Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly *cooler tomorrow. y-four hour ighest, 55 a Temperature for twent noon today; lowest, 40 at 6 a.n. today. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month Telephone Main 5000 ended at 2 pm. today: H Full report on page 7. and service will start ymmediately Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bond:. Page 30 ~I§ o. 29,(231 WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, ¢ Fpening Star. === TWO CENTS. LLOYD GEORGE HERE DECLARES AMERICA ~ | ALONE CAN BRING o ,‘PEA[}E 10° EUROPE Scoffs at Fears That U. S. Might Become Involved in ENtereg ar seconi-ciuss marter post _office Washington D C. OCTOBER 25, 1923—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. U. S. NOTE TO BRITAIN REOPENS REPARATIONS Cables Discussing Parley on Subject Between Hughes and Curzon to Be Revealed Tonight. ILUMP PAYMENT IS BAD SUBSTITUTE FOR G040 SYSTEM It Limits Capital Contribu- tion of Nation and Leaves Unlimited That Exacted From Taxpayers. : | | | | * HARCH N BERLI DEFENSE PREPARED: - IOTHG ONTINUES ..., e Conflict Expected to Flame|tonight for publication in tomorrow morning’s newspapers two Up HOUI‘IY Says Dispatch_limportant lengthy cables exchanged between Lord Curzon, the ’ ’{ Pritish foreign secretary, and Secretary of State Hughes, con- | { | Reds Wiped Out in Ham-|cemning an international conference.on reparations. ! SEPARATISTS MAKE GAINS,! FRANGE S““- B[]“] BUT LACK ARMED FORCES! TOU. S RURR PLAN i | kurg With Big Losses. Federal Premiers Uphold Strese mann, But Demand End of Mar- Reparations Body Preferred tial Law—Bavarian Situation Confused TONDON, October 25.—A L‘ontml} Berlin | Newe dispatch recelved from shortly after 8 o'clock this afternoon 6ays large bands of communists are marening on the German capital nat the pulice have been rushed out to intercept them. are also assembling in strong force in | the Lichtenberger district of Berlin, but | the police have surrounded the whole hborhood and are not allowing any to pass through their cordon. Serious trouble is expected tonight, the message adds. HAMBURG Q Last of Communist Strongholds At- tacked by Police. | By the Associated Press | HAMBURG, Germany, October 25.— | All the nests of the communists who | participated in the rioting yesterday | have been cleaned up by the author- itles. Only a few small bodies of the | reds remain and these arc scattered ! in isolated parts of the cf The last ! important body of them, in Bergdorf, | a suburb, ten miles northeast of Ham- | burg, is being put to flight. The police lost eleven men killed | end thirty wounded during the ri ing. When the insurgents were beifl | chased from the ducks, they opened fire on police and the imperial ma- rines with four machine guns. Meetings of communists who de- ired to vote on the question of a general strike and to interfere with communications were stopped by the police today. PREMIERS UPHOLD BERLIN. o TZTER. | | i | Demand Relaxation Martial Law Rule. By the Associated Preas, BERLIN, October 25.—Upholding the central government in its controversy with Bavaria, the federal premiers in | conference here last night neverthe- less demanded the immediate termi nation of martial law and the restora. tion of normal legal procedure to| avoid a recurrence of such disputes as that between Munich and Berlin, which has threatened serious conse- quences. The premiers also asked that nego- tiations be started toward greater in- dependence for the states comprising the republic. Chancellor Stresemann, went with several cials to Hagen, Westphalia, to talk| over economic and political affaire! with tie Ruhr and Rhineland leaders, informed the premiers that the cen- | tral government was ready to discuss greater freedom for the states and | also to withdraw the martial law de- | cree as soon as the situation would | permit. A state of civil emergency would be substituted, he said. Situation Confused. The eituation In the Bavarian pal- atinate is still confused. One dis- Ppatch from Speyer says the provin- clal dlet rejecteq a proposal for an | autonomous state, while the Ludwig- shafen Post, a soclalist newspaper, says the radicals have preserved the palatinate’s allegiance to the reich by establishing an independent state within Germany. Other telegrams variously report an independent pal- | atinate and plans to organize “the palatinate republic as a federal state of the reich.” In connectlon with Chancellor Stresemann’s visit to Westphalia the government's reported plans to or ganize a “lihineland-Ruhr director- ate” are recalled. This body, it Is| said, will be composed of political, industrial, labor and financial leaders, who, in the absence of direct rela- tions with Paris and Brussels, will serve as intermediaries between Ber- | lin and the occupation authorities In adjusting local problems. POLICE ATTACK BEATEN. of Rigorous! who later government offi- | Separatists Win Battle for Aix-la- Chapelle Palace. By the Assoclated Press, i AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, October 25— | The police this morning attacked the : Regierung - Pulace, the only remain-} ing public building in the hands of; the geparatists. Five policemen and | two separatists were killed during ! the. tusillade. ¢ Tater thirty-five members of thet police force called at the Belgian military headquarters and requested that they be disarmed. MINES TO BE CLOSED. Owners to Act After Allies Refuse Terms. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 25.—It is reported from Essen.that the mine owners Lave resolved to close all Rhenish Westphalfan mines beginning next Monday owing to the failure of nego- tiationg with the oceupation authori- ties. s has made it imposible to (Continued on' Page .2, Column 2.) Aixla-Chapelle | Again Center of Fierce Fighting.‘ and | Ee lin he dispatch says that the communists j . op o to Hughes Commission. Suspects Trade Bias. i BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. ' Copyright, 1623, ! PARIS, October 25.—French official- 25, dom is unable to comprehend why, in | the face fusals, his of France's determined re- Ambassador Harvey renewed London speech Secretary proposal for an international commission to estimate Germany's capacity to pay—a renewal which ap- jparently was made with the consent of the American guvernment. France's reasons for refusing the Hughes proposal are as follow: 1. There already exists a compe- xperts which has been doing little Ise in the last three years than tudying Germany's capacity to pay This is the reparations commission The Unlted States reserved the right to name an official delegate on this commission, but has failed to do so. t e e Question of Force. 2. The real problem is not Ger- many's capacl but German in will. The American proposal includes no suggestions for forcing Germany to pay the amount arrived at. Con- sequently, even if the proposed com- mission’s estimates coinclded with the French estimates of forty to sixty billfon gold marks, the whole present problem, namely, the problem of com- pelling payment, would = bg un- hanged. 3. There is a profound suspicion here of the motives of British, Ameri- can and neutral business interests, which are belleved to be more intent on saving Germany from France's iron grip for international commer- clal reasons than they are intent on seeing justice done in the matter of reparations. Ask About War Debt. 4. France is willing to reduce the German debt on the condition plainly stated by Premier Poincare las! January, namely, a general settle- | ment, including both reparations and | war debts. The popular conclusion here is that the United States wants France to reduce her legitimate reparation claim on Germany, but that United States is not willing to re- duce its war debt claim on France. Existence of this question of war debts precludes, in the French view,| any possibility of the United States Leing asked to mediate In the repara- tions problem. Meanwhile, not only. will refuse all proposals for commissions and conferences, but she will even refuse to reopen negotiations with the Berlin government until the latter ceases what is regarded here as new forms of resistance and resumes deliveries in kind. {WEST VIRGINIA REPAYS GERMANY’S ENVOY $5.60| Much Diplomatic Red Tape Pre- cedes Refund of Fine Imposed for Speeding. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va., October 25 —West Virginia re-established friend- Iy relations with Germany today, when the state road commission sent a check for $5.60 to Otto L. Wiedfelt, German ambassador at Washington, The $5.60 represented a bond given a Bolivar policeman who charged the ambassedor with speeding. Negotiations for the return of the money covered a period of several weeks. While motoring with a party of relatives and friends, Ambassador Wiedfelt was halted by the policeman at Bolivar. The officer refused to hear his plea of diplomatic immunity and told the ambassador he would be locked up unless he gave bond. When the ambassador returned to Washington he reported the incldent to Secretary of State Hughes. Then began a series of letters from the Secretary to Gov. Morgan, frori the governor to the road commission and from the commission to the mayor of Bolivar. SIX KILLED BY BOMB BLAST IN BRITISH INDIA Notorious Leader of Sikh Zealots Victim of Own Explosive at Hoshiarpur. By the Assoclated Press. LAHORE, British India, October 25.— Six persons, including Dhanna Singh, the notorfous leader of the Babar Akalis, Sikh Zealots, were killed today by the explosion of a bomb near Hoshlarpur. While Superintendent of Police Horton and his assistant, Jenkyn, were arrest- ting Dhanna Singh a bomb which the latter was carrying exploded, blowing Dhanna and flve policemen to pieces and injuring Supt. Horton, his assistant and another policeman. FLOGGING CASE MISTRIAL. MACON, Ga., October 25.—A mis- trial was declared at 12:30 o'clock today in the case of Dr. C. A. Yar- brough, Macon dentist, who went on trial Monday in city court on a charge of riot in connection with the flog- gIng of W. O. Barnett, harness maker, last February. The jury took the case Tuesday night, ent and experienced commission of | the | France | DENBY EXPLAINS OIL RESERVE LEASE Says He Firs't Suggested That Fall Take Over Tea- pot Dome Control. Secretary Denby of the Navy, who Jointly with former Secretary Fall of the Interfor signed the lease of the Teapot Dome naval ofl reserve to the Sinclalr interests, was called as a | witness today before the Senate pub- {lic lands committee in its investiga- tion of the lease. Former Secretary Fall, who as the first witness declared the lease had been of great benefit to the govern- ment, emphasized before the com- mittee that Secretary Denby had been in entire accord with him as to all provisions of the lease -and in the view that development of the field | [was essential to protect the govern- | ment from further loss through drainage of oil. There had been com- plete co-operation, he said, between the two departments in negotiating the lease, which provided. among | other thin for the storage of| emergency supplies of fuel oil for lhel Navy to be obtained as royalty from | the crude oil production of the field. | Secretary Denby told the commit- | tee he had initiated the transfer of the control of all naval reserves from | the Navy to the Interior Department, ! He read correspondence showing that | {it was his opinion that the custody of | :the oil lands properly belonged to the | | Interior Department. Among them | | was one to the President, in which he | |stated that Secretary Fall would give {his best efforts “to conserve under- iground as much oil as possible.’ Opposition to Transfer. The officer in ciarge of the Navy bureau which"had supervisién of “the reserves opposed the transfer, See- rétary Denby sald; and Sehator Wlsh, |democrat, Montana, brought out that i the proposal had not been submitted by Secretary Denby to the general board of the Navy or the council of {the bureau chiefs for recommenda- | tions. In reply to a question the Sec- |retary said he could not give the com- {mittee the name of any naval officer who approved it. “When I found that there was serl ous drainage from the naval reserves in California and Wyoming I thought the Department of the Interlor, being fully equipped for handling matters of that kind, was the proper depart- ment to handle the situation for the avy,” he said. “I theretore asked Secretary Fall if he would handle the reserves for the Navy Department. When he agreed to do so we discussed the proposed transfer with the Presi- dent and obtained his approval. An executive order making the transfer ! was then prepared for his signatur | i Power of President. { “Could the President, in your opin- !lon, by executive order divest you of | the direction of naval affairs und con- fer them upon another cabinet offi- ! cer?’ asked Senator Walsh. i "I do not know how far the Presi- faent's authority commander-in- {chief of the Army and Navy would go lin such a matter,” answered Secre- [tary Denby. | Secretary Denby sald that after control over the reserves had been transferred to the Interior Depart- ment he transmitted to that depart- Iment bids which had been submitted to him for the opening of offset wells | on the two reserves in California, but after that had not glven close atten- tion to their administration. — REV. DR. STRATON’S FOES SUSPENDED BY CHURCH :29 Charged With “Guerilla War- | fare” on Pastor, Dropped From Calvary Baptist Rolls. | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, October 25.—Twenty- jnine members of Calvary Baptist Church were suspended last night, charged with conducting a “guerilla warfare” on the pastor, the Rev. John Roach Straton, and with violat- Ing their vows to support the church. Eleven other members voluntarily jmithdrew as a result of charges by | Dr. Straton that while he was in Eu- jrobe last summer a “coterie of hos- tile members” had tried to_oust him, Dr. Straton declared the church had become filled with social climbers, who disliked his method of welcom- ing all who desired to join. —_— SHIP ANCHORS SAFELY, Yamacraw to Convoy British S*eamer Mascotte Northward. KEY WEST, Fla., October 25.—The steamer Mascotte, reported aground |off Cape Canaveral last nigit, an- 'chored this morning off the cape, jleaking slightly, but in no immediate need of assistance. The coast guard cutter Yamacraw was standing by and will convoy the :steamer northward. The Mascotte sailed from Key West Sunday for Boston. i 1 1 —_— CAPTURE OF CORINTH MAY END GREEK REVOLT Government Troops Have Occupied City, Say Advices From Peloponnesus, ATHENS, October 25.—Government troops have occupied Corinth and the complete failure of the revolution is assured. according to advices received llrvm the Peloponnesus this morning. ithe period when the United States NO OFFSETTING BENEFIT ! TO INJURY INFLICTED Bond Issue on 60-40 Basis or Treasury Advance to Solve Present Fiscal Problem. Editorlal Correspoudence of The Star. THEODORE W. NOYES. Iv. While the specific injuries which have been pointed out will be inflicted upon the community if this bill be- comes a law, the offsetting benefits claimed for the bill are found on analysis not to exist. Broadly, Washington is tempted to surrender its safeguard of national proportionate contribution by the as- surance that through a lump-sum payment system it will escape the tender mercies of the budget bureau and will win the privilege, not of| taxing itself without restraint, but! of being taxed by Congress without limit for the upbuilding of the na- tlon's city. Washington's need of large appro- priations for municipal purposes to remedy neglects and omissions of this character durlng war time and the effort of the nation to economize in time of peace by cutting down its war and reconstruction expenditures are used in combination to induce the District to give up proportionate con- tribution by the nation to Capital upbuilding and to propose or to as- sent to the substitution of & lump- sum contribution by the nation in| its stead | It is suggested that under this ar- rangement the budget bureau will no longer have any interest in cutting down congressional taxation of the Distriet and congressional expendi- ture of the District's tax money. It is true that by destroying the system 3 TOKENS 20 GENTS ORDERED ON SALE Purchasers, However, Limit- ed to Car Barns and Trac- tion Offices at Present. The Public Utilities Commission to- day decided to require the street rail- way companies to sell three tokens for 20 cents at all of their barns and of- | fices, but not on the cars. This Is a modification of the original position taken by the commission sev- eral days ago when it rejected entirely the petition of the Federation of Citi- zens' Associations for the sale of three of definite proportionate contribution | tokens for 20 cents. the safeguard of the District. tax- {uy«n‘_ wguinst cxcessive and unjust axatfon by a taxing body in which they are not represented will also.be destroved: and the District's material eifageyropuid suffer no more.vital fldnr & b b Budget Burenu Unescapable. 1t is also suggested that there would be immunity from budget bureau cut- ting down of Uncle Sam's Capital up- building outlay if the expenditure ! were made In a lump sum instcad | of as a proportlonate part of the Dis- | trict’s total municipal appropriation. But this suggestion will not stand analysis. If Uncle Sam is compelled by this year's fiscal conditlons to cut down all of his expenditures, includ- ing his outlay on National Capital upbuilding, he will obviously make this retrenchment whether in order to do it he reduces a lump-sum con- tribution or holds down the total| District outlay, of which he pays a proportionate part. Indeed, it 1is easier to make this direct specific reduction than indirectly by cutting and mutilating the District appro-| priations.. There is greater fixity to| the definite proportionate contribu- tion than to that by a lump sum. It is far easier for those who think that the nation should pay nothing today toward Capital maintenance and development to reduce or deny en-! tirely the anpual lump sum than to change the ratio of proportionate contribution. Inflicts a Double Injury. The practical effect of the lump- sum bill, destroying the 60-40 relation between the national and the Capital community contributions toward na- tional city upbullding, is to place a naximum limit on the contribution of the United States and to remove the Ilimit entirely from the comtribution of the locul taxpayers. Indeed, the annouuced purpose of the proposed legisiation ix to enable a taxing body In which the District is not represented to increase the local Lurden of taxation at its pleasure un- checked by the existing requirement that every such increase shall be re- flected In some measure in natiomal taxation for Capital upbuilding. The maximum national contribution is _made definite during the time in which Congress refrains from dimin- ishing it; but all limits are declared off in respect to the local contribution and it remains definite only in the certainty that the local tax burden will be largely increased; and that the local taxpavers will not partici- pate at any time in the decision of the amount of the increase. the methods of taxation by which the in- crease is secured and the purposes for which the tax money is spent. Under the 60-40 ratio of contribu- tion every dollar of increased taxation of the unrepresented District means some increase of national taxation for Capital upbuilding. Under the pro- posed legislation every dollar of in- creased taxation of the District means a corresponding reduction of the amount necessary to be devoted from national taxes to Capital upbuilding. Under the 60-40 ratio plan there is an equitable self-imposed check upon ex cessive and unjust taxation by the na- tional legislature of the unrepresent- | ed and impotent Capital. -With this self-lmposed check removed and with every tax dollar exacted from the District reducing the necessary tax dollars to be spent upon Capital up- bullding by the nation the obvious tendency and by some the avowed purpose of the proposed legislation is to decrease the national dollars of Capital contribution eventually to noth- Ing. How to Soive Our Fiscal Problem. The solution of the District's fiscal or appropriations problem of today is not to unsettle the fiscal relations issue just settled; not to sacrifice the sound fiscal principle upon which the Capital's welfare is based, but to bor- row money by bond Issue ‘to tide over is impecunious and when the Capital's unmet municipal needs, accumulated in war time, demand for their satls- faction larger immediate expenditures from the Capital’s joint contribution fund than the United States thinks it can afford to make. A Wise and Sound Bond I Under varying conditions a bond is- sue is at one time a blessing and at another a curse. If it ralses money for specified municipal objects—great projects of permanent Caplital de- Yelopment ‘and vital urgent needs of municipal equipment—which are now under the law paid for under the 60-40 ratio, and If the United States and the Ank Stores to Sell. | In announcing the change today Maj. | Betl, chairnran of the commi waid | that If the citizens’ associations want | 10/ maké the sale of tokens tn lots of ! three still more effective they have a chance to do &0 by inducing neighbor- hood stores to keep & supply of the car checks on hand and sell them three for 20 cents as an accommodation to their customers. The commission’s for mot changing the present arrangement of selling 8ix tokens for 40 cents on the cars was that such an order would delay service by increasing the num- | ber of transactions the conductors would have to make. reason | until Foresee Big Lons. The two companies also advanced | the argument that the sale of three for 20 cents, Instead of six for 40 cents, would reduce by 50 per cent the number of 8-cent cash fares col- lected and thereby make a deep cat o /! R Bulgar Air Force Wiped Out; Two Flyers Killed By the Asso SOFIA, ated Pre Octobe 25.—Bulgaria's military air force was wiped out by an accident on aviation field near this city when the sole military plane left to Bulgaria by the treaty of Neuilly was wrecked. Two officers aboard the plane were killed. W.H. MOYER, PENAL DIRECTOR, IS DEAD, Heart Attack Fatal to D. C Prison Head—Made Rec- ord for Reforms. William I Mo¥er, of District penal instituti died at 3 o'clock this morning at his home at Lorton, Va.. following an attack of heart djsease. Commissioner Rudolph, chairman of the board of Commissioners, an- nounced that the board of charities, of which George S. Wilson is secre- tary, would supervise the affairs of the jail. workhouse and reformatory new superintendent ap- superintendent is pointed. The Commissioners learned with re- gret of the passing away of Supt Moyer, who was brought home from Atlantic City recently. Mr. Moyer came to the District position in July, 1921. as the successor (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) (Continued on Page 2, Column taxpayers pledge payment of the bor- rowed money in 60-40 proportion (as the 3.65 bonds were guaranteed on the half- and-half ratio), then a bond issue will be of obvious benefit to the Capital, for it will enable the community to restore | to efficlency its municipal plant and to complete rapidly and put into op- | eration soon for the public benefit great permanent public improvements, and it will also do equity by requir- | ing the United States and the ta payers of the future- to bear their fair proportion of the cost of perm: nent improvements, not to be com pleted now or soon. the benefit of which will be enjoyed by them more | than by anybody else. i 1f, on the other hand, the money | borrowed through the bond issue is to be repaid solely from District taxes and the bond issue is coupled with destruction of the definite pro- portionate contribution principle and the substitution for the government's 40 per cent contribution of a lump sum annually as under the threatened | bill, then the bond issue will become | a curse to the Capital community. | | There 1s nothing unsound in prin-, ciple in such joint borrowing when ' either of the joint contributors is| temporarily unable to pay his share of the cost of meeting from current | revenue urgent current needs. Be-| tween 1900 and 1910 the Capital had | not the funds in hand to meet its share of the cost of vitally important permanent improvements. In seven of these ten years the Capital bor-, rowed millions from the nation to en- able it to meet its obligation under the half-and-half law. The needed improvements were made, distinctly promoting the Capital's welfare, and were paid for in part with this borrowed money, So far as the District's share was concerned; and later the Capital community, again in funds, repaid the loan with half a miilion dollars of intenest. Now the positions are reversed. The ration in a period of post-bellum ante-election Tetrenchment poses as the impecunious joint contributor. Reciprooity would suggest a loan from the District to the nation correspond- ing to that which the nation made to it hetween 1900 and 1910. But_the only money which the Dis- trict has to lend is its accumulated Treasury surplus of about four and one-half milllons, which the coon- troller general says authoritatively is in the Treasury to the credit of the District, and which the joint surplus committee, of Congress reports needs to be reduced only about $200,000 to meet all the equitable and moral claims of the nation upon it and to cause it to represent the unreducible minimum of mnet legal and moral financial obligation of nation to Capital. However, the existing conditions make it impracticable that'the Capi- tal should thus lend to the nation, and the wise natural alternative is to make a joint loan, in the shape of a bond issue ‘on the 60-40 ratio of payment by Capital and nation at a low rate of interest, and with strin- gent regulation on lines of wllel economy of the expenditure of the| proceeds of bond sales um mecessary A Bond-issue Precedent. | greater power. municipal plant equipment and on specified urgent projects of Capital upbuilding and permanent develop. ment. If thix kind of bond issue not be had there should be no bond issue. Is Uncle Sam Impecunious? A loan by the District to the nation is obviously impracticable, if we cept the theory that Uncle Sam needs a loan because he lacks the ready money necessary to pay his share of financing the National i ipality. For, if he is thus pecunious he cannot borrow the District's money, because he al- ready has it, either holding it in trust in the Treasury or using it as a loan without interest. In either case, fact im- whether he borrowed or reborrowed, | he would have to take the District's money from the Treasury in order to put it back again as a loan to him. If Uncle Sam is really impecunious, the money to finance the National Capital's accumulated needs, which demand greater immediate expendi tures than can be pald from current yevenues, must apparently be obtained from outside purchasers of District bonds. An Obviously False Premise. _But is not the premise false that Uncle Sam is impecunious, and is not the conclusion ~derived from premise unsound? The United States today is recognized as the wealthiest nation in the world, in gold, In natural resources, in the power of organization, and in plant equipment to utilize and develop these resources. On the whole, its people are at least as prosperous as those of any other nation. They are not draining, but increasing national wealth, The na- tion is moving financially, not toward bankruptey, but toward The world war dem- onstrated that it had, not merely potentlally, but actually, and quickly available,” ike fighting power to pro- tect its ‘nonestly acquired treasure against the assaults of the world, - Post-War Pre-Election Retrenchment. Uncle Sam is now merely taking into account the excessive and ex- | travagant - expenditures which were necessary in our state of unprepared- ness to ‘build up quickly a fighting machine to win the war, and he is wisely retrenching wherever he can such excessive war expenditurgs. But municipal development of thegCapital was not & war expenditure, and dur- ing war time Capital maintenamce and development outlay was not extrav- agant, but scrimping. A large part of the unmet municipal needs of the Capital accumulated during the war time. “Uncle Sam's policy of after- the-war retrenchment does not there- fore apply to expenditures to meet real municipal needs of the Capital. In dealing with the National Capi- tal may we not abandon the camou- flaging~ theory of Uncle Sam's im- pecuniosity, and by advances from the Treasury like those made in 1900- 1910, supplementing use of the Dixs- trict’s accumulated surplus, will not the ‘United States solve the problem of wisely and cconomlieally financing the Capital city, taking into consid- eration its present urgent meeds and its prospective current revenues? 4 v [N al munic- | and use | this | NAVY WORKERS GET §80 AVERAGE RAISE $302 Increase Over Base! Pay Plus Bonus of Pro- fessional Men Largest. | The 2,111 employes of the avy : Department’in Washington are to re- | ceive an average increase in salary | »f $80 above their present base pay | plus the $240 bonus, or an average | increase of $302 above their present base pa. The 2 { emploves in the profes- | | sional and scientific service are to re- | ceive the largest net increase. The |average salary for this service under eclassification will be $3.215, which is a net increase of §362 ever the present base pay plus the bonus, or erage basic salary. Increase of $364. in .the subpro- | fessional service are to receive an laverage incre of $124, bringing jthe average salary up to $1.821. The |average increase over the average | basic salary is 3364 1,351 employes in the clerical, strative and fiseal service will e salary of §$1.676, un- | der reclasification. This is a net {average increase of $42. and an aver- {age increase of $280 over the present | |average base pa The 176 emploves of the custodial | | The 147 cmployes {admi { service, who receive the largest aver- age net per centage of gross in- jcrease over base pay. 419 per cent| celve a net Increase in salary i bringing the average salary | nis service up to $1,030, or an | sross inerease over their { present base pay of $310. study of the accompanying table which shows the average increases by grades in the various adminis- | trative units of the Navy Department | reveals that as a general rule where the average of the appraised salary 1s already well up the percentage of increase is small and that where the appraised average salary is low the percentage of increase is high Those in charge of this work for| the personnel classification board ex- | plain that this reflects a general tendency to level the salaries as fari as possible in a particular service. | A table showing how reclassifi- cation affected employes of the Navy Department in Washington by serv- ices within administrative units is provided on page 4 of tod Star. SIX GRENADES EXPLODE BEFORE MUSSOLINI Premature Blast on Horse Show Program Injures Six Soldiers. By the Associated Press. ROME, October 25.—According to a Turin dispatch to Messaggero, six grenades exploded at a military horse show being held in Turin in the ipresence of Premier Mussolini. One lieutenant was seriously wounded,/ while a sergeant and four privates were slightly hurt. 1t is understood that the explosion of the grenades was part of the lregular performance, but that they blew up premature Br the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October — How science can control the height of man or woman by treatment of the thyroid gland will be demonstrat- ed today at a clinic to be held in connection with the meeting here of American College of Sur- geons. The surgeons are to discuss treat- ments now being given - Chicago woman twenty years old and thir- ty-elght inches tall, whose height is expected in time to be in-reased two feet by a ministration of ex tracts of thyroit glands. I-tellec- tually the girl is no Cal. The case i8 in ch.1or of D William _Held, who recently re- turned from 'a study of gland treatments in Vienna, and Dr, Ben- jamin H. Breakstone, who is re- puted to be the first surgeon to have successfully removed the thy- roid gland by local anesthesia in 1903. Dr. Held said that through the knowledge of gland influences and the selective marriage of tall i {today, and an-fncrease 6f 3399 over présent avithowever, Another War While Seek- ing to Render Aid. GUEST AT WHITE HOUSE LUNCHEON WITH CABINET Cheering Crowds Greet Ex-Premier as He Arrives—Visits Hughes. Later Calls Upon President. Declines to Disclose Nature of Plea He Is Expected to Make. Greeted on every side with an en- thusiasm that has seldom been ac- ¢orded a foreign visitor here, David Lloyd Grorge, war-time premlier of Great Britain, came to Washington in an interview with news- paper correspondents declared that America alone holds the key to the door of peace in Europe. “There are many doors leading to a solution of Europe’s troubles,” as- serted the famous British statesman. “The dificulty 1s to get people to go through them. Only the United States can do that. Thoughts over here that your country might become involved in a war if it interceded abroad are not to be considered. Backs Hughes' Plan, “The idea of any nation going to war with the United States is impos- sible. Who would vou fight? Cer- tainly no nation that I know of. It is my opinion that Secreta: Hughes' |plan to help Europe offers the best door to peace. But that door must be opened, and you can't do it simply by standing on the outside.” Asked whether he belfeved France would be more inclined to accept Secretary Hughes' proposals now than when they were first offered, imme- diately before the Ruhr invasion was undertaken, the former British pre- mier said he would mot like to answer directly. After thinking a moment, he addedr™™" “I will say this: It France's only object ir entering the Rubr was to collect reparations. then I think she would. If. however, France enter- tained another motive, it might make a difference. The possibility of col- lecting reparations has gone com- pletely. Nothing can possibly restore Germany's ability to pay reparations. To attempt to collect now would be like asking a man who has been irawn and quartered to pay his Lunches With President. When Lloyd George's attention was called to the fact that the United States thought in 1914 that war was impossible, the former prime minis- ter smiled mildly and replied that if this country labored under such a de- lusion, Europe did not. “And had you come in earlier,” he added, “the dura- tion of the war would have been shortened considerably.” While the nation's tor stressed the importance of cretary Hughes' proposals for European peace, he admitted that they would have worked more easily if they had been accepted some time ago. Their success now, he conclud- ed. would depend altogether upon how they were presented, but he loughingly declined to suggest what method he believed would be best Lloyd George's first official visit was to the Department of State, where Secretary Hughes awaited him. After remaining at the State Department for half an hour he was escorted to the White House, and went into con- ference with President Coolidge. Later he was the guest of the Presi- dent at luncheon, an event which was attended by the President's entire distinguished vi { cabinet. That the former premler would lay before the President and other Ameri- can offictals his plea for America’s help was regarded in informed circles as a foregone conclusion, but not a hint of the matters he would take up with President ~ Coolidge and Secretary Hughes could be obtained in advance. The little Welshman, who virtually guided ‘he destinies of the allies dur fag the sreater part of the war, quietly refused 10 discuss those matters. A hint, however, of the trend his con- versation at the White House and the Department of State might take was dropped when the distinguished visitor praised as ‘“very hopeful” Ambassador Harvey's farewell address in London, In hich the American representative de- clared that the United States still was read do_what it con: (Continued on Page 4 Height Increased by Gland Treatment, Doctors to Show persons a race of glants could be produced. and that reversing that Pigmies would be made to predomi- nate Man's proud brain power has not lifted him as high above the lower animals as he thinks, according to Dr. William Mayo of Rochester, Minn., who addressed the college of .surgeons last night. Even when he is awake man is oniy a quarter conscfous of what his body 18 doing, he said. Three-quarters of the energy created by the food man eats and the air be. breathes is spent without his knowing it, Dr. Mayo declared. Man's will power is only about 25 per cent efficient, the surgeon declarcd. = Certain ofteh misundar- stood ajlments result from the clash when the consclous mind at- tempts to gain control over the un- conscious. Dr. Mayo said. “Disturbances which more or less resemble real -diseases aro caused,” Dr. Mayo sald. “The trained observer knows them to be falsé, but the unenlightened pu- tient accepts them as true. Here- in lier the success of the cuits and quackeries who play these ‘dis- eases’ for the real thing and reap a harvest.”. :