Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued warm today and tomorrow. Highest Lowest, Full report on page 5. 93, at 4 No. 1,059—No. 29,657. p.m. 75, at 4 a.n. yesterday. yesterday; Entered second class matter post_office, - Washington, D. DE PAOLO WINNER INAUTO MARATHON, RECHECK REVEALS Bob McDonogh, First Named Victor, Later Shown Defeated. 123.33-MILE AVERAGE RECORDED DURING RACE Frenzied Crowd Sees Sensational Battle of Speed Kings—De Palma Is Injured. Cold mathematical formulae last night pronounced Peter De Paolo and his Duesenberg winner of the 230- mile motor classic at Laurel just 5 hours ter & erve-shattered throng had departed from the new Baltiinore. Washington Speedway confidently be. lieving it had watched the Robert McDonc 1 pluck victory from a daring field | Still a Champion PETER DE PAOLO. CROWD OF 30,000 SAW MOTOR RACE Satisfaction in Double Doses of veteran speed kin In some still misty manner, some| one somewhere skipped a lap on De | Paolo and as a result, while the offi- | scoring board was busy clicking | brilliant victory young Me- | Donogh, De Paclo really goin ahead and winnin, race. The official res De Paolo com hours 1 m McDonogh's e with a Special was 2 hours 1 minute 59 28100 seconds. Crowd Kept in Frenzy. But, however unfortunate have been the mistakes of the the race was one of v sations. Only two red. one when Jerr overcome by the he start and the other Ralph De Palma, veteran of the field in yes- terday’s cl skidded from one of | the high banks and was hurled from | his partially wrecked car. Wonderlich was revived the | Speedway’s temporary hospital, but he | was ordered not to drive and De Pal ma was practically unhurt. But it was the narrow escapes that kept the | throng in a nervous frenzy from the | drop of the starting flag until the win ner had roared across the finish—the slides and hair-breadth passes at the steep curves with cars thundering | along the track at more than two | miles a minute. Time and again applause that rose | like an overwhelming symphony over | the droning hum of fiying motors | gave way to shouts of agonized fear | as the pilots crowded af the towering | bends and one, unable to hold his bit | of steel and aluminum at such a pitch any longer, started slipping down into the mass below him 1 McDonogh Sensed Error. { Even while he was receiving the | acclamation of thousands yesterday | after the close of the race, Bob McDonogh knew somebody had erred. He knew he had not won. So the| formal decision of the judges last| night, which snatched victory from | him and handed it to De Paolo, came as no surprise. He made no com ment, simply smiled and immediately called up De Paolo to congratulate him. The latter, Incidentally, had! made no protest, but merely requested | the judges to recheck the official scores to see whether or not a mistake had not been made. “I felt confident T had won,” said De Paolo. “I very distinctly remem ber when Kriess and Duray passed . me. That was early in the race But T could not remember McDonogh | having ever passed me and that Is| why I was sure in my own mind a mistake had been made. It is un- fortunate and I am sorry for Bob, but he would not want to be credited | with the victory under such circum- | stance: ! Average Speed Ts 123.33. De Paolo’s time was not unusual, | the recognized record for a - | mile race being 1 hour, 58 minutes 13 §0-100 seconds, which was made by | Tommy Milton at Kansas City on| September 17, 1922. The intrepid lit. | tle winner's average time during the | was 123.33 miles_an_hour, but | toward the end, when McDonogh was | pressing him hard for passing—a pass. ing that would have meant defeat—he averaged better than 131 miles hour by official timing. Although De Paolo’s time of 123.33 | miles an hour constitutes a new world | record for 230 miles over a track of | one mile and an eighth, this fact is| not really as fmportant as it sounds. The only other track of that size in the United States was the old Union- town course and drivers do not figure much on the times made there. As| the pilots see it, the time made today merely means that drivers in the next race on the Laurel track will simply have that mark to shoot at, and they frankly admit that it should not be difficult to smash it. To Washington and this entire sec- tion, which has never before been host to the dare-devils of the motor world, the race was a never-to-be- | forgotten event. _ Although figures ! from different sources vary, a tre. | mendous throng poured into the arena and roared in a frenzy of excitement | as the cars flashed past at almost | sickening speed. An official of the ! American Automobile Association es- timated the crowd at better than 50.000. Other sources believed it was closer to 30,000 or 35,000. Shattuc Gets Place. Just before the races were ready to start Referee Fred Wagner announced | that Jerry Wonderlich had been over- come by the heat and would not be permitted _to drive. His place was | taken by Dr. Willlam E. Shattue, who had previously been eliminated along with Earl Devore. Devore, too, later entered the race when he agreed to drive for Ralph Hepburn, who had Dbroken his wrist previous to the race and was hesitant about driving. Sixteen pilots faced the starter in the following order when the hour | for the race arrived. Peter -de Paolo, Leon Duray, Phil Shafer, Peter Kriess, Earl Cooper, Fred Comer, Wade Morton, Harry Hartz, Benny Mill, Tommy Miiton, Frank Elliott, Robert McDonogh, Dr. Shattuc, De. vore driving for Hepburn, Ralph De Palma and Jimmy Hill. The referee hurried from car to car with final in- structions and then gave the signal to start. Tt was not the official beginning of the race, however, and very fortu- , nately so. De Paolo developed carbu- “(Continued on Page 4, Column 2. for was the that in show journey second: Miller ) ute and may before the at an | { veered from |the first time. |appeared to give him any concern was | trict _traffic | owner of a pair of e Given to Thrill-Hungry Thousands. They went to get a new thrill, those 30,000 ennui victims from Wash- ington, Baltimore and who swarmed to the drome yesterda: stations Laurel motor- ¥ afternoon, and after more than two hours) of concerted head-twisting, shudder#ig and shout- ing as the speed kings of the country paraded their wares, the thrill-hungry men and women were ready to admit they got what they went for in double- barreled doses. Thrills were running rampant and unmuzzled all over the place out there, seeking new spines upon which to journey up and down, weak hearts upon which to play mean tricks and likely-looking lumps to jam upward into rigid throats. Crowd Shouted Lustily. iooseflesh, too, ran riot, finding ample camping ground on the electri- fied anatomies of those in search of excitement, while from the vocal of the general ensemble came, sporadic outbursts of moans or shouts to match the whims of the tiny flashes of steel as they tore on, side to side and even reversed themselves in lightning-like, near-fatal skids. The epidmeic of thrills, goose-flesh and gasps broke out in aggravated form on three outstanding occaslons during the gruelling afterneon. Ralph de_Palma, champion thrill dispenser ot speedway, furnished the climaxial heart-throb of the day, although De- vore und Cooper came through nicely with good contributions to the cause When the white-clad form of Reck- less Ralph was seen to emerge like a shot from the dust-enveloped, hurt- ling machine which had gone sud- denly crazy an instant before on “Dead Man's Curve,’ even - the dormant hairs on hundreds .of bald pates felt an urge to stand up and see what it was all about. Eldridge Enjoyed. Race. Thirty thousand faces bent forward as a great groan went up, and it is rumored that Traffic Director Eldridge, who sat right back of the press box, had to be restrained from rushing to the scenegof the accident to see if the reguldtions had been violated. After looking around to see if any- body recognized him, Mr. Eldridge seemed to settle back and got a big kick out of the very thing he has been seeking to ban speeding. He was j ust like a schoolboy playing hookey for The only thing that this business, so noticeable yesterday, of passing cars to the right. A dan- rerous practice, to be sure. Perched on the steep grandstand, high above the big saucer. were many Frominent personages from Maryland and the District of Columbla. Gov. Ritchle had a box, but was unable to use it, because of pressure of official business. Rear Admiral Yy K Grayson, who cannot resist the lure of a race, whether it be a test of horsemanship or mechanical skill and nerve, had a party of friends in a box. Richard Kenuperdell, the Judge Landis of motor racing, sat nearby. Assist- ant Engineer Commissioner W. E. R. Covell and Manager Tate 6f the Dis- survey, were on hand to see that transportation facliitles were up to standard, and, incldentaily, they took a glance or two ut the 'race, be- ing, In fact, among the last to leave. Concessionnaires Busy. It was a red letter day for the con- cessionaire men. They trooped through the aisles and up the runways from' early in the day until after Referee Wagner's flag had signaled the wrong winner, and, with the kind- Iy aid of a scorching sun, did a rush- ing business in questionably ice-cold soft drinks, lean sandwiches, palm- caf fans, programs, colored spectacles and even plain, unadulterated, though somewhat muddy, water. One could buy a fine sun-burned bottle of pop right out of its hot-water bath for 15 cents; a fan with which to recover from the effects could be got- ten for 50 cents, and by parting with a $1 bill one could become the sole llent 10-cent store cellulold “glasses.” Water cost ouly 5 cents per cup, if the cup was returned. There was no extra fee for the real estate. The young man who was fores. sighted enough to establish an impro- vised refreshment stand right in the midst_of the traffic jam at the ral (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 11.—Su- perior Judge. John L. Hudner to- day recorded his final decision that Charles Spencer Chaplin, film comedian, is not entitled to the ex- clusive use of the particular style of buggy pants, wobbly cane, derby hat and jiggling moustache which go to make his screen makeup. The judge also ruled that Charles Amador, whom Chaplin recently broughit into court, may don such garments before the film camera provided his pictures are not ad- I | | he WASHINGTON, D. C, KELLOGG LAYS DATA ONCHINAAND DEBTS BEFORE: PRESIDENT Statement After Conference Merely Announces Sub- jects Discussed. COOLIDGE SEEKS LATEST DEVELOPMENT ON ISSUES Enjoys Essex County Press Asso- ciation Outing Earlier in Day. By the Associated Press. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 11.— In the seclusion of the Summer White House President Coolidge and Secre- tary Kellogg went into conference late today on the Chinese and debt situations. With them was Under- secretury of State Grew, who had brought from of documentary and verbal informa- tion as to late developments. On his return to White Court late in the afterncon from the Essex County Press Club’s outing at Lake Attitash, the President found the_ Sec- | retary of State and his assistant awaiting him. They fmmediately be #an a discussion of departmental mat ters, chief of which were the Chinese and debt-funding problems. It was indicated that the consultation would continue over the week end, with little likellhood that much would' be made public as to the detafls. Arriving in Boston shortly after noon from his home in St. Paul, Mr. Kellogg declined to discuss at any length the purpose of his visit to White Court. although it was con- firmed that his conferences with the President would hinge finally on China and debts. The Secretary was met en route to Boston by Mr. Grew and after luncheon both motored to the Summer White House. Conference First of Kind. The meeting here of the President with the Secretary of State was the Executive's first conference with a GRbinet officer since his vacation be- gan, and was in line with his an- nounced intention of having Govern- ment officials come here from time to time during the Summer for a discus- slon of important departmental mat- ters. While the President apparently is not concerned over any new de- velopménts with regard to forelgn Washington the mass | | i | iy Star WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY MORNIN THE KNAPP 1S SOUGHT INBOOTLEG HAUNT “Thrill Slayer” Believed Hid- ing With Rum Runners on Canadian Border. DAYTON | By the Associated Pres: MINEOLA, N. Y., July 11.—Authorl. ties searching for Philip K. Knapp, who is alleged to have killed Louis { Penella, Hempstead taxicab driver, for the “thrill,” said tonight they would seek for him on Wellesley Island, in the Thousand Islands, following upon the recelpt of information that he had formerly spent some time there A warrant charging Knapp, who s a member of a prominent Syracuse family, with the murder of Pinella was Issued today by Justice of the Peace Jones at Hempstead. Knapp fs debts or the situation In China. hel pelieved to have planned to assume realizes that there has been con- siderable progress made with regard | to both problems since his departure from Washington. In his conference with Secretary Kellogg he will be en- abled to get first-hand Information regarding preliminary debt-funding negotiations with France, Italy and other European nations and also to et accurate data as to what is hap- pening in the Far East. Opposed as he is to the holding of any conference distinct from those authorized to deal with Chinese cus- toms and extraterritorlal rights in China by the Washington treaty, Mr. Coolidge s of the opinion that com- pletion of ratification of these con- ventions' by France yesterday makes it imperative that the United States be prepared with a definite policy to be pursued with regard to them. He believes that sufficient leeway is al- lowed the nations signatory to the treaty to handle the general Chinese problem adequately. Brings MacMurray Reports. Mr.. Grew brought with him confi- dentlal reports from John Van A. MacMurray, who has just taken his post at Peking as American minister. These reports on the situation in China, together with others in pos- session of the State Department, are expected to glve the President an accurate line on conditions there and put him in a position better to de- cide what policy the American Gov- ernment should pursue. The meager official statement was made Informally after the conference that the only subjects discussed were the debt and Chinese problems and that there was no new development of importance in either situation. Secretary Kellogg stated that he would probably return to Washing- ton tomorrow night. He remained a ‘White Court as a house guest, while Mr. Grew visited relatives nearb; President Coolidge earlier this aft noon carrled through one of his pre. vacation plans for recreation. . With Mrs. Coolidge and intimate friends he participated in the annual outing of the Essex County newspaper publish- ers glven at the estate of Ralph S. Bauer at Lake Attitash. Ride Is Leisurely. Leaving -White Court at noon, Mr. Coolldge made a leisurely ride of the | 40-mile'trip to the lake. After posing with his host for pictures, he depart- | ed for the Summer White House. On the way back an_accident hap- pened. Lient. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, the President’s physician, dropped out of the presidential motor party to ren- der first aid to the driver of a motor | cycle side car, who had turned over in making a turn. The driver was carried unconsclous to the Danvers Hospital nearby after Dr. Boone had made an examination. The President’s physician caught up with the party In a few minutes and arter reaching White Court he learned by telephone that the victim was pro- gressing very satisfactorily. {Chaplin Loses Suit for Exclusive Use of His Famous Baggy Trousers, vertised under a name that will lead the public to believe that Chaplin’'s antics are being shown. Amador formerly appeared under the screen name of Aplin, against which Chaplain obtained an in- junction, which he sought to make spermanent in the present suit. Judge Hudner recently rendered his first decision in the case, marking no definite line at which imitation of his picture makeup might be lta#pe& ‘but giving Chap- lin the privflege of bringing any alleged imitator into court on con- tempt proceedings at any later « dats. { i | | | Pinella’s identity after the murder and to have fled up-State. Was Rum-Runner There. Maj. Hensley, commanding officer at Mitchel Field, where Knapp was a rivate, told the authoritles napp once confided to a fellow pri- vate that if he should ever leave the field suddenly he intended to go to Alexandria Bay, on Wellesley Island. He sald that he would seek refuge among friends there with whom he had once been engaged in rum-running over the Canadian border. Nassau County detectives engaged in the search sald that they belleved Knapp was nearly out of mone; all he had when he deserte Mitchel Field was §100 realized from the sale of Pinella’s cab. He is un- derstood to have_spent money freely in Albany, where he stayed two days. He left the Stanwix Hotel there with- out paying his bill. Believes Knapp Sane. Quoting the letter which Knapp left, saying that he had contemplated self- destruction, soldiers who were asso- clated with him predicted that Knapp would not be taken alive. District Attorney Weeks said he believed Knapp was legally sane de- spite his apparently abnormal tem- perament. An extended search is being con- ducted in the foothills of northern New York, the scene of James Feni- more Cooper’s novel, “The Last of the Mohicans,” which the former Cornell student was said to have admired greatly. Mr. Weeks sald he would present the evidence a; to the grand jury July Like Leopold and Loeb. Knapp Leopold, Chicago s, by Capt. ra F. Peak, psychiatrist of Mitchel Tield and Dellvue Hospital, in an of- report to Maj. Hensley, based n cvidence now on hand. “I consider him a paranolc type, Capt. Peak said. “a decidedly split personality. This type believes that it is the center of the universe. He may have a normal intelligence and theoretically know the difference be- tween right and wrong and still be a moral idiot. “He considers himself a different type of man and one to whom the laws of the universe do mnot apply. He belongs to the same general class as Loeb and Leopold.” Private R. B. Cashman at Mitchel Fileld told Maj. Hensley tonight that he had refused to go rum running with Knapp about a month.ago whepn informed he would have to carry a Springfield rifle and side arms and shoot to kill if necessary. e MRS.Hl_JGH WALLACE HURT Wife of Former Envoy Injured in Paris Auto Crash. By Cable to The Star and New York World. PARIS, July 11.—Mrs. Hugh W lace, wife of the former American Am- bassador to Paris, was hurt here this afternoon in an automobile smash, when her car collided with that of the Uruguayan consul near the Palace D'Iena, where Mrs. Wallace. lives. She was taken to the American Hospital at Neullly, where she recovered con- sclousness. She is suffering from se- vere shock, but her condition is not believed serious. (Copsright. 1925.) MacMillan Associate Returning. NEW YORK, July 11 (®.—U. J. Herrman, Chicago vachtsman, who left Sydney, N. S., with the MacMil- lan Arctic expedition, as a passenger as far as Battle Harhor, will arstve in New York next week, according to 0 LelogTa Jucelyed, Al B, 200 todAT, VOLUTION JURY—FROM that | b <y G, JULY 1 DIF Today’s Star PART ONE—28 PAGES. { General News—Local, National and Foreign. Current’ News Events—Page 17. | Maryland and Virginia News—Pages | 18 and 25 | District National Guard—Page 24. | PART TWO0—12 PAGES. Editorfals and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 8. Boy Scouts—Page 8. Around the Cit Page 9. Veterans of the Great War—Page 10. | Reviews of Summer’s New Books— Page 11 News of the Clubs—Page 12. PART THREE—12 PAGES. Amysements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Musie in Washington—Page 4. H 8 9 and 10. Fraternal News—Page 11 Army and y News—Page 11. Serfal, “The Letter"—Page 12 PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. | Magaz! Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Financial News—Pages 9, 10 and 11.| Civillan Army News—Page 12. | GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—{ PAGES. Betty: Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. SUICIDE ATTENPT OF COUPLE FALS “Would Try Again,” Says Young Mother, After Tak- ing Poison With Painter. A hastily planned suicide pact fail- ed last night, when Waverly Winfield Roberts, 23, a painter, and Mrs. Gladys Ritt, 22, a department store clerk and the mother of two children, both of Capitol Heights, Md., miscalculated the strength of the poison, police said, they both agreed to take. They were rushed to Casualty Hospital by friends after being found by Roberts’ mother unconsclous on the porch of his home on Central avenue. No reason for the attempt at sui- cide other than the confession by Mrs. Ritt to the hospital and police au- thorities that she was “tired of life and would try the same thing again,” could be gotten from the couple. They have been friendly since the woman was estranged from her husband, Gerald Ritt, 2126 Pennsylvania ave- nue, three months ago, according to the police. i According to Mrs. Ritt's statements made to the hospital authorities and jater to the police at Gallinger Hos- pital, where they were removed, and are now being detained for observa- tion, she waited on the front porch of his home, while Roberts went to a grocery store and purchased the poi- son. He drank some of the fluld and she followed suit. Mrs. Ritt told the police that Roberts loved her, and she loved him. At Casualty Hospital, according to officlals, she said “I wish the fool would die.” At Gallinger Hospital she told the police that she and Roberts had de- cided “to go together.” According to the statements made at Casualty Hospital relatives of the woman de- clared they felt that she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The two patients are not in a serius con- tion. 1 OCEAN LINERS —their arrivals and depar- tures. A daily feature. Seqf Page 3. | 1925.-EIGHTY-EIGHT PAGES. * “Jewish Indians” (0oLID GETAXCUT FACES FIGHT | [ Proposal to Reduce Surtax and Inheritance Charges ; to Revive Opposition. | i By the Associated Press. | Another controversy between the| administration and Congress on the\ method of tax reduction is impending. As was the case last year when| the Mellon plan was rejected, sur- taxes will constitute the principal| fighting point, with the inheritance agreement. , President Coolidge has made rlear‘ his position that there should be a very substantial reduction in both of | these taxes, and administration lead- | ers in Congress have fndicated that | his program will bave more cohesive | support from their ranks than was apparent a year ago. While agreeing that some reduction | in the surtax dnd {nhéritance rates is| Sunday morni 60 cents per and service wi “From Press to Home Within the Hour” “The Star is delivered 2very evening and ing to Washington homes at month. Telephone Main 5000 ill start immediately. P Means Associated Pre: FIVE- CENTS. Found by Austrian In Wilds of Peru VIENNA, July 11 (Jewish Tele- graphic _Agency).—Ophir, reported | in the Bible as the country of gold mines from which. King Solomon’s Phoenician_ saflors brought gold to Palestine, was in Peru, says Dr. Von Hauch, an Austran explorer. Br. Von Hauch says he met in the primeval forests of Peru in the Pampas del Sacremendo, 300 mem bers of an Indlan tribe of pro nounced Jewish. appearances, speaking a Ianguage similar to Hebrew. The name Solomon s the | most common name among the | tribe. | There Is a legend current among | the tribé) says the explorer, of a | land of gold known as Ophira, situ- | ated on the River Hualla, to which, according to the legend, white men went many years ago and carried off large quantities of goid. BATILE ON SCENCE GRS SEOPE CASE Admission of Evolution Ex-| perts’ Testimony Is to | Be Fought. By the Associated Press DAYTON, Tenn., July 11.—Spokes men for each side in the Scopes evo- lution trial tonight gave out lengthy statements on the result of their legal conference today in preparation for the forensic battle over admissibility of scientific testimony next week. Court was adjourned last night un- til Monday at the request of defense counsel, while the lawyers searched for ammunition in their law books and the jurors scattered to their homes. Presiding Judge Raulston Comm, | Comn | session CITIZENS' COUNGIL 10 TACKLE CITYS LEGISLATIVE NEEDS Budget Tasks Finished, Bills for Congress Is Next Im- portant Work. FISCAL RELATIONS LAW CHANGE TO BE PROPOSED Street Car Merger, Borland Act and Public Welfare Work Among Problems. Having completed budget for the Citi Council next will be issioners to definite prog fon to be adve of Congress missioner Bel When the council {ference with the |the budget yester the ¢'s legislative needs upon briefly, but {announced that the council would not be expected to tackle this problem until September, which would st {leave ample time before Cc {meets for' the consider: {many District me: from the lust session ! It is Col. Bell’s plan |made of all the bills District and turn it counctl for a thors termine {to aid in b age of the its work ing legi said last s fi missioners al con on uestion of were | watched with Interest the prepara-| | tions in the courtroom for broadcast. | Fiscal Commission Sought. ing the trial, starting next Monday. The prosecution. prepared to resist vigorously an announced effort by the defense to introduce testimony that the theorfes of evolution and the teachings of the Bible are not in con filct, spent much of the day in the study of the law. State to Fight. It was no secret that the State will | submit to the court that scientific testimony in the case would be irrele- vant and inadmissible. The defense, through Clarence Dar- Motors and Motoring—Pages §, §, 7,|taxes as a new element in the dis.| FOW, announced vesterday that it was their firm conviction such testimony would be entirely competent and every effort made to get it into the record. In a statement this afternoon Wil- liam Jennings Bryan suggested that if a law like that which furnishes the issue in this case were passed in New York and witnesses from Tennessee proposed to offer testimony, presence on the witness stand would arouse objection. “The statement given out yesterda their | In the the ( reportin | next vear. t i ready " has told |favors legislatio {for the appointment of a commi {to recommend a permanent | equitable settlement of the jtions between the United iDistrict governments. Tt | further recommended that u permanent plan becomes \gress should opriate hington on a definite proport {ate basis instead of ap) the present of $9,000,000 a Government The Board of Trade also has urged the Commission: to appeal to Con | Eress to return to the definite basis of dividing Capital maint | between the Federal and Distric ernments and expressed the belief that the 50-50 law was a fair and equitable arrangement. From these recommendations it iwoulu\ appear that the question of | obtaining a more equitable adjustment {of fiscal relations will be one of out nmissioners at the next session fiscal rela desirable, some Teaders, at least among | by Attorney General Stewart repre-|standing interest to the District at the the Democrats and the Republican | insurgents, who combined to defeat ! the Mellon plan, are inclined to the| view. that, there are other factors | which should have first attentfon. | Opposes Nuisance Taxes. ! While they have as yet had no con. ferences for exchanges of views, these | leaders are giving study to a pro-| posal outlined recently by Chairman | Couzens of the special Senate tax | Investigating committee for u repeal | of the nuisance taxes and of the levies on small incomes, with a reduction then as far as might be in the sur-| tax rate from the present maximum | of 40 per cent. | Indications now are that in the| coming fight between the executive | and legislative branches the lines are | not going to be drawn as sharply as they were a year ago, when tax re. duction was accomplished in the midst | of an almost unprecedented general | assault upon the administration. When the new Congress convenes in December the Republican organization | will find itself with a nearer approach | to an actual working majority In the | two houses than it has had in a| number of years. There alsa are signs | that_the Democrats will be less a unit | on the larger question of policy than | they were at the time of the enact- ! ment of the last revenue measure. Surplus to Govern Cut. The actual amount of tax reduction | jurious and dangerous to their chil-} which the administration recommends | will depend in a very large measure | upon the actual and indicated Treas- ury surplus. Some members of Con-| gress call attention that another prob- | able element is that of the foreign debt. As the debtor countries begin to sents the views of the counsel for the State,”' said Mr. Bryan. “The rial is a bona fide case in which tle! State Is enforcing a law serious in its purpose and passed deliberately. “The case will be tried, according to the rules of evidence with the pos sibility of appeal to higher courts. If improper evidence is offered by the defense, objection will be made to it and I doubt not that the defense will object to any testimony offered by the prosecution if it thinks that testi- mony improper. Statute Not Ambiguous. “Attorney General Stewart has pointed out that the statute which is being enforced is perfectly clear and free from ambiguity. It forbids the teaching of doctrine that denies the truth of the Bible record of man creation, and that there may be no misunderstanding of the law. It inter- prets the language used by specifying the objectionable thing as the doc- trine that man is a descendant of some lower form of life. There is no doubt that evolution asserts man's descent from some lower form of life, and no scientific specialists could change the law or its meaning. no matter who these specialists might be or how many there might be. “If the people of Tennessee have a right to pass laws for the protection | of the religion of their children, then | they have a right to determine for| themselves what they consider in- dren. - No specialists from the out- slde are required to inform the par- ents of Tennessee as to what is harm- ful. The testimony of such experts. therefore, is not only incompetent but | would be offensive. f a law like this were passed in | next session. | Borland Law to Be Tackled. | Another matter which the advisory i council undoubtedly wlill place high on {a legislative program is the proposed | repeal or partial abro; the | Borland law. which a property owners for half | street paving. | The council has taken the position {that the Borland law should be re- ! pealed, but Engineer Commissioner | Bell holds the view that that would | not be a wise move. He believes tt | citizens should strive to have the as sessment law modified. He has pro posed two changes: First, that prop- | erty owners be relieved of the assess- {ment for the resu cing of a street |after the pavement h: ce worn out; . that the law should be clari ed with relation to its application in | the suburbs, where question some- ilimes arises as to whether rural prop- erty is subject to the assessment. till another piece of legislation for { the council to consider is the proposal jthat the Utilities Commission be re- organized to relieve the Board of | Commissioners of some of the work it | mow performs. Col. Bell's plan is that {only one District Commissioner re | main on the Utilities Board and that Congress provide for the appointment lof a lawyer and an engineer to devote full time to utility matters. | Merger Still Problem. | The matter of a street car merger lis still_under the heading of unfin |ished District business, but Col. Bell | said yesterday that just what legisla- tion will be proposed on this subject in December cannot be determined |now. Congress At the last sion authorized a voluntary merger, the take care of the interest on their New York, and witnesses were called | terms of which would be dependent obligations to the United States the load on the American taxpayer will be‘ lightened. > Whether the negotiations soon to be entered into by this country with France, Italy and Belgium progress to the point where their results can be translated into the new tax law remains for future determination. The | interest on these debts, if refunded in the same terms as was the Brit- ish debt, would approximate in excess of $200,000,000 annually. When the House and Senate com- | mittees come to the task of writing a new tax law they will have avail | able a vast store of information | gathered by the speclal Senate com.- | mittee. This is now being put in form for the use of Congress and should be ready within three months, or before the House ways and means committee begins its work. In its investigation the Senatg com- mittee dealt exhaustively with such moot subjects as tax-exempt securities, capital gains and leases, undivided sur- pluses of corporations and general law administration. Some of the commit- teemen declare the results were sur. | prising-and that the tax-writing com- | mittees will have available more valu- | able information than ever before has been presented to them and that the ultimate result should be a much| more sclentific law. Asks Divorce as Cult Victim. LOS ANGELES, July 11 (#).—The name of Mrs. Margaret Rowen, Holly- Wood cult leader, whose prediction of the coming of the end of the world last February 6 sent many of her dis- ciples to hilitops throughout the country on that date, today was brought into a_divorce suit here. Herman J. Frey filed a plea for divorce from his wifs, Emma, on the ground that she had tried to make bim a disciple of Mrs. Rowen, and had forced him to stop work on Sat- wrdays, Whish cesl bim R job, from Tennesse to assure the people of New York that they were unduly alarmed, and that there was nothing {to fear, their testimony would be ob- jected to as offensive as well as im- proper. Hits “Foreign” Witnesses. “If it would be absurd for Tennes- see experts to advise the people of New York and Illinois as to what is helpful or harmful, why is it not ab- surd to call experts from New York {and Tlinois to challenge the right of the people of Tennessee to legislate as they please and according to their own (Continued on Page z, Column 4. 19-YEAR-OLD MILLIONAIRE IS LEFT $667,000 MORE John Vanneck, Whose Annual In- come’Is $150,000 From Three Estates, Gets Another. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 11.—Already the | heir to three estates, with an annual income of more than $150,000, John Vanneck, 19-year-old representative of an old Dutch Knickerbocker family, has been bequeathed another estate with a yearly return of approximate! $60,000. His most recent legacy b came known today with the appoint- ment of Willam T. Reynolds as his guardian under a court order, which authorized the outlay of $56,000 a vear for the youth's personal requirements. The lad’s father left an estate of $2,000,000, imcluding a trust fund hich returns $59,000 a year. From r:h. residue and from a bequest by his mother he receives $56,000 each year and an interest in the estate of an uncle adds $42,000. The latest in- crease came under the will of his fna- ternal grandmother, Mrs. Marion Prentice Brookman, who left to him property, valued at §667,000, | upon congressional approval A com- { prehensive engineering survey is now being made for the purpose of de- termining the desirability of a con solidation. Col. Bell also is considering a bill at the next session te eliminate one more of the few remaining railroad | grade crossings in the District Under Commissioner Rudolph's jurisdiction, the most important pend ing bill is the one for creation of iboard of . public welfare. in whic | would be consolidated the functions now performed by several different agencies. This measure came near passing at the last session Study Begun in Winter. The commission on public welfare legislation began last Winter a thor ough study of the city’s public welfare | problems, and the pending bill for a { board of public welfare was its most !important recommendation. This commission has other legislative mat- ters pending, including a bill to pro- vide ald for dependent children in | their own homes and a revision of the | Juvenile Court law There are many other left-over D | trice bills which will be listed for con- i sideration in the preparation of | legislative program for the next Con- gress. The Police Department in its an- ! nual report usually males legislative recommendations for the better po. licing of the city, including such sub. jacts as the sale and possession of dangerous weapons. These recom mendations will be handled by Com- missioner Fenning. The Commissioners will be ready by Wednesday to transmit their prelim inary report on the 1927 estimates to the Bureau of the Budget. The total is reported to be about $88,500.000. There will be nothing more for the city heads to do on the estimates until they receive word from the di- rector of the budget as to whether the total amount recommended is sat- sfactory.