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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
SMO0T CONFERS
ON NEW TAX BILL
Declares. After Meeting Mel.
lon. That Only Few Minor
Changes Are Likely.

A series of conferences on the new
tax bill now before the Senate finance
committee was inaugurated today al
the Treasury Department between
Chairman Smoot of the Senate finance
committee. Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon and their advisers.
The bill. which passed the House
substantially as reported out by the
ways and means committee. will be
approved by the Senate with few
minor changes" according to Senator
his morning conference at the
Treasury.
Another session was planned for 4
o'clock this afternoon. when Senator
Smoot indicated the entire situation
regarding the bill would he reviewed
and the minor points likely TO be
taken up by the Senate will be given
special attention.
What changes the Senate commit.
tee. or the Senate itself. may make in
the House bill. Senator Smoot did not
reveal.
1t was evident. however. that the
Senator plans To go over the matters
III detail with Secretary Mellon and
his advisors before reporting out the
bill TO the Senate
The conference this morning was
attended by Senator Smoot F. Koch
ersperCer. special attorney of the
Board of Tax Appeals. now with Sen.
ator Smoot: Secretary Mellon. Under.
secretary of the Treasury Winston,
and Joseph s. Mccoy. the Government
actuary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
SHIPPERS AND CARRIERS
TO STUDY PROBLEMS
Twelve Regional Boards Will Meet
in Chicago With Railway
Representatives.

Members of the Il shippers regional
advisory boards will hold their first
meeting at Chicago January and s,
the American Railway Association an
nounced today to discuss interrelated
problems of the shippers and carriers
and oganization questions.
With the shippers representatives
will meet members of the contact COM
mittees appointed by the carriers to
cooperate with the boards. railroad
officials and members of the car
service division of the railway associa-
ton and of various state railroad COM
missions.
Economic and transportation con.
ditions in the twelve divisions. which
correspond in a general way with the
Federal Reserve district. will be con-
sidered, together with plans to make
the reports of the boards alike in form.
so that. taken together. they will give
the railroads composite picture Of
conditions that will enable them to
anticipate transportation demands.
Success of the railroads in handling
the record freight volume of 1925 was
attributed by the association in large
measure to the cooperation of ship
pers through these regional boards,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
INCREASE IN PNEUMONIA
CASES HELD NOT SERIOUS
Health Office Comments on Effects
of Cold Wave. But Says There
Is No Epidemic.

A slight increase in the number of
cases of pneumonia in the District
following the recent cold wave has
not alarmed District health authori-
ties, who pointed out most en-
phatically today that the disease has
not reached the epidemic stage.
There We're "a deaths in the Dis
trict last week from pneumonia. COM
pared with Is for the corresponding
period of last year. The total num-
Der of pneumonia cases on the Health
Department s record for the last
week was 81, compared with 90 for
the same week of 1924.
The recent cold spell would have
no tendency to increase pneumonia
cases if people were we'll wrapped
and their houses properly heated.
Health Officer William c. Fowler eX-
planned Some of the cases may have
been caused in homes where rigid
fuel economy was practiced during
the cold wave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
COUNTESS KAR0Ly|
SEEKSCOURT'S AID
Asks D. c. Supreme Court to
Force Kellogg to Admit Her
to United States.

Countess Catherine karolyi today
sought the aid OF the courts in her
fight to gain entrance to the United
States.
Through her attorneys. Curtis. Fos-
dict & Belknap of New York, she
filed in the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court a petition asking that
Secretary Kellogg be forced to in
struct the American consul at Paris
to visa her passport.
Refusal of the Secretary to issue
such instructions, she said. is arbi.
trary. wrongful, tyranniCal and ca
PRECIOUS" She said further that the
Secretary had no right under any
valid law TO decline to admit her.
The countess was excluded on the
ground that she was of communiStic
leanings. but in her petition she said
the object of her proposed visit to
the United States was Ito visit
friends and to make a definite agree
ment with my agent. Mr.. W. B.
Feakins. Times Building, New York,
for q lecture tour which | eventually
wish to undertake.
Your petitioner" she said, was
and is non-immisrant alien desir-
ing to visit the United States tenn
porarily as a tourist or temporarily
for business or pleasure. and does not
belong to any of the classes excluded
from entering the United states un-
der the immigration act of 1924
or any other act now in force"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
FLOODS IN HOLLAND
|. STOP RAIL SERVICE
ANDCOvER TOWNS
Meuse, Waal, Rhine and LEX
Still Rising-Damage Is
Very Heavy.
FRENCH CITY OF CAEN
PARTLY UNDER WATER
Life.saving Boats Taking People
From Housetops of Bel
gian Village.
By the Associated Press.


AMSTERDAM. Holland, Januay =
The floods in the valleys of the
Rivers Meuse. Waal. Rhine and Lex
have assumed the character Of a
catastrophe. with the waters still ris
ing.
Railway dykes have collapsed At
several places and others threaten to
follow. The damage is so serious tina,
considerable time must elapse after
the waters subside before railway traf.
fic can he resumed
Several villages are flooded and II
is feared others will suffer likewise,
The authorities are working day and
night to assist the population. The
town of Venlo, on the Meuse, is com
pletely flooded. Roermond, IA miles
TO the southwest. is without electric
lights, but the telephone and tele
graph services are operating, the ap
paratus having been transferred To
upper stories out of the reach of the
water.
An Arnhem dispatch TO the Tele.
graaf SAYS Queen Wilhelmina is pro
ceeding to Nymegan, on the Waal
river, in order TO inspect the immense
damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
Elephants and Dog
Run Amuck in Busy
Times Square Area
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 2.-The
escapades of four animals brought
he perils Of the wilderness 10 New
York last night when three ele-
plants and an apparently mad
wolfhound were chased through the
Times Square district and the dog
killed after a stray bullet had lodged
in a woman's fur coat.
The three pachyderms were fright
ened when a piece of scenery fell
backstage in Harlem theater.
They bolted through the stage door,
with their keeper clinsinS precari-
ously to Joe, the dogs collar. Scat
tering motorists and pedestrians.
they ran down Seventh avenue
and turned into the West 123d
street police station, taking the
front door with them. Before the
police on duty had recovered from
the shock of their sudden arrival
the elephants were gone and the
back door was splintered. They
were finally quieted.
Miss Madeline Biard, pianist,
narrowly escaped injury when the
wolfhound passed, pursued by
patrolman in taXiCab. bullet
aimed at the dog ricoCheted and
lodged in Miss Biard : coat. but she
was unhurt The dog was killed
after a chase of several blocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
DIVORCE IS SOUGHT
BY MRS. HAL|L0FF
Former Delight Potter Arnold
Sues Ex-Dancer, Who
Claimed to Be Prince.

Delight Potter Arnold. who as the
debutante daughter of Maj. and Mrs.
Davis G. Arnold was one of the most
popular members of the younger set
here a year ago. today filed suit in the
Circuit Court at Rockville, Md, fol-
annulment of her marriage TO Count
or Prince" Roufat Halilof, former
dancer at the Cafe lie Paradis.
In the bill of particulars Mrs. Hall.
loff told the court that her prince"
had wooed and won her as noble.
man and gentleman, with a good
name, a reputation for good chara cter
and the ability 20 support a wife.
scarcely had they reached New York
on their honeymoon. however, she
laid, before the princes" baggage
was seized in a beach -of-promise ac-
lion.
Later. the young bride declared, she
learned that he was only a bogus
nobeman; that he had passed a num-
Der of worthless checks in Washing.
ton, and that he was even wanted in
a number of European cities for al
legged criminal offenses.
Says He Is First Bey."
Haliloff admitted when cornered in
New York. 1t is said, that he had no
claim to representation in the Russian
nobility. In his home city. Tifiis, in
the tiny state of Georgia, the cabaret
dancer asserted. he was recognized
as a first bey." The nearest Eng
iish equivalent to that. he declared,
was prince" and as a prince he had
been accepted by social circles of
New York, Washington and other
places.
For months prior to her maria ge
to the dancer, Washington society had
been watching closely the ardent court.
ship of Martin Marshall Marston of
this city of the lovely Delight Arnold.
Consequently her union with the
prince" came as a shock and a sur
prise. The prince" it was said. first
met her when her father befriended
him when he was a helpless war
refugee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
REPORT NO CHANGES
IN STRIKE SITUATION

Hywel Davis and James T. Dewey,
commissioners of conciliation ap-
pointed by Secretary Davis to at
tend the meetings of anthra cite oper-
ators and miners in New York. re-
turned to Washington today with a
message that the situation remains
unchanged as a result of the two day
negotiations. The conference ad-
iourned yesterday to resume again
Tuesday The commissioners will
report to Secretary Davis when he
returns to the Labor Department
Monday and will leave Monday night
for New York
Although they did not care to dis
cuss some of the details of the con-
ferences which met in executive ses-
sion, the conciliators indicated that
nothing had been done on which to
base a hope for speedy termination
of the strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
Mussolini to Impose Military Training
On School Children From Eight Up

mitted to be to infuse a nationalistic.
Fascist spirit in the rising genera.
ton, with emphasis on military en-.
thusiasm. Further recruits for the
Fascist militia doubtless will be
drawn from the ballilla, while all
youths will have an incentive to Join
and work well. since good work prob
ably will entitle them TO certain ex.
emptions from military service.
The extensive and well organized
Catholic Boy Scout societies will not
be interfered with, but doubtless;
every inducement will be held out
to attract all boys to the government
organization.
This acCords with Premier Musso-
lini's announced plan to create a new
generation of strong and obedient
soldiers.
Copyright 1926. BY Chicago Daily News Co..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
FOREIGN TRADE IN 1925
SATISFACTORY FOR U. S,
Attributed Largely to Better FL
nan cial Conditions Abroad-Op-
timistic Future Is Seen.

United States trade with foreign
nations was satisfactory during 1925.
and world conditions for 1926 promise
an even better result, DIR. Julius Klein,
chief OF the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, declared today.
In new years review of the sit
uation, he pointed, among other
things, to the betterment Of European
finances, continued flow Of American
investments abroad, and the improve
ment in such manufacturing lines as
automobiles, where he noted so per
cent increase for 1925 over 1924.
The increase in American imports
during 1925 may be expected to con-
tinue, he said, since to a considerable
degree its reflects the country's inter.
nal prosperity. He analyzed the I'M
port increase as representing greater
need for raw materials and as show
ing the ability of American consum.
ers to purchase exotic foods and
fruits. At the same time he deplored
an increase in prices, some of them
for dubious cause, as in the cases of
British rubber and Brazilian coffee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
HOLDS SUICIDE OF POET
DUE TO PASSING CRAZE
Isadora Duncan Denies She Was
Estranged From Sergei
Yessinin
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAGNS, France. January lisa,
dora Duncan, the dancer, blames the
recent suicide of Sergei Yessinin to a
passing fit Of Madness" coupled with
a distaste for a materialistic world.
She denied that she was estranged
from the poet saying: He is still my
husband. I left Moscow only on ac-
count of money difficulties and always
wanted to return to Russia to work
with him. One of his last poems was
dedicated to me-'to Isadora. alone
worthy of being loved by the poet
"Yessinin despaired of life in a
world where 50 few persons cared
about art. He must have taken his
life during passing fit of madness
My consolation lies in the thought
that his poems will survive his tragic
death
Sergei Yessinin committed suicide ir
Leningrad on December %, cutting
his wrists and hanging himself. He
and Miss Duncan were married il
1922. and last year reports that tho
dancer had been granted a divorce
from Yessinin by the Soviet author
tiles in Moscow were confirmed by
members of the Duncan family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
Boy Held in Armed
Pay Roll Robbery
Attempt on Father
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AssoCla atcG Fress.
WORCESTER, Mass, January >.
Charged with holding up his
father at the point of a revolver
in an attempt to rob him of a
s4o0 pay roll intended for wages
for gang of coal shovelers at the
Boston and Albany roundhouse
last Thursday, Louis Paquette, Il,
was arraiSned today with Orlando
Guiti. l6.
They entered pleas of not guilty.
The attempted hold.up followed the
theft of an automobile presumably
Intended for use in getaway.
Police say young Paquette. who
worked on the job where his father
was foreman, confessed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
BY HIRAM X. MODERWELL.

BY Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
ROME, January 2.-Military train
ing and discipline for all Italian chill
dren from 8 years up is foreshadowed
in the cabinet decision, reached Fri
day. to place the Fascist Children's s
Society "ballilla" in charge of the
physical education of Italian youth.
While precise details of the plan
have not yet been published, it is
probable the ballilla will take
over physical instruction work in
the public schools, with compulsory
military drills, and will extend its
Boy Scout organizations TO include
as many boys as possible, and estab-
lish clubrooms for patriotic reading
and lectures. 1t is probable that the
girls will not be neglected.
The purpose Of the scheme is ad-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
New Year Revelers in Northeast Italy
Panic-Stricken by Violent Earthquake

No loss of life was reported but
few people We're injured as the crowd
rushed out of theaters and other
places of amusement, frantically seek
ing safety in the open. Some were
injured when chunks of plaster or
masonry fell upon them.
At Trieste the manager of the Ma.
tional Theater checked stampede
by ordering the orchestra to play the
royal humn, and music had a similar
effect in quelling panics elsewhere.
The earthquake was felt in MILAN
and Bologna and was recorded strong
ly in Florence and Rome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
Woman Found Slain

CHICAGO. January 2 @.-Mrs.
Mary Sullivan, 43 years old, went on
New Year day taxicab ride. A few
hours later her bruised body was
found in q vacant lot mile from her
home. Traces in the snow indicated
d struggle.
The police believe she was attacked
and then beaten to death. They are
searching for the taxi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME. January 2.-Many holiday
crowds. celebrating New Year night in
theaters. at street festivals or in their
homes throughout northeastern Italy
we're thrown into a panic last night
by a violent earthquake. In some
places the shock lasted several sec
onds and in others as long as three
minutes.
The movement was apparently cen
tered in the mountainous regions
north of the Adriatic Sea. 1t was
felt most violently at Trieste. Venice
and Verona. but Padua, Revenna
Udine, Manfaicone and many other
places in Italy and JugoslaVia were
also shaken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
COUPLE BEATEN, GEMS
WORTH $4,000 STOLEN
Son of Wealthy Manufacturer Ar.
rested and Confesses Part
in Crime.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 2.-Jewelry val
ued at $40 900 was taken from Mr.. and
Mrs. William Feldman, who were also
beaten by three young men who rob-
bed them as they returned to their
apartment from New Year celebra-
ton early yesterday.
Fred Pioneer, q, son of A wealthy
machinery manufacturer and friend of
the Feldman family. was later arrest
ed and confessed. He implicated Paul
Taxman, IS, and Samuel Reidman, 10,
as his companions. The jewelry was
recovered.
Mrs. Feldman is in serious condi-
ton from the beating administered
when she resisted. The trio had OBJ,
tanned entrance to the apartment and
attacked the owners when they en-
tered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
Mussolini Plans Academy of Italy.

! ROME. January N.-Premier
Mussolini has decided to submit to the
cabinet a plan for the creation of an
Academy of Italy" similar to the
French Academy with its membership
Of 40 immortals." Gabrielle dan
nunzio, 1taly's famous soldier poet,
: will be the first academiCian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
CITY NEARLY ISOLATED.
Some Caen Residents Without Food
for So Hours.

PARIS, January , OP.-The city OF
Caen, known as the intellectual capital
of Normandy is suffering severely
from the overflow of the Orne River.
The property damage will reach sew
era million francs. Only one death
thus far has been reported.
No trains are in operation and
number of the inhabitants of the dis
trct isolated by the water, have been
without food for So hours. In the city
itself none of the restaurants are do
ing business and the prefecture, post
office and theaters are inaccessible.
The conditions are worse than during
the flood of 1910.
Paris breathed easier today. despite
considerable waterfront damage, be-
cause the rise in the Seine Yesterday
was below that forecast. but it is now
said that The river will not reach its
maximum before next Tuesday. North
ern France is hard hit. Part of Me
zieres, on the Meuse. is under water
while the village of Stockheim-Sous-
Maeseyck, in Belgium, is submerged,
with life-saving boats taking people
off the housetops. One death-that OF
child-is reported. The waters are
continuing to rise along the entire
Meuse Valley. Many factories are shut
down.
The Saone River threatens to sur
pass its flood mark of 1862, while the
Champagne region reports that the
overflow of the Marne has created
great lake between Epernay and Nitry-
le- Francois. The inhabitants of the
latter town are evacuating their
homes.
Cologne in Darkness.
COLOGNE, Germany, January CA).
This city was without electricity
last night. the swollen waters of the
Rhine having reached the underground
lighting cables.
Various sections of the Rhineland
report that the waters are gradually
beginning to recede.
Subscription Is Started.
BRUSSELS, Belgium. January Cp).
"A national subscription has been
opened through the newspa Ders and
the Belgian Red Cross on behalf of
the sufferers from the floods, which
have attained the proportions of q
disa aster.
The minister of labor has convoked
the chiefs of fire brigades to examine
the possibility of requisitioning thou
sands of pumps throughout the coun-
try and concentrating them in the in
udated regions, especially at Liege,
where 5000 houses are under water
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-02
WEATHER

-. 6. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair tonight: temperature above
freezing: tomorrow cloudy, followed
by rain at night: little change in tenn
perature. Temperatures-High A.
at 3:20 pm. yesterday: lowest 81 at
80 am. today. Full report on page :.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-18
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DR.. FRANK CRANE
By 7. E. Powers
The Sales Tax

A COMMITTEE has been appointed to consider the adj
mnistraton Of the income and other internal taxes
- by Congress.
This is a open letter to this committee.
We would like to state:
The whole country is present agtated the reduc
ton Of The present situation is due effort
the part of Congress limit and regulate taxation by
the amount of income Of the persons taxed.
This all originated from Bolshevistic and Communstc
idea that is entirely
The government has nothing whatever to do with how
much makes how he makes it, provided he
makes it honestly The effort to regulate incomes by
government wholly Communistic idea and entirely
foreign to the American Senate.
1t should be taken basic principle taxation that
is to be taxed what he spends not upon what
he
If he is taxed what spends is check to waste
fulness. If he is taxed what he it is check
to thrift
The present system of taxation direct on pros
pery thrift and should not be engaged in by any
The sales be easily regulated and managed
with force considerably less than that which employed
at present.
Instead of government officials shopping around and as
ceftaning how much money makes they would
be only interested in how much he spends and the
could very properly be levied that amount.
The sales tax has, therefore, every argument of
sense to back and the other kpd of tax the In
duged in by the government, is wholly foreign to
American ideas.
1t is the disposition thrift which makes country pros
perous and that disposition should be penalzed but
rather encouraged It the business of simply
carry that government and make the wheels turn
It is business of government to regulate how much
makes.
The sales would equitaby all citizens and
penallze them proportion they spend money The
present tax bears heavily upon the prosperous and
thrifty and these the that make the govern
ment prosperous. 4
tried out in other countries has succeeded It can
easily be put into operation in the United States.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-18

two successive periods may exist
simultaneously on the sun, those
Of the dying period being always
near the equator, and those Of
the newborn one always far
north or south of 1t.
Now, taking the first full pc
riod, beginning toward the left
hand side of the diagram (and
remembering that the right-hand
SPOT in each pair is the preceding
one us they arr carried around
by the suns 1xtal rotatton), oh
acrve that throughout this period,
in the northern hemisphere. the
preceding spol has north polarity
and the following one south po-
Iarity, while during the CORE
spending period in the southern
hemisphere, the polarities are ex-
actly reversed, the preceding spots
having south polarity.
Now do not jump to the con
cluston that this is a permanent
condition, fer IL you look at the
next period toward the light you
see that there .he preceding spot
has south polarity in the north
ern hemisphere, but north polar
ity in the southern.
The law then seems to be that
in respect to the arrangement of
the polarities the two hemi-
spheres exactly contradict one an
other, and that whenever a new
period comes on each hemisphere
shuffles Off it's former rule Of