Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1921, Page 4

EREDITH NANED BY SCOTTIH AT Secretary of Agriculture Edwin T“ Meredith announced today to a rep- resentative of The Star that he had accepted his appointment deputy for the Supreme Council of the An- cient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the Unl- ted States, in the state of Iowa, and that he would henceforth take an ac- %tive part in the Americanization and 7 charity movements of the Scottish I Rite Masons in that state. Secrotary 5 Meredith is a Mason of the thirty- * third degree. He said he felt proud of the honor + which_had been conferred upon him * by Sovereign Grand Commander BRI P A George Fleming Moore. He prased the efforts belng made “in the District of Columbia toward ! the erection -of a central Masonic temple of stieh ~ pfoportions~and ar- rangements as to provide for the all _the 4. .prgsnizations_ afiiated i Secretary Meredithbecame a Mason 2 when he:was: twent aur-yeary oid.! in ‘c-plu;l gfidfij 0. gl% ot‘ E“' sMoines._ He is also,g member of An- ioch Chapter,” Royal “Arch ~Masons, nd of Temple Commandery, Knights Templar, of Des Moines, but his ac- ‘tive work in the past has been con- \finea @ Scottish Rite work In Des Moines comsistory and he has held the highest offices in the Lodge of Perfection, the Rose Croix Chapter and .the Council of Kadosh. . As deputy for the Supreme Council uin Jows he will be the virtual head sof Scottish R te Freemasonry in that istate, supervising and regulating the Jaffairs of all bodies owing allegiance to the Supreme Council for the Sonth~ ‘ern Jurisdiction, to which, through. “him, wiit be made il nominations fo: radvancement to knight commander- ship in the Court of Honor and to the thirty-third degree, which is account- wd the farthest advanced in Free- ‘masonry. ‘SUBMARINE VIEWS GIVEN. German Admiral Gives Craft Big + Part in- Fature Fleet’ Action: * ? LONDON;*Pecentber - 31::Ths " sub- marine is destined in the fiture not only to be used as a commerce destroyer, but also: to play an im- portant part in fleet action, declares Admiral Reinhardt von Scheer, writing in the weekly newspaper. Die Woche of Berlin, as quoted in a dispatch to the Times. i Admiral von Scheer formerly was chief of the German admiiralty staft $nd commpnder of tha, Carmap battls In this artigle -he..expresses the view that the value of the purely sur- face warship will decline as the sub- mersible develops. Surface ships, he says, have reached the apex of their perfection and cost so much that their preservation &videnced in the late war. —_— HOLLAND’S QUEEN ILL. | THE HAGUE, -Dep - 3L—Hol- Jand’'s first royal New Year reception since lham -hr--mma:nltai‘ wuccount of e indisposition of n ‘Wilhelmina. It is sal fhe mn’&?%t ihe queen is only slight. —_— ™ The establishment of “farm col- onies” in California has been urged 85 @ method of reducing the cost of b . [, S 12 : Kind Words Shock Prune Juice; Kicks Officer 15 Times NEW YORK, Jamuary i stricken before he eomld retire to a safety mone for medieal aids > 7 SAYS K. OF C. WLl “ABIDE BY OFFER” Supreme Knight’s Reply to Protest Against Memorial Gift to Legion. NEW YORK, Jaouary 1 (Special).— Replylng to & resolution of protest passed by the Baptist ministers’ con- vention in Chicago against the gift by the Knights of Columbus of s 'GEN; P. C. HARRIS'APPEALS FROM COURT SENTENCE Army*Oficer, Adjudged in Con- tempt by Justice Siddons, Was Committed to Jail. afternoon. Gen. Harris was thus saved from going to jail by & provision of the law -which:allows officials of the govern- ment sued in their official capacity to prosecute special appeals without the formality of a bond. He was recently adjudged in con- tempt of court for refusing to obey an order of Justice Biddons to ex- hibit an afidavit filed in the War De- partment under the selective service law. Assistant United States Atdor- ney Mason, for the_officer, at once filed a designation of record and as- signment of errors in the hope of ex- pediting - the..appeal to an- early de- cision. G4n. Harris contended that the.se- ctive service law forbids the mak- ‘ing. publid” of -the contents of affi- davits flled under its provisions and that the giving of access to these pa- pers would be against public policy. Justice:-Siddons ruled agalnst -the contentfon and directed that the. of- ficer appear. before .a notary public, who had been commissioned by an ©Ohio court to take his testimony. The ral had been served with a sub- POl duces tecum requiring him bring paper. Contempt proceedings then instituted against him. ————— ~JACESONVILLE, Fla, In an unsoleited secretary of the Watiowal Kss for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple, concerning Stevens being ordered to leave Quincy. . > Dispatches quoted Mr. White as hav- {he rentified that in Quincy, Fii, Dr. W. S..Stevens, a negro, was warned ta because of Having' lné:r e. n_his_telegram to t i t “a statement was made before the House census committee, to the effect that to leave this county. lm town P ested 5 n negroea voting. N, vens ‘Washington, D. C. I was ordered Adjt. Gen. Peter C. Harris, U. 8. A, who was sentenced by Justice Sid- dons of the- District Supreme Court yesterday to ten days in jail for con- local Masonic | terapt of court, noted an appeal o the Disfrict ‘Court of Appeals-yesterday with him the.affidavit sought to ‘be used in a divorce proceeding in the Oftrig “gourt.' ‘He appearsd before the sptary, but declined to show the were NOT ORDERED TO LEAVE. Colored Physician Denies Warning anuary 1.— nt wired an afternoon paper here, Dr. W. 8. Ste- vens of Quincy, Fla., says that “there not a word of truth” in the testi- is a’ consideration of | mob y given given: Thursday before greater importance than their use, a8 | tne House census committee in Wash- $5,000,000 memorial buiiding to- the American Leglon, Supreme Knight James- A. Fiaherty of Philadelphia sald that the Knights of Columbus would ablde by their offer to the le- glon. Mr. Flaherty, who came to New York with Supreme Advocate Joseph C. Pelletier of Baston and Supreme Secretary William J. McGinley to con- fer with Herbert Hoover regarding an investigation of reported starva- tion among the children of I nd, stated that the Knights of Columbus bhad not yet had t ofter accepted by the legion. View of the Mimisters. In their resolution the Baptist min- isters’ convention declared that the gift to the leglon would “in & meas- ure be controlled by the Knights of Columbus” and asserted fhat the proj- ect was Roman Catholic propagands and a diversion of money given for war work by the American people. Supreme Kuight Flaherty, in his re- ply, said: “The Knights of Celumbus offer to the American Legion $e not an offer of its money or money of Catholic people, but a disposition some of the money remaining in its hands and contributed by all the people of the country regardless of race and creed. Calls It *Trust Fund.” “It is a trust fund, and it is the administration of that fund by the Knights of Columbus. The object has been decided by competent legal opin- fon to be well within the terms of the trust and the al Intention of the donors of the war moneys to the Knights of Columbus. The gov- ernment of thi# building, when com- pleted, will be absolutely, wholly and unreservedly in the hands of the loglon ceases to exist the property will revert to the nation.” —————— SHOULD BAR HIGH PRICES. American Manufacturers Urged to Grasp Peru’s Trade. to manufacturers were urged to take immediate steps to g:.p the trade of Peru and other ith American return to rope F. A. Peset, lor to tel Association for the Advancement of Science. the most favorably disposed to the TUnited Btates. Peru, he declared, de- sired American goods, bul want to pay “fancy” prices for them. F. K. LANE CONSULTS DOCTOR. ROCHESTER, Minn.,. January 1.— Fraoklin K. Lane, former Secretary of the Interior, has arrived here, accom. dition. Franklin Lane, jr., said his | father had been ill for the last six months and came here to determine the exact nature of the ailment. ——— To start an ordinary street car when loaded with passengers requires 1! 000 times as much power &s is nec sary to brighten a sixteen-candlepow- er electric t. e"_‘é’;‘d“o‘;‘, heartiest good wishes . Tooneand all we ekte : “for the coming year. £ i - < *We closed 1920 gi the‘most profitable and successful "~ year in the historyzef: What pleased us#nost of all was the fact that, in the @i =i 2o pasttwelve months; we have added thousands of new ~ names to our alregd& long list of depositors. ' “Service” is the magic wor@ which. has accom- Taft (left) and future ver something. More Raises in Wages in Money. countrles” of the world, cara, of Great Britain, today. brings unrest to the others. : counel] capitalists and thirteen laborers. neglected by the government. “In foreign foundations. Federation and the tolerance and comprehension. Ways teurs waste time and mon ey. . “Thus, who will be able to regulate the great and vital problem of the fu- ture, namely, the shortage in raw ma- terial, icularly cotton?” interest in them employment. solve many tween capital and labor. ——— France. it was built in 141, hed this; setvice, not-only in the strict sense of licated business 14th- and G Streets N.W. g OFFICERS ~ R. GOLDEN DONALDSON, Ohoirman A COUNSEL R. G. DONALDSON and C. C. TUCKER MEMBER AMERICAN BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION AN Wig\\NN\a « of the Bogrd. B@nkmg, but in helping our patrons to solve the many php problems which presented them- sglves from day to day. - My e . In closing, we desife to express ‘appreciation of the fidelity of our employes, to whose: unfailing courtesy . and co-operation our progress is largely due. ' The Commercial National This interesting photograph, showing former President William Howard President Warren G. Harding (right), at the latter's home at Marion, Ohlo, shows that they seem to be in pretty good accord BRITISHER GIVES ADVICE |DANIELS POLICY SCORED TO ENGLAND’S INDUSTRIES Sir Charles Macara Would Give No By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. (Copyright, 1921.) LONDON, January 1.—"All industries American Legion, and in case thelin England, as well as_those in other are interde- pendent,” said Sir Charles Wright Ma- one of the foremost business men “Unrest in one There must be central bodles to arbitrate disputes. Here at home the ideal way of mitigat- ing trouble is to revive the industrial ], a body composed of n;xtmen was CHICAGO, January 1-—American | created in 1911y but since then has been e e Drmeanie, bt s indispensable, bul Pepublics instead of allowing it to | ke’ on induetrial rather than political Europe by ;- The longus should a¢ once make use of e interngition: organi: Who addressed the ‘American | tions already existing like the Cotton P il e & yeoman ©t"ali the South American repub- |Suts; These bodies Bave Sy can ald lics, Ambaseador, Peset said, Fetu I8 | suormously i the task of international t is al- Sest to ‘appeal to expert advioe t did’ not | 1o seetiing specific. questions, for ama- 8- R s suggests that hereafter no more raises In wages be given in money. “Tt;" he says, “the workmen feel tha peuisgihy hisiwife and sow; forjoon, mo;xrl'mu:t ‘earn more to face the cost sultation regarding his physical con-| of jiving they should accept a monetary Yhe industries which give Thls principle of - Guatral | copartnership would help to of the problems pending be- The oldest crane in the world is lo- cated in Trier, on the River Mosel, in A preserved record shows EVENING STAR, SATORDAY, JAMUARY 1, 192I—PART L CLEVELAND JUDGE FACES NEW TRIAL FOR MURDER . CLEVELAND, Willlam H. McGi Jury That Héard Charges Against W. H. McGannon, Unable to Agree, Is Discharged. January 1.— annon, chief justice of the municipal court, faces trial a second tim Harold C. Kagy. e on the charge of slaying ‘The jury, which de- 1iberated his faté on the charge of second-degice murder, was discharg- ed late yesterday, after having been deadlocked practically hours. Fifty-three ballots were forty-eight taken. With the exception of the first, on which the vote stood seven to five, the ! balloting was ten to two for convic tion. Jurors Arnold Hirschman an Al *| they sal denoe. for - the new trial. but .cquittal d, because Gf fnsufficient ov No definite date has becn set it is said it will be held during the next term of court, which begine Mouday. Comimon Pleas Judgé Alvin J. Pear- son, who succeeds Judige Maurice Bernon as presiding Jjudge of the January term, sald he did not’know when the | case would be tried. fixed by the assignment commission- | er, he said. BY LONDON NEWSPAPER Building of Warships Will Bring ‘Waz Detween Japan and United States, It Asserts. CrossAtiszsic Cable Service to The Star. LOND(A, January 1.—The London Ppapers od ntinue to devote much space to the s ntroversy over the building of warskips. Says the Dally Graphic editoriaily: “Seeretisry Daniels’ ridiculous policy of tryiny to build warships will only bring thy United States a war with Japan, 12 it comes, as it must unless common sense stops it, England will Fave to fight on one side or the other. To tell the truth, we're getting a lit- itle bit gick of war. “It weuld be the easiest thing in the wo-ld, were there a world dip- lomatise alive big enough, to call together immediately the three pow- ers, Britain, Japan and the United States, all of whom are rather tired of wasting money, to act on the mat- ter that means more to the world than anything else. “They once called him ‘Grape Juice Danlels” We don’t want to have to call him ‘Grape Shot Daniels,’ do we"” \ LIQUOR: CHARGES MADE. Officers Accuse Taxicab Driver and Latter Also Is Complainant. STAUNTON, Va., January 1—W. M. Brown and J. W. Woody, state prohi- bition officers, and a taxicab driver named Siler were arrested here on warrants charging violation of the prohibition act. Brown and Woody swore to the warrant against Siler, and Siler swore to the warrant against Brown and Woody. Siler sald the dry agents placed in his automobile the whisky which led to his arrest, and charged Brown and Woody with drinking in their hotsl room. The officers claimed Siler was trafficking in liqus ZURRH RN _Capital and Surplus $200,000.00 ° —————— OO RO RO I The officers a Happy and 1921 g Aga T e e SRR criminal and that he convention here. tronage that has and trust, throu, branch for ‘The dates the a ere are 300 cases ahead of it, ignment Commissioner A. J. Ke id, “and If the presiding judge Edward C. Stanton, tor's office.” Counsel for Judge McGannon issued a statement in which they declared | ould be ready for a retrial | as soon as he had had a little time in which to_rest. Judge McGannon refused to c ment on the outcome of the case. he prosecutor-elect put it.up to me, it will be handled regularly and probably will not come up before the end of February.” ‘who - succeeds Roland Baskin as county prosecutor. today declared he would hindle the case when he "gets in the prosecu- is at liberty under $10,000 bail. —_— FRATERNITY HONORS HAYS | Phi Delta Thetas Elect Republican Chairman President. -Will Hays, chairman of the republican na- was unanimously elected president of the general coun- cil of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity at the closing session of the national Mr. Hays joined the fraternity at Wabash College, Indiana, where he was graduated in 1900. He organiza- were ATLANTA, January 1 tional committee, has held other offices in th, tion. Three new Del tan: Pi Lambdi lege. CUPID GAINS-OVER BOOZE. Greater New York Establishes _ch: ers granted today, giving the fraternity a total of eighty-seven active chap- ters. The successful applicants were Rho at the University of Mori- ; Sigma Phi Delta, at Kansas State Agricultural College, and Alpha at Colorado State Col- H. Some Records for 1920. NEW YORK, January career, workhouse than ever before. Records issued today showed that 43,307 magriage licenses were issued in Manhattan last year and 23,154 in Brooklyn. The preceding year, 21,530 permits were granted to Breoklyn couples and in 1917—the previous hest § | - year in Manhsttan—the number was 41,968. Only 176 persons, of whom 77 were women was sent to the workhouse for intoxication during 1920. Commis- sioner of Correction Hamilton an- nounced. Last year there were 429 such cases. There were 664 in 1918, 1,667 in 1917, 2,361 in 1916 and 4,926 in 1915. Prosperous Jour as successful in satisfying your require- ear as heretofore. 1—Dan. Cupld, well known archer, set a new record in Manhattan and Brooklyn /| during 1920. John Barleycorn, on the other hand, had the worst year of his sending fewer folk to the ifiextend(i;g sincere wishes that 1921 will bring to 3 yours the best of everything, let us assure will strive: in’ every way to ments in'the:-New JAMES H. BADEN WILLIAM R. BAUM ALBERT J. BERRES DR. J. RYAN SBVEREUX om- | He | e e e 1) Sunday Funerals Assailed as Cause of Rest-Day Labor PITTSBURGH, Pa., January 1~—~No more Sunday funerals will be held in McKeesport if a movement launched by the Mc- Keesport Ministerial Associa- ' tion. js approved by residents of that town. ® The ministers claim Sunday funerals ber of perso otherwise would not be required to do mo. . The Richland cemetery, mear McKeesport, has seconded the isters’ campaign by placing n on Sunday burials. BURIAL IN ARLINGTON.: Be Brought Here. cemetery at Arlington. the land, and at 7th * Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year and vdir‘,ectors of the Mount Vernon Savings in extending to the many Npatfl%?s of this institution Hearty Wishes for ew Year. @ We take this opportunity to thank our depositors for the.liberal pa- made our first seven months™ business so prosperous, h ZEAL TO SERVE; to:merit YOUR continued - confi- dence and be able to.close a year of “even: greater mutual prosperity in ou “THE MO DIRECTORS: R. GOLDEN DRNALDSON GAPT. COL... B. F. G SAMUEL J. HENRY ‘WILLIAM H. JOHRSTON 0. Mount Vernon Savings Cor. 9th & Massachusetts Ave. N. W. Body of Rear Admiral Billings to LOS ANGELES, €alif., December 31. —The body of Rear Admiral Luther Billings, U. S. N., retired, who died yvesterday, will lie in state tomorrow, and Monday it wil be sent to Wash- ington, D. C., where, relatives, an- nounted here tonight, plans are be- ing made for burial in the national Best known shirts in the world HE‘ne'ws is too good to keep! Sale ‘Tuesday; details Monday; but we just have to tell you this much now: : These are the finest shirts made; we or any other store ever offered. Complete stocks; full assortments; fresh va- rieties; go right through the line and pay half price. Details Monday; Sale Tu;sday The Hecht Co. DR. E. FLAVELLE KOSS HENRY C. :‘?ws GEORGE T. PARKER H GLENN PHELPS - - _ ~-DR. J. TOWNSEND RUBSEEL _ - NEW YORK INAUGURATES -~ GOV. MILLER TODAY Brilliant Assemblage Gathers at Al - bany When Oath Is Ad- ministered. ALBANY, N, Y., January. 1.—Alban) today was® host~to ome of the moy brilliant assemblages . ever gathere( here, thousands visiting the city for th inauguration of Nathan L. Miller ol Syracuse as governor. Men and women prominent fn th social and political life of the state, whi arrived yesterday for last night's in augural ball, which was attended by Governor and Mrs, Miller and their family, were joined today by thousands emepebsom————————0 of others representing all walks of lifa for the impressive ceremonies in the as sembly chamber of the capital, wher the constitutional oath of office was i be administered to Gov. Miller by Frank H. Hiscock, chief judge of the court of appeals, and the inaugural parade, 707 AUTO KILLINGS, RECORD. NEW YORK, January 1—A record of 707 persons killed by automobiles within New York city was established in 1920, according to statistics mmde public today. The previous record was® 702, established in 1919. Total automobile casualties for the state it 1920 were 1.1 HALF PRICE they Bank unite u and RNON” H. STAYTON TUCKER 0000