Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1923, Page 2

NEW YORK CRIME . WAVE CONTINUES Enright Admits Inability of Police to Cope With Situation. By the Aswociated Press. NEW YORK, November 16.—New York's latest crime wave continued today when bandits smashed a plate glass window in the fashlonable 5th ‘avenue shop of Hickson, Inc, and escaped in an automobile with $50,000 worth of furs. The fur robbery, which followed theft of a wagonload of silk from a livery stable, occurred while four watchmen were in the. store. The thieves sent two ash cans crashing through the window. The watchmen were unable to reach the street in time to get a description of either the bandits or their car. ‘While 5th avenue stores were dis- gorging thousands of shoppers and clerks yesterday afternoon, two messengers of the Garfleld Bank were compelled to admit two robbers into their taxicab and relinquish $740. The bandits escaped. .The second hold-up of the day cost a bandit a broken head, smashed 1y a - base ball bat wlelded by a boy, who braved the robber’s bullets. The robber had taken the cash receipts from a little candy store on the Iast Side and was fleeing when the vouth stole up behind him. The bandit is dying in a hospital. Furight Is Baflied. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, November 16.—Virtual admission by the police that they are unable to cope with the new type of bandit infesting the streets of New | Yor city has caused banks, brokerage houses and Insurance companies to study the best means of protecting their messengers intrusted with large sums of money and securities. e Police Commissioner Enright puts the blame for so many fatal hold-ups and highway robberies squarely up to the negligence of the banks and trust companies. The police, he says, are not omnipotent. They cannot divine when a bank messenger 1s to be given $40,000 In bills wrapped up in a plece of newspaper and sent through sub- urban territory on an elevated traln— an easy .mark for any highwayman who has been tipped off to the trans- fer The police are asking for help, not in their attempt to run down the rob- bers after a crime has been commit- ted, but to make the work of the highwaymen more difficult and haz- ardous. Commissioner Enright has sug- gested two means of help. The first is that banks and other business houses shall notify the police when the transfer of large sums of money is about to be made, 8o that special ®uards may accompany the messen- gers and thus ward off attack. The second is that as few transfers of money &s possible be made. Pay Roll Robberles Common. Pay roll holdups, the police say, are not peculiar to New York alone. They are common the country over. There- fore Commissioner Enright is urging that the practice of paying off em- ployes in cash be abandoned in favor of the check system. The inconven- fences of the check system, it is con- tanded, are virtually nil, whereas the dangers of carrying a black bag filled with currency through the crowded streets of the modern eity are leglon. There is a certain prejudice against the check system, .which has been handed down from the days of the corner saloon. In those days it was the custom of most'male employes to cash their checks at the saloon. In return for this favor a goodly part of the check was “taken out in trade.’ Now the saloon has been wiped out in most sections of the country, and, in theory dt least, has been wiped out im New York city. Tradesmen everywhere are glad to cash checks for their known cus- tomers. Some banks have argued against the check system because of the heavy increase in bookkeeping work such a system would entall upon | their clerical force. The pay roll check is but a single transaction. Payment by check would Involve thousands of individual transactions during the course of the month. The recent robberies have about con- vinced the banks that inevitably the check system must be adopted by all large corporations. The police point out that all government and city em- ployes are paid by check and no inconvenience results. Police Not Magicians, “The police of Néw York are neither magicians, soothsayers nor prestidigitators,” said Commissioner Enright today. We cannot protect the carriers of large sums of money unless we are notified in advance. Tbe only person notified nowadays seems to be the highwayman, who =hoots first and asks his questions afterward. He generally knows. Vir- tually all of the highway robberles either result from ‘inside informa- tiod® or from the foolish custom of ertain banks sending their messen- gers out at fixed times and by fixed routes. “There also is too much intrusting of large sums to boys under sixteen and men over sixty. The old meth- ods must be changed. It is not fair 10 expose messengers openly to at- tack and it s not necessary. The modern bandit shoots quick and shoots straight. Part of this pro- ficiency in the use of firearms un- doubtedly is the outgrowth of the world war. Men in the Army were trained in the use of revolvers. They ! are now using that training in an unlawful way and will continue -to do so." { A new crime wave unquestfonably is sweeping the metropolis. The cold- blooded murder of two bank mes- sengers at an elevated station was but a particularly atrotious incident of the wave. There have been many ther hold-ups and many others with- in the fortnight. Few of the hold-up men today glve their victims a chance. They have found it safer to their own skins to kill first and rob afterward. Always there Is the walt- ing automobile with the engine run- ning. And always the automobile is a stolen machine, so that tracing it to its owner means nothing at all in the solution of the major crime. . * The police are baffied by the new type of criminal. They never yet have been able to solve in any way the famous taxicab tragedy when two po- licemen were shot from the running board of a yellow machine. The taxi and its driver were never traced. No ont knows who was in the cab, or why the policemen were murdered. Commissioner Enright is calling for help and needs it If the streets of New York are to be made safe for the j turn | structive ide: people. . THE E ‘Penalty' Notice on U. S. Envelope Used as Address *Penatly for private use to avoid payment of postage, $300. “Washington, D. C." 2 That was the address on a let- ter delivered today by the Wash- ington city post office to Warren 1. Glover, third assistant postmas- ter general. Evidently the Pennsylvania man, who had been-corresponding with Glover about a money order case, had taken the penalty clause in the upper right-hand corner of en- velopes for Glover's addres SECRET CODE USE WITH CONTRACTORS DENIED BY FORBES (Continued from First Pag he Le permitted life record Reed commit- and of yesterday, that to inquire into the of Forbes, but Chairman iterated the decision of th tee not to go into that matte O'Ryan announced hat his cr amination was finished Chairman Reed took up tioning. “Do you know why Cramer (former general the bureau) committed asked. “I've asked a great many people Forbes replied. “I've heard domest difficulti financial difficulties and trouble with oil land: “Did you make any investigation ot 1? “Did you sece the letters he left?” ‘No, I did not see them." Asked whether he suspected Cramer had “taken graft,” the ness replied: “The man s dead, senator.” “I know it,” responded the ¢ man, “but there are a great many service men who are still living who suffered as a result of the mulk ministration in the bureau, and don't believe we should omit name even of the dead to get at et the que Charles F. of b that wit- Forbes Leaves Stand. Forbes then said he ppointed Cramer soon after he came into office. He had known him only slightly in California before his appointment. Without going the further, Forbes James A. McFarland, national mander of the Disabled American Veteraus, took the stand He imme. diately attacked the m, evidence in the inv been presented. I must tell vou." the di: led men a the misinfornatio: at the lack of cr for improving t disabled veteran: “The: urse, do not know wh kas been do in the closed sessions of the committee, and we hope that much has been done, but they want to know what is being done for them and 1 believe they “ntitled to know that the th mit- tee is not being 1 to efforts to show up ste and graf ad- ministration of the bur “Despite the time, money and work that has gone into the preparation of the testimony, nothing of a construc- tive nature h come out in the pub- lic hearings and we have heard of rothing but waste, fraud, graft and The men want to know is hoped to be thered from all, these charges, denials and coun a which, at best, rea er account of ¢ ar as we can s nothing whatsoever been deve at this hearing that would justify conviction. #ven should the govern- ment attémpt to prosecute any one charged with plundering they would have to work under the hand ap of having shown their hand preliminary hearinz Wants Action on Needs. “I will tell the committee t disappointment of the disabled men has reached the stage of and with little more than two w e remaining to complete testimony and prepare a report, if Congress is to get the resuits at its opening, we respectfully urge that the mmittee over forthwith to the Depart- ment of Justice all information in- dicating graft or fraud, and proceed with the relief of those vitally con cerned in this whole matter—disabled men. While we know tha intends later to we dec! into question was excused, and com stigation ¥md he e conditio: the commit- take up con- are that build- tee ing upon data now worse than useles we prepared today to prove the misle; ing nature of much of the testim: which has been given.” Senator Walsh, democrat, Massa- chusetts, read to McFarland the resolu tions authorizing the inguiry and then reviewed just what the committee has don are s a little @ishearteni he said, to have a leader of a veterans' or- ganization come here aft, the Work we have done and say that we have not been discharging our duti properly. O'Ryan also remarked that garded McFarland's criticism timely, as obviousgly he did not know the constructive work the has done and is doing. replied that he had been but that the country dii not Know, and he wanted the couniiy to know. Carousing Is Charged. Additional charges of c ng the former Veterans' B ircctor. which he denied, wese presented late yesterday by O'Ryan in the form of an affidavit by I R. Chambers, 3r., of San Dicgo, Calif., who form lived in Washington. Ch Forbes, the late Charles general counsel for the, hureau, other bureau officials visited his in the summer of drinking, went returned to the house in tire, it was alleged, and C without any clothing. Forbes said there was some drin ng, but denied that there was any drunkenness. Chambers related that Forbes and Cramer visited the farm again on a duck-shooting trip at a time when Chambers was trying to .ease the farm to the Veterans' Bureau He said “too much whisky and too much pork chops” made Forbes ill and that there was little duck shooting the next day, the party returning to the house. Forbés went to_sleep, accord- ing to the story, but “a hot stove a whisky loosened Cramer's tongu and the former general counsel “backed in a corner” and said “this is a big enough deal (referring to the lease of the farm) for all of us to get In on.” Denies Graft Charge. The affidavit said that when Cham- bers suggested to Forbes some time later that if there was to pe a com- mission paid in connection with the lease of the farm he would have to add that to the rental, colonel flared up and said, stand for no graft’' " In_explaining that the farm hzd not been leased because the rehahili- tation division dld not regard it as he fcFarland told of it, rous by | necessary, Forbes said he never knew Calling It Square. From the New York Bun. She had arrived in the little station’| in Vermont on a cold, stormy evening. and had hired an old man to drive her to her friend's farm up among the thills. The roads were in bad condi- tion from the storm, and the ride was| altogether an uncomfortable one. “How much do I owe you?' she asked on arriving at her destination. “Well, ma'am/!’ said the old man, ‘my reg’lar price is a dollar, but seein’ as it's such bad night and lha'loln so terrible, I'll call it 75 cen' : H In the British empire there exist £00, possibly 1,000, distinct languages. Thdue:are 6500 in !.ldh.‘ ¥ of any attempts at corruption in con- nection with the negotiations. . As to the duck-shooting trip, the former director said he was taken 1It as a result of eating pork €hops, but asserted whisky was not a con- tributing cause. . Chambers' affidavit was to the ef- feet that Cramer and Forbes led him on in connection with the negotia- tions, drinking with him, sometimes at his apartment and Sometimes at the Veterans' Bureau, but he never could get any definite answer.. \Final- Iy he called Cramer on the telephone ana “told him what I thought of both of them. * Cramer's | response, according to Chambers, was that he was not Forbes' guardian, whereupon Cham- bers replled that Cramer- seemed to be tire director's 3 re- | air- | ner th which | bitterness, | in the records is| committee | RN “RADONET” INNEED OF FUNDS Shortage of Personnel Great- ly Hampers Work of Signal Corps. The recently completed and highly efficient radio net of the Signal Corps, which connects every important Army |post with Washington, cannot be | properly handled, due to o shortage of Gen, George O. Squier, officer of the Army, nnual report, made pub- personnel, chief signal states in his lic today. L4 Referring to a shortage of approxi- and 150 men, Gen. he result will be the improper unsatisiactory handling of important { Kovernment business that may con- siderably overbalance the savings ef- I fected by attempting to operate with insufficient personnel” The reduc- tion of funds for Army operation and |the atendant reduction in the allot- {nent of personnel to the Signal {Corps “has reached a point where i economy is no longer being real- ized,” ains | Radle Control of Aireraft Needed. Concerning cquipment, he says fur- ther he development of savanced types of radi cquipment for military luse is a necessary =nd a wvery im- | portant function of the Siznal Coeps. n time war thousands of live: and th suC of military opera- tions may depend upon it Bquip- jment of this Kind cannot be satisfac- |torily @eveloped after war starts. With the rapid strides that are being, |made in the development of aircraft {comes an increased demand for radio lcontrol and radio direction finding cquipment for use of the air service.” Discussing the radio net, the chief signal officer says: “The steadily increasing amount of { offictal tratlic being handled by the War it radio set, uggregat- mor per month at close of the indica the n stem. The critical shortage of enlisted operating personnel is most | prominent, making impossible the { maintenance of ©twenty-four-hour { servi at 1 of the most im- | portant stations of the War Depart- ment net Mesxages Speeded Up. handling of this large amount has also brought to llght nadequactes in radio plants, A coulil not be foreseen when the Department radio net was ablished. Thesc weaknesses A lurge extent, being rectified by 'the installation at Fort Leaven- Worth, Kan., of a madern semi-high- powered transmitter, which will pro- lirect communication with Wash- n, with a similar new station at Douglas, Utah, and with Fort Houston, thus eliminating sev- intermediate relay stations and speeding up traffic ntage of the traffic be- ashington and Fort Sam Tex., heretofore by commercial telegraph, but with the completion of the Fort Leavenworth station, this traffic will all be handled by radio 'ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE LOSES SECOND FIGHT Organization in New York Held Political and Must File Statement. sev War itially are, to n Houston, handled | ALBANY, N. ¥.. November 16.—The York “Anti-Saloon League yes- i{s second court battle declared a political combination and under obligation to file with tLe secretary of state a statement of its receipts and expendi- tures in connection with the primary election campalgns he appellate division of the supreme court un:nimously ruled that the leagne, within the meaning of the election law, was a political combinatior, and should be made to filo statements of campalgn recelpts =nd disbursements eral star ed down last A Justice Ellis J order was mere {upper court s> as to be direct:d against “the New York Anti-Salnon | League,” instead of the “Anti-Saloon | League of York.' Col. Ran Gillett, counsel for Assoc Against ‘the Prohtbi- Amendment, who instituted the nt proceeding on behalf of ups of citizens of Troy, said today petitioners Wwho began the action {weuld wait a reasoneole fime for th | treasurer of the leapue to fle t statement called fir by the court crder. If the statem {Gillett said, “it must be satisfactory and not merely perfunctory.” 1 ch- statement 18 not forthcoming within l.. \sonable time, he added, repre- sentations will be made to the court | that the league officers ar: in con- | temp }LI[LIAN RUSSELL’S " ESTATE BUT $63.000 New Inventory Shows Amount In- | sufficient to Meet Terms of Will. 1 by Supreme Court Sialey. The Staley modified by the i | | | | ! . {'By the Assactated Press. !~ PITTSBURGH, November 16.—A révised inventory of the estate of Lillian Russell Moore, the | actress, who before her death in 11921, had become the wife of Alex- ander P. Moore, now American am- | bassador to Spain, filed today, dis- | closed that the estate amounted to | only $63.000, and was not sufficient | to provide an income of $50 & week | for her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy O'Reilly, after inheritance taxes had {been mét. By an arrangement with the cxecutors, however, Mrs. O'Reil- 1y i8 to receive the income provided under the will, even though it will { be necessary fo use a part of the principal; Mrs. O'Reilly's counsel, |'Liddell & Laurer, announced today. “The first inheritance charge | againsts/ the estate was the weekly allowance to Mrs. O'Reilly, a num- 'b(-r of bequests to other relatives and charitable institutions follow- | ine. The original (nventory of the estate placed its value at _$79,000. The shrinkage, it was sald,” was in the amount realized from the sale of jewelry, which had been valued at | $50,000. = No exceptions to the agcount were filed by Mrs. O'Reilly, her counsel stated, the arrangement for the pay- ment of the weekly Income belng a priyate adjustment with -the ex- ;eculnrs, _ Already Settled. From (hé Yotkshire Post. ** A Lowland farmer 6a his deathbea recommended his wife to marry their “servant man,” and"said that he could n:t die happily. until she promised to_do' so. 3 g “Oh, gudeman,” she replied, “ye h¢ may dee In peace. for Sandy and havescitled that/already!” gy 5 maintenance of stations and | has of mecessity been | The decision apheld the ruling hand- | t1s fled, Co. | famous | Leonard Wood, jr,, nom of Gen. L Philippines, with hix to be married. Dr. John H. Graves of San Fran wedding. Mixs Graves Is an actress stock company. BRITAIN'S FIERCEST FIGHT FOR PARLIAMENT SEEN AS BODY IS DISSOLVED _(Continued from. First Page.) nncee, Miss Delores Graves, a McClatchey, 3501 Alton place northwest, who have come to Washington They are at present awalting word from the bride’s father, (United Newsplotures.) G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDA | eonard Wood, governor general of the e & Minter of Mrs. Leo A. to_whether he can attend the 0, head of a New York wnd Mr. Wood LONDON AND PARIS NEAR OPEN BREACH ON GERMAN POLICY (Continued from First Page.) tragedy with characteristic fortitude and heroism “My government welcomed the op- portunity afforded them during the last few weeks of meeting so many minister: from the self-governing dominions and the representatives of India. The conferences just termi- nated were marked throughout wile a spirit of great cordlality and good will . “Important questions affecting the foreign relations and the defense of my empire were carefully cxamined. Particular attention was devoted to the promotion of trade and settle- ment within the empire upon which the well-being of my people o largely depends at this time. I am convinced that meetings of this kind are of the highest value in promoting a it of mutual co-operation among ¥ people at home and overseas. Members of the house of commons, I thank you for the provision you have made ‘for the public service. lords and members of the S of commons, the position of agriculture and the problems of un employment thro thout the countr continue to cause me deep anxiety Despite all efforts of my government stimulate trade and alleviate dis- ¢ the circumstances of large numbers of our fellow cltizens still {remain deplorable. | My ministers are convinced that {unless measures'for the safeguarding and development of home markets are adopted no permanent. improves ment in their situation can be. ex- pected.” Hnrd Fight Expected. It is predicted that the election will be one of the flercest political fights seen in Great Dritain in modern time. The opposition parties feel they have a deep grievance against the prime minister for “playing a confidence trick upon the public* in concealing his intentions and forcing an unneces- sary election. Mr. Baldwin's support- s” resent this and warmly defend “honesty of purpo: i Labor admits itself short of funds and attributes its poverty to the fact that “unemployment and underpay- ment have emptied the pockets of the workers.” Its chief woman organ. izer, Dr. Marfon Phillips, says thl election represents a daring ex- ample of the class struggle rich against the poor. The decision of the laborites to ad- here to a capital levy as the feature fof their campaign is welcome to the {other parties. Later, it is will suffer from its refusal to make 1y arrangement with the liberal iw ith a view to avoiding split votes. } Mr. Lloyd George's gibe in the house | t | hi. of commons yesterday that the min- isters were going to the country with tin cans tied to their tails to ask a {blank check—an allusion to the pro- iposed preference duty on canned sal- {mon—has taken the fancy of the lib- { eral press. The failure of the plans to bring Austen Chamberlain and Lord Birk- enhead Into the government ranks is deplored Dby those conservatives who think the loss of these statesmen will prove a great injury to the part cause. The incident. in fact. is fre quently referred to as a split in the tory ranks. Women are to take a large part in the fight as organizers and campalgn- ers and all parties are likely to re- ceive a large share of their help. La- bor, in particular, contends that women will win the election, Dr. Phil- lips asserting that the poll will be a against the rise in which a tariff would bring. Exclusion From Cabinet. Letters which have passed between Premier Baldwin, J. Austen Chamber- lain and Lord Birkenhead show that the inclusion of Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Birkenhead in the cabinet was found to be impossible, because they | were “unwelcome to some of those on whose support the premier is obliged to rel Both Mr. Chamberlain and'Lord Bir- kenhead, nevertheless, promised to support the government in the cam- paign. Mr, Baldwin intimated a strong de- sire to have Lord Birkenhead “help Lord Derby to keep our flag fiying in Lancashire.” Lancashlire is consider- ed the weakest spot in the govern- ment’s campaign because the cotton interests there are strongly epposed to_protection. The debate yesterday was started by J. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the opposition, who offered a vote of cen- sure of the government. Mr. MacDon- ald sald that more than a third of the unemployed were from the engineer- ing and other metal trades, and ship- building, cotton and distributing trades. The engineering and iron and steel trades in the first nine months of 1923 had imported goods tothe value of £19,000,000 and exported to the amount of £94,000,000. Tariff reform in such conditions of- fered no help for the unemployed. Bribing agriculture with £11,000,000 annually, he asserted, was of doubt- ful legality. Mr. Baldwin's plea of necessity for protection was based largely on the argument that in the matter of tariffs every nation’s hand is against Great Britain.. All other governments, es- pecially the United States, Italy and Spain,“had greatly increased tariffs since’ the war. On foreign affairs, which, under the excitement of the impending campaign, are almost for- gotten, Mr. Baldwin sald, the allies had been informed that the British people could not continue indefinitely to maintain the spirit necessary for co-operation under the existing situ- ation, and he deplored the failure to accomplish anything with American co-operation. . Mr. Lloyd Georke replied briefly, criticising the government’s policy in calling a general election. He main- tained that a settlement in Europe would be a better remedy for unem- ployment than: tariffs, and regretted that the government had dropped in- ternational negotiations just when the United States had joined with Great Britain in them. ~ Mr. Baldwin, laying emphasis on the debt-to America, said it meant in addition ‘to the exports. for- merly sent, the English were called upon’ to export lu'-fl.lde;:. .‘uloa-‘:io meet these payments. struggle £ flerce ‘that they wei prices of the | predicted, | battle of the mothers and housewives | e clared to be out of the question in competent quarters here. There i3 Iittle doubt that the French government is thinking seriously of [doing something to show Germany that the treaty of Versailles must be | carricd out with respect to military control, as well as regards repara- | tions, but Hamburg is not considered as Iylng in the a which France | could cover advantageously. | " Whether the French government in- tends to take separate action in case Great Britain, as s now generally anticipated, definitely refuses to join in such a movement, cannot be con- | firmed in offictal circles. The tone of the comment in official quarters, how- r. shows that Premier Polncare | regards the question of milftary con- trol in Germany as a really serious matter requiring action. 1If action Is decided upon by France It seems clear | it will be with reference to this ques- | tion, rather than to the presence of the former crown prince in Germany. It actlon is taken to oblige the Germans to facllitate control of their | armament production, however, the question of the crown prinec will | probably be Included in any ultima- |tum France may sehd to Beriin. | | France 1s expected to ask t he | choose & residence in some neutral | country not bordering on Germany |~ Premier Poincare’s position in spect to the application of pen ties upon (iermany is thought to ha | been greatly reinforced by assurances from the little entente and poland { that they agree with the French at- titude. PRINCE AIDS OELS POOR. ‘Buys Foodstuffs for Distribution Among People. By the Associated Pres OELS, Sllesia, November 16—Tel- egrams welcoming him home nd ex- tending the best wishes for the fu- ture poured in upon former Crown Prince Frederick William at his estate here today. The local telegraph bureau has been compelled to increase its staff to handle the dispatches, which come from all parts of Germany and from Flolland, the majority being f members of the Hohenzollern far friends and_sympathizers. Frederick William has sent a letter | to the local authorties saying he has ordered the delivery of 200 pounds of potatoes. 500 pounds of bread- stuffs and 100 pounds of beef from | his estate for immediate distribution | among the poor of Oels. PARLEY IN DEADLOCEK. i i | i | i i | | French and Ruhr Leaders Wait for By the Associnted Press. DUESSELDORF, ber 1 either the French authori- ties nor the German industrialists have made any new move toward re- | sumption of negotiations for continu- | ation of industrial activity in the | Ruhr_under arfrangements between | the French and the German capital- | ists, so far as can be learned, Bach side is apparently waiting for the other to make the first overture to- ward the breaking of the deadlock in | the parleys resulting from the refusal | of the Germans to accept some of t | French conditions. | The Ruhr mine owners' association | according to the German press, is dis | charging all its personnel ' da from today instead of from the November, as was announced yester- | day. The notice states, however, that | {70 per cent of the miners will be ! | taken back December 1, if in the | | meanwhile the negotiations with the | | French economic mission result in an | agreement. It is added that if the | miners accept all the working condi- | tions stipulated by the mine owners, | including longer hours, 30 per cent ! | will be sent to unoccupied Germany | for emergency work.on property con- ‘) trolled by the industrtalists there. EXPLAINS PRINCE'S STATUS. Germany, Novem- ! German Envoy Assures French He | Is Not Menace. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 16—While "the ambassadors’ councll was in confér- ence / ygsterday, the German charge d'affairés, Dr. von Hoesch, called at {the forelgn office by order of his government to inform M. de Peretti de_la Rocca, director of political affairs, exactly what had been done with regard to the former German crown prince. Frederick William, Dr. von Hoesch declared, had repeatedly applie permission to return to Germany, and in October the cabinet, which then’ included the socialists, saw no reason to refuse his request in view of the fact that the former crown prince had renounced all rights to the crown. The' French director asked when; and how he had renounced these, but the German charge could not) remember. He added, however, that under the circumstances Frederick Willlam was, 80 far as the German authorfties - were -concerned, an ordinary_citizen. He had formally undertaken to re- main at Oels, said Dr. von Hoesch, and participate in no way in politics. Recent events in Bavaria had nothing to @0 with his return. He had al- ready received a passport and had made all arrangements to leave Holland before the Munich incidents. It was. merely an ‘“unfortunate colncidence” that he left on ,that date. As to the former German emperor, Dr. von Hoesch ‘declared that accord- ing to Gérman official information it was not true that he.planned to leave | Doorn. - In_any 'case, Wilhelmstrasse knew nothing whatever about his in- tention in_this respect. M. de Peretti de.la tted - to Premier| 's . stater f i | | Justice Bailey i | Others to Act. l L | for SEEK EXPERTSS AID FOR WELFARE CODE District Child Commission Asks for Services of - W. W. Hodson. The District child welfare code com- migsion will make formal request to the Russell Sage Foundation for the services of W. W. Hodson, an expert of that organization, to assist in drafting a godel child welfare code for Washington. This was decided upon at a meeting in the office of Commissioner Ru- dolph yesterday afternoon, attended by the code commission, of which Jus tice Frederick L. Siddons is chairman. The commission will be given office space, either at the District building or in some other government build- ing, and it is hoped within the near future to begin the actual task of inquiring into every question bearing upon the welfare of the child in Washington. Such problems as school attendance and provision for dependent mothers will be carefully studicd with a view to mapping out a code that will meet all requirements. While the commission will endeavor to complete its task speedily, it will give deliberate thought to all ques- tions. RAIL LABOR UNION BREETS GONPERS Railroad labor union officials, who are meeting here to discuss legisla- tive proposals, today voted resalutions of congratulation to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, on the organization’s forty- second anniversary. ‘E. J. Manion, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, was authorized to pre- sent the resolution, together with a bouquet of flowers, to Mr. Gompers. The legislative program which the organized railroad. workers will sup- port at the approaching session of Congress was further considered be hind closed doors, The union chiefs expected to compiete their work to- night, but the report probably will be submitted for consideration by execu- tive boards of the unions represented ore it is made public. BUTLER GIVEN FOUR YEARS FOR ROBBERY Benn old, Parker, twenty-cight years sentenced - today by in Criminal Division 1 to merve four vears in the peni- tentiary. Parker had been employed ag butler and chauffeur for Frederick E. Lewts, 1523 Rhode Island avenue northwest, and August 15 last robbed the safe of his employer of $3,950 in cash and six diamond rings. Parker was apprehended in New York by Detective Sergt. Jones, and all but $630 of the loot recovered. Thomas Magruder, 'colored, will serve ten yvears in the penitentiary for an_assault with intent to kill Hattie Johnson, also colored, July 18, 1822. Policeman Norris, who ar- rested the negro, told the court to- day that Magruder assaulted him and, tak{ng away his plstol, escaped. He wasSate: apprehended. Raymond Wood, colored, was sen- tenced to serve eighteen months in the penitentiary for larceny. How- shingte E£OL one in jail sa- cutting Charles Hunter. P'robation under a suspended sen- tence of three years was extended to Harry P. L. Kennedy, colored, who Dleaded guilty to forgery. One year sentences were suspended for George Hanratty, white, non-support; Charles Monty, white, violating_drug law; Joseph' Flete Cam Pinkney and was Wiibert Newman, all colored, forgery. | TAX REVISION FORESEEN IN POLITICAL TREND (Continued from First Page.) the presidential preference primaries that gathers momentum as he goes on. The real fight this year, as in 1920, will not be in the primarie Mr. Johnson ‘tad more primary strength than Warren Harding, yet he latter won the nomination. So i with Calvin Coolidge today His friends have been busy for two months lining up various state del gations. The Johnson _organizers cannot get much more than second hoices now, which means they can Coolidge delegation: “Prom- our vote if, for any reason, 't go over the top at the convention.” That's the only strategy the Johnson managers can apply, which is only another way of taking precautions case something happens in the political world to diminish the chances of Coolidge at the convention. So far a forelgn policy is concerned, there is lit- tie hood that the President will give Hiram Johnson much of an oppor- tunity for a political duel. World Court Ixsue, The world court proposal 4s before the United States Senate. President Hard- ing placed it there. It’s up to the Sen- te to dis not withdraw it. It isn't customary to do so with treaties and protocols. As mixing in the European situation, Franee has come to the rescue of the administration here by blocking its moves for international co-operation. The Johnson campaign will ulti- mately have to be based on domestic lissues such as taxation and the sol- This has become M McAdoo's program in his party.- Offi clals were very much mterested in the McAdoo suggestion that the cost of the soldier bonus be raised by a bond issue. Treasury experts have sajd that such a method of financing would be sound enough if the Amer- fcan people wanted to take the losses that would follow in the inevitable depreciation of liberty bonds, which have only recently gone to par. The Treasury estimates. that the soldier bonus will cost approximately five billion dollars, and may go higher. A five-billion-dollar bond issue would have to be put out at rates of in- terest that would attract the investor. The opponents of the plan say this would tend to put interest rates nigher than they have been for all manner of loans and that the effect | would be ‘to stop productive ente prises from expanding because they couldn't borrow money, and that,’in the end, unempioyment and a period of_depression would follow. Mr. ‘MeAdoo®has_ stirred. up ‘the s- sue,- however, and from a" political dier bonus. viewpoint it will be up.to the re- ! publican - administration to- prove that his plan {s unworkable before-it can be passed along. y It there is any way to get a bonus bill through the” fepublidans will be the first to want to see it passed, be- cause this is A campalgn year, but @s |- between tax revision and a soldier bonus—if they should have to choose: one or the other—the prospect at the present writing, dus, of course, to the reaction thus far observed, is that fax revision would take precedence. . What _will happen when Congress Rocca im-| reassembles nohody knows, but the] scribe to, | remarkable | Com I i ekt o the coun ose of it—Mr. Coolidge can- | ‘ Honorea by DR. CHARLES L. MINOR, Of Asheviile, N. C,, new president of the Southern Medical AssocCiation, DR. THOMAS A. GROOVER, Of Washington, new second vice president of the Southern Medical An- mociation. From Yesterday’s 5:30 Edition of The Star. SHIP-SEARCH PACT DRAFT BEFORE UL 5. Hughes Studies Document to Suggest Changes to Meet All Attacks. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 16—British le- gal experts have perfected the draft of the liquor search treaty from their standpoint, and the document now is being examined by Secretary of State Hughes and his advisers. When the American authorities have brought the treaty into a shape con- sidered impregnable against attack regarding its form and constitution- i the document will be returned to the foreign office here for further scrutiny and study. The completed treaty is expected to be signed some time before Congress reassembles. As alveady indicated the right of the American authorities °r the proposed tréaty d search British-owned suspected of carrying alcohol contraband will not be restricted %o any arbitrary radius like twelve miles, but will extend to {a reasonable range fro the Ameri- can shore. The element of distance will be em- braced in the broad general term “an hour's steaming distance from shore.” The duestion of distance within which search might be made wa purposel. left open by the British legal experts, who are anxious to avoid committing the government to any precise distance in miles on the ground that any specific or arbitrary limit might constitute an impairment of the traditional three-mile limit, which is the foundation of British maritime law governing territorial waters. 'PHOTOGRAPHERS FILE i PROTEST ON POLICE i"Antocrstic. Violent Conduct” | Charged on Armistice Day in Letter to Oyster. | | i . The W House News Photo- graphers’ Association yesterday regis- tered with Commissioner Oyster a “most emphatic and vigorous protest” against the “autocratic, duct " on the part of the metropolitan police, not only in connection witk the disturbance at former President Wilson's home on Armistice day, but | at other times “in the recent pa In a formal letter to the Commis sioner, the photographers, through their attorney, Wilton Lamber! cited several instances of wh ltermed ‘unlawful interferenc | maltreatment of their rights, persons and liberty,” and our consideration {and action Officer E Musselman is' char; with having “foreibly grappled” with a representative of the Pathe News. ordered another officer to guard him. called the patrol wagon, later cancel ing the order. An officer seized the camera of A. J. May, jr. it was said, and “materially damaged it.” McAdoo’s Bonus Plan Draws Hot Fire From Smoot William J. McAdoo's sugiestion for an issue of fifty-year govern- bonds 'to ‘pay a soldiers was assailed today in formal statement by . Senator Smoot, republican, Utah. who will e chairman of the Senate finance committee in the mext session of Congress. “I am in favor of decreasing our bond issue, not increasing it said Senator Smoot. ‘“The near future will bring an additional tax bur- dén upon. the American people of $1,500,000,000 per anmum to meet {he -payment. of pensions to.be granted to. the: soldiers and wid- ows of the recent war. We will need every tuxable resource at the government's commapd to meet this burden. “It political ment bonus w 1 exl}.‘;erlmgl: damand‘a us. bill, whic cannot subs od then, h);hall meaps ~let L provide the way to.pay: v‘\;’;‘:n {dsue. more government Bonds to ger 1t ~ AN violent con- | id otker instances | U3, SALARY RATING IND.C. UNCHANGED Classifying Board Head Ex- plains Reports Causing Misunderstanding. Formally explalning the meaning of the circular to department headg Wednesday, misinterpretation of which led to erroneous reports concerning salary gradings_of government eme vloyes, ¥. J. Bailey, chalrman of thg personnel reclassification board an¢ personal representative of Brig. Gep H. M. Lord, ‘budgst oficer on sued the following stateme Explanation Is Made. © personnel classification board oy Tuesday issyed a circular to the d lr:ul.! ment heads soliciting recommendae tions of the responsible heads of the several fleld services with respect to ti, proper salary gradings of governmen employes outside the District of Colums ;’l:‘]l Tl;r:‘-"lirculat; :;vpll('s only to thg cld_sdrvice, and does not affect tht strict of (‘olumbla. o he circular in question is circulay bearing date of November 13, departmental officers to pres 8 ;n n)!) fietd service employ: , v headquarters or statio ShOWing their present rates of pay. a cluding bonus, and recommending) the rates which they belleva should he made effocti July 1, 1924, when the present benus expires. To secure me chanical uniformity in the recommends- tions of the -department officers, th: board scribes « temtative schedu! of nincteen grades, the departme: being expected to express their recom. mendations in terms of this echedule &g far as practicable. The scheduls i3 a+ follows* Nineteen Grades Scheduled. Grade. Range. $240—" 3120 420~ 600 60— 750 T80— 1,140 900-— 1,260 1,140— 1500 1,320— 1,650 1,500— 1,860 2,700— 3,300 3,000— 3,800 3.300— 3,000 grades and %ates in the sch correspond to the grades an rates contained in the schedules pre- scribed in the classification act for the District of Columbia, except that two lower grades have been added and they conform also, with minor exceptions, to the gradé ranges and rates carried in the classification schedule under the exccutive order of October 24, 1921. “As a guide to the departments in maklryz their recommendations cireu- lar No. 13 requires that those field service positions which are s ar 1o positions in the departmental servica at Washington should be allocated accordance with the classification scheduie promulgated under the ¢x- utive order of October 24, 1921, with such variations, however, as the de- partment may consider desirable on iccount of peculiar conditions in the field. The dutfes and responsibility of Positions are in cvery case to be the primary factor considered in making gradings, but such other factors DROPS 7 INDICTMENTS; ISSUES 50 WARRANTS Justice Bailey Nolle’ Prosses Counts at Suggestion of U. 8. Attorney. Justice Bailey, at the suggestion of Assistant United States Attorney Gil- christ, today nolle prossed seven in- dictments and ordered bench warrantg for alleged fugitives in about fifty cases. Those against whom prosecu~ tions were dropped are Clarence Tucker, grand larceny; Charles War- ren, housebreaking; Thomas Mostyn, | non-support; Willlam A. Brown, false pretenses; Nicholas Mehas, seductiony i Frank B. Waters, housebreaking, an@ Asdrizel Lyles, joy riding. The alleged 'fugitives are: Joseph | Murray, David W. Paris, Eva White, { Sam Hudner, Thomas W. Moore, Wals | ter Nickens, Anthony B. Mahoney, William Johnson, Andrew Nicholson | Daniel Glover, Robert Henry Silldorff, { Milton Thomas, Walter A. Gill, R, | Pinsan,” Harry' Johnson, Eusgene R, | Tucker, Alvin E. White, Jesse Jameq i Loor, Harold C. Wood, Clarence Wale {ket, Bernard A. Marcus, jr.; Harry S { Walsh, Frank Murray, Irving Cohe; Morris N. Niliboff, Leo Dement, M. Miller, Luke jSmith, Charles S. Gray, Roy Jenkins. Samuel Feldman, Page Wormley, Delphia Charity Hughes, Hareld Cansella, Carl J. Robey, Arthur W. Thornton, Robert Hassel Cecil €. Campbell, Andrew Jackson, Allen E.° Blalsdell, Francis Henr, Watson, William Sisgold. George Hill, Edward T. Dumas, William Sl ter, Willilam George Brown, Rober({ Cole, Eugene Driver, John J. Whelan, Ben Green. George Franklin Cume mings, Tarkington A. Burdette, Robe ert C.' Anderson, William C. Davern John W. Tyner, Melrose Belhumes Harvey H. Smith, Ruth Stepheng George Culp, Herbert Jackson an. James H. Peere. MARLBORO ENTRIES FOR SATURDAY. FIRST RACE—Claiming; purss, $600; two-year-olds; five furlongs. { Belle Isle........ 108 Dartaway lei Abbott .... 105 Bi Bashdon ........ 108 Altissimo 114 Spear Shot . 108 °Norah . *Kirk Dress.. 112 *Fehrah SECOND RACE—Claiming; purse. $600; for all ages; about five and one-half furlongs. Finality 113 Pepper Teu.. Also_eligible: | Roundsman 110 Feodor .. Captain " Bob 1 for <1 ind | *San Diego. 108 High Commander. 110 Zouisn 110 My Dudeasa...... 107 Mock Orange..... 110 HIRD aimi purse, ;. fo T) RACE—Claimis $600 | three-year-olds and w about six and one-hal | furlongs. | swase . Miss Filley ... Florence Deen . 100 © 110 D18 D123 10 naKay i | *Kotherine Rankin 110 FOURTH RACE—The Finale purse, $1,600; for all ages; one | V. D..... 110 King Albert.. Tometta L 17 Spear Shot | Gore Free...... 114 Buddie Kean | Listen _Dearie 113 Captain Costigan. Billy Watts. 110 Ira Wilson. . Also_eligible Bill Simmon; *Bena Pl Legal Tender. | | 4C. C. Smithson entry. FIFTH RACE—Claiming: purse. $600: threo-year-olds and v; one mile and sevent yards, Valley_of Dreams 1 “Mey Boberts. ... *Sea Monarch . South Breeze. .. Captain Costigan.. 107 SIXTH RACE—Claimin three.year-olds and up; o teenth, Mr, Brammel.... Rey Ennis....... *Evelyn Sawyer.. on High. L *Lady Zeus... SEVENTH RACE—OClaiming; purse, $600: for three-yearolds and up; one mile and seventy yards. Ray L. 8id S. *Tricks 108 Dal Bose. *Ailsio Vernor 9 mtice allowazoe Wanther, cloudy; track > wood.