Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 16

—— : THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURD XY, : S NAVAL PLANES MAP VAST AREA IN ALASKA. One of the amphibian planes of the Navy’'s Alaskan mapging expedition flying over Burroughs Bay, Alaska, with Lieut. E. F. Burkett in the pilot’s seat. The expedition has just returned from the Summer survey, during which more than 15,000 square miles were photographed under flying conditions that were often hazardous. Copyright by P. & A. Photos i JOY GIFT OF APPLES. patients when three barrels of apples were sent there for a national dren in the photograph, taken in the dispensary, are Dr. John ee, supervisor of the dispensary. MRS. COOLIDGE ENROLLS THE PRESIDENT. The First Lady decorates the presidential lapel with a Red Cross button, signifying Mr, Coolidge’s enrollment in the great relief organization, whose annual roll, call for memberships is now in progress ! Coj CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL YOUN: at the hospital were made happy vesterday apple week treat. Attending the group of ¢ A. Talbott, staff physician, and Mrs. R. Ml TERS E) Copyright by Harris & Ewing. GE. Dr. L. Manfleld Robinson, NO ANSWER YET TO MARS M! who dispatched a radio message to the planet Mars the other day from the high-powered wireless station at Rugby, England. The station, con- sidering the 42,000,000 miles the message has to travel, did not guaran- tee reception, and there has been no reply yet to_indicate whether it READY FOR THE FIRST RUN OF THE FALL H SON. Members of the Riding and Hunt Club assembled at the end of Massachusetts avenue yesterday afternoon for the first drag hunt of the season The dogs gave the scented sack a warm chase through the Montgomery County flelds and took the riders TRAIN SPLINTERS AUTO AND KILLS FIVE OCCUPANTS. In addition to those killed, two other occu- pants of this completely wrecked automobile were probably fatally injured, when it was struck by a Long Island Railroad express at a crossing near Brooklyn, N. Y. Photo shows police officials investigating imme- Underwood & Underwood diately after the accident. Underwood & Underwood. got there. ‘Wide World Photos. over some rough terrain. PETITION MAY HALT FALL-DOENY TRIAL Supreme Courl Asked to Pass on Validity of Teapot Dome Indictments. A petition filed yesterday in the Su- preme Court of the United States may delay criminal proceedings against Harry F. Sinclalr, Edward L. Doheny and Albert B. out of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve leases. The court is asked to p: of the indictments has been fixed as the date for he defendants in the Dist Supreme Court 1o plead to the indictments, but it is expected the counsel of Sinclair and Fall, who filed the petition, will ask for delay until the hizher court acts. Court Recess Delays Action. The Supreme Court is now in rec and since it will not cenvene. until November 22 the earliest possible date it can act on the petition will be No- vember 29, and it may be that the trial court will decide to suspend pro- ceedings until it knows what the Su- preme Court will do. Tndictments oxi lenged in the tr t because of the presence of certain persons in the grand jury ‘The trixl court sus- tained them and an appeal was taken 1o the of Appeais. Con X later the Walsh act taking away from the court the right to entertain iwch appeals and a month later it dismissed the action Dismissal Order Attacked. Sinclair and Tall, in their petition filed in the Supreme Court yesterd attacked the dismissal on the grou were chal that the appellate court had given the law a retroactive construction Counsel for Doheny, however, does not plan to attack the validity of the {ndictment in the Supreme Court and vesterday announced readiness to pro- ceed when tihe criminal cases are called for trial United Si s Attorney Gordon and the Government's special oil counsel Atlee Pomerena and Owen J. Robel meanwhile filed in the District of Co- Jumbia Court of Appeals today a brief in support of their motion to dismiss the special appeal allowed August 2 192 S . in the case in which he is accused of contempt to the United States Senate because of his refusal to answer certain questions Auring the oil investigation. Their motion was based on the Walsh act. CLAIMS SEEING BROTHERS Spiritualist’s Daughter Says She Touched Dead Kin. LONDON, November 6 (#).—Es- telle Stead, daughter of the late Wil- llam T. Stead, the journalist, E & meeting of Spiri sts here sajd that within the last few weeks she had seen her two dead brothers. One of the brothers died before her father, who lost his life in the steam- ship Titanic di 12, and the other one since. Stead related how her brothers had stood before her. BShe said she had felt their hands and that they had kissed her. Miss Stead's father also was & Spir- itualist. TAX CUTS CALLED WISE 8 STRATEGY |Leaders Believe Return of Money Will Bring Timely Prosperity Talk. | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Coolidge's announcement | that he favors a rebate on income tax | payments made during the year 1926 !on incomes earned in 1925 represents 1 compromise between two plans | which were =o hopelessly involved | with politics that dec - | ferred until after the | elections. | The Democrats have been insisting | that another ta sion law could be lopted at the short session, which | hegins next month and ends in { March. The Republicans in Congress | have impressed on’ the administration that it would be difficult for them to stop the Democrats if such a move should be started. President Coolidge | had hoped that tax reduction could be deferred until the Congress which meets in December, 1927, and the Win- ter of 1923 could be convened. He has contended that not until then would there be a clear idea of how the tax w, which went into effect this vear, actually operated. Secretary Mellon has shared the | view of the President that it would | be better to get -further data before | trying to pass another set of rates, | but the political pressure to do some- |thing at the session of Congress | which begins next.month was too in- tense to withstand. Clamor to Be Satisfied. Accordingly, the decision has been reached by the administration that @ | rebate on 1926 { commit the Government to a perma- nent reduction of rates, but would | satisfy the clamor for an immediate | reduction. | Whether the Democrats have been | checkmated by this move remains to | be seen, for it is quite likely they will endeavor just the same to get the {rates revised. They have the figures issued by the Treasury itself as a basis for thelr argument, and the ad- ministration will have to use consid- erable pressure to keep the Repub- licans in line behind the policy of no revision. | Much more, however, can be ac- complished in a short session of Con- gress to block revenue legislation than would be the case if.the session did not explre automatically on March 4 next. For one thing, the Ways and Means Committee has not been called into session, as was the r before Congress met So even if all sides were united on the issue of tax re- vision, it is doubtful if a bill could be reported much before February. Factional differences probably would prolong the debate and make it dif- ficult to get a measure through by March 4. By announcing that a simple reso- nition of rebate will be approved, the | administration has taken the infti- ative and incidentally will develop a | novelty in that actual money will be | returned to the ‘taxpaver. The psy- chological effect of returning 10 or er cent of money which the tax- | paver as the slang phrase has it, | had “kissed " {s something | which cannot be underestimated. But entirely apart from this is the effect ayments would not | | PRI ish Crown Prince. The prince, CE OF WALES VISITS THE WE! accompanied by Gen. Colin, the guard of honor of senior cadets, wearing the traditional white and red plumed skakos. T POINT OF FRANCE. Cadets of the Kre AW nch Military Academy at St. Cyr being reviewed by the Brit- ‘commandant of the school, and Gen. Gouraud, military governor of Paris, passes along Acme Photos. on business i $250,000,000 is turned back to the American people. Much of it will go either for luxuries or for the payment of debts. In either event the egonomic con- ditions of the country wlil be im- proved and the Republicans will have given momentum to another argu- ment about prosperity, which will come in handy just as the 1928 nohrl- nating campaign begins and the voters’ minds are turned toward the next presidential election. The strategy of the President in taking the initiative before Congress meets is considered by his friends to | be wise for two reasons: First, the | administration will not be on thé de- fensive when Congress meets, and | second, 1t helps to take the mind of the country off Tuesday's election, { with the more or less unpleasant im- pressions carried therein by the Demo- cratic gains. But the outstanding fact is that predictions made when the first re- | turns were analyzed last Spring have been borne out, namely, that the pres- ent tax rates have been more produc- tive than was dreamed and the way has been opened for further reduc- tion in rates and some inevitable in- creases in the amounts returned to the Treasury. \Copyright. 1026.) OFFICER AND GIRL HURT. Motor Cyclist, Chasing Bpeeder, Strikes Pedestrian.” Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., November 6.— Policeman_Joseph Oldfield of Rock- ville is in Emergency Hospital, Wash- ington, suffering from serious injuries, and Miss Ruby Crist, 18 years old, Is at Georgetown University Hospital with a compound fracture of the left leg, as a result of an accident at § o'clock yesterday afternoon, just north of Bethesda. On motor cycles, Oldfield and Police- men J. W. Phillips and W. H. Merson were follgwing a speeder, when the girl stepfed from behind a truck, in the path of Oldfield's machine. He and the girl were thrown to the Christ. The other policemen gave up .the chase. The speeder, driving a roadster, escaped. The police say | Oldfield’s motor cycle was gols 50 I miles ar hour when it hit the girl. street as the motor cycle struck Miss | which were ('ond‘?c Britain Was Wrong in Fighting America In Days of 76, Says Australian Premier By the Aseociated Press. LONDON, November 6.—Those who sat at the luhcheon of the American Chamber of Commerce in London Thursday showed curlous surprise when Australia’s youthful and virile premier, Stanley M. Bruce, declared with vehemence that the British crown and government had been wholly wrong in the struggle against the American colonies. They gasped when he declared that Australia would have fought alongside the American colonial troops if it had been a nation at that time. N He eased the situation for his English auditors, however, by saying that Australia now enjoyed full lib- erty as a nation of the British Com- monwealth because of the victories of theé American colonies. Premler Bruce struck the keynote of an American-Australlan accord when he pointed out that the position of these two countries as great Pacific powers made the international prob- lems of the United States and Aus- tralia of mutual concern. “Australlans and Americans,” he said, “are allke in looking with horror on the ancient hatreds and animosities which divide the peoples of Lurope. They are trying to make a new civill- zation in which none of the old ani- mosities or hatreds will be present. Both Americans and Australians de- sire earnestly to keep free from en- tanglement in the Old World; they de- sire to carry out their great tasks of economic and socfal advancement, and there is between them a very binding link—the same attitude of mind, the same outlook on world problems. They are both great Pacific powers which visualize in the future the transfer of the world’s center from the older con- tinents to the newer world.” The premier spoke of the feeling of Australians that they were inheritors of all that had been won by the fathers fn the war for independence. “All thinking people must realize,” he continued, “that there was some- thing wrong in those days in the at- titude of the British government, which did not recognize the aspira- tions and ideals of young peoples. But now a new British empire has grown up, and Australians are enjoying the great heritage of freedom and au- tonomy which the forefathers of the American peopls did much to contrib- ute to.” In the midst of the cheering, Mr. Bruce made mention of the action of the United States at a crucial period of the war as an example of great moral sense. 2 OIL HEARING DELAYED. Trust Charge Trial in Indiana Ad- journed to December 13. NEW YORK, November 6 (@).— After the defense had completed its direct testimony in the case of e Standard Ol Co. of Indiana and 46 other ofl companies charged with violating the anti-trust law by pooling their gasoline “cracking” process patents, adjournment in the case was taken to December 13. At the resumption of the hearings, ted before Special Master Charles Martindale, the Gov- ernment will put in its rebuttal, to be followed by cross-examination of rebuttal witnesses by the defense. The hearing started nearly a month ago. | of Ogdensburs, NINE WIVES BEREAVED. “Husband” Dies in Prison After Sentence for Bigamy. NEW YORK, November 5 (®).— Nine wives were bereaved yesterday when their_coliective husband, John Lawrence Leclaire, died in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, where he was serving a sentence of flve years for bigamy and two years for perjury. His recorded €S were: Frances Y.; Rena of Port vew York, Dorz of yracuse, Velma of Fitchburg, Mass.; Maude of Lake George, N. Maude of Gloucester, Bertha of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Flora of Cohoes, N. Y. Bertha Haze of Poughkeepsie caused Leclalre’s arrest, Chester, Anna of MRS. REMUS FACES CONTEMPT CHARGE Wife of “Bootleg King” Accused of Selling His Propertty De- spite Injunction. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, November ¢.— Charged with having sold property belonging to her husband, George Remus, former Cincinnat! “king of bootleggers,” in contradiction to an injunction placed against the sale of the property, Mrs. Imogene Remus faced the charge of contempt of court in Domestic Relations Court yesterday. Remus’ attorney charged that the defendant had disposed of an expen- sive automobile covered by the court injunction and had_disposed also of certificates for 220 barrels of liquor, which he alleged she is holding out- side the jurisdiction of the court. Counsel representing Mrs. Remus alleged that the injunction did not become effective until after Remus’ petition for divorce had been filed and notice served upon Mrs. Remus March 19, 1926. Mrs. Remus testifled that she had taken from her home ‘“whatever she considered valuable,” and that every- thing she took had been stored in Hamilton County. Judge Hoffman said that the ques- tion of the car was unimportant. Mrs. Remus said she would bring the liquor certificates to court next Tuesday. The case was continued until that time. TWO DIVORCED IN RARIS. PARIS, November 6 (P).—Ameri- can divorces granted by Paris courts, announced yesterday, included: Rosalle Banner Bloomingdale from Irving Ingersoll Bloomingdale. They ‘were married in New York City Feb ruary 5, 1917, and have one child. Mrs. Tyler Norman Foley from Charles Francis Foley, abandonment. Th married In Washington, oy were D. O, June 16, 1921, and have one ROMEE PLOT PROOF CLAIMED IN PARIS Interest Intense in Charge| i Italy Sought to Embroil | France and Spain. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 6—Public Inter- t was imtense today in charges that Italians were seeking to create a divi- sion between Spain and France be- cause of the operatiohs on French soil | ot conspirators who tried to set up “the State of Catalan” in Spain. Minister of Justice Sarraut says enough evidenee has been obtained to justify the beliet that there ls close connection between the Catalan af- fair and the activities of Col. Ric ciott! Garibaldi, grandson of the Ital-| Garibaldl, working with other Ita fans, it is asserted, planned to betray the Spanish colonel, Francisco Macia, leader of the Catalans, and his fol- lowers, to the Spanish police, and thus pave the way for Spain to declare that France was lax In allowing a conspir- acy to be hatched on French soil. Arrests End Conspiracy. Some 12 arrests on the border by | the French broke up the conspiracy. Rome advices charact e as ab- surd the belief held in France that Italian police agents were implicated in the plot. The advices say that the Fasclst regime is in sympathy with the Spanish government and that ome gave it the first notice that a !g!ot was brewing. Garibaldi is declared by anti-Fas. cists of Nice to be a traitor to their cause. The police of the Riveria resort are of the opinion that Garibaldl and the other Itallans were not concerned in the Catalan conspiracy, but en- gaged in seeking out prominent anti- Fasciets in France; that it was their intention to entice anti-F'ascists into Italy, implicate them in plots against Mussolini and have them put in jall. Polce Detain Garibaldi. Garibaldi, who was brought to Paris from Nice for examination, is being held as a guest of the police. He has admitted recelving 100,000 francs from an Italian police official. Col. Macia has told the police he financed the expedition partly with his personal fortune and partly with money provided by Catalan’s in South America. The Italians who joined the movement brought nothing for the tressure chest, he said. The French police insist the Itallans had ample funds. There is a certain | amount of .mild indignation that France's traditional right as an asy- lum for political exiles should be abused end the country used by po- Mitical plotters and counter plotters. French papers insist Italy’s purpose is to strengthen its hand in Mediter- ranean affairs and at the same time keep up Fascist influence at home. | ‘At the ministry of war today cate- gorical denial was given a report that Senegalese troops had been sent to the Italian frontier. It was declared | no unusual troop movements of any description had taken place or were contemplated. | M. Beck, former So fan liberator, at Nice. | { cotld not e One Lioyd's firm recently insured a man against a visit from his mother- In-law. - VARE WONT TALK OF SENATE PLANS Senator-Elect Scores Norris Charges, But Refuses to Discuss Seating. . LUCIF . November 6.—"1 to discuss Pennsylvania William S ed yester an effort 1s made an elected merm counsel in the eve lify him 5 Vare had been ein the denial of charges as statement issued by Sena sbraska, that ¥ ection had been made through “fraudulent manipulation.’ He asserted there was no basis for such charges, saying, “My opponents understand why so many persons on their voting iist voted for me. While T won in the primary with 338,000 votes, my majority in the elec tlon was something ,000." Ex plaining his heavy expense, Vare said “My opponents started their cam paigns before me and got the support of the newspapers. We had to use newspaper advertising and extensive lotter writ] termed Senator Norrfs a Nebraska Republican work ing with Western Democrats, instead |of giving his own party proper sup port. Mr. Vare sald what he desired most now was “to be left alone.” He said he had come to Florida after a stren uous campaign, and that he desired to rest. He is at his Winter home near here Ho gave no indication of how long he intended to remain in this section His wife is with him. In_denying the Norris allegations, Mr. Vare sald: “Thers is no ground for the charges, in that not one mem- ber of the State registration commit- tee or any other person has come for ward since the May primary with a - ge against a single one of my received 338,000 votes in the primary and Pinchot only 26,000, but Norris and some of his men could not see how one man could get such a large vote honestly, so they brought these charges,” e el NEW COUNTY CHAMBER. Special Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va., November 6 A meeting was held yesterday to or- ganize a county chamber of com merce. J. C. Ambler was temporary president. John T. Ramey of Mar. shall, C. E. Tiffany, Warrenton, and t. A. Fifield, Remington, spoke. John L. Branch of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce outlined the needs and ob- Jects. A report of the committes on bylaws was read and adopted. A nominating committee fas appointed who reported the following directors: E. L. Childs, R. D Lee district. O. M Embrey Tiffany, Willlam Rowland, L. R. Bartenstein, Scott district, W. C. Shawen, J. W. Slaugh. ter, E. C. Gatewood, Marshall district, W. P. Sadler, J. T. Ramey, J. C. Am- bler. The directors will elect officers at their first meeting. A. Center district,