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50. Two Sections--20 Pages TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1925 foe Saa Bectmqmo FBff KNESr 1 111 BMEB BWSSL EL Lil FliilE OUT 1 OD li I TE Big news In eery direction tlild morning, both at home unci farther afield. The world rends the details of the Locarno agreements, by which the nations that made the World War possible agree 1o absolutely respect eanh other's territory, under no consideration to violate their frontiers, and to appeal to arbitration if any question arises vhieh cannot be settled dlplomatic-clly. When ijermany taken the step that leads to such a result, and Helgtum, Frame, Italy and Britain join, one finds It difficult to avoid wondering whether the Twentieth Century is to the uxluring in of the mlllenniuni. (Wt is to be.

remembered that (Kermany does this, even though the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine remain French territory, as under the. Treaty of Versailles, and it means nothing less than that Germany waves a final farewell to those districts, which have been the pawns in two wars. reaties Made Public Security a A I Housewives Favor Luxuries To Conveniences in Homes As Monotony Being Avoided Automobile and Telephone Preferred Rather Than Modern Household Fixtures THREE UPPER STATES WILL PLEA Mining Company Asks Permit to Utilize Water Power of Colorado River RICHARDSON IN PROTEST Contest Application as One of Means' to Protect Developing Land (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Oct. 19.

Representatives of three upper Colorado river basin states, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, met here today to '5 complete plans for a fight before the Federal Power Commission nijo against an application of James B. Girand and associates for permit to waterpower of the Colorado river. The conference was attended by i i -1 Governors Dcrn of Utah and Ross of Wyoming, and water commissioners and attorneys general of the upper basin states. Oppose All Power Grants The fight aqainst arintino of th. mining company's application it but a siep in the Tight of the upper basin states against granting of any water riqhts en the CalaraHn until the proposed pact between seven Basin states Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.

Nevada, Arizona and California has been ratified. All the states but Arizona ratified the pact. That state is opposing the agreement. I Representatives of the Doner basin states contend that granting of water rights on the river prior In 40 per cent of the homes It was found that there were no stationary washbowls, and water had to be carried in and out, and 25 per cent of them were not even equipped with kitchen sinks. But 87 per cent had electric light, and 73 per cent were equipped with electric Irons.

Radios were found in 17.S per cent of the homes, pianos in 46 per cent, phonographs in 50 per cent. In discussing the high percentage of homes equipped wth automobiles and telephones but not with plumbing. Mrs. Sherman declared: "Sentimentalists will say that the fault lies with the men. But we club women who study conditions from the Inside of the home understand the situation better.

Women no longer undervalue their services In the home. They run their homes on the budget plan and have personal allowances to spend as they Can Endure Toil, But Hate Monotony' "Then why do they choose lux uries Instead of conveniences? Why does the automobile take precedence over the stationary tub, the telephone over the vacuum cleaner and the radio over the power-run sewing machine? "Because the housewife for gen erations has sought escape from the monotony rather than the drudgery of her lot She can and does cn-qure toil, actual physical labor, patiently and cheerfully; but she breaks physically and nervously under monotony. The automobile, the telephone and the talking machine or radio offer the modern home-maJer the escape from that monotony which drove many of her predecessors into insane asylums." APPEARS SAFE No Record Available to Show If Husband Is or Isn't Marquis, Paris Says (By Associated Press) PARIS, Oct 19. Gloria Swan- son's husband, the Marquis de la Falaise, by no means is the only French marquis whose title does not and legally cannot appear on his birth, marriage or death cer tlflcate. To Insure that a title may be so used the holder Is required to reg ister tn the chancery at the mln istry of justice.

He must produce documentary proof that the title has been regularly conferred by a previous government and that he is the eldest. In line of the last family which held It. Needless to say, a person registering must pay a fee. Only 240 titles of marquis have legally registered but there are many hundreds of persons using the title, some of them socially prominent and some married to American women. An authority on the subject of titles asserts that it Is Impossible to verify the authen tic.it of those of many widely known families and that their use, although tolerated socially, remains formally forbidden in public docu ments.

Commissioner Hits Palmer Removal from Ship Board NEW TORK. Oct 19. Dlsap. proval of the retirement of Leigh C. Palmer as president of the U.

S. Fleet Corporation was voiced today by Meyer Llssner, of Los Angelea a commissioner of the United States shipping board, who arrived from Europe on the steamer Leviathan. "I am not at all In accord with the action of the shipping board tn removing Mr. Palmer," said Mr. Llssner, in a prepared statement, "and I regret very much the series of incidents leading up to his retirement" Treaties Will Be Effective After Germany Joins League of Nations AGREE UPON ARBITRATION Hope to Ban Warlike Moves by Judicial Treatment of All Disputes By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct.

19. The fruit of the Locarno security conference was put on display tonight for all the world to see, when seven treaties, which comprise Europe's newest and most promising preventive of war, were made public In the various capitals. The and foremost of the aifiteme! si Is tiio security pact, or treaty orf r.iutual guarantee, guaranteeing the inviolability -of the frontiers between Uc'rmany and Belgium and Germany and France as fixed by the treaty of Versailles. It will be signed at London Dec. 1, and assuming that all the signatory governments ratify the pact, it will become effective when Germany joins the League of Nations.

Germany Agrees To Be Peaceful By the treaty, Germany on her side undertakes never to trespass upon the soil of France or Belgium, or make any warlike gestures in the. demilitarized Rhlneland area. On their side. France and Belgium promise not. to violate Germany's western frontier.

Shou'd either party violate the agreement set forth, the pact provides that Great Britain and Italy shall go to the aid of the aggrieved party, whether it be Germany, Franca or Belgium. The powers parties to the pact agree to submit all their future disputes to judicial treatment, with the council of the league acting as a court. The whole plan is to work under the aegis of the league; It is for that reason that the treaties do not become operative until Germany is a member of that organization. Arbitration of Disputes Agreed Of the other six treaties that have come out of the Locarno conversations, Germany Is signatory to four, one each with France, Belgium, Po. land and Czecho Slovakia; these four are identical: Germany agrees with each of her four neighbors to set, up peaceful machinery to settle any disputes she may have with any of them that do not yield to ordinary diplomatic treatment.

These neighbors of Germany agree submit any disputes they may have with Germany to an arbitral tribunal organized under The Hague conventions of 1907, or to the permanent court of international justice. But, according to these treaties. before the parties resort to either of these two moans of adjudicating their differences they may by agreement submit their dispute to a permanent conciliation commit tee of five niPnibcrs, one from Germany, one from the other party to the treaty, and three foreigners selected by the first two appointees. These commissioners will hold office for three years and will have six months in which to decide any dispute. If tlielr decision Is not acceptable, the dispute will go lH'fore the league council as the court of last resort.

The other two treaties are be (Continued on Page Two.) Treaty Port Taken by Chinese Troops (By Associated Press) SHANGHAI, Oct. 19. Reports from Nanking, a treaty port 210 miles west of Shanghai, eay the city has been captured by the Cheklang troops, as another phase of the campaign which resulted In the necent capture of Shanghai After street firing, the troops of Chang Tso-Lln, the Manchurian leader, were forced to retreat across the Yangtze River to Pu- kow, where they expect to be joined by reinforcements driven from Shanghai ML FRONTIERS FOREMOST A. A A PUBLICITY OF SIS DDnurrn Contemplate Reduction of Surtax by One-Half in New Levy Measure TO CUT OFF $290,000,000 New Normal Rates Would Be 1 Va Per Cent on Sums Up to $4,000 (Bv Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Oct.

19. A tax revision program contemplating a reduction of maximum surtax rate upon income by one-half and of the normal income levies by approximately one-fourth was proposed to Congress today by Secretary Mellon. These, with other changes which were suggested at the opening of healings on new revenue legislation by the House ways and means committee, bring about permanent reduction of nhout in Hie nation's tax l. The treasury secretary warned that it would not be advisable to go beyond $300,000,000 in making reductions on the present outlook for the next two yean. Would Repeal Publicity Clause Other proposals were: Repeal of the estate, tax, reducing the revenue by $100,000,000 annually.

Repeal ef the tax on automobile trucks, tires and accessories, cutting off $35,000,000 annually. Ucpcu! of the sift anil a number of misfC-Munoous such as those on works of art brought from ubroad. Repeal of the publicity section of the income tax law. The new maximum surtax rate proposed was 20 per cent, which would apply on incomes in excess of $150,000. This compares with the present rate of 40 per cent effective at $200,000.

Wage Earners Also Benefit The new normal rates would be per cent on incomes up to $4,000, instead of 2 per cent: 3 in place of i per cent on incomes between $4,000 and $8,000, and 5 in place of 6 per cent on incomes above $8,000. Secretary Mellon personally presented his suggestions to the committee. He was questioned at some length by members of the committee and agreed with several that the capital stock tax of 1,6 per cent on corporations could be repealed and the corporation Income tax of 12 per cent increased by this figure without working any hardships. Coast Highway Bids Opened at Capital (By Associated Press) SACRAMENTO, Oct. Collins and Seppi, Stockton contractors, offered the lowest of 24 bids received by the state highway commission for the award of a contract sanctioning the elimination of several bad curves on the coast route highway near Plsmo, San Luis Obispo county.

The contract calls for a railroad grade crossing and the elimination of tile curves by a new location requiring a mile of heavy grading. The bid of Collins and Seppi was $66,305. The engineer's estimate was $70,916. Bids were also received today for the building of the first of five ornamental concrete bridges over Merced river on the new Yosemite Park highway. Otto Parlier, with bid of was the' lowest bidder.

Engineers' estimate was $41,075. TELEGRAPHERS STRIKE JACKSONVILLE. Oct. 19. The telegraph operators, approximately 250 of the third (Florida) Atlantic Coast Line Railroad division, struck at 4 p.

m. today In compliance with union Instructions. The walkout, according to C. H. Page, superintendent, will not seriously affect the service.

European UVL Governor Arrives At L. A. to Air Big Hutch Parole (By Associated LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19 Investigation of the much protested parole of Everett A. (Bia Hutch) Hutthi.igt.

confidence man, was started today by Governor Friend W. Richardson. Arriving here from the north during the morning, accompanied by Thomas M. Gannon, a member of the state board of prison directors, the executive spent the greater portion of the day conferring with officials interested in the case. The governor also interviewed Mrs.

J. B. Norris, widow of a retired farmer who lost hit life savings of $51,000 to the swindler. The result of the day's findings was not announced at the executive offices, it being explained that the governor still has many persons to consult and 700 pages of transcript to check. Hutchings recently was released from San Quentin after serving four years and three months of a seven and a half year sentence.

He now is in New York. Chicago Would Be Ahead If Each Crook Given Annual Salary, Is Assertion iEy Atsociatel Press) CHICAGO, Oct. 19. Crime In Chicago costs the city so much each year that it could well afford to pay each of Its estimated 30.000 crooks $20,000 annualy. or $600,000,000, to leave town, Charles R.

Holden, president of the Chicago crime commission, told church audience yesterday. Holden estimated that approximately 1 per cent of the city's 3,000,000 population are engaged in criminal pursuits and asserted that crime had increased here 100 per cent since 1900. FIVE COMMIT SERIES OF HOLDUPS NEW YORK, Oct. 19. A band of five robbers, one of them wearing a ijollceman's uniform, committed a scries of holdups In Brooklyn early today while In Manhattan two gunmen shot and probably fatally wounded the proprietor of a lower East Side restaurant in which there were 18 patrons, including five women.

The boldest robbery by the Brooklyn band was the holdup of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Goldman and their chauffeur, as their V.r was passing along Eastern parkway. After they had crowded the Goldman automobile to the curb the five robbers took $5000 In jewelry and $250 in cash from their victims. BANK BANDITS AVERT ESCAPE URRANA.

Oct. 19. A band ol robbers held citizens of North Lewishurg at bay early today and blew 'the safe of the Rank of North Lewishurg and escaped with approximately $3500 in eash. Telephone wires were cut by the bandits. $50 000 IN LOOT IS THUG'S PRIZE NEW YORK.

Oct. 19. Burglars blew open the safe in the Jewelry store of Jacob Sakow, in Upper Lexington last night and stole Liberty bonds, cash and Jewelry totaling $50,000, it was learned today. They dropped some of the loot In their flight. Groom Washington for Church Meeting (By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS, Oct.

19. The house of. deputies today unanimously adopted a resolution making Washington, D. the meeting place for the 1928 general convention of the Trotestant Episcopal Church. The 1928 general convention will assemble on Oct.

11. The selection must be approved by the house of Bishops, which, with the house of deputies is in triennial convention here. GOULD MD Tl PHI THIS 1 ARIZONA LAW WAGES IS HIT Supreme Court Decision May Have Serious Affect on 1 California Statute LOWER COURTS SUSTAINED Webb Declines to Issue Any Formal Statement Until Ruling Is Studied (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES. Oct. 19.

V. S. Webb, state attorney general, voiced the opinion here late today that the United States supreme, court decision of today against th Arizona minimum wage law for women would have a "very Berious effect" on the California law governing women's wages. Mr. Webb said that he did not care to make public a difinlte ruling until he had had the opportunity to read the decision rendered at Washington today, but he expressed the belief quoted based on his recollection of the similarity of the Arizona and California statutes relating to women's wages.

Court Decided Against Law WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 The Arizona, minimum nag" law for women was held to be unconstitutional today by the supreme court. The court's position was st forth by its action in affirming the decision of the lower courts on the issue. The attack upon the law was made by A.

Sardcll, ownor of two stores at Nognles. who employed four wonion clerks ami contended that If compelled to pay tlic.ni each a minimum of $10 week, as required by the state statutes, his business would he ruined. Replying, the state held that he was not required to employ women and insisted that the law was a valid exorcise of its police powers. The federal district court for Arizona held, however, that It was invalid and enjoined the state officers from enforcing It. Chief Justico Taft declared the action of the court had been based upon Its previous decision holding Invalid and unconstitutional the minimum wage law of the District of Columbia.

Justice Holmes pave Ills consent the action solely on the grounds of the prior decision. Justice Brandels dissented. Five Are Hunted as Writer Loses $6,000 (By Associated Press) WEPT PALM BEACH, Oct. 19. Five highwaymen were the objects of a search today by police and sheriffs' forces following the reported robbery of Mrs.

Nina Wilcox Putnam, well-known writer, and her companion, R. W. Ganger, of $6,000 in jewfls, papers and cash early yesterday. Mrs. Putnam told police they had stopped to repair a minor accident to their automobile when the bandits approached, first to offer assistance, and then to rob.

The writer told police the thieves took from her a set of earrings valued at $1,000, a vanity ease, papers worth $4,500, and $75 from her and her companion. New York Records Quake Near at Hand (By Associated Trss) NEW YORK. Oct. 19. An earthquake believed to have ocen centered only about f50 miles from New York was recorded on the Fuidham L'rjverslty seismograph beginning at, this morning and -reaching the maxi mum at The Fordhan.1 described the dis turbance as of moderate proper tions.

TJioy so.id the record indicated Itself on a north-south line from New York, but which direc tion imiM nnt ftflrertjilnerf-' At. ter-tremors wVre recorded until Secretary Mellon starts the move for the. reduction of in come taxes by telling the Congres sional committee that ft can safely educe the Government's revenue by $250,0011.010 to 11 Is not very specific as to how this shall be don, except that he favors the redu-tina of the surtax to a maximum c' per cent. This high surtax would arply only to Income? of more than $150,000, and therefore does not directly concern many of us. except In the effect it may lhave on general conditions.

Secre tary Mellon went on record as be- ni of the opinion that a maximum surtax of 15 per cent would raisins much revenue as would the rate lof 20 per cent. He reasons, of nurse that it might tempt more money out of fax exempt securities into business investments. Hut hat is doubtful. No capital can get nut of tax exempt securities except when other jnonoy goes into them that Is to say, they must be sold, anth new buyers will avoid So It perhaps makes little whose money is tn'ves'ed in them. The thing tint ought to done is to prevent more tax ex-it securities being issued.

(TJJ. Hu ot ofjolks interested I'tL hi tax rate on smaller and Mr. Mellon and one if his assistants agreed that on in- omes up to the tax rale night he reduced from I per cent l's or even 1 per cent on that part of the Income not exempt. hlle of course there is In the background that proposal of Congress. nan Garner's to the effect that xemptlons he put up to $3,500 for angle persons and $5,000 for taxpayers, which increase, how-ver f-'ecre'ar-- Mellon specifically fc pposes.

He. says every one ought have some direct interest in rne's government, and he has (hen he pays direct tass. Maybe Mellon is not far wrong. Also, it is suggested that on in- runies of from $1,000 tu Lin- tax rate be reduced from 4 per (cnt to 3 per cent, and above l. fi-nm ner lie lax mio uo tcuuit'i ent 10 per CCUl.

nuneici, an already, scent a Congressional 'attle over those reductions, for 'hey amount to a cut of about one-fourth, while the surtax on big -in- 1. 3 .1 nnA.hilf lOmC! 18 10 uo rtuuicu r.Iany Congressmen, will think twice 4-u-. ti roAnoa the rate u.eiuro iuw Co per cent on a few big Incomes, nd reduce It only 25 per cent on tiany smaller Incomes. Cl. Arizona's minimum wage law ,1 for women is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of i United States, on the basis tliat interferes with the right of con tact between employer and era- loye.

Yes, It does; but It also rotects the right of women to a onM living ware, which Is an even more Important t'ctall than the right of contract, f'iyithout a doubt, this means that j'll minimum wage laws are and it may take a long 'battle to win 3S States to support 'rtn amendment that will make them institutional, lit 5 5 2 for the 'steenth lime, the iir 1aw of W'ourt- the "Intoxicating," and It did defame 88 meaning, liquor tnat con" mere than one-half of one per Cent of alcohol. would be Just as 'tfonstltitional If Congress had detained tile word as meaning a con-Lent of '5 per cent or 10 per cent nit. Cnn. yr lt per I.Tess diln't say that. IT Engineers for the eAwrttfn Qui.

Ln uni'T nuiro 'ley, wno nave spent. JO yrarr rAiim- Jilng and surveying the Colorado IVffr, (UP IT-HI UU I hteh would make possible the lrrt- fti.tinn nt nftO 00ft acre nf land and Mpae development of 3.420,000 eleetrlc -sepower. Not only so, but at Vf same time the IS dams which a il rVif the the equalization to ratification of the agreement which would divide the Colorado (By Associated Pres NEW YORK. Oct. 19.

Escape from the monotony rather than the drudgery' of the housewife's lot has caused her to choose luxuries instead of conveniences, concludes the General Federation of Women's Clubs after a canvass on "What women want In their homes." The average American housewife prefers an automobile and a tele phone rather tan have modern plumbing arrangements in her home, because "these offer relief from a monotony that, has driven many of her predecessors Into in sane asylums." Kerosene Lamp Adds Drudgery The Federation's findings were wTltten by Mrs. Mary Sherman, national president. In the Woman's Home Companion. "The housewife does not mind washing stack of under the glow of an electric globe, but the task doubles or trebles If she must do it by the smoky dim light from a kerosene lamp," said Mrs. Sherman.

"She does not mind sweeping the lower floor of the house If she knows that at the end of her task she can sit down and chat via the telephone with a neighbor five miles away, and she will beat rugs for an hour if the evening brings the relaxation of an automobile drive." While 5 per cent of a large number of homes Investigated were found to have inside sanitary ar rangements and 59 per cent of them had bathtubs, 70 per cent of these families had automobiles and 6S per cent of them were equipped with telephones. The research made by the Fed eration covered 445.9S7 homes scattered through 2S7 communities. $10,000,000 Said Swindled From Investors, Many of Whom Live in L. A. (By Aseoolated Press) LOS ANGELES.

Oct. 19. The federal grand Jury here today made public Indictments charging use of the malls to defraud in a $10,000,000 oil swindle again3t the Owenwood interests of Fort Worth, Texas, and Muskogee, Okla. The organizations and individuals named in the indictments are: Owenwood Oil Corporation and Owenwood Pool No. 3, Fort Worht; Owenwood Oil and Refinery Company, Muskogee; Owen A.

Wood, B. F. Wood. Bert Wood, Otis C. Wood, Harry H.

Hay, Lloyd Kenyon Jones, C. E. Zimmerman, C. W. Bishop, J.

F. Canterbury, C. E. Pollard. Robert G.

Ogilhy. M. Board. L. C.

Boyd, and J. Leigh Nourse. Between 1200 and 1500 investors in Los Angeles are said to have lost money in the Owenwood operations. Bail In each Instance was fixed at $10,000. None of the defendants is known to be In this city, but, according to postal authorities, all have been under surveillance and their arrests are expected within 24 hours.

Reichstag President Shows He Is Printer (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Oct. 19. Back among type cases, breathing with keen relish the odor of printer's ink and handling the "stick" with the dexterity of a master type setter, Hen-Paul Loebe, president of the German relchstag, renewed his acquaintances with the printers' trade in the composing rooms of the Herald and Examiner, Herr Loebe, who was a delegate to the interparliamentary meeting at Washington, Is in Chicago with other members of the German delegation as a guest of prominent business men of German extraction. HUP INDICTED IN OIL FRAUDS water among various states would result in prejudicing the interests of the upper states. The latter claim they have considerable areas which can be made fertile by irrigation but which cannot be developed now because of lack of money and unfavorable agricultural conditions.

It is to protect this land for future development that the fight is beinj made. Protest Wired By Richardson LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19. ernor Friend W. Richardson today telegraphed to the federal powei commission a protest against tbc -granting of the Diamond Creek, oi other, power permits on the Colorado river.

A hearing on the Diamond Creek project Is to be held tu Washington tomorrow. The governor's telegram of pro' test follows: "Representing the state of Call' fornla I desire to protest against th.i Issuance of a power permit fames B. Girand (Diamond Creek; or any parties on the Colored river until plans have been agree upon protecting the interests of th -seven states in the Colorado basin." In a supplementary stateme Richardson said: 'The Colorado river one of the most impor before the people of southern portion Of i the waters which from this great ri which can be dr San Bernard Also Affecf The cons problem par "i perial. Rive and Los An "Callforn get the stat legislature -i- ment of I with comn Nevada the state. ence as pi resolution (Con! 6:03.

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