Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Falr tonight and tomorrow; change in temperature. ‘Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. At noon today; a.m. today. Full report on page 12. today: lowest, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 Entered as saco 29,050. no Highest, 53, 39, at 5:30 nd-class matter post office Washington, D. C. BERLIN DISCLAIS, GIVING EX- KAISER' AUTHORITY 10 GO BACK T0 GERMANY British Are Assured Dutch! Would Forbid Ex-Emperor; to Leave Doorn House—No Protests Will Be Entered. CROWN PRINCE LEASES APARTMENT IN CAPITAL Crowds Throng Oels in Expectation | of Frederick William's Arrival, Who Spent Saturday and Sun- day Nights With Old Friends En Route. By thesAssociated Press. BERLIN, November 1%.—Former Crown Prince Frederick Willlam arrived at hix estate at Oels, Silexia, at 6 o'clock thix evening, a men- snge from Oels announces. BERL November 13.—TIt is of- ficially denied here that former Em- peror William has been authorized to Teturn to Germany. Denial also was made of a report that former Crown Prince Frederick William visited Berlin secretly on his way from Holland to his estate in Upper Silesia. Frederick William stayed Saturday night at Holdescheim, Sunday night | at Grossplatten in Mecklenburg with Count Bassewitz, and last night with friends in the Province of Branden- He is expected to arrive at Oels today. The visit to Berlin of Premier von Knilling of the Bavarian government has been postponed. DUTCH MAY FORBID. London Is Assured Kaiser Will Not Be Permitted to Go. By the Associated Press. LONDON. November 13.—British government officials reiterated today that they were entirely satisfied with the adequacy of the assurances given by Holland that ex-Emperor William would not be allowed to leave Dutch | custody. i They say that up to the moment they have mo reason to suppose the former war lord proposes to decimp, and if he has such an intention they are confident the Dutch government will frustrate the attempt. No new representations, therefore, have been made to Holland. Officials are inclined to doubt the Brussels newspaper advices to the ef- fect that pasgports have been handed the ex-emperdr. They are of the opin- jon that the recent visit of Dr. Kan! of the Dutch ministry of the interior to Doorn was for the purpose of cau- tioning the former war lord that the allies would not view his departure for Holland with the same equanim- ity as that of his son. Tn view of the fact that the ex- Kaiser is specifically mentioned in the treaty of Versailles as the chief war criminal and that the Dutch govern- ment already has given the allies an wnderstanding that he would not be al- Jowed to return to Germany, the Brit- fsh diplomats are confident that Hol- fand will not incur the displeasure of the allies by allowing the ex-emperor to slip through her hands. WORLD’'S EYES ON KAISER. Report He Is About to Return to Germany Excites Interest. By the Associated Press. H BRUSSELS, November 13.—William | Hohenzollern, former Emperor of | Germany, was again a figure com- | manding world attention today, as | the governments of the powers made efforts to learn more of his reported | plans for returning to the fatherland. Equipped with passports for him- self and members of his suite, he is said by a local newspaper to be pre- pared to establish either himself or his son, former Crown Prince Fred- erick William, on the throne of the empire on December 4. There was no official confirmation | of the activities at Doorn House nor | was William's destination in Germany suggested. Private messages from the littlé Dutch village, however, said | that a courier esterday delivered there twelve passports permitting the ex-kaiser and his entourage to re- enter the fatherland after their five vears in le. Cipher messages are! said_ to been received at the | castle during the day. It is pointed | out here that William has been keep- | fng in close touch with the monarch- ists in_Germany and that he has hoped for #ome time that the situa-| tion in the fatherland would shape itself favorably for his return. It is also believed that he would regard Holland as perhaps an insecure place ! of refuge, in view of the protest lodged by the powers and the return of Frederick’ William. PRINCE RENTS IN BERLIN. By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1823, BERLIN, November 13.—The for- mer German crown prince, through his personal adjutant, Maj. von| Mueldner, has rented a private dwel ing in Berlin at Kaiserdam 26, in the | apartment of Lieut. Col. von. But lar. His suite consists of three rooms, simply furnished, overlooking Koepi- gin Elizabeth Strasse. _ The correspondent this morning in- terviewed the housekeeper, in the absence of Col. von Buttlar. At first! she was embarrassed and nervous. | Then she burst ou! “Why can’t you leave the poor man in peace? Why are the communists always following him?” | Admits Expecting Prince. When her fears had been calmed ghe admitted that the crown prince was expected there, though not im- mediately. She said he would go first 10 his estate at Oels. The Berlin police have known about the prince's Berlin apartment for two days. It may be surprising that the prince rents a Berlin residence after having promised the Prussian gov- ernment that he would go direct to ©els, without entering Berlin. An official explained, however, that this condition concerned only his journey into the country. Thereafter, i¢ was said, he could easily obtain permission to live in Berlin, provided he promised not to mix in politics. 1t has been confirmed that the orig {ery at Arlington county courthouse | of two persons suspected of implica- Imen had been drinking. They were ch WASHINGTON, D. C, U. S. Will Make No Protest It Germans Set Up Monarchy W hite House Spokesman Declares Amer- ica Recognizes Right of Countries to Decide Government Form. The United States- government will| make no protests against the appar- ent efforts to restore a monarchy in Germany. Nor does this government | officially oppose the return of the for- | mer Kkaiser or the former crown | prince to Germany. In making known the government's position regarding the present trend | of government and politics in Ger- many an official close to the Presi- dent said today that it has always | been the policy to recognize the rights of any other country setting up any form of government it so desires. It is realized, however, that the al- lied governments probably have a Allies to Hear Germany on Capacity to Pay By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, November 13.—The al- lied reparation commission today decided to hear representatives of Germany regarding the capacity of the reich to pay reparations. The date of the hearing will be fixed later. 2 ARLINGTON JALL FUGIIVES CAUGHT Claim Woman Brought in Saw Which Enabled Prisoners to Escape. Mystery surrounding the jail deliv- last Wednesday night vanished today following the recapture of two pris- | oners and the arrest for investigation tion In the release of eleven prisoners. James Baylor and Melvin Walker were captured last night on the out- skirts of Baltimore and brought back to the Arlington county jail by State Policeman O. W. Welch. En route, Welch said, they made a complete confession to him, telling of a whole- sale plot to break open the jail on the part of all prisoners behind the bars. > Sawed ANl Afternoon. Welch says that the men told him that the nine hacksaws were smug- gled in on Tuesday last by Mrs. Earl Blundon, wife of one of the pris- oners. All afternoon Tuesday, the story goes, the prisoners worked | steadily with the saws on the bars; and by Wednesday had reached the stage where only a few twists and turns were necessary to exchange their cells for outside freedom Welch also declared that the men implicated a resident of Rosslyn (Jo- seph Pickett) as the man who used his automobile to transfer nine from the jail to spots where they could make a safe getaway. As a result Pickett and Mrs. Blundon were tak- en into custody. The latter furnished bond for appearance in court, while the man was held in the Arlington county jail for investigation. H Sherifft Clements, when asked of | these events, denied any knowledge | of them. State's Attorney Frank Ball could not be reached this afternoon. ‘Think Klan Absolver The stories told by these men, how- ever, confirm the authorities of Arlington county in their theory that the release was caused by friends of | some of the prisoners, and not, as was hinted by the story of a woman prisoner, by members of any organ- ization or fraternity. The men told Weich in addition, he said, that nine prisoners, having made their getaway shortly after 12 o'clock, they, the remaining two who disap- peared, left about an hour later. All of the prisoners, it was stated, had some knowledge of what was going on inside the jail during the arduous task of silently sawing sufficlent bars to make an escape. The arrest of the two men in Balti- more was caused by an attempt to steal a loaf of bread from in front of the house of a woman in a suburb of that city. She noticed the two colored boys attempting to make away with the bread, raised an out- cry and pursued them. When they were caught and questioned, they said that they had escaped from Ar- lington and notified their captors that Officer Welch would be a good man to send for them. The result was Welch's trip last night, the subse- quent confession and the re-estab- Iishment in jail of the two men. No clues have been obtained, however, of the whereabouts of the other nine who escaped. NECK BROKEN IN AUTO OVERTURNED AT CURVE Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 13.— John W. Haines, forty years old, was killed and W. G. Gibbs, thirty-eight, injured by the overturning of an automobile at a sharp turn on_ the Conduit road near Great Falls, where they lived, early last night. Haines' ‘neck was broken, while Gibbs suffered bruises about the head and body. Assistance was given by Passers-by. Gibbs was arrested pend- ing investigation. The police say the employed on the condult construction for the District of Columbia. Haines recently moved to Great Falls from New Market, Frederick county, Md. He leaves a wife and eight chiidren. COOLIDGE TO DELIVER MESSAGE IN PERSON President Coolidge will deliver in person the message he is preparing to Congress. This was made known officially at the White House today, and it was explained that if the Pres- ident is informed by Congress in the meantime that it would rather not have the message delivered in person he would very gladly conform with ‘The President is busily engaged now in drafting this document, and it {s lthou wishes. inal announcement that the prince bad left Wieringen on Sunday was & ~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) a., expected that he will devote the greater part of his time during the next two weeks to this task, very proper protest because of the provision of the Versailles treaty, but inasmuch as the United States has no connection with the latter it is therefore in a different situation, and will not be called upon to join in any formal protest Callers on the President today felt very certain that there is no likell- hood of the United States govern- ment's participating in any joint in- ternational inquiry or movement to solve the German reparations ques- ion. The announcement, made several days ago by Secretary Hughes, that this government would no longer en- tertain the idea because of the atti- tude of France seems to pretty defin- itely settle the matter. POINCARE UPHELD IN 378-10-165 VOTE Deputies Vote Confidence on Reopening of Chamber. Quizzing Expected. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 13.—The French chamber of deputies today passed a vote of confidence in the Poincare government by a vote of 379 to 165. After four months recess the chamber of deputies reconvened today. The Poincare cabinet, it was thought, would be faced with some forty interpellations dealing with foreign and internal pol- icies. Altbough no official announcement has been made to that effect, the pre- mier was expected to refuse to discuss any interpellations, whether dealing with internal or forelgn affairs, and re- e at such m: - poned indefinite T = e e government will contend th: In the face of the present troubled and unsettled situation, the unsolved problems of reparations and inter- allied military control in Germany, this is no time for discussion of such question in the French chamber. Whether M. Poincare will make an official declaration was not known, but ja majority of the deputies were of the opinion that he will not do so, while others are inclined to think he will make a short one. Interpellations emanating from so- clalist and communist quar‘leru on the Ruhr question are certain to produce @ large volume of noise, but no one among the hundreds of deputies oir- culating in the chamber lobbies yes terday afternoon—not even the inter- pellators themselves—expreaned - the opinion that there was the slightest chance of placing the government in danger. The socialists virtually admit that the chamber will overrule their de- mand for an immediate discussion and they will concentrate their at- tack on the cabinet when the question of supplementary credits for the 1924 budget comes up. 1024 Budget at Issume, The three most important questions before parliament are first, supple- mentary credits for the 1924 budget, which are already practically voted on the 1923 figures; second, social insurance and pensions, and, third, reform of the electoral laws. It is the government's intention to leave the chamber absolutely free in fixing the order of discussion on these ques- tions, but expressing the wish, with- out making it a_question of confidence, that the 1324 budget be taken up first. The bulk of the work of the bud- get was gone through last June, and the two chambers will be able to dis. pose of the additional credits in a short time and definitely pass the fig- ures through without delay. ASK STRICTER RULE OVER DANCE HALLS Delegation of Women to See Com- missioner Oyster, Urging Rigid Regulation. A delegation of women prominent in civic clubs of the city will call on Commissioner. Oyster this afternoon to urge more stringent regulation of public dance halls, The committee will be headed by | members of the Women's City Club and will Include representatives of the following organizations: Wash- ington Federation of Churches, Mon- day Evening Club, Business Women's Council, District Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs, Social Hyglene Society and the civic section of the Women's City Club. The conference also will be attend- ed by Corporation Counsel Stephen Maj. Sullivan, chief of police, and Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the woman's bureau of the police depart- ment. The question of whether persons who give professional instruction in dancing should be licensed will be discussed. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SMALL PAY RASE FORST3INGD.C Bulk of Federal Employes, by Reclassification, Advanced 2.6 Per Cent. The great bulk of government em- ployes in the District of Columbia covered by reclassification—the 34,573 in the clerical, administrative and a year as an average increase over their present salaries (including the $240 bonus) as a result of reclassi- fication. This is an Increase of only 2.6 per cent over their present base pay plus the bonus. It brings the average salary for this service up from §1,743 to $1.795. Figures Including D. C. Bulking all of thé 54588 employes ©f the fedsrsl and District govern- ment iri the National Capital to whom reclassification applies, the average increase is $67—from the present a: erage of base pay plus the bonu $1,674 to 31,741, or an increase of 4 per cent. The 9,650 employes in the custodial service receive an average annual in- crease of only $44 over the base pay plus the bonus, bringing the average salary for this service up to $1,024. The 2,543 employes in the subprofes- slonal service draw an average increase of $69 a year, which brings their aver- age pay up to $1.605. There are only two services that get substantial increases—the professional and sclentific, which has an average increase of $226. bringing the average salary up to $3.282, and the clerical- mechanical service, §149 increase, mak- ing the average salary $1,356. Dincrepancies Explained. The discrepancy between the average increase of $46 for the clerical force, 344 for the custodial service, $67 for all the employes and $226 for the pro- fessional service is explained by the | personnel classification board this way: ‘The big bulk of government employes {1 the lower grades had been getting the $240 bonus. which is now absorbed, and many of them in offices supported | by lump-sum appropriations had al-’ ready had their salaries brought up, so that they have been reclassified prac- tically for several years. fessional and scientific services, the board says, the bonus was not re- ceived by the blg percentage of em- ployes because it applied only upon salaries up to $2,500. A table showing how reclassification appraisals of salaries apply relatively in the different services is printed on page 12 of The Star today. ; s e EINSTEIN THREATENED. Jewish Scientist Plans to Leave Germany. Jewish Telegraph Agency. BERLIN, November 13.—Menacing letters from anti-Semites, received by Prof. Albert Einsteln since his re- turn from Russia several days ago, have convinced the sclentist of the advisability of his leaving Germany for Holland. The _letters contain clear intimations that atempts would be made on his life. " 50,000 Japanese in California To Leave After Land-Act Ruling Denial of Right of Aliens to Own or Lease Land Will Empty Millions of Finest Farm Acres. Special Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, November 13. Approximately 50.000 of Caiifornia’ estimated 125,000 Japanese today were planning either to migrate eastward or return to the Nippon homeland, as a result of the United States Supreme Court’s decision Mon- day upholding the constitutionality of the California and Oregon anti- alien land acts. The decision, held to sweep away almost the last barrier of the Japa- nese efforts to remain in California, are eligible to citizenship the right to own land anywhere in the two states, but even prohibits them from leasing land for agricultural or any other purposes. £ Aftects Big Farm Area. ‘The most far-reaching effect of the decision will be agriculturally. Be- tween a million and a million and a half acreo of the richest agricultural lands in the state, now leased to Japanese, must be returned to white owners. Simultaneously California’s great not-only denies to all of. them who ! ~~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) A {fiscal service—are to receive onlv $46 | In the pro-| ¢ Foening \Mussolini Sees Germans Aching For Kaiser Rule ROME. November 13.—Premier Mussolini, in the preface of a book written by R. Shuster on the present situation in Germany, asks: “Is Germany sincerely can?" “Is Germany loyally pacifist?"” “Is Germany really bankrupt?" The premier answers the first two questions by quoting from articles he has written in the past. “The fall of the empire,” he says, “left an aching void in Germany’s soul which the republic has been incapable of fllling. Berlin secretly aspires to a return of the glistening capital of the empire. “Pacifism in Germany Is forced. She has no army and therefore is pacifist because she cannot wage war."” republi- GREEK KING'S EXILE FEARED IN LONDON War Claims of Britain and U. S. Seen Imperiled if Re- public Is Set Up. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 13.—Ministerial circles in London are without definite news of the uncertain political situa- tion in Greece at the present moment, but they view with much anxiety the unofficial reports that King George probably will be forced to leave the country 5o as to permit the establish- ment of a republic. Great Britain, like the United States, has financial claims against Greece and it is felt that the procla- mation of a republic amid such cha- otic conditions as now prevail would make the payment of these claims, or even the interest on them, remote. The United States advanced to Greece $15,000,000 under the “liberty bond act” and the interest on this amount to date totals almost another million. While the London govern- ment, like that at Washington, has withheld its recognition of King George, who inherited such a legacy trom the late King Constantine, it has warmly indorsed the young mon- arch’s neutrality throughout the ferce party strife in Greece and his efforts to re-establish his country in the good opinion of the world. It is recognized that George has been little more than a harmless adornment to the throme since his father's death, but it s felt he'is probably the ome man aceptable to both the Venizelos and royalist par- ties, who couid tide the country through the ferocious political bat- tles and passions since the ruthless killing of M. Gounaris and his five colleagues poisoned the whole na- tional life. Little hope is entertained that the establishment of a republic would bring anything like peace or order. Venizelos himself, who is sald by ob. servers to be probably the only man of sufficient callber and popularity to draw Greece out of her present position, has said that any violent change in the constitution would en- tirely alienate foreign sympathy. He: hopes_that the question of a repub- lic will not be decided until the en- tire population has had the oppor- tunity of registering its opinion in the general elections that have been fixed for February 12, 1924. CALLS REPUBLICANS OF HOUSE TO CAUCUS Republican members of the House of the Sixty-eighth Congress have been called by Representative Wood of Indiana, chairman of the repub- lican congressional committee, to meet in caucus Decembet 1 to take up matters of organization. Mr. Wood sald today he had issued the call because Representative Mon- dell of Wyoming, republican leader in the last House, and other party leaders upon whom the task normally would devolve, would not be members of the next Congress. The chief mat- ters of organization to be taken up include selection of the republican candidate for--the speakership, the republican leader, the party whip and the filling of republican” vacan- cies on the rules committee. Star. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1923—-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. (GIRL LEAVES JAIL FOR HOUR T0 WED Back in Cell After Ceremony. Friends Seek Parole for Honeymoon Trip. Cupid, expert locksmith, opened the barred doors at the District jail this morning at 10 o'clock, and Miss Gladiola 1. Peyton, nineteen, a pris- oner, walked out, accompanied by a deputy United States marshal and a wedding party. When she returned to her cell at 1:10 o'clock she was Mrs. Frederick Ewers. And now friends of Mrs. Ewers, who was sentenced last Friday to i serve a term of one year in the work- house fallowing her plea of gulity in ‘Criminal Court No. 1 to two cases of “forgery, are seeking to get the law to tender her a wedding present of probation Instead of workhouse servitude. Justice Bailey, it is ex- pected, will be approached with such a request this afternoon. Given Brief Freedom. At 10 o'clock two automobiles drove up to the District jail. One belonged to the prospective bridegroom, Fred- erick H. Ewers, twenty-two, a sales- man at a local department store. He was accompanied by a marriage license on which the ink was not yet fully dry, by -Mrs. Peyton, mother of the prospective bride, and a few friends. The other automobile con- tained a deputy marshal armed with a temporary release from the jail. | Over the streets to the residence of Rev. George W. Dow, at 421 4th street, went the entourage, followed by newspaper men. The marriage ceremony was like any other mar- riage ceremony, but the setting was dramatic. In one chair sat the mother of the bride, with a ready handkerchief, as is the way with mothers when daughters are getting married. Frederick was wiggling his fingers and a bit awkward in re- sponses, as is generally the case with bridegrooms. The girl was well con- {trolled, only a twitching foot gave {evidence of a bit of nervousness. Deputy Marshal Hutchinson, looking much as though he were really the best man, stood behind the groom. Try to Avold Camera Men. The ceremony over, the deputy marshal registered as a witness and preparations were made for an exit, when suddenly some onme glanced down into the street below and found newspaper photographers gathering. This resulted in the speedy calling of | an tmpromptu board of stragtegy, into which one newspaper man was taken into confidence and asked for ad- | visory tactics. A rear exit was sug- gested, but there was no rear exit. Then there was a short rehearsal of the manner in which the real exit would be made. Mrs. Dow, motherly wife' of the clergyman, found a veil, and tendered it to the use of the bride. It was & mourning veil. The bride had a aat on with big furry collar and cuffs. She tried puiling this over her face, and finally made her exit from the wedding room muffled up in this coat, accompanied by Mrs. Dow. The board of strategy was successful and the photographers, although they did their utmost, were only able to get a glimpse of a hurrying, rushing muffled figure that sped across inter- vening space and hopped into Mr. Ewers' awalting automobile, ready for the trip back to the jail. Honeymoon Contingent. The honeymoon is contingent this afternoon upon the release of the girl on probation. It such takes place, there will be a trip, with destination not known to any save the bride and groom. | There's a pathetic angle to this ro- mance. - Back in May, to friends of the bride and groom went announcements of the forthcoming wedding, which was to have taken place on Saturday, June 2, at the home of the parents of the bride, 1105 9th street. That same month the arrest took place. The charge was forgery. Miss Peyton at that time_was employed as a stenog- rapher. The wedding did not take place. It was postponed, while the law, inexorably, turned to the case at han Until recently Miss Peyton was out on bond. Then she pleaded guilty to forgery on two counts, and was sen- tenced last Friday in Criminal Division 1 to a term of one year in jall, This did not deter Ewers. He made ents for the wedding, anyhow, result was as described above. The Star is * Senate to Vote For World Court Says Harrison MOLINE, 111, November 13.—The Senate will ratify the world court plan if President Coolidge sub- mits the proposal, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, told an audlence here last night. American prosperity, said the senator, is dependent on Ameri- can participation in foreign af- fairs. Europe would be peaceful today, he said, if the United States had ratified the peace treaty. PLANS FOR DEEDS OFFICE ARE READY Drawings Also for Municipal Court Building Prepared for New Congress. On the first day that Congress meets there will be placed on the Speaker's desk plans for a new re- corder of deeds office and municipal court building. The plans have been prepared by the architect of the Capi- tol, David Lynn, in consultation with the Engineer Commissioner, Maj. J. Franklin Bell, as directed in the last District of Columbia appropriation bill. This building is to be erected on the 4th street side of the recently re- modeled District Supreme Court building to correspond architecturally with the new Court of Appeals build- ing on the 5th street side. The plans estimate the cost at $628,320. This new structure will be one of the few architecturally perfect speci- mens of the Georgian or Colonial combined with the Ionic portico in the western world. The Treasury De- partment has paid a belated tribute to the worthiness of this style of archi- tecture by selecting replicas of the twin-structure, the Court of Appeals, in recent federal buildings in the south. Support in Congress. While Congress has not yet made appropriation for the new building, members of both houses are informed regarding the desperate need for proper housing of the recorder of deeds office and for the increasing business of the Municipal Court, the quarters of which now are a ‘dis- grace to the National Capital,” ac- cording to opinion expressed on the floor of Congress by members who had made a personal inspection. The appropriations committee is predisposed to allocate funds for the erection of this building on the ground that it will be an actual sav- ing rather than an increased burden upon the taxpayers, besldes furnish- ing adequate and suitable quarters for the transaction of important busi- ness in the Capital. The strong sentiment of the legal profession and of civic leaders in favor of the prompt erection of this building has been officlally registered before the House committee on pub- lic buildings and grounds and before | the appropriations committee. It is the belfef of many members of Con- gress now in Washington that fa- vorable action will be taken on the recommendations of the architect of the Capitol. Provisien in Bill. The provision in the District ap- propriation bill of last year was as follows: “The architect of the Capitol, in collaboration with the Commissioners of the District of Columbus, shall prepare plans for the erection of a fireproof addition to the courthouse (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 25 WHISKY BANDITS IN BALTIMORE RAID Bind Six Guards at Distillery and Escape With Five Trucks of Loot. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., November 13.— Armed whisky bandits numbering about twenty-five early today raided Gwynnbrook distillery at Gwynbrook, a suburb of Baltimore, and are re- ported to have secured about five large truckloads of whisky. State police, city police and police of Balti- more county, in which the distillery is located, have formed a cordon on important roads leading from Balti- more to try to apprehend the men. Four government guards at the dis- tillery were overpowered. first tied up two guards on the out- side of the distillery and, gaining entrance, tied up the other two. All four were then handcuffed together in a circle. ‘The men gained entrance to the place about 1:30 o'clock #ind it was after 3 o'clock before they finished loading and started away. The hand- cuffed guards made thelr way to the home of a neighbor and gave the alarm. Two large touring cars are said to have accompanied the trucks. Huge Store Transferred. While this robbery was going on government agents were escorting nineteen truckloads of about 4,800 cases of whisky from near Frederick, Md., to Baltimore. The whisky Is bound to a concentration warehouse here on government order and is coming from the Horsey distillery near Frederick. 2 Fifteen armed guards in four big touring cars are guarding this liquor. Bootleggers, evidently knowing of . the activity of government agents in the southwestern suburbs of the city, took a chance and raided the distiliery in the northern suburbs toward Carroll county. Police shortly after § o'clock cap- tured two drivers and three trucks loaded with stolen whisky near Tow- son, about ten miles away from the hold-up. The men caught gave their addresses as James W. Crawford, 2364 North 49th street, Philadelphia, and ‘Walter Marino, same address. The men | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” delivered every evemng and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,228 TWO CENTS. IFORBES ~ TESTIFIES HE RESIGNED POST RATHER THAN WORK WITH GEN. SAWYER Retired From Veterans’ Bu- reau to Save President Harding Embarrassment of Chioosing Between Them. CHARGES PLOT TO WRECK HIM THROUGH PERJURY Tells Senate Committee All A:- cusations Against Integ: g False—Blames Deficiencies (4 Politics and White House Ph - sician—Hits Hospitalization. “Conspiracy to encompass my de struction by means of perjury, ornation of perjury and the supprs sion of material facts and doc ments,” was charged by Charles I Forbes, former director of the Vet- erans’ Bureau, in testimony tod: before the Senate veterans' commit- tee. Taking the stand in his own de- fense before a crowded committee room, the former director entered a general, sweeping and absolute de- nial of the many charges which have been made against him during the committee’s inquiry. Most of the deficiencies in the ad- ministration of the laws providing for relief to disabled veterans, he de- clared, “had bee: d Sirs, ;had, becn dus to politics and Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, personal friend and physici: i e physician “of ' President Denies He Was Dismissed. Forbes then flatly denied the state- ment made before the committee by Dr. Sawyer that he was dismissed b. President Harding for insubordina- tion in connection with the sale of surplus property at Perryville, Md. “Long before the President finally decided to issue his second tempo- rary order stopping the delivery of £00ds at Perryville,” the former di- rector said, “I frankly told the Pres- ident that I could not continue to serve if Gen. Bawyer was to continue in my office; and it became simply « choice between Sawyer and myself, and I relieved the President of any possible embarrassment b my resignation.” Jendecing ne‘,‘The d‘edrull Wl-: directed, s said, “against every charge, statement,’ innuendo and Insinuation which in any manner whatsoever re- flects upon the honesty and integrity of my official or personal conduct while I occupied the office of director {0f war risk insurance or director of the wit- {the Veterans’ Burea: Charges Conspiracy. “I feel that I cannot refrain from expressing to the committee at this time,” Forbes said, “my growing be- lief, finally resulting in conviction on my part, which I expect, by the testi- mony of disinterested witnesses, to establish, that an attempt has been made to mislead this committee, and that a conspiracy has been on foot the purpose of which is to encom- pass my destruction by means of per- jury, subornation of perjury, at- tempted subornation of perjury and the suppression of material facts and documents. At the outset Forbes read a pre- pared statement, in which he earnest- 1y requested the committee members to question him most searchingly as to all matters within the scope of the investigation and of the testimony heretofore given and which he was to give “bearing not only upon m personal conduct as director of th. Veterans' Bureau, but also upon the official conduct of the affairs of ihe bureau by myself and my subordi- nates. “I deny generall after deny specificaily and in detail, the utterly false and groundl charges of official and personal ne- glect, dishonesty, graft, liquor drin ing. loose conduct, and any and every other dereliction of duty, official or personal, which has been 'ascribed to me either by the witnesses Mortimer and Williams and others, or charged against me by the counsel of this committee. Sought Ship Board Place. “I do mot mean that my administra- tion was blameless; I do not deny its imperfections; 1 do not seek to shift any responsibilities to others, dead or alive; but I do assert that I have not consciously been guilty of any wrong- | doing either by act or neglect. | “I feel it is only proper to state t 1Y did not seeks this position. Iam fra to say that while I have never been particularyy active as a polit, & though always a republican, the present administration came into office T was ambitious, on account of my experience, to become a member of the Shipping Board, which ambition { T comunicated to the late President, who {had been my political and personal (friend for many years." “President Harding frankly advised me that it was impossible for him to {gratify my ambition, and he ulti- i mately tendered to me the position of { director of war risk insurance. I ac- cepted the position with much mis giving, with the expressed desire or | my purt that I might retire from th | office at the end of a year. 4 Warned by Jones. “When I first met Col. Cholmeles | Jones (the retiring director) he to_me: | +‘Col. Forbes, you are coming into la job that will bring you only grie |and sorrow. I have done everythin { within my power to build up this in- | stitution and make it really worth while. It is politically stagnant, and 11 do not belfeve that you or any other I man will ever be able to put it over.’ i After some conversation he added i “You will find your first difficulty { pelieve, in the public health servic Tt was not long before I realized that | Col, Cholmeley Jones had spoken the | truth. Z “Among the first difficulties that I encountered was the insistence by | Gen. Sawyer of his plan to hospitalize all disabled veterans in the ram- ismcme and tumble-down canton- ! ment bulldings throughout the coun- try. 1 was and always have been utterly opposed to this plan, as have practically all other persons who e given any thought and study (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) and shall here-