Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1927, Page 4

4 * CHAPLINPENNILESS; SAYS HIS ATTORNEY Hopes to Settle Tax Dispute and Go Ahead With Pic- ture He Is Making. By the Associatrd Pres NEW YORK, January 22.—De acribed as penniless, weak and without h of his own to hire a taxi ho that Government turns would be sestled within a days. His attorneys we post a bond to meet the Gove claim for $1,135,000 in back taxes and so r from liens more than $800.000 of plin’s New asse 8 d unofficially internal revenue %0 fa this district is concerned the matter would be adjusted by Monday “I don't know w 11 mean Chaplin remarked on his return from & short automobile ride in Central Park, his first vepture outdoors since his nervous breakdown here a week ago wobbly roney eno: Charlie Chaplin today wa his di with th over hi tax re few iculti hcome Wants to Make Money. I've just got up out of bed still pretty weak and wobbly very confusir T'm just complete a picture and make d Tm It's all trying to some sald rney, would be s and unable to hire e not for his friends. temporary poverty, he said, has caused considerable loss to his two picture companies. the activities of which have been curtailed by lack of operat- ng funds. “Chaplin_ has no desire or de: treat the Government unfairly Mr. Burkan. ‘‘He has always paid his taxes and the companies have alwavs paid theirs, but the Government thinks hack taxes are due and we are per fectly willing to insure it against loss by posting securities.” Got $500,000 for Studio. Burkan _explained that Chaplin’ withdrawal of $500,000 from an ac count here Thursday was not to fore- atall the Government's liens, but to meet studio expen Althon Is of a conference be- tween Ch: attorneys and custom- house officials were not made public ’ “haplin’s purpose in ing for a settlement of the Gov- ernment’s claims was not in_order that he might leave the United States but in order to resume his business. A section of the re ovides that no a all leave the country omplied with all obliga- | hv the income tax law. sh subject Chanlin’s re. Nathan Burkan, hi utely penni. taxi If it same n to said Chaplin i Burkan explained tha cent transfer to New York of money in banks in California, where the ac- tor’s estranged wife has tied up his pssets. was to pav for the completion of Chanlin's new nictnre. Burkan said he did not think Chaplin would do any work here personally, as he planned to do. but would return to California to defend his wife's suit. MAY APPEAL T0O MELLON. Mrs. Chaplin’s Lawyers Want Money Released by U. S. LOS ANGELES, Janunry 22 (®).— An appeal to Secretary Mellon to lift one of the income tax liens which the Government has filed against the mil- tions of the screen star in order that Mrs, Chaplin, who s suing for di- vorce, mav collect temporary alinony out of hank deposits here in Chaplin‘s name was under consideration by her attornevs today. Lyndol L. Young, chief of Mrs. Chaplin's counsel. declared he weuld drelegate a friend in Washinzton to visit the Secretary of the Treasury | and him to release the bans de- posits, unless Federal authorities here permit the alimony and attorneys’ fees payment, amounting to $14.400. | All of Chaplin’s bank funds here, which amount to only $17,000, so far s is known, as well as those in New ork, are tied up by the income tax tangle. Mrs. Chaplin's attorneys ves- terday appealed in vain to the com- missioner of internal revenue at Washington to permit the alimony vment A further search for fragments of was in the offing as Mrs. Chaplin's at- s made v to question Berg friend of the | screen star. Bergman is the manager of a Hollywood cafe, which Chaplin is believed to have finanéed. Internal revenue agents other ep vester v by United Ar jon, a_distri- buting zation, which handles | some of Chaplin’s pictures, with the | latest suit nst the Chaplin inter- | ests—a lien against the Charles Chap- | lin Film Corporation for $60,000 for alleged delinquent 1925 taxes. Attor- neys for the distributing conc nounced after the official ser would take action in Federal -t immediately with a view to pre- vent tying up of films already entan gled in legal complications CONTINUES NAVY SYSTEM. Conferees on Radio Law Approve of Los Angeles Chaplin's fortune took an serving | News Transmission. radio bill part of the statute | Conferees on the have egreed to embody law the temporary under which the Navy radio is trans mitting an American news report o Hawail and the Philippi Newspapers he ou possessions are now news from American sources the temporary law. which pire in July The provision which the business to private whenever they are dle it will be retained The American Government will in- tervene only ¢ f en as lit tle as possit can loans abroad, as President Coolidge as sumes that American ens have the right to make such use of their available surces as they wish. He fec that =ome kind of control is hdvisable to see that in- vestments abroad by individuals or banks do not conflict with the inter ests of the country as a whole Possible objection by the American ernment to forei ans, it was vesterday at the White House. n be based chiefly on whether they are to be used for the establishment of forelgn monopolies to the disad vantage of this ceuntry 1 whether America has sufficient funds to per mit the transfer abroad of large s ef money Owing 1o 2he questions in Secretary of State consults with Becretaries of the Treasury and C merce when te Department proval is requested of a forelg new present ving would ex would divert companies however, alved, the the Four Named to West Point. William P’ark, 2844 Wisconsin ave. nue, this city: James H. Como, jr Portland, Oreg.: Keith S. Gregory, jr. Seatt Wash. wnd John R, Hill, son of Chaplain C. W. B. Hill. Edgewood Arsenal, Md., have been appointed by President Coolidge cadets ut large at West Point Military Academy, subject to qualification at the entrance exam: inatlon in March. ineome lector’s office that | s here. s {James ¥ Pacific | ipsurance Co. of able to obtain | story nder | g equipped to han- | program NG .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, JAN 29 ARY THE , EVEN. | e e | 1L SN OO coeecea HELDIN SLAYING i LONDON, Janu 22 (#).—The | famous “bow bells” “which tradition- [uXI,\' called back Dick Whittington to | 2 Accused of Murder in Death of Woman at Jersey Farm Battle. become thrice Lord Mayor of London, be rung ved the same token, more neyx are beinz born. the goes that all proper cockneys De born within .the sound of bow i bell The Church of St. Mary-le | Bow is home of the “bow bells.” M FIGUREHEAD, - during an cannot any more until they jave repa i 3 rock yins “must January h of a woman attle of Jut- ult of t all-night I a lonely farmhouse in the | | | town of Jutland. 12 State pel were held today on charges of murder 1 Two other troopers and two agents Rocfety fnr] the Prev -y|1-|I1 of : ¥ | The bLattle occurred dur Husband Dictated Policy and | in< igetlon etia: com by ommercialized GOVErnOr- [orcs s fure. iani: ship, Says Report. hit Charles, found that Mijss r- Peatrice Meaney, who, ter | vified, hid in a closot, met de n unwarmanted, atrocious lowful attack on the home brothers, Verdict Is Applauded. The jury deliberated an hour and = half, and its verdict was received with applause by farmers who crowded the ourtroom. Miss Meaney and her brothers, Timothy and James, barri- caded themselves in the house after James had been shot in one knee by a trooper. The 12 they fired 12-hour sic were use were present Lieut. Daniel F. rected the shootir fred K. Larsen were named acces sories, with Leslle Dusenberry and Harry Hanoway, S. P. C. A. agents, who were arrested in_their homes at Newark and brought here. When Larsen and the S. P. C. A. men called at the farm as night was falling on December 21, James Moaney, I s who later testified to the belief that s pinion that the only|they were suspiclous characters, jecourse under our existing laws 18 | started from the house with & club. )y impeachment for the wrongs done i 5 .0 our State by the chief executive Belleved Stick a Gun. imder the domination of her husband.” | Larsen shot him at a distance of As M rguson retired as gov- |about 30 re serting he be- crnor last ‘Tuesday, she is immune |lieved that the stick was 2 gun. rom impeachment. The committee|{ The brothers testified they were un held that as Ferguson was a private |awire the siege was laid by troopers citizen there was no law to govern | Miss Mecaney was k bullet ctivites, which plerced the a closet in action was taken on the report. [ W ';'f;l‘\ tht})mrhm\.mm - '""-.31‘}" rl‘\" e House order i anfety. James Meansy g1 e Y P it R L er fall inside the closet some S orf ol . e time after midnizht. called by Gov. Ferguson, The com. |®rs hul taken 2600 from hix perse: te|and $400 from the house after th surrender at daybreak. The mone: < veturned, he averred. H: also declared he fired o shotgun loaded with birdshot only once during th night in an effort to discourage the re peated volleys. HARSCH SPEAKS HERE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Member of Mother Church in Bos ton Gives Address on “The Power of Good.” ‘Christian Science The Power of Good” was dslivered last evening in First Church of Christ Scientist by Paul A. Harsch, C. S, B. of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Harsch is a member of the board of lectureship of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston. He was introduced by William G. Blederman first reader of First Church, unde: whose auspices the lecture was given The lecturer said in part: “Deep seated in the heart of every one of us there dwells a desire t know more about good, a yearning te attain to the secret place of the Most High, to that point of understanding whereby good may be brought more and more specifically intc experience and there retained and used. “Primarily, the desire for good— for the guidance and control of intelligent mind, God, must exceed other desires. The seeker for div and un of her By the Associated Press AUSTIN, Tex., Janua Miriam A, guson merely a 1 during her two-year term 1 chief executive of Texas, while her rsband, former G ames 1. Fer- guson, practically ped the office or political and financial zain, an investigating committee de | clared in a report to the Legislature vesterday. The report ct who mp 1917, dispensed —Gov. was favoritism froopers accused testified their guns during the during which gas hombs “d that Ferguson, ALsLL DI ie) troopers whed as governor in wdons, squandered nillions of dollars of State highway unds, coliected tribute from persons eking State contracts and rewarded 1is friends at the expense of the State. vhile Mrs. Ferguson rubber-stamped s actions, | No recommendations were made by he commuittee, but it reported: was Rogers, who di- . and Trooper Al- Impeachment Favored. . highway matte ontructs and [} 1etivitis and report to the present Legislature. The report outstanding the governor's offic what was known “good will" edition of the Ferguson Forum, weekly newspaper owned and pub- lished by the Fergusons, and from that edition the usons realized thousands of dollars from advertising bought by road contractors, railroad corporations, oil companics, bankers. public service corporations and indi- viduals. Other Colléctions Alleged. ' “At the same time the Fergusons were obtaining money from the above named. persons and corporations in the manner shown above, many of them were collecting thousands of dollars from the taxpayers of this State in the way of highway con- tracts, freights, ete.” the report con- tinued. - After Mrs. Ferguson be- came governor, the report charged. her husband “completely dominated her acts and the acts of the hizh- way department, and also the State textbook board,” and the prospective advertisers knew they were trans- acting business with the persons who dominated and controlled the depart- ments. The evidence was declared to show that the husband of the governor absolutely dominated the highway commission and the millions of do lars of the highway funds were di sipated. Such terms as “wanton good must be able to say with David “recklessly” and ‘“‘fraudently ‘As the heart panteth after water used in the report in connectlon with | brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee. the highway expenditure: 0 G Such_desire is prayer. A Highway affairs played a promi- | praver that is always answered. There nent part in the campaign in which |are no exceptions.” Mrs. Ferguson was defeated for re- | Continuing, he sald that in “Science election. and Health"—the text book on A large part of the report dealt [Christian Science—Mary Baker Eddy, with Gov. Ferguson’s pardoning ac- | its declares that ‘desire is tivities. Her clemenc s number | praver’ and that ‘no loss can occur a record for the State. from trusting God with our desires, . that they may be moulded and exalted Think Husband Dictated. before they take form in words and in “We do not helieve, and we think |deeds.’ This was the prayer of Elijah the testimony in the record will bear [ answered by the still, small voice; this us out in saying that this policy can- | the prayer of N h h answered by not he charged to the feminine |the restoration of Jerusalem; this the sympathy of 4 woman governor,” the | prayer of Jesus before the tomb of mmitte reported. “Practically all | Lazarus, and this, my friends, the of the pardons were recommended by | Draver of thousands of Christian Ferguson, and the princ Sclentists today. A prayer that is pal thing the governor herself had | being daily answered by the healing to do was o sign her nanie on the | of every sort of sin, disease and dis dotted line, and there Is testimony to| cord. show that pardons have been grant- Telling of ed in which James E rguson actu- | stud. ally signed the gov 2 the report continued. Many pardons were g nted bhehest of attorneys so fees be collected by the attorney committee sald it believed GIVES THRIFT TALK. - | Krafit Speaks on Success at Round Table Session. A thrift talk by Harold D. agent of the § charged that the first effort commercialize A lecture on Mrs, Edd constant of the Bible, the speaker con- “Through many busy y being prepared in at the ss ways for the stupendous coula | Work that was to be hers in later lite the | Many of her close ussociates were men and women of deep learning and great religious intuition. Her whole ten- dency was along these lines and it v not strange that she should have be | led in due time to the great discovery of Christian § S BLKIRiT(lAPEEAL. : ks andard Life | wi)l Ask Review of Decision Call- Amerlca, <mvl| Moneyway the Round Club yester- general ing for Income Data. David H. Blair. commissioner of will ask the United > Court to review the n of the Distriet Court of Appeals, which required him to sub mit to the United States Board of Tax Appeals income tax data which the ssione atms to be in violation of the sccrecy laws against the pub- licat on of such information. The tax board issued a subpoena on Blair at the instance of the Osterlein Machine Co. of Cincinnati, which the District Supreme Court held he was required wer and which ruling was up. the appellate court, January 3 s asked the court to with | hold its mandate to afford him an op- portunity to apply to the highest court in the land telling by Lewis tured a luncheon of in the University nue. fft defined thrift the working out of a definite life and told of several things and not to do to acquire suc He urged ev one who de- to conserve his energy, not [to worry, not to overbuy nor to “go notes.” He also said: “Beware of { dealing with unsuccessful men. Make | plans ahead, but don't make them with cast iron.” Tentative plans for a “ladies night’ |to be given by the nizatlon next IBY ¢ were announced by Linn C. Drake, chairman of the committee in char of arrangements. Dr. M. Ellison, president of the Round Tahh sided proper | to o iBrirdes Separated F;om Husbands—gicigé By Special Police in New York Subway By the NEW dramas of Aseociated Press YORK nuary lite are enacl daily 500 turnstile glve access to the New York subway trains. | They range from the dilemma of | tful man who tries to descend united separ: Sometimes it is a mother ed from her children, at others an elderly couple. Sometimes there Is an incautious effort to defeat the me- chanieal devices and aceidents result Twelve thousand employes of the transit companies spend most of their working time below the street level. the esculator at Chambers street, only | Fourtecn tunnels under three rive to find that as he takes a step down ' carry the passengers through depth: | he is litted a step up, to the bride and | of 104 feet below sea level at their bridegroom from the country who find [lowest point. themselves separated suddenly by a | More than 2,500,000 persons ride in anical door and an unromantic | the subways daily, yet it is estimated that only one life is taken in accl- dents for every billion passengers car- ried. :\ Little around the he couple are mot apart long. Special police see that they are re- ENew York Burglars Show Up Old-Timers By Climbing 15 Stories Above Street By the Asso time bungalow his New it was “aerial mode ited a trict. They loft North RALEIGH, A House Carolina ported \ \ N = N\ Z N = N~ NN _Z = ated Press. NEW YORK, January 22, porch-climbing burglar worker in comparison with York follow revealed nothing of dangling the street at his nightly Using a rope, police burglars nized climber chara o heart of the city “worker,"” esterday stories said vesterday, citified and | thieves slipped on down, according to | 0 described- ‘ robbed three building in “ANTI-PETTING’ BILL FAILS |vettine” bi introduced by Kev. oscar | 212 i) Carolina Assembly Disapproves Measure. \. C., January 22 (#) committee General unfavorably Assembly has re Rug Section | street of The old- | wholesale, was a| Gaining floor of dresses valued at $2, - ATTACKED access to the fifteenth the building by climbing through an adjoining building under Who, | construction, the thieves lowered thinks | themselves on theiy to the four above | teenth floor, where took gowns | worth $500 From the fi lootin, irteenth floor the of Defense. and | un- | | By the Associated Press. they reached ground in| AUSTIN, Tex., January of the building, they gathered |State witnesses had Sl Gl s | today for rebuttal te £ ~ | murder tria | ified in that he Chipps when the atened him in the Worth Baptist Church each floor found an the* police, resting at robbery in {looting wherever they dis- | locked wir | When in a|the re fitth | up thef low Thirt ettin M;;Ly'lxvn Cor Taywood, Baptist 1 gomery County The bill provided for polica investi gation of parked a pmobile k the occupants were violating Displayin they would t ibject to arr and | times he appeared scarcely car to seizure. If no law violation | continue his stery, Dr. found the occupants would be |quired most | ordered to drive on, and if they failed | Chipps’ visit. He declared {to obey this ordér they would he | berman called him on the «ubject to arrest. and threatened and cursed minister of Mont- Group the North the ‘“anti killed of the day to the NORRIS TESTIMIONY State Calls Witnesses in| " Rebuttal at Conclusion 22.—More been summoned stimony at of Rev. J. Frank Norr urt here Dexter lumberman | P40 study _of July so much emotion that at able ris tell him the | the re- | lurn- telephone for | an appointm attacks on atacks o o w ¢ e | TINNEY ASKS COURT Chipps came to the study and en tered unannouncec orris de- | [, " hen i b an arsoment | 10 REDUCE ALIMONY in which he advise ipps 1o leave study, but e pastor said rapidiy,” Dr prris testified, “I opened the drawer | 4 | Physician Says Actor Will Recover of my desk and grabbed my pisto Basier If Werrits Are |an official of the chu g the S — throughout the arg Chip wt. The pa mony supportec was one of the v - the lumberman left study saw AN | By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, Y comedian, January applied to defense in the lays to an-|th 'me court yesterday \!\\‘4 \th-”hlliz char T'he the $200 a week alimony | "D Clrence = 1 to pay Mrs. Edna Tin was the first rel ho divorced him about a ye | bt e was set for Monday L e ot lication was filed an of Mr Leo J. Dretzka of S Detroit, where Ti eakdown “tor were re for a re + of murder v ness. | heard some of the Dr. 2 and Chiy pastor 1o | would . : i, f financial worries & | nesses to . o start M Officers Exchange Duties. to | § Joseph A. Mendel t v Walter Reed ( of | Eff 4 1 « of psy- | this c nd Capt. ¢ chiatric s he first time n \l Corps, at Camp Hol unive L | have been ordered to ex ns and duties. guments \ g 10th, 11th, F and G Streets 7 LT AT L AT 9x12 Wool Wilton These Room-size Wool Wilton Rugs are marked at a price that is insignificant as to the true value of the Rugs. This lot includes a choice selection of the newer and more distinctive Chinese patterns with a slightly less varied choosing of Persian and scatter designs, and some of the Spanish types. The price is the lowest in a number of years for rugs of this grade. Smaller sizes at proportionately low prices. Fine Quality Seamless Luxor Wilton Rugs, 9x12 size Chinese and Persian Design Worsted Wilton Rugs, 9x12 size $98.50 Worsted Wilton Rugs, 9.5x10.6 size, $95; the 6x9 size Worsted Wilton Rugs, 36x63 size, $18.75; thz 27x54 size. ... $12.50 Filth floor. Junior Floor Lamps In Matching Sets Are the newest arrivals in the Semi-Annual Sale One Style, at, $13.50 Bridge or Junior Floor Electric Protables in Etruscan gold plated etched design Iinglish tubing of distinctive propor- tions. Priced specially at $13.50 each or $27 for junior and bridge portable to match. Another Style, at, $8.75 Bridge or Junior Floor Electric Portables, gold plated with green oil decoration and six-sided base of floral design. Priced specially at $8.75 each or $17.50 for junior and bridge portable to match. Silk Bridge Shades $7.50 Pleated Silk Shades with inner linings of harmonizing tints. A choice of green, Id, putty and other new colors, 18- inch Lamp Shades to match the Bridge Shades—Special, $12.50. Lamp Section, Sixth fioor. The Rug and Lamp Sections Offer Unusual Semi-Annual Sale Values BT TR T TS s A Monday Starts the Last Week of January Selling Neverbreak Trunks Neverbreak Wardrobe $28.95 Trunks -$31.95 T'runks $33.75 Three-quarter size Neverbreak Steamer Trunks with eight large hangers..$31.95 I'hree-quarter size Trunks with eight large hangers Full size Neverbreak Wardrobe with nine large hangers Z=Z Extra size Neverbreak \Wardrobe with twelve large hangers. . Regulation size Neverbreak Steamer Trunks with nine large hangers. .. .. .$33.95 Extra size Neverbreak Steamer Trunks with twelve large hangers............. $37.95 Traveling Goods Section, Second floor.