Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1924, Page 2

MELLON TAX PLAN WHITE HOUSE TOPIC Belief Expressed Funda- mentals Will Not Be Changed by House. President Coolldge was told today by Representative Tilson of Con- necticut, member of the House ways | and means committee, that while some changes and adjustments may be madé in the Mellon tax-reduction plan when it is brought out on the floor of the House for action, he does not believe the fundamental prin- ciples of the plan will be altered. Representative Tilson sald he per- sonally is ardently in favor of the plan in its original form, but if if is necessary to make some minor alter- rations to get the bill out on time he will readily agree to them In the ovinion of this representa- tive the country at large, regardless of politics or anything else, is eager for a reduction of the tax burden, and it should be the duty of every mem- ber of Congress, regardless of party, o see that this desired relfef is ex- tended without delay. Sees Bonus Sentiment Diminish. Mr. Tilson said with much positive- ness that the sentiment for bonus leg- | islation at this session is rapidly diminishing, He declared that the nation has lost interest in this sub- Ject since it set its mind upon tax reduction. £ Joseph B. Kealing, republican na- tional committeeman from Indlana, who figured prominently in the se eral conferences here during the past few days for the purpose of estab- lishing greater harmony and unity among the party workers in Indiana, was in conference with the President today. Mr. Kealing was highly en- thusiastic over the outcome of these conferences. To discuss certain olitical situation in Ohio, the Pres- dent conferred today with Dan R. Hanna, grandson of the late Mark Hanna! George F. Moran, newspaper ublisher of Cleveland, and Senator Willis. Brig. Gen. Hines, director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, who last night made public the plan of reorganization of the bureau already effective, discussed with the Presi- dent today some features of this re- organization. To Meet G. O. P. Leaders. President Coolidge intends to hold a series of conferences with republican congressional leaders as well as with members of the various independent boards and commissions, with the view to being more helpfu in the solving of some of the more important probiems that are pending. This was made known late yesterday by & spokesman for the President, foi- lowing a conference with Senator Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate finance committee, during which revenue legie- lation was discussed. Thursday after- noon he met members of the tariff com- mission and gave an attentive ear to the various perplexities confronting this body. It waus expiained that now that his message is out of the way and Con- gress is under way and his pre-conven- tion campaign has reached a stage where his lleutenants say it is a wi over for him, the President fs anxious to give more attention to matters of administration and legislation. It was made evident that the navs brought to the President by Chair- man Smoot, was highly pleasing and encouraging. It {s understood that the Utah senator’'s cheerful report had to do with the prospects of the outcome of the Mellon tax reduction plan and the bonus. To recent callers the President has not made any an- nouncement as to his possible action in the event a soldiers’ bonus bill is passed. However, discussion of this legislation has left no doubt in the minds of callers, inasmuch as they readily draw an inference from that part of the President's message in which he so emphatically” stated his opposition to this legislation. Tariff Problems Up. It was made known officially at the | White House that the President ex- pects the members of the tariff com- mission to settle satisfactorily cer- tain ethical problems confronting it. The question of the propriety of members of the commission being | financially interested in commodities before the board for rate rulings was brought to the President's attention by the commission vesterday during a conference at the White House and although the members were equally divided in opinion the President made no decision. He is known to have expressed the opinion afterward that he feels cer- tain that the commission will settle matters in such a manner as to leave no doubt in the public mind as to the disinterestedness of the reports of the individual members on tariff | rate changes. The President met with his cabinet yesterday, but it was announced later that nothing of any great importance was brought up for discussion and the meeting was turned iInto a more or less round-table talk. Gaina in Minnesota. The President is steadily gaining in popularity in Minnesotd, accord- ing to former State Senator Brooks of that state, who was one of the President's callers today. During the past sixty days Mr. Coolldge's political stock has been rising until it has reached a point where no one but Senator La Follctte could beat him. At least that is the way Mr. Brooks puts it. He sald Senator Hiram Johnson has no chance to carry that state. The President discussed the situa- tion in Oklahoma regarding the con- troversy among republicans in the matter of uniting on one candidate for the vacant federal judgeship there with George S. Ramsay, a| prominent attorney ot Oklahoma. The appointment was made at the sug- gestion of Attorney General Daugh- erty. BISHOP HEADS DRY BODY. Anti-Saloon League Re-Elects New . York Prelate. Bishop Thomas Nicholson, New York, was re-elected president of the Anti-Saloon League of America to- day, and Wayne B. Wheeler, Wash- ington, was again chosen general coungel. Other officers re-elected were: 8. E. Nicholson, Washington, secretary, and Earnest H. Cherring- tom, Westerville, Ohlo, editor of the American Issue and general manager of publicity interests. FOREIGNERS TO BE MOVED Spanish Ship Permitted to Touch at Vera Cruz. Hy the Associated Press. |MEXICO CITY, January 12 (By ydio via the Fort Worth Star-Tele- gffam).—The Spanish steamer Cristo- 1 Colon, which lett Tampico yester- ¥, has been granted permission to guch at Vera Cruz and remove for- ners stranded there, it was an- neunced here. Only foreigners who arrived after the revolution started will be allowed to’depart. e BIG RAILWAY PLAN IN CHINA TIENTSIN, China,: January 12— Contracts have been signed between the Hollamby Company, representing British interests, and various Chinese for the financing and constryction of three railways—the first between Chefoo and Welhalen, the second from Tsangchow to Shihchiachuang, and the third from Tientsin to Chih- I.eovbt.; The, estimated cost is. £19,000,000. features of the | blame them. { ha {school lare in the unearned ORCHESTRA CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, 6:35 p.m. today. John §. Immermann, bandmaster. ungarfan Lust- ......Keler-Bela Indian characteristics— (n) "Cherokee and Apache Melodfes,” (b) “Indian Love Song” . .Lake Selection from Grand Opera— “La_Traviata” .........Verd Fox Trot, “Salt Your Sugal Simons Walts Sult Under Love's Windo ‘Love, . .Lincke Finale, My Heart 1Is Calling You"...... “The Star Spangie UNEARNED INCOME PLEAS ARE VOICED Pathetic Stories From Help- less Persons Who Live on Investments Received. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, Congress is beginning to hear from the country on the subject of earned incomes as contrasted with unearned tncomes. Widows, orphans, invalids, pension- ers and others whose main source of income is derived from investments are asking that they be given the same 35 per cent reduction as would be granted under the Mellon plan to the wage-earner and salaried Indi- vidual. Senator Smoot, chairman of the Senate finance committee, feels sure that before the tax bill Is finally adopted some amendment to take care of those who would be affected by the unearned income question will have to be inserted. Letter From Woman of Eighty. The viewpoint of the unearned in- come class {s expressed to some ex- tent by letters like the following, which came from a woman eighty years old: “I am eighty years old. I can do several kinds of work quite well, but nobody will hire me—and I don't T inherited some money, the income to live in a modest way. I began to earn my own lving at the age of fitteen and continued until I was past fifty. Since that time my income has been an uncertain amount, sometimes so small that I have been obliged to use my principal for current expenses, which, of course, permanently reduced | my income. Right now I am wonder- ing if 1 shall have any income this month, the money due January 1 not ing materialized. At dinner tonight I shall meet a vigorous young woman who earns her living as principal of a grammar and whose income Is more than mine ever was and who can re- tire on a pension (which is a sure thing), when she is sixty. Just why should she be excused by twenty- five per cent on the payment of her income tax? *“The government seems to give so much attention to varlous classes of people—farmers, merchants, children, labor unions, etc. Does it ever con- sider the welfare of such folks as 1? “They are singularly helpless and may be wholly useless and therefore not worth considering. Affeets Large Clans. The complaints from others who income class range from the widows who have tamllies to support out of the In- come of life Insurance bequests invalids and other dependents who live on funds either accumulated by them when they are able to earn their own living or invested for them by,_others. ‘The situation can be cured in large part by the adoption of an amend- ment which would place all persons of the unearned income group who re- celve amounts up to flve or seven thousand dollars a year in the same ategory as the earned income group, namely, making the 25 per cent re- duction apply to both. This, of course, might have to be limited only to those whose income tax returns show that this income {s their only means of support, because otherwise it might | operate as a 25 per cent reduction on ithe first five or seven thousand dol- lars received from investments by those who are well able to pay a | higher tax, because they have other | sources of income. Some talk is being heard about limiting the 25 per cent reductlon on earned {ncomes only up to and includ- ing $25.000 incomes. Such a proposal is not, of course, predicated on the idea that it is just for one class of oarned income to be distinguished from another, but simply on the the- ory that persons above $25,000, even though they use physical or mental energy instead of money capital, can afford to pay the higher tax. The ob- jections to this will be numerous, no doubt, as it will be called a tax on brains and a destrover of incentive. The Treasury has given no indication | as yet that it will approve any of the amendments suggested efther for the earned or unearned income groups, but some modification will surely be made in either the Senate or House. | (Copyright, 1924.) G. 0. - P.TO TRY PEACE A settlement of the contest for the republican nomination for governer in Indiana, s to be attempted on the same principle Which yesterday brought about unity of the republi- can organization forces in that state behind' President Coolidge. Joseph B. Kealing, republican na. tional committeeman from Indiana, conferred with President Coolidge to- day and afterward It was learned that he and Clyde A. Wals, republi- can state chairman, home would attempt to bring about a peace agreement between the various groups and candidates contending_ for the gubernatorial nomination. Such a step is understood to have been urged by the managers of the Cool- idge cam from which enables me | to | upon returning | THE EVENING To Be Given D. Nine large guns and carriages, 44 Maxim machine guns, 266 Mau- ser magazine rifles, 262 bayonets, 71 sabers and a small assortment of other ordnance, captured by the American Expeditionary _Forces from the German and Austrian armies during the world war, will be allotted to the District of Co- lumbia by the War Department, in case the Kahn war trophy bill passed by the Senate Thursday, becomes @ law. The bill provides fqr the prorata distribution among tRe states, territories and the Dis- trict of Columbia, of all the sur- plus captured war devices and trophies now in the possession of the War Department, and directs that the ratio of distribution be based on the number of men serv- UNITY ON'SCHOOL Plea, Unless Greenwood and Peyser Co-Operate. Foreseeing disaster to the school system as a result of the internal friction on the board of education and the continued attacks on the Commissioners by Ernest Green- wood and Capt. Julius 1. Peyser, self- styled “undesirables” on the board. James T. Lloyd, president, active co-operation of all concerned.” Mr. Lloyd stressed the lmportance of the proposed teachers' salary leg- islation pointing out that its passage at this session of Congress is ab- solutely neccssary. “The board is unusually solicitious ubout this bill" he declared, “Mgr if legls- lation cannot be obtained no one can foreteil how much disaster will come to our schools.” Says Pay Bill Necessary. The board president declined to comment on the statements of Capt. | Peyser and Mr. Greenwood at a meet- ing last night of the Publlc School Assoclation, in which the Commis- sioners again were assailed for pre- paring in secret a substitute to the board’s original teachers’ pay bill. “o-operation is nveded with every source of strength and influcnce that can be employed to meet the growing needs of our schools.” was Mr. Lloyd's unly comment regarding this meeting. “Nothing is more important than the fixing of the status of the teach- ers and school officials and the de- termination of thelr several salar- fes,” declared Mr. Lloyd. “There is no assurance that the present salaries will be continued after June 30 next. Bonus Soon Expires. “The bonus of $240 per vear to each employe, whether teacher or offictal, is provided for this fiscal year only. It fs an absolute necessity in inter- est of the school 'system that legis- lation be enacted at this s lon of Congress that will give addéd’ coms pensation to the teachers and éthers who are employed under the system. “The school board has been work- ing faithfully for months to accom- | plish this result. There has been an honest and consclentious endeavor so far ms 1 know on the part of the board, the District Commissioners and the budget commission to secure a bill which will accomplish this re- sult. These several bodies are to meet with the budget commission on Tuesday next and consider the pro- visions of the bill as presented by the school board, and to likewise con- der any suggestions of change in an of its provisions that may be made by either the District Commis- sioners or the budget commission. Qut of this conference it is hoped that a bill will be agreed upon that will bring substantial relief and me: the approval of President Coolidge. FINDS 11,650 AUTOS PARKED DOWNTOWN Maj. Holcombe, in Trafic Survey, Reveals Congestion on Busy Streets | A traffic count taken by the En- gineer Department of the District last Saturday morning 11,650 automobiles parked in the downtown section between the hours of 9:30 and 11:30. Thig was announced today by Maj. W. H. Holcombe, chairman of the new trafo board, who is now study- ing the engineering phases of the traffio situation, This traffic count, Maj. -Holcombe says, shows that one-fifth of the auto- mobiles licensed this voar were park- ed in the area bounded by lst, 20th, B and M streets. It was further learned that there were four times as many cars parked per 100 feet of streat space in the heart of the con- rested rea as there were on the fringes of that area. The chairman of the traMc board stated that these figures suggested two things to him; first, that more motorists might park north or south of F and G streets, where trafic is not so crowded, and that parking might be permitted around the Ellipse and on the roadways of the Mall. Maj. Holcombe had a meeting this morning with the other two assistant engineer commissioners, Maj. Ray- mond_Wheeler and Capt. John Wood, t which parking and the proposed widening Of streets again _were discussed. The major said he prob- ably would be ready to make a re- port to the Commissioners of en- gineering remedies the latter part of 'next week. IN RABBITBORO —At the Sewing Circle. CARRIE COTTONTAIL AN' HUSBAND oF HERS -DAN DOEBON -5 HER MOMER LAST WERE VISITIN' THAY FoolL. BOARD IS SOUGHT Lloyd Predicts Disaster, in| today ! { pleaded for *“harmonious action and | school | dsclosed | STAR, WASHINGION, D.’ C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1924. Captured German Guns of All'Sizes C. Under Kahn Bill ing in the armed forces from the respective sections of the country. An appropriation ot $39:000 i8 made (otcnrry out the purposes of the act, The heavy ordnance alltted by the War Department to the Dis- trict of Columbia consists of five minnewerfors, with their car- riages, one gun belng 250 mm., another 170 mm., another 77 mm., and two 76 mm., and, in addition, one light fleld gun and carriage, one 100 mm. howitzer and car- riage, one 105 mm. and carriage and one 150 mm. mortar and car- rlage. Under the Kahn bill, the District Commissloners would be authorized to donate these guns and the other trophies to any pu- triotic organization in_the Dis- trict, or to use them for mopu- mental purposes in the local parks or cemeterle STREET EXTENSION, PLANS RAISE ISSUE | Condemnation Costs System lhyl Be Changed by Leg- | Unusua! significance for Washing- islation. ton property owners is contained in {the blil for extension of Albemarle, | | Davenport and 38th streets recently | introduced in the Senate In the pro-! !vision that only four-tenths of the/ condemnation costs shall be assessed | against adjoining property, according | to officials of the Northwest Suburban Citizens’ Association who discussed the measure at the Friendship School last night. Previous legislation of this nkture, | it was pointed out by Charles C. Lan- caster, has usually provided that the jentire’ costs be lald against property | owners benefitted, so #hat from (his instance mav en - A l system for the District Jof this Kind. A i i assessment also has been provided | for the proposed cxtemsion of 14ih street. in procedure Would Extend Street. Tho extensions in the Friendship| sections, it sanctioned by Congress. will require among other thipg¥ that property valued at approximate- | 1y $150,000, Including a number ofl dwellings and an lce plant on Grant road, be condemned to allow the Albemarle street extension, making a stralght thoroughfare be-| t Wisconsin and Connecticut | avenues. This, it was pointed out,| would have placed an exceptionally heavy burden on the taxpayers of | the neighborhood if the customary procedure had been followed. The assoctation voted to ask the Public Utllities Commission to order restoration of through-car service on | sconsin avenue between the Dis- ct line and Union station. This was discontinued by Washington Rallway and Electric Compeny last winter, 5o that it now is necessary to transrer at Georgetown. Petitions to the Public Utilitles Commission® were drawn up, and a committee appointed to canvass every home in the section. Resolutions Adopted. Resolutions were adopted as fol- lows: Silewalks on both sldes of Belt road between Chesapeake and Fessenden streets: extension of Brandywine street between Wiscon- | sin and Connecticut avenues; no more solicitation of money In the publlc schools; more stringent penalties for drunken automobile drivers; indorse- ment of the Melion tax proposal: gratitude to Charles C. Glover for his gift of the Foundry Run Park lands to_the District. . The Washington Rallway and Elec- tric Company came in for some severe |eriticism because of the condition of |the Wisconsin avenue line. Stress | was laid on the faot that Rockville {ears are run express to the District {line so that ~Friendship residents often are carried a mile or more be- yond their destination, the conductors refusing to stop except to take on passengers. Luther L. Derrick. presi- dent, told of a recent conference with rallway officials when he was told that “the addition of approximately 500 houses along Wisconsin avenue and adjoining streets in the past few years had made no noticeable dif- ference in the number of passengers carried: that the line still was un- profitable, so that improvements in service were not justified.” He wald that he will take the mat- ter up with President Ham again In a few days. It was voted to conduct a membership aampalgn in the near | future. Rev. Hugh Curley was ac- {cepted as a new member. i FRENCH ARE SCORED FOR COURSE IN BAVARIA London Times Urges Inquiry, De- claring Paris Alds Republicans in Palatinat By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 12 —Comment-| Ing on the separatist movement in the Bavarian Palatinate, the Times today calls urgently for an inquiry into the whole question and scores the French for what it describes as their connivance with the republic Whatever exiguous locals support has been obtained for the separatist | |called for. ot sale, etc., movement, the newspaper asserts, has been won at the point of the bay- onet. It also condemns “the =ome- what similar situation in_the Saare valley,” where It says France has “firmly established herselt economi- cally and is trying to force the in- ! habitants to use the Fremch lan- uage. 578 Getiberate polioy of oppression, the Times continues, “is bein; I y to confirm the German desire Itor vengoance. THEY HAD THE NEW BABY. WITH * AN'YSUCH A P s B o CARRIE SAY Sci RETTY NURS S-“*NURSE IS sEo ENTIFIC ¢ - ] H Nine of Large Type, 44 Machine Guns Among Allot-|- ment to Capital—May Be Used as Gom- missioners Decide. CIOVIS G. CHAPPELL, WLEAN SAYS FALL NEVER CASHED LOAN| iret Page.) my note, giving them assurance that the money would be advanced If It did not suit my plans to utilize this latter amount except in case cf absolute necessity, as I was then considering m tentatlye proposition, which is yet under con- sideration, ' for the merging of all the cattle’ interests which I have re- ferrad to here, as well as others in the states of Arizona, Colorado and in certaln states of the northwest. “It this combination were formed it would constitute approximately a $3.000,000 corporation, and 1 preferred to keep a portion of my home land with water rights and so forth out of any such merger in event it was final- | | ly decided to make the change. “I came to Wasnington proached a friend of spoken to me about acquiring & ranch in New Mexico, and particularly about the ralsing of thoroughbred horses in that state. I placed before him the Brownfleld Harris proposition at the prices which they had given me, that is to say, immediate purchase of real and ap- estate and cattle of the Harris estate, | which would require $91,500. I stated to him aiso’ other should be acquired with these, that ultimately the total would approxtmate $125,000. gested to him that he should make this purchase outright in his own name and own the ranch and stock himself or that the cattle might be s0ld and the real estate retained for Lorse ranch purposes. Suggested Partnership. 1 also proposed that in the event he preferred to do so, if he would advance the money and make the pur- chase and take title {n his own name. 1 would agres with him upon an equal amount in value of my own adjolning property and form a co- partnership on a fifty-fifty basis. The matler was considered for soveral days and this gentleman decided that at the time he was not ready to make this invertment outright. “‘He stated, however, he would ad- yance me the money or advance me $100,000 In event I needed !t simply upon my own nots without security or indorsement. [ told him that I had the other two sources from which 1 could obtain the money or from which T could obtain the money to repay him in the event 1 ac- cepted his loan. It was finally agreed that he would loun me $100,000 and I gave him my note for that amount, due on demand, with a memorandum which 1 think he attached to the note, to the effect that If at any time within three years he desired to ocall the loan I would pay it im- mediately, or if he, after further con- sideration, desmired to acquire the title to the Harris property, he could do so at the actual cost, or If he desired to go in partnership with me, I would agree to put in an equal amount and we would jointly own the combined property. The arrangement wi basis: lands amount 1 sug- made on this Planned Cash Deal. “The deal with Harris was to be a cash deal. T notified them on No- vember 15, through my agent in El Paso, that I would be prepared to make the deal and pay the entire amount in cash on or about Decem- ber 1, if they had their deeds, bills ready at that time. I knew that Brownfleld and Harris did thelr banking business at Roswell, N. M., approximately 200 miles from the Three Rivers ranch. They in- formed me they had some loans against the cattle and some against real estate and that they were all coming due and must be met. “My home {n Three Rivers is twenty miles from any town. There were at that time two small banks at Alamogordo and two at Carrizozo. 1 left Washington for El Paso, en route to San Diego, Calif., to preside s Secretary of the Interfor for a earing of a Colorado river Irrigation power proposition and also to repre- sent the President at Riverside in a conference upon the same subject. I have at my ranch, at Three Rivers, @ perfectly secure vault, and in view of the banking situation with refer- ence to the Harris heirs and of the diversified interests represented by the eight heirs I expected, until I arrived at El Paso, to be compelled to meet the $91,500 payment im- mediately, 8o I took money with me in_cash. The gentleman from whom I ob- tained it and who furnished me the cash was Edward B. McLean of Washington, D. C. En route to El Paso I received no- tice that Harrls and Brownfleld would meet me at El Paso and save me & trip to Thres Rivers. I was then informed that they did not have their papers ready and that there were several® difficulties to over- come, requiring some time, and I there paid them, as Harris testified, $10,000 in cash.' I placed the bal- purs ance of the $100,000 in the hands of | I ever recel sued in western Europe, which is|my agent in El Paso, with instruc- | parties one cen! tions to deposit it with the right to check it out himself or the right to KISS THE BABY WHEN SHE 'S AROUND ' " mine who had | and | URGE FULL SCHOOL CONTROL FOR BOARD Public School Association The Public School Association showed jts resentment over the action of the Commissioners in preparing a substitute teachers' salary bill with- out the knowledge of the board of education by unanimously adopting at {ts meeting last night In the Dis- trict building a resolution urging that the entire management and con- trol of the school eystem be placed under the jurisdiction of the school board. The association, however. failed to ratify a clause in the reso- lution protesting against the reap- pointment of Commissioners Rudolph and Oystor. The resolution, Which, was pre- gented by J. G. Yaden, explained t the Commissioners are not énly king control ofsthe schools by usking for power to appoint mem- bers of the school board, but hav in the past “unduly and unwisely” interfered with the perogatives of the board in such matters as the preparation of the substitute teach- ers’ pay bill and have interfered with the board {n such “petty things an the naming of school buildings and have interfered and meddled with the courses of study adopted by the superintendent of schools and the board of education.” Debate In Protracted. Debate on the resolution was pro- tracted and centered chiefly on & clause calling for the appointment of board members by the President of the United States and their con- firmation by the Senate. Amended 90 a® to approve the present method of having the District Supreme Court appoint the bhoard personnel, the clause was adopted by a vote of 19 ta 6. The progr: e /ITALIAN ENGINEERS COMING TO AMERICA Twenty-Five Will Be Distributed Among Big Plants in U. §., Prince Caetani Announces. ive “bloc” on Assurances of co-operation and ald {1n the plan of the National Asscla- | tion of Italian Engineers to send a {number of young engineers from Italy to this country for the educa- {tional advantage of employment in glven Ambassador Caetani of Italy | yesterday by the American engineer- {ing council of the Federated American | Engineering_Societies. The Slate Department has arranged for the admlission of an extra quota to permit fifty of the vounk graduate engineers to sail for New York proba- biy next week, the ambassador told {the engineering councll in session here, and these will be followed this year by at least one hundred more. The council voted to co-operate with the Ttalian embassy and United States authorities in obtalning places for the cngineers and looking out for their weltare, Ambassador Caetan!, who initiated the idea and who is himself a gradu- ate of the Columbla University School of Mines, sald twenty-five of the Itallan engineers of the first group will be put to work in the Ford plant at Detroit, seven will Ko to the West- inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at Pittsburgh, and three to the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y. “LITTLE CONGRESS” TO ELECT SPEAKER Election of a speaker s the prin- cipal business before the “Little Con- gress.” which will meet tonight in the eaucus room of the House office build- ing. This organization is composed of secretaries to representatives and senators and employes of Congress generally. George E. Strong of Kan- sas now is speaker, but his term ex- tion of a clerk to succeed Da- vid Lynn, who has been made archi- tect of the Capitol, and sergeant-at- arms to succeed Robert Nelson of Wisconsin also will be held. Following the election of officers, the Little Congress wil take up for discussion and action a _resolution providing that all immigration be suspended for a period of five vears. Members who have made a special study of the subject in connection with their officlal duties will lead the discussion. All other members will be permitted to participate under the five-minute rule. myself to draw checks upon the ac- count. “I turned over the majority of the Brownfield-Harris cattle to my cat- tle ccmpany, recelving credit upon the books for the amount per head pald by myself for the cattle” “About May or the first of June, 1922, 1 had a conference with my partner and decided to throw into the cattle company as soon as con- venlent a title to & large portion of my own private land holdings, and we immediately arranged for the cat- tle company as much money as was necessary—that is to say. from $100,- 00 to $200,000, to be used in im- provements and particularly in the erection of electric power plant &nd transmission lines. We have ex- pended in these improvements ap- proximately $100,000. “The fact that Mr. H. F. Sinclair came to Three Rivers with his wife and another lady and gentleman on December 31, 1921, or January 1, 1922, just after I had taken possession of he Harrls home ranch property and the Harris-Brownfield cattle, has In- cited some evil-minded persons to the conclusion that 1 must have obtained money from Mr. Sinclair. It would Dbe needless for me to say that in the purchase of the Harris ranch or in any other purchases or expenditures 1 have never approached E. L. Doheny or any one connected with him or any of his corporation or Mr. H. F. Sin- Clair or any one connected with him or any of his corporations, nor have ived from either of said t on account of any oil lease or on,any other accounts Whatsoever. | —By AN' DON SAYs> WELL WHO'D WANT To ? ' — AN Now THEY HAVE A NEW From Co!nmiuiomrs—Hiu Salary Bill. large American industrial plants were | OF EDUCATION Would Take All Authority school board, consisting of _himself and Capt. Julius 1. Peyser, Earnest Greenwood ' told the association. now burying in the open the cats” that have been buried behind closed doors by the board. “Some of he ‘dead cats’ have heen buried as long as two years and my féllow un- desirable citizen on the board and L" he said, “are only trying to right | things which seem wrong to us.” | Mr. Greenwood mentioned specifi- cally as “‘dead cats” the Denny cal which he sald has made the board | appear ridiculous since the action of the Court of Appeals in ruling against that body, and the case of & teacher Who lost more than $250 of | her pay because she failed to report | for duty on the opening day of school. | Only Two Coples of Rules. i Mr. Greenwood nointed out that there are only two copies of the rules | and regulations that govern the board | In existence. One Is in the safe at the | Franklin School, he said, and Capt.| Peyser has the other. “The rules were in such condition.” he sald, “that teachers were fearful to come be- fore the board and present. their cases under such conditions. They are com- ing forward now and we are collect- | ing some very interesting data.” | Capt. Peyser also condemned the ae- tion of the Commissioners in prepar- ing the sabstitute pay hill, and said | he was unable to understand why | they desired the control of education | except to be able to appoint thelr friends. { | Capt. Peyser said he favored the | appointment of only men trained in | the local schools as superintendent of | schools. A report by Mrs. W. T. Bannerman, chairman of the educational methods committee, indorsing visual education | in the District schools, was adopted. | 1t calls for an additional appropria- | tion of $100,000 for text books and supplies COMMITTEE DELAYS .G DAY PROPOSAL The fallure of the House rules com- | mittee to adopt a resolution offered by | | Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, | republican, of Maryland, and support- | ed by Representative R. Walton Moore, !democrat, of Virginla, which would safeguard two regular days each month for District legislation, and re- fusal to recommend a number of other | | changes dcmanded by the republican | “progressives," indicates a fight on the floor when the question is brought up, probably on Monday. ! Varlous leaders predicted today that | {a clash 1s inevitable when the rules | | committee reports. 1 Will Consider Later. Representative Bertrand Snell of New York, chairman of the rules com- | mittes, sald that the committee would | | i District days in the House later. The resolution of Representative Zihlman would require a two-thirds vote to set aside the District days, while Repre quiring a fourth-fifths vote. On several votes in committee yes- terday organization republicans rout- ed the democrats and the one in- surgent member of the committee— | Representative Nelson of Wiscon- | sin. Democratic committee members, | among them Representative Garrett. the minority leader, said they would | carry their fight to the floor, while the insurgent bloc will hold ‘a con_ ence today to map out its pro gram. The main point at issue was the | question of discharging committees | from consideration of legislation. Mr. Nelson proposed that 100 names on a petition should be sufcient to set the machinery in motion, while Rep- resentative Johnson. republican, South Dakota, suggested 150 names and car- ried his motion. Without opposition, the committee voted to recommend creation of & new veterans' commitiee of seven- teen members, with jurlsdiction over legislation affecting “world war vet- | erans, except bonus proposals and | pensions. { i FIND GIRL FUGITIVES AFTER RUM ARREST Arrest today of a man on charges of violating the prohibition act, ac- complished by Precinct Detective L. M. Wilson of the ninth precinct, after a rough-and-tumble scrap, led to the discovery in hiding of two fugitives from the National Training School for Girls and the arrest of a second man on charges of harboring the girls for immoral purposes. Louis J. Filler, twenty-eight years old, of 1356 Filorida avenue north- ecast, the first man, was held on a| charge of possession of two quarts of gln, in violation of the Volstead law. Samuel Emelio was the man charg- ed with harboring the young girl fugitives. Policeman Wilson was passing along Florida avenue when he noticed, he said, suspiclous actions of Filler | who ran, and dodging into an alley-, way, smashed a bottle of gin, Wilson grabbed Filler and then a rough-and- tumble scrap followed, resulting in the_officer overpowering Filler. NotleIng two young white girls in the rear of the building, Wilson in- | vestigated and found that they \'\'arfi Bessle Murphy, sixteen years old, and Fisie Marle Corson, nineteen vears old, fugitives from tre National Training School for Girls, who had | escaped . from that institution on | January 2, and for whom the police department had a.lookout. Emelio, occupant of the rear of 135 Florida avenue, where Filler made his home, was arrested. He was in the United States branch of Police Court today before Judge John P, McMahon and held for the action of the grand jury and his bond fixed at $1,000. The two!girls were turned over to the authorities of the reform school. ALBERTINE RANDALL | perm| leation |the consider the resolution to protect the | sentative Moore argued in favor of re- | 3 | { L. Holmes of this cit !morning at Pennsylvania and | suftering BUTLER WILL MEET, NOTCHASE BANDITS Armored Cars and Booths to Be Posted at All Exits From City and Work to Center. By the Assoclated Press PHILADELPHIA, January nearly 1,000 of the city's 1,200 saloons closed, every known disorderly house and gambling establishment out of business and the bootleggers driver to cover as a result of the intensive police campaign for th of vice and crime, Brig. Gen. Smealey D. Butler, director of publfe saf oday turned his attention to bandit and other forms of lawlessness. Gen Butler safd he was satiefied that at least 80 per cent of the places where vice flourished before the drive sturt €d had been wiped out Director Butler sald that armed guards and observation booths would be placed at all the twenty-one en- trauces and exits of Philadelphia. to prevent the escape of highwaymen and to check up on persons entering the cf Stationed at each of these ©outposis will be an armorcd motor car, detectives with sawed-off =hot- Buns, motor cycle policemen and & nent sentry, whose duty will ba to see that no suspleious-100king car Bassen in or out of the city without inspection p Observation booths will be with telephones und ecting dir bureiau in ¢ and hol ~With elimination equipped electricial all robberjes ported first When the central station report of a hold-up, a fl be sent to all the outposts, description of the highway r his automobile, if on emple making his getawa From Posts the armored cars cycles wil} begin a simultaneous movement toward the center of the city, combing every street on the way A ‘bandit car also will be placed at each of the forty-one police stativn houses. Their line will be next trable, Director Butler belleves. “This system,” he said, “will be put into effect immedia as a part of the clean-up program. Instead of the bandit-chasing squads_starting from the city hall after & hold-up, which places them in the position of a pur- suer, running on behind their prey, they will meet them head-on, giving the police the advantage.” GEORGE S. HOLMES, CHURCH WORKER, DIES Once Guide at State, War and Navy Building, and Was Native of Illinois. ving a i and ed in the out and motor to impene- ¥ Holmes, formerly ¢ years of the East died last endan long trouble { urer for man | yterian Church ght h home, | street northwest, | itlness complicated and senillty He would have ears old on March 24 been an invalid for some Mr. Holmes was & native of ville, J1l. Before removing to Wash- ington he was acti the Presby- terian Church at lle, and upon settling here nued his church activity by live in terest in the work Eastern Presbyterian h.- Mr. Holmes guide in the building. Brief funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, following which the body will be taken to Taylorvi whers services will be held Monday after- noon. Mr. Holmes Is survived by his wire, Mrs. Mary A, Holmes: a son, Rexford ; a gister, Mrs. Rebeccah McClay of near Columbus, Ohio, ,and” two brothers, James A Holmés of Tavlorville and Emery ¢ Holmes of Leoti, Kan. WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT IN AUTO CRASH Car, Driven by Husband, in Col- lision—Wife Suffers Concus- sion of Brain. here, 1414 Cr following by heart b cighty-four xt. He had taking period War and was a Navy Mrs. Sarah MacLewis, thirty-five years old, of Greater Capitol Heights, Md., was seriously injured when her husband’s automobile and an automo- bile cperated by George W. Bradley of Ritchie Station, Md., collided this Minne- sota avenues southeast. She was taken to Casualty tal in an ambulance, wheve sie is from concussion of the brain, severe shock and laceration about the hands. Her husband, Kirk Maclewis, who was driving, escaped injury, as did Mr. Bradley. Mrs. MacLewls' condition is regarded as oritical, Dr. Dull at Casualty Hospital said. although it in serious. Policeman Thorne of the cleventh precinct investigated the case. Hospi- not Both Cars Damaged. ‘Both automobiles figuring in the col- liston were badly damaged, and wit- nesses declared the escape of Mue- Lewls and Bradley from injury re- markable. Frank Perna, jr. 4101 Brandywine street, and two colored boys, Herbert Robinson, seven years, and Kenneth Robinson, his fifteen-year-old brother, 760 Hobart street, were injured in a collision at Connecticut avenue and Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md., about 11 o'clock today. They were ken to Emergency Hospital, where physicians said the condition of the younger boy was critical. He was unconscious and suffered probable fracture of the skull Burton Charles Barber, colored, 1443 W street, driver of the truck in which the boys were riding, escaped injury. Perna was driving south on Connect- fcut avenue, on his way to the city, and the vehicle met when Barber a tempted to make a left turn into Le- land street. Perna was hurled through the windshield, landing on the wet earth, escaping with _only cuts and bruises to his face. Both the Robin- son boys, who were on the truck, were thrown to the roadway. TUCKERS OUT ON BOND. Perjury Charge Against Couple to - Be Tried Soon. JERSEY CITY, N. J.,, January 12. Mr. and Mrs. Burton 8.'Tucker yester- day pleaded not guilty to charges of perjury and conspiracy to violate the marriage laws and were released in $5,000 bonds each. Prosecutor McMahon announced that hie would ‘arrange for an early trial. The couple were married October 2. Tucker gave his age as twenty-one in applying for the marriage license, while his father testified at the grand jury hearing that his son was seven- teen years old. Mrs Tucker is forty- eight years of age,