Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 2

g - DR, LVANES S| AT H HOWE HERE i { Venezuelan Was Regarded | Among Foremost Experts on: [ Pan-American Affairs. Dr. Fraheisco Javier Yanes, ant @irector of the Pan-American Union and for many years considered one of the foremost experts on pan- American affairs, died at his home, 2006 Columbia road, here early toda after a long illness. He is survived by a widow and a brother and sister. now in Caracas, Venezue Except for two yes pines, Dr. Yanes ha of Washington most of the time ftor of the P: merican Union, He was born in Venezuela, at Caracas, | May 6, 1862, and wus graduated from ! the Univer ra with the degree of doctor of Laws. His educ tion and his natural bend t ward a diplomatic career in the ser ice of his native country, so that after several years in travel and as repre- sentative of Venezuela in intern: tional congresses, ccame acting consul general in Serves Five the Philip- becn a resident 1808, and for assistant d rs in the the was he b New York. Years in Post.. 1 for n the et 1y Aft and Washingte Pan ne to cepted @ position in the Unfon, then it Amerfcan Republics 1801 b by the Upited S and h rean of and ¢ nslator returning to the alter two years' t that time w it is doubtful if Spani for the commission. United States ay service. His health badly shattered, un he cver rocovered entirely from the results of his residence in Man r & year or me fter returning to Washington he lived more @r le as an invalid under the care of ph sicians and his devoted w But there was constant improveme ) that_in 1904 felt auble in to uccept a 1 with the Pan-Amer- editor. One n_ the Veld until his d In Deces to this country, Evelyn Augusti New York Taclined 1 Dr. Yanes' literature h s St Lynch m‘{ ward Literature. lination was to prose and po Avon,” u study both de try translat ch into o1 is his 1 Spangled Banner, It to convey into any that in ¢ wrote. He w of a large number of 1] addresses in Spanish and il mong the hest of these A o at American ilization,” “Los dos Unidos 108 paises de panolu tribution of Spanish Americ flization,” “Rotary ¥ el ideal Pan- Americano,” “The ries South of d addr Intern; tional Arbitration” JMohaw conference In 1 Had Pride in His Ancestry. Dr. Yanes was prodd of heing tl randson of Francieco Javier Yane or whom he was he eld Yanes was o of t active of the little bund df e volution- ists in Venezuela who, afier more than ten years of « sucee in s ding the revolut panish Amer: 1y led to freedom from fsh voke. M leader him wa Pena, Paul and othe In the first abortive dependence in the tutional congres tn 1811, it ws the declaration take effect anniversary the the United State lived to see Vi other Spanish pre Bolivar, Yanes und up the fight, Boliv: Yanes in the coun continental . Americ Spanish rule. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the Pan-American Union building. Mgr. C. F. Thomas, pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church, will officiate. The body will be taken to Carucas, Vene- zuela, whers mass will be said. Praised by Dr. Rowe. Dr. L. S. Rowe, director general | Pan American Cnion. in speaking of the service of Dr. Yanes, sal “A life devoted to the cause pan-Americanism has passed aw With a devotion that knew no hounds | he consecrated all his energles to fostering ties of friendship hetween the nations of this continent. He was particularly interested in the devel- opment of closer cultural relation Oocupying as he did a distinguished position in the Latin-American world of letters he realized the importance of a better appreciation on the part of the people of the United States | of the ideas and ideals of Latin America. and & closer understanding of North American culturo hy the people of Latin America, The person- al+loss «to the Pan American Union is_irreparable. Dr. Yanes endeared himself to every one connected with the institution ‘and his loss will be mourned not ony by the staff of the Pan American Unlon, but also by a wide circle of fricnds and admirers distributed through every republic of the American continent.” e FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE IS OPPOSED BY WEEKS Declares External Aggression, In- ternal Dissension and Other | . Issues Involved. ‘ Lat band : d (t met in Car es who introdu independenc ith of Jul of the M 2 any of the! but Kept | 1d and 1ot free of Z1ie ine the in the 1, unt became of | Opposition to the granting of Phil- ippine Independence was voiced to- day by Secretary Weeks before the House insular affairs committee. The danger to an independent Philippine government, Mr. Weeks sald, would arise from “external ag- gression, internal dissension, thelack of Filipino participation in’the com- merce and industries of the {slands and from the fingncial condition of the government.” FIRE SWEEPS SALEM, OHIO SALEM, Ohio, February 26.—Fire which for a time threatened the de- « struction of the entire business sec- tion here early yesterday destroyed two three-story brick business blocks and caused damage estimated at nearly $200,000. It took the combined ef- forts of fire companies from three cities to get the blaze under control. A double fire wall also prevented further spread of the flames. The Speidel block and the Henry foff block adjoining were gutted. e UTAH GROWS WEALTHIER. Utah's wealth was $1,535,477,000 at the close of 1922, the census bureau anneunced today. . That was an in- crease of 95.2 per cent over 1912. The Der capita wealth was $3,247, an in crease of«4d per cent. [ English ammunition factory. | Malta abo: | daughter, 3 Luk Noted fiiplofinl Dead i DR. FRANCISCO JAVIER YANES. U. S. SALVATIONISTS TALK OF SECESSION| | i Gen. Booth’s Ban on Membership in Secret Societies Stirs Feel- ing Against London. o pr YORK, uary f the American bra alvat A from the ganization in England cen by officers of the possible result of the recent action in London of Gen. Bramwell Booth, in approving orders calling upon offi- cers to quit secret societies and pro- hibiting them from making such atfiliations in the future. ared by some number of thei this country were t organizations and t with the orders from London itually would lead to secession or omplete paralysis of the American branch It was polnted out that the Salva- tion Army frequentl d accepted the assistance of secret societies in raising money An article in Staff Review —Seces- h of the ent or- today was army as on a officers nt issue of the ational ofti- an, whic cus sald o proved by Gen. Booth.{ ret socicties a { mentions alleged cants in them and secret L rec the inte condone habits with our teach MILLIONAIRE KILLS SELF. Scotch Magnate Found Dead at} Tallahassee. By the Associated Press, Fla, February coroner’s jury here yesterday rendered a verdict of suicide on the death of Dr. Tennett Ronalds, sixty- five, Sco millionaire of Edin- | burih, 1, who died at hisg winter ne is place from | pistol shot wound in the temple. | had been in extremely {1l health ! several months and this is sup- 0 have been the cause of ks | self-destruction. He ¢ lahassee in 1898 and has maln- | a home here and another in! inburgh, living six mouths of the, 1t eich - awned several thousand acres, land upon which is located an zant home four miles from the y. In Scotland Dr. Ronalds was n cxtensi v and agricul- | turist. _He s rdent sports- | mun. During the world war hej worked as a common laborer in an} ¥ Tor nosed act of NAVAL EXPEfiT STRICKEN. {Sir Percy Scott Reaches England Seriously Il PLYMOUTI. England, February re; )tt. noted urning home from | uthority, | the steamer Mashobra, | o in a critical condition. | found after sailing that | no oxysen aboard, and re- | ter, where she ob- | ~ More oxygen was -d here last night. The admiral is attended by his who said that her father had improved since leaving Malta. he ship was turned to tained a s taken abo; Scientist Calls It More Devastating Than War. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February Higher education is more dev- astating to the human race than war, Dr. 8. J. Holmes, professor of zoology at the University of Cali- fornia, asserted in a lecture at the Academy of Sclence here yesterday. The professor said that was because of the prevalence of small familles among the “highly intelligent,” which tends toward the extinction of “bet- ter endowed stock.” ———s FALLS FATAL TO TWO. Nurse Saved From Poisoning Top- ples Off Elevated Station. NEW YORK, February 25.—Twen- our hours after she had been re- vived from accidental gas polsoning, AMiss Leonitine Briscoe, & graduate nurse, fell from an elevated station and died three hours later in St s Hospital. Walter Kaufman, a musiclan, was fatally {njured when he fell six stories from his apartment window to a courtyard. Physicians attribute both accidents to dizziness. SRSl s SECOND DEATH IN FIGHT. North -Carolina Cousins Victims, Father of One May Recover. HIGH POINT, N. C., February 25.— Butler Myers, twenty-five years o wounded ifi & gun battle, in which h cousin, Willlam Ward, twenty-seven years 'old, was shot to death.near Thomasville Saturday, dled at a local hospital today. Young Myers' father, Albert Myers, sixty years old, also was wounded in the battle, and is a patient at the hos- pital here. He is expected to recover, physicians sald today. The fight is said by .the police to have resulted from & quarrel between the two cou- sins over a_liquor distillery captured on Myers' farm last Wednesday. FIRE SWEEPS TUPELO. TUPELO, Miss, February 25—A fire whioh raged here throughout Saturday night was brought under control* yesterday after the Mercan- tile building, housing seventsen busi- ness concerns in the heart of the city, had been destroyed, with & loss estimated at $125,000. = Among the principal sufferers was the Tupelo Review. The fire, believed to have started through defective wiring, for a time threatened the entire business district, rain finally helping to ex- tingulsh it, d, is {alleged By the Associated Press ! Jestic yesters Cairo, THE CEVENING S KILLS 2 IN ALLEGED BLACKMAIL SCHEMEI Woman Shoots as Gang Comes to| Collect Money, She Tells Police. Ly the Associated Pross. CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 25. 'TWo men are dead and two other per- sons were heing questioned by police early today, the result of a pistol bat- tle late last night which is said to have been the culmination of a black- mail plot. The dead ar six, and Mike Rafile Transo, thirty- 3 rino, thirty-five, who with a third man are said to have gone to the home of Mra. Nettie An- nelli, twenty-one, last night to see if demands they are alleged to have made Thursday night would be car- ried out. The third member of the gang, giving his name as Tony Savald, wus urrested early to- av. The other person being held is . Annelli Police this morning for the husband of A M re searching 11, who, she . Annelli, armed with three re- fired dozen shots at the three.men after they had fired a shot throuxh the window of her home, she told police. More than a score shots were exchanged. EDUCATOR SCORES AMERICAN ISOLATION Faunce Says Practical Politics Is Smothering Voice of Christianity. CHICAGO, T of practical politic ave suffocated and smothered the voice of Christian merica, preventing it from express- | 15 itself in favor of participating in an_ international brotherhood of na- tions,” President W. H. unce of Brown University daclared last night in an address before the Chicago Sun- | day Evening Club. The people of this country, he said, will find 2 way to help the other na- tions of the world in peace as in war, despite the present fsolation. Our present international policy, Presi- dent Faunce said, might be described as “millions of men for war, but not one man for consultatfon." Religious teachings of world broth- hood, the speaker declared, alone will serve to bring universal peace and. a betterment of civillzation, h today “is broken up more than y, time in the last two millen- —Questions DOCK STRIKERS BLAMED FOR FIRE ON MAIJESTIC, Blaze Does Slight Damage to Liner at Anchor in South- ampton. By the Associated Press. SOUTHAMPTON, February 25.-—De- tectives are investigating a fire which did slight damage on the steamer Ma- y. Suspicions are that striking dock workers may have started : the fire, The baggage which arrived on board the steamer Berengaria from New York was Sent to London by automobile trucks. FLYER KILLED IN CRASH. Companion Hurt in Fall Near Cairo, Ill. -ST. LOUIS, February Wright, San Diego, Calif.. w Kkilled ¢ and Lawrence J. Curry, pllot, of Sala« manca, N. Y. was seriously in- jured wh plane crashed near 11, vesterday afternoon, a cording to a telegram received here. Both men wers in the employ of the . ~.im Englneering Corporation of Buf- alo, N. Y. OPERATE ON STETTINIUS. Surgeons in Second Effort to Re- lieve Abdominal Trouble. NEW YORRK, February 2i.—Edward ettinius, banker. 2nd member of . P. Morgan & Co., last night went to toosevelt Hospital to undergo an operation. the nature of which was not revealed. He underwent an operation for ab- dominal trouble last year, it was sald, and the forthcoming one is similar, but less serious. ASK FOR INDEPENDENCE. Luzon 5. AL | i i Tribesmen Would Have Philippines Free. By the Associated Press. MANILA, February 25.—A petition urging independence for the Philip- pine Islands was presented to the | secretary of the interior and the in- dependence commission yesterday by | a delegation representing the non- Christian tribes of the mountain province of Nueva Vizcaya, on the Island of Luzon. DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED. Wall Street Lawyer Burned .to Death in Apartment House. NEW YORK, February 25.—The body of a man burned to death in a fash- ionable West Side apartment Satur- day night was yesterday identifled as that of Glenn M. Congdon, a Wall 8treet lawyer, by his son John, a stu- dent at Columbia University, accord- ing to the police. The body Was orig- inally identified as apparently that of Ralph C. Clark, said to be a direc- tor of the Pure Oil Company. e Fire Damage, $90,000. ELDORADO, Ark., February 25.—Fire which started in a restaurant in the Shuler bullding, in the business district here, late yesterday caused an estf- mated damage of $90.000. Offices of the Western Union Telegraph Company, Chamber of Commerce and a restaurant were burned out. The origin ,of..the fire has not been determined. - - o “Two Gagged, Safe Blown. NEW ORLEANS, February 26— Bandits entered the Trianon Theater here yesterday and, after binding and gagging two night watchmen, blew open the safe and escaped. with $2,200, representing the week end re- cipts.” The theater is the Saenger Amusement Company’s largest Canal street motion picture house. COAL VESSEL RESCUED. PROVINCETOWN, Mass.,, Feb. 25.— ‘The coast guard cutter Acushnet picked up the barkentine Marsetta off Orleans last night and towed her to an anchor- age in the bay off Race Point. The vessel, bound from Norfolk for Boston with coal, lost her salls in gales last week, and her windlass was damaged. She ran short of provisions and an- ehgred five miles southeast of Oricans, ifere she asked for help {rom the coast guard. H { Garibaldi Probes 0il Holdings. , TAMPICO, February 25—Capt. Ezio Garabaldi, son of Gen. Riccoti Gari- baldi of Italy, returned to Tampico esterday from Panucao, where he nspected the property of the Italian- Mexican Ol Company.” Capt. Gari- baldl sald he would obtain additional Italian capital for the development of the property, - s 4 s { TRIAL OF LUDENDORFF IL.. AR, Ten men and women, ousted by executive order in March, 1922, who, under the admini Acting Director Kirby and Roche, chief of wetting division; John J. Deviny, superintendent of work; E. H. Ash the bureau today. Photo, taken followi, to right: James E. rinin, forem i i By the Associated Press, INDIANAPOLIS, Febru: vriad financial difficultie ren®T. McCray, Governor of Indiana, have been further augmented by his {ndictment by a federal grand jury on charges of using the mails in a scheme to. defraud, and violation of the national banking laws. The charges were included in a report made by the grand jury last Satur- . but were not made public until ¥, when the governor surrender- ed to ‘the United States marshal, who held capiases for his arrest. The indictment followed a week of investigation, during which time a er of Indiana and Chicazo bank- ers appeared before the grand jur In gddition to the latest charg hrought against him the governor's financlal transactions have led to his indictment In the Marion _county criminal court on charges of embez- zlpment, . larceny and false pretense. bankruptey proceedings aguinst him in federal rt and asslgnment of all his asses to a creditors’ commit- . governor's bond was fixed at | 0,000 on the two Indictments. He | will be arraigned March 11 before Judge Anderson. Another man was indleted jointly with McCray, but his name will not be made public until he has been arrested. | The indictment charging use of the | mails in furtherance of a Schieme to | defraud was in connection with al- | leged representations made by Me- Cray to obtain loans and contained | thirteen counts. i The second indictment, charging violation of ‘the national banking law was In connection with the Dis- count and Deposit State Bank of Kentland, Ind.. & member of the fed- eral reserve System, and of which McCray formerly was president. It contains eighteen counts. EXTRA TROOPS GUARD Block Off Streets and Set Up Ma- chire Guns as Hitler and Others Arrive. By the Associated Press. MUNICH, February — Extra troops from northern Bavaria arrived in Munich today to reinforce the local reichswehr guarding the mili- tary academy, where the trial of Gen. Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler for their part.in the November “putsch” is to begin tomorrow. All the streets and. grounds surrounding the acad- emy have been blocked off by th soldiers, who have established them selves ini temporary camps and set up.-machine guns at poirts of van- e. Hitler and nine other persons ac- cused with him arrived this morning from Landsberg under a strong mil- itary guard in a special car. Gen. Ludendorff is already here. " A total of 150 witnesses has been summoned. It is expected the trial will last three weeks, e e ASKS FOR EVERY CHILD CHANCE FOR EDUCATIORy Head.of N. E. A. Says Demand for “Taw Reduction at Any Cost"” Imperils Schools. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. February 25.—The de- mand for “tax reduction at any price” is threatening education in this country, Miss Olive M. Jones, resident of the National Education Assoclation, today told the conven- tion of the department of superin: tendence of that organization. She urged extension of school privileges and costs until every child has “an equal opportunity for ethe type of education best fitted to his needs.” “Former frlends of education have n across in - the night and now stand in the ememy camp, vigorously attacking and misrepresenting the efforts o fthe country’s 700,000 teach- ers.” - Miss Jones warned her audi- ence of teachers. She ‘said that it was “especlally unfortunate to find the tendency among fiction writers to misrepresent teachers and their place in soclety.’ PO DENY PREMIER TO WED. British . Bumor Brings Statement From Authoritative Sources, LONDON, Febraury 25.—A rumor published in a provincial paper this morning of the engagement of Pre- mier Ramsay Macdonald and Lady lhrfn.rut Sackville had gained enm:fh publicity by afterncon to.draw a de- nial from authoritative sources. Lady Margaret is .the youngest daughter of ,the Earl de la Warr, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, FEBRUARY ng their conference wi an of garage; Thom: E. Jucobs, working foreman of plate printer: ul E. Twyman, assixtant director of the burean; Miss Nellle C. Wilding, chief of the Elizabeth 'N. Scett, chief of the stamp-packing divisien, and Mrw. Maggle Kerfoot, t and dexigner; divixion: Acting Director Wallace W. Kirby, M P- chief of the numbering division. M’CRAY IS INDICTED IN MAIL FRAUD CASE Violation of Natiqnal Banking | Laws Also Charged Against Governor of Indiana. C. & P. CO. FORESEES PROFITS IN RADIO (Continued from First Page.) _ if the commission took into consid- tion the company's return on «ccrued depreciation the compan cturn for last year would have been ose to 12 per cent on its valuation. After Mr. Clayton had briefly sub- mitted the testimony on which he ar- Rued the rates should be reduced, At- torney De Vane stated that while the company was present to give the commission any data it desired, “it seems to us upon his showing the commission would do proper to dis- miss the application now without hearing from us.' Relations of Companies. When the hearing opened Mr. Clay- ton made a motfon that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1 the New York Telephone Com- pany be made parties to the hearing In order that he might bring out cer- taln evidence relating to them, and their relations with the local com- pany. After m: ver: uch dickering by the law- it was concluded to go on with | the hearing and consider Mr. C ton's motion later {f it became neces- sary. Clayton said he raised the ! point because of the fear that certain testimony could not bha brought in unless those companfons were par- ies. In presenting his case for a reduc- tion in telephone rates Mr. Clayton filed as evidence the Utility Commis- eion’s own figures, which showed the company earned & return of 7.33 per cent last year on a weighted average valuation ‘of $16,500,934. Mr. Clayton then placed on the stand E. V. Fisher, accountant for the commission, and asked him if a deduction was made of the accrued depreciation and the federal inco: tax in arriving at the returns stated. Deductions Not Made. Mr. Fisher testified that such deduc- tions were not made. The attorney for the Federation of Citizens then requested that Mr. Fisher determine what the company's return would have been if no allow- ance had been made in operating ex- penses for accrued depreciation and Income tax last year. Returning to thé stand later, Mr. Fisher testified that by deducting $767,713 as accrued depreciation last year the company would have earned a return of 11.89 per cent. He ex- plained that the income tax item was included in the company’s total taxa- tion figure, and was not immediately available for purposes of figuring. The Utilities Commission announced several days ago that it would hold a public hearing next month to con- sider this entire question of how de- preciation should be handled for all of the corporations, After Mr. Clayton had submitted his testimony Chairman Bell had H. C. Gretz, chief accountant for the com- pany, placed on the stand. Maj. Bell brought out in testimony that the company has $13,000,000 in common stock, practically all of which is owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Increase in Dividends. In answer to Maj. Bell's question Mr. Gretz testlfied that the dividends on this stock were 6 per cent in 1921, 7% in 1822 and 8 per cent last year. Considerable time was taken up with a discussion of the reasonable- ness of the payment of 43 per cent of the local telephone revenues to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company each year. Answering a query from Ma. Bell, Mr. De Vane, attorney for the com- pany, explained that this payment, which ]ast year amounted to $247,000, represents the rental charge on all telephone instruments used in Wash- ington; that it represents valuable laboratory of the “American Tele- graph and Telephone, and that it represents expert engineering, legal and financial service rendered by the American company. E Mr. DeVane pointed out that a ma- jority of the state commissions and also the United States Supreme Court have upheld the policy of Bell Tele- phone Companies throughout the country in entering into this 414 per cent arrangement with the parent company. He ventured the prediction that the services rendered are worth more to the local company than the amount of 413 per cent of the reve- nues. 2 + Mr. DeVane told the commission the company stood ready to furnish any and all Information desired by it in determining whether the appli- cation of the federation for lower rates should be allowed. The commission closed the hearing at 12:30 and took the case under ad- visement. — VAN AND SCHENCK SEIZED Vaudeville Stars Held in Dry Raid on Cafe. NEW YORK, February 25.—Gus Van and Joseph T. Schenck, vaudeville actors, were arrested by federal pro- hibition agents in an early morning raid today on a “whitelight” cafe in which they were said to be part owners. A quantity of liquors, in- cluding several cases of champagne, were seized. The raiders also arrest- ed Nathan Horowitz, sald to be inter- ested in the cafe with Van and ent two waliters. Several score &in: and merrymakers werp. not molested. e its 25, 1924, xuistant Director Twyma; George C. Cole, chief of RECLASSIFYING BOARD IGNORED CONGRESS WISH, SAYS REPRESENTATIVE _(Continued from First Page.) classification 1d Mr. Wittner in his letter,”” we hold that the facts we have at hand are so pertinent and necessary to the logical treatment of the whole problem that the pres- ent moment we are in a position to place before your committee inforn tion which would reveal much ¥ couid not possibly learn from vestigation of the personnel classi- fication board members or ex officio members. Mr. Wittner cited numerous. in- | stances of alleged unfairness in clas- sification and proposcd several ques tions to be asked of Herbert L n of the bureau of efficiency irman Bailey of the classificat board and Director Lord of the | reau of the budget. Clten “Irregularities.” Among charges of irregular classi- fication Mr. Wittner lists the follow- in | “In the Department of Agricuiture | three men doing very similar work as heads of the hay. feed and seed mar- | keting in the bureau of markets are | placed, two in the clerical. adminis- | trative and fiscal, while the other is | allocated to the professional and sci- entific services. “The hureau of the census was a located once according to the class fication schedule, but now the bureau of efficiency acknowledges that such a classification was impossible and has attempted to rewrite a classifi- cation for that bureau. it wide range of pay in nal and scientific serv- ices, were a difference of say $1,500 is_common between the departments. “Some employes working under lump-sum appropriations _are paid and wil be pald around $1,500 more than those on the statutory roli TAKES UP CLASSIFYING. i | Board Chairman. 1In order that he might be better in- formed as to the progress being made by the personnel classification board in its task of properly classifying the employes of the federal govern- ent President Coolidge today con- ferred with Herbert Brown, chairman of the United States burcau of ef- ficiency. The latter said afterward that he went over as briefly as pos- sible_the work already done by the board and outlined what it will do in the future. Mr. Brown admitted that numerous complaints have been lodged at the White House against the methods adopted by the board in making al- locations in regards to certain c! of employes, and that the President | was desirous of determining whether there was any foundation for these protests and to the charges, and that the board has not carried out the in- tent of the law providing for this re- classification of government em- ployes. i Mr. Brown made it very plain that the board has been fair in its work and has complied with the law in every particular. Mr. Brown made it very plain that he is opposed to the proposition on the part of some employes’ organiza- tions to place the classification work under the United States Civil Service Commission. - MRS. S. RUSSELL BOWEN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Wife of Vice President of W. R. & E. Co. Active in Many Women’s Clubs—Native of N. Y. State. Mrs. S. Russell Bowen, forty-six years old, wife of the vice president of the Washington Railway and Elec- tric Company and of the Potomac Electric Power Company, died at her residence, 1315 Delafleld street north- | west, yesterday. i Funeral services were conducted at [ Spear's undertaking parlors, 1208 H street northwest, this afternoon. | | i i | H | | i !Rev. Dr. Harry Evaul, pastor of the Iowa Avenue M. E. Church, officiated. The_body will be sent to Whitesboro, N. Y., Mrs. Bowen's old home, for burial, Mrs. Bowen, who before her mar- riage was Miss Mabel Park, was a descendant of an old New York fam- ily. She was the daughter of Elijah Park who attended Hamllton College with Grover Cleveland.” She had been a resident of this city for the last thirty years and was active in many women's clubs. She formerly served as regent of the John Lindsey Chap- ter, D. A. R, was a vice president of the Bxceisior Club-and of the Colum- bla Heights Art Club and was a lead- ing member of the Thilo Classics So- clety. The. ‘latter organization made extensive studies of Shakespeare's works, Mrs. Bowen had also done ex- tensive historic research work in con-‘ nection with the D. A. R. Besides her husband, she is sur-{ vived by two sons, Robert and Russell Bowen. i et Mrs. Roosevelt Cpnel Siberia. BERLIN, February 25.—Mrs. Theo- dore Roosevelt, widow of the former President; and her son Kermit ar- rived in Berlin this morning from Moscow, after crossing Siberia., The two stood the trip well and reached here in excellent.spirits. They will leave_tonight for Cologne and plan to sall wi & few days for New XYork, s ation's policy of vindication, were returned to their positions at n thix morning, shows: Back row, left rth, the xurface division. Front row, left MEMEL ISSUE TESTS NORMAN DAVIS’ SKILL Former U. S. Undersecretary of State Tours Polish-Lith- uanian Frontier. BY GEORGE WITTE. By Radio to TI Newa. ON BOARD SPECIAL . TR. LITHUANIAN ONTIE 20.—His State Department job may e had many puzzles, and the pea: conference may have been o skein of Gordlan knots, but the hardest prob lem Norman H. Davis, former under- secretary of state, ever tackled is the Memel question, which he is investi- gating as president of the commission appointed by the league of nations. The commission left Warsaw F day night for Danzig to circle pletely around the territory: of countries directly interested In question, before proceeding to eva, where the formal heari this subject will open The Lithuanian parliament h terpellated Forei alvanauskas on_the Afemel que: cusing hi of having ade too many conc s in an attempt to ecttle the problem amicab Gal- anauskas promised to make no niore concessions but it is generally ad- witted that if the Davis commission’s verdict is unfavorable to Lithuania, thereby causing parliament Lo refuse its ratification, not only the Lithuan- ian cabinet but perhaps even the president will fall. In Warcaw Davis was given anderstand that the Pol would ac- cept any decision giving them the right to use Memel territory, espe- cially the Niemen river, for free sit of trade and a free harbor. eral German delegations boarded s train when it passed through st Pru in order to impress upon the commission the economic importance for all eastern Germany of Memel's remaining a German port or being internationalized, like Dan- anil the Daily Copsright, 19; MEMEL COM IN ON MISSION POLISH- February om- the the to Davis. in one of his ks with representatives of interested coun- tries, sald: “Small nations must re- alize that they must be more intelli- gent than big powers. If they make stupid blunders or are stubborn, then, of course, the bigger nations can overrun them whenever they wish.” HIGHER ESTATE TAX BRINGS NEW DELAY Amendment to Revenue Bill Rais- ing Brackets Causes Fur- ther Dehate. Revision of the estate tax rates pro- posed by Representative Ramsever, republican, Iowa, subjected the reve- nue bill to another delay today while the House debated the question. Mr. Raniseyer's amendment pro- posed to raise the present rate all along the lines to a maximum of 40 per cent on the amount by which net estates exceeds _$10.000,000. The present rate is 25 per cent. The same brackets of amounts as in the present law would be rétained and the minirium rate of 1 per cent on the amount of an estate not in excess of $50,000 also retained undistucbed. Representative Strong, republican, Kansas, announces he would offer an amendment to propose an additional tax on the tax free securities in es- tates. Mr. Ramseyer argued that accept- ance of the increased rates would permit “further reduction on income taxes as well as_the repeal of more nuisance taxes. It also would aid in Dreventing a concentration of wealth in_the hands of a few, he said. Representative Miils, republican, New York, in opposition, insisted the increase in rates would work to make the tax a permanent form of federal taxation, “and this soon will depriv states of this vital source of revenue.” In reply to Representative Rankin, democrat, Mississippi, Mr. Mills de- clared the additional revenue expect- ed by increasing the rates would not ‘e sufficlent to pay a soldier bonus. Adoption of the Ramsever amend- ment was urged by Representative Garner, Texas, ranking democrat on the ways and meuans committee, who declared revenue from _increased estate ‘taxes, together with an ‘ad- ditional levy of $1 per 1,000 on ciga ettes, would net $110.000,000 annually, or more than enough to pay the sol- diers’ bonus. Unless such taxes are authorized, Mr. Garner sald, he would oppose any effort to increase the scope of nui- sance tax repeal. “I “won't support any amendment cutting down revenue further unless provisions are made for making up the amount in other ways,” said Mr, Garner, reiterating that he was de- termined not to give President Cool- idge any "opportunity or excuse” to veto the bill. Ex-Senator Confers With Reds. MOSCOW, February 25.—Former United States Senator France, after a conference with the concessions com- mittee, is quoted by the Russian press as saying he was chiefly interested in developing .an American concession for trade in print paper. He s re- turning home short! TEN BUREAU CHEFS BACK N POSTIONS Warm Welcome Given Oustéd Engraving Workers—Six Others to Return. Supervision of approximately 0 per cent of the bureau’of engraving and printings’ 5,000 employes toda i bac 0 the hands of ten men women. who were dismissed night in March, 19 Maj. Wallace W. Kirby. acting rector, who installed the ten, ch in his or her former place, announced At the same time that plans wero un- der way for restoring by the first of next week six more of the group of twenty-nine wi went out with for. mer Director James L. Wilmeth. The six who in all probability wi'l be back next Monaay were named by Acting Director Kirby follows Ralph . bpell, chief engineer; Willlam C. 1, ass t chivf sur- face division: Patrick J. Farrell, fore- wan of building and cica n P. Ruth, chief clerk; Henry 1. Wilson, superintendent of t) photolitho- graphic section, and Norman Under- wood, chief of ‘the ink-making divi- ston, pass Seme Will Not Return. Further than the ten restored day, and the six who may go L next Monday, Maj. Kirby sai knew of no other cligibles of dismissed group of twenty-nine cared to come back. Somy tired, others in preferred ployment, three dicd Having taken office about ago Maj. Kirby has mad ress in handling the diffic lem, for which he was appofn ing 'director, rctaining his commission in_the Engineer Corps of the Army Unless further complications oce therefore, it appears likely that t entire vindication and restoration policy of the administration will be complete by another week. The ten men and women who went back today met in the office of the acting director nd were clo el with him_in confercnee for a t time he proceeding to separate Impressive the whe ore tasks. Experience. Jt was a high point in the exp. ence of all ten, y came to cept what to them was comple* {vindication from the aspersions upon their good names by the mary dismissal two years ago. was with deep feclings that they me with the new head of the bureau And, from sheer joy, many tears were shed. They went back to their posts only to restore then former standing of trust, but to continue to make good at the task and to produce results Maj. Kirby told them the operatic of the burcau should be c with “justic impartiality that, in spite of what had h ¥ “must not, cannot and will not show any ill will toward any one.’ Co-operation Essential. “The government must lute co-operation from all 1t was an unusual so reau just prior to ¢ o for opening ten restoved chiels had gathered at the office of the act- ing director. From many parts of tha bureau came groups of »ld friends and acquaintances to extend come. It was a regular ho Maj. Kirby accomplished the without the dis « son and, so far turned to the po: fore the famous which shook up fi to bottom. back into chiefs ta! same salu as th warm wels e changey a single per- <ible, “all re- s they held be- e order from top It wus a gradual sliding Plac with the r ng the top pos they Resignations Withdrawn, Some of those who were demoted to their former places had during the week handed in their resignations 1o Maj. Kirby, it was learned, but they later withdrew resignations. Concerning the changes fto taks Place early mnest week, howover, it was learned that there might be some dismissals, ignations. to make room for some of the six who shortly will be restored riends of the group intend’ koing still further, if possible. in the %;um’: way of restitution. Senator Caraway, democrat of Arkansas, who has heen fighting their cause from the bugi ning, has indicated he will press h Dproposal ‘to grant back pay for the entire period they were put of the bureau. This would mean a Substan- tlal sum to each. The reinstatement today followed a long fight bs Rena- tor Caraway for justice. Confer With Mellon. 1t was learned to Seer tary Mellon had recently valled it secret confer @ group of eight {of the dismissed cmploys and out- {lined to them the entire situafion us viewed by the Treasury. What Sec- retary Mellon told them at that time may never be revealed. ; 1t is_known that Secretary Mellon never had a hand in the dismiseals and has felt from the first that the employes should be_restored if-pos- sible. . Secretary Mellon was not consulted by the former President before the dismissals were made, so restoration Is no reversal of policy on the part of the cablnet head In Charge of the bureau. The restora- tion _ was approved by Coolidge. Those who went bacl mer posts todav were: Mrs. Maggie Kerfoot, chief of the numbering di- | vision; George E. Jacobs, working foreman of plate printers; Miss Eliza- beth N. Scott, chicf of the stamp | packing division; George C. Co Chief of the surface division: Mi Nellie C. Wilding, chief of the stamp Derforating division; John J. Deviny, superintendent of work: Benjamin R. Stickne; mechanical expert and de- 'S Chamberlin, foreman of garage; Elbridge H. Ashworth. custodian_of dies, rolls and plates: Thomas F. Roche, chief of the wet- ting division. ACTRESS WILL PLEAD ' FOR ALLEGED EXTORTER Barbara La Marr Says She Fears Jail Will Mean Death for Attorney. 5 President to their for- By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, February .. —When Herman L. Roth, Hollywood attorney convicted of attempting to extort hush money from Arthur H. Sawyer, business manager for Bar- bara La Marr, motion picture actress, appears in superior court for sentence today Miss La Marr will be there to ask clemency for him, according to the Los Angeles Examiner. “Mr. Roth Is a very sick man,” the Examiner quotes Miss La Marr as saying. “I'm fully convinced that if he goes to Jail it will mean his death. I can’t bear to carry the thought in my soul that I Sent a man to his death. 1am going into court and per- sonaliy plead for probation for him Witnesses at Roth's trial testi d he had threatened to file an amended + divorce complaint against Miss La Marr, naming several prominent film players as corespondents, but had ex- ressed willingness to drop the mat- er if well for his silence, \