Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and somewhat warmer. to- night, lowest temperature near freex- ing: tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer. Temperature for 24 hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 36, at noon today. Lowast, 26, at § .m. today. Full report on “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 page 27. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Lintered as s No. 28802, Hrraes Wa: ccond-cli ss matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTO WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ~ @he Foening Star. as the papers arc printed. N, D €, U.S. AND BRITAIN DEADLOCKED OVER NEWCASTLE ROW State Department Bares Let- ters to Foreign Office—Lat- est English Note Published. CHARGE AGAINST CONSULS UNFOUNDED, CLAIM HERE England Declares Cancellation of Exequators Not Subject to Any Discussion. Further light was shed on the di- vergent positions taken by the United States and British governments in the Newcastle consulate incident in the publication today of statements on the case by both governments along | with the last British note and the en- tire series of American communica- he documents on the American =ide of the case were made public by the State Department immediately after the British embassy, by direc- tion of the foreign office, had issued vitii the text of its last note a state- nt explaining that it had not “in- vited a discussion of the grounds” upon which the British government withdrew 1its recognition of Consul Slater and Vice Consul Brooks. To remove what was regarded as a mis- rehension on this point, the state- 1t vaid th asons for the action cre conveyed to the United overnment merely in compli with the existing con cla tion between the men Shows American Contentions. W the Ar adhered thro that the charges stantiated, it was plainly revealed that its position fn defense of consular officers was based primarily the correspondence showed government to have ghout to its conclusion had rerican the | 'BALFOUR IS CONDEMNED FOR CENSURE OF HARVEY Even Critics of U. S. Debt Terms Assail His Char ges—Ambassador Is Also Target. BY By Cable to O'FLAHERTY. and Chicago Dally News, prright, 1923, LONDON, March 9.—Earl Balfour's relteration of the charge of commer- ctalism against the United States for insisting upon a debt settlement brings widespread ! condemnation to- | g 4 day even among | i those who still be- that Aw ethods lieve r- ican of r i harsh ancing are too The Manchester Guar- dian declares edi- torially that the b matter should be { forgotten, while the Morning Post takes the same line. “We says the 108D BALFOUR, newspaper. ¥arl Balfour has again raised the issue in the house of Jords. When Mr. Baldwin made the B WY OF LF * BFOREPRESIDENT 'Hopes to Get in 36 Holes To- ' day, Most Since Vaca- tion Started. regret.” latter two govern- | i MRS. HARDING IMPROVED not been sub- | | Trip Down Indian River Puts New Life Into All Members on the cire ances that the charges | » o0 the circumstances that the charges | of Party. *ihe reply re given publicity in London. the Britsh note made public, by Lord Curzor *7, disclaimed Although ¥or in the was signed and dated December all responsibility the British government subseuently offered to drop the charges if the consulate were re- opened, the American government re- plied that this course would be ac- ceptable only on condition that it igreed again to grant recognition to Messrs, Slater and Brooks as con- ular officers there and “to the simul- taneous issue at the two capitals of an announcement in a form satis- to both governments of the taken and the reasons there- government, which British Notes Withheld. © there are gaps in the inter- change between the two govern- ments, due to the lack of British uotes ' not made public, the whole correspondence and the accompany- ing statements throw into sharp re- lief the fact that the American posi- tion in defense of Consul Slater and Viee Consul Brooks Is based pri- marily on the circumstance that charges against them were given publicity in London. The British cor- respondence flatly disclaims responsi- bility for that publicity The British note, signed by Lord Curzon and dated December 27, 1922, as prefaced by the following state- ment issued by the embassy Statement ¥ Embassy. “The official pronouncement on the subject of the United States consulate at Newcastle. which appeared in the | newspapers of the 4th instant, con- tained a statement to the effect that | the British government, by epeci- fying the reasons why the American consular officers at that post had be- come unacceptable, had in effect fn- vited a discussion of these reasons Tn order to remove the misapprehen- sion which appears to exist on point the British foreign office causing a statement to be published in which they repeat the declaration already made in their published note of March L (o the effect that in fur- shing a reason for their action in vithdrawing the United States consul they were not nviting a discussion of the grounds on which their decision was taken. »ut were merely complying with the torms of article 4 of the commercial convention between Great Britain and the United States of July 3, 1815, which provides that the ‘offended’ government shall assign 1o the other Rovernment back’ a consular ofiicer, Giving Note to Press. der that the procedure fol- owed by his majesty’s government in 1is maiter may be the better under- atood. the British forelgn office are ommunicating to the press a note 1ddressed on December 27 last to the American charge d'affaires in London, to which has already been ublished by the State Department.” The An correspondence, which is volumineus, and includes specific instructions sént to all Ameri- an consular agents under a date of December 20. was accompanied by the tollowing official American summary of the situation: State Department's Position. _“The Department of State has taken the position that since the British sovernment has charged the Ameri- are “In o this | exequatur of the: it6 reasons for ‘sending | BS the Associated Pross. VERO. Flu, March of &ol round | anather at Fort Pierce, ! President Harding today as he began | the fourth day of his Florida vacation | trip. The most golf the executive has been able to get In heretofore in one jday has consisted of eighteen holes. The sixty-mile cruise made yester- | day by the houseboat Pioneer. how- ever, put the presidential foursome in position for a round this here and another this afternoon at | Fort Pierce, a half-hour automobile i ride from here. Mrs. Harding Improved. While golf is doing much for the | President, the warm Florida sunshine is greatly benefiting Mrs. Harding. Members of the party saiid vesterda that she was enjoying the ecruise down the Indian river and was feel- ing better than at any time since she was taken ill last September. An hour before the members of the presidentiul party awoke morning the Pioneer cast off from |the dock at Titusville and headed {down the Indian river through one {of Flordla's leading citrus fruit sce- tions. The middle of the forenoon brought the boat to Rockledge, where the President and Mrs. Harding went {ashore for a visit with the latter's brother, C. B. Kling, and his family. President Given Lot. During the stop at Rockledge the President became a freeholder of the state of Florida. Citizens of the little town, who went to the pler in a body to geet the visitors, presented the iPresident with the deed to a lot. The other stop of the day was at Melbourne. It was probably the first |time a President of the United State: ever had visited the place, and thos there made the best of it. Mr. Hard- ing and his golfing_companions, Ed- |ward B.. McLean, Washington pub- lisher; Chairman Lasker of the Ship- ping Board .and former Director Dawes of the budget. were conducted in state to the Molbourne Country | Club, which proudly displayed to the party a neat y course with awater hazards in which alligators are reputed to lle in- wait at times for poorly driven balls. l Publisher as Caddy. No alligators were seen, however, during the two rounds the presi- {dentlal foursome made on the course. {Members of the club served as cad- dles, John S. Chapman, publisher of { the Rockford, ill., Star, carrying the clubs of the publisher of the Marion, Ohio, Star. | Although itinerary of the houseboat | party still remains undecided except [in a tentative way, the progress of the Plonder makes it reasonably cer- taln that the President and his fel- low vacationists would spend Sunday in Palm Beach. DAUGHERTY MUCH BETTER. 9.~ ix here and holes one morning | Attorney General, at Miami, With Doctor and Nurse. MIAMI, Fla, March 9.—The condi- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Lively Radio Musicto “Pep Up” Sorting of Mail in Post Office] Sorting mail by radio will be the very latest thing in the postal serv: ice, to he exemplified at the Wash- ington city post office from 9 to 11 w'clock this evening. A thousand clerks and carriers will do their duties in the great “work- oom" of the officc while a radio re- iving set will fill the air with sweet musi¢ drawn from the air. First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett will {naugurate the novelty L¥ broadcasting a message to the orkers from the Post Office Depart- ent sending station. ‘This brief message will be broad- ast by Mr. Bartlett exactly at 9 ~clock. Following there will be no more speeches, nothing but lively musfe to help put speed into the enjoyment of life. Last year the Minneapolis post office introduced a phonograph on its night shifts, but the local office is said to be the first in the country to enter- tain its workers by radio. The receiving apparatus is one owned by the office of the #ir mail service, Post Office Department, It is being installed today. If the operator tunes in on a “bed- time story” or a lecture 6n house- keeping he will switch off to some other wave length, as it is not be- lieved that such entertainment and the proper sorting of mail will mix. But any distributor can sort letters better, it is held, to the lively strains of the' tune that made Gallagher and Shean famous. So the aim tonight will be to “listen in” on concerts, se- lecting the best from the air waves, Postmaster Chance i5 Introducing the novelty by way of experiment. P “that | appealed to | vesterday | little nine-holf golf | [ workers and “pep up” their general! the whole matter was settled from a moral standpoint. The | Americane wished to be paid, and | they are being paid. That is the end of the whole business.” The Manchester Guardian partly vindicates Lord Balfour by declaring | that Ambassador Harvey was most | unfortunate in demanding that the British government retract a pas- suge in the Balfour note Issued last | August. Others take the same cynically intimating that Harvey tequest called for a caustic All hope that the last word has been Said on this phase of Anglo-American relations ADDRESS STIRS LONDON. final barguin | Press Regards Remarks as ‘Polite- ly Censorious.” ated Press. | i By the Asso March LONDOM alfour's to Ambassador Harvey's recent refer- ence to the famous Balfour note on | the subject of allled debts receives much attention from the London news- 9.—The Earl of ! :Raps Income Tax| A s Threatto U.S. Economic System | | \ NEW l tion | YORK. March & —Taxa- is rapidly becoming unbear- and the federal income tax threatens economle progress the National Industrial Conterence warned in a statement today Approximately 14 cents of ¢ doilar earned by the nation 1922 would be paid taxes, was declared. Federal taxes d & 100k more than half of payments of £5,459.000,000 period, or 14.3 per cent tion’s total income of $59,300,000,- 000, according to the statement In 1913-14 tuxes took but 6 cent of tie national was pointed out. Th taxes, it was said, 5 roads on the surplus considered vital to busitess. and industry is pered because of the exce The continuange of xo 6 a svatem of from its stifing individual initiative ~and | spells a lower standard of { for the American pwople, statement concluded. = INDIGTED.FOR TAX LAW VIOLATION |McReynolds Brothers, Wash- ington Businessmen, Face Five Charges. able ry | in f 921~ total in that »f the na- | it burden of king in- FALSE RETURN ALLEGED Perjury and Neglect to File In- dividual Income Blank Also Charged. Five charges of violation of the in- come tax law were reported today by the grand jury against Joseph Mc- Reynolds and William E. McReynolds, brothers, well known business men of Washington. The indictments were returned on two of the chafges and presentments only in reference to the other three. Formal indictment will follow the presentments, it was scated. William E. McReynolds, is charged in one of the indictments with filing a false return for the year 1920, and Joseph McReynolds is alleged to have failed and neglected to file an individ- ual income return for the year 1921 and with failing to pay a tax for that vear. E Perjury Charged. I The presentments charge each the brothers with perjury, and one presentment deals with the alleged failure of Joseph McReynolds to file a return of profits as president of the Commercial Automobile and Supply Company for the year 1921. The de- talls of the allegation on which the presentments are based are not made public. The indictment against William McReynolds alleges that he made a !false return for 1920 in which he stated the net income of $2,500 and ipaid a tax of $4. whereas his actual net return for that vear required a payment of $1,986.12 in taxes, it is al- leged. Indictment aainst Joseph McRey- nolds asserts he failed and entirely neglected to file an Individual tax return and failed to pay the tax which his income required for the year 1921. | Othe? Indictments. George . Lemm and Richard A. Kleinfelder = were indicted by the grand jury on a charge of forcible entry into a private home. The men are said to lave entered the apart- ment of Mrs. Magdalene Welch, at 11226 Hamilton street northwest, | without the consent of the occupant of the apatrment. The reason for the alleged unlawful entry is not set forth in the indictment. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Loulse S. Child- ress, false pretenses; Walter Jones, of H non-support. e WIFE DEMANDS “PROOFS.” CHICAGO, March 9.—An answer was filed by Mvs. Sarah Cole Field, neither denying nor admitting the charges of desertion made by Stanley nephew of the late Marshall Field, merchant prince of Chicago. in a divorce bill. The answer demands striet “proof” of the allegations in the Mr. and Mrs. Field were married in Brooklandville, Md. - April 17, 1900. Mrs. Field is said to be in Florida, line. | rebuft. | reply in the house of lords | housebreaking, and Harry Freeman, | Field, { k [U]o go | e ISADORA DUNCAN ELabor Department Rules i She Forfeited Rights | When She Married. ! Would Be Required to Seek New Papers Like Other Aliens. H }mu likq gbe United States, is not an { American citizen, the Department of | Labor has decided. She lost her citi- i . zenship, the de- | partment held in a decision an- nounced toda riage to Serge Es- eenine, a Russia; April 1, 192 Receatl leaving shores with her husband. the dancer took ocea sion to deride American institu- tions, and. ineci- dentally, took a - verbal shot at prohibition and what she describ- these ISADORA DUNCA! |ed as the {one was compelled to drink now if at all. After reading press reports of her opinions regarding the United States, Secretary Davis of the Labor { Department announced that steps would be taken with a view to de- priving Isadora of her American citi- | zenship. Today's decision of the department mplifies matters. “Had Isadora Duncan’'s marriage taken place subsequent to the pa: sage of the Cable woman's separate | citizenship bilL” the department’ retalned her American citizenship, but since she lost it prior to Septem- ber 22, 1922. she cannot become an American citizen again without filing a petition in the manner provided for i any other alien, and must prove her- self to be a, person. of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and that she is not a disbe- liever in or opposed to organized government or a member of or affili- ated with any organization or body of persons teaching disbellef In or- ganized government, etc. “Unless she can measure up to standard requirement, it will be im- i possible under existing law for h to ever become an American citizen. | Officials explained in connection I with the announcement that while | 1sadora’s attitude on prohibition. did | not affect the question as to her ad- missibility to the country, her “de- clared” attitude on governmental questions would kave a decided bear- ing. {WARM WEATHER COMING, ! BUT NOT 80-DEGREE KIND Don't think we are going to have another Sunday Uke . the famous March 4, because the weather bureau has no indications of any 80-degree temperature or thereabouts and it won't for some time to come. It's merely warming up today, will be warm tomorrow, and tomorrow night it may rain. If it doesn’t rain tomorrow night, it may rain Sunday and then the colder weather will ‘hang around for a few hours. “Sufficient unto the next two d lis the evil thereof,” said the fore- I caster, when asked to do some gen- eral Prophesying for the coming veek. this | NO LONGER CITIZEN {SLUR ON.U. S. RECALLED| kind of liquid refrcshment | announcement said, “she would have ! Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 96,359 —8 FRIDAY, MARCH 9, | | i [ ) { 1 izadora Duncan. who says she does | through her mar- | €Xisting | i { | | contempt 1923—FORTY-TWO PAGES. THE MODERN HERCULES. Suspect Seniors [ Of Firing School | ‘To Delay Exam’ WISTON, ¥ senfors Lefore 9. —High sumn- arch have been school and for guestioning h an attempt Ligh school in examinations, the class wers Sulphur candles yesterd in moned po. in to authorities connection burn the effort to delay which =ome of to be unprepared were discovered 3 waste-paper baskets in fourteen rooms and in ecach instanee re- sulted in a small biaze é Examinations at the high school wers to have been held vesterday. The building r. tiy con pleted at a cost of $280.000 local PLANT NO TREES HERE THE SPRING In funds to devote ali able the care and treatment of trees. Clifford Lanham ntendent of tre i parkings plant ones this order 1o super will not spring. A program had been preparcd for the planting of 300 trees to fill gaps in existing lines. The War Depart- ment, however. has just given the District thirty-five acres near Bolling Field for a much needed nursery and Mr. Lanham expects to spend on the development of this nursery the| money that had been set aside for | new street planting | 1t costs approximateiy §7 to plant; a new tree. Thus, by deferring the planting of 500 new ones, $3.500 will available for the fitting up of the new | nursery 1 Supt. Lanham is prepared, how- ever, to wage a vigorous campaign | this spring against insects that at- tack the trees of Washington. He has more than $15,000 of his current appropriation left’ to maintain his office from now until July 1 and most of this money will be spent in_spraying and trimming. The first enemy to appear in the spring is the elm leaf beetle and Mr. Lanham will have his men ready with sprays to begin an offensive drive on these insects as soon as the new leaves are large enough to hold the acid thrown from the sprays. Later on. in May, the caterplllars will venture forth to pray upon the | street trees and, again, the sprays will be ready to attack them The new appropriation act for the year beginning July 1, carries $55,- 000 for trea maintenance, an increase of $5,000 over the current amount. BLAINE ELKINS CITED | FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT any new Blaine Elkins, brother of Sen:nor! Elkins of West Virginia, was held in of court today by Chief Justice McCoy of the Distriet Su- preme Court. Elkins failed to obey an order of the court directing him to increase from $250 to $500 per month the payments ordered by the court for the support of his son, Stephen B. Elkins 3d. The boy's custody was awarded to his mother, Mary. Kenna Elkins, last September when she was given an absolute di- vorce from Blkins. The mother is a daughter of the late Senator Kenna of West Virginia. Mrs. Elkins explained to the court that the child is delicate and the al- lowance of $250 was not sufficient for his maintenance, and the court directed the increase. Elkins ignored the order of the court, and was cited for contempt. investigation. appear : . The Truth About Germany Frank G. Carpenter, world traveler and writer, is now writing from Germany, where he is making extensive The first article of an interesting series, describing conditions as they are in Germany today, will In the Magaszine of Next Sunday’s Star Order Your Copy From Newsdealer Today. {some change in thé system here. i was also on the Senate D. C. GOVERNMENT HELD OUTGROWN ! Senator Capper Says Need Has Come for Greater Local Control of Affairs. TO PUSH SCHOOL BILLS More Hope in- Next Congress of Passing Important Measures, He Says. The Disyi zrow: ment. in the opinion of Senator Cap- t of Columbia hLas out- !per of Kansas. who said today that | of | the people Vashington hould be given s their own affairs, [' s . “The failure of 3 Congress to pas e teachers' bill and compulsory cati the edu- n and school s bill is a samp of the manner in which the present sy iy sald Sen pper. “The SENATOR CAPPER. fact of the matter is that members Of Congress are very busy attending €0 legislation affecting the affair o5 their own constituents. An knows the demands upon realize that it is almost that the affairs of the District, in which they have no: the same per- onal interest, must give way to these other matters. Bill “At the next session of Congrees, T shall introduce again the teachers' pay bill and the compulsory édnca- tion bill. I believe that the Senate will pass them quickly. AS the next session of Congress is to be a long one, there should be opportunity given for the consideration of these measures in the House, “The fallure of the House to con- sider District legislation during the Jast session emphasizes the point that I have made that therc should be 1 believe that the people of the Dis- trict should be entitled to vote for presidential and vice presidential clectors. I believe that ther should have the power to elect representa- tives in Congress with power not only to speak but to vote. Of course that would require a constltutional amendment such as that reported from the Senate District committee during the last Congress. Perhaps it would be easier to get through a proposal for the election of a dele- gate to the House to speak for the District. and a bill for such a delegate calendar. Neglect of District. “Conditions are allowed to exist here in Washington which would not be allowed to exist in any other city comparable to Washington, where the citizens have a voice in their government. “Congress holds the purse-strings, and uniess it is willing to appropriate éo r;n':e]t l{le needs of the District, the ‘apital city cannot make the S it should. 3 s “There is a Senate' District commit- tee and a House District committee, especially to consider District affair. But these committees do not handle the appropriations for the District and the appropriation bills go to com- mittees which must give a great deal of their attention to the matters af- fecting the entire government of the country.” —_——— AIR SQUADRON DELAYS VOYAGE FOR REPAIRS By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., March 9.—Capt. Thomas G. Lanphier, commanding the squad- ron of six Army planes on a test flight from San Antonio, Tex., to Porto Rico, announced this morning that the hop-off from Curtiss Field here to Havana will not be made until some time Baturday, The delay i3 caused by necessary overhauling of the planes, which had to land twice during the flight from Jacksonville to Miami, and also by the rule requiring twenty-four hours’ Botico te Washington of the time of making the hop-off. - one who them will inevitable to Be Reintroduced. own the present system of govern- | eater control of ffairs of | 5 TWO CENTS. Germany to Ask | Reparations for RuhrOccupation BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. COopyright, 1923, BERLIN, March 9.—Germany will present France with a repa- rations bill of her own for dam- 4ges aone by French troops in | the Ruhr district while trying to | collect reparations from Germany. For weeks past the Ruhr indu trial magnates have been urging the government to compile au- thentic figures and documents showing the damages inflicted by invaders on <“government, state and other public property and on the life, health and property of Ge: man subjects in the Ruhr basin It is understood that, the gov- evrnment promised to take the nec 'ps to comply with the FRENCH EVACUATE DORTMUND AGAIN !Move Part of Program to Rid Ruhr of 10,000 Suspected Police. \CHILDREN QUIT AREA British Protest Adds to Tangle With French Over H Cologne District. 5 —The ¥re again been withdrawn | nd, which was occupied ¢ for the purpose of rounding | tiie members of the disbanded | j security poifce stiil at large. The! city was searched by the French sol- diers, and 270 of the security foree| members were arrested and expelled | from the district with a warn: to return. This move was part of the Franco- { Belgian program to rid the Ruhr of isome 10000 security police. who have | been a constant source oof annoyance | to the occupying forces, doing espion- | age work, spreading propaganda and | otherwise hindering the French and Belgian wmiiitary. troops from Do | | | | ! Head of Police Arrested. i At Recklinghausen Dr. Eisenreith bas been arrested by the French au- thorities. He {s president of the mu- nicipal police, and had acted as such in the daytime, but by night he had | |assumed various other roles, the French assert, to facilitate his wo as an agitator among the labor ele- !ment. When arrested hc had three { identification cards. it ix stated, and the French intelligence service r ported it had found he had three houses in various districts taken un- der different namcs. In his pocket was discovered a set of false whis- kers. | Fourteen Sentenced to Jail. | Fourteen persons accused of various off. 3 against the occupying forces at Crefeld have been sentenced by a | Belgian court-martial to jail terms of from three to sis mopths each. Six of the prisomers were newspaper edi- { tors accused of spreading agitation. | The others were customs officials and |trade union leaders who had dis- | obeved the orders of tne occupying { authorities. Dr. Schweibeil, a_member of the in- ternational Sarre boundary commission, residing in the district of Meisenheim, has been court-martialed by the French and sentenced to five vears imprison- Iment and a fine of 15,000,000 marks y He will probgbly be sent to Metz or some other nt outside the occupied area to serve his term and his family | will be expelled from the territory. 1 Sabotage on Increase. | Sabotage along the railroads and the telegraph and telephone lines is con- { tinuing. A telegraph pole was cut down |at Kettwiz and laid across the track {last night in an effort to wreck a train, | Rocks were placed on the tracks near Niedrich for the same purpose. Both attempts were discovered in time to prevent accidents. Several cars were derailed near Cob- |lentz during the night as the result of tearing oui of rails. CHILDREN SENT OUT. | Fransfer of Several Hundred Thou- § sand From Ruhr Region. By the Assoclated Press. | BOCHUM, March 9.—The ‘transfer by the Germans of several hundred thousand children from the troubled | zone has begun. Five hundred young- | sters, from three to seven years of age, were sent from here by specal train vesterday. The Germans an-| nounced they iere sent to Bremen where they would be distributed among | private families to be card for until the troubles blow over. BERLIN, March 9.—Premier Poin- care js declared by the Social Demo- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | | | i { i 9 ! BY the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich, March %—Ali creditors of the Lincoln Motorcar { Company, purchased last vear by Henry Ford at a recelver's sale, have Dbeen reimbursed in full by Mr. Ford, it was officially announced today. The sam needed to pay all claims in full was approximately $4,000,000. Mr. Ford took the step, it was announced, despite the fact that he was not re- quired to do so under the terms of his purchase. The announcement was made by Ralph_Stone, president of the De- | troit Trust Company, receiver of the Lincoln Company. All creditors of | the concern, it was announced, will receive 100 cents on the dollar, as a result of Mr. ¥ord's action. 'They previously had recelved 471 per cent, all that remained of the pro- ceeds of the sale after preferred were soid. The §4,000,000 . 'PLUNGES 504 FEET FROM MONUMENT TOINSTANT DEATH Body, Picked Up at Base, Bears Laundry Labels of A. Birney Seip. WALKS UP SHAFT AND LEAPS OUT UNNOTICED First Suicide From Outside Fall. Woman Once Jumped Down Elevator Shaft. From the south window the Washington Monument’ A. Birney Seip leaped to instant death 504 fect below shortly after one o'clock this afternoon, The body wi s found by attendants at the Monument only a vard south of the south wall of the obelisk. A pool of blood had collected about the head. One hand was badly discolored nd the belief that the victim landed almost in an oblique pesition, with the head and right arm slightly in advance of the rest of the bod The window from which the man left the Monument is eighteen inches high by three feet wide, and the win- dow ledge is four fect above the floox level, w would place the window ledgé at approximately the chest of the fallen an, it was estimated by official harge of public buildings and gro 304 Feet From Ground. n Seip was the onl of the Monument at the time. C. IL F. the guard on duty at the )t know of the tragedy until ived a telephone message from d at the bottom. It was stated ntzel wos on the opposite side levator shaft, which oceupies eT of the landing, when the man left the window The body was taken to the morgue. An fnquest will be held, if Coroncr Nevitt deems it necessary, within the next forty-cight hours. The man. apparently. wa twenty-seven years a suit’ which bore the label of Greer, a tailor who up u ago had offices in the W ward building. The date of the was February ¢ 0. Thirty-nine cents was all the money found o the on of the dead man He was clothed in a green over- coat, @ brown suit, brown shoes and black socks. A green mixturc cap was found beside the body. His irt was percale striped and he wore an soft collar, but an old purple necktie. He wore woolen underwear of the quamty issued Lo scrvice me He was about five-feet six inches in helght, weighing about 125 poun and was her dark-complévioned with light brown hair and a slig tanned skin, As far as police could learn saw Lim take the jump from tl window. An attendant of the build- 12, however, noticed that he did not ascend in the clevator, but walked up the steps. Tmmediately after the body had landed, crowds commenced to gather. Lieut. P. J. Carroll of the park police took charge, assisted by officers and members of metre- politan pulice department. ldentificd by Labels. Identification was established by means of the names contained on taf lor and laundry labels in the clothing In the inside pock T peared the nam the datc mentioned above side pocket of the cvere a tag believed by police to have been at a government laundry. ated in connection with visitor at the top top, did he re the gu. that R of the the c twenty- age. le vear cip,” with In the in- At there was The leap from the Monument is the d in the history of the structure, st having occurred Februa 1915, when Mrs. Mae Varney Coc of Covington, Ky., jumped dow elevator shaft to her death from the third landing from tho top—u tance of almost 500 feet About forty years ago, w great shaft was incomplete and o 180 feet high, a cat pursued by a dog jumped from the top of the structure. Dr. Tindall said, and when it struck the earth another dog attacked and killed it TERM FOR DEBT FUNDING DRAFTED The American Debt Funding Comi- mission today completed the formal draft of the debel which em- bodies the terms the debt-re- funding settlement recently nego- tlated with Great Dritaln, No an- nouncement was made, however, as to when the contract would be submitted to the British representatives for the signature of their government. The commission spent several hours preparing the contract terms, but did not give its formal approval to the document becausc of the absence of two commissloners. re of Ford Pays Out $4,000,000 | To Avoid Losses to Others Mr. Ford pays the remain- per cent. Checks were d vesterday. In addition.to paying the claims of about 900 merchandise creditors, Mr. Ford also reimbursed the seven for- mer directors of the company who had indorsed paper held by the banks against the Lincoln company. Among the seven were some of Mr Ford's friends of many years stand- ing. including Henry B. and Wilfred D.” Leland, founders of the Lincoln company. Mr. Ford paid $8,000,000 for the Lin- coln’ company at the receiver's saie last year. Out of this sum were paid w number of preferred claims, in cluding one to the government for alleged _overpayment on war con- tracts. The item of the government was greatly reduced, being finally settled for $1,550.000. The federal claim originally amounted to more than $8,000,000, *the former sum be- ing agreed upon at a conference be- tween the recciver and government officials, - =