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*“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,415 WEATHER. Showers, with slowly rising tempera- ture. tonight and tomorrow: moderate to fresh southeast and south winds. Temperature for twenty-four wded at 2 pam. today: Highest, pm. yesterday: lowest, 44, at 6 a.m. ay. Iull report on page 4. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D C. | HAN[HARA REEAU_, 'VIVID PICTURE OF PRACTICAL AIM WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ch WASHINGTON, ¢ Foening Star. #* TWO CENTS. GERMANY'S REPLY WHEELER'S CLIENT 29,206. D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1924—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. No. UUSTER UF M MSUL'OF LABOR GIVEN BY MACDONALD - REPORTED NEARING Tokio Newspaper Affirms| Moves, But Both Are Denied | in Official Quarters. REQUEST FOR MEDIATION OF FRANCE IS CLAIMED Paris Journals Stick to Interpre- tation of Envoy's Visit to Poincare. By the TOKIO, dor to be” govern- | Yomiuri ication added | fatsui will re- storm | sion ‘ ot over the immigra- [ de- appease the of coming Both reports were of- 1 Ishii's yesterday s~—Viscount Poincare April to Premier nence and vari- interpretations in the French where the belief expre \'nd‘ the Japanese amba made ort to get Pre er Poincare to er mediation in the difficulty i tween Japan and the United Stat over the immigration question, ¢ Jeast refer it the 1c of tions. This is positively denied, how- ever, on the authority of the Japa nese embas The is explai ical courtesies from th to the Resumption of nego- t newal of the pan as well Ruhr. reparation report ud the gen opean situation, b “not one as said regardin United and Japanese affairs t is officially declared. This afternoon the vas Agency b fo visit co uch prom is sador to sue visit was originally intended of the pe ambassadors s one od- pr re and Ja- was as the the expe cu sed, word ws mi-official Ha- ial, inspired office, that rned the sued a American qu CONSIDERS ACT INSULT. Japanese Diplomat Expresses Anger at Proposed Exclusion. TOK10, exclusic by th will fe lated P April provi that pat in our face former Japa the Japanese is made a law tes, “we Japan: he Americans have | Sadatsuchi Uchida, mbassador to Tur- | key, declared today at a luncheon of the Pan-Pacific Club. | Another speaker, Viscount Shibu- | inent financier, asserted that ion of Congress in adopting | Japanese exclusion ¢ has n to revert to the “Amer- outh. In expla- | wave of anti-| reign swept Japan seventy years ago on the occasion of dore Perry's vi Viscount Shibusawa, then fourteen years old, shared the anti-American feeling, he id, but later repented and became &n ardent worker in the interest of Japanese- American friendship. mpted to Revert. sawa, er the the tempted k icanophobia” of his he recalled the feeling which act nation Comm n T later,” he con- | am tempted to revert. How- | not vielding to this temp- T am still optimistic.” | 1 n. He said'h proposal for a joint n seck solution of the Ca however, that the Jaj does not approve Shib n for which quarters a ion to | apanese | said to some .A ion | s Meeting Called. meeting of Os citizens in exclusion of States was nst from by proposed tie United the Osaka Chamber of panese ed toc Commerce The problem h added to the | ugenda of a mecting of the Associated | Chambers of Commerce of Japan, sched- uled for April 22, at Kyoto. A delegation resenting fmmigra- n societies visited the .foreism office | day and urged opposition to the ex- | sion measure | e EMIGRANT SMUGGLING PLOT IS DISCOVERED s the Associated Press. | FOGGIA, Italy, April 17.—Another association to promote clandestine emigration to the United States from Naples through France has been dis- covered here. Peasants from the neighborhood of Benevento and Avel- lino, it was declared, in some cases | paid as much as 8,000 lire for the 1ecessary papers. Heads of the organization were ar- rested and the peasants who had fall- +n victim to them were sent home. s been Widespread plots to smuggle Itallan «migrants through France to the United States wero discovered at Gienoa, Turin and Naples last Octo- her and November. In some cases it was declared the victims were charged 10,000 lire each for falsified documents, which, it was represented, would gain them admission to the United States. DRY LAW PROBE ASKED. Dyer Introduces Resolution to In- vestigate Enforcement. An investigation by the House judiclary committee into all phases of prohibition enforcement was pro- posed today in a resolution intro- duced by Representative Dyer of Mis- sourl, the ranking Republican on the committee. Premier, Hitting Bitterly at Tactics of Foes, Declares eform He Advocates Biggest in Legislative Way Ever Attempted. to The Star. LONDON, April 17.—Ramsay Donald, George, keeps early hours as well te and it w half-past eight in the morning, jus after a hurried breakfast, that he received your cor- respondent for a brief exclusive interview. Ac- cess to the pre mier's workroom at No. 10 Downin street is onl gained after climbing a great staircase whos e walls are a p geant of British political histor: Portraits of pr it Mr. MacDonald, —Lord American fame, Pitt, Canning, Wel- lington, Walpole, Russell, Peel, Palm erston, Salisbury, Disraeli, Gladstons, Rosebery, Campbell-Bannerman, bal- four, Asquith, among others—aie hung in a long procession leading to the historic suite of rooms occupied by Labor’s first prime mini ter. MacDonald North sat at his desk in a like his predecessor, Llovd{ '0i%J s | is miers of Englund | crument's oviction i [ witl suffe now | room simply fitted as a workshop over- looking th Ho! uards' parade. Books, papers, dispatch cases, docu- everywhere, but the room Imost bare of ornament, except- ing for two portraits on each side of the fireplace, one of Charles I, the other of Oliver Cromwell, and in a corner is a plague bought by Mac- Donald of H. M. Hyndman, Labor pionecr, who died. Above the mantelpie Donald has placed illuminated verses from Asidah of Hazi Abuel Ysdu t his glance strays to he work: The verses these true Fame 1 Enongh to naturc and thysel r disfame count nor fear: to thee the small still voice ders in thine inner ear.” MacDonald began inauspiciously by recounting reoent disagreeable ex- periences with aileged interviewers. but when asked for comment on the defeat the night before of the gov- bill in the House Commons he replied with some ir The first thing is, that unleas there DISCOURAGED No! IF 1 CaN is going to be some sort of ordinary deceney in parliamentary tactics it not only the government which but the House of Com- mons itwlf which will be brought into contempt. 1 have never known (Continued on 5, Column 2.) CONSULT PRESIDENT $7,000,000 BUILDING ON EXCLUSION BILL Lodge and Willis Confer at White House Concerning Japanese Ban. BOTH FAVOR PROVISION No Intimation Given of Coolidge’s Attitude. The with fate of the immigration bill Japanese exclusion provision was involved in another conference today between President Coolidge and nator Lodge of Massachusetts, Re- blican Senate leader, prior to re- mption of Senate debate on the p snator Lodge said the tion question had been discuss would not say whether he had tained any information as to the prob- able action of the President when the asure reaches the White House Senator Willis, Republican, Ohio, with Senator Lodge, supported Japanése exclusion provision, con- ferred with the President following the visit of the Republican leader. Secretary Hughes today spent half immigra- ob- an hour with the President, the first | conference he has heid with the cutive since the Japanese exclu- n question was approved by the Senate. He declined to discuss his conference. Asks Drastic Restriction. Senator Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina, opened Senate debate today on the bill with a demand for drastic restrictive legislation, and offered an amendment under which preference would be given immigrants coming to this country to follow agriculture, the amendment providing that at least one-half of the quota of each nation should be reserved for such immigrants. Urging adoption of his amendment, Senator Simmons declared that diver- sification of crops and intensive cul- tivation are necessary in agriculture and that scientific knowledge is nec- essary to accomplish that. The “pre- carious condition” of agricuiture in the south, he said, is due to the “in- vasion of the boll weevil” and the “wholesale abandonment of farms, due to the loss of labor supply.” The negro labor of the south has gone northward with the advance of the boll weevil and the demand of the industrial centers for recruits the place of unskilled immi- he said adequate remedy has yet been to meet the agri ltural sit- uation, the North Carolina senator continued. "The one and only rem- edy in sight is diversification in agri- culture and intensive cultivation.” FIND MONEY BANKED BY BANDIT SUSPECT $3,695 Discovered in Deposit Box Reported Rented by Men Held in Piggly Case. The sum of $3,695 found in a box in the =afe deposit room of the Hamilton Trust Company, New York city, alleged to have been rented by Dennis J. Reidy, one of the alleged Piggly Wiggly bandits, was brought here today by a deputy marshal and Detective Ira Keck, the latter having participated in the investigation that resulted in the arrest of three of the alleged bandits. The money was turned over to Chief Clerk Edwin B. Hesse of the police department, to be held as ev Gence in the case. About $7,000, slightly more than one-half of sum the bandits took from the car of M. L. Cleaton and John Starnes, Piggly Wiggly Corporation employes, has been 1ecovered by the police to date. PLANNING LABOR RULE. Union Delegates to Back Stauning in Denmark. COPENHAGEN, April 17.— Dele- gates of the trade unions and other labor organizations at a meeting yes- terday agreed to support M. Stauning in the formation of a Labor govern- ment. They also agreed to accept as foreign minister Count Carl von Moltke, Danish minister in Berlin. Countess von Moltke was Miss Corne- lia van Rensselaer Thayer of Boston. —_— = Forms New Ministry. PERTH, West Australia, April 17.— Philip Collier, leader of the parliament- ary Labor party, has formed a Labor ministry in western Australia, in suc- cession to the government of Mitchell, which was defeated recent general election. A in the 5 but | the | Lodge Urges $2,500,000 Grant to Begin Construction of National Gallery. MATTER UP TO SENATE Emphasizes Need for Housing Valuable Collection Here. A suitable home for llery of Art in the National Capi- tal would be constructed under the terms of an amendment to the sec- |ond deficiency appropriation bill, in- | troduced in the Senate today by Sena- tor Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu- setts, Republican leader of the Senate. The amendment was referred to the committee on appropriation: It provides for an appropriation of 500,000 to begin construction, and fixes $7,000,000 as the limit of total cost. It would be a fireproof struc- turs with grapite front, located on a site already set aside in the Mall between the Natural History build- ing and the Smithsonian group and Tth street. The design for the building is to be made by Charles A. Platt of New York, widely known architect, who de- signed the Freer Gallery building. Mr. Platt is going to Europe in May to make a further study of the famous galleries there to aid him. The need of a suitable home for the National Gallery of Art, a collection now owned by the government and valued at approximately $5,000,000, is very great, according to Senator Lodge. He is a member of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Insti- tution, custodian of the National Gal- lery, and his action today is in accord with the views of Dr. Charies A. Wal- cott, superintendent of the Smith- sonian Institution. “The failure to provide for * the National = Gallery,” Senator Lodge said, “bas made it necessary to house the art treasures owned by the government in a part of the natural history building—except, of course, the Freer collection, which has a beautiful setting of its own. constructed out of funds left the gov- ernment by Mr. Freer for that pur- pose.” Many of the paintings and other ob- jects of art which have been donated to the government by patriotic citi- zens, forming pért of the National llery, are mot properly displayed because of lack of space, and some of them cannot be shown at all. The American Federation of Ars has taken a leading part in urging upon Congress the construction of a gal- lery. It is contended that there should be in Washington a great na- tional gallery of art comparable to the national gallery in London and to the Louvre in Puaris. TAX SALE DEED ISSUE IS TAKEN TO COURT Property Owner Challenges Order of Commissioners—Asserts Buying Plot Exists. s building The recent order of the District Commissioners relating to the issu- ance of tax sale deeds was called to the attention of the District Supreme Court today when Frederick H. Kra- mer, Washington florist, filed a suit for injunction against the District | Commissioners and the collector of taxes to prevent the issuance of deeds to John Faust, who is said to have purchased Kramer's property at a tax sale in March, 1922, Mr. Kramer charges an agreement not to bid against one another among the persons accustomed to purchase property offered at tax sales and asserts knowledge on the part of the collector of taxes of the alleged agreement. Justice Baijley cited the Commis- sioners and the collector of taxes to show cause April 25 why they should not be enjoined from issuing the deeds to Faust. Through Attorney Willlam C. Sul- livan Mr. Kramer prays the right to redeem his land from the tax sale and asks the court to require the cancellation of the tax sale certificate issued to Faust, According to the bill, while Kramer's lands are worth more than $20,000, they were sold to Faust at the tax sale for 5.65, and Faust now demands a deed. The Commissioners, the court is told, are threatening to issue the deed and, though he has offered to redeem the lands from the tax sale, the ocoliector of taxes refuses to permit him to do eo. The plaintiff avers “It has long been the practice and custom in the District of Columbia to permit any taxpayer, notwithstanding a greater period ~ of time than two years may have elapsed since the last day of any tax sale, to v James | redeem his lands and premisss from such sale at any time prior actual issuance of a tax deed,” 1o the | FOR ART ASKED HEREi | 'MUSIC INTERESTS | | . HIT “FREE” RADIO | | | | Publishers, Authors and Cumposen[ | Appear to Protest Dill Measure. |SEE MENACE TO INDUSTRY the National | | Believe Unlicensed Use of Compo sitions Will Eliminate Writers. | Authors, composers and music pub- lishers today presented their side of the controversy with radio broad- | casters and other “unlicensed” di | tributors of melody, before the Senate patents committee. The fight centers around the bill by | | Senator Dill, Democrat, Washington, | | proposing to relieve radio stations of | the imposition of royaities under the copyright law for the music broad- st without profit. Buck, president of the Na- tional Associdtion of Authors, Com- posers and Publishers, opened. the case for the song artists. Victor Herbert, Irving Berlin, Au- | gustus Thomas and other leading lights of the music and producing in- dustries were present | Says Reward Menaced. “This bill takes away initiative— | the rewara for it, at least,” Buck de- clared, “and if enacted will result in the elimination of American song | writers.” He said his organization was after | the cabaret with its “cover charge,” | the movie houses, which gave copy- | righted music as an integral part of their programs, and department stores or broadcasting stations which used music as a part of their elaborate | publicity programs. Y |"“We ‘do not want a nickel” he said, “from the educational institu- | tion, charity organization or munici- pal radio station.” Buck estimated the annual sales of all branches of music aggregated | $600,000,000 and asserted the value of |a song'to an author had been de- creased 50 per cent as a result o(l | radio distribution. . “You distinguish, don’t you,” Sen- ator Dill asked, “between a radio manufacturer and newspaper broadcaster?” ot at all, profit. ‘And Ernst. “They also are after a profit,” in- sisted Buck, “in the increase of ‘good will' in their assets. Senator Brandegee, Republican, Connecticut, asked how broadcasting affected the value of a song. If heard in a theater,” the witness said, “it leads to purchase of copies of the song, or records, or music rolls, but if heard over the radio it doesn't.”" Radio, he said, was taking the place of phonographs—"and we draw royalties from the records, but none from radio.” Cites Successful Somgw. Chairman Ernst called attention to one song, sales of which increased tremendously after it was broadcast. “But that was a good song,” ex- plained Mr. Buck. mean, it had good points outside of any radio ap- peal.” The charge that the Authors and Composers’ Society comprises a mo- nopoly was denied by Buck. Victor Herbert, vice president of the society, said the situation threat- ening the composer was illustrated by the experience of his own grand- father, who created dozens of popular songs which are atill sold widely, “but he never derived A cent from them. ‘He mentioned one recent song of his own, which, he said, is broadcast eight or ten times a day. “No one will buy a copy of that song now that it has been jammed down the ears ad nauseam,” he de- lared. “E. C. Mills, also an official of the society, argued that the radio use of songs violated the specific right given under the copyright law. “The broad- casters come with the claim,” he said, “that the advertising we get is full satisfaction for our equity. They ad- vertisc us to death." Mills said the radio is keeping 10,- 000,000 people at home. “It can't come with clean hands,” he said, “until the radio audience pays a just—but it will be nominal—price for its entertain- ment.” Adverting to profits made by broadcasting stations, he said ‘“a newspaper proprietor, an officer in the National Association of Broadcasters,” had stated at the last annual meeting of that association his view of the great value of a station to a publi- cation. Gene a both are out for the hotels asked Chairman Royal %uple Divorced. PARIS, April 17.—A divorce has been pronounced between Prince Otto of Windischgraetz and Archduchess Elizabeth, daughter of the late Aus- trian Archduke Rudolf. The couple have four children., ™M1 OGO CLEAR UP THE'S WATERATLL Paderewski’s Dog Has Cold; Pianist Cancels His Tour By the Associated Press CHICAGO, April his pet Pekin Ignace Jan Paderewski, world famous planist and former premier of Poland, to abandon part of his concert tour and rush to Chicago vesterday to obtain the services of veterinary surgeons of west said 17.—Illness of Pingy, caused the the middle The longed once to have be- inese imperial cold two days D. When conai me worse the two were canceled the Pader i retinue re- to wiring in ad- for leading veteri- the train was diagnosed as dog, to a contras Sioux ext d rned four t attention to diet, will y for recovery, the said THAW TAKES STAND; QUESTIONING. BRIEF Asked Five Questions by Own Counsel—Opposition Lawyers Refuse to Grill Witness. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April Harry K. Thaw, flushed and confident, testified for a brief period in his own behalf in his sanity trial today. Then his iawvers dramatically turned him to the other side for cross- ination. Thaw seemed self-possessed. For- mer Judge John M. Putterson, his counsel, asked Thaw only five ques- tions. Scemingly, the attorneys for the opposition were greatly surprised when he was turned over to them so Arthur G. Dickson, counsel s of the Thaw estate, and Will representing B v'n Nesbit, voreed wife, whose thirteen-yvear-old son has in- torvened in his own behalf, discussed the case with the alienists supporting their side in low tones and with great arrestness. PJ‘;’( the end of five minutes Mr. Dick- son said: . “We haye no questions to ask Thaw smiled and left the witness stand. Another brief conference followed among the attorneys for Thaw. They were not prepared for the immunity granted their client, and asked for a Tecess until this afternoon, which ranted. wa:‘sol'xzn,fl for Thaw hoped to have Thaw's mother present this afternoon when the opposition prepared to start its case The courtroom Patterson announced Thaw.” Thaw quickly rose and walked to the witness stand, his chief counsel patting him on the back. Perspira- tion glittered on Thaw's forehead and checks when he started to sit down and was instructed to stand up while the oath was administered. Thaw placed his right hand on an open Bible and in a low tone respond- ed “I do” to the oath. He then dropped in the witness chair, clasping his hands over his portly body, and looked directly at you, Mr. Patterson. “How old are Thaw?" asked his lawyer, gently. “Fifty-three,” was the low-voiced reply. “You are at present confined in the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases. How long have you been there?” *“About seven years. was clearer. “You signed a petition asking that vou be given a trial so that your san- ity_might be determined?’ “Yes “You asked me to put you on the vitness stand S0 you could be exam- ined on all relevant questions con- cerning your sanity?”’ As Mr. Patterson mentioned the word “relevant” Thaw’s mouth puck- ered, and his eyes were half hidden in a frown. After slight hesitation, Thaw replied: *‘Yes." With a sweeping gesture of his right hand toward opposing counsel, Mr. Patterson exclaimed: “Gentlemen, examine him!” Realization by Thaw that he had escaped exhaustive cross-examina- tion caused him to tremble. He look- ed appealingly at Mr. Patterson when the cross-examiners said they had no questions. Mr. Patterson waved him from the stand and Thaw mop- ped his face as he started back to his seat. He seemed to lose his strength and was helped to his chair. “It's all right, Harry,” were Mr. Patterson’s soothing words. 17— over exa stirred when Mr. “Mr. Harry K. Thaw's voice Mexican Envoy Gets Leave. MEXICO CITY, April 17.—Manuel C. Telles, Mexican charge d'affaires in ‘Washington, has been granted a leave of absence to visit Mexico. The first secretary of the embassy, Jose Beni- tez, will be in charge during his ab- sence. IS APPROVED BY- REPARATION BODY Unanimous Decision Reached ‘at Plenary Session on Ex- perts’ Reports. 'BARTHOU IS OPTIMISTIC SOLUTION IS IN SIGHT Reference of Documents to Re-, spective Governments Is Ordered at Once. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 17.—The | commission at a plenary on this | afterncon decided unanimously to take note of the reply of the German government, adhering to the conclu- sions reached in the experts’ reports, and to approve, within the limits of the commission’s attributes, the con- clusions, and to adopt the methods proposed therein. The commission also decided to transmit officially the experts’ reports to the governments interested, at the reparation ELECTION ENLIVENS CONGRESS OF D. A. R. 1,600 Delegates Balloting for Chaplain General and Nine Other Officers. PLEA FOR ENFORCEMENT Many Preparedness Resolutions Adopted in Blanket Form. Politics held the center of the stage at the Thirty-third Continental Con- gress of the Daugdhters of the Amer- ican Revolution today, when the dele- gates, more than 1,600 strong, filled i the corridors of Memorial Continental long lines to cast their ballots for the selection of the chaplain general, | eight vice presidents general and one | nonorary vice president general. { Although the fight this year does {not equal in bitterness that of the last continental congress, when an entire cabinet of national officers was up for election, today’s eleventh-hour campaigning was tense, as the resull |of the balloting now may have an important_influence upon who shall be the dominating candidate for the presidency general two vears hence. The showing of several candidates will be watched with interest. Thirteen Seek Eight Vacancies. Thirteen women are king the eight vacancies in the list of vice presidents general as follows: Miss Anne W. Lang of Oregon, Mrs. Paul |Duane Kitt of Missouri, Mrs. Logan |S. Gillentine of Tenne: e, Miss Amy Gilbert of Iowa, Mrs. dam D mead of Baltimore, Mrs. Franklin Cain of South Carolina, Mrs. Walter Ambrose Robinson of Alabama, Mrs. Hoval Smith of Arizona, Mrs. Florence S. B Menges of New York, Mrs. E Manga of Massachusetts, Mrs. nce of onsin, Miss Jean Wins- low Coltraine of North Carolina and Mrs. H. H. McClintock of Okla- homa. Only three members of the society are on the ballot for the office of hon- orary vice president general. are Mrs. Henry W. Wait of Michigan, |Jersey and Mrs. John Campbell of Colorado. Mrs. Rhett Goode of Ala- bama is unopposed for the office of chaplain general, for which she was defeated by Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, who resigned at this congress be- cause of the illness of her husband, the famous inventor. Rush for Ballot. Whatever the election may have lacked in campaigning this year, it did not lack in spectacular rush of the delegates to cast their ballots and get back to the main auditorium with the utmost expediency, where matters of vast importince to the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion were under discussion on the floor, By majority vote the congress de- cided to continue its business during the balloting and permit state dele- gations to retire to the polls at de- termined intervals, according to their alphabetical standing. Drawing a lesson from the confu- sion of last year, when many of the delegates were obliged to remain in line the best part of the day, and the interference of visitors made the halls almost oppressive, a sufficient force of police and firemen were on hand to- day to keep the lines straight to pre- vent unauthorized persons from in- terfering, and be ready to assist the women in the event of an emergency such as a fire or a possible panic. As a result the queus moved to the polls in perfect order, the delegations cast their ballots by states, and, on the average, were not absent from the auditorium more than ten or fifteen minutes. Appeal for Enforcement. An appeal for law enforcement was voiced by Miss Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, assistant United States attor- ney general. Referring to the ques- tion of prohibition, the speaker said she would not quarrel with those who favored repeal of the eighteenth amendment as long as they did every- thirg they could to enforce prohibi- tion until the law was wiped out. She advised the congress to be careful at election time in their selection of their state government officials, par- ticularly those of the county sheriff and city and smali-town police eourt judges, as it was these officers who must be mainly responsible for the manner in which the law is enforced. Mrs. Willebrandt indorsed the bill now in Congress which would put government officials under civil serv- ice, but she explained that this did not _represent her personal view, but a conviction that it was the only way to keep “from political control” the evidence-gathering bodies of the gov- ernment, and especially those com- ing under jurisdiction of the Treasury Department, referring, of course, to the prohibition enforcement unit. The speaker staggered her audience (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.J i | Hall while they waited their turns in | They | Mrs. Althea Randolph Bedle of New | same time recommending adoption of | their conclusions, in order that the | plans proposed may produce their full | effect in the quickest possible time. Ask Quick Decision. The government of the reich will | be asked to submit to the commission |in the shortest possible time acts |and decrees destined to insure the | complete execution of the plans out- |lined in the reports, such acts and decrees being based on the conclu- sions and texts of the reports The commission at the forthcoming meeting _will procced to the nomi- | nation of the different conlmissions | of orgarnization provided for by the | report of the first experts committee |and to the preparation of measures which the report of the first commit- of detalls, ssion engaged this morning in an unofficial exchange of views con- cerning the attitude to be adopted following receipt of Germany's reply accepting the experts’ reports as a | practical basis for soluti reparation proble At the conclusion of ion Louis Barthou, president of h commission, said: Solution of the reparation problem appears to be {in a fair way of realization. There |are excellent re to be p l‘a.\(hnuuh ail the cultie lfar from being solved.” %sss,o@ CASH SEIZED ' BY MAIL BANDITS | | | Robbers Take Five Pouches, In- 1 cluding Armour & Co.'s Pay | Roll at St. Paul. the unofficial se. t By the Aseociated Press, ST. PAUL, Minn., April ¥ thousand dollars in currency was in- cluded in the loot obtained by three | bandits who held up two postal em- ployes in South St. Paul today, es caping with five pouches containing large quantity of registered mail The robbery occurred at the Chi- cago, Great Western station, just aft- | er a train had unloaded the five pouches, one of which contained the $35,000 payroll for Armour & Co.'s south St. Paul plant. As the pouches wer® being loaded on to atruck the bandits drew up in n autémobile, two sprang out with drawn revolvers, forcing two postal | employes to surrender the bags. BANKER DIES; KEEPS | SECRET OF SHORTAGE KANSAS CITY, April 17.—John M. Moore, deposed president of the Fi- delity National Bank and Trust Com- pany, died at his fashionable apart- ment home today without making a statement as to a discrepancy of $600,000 which had been found in his accounts. _ Mr. Moore left the bank complain- ing of illness shortly after the Shori- age was discovered last Friday. Later that day Mrs. Moore found him lying unconscious on the bathroom floor at | their home.’" Physic aid the | banker was ' suffering from ‘a recur- | rence of a diabetic condi n, “ Moore was removed as president of | rectors when the shortage in the ac counts was made up. The board of directors said the bank was sound, and that the deficit had been made up in_part with more than a quarter million dollars of securities owned by Mr. Moore and his bond of $100,000. The remainder of the shortage was | charged out of the surplus and undi- vided profits. Kills Self in U. S. Consulate to Give .Macedonia Estate By the Associated Press. SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 17— Choosing the American consulate as his place of sacrifice, Nikola Guenoff, a former high Macedo- nian official, today committed sui- cide that his estate might go to the Macedonian cause. Guenoff had been desirous of turning over his entire fortune to the Macedonian organization, but found he was unable to do _so, under the Bulgarian laws, unless he died on foreign soil. The estate of a person dying in Bulgaria without legal heirs is confiscated by _the state. The former official entered the consulate and asked the vice con- sul, F. Le Roy Spangler, a few questions, the answers to which confirmed his understanding of the Jaw. Then shouting, “This is American soil!” he dréw a revol- ver, fired a shot into his brain and fell dead. L Fifty thousand levas and $4,000 in _currency were.found on his body, together with a will leaving it all to the Macedonian cause. the bank Monday at a meeting of di- | DENIES AGCUSATION AGAINST SENATOR Campbell Tells Probers Mon- tanan Never Appeared Be- fore U. S. Department. HANDLED ONLY STATE COURT CASES, HE SAYS Witness Testifies Accused Refused Assist in Action Brought Here. to cu whole controver: commit stigating th charges st Senator Wheeler opened its hearings today with test ony bearing directly on the extent hi in Washington ection with cases in which Montana clients were interested From Gordon Campbel, a geologist, who said ke had employed the sena. tor in 1922 to represent him in the state courts, the committee received copies of twn sets of telegrams pass- between h Wheeler, one purporting to show that Wheeler had ‘been advised” the government could not intervene Campbell's behalr inala £ against him, and the other indicating that the senator had arranged for Campbell to confer Solicitor Booth of the Interior regarding “the Lincoin ing at once to the heart of the . the spe in 1 vities in his with Department | permiv | Campbell Also Indicted. indicted with insisted this tor Wheeler's the Interior De- partment on bebalf of his client, as charged the indictment. On the dvice of Solicitor Booth, the witness , he had hired his own Washing- attorney handle land cases He that Senator had he could such of on to t wh Mo: Campbell, o was Wheeler i did not con “appearance” b for in insiste told him because "Former Representative Tom Stout of Montana told the committee he had approached Wheeler on the subject of acting as counsel for Campbell in state I tion, and that Wheeler himself had raised the point of inability to handle any cases except State courts. Asks Immunity Waived. At the outset of the hearing Sena- for Sterling, Republican, South Da- kota, suggested that it might be well witness waive immunity one the: witnesses charged with anyt said Chair- man Borah. | Attention was called that Campbell |{had b indicted with Senator Wheeler, but Senator Borah said that | could by e of when Camp- | bell was cal | The chairman read the statute ur der which Senator Wheeler was in | dicted on a charge of accepting a fee {to appear for Campbe before the | Interior Department id the interest of il land claims. Stout the Was | called to the stand. Stout testified that he had been edi- tor a sher of the Daily Demo- | erat- Lewistown for nineteen t he had known Senator imately” for a tout also said he rdon Campbell in bout Campbell's em- -nator Wheeler. not his Wheeler cas ave th lto | is hing, d. |1 3 | Ployment Knows of Court Appearance. said he had had no further with the matter, but knew r Wheeler had appeared | for Campbell in the state court cases. The witness shid his conversation | with Campbell about the employment of Senator Wheeler took place in De cember, 1922, a month after Wheeler was elécted to the Senate. The liti- gation related to an effort to throw Campbell into receivership. Stout said he was not interested “in_any way” in the company. He said the fee Wheeler had asked to represent Campbell $10,000 year. | Stout | connection | that Sen W Mentions Another Witness. | Stout thought John M. Cooper, now of Los Angeles, might have been with him at the time of his conversation with Wheeler in Butte, but was not sure. Chairman Borah told Stout that his | testimony that Wheeler had “ralsed the question” of his inability to rep- resent Campbell except before state courts was “a very important’ part of the committee's record. Stout r ed his statement that such w fact. “Do you know anything about the tent and number of cases Campbell | had in the courts in Montana?” asked Senator Borah, No, except that he had a great deal of litigation.” Campbell did not know Wheeler, Stout said, and he volunteered to sec Wheeler about his being retained The case involved was a receivership matter in the state district court. When he saw Wheeler, Stout said, the latter advised him that he could not represent Campbell except before state courts. | Camphell followed Stout on stand and waived all immunity. Campbell Takes Stand. | Campbell began his testimony by saying he was a geologist and telling of his discovery of the Kevin-Sun- burst oil field. in Montana. He said he had been involved in about forty lawsuits in oil field matters and sald the property concerned was of “very great value” He described hie con- versation with Stout and said he had told Stout his own lawyers were “not standing pat with me” and that he had thought of employing Wheeler “because he's a fighter. Wheeler came to his office in Great Falls about December 20, 1922, and the agreement for his employment was reached verbally, Campbell added. -~ The witness insisted there never was any ‘“question of government permits’ involved In his dealings with Wheeler. He confirmed that the fee agreed on was $10,000 and gald he paid Wheeler "$2,000 ‘to represent me in this litigation, in Great Falls.” The witness said the arrangement of the oil land held by his company in the Kevin-Sunburst field in Mon- ita greater in area the