state- ‘ment. “Mr. Chaplin came to see me learly and he stayed late,” said Miss Negri. “I have taken him back, and we are quite reconciled and engaged gain. He swore to me he never had | | ! i®aid he was too poor to marry me. | | He told me he loved me and could not live without me. And so, of course, I {belleved "him and have' taken him acl | Pictare World Agog. | Rumors the two were engaged in- |terested motion picture fans every [where when they were first publish- ed. November 25 last, and the interest | was maintained when the principals {officially confirmed the rumors at | Pebble Beach, near Del Monte, Calif., January 28. At that time Chaplin declared he was “the happiest man in the world,” and Miss Negri indicated she was very well pleased, indeed, with “Shar. lie,” as she calls him. So everything seemed to be running smoothly, This Here Anti-Flirt Move- Well, It Gets Manuel’s O. K. JMiss Helen Brown, secretary of the Anti-Flirt Club recently organized in Washington, today received ‘a letter from Representative Manuel Herrick of Oklahoma, heartily approving of the organization and requesting that he be allowed to address the club at @ special meeting to “advance some “deas that you would find very help- ful. The Oklahoma flying congressman his letter set forth a few sugges- 15 for the girls to follow ssive campaign against lounge hz- cake-eaters and flirtatious mo- sts that *any young nan who wishes te call upon a mem- ber of the club should give a complete history of himself, which shall be ifled by the club before he nted the privilege of calling.’ lso *any man who escorts any of e girls and who misbehaves himself in any way by word or act should be placklisted by all the girls.” in in their; is| 1 | .. Representative Herrick stated he especially approves” of. rules 4, 7 and 8 which have been adopted by the club along with seven others and which were printed in The Star of Tuesday. These “dont's” state that girls should not go out with men they don’t know; that they should not “an. nex all the men they can get” and that titey should not fall for the “slick, dandy-sized cake-eater, for the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more .than the gloss of a lounge lizzard Representative Herrick tells Miss { Brown in his letter that her organiza- portunity for doing something really worth while for the female sex if vou |do not make your club the nucleus iof a nation-wide order to be known as the national order of anti-flirts.” Miss Brown has called a meeting | for Monday night at 7:30 o'clock at her residence, 639 Longfellow street, and has notified Representative Her- rick that he may address the club at that time, \ POLA AND ‘SHARLIE' Mr. Chaplin also denied to her that | he had told a newspaper he was “too | from | precipitated the | the | 1t tion “will fall far short of your op- | WASHIN FRANCE DENANDS THO GUARANTEES F SHEQUTSRUBR {U. S. and Britain Must Back Reparations and Remove War Menace, Is Edict. FOREIGN OFFICE BEHIND " STATEMENT IN ECHO, Declares Intention of Recovering| Losses Free of All Liens and Mortgages. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1923, PARIS, March 2—If the United States and Great Britain wish to in- tervene to bring about French with- drawal from the Ruhr area the only acceptable conditions they can offer France are, first, a guaranty that the German payments will be made regu- larly, and, seconds a guaranty of France-Belglan security against the German military menace. “So long as British and American diplomacy hesitates as to these two master questions so long France is Justified in taking no account of their advance,” says the foreign editor of Echo de Paris, who is known to have | voiced the sentiments of the foreign | office in the past. Moreover, according to the same uthority, long as the United; ates and Great Britain insist that France must pay her war debts and | also must reduce the total German reparations to some $12,000,000 | France will rep “In other words, {10 pay us the equ u. To restore our ru no margin. You must us to defend our dues with the same In one way or another to recover reparations s free f) all liens and | bu want Germany lent of what w you | | expenaitur | mortgages.’ | HEAVY FINE ON BOCHUM. Kettwig Must Pay Million Marks' for Cutting Phone Wires. | By Associated Press. ESS! March Bochum has been rks because two newsdealers beaten Ly Gerinans for selling I newspapers. The town of Kettwig, | near Essen, where military telephone wires were cut, has been fined 1,000.- | 000 marks. | These fines are in accordance with | an order by Gen. Degoutte. French| commander, that cities and towns | throughout the Ruhr valley shall be| held responsible for sabotage or other cts of disorder designed to hinder the French and Belgian armies of | occupation | German offici of sul be liable to arrest and t | martial in serious cases | "The Bochun fine was collected | quickly, French troops £wooped down | amount | land left. { | oOfficial is Imprisoned. In Duesseldorf, Herr Wenzel, tant director of posts and tel graphs, has been sentenced to six imonths’ fmprisonment. He is charged with being implicated in sabotage on | the military telephone apparatus. The French and Belgian forces of | occupation are adding to their rolling| { ctock for the operation of the German |railroad. Yesterday at Muelheim | | French troops seized 115 locomotives, | 60 carloads of coke and 30 carloads of coal and took over the roundhouse | and repair shops. o It is reported that Lord Mayor Haverstein of Oberhausen and Vice Lord Mayor Schaeffer of Essen, who | were recently glven prison sentences of two years, have been jailed suc- cessively at Duesseldorf and Mayence. | The report states that they are soon to be taken from the latter city into the Sarre. The Havas the 1in towns will 1 by court- | correspondent has for-| following dispatch to| Plan New Activities. French are about to open new period of activity which involve direct utilization of the riches accumulated in the Ruhr, and, if necessary, through exploitation of the Ruhr's resources, attempts will be made to bring the total deliveries as close as possible to the amount to | which the allies are entitled. The heads of each branch of in-| dustry in which the mission of ecivil engineers in Essen is dealing will go | to Duesseldorf in order to insure close contact with the military com- | mand. The mission, which was sent | into the Ruhr on the supposition | that as soon as the military occupa- tion was effected the large German : industries would surrender, has been | obliged, owing to the resistance of the Germans, to prepare penalties. Through its labors railway and river transport has begun to be as- sured, and 120,000 French railway men have replaced 160,000 German railway men. The waiting period of the mission is ended and the regroup- ing of the mission at Duesseldorf will be the signal for opening the new campalgn. Forty-two cases _of robbery by French soldiers in Bochum had been reported to the German authorities | up to yesterday, it is stated. i PROGRESS WITH PLANS. will ¢ i ‘FBuhr Allies Proceed to Operate All Railroads in Area. By the Associated Press. DUESSELDORF, March 2.—The Ruhr allies today went ahead with plans to operate all railroads In the Runr and Rhineland with the ex- ception of those in the Cologne area. Gen. Payot, the transportation chief of the French mission, will be the ddministrative officer. He will have | | French and Begian experts as his| | technical assistants. | French headquarters sald the step | was designed to smooth out the difil- culties in the way of the allies, who | bave hampered by strikes and the menace of a food shortage. The railway administration is empowered to hire as many men as are needed, and most of these will be imported trom Belgium and France. Several (Continued on Page 2, Column ¢. | which Sta st e, | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” _The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast ¢ I Yesterda; To GET ——— | AMIRRIED—3 \ THE HARVEY'S SPEECH ESGAPES CRITICISM ‘U. S. Attitude on Debts Sit-! uation More Nearly Voiced by Ambassador. WAR’S BURDENS DIVIDED View Held Here That General Set- tlement Would Help World Conditions. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although the White House and De- partment of State were reluctant to gay anything at all today about Am- bassador Harvey's speech in London correcting some oft-repeated state- ments on the part of British public men and newspapers concerning the guarantee of war debts, it was ap- parent that for once ing to be the subject criticism here at Jeast, Heretofore Mr. Ha enced the diplomatic misfortune of talking bluntly about some things the government here would have preferred to leave uneald, and the ambassador remained silent a long time upon informal suggestion that it of adverse rvey has experi- | might be wiser to keep off delicate subjects for awhile. But Mr. Har- vey's latest speech follows a visit to Waehington in which he “was the guest of the President at the White House, and there was every oppor- tunity for discussion of the intimate details of Anglo-American relations. What everybody here naturally wondered about today was why the British resented Mr. Harvey's speech, since it is in absolute accord with the facts as understood not only by the men in the Wilson administration, but the Harding administration as well, who have had most to do with the debt negotiations. Source of Irritation. There is no question that the state- ments which British officials have \been making and which the London | press has echocd have been a source of irritation here. The British_have sought to create the impression that practically all the money they borrowed from the United States during the war was promptly lent by them to the other allied powers, and that America pre- ferred to lend to Great Britain direct because the British were in a bester position to guarantee repayment than were the other countries. Also the British spokesmen have indicated clearly that America asked Great Britain to guarantee even the money advanced _directly by the United States to France, Italy, Belgium and smaller countries in the allied group. The Secretary of the Treasury is- sued several months ago a statement giving documentary evidence of the Thaccuracy of the foregoing impres- sion. There is nothing to substanti- ate the idea that the United States (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) ool The Star building. TELEER LEAELE LR RE TR R L2 L S TR The tripping up of e guarding of a prisoner by and a walk on the edge of Ithaca, N. Y , a veteran i s the American | | ambassador's speeches were uot go- |PLAN FOR FEEBLE-MINDED Commissioners Seek Site for Home, to Cost $38,000. The Commissioners tomorrow will advertise for offers of land in Mary- land, Virginia or the District of Co- lumbia as the site of.the proposed home feeble-minded. The clty government has $35,000 for the site and approximately 1,000 acres. The proposals will be opened on {April 1 and within a short time thereafter a selection will be made. { Congress already has made available money to begin the erection of the institution. FIND NISSING MAN DEAD IN WOODS Poison Phial Beside Body of Ross H. Pollock Causes Police Probe. | | | for requires Ross H. Pollock. twenty-nine years old, missing from his home, at 1501 was found dead in the woods about 200 vards from Cook School this afternoon by Gilbert T. Smallwood. colored. Near his body was found a bottle marked “Chloroform.” It was about half filled. Smallwood, who was accompanied by Pollock's pet dog, had been sent to inquire of neighbors if the missing man had been seen in that vicinity, and it was while making the inves- tigation that he found the body. Thomas E. Pollock, father of the dead man, told of the finding of his son's body and reported the affalr to police of the eleventh precinct. Capt. Mar- tin Reilly and other members of his command started an investigation and summoned Coroner Nevitt. The police official was told that Pollock had been a sufferer from neu- ritis and had used chloroform to ease the pain. MRS. GOLDBLUM INSANE. Jury Reports Finding and Slayer Goes to Asylum. Mrs. Fannie @oldblum, thirty years old, was declared of unsound mind this afternoon by a jury in Criminal Division No. 2 before Justice Bailey. She was committed to St, Elizabeth's Hospital. Mrs. Goldblum is under in- dictment on a charge'of murder in the second degree in connection with the death of Sam Allegra, a barber, whom she shot at her home November 9 last. The indictment will be held in abey- ance to sec if the woman recovers. The only testimony submitted to the jury was by Dr. D. Percy Hick- ling. District allenist, who said he examined the woman at his office last week and found her to be suf- fering from maniac depressive in- sanity. The government did not op- pose the inquiry, which was sought by Attorneys William E. Leahy and Joseph B. Stein for the woman, Dog Exhibition Tomorrow Wolf, police dog extraordinary,.will appear at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon on the 1ith street side of The exhibition will include the “relief summons” by telephone in case of emergencies, in which Wolf will take down’a telephone receiver and do some loud talking as a signal of distress, scaping prisoners and- the this police dog also will be a feature of the exhibition. The ladder-climbing . stunt, in which Wolf will ascend a ladder to a window of The Star building, the roof of The Star build- ing, will also be on the program. Wolf is the property of John W. Staggers of 1353 Monroe street, but he was trained by C. W. Rose of n dog handling, who is in Washington exhibiting qualifications of these dogs for police work. W street, Anacostia, for several days, | GTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1923—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. POOR LITTLE RICH BOY. | DEBATEISOPENED ON CLASSFICATO Senator Jones Opposes Hasty Consideration of Im- portant Measure. NORRIS SCORES BILL JAM {Skilled Workmen Protest to Sterling Against Inclusion in Provisions. i i The reclassification bill was taken {up in the Senate at 1 o'clock today, at the conclusion of the morning businéss. Senator Sterling, chairman of the civil service committee, ad- jdressed the Senate in explanation of fthe blil. He called attention to the need of prompt action on the meas- ure if it is to become a law at the present session. Every effort wiil be made by the supporters of the biil to put it through the Senate today, so that it may be sent back to the House for action there on the compromise bill before the final adjournment of Con- gress. Calln It Act of Justice. enator Sterling said that the pro- d legislation was an act of jus- to the thousands of employes of the government. He emphasized the fact that one of the principal pur- poses of reclassification was to give esual pay for equal work throughout the government service. He said that the classifying board provided in the bill was the result of a com- promise. Senator Jones of New Mexico ob- ing compensation range of salary prescribed for the appropriate grade or class no change shall be made in the existing com- pensation, Senntor Jones Protests. Senator Jones said that in the House bill it had been provided that if an employe was receiving compensation in excess of the range of salary pre- scribed, his compensation should be reduced to the rate within the grade nearest the present compensation. He said he preferred this plan. Senator Sterling, replying, said that under the Senate committee plan po- sitions vacated by death would be put back to the salary of the appro- priate grade or class and that he be- well. Senator Norris of Nebraska de- clared that the Senate faced a legis- lative situation “which should bring a blush of shame.” He said that, with only a couple of days left of the session, the Senate is now called upon to pass upon this bill of tre- government employes. Tnder Comsideration 14 Months. He sald that it had been under conslderation by Senate committees for fourteen months, ‘but we are expected to pass it in fourteen min- utes.” Senator Norris criticized vig- orously the short sessions of Con- gress, with the congestion of busi- ness resulting from them. Until an amendment -to the Constitution is adopted doing away with these short sessions this bad condition will con- tinue, he said. Skilled Workmen Protest. A committee representing skilled workmen of the, bureau of engraving and printing, _government printing office and the Washington navy yard waited on Senator Sterling today and announced to him their desire to be excluded from provisions of the re- classification bill. The committee represented about 1,000 employes of the bureau, exclud- ing plate printers, and machinists of | the Washington navy yard, as_ well as certain skilled workmen of the government printing office. Edward Willlams, acted as spokesman for the group. Result of Joint Meeting. ‘The presentation of the protest against inclusion of their trades in the reclassification legislation was the result of a joint meeting held last night and a second meeting of repre- sentatives of the various trades held this morning. The request that thelr classes be dropped from the bill, however, was preceded by a request for an amendment to that section | of the blil which provides that com- pensation for classes in the skilled trades service “shall be in accord- ancd with the prevailing practice.” It was sought to make more secure the oontinuance of the prevalling practice, but Senator Sterling could not_see an amendment in this lignt (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) - Jected to section 5 of the bill, which | provides that if the emplaye is recefv- | in excess of the! lieved the plan would work out very | mendous importance to thousands of | as the papers are printed. y's Net Circalation, 97,074 £ 1] House Salaries Would Be Raised To$10,000byBill Declaring some of the strongest men in the Housg had confessed to him that they would have to bor- row money to take their families home after March 4, Representa- tive Upshaw, democrat, of Georgia, introduced a resolution today to increase the salarles of senators and representatives to $10,000 a year, Mr. Upshaw quoted the late Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, as having said: “You congressmen would Increase your salaries to at least $10,000 a year if Yyou were not a pack of cowards,” and added: “Gentlemen, I am not afraid. T suppose 1 will be roundly criticized for this, but I am willing to suffer for the good of the order. BUREAU SHORTAGE President Sends Estimate to| Cover Discrepancies Exist- ing April 8, 1922. 5354,632 LOSS SO FAR Further Amounts May Be Shown, But Exact Amount Cannot Be Fixed Now, Is Claim. | | The President has sent to the Sen- ate a supplemental estimate of $100,- 000 “to permit of the adjustment of lany discrepancies in the paper ac- counts between the office of the Sec- | retary of the Treasury and the bureau |of engraving and printing existing on April 8, 1922, and the adjustment lof any actual losses which may be shown to have occurred to the gov- | ernment on account of such discrep- ancies."” The discharge of Director Wilmeth and other employes of the bureau of engraving took place last April 1. Seven days later, on April 8, the bu- reau was closed down for an inven- tory. - Beyond this fact there is noth- ling to connect President Harding's | request with the dismissal of the bureau ‘employes, officials declining to explain jthe President's request 1t was proposed to put this item in the third deficiency appropriation bill, but the estimate reached the Senate appropriations committee too late, it was said, today, for action. and the deficiency bill has been passed by the Senate without reference to the mat- ter, 1 | ‘Letter In Forwarded. The President accompanied the es- timate with a letter from the director of the budget bureau. This letter quotes from a letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, dated February 27, as follows: “I am transmitting herewith, in or- der to indicate the differences to be adjusted, a summary of the reports on the ' distinctive paper, accounts made by the committees appointed to verify the paper accounts of the bu- reau of engraving and printing, in- cluding the first Treasury committee, which reported on August 5, 1920, and the two subsequent committees, one from the Department of Justice and the other from the Treasury, which both verified the accounts ag of April 8, 1922, one reporting on August 4, 1322, and the other on May 11, 1922, “As appears from the summary, these two reports are in substantial | agreement with respect to the dif-| {ferences found. After allowing for items, and aggregating | differences by the principal classes jof paper, there appear to be short- | ages, according to the report of the |Tressury committee, amounting to | 636 sheets of United States currency | paper, five sheets of Philippine Is- land currency paper, 2123 sheets of United States bond paper and seven sheets of miscellaneous bond paper, a total of 860% sheets of distinc- tive paper. In this connection it is proper to state that during the period covered by the report, from March 31. 1917, to April 8, 1922, there were 94,721 sheets of distinctive pa- per issued to the bureau of engraving and printing, against which there ap- pears to be a net shortage of $50 sheets. E “It 1s impossible to determine defl nitely whether these differences in volve loss to the government, or, if 80, In what amount. Some of the dif- Terences, it is known, are accounted for by petty thievery, and in many cases the guilty parties have been ap- prehended. As to the differences gen- erally, the Department of Justice re- port eontains the following comment: “‘Attention may be called to the fact that in handling 97,981,320 sheets of liberty loan bond paper. covering a period of three vears, and during which the plant was in continuous operation, with the corridors stacked With sheets, there is a proven loss of but 113% sheets, and no more. { ° Wit respect to the difference | is impossible to say what propor of the differences {s due to theft and | What to error. 1In any case, they should not be allowed to run indefl- nitely, but should be promptly cleared off the records by proper adjustments with the chief of the division of pa- per custody, after which the uncan- celed pay checks should be properly disposed of. “Following its_report of May 11,4 | offsetting ASKS STOGOUDFOR | | for satary TWO CENTS. TEACHERS' PAY BILL MAY PASS INHOUSE BEFORE END OF DAY Gas Tax and Plaza Leasing Measures Also Likely to Be Acted On. CHANCE TO BECOME LAW BEFORE SESSION ENDS Question of Amendments to School Bill Causes Concern Among Supporters. The Capper teachers’ salary and school reorganization bill and two other important pieces of legislation for the District probably will become law before the wind-up of Congress tomorrow. The House late today is expected to pass these measures. The teachers’ pay bill has been passed by the Senate. The 2-cents-a-gallon gasoline tasx, Wwhich will get automobile license tax reciprocity with Maryland, already has been favorably reported to the House and to the Senate. It is ex pected that the Senate also will pass this measure, provided opportunity is &iven for its consideration, as it has strong support there. This bill came up in the Senate today, but went over upon objection by Senator McKellar of Tennessee. May Pass Plaza Bill. The bill authorizing the President to lease from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad certain land on the Union station and Capitol plazas, now occu- pied by the government hotels, and pay rental for the same out of the revenues of these boarding nouses for woman employes of the government. This measure has passed the Senate. The bill authorizing a new insur- ance code for the District, It is be- lieved, will not be enacted into law at this session of Congress. While the House is expected to pass it. there is little hope for its getting through the Senate. Chairman Campbell of the rules committee, who is acting Speaker. with sole authority to recognize whom he will for the purposes of bringing up legislation during thesc closing davs of the Sixty-Seventh Congress. sald today that he cxpects before the House adjourns tonight to have recognized some member of ithe House District committee on the teachers’ pay bill. It is probable that Representative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland will be given recognition. Question of Amendments. The question which is receiving most concern today by friends of this legislation is whether the bill as it passed the Senate will be acted upon by the House or whether Representa- tive Zihlman will include in his mo- tion the amendments approved by the House District committee providing increases to high schooi Representative Thomas L. Blanton of Texas today protested that Dr. Frank W. Ballou and the school authorities should not be al- lowed to crowd through the teachers' pay bill as it passed the Senate, which really means in some cases a reduction in the salaries of high school teachers. He said he was told today by a delegation of teachers that_they would rather see the bill fail than be passed without the House committee amendments. - Last week Representative Zihl had assurances from Speaker Gill that_he would be recognized to call up for a vote the 2-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax, which is predicted on Maryland granting automobile tag Teciprocity. On account of the illness of Speaker Gillett, Chairman Camp- bell of the rules committee is acting Speaker. Representative Zihlman however, said today that Speaker Gillett has informed Acting Speaker Campbell of the agreement and that he has assurances that he will be recognized today on the reciprocity measure. Representative George W. FEd- monds of Pennsylv who has fathered the marine insurance leg latlon in the House, had a confer- ence last night with House Leader londell, as a result of which he is tanding ready in the House today to ask recognition at the wpportune time to call up the bill setting up a new insurance code in the District of Columba. Representative Edmonds explaincd that this legislation is absolutely neces- sary to supplement the marine insur- ance bill, and that it has the support of the administration. Chairman Langley of the House committee on public buildings and grounds stated positively today that e cxpects before adjournment to- night to get his bill passed which pro- vides for leasing plaza land from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad which has been occupied for five years or more by government hotels, thus obviating the necessity of evicting hundreds of women employed in gov- ernment offices. Opposition Dented. School officials, teachers and leaders of teachers’ organizations came out simultaneously this afternoon with statements contradicting emphatic- ally the reports that there is opposi- teachers. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Hughes, Liking There is not the slightest likelihood of any cabinet meetings being called I by the Secretary of State during the four or five weeks President Harding will be 1 Florida. No other than Mr. Hughes himself removed any doubt on that score when the matter came up informally and somewhat humor- ously at today’s cabinet meeting. One cabinet officer noted for his sense of humor very innocently asked the President if he had any objection %o the Secretary of State summoning the cabinet during his absence. The President smilingly replied that he had not the slighest objection, whereupon "Secretary Hughes quickly went on record as saying that he had no desire to have “my official head cut oft” adding that he will always re- member a precedent established dur- ing the last administration, when Sec. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Official Head,” Won’t Call Cabinet Meetings retary of State Lansing took it upon himeelf to call cabinet meetings, Today's meeting, the last one o be attended by Secretary Fall of the Interior Department, who retires to private life March 4, was one of the briefest in the history of the present administration—occupying less than twenty-five minutes. Practically no government busi- ness of any importance was discussed and a greater part of the time was devoted to the exchange of pleas- antries and to bidding adieu to Mr. Fall. The latter said that, although he is happy to get out of official har- ness, he naturally regrets leaving the Pregident and other warm friends of the cabinet. “I try to impress upon my dear friends and assoclates that my leav ing Washington is not a case of ‘good-bye,’” Secretary Fall said. “but merely the cass of ‘until we meet again,' as we say down in my country.”