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[\ 1 WEATHER. Rain tonight and tomorrow morn- ing, possibly changing to older tomorrow; tem- ty-four . yesterd: a.m, today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 Entered as second-class matter post oflice Washington, D. C. No. 29,134. Full report on j sge b. snow flur- hours_end- CAPITAL TO PAUSE IN SILENT RESPECT DURING RITES FOR WOODROW WILSON Departments of Government Will Stop at Noon—Church Bells to Toll as All Otherl { Activities Cease. ! PICKED OVERSEAS MEN WILL BEAR THE CASKET Former Intimate Associates and‘ Members of His Cabinet to Be Honorary Pallbearers—No Eu- logy Will Be Offered Either at Home or the Tomb. i A few fleeting hours and Wood- row Wilson will be but a cherished memory—the great heart that once dictated the destinies of the nations will belong to the immortals. Tenderly guarded from the public turmoil he so carefully avoided in the dimming years of his torn life, he sleeps today for the last time in the quict home to which he retired nearly four years ago. Tomorrow he will be surrendered to his eternal rest in the peaceful little Bethlehem Chapel of the Nativity amid the soft- Iy whispering oaks of Mount St. Alban. No glittering cavalcade will bear him to his sanctified tomb; no muf- fled drums will roll his last tattoo. As a man of peace, with the quiet service befitting the private citizen | he preferred to be, he will be laid away from human eyes forever in the sanctuary of the Prince of Peace. And above his sepulchre will be in- scribed these words: “The Way of Peace.” In the quiet grave beneath the crypt of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul he will find an end to the strife and turmoil he vainly had hoped to spare a war-stricken world. For he will lie in hallowed ground. The walls of his tomb are surround- ed by stones brought from the sacred city of Bethlehem, and the sentinels at his sepulchre will be the graven apostles of Jesus. Silence for Two Minutes. During the moment that Mr. Wil- #on is being committed to his final rest all Washington will pause and ¢ bow In memory of the war President Work in government departments will be suspended at noon and for two minutes, beginning at 3:30| o'clock, even street cars will stop wherever they are out of respect to the soul that will have passed from the eves of the world forever. Dvery wheel will cease to turn— motorists will draw thelr cars up to the nearest curb, department stores will suspend for the two min- ates and the life of the National Capital will be halted for the time. And meanwhile the church bells of. the city will toll a solemn requiem from their towers pointing skyward during the agonizing moment of Woodrow Wilson's committal to the tomb. Before the funeral procession moves to Mount St. Alban a short service for the family and the friends Afr. Wilson liked best to have around im will be conducted by the Rt. Rev. Jumes £. Freeman, Episcopal Blshop of Washington, assisted by Rev. Dr. Jamcs H. Taylor, pastor of the Cen- tral rresbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. Sylvester W. Beach, pastor of the church he attended as president of Princeton University. Veterans to Bear Pall. * ¥or a few brief minutes the family and intimate friends will be permit- ted to gaze for their last time upon the sleeping face of America's war Tresident. Softly a quartet will sing one of his favorite hymns—"The Strife Is O'er.” Then the 1id of the casket wil be sealed forever and the short journey to the green-carpeted slopes of Mount St. Alban will begin. Upon the broad shoulders of the men he commanded and suffered with through the world's greatest war— | cight non-commissioned officers of; , eight of the Navy and cight of the Marine Corps—he will e borne to the waliting hearse. Every man will be picked and every one a veteran of the conflict overseas. They will be worthy bearers of the mortal remains of their former commander- in-chief. List of Pallbearers. Behind them will come the honor- ary pallbearers, announced by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, as follow: \Cleveland H. Dodge of New York, Cyrus H. McCormick of Chicago, Dr. Jidward P. Davis of Philadelphia and Dr. K. Hiram Woods of Baltimore, .1l of whim were members of his class at Princeton: Vance C. McCor- mick of Harrisburg, Pa.; Bernard M. Baruch of New York, Norman H. Davis of New York, Jese H. Jones of Houston, Tex.; Dr. F. X. Deroum: of Thiladelphia and Winthrow M. Dan- iels of Princeton, N. J., who were Mr. Wilson's most intimate friends dur- ing his years of retirement. rank L. Polk, former under Secr: tary of State; David H. Houston, fo :uer Secretary of the Treasury; New. ton D. Baker, former Secretary of ‘War; Joseph: Danfels, former Se =stary of the Navy; Albert 8. Burl son, former Postmaster General; Joh Barton Payne, former Secretary of the Interior; Thomas W. Gregory, former Attorney General; William C. Redfield, fomer Secretary of Com. merce; Willlam B, Wilson, former Se, stary ‘of Labor, and Edwin,T. Mere dith, former Secretary-of Agricujture. Slowly the procession will ‘move down B street to Massachusetts a: WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ Foenit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION GERMAN EMBASSY FAILS TO FLY ! HALF-STAFF FLAG FOR WILSON) Envoy Says Berlin Considers Him Private Citizen. Colors to Be Lowered at Austrian Legation. American Legion Plans Action. The German embassy will not half- staft the German colors as a mark of respect to the late Woodrow Wil- son. The Austrian legation authorized the statement today that it would fly the flag at half-staff tomorrow. Today there is no flag fiying over the German embassy to indicate .that it is the German official headquarters in this country. A reporter called the German em- bassy on the telephone early today to ask why the colors were not at half-staff, as were the colors of other foreign countries on their embassies and legations here. The embassy of- ficlal said then he did not know whether the colors were at half-staft or not, but asked the reporter to call later. When the reporter called at the embassy he was handed the following officlnl statement: “The German government siders the late Mr. Woodrow a private citizen and therefore in- structed the German embassy to re- frain from official display of mourn- ing.” Upon questioning, however, the re- C. H. LEVERMORE - JINS BOK AWARD Aut*ar Is New York -Student of World Affairs, Writer and Educator. con- Wilson By the Assocjated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., February 6. —Charles Herbert Levermore of New York, student of international affairs, writer and educator, is the author of plan 1469 and winner of the American peace award donated by Edward W. Bok of Philadelphia. His {dentity was revealed last night at a meeting in the Academy of Music, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Forum and the policy committee of the- American peace award, and he was presented with half of the $100,- 000 prize. The plan was selected from 22,165 submitted to the commit- tee on award as the best to preserve peace among the nations of the world. Detafls of the winning plan, which provides for American co-operation, under certain reservations, with & modified league of nations without the United States becoming a mem- ber; for adherence to the world court with the Hughes reservations, and for a commission of jurists to codify international law, were made public January 7, but its author was known to only one pegson—a member of the policy committee. Writer on Werld Peace. Mr. Levermore has. published sev- eral studles upon the general subject of world peace. He has been an in- structor in various colleges and uni- versities, including the University of California, the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology and Adelphi Col- lege, Brooklyn, of which he was prei ident for eighteen vears. He was born in Mansfleld, Conn., in 1856, and was graduated from Yale in 1879, From 1913 to 1916 he was connected with the World Peace Foundation in Beies 1917 he has been secretary of the New York Peace Soclety and in 1922 he acted as secretary of the newly formed American Associatior for International Co-operation and, with - other officers of that body, helped form the League of Nations Non-Partisan Assoclation last year. John W. Davls, former ambassador to Great Britain, and one of the principal speakers at last night's meeting, disclosed the name of the winner of the award at the con- clusion of his address and presented Mr. Levermore with a check for $50,000. He will receive the other half if his plan is Indorsed by the United States Senate or by a ma- jority vote of the American people through a_referendum being con- ducted by Mr. Bok's representatives. All Eyes on Vacant Chair. Throughout the preliminary for- malities the eyes of the audlence were centered on the vacant chair placed on the stage for the winner and when Mr. Levermore, who had been sitting behind Miss Esther Ev- erett Lape, chairman of the policy committee, was Introduced the audi- ence arose and applauded for a full minute. Expressing his thanks. for the honor accorded’him, Mr. Lever- more sald he regarded it "as a trumpet call to service in the ranks for the establishment and malnte- uance of péace through justice under the law.” Melville E. Stone, counselor of the Associated Press, presided over the meetls Other speakers included Miss Lape and Henry- L. Stimson, former Becretary of War. A telegram giving the name of the winner was sent to Mr. ‘Bok, who is in Florida, and the follow- ing reply was read by Mr. Stone: “Will you please convey my sincere condolences to the author of the Ameri- can peace award winning plan and tell him 1 meant well. But what with the overwhelming publicity which will be his portion, to say nothing of the hun- di of accommodating persons who will tell him how to spend the money, I envy him. The only enlightening ex- rience 1 see ahead for him is that laboring under the delusion that he is & free born American cititen he may have his personal motives investigated by a Senate committee. Davis Praises Plan. The winning plan, Mr. Davis said, was concelved ith a clear conception of conditigns both at home and abroad.” In failing to “bring forward anything fundamentally new and startling,” he Bsserted the plan demonstrated its prac- ticability in that “it takes count of things as they are and does not etrain after the more than doubtful merit of, mere novelty.” “Realizing," continued the form ambassador, “that fifty-four nl('O:: of the world were already organized for the purposes of peace, he (the author) brushed aside as belonging to the sphere of pure fancy and not of practical politics any. effort to Induce them to abandon the structure they had built and start efresh from a new foundation. 3 “Consclous of the fixed determina- tion of America to maintain the Mon. roe doctrine inviolate and to preserve its own independence of action, he makes adequate provision for both. (Continued on Page =, Column 5.) - (Continued on 2, Column 2 porter developed the point that the Ambassador had not received any specific instructiona directly bearing on the matter, but he was informed that German newspapers had carried dispatches pointing to this view, and indicated that they were inspired by the foreign office’ "So the ambassador took the newspaper reports as his of- ficial stand. Local American Legion headquar- ters, it was understood, contemplates action later in the day, the nature of which' was not made known. The attention of Department Com- mander Paul J. McGahan of the Amer- ican Leglon was invited today by | Past Commander Howard F. Fisk of | George Washington Post, No. 1. to the fact that the German embassy's flag was not at half-staff. McGahan stated his attention had been called by a number of other legionnaires to the situation and he was investigat- ing the matter. Former President Wilson was a member of George Washington Post, No. 1, which is the ploneer post of the American Legion. It is possible that a resolution bearing on the subject will be pre- sented at the post’s meeting tonight. 3 DEAD, 1,000,000 LOSS FROM STORM Sleet .Cripples Wire Com- munications and Traffic in Michigan. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February G.—Weather that ran the gamut from mild tempera- tures in sections of lower Michigan to drifted snows farther north and sleeted streets, wires and rails, brought a toll of at least three dead, damage that is roughly estimated at upward of a mil- lion dollars and .demoralized traffic and communication in many places. Telegraph and telephone ' companies i report that the havoc to their wires cen- tered in an area of .about forty mile around Chicago,: but the octopus’arms of the storm extended farther.in every direction from thatcenter. - The worst blizzard in ‘years, according: to reports, damaged telephone and telegrapli lines, in the vicinity of Milwaukee to the ex- tent of $1,000,000. Teains Ave Stalled. Several trains in the state were re- i ported stalled In snowdrifts. Banks of snow..in some parts of Wisconsin were said to be ten feet: deep.. An- other radius of the storm “exténded south and southwest from Chicago, through Illinols, Missouri and as fa south as Tex A “tornado, accom- panied by rain and hail, caused dam- age placed at $100,000 at Haubstadt, Ind. ‘The storm reached gale proportions in Mossourl, sweeping upon the state from the northwest with an attend- ant drop in temperature and Increas- ed wind velocity. The rain turned to sleet and ice as it fell, burdening wires had poles that snapped under the weight. Motor and rail trafic was made haz- the glaze that made the entire sec- tion a virtual sea of ice. Merrill McLesan, seventeen, of Flint, was kill- ed early today when the automobile he was driving was struck by a Pere Marquette train at that place. An ice-coated windshield that dimmed his | view 1s blamed. Truck Ruas Down ‘Man. Victor Compton, sixty, was prob- ably fatally injured at Flint when he was run down by a truck as he walked in the street. Pedestrians quite generally in the affected areas were forsaking the sidewalks for the streets because of the treacherous underfooting. Ioy rails that prevented an inter- urban car from stopping In time caused the death of Mrs. Esther Wil- son, forty-five, and Mrs. Doris Ruhn, forty, late last crossing near Ypsilantl. Their au. tomobile was demolished and the women were killed instantly. Chicago was cut off by wire from the east. MISSOURI HIT BY SLEET. ST. LOUIS, Mo., February 6.—A severe sleet and snow storm sweeping Missouri and Illinois ints indicated the approach of the blizzard raging in the west. Missouri . poin! reported heav: irains yesterday which steadily turn- ed to sleet, crippling telegraph and telephone lines. The gale was re- ported sweeping from the northwest with a stebdily dropping temperature and increasing velocity of wind. Forecost for St, Louis and vicinity today was colder with probable snow. Jefterson City, Mo., was in the" grip of a blizzard with a drop in temper- ature from twenty degrées at night. {RECEPTION HALTED " BY WILSON DEATH Bishop Freeman Calls Off Function Planned for Convention Delegates. The reception to have been given tonight by Bishop Freeman to the delegates to the annual convention of the Episcopal Church in the dio- cese of Washington, which' was to havé been held in his home in the grounds of the National Cathedral, ‘has been called off because of the death of My. Wilson. ‘The convention will open tomorrow morning with & business meeting at 11:30 o’'clock,. when Bishop Freeman will deliver his annual address. There will be a mass meeting in St. Thoma®' Church at 8 p.m., to -which the public is ' invited. The speakers will be Rev. Dr. Robert Johnston, rector of St. John's Church, this city, and Willlam C. Sturgis, ed- ucationai secretary of the department of missions of the Natlonal Council of the Episcopal Church. The topic of the meeting will be the responsi- bility of church people to support the general program for church exten- ston and other purposes. ™ The convention ‘is expected to ad- Journ Thursday afternoon. There are a number of important matters.to be disouseed during the two-day session, ipoluding the establishment of a sep- arate parish in Tenleytowny DG A~ ardous throughout lower Michigan by | night at a grade sixty de‘r:e! yesterday to | the |Tl|ey did-not eat the infected food. INIUNCTION ENDING EXTRAGTION OF OIL WILL BE SOUGHT Counsel to Institute Proceed- ings When President Signs Walsh Resolution. UNGERLEIDER DELAYS TEAPOT HEARING TODAY Arrives Too Late, But Brings Books—Inquiry Will Be Re- sumed Thursday. Injunction proceedings to prevent turther extraction of oil from the Teapot Dome and Elk Hill reserves will be instituted by the government's special counsel In the ofl land lease cases as soon as President Coolldge slgns the Walsh resolution recently adoptkd by Congress. The Walsh resolution directing the employment of special counsel also instructs the President to enjoin the fufther extraction of oil from both the Teapot Dome reserve, leased by Albert B. Fall as Secretary of the In- terfor to Harry F. Sinclair, and the Ely Hills reserve, leased by Fall to E. L. Doheny. This resolution has not yet reached the White House, ow- ing to the Senate recess. Preparations for the filing of the injunction proceedings are being com- pleted by Silas H. Strawn and former Senator Atlee Pomerene, the govern- ment counsel, working in cenjunction with the Department of Justice. The special counsel generally will handle | the ol lease cases independent of the Department of Justice, but as the in- junction proceedings probably will be filed through district attorneys, the Department’s assistance was asked. Because of a misunderstanding as to the hour of the meeting of the Scnate ofl committee, Samuel Unger- |leider, head of a Cleveland stock | brokerage firm, was not present to- |day to respond to his name when it was called. No other witness had been summoned for today and fur- | ther investigation' o6f the naval ol leases was deferred until Thursday. Mr. Ungerleider, accompanied by the former manager of his Washing- ton branch, James Sloane, jr., a White House attache during a part of the Hardipg admiuistration, appesred at the hearing room later and:held a copference with Chairman Lenroot., 'y brought with them books of the Washington branch which the committee desires to have examined to determine whether they contain any record of transactions by federal government officials In the stock of the Mammoth Ofl Company. This |company was organized by the Sin- clair Interests to take over the leass of the Teapot Dome reserve obtained {by Harry F. Sinclair from Albert B. iFall, as Secretary of the Interlor. " Mr. Ungerleider agreed to lover his books to the speclal ac- countants of the Federal Trade Com- mission, who already are conducting |an examination of the books of W. B. |Hipl Co., a Washington banking \and brokerage concer: Books of the Association of Petro- {leum Producers of Mexico and the | National Association for the Protec- {tlon of American Rights in Mexico also are sought by the committee. In this connection supoenas have bee: issued for Guy Stevens and Thoma: Lee of New York city. John T. Kin| former republican national commit: teeman, also has been summoned. The committee will ask the Senate for a new grant of authority when { it assembles Thursday, and has noti- fied former Secretary Fall that his reappearance will be deferred until | BOTULINUS POISON 'BOTU | IN BEANS KILLS 7 Three Others of Twelve, Who Ate Oregon Meal, Are Still Se- riously Il By the Assoclated Press. - ALBANY, Oreg., February 5.—Botu- linus poison in home preserved beans caused the deaths yesterday and early .today of seven persons and affected i three others so serlously that little ! hope s held for thelr recovery. The { beans, which had spotled after being preserved, were. eaten at a family dinner Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Gerber. The dead Mrs. Paul Gerbig, thirty-four years old; Hilda Gerbig, ten; Marle Gerbig, seven; Gottfried Ruehling, Mrs. Gott ‘fried Ruehling, Werner Yunker, ten; Relnhold Gerber. . Serlously 1l Paul Gerbig, Esther Gerbig, thirteen months; John Ruehling, two. Two persons, Mrs. Reinhold Gerber and Margaret Gerbig, an infant, were the only ones of the twelve persons at the dinner who escaped poison. Mrs. Gerber told authorities she noticed the beans seemed slightly spoiled when she opened the jar, but l:a thought they would not hurt any one. Werner Yunker is sald to have spoken of & peculiar odor and taste ‘when he them. None of the deaths occurred until more than twenty-four hours after the dinner. SHIP IN DANGER IN ARCTIC. Maud May Run Aground, Radio Messages Indicate. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, February 5. : —1It is feared here that the Amundsen exploration ship Maud, which is drift- ing with the ice in the Arctic ocean, in danger of grounding on the Ne S alands. A raalo Tnessage from the vessel gave her position on Saturday at latitude 73.13 north, longitude 156.45 east. GETS ARMY COMMISSION. Donald W. . Kenneth, 1156 16th street, has been commissioned by the War Department econd leutenant in the Quartermaster Corps of the Or- ganized Reserves of the Army, & turn | 20 PCT. TAX CUT FAVORED FOR 1923 House Republicans Approve Reduction on All Personal Incomes. A 25 per cent reduction in all per- sonal Income taxes payable this year was approved today by republicans of the House ways and means committee. At the same time it was decided that the tax on jewelry should be Pplaced at & per cent, with all articles valued under $40 exempted. That actlon completed the republi- cgn: members’ considaratiop of the new revenue bill’ in private, and it wilk now be presenfed to the-full committee Thursday. It probably will be ‘reported - to the House without delay! Y ‘The 26 per cent reductien in 1923 taxes would mean a saving to tax- payers this yedr of about $225,000,000, the Treasury has estimated. tary Mellon has approved the scheme. Representative Garner, democrat, Toxas, recently introduced a joint resolution. proposing a reduction on taxes payable this year on the basis of his general tax revision plan, which would have .cut the present normal income rates in half. Under the republican plan the pro- portional excess paid on the first in- stallment, due March 15, would be re- funded later on, as it is believed im- possible that the measure can be enacted into law before that time. The whole committee previously | had agreed to cut in half the b per | cent jewelry tax, but it was found 00 great a cut in revenue would re. sult. " Besides the flat $40 exemption made, all watches under $60 also were exempted, as were surgical and musi- cal instruments, eyeglasses, spectacles and_sliver-plated flat table wear. It is e8timated that as it now stands the change in this tax ‘will ‘mean an an- | nual “loss of $13.000,000 in revenue, placing the total reduction in indirect or miscellaneous taxes now approve by the committee at about $114,000,000. Prohibits Tax Exempts. Thursday, February 14, the Green resolution ‘proposing a constitutional amendment which would prohibit {s- suance of tax-exempt securitles will be taken up in the House, and prob- ably adopted, according to plan an- nounced by House Leader Longworth. Although the ways and means com- mittee i{s under instructions from re- publicans of the House to report a tax bill by next Monday, the meas- ure may not come up until & week later. Leaders generally are agreed that before discussion gets under way the Treasury-Post Office appropria tion biil should be sent on its way, to the Senate. A vote on this measure, they say, cannot be reached .before the latter part of next week. Today and tomorrow will be given over to the consideration of a wide range Oof bills, and the House prob- ably will be able to devote only the last two days of the week to fur- ther consideration of the Treasury- Post Office bill. cing & jam in their legislative program, republican leaders said to- day that action on either immigration or Muscle Shoals before disposition of the tax bill was improbable. TEXAS BANK CLOSES. TEXARKANA, Tex., February 5.— The doors of the Guaranty State Bank Secre- { hgre were closed today and a notice . posted that'ifs affairs were {n 'the hands of the state banking commis- sioner. ¥ e Storm Isolates Chicago; Radio Broadcasts News -By the Asociated Press. CHICAGO, February. 5.—Chicago. and other -points- of- the central west ‘were practically - isolated - from the rest of the world' early today, as far as wire communica- tion was concerned, by the most severe sleet storm of the winter. Wi in all directions out of Chicago were put out of commis- sion .except to- the: northwest, where facilities were badly crip- led. - L As 8 result of the storm the As- sociated Prehll resorted to the use ng’. newspapers which were unable to mu:&l- wire communications with the. Chicago office, the larg- - est news relay point in the worlfi. The _ bro ting was done -from station ‘'WMAQ, on 'the roof of_Hotel La Salle. 'WMAQ is_the Chicago Dafly * his 5th ayenue News broadcasting tation, . _, ... . day or tOMOITOW, . o Sfar. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1924 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. LAOCOON. Federal Offices Closed Half Day For Wilson Rites All work in government depart- ments will be dispensed with to- merrow afternoon because of the funeral of former President Wood- row Wilson. This was made known at the White House today following a cabinet meeting, at which it was decided that the Président should direct the various departmental heads to require no work after 12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. This action on the part of the President was in licu of an ex- ecutive order, which was first con- templated to 'declare a holiday all day tomorrow, but which the President was. prevented from is- suing because of the discovery of 2 law passed in 1833 expressly providing that executive depart- ments of the goverament may not be closed as a mark of ‘respect for a former official. By adopting the method of di- recting that no work be required tomorrow afternoom -in the Je- Ppartments the govérnmental basi- ness will not be technieally closed and._ the law on this subject will not have been violated. The District. government also will be closed for business duri: the same hours, as. will- the fe: eral departments. ARNSTEIN VERDICTS UPHELD BY COURT District Appeals Tribunal Holds Convictions Were Reached Without Error. The District Court of Appeals to- day afiirmed the conviction and sen- tence of Jules, alias Nicky, Arnstein of New York, and four assoclates, in- dicated In 1920 on a charge of con- spiracy to bring stolen Wall street securities into the District of Colum- bia for hypothecation with local banks. Arnsteln was sentenced to setve two years in the penitentiary and pay a fine of $10,000. Isadore Cohn, alias Nick Cohn of New York, was given a like fine and imprison- ment. David W. Sullivan and Wilen W. Easterday, Washington stock brokers, are to serve two years in the penitentiary, without fine, and Norman S. Bowies. member of the ocal bar, was given a fine of $5,000 and two years in the penitentlary. Big Wall Street Theft. The case grew out of the $5,000,000 Wall street steal, and Joseph. Gluck, one of the stock brokers’ messengers figuring in the New York transac- tions, was indicted jointly with the five mentioned above. Gluck turned state’s evidence and steadfastly de- clared he had not beén promised im- munity. The opinlon of the’ appellate court was rendered by Chief Justice Smyth, who sustained the rulings of "the late Justice Gould, who presided at the trial. He finds that the testimony of Gluck was properly received and the exclusion of statements made by him to Assistant District Attorney Dooling of New York not prejudicial. The refusal of the court to give the . inotruction 2s to the presumption of innocence In the language offered. by the defense was upheld because the point had been tully covered in the charge to the jury. Good Character Testimony. Only two of the defendants offered testimony of good character and then the trial justice was asked for an instruction on good character, which would have embraced all thp defend- ants. The denial of _this instruction was ‘proper the court.finds. Many other assignments of error were of- fered bf counsel for the accused, but Chief Justice Smyth declare: court considered them and’ them to be without merit. - ‘The Arnstein trial was one of the last cases neard by, Justice Ashley M. Gould and attracted universal at- tention. The death of the judge was made the subject of an effort to se- cure a new trial, but failed. Justice Slddons Imposed the sentences. ROOT TO QUIT HOSPITAL. NEW YORK, February &.—Elhu Root, former Secretary of State, has 80 tar recovered from his recent op- eration for the removal of gall stones at he is ready to leave' the Néw York Hospital, his physician sald to- Root ‘probably will go to !rnme either \late to- th found “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as t (MAY ASK LONGER RECIPROCITY PERIOD 1 |D. C. Officials Consider Re- questing One More Month From Maryland. The District Commissioners prob- | ably will ask Maryland to extend the temporary automobile reciprocity agreement for another month if the gasoline tax bill fails to pass Con- gress by February 29. The present understanding between the two jurisdictions will expire au- tomatically on March 1 unless the €88 tax measure becomes a law be- Ifara that date, which means that only three weeks remain in which to &et action in both the House and Senats, z Commissioner Rudolmh, ohairman of the board, sald today that no de- cision has been reached as to what the local authorities will do at the end of this month, but he intimated he thought a request for a thirty- course to pursue. Renewal of Correspondence. The Commissioners will not - wait until the last few days of the month to renew correspondence with Gov. Ritchle of Maryland. This would not be wise, it was pointed out, for the reason that If reciprocity to end lon March 1 there are hundreds of lo- | cal car owners who will want to buy Maryland tags and large numbers of Marylanders applying for District license plates. The gas tax bill has been reported favorably to the House by the District committee, but not in exactly the form in which the Commissioners drafted it. When the measure reach- ed the House District committee some opposition developed to the provision eliminating the personal tax on auto- mobiles. ] Some Opposition Here. A compromise finally was reached and the bill was amended o0 as to abolish the personal tax only on ma- chines valued at less than $1,000. As a result of this change some appo- sition to the bill has developed among local organizations. Some opponents of the gasoline tax bill have urged enactment of the bill {under which Maryland would be de- prived of federal road-building funds unless reciprocity is granted. PRIEST MURDERED; Bridgeport, Conn., Police Seek Slayer—Two Boys Only ‘Witnesses. By the Assoclated Press, BRIDGEPORT, Conn., February 5.— The police were puzzled today in at- tempting to trace the murderer of Rev. Hubert F. Dahme, pastor of St. Joseph's German Catholic Church, and to find a motive for the crime. Father Dahme was shot through the head early last evening as he was ‘walking along Main street. The slay- er had been walking with the priest, according to the meager evidence ob- tainable. Father Dahme was retirn- ing from a sick call. He dled in the hospital two hours later without re- covering consciousness. y The shooting occurred within a stone's throw of the Lyric Theater, in front of which a crowd was gathered, and . about four on the street, with the exception of two boys, saw the shooting, so far as can be learn- ! ed. From the boys the police gained the only description they have ob- tained. of the murderer or the sh ing. The boys say the slayer s ly stepped to one side, fired shot and fled. He is described as about five feet six Inches In height, of slim build and wearing & blue overcoat and cap. Father Dahme was fifty-six years old and a native of Bavaria. He was ordained in Hartford, Conn., twenty- nine years ago, and had been at St. Joseph's. twenty-four years. $200,000 FIRE IN TEXAS. . VERNON, Tex., February b.—Fire which swept the business district here last night caused estl. mated at $200,000, and for a time the town was left in darkness and with- ! out telophone service Yesterday’: day extension would be the wisest| MOTIVE: UNKNOWN! he papers are printed. s Circulation, 109,013 - TWO CENTS. BREWER FILES SUIT TORETAIN DATA IN OUSTER AT BUREAV Seeks to Enjoin Mellon, Daugherty and Others From Obtaining His “Evidence.” EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT HIM, BASIS OF PLEA Declares He Wishes to Keep Papers Until Grand Jury Is Ready to Accept Them. Charles B. Brewer of the Depart- ment of Justice, who describes him- self as a taxpayer to the federal gov- jernment, today filled suit in the Dis- trict Supreme Court for an injunction against Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General; Garrard B. Win- ston, undersecretary of the Treasury, and Augustus Seymour, assistant at- torney general, to prevent inter- ference with his possession of thc bonds, securities and other evidenco on which he based his report to the late President Harding concerning irregularities at the bureau of en- graving and printing. Brewer’s report was followed Ly the wholesale dismissal of severa! heads of departments at the bureau. iHe charges that efforts are beiny i made to discredit him and if he sur- i renders possession of his proof I would be further discredited. The court is asked to prevent ir terference by the defendants ani their agents, wiht the keys to th safe deposit boxes where the bond: and other securities are reposing These boxes are in his name, Brewer declares, but the keys are | the possession of Representative Ed- ward J. King of Illinois. Injunction s also requested agains: the, destruction of the liberty loa. isues now_in the possession of th Treasury Department. These sccurities, he says, are nec. {essary to be retained in order to d | termine whether or not they arc duplicates of bonds which have no! | yet been surrendered. The oourt is also asked to prevent the defendan: from intimidating persons in the gov- ernment employ, Who have give: testimony concerning the bonds. | Mr. Brewer daclares ne wishes to retain possession of his evidence til it can be presented to the grani jury. He, however, expresses a wil.- {Ingness to deliver the documents intu the custody of the court. Through Attorney W. Gwynn Gard iner, Mr, Brewer says his information was procured from reports made di- rectly to him by two high official | having to do with the financial affairs jof the government, that when Presi- {dent Harding learned of the inquiry maie by him, Brewer was summoncil to the White Houre and directed “to get the truth and if there arc ocks put in your way let me Mr. Brewer maintains that his |port on the duplication of bonds the bureau was correct. Reported to President. Brewer says that with the {thority of the President vested in i ihe examined the burewu of printiy: {and engraving, the office of the reg- {ister of the Treasury, the division o loans and currency and other & ivisions of the Treasury, reporting hir |findings to President Harding in per- son at the White House. It is claimed by Brewer that hc {found duplicate bonds which had been ipaid and surrendered, and after hav- }ing ascertained that the numerals o Ithese duplicate bonds, although iden- tical as to figures, had been impressed on bonds from type of an entitrely different font, submitted the facts to the President with whom Brewer said he had numerous cenferences at the White House. President ' Harding, according to Brewer, called Secretary Melion to the White House and, in the presence of petitioner, said: *Mellon, they call this man a nut. It takes a nut to bring me such things as you see there (pointing to evidence). They are after this man good and hard, and I do not intend to let a thing happen to him.” Mellon, according to Brewer, was silent, merely nod- ding. Brewer claims he was haraseed by persons in authority, and propaganda started to discredit him. In the course of his investigation, he states, he had to visit a_number of federal reserve banks in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, and about one week after the Harding funeral, while he was in California, he re- ceived a request from Daugherty for his resignation as special assistant in the Department of Justice. This letter was sent to. his home in Col- loge Park, Md, he says, when the department knew he was in Cali- fornia. Coolldge Revokes Discharge. ‘When President Coolidge took up the matter, Mr. Brewer declares hc selected Charles G. Washburn, lawyer of Massachusetts, to hear and consider the merits of Brewe; port, he laid the matter before burn and was directed by the Presi- dent to proceed With his investiga- tion. After his discharge had been re- voked by President Coolidge the Treasury Department ordered an in- ventory, Brewer says, of the bonds in his possession, although they had his receipt for them showing numeral, issue and denomination. Chests in his private office were broken open by Burns agents, Brewer says, and he | was followed by secret service men into the .banks which he visited dur- ing his inquiry and employes of the Treasury Department have been ter- | rorized and threatened by secret serv- iice agents. Propaganda in the.pub- lic press has been started to discred- it him, he. states, and unless the court interferes irreparable damage will be done him as a taxpayer and to the other taxpayers of the United States. MACDONALD TO ACCEPT BUT ONE OF TWO SALARIES Premier, Though Holding Two Of- fices, to Be Content With £5,000 Compensation. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, February G5—Premier Macdonald has decided to accept a single salary of £5,000, although fill- ing the dual offices of first lord of the t ury and forel sscretary, which cary a salary of £5,000 each.