Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight; rising temperature tomor- row; temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 53, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 38, at 12 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 29,056. ¥ntered as second-class matter post office Washington, D, C. BREAK IN * AVERTED FOR TIME BY PARTIAL ACCORD - ON GERMAN POLICY Ambassadors Agree to De 1 mand of Germany Protec tion for Allied Mission With- | out Mention of Penalties. |"im | charges from Finally hom No. NTENTE W. J. Johnson, a colored orderly at | Emergency Hospital, conversing with | a patient he was attending last Thursday night, remarked that a ' riend of his was “down with the smallpox.” The patient murmured the usual condolences. The same cvening Johnson com- plained he was not feeling well, and sent to find him for their had to wake him up twice unusually ound slumbers, erne tqd him to go at 1908 Corcoran an AGREEMENT HELD SUBJECT .1 TO CABINETS’ APPROVAL |, "%, the origin | which t n ofliclals of the working to trace e of smalipox with d found Ella Daven- “p-)rl. 1303 T street northwest, suffer- ing, encountered Johnson on the street, questioned him and sent him [to the District Smallpox Hospital { suffering from a well advanced case | | of the disease. They said Johnson | JOHNSON RENEWS Opens. | PRIVARY DEMAND the question of the attitude to uescalifornian to Fight “Hand-r wloptes owa Fermany was vert- . . i et Picking” of Delegates for G. 0. P. Convention. France Reserves Right to Act Alone in Enforcing Reprisals if Berlin Fails to Meet Terms—En- voys Grave as Secret Session Ty the Assoclated Press. PARIS, November 19.—An agree- ment in principle was reached by the representatives of the allles as- embled in the council of ambas- swlors here today and a break be- It was announced after the con- ference that the ambassadors had | agreed in principle on the measures | to be taken toward the resumption of allied military control in Germany. The agreement was subject to the |Voters of their candidate for Presi- approval of the French and Belgian |dent in 1924 was demanded today b cabinets at meetings called for the Hiram Johnson carly afternoon The French cabinet was expected [and letters offering support for his . | to approve the formula decided upon |Candidacy, Senator Johnson told by the ambassadors. The Belgian | callers today that he would make a very s st ambassador got into communication |fi8ht in every state possible again with Brussels and was nnderstood to | the “hand-picking” of delegates to 5 |the national convention. z be asking for- his government's de- : cision on the new agreement. The California senator believes that | The understanding was that theinternational issues will play about, agreement called for sending Ger- 24 cam- many a protest against the lack of |23 Prominent a part In the 1924 ca facilities she was furnishing for the work of the military control mission hut without mention of what action Ihe does not expect them to be re-! 1 garded as ‘‘paramount.” So far hel the allies might take In case Germany | i failed to give the required assurances | Pas formed no opinion on the of protection for the mission. | reduction recommendations of Secre- tary Mellon, but today he sent for 3 R . H EAme JEAN saHieperineiape. {data on the subject and will study them | The French are understood to have | 08 W 1 70 00 Lol T aters made reservations on the question of ! = venalties, so that if it should prove| necessary they would be free to take | oo ‘e?’;‘ra:e:f"";’ it thiy o d""“"’e"' “My plans are crystallizing,” he said, e feeling in some allied quarters | ., g was that no entirely satistactory text | DUt re not at present entirely def for the mote to Germany had been | inite. For that reason I will not dis- adopted, the decision reached being | cuss details now. But I believe the considered as a makeshift, taken to|rank and file of the republican party | prevent the breaking up of the |have the right to express their prefer- tente and giving the allies more |ence for their presidential candidate. time to find & solution, |1 am se to have that prefer- | The sense of the te proposed by | €NCO €Xpre: . Tl accept the result | the council of ambassadors to be sent | With equanimity, but T insist that the ; to Germany was said ‘} is afternoon | Tank and file shall determine "‘; RD to e a demand that Germany pro.dldate of that, party TAther iShaniia vide protection for the interallied | 1€}, PO % military “control mission wherever | JAfter conferences here and else-| the reich has control where during the - mext fortnight, | The French cabinef, called to con- | S¢nator Johnson said he hoped to an- sider the agreement in . prineiple|Dounce details of his campaign, in- of ambassadors regarding the atti- | 1S and managers tude to be adopted toward Germany, close of its sesslon this afternoon to MAN".A ‘FLDDDED the effect that “the cabinet unani-| by M. Poincare in the negotiations.” | The impression in allied political | for the moment, but still is in a pre- | carious situation, at the mercy of the [Bogts Used in Several Streets the mission of control. France. it is| agrer Morrential Downpour. 1 I reached today by the allied council oag e o e issued a laconic communique at the mously approved the attitude taken | DURING TYPHDON circles is that the entente i$ saved | first_incident in Germany hostile 10| believed, will not hesitate to take ac- | tion in 'such a case, overriding all | . B allied objectio Consequently, it is| Ships Held in Harbor. feared the equivocal situation of th allies has not been definitely reme died and that the crisis which might lead to a break has only been post- poned. The result Is regarded as a_diplo- By the Associated Press. MANILA, November 19.—A typhoon h xeg a8 plo- | from (he Pacific ocean has swept over matic suecess for Great Britain, but [uzon and Visayas islands. Rail and ::,',:R.VZUL?n Y ontion is | remedey "6 | telegraph communication have been doubtful. | entirely suspended. Lord Crewe got into commurica-! Man partially under water as elephone Shemediately” afein™ant BY | o result of the torrential downpour, turn to the British emb: and this | boats replacing motor cars in several with the similar action of the Belgian | of the streets. The storm also caused considerable damage to crops. envoy in communicating with Brus- sels was taken as Indlcating that all the governments still had to ap- | The rainfall during forty-eight prove the decision before it becamo | hours totaled more than sixteen final. inches. The downpour was accom- | panied by a high wind. The storm | has abated. Telegraph yires were torn down by vad A the wind and rain and roads were »assadors planned to meet again at| vaghed out in many sections of the o'clock and put the finishing | jslands. i ches upon the text of the comma- | ,‘\ dm:rrl‘helr flf‘shil’s 1:\hltcl: were‘ v Sei e card it | Scheduled to sail were kept in por ni n to Germany and forward it| pehedured to sail at once to Berlin. i —_— The French cabinet met promptly at, E3 o'clocl, sy praneel 1o fon: | SPAIN'S KING AND QUEEN ENTERTAINED IN ROME meeting. | Paying Visit to King Victor Em- Exceptional measures: were tuken to protect the sccrecy of the mesting manuel and Queen Helena at b Quirinal Palace. and the foreign press representatives By the Associated Press. who are usually allowed to enter with the French newspaper men the Jobby leading to the conference room were banished to a remote part of | the foreign ministry. ! The foreign journalists, however, | ROME, November 19.—King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain arrived in Rome to visit King Victor Em- manuel and Queen Helena of Italy. The route of the royal party from the station to the quirinal palace, Meeting Agaln Tonight. If the approval is accorded the ar lock-out, Mr. Ambassador,” the newspaper men cried In response. TENSION LESSENED. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 19.—There was & perceptible amelioration here today in the tension existing between Eng- Jand and France over -the guestions (Continued ou Fage 4, Column o.) were the only ones to learn the se- cret that it _had been arranged for the ambassadors to enter by the side ! door =0 as to avoid the photographers and reporters assembled at the main i entrance. The foreign correspond- | ents were the only ones, therefore, to | be at the side door when the am-i “bassadors began to arrive. where the visitors will be enter- Most of the ambassadors Were|,uineq was gay with bunting, flags grave and silent. The Marquls ofi.nq gnields that bore the Italian and Crewe, the British ambassador, wore | Spanish conts of arms. The train bringing the Spanish kin, « particularly worrled look. Baron . G0 00 o Soezia pulled into the de Gaflier d"Hestroy, the Belgian am- | station half hidden by streamers and bassador, and Myron T. Herrick, am- | }lgxhe n-tIOTGLcalgr! flfdl:-m; and ann!;u . i The royal car stopped in front of the bassador of the United States, were | {he FOYEL, ATE SOPREC I KToRs of fne the only ones who did not seem to|tor Emmanuel and Queen Helena regard the council meeting as a | gtood to receive their visitors. solemn occasion. Baron d'Hestroy! 7The procession to the palace com- nosed for the photographers and ex-!prised.a dozen or more carriages, each changed pleasautries with the news-!of which had outriders attired in per men, while Ambassador Herrick, crimson and gold. ng the crowd of Amerlcan re-| On his way to Rome King Alfonso ers and photographers, induired: | sent a telegram to Pope Pius express- t's this, a strike or a lock-|ing affection and greeting. | _This afternoon King Alfonso and Queen Victoria were received in au- dlence by Pope Pius. —_——— FOOT BALL INJURY FATAL. Fairmont, W. Va. November 13.— Dale Hawley, aged .l1!fleen years, an 2nd on the New Martinsville, W. Va., high school foot ball team, died in a hospital here today from an injury received in a game there last Satur- His back was broken. Hawley collapseu uitec e bad ‘evn tackled, ¢h WASHINGTON, D. C, Orderly on Duty ' 10 Days W hile Smallpox Victim at Hospital Emergency Employe Mingled With Pa- tients and Doctors While Suf- fering With Disease. had been sick for about ten days, and the symptoms of his illness were ap- parent. While he had been ill John- son had been attending patients at Emergency regularly. Learning of Johnson's condition, health department officials_ imme- diately notified Emergency Hospital and dispatched 200 vaccine points to the doctors. Yesterday every institution, every employe of the doctor and every patient who hud come in contact with the sick man was vaccinated Otficia the hospital sald every 1 ution had heen taken against a possible spread of the disease. They said that while an interne sent John- son home Thursday evening hecause he complained of being ill, they not know he had smallpox until noti- fied by the health department the next afternoon. Health department officials said that while Johnson exhibited pro- nounced symptoms of smallpox, it was possible that it would have taken more than a cursory examination to reveal its presence, FINDS D. C. TRAFFIC CONDITIONS SOUND But Code Has Serious De- fects, Consulting Engineer Tells Senate Committee. A “popular ‘choice” by republlcan' That basic traffic conditions in the Natlonal Capital are sound on ac- jcount of the wide and intercommuni- cating streets, but that there are se- must be corrected promptly, was the statement today of J. Roland Blb- | bins, consulting engineer of this eity, | when he appeared before the Senate committee investigating conditions here. Raymond Beck, manager of the National Motorists' Association, also testified. Mr. Bibbins strongly urged upon the situation, a sclentific forecast of future needs and development of an ington region. Wants Plans for Future. It is in preparation for future growth, according to the engineer, registration here times in five years. automobile to multiplied three There is now one every 41 persons. Washington's population has in- creased 107,000 in the last decade, nearly 23 per cent, equal to its entire population fifty vears ago. Mr. Bibbins takes the view not only are motorists, entire street and highway railroads, port terminal trucking and commercial deliver: interurban bus movements and | dustrial expansion, all of which are related to the general city plan and public welfare. He finds the business district in Washington, while of good size, is hemmed in on two sides by the mall and executive grounds and few through traffio streets. As time goes on development along the suburban car lines will greatly increase ter- minal problems. The engineer emphasized freight (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) COOLIDGE CAMPAGIN OPENS IN CHICAGD Johnson Headquarters Also| There, Hinting Convention City Is Chosen. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, November 19.—Although the republican national committee will not formally decide on a conven- tion city until next month, tentative | hotel reservations for Coolidge head- quarters and for Johnson headquar- ters already have been made and a mid-western Coolidge headquarters was opened today by friends of the President at the same hotel. The mid-western Coolidge headquar- { Her recovery is expected. ters ‘'will be in charge of Dr. R. H. Taylor, who, with George W. Dixon and others, recently formed the Cool- idge for President Club here. In addition to the tentative reser- vations made by friends of President Coolidge and Sepator Hiram Johnson of California, about 400 rooms at the | same hotel have been promised on ' to others expecting | according | the same basis to attend the convention, to John Burke, manager of the Con- gress Hotel. Tentative Reservations, James Reynolds, former secfetary of the republican national committee, made a tentative reservation of Cool- idge headquarters, and Senator John- son, who .announced his candldacy last Thursday in Chicago, made a similar_reservation. The Johnson heafiquarters are ex- pected to_be opened here about No-| vember 27, when the senator returns from Washington to address the Cook County Real Estate Board. 1t was announced Sunday by the esnator that Willlam Wrigley, Jjr., millionaire Chicago manufacturer, would be in charge of the Johnson campaign in lllinois and probably in the entire central and northwestern sectlons of the country. Say Convention City Is Not Chosen. Although Chicago is regarded as a powerful contender for the 1924 re- publican convention, officials of the national committee insisted today that the final decision on & conven- tion city still remained to be made. It was pointed out at republican headquarters that tentative hotel reservations alw: are made by the {riends of candidates and by various orzanizations in each of the cities waiich ses likeiy seieciions, did | | | 1COURT HAD ENJOINED [ | | | i | | Over a desk piled with telegrams | rious defects in the traflic code, which | | | |ing money in two years and a half drive for Filipino independence. :Representative Johnson Tells i against WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DECLARES BUREAU FIDNAPED VETERAN OVER COURTORDER Senate Body Man Moved Across Country. REMOVAL, IS TESTIFIED’ Tried to Keep Forbes’ Name Out of Hearing, 0'Ryan Tells Investigators. A charge that the Veterans' Bureau kidnaped Charles Kasavage, a world war veteran, from an insane asylum in the state of Washington and took him to a hospital in Pennsylvania was made today before the Senate veterans’ committee by Representa- tive Johnson, republican, Washington. Representative Johnson said offi- clals of the bureau acted In violation of a restraining order issued by the | state courts and that he had been asked by Director Frank T. Hines of the bureau to present the facts so that the “wrong done in this case | can be righted.” A protest was made by Mr. John- son against testimony glven before the committeo on November 5 by Dr. | D. O. Smith, one of the lnvasllga!orhi for committee counsel, and also| “the manufacturing of tes-| timony,” apparently to be used later | in a suit affecting the status of the| soldler in a court at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. | Denying that Mrs. Kasavage, wife of the alleged kidnaped man, had been | fmproperly appointed guardian for| her husband in the state of Washing. ton, Representative Johnson declared | the appointment had been made by | the state court on the recommenda- tion of the Veterans' Bureau. He also denied charges that Mrs. Kusavage | had lent her husband only $5 spend- | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19. FILIPINOS TO PRESS A N CONGRESS Advance Guard of Independ- ence Advocates Due Soon. Wood Attacked. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘Washington is about to become the scene of an insistent and concerted It lout of a total of $157.50 a month re-! will be made both on. the floor of tax | adequate trafic plan for the Wash- | bonus, he sald he had voted twice in | that most cities are neglectful. Wash- | Sr21 4IVisions of the burcau it heard |its support and would vote for it ington is not exempt, he said. Motor further references to charges against f | requested that | Present later a memorandum of what street cars| he had hoped to prove by witnesses and pedestrians involved, but also the | and system, | | | | | i | played here last week. He was at the | hospital celved by her from the bureau as his n paign as they did in 1920, although, the committee a careful analysis of | Suardian. Wife Made Sacrifices. “This woman,” he said, “has lved| in pain and misery and destitution to | help this soldie: Before the committee began its in- quiry into the operations of the former Director Charles R. Forbes. His counsel, James S. Easby-Smith, expressed regret that the committee had so limited his time that it was impossible for him “to present a full | and adequate defense of Forbes,” and that he be permitted to the list of witnesses could have called. John F. O'Ryan, general counsel for the committee, replied that he had tried to keep Forbes' name out of the investigation, but he was “forced to bring him into it" by the evidence ! which investigators had gathered. | “Additlonal ’testimony _concerning | matters to which Elias H. Mortimer | has testified “are coming in every | day,” O'Ryan said, “and just how far the committee desires to go Into it remains for the committee to de- cide.” { Through. Charles F. Mulhearn, as- | sistant ‘director in charge of the claim division, O'Ryan developed that the civil service requirements for em- | ployes of the bureau who make con- | tact with the veterans is the lowest for any bureau employe, although the witness sald he knew of no individual ase of incompetency. Little Sympathy Found. O'Ryan read into the record a re- port of one investigator, Arthur W, McDermitt which said “there is too | much cynicism and too little sym- | pathy among the employes of the ! bureau.” i Mulhéarn said he had no official | information about McDermitt's report | that frequently men are passed from | one_employer to another until finaily they quit in Qisgust. WOMAN SERIOUSLY ILL | FROM DRUG OVERDOSE Police Investigating Case of Mrs. Jean McIntosh, Registered as Actor’s Wife. Mrs. Jean McIntosh, forty years old, yesterday afternoon was taken to Emergency Hospital from Washing- ton Hotel and treated for an overdose of medicine that had induced sleep. that he | Detective Robert Sanders today con- ducted an investigation. He was un- able to obtain any information from the -patlent, who was still sleeping | when he visited the hospital. He was ! told at the hotel that Mrs. McIntosh and her husband, registered as Burr ! McIntosh and wife, were at the hotel ! last week. ) It was stated at the hospital that Mr. Mcintosh was manager of the Robert E. Lee theatrical troupe that yesterday, but_ Detective Sanders was told today that he had , gone to New York, where he resides at Park Hotel. Congress and before the American public. The island nation is sending its ablest advocates to the United States for that purpose. A special mission, headed by Man- uel Roxas, speaker of the Philippine house of representatives, is now on the Pacific and is due in Washington early in December. Isauro Gabaldon, one of the two Filipino ‘resident commissioners" accredited to the Amer- ican Congress, will return from Ma- nila in a few days, in time to take his seat in the House for the next session. Senor Gabaldon comes with special Instructions from the Philip- pine government to initiate a vigor- ous campalgn for independence in Congress. The “resident commission- ers” have the right of ualimited speech in she Housc, but no votes. ' Quezon Comes Later. Later in the winter the famous Filipino nationalist leader, Manuel Quezon, will arrive fn Washington to lead the independence movement here. Senor Quezon is president of the Filipino senate. He is well known in the United States, having once been a “resident commissioner” and also having headed an earlier indepen- dence campaign. Filipino politiclans do not conceal that the Independence movement has attained unprecedented momentum because of dissatisfaction with Gen. Leonard Wood's regime at Manila. The' islands are depicted by the gov- ernor general's detractors as being in a mood for formal revolt agalnst his_administration. Few responsible Filipino leaders think of attempting to achieve in- dependence through an armed insur- rection. Apart from realizing the probable hoplessness of such a ven- ture, the people prefer to pin their hopes on America’s readiness to carry out the “organic law” of the islands, viz., the Jones act of 1920. That act definitely pledged the United States to give the Filipinos independence as soon as they demonstrated their capacity to maintain stable govern- ment. Cite American Pledge. Evidently it is the purpose of the Filipino missions now headed toward Washington to persuade the Congress and people of the United States that such conditions now exist. They will ask Amerlca, in other words, to “make good” on the promise held out by the Jonesiact. They are going to recall the words of President Roose- velt in 1915: “We cannot taint our purpose in the Philippines with bad faith. If we act so that the natives understand us to have made a definite promise, then we should live up to that promise.” The Filipino independence advo- cates are going to cite President Wilson’s words of 1913, too: “We re- gard ourselves as trustees, acting not_for the advantage of the United tates, but for the benefit of the people of the Philippine Islands. Every step we take will be taken with a_view to the ultimate inde- pendence of the islands and as preparation for their independence.” Filipinos now in Washington charge that Gen. Wood is “turning back the eclock of governmental progress” in the islands by “curtall- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Fifth in the United States In the tabulation of newspaper advertising of the principal the United States for October, The Star stands fifth in volume. of all of the daily and Sunday newspapers listed. All the newspapers that exceeded The Star are published in much larger cities and no newspaper having a greater amount of advertising - showed such an increase in volume. 1923, - 2,882,890 Detroit News.... Los Angeles Times. The Star censors all advertising and endeavors to eliminate, as far. as possible, all advertising 1922, 2,818,714 2,427,586 2,652,636 2,504,008 2,087,833 64,176 Gain 170,254 Gaim 90,582 Loes 65,154 Loss 313,208 Gain contsining untrue or misleading statements and objectionable advertising of every class and only honest' advertising is admitted in The Star’s columns. 4 *|him almost ¢ Foening Star. 1923 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Calf’s Sale Nets | Marks Enough to Buy One Herring 1 i By the Associated Press. L CLAUSTHAL, Saxony, November 19.—The widow of a farmer liv- | ing near Clauthal has lost the | proceeds from the sale of a calf which she marketed for one mil- lion marks six months ago. The woman failed to keep in touch with the value of the mark and when she drew her money out of the savings bank it proved sufficient only to pay for one ordi- nary herring. WALTON VERDICT MAY COME TODAY Last Witnesses for Prosecu- tion Now on Hand to Testify. By the Assoclated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., November 18.—The last witnesses in the im- peachment trial of Gov. J. C. Walton will be heard today. Whether a vote on the removal of the governor will, be taken late today or deferred until tomorrow depends upon the time re- quired for the examination of the witnesaes, it is said. E. W. Marland, Ponca City oil mil- lonaire, and accounted a prosecution tramp on the gubernatorial mansion purchase and campaign expense ar- ticles in the bill of impeachment, will take the stand today. James Mathers, attorney, and one of counsel for Clara Smith Hamon fn her trial for killing Jake Hamon, also will testify today. Mr. Mathers will be questioned re- garding clemency for convicts whom it i sald he represented. The testi- mony of these two men will close the prosecution’s case. The withdrawal of the governor and his counsel from the trial makes pos- sible a vote immediately after all the prosecution’s evidence is in. The house managers of the prose- cution say they can see an over- whelming triumph in the senate vote and scout any hope the defense en- tertains that the federal courts will intervene. However the Walton coun- sel expressed confidence yesterday that the governor will emerge vic- torious. There is little likelihood that the defense will be represented in the impeachment court during the com- pletion of the evidence or during the senate vote, legislators said. Gov. Walton is making another “grandstand play” to obtain the spot- light for his anti-Klan propaganda, declared W. D. McBee, speaker of the house, in a statement yesterday. He seeks by his spectacular move to be- cloud the {ssue, which is malfeasance in office, the speaker charged. With 'the end of the impeachment trial virtually certain late today or tomorrow, interest already was swinging to the hearing_in United States district court here Wednesday, in which counsel for the governor will meke a second effort to obtain government infervention in the trial. Judge John H. Cotteral will be asked to issue a retroactive restrain- ing order, setting aside all action of the Impeachment court, should the j federal court refuse to take jurisdic tion, counsel for the governor an nounced today. They are readyyto go directiy to the United States Subreme Court with an application for a writ of supersedeas to return the execu- tive to authority pending the court's declaion on his application for a re- straining order. F. E. Riddle, chief counsel for Gov. Waiton, declared no decision in the case would be expected before March. MAN KILLED IN TUNNEL. Terminal Signalman Struck at TUnion Station. Benjamin Talley and Joseph Nel- son, -employes of the . Washington Terminal Company, shortly after 11 o'clock today found the mangled body of ‘Joseph Carpento, anéther employe 'of the company, in the southbound tunnel near Union sta- tion. rpento, thirty vears old, resided ltc..l:pl street northeast. He was unmarried. He was employed to Jook after signals in the tunnel and was attending to his work when a southbound_train, in charge of En- neer & R. Waldrop and Fireman .- W, Dwyer, .struck him and killed instantly. | Carpento’'s body was morgue, where an inquest may be held tomOTrow. $ taken to the | The Star is 60 cents Saturday’s Sunday’s Circulation, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” delivered every eveming and Sunday morning to Washington homes at per month Telephone Main 5000 md service will start immediately Net Circulation, 91,336 99,742 ;) CURB ALIEN RIGHTS - IN2NEW RULINGS | Supreme Justices Deny In- eligibles Can Hold Stock in Land Concerns. { Two more decisions upholding ef- forts to curtail the land aliens in California and Washington were returned today by the Court. In one decision the court held that under the alien land laws of the two states recently held valid by the aliens ineligible to citizenship cannot own stock lhlghe!‘l tribunal llgna-owninu corporation. in In the other it was decided that aliens who cannot own or lease land are likewise barred from entering into contracts with landholders for a division of crops. The stock-owning decision was in the case brought by Raymond L. Frick and N. Satow again! alifor- nia state officials. Frick owned stock in & corporation authorized to buy and sell agricultural lands, which he desired to sell to Satow, The federal district court for north- ern California had held stock owner- ship im an agricultural corpo: constituted an interest in agr! tural lands prohibited by the a land laws. Question Involves Stock. The Supreme Court having recently sustained the right of a state to pre- scribe the conditions under which aliens may own or lease land, the only question remaining for decision in this case was whether stock in a land holding corporation owned by an alien ineligible to citizenship consti- tuted ownership of land prohibited by the alien land laws. The Supreme Court he.d that it did. The second decision brought to an end a case lodged against Cali- fornia officials by J. J. O'Brien and J. Inouye. O'Brien made a contract with Inouye to farm certain land, agreeing to share the crops with him. The fed- eral district court for northern Cali- fornia had held the contract valid in that it did not vest in Inouye any In- terest In real estate, but merely made him an employe, whose wages were paid in crops Instead of in mone In this view the Supreme Court dis greed, holding that the cropping ontract was in effect substantially the same as leasing of land to in- eligible aliens, which had been held invalid. QUAKE ROCKS CITIES IN SOUTHERN FRANCE Shocks Center in Perpignan, Felt in Toulouse, Bordeaux and Barcelona. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 19.—An earth- quake early today shook the eastern portion of southern France along the Spanish frontier, in what is called the Garonne basin or eastern Pyrenees, causing lighting fixtures to vibrate, doors to swing and dishes to rattle, and cracking many walls in Perpig- nan, which seemed to be the center of the disturbance. No other serfous damage and no loss of life was re- ported. Toulouse was the northern- most city to report the shock, which lasted several seconds. The section known to be affected is an area_about 100 miles long by seventy-five miles in width. Later Bordeaux reported three slight shocks felt there and Montau- ban two shocks. Barcelona reported the duration of the quake as from six to seven sec- onds. None of these points reported any damage. _ SEVERAL KILLED IN BLAST { Ammunition Factory Explosion at Santiago, Chile. By the Associated Pres SANTIAGO, Chile, November 19.— Several persons were killed and more than fifty wounded, many seriously, by an explosion this morning at the army ammunition factory In . the southern suburb of Santiago. ——— LADY HERBERT DIES. LONDON, November 19.—The Hon. Lady Herbert, widow of Sir Michael ‘Herbert, once British ambassador to the United States, dled today at her sesidence in London, Supreme ' TWO CENTS. (COOLIDGE MESSAGE EXPECTED T0 URGE ' REDUCTION IN TAX |White House Flooded With Expressions Favoring Re- vision Downward. |ATTITUDE ON BONUS, i HOWEVER, IS IN DOUBT JPresidgn: Believed to Be Against Payment to Able-Bodied Now. Will Deal With Bureau. By DAVID LAWRENCE. country has rallied behind the 1 to reduce taxes. There Is |no longer any doubt about that at the White House and President Coolldge formulating his message to be de- {livered to Congress with the idea that the American peopie want thelr | xes reduced. | By letters, telegrams newspap { editortals, personal calls from mem- { bers of Congress, the administratio has learned that the demand for ta [ reviston is almost unanimous. Public | optnion has rapidly. | President ¢ he can go {ahead with recommendations to Con | gress that will h; | momentum ‘of the outset. ! The President is | views of Hc before sending | printers. lin Mr, national opinfon ! xlous to got the leaders to the But the members are slow arifting so0 would - like just how he know, for should treat the s cannot avold for soldier ald b rights of | cen quoted ernment could 1 bonus, too. Sinee ) at one time Secretary himself. his observatio i seriot c=pec men, i S ors Bonus. the and 100 was arc ¥ the honus 0 say he ought to know. a| ever, is not the {it ought | the payment of the fernme most un i relatively {bonus on to b ald be al- e ha against the Tue greatest fae- uncertainty as to {the amocunt naual that | would be n Ti Lopponents of the me: to the ciple. ou pects at ident onus for t 1 will deal with th the Veterans' Bur. {ed with the du to the disabled | would leave it to | take the initiative. | that Mr. ! bonus moment are om- au, which Is charg- of m It will be recalled Harding did not start the agitation, but expressed his | views after Congress had put the patter up to hi | President Coolidge ave his pledge to Lk {low out the Harding | Harding vetoed the he did suggest that thére b sefore the end of the pres- istration. in _his annual of December 6, 1981, Mr. said suggest insincerity if T accord with every in your roll bout the diffi- bie divergence seeking the reduction, adjustment of the Later on, when solved, I shall ndations about ition of our tax els count policies. bonus bill. that he to fo My. But a tax ent mess some { renewed | program. . | Mr. Harding could not have post- | poned the execution of that promise | until the presidential campaign or a | second term. Close friends say he recom favored making it a part of his pro- gram this vear, though he realized the political dangers of putting a tax revision measure into Congress with the republican party divided by rad- icalism. Mr. Coolidge hopes,” how- r. that enough republicans will nd by the tax program, together the conservative democrats, o tax reduction can be accom- ed. The outlook at the moment for such a coalition is bright. LEADERS BACK PLAN. | | ev sta with | that Pl i Majority Believe Tax Reduction Should Be Considered. President Coolidge is strongly inclined toward the Mellon tax reduction pro- gram, and it is expected by some of his advisers to indorse it flatly in his mes- sage to Congress. Such an indorsement, in the opinion lof administratign officlals, would be sufficlent to sweep aside euch opposi- | tion as there has been among some | publican leaders to a tax revision at the coming session. | With the gathering here of senators and representatives of the majority ! party, taxation has become one of the principal subjects of cloakroom dlscus- | sion. Although some of the leaders still insist that to open up the tax schedules would invite endless con- troversy and lead nowhere, most of them appear to believe that legislative consideration of the Mellon and other reduction proposals is certain. Recelves Many Opinions. Since announcement of Mr. Mellon's {plan to cut the nation's tax burden 1$363,000,000, President Coolidge has | been carefully watching the reaction of ithe country. He has read much edi- torlal comment and has received a large number of letters and “telegrams indorsing the proposal. A large por- tion of the over-Sunday mail of about 2,000 letters received at the White House had to do with the tax question. Definite announcement of the Presi- dent’s position, however, is expected io await his message to Congress. He had & long talk yesterday with Sena- tor Lodge of Massachusetts, the re- publican Senate leader, and is under- atood to have presented to him the | arguments that have been made to (Continued on Page 2, Column 33 &