Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1924, Page 2

a * POLGEFRENEN PAY AL APPROVED Amended Measure to Be In- troduced Today—Enact- ment Monday Predicted. Favorable report on the police and firemen's pay bill after a serles of increases In salaries had been writ- ten into the bill above the figures submitted by the District Commis- sioners was ordered today by the subcommittee headed by Representa- Lampert of Wisconsin, to be made to the full District committee of the Hguse on Wednesday with the intentiof of having the bill brought up for passage the House next Monday. Representative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland was instructed to reintro- duce the bill today containing all 1 anges that have been agreed udhn in subcommittee so that the full mittee and the House will have &plean bill to consider. Representative Blanton, democrat, of as, told the subcommittec that he feels certain the full committee will promptly report the bil Wednesday and that it will be passed in the House on Monday without delay Rank Provided. New One of the today was to of detective five privates nt changes made prov for & new rank utenant for t thirty- now detailed at quarters. This action was taken upon recommendation of Inspector Phiilips af Inspector Grant, in charge of detec- tive headquarters. In reply to a question from Repre- sentative Bianton as to what oppor- tunity was opened u for detectives of particular and efliciency, In- spector Grant sald that they had an cpportunity to work up to the rank of inspector or capain. Milton D. Smith, representing the Po- lcemen's Assoctation, heartily indorsed the proposition, =aying that th th 1y-five headqua detectives should have & perman ank o that they might not be demoted overnight at the whim of one man. He believed this would ine se cfficlency, Other changes in the salary sched- ule for the poiice department in- clude increasing the salary of the inspeator In charge of detective heacquarters to $3,730, increasing the salary of lieut ASTASLAT . ae inspector in ch: of detective head- quarters to $2.980, increasing the Jary of detective lioutenants to 600 each. Increase for Firemen. fmport In regard to the firemen’s pay bill | the subcommittee was unanimous in sgreement upon following in- creases, written into the bill on mo- tion of Representative Blanton as ows: Deputy chief eng from 0 to $3,500, battalion chief en- er, from $2.800 to $3.0: fire marshal, from $3,000 to §3 .. )= uty fire marsh $2.400 to lieutenants. 32,230 to $2,350: ser- goants, from $2,100 to $2,200; super- intendent of machinery. $3.000 to $3.250; assistant superintendent of machinery, $2,400 to $2,500, pilots, §2,000 to $2.230; marine engineer, $2,000 to 13.250; nt mar.ne ¢ngineer, $1,900 to On the suggestio tive Zihiman a pro the amendment by Blanton previously written into_ the bill, which grants one day off in seven in lieu of Sunday to police and firemen. The proviso wouid allow this day off to be discontinued tem- porarily when in the judgment of the District Commissioners an emergency, &uch as conflagration, riot, etc., exists, TRIAL OF SWEENEY AND PHUMPHREY ON Third Pleads Guilty in Upper Marlboro Jail Substitution Case. the o, 2,500; Representa- so_was added to Special Dispatch to The Star, BALTIMORE, Md., January 21— Former Sheriff J. Arthur Sweeney and Deputy Everett Pumphrey of Prince Georges county went om trial be- fore United States District Judge Morris A. Soper here today, charged Wwith conspiracy to obstruct justice in allowing a federal prisoner in the jafl at Upper Marlboro, Md., to eecape. Grover Cleveland Hall, who was Jointly indicted, pleaded guilty. John ¢. Stafford of Petersburg. Va., had been sentenced to eerve three months’ imprisonment on a charge of vio- Jating the prohibition law. Stafford, zocording to the charges, on April 23 made application to serve in the Up- per Marlboro jail instead of the Bal- timore jail, and on the following day Hall was locked up in Stafford’s place. Discovery was made a month later that the prisoner was not Stafford, and an investigation followed, resul ing in the indictments. Stafford has 20t been located. JURY INDICTS 27, . EXONERATES SIX i Séyen Face Trial for Assault With ® Dangerous Weapon—Nine for Robbery. The new grand jury made its first report today to Justice Hitz in Crimi- nal Division 1. The grand jurors in- dicted twenty-seven persons and ex- onerated six others of charges which had been preferred against -them. Those indioted and the charges nst them are: Robert Forrest. it with dangerous weapon; Arm- stead Ward, Leon Woodward, Willle L Willlams and Otha Rhodes, rob- bery; Adolph Jaffe, grand larceny. Willlam Webb, James Turner, Bessie ! Johnson, Oscar B. Jackson and Wal- ter Golden, assault with dangerous weapon; Robert Lewls,’ and Thomas R. Fitzgerald, grand larcenw; Raymond Johnson and Ralph J. Richards, house- reaking and larceny; Deacon Jones, eese Johnson, John rBown, Walter J. ©Carver and Gertrude Irvingr robbery; William T. Webster, attempted rob- bery; Johnnie Washington, joyriding: Benjamin F. Awl, Willlam Alfred Mil- Jer and Frederick Sinclair, grand lar- ceny; Prescott E. Haskell, non-sup- port of wife and minor children. The cases ignored are: Bernice V. Beasley, assault with dangerous weapon; Philip J. Lewis, joyriding; John B. Moore, robbery: Richard ‘Pates, assault with dangerous weapon; Medill A. Smith and Albert Randolph, joyriding. ORE MINES T0' REOPEN. ST. JOHNS, F. January 21.— Arrangements have been effected for reopening ore mies at Belle Isle, shut down for the past two months. The company undertakes to employ antil December 15 not fewer than 800 men daily with a possible in- creage to twice that number when navagaiton opens. The government wil _exempt the company from the export duty on ore, head- | Representative | |Democrats May Allow Public to See Convention | By the Assoctated Pross NEW YORK, January 21.—A plan to throw open at least one sesslon of the demogratic national convention to jthe public is being considered by Chairman Cordell Hull of the national | democratic committee, The problem of handling the enor- |mous crowds that might stprm Madi- {%on Square Garden has beeu con stdered and It was said if the plan fwent through the convention mizht be transferred to the Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds for the day, BILLFAVORIG .G * ISTIEE REPORTED i i EMeasure Allows Chief Court Official to Sit in Con- ferences of Judges. Favorable report has been made by the House judiclary committee on a bill fostered by Representative Gra- ham, republican, of Pennsylvania, which allows the Chief Justice of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to sit In the annual conference of the United States circuit judges with the United States Supreme Court. _ The bill makes no change in the ex- isting law except in two particulars Representative Graham explained. They are It allows the chief justice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, or, in case of his inability to attend, the senior justice of that court, to be siummoned to the con- ference in the same manner as the senior circuit judge of a judictal cir- cuit. It requires an anpual report from the supreme court, the muni- cipal court and the presiding judge of the munfcipal court to the chief justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, showing the state of the business therein. These |the conference. | “Second. under the law there are ithree judges of the Court of Appeals, jand the socond section allows five !judges to sit, thus enabling the court {to utilize tha services of two judges lof the Court of Customs Appeals. {These judges have been assigned junder the existing law. To allow the [five to sit cotemporaneously will fa- |cilitate the business of the court.” {Reprosentative Graham explained. 'he passage of the bill will not incur iany additional expen . ] — - BLOCKADE OF TAMPICO { “POSTPONED,” REPORTS U. S. ADMIRAL MAGRUDER (Continued from First Page.) jthat the warning to Mexican rebel leaders emphasized by the presence jof American war vessels at Tampico | has been sufficient | "The Richmond steamed northward o Tamplco after picking up at Vera Cruz most of the crew of the stranded |crulser Tacoma. These men probably will be distributed among such other | vessels as may arrive later at Tam- {pico. The Richmond was reported as Iving “off Tampico.” which was taken as meaning that she was outside the proposed blockade line, observing | conditions and prepared to {such assistance to American mer- chantm as may necessary. Heavy weather was reported along | the Mexican gulf coast today, and it {was feared ing. MEXICANS ENTER U. S. Federal Force of 1,500 Men Passes Through El Paso. By the Aswociated Pres EL PASO, Tex., January 21.—A spe- cial train carrying approximately 11,500 Mexican federal troops passed {through El Paso today at 6:43 am. lana was immediately routed to Juarez. Special guards of United | States troops and Ei Paso police ac- i companied the traln through the { lower part of the oity. The troops eame from western Mexico by way of | Naco, Ariz., and will be sent to the { interior_of Mexico. Army intelligence officer in the El Paso district, was in oharge of the {train from Columbus, N. M., to El {Paso, a _distance of geventy-three !miles. A special guard of twenty | soldters accompanied the military offi- cer to the border town and brought the train to El Paso. Precautions Against Rald. The precautions there were due to reports that a band of rebel raiders |had appeared near Palomas, seven miles below Columbus on the Mexi- can side of the international boun- dary, with the intention of attacking the frain. Permission for the Mexican sol- diers to cross United States territory, that they might strike at the revo- lutionists from some new angle, was State Department at promptly acquiesced. The passage of the M the United States was a long, tire- some. process. Each soldier was re- quired to register his name as he en- fered the United States. More than four hours were required to inspect and register the entire contingent. FEDERALS TO ATTACK. Rebel Stronghold Near Vera Cruz Objective of Obregon. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, January 21 (by Ra- dio via the Fort Worth Star-Tele- gram).—Federal troops will attack Esperanza, Puebla, a rebel strong- hold on the Vera Cruz front, within the next few days, it is belicved here, {in what is expected to be the first de {clstve battle of the government's of- | tensive, The federal troops under Gen. Eu- genlo Martinez are continuing their advafice toward Esperanza. The fed erals now control 8an Marcos Puebla, which was occupled by Gen. Marti. nez's troops Saturday. Gen. Pedro Gonzales has concen- trated his revolutionary troops in Esperanza after fruitless attempts last week to cut communications of the Obregon army and to capture Puebla The federal leaders belicve Is- peranza will be taken without trouble and_are planning to combat guerilla warfare which they belfeve the rebels will turn to if defeated there. Specials from Penjamo state that a rebel dctachement reported near Salvatierra, Guanajato, apparently threatening Celeya in the same state. MAY PAY HUERTA $400,000. American Oil Firm Waits Capture of Tampico by Rebels. NEW YORK, January 21. Payment by the Mexican Petroleum Company of $400,000 to Adolfé de la Huerta, leader of the Mexican revolutionary faction, to prevent him from carrying out a threat to destroy the company's property at Tampico, hinges upon capture of the Mexican port by the revolutionary faction, according to H. G. Wylie, vice president of the company. Mr. Wylle declared that the threat to destroy the property unless an ad- render | | | Lot verbal | were presant | afternoon in THE EVENING PRESIDENT GREETS ANTI-DRY GROUP Praises Them for Stand for Law Enforcement—Re- | i iterates Own Position. n President Coolldge today congrat- ulated members of the axncutve com- mitten of the Assoctation Againat the {Probihition Amendment, holding fts conventlon In Washington, for the asmoc’ation’s stand for law enforee- imont. and told them that he standm for &trict enforvemont of the Val- atead olewas Wt the ofMca an, fol- by Senator Co'. Archibald Rectinna n hta erivate intr | reosived the | : ¢ dntrarnotion iBavarl of Dalawape, Hopking of fhia citv. chatrman of the loxecut've sommittes, safd: Mr, Presidont. the delezates of the toctutlon Awainst th Prohihition Amendment and other bharal socles ties have met to consider the present conditions. We desire to nssurs you of our suprort and our respect and | that the mempors of these socletles | 8tond sbsolutely for Inw and order. We belleve fn the fmpartial execu- tlon of Taw as the preservation of the Jeittzens’ Ithertfes, and we hellove also that exoerlencs has shown that ex- | tstine lawa should be modified The Antl-Saloon League rnd Amer- tea’s legal torridity were the tarsets vollovs ‘fired by sneakers A3 the “face the facts conference” | convened today in the Willard Hotel undar the suspicas of the nxsocintion More than 1,000 delegates, repre- ssnting every state in the Union. when the conference |Was convened in exacutive sosslon An open session. at which the public may be present, will be held this the small baliroom of the Willard. Findings of the executive session will be reported tc the general and open meeting at 2 o'clock. The speakers this afternoon, ac- {cording tu the oficlal program, will! ‘Im:lud f Rev. J. Malcolm Smith of | New i dolph reports are for the information of | i battered beyond 'any hope of refloat- | husiness by ! Maj. Earl handreth. United States 4qid not return to their vessels, but f requested by President Obregon. The convention is composed of marine en- a i Washington | gineers, seagoing and from the rivers, lexicans into |over the country. York city, Mrs. W. W. Mont- jr. of Pennsylvania: Ran-| W. "Chilas of Philadelphia, | W Russell, representing “anadian anti-prohibition organizi. tion; Capt. Willlam T. Fish of New ¥, Nathan Matthews of Massa- setts Austen G. Fox of New York city, Representative ‘Edward Voigt of Wisconsin and Matthew Woll of Chicago. vice president of the Amer- | fean Federatlion of Labor. i Tonight the delegates will assemble around the banquet board at the Willard. Their toastmaster will be Representative John Phillp HINl of Maryland, Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland and Senator Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware will speak at the banquet. | gomery. Frank ———— 1 INMIGRATIONBILL | IS URGED BY DAVIS Pending Measure One of Most Important Before Con- | gress, He Says. | The pending bill dealing with im- migration was classed as one of the | most important pieces of legislation | before Congress and as the most im- | the Tacoma would be!portant affecting labor and American | N§ Secretary of Labor Davis | an address at the opening meet- | ing of the forty-ninth annual vention of Natlonal Marine Engi- | neers Beneflolal Association at the Franklin Square Hotel today. i The enrollment of aliens coming | Into this country was urged by the | con- | Secretary as a necessary step toward the making of citizens and teaching | of the traditions of the nation. { 50,000 Legally Admitted. Secretary Davis explained that 500.- | 000 aliens legally came into this | country last year and ha could mnot! tell how many came in illegally, but | stated that it was a large number. He =aid a million sailors had been | cleared at the various American ports | last year and that each was allowed sixty days shore leave, many of whom continued into the interfor of the country. In speaking of those not allowed into this country Secretary Davis sald that such immigrants were al- lowed shore leave on bonds of $500 cach, and that over $100.000 had been forfeited to the United States treasury by reason of the failure of these people to return to their ships Entry Through Mexico. He stated that many foreigners! were being brought up from Mexico | by people who needed cheap labor. “They use every known subterfuge, to get into the United States,” he said. ‘He brought greetings fr-m Presi- dent Coolidge and an invitation_to meet him at the White House. The and waterways all They will discuss! matters affecting The convention will harbors, lakes legislation and their interests. last until Friday. — . GIRLS’ DORMITORY BURNS. 75 Occupants Escape Without In- jury in Blaze. ASHEVILLE, N. C., January 21— The Montreal Hotel. serving as dor- mitory for the Montreal Normal School on the assembly grounds of the Southern Presbyterian -Chureh, nineteen miles east of this city, was destroyed by fire this morning, in- Volving a loas estimated at $65,000. Sveenty-five girls, students at the normal school, ard ten teachers domi- ctled in the building, eschped without injury. The students and teachers lost practically all of their effects. lost practically all of their offects the revolutionists was received about ten days ago. Representatives of the company who had taken up the demand with the State Department In Washington, he sald, had been advised to protect the Tampico company by complying with the demand in the event thal de -la Huerta gained control of the ort. nNr. Wylie made “it clear that no payment would be made, unless the revolutionists actually eselzed the property and indlcated their inten- tion to carry out their threat. The company’s supply in.this coun- try is ample for at’ least three months, he said. ’ U. S. TUG SEEKS REFUGE. By the Assoclated Press. PORT, ARTHUR, Tex., January 21. —The United States naval tug Bay Spring has taken refuge in Vera Cruz harbor. from the “worst hurricane in years,” according to a message re- ceived here today by wireless from the Megican port. The radlo message, broadcast from Vera Cruz, wat signed “Marino Her- nandez,” and said the de la Huerta overnment gave permission for the oy Spring to enter the harbor after the vessel had wireless e wWas In danger of foundering. e Wireless vance in export oil taxes was paid to | has been forwarded to leom connection, It nations. witness to be e WALSH SUBMITS OIL PROBE DATA Summary of Evidence Taken at Palm Beach Given Senate Committee. mined, i5 shown in A detailed son of the Beach and summary and compari- evidence taken at Palm clsewhere regarding the financial affairs of former Secretary Albert B. Fall was lald before the Senate public lands committee today by Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, upon resumption of the Teapot Dome inquiry. “It is in told the comm or nearly all Fall is in the Mexico are i clrcumstane evidence,” te enator Walsh (hat though all cngaged us Mr. Lusiness in New strasten financial nd that, according to the testimony « witnesses, he declar ed in 20 that he was ‘broke’, and it had appeared that he had not pzid his local tax ! ten years prior 1 yet in the fall or early win- ter of 1921 uring which time Harry Sinclair visited Three Rivers, N. M in his private car and negotiatic were there carried on with Secretary Fall for lease of the Teapot Dome. he purchased a ranch adjacent to this, r which he paid, with the s K equipment appertaining to it. $91.500. the initial payment of $10.000 having been made in El Paso, Tex., in cash—$100 bills which he took out of a tin box in which there remained rther bills—the subsequent payments, delaved until the cattie could be delivered and the-title clemred, being made by check on a local bank. Addittonal Lands Acquired. o “He subsequently, early fn the year 1922, acquired additional lande, for which he pald $33,000, pald all de- linquent taxes due from him, amount- to $8,000; bought four Hereford bulls for which he paid $3,000, hav- ing introduced no new blood into his herd since it was assembled more than ten years agvo, and Installed in connection with his ranch a hydro- electric plant, primarily to supply power for pumping water for irriga- tion and, ¥, for lighting and other domestic uses, at a cost of from $40,000 to “In letter addressed to mitte under date of December 28, 1923, Secretary Fall. asserting that tll-health necessitated his communi- cating by letter rather than appear- ing In person, stated that of the money thus expended he secured $100,000 in cash from Edward B. Me- Lean of Washington, D. C., loaned to the com- {him upon his unsecured note, and that he secured further sums applicable to the expenditures of which mention has been made by loans from certain banking interests in Pueblo, Col. £100,000 McLean Loan. “Apparently, apprehending that he ight be called before the committee in consequence of the information given it by the letter of Secretary Fall, Mr. McLean, then in Palm Beach, Fla communicated with Hon. A. Mitchel Palmer, as his attorney, his desire to be excused from attending its sessions in Washington because of il health, saying in that connection that he had in the latter part of 1921 loaned $100,000 to Secretary Fall and offering to make a full statement under oath in writing of the transaction. Senator Walsh then completed the record by submitting a transcript of the testimony given before him by Mr. McLean in Palm Beach, in which the Washington publisher said he had made a loan to Mr. Fall in the form of several checks, but that all of them had been returned to him uncashed a short time afterward. The Montana senator also submitted the letter sent him by Mr. Fall saving that this testimony by Mr. McLean wae_accurate, and adding that he would not go further into the sub- ject of where he received the funds used in making the ranch purchase. PEACE PRIZE IDEA AND COST HIS, BOK ASSURES SENATORS (Continued from First Page.) mont, asked if there might be oir- cumstances under which such a fund Wwould prove “something of a moral enace.” o, mot it rightly administered,” was the reply. Hoped to Affect Opinion. Mr. Bok sald he hoped to affect public opinion by his award, but de- clared he mever had seen any liter- ature issued by those in charge of the award urging persons to write to their senators and representatives in support of the prize peace plan. You probably are the only man in the United States who haen't seen it said Senator Reed. The Missour! senator showed the witness several pleces of literature sent out by the award organization and other agencles. Among them wa: a copy ‘of @ ballot sent out in th natlon-wide referendum. “Did_you vote?” asked Mr. Bok. There was a laugh from the spec- tators, but the question went un- answered. Senator Reed referred to much of the literature as “propaganda. “What is vour definition of proga- ganda?’ asked Mr. Bok. *'On, I don’t care to go into tha responded Senator Reed. . “If you don't know what it ie, you ought not to be undertaking to” regulate the affairs of the world. Questioned on Fund. jenator Caraway, democrat, Arkansas, later led the witness back to the question of the amount fsthe trust' JA foreground. > 2 | fund created by him with the Girard i Trust Company of Philadelphia, but | Mr. Bok again refused to state it. | "1 don't see that the amount has any interest further than to satisfy |curiosity. It's purely a personal matter.” “Don’t you think you have hurt your award by declining to say how much you have expended”™ asked {Senator Caraway. { “I"do net,” replied Mr. Bok. “I jtrust the American people, and be- lleve they trust me and are not {nter- ested in what I have spent.” Applause which greeted this state- ment drew a warning from Chair- man Moses against further demorn- strations. “I don’t think the American people are as much interested in what T {have spent as the committee is," add- ed the witness Senator Greene asked Mr. Bok if he did not consider the law requiring publication of campalgn expenses good for the public. Tm not a candidate said_the witness, “When a man's a candidate to regu- late the whole government, he does not need to be a candidate for offic the senator returned Debated on 1 The committee's efforts were made | the subject of debate on the floor as soon as the Senate convened. Sen- iator Robinson, Arkansas, the demo- cratic leader, declared “the commit- | | tee would fail of its real purpose i | it permitted its attention to be di- iverted to the so-called Bok peace plan,” and away from such instances of organized propaganda as those now conducted for the Mellon tax |plan and against the bonus. He pointed out that under the authoriz- ing resolution the committee was di- rected to inguire generally into any propaganda to Influence Congress. Senator Reed replied that the com- mittes had no intention of passing over “more important facts” and had | taken up the Bok pian because it was | “constdered so trivial we ware cer- | tain it would be speedily disposed of. | “During the war," continucd Sena tor Robinson “the American people acquired and developed the propa- | ganda habit, and they have never lost it. Senators and representatives daily are flooded with communications. No | authority exists in this government to prevent the carrying on of prop- aganda so long as it is not conceived I r on and conducted in cor- ruption. “Jet me say to members of the committee and other senators, that it is without authority to interfere with organized efforts toward world peace, ino matter how misguided the spon- lsors of such efforts seem to be. Sees Bok ‘Pathetic.’ he figure of Mr. Bok. it is spectively suggested, is pathetic and somewhat appealing to millions of {fair-minded Americans. Many of ithese do not regard the Bok plan as presenting any new forceful sugges- tion touching the peaceful -adjust- iment of international controversies. | Milllons of men and women through- out the United States are conscious of the fact that no progress is being made; that the governments of the world are standing still, if not going backward, toward militarism and away from good will and co-opera- tion_ for mutual benefits. “Even though Mr. Bok may have failed, even though his resources may have been wasted it is believed by millions that his intentions were £00d and his motive sincere “If the committee exhaus its ef- forts in seeking to humiliate Mr. Bok and the very high-minded ladies and gentlemen associated with him in the enterprise to promote international peace, while at the same time cover- ing up, or neglecting to expose the far more important forms of organ- jzed effort to overwhelm Congress with a etimulated expreasion of al- leged public opinfon, it will not jus tify ita existence, but on the con- trary, will become odlous.” | Senator Reed replied that he was “at a loss to understand how any per- lson can become excited over what | has heppened in the committee. “I believe the American people have a right to know,” said the Missouri senator, ‘“whether propaganda is Dbeing conducted, its extent and the amount of money being expended. And they have a right to know this Tegardless of the merits or demerits of any individual movement. ~An 1 honest propaganda will lose nothing by these disclosures; the dishonest should be exposed. hy Now_ Mr. Bok tells us it is none of our business how muoh he spent. We shall see whether he is correct. He seems to be in the position of the man who explained he had ‘only put & =um in the bank and told the boys not to do anythifig wrong.’ “The committee intends to proceed upon every matter within the pur- viow of the resolution and T now in- vite any senator to present instances of propaganda which have come to his notice.” (e APPEAL OF SLAYERS DISMISSED BY COURT Highest Bench B_.ulea it Has No Jurisdiction in Louisiana Case. = The Supreme Court dismissed for want of jurisdiction today the case brought by Joseph Rini, Joseph Gigllo, Anidrea Lamantia, Roy Leona, Joseph Bocohio and Natali Deamore, to have set anide thelr cohviction. with death sentence, for the murder of Dalias Calmes. In the parish of Tangipahoa, La. They had two trials, the first being set aside by the Louisiana supreme court. They contended that confessions had been improperly admitted, that a Xte!udlmd uror sat, that the trial Judge refused to withdraw and per- mit another judge to conduct the trials after he had been objected to, and that the case should have been tried in another parish because of the public sentiment in the parish ‘Where the crime was committed. Baby Born With Beard. Perfectly normal in every other way, a baby recently born at a ma- ternity home in Pozsonyer, Hungaria, had a full grown beard. The unusual occurrence attracted clentific at. tention in Europe, as a baby bein born -with ‘a ‘chin covering’ for offic Floor. 2 (DAUGHERTY WOULD SHIFT “DRY" WORK NUARY 21, 1924, Declares Prohibition Enforce-' ment Should Be Assighed to His Department. Detection and prosecution of crime, {ncluding that under prohibition en- forcement, properly belongs to the Department of Justice, Attorney ieneral Daugherty today told the Joint congressional committee holding hearings on the reorganization of the government departments At the same time the Attorney Gen- eral made it plain that neither he ment is seeking the enforcement work, now In the hands of the prohibition enforcement unit of the Treasury Department. After the Attorney General left the stand Agsistant Attorney General Holland told the committee that offi- clals at the department hoped the responsibility for upholding the pro- hibitlon law “won't come about while we are there, nothing against this work placed with his department Mr. Daugherty said he to leave the administration prisons Where it js, under the ney General “I think they a hard-hofled has some being in of ined the are bet Attorncy ome heart and wense,” he told the comir tacking the proposition to transfer the administration of prisons to the Pproposed department of education a welfare. He spoke against the proposal to put postal Inspectors under the Di- partment of Justice, and was non- committal —on the proposition . to place the property in_the Deps-iaent of Juctice Secretary Wallace of the Depart- ment of Agriculture finished his testi- mony before the committee, begun last weelk, before the Attorney Gen- eral took the stand. He reiterated. his bellef that the administration of the public domain, reclamation serv- fce, Botanic Garden, cal Park and the burcau of fisheries properly should be in his department tion to take the bureau of chemistry from his department. Secretary Davis of the Dej of Labor is expected to be the committee tomorrow. FRIENDS DEFEND LAW. off_under General who common ittee, at- rtment ard by Prohibition Upheld on Floor of House. While #peakers at the association’s convention were denouncing the Vol- stead law, its defenders were send- ing out a counter barrage from the floor of the House. Randolph W. Child of Pennsylvania, Charles S. Wood of Pennsylvania, Julian Codman of Boston, William L. Fish of New Jersey. F. W. Russell of Winnipeg and Ferdinand W. Peck of Chicago. hurled uncomplimentary re- marks at prohibitory legisiation such as that in effect in the United States. In the House Representative Cram- ton, republican, Michigan, said that that association’s beer-and-wine pro- posal is impossible under the present Constitution, and charged the body had a “close liaison with the liguor Interests” Representative Blanton, democrat, Texas, another staunch dry, suggested that the resolution of Rep- {resentative Hill, republican, Mary- |1and, calling for an investigation of | the prohibition bureau, be broadened to Include the association. Repre- sentative Yates, republican, Tilinols, asked why the assoclation “does nof fight to have the prohibition amend- ment submitted to the states so that it can be repeaied or changed legally, instead of trying to nullify it ——— INTRODUCES BILL FOR GOMPENSATION Underhill Measure Would Provide for Accidental Injury of Workmen. Representative Underhill of Massa- chusetts today introduced in the House his workmen's compensation bill to assure compensation for acci- dental injurles or death of employes in certain occupations in the District of Columbia. Representative Fitzger- ald of Ohio is author of another workmen’s compensation bill, on which hearings are soon to be held by a special subcommittee of the House District committee. Representatives Underhill and Fitzgerald are rival contenders for different systems of gompulsory industrial insuranco and in the last Congress got into a dead- lock on thd\r respective measures which block: \=d other legislation. The Underhtll bill, offered in the House today, provides for the crea- tion of the office of compensation commissioner at a salary of $4.600. to bo appointed by the Distriot Commis- gloners, and who must be an actual |resident of the District. The term of office would be four vears, but re- moval for inefiiciency, neglect or mal- feasance In office Is specifically pro- vided for. This legislation would apply to all private employment except as lows: (1) Any employment in commerce between the District and any of the states, possessions or forelgn nations, In the service of a common carrier by raflroad. (2) Any employment that is casual and not in the usual course of the trade, business, occupation or profes- slon of the employer. (3) Any employment in an occupa- tlon not carried on by the employer for the sake of pecuniary gain. (4) Employment as a household dometic servant. (5) Employment by an eleemosy- nary institution or association. —_—— PROHIBITION ABOLITION PROPOSED IN NORWAY New Budget Provides for Increased | Expenditures—Money Needed to Meet Deficit. LONDON, January 21.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen says the Norwegian state budget for 1924-25 provides for an expenditure of 631,381,000 kroner, an increase of 79,792,875 kroner over the previous iyear. The dispatch adds that the government suggests the abolition of the prohibitfon upon spirits. It esti- {mates the government would receive an income of 36.00,000 kroner from a special spirits duty of 2 kroner per bottle. A dispatch from Christiania, Janu- ary 12, said the ministry announced that & bill would be introduced abol- ishing what remained of the prohibi- tion law. By the measure there would be a free sale of algohollc liguors, the revenue from which wauld be to mest the defloit In last year's nor :any other officer in his depart-’ but said he could see | custodian | Natfonal Zoologi- | cored as “unsound” the gugges- | SENATOR ASSAILS “WATERED STOCK” OF TRACTION LINES (Continued from First Page.) Rallway and Electric Company had only eighteen more cars in 1919 than it d1d in 1914, although it was evm- monly reported that the population of Washington had practically dou- bled during the war period. Senator McKellar recounted the history of ‘the organization of the Washington Rallway and Electric Company, growing out of the con-| solidation of many other street rail- | way companies here. He sald that the report of the commission showed that the Washington Traction and l':lpctréx' Company a predecessor of the Washington Railway and EI tric Compuny, had been finan through the United States Mortgag and Trust Company, that the con- solidation bringing about the Wash- ington Traction «nd Electric Company had required the use of between $10,- | 000,000 &nd $11,000,000. he first thing they did after the consolidation,” said Senator McKellar, was to water the stock They is- sued $12,000,000 worth of bonde and $10,000,000 warth of stock. The mort- | gage company got $10,000,000 worth of bonds and $2,500,000' worth of (ha | stock. This was the first raid on the | Ipubllc.' Value of Stock. | At this point Senator Ball inter- .rupted Senator McKellar to ask i the stock o issued had any par value, by W ASKS RETIREMENT BE MADE OPTIONAL Plea to Congress, Based on 30-Year Service, Made for Federal Employes. Strong pleas for optional retiremer of government employes on annul ties after thirty years of continuous service were made today to the joint meeting of the Senate and House civi] service committees continuing the hearings on proposed amendments 1« the existing retirement act M. ¢ Hargrove, purchasing offic for the District of Columbia, was th first witness heard. He was followed M. Collins of the railway postal clerks and other witnesses, including V. . Alifas, Distriot 44, machinists: Representative Sykes of Pennsylvania and Commissioner Wales of the Civil Service Commission. Mr. Hargrove's Argument. TUrging that the law be amended =0 as to provide for optional retireme and other question. Senator McKellar replied that he and Senator Ball did not agree on | ! this proposition and that if Senator| Attor- |pall wished to make an argument he |in anyv {in and | | would wait until he got through. | Senator Ball said_that he thought | |the statement of Senator McKellar {was unfair In that he had sald that | Mr. Ball had taken a position on the | Istreet railway matter. Senator Ball| lingisted that he would take no po- | isition until the hearings had been concluded. In the meantime, Senator McKellar had sat down and insisted that he would not continue unless permitted | to complete his statement without be- i { ing interrupted. At the conclusion of his statement he said he would be glad to answer any questions. Charges Records Withheld. Senator Ball sald that such a course was perfectly agreeable to him. After this little flare-up Senator McKellar resumed the stand. Contlnuing his statement, Senator MeKellar declared that during the in- vestigation by the Public Utilities Commission, as shown by fts report, the Washington Rallway and Electric Company had “withheld valuable rec- orda’ “Here's a corporation,” he said, “which is asking Congress to be al- lowed to keep its excessive rates, and it comes in with unclean hands. 1t concealed books and papers during the public utilities investigation, which were only discovered by chance on cross-examination, {n 191 | Senator McKellar told the commit- \tee that the commission’s report |showed that the so-called historical | value of the company was $10,695,000 That was the amount, he said, pald for these companies in the consoli- datlon. Untair to People. “Yet the people of Washington are asked to pay interest on $22,000.000 worth of securitles,” he said. “My position 1s that it is totally unfair to the people of Washington to permit this to be done.” The reproduction value down at $10,253,152.68, Kellar sald. He said that the cost of reproduction, less depreciation, was put down at $7,858,823, and that the fair valuation fixed by the commis- sion in which every possible claim of the company was included had been about $§16,000,000. Senator McKellar argued that that was the limit of the amount on which a fair return could be claimed by the company “And yet the people of Washington, according to this company, should pay a return on $32,000,000," ¥aid Senator | McKellar This 8 a plece of buccaneering the like of which 1 have never before | known in a long period of observing the operation of public utllities,” said Senator McKellar “This company ie asking authority to earn a fair rate of interest on $16.000,000 of watered securities and values. Is it possibla that any senator could vote for that? Tells of New Issue. At this point Senator McKellar eaid that he had concluded his statement in regard to the Washington Raliway and Electric Company and invited ns. Senator Capper of Kansas it the capital Stock had re- malined the same, or. in other words, $10,000,000. Senator McKellar re- iplied that the Washington Traction iand Eiectrlc Company had been trans {ferred to the Washington Rallway and Electric Company, while another | insue of stock, amounting to $15,000,- | 000 preferred and common stock was put out, taking the place of the ear- lier stock. Senator Ball suggested that the Public Utilities Commission takes only the valuation fixed by it of the com- pany’s property in fixing rates of fare and pays no attention to the stock value of the company. This valua- tion, he sald, now amounts to about $18,000,000. Testimony by Ham. William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, was called upon to state what the company wae earning today on ite stock. He st that it bad out- standing $8,500,000 worth of common stock and $6.800,000 worth of pre- ferred stock. on which it was earning 5 per cent. He ineisted, however, that the company was earning only 4.21 per cent on the commission's valua- tion of that part of its property which is strictly street rallway property. He contended that a misundersiand- ing had arisen because the Washing- ton Rallway and Electric Company owns also the stock and bonds of the Potomac Electric Power Company and other subsidiary companies. Senator McKellar denfed this, how- ever, and said that he would later {come to a dlscussion of the Potomac Eleotric Power Company. He also insisted that the company was earn- ing far more than 6 per cent on the | $18,000.000 valuation fixed by the Pub- ! lic Utilities Commission. i Double Bond Values. | Turning to the Capital Traction Company, Senator McKeliar sald that that company had not {ssued so much “watered stock” as the Washington Railway and Electric Company. “But it has done a most marvelous thing. e sald. “Tt is the only company that | 1 ever heard of whose bonds became | at one time worth two for one. He explained that at one time the bonds of the Washington and George- town Company were $4,000.000. This company, he said, was later purchased by the Rock Creek Rallway Company and the Capital Traction Company formed. There had been a provision in the charter of the Washington and Georgetown Company that at some- time it might exchange its bonds for stock when permitted to do so by Congress. That cOmpANY was so ef- ficiently managed that its stock went to’ 3275, and its bonds were there- fore considered to be worth $8,000,- 000, and in_the transfer of securities when the Capital Traction Company was formed, those bonds were put in at the value of $8,000,000. To that extent, he sald, the bonds of the Capital Traction Company have been watered. He insisted that the Capital Traction Company had not the right to ask the people of the District to pay interest on this $4,000,000 “of watered securities. e g Playwright for Children. Miss Olive M. Price. of 819 Eldora Place, Pitteburgh, Pa., has found writing plays for children highly sue- cessful. She has written twelve 8o far and she Is only nineteen ‘years old. More than twenty schools have asked for rights td produce them. She was poet laureate of her class when fitteen. She says she s swamped with work as she Is getting orders for sgecial playe. was put Senator Mc- { br Inot be enforced because | books {MRS. F. R. CHAT er thirty years of government serv- ce, Mr. Hargrove continued “Tt has been ‘sald by those who have studied the matter closely, that rarely does effclen after th worker, w which is not conducive 1 good bue ness. Renovatlon and new life instiiled by new and younger mind ‘It is my opinion that few, ex cept those who are worn or impaired by physical defects and whose eff cienoy has grown less would car to retira before the age of sixty and give up salaries of 32,000 to $3,00¢ to accept an annuity of $1,200, as few could find empioyment in the commercial world. “On the other hand, doubtless there are some who, as Representativ: Shafer of Wisconsin said before thic committee last Monday. would like and should be accorded the privilegrs of retiring before they have one foc in the grave. Those who have giver the best years of thelr life should Le accorded this privilege. See Many Benefited. “Retirement after thirt service, irrespective of age, would not only be a blessing to the elv servants themselves, but a henefit t the government by making room for entrance of younger and more «ff clent clerks at the lower gradee. ! work their way up as the thirty-y women and men have done “In advocating thirty-year retir ment, irrespective of age, | &m askinx no more for the civil emplove tha is accorded employ: of the {lizar nches of the service, If you gentlemen believe thir years too short, make it thirtv-flve or even forty, but make it somethine and give the employes who have given to the servic most usefu years of their lives an opportun to get out before they hecome { old to enjoy make good use of their few years of independence Speaks for Railway Mail Clerks. Mr. Collins, speaking for the ra mall clerks, sald that his ganization had indorsed the en-calied Stanfleld-Lehlbach bill. He compared this measure with the bills advanced by the pension bureau officials and by the aotuaries and Insisted that it would result in the greatest good for the greatest number. He said he fa- vored a fixed maximum annuity for all the employes, without a sifding scale for the higher salarfed men and women, as provided in other blils. Mr. Collins declared, too, that thirty years' continuous service was sul clent to permit retirement on pen ston. The joint committe its hearings at 10 o'clock tom and hopes to conclude the takl testimony before the close of t row’s hearing. MILEAGE TICKET ORDER SET ASIDE Supreme Court Holds Edict of Gov- ernment Issued Without Proper Hearings. years of The order of the Interstate Com- merce Commission requiring raflroads to lssue interchangeable mileage tickets under the act of 1922 was set aside by the Supreme Court today in a case brought by the govern- ment against the rallraods east of the Mississippl and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. The court took the position that the order of the commission could it was {s- proper hearings and what the commis- sion thought was the will of Con- B The opinion does not affect the power of the commisslon to order mileage tickets after proper hearings. Those railroads which opposed the commission's order. contended tnat proper cognizance had not been tak- en of all the factors involved in the case. They denied the government's contention that the sale of mileage at reduced rates would v reallty increase passenger receipts by stimulating travel. Commerclal _travelers' organiza tions, intervening on behalf of the order, told the court that discon- tinuance of the mileage book privi- lege during the war had resulted in material reduetion of the road forces of commercial houses, and that a restoration of the practice would im- pel a corresponding increase in such travel. aued without was influenced by FIELD DIES AT HOME HERE Widow of Colonel Was Prominent in Army Relief Society Work. Mrs. Frances Rains Chatfield, well known In soclety circles, connected with the Army Rellet Society for a number of years, and the widow of Col. Walter H. Chatfield, died at her resldence, 1302 Connecticut avenue northwest, yesterday. Funeral services will be conducted at the chapel of W. R. Speare Com- pany, 1208 I street northwest, to- morrow at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Arlington cemetery. : atfield was the daughter of Ao el “Haing of AuguAta. Ga.. and is a descendant of a long line of ent Army peopie. P e survived Dy two sisters, Mrs. G. H. Paddock and Mrs. E. R. Tupper. both of New York ecity, and a brother, Dr. Henry Rains of Columbia, 8. C.. and nieces, Mre. John Sturmian and Mrs, LeRoy Hankinson, both of Au- gusta, Ga.: Mrs. Henry Baroley of Kew " York, Mrs. H. Willlamas of Cleveland, Ohio, and a nephew, Capt. Sevier Tupper, U. 8. A, stationed in Honolulu. 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