Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1924, Page 1

i WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight: low, 22 degrees. To- morrow, fair and warmer. Temperature for 24 Highest, 3 at 12:30 a.m. today. Full report on page hours ended at 2 p.m, , at noon today; lowest, 25, today: Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, l_’age 28 Eniered post otfice 29,435. 25 o, Washington 14 class matter . C. i ] Message Voices Note of Hope for Year. MCii.. ECONOMY PLEA REPEATED| Q0 .084.48% aving of €7 This Year Revealed by Pres ident. Sounding a note of hope f future tax reduction. the President, his budget message to Congress roday, pointed out that present esti- mates indicate a surplus of revenues nditures for the present amounting to $67,884,489, the surplus o fisca 373743714 President. however. further results from the present tax 1. Recalling his recom- vear ago that taxes be d that the estimated | fiscal year 1924 had be $175.727.000 in estimate made last exces. Decem- The President renewed his pledge in Gov ent expendi- strongly urged Congress of cconomy to econ Ald to States Criticized. zing alism, as svernment, out that $109.6 appronri this_ field both to pate idge pointed for Federal th ¥ the 0.000. s States ning of rimental G ents estimates f iding the nation fense, military items he Army and Navy, the President (d, ave $29.000.000 less than the ount available this fiscal vear. ris reduction is made in “ith my belief that we can have iequate national defense Wwith & more modest outlay of the taxpayers' <aid the President. He de- clared hiz belief. however, in ade- cuate preparedness, and called atten- on to the fact that national defense the United States, aside from the training of personnel, is ‘“largely an industrial probiem.” Alrplane Needs Stressed. The President stressed particularly the need for development of the air- mane industry in this country and showed that the Government proposed to expend many millions of dollars in the next fiscal year for the purchase of planes and supplies for the Air Service. ‘ His recommendation that the Gov- crnment expend $50,000, for the onstruction of needed ernment Fulldings in the District of Columbia Wwas strongly renewed by the dent. He advocated the passage of the bill for this purpose introduced at )1 of Congres of the budget Go last e The tex lows: rger Receipts in 1926, | transmit herewith the budget of ¢ United States for the fiscal year ding June 30, 1f The receipts 4 expenditures shown in detail in Die budget are summarized in the allowing statement: Totar receipts, estimated. 1926, ,092; estimated, 1925, $3.601.- 47; actual, 1924, $4.012.044,701 \tal expenditurce, estimated, 1926 (ihcluding reduction’ of the publi Jebt, required by the law to be made from ordinary receipts). $3.267.551.- 278, estimate £3.534,083.808 actual, 1924, 34, Excess of receipts, estin $373,743,- T14; estimated. 1925, 84.489; ac- tual, 1921, $505,365.986 Favored Tax Reduction. De- for the to budget transmitting Congress 1923, th fiscal r ending June 20, 1925, T recommended that taxes be reduced. This recommendation was warranted the statement of our finances as prese ed to Congress in that budget. 1t was there estimated that under the tax laws then in force the surplus of pts over expenditures would be 6 624 for the fiscal year 1924, 581,624 for the fiscal 4 2 Taxes have been reduced. he henefits to the people of this redue- fion went back to the commencement of the cale year January 1, 1923. “The confidence of. the Chief Exec- ive and of the Congress that our revenues could be safely reduced has been fully justified The fisca) vear which ended June 30, 24, was closed with a surplus of receipts over ex- penitures of $505,266,000 'h 2175, 000 exce «f the estimate made on December 1923, Increase $117.367.000 in receipts and de- crease of 360,000 in expenditures produced th unexpected additional surplus of $1 727.000. “We have now completed five months of the current fiscal year, which en June 30, 1925, This affords an index of the probable re- duction in our revenues under the current tax law. It also affords an index of the limits within which our expenditures can be kept under the continuing policy of economy. A revision ot the estimate of receipts and expenéitures for the fiscal year ending June $0, 1925, indicates today that the receipts will be $3,601,968, 297 and the expenditures $3,634,083,- 508. This forecasts a surplus of re. ceipts over expenditures for the cur- rent fiscal year of $67,884,459. Would Increase Surplu *This estimate is most significant. ©On the one hand, we anticipate re- ceiving this year $400,000,000 less revenue than we had-last year, due principally to the reduction in taxes. On the other hand, we must provide 5114.000,000 for the extraordinary in- (Continued on Page 37, Column 1.) in «ember accord- | mize in its ap- | President | $46.48 represents the proper co | next. and he reco. | sress | Presi- | message | | 008, ¢ Fpenin WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER Comparison of Principal Budget Figures of U. S. {lie estimates for the princi months flow: Public debt (interest) Fublic debt (reduction of principal) Post Office Department Departinent vy Department Tnterior Departn 1 Department Departuient uncree Department stice Department State Department Labor Deprartment Veter Burcau Shipping Borad Inters Tariff Commission Federal Trade Commission Vocational Education Board White | Executive Offices Senate House District Estimates for 7 ans’ érce Commission oi Columbia Less Than for npared with estinated expe: For 1925 and 1926 ! expenditures for the next fiscal ditures for the present twelve 1925 $865.000,000 471,806,401 613,645,195 347,153,594 313.207, 257 294,319,103 1920 830,000,000 484,706,130 037.376,005 338,551,250 280,783,978 257 783,595 163,847,741 140,092, 22741514 24917822 8,676,346 484,957,808 30.344,000 4.641.864 683,240 1,010,000 7.324,000 441,367 2.554,879 6,405,038 30,354,115 24.330.000 1.913.500 439,900 2,539,249 32.335.82%7 Departments Senate Raised and House Cut Down. today by $3,729.519.- 1o ent dur- 1 advised that Conzress was Coolidge all branches of the Govern ng the fis beginuing July cal year p,. i Budget appropriate amount, determined Bureau. is ppropriations fiscal made for the current luding estinates the second deficienc bill which under consideration when the first session of the present Congress adjourned on June 7 Of this grand total $9,000.000 is for the legislative branch the Government. For the District of Columbia a total of $32,335,827 is recommended, which is a nef increase of $1.981.711.79. For the executive office the budget recommends $429,960. which is a net reduction of $1.407.50. The recommendations for the ten great departments of Government are as follows: Department of State. $16.130,65 a net reduction of $131.103.7 Department of the Treasury, $163.- 847,741, # net reduction of $16.810.359. Department of War, $338.551230, a net reduction of $8.602,364.67 Dopartment of Justice, $24.917.8 a net increase of $2,288,205 Post Office Department, $63; a net increase of $23,730.809. ar, i in 51, Senate Appropriations Raised. Navy Department, $289.783,978, net reduction of $23,423,279. Interior Department. $267,7 2 net reduction of $26,533, Department of Agriculture, 092.750, a net Increase of $62.045,564. Department of Commerce, $22,741,- 514, & net reduction of $3.106,041 Departr_._t of Labor, $8,335,260, a net reduction of $341,086.47. Among the appropriations for large independent establishments is the recommendation for the U. S. Vet- erans’ Bureau of $405.700,000, which is » net reduction of $79,257.898. For the Government Printing Office the estimate is $3,129,980, which is an increase of $467.140. The budget recommends 248.80 for the Seuate, a net of $4,370.50, which includes an in- crease from $8,385.30 to $14.275.80 for the compensation of 21 pages for the Senate chamber at $3.30 per day on account of an increase in the num- ber of days from 121 to 206 and a -duction from 71 to 70 in the num- of additional clerks for Senators $1,520. $2,559,- increase Houxe of Reprexentatises. For the Houte of Representatives a total of $6,395,751 is recommended, which is a net reduction of $9,287.70. This reduction includes a reduction from $26.000 to $8,000 for folding speeches, etc., the omlssion of items of $7,500 for repair of furniture and 2,000 for clerical help for the com- mittee on revision of the law: and creases from $1,200 to $2,100 for telephone operators; from $16,371.20 to $28,683.60 for the compensatiorn of 41 page For miscellaneous _appropriation, $141,210 is recommended, which in- cludes an increase from $40.000 to $50,000 for the office of legislative counse For work done under the architects of the Capital, appropriation of $1,- 348,881 is recommended, a net in- ease of $212,899. This increase in- udes $5,200 for additional personnel, 99 for adjustment of salaries, and $376.000 for constryction, improve- ments, and repairs, including $345,000 for new book stacks in Library of Congress: and reductions aggregat- ing $171,000 on account of construc- tion and repair appropriations for | 1925 not asked for 1926. Botanic Garden Gets $23,887. For the Botanic Garden, $123.837 is recommended. an increase of $18,- which _includes Increases from $68,754 to $83,037 for personnel in- volving an increase from 52 to 64 in the number of employes; from $37,- 075 to $40,800 for repairs and im- provements. For_the Library of Congress, $1,- 395,637 is recommended, which Is an increase of $161,600. This increase includes increases from $865.237 to $966,837 for personnel, Including 14 additional employes and increases in | salaries; from $100,500 to $110,500 for | purchase of books and periodicals from $250,000 to $300,000 for printing and binding. The increase for the Governnient Printing Office mentioned abov amounting to $467,140, .includes in creases from $157,880 to $157,980 for salaries in office of public printer; from $2,000,000 to $2,400,000 for con- than all{ supplimental | approximately | nressional printina: fro. $238 ]%375.000 for salaries in office of super- ntendent of documents, involving an increase in emploves fro 238 to 210: from $165,000 to $197.000 for general expenses office of superintendent of documents, involving an increase from $135,000 to $160,000 for printing and binding | Execative | The uet rea the executive includes reduc- tions from $93.520 to $32,760 for sal- {aries, executive offices: from $2,900 to $2.500 for printing and bindin | $37.000 to $35,000 for contingent ex- penses: from $112,760 to $110,000 for repairs, fuel, etc. improvement and care, lighting Executive Mansion and grounds; from $84,300 to $83,400 for salaries, White House police; and in- creases from $5,927 to $12,000 for the salary of Vice President for the full fiscal vear: from $3,950 to $4,000 for uniforms and équipment White House police. The Alaskan fund for the relief of indigent persons gets $15.000 in the budget. This is an indefinite appro- priation of 10 per cent of the recelpts from licenses collected outside of in- corporated towns in Alaska, which is divided equally among the four dis- trict judges to be applied to the re- lMef of persons who are indigent and incapacitated. On July 1, 1924, there was an unexpended balance to the credit of this fund available for re- distribution of $23.620.69 For the office of the Alien Property Custodlan the budget recommends L which is a reduction of $35,780. This includes reductions from $205,- 820 to $176,040 for personal services, the number of employes being re- duced from 101 to 86; from $18.180 to $12,380 for miscellaneous expenses; from $1,000 to $800 for printing and binding. Tax Board Figures Cut. I"or the Board of Tax Appeals the budget recommends $354,820, which is a reduction of $145,680. The .Board of Tax Appeals was created under provisions of the revenue act ap- proved June 2, 1924, and is function- ing during the fiscal year 1925 under the allotment made by the Secretary of the Treasury. The amount esti- 1nated for 1926 is believed to be suffi- cient for the operation of the board for the year. For the Bureau of Efficlency the budget estimate is $150,350, which is a reduction of $5,800. This includes reductions of $4,860 for personnel, $790 for expenses and $150 for printing and binding. For the Civil Service Commission { the budget recommendation is $997.- 375, a redyction of $14,660. This in- cludes reductions from $867,900 to $855,320 for personal services; from $6.260 to $5,680 for miscellaneous ex- penses; from $19,000 to $18,000 for traveling expenses: from $59,000 to $68,500 for printing and binding. For the Commission of Fine Arts an increase of $1.150 is recommended, bringing_the budget estimate up to $6,500. There is a reduction of $50 fn the amount estimated for salaries and expenses and an increase of $1.200 in the amount estimated for printing and binding. This increase is to enable the commission to issue its tenth annual report. The ninth annual report was issued in 1921 Office Reduced. 50 for Employes Compensation. For the Employes' Compensation Commission the budget recommends $2,301,500, a net reduction of $349,100. This_net reduction includes an in- crease Yrom- $136,600 to $138,000 for personal services, and = reductions from $4,000 to $3.500 for printing and binding; from $2.,500,000 to $2;150,000 for the employes’ compensation fund. The reduction of $350,000 in the estimate for the fund is due to a change in policy regarding awards for disability on account of diseases. For the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education the budget recom- mendation Is $8,222,270, a net increase of $898,270. This includes increases from $2,534.000 to $3,027,000 for co- operative vocational education in agriculture; from $2,656,000 to $3,- 050,000 for co-operative vocational education, trades and industries, both of which are automatic annual In creases provided for in the act cre. ating the Federal Board for Voca tional Education: and reductions from $834,000 to $750,000 for co-operative vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry, with the pro- viso that appropriations to the States shall be computed on the basis of $1,034,000 as authorized by law; frop '$75,000 to $70,370 for salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilita- tion of persons disabled in industry. For the Federal Power Commission 3.729,519,346.48 ASKED FOR 1926 BUT COOLIDGE SEES BIG SURPLUS; D. €. BUDGET TOTALS $32,335,827 | | | i priations of $32 Reduced and 3 Are Increased, President’s Budget Figures $59,225,935.72; Present Fiscal Year. Heavy Increase| in Estimates for Capital. LEEWAY GIVEN FOR PAY RAISES Provisions for More Schools Are Made in 1926 Figures. Carrying substantial increases for | improvements and additions to pub- lic school buildings and grounds and funds for paying increased salaries to school teachers, police and fire- men, for increasing water supply| and other important projects, the| District budget reported to Cou-! gress today recommends that appro-| 335827, which is an mcrease of $198171179 over all! funds for the current fiscal year. ! The principal increases are: _ For salaries and expenses of the iree Public Library, which provides ! for am, increase in the number of employes from 100 to 123, an in-! crease from $170,588 to $251.940. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, from $161,622 to $214,064. IFor sewers, from $1,072,000 to $1.- 154,500. For street cleaning and the col-| lection and disposal of city refuse, to{from $1,365.000 to $1437,000, which also provides $40.000 for the pur- chase of square 739, on which the present garbage transfer station is located. For the electrical department, due to the proposed increase in the num- ber of installations and the modern- ization of the present street light- ing system, from $696,860 to $765.628 For the operation of the p schools, due to automatic increases in salaries under the act of June 4, 1924, and an increase in the number of schools for 1926, from $7,342715 to $7,865,271. School Appropriations. For public school bulldings Srounds from $1.242500 to $1320,000. which provides $50,000 for improve. ments and addition to the Armstrong Technical School, $50,000 for an ad- dition to the site for the John R. Francls. Sr., Junior High School, | $175.000 for beginning construction of that school, $125.000 for an ad- | dition to the Mactarland Junior High | School, $145,000 for an addition to| the Bruce School and site therefor, | $475,000 for a junior high school in the northeast section near the Taylor School, $140,000 for an eight-room school near Fifth and Buchanan Streets N.W., and $160,000 for an ad- dition to the Brightwood Park School and site therefore, For the police department an in- crease from $2,655877 to $2,715,680, which provides for the salaries estab. lished by the act of May 27, 1924, and | allows $71,500 for the purchase of a site and ‘erection of the thirteenth Police Precinct Station House. fuboF the police and firemen's reliet | und an increase fro fund o m $400,000 to For the health department an in- crease from $240,340 to $246.350 | For the courts and prisons an in- crease from $651,044 to $673,524. | For charitics 'and corrections increase from $2,614,590 to $2,804,170. For the militia, from $45,540 to $50,450. For improvements, care and ligh fng of public grounds, fom $528,250 to $618,480. For the New Natlonal Park Com- mission an Increase from the $75.000 previously appropriated to the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Cim- mission to $600,000. an Funds for the Zoo. For the National Zoological frolm 31:3.237 to $156,000. For increasing the water supply, from $1.525,100 to $2,500,000. L For the expense of the water serv- ice department, payable wholly from the revenues of that department, an Increase from $1,196,860 to $1,222,210. The principal reductions in District appropriations recommended in the budget are: For improvement and the care of streets including street construction, a decrease from $2994,270 to $2,510,- 238, which involves a reduction from $925,000 to $722,500 in the estimated gasoline tax. For playgrounds a reduction from $165,570 to $147,600, due to items ag- gregating $21,300 for the purchase of sites in the appropriations for the current fiscal year. For the fire department a reduction from $2,058,330 to $2,023,160. This estimate provides for the salarles| established by the act of May 27, 1924, and provides for an increase from 630 to 841 in the number of officers and members. It provides also for the purchase of one aerial hook and ladder truck, four pumping engines, two combination chemical and hose wagons and two auto- mobiles. The net reduction results from $118,000 for houses and -sites, included in the appropriation for the current fiscal vear. An item of $300,000 for interest and the sinking fund on the funded debt of the District is omitted, the sink- tng fund being sufficient to liquidate all outstanding bonds which matured August 1, 1924, Court 'and Prisons Get More. The budget recommends a total of $673,524 for courts and prisons, which is'an increase from current appropri- ation, which is $624,248. For the Juvenile Court a total ap- propriation of $51,300 is asked, as against $47,616 for the current fiscal This includes $45,000 for sal- $900 for compensation of jurors, $300 for transportation and traveling expenses, $2,000 for rent. For the Police Court a total of $83,324 is recommended, as against $72,904 for the current year. This in. cludes $68,124 for salaries, $2,600 for witness fees, $6,000 for miscellaneous Park, the budget. recommends $31,300, & |contingent expenses, $12,000 for com- " (Continued on Page 36, Column 1.) | Continued on Page 37, Column 4. 9 <y | THIS MAY NoT BE P THE VICE~ PRESIDENCY U LAW PROVIDES CHAPLIN’S BRIDE, ONLY 16, RETURN Comedian Permitted to Furnish Tutor for Wife.| Age Given Incorrectly TO SCHOOLROOM When Getting License for ““Business Reasons.” By the Associated Pin LOS ANGELES, Ca Mrs, Charles Chaplin, a few days ago was Lita Grey, the December who until | film comedian's leading woman, still s subject to California’s compulsory chooling law, being but 16 years of age, the Los Angeles Tim said today The Times based what was purported graphic copy of a birth certificate fled with the bureau of vital stati tics, by Dr. O. Palmer on April 27, 1908 That certificate revealed lian Lo a McMurry, daughter of Robert McMurry, expert accountant, and Lillian _Curry McMurry, was born in the Hollywood district’ April 15, 1908. Chaplin “discovered” Lita Grey, as Lillan McMurry came to be known in filmdom, when she was 13 years old, the Times related, and signed h.# as his leading woman when she was 16, marrying her when she was still 16 and he 35 vears of age, the article said Miss Grey U.S. CLAIMS DELAY FINANCIAL PARLEY Conference Postponed While Allies Consider America Payment Plea. its statement on to be a photo- E that Lil- s age appeared as 19 on BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. PARIS, ecember 2.—The allied financial conference which was due to meet December 15, has been postponed until the middle of January. The allied delegates are unable to agree in regard to the claims of the United States that the costs of the military occupation amounting to some $260,000,000, to- gether with losses suffered by Amer- ican citizens and companies during the war., should be paid into the United States Treasury from sums payable to the allies under the regime of the Dawes plan. British experts, with whom repre- sentatives of the French foreign office are in full agreement, argue that the United States has no right to claim repayment from sums due by inter- Germany to the European allies, since | it did not ratify the treaty of Ver- sailles but concluded a separate treaty. Moreover, while American citizens are leading men in the organ- ization and supervision of the Dawes plan, the United States Government never considered the possibility of glving it official recognition ~and during the London discussions Amer- ican observers did not put forward any claims. The British and their European allies were led consequently to be- lieve—it is the thesis of the British delegates—the new reparation scheme by which a substantial reduction of . Column 4.) (Continued on Fage P HEARINGS ON BUDGET FOR DISTRICT SOON Subcommittee Will Begin Work Between 15th and 20th of December. Hearings on the District of Colum- bia budget for the fiscal year begin- ning July 1 next, which was sent to the House today by the President, will start probably between the 15th and 20th of this month. The same subcommittee of the House appropriations committee which framed the District appropria- tion bill for the current fiscal year will also draft the bill fov the fiscal | year 1926. This committee is composed of Rep- resentative Charles R. Duvis of Min- nesota, chairman; Representative Frank Funk of Illinois and Repre- sentative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, the Republican mem- bers; Representative Willlam A. Ayres of Kansas and Representative John J. Eagan of New Jersey, Demo- cratic members. | the vecords Empalm last week, a | weeks before Mexican town of re she was married 1 was o stated several the marriage by Mrs | Lillian McMurry Spicer, her mother. | At the Selma Avenue Public School | here, however, and at the Cumnock | School for Girls, both of which knew { Miss Grey s a pupil, her birth date | was recorded as given in the birth certificate. School authorities pointed out the compulsory attendance law requiring schooling_for all children up to the age of 18 did not necessarily mean | that Mrs. Chaplin would have to con- | tinue her education in a public or pri- | vate school. The law provided, they explained, for the employment of tutors whenever the legal guardian of a minor preferred such instruction to that provided in the schools. Sought out by newspapermen, Mrs. Spicer admitted her daughter's age had been incorrectly stated on the Mexican marriage license, but said it was done “for business reasons. Business reasons also prompted the secrecy which surrounded the mar- riage preparations, she added. Neither Chaplin nor his. bride could | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) SON KILLS HIS FATHER. | Tells Police Parent Threatened to Shoot Mother. PITTSBURGH, December When his father, Austin Wooster, 56, a farmer living near Bridgeville, re- turned to his home intoxicated last night and threatened to shoot his mother, Leonard, 18, picked up a pistol and shot and killed the father, the son told police, to wihom he surrendered. The shooting was witnessed by the mother and a daughter, Virginia, 16 Leonard was arrested and committed to jail. COMMISSION GRANTS BUS FARE INCREASE Rate Advanced to Five Tokens for 45 Cents or 9 Cents a Ride. The Public Utilities this afternoon granted to the Wash- ington Rapid Transit Co. an increase in fare from three tokens for 25 cents to five tokens for 45 cents. This makes a token rate of 9 cents per ride. The cash fare for passen- gers who do not buy tokens will re- main as at present. 10 cents. Following a meeting of the com- mission, Engineer Commissioner Bell stated that the order for increase will carry with it two provisos, first, {that the company install a number of new busses within a reasonable period, and, secondly, that the ad- ministrative overhead expense of the company be reduced. The_bus company argued at I public’ hearing last week for a straight 10-cent fare for all passen- gers, claiming that it would have to | replace all existing busses within a | short time because they have nearly reached the end of their natural operating period posed by the commission, that | overhead be reduced, is in line with similar suggestions made by the | commission last summer when the | question of bus fares was up for dis- cussion. NEW YORK GETS 1925 ARMY-NAVY CONTEST 'Foot Ball Classic of Next Year Will Be Played at Polo Grounds. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 2 — The Army-Navy foot ball game next year will_be played at the Polo Grounds on November 28, according to_an- nouncement today by the New York National League Base Ball Club, un- der whose direction the game will be played. Three Dead in Java Quake. BATAVIA, Java, December 2.—Fur- ther earthquake shocks have oc- curred at Wonosobo. Three person: were killed. Radio Programs—Page 46: { { i n Star. 1924 —FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. “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, 97,823 PAPER IS UPHELD ON TAX PUBLICITY on Constitutiona By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo, 'Kansas City Journal Post, Sustained by Federal Judge | | Grounds. December Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves today sustained the demurrer: . owner and edit; sas City Journal Post, s of Walter or of the Kan- and Ralph El- lis, general managing editor, to indict- ments charging alleged cation of Federal incom The clause in the la: illegal publi- e tax returns. w holding that publication of income tax returns was illegal, Judze Reeves said in announc- ing his decision, is in violation of the first amendment to the Federal Con- stitution relative to the press. First of Severa Judge Reeves said t freedom of the I Tests. here had been no publication of income tax returns by the newspapers of the defendants, but that publication was made from a prepared amounts of their tax, w been different from or the list of taxpayers and the have | hich m; same as the actual returns themselves. The Dickey-Ellis cas to come to trial of sev: e was the first eral test cases brought by the Government for al- leged illegal tax returns. publicat ion of income It also was the first case in which individuals were indicted in- stead of newspapers corporations. Reed Argues foi or publishing r Paper. James A. Reed, United States Sena- tor, representing the defense, yester- | of the income | tax law prohibiting publication of re- | day argued the clause turns violated the Constitution of the United States. Facts s tated in the in- dictments were admitted. i e “If a newspaper owner can be sent | SMeTIff Toad, near Forty-second strect to jail for printing the mere fact that | Northeast. late last night when a tou:- John Jon. of $1,000. or any other amount, then it is time to haul down the American | husband and said Senator Reed. The defense argued the income tax | bile- figures had been made puplic by the | flag, collector of internal revenue, and con- tended that amounts of tax pai publication did not consti- | broken leg and bruises of the tute publication of part of the income tax returns. It was p ointed out that | the computation of tax due made by the individual oftentimes was correct- ed by the revenue bur “Congress never inte any law, and did not eau. nded to enact enact a law, penallzing a newspaper for publish- lists,” IN CRASH AT | Washington Auto Driven by C Student. Lester Pope, 25 year: the | feur, of 110 G street another man and thre The other victims, a Commission | ing what Is contained in these public Senator Reed declared. |ONE DEAD, FOUR HURT BERWYN Strikes ornell Car s old, a chauf- | was killed and C| Those TWO CENTS. TRAFFIG CRIMINALS CLAIN FOUR MORE; AUTOVICTIM DIES Two Couples Struck Crossing Street by Drivers, Who * Speed On. FATALITY IS RESULT OF CRASH YESTERDAY Eleven Injured Is Day's Tote! Man and Wife in Serious Condition. | { As the fervent traffic pleas of w | nicipal authorities were begin |today their routine journey throus | the grinding legislative mill on Cap! tol Hill, Washington's trafic lab. rinth inexorably continued to tal its toll of dead and injured. | The count overnight included or fatality and eleven injured. Fo of the latter were the prey of “trafh criminals,” who fled precipitate! into the night, while their victim some with broken bones and bleed | ing bodles, struggled out of the wa of oncoming machines. One of tl: | fleeing drivers was a woman, w | is said to have resisted efforts | one of her two victims to halt he And an undermanned police force | methodically wrote on its books two {more “accident fugitive” cases for it< Detective Bureau, already staggering under the seemingly hopeless task of | bringing to justice the four death | car drivers whose speeding autos j snuffed out the lives of as many | citizens within the month just ended Victim of Two Crashes. The one death was that of Bernard | Kinara, colored, who succumbed early {today at Casualty Hospital from inumerous injuries sustained early |vesterday in two successive colli- Isions, the first between the truck he | was driving and a street car and the |second between the automobile in which he was being rushed to the hospital and another machine. injured by fleeing driv {were Mr. and Mrs, Gregory A. E: holm of 1321 M street, and Mr. | Mrs. William Brown, colored, of 4715 | Sheriff road northeast. Both couples {were crossing the street, arm in a |when automobiles bore down o jthem from out of the darkness, scat itered the human barriers like so | tenpins and left to others the dut | of ministering to their wounds. | The tag numbers of neither of ths cars could be obtained, and but bare descriptions of the recreant driver were furnished to the police as ! basis upon which to proceeo with { their hunt. Woman W Driver. Mr. and Mrs. Eckholm were cros | ing Massachusetts avenue, near Seventl | street, when a closed car, operated by |a woman, crashed into them, caromed them several yards as they sprawled i the street and then, hesitantly, started iawa_v, police were told. The husband, | is reported, managed to regain his feei {in time to grab for the door of the | sedan, which had been partly opened by | the driver, but lost out when the woman ! slammed the door in his face and went {on. Two other women were said to be passengers. The pair were treated by Dr. Job: J. Shugrue of 1233 Massachusetts ave nue for minor bruises and shock. The colored couple were walking o had paid an income tax |in8 car knocked them down and co: tinued on its way. The unconsciot wife were rushed | Casuaity Hospital in a passing automo At the hospital it was found bot were seriously hurt, the wife having re ceived a possible fracture of the sku | and internal injuries and the husband Knocked Down by Taxi. Edward Burns, 64 yea Pennsylvania avenue, was knocke down early today by a taxicab. driven by Fred Craiglow, as he was crossing Peunsylvania avenue. Ile was treated at Emergency Hospital for cuts and bruises to the head and | body. Mrs. Frank Schepps of Forest Glen Md., was cut on the eye when the car her husband was driving collide | with the machine operated by Wil- | llam Schythe of 11% R street north- | east, at Fifth and H streets yester- day. She was taken to Imergency | Hospital in a passing car. Frank Frazzano of 521 Massa- | chusetts avenue received a scalp | wound and badly bruised hand when | the automobile he was driving yes terday afternoon on Fifth street was | struck by a street car of the Wash- ington Railway and Electric Com pany. Frazzano, police say, was try- ing to make a left-hand turn Truck W old, of 1 ts G women were | | injured early today on the outskirts { of Berwyn when the automobile they | occupied struck another car. 11 from Wash- The condition i',"'i ington, identified themselves as Mrs. the Catherine Martin, apartment 21, 1443 Oak street; Ma Hampshire avenue; R Sixth street northeas Keane, 932 Madison st The other car was H. Marchant, a Corn student, and J. H. Hub roll street, Baltimore. by the Maryland State rel, pending an undertaking establish ville, Md., at 7 .o'cloc was asserted, however, no lability attached State police reporting t ing from Baltimore, head on into the other, e Longfort inquest 1011 New uth Coyle, 13 t. and Morris reet northeast occupied by J. el University er of 3509 Car- They are held police at Lau- at Gasch ment, Hyatts- k tonight. It that there was to them, hat Pope, com- drove his car which was re- turning from Washington. The accident happe: o'clock. by Marchant and Hubi ned just at 3 Assistance was summoned er, and it was necessary to raise the other car up before Pope’s body could be removed from the wreckage. with and Dr. O, E. Etie Charles Beck- nne of Berwyn finally getting it clear. The other victims into Washington an Emergency Hospital. were d brought treated at Mrs. Martin s | suffered a broken arm. and the others were cut and bruised. The three wom- en were discharged from the hospital | it was found that Wiley had received this morning, but Keane is still con- fined thers, » - the | | Anna Shoemaker, 14, of 500 Rhode Island avenue northeast was taken to Sibley Hospital vesterday after- noon and treated for bruises to tho head and body received when she was struck by a truck operated b: Felix Stevenson, employed by Fries Beall & Sharp. The girl is said to | have stepped off the curb into the path of the truck Mary Sweeney, 55, of 127 F street was knocked down yesterday after noon at New Jersey avenue and street by an automobile operated, po {lice reported. by Maurice Jaffe | 1605 Varnum street, who was driving south on the avenue. Jaffe took th injured woman to Sibley Hospital where surgeons found she had been bruised on the leg and side. Hercules Boucher, of Forty second and Yuma street, was badiy cut on the hand and head when the automobile driven, police were told, by James E. Stott of 1139 Twenty- ninth street, crashed into the catch basin on the west side of Wisconsin avenue near Warren street and a few doors from No. 20 engine house | The automobile and the rim of the basin were damaged. Willlam Wiley, colored, 237 Third street southwest, was seriously in- {jurea and Richard Lock, colored truck driver, was badly bruised on | the head and knee when Lock's truck | collided at Fourteenth and Webster | Streets with a Capital Traction Co street car. At Freedmen's Hospital | | a severe gash In an artery of his head.