Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1921, Page 2

_admiration for EPISCOPALIANRIFT DISRUPTS CHAPELS Main Bodies of 2 Branches of St. Alban’s to Hold Joint Service. in the resigna- Rev. John L. St. David's and st Events culminating tion February 1 of Saunders as vicar of 8t. Patrick’s ch: parish, have disrupted Episcop church circles in that part of the trict Iying west of Wisconsin avenu and the main body of the two cong gations has arranged hold pendent joint services building ~ opposite chool tomorrow mornine Friction which has de tween the rector of the parish, Dr. Charles T. Warner. and Saunders resulted 1 joint mee of the auxiliar, % of St. Da and St. P: being held J 7, at which Dr. Warner suggested in rels, |Large Delegation of National Wom- BOWLEGS BROKEN AND MADE PERFECT FOR RUTH GORDON CHICAGO, February 5.—When the plaster casts were removed from the erstwhile bowlegs of Ruth Gordon, an actress, who had each leg broken in two places so they could be straightened, Dr. Edwin Ryerson pronounced them “perfect] nt." A 1t will be a few weeks more be- fore she can leave her wheel chair, Dr. Ryerson 1 today. but Miss Gordon smiled happil. the doc verdict. Six w ago she sa eks won Dr. Ryerson’s consent to per- ation, not because of said, but because her her to wear long vanity. she | form the ope | lews compelled dresses on the stage and prevent- ed her from rising in her profe sion. - MEMORIAL FOR SUFFRAGE en's Party Views Statue in Front of Law Library. that the parish vestry b petitioned to ask for Mr. Saunders’ i A motion to that effect 5 to 1. on vestries have no control over calling | or d ing a vicar. it ned. A joint committee repr the two “chapels was then na - vestigate the accusations i the vicar, and at the next meeting of the two vestries they submitted a re- port. saying that the rges made Against the vicar “without foundation.’ Petition ting d to sinst wer Circulnted. meantime the members nfl the congregations had circulated a | petition. which w P nted to Bishop Alfred Harding of the diocese of Washington, < that efforts to hav Mr. Saunder removed be dropped. The b p. however. has taken the position that the matter rests with the vestry. and has taken no official action in the matter. Following a meeting of St. Alban's vestry ry 1 the following notification was sent to M inders: “If Mr. Saunders will voluntarily resign on or before February 1. 1621, | then this vestry will vote him salary to April 1, 1921; this action ken ‘without referen may have been Saunders, all is to any charges that made against Mr. ich charges being ig- nored; this action is taken solely be- cause this vestry is convinced that Mr. Saunders cannot longer continue in harmony with the rcctor of the Ppagish. “Copy of resolution adopted by the! vestry of St. Alban's parish at a meeting held Frids January 14, 1921, EDGAR T. TURNER, “Acting Registrar.” Urged to Resign. Members of the “insurgent” con- gregatidns urged Mr. Saunders not to resign, especially as he had taken no vacation during his two years in| Washington. and they felt he was en- titled to two months’ absence with | pay. Mr. Saunders accordingly called on Bishop Harding. who suggested that! he, the vicar, should resign. Accord- ingly, Mr .Saunders, on February sent his resignation to St. Alban's| vestry. ! There the matter rests at present.| No one has been named by the vestry | to succeed Mr. Saunders. Announce- ment has been made, however, that Rev. W. 1. Winter, a former Army chaplain and now unattached, wiil preach at the meeting tomorrow. Dr. ‘Warner usually preaches in one of the chapels each Sunfay. “The chief criticism that has been mede against Mr. Saunders is lack of tact and judgment,” said Bishop Hard- ing today. “No question has ever| Deen raised as to his good character and his earnestness. But if he can- not get along harmoniously with the rector of the parish he should be transferred to some other fleld. “While I regret very much such dis- sension as this, yet I feel that the matter of dealing with a vicar rests properly with the vestry. and I have referred to them everything that has come to me in the case.” Fight Has Extended. The fight has extended beyond the church organization in the Conduit ! road section, and the Conduit Road | Citizens’ Association at*its last mect- ing, January 27, took cognizance of | the fact that “unofficial reports” had | been received that Mr. Saunders might | be removed. Resolutions expressing | “his 3:; ny sterling | qualitiés” and volcing:the hope that he might remain in hisPresent charge ‘were tnanimously ad by the as- soclation. Sunday school servicés will be held | at 10 am. tomorrow adsthe residence of J. J. Tapp, 5031 Conduit road, for 8t. David's Chapel. Sunday school for St. Patrick’s Chapel will be held at 3 p.m. at the home of C. O. Longstreet, 4582 Condult road. s. GROUND WILL BE BROKEN AT BURRVILLE SCHOOL Ballou Will Officiate at Ceremonies Starting New Addition, North- east Boundary Citizens Hear. { Appropriate exercises for the break- | ing of ground for the erection of the | new addition to the Burrville School, | Division avenue and Hayes street | northeast, wiil eb held at the school | Wednesdiy evening at 8 o'clock, ac- | cordinz to an announcement made at | a meeting of the Northeast Boundary | Citizens® Association last night. Dr. Fi W. Ballou, superintendent of | District schools, will be the principal | speaker at the ceremonies, while As- | sistant Engineer Commissioner Carey | H. Brown, will address those assem. bled at the lot. £ H. D. Woodson, chairman of the | =chool committee, reporte st night } that the contract for the addition | would be let within a feyw davs i On motion of V. ¢ Quissenbery, association indorsed the cfforts of b ineer Commissioner Charles W. Kutz | fore the federal water power commise | sion in behalf of the plans proposed | by Maj. Tvler for increased water supe : ply and hydro-eleciric power for th, territory. The association further sug. gested that dams be provided with losiy for navigation of canal and river crafs, | Rev. mes Johnson, chairman of the membership committee, reported pr ress in the membership drive, and Rev., Mr. Huff, chairman of the committee on streets, stated that much improvement had been made to the strects of that | section. | Need of additional police protection was stressed on account of the frequent fires in the brusn and woods of the | neighborhood. : A resolution Indorsing the eommu- nity chest” method of financing charity | for the District, as outlined by R. Garfield of Cle Ohio, unanimously adopted. | The association indorsed Miss Mabel Boardman for District Con and will urge her confirmation the Senate. —_———— BONUS FOR SOLDIERS. Proposed to Add Tt to Emergency Tariff Bill. Senator McCumber, republican. North Dakota, said he hid “grave doubrs: that the soldier bonus bil} would he enacted Into law at this session. a). though he hoped the finance commit. tee would be able to report it when i by i beth Cady Stanton and Lucrctia Mott | for their services to women and is to | by government emploves during office ih MRS. ADELAIDE JOHNSON. A large delegation of members of the National Women's Party viewed the suffrage memorial statue rep! senting pioneers in the woman’ movement-—Susan B. Anthony. Eliza- at the Capitol to- The statue stands in front of law library on the cast side of “apitol building. is the first memorial —which arrived It to women n.ed to the Capitol February thirty-six national women's organizations, representing between | five and tcn million women which | are co-operating in this tribute at the invitation of the National Wom- en’s Party The statue is the work of Mrs. Ade- laide Johnson, friend of Susan B. Anthony, who made the original por- trait bursts from life. The statute has | just arrived in this country after a six-week journey from Italy, where Mrs. Johnson has been working on it for the last six months. After the first view afforded the suffrazists this morning the statue will be re- packed until near the day of its un- velling, on February 15. ACCUSES COAL MEN. Director Smith for Federal Regu- lation of the Industry. Some men in the bituminous coal industry “have distorted ideas about rights of private business,” and “have had a taste of big profits in recent vears” which will lead them to resist return to smaller pre-war earnings, Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the geological survey, testified today be- fore the Senate committee consider- ing the Calder coal regulation bill. He said the National Coai Association was countenancing attacks on hydro- electric developments to prevent “in- vasion of coal markets’ and thereby nvading rights of consumers.” He advocated government regula- tion of the industry, and during cross- be pre i5 by examination was informed by Senator . Reed, democrat, Missouri, that “you are a fine man for his own business, but they've got you out of it now. SMOKING BAN LEFT TO DEPARTMENTS ntinued from First Page.) because of their smoking. ! ars { ‘How about the Secretary of State, | the Sccretary of the Interior and other | | i cabinet officers?” asked Senator Robinson. “Do you think they should | not be allowed to smoke in their offices Senator Smoot admitted that the amendment would apply fo cabinet | officers. Senator Fletcher of Florida wanted to know if the heads of the govern- | ment departments did not have au- thority row to stop smoking without passing this law. Senator Smoot sald that they did. “You can find notices posted in al buildings prohibiting smoking, d Senator Smoot. “Yet I have gone into rooms in them filled with smoke. No_attention is paid to these orders.” Senator Smith of Arizona declared that he was unalterably opposed to the amendment. Called Blue Law Wedge. “It is an entering wedge for the most contemptible blue laws framed | to suit the taste of some gentlemen who do not approve of smoking,” he waid. The Arizona semator said that once in a meeting of the foreign re tions committee a distinguished mem- ber of that committee had announced that he did not smoke, drink or chew. At the request of Senator Robinson the committee amendment providing $4%6.000 to purchase a site for a na- tional archives building in Washing- ton went over for future action. He said that he thought the government now owns sites which would be more advantageous than the site which it is proposed to purcha WOUNDED HOUND i ARRIVES AT THE CAPITOL | i led yesterday when police lorr into an_ ambuscads near Drunkeen, County Limerick. died to {WORK ON LEGION REPORT. tional leg tive committee of the An Legion sin the national in Cleveland last Sepfem- s prepar a mecting of the committe . and will be sub- | mitted to the 1 executive com- | imittee of the ory ion, which will meet in Rale Hotel Monday. Tuesday and Wedr 2 i Harding. THE EVENIN G STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1921—PART 1. DARING ATTACK IS MADE |GETTING NEW HOME READY FOR ARRIVAL OF MR. WILSON ON KING’S MESSENGER Man Carrying Important Note Es- capes Irish Shots — Bomb Thrown in Dublin. By the Asociated Press. BELFAST, February 4.—Daring at- tempts were made to naval officer engaged as a king's messen- Ber in carrying important government dispatches from Dublin to the mailboat at Kingston for tran don. The mission to Lon- first attempt. made near Trinity Coliege, having failed, a sec ond was made at Balis bridge. This Iso was unsuccessful, of the none s E cer. ts fired hitting the ¢ JUBLIN, February 4. 1,0uses in the villa of Kubrittain, County Cork, Wwere searched by the military todas . Twenty arrests were made, and @ younz man, I'atrick Crowl was killed white attempting from one of the hous. t on poli The first in_ County Armagh occurred las A strong | force of Sinn Feiners made the at- | tack. and after a two-hour fight was beaten off Two bombs were thrown at a motor car this evening opposite Liberty Hall. One of the missile: «.ruck the Four or five civilian were injured. The two policemen who were wound- attempted - street resta fary policeman, postponement dite of the in tion terd a i i | | Me an @ to thi unan- nounced murder trial ari out of the assassnation of court-martial officers in Dublin ast November. Maj. Carew was to n an important witness for the on. e Will Submit Summary of Legisla- tive Committee Activities. A report of the activities of the na- The committee, Chairman G tettman pre. met at the Washinzton Hotel morning, and fter a luncheon at the Metropolitan Club resumed its sessions at 2 o'clock this afternoon Special cons i the report ation will to the statu on looking toward increas pital facilities for men disg the world war. AS THE HARDINGS LIKE IT. | be given | of legis Family’s Cook Shows How to Make Strawberry Shortcake. President-elect Harding's favorite cakes and bread were demonstrated “in the making” by Inez McWhorter, vet- eran negro cook of the Harding fami before a crowd of interested W: inzton housewives last nizht at the Florida Avenue Baptist Chure Strawherry shorteake, “a Ia | made before the students and motion icture camera. €z mixed the dough, inserted the stinwherries and trimmed the cake into the finished i product, exactly in the manner ap- proved by the President- and Mrs. front of a Hot rolls and other foods popular in the Marion household also were de- seribed. —_— CHILDREN SEE FILMS. Dr. Ballou and Commissioners Also at Belasco. “Washington School Children week” was celebrated by the Juve- nile Movie Club this afternoon by the presentation of s special program of children's films at the [l . Mem- bers of the board of education. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of 8chools. and the Commissioners wit- nessed the show, with hundreds of children. Next Saturday will be “Junior Red Cross week.” WILL DESCRIBE FAMINE. Thomas W. Lamont Will Tell of to capture a| ,.,/';/rEn:NL 5 e Jersey, wh ix xhown b home on S stree BRITISH PREMIER DEFENDS PLAN OF d yesterd SUPREME COUNCIL | (Continued from First Page.) of experts to be held ginning next Monday ground taken is that German, Guires her financial experts to remain at home for the present. Terr Severing, Prussian mi of the interior, who fiy put the ban on the wearing of monocies by mem- bers of the sceurity police, has not fied President Ebert that, in vi the “great gravity of Germany’s situ- the comini carnival scason, i the Germuns have been ac- customed to make merry for amonth Differences in China. Deplorable conditions existing among the famine sufferers of China will be described by Thomas W. Lamont. ap- pointed national chairman of the China famine fund by the President, at a women's meeting of the local committee this afternoon at the residence of Mrs, | Norman H. Davis, wife of the under- | secretary of state, 1627 New Hampshire | avenue.” Mr. Lamont will be the guest of honor at ' this gathering, which will | mark the formal opening of the cam- | paign in this city to ralse funds to tide | over 15.000,000 starving Chinese until their crops are harvested. Mrs. Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the women’s committee, will preside. Mrs. Davis will act as hostess, assisted by Mrs. Van S. Merle-Smith, Mrs. Robert Woods P Mrs. Peter A. Jav, Mrs, Irwin Laughlin, Mrs. Reginald Huide koper, Mrs. Warren Robbins. Mrs. Mc Murray, Mrs. Arthur D. Bullard, Mrs Sheldon Whitchouse, Mrs. Grafton | Minot and Mrs. Herbert Stabler of Mrs, Fletcher's committee. SEAMEN BLAME BOARD. ‘Wages Are Cut at Claremont, Va., “Boneyard.” SWPORT NEWS, Va., February 5. —A spokesman for several hundred idle seamen in this port this morning | charged that the Shipping Board has cut wages for work at the Claremont | “boneyard.” where wooden ships are | tied up and that none of the men can | accent jobs there, as their union for- bids them working for less than the scale agreed on some months ago. The Shipping Board is discharging foreigners and there are a good many jobs open at Claremont. Local men with families will be given the prefer- ence, an officer in charge of the work | sald 1 5 LANDOVER. LANDOVER, Md., February Aroused over the narrow escapes 2 number of local citizens are reported to have had recently from being struck by trains at the local grade crossing a movement has been started by the Landover Athletic and Improvement As. sociation to eliminate the crossings. The assoelation hopes to senre either 4 v duct or overheud crossing. A commit. tee consisting of J. L. Rea, J. C. Sherifr and John A. Hurley has been appointed | by the association to decide upon the | SOLVES MYSTERY OF POOLESVILLE WOLF Montgomery county residents had their “wolf” mystery solved today when the truant welfhound belonging to Harvey White of Poolesville returned home with a gunshot wound in his shoulder. He was identified by John Jones as the animal he had shot at last week. ssing from home several the dog, which was brought country by a relative of Mr. White who served in the Al E. ¥. in Germany, has becn running the emergency tariff was out of the way. The committee has not yet de- clded on the tax plan to ise the funds ‘for the bonus, the North Da. kota senator asserted. Senator Harrison, democrat, Missis. sippl, interrupted to say that he in. tended offering the bonus bill as an amendment to the emergency tariff measure and give the Senate an op- portunity to vate om it. rampant through the country, spreading consternation among herds and flocks and frighteéning people. His sharp-pointed ears and other wolfish features gave rise to a report that an escaped wolf was at large In the country. Several shots were fired at the “varmint,” none taking effect until he came in the range of Mr, Jones' shotgun, necessary procedure in the matter, U. S. GUARDS RUM SEIZURES, More_than 250.000 gallons of whis- ky and automobiles worth $1.000,000 | are now in possession of the govern- | ment as a result of its campaign against the fllicit commerce in liquor. according to Wayne B, Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. To guard this and other property scized by the government in en. forcement of prohibition, the sundry civil_appropriation bill, reported ty the Senate, Set aside $300,000, as re. quested by Mr. Wheeler. —_—— ‘WOMAN TO JUDGE MAN JUDGE CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 5.— The unique situation of a woman judge presiding at the trial of a man judge may arise in criminal court Monday, indications today being that Common Pleas Judge Florence E. Al- len probably will preside when Judge Willlam H. McGannon goes on trial a second ur‘;ne, {:hatl;lxed‘wiilh second de- re6 murder in the slaying of Harold 5. Kagy last May, o { marks is to be abolished. He hopes the peo- ple will abandon their preparations for the carnival, but says that, in ase they disobey the order, they will crely punished den and Bavaria aleo have banned masked balls and other uhl car- nivals. Orders to this effcet, issued from Karlsruhe, s tions h, that ng a carnival spirit will be sharply suppressed, in view of the situztion created by the allied repara- tions demands. The Munich govern- ment, explaining the action, says: Merrymaking has no placc among us in these troubled times.” Cannot Deliver Coal. The Berliner Tageblatt toda: shes a memorandum which C Bergmann, head of the German delega- on in Paris, has delivered to the allies, sinting out’ that it is impossible for Germany to continue coal deliverics on the scale provided for in the pa agree- ment_after February 1. It says Ger- many’s industries are suffering from a coal shortage, while the French are sufficiently supplied. Germany, adds the memorandum, has | not received the quota of coal from Silesia she expected after the prom- ises it Spa of I'remier Lloyd George and M. Delacroix. The memorandum proposcs that Ger- | many after tons monthl; ‘ebruary 1 deliver 1,500,000 wd requests a continua- tion of the payment of the five gold per ton premium laid down at Spa, and an additional cash compensa- tion to adjust the difference between inland and world market prices. BERLIN GETS INVITATION. Delegates Formally Asked to Lon- don Conference of Council. PARIS, February 5.—Charles Lau- rent, Freneh ambassador to Germany, resident's furniture from New & unpuacked at the new lized that | s much of | emonstra- | for France as her owing to e 9 ok her great sae s the but Koy T that, at any rate, ke had succeeded roat ), 5 tin bringing tion out of the | chaos, ind unecasiness | | h h nee the signing | treaty { ardieu’s argument 1 debt should be “mo- | counted, M 7r1.|nvl| remotest possi- discouniinzg this debt of obligatio -which imposgible ow-y ing to the troubled condition of lh(" world’s money market —we should re- | fure to do ®#o, as should lose tool nueh on excian: ¢ “We will equaiize our budgets for the n ten ire by int nd by refraining from all negotiations for foreis E between 12,000 0,600 and 15,600,- | 000,600 franes of s in France on! which internai loans can be floated. ¢ We intended o use these until thel time comes when payments from Ger- | many increcse according to the scheds | ule adopted at the Paris conference.” | M. Briand said he did ot bri 2| to the chamber an ironclad contract | which parliament must accept. and that e d:d not ire to put the| chamber n of an ac- complishd, tion, he de- clared, her ap- proved accord, he would go to the Lor conference; if the ch.-m-‘ her disapproved it, then some one else | § must be sent. ! BERLIN BANS FESTIVALS. Merrymaking Has No Place in Ger- many Now, Says Official Order. BERLIN, February 4—It was offi- cially stated today that Germany has | Thix will be the President's “south portico” at hix new home. After 1 to attend the a d financial ' Miarch 4 he will have hix daily sun bath on this porch, at the rear of the { home, overlooking a beautiful garden. ECOLPOYS URGES BAKERS | TO STAY ACTIGN GN CUT MRS. PARNELL, WIDOW OF IRISH LEADER, DIES Former “Kitty 0’Shea” Was Wom- an About Which Revolved Acts of Drama. LONDON, February 5.—Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell, widow of the great Irish nationalist leader, died here this morning. | | Union Chiefs Say Men Are Becom- ing Unmanageable Since Wage Slice. | An effort to clear up the wage con- | troversy between employing bakers and the bakers’ local union is being made this afternoon by John Colpoys, | concitiator for the Department of Labor, who went to a meeling of the ers to ask for an ¢ on of least four days before any action | | Mrs. Parnell, known for many to the worid as “Mrs. Kitty O Wwas a woman about which revolved the later acts of the drama in which years FINDINGS BEING BRIEFED ween the former adherents and oy onents of the leading figure in the volume. Secretary Baker Writing Report of Federal Commission. Washington’s Hope. —_— MRS. S. K. A. BRITTON DIES Wife of Martin Britton, Chicago, Formerly of This City. Mrs. Susan Kirby Adams Power Secretary of War Baker, chairman of the federal power commission, is writing a_summary of the commis- sion’s findings on the Tyler project for harnessing Great Falls, it was learned today. The next regular meeting of the commission will be held February 14, and formerly of this city. died Thursday in Chicago, according to word ‘received here ~ v 1 o = H today. At the today handed the German government |but it is considered likely that if |time of her i A the allied supreme council's invitation |Secretary Baker's report - is _com- | ghe Mra’:a;fi;ag: tlgié‘:‘)r Rdai 1o send delegates to London, Marchypleted before that time it will be|She aiso s of ke RimY Adam 1, to attend the conference on repara- Submitted to his colleagues on the | which 1s well knawn e tome. trording to Borlin advices to | commission, ~ Secretries “Payne and | Mr Tritton ‘ls & prntn D oy 0T the French foreign office. The invi- tation requested that the delegates be given full powers. JOHNSON BILL HELD OVER Committee Votes Against Pushing Measure Excluding Immigrants. An effort to secure immediate action " S mmigration committee Dy the e on bill to exclude Virtu- ally all immigrants for a year was de- ‘;<”3;4‘d today by \'(Pli‘ of 5 to 4. The ajority, headed by Senator Colt, re- publican, Rhode Island, chairman, Poreed over action until next Wednes: Oy, and advocates of the Johnson bill 9t ihat they believed that the meas- e could not be acted upon favorably. OLD HORSE'S FRIEND SHOT. PITTSBURGH, Pa., February 5.—A. S. Reed, a government lock tender on the Monongahela river at Braddock, Pa, and a volunteer agent of the Western Pennsylvania Humane So- ciety, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded today when he remonstrated With James Poindexter for driving an old horse through the streets. ARMY OFFICIALS RENAMED. Maj. Gen. John L. Chamberlain, in- spector general of the Army, and Maj, Gen. George O. Squicr, chief signal officer of the Army. whose terms of oflice expire this month, have been nominated by the President for re- appointment for another term of four Fears each, Meredith, and, if approved, forwarded to Congress immediately, without the formality of a meeting. The Tyler report and also the re- port of ‘the board of engineers for rivers and harbors, which indorses Maj. Tyler's recommendations, will be transmitted to Congress with the find- ings of the power commission. In view of the fact that Secretary Balker, at the Great Falls hearing last week, declared hjmself in favor of water power defelopment generally ! as a_conscrvation necessity, the fact of his writing the summary of the commission’s findings is believed to indicate that the commission will make a favorable report on the Tyler scheme. Hope was expressed in Washing- ton business and clvic circles today that the commission’s report would accentuate the necessity of steps be- ing taken at once to increase Wash- ington’s water supply. It is believed that if the commission myikes a strong recommendation in this matter legis- lation to accomplish it can be rushed through the next session of Congress. Little hope is entertained of action at this session. der Britton of this city. —_— FUNERAL HELD TODAY. Occurs in Baltimore, Miss Adelene Pratt Clarke, sister of Willlam Bowie Clarke of this city, died Wednesday in Baltimore at the residence of her sister, Mrs. John N. cKenzi 879 Park avénue. P ke Miss Clarke was late Daniel and Rachael Belt Clarke of Frince Georges county. M. Funeral services were held this after- noon at 3 o'clock at Emanuel Protes- tant Episcopal Church chapel, corner of Read and Cathedral streets, Baltimore. Interment was in Loudon P: Sl ark cemetery, REBELS KILL AMERICAN. R. B. Case, an American citizen, is dead at the Pilones mines, district of ‘Topia, state of Durango, from gun- shot wounds inflicted by revolution- ists headed by the Arrieta brothers, the State Department was advised today. Mr. Case’s, Mexican wife was wounded in the arm at the same time. The department said its advice: gave few details, but indicated that Case had been fired upon after he had refused to permit the *“revolu- tionists” to disarm him. There is no record of Case at the department, it was sald, and his former place of residence in the United States is not known there, GIRL SLAIN WITH AX. MONTREAL, February 5.—Police today are searching for the murderer of an unidentified young woman about twenty years oid, whose body was found late last night on a side- walk in the suburb of Westmount. Her head had been crushed with an ax, which lay nearby. Miss Mary Girard, a resident of the neighbor- hood, told the police she saw a wom- an fall and that a man who accom- panied her fled. . ¥ Death of Miss Adelene Pratt Clark | | 1 i 1 by BOY READS TWELVE BOOKS IN ONE DAY; ALL HE COULD GET RALEIGH, N: (., February 5-— Loulis Silver, twelve years old, in the seventh grade of the bublic schools of Raleigh, is believed here to be one of the fastest readers for his age in the country. the little fellow a few days ago having read Ive books of the averuge num- of pages in a single day, and iares he could have read several more if “I could have gotten them. In a test given him by his teach- er. Miss Florence Fitzgerald, here today. Silver read 624 words in a minufe and answered every ques- X tly when she quizzed him E he had read. It re- quire boy only about thirty to forty minut to read a book of from 250 to 300 pages. He is a constan itor to the libraries here and it is a sorry day when he t least three books on of Joe Siiver. a who came to Raleigh from ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA. Va, (Special).——Three women, it is stated seels a place on the city school board bruar from the second ward, to fill the va- caney caused by the resignation of W. F. H. Finke. They are Mrs. William J. Morton, Miss Rose M. MacDonald and Mrs. Charles M. Shepperson. The city council, it is expected, will he Joint session Tue nigit to fil the vacancy. Ashoy Biaden also will it is reporte ¥ of Mrs. Morton has by the Cameron Club E waid has the support of the Leagae of Women Voters. Mrs Shepperson, at the solicitation of he many fricnds. today decided to « contest. Already the women are neering among the members of council, and a spiriied fight is This will be the first time fthat the women of Alexandria have sought ot Miss Iebecea Powell, a forme resident of this city, died afternoon ut the Chase Home, at napolis, Md, after a comparatively short iline at_an advanced age. | She was cently stricken with | aralysis. For many years she aught at a private school in this city, which afterward was merged into what was known as Ariinston Insti for Young Womon The by was brought to Wheatley's chape this afternoo Her funcral will ke place at 2 o'clock Monday aft ernoon from Christ i Church. Services will be ted by itev. Dr. W. J. Morton. or of Lpiscopal Chureh, assisted by b rryman Greon, Rev. Dr Wallis and Rev. S. 5. Hepburn. will be in Christ Church ceme- Automobiles driven by . H. Davis of Swetnam, ¥airfax county, and Ernest Thompson of this city col- lided last evening on Mount non avenue, and James Reed and James Wood. ‘occupants of the car driven by Thompson, were sligitly injured Mr. Wood receiv. shoulder and aiso treated at the Ale: Dr. Young. Mr. shock. The state corporation commission has granted a charter to the Capitol d_injurl cuts sdri teed s -8 1o his is being 130spital by ufitred from Hana fro TARIFF BILL LAID ASIDE IN SENATE Sidetracked to Permit Action on Sundry Civil Appropri- ation Bill. The Fordney emergency tariff bill was temporarily laid aside in the |Senate today so as to permit action on the sundry civil appropriation bill When the tariff bill came up auto- matically as the unfinished business of the Senate at 1 o'clock today. Senator McCumber of North Dakota ranking member of the finance com mittes in the absemce of Chairman Penrosc, asked that the measure be Iaid aside without losing its place as jthe untinished business. | ator McCumber said that mem- bers of the House were anxious to have some of the appropriation bills returned to them so that they might be considering Senate amendments. {For that n. he sald, he hoped |the Senate would continue with the | sundry civil bill today. He added that {he did not believe the s of th tariff bill would be impeded by t cour e belief is growing that a vote on the tariff bill will be reached with- in a comparatively short time. Adopts Four Amendments. The Senate got down to business with the Fordney emergency tanft | bill yesterday and before the session lended four amendments had been | adopted Vote on the amendments where a record wias made, showed | supporters of the bill to ha a m {jority ranging (rom 10 to 13. " The committee amendmc o estiab- {lish an import duty of 40 cents & { bushel on wheat was twlce adopted. It was first taken up with only nine | senators in the chamber and accept= |cd without a dissenting vote. i nd an hour of McCumber. After a quorum call debate, Senator ublican, North Dakota. asked for | reconsideration of th: wheat amend- | ment, and it again was agreed 1o, 0¥ a vote of 38 to 28. B The amendment, also from the com | mittee, exempting from a tarift duglr 1 to be used in the manufacture o { rice | E ikewise was adopted anned goods BKe N maments MNxing k. o amend! e o ts & pound on_fresh frozen me and of 25 per cent i valorem on prepared or preserved meats, and exempting from xlnr\ 52 aties all live stock imported ex- | elusively for breeding purposes als | were appro SENATE ROW BLOCK BILL TO BAN LOANS Hearings on Reed Measure to Pro- hibit Further Credits to Al- lies Are Postponed. judiciary com= the indefinite s on Senator A row in the Sepate mittee resulted today in postponement of hearin Finance Corporation of Alexandria. [h i roposing to prohibit fur- with a maximum capital stock of {fifi,,‘,‘:;‘.{;‘ P Uhe Treasury to foreign $150.000 and a mirimum of $50.000. | HCT NS I PiNicholas Kelley, as- The company will deal in stocks, | SOV CCeraiary of the Treasury in bonds and other evidences of indebt: | 200 T G0t iign loans, had been ednes; Ottice are: Thomas Wier, [qummoned to continue testimony as presiden tary; James helton E. Groves. secre- Z. Weir, Frank T. Fuller | {to loans already made, but he never got o the stand. and George S. Groves, all of Wash- jately when the committee inston !m}-‘?m:} nator Overman, democrat, C- M. Morgan and wife have 50ld to | North Carolina, moved to refer the W.'C. Duyall and wife house and lots | pihsure to thie finance committee. 31 and 32 in section 5 Rosemont.| Sunator Reed strenuously objected. Percy W. Pickford and wife and geclaring there was an “important others have sold to John Samuel Lucy | constitutional question involved {H"‘e and wife house and lot 9, block 24, |{hat the bill should be kept befor section 1. Rosemont. the judiciary committee. ; A barn fitled furniture on | “Chairman Nelson said the '!‘reun‘r() ihe v inlacaian i e < Hooff. on|pepartment had promised not to muke Seminarv Hill, three miles west of [pew advances or loans to the allie Alexandria. burned early yesterday afternoon. Blazing grass is thought to have been the cause of the flames. A part of the Alexandria fire depart- but his slul;mon’: V‘l’:.! i ioned by Senator Reed, who de- e the policy was “not to estab- | Tish new credits” and that this did not i | governments, ment went to the scene and prevented | mean that advances would not be a spread to adjoining houses. made on credits already established. John R. Haynes died today at his{ Senator Hoke Smith, ~democratl, home 315 Walfe street. He was fifty- | Georgia, asked the committee to pec- five years old. His funeral will take | gmmend a measure that would “fors place” at 11 a'clock Mamday morrine [piq the Secretary by statute” or exal from Whentley's chapel Services | 5 positive promise from him “not to will ba conducted by Rev. L. F. Kelly assictant pastor of St. Marv's Catho- lic Church. Rurial will be in the Methodist Protestant cemeatery. - ROCKVILE. ROCKVILLE, Md cial) —Frank P. Potomac district, died on Wednesday at his home near Cabin John. aged February (Spe- arding the 15 per cent wage CUl) Charies Stewart Parnell was the prin. | SCVenty-five years. Tis death was jis taken by the men, < . cipal figure. She was formerly the|due to pa s and followed an ill- | He conferred with Albert Schulteis, [ (152! Reur S e fi h r ulte e of Capt. William Henry O'Shew|ness of several vears. He is sur- chairmun of the Employing Bakers'|, g wiq the youngest daugh. f the | . i Association, at the rooms of theljey s john Page Wood. | O €| vived by his wife. who is a daugh- Chamber of Commerce carlier in the | "G5 bedume iveived i an intrigue | ter of the late John D. W. Moore, afternoon. 2 with Mr. Parnell in 1181, when con- {and a son. Dunbar Stome. The fu- Discussing the situation today, JOhn | finyed until late in 1839, when Capt. { neral took place yesterday, burial G. Schmidt, business representative | ('Shca “brought suit fort aioalt | heing In Ok Hill ‘cemetery, Wash- for the union bakers said that the| . gainst his wife. The testimony in] ington. men were assuming an attitude which | {55 Cise hrovided a sensation ae thn{ New officers of the Kensington jwas making control by officials al-|iime, and it was declared to be the|l0odge. No. 198, A. F. and A. M., have most imposainle. chicf contributing cause of Parnells|been instalied as follows: Worshipful | “They are stirred up and indignant | £) as leader of his barty, | master, William R. Hay; senior war- over the wage cut,” Mr. Schmidt said. | " Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea were mar. | Gen. Richard OLfen, L 1 Junloy, “We are finding it more diflicult to| ricd in June, 1891, but the Trish chier. | Warden. Leslie G. Van Fossen: senior reason with them every day.” n lived only a short time, dying|deacon. Smith L. Putnam, junior dea- A early in October of the sume year. In | COT: Charles E. Hood: senior steward, -— 1914 Mrs. Parnell published “The Jous | Guv B. Rowland: junior steward, GREAT FALLS FROJECT Story and Political Life of C. 8. par- | Ered A. Techler: secretary. Elwood aell” the appearance of her work |, Baer: treasurer, Albert B. Bush- ausing notable controvers: be-iM it i Ao N B.I'OO‘(S: chap; 3 {lain, Rev. John W. Austin, and mar- samuel C. Bready. large number the Montgomery Country Club here last evening. It was in charge of a committee consisting of Miss Rose Dawson and George and Robert Peter. The music was furnished by a_Washington orchestra. Miss Helen L. Higgins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charies E. Higgi Tavtonsville, and Paul R. Watkin al, A at a Britton, { farmer of the Cedar Grove neighbor- wife of Martin Britton of Chicago, | hood, were married Thursdav after- noon at the home of the bride's par- ents, the ceremony being performed Rev. L. A. Thomas, pastor of the Cedar Grove Baptist Church. Rev. P. Rowland Wagner. pastor of the Baptist Church, officiated at the marriage here yesterday of Miss Alice Swann and Edgar Soper. both | of Silver Hill, Md.,, the home of the minister being the’scene of the cere- mony. —_— COLLEGE PARK. COLLEGE PARK, Md., February 5.— Renjamin Berman has been appointed in- structor in mathematics and drawing in the college of engineering of the University of Maryland. He holds the degree of bachelor of science from New York University. Prof. Harry Gwinner has been ap- pointed vice dean of the college of en- the daughter of the | Eincering. Dr. R. A. Jeble has been named a member of the staff of the extension service of the university. He took his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota_and his graduate work at Cornell. Dr. Jeble is making his home in Hyattsville. Prot. E. C. Auchter of the horticul- tural department of the University of Maryland has been elocted president of the Eastern Intercollegiate Fruit Judg- ing League. Eight institutions of Mary- land and nearby states are members of the league. The annual contest of the league is to be held next vear at the University of Maryland. A convention for college and univer- sity students of Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia is to be held at Blue Ridge College. New Windsor, Ma,, February 18-19-20, it Is announced. The purpose of the meeting is to get students in touch with the needs and opportunities of life investment in the worla field. _Agriculturists, engineers. doctors and teachers are turning more and more to the opportunities of the untouched and undeveloped lands of the orient, South America and Africa. it will be brought out. ] Stone, a citizen of attended a dance | but the upshot g cr dollar.” loan another o mpanes |of a half hour's discussion ponement of the bearings. ——————— SCHOONER PAST SAVING. Craft Ashore on Diamond Shoals Identified; Crew Missing. NORFOLK, Va., February 4.—Iden- tification of the schooner aground on Diamond shoals was established as the rroll Deering of Boston late today i z Res r 2 the wrecking tug Rescue o Norfolk succecded in reaching the abandoned craft. Inspection shows i tha echooner is past saving, and i l;};:ui»-(d:u» that dynamite wili be used after the vessel is stripped. The {Carroll Deering is valued at $275,000. Capt. Merritt of Portland, Me., for- mor ®kipper and part owner, is here, but is unable to throw any light on Why the vessel was abandoned. He Wiy in command when the schooner {tarted for South America in Septem- {ber, but was taken ill and was forced o put back at Delaware breakwater. Chpt Wormwell succeeded him and |carried the ship to its destination and {started back with it. A crew of six- {teen was aboard. {"“It is feared that the crew aban- doned the ship during a gale off the const and has been lost. All sails Were set when the abandoned craft % sighted and life boats are miss- Mutiny theorics are discounted apt. Merritt. w ing. by HUSE BEGINS NEW DUTIES. European Fleet Commander Takes Third Naval District. NEW YORK. February 5. —Rear Ad- imiral Harry McLaren P. Huse today asumed command of the third naval | district, succeeding Rear Admiral James H. Glennon, who will retire | February 11 _after forty-seven years {of mervice in the country’'s naval forSa% Admiral Huse. who had been in command of the forces operating in European waters, was inducted into his new post with the customary ceremonies at the fleet supply base, Brooklyn. OWES MEXICO FOR ARMS. Germany in $1,000,000 Debt for Undelivered Munitions. SAN ANTONTO, Tex. .February 5— Monio City newspapers reaching San Antonio vesterday state that the pres- ent German government owes Mexico approximately $1.000,000 for arms and ammunition ordered during the ad- Ministration of Victoriano Huerta and Which to date have not been delivered. —_— EX-PRESIDENT DIES. Don Alberto Membreno Once Execu- tive of Honduras. SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- vador, February 4.—Don Alberto Membreno, former president of Hon- duras, died in Tegucigalpa today, ac- cording to advices from the Honduran capital. He was prominent in the political life of Honduras, in letters and diplomacy, and had held many important governmental posts. The government has ordered national mourning, and Don Alberto will be buried with official honors. In Octo- ber, 1919, and again in February last Don Alberto, together with Dr. Na- zario Zoriano, headed revolutionary movements in Honduras, but they were not successful in their attempi to overthrow the government.