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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-21

Fall will be here in two months
if some reformed doesn't object.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-21

When a bootlegger gets ar.
rested these days he raises cain
if it makes him late for supper.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-21

The honeymoon is over when
he thinks she is skinny instead
slender and willowy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-21

Having a beautiful complex
ion doesn't leave much time for
cleaning up the house.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-21

Greatest man in the world is
the man you would be if it didn't
take so much energy.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
BUTLER GIVEN FOUR
|. YEARS FOR ROBBERY

Bennett Parker, twenty eight years
old. was sentenced today by
Justice Bailey in Criminal Division
to serve four years in the peni-
tentiary. Parker had been employed
as butler and chauffeur for Frederick
f. Lewis, 1923 Rhode Island avenue
northwest. and August Is last robbed
the safe of his employer Of $3.50 in
cash and six diamond rings. Park er
was apprehended in New York by
Detective Sergt. Jones, and all but
$3.50 of the loot recovered.
Thomas Magruder, colored, will
serve ten years in the penitentiary
for an. assault with intent to kill
Hattie Johnson, also colored. July
Is, 1922. Policeman Norris, who ar
rested the negro, told the court to-
day that Magruder assaulted him
and. taking away his pistol, escaped.
He Was'fatAr apprehended.
Raymond Wood, colored, was sem
fenced to serve eighteen months in
the penitentiary for larceny. How
ard Washington got one year in Jail
50 cutting Charles Hunter.
Probation under suspended SEN
tence of three years was extended to
Harry p. l.. Kennedy, colored, who
pleaded guilty to forgery. One year
sentences were suspended for George
Hanratty, white, non-support; Charles
/ Monty, white, violating drug law
Joseph Fletcher, Cam Pinkney and
Wilbert Newman, all colored, forgery
Evening star., 1923-11-16
From Yesterdays 3 30 Edition OF The Star.
SHIP P-SEARCH PACT
DRAFT BEFORE i. S.
Hughes Studies Document to
Suggest Changes to
Meet All Attacks.
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, November 16.-British le-
of the liquor search treaty from
their standpoint, and the document
now is being examined by Secretary
Of State Hughes and his advisers
When the American authorities have
brought the treaty into a shape con-
sidered impregnable against attack
regarding it's form and constitution
ality the document will be returned
scrutiny and study. The completed
treaty is expected to be signed some
time before Congress reassembles.
AS already indicated the right of
the American authorities under the
proposed treaty to seize and search
British-owned vessels suspected of
carrying alcohol contraband will not
be restricted 80 any arbitrary radius
like twelve miles, but will extend to
a reasonable range from the Ameri-
can shore.
The element of distance will be en-
braced in the broad general term IAN
hours steaming distance from shore"
The question of distance within
which search might be made was
purpoSely left open by the British
legal experts, who are anxious to
avoid committing the government to
any precise distance in miles on the
ground that any specific or arbitrary
limit might constitute an impairm ent
of the traditional three-mile limit,
which is the foundation of British
maritime law governing territorial
waters.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
ANTI LEAGUE
LOSES SECOND FIGHT
Organization in New York Held
Political and Must File
Statement.
BY the Associated Press. .

By the Associated Press.
ALBANY. n. Y. November 16.-The
New York NAnti=Saloon League yes
terday lost its second court battle
against being declared political
combination and under obligation to
file with tie secretary of state a
statement Of its receipts and expendi-
lures in connection with the primary
and general state election campaigns
of 1922. The appellate division of
the supreme court unanimously ruled
that the league, within the meaning
of the election law, was a political
combination, and should be made to
file statements If campaign receipts
and disbursements.
The decision upheld the ruling hand
ed down last Marc.l by Supreme Court
Justice Ellis J Staley. The Staley
order was mercy modified by the
against the New York Anti-SaIGon
League" instead of the Anti i-Saloon
League of New York
Col. Ransom II. Gillett, counsel for
the Association Against the Prohibi-
tiou Amendment, who instituted the
present proceeding on behalf of #
group of citizens of Troy, said today
would wait a reasonable time for the
treasurer of the league to file the
statement called for by tie court
order. If the statement Is fled. Co
Gillett said, 'it must be satisfactory
and not merely perfunctory." If rh"
statement is not forthcoming within
reasonable time, he added, repre-
sentations will be made to the court
that the league officers arr in con-
tempt FOR failing to obey the order.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
DROPS 7 INDICTMENTS:
q, ISSUES so WARRANTS
Justice Bailey Nolle Prosses
Counts at Suggestion of
q. S. ATTORNEY,

Justice Bailey, at the suggestion Of
Assistant United States Attorney Gill
christ, today nolle pressed seven in
dictments and ordered bench warrantg
for alleged fugitives in about fifty
cases. Those against whom prosecu-
tions were dropped are Clarence
Tucker, grand larceny; Charles War
rem, housebreaking: Thomas Mostyn,
non-support; William A. Brown, false
pretenses: Nicholas Mehas, seduction,
Frank B. Waters, housebreaking, and
ASdriZel LyleS, joy riding.
The alleged fugitives are: Joseph
Murray. David w. Paris, Eva White,
ter Nickens, Anthony B. Mahoney,
William Johnson. Andrew Nicholson,
Daniel Glover, Robert Henry Silldorff,
Milton Thomas, Walter A Gill, r. c.
Pinsan- Harry Johnson, Eugene r,
Tucker. Alvin E: White. Jesse James
ker, Bernard A. Marcus, jr.; Harry g
Walsh. Frank Murray. Irving Cohen,
Morris n Niliboff. Leo Dement,, Myed
Miller, Luke Smith, Charles s. Gray,
Roy jenkins. Samuel Feldman. Page
Wormley, Delphia Charity Hughes
Arthur w: Thornton, Robert HasseI
Cecil c. Campbell. Andrew Jackson,
Allen E. BlaisdeI, Francis Henri
Watson, William Sisgold. George q
Hill, Edward T. Dumas, William Slaa
ter. William George Brown, Robert
Cole, Eugene Driver, John j. Whelan
Ben Green. George Franklin Cum
mings. Harrington A. Burdette. Rob-
ert c. Anderson, William c: Davern
John W. Tyner. Melrose BelhumeE
George Culp. Herbert Jackson an
James H. Peere.
Evening star., 1923-11-16

CONTINUED from First Page)
clared to be out of the question in
competent quarters here.
There is little doubt that the French
government is thinking seriously of
that the treaty of Versailles must be
carried out with respect to military
control, as well as regards repara-
tions, but Hamburg is not considered
as lying in the area which France
could cover advantageously.
Whether the French government in
tends to take separate action in case
Great Britain, as is now generally
anticipated. definitely refuses to join
firmed in official circles. The tone of
the comment in official quarters, how
ever. shows that Premier Poincare
regards the question of military con-
troll in Germany as a really serious
matter requiring action. If action is
decided upon by France 1t seems clear
II will be with reference to this ques-
tion, rather than to the presence of
the former crown prince in Germany.
If action is taken to oblige the
Germans to facilitate control OF their
armament production, however, the
question of the crown prince will
probably be included in any ultima
tum France may send to Berlin.
France Is expected to ask that he
choose a residence in some neutral
country not bordering on Germany.
Premier Poincare's position in re-
spect to the application of penal
ties upon Germany is thought to have
been greatly reinforced by assurances
from the little entente and poland
that they agree with the French at
titude.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
EXPLAINS PRINCES STATUS.
German Envoy Assures French He
Is Not Menace.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
PARIS, November 16.--While the
ambassadors council was in confer
ence yesterday, the German charge
d'affaires, DR.. Won Hoesch, called at
the foreign office by order of his
government to inform M. de Peretti
de la Rocca. director of political
affairs, exactly what had been done
with regard to the former German
crown prince.
Frederick William. DR.. Won Hoesch
declared, had repeatedly applied for
permission to return to Germany, and
in October the cabinet. which then
included the socialists, saw no reason
to refuse his request in view OF the
fact that the former crown prince
had renounced all rights to the
crown.
The French director asked when
and how he had renounced these.
but the German charge could not
under the circumstances Frederick
William was, so far as the German
authorities were concerned, an
ordinary citizen.
He had formally undertaken to re-
main at Oels, said DR.. Won Hoesch,
and participate in no way In politics.
Recent events in Bavaria had nothing
to do with his return. He had al
ready received passport and had
made all arrangements to leave
Holland before the Munich incidents.
1t was. merely an unfortunate
coincidence" that he left on that
date.
AS to the former German emperor,
DR.. Won Hoesch declared that accord
ing to German official information it
was not true that he planned to leave
Doom. In any case. Wi1helmstrasse
knew nothing whatever about his in
tention In this respect.
NJ. de Peretti de- la Rocca i'm
mediately transmitted to Premier
Poincare DR.. y6n oeech's state
ment.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
LILLIAN RUSSELL'S
: ESTATE BUT $4,000
New Inventory Shows Amount In
sufficient to Meet Terms
of Will.

BY the Ass0ca ted Press.
PITTSBURGH, November l6.-A
revised inventory of the estate of
Lillian Russell Moore, the famous
actress, who before her death in
1921, had become the wife of Alex
ander p. Moore, now American am
bassador to Spain, filed today, dis
closed that the estate amounted to
only $4,000, and was not sufficient
to provide an income of $50 a week
O'Reilly, after Inheritance taxes had
been met. BY an arrangement with
the executors, however, Mrs. O'Reil-
ly is to receive the income provided
under the will, even though it will
be necessary to use part of the
principal; Mrs. O'Reillys counsel,
Liddell & Laurer, announced today.
The first inheritance charge
against the estate was the weekly
allowance to Mrs. O'Reilly, a num-
ber of bequeSts to other relatives
and charitable institutions follow
ing.
/ The original inventory of the
estate placed it's value at $4,000.
The shrinkage, it was said, was in
the amount realized from the sale of
jewelry, which had been valued at
$4,000.
No exceptions to the account were
filed by Mrs. O'Reilly. her counsel
stated-tthe arrangement for the pay
ment of the weekly income being a
priyate adjustment with the ex-
+ ecutors.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
u. 5. SALARY RATING
| IN D. c. UNCHANGED
Classifying Board Head Ex,
plains Reports CAUSING
misunderstanding.

Formally explaining the meaninn
of the circular to department heads
Wednesday, misinterpretation of which
led to erroneous reports concernipg
salary gradings of government EN-.
pioyes, +. j. Bailey, chairman of tho
personnel reclassification board anf
personal representative of Brig. Ger
II. VI. Lord. budget officer on tho
board issued the following statement
Explanation Is Made,
The personnel classification board on
tuesday issued a circular to the depart,
inent heads soliciting the recommends
ions OF the responsible heads of tina
several Held services with respect to the
proper salary gradings of government
empioyes outside the District of ColIu1,
pa; The circular applies only to tho
District of Columbia. -A'
The circular in question ia circu,a,
NO. H. bearing date of November II
II requests departmental officers to prfI
pare lists of all field service employer
arranged by headquarters or station
showing their present rates of nav. ini
cludlhg the bonus. and recommendinu
the rates which they believe should he
made effective July 1, 1924, when the
present bonus expires To secure me-
chanlcal uniformity in the recommenda
tions of the department officers. the
board prescribes a tentative schedule
OF nineteen grades, the departments
being expected to express their recon.
mendations in terms of this Schedule 50
FAR as practicable. The schedule is a.
follows.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
McAdoo's Bonus
Plan Draws Hot
Fire From Smoot

William ]. McAdoo's suggestion
for an issue of fifty-year govern
ment bonds to pay soldiers
bonus was assailed today in
formal statement by Senator
Smoot, republican, Utah. who Will
be chairman of the Senate finance
committee in the next session of
Congress.
"I am in favor of decreasing our
bond issue, not increasing it," said
Senator Smoot 1.-The near future
will bring an additional tax bur-
den upon the American people OF
.5OO,O00,00O per annum to meet
the payment. of pensions to be
granted to. the soldiers and Wild
ows of the recent war. We Will
need every taxable resource at the
governments command to meet
this burden. -,
IF political exigencies demand a
bonus. bill, which l cannot sub
scribe to, then by all means let
Congress provide the way to- pay
I 1t and not issue. more government
bonds to Reet 1t. ss
Evening star., 1923-11-16
PHOTOGRAPHERS FILE
PROTEST ON POLICE
"Autocratic, Violent Conduct
Charged on Armistice Day in
Letter to Oyster.


The White House News Photo
graphers' Association yesterday regis
tered with Commissioner Oyster a
"most emphatic and vigorous protest"
against the "autocratic, violent con-
duct on the part of the metropolitan
police, not only in connection with
the disturbance at former President
Wilson's home on Armistice day. but
at other times 'in the recent past"
In formal letter to the Commits
sioner, the photographers, through
their attorney, Wilton ]. Lambert,
cited several instances of what they
termed unlawful interference and
maltrea.ment of their rights. persons
and liberty" and said other instances
were ready, for your consideration
and action"
officer E c. Musselman is charged
with having "forcibly grappled" with
a representative of the Pathe News.
ordered another officer to guard him,
called the patrol wagon, later cancel
ing the order. An officer seized the
camera of A. J. May jr.. it was said,
and materially damaged it,"
Evening star., 1923-11-16
[SEEK EXPERTS AID
FOR WELFARE CODE
District Child Commission
Asks for Services of
W. w. Hodson.

The District child welfare code COM
mission will make formal request to
the Russell' Sage Foundation for the
services of w. w. Hodson, an expert
of that organization, to assist in
drafting a podel child welfare code
for Washington.
This was decided upon at a meeting
In the Office Of Commissioner Ru-
dolph yesterday afternoon, attended
by the code commission, of which JUS
tice Frederick l.. Siddons is chairman.
The commission will be given office
space, either at the District building
or in some other government build
ing, and it is hoped within the near
future to begin the actual task Of
inquiring into every question bearing
upon the welfare of the child in
Washington.
Such problems as school attendance
and provision for dependent mothers
will be carefully studied with a view
to mapping out a code that will meet
all requirements.
|. While the commission will endeavor
to complete its task speedily, it will
give deliberate thought to all ques-
tions.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
ARMY RADIO NET
IN NEED OF FUNDS
Shortage of Personnel Great
ly Hampers Work of
Signal Corps.

The recently completed and highly
efficient radio net of the Signal Corps,
which connects every important Army
post with Washington. cannot be
properly handled, due to a shortage OF
personnel, Gen. George O. Squier,
chief signal officer of the Army,
states in his annual report, made pub
lie today.
Referring to shortage of approx
mately 40 officers and $50 men. Gen.
SQuier says: THE result Will be the
improper maintenance of stations and
unsatisfactory handling OF important
government business that may con-
siderably overbalance the savings ef-
fected by attempting to operate with
insufficient personnel" The reduc-
tion of funds for Army operation and
the attendant reduction in the alot-
nent or personnel to the Signal
Corps has reached point where
true economy is no longer being real
lied" he explains.
Radio Control of Aircraft Needed.
Concerning equipment. he says fur
ther: The development of advanced
types of radio equipment Tor military
use is a necessary and a very i'm
portant function of the Signal Co rps.
In time of war thousands of lives
and the success of military opera
tions may depend upon ii. Equip
ment of this kind cannot he Satisfac-
toriiy developed after war starts.
With the rapid strides that are being
made in the development OF aircraft
comes an increased demand for radio
control and radio direction finding
equipment for use of the air service"
Discussing the radio net, the chief
signal officer says:
THE steadily Increasing amount of
official traffic being handled by the
War Department radio set, aggregat-
ing more than $1,000 per month at
the close of the fiscal year, has served
to indicate the essential weakness of
the system. The critical shortage of
enlisted operating personnel is most
prominent, making impossible the
maintenance of twenty-four- hour
service at several of the most i'm
portant stations of the War Depart
ment net
Messages Speeded Up.
THE handling of this large amount
of traffic has also brought to light
certain inadequacies in radio plants,
which could not be foreseen when the
War Department radio net was in
italy esta blished. These weaknesses
are, to a large extent, being rectitied
by the installation at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, of a modern semi-high-
powered transmitter, which will pro-
vide direct communication with Wash
ington. with a similar new station at
| Fort Douglas, Utah, and with Fort
Sam Houston. thus eliminating sew
cral intermediate relay stations and
| materially speeding up traffic. a
large percentage of the traffic be-
! tween Washington and Fort Sam
I Houston, Tex, has of necessity been
| handled heretofore by commercial
! telegraph. but with the completion
of the Fort Leavenworth station, this
traffic will all be handled by radio.
Evening star., 1923-11-16

fCONtlnQeQ from FIRST PaSe-)
the presidential preference primaries
that gathers momentum as he goes
on. The real fight this year. as in
1920, will not be in the prima ries.
Mr. Johnson lad more primary
strength than Warren Harding, yet
the latter won the nomination. So
it. is with Calvin Coolidge today
His friends have been busy for two
cations. The Johnson organizers
cannot get much more than second
choices now. which means they can
say to a Coolidge delegation: Prom
ise us your vote if, for any reason,
Coolidge doesn't go over the top at
the convention"
That's the only strategy the Johnson
managers can apply, which is only
another way of taking precautions in
case something happens in the political
world to diminish the chances of Mr..
Coolidge at the convention. So far as
foreign policy is concerned, there is lit
tie likelihood that the President will
give Hiram Johnson much of an oppor-
tunity for a political duel.
World Court Issue.
The world court proposal is before the
United States Senate. President Hard
ing placed it there. It's up TO the Sem
ate to dispose of it-Mr. Coolidge can
not WlIndTd" IL. 1t 1871 CuSlOflldES 10
do so with treaties and protocols. AS
for mixing in the European situation,
France has come to the rescue of the
administration here by blocking its
moves for international cooperation.
The Johnson campaign will ulti-
mately have to be based on domestic
issues such as taxation and the SOL
der bonus. This has become Mr..
McAdoo's program in his party. Off
cials were very much Interested in
the McAdoo suggestion that the cost
of the soldier bonus be raised by
bond issue. Treasury experts have
said that such method of financing
would be sound enough If the Amer
lean people wanted to take the losses
that would follow in the inevitable
depreciation of liberty bonds, which
have only recently gone to par. The
Treasury estimates, that the soldier
bonus will cost approximately five
billion dollars, and may go higher.
A five-billion- dollar bond issue would
have to be put out at rates or in
terest that would attract the investor.
The opponents of the plan say this
would tend to put interest rates
higher than they have been for all
manner of loans and that the effect
would be to stop productive enter
prises from expanding because they
couldn't borrow money, and that, In
the end. Unemployment and a period
of depression would follow.
Mr.. ;McAdooS has stirred up the is-
sue, however, and from a political
viewpoint it will be up to the re-
publican administration to prove
that his plan Is unavoidable before it
can be passed along.
If there is any way to get bonus
bill through the republicans will be
the first to want to see 1t passed, be-
cause this is a campaign year but as
between tax revision and soldier
bonus-if they should have to choose
one or the other-the prospect at the
present writing, due. of course, to the
reaction thus far observed, Is that tax
revision would take precedence.
y What will happen when Congress
reassembles nobody knows. but the
cause of tax lrevision has received q
remarkable impetus in the last forty.
eight hours throughout the country.
Evening star., 1923-11-16
Nineteen Grades Scheduled.

The grades and Tates in the sched-
ule correspond to the grades and
rates contained in the schedules pre-
scribed in the classification act for
the District of Columbia, except that
two lower grades have been added
and they conform also, with minor
exceptions. to the grade ranges and
rates carried in the classification
schedule under the executive order of
October "a, 1921.
AS a guide to the departments in
making their recommendation circu-
lar No. 13 requires that those field
service positions which are similar to
positions in the departmental service
at Washington should be allocated in
accordance with the classification
schedule promulgated under the ex-
ecutfve order of October "a, 1921. with
such variations, however, as the de-
partment may consider desirable on
account of peculiar conditions in the
field. The duties and responsibility OF
positions are in every case to be tho
primary factor considered in making
gradings, but such other factors a:
Evening star., 1923-11-16
NEW YORK CRIME
! WAVE CONTINUES
Enright Admits Inability of
Police to Cope With
; Situation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 16.-New
York's latest crime wave continued
today when bandits smashed a plate
glass window in the fashionable 9th
avenue shop of Hickson, Inc, and
escaped in an automobile with $4,000
worth Of furs.
The fur robbery, which followed
theft OF wagonload Of silk from
livery stable, occurred while four
watchmen were in the. store. The
thieves sent two ash cans crashing
through the window. The watchmen
were unable to reach the street in
time to get a description of either
the bandits or their car.
While 9Th avenue stores were dis
gorging thousands Of shoppers and
clerks yesterday afternoon. two
messengers of the Garfield Bank were
compelled to admit two robbers into
their taxicab and relinQuish S740.
The bandits escaped.
The second hold-up of the day cost
a bandit a broken head, smashed y
a base ball bat welded by a boy.
who braved the robbers bullets! the
robber had taken the cash receipts
from a little candy store on the East
Side and was fleeing when the youth
stole up behind him. The bandlt Is
dying in a hospital