Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Clov dy tonight and tomorrow; pos- sibly light rain tomorrow; warmer tomorrow. Temperature for twenty- four hours ended at 2 pm. today Highest, 57, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 38, at 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page “From Press to Home Witkin the Hour” _The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Lhe Foening Star. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Ba_nds, Ifg;g 24 29.l§3. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,808 TWO CENTS Lntered as se_ond-class matter * post office Washington, D. C. No. WASHINGTON, D. C, 1924 -FORTY PAGES. [ LOUISIANA VOTING TODAY' !THREATENING LETTERS SENT BRITISH MINISTER J. H. Thomas, Conservative Labor Leader, Given Special Police Protection. SENATORS REJECT By the Associnted Press. LONDON, March 26.—Secretary for the Colonies J..H. Thomas is being { Biven police protection following the TRKPLANFAVORNG PEARNEDINGONES 5575 - Finance Committee AdOPLS’ «ion v made na 1o wn Mellon Rates, But Limits ;3}2-';';".1‘.3 . ' bas oftan Hean 1o Differentiation. i | rounced by labor tremists on the OF 25 PER CENT ON ALL &round that his views were too mod- erate. No other member of the government is glven speclu]l protection except Premier Machonald, who i3 accompit- nied in_public by a detective, though not at his own request T WALSH RESOLUTION SON-IN-LAW PASSES Senate Unanimously Votes for Trial of C. C. Chase on Conspiracy Charge. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The Mellon plan has not been in- serted in the revenus bill by the Sen- | ate finance committee, as was stated in some published rep last pignt. | Instead, one of the principal recom- mendations made by the Secretary of the Treasury has been temporarily, at least, turned down. It relates to! earned incomes and affects more in- dividuals than the other parts of the Mellon plan which were approved. | What the Senate finance committee | enmity Mr. | did by @ vote of 8 to 7 was to adopt th oving a aximum per cent schedule as a instead of the Longworth per cen: maximum. the Mellon plan itself as origi- recommended was a carefully d scheme. Wealth was to srtain reductions, but con With those were reductions to th of smali income. Ths linance committee has wiven the Wealthy investor the reductions wan ed, but has deprived the man of smnil income who earns his livel v out capital and with only tr of his hands or his mind ¢t i proposed by Secretary Me! Limit Cut to $10,000. House ignored the Mellon mendation for a flat per cent reduction on all earned incomes said it should apply only to in- s below $20,000 a year. The & finance committee, despite Mr. lon's advice, has cut .c atill fur- ther to $10,000. “There is, of course, absolutely no n" Mr. Mellon told the Senate nce committee, “for a $20,000 limi- tation on earned income. If the dis- tinction between unearned income and earned income is good, it Is good in every bracket. If the tax on unearned incomes in excess of $20,000 is at the per rate then the same rate is {00 n for earned income: ated in another way, what Mr. Mel- Jon meant was that a man who earned 0,000 as a doctor, lawyer, salesman, iness executive, composer, inventor or any profession in which braing are the sole capital used should not be in 1he same position as a man of inherited or accumulated capital who clips in- Ve nt coupons and gets an income of $20,000. People in the latter clas: for instance, approximately $3 000 of capital, which, at 6 per cent, earns for them about $21,000 a year. They pay the same rate of taxes as the professional man, yet when he is sick bi: income stops and when he dies - he cannot bequeath his law practice or his medical ability to another, though the man with the capital can go away from his place of business and spend a life of leisure and still draw the samo income. He an bequeath it to another person when he dies. Technically he doe n't carn _his_income in the a5 the person who works with mind or his hands. All Below $5,000 “Earned.” his Mellon rates on the surtaxes, ap- | be | same sense | A resolution 1oo ment in the House stoms collector at nd son-in ing to impeach of C. C. Chase, El Paso, Tex., rt B. Fall, was snate. Offered by Walsh of Mon- tana, prosecy | the resolution grew out of the refusal | of Chase to answer any questions be fore the commi nd from the te timony of Price McKinney of Cleve- | land that Chase had sought to have ) him say he loaned Albert E. Fall| $100,000. Bursum Not Voting. he vote on the resoluiion was unanimous, seventy senators casting | their ballots. nator Bursum, re. ! publican, New Mexico, one of those {Wwho had objected to immediate con- sideration of the resolution, was ab- | sent when the roll was called. ‘The Senate’s action followed other stormy debate on the oil c.osures. First, Senator Spencer Missouri then Senator Bursum New Mexico, both republican mem- bers of the oil committee, objected | to immediate consideration of the resolution, but both later sought to withdraw their objections. Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, not only declared President Coolidge should have dematided Cha e's resig- nation on the strength of the testl- mony before the committee, but as- serted that there had been too much dilly-dallying” in the case of Harry ! ¥. Sinciair, who has been cited fo| the District Attorney for contempt because of his refusal to answer the questions of the oil committec. Heflin Makes Threat. It something isn’t done here in a week I serve notice I'm going to ask to have Mr. Sinclair brought fn bere,” sald Senator Heflin, “and turned over to the sergeant-at-arms and left to stay in prison while the courts are acting. Crooks are going unwhipped by justice and nothing is | done.” ¢ | Senator Dill, democrat, Washing- ton, said he couldn’t agree as to Sin- | P& { ‘We've taken the only courre that can be taken " he said, “Congress has | by statute laid out the course to, | follow when men refuse to testify ! Norris, Ne- | before 4 committee of the Senat | braska, said in his opinion that the an- dis- of | Senator republican, | before ; Senate off SOURGE OF $32.000 SPENT ON RANCH BY FALL UNDISCLOSED Chairman Walsh Makes An- ! nouncement After Exam- ining Pueblo Banker. SMITH-DAUGHERTY LOSS | IN STOCK DEALS, 324,000: | | | | | Formal Certification of Contempt Charge Made Against Harry F. Sinclair. i i Yurther inquiry into the financial | affairs of Albert B. Fail and into stock speculation by high officials | was made today by the oil comrml(ua; &t @ brief and coloriess session. It| then sdjourned until Thursday. | M. D. Thatcher, president of the! rst National Bank of Pueblo, Col, | was questioned about Fall's bank ac- {count, and afterward Senator Walsh, | | the committee prosecutor, announced | ythat the check-up showed that (hci { former Interior Secretary had ac-| |quired $32,000 for the purchase of | anch property {rom a source yet un-l disclosed. 1t previously had been in- | the scnator sald, that the | might have come from the| ‘Thatcher Intere | | Dummy Stock Accounts. i untant, the committee received tur- | details regarding the dummy | stock accounts of Jess W. Smith, the ! el friend of . Attormey General | Daugherty. The witness sald he had | been told that one of these accounts was carried jointly by Smith and the Attorney General. Whila the committee was in session ficizls formally turned over to the district attorney the case of Harry F. Sinclair cited for contempt because of his refusal to testify. R. H. Wilson. an Oklahoman politi- cal leader, was subpoenaed today for questions ' regarding the story of an il deal” at the 1920 Fepublican na- tional convention. F. W. Sanderson of Minneapolis, an engineer for the Minnesota public utilities commission, also was sum- mened. Did Not Borrow in 1921, Thatcher testified that Fall been a customer of the bank 1913 or 1914. “Did the bank make any loan to him during 19217 asked Senator Walsh, " " *1 have the records heére." No, sin” saly the witness. )r 1922 , 8ir Thatcher said Fall borrowed $15.- : A 000 from the bank in 1916 and paid| This situation has led F. §. Schnell, it in May, 1922, | traffic manager of the American Star. March Capt. Donald B ! MacMillan and his party of Arctic explorers, frozen in the ice in their little schooner Bowdoin, within a few degrees of the north pole, was expressed here today by relatives and friends of Capt. MacMillan and his crew. The last Millan, as special correspondent the North American spaper Al- liance, of which The Star is a mem- ber, Wvas received on February | Since that date there has boe lute silence. although to ti {of scientific knowledge no change in atmospheric conditions would have occurred to prevent radio transmis- sion, even the cusfomary personal message from the ship, direeied, i) triends and relatives Canada_and the United Btates, which were ¢ al- most daily oeccurrence, have ceascd. Organise Emergency Watch. had sinoe company) Asked about Fall's statement to|p 5 = the commitiee that he arranged to:Fadlo Reay \’l“;“";;i o whith get funds from the M. D. Thatcher . stations the MacMillan messages arc estate, Thatcher said the Tres Ritas relaved to civilization, to organize Cattle Company (Fall's had_done .o. “What do you know about that transaction?” “usked Senator Walsh. | Made Loan of $100,000, “We made some loans to the Tres | Ritas Cattle Company. We loaned | them $100,000 and there is an over- & draft of about $22,000 which has probably been consolidated into a note. It was loaned in separate notes running from 35,000 to $10,000. = There may have been some of $15.000. | Wil| Go East Over Europe and The amounts were drawn until they reached a round figure when a note Alarm | radio message from Mac- | of | ¢ | KNow JUST How YOU FEEL. IT'S BEEN A HARD SEASON M’MILLAN’S FIVE-WEEK SILENCE ALARMS FRIENDS OF EXPLORER From Anderson T. Tackett, an ac- | Radio Relay League Keeping 24-Hour W atch for Signals From Ship in Arctic Sea—May Be Off on Secret Trip. an emergency watch, consis one hundred of the league | operators scattered throughout the United Sattes an by nightly WNP. This list of |listeners includes thos, { cessfully carried on ations with the Bowdoin in th s, such as Jack Barnsle Rupert, B. C. Ten We D.:'Maj. Mott of Av Island, and oth | émergency watch has been on dut | for over a week, however, and as yet | na appointed who & » signals have been heard That the explorer n e s attempting a dash into hitherto explored arctic territory in the of discovering new land, is the sible explanation of the mysterious silence on the part of MacMillan. of- fered here today hy E. HyMaeDonal president of the at]‘:‘nal‘/‘is;cglg-n of Broa ters e Zenith Radi romrim of Efl\‘«no. a friénd of MacMillan's who helped install the radio apparatus on the Bowdoin. Discounts Disaster Theory. Discounting any probability of dis- aster to the ship, which was from last reports In winter quarters at Etah, North Greenland, or to its food ‘ontinued on Page 3, Column 4.) | | | | best | £ Justice Siddons today MELLON ASKS OWN TAXES BE PROBED ‘Says Companies in Which He | ON DUPRE’S SUCCESSOR Daughter of Champ Clark One of Three Democratic Aspirants for House Seat. By the Assoclated Prees. NEW ORLEANS, La., March 25.—A democratic primary to select a nomi- nee to succeed the late Representative H. Garland Dupre (for the unexpired term ending March 4, 1925, Is being held In the second congressional dis- trict tody, with, for the first time im the history of Louisiana, a woman as a candidate for a seat in the na- tional House of Representatives. The honor falls to Genevieve Clark Thomson, daughter of the late Champ Clark of Missouri, former speaker of the House, and wife of James M. Thomson, publisher of the New Or- {leans Ttem. | _Mrs. Thomson 1s opposed by J. Zach |Spearing, past president of the Ameri- lcan Bar Association and T. Semmes Walmsley, assistant attorney general. * |nomination is tantamount to election. 'FEARS BOND RULING | MAY FLOOD COURTS pect of Mass of Habeas Corpus Petitions. I that petitions for habeas {corpus writs may flood the upper courts | because of the inability of defendants in Police Court cases to get bond after certain hours was commented on by when a hearing {for a writ of habeas corpus opened in his court. The case which brought the possibility to Justice Siddons' pet by ssibility for a habeas corpus writ made George A. De Barr, George A. Dor- ey and Alexander Licarione, who were arrested carly Sunday morning on charges of setting up a gaming table. Attorney Whalen, finding it impos- gible to get bonds between 11 p.m. Saturday and § a.m. Monday—because of Police Court rules—obtained a writ from Justice Siddons Sunday for the release of the defendants. The hear- ing was scheduled for this morning at 10 o'clock, but after both prosecu- tion and defense made the motion, was continued for a few days. Wants Matter Settled. Justice Siddons, however, took oc- casion to remark that he was very anxious to have the matter deter- mined. Attorney Whalen, in his pe- tition, set forth that he was not per- Police Court. Justice Siddon announced that this ipetition had opened his eyes to a istrange situation existing because of ! the Police Court Rules relative to bond being supplied by defendants, adding {that if the situation proves to be what it now appears to be it means that Justice Siddons Sees Pros-! ibill is an increase in the contribution | attention was the | mitted to give bond Sunday by the r 1 RETIREMENT BiL S REPORTED OUT WITHOUT DISSENT |House Measure Increases Workers’ Contribution to Fund to 3 1-2 Per Cent. Carrying a favorable report unanimous vote of the House civil serv, committee, the new retire- ment bill, fathered by Representative | | Fred R. Lehlbach of New Jersey, was tintroduced in the House today. The principal feature of the new | to the retirement fund by every em- iploye from 214 per cent to 3% per cent. It is estimated by the commit- !tee, and by the joint conference of the House and Senate, that this in- |crease will substantially meet the increased cost to the government ithrough more liberal provisions in |the retirement law. | Exactly how much this new bill, If i enacted into law, will cost the United ! States government, over and above | the cost of the present law has not {yet been determined. Chairman | Lehlbach of the House committee has lled upon the Secretary of the | Interior to furnich Congress with an Attorney Harry Whalen, represent- | estimate of the increased cost, and | McKellar that this report | has been assured will bu made 45 soon,aa possible. Opponition Is Seen. Opposition to the new retirement | act 13 afiticipated from some of the higher pald employes of the govern- ment, because, while these employes ' who may receive salaries, say, of $3.500 are called upon under the new measure to contribute 3% per cent of that salary, they cannot receive an annuity of over $1.200. which is the same that an $1,800 clerk would re- ceive. “We are not running an insurance business,” said Chairman Lehlbach, replying to such criticism. “We are endeavoring to treat humanely worn- out government empioyes who have given the best years in the federal service.” The new bill provid retirement after thirty ice at the age of sixty, for the gen- eral run of emploves, and at fifty- | five for mechanics, laborers, city and rural letter carriers, post office clerks and railway postal clerks The law as regards regular re- tirement ig left as it is. for optional years of serv- Allows Extensions. by | BAS TAX BILL CUTS OUTPROPERTY TAY, SENATE NOW FINDS Passed Measure Exactly Op- posite to What It Was Seeking. SECTION ALSO MIGHT | BANISH LEVY ON FUEL Gas Bought for Transportation Across District Line Not Subject to Tax. | The gasoline tax’bill for the 1 trict of Columbia, passed praeticall; { without discussion and without |record vote in the Senate yesterday |today stands in a form exactly op |posie o wnat the Senate intended The Senate, under the leadership o nator McKellar of Tennessoe, sous to continus the present personal Property tax on automobiles In ad |dition to the proposed new gasolin. tax. What it actually did how. in passing the bill, was to leave the | following provision in section Sever- teen of the bill as it passed nate: The personal property tax on m tor vehicles provided in existing la shall not be in effect for any | year ending June 30, and cor ing while such tax on motor v fuels is in effect.” Same Error in House. The House in passing the gaso!l tax bill on February 11 also intendod to continue in effect the personal Property tax, but by a mistake In its | lesislative machinery it also put { through the bill in such form as to eliminate the personal property tax. Another mistake of the Senate in passing the bill vesterday Is found n its action on section 5. The House anguage was restored, which reads as follows: “That no tax on motor | vehicle fuels exported or sold for | exportation from the District of Co- jlumbia to any other jurisdiction or | nation shall be imposed.” | . This language of the House, it has been pointed out, could readily be construed that rno tax should be levied Easoline purchased in the District and put into the tank of automobile that was to be driven across the District line. The Senate committee had prop: an amend- ment to clear this uu, but Senator isted on 'striking ouc this language proposed by the com- mittee. Now Goes to House. The bill mow goes to the House, where it will either be agreed to as amended by the Senate or sent onference, Under the rules go ferences the conferees | mittéd to put into a bill what not contained in the bill as it p: | the House or as it passed the Senate. Therefore, it was pointed out today, | if the conferees report out a bili rectifying the mistakes regarding | the personal property tax and the tax { on_motor fuels exported or sold for exportation, the bill will be subject to @ point of order by any member of the Senate or House The House, howeve: o the bill as amended | “with an amendment” { bill to conform with the of both sides. Registration Tax Included. As the bill passed the Senate it con- {tained the following language re- garding the registration tax: i “The provisions of this act relat- | ing to the registration tax on motor ve {hicles shall take effect January 1, f1925." This means that the owners of mey | | | was might _agree the Senats hanging the real wishes Mr. Mollon savs that if tho Senate thinks the rato of taxation for aj befor hh:‘*,‘,c man of $20,000 income :hould be fixed | at a certain rate, then the man with | the other kind of income should not | have the same advantage. Mr. Mellon incidentally has agreed that all income below $5,000 should be considered as ‘earned,” so that ws and orphans and others who be unable to earn a livelihood shall not be penalized. Five thou- sand dollars is the average Income |Sonate couid, and should, nale Sinclair bar of the Se until he answers Wants Further Action. “I don't think we have done all Asia, Aleutian Islands, Canada and Azores. Has Interest Waive All Right to Privacy. nate and | would be drawn to cover it.” ! The transactions, the witness said, | were through Mr. Everhart. Mr. Jverhart told me they were trying to {make improvements which _would i we could in certifying the case m}‘r;lnxu hll;dn ;: gfitofil’ "fii:.u:c?om the District Attornes,” he said. “The |y said yes, If reasonable. The ad- witness still has frustrated the will | vances ~have reached $102,000 or of the committee and we still ‘"’g":{ggopa:tu‘p interest for A few tacking: his/ovidence ® | “Anything said about security?” “Are we here to protect crooks?”| I had security. I had the stock of asked Senator Heflin. “I'm amazed |the cattle company.” that any objection would be made to automobiles in Washington will con- tinue to operate during the rest of the calendar vear under licenses pur- | chased for the year 1924, There will Ibe no refund of the difference be- £ . tween the license fee paid undeér the employe has been efficient, then the |existing law and the license fee of §1 certificate of cfficiency must be is- | proposed under the new law. How- ver, the resi o istric sued and the emplove's term of serv- | {il" not “have paid the asoline tax ice extended. This is designed to, during the first three months of the overcome ruthless dismissals from the | Year. service upon retirement age even | though the employe may be render- | [the upper courts will be Sooded with !matters that should be handled in |Police Court, such as habeas corpus Fwrits in lieu of bond, which shouid be granted there. ’ The Police Court rules, recent!: Secrotary Mellon denied that he had | promulaaeds sct 11 ‘olclock a8 the “ever interfered in authority with the latest hour on any night in the week | a any iwhen bon may e authorized. o |bureau of internal revenue in any way whei bond wmay, be authorized. > in any tax matter,” in a statement to- | About thirteen persons were at the | day, “laid before the Semate special!scene of the raid cn Riges street, near committee investigating the bureau. "18th street, early Sunday morning, At the same time Mr. Mellon offered It carries a provision that when an extension of service is allowed based on ability t> render efficient service, if the records for two vears show the By the Amsociated Pres: | SOUTHAMPTON, March 2%.—A Brit- |ish plane started today on a flight around the world. Squadron Leader A. Stuart MacLaren took off from the Calshot airdrome shortly after noon. The first goal of the aviators is Paid in Treasury. when police from the third precinct In the House bill is a provision on an estate of approximately § The House bill further complic matters by providing that the defi- nition of “earned income” should in- clude in cases where the income is the result of the use of capital in con- nection with personal services, an ount representing as a reasonable lary for personal services render- ed. Mr Mellon criticizes that provision thus “The Treasury Department for the years of excess profits taxes experi- anced the greatest administrative dif- riculties in determining what was a reasonable salary in cases of closely- owned corporations. The present definition means that in every case where thers is any personal service whatsoever the department mu " ibeen a_elvil GREEK ASSEMBLY OTES REPUBLIC Favorsvuvérthrow of Glucks- | burg Dynasty and Banish- ment of Royalty. By the Assoclated Press. ATHENS, March 25.—The national assembly today passed a resolution in burg dynasty and the establishment of a Greek republic. A resolution introduced by the pre- mier proclaimed abolition of the Glucksburg dynasty, banishment of the members of the royal family, com- pulsory sale of their property and establishment of a republic, provided the last named proposal is confirmed at the forthcomine plebiscite. Tt is_intended that the regent, Ad- miral Coundouriotis, shall continue to vor of the overthrow of the Gl\lckfl-' this action by a senator on the floor. Asserting that Chase had asked a | . citizen “to tell a lie to help protect a | man bribed in office—in the Presi- dent's cabinet,” he demanded to know why President Coolidge did not call | for his resignation. { Text of Resolution, i On receipt of the impeachment reso- | lution by the House it will be referred by the Speaker to the judiclary com- nmittee for preliminary investigation, Chase will have an opportunity to be representated by counsel before the committee to Dresent witnesses in his behalf. Joho text of the Walsh resolution fol- ow, hereas one Clarence C. Chase is and for more than u vear past has | officer of the United { States, to wit, the collector of customs .at the port of El Paso, Tex.; and ~“Whereas in the prosecution of an in- {auiry by the committee on public | |lands and surveys of the Senate under |Senate resolution 147, it became | necessary to inquire into the source from which one A. B. Fall, late Sec- ,retary of the Interior, secured large | sums of money at or about the time | ‘or shortly after he entered upon ne- | | gotiations resulting in the execution {of leases or contracts relating to the naval ofl reserves; and “Whereas it appears from the testi- | mony taken and proceedings had be- | fore the said committee that the said | Clarence C. Chase entered into a con- spiracy with the said A. B. Fall to mislead and deceive the said commit- | tee concerning the source of such, {moneys and pursuant to such con- | spiracy, the sald Clarence C. Chase on ' lor_about the 29th day of November, : 1923, endeavored to induce one Price | McKinney to represent to and tes- ' itify before the said committee that ' he loaned to the said Fall at or about the time hereinbefore mentioned the sum of $100,000; and “Whereas the said Clarence C. Chase well knew that the said Price McKin- | ney had made no such loan to the| said Fall; and “Whereas the said Clarence C. Chase being, on the 24th day of March, 1924, ! called before the said committee and | interrogated, concerning the matters herein reférred to by the said com- | mittee @éclined and refused to answer | | any_question in relation to the same I n the ground that his answers iMight tend to incriminate him; now therefore be it I ' DECIDES TOMORROW Witness Lists Loans. Thatcher listed the loans. The first was in 1921 afid the next was on September 22, 1922. Thatchet said he knew nothing about -Fall's_purchase of the Harris ranch for $91,500, nor where the mgney came from. Lyons, France. MacLaren is accom- panied on the flight, which is a pure- 1y private venture, by Flying Officer | Plenderleith and Sergt. Andrews. ! They are using an amphibian Vickers | Vulture with a 450-horsepower motor. puey came from. o know de.| From Lyons the route will be to Senator Wals - 5 taila about Fall's borrowings from |Brindsi, Italy; Athens, Cairo, Bag- the bank, g !aad, Basra, Karachi, Calcutta, Ran- “I think until this loan for water- goon, Hongkong, Toklo; over the : e ! : ; e O e %aid the witpess, |Aleutian Islands and thence to Van- | couver, Toronto and Newfoundland. Thatcher said he would not have advanced money to purchasc ReW |mng hop over the Atlantic will be by | way of the Azores and Lisbon. properties. He identified Everhart as MacLaren served with the British (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) air force in Africa and Palestine dur- ing the war and has had much expe- rience in long distance fying. Plenderleith will assist as pilot and ON COMMISSIONERS |Ziszecriia, it ssss sa oot ana yic's work. H ERA Senate District Committee to Say GANARA {10 CO.OFERATE, if Hearings on Confirmation Will Be Held. Will Establish Supply Bases for ‘World Flyers. OTTAWO, Ont., March 25—The Can- adian government is co-operating in 19! ostablishment of supply bases and ar- The Senate District committee to meet tomorrow to consider the| ,;g.ments of stops across Canada ' nominations of District Commission- | .14 the Pacific ocean for the round. ers Rudolph and Oyster to succeed | tne world flight which started from themselves. Senator Ball, chairman'mngiand today. of the Distriot committee, today re-| Col. L. E. Broone, ceived a fetter from Mrs. J. W. Engineers, with two officers of the Byler, corresponding secretary of the' Canadian navy, are already on a trip Congress of Mothers and Parent-|in the north Pacific laying supply Teacher Assoclations, requesung the ' bases. committee give a public hearing | The British airmen will fly from on_the mominations, so_that oppor- tunity might be given “to voice our | Yokohama northward, taking in the objection to the same” Mrs. Byler did_not specify the objeotions. Capt.Julius Peyser also has writ- :en to Senator Ball asking for hear- ngs. ‘The committeo tomorrow will de- gide whether thers are to be hear- ngs, and, if so, whether the he are to be public. s French Acclaim U. S. Warship. sea by way of the Aleutian Islands fly eastward across Canada. The route not yet decided, but it {s likely they will ‘undertake to fly straight across from New Foundland to Ireland if | pressed for time to t=at the American {aviators, who left California last week. of the Royal | Siberian coast, crossing the Bering' to Vancouver, from where they will | from the eastern coast to England is Governor of Greece until the | “Resolved, That a copy of testimony fehming of a republican conatitution. adduced and the proceedings had be- in introducing the motion Premier |fore the said committee be, with a Papanastasion_declared” that the es- | copy of this resolution, transmitted to tablishment of a rephiblic on a firm |the House of Representatives for such and secure basis was the principal ! proceedings against the said Clas objeet of his gbvernment. Jence C. Chase as may be appropriate. : : New York Editor, 90, Dies. LOWVILLE, Y., March 25.— MARSEILLES, March 25.—The Pitts. burgh, the first American warship to | fato the havhor yomarals war, steamed | penry A. Phillips, ninety years old, der of salutes. An elaborate program | 8ditor and publisher of the mwvmel of entertainment has been arranged for | Journal and Republican for sixty-four the officers and crew, vyears, died today, % the committee full information on tax matters of companies in which he is personally interested, adding that, in fairness to himself and to the com- panies, the committee should make an immediate investigation. Refers to Hearing. “In the hearipg before your com- mittee yesterday,” said the state- ment, “what purported to be a copy of a memorandum delivered by an | ex-employe to a member of your committee was introduced, and has been made the basls for headlines in the newspapers, which might lead the public to believe I had sought to in- fluence the bureau of internal rev- enue in its consideration of the tax liability of certain companies in which I am interested as stockholder. “As I have already stated, I have inever interfered in any way with the jbureau of internal revenue in any tax matter. Least of all, would T do so in cases in which it might be charged that 1 was personally concerned. I feel, how- ever, that it is due to me, and to the companies involved, that your commit- tee make an immediate investigation, in these companies have received any fa- vors from the government. ‘Waive Right to Privacy. “Three companies which have been mentioned are the Gulf Refining Com- | pany and its subsididries, the Stand- ard Steel Car Company and the Aluminum Company of America. | Each of these companies has advised that it walves its right to privacy under the statute and the commis- sioner is authorized to produce to your committee, without restriction of any kind, all of the tax returns and accompanying papers for each tax yvear. 5 . Emst & Ernst, certified pub- lic accountants, are familiar with the tax adjustments of these companies, since they handled their presentation be. fore the bureau. They can undoubted'y be of assistance to your committee in | explaining the complicated questions in- | i volved, and I am informed are ready to | respond to any._call of your committee. “Mr. A. C.'Ernst will be in Wash- ington on the 26th and will be avail- able then or thereafter. If question is later raised with respect to any other companies in which I may be interested, I shall be glad to do what I can to obtain similar publicity to their returns.” order that you may thoroughly satisfy | yourself and the public whether or not the commissioner of internal revenue | arrested all present. Three were ;rhargefl with setting up a gaming | table, and three others were held as {witnesses, while the remainder were | released. | Those arrested were De Barr, who | gave his address as 1804 Riges street, Dorsey of 123 Rando.ph place north: west, and Licarione of 5 I street southeast. Those held as witnesses vere Joseph Hofstetter, thirty-one, of | T577 £ atreat; dohn. Crady. thires- e iof the Kew Gardens, and Martin C. | Wilson, fifty-five, of 509 4th street. _Although police state that informa- tion that a gambling den was run | ning in full blast at the Scene of the raid was brought to them by & young man who i3 supposed to have lost 340 there, the defendants, through their attorney, stated that the party was “nothing more than a sociable Saturday night affair such as is en- | Joyed by the best of us.” | | | MAIL BANDITS SEIZE 1$110,000 IN CURRENCY By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, March 25.—Four bandi {held up a postal messenger in Har- vey, a suburb, early today and es- jcaped with two sacks of mail reported to contain between $110,000 and $150,- 000 in currency consigned to man facturing companies. The robbers intercepted William Russell, a postoffice clerk, who was carrying the mail sacks from a rail- road station to the postoffice. The robbers seized the two sacks con- taining the money and escaped in an automobile. The robbers were reported to have fled toward Chicago, Harvey is a small manufacturing city beydnd the | southern limits of Chicago. Russell, who is sixty, was slugged by the bandits, he reported. He was removing the sacks from the Illinois Central platform to a truck when at- tacked. He said that all the bandits had revolvers and that he saw sawed- off shotguns in their car. The two sacks stolen only registered mail. At the post office it was said that the loss would be large, but' that the exact amount could only be deter- mined by checking. The two sacks were said to have been consigned by the Federal Reserve Bank to the First National Bank of Harvey. I contained ing very efficlent service. The new Lehlback bill provides that whenever an employe shall make ap- plication for such continuation in the civil service, it shall be the duty | of the head of the department, branch or independent office in which he or she is employed to secure from the immediate superior in the service of such applicant, all efficiency ratings, and other informations on file re- specting the character of the work | of such applicant and shall also ob- ! tain from such immediate superior his opinion in writing with respect jto the efficiency of the work per- i formed by such applicant. Scope of Law Extended. Among those included within the scope of the retirement act, who were not previously included, are: Em- ployes of the Panama canal and Pan- ama Ralilroad Company, or the Isth- mus of Panama, who are citizens of the United States and whose tenure of employment is not intermittent or of uncertain duration. Also are included unclassified em- { ployes in all cities and in all estab- lishments in which appointments are ! made under labor regulations ap- proved by the President, or from | subclerical or other registers for the ployes transferred from classificd positions, such as department bureau chiefs. The fourth-class postmasters are ' no longer barred from the retirement |annulties if they comply with other | provisions of the act. An impertant change is in the method of computing the retirement benefits. . Under the new bill thase would be determined by multiplying |the average annual salary for the last five years of service by the num- | ber of years of service, and dividing | that by 45. Where a man is involuntarily sepa | rated from_the servico after fiftee years, and having reached the age of (fifty-five, the present law gives an im- { mediate life annuity scaled down to present value or a deferred annuity | pavable when he reaches the retire ment age. The new bill provides for the issuance of certificates for defer- red annuities between the ages of forty-five and fifty-five, instead of starting at fifty-five, as under the present law. The remainder of the new Lehlbach bill contains recommendations to the burean of pensions, making for more eMcient service. [ classified service and unclassified em- | | that the masoline tax and the pro- posed registration fee of 15 cents per horseposwer shall_be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District, to be available | for appropriation and exclusively for | road and street improvement and pair ‘without contribution by the | Uhited States to match such expend! | ture of the revenues derived from | such tax. "This met with particular opposition from District citizens, who pointed out its dangerous departure from the 60-40 ratio of appropriation The Senate passed the bill yester- day without such language, and 1f the bill goes to conference, that provision will have to be settled in conference. Another Material Difference. Aside from this, the only other ma- terial difference between the two bills is that the Senate measure provides for a $1 a year registration fec, while the House bill substituted T5-cent per horsepower registration tee. Under the terms of the bill as pass- ed by the Senate an owner of an au tomobile In the District will pay cents a gallon tax on 'gasoline, registration fee of $1 a vear and th personal property tax now paid, at the rate of $1.20 per hundred. The citizens of the District pro- tested vigorously at hearings before the Senate committee against the re- tention of the personal property tax, if the additional tax of 2 cents 2 gal- lon on gasoline was to be levied. They preferred, they sald, no reci- procity with Maryland in the matter of automobile licenses if that were to be the price. Sees States Favored. The bill, therefore, from the point of view of citizens of the_District, has becn rewritten in the Senate in the interest of Maryland and Vir- ginia, where the gasoline tax is im- posed already. While disposition of the bill in Congress was waiting, the citizens who have opposed the measure from the first were planning today for what action they may see fit to fight he measure to the last ditch. The board of governors of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation met this afternoon to de- cide its pian of action. A call for a spectal meeting of the Federation of Citizens' Associations next Saturday evening was issued by Charles A. Baker, its president, who said that that body fntended doing what could to oppose a measure felt to be unfair to the District. The amendments adopted by the Senate to the gasoline tax bill were (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) 1 i