Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and somewhat warmer tonight; temperature slightiy above freezing; tomorrow, unsettled and warmer. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, noon today: lowest,” 28, Full report on page 2, + , 50, at at 6:30 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 No. 29,039. Entered as second-clase matter post office Washington D C SOCIALISTS DESERT BERLIN CABINET IN ROW OVER DEMANDS Bombs and Explosives Fly as| Separatists Storm Aix- la-Chapelle. FORMER CROWN PRINCE REPORTED IN GERMANY Investigation Brings Denial That Heir to Throne Has En- tered Country. Associated Pross November ists have withdrawn tion government of the reich, it was announced this afterngon. Chancellor Stresemann informed the mocialist leaders this afternoon that the majority of the members of his cabinet have rejected the demands which the socialists made the con- dition of their continuance in the ministry BATTLE FOR CITY RAGES. Separatists Force Retreat of Police at Aix-la-Chapelle. By the Associated Press AIX-LA-CHAPEL —Fifteen hundred separatists who arrived from Coblenz, Crefeld and Duisburg yesterday are besleging the town hall, which they surrounded early today. A force of firemen, se- curity police and communists are de- fending the building. hurling bombs containing sulphuric acid at the sepa- ratists : The separatists are using dyna- mite, destroying several doors of the town hall AZlively fusillade is being kept up. The situation, as the morning wore on, scemed to be growing more favor- able to the separatists. According to word telephoned here the seizure of the town hall was ac- companied by street fighting, in Which a number of separatists were wounded & An unverified report sald the sepa- itists were plundering the shops in Alx-la-Chapelle ich refused to open. the raid Iping themselves to the supplies they desired. DENY CROWN PRINCE HOME. LF. November 2. Officials Say Heir Has Not Left Exile. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 2.—Reports that former Crown Prince Frederfck Wil- 1tam, exiled In Holland since the war, had returned to Germany were in circulation this morning, finding pub- licity through the columns of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeltung. In- quiry, however quickly brought out dential. Members of the Hohenzollern family ut Potsdam declared there was no truth in the rumors, while at Oels, Upper Sil , which he was reported to have reached, it was declared Fred- erick William had not arrived. It is known, nevertheless, that there has becn informal diacussion recent- ly of the question of allowing the -crown prince to return, and it is considered a possibility that he may shortly be permitted to do %0, on con- | dition” that he remain quietly on his Upper Silesian estate at Oels, where, it is sald, he desires to settle down. Question to Fore. The question of granting the Hohen- zollern heir permission to return has been up for discussion before various cabinet meetings during the past three months. The consensus of offi- cial opinion appears to be that the government, in principle, is not op- vosed to his return, which he is en- titled to do as a German citizen, al- though neither the present ‘cabinet nor its predecessors has definitely fix- ed a_date (Continued on Page | CHAGS INELROPE STRS LAFOLLETTE Returns to Devote Life to Fight Forces Undermining Government. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me., November 2.—Sen- ator Robert M. La Follette of Wiscon- sin, returning today on the United States liner George Washington, after three months in Europe, told newspaper men that what he had seen overseas made him “more determined than ever to devote whatever power 1 possess to bringing our government back to the people.” He said he was prepared to spend the remainder of his life combating with renewed energy “the forces that are tending to undermine and destroy’ in the United States the American tradi- tion of government.” He declined to comment on the ap- pointment of former Senator Kellogg as ambassador to Great Britain, “I haven't a word to say about that subject,” he said. “I don't want to talk about it: Axks Ald for Germany. In making an appeal for American 8id for the people of Germany, Sen- ator La Follette sald: “Delay means the possible over- throw of governments, dissolution, chaos, civil war and hell let loose in Burope.” “I feei bound,” he said in a prepared statement, “to avail myself of this first opportunity upon my return to appeal directly to the men and wom- en of our country to help the unfor- tunate people of Germany. Wholly aside from the issues involved in the war, common humanity calls upon the American people to aid the Ger- man geopla in their dire need and to aid them now." FRANCE MODIFIES STAND, WELCOMES - ECONOMIC PARLEY Poincare Speech, Which Caused Worry in U. S., Now Held Political Move. |INSISTS TREATY RIGHTS | Seen Receding From Previ- ous Policy. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November |cepts with cordiality the contem- | plated collaboration of the United | States in a conference of experts to study Germany's capacity to pay rep- arations. She demands, however, that 1t should be clearly understood that the proposed inquiry should bear solely on the “present” capacity of ermany, and that it should respect 1l the rights held by the reparation commission under the treaty of Ver- | sailtes. This learned toda 2.—France ac- substance, was of the reply which | France has made to the British note of October 31 asking her to join ! Italy, Belgium and Great Britain in a collective invitation to the United States to be represented at the pro- posed conference. The reply was handed to the British embassy yes- terday. Its text was not made pub- lic Premier Polncare’s Nevers speech yesterday Is resarded in political circles here as more for home con- sumption than a reply to the Washington and London suggestions regarding a conference of experts to { consider Germany's capacity for the payment of reparations. The pre- mier's speech is considered to be the first gun in the electoral cam- paign of 1924. i Spoke to Radicals. It is pointed out that for the first time in a long series of speechmak- ing, inaugurated early in summer, the premier spoke department, before an assembly pre- sided over by a deputy from the left groups, he having heretofore restrict- ed his activities to solid nationalist centers in the Marne and the Meuse and other war-torn departments. The radicals are jubilant over the tone and spirit of the premier's ad- dress, especially his closipg words: “We covet no territor ‘We respect the liberty of peoples; we desire to retain with our allies the most ami- cable relations. We ask nothing bet- fer than to resume with Germany the intercourse of good nelghbor This is the whole program of the left groups, the radicals point out, and they express the hope that the | premier will persevere in his good | desires. Wants Treaty Observed. The French foreign office regards | the limitations Premier Poincare, in | his various authorized utterances, has put upon the scope of the reparation { inquiry by the proposed international | committee of experts as strictly conformable to the treaty of Ver- sailles. The premier's acceptance of the 1dea of such an investigation was at the outset, it is recalled, condi- tional upon @ strict observance of the provisions of the treaty and upon control of the inquiry by the repara- tions commission. The premier made the conditions specified in his acceptance, it is ex- plained, because France to consent to any decrease in her claims that was not compensated for by & decrease in her liabilities. Those best informed on the French premler's views say he is convinced that _the sole reason for the proposal of the expert committee or confer- ence was to reduce the amount of Germany's debt to the allies. The suggestion was made in such a way that he could scarcely decline it, but he could and did surround his ac- ceptance with guarantees against any such result from the committee's deliberation, and he has since made it clear, these informants point out, that there is no prospect that he will change his mind. The most useful thing the commit- tee could do, inm French official opin- ion, is to make a thorough investiga- tion Into tho way which Germany has managed to dodge payment, how much money she has placed abroad and what may be her disposition now regarding payment—whether she is disposed to consider such reforms in her finances and monetary system as will make it possible for her to pay. If the allies do not consider this program sufficient it is considered doubtful in competent circles here whether an agreement can be reached on the invitation to the United States to join In the inquiry. LONDON CONFIDENT. is the it By the Askociated Press. LONDON, November 2.—Increasing confidence is felt in government quar- (Continued on Page 12, Column 1.) McADOO IN CAPITAL. William ~ G. McAdoo, recognized candidate ‘for a democratic presi- | dential nomination, is in the city, and | will remain here for a week.. While in Washington it is expected that he will confer with democratic friends in the House and Senate who are $n Washington at this time. It was stated this morning that he has no public announcement to make at presen The cozy little vine-coyered “model home" in Sherman Park, just south of the Treasury building, must be moved voluntarily by the 'General Federation of Women's Clubs by No- vember 15 or the federal govern- ment will raze it, Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, officer in charge of pub- lic bulldings and grounds, today notifled the organization by direc- tion of Secretary of War Weeks. Repeated efforts to have the club remove the “model home,” one of \flu Shrine convention week at- SHALL BE UNMOLESTED| London Confident as French Are in a radical-socialist as unable | he Fnening 14 Sta WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1923 -FIFTY-TWO PAGES. | { | 1 | N.Y. AWAITS SPEEC ' BY WAR PREMIER Lloyd George Hints of Im- portant Utterance at Metro- politan Opera House. By the Assoclated Pross. NEW YORK, November 2.—David Lloyd George, the little Welshman whose services to Great Britain as cabinet minister and premier during the first two decades of this century jhave made him almost as well known 1a historical figure as the diminutive Corsican who dominated France early in the last century, tonight will de- liver his parting message to the Amerlean people. At the Metropolitan Opera House, on the eve of his departure for Eng- land, Britaln's war-time premfer will face the last public gathering of his present tour, which has cagried him to more than a score of Amesican and Canadian cities. The staff of the opera house is pre- pared to handle a crowd which is expected to fill the large theater and to overflow to the streets, Elaborate police preparations have been made to handle the crowd and to nip in the bud any possible an- tagonistic action on the part of Irish republicans, who have thregtened to heckle the British statesman, Hints Important Utterance. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing at the Lotus Club a gathering of American \men distinguished in many walks of life, told of the deep impression his American tour had made upon him, Ibut intimated that he held in store for tonight's meeting the core of his message to these shores. His tour here, he said, had been a very wonderful experience for him. “I go away,” he added, “with a feel- |ing of the tmmensity of this great | country, the infinity of its resources, {ite unlimited possibilitics, what it Is | capable of, soil of the United States, but of the influence which it must have on the world now and In the ages to come.” America, he declared, hiad in many | ways helped create the solidarity of the British empire, which made’ the ! dominions flock to her ald in her j hour of need. “What happened in your war of in- dependence,” he sald, “made that pos- sible. In your great struggle for | Independence, you started the British empire on the career which made it more powerful than ever, which made it more beneficient than ever, which made it an empire of liberty instead of an empire of oppression. “I hope you will think of the Brit- ish_commonwealth as_your friend. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) RAILWAY EMPLOYES SUE FOR $15,000,000 Crafts Federation Charges Penn- sylvania Company With Under- payment in Wages. | PHILADELPHIA, November System Federation No, 90, represent- ing shop crdfts on the Pennsylvania rallroad system today brought suit in the federal district court for $15,- 000,000 against the Pennsylvania rail- road to make up alleged underpay- ment in wages which resulted, ac- cording to the bill of complaint from the Pennsylvania's refusal to abide by the rules of the United States Railroad Labor Board. ;“Model Home” Must Be Moved ' By November 15, Women Told| tractions, have been without avail, it was pointed_out today, and as a result the drastic_edict was or- dered by Secretary Weeks: . The War Department, :it was said, gave the organization per- mission to locate the building on the public park during the Shrine conclave perfod, and it has ‘been “squatting” ever since., g The building is a replica of the old home of John Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home.” It has been visited by the late President Harding, Mrs. Harding and the President and Mrs. Cool- idge and many thousands of per- sona. i not merely here on the| Rockefeller Scion | Takes Office Boy . Job in a Bank By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., November Godfrey S. Rockefeller, son of the late William G. Rockefeller and grandnephew of John D. Rocke- feller, has got a job in a bank here. He arrived in this city last night with his bride of five months, the former Miss Helen Gratz of St Louis, and found their modest apartment untenable because the and electricity had not been | turned on He said bank was thought | to'start in. | he sald. just i a he heard a good would be : He appli the Albany bank, good pla a_for a j like everybody h. it. Bank officials said his being a Rockefeller had no bearing on the matter, as he would be employed at the same salary as any bank clerk entering the bank. Rockefeller s: he expected to start as office boy, He began looking for a job, he sald, right after returning from a honeymoon tour of Europe two weeks ago. o to do. and got * OF CITIZENS ARMY Tells WO;n Regulars Are Doing Good Work in Time of Peace. By the Aseociated Press. DECATUR, 1ll. November 2.—The United States, with a small standing Army, is prepared for war and at the same time prepared to make good use of the Army in peace, Secretary of War John W. Weeks told the Wom- ;rn's National Council in a message of greeting read to the blennial con- vention of the councll here today. The citizen Army, the message said, is ready to defend the nation at any time, while the standing Army s |alding in many peace-time projects. Members of the citizen Avmy, he said, {are benefitea by training in funda- mental military tactics, training in citizenship and a great amount of healthy exercise. He cited the sword of Joan of Arc, the cannon of Molly Pitcher and the ministrations of Florence Nightingale !as typical examples of woman in her {role of a detbnder and congratulated i the council on its work. ! _Discussion on education, led by | Prof. Marian P. Whitney of Vassar, !and immigration, led by Mrs. Samuel Rosensahn, Chicago, are on today's program. Dr. Jane Walker of Lon- ldon, who was to have made an ad- (dress on public health, will not be present and Dr. Elizabeth Thelberg of_Vassar will lead the discussion. Election of officers for the coming { ferm will occupy the session late to- ay. The National Post-War Council, an organization consisting of representa- tives from seven veterans' auxiliaries and post-war womei organizations in the National Council of Women, was formed last night. The organization aims to act as a clearing house for the activities of the member bodies much as the N: 4+ tional Council of Women does for the various groups represented in its roster. The charter organizatigns of the new council are the National Wom- an’s Relief Corps, National American War Mothers, Sons of Veterans' Aux- iliary; National Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans; National Alli- ance, Daughters of Veterans; Service Star Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary. v RAILWAY TRAIN KILLS TWO WOMAN TEACHERS Two Delegates to Educational Con- vention Get in Way of Flier in Ohio.” By the Associated Press. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, November 2.—Two . Jefferson . county " teachers, en route to' this' city'to attend the opéning of the Eastern Ohio Teach- ers’ convention, were. killed on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad at Totonto at 7:15 o'ciock this morning. Miss Olive Irvin, twenty-two, of Richmond, Ohio, died instantly from a crushed " skull, and Miss Helen Bernard, twenty-nine, of Freemont, Ohlo, died thirty minutes later from internal hemorrhage, shock -and the removal of her right arm at the shoulder. . They were waiting for a freight train to pass and stepped in front of the oncoming filer, { i WEEKS CITES VALUE; PRINCE WILL FILE ANNULMENT SUIT Lippe-Lipsky Declares Pur- pose When Wife’s “Dead” Husband Appears. Associated Press YORK, November 2.—A new sensation was added today to the break between Princess Elaine von der Lippe-Lipsky, the former Mrs. Wendell Phillips, and her husband, Prince Nicholas von der Lippe-Lipsky, former page to the late Czar of Rus- sla, when Charles Lee Phillips, the princess’ first husband, whom she is alleged to have asserted was dead, | emerged from obscurity. ‘With the appearance of Phillips. for the annulment of his marri the former Mrs, Phillips five months ago, charging fraud and deception. Princsés ETkifie yestdrdng led sdfa- mons fn 4 sult against her sister. | Mrs. Gertrude Schroeder, charging her | with being the “other woman" in the alienation of her husband’s affections. Both Deny Charges, Mrs. Schroeder and Prince Nicholas today made vigorous denial of the charge of allenation, would bitterly fight the suit. Prince Nicholas today alleged that his wife swore falsely last May when they ootained their marriage license, charging that she stated on her ap- { plicatlon that it was to be her second marriage and that her first husband | was dead. Mr. Phillips, who appeared so sud- denly in the case, declared the prin- cess w the mother of his son, Lieut. Wendell K {1ast June in an airplane accident near Baltimore. Prince Nicholas declared his wife had denied Lieut. Phillips was her son. . PRINCESS LIVED IN D. C. Met First Husband at Son's Bier, But Did Not Speak. The latest sensational developments in the marital troubles ‘of Princess Elaine von der Lippe-Lipsky and her husband, Prince Nicholas von der Lippe-Lipsky, recall incidents that occurred here last summer. The Princess was well known in Wa: ington as Mrs. Charles Lee Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips met for the first time in an interval of fifteen years last June over the casket of | their son, Lieut. Wendell K. Phillips, who was killed when his airplane crashed near Baltimore, while he was { en route to Washington. Mr. Phillips at that time told a reporter he and Mrs. Phillips had been ‘separated” for fifteen years. Not ever the presence of their lost 1son’s body served to mend the breach jbetween the princess and her former husband. Fate -guided them to the bier at the same moment, but they gazed into each jother's eyes over the body of their son without the slightest sign of recognition. Mother and father accompanied the body to its last resting place in Arling- ton national cemetery, but each rode in a different car and parted after the funeral without even having passed a ‘word to each other. Mrs. the founder of the Carry On Club, whose headquarters here is at Scott Cir- cle. She ;was interested in many | philanthropies. | Mr. Phillips was a captain in the ordnance department of the Army, and stationed here during the war. He had come to Washington last June to see his son fly. —_— MANILA HAS FOUR QUAKES Island Volcano in Luzon Supposed Origin of Final Shocks. By the Associated Press, / MANILA, ' November — Another earthquake shock, the fourth in three days, lasting about ten seconds, was felt here at 2:43 o'clock this after- noon. No damage has been reported. The origin of the temblor is ‘be- lieved to have been.near Taal volcano, 2 which is located on & small island in | Bombon lake, Batangas Luzon. MOSCOW, November 2.—A severe earthquake was felt yesterday in southern Azerbaijan. Earth shocks, begining at 3:15 p.m. yesterday and continuing until 3:23 were recorded on the Georgetown Uni- versity seismograph Father Tondorf, director of the observatory, said he was unable to estimate the probable distance or direction of the disturb- Pprovince, *ance. S kullofMarsupial ,‘ the prince announced he would sue| e to | and said they | Phillips, who was killed | Phillips is nationally known as | By Radio on The voice of former President Woodrow Wilson wilpierce the ether for the first time since he left the | White House when an Armistice day speech to a group of admirers from the front steps of his home at 2340 S street northwest will be broadcast simultaneously by three of the coun: try's most powerful radio stations— | WCAP in Washington, WEAF in New | York and WJAR in Providence, R. I. | All arrangements for broadcasting the speech virtually have been com- pleted. The Chesapeake and Potomac | Telephone Company has wired Mr. Wilson’s home with a dual telephone circuit over which the message will be carried te the broadcasting sta- tions. To Speak on “Armistice Day.” “The Significance of Armistice Day” is the subject of Mr. Wilson's speech. | Those concerned wwith the plans,| however, believe that he may touch | upon current public questions, in- | cluding the international situation. Should their expectations be borne | out, it would be the former Presi- | dent’s first extended effort to lay his | views before the country since he left | the White House. The speech will be brief, lasting not more.than ten minutes. It will be de- 4,000,000 Years! Old, Is Discovered | Dy the Associated Press. JUNCTION CITY, Kan., Novem- ber 2—The fossil skull of i mar- supial, said by Dr. W. H. Ballou, New York scientist, to be the first type of mammal that ever existed on earth, was discovered by him today at Milford, near here. Dr. Ballou is investigating the geol- 0gy of central Kansas. He re- gards the skull as about four mil- lion vears old. FILIPINOS MODEL - BODY ONSINNFEIN “Everything for the Filipinos”! to Be Slogan of Society 1 Being Formed. BY WALTER J. ROBB. ! By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1923. MANILA, November |are gathering at San Fernando, Pam- panga province, to organize a so- |ciety modeled after the Irish Sinn | Feiners and having for its motto, | “Everything for the Filipinos.” Hun- {dreds of petty leaders who command | {strength among the peasants are par- ! ticipating. These delegates come from |Pampanga, Bulacan, Nuevascifa, | | Oangasinan, Tarlac and other prov- inces of central and western Luzon. That the attitude of the coalition- |ists is slowly penetrating into the {consciousness of the peasants them- | selves was demonstrated here re- cently. A party of Americans, in- cluding the daughter of Gen. Mc- Donald, while being ferried across the river in the neighborhood where Aguinaldo surrendered to Funston a quarter of a century ago, were stop- ped by government employes in mid- stream. Took Americ: 's Bribe. ‘When members of the party remon- strated with them and warned them of the consequences of such action on their part, they became sulky and re- {fused to continue the journey. When finally a liberal reward was offered them to complete the trip, the men replipd: “This is not American terri- tory.” However, the crossing was completed without violence. ‘This incident is significant as ghow- {ing the perverted political notions current among government under- !lings as well as peasants, gained by reading biased arguments in the Ivernacular press, in which cartoons |depicting the weakness of the United |States government in the islands are frequently published. {CONGRESS MAY VOTE JUSTICE BUILDING Attorney General Daugherty today announced that it was his under- standing that plans for a tentative building program for this city to be presented before the coming Congress contained provision for a Department of Justice building. The present bullding occupied by the department is rented by the gov- ernment, which has been ordered to vacate, but because of a lack of space elsewhere in governmental buildings, the Attorney General said there was no place to go. Although complete plans have not been formulated for the building pro- gram, the Attorney General said, ow- ing to the increase of his department it"would need a building practically twice as large as the one now in use. ‘Among the increased activities dur- ing the year will be the newly or- ganlzed bureau of criminal identifi- cation, International in scope, which | —Filipinos | Stations in Washington, New York and Providence Will Broadcast Address to Third Annual Pilgrimage. “From Press to- Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at’ 60 cents ® month._ Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,067 TWO CENTS. Thousands to Hear Wilson Armistice Day livered directly to a crowd of Mr. Wil- son’s friends and admirers who have planned to make their third annual pil- grimage to his S street home on Armistice day. Mrs. H. E. C. Bryant is secretary of the committee in charge of the pil- grimage arrangements. She announced today that the former chieftan of the nation would receive the delegation from the front steps of his home. Huston Thompson, member of the Federal Trade Commission, is chair- man of the committee on arrange- ments Special Wire Arrangements. A microphone will be placed in front of Mr. Wilson when he addresses the crowd. It will carry his words to a Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company truck near the former Presi- dent's garage, where speclal speech imput apparatus will amplify it and transmit it into a telephone circuit. At station WCAP the words again will be amplified and broadcast from that station. A speclal long-distance cir- cuit connecting the New York and Providence stations will be connected with WCAP. It 1s understood that all of the ar- rangements for broadcasting Mr. Wil- son's address were made by the former | President’s friends in New York. CONTROLLER UNDER FRE OF SENATORS Legislation Limiting Author- ity of Office to Settle U. S. Claims Contemplated. Recommendations for limiting the authority of the con- troller general's office in the set- tlement of claims against the gov- ernment are forecast as a result of disclosures before the Senate com- mittee Investigating the Veterans' Bureau, Sharp questioning and comments by senators followed the frank state- ment to the committee yesterday by W. E. Gordon, an attorney in the controller's office, whose salary is $3.000 & year. that he had settied & clafm of '$33,000 in full without ref- erence of the matter to his superior or calling for detafled information from the Veterans' Bureau, which disallowed the claim. Hines Disallowed Biil, The bill passed upon was_that of Mathew O'Brien. a San Francisco architect, who ciaimed this sum for rewriting’ plans for a_projected hos- | pital at Livermore, Calif, for the original drafting of which the Vet- erans’ Bureau already had paid $64,.- 000. Frank T. Hines. director of the bureau, disallowed the claim and filed a counter one for $5,000 against | O'Brien on the ground that he had | been overpaid for the first drawings. Gordon said he was following the procedure of the general accounting office in disposing of the claim in the manner in which he did. Senator Reed, republican, Pennsylvania, chair- man of the committee, said he thought there should be legislation affecting the general accounting office, while! Senators Walsh, democrat, Ma; | chusetts, and Oddie. republican, vada, the other members of the ‘com- mittee, expressed surprise at the manner in which the office operated. legislation Committee in Rece: After four successive days of hear- ings the veterans' committee was in; recess today, having adjourned until next Monday. With the committee sitting only three or four days a} week, the investigation probably will continue through the remainder of this month, and perhaps after Con- gress _convenes. Leads developed in the Veterans' Bureau have carried the inquiry into several other gov- ernment agencies, and its scope may be_enlarged before the finish. Charles R. Forbes, former director of the bureau, whose name has fig- ured extensively in the hearings, has not yet indicated when he will ap- pear to answer charges made against him, but he probably will not take the ‘stand until all matters relating | to him have been presented by inves- tigators for the committee. He is attending the sessions daily now with his counsel, and his comments on some of the testimony frequently are audible around the counsel table. A report on the progress of the in- vestigation w: laid before President Coolidge today by Chairman Reed, who said he believed the evidence of such importance that the President should be acquainted with it. Senator Reed sald he did not dis- cuss with the President the question| of further legislation to restrict the powers of the controller general, but on leaving the White House reit- erated that “something must be done about that office.” UNMASKED MEN FLOG MAN THEY KIDNAPED By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., November 2.—A band of unmasked men severely flogged Joe Westbrook, twenty-three, last night, after kidnaping him and Lon Johnson, also twenty-three. Two men leaped from behind a door at Westbrook's rooming place. seized the two and rushed them in an automobile, in which other men were waiting, to' the Trinity river hottoms. Westbrook later made his way to the rooming house, but Johnson's where- abouts is unknown. = Westbrook says he thinks Johnson was not flogged. is already in process of organization. ‘Temporarily this new activity will be located in the Railroad Administra- tion building, 18th and Pennsylvania venue northwest. of 8,002 copies The Sunday Star’s circulation last Sunday was 98,167, a gain A detective investigating the flog- ging said that a woman informed him that Westbrook is charged with hav- ing kicked a woman dressed in white, Kian day, at the state fais FALL ASKED SHIFT OF NAVY MEN N OIL DEAL SAYS OFFICER Demand for Transfers From Washington Laid to Ob- jection to Leases. CALIFORNIA RESERVES EMBRACED IN DISPUTE Commander Stuart, in Charge of Field, Ignored by Denby, Committee Is Told. Former Secretary Fall demanded the transfer from Washington of naval officers who objected to leases he proposed to make on naval oil re- serves, Commander H. A. Stuart of the Navy, testified today before the Senate public lands committee inves- tigating the subject Commander Stuart, who testified he had been in charge of the naval reserves in the Navy Department from 1918 until April 5, 1922, sald Secretary Fall had insisted that Sec- retary Denby should detach him and Commander Shafroth and send them out of Washington. Commander Shafroth, he explained, also was con- nected with the reserve section Protests to Fall. The witness sald the demand was made after the two officers had pre- sented to Mr. Fall their objection to the granting of certain leases which he proposed to make to the United Midway Company to open wells on naval reserve No. 1 in California. During the period the Navy De- partment had complete control over the reserves nothing had developed, Commander Stuart asserted, which made it desirable in his judgment to transfer their administration to the Interior Department. The Navy, he aid. in handling the reserves had re- ceived all necessary assistance from the geological survey and the bureau of mines and was fully competent to administer them Says DenBy Ignored Him. No naval officer, Commander Stuart testified, had approved the transfer and replying to an inquiry from Senator Avalsh, democrat, Montana, he said that although he had been in direct charge of the naval reserves for several vears he was not con- sulted by Secretary Denby concern- ing the desirability of such a course. The naval oMcer sald that in his opinion Secretary Fall's demand for his removal from the city was due entirely to the views he enterfained concerning what ehould bé done with the naval re- serves. He had no information in ad- vance, he said, of the plans of the In- terior Department to lease Teapot Dome to the Harry F. Sinclair interests. So far as he was informed, Com- mander Stuart sald, there had been no drainage from the Teapot Dome re- serve prior to the granting of leases b: the Interior Department. Prior to Sec- retary Fall's administration of the re- serves, he said, there had been only one or two wells in the Salt Creek field anywhere from the reserve, and these, he insisted, were not draining it. RECLAMATION OFFICE SHIFT IS SUGGESTED Former Interior Secretary Would Move It to Denver or Other Western City. Removal of the entire reclamation administrative organization to Den- ver, Col, or to some other western point convenient to the principal projects was suggested today by for- mer Secretary Albert B. Fall as a remedy for existing ills of govern- ment irrigation development. Mr. Fall gave as further handicaps of the government's reclamation pro- gram the inaccurate estimates pub- lished for each project. Not a single case, he said, had come to his atten- {tion’ where the completed cost was not greatly in excess of the original estimates, He said it had been computed that all existing projects could be com- pleted for from $15 to $40 per acre when as a matter of fact the average cost to be met by the settler had been from $65 to $80 per acre. Another drawback listed by the former secretary was the policy of Keeping In supervisory offices the en- gineers who had been in charge dur- ing the period of construction. He had found, he said, that a sci- entist is not always a good business man nor is a good engineer always a good manager, and recommended that officlals more conversant with the problems of a farmer be placed in charge of the government's activities TRAPPER IS DRAWN TO DEATH IN BOG Perishes From Exposure and Ex haustion After Desperate Struggle in Swamp. By the Assoclated Press. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Noven: ber 2—Caught in a bog and held fas until he died from exposure and ex haustion, after a desperate strugsle of hours, the body of Arthur Schnoor, twenty-six years -old, was found in the Twin Lake swamp, near Chetek, Wis., yesterday. He had lost his way while returning late Wednesday from making the rounds of his trap lines in the swamp. jentrs His body, lying in the freezing wa- ter and muck, was found by alarmed wettlers, who began searching at the call of Schnoor's frantic wife when he_did not return home. Hopelessly beyond the hearing of passersby on the road at the fringe of over the cor- responyding: Sunday last year. the marsh, It was evident, from the condition of the body and ‘the marks around the édge of the bog, that Schnoor had made a desperate at- tempt to extricate himself before the icy water numbed his muscles and he fell back to dle.