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The Washington times., 1924-03-05
BULGARIA BOWS
TOJUGO-SLAV
U[F|MATUN
Sofia Arrests 200 Agitators
To Appease Neighbor
Threatening War.
BY International News Service.

ny AntcEA0V4Uu0A NSWO service,
SOFIA, Bulgaria, March s.
Two hundred members of the
Macedonian elderly societies.
have been arrested by Bulgarian
military police upon the demand
Of the Jugoslav government, it
was learned today.
The Jugoslav government sent
a ultimatum to Sofia, demand
ing that the leaders of all the
Macedonian organizations be ar
rested.
Invasion Feared.
Bulgarian officials fear that Jugo-
slavia is planning invasion, using
the activity Of the Macedonians as
a pretext.
Macedonian nationalists hAve been
agitating war against .ugoslavla
for many months.
Bands of Macedonian irregulars
have made raids along the Jugo.
slavia border causing high tension
between the two countries.
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
PRESIDENT RECEIVES
CALVIN COOLIDGE CLUB

President Coolidge today received
members of the Calvin Coolidge
Club of the National University.
who told him they would support
him in the Presidential campaign.
John B. Neviaser, president Of
the club. acting as spokesman for
the group, pledged the aid of the
organization to the Chief Executive.
He explained to President Coolidge
that the club was formed with the
idea of starting Q general move
ment among institutions of higher
learning in the country to get on
the Coolidge band wagon. This
club is affiliated with the Repub.
hcan State League.
Other officers of the club were
J: G. Herman, vice president: Miss
Margaret A. Kurtz, secretary; B.
A. Soper, treasurer, and L. j.
Reamer, sergeant-at-arms.
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
KILLED IN
NEW ORLEANS
NARD| GRAS
213 Are Injured and 2o5
CeIebrants Are Arrested
by Police.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March S.
Two negroes were killed in a run
ming gun battle, 29S persons were
arrested and 213 injured yesterday
and last night during the Mardi
Gras celebration here. according to
police and hospital records today.
OF the 298 persons arrested, 148
were charged with intoxication, and
not all of the "drunks" were arrest
ed either. police asserted. OF the
injured, fifteen were suffering with
stab wounds; nine, gunshot wounds,
and the remainder from miscel.
laneous accidents.
The two negroes were killed and
four others probably fatally wound.
ed in pistol battles with the police.
The negroes were killed, it was said,
for attacking white women maskers.
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
WEEKS ORDERS THOROUGH
PROBE OF JERSEY BLAST

Secretary Of War Weeks today
ordered the Inspector-G General of the
Army to make thorough investi.
CATION Of the circumstances sur.
rounding the explosion at Nixon,
N. j.. Saturday. which cost the
lives of 80 persons.
The investigation IL to be made
as a precautionary measure and
not to fix the blame for the catas.
trophe.
A large quantity Of high explo-
sives stored by the War Department
at Raritan, N. j., may be moved
to another point in q less congested
district.
The Washington times., 1924-03-05

and you baseball fans will supply
the most appropriate last line to
fit the preceding part Of the lin
erick.
Doesn't that sound fair enough?
Ten tickets to the opening game
will be awarded to the cleverest
limerick last-liners each week day
between next Friday. day after to-
morrow, and April -, the day the
Griffmen play the Boston Braves an
exhibition game here.
-Four to the Winner.
Four of these tickets will go daily
to the writer of the most appro-
pirate last line and two tickets each
will so to the writer's of the next
three best lines, making ten tickets
q day in ALL
Uncompleted limericks will be sub
mitted on each Of the thirty-two
Gnntinlad On Para : Column a
The Washington times., 1924-03-05

About this time Of year "Skillet"
can be depended upon to burst
forth in some sort Of contagious
rash which quickly spreads to the
entire baseball family of Washing
tonic wit: some ingenious method
to pit the members of that great
circle of fans in some sort of com.
petition to earn for themselves
free tickets to the first local game
Of the season.
Well, the mellow weather of the
last few days has brought "Skillet"
out of his winter retirement and
only yesterday he strolled through
Franklin Park to see how the
squirrels were nibbling.
He hoped ninfbly back into The
Times office with gladstone ex.
preston across his usual glum
countenance and announced that
the time is propitious to call the
clan of baseball bugs around him
and declare the season officially
on.
So "sklllet" is today really throw
ing out the first ball.
OVcI OUV UuOSUO Va 0hAHots
More than 800 readers of The
Washington Times will be guests
of Skillet" when the Griffmen
whom Skillet" is wont to call the
"Griefmen" start the local season
against the Athletics or Mackmen
on April Is.
What do you have to do to earn
these tickets? Listen!
Did you ever hear of a limerick?
Well. you don't have to write one
all you have to do Is to write the
last line of one and make it rhyme
and meter with the rest of the
limerick which Skillet" will pre-
sent daily in the columns Of the
sporting section Of this newspaper
For instance; on the name of Lit
tle Memo Leibold, Skillet" will
print the first four lines of the
limerick something like this:
LII Memo just hated baked beans
He feared for his future 1t seems
He has outfielded ages,
Say sporting page sages,
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
KNOXVILLE CLAIMS
119,9o4 POPULATION

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. March g.
Knoxville's 1924 model city direo-
tory gives her a total population
Of 10000, according to the City
Directory company's announcement
today. The total increase, without
taking in new territory is $3.50.
This is the largest growth for a
single year In the history of the
new city.
The 1920 government census gave
Knoxville a total population Of
slightly more than $1,000. The direc-
tory census shows an increase since
then Of more than $4,000,
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
WELLESLEY'S PRETTIEST
GIRL HAS AUBURN HAIR

WELLESLEY, Mass, March s.
A slender figure, crowned with
auburn hair and pair of thought
full brown eyes won for Miss Jean
Smith the distinction Of being
chosen the prettiest senior at Wei.
lesly College.
Each year the prettiest girl in
the class >is declared three-day mis-.
tress. and Miss Smith today holds
this honor.
The Washington times., 1924-03-05

stating its aspirations declared its
intention to further that cause
merely by invoking "all lawful
means"
$50 long as such discussions as
this shall be confined to the con.
sideration of lawful means. there
will be reason to. anticipate smutu-
ally beneficient conclusions" the
President said. ut is therefore a
matter of congratulation, which I
herewith extend that you have
chosen to carry on this discussion
within the bounds Of lawful claims
and. naNdaN
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
D. c. GIRL Is ELECTED TO
VASSAR PHI BETA KAPPA

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, March
5.-Phi Deta Kappa at Vassar has
elected twenty-six new members.
Among them are: Margaret Ives,
Of Cold Water, Mich; Phoebe Nor
rison, of Takoma Park, Washington,
D. c.. and Jean Russell. Of Berke-
lleN. CAL
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
SON FINDS MOTHER
ASPHYXIATIoN SUICIDE

PITTSBURGH, March 5.-With a
gas hose in her mouth the body Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, sixty-eight,
was found in her bedroom today
by her son who went to awaken his
mother.
The son could give no reason for
his mothers act.
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
800 MORE
FOUND|N
OFFICE
FILES
Believed to include Some OF
FaII's-WaIsh Ignored in
Knights Appointment.
BY KENNETH CLARK,
International News Service.

INTERNATIONAL news SERVICE
More code kilograms were I'M
earthed today by the Senate oil
investigators in their search for
the hidden influences and Sc
crets that surround the great
oil scandal.
These messages were found in
the files Of the Postal Telegraph
Company and were produced I'M
der protest from the company Of
ficials. After considering them
behind closed doors, the COM
mittee turned them over to w.
F. Friedman, army code expert,
to decipher. Fully 800 addi-
tional kilograms that passed in
and out of Washington from De-
cember 1, 1928, to February 20,
1924, have been secured from
two telegraph companies.
Obtained In Dragnet.
The messages were presented to
the committee under the general
dragnet" subpoena -eliiffg fons all
kilograms in or out of Washington
sent or received by the principal
figures in the oil scandal, particular
~ Mclean. Sinclair, former Score.
tary of Interior Albert B. Fail, r.
L. Doheny, Col. J. w. Zevely, Sin.
clair's counsel; w. o. Duckstein
and John F. Major, McLean'S con.
fidential man.
In the Palm Beach messages,
which were delivered in sealed en-.
velopes the committee sought to
ascertain whether G. Bascom Slemp.
secretary to President Coolidge, had
ever been in Geographic communi-
cation with any of the oil scandal
principals.
The committee also wanted the
wire from Mclean to Francis Nc
Adoo, son Of William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, which McAdoo testified de-
clared former Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer was counsel for
Fall and Sinclair.
After examining the kilograms for
two hours behind closed doors, the
committee adjourned until tomorrow
without hearing any of the witnesses
summoned. The witnesses were in
structed to return tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
Betting To Be PrObed.
Another report of sensational ma
ture was laid before the committee
today. 1t was that Attorney Gen.
eral Harry M. Daugherty, accom-.
panied Harry +. Sinclair to the
Kentucky races on the latter's pr.
vate car.
Previously Sinclair told the com.
mittee he had invited Daugherty,
but that the Attorney General had
declined to accept. and did not
make the trip.
Charges were made on the floor
by Senator Heflin CD of Alabama
that Daugherty and other Cabinet
members bet heavily on the races,
certain of the money being handled
by Sinclair who owns one of tho
largest racing stables in the United
States.
Coolidge ROuses Resentment.
Keenest resentment was ex.
pressed in Democratic Senatorial
circles today over the manner
chosen by President Coolidge in
appointing Samuel Knight, OF San
ExAnOlscN a. anecial coRneel 70
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
WEATHER.

Showers this afternoon;
fair and cooler tonight.
Thursday fair and cooler;
moderate Eestly Eiads 1900
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
SKILLET" STARTS 2
LIMERICK CONTEST
FOR BALL FANS

The very first sign of spring in the National Capital
proclaimed today by Skiet" Finn Esq., irrespons
BILE sporting department clown broadcast to the fandom
of the District of Columbia the of his second annual
ticket contest for the opening baseball game Of
Anil
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
New Code kilograms Under Scrutiny
PRINCESS LOUISE DIES
IN LONDON

Daughter Of
Leopold II
succumbs to
pneumonia.
Her life
was marked
by one of
the most
romantic
tragedies in
European
court history.
When only
seventeen
years of age
she married
Prince
PHILIPPE
Coborg-Saxe
Gotha, a
notorious
rake. She
left him for
an army
officer, the
Count
Mattachich.
Placed in an
asylum she
was rescued
by the count.
Her husband
divorced her
in 1906, but
the princess
was barred
from court
circles.
The Washington times., 1924-03-05
Don't Say
"LOst"

Whenever you lose an article
Of value-say TIMES.HER-
AID WANT ADS.
These two big newspapers Of
fer you the best opportunity
to recover lost articles through
the medium of the classified
Lost and Found columns.
At one cost your message is
read by both morning and
evening newspaper readers.
This service gives you MAXI.
MUM READERS at MINI
MUM EXPENSE.
Read the story that Is repro
duced on the classified page
today that was sent to The
Times and Herald by Mrs. N.
L. Crawford. apt. 81, 1929 Bel.
mont st.
When YOU lose something.
you'll use TIMES and HER
AID want ads eventually
why not right away?
Phone Main $500
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15

prohibitive tax be placed upon non resident fishermen, the tax to be sufficiently high as to induce the fishermen to make Alaska their resi- dence or else to remain away and give the resident Alaskan fishermen chance. In support of this argu- ment, the experience of the states of Oregon and Washington was quoted, in which it was stated that fisheries regulations of those states were responsible for a large per- centage of the increase in their pop1- lation, and the wealth of those states.
 It was also brought out by the meeting that whenever legislation on fisheries was before congress, the cannerymen were we'll represented while the fishermen were not and that they could not expect any other than adverse results. Plans were therefore instituted whereby a com mittee is to be appointed to repre- sent the fishermen at the next ses- sion of congress.
 N. R. Walker, Democratic candi- date for senator from the first di- vision addressed the meeting briefly and recommended that a high tax be placed on all fish above the one hundred thousand mark caught by each trap. This was after MT. Paul quoted Senator F. J. Hunt as saying that he would favor legislating the trap out of business.
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15
WILL PROTEST CLOSED
 SEASON ON FISHERIES
Fishermen Met in Pioneer Hall Sunday and Drafted Res
 OlutiOns

men, held yesterday afternoon in the Pioneer Hall, the following reso- lutions were drafted and are to be sent to Secretary of Commerce Her bert Hoover and U. s. Commissioner of Fisheries Henry O'Malley today.
 Be it resolved, that the present closed season prohibiting the catch ing of all species of salmon, includ- ing king salmon, is wrong in prin- ciple especially as it relates to king salmon, which spawn from June first until July first, and, be it fur ther resolved that the catching of salmon by trolls should be excepted from all closing orders unless ap- piled to the period between June first and July first"
 "Whereas, Behm Canal, South eastern Alaska, is the spawning ground or is in the immediate vii cinity of the spawning grounds of the King salmon and such salmon caught therein are about to spawn, be it resolved that Behm Canal should be closed in it's entirety, and permanently to trolling, from Point Sykes to Camano Point"
 Although the meeting yesterday was not advertised to the general public, anyone interested in the fish- ermen's problem in this district was welcomed.
 William L. Paul, attorney for the "Fishermen's Protective Associa- tion," acting as chairman, opened the meeting with a brief review of the fishing situation in Southeastern Alaska. He said:
 ''The seiner, the gill-netter, and the troller are against the trapmen because the traps strike directly at their manner of making a living. As the fishing industry of Alaska is political question, the fishermen should take advantage of their vot- ing power to remove the trap, rather than to talk of blowing up the traps. The closed season came af- ter long and studied effort Oh the part of the cannerymen. In 1917 occurred the first event which cul- minated in the appointing of ter ritorial fish commission. In 1922 the controversy over the fish traps had reached such stage that a closed season was proposed. At that time, it never penetrated your minds that the fishing party was in the hands of politics and you threw away your chance to vote. In 1923 J. R. Heckman's advocacy of the closed season was accepted and bill was hastily drawn up and pre-
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15

because the Cannery men were afraid. They had to appear to congress as attempting to conserve the fish and so they made all haste possible to put legislation on the books which they could point to as the result of their own efforts to conserve fish. It is a singular thing that the legis- lature elected by you should turn over their prerogative to a governor from the East who has no interest in protecting you but who is in terested in protecting the interests of the nonresident business men who made him governor, yet that is just what has happened and what is happening today.
 "The only manner in which this problem can be successfully coped with," said MT. Paul in speaking of the traps, "is by the fishermen's power to vote and consequent ability to place prohibitive taxes upon the traps. This applies also to the closed season. The organic act cre- ating the legislatures power to make laws prohibits them from mak- ing any laws regulating the fishing industry, which leaves as the sole remedy your power by the vote to tax traps out of existence"
 Following MT. Paul's talk, there were several short discussions on the closed season. The fishermen be- lieved that the present form of clos ed season was illogical and worked an injustice upon all fishermen. With particular reference to the west coast closing law, it was point ed out that that district is the feeding ground and not the spawn ing ground for king salmon and for echoes and resolution recommend ing that those species of salmon be not included in the closed season law was drawn up. It was also pointed out that the sea lions con- sume tremendous amount of fish It was stated that a sea lion des- troys about fifty pounds of salmon per day and that some method of reducing the large numbers of this species of animal, should be prac- tised.
 The question of employing non resident labor was also brought up It was pointed out that hundreds of thousands of dollars are paid out annually to nonresident laborers who are paid off outside of Alaska and who spend their money in other communities
 It was also recommended that a
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15

lawn Troy in his boneless Empire admits that his brand of political control must go.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-11-21
State Departments
Preparing Budgets

Columbus, O.-All state depart
ments and heads of departments are
busy at the present time preparing
their budgets for the next two years
for submission to the general assem-
bly,. They will first be presented to
the budget commissioner and Cover
nor Donahey for approval, and then
the finance committees of the two
legislative branches. Many import
ant items in the budget cannot be de-
ter1nined until approval of the gener-
al assembly is given to important
changes which are contemplated in
several state departments. 1t is al
ready indicated that the cost of gov
ernment for the next two years will
show the same increase as it has dur
ing the past twenty years or more,
and as was pointed out during the
campaign this cost cannot be reduced
while the state is growing so rapidly
in population and industrial activi-
ties.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-11-21

Follette's income tax was $64140
Coolidge's tax will be larger this
year. He did not begin to draw the
| $75, 900 presidential income until
August of 1923.
Among the many motion picture
notables whose incomes have been
variously reported at from $1,000,000
to $10,00O,000 and up, Douglas Fair
banks was the only one to pay more
than 100000. The government got
a total Of $225,749.04 of the profits
Doug got from "Robin Hood and
other pictures on which he drew divi-
dends in 1923. His wife, Mary Pick
ford, paid the surprisingly small total
of $2,444.09. She, like Fairbanks,
does not get a flat salary in the
movies, but draws a share of the
profits of the pictures in which she
appears.
1t should be remembered that in
come tax figures are not a reliable
barometer of wealth, for the reason
that many wealthy persons have
large share of their fortunes in non
taxable bonds. Then, too, in 1923,
many of them may have sustained
losses which reduced their incomes
for that year.
The federal tax paid on their 1923
incomes by other film stars were:
Pola Negri, $14,68l.39.
Jackie Coogan, $505,95.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Coogan, $4,-
255.45.
William S. Hart, S22,654.56.
Lew Cody, $1,00930.
Harold Lloyd, $22,662.3O.
Tom Mix, $15,356.5O.
Rupert Hughes, $11, 1,937O1.
Cecil B. DeMille, $741.55.
Will Rogers, $5,966.01.
Barbara Lamar, $1,85416.
Antonio Moreno, $15,349.O5.
Charles Chaplin, $6,863.03.
Constance Talmadge, $1O,45O.05.
Thomas Meighan, $51 200.
Richard Barthelmess, $30,OOO
Lillian Gish, $773.
Payments Of notables were:
Andrew w. Mellon, treasury sec
retary, $1,173, ,987.S5.
2; H: Gary, steel man, $473,OOO.
Charles NJ Schwab, steel man,
. W. Wrigley, Jr., chewing gum king,
Eddie Cantor, comedian, $4,000.
William G. McAdoo, S11,15O.76.
Mrs. McAdoo, $1,323. 12.
Charles G. Dawes, Republican vice
presidential candidate, $18,269.
Rufus Dawes, brother of Charles
g., 1924.
Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the
Chicago White Sox, $16,723.
Al Jolson, $4,000.
Alice Brady, $4,000.
Otis Skinner, $4,000.
Charles Evans Hughes, secretary of
state, $4,000.
Chauncey M. Depew, $143,0O0.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-11-21
Barring of Income Tax Secrets Embarrasses
NOtables, Particularly the Movie Satellites

Washington-Wh the capital is
still in a turmoil over the question
of whether income tax figures, made
available to the public by a recent
law, can be published in the newspap,
ers. a matter which an unrevoked
clause in the old law prohibits, not
ables whose income tax payments 1ol
1923 have already been pubilsheo' are
letting their displeasure be known.
Plainly, some of them are dlStress
ed. Not that there is the sllghest
suspicion that any of them are guilty
of having filed a fraudulent return,
but because for the first time, an
idea of the actual income OF many OF
them has been broadcast. The pub
licity is enabling business men to re-,
wise their rating of competitors, and
it is punching holes in the nice little
balloons blown up by press agents
about the salaries of public perform
ers.
For one thing, the figures that are
available show that, Judging by their
1923 incomes, the wealth of Henry
Ford and his son is greater than that
of John D. Rockefeller and son, and
the further fact is revealed that John
D., ST., has transferred most of his
wealth to his son. Ford, Sr. paid an
income tax in 1923 of $2,247 GAG, 10,
and his son gave the government ST.
984,253,43. The Ford factories paid
an income of $14,449, ,643,O4. Since
the only owners of the Ford factories
are Ford, Sr., his son and Mrs. Ford,
the Ford income tax payment can be
called $17,000,000. Rockefeller, Sr.,
handed over only $124,266.47, while
his son, John D., Jr., paid the govern
ment a total of $7,435, 1894.
One of the surprises of the publish
ed returns was the fact that j. Pier
pont Morgan, head of the information
al banking house, paid only $98,643
income tax in 1923, only about $4,000
more than Jack Dempsey, pugilist,
whose federal assessments was $780,
300.
Of the presidential candidates,
Davis paid by far the largest amount,
$4,000; Coolidge, making his pay.
ment at Northampton, Mass, handed
over a check for $6,643.01, and La
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-11-21
Pensions Run Up
Into Big Figures

Washington-Wars have cost the
United States $6,836,182,8 800 in pen
sions alone, with the world war yet
to be reckoned with, according to a
statement issued by the United States
pension bureau.
In round numbers, civil war pen
sions have totaled $6,500,000,000;
Spanish war, $127,000,000; revolu-
tionary war, $70,000,000; war Of 1872
$46,000,000; Mexican war, $57,000,-
900; Indian wars, $26,000,000. Regu-
lar army and navy pensions total
$68,000,000, and unclassified pen
sions, $16,500,000.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-11-21
Some Money Made i'm
Soft Collar Trade

Boston-The superior court has al
lowed John B. Bolton, Philadelphia, to
increase from 100000 to $6,00O,O0O
the amount of damages he seeks to
obtain from John M Van Huesen in
connection with the marketing of a
soft collar. Bolton claims he invented
the collar and that Van Heusen
agreed to market it and pay him 80
per cent of the profits. Bolton claims
that Van Heusen's profits to date are
now more than $15, 100000.