Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Cloudy and unsettled this afternoon and tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; 10 caange in temperature. ¥emnera- ture for twenty-four hours, ended at 2 p.m. today; Highest, 64, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 39, at § a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 18 No. 29,049, ! EX-CROWN PRINCE REPORTED AT QELS; RETURN BELIEVED STRESEMANN PLOT Allies Aroused by Berlin’s De- fense of Frederick’s Coup; Council Hastily Called to Plan Possible Ouster Move. DUTCH OFFICIAL CONFERS WITH EX-KAISER AT DOORN ) | British Passive Toward Former German - Heir; Hitler Arrested, Radical Bavarian Press Sus- pended; Reich Troops Clean Up Revolt Organizations. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 12.—Former Crown Prince Frederick Willlam has | arrivcd at Oels, says the Berlin cor- respondent of the Central News. The prince passed through Wusterhausen, | mear the German capital, where he ! was welcomed by the burgomaster in & briet speech. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic expert says Chancellor Stresemann engineered the return of Frederick {wiliam. { Stresemann, the article says, per- {muaded his colleagues that the safety {ot the present regime in the relch lay {n splitting the ranks of the monar- ‘chists. Willlam in Silesla would neus| {tralize Rupprecht In Bayarla. 4 The return of Frederick William to Germany has caused much speculation 88 to whether more is behind the incident than would be implied merely by a consideration of his personal in- elgnificance. Return Held Significant. Some commentators argue that his personality has little to do with the situation. The Morning Post says he is neither a herolc nor an honorable figure, but that history shows a small person is sometimes used’ to launch a great enterprise and that it Is im- | possible to disassociate his return | from the outbreak in Munich. The Daily Chronicle thinks hig presence in’ Germany must immedi~ ate create a focusing point for mo; archist plots. . ~ No one attaches much importance to the undertaking of the prince or the German government that he will abstain from meddling in politics, and there is a pretty general assumption that his return means a bid for the throne. REPORTED AT LODGE. —— Castle at Oels Still Vacant, Prince’s Coming Awaited. Assoclated Press, Silesta, November 12.—At 11 o'clock this morning Oels was pa- tlently awaiting the arrival of ex- Crown Prince Frederick Willlam, but | was still without advices as to when he would join the former crown prin- cess and their children. This would seem to throw doubt! upon the Central News Dispatch re- porting the arrival of Frederick Wil- | liam at Oels, which was filed from ! Herlin not later than 10 o'clock this morning. The distance from the Dutch frontier, which the ex-crown prince left by automobile about 4 a.m. | Saturday, Is approximately 400 miles. | Oels seems curious rather than en- | thustastic over Frederick Willlam's homecoming, and there Is no sign of flurry about the castle, which is lightly staffed and wholly without ! guards or other signs of monarchical ! ceremony. The old castle itself Is a| charming renaissance pile of much | greater beauty than most of the more | modern castles, and, with its - gic- turesque hedges, will afford a strik- ing change to the ex-crown prince | after his y of exile in foggy, | muddy Wierengen. | A later Central News message sald the ex-crown prince was staying at the shooting lodge called Kieinellguth, hich forms part of the estate at els. BERLIN DEFENDS PRINCE. Allies Plan Action in Frederick | William Case. Bs the Associnted Pross. PARIS, November 1%.—A Ger- man note replying to the pro- test of the councll of ambassadors | against the return to Germany of | x-Crown Prince Frederick Willlam | was recelved here today. The note |iS understood to be of an unsatis- actory nature to the allies and the members of the ambassadors’ council were hurrledly notificd to convene this afternoon for-its consideration. | It is understood the. German note akes the stand that Krederick Wil- iam possesses the same rights as bther German citizens and that the German government has no reproach o make agalnst him. The return to Germany of Crown Prince 'Frederick Willlam and what Yne alltes can do about it will be dis- cussed by the foreign offices of the llied governments, instead of by he .coupcil of ambassadors. Great {Britain, through her ambassador at 'aris, 'Lord Crewe, _proposed this method of handling the case to Pre- micr Poincare last evening, and it is nderstood that M. Poincare agreed. | The council of ambassadors, how- fever, will continue to deal with the sroblem of the resumption of Inspec- ion, through the Inter-allied commis.- | \ion' of control, of German's military preparations. The ambassadors plan o meet as s0on as thelr governments \ave sent instructions for action. | "his information is ‘expected tomor- ow or Wednesday. The measures to ‘b¢ taken by the allles regarding Frederick Willlam Jiave not yet been disclosed and_ap- parently there is difficulty in find- ing any satisfactory course of action. Allies in‘ Dilemma. The former heir. to the German im- perial throne i regarded in diplo- matic circles as having put the allies | in a sertous dilemmia. “After sending the mote to Chancellgr Stresemann ‘ tinued on Page 2, Column 8.) | Washington, who was deputized by the | rooms. {reau of mines here, in‘an explosion Entered as sacond-class matter post office Washington, D. C. Kellogg Confers With Coolidge on Duties in London Frank B. Kellogg, recently se- lected to succeed George Harvey as American ambassador to Eng- land, conferred today with Presi- dent Coolldge and - Secretary Hughes. He said it had not been determined when he would leave for London. Mr. Harvey will arrive in Wash- ington tomorrow to sprnd several “days as a White House guest and he is expected to have several conferences with Mr.. Kellog. CREEK ING AGRES 10 LEAVE CONTRY Will Stay Away Two Months at Request of Repub- lican Leaders. BY the Assoclated Press ATHENS, November 12.—King George will comply with a request by the military republican faction that he leave Greece for a brief period pending* the clearing of the general situation. It is understood he will depart.for two months and that he will either appoint a regent or ask the government to constitute a re- gency The request that the king ab- sent himself from Greece was trans- mitted to the monarch by Georges Roussos, former Greek minister at military republican faction for that mission. King George replied that he would adopt the suggestion. WILSON’S REMARKS RESENTED IN PARIS Disagreeable Impression Created by Reference to France Scrap- ping Treaty. PARIS, November 1 ‘The tenor of former President Wilson's address, broadcast throughout the United States Saturday night, created a dis- agreeable impression here. ‘This feeling was not concealed in officlal quarters, although there was studious reserve in the comments forthcoming frgm them. Presidept Wilsoh’s reference to France s “making waste paper” of the treaty of Versailles was par- ticularly resented. - LE MEN QUESTIONED ON STRORG GRAPE JUICE Students Let Drink Ferment in Rooms After Purchase, Dean Believes. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 12. —Thirty Yale students have been ques- tioned by the dean about the presence in their.rooms of grape juice, which | was unfermented when purchased, but later was made potent by the addition of yeast. An agent took, orders on the campus for the juice, which was delivered after 50 long a time’that many thought his visit was a hoax. With the juice came | directions for adding the yeast. Many followed the directions and found the recipe worked ail right. | The dean’s officers obtained a list of the purchasers. In addition to other ! questions the dean asked the purchas. ers their views on drinking in general. Dean Frederick S. Jones said today that_the question of discipline would be discussed later by a faculty and student committee. A recent_faculty order threatened expulsion of students who were found to have intoxicating liquor in their ONE KILLED, NINE HURT IN MINE EXPLOSION Four of Injured May Die—Gas Pocket Causes Blast in Bir- mingham W’orklngi. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, November 12. —One negro miner was killed and six other,miners were badly burned, ac- | cording to reports reaching the bu- | i . in a'side entrance of the Moffatt Coal | Company mine. at Moffatt Spur, Bibb | county, at 7:30 o’clock this morning. ! Later reports reaching C. H. Nes- bitt, state mine inspector, sald nine men were injured and that four of these would probably dle. The body of the man killed, whose name was not given, and the injured were re- moved from the pit following some confusion, which resulted from the blast. One hundred other men es- caped unhurt. The blast was said to have been caused by the explosion of a pocket of gas. ——— MUSTAPHA KEMAL ILL. | President of Turkish Republic Has Heart Disease Attack. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 12.— Mustapha Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish republic, is confined to his bed by an attack of hegrt disease, The president’s wife, Latife Hanum, also is ill. ¥ . —_— CHILD HELD IDENTIFIED. Is Not Pearl Turnet, Missing Since October 19. FORT SMITH, Ark., November 12.— The child being held in Picher, Okla., belleved to havé been three-year-old Péarl Turner, missing since October 19, has been identified as Elizabeth Hol. man. Identification was by means of pictures brought back from Picher of the little child being held there and a jcture of the Holman child obtained Fa’Fort Smith from the child's aunt. VICTOR BERGER LOSES CASH. CHICAGO, November 12.—Victor A. | Berger, *soclalist congressman from Wisconsin, has reported to the police that he lost or had been robbed of a billfold in the lobby of a local hotel. 1t contained $100 in cash and $380 in checks, he said. Che WASHINGTON, t uating PEPGO ASKS COURT FOR 10-CENT RATE Hearing Requested to Deter- mine Swelling of Im- pounded Fund. The Potomac Electric Power Com- pany made another move today to have the District Supreme Court re- establish the old electric light rate of 10 cents per kilowatt hour. Consumers have continued to pay the company 10 cents per hour since the legal battle began in 1917, but under & court order the company has only been permitted to keep approxi- mately 8 cents per kilowatt hour authorized by the utllitles commis- sien, s The difference between the old and the new rates has accumulated to s total of more than $4,000,000, which elther will go to the company_ or returned ' pro satd o consume: cording to the firial outcome o case. Farther Hearing Requested. What the company did today was to file with the District Suprems Court a_petition, asking that the court grant a further hearing on the impounding question, and requesting that a final decree be issued perpet- the injunction against the lower rates fixed by the commjssion. The petition filed today deals only with the Issue of whether or not the company must continue to swell the impounded fund, pending a final ad- justment of the disputed value of the company’'s property. In the valuation case Chief Justice McCoy recently held that the District Supreme Court should proceed to make an adjustment. The court re- frained from fixing a date for the making of the adjustment in order to glve the company an opportunity to appeal. The company had argued be- fore the chief justice that the old val- uatlon should be thrown out entire- 1y. the Not Decided on Appeal. The company has not yet decided {whether it will appeal from Chief Jus- tice McCoy's ruling. The Court of Appeals has decided that the commission’s valuation of the power property is erroneous because the commission did not make proper allowance for the increase in costs between 1914 and 1916, Attorneys Bowen and Barbour { presented the petition! for the com- pany. NIECE OF KING GEORGE WEDS LORD CARNEGIE Princess Maud Becomes the ‘Bride ‘of Heir to the Earl of Southesk. LONDON, November 12.—Princess Maud, niece of King George, was mar- ried to Lord Carnegie this morning if the Guards Chapel of the Welling- ton barracks, at which the bride- groom is stationed as an officer of the King’s Guards. The wedding, which ‘was celebrated in the presence of the king and queen, other members of! the royal family and a distinguished gathering of guests, was the second royal event of its kind in“London’ this month, following closely upon the marriage of “the king's' cousin, Lady; Louise Mountbatten, to the .crown prince of Sweden. it The streets leading to _the chapel were lined with people. The parents of the bridegraom, ghé 1 and Countess of Southesk, stood ihside the altar rail with, the menbers of ‘the royal family during the .ceremony: ' Lord Carnegle ranks as a commoner, since his title is one of courtesy, owing to the fact that he s the heir of the Earl of Southesk. He is thirty years old and his bride is of the same age. Her mother, the ‘Princess Royal Louise, is sister of King George and the widow of the Duke of Fife, —_— {CHURCHMAN DIES BY FALL Archbishop Andmll Drops Into Forty-Foot:Dry Well. LONDON, November 12.—Mgr. An- dreoli, Archbishop of Recanitl and Loreto, Italy, has been killed by a fall into a dried-up well feet deep in the courtyard of h lfl‘u' says a Rome dispatch to the Dally Mail. He was superintending repalir of the well. BUENOS AIRES, November 13.— Domingo Salaberry, minister of finance in the oabinet of President Irigoye: has committed suicide, o~ v Toenit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION B C, il ,‘V _ (i Bl g . T\ i1 0009, £ TREASURY ll", y S !Coolidge Naw Writing Message Held Vital to His Political Hopes Agricultural Relief, Taxes, Rails, Ships, Immigration, World Court Major Issues, Congress May Hear. President Coolidge began actual | work today on his message to Con- | gress, and upon the results of his| efforts, even his closest friends| acknowledge, will depend to a con-| siderable degree his political future. Mr. Coolidge is known to realize as | much as do his friends the impor- | tance of his first jmessage and his first | pronouncement of policles, and for | that reason he expects to devote him- | self assiduously to work upon the | document during the three weeks | that intervene béfore the convening | of Congress; By agreement with hix om!‘srn C. Bascom Slemp, the BEx- ecutive will limit his daily appoint- ments to nn|r those of necessity, and let nothing interfere with his work upon the message. Gets Views of Many. ‘The ground work necessary to the drafting of the message already has been done. Six days a week for three months Mr. Coolidge has been conferring with officials and private citizens respecting the problems be- fore the government. He has talked with experts in international affairs, with rallroad executives and railroad employes, _farmers, labor _leaders, bankers, ‘editors, politicians and with just plain, ordinary eitizens. In nearly every instance the one J23MILLION TAX Small Income. Federal tax revision under a pro- gram applying reductions to the en- tire range of personal incomes and estimated to cut -the nation's tax bill next year by $323,000,000 will be recommended to Congress by Secre- tary Mellon. Outlining his proposed program in a letter to Acting Chalrman Green of the House ways and means commit- tee, published today, Secretary Mellon declared that, contingent on the non- passage of a soldiers’ bonus bill, there should be for this year and the next four or five years a revenue surplus above ordinary budget expendi- tures, including the fixed debt charges of something more than $300,000,000, This, he said, glves a reasonable mar- gin for tax revislon and reduction. A soldlers’ bonus measure, the Secretary asserted, not only would postpone tax reduction ‘“for many years to come,” but would mean an increase rather than a_ decrease in taxes. ..The Treasufy, he said, ad- heres to the “theofy. that the country would prefet’ s substant{al reduction taxation to “the increased taxes That would necéssarlly follow from a soldiers® bonus>" Would Cut Imcoime Tax. + In ‘the’-tax revigion which he sug- | gested be made ‘effective next: Jant- ary 1 Mr. Mellon: recommended that taxes on_earmed; incomes, be ‘reduced 26 per cent and ithe rate of.normal taxes on mmcomes from 4.per cent and 8 per cent to 3 per cent and 6 per cent, Fespeotively. e proposed ‘that the surtax rates be reduced.“by com- mencing application:at:$10,000, instead of $6,000, and scalihg them. progres- sively upward to 25 per cent on in- comes-of §100,000. Proposed changes in the earned in- come and normal‘tax ‘rates would mean:a loss of revenue, the Secretary estimated, of $197.000,000, the saving to-taxpayers_ falling largely in the lower income brackets. The porposed scaling’ down of the surtax rates, he predicted, would‘in the long run mean higher, rather than lower, revenues from this source, because of the stimulus it .would .give productive business by the diversion.of capital from tax-exempt investment.- ; . Imerease -Is h’vlud. : _ Important among proposed revisions ‘which would provide taxation increases were limitation of the deduction of capl- tal losses to 12% per cent of the loss. (Continued on Page 2,-Column 6.) - | 1 | They who conferred with the President had the same experience—he presented his views and then was closely ques- tioned by the Chlef Executive. The result is Mr. Coolidge has absorbed a lot of information on a lot of sub- Jects. s With this information at hand he | sat down today to write the message. The principal subjects to be treated in the message have become fairly well known to those who have fol- lowed the course of the President’s mind and thé nature of his confer- ences during the past three months. embrace agricultural relief, taxation, transportation, merchant marine, = government _expenditurei imm{gration, reclamation and inte; natlonal affairs, including the world court and the recently negotiated convention with Mexico. Three Major Subjects. Three subjects would seém at this time likely to recelve major consid- eration. They are agricultural rellef, taxation and transportation. With respect to assistance to the farmers, the Chief Executive is expected by some to urge legielation to promote co-operative marketing and probably ask creation of an agency. or author- isation for an existing agency. to sell American farm products abroad. The Executive's tax proposals most probably will follow the outline of those announced today by the Treas- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) JAPAN HOLDS RITES GUT, MELLON PLAN( FOR 33,000 VICTIMS Depehds on Non-Passage of|{One Huge Grave Dug for| Bonus—Favors Man With | Those Burned After Quake. i Nation Slowly Recovering. This is the first of a series of stories telling of events and condi- tioks which have followed the great -Japanese disaster of September 1. BY E. R. EGGER. Correspondence of The Star and Chicago Daily News. ‘TOKIO, November 12.—The terrible toll of life in the fires following the quakes on September 1 was recently impressed upon the minds of thou- sands of persons in this city when memorial services for the more than 33,000 victims in the old military clothing depot at Honja were held on the site of this great tragedy. Seldom in history, even during wars, have so many persons been annihilated on one spot in such a brief span of time. The bones of these thousands of Japanese. were recently gathered and buried in.one large grave, over which it is planned to erect a memorial shaft—one monument for the hordes of humanity whom it proved impos- sible to individually honor in death Thus as the nations in the world war have paid tribute to their “unknown soldiers,” leaders in government, army and navy circles joined with the humblest of subjects in paying final tribute to thede unknown victims of the great disaster. 2 Adopted Western Styles. One' of ‘the outstanding results of the great disaster is.that the people of Japan, particularly those in the devastated” area, have been speeded up -in the absorption of western habits and ways of living. This s especially true in the case of clothing. (While thousands of Japanese are yearly adopting forelgn style clothes as o matter of convenience, large Rurbers_ have tenacious! thelr native garb. ISy Al belunsias o e_belongings of untold thou- Sands, With tho Fesult that they peve been ‘forced to rely on outside conc tributions of clothes in the emergency. Large amounts of clothing have Ir— ready reached Japan and many who hitherto never wore western gar. ments_are now outfitted according to the American and English fashien. Modern Structures to Come. The reconstruction of Toklo and Yokohama likewise will find thou- sands of Japanese shops and. dwel- lings replaced by modern structures. In fact, signs of old Japan, which have (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) d fires destroy- | hospitals.” | i Star. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1923—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. * IWASTE IS CHARGED IN CONTRACTS FOR BEDS IN'HOSPITALS Head of Veterans’ Bureau Medical Division Says Pa- * tients Lacked Proper Care. LEASES MADE THOUGH U. S. FACILITIES AMPLE| ! Discipline at Low Ebb, Senate! Committee Is Told—Loose Payments Alleged. Great abuse In the use of conlrnc!i hospitals was charged today before | the Senate veterans' committee by Dr. L. B. Rogers, director of the medical division of the Veterans' Bureau. Dr. Rogers declared there had been abuse in the matter of charges for the care of the veterans, the care glven them and the food furnished. He also said contract hospitals are used when beds in government hos- pitals are available. “Wasn't this practice followed with a desire to have the owners of the contract hospitals profit?” asked John F. O'Ryan, general counsel for the committee. Awked About Missing Oficer. “I don’t know about the motive,” replied Dr. Rogers, “but in many cases there is the desire to please the veterans. Asked what had become of the of- ficer in charge of the hospital in New England where Director Hines found 80 per cent of the patients were out- side the hospital grounds when Hines visited it, Dr. Rogers said he “has been transferred to another of our “That's the favorite remedy,” re- marked O'Ryan. £ Conceding that discipline hospitals should be tightened, Dr. Rogers could not recall that any medical officer of the bureau had been punished for failure to maintain dis- cipline. More Beds Than Patients. Senator Reed, republican, Pennsy vania, chairman of the committee, in- terjected that the records show that on October 11 there were 5,956 pa- tients in contract hospitals, where the total of vacant beds in govern- ment hospitals was 9,212, Only in the case of neuro-psychiatic patients was the total of beds available in gov- ernment hospltals less than the num- ber of patients in contract hospitals. Dr. Rogers, wha was the first wit- ness, could not recall that he had placed any limitations upon gmployes of his divigion in furnishing informa- tion_to counsel for the committee, Dr. Rogérs said he had given orders on April 8§, 1923, that information be furnished to the committee. Later he issued a second order, under instruc- tions of Director Hines, he added, under which errors in rating were first to be called to the attentlon of the rating section for immedjate cor- rection and then to be referred to committee counsel. Referring to the transfer of Dr. W. E. Clark frofn the central office to the fourth district, O'Ryan wanted to know If this transfer had not resulted from the activitles of Dr. Clark in hunting up information about cases for the committee. “He was transferred for insubordi- nation and insolence,” Dr. Rogers re- plied, adding that the transfer order was Issued by Mr. Hines. The wit-| ness sald he had made some repre- sentations to the director about Dr. Clark's _activities in searching out cases for the committée and neglect- ing his regular work. It was disclosed that until a few months ago clerks in the accounting office had passed upon bills of civilian physicians for service in the exami- nation of former service men. After this matter had come to the attention of Gen. O'Ryan two medical officers were assigned for this work. Since then Director Hines has appointed a committee to make a further check on these bills, which totaled several millions of dollars a year. Reports Expenses Cut. Dr. Rogers said that since these additional checks had been placed the amount of the bills paid has been materially reduced. Operations of the four major divi- sions of the Veterans' Bureau—med- ical, insurance, rehabilitation and dis- ability claims—formed the first sub- ject of Inquiry today by the com- mittee. The directors of these divi- sions were called as witnesses. An effort will be made to close the public hearings this week, and with this in view Charles R. Forbes, for- mer director of the bureau, probably will be heard Wednesday, if he de- sires to take the stand at that time. Aside from that which is being ad- duced publicly, investigators in the field and in Washington have gath- ered large masses of evidence which the committee will consider in its private sessions when' it begins to formulate its report and recommenda- tions to the Senate. James A. McFarland, national com- mander of the Disabled American Veterans, will come to Washington this week to consult with the com- mittee on the matter of immediate posals looking for improvement in consideration of _construction pro- the operation of the bureau. A statement issued from the Wash- ington office of the Disabled Veterans says that as the situation now stands the committee can make no construc- tive progress because the foundation upon which it will have to build is not solid, much of the information ob- tained by it not only being misleading, but some actually untrue. Vivid Lightning Thu in the Washington was . treated to that unusual thing, an electrical storm in November, . about § o'clock ' this morning. - Thundeg and lightning of much intensity awoke many from their slumbers. Weather bureau officials char- acterized the manifestation as “most_unusual,” and sald that it was_caused by a northeast wind coming under a warm southeast wind and condensing the water vapor. Reports from, Maryland were that the eleetrical storm centeged over Bethesda and other pl. north of Washi: In. the city loud r:virlnlfinfo‘:( of i thunder ‘were “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evemng and Sunday morning to Washington homes at r month Telephone Main 5000 60 cents pe: and service will start immediately aturday’s Net Circulation, 91,137 Sunday’s Circulation, 99,366 TWO CENTS Mint Director Named Today ROBERT J. GRANT. DENVER MAN MADE DIRECTOR OF MINT Robert J. Grant to Succeed Scobey—Appointment Comes as Surprise. Robert J. Grant, superintendent of the Denver mint, was appointed by President Coolidge today to be di- rector of the mint. He will succeed F. E. Scobey, who recently resigned. Mr. Grant'’s name had not been mentioned prominently among the more than half a dozen candidates for the place. He was recommended by Secretary Mellon and also had the indorsement of Secretary Work. Melville Gillette of Las Veg: and Frank G. Matson of City, now deputy commissioner af internal revenue, had been the out- standing candidates. Salt Lake Mr. Grant has been superintendent | of the Denver mint since 1921. Expert in Mining. Mr. Grant's appointment rounced on was an- his sixty-first birthday, when it was also planned to carry out the perfunctory ceremony of swearing him into office. -Having been engaged in gold, sil- ver, lead and zinc mining for thirty- five years, Mr. Grant comes to offig» well equipped by practical experience to head the buSiness of making Amer- ica's coins. He has been connected with mining interests in the United ' States, Canada and Mexico, and in 1904 was associated with = Herbert Hoover. now Secretary of Commerce, in gold mining in Kalgoorlic, Aus tralia. e Food Director in War. During the war Mr. Grant was di- rector of the state food administra- tion of Colorado. In leaving the superintendency of the Denver mint, Mr. Grant will be Bucceeded there by the chief cler] s‘fipl:.rl{fi:rcl’d,' who will serve as acunkg' ent until the post is B apimiane Dost is filled Mr. Grant for yvears has been - ing his home In Denver. Mre. chaki is expected to come soon to Wash- ington. daughter, Mrs. Frederi, 2 Pasadena, Calif, oo i Dunham ot GEN. ELY PREDICTS BIG WAR IN 25 YEARS President of War College Raps Dis- armament and Urges Prepared- ness Program. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., NowWmber 12.— Predicting a devastating “major war" within the next twenty-five years, and pointing to “twelve wars since the slgning of the armistice, Novem- ber 11, 1918,” Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, president of the War College, ‘Washington, vesterday afternoon urged preparedness for war as a sane peace program at Armistice day cere- monies in the city hall this cit. “‘Our - President - before the war talk- ed of perpetual peace,” sald Gen. Ely. “Wars we have had and wars we will have every twenty-five years. We will continue to have war. Since the armistice was signed five years ago there. have been twelve wars. In twenty-five years we'll have a major war. “Our soldiers threw away their lived in the world war because their leaders . were ignorant of warfare. We ‘were unprépared. “At the time of the Washington armament conference we were about to become the greatest naval nation in the world. We proposed the dis- armament program and other nations applauded, We are today just where other nations want us in regard to preparedness’’ He urged the enactment of a con- gressional bill providing for an elab- orate national guard: defense system. and “Crashiing nder-Peals Startle District heard for,several minutes, pre- _ceded by vivid flashes of light- ning. ~ The manifestations outdid, in point of thunder, and lightning, almost any'storm of last summer, Which was noted for lack of sueh electrical displays. Residents in Virginia to the south:of the Na- tional Capital brought stories of a display in that vicinity, The demonstration here was followed by a heavy fall of rain, which weather bureau officlals expected to cease late this after- noon. - Cloudy .weather. will con- tinue to prevail tonight and to- morrow, according to the weather bureau local forecaster. ‘The local temperature is not ex- pected to go under 40 degrees. { s, Nev..| Mr. and Mrs. Grant have one | ALIEN LAND LAWS OF COAST UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT lJusti(:es Declare California and Washington Justified in Restrictions. BUTLER SAYS RULING ALLOWED UNDER PACT | Japanese Prevented From Owning, | Renting or Contracting for Farms. The alient land laws of California and Washington, prohibiting aliens ineligible to citizenship from owning | or leasing land, were declared valid and constitutional today by the Su- preme Court. Justice Butler delivered the opin- ion, which held that the question was one entitled to be considered under the equity power of the Supreme Court and be disposed of on its Justices McReynolds and Brandeis took the position that the cases re- |garding the leasing of land to Japa- {nese should have been dismissed on the ground that no justiciable ques- tion was presented. ~Justice Suther- {land took no part in either of the two {cases covered by the decision. | “Justice Butier asserted it | cléarly within the b of a state to prohibit allens who had not de- clared their purpose to become citi- {zens or who cannot become citizens |from owning 1a He held the act was not repugnant to the agreement {with Japan Covers Two Cases. | Two cases in wh the court de- { livered its opinion were brought, ane Iby W. L. Porterfield and Y. Mizuno | againse st officials’ of California, {and the other by Frank Terrace, his jwife and N. uka against state officials of Washington. The decision jdid not cover two other pending c: involving the right of aliens {to own s k in a nd-owning cor- poration and the c t rights of in crops produced on leased aliens land. Laws Challenged. The alien land law cases come from | California and Washington, challeng- {ing the validity of laws which would | prohibit aliens who are not eligible to citizenship from leasing or owning real estate, from owning stock In landholding corporations and from j working land under a cropping con- tract. The cases were brought by W. L. Forterfleld and Y. Mizuno, by Ray- mond L. Frick and N. Satow and by J. J. O'Brien and others against the attorney general and other officers of California, and by Frank Terrace and his wife and N. Nakatsuka against the attorney general of Washington. None of these presented the question of the ownership of land by allens The Porterfield and the Terrace cases involved attempts of allens to |lease land, the Frick case the right jof aliens to own stock in land-own- |ing corporations and the O'Brien case a cropping contract with an alien. The states won in all cases in the lower federal courts except that brought by O'Brien. Laws Up to States. ile Chinese exclusion and Hindu n laws had been enacted by Congress, it was up to the stat themselves, the states contended. enact laws which would prevent Jap- anese colonization for agricultural and other purposes. The constitutionality of the alien land laws, which would forfeit to the state any land owned or controlled by aliens not eligible to citizenship as well as that owned or controlled by aliens who had not declared thelr i tention to become citizens, was at- tacked on the ground that it deprived citizens who owned land of their rights without due process of law, and by limiting their right of sale or lease deprived them of the use of their property in violation of the fed- eral _Constitution. It was furtheg jurged that such laws also deprived the Japanese of equal protection guaranteed by the federal —Constitu- tion and took away their right to {pursue aslawful occupation. Such discriminations, based on the ground of color, race or nationality, were, in i the opinion of those who assailed the {alien land laws, a violation of rights guaranteed in the treaty between the | Tnited States and Japan Objection by Japanese. Had the states merely provided that only citizens of the United States could own land within their borders | the law would not have been objec- tlonable, it was urged in behalf of the Japanese, but they did seriously object to the discrimination which they claimed had been aimed against them when the law which excluded them from owning or leasing land permitted certain other aliens to en- joy those privileges. Those bringing the appeals, with- out wanting to “belittle the men of other races or nationalities,” declared that certain nationals which they named who can own or lease land in | California and Washington, are not as { desirable as “the industrious, enter. {prising and _intelligent Japenes: who have converted “burning desert into “‘smiling oas nd egions in- fested with malari: into “marvels of Iftertility.” The objectionable legisla- ition was almed, it was asserted, to i benefit aljens coming from forty na- tions, while antagonistic to the inter- ests of those coming from ten. * AIR SERVICE BUDGET TOTALS $12,500,000 Budget Director Turns Down Army- Navy Plea for $25,000,000 Annually. | w restrict ! Estimates approved by the budget director for the Army air service dur- ing the next fiscal year call for an ap- propriation of $12,500,000, the same amount appropriated for the present year. By its decision the budget bureau overruled a plan for an appropriation of $25,000,000 annugily for a period of ten years, workéd out by a special Army-Navy board. Secretaries Weeks and Denby, however, hope for a mod- ification cf the ten-year plan, perhaps linking with it a Navy air program, to be drawn up in_a way that will enable it to reach Congress. -