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row, mostly cloudy and warmer. Temperature for twenty: ended at 2.p.m. today: noon today; lowest, today. Full report on page 2. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 Highest, 63, at 38, at 6:30 a.m. tomor- -four hours No. 29 post office Was Entered as second-class matter hington, D. C. 201. PINCHOT DECLARED BY WATSON TO BE AN BEHND HENEY Senator Says Entry of Gov- ernor Into Inquiry Meant End of Usefulness. REFUSED TO SIGN LETTER ASKING MELLON HOLDINGS Believes Investigation Has Gone Far Enough to Show Nothing ‘Warrants Continuance. Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who has sharply eriticized national pro- hibition enforcement, suggested the employment of Francis J. Heney as counsel for the Senate committee in- vestigating the internal revenue bu- yeau, Senator Watson, republican, In- diana, chairman of the committee, declared today in the Senate. Senator Watson said Me was not at liberty to repeat conversations, but that he had learned upon_ “induspu- table evidence” that Gov. Finchot had thrust himself into the controversy between Senator Couzens, republican, Michigan, prosecutor for the commit- and Secretary Mellon. . And I knew what that meant,” | ator Watson said in referring to | Gov. Pinchot. : The Indiana senator said he had informed Secretary Mellon that Gov. Tinchot had suggested Heney's em- ployment and that it was LHls ormation which prompted Mellon's that from th of the inquiry 3 and not constructiv | The investigating committee man said he < d subpoenas-in | blank ator Couzens' request, | and that the latter had sent to him | last Tuesday a letter addressed to ! Sccretary Mellon asking for com- plete list of all corporations in which | the Secretary held stock and the amount of stock he held in each.” “I refused to sign that letter,” Sen- | ator Watson said, adding that he | informed Senator Couzens he regard- ed th none of the committee's Lusin ! enator Watson said, he dis- | ith Senator zéns and | as Adams, committee ad- | the future course of the com- | e and told them the investiga- ad “gone far enough to show | iy nothing fp It latest turd tal Indiana senator vestigation, the would “change the scenery” of- inquiry, and would mean the! n ‘of all of Secretary Mel- | ate affairs, and would make | ry that “every activity of | prohibition unit be brought be- | this committee.” | “Everybody knows that with Mr, | Pirchot and Mr. Heney back of it Senator Watson id, there would be | 1o end to investigation. There would | Lo thrown out a dragnet of gossip! and scandal and there would come ; alout an era of vituperation un- qualed in the political annals of nator Jones of New Mexico, a ¢meeratic member of the commit- | d the records of all the com- in which Mellon was inter-| had not been presen: | mittea, and that | returns of th s whi ttee th portunit. Senator W f’ouzens had t was to be Indiana s Lis purpose slinging” or cters of a 3 offic ‘here came a sudden change over amy friend from Michigan,” he added, | in discussing the proposal to employ | Heney, at his personal expense, { Will Accept Challenge. ] The Se , it was predicted today B influential members, will accept ithe challenge thrown down by Pres- jdent Coolid ay in his mes- to the relating to of the to conduct in tions of the government de. partments and others in such man- ner as the Senate and its committees may see fit. rect action on this matter will © when the Jones resolution, au- thorizing the Senate committee in- vestigating the bureau of internal revenue to employ counsel, is brought | 10 @ vote. The resolution today wa: referred to the committee on audit and control of the contingent ex-| s of the Senate from which the of such counsel must be paid. Adoption Predicted. This resolution, it was declared by Benator Walsh of Montana, who prosecuted the Teapot Dome investi- Eation; by Senator Harrison of Mis- #issippi and others, including repub- lica: will be adopted. The demo- c¢rats do not expect to lose any of their voting strength on this issue { and they expect to have a ronsider—’ able number of republicans with | them, particularly the group of so-{ walled insurgents. In certain_quarters an interpreta- | tion of the President’s message that | the Senate should cease its investi- | gations has droused resentment. There is a feellng that an ugly situ- ation may develop between the Sen- ate and the White House, and this in many quarters is deplored. One of the republican leaders of nate said that he did not think | enate would ever yield its rights conduct invertigations He point- out that the Senate has the power to ask for records of the government | and for other data and that the Presi- dent has the power to refuse to allow the Senate or its committees to have this_information if, in his judgment, | the Senate transgresses lawful limits, or If the presentation of the informa- ; tion called for would be against the | best public policy. Admit Cousens Wrong. The opinion is general that any counsel employed by a Senate com- mittee to aid in prosecuting an in- vestigation should be paid for out of government funds, and not from the private purse of any senator or other persons. The action of the icnate committee investigating the T nued on 1 i n by the - | no a complete ~“audit | son recalled that Senator Id the committee there no “muck-raking” and the | ator declared it had been not to have any “mud-| besmirching of the char- | citizen, in or out of! sage right vest the i ed for school. | for home. | forging the name Brides Under 18 Ordered Back to School on Coast By the Associated Press, PASADENA, Calif,, April 12— Married women under eighteen years of age living in Pasadena will be compelled to attend school, according to a ruling made public today by John Harbeson, director of child welfare. Special classes for such brides r;m be conducted beginning April- SENATORS AGREE 10 BONUS MEASURE: WITH FEW CHANGES, Veteran - Bill Is Ordered Favorably Reported by Finance Committee. The soldier bonus bill passed by the | House was agreed to, with minor changes, today by the Senate finance | committee and ordered reported to the Senate. It provides for cash payments to veterans not entitled to more than $50 in adjusted service compensation and for twenty-year endowment life insurance policies to others. Senator Simmons, North Carolina, ranking democrat on the committee, announced he would propose { amendment on the floor of the Senate to make full cash payments an oop- tion of the bill. Chairman Smoot said he would re- port the measure to the Senate Mon- | No_formal vote w ‘ontinued on Page 2, C \8-YEAR-OLD RETURNS, TIRED OF WANDERING Symptoms of Mumps Lad’s Only Reward for Answering Call of Wild. After two days and a night of roam- ing and fishing, while his parents were fast running toward nervous breakdowns seeking him, eight-year- old Arthur J. Dove, with bristling light hair and steady gray eyes, tim- idly turned the knob of the door at {1200 East Capitol street, where his mother was distractedly getting to- gether a bit of food, yesterday after- noon. - Mr: was “Mother, mother, mother,” half- cried, half-laughed the prodigal. He ran into her arms. Then they both cried. On Thursday morning Arthur start- He had visions of re- bukes for his poor arithmetic. He meandered over to the Seat Pleasant station of the Chesapeake Beach rail- road. He was going to see his sister, Bleanor, seven years old, who is at his aunt's home, in Anne Arundel county, convaleseing from a recent attack of mumps. When he got to the station the train had pulled out. It was hours before another would Dove turned to see what it | arrive. Disappointed but not distressed at the train's absence, turned via the Benning road. He came to the Eastern Branch and he- reditary influences made themselves felt. His father has often heard the call of bait and tackle. The son heard it Thursday afternoon. He stop- ped at the Benning bridge .Quietly, he affected an alliance with an angler. Since the days of lzaak Walton, he who angles puts up no barriers of age, education, wealth or distinction. So Arthur and the gentleman who was fishing for catfish in the muddy water went at it together. Throughout the night the call of the fish lured the pair. Then Arthur got tired, read his overcoat over him and went to sleep for a while. Nothing to_eat, nothing to sleep on, save the ground near an old boat— there he was. He admits he caught two fish—but, angler-like, he did not bring them home. Friday dawned and Arthur set out There's a million things in the spring of the year that can keep youngsters ten hours in walking & mile. The dump offers alluring op- portunities for investigations. The plow pit of street car lines enchants youthful eyes. Traffic cops and their | vagaries exert strange influences on the observatory powers. With such things strung along the homeward path, it taok Arthur until 5 o'clock to reach home. There's happiness again in Arthur's home. But the usual fly has hopped into life's ointment—Asthur's left |cheek is swollen. They think be has the mumps. HAYES JURY COMPLETED. Schwab Spectator at Trial of Wom- an in $25,000 Forgery. NEW YORK, April 12.—After three days’ examination a jury for the trial of Mrs. Myrtle B. Hayes, charged with of Charles M. Schwab to a $25,000 note; was com- plztad in general sessions %ourt late today. On motion of Assistant District At- torney Ward, Judge Mecintyte ad- journed the trial until Monday. Mr. Schwab was an interested spectator at the afternoon session. iHint $62,000,000 in Was “Split” by France and Britain BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Oable to The Star and Chicago ¢ Coprrignt, 13 T e PARIS, April 12—Have France and Great Britain, without consulting the United States, divided among them- selves $62,000,000 in Russian gold, which, though deposited in the Bank of France, was Intrusted to the joint trusteeship of the allied and asso- clated powers. This question is being asked in for- eign diplomatic circles here following the shipment of $8,000,000 in gold from France to England, and Premier an | the youngster re- | Che Ty SATURDAY, APRIL 12, '1924—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. WASHINGTON, SINGLAR ASSERTS | INDETENTISVOD: URGES DISHISSAL Disputes Power of Senate to | Require Answers to Ques- tions on Oil Leases. CONTEMPT CERTIFICATE ILLEGAL, HE CONTENDS \ i ; Demurrer and Motion to Quash Expected to Come Up April 25. Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil magnate, who refused to answer ques- tions propounded to him by the Tea- pot Dome investigating committee March 22 last, today filed in the Dis- | | trict Supreme Court_a demurrer and a ; motion to quash the indictment for alleged contempt of the United States Senate, which was reported against him by the local gtand jury, March 31. Hearing on the demurrer and mo- tion to quash will probably be sched- uled fo rthe next motion day of the court, April 25. Sinclair attacked the power or au- | thority of the Senate to require an- | { swers to the questions, and asserts | that his refusal to answer was not in { violation of any law of the United States and cannot subject him to a 1 eriminal prosecution. If the Senate | jever had any authority in the prem- | | Sinclair avers, it deliberately | | and'fully divested itself by regolution | 54, which referred the oil leases to| the federal courts for cancellation. This resolution is not set out in the, | indictment, counsel points out. Disputes Right of Questioning. Through Attorneys Martin W, Lit- tleton of New York, George P. Hoover and J. W. Zevely of the local | bar and G. T. Sanford of New York, the accused oil man declares that | mot only did the committee not have power to make the inquiries of him, | but the Senate of the United States! itself was not at the time of asking| the questions “duly organized in ac- | cordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States.” | The certificate by which Kis alleged | | contempt of the Senate was referred | ! to United States Attorney Gordon for ' | presentation to a grand jury, is i legal, Sinclair says. He shows tha this certificate was not signed by the President of the Senate, as required by law, but by Senator Moses, assum- ing to ‘act as president pro tem, Counsel in_their attack on the or- ganization of the Senate and the a { 1oged irzaguisrity. of the gtriificato of contempt, point out that Presfaent | Harding died during the sessions of | the Sixty-seventh Congress, Al by the succession of Vice Pfrulden ol idge, the office of predident of the Senate becamg vacant and was as- sumed by SenaWr Cummins, who had | been duly electe® president pro tem. | Holds Certificate Irregulur. i On the convening of the Sixty-| eighth Congness there was no election | of the President of the Senate, Mr.| Cummins assuming to continue to| { hold the office to which he had bc(-ni | advanced in the previous session. | There was no_election of a pn\;ml-ml pro tem in this Congress, it fs as- | | serted, and the designation of Sena- for Moses to act in that capacity was | without legal authority, and the cer- | tificate . signed by him is therefore | irregular. | In his motion to quash the indict- | ! ment Mr. Sinclair contends that his | [ refusal was based solely on lack of | jurisdiction in the Senate of the sub- | ject matter, which had already been Submitted to the courts for determi- nation and had become a judicial matter, and that the committee was inguged in a purely judicial contro- sersy of which it had no jurisdictio f the Senate ever had such jurisdic- tion, the court is told, it-divested itself by resolution 54. Legislation Not Comtemplated. The sole purpose and object of the committee at the time of the inquiry directed to Mr. Sinclair was to elicit, | he says, facts relating exclusively to| the validity of the lease upon naval re-, serve No. 3, known as Teapot Dome, | and had no reference directly or re-| motely to contemplated or conceivable | legialation, The Senate commitfee was | on a “fishing expedition,” Mr. Sinelair | asserts. i The oil magnate adds to his motion to | quash an affidavit in which he quotes the proceedings of the Senate commit- tee following the reading by him of his statement attacking its jurisdiction. In these minutes it is made clear that Senator Walsh declared that “if we do not examine Mr. Sinclair about these matters (the leases which have been | referred to the courts) there is not any- thing else to examine him about. Then 1 have not anything else that I want to examine him about.” The questions which he declined to answer, and which are set forth in the ! indictment, were then propounded, he declares, by Senators Walsh and Adams, and show clearly that they Telate only to the judicial matters already before the courts. - Disputes Senate Authority. Arguments cited by the attorneys for Sinclair in support of the de- murrer follow: “1. That unpder the Constitution of the ‘United States, which is the su- preme law of the land, the Senate was | without Jower or authority to require ! the defendant to answer any of the questions propounded to him, as in the indictment alleged, and his re- fusal to answer said questions, ar any one of them, was not in violation of any law of the United States, nor can such refusal subject him to & crimi- nal prosecution therefor. “2. That said indictment is fatally | N WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, ACTION ON ALIEN BILL |Scientists Find ny- Star. The Star" as fast as t “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivercd to Washington homes he papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,562 |SCHEMES TO DEFEAT IS EXPECTED TODAY| Petrified Relics | INJUNCTION PLANNED Vigorously Contested Quota and Japanese Sections Are Up for Disposal. PROTEST STIRS INTEREST Shortridge Attacks Message Re- ceived From Hanihara. An portance confronted both the Senate and House today when they took up with expectations of action be. fore adjournment, the pendiag im migration proposals which would, sa effect, exclude Japanese from the United States. The House, after disposing of minor amendments to- the Johnson bill at a night session, had before it the vigorously contested quoto and Japa- nese sections, and the Senate resumed constderation of amendmemts to its immigration measure having a simi- lar purpose with r®ference to ad- mssion of Japanese. Japanese Protest Stirm Imterest. international issue of grave im- | " 25,000 Years Old LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 12.— Discovery of prehistoric imple- ments which may substantiate the belief of scientists that five petri- fled human skeletons found re- cently near here, date back td the later pleistocene era, ending 25,000 years ago, is announced by Dr. William A. Bryan, dirdctor of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. The relics consist of a petrified bone awl about two inches long and a rudely fashioned quartzite palm ax. | | | e - EVELYN NESBIT FILES PLEA AGAINST THAW Declares He Is Unfit to Be Free. Fears for Fortune and Rights of Son. i 1 1 i | By the Associated Press, Nesbit, divorced wife of Harry | PHILADELPHIA, April 12—Evelyn | from Washington Court Ho K. | conferred with his collegues « Japan's formal protest against its | Thaw, today filed in common pleas | exclusion from the list of nations al- lotted immigration quotas overshad- owed the discussion, having loomed yesterday in the note fram Ambas. sador Hanfhara warning of “grave consequences,” and setting forth con- cretely, for the first time, the terms of the gentlemen's agreement of 1907, The note was sent té Chairman Colt of the Senate immigration com- mittee, by Secretary Hughes, with a comment that the statement of the | gentlemen’s - agreement ‘“‘corresponds with my own understanding of that arrangement.” : In the House yesterday, Chairman | Johnson vigorousiy pushed his bill in a seven-hour sesdion, clearing a num- ber of minor committee amendments, but put over until today the vote upon the provisions to which the pro- test is directed. Shortridge Raps Letter. Senator Shortridge, republican, Cali- fornia, one of the most active of the exclusionist group, that his amendments, which would have the effect of incorporating the House sections into the Senafe bill, would be adopted despite yesterday's developments. In a brief Senate speech late in the day he character: (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) i8 GREEK OFFICERS HELD AS PLOTTERS Accused of Conspiracy to Back Royalists if Dynasty Loses in Plebiscite. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, April 12.—Eighteen rank- ing military and naval officers sus- pectsd of complicity in a projected royalist outbreak have been arrested. Among them are Gen. Leonardopoulos, leader of the.last counter revolution, and Gen. Constantinopoulos. The minister of the interior says that considerable quantities of re- volvers and cartridges have been con- fiscated, and the leaders of the project- ed movement, who obviously intended that there should be an outbreak after the plebiscite to decide the fate of the dynasty, have been arrested. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Russian Gold Poincare’s consequent explanation to the senate. g According to Poincare, the original sum involved was $62,000,000. France and Great Britain, he said, had previously divided $46,000,000, leaving only $16, 000,000, which sum was similarly di- vided the other day. ® Reference also was made to the prospect broached and abandoned for the use of the $16,000,000 to help the Chinese eastern railway. The propo- sition and - attitude ‘of .the United States government with regard to the whole matter: remains obscure, S0 far as the best Informed circles here are concerned. « B LIEUT. WOOD QUITS ARMY Px.'asldent Accepts Resignation of General’s Son. Second Lieut. Osborne Cutler Wood, United States Infantry, son of Gen. Leonard Wood, governor of the Philippines, who made a fortune esti- mated at $800,000 by. spectacular speculation in stocks, on Wall street, while serving as aide to his father at Manila, has severed his connection ‘with the Army. An order issued at the War Depart- ment today asserted that the Presi- dent has accepted Lieut. Wood's resignation of his commission, to take effect at once. Lieut. Wood was granted leave of absence more than two months ago and started for this country by af Europe. His pres- -ent wher not stated, but it is understood he is in this country insisted last night | court’a petition to be allowed to in- tervene in the proceedings to deter- mine Thaw's sanity by jury trial, which begins here next Monday. The action, it is stated, Is in the interest of her twelve-year-old son, Russeil William Thaw. - The petition forth that Thaw should not be released, as he is men- tally unfit, and will, if released, “dis- sipate his own estate and the life in- terest in his father's estate.” Thaw's estate is estimated to be worth about $1.000,000. petition avers that her son has an xpectancy in any estate that Thaw may leave by right of descent and that these rights or expectancy | should be protected. Thaw recently filed a petition in which he was joined by his mother |to have his sanity tested. The court granted the petition and five alienists were named in his behalf to examine him. Trustees of Thaw's estate were {also permitted to name physicians for the same purpose. Counsel for Thaw this week confirmed a report that the alienists named had agreed that he now is sane. DENEEN NOW LEADS W'CORMICK BY 4,069 | All But Thirteen Precincts Tab- ulated in Unofficial Count of Senatorial Primary. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 12.—Former Gov. Charles S. Deneen’s lead over Sena- tor Medill McCormick for the repub- lican senatorial nomination in Tues- day’s Illinois primary today was in- creased to 4,069 on complete unofii- cial retutns, with thirteen Cook county (Chicago) precincts missing. The thirteen missing precincts of Cook county are among the country towns outside Chicago, and their re- turn® will not be available until the official county canvass. The unofficial returns represent 5721 out of 5744 precincts in the state. PIRATES RENEW RAIDS. Chinese Vessel Attacked and Many Passengers Robbed. By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, April 12=A large number of Chinese passengers aboard the steamer Tai Lee, bound from Kongmoon, for Hongkong, were fired on and robbed in the Canton river delta last night in the first piratical attack since promulgation of the new anti-piratical regulations. The Tai Lee was accompanied by the. steamer Sunning, under the new convoy system.. rates posing as passengers invaded the engine room while -confederates on the : bank opened fire. The robbers ordered the engines - stopped. While _special guards. and European officers. were returning the fire of the pirates ashore members of the gang on board robbed passengers and ransack- ed _their quarters. Several passengers were wounded. Discouraged by resistance met, the pirates leaped overboard and swam for shore, but not, however, before three of them had been killed. ( | i | Daugherty Committee Spends Day in Considering Moves for Future. WANTS RECORDS OF BANK Scheduled Examination of Wit- nesses Postponed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 1Z—Senator Wheeler _of Montana, a eentral figure in the Daugherty Investi- gation, declared today that Mal S. Daugherty, brother of the for- mer Attorney General, would be cited for comtempt before the Senate. The Daugherty investigating com- mittee, which encountered new legal obstacles yesterday in Ohio, spent today drawing up plans for its future proceedure and held no public hearing. Chairman Brookhart, returning use, Ohio, r the best method of meeting the court stay issued against the committee there yesterday, which resulted in failure to get at the records of Wash- ington Court House banks and in the refusal of several witnesses to testify. | Hearing Postponed. A hearing has been set for today, but the commictee members found themselves too busy with other things to continue their examination of witnesses. In addition, those summaned were not on hand, and Senator Wheeler of Montana, the committee prosecutor, was in Chi- cago to deliver an address. SUBPOENA BLOCKS PROBE. Senators Balked by Action of Mal Daugherty. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, ©Ohio, April 12—An almost complete check was administered here yester- day to the Senate Daugherty inquiry. A phalanx of lawyers, filing into the temporary hearing room set up by Chairman Brookhart and _Senator Wheeler, made clear and certain the refusal of M. S. Daugherty and his as- sociates to allow the financial tran- sactions of Harry M. Daugherty, for- mer Attorney General, or Jesse Smith, the ex-Attorney General's “friend and bumper,” now dead, in the Midland National Bank to be traced out by examination or testimony. The bank itself, controlled by M. S. Daugherty, struck back itself at the senatorial inquirers by a hastily ar- ranged legal proceeding, which re- sulted in a temporary restraining or- der directed to the senators and served on them as they sat, seeking to stop their inquiry, Deposits of Daugherty. The Senate subcommittee did, how- ever, through John Phelon, an ex- aminer in its own employ who was allowed to search the Midland Bank records for a few hours several weeks ago, learn that Harry M. Daugh- erty's name was shown on certificates of deposit in the Midland Bank to the total of $75,000. Phelon further said, testifying from memory, that he found two or three certificates of de- posit, ranging up to $30,000 and $40,- 000 in totals, in the bank record. He likewise said that four certificates, canceled as paid, made out to “J. E some of | VETD“GAS"TAY, CODLIDGE (S URGED BY MG LEADERS Petition Declares Unanimous Will of District Disregarded by Congress. INSISTS ORIGINAL AIM ! OF LEGISLATION LOST | :Bill Sought Reciprocity, But Was Converted Into Revenue Meas- ure, President Told. President Coolidge has been asked to withhold his approval of the auto- mobile gas tax bill 3nd to exercise the executive privilege of returning this legislation to Congress disapproved. The appeal is contained in a peti- tion signed by representatives of the leading civic and trade bodies of the District, which was brought to the White House late yesterday after- noon by Edward F. Colladay, presi- dent of the Washington Board of Trade, one of the signers of the peti- tion The claim is made in the petition that the bill, passed by Congri obj; onable to the majority of tizens of the District because it is unfair and unjust and fails to provide the remedy sought and which would |have been provided had the gas tax | reciprocity bill originally drawn up by the Distric Commissioners been assed. It is claimed also that | bill ambiguous and so loosely drawn to make possible a con- {struction of the law that would e |it to be violative of the existing |relation between the federal govern- ment and the District of Columbia, and, as is set forth in the petition, * for no other reason than this, t | should not become a I ‘& H Petition in F The petition in full follow “Mr. President: | “The District of Columbia and Mary- |land are the only two jurisdictions in | the United States which do not ex- | change reciprocal automobile privi- leges. To remedy this unparalleled | condition the Commissioners of the | District and the Governor of Mar. {land entered into negotiations for reciprocity which resulted in | Commissioners submitting to {Eress a bill providing for a 2 cents {gas tax and a §1 registration fee in | lieu of other taxes on motor vehicles {Maryland would benefit under this proposed bill in that her 2-cent & revenue would be protected on the District borders and the District and | Maryland motorists would derive the benefit of reciprocity. “This bill was designed for the so! purpose of effectuating motor vehic reciprocity with Maryland and pro- vided for a registration of §$1 and a tax of 2 cents a gallon on motor vehicle fuel in lieu of the existing | personal property and horsepower taxes on automobiles. It was esti- | mated that the revenue derived under this bill would equal or slightly ex- ceed the revenue collected under the | existing law. ‘This bill was not de- | signed to raise additional {but merely to change the method of | raising revenue so as to conform to the wishes bf the state of Maryland and insure motor vehicle reciprocity. T) bill has met with the approva: of and was indorsed by the people of { the District of Columbia. Added Taxes Unneeded. “Congress has seen fit to convert a measure, remedial in its nature, into a means of raising an amount exceed- ing by $250,000 the average yearly appropriations made by Congress for all street and road work in the Dis- trict and by $560,000 the amount paid y local motorist his kas been done in utter dis- regard of the unanimously expressed will of the people of the District. the bill now before the President the provision for reciprocity with Mary- land has been eliminated and measure has become merely one pro- viding for exaction, by taxation of one special of personal property, o revenye for which there is no neces- sity. As evidence of the lack of need for increased revenue attention is di- rected to the fact that during the past fiscal year Congress failed to appropriate “within $2,000,000 of the amount raised by general taxation in District of Columbia. elieving that Congress should re- spect the only political right vouch- safed the people of the District—that of petition—by enacting the Commis- Sioners’ bill fo effect motor vehicle reciprocity with the State of Mai land, the undersigned representative bodies, together with the general public, have, with united voice, urged Upon 'Congress the enactment into law of the Commissioners’ bill. Asks for Veto. “Besides containing the objection- able features enumerated, the bill now before the President is so loose- 1y drawn as to make possible a con- struction that would cause it to be violative of the existing fiscal rela- tion between the federal government and the District of Columbia. The bill_is ambiguous. If for no other is as i | (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) (Continued on Page 4, Column Mother of 18 Is Bride of Banker By Night, Carpenter’s Wife by Day By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 12.—The wife of a carpenter in the daytime and the bride of a wealthy banker at night, Mrs. Anna Beswick, fifty years old, today awaited a hearing on charges of forgery, which, in an alleged confession given out by the police, she said she was forced to commit to obtain money for black- mailers who bad threatened to ex- pose her dual life. Apparently neither Samuel E. Bes- wick, by. whom she said she had eighteen children, nor William C. Martin, vice president of a suburban bank, whom she declared she had married last - February, and from whom she said she had taken at least $50,000 to pay for the blackmallers’ silence, knew of her double life. Mar- tin married her, she said, in the beliet that she had been divorced. Mrs. Beswick ‘was arrested_yester- day outside the’courtroom of Judge J."Wills Martin, whose name she is alleged to have forged to letters, through which she is charged with having obtained $5000 from William Shuman and Ralph Hawthorn, who had the warrant issued for her ar- rest. Names Three as Blackmailers. Mrs. Beswick named Herbert Rus- sie, John McCoy and Erwin Hamil- ton as her blackmailers. They were arrested on charges of extortion, conspjracy and blackmail. Mrs. Bes. wick 'said “they had ‘léarried of héer double life through driving her in a taxicab from the modest home of her children and their father in West Philadelphia to the more pretentious residence of Martin in Fox Chase, a northern suburb. Mrs. Beswick told the policc she had paid these men at least $50,000. The police learned from the wom- an’s first husband that she had served six months in -prison -in .1817. for check forgeries. Mr. Martin appeared stunned when he was summoned to the district at- torney’s.office.. . He, told. the. authosi, ties that Mrs. Beswick had gotten “a lot” of money from him, but that he could not state the exact amount, the | revenue, | In| lha‘ POINCARE WAITING MOVE BY GERMANY ONEXPERTS REPORT Also Hopes to Reserve Plans Until Chamber of Deputies Is Adjourned. {BERLIN REPLY TO DAWES | FINDINGS SEEN IN WEEK Thursday Set for Meeting of Ger- mans With Reparations Commission. By the Associated Press PARIS, April 12—The French g ernment will bide its time, awaiting Germany's action, befors commenting on the unanimous recommendation o reparation commission that the report be adopted, it is stated informed quarters, More it is said, Premicr Poincare i anxious to have the chamber of deputies off his hands before he starts n tiations with the allles to brin the experts’ work to full fruition. Once the chamber and senate have djourned it is expected he will los time in sounding out Londor ussels and Rome with a view to speeding up the settlement, whic would be a trump card in his electora npaign. G ment circles admit | nowever, that any far-reachin- ' are impossible until it is { known what ny's reply will b on or before the da 1 upon which representatives h { been invited to appear here Meanwhile the first of next w will undoubtedly see the French dip tie atives in the vari llied eapitals starting informal conversations with the foreign offices to prepare the 1 agrec well { | moves next her Ve represer order wa ntual Press Is Optimistic. I tion the mist Only the tinue gloomy. Pertinax, in the ¥ de Pari clares M. Rarthou French member and president of th commission, erva tions to yesterd mely that the experts' report must be com | pleted by a definite by litori com! comment on ion's qu the repara approval of experts’ report ‘is mostly nationalistic or formulated two r ¥'s decision, n system of super ion and definite penalties x| licable, “if, as one is entitled to £ ermany breaks her new promises Elaboration of the system of = pervision, says Pertinax, would bLe ccomplished by the reparation com- ssion, while that of penalties is - <k for the allied governments. Both says, will find their paths beser difficulties. GERMAN LEADERS TO MEET. Premiers of States to Consider Dawes’ Plan Monday. By the Associated Press. { 'BERLIN, April 12—The pre { of the federated states will come i Berlin Monday to discuss with the central government the report of the | exper ymmitteo Meanwhi hancellor Marx and | Foreign Ministér Stresemann and the other members of the cabinet are ! studying the report in executive ses- sions. It was stated at government | headquarters that, pending official tion from the reparation com- sion of the commission’s invitation he German government to take in an oral discussion of tha port, no official German expressi with regard to the report will forthcoming. Members of the cabinet and Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank who is attending the cabinet meet- i in his capacity of federal com- of currency, decline to into formal discussion of any ond phase of the recommendations of the experts. Sentiment in official quarters and in financial and industrial circles i« palpably crystallizing into a feeling that the plan of the experts must be accepted by Germany without any carping if the reparation problem i« to find an early and tolerable soly tion. = w i enter BRITISH SATISFIED. | Press Sees Need for Concessions to | Settle Reparations. By the Associated Press LONDON, April 12.—The reparation commission’s acceptance of the perts’ report is viewed here with satisfaction. The Times stresses the necessity of free and willing co-operation by Germany, inasmuch, it says, as the [terms of the agreement cannot be !imposed on her. The paper also fore- |sees that when the allied govern- | ments jointly try to solve the repa- ration problem on the basis of the | report there must be sacrifices all {around. | The Daily Chronmicle infers that | Premier Poincare does not object to {the scale of payments advocated by the experts. This it regards as u step forward. Three days' ition experts' {ficials has failed to uncover any im- {portant proposals which are not ac- jceptable to Great Britain. Prime Minister MacDonald had the | report before him yesterday and-alsu | devoted several hours to it tods | His intensive study will be continucd | Saturday and Sunday. It is emphasized in official clrcles that the British are not studying the | report with the idea of picking it tu | pleces and discovering minor flaws but expect to base their final opin- fons on the document as a whole. ex- study of report by the repar:: treasury of- { TURKS BAN ALIEN FAITHS. Will Close AIl Foreign Schools Teaching Religion. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 12.—Dur- ing a long conference regarding the status of American educational es- tablishments in Turkey, says a mes- sage from Angora, the American high commissioner, Rear Admiral Bristol, was informed by Vassil Bey, minister of public instruction, that the gov- ernment had definitely " decided to cidse all foreign schools where ve- liglous education was given.