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CLEAIUP I
OUTCOIME I
FILED WITI
(Copyrisht. 192 by The i
Mystery surrounding the
director of the Bureau of I
several other employes by
cleared up today, when it
of charges supported by aff
and many emplyoes of the b
of the Department of Justice
several months.
ACTION PROMP'
A demand for immediate
paper expose, caused the pre
istration. This situation tent
charges of "playing politics
tration.
Accusations involving the
certain other employes, it w
with the Department of Just
House Committee on Finance
CONGRESS BLOCKE
No tiia rent 'action AgivVs 1
h Justice.
Members of Congress, see
charged, were, it is understo
obstafles in obtaining officia
tion.
Additional Affidavits Filed.
Late in December, 1921, or early
in January, 1922, employes of the
bureau and public-spirited citizens
interested in the case filed fur
ther supporting affidavits with tlhe
Treasury Department, the Depart
ment of Justice and members of
Congress.
As a result of this action the
Treasury Department ordered an
investigation of the bureau. This
inquiry, which was conducted in
secret. was made, it is charged,
by persons who had long been as
sociatel with Director Wilmeth in
his work as chief clerk of the
Treasury Department.
Apparently no action was taken
as the result of the investigation,
and it was assumed the bureau
was given a clean bill by the in
vestigating committee.
Second Investigation.
Shortly after this additional affi
davits supporting the charges
against the bureau management
were filed with the Treasury Depart
nment. )epartnient of .lustice and
biembers of Congress.
At this time, It is learned, the
charges reached the ears of the
1-resident.
President llarding immediately
ordered the Secretary of the Treas
ury to conduct a thorough inquiry
into the charges.
Comptroller of the Currency D. R.
Crissinger was directed by Secretary
Mellon to make a personal investi
gat ion.
Again, there was no apparent ac
tion resulting from the inquiry.
Director Wilmeth ,ontinued in of
fiee. However. ntimadtons were
made that a co".sidlerable number
of employes were to be discharged
by the dIrector. Employes who were
concerned In the charieges agaist
Director Wilmeth state that ni.ost
of their number we-re to be incluad
od in the proposed dismissals.
The threatened discharge of th'ee
employee, it Is believed, led to~ the
summary action forced upon the
Administration in the dismissal of
the director ai many of his as
sistants.
Summary Action Taken.
Last Thursday employes of the
Bureau and others who have made
charges against the Director visited
Comptroller Crisainger and members
of the Finance Committee of the
House and at least one member of
the Senate.
They stated that utnless Director
Wilmeth and certain other employes
of the Bureau were disc-harged at
once, galley proofs of the charges
with a detailed account of alleged
abuses at the Bureau would be im
*ediately released for publication.
Treasury officials asked for one
week's delay.
This was refused, and twenty-four
hours was given for action, with a
threat of immediate publication in
case no actIon wasa taken.
Story in Type.
The gall-y proofs shown to memt
.bers of C'ongress anid to the Treas
uiry officials are said to have con
tained scustion. of such astoond
ing nature as to cause Treeaury
ofticials to fear fone eput-.....,
Band
I THEASURY
IF CHARGES
I CONGRESS
'ashington Times Company.)
discharge of James Wilmeth,
engraving and Printing, and
executive order was partly
was learned a large number
idavits, involving the director
ureau, had been in the hands
and members of Congress for
'ED BY THREATS
action, under threat of news
cipitate action of the Admin
is to disprove thoroughly the
made against the Adminis
director of the bureau and
as learned today, were filed
ice and with members of the
more than a year ago.
O INVESTIGATION.
aken 'by the Department of
king to eliminate the abuses
od, met with insurmountable
I action or official co-opera
not only of the Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing, but of the Treas
ury Department, and even the en
tire financial fabric of the Govern
ment.
Intimations are made, it Is under
stood, concerning the duplication of
Government securities * of large
demonstrations.
It is charged that during the war
large numbers of Liberty bonds
were printed in duplicate, and that
these bonds, or coupons therefron
are being received at the Treasury
Department every day, and are he
ing redeemed without question.
Treasury officials fear, it is said.
the effect that would he produced
through widespread publication of
charges of duplicated bonds-that is,
securities without compensating re
serves.
It is believed that is the reason
action has not been taken previcusly
on the charges brought against the
bureau.
CHURCH BACKS PASTOR
WHO BAPTIZED A DOG
BROOKLINE, Mass.. April 3.
The Rev. Edwin Curtis. of the
First Presbyterian Church, sat in
the congregation yesterday, listened
to a sermon by a minister assigned
by the Boston Presbytery and
heard one of the church trustees
read from the pulpit a call for a
congregational meeting on April 12
to decide whether the church
should withdraw from the Boston
Presbytery.
Retirement of Mr. Curtia as pas
tor is sought because of evidence
before the presbytery that he hadt
baptized a dog and had asked
what witnesses considered frivolous
blessings on food served at the
house where he was boarding.
FAVORITISM IN ISSUING
DYE LICENSES DENIED
An emphatic denial that favor
itismi was shown by the War Trade
Board in issuing dye licenses was
made today by Henry B. Thompson,
chairman of the dye advisory com
nmittee, in testifying before the
Senate Committee probing an al
leged dye monopoly. Thompson ad
vocated an indefinite dye embargo
to "save the American industry
from ruin."
"There was never any unneces
sary delay in Issuing licenses, and I
emphatically deny there was any
favoritism shown," Thompson said.
Charges of favoritism had been
madec by Herman A. Mets, of New
port, former Congressman and mil
lionaire dye importer..
EX-EMPEROR CHARLES'
BODY LIES'IN STATE
FUNCHAL, Madeira Island, April
3.-Clad in a uniform of a field
marshal of the Austrian army, the
body 9f former Emperor Charles
rested In state here today.
Masses were said during the
morning. Representatives of the
Portuguese authorities called upon
former ihmpress Zita to express
their condolences.
A funeal service will be held on
its Trn
* *
Harry Leon Wilson,
Who Writes Better
Than He Fights
.. w wnM
esser av m?3emanm.~
IIARIRY LEON WILSON
the famous author of "Ruggles of
Red Gap," in his first picture fol
his fist fight with Theodore
Criey, wealthy landscape
painter, of Caliernla. A feed start
u 1 S.te *dutem of a coan
aut'y play six months ago in
which Mrs. Wileon was chosen as
heroine In the play and Criley pla.
ed opposite her as hero started the
fireworks. Criley Is said to have
had, by all odds, the best, end of
the battle.
SEN. CARAWAY
DEMANDSPROBE
OF 1SCHARGES
Offers Resolution Citing Civil
Service Rules Governing
Bureau Employment.
The first move toward a Senate
investigation of the wholesale
discharge of the Bureau of En
graving and Printing was made
today.
Senator Caraway of Arkansas
introduced a resolution in which
he called upon President Harding
to inform the Senate why former
Direct James L. Wilmeth and his
bureau chiefs were discharged and
alio by what authority the sweep
ing action of dismissing them was
taken.
Cites Clvii ServIce Rule.
T'he resolution calls attention 'to
the fact that civil service employeE
can be dismissed only on written
notice and on formal complaint
either as regards efficiency, their
moral character, and so forth.
The Senate ResolutIon.
Senator Caraway's resolution la am
follow.:
"Whereas, without notice am re
quired by law, and without warn
ing, the PresIdent of the UnIted
States, under an executive order
issued March 31, 1922, dismissed
James E. Wilmeth, director of } he
Bureau of Engraving and Print fng,
and thirty-one other chiefs and as
sistant chiefs of divisions in that
bureau; and
"Whereas, all of said per'sons
were within the classified service;
and:
"Whereas, the law permits a di.
missal within the classified service
only after written notice and an
opportunity to reply to such notice,
therefore he it
"Resolved. That the President of
the United States be requested to
report to the Senate, if it be not In
compatible with the public interest,
what facts warranted the dismissal'
of' the men mentioned from the
classified service, and by whatI
authority he dismissed these em
ployes from the service in the man
ner followed.''
110 CHILDREN MADE ILL
BY APRIL FOOL CANDY
.1ERSEY CITY, N. .. A pril 3.
The number of school children
made ill here by eating "April fool"
oandy wan fixed by the police at
Intwo schools children were af
lected with vomiting spells,
1 To H
*
Na tioi
BANKYEGG
CA PTUlRED
BY TELLER.
Bold Attempt by Three Bandits
to Rob Merchants' Trust
Company Thwarted.
Three aring young robbers
shortj Liter noon today made an
unsuccessful attempt to rob the
newly-formed Merchants' Trust
Company, which today opened of
fices of the corner of Fifteenth
and H streets northwest.
But for the presence of mind of
Samuel April, twenty-one-year-old
receivitg teller, the vnbbers would
have made away with amore than
$2.000.
Entering the company's officesl
about 12.46. the men approached
April's cage. One of them reached
through the receiving window and
grabbed a bundle of money. The
trio then fled.
One Bandit Captured.
April seized a revolver sand
started after thea. As April
reached the door. fired three
shots in the ait. . few seconds'
running and he caught one of the
would-be robbets, the moan who had
grabbed the money.
A hurry call sent to l'.bte 1.1 -
qua'ters brought a score of d-t e
tives and policemen to the bank. An
unsuccessful attempt was made to
capture the other two meen. but it is
believed they escaped in a high
powered motor car waiting near b..
5,W Witness Capture.
Coming in the noon-day hour. thef
robbery caused a sensation in thim:
thickly populated business section.
Fully 5,000 people surrounded the
bank and police experienced diffi
culty in taking the would-be robber
to the patriol.
Peter A. Drury, president of the
bank, was holding a reception in his
office when the men entered. lie
declined to discuss the attempted
theft.
April. the receiving teller, gave
a Times reporter this version of one
of the most daring attempted rob
berles in the history of the District:
LLOYDGEORGE
TODAY FACGES
TEST OFULFE
British Premier Coing Before
Commons Confident He
Will Be Upheld.
By DAVID M. CHURCH.
1nternationet News service.
LONDON. April 3.-Althoiigh
facing the most bitter attack yet
launched against him in the House
of Common.. Premier Lloyd George
was confident that him demand for a
vote of confidence this afternoon
would be answered in the affirmative.
During his visit to his country
estate, Chequer. Court, the premier
has been engaged upon him master
piece speech defending his initiative
in having the Genoa economic con
ference called, and explaining Great
Britain's program at the meeting.
According to his supporters, the
premier had a double motive in seek.
ing a vote of confidence.
1. To go to Genoa with the un-j
divided support of the country behind
him;
2. To put an end to rumors of the
Tory "die hards" that he is weken
old U,
* *
GETS BEST
OF BAiNDIT
Routs Robber at Hadleigh
Apartment by Engaging Him
in Conversation.
An attempted hold-up at 2:3U
o'clock this morning at the fash
ionable Hadleigh Hotel as frus
trated by the night ,*anager,
Charles B. Wells, who called the
bluff of a masked robber when he
was confronted with a revolver
and a demand to "throw 'em up"
The attempted robbery of one
of Washington's most. fashionable
apartment hotels * one of the
boldest tried herr 'am. 4nme.
Says He's "Bad (us.."
While bellboys and elevator opisa
tors passed to and firo in the lobby.
Wells was confronted by the mastaked
robber as he sat behind the -ouna-r
working on his night t- wipts
"Throw 'em up. the .)egg coo
manded, leaming oler the em mer
and pointing his i.'volver at the
night manag.i.
"Quit your kidding and put that
gun away." Wells commanded. "It
mig~ht go off."
"You re dammed right it will go
off unless .tqu stick em up quick
and hand over the cash. I mean
business. I'm a bad guy and I
shoot to kill. /tet me bo? Stick
'em tup or I shoot."
The night manager "stuck 'm
up.' hut laughed.
"You tertainll pickled a lean
night to raid the place.' he told
the robber. '' ha ven't got the
key to the cash drawer nor the
vault."
'T'an that stuff.' the robber de
mand-d. and open tip the cash
di a wer."
"If you want the cash drawer
opened. open it yourself." Wells
told the robber.
Unnerved at Challenge.
As the man behind the counter
edged over to a drawer where he
kept his gun, the would-be stick
un man. who had gotten tip on the
counter. dropped hack off of It
into the lobby, and with his gun
still leveled at the manager. again
demanded the cash.
"I tell you T haven't got any
cash. What there Is in the vault
and if you want it you'll have to
come and get It."
Evidently unnerved at the chal
lenge. the robber back away':
"Well, I ought to sihoot y'ou. hut
T've got a heart. Now I'll beat It,
If you'll just keep Ptill half a second
the robber saId, as he turned and fled
through a aslde entrance and down V
street.
Grabbing hts gun. the night mai
ager, with the engineer of the buIld
Ing. Bradley S4nyder, who had been
notified by the elevator operator
who. In turn, had heard the r'obber's
tomimand to "stIck 'em up." pui'sued
the fleeing figure as he ran from the
building, but lost him In the outsIde
tarkness.
Thought It a .Joke.
"The thIng was so hold that when
first confronted with the gun 1
thousght It was sont" kInd of a belated
April fool joke." WVells saId.
The attempted hold-up, accot'rig
to Wells. was the work of ani 'nn
I eur. "Had he been a professional
It would not have been possible to
have bluffed him as we dId." Welle
declared. "He was eIther a novIce
at the game or Van drunk. T'he
man had complained to one of '~he
bellboys earlIer in the evenIng that
some corn liquor he had been drink
Ing gave hIm a headache."
Thousand. of dollars In c'aah and
checks were in the vault of the
hotel. It Is believed that the man
must have lIved at the hotel at
some time or another, and wan fa
rmiliar with the fact that the apart
rnent tenants paId theIr rent on the
Mirst of the month, and probably
inticipated a rich haul in cash from
this source.
Fredericksburg police have been
inked to look out for the robber, It
seing known that he had inquired
if a taxi driver the fare to that
ptacea_
>Dowi
Mines
Manager Who Foiled
Bandit's Attempt
To Rob Hotel
IH RI12* H. WILL.
KROPOTKIN LAIS
RUSSIA'S PLIGHT
TO BIlSHEVIKI
Emma Goldman Tells of inter
view in Which Aged Anarch
ist Flays Soviets.
Amma Goldman, noted anarchist,
I wus deported to Russia in Decem
ber, 1919, by the U'nited States De
par ntment of Labor. After two
years of disillusionment and din
aster, she has reached Sweden. and
has indicted Bolshevism in a series
of bitter. stinging articles.
Because of the fact that an arch
anarchist, a woman who has de
roted her life to attacking existing'
forms of government, turns upon
the aegis of Lenin with such fury.
The Washington. Times thinks it
worth while to print her views on
Bolsherism. Her eighth article ap
peared yesterday. The ninth arti
cle follows:
By EMMA GOLIMAN.
STOCKHOLM. Sweden. April 3.
--During the second visit to Peter
Kropotkin we had an hour to-!
gether. In that time Peter spokeJ
in detail of the Russian revolu
tion, the part played by the Bol
shiviki, the lesson to the Anatrch
ists in particular and the world
in general. He considered the
Russian r-evolution in scope and
possibilities greater than the
French revolution. While it is
true the people were not devel
oped in the western sense, yet
they are more responsive to new
arrangements of life. Th' spirit
of the masses during the February
and October revolutions demon
strated that they* understood the
great changes waiting their con
certed efforts. and they were will
ing to do their share.
The p~eople knew that something
tremendous was before them, which
they themselves must face, organise
and direct. That spirit, though now
(Continued on Page 9, Column 2.)
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send it to the Dorothy Dalton r
Resemblance Contest Editor of
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it may mean $260 worth of
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Washington gitl Is going to ge't
this enviable outfit tnd if your
picture' looks like Dorothy's It
might as well be you. See page
S for the details of the een
itown
Lewi
HEAD OF 51
ASKS CON
INTERVE
By interSatios
The national (:oal strike
anthracite miners swung into
As Saturday and Sunday w<
determined until today wh
had been obeyed bv all th
per cent effective.
President .John L. Lewis,
of America, testifying befor
tee. proposed immediate nat
coal industry. - -
NON-UNIONIST
The first break in the rar
reporte(l from northern Wes
organized men qjuit work.
and in central Pennsylvania
still at work.
No disorders of ally kind
the union officials have warn
1i nion officials declared i
a solid front and will figl
line no matter how long it
PENNSYLVANL
ivery anthracite colliery
Pennsylvania is idle. The I
political agitators may atte
strike came out of the anthr
Another conference of the
mittee and a committee of
this afternoon in New York
still presenting data to supl
per cent wage increase for
for day labor.
Non-UnionMen
Join Strike
In W. Va.
Bly International News service.
WHEELING. W. Va., April 's.
--The first break in operation of
non-union mines in the Panhandle
:ounties of West Virginia came
today when two mines in Marshall
sounts, between Benwood an-i
bioundsviUe, suspended operations
wvith the forces joining the. strike.
I'he two forces totaled about 550
rnen. It is reported 1,500 non
inion men are idle throughout the
district.
All Union Mines Idle.
All the union mines remain idle
ind at United Mine Workers' head
luartershthis strnin tilt was de
ent effective in organized mines.
,00 Out In Kiondike.
By lIteneaa News Service.
UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 3.-The
'irst break in the strong non-union
leld in southwestern Pennsylvania
ame today when several hundred
niners were persuaded not to go
o work. Every group of non-union
nen headed for the mines in the
Clondike region, near New Salem.
yere met by squads of union men
md told to remain home and "avoid
rouble." Nearly a thousand non
nion men have gone on strike.
MatrIct Ne. 5 lihuI Tight.
By Inernatiemmi News service.
PITTBBURO3H, Pa., April 2
ninom mines in itstrict No. 5,
Ynited Mine Werkers, known aes
he Western Pennya i field.
Bank
s Asks
ORIKERS
GRESS TO
NE AT ONCE
ul %@e Service.
of 600,000 bituminous and
o its full significance today.
cre holidays. it could not be
ether the coal strike order
e union men, and was 100
of the United Mine Workers
e the House Labor Commit
ionalization of the American
B QUIT WORK.
kg of non-union miners was
I Virginia, where 1.500 non
In Southern West Virginia
the non-union mines were
have yet been reported and
ted the men against violence.
hat the men are presenting
it it out along the present
takes.
I MINES IDLE.
in the three districts of
irst expression of fear that
opt to-make capital of the
acite fields.
anthracite wage scale con,
operators was scheduled for
city, where the miners are
)ort their demands for a 20
contract labor and $1 a day
U. S. Control of
Mines Asked
By Lewis
By International News seeice.
Sooner or later the Government
must step in, nationalize the coal
mines, and operate them for the
benefit of the public, and it might
as well be now as any time.
This was the message and the
advise laid before Congress today
by John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workera .f
America, when he appeared be
fore the House Labor Committee
to present the miners' side of the
present strike controversy.
The striking miners, Lewis said.
are going to "stand pat" and pre
sent an unbroken front, and he
advised the committee against at
tempts to force a settlement
through ad.iustment boards or
commissions.
"Industry la Diseased."
The coai industry, Le~wis said, ia
diseased, and the only remedy is nu
aionalization.
"The mirie workers," Lewis de
dlared, "have beent waiting for.many
years. hoping to detect somie signs
that the operators were awakening
to a realization of their duties. nut,
so far, nothing i .a been itccon
plished except talk. nedi no retwea as
been exte'nded to t, mine weorkers
or' to the piublic.
"No remedy has~ t.reen offer'ed by
the operatorm, and in defajult of any
other remedy, the mine workevrs ser
ouaiy suggest that the Government
take over and operate the mmes.
"We do not do this through lay
mischievous or wanton spiit
"But we see that it is inevitable
that, soner or later, the (Jnvarmnn