Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1924, Page 2

2 ERCHANTS STAGE BIG SPRING REVUE Window Displays Cpened for Public Last Night Excite Envy of Crowds. - WOMEN ENTHUSIASTIC Husbands, However, See Visions of Badly Shrunken Pocketbooks. Promptly at 8 o cvrtains of stores went up -on the spring revue, which turned the business section of the National Capital into & huge fash- ion show. sed by the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, the unique affair attended by thou- sands who turned the sireets into a large ojen-air theater. All the big stores co-operated. and all Qay window dressers worked beiind the drawn shade: at when the curtains of the stores were simul- tureously lifted a galaxy of chiffons, silks, Jewels and dainties of all kinds was revealed While the ladies were looking at things thar attracted their feminine fancies the men were d.scussing the display of masculine styles. Young who proi.ssed no interest in hions stoppsd short and turned when they saw the preity man- nequins parading behind the plate slass dressed in “milady’s’ late siyle and remained until (he the models had disappeared. Something for Every One. There were interesting sights for every one—dresses for “hubby” to buy his wife, suits for “hubby” to buy for himself, teys for fond aunts to buy lucky nephews, furniture and the latest invenuons to housework ame tor brides ewels Ul aused many a young knowmgly at her be One of the most of the review was show staged by a men's store which is branci.ug out with a large of tailored and aports wear for w er how was t caus pecteular parts big fushion It had been show on the o5 during the give the several < 1o an a dred persous. thousand duly iny wboai, all very at show, and good natured the management of their imvitation hy radio to see the show, it was evi- | dent that something must be done, Emergency Shows Staged. So the second floor was hurriedly arranged for a fashion and emergency extra shows arranged. There weren't the huge banks of spring posies and elaborate settings of the regular fashion show to be seen at the imprompiu show on the second floor. And the only music was that which drifted downstairs, But the real essentials—the snappy new topcoats and the jaunty Spring sai- lors, worn at just the rixht angle— were very mich in evidence. Not to mention the pretty littie models, who seemed tickled to death to do double work to please the overflow audience. Al of the models were local giris. A block or 5o down F street another crowd was clastered clear out into the street. Ir vou wanted to pass that w. had to pretead you were a ¢ car and tase car tracks. Sure enough, it was an- other fashion show. A smart spe- cialty stors had conceived tae clever idea of staginig a tashion show right in its window. Posing by Mudel. One wax mannequin, dressed in the latest sort of evening frock, all black chiffon and wondertul, intricate bead- ing, occupied part of the window as a | few | permancnt display, but every minutes a realy, truly alive aud very pretty young lady would stroll into the window and deftly turn and pose so as to display the very newest sort of bonnet and frock and bead< and ragelets from Fi Whene, er she stogd still for a few minutes, it was very difficult to teil wmeh of the was wax and which was alive and newcomers to the crowd would wonder loudly what it all was about until she started to move about again. ntly she disappeared, to be re- ancther model, and the lit- started all over aguin, with eonstantly augmenting audience. Up on G street at the windows f gne of the biggest local department tores was another prize audience at uite different sort of display. 19 window of the store representsd 3, different room of the house ideal. And paterfamilias and the good house- wives and the wistful little bridas and young grooms, and even the all- linawing little flappers, wera banked up six abreast all along the block. Thé big corner window was trans- rormed into a living room of the sort hat you dream about, with # Inscious davenport and armchairs of the sort that you simply sink into like a drop inta the ocean. There was a mantel nd a big fireplace with shiny brass e things. And one of those criminally usurions Chinese rugs and e wuffy =ilk cushions and delightful ittle carved odds and ends of furniture. Radio Set Displayed. finest thing, though, « uly radio set all tuned up to listen- in,anywhere from New York to Tokio. But the completing touch was a love- v, ready-made husband of the latest inodel, with shiny hair, nice teeth nd a perfectly fitting dinner jacket. True. he was made of wax, and «d a little bit up-stage with that six- ingh_cigarctte kolder, but, taken all in all, he was rather gorgeous. was a ! ock last night the Washin_ton'’s downtown ! last of | show also | e :h MRS. ALMIRA MORGAN DIES Widow of Charles H. Morgan to Be Buried in Arlington, | Mrs. Almira Morgan, seventy-eight years old, widow of the late Charles H. Morgan, died at the residence of her | daughtor, Mre. James G. Caldwell, 812 Van Buren street northwest, Friduy. Funeral services were conducted at her late residence yesterday morning at 10 | v'clock. Rev. Freeiey Rohrer. rastor of the Metropoiitan Presbyterian Churek, of which she was a member, officiated. Interment was in the Arlington cema- tory Mrs, Morgen had been a resident of this city for the last twenty yoars, dur- ing which tim- she had.acquired a large circle of friends. Besides Mrs. Caldwell she i survived by one other daughter, Mrs. Joseph Mitchell of Albany, N. Y. 13 GUESTS ESCAPE AVENUE HOTEL FIRE {Two Are Injured in $15,000 ‘ Blaze in American House. i | | Twenty-three guesty were forced to flee from their rooms in the American House, 638 Pennsylvaala avenue, | shortly before 6 o'clock this morning, | when fire broke out in a stock of {drugs in the cellar of the building |occupied by the Cantral Drug Com- pany. Two persons were injured. iremen carried some of the guests |down ladders as smoke filled the {building and others escaped by the | stairs and fire escapes. The damage Wwas estimated at $15,000. | Several Injmred. | Lee Hechinger, proprietor of the | American House, was slightly hurt {when he fell from a ladder. ~Sergt. J. W. Holm, No. 4 engine E slight cuts. He | was tal mergency Hospital. Willlam Benchert, night clerk in the hotel, discovered the fire and sent in_the alarm. When {the smoke was so dense that Actin { Deputy Chief James Keliher promptl sounded a third alarm, bringing | twelve engines and four truck com- |panies, the water tower and three fuel wagons on the scene E. Thomas of the Washington 0. Gas Light Company, wearing a gas mask, responded to' the first alarm ‘and cut off the flow of gas in both | buildings. Firemen also found it cessary to don gas masks, Inspector Charles A. Evans, Capt. Martin_Reilly, Lieut. Frederick M Cornwell and ' other officials of ce department went through the buildings and secured valuables left by those whose hury exits prevented them from taking all their belongings Third Fire on Premises. with them. Tsis morning’s biaze on the prem- ises of the drug company was the | third fire that has occurred there. It started in the celiar, where a quantity of alcohol and drugs, valued at about $8,000, was stored, and prob- ably had been burning some time before the night clerk in the hotel . detected it. The fire burned through the floor to the foot of the stairway leading to the rooms on the upper floors. Withers Taylor, colored climbed through a ' skylight roof in escaping, Adolph Schiuem- baugh, occupant of a second-floor reom, was trappéd by the flames. He was rescued by firemen. Slight wa- ter and smoke damage was caused in the Commercial District Bakery lunchrooms, John Frasier's cigar and news stand and to the stock of Con- | stantinos Lynard, fruit dealer, ] WOMAN IS RESCUED. cook, to the by Smoke in Chicago Hotel Fire. Jeanette Phillips, forty, ocoupant of 'a room on the top floor of the Chi- !cago Hotel. 345 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, wus taken from her room in & semi-conscious condition this morning when fire was discovered in her room. “There's a_woman in the reom." Capt. John H. Virnstein of No. 16 engine company was told when he reached the hotel, and ho hurried there with members of his command and found her lying on the floor suf- fering from the effects of the smoke. | 'The sufferer was so much affected |by the smoke that she was unable {to talk. She was rushed from the II|u|ldll’|g and taken to Casualty Hos- pital, where it was said she probably ould recover. I | Overcome 1w |bed burning. They quickly extin- !guished the blaze with chemicala The fire did about $26 damage. GAS TAX BILL CUTS OUT PROPERTY TAX, SENATE NOW FINDS (Continued from First Page) 1 { 1 |oftered by Senator McKellar of Ten- nessee, who declared that “‘while this |is called a reciprocity bill, the real | purpose of it is_that the automobile owners of the District shall be al- lowed to evade tazation.” He added that “in the state of Tennessee, using it as an illustration, automobile own- ers pay a $15 license tax, which, I | believe. is the highest tax which au- | Columbia pay for any car now. They {pay a property tax of a little more /s | than 3 per cent on a vaiuation quite | the fire apparatus arrived ! the | Firemen found the mattress on che THE__EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON HOUSE PASSES I FORGERMAN ELE | 1$10,000,000 Appropriation Is Approved-—Amendments Are Rejected. resolution, as adopted by the House, to appropriate $10,000,000 for the pur ¢hase of food supplies for dostitute women and children In German: ing after a three-hour debate, in which the constitutionality of the | measure was attacked and defended, {the House last night approved the bill, 240 to 97. As adopted, the bill, offered by Rap- resentative Fish, republican, New , York, a former service man, carries ;an amendment by Representative | Jones, demacrat, of Texas, stipulating that the supplics shall be purchased. wherever possible, through farmers’ organjzations, @nd shipped on Ship- ]Dln! Board vessels. Fitzgerald Objects. An amendment by Bepresentative Fitzgerald, republican, Oklo, would have sought to prevent expenditures of any of the appropriations until a {soldier bonus bLill is enacted in the law. It was thrown out on a point of order. An amendment by Rep- entative Underhi republican, usetts, to withhold the appro- {priation until the Garman goverament ] purpose, was rejo Amendments rejo vote included one by republicas. vive vo presentative North Dakota. < pnrchased to presenta- nnesota, to $2 nnaily, atts to increase the appr: 000,000 Representative democrat, Texas, directed the {against the measure. i Burton Upholds Resolution. Representative Burton, republican, | Ohio, declared the resvlution to be { constitutional, while an {view was taken by Representative | Tucker, demoerat, Virginia. | Obio member llmrlunny for “charity” and needed re- lief. Mr. Tucker insisted it would tend to consolidate the German vote, but would mean nothing as a relief measure, because 21-5 cents per day | | many’s 2,500,000 children. The resolution, Representative Mc- Keown, demoerat, Oklahoma, said, at- tempts to excuse the United States “lack of a foreign poliey.” and stead of relief France shouid be made to adopt “a proper course” a Germany or “pay her debt to On the contrary, Representative La | Guardia. republican, insurgent, New York, declared the bill “would do more good in five minutes than the ivague of nations in five years.” Garrett In Sympethetie. Representative Garrett of Tennes- see, the democratic leader, wished it were possible for him to much human sympathy as most men.” He added that he was “not unmindful of the bearing it might have on foreign reiations” but that he “was unable to find suthority for it in the Constitution.” A" warm appeal for the resolution was made by Representativ. Cooper, republican insurgent, Wisconsin, who sald that aithough Germany might have sufficient food it was destitute of money with whe:h to purchase it. His views were indorsed by Repre- i sentative Connery, democrat, Massa- | chusetts, who said he had fought the German army, “but didn't make war on the German women and children.” Found Feed and Musie. Representative Andrew, republican, Massachusetts, declared good au- | thorities reported there were no crop failures in Germany, and statistics alsy showed that the number of cat- tle and sheep had increased in that | country. He sald he himself had seen conditions there and that he “found food and music in the restaurants.” Germany has resources in other parts of the world, Mr. Andrew add- ed, and it should use them. The opera houses and stores, he declared. are full of people, and Germany is literally crowded with food.” "Why Give $10,000,0001" In concluding, Mr. Andrew said: “If the wealthy classes of Germany can afford luxuries, if there is no crop failue or food shortage, then why in the name of comman sense give them $10,000,0002" Representative Wilson, democrat, Mississippi, said advocates had de- clared the resolution would bolster up the German republic and help check the advance of belshevism. He added that “fdelity to the funda- mentals”’ of the Constitution was the best safesuard he knew against bol- shevism, and that the gift could not be sanctioned under the Constitution, | MEXICO NAMES PAN) | ASU.S. AWBASSADOR secom- | tomobile owners in the Distric: of | By the Assoriated Pross. GALVESTON, Tex, March 25.—Al- bert J. Pani, minister of foreign af- i ona flippant little dapper said: “When |as large as in the District, and, in | fairs in the cabinet of President Obre- | marry, I'm certainly going to match | addition, they pay a 2-cent tax on gas- | gon, has been appointed ambassador to up mny husband with my living room ‘urpiture just like that” Across the street another depart- :nent store seemed to have depicted silk voleano in active eruption. A rfact torrent of shining fabric and <oler swept from top te bottom of ihe window in an effect of oriental brilliance. Next to the silk window wag a gemlike little window where the magic blues of the latest Max- fiold Parrish picture were repeated in velvet drapes on which reposed the latest tricks in beads and earrings and such like. Palm Window Display. But the piece de resistance of t! store was its palm window, a regulal Toretaste of Easter. A cluster of creat palms, eight or ten feet high. was used as a centerpiece. Royal pur- ple velvet formed a rich background, while perched alow and aloft, front and back, was & collection of spring chapeaus in every shade of purple and heliottope. It was a beautiful sight and seemed to thrill every woman Dasser-by, but apparently gave the men a foreboding of pernicious anemia of the etbook. But the big department steres and the specialty shops didn't have all the honors to themselves. Net by any manner of means. The men's Wear stores were right there, too. Sueh springlike cravats, such jaunty new tweeds, such rakish and tempt- ing hats! All the stores presented tempting things that outrivaled the boulevaids of Paris, London and New York in their splendor. Downtown Washing- ton was crowded with windew shop- pers who were fascinated with the besutiful flowers, brilliant lights and Etore displays. The revue was arranged by th following committee of the Mer- chants _and Manufacturers' Assoeia- lion: Stanley Lansbursh. ehairman; ¥arold H. Levi. A. C. Case, Isaac FHeheama Pamapt | Pioh Toseph A. Berberich, Sidney West, Harry Haba, . ovan snip sau Fraok M. Low| |oline. Under these -ecircumstances. the idea of Congress passing a bill to exempt from taxation the auteme- 1Mle owners of the District of Colum- | bia is, in my judgmeat, absolutely | indetensible, ! "I do not understand how any sena- |tor, knowing that in his own state | there is a license tax, there is a tax !on gasoline, and there is a property | tax on automobiles, can knowingly voie |to exempt automobiles in the District !of Columbia frem a property tax alto- gether, and yet that is what this bill proposes to do. “In addition to that, the tax rate im the city of Washington is §1.20. In my city it is just a little more thar 3 T Cent. In mearly every other city of the Union it is about 3 per cent. state, county and municipal tax. The tax rate here is very low. The assessment |is very moderate. It is not based en |a cash value, as we all know. To ex- ampt the automobiles of the District {from any property tax is semething | that is very unfair aad unjust” i ) i Explanatien By Ball. Senator Ball of Delaware, chair~ man of the District committee and in charge of the bill, action of the committee in reperting the bill without the personal prop- erty tax, said “The bill as reported now relieves the personal tax on machines, and 1 cent of the gasoline tax goes in lieu of that. I find that in miany states when they put the 2-cent tax an gase- line they relieved the automobile persenal taz. My own state did it I made the statement before the gen- eral committes that thers was ne state that did that, but I find on ex- amination that there are a number of states that have done it so their contention in that respect is fair.” Depends on Cengress. In reply to Mr. McKellar's state- ment e the taxation of the md'h istrict, Senator- Ball said: ) “It makes very little difference bow explaining the the U:l’teg s:az,e-. mnlw.rdinl to uggg received by Consul Magana Mexico City today. - — Congress levies the tax in the Dis- trict of Columbla; an appropriation is made by Congress, and the District of Columbia raises 60 per cent of that sppropriation. If the peopla here a. not paying a sufficient rate it is b. cause Congress does not make sufii- ciently liberal appropriations for the District. They paid last year almost $2,000,000 more than Congress appro- priated. That is the reason why t !raplo of the Diatrict object to rais- | g this tional $500,000 tax; but, as I say, Congress campels the Dis~ trict Commissioners to raise enough revenue to equal the 60-40 tion, whatever appropriations Con- gress makes. As as I can gee, it mak ery little difference whether !we pass this hill with this tax or | without this tax.” | Senator MeKellar then offered his amendment intended (0 restore the personal property tax, and if was adopted withe oppesition. Goos Yo Preasury. The following schedule of levies for electrically driven and steam op- erated motor vehicles is comtained in | the viar: All motor vehicles operated by steam, §15 per annum. ‘ Electrically dri: PASSenger-carry- ing yehicles, $11 per anmum. lectrically operated trucks, having 1,000 pounds or less rated corrying capacity, a minimum charge of §: Per annum, plus §3 for each additienal :lp:d‘l.;“ s or less rated carrying In ealling the bill up in the Senate yesterday, Semator Hall pointed out that the period of ity in the nnu‘:. 2 automobile lm:-' l-ltl Mary! expire u.:z % on that aecount. (5 spends an cqual amount for the same | said he! support the resolution, as he has “as, i | | | | ! | The Senate received today the Fish ' | opposite | | Th 'MRS. COOLIDGE LAYS SCOUT CORNER STONE Officiates at Rededication of “Lit- tle House” for Girls’ Organization. would be available for each of Ger-. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the | President, honorary president of the | Girl Scouts of Amer laid the cor- ner stone of the “Girl Seout Little House” at a rededication ceremony at 15th street and New York ave- nue today. ¥ The “Girl Scout Little House" wa: !the former ‘“Home, Sweet Hom | which was erected on the grounds be- |hind the Treasury, anmd after much {discussion as to its ultimate fate was given to the Girl Seouts by the {General Federation of Women's Clubs, the organization which first had the i building erected for “Better Homes [ week” last June, | Mrs. Coolidge placed in the corner stone a copy of the Girl Scout manual, several scout publications and a newspaper. Then she took the trowel and placed the cement on the corner stone, which rests in the rear of the building, under the breakfast aicove. Tell of Organisation. Mrs. Herberp, Hoover, wife of the Secretary of merce and national president of the Girl Scouts, with several members of the organiza- tion’s executive committee. completed the corner stone laying. Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Charles Hamlin, District of Columbia commissioner of the Girl Scouts, spoke on the achievements of the organization from a practical standpoint, and Mrs. Arthur Choate of New York spoke on the spiritual benefits. It was explained that the “Girl Scout Little House” would be ready for use within a short time, and that it would be an experimental center for Girl Scout home-making activities. The executive board of the ergan- jzation is meeting today at the Pierce Mill Tea House, in Roek Creek Park. which i run by the Girl Scout Coun- eil of Washingten. Luncheon will be served at the tea house and in the evening the members will be the dinner guests of Mrs, Hoover at her residence, 2300 S street northwest. Board Members Present. Among the board members present were Mrs. lLeo Arnstein, Mrs. Nich- olas Brady, Mrs. Choate, Mrs. Lyman Delano, Mrs, Frederick Edey, Mrs. Everit Macy, Miss Liewellyn- Parsons, Mre W. N. Rothschild. Mre Percy Willtams, Mrs. Giles Whiting and Mre. Jane Deeter Rippin of New York; Mrs. Julius Rosenwald of Chi- cago, Mrs. John Baxter of Minneap- olis, Dean Arnold and Mrs. Arthur Hartt of Boston, Miss Gwen Martin of Philadelphia, Mrs. William Phelps of New Haven, Mrs. Clifford Shinkle af Cincinpati, Mrs, Eqward Skae of Detroit, Mrs William Hoffman of Barrington, R. L: Mrs. Thomton of Atlapta, Gu.: Mrs. M. H. Olnstead of Harrisburg, Pa., and Mrs Hoowver, Mrs. Helen R." Scudder and Mrs. Frederick Brooks, all of Washington. Mrs. Hamlin and other members of the District Council attended the meetings dealing with local matters o RUMANIA AND HUNGARY WITHDRAW WAR CLAIMS By the Associoted Pross. BUCHAREST, March 25.—The offi- icial press declares the Bumanian gnd Hungarian governments have signed an agreement whereby the latter fin- ally recogmizes Rumania's “Delliger- ent right” to the invaaion of 1919 and { withdraws damage claims tetalling twenty billlon gold erowns. At the same time Rumania renounces claims of 30,000,000\lel to cover the costs of the invasion. | i sales in the United States his own hands. ‘were $26,000,000 tn 1921, B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 te 1 0’Clack SPEAKER TOMORROW Hon. M. Clyde Kelly CONDUCTED BY Commander C, T. Jewell Every One Invited No Collection hotograph shows the First Lady with trowel in TRe | featured the exercines today in conmection with the dedication of the “Gl aid it afforded an op- | | { { | {Girls Joke With Laborers | that all might look upon the face of jeast—the source of light—and the | D. C t of placing cem SOBS AND SMILES AT GYPSY BURIAL While “Subjects” Exhibit Dead Queen. Queen Eleanora, the gypey em- press, whose funeral was twice in- terrupted because her gruve bad not been prepared strictly aceerding to tribal custom, was buried with an- cient. rites in Mount Olivet cemetery at noom today. Never has « more strange interment taken place in Mount Olivet cemetery. Tragedy smiled at comedy | and about 500 spectators gathered around the sepulcher as though they had come to witness a theatrical revue. Vantage Points Occupied. Points, of vantage were occupied an hour’before the time set for the interment. Youns girls dressed in their finest spring styles sat upon canvas bags and joked with the grave-diggers as they finished their work. Children made mud pies in the roadway a few feet from the yawning tomb, and matronly women Fossiped inoessantly about the un- certainties of life. Whatever may have been the feel- ing of the crowd, however, the #YDsles were overjoyed at their pres- ence and insisted upon bringing the silver casket in which the queen lay from the public vault and opening it their sleeping empress. The superin- tendent of the cemetery protested that such a thing had never before been done in the history of Mount Olivet. Gypsies Were Obdurate. The gypsies were obdurate, however, and argued loudly in the vault with the superintendent, gesticulating wildly toward the crowd. Finally, after more than an hour of wrangling, the official surrendered, the crowd was kept in line by half a dozen policemen and the casket was brought from the tomb. ‘There, beneath the biight spring sun, Queen Eleanora once more lay in state, while the crowd filed slowly past. g King Johns stood at the head of the casket, while the princes and princesses of the tribe lined up behind it, 21l bow- ing selemnly to.the spectators as they STapped for a mMinute (o £4Z6 Upon the sleeping queen, her breast still laden with the gifts of gold and precious stones that were later buried with her. The gypsies even insisted upon waiting until three women who were seen run- Bing through the gate had climbed the Bill to the vault. Gypsy Custom Prevalis. Finally the lid was closed forever and the march to the grave began. Solid eement had replaced the brick tomb and loose cement was even poured around the cracks of the box | that received the casket. At the grave gypsy custom again crossed modern custom—and the gypsies won. The grave had been prepared for the queen to be placed in such a manger that she would face the set- ting sun, and away from the road. King Johns insisted that she face the road along which her falthful “sub- jects” will travel on their anmual jourmeys toward tha southland every fall. “She will want to watch us as Wwe Ppass,” the king explained, and again the superintagydent surrendered. Moaned Solemn Requiem. The mement of interment finally ar- rived, Mourntully the tribal prine | cesses moaned @ requiem farewell, the professional mourners took up their heart-rending wail. A bottie of saeramental wine was poured into {he waiting grave and the king took his place at its head, holding & pan- ful of incense he had prepared with Slowly the casket oing it with tl S eir own e ceremony was brief. days before the whole tribe ha Queen Eleanora farewell and all that siabs were rolled in over the body in the ground. Heavy. slate slabe va? {: led nifi :llce over the grave an ese filled aroun m’rl o (i d with ast mournful gypsy seng ech in wailing tones Gver the “hille ot Mourt Olivet, the king tossed his handful of incense upon the slabs and the grave diggers began the last part of their work. In a few minutes the grave had been filled. ‘Wil Ereet Monument. A handsome monument is to be raised over the grave as sooen as the stonecutter can finish it. And every time .:l. oy gjlm a(bi{m: Johns asses along the ensbur; RS homadic wandering the caravan will not fail to halt and do homage before the m‘ of its most beleved queenw the loved monareh the had ever known. ! Twa ! d bade * i | i TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1924. ent on the xtone, the laying of which Scout Little House.” TWO MOTOR BANDITS BELIEVED IDENTIFIED Police Also Find Ownmer of Car Used in $16,000 Piggly Wiggly Robbery. GANG CHANGED AUTOMOBILES Got Start on Officers by Delay in Reporting Case. Piggly Wiggly store officials today are checking up accounts in an ef- fort to determine the exact sum of money taken yesterday by armed bandits from an automobile in which M. L. Cleaton, cashier of the District unit of the corporation, and Jobn Starnes, District superintendent, were taking it to the executive office of the firm at 1935 5th street mortheast. It is reasonably certain, it is stated, that the sum was between $15,000 and $20,000. While officials are checking up their accounts, Lieut. Walter Emer- son, acting chief of detectives, has picked members of his force and members of the automobile squad bunting the bandits. Identity of at least two of the quartet is believed by the police to be known to them, and their arrest, it is believed, is only a matter of time. Owner of Car Found. Michael Kaplan, owper of the an- tomobile occupled by the bandits, is said to bave told the police that a man named Joseph Nally, well known in pelice oiroles, was driving the car when he last saw it. He said he had permitted two girls and two men to use the car. It is known by the police that the girls left the "bandit car shortly afterward, but just where the other | men boarded it bas not been learned. Following the hold-up tho bandits drove to the vicinity of Todd place and Lincoln road northeast, only a short distance from the secene of the hold-up. where they had another car P our men immediataly left the Kaplan car, boarded the car in waiting and rushed away, going north. It soon was lost sight of, and detectives have been unable to trace it since that time, they stated this morning, and they can only conjecture as to wi :r the ban- dits motored int ottty o Maryland or returned Were Seen Chansing Cars. Detectives Jett and Connors, who lo- cated the car the bandits had used, were told by at least one person ding near Lincoln road and Todd place of having geen the four men leave the car and drive away. They paid little attention to the incident, however. and did not notice the number on the car in which the bandits disappeared. Joe Nally's name appears on police recerds as being the driver of the dandit car. He is said to have figur- ed in an affair in a New York hotel everal months ago and received sev- al bullet wounds, and police also Y be is wanted at'La Plata, Charles county, Md., where ho (s alleged to Bave Sicaped fronxxl Jail while awaiting earing for alleged com . ‘g"l""u? APl ged complicity in s sai ight dela¥ in get. ting police action resulted from Cleaton and Starmes first going to the second police precinct to report the affair instead of going to No. 12, the precinct in which the affair hap- Dened. A second precinct policemar Wwas sent with them to No. 12, three miles distant, where their report was received and Lieut. Emerson notified. The slight delay, it is stated, prob- ably did not interfere with the inves- | tigation to any considerable ext |although it is said the bandits conld have covered many miles during that time If they had left the city. . SHOT BY SMUGGLERS. Immigration Officer at Lowistown, N. Y., Expeeted to Recover. YOUNGSTOWN, N. Y., March 25.— Constable Gilbert Carter was shot down today while patroling the banks of the lower Niagara river by men believed to be alien smugglers. The constable, who was taken to a Niagara Falls hospital, said he came upon the men, who were lying im wait for a boatload of aliens being brought across the river from Canada. NIAGARA FALLS, Ontarie, March 25. —Four men in a motor ear, helieved to have been in the party of allezed alien smugglers who shot Glibert Carter, special immigration officer, at Lewiston, N. Y., today, were arrested by local police and held for further questioning. Carter, altbough shot three times in one leg and twice in the other, was expeoted to recove: ~——— Star Want Ade are for aggressive r-,x.‘ Be a live wire and get in ouch with other live wires—that's the way to succeed ’ Pinchot Drawn, Ready to Serve As Grand Juror By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, Mareh Gov. Pinchot may serve as a fed- eral grand juror alL the term of court Weginning here May 5. Drawn ia the Hst of jurors at Scranton yesterday, the gevernor said today he expected to “serve unless the pressure of the neces- sary work for the state should require me (o ask to be ex- cused.” HEFLIN SEES LAND FRAUD PROBE PLOT | Threatens to Go to Senate -With Charge Moses Not Fair as Chairman. | 1 | Protesting at the manner in which the Senate investigation into alleged {12nd frauds in the Rio Grande valley {is being conducted, Senatpr Heflin, { democrat, Alabama, author of the investigation resolution, announced today he would carry the ‘ight to ithe floor of the Senate. Chiet Postal Imspeetor Simmons was on the witness stand and George Hill, attorney for R. B. Creager, republican mational committeeman from Texas, wis examining the wit ness. There were questions also by Chairman Moses. | Semator "Heflin protested against what he termed the “gross cut-saw arrangement the chair has WitheMr. HiLL” i Moses Makes Denial. ! Chairman Moses denied that such arrangement existed Mr. Hill asked if Simmons knew that James R. Page, the Kansas Ci attorney, who is ass Heflin as prosecutor, a fugitive from justice, had been the subject of disbarment proceedings, and ha licited rersons alleged t> have heen jdefrauded. Simmons replizd that he {kbew of these things in = general . any Yy Page, in an address t> Chairman Moses, charged that Mr. Creager had ;uxr\ed disbarment proceedings against im. It was brought out in this discus- sion that the committee expected to hold meetings in Texas later. Says Creager Not Favored. Answering a question by Page, Sim- mons declared that in the investiga- tien of fraud charges in xas Crea- | ger was not treated differently from any one else. “Why did you have Inspector Wil- liamson examine Creager's books and not those of others?” asked Page. “Because Creager had made a com- plaint about the previous inspe r being prejudiced,” answered the wit- ness “What were the charges of fraud being made against Creager?” “1 know now that it was charged notes were being sold. and that they | were misrepresenting lands in Texas.” Dispute Over Questiouns. Mr. Hill said be thought he could |clear up the situation if he was jallowed to ask about five questions, [but Senator Heflin objected. ‘“This {ien't a trial and we wish to bring jout the facts interjected Senator {Moses. “As chairman of this commit- tee T can ask any questions I desire i There is nothing to prevent Mr. Hill |asking the questions through me { Hill then asked Simmons the ques- tions about Page, in Mr. Moses' name “Did you know that a former land agent became associated with attor- neys in Kansas City and wrote to pgople that he could have their notes canceled?” was ome of the questions agked by Hill “I had knowledge that Page was connected with the Stewart Land Company.” Simmons answered. “I ! believe Donaldson and Creager told ‘ me."” { | Sees Cross Cut Saw Plan. i parties discredited in various ways were trying to use the Post Office Department as a vehicle for the| wreaking of private malice and for litigation for gain?™ continued Hill Chairman Moses remarked that any answer of the witness would be only an opinion, and Senator Heflin en- tered an emphatic protest 1 protest against the cross-cut saw {arrangement the chair has with Mr. {Hil" 'he said. “1 will 1ake this to the {floor of the Senate. Page insisted that “mot & thing asked had anything to do the matter under investigation.” “It iz abgolutely untrue that 1 was & fugitive from justice,” he said. admit 1 was indicted down there. ‘““They got out an injunction from sending _the petition through the mails. ~ We shall undertake to show that Mr. Creager himself causéd the Hidalgo Bar Association to prevent me from working ‘there, and I intend to deal with that when we go down there. single ith Mayer Is Witness. “L ama trying to get back the money for the people who were made pau- pers. Creager is drawing money from those victims of fraud, and Mr. Hill himself is a beneficiary of fraud, le- gally it is true, as a receiver.” |~ The excitement quieted down and Mayor A. B. Cole of Brownsville ask- ed if it was intended to show that the valley as a whole was not good, and irrigation not satisfactory. “We admit that there is good land in the valley and valid sales” re- plied Senator Heflin. “No one i con- demning the valley as a whole, but have been getting letters from eople down there who tell us we ar {op the right track and to go ahead. ENGRAVING INQUIRY Thorough Probe of Alleged Bond Duplication Promised by Rep- resentative King. The special committee of the House, headed by Representative Louis Mc- ¥Fadden of Pennsylvania, which is to investigate the charges of Charles B. Brewer, s Department of Justice agent, who made a report to Presi- ! dent Harding regarding alleged du- plication of bonds at the bureau of engraving and printing, will probably Bold its first meeting tomarrow. Representative McFadden was not in Washington today. Representa- tive Zdward J. King of 1llinois, through whase efforts-the investiga- tion was ordered, and who ranks next to Mr. McFadden on the investigating committee, sald today that the inguiry Would be pushed with all possible ) The other members of t committee appointed by Speaker Gil 1lett are: Representatives Strong of | Kansas, Steagall of Alabama and Ste- venson, South Carolina. . Do you need effictent. industrious. help? There's one sure way to get it quickly—read and use Star Want Ads. There are. 200,000 square miles of uncultivated land in China. g Senator | 4 so- | id you krow that a number of{ STARTS TOMORROW WOOD, D.C. OFFICIAL, . MAY END SERVICE Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner, Under New Rule, Must Return to Army. Capt. John E. Wood. | assistant engineer | probably will | { ome of the Commissioners, termunate his active service as a local official on July 1 He has been grauted a two-month leave of absence to begin with that date, and the belief prevailed toda | that at the end of that time he will ibe given a new assignment in th. | Engineer Corps of the Army Under @ new rule in the Army all officers must serve one vear ® on active military duty, and in | the fall of this year Capt. Wood will {bave completed four years as assist- {ant engineer Commissioner. He came | Bere in the.fall of 1520 During his brief period of cer here Capt. Wood has bLecome one the most enthusiastic ad: o more beautiful National Cap He has iuterested himsecif in ber of the long-standing scher improvement of the city, ir the driveway to connect t old ‘civil war forts, the rec of the Washington channe and similar project: | He also servea n |committee that recently | systematic plan for the b | the strect lighting of th a five-year period Capt. Wood has visual charts and drawings other plans f the physical improvement of bi institutions, such as the oq workhouse farm, the gr 5 aro the jail and Gallinger Hospizal He also has prepared charts outl ing the anticipated needs sewer and water depart mext five vears. e SENATORS REJECT TAX PLAN FAVORING “EARNED” INCOMES (Continued from F 1 every ates r front | { : | Tor i 1 s | i | for those particular se would bring up for deter: the department several hun ties the department w ministering such a law.” Discrimination Mr. Mellon might have added some- thing about the difficulties of th payers who would have to i to Washington or hire la prove to the govenment what is what is not a reasonable saiary w the consequent result that 1 be cheaper to accept injustice than pay the expense of obtaining justice The Senate finance co € tion i, of course, not fina are indications that u {ter of rates will be open | before the revenue bill Persons who earn their income ever, have thus far been giv favorable treatment by the than Secretary Mellon and Senate committee has car: discrimination against earned ince still further. ADOPT MELLON BATES. ! Seen. Senators, 8 to 7, Eliminste Long- worth Schedules From Bill. Income tax rates proposed by Secre- itary Mellon are again in the revenue foi. .- Proceeding with unexpected speed in Its conmsideration of the bill I: night, the Senate finance committes launched into the income section as by a vote of § to 7, sub d t Mellon rates for the Longworth ¢ promise adopted by the House. Democrats of the com S have been working on a for the Longworth rates, ready to offer a counter prop voted solidly against the rates. Sepator Jones, democrat. Mexico, anounced later, however, they would put forward their pro- posed substitute either in committee o on the floor. Chairman Smoot said a motion to re- iopen the income schedule for comm: {tee action would be decided by the | committee. Since eight of the ten re | publicans of the committee voted last | night for the Mellon rates, an atiempt {to reopen the question in committee { would depend on the votes of Senators ! McCormick, lllinois, and La Follette, | Wisconsin, republicans, who were absent land were not represented by proxy in last night's vote. Both are reported be against the Mellon rates. Chairman Smoot, in saying that tae {proxies of these two semators had uot ibeen asked for, did mot go into the i reasons. May Report in Two Weeks., Four republicans and five democrats ) |wese present last night. The votes ¢! Senators Reed, Missourl. and Gerry Rhode Island, the absent democrats Iwere cast by proxy against th. Mallon [rates. The votes of Senators Wats iIndiana; Ernst, Kentucky; dMcl jConnecticut, and Elkins, W |ginia, absent republicans, w !in the same manner in favor of the | Treasury rates. " With a decision reached on this tion, the main controversial subject of the bill, the committee was given an opportunity to center its work now on the miscellaneous tax schedules with prospects of making 3 the Senate within two w The Mellon rates prov maximum surtax of 5 per ¢ comes in excess of $100,000 mal rates of & pge cent b (200w low $4,000 ana'® per cent above that amount. The Longworth rat ile for a maximum surtax of per cent against 50 per cent In the pres- ent law, and normal rates of * 1 cent on incomes under $1.000, 5 Dt cent on incomes between §4,000 and $8,000 and 6 per cent above tha Prepare Substitute. The Treasury rate hedule. vanced last fall before the oOpsniug of Congress, was adopted by the House ways and means committee on a strict party vote, but was not sup, ported by a large number of repub- licans when the bill was taken up on the floor. The democrats were able to substitute a plan proposed by Representative Garner, democrat, Texas, providing for a maximum sur- tax of 44 per cent and lower normal { taxes than proposed. Later, however, all of the republicans in the House Voted for the Longworth compromise. Little indication has been gven of | the stand the repubiicans in the Sen- | ate will take on the rate contest. | The demoerats, who have been work- ing on & substitute rate schedule, held a long meeting yesterday but failed to reach a decision. QUAKE RECORDED HERE. An earthquake of pronounced char- acter was registered on the seismo- graph of Georgetown University yes- torday, beginning at 3:36 pw. and lasting ustil 4 p.m. Father Tondorl placed its center at 1,800 miles south of Washington. 1 | | i ! t { Mellon | Vir- cast at