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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08

normal conditions are being restored
in the land of the Montezlmas.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
TO EXHIBIT CANARIES
Prize Winning Rollers to Be Shown
Here April a.

Howard Fogg, secretary of the In
ternational Roller Canary Breeders
Association and editor of the Roller
Canary Journal, will be in San An
tonic, Monday April IA, with some
concert birds. the champion winners
of the international shows held in Chi
cago, Cleveland. Cincinnati. Kansas
City. New York and San Francisco
last fall, according to letter from
the association to The Light.
Mr.. Fogg will LOld mass meeting
Monday evening, April IA, for all of
the bird lovers in San Antonio. Mrs.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
Frescno, CAL, April Sit has beef
Vessel Passes Tests.

Newport News. Va, April s.-The
United States Shipping Board liner,
Republic, on her official trial trip out
side the Virginia capes, yesterday. is
declared TO have given a satisfactory
performance and stood every test Sue
cessfully. Reconditioning of the Re-
public, formerly the President
Buchanan, of the United States lines
and originally the President Grant nf
the Hamburg Line, is being
completed in dry dock here.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
British Filters DELAYED.

DrItISH FIlerS Delayed.
Athen, April S.-Col., Stephen Low
of st. Louis, Mo-. director of the
American Near East Relief ut Corfu,
is playing host to the stranded Brit
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
BUY COAL EARLY.
Plan Worked Out by
Dealers.

Philadelphia. Pa, April S.-The
latest plan to induce early buying of
anthracite in this section is being pat
termed closely after that used in the
Christmas clubs. Some dealers are
making arrangements so that pay
ments may be made at the rate of 81
per ton weekly in lots of one to ten
tons. The coal is delivered to the
i'm two-ton lots as that
amount is paid for. This plan. its
sponsors say. enables householders to
assure themselves of supply for
next winter Mt present reduced prices
without entailing any financial hard
ship.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08

voris p. Brown is director of the
association.
Mr.. Fogg will make an address on
the birds. their life. culture and prac-
tically everything that is known about
them. The birds will sing.
When the meeting is over in San
Antonio, Mr.. Fogg and his wife, will
continue their tour to the coast, mid
die, northeastern and northern states.
The roller canary is one of the best
singers. They are deep yellow, al
most orange, and are large in size.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
BUSINESS is SPOTTY.
Manufacturers Think Bottom Reached
in Trade Lull.

Cleveland. Ohio, April S.-Business
in this section continues spotty with
declines in steel. automobiles and at
filiated lines. but business leaders are
predicting that the bottom has been
reached in the bushes lull. Prominent
steel men say that unless it has been
reached and heavier buying is re-
sumed. output must decline further,
since present operations are at the
expense of untitled tonnage rather
than new business.
Employment in the last month has
advanced 3S per cent and now is 1t
point only 30 per cent under the
high point of 1923, which was reached
last May. Automobile dealers and
makers report improvement as re-
suit of warmer weather. The Jordan
sales in the last week of March in
creased so per cent over the previous
week as a result of better weather.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
BOAT CAPSIZES; 3 DIE
Motorboat Overturns in Ohio and
Trio Drown.

Evansville. Ind, April s.-Ray
Walker, %. his wife, Lima, 10, and
Walkers brother, Andrew, 20, were
drowned yesterday when their motor
boat overturned in the Ohio river.
They were taking load of fish TO
West Franklin, a few miles below
Evansville, when the tragedy occur
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
GLOBE FLIERS TO
RESUME FLIGHT TO
ALASKA THURSDAY
Necessary Repairs on Dam
aged Plane to Be Made
Wednesday.

Prince Rupert, b. c., April S.-All
four of the United States army
planes flying around the world. which
arrived here Sunday from Seattle. will
hop off Thursday morning for Sitka,
Alaska, Maj. Frederick L. Martin,
commander of the squadron, an
nounccd last night.
A thorough examination of the flag
plane Seattle, which was damaged
on alighting, revealed that repairs can
he made here on the arrival Wednes-
day of extra parts from Prince
George, Major Martin said. A-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08

James Wilson of Oakmont. were Sc
riously injured and taken to hos.
pital in Williamsburg and Samuel
Roop of Verona. and John Gordon of
Oakmont, were slightly injured and
treated at the scene Of the accident
and taken to their homes.
The street car was demolished and
the front of the garage and seven
automobiles were wrecked
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
Man Poisoned-Widow Held.

Lawrence. Kan, April S.-Mrs.
Molly Jeffries, 46, was arrested here
yesterday in connection with the
death of her husband. John Fl. JEFF
ferries. CT. Jefferies, who was janitor
at the University of Kansas, died
March 80. Announcement was made
yesterday by a chemist that Mr..
Jefferies died from poisoning.
Evening star., 1924-03-31
ORDERS MEANS ARREST.
New York Court Issues Bench War
rant in Case.
he Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 31.-Federal
Judge Garvin today ordered a bench
warrant issued for the arrest of Gas
ton B. Means, former agent of the
Department of Justice, who is under
indictment for conspiracy to violate
the Volstead law, and whose trial
was to have begun here today.
When Judge Garyin called the case
of Means and his former secretary,
Elmar W. Jarnecke, both named in
the conspiracy indictment, John It.
McGovern, counsel for Means, de-
and would not be able to appear
here because he was under subpoena
by the Senate committee investigat-
ing the Department of Justice.
Asks Bail BE Forfeited.
Hiram Todd. assistant District at
torney, insisted that Means bail of
$4,000 be forfeited and that war
Garvin granted the motion. The gov
ernment attorney asserted Means
twice had failed to appear for trial
and had given illness as his reason.
He declared the district court here
took precedence over the Senate com
mittee.
The indictment against Means, re-
turned October IS, contains four
counts, the first alleging he entered
into a conspiracy to obtain the re-
lease of 1900 cases and 1880 bar
rels of whisky from government
warehouses
The second involves fifty-five bar
rels of'whisky, the third eighty ght
barrels and the fourth charges con-
spiracy and use of the mails to de-
fraud in connection with an attempt
to obtain $4,000 from a man in Chi
cago for the release of liquor from
warehouses.
Evening star., 1924-03-31
Saluaging Begun in Cumberland
after So 900, 600 Flood Recedes
One Railroad Connection Left by Poto-
mac TOrrents-Mud Inches Thick on
Store Stocks-Face Task GameIy.

SHOWS from the mountains on the
north Of this community of 10000 per-
sons, the only contact Cumberland
has with the outside world in rail-
road transportation is slender
thread of rail which may be unit for
use at any moment
Go to Work Hopefully
Cumberland awoke today with a
grim determination to wipe. out her
loss and to reconstruct her shattered
business district. Although this city
has not suffered the loss of any ma
jor buildings, every structure on
North Mechanic street, Liberty street
and in the adjacent thoroughfares
was covered by the silt and mud of
the torrent which swept down upon
the city Saturday Business men hesi-
tate to estimate their losses. They
hope for the best, and spirit Of
buoyancy takes the place of the de-
preston which could easily be ex-
pected in similar circumstances.
Outside of the meager possibility
that rail communication will continue,
Cumberland today has only limited
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Evening star., 1924-03-31
.DAUGHERTY PROBE
TO co ON; MOVE TO
GAG MEANS H|NTED
Warrant Issued for Witness
by New fork Court AssaiIed
by Wheeler.
The Senate Daugherty investigating

The Senate Daugherty investigating
committee decided today to continue
its inquiry despite Mr.. Daugherty's
retirement to private life.
At the same time committee mem
bers announced they intended to hold
CASTOR B. Means, former Department
of Justice Investigator, in attend
ance under a Senate subpoena, in
spite of the issuance today of bench
warrant by the federal court at New
York ordering Means returned there
to answer charges OF conspiracy.
The committees immediate objec-
tive when it resumes hearings to-
morrow will be to clear up the facts
as to the Department of Justices
prosecution of war frauds and anti
trust cases.
Take Up Means Case.
When news was received of Judge
Garvin's order in New York for
Means arrest the committee took
up the subject in executive session.
This is an apparent attempt on the
part or H. C. Todd. the special assis-
tant to the Attorney General, in
charge of Means prosecution, 10
block this investigation" said Senator
Wheeler, the committee prosecutor.
1T is the committees purpose to keep
Means here as a. witness, and to re-
tain his services for the committee.
OF course. that prosecution at New
York could be conducted at any
time
Means testified early in the com
mitee's procedure, telling of money
payments made to Jess Smith in con-
nection with pending cases.
A decision on the motion before the
committee to have Nal S. Daugherty,
brother of the former Attorney Cen
eral, cited to the Senate for contempt
was postponed. The question may be
decided later today. Nal Daugherty
failed to respond when called under a
subpoena last week, and previously
had refused to open to the commit
tees agents all records of the Mid
land National Bank of Washington
Court House, Ohio, of which he is
president He submitted a memoran-
dunn Saturday, challenging the com
mittee's legal right to require his
presence.
Seattle Testimony Denied.
The committee has an affidavit from
A. z. Myers a special assistant to
the Attorney General, fatty denying
testimony given last week by H. l..
Scaife, who at one time was attached
to the Department of Justice and as
signed to Investigations of aircraft
audits Myers specifically challenged
Scaifes statements that he had
block ed" investigation "of the
Standard Aircraft Company or any
other company, and that l was ap-
pointed to my position through in
fuence of George W. Wickersham, at
torney for the Standard Aircraft Com
pany.''
At the open hearing tomorrow, the
committee will replace Scaife on the
witness stand
Evening star., 1924-03-31
SENATORS RESTORE
SALES TAX
Committee Also Puts Back
Rates on Promissory
Notes and Drafts.

The taxes on produce exchange
sales and on drafts or promissory
notes were restored to the revenue
bill with the rates of the present
law today by the Senate finance com
mittee.
The House had cut in half the
present tax on sales of produce ex-
changes, amounting to cents for
each 500 of value, and had stricken
out entirely the tax on drafts and
premissory notes, amounting to
cents for each 500. The first cut, it
was estimated, would reduce revenue
100000 and the latter s2,150,0 900.
Secretary Mellon had not proposed
either of the reductions.
Taxes ON Tobacco.
The sections of the bill providing
for taxes on cigars and tobacco were
agreed to by the committee. No
change from the present law had
been made in these rates by the
House.
Action was deferred on the excise
taxes, in which the House made con-
siderable changes, and on the estate
tax. which the House increased,
pending hearing of Secretary Mellon
tomorrow.
Limit ON Deductions,
A Treasury provision limiting de-
ductions which might be made on
gross incomes to exclude certain
amounts of interest received on tax
exempt securities was agreed to az
passed by the House
Senator Simmons, North Carolina,
ranking democrat on the committee,
asked that the provision for a %
per cent reduction on earned incomes
be reconsidered. but a motion to in
crease from $4,000 to $4,000 the
maximum amount on which the re-
duction might be made was defeated.
The House had set $4,000 as the
maximum.
Evening star., 1924-03-31
CALL EX-GOVERNOR
In TRIAL OF M'CRAY
Prosecution Of Indiana Executive
Places His Predecessor
on Stand.
tBy the Associated Press.

rBy the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 81
flames p. Goodrich, former Governor
of Indiana, today appeared as a wit
ness against Warren T. McCray, pres
cnt governor, at the latters trial ON
q charge of embezzling $155.000 from
rhe state board of agriculture. Good
rich temporarily displaced I. Newt
brown, former secretary-treasurer of
fhe agricultural board, as a witness.
The former governor has been
prominent in connection with Nc
Cray's financial collapse, having been
"A leading figure in a pool that
raised $350,001 several months ago
10 enable McCray to meet obligations
described as pressing"
AJoseph b. Healing, republican ma
ffonaI committeeman from Indiana,
has testified that at conference of
repubIican leaders Goodrich told
.McCray he had violated every law
pn the statute books"
Evening star., 1924-03-31
ATTACK ON MELLON
IN L|MP|NG START
Democrats Divided as to
Wisdom of Questioning
Right to Hold Office.

The campaign to drive. Secretary
Mellon out of the cabinet got away to
a limping start today in the Senate.
No sooner had the resolution ques-
tioning Mr. Melons legal qualifica-
tions come up for debate than the re-
publican organization directed a Wig
orous fire against it, while demo-
cratic chieftains went into a series of
conferences on the wisdom of recog-
nizing the resolution as a party
measure.
Robinson I'm Disclaimer.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, re-
turning to Washington after an alb
sence OF several days, Immediately
disclaimed responsibility for the move
to have the Secretary of the Treas
ury's business connections inquired
into, initiated last Friday by Senator
Mckellar. democrat, Tennessee.
There plainly was a difference of
opinion among the democrats as to
the expediency of keeping the Nickel
lar resolution ahead of pressing legis-
lation as a subject of Senate discus
resolution had been introduced with
out his knowledge, quickly canvassed
sentiment on the democratic side,
while Senator Reed. republican, Penn
sylvania, was telling the Senate that
Mr.. Mellon had assumed office after
he had been assured by the late
Philander C. Knox and other legal
authorities that there was no barrier.
The new offensive in the Senate
was resumed today while the COM
mittee Investigating the internal
revenue bureau resumed its examin-
alton of the tax records of Mellon
companies"
The committee Thursday called for
definite figures on lessee depletion"
and other allowances granted the Gulf
Oil Corporation. one of the Mellon
companies" in it's tax cases for 1917.
1918 and 1919, and this information
was promised for today by bureau
officials. The cases brought the cor
poration credits totaling s5,775,000
for net excessive payments" The
bureaus records of the matter were
tee, in charge Of Nelson T. Harrison,
solicitor of the bureau. and S. M.
Greenadge, an official, under oath as
custodians.
Mckellar Rushes Inquiry.
Senator McKellar, democrat Ten
nessee, meanwhile was prepared to
press for action on the resolution he
introduced Friday calling for an in
vestigation by special committee
of Mr.. Melons legal qualifications to
ator Wadsworth, republican. New
York, blocked consideration of the
propose, Friday, and it went over
until today under the rules. No dis
position was shown by republican
leaders, however, to oppose adoption
of the resolution.
The resolution reviews testimony
before the committee investigating
companies in which Secretary Mellon
is interested and cites statutes pro-
hibiting fiscal agents of the govern
nent from maintaining commercial
connections.
Senator Reed, republican, Pennsyl-
vania, informed the Senate today that
the legal questions raised by the reso-
luton had been considered fully be-
fore Mr.. Mellon accepted the cabinet
post
Was Advised on Point.
Mr. Mellon had been-a advised of the
old statute prohibiting a Treasury
Secretary from engaging in trade or
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Evening star., 1924-03-31
RESOLUTION ASKING
ROOSEVELT TO QUIT
PRESENTED BY DILL
Assistant Navy Secretary Is
Called More CuIpabIe
Than DENLY.
USE OF MARINES TO AID
SINCLAIR, ONE CHARGE
Subpoena Servers Fail to Locate
Ex-Head of Republican Finance
Committee.

Demand for removal from office of
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy, was renewed in the
Senate today by Senator Dill, demo
crat, Washington
Declaring the assistant secretary
was far more culpable than was his
superior, Secretary DENLY. in the
leasing of the naval oil reserves, the
Washington senator introduced
resolution declaring it to be the sense
Of the Senate that President Coolidge
should call for his resignation.
Was Sinclair Director.
The resolution charges Mr.. Roose-
welt with having been a director OF
the Sinclair Oil Company previous TO
entering the government service, and
stresses that he ordered marines to
Dome reserve.
The text of Senator DilTs resolu-
tion follows:
Whereas Theodore Roosevelt, the
assistant secretary of the Navy, was
director of the Sinclair Oil Com
pany previous to his entrance into the
government service;
Whereas as assistant secretary OF
the Navy he personally carried the
executive order TO the White House
for the President TO sign, which
order transferred the control of the
naval oil reserves from the Secretary
of the Navy to the Secretary of the
Interior; and
Ordered Marines to Teapot.
Whereas. on July %, 1922. MI
Roosevelt, then the acting Secretary
of the Navy in the absence of Secre
tary DENLY. ordered the United States
Marines to remove all oil claimants
from the naval reSer rye No. 5. and
thereby made an outrageous use o.
the armed forces of the United States
government to perform acts which
should have been performed only BY
civil officers on the order of a. court.
after due hearing OF all of the facts
in the case,
Now, therefore, be it resolved, It
is the sense of the Senate that the
President should be and he is hereby
requested to ask for the resignation
of Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt as as
sistant secretary of the Navy
Recently Mr.. Roosevelt was severe
ly criticized before the oil committee
by Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon
tana, the committee prosecutor, and
several democratic senators have de-
clared on the Senate floor that the
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Evening star., 1924-03-31
Bya staff Correspondent.

~ StoH SOrreSpOnQeAt-
CUMBERLAND, Md, March 31.-Iso-
lated from the outside world by a
wall of water, which hens it in on
the west. east, north and south, Cum
berland today set itself to the task of
salyaging its business section and
parts of its residential section. in
undated Saturday and part of yester-
day by a torrential overflow of Wills
creek and the Potomac river.
While it will be impossible for
many days to ascertain the extent Of
the property damage suffered by resi-
dents of Cumberland and those living
in adjacent towns flooded by the tur-
bid waters of the Potomac, leading
business men and city officials agreed
that $s.0oo.o00 would be a conserve
tive estimate of the damage done.
Hemmed in on the west by the Po-
tomac, rushing with mighty force
south and east. swelIed by melting
Evening star., 1924-03-31
Airmen Go On Strike for Pay Raise
In British LOng-Distance Mail Flights

gate pay in some cases to $3.50. The
new combine, the Imperial Air Trans
port Company, which is just taking
over the air mail services, proposes
to pay f100 yearly to some of the
airmen and f200 to others as their
regular pay. with 2 pence per mile
flying money.
The men consider these rates in
sufficient None Of the long-distance
airplanes left the airdrome at Croy-
the continent, and the ban has been
extended also to machines which
could get out and back again during
the day.
Evening star., 1924-03-31

DETROIT, Mich, March 31-Four
armed bandits who held up the West
Fort Street branch of the Common
wealth Federal Savings Bank at
noon today held two employees and
a customer at bay while they SCOOP
ed up all the money in sight and es-
capped in an automobile.
The amount taken was estimated
at SIS, ,0e0.
Evening star., 1924-03-31
PASTOR SPURNS PURSE.
Offering Made by Hooded Men Dur.
ing Farewell Sermon.

COLD SPRINGS, N. Y, March 81
Rev. Jonas Inman, pastor of the
Methodist church in this village. re-
fused to accept a purse of money
last night from band of white
robed and hooded men who entered
the church while the minister was
preaching. his farewell sermon
In explaining today. he said he had
no desire to accept any favor from
persons who went about in disguise.
Evening star., 1924-03-31
DIES VAINLY FOR TWO.
Hospital Attendant and Two Pa.
tients Perish in Fire.

NEGAUNEE, Mich, March 31.-
Three persons were killed when fire,
believed caused by defective
chimney, last night destroyed the
Negaunee Hospital.
Alex. Martinson, twenty-one, night
orderly, gave his life in vainly try
ing to save Mrs. Richard Sjolund,
forty five, mother of eight children,
and Jack Eddy, ffty-three, pioneer
resident of Negaunee.
Evening star., 1924-03-31
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CROYDON, England, March 31.-An
unprecedented strike was begun here
today--a strike Of the airmen in the
service of the concern which carries
the British air mails-when the pilots
and mechanics connected with long
distance flights ceased their work be-
cause of a dispute with the new air
combine regarding rates of pay.
:. At present the pilbts receive f450
to ESQ yearly, with flying pay Of 10
shillings hourly. bringing the aggre-
Evening star., 1924-03-31
SEARCH ARIZONA DESERT
FOR MAN LOST IS DAYS
Parties Go Fifty Miles Into Sand
Wastes After Hat and
Coat Are Found.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz-, March 81
Searching parties have gone into the
desert fifty miles west of here in an
effort to find Will C. Wills, a tele-
man last was seen trudging through
the sand is twenty-five miles from
food. ten miles from the nearest
water in tho desert country seldom
visited.
His hat and coat were found yes
terday two miles from where, on March
16. he leaped from an automobile car
rying a party of friends.