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Evening star., 1925-01-22
STR ANGELY RECEIPTED BILLS
FURNISH SHIVERS TO TONCMAN
Chinese Gangsters Reveal Unusual Belief That En-
emy Slain With Debts Unpaid Brings Mis-
fortune to SIdyers Kin.

suspected killer of Chinese whose
life has been taken while he still
owed money. Further disasters of
the kind. must be prevented by debts
being cared for.
Secrecy Guards Names.
Great secrecy guards the names of
the Chinese whose debts have been
secretely paid.
'I know of two men who perhaps
are marked for DEATH" one big mer-
chant admitted. There may be more.
Who knows?
Il do not know their names" he in
sisted. II do not know that these
are mark ed for death. I only know
the Hip Sing and On Leong tongs de-
cided a day or two ago not to kill any
one who would leave debts behind
him. 1t would bring vengeance on
the tong. And it is mysterious when
a mans debts are paid by some one
who does not send card calling for
thanks, at any rate"
Comparative peace had been thought
to have descended upon New York s
Chinatown. Where the feuds ragged
hot in the late Fall, with many
deaths each day, there have been few
Killings in the past few weeks
state of Calm Reached.
The tong war had reached such a
state of calm that an aVowed Or
Leong dared venture into Hip Sing
territory, which has not been done
for years. An aspiring traveller had
only to send word by a child to the
Hip Sings that he wished to visit ir
their neighborhood and they said he
could go in safely. If they said he
could, he knew they would keep their
word, and he ventured forth without
fear.
Then came the council meeting a.
which the On Leongs decided thai
trouble had come to the family o,
one OF their members because tht
tong had killed in warfare a Hill
Sing whose debts were not receipted
In the future, all debts would be paic
by the attacking tong before the at
tack. Then the Hip Sings, it is said
made the same decision. Already
within a day or two. two men, wht
had bought on credit, find they ow'
no money.
Things may be preparing to happeI
in the little district around Doyers
Peu and Mott streets, known al
Chinatown. They may not. The mex
few days or weeks will tell.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
TAXRECE|PTSFALL
BELOW ESTIMATES
First Six Months of Fiscal
Year Show Collections
Short.

For the first six months of the
present fiscal year Federal tax re-
ceipts have fallen 50 far below the
preliminary estimate that 1t is now
anticipated that the entire year may
be considerably short of original
Treasury estimates.
Income tax receipts amounted to
$7S0,611,221 in the six months from
July / to December 81, it was re-
vealed in Treasury figures, whereas
the preliminary estimate had con-
templated $S25, 100000 or more.
Miscellaneous Items Increase.
Miscellaneous taxes produced S451t-
600, 900 against an estimate of about
S426OOO, 600 The March and June in
come tax .installments- may serve to
bolster up the total receipts for the
year from that source, but 1t was said
miscellaneous receipts are due to de-
crease ~ in the same period.
AS compared with receipts from the
corresponding six months in 1928, the
total collections fell off something
over $1OS,0O0, 900. This decrease came
through a drop in iacome taxes of
S+O.64S.330 and reduction in re-
ceipts from miscellaneous sources OF
S67,4S5, 5,306 1t was explained, how
e.
considered in the light of the changes
in rates, and the decrease, on that
basis. is regarded as not so serious
as il appears.
As result of the rate changes
there were few notable increases in
specific tax sources during the six
months The principal increase dis
closed by the Treasury's report was
in the collections on tobacco, which
paid $171,661, ,049 into the Treasury
in the period, an increase of $9,022,00O
over the corresponding figure for 1928
and a substantial increase over the
first six months of 1924.
The return from admission taxes
which were changed considerably IN
the last revenue bill, was cut in hall
in the last six months of 1924, when
the total was S17,652,235, as COM
pared with the same period in the
previous year. in which $3.50, 73s
was collected.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
BRITAIN SINKS WARSHIP,
OBEYiNG ARMS TREATY
Old Fighter Monarch Sent to Bot
tom of Atlantic, Shattered by
Bombs and Shells.
Rr the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, England. January %.
The warships which were sent out to
sea last Monday to execute the bat
tleship Monarch in accordance with
the verdict of the Washington arms
treaty returned to port yesterday.
leaving the old fighter at the bottom
of the Atlantic to convince "Davy
Jones" that Great Britain had OBJ
served the treaty.
The battleship first underwent a
fierce bombing from airplanes.
Then 6-inch guns from the cruisers
poured shells into her sides and she
finally was sunk by the long range fie
of the l5-inch guns of the battleships.
1t is said the Monarch was shattered
from stem to stern before she took
her final plunge beneath the waves
Evening star., 1925-01-22
MERCHANT BODY
FOUND IN BASIN
Joseph A. FineIIi, Missing Six
Weeks, Believed to Have
Committed Suicide.

The body of Joseph A Finelli. for
mer Georgetown delicatessen proprie-
tor and prominent Shriner and Mason
here, who had not been heard from
since he left the dinner table at his
brothers home last December TO
take a walk" was found floating in
the Tidal Basin yesterday afternoon
by two boys fishing.
The boys. AL SeigeI of 3OS Thir-
teenth street southwest, and Leslie
Van Horn of 1857 D street southwest
thinking the object to be a log, hook
ed 1T with their fishing line anC
brought It close enough to the sea
wall near the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing to recognize it as a hu-
man body. Seigel notified the police
and a crew from the harbor precinc'
Communicated a rowboat from the bath
ing beach and brought it to shore.
Headquarters Detective Charlie.
Mullen and Howard Nermillion found
a Shriner's pin in the coat lapel anc
a small note book in the vest pocket
in which was penCiled the name
Leonard Finelli, 1881 X street
| Leonard Finelli is the brother whc
was acting as the missing mans hos
at the time of his strange disap
pearance.
Frank GhiselE, vice president ot
| the Merchants Bank and Trust Co.
and Leonard FinelN, brother of tn,
dead man, had taken an active inter,
| est in the search instituted for tn.
merchant at the time Of his disap
| pearance, and both were satisfied
with Coroner NeVitt's conclusion tina
| the case was one of suicide
Mr.. Ghiselli said that Finelli had beer
extremely worried about his bushes!
| affairs and had come to him for advice
about opening up a store at his mother.
| home, in Bangor. Pa. He had sold hi.
! business on Wisconsin avenue TO a com,
| petitor some time before. Mr.. Ghisell
said his friend had no real reason Il
worry about financial or business af
! fairs, as he was well off"
Fineli was a member of Alma
| Temple, of National Lodge, No. IL
| F. a. A NJ, and of the Commandery
| He belonged TO several Italian Masonic
! associations also.
Several weeks before his disappear.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
PEACE HELD NEAR
IN HARD COAL AREA
Danger of General Strike
Averted When Movement
Fails of Support.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILK ES- BARRE, Pa January %
Peace in the upper anthracite field,
where for two months the hard coal
output has been seriously curtailed
by the strike of 1900 miners of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company and
where threats of a general walk out
of the $4,000 workers have been made,
was believed today by officials of the
United Mine Workers TO be near at
hand.
Danger of a general strike in SYM
pathy with the Pennsylyania men,
for the present at least, has been
averted, the general grievance COM
mittee, representing the men of dis
trict No. l, having decided at meet
ing last night not TO take district
wide strike vote. The meeting was
called expressly for that purpose, but
it was said by union officials that the
grievance committee realized the
proposition would be defeated and
decided not to present it. 1t was re-
ported that 80 per cent of the local
unions in the district We're opposed
to a general strike order.
Early Settlement PrecaSt.
Leaders of the miners organization
today predicted an early settlement
of the Pennsylvania Co.'S waikout
and resumption of operations
throughout the district. They based
their optimism ON a peace proposal
submitted by the executive committee
of the general grievance committee.
which they declared was the most
encouraging sign since the strike be-
came effective November 25.
The plan provides that the revoked
charters of the locals be restored
with all rights and privileges and
that no discrimination be shown
against the strikers
Neal ]. Ferry, chairman of the in
ternational commission, said this
meeting probably would be held today
or tomorrow in Scranton. In addition
TO members of the commission, it is
TO be attended by the executive COM
mittee, composed of two men from
the general grievance committees Of
the Lehigh Valley. Lehigh and
Wilkes Barre. Hudson and Glen Alden
Coal Companies, and by a subcom-
mittee Of the Pennsylvania general
grievance committee. made up of the
presidents of the 10 striking local
unions. The general grievance COM
mittee will meet here Saturday night
to receive reports of the conference
with the international commission.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
FARM RELIEF BILL,
BEATEN, IS REVIVED
McNary Haugen Measure
Modified to Meet 0bjec-
tionS, Sponsors Say.

The American Council of Agricul-
ture is endeavoring to obtain indorse-
ment by the farm group in Congress
and early enactment of modified
McNary- -Haugen farm relief measure,
sponsored by the organization.
Representatives of the council pre-
sented arguments in favor of the
modified bill at a joint meeting last
night of the Senate and House agri-
culture committees, after appearing
in it's support before the Presidents
agricultural commission.
Hearing of the councils spokes-
men by the committees was in line
with a plan on the part of the con
gressfonal farm group TO get behind
some farm relief bill in the hope that
1T can be passed at hhis session No
decision was reached last night as to
what attitude should be taken on the
councils bill.
Objections Are Met.
The committee was told that the
bill, while following the general lines
Of the original McNary- Haugen meas
ure, which was defeated in the House
al the last session, contained none of
what were considered the main OBJ
jectionable features of that measure
Not only will the tariff law not he
witnesses Contended, but the price
ratio provisions of the first bill,
which provoked the chief Opposition
as a price-fixing scheme, have been
! stricken out
! A farm export corporation would be-
/ organized and financed by an advance
OF $50,00O.000 from the War Finance
| Corporation, to be reimbursed by com
mission charges for handling farm
| commodities. The purpose of the bill
| would be to divert surplus American
| farm products into the foreign trade
| at prices profitable to the producers
| The witnesses declared the emer-
gency in agriculture had not passed,
and unless some aid is given more
| farmers will be driven to the cities
TO the detriment of agriculture, indus
| try and the country generally.
Cite Farmers Ills.
All of the farm spokesmen agreed
| that the farmers difficulty was due u
an economic situation compelling the
farmer to buy in a high protected
market and sell in a low world mar
ket." They declared the best way tc
| solve the problem was to bring agri-
| culture into the protected circle witt
industry and labor" and then gradu-
ally lower the protection.
The council was represented bl
George y. Peek, its president; Franz
w. Murphy, chairman Of the council,
executive committee; Charles +
Hearst president Of the Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation; William Hirth o
| the Missouri Farmers Association; :
II. Thompson, presid ent Of the Illinois
Agricultural Association, and John q
Brown, president of the National Liv,
Stock Producers Association.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
Rockefeller Car
Stalls for Gas.
Then Is ir, Crash

The fact that Mrs. John d. Rookie
feller, tr. has millions of gallons
of gasoline at her disposal, did not
prevent the automobile in which she
was riding on Pennsylvania avenue
last night, from registering a dry
tank as ii reached Eleventh street.
Mrs. Rockefeller, who was return
ing to Grace Dodge Hotel from the
conference on the cause and cure
of war, left the machine and pro-
Ceeded to the hotel in taXicab.
d After obtaining fuel the car,
driven by Mrs. Isabel Brown, the
police say. collided with an auto
mobile operated by c. Fl. Alexander
of BalIston, Va, on the Avenue be-
tween. Ninth and Tenth streets.
Mrs. Walton Reed of. 1929 Al street,
occupant of the latter machine,
was injured about the head and
face and was taken to Emergency
Hospital.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
Rr Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press g,
NEW YORK, January 22-The post
man makes few stops in Doyers, Pell
and Mott streets, those crooked thor
oughfares that are the center of New
York's Chinatown. In the old days
his infrequent comings were hailed
with bland satisfaction, for they
meant, usually, a letter in scrawly
hieroglyphtcs from some loved one in
faraway China. Yesterday as he worked
along his route he was watched ap-
prehensively by, hundred pairs. of
almond eyes. The watchers feared
he might leave receipt for all their
unpaid bills-and there is nothing
that Chinatown. torn with tong war
fare, breads as it, breads an unex-
pected receipt. For the words Paid
death in Chinatown.
This little Innovation, introduced
a day or two ago into the blood feud
of the Celestials, means simply that
If a Chinaman is notified his debts
have been paid, the rival tong lis
itching for his scalp. And so. today
at least, two Chisese sit shivering In
their homes and shops dreading what
each minute may bring forth-for the
mail already has brought them re-
ceipts for all their bills.
Mystery fn Payments.
The benevolence of some unknown
friend, family pride or the mark OF
death may have been behind the un-
expected settlement of these two
mems debts, news of which has
spread through the Chinese colony
The first is unlikely. The world Is
not made that way. The second is
possible, for the Chinaman has a hor-
ror of sin youin," or debt. and would
pay relatives bills rather than have
the family name dishonored.
But the last is the likely idea
considering the council meetings held
few days back by the Hip Sing
and On Leong tongs,. at which 1t was
decided, so they say, that the bills
of any Chinaman to be murdered
must be taken care of first. and re-
ceipts sent to him.. And besides
that is the logical deduction from the
fact that it is said the most recent
of the tong war victims received re-
ceipts for their bills before they died
The explanation of the scheme is
simple. Priyation. hunger and cold
and general misfortune habitually
visit the family of the ever-so-little
Evening star., 1925-01-22
Rosa Ponselle Ill.

NEW LONDON. Conn, January 22-
Rosa Ponselle, the opera singer, was
taken i'll yesterday on the train from
Worcester to New London, and was
attended by a physician upon her ar
rival here. 1t was stated that she
was suffering from stomach trouble.
All her concert engagements were
Cancelled for the present.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
ELECTRICAL BODY
TO CONVENE HERE
Leaders in Industry to Hear
Hoover Speak Tomorrow
Night.

Several hundred delegates promi-
nent in the electrical industry Will
gather in Washington tomorrow for
the two-day regional meeting of
Geographical District, No. 2, Amert-
can Institute of Electrical Engineers,
to be held at the Washington Hotel.
Among the speakers will be Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover, who will
address the Friday evening dinner
meeting. =
Technical papers will be presented
by engineers of note, dealing with
some of the vital problems confront
ing the electrical world today, includ-
ing power factor correction, lightning
protection, interconnection with fire.
quency conYerters, artificial trans
mission systems, thermal constants of
machines and electrical insulation.
Program Announced.
The meeting will open tomorrow
morning with registration of dele
gates at $40, to be followed by the
program opening at 10 o'clock. Speak
ers will be II. II. Spencer and H. l..
Hazen OF the Massachusetts, Institute
of Techn ology and DR.. Joseph Stephan
of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Co.
At the afternoon session Dr. A. f.
Kennedy of Harvard University and
NJ 1. T. and DR.. J. b. Whitehead of
Johns Hopkins University viii ad-
dress the meeting.
In addition to Secretary Hoover,
speakers at thef dinner meeting to-
morrow night include Brig. Gen. Will
liam Mitchell of the Air Service and
Farley Osgood, president of the Amer
lean Institute of Electrical Engineers.
The meeting is under the auspices
of the Washington Section of the
institute of which J. II. Ferry, cleo
trical engineer of the Potomac Elec-
ric Power Company, is chairman, and
F. r. Mueller of the Bliss Electrical
School is secretary
Delegates To Our City.
There will be another session Sat
urday morning, and sightseeing trips
Saturday afternoon. Among the
places of engineering interest expect
ed to be visited viii be Bureau OF
Standards, stations of the Potomac
Electric Power Co, the Washington
Terminal Co, the Capital Traction
Co, exchanges of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co, and others.
During a pilgrimage to Mt. Vernon
Saturday wreath will be laid on the
Washington tomb.
For the ladies expected to accom-
| pany- delegates TO the gathering lHtTt
wIll be a bridge party Friday after
noon at the City Club at o'clock.
The local committees in charge OF
arrangements for the regional meet
| ing consists of:
Program-A. r. Cheyney, chairman
f. C. Crittenden, j. F. Meyer, l.. d
Bliss, T. ]. McKavanaugh. y. b. Ames
A. Robinson. Hotel and hall-EdwarG
Kerschner, chairman; r. H. Dalgleish
/ r. Whitehurst. Finance-A. F. E
Horn, chairman; f. F..Mueller. Trans
portation-T. F.. Foltz, chairman. En-
| tertainment-J. H. Finney. chairman
IC E. Hawley, J. II. Hanna, II. NJ
| Southgate, F. r. Weller, l. F. Sin
| clair. Trips-L- NJ. Evans, chairman
H e. Stabler, r. II. Hamilton
| Publicity-R. z. Parrott. chairman.
| If none took and none gave of
l Tense good will would reign.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
Oil Man to Make
Journey to Prison
In Dra,Uing Room,

By the Associated Press
TExARKANA, Ark, January %,
Roy A. j. (Jimmy) Cox, oil pro-
moter, announced yesterday that
he plans TO make the trip to the
Federal penitentiary in Leaven-
worth, to begin serving a three
year term on mail fraud charges,
in real style.
Cox made reservations OF. a draw
ing room on a train.
When I get my doctor bills and
other expenses paid, / won't have
much money left, anyway" he
said, so / might as well travel to
Jail In comfort, and when l get to
Leavenworth l am going to hire a
taxicab. If it takes my last $40,
and ride right TO the prison gates.
Evening star., 1925-01-22
ASSAILS OYSTER SCARE.
Fisheries Body Head Denies BIZ
valves Cause Disease.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, January %.
Adverse publicity given the oyster
industry has temporarily killed the
industry" according to +. u. FAINT,
president OF the United States Fish
cries Association, who issued A state
ment on conditions in which he
charged that statements TO the effect
that oysters carry typhoid fever
germs have been unsubstantiated.
THE majority of oysters are eaten
in seacoast cities, and, as statistics
show, there is not a case of typhoid
fever in Baltimore. Norfolk and other
large seacoast cities located right
at the oyster beds" he said.
The brewery that claims to have
made Milwaukee famous is now for
Evening star., 1925-01-22
2 MEET DEATH IN PLANE.
Flyer and Rigger Are Victims.
Two Others Hurt.

PENSACOLA, Fla, January &c,
F. Linville, aviation pilot, and Harvey
Maxwell Young, aviation rigger,
We're killed. and A V. Rowland and
A. w. Mccall injured yesterday, when
a naval airplane crashed in Escana.
bia Bay, six miles from Pensacola.
Linville's home address was given
as Berkeley, Calf, where his parents
live, but his wife is here. Young 5
wife lives at Montgomery, Ala, and
his mother at Zama, Miss
San Francisco possesses the only
municipal tennis stadium in America
Evening star., 1925-01-22

ance F'ineIli visited his mother and
sister in Bangor, and both mother
and sister Will attend the funeral
tomorrow afternoon. Funeral serv-
ices Will be conducted at Gawlers $
undertaking establishment, and in
terment Will be in Rock Creek Gene
terry.
Finellis wife died about eight years
ago. The local authorities were told
that his father ended his life in the
water in Italy a number of years ago
Evening star., 1925-01-22
ENGINEERS ELECT.
Man Who Never Took School
Course Named Leader.

NEW YORK, January 22.-Robert
Ridgway. who learned the engineer
ing profession as chairman, rod
man and instrument runner and who
never took an engineering school 9
course. Sas elected president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
yesterday at the annual meeting, at
which Secretary Of Commerce Hooy-
er was elected an honorary member.
Ridgway is chief engineer of the
board OF transportation of New Cork
City. He was born in Brooklyn in
1862. Twenty years later he started
his engineering career as chairman
along the line of the Northern Pa
cifiic Railroad in Montana. He never
attended an engineering school.
Forty-one women are now eig BILE
4. la L., In Irif a
Evening star., 1925-01-22

If none took and none gave Of
fense good will would reign.
Evening star., 1925-01-22

Forty-one women are now eligible
to practice law In Great Britain.
Evening star., 1925-01-22

Grom the $50 Edition of Yesterday. STAR
Evening star., 1925-01-09
COAL BY-PR0DUCTS TOPIC
Further Developments Urged by
r. S. Mcbride, Local Chemist.

The nation whose chemists find
further developments for the uses OF
the by-products of coal will survive
all others, r. S. Mcbride, Washing
ton chemist, declared last night at
meeting OF the Chemical Society of
Washington. held In the Cosmos Club
Coal" Mr.. Mcbride said, was a
highly developed vegetable substance,
which was formed some lac, O,O0O.0 900
years ago. Used at the rate of TO-
000, 900, 900 tons annually, there Is still
enough to last for the next coo CEN
turtles. From the by-products come
dyes, ammonia. perfumes, medicines,
Creosote. benzol motor fuel and thou
sands of other products"
This field of chemical research is
great in this country" concluded Mr..
Mcbride. and the nation that makes
the most of this product will survive
the longest"
Evening star., 1925-01-09
SHIFT IN PRECINCT
CAPTAINS IN EFFECT
Further Shake-Up of Police
''for Good of Service"
Not Now Expected.

Commissioner James +. Oysters
order shifting the commanding Off
'erS OF three precincts, made as a re-
suit CT the recent grand jury report
OF allegations of i'll treatment OF per-
sons under arrest, became effective
at o'clock this morning. Captains
of the three precincts affected yester-
day afternoon arranged property
transfers to their successors. and sta
-iou clerks found it necessary to
make certain changes in their re-
ports today to meet the new condi-
CtonS.
Capt. Louis ]. Stoll. transferred
from the ninth TO the seventh pre-
cinct, goes from almost the extreme
east end of the city to the west end.
being the first time he has served in
rhc Georgetown precinct. Lieut.
charles ~ Bremmerman of the twelfth
precinct is serving as his assistant.
Other Changes Made.
Capt. Charles T. Peck. who has been
III charge of No , precinct the past
several years, having previously been
4 member of the detective corps, took
charge Of No. 8, with Lieut.. William
p. Hess as his assistant.
Capt. Thaddeus x. Bean. formerIy
~ command of No. S and later of No.
. precinct, the precinct in which sew
cral policemen were alleged to have
beaten Z. prisoner. two OF them being
indicted, succeeded Capt. Peck In
charge of the second precinct. Lieut.
Fred NJ. Cornwell. taken from No. s
precinct, will be second in command.
For the good of the service" Is the
only reason given for the changes
Maj. sullivan TO-DAY said he had no
other reason to suggest. 1t is def
nitely known, however, that the
changes were made because of the
grand jury report mentioning the
three precincts as the ones in which
housecleaning would not be harmful.
NO additional changes are Contem-
plated, Maj Sullivan stated