Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 2

DOLLAR DIPLOMACY POLICY DEFENDED Hammond Says Backward Nations Are Favored by De- velopment of Resources. “As the result of many years ex- perience in development of back- ward countries I am convinced that dollar diplomacy’ mot onmly confers -ubstantial benefits upon the mnation whose citizens supply the capital, A WARNING! Fire alarm boxes in the fol- 16wing neighborhoods aro out of service because of the storm: Anacostia, Congress Heights, Randle Highlands, Benning and the American University Park section, I¥ing west of Wisconsin avenue and north of Murdock Mill road, " Fire Chief George Watson warns residents of these locali- ties to “pull” the box in case of fire, but to be certain to follow up ‘this action by telephoning Main 20, SUDDEN BLIZZARD PLAYS HAVOC IN WASHINGTON, THEN ROARS ON NORTH (Continued from First Page.) but also upon the country where the investments are made.” said John | Hays Hammond, former chairman of | the United States Coal Commission, | 1n an address on “Foreign Trad before Washington Study at Rauscher's | yesterday. Asserting that America cannot de- pend on LEuropean markets for its exports, he stated that it was nec- essary for this country to develop new fields for its commerce in South America, Asia end Russia. “American {5 the only country competent to undertake the de- velopment of backward countries and the investment of the nation's capi- tal abroad is the best means of open- ing foreign trade and is the ‘open sesame’ to foreign Ports, Hammond. Lack of European Markets. He pointed out the lack of market for American products In Europe and the possibilily of the enactment of the British empire preferential ‘ariff which would cut off the pres cat market for 40 per cent of Amer: 1ea’s progucts. speaking of the acquisition of foreign concessions by American roncerns Mr. Hammond sald: “It is lumentable ignorance on the part of the public and some times high offi- cials that they do not distinguish be- tween legitimate undertakings vash of land mining rights, etc., and cxtortionate schemes for conces- He deplored the fact that Americans who developed foreign | projects were stigmatized and urged that an international “high cqurt of cquity” be created to deal with com- mercial questions. { Defends Lower Prices. ! Mr. Hammond defended the prac- | tice of selling American products | abroad at lower prices for the rea- | &0n that it is a means of getting rid | of surplus American products and kieeps industries here going. America has to compete with Duropean indus- tries and thus keeps trade away from foreign trade rivals. Touching upon the present eto- nomic distress in the wheat belt. Mr. Hammond said it was the resuit of unbalanced production and said that the present situation would prove “a blessing in disguise” if it resulted in diversified farming. said the keystone of the na- s imdustrial development was its home market, which consumed 30 per cent of the country's industrial output. Outlines Thirteen Needs. For the development of foreign commerce Mr. Hammond recomraend- ed thirteen needs: 1. Protective tariff. 2. Creation of financial institu- tions under the Edge law, with sub- sidiary branches abroad 'to provide assistance for American financing en- terprises abroad to khelp in long-time foreign credits, 3. Fostering legislation for trade matters at home and able dipiomatic representation abroad. 4. merchant marine, revision of ‘“gro- tesque” navigation laws, basing of :mmigration quota on number of per- <ons of particular nationalities who become naturalized here. 5. More co-operation and spirit of interdependence between pan-Amer- ican nations. Redweed RU Rates. 6. Reduced rates by railroads on goods for export. Interstate Com- merce Commission to allow railfoads to run steamships for foreign trade. 7. Encouragement by government ot foreign enterprises abroad, these cnterprises free from federal tax, the :overnment relying on the resuitant Thereased export trade for compensa- tien, 8, Greater respect of the sanctity of contract. 9. Facilities for education of young men for foreign trade. o 19. Encouragement. combina- tions of corporations and individuals | peake and Potomac Telephone Company | jor purchasing raw material abroad. 11. Reciprocal rights with other ~ountries in development of natural resources. 12. Censorship to prevent dumping in money markets here foreign mu- nicipal and government bonds with- out ‘investigation 13. American investments abroad from 10 be confined to the development of | rosources of a nation. Ife urged that the American wage- marner be taught the necessity of in- reasing individual output for the enefit of overseas trade. DANCES AND AUTOING WORRYING MOTHERS Mrs. Rafter Tells Big Sisters Curb Is Sought on Potential Evils. Boys and girls who dance together the whole eyening without changing partners are causing the mothers of the District much concern, according 10 Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the District Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Associations, who deplored this practice at a meet- ing of the Big Sisters’ Juvenile Pro- tective Association at the Club last night. Mrs. Rafter explained that yester- day morning she received a delega- tion of mothers who expressed their fear of this attitude at dances and 21s0 were worried about the autqmo- bile rides following the dances. 'Mrs. Rafter said that concrete cases wer: glven of girls getting into troubls through these practices. The mothers, ehe sald, urged some stand inst ‘hgrnfie mothers,” she declared, “felt “ast they were respomsiblc for the temptations that came to their daughters, and felt that these cus- toms were hot conducive to right thinking and had a tendency of ing resistance against tempta- Cemradeship Is TUrged. Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juve- nils Court urged that more mothers try to be “big sisters” to their daugh- ters, and that more women tal up the work of the Big Sisters.. Men were urged to take up the big- brother work. Judge Sellers declared that girls come before the court on more serious charges tban do boys, and explained that women do not nderstand girls as men boys. Fifty per cent of the boys go before the Juvenile Court om charges of stealing, snd the other 50 cent can be traced/ to unhappy ard broken up_homes,” she declared. - ‘The meoting was called for the pnrpo‘:n of creating ln:::-u l;l‘ lbn; big-sister work on pa pl‘fut-uuhar organizations. g Mrs. Rafter declared that she did not consider the girl of today bad, but that t had many temptatidos that the giris of other days did mot have. < ———e Best sponges are obtained from right to ten fathoms below the sur- face of the water. y that | sald Mr. | by | Americans, grounded on purchase for | when it was announced that Station Lad gone out of commission and the Navy was doing its busincss as best it could via the Sayville, L. 1, stu- tion, reuting prossing messages there by wire. The Navy stations at An- napolis ‘and Philudelphia also were | seported out of commission carly to- | day. |' The storm plaved havoc with radio ‘mertals in Washington. The Chesa- { peake and Potomac Telephone Com irany’s station, WCAP. lowered its ! entenna when it sagged to the break- |ing point under its’ welght of wet {tnow. The Radio Corporation of America reported fts station Il mght,” but throuchout the city amateur derlals were destrored dur- {ng the night and many hours of care- | work will be necessary beiore {1adio fans may again llsten-in.oa i the nightly programs. The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- i phone Company reported long-distance | communication from Washington has jboen “effectually cut off.” Maryland, \ Virginta and West Virginia were said to |have been as hard hi: as the Distric and underground cable lines to New ! York, Philadelphia and Baltimore w:e said ‘to be the only sorvice remains unimpaired. These are subject to cuch demands that the com- pany cannot handle the business. The {most havo: is reported around Wash- | ington and Baltimore. No serious tro ble is expected in Washington proper by ithe company unless the storm continus Only Three Are Hart. ! There was an amazing lack of ace WRC | lines over which | AID FOR MOTHERS OF ALIENS FAVORED Council of Social Agencies Is | Told Need of Homemaker’s Americanization. ! Extension of Americanization work {here along the line of greater aid to ithe foreign-born mother was urged Ly Miss Maude I. Aiton, principal of Amgcricanization work in tie public | schools. st & meeting of the couneil jof soctal agencles yesterday after- {noon at the Ralelgh Hotel. i Declaring that the sociul agencies jof the city have an important part to play in such work, Miss Aiton eald there was great necessity of j“trying to put the foreign mother {back in her rightful place in the home.” With the children attending the public schools and the father attend- ing the Americanization schools, the itendency s for the mother to “lose fout” iIn her reiations with her chil- idren, while the latter and the father g0 ahead. Miss Aiton said. i Keep Mothers Up-to-Date. { Children of forcign-born parents sometimes come to look upon the {mother as hopelessly old-fashioned, |not as good as their teacher and {other women, the speaker continued. but by proper work with the mother he may be taught to keep abreast of {her children and regaln her place Tn * ome. % Miss Alton said there ure 30.000 forsign born In the District, of whom sbout 14,000 are not naturalized. {While there are 00 iiliterates in {in the District, she continued, less than 2.000 are foreign born. | She explained the organization of foreign-bora studonts into an asso- | clation, and told of the work accom- i t dents resulting from the storm. Only | plished bv them. This is a real plece three persons were reported injured!of work in Americanization, done by s a direct result of the blizzard, and | the students themsclves, the speaker but one of these was seriously hurt.!continued, the students having re- The victim is Martha Washington.!quested that their former natfonali- colored. of 3236 Prospect avenue. She | {jeg he left out of the book which A privately owned American Cosmos | was alighting from a street car on ! the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge at Z6th strecet when an automobilo op- erated by . Fletcher of 710 23d street, collided with the car. The accldent occurred duri heaviest ow fall and the driVer re- ported that his vision was complet 1y blocked. Mrs. Washington was | thrown heavily to the floor of the car and was taken to Emergency Hospital, suffering from severe lacer- ations and a possible fractured skull Fletcher, too. was treated for lacer- ations and later was locked up at the third precinct station on a char of driving while intoxicated. Thomas Blankenship of 126 H street rarrowly escaped werious Injury about 10:30 o'clock last night, when |a telephone e which had failen | ackoss 4th street between H and 1 | streets caught and broke the wind- shield of the car he was driving. The top of the machine also was damaged, but Blankenship escaped with minor scratches. ‘Autornobllu operated by Benjamin F. Brown of 1434 S street and Wil- liam F. Fling of 3254 O street collided a2t 24th and M streets last night. Both machines wers badly damaged, but neither of the occupants was hurt. No accidents had been reported to the police up to noon today. So severe was the condition of the streets that both pedestrians and mo- torists exercised unusua! cautio with mutually satisfactory resulte. Poople Warned of Fire. Failure of the fire alarm stations, which occurred largely-in suburban sections, was due to the aerial wires connecting them direct to headquarters in the District building breaking under the combined pressure of snow and wind. Realizing the danger of such a situation, Fire Chief Watson imme- idiately sent out that residents of the affected zones should immediately tele- phone Man 20 In case of fire. and take Do, chance of sounding an alarm from a “dead box.” l'l"hel sections in which the fire-alarm signal apparatus is still crippled are Anacostia. Congress Ha‘:llu.p‘!l.lhdla lighlands, Benning and the American University Park section Iying west of Wieconsin_avenue and north of Mur- dock Mill road. Commissioner Oyster in- structed the polize to assist firemen in Dotifying as many property owners as possible in_the neighborhoods affected, and Chief Watson requested the Chesa- to have its operators be on the alert for emergency calls from those localities. The wires began to fall at 11 o'elock last night, and continued at intervals throughout the night. Fortunately, the fire alarm office was able to tell imme- diately when a box went out of order by the flashing of a red lamp, which indi- cated there was trouble on the circuit. Hacker's Foree Busy. The Potomac Electric Power Com- pany did not escape its share of storm worries. It was estimated by an official of the company that wires supplying lighting and heating cur- rent to ‘more than 200 homes had been felled, and that several of the main high tension wires had oroken, also. A number of poles in ‘Takoma Park and Chevy Chase snupped and fell across roadways, making quick repairs all the more difficult. Morris Hacker, superintendent of street cleaning, had 400 men out early today clearing away the slush and 2now at street crossings and endeav- oring to keep gutters open. He ex- | pected most of the snow to be washed i away by intermittent rains if his men ! could succeed in keeping the gutters and sewer entrances clear. Through- out the night. Hacker had snow plows constantly busy in the most ustd thoroughfares, Hacker declared his regular appro- priation for snow removal has already Dbeen exhausted and that he must use money appropriated for cleaning the streets in order to make crossings passable for pedestrians. He promised, however. to keep them as “nay e as possible, despite the drain it might mean on his treasury. EILLED DURING STORM. BALTIMORE, March 11.—Baltimore and vicinity were visited by ter- Fibo_gale accompantod last nieht by heavy soow and rain, which .lsft in its wake crippled electric transpor- tation l:d interrupted telephone and telegrap! rvice. 2 A woman believed fo have been blinded by the. snow..was killed on York road by an automobile. Bay shipping was hampered, only the larger vessels venturing out. ~ Tele- phone officiale report: that 300 Hnes 2re Hown in. the city and 10,000 sta- tions out of commission. ’ Although the eastern shore amd western Maryland were cut off tele- phone communication, _officials said they were able to reach Washington, Philadelpbia and New York. Damage in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, March 11.—The thirty-sixth annivefary of the ter- rible blissard of 1888 was observed by King Boress today by blowing down telegraph, telephone and elec- tric light poles and creating gemeral bavoc in wire communication in east- orn_Pennyslvania and in the Dela- | ware-Maryland peninsula. The storm was_accom) by heavy, wet snow. six foot snowdrifts wers re- ported in York county. The bigh wind caused minor dam- age in Phil ia, ‘such as blowing in windows. roofs of a few houses were torn off. At the Delewars capes the wind attained a velocity of seventy-two niiles an - hour. - FREEZING IN SOUTH.. ATLANT Ga., March 11—An i Tty e south in a - tures reported below in many 'ogig::r'no cold weather was reported in Virginia and the Carclinas, they have issued. Thus ten different | nationalities are represented in the 1 list of officers, yet they are one now— American. 4 Glive Mach Infermation. The Americanization school performs the funetion of, an informa- tion bureau to its students and the families they represent, Miss Aiton { explainéd, as the foreign-born look to it for information in many topics. | O. T. Moore of the bureau of nat- { timate relation of this work to the | Americanization program. In 1915 there were about thirty-five Ameri- Irmlltntion schools in the United tates. Today there are such classes In_2.000 cities, he said. The naturai contact of the bureau of naturalization with the forelgn- { born is tho one and only reason the { bureau has invaded the field of edu- | cation, Mr. Moore continued. He said that the standard sought is that each | to read a newspaper intelligently. } Act oa Sunshine Heme. That the social agencies in the Dis- trict have a great opportunity to help in Americanization work was pointed out by both epeakers. The council voted to drop from mem- ! Bership the Sunshine Home for Women, because of Its failure to receive the in- dorsement of the charities indorsement committee of the District. A letter was {fead from the home stating that it {would withdraw from the coundil. |enA Tesolution was adopted calling for the consideration of the proposed public welfarc department at an early, prob- ably the next. meeting of the council. i Reports of Newbold Noyes, treasurer, iand other officers showed the affairs of {the council to be in excellent condition. John Thider presided. weather bulletins say that the frees- ing mark was registered in Georgia as far south as the Florida line. High winds and low temperatures also were reported in Alabama, Louis- iana and Missisaippl. Locally the thermometer at 7 o'clock this morning recorded 24 de- grees. Government reports from Georgla's peach belt, published today, stated the cold wave, while it may slightly re- tard, will not appreciably affect the crop. Virginia Has Wire Trouble. RICHMOND, Va., March 11.—Snow, falling for many hours, has seriously interfered with wire communication out of Richmond. All Chesapeake and Ohio railroad telcphones were “out” west of this city, according to the chief dispatch. er's’ office, which reported only one of the C. and O. telegraph wires working to the west. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company’s local office reported much trouble porth and west. £ Smew in Seuth Carelina. COLUMBA, 8. C., March 1l.—Inter- mittent rain and snow and low tem- peratures were general throughout here | uralization told of the necessarily in- | applicant for naturalization be able | { l H i ! i | ) ! | i 1 i the mevere wi PROBE RUM CHARGE IN SECRET SESSION (Continued from First Page.) of which fourteen were with revolvers, six with knives, two with razors and jone each with brick, iron pipe, stove | poker, stick and other methods. During ithe same period there were 349 arrests | tor assault with aangerous weapons, of which 120 were with revolvers, 126 with knives, 22 with ragors, 3 with axes, 18 with bricks, 9 with bottles, 12 i with dishes, 3 with blackjacks and the |others by miscellaneous methods During the same period there were 13 arrests for assault with intent to kill, 10 by revolver, 2 bp knives and one’ with stick or club. During this perfod there were 326 arrests for carrying concealed weap- ons as follows: ~ Revolvers, 214; ragors, 49; brass knuckles, 7; knives, {41; “iron "bars, 1: blackjacks, 14; slingshot, 1. Only Partiai Remedy. “From thege figures,” Maj. Sullivan wrote to the Commissioners, “it is manifest that the cnactment of legis- lation aimed only at the sale, use and possession of pistols will only partial- Iy correct the conditions with which the police department is confronted.” Inspector Shelby discussed the draft of the bill designed by the police department to restrict the sale and use not oniy of pistols and re- volvers, but of other deadly and dangerous weapons, which Maj. Sul- livan said “will place in the hands of the police an effective measure, which, if properly enforoed, will- do much toward reducing the number of crimes of violence, occurring an- Dually in the District.”” 3 Inspector Shelby explained the provisions of this bill to the commit- tee. He pointed out that if this legislation is enacted a dealer can sell a deadly weapon only with authorization of the superintendent of police, and that no person can carry a deadly weapon without per- mit from a judge of the Police Court, issued on recommendation of the superintendent of police. epresentative Blanton interjected that ail the law in the world wouldn prevent crimidals getting revolv: and that such a bill would only pi vent an honest man from getting a weapon for self-defensc. The only way to prevent criminals carrying weapons is to provide heavy pepal- ties, Representative Hlanton _said. esterday, according | Representative Gibson asked Inspec- fi“xw‘;‘::’:l!:‘chrn‘ Col:mhll. oéltlas tor Shelby if he would be in favor in the upper part of the state last(Of providing a stiff penalty for per- ‘while i I night reported the mercury below the freesing point, and still falling. There was a strong westerly wind. Severe im Nerth Carolina. RALEIGH, N. C, March 11.—With spring of the calendar but ten days away, North Carolina is covered with & bianket of snow from the moun- tains to the coast. In most sections the snow fell nearly twenty-four hours, while high winds also were reported. SUBURBS NEARLY ISOLAT! Special Dispateh to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 11— High winds which accompanied the heavy fall of snow early this morn- ing the services of the Alezandria Light and Power Com- pany‘and seriously affected service of the local branch of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Cars of the Washington Virginia rallway company were held up for more than an-hour between 3 and o'clock this morning due to lack of current, causing many government employes and others working in-the Capital to be from thirty minutes to an_hour late in thelr offices. Thirty telephone poles between the city and Seminary Hill were reported down this morning by Hugh T. Clarkson, local telephone mi . Several pol of the electric light company blocked the Little River turnpike between this city and Fair- the extent of damage done his com- pany. With crews working all night, ofice men included in the repalr gangs, he said that he expected, with no further trouble anticipated, it will be several days be.t:nn X :::::‘E: 3 completely repaired. = No btl.l" given s Church, Clarendon and other suburban sections. Fallen wires were blocking prac- tically every street this morning. These are being removed first and re- Dairs are being made later. Officials at the gas plant feared tiis morning that it would be mmbla mom the necessary amou ) count of 'rfll:. ;n.llm of the ‘I.l!'dwlu current. owever, was v?lnm the‘nllnu were Tepaired late this morning. Telephone communcation with all ruu.ovl state was cut off by fal- jen wires. "Washington was the only out-of-town station possible to get early today. Several hundred individ- ual ‘phenes in the city were reported to be out of order. Mr. Clarkson said that three or four days at least would be needed in which to restree serv- ice to normal, sons carrying deadly weapons. In- spector Shelby replied that the police do.pl:nmefnt bill pmbvldus that “gol- session of a weapon by & person com- mitting a felony shali be prima facie evidence and make for a strict pemaity. Representative Foster of Ohio, who is_not a member of the committee, asked Inspector Shelby if he thought the Foster bill regarding the carry- ing of fircarms while e in vio- lelon of the prohibition law would be an aid to the police. Inepector Shelby gave the opinion that it would help materially. 160 UNDESIRABLE ALIENS TO BE SENT FROM U. S. 110 Men From Néw Orleans, Charged With Various Crimes, Included in Lot. NEW YORK, March 11. — Two groups of undesirable aliens, num- bering 160 in all, were taken to Eilis Island yesterday .to await deporta- tion. One hundred and ten men, charged with' various crimes, came from New Orleans, padlocked below decks of the steamship Comus. Fifty men. women and children were meptally defective or blood relatives to others awaiting deportation. g j The leans gTO! consists iy ot e From the west and of whom entered the 12:30 to 1 0'clock SPEAKER TOMORROW HON. JOHN KETCHAM CONDUCTED BY, REV. H. T. STEVENSON |Cumming Begins Second Term as Surgeon General Dr. Hugh S. Cumming was sworn in today for his second term of four years as surgeon general of the United States public health service. The ceremony occurred in the office of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the oath being administered by Assistant Chief of the Appointment Division H. W. Stutler. Dr. Cumming was_first appointed surgeon general by President Wilson under Secretary of the Treasury Hous- ton. Dr. Cumming entered the public health service as an assistant surgeon May 29, 1894, and rose through the ranks to the position he now holds. AT COOLIDGE TO SIFT CHARGES FILED AGAINST RUDOLPH AND OYSTER (Continued from First Page.) When the water department and trust funds were eliminated there remaind only $22.839,060 - for the entire mu- nicipal service. Inereased School Fund. In making the heavy reduction thus ordered by the budget office, the Com- missioners, it was cited today, 16t in $7,097,437 for schools, or 31 per cent of all the money to be appropriated. One city official recalled that the Commissioners went even farther and submitted at the same time a suppl mental school ‘budget of 31,451,084, making a total for schools of 38,648, This was considerably more than the $6,179.072 appropriated bx Con- gress for schools last year. On the percentage -basis, this appropriation was 28 per cent of the total. or 3 per cent less than the Commissioners sought for next year. As to the rewriting of the teachers salary bill, it was stated today that when the original board of education measure reached the Commissioners, Auditor Donovan conferred with offi- cials of the budget bureau and learn- ed that the school board’s bill would not meet with the approval of that bureau. ‘The city heads sent the original measure to the budget with the re- vised draft, and, after a hearing be- fore the budget officials, the school board and the Commissioners had- (o write a third bill. The Commiasioners, one oficial deciared, sought merely to draft a_teachers’ bill that would comply _with , the budget bureau's financial program. Two in Mimority. Referring. to the administration of the zoning law, officials called atten- tion to the fact that Commissioners Rudolph and Oyster are a minority of the full commission, which in- cludes the Engineer Commissioner, the officer in charge of public bulld- ings and grounds and the architect of the Capitol. Although the Commissioners are mot represented by their supporters as shirking their share of the respon- sibility for the acts of the zoning commission, it was emphasized that two members could not control & ‘board of five. The records ‘of the Public Utilities Commission show that the rates of all service corporations have been ublic Peduced since Commissionars Rudoiph and Oyster bave been in office. 1 't I St. Nazaire the girl met several is b ds and to say he only o T vents 0k 0% | score of her Follow countrymen.-all | wished: ho eould return o Flofida, has becn Cut from 15 cents th cents. - rednctions of 5 per cent eich have been grdered in Slectric rates, but,-because of the status of the valuation case in court, ‘the- last | time. the Italidn quota in America had | McLean -on - January 16 about the reduction was, ement of cour- sel, not made effective. The charge for unlimited telephons service was reduced from $5.50 to $5. Four different cuts have been made in the price of gas, bringing it down from $1.32 to $1 per thousand cubio feet. e . Compisint Absut Alleys. Another complaint made is.that the Commissioners have not succeedsd in clearing the alleys of Washington of insanitary conditions. | ! 1 | mentioned in_another telegrum to wo- Keep Your Hat On In Art Galleries, . Advise Painters! By the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 11.—Belicy- ing that Americans can be taught how to look at pictures if they can ‘only be broken of the habit of tak- ing off their hats, talking in whis- pers and tiptosing around in art galleries, the Society of Independ- ent Artists opened its efghth an- nual exhibition yesterday with the !!‘l‘?‘m. “Keep your hats on if you 4 A. S. Baylinson. secrstary of the society, explaining the slogan, © don't want people to look at our pictures in that =pirit of awe. Let the men keep their nats on, as they invariably dc in Kuropean art galleries.” MORE MYSTERIES ARE UNRAVELED ABOUT CODE MESSAGES TO McLEAN (Continued from First Page.) simply that there were people inquir- ing of Walsh as to whether Mclean was to be called to testify. He testified that the teiegram sayinj he was busy with Curtis, Underwe and “Zev” meant he was trying to avold the calling of McLean from Palm Beach 1o testify. J. W. Zevely, personal coun- sel to Harry K. Sinclair, he said, told him that all efforts to keep Harry Payne Whitney off the stand had faiied. He then went to Zevelr to enlist his aid to a similar end for McLean, but was told thut it was useless. May Have Meant Baruch, Major said he thought “that man,” | Tiean, raferred to Bernard M. Baruch of | New York Th message said “'that ! men”’ was to sec “the party"” v Major testified the party’ was Senator Walsh. With Baruch, the witness went on, he had “d'scuseed Mr. McLean, and dis e cpotke bighly of Major said “He gpoke b ly of you ajor said. hat's not surprising.”” Senator Walsh put in. “He's a friend of minc “He said it was a damned shame, probabiy TAXCUT DELAY ROUSING PUBLL Flood of Letters Pours in on White House Complaining of Congress Inaction. - BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The administration is face to face with a critical situation in Congrese The principal recommendations made {by President Coolidge in his Decem { ber address have not been acted upon i Bven the intimation conveyed by the { White House last week that the | Presidént would like to see Congress ipass a joint resolution making im- { mediately effective the 25 per cen: reduction on 1923 incomes has thus far fajled to produce action. The utter ineffectiveness of the leg- islative branch of the government at this time is the subject of widespread complaint, judging by the letters pouring in here from different parts of the country. The administration is inclined to blame the congressional tendency to investigate instead of legisiate. Mr. Coolidge made a pointed speech on that phase of congressional duty last Saturday night, and it means the administration has begun to realize the necessity of driving Congres somewhat or at least placing the re sponsibility for inaction on the tw: houses. | i i | H | 1 { Could Act Quickly. Perhaps the most flagrant casé « congressional lassitude is the reco of both the democrats and the repul: licans on the propeosal to-glve tne taxpayers of America the benefit or March 15 of this year of a reductior on the 1923 income taxes. Through out the United States citizens have been making out their returns in the Lope that before Saturday of thi continued Major, “that Ned McLean was | Weck, when the first income tax pay mixed up in this thing for nothing.” Didn’t See Baruch. ‘What was he (Baruch) £oing to e me about?” Semator Walsh asked. “Do you know whether he did see {me or not? { i1 dom't think he did," Major re- lied. i P'Major wan asked what was meant {by a telegram from Mclean asking jthat he find out “in careful manner i about matter I will talk to you about GIRL’S STORY BARES BIG SMUGGLING PLOT Aliens Brought to Mexico and Cuba Under False Pledge of Entry to United States. BY ROBERT T. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 11.—Cruelties practiced in the “bootlegging” of im- migrants into the United States have stirred the immigration authorities here into an appeal to Washington to make a thorough investigation into the subject. + The plight of a young Italian girl, SMALL. ‘| Mario Matalizio, who is about to be deperted ‘because she arrived here 2ftér the Italian quota had been closed until next July 1, has pointed the necesmity of the new - inguiry which may be extended tr European countries where the bootiegging plots are formed. It is _met alome the violation of United States laws which has aroused the irc of the officials, but the hard- ships of the innocent victims of the plots. Left to Shift for Selves. Virtually all of the immigrants from Europe who find their way into the United States over the Mexican and Canadian borders pay for what ey believe will be direct sage into New TYork city. After thel money has been tak by Schemers they are herded together in all_manner of unfit vessels and dumped mostly in Cuba or in Mex- ico and left in & majority of cases to find their own way as best they can to the hoped-for promised land. Eoth in Mexico and in Cuba they are frequently arrested for viola- tion of the immigrant laws in those countries or for.the petty thefts they are compeiled to ocmmit to eke out a miserable existence. Maria’s story has bared an im- mense {mmigration swindle. 1t has been known for a long time that “bootlegging” was in eflect, but the villainy of the system has been lost to sight in the consideration of tech- nical violation of the federal laws committed by each and cvery one of the ignorant sufferers who have toll- ed their way into America sfter hav- ing been dumped onto an unfriendly coast. Smuggling of Orientals. Now: an attempt will be made by an appeal to. foreign countriés to stop the fraud on the other side of -the water. Orfentals long have been #muggled into the country, at so much per- head. 1In their-cases the American authorities have wasted no sympathy, for the immigrants were party to the fraud. With the Eurow Pean immigrants there is a difference. More than six months ago Maria's brother, Giacomé, who lives in De- troit, sent for her to come from their old home in Ttaly. He sent her plenty of money to pay for accommodations In the Steerage and on the trains, He asio sent for her in plenty of time me within'the Itallan - tion quota. R Maria was h { th appy when she received and the money for her passage. Her joy wWas such that she told all the vil- | office three minutes.” lage. Immediately there were volun- teers. to tell her what to do., Her brother had given- her instructions, but the new friends insisted he was out of date. They would look after her. . She fell. into ' the schemers and gave them her money. Kept at St. Naxaire, Marie was sent to St + France. American soldiers landed in France. Nazaire, for e to ‘Amerjca L the “big liner” which had been prome there until after Cbristmas. By that dwindled to the vanishing point. The emigrants were housed ‘squalld ~quarters and fed ‘enough to keep them alive. At ‘last, ;after many protestations from them, they were bundled together and placed on board an old freighter, ,a. tramp steamship, and, instead of | i i raze to Major from {in the Department of Justice code. over the telephone later.” “That was an uncompleted mes- sage” the witness said. “T didn't alk to him.y enator Walsh read a cote mes- MoLean on the same day. which said: “This is a hypothetical question” and desired to know whether banks keep a rec- ord of indorsements on checks. Replied About Bamks. “I answered that the bank did not keep a record of what a check was ¢rawn for,” said Major, adding that he did not know why McLean asked the question. “Where did_you g0 to decode this telegram?’ Senator Dill, democrat, Washington, asked, after establishing that the McLean query had been sent fe ¢ it | “I1 didn’t decode,” Major said. imagine Mr. Duckstein decoded He returned it to me decoded.” Major explained that later he had purchased a private code. He also said. that messages signed “John' were his, and that when the telegram mentioned “WIIlis" th meant Wil- ton J. Lambert, McLean's attorney. The "publication of . telegrams con- taining this name recently led Sena- tor Willis. republican, Ohfo, to issue a statement saying he had no idca] to whom the messages referred. “Willis said the .party was in a friendly mood and nothing_ more will be requested from your end,” McLean had been assured in one of the mes- sages. 2 Referred to Walsl H “That's_you, sir” said Major to valsh, when asked the iden- the party.”” Asked who was referred to in th message saying: “Harry out of cit; the witness answered: “To the bast.of my knowledge, it's | Mr. Daugherty. Mr. McLean and, Mr. | Daugherty were very warm friends.” A moment later. under repeated questioning, Major exclaimed: “I want,to be frank with you, be- cause I want to get away from here.” He then demanded that a telegram sent by E. B. Rochester of the Jus- tice Department to McLean on Janu- | ary 16 be read.' This message warned | McLean the oil committse was 100k- | ing into his bank accounts. | The code telegram sent to McLean say- ( ing that “Eyed ‘expects something, Major continued, referred to Rochester. | “1 think_Eved in the code meant Mr. | Rochester,” Major went on. “for I saw him on that day: He-told me, in sub- stance, what the telegram said, and I | put the message on_the private wire.” ! Used Code Word. ! The code word for Rochester, he ex- ‘plained. was a part of the Department of_Justiee cipher. = Pressed aa [0 what it was he thought , Rochester “expected.” Major said it was | to tell him about. sending the telesram | to_McLean. i Senator Walsh pushed. the examina- on. fi“m-{x asked vou to come to the Department of Justico and see him?" he azked. es, 8Ir" . :And 3ol wited thon th = ‘expects something e, aie T imagined that Roches- ter ‘would tell me whut he heard about thethquiry.” “What did you mean when you told McLean that Rochester expects some- thing?” 7 Major then declared it meant that Rochester expected to have Something | tell. loAno!her telegram, mentioning “the 7. -as - expecting Major to see him, the witness said, referred to C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the Presi- dent. “Mr. Slemp asked me to come and : he (Roch- e invitation to go out to America |Mr. Slemp?”’ Pands of |bogan, and had told McLean abogt it That was where the first |Senator ¢ {ised them. They were kept waiting "&dn.tor Adams, democrat, colorado, { in g a 1y | game information January 15. see him," Major said. ! ““Was this a purely social cail on “Absolutely: I wasn't in Mr. Slemp’s Had Seem 5,000 Persons. Major expostulated that he'd “seen at least 5,000 people since this thing T saw Mr. Slemp at the White House and at his apartment in the Shore- ham Hotel”” Major said. B “Did he give you any message? e did." Hajor returned “Yes. he did,” Major returned. told-mé 1o send Mr. and Mrs. McLea Pecause his trip did him a werld of Rochester wired fixed some dates. commi 's search for bank accounts, nfl‘, and had given Major the “So it wasn't news, when you tele- graphed it?” Senator Adams asked. ‘Was News to Him. “It was to me,” tMajor replied. “I Betting out for New York, as they ! didn't know Rochester had 'lrud‘lt supposed, they landed in Vera Crus. The girl told pitifully of how all the migerable hundred gathered on deck at sight of land and looked in vain for the statue of liberty, which all previously.” Senator Walsh put in & telegram mentioning *“Willis” and “Lambert” at the same time. it was a challenge had been told was to be the beacon |Of the witness' statement that his of thelr new life. Shooed ashore in Vera Cruz and left to thelr own resources, some of the ts were deported by the Mexican authorities. Others escaped, among them Maria, and got as far as | another?” said Major. Monterey, where they were arrested. ¥rom lonure‘nlnrll her brother in troit. e arfanged for her release and she was shipped 1o New York. There is room for no more Italians 1his fiscal year, however, and Maria, | been using ordinary languagi ‘tearful, is waiting to be ent away. ad put “a_new code” into service, |friend, and all for nothing. B are mm:;."l‘lg:“;fl::l‘l v“.‘rl gecllrie he “naturally wanted to send | was excused and the committee ade go there until once more to enter America to stay, “Willis” meant Lambert. e Have you any explanation to make of this?” asked the Senator. “You. want know why L. call him Willis- one ‘time and Lambert rejoined Senator TEv, e g 0 YB ness y nded. .'rl}ple of laughter and Major added: 'Our telegrams show we haven't “That’s part of it,” t word to | Walsh. e, “He then began to explain that he some messagey in code” himself, and Iwished it ments are due, Congress might get into action and pass the necessary legislation. 1f Congress wanted to make the re- duction immediately effective it coulc be done. Joint resolutions have ‘been known to pass without even the fo mality of a roll call, and in war-times Congress “frequently broke its own re: ords in passing needed legisiation. The responsibility for the delay making the 1923 income tax reductior effective at once is not upon the White House or the Treasury Department, for both have urged action of some kind a: once. so that’ uncertainty would be re- moved. The proposal originated wilh Chairman Green of the Houso ways and means committee, who made it part of the general revenue bill, President May Act. The democrats promptly suggeste separate legislation by means of joint resolution so that the latte: might go through without waiting for the inevitable debate on the main revenue Jaw affecting 1924 incomee. The democrats also proposed that the Garner rates apply to 1933. The ways and means committee had the power to report out to the House a sepa rate resolution affecting 1923 incomes. but did not do £0 and there is muet Zossip as {0 whether some admini tration ieaders used their influence to keep the measure in the commit- tee or to force the proposal out. There have been some, for instanee who thought the provision affecting 1523 incomes might be used as lever- age to foree quick action on the mair. revenue bill and thae the taxzpayers could not be injured by the delay be cause a rebate could always be given or else the taxpaver permitted to omit one of th® 'quarterly install ments on the fifteenth of Junc, Sep- tember or December. Only a few days remain befors the first payments are due. If the House could report and vote on a measure in twenty-four hours and the resolutfon sent to the Senate where it is doubtful if any demoerat or repubiican would care to take the ponsib of_blocking an_ imme- diate cut in taxes, But Congress i unaware evidently of the pressure of public opinion, Something _about which, however, President Coolidge may find it desirable in the nex: twenty-four hours to Temird Cen gress. INDUSTRY’S TRIBUTE TO ALFRED H. SMITH 'Many to Attend Funeral Tomorrow of N. Y. Central President. ‘Who Died in Acciden.(. By thie Asocinted Press. NEW YORK, March Many lead- ers in industry and fimance will at- tend the funeral tomorrow of Alfred H. Smith, president of the New York Central Lines, who was killed™ Sat- urday when he was thrown from hi hofse in Central Park. Mrs, Smith, who is speeding east- ward from California on a special train, was expected to réach Chicage ‘tonight at midnight and the Smith home in West *Chester county tomor- Tow night. The run of the &pecial train from Los Angeles to Chicago was expected to be completed in ap- proximately forty-eight hours, twen- ty-four hours less than the regular schedule of fast trains The list of honorary pallbearers announced today included George F. Baker, Chauncey M. Depow, Ogden Mills and .W. K.-.Vanderbilt of New York city: Henry M. Campbeil and Bertram Cutler of Detroit, Mich.: James B. Forgan of Chicago, Warren S. Hayden and F. J. Jerome of Clave- land, Ohio, and R. S. Lovett, -chair- man"of _the board of directors of' the Union Pacific railway system. ~ The “eight active pailbearers an- rHounced ‘werc men intimately asso- ciated with Mt. Smith in the New York Central offices herc. They are Martin Alger, G._A. Harwood, W. C. “‘Bower. L. F. Stephenson, W. Wishart, S. B._ Wight, Ii. L Inger- 4 soll and A, 8. Barger. Private funeral services, attendéd only by the family, will be held at the Smith country home, in Weat “hester county, at nogn Wednesday. 3 M. Clendenin will official and Rev. Dr. Ernest M..Stires w conduct the sorvices to be beld lat in the afternoon at &t, Thomas Church. on 5th avemue. g s couldn’t get the Department of Justice code. Couldn’t Get Code Book. “I never could get my hands on that code book,” he said, “and I didn't want to_be going all over town 0ok~ ing for Duckstein whenever I wanted to. send a message.” In one of his telegrams to McLean Major had indicated distrust of Dick- stein, but the witness safd he had told Mclwan later to disregard that mes- sage. g o many of these codes did the Post emploves usa? askedSenator Dill. “Thero were three being used?” “I' don’t . know of .any more,” said’ Major. “I've destroyed the other code'; since’ Mr. -McLean got back from Florida, and made up wnother which will be'in use until March 15." . " McLean is now ready to testify, hé added, and later he said the publisher |had been “eager .to-came.” “He's wired on 200 occasions: that he was coming bere, no matter what we all say,” Major- said. ‘Mr. Lean's:gone as fafas he could Joruae ajor journed until 10 a.m. tomorrow. Me- |