Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; prob- ably showers tomorrow; no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 61, at 3:30 p.m, yesterday; lowest, 37, at € a.m. today. Full report’ on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bends, Page 28 Entered as sacond-class matter post_office Washington, D. C. BRITAIN T0 OPPUSE ALLIED ORDER FOR | BAN ONFREDERICK Sees Return to Germany as Violation of Treaty, Coun- cil Is Informed. _No. 29,052, By Them More BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1923 BERLIN, November 16.—Well in- the former crown prince returned With the definite object of leading a monarchist restoration movement. His return at this time is explained by the fact that he has constantly sought to {return, but only in the past few ! weeks has general sentiment been sufficlently reactlonary to permit it. The prince’s personallty inspires little enthusiasm. However, his re- turn may constitute an indirect dan- ger, because despite his personal un- importance, he constitutes a symbol of monarchism. The Frankfurter Zeitung well expresses this analysls of the situation. “The prince,” it says, “Is an average {person who has grown up in an at- mosphere in which he could not de- velop the solid characteristics of the {average man. We are inclined-to be- | lteve that the crown prince at present 4000 ADMITS HE IS CANDIATE {D. L. Rockwell’s Statement, “Friends Will Nominate Him,” True, He Says. REPUDIATION OF PACT WITHOUT CONFIRMATION Berlin Cuts Ruhr Adrift, Placing Fate of Millions Up to Invaders. Br the Assoclated Press. BERLIY, November 15—Official Quarters here dismiss as wholly unfounded the reports circulated abroad that the German govern- ment has declded to repudiate the treaty of Versallles in its entirety. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, November 15.—Lord Crewe, British ambassador to France, will inform the allied council of am- bassadors In Paris today that hls government is prepared to join the allies in a collective note to Germany condemning the return of the former German crown prince as inimical to the peace and order of Germany and as an infraction of ‘the punitive clauses of the treaty of Versailles. Great Britain, however, will not go €0 far as to assoclate herself with any demand by the allies for the ex- pulsion of the Kalser's heir, as the overnment believes it would be fu- tile to make such a request at this Juncture. Lord Crewe will also tell his am- bassadorial colleagues that the Lon- don government is ready to renew its demand, in co-operation with the al- [meating on a statement made in lles, that Germany shall grant greater | s D o security to the interalliea commission | o cn6° bY David L. Rockwell of By the Aswociated Pross OMAHA, Neb.,, November 15.—Com- formed Germans do not helieve that | £ Return of Crown Prince Fails to Stir Monarchists If Kingdom Is Restored, His Minor Son, With Regency, Could Be Controlled Easily, Is View. has_honorable Intention to keep his Word and not Intrigue againat the German republic or the constitution. Others WiIl Intrigue. “But others will do his intriguing for him—indeed, they have been do- !ing it for a long time. Hence, Wil- | ltam, the younger, will become the | central point for all intrigues. It can- not be expected that he will have the | strength of character to free himself | trom them. | “His return has newly poisoned the |International atmosphere. It occurred {at the most unfavorable time pos- |sible.” | The inner reason for the monarch- j18ts’ cool reception of the ecrown | prince may lle in the following facts: | _ If the prince is prevented from as- | suming the throne, the logical candi- |date will be his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedrich. born July 4, 1906, and hence jnow seventeen years old. If he were proclaimed king, while a_minor, his {functiors would, until July, 1927, be ssumed by a regent. This would give (Continued on Page 11, Column In Sleep Kills Father in Bed LAKELAND, Fla., November 16.— C. 8. Whipple, a muslc store dealer, was ghot and instantly killed here early today as he lay sleeping In his home. The police investigating the case reported Whipple was shot by his sixteen-year-old son, walking In his sleep. The father had planned to go hunting with a party of friends late this month. The authorities advanced the theory that Dana, the son, dreamed of a gun purchased by his father that morning, rose from his bed, cured Ty 'Youth Walking | ni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. a UNDS TS IKE N N FRANCE ASKS HUGE PROPAGANDA FUND 6,000,000 Francs to Create Favorable Opinion Abroad 9 Ll\\GlSM <l ¢ R Star. 1923 -BIXTY PAGES. [ Secn‘fiv7 Melton - S3ys we' can Chogse Earned Incomes Get Preferred Cut in Mellon’s Tax Proposals Treasury Head Holds Receipts From Inherited or Invested Funds Should Be Assessed Higher. Sunday morni * Farmers Freed To Harvest Crops Return to Prison Bpecial Dispatch to The Star, RICHMOND, Vg., November 15.— The annual pllgrimage from the farms and mountain country to the Plttsylvania county jail 18 on. The country folk are coming in ones, twos, threes and fours, most of them trudging afoot, some In automoblies, to keep their promise ——serve their prison term. The crops, always abundant, come first in Pittsylvania. Next. comes “the right of the people t dispose of our crops as we pleas This especlally Is true of corn. And then comes the law. Scores had been arrested for moonshine operations. They had been sentenced for thirty, ninety days and up to six months. ~But the crops had to be harvested and, accordingly, the court was lenient. . The convicted were freed, per mitted to finish thelr summer's farm work and then lelsurely begin their jail terms during the winter months, when it is too cold to be outdoors anyway. And so the citizens of Pittsyl- vanla are answering the prison warden’s roll call, and not one will be absent, CLASSIFYING RATES REMAIN THE SAME 55,000 U. S. and District Em- ployes Unaffected by Re- ported Change. | BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Nearly 53,000 employes of the fed- eral and District government in Washington, who are covered by the reclassification act, were thrown into | “a stew” today by published reports| to the effect that a vote of the per-| sonnel classification board, taken yes- terday, scraps the Sterling-Lehlbach reclassification act and substitutes the provisions of the Wood-Smoot bill, whi¢h Congress rejected, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and g to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 e service will start immediately Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,348 TWO CENTS. DRYAN, AROUSED, SAYS HELL PROVE FORBES IS CULTY Expects to Convince Senate Body Ex-Veterans’ Bureau Head in Conspiracy. STIRRED BY ACCUSATION OF PERJURY AND COERCION Ex-Director’s Attorney Promises to Submit List of Witnesses and Withheld Documents. Stirred by Charles R. Forbes' charges against committee counsel, John F. O'Ryan told the Senate vet- erans’ committee today that he ex- pected to prove “convincingly the whole truth of Mortimer's charge that Col. Forbes was one of the gang of conspirators who were tled to- gether cheek and jowl to defraud the government.” \ “I expect further to show,” O'Ryan sald, “that this oriminal conduct was in consonance with his previous life record.” The statement of Gen. O'Ryan, who Is the committee’s general counsel, was made immediately upon resump- tion of the hearing and before the cross- examination of the former director +of the Veterans’ Bureau was resumed Reviews Forbes’ Charges. “Yesterday, in the cross-examina- | tion of Col. Forbes,” O’'Ryan said, made charges that the testimony thus far introduced which impeaches his character s not only false, but it 1s the result of subornation of perjury and the coercion of witnesses. “He also charged that documents and papers wkich would have Indicat- Is Sought. of control and that there be stricter | Ravenna, Ohfo, that friends of Wil-} observance of the disarmament |liam G. McAdoo intend to nominate { clauses of the peace treaty, but also |him as & democratic candldate for ! Wwill point out the difficulties the is Taher s om, her = ed the tnnocence of Col. Forbes were This report was branded today a8| i ppeig by counsel for the commit- erroneous as well as an attack on |y those in charge of the administration ‘When asked for proof of these his Way to his father's raom, where ho fired twice, hoth shots taking ef- fect in his father's forehead. Other DY DAVID LAWRENCE. |city employes, Insurance solicitors, ¥ ; 3 3 | collectors, department store employes Shall the man or woman Who earns | ge 21} kinds, workers in all manmes retail establish- 1l a BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. Stresemann cabinet In the present ing Profidency, Mr McAdeo sald here state of disruption in Germany would | (pe"Jjruation accurately.” ¥ N InpuisstE Al (Lof France's de-| "uqf T have any further comment to ands in this respect: . & The British view, | make, it will come later,” the former s has been|g @ = ; B previoubly set forth, 15 that nelther | prict stny on roate w mis Home: in o8 the Stresemann’cabinet nor any other German government could undertake to give the required guarantee for the protection of French officcrs and | Soldicrs, in view of the fact that a |have told them prospects for national large part of Germany s out of the | success for the party never looked control of the Berlin authorities, the { brighter than now. feeling being that the German gov- | Questioned by newspaper men what ernment might be unable to prevent {he thought of President Coolidge’® the digtracted pop! from taking | position, he asked; things Into its own. 3 17350 We know just what that 147" BUER CUT, ADRIFT. Mr. McAdoo expects to stop at stop en route to his home in Los | Angeles, declared. He talked pri- | vately ‘“for about fifteen minutes | with “local democrats at the station, during which he is understood to !Grand Island, Neb. to see Gov. Charles Bryan today. ‘WILL SPEAK FOR HIMSELF, By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, November 15.—David L. BERLIN, Novembeér 15-—The op- Ponents of the Stresemann ministry are making political capital of the re- ported change of the government's policy toward the Ruhr and Rhine- | Rockwell of Ravenna, Ohio, pre-con- land, and it seems certain they will|vention leader of the James M. Cox bring the issue before the reichstag|campaign in 1'20b-r;d ;“’“'““{,‘1{‘“'"6' when - that 3 ct & campaign to obtain for Willlam G. e arhat body reconvenes mext!} {doo the democratic presidentiai > nomination, said in a statement today The government's decision to let;that supporters of the former Becre- these territories shift for themselves, ; 1ty of the Treasury intend to nomi- at least while they are occupied, was | "§i7 Fockwell commented cautiousiy m‘a(}i‘c known in official quarters 1ast o, Mr. McAdoo's own attitude, stating night, cvhen it was announced that|inat “he would carefully consider fm"fixre; g;m&‘;:r!h lhclf&“'h WD““" N0 | gvery phase of the situation and de- able to meet the - ment bills in the Ruhr and Rhineland, | (oo ine), [0 himeelf 1 his services In the event that political pressure lare really desired by his party and does not force a change in the policy | 5ucue e v of the Eovernment, 1t Is belloved the | ,DAring Bls visit to Chicago thie Tt oarrities tn the secanten re- | Nave conferred. with Mr. Rockwell, il be empowered { he The French and Belsiun rogime, thus | who has been here several weeks. " ‘Would Speak for Himsel making the future of the areas de- | pendent upon such agreements as may | Mr. Reckwell's statement follows, iin part: “Mr. McAdoo has been in be effected in local negotiation This, it is pointed out, would place d : @ proponderant saare of the responsi- | Chicago for several days on his way Dbility for the people’s fate upon the | to his home in Los Angeles from New shoulders of France and Belgium. | York and Washington. While here | he was visited by citizens from many A dispatch recelved in London last | states, men and women, who assured night by the Central News Agency him of the strength of the McAdoo from Berlin reported a semi-officlal | movement for FPresident, and urged announcement that Germany had him to promptly announce his candl- completely stopped all reparation dacy for the democratic nomination. payments on the ground that France To all of these callers Mr. McAdoo Lad violated the Versailles treaty and | gave a careful hearing, stating that that therefore Germany could not ob- | he would consider every phase of the serve the pact. situation, and determine for himself The ‘London Dally Mail if, in his opinlon, his services really carried a Berlin dispatch saying that Germany | are desired by his party and the coun- | had decided to repudiate the treaty | try. and to disregard it as long as the| *Mr. McAdoo can and will speak Ruhr was occupled. for himself when the time to speak There has been no direct confirma-.| arises. * * * tion of these advices. “We have heard in the last three days from more than forty states. LUDENDORFF CHEERED. That the whole country Is calling loud — for Iendel&;hlp is Tnn}lf!l‘- We Imhl‘m Py that Mr. McAdoo is the one great fig- By the Atacciated Press. ” ure now available in our party. Wil- MUNICH, Novembher 15.—The Ba- ljam G. McAdoo has all the qualities varfan dictator von Kahr, who, with | of a natlonal leader and a great exec- Gen. von Lossow and Col. Seisser, has | Utlve Ile s & man of uction and a been lodging In one of the infantry ™an °Ff decision barracks since the Ludendorfl-Hitler | WANTS TAX CUT AND BONUS. putsch, today transferred his offices | to the government building. The ap- | By the Assoctated Press. proaches to the building are blocked; NEW YORK, November ’ i 15.—Wil- with barbed wire entanglements and | lfam Q. McAdoo, Secretary of the patrolled by sentinels. Troops are | Treasury in President Wilson's cab- bivouacked in the court basement. iinet, s cnn\'lncu!h lhhat .;he Iegerl} government can both reduce federal Gormarn g af el Gieplayed the old faxation and provide soldiers' com- which is black, red and gold. The Densation, ‘edufvalent to a bonus, he significance of this urder is the sub- deglnfed in a statement made public ject of conjecture, and it is inter- t0SaY. Bata Ay preted by some as indicating that the mTh?,f:'::";fim'r:”fl::’tw‘t’ tmh-di.l“ dictator has small confidence in the 'he *€leBrabhic Teq o e Lit. Berlin government. §rary Digest, In which 1¢ will be pub- lished next week, added that “the Thirteen of those killed on Friday e last In the fighting which marked the ' pons®, dueation should long ago have suppression of the uationalist putsch beerf taken out of politics and in n y. ircamstances should be used for.po were buried today. Their names and §, 3 P occupations, advertised in large let- : !itical advantage: ters, indicate that they were from the “We can have tax reduction and do middie class and included several for- Justice to the. Americap .sqldier .as mer officers. Fighting Unlon wde‘ll,"' h&r. McAdoo nays, “by treating adjusted compensation as a part of The German s (Deutsche Kampfbund), one of the Shewar cost and funding.it through Hitler socleties, posted notices in- an tssue of lfllklly-ye‘lr bonds. The n- ces in- tercst and sinking fund charge should soribed to the victims, reading: “They ot ed $50,000, died to free the fatherland. They died by annu .00 to $90,000,000 for the coming greater Germai They per annum. This would not prevent fell upon the fleld of hon Hun- reduction in taxes. dreds of members of the Kampfbund tremeres ‘et e A dn e Were present at the burial, e e e LR T A L R T .‘#.’L"fi&“y‘ At dsy. If the American people belleve von Scheubner-Richter, another ~vic. ‘Lt it was worth 3$2.35 per day to Uim, at_the cemetery of Ostfrelahof scrve in the trenches and $2 per day today. Speaking with feeling, Lunden- | (¢ Serve in the reserves in America, dorff said, in part: ; then the difference between thess Those 'that are fallen are not the | r3tes and what the soldiers already last who wil die for the German P“"Ii:: B‘fi:{m} should be paid as an e's movement.” ct tce. . Pleapt Enrhardt of Kapp putsch fame, | *We gave more than 500,000 civi who has taken Hitler's place as com- | ¢mployes of the government durin mander of the Kampfbund, and his | the war a bonus of 3240 per annum, principal lleutenants, placed their [ 2nd this has continued for more than right hands on the coffin before it was | five years. Is it less right to give moved into the furnace and swore that | the men who fought the war equal they -would devote their lives to the | consideration? Justice must German people’s movement, repeating | never be measured in dollars; it must their oath in unison and 'in solemn | be measured only in righteousness tones. and humanity.” Ludendorft was wildly acclaimed by | The statement was given in answer the crowds, which were heid back by | to a request for Mr. McAdoo's opinion police lines, and gravely saluted in re. f of Secretary Mellon's recent state- :fi,’a“:.*‘ He ‘looked rather old, tired | ment on the soidier bonus and tax - reduction. g in occupants of the house, aroused b; the shooting, rushed to Mr. Whip- ple’s rcom and found him dead. Dana was found in his bed, stili asleep. 1 JAPANESE RESENT Sure to‘_lntimale Strong Feeling on Recent Supreme Court Case. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILR. It is a foregone conclusion that the Japanese government will make rep- resentations to the United States re- garding the recent Supreme Court decislon dcclaring Japanese allens incligible to own or lease land in California. The full text of the de- cision s about to be cabled to the forelgn oflice at Tokio. The fact that it was not unexpected will not lessen Japanese disappointment over it, this writer Is Informed in an authentlc quarter. ReSentment, it is feit, is bound to be promptly ex- pressed. Public opinion in Japan fs certain to compel the Mikado's gov- crament to take matters up at Wash- ington with a view to remedial action. Diplomatic steps will be hastened, and perhaps, be of a little more urgent character, if threats just uttered by Ulysses S. Webb, attorney general of California, are carrled out. Mr. Webb declares that the Supreme Court decree authorizes California to ovict wll Japanese land proprietors or tenants, who now are in the posi- tlon of occupylng California sofl | “liegall Former United States |Senator James D. Phelan voices sim- ilar sentiments. “The Japanese in California,” he says, “must now take day labor or get out apan has made no attempt = States in connection with the Call- ‘;!ln'nlln ll‘lnd Inw;. The Japanese peo- £ look upon them as an I afl‘x:;)nt.r!o thelr folaranle pride. They now find themsel: !uu ignoble situation of a countiy againat which the Pacific coast states, under sanction of the high tribunal In the republic, iembargo not imposed A'nrn! ‘fifth-rate nation in the world. Japan, her spokesmen say, would not object to the California land laws if they applied to all aliens, Irrispective of origin. What the Japanese resent ‘1s baving a finger leveled at them th is not pointed at bolshevik Russian ; Liberians, Haltlans, Patagonians or i Eskimos. An_impression prevails in the United States that Japan itself discriminates against allen land own- ers along Californian lines. Nippon does prohibit forelgners from ownin, land, but the restriction hits all llens and not a particular set of them. t any Hanithara Saw Clouds. In his maiden speech in America, shortly after he took up his duties at Washington, Ambassador Hani- hara (on May 15th last) erted that the treatment of Japanese al- ready in this country (meaning main- 1y those on the Pacific coast) was the one question likely to disturb the friendly relations between the two countries. Mr, thara hinted that the discriminatory action represented !by the California laws is a violation ,of the fundamental laws governing |international intercourse. Untll that icloud is removed from. Japaneso- iAmerican skies, the ambassador intl- |{mated, the posaibility of disturbance | would' continuo to exist. The ‘Japanese government is not in position, according to the proprieties of diplomatic procedure, to protest formally against a Supreme Court de- cision . affécting purely domestio American affairs.. Such representa- tions, therefore, as Tokio eventually makes at Washington will not . be couched in the form of a complaint, i They are likely, the writer has reason i to“belleve, to be’ along ' suggestive {1ines—to point out, [n courteous i 'nml, that the United States may find —(Em%mfirn— pend raclal and natfonal | LAND LAW RULING| f By Cabdle to The Star and leago Daily News. Copyright, 1023, PARIS, November = 15.—Premier Poincare and Finance Minister Las- teyrie are asking the house of depu- ties, In the name of President Mille- rand, for a credit of 6,000,000 francs in 1924 as a sccret fund for the pur- pose of disseminating “French news" abroad. An interesting statement of motives accompanying this demand says, In part § . “FHie campalgns dlrected against France in the forelgn press and the errors made in interpreting French policy have shown how dangerous it ould ‘bs. td Allow the opinion. ohly of néutrals and former enemiés, but also of our allies and friends, to be misgulded by mischievous fables or unjust reproaches concerning us. “The volce. of our press and the words of our orators do not penetrate to the masses of the forelgn public. To reach these masses effectively, the only sure means is daily information, sent by agencles or special correspoa- dents, and reproduced mechanically by newspapers read in thousands 6t coples throughout the univers Reaetion Unfaverable, “It is under the discreet and cease- less action of these press telegrams that great currents of opinion are formed which reacts powerfully on the attitude of governments. “Hence all peoples having view- points to defend try.to favor that system of information which, by its rapldity and accuracy, imposes itself upon the forelgn press. There results an emulation between the various countries, each seeking to spread its own version of the daily happenings and control the network of news which covers the world. “In this competition, whose ups and downs do not appear to the public, France does not occupy a place appro- priate to the prestige and authority of its civilization. Certain countries have long possessed highly developed telegraph and telephone systems of- fering quick and cheap means of transmission. The International cables are almost all under foreign contro]. The wireless, In which our tecnnical and mater! progress has been so striking, is not able always to render the same service as the telegraph. Our offices of information therefore are often at a dlsadvantage as com- pared with our rival United States Situation Bad. “In the United States. Fyench news 1s far from obtaining all the diffusion desirable, our Latin American friends trequently complaining that they are unable to follow events in France, save through mendacious or sus- piclous version: In the far east London dispatches are almost ' the unique source of information on de- velopments in European politics. “Jermany, which even before the war ratood so well the primor- dial role of news, continues to exer- cise prodigious activity in this field. The Wolff agency, it is true, is no longer without rivals. It has com- etitors, some subsidized by power- ul financial consortiums and others created wholly by big industry, but all are fighting for the same cause— painting in dally bulletins a picture of a Germany impoverished and un- able to pay her debts and denouncing with avidity the injustice of Ger- many’s adversaries and the pretended violence of their methods. *Thanks to skfllfully arranged tele- hone_relays, German news spread From Berlin or Munich over, the Scan- dinavian ' countries, central Europe, Jugoslavia and the Balkans. The hap- penings announced in this way are usually travestied and disfigured. French News Submerged. “Beaten in speed and submerged under. a flood of mendacious or lying telegrams, French news risks being relogated to the background or ne- lected completely. Considerable ef- fort should be made to remedy this state of _things. There are no shadowy: or-unspeakable substrata in our national policies, and we have everything to gain.from the fullest possiple light. "By dally news dlspatches we should correct: the mis: rehensions concerning the situation of our credit, our finances, our commercial balance and the reconstruction of our devas- tatod: areas. The task is particularly arduaus because of the high telegraph rates: . X “The government; therefore, asks rligment for & t of six milliop disgemination of Frensh news, without rendering any nhu& wunt of how the sum is ex- s his or rate | capital or who live entirely on the {Income of funds invested? Secretary of the Treasury Mellon answers that question by saying that a 25 per cent reduction In tex shall be given to the people with earned iincomes. This would include every- body who really works for his in- come, whether employed in a factory, “on « fgrm, {i an office, In & houge-~ hold or even as an executive or directar. of @ business or corporation. | Doctors, dentiats, lawyers, actors, i authors, bookkeepers, stenograph A1l Glagaes of cierka. ail amployes of ratlroads, farm jmercial travelers, federal, state FOUR GITIES CLAIM G.0P. CONVENTION Senator Cummins Urges Des Moines for “Republican Picnic.” Political outposts in the 1924 presi- dential campaign made their first official contact with the nation today when members of the republican national committee gathered here to receive invitations from Chicago, San Francisco. Cleveland and Des Moines to bring the republican national con- vention to their city next June. Denver, which had been regarded as a strong contender for the conven- tion, failed to have a representative present when the special subcom- mittee appointed to receive the for- mal invitations convened in the Wil- lard Hotel. Whether this would ex- clude the Colorado city from the race members of the committee did not know. ‘An appeal for the republican part: to make their convention next year “a it on the vast fair grounds of Iowa, lnelr Des Moines, as a demonstration to the nation’s farmers that the party he importance of their lssue T e campaien, was voiced by Unit- ed States Senator Albert B. Cummins {in asking they the claims of Des i Moines be carelully consldered. | “Psychologically. you could not do !a better thing for the party.” Senator ; Cummins said. “The great agricul- { tural question is bound to be with {us In a more effective form than ever i before. To hold your convention on the greatest falr grounds in the country, in the very heart of the agri- cultural center of the great middle farmer: ‘Yes, we are deeply impres: i ed with the importance of your claims consideration Hall Will Seat 15,000, Senator Cummins sald he enter- republican next year, (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Today and Yesterday - Today’s Star of sixty pages is the largest of any daily issue in its history. Yesterday’s Star had a total circulation of 94,348 copies, an increase of 4850 subscribers or purchasers over the correspond- ing.day a year ago. The constantly increasing cir- culation of The Star, daily and Sunday, accounts for the desire of ‘all advertisers to reach Star readers.” l l ands, salesmen, com- | national republican picnic,” and stage, a salary or wages, whose only eapital jof wholesale and her mental ability or|ment | Physical energy, be taxed at the same | 51 | | |business or investment 1s beyond| | 1 tained no fear that Iowa would go | clau: ‘as usual,” but | agents or employes from loitering in or he promised that If the Iowa state pabout or in the vicinity of any sta- | ‘eration. | —these are examples of the r cent reduction in their taxes as persons who have inherited for earned incom Mellon Explains Tax. “The fairness of taxing more lightly income from wages, salaries and pro- fesslonal services,” says Secretary Mellon, “than the question. In the first case the In- come is uncertaln and Hmited in duration. Sickness or death destroys it and old sge diminishes it. In the other. the source of the income con- tinues; a man's 1ife ai heirs." J It is estimated that the government (Continuéd on Page 2, Column 5.) POLICE JUDGES ACT T0 CURB BONDSMEN Drastic Regulations Adopt- ed Expected to Drive Many From Business. n‘d it descends to his Drastic regulations to end alleged abuses by professional bondsmen have been adopted by Judges John P. Mec- Mahon of the United States branch and Gus A. Schuldt of the District of Co- lumbia branch of Police Court. If en- forced they will revolutionize the pro- fessional bonding business and drive out of business at least half of the men now engaged in it. One of the major features of the new 1egulations Is that all bonds hereafter will be issued from the office of the clerk of courts and not by deputy clerks in their homes. A deputy clerk will be on duty at the office of . the clerk of courts from 9 am. untll 4 pm., excepting holi- days and Sundays, for the purpose and after the adjournment of court at 4 pm. a detailed deputy will per- form that service at the Police Court bullding until 11 o'clock at night, after which no bonds will be taken Another important regulation | that if after a professional bondsman files the list of his real estate, upon which his sureties have to be based, the bondsman shall mortgage or otherwise incumber his property without immedlately notifylng the court, he shall be barred from taking bonds at once. The new regulations provide that the professional bonds- ! man may take bonds to the extent of twice the assumed value of the unin- cumbered real- estate. Heretofore three times the amount has been al- lowed. All bondsmen are prohibited from appearing in the capacity of quasi-at- torneys for the defendants on penalty of being at once deprived of taking bond. Heretofore several of the bonds. men have acted as registered attor- west, would be llke saying to the|neys not only before the courts, but in'the offices of the assistant district attorneys and the office of the assist- and shall give them our most careful ,ant corporation .counsel, thus depriv- ing accredited attorneys of a large volume of business they otherwise would have attained. The regulations. contain mandatory prohibiting bondsmen r their tion house or police precinct or the Police Court building soliciting or Armmsiee S TRt ARSI R 3 iR e b Y On legal hojldays,. in emergency cases, bonds will ‘be taken, to the satisfaction of the court, at the courthouse during _the sesslon of either branch of Police Court. These ;oxull:uon- become effective Novem- or 19.- U. S. ASKS EQUALITY IN BRITISH MANDATES Drafts of two conventions giving the | United States full equality of commer- cfal opportunities in former German ter- ritorles mandated to Great Britain have ‘been sent by the State Department to the British government for its consid- The Arafts are .in line with the Yap treaty, nmegotiated in 1921, be- tween the United States and Japan, and 'set forth the American policies regard- ing mandated territories which already have -been ap| > Great Britaln. 9 of people who are to get the | income from a|federal and District government em- ! it may be disposed of during | praised salaries carried in the budget, {salary schedules under which govern- | i i i i 1 in ' peinciple by | ployes ! circular letter has been sent to the| of the reclassification act. The action taken by the personnel | classification board yesterday in send- ing a letter to the heads of depart- ments and independent establish- ments having fleld services has to do only with the grading of fleid service employes. 1t does not affect in the slightest degree the more than 54,000 ployes here in Washington. Their schedules are contained in the act it- self. Interested partles, including gov- erpment officials and leaders in both byanches .of Congress, have for months been endeavoring to have the fleld services reclassified and the ap- which will go to Congress in a cou- ple of weeks. Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, diréetor of the budget, hi de- cided that this shall rot be done, so that the fleld workers, about 125.000 of whom would come under reclassi- fication, are not going to have reclas- sified salaries carried in the budget this year when it is sent to Congress. Asks Tentative Allocations. In the hurry of those Interested to | get the field Eervice classified in time for the budget, the personnel classi- fication board some months ago called upon the administrative officlals to make tentative allocatlons of the fleld forces for the purposes of estimates for salaries. Now that these tenta- tive—and in many instances incor- rect and unjust—allocations have | have been cast aside, the personnel | classification board, in the circuiar| letter to the department heads and officials in independent establish- ments, asks for a reallocation of the‘ field forces, using salary schedules comparable with those used in allo- eating the more than 54,000 employes in the District, both federal and municipal employes, as the act spe- cifically requires: These schedules are in reality the | old bureau of efficlency schedules | worked over In accordance with the reclassification rates set up in the re- classification act. The Sterling-Lehl- | bach bill was never enacted any more | than the Wood-Smoot bill was never enacted into law. The reclassifica- tion act Is a compromise, and the rates of compensation it carries were in a number of grades higher than those originally worked out by the bureau of efficiency. So that the ment_employes are being reclassified are the old bureau of efficiency rates revised so as to conform with the rates in the reclassification act, and n these the administrative officers re now asked to allocate the fleld forces. The law provides that the | ureau of efliciency schedules shall be followed as far as practicable. Pay Based on Dutles, These schedules of job specifications | and rates of pay are based on the du- ties and responsibilities of the job and the abllity of the person employed, contrary to the published statements. With respect to the fleld services the personnel classifictaion board is directed by the act to make a survey of the field forces and to report with recommendations to Congress a sched- ule of grades, comparable, as far as practicable, with the schedules car- ried in the act for the employes in the National CapTtal. It is to get In- formation on which to base the draft- | ing of such a schedule of grades and | recommendations to Congress that the | i 1 departmental officlals. Having been led to belleve that the personnel classification board has scrapped the reclassification sched- ules provided in the act, Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, at once ‘issued a call for a mays meet- ing of Bovernment workers, in the auditorium of Central High School next Tuesday evening. Balley Refusen Statement. F. J. Bailey, chairman of the per- sonnel classification board, as alter- nate for Brig. Gen. Lord, director of the budget, refused today to make any statement regarding the misinter- pretation of the circular letter to the department officlals. Gen. Lord sald he knew nothing to | say about it and that Mr. Balley was free to discuss the situation or to preserve silence as he might see. fit. The facts, as stated above. were con- firmed, However, by officiuls in close touch with the work of the personnel classification board: Having been informed that the per- sonnel classification board is ‘at- tempting to nullify the reclassifica- sharges the witness said that his counsel was in possession of the proof, and, thereupon, his counsel sald he was prepared to offer the proof to the committee. “I did not wish at that time to abandon the cross-examination of the witpess to g0 into a collateral matter It is a well-known recourse of em- barrassed witnesses to distract at- tention from themselves by attacking Gthers. Calla Forbes Irresponsible. “Col. Forbes, 1 regard as irre- sponsible. I expect, however, to prove much more than Irresponsibility iu his conduct of offics and In his lack of care of the disabled. “Col. Easby-Smith (counsel for Forbes) is an officer of the court and is responsible, and I ask him here and now if ho has any proof of any improper action toward any witness or improper action of any other char- acter upon my part of upon the part of Maj. Arnold, my assistant coun- sel?” Chairman Reed interrupted to say that the committee had announced over and over again that this was not a trial of Forbes or any other person. and that the committee did not de- sire to lose sight of the maln issue, which s the investigation of the Veterans' Bureau. He added, how- ever, that if the committee’s process- es have been used for the suppres- slon of the truth, the committee de- a to know of it. would submit a list of witnesses to the committee in connection With | Forbes' charges and would furnish committee with a list of docu- e ™which Forbes claims were withheld. Will Farnish List. Gen. O'Ryan then demanded know whether those charges were dl- rected against general counsel or as- to | sistant counsel, and Mr. Easby-Smith replied: “I am making no charges. The charges are made by Col. Forbes. bl hat this questioning of me by :“gll:mlltlee counsel is entirely im proper. 1 shall cfx;‘nu:;‘ w\‘(‘h(fl‘l)e‘ com- furnis| e lis Z mittes AnChe noon recess it that is e an Reed tald the committee uld meet him at that time and the :’r:su-exnmlnatlan of Forbes was re- d. U0t ‘developed today that Mrs. Ellas H. Mortimer, wife of one of the chief witnesses against Forbes, had been examined by the committee in execu- tive session. The record of this e: amination has not been made public 2nd probably will not be for some time. Mrs. Mortimer accompanied her husband and Forbes and his offictal party on the famous Pacific coast trip in the summer of 1922 and It was un- derstood that she was questioned at length with regard to incidents of that trip. Forbes Naturalized Citizen. Are you a native American or a nat- uralized citizen?” Forbes was asked by Gen. O'Ryan. at the outset of to- day's examination. “I am a naturalized citizen.” O'Ryan wanted to know If the for- mer bureau director nad had an al- tercation with Mortimer on Labor day, 1922. T had some words with him, but do not remember when it was.” “Was it about Mrs. Mortimer? “I don't remember. hn might have been partially about her.” Forbes conceded that Mortimer “ad | found the former director and Mrs. Mortimer in an apartment at the { Wardman Park Inn here, but declared the door was wide open. “The former director denled that It was o few days later that he became | indlgnant because of Mortimer's con- I nection with the Sutherland Con- struction Company. Forbea sald he had given a position, as mechanical engineer, in-the bureau eorge B. Tullldo, jr. brother of I Mre. Mortimer. He was twenty-two | years oid and alary, Forbes said, i was $3.000 a Denies Seeking to Please. “Do you swear that that appoint- | ment was not made to’ please Mrs. | Mortimer?” asked O'Ryan. | “I swear,” sald Forbes. | O'Ryan wanted to know it Forbes | knew that E. Tripp of the supply di- | Vision of ‘the buteau had ‘put the proceeds from the Perryville, Md., sale of supplies In the bank in Tripp's { name. “I heard about it when I returned from New York,” Forbes ¥ald: “It was tion act,” the executive council of the National' Federation of Federal Em- 711l meet here beg{nning Mon« to consider the whole problem. an unusual occurrence, of course.” Committes counsel asked what safe- {Continued on Page 2, Column _i:}i ‘4