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WEATHER. w. Partly 8. Weather Buresu cloudy tures: Highest, 67, at 4 day; lowest, 46, Full_report on page 7 tonight; temperature above freezing; row unsettled and warmer. Temper: at 8 am. Forecast.) minimum tomor- p.m. yester- today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 No. 29,532, Entered as second class matter post office, Washingtor, D. C. CHILE WINS TACNA DISPUTE IN AWARD MADE BY COOLIDGE Issue With Peru Over Prov-| ince Will Be Settled by Plebiscite. LATTER COUNTRY SCORES + IN BOUNDARY CONTENTION Commission of Three Provided to Arrange Vote—United States to Name One Member. handed down in the Tacna and Arica case today, determining contention between Chile and Peru in favor of the Chilean ewpoint that the question of per- sovereignty of the two ter- be finally decided by President his award arbitration the major Coolidge manent ritories popular The arbitration lays down, however, specific conditions as to the ultimate plebiscite which covered the question of determination of qualification of votes and also that of supervision of the plebiscite by a special commission set up for the purpose consisting of three members, one to be appointed by Chile, one by Peru and one by the United States Meet Within Six Months. The commission is to be appointed within four months, and to assemble in the of Arica for its first meeting within six months and im- mediately fix the date of the plebi- scite and the time and places of reg- istration and voting. The arbitrator holds that “any per- son of Peruvian or Chilean national- ity who has resided continuously in Tacna and Arica for two years prior to July 20, 1922, the date of the ar- bitration protocol, and who has con- tinued to mainfain his residence therein until the date of registration should be entitled to vote.” The arbitrator further holds that any person of other nationality who bas resided continuously in the ter- ritories under the same conditions “and who makes a solemn declaration in the form to be provided of his in- tention to continue to reside in the province and to seek naturalization un- der the laws of the country successful in the plebescite should be likewise en- titled to vote.” must vote A\ Women Cannot Vote. Women shall not vote, as woman suffrage does not exist efther in Chile Peru. A literacy qualification shall not be required of those resi- dents of the territory who own real property; military persons. of . all ranks and civil employes of both governments born in the disputed ter- ritory shall be permitted to return and vote. No person imprisoned for non-political offense, no person un- der guardianship and no person of unsound mind shall have & vote. No person who during the required period of residence has been in the military, government police, secret service of gendarme of either gov- ernment or been a government civil official or employe of either country shall have a right to vote. The award was handed the Peruvian and Chilean Ambassadors at the White House today by the President. Conditions of the plebiscite. will be in accordance with some of the con- Qentions of each of the nations party to it. The decision would provide a fair election to represent the wishes of the people. Summary of Decision. A brief semi-officlal summary of the decision follows: The opinion and award is not wholly favorable to either party, but it i in no sense a compromise. clean-cut decision on the merits of each of the three questions sub- mitted to the arbitrator. The first question, plebiscite or no plebiscite, is decided in favor of Chile's contentions that the ultimate dispositions of Tacna and Arica should be determined by popular vote. The second question, namely, the conditions of the plebiscite, involve the determination of a number of important matters, such as the quali- fications of voters and the super- vision of the plebiscite. Some of these matters are decided in accord- ance with contentions made by Chile, athers in accordance with contentions made at one time or another by Peru. All of them are decided in the in- \terest of a free and fair election, which will truly represent the will of the people of Tacna and Arica. Peru Wins on Boundary. The third question, which concerns the northern and southern boundaries of the trritory of Tacna and Arica, is decided outright in favor of Peru as far as it concerns the northern boun- dary. including the province of Tarata. The dispute regarding the south- ern boundary is remitted to a special commission for a report upon the location of provincial boundary lines. This means that the most important boundary question Involved has been decided in principle in favor of Peru. Chilean Envoy Pleased. Ambassador Mathieu of Chile said he was very pleased at the outcome and the decision was a complete vin- dication not only of Chile’s thesis but of her conduct during the whole con- troversy He added that owing to Coolidge's high character and Jjudicial qualities ne had always been confident that the final decision would take into ac- count the full merits of the case, The Peruvian embassy had no com- ment to make on the award. stated that they were waiting for instruction from Lima before ex- pressing any opinion on the decision. DELICATE ISSUE INVOLVED. Award Covers Most Dangerous Dis- pute in South America. BY CLAUDE 0. PIKE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. BUENOS AIRES, March 9.—The keenest interest prevalls in govern- ment circles and in the press of Buenos Aires on the findings of wresident Coolidge in the Tacna-Ari- ca_arbitration, This controversy is the most dan- gerous and delicate dispute South America has had in the last 40 years. ntinued on Page 3, Column 8.) it is a| the old Peruvian inter- Officials | American Letters Treated in Bulgaria As Registered Mail By the Associated Press, PLOVDIV, Bulgaria, March 9.— American mail, if first class. occu- Pies an exclusive position of honor in Bulgaria. Under a court order recently issued every letter com- ing from America Is treated as registered mail, Is taken to its ad- dress by a registered mail car- rier, and has to be receipted for on delivery. Letters from France, Great Brit- ain and Germany are treated as ordinary mail unless registered. The preferential treatment for American letters is the result of the loss of several pleces of ordi- nary mail, some of them contain- ing checks which were abstracted after their arrival in Bulgaria. Bulgarians regard America as a land of fabulous wealth. There- fore every effort is made to ob- tain possession of a letter from America, on the chance that it may contain money. 'TRIO BEATS WOMAN IN $50.000 HOLDUP Gag Her Escort and Silence Her Screams With Gun Butts Before Looting Studio. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 9. — Three masked men broke Inito the studio apart- ment of Mrs. Fay Perkins in West Fifty. eighth street early today and escaped with jewelry valued at $50,000 after beating Mrs. Perkins and binding and gagging her escort, Milton Abbott, wealthy cotton broker. The robbers chopped doors of the apartment | their entrance. They are believed by the police to have been members of the same gang that robbed the apart- ments of several women well known on Broadway, including Louise Law- son and Dorothy Keenan, who were | murdered. down the in making Beat Her With Revolvers. After choking Mrs. Perkins and | biting rings from her fingers and taking bracelets and necklaces from her, the robbers beat her with re- volver butts until she revealed the location of the rest of her jewelry. Mrs. Perkins was a frequenter of Broadway cabarets, as were the victims in the other apartment rob- beries. She Is separated from her husband, Benjamin Perkins, who is the wealthy proprietor of a cafe. Mrs. Perkins and her companion had just returned to her apartment after dining in one of Broadway's fashionable supper clubs and making the round of other night resorts. . Make Use of Crowbar. A crowbar and other tools found at the scene were used In break- ing into the apartment. Abbott was seized by the robbers, gagged with a pillow and bound to a bed with ripped-up lengths of sheets. The robbers then attacked Mrs, Perkins and stripped her jew- elry from her. The three men wore silk handkerchiefs across their faces, the victims told the police. The jewelry taken by the robbers included several dlamonds which were collected by her husband from famous lapidaries of the world, Mrs. Perkins told the police. The last robbery of a similar na- ture was that in the apartment of Edith Bobe, fashionable modiste, who was waylaid and robbed of $50,000 in jewelry by four robbers last Sep- tember as she was entering her apartment, accompanied by Robert Hague, marine superintendent of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Of all the robberies of a similar nature only one was ever cleared up. That was the robbery of Jjewels valued at approximately $300,000 from Mrs. Charles P. Hugo Schoell- kopf, wife of a Buffalo broker, after a New Year party in an uptown apartment in 1923. Two men now are serving Sing Sing sentences for that robbery. The jewelry was re- covered. With Abbott securely bound to the bed, the Intruders took a small {amount of money from his pockets. Mrs. Perkins screamed and one of the men struck her In the face and then grasped her by the throat. Another robber then grabbed her by an arm and threw her to her knees. The {first bandit tried to remove one of He then put her finger in his mouth and forced off the ring. | Threaten to Kill. When Mrs. Perkins continued to scream the robbers threatened to kill her. She still screamed and the robbers! then beat her in the face with their revolver butts. During the struggle one of the men's handkerchiefs dropped from his face. The bandits prepared to torture Mrs. Perkins by fire when she refused to tell where the jewelry was hidden, she told the police. One robber struck {a match and then a confederate | knocked her prone to the floor with a kick. All three then went to a dress- ing table and emptied a jewel casket. The robbers then tied a pillow over Mrs. Perkins' face and escaped. The woman’s clothing was torn to shreds and her face and head were covered with blood when police arrived. Ab- bott had freed himself within a few minutes after the robbers left the apartment. Dot Keenan Case. Dorothy Keenan, artists’ model, was found dead in her apartment on the j morning of March 15, 1923. An empty chloroform phial was found near her ibody and the apartment had been | ransacked. The police never ascer- | tained exactly how much jewelry was {taken. During the Investigation of the case it was brought out "that John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadel- phia, capitalist, clubman and son-in- law of E. T. Stotesbury of J. P. Morgan & Co., was a friend of the slain woman. The police were never able to find the robbers. Louise Lawson, a former motion picture actress, who came to New York from Walnut Springs, Tex., was found strangled in her apartment on February 8, 1924. The jewelry taken by the robbers, so far as the police could ascertain, was in excess of $8,000. In that case it was brought |out that Gerhard M. Dahl, chairman | of the executive board of the Brook- ly-Manhattan Transit Co., and vice president of the Chase National Bank, was a friend of the girl. He assisted the police in their attempt to clear up the murder. ch her rings with his hands, but failed. | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. - WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1925—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. WAR ALLOWANGES COST U. 5. MILLIONS, COMMITTEE CLAINS Investigating Body Says Steel Corporation Saved $21,478,513 in Taxes. BIG PROFIT IS ALLEGED TO ALUMINUM COMPANY Mellon Defends Settlement Claim Against Steamship Com- pany Heavily in Debt. of Evidence designed to show that the Federal Government has lost millions of dollars in taxes through war amortization allowances to the United States Steel Corporation, the Aluminum Company of America and hundreds of other companies is con- tained in official transcrips of hear- ings filed with the Senate by the Couzens investigating committee. Counsel and engineers for the committee contended that an amorti- zation allowance of $55,063,312 to the United States Steel Corporation was $27,926,014 in excess of what it should have been, and that there was involved a difference in tax of $21,478,513. This case has not been closed, however. Aluminum Firm Case. An over allowance of at least $6,500,000 to the Aluminum Company of America on the amortization total of $15,589,614 was alleged by coun- sel and the engineers. A loss of some $50,000,000 in taxes |trom the various copper companies 5o was alleged because of the fail- jure of the Treasury Department to extend to the years 1917 and 1918 a system of revaluation ordered recent- 1y by Secretary Mellon. L. C. Manson, counsel for the com- mittee, said with reference to the | Steel Corporation case that there was {no uniformity of treatment in the de- { termination of amortizaion. Views of Engineer. “It depends very largely,” h said, “on the personal view of the engi- neer who happens to make the in- vestigation.” Complaint also was made by Mr. Manson that amortization allowances | were made without sufficient investi- | gation. % |~ With respecf to the Aluminum Co. of America, Mr. Manson disclosed that the company first had put in a claim for $6,852,647, based on a flat 25 per cent of expenditures for war-time extensions, but that this had been rejected because the basis of computation did not meet with the requirements of the law. Then the company countered with a revised claim for $18,268,435, on which an al- lowance of 315,589,614 was made. The tax involved was not made clear in the record. Reference was made in the testimony to Secretary Mellon's connection with this company, members of the commit- tee saying that it had been their un- | derstanding that the cases of companies with which he was connected had been settled before he took office. Mr. Man- son said that was not the case. Mellon Defends Course. Replying to testimony before the Couzens Senate committee In refer- ence to settlement of the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Cor- poration taxes, Secretary Mellon, in a formal statement today, de- declared that the Treasury in settling with the steamship company had made application “of proper business prin- ciples familiar to every one.” The Secretary denied inferences that he was interested personally in the steamship corporation. He said he had no interest either in the cor- poration or any of its subsidlary com- panies and was not acquainted with any of its officers. The inferences that has grown from the testimony, Mr. Mellon said, pre- sented another argument against publicity for tax matters It was “not correct,” he declared that the Government paid back out of the Treasury $7,282,460 that had been collected from the steamship companies. The facts were, he continued, that after an additional $9,913,841 in taxes and penalties had been assessed against the company, an investigation showed that the financial condition of the company was such that to press the claim would have resulted in bankruptcy, “In which proceeding any payment to the United States would have been jeopardized.” Settled on Rent Term “The company offered to settle for $1,000,000 cash,” the statement said. “The department investigation show- ed that $1,280,000 was as much as the company could probably raise from its bankers and pay the government and still avoid bankruptcy proceed- ings. This taxpayer also had a judg- ment against the Shipping Board of $1,351,000, which the department in- sisted must be satisfied by the tax- paper as well as the cash demanded by the department. In other words, the United States received in com- INCOME TAX GUT LIKELY NEXT YEAR Measure Favored on Capitol Hill. Would Reduce Rate in 1926. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, This is the time of year when peo- ple are making out their income tax returns and perhaps they are not very happy about it 50 a morsel of joyful news may be opportunte. First, the money being earned by the American people this year from January 1 last until December 31 next, will be subject not to the rates of the present law, but to a new act to be passed In the early months of 1926, which will carry at least a 26 per cent reduction in everybody's taxes if not more. Second, sentiment in Congress is developing in favor of a specific re- duction jn surtaxes so that the high- est rate will be 25 per cent, as con- trasted with 40 per cent in the present law. Secretary Mellon has always thought that if the surthx limit were 15 per cent the Government would get more money in the Treasury from stimulated business than ever before, but he compromised on 25 when he presented his plan. The Republicans have a working majority in_both houses and can put through a 25 per cent rate, and if there is division in their own ranks there are some Demo- crats who will vote for 25 per cent. Congres. Cuts Expenditures. Third, Congress is showing a tendency to keep within the budget. Representative Madden, whom the correspondent met at the White House after he had conferred with the President, says that this year Congress spent $8,000,000 less than the budget provided for and that in the last four years, as a whole, Con- gress has spent $350,000,000 less than the budget proposed. Fourth, Mr. Madden says he intends to press at the next session of Con- gress his resolution which would make decreases in income tax payments automatic. Tn ‘other words, it would require no new legislation each year for tax - reform, though Congress would always be free to repeal the act or amend it. Mr. Madden's idea is that whenever there is a surplus in the Treasury of more than $50,000,000 that sum will be divided into the to- tal recelpts and a percentage ascer- tained, which percentage shall au- tomatically be the amount of every taxpayer's reduction. There is some reason to believe President Coolidge favors such a measure, but naturally the people who think the relationship of one tax rate to another, as for instance the size of surtax rates as compared with normal rate or the exemptions, should be reformed will want that done be- fore the automatic reduction would take effect. In other words, when once a scientific and equitable ratio is established between the different classes of taxpayers then an auto- matic reduction simply maintains the status quo, but gives every tax- payer an equal percentage of reduc- tion. Mr. Madden's proposal has a good deal of support in Congress because the burden and embarrassment of continually considering a revenue act (Continued on Page 2, Column b, Ho-hum. Spring must be here, all right. Even Forecaster Weightman had to stifie a yawn today as he tried to get his thoughts on his work and tell a reporter all about how warm it is today and how much warmer It is going to be tomor- row. “Not hot, but just a little war- mer,” the forecaster explained. ome clouds tonight and more or less unsettled skies tomorrow. And there isn’t any immediate prospect of a cold wave, elther. 1If you think it's warm here today, with the mercury hovering around 50, consider the old home folks down In Augusta. Georgia, who, sweltered in an 86-degree tempera- ture yesterday.” Spring {s here. Signs that prove it are every- where. Jonquils are pushing through the earth, trees are bud- ding and branching, rose bushes are rambling and birds are tweet- ing. Typewriters are slowing up, schoolbooks are getting blurred, .base ball talk is in the air, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) !Hotter Tomorrow, But if it Is Spring Mrs. Bear and Babies Don’t Know It Only one resident of the Na- tional Capital has so far failed utterly to resmpond to the call of the great out-of-doors. She is Mrs. Kadiak Bear of the Zoo Park. Mrs. Bear some months ago became a mother. Whether it was twins, triplets or even more Is not known even to Supt. Wetmore. She has kept herself in strict seclusion all Winter long in her den of rocks, and not until she decides to step out again will the world know how many oubs she has. Ordinarily bears end their hiber- nation period with the arrival of Spring. Evidently Mrs. K. Bear doeen’t believe this warm spell means anything. Or maybe she has fallen a victim to the Spring fever epidemic, along with the forecaster, the re porter and some others in our midst. Well, it's nothing about, anyway. Ho-hum. to worry Radio Programs—Page 30. ' VICE PRESIDENT ATTENDS NEW YORK AVE. CHURCH Hears Sermon on Lenten Theme at Presbyterian Edifice—Pres- ence Almost Unnoticed. Vice President and Mrs. Charles G. Dawes attended the morning service at the New York Avenue Presby- terlan Church vesterday, where they were very cordially recelved by the pastor, Rev Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, and by as many members of the church | as have made their acquaintance. Many people did not realize they were in the congregation until the Vice President and his wife were leaving at the conclusion of the service. They were given seats by the ushers in the center of the church near the famous Lincoln pew. Dr. Sizoo preached on “The Cross and Its Meaning,” a sermon appro- priate to the Lenten season. SUIT TO REGOVER TEAPOT DOME ON Government Opens Fight for 0il Lands With Three Witnesses Missing. | By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 3.—The government's suit to annul the lease of Teapot Dome to the Mammoth Oil Co., one of Harry F. Sinclair group, opened in Federal Court here before Judge T. Blake Kennedy, at 10:02 o'clock this morning. Atlee Pomerene, associated with Owen J. Roberts as special counsel for the Government, opened the trial in a statement which reviewed brief- ly the transactions which led up to the granting of the lease to the Mam- moth Co. Mr. Pomerene declared that the government would seek revocation of the lease on two grounds, first, that it was without authority of law, because it was let to the Mammoth without competitive bidding and with- out having been advertised. Inability of United States marshals to locate Robert W. Stewart, chair- man of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, who is sought as a Government wit- ness, will not cause any delay in the trial, according to Mr. Roberts, who said he was conducting through a personal agent a countrywide search for the oil man. Three Witnesses Missing. Process servers in the United States marshal's office at Chicago reported that he had been absent from his home for several weeks. The Government's agents also re- ported that they had been informed “that Mr. Stewart had not been in his office for several weeks and it was not known when he would return.” Other witnesses sought by the Gov- ernment unsuccessfully are H. M. Blackmer and J. E. O'Neil, oll men, now in Europe, and H. S. Osler of Canada. Mr. Pomerene in opening the case for the Government stressed the alleged illegality of the presidential order which transferred the oil re- serve from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior and what the Government charges were “secret dealings” between Mr. Sin- olair and Albert B. Fall, former Sec- retary of the Interior. Edward O. Finney, Assistant Secre- tary of the Interior, probably will be the Government's first witness. For the Mammoth Ofl Co. and Mr. Sinclair an array of legal talent, headed by Martin' W. Littleton, is re- sisting the charges of fraud and se- crecy brought by the Government in connection with the granting of the lease to the Mammoth company. The trial before Judge T. Blake Kennedy probably will cover at least three weeks. FALL REMAINS IN DENVER. Not Needed Yet in Teapot Suit, Says Former Secretary. DENVER, Colo., March 9. — Al- though the subpoena served on him in El Paso, Tex., alst week calls for his appearance in Federal Court, at Cheyenne, Wyo., today, where he has been called to be a Government wit- ness in the trial of the Teapot Dome naval ofl lease annulment case, Al- bert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, remained here today. Mr. Fall said he had been informed by attorneys and through pr dis- patches that he would not be needed at once, and that he had fixed no definite time for going to Cheyenne. DEMOCRATS WANT CANDIDATE OF OWN Object to Choice of Two Re- publicans for Head of Pub- | lic Lands Committee. When the Senate today resumed consideration of the committee as- signments submitted Saturday a controversy immediately arose as to how they should be voted on. { Senator Norris of Nebraska offered an amendment to the committee as- signments submitted by Senator Watson as chairman of the Repub- lican committee on committees. Norris' amendment proposed that Senator Ladd of North Dakota, one of the demoted insurgents, should be chairman of the public lands com- mittee instead of Senator Stanfield of Oregom, selected by the Republi- can conference for that office. This was all right so far as Sena- tor Watson and the regular Repub- licans were concerned. Senator Walsh of Montana, Democrat, how- ever, objected to a vote being taken merely between Ladd and Stanfield, declaring that the Democrats would like an opportunity to vote for a Democrat. The Democrats did not wish to be put into a position, it was apparent, in which they must vote for the regu- lar Republican, the Insurgent Repub- lican or remain silent. Harrison Satisfied. Senator Democrat, on the other hand did not object to the proceedings advanced by Senator Norris. He sald: “1 presume that a Senator can vote ‘present’ or refrain from voting. I don’t want to enter into this family row of the Republicans.” “And we don't want you to enter into it,” replied Senator Watson, amid considerable laughter. Senator Norris pointed out that if the Democrats wanted to go on rec- ord for a Democrat as chairman of the public lands committee, they could offer the name of their candidate later, or at first if they desired. Senator King of Utah, another Democrat, said that he too hoped the Republicans would be allowed to fight out this matter themselves; that it was not a Democratic controversy and that if the Republicans had a | majority in the Senate they were entitled to elect someone as chair- man of the committee. Senator Watson acquiesced in this suggestion also, whereupon Senator Heflin of Alabama said: Fears of Hefl “If the Republicans agree to the proposal of the Senator from Utah, there must be something wrong with it.” The Alabama Senator said that what he was afraid of was that the Democrats would be disfranchised and have to sit silent on this vote. Senator Ashurst of Arizona, one of the progressive group of the Demo- cratic side, critized Senator Norris for declining to agree to a proposal made by Senator Walsh of Montana, which would enable the minority to vote for its candidate at the same time the Republicans were dividing over theirs. “This proposal on the part of the Senator from Nebraska is a blow to the progressives and Senator Norris is the last man I should have ex- pected this to come from,” said Sen- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) REQUESTS ASSIGNMENT OF ADDITIONAL JUDGE Chief Justice McCoy Asks Help in Disposing of Accumulated D. C. Court Business. Chief Justice McCoy of the District Supreme Court has requested the as- signment of one of the judges of the United States Court of Customs Ap- peals to aid the justices in disposing of the great mass of business pending before that tribunal, especially in the criminal branches. The illness of Justice Frederick L. Siddons has made Harrison of Mississippi, | “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. Saturd ly’ Sunday’s Circulation, 's Circulation, 101,022 111,891 * Given Up For Dead, Boy Hears Funeral Planned, But Lives By the Associated Press. MADISONVILLE, Ky., March 3. —Roscoe Qualls, 9 years old, lying helpless in his bed, unable to move, heard his parents give him up for dead and plan the funeral arrangements. Today he is re- covering after hours of near dis- traction at the thought of being buried alive. Roscoe fell while skating. Paralysis developed and physicians found the youth had suffered con- cussion of the brain. He lost his speech and was kept alive several days by administration of liquid food. This failed to bring im- provement and the boy apparently died shortly after the doctors left. Parents and relatives mourned and began planning the funeral. Ros- coe said he heard it all. A phy- sician was called for a final exam- fnation and found the boy still breathing. Roscoe is able to sit up in bed. CARTER BROKE LAW, PRINTERS ASSERT Union Formulating Charges for President—Declare Of- ficial Is Incompetent. Typographical Union officials were formulating today for presentation to President Coolidge a list of charges that George H. Carter, public printer, disregarded the law in a number of instances in summarily dismissing 1 employes of the Government Printing Office Saturday and today. The charges will be made the hasis for a renewal of the request of Columbia Typographical Union that investigation be made of the fitness of Mr. Carter to hold the office of public printer, it was announced by Eugene F. Smith, president of the Union. 1t was pointed out that the De- partment of Justice about a year ago made a report to President Coolidge regarding the qualifications of Mr. Carter and that the President was informed by Acting Attorney General Seymour that it was ‘“presumed” President Harding was well qualified to judge as to Mr. Carter's eligibility and that the Senate in ratifying the nomination indorsed the appointee’s qualifications. 5 Hold Carter Unfit, Union officials allege that Public Printer Carter is not fitted for his position by reason of the fact that he has had no practical experience as a printer. the attention of the President “as s0on as our investigation is complet- ed"” {s that some of the men dismissed without advance notice were World War veterans with high efficiency rat- ings. Another point to be emphasized, he said, was that the Printing Office co- operated with the Civil Service Com- mission several months ago in ad- vertising extensively for more men. They displayed a large poster headed: Uncle Sam Has a Job For You in the Government Printing Office” and urging applicants to communicate with the public printer or the Civil Service Commission. Carter Defends Aect, Mr. Carter today denied that there | was anything questionable about the {lay-off or the way it was effected. | He said the lack of funds for printing simply necessitated an immediate re- duction in the force to 4,000 employ: and that to meet this limit is was | necessary to discharge 175 men and furlough the remainder in weekly shifts of approximately 425, taking the increments in rotation weekly {according to alphabeticai order. i At the same time, he said, the ex- penditures for supplies and materials by more than $2,000 daily. Referring to the drive for additional men, Mr. Carter stated that when the | campaign was started, last September, | there was urgent need for new em- ployes because of the rush of congres- sional business. At that time, he said, | wage negotiations had not been com- pleted and men were leaving their jobs for more locrative private work in large numbers. Between July 1, 1923, and last December, he added, 285 printers left the office. Shortage of Funds. ‘When it was seen that Congress did not appropriate sufficient additional funds for printing to maintain the large force then on hand, the reduc- tion became inevitable, he asserted. He said the weeding out process was done with careful deliberation, on the basis of efficiency. The old employes, having a retirement status, were in- cluded as a matter of course. Re- garding the charge that World War veterans were on the list selected, Mr. Carter said that he had complied with the law in every respect, so far as he was mware, and that if there were any injustices done they, of course, would be carrected. Veter: in List. Names of two discharged men in the latter class were given out today at Typographical Union headquarters on G street as follows: Paul X. Man- ning, linotype operator, overseas vet- eran, with four years of service in the printing office and an efficlency rating of 92, and Alfredo Guaragna, monotype operator, World War vet- eran, with efficiency rating of 93. Others whose high efficiency ratings failed to save them from dismissal, it was announced, included Harry J. Bender, monotype operator, with a rating of 99, and Jesse Clarke, mono- type operator, 23 years of service and a rating of 96. Under existing executive order, it was stated by union officials, former service men are to be given prefer- ence over all other employes when the question of which to retain arises, even though the veterans have rating lower than the others, but at least “good.” it impossible to run three branches of the Criminal Court, as was start- ed, and the transfer of Justice Hoeh- ling to Criminal Division I has thrown his equity cases away behind. Even with the expected return of Justice Siddons shortly, the dockets are so congested that the services of an additional judge ean be used with advantage, the chief justice stated. Several of the judges from the United States Court of Customs Ap- peals have been serving in the Court of Appeals, but this is the first time that application has been made to KAISER’S COUSIN DIES. By the Associated Press. DRESDEN, Germany, March Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Pru sl cond cousin of the former Kalser, died in a sanitarium at Weis- serhirsch today, aged 45. He was the youngest son of Prince Albrecht, r gent of Brunswick. In 1910 he married Princess Agatha of Ratibor, one of the beauties of the have one of them assigned to the Dis- trict Supreme Court. Potsdam court, who, with four daugh- ters, survives him. Among the charges that President| Smith declared would be brought to are being reduced, beginning today, | TWO CENTS. PLAN FOR SINGLE HUGE HIGH SCHOOL WINNING SUPPORT Officials to Study Proposal Providing Building for All Intermediate Work. WOULD USE PRESENT FACILITIES FOR JUNIORS Some Might Be Turned Over for Grades Also—Secretary Davis Backs Proposition. On the eve of a trip of inspection by school officials and the District architect to survey school construc- tion in other cities to be used as a guide in the $19,000,000 five-year school building program, the project for a great master high school for Washington, proposed four years ago by Secretary of Labor Davis, has been revived and will be pushed in the im- mediate future, it became known today. With the aim of diverting part of the money already authori by Congress to be spent over a five-year period for schools in Washington to a survey of the need for and ultimate construction of a great high school plant to serve as the master senior high school for the city, a conference will be held within the next few days to push the project. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, chairman of the Senate District com- mittee; Secretary Davis, Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, and Ernest Greenwood, vice president of the board and chairman of its build- ing, grounds and equipment com- mittee, will attend the conference Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Ballou and Mr. Harris will go to Baltimore Friday to survey the school facilities of that city and plan other trips during the Spring which will take them as far west as Chicago, Plan Wins Suppert. Secretary Davis and Mr. Greenwood conferred at the Department of La- bor today on the proposal for th master high school. Originally out- lined by Mr. Davis more than four jYears ago, the project has been dor- | mant since that time, meeting, how- {ever, with a good reception by Sena- tor Capper and other leaders in Con- | gress. Now, with a definite school |bullding program embarked upon {and with money authorized by Con- | gress for completion of this program, {the project for a great master high chool with the many attractive sup- plementary features that would creats 2 national shrine of intermediate edu- cation, Mr. Davis believes the time is ripe for pushing the scheme. Mr. Davis' plain would be for the i school authorities in Washington to | purchase a large tract of ground | somewhere on the outskirts of Wash- |ington, preferably in an area in line with the trend of population of the city and erect thereon a great high school plant, which would combine all the technical, vocational, business and academic courses now offered in sepa- rate schools in the City. Such a plant, Mr. Davis said, would serve as the senior high school for the entire | City of Washington. The present high schools would be retained as junior high schools and some of the present high school buildings, among them probably Western High School, would ultimately be turned into grade schools. Mr. Davis' proposal would not stop at construction of one great master high school plant, however. As the city grows and its popu- lation nears the million mark, with the corresponding necessary increase in high school educational facilities, he would favor construction of another in an opposite section of the eit, each plant complete in itself in its study courses, and each a unit in which would be offered every modern high school educational op- portunity, even to the first year of college. Would Become Model. “I want to see in Washington the biggest, finest high school plant in the world,” he told Mr. Greenwood. “A plant that will serve as a model | not only to the United States but to he whole world as a central educa- tional plant. “We can go out on the edge of Washington and buy a thousand acres of land at a reasonable price and put up a high school plant that will be the model for all similar projects in the world. I would have " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SR NAME MORE STREETS FOR RESURFACING Contract Embraces Number of Worn-Out Thoroughfares in Northwest Section of City. ‘ Another street-paving contract, the second within a week, was awarded by the Commissioners today to Me- KGulre & Rolfe, Inc, to resurface a number of worn-out asphalt thor- oughfares. This contract, which provides for only a part of the resurfacing to be done this year, will cost approxi- mately $130,000. While the streets are not listed in the contract, officials of the highway division say the streets to be resur- faced under this contract are: Northwest—Fourth street, K to L; Thirteenth street, B to Ohio avenue; Sixteenth street, U to Florida ave- nue; Seventeenth street, K to L; Eighteenth street, S street to Flori- da avenue; Eighteenth street, Con- necticut avenue to 100 feet west of N street; Twentieth street, Columbia road to Wyoming avenue; Thirtieth street, M to the canal; Columbia road, Fourteenth to Sixteenth and from Eighteenth to California avenue; Massachusetts avenue, Twenty-second street to and around Sheridan Cir- cle; N street, Eighteenth to Connec- ticut avenue; New Jersey avenue, D to G streets; R street, First to Rhode Island avenue; T street, Six- teenth street to New Hampshire ave- nue; Wyoming avenue, Columbia road to 200 feet west of Twentieth street, and First street, H to Defrees street. Northeast—Massachusetts avenue, Second to Fourth streets northeast.