Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. Weather Bureau Forecast.) “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. ™ Clear, this afternoon or tonight, perature about fair, continued § am. today cold. Highest Il report on page r | 1 I i ch WASHINGTON, ¢ Foening Sfar. Closing N. Y. Stucks and Bonds, Page 26 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Ci.rculition, 102,025 tered as second class fice, Washington, matter DG , SENAT[}R EDWARDS ‘Mrs. F erguson, Taking Office, Adopts Teamwork as Slogan 29U8L D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925 —-THIRTY-SIX TWO CENTS PRESIDENT HOLDS PORTER'S REBUKE IMPLICATED IN RUM CANDALIN JERSEY Two Dry Agents Testify HejTo F Was Link Between Buyers ‘ and Purchasers. [ PROSECUTOR MAY SHOW | _ I tual Progressls| Spiri Announced as Aim of New Executive. avor Women in Administration | | | | | By the Ascociated Press. EVIDENCE TO GRAND JURY Witnesses Say $3,800 Was Given| to Senator in Deal Which ! Not Go Through when stified ! Corroborates Testimony. d by | wards, 2. New | onary the charge but said that to Grif s | ted. Hurlbut's oned | speculat GILEERT GIVES FIGURES ON CGST OF DAWES PLAN Agent General Appears Before Rep- | in Paris. | arations Commissio Last Session. n's | By the Assoclated Press. of State Affairs i AUSTIN, Tex., January today 20.—A wom- sits in the seat power the birth of 1 ot where xas only A wve sat kiss bestowed on the State's old- | official Bible oath to uphold laws, a promise to consecrate her o her State, and Mrs. Miriam A rguson Temple, Tex., became the t woman governor of the invenstiture of the woman gov- ernor was an eple. A few thousand fellow ' citizens witnessed the le, impressive ceremonies in the o the House of Representatives, from 20,000 to 30,000 u m stood’ outside So great was the crowd attempting | to get into the hall that the gover- | r's party at first was unable to en- ix thousand persons jammed the while thousands packed the ro- nda‘of the Capitol and overflowed into the grounds. Speaker Satter- white and his assistants were in de- spair as to how to clear the way for | Mrs. Ferguson, but finally police_re- serves were called and opened a bas- | an The « largest hall while ble to gain ance way to the platform Fer tumult of nc uson Was, eted by = and music. The “01d ray Mare Band, m Brow ood. | which brought the mare it into | the Capitol, struck up “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” as Mrs. Fer- guson, accompanied by her husband former Gov, Jam: E. Ferguson, stood | at ront of the platform while | memt of her party took their ers | | tacks on Lenin Must Be Avoided. MOSCOW, lution duties January 20.—The relleving Leon Trotsky chairman of the revolu council was adopted ir the central committee of the Com- munist party by a of 50 to 2 he central control cor mittee passed with two absentions pparently realizing the futility before the committee- face of the opposition Zinovieff, Stalin and| powerful Soviet | letter from the| estate, where he fs resting, | which gave illness as his rea- | for non-attendance | He reiterated that it v untrue, | charged, that he had to revise the principles laid down| by Lenin; denied that he had fos-| tered ‘Trotskyism” and concluded | with admission that the' condition| rs seems to demand that I| be relleved of my post as| chairman of the revolutionary war| council Threatened With Ouster. In addition to his removal as war minister, Trotsky Is threatened with | expulsion from the Communist party conforms to the party and renounces his alleged | ks on Leninism. W. Frunse. w minister, has been in charge| during Trotsky's illness, will con- tinue as executive head of the min-| try reso- of his war vote it unanimously, of appearing men in the headed by Kameneff, the once war chief wrote a burban is n he he discipline itta M inless 0, as assistant OUSTER NOT SURPRISE. Will Leave Weaker Men in Charge, British Think. | the Associated Press, | | INDO! issal of n January Trotsky as Soviet war min- | ster is regarded hero the out- | \nding incident in world politics at | oment, and the probable effect | of his removal is eagerly canvassed. | The war chief's deposition did not | nature of a surprise and than once been prematurely but now that it has ad- happened there Is universal »n as to what developments oliow. All the London morning newspapers | comment on the development, but| none gets nearer to a definite opinion | than one conditioned by “ifs” and ‘perhaps.” There Is one fairly gen- al view, however—namely, that the triumvirate of Zinovieff, Stalin and Kameneff is far below Trotsky in ability—as far below as Trotsky was below Lenin or this reason disappearance from the head of red army may have a very defi- influenco, but the view suggested in some quarters, that it is likely tc prove a step toward disintegration o the bolshevist regime, is not put for- ward with any confldence. dis- had m reported, mittedly will it is argued that his the | gown . FERGUSON of Texas in her inaugural gown. Mrs. Ernest Thompson of lo sang as the band played, and Yergusons' grandson, Ernest 3 was brought in on the shoul- ders of his father, George S. Nalle Mrs. Ferguson a black trimmed wide gray and gray beads. Her hat was a creation, with and £0; with silk turned-d = quills. atin slippers ng governor, with position on the the black coat and black Pyt M. Neff, reti Mre Ferguson, to ght of the monies opened Teamwork will administration form as cer K be the motto of Ferguson dec Gov ared (Continued on 2, Column 3.) 60,000 COAL MINERS READY FOR STRIKE Prospects for Averting Gen- eral Walkout in Pennsyl- vania Slim. By the Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa., January 20. of averting the threatened trike tomorrow of 60,000 coal m in District 1, United Mine appeared dim today cies continued the t the general walkou mem bers of the grievance committees stood firm in their announced inten- tion to order the men out unless the —Pros- Dec Various to but agen- orts pre- ve strike of the 11,000 Pennsylvania Coal | Company’ morrow called ances s miners was settled by and district conventior to hear their alleged gri This appeared improbable, officers of union officials, clared that the for company, rep strikers as well have redly de must return attempted |to work before their grievances will | & be considered. On Strike Eight Weeks. The men have been on strike eight weeks and ued efforts have made to adjust the differences Several ks ago John L. Lewis, in- ternational president the organization, sent a special commis- sion into the district to investigate the situation. Members of this com- mission were expected here to. to confer with off of the dis in a final effort to prevent the eral walkout Should they be unsuccessful, they will urge the miners to remain away from the meeting tomorrow of the grievance committees In Wilkes- Barre, where the strike vote is to be taken. District President appellini has notified all local unions that their charters would be revoked should they join in the walkout Capellini and other district officials expressed the opinion today should the strike be called, thous of the miners Wwould refuse to join it They declared that not more three collieries of the Hudson pany and probably four of the Alden Company would be tied up, that the Lehigh Valley, been we of miners' gen- Com- Glen | and the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre men would remain at work. ROUSSOS COMING HERE. éreek will ;‘;y to Obtain Balance of Credit. LONDON, January 20.—G. Roussos, whose resignation as Greek foreign Minister is reported. will leave at an arly date on his long-intended-. mis sion to the United States, according to an Athens dispatch to the Morning Post Last August M. Roussos announced his intention of proceeding to Wash- ngton to obtain, if possible, the bal- ance of $33,000,000 due on the $50,000,- 100 credit extended to Greece by the United States. ;| Tax Publicity Causes Padded Returns ' To Increase Credit of New Yorkers plan. will con e costs nt ministers vork of pts accounts | which were to the finance min- understood that the de- bject ch the com- hnical are now not be forthcoming for time >n will see Thomas Nel- sitting for the first time the American to be nce expenses and It a likely attended by James A observer for the United es Government, before his depar- for home on January 28. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 20.—Since the publication of Income tax pay- ments some business men in this city ve deliberately increased their payments out of all propor- tion to their actual incomes, solely to boost their credit, according to Harry Herkowitz, who is connect- ed with the bureau of internal revenue here. He revealed the fact in a speech before the New York Credit Men's Association last night. Vanity, and not a desire to boost credit, caused some other persons to increase their income tax payments since publication of the figures, he said, One business man who feared publication of his income tax be- cause he had a deficit instead of profit in his business wanted to kncw whether, if he showed an income where none existed, he would be liable to prosecution for filing a false return. “He was assured,” said Mr. Herkowitz, ‘that if his return showed an income and he paid the taxes due thereon, the Govern- ment would not dispute it and raise any question to prove that it should be a deficit, and would accept the taxpayer's money.” Radio Programs—Page 20. Workers, | to- | ict | Rinaldo | that { han | GETS RETRACTION OF CECIL'S SPEECH | |Opium - Conference S_tirred | When British Spokesman Offers Apology. SLANDER OF AMERICA CHARGED BY DELEGATE | Most Dramatic Session of Parley Comes When United States Lead- er Makes Rejoinder. Iy e As | va American people when he ged of Ind presentative fday of jdramatic session of the mvtnmnunfil‘ lopium conference yet hel { the ciated Press January 20.-—Accusing n aple Porter to became the most stern rebuke the n delegation by 1 Hegation | found regret | 1 into making pr nt | nce had the i neident P over P was again 1 for the | n the when s appe exploitation nd by his world was rte solen W threat- | seemed ors, be- | ition as | lations to impress aud Represent- r the sup-| king in the Far osed yesterday’s stop the sm heginning from the had suppressed to ge danger of m 1to other Far| Then in a spirit xtended the ti erican plan f smoking to make it ad of the original 10 the adoption of the provision why the \Western pow jard their own homes the homes of the Orfen- | ploitation | king tim her which remove th opiv g from ¢ territories »neilfation dear to he asked. | ense of one law | another for the Bast. | law for all and thus world peace.’ rring to bolshevism, Mr. Porter A he had opposed the recogn of Russia by the Uni t only of his own country realized the danger to bolshevik propaganda. failure to redch at Geneva would into the | the Far to en-| not their children ours are t as with this West and work for from rgued that |accord on opium put additional propaganda hands of the bolsheviki in | Bast which was calculated ger world Than luding the an peace form of slavery than the had almost destroyed the American “Let and wrong | claimed ETET | Porter, made by | porting throne he ex- on the affold!” us put | right | the s | start of his Yemarks Mr.| taking note of a brief address Mr. Sugimura of Japan, sup- | the American motion to re- | {View the work done by the first opium | conference and approving the Amer- | jean ten-year proposal for abolish- | opium smoking, congratulated | n upon the way she had earnest- [1y tried to ress the smoking | practice | “Japan’s pol | on the pr ! regard to ' he said, found- ipie of suppression revenue.” Unfor- when some gov- revenue in sight they their real attitude. | ea without Axsails Cecil's Stand. American delegate then created asation by strongly criticizing il for his assertion of yester- the umption of opiu capita in the United States was ter than in India. It was his to the American people, whom nted, he said, to challenge vile accusation.” The chief delegate had pleaded yest co-operation, continued Mr. | Porter, but he was hardly practicing ’i“ hat he preached in making such an | ation If he could have uttered a greater 2, Column 2.)° | | | | duty he Tepr | “sdch a | British day for (Continued on Page JAPANESE TOSIGN PACT WITH SOVIET |“Fundamental Agreement” | | Will Be Entered Soon, Shidehara Announces. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, January 20.—Japan will| | sign “a fundamental agreement” with Russia within two days, Foreign Min- ijster Shidehara is quoted as saying today in interviews published in the Japanese newspapers. The Japanese foreign minister is| {also reported as saying that he tele- aphed to Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Jap- anese minister at Peking, authoriz- ing him to sign the agreement with | a representative of the Russian gov- ernment. Referring to the Far Eastern radio question which concerns the respec- tive rights of Japanese and American | firms to operate in China, the Japa- nese foreign minister said that nego- tiations were mow proceeding be- tween Japan and the United States, but no definite agreement had been reached. |Emergency Estimate to Re- { of the Parks Commission, and other JusS SNOW PILE AFTER ANOTHER! EDISON URGES BACKWOODS GIANT | TO MAKE NAVY | Inventor Also Has Simple Plan to Elevate Guns , He Claims—Holds Service Men Loaf Cheapl, Too Much in By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, January 20.—Thomas | A. Edison came out today with a few | stmple for gun elevation American battleships at little expense ideas on | ana also for getting work out of the | | vy's ‘personnel Naval elevation could he at little expense by of the paravane principle. vane, h eral rudd tleship « range of be obtained adoption The para- explained, was a sort of lat- r, or fin, by which a bat- ould tilted to alter the the guns, much after the principle used by submarines in div- ing or coming to the surface. The $6.500.000 sought In the naval appro- | priation for gun elevation he regards | as needless. | A pou FUNDS FORSTORM DAMAGE SOUGHT said a be of mercury for each ship, pair Streets May Amount to Half Million. An emergency estimate of perhaps half a million dollars is expected to | ved by Congress for| urgently needed repairs on practically ail the highways and streets in the District, as a result of the damage | done by the recent snowstorm. | Members of the House appropria-| tions committee of the | generally by sonal be rec =oon, House | observation have been convinced of the necessity | for a large appropriation to repalr this damage to all of the principal streets and prompt action is assured. Need is Immediat, This money will have to be made | immediately available and therefore| will not be included in the regular District appropriation bill which is now being framed. | Members of the subcommittee on District appropriations of the House appropriations committee made a per- sonal inspection yesterday. However, this inspection was to see the street improvements estimated for in the report of the Budget Bureau and in support of which the Engineer Com- missioner appeared at hearings be- fore the subcommittee on the District appropriation bill | This sub-committee did not inspect | the streets with any view to en- larging the amount in the District appropriation bill to cover the dam- age done by the recent snowstorm They said today that they expect an urgent deficiency will be sent in soon to cover this repair work. Ruined By Chains. The sub-committee and other mem- bers of Congress have been told of the very serious damage done to many streets and have emphasized the fact that five-ton trucks using logging chains for skid chains have rulnenl| some of the best thoroughfares, dur-| ing therecent snow blockade. Members of the sub-committee de- | clared that District officials should not allow heavy trucks using such heavy chains to tear up the road- ways. The sub-committee inspecting the streets yesterday covered virtually the entire city and viewed all of the principal existing streets included in he budget estimates. Street exten- sions and new streets with houses on both sides have not been inspected. The subcommittee may or may not continue its Investigation of the Streets, as they feel they have all the essential information necessary. Hearings to Reopen. Tomorrow afternoon hearings are to be reopened on the item of $600,- 000 for the National Capital Parks Com- mission, which was stricken out of the bill about two weeks ago. At that time Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, Engineer of- ficer In charge of public buildings and grounds, who is secretary of the National Capital Parks Commission, appeared as a witness. Col. Sherrill is now ill, and the appropriations committee has invited Gen. Taylor, chief of Engineers, who is chairman members of the commission to testify (Continued on Page 2, Columa &) | Kentucky ! boss to make | Poor Visibility Here During Eclipse, OFFICERS WORK| Washington. Body Launch Moves for Shenandoah Bill. used with the apparatus, will do the trick, sald the inventor. He added that his plan had been sent to Wash- ington and rejected on the ground that it would cause too much retard tion of a ship in motion “Do you know what the Navy down in Washington?’ he asked 3 “They ought to have a fellow about | NaVINg passed at this session of six feet tall and with big jaw | Bress Temple bill to create about elght inches across from some- | reservation in the Biue Ridge where out in a bickwoods county of | tains Virginia begun or Missouri for a civilian | Washington today ek the Navy officers work know, the Navy has good ma- | and some fine fellows in it, but | | 4 | | A st's determined to s first great fight gogn national the th was in from rectior The first was a meeting in the Sen- | ate Office Building of a comm | more than 200 men and | en from Virginia with the V ginia delegation, at which an org: 1zation was perfected for the estab- lishment here of a permanent body to work for immediate passage of the | Temple bill | | tee of prominent $ myself, and T work 16 hours | W¢ ir- a day, but, do you know, I'm almost dying of ennui because I cannot get in more work a day.” PLAN CONFERENCE OVER SHOALS BILL House Steering Committee Decides to Discuss Meas- ure With Senators. The second was announcement from Is of the American Civic Asso- clation, a federation represent 2,000 member civic bodies s tween 300 and 400 similar affiliated groups, that it would henceforth join Virgi in the battle for the Tem- | ple bill, and throw its entire weight | to the support of the Shenandoah Na- tional Park. State | “actions Unlite. Forsaking political differer {face of the immir danger Virginia might lose the park Lee Trinkle and his opponent In the gubernatorial fight that Sta dropped their campaign engagemen ition th of t Congress le in Republican House leaders definitely decided today to send the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill to conference. This decision, reached at a meet- | ing of the Republican steering com- mittee, put to rest reports that the measure might be sent to the House military committee. It was indicated that the move to send the bill to con- forence would be made tomorrow. Those who participated in the steer- ing committee conference—Speaker Gillett, Representative, Lonzworth, the Republican leader, and Mr. Snell— were said to have been In agreement that it would be contrary to the usual House procedure to refer the Muscle Shoals question back to the military committee. and ed front ot an fmportant <ity in the entire | State of Vir ia failed to send at| least one dele, :e. Norfolk and New- port News, distant seaport cities of the State, were as enthusiastic in the fight for the national park as we Charlottesville, Front Royal, boro, Luray and Harrisonbur, surround the area that was s “the outstanding site in the came Stat from every present to section which lected st Wine I Leader. | The delegates gathered first in the | Willard room of the Willard Hotel, | selected Daniel P. Wine, secretary the Shenandoah Valley, permanent chairman, and upon the Capitol in a body. There they were met by Senator Swanson, Senator Glass and the entire Virginia ation to Congress. The crowd soon overflowed from the | committee room that it had been, thought would suffice for ine meet- |ing and adjournment was taken to the large Senate caucaus room. Sen- ator Swanson was selected chairman of the committee and introduced the first speaker Col. Benchoff, pres- ident of the Shenandoah Valley, Inc {He was followed by William J. She walter, associate editor of the Nation- | al_Geo magazine. | Mr. ter told the gathering | that loss of the proposed Shenandoah | National Park would be a tragedy to | the entire country and strongly | urged every one present to make known to Congress that not one tion of the country but the nation as a whole wanted the project. He was | followed by William C. Gregg, a member of the Southern Appalachian | Mountain National Park Committee, | (Continued on Page'2, Column 1.) ~ of | as l)l«'lri marched | Inc., Sees Euxy Conference. Bellef was expressed that the Sen- ate could be counted upon to be rep- resented by conferees friendly to the Underwood proposal. Under such cir- cumstances it was predicted that the House and Senate managers would be able in short order to compromise their differences and present to the two houses probably within a fort- night a bill embracing the main fea- tures of the Underwood proposal. Some of the Democratic leaders in the House, inclined to be friendly to the Underwood measure, 8o far as its general provisions are concerned, were said today to feel that the fer- tilizer provisions should be modified. Several of them expressed the opinion that the sections requiring production of commercial fertilizer at Muscle Shoals are so phrased that such ac- tivity would be subordinated within a few years to the development of power at the Alabama dam. [ i Is Tentative Forecast for Saturday “but after a study of records of the past for many years back cov- ering this period of the year, I don’t feel justified in seeing things in a very favorable light. “If the averages of the past hold good for Saturday, and regardless of disturbances that may arise in the meantime, we are going to have a rather difficult time study- ing the eclipse. Duluth and east- ern New York may get a glimpse of it, but the lake regions are not favorably situated on the weather map. “However, this is all conjecture. T hope the skies will be kind. We ought to know fairly well by next Friday afternoon, anyway." A spell of fair and cold weather is in prospect here for the next day or so, at least, Mr. Weightman said. West and northwest winds should dispel the snow clouds by tonight, sending the thermometer Forcaster Weightman of the United States Weather Bureau is not at all enthusiastic over the prospects for favorable skles next Saturday morning when the face of the sun will be obscured behind the eclipse. It is his opinion that most of the country lying in the path of total- ity will experience trouble in the way of poor visibility when people try to glimpse the unusual spec- tacle of the heavens that is scedul- ed for January 24. Washington is on the doubtful list. Because of the impracticability of trying to forecast more than a day in advance the condition of the heavens at a certain time of any particular day, however, the bu- reau will not give a special eclipse forecast until Friday afternoon. “I would like to'be able to hold out strong hope to everyone who is expecting to see the eclipse Sat- | States under PARIS AGREEMENT NOW CLOSED ISSUE Hughes Statement Denying Involvement of U. S. Rated Quietus on Opponents. BORAH, NOT SATISFIED, ASKS DOCUMENT ITSELF Joins Johnson in Calling for Cop: of Accord—Hopes Europe Take Secretary’s View. Sees Issue as Closed. H is disposed t Borah Not Satisf Moun- i ! pose ole subject Awaits Document Ttsel® adi agree exp: by Idaho Sena nothing mor in hand f In view nounced the entire int resc copy with report fi to 1 the that the session Supported By Cool Mr. Hu tatement given fina of Great be i readi is the n exceedis ve Secretary structi not say and the partment) re study Hopes Hughes Ts Right. the trans full report (of t Senator ment Ameriear learn from that what h ing the pas Mr. Hu s oceurr morally Un in eve take exultir Americ to the one of plan fortunate direct y proc foreis Suropean sit the guar d the Eht men are all the phere a MAY REDEFINE U. S. VIEW facts will reas Senators’ Unrest Emphasizes tinction Between Treat BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Euror ates hz obligation to from Germar emphatic discla Hughes that ever was undertaken, may definition onee f of the outside world of w sary before America mitted to a policy of al nership with any When the V signed by the Pr tates and the on, Europe pro; ratification routine formali ment has Dbee sadors representing ti Government and Europ. into that agreement obligations a implications which do not sq with the American system of gover ment. Senate Shares in Obligation. In order for obligation of the weight of a tre ncurred, the Senate of the United States must be a-participant. The . ular agree- ment signed aris week is regarded as simply a recognition of American claims arising out of the action of the United States taken by any « t is nec e or par n con ar powers illes ident of tr Amer! peace ptly med Again an signed by » United States s readin an in urday,” Mr. Welghtman said today, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 2, Column &) ccutive in pro-