Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1921, Page 2

ACVLANSKILLED TN COUNTY GALWAY &i}en Btack and Tan Police Wounded When Ambushed Near City. By the Associated Press. 5 LONDON, January 18.—Four civil- jans were killed and seven black and tan auxiliary policemen were wounded in a fight in County Galway, according to reports rece day. The fight ensued when a and tan patrol was ambused near the city of Galway DUBLIN. January 18.— fith. founder of the Sinn zation, who was arrested in s hol here on the morning of November ved here to- black Arthur Grif- in organi- will be court-martialed if the ent plans of the authorities are ried out. The date of the court not yet been set tial, however. hias Arthur Griflith, with Prof. John Mac- Neill, Sinn Fein member of parliament for Londonderry City and the Na- tional University of lIreland: | MacNeil's son and a number of other= Were taken into custody by auxiliary police on November 26 Later Trof MacNeil was released. but on Decem- ber 1 he was rearrested. The ground for the detention of Mr. Griffith and Prof. Mac given in a Dublin dispateh of January 1 was that the government desired to ascertain their ibility for the allesed employ- ment of Irish republi buscade and other oper: ing the loss of the lives of ish troops. The dispatc reported thi ment m lera. th, I the alleged source of the funds Law. Continne Martial LONDON, a 17 to the deput. to the request to remove letter relative artial law Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Strickland. the British commander in Munster. suvs the present state of affairs in Cork cannot be allowed to continue, and that will be compelled to take such stic measures as may seem nece to make the liv I the crown forces e and cow ardly The letter Strickland will possible conside if he seex s are willinz to Confli in Evidene g A supplementary report of the Irish the lavo Investigating commission o party, which recently visited Treland to investigate conditions in that coun. has been issued by the labor party. es that the pubicition of the of one < before the investization « resulted in visit_to his hoim; men, who not findinz the proceeded to damage the fur Ireland. | e WOMAN’S . BIL L |Cenducting MAKES HUSBANDS PAY FOR INJURIES | TOPE Kan.. January 18.— Husbands would be placed in the status of employers, with their wives as employea in their homes and permitted to recover damages for injuries received while .per- forming houschold duties, under the terms of a bill introduced in the Kansas house of representa- tives today by Mrs. Minnie J. Grin- stead. representative from Seward coun The m offered b woman re ure was the first to be one of Kansas' two ntatives. ASKSINSPECTON | OF OVE PTURES !Dr. Crafts Urges Step to De- | termine Fitness of Views for Exhibition. REAR ADWIRAL GEORGE W. KLIN President of the maval board of In-| spection and survey, president of the naval board of inquiry at the Rock-| away air station, being held to inves- |tignte the flight and loxx of the naval | balloon in which Lieuts. Kloor. Hin- lon and Farrell were carried to the ctures in | their fic- | board. Inspection of all motion p W shington to determine of the bal-: i to be shown was urged upon the ; by Dr. Wilbur fEons i superintendent of the In- | {he ulr station. Bureau, Dr. Craft 4 he and his_as- | or a Sun- but t working inst motion pictur i 'HAWAIIAN ISLANDS HIT are asking for the regulation of photoplays that “are not to ve BY DESTRUCTIVE STORM hown on any day of the wee i i Engineer Commissioner Churles W —_— i Kutz asked Dr. Crafs if it is his idea i that officers of the police department iRonds and Damaged, hould do the censoring. H The petitioner replied that police | Houses Washed Out to Sea—One on would do good, but some ad appointed special commit- Man Drowned. Bridges i tees to censor pictures. Col. Kutz VOLULU. Janu i =Storme. pointed out that the Commissioners| HONOLULU, dJu E: ST have no fund out of which to pay | which struck the Hawaiian Islands uch a committee ‘|Saturday and vesterday expended | i Mr. Hendrick Approves. ! greatest violence on the Island of | ! When Dr. Crafts had concluded his!Kaua cording to advices received | | presentation J. Thilman Hendrick. e ichairman of the board of Commis- ! "¢Te toniell - sions, told Pim the city heads are | Several houses in the town of i he 'rnlly in .:_;;mm-n;_ with hsh 1;b-‘\\'. imex and Lihue. on that island, | | ject—to sce that only proper photo- 2 . lotass e atown | were hed out to s One man The two questions for the Commis- was drownetl H sioners to determine. Mr. Ilendrick | One aistrict of Honolulu county re- ntinued. are how fur their author- | jorted twenty inches of rain fell | v to rexulate motion pictures moes'gu(yrday night and Sunda On the to determine the most practical jeiand of Oahu. on which Honolulu means of supervision. . 'is situated, the storms also spent i It is generally believed at the Dis-nuch of their force. Reports of dam- trict building that the Commissioners | WAt 00 TG T 0700 o n Steadily have authority under existing police | {507 TR0 7o s Ihocelsing reculalions to control immoral exhi- | Th¢ Giar Bulletin of Honolulu & bitions, whether on the spoken SaE€, (imuted the damige on this island at Jor in silent drama. | $300.000 | Moard Wil Conmmider Sub | ¥ County roads wna brilges wers es- Commissioner Hendrick said, fol-!timated to have been damaged to the {lowing the hearing. the Commission- ! extent of $100.000. and the Aiea plan- ers would carefully consider the pe-| tation is said to have suffered to a T8 L own reque The supplementary report challenzes i jij,n, !like amount. Fourteen bridges were | the accuracy of the sovernment's ac- . "nr " crafts told the Commissioners | washed out or damaged severely. count of the “battle of Tralee.” draw- [ihu¢ the agencies for good in America | The Oahu railroad services were ing the con: on that the “battle of ,re working as hard as ever for fed- |disorganized by washouts. The high- Tralee is a fisment of the imagination. ieral supervision of motion ires, | way System was blocked by many | and alleges that “there is serious con- | pog el tion pictutes, | way iay {but that they are now engaged in a |slides amd washouts, flict between the evidence gathered by the commission and the fanciful, high- 1y colored story of the battle of Tralee presented in the house of commons by | the chief secretary. The document cites was a case of the deliberate faking of a photograph portraying a battle scene in order to support accounts given Iin the house of commons. The report says the photograph in question has been suppressed, but it reécounts how it pictured a_wounded cadet and two dead Sinn Feiners lying road, and the cadets taking Sinn prisoners in the backgzround. Truce Talk at End. Since the suspension of the negotia- flons begun by Father O'Flanagan there Bas been a complete cessation of unofti- #lal conversations for an Irish truce, and it is not likely-they will be renewed for at least two months. During this Interval the author in ireland will be permitted to tighten up repressiv measures and prove their belief that Ireland in this manner be restored to prder and the exiremists confounded. The government view is that nobody @ntitled to speak for the Sinn Fein has yet come forward to discuss matters with the government, waose attitude re- mains unchanged. The government de- clines to discuss peace for independence and a republic has been withdrawn and the republican army has srrendered its arms. Further, the gov- ernment refuses 1o negotiate except on the home rule bill as a basix. On this ground, however, it is believed gener- all* it would probably be willing to in grant complete fiscal autonomy 1o south- | ern Ireland, thereby. Malone Sentence Confirmed. . The sentence of #ix months' impris- onment_imposed last November upon Lieut. Col. L'Estrange Malone, liberal member of the house of commons. after his conviction of alleged sedi- tious utterances. was confirmed to- v by the court of appeals. the court ismissing Lieu Malone's appeal from the lower court DUBLIN, January 17.—An appeal against the infliction of the death pegaity on Joseph Murphy was heard before the court of appeals today. Decision was deferred until January 25. and the execution of the prisoner Postponed until January The law courts lie within the area which is surrounded by the new mil- if peace could be attained ftary cordon. It is understood the courts were included in the area be- cause the military had received in- formation indicating that Sinn Feiners contemplated a raid in order to release Murphy. ARCHEOLOGISTS AT TALK. Prof. Montgomery of U. of Pa. Ad- dresses Society. ‘The American School in Jerusalem and archeological work in Palestine were topics of an illustruted lecture by Prof. J. A. Montgomery of the Uni- | versity of Pennsylvania before the Archeological Society of Washington at the Washington Club last night. Members of the society were gu. of Mrs. Delos Blodgett. sence of President Robert Lansing Dr. William Miller Collier, president of George Washington University, pre- sided. The following new members were announced by Dr. Mitchell Car- roll, secretary, as elected by the ex- ecutive committee: John man, Trum: G. Palme Eugene Pomeroy, William Carey Sawypr, Wal- lace N 'Stearns, Miss Florence A Stone, Lieut. Commander John Wilkes and Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood. The next meeting of the society will be held at the residence of Charles Henry Butler, 1536 1 street, when David G. Hogarth, curator of the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford Uni- versity, will give an illustrated lec- ture on the Hittites. —_— UNION REFUSES AID. for Defending Alleged Criminals Denied by D. C. Workers Central Labor Union at a meeting et night in Musicians Hall refused o take action on a resolution in dorsing the efforts of the workers' defense commiftee in raising funds 10 defend Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti, charged by Massachusetts authorities as perpetrators of a pa roll robbery and murder at Brain- tree, Mass. following an address by Ben Legrere, on behalf of the defense committee. The resolution was referred to the axecutive committee for investigation. Regresentatives of the District mohool teachers' organizations pre- sented a protest against indorsement of the gections of the Zihiman bill mn: for the election of a school but the organization took no action on jt. Newton A. James pre- ded o ts what it intimates until the claim | In the ab-| A. Betze- ! jcampaign to have city and state offi- e {cials act immediately to regulate the ! silent ‘drama pending the enactment of |NEW LODGE CONSTITUTED. ! {a federal censorship law. i B ) ! Dr. Crafts was accompanied by Rev. < | Lucius Clark, Rev. F. N. Greeley and |Masons See Ceremony at Scottish Hev. C. H. Butler. Others present were Rev. G. A. Miller and Mrs. H. E. Mon- Rite Cathedral. Consecration and institution_cere- roe of the Gospel Mission. monies of Albert Pike Lodge, No. 36. SENATE AND HOUSE Riter Chthearal, 135 30 “rest. Charles AGREE ON ARMY BILL J. O'Neill, grand master of Masons, de- livered the charge and installed the officers. More than seven hundred Ma- sons witnessed the ceremonies. The new officers are: Archie D. En- gel, worshipful master; Sulaimann Daavid, senior warden:' Ellwood P. Morey, junior warden: Willlam L. Boy- iden, secretary: Charles M. Jones, { treasurer; Nathan' Weill, senior deacon; Frank E. Koch, junior deacon: Wil- liam W. Champayne, senior steward; Melvin A. Wertz, junior steward, and T. J. Moore, tiler, The first official business of the lodge, following installation _cere- monies, was the presentation of hon- orary memberships in the lodge to J. Harry -Cunningham, retiring grand master of Masons, and to George Fleming Moore, grand commander of the Supreme Council. THEFT OF SUNDAY STAR. Colored Boy, Arrested on Charge, Forfeits $25 Collateml. Major Rowe, a colored boy, was ar- rested yesterday, charged with the theft of two copies of the Sunday Star. The boy was taken to a police station, where he furnished $25 col- lateral for his appearance in Police Only Differences in Language De--| lay. Measure Fixing 175,000 Limit. Only minor differences of language {between the Senate and House meas- {ure remained to be straightened out {today to send on its way to the execu- tive action a joint resolution of (Con- gress limiting the size of the Army. Both houses voted yesterday to i” it the size of the Regular Army to 17 | 000 enlisted men. The Senate by a vote of 41 to 33 i =et aside its decision of last week to { reduce the Army to 150,000 men. and { then without a record vote adopted the {original joint resolution of Senator {New. republican, Indiana, directing | the Secretary of War to stop recruit- {ing until the Army is cut to 175,000 {men. The House ten minutes later adopt- 1 a joint resolution sponsored by Chairman Kahn of its military affairs committee. also directing the Secre. tary-of War to cease enlistments un. i til “there ure not more than 175,000] { enlisted men in the regular establish- {ed i | ment. The House vote was 285 to 4, | i .|Court. Falling to appear in Police only ~ Representatives Bee, Texas: e | Blackman Alabama, ang Gosgy |Court Judge Hardison ordered that i Maryland, democrats, and Crampton, i Michigan. republican, standing out { against_the reduction. | "The resolutions adopted by the two | houses are almost identical in thetr provisions. each providing that the 175,000_limit shall not prevent the re- | enlistment- of men who have served {one or more enlistments in the mili- tary service. The language of the [ differs somewhat, ‘how- ever. was done. GIFTS OF CASH ESSENTIAL N Chinese Millions Facing Death by | Starving, Is Report. Chinese victims of the famine that i The action of the (wo houses was :’n“:rr‘pl(:;c:: e heDI :;' | taken against the recommendations of | nve districts are being Kept alive on | | 8o OCRE L ien.|a mixed diet of vegetables and cere- Pershing. Secretary Buker in appear- |15, principally millet sced and beans, N e xg::n“‘"a’“"““"‘(tho State Department is advised by iof less than 250,000 men _,,"“'l";" the American minister to Peking. { “present necessity of economy haq| The continuation of gifts of money | been relieved.” Gen. Pershing tolg]!® essential if the lives of millions are 0 n & L0l 110 be saved, the report indicated same committee that an army of W. A. EHRMANNTRAUT DIES 00.000 men constituted a safety mar- Former Washington Market Man Succumbs at Norfolk. w. A. Ehrmanntfaut. sixty-five ;Appeal to the Kiwanis Club i to Support the Movement b for Rescue of Waifs Abroad years old, for many years connected “Have T given to the extent that I|with the market business in Wash- {ington, and at the time of his death duperintendent of the markets im would want others to give i I or mine were in the plight of these|yNorroik, Va., died Sunday:evening ini Norfolk, at the home of his daughter,! | | children” is the gist of a message sent to the membership of the Ki- i M. Holmes. { wanis Club by H. L. Rust, jr., secra. | > B 2 | i e oo Funeral services were held ‘oday, o e g, Tairs committee | iy jnterment in Norfolk. ; o The reiteration of the appeal is to demonstrate again that Kiwanis is 100 per cent perfect in its support of every deserving movement, Mr. Rust points out, and emphasizes the im- portance of saving the 3,500,000 starv- ing little ones of Europe who are actually dependent on America for their very lives. —_—— GHOULS OPEN GRAVE. iSeek Gold Believed Buried With Southern Judge. DALTON, Ga., January 18.—Discov- ery was made that the grave of {Judge Owen Kennon. ploneer, who i was buried more than sixty years { ako, had been entered by ghouls and {the cofin and its contents removed in search of gold reputed to have been entombed with the jurist. Judge Kennon -was known as an eccentric_and Kept a large amount | of gold coin, with which he delighted to toy, according to old inhabitants. It wa$ common gossip among his negro slaves that his money was buried with him. The story was never taken seriously by the more enlightened, and it is not believed that the desecrators of the grave were compensated for their ef- (. fort TO TAKE STEEL COURSE.- | LECTURE TO ADVERTISERS. Jacob G. Moses, ‘prominent’ in the advertising profession, will lecture before the Advertising Club of Wash- ington tomorrow- night in the hall of the American Institute of Banking, 1214 F street northwest. Mr. Moses' lecture will be the first of the new | series of talks begun by the club in an effort to better acquaint its mem- bers with advertising. Howard Berry, chairman of the educational commit- tee of the club, will preside. SANG FOR SOLDIERS. The Choral Soclety of the Washing- ton Missionary College, under direction of 3. Willlam Osborn, rendered a. pro- of sacred music at the Soldiers’ Home Sunday afterncon. Among the features were sacred anthems, selections by a quartet and a cantata, “The Peace of Jerusalem,” by Trowbridge. Solo parts were sung by Mrs. Albert Werline, Soprano; Mrs. Bowen, soprano: Miss Emma Mallatt, soprano; Mrs. Lela Beu- chel, contraltd; Walter Salisbury, tenor, and’ John Ford, barytone. Chaplain Griffith of the home delivered a short address before introducing the program. BRECEPTION IN POLAND. A reception will-be given by the Home .| Economics Assoctation of the District in of ils Yegular Monthly meeting ! ] Lieut. Commander Oliver W. Bagby |at the %hm-l School, 18th and Q at the naval proving grounds, stree urgday_evening, _In _the re- Hlead, Md., has been ordered to take a | ceiving line il e Mra. Hentlctin Cal- course of practical instruction at the Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethle- hem, Pa. @ vin, Miss Charlotte Crittenden Everett, Miss Edith Allen and Miss Anna E. Richardson. Rlepet N { bananas, 10 per cent each; sirloin steak, the $25 collateral be forfeited, which |} fand farm products 41 per cent. NAVAL AERONAUTS {PREPARING LOCAL TIFY IN COURT) INCOME TAX OFFICE JANUARY 18 | Kloor Tells Board of Inquiry |Government Officials Getting About Flight to Canada. By the Associated Press ROCKAWAY, N. Y, January 18 —| Lieut. Louis A. Kloor, pilot of nwl American naval balloon A on its| thrilling flight from Rockaway to| Moose Factory, told the story of the| trip to a naval board of inquiry here! today. Lieut. Walter Hintou. one of th sencers on the flisht, was in court ke the stand later. but Farrell. the third ed to sick bay. Only spectators. mainly u men. were present. and the oflicers of the court sat with overc order to keep warm pparently choosing his words with Lieut. Kloor said that he re- ved orders for the flight on De- 3 from his commanding of- D. E. Cummings, at his t. Before the start of the flight on December 13 the balloon was fully equipped and provided with ra- tion isting _of sutlicient coffee and sandwiches for three meals for; three men. A water with one and one-half gallons of water also was taken. Kloor said he took no “bal loon log.” but carried a note book and pencil th . they 0U0 fe a 't of (he flight. Kloor ended to u height of Knowing from observations; Iy made that at that height it would be possible to take a dus northerly course. e SEAPLANE NC-6 AND CREW REPORTED SAFE IN COVE With NC-5 Runs Into Storm, “Taxies” to Shore—No Word From Companion Craft. SAN JUAN DEL SUR. Nicaragua, January 17.—The crew of the United ates navy seaplane NC-6 and their machine are safe in a cove about fif- teen miles north of San Juan del Sur. Lieut. Compo. communder of the plane, und chief machinist, te Hickithier, arrived here this & to report to the convoy ship, left the machine with the re- nder of the crew in the cove. On Saturday morning a tremendous | hurricane began to blow from the northeast, and continued all day Sunday. The NC-5 and the NC-6, fly- ing together, ran into the hurricane Safurday about forty miles north of San Juan del Sur. Both machines were forced to alight on the sur- face of the ocean. which was lashed to fury by the wind. which lifted the water up in spi The NC-6 “taxied der tremendous difficulties. The NC-5, when last seen by the NC-6, was hav- ing engine trouble. FOOD DROPS 8 PER CENT IN D. C. IN ONE MONTH | Ma eve hav m. the shore un- Bureau of Labor Statistics Figures Cover Period From November 15 to December 15, 1920. Retail prices of food decreased § per cent from November 15 to Decem- ber 15 in Washington, the Depart- ment of Labor announced today through its bureau of labor statistics, At the same time the retail price of food decreased 8 per cent generally during the month's period throughout the United States. Notwithstanding the decrease in Washington up to De- cmber 15, food still cost 86 per cent more than in 1913, the department re- ported. For the year period from De- cember, 1919, to December. 1920, food prices in Washington showed a de- drease of 9 per cent. During the month from November 15 to December 15, 1920, the prices of forty-two articles taken by the de- partment decreased in price, while egws and raisins showed an increase. The decreases shown were as follows "Oranges, 27 per cent; pork chops, 25 per cent: sugar, 18 per cent: ham, 13 per cent; bacon, butter and lard, 11 per cent’ each: round steak. flour and 9 per cent; rib roast and chuck roast, 8 per vent sach: plate beef, bread, co Teal, Tica and mavy beans, 7 per comt each; hens and prunes, 6 per cent each; lamb, rolled oats, onions and canned to- matoes, 5 per cent each; oleomargarine and coffes, 4 per cent each: fresh milk, | potatoes, cabbage and canned corn, % cent each ; evaporated milk, nut mar- cheese, macaroni, canned peas 2 per cent each ; canned salmon, ornflakes and baked beans, 1 per cent each. | {form, No. lof the bond. |the 2 per cent paid by the corpora- [ tion only makes a part of a machine Ready for the Receipt of Payments. Anticipating u rush o pav i vidual income taxes us ws the blanks for Incomes of $5,000 or b are available, the quartors of the I | cal income tax oMce ul 1422 Pennsyl. | vania avenue have hoen remodc | a partition is being placed in the rear | 0 keep the public fr Aiaturiing | the clerks who will h the for fter A they lonyg have b counte experts will < of tuxp prominent fenture dy a number of mes are In exc 000w are waking their payments forms for such returns are now r It i< hoped the forms for the Incomes will Lot hind which t oftic whe most of Al perso vear return bl being the listed the interest re ration bonds con covenant, on whi was paid at in which in 1 on corpo the tax-fre tix of 2 per cent When cou- one v white form, 1001 tained at the | » and the confusion is largely due to the fact that the yellow” form exempts t srporation from Ying the tax, which must then De paid in full by the bondholder. Persons see the word “exemption” on the vellow form and fill it out in p.rtfh»rvm to the white form, not no- ticing that the exemption applies to the corporation and not to the holder No. If the bondholder has filled out the yellow form at the bank he makes no entry under schedule F in his tax return, but lists all his receipts from bonds under schedule G. If filled out the white form he comput. his income tax just as though no of the tax had been paid at the source, but on line 29 of the compu ation form he is allowed to subtract tion. Several instances have occurred in_which bondholders have not been able to remember whether it was the white or yellow form they filled out at the bank at the time of cashing | their coupons, and this causes much delay. AUTO REPAIR TAX RULING. Firms that do a general automobile repair business are not classed as manufacturers by the bureau of in- ternal revenue, but concerns engaged in building tops or bodies either for new or old chasses come in a different ch fication and must file an income tax return as manufacturers, accord- ing to regulations issusd by Commis sioner Wiliam M. Williams. This rule applies, even though the firm in ques- 4s needed and not for the gencral 1 Ce 1921. . Syracuse Girl Bride - - Of Local Business Man MRY. GEORGE M. OYSTER, JR., KFormerly Miss Cecll C. Ready. WILL DISCUSS CHANGES IN RECLASSIFYING LAW Joint Conference to Consider Lehl- bach Amendments—May Offer Improvements. Various amendments to the retirement E Representative Lehlbach of proposes to introduce in ngress to improve the measure will Joint night New Jersey be considered at a meeting of th conference on_retirement Frida at 1423 New York avenue. Chief among the proposed amendments is one to change the provisions of the law which now make it necessary that when an employe has reached retirement age, but has not had fifteen years' serv- ice, he must be dependent upon an ex- ecutive’s certification of efficiency to be able to serve until he can be retired. It 1s alleged that executives in the de- partments, in some cases, have failed to give these certificates of efficiency, although the employes claim that they are perfectly eflicient and able to do the i work satisfactorily. Increase in the annuity now granted superannuates is desired, as is also the, inclusion of unclassified workers in the benefits of the retirement provisions along with the classified civil service workers. AMERICAN ADMIRAL URGES AID FOR RUSSIANS 139,000 Refugees in Turkey Re- ported in Need—Remnants of ‘Wrangel’s Army. Officials of the Near East Relief have received a cablegram from Rear Ad- miral Mark L. Bristol, United States market. i high commissioner in Turkey, urging {Ross P. Andrews, left here this morn- | arrival of the caravan. TRADE BOOSTERS ROVALLY GREETED D. C. Business Men Joined by Gov. Ritchie on Mary- land Tour. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLINTON, Md., January 18.—The en- tire population of the town, augmented by many familles from the surroundifig country, turned out to welcome the | joint pllgrimage of Marylana and | Washington business men who ar touring southern Maryland today with a view of stimulating trade in the rich reglon that lies less than five miles’ ride from Washington. Escorted by Gov. A. E. Ritchie of Marylapd and several state officials, five " bus loads of Washington busi- ness men, headed by Commissioner Charles W. Kuts, Maj. Harry Gess- 1 Inspector Clifford Grant and i | 1 i i i i ing. The party progressed to Surratts- ville, where it was greeted by all the town folks, and all the school children formed in line and waved flags at the Gov. Ritchie, i on this the first visit he had ever made to that town, made a speech to the citizens, in which he advocated proper transportation facilities as the greatest present need of that part of Maryland. Later the conclave proceeded to the town of T. B, where it was also re- ceived enthusiastically by the towns- SHARP DECLINE IN PRICES.; The general level of wholesale | prices _in the United States again showed a sharp decline in December, the Department of Labor has an- | nounced. ! Farm products and foods showed| large price recessions, the decline in i these two groups being 12% and: 11% per cent, respectively, below | those of the previous month.” Chem- | crease of 9% per cent. TFuel lighting materials were 8% per cent ' and metal products were 71 per cent cheaper than in November, while housefurnishing £oods and ‘miscel- laneous commodities each averaged a 6 per cent decline over November fig- ures. Claths and clothing were about 6 per cent cheaper than in December, while building materials showed the smalleat decrease of all—approxi- mately 3 per cent. In no case was the level of prices as high as in the preceding month. (Comparing prices in December with those of a year ago, it is shown that foods have declined 263 per cent, cloths and clothing. 341-3 per cent, 1 59-YEAR WIFE HUNT BRINGS HUSBAND CLUE CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. January 1X.— D. (Ned) Poor of Humphrey, Ark., who lost track of his wife i 1862, when he entered the Confederate |army, and who has never ceased his search for her in nearly sixty years, has applied to Chief of Police W L. Baker here for assistance in locatin her after having received informa: tion that she was in this city. The message received by the chiet was most pathetic, and was accom- panied by a letter addressed to the missing woman asking her to write Poor. ¥ Poor was married in Claiborne county, Tenn., in 1861 and went away to the war in the following year, ac- cording to the letter received by Chiet Baker.. His wife's maiden name was Mary Frances Morris and she may have been married again. The matter was placed in the hands of the detective department by Chief Baker. WISH KAISER TO LEAVE. BERLIN, January 1:.—The Tage- blatt’s Vienna correspondent gives an unnamed authority in Vienna in con- firmation of a report that the Dutch government has expressed the wish that the former German emperor and former German crown prince leave Holland. The ground given is par- ticipation of the Hohenzollerns in preparation fo~a new revolutionary eoup, involving former German offi- cers. - g people and school children. Guests of New Bus Line. ‘Washington business men are today on a 185-mile tour of southern Mary- land in company with a delegation of | Baltimore business men. The entire party, composed of nearly 150 rep- resentative citizens of both Maryland and the District, is being given the excursion by the Tidewater Lines, Inc.. a new bus line runing between ter business relations between the farmers of that region and the larger cities. Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and his staff arrived early at Unlon station and were met by the three District Commissioners, "An escort of Dis- | trict mounted police convoyed the | party from the station to the office of the Tidewater lines, and from there to the District line, where Maryland motor cycle officers took the re- sponsibility of watching over the par- ty until its return to the District to- night. WANTS IMMIGRATION ADJUSTED TO U. S. NEEDS i W. W. Husband of Labor Depart- ment Before Senate Commit- tee Today. There is imperative need for immi- |, gration regulations which will adjust the number of arriving immigrants to the needs of the country, W. W. Hu: band, former chief of the contract la- bor bureau of the Labor Department, declared today before the Sepate im- migration committee, which is holding hearings on the House bill to restrict immigration for one year. Mr. Husband said the “population pressure of Europe” caused emigra- tion, and that the war had not reduced the population of the countries there to & point where it retarded emigra- tion. The House bill will not meet that emergency, the witness said, “It will restrain {mmigration to a de- gree” he added, “but its principal defect is that it favors the people of southern and eastern Europe and discriminates against those af north- ern and western Europe, the ones we want because they are the agricul- tural classes and go to the farms for work, It would be a grave mistake to interfere with the flow of immi- gration of that type.” GIFT FOR EX-CARRIER. Officers of Capital Branch, No. 142, National Association of Letter Carriers, were installed at a meeting held Sat- urday night. Alexander -Holmes, & fe- tired carrier, was the reciplent of a re- membrance from the members of the branch. £ ’ the organization to extend its aid to 139,000 Russian refugees now in or near Constantinople, it was an- | nounced today. Most of these refugees constitute the remnants of Gen. Wrangel's army and other hundreds of thousands are in_the Caucasus and Aleppo districts. The Near East Relief is conducting all the American relief work in Tur- key and Transcaucasia, a statement issued by officials today said. The French Eovernment, it was re- ported yesterday, withdrew from much of the relief work in aid of Gen. Wrangel's followers. Funds were stopped yesterday and other relief will end on or about February 1, it was learned. The announcement came in the form of a letter from Premier Leygues to Russian officials at Con- stantinople, where most of the Wran.- get followers and Crimean refugees are concentrated. ‘“The Near East Relief is already caring for the Russian refugee chil- dren who arrived in Cofstantinople fter the Wrangel defeat” said Charles V. Vickrey, general secretary of that body, here last night. “Wheth- er we can extend our work to take on the adult refugees is a question. We turned over one of our largest hospitals to feed. house and care for Russian children only,. while our bakeries—one bakery alone sending 20,000 loaves to the refugees aboard ships—supplied the bread for all the refugees. Conditions among the Ar- menians_throughout Asia Minor are so appalling that relief appropria- tions now made. already exceed pres- {ent funds. We can onlf trust to the generosity of the American people in this emergency and aim to do the utmost that the contributions we re- ceive will justify.” RENT BOARD RULINGS. Possesslon of Premises Granted in One Case, Denied in Another. William M. Vance, owner of the house at 1106 4th street northwest, was granted possession of the prem- ises in a determination handed down yesterday by the District rent com- mission. The dwelling is occupied by Allen Oliver. In his petition to the commission Mr. Vance pointed out that he desired Al8 and drugs followed with a de- |points in southern Maryland and the !the property for his own occupancy and | District, a8 a means of promoting bet- {and that he had served proper notice on the tenant to vacate. Another landlord, Thomas P. Brown, was denied possession of his property by the commission. The notice to vacate served by Mr. Brown on Rus- sell W. Cullen, occupant of apartment 403, 1319 Park road northwest, was adjudged insufficient under the pro- visions of the Ball rent act. The rental for the apartment was reduced from $47.50 to $3 a month. The rental for 628 L street north- west, occupied by Joseph Wallace, was reduced from $16 to $8 a month. Henry Jackson was the defendant in the complaint filed by the tenant. ‘William M. Vance, owner of the house at 11068 4th street morthwest, was granted possession of the prem- ises in a determination handed down yesterday by the District rent commis- sion. The dwelling is occupied by Allen Oliver. In his petition to the commission Mr. Vance pointed out that he desired the property for his own occupancy and that he had served proper notice on the tenant to vacate. Another landlord, ‘Thomas P. Brown, was denled possession of his property by the commission. The notice to vacate served by Mr. Brown on Rus- sell W. Cullen, occupant of .apartment 403, 1319 Park road northwest, was adjudged insufficient under the pro- visions of the Ball rent act. The rental for the house was reduced from $47.50 to $37.50 a_month. - The rental for 628 L street north- west, occupiéd by Joseph Wallace, was reduced from $16 to $8 a month. Henry Jackson was the defendant in the-complaint flled by the temant. GOV. COOPER TAKES OATH. Begins Second Term as South Caro- lina’s Executive. COLUMBIA, 8. C. January 18.— Gov. Cooper began the second term of_his edministration, when he was inaugurated before the joint assembly of the state assembly at noon today, the oath of office being administered by Associdte Justice Watts of the state supreme court. The governor delivered a masterful address on the subject of education. Lieut. Gov. Wilson G. Harvey ot Charleston wes sworn in as president of the senate, and Walter E. Duncan of Aiken, the only other new state of. floer-elect, was sworn fm.~ "~ ~ - STATUE ON WAY HERE. Tribute to Women for Capitol Due in New York Thursday. The national memorial statue to women, to be placed in the Capitol by {the National W < and other organizations February 15. will arrive in New York Thursday on ithe S.S. Dante Alghier! SOLDIERS ON GUARD ATLYNCHING PROBE Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, the American {sculpirean who recently completed the iAlabama Troopers Implicated statue in Italy, is bringing it to s . e in Death of Striking {country and will be met by a com-: Imittee of prominent suffrag Miner. By the Associated Press. The statue, which includes portrait | busts of Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, will be brought immediately to W :f\smr:xgq By =t or the o Coniizo e iput i gnsad JASPER. Ala, January 15.—State e . facKcaye is now hers ar- | (F00Ds ‘were on gnand in the courtroom here today when grand jury hearings were resumed in connection with the lynching of William Baird, a coal I\’!in!". Eleven members of the Alabama National Guard are under arrest and ranging the memorial services that will accompany the unveiling exer- es. two guardsmen, Guy Cannon and Clyde Springer, were brought from Birming- ham today under military escort to ap- $2441[lm GUUUS PR Seistant Attorey Gonel Wilkerson, SOLDFORSROM in charge of the case for the state, said the grand jury would not complete its investigation for twenty-four hours. Witness Discloses Transac- tion in Clothing Stored for Shipping Board. Previously it had been expected that NEW YORK, January 15—Excess indictments would be returned today The corener’s jury also is still in ses- clothing for United States Shipping Board officers and crews, stored at sion. | Boston and valued at $244.000, w Not Surprised to Learn of Sol- diers’ Arrest. ANAPOLIS, Tnd., January 18. - According to a statement of officials of the United Mine Workers, they were not surprised to learn that ten soldiers of the Alabama National Guard had been arrested at Jasper in connection with the killing of Wil- 1i: Raird, a coal miner. Baird being held on a charge of murder member of the militi; ing on the case, the mine ment said: “This is one of a series of outrage that have been committed the striking miners of Al INDI. UNION DENOUNCES ACT. sold for $80.000, Byron C. Baker, di ! trict controller for the board at Bos- ! ton, today testified before the Walsh | conggressional committee investigat- ing the board's affairs The witness told the committee he had protested to a superior officer against thils flulP.fbul without ‘l; u‘l‘(. P s sales of similar goods, he Eoeante: had “brought higher prices | men in the employ of the Mr. Baker was questioned by Rep-|panies have shot up miners’ homes resentative Tom Connolly of Texas |and wounded women and children a member of the committee, as to his|They have shot down a number of testimony yesterday, when he had|miners for no reason whatever except been advised to leave questions of|to create a reign of terror to break policy and opinion affecting the gen-|the strike. Fifteen hundred Alabama eral organization to the general of-|State troops have been in the strike ficers of the Shipping Board. He had|2zone for four months at a cost to 95id ho had been so advised by tele-|the state of approximately $600,000. phone by Alonzo Tweed general | but there has been nothing for them Sontroller in Washington, and in re-|te do because the striking miners Bly to a question by Mr. Connolly heihave been law abiding and have in- declared Mr. Tweedale told him not|dulged in no disorder. i ive any opinion at all. O Ive Baker also told of a trip| ~WANTS FEDERAL TROOPS. through southern shipbuilding yards and of alleged deficiencies in the con- structlon of wooden ships and in various equipment. SAND AND GRAVEL FIRMS ADMIT LAW VIOLATIONS coal com- Miners’ Union Asks Withdrawalef State Guardsmen. A request that federal troops be seng into the mine strike district in Alme bama to replace the Alabama Natfonal Guard has been received at the White House from the United Mine Workezs of Alabama. The request was referred to the War Department id that officials there had decided that the request for federal troops should come from the governor if the situation was such as to warrant their presence. SPANISH CABINET TO QUIT Dato to Resign When King Re- turns Is Report. January 18.—Decision to re- een reached by the Spanish according to a Madrid dis Four Corporations Plead Guilty, Pay Pines Totaling $40,000, Un- ; der Anti-Trust Enactment. NEW YORK, Jenuary 18—Four sand and gravel corporatis i their officers and directors pleaded ons and ! ed Premier Dato will tion of his ministry the king's return hand the resign | to Alfonso upon { to Madrid from Seville today. 3Advantages ONSCIENCE B R A N D MATTRESSES are comfortable. sanitar: enduring. _Whether cottos felt, silk-floss or hair, the long - fiber filling gives a springiness not fouml in the ordinary mattress. Conscience Brand guilty before Federal Judge Hand| here today o an Indictment syarging violation of the Sherman anti-trust law in connection With & monopoly in | Cow bay sand. { by greed to dissolve the Sand | and Gravel Board of Trade, g¢ which they wers members, and were assessed | fines totaiing $40,000. i od Suc- Widow of Rev. Isaac Atwo: ! e = — : cumbs at Age of Eighty-Four. { ,np\xma january 15 —Tncensed by . Atwood, widow of ireports of attempts to intimidate Ruvx‘l.saiy'h.; /fiw:od. D. D., died yes- | whites and negroes in several sec- ra . residence of her daugh- |tions of the country by persons pos- erday A re Alice Atwood, 1316 |ing as members of the Ku-Klux Klan nclla atreet northwest, where she|Col William J. Simons of Atlanta. had resided since 1917. imperial wizard of the Knightseof Ku- Mirs Atwood was eighty-four vears!Klux Klan, has offered a reward of “Sh Sorn at Clarendon, N. Y. 13100 for the arrest and conviction of S ey 3 in 1917, in this | “any person. anywhere. who uses the Her husband. who died in 1317, 18 to48 | 0 Bty Kiux Klan in an unlawful o3 'whs former general superintend: |purpose or movemet mot sanction ent of the Universalist Churches of {bY rica. A meral services will be held to- morrow morning at 10:30 ¢'clock at her late place of residence. Interment will be at Canton, N. Y. e Philippines Governor Proffered Resignation in Favor of Native. MANTLA, P. I, January 18—Francis Burton Harrison. governor general of the Philippine Islands, offered to ten- der his resignation eighteen months ago upon condition that the Secretary | of War recommend to President Wil- Son that a Filipino be appointed his | successor, he declared at a banquet | igiven In his honor by the Philippine Columbian Association. He said that he made the offer while in Washing- ton in 1919. Discussing Philippine independence, the governor general said: “1°can see In_the future a very beautiful vision. When the flag of the | Philippine_republic shall be hoisted, | when the Stars and Stripes will come floating down to the strains of ‘The ! Star Spangled Banner—that flag, Old Glory, so rich in happy and honorable achievements, wjll' be made doubly Qear because it will mean that the United States will have kept its word to the people of the Philippine Is- lands.” Mattresses In the great sunlight, sani tary plant of the Interna tional Bedding Company only clean, pure new ma terial is used. With its body of long-fiber filling (and delivered in its tight- sealed, sanitary package), & Conscience Brand Mattress is an unusually economi purchase. ! Governor General Harrison has placed ! his resignation in the hands of the Sec- {retary of War. to take effect March 4 { next. He has been granted leave of ab- | sence to that date and will return to| ]the United States by way of Europe | making a special visit to England. | - ! i HOUSE SIZE DEBATED. Reapportionment Bill, Opponents Assert, Will Be Defeated. The reapportionment bill, providing | for .an_increase in the membership | of the House of Representatives from 435 to 483, was taken up today under general agreement for five hours' de- bate, which was expected to delay aj| vote until tomorrow. | Opponents of the increase, after a i man-to-man c¢anvass, declared the bill would be defeated by a big majority | and a substitute one adopted limiting | the membership to the present House total by shifting twelve seats from eleven to eight states. —_— 68 PASSENGERS BURNED. Russians Die When Benzine Ex- plosion Sets Fire to Train. COPENHAGEN, January 13.—Sixty eight passcngers on a Russian r- way train running from Luga, on the Golf of Finland, to Novogorod, south- east of Petrograd, were burned to death when a quantity of benzine be- ing carried as freight exploded and wrecked the train, says a_Helsingfors dispatch to the Berlingske Tidende today. The train caught fire from the flaming flui JAPAN HONORS AMERICAN. Mrs. Charles Burnett’s Poem to Be Read Before Imperial Court. KOBE, Japan, January 17.—Mrs. Charles Burnett, wife of Col. Burnett, attache of the American embassy in Tokio, has had the honor of having her poem, “Before the Shrine of Ise at Dawn,” selected as one of the first ten to be recited before the imperial court. Several thousand poems were sub- mitted from all parts of the empire in the annual new year competition. At dealers in varieties to suit your cause they measure up to e tandard of hygienic qual- ity for bed furnishings. 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