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WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow, unsettled “From Press to- Home Within the Hour” i Foeni by tomorrow _night; continied cold: i ifi;'&"‘;’,d‘:“‘.‘!‘:,‘;w‘:m‘,’; R e - The Star’s carrier system covers ! hoirs ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, every cily block and the regular edi- i 51, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 32, at tion is delivered to Washington homes J midnight. as fast as the papers are printed. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,838 No. 20,166, Eriered ss second-cisss matter WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, MARCH 8 1924_THIRTY PAGES. * TWO CENTS. SUBPOENAS ISSUED - FORWOOD'S SON/N - SENATE PROBES Daugherty and Oil Commit- tees Want Explanation of Slemp Message Sent to MclLean 1 As Expedient Way| President Coolidge's message to Edward B. McLean last January asking the publisher to “advise Slemp"” was ¢ matter of expediency, it was explained at the White House yesterday. Unable to procure Slemp's Palm Beach address ¥ithout waking up or recalling some of the White House executive office force, it was explained, the President directed the message to McLean as the DECLINES TONAME | 2HOLSE NENBERS ACRUSED BY Y Department of Justice Offers, However, to Give Data of - President Signs Papers to Enter Race in Maryland Presilent Coolidge today signed papers to be used in filing his name for a place ongthe ballot in the Maryland presifential pri- mary to be held May 5. The papers | were witnessed by Senator Weller and Galen L. Tait, republican state chairman in Mary- land, and will be filed with the secretary of state at Annapolis within a few days. Senator Wel- RIDER BY BLANTON UPSETS D.C: FISCAL - STATUSWITHU.S Texan Favors $2.50 Tax Rate, Government to Pay momentarily convenient ‘way of | . Jake Hamon Story. | Nioam S PRSI L o of Influence. | proditnd s TUE R WIS | Any Defiit Ensui Lok o Tresident Coolidge has no recol- 2 | L iiiison, TepmilieRn pational Y Deficit Ensuing. WORKERS IN CAMPAIGN SUMMONED TO. TESTIFY Telegraph Companies Ordered to . Produce’ Copies of Messages at Time Exchanged. 1 The statement of Leonard Wood, jr., Ppublished in The Star yesterday, in Fwhich he said that his father, now gov- wernor general of the Philippine Islands, fhad been offered votes for the presi- lential convention in the 1920 conven- a "tion by certain oil interests, is to be in- rvestigated by two Senate committees. This fact developed today when the tepecial committee investigating ~ Attor- riey General Daugherty issued a sub- tpoena for young Wood's appearance be- Fiore it—the summons following immedi- «utely upon the heels of a similar order ssued by the Senate oil investigating of the persons young Wood impli- lection of anything’ other than Eeneral conversations with Ira E. Bennett, the Washington Post ‘edi- torial writer, who was a witness before the oil investigating com- mittee yesterday, it was an- nounced. CURTIS, ON STAND, DISPUTES BENNETT PROBE TESTIMONY, Senator, Under Oath, Says He Performed No Services for E. B. McLean. for the Washington Post. DAUGHERTY WANTS TIME TO INVESTIGATE CHARGES Zihlman Demands Full Investiga- tion—Attorney General Willing to Delay Inquiry. The Department of Justice declined today to disclose the names of the two representatives referred to in the Chicago grand jury report. Attorney General Daugherty offered, however, to transmit to the House, in response to its request, evidence said to indicate improper use of influence for consideration developed in Chi- cago. Representative Longworth imme- diately moved that the communica- tion be referred to the judiciary com- mittee with instructions to report immediately with regard to a course carcfully go into the charges against By the Associated Press. ting s inability to be present at conference and adling: Kindly say to the President that I have publicly declared for him and will do all in my power to make my announcement effec- tive and that I believe Maryland sentiment overwhelming for him.” CODLDGE TORETAI PRESENTD. . HEADS Decides to- Reappoint Ru- dolph and Oyster When Terms Expire March 17. President Coolidge was represented officially at the White House today as having decided to reappoint District fluenced by the practically unanimous AMENDMENT IS MADE TO PARK-BUYING BILL House Committee Defers Action Until Tonight—Expect De- feat of Proposal. A proposal to entirely chanze the fiscal relations between the federal and District governments as fathered by Representative Thomas L. Hlanlar-k_ democrat, of Texas, in a rider on the bill to authorize the purchase of three tracts of land for park sites on which the House Distr committee is seek- ir_xg expeditious action, was under con- sideration by the committee today. This effort to change the fiscal rel tions came as a surprise to the mem- bership of the committee and action was deferred until a special meeting tonight at 8 o'clock, which was neces- sary in order that the committee might tive Blanton had added as a rider <ommittee last night. ©F D cooture . x v Senator-Curtls of Kansus the as- . Commissioners Cuno H. Rudolph and |keep faith wi ki e reee. Sumimoned 'a | Sistant republican leader, took the Daugherty States Positl » Poison Gas Effect | ! James F. Oyster, whose terms expire | cause m‘:? r:.‘:;‘h;,rl::f:?gd\;?,;dm:";‘ bes uumber of politicians, congressmen | witness stand voluntarily before the| Mr. Daugherty took the position he é I F f L d i March 17. reply regarding the commi & definite ind financiers from different DArts | oil committee today and denied under |could ot disclose the identity of the i n ogs (1) onaon, ! Besides his own estimation of the | tude on the park bill nem;m‘;e'; auw- ¢ pf the country and the owCSte™ loath some of the statements made |two representatives as asked in the D Decl present two Commissioners, which is ? e Monday. panies were ordered to produce tele- |about him yesterday in the testimony | House resolution until the depart- oclor eclares kpown to be high, President Coolidge is Text of Amendment. grams either Sent or received by any {of Ira E. Bennett, an editorial writer \ment had an opportunity to more 4 {understood to have been greatly in-| The amendment which Represent: . cated in his story. Believes Story True. | The story of Leonard Wood, jr. 1< true beyond a question of doubt,” #aid Senator B. K. Wheeler of Mon- The Kansas senator declared that some of the conversations described | by Dennett never took place, that he! had performed no services for Ed-| ward B. McLean like those al—l them. He offered to withhold further action by the department in the cuse to enable a House committee to ex- amine the evidence and develop the truth of the charges. Zihiman Denies Charges. Ward and Township Meet- ings Overwhelming Against LONDON, March §—Some of the which London experienced winter were real varieties of | mustard gas, according to Dr. Ed- win L. Ash, specialist in nervous diseas . Citizens to Air Views on Rec- iprocity Measure at Sen- indorsement of Commissioners Rudolph and Oyster sent to the White House many of the more important trade, civic, political and other organizations and citizens of the city. It was rumored during the past few subcommittee executive session terday is as follow “In lieu of the present fiscal systen and tax rate of $1.20 on the $100 fron, and after July 1, 1924, there shall be collected from residents of the Dis- the tana, a member of the Daugherty | tributed to him by Bennett, and that ; g | Bel : 5 They contained all the acid and theats . z committee, “and 1 have summoned |there was absolutely no ground for |y Before the House could act on the H d | : | days that there was a likelihood that | trict of Columbia taxes on real esta : = s Longworth motion _Representative iIs Candidacy. irritating ingredients of poison gas ate Hearing. i bres A s him to come before the committee. | attempting to link him with the!Zihlman, republican, Maryland. who e ! Bndlaeciak e ‘,e,,..:u mfm_ | earing. | the President might not reappoint Com- | and personal property at the rate of All the ramifications of this investi- | mysterious “principal” mentioned in|has been mentioned in ~connection e | branes of the throat and respira- | missioner Oyster, but this has been dis- | $2.50 per hundred, assessment to be | gation will be diligently followed.” one of Bennett’s telegrams to McLean. | with the charges, took the floor to defend his name. By the Associated Press, tory organs in a serious manner, Although the fate of the gasoline i credited and said to be without foxnda- | tion, since developments at the White | made at full value and all expens: 6 itor Whe e SIS i he says. Many chil contracte . { of the Dis ot C S oVeE Among those for whom subpoenas | Disputed By Bemnett. Declaring that he wanted action) ST- LOUIS, Mo, March . etunt rog l:‘gmm‘:j;_'f.“ contracted 4y pill for the District of Columbia | House within the last day or m. \nhu\}'l: s,;\;:}tnn;x:nrdl G ‘\:X"r"-:\‘*‘:rlmffl e are’ known to have been issued a':/» e B a land full investigation of charges|Glenn, state manager for Unit e and reciprocity with Maryland hangs| AMOng those organizations which | paid by the United State. ;r“;‘v}d;;! State Jour and Dispateh; for- | upo! in. He repeated some Ma cl e o = > Sadly | it % s one: o] vster —are:| 1,000 a red tre : wer, Representative Norman J. Gould. | o™ 1ig’ “Srtious statements and |10 the House and the country that stated reports from yesterday's town- | !belng held this afternoon in the cau- | Barry Farm izens’ Assoclation. |ationes o D¢ @llowed free from tax- 3 t 424 st New York city 2 i he had been guilty of no wrong-|Ship and ward meetings showed the | |cus room of the Senate, it is be-| Congress Heights Citizens' Assoc a- |~ A dangerous joker is found in Re: Gon iivootis asteen campalen. man. [Brought In some new ones, which in |doing." N enator was defeated in virtually all llieved that citizens of . Washington | t1on. South Washington Citizeas’ As-| resentative Blanton's SenAmLAT. e O, Far Iy o Woai'y | Lurn Imimedliately were denied by |, L Nave fo fear ssscried the Mary: | pares of the state cxcept Kansas City | | Will stand adamant on their declara- | soalation; Webt Bnd Citlzens: Sesocta: | Siich Digyides for taxing “residents’ Rudolph Hynecka, New | 55 ator Curtis. The editorial writer| apo-"committee “but that I will be |and St. Louis. far as I'm con- | ] tion of “no reciprocity at all unless| tion, Garficld Citizens' ASsociation. | stion other nereons e NS 3 man: Harrs Macie 8 not contend. however, that there | able to clear my name.” cerned,” he said, “I'm willing to throw by the Commissioners' original bill” | Southwest Citizens' Association. Mid|in the National Capital, such as those and Frank Hitchcock, ,':;,Zif: "::'[’l"zl"" improper in the| Mr. Zihlman declared he had It on | up the sponge.” IThe meeting was called to.order by | Sud O Wareractacers = Ansocintion | Lo SECiny Tekilences only ‘Qukitk 2 Gen. Woodis campaten man: | e attitude toward the oil dis-| {im. who represented the Depart.| County conventions throughout Mis- | Senator Royal 8. Copeland of New | Washintaon Chamber of Commerce, | some. of the mest valable: Beoperis ":m" J;‘hn‘sa:fvs“c;'n:\gl :: enator 1-3‘ ures 5 I ment of Justice in the Chicago grand | souri and in the twenty-eight wards; T York, who presided in place of Sen-|B0ard of Trade, the Federation ofiin Washington. This same exemp- pagin. The committee also heara E jury proceedings, had disclosed to|of St. Louls today will select 1,158 Citizens’ Associations, Thomas _Circle | tion would also apply on much of the May Give, New Angle. { The subpoena of the other commi: tec—the Senate oil committee—Is re- turnable next Wednesday, and the testimony young Wood gives then is S| Rochester of the Department of Jus»’ tice, who telegraphed McLean that the'committee Was investigating his bank account, and Francis T. Homer | of Baltimore,'who was quoted in one | McLean telegram as saying the leased | wire installed between Washington Bome persons his name and that of another House member in connection with the charges. While Mr. Zihlman was _spfaking (Continued on Page 4, Column LUTHERANS URGED delegates to the democratic state con- vention at Springfield April 15, with reperts from ward and township mass | meetings yesterday indicating the | probable defeat of Senator James A. 13 Others Implicated by Story of 14-Year-0ld Moth- er at Clarendon. ator L. Helsler Ball of Delaware. With the Washington Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants ang - Manufactuters’ As- sociation, the Washington Automo- tive Trade Association, the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations, the Citizens' Association and the Repub- lican state committee of the District. JUMPS TO DEATH | committee today that best business property in the Dis- trict which is owned by persons who are not residents. Representative Blanton told the this amend- ment had been adopted unanimously by the subcommittee yesterday. Chair- man Gibson of the subcommittee ex- ? felt sure would ha "y | expected to open up a new angle in jand the McLean cottage in Palm Reed in his fight for indorsement by | National Grange, as well as the truck | T the onrushing processionVof il tnoiBeach would give.‘casy access” to “ 9 the state convention for the presi interests and various civic organiza- | Plained that only four members of the ; |nddition” B | the White House | TO RUIN FRANc Fontiar nosinsiice. Special Dispatch to The Star. tions committed to the Commis- | | subcommittee were present and that committee wlans to summon Mrs. | Rochester said his message to the o SLARENDON. V: o sioners’ original bill and opposed to ! { later Representative Stalker of New John W. Gorman, formerly Clara | publisher, for whom he formerly wag | . A vast majority of delegates chosen | CLARENDON, Va., March 8.—Seven | o oher form of taxation, a strong | | York, who had been absent, declared 3mith Hamon, and John Hamon, jr. | 5 4 e Timas men, arrested last night by Arlington 4 himself as intending to fi ] e ot 3 mploved, was a_personal one; that yesterday were not Instructed, but ght by showing s expected before the Sen- : 5 ight @ L of the late ke *fl"‘"m-,“ s no one had told him to send it; and | yin: Asked to Seek Ai are hostile to Reed, according to re- | COURtY authorities, chirged with a |ate committee. amendment. . e republican national committec-|that he got the information ftrom | Ministers Asl e d of statutory cri inst Anna Eliza- 2 mnan from Oklahoma in 1920. | Wehich 1t was based fhom & authber of ports reaching here. In some town-|Statutory crime against Anna Eliza. Backed Original BilL { | Division on Proposal. 1t was Jake Hamon, according topewspaper men, 9 ! Congregations in Selling Short | ships resolutions were adopted in-|Deth Abell, fourteen years of age,and | mp, original bill providing for a 2- Representative Underhill of Massa- young Wood story, whe was to ha been appointed Secretary of the I jor by Gen. Wood, if he were nom- | ted and elected, in return for the | otes that the younz man asserted he | made his father | President of the United States. Wood | id the general flatly refused to | make the trade and the necessary | ielezates were therefore never de- | livered. - Mr. Hamon himself had large oil! interests, it is asserted. i Senator Brookhart, chairman of committee that is investigating At- torney General Daugherty. in a state- ment to the North American Newspa- per Alliance, said he would investi- e every phase of the occurrences t the Chicago convention in 1920, when the offer of convention votes | for a strategic post in the cabinet was alleged to have been made. i Although no _subpoena has been is- ! sued for Col. W. M. Cooper Proctor, one of the leaders in Gen. Wood's campaign, it was understood that he would be questioned informally. Knows No Details. Wood last night said he had no knowledge of any details of the of- fer that may have involved oil con siderations. “When I said that certain oil in- terests had made the offer, which, I| believe, had my father accepted would kave given him the nomination,” Mr. Wood said, “I meant simply the per- sonal interests of Mr. Hamon, who | was, of course, in a large way in-| terested in oil. 1 was told that Mr.| Hamon had approached my father with an offer during an adjournment of the convention after it reached a | deadlock. I understood that it in- volved his appointment as Interior Secretary in case my father won the nomination and the election. “I have no knowledge whatever that any ofl considerations were in- volved in the offer, or that it was any- thing more than the personal act of Mr. Hamon alone. Made Wood Angry. “That my father-turned down the ofter flatly T do know. After he had done s0 reports were spread at the convention that Gen. Wood had him- selt approached Mr. Hamon for dele- gate support, which the latter had refused. 1 recall distinctly that the reports made my father very angry. “I regret exceedingly that so much publicity has been given to my state- | ment about the matter, but I was simply asked what 1 knew about it and 1 told it. “I have absolutely nothing to tell the Senate oil committee about it which I have not already said.” HITCHCOCK IN DARK. Former Manager for Wood Says Hamon Offer Unknown to Him. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 8—Frank Hitchcock, campaign manager for Senator Hiram Johnson, candidate for the republican presidential nomina- tion, and one of the managers of the Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood's presiden- tial campaign in 1920, when ques- The “easy access” message was ex- | (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) LEASES EFENDED BY DENBY, NREPLY Answers 23 Questions—OiII Policy Was Initiated in , Wilson Regime. ! Emphasizing that the policy of leasing naval oil reserves was ini- tiated by Secretary Daniels and John | Barton Payne when the latter was Secretary of the Interior, and ap- proved by Woodrow Wilson while President, as “in the best" interests of the Navy,” and that the govern- ment was protected in every possible way, Secretary Denby today submit- ted his detailed reply to Congress in the form of answers to twenty-three | specific questions regarding the leas- ng and drilling of naval oil reserves. His answers were in reply to a privi- | leged resolution introduced Tuesday by Representative Fred A. Britten, republican, of Chicago, and were pre- sented to the House naval affairs committee this morning. Says Daniels 0. K.'d Move. i “Notwithstanding the oft-repeated statements of former Secretary Dan- fels that his principal desire was t preserve the Navy ofl in the ground, sald Representative Britten, com- menting on the reply, “it now devel- ops that on January 16, 1920, John Barton Payne, then Secretary of the Interior, transmitted to Secret y Danlels coples of leases providing for the drilling of five new wells on the | California naval reserve No. 2, and on August 21, 1920, Daniels approved those leases, and in a letter to Payne indicated that the Navy Depart- | ment had been In conference with the Boston-Pacific Oil Company. “The new drilling was considered necessary because of drainage by owners of contiguous territory, and the royalty accruing to the govern- ment under this, lease was 25 per cent, while the Doheny lease of December, 1922, has provided an actual net 10y~ alty averaging more than 27 per cont. . Approved by Wilson, “On December 6, 1920, Secretary Payne wrote the President that ‘to tioned regarding Jake Hamow's al- leged offer to Gen. Wood sa¥d he had no knowledge of any such offer. THINES WOOD MISTAKEN. £pectal Dispatcy to The Stan CINCINNATI, March 8—"I never heard of this, and I think Leofard ‘Wood, jr., must be mistaken,” said Col. M. Cooper Proctor, when shown the statement of Gen. Wood's son re- garding the alleged offer of support from Jake Hamon. Col. Proctor was closely associated with Wood's affairs at the Chicago convention. offset the draining of the land by wells drilled upon adjoining tracts, the Secretary of the Navy and myself are of the opinion that the company (Boston-Pacific Oil Company) should be allowed to drill five additional wells, paying to the United States a royalty of 25 per cent of the value of all oil * ¢ * or on demand, to turn over to the government the percent- |- named age of the products” of the wells. If this suggestion meets with your approval, leases will be issued and delivered accordingly.’ “This-letter is annotated, ‘approved (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) to Bring Collapse. By the Associated Preas, NEW YORK, March 8.—A letter urging clergymen of the Lutheran Church and members of their congre- gations to ‘“sell short” the French franc for the avowed purpose of ruin- ing Freuch credit and “bringing France to her knees,” signed by Ed- win E. Popcke, who said he was the son of a Lutheran clergyman, has been sent out through Morgan, Har- wood & Co., investment security brok- ers, it was learned yesterday. Popcke admitted sending the let- ter, but refused to comment on it Printed matter which accompanied it indicated the brokers would accept a | 25 per cent margin, but all transac- tions would be subject to private con- tract. An order slip was inclosed. “We have,” the letter said, “this economi¢ weapon to crush French ar- rogance—to sell the franc short, cause its depreciation and final annihila- tion.” The corporation dictionary lists P. J. Fuller as vice president and Frank- lin A. Harwood as treasurer of Mor- gan, Harwood & Co., which is a Dela- ware corporation. —e 175 MINERS TRAPPED AFTER EXPLOSION Flames Break Out After Blast in Coal Working in Utah. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 8. —Approximately 175 coal miners are reported entombed as a result of an explosion this morning in No. 2 mine of the Utah Fuel Company at Castle Gate, Utah. Another report says the mine is on fire. EENE WITNESSES. CALL GR Maj. Sullivan on List Summoned by Probers. Principal witnesses in the shooting of Senator Greene of Vermont, includ- ing Maj. Daniel Sullivan, superin- tendent of police, have been sub- poened to appear before a subcom- mittee of the Housg¢ District commit- | tee at 10 o'clock Monday morning to testify at the inquiry into carrying of firearms and bootlegging in the District, under a resolution proposed by Representative Rathbone of Illi- nois. Representative Rathbone is chair- man of the subcommittee, which will conduct the Investigation. The other members are: Gibson, Vermont; Beers, Pennsylvania; Blanton, Texas, and Gasque, South Carolina. IGNACIO MORAN TAKEN. - NEW ORLEANS, March 8.—Ignacio Moran, former Mexican consul gen- eral at Berlin, was arrested here international last night after an " search. structing the delegates not to vote for Reed, but leaving them otherwise un- instructed. ¢ \ Fewer than one-third of the town- ship and wara delegates were in- structed for William G. McAdoo. Reed swept Jackson county (Kansas City), his home, but was swamped, apparently, by rural Missouri. DECLINING FRANG French Foreign Policy May Be Altered Unless Drop Can Be Halted. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. ) Dail By Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily PARIS, March 8—What the French press calls “the battle around the franc” involving the whole problem of French finance, has long ceased to be merely a financial question, and after the experts’ report is probably the most important political factor in Europe today. All of France's political opponents are openly voicing their hopes that {the continued fall of the franc will plunge France into serlous economic difficulties and force a change in her forelgn policy. The French interpret these openly expressed hopes as suffi- clent indication that Germans and others by means of speculative moves on the Zurich, Amsterdam, London and New York exchanges, are spar- ing no efforts to accentuate the |downward movement of the frand. Tax increases and economy meas- ures proposed by the government two months ago and voted by the chamber of deputies a fortnight ago still are in- efective because of obstruction in the senate finance committee. The senate commission, confronted would resign if the bills were not reported Tuesday, professed an earn- est desire to co-operate with the gov- ernment and the-bill probably will be 1aid before the senate on Tuesday or ‘Wednesday at the latest. , The weekly report of the bank of France provides fresh causes of alarm, for it indicates that nearly a billion } francs additional paper money have been issued within the last week. Furthermore, advances of the bank to the state, which must not exceed 23,280,000,000 ~ francs, now have reached 22,100,000,000 francs. Political’ leaders of the right pro- fess belief that rapid passage of the new finance bill will be suificient to stabilize the franc. . French indus- irics, meanwhile, are enjoying an un- precedented boom, though the cost of living s slowly and surely rising and there is considerable effervescience among the working peoule, who are g:fln:l‘ to find their wages imsuf- jen BRINGING CRISIS ; by Poincare's ultimatum that he! mother of a five-month-old child, were {given a preliminary hearing before Police Court Judge Harry Thomas to- | aay, resulting in their being held for the action of the grand jury and bond being fixed at $10.000 each. Up to a { late ‘hour they had failed to secure bond. They are being held at Arling- ton county jail. They are Walter | Hall, twenty-three years old, Claren- {don,” Va.; Hepry O'Brien, thirty, i Georgetown: Clyde Leonard, twenty- {three, Georgetown: Roy Marcey, i twenty-three, Cherrydale, Va.; Joseph { Marcey, twenty-four, Clarendon, Va.; | Buck Marcey, twenty-two, Lyonhurst, {Va. and Frank Dennison, twenty-one, ‘ort Myer Heights, Va. Joseph Ward, also arrested in con- nection with the case, was exonerated and released, His arrest, it was de- clared, was a mistake, and resulted through a confusion of names. 1t is alleged that the men who were arrested by Sheriff Howard B. Fields and Special Officer Bruce Smoot had improper relations with the Abell girl, formerly a resident of Ballston, !but 'who now lives in Clarendon. Investigations which lead to the ar- Irest of the men were made by Wil- {llam C. Gloth, commonweaith attor- iney, at the instigation of authorities infant of the girl had been taken for medical attention. horities started the investigations, it }is said, to determine the parentage of the child. The men arrested are said to be jdrivers of the Washington and Vir- ‘ginla bus line, and five of them are Isaid to be married. The girl's story | implicates _about twenty men, and! warrants for the others have been| issued, according to the county police. SLAYER OF HUSBAND | SAYS SHE LOVED HIM| By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 8.—Samuel Gluckman, a tailor, was hacked to death today with an ax by his wife, Edith, as he was asleep. “I loved him and I couldn't bear to have him go around with other women,” the police quoted her as saying. They were school playmates tin Russia and were married when they met again in New York five years ago. T T I AUTOMOBILE SHOW T of a Baltimore hospital, to which the | ion gas, The hospital au- | cent tax on gasoline, a $1 registration fee and elimination of the personal property tax on automobiles was the bill designed to bring about reciproc- ity with Maryland. It had the ap- iproval of the Maryland road officials as well as the governor of the state. On the assurance of legislators that no trouble would be experienced in getting this bill through Congress, Gov. Ritchie granted temporary reci- procity with the District. Elimination of the personal property tax did not meet with the approval of members of Congress when the bill reached the Senate and House com- mittees, although the 2-cent gas tax alone would bring in some hundred thousand dollars more per year than does the present arrangement of the personal property tax and the horse- Power tax. Ball Proposed Substitute. Senator Ball, who is chairman of the Senate District committee, upon learning of the opposition of Wash- ington motorists to any but the original proposition offered a substi- tute bill providing for a 2-cent tax retention of the personal property tax, a $1 tag fee, and the creation of a special fund for street improvement, in which Congress would not participate with its cus- tomary 40 per cent appropriations. The joint special committee, after carefully digesting the new plan, reitereated its stand on “no reci- procity unless by the Commissioners’ original bill,” pointing out that the plan would-not only increase motor tax in ‘the District approximately $700,000 a year, but without Con- gressional contribution, the special fund would seriously endanger the future fiscal relationship between the federal and District governments. Meeting Result of Doubt. When the committee’s stand was brought up by Senator Ball at a meeting of the Senate District commit- tee it is understood that some doubt was expressed as to whether it rep- resented the real attitude of Wash- ington motorists. It was, therefore, decided to call a mass meeting to hear every one intgrested. The meeting today is expected to | settle definitely and for all time the question of the gas tax and the form it is to take in being levied on resi- dents of Washington. will be taken by the Senate commit- tee following the meeting cannot be | forecast, although it is said that there is a sentiment in favor of let ting the Dbills die if it is found that ‘Washington citizens are united in SECTION 22 Pages About the New Models Now Being Shown at Convention Hall I e 'Get It Tomorrow W;ith | | opposition to the Ball plan. e UNCONSCIOUS 69 DAYS, BOY BEGINS TO ROUSE Physicians Diagnosed Illness of Canadian Child as Tubercular Meningitis on December 21. By the Associated Press. MOOSEJAW, Saskatchewan, March 8.—Unconscious for nearly seventy days, nine-year-old Jackie Higgins of Boharm, Saskatchewan, has shown the first sigus ‘of returning to conscious- ‘was stricken Decem. ‘what physicians diag- nosed as tubercular meningitis. ‘What aetion | Stranger Waves Hand and Says “Good-Bye” Before 100-Foot Leap. | { With a “Good-bye" and 2 careless wave of the hand, an unidentified | white man plunged from the balus- {trade of the Key bridge more than 100 feet to the muddy water of the Potomac this morning. Daniel Rucker of Oak street, Clar- endon, Va., crossing the bridge in his automobile, saw him as he cried out “Good-bye.” Rucker notified Police- man John Paul Raetzman, who was at the north end of the bridge. A tiny speck showed on the yellow water—a hat, probably. A blackish blur appeared, disappeared, reap- peared and was gone. Sergt. Burke and Belt, from the seventh precinct, put in an appear- ance to make the customary police suicide report. Motorists stopped, | 100ked out, drove on. Far below a boat already was criss-crossing, zig- zagging through the swift current in the Georgetown channel. *The harbor precinct river crew was at work looking for a tangible clue to start dragging. All that police could learn of the man was that he was about 140 pounds in_ weight, apparently well dressed, wWith a brownish coat and a {black hat. A search of the “missing persons” book is already being made in_the hope of identifying the victim. Swiftness of the current and other circumstances led rivermen to predict that the body would be found far down | the river. | | FULLCASHBONUS PROPOSAL BEATEN House Committee Votes to Limit Payments to Paid- Up Life Insurance. | A proposal to make full cash pay- ments aun option in the soldiers' ! bonus bill was voted down today by the House ways and means commit- | tee, which decided to limit payments | to' paid-up life insurance. Tre vots was 13 to 12 on the full cash payment motion made by Rep- resentative Crowther, republican, New York. The eleven democratic members of the committee supported it. . Cash Up to $50. Detailed terms of the bill will be drafted by a subcommittee. Cash pay- ments to veterans not entitled to { vania, republican, and Kunz of chusetts raised a point against the amendment, of order which de- | ferred action until the special meet- | ing tonight. It was explained afterward that Representatives Beers of Pennsyl- nois, democrat, supported Mr. Blan- ton in the amendment before the sub- committee, because Mr. Blanton had agreed that if he was allowed to get consideration of the proposed Amend- ment before ‘the full committee, he would support the rest of the bill au- thorizing the purchase of the park sites. N Representative Gibson, "republican, of Vermont. who put the motion in the subcommittee, did not vote and today declared himself in opposition to_the-amendment. It was the general sentiment of the House District committee that the Blanton amendment will probably r ceive only his own vote. Chart of Park Sites. Representative Frea N. Zihiman republican, Maryland, acting chair- man of the House District committec. emphasized for the special benefit of new members of the committee how the Blanton amendment would en- tirely change the fiscal relations. ‘When the committee meets tonigh: a chart will be shown visualizing what the purchase of the three corn- necting links in the parkway sy will mean to the National Capital. CABINET RESIGNS IN GRECIAN CRISIS Had Held Out for Referendum on Downfall of Glucksburg Dynasty. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, March 8.—The cabinet of Premier Kafandaris has resigned The Kafandaris cabinet was form- ed on January 11 last, to succeed that of Eleutherios Venizelos, who re- tired because of i1l health. It has been under fire on the question of proclaiming the downfall of the Glucksburg dynasty, the immediate representatives of which, King George and Queen Elizabeth, are exiled in Ru- mania." M. Kafandaris has held out in favor of a referendum to decide the fate of the dynasty, while the opposition, in- cluding the republican deputies and a_large faction in the army, demands abolition of the dynasty and procla- mation of a republic in the national assembly.’ The opposition has con- tended that grave consequences would' threaten the country should the result of a referendum be un- favorable to the establishment of & republie. : The premier on Thursday of this week refused to receive a deputation representing the military group, de- claring it was impossible to hoid political discussions with army offi- cers. The officers, however, were re- ceived by the regent, who subse- more than $50 will be approved as an exception. The benefits will extend to | palace. the rank of captain|Athens dispatches in the Army and Marine Corps, and | the military group was and _including quently summoned the premier to the Belief was expressed in at the time that trying to lieutenant in the Navy. as allowed | force the governments hand and in the bill passed last session. Lring about its resignation.