Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tol change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hous ended at 2 p.m. tdda: at 2:40 p.m. vesterday; I 4:15 a.m. today. Full report cn page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 27 Entered as sacon(l-class matter post office Washington, No. 29,051 MOrrow; no - Highest, 57, owest, 37, at D. C. RANCE SEEKS HELP * FBATANTOENLE FREDERCK WAL London Slow to Respond to Pressure Brought by Poincare. . AMBASSADORS DEFER CONSIDERING PROBLEM | Berlin to Withdraw Support From Ruhr and Refuses to Sanc- tion Republic. Ty thie Associated Press. LONDON, Novembe bringing strong pressure to bear on Great Britain looking to joint ac- tion for the expulsion of the crown prince from German: I'or the moment the British gov- crnment believes it useless to try to undo the accomplished fact, but no decision regarding a final policy will he announced until the cabinet. Wwiiich is meeting today, has examined carefully, the whole subject inthe Hght of Premier Poincare's latest overtures Meanwhile the government has re- ived no official intimation that the former kaiser intends to duplicate the sensational dash of his heir. TBritish officlals are confildent that Folland will observe her pledge to 14.—France is til time or fate settles his destiny. France also is urging Great ' Britain to send a strong rejoinder to Germany regarding Chancellor Stresemann’s negative reply to the &llied request for_greater protection and latitude of action for the inter- allied military control commission. France_ favors energetic action be- ing taken against Germany if Berlin refuses to give up the ex-crown prince or declines to extend the safe- guards and authority requested for the control commission. In the British view the selzure of Hamburg or other German ports is not to be ruled out from possible action by France if Germany refuses to capitulate, but officials here de- clare Britain will decline to support | such drastic measures. There appears a clearly defined ef- fort on the part of Preniier Poincare to establish greater unity of action between France and England so as to impress the Berlin cabinet and dis- courage the ex-kaiser from attempt- ing to regain his liberty. nicated to the council of ambassadors in Paris this afternoon. ENVOYS DEFER PROBLEM. Lack of Unity Among Allies Gives as Reason for Postponement. Br the Associated Press. PARIS, November 14.—The allied council of ambassadors failed to con- xider at its meeting today the ques- 1ion of what action should be taken in connection with the return of the crown prince to Germany and as to Germany’s attitude regarding the resumptlon of allled military control. The sesslon was devoted to routine work and it i{s understood the am- lassadors avoided mentioning these questions because the allies were not in accord as'to the proper course of action. reat Britain, which took the initiative in the sending of a coercive note to Germany regarding the return of Frederick William, now is sald to be desirous of dropping the whole matter, while France, which was at first indifferent, but later came to , favor action of some sort, is ready { for such action. BERLIN DESERTS RUHR. ‘ By the Associated Pres BERLIN, November 14.—Political Jeaders were discussing today the ap- parent decislon of the central govern- ment to withdraw all federal support from the Ruhr and Rhineland prov- inces, leaving those territories to their own devices or to the pleasure ©f France and Belgium. The impression grew that the cab- fnet ministers, state premiers and ®pokesmen of the occupied regions in iheir secret conference here yester- tiay had concluded upon the abandon- gnent of federal jurisdiction over 1hose areas as a means of saving the yest of the country. The fact that gurther support) of the Rubr and Nhineland populations would consti- iute an unbearable burden on the h is believed to have influenced rmany’s leaders in deciding to Jeave on the shoulders of France and Helgium all responsibility for the fate of the German people in occupied ter- ritory. Apparently authentic reports were 1n circulation yesterday that the gov- ernment was to proclaim an autono- mous Rhineland, and considerable surprise was manifest last night when an official statement declared . the government would “never sanc- tion the proclamation of a Rhineland epublic.” It was in this statement, issued at ghe conclusion of the secret confer- euce, that the government explained mnew the serfousness of the unem- ployment problem and of the general Bocial and Industrial conditions in the Jtuhr and Rhineland, giving the ‘im- ressfon that the 'relich could no onger consider {tself responsible for the occupied provinces. This infer- euce was strengthened when it was lcarned in official quarters that the government considered such a re- Vision of its policy to be the only possible course at its disposal. WILL QUIZ GOVERNMENT. y ¥$y the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, November 14.—Depu- gies Van Hock, Bouesses and Mathleu, Fespectively, members of the Cath- ©lic, liberal and soclalist partie: gorved notice on the government to: day that they would interpellate it #3 to the measures the Belgian gov- wriment intends taking, in view of “the returngof the crown prince to Germany. The interpellators will de- :and_that the government ask the xtradition of the crown price in con- Yormity with article 228 of the treaty of Versailles. The three deputies, the first two ©f whom belong to the governmental majority, also will request the gov- ernment to take measures to prevent s similar return to Germany of the former kaiser, “which is in course of preparation.” The interpellations contain eriti- kism of Holland's attitude. It is ex- ected they will be presented to- 0ITOW, former | t as jailer for the former war lord | The views | of the British cabinet on these and| other points raised by the Parls gov- | ernment arc expected to bhe commu- | Treasury Reveals That “Stuff” Sold Here Is Unspeakably Filthy. {ONE DRINK MAY KILL "Bootleg Casualttes In-| crease—Corn Filled ! With Vermin. With bootlag llquor alleged to have killed one man at Hyattsville and temporarily blinded a marine'at Quan- tico, and with the grand jury in Bal- timore finding “vast amounts of liquor | | made with concentrated lye.” it was {announced today by government | chemists that less than 1 per cent of | the illicit liquor now available here 3 is genuine. This was revealed by Dr. J. M. { Doran, head of the industrial alcohol and dhemical divisfon of the internal | revenue bureau, who declared that samples of liquor seized in the vicin- | ity by prohibition agents and analyzed in the laboratories in the Treasury | building, showed a serlous deteriora- tion in quality. Many in Howpitals. “Many cases in the hospitals of | Washington and elsewhere in the | country,” said Dr. Doran, “may not seem to be due to wood aicohol | | poisofting, but in my opinion many of them are very likely due to the small amount of denaturants left in bootleg liguor which has been imperfectiy made from denatured alcohol.” Death of a young man near Wash- ington, after drinking alleged poison liquor,” will be investigated just a3 PRSIN HELD CURE | FORULS. PHYSIEANS BOOTLERGING DOPE Memphis Neurologist Would| Strike at Sources of Nar- | cotic Supply. i { | 1 | Prison terms for lawbreaking phy- i siclans and druggists, whom he term- ed “drug bootleggers,” were advo- cated today by Dr. W. G. Summerville, Memphis, chairman of the neurology | {and psychiatry section of the South- | ern Medicul Assoclation, speaking to | | that body at the Shoreham Hotel. He also urged compulsory l’pspllnll-’ { zation of drug addicts. H The conclusions and sugegstions {made by Dr. Summerville were: “Strike at the very source of sup- ply and, by International co-opera- tion, limit the growth of the poppy. “Eliminate the importation and {manufacture of heroin, for which | | there s no need in medicine. i “Educate physicians and the pub- | lic to the fact that narcotic drug Id-‘ diction is a disease per se, and not a | vice. H special Establish In each state sanitariums, where addicts, either by voluntary or compulsory commitment, may receive treatment from skilled physicians. Asks Drastic Ban. “Eliminate all illegal channels of supply by proper federal supervision | and drastio laws entailing long terms of imprisonment for bootleggers and | all violators of the Harrison nar- cotio law.” “The problem of narcotic drug ad- diction {s serious and its solution difficult,” Dr. Somerville said. “It 18] a problem now engaging the atten- tion of congressmen, Jjurists and physiclans, but wé do not seem any nearer the solution. It was hoped that the Harrison narcotioc law would serve the purpose, but after eight years we see that it has in a great measarefalied. “There are in the United States to- day 1,000,000 persons addicted to opium ' or’ one of its - derivatives— morphine: heroln or codeine—and he face of the Hari - & T arrison nar- “The public and physiclans, as a rule, consider drug addiction a viclous habit or mal perversion. We now know htat drug addiction is a disease, a patholog- ical condition; or to be more exact, I would say that the craving for opium, or its derivatives, is as much a symptom of disease as pain is of peritonitis and pleurisy. “We do believe, however, that all drug addicts, and particularly ‘the physician drug addict, are a distinct menace, mak- ing addicts’ of members of their family and of their friends. Not long ago there died in a southern town an old phy- sician, who had been a morphine addict for seventeen years, and who was ro- sponsible for his sister, brother and many of his patients becoming addicted to the drug. In fact, this town was noted for its very large drug habitues. y —— Treatment Hard to Obtain. “The majority of addicts are finan- cially unable to obtain private treat- ment. There are a few places in some states where they are treated in the city hospitals for a short period, but not long enough to hope for permanent re- sults. Many are committed to Jails and workhouses as vagrants or on someé technical charge, though they are not criminals nor are they vicious. “It 13 not my purpose to fix the re- sponsibllity for beginning the habit on any onme. Physiclans an - gists have been blamed for 1o "ond doubtless in many cases this Is true, but many take it up themselves to obtain relief from some menta) discomfort. Diysial o “If we were to have institutions in every state capable of caring for all addicts, the Solution of the problem would fot vet be accomplished. There is a menace with”which it is diffi- cult to cope—that menace of the peddler, and along with him we would place the druggist and physician who Sells morphine ot addicts or writes prescriptions. Until we get rid of them, ‘cures’ are frequently tempo- rary, or in vain. he peddlers’ tralle is dependent upon supply and demand. It had ‘been suggested to limit the supply by restricting _the amount of popples grown. This would require inter- national co-operation and would strike at the very root of the evil (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) S ] 1 | T . WASHINGTON, DISTRICT’S LIQUOR SUPPLY GROWING MORE POISONOUS DR. J. M. DORAN. thoroughly as the prohibition laws permit, it was announced both by Dr. Doran and by Harry M. Luckett, di visional chief of prohibition agents with headquarters here. A year ago, Dr. Doran explained, the amount of genuine liquor available in | Washington and vicinity, as shown by luboratory findings, was something over 2 per cent. At the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, it was estimated that this genuine liquor supply had been reduced to 1 per cent., Today, Dr. Doran calculated from 1 per cent of the samples turned in by prohibition agents w _In Baltimore the grand jury's find- ings, published yesterday, followed complaints that ‘much of the corn (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) genuine. Prison Preferred By Ludendorif to Petty Persecution BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By radio to The Star and the Ch News. ~ Copyright, 1923. BERLI pvember 14.—Gen. Ludendorff, say the Munich new: papers, has announced his decision to go 1’2)'( to prison because the assurances given him by Dictator von Kahr concerning his freedom of movement while awaiting trial have not been kept. One of his complaints is that telephone serv- fre at his villa has been cut off. No one has discovered yet, how- gver, that he actually has gone to In a special article in_the fas- clsti paper, Deutsche Tageblatt, Gen. Ludepdorft declhres thut the first duty ‘of any patriotic govern- ment must be production of abun- dant cheap food to avold threat- ened mass starvation. However, as a representative of the landed interests, he does not suggest that the farmers should make sacrifices to this end. SAY WILSON ASKED BAN ON PICTURES Police Submit Reports on Row With Photographers Armistice Day. cago Daily The police department was com- plying With a request of the Wilson family In barring photographers {from the roped inclosure in‘front of the former President's home during the Armistice day demonstration Sunday, according to a report sub- mitted to. Commissioner Oyster. today by Maj. Sullivan. Commissioner Oyster asked for the report following publication of sto- ries that trouble occurred between policemen and photographers during the program. No Complaints Filed. Asst. Supt. Charles A. Evans, who investigated the affair, stated in the report no complaints have yet been fil y-cameramen. A letter was received from a citizen in the crowd, who told of having seen one policeman pushing a photograph- er through the crowd. The writer, while urging that the officer be repri- manded, said he would not make formal complaint. Reported Trouble. Inspector Evans sald in the report that following the exercises one pri- vate reported to him that he had rouble with one cameraman in car- rying out the order of his superiors. Inspector W. S. Shelby stated that Mr. Wilson did not want photograpl ers in front of the house dyring his presence on the porch. : The photographers, it was sald to- day, are seeking legal advice now as to what action, if any, they will take. ¢ Foening figures at hand that much less than | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, 7,000,000 INCOMES, 51,000 T0 25,00, IN TAXCUT PROGRAM Total of 7,500,000 Returns Affected by Mellon’s Plan Includes Wealthy. COOLIDGE TO STRESS REVISION IN MESSAGE Rail Rates Kept Up Partly by Present High Surtaxes, Of- ficials Believe. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Seven and a half million persons and corporations are affected by the tax revision proposed by Secretary ot the Treasury Mellon. This is an increase of about 1,000,000 over the returns for 1921, which Treasury ex- perts now say cannot be taken as a normal year and that 1922 will show a return to ‘the seven-and-a-half- million mark. Of the 7,600,000, about 7,000,000 in- come tax returns will be affected by the changes proposed for incomes running from $1,000 to $26,000. In order to ‘visualize exactly what the saving is to be, this correspondent obtained from the Treasury Depart- ment today a table.showing what a single person would pay under the | new tax proposal and what the head of a family with two dependent. chil- dren would pay in incomes ranging from $1,000 1o $25,000, which range affects all_but 500,000 of the 7,500,000 income taxpayers. Table for S| Here Is the table: Single person’s tax. Present Proposed law. 30.00 10.00 50.00 120.00 160.00 240,00 le Person. Net income. If the tax is computed head of a family with two dependent | children it would be as follows: Tax in Preseat Proposed Inw. law. $0.00 $0.00 0.00 0.00 15.75 88.25 72.00 99,00 144.00 189.00 234.00 286.50 £8 : o g L E £3ss528823s 8 ] o Higher Incomes Fewer. | Relatively few people in the Unite@l States pay taxes on incomes higher than the foregoing tables. There are only 380 persons paying taxes on in- comes above $300,000 a year and only 150 on incomek above $500,000. The persons with an income of a million | dollars a year or more are only sthir- ty in number and this represents a { decrease in 1921 over previous years, due, ‘it Is belleved, to the fact that the wealthler people are able legally to evade taxes on a large part of their incomes by purchasing tax- exempt securities issued by state; and municipalities and by the federal | government itself for the farm land | bank system. Already the attack has begun on the idea of reducing surtaxes for persons of high {ncome, but the Treasury view, is that the government today is los- ing millions of dollars in revenue be. cause rich people are keeping their capital from productive channels. In other words, as the Treasury sees it, the railroads today must pay a high rate of interest in order to borrow ‘money. They must pay high interest rates because people with money to invest compare the Income they will get from one source with the income (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Poincare’s Efforts to Reunite ‘ - Allies on Sanctions Doomed BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. 7 Cable to The, Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS,, November ~ 14.—Premler Poincare’s efforts to raunite the al- ljes in & common reparations policy on the basis of taking some new common sanctions against' Germany, have apparently failed and the Eu- ropean- situation consequently con- tinues very grave. French reports indicate-that Ger- many is rapidly preparing -to effect a restoration of. the monarchy and to denounce the treaty of Versailles in its entirety on the grounds that Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr rendered the treaty invalid. Other States Hoatile, Meanwhile, Italy evinces a non- committtal attitude, Belglum 1s vacil- lating in its community of views with France, and rGeat Britain, as was shown by Sir John Bradbury's attl- tude in the reparatiohs commission ¥ Tuesday, is still hostile to the French policy. Great Britain's stubborn official con- testation of the legality of the occu- pation ofsthe Ruhr by France and Belglum is considered here as.a direct encouragement to the German reac- tionaries. ‘The British occupation authorities at Cologne are described as doing everything possible to pre- vent the success of direct negotia- tions between the French authorities and ¢he German local authorities in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. Demand for Action. It 15 reported - thai the Stinnes group, after once more seeming about ready to sign an agreement, has shied off again. The return of the frmer German crown-prince from exile, the permission for -the former kaiser's return, together with the German re fusel to-facilitate resumption of work by the allled disarmamesit commis- sions, have aroused French opinion %o a high pitoh. The demand for ac- tion is urgent and generaly WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1923—FIFTY PAGES. LAN saKes!Z; AN LK ; THEY'RE NOT U5, WHEAT BOARD HINTED BY WALLACE Commission to Handle Sur- plus Being Worked Out Is Indicated. B the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, November 14.—A wheat commission plan of handiing Amer- ica’s surplys wheat is now heing worked out in his department, Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, indicated today fn an address before the Chicago Association of Commerce. Such a commission as he advocates would relleve the wheat farmer, and in conjunction with the tarift would bring about a rise in price in the domestic market. He made it clear, however, that price-fixing must be avolded, and warned that government interference with the elements of supply and de- mand would hamper readjustment. Sces Price Increase. “Such a commission as I sugges he sald, “and which we are now out- lining, will look after the wheat sur- plus behind a tarlfft wall so that prices can rise in the domestic mar- ket to the point where a bushel of wheat will buy as much for the farm- er as it did before the war." The Secretary suggested that any eftort to fix wheat prices by govern- ment agencles would only add to the difficulties of the producers. ¥ In his view a readjustment of the situation would come only through a balancing of production and con- sumption and the readjustment would be allayed by any governmental in- terference with the natural elements of supply and demand, he explained. OFFENSE OF BRIDE TAKEN OFF RECORD Mrs. Gladiola Peyton Ewers l:nt on Probation by Judge McMahon. Police Court—scene of pathos, com- edy and tragedy in life stories—was the setting for the concluding act of a romantic drama today when Judge McMahon sent Mrs. Gladiola Peyton Ewers, nineteen-year-old bride of one day, from its portals to liberty with an expunged record. Assistant District Attorney Ralph Given presented eight Informations on forgery of checks of small amounts, to which the girl had plead- ed gullty previously, and which were ready to be sent to the grand jury, and asked the gourt—in view of the action of Justice Balley yesterday in permitting the young bride to change a plea of gullty to not gulity so to be placed on probation—to take similar -action, and to place her on probation for a period of one year, but not to make her name one of record among probationers. ‘The court responded favorably. The oath was administered. The bride went to her husband, Fred H. Ewers, who took her from jail yesterday to be married, and the couple left the courtroom to embark on the matri- monial voyage. The court did not make the name of the girl one of record among probationers, but re- served the: right to have one of the woman probation officers visit her home at three-month intervals in a motherly capacity. They walked slowly down the aisle and through It shut softly after them. of the United States against Peyton was dead. And tonight the bride and groom will leave on_a honeymoon journey, returning to Washington next week. 32 FILM EXTRAS INJURED IN HOLLYWOOD ACCIDENT Interurban Crashes Rear End of Street Car, Carrying Actors to Movie Studio. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 4.—Twelve passengers wero seri- ously injured and score or more slightly hurt today when an inter- urban Los Angeles-Santa Monica car crashed into the rear end of a local street car in Hollywood today. The local car was crowded with men on their way to one of the motion picture studios fer work as film satras, ST i WillDump18,000 Bottles of Beer Here Tomeorrow United States Marshal Edgar C. Snyder today recelved an order from Justice Hitz of the District Supreme Court to destroy 18,000 bot- tles of beer, which is said to con- tain 5 per cent of alcohol. The beer was shipped to Washington from Pennsylvania and the con- signee having failed to call for it the railroad company reported to the prohibition unit. A search warrant was secured and the beer seized and placed in @ warehouse. United States At- torney Gordon and Assistant United States Attorney Koogle filed a libel under the prohibition ‘law against the beer and its destruc- tion was ordered. Deputy marshals say it will take five trucks to transport the liquor from the warehquse to the place where the bottles may be destroy- ed. While the destination is not announced, it is expected the deputies will take the consign- ment to a dumping ground across the Highway bridge and there after empting the bottles will de- stroy them tomorrow morning. ROSENBAUM GIRL DISAPPEARS AGAIN Four Boys Arrested in Connection With Case Are Released by Police. 2 Catherine Rosenbaum, thirteen- year-old girl, who figured in a sensa- tional disappearance last spring— which culminated at that time with the trial and exoneration at Upper Marlboro of a man charged with taking her into Maryland—is missing {again. A report came to the woman's bu- | reau of the police department telling of her disappearance yesterday. Her 'parents declared that she had been gone since last Sunday and that they refrained from asking for a search ‘|until yesterday because of the hope that she would return. Four boys were taken to the ninth precinct last night by Precinct Detec- tives Kuehling, Davis and Wllson, and questioned regarding the case, but were released. Sergt. Rhoda Milliken of the wom- an’s bureau has taken the case under her personal investigation. ° Only a partial description of the missing girl was obtained—she wore a green checked suit and dark hat and shoes and stockings—and no ad- dress was listed officially by the police. Her parents, who are under- stood to have removed from the resi- dence in northeast occupied by them last spring, when the girl ~disap- peared, would not consent to making the present address public, it was said at the women's bureau today. CONFER ON TRAINING BUILDING WORKERS Employers and Others Discuss Apprenticeships at Ses- sion Tomorrow. For the purpose of formulating fundamental principles . to govern apprenticeship training in the build- Ing trades, a conference of national ssociations- of building trade em- ployers and employes and manufac- turers of building materials has been called by .the .Federal Board for Vocational Education, to meet" in their = offices here beginning to- morrow. ~ Special Interest attaches to the con- ference, it was sald, because the problem of ‘training apprentices -and recrulting the ranks ef skilled labor has been acute in the bullding trades since the war. Similar conferences in various sections of the country “are expected to follow. Among the associations to be repre- sented are the Associated General Contractors, the National Association of Bullding Trade Employers, Ameri- can_ Construction Council, 'building trades department of the Americal Federation of -Labor, American Inst! tute of Architects, National Associ tion of Builders' Exchanges, National Lumber Manufacturers’ * Association, the Trade Extension Bureau, Paint and Varnish Manufacturers* Association, Mason Contractors’ Assoclation, Asso. ciated Tile Manufacturers and the Ni tional Slate Assoctation. —_— SEITZ VIENNA' MAYOR. VIENNA, November 14.—Dr. Carl Seitz, former President of Austria, bas been elected mayor of Vienna. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telepbone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,212 IBANK MESSENGERS SLANINHOLDUP Bandits Get $43,600 From Dead Men, Attacked on Stairs of Subway. ® ! By the Associatea NEW YORK, November 14.—Two| bank messengers were murdered by two bandits who stole $43,600 from them in a spectacular hold-up today at the 55th street station of the West End subway line in Brooklyn. The station was filled with persons on their way to work when the ban- dits opgned fire, later fleeing with thelr haul in an automobile for which the police have sent out a general | alarm with a fifty-mile radius of the | city! The messengers who were shot were William S. Barlow and Willlam H. McLaughlin, both of Brooklyn, and employed by the West End Bank. They were taking the money to an- other bank. Meet Bandits on Statrs. Carrying the money in a black bag, the messengers boarded a West End train at §6th street, where the sub- way trains run on an overhead structure, getting out at the 55th street station. As they were descending the stairs, they were met by the two bandits. Passengers on the platform heard several shots, but could not see ex-| actly what happened. | Persons on the street, however, saw the robbers snatch up the bag, jump fnto an autotmobile and disappear. Pedestrians were unable to get the | license number, for the robbers had | ladopted the latest bandit device of | turning some compound which emits | a smoke screen through the exhaust. Twenty-four Hours of Crime. The murder of the bank messengers was the climax of a twenty-four-hour period of sensational criminal ac- tivity. Late last night a bandit shot and | mortally wounded Jacob Bankhoff, { drugglst, after he had found but $20 in the cash register. The robber es- caped. Early today, two young men en- tered a_dowA town subway station, shackled the cashier's arms behind him and while ane made change for passengers the other emptied the cash box of $650. They kicked the cashier under a shelf and escaped. A motor truck bringing $78,000 in woolen goods from Hartford, Conn., was stolen in the Bronx, but recov- ered. half an hour later by motor cycle policemen. Two men were ar- rested charged with the theft. Two bandits yesterday held up an employe of the Ward Baking Com- pany in Brooklyn and fled with a $13,- 500 payroll STOKES TO RENEW . FIGHT FOR DIVORCE Will Not Oppose Wife’s Action for Seperation, However, Says Counsel. | [ { ! i NEW YORK, November-14.—W. E. D. Stokes will not oppose the seébara- {tlon action of his wife, Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, his attorney told Su- preme Court Justice Wasservogel to- day. He sald, however, that the wealthy hotel man would appeal last week’s court decision refusing him a divorce. Isidor Gainsburg, Stokes' attorney, told the court his client had author- ized him to enter into a stipulation | consenting to the separation decree, but added that he would contest the amount of alimony sought and would fight for the custody of their children. In addition, Mr. Gainsburg said, Stokes refused to admit his wife's al- legations against him in her answer to_his unsuccessful divorce suit. ~ He told the court, in explanation of his client’s consent to the separation stipulation, that Stokes did not de- sire to live with Mrs. Stokes. Samuel Untermyer, Mrs. Stokes' attorney, in- t garoo as with Stokes. | the former director, | Veterans' jenied that Mr: TWO* CENTS. FORBES DENCUNCES 45 LIE CHARGE HE ADED CONTRACTR Former Veterans’ Bureau Head Also Contradicts Saw- yer’s Testimony. ADDS NEW SENSATIONS TO SENATE BODY PROBE Says White House Gave 0. K. to Sale of Goods at Perryville. -~ Piecing out details of his deniai « the charges against him, former Di rector Charles R. Forbes of the Ve:- erans’ Bureau, put new thrills into the Senate veterans investigation to day by flatly contradicting the testi- mony of several previous witnesses _He passed the lie direct to Elias H. Mortimer of Philadelphia, who ha told the investigating committee t under Forbes' administration confi- dential Information was furnished certain contractors regarding pro- posed hospital sites, “If Mortimer states that,” said th former director, e states that as lie.” Then he turned to Mortimer, was seated at a table with the mittee counsel, and exclaimed: “You lie! Chairman Reed of the committ interposed. . “You are testifying to the commi’- tee,” sald the chalrman, “and it is not necessary for you to address other persons.” ¥ S Taking up the purchase o x celsior prings, Mo., hospital site from E. L. (Liv) Morse, prominent in Missouri republican politics, Forb said there had been a definite com mittment by the Treasury Depart- ment to purcha ethu property and stablish a hospital “%'Rapresentatives in Congress came to me and explained the situation,” he continued. “I, in turn, discussed it at the White House.” Denies Mortimer Charge. The witness characterized as “sb- solutely false” the testimony of Mor- timer, that the Thompson-Black Com- pany of Chicago, which Mortimer said he represented, was furnished with a “confidential” list of proposed sites for hospitals, so it could select the one on which it preferred to build. Forbes told the committee he a sumed full responsibility for the sale of goods at Perryville. Again taking issue with testimony given recently by Gen. Sawyer, the witness declared President Harding had given him authority to release loaded cars at Perryvilie after the first stop order had been issued. Dr. Sawyer's testi- mony was that Forbes was dismissed for his “insubordination”. in releasing these cars. James’ who asby - ith, counsel for Froior ‘read into the ecord a requisition on the Veterans' Frorau"tor ‘supplies for the Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio, made by Gen Sawyer. It called for twenty barrels of whisky, twenty barrels of alcohol. 100,000 sheets, 100,000 towels, 50,000 blankets, 100,000 yards of gauze and 100,000 yards of gauze bandage. This requisition Forbes said he refused to B hy?" asked the committee chair- man, Senator Reed, republican, Penn- sylvania. ¥ “The quantities Forbes responded. Brands Second Chnarge Lie. Asked about the testimony of Mor- timer that Forbes had stated that while he was in an officlal capacity in Hawaii he had “fixed things so nobody lost any money,” Forbes ex- claimed k 1 “Again Mortimer lie wPry to restrain yourself,” warned Mr. Easby-Smith. o I e restraining myselt,” returned Forbes. ed about Mortimer's claim lhg:‘chse"‘o\:d paid Forbes a bill at the Ritz-Carlton ~Hotel in _Philadelphia, Forbes said the reverse was the case: that he paid $27.50 for Mortimer. He explained that he was mot well and had asked Mortimer where-he cou Spend @ quiet week end. Mortimer suggested the Ritz-Carlton. -l-o’rhes' Jenied that he attended any party there. He sald he retired early. Lat- er, he continued, a man came fo his foom and said the party had left Without paying a bill of $27.50. “T paid the bill," the witness said. «1t seems Mortimer had left the hotel for a short time and they were anx- t the bill. any one else to pay my C‘XDEnsvl‘!. It my secretary was along 1 gave hvlm The money to pay bills and if he was ng 1 paid them.” Do stisned about his relations with Mre and Mrs. Mortimer, Forbes sald he met Mrs. Mortimer first at the Bureau and soon aftorward Vi uced to Mortimer. e - e, Mortimer was 2t the on soldler welfare work, say P 3he was there to visit awoman employe. Found Pair Agreeable. He sald he became “fairly inti- mate” with the Mortimers and found “agreeable companions.” Com- e hen, to the famous Pacific coast trip with them in the summer of 1922, Forbes said it was Mortimer who Suggested that he and Mrs. Mortimer accompany the Forbes party to the A as Mortimer never had been to ection. that S that there would be a lot n in the party,” the witness 25&?;\(2'1‘ “put that I did not see any objection to their going if they Qe s sald thero had been no con- versation with Mortimef about ex- penges of the trip. Explains Chicago Vistt. “Why did you stop at Chicago? asked Mr. Easby-Smith. “To inspect the Speedway Hospital and to visit patients in the Marine Hospital,” was the reply. : The witness said he met J. W Thompson at Chicago, but not by pre- were excessive.’ BANK OFFICIAL ENDS LIFE. # NEW ORLEANS, La., November 14. —Eugene H. Roberts, fifty-three years old, vk,;le‘ pr:sld%nts:‘ffl th‘ty‘“n'hlt‘; Central Trust an n an! 2:yfl|ll city, shot'and killed himself at his home today. SOVIET HAS NEW FLAG. MOSCOW, November 14.—The par- liament of ‘the soviet federation has closed with the adoption of a new flag. The flag will be of red cloth with- a_gold sickle, a hammer and # five-polnted star in the corneg, | eouragem arrangement. _ Before that he had geen him in Washington, Thompson having called on him in connection with a claim against the government growing out of a seizure of a ship. Forbes testified as to the arrange- ment of the rooms of his official party at the Drake Hotel-where Mortimer claims he loaned Forbes $5,000 in the form of ten $500 bills. Up. to that time, Forbes sald, Mor- timer had been talking about com- tracts. “But I never gave him any en- ent,” he added. vitness then made emphatie ontinued on Page 2, Column Mk