The Pot Boils Again. Collecting Dead Hearts. Mr. Dempsey to {Europe. When Justice Taft Eats. ?By ARTHUR BRISBANE? (Copyright, lilt.) ? Street ia giving an imi tation of the witches' cauldron, boiling at ita beat. For live consecutive daya last week more than a million shares were ?old on the New York ex change. The game has started. More than one lamb will lose his pretty fluffy fleece before he comes to. But the revival of speculation ia a good aign for the country's business. It means that courage ia coming back?it often shows Itself first among stock speculators. Mr. Ocha, close student of finance, misses familiar facea in the street. The man that said the automobile buainesa bad reached the point of satura tion ia now invisible. No won der, with Detroit hiring new men by the thousands and making close to 200,000 cars a month. The man that said our steel Industry would show no signs of revival for at least six ? years, the other who said that ' Mexico, under ground, had be come a pool of salt water?and various other gloomy ones?are absent. There was wisdom in the old gentleman who said "Anybody that sells the United States short will lose money." When we imagine ourselves most impressive, we often mere ly display ancient savagery in a new dress. Two days ago, in a royal chapel in upper Ba varia, the heart of King Ludwig III was laid away in a silver box, next the heart of his wife, Queen Mary Theresa, in her silver box, and all around the ?ilver-inclosed hearts of Bava rian rulers, going back through centuries. What is the difference be tween a people collecting royal hearts and the savages of Bor neo collecting human heads, the Indians of our old days col lecting scalps, or the Peruvians taking out the bones and shrfok ?ing murwtny heads to the sixs of your fiat. Jack Dempsey, champion priz^ fighter, will soon go to Europe. His arrival will interest more men than would that of any ?ther citizen this country could send, excepting, perhaps, Edi ?on or Henry Ford. Does that show lack of judgment in Eu rope, cr lack of great men here ? Europe, you'know, apart from our money, looks on us as we look upon Australia. How many inhabitants of Australia can you mention that would attract at tention here, now that Darcy, the prizefighter, is dead? Senator Norris of Nebraska, earnest and useful, criticizes Chief Justice Taft "for hob nobbing at social functions with the idle rich." Senator Norris ?ays, "No man can stick his legs tinder the tables of the idle rich every night and be fit to sit in Judgment the next day on those who toil." Usually right. Senator Norris In wrong this time. When Jus tice Taft dines with the idle rich, he is tempted to eat something that he ought not. He gains an ounce or a pound, and next day must walk two miles extra, and curses that particular "idle rich." Besides, while Chief Jus tice Taft ia conservative, he is absolutely honest. He cares no more for the richest man than for the poorest outcast in the, gutter, where justice is con earned. It is having rather a poor opinion of a man that has given his life to public service at great sacrifice in money and persona] comfort to suspect that he might be influenced in Su preme Court decisions by Balti more terrapin, lobster a la New burg, or a glass of wine with bubbles in it. At Genoa the allies will demand that Russia disband her soviet armies before being readmitted to the money-making family of nationa. That ts what the cable ?ays. Trotzky and Lenin will take one look at Germany and the German mark, and answer "No, thank you." It is only be cauae of the Red Russian army that Russia gets any attention at all. James Speyer, the New York banker, doe? not believe in ab solute prohibition and attended ? meeting to urge modification (OMllniMd on Pa?( J. Column IjJ * PRICE TEN CENTS ? $4,000 IN NOTES FOUND IN POTOMAC STARTS PROBE NUMBER 12,215. Plan to Start Digging to See If Thar* Is Big Hiddan Cache Near. BONDS MAY BE HIDDEN, TOO Discharged Employes Say Tneft of Large Sum Is Impossible. Two hundred sheets of canceled $5 bank notes, with ? face value of M.000. were> found floating in the Potomac river Friday after noon at the Virginia end of the highway bridge. Two hours later the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was closed and 4.200 employes were tempo rarily furloughed. Officials Deny Connertlon. ft was officialy denied' that the finding of the money, which had b?*en burled in the banks of the Potomac led to the closing of the Bureau. Secret service operatives were busy all Friday night and yesterday trying to discover hew the recover ed money got out of the bureau. It Is believed that the money was burled near the river bank and Was washed down by the recent rains. Efforts are also being made to ascertain whether other bank notes and bonds from the bureau are hidden in the banks of the river. Department of Justice operatives and Treasury Department officials will begin this morning at 9 o'clock the task of checking up at the bureau the alleged duplication of millions of dollars worth of Liberty bonds. The alleged duplication. It is claimed, was the primary cause of the dismissal last week of the direc tor of the bureau and twenty-nine executive heads. Coming as It did on the heels of the wholesale dismissal and almost simultaneous with the doting of the bureau, the discovery started all manner of speculation. Claim Theft Impossible. ^The discharged officials have con tended that It was Impossible under the system In vogue at the bureau to get away with such a sum as that found floating In the river. They also said that the check made by the Treasury Department would have made such a theft out of ques tion. Whether the 200 sheets of can celled $5 notes found Friday la the total sum or whether hundreds of thousands of dollars In paper money Is still burled Is a question that is giving the secret service great con cern. It may be necesaary to turn small boy again and with picks and shovels begin s search for the modern Captain Kidd's hidden treasure. Each national bank has its Indi vidual plates at the bureau for print ing bank, notes. By depoalting the necessary bonds with the Treasury Department, a national bank may place an order for bank notes. All Motley Checked. Xt the bureau there la a check and double check on every sheet of money from the place without detec tion. One Treasury Department attache last night explained that It was posslbls s hank's twenty-year charter may be about to expire; that a small order for 100 sheets of $6 hank notee could be ordered; that the charter would expire before the notes were delivered and they would be left on the hands of lh? bureau. Should such be the caae. It would be possible to remove the no tee and make re port that the note* bad never been printed. ? "Old Fashioned" Women Blamed for "Wild" Girls CHICAGO, April 8. TtfANY so-called modern women are as old fash ioned in their ideas of poli tics, social ethics and re ligion as an obsolete scrub board, when they ought to re semble the efficient, modern washing machine, Miss Bertha Conde told the women of the Y. W. C. A. here. "The reason why so many young women are losing in terest in religion is often be canae their parents have been incapable of getting a single idea about religion into their own heads for twenty-fi*e years." Itl'S WIFE WINS m EASTER OUTFIT Mrs. Mary T. Baylia Conaidar ed Closest Resemblance to Dorothy Dalton. Mrs. Mary T. Strife. t*i Columbia read, first award. ?SM i Easier outfit. Miss Grace M. Martin, WT Fourteenth street northeast, MS ond award, tirket to L?ew's Columbia Theater pwd for a year. Miss Greta B. Hellmsn. 1M Qulnry place . third award, ticket to I^oew's Columbia Theater good for a year. These were the decisions of the judges In the Dorothy Dalton Re semblance Contest late yesterday j afternoon after they had spent al | most twenty-four hours consider In* 986 photographs sent to The | Washington Times by Washington girls who believed they looked like the movie star. Mrs. Baylis, winner of the Raster outfit, is the wife of Major Baylis, Medical Corps. United States army. General Sanehe* had sent word that the ranch owners had united I and were putting up a solid front. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Gen. Obregon Refuses To Treat With Rebels MEXICO CITY. April 8.?Presi dent Obregon today sent a message to den. Guadalupe Sanches, chief of military operations In the state of Vera Crus, rejecting his proposal for mediation with the ranch owners who are in revolt against the agrarian ; laws. IVY SUSH PUTS 0. S. BELOW JAPAN Secretary Denby Deplore* Economy Which Led to * Wholesale Cut. BRITAIN WOULD RULE SEAS Drastic Reduction Would Make U. 8. Marine Strength Half of England. Br Jfe?rs bnW Under a personnel allowance of 85,000 aa provided In the new nary appropriation bill, the 6-6-3 ratio of the naval limitation treaty will be reduced to for the United Statea, Greet Brit ain, and Japan, reepectviely, ac cording to flguree compiled by the Navy Department and made public last night. IJtm Then Japea. - - - "Mow concretely ,N Secretary of the Navy Denby said in % letter to Chairman Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, "the Amarittui personnel will be one-half that of Qeeat Britain and will be oonaldsiaWy leea then that of Japan. I nee* net oommeat upon the e* traordlnary spectacle thue pres ented." During the time the appropriation Mil waa under consideration In the Houee committee, Denby waa aaked to allocate the pereonnel upon the hypothetical basis of ti.OOO men. Bealdee pointing out that auch a force wae "wholly inadequate." Denby eubmttted figures to ahow what ahipe would have to be plaoed out of commission under the re duced pereonnel. and listed the following changss that would result: 1. Six battleehlpe of the flret line to be plaeed "In ordinary," with only enough complement to preeerve them and keep them ready for Immediate action. t. Complement of destroyer* to be reduced from #0 to (5 per cent, with JO In reserve with 60 per cent com plementa. I. All submarines of the second line to be placed Out of oommleelon. 4. Practically all eagle boats, sub (Contlnued on Page I, Column 1.) Tennessee Railway Sold to Chattanooga Banker CHATTANOOQA, Tenn . April ?.?| The Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama railroad waa sold today to Col. C. B. Jamee. prominent business man and banker of this city, for $1>0,000. Terms are one-fourth down, balance in six, twelve and eighteen months at < per cent Interest. Judge Gary Favors Recognition By U. S. of Obregon Rule in Mexico By EDWARD MARSHALL. Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of United States Steel, and one of America's shrewdest judges of man, events and properties, in the largest sense of the word a captain abroad as well as at home, believes (that the time has come when the United States should recognise the Obrepon Government in Mexico. Upon this subject hit judgment may be taken as important, not only because of his spreading in terests and vast business experi ence, but because he has just re turned from a considerable journey in the neighboring republic and ex tended consultations with it* lead ing men, including President Obre gon. He came back delighted by the progress which has been made to ward stability and by the promiae of immediate political, industrial, agricultural and educational ad vance in Maxico. A New Mrxtoo Born. "The conditions In Mexico today," ho told me. "are better than they have been at any time since Preel deat Porfirio Dtas abandoned hie ef f fice. In eome reaped* they are even better than they were during the beat daya of hla long and aenaatlon' ally successful admlnlatratlon. "A new Mexico haa been bom oat of the throe* of revolution. In It la promlae of aolMlty and prosperity; for the NorVan people soeh general advancement never haa been their* before. "Nature made Mexico perhapa the world'a richeat country. There can be little doabt of that. Cecil Rhodea onoe aald the Mexican State of Quan< ajuato waa In mineral wealth the richeat part of tbe earth'a surface. Wall, agriculturally Mexico la quit# aa rich aa she la in mineral wealth. "And I am one of thoae who have become convinced that tbe Mexican nativea, If they have a reaaonable chance, will develop mlnda aa fertile aa the land they live on, pay-atreaka of character aa frequent aa the met alllferoua velna In the mountalna of their native country. OkNcon An Abie Baler "The present admlnlatratlon, that of President Ohrecon, haa don* well In very difficult circumotanr-ea. "Many hard, pusallnc tasks remain undone; certain problems will raqalre patient and tboreadi study which Legislators of Md. Don't Know Country's Dry BALTIMORE, April 8. "W IT H O U T divulging ?" st?U secrets, I may say that'the Volstead act was violated every day through out the session by approxi mately 75 per cent of the members of the legislature and by a very large percent age of the people who came to Annapolis in favor of or against prohibition measures, and it is more than an open question as to whether the effort to enforce the Volstead act by a co-operative meas ure in Maryland did anything more than to indicate a con siderable amount of personal hypocrisy in the matter of prohibition." That statement was made by State Senator Robert Biggs in as address before the City Club yesterday, in Which ha reviewed the work of the legislature Just end*! DIPLOMAT URGES HE WIS FIRED UPON ? "? Stats Department Probing Hold-up With Gun by Alleged Revenue M6n. The State Deportment has been aiiked to Investigate the hold-up early Thursday morning by four men claiming to be revenue officers of an automobile bringing J. Alvares de Buena vista, attache of the Peruvian embassy from Baltimore Three bullet holee In the automo bile of the attache give evidence of the affair. One bullet passed through the right fender, another through the gasoline cap and the third through the body of the car. The attache went to Baltimore Wednesday night to attend the mual ca!e of the Philadelphia Orchestra In which his sister, Madame Marguerite de Alvarec, is soloist. After the musicale they went to a late dinner. Leaving Baltimore at 1:00 o'clock, Thuraday morning, with hie chauf-! feur, Frank Murray, of Wardman Park Hotel, at the whe*?l the attache proceeded to Washington without mishap until they reached Hyatts vllle. As the roadster reached Hyatta vllle, two cars driving slg-sag acroee the street ahead of them impeded their progress for a time. Murray sounded his horn and finally passed. One of the strahge cars started after the yellow roadster. When three revolver shots were fired, the Peruvian ordered the driver to stop. Four men from the touring car leaped out and came up to them. Bach of the men flashed badges such as those wcrn by revenue officers. Ripping open the door on the rear of the roadster, the alleged revenue officers found no liquor and then ex plained that they had made a mis take: that the roadster was not the car they were on the lookout for. The four men denied they had fired the shots that took effect In ths roadster. The matter was reported to Attor ney .Tames W. Folk, counsel for the Peruvian embassy. The State De partment snd Internal Revenue Com missioner have been asked to make a thorough investigation of the af fair; Police Beat Off Attempt to Seize Liquor Stores NEW YORK, April 8 ? Six men1 who attempted to break into a Oov ernment warehouse in Bropklyn to day were arrested after a running pistol battle with police and detec Uvea. There Is estimated to be more than 1100,000 worth of liquor In the place. The acttona of the alleged robbers, who arrived at the warehouse In^a taxfcmh, aroused the suspicions of John In tall. Iks watchman, who gave ths akrs, Will Continue at Head of Woman's Bureau, With Police Captain 8tatut. ORDERS MISUNDERSTOOD A Commissioner Oyster Ex presses Satisfaction With Verdict Ending Dispute. Exonerated by the police trial board of any wrongdoing In con nection with the charges pre ferred against her by Inspector Charles A. Evans, Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, lieutenant qf police, continues to reign as head of the woman's bureau. RelaUons Defined. While finding a verdict for Mrs. Van Winkle, the defendant In the case, the trial board appended to Its findings a notation In which they clearly define the relaUen of Inspector Evans to the House of Detention. headquarters of the Woman's Bureau In the future Mrs. Van Winkle, In her capacity aa head at the Woman's Bureau, wlU bear the same relation to the Inspector as the captain of a prednot. She has. In the past, regarded herself aa amenable only to the major and superintendent. In taking Issue with Inspector Evans on the morning of March 21, after he had ordered the release of two glrla from the House of De tention, Mrs. Van Winkle Invoked an order of Major Daniel Sullivan, lasued February IS and to become effective March 1. That order. In the belief of Mrs. Van Winkle gave her exclusive jurisdiction over all rases Involving missing girls and women. I Inspector Evans did not question ' the order and rather than go counter to the major let the matter rest, believing, he said, that still another order had been laaued by ' the major that had not come to his (sttsntlon. Orders Misunderstood. The order Mrs. Vsn Winkle I stood on was issued subsequent to I sn order placing Inspector Evans I In general charge of all terr 1 torty lying west of Seventh street. Since the House of Detention lies In the area in question. Inspector Evans is In genersl charge of that Institution. Mrs. Van Winkle contended that she was amenable only to the major snd superintendent snd not to the Inspector. The Inspector transmitted orders to Mrs. Edna L. Johnson, supsrin tendent of the Houss ol Detention and a subordinate of Mrs. Van Winkle to release the two girls in question. When Mrs. Johnson called Mrs. Van Winkle over the telephone and reported the matter, she wss told by Mrs. Vsn Winkle to hold the girls until her (Mrs. Van Wlnkle'a) arrival there. In the charges preferred by In spector Evans, he held that the woman lieutenant was guilty of conduct prejudicial to the good or der. reputation and discipline of the police force. One of the specifica tions was that she ordered her subordinate to disobey the orders of a superior officer. The other specification was that she questioned the right of her superior officer?Inspector Evans-? to lqsue an order for the releaau of the girls. Robbers Seize $75,000 In Furs, Jewels and Cash NEW TORK. April 8.?Three rob bers drove up to the store of 8. A M. Sandberg, furriers, on Madison ave nus early last evening, walked In, and gagged and bound the four men present and then carried off MB.0S0 worth of fura, II,(00 worth of jewelry and 91.600 In cash. News of the hold up carried on while hundreds of persons walked by the store, did not become public MaUi today. r Audrey Locates A Perfect Man; She'll Wed Him SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 8. AUDREY MUNSON, world famous artist*' - model, has found the perfect man at last, and is going to marry him. She said so herself to night. Wooed by cowboys, bakers, backers and athletes since she announced some months ago her marriage would be a eugenic one and that only a perfect man could be her mate. Miss Munson, who spurned the offers of some 200 ardent wooers who came forward with Apollo-like di mensions, announced her hus band would be Joseph J. 8terenson, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a contractor and world war aviator. IS PISH MM SWEEPS OVER TEXAS Property Losa la Heavy When Twirter Arrivea From Oklahoma. DALLAS. Tex., April Winds of eycldnlc violence last night and to day claimed at lnut fifteen Urea In Weet Texas and Oklahoma. Because of crippled wire communication. It Is almost certain this total will be add ed to. Hundreds hare been more or lese seriously Injured. Property loes will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. The twister, accompanied by a greet downpour of rain, struck West Texas shortly after midnight. One person wAs killed at Bono, a small town near Cleburne and many houses were blown down. Rowena, In Rus sell county, reported six dead, nine teen houses blown down and many Injured. Relief Parties Sent. Relief parties have been sent to Rowena from Ballinger and Miles. At Cisco where forty houses were blown down, only one death was reported. Three houses and a church were demolished at Ranger but no loss of life reported. Twenty-five houses were blown from their foundations at Electra and one person killed. Reports reaching Fort Worth from Baird were to the effect that four persons were killed and fully thirty-five Injured at Oplin. JUawton. Oklahoma, reported two lives lost and It is feared other sections of the State were visited by the stom. Oklahoma City reported no loss of life but several thousand dollars damage. The Kuhn farm on the Colorado river, near San Angelo. was reported to have suffered damage but It 1s not known whether any deaths re sulted. Train service In the stricken areas is expected to be badly interrupted. Many miles of public highway are under water. Communication over the entire af fected area la badly crippled and It may be several days before the ex tern of loss of life and property can even be estimated. Supplies Forwarded. Doctors and nurses, cots and tents and other supplies have been sent from surrounding towns to the stricken districts. Qreat sheets of rain preceded the wind and many areas were visited by hail and lightning. Five persons were injured In Dal las. Damage there will run close to fW.000. Roofs In some sections of the elty were blown off and part of the walls Of the Barrett Company, a roofing concern, were hlnwn down. Seven employes at thta pier* with eat tmjmrj. iagM* Ike ftUbee wails. HUSHO FED IIS JUSTIFIABLE F COLONEL BECK Verdict It That Killing Wm in Defense of Life, Wife, and Home. STORY OF SLAYING IS TOLD Both Judge and Mrs. Day Take Stand Voluntarily to Clear Woman's Name. By JACK CARBERRY, Intranational Nfwi fWrrlr*. OKLAHOMA CITY, April 8.? A coroner'* jury facing a sea of tense fttes, strained to catch every word, tonight freed Jean P. Day, former supreme court judge and ?il field millionaire from blame in the death of Lieut. CoL Paul Ward Beck, pioneer army aviator and commandant of Post Field at Fort Sill. The jury returned into court at the coroner's inquest at 8:09 o'clock with a verdict of justi fiable homicide. DrfemM His Home. The verdict read: "Judge Jean P. Day was justified for bavins shot and killed Lieut. Col. Paul War