Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. For District of Columbia—Fair tonight, cloud! tomorrow increasing cont ably followed by Record for twenty-four hours ending at 2 p.am. today : Highest, 55 2 p.m. yesterday ; lowest, 38 6 a.m. today. Full report ol Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Euptered as second-class matter post office Was| No. 29,197. iness, prob- inued cool. , occurred at , occurred at n page 7. hington, D. C. " REPARATIONS BOD' TOCONSIDER DAWES - REPORT TOMORROW Will First Decide on Giving Hearing to Representa- ~ tives of Germany. OTHER POWERS TO GET PROPOSALS IN 10 DAYS| " Dawes to Make Trip to Brussels, | Rome and London After Completion. L ¢ Associated Pres PARIS, April 8—The time of the official delivery to the reparation commission of the reports of both the expert committees—those headed re tpectively by Brig. Gen. Charles G Tiawes and Reginald McKenna—was definitely fixed today for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Dawes plans to leave for Brussels tomorrow, where he will see the Belgian minister of economics, M. Van de Vyvers. From the Belgian capital he will go to Rome and then to. London, arriving there eleven da: W Geu. Study Report. The reparation commission imme- \\ilhln\ France Is Pleased By Some Features Of Dawes Report By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 8.—Spokesmen for the French foreign office say they are glad that the Dawes body has arrived at three conclusions: First, that Germany is prosperous; second, that she can rapidly amellorate the financial situation; third, that the experts have put the payments so equitably low that it will be impossible for Ger- many to plead that she is unable to pay them. “French opinion neither ap- proves nor disapproves the report as outlined in the advance sum- maries printed.” the foreign office spokesmen reiterate. “France will accept the report, study it and then make a decision. It has taken the experts three months to arrive at these conclusions and the world might at least allow us threc days to digest them.” | PARTY OF PEOPLE SUPPORTS JUNKERS IN NORTH GERMANY Masses, Fired With Hatred of Jews, Uphold Hands of Warlike Nobles. Survival of o republic in Germany depends on the forthcoming elections diately upon receiving reports from Chairmen Dawes and McKenna will £et down to business and study the Tecommendations formulated b: €xperts, going into session at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The first decision to be made is in regard to giving the representatives | of Germany a hearing. After this hearing, if it takes place, the commis- #ion will give the allied governments its opinion as to what action should L on the experts' proposals some feeling that this might be done by the coming Saturday, but | the less optimistic expect it will prob- | ably be ten days before the report are turned over to the respective goy- ernments. The Dawes committee this after- noon was holding its final session, re- vising the proofs of its report and making the last-minute in the copy. Le Matin Summary. The reparation cxperts seem to have attained the objects at which they aimed, declures Le Matin in present- 1 summary of the forthcoming report which is accept- ed here as authoritative, { They achieved this, the néwspaper 2dds, without “pussing bevond the limite set for them-—that is, without raising the political problem of the | occupation of the Ruhr or trying to| * fix definitely the amount of the Ger- man debt, since if the Dawes report Eives exact details on the amount of the vearly payments which may be g a exacted from the reich, it in no way fixes the number of these annuities, at least as regards the part which depends on the budget surplus of the| Teich. The report provides mainly, ac-; ecording to Le Matin, that Germany | shall receive no moratorium, a tem- | porary concession will be made of | Ter railroads, a mortgage placed on | her industries, and a bureau estab- lished to govern the transfer of money from the country in such a manner as to disturb the exchange market as little as possible. Her ennual payments would be tapered | upward to keep pace with her eco- momic and financial ability. Provide for Control. Tt financial disorder prevents or delays execution of Germany's finan- clal engagements, the experts provide automatic institution of strict con- trol by the allies, which would be vested with extended powers over the treasury of the Reich. In connection with the Ruhr, the experts consider economic re-estab- lishment of Germany can be durable | on}y on one condition: The ecomonic | unity of the country must be entire- | 1y re-established. Question of Rubr. Without raising the queéstion of military occupation of the Ruhr the experts indicate that it will be neces- | ry for Germany to resume free dis- posal of customs and state industries | like forests, coal mining and railroads in the territory occupied Ly French troops. The railroad system of the Ruhr and Rhineland would be under special supervision of an allied rep- resentative in order to assure normal traffic and security for French troops. the | corrections | committee's | jallied with the Hitlerites of Bavaria, | ishall be allowed to hold office as a in that country. William E. Nash of the European staff of The Star and Chicago Daity News is making o tour of Germany. and his dispatencs w0at shed important light on the altitude of the peopic toward the republic and the reparations question, the foremost with which any government in Berlin must grapple. BY WILLIAM E. NASH. By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Daily ' News. Copyright, 1924, | SCHWERIN, Capital of Mecklen- burg-Schwerin, April §—The cam- | pafgning for the reichstag, which { opened here this week, shows the two | government parties are working to- gether for the overthrow of the re- | publi | Mecklenburg-Schwerin is consoli- | | dating rupidly into a center of reac- | tion for north Germany, as Bavaria is | for the south and Cassel is for the | { west, with prospects of trouble ex- cellent it things go wrong constitu- | tionany. Berlin is only four hours from bwerin by rail. A “putsch” from here would be much easier than antoher putsch from Bavaria. The junkers who control the government of Meck- | lenburg, were brought in by the local diet elections last February through | | the agency of a powerful assoiation calied the “landbund,” a land league | ! which groups all the principal agri- | cultural interests ot North Germauy !and which, denials to the contrary notwithstanding, plays an important role in politics. (The word “junker,” in the propor sense, means simply a large scale landed proprietor). Landbund Power Spreads. From Mecklenburg the junker land- | bund is spreading out its influence | over the neighboring provinces of , Pomerania, ¥ast Pruscia, Branden- burg and parts of Hanover. Each big | junker estate is sald to have several | sturdy “watchmen” who took part in the Kapp-Hitler putsches quartered ! somewhere on the premises. Junker rule is minority rule, how- ¢ ever, maintained in power only by the ! benevolent neutrality of another fao- | ion called “racial freedom,” or the | “Deutsch Vollkescher,” party, which is remarkable for its proselyting abil- | ity. It is this racial freedom group, ' { | | | | | which furnishes the great new ele- ment of interest here. Like Klam Here. This group made enormous gains {in the recent landtag elections and | bids fair to make big further strides in the reichstag elections May 4. Like the Ku Klux Klan, it claims to be 100 per cent patriotic, anti- Semitic, anti-socialist, and anti-par- liamentary. It works with signs symbolic, such a: the Swastika, "death to Hebrews,” which appeal is irresistible to the masses. No Jew German officer or German govern- ment_official or, furthermore, shall Under the proposed reduced annual payments Germany would apply on the reparation account the first vear 1,000,000,000 gold marks, rai: means of an international loan of £00.000,000 gold marks plus 200,000,000 froin the verkchrsteur or transporta- tion ta The second and would pay the fourth 2,460,000,000. sixth v, would exact supplementary payments third years she 1.200.000,000 gold marks, and so on. From the in addition to the foregoing of 2,460,- | 000,000 gold marks, dependent on a prosperity index carefully established by the Dawes committee. The sup- plementary payments under this in- dex could gradually reach several hundred millions of gold marks. Source of Total. t'he suppiementary total of 2,460,- ®v0.0n0 marks would be thus obtain- | ed: From budget receipts, 1,500,000,- 000 marks; from transportation tax and railroad recelpts. 660,000,000; from mortgage on industrics, 300, 000,000. % The railroads of the reich would be transferred for .fifty years to a company with 26,000,000,000 gold marks’ eapital, composed of 2,000,- 000,000 in preferred stock, one-quar- ter’ of which would be sold for the enefit of the government, 13,000,- 000,000 in ordinary stock, with divi- dends depending ‘on the company’s prosperity, and 11,000,000,000 in priv- ileged bonds at 6 per ¢ent, 5 per cent of which would go out as interest and the remajning 1 per cent go into # sinking fund insuring repayment thirty-seven years after the fourth year. Sale of Bomds. The bonds, to be “anded to the reparation commissiva, would yield 60,000,000 gold marks annually after -ar 1,750,000,000 and the fifth | r the reparation commission | be allowed to practice law or medi- jcine, if they win out. say the swastika boys. Jews must be grant- ed the right to live, they admit re- | luctantly, but not the right to domi- nat, Everything Jewish must be elimi- nated from_German life,” said a prominent Voelkischer leader to the | correspondent. ven religion must be purged. The Old Testament is predominantly Jewish, and therefore corrupt.” T | the MCHGAN, BEATIG JNSON BY 85,1 1,947 Precincts—Ford Leading Ferris. ILLINOIS PRIMARY TODAY BEING WATCHED CLOSELY _‘Preuident Hopes for 61 Delegates in Bitter Contest—Nebraska Also Balloting. By the Associated Press, DETROIT, Mich., April 8.—Calvin Coolidge won a sweeping victory in Michigan yesterday. Returns from Hiram W. Johnson for republican preference in Monday's presidential primary. Henry Ford continued to hold a meager advantage over Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris for the demo- cratic preferment, the vote from ] 1,907 precincts showing: Ford, 27,399; Ferris, 24,467, Women in Clowe Races The closest contest developed in the voting between Mrs. FEtta C. Boltwood and Mrs, Evelyn S, Mer- shon, candidates for a place on the democratic national committee. Only 560 votes separated the two women with 1,907 precincts tabulated, the ad- vantage being with Mrs. Boltwood. Both Ford and President Coolidge carried Wayne county (Detroit), fig- ures from all Ford margin in Way the state, including Wayne, was 2,932. Because of the closeness of the citles, where the missing precincts are located, the outcome of the Ford- Ferris contest still is unsettled. Ceolidge Carries County. President Coolidge carried Wayne county by a margin of 15,287 votes over Senator Johnson. The more populous centers—De- troit, Grand Rapids and Flint—failed substantial pluralties for Coolidge. The rural sections and the Upper Peninsula were overwhelmingly in favor of the President. A suryey of | returns early today showed that the Californian carried only two of the venty-seven counties that Lave re- rted. James F. Davidson is far in front of his two opponents for election to single place on the republican national committee. Paul A. Martin and Frank A. Rasch trailing in that order. ARRESTS IN CHICAGO. Bitter Factionalism Breaks Out in State Primary. CHICAGO, April S—Infense fac- tionalism in the llinois primaries ap peared early in the balloting today in complaints from polling places. The arrest of the entire board of one Chi- cago precinct was ordered when it was charged that persons using fictitious Other instances persons attempting to act as judges and clerks were reported. Interest in national in the race between to the republican national conven- tion. Overshadowing the presidential contest in the state, however, is the race between Gov. Len Small and Thurlow G. Essington, state senator. for the republican gubérnatorial nom- bly the bitterest factional struggl, Lh: state's history. s Partisans of all candidates earl today maintained their claims of vic. tory, and were unanimous in anti. cipating a record vote, possibly ex- ceeding 2,000,000. Polls opened at 6 am., and will close at 5 p.m. McAdeo In Hot Fight. William G. McAdoo, unopposed for the democratic presidential prefer- ence, Is directly involved in the sharp- est division in the democratic ranks in recent years. A full slate of avowed McAdoo delegates is opposed by a solid array of non-preference delegates openly pledged to the leadership of George E. Brennan, state democratic chieftain. The fight between the Mc- Adoo and Brennan forces reaches vir- tually every important place in the state ticket. Medill McCormick, United States “We have a cult of old German gods, including Wotan, Siegelind and Valhalla, which can easily take its senator, is opposed for remomination by four candidates, but his campaign took especial note of former Gov. Charles S. Deneen and Newton Jen- (Continued on Page 5, Column 3. Cause Dama Several drowned pigeons, their bod- ies lodged in a downspout which car- ries rain water from the dome of the Capitol to the ground, so blocked the outlet that the water flooded the pro- tective’ guttering, and, coming down the wall, did serious damage to the frieze around the dome in the ro- tunda. An investigation by David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, today, showed that this was the cause of the streaks on the frieze. The pigeons had evi- dently sought refuge from the steady rain and were trapped in the down- spout. The frieze was designed by Con- ntino Brumidi as his last work and he worked personally upon the the fourth year. The commission ‘would be allowed to offer its bonds on the international markets and thus rapidly realize some 10,000,000,- { 000 gold marks. | __In connection with the mortgage on industries, the repprt, says the news- paper, points out that the German industries have been able, owing to the collapse of the mark. to free Continued on Page 2, Coluran 1.) painting until within three weeks of his death. The frieze i3 a decorative band around the rotunda seventy-five feet from the floor. It was designed by Brumidi when he was eighty years old and he planned a fresco to’ en- tirely surround the base of the dome. Brumidi himself executed paintings of the landing of Columbus, Cortes entering Mexico, the midnight burial of De Sota, Pocohontas saving the | paintea, (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Dead Pigeons Blocking Rainspout | ge to Capitol Frieze| life of Capt. John Smith, the landing of the Pilgrims and Penn's treaty with the Indizns. It fortunately was not this orig- inal work of Brumidf's that was damaged, but sections of the frieze :I,ol;e lately done by Filippo Costag- ni. Streaked by the rain on Sunday are Gov. Oglethorpe of Georgia treating with the Indians, the reading of the Declaration of Independence, the sur- render of Cornwallis, the death o Indian chief Tecumseh and the covery of gold in California in ‘48. Sixteen years ago two of the Bru- midi paintings on the frieze were similarly damaged. These Brumidi paintings, on which the streaks can be seen today, are the landing of Co- lumbus at San Salvador and the burial of De Sota in the Mississippi river. When the Brumid! paintings were maged sixteen years ago a wom- an’s coat was found lodged in one o“:‘r’?r and a man's silk hat in an- T. The restoring of these paintings would prove a very expensive oper- ation on account of the scaffolding that would have to be built. Work probably will be delayed until next year, when the.architect of the - itol plans to have the rotunda re- President’s Showing Made in' 1,947 of the state's 2,890 pecinets gave | him a lead of 86,198 over Senator | but a few scattered | |outlying precincts indicated. l e county was 2,834 | and his total advantage throughout | race in the rural sections and smaller | o @ o ahars oEN | Two democratic members of the| names were acting as judges and clerks. | of unauthorized | ination, which has developed possi- | The paintings which were} WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, COOLIDGE SWEEPS | TUESDAY, 1 | FIST FIGHT NEAR IN HOUSE DEBATE Watkins and Gallivan Sep- arated During Alien Bill Discussion. House—Watkins of Oregon, and Gal- livan of Massachusetts—came close to exchanging blows on the floor t ! day during debate on the Johnson im migration bill. As Representative Hill, republican, | | Maryland, was completing his speect Representative Watkins walked ove: {to prove the Johnson strongholds to & table on the democratic side of jclaimed for them, and all returned |the chamber behind which were seat- ed Representatives abath of Illi- nois and Dickstein of New York, who | are leading the ight against the bill, i As he leaned over to talk to Sabath, Gallivan, in an adjoining seat, made a_ remark in an undertone, which Watkins resented. i Collesgues Block Blow. The Oregon member drew back a { clenched fist and lurched toward Gal- i livan, who brought his arms up to {a guard, but before Watkins could { get within striking distance several | oolleagues sprang between the two land a fight was averted. !hxn an immigration bill of its own, differing materially from the House | measure, the latter chamber went into | session at 11 am., an hour earlier | than usual. Opponents of the John- son bill, although admitting they ‘were outnumbered, | onslaughter, declaring its provision i for a 2 per cent quota based on the 1890 census, discriminated against prospective immigration from south- | ern and southeastern Europe in favor politics centers | of those from the northern and north- | President Cool- | idge and Senator Hiram W. Johnson | of California for sixty-one delegates | western part of the continent. The biil is designed to supplant the | present 3 per cent immigration law based on the 1910 census which ex- | pires June 30 next. Madden Attacks Bill. As debate got under way again Chairman Madden of the appropria- | tions committee made a vigorous at- {tack on the bill, declaring it a “farce.” He asserted that those supporting it were unfairly attempting to stigma- tize opponents as “un-American.” Insisting that he favored rigid ex- { clusion of undesirables from all coun- | tries, Mr. Madden said steps should be taken to prevent the influx of Mex- {ican laborers, whom he said were | slipping_into the United States in large numbers. Representative Hill, republican, Maryland, opposed the provisions | which would base quotas on the 1590 | census and deciared the bill left the | back doors open for surreptitious en- | try of aliens across the Canadian and Mexican borders. D. C. HEADS TO GET FAVORABLE REPORT Senate Subcommittee Expected to Submit Nominations Tomorrow. The nominations of District Commis- sioners Rudolph and Oyster to succeed themselves will be reported favorably by the Senate District subcommittee to the full committee at its meeting to- morrow. The subcommittee, consisting of !Senators Edwards of New Jersey, ‘chairman; King of Utah and Weller of Maryland, has completed its con- ¢ the lon of the protests and recom- | on. the frst and fifteenth of the Al e ms In regard to the Commis. | month. these being pay days at the sioners filed with the subcommittee. The members of the subcommittee, it is understood, have not been great- 1y impressed with the protests made against the Commissioners. The subcommittee, it is understood, will report against any further hear- ings on the nominations. The sub- committee members feel that ample opportunity has been given the op- ponents of the Commissioners to pre- sent any argument or reasons against confirmation, and that it would merely result in delay if the full committee should nows grant hearings. That is a matter, however, that the full committee must deter- ! mine. A PR In a race with the Senate, whlrhl continued their ! , APRIL AND I'M [OX*: Fo) 3 s V) Y "For 7 CooLpée! IDENTIAL PRIMARY PUZ | Star’s ““Roxie” Radio | Fund Passes Over $150 Mark Today Comtributions te The Stars “Roxie” radio famd reccived to- day follow: Previously ackno | N. 0. M. . | ‘anh Cash : : Mrx. Roy Y. Ferner Mrx. H. A. Polkinkern A Friend S Cash . L. W. Condroy A Hitcheoek . Charles A. Ehrhart The Ohio Girls’ Clul dheir xpomso: Frank B. Willin Nellie E. Pumphrey A. B. Coppes . Irving Linger Roland Linger . F. R H. . i | $30.75 10.00 1.00 1.00 200 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 7.00 10.00 wiedged | | 25.00 .00 10.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 1.90 .00 5.00 Elizabeth A. eott Ferd T. Schneider . CHECKS AND CASH SWELL RADIO FUND | | | Local Enthusiasts Respond Generously to Project | Sponsored by ‘“Roxie.” ‘Washington's radio enthusiasts swelled The Star's “Roxie” radio | fund $121 today, bringing the total for the two days in which this paper has undertaken to help raise the esti- i mated amount needed to install and maintain radio receiving apparatus {in the Walter Reed, Mount Alto and { Naval hospitals to $151 All of the money contributed through The Star will be turned over to James H. Baden, e president of the Commer- cial National Bank, and applied by him to the fund created by “Roxie" and “his gang.” at the Capitol Thea- ter, in New York, for the purchase of radio sets for the disabled service men at the three government hos- pitals. The majority of checks and cash contributions received by The Star today were for amounts ranging from $1 to $25. The largest check, for $25, came from the Ohio Girls’ Club. Con- tributions of any amount will be received by The Star and acknowl- edged in its columns. Leroy Mark Is Chairman. Leroy Mark, chairman of the com- mittee in charge of the reception committee for “Roxie” and his troupe during their visit in Washington last month, sent the following letter to The Star under date of April 7: “I phoned Roxie yesterday evening at 7 o'clock “telling him of your won- derful front-page story concerning the fund, and I trust you heard his acknowledgment of it over the air during his concert. *“1 know that your co-operation is not only appreciated by him. but also by the boys, who_are so much in need if it, the public and the writer. Hun- dreds of dollars are rolling in here every da: Employes of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company through William Montgomery, president, sent directly | to * xie” last week $350 for his| jradio fund. The money was raised by giving luncheons in the office, the food being donated by a few of the employes. Pledge 325 a Month. These employes also .pledged to | ontribute 325 each montn to. tne fund for ome year, beginning May 1, to be applied toward the upkeep of the.radio sets in the. government hospitals. The monthly contribution of 325 ‘will be obtained by each em- ploye pledging 10 cents to be paid 1h institution. “This small contribution™ wrote Mr. Montgomery, “will. total more than $25 a month. The balance will be kept in a separate fund to be used to send the ‘boys’ from Walter Reed and other hospitals to ball games—those who cannot leave the hospitals will' be sent fruit, ciga- rettes, eta” e e Spain to Advance Clocks. MADRID, April 8—The Officlal Ga- zotte publishes today a decree pro- viding that at 11 a.m., April 16, the clock of Spain shall be put ahead one hour until October 4. 8, 1924 —FORTY PAGES. ZLE. DAUGHERTY HOME IN OHIO IS RFLED Valuable Papers, Bearing on 0ld Law Practice, Reported Stolen in Columbus. Former Attorney General Daugh- erty gaid today he had been advised that his residence at Columbus, Ohio, now unoccupied. had been en- tered by force last week and many of his private papers rified. Many valuable personal papers were stolen. All of them applied to his private law practice before he entered the cabinet and had been stored there in 1921 Neo Hint on Legal Action. The former Attorney General not indicate whether the matter would be aslled to the attention of federal or state officials. Friends of Mr. Daugherty were guarded in their statements us to the burglary. There was no one in the house at the time of the burglary, it was de- clared. Mr. Daugherty was in Wash- ington and Mrs. Daugherty in Florida, Where she has been for months. The back door of the residence was found open, according to the information received here. The Daugherty home is known as one of the magnificent residences of Columbus, Stered Personal Files There. Stored there were all of Mr. Daugh- erty’'s personal and legal files, which he had removed from his office at the time he gave up the practice of law to_become Attorney General. There were no government records of any nature in the house, it was stated definitely for Mr. Daugherty toda Mr. Daugherty has not been in Co- lumbus since his resignation from the cabinet. AFFAIR NOT REPORTED. Columbus Authorities Profess Ig- norance of Robbery. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 8.—United States deputy marshals made an in- Spection of the premises at the home of* Harry M. Daugherty, former At- torney General, today, following re- ports from Washington that the house had been ransacked. Deputy Garrett said no indications could be found that the house had been entered. Lacking authority, the marshals did not enter the house. Reports here were that Mr. Daugh- erty had been advised by Columbus friends that his personal files had been removed by persons who gained entrance last Friday. The house has been closed for sometime. No report of the supposed burglary has been made to local police or other officials here. HUNT OWNER OF $1,500,000 NECKLACE FOR TAXATION By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 8.—Customs ofi- clals are investigating reports that a prominent Chicago woman, whose name is not disclosed, is the owner of & recently imported emerald necklace valued at $1.500,000, and on which the 80 per cent duty has not been paid. Insurance companies are said to have admitted that the owner of the jewels was negotiating for a policy to cover the stones, which are said to have been reset since their pur- chase from a New York and Paris firm three years ago. First Serialization of “Mistress . Wilding”’ “Rafael Sabatini’s newest six best sellers”—begins in Today’s Star This fiction “beat” is considered by critics as one of the . best stories ever written by Sabatini, whose other novels, in- cluding “Scaramouche,” have taken the country by storm. Read the first installment “Mistress In Today’s Star, on Page 34 The Star's every city bl as fast as th “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers ock and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes ¢ papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,468 * City’s Population Drawing Close, to Half-Million Mark Washington's population will be within 15,000 of a half million souls on July 1, 1824, if the esti- mates of the bureau of census are taken as authority. It was learned today that statistics for that date have already been compiled and that the pepulation for July 1, 1924, estimated on paper, will be 486,936. The figures of the census re- ports of 1910 and 1920 are used for the basis of estimating the popu- lation, A ratio of increase is as- certained from them and assigned to the city's population. On July 1, 1923 the estimate was 475,966. In 1920, the census returns showed that there were 437,571 residents of the city. PROSECUTION MOVE AGAINST DU PONTS BALKED, IS CHARGE Daugherty Witness Says_ Company Gave Inadequate Invoices on Old Hickory. Prohibition enforcement policie under the administration of Attorne General Daugherty continued the main objective of the Daugherty in- vestigating committee today, although short side excursions were taken into | a mail fraud case in Boston and the ©Old Hickory Powder plant controversy in Tennessee. After Brice F. eago prohibition agent, in new string of charges about illicit brewing and protected boot- legging in the lllinois district, E. C. !Yellowley, chief of the prohibition | unit's general agents, was called to! the stand and submitted some of the| official records asked for by the com mitteemen. Adjournment was taken | | until tomorrow, before senators had | |begun their detailed examination of | the witness. Charges Against Du Ponts. The Old Hickory case was brought {into the testimony by George W. ock, a Department of Justice ac- countant, who not only declared the Du Pont interests had led the depart-| ment to accept ‘inadequate invoices| of the property, but, he added, that confidential data gathered by him last summer as basis for prosecution had been turned over to the Du Pont law- r Stock also asserted that he had been told by H. V. Green of Boston. whose stock transactions were being investigated under the mail fraud !law, that Harry M. Daugherty serv- ©d as his attorney before entering the cabinet. There was no federal prosecution in the case, the witness sald, although he had favored one. Yellowley Submits Records. The records submitted by Yellowley {related particularly to the Standard I Beverage Company case in Chicago. Armstrong was allowed to assist in a | search of the documents for material | to justify his statement that the De- | i partment of Justice had protested the seizure and closing of this plant. A telegram from R. A. Haynes, the | | prohibition commissioner. to United States Attorney Olsen, Chicago, ask- ing a recommendation for action against the Standard company, was one of the four documents read. An- . other was a_letter to Haynes from Mrs, Mabel Walker Wgllebrandt, in charge of prohibition matters in the | Department of Justice, who protested | “unwarranted procedure and loose | business” methods by the prohibition | { unit. and disregard of property rights n the Standard matter.” Tha letter was written on February 8, 1924, and contained a long account of facts as to the company, saving the depart- ment was “faced with the prospect of dismissing the case and take the criti- cism, or proceed to court with a los- ing case.” Mrs. Willebrandt got an answer from Haynes saying the “seizure was warranted and justified by your de- partment.” Chairman Brookhart suggested that Mrs Willebrandt, “if all the facts had been before her,” might have had a different view. Told to Drop Case. Armstrong said he and other agents had seized eighteen half barrels of 3 per cent beer from the Western brewery and recommended prosecution. W. O. Potter, United States attorney at East St. Louis, the witness said, told him that he had instructions from the de- partment to drop the case and that was done. It was stated by the secretary of the brewery company at the time, Armstrong added, that a $5,000 “offer in settlement” had been accepted by the government. The witness told also of failures to prosecute in the Garden City brewery | case, and of efforts made to remove him as enforcement agent hecause he would not “stop buyving” liquor at sa- loons “they” did not want prosecuted. Names Democrat Prowecutor. Asked who the federal prosecutor was in these cases, Armstrong said that United States District Attorney Clyne at Chicago, a democratic hold-over, was in office most of the time. He expressed the opinion that Clyne had been “kept in” by the republican administration be- cause the Chicago brewery ring “felt they could handle Charlie Ciyn: Speaking of injunction proceedings handled by Special Assistant Attorney General Middlekauf amd his assistant, August Kruz, Armstrong said they had conducted the case so as to “delay serv- ice long enough to let the original own- ers get out” The witness declared there would be delays of two of three years in “closing up” these cages. He recent- Iy had been called as a witness in three- (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) | Armstrong, a Chi-| had brought ( a i story—listed among “the of Wilding” {able this vear: permanent | cperation. | propriation _ bills TWO CENTS. NEW REVENUE BiLL WITH MELLON PLAN AND 1923 RATE CUT 0KDINCOMMITTEE Finance Body Orders Favor- able Report on Strict Party Vote—Scope of Reductions Slightly Narrowed. $69,000,000 DEFICIT ESTIMATED BY SM0OT Treasury Hevision Scale Proposea. Miscellaneous Items Stricken Out by House Restored—Action to Be Asked Next Week—Speed on Bonus Issue Soughs. The new revenue bill was orderén favorably reported to the Senate to {day by the finance commiticm It provides, as reported, for a retroactive reduction of 25 per cent on 1923 income taxes which are pay revisio of the income tax rates in accord- ance with the plan of Secretary 3 ; a Mellon: a special reduction of 25 per cent in taxes on carned incomte, and repeal of many of the miscet. laneous and excise taxes. Reductions Narrowed. The scope of tax reduction was nar- rowed, however, from that provided by the House bill, warning of Treasury deficit under its terms haw ing forced restoration of some of the miscellaneous taxes stricken out during House consideration of the measure. The measure was ordered reported on a strictly party vote, 9 to 7, Chair- man Smoot said. Democrats an- nounced their opposition was based n the Mellon income rates schedule carried by the bill. The committeo will be called either tomorrow or Thursday to take up the soldier bonus bill, Mr. Smoot said. He predicted not more than three davs would be required to get a report on the bill. To Be Called Next Week. The chairman does not expect to call the tax bill up for consideration in the Senate before the middle of next week. As framed by the committee, Mr. Smoot estimated the tax bill would fail by $69,000,000 of raising sufficient revenue to meet the regular govern- ment expenses in the first year of its This estimate did not take account, he added. special ap- which might be passed by Congress this session, in- cluding the soldier bonus bill whi it has been estimated would requi an expenditure of $135,000,000 the first year. into Cut Trezsury Provisien. In winding up consideration of the measure the committee reaffirmed its action of last night, eliminating tho Treasury provision to tax indirectly the income from tax-exempt secur- ities. This provision, it was estimat- ed, would have netted the govern- ment $35,000,000 annually. A protest against the section limit- ing deductions on gross incomes on account of interest payments was made to the committee by Gov. Ritchie of Maryland. Senator Smoot sald the constitutionality of such « provision was somewhat in doubt. The question will have to be decided on the floor. The Mellon income tax rates now in the bill provide for a 3 per cent nor- mal tax on_incomes of $4,000 apd under and 6 per cent above that amount. The surtax rates start at 1 per cent at $10.000 and graduate up to a maximum of 25 per cent at $100.- 000. Surtax rates in the present law start at 1 per cent at $6,000 and in- crease to a maximum of 50 per cent at $200,000. Democrats Seek Substi Committee democrats have been working out a substitute schedule which, it is understood, will differ somewhat from the Garner plan for a 44 per cent maximum surtax rate supported by House democrats. Al- though republican leaders are in- clined to believe there is little hope for adoption by the Senate of the Mellon rates, no compromise sched- ule has been worked out, ner has any support been given openly to the Longworth plan adopted by the House republicans. i The Longworth plan provided for normal taxes of 2 per cent on incomes below $4,000: 5 per.cent on incomes between $4,000 and $5.000, and 6 per cent above that. It called for a flat 25 per cent reduction in surtax rates in the present law, which would make the maximum 3§7% per cent at $200,000. House Increase Cut. The increase voted by the House in the estate taxes was eliminated by the Senate commillee, as was e new glft tax voted by the House. The committee, however, imposed the only new taxes carried by the bill, 10 per cent each on radio and mah-jong sets. The democrats have served notice they will propose several changes in the tax schedules, particularly as re- gards the Mellon income tax voted into the bill by the republicans in place of the Longworth compromise rate adopt- ed by the House. The floor fight is expected to hinge largely on the rate schedules. Practically all the ad- ministrative provisions of the bill were agreed to by non-partisan votes. DIVORCES INCREASING IN CONSTANTINOPLE Exceeded Marriages by 9,259 to 7,974 Last Year, Official Figures Reveal. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 8.—Divorces ex- ceeded marriages in Constantinople during the last year, according to the te. Daily Mail correspondent. He gives . "';7 official figures as 9,259 against 7.9 A P