Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight, probably followed by show- ers tomorrow. Terperature for twenty-fou~ hours ended at 2 p.m. teda)—Higbest, 64, at 3 p.m. yesterday; a.m, today. 024, owest, 44, at 6 Full report on page 18. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 27 Entered as second-cls post office Washington, matter D. C. 0. 29 BERLIN PREPARING TO RUSH TRODPS AS SAXONS DEFY RULE Socialist-Communist Minis- try Refuses to Obey Reichswehr Orders. GENERAL STRIKE THREAT IF MILITARY ADVANCES Cabinet Upheld by Margin of Three Votes—Sixteeh Battalions Mass on Border. By the Assoctated Press, BERLIN, October 18.—The fre- quency of rioting in Saxony and the defiant” stand taken by the socialist communist ministry at Dresden are using such concern here that the ntral government is prepared to send additfonal troops into Saxony whould the situation requirc them. Advices from Munish indicate that Bavarla also is watching the affairs of her nelghbor state, inasmuch as =ome of the disorders in the Saxony industrial districts have occurred <close to the Bavarian frontier. | The Central government is making every effort to maintain its authority tn Saxony, and Gen. von Mueller, com mander of the reichswehr in the state, is demanding assurances from Pre- mier Zeigner that decrees of the military dictator will be respected. | However, the Saxon government ! seems inclined to go its own way, and | in one notable instance at least the edicts of von Mueller have been di obeyed. This was the meeting of the axon proletarian defense organiz tion, which was held against his or- ders. Confidence Is Voted. The Saxon diet last night rejected a motion of lack of confidence in the government by a vote of 48 to 45 The concert of socialist trades unions at its session yesterday passed a resolution advocating the proclama- tion of a general strike in the event of armed action “against the Saxon and Thuringian proletariat. ‘The resolution was adopted after a stormy debate. For the present, Dresden is the storm center @ battle going_on between Premier Ziegner and Gen. | von Mueller, latter demanding | peremptory assurance from the Saxon | government that his edicts will not be interfered wha or sabotaged. Reallzing that it cannot yteld to Saxony without prejudicing-its pres. tige with Bavaria, the German gov- ernment is reportedly determined to maintain order throughout the Saxon dustrial districts where rioting and terrorism are being freely indulged radical elements who are black- ling the industrialisis into money levies and grossly usurping authority in the big plants. Industrialists Protest. to prote tion of the intole ; they threaten to shut down or dispose of their plants unless they | re assured of production by the cen- tral gov iment. Armed intervention by Bavaria also viewed as an eventuality, as much | the rioting now going on in the| Saxon industrial sector is occurring | close to the Ba an frontier, With two notorious communists | Heinrich Brandler and Herr | oettcher occupying the posts of di- rector of the chancellery and minister | of financ respectively xon indus- trialists and financial leaders declare that the state’s economics are wholly | sed to the arbitrary dictates of t against co able condi- s s to nullify | s radical attitude of the so- s toward industry and finances. Demand Financial Reform. A resoiution demanding immediate curr and financial reforms, on the ground that a fixed currency Is the | only basis on which the necessary in- crease in production can be obtained, was passed at the first general meet- | ng of the central committees of the ocialist workers and officials’ asso- ciations, held hera yesterd Another resolution asked that pri- vate concerns directed against the common weal be ruthlessly suppre: wd While it w; sserted that vig- ous opposition would be offered to attempte to alter th -hour day, tes sald they were ready to ke ar ments regarding over- time in certain industries The work also demanded seizure of the harv as a n sure for re- jieving the f00d shortage, and asked the ignposition of severe penaltles on sood and profiteers. Trey | furthermore demanded credit agree- | ments guaranteed by the industrial- ists, land owners and commercial in- terests, so that the masses might be provided with their winter supplies. SITUATION IS TENSE. |-Hayward said: . { menced as rapidly as the c course, be in their hands.” i ! E erybody Else at Republican BY J. P. YODER. Special Dispatch to The Sta WEST BADEN, Ind. | Twenty-nine of the thirty governors ernors, assembled here for the fif- teenth annual conference of state executives, expect to see Calvin Cool- idge nominated for the presidency by the republican party in 1924. The thirtieth governor, who had just entered the hotel where the con- ous automobile ride from Indianapo- is, which had consumed half a day |1aughingly evaded the question. He {was Gifford Pinchot of Pennsyivania. Looking less fatigued than any of | the governors who had arrived ahead of him, Gov. Pinchot was the center | of attentlon as he strode into the | hotel lobby, still covered with the | dust of his trip. “Who wili be the next republican presidential nomince?’ the writer asked him. Evades Direct Question. “That's an awful lot to ask right off the bat,” he replied with a contagious chuckle, which was echoed by several other state executives in the crowd which had varmed about the most- | talked-of governor of them all. *“Now | what else do you want to know?” he WARBEGUNONT,100 NEW YORK SALOONS U. S. Attorney Asks Injunc-| tions Against 54 as Start. | Repeal of State Act Hit. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 18.—United States Attorney Hayward today filed | fifty-four Injunction and common nuisance suits in federal court, under | the Volstead act, to close alleged wet saloons, cafes, restaurants and cab- arets in this city. The names of the places were not available early today, as the com- plaints in the varlous suits had not been fled. The evidence on which AE sults were based was obtained by Assistant United States Attorney John Holley Clark. Running Wide Open. Speaking of the federal government's latest effort to make New York dry, Mr. “I have filed this morning fifty- four injunction suits asking for the closing of that many saloons, now | runnning ‘wide open in the Borough of Manhattan. b This is the first of a serles of similar . actions which will be com- lerks can ! get out the papers, the clerk of the district court can file them and the marshal can serve them. ‘Since the repeal of the Mullan-Gage act prohibition agents, acting- under | supervision of my assistant, Maj Clark, have been making a survey of all the plagces in which arrests have been made since the Volstead act went into effcet. The police have co- operated by giving us lists of all ar- rests made by them under the Mul- lan-Gage act.” Indexes 1,100 Saloons. In describing the scope of the latest dry offensive, Mr. Hayward said he had a locality card index of some 1,100 open saloons, adding: “These saloons are of the old lype,l Drinks are sold quite openly, 10 cents r-beer, 20 to 25 cents for real 25 to 50 cents for what es for whisky. In one saloon a little girl of seven was observed taking out a can of beer. It was a small can and the price was 40 cents, but it is indicative of the whole situation. Says State Surrendered. “The old saloons are with us still and have taken a new lease on life since they defeated the efforts of the state of New York to put them out of business, and this great state has sur- rendered to them. “Some of the worst places started in business the week the state en- forcement act was repealed “It is my intention by suits against all the open saloons—probably more than 2,000 in Manhattan and the Bronx alone—to bring the whole situ- | ation to the attention of the federal district judges. The issue wlill, of i CLEVELAND DROPS OUT. Saxony Awaits Next Move by Mili- tary Commander. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. | Copyright, 1923. { BERLIN, October 18.—Premier | Zeigner of red Saxony having for-| mally rejected the ultimatum of Gen. | Mueller, reichswehr commander of | the Saxon district, for dispersal of | the proletarian forces under threat | of a military campaign against them, | the workers today were waiting Dbreathlessly for Gen. Mueller's next step. 2 T ne proceeds in a military way against the Saxon government the vesult will be a complete general strike throughout all of middle Ger- many, with the probability of blood- shed. Chancellor Stresemann is personal- | 1y backing Gen. Mueller in his meas- iires against Premier Zeigner, hoping thus to propitiate monarchist Bavaria. Gen. Mueller is reported to have Leen receiving monarchistic irreg- ulars into_the reichswehr in large .umbers. Sixteen battalions are con- centrated on the Bavarian border. The Stresemann cabinet was ex- pected to decide at its meeting today whether the measuces already taken shall be pushed to their logical con- clusion, namely, civil war. 6 TO 8 DEAD IN RIOTS. | 1 Demonstrators Clash With Police in Mannheim. Dy the Associated Press. MANNHEIM, Germany, October 18, -From six to elght persons are re- ported dead and many others wound- (Continued on_Page 2, Column 2) | two' withdrawals ‘appeared to_leave) New York Sees Itself Only Place for Democratic Convention. NEW YORK, October 18.—Cleveland has withdrawn as a contender for the next democratic national conven- tion, according to John R. Young, secretary of the committee which is seeking to bring the gathering to New York. Chicago _withdrew several weeks ago, Mr. Young sald, declaring the this city alone in the fleld as a con- tender. Chicago, he said, abandoned all hope when it was announced that New | York intended to raise a fund of at least $250,000 to entertain the con- vention next summer. Word received today from Cleve-, land, Mr. Young added, was that while that city was confident it could raise a fund to pay the expenses of | the convention, it had decided to re- linquish its claim because it had been | learned that a majority of members of the national democratic committee had openly spoken in favor of New York. | _— COUPLE CONFESS SLAYING ALNUT RIDGE, Ark., October 18.— | The trial of John ‘Williams and Mr. Frank Wright, charged with the mur- der of Mrs., Wright's husband several months ago, ended abruptly and dra- matically whep both defendants entered pleas of guilty and accepted prison “Wililams was given a life term, while the woman was sentenced to twenty- one vears in the penitentiary. A ch tives Expects President to Get October 18.— | or personal representatives of gov- | ference is belng held after an ardu- | | who "is repres WASHINGTON, Pinchot Alone of 30 Governors Evades Prediction for Coolidge Session of Execu- Nomination. suggested. “Let me have zll barrels |at once “But, governor,” the questioner in- | ststed, “I'm holding my breath until | You answer my first question.” | Gov. Pinchot leaned toward the | questioner with an exaggerated air | of confidence. The crowd drew closer, | to miss nothing. i |t dvise You not to hold 1t any | longer,” was his sotto-voce reply. And | | Gov. Pinchot stepped into a waiting | elevator. | “It might prove fatal” he | back as the lift disappeared But_there gas no such evasion, nor tation on the part called | was there any he: {of Gov. Pinchot's conferees to whom the same question was put. Twelve lof the thirty questioned are demo- |crats. The other cighteen, including | two governors' representatives—John Hammill, acting for Gov. Kendall of Towa, who Is ill, and Dr. F. M. Smith, nting Gov. Plero of Oregon—are republicans Democrats Certal The democratic answers were quick | of | and positive: Coolidge, course,” g The republicans answered as snap- pily, but most of them hastened to add an “If” clause—“if he continuet to make good as he has been doing.” Many of the governors Insisted that thetr names be not used. The democratic certainty that Cool- {dge would be the republican stand- ard-bearer was based on the argu- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) “Why, Doctor Loses Pay ByContract When ‘Client’ Falls Sick By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. October 18.—Five years have now elapsed since Samuel M. Vauclain, presi- dent of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, made a contract with a physician to keep him in good physical condition for ten years. Mr. Vauclain sald today he agreed to pay a flat sum every year for being kept well, increas- ing this sum each year, on the assumption that the older he Brows the more difficult it will be for him to keep well. Under the contract, if Mr. Vau- clain falls sick, a deduction is made from the doctor’s annual re- tainer according to the length of time of his illness. “T have been sick,” he sald, “and T aidn’t like it, I did not want it to happen agaln. Since the in- ception of this cortract I have kept my part of itrand my doctor has kept his, except once or twice. I have been examined not less than every two weeks, and have -guided mysely entirely by the doctor’s Instructions. In that time I have not lost a day from business, nor have I been ill in any way. I am heavier, stronger and more active than I was five years ago.” LLOYD GEORGE ASKS AUDIT FORGERMANY War Premier Recovers From Cold and Goes to Spring- field, Resuming Tour. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, October 18.—His chief message to America voiced and re- covered from the slight cold and fatigue which kept him idle vester- day, David Lloyd George, war premier of Great Britain, resumed his ftiner- ary today, going to Springfleld, IIL, for a visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln and an address there. His train departed at 10:05 a.m. The distinguished visitor was in much better physical condition than early yesterday and showed little evidence of his cold. ‘The former premier went aboard a private car, which, with two other compartment cars provided for his large retinue and newspaper repre- sentatives, was attached to a fast Iilinols Central train. The rainy morning apparently had prevented a large assemblage to see him off, but a fair-sized, crowd, prominent citizens, shoated goodbyes in the same friendly fashion in which he was welcomed here Tuesday. The train is due at Springfleld at 3 p.m., where Mr. Lloyd George will visit the tomb of Lincoln. He will {leave the Tilinols capital at 10 p.m. for St. Louls and depart tomorrow night for Loulsville for the week end. Indorses Hughes’ Plan. The Hughes proposal for an in- ternational commission to ascertain Germany’s capacity to pay was In- dorsed by Mr. Lloyd George last night at the International Amphitheater in the stockyards _ district, To the largest audience he has yet addressed since arriving in New York, he de- clared that such an examination of Germany’s capacity was one of com- mon sense with the alternative noth- ing but the blindness of force and violence. Discussing the situation In Europe with its exhaustion after the war and | the reparations question as the most acute phase of the situation, Mr. i Lloyd George declared that it was a | member of the board of directors of fatal mistake to drive the German population in despair. “We want reparations,” he added, “and revolution is not the way to get them.” Great Britain desired reparations, {Lloyd George explained, but was fol- ' lowing her traditional policy ot i moderateness in victory as the surest | {way of attaining that end. “You cannot examine ledgers with bayonets,” he remarked. “Can Germany pay now? If she can she ought to. It is to her inter- est to get done with it. Approves Examining Board. “Mr. Secretary Hughes delivered a very important speech at the begin- ning of this year at New Haven, I ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ¢ e WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION including many | B0, | | News Note: TAX REVISION SEEN MAJOR 1924 1SSUE Coolidge Has Task of Adjust-| ing Demand for Cut, With Soldier Bonus. BY DAVID LAWRENC The revision may be the paramount issue of the next presidential cam- paign. The Treasury is in such good condi- tion that with further economles in the coming year a reduction in taxes could be accomplished. But the poli- | ticians differ a8 to the wisdom of the | move and 8o do some of the highest | of government officials. ‘If tax revision is not recommended, | hoWgver, in .the first address to be made by President Coolidge at the December session of Congress, at least-one aspirent for the republican nomination will make it the basis of his attack In the spring primaries. And the democrats are planning to emphasize tax revision if the re-| publicans don't. Smoot Against Slash. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Senate finance committee, admits that the Treasury could stand a tax re- ductlon, but opposes it at this time on the ground that a flood of changes | will be suggested and the whole problem reopencd. Memories of the !last fight on the tax bl when the | conservatives had a hard time getting {the excess profits taxes repealed, are still fresh. Mr. Smoot knows also that a soldier bonus bill will be pro- | posed. Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department wants surtaxes reduced {and certaln other changes made that { will stimulate business and the gen- |eral prosperity of the nation. Mr. 1 Smoot thinks that if any tax revi- |sion_is made it should benefit those { of smaller incomes. That is obviously | the strategy of good politics, and was {the guiding principal in the last re- i vision of the revenue laws that was | made. Madden Favors Cat. Chafrman Madden of the House ap- propriations committee favors tax re- duction. He has been making a study of the whole situation and thinks the Treasury can stand a cut in revenues. His judgment will count a great deal both in the House and with President Coolidge. But the situation 1s not entirely in the hands of President Coolidge or the leaders of the House and Senate, who are supporting him. It is controlled largely by La Follette “radicals” and members of the farm bloc. They will | not hesitate to open up the whole tax | matter. The big question is whether the administration, realizing the inevi- table, will get the jump on its natural political opponents and propose a pro- | gram of tax revision which cannot be varied materially. To propose a reduction of taxes will incidentally have the effect of checl | mating, for a time at least, the bonus (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) NAMES ASPINWALL HOSPITAL RECEIVER | | Justice Selects Banker to Help Un- tangle Financial Affairs of Casualty. i i | { | | Clarence A. Aspinwall, president of the Security Storage Company and di- |rector of the American Security and | Trust Company, was selected today by | Justice Hitz to serve as co-receiver | with Tracy L. Jeffords, lawyer and i Casualty Hospital. Gracle K. Rich- jards, who was designated by the 'court Tuesday, declined to serve as | recelver. Mr. Aspinwall declared his willingness to serve. Receiver Jeffords when asked about the proposition of the . Seventh-day !Adventlnta to rent the hospital prop- erty and conduct it as a branch of the | sanitarium at Takoma Park, stated there were several propositions ready to lay before his co-receiver and ex- pressed the -hope that a way might be found to continue the operation of | the hospital, which is much needed in east Washington. He did not di; cuss the other propositions nor men- tion the details. | vesterday ¢ n CONGREGATIONAL BODY MEETS IN D. C. IN 1925 President Coolidge Elected Honor- ary Moderator at Session in Bay State. By the Assoclated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., October 18.—j The next biennial meeting of th National Councll of Congregational | Churches, in 1925, will be held in Wash- | | | ington, D. C., by vote in today's session | of the council. President Coolidge was | clected honorary moderator of the council, and it was proposed to- day by the Rev. Dr. D. F. Bradley of | Cleveland he be asked to preside at the 1925 meeting, but no action was taken./ Omaha, Neb'; Akron, Ohio, and Boise, Idaho, had sought the conventlon. FREE SONOF COUPLE FOUND MURDERED Hagerstown Police Think Drunk or Maniac to Blame for Cline Slaying. Special Dispateh to The Sta HAGERSTOWN, Md., October 18. Harry Cline, seventeen-year-old son of John Cline, seventy Mennonite truck farmer, with his wife, Rebecca, found slain in the cellar of their home near this city Tuesday. was today released from jail because of lack of evidence to connect him with the crime. The boy had been held as a material witness by the authorities after be- ing taken into custody shortly after the discovery of the bodies. He had reported the crime to the police. From the moment of his arrest until his release he told the same story of how he had returned home from work a few minutes before 12 o'clock on Tuesday to find his parents ab- sent from the house, of his search and the discovery of bloodstains leading to the cellar. When questioned just before his release by State's Attorney Wolfinger relative to a reported quar- rel with his father, he sald it was untrue. It had been reported there was a quarrel two weeks ago, but the youth explains this by telling of | an argument his parents had had about his taking a day off and at- tending the York, Pa., fair. Relatives Threatened Action. While the youth's release was brought about today by a threat of | relatives to obtain his release on habeas corpus proceedings, it became known that District Attorney Wolf- inger had banished his original be- llef that perhaps the boy did know something about the murder, and is now running down the theory that the two ragged strangers seen stag- gering away from the scene may be the murderers. The authorities hold to the beliet that only an intoxicated person or a maniac could have committed the crime for which no motive has yet been established. Murder Not Premeditated. The person or persons who killed the couple did not come there to murder them or they would have had a weapon, is the bellef. The crime was committed with a piece of Wwrought iron, which had been lying about the house for years. The po- lice have abandoned the robbery theory because nothing In the house had been disturbed. The authorities are giving much attention to the fair grounds for clues, believing the slayers probably were “hangovers” from that recent event, the fair grounds being within a mile of the Cline home. years old, | 1 Sfar. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1923 -FORTY-SIX PAGES. Woman golier in Canada follows squirrel with golf ball i its mouth and finds ty-eight golf balls in the squirrel’s nest, which she replaces with nuts. CLASSIFYING WOES LAID T0 SECTION & IStudents of Act Allege Jumpy Scale Rather Than Gradual Increases. Mugh of the dissatisfaction among government employes over reclassi- fication allocations, which are now being made public by the personnel classification board, s traceable to ection 6 of the act. The require- ments of that section have created & situation which has provoked dis- gruntlement. Reclassification, by provisions writ- ten Into the act, has put the salaries of government workers on a fiight of stalrs, instead of-on, an Inclined plane. These steps make the salary allocations jumpy Instead of a grad- ual up-grade as the administrative officers of the government have worked them out during many years of experience. The allocation directions in the act have created a situation where the vpper and middle grades of work- ers in any class of employment find themselves carrying along the less efficlent workers at the same salary. step to better their own salaries and pull away from the less proficient and efficient fellow worker In the same grade. Change in the law to remedy this condition and to remove the cause for much _dissatisfaction will be urged in the incoming Congress by those who are in closest touch with the reclassification processes. They are prepared to argue that the con- tinuance of such a situation will break down the morale by killing off the incentive to win better salaries | by supertor work. | Response by Students. To those who argue that these people, all having been placed in the same grade, the intent of reclassi- fication requires that their salaries | should be equalized, the response of interested viewpoint looking only to doing justice to those who are really doing “the government's work clently,* Is: The act itself provides a range of salaries (say in grade two, from $2,400 to $3,000) so that the act clear- {1y contemplates that the employes shall be distributed over that salary range; but section 6 prevents a pro- portionate advancement of those who are now at or above the minimum to the higher rates in the grade. ling the compensation to be establish- the following rules shall govern: 1. In computing the existing com- pensation of an emplove, any bonus which the employe receives shall be included. 2. If the employe is recelving com- pensation less than the minimum rate of the grade or class thereof in which his duties fall, the compensation shall be increased to that minimum rate. 3. If the employe is receiving com- | pensation within the range of salary {prescribed for the appropriate grade at one of the rates fixed therein, no |change ghall be made in the existing {compensation. 4. 1 the employe is receiving com- pensation within the range of salary prescribed for.the appropriate grade, !but not at one of the rates fixed | therein, the compensation shall be in- {creased to the next higher rate. 5. If the employe is not a veteran of the civil war, or a widow of such veteran, and is receiving compensa- tion in_excess of the range of salary prescribed for the appropriate grade, the compensation shall be reduced to the rate within the grade ncarest the present compensation. 6. All new appointments shall be made at the minimum rate of the appropriate grade or class thereof. To see how this actually works | out, it Is necessary to take an illus- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Circulation of The Star FIRST TWO WEEKS OF OCTOBER October, 1923. ... October, 1922. ... The circulation of The Sunday to that of The Evening Star, The DAILY SUNDAY . 92,684 96,806 . 88,824 89,915 3,860 6,891 Star in Washington is now equal additional Sunday circulation is in the more extended territory in the country and nearby towns. # “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evenirg and gounday morning tc Washington homes at cents They find they have to clintb a high| those who have studied the real sit- | uation most closely and from a ais- effi- | Section 6 provides that in determin. | ed initlally for the several employes | lIntelligence Test To Avert Future |Marital Disasters By the Assoclated Press. MADISON, Wis., October 18.— Passing of an intelligence test as a requirement for marriage can be looked for within ten or twenty years, Prof. E. A. Ross of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin faculty and nationally know sociologist said today. “Native intelligence itself, apart from education or other acquired knowledge, should be sought in the tests,” he added. BOY OF 15 BEATS MOTHER WITH CLUB Mrs. Juanita Williams in Hos- pital Following Surprise Attack in Home. l A fifteen-vear-old boy, James De- pew, beat his mother over the head with a bludgeon-like club when she rthwest, shortly before noon today, filcting serious injuries. { Mre, Juanita Arnold Depew Wil- jliams, the thirty-year-old mother, a { former actress, was rushed to Casual- ty Hospital, where ghe was given first ald treatment. She had just come downstairs, and was passing through the door when her son attacked her. He was stand- ing on the bed, which is only a few believe was intended for use in tying her up while he made his escape. Parsued With Club. After the first blow Mrs. Williams reamed and ran into the kitchen, |she said, where the boy followed her. vielding the club. She protect- ed herself with her arms, which re- | ceived the force of several blows. |, The club was about a foot and a ihalf long an on one end was about three inches square. It was of hard- | wood and weighty. One end had been metlculously whittled down to serve as a convenfent handle, | Panic-stricken at the screams of | his mother, the boy fled into_the | street without coat or hat. Mrs. Wil- liams reeled to the floor, where her husband, who is employed at the government printing office, found her when he entered the house after a short absence, during Which the ate tack had taken place. Her condition is not serious, but physicians at the hospital stated that they were unable to see how she es- caped at least critical fracture of the skull if not fatal injuries. Probated by Court. The boy has been at her home only since last Tuesday, when he was placed on probation by the Juvenile {Court, following Investigation of charges agalnst him of forging his step-father’s name to two checks to the amount of $159.75. One check for $9.75, according to Mr. Willlams, was cashed. The other, a check for $160, was not. Upon promise of the youngster to amend his ways, he was released Tuesday, after having been held in the house of detention for several weelks. | Gonzaga College. { _ What his motive was in the attack police were unable to uncover. Po- licemen Koontz and Leech of the ‘llx(h precinct, who were first on the | scene, and Headquarters Detectives | O'Dea and Fowler, Who appeared |later to take up the investigation, { were told that Mrs. Williams has an | insurance policy with the boy named | as beneficiary.” Mrs. Willlams also cited this fact. | A city-wide search for the boy was instituted this afternoon. Police are covering the homes of chums of the | boy with the hope that he will visit | them. ‘BORAH BACKS PLAN FORTAX REDUCTION :Supports Smoot’s Assertion | $500,000,000 May Be Cut i Off Annually. { By_the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 18.—Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, here for {conferences in connection with pros- {pective coal legislation, today issued {a statement favoring a drive at the | coming sesslon of Congress to reduce | the nation's tax burden. “1 am very much in favor of tax reduction at this session of Congress,” ihe sald. “We cannot act too speedily |80 long as we act with information and Intelligence. If the fearful tax burden now being carrfed can be re- lieved, as Senator Smoot, who Is as well advised as any one, declares to | the extent of $500,000/000, let us do 80 as soon as possible. - “The view expressed by Senator |Smoot that the man of small income should be favored is good news also. But I think we ought not to be de- layed. , It is true probably that to at- |tempt ' change at this session will |open up, as stated, a Pandora’s box fof troubles. But the Pandora's box 1of troubles already is open out in the {country and Congress can afford to take on some troubles in order to {relfeve the country. {""“I hope the new chairman, Senator Smoot, with his usual industry and ability, will urge his program and urge it at this session. If we do not begin an active campaign for reduc- ‘tlons we will likely drift into a_pro- | gram of increasing the taxes. There {will_be plenty of plans to increase !the burden. The best way to meet them {8 by an active program to re- | Quce. Reduce and reduce now!" i~ Senator Borah made it clear that | his statement did not refer to the | general tax reduction program being prepared by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. He declined to discuss, at this time, any of the detalls of the proposed ‘plans by which the taxes might be shaved, but said he favored {heartily any plan which would re- {lieve the man with a small income. While admitting that he had been in conference for several days over federal coal legislation, he declined to dl&:;.ose the identity of those with whom he had glscussed the subject or to express his views on that matter. He sald he expected to return to Washington tomorrow. | entered her bedroom at 207 H street | inches from the side of the doorway. | On the bed was a rope, which police | He started in high school at | month Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulatior 92,667 TWO CENTS. COOLIDGE PLEDGES 10UPHOLD WOOD'S RULE N PHILIPPINES Weeks, After White House Conference, Cables Gov- ernor of Support. ADMINISTRATION GIVEN PRESIDENT’S APPROVAL Combating of Efforts of Legisla- ture to Encroach Upon Power 0. K’d. The support of the Washington ad minlstration was repledged to Gov Gen. Leonard Wood's regime in thu Philppine Islands in a cablegram sen: him a week ago by Secretary Week: and made public today. “After personal conference with the President,” sald the War Secretary's message, “and recognizing the neces sity of bringing about co-operatio: between the branches of the Philip- pine government, executive, legisla.. tive and judiclal, maintaining the clear line of demarcation between them whicky is essential to well balanced govern- ment, it seems well to make the followy ing authoritative statement of the views of the administration: Support is Pledged. “The personal sacrifice involved i1n | your acceptance of your present o |fice is proof of your desire to serv |the Filipino people as served the United States. You |entitled to the support of the ad- | ministration, and you have it. | “The controversy with the lesis- {1ative leaders and certain executive | officers s, at bottom, a legal one. { The Congr: after full considera- tlon, vested the authority of control jand supervision over all departments jand bureaus in the governor general. which makes these officials directly | responsible to him and not to the |legislature as in a parllamentary form of government. ““The powers of the governor general have not been exceeded or misused by you in any instance of which the War Department Is advised. If the legisla- ture has enacted legislation violative of the provisions of the organic law. { such legislation is to that extent nuli and void, and, in so far as it provid for encroachments on the authorl of the governor general, i8 in no wax binding on that offclal. Veto Power Upheld. “The legislature has In & number of instance delegated legislative power in violation of the principles of con- stitutional government. Silence of Congress on such legislation does not effect a modification or amendment of the organio law. “The veto power granted to the governor general is applicable to all legislation, whether it be local or otherwise. “The legislature has provided for the establishment of a bank and for certain Investments of a business or seml-business character. This was | within_the authority of the legls ture. In agreement with this ad istration you belleved these invest- ments unwise and have advised the | legislature accordingly. This was your duty. Brought Officials to Trial “Certain offictals connected with the bank were corrupt. You have brought them to trial. Your duty in . the premises has been fulfilled. “The legislature must now deter- mine whether these government en- terprises are to be carried on or not So long as the legislature indicates through adequate legislative enact- ment ~and provision -of necessary means its desire and purpose to carry them on, you should endeavor to have it done efciently “If the foregoing offers a bisis on which the co-operation contemplated by the law can be assured in the Philippines, it will be supported here.” THINK MINERS DOOMED. you hav Rescuers Fight, However, to Save Five in Utah Entombment. Assoclated Press. NGHAM, Utah, Octber 18.—For | thirty-six house six crews, working in relays, have been striving to pene- trate the mammoth pile of rock and | mine timbers which has entombed and possibly killed four workmen and the superintendent of the Utah- ! Apex metal mine. No trace of the men | has been found and mine officials | doubt whether the entombed miners { will be taken out alive. The body of | Foreman Dan Eden, who was near- |est to the level when the cave-in oc- curred, has been recovered. | The 'Utah-Apex mine came into | prominence in 1913, when Raphael | Lopez. one of the west's most promi- {nent “bad men” held off a posse of 600 men there for several days and finally escaped. CUNO SAILS FOR HOME. Declines to Say What Was Mission in United States. NEW YORK, October 18.—Main- taining silence on political questions, Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, former chancellor of Germany, sailed for home today after a month in this country. He sald he hoped to return soon. Dr. Cuno, who declined to comment {on reports that he had been engaged in loan negotiations, was received by President Coolldge and Chairman Tarley of the Shipping Board. On his arrival Dr. Cuno stated that he had come to rest and renew his acquaint- ance with shipping_officials, being connected with the Hamburg-Amer- ican line. PROTEST BEAUTY SHOW. | Presbyterians Aroused by Atlantic City Contest. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., October 15t —Atlantic City's annual beauty con- test has drawn the fire of New Jer- sey Presbyterians. A letter condemning the “display- ing of young women clad only in the scantlest of garments” as an affront to the country’s morals was read into the report of the state synod’s moral welfare board at the closing session esterday. It was written by mem- ers of the first Presbyterian Church of Haddon Heights.