Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (D. 8 Weather Bureau Forecas “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. Showers and somewhat cooler : tomorrow generally fair. Temperatures: Highest, 89 at 5 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 64 at 5 a.m. yester- Full report on page 5. to- da he WASHINGTON, D. C, unday Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION MORNING, JUNE Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D, C. No. 1,057—No. ,643. SUNDAY 28, 1925.—NINETY-FOUR PAGES. * FIVE CENTS. UP) Means Associated Press. ITREASURY SURPLUS !Soviet Agents Find REMEMBER. . QUAKE IN WEST ROCKS 5 STATES FOR 3 HOURS; SLIDES BLOCK TRAINS Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington and Idaho Are Gripped. Town Afire. MOUNTAINS ARE SHIFTING; DAMAGE RUNS TO THOUSANDS Buildings Are Wrecked and Tunnel Col- lapses—Throngs of Tourists in Area Are Believed Safe. By the Ascociated Press LIVINGSTON, Mont., June 27.—The Lombard tunnel near Lombard on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- way has collapsed. BUTTE, Mont., June 27.—Sections of five western states wére terrorized by earthquakes for three hours tonight. Panic resulted in practically every city in western Montana. Just north of Yel- lowstone Park, at Three Forks, Mont., three landslides were re- ported to have hemmed in as many passenger trains loaded with vacationists. Pavements and buildings were cracked in many cities, a half dozen buildings were reported to have been demolished, and elec- tric railroad lines temporarily crippled, and there was a recurrence of the recent avalanche at Jackson, \Wyo., but nowhere was any loss of life reported. Three Trains Believed Stalled. The Olympian, fast train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad between Chica 1d Seattle, is believed to be stalled between two of the avalanches in the vicinity of Three Forks and two other trains, one a Milwaukee train and the other a Northern Pacific, are reported hemmed in by the slides. A special train made up at Livingston is racing to the rescue, but there is reported to be little danger. Reports of damage late tonight began creeping in. The Meagher County courthouse at White Sulphur Springs. Mont., collapsed and the damage is estimated at $100.000. Livingston was shaken four times, liberations in short order. and most of the cities in the danger | dict was guflty. a repor 4 Appar- O e 23 n"(‘l‘m'k RUSH TO SAFETY. intermittently until well The quake was felt from t to the South Dakota line: Spokane south to Thermopolis sper, Wyo. It left its trade mark in northern Idaho, and tele. phone company officlals at Jackson, shortly after 11 o'clock. tonight, de- red that the recurrence of the avalanche across the Gros Ventre Val- ley near there evidently was a part of the general disturbance Thousands Are Safe. In spite of the delay caused to trains and the wide area covered b the quake, thousands of vacationists in and near Yellowstone Park are safe, Horace M. Albright, park superin- tendent, declared late tonight. He reported no material damage had | been done in the park. OId Faithful Geyser continued to serenely and at regular intervals The populace of Helena rushed from office buildings and_their homes when the shocks came. The veterans' hospital at Fort Harrison, nearby groaned and cracked, siving the pa- tients a scare. Town Is On Fire. The brick school building at Three Forks which apparently bore the brunt of the upheaval, collapsed: a church was badly damaged and pa- tients in a hospital were taken to a place of safety. Some minor injuries tained in the rush. s in and around Three Forks —on Yellowstone trail and those over the Jefferson River are declared to 7c The ver- Thousands Are Alarmed When Earth Shakes. By the Assoctated Press. BILLINGS, Mont., June 27.—Nearly two-thirds of the State of Montana was shaken by two series of earth- quake shocks early tonight, the first at 6:23 o'clock and the second at 7:05. Panic seized thousands of people in Billings, Butte, Anaconda, Great Falls, Missoula, Livingston and Helena and they rushed clear of buildings, fear- {ing for their lives. Although no loss of life was re- ported, word that the temblors had taken their toll in property damage soon began to trickle in. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul's electrified rallroad line be- tween Harlowtown and Three Forks was reported out of comnussion and an avalanche of unknown proportions s 1eported at Lombard, Mont. The walls of a hotel in Great Falls crucked under the upheaval, but the building withstood the shock. Fear for Mines. after 10. Seattle from and ¢ pout A severe quake was felt at Jardine, it was reported. It was feared the cs there had been damaged. Liv ingsion, near Yellowstone Park, re- ported a serfes of three temblors—the first at 6:03, the second at 7:05 and the third at 7:15. The shock created among tourists in the big have been sprung out of line and are dangerous to traffic. Three Forks is said to have sustained a §200,000 prop- erty loss. Willow Creek, a town of 300, near Three Forks, is on fire and is in da ger of total destruction, savs a re- port from Great Falls. This report declared that Three Forks lost one of its bank buildings. Tall Buildings Wabble. Butte w: vigorously shaken four times. Bric chimn toppled, and its tallest buildings leaned perceptibly, townsmen reported. Thousands, panic stricken, rushed to the streets. When the excitement died down after the first shock, Butte's first thought was of its hundreds of men working far below the earth’s surface in the cop- per mines. But the skips continued | to run up and down with regularity and no damage underground was re- | ported. There were three major Billings, but the dan mostly of cracked 1 buildings. SLIDE 1S REP shocks in consisted vements and TED. Section of Sheep Mountain Gives Way. JACKSON, Wyo., recurrence of the avalanche in, the Gros Ventre River valley of early. this week took place tonight, when another | vast section of Sheep Mountain rolled | into the valley and dammed the river about three miles above the lake caused by the first big slide. arth. quake shocks accompanied the mov- | ing of the mountain into the valley. The report of the recurrence of the | landslide was brought to Jackson to- | night by a forest ranger named Dib- ble, who said he had had a race for life when a mass of the mountain about one and one-half miles in length, softened by the melting snows, oozed down into the valley Ranches Will be Flooded. The new avalanche is far greater | in than the first, according to Dibble. Many more ranches will be inundated and another ranger station will be lost. Months will be required for the shallow river to fill the 3 -, he declared. The movement of Sheep Mountain continues without stop, Dibble said. Preceding the first shock at Ana- conda a severe electrical storm Six persons were stunned by lightning. The most uncomfortable experience so far discovered was the predicament in Missoula, helplessly lock- 4 room to deliberate on a| se. After the first shock, the | terrified _jurors began pounding the duor and ‘demanding their release. A deputy sheriff let them out, but they returned later and finished their de- Another June 27 (P).—A t, lay Ve olicemen in Livingston sald the tower 'of a high building there red with an arch-like movement. Many women fainted there. Out of all the reports of panic and minor property damage there was none telling of loss of life. Three passenger trains, two of the Milwaukee road and the other a Northern Pacific train, are caught between two avalanches near Lom bard, Mont., which were caused by the earthquake, and a special train was made up to go to their rescue. Train No. 235 of the Northern Pa cifie discharged a load of tourists at Logan, Mont., at 4:15 o'clock, where they were to continue to Yellow- stone Park. The slides probably are across one of the three streams which join at Three Forks, Mont, and form the source of the Missourl River. Two rallroad cars were shaken from an overhead coal dock at Boze- man, according to reports here and ran wild down the steep incline. Both were loaded with coal. The wreck they made at the bottom of the in- cline blocked the Bozeman round- house and engines cannot be taken out for regular trains. Pavements and bulldings in Liv- ston were cracked, the openings varying from a mere crack to breaks nearly an inch wide. Reports were also received that the earthshocks were felt at Bonners Ferry, Sand Point and St. Mary's, Iduho, and at Baker, Oreg. No dam- 4 reported. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, I, June 27.— The city of Herrin, long storm cen- ter of Williamson County's bloody community strife and angry feuds, has abandoned old ways for new and is bullding peace on the foun- dation of the Golden Rule. Members of a legislative com- mittee which visited Herrin this week during a tour of the area devastated by the tornado which swept southern Illinois last March, found the population happy and peaceable, the old grudges forgot- ten and the old hatreds buried in a spirit of reconciliation engendered in daily noon-day prayer meetings in the city's largest downtown theater. The committee arrived in Herrin ly before noon and found 2 store closed. Many store windows displayed the sign: “This place closes dally for the 4 GOL. COOLIDGE, ILL, SUFFERS RELAPSE; GONDITION SERIOUS President’s Father Was Sent to Bed Yesterday by His Physician. INFLAMMATORY STATE IN ABDOMEN REPORTED Running Temperature, But His Heart Is Good, Doctor At- tending Him Says. By the Associated Pres PLYMOUTH, Vt. June condition of Col. Coolidge, 82-y father of the President, took a ~—The turn ported in a serious condition by his personal physician, Dr. A. W. Cram, of Bridgewater. Late tonight Dr. Cram fssued the following statement on Col. Coolidge’s condition: ““There is gas on the stomach and in the intestines, and an inflammator® condition has set in. Col. Coolidge’s condition is serious, but not critical. The temperature is a degree and one- half above normal and the heart con- dition is good.” Complications Arise. Col. Coolldge was unable to get to sleep on account of his pain, it was reported late tonight, and Dr. Cram planned to spend the greater part of the night with his patient Dr. Cram said that he considered the condition of Col. Coolidge worse than it had been at any time in the past. “Some little intestinal tions arose yesterday and today.” he said, “and "this morning Attorney General Sargent visited Col. Coolidge and was alarmed by his condition. ““He telephoned me at Bridgewater, and 1 came right over. noon he was fairly comfortable, and the heart and pulse were both normal He developed a slight temperature, around 100. T have sent for a special nurse to _\(‘tend Col. Coolidge, and we shall watch his condition closely. In the absence of Dr. James F. Coupal, physician to President Cool- idge. who was expected here from the Summer White House in Swampscott, Mass., Dr. Cram declined to enter into in more detail. At the time of making his statement Dr. Cram had just arrived here from Bridgewater for an evening visit to Col. Coolidge. He said that another statement would be issued when his examination was concluded. Mrs. May Johnson of Rutland, who at one time nursed President Cool- idge's stepmother, was called from that city and arrived tonight to care for Col. Coolidge. The President’s father took to his bed for the first time this morning. He had formerly been well enough to do the daily chores about the place, but last evening he was meized with severe pains in the abdomen while sitting in an easy chalr. So great was his pain that he could not rise to go to his bed and spent the night in the chair. He got up as usual this morniing, but the pains set in again and he went to bed. President Alarmed. The condition of Col. Coolidge has caused the President some alarm since his father came to Boston May 1, at his express wish, for an examination at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Drs. Paul D. White and Arthur L. Chute, the specialists who went over him, diagnosed his conditfon as “heart block which was characterized by a slow pulse. Dr. Cram, who accompanied his pa- tient to Boston, said at the time/that rious. reported to have suffered a fainting spell, but the next day jocularly told inquirers that if he had been ill he did not recall it. At the same time Dr. Cram said that Col. Coolidge’s pulse and blood pressure were better than for weeks. _SPAIN CUTS VISA FEES. Charges for Americans Reduced From $10 to $1.50. MADRID, June 27 (®.—A mutual agreement having been reached with the United States, the Spanish authorities today announced a re- duction of visa fees. It was decided to reduce the visa fees of all Americans reaching Spain, with the exception of Immigrants, from $10 to $1.50, while for Spanards leaving for the United States, except emigrants, the fee will be reduced to 10 pesetas. A peseta’s normal value is about 20 cents. Coast Flight Succeeds. SAN FRANCISCO, June P).— Lieut. R. W. Sweeley, making a dawn- to-dusk flight from San Francisco to 27 cessfully completed the round trip when he arrived at Crissy Field: here at 6:41 o'clock tonight. {Bloody Herrin Halts to Pray Daily And Forgets Old Strife and Feuds men's noon-day prayer meeting, Annex Theater, 11:30 to 12 noon.” Few persons were seen on the streets, and business was at a standstill while proprietors, clerks ’lnd salespeople attended the serv- ces. > At_the meeting, the logislators found men who could pray only in a foreign tongue standing shoulder- to-shoulder with the townsfolk who once were armed against them. The legislators are convinced the city has returned to the ways of peace, that the Golden Rule has replaced the blue steel pistol as the arbiter of honor. Much credit for the success of the reconciliation enterprise is given to Rev. Elmer Williams, a layman evangelist who inaugurated the daily meetings in May. Every pastor in the community is co-oper- ating and as many as 1,000 persons ‘have been brought into the daily services, l for the worse today, and he was re-| complica- | This after- | the nature of Col. Coolidge’s condition | the aged man's condition was not se-| Later in the month the Colonel was| salt Lake City, Utah, and return, suc- | PARK OVER BORDER TO BEAUTIFY CITY Great Metropolitan District Ultimate Aim of Plan Maryland Supports. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Maryland is ready, able and willing | to join the triumvirate of au | tonomous geographic subdivisions | i which is to develop the National Cap- ftal and its environs Into a great metropolitan district There is about to be established right outside the District, and extend- ing through Montgomery County to Howard County, a park, rival- ing in beauty and attractiveness the Rock Creek ark of the Capital City. It will be the Northwest Branch Park, and will have bordering on it on efther side fine automobile roads through a section that few people, except the natives, have seen. It is about to become a reality in the general scheme of preservation of 4 watershed in line with the development of this section as a part of the plan for a big metropolitan district around the Cap- ital City. Maryland, and hy this is meant those who are directing the destines | of this sovereign State out of which the District of Columbia was carved, realizes that she is on the border of Ithe most beautiful capital in the | world today. It was once her own | sofl, and she realizes that the pop- { ulation of this city is overflowing into her hills and valleys To help it grow. to make it attrac- tive, and so weld its boundaries that it will appear as one great city. Maryland has stepped ahead. Her government and her citizens foresaw | the possibilities, and while still there were fields separating Washington's expanding population and the Mary- land State line, a law was passed by | the Maryland Legislature giving au- thority to direct the way streets should be laid. parks marked off, building lines drawn. With all this being done, she fs ready now to join hands, just as soon {as the invitation is recelved. with the city planning committee of the National Park Commission and with the Arlington County Civic Federa- tion and the State of Virginia, in working together in planning this great metropolitan district. Governor Ready to Act. Gov. Albert E. Ritchie of Mary- land will act as soon as his people ask. Maj. E. Brooke Lee, Secretary | of State of Maryland, the governor's right hand man and a power in_the political operations of the State,'and T. Howard Duckett of Hyattsville, chairman of the Washington Su- burban Sanitary Commission - of Maryland, both say that the governor will act and name a committee to co-operate with the others as soon as_they ask him to. ‘While already the counties bor- dering on the District have been go- ing ahead with their own big plan- ning, they also have looked after [other things. The new park now under considera- tion will extend from the point on the District line where the NortMwest Branch intersects it through Mont- gomery County and uv to the head waters in Howard County. It will be preserved tb protect the watershed for the water system of this sanitary district, the plant for which has just been opened at Burnt Mills, Md., on the Colesville pike, and from which | pipe lines will radiate throughout the isection. Many of them already have !been laid. To this extent it also will iprotect the watershed of athe Ana- costla River or Eastern Branch, and reduce the pollution, for the Northwest branch is one of the main feeders of the Anacostia River. Though the land has not yet been obtained, plans are being made for " (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) 1 An internationally impor- tant interview with {% Viscount Takaaki Kato Prime Minister of Japan By Edward Price Bell. —on page 3, editorial section of today's issue of . 3 fr iy The Sunday Star WHAT FUN YoU HAD IN NEW YORK '(* THIS TIME LAST TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—28 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Forelgn. 5 Army and Navy News—Page 18. Current News Events—Page 2 Starry Skies in July—Page 23. Radioc News and Programs—Page 24. PART TWO0—16 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 9. District National Guard—Page 10. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 13. D. A. R. News—Page 14 Spanish War Veterans—Page 14 News of the Clubs—Page 16. Veterans of the Great War—Page 16 PART THREE—I2 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Pho- toplay. Music in Washington—Page 4. Motors and Motoring—Pages 5, 6, %, 9 and 10. Fraternal News—Page 11 Reviews of New Books—Page 12. Civilian Army News—Page 12, PART FOUR—i PAGE! Sports Section PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures Pink PART SIX—14 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Serial, “Tim of Bush Valley"—Page 9. Financial News—Pages 12 and 18. GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—i PAGE! Betty; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. CAILLAUX PROGRAM EFFECTIVE AT ONCE Will Add 6,000,000,000 Paper Francs to French Currency Within 3 Months. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 27.—M. Caillaux's financial measures, which were adopt- ed by the Senate this afternoon, 273 to 11, will become law upon their publication in the official journal to- morrow. The measures had been previously passed by the Chamber of Deputies earliér in the day. They authorize the printing of 6,000,000,000 more paper francs, making a total of 10,600.000,000 francs within the last three months. This inflation of the currency was scored by all the opposition speakers in the Senate. and even by Premier Painleve himself, who, however, ex- cused it as a measure to avert na- tional peril. Opposition Alds Measure. Senator Henry Berenger, reporting the Caillaux project for the Senate, declared it was certain that if the deficit in the circulation of the na- tional defense bonds was not checked the newly authorized 6,000,000,000 francs would be rapidly absorbed. After the inflation feature had been voted, 226 to 29, the opposition led by M. Cheron, former minister of agri- culture under Poincare, decided not to abstaln from voting on the finan- cial projects as a whole, thus re- sponding to Premier Painleve’s appeal for the largest possible majority from the Sepate In order to reassure the country. . A delegation of public employes de- manding to see M. Painleve caused the doors of the Senate to be precipi- tately closed and the republican guard reinforced. They dispersed without trouble after M. Painleve promised them an interview at the ministry of war this evening. DAWES JOINS ARTILLERY. Is Initiated Into Oldest Military Organization in America. BOSTON, June 27 (#).—Vice Presi- dent Charles G. Dawes joined the Anclent and Honorable Artillery Com- pany, held to be the oldest military organization in America, before he left this city for Chicago today. A detachment of the company visited him at his hotel and presented the roster for his signature. The Vice President found time to visit the Rufus Dawes Hotel for work- ing men in the south end, established by Mr. Dawes in memory of his son Rufus, drowned in Lake Geneva in By e el i o |serve units of the Army, (July 1, with the start of the new im- 1924 DEFENSE TEST FIGURES REVEALED | 1,215,520 One-Day Volun- teers Proved Nation Ready | for Major Emergency. By the Associated Press. A detailed analysis of final report of the first defense test, September 1 last, made public last night by the War Department, showed that a total of 1,215,520 one- volunteers were enrolied for that day with Regular, National Guard and Organized H or 251.093 | men in excess of the numbe: that! actual mobilization plans for a major | emergency would call to the colors| during the first four months «f the! mobilization { The volunteers were exclusive of the | millions of persons who participates | in patriotic exercises attending the test. They brought the Army up to a strength of 1,549,332 men for the day, | while the mobilization plans for :he | first quarterly period call for a strength of 1,267,639, 1 Small Towns Lead. i The report showed that the cere-| monies last vear in small communi- ties exceeded proportionately those in! large population centers and that the | demonstrations were the most uni- formly successful “where natural po- litical channels were followed—i. e., where the governor appointed a super vising State committee and the may- ors of the cities appointed the commit. | tees which were directly in charge of the local demonstrations.” The department found that the na ture and purposes of the national de- | fense policy was better understood by | the people, “from sixteen to twenty- five milllon Americans” having gone to some trouble to show their inter- est, and that it could therefore pro-| ceed with increased confidence in de- | velopment of that policy since its| plans had been proven to be “based on sound principles. H “All defects noted are of a minor | character and readily corrected,” the ! report said. | Success of the decentralized | mobilization plans was found to de-| pend on “the high average of intel- | ligence, the common sense, patriotism | and the spirit of co-operation to be| found among our citizens,” and it was | added that future tests would “assure | the fullest degree of local co-opera-| tion.” Test of Real Value. Of outstanding military value was! the fact that the first test brought about the development of detailed plans for the local mobilization of about 75 per cent of thé units inactive in peace times, which was classified as “something definite and tangible in mobllzation plans,” permitting a general revision to bring them nearer perfection. H “The time and cost that will be saved and the confusion during an emergency that will be eliminated by | this revision, cannot be estimated, but will be considerable,” the report stated. One immediate effect of the first test was the -adoption of a policy under which ranking reserve officers assigned to command units of thel organized reserve will be held per- sonally responsible for completion of local assembly plans for their com- mands. Failure to comply with this requirement will result in delinquent reservists being relieved if they can- not give a satisfactory explanation. ‘While the stress of the July 4 test will be laid on the patriotic exercises, there still will be opportunity for an actual review of the work done to correct deficiencies revealed in the first tst. - 500 ALIENS DUE JULY 1, NEW LAW ENDING RUSH Scots and Scandinavians Are Com- ing—Ships Were Racing to Port Two Yeafs Ago. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 27.—Immigra- tion Commissioner Curran said today that only three ships, bearing about 500 Scotchmen, Swedes and Norwe- gians, are scheduled to arrive on migration year. Two years ago, in contrast, a dozen ships, thelr steerages filled with allens, raced into the har- bor to land their passengers first. Explaining why the new immigra- tion regulations prevented any rush of aliens, Commissioner Curran said: “Every immigrant must have a co sul's visa, and no consul may issue in one month more than 10 per cent of the quota for the year. Selection is made on the other side and the flow 48 contcollgd there,” i torne | partment auditorium | receiving 36 of the 5. | Id $3,000,000 Hidden In Home of Prince By the Amociated Press. MOSCOW, June 27.—Soviet gov ernment agewts today discovered a secret treasure trove valued at $3,000,000 hidden away in the for- | mer home of Prince Felix Yous soupoff, member of one of the old est and wealthlest of Russian royal familles. The prince recently gained wide public notice in the United States by a suit to recover two Rembrandts which he smui gled out of Leningrad (Petrograd) in_1910. The Youssoupoff treasures found today were carefully concealed in a steel vault behind a brick wall They consisted of hundreds of gold, silver and platinum articles of great beauty, many of them adorned with = diamonds, pearls sapphires and rubies. The riches were hidden by the Youssoupoff | family prior to the flight from Russia, following the revolution, | say Soviet officlal | PEYSER MADE HEAD| OF DISTRICT LEGION Expected Fight on Absentee Candidate for Commander- ship Fails to Develop. | Without a sign of the opposition which had been predicted before the | convention opened, Capt. Jullus T Peyser, a well known Washington at-| « former member of the Board | of Education and @ men prominent in | ! | civic affairs in Washington for m vears, was elected department mander of the District of Columbia department, American Legion, at the| closing meeting of the two-day depart ment convention at the Interior De- st night at Hot Springs pt. Pevser, who ., attending the convention of the ! District of Columbia Bankers' Associ- | ation, was elected on the first ballot, | 55 votes cast, with but 29 necessary to elect Fisk Is Poor Second. { Lieut. Howard S. Fisk of George | Washington Post, No. 1, received 11} Re- | votes, running second to Peyser. and | roughly. $3.750.0 four votes each were cast for George | L. Tait of H. C. Spengler Post and! Charles Riemer of Stuart Walcott! Post dgar T. Hitch, whose name was | placed in nomination last night, with- | drew from the ruce for department commander. | Thomas J. Frailey of Sergt. Jasper | Post was elected first vice commander, recelving 38 of 55 votes cast, and| Theodore Cogswell of Augustus P., Gurdner Post was elected second vice commander. Miss Helen McCarty of S. Jacob Jones Post was elected third vice commander. Delegates to! the national convention to be held in| Omaha, Nebr., in October were elected | as follows: Harlan Wood, Joseph J. B. C. McNefll, William Morre ¥. Franklin and Miss Helen | nk L. Pec (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) NORFOLK CLUE REVEALS | NEW YORK “DOPE RING” | Drugs Sent Prisoner in Sock Lead | i to | Arrest of Six in | Northern Gity. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 27.—Upon evi dence obtained when prison author- ities intercepted a package alleged | to have contained narcotics. addressed | to a Federal prisoner in the city| prison at Norfolk, Va.. Federal nar- cotic agents tonizht arrested five men | and a woman charged with violation | of the Harrison act. The prisoners are Jesse H. Howard, 31 years old, and his wife, Sylv Howard, wudeville entertainers: | Isadore Groman. ,30. of Brooklyn: | Frank Nardello, 22! Michael Valinoto, 25, and Charles Stueril, 28, proprietor | of a West Houston street restaurant. | Norfolk prison authorities found a | quantity of alleged narcotics in the | heel of a sock in a package coni ing Groman's address. A letter sig ed by Howard said the package ha been sent. | | 0IL MEN INVITED T0 JOIN IN ‘CHESTER CONCESSION’ | Admiral Invites American Groups to Help Develop Lands in Turkey. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 27.—Rear Ad- miral Colby M. Chester, retired, pres. ident of the Ottoman American De- velopment Co., which holds the ““Ches. ter_cencession” of ofl land in Mosul and | eastern Anatolia. Turkey, today in- vited American ofl groups to pate in developing the Turl flelds, which, the company said, has | 8.000,000 barrels potentiality. i Admiral Chester addressed a_state- | ment to the chairman of the Federal Oil Conservation Boarg, appointed by | President Coolidge. offering “to join | with any American group, on an equitable basis. and insure them the control of these oil flelds.” The dura- tion of the concession is 99 vears. | SERRERTNEENNANYRANANEL) What Is Evolution? Everybody is talking about it, but how many really know what it 187 The outline of evolution, telling what it is in simple language ®ind tracing the his- tory and significance of this historic discussion which is to be opened in Dayton, Tenn., next month, will be told by Lemuel F. Parton, newspaper man and sclentific writer, in five installments, beginning Wednesday, July 1, The Evening Star 2NRANEEN ROTTITILLT Il STETEH LLLELLEeS BZRUREATERNNNRZROTN | | revenue ¢ | half of the current jrev | nis course ABOVE §245,00,000, OFFICIAL ESTIMATE With Ony Two More Days in Fiscal Year, Original Figure Is Doubled. HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS ARE EXCEEDED IN TOTAL" Outgo Expenditures Computed Close to First Amount Seen in Budget. By the Associated Press The Federal Government will finish the fiscal vear T with a sur plus in excess of $2435.000.600. n $£50,000,000 greater than previous estimate and more th: as larze s was calculated when the year be sday 3 any twice isine are Although two mc days remain before final com puted, official reports up to the close of business Friday night warranted official statements that t fondest xpectations in the matter of surplus had been exceeded Income Tax Increases. Another phase of T | tions that gave rise to isfaction trend of re Excluding the month. revenue zgregated $1.749,69 or 000 more than the estimate upc was hased when the appropriat nal days of th figure inc e their totals on collections for 15 _quarterly payment Despite the reduction in which have been effective through ) vear. total are expected 00,000 below last fiscal vear 2.000. Total re this were income taxe of this alone nth will see few internal completed the June tax rates internal revenue recei to fall only about the receipts for the which totaled §: ceipts to June 2 o year 0,000 Outgo Usually Close. receipts from income far are only about eig lions below those from the same source in the fiscal vear 1924, it thus becomes obvious that the shrinkage in the revenues has been in the mis cellaneous group and as a result of he abolition of in taxes. Of 1s, however, have not had time to analyze this phase of the year's business - As to_expenditures. al figures show ta es mil incomplete but the cost of Gov ernment for the 12 months ending next Tuesday will be very close the original estimate of $3.334,053.0 To date. the outgo totals $3.5 60,000 of Revision Discussed. With the approach of the end of the fiscal year. the subject of tax sion was stirred again among ti few officials in the city ions were made freely that the present law is producing at a_greater ratio than had been expected und some officials believed that the reduction in the higher surtaxes already had called forth some capital from hiding Although Secretary Mellon will take no steps in calculation of tax rates until the final figures are in, it has been indicated that he will favor cut of $300.000,000 in the total tax SEES $400,000,000 CUT. ze Believes Congress Can Lop That Off Levies. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Coo SUMMER WAMPSCOTT idge believes thut the next Con s will be able to reduce taxes to the extent of $400.000,000. This pre. diction will be reached. it is thought, because of the increasing surpius based upon information received by the President from Washington yes terday. It cannot be realized, however, un. less the deficit in the postal receipis are overcome and the expenditure. next year are kept down to the low- est possible point WHIT June His Principal Policy. This is the chief policy, reduction taxation, to include the scaling down of the surtaxes to 25 per cent, and a possible decrease in the present nor mal tax of I per cent now before President Coolidge. He bolieves the: he cun do nothing of xreuter s to the country than force down for to do so. in his opinion. wili pory business to expand and will needed relief to the masse:. jssued instructions that the surplus at the end of the fiseal ve shall be furnished him withouc aciay. While Secretary Mellon will nof prepare a tax bill as he did last year, it is known that President Coolidge himself will suggest the ex tent of the reduction and the details of the important revisign in the rates to the members of the ways and@means committee. He is willing that the Democratic party shall cen ter its attack upon him, if it desires to repeat its tactics of last year, and he is going to ussume responsibility ifor outlining the salient features of the bill, or rather the party’s polic This course will be followed by him for two reasons. He believes that in duously keeping down expenditures so that taxes may be reduced has won him the con- fidence of the people, and as the party leader he should take the lead in suggesting the extent of the next | tax revision. Test of Confidence. The administration test of confi- dence will be based upon its ability to keep down expenses and reduce the taxes. That being the case, the President is willing to become more aggressive than he has in the past in trying to influence legislation. He believes that taxation will be the chief question before the voters next year and has told a number of Re- publican leaders that they can do nothing better for the country and party success in the 1926 elections than help him to lessen expenditures and reduce taxes. If ‘there is a satisfactory tax prc gram passed by the next Congress President Coolidge believes that some of the radicalism reflected in the past will_disappear and the Republican _ (Cantinued on Page 6, Column &3 _