Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Fureau Forecast.) Fair and colder tonight and tomor- row, probably heavy frost est temperature tonight, Temperatures—Highest todey: lowest, 52, at 4:30 Fuli report on page 7. tonight, low- 35 degrees. , 60, at noon m. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 Che Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as seco post_oftice, Wa: No. 29,756. nd class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, T | S000000D SLASH IN TAXES URGED BY + MELLGN: SURTAX OF - J0 PER CENT ASKED Secretary Lays Plan Before House Committee—Estate and Gift Levy Repeal Is| Recommended at Hearing. | | | $290,000.030 SURPLUS IS SEEN BY TREASURY | Publicity Elimination Advocated. Opposition to Raising Exemp-| i tions to $3,500 and $5.000—Re-f duction in Auto and Miscella-| neous Levies Proposed. B the Ascociated Press A‘ A tax reduction of $250,000.000 to £300.000.000 was recommended to ! Congress today by Seccretary Mel-!| lon i Without a tempting to lay down! definite schecules, he sugested that! a reduction i1 surtaxes to 20 per cont in place of the present 37 per cent would not cripple the Treasury. would reduce the maximum surtax and normal. levied on largest income, to 25 per cent. It now is 42 per cent. The Secretary also these additional changes: Repeal of the estate tax Repeal of the gift tax Reduction of automobile taxes by repeal of the levies on trucks tires | 1d accessories. | Repeal of a number of miscel-| laneous taxes, such as that on works ! of art brought from abroad. Repeal of the publicity section the income tax law. He opposed repeal of the tax on| theaters and other places musement and various other pro- posals for amendment of the present | law. including any extension in the | jurisdiction of the board. of tax | appeals. 1 The Secretary’s recommendations, | bhased on the conclusions of Treasury officials that a surplus of 0,000,000 | 1« in prospect this vear in Federal | revenues, was submitted to the House | ways and means committee at the | opening of fts hearings on tax re. { form | Hits Tax-Exempt Bonds. i He made reference in his statement | to an “inequality in taxation,” pro-| duced by the earned income exemption | allowed in the present law, but he added that if the 20 per cent maxi-| mum surtax is accepted the inequal- | ty fostered by the clause giving credit | on incomes below $10,000 as earned in- | comes “will not be so pronounced The Treasury Secretary aleo renewed his advocacy of a constitutional amend. | ment abolishing tax-exempt securities. ! He observed, however, that the amount | of outstanding tax-exempt securitles now is 8o large—he estimated them at | $14.000,000.000—that the Government | ghould attempt taking away the “arti- ficial” advantage held by those securi- ties. Enactment of the proposed 20 | per cent surtax will do the work, the Secretary added The gift tax was characterized by | the Secretary as one of a “great| many artificial restraints and ine- | qualities now in the taxing law.” tax advocated of | to He | declared “the excuse for the gift tax | would entirely if the 20 per cent maximum incomes Is adopted on Cites Road Work Aid. | Mr. Mellon told the committee that | neither the tax on admissions nor the | hulk of automobile taxes constitute & | hurden on tax pavers. The Govern- ment is contributing $90,000,000 a year toward road building and the 2utomobile taxes, including those on trucks, tires and accessories, are vielding annually about $125,000,000. © “The $35.000,000 might be taken off.” Mr. Mellon said, “but so long s the Government is contributing the £90,000,000 year to the roads on | which these automobiles run they cer- tainly ought to pay their wa: He warned that it was not well to cut receipts beyvond ‘“reasonable” ! needs. The Treasury, since the war, he said, had been living partially upon capital.” as constituted by re- turn of the investments made through the War Finance Corporation, repay- ments of loans to railroads and sale of surplus war supplies. *As these sources give out.” he con- | tinued, “we will have to pay our cur- rent expenses out of revenues.'” y. { Defends Debt Policy Melion sought to defend the| ¥'s debt retirement policy which has been atiacked by some| Democrats on the ground that if the | debt were retired less rapidly, greater cuts could be made in taxes “While, taking the people as a whole, it is immaterial when the debt | i= paid,” he said, “still, as between the different classes of people, the in- | vesting class holding the bonds and the producing class from whom a larger part of our taxes are collected, inequality exists. We should not tax too heavily the producers to pay the | ecurity holders. It is for this reasen | that we have sought a balance be- tween debt reduction and tax reduc- | tion i Discussing the suggestion for a| maximum surtax of 20 per cent, Mr. | Mellon asserted there had been a stimulation to business every time the | curtax rates had been reduced. In those instances, he said, there had | been an evident increase in tax| sources, and the increased income “has made up a great part, if not all, of the loss in revenue from the higher incomes.” Shows Ratio of Gain. “In 1922," the Secretary continued, “with the maximum normal and sur- taxes of 73 per cent, the total income collections, personal and corporate, were $1,501,000,000. 1In 1923, under the 1921 act, with maximum sur and normal taxes of 58 per cent, the collections were $1,825,000,000. In 1924, with the 25 per cent credit, hut hefore the effect of the reduction | of surtaxex could be reflected in tax- | able income. the collections were | (Continued on Page 2, Column R) | unabashed | tion of taxes on incomes up to $: OLDER CITIZENS DEPLORE MIAMI REALTY GAMBLING Say Frankly Some Confident No Wi BY BEN McKELWAY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. MIAMI, Fla., October 17 (By Mail).— They like to call Miami the “Magic City” down here. And aside from all the tiresome hoosting, the ballyhooing and the blowing of horns, there something that savors of magic in what has happened in Miami in the last two yvears and is going on today. “We kept calling,” said E. G. Sewall, president of the chamber of commerce and a leading citizen, “and they came. But they came too fast.” And they did. They are still coming Miami’s hustle and bustle and stir, fts packed sidewalks and its rushing street traflic, regulated like a clock, can he compared, and seriously, with New York: a smaller edition, of course, bhut nodeled N the me scale. There’ nothing in the South like it There are few cities in the North with this atmosphere of frantic hurry, nervous rush and break-neck speed that is now Miami's. It is contagious The visitor, no matter ow cool, crit ical or cynical he may be, catches it. It tires "him out, wears him down. How these real estate men survive it day in and day out is a question. It's probably because they are the ones most responsible for it. They are, in fact, a part of it. There are two and widely separated sides to Miami. One is what vou see and hear everywhere, in the streets in the hotels, on the trains, in far dis. communities—real estate, real real estate and more Attitude of Old Residents. The other is the city of Miami itself, represented by those who came here 5 and 30 vears ugo to settle. They have seen its population grow from 500 to 175.000 people:; they have crown and prospered with it. They sit in their offices today and look out on the mad hubbub and turmoil in the streets below. They may be excused if they take out their bank books and neak u glance at fat and growing balances. They light cigars and watch the blue rings of smoke curling heavenward and decide that this is a pretty good old world after all. They I Come. is | real | Must Lose, But Are| Great Crash | decline, emphatically, to refer to the | present situation as a boom. It may lhe their ingrained boosting policy | which prohibits them from lookinz at |1t that way. On the other hand, they |have seen the thing start gradually |and swell like a rolling snowball. | They think it's simply growing pains. But they are not blase about it. They | are as interested and as surprised as | the newest stranger. . | _Mr. Sewall says that for vears | Miami advertised herself and tried to | | make peopte come to Florida. Then ! | they started coming. As stories| drifted back up North, many of them | wild yarns of the purest fabrication, ! Florida and Miami became topics of | | conver ion all over the country. So this Spring. when the weather opened | up. the Smiths. Joneses and Browns | packed their things and put new tires | on the flivvers and came to Florida | to see what it was all about. Their stories brought others. The one rail- | road, which connects this city with | the North, is single-tracked. It found | itself weak in the face of the rush.| During the Winter season it had been | able to get along, but when this Sum. mer’s pilgrimage started South it was | swamped. Real estate operators and | real estate salesmen flocked down by the thousands, buving land and cut- ting it into lots and selling them like hot cakes. Miami became crowded. | Prices went sky high. for everybody | in Miami is determined to get what's | coming to him. Building began every- | where to take care of the crowded conditions. Then the railroads and | steamers had to call a halt on build- | ing materfals in order to let food come in. So building, in many cases, stopped. See New Los Angeles. | The Seaboard Air Line intends to construct a line from Miami to West Palm Beach, its present eastern termi nus. The Florida East Coast Rallroad | will have its line double-tracked by December. These greater transporta-: tion facilities will have the effect of | allowing Miami to expand. The pres- | ent congestion, which is giving Miami a black eve with those who ex- olumn 2) | | | | | D. MONDAY, ) g Sfar. The Star’ every city b’ tion is delive as fast as th (Z1651 IN THE GR OCTOBER 19, 1925—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. f EARLY EVACUATIO OF GOLOGNE SEEN Action Expected to Result From Agreements Reached | at Locarno. | CAPPER FOR §5,000 EXEMPTION TO ALL Goes Garner One Better in Plan to Relieve Tax Burdens in Bill. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Going one better than Representa- tive John Garner of Texas, the Dem- ocratic bellwether on the ways and means committee, which today start- ed hearings on a new tax bill, and by Secretary Mellon's tement, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, leader of the farm bloc and indicator of the policy of the liberal wing of the Republican party, today declared for an out-and-out exemp- 000 for married and single persons alike. In an exclusive interview tod Senator Capper, matching the state- ment of Senatdr Couzens of Michigan made months ago, advocating a mini- mum of $5,000 as a normal tax basis emphasizes that the first big point to be settled by the committee fore- gathered today centers about this zure. The new revenue bill is to be ! rushed, o as to be ready for presenta tion to the House a few hours after Congress organizes. Everybody con- ! cerned is agreed that there can and must be a very considerable reduc- tion of taxes, but an important dif- ference of opinion has already been shown as to how far Congress ought to go. Politics on Job. Although many thought that Old Man Politics would be shooed away this time the opening of hearings to- day found him on the job as usual. The Republicans accused the Demo- crats of sneaking him in, and the Democrats indignantly declared the accusation a political trick to mis- represent their wholly honorable mo- ives. I Fo: ket a picture of the setting into which Senator Capper plunges his opinion_recent revenue history must Secretary Mellon in the be recalled. last_Congress, with the backing firsy of President Harding and then of President Coolidge, presented a plan for tax reduction which provided de- creases for all classes of Federal in- come tax payers. It was known as “The Mellon Plan,’ and was hailed by its supporters as truly scientific. But the Democrats, led by the bantam- ‘ike *Jack” Garner, said the “Mellon Plan” would take too much off the big taxpayers and too little off the bills of the small taxpayers. The La Follette insurgent Repub- licans agreed with the Democrats, but declared that they would give the large taxpayers even less and the small taxpayers even more relief than the ts. A fierce political struggle followed. The insurgent Re- publicans held the “balance of power” and as the Democratic position repre- | Two New Features Beginning in Today’s Star “The New Jerusalem,” By Sophie Irene Loeb. and “The Widow’s Might” By Hazel Deyo Batchelor. is the opening in- stallment of a series on “The Greatest Experiment in the World.” The second is the be- ginning of a problem serial. In Today’s Star. The first END OF AMERICAN FLYING UNIT SEEN Advertising of Nationality Brings Storm of Protest Against Tactics. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK. October 13.—The| American aviators now fizhting the ! Riffans for the French planned to advertise thelr nationality and link | it with their bombing activities be- fore they left .Paris for the Morocean front. A special insigna was adopt.: ed from the eagle. which appears on the American ten.dollar gold piece, with the addition of a bomb inserted in the bird's talons. This is a special button worn on the uniform. Soon after the arrival in Morocco the Americans decorated their planes with pictures of the Amerfcan bison. | The bison was chosen, according to Lieut. Col. Charles W. Kerwood, sec. ond in command of the squadron, be- cause it was symbolic of the United States. “Believe me,” he said recently, “it | is wilder than anything the Riffians ever saw." Red, White and Blue Bomb. Another sight to which the Riffians were unaccustomed was an aviation bomb painted red, white and blue. Re leased on them by Lieut. Thom: Buffam one day late In September. This member of the American unit se lected a 100-pound bomb, decorated it | as described, inscribed his name on it | and dropped it on Riffians near a| barrack. Incidentally, the bomb failed to ex- plode. i The uniform worn by the American | aviators is a hybrid. The suit 13 a | special form of the uniform of a| French colonial officer; the bonnet is much the same as that worn by | American avitaors in the Great War. | To Abd-el-Krim, the Riffian leader, | well informed on international affars | despite his isolation by siege, the | well advertised presence of Ameri. | cans joming in the bombing of his | people could mean only one thing, It is known that he was zware thaf the Americans were not official repre- | sentatives of the United States Gov. | ernment. Their presence and their ' emphasis of their nationality in-| furlated his people. He denounced | mercenaries'— | . Column 4) | A SALONIK! FREE ZONE | OPENED BY GREECE' Gives Sea. | Balkans Access to Ceremony Attends the Inaugural. | Democrat, | By the Associated Press. | SALONIKI, Greece, October 19.— | | The “free zone" of Saloniki was in.! augurated today with much ceremony | In the presence of high government, | ecclesiastical and military authorities. | The zone was instituted voluntary | by the Greek government in order to | give the Balkan states, and especially i Bulgaria, access to the Aegean Sea. Under the regulations Greece will al- e Associated Pre RIS, October 19.—Evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead now held by British troops is expected to result from the agreement reached in the security conference, although it was said in French official circles today | that no promise, verbal or written, | has been made to that effect. | Foreign Secretary Chamberlain of | Great Britain and French Foreign Minister M. Briand, who returned to- | day from Locarno, were discussing | with Premier Painleve this afternoon the question of reallotting the terri- tory in the Rhineland between the | forces of the allied powers after me‘ By th evacuation of Cologne. This was taken | to mean that the bridgehead would be | returned to the Germans within a few | weeks. Renewal of German co-operation in | the administration of the occupied territory is being considered by the | allles.’ The desire of the latter s, it | is said in official circles. to give the Germans every satisfaction possible in the administration of the German ter- ritory on the left bank of the Rhine. Mr. Chamberlain, M. Briand and Premier Painleve this afternoon were | discussing the desire of the British oc- | cupational force to make 1ts new head.- | quarters at Wiesbaden. This conflicts | with the French arrangements for sup- | plying the French army in the Rhine and it ig understood they prefer the British to takey over the Coblenz| bridgehead. GERMAN CABI Is Expected to Reach a Decision on Treaties Soon. E the Assoriated Press BERLIN, October 19.— A cabinet council under the chairmanship of President von Hindenburg this morn- ing received the report of the German delegation to the Locrano security con- ference. The ministers adjounrned without reaching a_aecision, but are likely to reconvene late this afternoon. The German delegation. headed by Dr. Hans Luther the chancellor. and Gustav Stresemann, the foreign minis- ter, returned to Berlin yesterday. The Ambassadors of Great Britafn and | France, the Belgian minister and oth- er diplomats, as well as the members of the cabinet, greeted the returning delegations at the station. Since it was not known generally when the train would arrive, there was no pub. lic manifestation. Lord d'Abernon, the British Am- bassador, at the request of Austen Chamberlain, the British secretary of foreign affairs, congratulated Chancel- lor Luther and Dr. Stresemann on the success of the conference. Gives Germans Credit. | “To the German government.” he | said. “will always be accorded the| honor of taking the initiative which | led to the Locarno negotiations.” 1| After stating that Mr. Chamberlain regarded Locarno as the turning point in European history. Lord v'Abernon voiced the hope that the| friendly relations begun between the German and British delezations | would mean a new relationship be- tween the two nations. The extreme Nationalist Deutsche Tageszeitung publishes an interview | which its Locarno correspondent had with M. Briand, the French forcign minister, who declared himself so optimistic ahout a peaceful future | that- he finished by saying in Ger- man: “Together you and I, you as a German Nationallst, I as a French will orzanize a party of | Locarnists. You will see that we will | achleve actual peace in Europe and mutually venounce resort to arms.” | Promises Surprise. As to events between now and December 1, when_the security pact is to be signed in London, M. Briand remarked: Not only will your ex- pectations not be disappointed, but on the contrary you wil be surprised.” The correspondent also interviewed Mr. Chamberlain, who addressed him NET ACTS. | | | Br the A [lion men m low any country to use the port for X the shipment of goods, incoming or in German, saying that he was de- outgoing, without restriction as to|termined to learn to speak anew the! duties, right of seizure or right of /lansuage he had once mastered. He search. | had the honest conviction, he said, | The tree zone provides the only ac- | that a new epoch in European de- cess of many Balkan communities to | velopment had been reached. the sea. The action of the Greek| The American Ambassador, Jacob government 1s regarded as an astute 'G. Schurman, visited Dr. Stresemann political move to counteract agitation 'and extended hix perscnai conzrat- | by some of the Balkan states before ] ulitions on the results nchieved hy | the League of Nations for a revision | the Locarno conferenc i of territorial grants in the Balkans| Chancellor Luther made his first lwith ‘a view to providing Aegean |report last night to President von ports, Hindenburg. Dry Law Is Upheld| Decision Court’s By the Associated Pregs The constitutionality of the Volstead act again was upheld and its provi sions discussed in detail today by the Supreme Court A formal opinion in the Druggan case from Chicago, in which an appeal by the defendant recently was dis. issed, w made the occasion for the court’s redefinition of its ‘support of the validity of the dry law CHANG 1S FORGED 10 FLEE NANKING Port City Captured Chekiang Forces After Street Fighitng. by ociated Press SHANGHAIL, October 19.—Reports from Nanking, a treaty port 210 miles west of Shanghai. says the city has heen captured by the Chekiang troop: as another phase of the campaign which resulted in the capture of Shanghai. After spreet firing, the troops of Chang TsolLin, Manchurian leader, were forced to retreat across the Yangtse River to Pukow, where they expect to be joined by reinforce- ments driven from Shanghai MILLION UNDER ARM Triangular Strife in China volve All Forces. SHANGHAL October 19 (#).—The military troubles of China are becom- ing many-sided, with perhap: mil stered under the various leade In seneral, however, trouble is a triangular one. There is a war between Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang, vernor of Cheklang, and Gen. Chang Tso-Yin, the Manchurian war lord. each commanding about 200,000 men, while Gen. Fenz Yu-Hsiang, the “Christian general,” is lving low, ap- parently ready to attack any one at an opportune moment. He also has 200,000 men. and war between him and Chang Tso-Lin seems like NEW YORK YEGES BET 950,000 L00T Brooklyn Band in Series of Robberies—Gunmen Wound Restaurateur. May In- By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, October 19.—Burglars blew open the safe in the jewelry store of Jacob Sakow, in upper Lex- ington avenue, last night and stole Liberty bonds, cash and jewelry total- ing $50,000, it was learned today. They dropped some of the loot in their flight. A band of five robbers, one of them wearing a policeman’s uniform, com- mitted a series of hold-ups in Brook- (lyn early today, while in Manhattan two gunmen shot and probably fatally wounded the proprietdr of a lower East Side restaurant in which there were eighteen patrons, including five women. The boldest robbery by the Brook- lyn band was the hold-up of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Goldman and their chauffeur as their car was passing along Eastern Parkway. After they had crowded the Goldman. automobile to the curb the five robbers took $5,000 in jewelry and $250 in cash from their victims. ‘Within a short time after this rob- police all over Brooklyn were searching for the band as a result of several other hold-ups in rapid suc- cession. The East Side restaurant owner, Michael Gurney. was shot by two men who had entered the place, supposedly as patrons. The shooting occurred in the Kitchen, after which the gunmen escaped by keeping the patrons at bay with their pistois. bery Radio programs—Page 18. the | | {ing snow and rain and cold weather |Again by Supreme! Pinchot Takes Request of 30,000 “God-Fearing” Pennsylvanians. Thirty thousand “God-fearing, Con- atitution-respecting, decent people of Pennsyivania’™ are ready | buginess ties and come to Washington to plead in person for the retention of Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler as head of the Police Department of | Philadelphia, Gov. Pinchot told Presi | dent Coolidze today. Gov. Pinchot came to Washington | for the express purpose of as President in the name of the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania to grant the Marine Corps commander anoth |er yvea extension of his leave of |absence that he may be allowed “to tmflsh the job he has so well begun.” In a long statement following the con- ference Gov. Pinchot declared that removal of Gen. Butler at this time would be a blow to law and order. Strong and Ernest Desire. “I came to Washington to lay be- fore the President the stronz and earnest desire of the God-fearing, Con | stitution-respecting, decent people of Pennsylvania that Gen. Butler be allowed to finish the joh he has so well begun,” Gov. Pinchot said ‘I told the President that Gen. Butler is winning, but needs more time to | win completely, and urged him to let Butler have “Butler has become the symbol of civic righteousness in Pennsylvania. Our people helieve in him and respect him. They are behind him. To take him out now would encourage every vicious element in the State and weaken every force that is fizhting for decency. The cost to the respect | and enforcement of law of taking But- ler out would be simply enormous. “1 told the President also that on my Western trip last Summer 1 found the same situation existing wherever | T went as exists in Pennsylvania. Everywhere the people wha stood for the right thing wanted to know about Butler, and were almost as deeply concerned for his suc as if his work lay in their own States Emergency Remains. “I pointed out that to retain Butler now would fall exactly within the torms of the President’s own letter to Kendrick of last December. in which he said that officers of the military establishment should not be allowed to | do such special work except in case | of emergency. There is such an emer- in Pennsylvania today. More- it is of intimate concern to the Nation that the sesquicentennial to | which_all the countries of the world have been invited should take place in a city whose police protection will do honor and not dishonor to the peo- ple of the United States. If Butler 20es no one can guarantee what will happen_ during the sesquicentennial. T told the President also that there could be no pressing need in Butler's return to the marines, since he was to | be assigned to a post of only 400 men. Obviously the marines do not need him now; Pennsylvania does. ! Enforcement Suspected. | “I said to the President also that {law enforcement srave | public suspicion throughout the | United States and that to remove the man who is doing the best en- forcement work in America at this time would have very serious results on public opinion and on the actual enforcement of the law. ““Finaly, T told him that we in Penn- | sylvania see every reason why Butler i should be allowed to finish his work, l'and none “why he should be taken away. We want him, we need him and we ought to have him." is under ! to lay aside | Kinz_the | should | Chicago Could Pay Each Crook $20,000 A Year to Quit City! By the Associated Press CHICAGO, October 19.—Crime in Chicago costs the city so much each year it could well afford to pav each of its estimated 30,000 crooks $20,000 annually, or $600,- 000,000, to leave town, C. R. Hol den, president of the Chicago Crime Commission, told a church audicence yesterday. He estimated that approximately 1 per cent of the city’'s 3,000,000 population are engaged in criminal pursuits and asserted that crime had increased here 100 per cent since 1900. FLYER RELEASED IN TRAFFIC CRASH ;Judge McMahon Suspends Remainder of Lieut. Mc- Donnell’s Term in Cell. Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court today suspended further execu |tion of the sentence imposed Wedr.es. day night on Lieut. John McDcnnell, | convicted of leaving after colliding, and placed him on probation for one ! | vear. Request Clayton E. by defense connsel. Maj Emig, that the court make | the suspension of the sentence date | from the beginning, so that it would clear the record with the Wxr Depart | ment was refused. Maj. Emig then | called the court's attention to the possibility that might cause the defendant heing dishonorably dis charged, and that an editorial had re- cently appeared in The Star citinz at in another case the court had wposed a fine of §50 instead. Says Machine Damaged. know nothing ahout Judge McMahon stated. e tried by another judge. There has been a report circulated that Ad-| miral Brownson's machine was dam- aged only slightly, which I believe the | defendant was led to believe. A gar |age man is here and can testify to the condition of the machine when | it was brought in Upon taking the witness stand the automobile mechanic stated that the rear fend: was broken. the rear hub | cap smashed. the hub itself damaged. | the rear bumper broken, the trans:. mission case broken, the propeller | shaft bent. the speedometer drive gear | broken, the rear axle shaft out of | place and one of the connecting rods badly "bent. He estimated the total repair bill would run between $300 and $350. He also testified that the | car had to be towed in. and finally, when the gears locked. it had to be put on a jack before it could be taken | into the garage. o the other Not Made an Example. see.” Judge McMahon cluded, “‘that you committed a offense. You were not | ample, for many other: “You con grave made an ex- have been sent to jail on a similar charge. Only be. ! -ause of previous good record and the | fact that 1 helieve vou recognize the seriousness of your offense do 1 feel | inclined to suspend the further execu tion of vour sentence.” The report of the condition of the damaged car was previously siven by Frank A. Sebrinz. clerk of the court. | following a telephone messaze from Admiral Brownson. 'WOMEN'S WAGE LAW IN ARIZONA IS VOID: JU, S. Supreme Court Holds Mini- mum Scale Is Uncon- stitutional. The A women ona minimum wage law for held to be unconstitu- tional today by the Supreme Court. The court’s’ position was et forth by its action in affirming the decision of the lower courts on the issue. The attack upon the law was by A. Sardell, owner of two stc at Nogales, who employed four woman {clerks and contended that if compel |led to pay them each a minimum of | $16 a week. as required by the State made The State contended that he was required to employ women and sisted that the law was a exercise of its police powers. The Federal District Court for Arizona held, however, that it was invalid and enjoined the State officers from en- forcing it. Chief Justice Taft declared that the action of the court had been based not valid valid and unconstitutional mum wage law of the District of Columbia. Justice Holmes gave his consent to the action today solely on the grounds of the prior Justice Brandeis dissented. the mini Civil War Leader Dies. CINCINNATI, Ohio, October 19 (&) —Gen. Thomas T. Heath, 91, among the last surviving brigadier generals of the Civil War, died ves his home, at Lockland, Ohio. was breveted for gallantry in tle of Waynesboro, Ga. i By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 19. —October’s reputation as a month of indolent sunshine and placid Autumn beauty | has gone by the boards this year. In- | stead of an intermezzo has come the discordant notes of the tempest, driv- into a shivering middle and far West. Death has even lurked in the swirling snow—flake harbingers of bleak Win- ter da Below freezing temperatures gen- erally were sprinkled through the prairfe and mountain States last night, the lowest mark being registered at Chevenne, Wyo., 18 degrees. Denver reported 24, and Rapid ( S. Dak.. | 26, among other low marks. While rising temperatures were predicted for today over most of the territory, the cold’ apparently was progressing Death-Dealing, Snow-Swept October | Weather Strikes Middle and Far West eastward, with lower mercury marks In prospect in the lake States until Tuesday. Three deaths resulted from Winter's first general visit to the Northwest, two men being killed at Red Wing, Saturday’s Sunday’s Circulation, statutes his business would be ruined. | in- | upon its previous decision holding in- | decision. | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes e papers are printed. 95,061 105,857 Circulation, TWO CENTS. BELL ASKS BACKING OF CITIZENS' BODY INPLAN OF REFORM Urges New Fiscal Program Between U. S. and D. C. Governments. WANTS COMMISSIONERS TO HAVE MORE POWER Change in Method of Dealing With Budget and Legislation by Congress Requested. Three questions of vital interest to the people of Washington should be considered by joint committee of the Senate and House at the forthcoming session of Congress, Engineer Commis oner Bell declared today in a letter the Citizens' Advisory Council uuesting that organization to recom mend a legislative program Che trio of matters The fiscal relations United States and ments, The proposal to increase the general powers ot the Commissioners over many municipal questions which now require action by Congre: Some modification of the methods used in dealing with the budget and legislation tor the District. Foresees Success. re- are between the District govern- After citing these three matters Col Bell conciuded his letter with thi comment: “In my opinion, the preparation of # budget and a program of legislation with the advice of the advisory coun- «il and with public disecu on of im- portant matters under consideration, is sound policy and will result in Con- gress conterring increased authority on the District zovernment.” ‘The Commissioner did not indicate how he believes the question of fiscal relations should be settled. For the Dast two vears Congress has tempo- rarily departed from the substantiv law providing for 60-40 division of the expenses of the ational Capital and has substituted an arbi rary lump =um contribution of $9.000,000 Wants 60-10 Ratio Back. = advisory coun its recommendations for the next ap propriation bill, already has gone on record as urging Congress to return 10, the 16040\ ratio: esdiie & sareen study and definite settlement of the question of e extent to which the Federal Government should share i the development of the Nation's City The city heads more than a year ago listed a score of municipal func tions over which they thought the Board of Commissioners should have more authority. These matters were never actually drafted into a bill for presentation to Congress, but Co! Bell's letter indicates they will be re vived this Winter. he Engineer Commissioner did not specify how he thought the methods of dealing with the annual budget and with legislation for the District should be modified, but pro- posed that such modification be in- wuired into by Congress. Offers Other Plans. In addition to these three outstand- ing questions, Col. Bell sent to the puncil list of various proposed bills affect!ng the Engineer Depart- ment, with the request that the coun- cil study them and recommend the ones which should be given prece dence of consideration by Con Col. Bell told the council that meas- ures of little importance and no great urgency should be allowed to crowd o ques where the public interest is suffering because lack of legislation The Ingineer Commissioner sug. zescted that not more than eight « the bills affecting the Engineer De- irtment should be listed for pref. erence or preferential consideration at the opening of Congress. A few others could be submitted at a later date, he said. ‘I believe more le had been f in submitting ons we would have secured lation in the past if less submitted.” Col. Bell clared. “‘Some meritorious bills have |remained unacted upon for years while time was taken up in the dis- | cussion of bills that should have been more thoroughly studied and formu- {lated prior to submission Confident of Co-operation. “I _am confident {and House District committees will co-operate with us and give prece- | dence to legislation thus proposed by the Commissioners, with the advice of the Advisory Council, and let other { proposed legislation wait."” Among the engineering bills sub- | mitted to the council by Col. Bell t | day were the following’ To provide for the opening or wid !ening of streets in cases where con | demnation ju cannot find benefit equal to damazes. Col. Bell men- | tioned nine streets which might be (Continued on Page 2 'FROST COMING HERE, SAYS WEATHER MAN | Storm Due Over Northern New York, But Won’t Reach This Far South. that the Senate Portions of northern New York due to feel the breath of Winter to night which is being carried east- ward on the wings of a storm which is general today over northern Lake Huron, but the threats of snow flur ;jries are not forecast for areas as far south as Washington. Light and short-lived drizzles ere Minn., and one at Minneapolis by |the worst expected here today, the trains while they were blinded by snow. From one to four inches fell in various Wisconsin and Minnesota communities; Des Moines reported a hower, and severe flurries whipped by sharp winds brought a wintry re- minder to Omaha. Nine men. marconed at the summit of Pike's Peak when the automobile highway was closed 1o traffic by heavy snow, were rescued unharmed by a special cog train. “The Sentinel of the Rockies” is now winterfast, ex- cept to a few hardy mountain climb- ers. ' Weather Bureau . announced. Fair jand colder weather, with a heavy frost likely, were forecast. The bureau declined to deal further in futures, however, and would not | promise fair and cool weather for more than 24 hours beyond tomorrow, be- cause of the rapidity with ‘which low pressure areas have been sweebing out {of the West bringing changes In at- | mospheric conditions. Storm warnings were broads t along New England States, but it was not expected the thermometer would drop below 35 degrees here tonight. (