Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight warm; light to gentle winds Temperature for twenty. ended at 2 p.m. today: noon today; lowest, 63, Full report on pags and tomorrow; Highest, §8, at t 5 a.m. today. rather ~tour hours Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 No. 28,934. post office Wa PANCHOVILLA SLAIN BY OWN SECRETARY| . ONMEXICAN RANCH Famous Ex-Bandit, Who! Eluded Pershing in Punitive | Expedition, Shot Down. SLAYER LATER KILLED: 200 WOUNDED IN FIGHT Chieftain, Who Led Famous Raid on Columbus, N. M., Had Turned to Farming. | Br the Amociated Pres CHICHUHUA CITY, Mex Francisco (Pancho) July —Gen Vil commander of rebel arnies in northern Mexico for ten years. was shot and killed this morning at £:20 o'clock at his big ranch at Canutillo, Du- rango, by Miguel el secre- tarr In the which his battle followed Trillo was killed be men loyal to 1 {this Entered as sccond clues caatter hington, D. C. Belgium at Crisi New Allied BY WILLIAM E. NASH. By Cable to The Atar and Chicago Dails News. Copyright, 1923, BRUSSELS, July 20.—Belglum has become the battleground once more, as she has been before in history, time through participation in the great Franco-British diplomatic contest. Each of her two powerful nelgh- bors want to force her into the atrife. England wants Belgium at her sid and France wants her on France side. Ilowever. they know she has reasons of {mpe: ive interes for maint ing her neutrality. Hel, whole forelgn policy since the ar mistice. when she abandoned the guaranty of neutrality violated by Germany fn 1914, has been based on the idea of co-operation between REPARATIONS REPLY MODERATE IN TONE, 10 BE SENT TODAY British Cabinet Makes Final thelr slain chlef- tain, and. accord- & to latest advices ranch, the fight progress. Bloody Fighting Follows. More than 200 casualties have oc- eurred in sangui followed the Trillo, The latter PANCIO VILLA. | | received from | stin is in| shooting Villa by is said to have become fncensed at the former bandit leader and to have fired at him suddenly The bullets took fatal effect and Villa | died almost {mmediately | Trillo was fired upon by other men near the scene of the shoc was killed a few minutes | Men who had_raliied behind Trillo then engaged the loval Villa troops and a general battle occurred within the ranch. Villa had about 8§00 men on the ranch and all were trained in | the handling of firearms. having fol- | lowed the chieftain in his campaigns | nzainst the Obregon government just prior to his surrender and signing of the armistice with Obregon Lived Like Feudal Baron. The movement headed by Trillo is #ald to have been the culmination ill-feeiing against the ranch, due to delay in paving his men. and the iallure of crops because of lack of rAin. Villa meveral times declared that | in event of a rebelilon he would put it down with an iron hand and in such manner that it would not he repeated. hers were immense munitions and arms at whera Vi ter | stores of | the ranch la lived the life of a feudal baron. He maintained an i{solated position, having his own artillery | and cavalry companies and alwavs thowing an aggr ve dlsposition to hold on to his property acquired when the peace pact was signed. May Dispatch Troops. Chihuahug military officials said to- day that they were not positive whether federal forces will be sent to the ecene Immediately, dus to the yfact that Gen. Euginio Martinez, per- sonal friend of Villa. is said to be en route to Canutillo to quell the up- rising. Tt was due to the efforts of Gen reached wtlh Villa when the rebel chieftain laid down his arms. In event troops are needed. they will be sent immediately, however, it was stated. “Settled Down™ in 19320. ¥ranolsco (Pancho) Villa, guerrilla ohieftaln and bandit leader in Mexi- en for more than ten years, declared that he had ended his career of out- | lawry head fo in August, 1920, 900 followers. of what had once been 26.000 men, he entered San Pedro, oahuila, and, amid the ch s of the populace, announced the intention of nimself and men of accepting am- nosty and settling down as farmers A few weeks earlier Villa had sur- rendered to federal forces at Sabinas. 3e then declared his adherence to Provisional President de la Huerta and Gen. Alvaro Obregon. later elacted president. to succeed Carranza. Before capitulating 2 demanded and was granted by the Mexican government one year's pay and a small farm for each of his men, a grant equal to $2,000.000 goid. Rald on Columbu One of the most notable escapades of Villa was his raid on Columbus. N. M., on March 6, 1916, in which he and his followers killed seventeen Americans. It resulted in a punitive American military expedition under Gen. Pershing crossing the border and maintaining & “dead or_ ali: pursuit of Villa which lasted more than nine months and cost th Tnited States government, according 10 a War Department estimate, near- 1y_$100,000,000. Tn a battl t Parral, American troopers were ambushed and a num- ber of them killed. On March 31, however, the bandit's followers were defeated at Guerrero. The Ameri- cans were successful in a number of other skirmishes and penetrated so far south into Mexico as to meet the constitutionalist troops of Carranza who, ostensibly, were also in pursuit ©f the rene, e Mexican leader. Villa, wounded, but always sluding when, at the his army of Martinez that a settlement was | the remnant | Changes in Note Aimed to Solve Dispute. U. S. TO GET DRAFT: MAY 4, M€ o | BE ASKED TO CONFERENCE { International Parley. Demand for|riod during another int Passive Resistance Halt, Said to Be in Note. By the Associated Prems. LONDON, July 20.—Additional aitera tions wers made today in the text of the draft reply to Germany's reparation memorandum by thé British cabinet, | which met in the premier's room in the | house of commons this morning. Un- less it should weem expedient to make | some eleventh-hour changes the docu- ment probably will be dispatched to the allied and American governments tonight. It is understood that reply contains about 1,400 words and is up to the standard of cogency and force- fulness usually characterizing docu- ments prepared by Lord Curzon, the secretary for forelgn affairs, and that it is marked throughout by a most mod- | erate and amicabla tone. There is still some doubt as to Whether the much discussed supplementary memorandum of an explanatory nature with the draft. The second document may be confined merely to the form of a covering letter, this point to be set- tled by the cabinet later in the day. Among the multiplicity of forecasts oftered the public by the politioal oracles it seems safe to accept the prediction that the note will deal with the apopintment of an interna- tional commitiee of experts to ap- praise Germany's assets, and that it will suggest to Germany that Great Britain is prepared to ask France to reduce the occupationary foroces to a minimum, so that Germany's indus- jtrial and mining plants in that re- glon _shall free to contribute to the payment of reparations. In re- turn for this Germany will be ex- pected to countermand all ordinances for passive resista Wil Not Cancel Debts. Tt is also considered certaln that Great Britain will not offer to cancel the French. Italian and Belgian debts as suggested by some reports. This proposition never has been discussed with the allies, and even {f it had been it is considered entirely ir- relevant to the reply to Germany's reparation note The present documents have broad- 1y for their purpose the ultimate sub- miesion of the whole reparation prob- lem to an international conference of the plenipotentaries to be held in the near future in Brussels or some other equally acceptable city, according. to the best information. It is coni ered probable the note will ask the interested governments to indleate their approval of such a meeting. May Invite T. 8. It is still uncertain whether the United States will be Invited to such a conference, in view of its kmown reluctanoce to re-enter European poli- tics, but some of the allled author- ities foresse the poasibility of the Washington government lending its moral influence and counsel to such a gathering by sending a delegate with a status somew! similar to that of the American representatives now at Lausanne. Some newspaper men here find no barrier in the official secretiveness which hitherto has prevented suc- cessfully most of the credited politi- cal writers making known more than ntinued on uman §.) Bakes 8 Days in ontinued on umn 8.) Ship’s Fiddler; " But U. S. Locks Doors for Him By the Assoclated Paees. NHW YORE, July $0.—Cooked Por seven days while a stowaway in the torrid “fddler” of the steamship Rellance, his face and body eovered with soot'and his form lean from hunger, Karl Bolk, & meashantoal engineer from Ham- burg, went to Ellls Tsiand today to be deported. Ten days ago he orept aboard the Reliance and secreted himself in the fiddler. No matter what the temperature outside may be, it is 'mhothmfl& : ne carried & string of sage and some obtatned 1n & tiny g in s g gensd door bang with the swayi; of the boat.® Ship's offcers heard it went to seoure it and found him. They dragged him out hysterical ‘Then he told his story. His wife and child in Germany had too lit- te. He had money to come to Amer 1t Be eould a He_re the Rel! ¢h Decision on German Policy to Come on Receipt of British Note Asking um's the suggested ! will be sent! WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., FRIDAY, ¢ ZFoening Star. “From Press to Home I 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. Yelte?d]y’s ILI Circnlafil;, 877,756.“ JULY 20, 1923—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. s in Choosing Between London and Paris Aims Ruhr Stand. France. and England in an entente | cordiale “and 1f that co-operation ceames she will logically find herself obliged to take a painful step by choosing between them. Early Decision Required. | By land Belgium's security depends i.m France, and by sea on Great Brit- aln. The time limit for making the momentous decision is short, for by tomorrow & communication i ex- | pected from London asking Belgium. | among other sllles. to aign & common I note to ¥ or take upon her- [Rete the iitnces OT denarate ac- | tion What the Belgian government will it s impossible to state. She in! up heavil Frauce., and| re s i view (Continued on Page 9. Column 5.) DAMNDUSK FLGHT OFF FORTH VEAR Announcement Follows Sec-| ond Attempt of Maughan to Reach Coast. in | a0 tied | jan j whipping act The Army air service announced to- |day that the attempt to make a day- {light-to-dark fiight mcross the continent, | |in which Lieut. Russeli L. Maughan has 1(nfltd twice, had been called off for the | vear No ex; on accompanied the an- ;mouncement, but it fs understocd air | service officials are convinced that the | shortening of the avallabie daylight pe- val of prepara- | tion would be sufficient to make :: in Ipl'ohlb't that Lileut. Maughan could {reach his destination at San Francisco | betore dark. i Shortening of Daylight. ! A loss of fifteen minutes or more in | vailable daylight time was computed between the date of the first and second attempts, and return of the ship to| New York and its overhaul for a third ' effort would require an equal If mot | greater loss. Esperience in the first two flights also demonstrated that considerable d lays must be expected because of un- | favorable winds and other weather co) ditions In various sections, and air serv- | ice officials do not believe the chances | i of success of a third attempt so late in {the vear would justifs the effort There appears to be no doubt in the minds of officers. however, that the day- | | light-to-dark flight will agaln be at- tempted next vear. when midsummer affords the greatest possible daylight time for the experiment. | STOPPED BY GAS LEAD. | Maughan Forced Down in Wyo-| ming After Hard Fight. By the Associated Press ROCK EPRINGS, Wyo., July 30. Battling unfiinchingly to the end {n his | second race against time to span the American continent between dawn and dusk, Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, Army aviator, has lost again before | the odds of mectanical weakness| which grought him down with a leaking oil cooler, at Rock Springs, | Wyo., late yesterday. Winging his way westward, acrol perilous Wyoming mountain ranges. t the terrific rate of 170 miles an hour, after covering more than two- thirds of the 8,670-mile flight, the " (Continued oh Page 2, Column Z. —_— SOVIET WILL SIEN TREATY ON STRAITS Lausanne Parley Informed of Acceptance of Interna- tional Control Pact. - i | | | By the Associated Press. y LAUSANNE, July 20.—Soviet Rus- sia notified the near it conference today that she accepts the convention for control of the Turkish straits negotiated here and will sign the protocol at Constantinople within the next three weeks. Announcement of the soviet deci- sion created extraordinary interest here, as it brings the Moscow govern- ment into official relations with the ! European powers as co-signatory of | an international pact. It s unde: stood that the Turkish government induced the Russians to adhere to the convention in the general interest of co-operation in the near east. Work om U. S. Treaty. Ismet Pashe, head of the Turkish delegation, and Joseph C. Grew, Amer- ican minister to Bwitgerland, had a | long conference today over the dis- puted points in the proposed Turco- American treaty, particularly regard- | ing the claims of Americans against Turkey and Turkey's acceptance of the Amerioan naturalization laws. Ismet may have to remain here a few days after the Huropean treaty is signed, as the American text may not be ready by next Tuesday when the ing of the peace documents is to take places Terks Hasten Ratifieation. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 20.—The Turkish commissary of the interior |Lo! has Instructed the newly deputies to hasten to Angora, the capital, 80 as to permit convocation of the national assembly without loss of tim G‘M“hu“o‘rm: ected s Y of the , wi as & publis | pant's head from the roof SHEATROK TAKES PLACEOFLASHI CONVIET CANPS Torture Necessary Since Law Abolished Flogging, Say Florida Bosses. BARE NEGRO OFFENDERS TO SUN AND MOSQUITOES Guards Use Seven Coffin-Like De- vices on One State Road to Force Work. Special Dispaich to The Sta COCOA, Fla., July 20— Bosses of convict labor gangs, denied the right to use the lash since the tragic death of Martin Tabert caused the Florida legislature to pass an anti-whipping law, have obtained new expedients to extract obedience from charges. The ‘sweatbox ture for white is the prisoners new tor- of work type convicts on the mame sort are given an even more cruel of punishment. Co: parts of the atate are reported have complained the authori- s at Tallahawsee, the capital, that since Gov. Hardeo signed the anti- it has been almost im- possible to force convicts to labor on (he roads. A close-up of the “sweatbox. ever. denonstrates that it is quite effective. This correspondent today ited a convict camp on state road 0. 4. which is being pushed through the palm-bordered swamps &nd the live oak hummocks of Brevard coun- 1y There were seven “sweatboxes™ @t this particular camp and all of them were occupled at some time or other. te to how- Barely Room for One. Picture a plaln wooden box. made out of rough pine lumber. Tt is just high enough for a medium sized man and not wide enough to permit one to sit down or even bend over. A frac- tlon of an inch separates the oocu- The roof is made of galvanized iron. There are no windows in the box, and the only fresh air fs that which seeps through the cracks. The “sweat box" is trundled out un- der the broillmg sun of midsummer in Florida and the recalcitrant convict made to enter it. A pint bottle of water and & portion of bread is placed on the floor. The inmate can reach it only by the most difficult contortions. Before many hours one may hear fee- | ble calls for help frem within the box. | is released his clothes | When a man usually drip with perspiration, and his face, bloated and red. shows the agonies he has undergone. In the negro camps the disobedent | convicts are given short shrift. When a convict says he is unable to work— and iliness is not accepted as an ex- | cuse either from whites or blacks—he at once stripped to the walist, hand- cuffed to a pine tree, and so placed that his bare back receives the full force of the sun's rave. Prey of Mosquitoes. The handcuffed negro Is the prey of | | the swarms of mosquitoes and other insects that abound during the sum- mer months along the flat, swampy lands of the east co While resi- dents of the locality will not think of stepping outdoors without protective vells, he sands bared to the aun with | his back covered by the blood-sucking cts. Not a man is sald to have able to stand the torture for more than a half hou: Most of the Inmat visited today the “snowbir: (Continued on Pa 1oe: b of the camp ere the remnants of crop of last winter. 2, Column 8.) LWWTOULOT VRN WORKERS March of 20,000 on Port Arthur Is Replaced by Protest Walkout. By the Associated Press. PORT ARTHUR, Tex., July 20.—The descent of an estimated 20,000 “foot- loose” members of the Industrial Workers of the World on Port Ar- thur, itself a elty of approximately 20,000, has been oalled off, and in- stead a general strike of the marine workers, members of the I. W. W,, is threatened. But a few members of the advance guard had arrived here when the dramatic eleventh-hour orders of high officials of the I. W. W. called oft the march. They are in jail. Late last night Sidney Terry, gen- eral organiser for the I W. W., an- nounced that the impending general strike uld take marine workers out of v in every American port and the higher officlals did not consider it advisable to conoent section. The “foot-loose” members had been ordered here in protection of the rights of three I W. W.'s al- Jeged to have been spirited ‘away from here and beaten severely by un- known persons. Strike to Be Protest. The marine strike is to be a protest, Terry against imprisonment for violation of oriminal syndicalism laws and against the recent oourt injumetion in Cali- fornia. Reports received here from Los Wednesday told of twenty-seven members of the 1. W. W. being convicted of oriminal syndical- §,°a jury in_ superior court in es and of their sentences to serve from one to fourteen years in juentin S e *strike fecting all transport members of our organization as they come into the fll&lfln( ports after the strike orde: is given,” Terry sald, m| route i (Contia: on ] 4 their | who are | riped road workers, while the negro | ict guards from | WHAT ARE YOUR PrincipLes g InTenTioNS | | | | | | | 1 | | | | News Note: Democratic Leaders Are Said | Political Policies. h Plane, Operated HANDBOK ARRESTS 77, O []EE'_ARE_I]"_I_EGA'_ Success in Trial Dy the Assoclated Preas =4 DAYTON, Ohto, July -The Gordon May Appeal Declslon first flight by man in an air-pro- That None But Chief Could Serve Warrant. to Be Making i 20.- | pelled vehicle, operated by foot Dower of the pflet only. is an ac- complished fact, it was announced at McCook Army alr fleld here to- a F. W. Gerhardt, seronautical en- gineer at McCook Fleld, is the In- ventor of the contrivance. which he terms a scfentific curfosity While the flights which were made with the new machine were not sensational, the inventor claims that the principles involv- ed can be successtully incorporated in a machine capable of compara- tively great heights and spesd. In the longest fiight made with the machine, operated by and sup- plied with the pilot'’s own powe: rose about thres inches from fhe ground and flew epproximately twenty feet, which the inventor declares was long enowgh to insure steady flight USE MUSTARD" GAS 10 ESCAPE POLICE | United States Attorney Gordon to- | day was contemplating appealing a | decision of Justice - Bailey of tne | District Supreme Court yesterday holding that the failure of the su- | perintendent of police to serve per-| | sonally a search warrant at a rald on the apartment of John B. Keleher. 1336 1 street, last May, invalidated the selzure by the police of betting slips and marked money. Keleher may escape prosecution if the d cision is upheld by the Court of Ap- | peals. The court's decision probably will prevent the presentation of the evi- dence in other cases of alleged hand- | book making to grand jury. It will, however, not reopen the cases of alleged handbook makers who | have been sentenced Will Keep Up War. In the meantime, the police depart- ment will continue to wage war on the making of handbooks in Wash-| i in any one | ington, Commissioner Ovater said to- day. The Commissioner stated that if the | method by which cases have been made in the past fs found to be in- correct, they will be made in the right way. The making of handbooks is a violation of law, and we propose to | do all that we can to enforce the law,” sald the Commissioner. He conferred at length today with Maj. Sullivan regarding the handbook situation. All search warrants issued out of | Police Court, Maj. Gordon points out today, are directed to the major and superintendent of police, and service of them by duly designated sub- ordinates of that official has always been considersd legal. It was sug- gosted that the case is analogous to the service of papers by deputy mar- shals, all of which are directed to Marshal Edgar C. Snyder, and it h never been held that he must sery them in person. Justice Siddons in {a decision in the Swann case in March, 1922, refused to direct the re- turn of slips and marked money seized by the police in & rald when | they had no h warrant, but only a Test. The court there declared no search warrant was necessary. Asks for Return. At the time of the arrest of Kl eher Claude L. Burrows, who was found in the room, was also arrested and rched and marked money found on him. Attorney T. Morril Wampler, representing both Keleher and Burfows, flled motions in the District Supreme Court for the r iturn of the property seized by the police on the theory that the search warrant was defective in that it falled to comply with the provisions of the espionage act of 1917, and that it was directed to Maj. Sullivan, who | was not present when the search was instituted. In his memorandum opinion up- holding the contention of counsel for the acoused, Justice Balley say: In the Kele case the search was made by fMoer other than the {Continued on Page 2, Column 1. {FIVE WILL BE HANGED FOR CAIRO MURDERS Court Sentences Eight Others Con- victed in British Officials’ Deaths to Jail Terms. By tie Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, July 20.—Of thir- teen men found guilty July 7 of a general conspiracy to murder Brit- | 1sh offolals, the court today sentenced five to be hanged and the remaining eight to from three years to life im- prisonment. The case was commonly known the Cairo conspiracy trial and was the outgrowth of hundreds of ar- rests following thres years of mur- ders and political outrages, connec- tion with which was denied by the Egyptian nationalists. The convie- tions were obtained on the testimony complice who turned king | evidence. When the verdict wai | turned by the military court it wi | announced that the sentences would not be promulgat until they were ApProv the commander-in-chief of the British forces. The motives of the prison né Whom Were younf ety | and Fowler strag: Bootlegger's Auto Fumes in Face of Dry Squad Car. A smoke screen, ocontaining what police sald was a sort of mustard gas —a flying liquor car and a chasing police car—made sirests of Washing- ton early today resemble a battle front in the Argonne. It all happened during maneuvers between two un- identified colored men and Detectives Berry and Mansfleld of the prohibi- tion squad of the sixth precinct and Revenueé Agent Fowler. From an underground source had come & “tip.” The liquor-chasers walted In ambush at 3rd street and Indlana nvenue at 6 o'clock. The suspected machine—right enough— passed. They started In pursult Heavlly eagging eprings on the big liquor car verified their suspicions. A load of bootleg was passing through ‘Washington. Down 8rd strest went the machin each gradually accelerating. Both shot past Pennsylvania avenue and headed for SBouthwest Washington like a flash and its flareback. Hitting Afty miles an hour, and touching only the high spots of 3d street, the liquor car opened up on its pursuers. Thick, black, ool clouds of smoke, with irritant fumes filled the roadway. The smoke trail ran in a serpentine path through Bouthwest Washington to South Capitol street and twisted back to € street 'ifty miles an hour was slow by then. Bixty was average and sixty. As the liquor car h Pennsylvania avenue at John Marshall place, the pursuers lost it Berry. . Mansfleld led into the sixth precinct at 7:30 o'clock looking like after a night be- tween the lin badly effected the smoke screen. MACHINE GUN ASKED .TO CURB OPIUM RING Hawaiian Colleotor Wants Liner ° Equipped to Repel Smugglers With Accomplices Aboard. “mus By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, July 19.—Harry Mur- ray, collector of customs, announced today that he would ask Capt. Henry Nelson of the Pacifio mail liner, Pres- dent Wilson, which will arrive here tomorrow from the far east bound for San Franoisco, to mount a machine gun on the aft deck for use against oplum smugglers. Murray ssid smugglers are in thel habit of trelling liners from the orient and p-cking u e e e [urray annous -glwuioftm*gv e 5 earry el rom 01 oplum. Tulhl\ oplum thrown | Sends |passed as a result of the insistence of i {time, as proposed by Senator Brook- TWO CENTS. Moves to lLearn llenry Ford SEESFARMREVOLT * NS NORE STATES | | | ! i | Moses Explains Western Radicalism as Impossible to Forestall Now. 7 Senator Moses of New Hampshire. | | chairman of the republican senatorial |committee, who has just returned | from Minnesota, today attributed the | election of Magnus Johnson on the farmer-labor ticket to dissatisfaction. | {Which he sald has taken & number of forms. He said that a spread of radical sentlment was to be expected in five {other states. He admitted that he W no remedy at present. Legisla- | tion, in Benator Moses' opinion, would i quest to begin ins | not halt the movement. nor did he see ny economic measures which would | {relieve the situation | ‘armers Arous: | | “In part”" Senator Moses said. “the | election ot Mangus Johnson could be | traced to dissatisfaction with the | farm legislation enacted by the sixty- | seventh Congress. The farmers, how- { ever, forget that this legislation was thelr own spokesmen. They therefore, eolded to try Mangus Johnson. “Anothr cause and to my mind a se of the result in Minne- the fact that there is no is understood {n this part of country. The democratic party hrunk to the vanishing point in that state. The republican party has had its influence diluted by the legisla- tion of the last decade. All subordi- nate officials of the state and coun- tles are chosen without party desig- nation, which has tended to unde mine the party spirit in Minnesota. Directed By Pre; Senator Moses pointed out that the campaign in Minnesota had been di- rected by Gov. Preus and the state committes, and not from outside. He eald that it appeared strange that while running under the head of the republican ticket an attempt had been | made apparently to keep away from republicanism. | He predicted that the movement which selected Magnus Johnson would spread to five other states in that part of the country. He pointed out that in the next slsction senators are to be chosen in Idaho, Jowa, Kansas, Michi- an, Oregon. Minnesota, Nebraski kiahoma, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. All of the senators who are to be re-elected are repub- licans except the senator from Mon- tana th. Sorry for Farmers. “It doesn't take any gifted intelhi- gence to see how readily the repub- loans may meet disaster if this pres- ent movement spreads,” said Senator Moses. He said that it was impos- ible to talk with the farmers and not ‘mpathize with them. They have to borrow to pay their taxes, he said. The enormously high taxes being pald In this country, Senator Moses said, are chargable to state and local | governments, rather than to the fed- eral government. Senator Moses said that he did not think an extra session called at this hart of Iowa, would help. BUILDING TRADES STRIKE. PARIS, July 30.—The Building Trades Union of Paris- and its sur- rounding region went on strike to- DISTRICT ESTIMATE CUTTO 32 MILLION; SCHOOLS SLASHED About 3 Million Lopped From Requests of Board of Education. POLICE TO GET 100 MEN INSTEAD OF 300 ASKED Commissioners May Ask to Submit New List if Present Total Is Cut. ss definite word from the bureau of the hudget before August 1, the prellminary of the District government for nex: year will run close to $32,000,000, was learned today Should budget *officials direct ti Commissioners to cut their prelimi nary total, the city authorities again may aek permiseion to submit a sup plemental list, as they did « The Commissioners, it is have requested the b d of educa tion to cut the school estimates fron: the tentative figures more $11,000,000 to about $8,500,000. recaived estimates Police Request Cut. The police department asked 300 new men, but it is understood the city heads will cut this request to 100 The fire departm expected: to call men. It is reported that ers are gi it estimates T about are sixty new the Commission n of the sys tem of high-pressure fire mains. They are not willing to say at this tine what their declaion on this ftem will be A preliminary 000, it should be not all for the ments. The tivt budget borne in municipal of $32.000 mind, depart total includes a number of ac es carried on in Washington b | branches of the federal government These outside estimates are made « part of the local budget because the District government must mest 60 per cent of th These items include money for con- tinuing work on the new water oone duit, which is under the War De- partment; funds for malntenance of public buildings and grounds, opsr- ation of the Zoological Park a reclamation of the Anacostia flats under the War Department. The total for such municipal fune- tions as schools, streets, sewers. police and fire protection probably will be close to $28.000,000 o | $23,000.000. Although the budget bureau a year 2go cut the first estimates from about $31.000,000 to $24,500,000, Gen. Lord | granted permission to the Commission ers to submit a supplemental list of several millions covering essential proj- ects. He then allowed the city officfals to appear before him and tesfify as to the need for these supplemental items, after which some of them were restorad Reason for Cut. The fact that the budget bureau the past has reduced the early estimates of the Commissioners does not mean, it was said today, that the preliminary fig- ures were regarded as excessive. District authorities, it is known, rea ize that the budget bureau has & du to perform in keeping all governmen expenditures within the bounds of the rovenue to be collected Local authorities, on the other hand believe they have a duty to perform | placing in the preliminary estim what they regard as the real needs ! the National Capital INDITS AOERSA ON THEFT CHMRGE New York Jury Also Accuses Anti-Saloon League Chief of Forgery. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. July 20.—William H Anderson. state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, was indicted today for first degree grand larceny and third degree forgery Mr. Anderson, apparently expect- ing that Assistant District Attorney Pecora, who presented the case to the grand jury, would induce that body to indict, was in court with his counsel when the indictment was re- turned. Anderson entered a plea of not guilty and was held in $5,000 bail to cover all the indictments. His coun- sel said bail would be furnished at once. The grand larceny charges, on which two separate indictments were returned, were that Ande n _ ob- tained from the league $4.500 in March, 1921, and $1,750 in February. 1021. 'The forgery indictment charg- ed him with ordering falsification of the league's books to conceal receipt of $4,400 as a split on commissions day ‘“only to remind” the emplovers that they must have increased wages. Scientists Called due O. Bertsall Phillips, former so- licitor for the league. to Ozarks By New Traces of Dead Race . July 20.—Half way up a rugged bluff of the Ozarks, which tower above the Gaseonade river, about three miles from here, have been found evidences of a prehistoric civili- zation which aroused the interest of archeologists of the Smith- sonian Institution, who will ar- rive here soon to In tigate. About a year ago in jarge cave which opens te the river, A. ockle, the owner, who Wwas en a_resort for Mree human skulls and a number of bones, in addition to pottery and beads. ‘The skulls are unusual that they do not resemble Indian skulls, but have low, receding foreheads and very thick skull bones. The teeth are large, sharp ‘and well- preserved. The bones were uncovered in a bed of ashes directly below a large hole in the stone ceillng evidently de by the action of fire. More than a foot of earth covered the ashes. Because of this earth, which apparently could have come’ there only through decom- position. it s believed the race Tived 2,000 years of mors ago,