Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1923, Page 1

OPERATORS STRIKE WEATHER. Tnsettled weather with probably showers tonight and Tuesday; mild temperature. Temperature for twen- ty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today Highest, §2, at 2:30 p.m. lowest, 4, at 1 a.m. today. Closing N. Y. St No. 28,972. post office Was ocks and Bonds, Page 2;) Entered as second-class matte) hington, D. C. PINCHOT ~ BLUNTLY TELLS MINERS AND WONT BE ALLOWED Demands Representatives of Both Adjust Differences Be- | fore Contract Expires in Interest of Public. SAYS EACH GROUP MUST l MAKE CONCESSION NOW Pennsylvania Official Firm and Impartial in Opening Confer- ence—Holds Public Need Para- mount—To Meet Union Officials Today and Operators Tomorrow. Br the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, August —Gov. chot of Pennsylvania assembled ders of each side in the anthracite controversy around his office table to- and told them bluntly that the proposed suspension of mining Sep- tember 1 could not be allowed. Both roups Agree. There was scarcely a sound to terrupt the governor as he read his sddress. “In my opinion, the wisest thing 1} can is to deal separately with each side,” he said, o learn the basis for demands as fully as I can. T re- quest you give me these interview. “We'll be very glad to grant vour request,” Mr. Warriner responded at the close of the appeal. “The miners will also” id. hank you, gentlemen.” Gov. Pin- chot rejoined. “We'll adjourn then 10 2 p.m., when the miners will come to my private office All of the thirty-eight members of the miners full-scale committee were assembled in the city to counsel with the union officers. Scale committee | , members Said that they had been | notified by the official group to be on hand. The significance of their presence lay in the fact that the scale committee, when fully assem- ! 4. has power to recall the work suspension notices which were issued Saturday at Atiantic City after ne- Zotlations between the union chiefs &nd the operators’ representatives had been broken off. Declaring tiie crisis now has oeen reached, hs, asserted, “We must do in this eleventh hour what should have been done before.” “It can be done and must be done,” he said. “There is still time. Let us use this time in an effective spirit of common counsel, that this common danger may pass, with due regard to the rights of all and with due credit and honor to all con- corned With the cxception of John L. Lewlis, president of the United Mine Workers. all participants in the At- Jantic City negotiations were here today. Phillip Murray, vice presi- dent of the union, was here in Mr. Lewis' absence, with the three dis- trict_presidents. The four members of the operators' policy committee were present. To Meet Both Groups. The governor set forth no definite plan or basis on which he hopes to bring about a settlement further than to request consultations with each side separately after the close of the first meeting. He suggested he meet the miners this afternoon and oper- otors tomorrow morning, and he de- clared his purpose of treating the conferences with each side “as wholly cvonfidential.” The governor's address follows: “As the representative of the com- monwealth of Pennsylvania, I have called you together for the purpose of finding a way to keep the anthra- cite mines in operation. I delayed ing you to meet here after the otlations at Atlantic City had falled until T was assured that to do #o would not run counter to the wishes of the federal authorities. T am acting now soleiy in my capacity s Governor of Pennsylvania and ith the rights and interests of the people of Pennsylvania and of the other anthracite-using states clearly | in mind.: Not Private Quarrel. “This controversy between the min- ers and the operators of the anthra- cite fleld is not a private quarrel. “The general public is a party to this controversy, and its rights, as well as the rights of the two other parties, must be represented and rceognized. A shortage of anthracite means not a huge loss of profits to the opera- not only & huge loss of wages to the miners—but it means also loss of health among millions of American families, loss of comfort, of working power and of time. “Throughout the vast region where It is used anthracite is the fuel burned In the homes of the people. A strike or suspension such as now threatens is & public calamity, and as such every reasonable public means must be used to_prevent. “The interest of the public in the settlement of this controversy is dou- ble.~ In the first place the public wants it settled. It is utterly wrong that the people should be called upon again to ! bear the enormous and most oppressive burden of a shortage of anthracite coal. Wants Only Justice. n the second place, the public wants it settled on terms of even-handed jus- tice. The right of the public to inter- vene carries with it the clear respon- | sibility to see that impartial justice is | done to both sides. In its desire to be | served the public cannot afford to ac- cept any settlement that is based upon anything less than justice. Further- more, an unjust settiement cannot last, The people belleve, and are right in | belioving, that the sufferings which | come from one coal shortage after an- other are intolerable. “The commonwealth of Pennsyl- mwania has a responsibility to_ other anthracite-using states and to Canada “(Continued_on Page 2, Column 1.) 4 in- do Mr. Mur- so0 County Attorney And Sheriff Held In Liquor Raids By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tes., August 27. —Texas ranger forces closed their two-day drive on moonshiners and bootleggers in the woody hills of Somervell county, with the arrest of County Attorney Eddie Roark, and left today for Waco and Dallas with twelve prisoners of the thir- ty taken in the ralds. Roatk and Sherlff Walter Davis of Somervell county were among the twelve prisoners taken to Waco. OUTBREAK OF FIRING BRINGS TROOPS 10 GUARD IRISH POLLS Soldiers Out Following Twen- ty-Minute Unexplained Rifle and Machine Gun Fusillade. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, August 27.—A lively out- break of rifie and machine gun fire occurred in Dublin early today. The shooting was not esplained. Ballot- ing in the dail elections proceeded with national troops patrolling the streets. A motor car carrying James Crow- ley and the minister of fisherles, Finian Lynch, both of whom are can- didates of the government party for Kerry, was attacked by a crowd while passing through Lixnaw yes terday. Shots were fired and one young man was serfously Injured. The outburst of shooting here last- ed about twenty minutes, ceasing shortly after 3:30 a.m., when the city resumed its normal quiet. There were reports that attacks had been made on Mountjoy prison and various posts occupied by the national troops, but the authorities professed to have no knowledge of such atacks. The polling was brisk in all par of Dublin city and county, both men and women turning out in large num- bers to cast their ballots. From the time the polls opened until early afternoon no untoward incident ha been reported. Larkin Opposes Holiday. James Larkin, the labor leader, ad- dressing a meeting at Liberty Hall last night, denounced the action of the authorities fn making election day a public holiday, declaring this would rob the workers of £50,- 000 in wages; he urged the men to march to their places of employment this morning and demand that oper- ations go on as usual. There was no evidence of his advice having been followed in any instance, The eleventh-hour appearances of some of the dail candidates were marked by rough tackics, While President Cosgrave was speaking sterday at Waterford a procession of supporters of Capt. Rerdmond, i dependent, came marching on the scene amid the blare of several bands which made the president's remarks inaudible. Many Disorders. This went on for a short time, when a few of the invaders began firing revolvers, causing part of the crowd to stampede. Several persons are reported to have been injured. In the melee which followed, accord- ing to Redmond’'s supporters, the bands were attacked and their in- struments thrown into the river. President Cosgrave resumed his ad- dress as soon as quiet was restored. At Longford, West Meath, Frank McGuinnis and P. W. Shaw, govern- ment candidates, were attacked and prevented from speaking. Voting began throughout the Irish Free State at 9 o'clock today with an electorate of more than 1,750,000 eligible to cast the ballots. Nearly 500,000 of this number are new voters, most of them being young people of both sexes. Announcement to Wait. In Dublin there are labor candi- | dates for both the regular and Lar- kin wings. The Dublin sheriff does not expect to be able to announce any result before Tuesday night, and | possibly. not even then, unless all the candidates waive formal comparison of the number of votes cast with the voting papers issued. It is likely to be Wednesday night before the Dublin returns are tabulated, and the delay In the scattered country con stituencies is expected to be even greater. The police work has been entrusted in Dublin to the old metropolitan force, and in the country to the new civic guard, but as the latter has not yet reached full strength it has been necessary to.supplement it with spe- clally enrolled policemen. The law provides new and drastic penalties (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) BELGIUNFS REPLY SENT T0 ENGLAND Ruhr Occupation Defended by Theunis—Allied Parley Is Proposed. By tle Associated Press. LONDON, August 27.—Belgium’s contribution to the latest diplomatic exchange on the reparation question was handed to Sir George Graham, British ambassador at Brussels, today. It is understood that, while it is somewhat more conciliatory in tone than the French note, it emphasizes the legallty of the Ruhr occupation and seeks to justify Belgium's priority to reparations on moral and historic grounds, asserting that Belgium thus far has received indemnification only slightly in excess of that received by Great Britain. It is understood also that Premler Theunis suggests that the exchange of notes ceake and that the allies revert to direct conversations based upon the data contained iéu,n notes, _@h WASHINGTON, D. C., FIGHT ON 0 BALK GOVERNMENT PLAN OF SHIP OPERATION Heads of Present Subsid- iary Lines See Loss for Selves in Change. CORPORATIONS OWNED BY NATION PROPOSED Policy Laid Down by Dead Presi- dent Would End Managing Agent System. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | Efforts to change President Hard- | ing’s shipping policy have not abated. | The American Steamship Owners' As- | sociation and the United States Ship, Operators’ Association tomorrow will | appeal to the Shipping Board for a continuation with some modification of the present method of operating government ships through managing agents. The new suggestions involve a much more efficient system of oper- ating ships through agents, but do not guarantee the government against | losses while insuring more or less the | profits of the operators. There is lit- | tle likelthood of the acceptance of the | {plan, as the Shipping Board unani- | imously decided in the presence of Mr. | Harding last June to do away with| the managing agent method and sub- stitute a system of subsidiary com- | panies. The latter scheme is being | held in abeyance out of courtesy to| | President Coolidge, who has expressed {a desirc to inform himself about it. Plan of Board. The board's plan Is substantially as | follow ! Instead of operating 330 ships as| at present under the Emergency Fleet | | Corporation, there would be organi: nstead from twelve to eighteen cor- porations which would be owned in | entirety by the United States govern- | ment. No shipping company in private | | hands operates more than fifty ships | land the purpose of the division into | | subsidiary units is to enable the gov- {ernment to bulld up several units of {operation. Several of the established |lines would be grouped in each com- | i pany. The experts estimate that each | subsidiary company with its own | jorganization would be able to econ- | {omize for the government and avoid | | the duplication and endless accuun!-‘ ing which one organization encoun- ters in_ auditing the various lines’ mergency Fleet | | operated by the | Corporation: | Commission on Gross Revenues, At present every line, as for ex- ample the United States Lines, is op- | erated by a managing agent who col- lects a commission on gross revenues | irrespective of whether any profit Is ! made for the government. The good will of the line belongs to a private indi- vidual. When the time comes to end | government operation the govern- ment would have only its ships. The board's plan now is to build the sub- sidlary corporations exactly as they would have to be organized if pri- vate capital were to enter the ship- ping business and buy the ships from the government. But the government would finance the enterprise and would get all the profits if there are any. The object of the plan is to cut down losses and make the subsidiary companies attractive to prospective private purchasers. In other words, if there is any good will in the es- | tablished shipping lines, the govern- ment feels that asset is derived from government investment and should bring a return in cash just as much as the actual property. That would be the case if any British steamship line or any other were purchased by capitalists. For without the ships furnished by the government and a favorable commission contract there could have been no good will built up. Legality of Plan. The most intense pressure is being exerted to prevent the Shipping Board trom putting into operation the plan it has already decided upon. The President is belleved to have recog- nized this and to have come to the conclusion that when the board’s plan goes into operation it shall have the whole-hearted support of the adminis- | tration. An opinion has been asked from the Attorney General as to the legality of the plan. The general counsel of the Shipping Board and promincnt lawyers who have been consulted say there is no doubt of the legality. In fact, it is said the new scheme is far more in line with the merchant marine act of 1920 than the managing agent system. If the board’s plan is overthrown, it may be as a result of legal obstacles put in its path, but the general belief is that if President Coolidge wants the plan used he will not be influenced by the criticism of illegality in the face of approval. by the array of counsel who have passed on it. | It seems certain that when Con- gress reconvenes there will be an in- quiry into the whole matter and should it appear that private in- terests have been able to damage the morale of the government's shipping enterprise. there will be even further restrictions imposed which will insure government independence of private operation so long as the ships are owned by the government. (Copyright, 1923.) HEAVY CASUALTIES IN RELIGIOUS RIOTS Hindus and Moslems Clash in Brit- ish India—Business Crip- pled in Simla. By the Associated Press. SIMLA, British India, August 27.— The religious riots in the united proivnces are continuing, according to dispatches reaching here. Hindus and Mosleme were in the conflict at Agra last night. Fire- arms were used and the casualties are said to_have been heavy. All business and postal deliveries in the city have been suspended, ¢ Fhoeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, Houser Says Bergdoll or Anyone Can Get Money by Proving Claim Man Whose Son Saw Claim to Hagerstown’s Famou “Pot of Gold.” Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., August 27.— Statements of Lee Houser, a road worker, living near here, that the box he dug up last week on the Browns- ville-Weaverton road contained be- tween $100,000 and $110,000, besides approximately $10,000 in gold coin. led the authorities today to the bellef that the money is that buried by { Grover Bergdoll, draft dodger, before | his escape to Germany. Supplementing Houser's story is that of Owen D. Shipley, proprietor of the Hotel Vivian, who told of Bergdoll's actions while in Tagers- town with his brother Erwin prior to Grover's escape from pursuing Department of Justice agent: Complicating the situation USE OF NAVY IN DRY PATROL IS SCOUTED Revival of Piracy and High- jacking Off New England Coast Increases Discussion. is the BY ROBERT T. SMALL, Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWPORT, R. 1, August 27. —An arrest for an act of piracy off the| New England coast, bringing to the fore once more the seriousness of the bootleg and “highjacking” game off the shores of America, has renewed discussion among officers of the At- lantic fleet stationed here for the summer as to the possible use of the Navy in dealing with rum-running. There is virtually unanimous opin- fon in the Navr that the use of naval vessels against the deep-sea bootleg- gers is entirely out of the question. The lean gray destroyers and the bulky naval airplanes that are work- ing at war maneuvers along the northern coast just now see and hear a great deal 6f the rum-runners, but it is not within their province to molest them. In times Cf peace the Navy can- not act agalnst merchant vessels. To employ the Navy against the rum ships undoubtedly would require an exchange of understandings with the other nations of the world, for when the Navy fires a hostile shot at sea it is generally accepted as an act of war. There have been some strange, dark-looking craft running in and out of Newport harbor during the war games here, but as the blockade of the port is purely theoretical no attempt has been made to pursue or stop the supicious-looking vessels. A night or two ago & running Jaunch from one of the Navy ships flashed a searchlight on a three-mast- ed schooner slipping out in the quiet- ness of the slack water that marks the turn of the tide. Not a light of any sort was showing on the schoon- er. The vessel was running along under an auxillary motor which was so muffied as not to_emit a sugges- tion of a sound. When the light struck her she put on full speed and was out into the blackness of the night in the twinkling of an eve. Duty of Coast Guard. Naval officers take the ground that ithe coast guard service is charged with the duty of preventing smug- gling into this country. Rum rum- ning from the three-mile limit 1s purely a smuggling job and, of course, was contrary to law long before the Volstead act ever was dreamed of. It is held that if the coast guard serv- jce 1s not strong enough at this time in ships or men to stop the rum smuggling, Congress should enlarge the fleet and make it effective. The duty of the Navy lies along en- tirely different lines. Its ships are not fitted for_ the task of chasing bootleggers. So long as the big rum supply ships keep outside the three- mile 1imit there can be no procedure against them and therefore to use the Navy to chase the small motor boats that run the rum from mother ship to shore would not only appear ridicul- | ous on the face of things, but would demoralize the service. If Congress ever should decree ar the President {Continued _Q,Pale 2, Column 1) ny Star, | AUGUST 27, 1923—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. Whal' You DONT Sa will NEVER hurt You. c Fortune Found Lays | Wheeler, a farmer that he lay claim to the fortune, Wheeler sald his ten-year-old son Howard is cntitled to the money, since he was the first to find it Wheeler said his son was seated on | |a bank beside the road when Houser's pick exposed the box containing the men Houser, the boy stated, tore the box from his hands and made off | with it. | assertion of | 1 | Refases to Reveal Hiding Place. Houser refused to tell where he has placed the money. Residents of | the county believe he deposited it in | a Baltimore or Philadelphia bank. Houser said the money was “in safe keeping” and “he alone knew where it was." The county was startled when Houser revealed the amount of bills " (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) U.5. DROPS READING: NTHRUST FIGHT Daugherty Decides Govern- ment Cannot Win Litiga- tion Begun in 1913. Announcement was made today by the Department of Justice that the| government would not appeal from the Philadelphia federal court decree of June 25 last in the anti-trust suit | against the Reading and associated | coal and railroad companies. The original suit was begun in 1913, the government seeking to separate the Reading Company, the Centrall Rallroad of New Jersey, the Philadel- phia and Reading Coal and Iron Com- pany, the Philadelphia and Reading | Raflway Company, and the Lehigh! and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. i Dissolution of the combination was ' ordered in 1921, but common stock. holdérs of the Reading Company ap- : pealed on the ground that preferred | stockholders, were given an undue preference in the distribution of as- sets. The Supreme Court last year affirmed the decree except to modify the plan for division of the Reading Company general mortgage. The decree of June 28 provided that instead of a segregation of bur- den and liability under the general mortgage as between the Reading Company and the Philadelphia and Roading Coal and Iron Company, these companies will execute new separate mortgages and issue 5 per cent bonds thereunder in exchange for outstanding general mortgage bonds. Attorney General Daugherty, on leaving Washington ten days 'ago, took all the papers in the case and after a conference last Tuesday at Columbus with Assistant Attorney General Seymour, decided that no.ap- peal should be taken. This decision means that one of the longest and most important litigations ever insti- tuted under the Sherman law has been brought to an end. SEVEN MEN BADLY HURT IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Touring Car Collides With Road- ster Near Baltimore, Leaving One Victim in Serious Condition. BALTIMORE, Md., August 27.— Seven men were injured, one serious- 1y, when a large touring car crashed into a roadster at Golden Ring ave- nue and Philadelphia road this morn- ing. The injured are: Charles Betz, skull fractured and face cut; John May, both legs brok- en; Christian Otts, ‘leg broken; Nel- son Taylor, leg broken; Charles Neu- bert, head and arms cut; Christopher Dunn, arms and legs cut, and Nathan Menger, cut and bruised. All are of Baltimore. After an examination at a hospital, Betts was removed to his home. He is in a serious condition. The others are in a hospital. The touring car, containing six of the men, was travellng at a ter- rific rate of speed, it is sald, when it collided with e roadster. The smaller car was thrown thirty feet. The touring car struck a telephone pole which broke off and toppled down on the larger machine and its occupants. .C. Is e POLCE PURSUING THKY GAWBLERS Gamesters, Driven From Maryland, Operating “One- Night Stands” Here. Washington police, under the sonal direction of Capt. James F. 0, % District Commissioner in charge of the police department, are warring against the Maryland gam- bling element which is invading the per- city since the closing of eeveral of | the notorious gambling places across the line. Police investigation, on information given directly by Capt. Oyster, has shown that men are running gam- biing places in various parts of the city, a night at each home—neve: more. They apparently are trying to digtract the attention of the police, whose suspicions might be aroused by seeing so many people going into a particular house every night. Several Broken Up. Several of the “one-night stands” already have been broken up in the ninth precinct by policemen under Capt. Stoll, commanding the precinet, and Lieut. Burlingame, and Commis- sloner Oyster is pleased with the ef- forts being made. The police have been directed to watch carefully for these gamblers, and take immediate steps to break up gaming wherever they might find it. Houses all over the city are being carefully watched. The fact that the gambling element remains only one night at each place makes it particularly difficult to get evidence and conduct raids. Not long ago the Commissioner received a report that gambling was going on in the vicinity of 7th and K streets northeast, and transmitted the information to the ninth precinct. | The police dil not find any gambling at this particular point, but at Capt. “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. Saturday’s Sunday’s Circulation, Net Circulation, 80,147 93,090 TWO CENTS. {Unknown’s Tomb Now Protected By Wooden Fence A wooden fence has_been placed about the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington national ceme- tery. This was erected by the ‘War Department as a means of keeping visitors to this shrine from defacing the tomb and from disrespect, such as sitting upon and leaning against it, as have been complained of in the past. The fence was placed about the tomb Saturday and will be re- placed later by a handsome bronze affair. Considerable complaint has been made since the dedication of the tomb that many Americans fail to show the proper respect and reverence when visiting the spot. The War Department at first thought of placing four unarmed Sentinels at the corners of the tomb, not only to add to the im- pressiveness, but to act as guards to prevent persons going within the inclosure. JURY 1S SELECTED IN GARRETT CASE Amherst County Venire Will Determine Fate of Man Held Pastor’s Slayer. Special Dispatch to The Star, CUMBERLAND COURT HOUSE, Va., August 27.—The following citizens ot Amherst county will try Robert O. Garrett for the killing of Rev. E. S. Plerce: J. Lée Proffitt, R. S. Bur- ford. R. 8. Hunt, A. E. Hicks, W. E. Robinson, James E. Wood, James E. Watts, Charles F. Johnson, R. L. Al- cock, Leon B. Campbell, James R. Kemp and H. G. Watts The jury was sworn in at 12 o'clock. | While * Robert Garrett stood, the | charge to the jury, fixing the punish- ment for the various degrees of gullt, | and the indictment were read. ! August —Defense motions to quash the jury venire and for a joint | trial were overruled by Judge White | at the resumption this morning of ! the trial of R. O. Garrett, indicted | jointly with his brother, Larkin C. Garrett, for the alleged murder of Rev. Pierce. Baptist minister. The task of selecting ‘a jury was immediately begun. It was believed that before ad- journment today a jury woull have heen obtained from the special venire |of sixty Amherst county citizens brought here as a result of decision {by Judge B. D. White that it would | not be possible to get a fair and unbiased jury from Cumberland county. The first question today involved the legality of bringing the Amherst venire here before an effort had been made to obtain a jury in Cumberland county. The defense contended that as the law gives the accused right lof trial in the vicinage of the al- leged crime. Judge White should not have sent for an outside jury until| he had exhausted the jury possibili- | ties in this county. Whatever was | developed in the Larkin Garrett case, in which a mistrial was declared, has no bearing on Robert O. Garrett's trial, they argued. Argue for Joint Tr The second legal point disputed was !that of the separation of the trial. ! MADDEN FRAMES PLAN TO REDUCE TAXES NEXT YEAR Ready to Parallel Cut in Gov- ernment Cost With Slash in Revenue. - PREPARES FOR FIGHT AS OPPOSITION LOOMS Declines to Detail His Project, But Declares Present Laws Need Not Be Upset. Chairman Madden of the House ap- propriations committee announced to- day that he would present to the next Congress a “practical plan” for the reduction of taxes. Mr. Madden had reached the con- clusion to propose reduction of taxes. he said, by a comprehensive study of the savings effected by the adminis- tration. These savings, he belleve should be reflected in lower taxes. Just what his plan for the reduc- tion of taxes is, Mr. Madden was not ready to reveal, but it had been com- pleted, he said, and would be an- nounced upon its presentation to Congress shortly after it convenes in December. Confers With Mellon. Mr. Madden declared himself favor of tax reduction this morning. following a conference with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, which lasted nearly an hour. Although the de- tails of the conference were not re- vealed, it was learned that the prin- cipal subject discussed by the Secre- tary and the chalrman of the Hou: appropriations committee was go ernment “economi This was un- derstood to be closely connected with Mr. Madden's views concerning tax reduction, and it was thought by some that Mr. Madden probably revealed to ‘the Secretary this morning the salient points in his plan cretary Mellon has repeatedly de- clared himself in favor of a reduction of the higher surtax brackets. It was again intimated at the Treasury re- cently that Mr. Mellon would renew his recommendation to Congress when it reconvenes, and urge reduction in the higher surtax brackets as a prac- ticable means of providing more ac- tual income to the government. Ready to Fight for Plan. Sensing that perhaps there would be objection tg- the proposal which he has developad and alfo giving the intimation that his plan may be un- expected, or at least uWsual, Mr. Madden $aid he would be prepared to defend it agalnst opposition. Op- nosition to reduction of taxes had come from some ocircles of thought, Mr. Madden sald. which held to the idea that only through an entire re- vision of the revenue bill enacted at the last session of Congress could any material lightening of the tax burden be effected. But. he added, significantly, there may be means of reducing taxation. without a revision of the entire leg- islation on the statute books. Smoot Is Opposed. Among those who have recently predicted there would be no reduc- tion in taxation during the next Congress was Senator Smoot, repub- lican, Utah, ranking member, and the next chairman of the Senate finance committes. Mr. Smoot, fol- lowing a conference with Secretary Mellon recently, gave it as his opinion When the case was called last month, J‘Judge White granted a motion for a that no attempta would be made to | tamper with' the revenue act of 1922, or_to reduce taxes generally. The savings which have been Oystar's direation, continued their |severance by the prosecution, though cluimed by the administration in the investigations with the result that | several places were raided. Lists Many Cases. Commissfoner Oyster the following report Lieut. Burlingame: “A careful investigation of the neighborhood around 7th and K streets northeast failed to show any signs of gambling upon that corner, but we have found and raided games in the immediate vicinity, as follows: §06 10th street northeast, 329 H street northeast and 641 L street northeast, with the following results: August 18, 1923, Earl F. Reagan, permitting__gambling, $25 forfeited. August 18, 1923, George D. Ellis, permitting _gambling, $25 forfeited. ‘August 23, 1923, Ralph W. Holford, permitting _gambling, $100 forfeited. August 23, 1023, Michael McDonald, permitting gambling, $100 forfeited. August 23, 1923, Charles Green, per- mitting gambling, $100 forfeited. Will Pusk Drive. “The latter three are products of a Maryland gambling house which has been osed for a few weeks, since ‘which time they have been operating in this city. They will meet at a house in this precinct tonight and to- morrow night the game will come off in some other section of the city, doing one night stands, making it hard to catch up with them. “From the method of operating I am of the opinion that these are the parties complained of to the com- nilssioner, as the game last night was only one block from 7th and K streets northeast. "Attention will continue to be given at 7th and K as well as other parts of the precinct in an effort to stamp out this altogether too prevalent habit of gambling.” BANKER KILLS SELF AFTER SHOOTING SONS One of Boys Dead, Other Fatally Wounded by Insane Father. Today public from By the Associated Press. . ROCHESTER, Pa. 2 August 2 Charles Stewart, a Rochester banker, | today committed suicide after he had | shot and killed Horace, his fourteen- year-old son and wounded Walter, aged nine years, another son. Stewart, treasurer of the = Rochester Trust Company, had. brooded for a year over the death of his wife, and ac- cording to the polite, was deranged when he killed the boy. Mrs. Mary Echart, housekeeper for tewart, dfscovered the bodies In a bedroo: made | the defense objected and announced |they would make the ruling the bas- |is for a request for a new trial in case of conviction. Garrett counsel contended that as the state jointly in- dicted the brothers and later jointly arraigned them, it was too late to seek separate trials and that same contention was the basis for a re- newal of the fight today ‘Another matter left over from the trial last week, which was adjourn- ed to permit the summoning of the Amherst venire, is that of an alleged effort at intimidation brought to the attention of the court by Acting Com- monwealth’s Attorney Milton P. Boni- Mr. Bonifant named J. Ed Garrett atan county as the man who had tried to “talk’ to him about the case and Judge White ordered Mr. Garrett brought to court for interro gation as to his purpose in approach- ing the prosecutor. Mr. Garrett, who is no relation of the men on trial, has denled he had any idea of intimidating Mr. Bonifant and says he was misunderstood if Mr. Bonifant so construed his remarks, CLOUDBURST FLOOD THREATENS EL PASO Grande Reaches High- Water Mark. By the Associated Pres: 4 EL PASO, Tex., August 27.—Two heads of flood waters, resulting from cloudbursts at Palomas and Leas- burg, N. M., Saturday night and Sun- day niorning, are expected to arrive at El Paso today. With the Rio Grande already at flood stage, serious damage s threatened should the water break through the Juarez, Mexico, or the El Paso city dikes. Hoping to eliminate a part of the {serious danger threatening this sec- ition of the Rio Grande valley, offi- | clals at Elephant Butte dam closed the water gates Sunday. The alarm was sent to residents living in_low Sections of Juarez and an immediate flight to higher ground | started. LETTY LIND, ACTRESS, DIES. SLOUGH, England, August 27— Letty Lind, actress and dancer, is dead here at the age of sixty. She began her career as Little Eva with a provincial “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company, and later starred in musi- cal comedies in England, America and Australia. City Dikes Closed as Rio; handling of public business during | the past vear, which Mr.. Madden be- |lieves should’ be reflected in lower {taxes to the people. may be said |to include the $256.000.000 which the late President Harding sald had been | the actual reduction in the expendi | tures of departments and establis | ments engaged in the ordinary b ness of the government. Not only has it been claimed by administration leaders that this figure represents an actual reduction in the cost of government, but they refer to the record of the same year, when a huge estimated deficit at the first of the year, was changed into a large surplus, on' June 30, 192 Deficit Becomes Surplus. The total estimated deficit for the year 1922-23, according to Director Lord of the bureau of the budget had been $823.000,000. This estimated deficit, according to the final report of Gen. Lord to the President, was transmuted into a surplus of $309,- 657,480, For the present year, to end June 20, 1924, the heads of government estab- lishments have been ordered to further economize and bring the expenditures for this year, excluding the $500,000,000 for debt reduction, within $3,000,000,000. At the beginning of this vear, there ap- peared a prospective deficit of at least $30,000,000 which has been ordered wiped out. The bureau of the budget is watching all corners everywhere to see that that deficit is wiped out. Harding Asked Reduction. Furthermore, prospects for the rear 1924-25, preliminary estimates for which are already in the hands of the bureau of the budget, point to the necessity of another cut below the present year. The late President Harding at the last business meeting of the govern- ment announced his desire that the 1925 estimates, exclusive of the amount required to meet the reduc- tlon in, and the interest on, the public debt, and the amount required for the Post Office Department. should not be in excess of $1,700,000,000. To reach this amount the estimates for 1925, Mr. Harding told the business heads, must be $126,000,000 less than the actual appropriations for 1924. The economy program of Mr., Hard- ing has been adopted entirely by Presi- dent Coolidge, it was learned, follow- ing a conference between Gen. Lord and the President at the White House. Thus, with the campaign of “economy and efficiency™ still waged throughout the government departments and estab- lishments, the prospects are good for further “savings.” GILLETTE WILL SAIL FOR EUROPE SATURDAY SPRINGFIELD, Mass., August 27.— {Speaker F. H. Gillett of the House of Representatiyes, announced today that he would said Saturday for a Curopean trip of six or elght weeks, with the intention of devoting special attention to a study of the real con- ditions in Germany. He will be ac- companied by Mrs. Gillett, and also visit England, France and Aus-