Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and continued cool tonight and tomorrow Temperature for twent: ended at 2 p. 3:20 p.m. vesterday am. today Full repct on page 7. I Highest y-four hours 0, at at 6:30 Closing N. . Stocks and Bonds, Page 2 c No, 28876 I cond-class matter hington, D. C. ~ BANDIT CAPTIVES FATE UNKNOWN AS DEATH HOUR COMES No Executions Reported as Time Set Passes; Troops Begin Retreat. U. S. TO ACT ONLY AS LAST RESORT, DECIDED President and Cabinet Agree to Base Procedure on Envoy's Reports. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May hour” for the Suchow bandits hay passed, and no announcement has been received from the brigands' stronghold of any executions. Gov- ernment troops are withdrawing, as the bandits demanded. The nearest soldiers to Paotzuku, the captives' mountain prison, now are six miles distant, U. S. DEFERS ACTION. 22.—The President Discusses Policy to Be Followed With Cabinet. in consultatio: has decide: n President Harding. n with the cabinet today, that the American government be guided by advices from Minister Schurman, @t Peking, and consular officers in China in its efforts to se- cure the release of United States and foreign citizens held captive by ban- dits in Shantung province. 7 Only as a last resort, it was said a White House spokesman, will United States government parti- cipate in direct negotiations with the bandits or take any _action which would relinquish the Peking govern- ment of responsibility of action. hy the Situation Serious. The Chinese situation was under- stood to be the only subject of dis- cussion by the cabinet today. Cabi- net officials were sald to regard ex- *isting conditions in China as very serious. They described the attitude of this government as being willing to do everything becoming a great vower and a great citizenship in the face of a grave danger. The first consideration of the Wash- ington government was said to be to “zero | must | ! STANLEY BALDWIN CHOSEN PREMIER - OF GREAT BRITAIN Chancellor of Exchequer Named After Winning Con- servative Support. EXPECT LITTLE CHANGE i IN PRESENT MINISTRY Sir Robert Horne to Fill Post Va- cated by Prime Minister—Be- lieve Curzon Will Stay In. | i By the Associated Press. LONDON. May stanley Bald | Win is Great Britain's new prime | minister. He accepted the premier- ;shlr\ offered him this afternoon by King George at Buckingham Palace in succession to'Mr. Bonar Law The Central News savs the lead- ers of the consebvative party select- ed Mr. Baldwin as premier and that Sir Robert Horne, former chancel- Ilor of the exchequer, has agreed to succeed Mr. Baldwin in that office. Lord Curzon arrived in town at | midday from the country. Mr. Bald- | win also came to the ecity from | Chequers Court. while other prom- | inent conservative leaders were | within can . King Fully Informed. i King George, returning to London | trom Aldershot, came fullly informed | of the situation, which was comfnuni- |cated to him by his secretary. who |spent some hours yesterday inter- | viewing various conservative leaders | Several of these had shortened their | Whitsuntide holiday and returned to | the center of polittcal activity. 1 It is taken for granted there will | be no important changes in the minis- try. Baldwn's Rixe Rapid. Mr. Baldwin's period of political experience one of the shortest among British statesmen who have | attained this goal of thelr ambitions, | s it is only within the last few years { that he has been prominent in poli- { ties and only in the last few months become at all a commanding figure. | WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ Fh 9100111 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION /ey * Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. | I Yesterday's Net Circulation, 93,781 'M WATCHIN' THAT CHAP HE'S ITCHIN LIE 32 ALIENS KILLED STEALINGINTOUS. Believed Victims of Bandits Who Promised to Aid Entry Across Border. By the Assoc’ated Prees. MEXICO CITY. May 22.—News- paper dispatches from Nuevo Laredo say that thirty-two bodies belleved to be the remains of Itallans and other persons of forelgn birth who have been robbed and murdered while attempting to enter the United | States illegally, have been recovered ! ’ INTO IMPOSSIBLE. THE Capitol Architect | Dies on Vacation ALERT €CADDY. t i i | | | i | TUESDAY, MAY ELLIOTT WOODS, 38, EXPIRES SUDDENLY Architect of Capitol Was on Vacation to Recuperate From lil Health. iott Woods, architect of the Capitol. and prominently identified in architectural work in the Capital | for the past thirty-eight years. died ! this morning at 9 o'clock at Spring | Lake, N. J, where he had gone for is believed from heart a month's rest. to Lave been troubie. Death caused He was fifty-nine vears old. | 22, 1923—FORTY PAGES. Rea Consents to Before Rail versy—-Labor Wa of Capital By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, May Presi- dent Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania railroad system today wired the United States Labor Board at Chicago that he would appear before the board nekt Monday afternoon in the matter of the complaint before the board of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamehip Clerks. President Rea in a letter received | by the board yesterday sald that the company would not be represented before the board at a hearing scheduled for yesterday, because the brotherhood did not represent the clerical and miscellaneous forces of the road and because there is no dispute pending between the elected representatives of the employes and TURKS BLOW UP MARITZA BRIDGE Consternation in Athens. I Greeks Ready to War Over | Reparations. ; 22 By the Associated Press ATHENS, May Turkish troops | | are reportel to have blown up the: | bridge over the Maritza river con- [ necting Adrianople and Karagath.. | The news caused consternation here | READY TO DO BATTLE. Greek Foreign Minister Firm Against Turk Demands. LAUSANNE, May 22.—If Turkey in- sists on war to settle the question of the indemnity she claims is due from Greece, then Greece will accept | the gage of battie, M* Alexandris, the Greek foreign minister told the for- elgn correspondents last n'ght The Greek delegates, he added, will i Pennsy Head Yields Point in Contro- | tomac Electric Power Company. in a 20000 P FORCED BY NEEDS * OF POSTAL SERVICE Appear Board Hearing tching Outcome “Strike.” Shortage of Funds Real and Not Theoretical, as in Past. the management. which. in the opinion of the company, could not be amicably adjusted. Threatened Subpoenn. | The board thereupon announced | that it would subpoena Mr. Rea to| NEW OBUGED TO SPEND appear May 28 unless he signified his s s : | DESPITE LEGAL BARS willingness to be represented at a hearing. Mr. Rea's telegram sent today and | addressed to Chairman Hooper of the | Vast Increase in Business Compels board, says: | “Replying to your wire 21st. while| ~ Department to Exceed Con- the position of the Pennsylvania rail- s ge road was clearly stated in my letter | gress Appropriations. of May 18 and the reasons given why When Postmaster General New goes a Opposition to a revaluation of its property by the District Supreme Court was voiced today by the Po-| we would not be represented at the hearing yesterday, I will in response | e Tabor e A oanr “oetore you|on his vacation, toward the end = G oninueaion = this month, to be gone, in the Michi- | gan woods, until June 13, he will |leave behind him a two or three mil- | lion dollar deficit in the postal serv- ice. Offtand. one might be inclined to ithinl\ that the postal service always ‘has a “deficit,” but this is a real deficit, not a comparative one. For | instance, if the postal service takes $500,000,000 in revenue during |fiscal year, and its expenses were $564,000,000, Congress will have ap- Power Company Asks 19|7fwupnazed $564,000,000. Such a “defi- it = {cit” is how much the service lacks of Findings Be Set Aside |“breaking even” Spend More Than Voted. and Order Nulled. Owing to the necessity for more clerks and carriers, due to increased business throughout the nation, the postal service has been forced to spend more for these items than it has appropriated for them There will still be the old theoretical “defi- motion to set aside the valuation | cit"—probably about $35,000,000 for found by the Public Ttilitics Com-|the year to end June 30 next, and mission ‘May 2, 1917, and for the an-|then there will be this new and real nulment of order No. 208, based on deficit of $2.000,000 to $3,000,000 that valuation. Notice was served on|which will represent money expended Corporation Counsel Stephens and ;umgn C[;mgrflu has not appropH 1ted S) i, c = The Postmaster General now knows e mot T outa pe sanen soine we.| LB, Sl Torce o thas oid s about - | what would happen if an irresistible tention of Chief Justice McCoy Fri- |force meets an immovable object. 1t day morning. 11t comes to moving the United States mails—well, they must be moved Mails Must Move. It was because Mr. New was faced with a modern problem a great deal like the old classic that he knows more Holds Valuation Can’t Stand. The company holds that under the | decision of the District Court of Ap- | Peals there is nothing for the lower | court pg from the waters of the Rio Grande in | Mr. Woods had been in poor health to do but set aside the com-|,poyg it today than most people. When save the lives of the captives. It was pointed out that the United States government could not proceed mafely except on the advices of represensatives in China. Minister Schurman and the American consuls were described as most able and effi- cient agents who were repurting con- tinuously on conditions. The whole situation was desccibed as being fraught with grave possihili- i and dire consequences. The cabinet discussions, it was un- derstood, included an extended con- sideration of the question of starting direct negotiations with the bandits, due in part lease of the prisoners and to exercise its control over the brigands. Such a step, however, was held to be an action of the last resort. It wae realized that once direct ne- gotiations were opened with the ban- dit_chieftains that action automat- fcally would relieve the Peking gov- ernment of responsibility, and that such procedure would constitute a very dangerous international prac- tice. CONDITIONS TERRIBLE. TIENTSIN, May 22.—Latest vices from Tsaochwang today firmed the complete deadlock report- ed in negotiations conducted by the Peking governmen: to obtain the of the foreigners held by jits in a Shantung mountaln sironghold Conditions under which several for ©ign captives were held at the sum- nit of Paotzuku mountain were de- scribed as “terrible.” The only real peace offer put forth by t chun of Shantung province was said to have been rejected ny the bandits, with the laconic reitera- tion, “Withdraw the trocps to their original station The tuchun of- tered to withdraw some distance from Paotzuku simultancously with the release of a third of the pris- oners couditionally. Or. release other third, he said he would with all the demands for arawal, tke remalring third liberated when the bandits, as thoy have stipulated, weve formed into urigades of tte regular army. Doubt Sincerity. The outlaws, however. refused to believe the Tuchun sincere, and so notified the foreign consuls at Tsao- chwang. Most of the captives have been re- moved to the summit and it is believed that the will follow. Messengers now are for- bidden to ascend the mountain, so that it is difficult to verify reports, but letters from the captives, still reaching the outside, establish some- thing of their movements. One of the hostages, Lee Solomon, who s Shanghai agent for a San Francisco firm, wrote describing his trip to the summit. Picked Their Captives. “Saturday evening,” he related. “the bandits decided that since no negotiations of any kind had started, and since Chinese officials and gen e1als had been lying to the foreign- rs, they would go a step further and send three captives to the fort- ad- con- to be ress. They picked out Maj. Allen and | Pinxer and myself. “We started at 6 o'clock. Tt was hell. You climb up a mountain 1,800 feet and it is like scaling the Wool- worth building. “At the top it is terrible. The sum- mit_covers only two acres. all cover- ed with dirty dugouts. Three of us live in one of them. There are forty or fifty also, mostly children.” At the request of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Pinger of San Francisco. the parents of Maj. Roland Pinger, the Assoclated Press dispatched the officer a message of hope and encouragement from his family. The mesage was carried to the mountain top by brigand ex- press—the title in which a half- naked bandit coolle glories. A reply from Maj. Pinger is expected tomor- row. Food Is Receive The bandit chlef gave the rellef camp his personal asurance that the foodstuffs sent to -the mountains \ould regch the captives, who would Le allowed to send receipts. This had a reassuring effect in the camp, Camp beds and clothing. have been re- fe ceived. Tho brigand express has organized its | to the impotency of the' Peking government to obtain the re- of Paotzuku, | others | Chinese prisoners here | premiership problem thus suddenly thrust upon the country is regarded as unques- tionably a keen disappointment to Lord Curzon, who two davs ago was regarded as almost certain to suc- ceed Mr. Bonar Law in the office va- cated by that statesman Sunday be- cause of ill health. The foreign sec- retary, however, is pointed to as a victim of circumstances. and not as being passed over because of any lack of ubility, and certainly not from any lack of experience. - Against Lord for Premier. The sudden rise of the labor party to the position of the official opposi- tion in the house of commons has made a prime minister in the house or lords almost an impossibility. La- bor is without a single representative in the upper chamber, and with the premier in the house of lords the op- position party would be unable to meet him in debate or confront him | with questions, which Is one of the strongest prerogatives of the opp tion. This would have created a sit- uation unknown to parliamentary history in modern times. 3 The conservative leaders, or at least the small number of them who | were engared in confer- | are in town ences last night and this morning. | hut kept under cover so carefully that the newsnaners were unable to discover their whereabouts. Mean- while communications telephone and telegraph were exchanged with those leaders who were out of the city over the holidays. Labor Against Curson as Lord. After agreeing among themselves that Mr. Baldwin should be selected for the premiershin, the leaders, it seems, made known their wishes re- garding the succession to King George, doubtless because the king asked their advice as he was unable | to consult the outgoing prime min- ister. The king was in no bound to ask that advice, and it considered wholly unlikely thrust it upon him unrequested. At labor party headquarters morning a statement was issued say ing all shades of thought In tie labor movement were agreed there would not be the slightest justifica- tion for appointing a member of the house of lords s premier. Labor, it was pointed out, was practically unrepresented in the lords ard if a member of that house o alien to the aspirations of democ- racy were chosen, said the statement in an obvious thrust at Lord Curzon, such action would ve profoundly re- sented by the labor party Labor Threatenx. The labor spokesman added that in the event a peer were chosen the labor prrty would use every politieal device to precipitate a dissolution of parliament. The feeling among that the laborites the premier should belong to the opposition is reflected in the other parties. The premier's place, it is Reid, is in the commons. where the government is most strongly opposed. All the ministers in the cabinet are expected, according to custom, to tender their resignations to the king. A period of twenty-four hours must elapse before the appointment of a new cabinet, but in this case nearly all will be reappointed, with the no- table addition of Sir Robert Horne, who, as chancellor of the exchequer, will resume the office he held under the Lloyd George coalition. The question is being asked wheth- er Lord Curzon will consent to serve in the cabinet under Mr. Baldwin's (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) { i U. S. Sends New i A draft of a new treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Spain has been forwarded by the State Department to Alexan der P. Moore, American ambassador at Madrid, to be negotiated by him with the Spanish government. ‘The proposed convention would sup- plant the old ‘treaty of commerce, postal lines, with two deliveries daily. (Continued on rage 2, Column 6.) government on November 5, 1922, at wise | | railroad town. the house where he is able to face| which was denounced by the Madrid | the vicinity of Laredo, Tex. on the Mexican side of the river. An investigation Is underway at Monterey, the dispatches assert, to de- termine the truth of eharges that members of a family fn that city have been murdering and robbing foreigners whom they have Inveigled into attempting clandestine entrance into the United States. Identification Impossible. Except for the remains of six Ital- ians recently found, the correspond- ents say, the bodies have long been { tification is impossible. Six Italians, hiring a band of Mexi- cans to smuggle them across the Rio | Grande at a point near Nuevo Laredo, were murdered by their guides on the night of May {told by the seventh and surviving | member of the party, who made his way to Columbia, Nuevo Leon, ofex- ico. Subsequently six bodies, weight- cd with stones, werc recovered from the river. Several Mexicans have Leen arrested in Nuevo Laredo in ccn- nection with the murders. SAVED FROM SHIP; FACE LONG WALK 436 Persons Landed From Sinking Boat Fourteen Miles From Railroad. Br the Assoclated Press. ST. JOHN'S, May 22—The 436 pas- sengers and the crew of the Canadian Pacific liner Marvale rescued yester- day when the steamer sank near Cape Pine after striking a rock started on a long hike today. In the little fishing village of St. Shotts, where the ship's boats landed them, sheiter was found for the night, but there was no adequate means of con- veyance to Trepassey, the nearest company this morning shouldered what little baggage they had saved and started afoot over the road, fac- ing a walk of fourteen miles. It is expected that the steamer Em- press of Britain will call at Trepassey and take the passengers aboard. If this is found impracticable they will come to St. Johns by rail and catch | the steamer here. The Marvale, bound from Ontreal for Liverpool, hit the rock during a dense fog yesterday afternoon. In‘a sinking condition she was headed for a sandy beach, but when it was ap- parent that she could not reach it in time the boats were lowered and in the smooth water there was no dif- ficulty in saving all on board. Short- ly afterward the steamer foundered in seven fathoms of water. Today she was lying with boat deck awash a mile off Cape Pine. Pactto S pdin To Replace Denounced Treat ' > which time notice was given the United States that the existing agree- ment would be discontinued within one yea ‘The draft of the new treaty wae prepared by State Department ofi- cialy here, in conjunction with De- partment of Commerce »nd Spanish embassy staff members. It is one of a series of new trade agreements ba- ing drawn. by the United States to replace obsolete treaties. submerged in the river mud and iden-} . according to the story | So the shipwrecked| | i | ] | | | i ~ INFILIPIND 15SUE Propaganda Fund Payments‘ Hidden Away, Though Public Wants Facts. i BY WAL | By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily i News. Copyright, 1 | MANILA. May 22.—Secret expendi- {tures of the Filipino independence | | propaganda fund. said to involve nu- | imerous congressmen and other gov-, ernment officials in Washington, will! remain hidden away for the present at least in the insular auditor's of-| fice, except for the few names re- cently dug up by Junius B. Wood. Governor General Leonard Wood {has taken no action yet toward au- thorizing publication of the auditor's data, covering data regarding expen- ditures up to the end of 1922. How- ever, public opinion favoring publica- tion of all available facts is apparent- | 1y growing stronger, and Gov. Wood may later acquiesce to this demand. Declares Report False. Gov. Wood has returned to Manila from Baguio, and American news- papers here are insisting editorially | upon full publication of the auditor's report. At the same time several Filipino_papers are sanathematizing Junius B. Wood. They charge that the story written by Wood is false, but fail to advodate conclusive proof of their allegations, which is, of| course, publication of the auditor's report. Representative Luna of the Philip- pine legislature declared today that he does not believe that even Gov. Wood has a reliable record of ex- penditures from the fund. Other ad- herents of Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate, and one of the custodians of the fund, feel that in the future representatives and senators in Washington will be chary about advocating island independence. Apparently the most exaggerated accounts of what the news dispatches actually contained have floated back to Manila from Washington. The Manlla Daily Bulletin says edi- torially: “The Jones law provides that it shall be the duty of the insular audi- tor to examine, audit and settle all accounts pertaining to revenues and receipts from whatever source of the Philippine government and to audit all expenditures of funds or property. Presuming the insular auditor has complied with the law, a complete and accurate audit of the expendi- tures of the independent fund exists. If it does exist, why not make it pub- lc? If there I8 nothing to hide, there can be no objection to publication of facts regarding the complete audit. Mere statements that no grounds exist for the aspersions and charges that have been made regarding the disbursing of funds will not suffice.” —_— ACCEPTS U. S. POST. The appointment of J. Walter Drake of Michigan, to be assistant secretary of commerce, succeeding C. H. Huston, who recently resigned, was announced formally yesterday at the White House. ER J. ROBB. i l | time for several months and was advised by his physicians to take a vacation. He last Saturday for Spring Lake to visit her unele, T. A. Kastner. Previously he had been suffering from high blood pressure, induced to a large extent, his assocates declared, overwork. He was born February 2, 1864, near i Manchester, England. during a visit of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Woods. abroad. He was educated in Indianapolis. and at the age of thir- teen entered a factory to study wood carving. He displayed considerable talent in architecture during his early youth. Moved Here in 1554, In 1554 he moved to this city where he obtained a position in the old Con- gressional Library. located at that in the Capitol. By exhibiting great ability in architectural know { edge, he was six months later trans- | [Vhich Greece is trying to transform ferred to the office of the architecture. Since that time he had been constant- Iy _employed there. He entered the architect's office as foreman and later rose to the position !of chief clerk under Edward Clark Later, as Mr. Ciark’s health began to fail, he was made chief clerk and acting’ architect. Upon Mr. Clark's death, in 1902, he became superin- tendent, a position similar to that of architect, but without the title. This change of title was made by an act of Congress in commemora. tion of Mr. Clarke's long service. In 1920 Congress again established the title of architect as a_ tribute to the achievements of Mr. Woods. Accord ing to his assoclates. this title w. | more precious to Mr. Woods than an thing he could wish for. Served for Thirty-eight Years. Mr. Woods' service of thirty-eight | years is marked by many notable ac- complishments. Among many other duties he was largely responsible for the architecture of the Senate and House office buildings, the Court of Appeals, the Court of Claims, the Co- lumbia Hospital, the dormitory at Kendall Green, the deaf and dumb institution; the enlargement of the Capitoi grounds, the Arlington amphitheater and the Scottish Rite cathedral at 16th and S streets. Mr. Woods served on the zoning commission of the District of Colum: bia and the enlargement of the Cap- itol grounds commission. He was a consulting architect of the proposed Masonic Temple to be erected on Tem- ple Heights here. He took an active interest in the sciences and was an early experi- menter in astronomy, wireless teleg- raphy and telephony and the X-ray. He was a member of the Cosmos Club, the Chevy Chase Club, the Racquet Club and the Royal Astronomical So- clety of London. He resided in Stone- leigh Courts. Active in Masonry. He was also actively interested in Masonry and took an active part in the affairs of the craft besides his architectural work. He was a member of Temple Noyes Lodge, No. 32, F. A. A. M.; a thirty-second degree Scot- tish Rite Mason and member of Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of_the Mystic Shrine. He was married to Miss Emma G. Brock of this city, May 26, 1897. Sur- viving him, besides his wife, are his mother, Mrs. Katherine Woods, and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Johnston. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. —— INDIANS SUFFERING. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 22.—Pes- tilence and starvation, which for the last three years have decimated theuIn. dians of the Interior. again are causing havoc in the upper Tanana country, ac- cording to reports reaching here. = As. sistant District Attorney Collins and Dr. De Lavergne have left here by launch for Tolovana Landing, where the Indians are said to be suffering from an epMdemic of influenza. Five are repo; dead there and the twelve survivos are sald to be starving. Fairbanks is preparing to rush relief to them. left Washington with his wife| by | the Capitol power plant. | | be withdrawn from the near east| | conference this week if Turkey per- | |slsts in her reparation demands. M. Alexandris told the foreign cor- | respondents that “if the Turks propose 1(0 resume the war to obtain an indem- | nity, then Greece accepts the chal- lenge. “My government.” he continued, “has | determined to retire from the confer- |ence next Wednesday or Thursday, | when the indemnity question comes up |in a plenary session, if Turkey insists ! upon an unjust position or any effort is | made to_ force Greece to accept this | position.” i | " "He said he thought that “if thel jworst comes to the worst. the Greek |army will be able to defend it3 hon- o | | “Turkey seems to feel that Greece | | was beaten in the war, and therefore {owes an indemnity,” he 'said. “But this | is a grave error, as Greece was merely beaten in battle in Asia Minor, and hos- | tilities were suspended by an armistice | into peace.” The foreign minister urged | Turkey and Greece write off their rep- arations demands one against the other. GREEK ADVANCE DENIED. that | iAIlies Still Hope to Avoid Conflict in Thrace. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Copyright, 1928, CONSTANTINOPLE, May 22.—Eu-| rope’s attention is again concentrated 22 Thrace, where the Greek army is con- | centrated and ready for action at an | hour’s nme. So far the persistent reports oMSreek advance guards hav- ing crossed the Maritza into Turkish | territory are unfounded, and the allies | | still hope to avoid an armed conflict | by offering the Greeks and Turks a | solution acceptable to both. Monday the allied diplomats sug- gested that the Turks abandon their claim fgr reparations from the Greeks | in exchange for tne little town of| Karagatich, which, at the _earller | stages of the Lausanne conference. | was said by the Turks to be essential {to the economic life of Adrianople. | Ismet Pasha promised to refer the | | propsal to Angora, while Venizelos ! did not agree to the solution. MARK NEARING ZERO. Worth 56,000 to Dollar Today, New Low Record Set. NEW YORK, May 22.—Another sharp break In German marks in the local market today sent them down to .0017% | cents, or more than 56,000 to the Amer- ican dollar. This represents a drop of two points below the previous extreme low for all time, established last Sat- urday. German note circulation, as revealed in the latest Reichsbank statement, is now around seven trillion paper marks. Sixty million gold marks, equivalent to slightly less than $15,000,000, is en route to this country from Germany. Detailed plans for the development proposed by the Ford Motor Company on the Mississippi river between-St. Paul and Minneapolis were flled with the Federal Power Commission today by engineers and attorneys repre- senting Henry Ford, with an appli- cation for a permanent license cover- ing the project. The company already holds a tem- porary permit, which would expire July 1, but under regulations an ap- plicant is required to file before ex- piration of the ldone by mission’s valuation. To do otherwise, it is ciaimed, the District Supreme Court must make an original valua- tion of the property. a function vest- ed ouly In the Public Utilities Com- mission. Through Attorneys John S. Barbour and S. R. Bowen the company claims that if the court has any discretion at this time as to whether it shall or shall not attempt now to value plain- tiff's property, it should decline to exercise that discretion. But the suggestion is made that the declsion of the appelldte court leaves no such discretion in the lower court. Beyond Power, Lawyers Contend. The lawyers contend that if such valuation is made by the lower court as of any other date than that origi- nally used by the commission, to-wit, July 1, 1914, it will be essentially a new valuation, something not here- tofore either done or attempted to be the commission and some- thing specifically declined by the commission. This, it claimed, is beyond the power of the court. There is not sufficient evidence in the record. counsel for the Pejco as- serts, to enable the court to make a valuation, even approximately cor- rect. as of the present time. A valua- tion now made by the court as of the date originally adopted by the com- mission would not conform to the is useless and untrustworthy as a rate base for the future, the only purpose | ich it could be appMed and the | to w only justification and excuse for mak- ing it. Saved by Autoist To Be Killed by Him Hour Later By the Associated Press, ROCHESTER, N. Y., May Saved from drowning in a creek by a passing motorist, and half an hour later struck and severely in- jured by the same motorist on Lake road. south of Clarkson Cor- ners, Frank Akey, sixty-five, of Brockport died at the county hos- pital here. Responding to calls for help. Herbert Chapman, fruit grower, of Clarkson, stopped his car at a creek near Brockport and found Akey struggling in the water. Wading in, Chapman succeeded in pulling the man to shore. Chapman went into Brockport with his wife to pay a call. On the way back he took the same high- way, the Lake road. About three- quarters of a mile beyond the scene of his rescue, Chapman says, Akey suddenly staggered from the side” of the road in front of the car. He was knocked down and received a fractured skull Ford Files Plans for Power Project on Mississippi River| complete plans of his proposal. The Ford company complied today by sub- mitting blue prints and estimates of the engineering firm of Stone & Web- ster, Boston, which, it was said. would be given the contract for con- struction if the license was issued. The commission also was handed copies of contracts dealing with the disposal to be developed from the power site. Jt was estimated that the develop- ment would produce a maximum of 18,000 horsepower. The application will be considered by the commission at its next regular meeting, which temporary permit has not yet been called. of surplus power expected | {he became Postmaster General the | postal service realized that there were not_enough funds to carry its work on untli June 30, the end of the fiscal year. But the ma#lls must be moved. There {1s law to that effect. And there also |is law to the effect that no government | @epartment must exceed its appropria- | tions. To do =0 places the cabinet of- ficlal involved—at least, theoretically— “n a bad way. H Irresistible Force Wins. The irresistible force of the neces- sity of moving the people's mail has | met, during the last few months, the {immovable object of not exceeding the {appropriations, both regular and de- ficiency. The irresistible force wins! Despite the lack of money and the law against exceeding the appropria- tions, the postal service has kept the mails moving on schedule. Acted Without Fear. The Postmaster General and his assistants did not hesitate a second | when they discovered in April that the money was giving out. They econ- omized as far as possible—and then | determined to keep the United States | postal service at its normal high | standards, despite the lack of money Where new clerks and carriers | have been absolutely necessary the Post Office Department has author- ized them. A striking example of this is right at hand here in the Na- | tional Capital. No Other Way Out. At the end of this week the Wash- | tngton ¥y post office will place on jduty 100 new clerks and about a score on the little muddy river across|Statute. and if made would be wholly | of carriers, in order to handle the increased mail of the city during the Shrine convention week. The {has to be done, and it will be done, let the deficit fall as it may. So, when Mr. New goes on his va- cation shortly, he will not worry | much about Uncle Sam, detective, be { ing on his trail for violating that law | about not exceeding his appropria- | tions. He has obeyed that other good {1aw, that Uncle. Sam's mail must be | kept moving. If the worst comes 1o | the worst, he can put that old prob- {lem about the irresistible force and the immovable object up to Congress, and there s no doubt in the world { that Congress will side wita kis so- lution of the problem. LEAVES HOME $3,000. Galt Will Contains Bequest for Presbyterians, The Presbyterian Home in this city is given $3.000 and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Pa., $1,000 by the terms of the will of Ralph L. Galt, sr., prominent feed dealer who died May 17. Five of his employes are each left $1,000. They are Willlam T. Betts, Nelson H. Du- vall, Braxton L. Mohler , John A. Becker and Charles A. Aue. The re- maining_estate s devised to the widow, Rachel C. 8. Galt, Henry E | Davis and William T. Betts, in trust to pay one’fourth the net income to his son, Ralph L. Galt, ir.; one-eighth { each to the granddaughters, Dorothy and Henrietta Galt, and the balance | to the widow. Strive to Set Up Rhine Republic; Treves Is Cut Off BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL, By e rein e COLOGNE. May 22.—An attempt to proclaim a Rhineland republic was reported today at Treves. Communications with the city are practically cut off. Apparently a first attempt to proclaim a republic failed, but the movement is continuing. work