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1.5 FILES BREFS ON TAX PUBLITY Holds Lists Published Were Part of “Returns” and Thus Banned. Government briefs in the two ap- peals from decrees favorable to news papers publishing income tax infor- mation opened to public inspection by collectors of internal revenue were filed today in the Supreme Court. The cases are those won by the Xansas City Journal-Post and the Bal- timore Post, the lower Federal courts finding that the publication of the lists had not been prohibited and holding that had the law prohibited publica- tion, it would mave been unconstitu- tional. In its briefs the Government pointed out that the publication of income tax “returns” is admittedly prohibited, and insisted that the lists which some of the newspapers printed were part of these “returns.” The Government also contends that Congress, in directing that information tax returns be made available to “pub- lic inspection” did not intend that this should include the printing or publish- ing of the information. COOLIDGE’S REPL TO PERU ON TACNA TO DENY REQUESTS (Continued from First Page.) gratification among the nations of the South. Peru has not said she would not accept the award, but her attitude is occasioning some anxiety. When the American Minister to Peru, Miles Poindexter, former United States Senator from the State of Washing- ton, présented the text of the award to the foreign minister, the latter is quoted as having sald “I do not know the contents of the award, but I can assure you in ad- vance that, whatever it is, Peru will accept its findings.” So there is no expectation of any move that definitely rejects the award. The fear here_ is that Peru will insist upon certain guarantees Leing carried out to insure what she considers ‘a fair election and, falling to get those guarantees, will not par- ticipate in the referendum. May Refuse to Take Part. Under the circumstances this would be équivalent to letting the election g0 by default, an eventuality which is not calculated to réconcile the feel- ing between the disputants or to im- prove Peru's relations with the United States. The situation is further compli- cated by internal politics in Peru, where, according to latest reports, au opposition party to the present Presi- dent of Peru is endeavoring to make political capital out of the Peruvian sovernment's position. The latter, therefore, is endeavoring to placate public opinion in Peru and, at the same time, conform as far as possibie to the terms of the award. The award itself provides for the conduct of the election on a fair basis, and unless some impossible conditions are insisted upon by Peru, officialg here feel that in the end & settlement can be reached and the referndum held as planned. While some disappointment has been expressed that the United States should be the victim of amny ill feel- ing in Peru because of the terms of the award, this is to a large ex- tent offset by the editorial opinion and general feeling of the govern- ments of Latin America that the United States: has acted fairly and impartially and that the decision is a wise one. This more than any- thing else will maintain the prestige of the United States as a mediator and arbitrator of disputes in this hemisphere. 4 (Copyright, 1925.) GRIFFS BACK HOME; PLAY GIANTS TODAY; CROWD AT STATION (Continued from First Page. 1t was their first visit to Washington since last Fall Although today’s tilt is only an ex- hibition affair, it will mark the first major base ball contest in the Na- tional Capital since Washington cap- tured the world serles in one of the greatest games in the history of base ball last October. Besides, there is something more at stake today than merely hard practice in preparation for the opening of the regular sea~ son next Tuesday By winning three straight games the Nationals have come within one game of tying the Giants for the “little world series” title, and both teams have blood in their eves to- day. Both teams will enter the fray with their regular line-ups in action. It will be a fray reminiscent of the nerve-racking fight last October. George Mogridge has been elected by Bucky Harris to go the full nine innings for the champions unless his offerings prove too tempting for the Glants. Who McGraw will name for the slab is as yet uncertain, but Nehf, McQuillan or Bently are declared to he ready. The chofce, it Is expected, will fall to the lot of one of that dangerous trio. Nehf Is regarded as the most likely to start. The old park, the same place where little Earl McNeely bounced the sin- ®le down the third base line that acttled the question of base ball su- premacy once and for all, so far as the battle of 1924 was concerned, fs all ready and waiting for the grin- ning throng that is expected to pack the park and welcom back the National =port, and, unless al Isigns fail, there will be few vacant seats in view when the domineering “ump” bawls out: “Play bal-1-1-1.1411111" The new tier of the right field stand will not be ready for occupancy be- fore the season formally opens here next week, but the rest of the park is intact. A new flagpole has been installed in center field, ready for the gay-colored bunting announcing “who's Who" in the matter of cham- pions, and the center field itself has Dbeen lengthened by pushing the bill- boards back about 20 feet. These are the only changes at present. “INDIAN HUNTERS” FOUND Two Runaways Cause Excitement. Located Near River. While their mother frantically searched for them, Vance McLeod, 6, and his 4-year-old brother Elmer, stole from their home, 2008 G street, and down into Potomac Park on an Indlan hunting expedition late yes- terday. They had crossed the Highway Bridge and were playing dangerously near the deep water of the Potomac when they were found by R. A. Long of_the State Highway Commission. Police, meanwhile, aided by a scors of neighbors of the McLeod family, had been searching for the children. They were taken to the ‘Women's Bureau and cared for until $helr mether arrived, | sevén {away my fortune. COUNT KAROLYI THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D REVEALS STORY WHICH HE COULD NOT TELL IN U. S. Count Says Horthy Re- gime Menaces Europe’s Peace. Would Destroy Tyrants With One Speech on Lincoln Code. BY COUNT MICHAEL KAROLYL QUEBEC, April 9.—Now that I am on British soil 1 can say out loud 1o all why I was forbidden to defend mysel{ while in the United States against my accusers and slanderers. 1 can say that the sole reason why I was gagged is that the representa- tives of the Horthy Hungarian gov- ernment succeeded in misleading the Government of Washington. * * ¢ It is true that a single word sald from Abraham Lincoln's platform, in which I so fully believe, would have been sufficient to ruin the Horthy re- gime. Could Rip Away Deceit. It is true that with a single speech from Lincoln’s platform 1 would have been able to tear to bits the camou- flaged network of the Hugarian reaction, behind which the parasites of the White Terror are crouching. It 1s true that with a single blow I would have been capable of destroy- in:‘tha Babel Tower of lies of the semi-feudal masters of Hungary. hundred thousand Magyars, who had emigrated to America be- cause they could not live and get work on the Hungarian soil, would have understood that I was perse- cuted only because I tried to glve this very land to the Hungarian peas- antry. % ® & [ accuse the Hungarian reaction, who, kno gly and unjust- W, adjudged me a traitor and robbed me and my children of the estates that have been in my family for many centuries. These have been confiscated, and not only I and my brave wife, but my three little chil- dren, have been rendered penniless. I also accuse the present Hungarian government for the impossible con- ditions which today menace the Peace of Europe and the world. Says Treaty Violated. At the bar of a court in Hungary, controlled by the Dictator Horthy, T have lost. At the bar of a higher court, that of the free public opinion of America and the working masses of the world, I now wish to have my cause adjudged. In Hungary I was found gullty of high treason. T had been accused for my pacifist activities during the war. I had been accused for the formation of a national council. I had been ac- cused for dethroning the Hapsburgs. These were the open accusations. There were others which did not fig- ure in my lawsuit, but only in the propaganda made against me. To make a lawsuit against me for these reasons, to rob me and my chil- dren of my fortune in this way, was against the treaty of Trianon, Which was signed between Hungary and the allies. In this treaty there is a para- graph, the paragraph 76, which for- bids the persecution of any one for his political activities during the war if they were in favor of peace and in sympathy with the allies. Protests Without Effect. To make a lawsuit against me for these reasons was a violation by the Hungarian government of the Tria- non treaty. ~The then French prime minister, Mr. Poincare, protested to the Hungarian government on this basis, demanding from them to drop the lawsuit against me. Mr. Herrlot has done the same. Both protests were without effect, and they pronounced a final sentence and took away all my property. To illustrate to what extent the persecution went, I want to mention that when my wife applied to the Hungerian court of appeals for enough of my fortune for the educa- tion of my three children, aged 6, 7 and 9, this was rejected; rejected although my son is the legal heir to this entire property. This 7-year-old child has to_be robbed and punished in this way for the political creeds of his father. And this regime calls itself a Christian one par excellence, but surely it is Christianity led by the dark vengeful spirit of the in- quisitors and not by the spirit of the great Reformer who said: “Suf- fer the little children to come unto me for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Cites Aides ta Revolt. It is true that I was a pacifist. It is true that I fought against the war during the war. I am proud of it But not only 1 wanted to stop the war and try to make a separate peace. Others did the same. 1 am willing to take my portion of re- sponsibility for this reason, but only if the others will do the same thing. 1t 1 have committed a crime, well, Jet it be so. Buf then, Empero: King Charles and Count Czernin Were also guilty of high treason. It is true that I have organized the National Council, which was a revo- lutionary’ act. 1 am willing to give up my fortune and to consider my- celf guilty only if the Arch Duke Jo- seph, who took an oath to be faith- ful 'to this revolutionary National Council, will be wiling to give up his rtune and share my fate. oM o a6 that I have dethroned the ‘Hapsburgs, but here again I am will~ ing to be even hanged for this rea- <on, but only on one condition—that Admiral Horthy, who dethroned the Hapsburgs even in a more complete manner than I—is willing to put his neck in the noose instead of having the shameless impudence of wanting o be my judge in this matter. In the western nations outside of Hungary in general little or nothing Was heard of these accusations made against me. The Horthy regime had all interest in conceall!ns‘:‘:a'zrz:fig . were_tr: S on which - they ro ke provs: nst me in saying that my 552‘:’&.’1‘:%. was that I was Bsflin;n fhe German alliance and was a paci- fist and wanted a Wilsonlan peace, to Say that I was a criminal because I chased- sway the Hapsburgs and formed a National Council with the aim of Prod:cln‘.l.,;i‘:;n;ac;;c);_:‘;;d eas in 3 progTesly e O exactly the popular not o, This kind of speech was et he Hungarian dle- auite sUIEET. Lo oilies they had to , but for :::3: my traitorship with another sauce. Denies Bolshevism. The clue was quickly found. It was the bolshevism. I was no longer ac- cused for having recelved tundllfro:: au or Lloyd George. I w y?;atm::::sed for having sympathies With the allles. No mention any more 5¢ my anti-Germanic views by the al- lies in Europe and America, but be- fore the eyes of the allles I was in- troduced as & bolshevik. My whole and sole aim, it was charged, was not to destroy the forces of the central powers, but that of the whole world. The story was quickly invented that I gaye over the power of the bolshe- vists. If somebody is interested to know why this story could not be cir- culated in Hungary, why it did not cven appear under the avalanche of accusations thrown at me, I can make clear explanation. It could not be done, for the simple reagon that only a few months before my trial had been begun four bolsheviet commi- sars had. been hanged by the thy. Smpreme Court for the reason thdt the COUNT MICHAEL KAROLYL bolsheviks had taken the power from me by force. Surely to state all these facts would have not harmed the American Na- tion. 1t would not have shattered the fundamentals of the United States, but only those of the reaction in Hungary. On a warm Summer day at the end of July, in 1914, I addressed a Hun- garian audlence in the little town of Lorraine, Ohio, situated on the shore of Lake Erie. Although my audience was a Hungarian one, I spoke in Eng- lish. I spoke in English because I knew that the newly appofnted Am- bassador of the United States France had come to hear what I had to say about the ultimatum which was sent by Austria-Hungary to the Serbian government. Although 1 have not got the exact text, my recollection s that I said “I am deeply grieved at the news which has come now stating that we are on the brink of war between Austria-Hungary and the Serbian people. I am grieved because 1 am of the opinion that the Hungarian and Serblan people are not naturally oppesed to one another. On the con- trary, they might work well together, and my whole political activity up to now has been in favor of friendship between the Slavs and the Magyars.” In brief, what told that audlence in Lorraine, Ohio, was that I was opposed to the war; that I was op- posed to Hungary gofng into the War on the side of Germany, and that I had inherited and followed the great dream of Kossuth and the men of 1848 in favor of a free Hungary, independent of Austria. “If this be treason,” in the flaming words of Patrick Henry in the Vir- &inla House of Burgesses, “make the most of it.” Most assuredly, it never n‘ccur'r-d to me that it would be con- sidered treason In the United States. (Copyright, 1925, in United State ada by North American aper. Al Great Britain Cosmos. All rights reserved.) OFFERS NO CRITICISM. an- Newspaper Allfance, ewspaper Syndicate. Karolyi Silent on “Gag” When Reaching Canada. By the Assoclated Pres MONTREAL, April 9.—Count Mi- chael Karolyi broke his silence for the first time yesterday soon after his arrival on Canadian soll from the United States. His comments, made to newspaper- men revolved about the present gov- ernment of Admiral Horthy in Hun- gary. So reactlonary and opposed to democracy is this regime, he sald, that not only Is the safety of Hun- gary menaced but also the peace of Europe. He carefully refrained from criti- cising the action of the United States State Department in holding him to his pledge to refrain from political talks, which he admitted making, so that his passports might be granted to permit him to visit his wife, then il in a New York hospital. He did criticize S. Stanford Mene- ken, former president of the National Security League, who made an effort to have Countess Karolyl excluded from the United States when she ar- rived there for a lecture tour. UNITED STATES IS SILENT. Karolyi Circumvented “Gag” by Going to Canada. Count Karolyi's statement made pub- lic in Montreal failed to bring from State Department officials today a sin- gle word of reply. In certain official quarters, however, it was admitted that the count's strategic move into Can- ada, which automatically removed him from the agreement not to speak or write on political questions while in the United States, had defeated the purpose of the arrangement made at the time the former Hungarian presi- dent left Europe to visit this country. It is an open secret that meny offi- clals belleve that the compromise agreement under which Karolyi gain- ed admission to this country and pledged not to engage in political questions while here was a political blunder. They feel now that he should either have been admitted without re- strictions, or been denied admission altogether. As the situation stands, even without the Karolyi statement from Montreal, all of the controver- sial discussion of Hungarian politics which the State Department hoped to prevent in the United States has ap- peared in print. Deny Outaide Pressure, It was recalled today that officlal spokesmen of the Washington Gov- ernment have flatly denfed that the restrictions which marked the count’s stay in the United States were made effective at the instance of Horthy government representatives in Wash- ington or in Budapest. The count's charges that these representatives succeeded in misleading the Wash- ington authorities, however, were allowed today to go uncontradicted, officials taking the position that what had been said by them in this con- nection remains unchanged despite the statement from Montreal With the count's departure from | jurisdiction of the Washington Gov ernment, officlals here have no further interest in his political activitie The restrictions ended when he crossed the American border, it. mak- ing no difference whatever to which country he went from the United States. o B S PASSPORT FAKERS HELD. Four Convicted in Vienna Swindled Aliens Bound for U. S. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. VIENNA, April 9—The arrest and conviction of four swindlers by the Vienna police has exposed one of the European ends of “bootlegging emi- grants” to America. : The four, who declared themselves to be a merchant, an electrician, a gardener and an artist, respectively, traveled between Vienna and Hun- gary selling false passports for emi- gration to Cuba on the way to the United States. Many would-be emigrants were swin- dled of la‘ge sume. . (Copyright, 1925, by Chicage Dal to| BRITON PREPARES PHONE VALUATION - * FOR POLARFLHT Will ‘Fly Blimp to Liverpool, Where Exploration Party Will Be Fitted Out. By the Associated Press, FALMOUTH, England, April 9.— Grettir Algarsson, the young British Columbian who hopes to beat Capt. Raold Amundsen, the Norweglan ex- plorer, in an air race to the North Pole, using a small airship of the blimp type, will lave Falmouth Sun- day in his little exploration aircraft for Liverpool, wher® the ship will be finally fitted out. He plans to start on the dash for the pole the latter part of this month. - “Our_expedition is a sporting and sclentific one, and is purely”a British show, with the main idea to beat Amundsen to the pole and place the British flag there,” said Algarsson today. Algarsson's principal lleutenant will be Comdr. Frank Arthur Wors. ley, who was Sir Ernest Shackleton's sailing master on the expeditions by the Endurance and the Quest to the Antartic. It was Worsley, who, when the En- durance was lost and her men ma- rooned on Elephant Island, In the Antarctic, navigated a small open boat, only partly covered with rot- ting canvas, more than 700 miles through the gales and grinding ice packs to the coast of the Island of South Georgia, where he obtained help for his comrades. Flight Lieut. Humphrey Humphries will pliot the airship in the dash for the pole. Another veteran polar _explorer aboard will be W. J. Marr, the “Scout Marr” of Shackelton's last expedition. Young Marr has been graduated early from Aberdeen University so he may accompany Algersson as assistant bi- ologist, representing Liverpool Uni- versity. The Iceland will carry a crew of 18 men, although Algarsson and Hum- phries only will make the trip in the blimp. The present plans call for a halt on the west coast of Spitzber- gen, then the ship will be pushed as far ‘as possible into the polar ice flelds before a base is established. BANKS DENY LOANS -TO BUILDERS REST ON WAGE STANDARD ntinued from First Page.) between bullders and financial insti- tutions of the District of Columbia. Not a Party to Move. In further reply to the question, the Security Savings and Commercial Bank begs to inform you that it Is not a party to any plan nor is It a party to the proposal to refuse to loan “money for bullding enterprises based on the amount of wages paid to mechanics performing labor on same.” 3. In conclusion, for the informa- tion of the Washington Central Labor Unfon, our fnstitution does not make building loans. “JULIUS 1. PEYSER, President. Potomac Savings Bank—*“In response to your registered letter just re- celved. you are advised that we have had no occasion to discuss the matter in question. H. W. OFFUTT, e wish to acknowledge the receipt of your registered letter, and in reply thereto wish to advise you that this institution is not in favor of any ac- tion, by any group, that would be In any way detrimental to the best in- terests of the city of Washington “L. P. McLACHLEN. Continental Trust. . Continental Trust Co.—"Replying to your letter, withoutf date, but re- ceived by us this morning, we beg to say that no such proposition with ref- erence to building contractors men- tioned in your letter has ever been submitted to us, and we know noth- tng about it. “Naturally we would be careful and conservative in making loans on un- imgroved real estate, and take into consideration cost upon same. “We appreciate what you say re- garding merchants, banks and work- ing people. and we hope the question at issue between you and buflding contractors can be settled satisfac- torily to the best interest of all par- ties. ““WADE H. COOPER, President.” A similar reply was recelved from the United States Savings Bank, with which Mr. Cooper is also connetted. Proposal Not Considered. East Washington Savings Bank— ““The proposition set forth in your let- ter, addressed to John E. Yost, presi- dent of this bank, and received by registered mail this day, has never been presented to this bank and would not be for one instant consid- ered if it were. “C. A. McCARTHY, Sect.-Treas.” Departmental Bank—"You are ad- vised that no one has been approach- ed by us in connection with the mat- ter as set forth in your favor, April 6, 1925, relative to the action of finan- cial institutions in reference to wage matters. Deposttors Wage Earnersl “Our depositors and stockholders are made up entirely of wage earn- ers and departmental emplayes; hence we will not lend our support to any action that will stand In the way of thelr welfare. “J. T. EXNICIOS, President.” ‘Washiagton Savings Bank—“Reply- ing to your letter, not dated, received April 8, addressed to Mr. Thomas E. Jarrell, president of this bank, this bank makes no building loans what- ever, and has not been approached, directly or indirectly, and knows nothing whatever of any action or movement having for its purpose re- fusal of loans whatever, and has not been approached, directly or indi- rectly, and knows nothing whatever of any action or movement having for ite purpose refusal of loans for building enterprises based upon the wages paid to mechanics or other- wise. “J. D. LEONARD, Vice President.” Friendly to Labor. International Bank—"In reply to yowr undated letter, which was just re- ceived, we are pleased to advise that the attitude of this institution to- ward labor can be best judged by the fact that one of our directors is Mr. W. F. Milligan, president of the In- ternational Association of Railway Supervisors of Mechanics, with head- quarters in Chicago. “‘You will also note the name of Wil- liam Jett Lauch, whose attitude to- ward labor is too well known to need any extended remarks. “All our directors are friendly to labor. The International Bank deals largely in investment securities and for its prosperity 100ks to happy, con- tented people; who by thrift and fru- gality are able to accumulate a re- serve to provide for old age. “It is the fixed policy of this institu- tion to do everything in our power to st labor in every way possible and to prevent any misunderstanding be- tween capital and labor. : , . JOHN R. WALLER, President.’” . Farmers and Mechanics’ National Bapk—"Your communicatign’ without date, sent under registered cover, was [ EXPECTED TODAY Likely to Be Near $19,000,- 000—Important Precedent May Be Established. The Public Utilities Commission is in session this afternoon endeavoring to reach a final decision on the val- uation of the Chesapeake and Poto- mac Telephone Company. The finding of falr value will determine whether there is to be a public hearing to con- sider the reasonableness of rates now charged for telephone mervice. Maj. W. E. R. Covell was in con- ference this morning with account- ants of the commission, going over the final tabulation of the decision. While a decision is expected this afternoon, there is a remote possi- bility that more calculation may be necessary, which would defer an- nouncement of the figures until to- morrow. Here, briefly, is the situation: Three Figures Cited. The value of the telephone plant, as carried on the books of the Com- mission prior to the company's re- quest for a revaluation, was, in round numbers, $18,500,000. The company submitted evidence In support of a claim that the value of its property, at present price levels, should be $25,000,000. The Federation of Citi- zens' Associations came back at the commission with a brief in which William McK. Clayton contended the value should not be placed higher than $15.500,000. Unofficlal reports emanating from the District Building have indicated the new value will not be far in elther direction from $19,000,000. The impending decision is an im- portant one in local public utility regulation, since the Commission may lay down a pollcy on the question of subtracting depreciation from repro- duction cost in arriving at value, and may also indicate its view of what percentage should be allowed in the valuation for what is known as go- ing concern value. RESORT SENDS FOR KELLY Atlantic City «Wants Detective Guard Easter Crowd. At the request of the mayor of Atlantio City, Detective Sergt. E. J Kelly of headquarters has been de- tailed to that resort for expert work in connectlon with Easter crowds, it was learned today. Kelly will leave late this after- noon for the seashors and will re- main there until Monday night. He was detailed there last year and in- itiated several investigations, one of which resulted in such success in dealing with suspicious persons n crowds that Chief Moran, m charge of Atlantic City police, wrote Maj. Danifel Sullivan stating the request of the mayor that Detective Kelly be assigned to duty this year if pos- sible. Inspector C. L. Grant per- mitted the assignment. Kelly Is a lecturer at the local po- lice school on methods of prev:nting and detecting crimes. —— Krutschnitt to Retire. NEW YORK, April 9.—Julius Krut- schnitt, chairman of the board of directors and of the executive commit- tee of the Southern Pacific Company, announced today that he would retire on May 31 under the pension rule of the compan: to R received this morning. We are not aware of any notification such as re- ferred to by you being sent by finan- cial institutions to building con- tractor Makes No Bullding Loans. “This bank does not make building loans. When application is made to us for loans our policy is to pass upon its merits, the elements of desirability and safety being the determining fac- tors. “HARRY V. HAYNES, President.” Natfonal Capital Bank of Washing- ton—"I have a letter signed by you, bearing no date, which came to my desk Monday, April 6, 1925, in which you ask to be informed if this bank has agreed to a plan which has for its purpose the refusal of loan money for building enterprises, placed on the amount of wages paid to mechanics performing labor on same. “Replying thereto, you are informed that this bank is a commercial bank. It does not lend money on mortgages and deeds of trust and. therefore, does mnot furnish funds directly for building enterprises. “Its money s loaned to manufac- turers, wholesale and retail mer- chants, and in making such loans the only considerations are the character of the borrower, the security offered and the abllity to repay amount ad- vanced. W. H. McKee, President.” Anacostia Bank. The Anacostla Bank—“I am In re- ceipt this morning of your undated let- ter in regard to financial institutions of this city not making building loans in the event of any increases in wages above the present scale now being paid to bullding tradesmen. In this connection 1 would say that our in stitution never has made building loans. Belng a savings Institution, we loan money only on individual homes, and in those cases the hous have to be owned by an individual owner and entirely clear of #ny in- cumbrances. ““MAURICE OTTERBACK, “President.” International Exchange Bank—'Re- plying to your undated letter, I have the pleasure of informing you that this bank is not & partx to any plan which has for its purpose the refusal to loan money for building enter- prises based on the amount of wages paid to the mechanic performing the labor of same. “Our depositors are drawn largely from working people and we see no reason for the adoption of a polioy contrary to their interests. Our in- stitution is hers to serve the people who work, not to fight them. Its past history has not been such as would warrant any assumption that we would join any such movement outlined in your letter. ‘our summary demand for infor- mation as to our status savors rather of the blacklisting policies whick you are so prone to condemn and which will not 2id materially in the furtherance of your program. “JOSEPH SCHIAVONE, President.” Never Discussed Issue. Mount Vernon Savings Bank— “Permit us to acknowledge the re- ceipt of your undated letter and in reply thereto We advise that the Mount Vernon Savings Bank has not in any instance based its services on any understanding as between them- elves and their employe: “We have not at any time discussed with contractors the question of in- creased wages to their employes and have no arrangement with any of them touching this question. We are therefore, not in any manner a party to any plan which has for its pur-| pose refusal to make loans for bulld- ing interprises based on the question 4f wages to mechanies performing labor on same, 1 “WILLIAM R. BAUM, President. , THURSDAY, APRIL 9 1925, Twice a day they gather in the alley near 10th and D atreets and walt for the old “Has Be atreaking it ncrows the street to keep hi ” who feeds them. Upper right inwet shows Blackie date. Lower inset In of Kitty, who walted around for 15 minutes before the food showed up. 'HAS BEEN' IS NOW ALLEY GATS “ANGEL Once Prasperous Man Wins Vagrant Felines’ Love by Generosity. BY REX COLLIER. There was a screech of brakes down on Ninth street yesterday af- ternoon, followed by a woman's ex- cited “Oh!" Pedestrians saw a dirty black and white cat dart from in front of the halted wheels of a big shiny touring car. The cat stood bewildered for a moment and made another start for the curb. The opening toward which the feline headed suddenly became filled with four balloon tires, surmounted by a racy chassis and a swirl of dust and smoke. Some miotorist had seen that open- ing first A feline spine became arched and covered with black and whita bristles at the thought of such a narrow escape. But something called that cat on— something that told watchers that this downtown, sophisticated, auto- mobile-dodging cat had an object in life. The object, it was clear, lay across the street and to the south, toward D street. Defles Danger in Haste. Finally reaching the curb with safety, the daring kitty paused not to look to the right or left, but swung into a brisk canter, under menacing human heels and careless human tdes, toward the intersection half a block away. A watery tongue licked eager jaws en route. Around the eorner the animal went as the broad, uninteresting vista of D street came into view, two feline ears bent forward, two greenish eyes peered far down the block toward Tenth street, and it almost seemed as though a feline paw was about to be raised to shade the owner's concen- trated gaze. Then, satisfied that the object in life had not yet appeared, the panting Ninth street kitty dropped on her haunches, glanced around and nodded for the first time to two other furry friends, with equally expectant countenances. As plainly as though they could talk instead of meow this alley trio told spectators that they had a beavy date at the same time in the same place, undoubtedly with the same datee. The time was 4:30, and the place was the south side of D street, near the alley back of the corner movia palace. Anxious but Confident. Every now and then the cats would stand up, peer down the walk toward Tenth street, and then recline again. They were restless, but their very ac- tions bespoke confidence in the out- come. Suddenly one of the trio, that had sneaked /a glance westward, was crystalized into action. The two com- panions also caught the thrill. They started rapidly, though sedately, down the street. These cats, though of the street, were well behaved, Their objective soon became ap- parent. It was an elderly gentleman with & bundle of newspapers under one arm and & cane in the other hand As the cats met him he smiled, said a few words of greeting, but con- tinued walking toward the alley. Passing it, he halted beside an area. way, laid his bundle and cane down, reached into his pocket for a bag, and pulled out a handful of meat scraps. “Hello Blackie and Tommy and Xitty,” sald the kindly-faced gentle- man. “How's everybody? Hungr again? Well, fall to. .And Kitty, how's the bables down there?'— nodding toward the areaway. Reporter Scents Story. A curious reporter could stand this thing no longer. He stepped forward, jdentified himself, and asked the why and wherefor: 2 “My name? What does that mat; Just call me The Old Has-Been, if you must write something, but.I wish you wouldn't. Yep, I'm just an old has- been. Sort of alone in the world, you understand, and these cats here keep m getting too lonely. You see T ;:;’; cat once—Kitty 1 called her— and she stayed with me for five years. Then she left one day last July. I felt pretty bad about it So, just naturally liking cats, I guess, I got fo feeding these hungry-looking kit- down here after breakfast and T didn’'t expect to keep it up when I started, but after they gOt to ex- pecting me at 8 o'clock every morning with my bottle of milk and at 4:30 every afternoon with my meat I just dlan’'t have the heart to disappoint them. You wouldn't, either, I bet. Fed Cat Costly Food. an old has-been, now. But T uflla“(o have plenty of money when my printing business was doing bet- ter than It is now. I used to buy that cat of mine as much as $3 worth of food each day. She liked sardines but they had to be in olive oil, got them in olive oll. And she had an awful hankering for liver—that is, calves’ liver, no other kind, and I bought her 10ts of that. But after the war business wasn't ¥0 good and I had to cut out some of ‘those ex- ;.m\v. delicacies. She got just what ate, though, . uess Kitty thought I was coting her. She dian't know the slighting her. truth, of course. So one day last July eared.” she disa) e 5 o Old Has-Béen had a molst film over his 708 & he Anished his 3 “Well, I 't forgotten my triends. tor, Mave 1 iaughed | | | | 3 76| 9th street braved balloon to the gulping cats as they | thoughtless feet to keeD its rendess HINDENBURG MOVE WELDING LIBERALS Determined to Beat General for Sake of Effect on World Opinion. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 9.—With the Easter| holidays calling for a traditional po- litical truce in the German presi- dential campalgn, all party will be abandoned until next week, | when the final battle hetween the United Right and the Weimar coal tion will set in with full fury The United Right, or Conservative, element, puts forth the claim that it represents the national bourgeois movement. Its nomination of the old war hero, Field Marshal von Hinden- | burg, however, has caused the three Republican parties, with ex-Chancel- lor Dr. Wilhelm Marx as their candi- date, to throw the gage of battle as a test between the elements of reac- tion and the champions of democratic progress ‘While declaring that injury has| been inflicted on Germany's pres- tige abroad through the nomination | of the field marshal, the leaders of! the Weimar coalition insist they wel- come the chalienge issued by the| United Right. They say it affords| the German people an opportunity to| render a decisive, clean-cut verdict on the question of its future political | destinfes. Plans for Campaign. The United Right insis that the election is to determine whether so- clalism and its communistic ap- pendage Is to be perpetuated, while the Weimar coalition parties make the defense that the republican con- stitution and the promuigation of a just program of taxation is the key to_their campaign. Ex-Chancellor Dr. Marx will stump Germany In behalf of his own can- didacy. Just how far Field Marshal von Hindenburg will personally par-| ticipate in the campaign has not been decided. There is a strong inclina- tion in the ranks of his manager to confine his participation to front porch speeches in Hanover, as it is believed his public appearance in the matropolitan centers would be coupled | with hazards of various sorts. The field marshal -personally is averse to publicity, especlally -the brand that would be accorded him in meetings packed by Communists and Soclalists. ELDRIDGE ASKS BOYS TO CCUNT TRAFFIC IN CITY STREETS HERE (Continued from First Page.) O strests, 30; First street and Mich- | igan avenue. 32; Georgia avenue and Columbia road, 32; Thirteenth and K streets, 33; Vermont avenue and I. street, 33; Thomas Circle, 33; Rhode Island avenue, New Jersey avenue and S street, 35; Third and R streets, | 35; Fourteenth and Decatur streets, 36; Fourteenth strest and Spring road, 36; First and K streets, 39; Four- teenth street and Columbia road,.40. Thirteen and F streets, 40: Fair- mont street and Serman avenue, 41; Thirteenth and FEuclid streets, 41: Sherman avenue and Irving street. 41; Columbia road, Sixteenth and Harvard streets, 42: Sixteenth street and Spring road, 42; Sixteenth street and Colorado avenue, 42; Sixteenth and Belmont streets, 42; Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, 43; Fourteenth and G streets, 43; Fif- teenth and P streets, 44; Scott circle, 44; Eleventh street and New Jersey avenue, 44; New Hampshire avenue, V and Seventeenth streets, 47; Eighth street_and Rhode Island avenue, 49; Massachusefts and New Jersey ave- nues, §9;" Fifteenth and F streets, Fifte¢rith’and 1 streets, 49; Sixteenth and Hstreets, 49; Thirteenth and P streats, 49; Seventh and I streets, 51; Sixth and H streets, 51; Fifth and I streets, 51; Third and G streets, 51; Seventh street and Pennsylvania ave- nue, 64; Peace Monument, 64; Elev- enth and N streets, 64; Georgia ahd New Hampshire avenues and Rock Creek Church road, 77; Fifth and Quincy streets ard Rock Creek Church road, 77; North Capitol and Q streets, Second and F streets, 83; Sixteenth street and Alaska avenue, 96; Georgia avenue and Piney Branch road, 96, and Gallatin street, Georgia and Arkansas avenues, 96. Troop 70 will send boys to Ninth and G streets, Tenth and F streets, Fifth and M streets, Fourth street and New York avenue and.New York avenue and North Capitol street. MOSCOW ANTI-REDS GAIN Elect 1,308 Candidates or 34 Per Cent of Total. MOSCOW, April 9.—The results in the elections for the Moscow Soviet, which closed on Tuesday, show that 2,554 Communists and 1,308 members of other parties wore elected, among them more than 900 women. The -non-Communist parties thu will have 34 per cent of the total membership of the new Moscow Boviet, as compared with 123 in the last one. not a meal have théy misseg since st July. I couldn't fail them now.” ‘Which explains, of course, why that dirty black and white cat ffom up on tires and rubbed against his trousers. “No sir, ' vous at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. activities | | meeting were unanimous in their « | standing beneficial BOARD T0 FIGKT “FRATS” IN COURT Lioyd Announces Readiness to Oppose Any Move by Sigma Delta. The board of education stang to defend itself against an proceedings over its ban on ington high school fraternities. This was the answer of President James T. Lloyd today to the action of Sigma Delta Fraternity last night in decid- ing to carry out its plan to take the fight against the board's anti-frater- nity rule into the courts Mr. Lloyd declined to comment on the prospective court proceedings ex- cept to say that the board pre- pared. Board members have held conferences with Corporation Cour Francis H. Stephens, and feel cc fident that the ruling secret socleties will tribunal A temporary restr be petitioned for fraternity decided made later for tion A meeting was bly hall of the Me facturers’ Assoctation, ir Building, and was attended b parents of many of the high fraternity members who have 1 their suport in the movemen Milton Probey, chairman of the exec. utive commlittee of Sigma Delta sided. In calling the meeting announced that the fraternit “dilly-dallled long enough Board of Education is stall said. “Arbitration has failed must fight.” legnl Wash- upheld held 1n rchants Man the <oh arder h The We Urges Fight in Court. Desoribing sohool officia evasive, elusive lot,” 8. Du ley of the Western Home chool Assoolation, advised that ‘nothing could be expected from the school board. Rev. Edward Tabor, an alum nus of Central High School and pastor of a church in Baltimore, spoke in defense of the fraternities. The pur- poses and influences of fraternities are misrepresented, he said. The anti-fraternity rule, he explained, ha been proved absolutely unenforceabls while members of the secret orgar zations are being persecuted The parents who attended the as “an an Brad- d that membersh h fraternities has been bene: parent said: “My son's in his fraternity has been incident high =chool career. Due ' his fraternity membership. his schol- arship has improved noticeably, t say nothing of his activity and stand- ing in all other lines of school deavor. pressions embershiy the ou of his Lawyers Say Rule Is Void. “The members of this particul fraternity are all leaders in schc work. They meet in my home and in the homes of my neighbors Everything they do is under the su- pervision and almost in the presence of the parents. We know where our boys are and with whom they are associating. I fail to see where fra- ternity membership, under the cir- cumstances, can be in the slightest | degree harmful.” More than half a dozen of the par- ents present were lawvers, and they were unanimous in their opinion that the board's rule is illegal Generous offers of financial assist- ance in the fight were made by those attending the meeting. A representa- tive from Phi Alpha Epsilon of Eastern High School pledged $60. The chairman of Sigma Delta's interchap- ter council pledged $150 and said he thought $250 more could be had. A {H. Gregory, whose gon has been de barred from some school activities at Eastern for his connection with & condemned fraternity, pledged $50 Counsel to Be Retained. committee Was appointed by Chairman Probey to select and retai counsel and arrange court procee ings. It is composed of Ira L. Ewers J. Harper Snapp and Norman Weeks John E. Laskey, former United States District attorney, was men- tioned as the lawyer who Wwill be ap proached to handie the case. Another committes was appointed 1o handle the finances for the court pro- ceedings. Mr. Probey will be the chairman. Other members are Charles Van Meter, Porter Shreve, Fran Moreland, F. Sweenev and Mr Gregory. An immediate goal of $1,000 was fixed BLOND DANCERS SCARCE. London Has Shortage of Light- Haired Chorus Girls. | LONDON, April 9 —Searcity bln‘:d chorus girls is divulged London producers. The managers be- {lieve this is due to the bobbing and shingling vogue, which, in their opin- fon, has caused abandonment of the use of hair dyes. 2 A number of druggists have ex- plained that the sale of peroxide has fallen off alarmingly. Since the war many girls have gone lin for office work, and the managers contend that the tea shops also have lured many of their possible candl dates for the chorus. A BOWIE ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. FIRST RACE—Claiming; purse, §1,200, 2.yearolds: 4 furlongs. mackover ..... 113 Facet i Shuffe .00 110 “Thos. Lyon ... 105 Buttercup us Flutter - s Terribleman .. ... 110 {*Logfire 105 Sea Crest |11I111 114 “Forelady _...... 110 4J. P. Jones and Woods Garth entry. SECOND RACB—Claiming: purse, $1.200 year-olds; 53y furlongs. Slate ............ 118 Trapdsls 110 Dress Goods 105 Firth o Forth ... 98 Rose Cloud ...... 111 *Night Shade ... 108 THIRD RACE—Claiming: purss. year-olds and up: 61 furlongs. Sen Sand . 118 St. Michael Man ... 107 Pole Star . Py 108 Merrimac 98 Rags ... *Romping Home.. 113 Demijobn . 8o It Goes 105 FOURTH RACE—The Fadi purse, $1.600; fillies and mar and ip: 1 mil Thimble Thomasive . Royal Kiss . Grotto Also eligibie $oleger Lacky Pick *Marat Philo Virginja's Choice Eisie Louise Tather . *Prerty Business Come Along Evil Mama French Ledy .... £1.200; and Fanei 3-yearolds 104 Sun Lad; S Galatia . 86 Golden Eillows lusulate ... 10 RACE—Clalming: purse, $1.200; T 111 *Blossom House. *Johony Overton. 99 *Cypsy Flyer IXTH RA( Clatmin purse, s 115 *gled 20 venaecse ge . e 100 Poedie .. Br'D. Harringt'a 110 *Orageuss toNew Rival .... 110 dyren ool 98 3 s, Jonoson and J. J. Norton entrs. SEVENTH RACE—Claiming: purse, $1,2 3.year-cids and up: 1¢s miles. Ata Jewell ..... 100 *Sir Leonid . Docks and Drakes 99 *Fair Light 90 *Rosa Yeia 1108 “*Apprentice allowance claimed. Wume clear; track fast. a