Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tomorrow partly cloudy a warmer. moderate temperature. T for 24 hours ended at 2 Highest, 55, at 1:30 p.m lowest, 42, at 5 a.m. today.. Tull report on page 7. New York Stock Market Closed Today Intered as second-class matter post office Washington, D 29,207. 0. JAPANESE PREMIER DISCLAIMIS THREAT; HANIHARA REMAINS No Desire to Interfere in Af-| fairs of U. S., Says Kiyoura, | After Cabinet Session. | PRINCE REGENT CALLS FOR AMICABLE POLICY American Ambassador to Confer With Matsui—Jingo Press [ Still Resentful. “ssoclated Press K10, April 15.—Recall of Ambas- sador Hanihara is not contemplated by the Japanese government. at least for present. Premier Kiyoura told n correspondents today niceting of the cabinet. ssed “grave-consequences” phrase, misconstrued in America, the pre- declared. Close study of the text of the am- Lassudor’s letter,” he explained, “would one that it does not lend szelf to an interpretation as a threat or xpress any desire to interfere in Amer- n domestic affairs. Fortunately the ority of American newspapers ap- pear to understand this, and their com- iments are sympathetic to Japan, which is comforting to the ministry.” convinee ang Conciliatory Attitude. ng the seriousness the premier asserted, has decided to maintain attitude and to do its utmost to bring about a tory solution of the immigration problem Japanese exclusion claus: h n passed by both houses,” he s but it lacks the President’s signa- ture, which at least is doubtful.” Pripce Regent Hirohito is evincing unusual interest in the immigration ituation and has summoned Foreign AMinister Matsui and Count Chinda, furmer ambassador to Washington, to obtain their cxplanations. The prince nas directed that the ulmost ~fforts > excrted to effect an amicible and ttisfaciory settlement of the tion. eal situation, sovernment a conciliatory the the atis . S. Envey (o Cenfer. | Amorican Ambassador Woods roturned today Where he attended the national in- dustrial exposition, and will call on | Foreign Minister Matsui tomorrow :Ali the latter's i Tokio students are planning a mass mecting for Monday, at which they litemd to appeal to American stu- | The cabinet not only discussed the | diplomatic aspects of the exclusion lcgislation of America, but took | cognizance of the dom and po- | litical effects of the situation. Thes arc threatening to assumc serious | proportions. Attac the government are | threatened by the opposition and it is also feared higher quarters may Lecome antagonistic, Ma Cyrus E. from Kyoto, | request. Appeal to Throme. Teading journals declare that the Privy council, which meets shortly, will demand that the government ex- n the immigration defecat. cxplanation is unsatisfactory it is probable that an appeal to the throne will be made. Iieports continue of the imminent arrival in Toklo of Japan's two re- maining elder statesmen—Matsukata aionji—who are expected to take fmmediate charge of the some- Wwhat precarious situation There is a srowing tendency mani- fcsted for the public and non-gov- crnment leaders to turn from. the lirst _shock of resentment against America to criticism and denuncia- tion of the Kivoura ministry. All of Uhe JDOrning newspapers are of the opinion that Ambassador Ha Wil be recalled. s Disecount War Talk. Ik of military action as a re- sult of the United States' exclusion Iegislation is ridiculous, however much Coungress has wounded Japanese pride, licut. Gen. Ichisuke Tsuno, vico min- ister of war, said in an interview to- day with the newspaper Yamiuri. “It would be folly at this juncture,” ho continued, “to follow the Chinese cxample and i{hrow stones at the American embassy. This would be a hoomerang to Japan. We must take ihis experience as a bitter, but bene- ficial, pill, which may cure our in- ternal ills and disunion.” Buxiness View Stated. Definite reactions are coming from business men, whose views on Amer- ican exelusion were expressed by the action of the Tokio Thamber of Com- merce vesterday. Resolutions of the Tokio chamber were addressed not only to American bodies, but also to tho government. They urged further cfforts to conciliate America and cause a reversal of congressional ac- iion on exclusion. The Tokio cham- is drafting resolutions and a pro- iram for presentation to the national meeting of chambers of commerce at Kyoto April 22. The rencwed decline of the yen and drops of Japanese bonds on the New York market are causing some Zlarm in the business world, although the majority are confident that these phenomena are temporary. Tie business elements, while ad- mitting the deep sentimental hurt, are determined not to permit the exclusion action of Congress to damage trade relations with America, which_are considered most vital for Japan. Hope is also scen in appeals to American business men who are not believed 10 favor the drastic action of Con- grees. Fresh Jingo Outbursts. The jingo newspapers appeared with fresh outbursts this morning. The Kokumin says: “The Japanese people must prepare for whatever sacrifices the adjustment of the situation demands. The Yamato states: “The pation must decide now whether Japan will submit to this jnsult from America, or show the world that Japan is the last nation %0 tolerate a nationa) disgrace. “The case is hopeless,” says the Nichi_ Nichi. . “The question has be- ‘come the gravest in Japanese foreign this afterncon and tonight: Sunday probably fair, with p.m. SPURNED BY WOOD, . | mation aques- | If the | | other designation.” nd slightly ‘emperature today: Vesterday; C. BREAK IN JAPANS EQUALITY - WITH POWERS S Portsmouth Treaty, World and L BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. Far Fast Correspondent of The Star and the | (hicago Daily News. Copyright, 1t | spent most of the period | s in the far east and has | made his headquarters in Japan. He ix home on & short tour of duty for the first | time io more than two years and, having left Japan only a short time age, he i% Letter qualified, perhaps, than any other | American writer to interpret the meaning of Ambassador Haoihara's phrase consequence.” and fo met forth the Jap exe viewpoint o the present critical situation. | The reaction in Japan, both grieved ! and indignant, to the exclusion clause of the immtgration bill which the Senate adopted Tuesday is easily un-| derst by those Tamiliar with the Japanese viewpoint. That Ambass: dor Hanihara's phrase, “grave con- sequence,” could ever be Interpreted | as a veiled threat of severed diplo- matic relations and war would never occur to a Japanese. On the other | hand, that grave consequences will| - (IL PROBERS TOLD Witness Relates Story Re- puted to Come From Friend | Who Heard Offer Made. | | witnesses were called the Senate oil committee to- its quest for scraps of infor- bearing on the inside story | of the Republican national conven- | tion in Chicago in 1920. | One of them, T. A. Harmon of In- dianapolis, related a story he said had been told him by Dr. James L. | Himrod of Mooscheart, Tll, of how Leonard Wood refused to accept the support of Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania on condition that Pen- rose could name three cabinet mem- Himrod had claimed, the wit- ness said, that he himself had a part in the conversation. Anothier of those heard by the com- mittce was William Cooper Procter of Cincinnati, Wood's campaign man- ager. who denied he had_conferred at Chicago with efther Harry F. Sin- clair or Jake L. Hamon, at that time Republican national committeeman for Oklahoma. Did Not See Hamon. Procter denied that he had com- municated with the late Senator Boie: Penrose during the convention; de clared he had not seen Juke L. Hamon there, and said he had not conferred | during the convention with Harry F. | Sinclair, although he had asked Sin- Clair beforehand for a campaign con- tribution and it had been refused. He had not learned until the last | {day of the convention, the witness said. of the plan to nominate Warren G. Harding. “Did you seo Harry Sinclair there?” asked Senator Walsh. 1 did see him." he something of a°factor Five before day in more | bers, ot that I know of.” “Did you talk to him about Gen. Wood?" Not at the convention. T talked to him about it before in New York." How could he help?” Law Financial Help. “Well, he was an influential man and could have helped financially at least.” Sinclair, in March or April, 1920, #ad spoken in a friendly way about Wood's campaign, but would not con- tribute. nator Walsh pressed Procter as ta why he did not see Sinclair at the Chicago convention. “I did not bhave a conference with Why 1 do not know- i “Did you confer with A. T. Hert (Lowden's manager) or Harry Daugh erty (Harding’s manager) at Chicago?" *1 conferred with Mr. Hert, but not with Mr. Daugherty.” The witness was excused, and the committee called L. W. Dixon, a Chicago telegraph operator. who said he operated the private wire between Chicago and Senator Penrose's sick room in Philadeiphia during the con- vention period. Says Cipher Used on Wire. Dixon said a cipher was used and “men’s names were carried in some There also was a private telephone wire. “Just what was it Senator Penrose pected to accomplish at Chicago as vou gathered it from the messages. ed Senator Walsh. s - 1 suppose Senator Penrose was in- terested in seeing a certain candidate nominated,” the witness said. “The senator’s representative was John I. King. 1 assume the senator was try- ing to eliminate certain prominent candidates ‘so as to bring his candi- date to the front later.” “What candidate did he desire to eliminate?’ L “Well, there was Gen. Wood &nd v. Lowden, and also Senator John- son: they were the prominent ones.” “Did you learn of a conference on the night before Senator Harding was nominated?" ~4On, 1 think everybody conference was on. i “Everybody except Col. Proctor, remarked Senator Walsh, and excused the witness. John B. Alcorn, a telegraph oper- ator of Terre Haute, Ind.. then testi- fied that he also had worked at Pen- rose’s headquarters in Chicago. He had been told by the city editor of a Chicago paper that a man was want- ed at Penrose headquarters for tele- graph work, he said. Told Time of Nomimation. “This was_about ‘6 o'clock on the day before Harding was nominated,” he continued. “The city editor told me there was to be a nomination the next day and that Penrose would name the man.” - "Alcorn said he went to the Penrose headquarters two hours later and worked there practically all night. He operated a wire for his newspaper. ‘Asked if he could tell what had gone on on the Penrose wire, the witness said he had been unable to get enough words to make a readable Fentence, but he did hear the name “Harding” several times along about him in Chicago,” Procter said. knew the 2 am. “A hundred or more people were in and out of the Penrose headquarters,” Telations. American senators attack (Continued on Page 3, Column 4. Alcorn said. eague of Nations Rated Tokio at Par, Says | Observer—Now Put in Separate Class. WASHINGTON, D. C., EEN IN U. S. BAN War, Washington Parleyi follow in the friendly relations of the two countries—commercial, political WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DYING DENTIST SAII]I HIS WIFE FIRED ON HIM DELIBERATELY Mrs. Charles F. Pflug At- and dramatic—seems certain. There is surprise that the Senate should| base its action so largely on the un- | fortunate use of a yhrns(. even though of an ambassador, rather than on the merits of the exclusion clause. This is the principal reason that message from either President Cool idge or Secretary of State Hughes is expected. 1t may at least tuke the sting off the situation. It probably will_ not change it, as the adminis- tration will not jeopardize the pas- sage of the immigration bill and throw the country open to unrestrict- ed {mmigration, which would follow on June when the present law expires a 1- flect Upon Japamese. both the Column 2.) Americans exclusion It apparent and Japanese “(Continued on Page AID OF REICHSWEHR PLEDGED TOFULFILL REPARATION TERMS Troops to Resist Royalist Moves to Obstruct Gov- ernment Plans. is to that BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1824 BERLIN, April 18.—Replying to for- eign fears that the reactionary <ier- By { man movements would obstruct ful- fillment of the experts' plan, Reichs- wehr Minister Gessler gave the full- est assurance that the army would stand by the government in putting through any decisions. “What is the attitude of the reichs- wehr toward semi-military organi zations whose members openly ex- press their determination to over- throw the republic by foree and pre- vent peaceful arrangements with other countries under the treaty of Versailles?" “Military or semi-military organi zations have been expressly prohibit- ed sfice 1921, repliod Minister Gess- ler. “In fts own interest the Ger- man government cannot tolerate such organizations, especially when th propose to overthrow the constitu- tion by force. The reichswehr has sworn fidelity to the constitution, and ts firm attitude toward sedition has, uring the past winter, saved the country from civil war and collapse. Explains Royalist View. “What of the charge made abroad | on the basis of the Munich trials that an attempt to overthrow the German republic by force is regarded in Ger- many as an eminently, patriotic and praiseworthy act?” was asked. “There are parties who believe that monarchial restoration is necessary to the country's salvation, hence a praisewcWhy and patriotic act. The reasons are primarily to be sought in the thousand years of monarchial government and in the fact that the republic, under pressure of Versailles dictation, struggles against the grea est_difficulties. “The numerical importance of these party groups with a program of vi lence is less than it seems. strongest argument is that the en- tente has steadily been leading on Germany with false pretenses. Every increase of outside pressure is water to the mill of these party groups. Germany will have to struggle long with these difficultics.” GERMAN HASTE URGED. Reparations Body Reply Virtual Order to Get to Work. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 18.—The reparation commission yesterday virtually told Germany to get down to work pre- paratory to a blanket acceptance of the experts’ reporta Prior to this| the commission decided unanimously to take note of Germany's reply ad- hering to the experts’ reports and to aprrove the conclusions and adopt the methods proposed. Need for speed was the outstanding feature of the commission's com- munique. which tells Germany to pre- pare enabling legislation for the com- mission’s approval, so that when the allied governments—as seems taken for granted—adopted the experts’ re- ports the groundwork of the struc- ture which Brig. Gen. Dawes, Owen D. Young and the other experts en- visaged will already be laid. Pending Germany's compliance with the reparatifon commission’s de- mand, feelers will be put forth from London, Paris and Brussels, designed to brihg the expert: projects into concrete form as rapidly as possible, for obviously the members of the reparation commission did not reach today's decision without the full ap- proval of their government Partial Agreement Sought. The commission’s aim, as outlined by onme of the members, is to get'a general agreement on all non-contro- versial points of the plan before tak- ing up debatable questions, such as abandonment of ecomomic exploita- tion of the Ruhr. “Nothing appears to require imme- diate decisions by the reparation commission,” is the way in which queries have been met concerning the commission’s _intentions respecting the gaps purposely left in the ex- perts’ findings. While thus playing for time, the commission has asked the Germans to make nominations for the various posts which are to be created under the Dawes report, and it is expected that these nominations will be sub- mitted sometime next' weok, after which the commission will name its own allied and neutral representa- tives, ruch a member for the bank of issue committee and two for the committee dealing with indus- trial mortgages. Appointees Desigmnated. Purely executive appointments, as members of the fund transfer com- mittes, cannot be made until the Their | tempts Suicide After Killing Husband. | COUPLE, ESTRANGED, MAN SOUGHT DIVORCE | “‘Boots,’ Why Did You Strike Me?" Woman Asks Husband After Shooting. Murder and possible suicide loomed | | today as an aftermath of an unhappy | | marriage, with Dr. Charles S. Pflug. | | dentist, fifty-four years old. dead in |& local undertaking establishment, |and his widow, Mrs. Marianna Pflug, | forty-three years old. in a critical | condition from an overdose of a drug | at Emergency Hospital, under police | | guard, charged with the sensational | | shooting of her estranged husband. | that clectrified residents of the quiet | | Portner apartments vesterday after- ‘nnon. . An_ante-mortem statement made by Dr. Pflug to Dr. E. L. Mason, family | physician and close friend, charges th t | he was shot from the rear while he was | gazing out his laboratory window m‘ | the Portner. Mrs. Mason, the doctor's| wife, who was one of the first to arrive in Dr. Pflug’s office. where the shooting took place, said that he told her: “She’s finished me—deliberatel At the hospital, by Mrs. Pflug’s bed- side, is a_policewoman awaiting a lucid moment that a statement may be ob- tained. At the cighth precinct the charge | { of murder is written opposite her name. Shooting Follows Divoree Suit. The tragedy follows months of es- trangement, during which the filing of divorce suits figures prominently. | After Mrs. Pflug withdrew a divorce ction against the dentist last week, | he filed one early this week through | attorneys, naming a co-respondent. Mrs. Pfluz was served with papers yesterday, it was stated by friends. She was with Dr. Pflug for some time prior to the shooting. She is known to have answered three tele- phone calls, and to have told the callers that the dentist was not feeling | well and could make no appointments. Friends of Dr. Pflug said that he was | awaiting word from his attorneys re- garding the diverce action, he expected it late in the afternoon. ¥our Shots Fired. | Then, about & o'clock in the after-| | neon,. from the dentist's office came the sound of shots. Four wers fired. A man's voice vcalled, “Help, help”| Mrs. Mason and Louis P. Allwine,| acting manager of the apartment | | house, with others, rushed to the| | dentists office. Trey say that there | | they found Dr. Pflug and Mrs. Pllug| grappling over a revolver. He yell-.} | ed 8% soon as they entered “to s“i the revolver.” Allwine seized it Mre. Pflug then, according to Mrs. | | Mason, attempted to take some tab- lets. Dr. Masen, arriving on the scene at this moment, aided Mr. All- wine in choking the tablets from | her throat and taking others from | her hand | 1t was just previous to this that Dr. Priug is =aid by M old her that this ° ave added “deliberately ater, after Dr. Mason had sum- | | muned Dr. Charles Stanley White for | | | | | | | " (Continued on | IN CRASH ON ROAD Truck and Bus Collide on Lee Highway Near Green- | wood, Va. | } | i Two colored men were killed and | | three white men, all residents of Falls | Church, Va., slightly injured early to- | day when a motor truck in which they were driving to Washington | struck a motor bus of the Sandifer & Brooks Co, on the Lee highway | near Greenwood, Va. The dead are: Ernest Byrd, about thirty-five, and Walier Weaver, about sixty. William Taylor, driver of the truck and sixteen-year-old son of Summer- field Taylor of Falls Church, riding with his father and the latter's brother, J. W. Taylor, also of Falls Church, were slightly injured in the collision, which almost totally de- stroyed the truck and tore off one of the wheels of the motor bus. Roy Marcey of Cherrydale, Va., ninteen- vear-old bus driver and only occupant of the bus, which travels hourly over the road between Georgetown and the Washington Golf and Country Club, was uninjured. Marcey Was Indicte B. H. Swain, coroner of Arlington county, agd William C. Gloth, com- monwealth attorney, viewed the bodies, heard both sides of the story and released Marcey and young Tay- lor on their own recognizance to ap- pear at the Arlington county court- house for the inquest at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Marcey is one of sev- eral young men of Arlington county named in an indictment recently re- turned by the grand jury on a statu- tory charge brought by a girl 1iving in Arlington county. He has been operating a motor bus for Sandifer & Brooks for about two years, trav- ersing what is considered by motor- ists one of the most dangerous pieces of road anywhere about Washington that between Georgetown and Cher- rydale. Summerfield Taylor, father of the driver of the truck, runs a grocery and meat store in Falls Church and was on the way to Washington to purchase supplies for the store. None of the three white occupants of the truck was in condition to_talk, Mrs. Taylor declared at her home, as they were all suffering from 'shock and slight injuries. Byrd and Weaver, according to Traffic Officer Bruce Smoot of Ar- lington county, “picked up" a ride (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) | (Continued on Page 4, Column 1) "7 (Continued on Page 2, Column 5 | ar. The Foening Star. FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1924—FIFTY PAGES. A TIMELY WARNING. tion is delive: “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,330 DAWES BEING URGED }G“S BLAST KILLS THREE.|D, A, R. CHEERS ALIEN Friends Backing Him for Tempo- rary Chairmanship at G. 0. P. Convention. CRISP STYLE APPROVED General Still Being Boomed for Vice Presidency. BY ROBERT T. NEW YORK, April SMALL. 18.—Although they have but the slightest of hopes | that Gen. Charles G. Dawes would consent to run for the vice presidency, Wnd that | leaders of the Republican party are| | planning to make the most of his| prevailing popularity with the public by asking him to serve as temporary chairman of the convention which Cleveland FOR KEYNOTE SPEECH Bottier and Two Children Victims JOHNSTOWN, Pa., April 15—A mother ind two of her childgen were killed here today when an explosion wrecked ‘he home of Anthony Pracko Five other members of the family were burned seriously Fire department officials believe | that gas, leaking into the house from | & main, ‘was set off when a member Juf the family lighted a match The dead are Mrs. Anna Pracko, mother: Rosie, an infant, and aged thirteen yeal W.R. & E. MAY FACE ' FINES OF $6,750,000 | | in Home Explosion. | i Leo, | Corporation Counsel Charges Use of Open-Vestibule Cars Vio- | lates District Law. is to nominate Calvian Coclidge .usm “TO 3_500 DAY PENALTY Gen. Dawes' name has béen sug- wested to the committee of arrange- ments for the convention and has bean received with the greatest favor Of course the committee will not move in the matter without the con- ent of President Ccolidge. His wishes are to prevail in aven the smallest details of the coming convention as well as in all the larger phases. The party leaders have even agreed that Coolidge should write his o<n platform, and Secretary of State Hughes has intimated administration zpproval of this move by announcing hat Mr. Coolidge is his own plat- form. Hughen Is Suxgested. * As temporary chairman of the Cleveland convention Mr. Dawes would have the task of delivering the keynote address for his party. It is believed he would deliver it in the sharp, crisp sentences for which he is noted. Coming home from a great international success in Europe, Gen. Dawes would catch the imagination qf the people. He knows Washing- ton like a book, but happily is not a part of Washington. This would make him an ideal man to deal with | the Washington situation from the Republican point of view. Party leaders have been much at sea in the matter of selecting a tem- porary chairman of the national con- vention. Secretary Hughes' ‘“key- note” speech in New York has led many persons to suggest him as the keynote orator and temporary chair- man at Cleveland. Mr. Hughes de- voted_himself largely to a culogy of Mr. Coolidge, and Mr. Coolidge is to be the real keynote of the Repub- lican campaign this year. When Mr. Hughes set his speech on that key he knew he was on safe and popular ground and would not share the fate of earlier would-be “keynoters” who have been repudiated at Washington soon after their utterances appeared in the newspapers. But Mr. Hughes is a part of the Coolidge adminis- tration, and it would .be a better move politically to have the national key- note come from some person not so beholden to the chief of the party. Dawes Fits Into Scheme. Gen. Dawes fits into the scheme of things at the Republican convention from every possible angle. He served for a year or more under President Harding in establishing the national budget system. Now he has completed a notable service under President Coolidge. 'He would came to the convention, therefore, as a shining credit to both phases of the Republican administrations of the last four vears. Mr. Dawes’ intimates firmly believe he would be the unhappiest man in the world in the vice presidency. One of his duties if elected would be to act as presiding officer of the Senate. No one knows the restless activity, the “hell and Maria” go- ahead spirit, of Mr. Dawes can even faintly imagine him as sitting idly in the chair of the President of :the Senate, compelled by old and musty rules and traditions to watch the waste of time and the waste of words which goes on in national legislation. REPUBLIC WINS, 2 TO 1. Greek Plebiscite Vote Was 758 742 to 325,322. ATHENS, April 18.—The total vote in last Sunday's plebiscite, it is announced, was 758,742 in favor of the establish- ment of the republic and 325,322 for re- tention of the monarchy. Family Dies in Fire. QUEBEC, April 18.—Mr. and Mrs. William Ramsay and their eighteen- year-old_son, Willlam, wete burned 1o death today in their home &t Breakeyville, near this city, 0ld-Style Equipment Figures in Complaint Filed. Charges that the Washington Rail- and Electric Company had vio- lated an acf of Congress requiring closed vestibules on street cars in the District, contained in an infor- | mation filed today in United States | branch of Police Court by Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank W. Madi- gan, would, if sustained by the court, make the company liable to fines of from $1,350,000 to $6,750,000. The information was filed today by direction of Corporation Counsel F. H. Stephens. It is understood that congressional influence is behind the movement to prosecute. The act provides that street car companies must provide inclosed veati- bules for protection for the motormen against cold, snow, sleet and bad weather. The first count of the information charges the street railway company with operating one car for 150 day without the vestibule, and the second count charges the opcration of ninety cars with vestibules, for a similar period, in violation of the act of Congress. A minimum fine for this offense is $100_a day, while the maximum fine is $500 a day. Tn most of the modern equipment of the W. R. & . Company_the cars have inciosed vestibules. ~The cars gomplained of in the information just filed are of the old type. B way Renomination Not Sought. DANVILLE, Va, April 19.—Repre- sentative J. Murray Hooker of the fifth district announced here today that he will not offer for renomina- t'on in the August primar: U. S. Body to Hear Public on Nation’s Recreational Aid Representatives of more than 1,000 organizations interested in outdoor life will be invited by President Coolidge’'s special rec- reation commission to meet here May 22 to work out with federal officials a plan for co-ordinating all nation facilities to open them to_enjoyment by the public. Secretary Weeks. chairman of the commission, said the meeting would be formally opened, proba- “bly with an address of greeting by President Coolidge. It is intend- ed that a committee will be creat- ed to draft legislation covering the subject. By the Associated Press. PHILIPPOPOLIS, Bulgaria, April 18.—Archeologists are stirred by the disco of what is evidently a Ro- man amphitheater In the city square, Djumaia. The workmen were digging founda- tions for a new structure, when four meters below the surface of the square they came upon a flight of marble stairs of massive construction and surface worn smooth by the tread of many feet. Officials summoned from the mu- seum gave as their preliminary opin- fon" that these marble steps, a little less tham a meter wide, were the ,alsle of an amphitheater, The arch- {RESTRICTION DEFENSE | Representative Johnson Calls Bill | Second Declaration of Inde- pendence for U. S. | COUNTRY NO LONGER ASYLUM the | Delegates Give Speaker Ovation After Fervid Address. Decla | comprom the nation sovereignty invites Albert Johnson, chairman of the House immigration committee, told the Continental Con- £ress of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution in Memorial Continental | Hall today that e restrictive immi- | gration act passed by Congress America's second Declaration of Inde- which Representative P | With two resolutions before it ask- {ing the Daughters of the Ameri | Revolution to indorse the selective | feature of the measure, the congress |invited Representative Johnson to | address it upon the question, so that the delezates may vote intelligently. He was given the floor in the midst of regular business by unanimous con- sent. so that he might return to the Capitol immediately. Changes United States Policy. Mr. Johnson frankly stated that under the terms of the restrictive immigration act now passed by both the House and Senate, the United States “ends forever the idea that it fs the asylum of the oppressed of the world.” Such a step has become | necessary, he said, and added that even those who are permitted to en- ter must bring with them a com- plete history of their own past lives and those of their forbears, to be used for reference when they apply for_citizenship. “We are about to end.” he said, “an arangement which is not part of a treaty and which has caused endless misunderstanding between our peo- ple and those of a friendly nation of the far east. We are not abro- gating a treaty. Emigration Japan is regulated by Japan. It is our sovereign right to regulate im- migration to our shores; our right |to say who shall live among us has been quences.’ Predicts No Compromise. “I say té you that no nation can or will compromise its soverignty. This nation, born of the deeds of your an- cestors will never do that. To do so is to invite war. Not to compromise is to prevent war. It is the pride of our country that on great national issues the Congress has always aban- doned party lines and risen to patri- otic heights. It is our hope that the Congress always will. “Now that real restrictive immigra- tion legislation is assured, our next step is the development of real Americanization. I congratulate the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion on the work done along these humane and patriotic lines, and in conclusion, I leave with you the as- surance that our new immigration legislation passed by decisive vote in each house, is America's second Decla- ration of Independence.” Applause Is Vigorous. Time and again during his address Representative Johnson was inter- rupted by loud and prolonged ap- plause. He spoke but a few minutes, and at the conclusion of his address the congress rose as a body and ap- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Ruins of Roman Amphitheater Traced From Marble Steps Found in Bulgaria ecologists _of the ethnological _mu- seum at Sofia will make further in- quiries and possibly continue the ex- cavation. This city contains some remark- able historic structures dating back to Roman and pre-Roman _times. Among_these memorials of the past is a city wall, which runs over the brow of ome of the seven hills on which like Rome, the city, named for Philip of Macedon, is built. The wall still stands for a great part of its original length. Originally it served as a defense, but now houses have been bullt over it and the_wall itself runs through the heart of the city. 5 It is the belief of the archeologists that valuable finds dating back to the Roman and pre-Roman periods will be found under the city when the ex- cavations are made. from | been challenged and our nation has | threatened with ‘grave conse- | TWO CENTS. DECLARES SEIZED LIQUOR WENT T0 BILLETT'S OFFICE Former lustice Agent Says Means and Six Others Can Tell of Transaction. SHIPMENT “VANISHED” FROM UNION STATION Grier, “Informant,” Testifies He Was Discharged After Reporting on Savannah Conspiracy. Minute details liquor conspiracy in which seventy-eight persons have been sen tenced to the penitentiary, were cited before the Daugherty Invest: gating committee today by Clark Grier, who described himself us prominent Georgia Republican and former “informant” of the Depart- ment of Justice The witness declared there had been long delay in prosecuting the casc fter he faid all the facts before the artment, and that his report ollowed by his “discharge” Burns, at the instance of John L Thillips, the Republican state chair man, who he charged was invoived in the liquor cases. An indictme against Phillips in a lumber fraud case is pending in the District of Columbia H. L. Scaifc, also a former Depart tice invertizator, corrob: I's testimony as to his sep the department after report was svbmitted rged that some lique seized some vears ago in Washingt but which disappeared from stor. resulting in a grand jury inqu ent 1o the “office of Speaker (i ett.” of the Savannah re- wa w. J aration the S. Answer Stirs Committee. Committee discussed whether they should let this ment stand the record, and the witness named Gaston B. Means a one of the informants and declared s Department of Justice witness confirm his statement. He den personal knowledge of the action. members state- in referred t the Unior or 0 an consignment, valued at § appeared. A grand jury investigated it, he said, but found no ground f indictments “According to reports. liquor went to the office of Gillett,” Scaife said 0 you know nator Wheeler, the ytor, Scaife said not structed him to t you know.’ We don’t want this evidence if it 400 per cent gossip,” Senator Wheel: said “You'll find it is 100 per cent trus said Scaife. The witness statement from | subject was printed pers at the time. Senator Wheeler switched quiry to the impeachmer against Attorney General in 19 Scaife said he assisted | resentative Woodruff, Kepubli Michigan, in sudport of th ment charges and a Department of Jusi ordered to shadow us. a paper which S 1918, of t Speak: some that ™" committee pro: Wheeler i voursels and contine insiste, Mr. that Gillett the newsp the i proceedings raughert He identificr enator Wheeler sho ed him, and said that Means “told m | he took this paper from Representa tive Woodruff's office.” Brings in River Insue. George H. Maxwell, director of the National Reclamation Association, was called before the committee today to ex | Plain statements made by him in a letter | to Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona. | charging a “Fall-Davis scheme to steal | the Colorado River.” | The witness was heard at a hastily as- sembled meeting of the committee, | which previously had announced it | would stand in recess until next week His letter to Senator Ashurst had said | the committee was “on the trail of the serpent.” and that a similar opportun 10 get at the facts as to who was trying 10 Steal the Colorado River from Arizona “might not come again in w thousand years. Senator Jones, Republican, Washing ton, objected to taking up the Colorado | River “controversy as irrelevant, and | Chairman Brookhart agreed “unless he connects it with the Department of Jus- | tice in some way." | Maxwell then said the letter was sent | under a “misapprehension,” as the com mittee he had in mind was “the reclama- | tion committee.” He admitted that he | had no “personal” information as to the Department of Justice. He was excused. Kerns and Scaife Recalled. | Cecil H Kerns, an Ohio drug com- | pany operator, now out on parole |from Atlanta penitentiary after con- viction on bootlegging charges, was recalled to the stand. Il said De- partment of Justice officials told him yesterday that Federal Judge Killits in Ohio "had “reported unfavorably" | upon his parole and had started move to have him returned for con- finement. George H. Chamberiain, attorney for H. M. Daugherty, got the witness to agree that Judge Killits' hostility was “no different than when 1 was on trial, but only stronger.” For the fourth time H. L. Scaife, former investigator of war frauds for the Department of Justice, was re- called. A grand jury in the District of Columbia on November 17, 1922, Scaify said, reported that evidence of con- spiracy to vidlate law had been found in the sale of the Bosch-Mag- neto Company by the alien properts custodian, but that the “overt act" was committed outside the juryiv Jurisdiction. +° An audit of the magneto compan affairs, made by W. H. Barre. sc: countant for the air service, was read by Scaife, who then switched to au account of “rum running on the At- lantic coast.” 'He said his informa- tion was based on a report by Clark Grier, special agent of the Dep ment’ of Justice, regarding the * vannah whisky case,” and filed Feb- ruary 26, 1922 < Seventy-eight Later Convicted. “The men concerned were the same bunch that defrauded the air service,” said the witness. Grier himself was called and re- cited the evidence he had collected and reported to the department. He said it showed “graft” payments to federal prohibition agents in Savan- nah. He was ordered back to S vannah by Gaston B. Means to more facts,” he sald, then was re- called to be told by William J. Burns that he was “no longer wanted.” “Nothing else was done on the cdse until President Coolidge came into offic rier said, adding that ulti- mately there were seventy-eight con- \victions, /,