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Evening star., 1923-01-24
D. c. ELECTRIC RATE
CASE IS DELAYED
Doubt Exists As to Jurisdic-
ton of Supreme Court
in Matter.

Serious doubt as to the jurisdiction
OF the United States Supreme Court
over the rate case of tho Public
Utilities Commission against the Po-
tomac Electric Power Company led
Chief Justice Taft to announce today
that the case would be passed at
present
On February 10. he announced. the
court will hear counsel on the ques-
ton Of Jurisdiction and whether Con-
gress has power to vest in the Court
of Appeals and the United States
Supreme Court what seems to be an
administrative valuation OF the power
company's property
Chief Justice Taft's announcement
followed opening arguments this
morning before court
After the hearing on the 18th, II the
question of jurisdiction is settled, the
case would be heard later in the term
upon its meritg.
This action halted all proceedings
In the case and the counsel withdrew.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
LIST OF Ak ASSAULTS
IN BIRMINGHAM GROWS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. January "a
Birmingham's long list of ak mur-
ders and assaults was added to this
morning when Luigi Gitellaro and
his wife were found with skulls
crushed and in an unconscious con-
dition in their little shop. 1t was
stated they probably would not re-
cover. An ak was the weapon used,
according to investigating officers.
The ak assault list reached twenty
fcur with the attack upon Gitellaro
and his wife, police stated. Nine OF
the twenty-four- died from effects
from injuries. These crimes. so SINH
lar in nature as to be classed by au-
thorities as AK murders and lax
assaults" cover a period since the
summer Of 1921, with the exception
that two persons were slain in 1919.
In 1921 there were assaults and
three deaths, in 1922 there were re-
corded eight attacks and three deaths,
while so far this year there have been
four assaults and one death.
In all but three cases the victims
have been foreigners or persons of
foreign extraction.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
PRESIDENT MUCH BETTER.
BUT is KEPT FROM DESK
Gen. Sawyer Says Executive Has
Practically Recovered
From Grip.

President Harding would have been
at his desk at the White House to-
day had the weather been clear. ac-
cording to Brig. Gen. Charles e. Saw
yer, the White House physician.
In describing the Executives con-
dition today, Gen. Sawyer said he had
virtually recovered from the attack
Of grip which he contracted more
than a week ago. and that he fully
lnsenoea n1,5ea todsy ~ but thousbt e Il adyis.bis
to keep him In his room FOR another
day because Of the inclement wealth
er.
1t was necessary to call of the
usual cabinet meeting yesterday a.
we'll as the bi-weekly conference with
newspaper correspondents, and, al
though Ii 10 expected that the PreSi-
dent will be at his desk tomorrow.
no engagements have been made for
him. -,
Evening star., 1923-01-24
LIFE TERM FOR CRAZED
MAN WHO RAN AMUCK

CLEVELAND. Ohio, January "a
Carl Harris. booze-crazed ex-convict
who terrsrized a score OF east side
families during three days that he
ran amuck recently with gun and
knife, was sentenced to a~nfe term
in the penitentiary by Common Pleas
Judge Walther in criminal court to-
day.
Walther administered the limit
penalty against Harris was house
breaking OF an inhabited dwelling at
night, though there were eighteen
other charges Of shooting and knitting
Of Hnen and women against Harris.
Harris insisted on acting as his
own attorney. Poison booze was
The cause Of my acts" he argued.
II wouldn't have done those things
had been In. my right mind
Evening star., 1923-01-24
REMUNERATION Is SOUGHT.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, January 24.-Renuncia-
tion of the policy of sanctions and
pledges by Germany's creditors Is
essential to any successful repara-
tions negotiations, In the opinion of
the German government. as set forth
in semi official statement. Germany
should also be allowed to develop
freely her own plans for solving the
problem and should be permitted to
discuss them on an equal footing with
her opponents, the statement asserts.
Taking note of what are termed
various external attempts tos end the
Ruhr occupation, the statement de-
c1ares:
"All these quarters are informed
that Germany, as ever. is ready to
negotiate for reasonable solution of
the reparations question. For teohnica, |,
reasons, however, such negotiations a.
impossible while Franco Belgian troUys
are illegally occupying a vital eco
nomic center OF Germany.
Nobody knows what heap Of
ruins. Germany will be when the
French enterprise is terminated, and
1t is therefore impossible to estimate
what will then remain Of Germany's
capacity"
Negotiations proceeding under mill
tary pressure, 1t is added, can never
lead to results economically sound
and acceptable to Germany or cal
culated to bring appeasement to Eu.
rope.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
GERMANY REJECTS
ITALIAN OFFER To
MEDIATE ON RUHR
"We Shall Not Negotiate Till
Last French Soldier
Leaves" Says Berlin.
BIZ GEORGE wITTE.

BY Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1923.
BERLIN, January 24.-The German
government politely but firmly has
declined the italian offer of mediation
between Germany and France in the
Ruhr situation. Wnen Count Bostari,
the new Italian ambassador visited
the foreign offic on instructions from
Premier Mussolini to offer Italy's
services II Germany should be willing
present differences could be arbitrat-
ed he had a cool reception.
Rome dispatches had already hint
ed at Mussolinis move. NJ. Bostari
was told that the time had not yet
come when Wilhelmstrasse felt in
clined to get into direct or indirect
communication with the Quay d'Orsay
regarding the Ruhr question. I'VE
shall not negotiate with France until
the last French soldier has been
withdrawn from the Ruhr district"
the Italian ambassador was told.
Mussolini IL Thanked.
The reason given for Germany's re-
fusal to encourage Intervention on the
part of any allied power is that this
country only stands to lose by such out
side interference instead of gaining it's
point of showing the allies and the rest
of the world that the French occupa-
ton OF the Ruhr area was an open
breach of the treaty of peace and that
1t would eventually prove failure, as
even by military force France could not
get more out of Germany than Chan
cellor Cuno offered in his proposals to
the Paris conference. M. Bostari. how
ever, was instructed to convey the Ger
man governments most sincere thanks
to Premier Mussolini for offering his
good offices.
Chancellor Cuno has promised labor
leaders here that the Ruhr working
men will receive the government S
full support. financially and other
wise. in their opposition. to the
French occupation. At the same time
it is pointed out here that the govern
ment, which has been hard up for
funds for several years, Is shaking
billions of marks-paper marks, of
course-out OF its sleeves as If 1t were
nothing.
The socialists, who are not repre-
sented In the present cabinet, are
most bitter toward the governments 8
sudden lberality after their many
futile appeals for increases in the
pensions granted war invaIids and
veterans who are still getting what
they received when the mark was
still worth a few American cents,
whereas now a few thousand marks
Will ouy very little in the way Of food.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
GERMAN LEADERS FINED:
RUHR TO BE ISOLATED:
ITALIAN OFFER SPURNED
German Troop
Movement On,
French Claim
BY A. r.. DECKER.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1921
ESSEN, January 24.-The
French report military prepara-
tions in Germany and troop
movements of German troops.
They also say that the move
ments of French troops I'm the
Ruhr valley have no other
Significance than the changing
of camps. 1t In not thought
that this means the formation
of fronts, but 1t may he a pre-
lude to more energetic meas
ures ON the part of the French.
There was some nervousness
In Essen when crowd of
curious persons surged around
the occupied postal and te1e-
graph building where n ma
chine gun was installed. FL
nally the German security police
cleared the square before the
post ONCE.
Belgian troops occupied the
signal towers along a stretch
between Meiderich and Ober-
hausen, whereupon the rail-
road employees left the towers.
The Germans still say that
no coal II leaving the Ruhr for
France. They claim that only
trains and boats. which left be-
fore the occupat ton succeeded
I'm reaching France. Two trains
that reached the frontier of
Germany were brought back by
the German crews.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
NEWPORT COUPLE SLAIN
BY MANIAC, is BELIEF
BY the Associated Press.

NEWPORT, r. l., January 24.-Inves-
tigators of the killing Of James A. Fraser
McLeish and his wife, Madeline, In
their cottage on the estate of Paul Fitz-
simmons last Sunday were working to-
day on the theory that the murder and
later burning Of the home might have
been done by a maniac
A possible connection was seen be-
tween this case and the unexplained in
jury sustained by Isabel Latimer, a
maid employed by Mr.. and Mrs. Marion
Eppley of New York at their Beacon
Rock estate here last fall. The Fitz-
simons and Eppley estates adjoin.
The maids skull was fractured
while she was in her bedroom.
Members Of the Eppley family ex-
pressed the belief that she had fall
len and struck her head on some OBJ
ject while sIeepwalking. and at the
time no report of the matter was
made to the police.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
Coast Guard Has;
Admiral; He Is
Capt. Reynolds

The United States Coast Guard
now has a rear admiral.
Capt. William E. Reynolds, COM
mandant of the guard and diScov-
erer of Wrangel Island. today was
handed his commission as RI rear
admiral by Assistant Secretary
Clifford of the Treasury, VINO act
ed under the provisions OF the re-
Gently enacted law creating the
new title for the guard command
ant.
Rear Admiral Reynolds has
served with the Coast Guard since
1873, when he was appointed from
Maryland.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
OLD GLORY HAULED
DOWN IN GERMANY
Gen. Allen and Four Ser
geants 0fficiate at
Last Retreat.
FOREIGN OFFICIALS CALL
Rhine Troops Will Sail From Ant
werp Tomorrow on Transport
St. Mihiel.
By the ASSocfa ted Press :.

By the ASSocfa ted Press.
EHRENBREITSTE January "a
The American troops were withdrawn
from the Rhine today. ending Amer
lean military participation In the oc-
cupational area
The withdrawal was sigraiiSed by
the hauling down at noon Of the Stars
and stripes from the Castle OF Ehren-
ican military headquarters since the
beginning OF the occupation. Mean
while the first trains OF the expedi-
tionary force were leaving Coblenz
for Antwerp to board the transport
St Mihiel. which will take them back
to the United States.
The nag came floating gently down
from the star on the picturesque cas-
tie walls overlooking the Rhine 40
the signal was given for striking the
colors. Not a shot was fred In salute,
for 1t was not martial occasion.
There were many moist eyes among
the Americans who watched the spec
tacle and their longtime associates
among the allied forces in the region
The British and Belgian high commits
sioners for the Rhineland kept their
word and remained away, because
they could not bear to witness the
lowering flag that meant the break
ing of so many close ties
Remove Washinkton's Portrait.
Inside the fort at the same time
there was taken from the white
washed walls the portrait of Wash
ington. the Americans had hung there
on their coming.
The dawning Of the day that saw
the American garrison march down
the steep slope OF Ehrenbreit-
stein. across the Rhine into Coblenz
and thence. in company with the
other units Of the Sth Infantry, to
the Antwerp trains, found the Stars
and Stripes hoisted to its accustomed
place at reveille. while doughboy
sentinels still mounted guard at the
sally ports Their packs were as
ready as at any moment during the
great war. but today the final "fall
in" meant home-the place where. as
many private put it-a dollar is
one hundred cents and not several
thousand marks.
Day Of Simple Ceremony.
1t was day of simple ceremony.
Four sergeants. picked from among
the veterans Of the 7th Machine Gun
Battalion, Sd Division. who fought at
the last battle of the Marne, were
accorded the honor OF assisting Maj.
Gen. Henry T. Allen in lowering the
colors ut the last retreat this noon.
These non-commissioned officers were
Sergts. De Wey Kitner, Lester Kel.
baugh, Charles Long and Frank
Ehley. Together with their comrades 8
of Company D and M. the veteran
serEeants waited with full pack be-
side the haIyards for the moment
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Evening star., 1923-01-24
U. S., TO CHECK UP
ON DRY AGENTS.
TOO PROSPEROUS
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, January 24-De-
partment of Justice agents have
begun an investigation of the pri-
vate lives Of prohibition enforce
ment officers to determine whether
they are spending more money
than their government salaries.
The inquiry. directed by Assistant
United States District Attorney
John Holley Clark, jr.. is one re-
suit OF the discovery recently OF a
"shakedown ring" which since Oc-
tober has fieeced hundreds os
saloon men outi OF thousands of
dollars for promised protection.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
Scandal VS.. News

No,0 that scanda1ous ne,us IS temboray,ly slack
in the newsfafers and important IS breaking
every day. The Stars circulation IS naturally the
u9 grade.
=. When The Star goes to bress every afternoon
It IS o'clock IN London and Paris and ali Of toaays
foreign news IS u. todays Star r:
Yesterdays Net Circulation. .94,63s
Same day last year. 1873
GAIN zoos
Evening star., 1923-01-24
HOPE IN RAIL STRIKE.
By the Associated Press.

DUESSELDORF. January 24.-The
Germans are making every effort TO
enforce the railroad strike, for they
believe Its success will mean the
ciosing down Of all the mines In
the district within Ave days.
One thing they are Considering
is the possibility of making the
strike effective only in the Cologne
prldgehead. thus cutting off French
France by way of the railroads and
the Rhine. The functioning Of the I'M
mense railroad yards at Cologne in
which practically all the lines from
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Evening star., 1923-01-24
WEATHER.

Rain this afternoon and tonight; tenn
perature near freezing tonight; tomor.
row fair.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest. 81, at
2 pm. today; lowest, IS. at 2:15 am.
today. Full report on page z.
Evening star., 1923-01-24
Public Buildings.


An amendment offered by the COM
mittee increasing the amount for the
erection of a cottage for boys at the
Industrial Home School for Colored
Children from $1,000 to $1,000 was
agreed to. Under another amendment
adopted an additional assistant cook
was provided for the Home for the
Aged and Infirm.
Committee amendments for the ma
tional library for the blind, $1,000,
and for the Columbia Polytechnic In
stitute for the Blind, $500, were
adopted.
The Senate committee in reporting
the District bill Jumped together in
one item a number of appropriations
contained in the House bill in sepa-
rate items for the Office of public
buildings and grounds. This led to
some debate between Senator Phipps.
in charge of the bill. and Senators
Caraway of Arkansas and McKellar
Of Tennessee, who were opposed to
Jumping these items.
Senator McKellar declared that for
a number of years Congress has been
trying to get away from lump sum
appropriations. He asked therefore
for q record vote on the proposal of
the committee to strike out many OF
the House. provisions for public
buildings and grounds and to lump
them together. Senator Mckellar's
motion was defeated 43 to 10. sunR
A
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49,. IL
Evening star., 1923-01-24

By the Associated Press
ESSEN, January Alt is
stated on French authority that
the occupied territory of the
Ruhr will be completely isolated
from unoccupied Germany to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1923-01-24

CONTINUED on Page 2. Column -
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-09
ENGINEER AT
7 WIN CITIES
OUTLINES PLAN
DistillatiOn of Coal Now Be-
ing Used at FOrd's Michi-
gan Plants, He Says
INCREASES THE VALUE
Same Process with Respect tO
North Dakota Coal May be
Used. Engineer Says -
INCREASES THE VALUE

Minneapolis, AID 9.zmRsvolution1
izing use .sf slienitc coS Henry
Ford iIpSxsible, and likely of great.
Importance the industrial future
of the Northwest, Harlow Savage,
New York combustion engineering
specialist, who speaks here tonight
before the engineers of the Twin
Cities, said today.
BY the use of low temperature
distilation process I'll. his plants at
River Rouge, Mich. and Walkervillc.
Ontario, Mr.. Savage said, MIR. Ford
extracts the moisture from coal
shipped from West Virginia and OBJ
tains II high quality residue and val
uable by-products.
The same process can he used with
respect to North Dakota Ignite, Mr..
Savage said. The residue of coke
from reduction plant in the lig-
mite fields is as good quality as the
original coal and would mean Il so
percent saving im freight.
There also would be by-products
of motor fuel, gas that is almost
as high quality as natural gas and
creosote and tar" he said. "The dis
is new. The plants of Mr..
Ford are the only ones that ] know
of where it is done on large
scale"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-09
ALCOHOLISM DEATHS INCREASE IN
Nd; WOOD ALCOHOL FATAL TO II

a disease closely associated with al
coholism, decreased slightly from 872
in 1921, to 801 in 1922.
The rate of deaths due to auto
mobiles increased 10.7 per cent in
1929 as there were in 1921, the report
There were nearly six times as many
deaths from automobile. accidents. in
1922 as there were in 1911, the report
shows; and 48 per cent Of these
deaths were Of children under Is
years of age.
Pneumonia and tuberculosis caused
by far the, greater number Of deaths
from communicable diseases in 1922,
the bulletin, states. There were 4O3
deaths of pneumonia, all forms, and
1913 deaths Of tuberculosis, all forms,
including 152 deaths Of pulmonary
tuberculosis. Influenza caused 73
deaths and meningitis. II. There
were two deaths from smallpox out
Of 657 cases Of the disease.
Births during the last three
months of the year totaled 3,7S5, COM
pared with 1904 deaths.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-09
GRAIN PRICES
RISE TO NEW
HIGH LEVELS
Lateness of Seeding Sends
Wheat, Corn and Oats to
Season Records

Chicago, April 9.-Wheat. corn and
oats today all made new high price
records for the season. Lateness Of
wheat seeding northwest counted as
a bullish factor in the wheat market
and so, too, did absence of rain in
western Nebraska and Kansas. Be-
sides higher quotations at Liverpool
tended to stimulate general buying
which more than offset profit-tak-
ing sales on the part of many hold
ers.
Opening prices which ranged from
4 to ls cents higher with May.
$1.23a to $l.24 and July 1.207s to
$l.2lA, were followed by slight
reaction and then by fresh upturns.
In subsequent dealings the market
was easier at times owing to prepar-
ations for the government report due
after the close. Prices finished un-
settled, a to y cents net higher,
with May, $1.23& to $1.23M and July,
$1.2O7s to $1.2l.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-09
PRESIDENT BACK in WHITE HOUSE,
MAY DECIDE YET TO MAKE ALASKAN
TRIP, PASSING THROUGH NORTHWEST

Washington. April 9. President
Harding was back at his desk today,
invigorated by his five-weeks vaca-
tion in the south and ready to
shoulder again the accumulation Of
official business.
The President and Mrs. Harding
arrived in Washington shortly after
noon yesterday from Augusta, Ga.
where they spent last week.
The President is taking up impor-
tant matters now before him with the
intention of disposing of as many as
possible of them in the next two
months to clear the way for the pro-
posed western trip. The middle Of
June is now set as a tentative time
for the beginning Of the trip, but the
President has not decided whether
he will carry out the proposed tour
to the Pacific Coast, with the pos
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-09
MICHIGAN TO
LAUNCH HUNT
FOR PURNELL
Lay Plans for Ousting of
House of David Colony
in Michigan
OFFICIALS CONFER
Map Out Plans for Procedure
in Custer Fight Against
The Cult

Lansing, Mich. April Q. - Plans
for an investigation that will delve
into the most abstruse activities of
the Israelite House of David col
ony and that may include an in
spection of the colony's property
at Benton Harbor were to he map
ped here today at conference be-
tween prosecution officials of Ber-
len county in which the culkS
headquarters are located. and state
officials.
The conference, it is said on the
highest authority. will provide the
means for mapping an extensive
campaign in the states announced
plan 10 rid Michigan of the House
of David in the event charges
against the organization are sus-
tanned.
Criminal proceedings against
Benjamin Purnell, missing cult
leader, may be the outcome of the
conference. it is said. If such a
step is taken the state will search
the world if necesSary-for Pur-
nell The king" as he is known
to his followers has variOusly been
reported as in Australia, Canada
and in the wild Businesses OF the
Highland IA bit of land bordering
Lake Michigan, and owned by the
colony
If criminal proceedings are
started against Purnell they will
be based upon testimony in civil
suit heard in Grand Rapids recent
ly. The testimony charged the
leader Of the sect with immortality
and fraud.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-09
MELLON URGES
FURTHER CUTS
IN US. TAXES
Secretary of Treasury De.
clares Lower Taxes Slim
ulant to Business
MARCH RECORD MADE
Seventy Million Increase in
Tax Collections Over
Previous Year

Washington, April "a seventy
million increase in the March col
lections of income and profits taxes
as compared with the March collec-
tions Of last year on which the high
er surtaX income rates applied is Il
practical answer to the tax problem
"and shows clearly what further
course revision should take" Secre-
tary Mellon declared in statement
last night.
Forecasting in his official statement
possible efforts by the treasury to
have Congress further cut the sur
tax income rates Secretary Mellon
asserted that the March collections
of $463, 100000 had fully justified
his prediction that downward revi-
sion would have the effect of increas-
ing rather than decreasing the fed
eral revenue.
i'm collections as proof that the
downward revision had acted as a
stimulant to business.
Even the present surtax rate
which ranged to maximum Of so
per cent and gives a combined maxi
mum normal and surtaX of SO per-
cent, Mr.. Mellon said, are tending
to hamper business and cause the
large taxpayers to seek every poss-
ible means of avoiding the realiza
tion of taxable income. The March
collections, he said, had confirmed
his conclusion that if the adjustment
had been to the maximum of 25 per
cent recommended by the treasury
the surtaxes would better accom-
plish their purpose and yield at
least as large and prabably larger
revenue than the existing rates"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-09
THE WEATHER

For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen.
orally fair tonight and Tuesday. Not
much change. in temperature.
General Weather Conditions
No well defined storm areas ap-
pear on the weathr map this morning
but light precipitation occurred in
parts of Iowa, Idaho and Oregon.
Elsewhere the weather is generally
fair. Temperatures have risen from
the upper Mississippi Valley west
ward and it is above freezing in
Montana this morning.
Road Conditions
The main highways of the State
are generally in as gocd condition
rs could be expected at this season
Of the year, especially in view Of the
fact that most of the frost is still
in the ground. Roads leading into
these main highways, however, are
mostly in poor condition. As soon as
auto travel becomes general a :is1
of detours on all the main trails will
be reported.
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