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WEATHER. Unsettled and somewhat cooler to- night and tomorrow, probably showers. “emperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: at noon today; lowest, 5 today. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 No. 29,035. Highest, 70, 3, at 6 a.m. Entered as second-class matt post office Washington. l; & C. SAXON MINISTRY RESIENS, OBEYING ORDER OF BERLIN Dispatch - Says Federal . Troops Will Prevent Assem- bly From Convening. 23 KILLED, 31 WOUNDED IN BATTLE AT FRIEBERG Separatists Quiet, Delay Move on Duesseldorf at Hint From French. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, October 29.—A note from the government of the reich dismiss- ing the cabinet of Saxony from the office was handed to the cabinet to- day and the members of the ministry submitted to the dismissal, says a Central News dispatch from Berlin. An early Central News dispatch said Gen. von Mueller, commander of the reichswehr, has prohibited the as- sembly of Saxony from sitting tomor- row. This action prevents the mem- bers from taking any measures under the protection of the parliamentary immunity act. German soldiers today entered the Saxon parliament building in_ Dres- den and arrested a number of com- munists, some of whom were mem- bers of the diet and others leaders of the communist party, says a Central News dispatch from Berlin. Another late dispatch says the members of the Saxon cabinet sub- mitted to their dismissal by the cen- tral government only under protest. HAD PLANNED DEFIANCE. Zeigner Cabinet Notified Berlin Or- der Was Rejected. Br the Associated Press, DRESDEN, Germany, October 29.— Premier Zeigner last night notified the central government at Berlin that the Saxon ministry had voted to disre- gard Chancellor Stresemann’s ultima- tum calling for its immediate resig- nation. The Saxon government's reply sets forth that the Berlin government's procedure is wholly without founda- tion in law and not warranted by the political situation. It declares that the Saxon diet is the sole tribunal to determine the issue, which is now to be put up to it. Its findings will then be communicated to the Berlin government. One of the manifestos issued by the Saxon communist party, with the approval of the communist mimlsters, which “was partly responsible for Berlin's action, contained the fol- lowing: “We communists declare that we whistle at the prohibition of the centuries by Gen. von Mueller and that we whistle at any other decree that may be issued. We summon the workers to reply to the prohibi- tion of the centuries by forming in- numerable centuries. We will mobi- lize the workers and, if the generals of industry want to fight, ‘the work- ers will be ready.” The Zeigner ministry was in ses- sion until late Saturday night and resumed its deliberations today, when the socialist and communist leaders in the diet were called in for con- sultation. Later the communists hroadcast their proclamation attack- ing the Berlin government and mili- tary governor, von -Mueller, and gave warning of a nation-wide strike by all trades unions in the event the Berlin government failed to call off its military rule in Saxony. 23 KILLED IN RIOTING. | Saxon City Torn by Battle With Federal Forces. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, October 20.—Rioting at Freiberg, Saxony, on Saturday when demonstrators attacked a battalion of federal troops, resulted in twen- ty-three persons being killed and thirty-one wounded, says a dispatch from Freiberg today. The first re- port gave thirteen killed and a score Wwounded. 4 Herr Schulze, former chief of the Saxon chancellery, has been appoint- ed relch commissioner for Saxony, says the Lokal Anziger. < The appointment was made in con- sequence of the Saxon ministry’s de- cision to disregard Chancellor Strese- mann's ultimatum demanding its resignation. H The commissioner, or civil govern- or, will adminlster the civil affairs of the state until a parliamentary Zovernment acceptable to Berlin takes the place of the communist- socialist ministry that has defled President Ebert aml Chancellor Stresemann. Announcement of the government's course with regard to Saxony was made here immediately after Pre- mier Zeigner's reply to the ultimatum had been made. SEPARATISTS INACTIVE. Rhine Sector Quiet, Industries Fail to Shut Down. | By the Associated Press, DUESSELDORE, Octobert 29.—The situation in the Ruhr and the Rhine Jand, both political and economic, gave little evidence today of movement either way. No mnotable activities, either by the separatists or the unem ployed were recorded overnight. Al though the general progressive lockout which has been threatened was ex- pected to begin today no reports had been received up to midday of actual losings of factories or mines. Facili- tes for receiving speedy reports on such matters from the various parts of the Rhur, however, are limited. No information was avaflable from official quarters as to what progress, if any, was being made concerning the agreements reached with the great in- dustrial interests. 2 Confirmation from these sources as to the reported agreement with the Krupp interests was still lacking, al- though it was unofficlally admitted ihat the agreement was as good as completed. Poliee Await Battle. German observers in Duesseldorf said they had good reason to believe the separatists had postponed the carrying out of ‘their plans for oc- coirying this city, in which the ¥rench make their headquarters. The Gormans place great importance upon e new orders from the French com- mand for rearming the Duesseldorf police, who have been ordered to use 1heir arms vigorously against any further disturbance of public order, 30 matter from what source. Four savadrons of biue police, of fifty men (Continued on Page 12, Column 5.) Must Be Wedded, By Armistice Day Tolnherit$62,000 By the Assoclated Pre EATON, Colo, October 20.—A wife by November 11 will be worth $62,000 to J. P. Cominsky, twenty- three, an employe of the Great Western Sugar Company here. A year ago an uncle left that sum to young Cominsky, provided he married by Armistice day, 1923, Otherwise the $62,000 goes to charity. As the "deadline’ draws near Cominsky fears h¢ may not find the “right girl- and lose the fortune besides.” JOHNSON T0 FIGHT GOOLIDGE FOR 1924 G. 0. P. NOVINATION California Senator Prompt to Seize Reparations Move as Campaign Issue. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. International developments of the past week have had a prompt reper- cussion in the American political sit- uation. The administration’s decision to join in settling the reparation mess has had the effect of throwing a lighted torch into the irreconcilable camp and firing it with a flerce de- termination to oppose “entangling” co-operation with Europe. In particular, the friends of Hiram Johnson believe his hour has come. They are convinced he at last has been provided with an irresistible issue. Until President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes made a positive move toward “internationalism,” Sen- ator Johnson was a sharpshooter without a target. Now that he en-| visages the United States as “back- ing into Europe” through the repara- tions commission, Johnson has some- thing at which he thinks he can use- fully blaze away. Politiclans at Washington are no longer in doubt that the Californian is at length ready to bring up his heavy guns and train | them in the administration’s direc- tion on the international issue. Now Formal Contender. Henceforward, there is every indi- cation that Hiram Johnson Is to be considered a formal contender for the republican presidential nomination. He has, is fact, been carrying on an unmistakable campaign to that end and in his native Callfornia. He re- alizes that a “prog ‘essive republican” delegation from his own state, pledged | under the unit rule to his nomination, | is all-essential. Johnson’s supporters claim Califor- nia is eafe for him, although under the leadership of Gov. Friend W.| Richardson, there is an intensely bit- ter fight in progress against him. Anti-Johnson republicans state they do not care especially who controls the delegation, as long as Johnson doesn’t. “Their first choice is Cool- idge. " Bither” Hoover ‘or’ Pinchot can av . t is not wan by the President. e Rerimensy While Senator Johnson's hopes center mainly in the belief that he alone, among leading re- publicans, now Incarnates hostility to European co-operation,” his backers say he has even a stronger claim to the nomination, namely, that Johnson is the only sure-fire winner the re-| publican party can put up. Doubt Voters for Coolidge. They affirm that Washington, sat- urated with administration senti- ment, is the one place in the United States where men award Calvin Cool- idge the nomination by default. In! the outside country, Johnson boosters | aver, an entirely different opinion prevails. The business community is admitted to be pro-Coolidge, But the rank and file of republican Yoters —the men and we men who elect state governors, county sheriffs and town officlals, and who constitute the bone and sinew of the party—are said to be “for a man who can win.” That man, if Johnson enthusiasts are to be credited, is their hero, They trot out another argument to clinch the Johnson claim. Shrewd demo- crats have informed them, they tell you, that the one republican feared for 1924 is Hiram Johnson, because of his whirlwind methods as a vote- getter, This wiiter had access to the con- fidences of men who speak by the| book, where Johnson's presidential interests are concerned. They talk with frankness and amazing con- fidence. Their man and their pro- gram, according to their statements, will S00n be out in the open. He will give battle not only to Calvin Cool- idge, but to any other candidate who espouses American embroilment with the chicanery of European politics. Cite Kellogg’s Selection. No matter how veiled, Johnsonites scent the danger of such embroll- ment in happenings of the moment. | They sniff an unholy alliance between Great Britain and the United States; believe that our. werticipation in a reparations inquiry is only the first step in & general policy of European entanglement; consider that we are bound to be wheedled into a discus- sion of allied debt cancellation; and finally see in the appointment of an “Internationalist” like Kellogg to the London embassy an unmistakable sign of lsonism” on the part Coondge aaministration. s s n av] oy eorge’s America, the Johnson ‘phall:‘oxm.dl:! cerns still another link in the chain ‘which is to shackle the United States, President Coolidge’s letter to the overseas _writers, terming Lloyd George's visit “a plece of good for- tune for both his country and our own,” is interpreted as prima facle cvidence of British-American collu: jon—collusion of a sort that omiy needs to be interpreted to the country by a man like Johnson, to be damned up hill and down hale! Apparently Hiram Johnson will fight in 1924 with even greater in- tensity than in 1920. His friends foreshadow a contest as pyrotechni- cal as any In republican _history. Johnson is to be financed this timo more sclentifically than four years ago. His friends are not claiming this early in the game that his nomi- nation is assured. But they insist Coolidge will not be nominated with- out a flerce struggle, Johnson men reason that, as mat- ters are shaping, Coolidge is as vul- nerable for the democrats as Hard- ing.was, and that G. O. P. salvation lies only in nominating an outright progressive standing four-square on a platform of no meddling in Euro- pean affairs. (Copyright, 1923.) 1 revived | | ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Toening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1923—THIRTY PAGES. U. 5. HOLDS PARLEY| FARFROM BLOCKED BY FRENCH STAND Poincare’s Flat Refusal to Sge Reparations Cut Political Move. THINK 4W0RLD OPINION WILL TEMPER PARIS VIEW Premier Holds Experts Powerless to Change Sum Germany Must Pay. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, The United States government main- tains an attitude of distinct hopeful- ness that the reparation problem in Europe is golng to be settled this time. And this feeling prevails not- withstanding the apparently discour- aging statements from Premier Poin- care, who Insists the commiesion of experts about to be appointed have no Power to reduce Germany's indebted- ness. To understand the meaning of the French premier's speeches, and the optimism that prevails here, however, it is necessary to realize the position of M. Poincare in French politics. To admit at this time that he had agreed to the appointment of a commission to reduce Germany’s payments would be to commit political suicide. His cabinet would be overthrown In- stantly. But the facts of the situation as pointed out and emphasized by gov- ernment officials here are obvious in thelr significance. Would a commis- sion of experts determine the capac- ity of Germany to pay and then make no recommendation to how the financial stability ‘of Europe could be accomplished? ~Up to this time . France has been unwilling to permit an estimate to be made by an Inter- national commission as to what Ger- many could pay. That much is now obtained by the new parley. Once it is determined, world opinion would be expected to take care of any attitude assumed by the French which in the face of absolute data as to German capacity insisted on the impossible. French Stand Sound. ! It is true the French need not ac- | If Dr. J. P. Harrington of the bu-| cept the advice of the commission of | reau of American ethnology here th‘ experts and Premier Poincare is right | discovered in Santa Barbara, Calif,, | in declaring that the German obliga- | the skeleton of a human being which | tions cannot be modified except by |he believes antedates the Neander- | the consent of France and the unani- | thal man, as reported in A ssociated | mous agreement of the allled and as- | Press dispatches, the discovery prom-| sociated powers. But that is not the | 15¢8 to be the most sensational in the important fact of the moment s |feld of human evolution in the past viewed here. There will be time | generation, according to anthropolo- enough to discuss the recommenda- | gists of the Smithsonian Institution. tions of @ committee of experts whon | y that committee s completed jts | It completely upsets all previous work. One step at a time is the slo | theorles of the geographic ) D.C.Man’sDiscovery May Date Back 300,000 Years. {Fossil Man Likely to i Prove Sole Witness | of 2,000 Centuries. Skeleton Find Threatens To Upset Evolution Status origin | 1 gan of the optimists in the govern- ment. And it is appreciated, of fcourse, that no government is bound | to accept the advice of the new con mission. Secretary Hughes in his note to Great Britain, In fact In his New Haven_speech, specifically urged that the commission of experts have and early wanderings of the human | race. Up to the present no skeletal ' remains of real antiquity have been! dug up on the Amerlcan continent. May Furnish Link. Dr. Harrington's discovery bids fair | ForR STRICT PROHIBITION i GNFORCEMENT | Presment CooLinGe.. = SENATOR. UNDERWOOD_ . HENRY FoRD- GOVERNOR PINCHOT. 4 WicLim G, MeApoo - POLICE AGCUSED OF SHIELDING HALL Precinct Captain and Three i Others Named at Hearing of Lieut. Davis. [ ! Charges that the captain of a Wash- | lington police precinct and at least | three of his subordinates gave "pro- | | tection” were made by former revenue | { agents today before the police board | trying Lieut. O.T. Davis, Sergt. James | i . MeQuade and Private Harry Bauer {on afdavits alleging serious infrac-' | tions of discipline and duty. ! The breath of further sensational | {disclosures was felt in the trial cham- | | ber at the sixth precinct station when | Prohibition Enforcement Agent Park | | H. Packard defled the board's author- | jity and refused to become a witness | untit the mystery surrounding a bot- | tle supposed to contain whisky, which ! was offered In evidence Saturday, is cleared up. Counsel for the accused policemen vigorously opposed the board's sug- gestion that Mr. Packard be permit- DR. J. P. HARRINGTON. nishes a link between modern man | and his supposed ape-like ancestors | Europe, Asia and Africa for the past|Corporation Counsel William H. Wah- fitty years. - {ley, who presided, was obliged to ex- If the dead man who has arisen | cuse the witness. It was hinted. how- from his grave to puzzle science | ever, that before the trial is over he ihe rec | who are thrifty. | together the resources of our nation| “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 and service will start immediately. 's Net Circulation, 91,101 Circulation, 98,167 TWO CENTS. VETERANS' BUREAU DOGTOR SAYS PULL WON HIGH RATINGS }Declares Congressional Pres- sure Brought Compensation Beyond Right Figure. ! | Live Perfect Life To Aid Discovery: Of Valuable Cureii By the Associated Pres PHILADELPHIA, October 20.— Two groups of students of the Hahnemann Medical College and School of Science today began liv- ing a “perfect life" in scientific experiments which will last two months. It 15 hoped the experiments will lead to the discovery of a drug of real therapeutic value from some common herb or basic acid hither- to unutilized. It is also the aim to obtain data which will increase the therapeutic value of a recently discovered remedy that has aroused world-wide Interest. The men volunteering as subjects Will be under constant observa- For two months they must live, from a physician's standpoint, a “perfect life.” Drugs will be ad- ministered to each subject and each will keep a diary in which he Wwill write every hour the effects he feels from the drugs. As a check some of the subjects will be given blank pills, which will taste the same as pills con- taining the drugs. FAKE INVESTMENT SELLERS MUST G0, {YELLOW TAGS INDICATED MEN HAVING “BACKING” Forbes’ Attorney May Win Right to Question Witnesses Directly Mentioning Ex-Director. Charges of congressional “pull” in obtaining disability ratings for for- mer service men and declarations jthat thcre were numerous cases in i {which men were paid full disability Iratings when they were entitled to jonly partial disability ratings, due to |bad judgment by officials, featured | the resumption of hearings before the Senate committee investigating the ar risk bureau today. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the bureau, against whom charges | of debauchery and corruption in con- COOLIDGE ASSERTS Bankers Commended for Aid | nospicats were made last week by . i Elias H. Mortimer of Philadelphia, to Country—Reparations | wae present at the nearing. acoom. Parley Approved. | i f {panied by his counsel, James . | Easby-Smith There has been mno decision as to e lwhen Mr. Forbes will take the stand, oolidge told members of | y¢ ¢ js indicated that he probably the Investment Bankers' Assoclation | ywill not do so unt': M en. John of America, meeting here in annual | F. O'Ryan, generai coansel for the convention today, that the govern-|committee, concluded the presen- ment depends upon them to help in | tation of all the.evidence he has re- weeding out those whose business |lAtinE to Mr. Forbes' administration standards are questionable and who | " o CCtO™ lack the necessary honor and integ- | rity demanded by the association. The President's brief address was made from the steps of the rear portico of the White House where ived the members of the assoc- ciation. He was introduced to the | sathering by Eugene E. Thompson | of this city. ! The President said that he was glad to meet the representatives of so im- portant a body, and that he realized the great good they are doing in the promotion of thrift and in the assist- ance of businesy of all kinds. 7 Sees Biz Responsibility. “You pravide, in the first place, an opporfunity to those of our citizens' But you do more! You provide for gathering May Accede Attorney's Plea. Mr. E: Smith asked permission i to ero amine witn ho g ldirect testim involvi Mr Forbes, but was told by Chairman I d that if all of the attorneys in- terested in the case should be given that right the inquiry would cease to one into the Veterans' Bureau and would be turned into a ge: torney in P E ition of Mr Rewd told his request questioned directly Mortimer, saving ¥ evidence that he he h: wished than that. ito pre: and putting them in order for the! purpose of supporting the industries and commerce of our nation. You| Tells of “Pull.” Congressional “pull” in obtaining ed to tell the story of the bottle as a | or which scientists have sought in | “private conversation” and Assistant| | Germany's capacity to pay it will at | the same time suggest a plarn as to {to_Teopen the "ontire fleid of "co | jecture on how the American con- determines {inents were first peopled and fur U. 5. AIR DEFENSE POLICY DENOUNCED Foreign Nations Building Up Plane Industry for War Use, Says Dwight Davi§. only advisory powers. When the commission how Germany can begin to pay. That! means a basis for an international | loan. If, in the face of its recom- (Continued on Page 12, Column 3.) SUBMARINE SUNK; | 3 DEAD, 6 TRAPPED Desperate Efforts Made to Save Survivors of Wreck- ed Craft. | | By the Associated Press. | DETROIT, October 29.—Dwight| Davis, assistaant secretary of war, tcld Detroit business men today he would “refuse to be held to the re- sponsibility” placed upon him by| Congress in the matter of adequate provision for the mobilization of ma- terial to meet war-time needs unless Congress passed legislation to re- leve what he described as a serious situation as to the Army air service. Speaking at a busiess men's luncheon, Mr. Davis declared the air gervice should be authorized to begin a ten-year building program on a modest scale and asserted that even that would not give the United By the Associated Press. PANAMA, October 29.—Three mem- bers of the crew of the United States | submarine O-5 were drowned at day- | break yesterday when the vessel was sunk in collision Wwith the steamer Abangarez at the Atlantic entrance of the Panama canal. % Seven other men went down with, the submarine in six fathoms of | water, but one came to the surface elght minutes later. At 11 o'clock last night the other six were still in | the submerged vessel and it was he ten years feared they would perish. Efforts f;':::n;‘v}:‘;e!"x :l‘;“‘r Lo Yo are being made to raise the craft|paye. immediately. i "% \fore serious still,” Mr. Davis said, our ‘airplane industry is starving o vY *"Foreign nations a WAVY WA TS wonD: dentr fougishing airplane industry, o able of immediate conversion to | war needs, by large lbDl’QDflflllon!’ for planes and by heavily subsidiz- ing commercial aviation. We are al- lowing this industry, absolutely vital {0 our national défense, to dle a death. lngering dopinion, Congress should immediately adort a ten-year pro- Sram on & modest scale, not as an Seeressive measure or in competi- tion with other natjons, but solely to meet the deficit in planes needed for Purely training and defensive. pur- Poses. If something constructive is POt done, I refuse to be held to the Tesponsibility put on me by Con- gress.” . Asgerting organization for modern | Officials Here Unable to Explain| Accident. The Navy Department today had re- ceived no official report on the sinking of the submarine 0-5 in collision with the steamer Abangarez at the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal since that,of yesterday. The message to the department yesterday sald the submarine had been sunk early in the day, and that five men had gone down with the vessel. There had been no official confirmation of the reported loss of three men in press dispatches, | war was as much a business matter which sald six others were missing.|aq a military one, the assistant sec- and that efforts were being made 10 |retary said business men could mnot save them by raising the submarine. |“evade the responsibility put upon In the absence of any further of- |them.” He announced that the War- ficial report, naval officers were un- | Department planned to call upon De. able to say what might have caused | troit business men to help solve some the collision. It was supposed, how- |of its problems, particularly those ever, that unusual weather conditions | dealing with production of -motor or misunderstanding of navigation | transportation, aircraft engjies and had led to the accident. The |technical ordnance equipment, hat it 2 et dasiizht sons ’ that occurred under daylight con- < ditions. BIG STORE-LOOTED. Although scnm:t;zd during the . war, the O- passed into = a class of submarines now considered | WHEELING, W. Va., October 29.— to be practically obsolete and its use- [ Loot valued at $46,064 was taken by fulness was restricted to harbor and |shieves who raided the Stone and coast defense. » Thomag Department Store-here last Those reported _missing were: | night. Lawrence Brown, chief electriolan’s| The robbery was discovered this mate, Tyngsboro, Mass.; Clyde -E.|morning when employes reporting for Hughes, motor machinist's. mate, first | work found Louis Vockler, the night class, Manite, Henfy _Dreault, | watchman, handcuffed to ‘a post_on torpedoman, second Grand Isle, | the upper floor of the building. The Vt.; Thomas T. Melser, fireman, 1221 | robbers escaped with $9,000 in' cash, south 26th street, Philadelphia, Pa.|fur coats, valued at $15,000, and a and Fred.C. Smith. mess attendant, | number of Iiberty bonds, stocks, first class, Cristobai, ‘Canal Zone," notes and stampa. . i really antedates the ) (Continued on GHRIS DUNPHY'S 77 LEADS GOLF FIELD Columbia Amateur Tops Stars in Open Tourney; Pros Trailing. i i I i i | i Chris J. Dunphy, the 1922 District smateur champion, today led a field of eighteen amateur and professional golfers in the first round of the DXs- trict open golf championship at the Columbia Country Club. Playing over a coursé stretched out to its maximum length of 6,700 yards, Dunphy shot a ‘score of 77 to lead Miller B. Stevinson of Columbia by two shots. § Four amateurs, three from Colum- bia and one from Chevy Chase, lead the professionals in the first round of the 72-hole competition. Walter R. Tuckerman of Chevy Chase and Ro- land R. MacKenzie of Columbia tied for third place at,81, while Fred Me- Leod and Robert T. Barnett, profes- slondls at the Columbia Country Club and ‘the Chevy Chase Club, respec- tixely, were tied for fourth place at 82. Leo Diegel of Friendship, D. C., regarded by many as the probable winner of the championship, took 83 this morning, finishing six strokes behind Dunphy. 2 Other Morning Scores. .- scores made this morning Dave Thomson, Washington Golt Country Club, 84;'A."B. Thorn, Town ‘and Country. Club, 84; Karl S. Kellerman, Columbia,” 85 Standifer, ' Calumbia, ' 86 MacKenzle, Cgifimbia, Ralph Beach, unattaghed, 86; J. D. Banagan, Columbia, 867 Peter Jackson, Indian Springs, /88; Tom Moore, Indian Springe, §9; Mel Shorey, Manor, 92. _The Second round of the champlon- ship~ls being played this afternoon apd ‘the two final rourds will be played tomorrow. SHIPS RUSH TO AID OF U. . SUBMARINES| Underwater Craft Disabled hy} Rough Seas Near Bahamas, Navy Reports CHARLESTON, 8..C., October 29.— Seven _destroyers and _several tugs have been dispatched to the assist- ance of submarines O-11 and R-25, reported disabled in a rough sea 100 miles east of the Great Guana key, near_the Bahamas, according to an announcement today at headquarters of -the.sixth naval district here. The submarines broke down about ‘1 o'clock yesterday. afternoon, it wae| stated. v E g will ‘be- permitted to dispel the mist of mystery that surrounds the bottle ! of alleged whisky and bare every fact legal techniealities prevented him from disclosing this morning. : Witnesses Absent. Two of the former prohibition agents who were accused of serious charges by Lieut. Davis and the other defendants were the star witnesses today. Three or four persons whose names were called failed to answer, and it was explained in several in- stances that they had beem sum- moned to prosecute charges against persons they had arrested in _connec- tion with raids on various Washing- ton cases. The raid on the place conducted by Frank Hall, in Southwest Washing- ton, the man whose place the police captain is alleged to have “protected, created a sensation about a year ago. Liquor valued at $50,000 was removed, and it was stated that the man him- self was worth several hundred thou- sand dollars. Orders for the raid were said at the time to have originated from the highest sources/in the Dis- trict building. After the intoxicants had been re- moved, however, the courts ordered them returned on a technical ground concerning a_search warrant. The police were obliged to cart their en- tire haul back to the place from which they got it, ard when they returned with a fully legal search warrant they found the liquors had been removed. Ex-Agent Fowlers Testimony. Former Dry Agent Fowler, thé first witness, was asked what- he knew about the charge that-Lieut. Davis had refused to interfere with the illicit liquor business of one Frank Hall, because hé knew .a precinct captain was “in” with the bootlegger. He safd the police found whisky in the man's house; but Lieut. Davis ordered the offi- cers to let hinrgo because the cap- tain had threatened to “get’ his “job" if he arrested the man. Fowler sald the fncident occurred in October, 1922, Under _cross-examination he ad- miitted he had lodged the charge against Lieut. Davis only because the latter had similarly accused him. Corroborates Fowler's Statement. Ralph E. Ruby, a former prohibi- tion enforcement agent, corroborated the testimony of Fowler that certain persons had warned him against in- terfering with Hall, because he was under the protection of the captain. Lieut. Davis told him, the witness id, that not only the captain but the officers of the precinct were in the habit of “stopping in_at Hall's (Continued on Page 12, Column 5.) VIRGINIA GIRL’S ROMANCE: IS ENDED IN TRAGEDY Miss Grace Peters Arrives in Eu- rope, Answering Sumonins, to Find Fiance Dead. By the Associated Press. 5 LONDON, October 239.—Tragedy at- tends the arrival today aboard the Aquitania of Miss Grace Peters of Bluemont, Va. daughter of the lll& Commodore Peters of the Unite: States Navy. Migs Peters was en gaged to marry Maj. Lindsay Boase of Dundee, who had arranged to sail last Wednesday for the wedding, which was to have n held at the home of the’ bride. Before that day, however, he was stricken with pneu- monia and, in response to a cable- gram, Miss. Peters hastened to see him. The disease made rapid progress and on Saturdey.Maj. Boase died. A Jot ‘American have, your responsibilities. It is nec- essar'y that you should exercive great discretion and it is necessary that you should always provide a safe background upon which your cus- tomers can rely. If there is any body honesty in_the ness it is those who are engaged in making the investments of the na- tion, and it is a great vleasure to commend with an almost universal commendation the honesty and the | character of these men who are en-| gaged in this great enterprise. Wants Dishonest Eliminated. “It is almost impossible to weed out | every undesirable element, but the coun- | try has come to know that it can rely | upon the representation made - by its | investment bankers. More than that, there is an additional service you can | render; the government is coming to | realize that it must depend upon your assistance and help to weed out those | who are not desirable by reason of not | maintaining your high standing of abil- | ity ana honesty. | _“It is that opportunity that I espe- | cially want to leave with you, the op- | portunity to render this great public | service. A public service for your- | selves and to protect the public against | any wrongdoing at any place at all times.” - i The association, opening its annual convention at the New Willard | Hotel today, heard Secretary Wallace | report a huge increase this year in the value of farm .crops and tumul- tuoiisly approved the position of the president, John A. Prescott of Kansas City, whén he went on record in favor participation in pro- posed international economic con- ference, and warned that unless the reparations question was solved “the | present state of peace will hang by a | (Continued on page 19, column 2.) | | BELL FOR FINISH | FIGHT WITH PEPGD Compromise of Valuation Is- sue Out of Court Opposed | by Commissioner. | interested in Maj. J. Franklin Bell, chairman of the Public Utlilities Commission, made it plain today that hs is not in favor of attempting to settle the disputed val- uation of the Potomac Electric Power Company out of court. “I do not believe we could get very far in such an effort,” sald the major when asked todsy concerning the re- ports that a compromise might again be considered. Although it is certain that the valu- ation case will come up for discussion at the meeting of the commission Thurs- and that the question of a settle- ment will be discussed, Major Bell's | statement today made it appear that the matter will go on in the courts. Officials of the Potomac Electric Power Company said today it proba. bly would be some time before they could announce their néxt move. ‘The commission’s valuation as of December 31, 1916, when the litigation began, was $11,231,000. The company estimated the value of its as of July, 1916, at $23,376,000. 1t is transaction of busi- | { under Dire property | ¥ this wide difference in what the com- mission and the company regard as the fair vallie of the plant that has caused the alx-year court fight l | aisability ratings for former service nen testified to by Dr. R. F. | Souther, a medical officer of the bu- {reau, who was the first witness. He sald cases in which senators and | representatives were interested were marked with a special identification tag, yellow in color, but added that. the use of these ntinued commitse there were in_which men had ratings when partial dis- ability ratings, due to bad judgment on the part of district officials in some cases, and the central board of appeals in others. The: es were particulariy numerous in the fourth Zdistrict, with headquarters in Wa ington: the tenth quarters in Minx district, with headq he_said Dr. Souther said also that frequent violations of orders of the director and regulations of the bureau oc- curred. He cited an order by forn Director Forbes in November, 19 forbidding the central board of ap- peals from removing from their rec- ords of cases the ratinis given by ex- pierenced medical men. This order was referred by the appeals board, he said, to the legal division and on the strength of a decision from the law- Yers the board, continued its practice. i we get opinions from ion not based on com- d. Given Full The witness told one man in Washington tinued to receive a full rating of $90 a month petent medioal duced his disabili cent. Asked speci mittee about this c E said the man in question was a mem- ber of a veterans' organization and writer for the newspapers and the inference was that it would be “ex- pedient_to keep him quiet. Dr. Souther charaged that B. Rogers, assistant director in charge of the medical division, had issued orders that the records of “flagrant cases” should not be brought to the attention of the Senate committee. Senator Reed directed that Mrs. Rogers be subpoenaed. Questioned by Senator Reed about cases in which injustice was done to former service men by reason of the “wholesale disposition” in the early days of the Veterans' Bureau, Dr. Souther said these injustices had not been corrected in all cases, but that efforts in_ that direction still were being made. - Charges Favoritism. Favoritism in the disability ratings of former veterans employed in the bureau was charged by Dr. Souther. He referred to several of what he characterized as “instanc and pre- Sented & list as of last May carrving the names of more than 200 employes of the bureau who were receiving temporary total disability compensa- tion from the Treasury at the same time that they received full salaries from the bureau. Dr. Souther said one case was that of Dr. Robert M. Fulweider, who, the records show, has been recelving temporary total disability since Jan- uary, 1918, on the ground that he had tuberculosis. Reading from the record of the doctor’s case, the witness said his dis- charge papers did not show that there had beén any examination for tuber- culosis prior to his discharge from the Army, and that other records showed that the tuberculosis germs had been arrested since March, 1921. District Rehabilitation Officer Sis- son of district number three, Dr. Souther said, had been carried on the roll -as_temporarily totally _disabled, and had been successful in preventing -examination for a long time. “Another case cited was that of A. E. Hahn, manager of the Washington district, whose disability now Is rated at 30 per cent. The witness said Hahn (Continued on ¥age 2, Column 7.3 was tags had been disc He told the numerous cases obtained ful Rating. of the case of who con- disability after com-