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DTTRELL NAMED } 1 TRADE BOARD AID Will Become Acting Assistantj Secretary, Taking Up Duties January 10. Robert J. Cottrell, who for four years has reported real estate and trade body activities of Washington | for The Star, has been appointed to the executive staff of the Washington Board of Trade, to be acting assistant | of the organization He will assume his secretary, offitia announced today duties January 10. Appointment of Mr one of the youngest ton ever m;u"m} in a sibility, Is concurr has been undertaken by the Board of Trade. Having already a membership | of approximately 3,000, the organ tion plans further enlargement and a considerable increase in its scope of activity, with emphasis to be placed on exhaustive survey ofsthe tax situ- ation here, fiscal relations and school matters. _ Mr. Cottrell will assist in carrying out the enlarged plans of the Board of Trade until the return of Richard L. Conner, the assistant secretary, who now is recovering in a local hos- pital trom a prolonged illness. | Mr. Cottrell during his newspaper | career in Washington became person- | ally acquainted with scores of promi- | nent business men and his familiarity with the general lines of their work, needs and policies is expected to stand him in good stead in his new position, it is pointed out. He was| born in London 28 years ago and was | educated in private schools, Latimer’s School and the Southwest “London College. He came to the United States in 1914 to join his father in theatrical business. He later traveled extensively through the United States and Canada and made a tour of Euro) Retpu‘;mng to this eountry, he took up the study of law and was gradu- ated by the National University Law School in 1922. He had become inter- ested In newspaper work several years prior to’ his graduation and after a period of service in the business office of The Star was transferred to the news department. & Mr. Cottrell is married and lives at 4466 Reservolr road. LIBERALS PLANNING NEW BLOW AT DIAZ IN NICARAGUAN WAR (Continued from Firet Page.) Cottrell, who is unnecegsary” and that Sacasa had been practically “imprisoned.” ‘Whether this communication will be answered by the State Depart- ment is doubtful, inasmuch as the United States has entered into no diplomatic relations with Sacasa. House spokesman, in his denied jer American had interfered with the liberal or meémbers of his and said his advices were a holn: ca Bluff Lumber C Am 3 Both N1 d State Depart- . nied charges that timer, ROBERT J. COTTRELL. NORRIS WILL SEEK PATRONAGE PROBE Taylor Charges Are Before Tennessee District Attor- neys, Sargent Says. By the Associated Press The charges that Representative Taylor, Republican, Tennessee, solicit- ed campaign funds from Federal office holders have been referred by At- torney General Sargent to district at torneys for FEastern and Western Tennessee, Senator Couzens, lican, of Michigan, was advis by the Department of Justice. Senpator Couzens is chairman of the Senate civil service committee, which inquired into the subject recently, and the Attorney General advised him that evidence adduced by the com- mittee had been referred to the dis. trict attorneys for such action as seemed warranted. Grand jury proceedings based on the same charges Against Representative Taylor were concluded in the Middle Tennessee district several:months ago without an indictment being voted. Senator Couzens then pressed the case in the Department of Justice on the ground that testimony from the east ern and western districts had not been esented. prln the event the Senate judiciary committee should be directed to in- vestigate Federal patronage distrib tion, as proposed in a resolusion Senator gn’ls. Democrat, of Georgia, Senator Couzens indicated he would submit the Taylor case. Chairinan Norris of the judiciary committee said today he was prepared to press for a patronage Inquiry soon after the holiday recess. Senator Couzens made public a re- port submitted in July by the United States Civil Service Commission to the Department of Justice and to the Sen- ate civil eervice committee. : :x:! ¢ “thus The hislory of the - se th presented. .in thg'hport of the Civil Service mission: “;.vwm&ylo_r. now a r of] Gon in mary election held on v of August, 1922, g:)ngma:‘ from the second district of Tennessee. In this primary a deficit of about $3,000 was incurred on behalf of Mr. Taylor's candidacy. Attached to the report were extracts from the testimony of 10 Teanessee postmasters who said they had been n cefisorahip ove autgoing and ches. Vaca's protest, made public last night, declared the “practical arrest of the constitutional ruler of a sov- . ‘with - which the United States is at peace is almest with- oyt parallel in the history of inter- hational relations, and is unwa cam| preceding the pri- L o) the first Thurs- for member of , ran against Judp ngs | ranted by any principle of intern: tio law." He also charged that the Sacasa group had been denied by American officers use of the Nicaraguan wire- less station, “thus preventing it from placing the true situation in Nica- ragua before the world.” i WEST DENIES BET WAS PUT ON GAME; LAID IT ON A HORSE Page.) (Continued from Fi and their retention of attornevs, was followed last night from resno, Calif., by what Dutch Leonard called “the only authorized statement’ h has made concerning the charges he precipitated. Leonard said that the letters writ- ten by Cobb and Joe Wood in which allusion was made to bets placed en the game of September 25, 1919, were not sold by him to the American League. “I never received any money, di- rectly or indirectly, for any letters or for any informatien in my posses- sion,” Leonard's statement said. “I surrendered the letters to base ball authorities when these autheri- tles convinced me that it was a duty 1 owed to the Detroit team and to the base ball world in general to help | thereby clear up certain rumors anu | information which they had previ-| sly in their possession. ‘The public wants, if they want anything at all, facts. * * * I feel now that the entire occurrence is a closed incident.” Cobb, however, made it plain at Cleveland that it is not.a ‘“closed in- cident” as far as he is concerned. “1 never was a quitter,” he said “and I am not now. I know the pub-| lic_is behind me.” Cobb also gave his side of his ‘“re. tirement” from thé management of the Detroit Tigers, a team with which he had playved continueusly since 1805 ‘I did not quit at Detroit"" he said. “It was given out there that I had resigned, That statement was false. 1 did not resign at that time. I was released, and another manager ap- pointed in my place.” An investigation of the whole af- fair by the United States Senate con- tinues a possibility. Senator Capper Republican, Kansas, said he favored | such an inquiry as the most expe- dient method of examining the evi dence. He said, however, he has no | definite plans. Commissioner Landis, public the charges a hase ball's greatest centerfielders continues the Sphinx. riticized from many sources for making pub lic the Cobb-Wood letters to Leon- ard, Landis said he will have nothing to say until the fires that the gharges have started have burned themselves out. Both Cobb and Speaker are keep- ing their plans secret. - Attorney Boyd announced in Cleve- land this morning that Cobb would %o to Detroit some time today to en- who made nst two of solicited by Taylor personally, or through persons who said they rpoke for him, for contributions to meet the cit. de\n\'hen Taylor was questioned by Couzens, the latter said today, the Tennessee Representative replied that the charges were the result of fac- tional warfare in the Republican ranks in Tennessee. Taylor was formerly chairman of the Republican State committee. John J. Graham, postmaster at Knoxville, Tenn., under appointment of December, 1923, was named in the Civil Service Commission’s report as having given his personal note for 350 to the Union Bank of Knoxville “to be credited on the campaign deficit.” “Mr. Taylor indorsed the note,” the report added. “It was dated a month or so after Mr. Graham became post- ter. M&The deflcit of about $3.000 was taken up by giving the bank a note for the full amount due, on which Mr. Taylor was the principal, with several of his friends indorsers, Mr. Graham being one of them. This note has been entirely paid off in the last 6 or 7 months. Mr. Graham's note of $500 has been reduced by yments by him from time to time, Put ' balance still remains due. “Mr. Graham states that he wrote a letter to the Postmaster General, giving the facts in the case shortly after his appointment as postmaster in December, 1923.” "KIWANIS PARLEY PLANS. Committees will be appointed and a working program framed for the Capital district of Kiwanis Interna- tional for the coming vear at a meet- ing of the delegates of the Capital | Qistriet in this city January 17, it was announced today. General club poli- Cies aisu wili ve discussed. N2 "The Capital district includes all Ki- wanis clubs in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and the Washington club. Delegates meetirg here in January will consist of the president, secretary and a distriet trustse from each club within the territory mentioned. J Randall Caton, jr., international trus. tee. of Kiwanis, also 18 to attend. William 8. Quinter, president of the local club; George H. Winslow, secre- tary, and Harry G. Kimball, district trustee, will be among the local dele- gates at the meeting. "THE EVENING | HOLDS MOB WORE " REGALI OF LW | Louisville, Ga., Judge Quoted in Charge—Head of Order Reiterates Denial. | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, December 29.—Charges | that- official regalia of the Ku Klux | Klan was worn by hooded men who | flogged Wimberley Brown, Toomhs County attorney, near Lyons, Ga., last Friday, today followed. the ling of a special grand jury and the offer of rewards by the governor for convic tion of members of the band. The Coustitution, in a dispatch from Louisville, Ga., today, quoted Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs cir- cuit, declaring it was “common STAR," WASHING' [LATIMER IS SKILLED DIPLOMAT . ., WEDNESDAY, AND KNOWS HIS SPANISH WELL American Admiral i Nica- ‘-rag'ua Is 58, Handsome and Father of Four. Believes in Personal Pre- paredness—Is “‘Great Har- monizer” and:Lawyer. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Rear Admiral Julian Lane Latimer, commanding the American forces in Nicaragua. at this important juncture, is known far and wide as one of the speatest diplomats the Navy has ever developed. It is a part of naval train- ing in the higher commands to study the finer phases of diplomacy. Of course, diplomacy in the Navy has undergone many changes. There was, knowledge” that members of the band wore the Klan regalia, On the other hand, Nathan Bedtord Forrest, head | of the Klan in Georgia, reiterated’ a denial that the Klan had any part in the affair. “The "Toombs County sheriff should instantly arrest any person appearing in a Kian robe without written per- imission from me,” Forrest asserted. “Adinission" is Cifed. Judge Hardeman was, quoted in the Constitufion as sayving: “It.is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown was seized and hurried out of town. Brown himself stated to me that there was absolutely n& doubt that the mob members wore the official robes with the official insignia.” ‘The newspaper also quoted Solicitor A. 8. Bradley of Toombs County as declaring from his home at Maynes- boro that members of the mob mitted they were Klansmen before whipping ‘Brown.” Bradley was quoted as saving that ome of the mob remarked: “We are Klansmen, and we are whipping you because you have been prosecuting the Klan.” Forrest yvesterday said the Klan would offer rewards for apprehension of those involved. Members of the band wore robes in*imitation of Klan regalia and flour sacks, but “‘were not in any sense Klansmien,” he declared. Threatened With Death. Brown, attorney for Toombs County, was taken from a street cor- ner in Lyons to the eountry 2 miles away. He reported he was beaten so severely that he was under a physi- cian’'s care, and warned that he would be killed if he did not move out of the county in 10 days. Brown assisted in the prosecution of five men accused of fatally wounding Willle Wilson last July. “Mobs with heads covered with flour sacks shall not rule in Georgia,” Gov. Clifford Walker asserted in an- nouncing that $1,000 would be paid as a reward for the capture of the person first convicted as a member of the band. Martial law will ke declared, he said, if necessary “to curb these outrages.” In a siatement announcing that a special grand jury would meet on January 17 to investigate the situa- tion, Judge Hardeman declared. '“The Government will not be surrendered to these hooded hoodlums and justice eventually will be done.” SAYER IS FLOG GED. Man Who Accidentally Shot Taken to Weods by Mob. ST. PETERSBURG. Flai Decem- ber 29 (#).—James Melissag, owner of a Tarpen Springs cufio "shop and father of a 7-year-old son, who last Sunday accidentally shot and killed the young daughter of a member of the Greek colony here, was taken into the woods near Moon Lake, niorthern Pinellas County, last night hy several men and floggzed, the" sheriff's office was told yesterday. Y HOLDS ELECTION TODAY. Jewish Fraternity Choosing Officers for the Ensuing Term. Officers are being elected this after- noon by the delegates to the Pi Tau Pi Jewish Fraternity's thivteenth an- nual conclave, at ‘the Washington Hotel four dayw this week. A president, vice president, secretary and_treasurer will be chosen to suc- ceed the incumbents in those posi- tions, and their election will constitute the second business sesion, of the con- clave. At the initial buginess period, which was opéned at 1 o'clock yester: afternoon, the several officers read their annual reports, and these indicated that the organization experi- enced its greatest growth during 1926. Plans for the continuation of that ex- pansion during the new year were dis- cussed. A “rustic revel”—or, more plainly, a dance—was held last night at the Town and Country Club, at. Bethesda, Md. Y. was late in the morning be- fore the dancers had returned 1o their convention hotel, and there were many late sleepers at the Washington this morning, preparing for the elec- tion this ‘afternoon. The conclave ball, feature entertain- ment of the convention, will be held at Rauscher's, beginning at 10:30 o'clock tonight. It follows a stag dinner at the W usr.mnil(;l; at ;1. o'clock. The din- ner will be held in honor of vly elected officers. Py The final business session tomorrow will have for ita chief object the selec- tion of a eonclave city for 1927, ana the present meeting will reach its final adj:;;lrlnl;:ent with a dinner “midnight frelic” in the “Salon de Nations,” in the Washington Hu'll:l“ tomorrow night. ; gl TWINE SAVES $53,800. A change in the type of twine used in the post offices throughout the country this year saved the Govern. ment $53,800, Postmaster General Harry 8. New announced yesterday. This saving was made by purchas- ing oneply twine rather than two- ply twine. The former is said to have the same stréength as the heavier type. The Government hought 2,749, 370 pounds of jute twine. & Girl Only one package out of the many thousands sent to Washington from all parts of the world was lost from the mails this Christmas, as far as Postmaster Maoney could ascertain today. That package sald Mooney, was not delivered, and the local post office has no record of receiving it. Outside of this loss the mails were taken care of the best in the history of the service. he said. The post offices this year have not been troubled- much with mailed zage attorneys and go over the status of the case with them. Boyd said that no action would be taken by him on behalf of Speaker until he had conferred with Cobb's counsel and that all concerned had decided on a definite plan of action. Any anneyncement that action will be takem within the next few dave ia premature, Bova declared, N liquor, said Mooney One package | containing a cake broke open, though, | he said, and there, nestled in the heart { of the ke, was a tiny sample bottle | of liquor. The cake will be delivered, but minug the bottle, which will be ontents, broke while in a mail sack nd a fluid the celer of wine spilled held. LAno!h.r package, unmarked as to Only One Christmas Package Mis;ing Of Thousands Mailed, Mooney Reports over the dozen odd packa flacing the addres 1 soiling the others, Thompson, ‘foreman of the carriers at the post office, on Christ- mas morning - saw- a package - ad- dr to C. K. Herryman, cartoonist he Star, and marked “perish- " lying on a table in the shipping roomh.” He phoned Mr. Berryman at The Star office and found that he was *8 “in’ the 5 and names at home. Then he phoned the home and told Mr. Berrynfan that there was a package at the post.office for him, He then sent the package out special delivers. In answer and apprecia- tion, Mr. Berryman vesterday sent a letter to Thompson in. cartoon. form, showing the well known teddy bear delivering the package. Thompson said that ‘Mr. Berryman emphasized the good service rendered by the post office, 3 for instance, the somewhat blunt diplomacy of “Fighting Bob" Evans, who once threatened to blow Chile or some’ other South American country clear into the sea. But that was in the “good old days,” long since de- parted. * ‘The modern diplomacy has more finesse. . Admiral Latimer has gone into Nicamgua to straighten out cer- tain slight factional differences exist- ing in that sometimes revolution-torn country,;and the chances are ninety- pine out of a hundred that he will emerge from the land and take to the sea with the effusive thanks of both sides; expressed a8 only those ‘of a Latin temperament can express such things. One of the first real accomplish- ments_in diplomacy is to speak the language of the people you are deal- ing with, When Admiral Latimer found he was to be given command of the special Service squadron operat- ing in Central and South American waters, he took up an intensive study of Spanish, with the result that the Nicaragua incident has found him fluent with the language of the country. That is the Latimer way of doing things. The admiral always has believed in personal as well as national preparedness. Versed in Law. He versed himself in the law among other things. And.so, in due time, he became judge advocate general of the Navy, serving in that capacity for four years with marked distinc- tion. During his term as judge ad- vocate general Admiral Latimer came in constant contact with the com- mittees of Congress. Here he was just. as much of a diplomat as he is on foreign soil today. He got legisla- tion through. for the Navy had been pending and hanging fire for years. He paved the way for an omnibus service bill, which cleared up all sorts of odds and ends in the naval service—an accomplishment for which he will always be remembered by his brother officers. Admiral Latimer is of an old West Virginia family: which moved to Wash- ington sometime after he got his ap- pointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Admiral Latimer came from Representative W. L. Wil- son of West Virginia, author of the famous Wilson tariff act of the Cleve- land administration. After serving in the Spanish-Ameri- Admiral -can War on the Winslow, Latimer went to the Far East and #ot there in time to be in the midst of the Boxer uprising. He Served as naval aid on the staff of Gén. Chaffee. sions, was constantly under fire and was several times cited for bravery. He is a membeér of the Military Order of the Dragon. Commanded Rhode Island. During the World War Admiral Latimer, then a captain, commanded the battleship Rhode Island, engaged in convoy work in getting the troops to France. He tells many Interesting storles of Mis days in China’and bis work in the here he had to ride a horse fleld, raduated in the class of 1890 and is 38 vears of age. His appointment to Annapolis REAR ADMIRAL J. L. LATIMER. morning, noon and night. Horsebpck riding 18 not in the curriculum of An- napolis, but Julian Latimer alway: has been adaptable, and that is why he has succeeded in his various com- mands. During the four years as judge ad vocate general here in Washington Admiral Latimer met and entertained many of the diplomats from the American Republics. Many of them toasted the time he would be their guest In their native lands. That time has come and there is no ques- tion but the admiral's prevision has stood him in good stead. Taking com- mand of the special service squadron about a year and a half ago, he visited virtually all the Central and South American capitals, where he was roy- ally entertained. In return he gave many dinners aboard his flagship, the Rochester, and executives of the re- publics often journeyed several hun- dred miles to have their first meal under the Stars and Stripes. Went With Pershing. Admiral Latimer took Gen. Persh- ing to South America when he tried to arrange for a Tacna-Arica plebis- cite. During those long and friitless negotiations Admiral Latimer ‘stood by,” ready to be of any assistance. Paying ndval visits to some of the Central American countries, either soclal, or business—as at the present writing is not always beer and skit- tles. Your ships have to stand out at sea because of the lack of harbors and you have to take the tropical weather ;:dlv. comes, good or bad, generally Among his more intimate friends Admiral Latimer is known as “the great harmonizer,” = which further fits him for his present mission. He insists on harmony even in details of dress, and must have a tie to match each shirt, or a shirt tc match each tile—of which he appears to have scores. , Like all other naval officers, he lkes to get out of his service togs on the siightest provocation, and that is when his taste for harmony in colors has its chance for expression. Has Four Children. In addition to being one of the great- est diplomats in the Navy, Admiral Latimer is also one of the handsomest of officers. Admiral Latimer married Laura Singer Richardson of Brook- 1y N, Y.,'and they have four chil- dren, three daughters and one soi Two of the daughters married marine officers. One is with her mother at Balboa, Canal Zone, hoping some day He was sent on many difficult mis- Miss DECEM'BER 29, 1926. JAPANESE PRNCE | ARRIVES TONIGHT Brother of Eriperor Hirohito | to Call at White House To- morrow—Leaves Friday. Prince Chichibu oft Japan. brother of the Emperor Hirahito and second son of the late monardh, is coming to shington tonight from New York, where he arrived vesterday from London en route homey He will be:accompamnied here by Tsuneo Matsudaira, the Jananese Am- | bassador: J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, and Hugh Wilson, chief of the division of current in- | formation in the State Liepartment, | who left Washington Monday night | to greet the prince on his arrival The hour of their arrival \at Union { Station was not known atl the em- bassy early today. President Coolidge will gant royal visitor a private audnce the White House tomorrow wmud F day. Prince Chichibu, accompanied by Mr. Wilson, will leave for Cthicago on his way to San Francisco. There he will take a steamer on January 4 by way of Honolulu. He #s ex- pected to reach Tokin about January 20, and will be present at the funeral of his father, the late emperor, which will be held in early February. Quit Oxford Studies. Advised of his father's serious ll- 2 Héss, the young prince hurriedly left] . MY. Eéipar aiso is grind secretary L of the grand chapter, Royal Arch, and his studies of Magdalen College, OX-| g o g rocorder of Grand Commandery, ford, and sailed on the Majestic. FIn iy e rempiar. route to New York, a radio messa® | “(ther oficers elected were: Arthur was received announcing the emw | g e e o e Sanger. peror's death. preceptor; Mimi C. Marseglia, chan- Owing to the FEmperor's recent P 5 dotn T e vislt ot Prince Chichibu kciior; Burgsss W. Marshell, minister to Washington will be devoid of the usual ceremonies attending such an occasion, other than his formal visit to the White House. The main object of his visit to Washington was to pay his respects to President Cool- idge. The Prince will be met at Union Station by the entire staff of the Japanese embassy. During his brief stay here he will remain at the em bassy, on K street. Members of the prince's party in- clude Baron Hayashi, former ambas- sador to London, who is acting as his guardian; Count Mayeda and Col. Nakamura, Japanese army surgeon. They accompanied him from London. Setsuzo Sawada, . counselor of the Japanese embassy in Washington, will joln the party here and accom pany the Prince to San Francisco. Mr. Sawada was secretary of the Suite of the Prince Regent of Japan, now Emperor, on the latter's visit to Eu- rope 'in 1921. The Prince will make no other stop-overs en route te San Francisco, it was said at the em- bassy. Rumors Are Unconfirmed. Attaches at the embassy teday re- fused to make any comment regard- ing rumers current in Japan from time to time to the effect that Prince Chichibu and Miss Yoshko Mat- sudaira, daughter of the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, are engaged to be married. Miss Mat- sudaira is 25 years. old and is at school in this country. Despite the frequency of these reports, circulated in Japanese newspapers, no confirma- tion has been forthcoming from the imperial household. Prince Chichibu is democratic, a diligent student and keen lover of sports. He is fond of base ball, tennis and golf. At Oxford he mingled free- lv with other students and his studies were devoted mainly to perfecting his 4. CLAUDE KEIPER. J. Claude Kelper, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the Dis. trict of Columbia, was elected last night to succeed Robert A. Daniel as venerable master of Kadosh of the Albert Pike Consistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free- masonry of the District of Columbia, at the annual election of officers of the consistory at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. the L tirling Kerr, registrar: Monie Sanger, treasurer; Monle Sanger, trustee; L. 'Whiting FEstes, prelate: Herbert H. Street, master of ceremonies; James A. Wetmore, expert; W Cham- payne, - assistant expert; Frank M. Roller, standard beare: Carl H. Claudy, captain of the guard. George ks McGinty, J. Moore, tiler. CARPER DISCUSSES Senator Confers With Com- missianers on 0ld Tunnel Damage Requests.” the claims which the District govern contruction of the railroad conference today Zell and Taliaferro with Capper of the Senate District commit tee. According to the corporation ecoun sel's office, these claims aggrega about §100,000 amd involve work ti District had to perform following t! building of the gunnel, such as ri placement of broken water mains and street repairs. of state: John C. Wineman, almoner; steward, and Theo DSTRTS CLAWS Possibility of compromising some of ment has bad pending in court for a number of years growing out of the tunnet | from Union Station to the Southwest | section of the city was discussed at a of Commissioners Chairman TAX REFUNDS DUE - MANLY T0 ERRORS ‘Appropriation Now Asked Is to Cover Allowances Meade, But Remaining Unp 3d. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The greater proportion of {H$174. 000,000 refunded to taxpsydr: e of lllegal or erroneous collections'was | handed back because of Federal court decixions or decisions of the Board of Tax Appeals. A small proportion was due to improper wuditing in the first instance. A surprising amount of the refund is due to excessive payments in the first place, for, under the Treas Department’s practice, If the tax payer does not take his proper allow | ances und deductions these are com puted for him and the excess payment returned. Most of the individuals whosé names appear in the list have-actually re- ceived thelr money, and the appro priation Jjust asked for Is to cover those refunds which had been officinlly allowed, but which on November 1 of this vear remained unpaid, as well ax those claims which probably will be al lowed between now and June 30, 1927, i Estimates Held Impossible. Treasury officials said today that it was impossible to guess in advance the amounts that would be required in refunds on illegal or erroneous col lections, but that the Treasury on this account waited until the last minute 80 as to have an opportunity to make as accurate a check as possible. The $174,000,000 item just asked for fs vir tually the same as the amount asked for last year. The underpayments, of urse, known as “assessments,” are ally larger than the refunds, so the two items do not disturb the bud | get operation. 1In fact, the budget as | sent to Congress recently contained | provision for the proposed expend iture. One of the difficulties in making an accurate estimate is that court deci- sions are being made at irregular in tervals. Frequentiy one decision in a particular case knocks the props from beneath the Treasury's argument in dozens of pending cases, which are promptly settled in accordance with a court decisfon. Efforts Made to Avert Loss. Every precaution is taken by the Treasury to prevent a ioss through underpayment. Usually if a case has not been reached by the time the statute of limitations would apply, the Treasury asks the taxpayer to waive the time limit, s0 as to enable it to prepare the case. This means that each year's refunds mayv carry back several years, making a complex oper ation, especlally since the inequity in an earlier law may since then have been recognized by the courts. Then there are other cases in which the con- stitutionality of certain provisions of ' existing law are being challenged. Any day the Treasury may be com- ' pelled to pay back large sums it has collected. | ‘ovyright. 1926.) EN AS ANGELS | SING YULETIDE HYMNS | Bt. Mark's Episcopal Church Holds Christmas Entertainment—gun- . day School Presents Program. Old Christmas hymns | CHILDR A to catch @ glimpse of father. nowledge of the "English language The claims wereamade by the cil TS uan Admiral Latimer is a brother of Judge I. Wilmer Latimer of this eity, and also hes two sisters here, Miss Louise P. Latimer. author of ‘“‘Your Washington and Mine" and in eharge of library work with children at the Public Library, Its. branches and in the public schools and institutions. Another sister is Mrs. Richard W. Snewdon. . (Copy: WHITE HOUSE REPAIR BIDS ARE OPENED Bids" for vazing the upper part of the White House’above the second- floor ceiling and buflding thereon a thirdl story were opened today in the Oftice of Publip Buildings and Public Parks of the Natfonal Capital by Maj. Joseph 'C. Mehaffey. The low bidder was _the N. P. Severin Ce. of Chicago, fferéd to do the work in 13§ for $185,000. ther bidders were James 000; George A. Fuller Co., $201,000; Northeastern Construs tion Co., New Yerk City, $270,50 Mathews Construction Co. of Princ ton, N. J., $282,575; Charles T. Wills, Inc/, New York City, $394,224; Charles H. Tompkins Co., Inc., day ‘The Baird €o., $229,000 ; Davis, Wick, Rosengarten €o., $25 772, and M. 1. O'Connor, Northam ton, Mass., $248,200. é For the purpose of comparing the Nids all of them were considered on the basis of w)mpletlnfl the work in 135 days. -For those asking more than 135 days in which to do the work, $1,000 a day was added, but there were no deductions for the compara- tve consideration on the bids of those who wanted less than 135 days The time of neginning the work is in- definite, but it probably will be within a very few days after March 4 nex! The period of construction will be | counted from the day that the con- tractor actually begins work after formal notification that thé President has vacated the Executive Mansion. TWO MORE JUDGES FOR POLICE COURT FAVORED IN REPORT (Continyed from First Page.) with like summens for their court rance. i n case the viélater fails te ap| at the bureau within the & fled time a summons is issued for ap- pearance in oourt and the officer in the case is notified when to appear against him. A check is kept of those who fail to appear at the bureau by means of the officer's duplicate tickets, which he turns in at the precinet. These tickets are sent dally from each pre- cinct to the vielation bureau, and it is the duty of one clevk-tu check these duplicates against the originals as they ave turned in, so that there is no c¢hance of a person wha falls to ap- pear being able to avold punishment. 11f a bureau of thia type is Instituted in Washington, Cal. Moller believes it hould be operated as'a branch of the Traffic Bureau, where all of the records of the 150,000 motorists are Kept. Such a bureau, he believes, would keep about 35,000 minor trafiic cases a vear out of the Police Court, and thereby relieve the existing con- gestion ¢ The committee's report was submit- ted to the Commissioners by its chair- man, Odell 8. Smith. The ex making mpg to “d t trade in motor cycle 205080 ”:luln l.u‘;. year .mountxnd ependent. sl " DOMINICAN NOVICES CELEBRATE FEAST DAY Younger Men at Order's House of Studies Entertain Teachers After Religious Rites. Novices of the Dominican Order in Washington yesterday observed the Feast of the Holy Innocents with spe- cial religious services and an enter- tainment at the Dominiean House of' Studies at Broekland. This feast is based upon the story of Herod's mas- sicre of the children of Bethlehem in an attempt to kill the infant Jesus and has been particularly set aside by the Deminicans. A feature of the ceremeny was the distribution among the novices of cards engraved with various mottoes to assist their training during the coming year. Each card also bere the name of the patron saint under whose cave the novice is supposed to be. Following the religious services the novices entertained their professors and the older priesta with a pageant in which all took part. Similar serv- ices were held by the Dominican QOrder throughout the world. U.S. SUIT DISMISSED. Ilflcovéry of Taxes From Telegraph Company Was at Issue. NEW YORK, December 29 () A suit brought Ly the United States to compel the Western Union Tele- graph Co., the Northwestern Tele. graph Co. and 744 stockholders of the latter company to pay income taxes from 1917 to 1922, inclusive, was dismissed yesterday in Federal Court. The amount invelved in the suit was estimated at $90,000. The Government sought judgment requiring the Western Union, which controls the Northwestern and guar- antges dividends of $250,000 a year, to pay imeome tax for the latter com. y. Bondy ruled that the 7 gatien is to not to its subsidiary. “Knew thyself," says the philoso- pher. Yet how disappointed some men would be if they knew themselves, lnyl the Office Boy. and comprised European history, nomics and political science. A eial instructor, Sir John Hanham, was in charge of the prince's studies w at Oxford. Prince Chichibu from Japan since May, 1925. His fu mame is Yoshihito Chichibu:nomiya. TOURS SHOPPING DISTRICT. €CO- | a number of vears #go. One case Wi hile | pending. has been absent by a chorus of 30 angels—children 5to 12y - — s tried before & jury! and the DIstrict | entartainment was noi Let e lost. ‘There are seweral others still | the St. Mark's Episcopal Chucen. | Third and & streets southeast. i The caroling children were a fea- ture of an elaborate program of nine tableaux enacted by the members of | the church’s Sunday school. Sub- | jects of religious and secular Interest | were intersperted on the program. [ The “Yule Log" pleture, in which & n News was reeeived here today of the marriage yesterday in Buffalo of Prof. Willlam L. Moore, chief of the United Stat Bureau. and former professor of me- terology at_George Washington Uni- versity, to Miss Dorriss Garlick Pill- ing of Peterboro, Ontario. glthou;n he gavé his age as 70, while his bride gave hers as 28, Prof Moore declared he never felt better in his life and that old age is purely a mental attitude. “In @ few Vnarfl(lom it will be a misdemeanor for a man to die under the age of 100, he said, * peet te live to be at least 100." Prof. Moors was a dent of Buf- falo when he was l.yp*ud head of Prof. Moore, Once Weather Bureau Chief, Weds Miss Dorriss Pilling of Ontario legislation by Congress would be ab- 1l sioners did not wish to take any step NEW YORK, December 29 (#).—|in charge of District affairg. trained for Washington in two special | subcommittee of the Senatd ~ District Assistant Secretary of State, and sev. ——e 5-and-10-cent store. M. Bruce, prime minister of Australi - a, Car—Driver Arrested, Is Ar- gruntled passengers, was delayed off oast Guard | Fetter, 25 years old, of 1830 K streex, Prime Minister Bruce, who is ac- re the ad-|of the United Brethren Church of WL confer with President Coolidge, | charged with assault. He told police near Australla, and “we are on exeel- | slipped to the accelerator, plunging any more disarmament conferences | gmination by surgeons disclosed in more could be dane than is being | recuperating from the effects of a struck twice by the autamobile be- Chain Store Executive Denies Re- denied police reports that there was street Monday night, after having| WARE, Mass, \December 29 (#).— plain that it was the custom of the |in textile mills were urged by Henry Mr. Hyde is credited here with in- Ware officials hawe already prom- e Grover Cleveland. He retired in 1913, University, leaving here three years|and in order to do honor'\te the Dis Prof. and Mrs. Moore left en a wed: (koma Park branch library. raham, Alan Pilling, father of the bride, ae- | Commerce; Ross P. Andréws)y presi- solutely necessary to ieffect a_settle- in that direction without) the sanction After a brief tour through the shop-| Sepator Capper suggested to the cars with American and Japanese of- [ committee, compased of law Col. eral of his countrymen, the young MISS MARY FETTER HURT After a perilous run through a were guests of America today. ranging for Release. Quarantine last night by the fog. was knocked dewn and seriously inw- companied by Mrs. Bruce, miralst of the American fleet which | Lacey Springs, Va. and, it is understood, take Juncheon |that in trying to apply the brakes lent terms with Japan,” suid Mr. | the machine forward out of centrol. brought the response that disarma- |juries to the spine. aogey recent operation for appendicitis. . fore it was brought te a stop. port of $2,000 in Robhery. e $2,000 in the half-ton safe which rob- lugged it from the stere. Lower taxation by’ State and tewn of- chain stores never to keep so large | K. Hyde, chairman of the Otis Co. ducing the company to postpone ac- ised to keep down @ppropriations and at the beginning of the Wilson admin’| As a means of emphAaizing the de- ago and going to Pasadena. trict Commissioners, the coma. Park ding trip which will end at the persent| The Commissioners, E. C. companied her' to the altar and Pref.|dent of the Merchants and Manufas The minister was arrested by po- | foot | |real log was dragged down the aisle | to its place on the was the | feature of the seeular subject; | Other tableaux portrayed the birth |of Christ and the | concerning it. drilled by David Beattle, Miss Ada Voute, Miss Florence R. Johns and | Mise Grace Robinson, all teachers in | the Sunday school. Rev. William H. Pettus, rector, ‘Ipfiks hriefly on the spirit of Christ- | | mas, following the performance, and | then gifts of candy and other geodi | were' distributed among the 306 chi idren by Santa Claus, enacted by Ray- mond Fisher. | PLEA MADE FORINDIANS. toration of Right to Cross:Ca- nadian Border Requested. Federal courts will be asked to rein state the right of American Indians to pass the boundary line between the United States and Canada @s freely as their forefathers, it decided today, following a protest filed by the Coun- cl] of the Six Natlons received by the Labor Depurtment against the order | ta deport Paul Diablo, an Iroquois In- | disn of the Casughnawaga reservation, Québec Provinee of Canada, after he had obtained an ironworker's job at Philadelphia. Diablo will be brought formally be | fore a Federal court in Philadelphia | an habeas corpus proveedings. The Six Nations, of which the Iroquois are perhaps the most important tribe, ! claim’ that the rights to go and come | fregly ‘between Canada gnd the United States were established by the oldest treaty of the American Government, the Jay treaty, which closed the Revo- lutionary War, R T TR YACHTSMEN TO DANCE. Corinthian Club Will Hold , New Year Party. Washington yachtsmen will sing, |danee and make merry l‘ruly‘nl;ht at a New Year eve celebratien at the Carinthian Yacht Clul Danel will begin at 10 o’'clock, and Camille Little will present a pregram of costume dances. Announcement was made aiso that there will be a business meeting of the club on January 6 to discuss plans for the 1927 regatta, preparations for which are under the supervision of Vice Commodore Willlam A. Rogers. Among lhfi_ new members of the club are: John Hays Hammond, Sir Charles Ross, Rudoiph Jose, Stanley Horner, Lieut. Col, Thad. 8. Troy, El- mer Dyer, Arthur J. Harnett, Neil B. Waleott, Clarence Bruce, €. J. Craw- ley, Willlam F. Seals, Van ¥, Lippard and-Charles B. Osborne, “ROBBERS TAKE DRESSES. Stock Valued at $1,500 Ts Missing Prom D{ France's. Vincent Di France's ladies’ tailor- ing establishment, ‘second floor 1636 Connecticut avenue, was robbed of stock valued at §1,500 sioners are not of the opinion that out, but it is understood the Commis- Rtars. Atter Leaving. Hotel. situation before membersof Congress brother of Japan's new Emperor, en- | also with members of thé judiciary Accompanied hy J. Butler Wright, | cided today. ity his expressed desire to visit a Harbor, Prince Chichibu and Stanley | Girl Hit on Alighting From Street Majestic, which, with its 700 dis. The | Thirtieth and M streets, Miss Mary cutter. will go tolby Rev. Walter L. Childress, pastor hosts at a luncheon. On ‘Friday he|lice of the seventh precinct and There are ng clouds on the horizon | hound street car stop his The question of whether he favored | town University Hespital, where :ex- ing up,” and that he believed nothing [ Fetter, music editer of The Star, was injured girl said she believed she was e BRI release on bond early this afternoon. of the Sanitary Grocery Co., today back of the store at 4413 Fourteenth vent Removal te South. than $200 in the ‘safe and made it |limiting the hours of daily operatien any of the stores over night. Gov. Fuller, made public terday. wills to the South. i o the weather service by President URGES CO-OPE‘BATION' of meterology at George Washington | zens' associations and fyade bod at the First Congregational Church, |tertainment Monday night the Ta- street, Pasadena. Lease, president of the op.fifhemr‘ o friend, d_Cuther! on, for 33 her years chigf of the Buffalo Weat Legal advisers to the Commis- ment, if a settlement can be worked Prince Lacks Time to See Ten-Cent of Congress, or without| laying the ping district today, Prince Chichibu, | Commissioners today that they confer ficials. Bell 'sald nothing definite de prince left his hatel too late to grat- dense fog that blanketed New York They were passengers aboard the Alighting from a street car \at two were taken off an a C' jured today by an automobile drive; Washingten temorrow, whes visited Australia fn 1925 will be his at the White House. as his car was approaching the west- Ly Miss Fetter wan taken to Geurg- ment conferences were “always com- Miss Fetter, sister of Miss Helen S - At the hospital this afternocon the Mr. -Childress was arranging for his Edward G. Yonker, vice president| TAX CUT MAY HOLD MILLS. Massachusetts Town Seeks to Pre- bers unsuccesétully tried to open in Mr. Yonker said that there was less | ficlals and an amendment to the law an amount as $2,000 in the safes of | stockholders’ committee, in a letter to tion on its recent proposal to move its theveby lower the tax rate. istration and later became professor | sirability of co-operatiomypetween citl After the marriage, which took place | Citizens’ Association will hald an en- home of Prof. Moove, at 51 State| president of the Board of Trad Moore had as his best man his old|turers’ Assoclation, and the pe : the Cb“u' Afluozy Cou; will guess 3 ™ Bureau. gram has bo{”m ik 2 ) A jimmy found there had been used