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Evening star., 1925-04-07
LABOR ASKS BANKS
ATTITUDE ON LOANS
|NPAY BOOST FIGHT
Queries if Money Was Denied
to Builders Granting
Wage Increases.
REPORTED REBUKED
BY REPLIES OF, SOME
Master Painters Threaten "0pen
Shop Unless Settlement
Comes This Afternoon.

Banks of Washington were asked
by the Central Labor Union today
to state their position regarding loan
ing of money for building enterprises
in connection with the strike OF
painters and paperhangers, which
went into effect yesterday.
The labor organization sent let
ter to these banks demanding an I'M
mediate answer" to the question: Is
your bank a party to any plan which
has for its purpose the refusal to
loan money for building enterprises
based on the amount of wages paid
to mechanics performing the labor
on same?"
Failure to receive the answer in
the next few days would result, the
letter said, in the bank being nstea
as acquiescing in the plan.
Open shop Threatened.
With the painters and paperhangers
still out, the master painters nave de-
clared that unless they return to WORK
upon the present wage scale by 80
this afternoon the entire city, as lar as
painting and paperhanginS is concerned.
will be open shop" and men VIII De
imported from other cities
The letter from the labor union to
the banks was signed by Secretary A.
NJ Rogers, and read as follows:
During the past few weeks articles
have appeared in the public press
with reference to contemplated wage
increases in the building industry. in
which IL has been stated that building
contractors have been notified by n
nanciai institutions of this city that,
in the event that they accede TO any
increases in wages above the present
scale as now being paid to building
tradesmen. that no loan would be
made for any building project calling
for increased wages.
Call for Explanation
Before taking any action on these
alleged threats on the part OF tnan-
cial institutions. we are desirous of
ascertaining whether we can place
any credence in them and for this
reason l am Instructed by the wash
ington Central Labor Union TO inquire
II your bank is a party to any plan
which has for its purpose the refusal
to loan money for building enter
prises, based on the amount of wages
paid to mechanics performing the
labor on same.
Duo 10 the aggravated situation
reports, an immediate answer to this
letter, giving us the attitude of your
bank on this question. which will
enable us to so notify our member
ship. will be much appreciated.
Failing to hear from you in the
next few days will be cause for as
suming that you acquiesce in this
plan, and we will so list your insti-
tuition
strong Replies Indicated.
One bank replied, it Is understood,
that Is would look with dis
favor upon any group of men or any
organization which would act in any
manner that would be detrimental
to the interests of the National Cap
ital. 1t is also understood that other
banks were stronger in their replies
and that some would not reply at all.
1t is possible that officials of the
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Evening star., 1925-04-07
Carrier Saratoga Is Launched;
Wilbur Sees u. S. Defense aided
Treaty Obeyed in Building 33,0OO-Ton
Aircraft Ship, Says Naual Secretary.
WiH Garry - Planes.

that right was limited by inter
national law"
From the Saratoga's $4,000 tons
displacement. her complement of ~
planes. of which 81 will be bombing
planes, or about one bombing plane
to about 1000 tons ship weight. and
her total cost of about $15.000.000,
the Secretary drew some conclusions
to what an increased air force re-
quires in Complementary carrier con-
struction.
Thus. for each bombing plane" he
said. "she will have to have more than
1000 tons of displacement, costing
over a million dollars. AS an Illus
tration of how these facts may be
overlooked, in a recent examination
of a retired naval officer before a con-
gressional committee. he was asked
Would you rather have a $45.008,000
battleship or thousand bombing
planes? The questioner undoubtedly
assumed that a bombing plane cost
$4,000, and you could build a thou
sand of them for the cost of a battle
ship. but the admiral may have made
a calculation something like this:
1T takes a thousand tons of an
aircraft carrier costing a thousand
dollars a ton to carry one bombing
plane: to carry thousand bombing
planes would require a million tons
of shipping. This would be almost
equal to the combined tonnage Of
Great Britain and America in capital
ships under the treaty for the limi-
tation of armament. 1t would re-
quire, in addition to the 1876, 900 air
craft tonnage authorized by the
treaty, Sc aircraft carriers of 10000
each.
Thus, to take care of 1000 bomb
ing planes we would have to add 81
aicrraft carriers TO the Navy
THE addition of 90 aircraft carriers
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Evening star., 1925-04-07
PACKER DEFENSE HEARD.
Arguments for Merger Are Before
Jardine Today.

Arguments for the defense of the
validity of the purchase by Armour
& Co. of the business of Morris & Co.,
meat packers, was brought to the at
tention today of Secretary Jardine,
who Is to decide whether the merger
violated the packers and stockyards'
act.
Counsel for the two packing concerns
prepared an analysis of the testimony
of several hundred witnesses taken in
preliminary hearings in Kansas City
and other meat-packing centers.
At the. opening of the hearing yes
terday, Government counsel urged
Secretary Jardin to issue a rule
against the merger and allow the
courts to decide the question.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
BY the Associated Press.

Bv the Assoc ated Prees.
CAMDEN, n. j., April speaking
at the launching of the aircraft car
rier Saratoga here today, Secretary
Wilbur declared that the ship rs not
only a concrete evidence of the effect
of the agreement limiting naval arm
ament. but is also concrete evidence
OF the fact that at the Washington
conference the question of aircraft
was under consideration and that one
of the methods adopted for limiting
the effect Of aircraft in transocesnic
warfare was by limiting the size and
number Of aircraft carriers
The Saratoga, he added. "is signifi-
cant because 1t is concrete evidence
OF the existence and purpose and ef-
feet of the agreement for the limita-
tion of naval armament, and also be-
cause OF It's scientific equipment.
Embodies Best Ideas.
The mortal mind" he declared,
has conceived and put into execution
nothing which embodies more of the
accumulation of human knowledge
than the vessel being launched today
Speaking of the historical singifi-
canoe Of the event and mentioning the
ships of that name which have pre-
ceded her in the American Navy, the
Secretary mentioned particularly the
Saratoga which participated in the
War of 1872, which was to determine e
whether or not there should be free
men and free ships upon the inter-
national highways" and added:
incidentally 1T may be noted that
our participation in the World War
was also the result of a firm con-
viction on our part that this Nation
had a right to the free and unre-
stricted use of the high seas for
transportation of commerce except as
Evening star., 1925-04-07
CHARGE
TRIAL TOMORROW
Business Bureau Accused of
Unlawful Demand on Per-
sons Seeking Employment.

The case against John D. Kendall
president of the Washington Business
Bureau. by which the corporation
counsels Office hopes to test the
scope of the law fixing the rates en-
ployment agents may charge job
seekers for placing them in positions
will be tried before Judge Gus a
Schuldt, in Police Court, at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Although four counts are charged
against Mr. Kendall, only two will
be brought up at this time. They al
lege that he violated the law BY
charging a young woman a fee oi
more than 81 for finding employment
for her, and that he failed to print
on the reverse side of his receipts
that section of the statute fixing the
fees.
Counts Held In Abeyance.-
The two counts that are to be held
in allegiance" according to Assistant
Corporation Counsel Thomas. alleged
that he sent another jobseeker to z
position that had already been filled
and that he operated without proper
license Mr.. Kendall took out a
license in his own name, but the
corporation counsels office believed
il would not also cover the operations
Of the Washington Business Bureau
Mr. Thomas announced today thai
no witnesses will be called in the
trial tomorrow. Mr.. kendalIs at
torneys, the assistant corporation
counsel said. had admitted the prem
ises of the arrest and would let the
case stand on whether the law under
which the defendant is accused ap'
plies to all laborers or only to com
mon laborers and domestics.
Under this plan the prosecutor anc
the lawyers for the defense vii
simply argue the meaning of the law
before Judge Schuldt and ask him tc
give an opinion. Should the cour'
decide against the employment agent
it is considered certain that a higher
court will be asked to make d ruling
on the verdict.
Many of the larger employment
agencies in Washington are support
ing Mr. Kendall in the fight and 2
meeting was held recently to or
ganize them for the battle in the
courts that is anticipated. An ad-
verse decision, it is considered, would
affect all employment agencies II
Washington, of which there are more
than a score, and they are prepared
10 stand solidly behind their inter
probation of the statute.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
FOUR FLYERS HERE
MAY Go TO POLE
Volunteer With 80 Others to
Accompany Macmillan
Expedition.

Three Navy ,airplane pilots and an
enlisted man on duty here are among
the 4s Naval and Marine Corps Of
ficers who have volunteered to fly
the two airplanes that will accom-
pany the Macmillan Arctic expedition
to be made under the auspices of the
National Geographic Society. They
are:
Lieut.. H. F. Councill and Lieut..
Ben. r. Holcombe of the Bureau of
Aeronautics and Lieut.. G. T. Owens
of the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa, and Aviation Chief Machinist's s
Mate NJ. P. Soinsen. also of the sta
tion.
Lieut. Frederick w. Nelson, re-
Gently transferred from Washington
after a four-year duty here, also vol
unteered for the trip.
Tho pilots and mechanics VIII be
selected from the volunteer Est in
the near future.
VIII Fly From Etak.
The complete list of volunteers en-
bodies officers and men from virtual
ly every naval station and fleet air.
craft organization.
The expedition on which these men
are anxious to go will begin about
June Is and will proceed northward
from Labrador and Greenland to
Etah, where MacMillan's boat will
halt and then the work of the air.
craft begins. 1t Is proposed to fly to
Axel Heiberg Land, several miles to
the west where an aviation base will
be established, from which the planes
will operate over unknown territory.
The planes to be used are known as
Looming amphibians, a craft recently
developed by Grover Looming after
several years of secret study and re-
search. The first one built recently
was tested at Boiling Field, where 1t
landed on the ground and in the
Potomac River with equal facility.
The amphibian is fitted with an in
verted 400 horsepower Liberty en-
CINE. It weighs $500 pounds empty,
and carries a load of $500 pounds,
including pilot, observer, cameras,
radio and $50 gallons of gasoline,
which is sufficient for flight of
more than 1000 miles. This plane
has recently demonstrated speed
of 122 miles an hour and maximum
| altitude of $4,000 feet.
Can Land Anywhere.
! 1t can be readily hoisted aboard
| a ship and launched In the water,
| and may either be moored in the
| bay or, with It's wheels down, run
| up on a beach.
| The hull is exceptionally strong.
entirely covered with metal and so
| shaped as to give 1T seaworthiness
| in the roughest water. The crew sit
| well back in the upper part of the
| body where they are protected from
| spray and in a much safer position
than has been heretofore found pos
sibIe on flying boats. Since this
type of plane can land with equal
ease on snow or hard ice by merely
CARRYING retractable skees instead OF
| retractable wheels, 1t is regarded as
an ideal plane for polar expeditions
Both the Army and Navy have or
dered several of these machines, and
a group of is is now in process OF
| delivery.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
BRIBERY AND EXTORTI0N
INDICTMENT is UPHELD
Frank T. Vermillion, Ex-Assistant
Building Inspector, Loses
Fight on Charges.

Frank r. Vermillion, former as
sistant building inspector. must stand
trial on an indictment charging ex-
tortion, bribery and soliciting a bribe
in connection with the inspection of
elevators in business houses. Justice
Hoehling in Criminal Division l to-
day refused to quash the indictment
on the plea of counsel for the ac-
cused that 1t Is too vague, complicat-
ed and indefinite.
The indictment covers Is counts,
alleging one extortion of $500, and
another Of $3.50, from John H. Miller,
owner of a building at 1923 G street.
Walter /. Evans, another former
assistant, who was jointly indicted
with Vermillion, in one case, has al
ready admitted guilt and his case is
pending before Probation Ohicer
Steele for Investigation.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associs ted Press
PARIS, April An outcry
against the installation of an
American conservatory in the
Palace of Fontainebleau is being
raised by the newspaper Presse,
which says that few weeks after
the polite. but firm, refusal of the
United States Government to ex-
hibit at the Paris Decorative Arts
Exposition the Washington au-
thorities asked for the establish
ment of an American conserva-
tory in the Louis XIV wing OF
the palace.
The newspaper emphasizes the
grave danger both from fire and
theft which the whole palace runs
from occupancy by Americans.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
COOLIDGE WILL UPHOLD
CARTER ON DISCHARGES
President Reported Satisfied G. P
o. Head Violated No Law in
Making DismisSals.

The White House in the next few
days will make public the report from
George H. Carter, Public Printer, In
which he explains reasons for recent
ly dismissing 1877 employees at the
Government Printing ONCE.
1t is stated on good authority, that
Mr.. Carters report is entirely salts
factory to the President and that the
Public Printer has in no manner tech
nically violated any law in making
these recent dismissals.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
Red Var Chief Yarns Russians
attack May Come at Any Moment

Communist officers on the Polish
border, showed that Russia must
be prepared to meet attack from
any quarter at any moment. AL
though he believed the entente
countries were too occupied with
economic affairs to engage in i'm
mediate warfare. he did not rule
out the possibility of attack from
them in the future.
THE international situation" he
said, lis such that a conflict may
arise at any moment; therefore we
must go on preparing the forces
of war"
Evening star., 1925-04-07
alliance of Russia
And Germany With
Japan Is Proposed
By the Associated Press.

HARDIN, Manchuria. April -
An alliance between Russia. ia
pan and Germany was advocated
by Viscount Shimpei Goto. a for
mer minister of foreign affairs of
Japan, in an interview upon his ar
rival here today.
Viscount Goto said the alliance
must be founded upon commercial.
not military, principles. He said
the hesitancy Of japanese indus
trials to invest capital in Russia
was hampering the exploita ton of
concessions resulting from the
Russo Japanese agreement, and
already had caused the failure of
the project to organize Russo
Japanese bank
Evening star., 1925-04-07
DIRECTORS GET LEEWAY.
Can Escape Army Service by Civil
Work.

Isy Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
OSLO, April THE cabinet today
presented a bill making refusal to
serve in the army unpunishable If
military service is in conflict with
the objectors' convictions.
The objectors, however. are COM
PEELED to do civil work in the govern
ment's service during a normal mill
tary period If they refuse they will
be considered deserters and put in the
penal workhouse
Copyright. 1925, by Chicago Daily News co.,
Evening star., 1925-04-07
Fire and Theft Menace Feared
If americans Occupy Art Palace

"All lovers OF our artistic inher-
itance," 1t says, must tremble at
the thought. While young hope
fuIs of both sexes smoke like
chimneys in the rooms fioored
with overdry planks, kitchen
stoves roar under the famous
apartments Of the Pope. The Gu
rator repeatedly has drawn at
tention to the danger, but with
out result.
LAS for the theft peril, II the
staff attendants are hardly suffi-
cient to. make the rounds when
all the gates are closed, now that
one door remains ajar night and
day the watch becomes purely
illusory.''
Evening star., 1925-04-07
Five Bandits Hold Up 200 Men.

CHICAGO. April 7.-Nearly 900
members of Local 147 of the Tailors
Union. meeting in heir hall in the
business section, were held up last
night, by Ave men armed with shot
guns and robbed of more than $1,000.
The robbers opersEed similarly to
those who obtained SEQ, 900 in money
and jewelry from 40 members of the
Showmens League at a downtown
meeting Friday.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
Rogers Widow to Run.

LOWELL, Mass, April Mrs.
Edith Nourse Rogers, widow Of Rep
resentative John Jacob Rogers,
announced today that she would be-
come a candidate for Representative
from the fifth Massachusetts, district
to succeed her husband.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 7.-Gen. Frunse,
commissar of war, warns the Rus
sian people to be prepared for
war, which he believes may come
as Unexpectedly as in 1914.
Addressing a large gathering of
supporters OF the Russian volun-
teer air fleet last night, the war
chief declared that the recent
meeting of the general STATS of
the Baltic states at Helsin gfors,
together with the murder of two
Evening star., 1925-04-07
Seeks Shortridge's Seat.

FRESNO, Calf, April 7.-Repre-
sentative Walter F. Lineberger of
Long Beach announced his candidacy
yesterday for the United States SEN
ate as successor to Senator Samuel
NJ Shortridge
Evening star., 1925-04-07
KURD REVOLT SPREADS
ACROSS PERSIAN BORDER
Teheran Government Rushes
Troops-Number of Turkish
Towns Are Looted.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Constanti
nople reports that the Kurdish insur-
rection movement has spread over the
Turco- Persian frontier. Therefore.
the dispatch says, the Teheran gov
ernment has sent troops to that To-
cality.
The Kurdish insurrection in Tur
key, which began in mid February.
has been reported from Constanti-
nople as having among it's aims the
establishment of an Independent
Kurdish state and the restoration of
the caliphate. The insurrectionists
are led by Sheik Said.
A number of towns in Turkey have
been looted by the kurds, among
them Mush, 80 miles south of Erze-
rum; Boulanik and Melazkert. They
have made determined efforts to cap
ture the important town of Diarbekr,
but unsuccessfully. Sheik Said was
reported in one dispatch to have is
sued a proclamation declaring his in
tention of making one of the late
Sultan Abdul Hamid's sons king of
kurdestan.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
Big Checks Found.

several thousand dollars in che X S
of saloon men and druggists, includ-
ing one for $4,000 from a North Sid e
drug store, were seized. Among the
papers was telephone toll bill of
s2S7 for calls to New York, Miami
and New Orleans
John Patton, former mayor of Burn
ham, a suburb, one of those arrested,
was charged by Sergt. Edward Bir-
mingham of the raiders with having
offered him $1,000 Ito forget the
bookkeeping system"
The others arrested, the police said
were underworld leaders.
Like Doctors once.
The office suite had a doctors name
on the door, and the first room en-
tered was fitted up like a physician s
reception room. Shelves were stock ed
with half pints of various brands
and kinds of liquor, available for
prospective customers to take to their
own chemists for analysis.
In the itemized account books anG
1oose-leaf ledgers, detectives said
were listed names of more than zoe
we'll known Chicagoans and many
large hotels here as patrons, custom
ers for ale, beer and liquor here and
in outlying towns, details of the
management of four large breweries
here, accounts of deliveries of car
loads of beer and liquor, and the cost
systems used in disorderly houses.
Search was made after the raid fol
the alleged heads of the syndicate
whose names, the police said, were
revealed through the records.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
UNEARTH GIGANTIC
RUM AND VICE FIRM
Chicago Dry Officers in Raid
Find Books Revealing
Enormous Business.
BY the Associated Press.

I5F me Assoclhted PreSt,
CHICAGO, April 7.-Evidence of a
liquor and vice syndicate which the
police said has been doing a business
CT millions of dollars a year was
found here yesterday in a raid on
headquarters of the organization
where eight men, alleged to be sub
ordinates, were arrested.
Records of wealthy liquor custom
ers, names OF bribed prohibition en-
forcement officers. accounts of beer
deliveries and details of the channel
whereby liquor was brought from rum
fleets off New York, Miami, Fla, and
New Orleans were confiscated The
raiders said they found an accounting
system as efficient as that of a big
business concern.
Evening star., 1925-04-07
'Fron, Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular cdi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1925-04-07

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 3.)
Evening star., 1925-04-07
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow. warmer
tonight.
Temperature--Highes ST, at noon to-
day; lowest, 80, at 6 am. today.
FUN report on page Z
Evening star., 1925-04-07

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Evening star., 1925-04-07

Mrs. J. F. Motherwell, 1905 c
street northeast, reports that at 4
pm, while in the kitchen of her
home, she was attacked by unknown
persons who grabbed her from be-
hind. blindfolded her and carried her
Imperial Valley press., 1925-04-13
BOyce Aten Post
Defeats Legion
Team at CaleXicO

a baseball team representing
Eoyce Atcn Post, American Legion,
defeated the CaleXico Legion post
in that city yesterday afternoon,
the score being } to ;.
At first it was intended to limit
the players to members of each
post, but thiH was found to be inn
possible, and each team was allow
cd to play u few ringers. -
The game was exceptionally we'll
played, going into the ninth INNING
with 4 tie at three all With three
men on bases in FL Centre s half,
Red Mitchell slammed out Il sin
.lcd, accounting for one run, and
Joe Steele, who did the hcavinS
for I'll Ccntro followed w:'n an
other single, tallying the fifth run.
CalcXico was unable to gct any
where in its half of the ninth and
the locals margins Of two runs
was sufficiently to give them victo-
~.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-04-13
HOT RACE PROMISED IN AMERICAN LEAGUE
MRS. PETERSON in
THIS CITY AGAIN
TENNIS CHAMPION

FL Centro again came to the
front in thc valley tennis to,rna-
mmt Saturday, when Mrs +. w.
Peterson of this city won the wo-
man s championship, offered by the
Calcxico Chronicle a number of
years ago, to be competed for an
nually by valley tennis player.
Mrs. Peterson had won tn" cup
in two previous years, and Satur-
day s victory gives her permanent
possession of the handsome solid
silver trophy.
In the semi finals which were
played in the morning, Mrs. Pd,-
crson defeated Mrs. Earl Robert, GO
and 6-3. In the afternoon finals
she met Miss Marion Myers, losing
the f'cs.. set G.4 and winning the
last two 6.2 and 6-3.
Although living in Pomona at
the present tima Mrs. Peterson is
II bona fidc resident of this city,
where her husband, DR.. +. W. Pet
crson has maintained an Office for
many years. Mrs. Peterson IS the
mother of three children, who are
attending school in Pomona. and
her victory over a much younger
opponent was very gratifying to
her, though she paid full tribute TO
Miss Myers skill and stated today
that the latter was apparently rat
tlcd aud did not play her usual good
game.