Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1923, Page 12

12 » PROMOTER SOURHT (=4 Sele IN $5.000000 DEAL 87305 Yearly By the Assoclated Press. LOND December 13.—As a re- suit of the salary cuts decided Chicago Attorney Claimed Big 0il Holdings in Panama Declared Myth. ‘THE EVENING STAR, WAS ARRESTENDSFLODD OF AKE 20BILS U. S. Agents Take Philip Lieberman Held Most Clev- er Counterfeiter. HINGTON, 1923, D. - ¢, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, ITAX GUT IS ASKEU * |ART AND EDUCATION CENTER HERE URGED ON SMALL INCOMES, e i i syt 2 to Many Advantages in ! Washington. | Usher, Mrs. B. L. Voorhorst, Mrs. S. Venable, Miss E. K. Vail, Miss Mar- VATl S DEAD FROM POISON; Worrell, Mrs. Jeanette Wade, Mrs, D, ' ASKED TO BE SHOT J. Weyman, Miss S H. Walker and Mrs, Marion SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE PROJECT ABANDONED By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 13.—The British government’s action in canceling a pro- | posed tour of inspection by the Earl of Cavan, chief of the general staff, to Singapore and Australian ports, s ac gepted here as a definite abandonment by the government of the project to | construct & big naval hase at Singapore, | oM Polsoning. I In the knowledge that no succeeding | Gallinger Hospital in cabinet, whether liberal or labor, i8|of the Emerge Hosplt likely to indorse such a huge and costly | ywo hours “ enterprise, Prime Minister Baldwin &nd | & 4 e his ad ed | Nevitt fssued a ce that the take to bulld the fortifications, can be lieve the mentsituatic | The Singapore proposal has been | hotly opposed by liberals and luborites. About £50,000 has already been epent | for the purchase of land for docke. Child's tongue shows /.[:i\\\ j/ w if bilious, constipated f < Carries Appeal to “Great White Father” Richard Grant of 3905 13th Street | Declared by Coroner Sui- cide. Mellon Recommendations | Aim to Benefit Earnings Up to $6,000. upon by the German government, President Ibert will recelye only 1,500 pounds a year and Chancellor Marx 750 pounds, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Lxpress. The remuneration of ambassadors is to be 350 pounds, while members of the relchstag will get 170 pounds for their serv- fces. In emphasizing what the reduc- tion will mean for the small offi- clals the correspondent said that grade crossing guards emploved by the railways will be pald 30 pounds for a year's work HUGHES HAY D GRFFSINGERMANY Ohio Representative Says Bergdoll Kidnaping Case Is Being Watched., Washington as the center for art and education was urged by three prominent speakers at a dinner given by the professional and business woman's section of the Woman's City Club last night. Dr. Earl Wilfley of the Vermont Avenue Christlan Church, spoke on the various literary shrines and pointed out the many outstanding places of literary interest and chievement in the National Capital the Richard Grant of 3905 northwest was fv his residence this in a roon orning su was taker By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 13.—The offices of Leo Koretz, an attorney, were ratded yesterday and Robert M. Crowe, state’s attorney, announced promotion schemes involving nearly £3.000,000 and ten-year period been dis: , and that an international scarch s being made for Koretz, Friends and relatives of Koretz, #aid by the prosecutor to have been induced by him to invest several million dollars in the Bayano River Trust Company of Panama, organized in 1911, have learned the company was a myth, and its alleged holdings | Panama, represented as produc- ing 230,000 barrels of oil per. da never existed, according to investiga- tors. NEW YORK, December 13.—The ar- rest by secret service agents of Philip s Lieberman, deseribed as the cleverest planned by Secretary Mellon in his counterfeiter of modern times, has recommenxiations submitted to Con- damned the source of the bogus $20 3 ress. bills which have flooded the country This wals revealed today for some time, the federal men said clal statgment issued by yesterday. Licberman was trapped in I Mcllon a¥ the Treasury, showing a Jumalea dwelling last night. With {much reduction would be made in the Elm were taken Paul Adfer, an old ltaxes pdid by persons making from | artistie triend in whose residence he was hid- 151,200 tor $6 . bur of 10, And Rerhoin B a0y, SNigse The reductions would provide sub- £ home nearby also was raided. Print- cuts in the great majority. of ing presses, plates and whisky stills ument employes whose salary were found in both places. ranges fall within the limits of the Tho agents had a bench warrant satemwnt issued today. B for Lieberman under an indlc Tax jon the net income of Sl,."}ll by returned in Brooklyn in 19 a single person, the smallest figure eluded them until six months listed on the statement, would be cut from $8 under the present law to $4.50 ~under the Mellon plan. Other reductions shown in the state- ment are as follows: 3 come, tax $2.000, tax c cut from $1 f Sharp reduction in taxes on smaller iricomes, ¢p to $6,000 annually, Is in an offi- Secretary Zolnay. that scuiptor, hington r all things n Willlam Allen Wil Washington Univer- n types of litera- ashington should be ducational center of the More than 120 members attended he dinner, at which the musical pro- am was provided by Dr. Preston ynes . J. . Underwood. ird presided 1% those who attended the din- sorge Julian Zoinay jam Al Vander- Mrs. W. E 1. Lmvderwood Chamberlain Miss E. Austin, Miss . Breed. Mr Miss Della H. Br k. Miss Olive Miss C. R, Chamber- M. Cheney. Mrx. Clarke, Mrs. Retta H. Cummings, Miss ns P. Cheney, Mre M. C. Gunther, Miss Gil- Hagan, Miss Mabelle B. “superintendent MISS RUTH MUSKRA'T, President Coolidge today received from the hands of Miss Muskrat, a ughter of the tribe, and a st oke, ‘a handsom “The Red Man The book ix an e the life of the has been shadowed ever since. Two brothers, Aaron and Max Silver, confessed at the time Licberman was indicted that they distributed his spurious notes and were sent (o fed- eral prison Notes Hard to Deteet. of the notes Mrug A7 Tumphrey Of May Have Gone Abroad. | of Kor left v z was a week | York hote Chica 3 ) pd 0 home clothing Phe last trace o when he 1 sending to his PL/AN FOR RESTORH¥ OYSTER BEDS ANNOUNCED |; ewelry valued it sen Reil, 5 Harriet s C. Miss id Lieberman es, but his tools d that the front side of perfect, a slight bluring | ink on the back disclosing | their true worth berman, despite years, gave battle when cornered, leaping out a one-story window only to be caught by agents anticipating such an attempt. He first was arrested in JEngland in 1901, and after serving u sentence there returned home. He soon wa: caught and sentenced for‘counter- feiting, but upon his rele; and sending en with him from Chicago. steamship companies found in his office have led authori- tles to believe he is en route to the Zone, South America or Prague, a, where he is said to have tives and records taken by in- re in Koretz's downtown offices and in another suite maintained at the Drake Hotel have disclosed, according to Prose- utor Crowe, that in rs in o raid had ta trers o Possible intercession by the Amer- anything else. ican government in the Grover Berg doll kidnaping case in Germany was discussed with Secrétary Hughes to- day by Representative Fitzgerald, republican, Ohio, who declared after- ward that Mr. Hughes was waiting for a favorable moment to make “such representation or suggestion as could be made with propriety The Ohio representative went URGES DEMOCRATS AID PROGRESSIVES Bgyan Says They Represent Ma- jority of Voters Since Last his fifty-two Miss A Md., December 1 Adoption of some broad plan to r store the ovster beds of the Ches s urged by Harrison W fon commissioner published d ex- splant- Miss Flora Hoft, Miss Miss Howlette, Miss . Julia A. Karr, Miss Hortense Keabiles, Lawyer, Miss M Mrs, Mo- of Maryland, in a fss Agnes Mr. Vicke: to ive shell-planting and tra on behalf of the State Department relatives of Hooven Griffis, who was sentenced to Jail in Germany for his projects are numbered prominent and wealthy Chi- From his own invalid ob- he started the spurious productlon again and was sent to Atlanta for the s ond time. Election. £ small ovst Vickers als ening of the Hurry Mother! Even constipated, bowels without griping. ( uted to ‘Schwartz" . Mr. Crowe xaid, Koretz Miss eliminating the mon ¢ n s v Miss e Rankin, Am he aliases no narcotics Say “California” and avoid coun genuine “Cal which contai vilipus, feverish, or sick. colic Babies o sothing and Children_love to take genuine “California Fig Syrup.” No other laxative regulates the tender little ‘[bowels so nicely. It sweetens the stomach and starts the liver and $£45.000. One wealthy Chi-|part in the attempted kidnaping of | - vhe Boois whose nar withheld, | the dmft dodger. and 1ons.” i and others put in | $2.000 to $100,000. Watching Situation. e HOME BURNED DOWN IN MOUNTAIN FEUD = jconference. Col. Bryan was in con- ference with a number of democratic “he is keeping by the Bavano River Trust Company, [ the sltuation” w First Attempt Fails—Place Had |se at the Capitol today before . e i Cashington for Florida. Been Riddled With More Than rats and_ the. pro The democrats of the Senate, in the opinion of William Jennings Bryan, hould act in harmony with the | progressive republic to ewct a rman of the srstate commerce nmittee and on that come present was that with informed him acres close touch of timber land repr owned L ters hefor could H O B T T | THE finest records deserve the most perfect reproduction. This cannot be accomplished by any assembly of parts or other hit- or-miss process. Victor records and Victrola instruments are built complete in the Victor factories for the one purpose of use together. To know how good they are, play these new Victor Records on any one of the twenty-one Victrola models at from $25 up. iired Big Executives. Re tly Koretz, hi high-priced executive investors, to go to I on development of a refinery com- pany he said would “put the Stand- #rd Oil Company out of busin It was after the sent word to cther Chicago investors that no such company as the Bayano existed or owned property in Panama, that comp nt was made Whi a boy. twenty-two ears ago, Koretz 1 1t night school E. Mat- thews, in wh Jfice he formerly ran errands, Invested $40.000 in the projects of Koretz according to the complaint Filte year: ugo Koretz took a iumber of friends into an Arkans: rice plantation scheme, the d rict attorney said, and actually paid them 10 to 15 per cent annual dividends. The large returns attracted many _stockholders, who later invested in the Panama proj- cct, which_was launched in 1913. Divi- dends of 5 per cent each six months were paid to stockholders of the Pana- ma mpany, state's attorneys said. years ago oretz_announced oil i on the Panama prop according to the d a number of some of them nama to carry and on which oil was reported being |able moment wh produced | s tions be made “with -ty and tending to accomplish the results wished for without incur- e ring the resentment of the foreign = government involved.” O X the peosress ‘I am convinced.” Mr. Fitzgerald's Ity ont & afority ot letter said, “by the way the Secre-| 100 Bullets. country, sir tary talked to me that he is genu- — inely interested and sympathetic and determined to do everything in his power to help Hooven.” BA AUAUADAN ABRUATAGA A ALA, S et he majority {a1 Dispatel to The Star. hould join tos ERSTOWN, Md.. December 13 gressive legislation As the result of a feud which had PEOPle desive. Th been brewing for several months, the | ate interstate home of John W. Cline, lumber dealer, | in the mountains about twelve mi rorth of this place, was destroved by an incendlary fire early this morning - and Cline and his housekeeper nar- stock of which was selling for Cosaped: with thats Hyea ,000 & share, ording to the in- n unsuccessful attempt had been ves .. O s said to have|made to burn down the place the L e '4Y€ | early part of the week, after Cline's paid 330,000 for a single share louse had been riddled with more Koretz is said to have lived luxurious- | than 100 bullets by a gang of men Iy and spent lavishly. He was a mem-| The home of his employe, Edward ber of prominen s and maintained Reecher, also was shot up at the a number of expensive automobiles. He | same time. is said to have recently leased a third | The feud is the outgrowth of the office suite at $70,000 a year, but had | eviction by Cline of a woman from a not taken possession. house he had just purchased. Koretz is married and has two chil-| Sheriff Duffey and deputies from dren. His wife, who expressed thelthis place left for the mountains early hope the authorities would find her this morning to run down the band husband, said she had no knowledge of which his alleged ventures or promotions. iine. v “Repre- of the peopls her to enact which tk.e uld join 'in of tlae coin- men 3 chairman commerce ties, and later he is alle circulated the story that corporation had offered him for his one-fiith interest in tr Bryan was asked if he wornd | he democrats vote for Senit Follette of Wisconsin for chfair- man of the committee. He replied that he was not so much concefrned over the question of personality, but that he was convinced the dimo- crats and the progressives spould work out a plan to stand tc this and other tters wh come before the Senate. SEEKS ALIEN SMUGGLER LAW. Violators of the immigration laws would be subject to one vearis im- prisonment or fines up to $1,000 und a bill introduced today by Jiepre- entative Cable of Ohio, a repy blican attacked ! member of the House immizration committee. 3 : Co! a ny, a fABASAIIAT AL AUAS: Out tomorrow New Victor Records Red Seal Records Juise—Barcarolle (Tuhikomky) Fistin suts Erika Morini ) Serenade (Towli) Fistin sote Erika Morini / Tschaikowsky’s barcarolle, June, is one of his most familiar —and most_charming—shorter com, tions. Here it is for the violin. Toselli’s lyrical “Serenade” is paired with it, and the resulting record is rich in melody. 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