Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. no change in temperature; lowest to- Temperature for ur hours ended at 2 p.m. night, near freezing. twent; today: Highest, day; lowest, 32 Full report’on 3 1 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 ! No. 29,169. Post office Wa m. yesterday. Snow this afternoon; fair tomorro p.m. yester Entered as second-class mattey shington, D. C. - PRESIDENT URGES CONGRESS T0 GUT TAX IMMEDIATELY Asks Laying Aside of Other Issues to Take Up 1923 Reductions. ACTION BY MARCH 15 IS DECLARED “VITAL”| Republican Leaders Hold Out Small Hope of Action Despite Coolidge Request. Considering the proposed 25 per cent reduction in income taxes to be pald for the current year as being a mat- ter of much importance, Presi- dent Coolidge today sent a special message to Congress urging the adoption as quickly as possible of & resolution that would bring about this reduction before March 15, the last date for the payment of the first installment of the current taxes. A spokesman for the President in cxplanation of his message ssaid to- day that tho President appreciates the fact that the resolution will re- quire the unanimous consent of Con- gress, but this should be possible, be- cause of the great importance of the measure to Congress. The President” was represented as having been given no definite indica- tions regarding the possibility of the passage of this resolution, but he is understood to have expressed himself &< being very hopeful. Text of Mesmage. The President's message, follows: “To the Congress of the United States: “It has been my carnest hope that & 25 percentum reduction in taxes 1o be paid for the current year might be provided by law beTore the 15th of March current. Many in full, -P_reSidém Awaits i Counsel’s Advice On Doheny Offer President Coolidge will be guided by the advice of the special ofl counsel in .acting on the offer made vesterday by Edward L. Doheny to continue construction work on the storage tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hawali, at his own expense. . As both of the government at- torneys have left Washington to file legal proceedings to annul the Teupot and California leases, no immediate action on the offer: is expected. MORE MY UNRAVELED ABOUT el o Emgploye Explains Reference to Slemn and Trip With Him From Florida. | TUnder cross-examination, John F. Major, confidential man ‘to Edward B. Me- today some more of thp mysteries of the McLean telegrams. One' of thoss reférred to without name in the messages, he said, was C. Bascom Slemp, with whom he de- clared he had returned from Florid; and upon whom he had called several times since at Mr. Slemp's invitation. He insisted the calls were soctal.” b Exonerates Semator Willia. The code word “eyed” the witness oxplained as referring to E. S. Roch- aster, atached to the office of Attor- ney General Daugherty. He sald Rochester on one occasion had asked @b STERIES MLEANMESSAGES pressure of a. hard-hitting | Lean, explained to ‘the oil committee | “purely | £ WASHINGTON, D. C, OOLOGE 10 S | CHARGES AGAINST | 2DISTRT HEADS | Renaming of Rudolph and 1 Oyster Will Depend on : Investigation. i QCOMMISSIONERS' FRIENDS DEFEND ADMINISTRATION Complaints About School Funds, Public Utilities and Alleys Are Answered. President Coolidge will thoroughly cxumine charges . against Commis- ! sioners Rudolph and Oyster laid be- fore him by several groups of citizens before he sends their names to the Senate for confirmation. i This was learned ‘at the White | | House today, where it was stated | j that President Coolidge probably will | {withhold his decision on the reap- pointment of one or both of the Com- missioners for several days. Charges Amswered. The Commissioners, in the meun- time, have laid thelr side of the mat- [ter before the President. Both of | {them have sent to the President nnl janswer In writing to several of the implications contained in the general | | charges laid Against tiem by citizens Who are protesting their reappoint- | ment. . . | It was intimated at the White; i House today that these answers have | | been'satistactory, to a large degree— i { especially the Commissioners’ refuta- tion of the charge that they have not | acted to the best interest of the city as members of the Zoning and Public | Utilities commissions. - The President was repretented todsy | as saying that it is not surprising for 81 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, MARCH 11, CASTLE GATEMINE EIVES UP 81 BODIES Every Conveyance Available | Used to Transport Vie- gy w I// EARLY MORNING QUAKE, 2,000 MILES OFF, NOTED Seismograph at Georgetown Uni- versity Records ‘“Rather Severe" Shock to South. A “rather severe” earthquake about 12,000 miles trom Washington i i | . om W & » a | Insists southerly direction was recordcd early | today on the seismograph at George- town University The tremors began about 5:51 a.m. g Star. 1924 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES, THLNAN DEMANDS INDURY IN HOLSE Reported Charges Against Him Be Thoroughly The delivered to “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every 2 Star's city bidek and the regular edition is Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,294. TWO ¢ Volunteers to Die In Electric Chair For Younger Man By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, March 11.— Offering to go to the electric chair in place of Joseph Trinkle, con- victed of murder, Walter J. Kirk- wood, fifty, of Philadelphia, wrote to Gov. Pinchot that Trinkle should be given ten to fifteen years in prison, as when he has served Lis time he would be young enough to be of much The governor referred the odd request to the board of. pardons, which in- formed Kirkwood that there is no law in this state that will permit the ‘substitution of an innocent volunteer to take the place of a condemned criminal. i In making his request, Kirkwood stated he was “broken in health, cannot hold down a real job” and did not see that he would be “of any more use on earth whatever.” His motive, he explained, was to “startle humanity to a keen real- ization” of what capital punish- ment means. He offered to pay his own car fare to the place of execution. PROBE RUM CHARGE | House Subcommittee Deter- { mines Bootleg Story With- i out Foundation. In executive session -this morning the subcommittee of the House Dis- | triet committee, which is investigaat- jing carrving of firearms and boot- | legging in the District of Columbia, bad as a witness B. F. Dorsey, who, | when arrested several days ago with {a half gallon jug of liquor said he { was a House office building employe {2nd had procured it for a member of | Congress. Police Sergt. Thomas T. Dalahouse, who arrested Dorsey, was ! also a witnes - INSECRET SESSION SUDDENBLIZZARD PLAYS HAVOG HERE ROARSON NORTH Telephone and Telegraph | Lines Wrecked, Trains Are Delayed. i i | | { HIGHWAYS ARE BLOCKED i BY TANGLE OF WIRES Hundreds of Workers Wallow Through Slush—D. C. Tree Nurs- ery Hard Hit by 80-Mile Gale. Swirling suddenly up the fouther: seaboard from the Gulf of Mexico, |cyelonic blizzard swept over Wasl ington last night, left the city virtu lally isolated from the rest of the world under a beavy blanket of sod den snow, and now is reported to be |roaring northward over Delaware | With undiminished intensity. | Two small and overcrowded undcr {gTound telephone wires betwee: Washington and New York were t only reliable means of communica tion from the National Capital to outside world at noon today. Al laerial telegraph and telephone wires | wero reported down, trains from th Inorth, west and south limped into | Union station from two to six hour |1ate, and even the larger radio st lllons went out of commission. Traffic in Washington moved ca: {tiously and uncertainly today throu seas of slush and water, while th- | snow, soaked with rain, continued !fall steadily most of the day. Onl: 1the most intrepid motorists venture {to drive slowly through the street street car schedules were late an: many lines were often blocked. Bot telephtone and telegraph lines, tor from their supports by snow au wind, made traveling hazardous him to come to the department and|two men to serve at the head of a gov- tims of Blast. jand continued until shortly after 7 After the hearing. members of the Fire Alarm Boxes Out. People have been expecting that such would be the case and defer- had indicated that “something” might be expected soon, but he was ernment for a period of three years. | without calling for some displeasure on | { o'clock, reaching maximum intensity | Investigated. | committee said that the testimony Two hundred and fifty fire ala red their tax returns accordingly. [ seveonet connecting any It is a matter of such eminent im- portance that I have no hesitation in recommending that the public welfare would be much advanced by temporarily laying aside all other legislation and _enacting. a resolution for this purpose, which ought ‘to be by unanimous con- ° “The taxpayers, the business in- terests — agriculture, industry, finance, in fact, all. the elements that o to make up the economic | the part of some one, which was taken | By tue Assoiated Press. |to indicate that the complaints made ! The mysterious “Willis” referred to the White House yesterday against to_repeatedly in_ the telegrams as|the two civilian Commissioners have looking after McLean's — interests 7ot /biased the President in his judg- finally was identified by Major -.m.""“{!‘-,. G ; Wilton J. Lambert, the publisher's, [D. C. Graham, i member of the [ {board of education and prominent in ¥ {local republican politics, who was | consulted several days ago Ly the ! President regarding the Commission- | ership appaintments and other Dis- trict matters, was at the White House | again today. He intimated that his boxes were reported out of comm sion before noon, special police tele phone systems collapsed under tha onslaught of nature's forces, trees {were either broken or blown down |ana special forces of men were kept busy all day clearing the streets debris scattgred over wide sreas by the storm. The Fort Dupont nursers. where many trees were being pre- | between 5:57 and 6:01. Father Ton- % - 3 Representative Zihlman, republican, 1 ; : CASTLE GATE, Utah,, March 11.— dorf, the selsmologist, said the record { nfarviang, today renewed his dcmindl :Zi".,fdé"fiifl S Toxs ot the Eights-one bodies have been recov.|was less clear than usual because of | ina( the House authorize a searchink | Trosss wmne taiars e Py ® of the ercd from the Utah Fuel Company |the storm in the south, and that there- | invociicavion of reports that criminal | 1opging. ing with boot- | mine, in which 173 men were en-|fore his estimates of the distance and | uiigance was developed agatnst hlm“ chthl Do e | tombed Saturday by a serles of ex-|the duratlon of the quake Were un-iang gne other member of the House | tive, testificd as to the difeutte o | plosions. Ninety-two men known |certain. | before the Chicago grand jury. {'enforcing the prohibition law in the | 5till to be in the mine were sought Declaring he twas guilty of M’z%z::fi"l’;‘ ,‘.’e“r“'(-"‘il,’é,?- of.flw(;lrrg“—arn ,.&g Ly numerous rescue crews. . | wrongdoing, Mr. Zihlman protested |but these warrants are issued on Preparations are on foot by the| on the floor of the House against a |complaint to the United States come construction forces to hazy as to detalls. Refers to Barack. Asked later why the words “Willis" and “Lambert” had appeared in the he missoner to judges of the court and | welfare of the people of America— would be greatly benefited by such wetion. It would remove an ele- ment of uncertainty from the cur- rent financial year at once, which would be a Strong stimufant to business with its resultant bene- fits to the wage earner and the agriculture of our country. “Tt is jmpossiblé to see that any harm could acerue from - this action, ere {s every prospect of resulting benefits which would be very great. It would be a posi- tive step in the right direction ‘which is much needed at this time to justify the confidence of the People that the government is in- ent solely on the promotion of the public welfare without regard to any collateral objects. “CAL COOLIDGE.” Leaders See No Hopes. iepublicai leaders in the House , have already decided that the pro- " posed 25 per cent reduction in income taxes payable this year could not be rushed through in time, as the first installments are due on Saturday. Republican membefs of the ways apd means committee, meeting with Hepresentative Longworth, party leuder, agreed, however, that if the revenue bill, already passed, by the liouse and contalning this provision, meets with any delay in enactment a separate resolution to make the cut ffective before-June 15 would be pressed. The action again places hands of the Senate the problem of tax reduction, and the Senate finance | committee in’its condideration of the | revenue bill today will take up the section which provides for the cut in | 1923 income taxes Most of the administration sections of the bill were goue over yesterd; thout change by the committee. pon winding up these detalls of the | measure, the various tax schedules | will be taken up. Secretary Melion | will be asked tomorrow to present | estimatos on the amount of revenue | necessary 1o be raistd, and his opinion on the rates’required to ob- tain such revenue. Chairman Smoot has expressed the opinion that the bill as passed by the House fails by $100,000,000 of raising sufficient revenue and he has declared many of the tax rates wil have to be raised. Representative Chindblom of 1lli- nois, a republican member of the ways and means committee, intro- duced a resolution vesterday to make the 25 per cent reduction on 1923 taxes effective immediately. Repre- , sentatives MiHs of New York .and ,Tilson of Connecticut, republicans on the committee. again urged action on the proposal, but the meeting of the majority members of the committee decided the legislative jam In the House would not permit action in time to allow taxpayers to make the cuts in the first installments. 17 the provision is finally agreed to as car- riedl in the revenue bill, deductions in taxes due in the other three in- stallments will be allowed to make up for the full payments made at this time. e U INCOME TAX RETURNS ALLOW FOR REDUCTION Taxpayers, Anticipating Congres- sional Action, Report'Only 75 Per Cent of Earnings. Special Dispateh:to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., March 11.—In- come tax payers are among the most optimistic people in the world, ac- cording to Galen L. Tait, collector of the Maryland district of internal reve- nue, and he bases this statement on the fact that thousands have availed themselves of the expected 25 per cent reduction in the 1923 taxes o carnings, sending in their return; with a 76 _per cent 'ment in the hope that Congress._: adopt the tax uction measure. . 3 Under the law it is permissible to vay to the incame tax in four-install- ments and by holding out one-quar- ter the optimists are not taking any changes, but can pay the balance at +the fime of the last quarterly pay- Taent if the bill is not Those who pay their full tax now will bave the reduction returned to them if it is authorized by Congress, wut the are taking no t~yrltbho|dmg' the 25 ! chances and are ' per cent. . . in_ the | same telegram, the witness replied that there was “no explanation.” At another point in the telegraphic exchenge, Major declared, “the party™ referred to Bernard M. Baruch of New York. He sald he had talked to | Baruch about MeLéan's situation, sad the formetr hed declared it was too bad. Toward the end of his questioning the witness protested against the form of the queries put to him, and finally id his employer had been wronged y the general bglief that he didn't want to come before the committee and testity. ‘Wanted to Testify. “Absolutely nohe,” he sald, when asked directly whether there had been any. hesitancy about the publisher’s coming to Washington. “Mr. McLean's gone as far as he excused, “and all for nothing.” No other witnesses were heard at today’s session, but the committee held a meeting behind closed doors, at which it examined the telograph rec- ords subpoenaed from Three Rivers, N. Mex.,, the home town of Albert B. Fall. Major First Witwess. The committee called Major first, gnd Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, questioned him. He told of a trip taken by Mr. McLean and himself to Atlantic City “about the middle. of December,” where McLean talked to former Secre- tary Fall. The McLeun party, Which included W. 0. Duckstelfi, the publisher's pri- vate secretary, remained at the beach city two hours, but Major sald he did not know what his employer and Fall -hag talked about. He had “nat- urally inferred” from the newspaper accounts of Fall's later statement to the committee,’ he sald, that McLean and Fall had discussed ‘the matter. “I knew McLean didn’t go to At- lantic City to say howdy-do to Mr. Fall,” he said. Reads. From. Transeript. Senator: Bursum, . republican, New Mexico, read from a transcript of the witness first told of the McLean- Fall conference at Atlantic City. Major .had. sald. Senator Bursum in- sisted, that he knew Fall and McLean digcussed .the matter of Fall's story that McLean had loaned him $100,000. “I inferred that was the purpgse of the visit;” Major insisted, “because the papers came out with the story. I'm merely inferring that.” Major went on to eiplain several of his telegrams under questioning. By his message to McLean, saying that A. Mitchell Palmer had “parties work- on, Walsh.” Major said he meant (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) { UNSEATING OF POINCARE IS’ CONSIDERED -UNLIKELY Believed He Will Be Asked to Form Another Cabinet. in Event ' of Crisis. By the Asssciated Press. PARIS, March ‘11, will "be called-upon to form another cabintet stould ‘a ministerial crisis ocour as an outcome of the senate’s action néxt Thursday on' ‘the government's in, | 3 wpoints of the governmen Amm-mmm,m-mmruwu: nl-m:rwlmtlymuhrgm, ag ever. S Finance Minister de Lasteyrie b; t Sob cnuxm;z \sifi could for a friend,” he said, as he was ! Major’s testimony on March 8, in which | call had to do with the protests made | yesterday by citizens against the re- intment of Comm ners Ruy- | Bofhna Orater, butdid ant care | discuss any of the details. He did| | say that the civilian Commissiohers| | to blame ip; ay el becauso . they are {d;the minority. He stated that .if thers was any erit. icism of the Commissioners it should Dbe directed at thé Engineer Commis- | sioner of the District and not the civ- {lian Commissioniers.’ Answered by Records. At the same time. city officiale und friends of the two, civillan Commis- sioners took the stand today that | records at the District Building con- | stitute ' satisfying answers ‘to the | charges against them. H Among the complaipts made were that the two civilian Commissioners | have interfered with the operation and development of the public school system and that, as members of the |Public Utilitles and Zoning commis. {sions, they have not acted for_ the {best interests of the community. Ref- erence also was made to the faect that the Commissioners rewrote the board of education bill providing for schodl teachers’ salaries. It -was pointed out at the District building today that the tentative es- {timates of the Commissioners for next |year amounted to'$29,891,562, of which $8,143,533 was for schools. The bureau of the budget, which passes upon all local finances, or- dered the total cut to 325,144,832, (Continued on Page 2. Column 5.) g AIR PUBLIC UTILITY, HOOVER DECLARES Recommends Laws to House‘ { Committee to Prevent | Radio Monopoly. ki i | i Declaring the. ether has become 2 public utility as a result of radio| , broadcasting, Secretary Hoover to-| day told the House merchant marine committee that its use must be safe- | Buarded against possible, monopoly. Mr. Hoover recommended ' passage }of the White bill which provides for regulation of -radlo communication, “It is not conceivable that . the Ameérican people will allow this new- born:system of.communicatibn to fall exclusively’into the power of any in- i dividual. group or combination,” he sald. “We cannot allow ‘any’ single person or group to place themselves in' a position where they. can censor the material which shall be broadcast to the public, nor do we' believe ‘the government should even be placed in the position of censering this mate- rial™., The Secretary said further legisla- tion was needed only for the develop- ment of the scierice and for the serv- e fhose who make use of it ‘Radio. communication,” the Secre- tary added, “ is not to be considered a5 merely a business carried on ‘for private guin, for private advertise: era tme Breat or for the entorinmmen us. It is & public concern ioed with the Bublic {rust considered . from the stant public interest to the same Doint e Xtent {mi | the company stall herse-drawn tram cars today, to oxpadite removal of the. bodies. all of which are expected ta be FecoX- ered before night. The work was low yesterday. because many bodles d filn‘i mile and a haif {nside the -mihe. and all were rémoved by stretcher bearers. An augmented staff of under- takers worked all night in the tem- porary morgue. AN express car filled with coffins arrived last night! and a large force of men carried them to tha morgue through lanes of crying women and children, who braved the cold night blasts that ewept through the canvon. Crewds Preas on Mergue. Castle Gate, for the first time since the dissster, which struck nearly every home, allowed itself to give way. to emotions. women, orphaned children or men hardened by years of toil in the mings appeared on the one main street of the village. With &he ap- proach of every conveyance carrying bodles the streets filled rapidly and crowds pressed to the morgue. Daring the afternoon every available truck, mail wagon and automobile was used for transporting the bodies. The weather last night suddenly changed and chilling blasts and a high wind swept through the canyon in which Castle Gate nestles. Snow left a covering of white over the adjacent mountains. At the company cemetery, within he confines of the area of mine No. a force of seventy-six men last night worked under arc lights to preépare graves for the burials, which start today. i DRUG CURB IS BALKED BY SYNTHETIC COCAINE German Manufacturers wafi League of Nations—Mrs. Wright Is Reappointed. By the Associated Prese. GENEVA, March 11.—Mamefaeture of synthetic cocaine by German chem- ists will increase the difficulties of regulating the narcotic evils, it is feared by experts attached to the league of nations. .Official reports of German _output have come to Geneva. It ‘the ‘process, fs successful, limita- tion of the production of the-cocoa leat In Peru, Bolivia and Java no Jonger would suffice as a preventive measure, it is believed. A commission of thé league now is making plans for an international opium conference in November. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of Washing- ton: was reappointed yesterday by the league council as a permianent expert attached 1o the league's opium ad- visory commission: KANCHATKA VOLCANOES SHOW GREAT ACTIVITY B:ruy.yfluu and Earthquakes in Progress Two Months, Mos- and upon the saime basis of the same | ieral es as our other public ERilition? : Mr. ver said that among prob- lems to be solved is how.to ire “perpetually fyll and.complete b - casting sérvice in such fashipn that it will support itself otherwise than in dependence upon the sale of manu- tactured or -upon advertise- ment.” He added that he did _not fayor charging & license fee:on-opera- « PR s o ae noted actrecs of the.“Comedie Francaise died todey at her home Rere. , long ! Griet-stricken | jeourt against Smith. Hauser & Me- | GRAFT IS CHARGED N Suit to Recover $7,000,000 From Construction Firm Filed in Baltimore. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md. March Charging fraud, graft and fraudulent misuse of government funds, Amos W. W. Woodcock, United States dis- trict attorney for Maryland, today filed suit in the local United States 13— Isaac, Inc.. of New York, to recover $7.000,000 alleged excess spent in con- struction of Camp Meade. The suit charges widespread graft cern in construction of the canton- ment, which Meade, midway between Washington and Baltimore, to house soldiers in the world war. Charge Bad Faith, Violation by the firm of its duty to the government under circumstances of war also is among the charges. Misuse of government funds in reck- less purchase of materials and wide- spread padding of payrolls and use {52 ineficient labor are some of the accusations. The papers in the case were signed by Attorney General Daugherty, Woodeock and Roscoe C. McCulloch and William T. Chantland, special assistants to the Attorney General, engaged in the prosecution of war cantonment frauds. The papers allege tnat throughout its work from about June 23 to about December 1, 1917, the defendant ap-, proved a “wanton, reckless and frau dulent course of conduct” in carry- ing out the work and construction undertaken under its contract in that it “wantonly, recklessly and fraudu- lently wasted and permitted” the wasting and destruction of large quantities of materials and supplies for use in the construction “furnished at the expense of the plaintiff.” Lum- Iber, mill work, wallboard, cement, ihardware, piping, stoves, plumbing, “tools and other materials and sup- I plies are specified. ! Army of Employes. Further, the government charges, | the defendant “recklessly ana fraud- } ulently” employed large numbers of | employes in excess of the number “reasonably necessary for the con- ditions of the work.” The sald employes, the government avers, were emploved without regard to_qualifications or.classification; in- efficient and incompetent superin- tendents and foremen were employed; loafing_and leaving of work during worl* °g hours by employes was pe: mitted and _encouraged; employes were dlscharged for cause and re- hired at classifications higher than those for which they were qualified; unskilled labor was paid the wages of skilled men for work not requir- ing skilled labor; regular wages were paid_to incompetent men and men Who did little or no work. ‘The ‘defendant corporation also was charged with ‘having fraudulently caused and allowed -delays in the completion of the work “unwarranted by_the circumstances.” S Trial of the case probably ‘will be delayed several months. because of the crowded condition of the docket, unless the case is given precedence, it_was sald at the district attorney’ l i A LOS ANGELES, Mairch 11.—Pancho Villa, holder of the world flyweight boxing champlonship, is Bere to awalt | the arrival of his wife from the Phil~ . ippines. VEADEBILDNE and corruption was used by the con- was built at Camp! | recommendation of the judiciary com- | mittee that the matter be left entire- |1y to the Department of Justice for | turther {nvestigation. Hits “Word of Croek." Facing more than 200 of his col-| Yleagues, Mr. Zihiman, who is ghair- man of the labor committee, sald: “The House ought to investigate | these charges and either exonerate | me or kick me out of the door as unwerthy to sit liere as a member.” Mr. Zihiman said that early to-| lday John W. H. Crim, special gov i ernment counsel, who appeared be- fore tha Chicago grand jury, called | i him at his hotel and told him he was| “free to admit that.in your case the | charges are unsupported by evidence] and I'm not in favor of indicting| any man on the-word of a crook.” “An attempt has becn made to ruin two innocent members,” added Mr. | Zihlman, “by one of the strangest procedures on record. Give us what jwe are entitled to—an opportunity to clear our names.” Chairman Graham of the judiciary | | committee, taking the noor"m urge }adoption 'of the committee report, |said there had been no official indic cation that Mr. Zihlman or Repre- sentative Langley. republican, Ken- tucky, who also has sald on the floor of the House that he' had heard re- ports that he was involved, were the the men against whom evidence was developed. { Representative Montague. Virginia, {a democratic member of the judiciary committee, informed the House that Mr. Crim had notified the committee that he never had disclosed the names of the two accused House members except to his superiors, entitled to such_information. A fight over the committee's report was precipitated when Representa- tive Dominick, South Carolina, a democratic member, offered a minor- 1 ity recommendation that the House {insist on Attorney General Daugherty { disclosing the names. to the House. The committee found that the re- ply of Attorney General Daugherty to the resolutibn directing him to divulge the names of the accussed representatives presented to the House the choice of taking full re- sponsibility for investigating the al- legations or permitting the depart- ment to continue its investigation. . States Its Position. ¢ In advising that no further effort be made at present to ascertain the names from the department the committee declared it was unwilling to recommend’ that the House “be placed in the position of being re. | sponsible for the suspension of pro- | ceedings by the Attorney General in connection with the matter.” The - judiciary committee was in- structed to determine on a course of procedure ‘when the House was noti- fied Saturday by Mr. Daugherty, in response to & resolution directing him to make public the names, that he was unwilling to do so until convinced of the guilt of the accused. “Under -the reply of the Attorney ieneral,” said the committee report, ‘there is but one of two courses open to “the House of Representatives: | (a) The House take full charge of the | investigation and evidence of the al- | leged charges and reileve the Depart- ‘ment of Justice from further responsi- bility; (b) allew the Department of Justice to continue the investigation now being made, “While there is a difference of opin- fon among the membership of the committee as to the correctness of the position of the Attorney General that the ends of justice would be imperiled by_glving the House the names of the members of the House and the charges against them, as requested by 1 | f { mont _senator the House, and while it is a high duty which the House owes to itself and to the country at large to purge itgelf at the quickest possible moment of all those, If any there be, unworthy to sit in that body, the committee is unwill- ing to recommehd to the House that it permit itself to be placed in the posi- tion of being responsible for the sus- pension of proceedings by the Attor. ney General in connection with this matter.” In his communication to Speaker Giligtt . Mr. Daugherty said he was willing to transmit'all evidence in the %oueulon of the Department to the ouse, 0 that a committee might ‘onduct an investigation. If this were dome, however, he told the House, the department Would suspend its investigation in order o give the . House a’free hand, that they are dirdcted to the office of | the prohibition unit for enforcement. Attorney Simonton, for the prib, bition unit, was also & witness, Mrs. Frank L. Greene, wife of the Ver- :‘!:‘I;_Pennsx.!\'llfln avenue by a pro- foner officer who was Ghasing an alleged bootlegrer. will be & withoss at the hearing Saturday. Have Stermy Clash. The executive session followed a stormy clash in the subcommittee which is presided over by Represent- | ative E. W. Gibson of Vermont. Rep- resentative Beers, republican, Pennsylvania, said when Dorsey was called as a witness that he did not think the committee should develop anything brought out in unguarded testimony befors a subcommittee which would reflect on members of Congress or on conditions in the Na- tional Capital, or that would interfere | with prohibition enforcement. Representative Gasque, democrat South ‘Carolina, supported Mr. in' his argument. Representative Thomas L. Blanton, democrat, of Texas, declared to the committee that as soon as they stumbled across any evidence which would do any good an effort was immediately made to sidetrack ‘it. He said he didn't pr pose to sit in on any “whitewash committee, and started to walk out of the meeting. He was called back d_compromised, saving that if the subcommittee would develop testi- mony without fear or favor he would be willing to remain. Letter From Sullivan. Previously, Inspector W. S. Shelby, | administrative assistant to the super- intendent of metropolitan police, read a letter written by Maj. Sullivan to the Commissioners, recommending more drastic legislation restricting the sale and carrying of firearms. In this it was emphasized that other ‘weapons were just as deadly and dan- gerous as pistols and revolvers. Maj. Sullivan’s letter showed that during the past several years many attempts had been made toward en- actment of legislation dealing with restriction of gun toting. All of the bills introduced were too limited in scope, he said, in that they attempted to deal only with pistols and revolvers, and made no_effort to restrict the sale and use of other equal- 1y deadly and dangerous weapons. During the calendar year 1923, there were thirty homicides 'in the District, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) DR. VON KAHR DENIES AIDING HITLER REVOLT Former Bavarian Dictator Says He Regarded Arrest in Cellar as Joke. By the Associted Press. MUNICH, Bavaria, March 11.—Dr. von Kahr, the former Bavarian dic- tator, .testifying today at the putsch trial, sought to clear himself of all conmection with the Hitler revolt, saying it was absolutely out of the question that he or Gen. von Lossow, the reichswehr commander in Bava- ria, had reached any understanding with Hitler for overthrowing the government. “We considered Hitler, Hitler's fol- | lowers and Hitler's plans as utterly impossible,” he declared. He looked upon the incident in the beer cellar the night that Hitler ap- peared with a revolver and several hundred followers as a comedy over which. he laughed secretly at the time. It was not taken seriously by him or yon Lossow, although for the ‘moment they pretended surrender. Dr. von Kahr, composed and speak- Ing in a clear, low voice, read his tes- timony from a manuscript. The at- torneys for the defense objected to who was shot down | of ! pared for use in the city this spring was reported hard hit. Hundreds of workers were un- lable to reach their places of em ployment, and morc of those who | dia” report to their offices were late than on time. TaXicabs were kept busy all morning hauling to work anxious men and women who found it imposeible ‘to-squecse themselves | into crowded and barely creeping | street cars. Few commuters reach their offices before noon. Reports that seeped into Washing- ton over all but destroyed lines of communication from Maryland and Virginia suburbs described cond: tions of the utmost bavoc. Network of wires were reported stretched across main highways, making tra- veling by automobile’ dangerous if not impossible. Thirty telephone poles were said to have collapsed be- tween Alexandria and Seminary Hill alone, and a commuter, who managed to reach Washipgton from Lanham. Md.. described similar conditions there. i | Anniversary of 188§ Blizzard. The weather bureau described the storm as one of the worst blizzards on record for this section. Falling on the anniversary of the famous blizzard of 1888, when Senator Roscoe Conkling lost his way in a drift in the heart of New York city and died of exposure, it was said to “at least” equal that storm in precipitation and intensity. Washington was isolated {from the outside world for three days following the blizzard. From six to eight inches of snow jand nearly two inches of rain had | fallen up to 11 o'clock this morninc and at that hounr the snow was stii} falling. Maj). Edward H. Bowie. fore caster, said, however, that the storm' | center had passed over Washingtor and the precipitation would cease be fore night. He does not expect change in temperature tonight, b predicted slightly rising temperatu for tomorrow. Maj. Bowie described the blizzard as a tremendous cyclone. Originatinz in the Gulf of Mexico, it whipped over to Florida and began sweeping up the coast at the rate of eighty miles an hown It turned to a snowstorm when it struck the Carolinas, but cou tinued in intensity, and the weath bureau expects it to hit New Yo later today wtih undiminished v lence. The entire south is crippled according 1o messages coming in o trains many hours late. Wind Reaches S0-Mile Speed. The center of the storm reachci Washington early last night, still ac companied by high winds, and sta ! tions at the Virginia capes reported | the velocity to*have reached eighty miles an hour there. It is mot be- lieved to have blown so hard herc however, although the havoc done by wind is reported to be nearly as heav: as that of the heavy, rain-soaked | i 1 ! { | to give way under the merciles: pounding of the elements were from the south. These were soon followe: {by western wires, however, and by morning, when the storm center w raging beyond Baltimore, the nor {ern lines began to weaken. T! Western Union Telegraph Compan |reported all of its southern and west ern wires down. It was conducting ]its business as expeditiously as pos- sible over two underground tele phone wires to New York and a lone aerial wire that was lost and re gained many times during th morning. Naval Radios Break Down. The Postal Telegraph Company ported its Washington stations as is lated. It had no wires in any direc- tion, although it reported traffic con- ditions south of Richmond and be- yond Baltmore to be in fairly good condition. A through wire from ‘Washington to Jacksonville was rig- ed up before noon, only to collapse |5 %Few minutes atter trafic began to |go over it. Special crews of men were ordered out to follow in the wake of the storm and repair damage for both comparnies as fast as weath conditions would permit. . Efforts to relieve tho communica i situation through the naval radio station at Arlington falled, teo,