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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-10
By Elenore Meherin
The Biggest and Best Story Of
Her Career.
SYNOPSIS.

M0rpdret Meadows married Wi1
Lee at sepenteen. HIS dtsSoIsIe
habits made her miserable, but she
endured him for three years. The
night he raised his hand to his ttDo:
Neur-oId child IN drunken rage she
slipped from his home actth her D0py.
Margaret supported her daughter
BIZ teaching school IN FGirddle, tOheFe
abe met AmdretD. She toGS tscenta-
aT and he aDds. t1oeMtv-1ffe. AndreaU
so0s toelI-to-do and popular, but had
an ttUdIid trife, Vtcttnt OF nerves
ana bad disposition.
He qpds attracted to Margaret
Their triendship tCGs pIUtonto ana
their meetings SnfreqMent MMttt tSetr
love insisted upon being recognised.
Nora and Mdr0Gret tcent to tiny
sMoWntGin totDN, tcheTe tctnterS tDero
fsIOhtfuI and summers painful. An
dFeSO 4Crote regularly as the scGSons
passed and then come q time WhsH
he ceased to tcFite.
Margaret faded quickly. Nora
Lee found her lying IN the SSoto cNG
G0y almost dead and t1rote to An
dretO to come. Andrea had been
Cerv Gn That 4oGs iDhy he had not
s0rittem. He came quickly, Mar
O0ret recovered In her toeGEness
she consented to AMdretc providing
for her aud her daughter. They
hUed for some years N a pleasant
cottage, achere Nora greIO to young
acon1dnhood. Andrew tCGs freqWehE
CtsjtOr.
Nora read Manon Lesc0wt, and
began to Wmderstand Ahdreto and
her mothers love.
Nora, at seventeen, met Dane
Herrick, college boy of nineteen,
and commenced to feel Iove herself.
Dane toGs equally attracted By her.
Both scormed the pettW10 parties
and drinking of the yoHtn0sters
around them.
Dane had accepted chance to
90 to China as mess boy on q
liner. They t0rote teUerishly during
the siT months of his absence.
When Dane returned the goung
lovers continued their friendship.
Honsetcord bound from ptontc,
DCne'S auto ran out OF gas. They
t0ere stalled on the lonely road, could
get no help and remained out oil
night.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
MARTIN FoRESAW DANGER.
ny EVAN i DAVID.
Special Correspondent of The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance

Special Correspondent of The Star and the
North American Newspaper Alliance.
ON BOARD UNITED STATES
COAST GUARD CUTTER ALGON-
QUIN (by wireless via Chignik.
Alaska), May 3.-Is another Arctic
tragedy to be recorded in the dis
appearance of Maj. Frederick L.
Martin, commander of the round-the-
world fight? All day today and
last night the wireless operator on
the Algonquin has had his ear to the
receiving phones, seeking the answer,
for whatever news there may be
good or bad-from Maj. Martin is
likely to first reach US over the radio
1t is not generally known that Mai
Martins flag plane, Seattle, which
left Chignik for Dutch Harbor last
Wednesday morning at 1870 o'clock,
IS equipped with small radio set
having a mean sending range of 25O
miles. sufficient to reach our ship.
providing the plane itself has not
come to grief.
The Algonquin is now off Was
uesenski. Alaska, about half way be-
tween Chignik and Dutch Harbor and
directly in the proposed line of flight.
We have been cruising for the past
twenty-four hours, in and out of the
hundreds of bays and harbors that
dot this barren coast line, on the
constant lookout for some trace of
the lost flyers.
There is a general belief here that
the terrific storm of the last two
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Evening star., 1924-05-03
PLANE CARRYING TWO
SETS HEIGHT RECORD
Macready and Camera Man Reach
31,540 Feet. Unoffcially;
Pictures Sharp and Clear.

An unofficial altitude record Of
$3.50 feet, for two men, was estab-
lished and photographs of the earth
were made from this level, which is
declared to be the highest a camera
has ever successfully operated, in a
flight over Dayton, Ohio, yesterday,
according to a message received here
today by Lieut. George W. Goddard,
Photographic officer in the Office of
chief of air service. from the COM
handing officer of McCook Field,
Dayton.
The flight was made by Lieut.. John
A. Macready and Capt. Albert w.
Stevens, pioneer aerial Photographic
Of the Army air service. in the LIE
Pere biplane, which Lieut.. Macready
has used in an endeavor to capture
the altitude record of the world.
The pictures were sharp and clear
and, according TO the message. "fn-
Jicate that clear photographs may be
secured from any elevation obtain
abIe by airplaness" 80
Evening star., 1924-05-03
FIVE ALIENS ARRESTED.
Braved Perils of Niagara Falls to
Enter q. S.-Fail.

NIAGARA FALLS. n. Y, May 8
Five aliens, one 4 woman, were
brought across the upper river from
Canada in a rowboat a mile and a
half above the falls early today only
to fall into the hands of immigration
inspectors. John Snyder. sixty five
years old, charged with bringing them
into this country, was arrested.
The trip across the upper river was
perilous one. The night was dark,
and many ice foes were being car
ried by the swift current down to
the rapids above the falls. which start
less than a half mile below where the
quintet was landed.
immigration men say that the price
per head for smuggling aliens across
the upper river is 500.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Senator Simmons Explains
Democratic Plan, Opposed
to Mellon Proposals.
DECKS OF BOTH PARTIES
CLEARED FOR STRUGGLE
All Except Fighting Provisions"
of Bill Settled in Eight Hour
Session Yesterday.

Tie Senate launched today into it
fight on the income tax rate sched-
ule, the result of which will deter
mine the amount CT reductions after
this year in the taxes of more than
100000 taxpayers.
Senator Simmons, North Carolina,
ranking Democrat on the finance
committee and author of the income
tax plan indorsed by the Democratic
conference, outlined his proposal
calling for a greater reduction in
the normal rates than under the Mel
Ion Plan. but less of a cut in the
higher surtax brackets
Minor Points Cleared.
An eight-hour session yesterday
filled with rapid developments dis
posed Of all except the lighting pro
visions of the BILL" as Chairman
Smoot of the finance committee char
actarized the income, corporation and
estate tax schedules The Democrats
have agreed in party conferences to
make an almost united stand for
changes in all of these provisions.
A Republican insurgent-Democrat
coalition appeared yesterday for the
first time in the revenue bill con
sideration. resulting in the openfr.-
OF tax returns to public inspection.
Thirty-two Democrats Joined in tho
support of the proposal, which wa
made by Senator Norris, Republican
Nebraska. and carried. 4s to %.
The House had voted to open these
returns to inspection by certain con-
rnr rGIf 20
ate finance committee had approved
this provision with the addition OF
power to the committees to make
public ANY relevant or useful in
formation" obtained from the returns,
Democratic Schedule.
The Democratic income tax sched-
ule advanced today provides specif
cally for a reduction in the present
normal rates of per cent on in
comes below $4,000 and 8 per cen.
above that amount to per cent OH
incomes below $4,000. per cent on
incomes between $4,000 and sS,OC0
and per cent above that amount
It calls for a surtax rate beginning
at l per cent at $1,000 and graduatins
up to a maximum of 40 per cent. which
would apply on incomes over $bOo,oO0
The present surtax rates start at J
per cent at $4,000 and scale up TO so
per cent at 100000.
The Mellon plan, reinserted in the
bill by the Republican members of the
finance committee, calls for normal
taxes of per cent on incomes below
$4,000 and per cent above and sur
tax schedule starting at l per cent on
$4,000. graduating up to 25 per cent
at 100000.
Admitting lack of support for the
Mellon plan, Republicans are preparing
for a compromise. Many favor stand
for the Longworth compromise adopted
by the House, providing for norma
rates of per cent on incomes below
$4,000, per cent on incomes between
$4,000 and $4,000 and 6 per cent on in
comes above that amount. The SurtaX
rates in this plan start at Il per cent
at $4,000. graduating up to 374a per
cent at 100000.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
WAREHOUSE BLAZE
MENACES ORPHANAGE
$50 Children at St. Vincent's Re
moved as Fire Becomes
Dangerous.
FOUR ALARMS TURNED IN
Flames Discovered Shortly After
2 PM.

One hundred and fifty children
were removed from a wing of the
ST. Stephens Orphanage Asylum, near
4th and Charming streets, this after
noon when a fire in the warehouse
of Barber & Ross, nearby, assumed
dangerous proportions.
The fire was discovered shortly
after Q o'clock, and when firemen
reached the building it had gained
such headway that a second alarm
was turned in, closely followed by
a third and fourth, bringing twelve
engines, four truck companies and the
water tower.
Chief Watson responded to the sec
ond alarm. The first battalion and
Deputy Chief A. J. Sullivan and Acting
First Battalion Chief Watts also re-
sponded.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Hughes Approves Request
and War Department Is
Ready to Rush Munitions.
POWER ALREADY GIVEN
BY CONGRESS FOR SALE
Untitled Order, Legally Sanctioned,
Permits Delivery From Surplus
War Supplies.

The Cuban government, facing a
condition of violence" lin Santa
Clara province caused by revolution
lists, has appealed to the Washington
government fer the purchase of a
considerable amount of arms and am
munition for use by the Zayas forces
against the revolutionists.
The appeal today was approved by
the State Department and forwarded
regarded as certain that the arms
and ammunition asked for will be
made available to Cuban authorities
without delay.
In the absence of Secretary Weeks,
War Department officials declined to
reveal the amount of munitions asked
for. but indicated there would be no
supply of excess war supplies held by
the Army.
Under the proclamation issued yes
terday by President Coolidge estab-
fishing an embargo against shipment
of war munitions to Cuba specific
provision was made by which it will
be possible for the government to
supply the Zayas forces with arms
and at the same time rigidly enforce
the embargo against any commercial
shipments of war materials to cuba
which might find their way into the
hands of revolutionists.
Sale Is Authorized.
The Cuban army was largely
equipped with service rifles, machine
guns and revolvers when it was or
ganized. American officers who
worked with the Cuban authorities
in organizing the army point out
that the practice Of selling arms to
Cuba has been followed since that
time, and sales of munitions to the
Cuban government have been legally
authorized by Congress.
There is an old order for purchase
of war munitions still partially un-
filled before the War Department at
materials have been sold to Cuba
since 1916.
Because of these circumstances 1T
will be an easy matter to comply
with the emergency REQUEST Authcr-
i1ation for the transaction already
exists and no delay Is contemplated
in exercising 1t and expeditiously de-
livering the quantity of munitions
and arms needed by the Cuban gov
eminent for the use against revolu-
tionary forces.
Diners From Sale to Mexico.
The transaction with Cuba differs
in this respect from that recently
negotiated between the Washington
government and the Obregon govern
ment of Mexico. No authorization
existed at the time Mexico asked for
arms for use against the de la Huerta
revolutionists and the decision in
that case had to be taken by Presi-
dent Coolidge.
The sale to Cuba would be made in
line with the policy announced by
President Coolidge when he issued the
proclamation under which more than
$I,250,000 worth of war materials
were sold to the Obregon government
That policy favored the sale of arms
and munitions to recognized govern
ments of friendly nations, particularly
in Central and South America, which
were in need of such supplies for de-
fense against revolutionary and other
disordcrly elements which were at
lacking and attempting to overthrow
regularly constituted government in
stitutionS.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
HOLLAND AND SOVIET
PARLEY BREAKS UP

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright. 1924.
BERLIN, Mny 3.-Negotiations be-
tween Holland and soviet Russia
which had been under way here for
a week were broken off today.
The Dutch demanded no money
from Russia, but asked merely aca-
demic recognition of Russia's pre-
war debts. The Russian delegates
replied that they were quite ready to
consider payment, but that they could
not recognize the debts in principle.
This debt question therefore pre-
vailed oyer other matters, such as
Dutch recognition de jure of the Rus
sian government and Russian use of
Rotterdam as a port of export in
stead of Hamburg.
Soviet Envoys Adamant.
When the difficult point was
reached the Dutch representatives
asked that the negotiations be inter-
rupted but not broken off. The So
Wet ambassador replied that on the
basis of debt recognition further con-
yersations were useless. '.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
$4,000, 900 BANK FAILS.
"Frozen Assets" Given as Cause
for st. Paul Failure.
Br the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL. Mimi, May 3.-The Cap
itol Trust and Savings Bank of St.
Paul, with deposits of $5,000,000. was
ordered closed today, A J. Veigel.
state superintendent of banks. an
nounced-
Frozen assets was the cause, Mr..
Veigel said
The bank, which has a capital of
100000. is closely allied with the
Capi.al National y rI here. ! =.
organized il De.Sn4per, 1880.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
COURT PROTECTS
DAUGHERTY WIRES
Senate Committee Must Show
Cause Why kilograms Should
Be Surrendered.
INJUNCTION SUITS ARE FILED
Stafford Orders Telegraph Compa-
nies to Withhold Messages.

Justice Stafford of the District Su-
preme Court has cited the members
of the Senate Brookhart-Wheeler
committee to appear before him next
Friday to show cause why an in
junction should not be issued to pre-
vent them from insisting on the sur
render of private kilograms sent and
received by Harry NJ, Daugherty,
former Attorney General of the United
States during the past three years.
Similar court orders were also is
sued against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, its manager, H. F.
Taft; the Postal Telegraph Cable Com
pany and its manager, T. p. Dowd, to
prevent them from surrendering the
kilograms to the committee.
The court orders followed the filing
of two suits FOR injunction late yes
terday afternoon by Mr.. Daugherty
against the members of the commit
tee and the telegraph Companies.
DAUGHERTY EXPLAINS SUIT.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
LATEST CLUE TURNS
SEARCHFOR MARTIN.
into BER|NG SEA
Party With Dog Teams to
Comb Rocky Shore-Na-
tiveS Tell of Seeing Plane.
COMPANIONS TO LEAVE
WITHOUT COMMANDER
Ships Securing Waters Near CHG
mix Report All Efforts Thus
Far Fruitless.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
FALSE PASS. Alaska. May 3.-As a
result of information from natives
scattered along the barren Alaskan
peninsula that they saw Maj. Fred
ick L. Martin, who has been miss
ing since Wednesday morning, head
ed northwestward in the direction of
Ctignik Lakes and the Bering Sea
wireless calls We're broadcast today
to all vessels in that northern body
OF water, and additional parties were
organized to search the rocky Bering
Sea shore.
A party with dog teams will go to-
day from Chignik to the north side Of
the Alaska peninsula to search for
Maj. Frederick L. Martin, missing
globe flyer, along the Bering Sea.
The weather early in the morning
promised well here, and it was be-
lieved that three other aviators who
left Santa Monica, Calf, March II
with Maj. Martin would depart soon
from Dutch Harbor, $50 miles west
of False Pass.
While government ships and cam
merry boats continued combing the
southwestern shores of the Aleutian
Islands and the Alaska Peninsula as
kar east as Chignik for Maj. Mai tin.
commander of the United States
companions awaiting him at Dutch
Harbor, Unalaska Island, were pre-
pared today to continue their journey
4 weather conditions permitted. The
next scheduled stop for the three was
tttka Island, $50 miles southwest of
there they were stationed. Orders
were telegraphed to them yesterday
from Washington. D. c., to speed
...L.TVI ord o. - thnTr pnT1a-
mander.
Search Is Fruitless.
Reports received from King Cove
stated that vessels had searched un-
successfully for Maj. Martin and his
mechanic, Staff Sergt. Alva Harvey,
In two harbors and five bays. Efforts
10 find them in Leonard and Adolgo
harbors and Coal. Belkofsky, Volcano,
Bear and Pavlof bays proved un-
availing. Latest dispatches declared
the ships went as far as Ivan Island
at the foot of Pavlof Volyano.
Overland searching groups from
Chignik returned late yesterday with
out any definite trace of the Ameri
can aviators.
The route the missing flyers at
tempted was a short cut to Dutch
Harbor. Although the gales have
moderated and the temperature has
climbed slightly, it was said here
that the missing men might be suf-
fering from lack of food, as they
did not carry provisions from CHG
mix. Chances of killing game were
small, natives said. One faint ray of
hope that the men might not die
from starvation was disclosed by a
member of coast guard crew. who
told overland searching parties that
Maj. Martin was presented with a
fishing pole while staying in Seattle.
Nearly all the streams and the shell
tered hooks along the north Pacific
shore line offer good fishing.
At daylight today renewed efforts
were being made by every one in
the 400-mile area to locate the miss
ing flyers.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Y. w. c. A. CONSIDERS
VOTING PRIVILEGES
Delegates to Convention Discuss
Proposal for Amendment
to Constitution.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 3.-Delegates 10
the national convention of the Young
Women's Christian Association de-
cided today whether to extend voting
privileges to girls Of creeds not now
eligible to vote
The question came before the con-
vention yesterday. in the form or
an amendment to the constitution, but
after a brief debate it was laid over
until today a two-thirds vote is
necessary to carry the amendment
and the proponents of the change
are not confident that they can
obtain the necessary number.
Membership in the organization
now is open to girls of all races
and religions, but the right to vote
rests only with those who are MEM
bers of churches eligible to mem
bership in the Federal Council of the
Churches Of Christ in America
Evening star., 1924-05-03
ZAYAs OFF FOR FRONT.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, May 3.-President Zayas
left Havana today for. Santa Clara
Province, where armed men are in
revolt against his government. He
was accompanied by Secretary of In
terror iturralde and Gen. Herrero,
chief of staff.
The presidents departure was kept
a secret until some time after his spe-
left the city. 1t was understood he
was going to Cienfuegoes, near where
most of the trouble has centered in
the last few days.
1t was declared by Subsecretary of
the Interior de la Tore that Presi-
dent Zayas desired to ascertain per-
sonally the exact situation in Santa
Clara Province and that his departure
for the scene of the anti-Zayas out
break did not mean that the SITUATION
was more serious.
Newspaper Suspended.
The morning newspaper Ell Sol was
suspended today and copies Of the pa
per were seized on the street by po-
lice acting on orders of the govern
ment. 1t was officially declared that
the chief reason was publication to-
day by Ell Sol of what purported to be
message from DR.. Federico Laredo
Bru, who recently fled from Cfenfu-
gos, apparently to avoid arrest on
suspicion of implication in the armed
revolt in Santa Clara province.
An order for the expulsion OF Aldo
Baroni, Italian subject and director
of the newspaper El Heraldo, as a
pernicious foreigner, and the arrest
of Luis Guillermo Gallo on suspicion
of being a messenger from Gen. Car
los Garcia-Ve,eZ marked the latest
moves here. Gallo, resident of Ha-
vana, was arrested late yesterday on
arrival from Key West, it became
known early today. He claimed to
be an agent for tourist agency, and
it was reported he had come from St.
Petersburg, Fla.
The action of President Coolidge in
forbidding shipments of arms and
ammunition to Cuba, except such as
may be authorized for sale to the Gu
ban government. was described by
President Zayas as a great aid in
breaking up the rebellious movement,
and he predicted an end of the move
ment within three or four days. He
then referred to President Coolidge's
action as an evidence of friendship
for the Cuban government which is
deeply appreciated.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Foley May Succeed
Father-i,,-La,U as
Tan,many Leader
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 3.-Surrogate
James A. Foley may succeed his
father-in-law, the late Charles f.
Murphy, as leader of Tammany. If
he will resign from the bench, the
New York Times says.
Agreement upon the selection OF
Mr.. Foley is said to have been
reached in conference of inf1uen-
tial members of Tammany. The
election is expected at a meeting
of the executive committee
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
AGREES TO $14,4OO
FOR DEEDS OFFICE
House Raises Rent Appropriation
for Recorder More Than
$4,000.
DAVIS MAKES THE MOTION
Proposal Follows Personal Inspec-
ton of Premises.

Increase from $4,000 to s14.400 in the
appropriation for rent of offices for
the recorder of deeds was made by
the House in committee of the whole
today on motion of Representative
Charles r. Davis, Republican, of Min
nesota, in charge or the District ap-
preparation bill.
Representative Davis explained that
Chairman Madden of the House ap-
propriations committee, accompanied
by members of the subcommittee on
the District bill had visited premises
occupied by the recorder of deeds,
and had reached an agreement with
the owners, whereby the entire build
ing would be supplied to the recorder
of deeds for $4,000.
New Building Planned.
Chairman Davis assured the House
that in a few years a new building
would be erected near the courthouse
to be occupied, by the office of the
gressional Record.
Representative Chindbloom of Illi-
nois told his colleagues that he had
corder of deeds to look up a title
and that he never saw public office
so congested and men working under
such cramped and practically impos-
sible conditions.
Representative Blanton rose in op-
position to the amendment for the
purpose of discussing his own pro-
posal that the two street car COM
panieS in Washington should be fore
ed under their charter provision to
6,-4
fare. He declared that 10000 school
children are now compelled to pay
cents for street car rides.
Has List of Names.
In advocating a District tax rate
of $3.50 he showed pictures of an
estate whose owner he said he
could not mention by name on ac-
count of congressional courtesy, but
that the owner of that estate has
declared his intention of defeating
the Cramton amendment which
changes the fiscal relations between
the federal and District governments
by establishing a fixed contribution
of SS,000,000 instead of the 60-4O pro-
portionate arrangement.
Representative Blanton said he has a
list of senators and members of Con-
gSSSS showing Wnat property tney own
in the district, and that If they persist
in an effort to keep the tax rate at
s1.20 he will print that list in the Con-
greSSio2al record.
Failed ON Points OF Order.
Two attempts to force a. scent
street car fare in Washington through
limitations on the s41,12o appropria-
ton for the Public Utilities Commis-
sion, made yesterday by Representa-
tive Blanton. failed when points of
order were lodged against them by
Representative Cramton OF Michigan
and Chindblom of Illinois.
Representative Blanton proposed
withholding the entire appropriation
from the Public Utilities Commission
until it ordered a return to the scent
Representative Cramton of Michigan
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company and the Capital Traction
Company. The point of order that
this was legislation on an appropria-
tion bill was sustained.
Cramton Wins Point.
Representative Cramton won his
fight, which has extended over sew
eral months, for protection Of motor
men and conductors on the street
oars against open veStibules in cold
and stormy weather. The House in
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