Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 2

{educate the people and then see that they LAUDS CHIEFOFD.C. " TRFFGPOLE Capt. H. A. Lewis, Portiand, . Oreg., Discusses Prevention ": of Auto Accidents. At fifty miles Drove Ollie Pidd. He thought he wouldn’'t Skid, but did. 5 —Rome (N. Y.) Times BY THEODORE P. NOYES. Prgise for Capt. Albert Headley. chief of the traffic squad of the Met- ropolitan police department, and & tribute to the power of the press in the prevention of automobile acci- dents, is contained in a letter received from H. A. Lewis, captain in the traf- fic departiment of the city of Portland, Oreg. “The new: Lewis, “have literally « judge, district attorney. coroner, City attorney and the police department the driver and his employer, and the person responsible for the accident. Wwhenever and wherever they have failed, either by omission or comm sion, to do their whole duty in each case where there is a person injured or killed. Tribute 10 Capt. Headley. “You have a fine man and an effi cient traflic manager m Capt. Head- Jey, who was the head of the traf- fic department in your ¢ity when I was last there. Give all your support and from what 1 know of his knowledge and ability 1 believe he will be able to get you out of your present difficultic < Capt. Lewis advises Washington to .give Capt. Headley all of its support. ‘The advice is good. and, of course, - applies to the local police department also. Capt. Headley. with the united :support of the community agd the po- Jice department, can work wonders for the city Statistical Showing. According to statistics compiled by Capt. Lewis, Portland had forty-two ‘deaths in 1919 from automobile acei- writes Capt. apers here,” o ‘crucified’ the dents and twenty-eight in 1920 ‘Washington had sixty-seven fatal- lities in 1919 and fifty-six in 1920 Portland is a little more than half sthe size of Washington. Causes of accidents. of which there ere 10,038 in Portland. are gi%en as ,:mo- Carelessnes 51: failure to_give right of way, 1.896: skidding. ,437; cutting cornmer. 3i8; failure to ‘give signal when turning. 307:speed- jine, 277: reckless driving. 18%: jay- walking. 119; driving on left side of defective brakes. 114: no passing vehicles at inter- “sections. 36 operating automobile while intoxicated. 25; jockeying on ibridges, 24; glaring headlights, 21: double parked, 19; inexperienced, weather. 7: reverse direction in the middle of block, 6: defective gear. 5; lost comtrol. 5; sidé curtain on ma- Istreet, 11 lights, ¢ chine, 4; engine stalled. 4: improper parking. 2; no tail light, 1; obstructed traffic view, 25, “You will notice,” says ‘Capt. Lew “that in the comparison of fatal acci dents with 1919, we have decreaged our casualties by an appreciabie extent, in spite of an increase in the number of machines. Education Campaign Noted. “I attribute this result largely to a con- stant educational campaign by the Ore- gon Journal, which has carried daily stories, furnished by this department, showing the number of accidents daily, the €ause of them and what should-have A been done to avoid them. “The traffic department has carried on {an educational campagn in all civic clabs and like organizations and. in addition. has tried hard igwen the traffig laws | the original charter with the ‘signa-|the ironworkers declined to comment withost fear-or . inmy Belief, | tures or the twenty members wholon the situation. 5 ‘has succeeded in_jmbuing the public with a ‘wholesome respect. oLl'l"x‘;‘iaw. Sl My advica,is go ind your police { dq;agxiilcnl. fi“ ll!*fllem enforce the Jaw on every violatdr regardiess of ‘pull or power.’ Line up your civic clubs, courts and hw—:ml- bodies and see ; that they do th duty in each case. ! Give every move plenty of publicity and s live up to that education.” [NEGRO WOMEN WANT VOTE icm.: White Womer Relinquished ' Ballot to Deay_Them Rights. . Colored women from twenty states today presented 1o the National Wom- an’s” Party %, that it urge Congress to investigate the alleged disenfranchisement of negro women ! hi‘ the south at the last general elec- tion. ¢ % The petition was presented follow- ing a meeting held at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, 19th and L Streets. under auspices of the Nation- al Association :for the Advancement tof Colored People. 2 ' “Violations.of the intent and pur- poses of the Susan B. Anthony amendment.” a statement presented to the woman's party read, “occurred in the elections of 1920 in the south- ern states, and it has not been made Secret that wherever white women | were not allowed the ballot it was counted worth while to relinguish it in order that it might be denied col- ored women.” - Mrs. Mary Church Terrell led the { delegation which presented the plea to Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the | woman's ‘party. —_— { Occupation of Germany Useless Under Red Regime Is Threat. BERLIN. February Plea for a reduction in the size of the indemnity will include a veiled threat that bolshevism will gain the upper ! hand in the republic if the fath-rland is forced to pa; . marks annually i the cals will never recognize the Varis de- imands and because of the violent methods which the radicals will adopt the entente powers. in the evept that they should be forced to occupy large districts in_Germany, would never be able to compel the laboring people to work for them in order 10 produce enough goods to make the occupation worth while. - out several billion gold It bolsh e ism succeeds Besides pointing out all this the * German counter proposals will try to impress upon th the fact that the German government is quite willing to pay a reasonuble indem- nity. but that the idea of paying of indemnities for a period of forty-two Years. which would mean that the people of this and the next zenera- tion would have to work all lives to make up for the sins of their : fathers and grandfathers, would never be approved by the masses The organ of the uitra monarchistic party, the Deutsche Zcitung, even Zoes S0 far as to predict w if the entente should insist pying additional areas in Germany to force the Germans to carry out the Paris and Versailles demands to the letter. BIGAMIST TO OCCOQUAN. legal Ceremony. John E. S. Brown, formerly a r { Tine, attached to the Mayflower, Pres- jident Wilson's yacht, has been sent to Occoquan for six months by Jus- ) tice Gould in Criminal Division 1. fol- Jowing his plea of guilty of bigamy. Before the, expiration of the time { set in an interiocutory decree of di- ‘vorce obtaind by his first wife, the ; marine had gone through a ceremony with another woman A The court was inclined to place the { young ‘man on prevation 16 bia count el could prevail on the Marine Corps { authorities to restore him to duty. Counsel was unable .to secure such ' assurance, Lincoln Day Orator in House of Representatives PLANES CONBING TEXAS FORFLYER Fear Lost Aviator Was Forced to Land in Re- mote Place. By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., February 12. planes from- every station in Texas, New Mexico and Arizonaleft Fort Bliss today to search for Lieut. Alex- ander Pearson, who has been missing since he left here Thursday. Wirele: and telephone messages have been sent to all stations and postmasters wlong the route between El Paso and {Houston, in an effort to locate the { missing pilot, who expected to land at Houston lute Thursday A new crankshaft was fitted in Pearson’s machine at Columbus, N. M. ninety miles west of here, on Tu day, and officers at Fort Bliss express the fear that bearings may have run hot and caused a sudden and possibly disastrous landing at some remote {Placo in the sparsely settled country of west Texas, . icut. Pearson, when he left h Wwas en route to Pablo Beach,. F jfrom which point he was to make a Army | H RICHARD Ex-zovernor of Iilinoix, whowe father {wax a war-time governor nnd a cloxe | transcontinental n Dicgo, {personal, professional amnd political [Calif., in an effort to ablish . a | friend Abraham Lincoln. {record for the-flight from the Atlan- jtic to the Pacific. He expressed the opinion the flight could be made in {less than twenty-four hours ! Last Seen Over Saragosa. | | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., February 12.— i Telegrams to headquarters here of i lthe Sth Aerial Corps from the post- i {master of Saragosa, Tex., stated that |an airplan passed over that town at | |noon Thursday headea east. ! This is the route Lieut. Alexander { iPearson, missing aviator, would have i {chosen had he been flying a com- {pass route. The time also corre- !Gen. Pershing in Charge of |sponds to the date of departure from El Paso, at 10:30 Thursday morning. Ceremony at Building on |CARPENTERS DEMAND PAY Sixteenth Street. DURING TIME OF WALKOUT Attended by picturesque and inspir- ing ceremonies, and in the presence of a distinguished gathering of men land women, the corner stome of the| | Racquet Club, at 1135 16th street Theater Seats. northwest, was laid at noon today. o Gen. John J. Pershing conducted the ! Should workmen be paid for time {ceremonies “and personally sealed |they lost by refusing to work? { within the massive block the records! Tiis is the proposition involved {of the organization and the various | s P rolve a S mementos, using a silveria jurisdictional dispute between ! Which glistened under the | Penters and ironworkers at the Cap- rter’s sun, : iitol Theater building project on | e e { Pennsylvania avenue between 10th fand 11th street His remarks were devoted only to a| Carpenters were “taken off the job" ription of the articles which were t v last Wednesday when a jurisdiction placed in the block. The skillful man- | question regarding the work on seats | ner in which he handled the trowel i came up. Seats are constructed of and the cement brought forth cheers|approximately 80 per cent iron and from the audience. The articles | ¢ 20 per cent wood. The, carpenters placed within the block were handed iwanted jurisdiction for the majority to the general by Mme. de Sibour and : iof the work. The ironworkers were Mrs. Henry C. May, wife of the presi-ito start the work. The carpenters dent of the ciub. lwalked out. | { President May opened the ceremonies ! Tne proposition was settled, it was | jby briefly welcoming the gathering|thought, when the owner declined to {and stating the purpose of the cere-)continue construction of the seats by | imony. He then presented honofary|taking the ironworkers from that | i membership in the club to Gen. Persh- | work until next Wednesday, when a | { ing. Chief Justice White of the United { conference of union leaders of the | | States Supreme Court and Speaker of |two organizations will he hed to the House Frederick H. Gillett. termine under whose scope the work | Prior to the services the Boy Scoutcomes. i Band played. under the leadership of | A report emanated in labor circles | { Bandmaster Kidweil. The invocation [today. however, that carpenters will jwas offered by Rev. C. Ernest Smitlf, lrefuse to work unless pay for the {rector of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. | time lost is given them. For three { The articles which were placed inldays and a half they were idle. They | the cornerstone consisted of penniesiwant the pay for this time. They of 1921, copies of local newspaper|were mot discharged or locked out. articles concerning the club, a copy of | Officials of the carpenters and of | | Had Quit Work Because of Dispute ‘With Ironworkers Over 1 {signed it on January 27, 1920, all of | ( them being present at the dedication, | THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN 12. — Germany's | government established by the radi. | their | Former Marine Pleads Guilty to II- | with the exception of Maj. Guy T. iScott, who died recently; a.copy of | the club's seal; copies-of the constitu- | tion and by-laws: photographed copies of the club's prospectus, signed by J. H. de Sibour, architect, and Harry { Wardman, builder. respectively, of the clubhouse; the first report of the club; a photograph of President-elect Hard- ing. and a scroll containing the names of the 750 members of the club. Be Finished In July. The building was started Septem- ber 4, last year. and is completed up to the third story. It will be seven !stories in height and is expected to | be completed the latter part of July. On the platform during the cere- monies, besides President May, Gen. Pershing, Mrs. May and Mme. de iSibour, were Chief Justice White, Speaker Gillett, Miss Mabel Board- jman and Maj. John G. Quekemyer, jpersonal aid to, Gen. Pershing. 1 WELLESLEY CLUB MEETS. Outlines Plans for $10,000,000 En- dowment Campaign. A rally was held by the Washing- | ton Wellesley College Club in celebra- tion of the opening of the midyear campaign for the $10,000.000 college endowment fund last night “at the College Women's Club, 1822 1 street. Flans and progress of the were foutlined by Mrs. Samuel ~Herrick, ichairman for Washington of the cam- | paisn. Frederick William Wile spoke on American-British relations. Mrs. Margarita Spaulding Gerry read one of her latest short stories, *Indirect Lighting { {TEST FOR SCHOLARSHIPS. |Catholic University to Make An- | nual K. of C. Awards. The annual competitive examina- tions for the graduate scholarships in | the Catholic University will be held { April 16, it was announced today. } These scholarships were created by the fand of $500.000 donated by the Knights of Columbus to Cardinal Gib- chancellor of the university, SoVen years ago. All students who have received the bachelor's degree in arts, s nce or {letters. and those who are in the | senior year at the college, are eligible | to take the examination. The scholar- iship entitles ‘the holder to board, i i bons, lodging and tuition in the university the academic year, - for the minimum y | quired for obtaining an advanced de gree stership in arts, one y ! mastership in philosophy. two years | the doctorate in philosophy, “three | years { Thus far 120 students, representing twenty-cight states, At present twelve hold- Knights of Columbus scholarships are striving for masters® degrees in arts, and ten are working for doctorate in philosoph. P LIQUOR UNDER SKIRTS i AT STEAMSHIP’S PIER | BRINGS WOMEN FINES NEW YORK. February 12— women smugglers whose showed a pronounced expansion after a visit to the Italian steam- | ship Giuscppi Verdi, were arrested by customs inspectors and o search revealed twenty-one quarts of liguor sewn in hanging during scholarships. th of x contour from their wauists th their skirts. The liGuor was confiscated #nd_ecach woman. one a grand- mother. was fined §5. Recent orders were issued to customs guards to scrutinize care- fully all persons, especially wom- en, who visited vessels at piers, in an effort to check the flow of con- traband liquor coming ashore. The discovery is belleved to have un- covered one means by which an extensive traffic has heen carried on. 5 ; ¢March 11, 1920, have won these | 1 [CAMPBELL WILL BE | i PUT ON TRIAL MONDAY I Charged With the Murder 88 Mes. | 1 A K il Gertrude Mann la}'ch" : 11, 1920. s William Henry CampbeB, colored, | will be called for trial Momday before | {Justice Gould and a jury in Criminal | {Division 1 to answer an indietment for murder in the first degree in connection with the death of Mrs, jGertrude Mann, a music teacher, on Porter street, near {Connecticut avenue. The body of Mrs. Mann was discovered the next day. Campbell was arrested on suspicion | iJuly 28 last, when a detective noticed his_peculiar actions going from door | to door on 1ith street near Monroe | street northwest. The prisoner s al- | {leged to have confessed to killing Mrs. Mann, and gave the detectives information which led to the recov- ery of a watch and ring taken from the deceased. The jewelry was locat- | fed in Baitimore. i | The prisoner is also reported to | ihave confessed that he perpetrated ! {the assualts on two women, onie white | land: the other colored, for which i {Louis Randall, colored, was convicted | fand is now at Atlanta penitentiary | ’!t-rving a term of forty-five years. iPresident’ Wilson commuted a lifé | {sentenced to that term. Efforts were | {started to have Randall pardoned on | {the strength of the alleged confession | {of Campbell. i i Assistant United States Attopney | Paul. B. Cromelin will condugt the | prosecution, while Attorney Royal A. | Hughes will appear for the prisoner. 5 JOHN J. O'DAY DIES. | Native of This City Stricken With | Heart Disease on Street. John J. O'Day, sixty-seven years old, 1921 35th street, was stricken with heart disease at 9th and F. Streets carly this morning while returning home from the plant of the Washing- ton Steel and Ordnance Company, Anaco: where he employed as an inspector. He was taken to Emer- ! gency Hospital, where he died at 3:20 ioclock, his wife and sons being at | his bedside when the end came. { " Mr. O'Day. a native of this city, was la son of ‘the late James and Nora O'Day, his father being one of the iearly residents of the Georgetown section. The deceased was postmaster |in Tenleytown for a number of years, land was a delegate to the convention which nominated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency on the occa- sion of the first time he was a candi- ate. Mrs. O'Day who was a Miss Rebecea | {O'Brien prior to her marriage, apd four sons survive Mr. O'Day. The sons are John Joseph, jr.; J. Wilbur, J. Francis and C. Cyril O'Day. Funeral services will be conducted in St,| Ann’s Church, Tenleytown, at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. members of Keane Council, K. C.. with which de- | ceased was afliliated, attending. In- terment will be in Holy Rood ceme- tery. i i —_— CHILD SEVERELY BURNED. ! Helen Linkins, Three, in Critical Condition at Hospital. Helen Linkins, severely burne three Years old, w abgut her body, fa ce, hands and legs when her dress ignited from a fire in a stove jn the Linkins home, 208 Quincy pfice northeast, about 11 o'clock this morning. "Mrs. Linkins was in the yard in the rear of the house when cries of the little one attracted her attention. She rushed to the aid of the child, but the latter had been severly burned before she reached her. The mother accompanied the burned child to Casualty Hospital, where physicians were unable to hold out much hope for hgr recovery. Little Helen was playing in the front room near the stove when her dress ig- nited.” i No ELECTRICAL WIZARD ON HIS SEVENTY-FOURTH Thomas Alva Kdixon, photographed while he was at Inboratory of one of his planty in East Orange, N. J. did not take the day off to celebrate ki and hearty as eve: work in the The famous imventor in birthday anniversary. CHARACTERISTICS OF LINCOLN SEEN IN SPEECH AND INCIDENT Views on the Importance of Education and Its Relation to F ree Labor—Belief in the Efficacy of Prayer. | Aspects of Lincoln’s character her to all sorts and conditions of Americans, as exemplified in his writ- ings and spoken words, of his public and private life come readily to mind on the anniversary of his birth, each ¥ear bringing out new ones and showing the disposi- tion of the nation for which he died to enshrine every possible detail of he career of the martyred President. Lincoln's wit and humor, his re- ligion, his broad humanity, patriotism and humble spirit; his views on all questions; how he looked, what he said and what he liked, all receive attention. The tall figure arguing with Scward or Stanton or with some overrated military man, or the same itall figure bent over the counter of Stuntz’ quaint shop on New York ave- nue in an efort better to discrim- nate between rival sets of toy sol- diers, are alike pictures precious to the minds of those who knew him in he flesh and those who reverence him in the spirit. Importance of Education. Here are some of his views on edu- cation, as evidenced by his address to the people of Sangamon county, de- livered March 9, 1832 “Upgn the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or sys- tem respecting it, I can only say that I°view it as the most important sub. ject which we as a people can be en- gaged in. That every man may receive t least a moderate education, and there- by be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries, by which he may duly appreciate the value of our free institutions, appears to be an object of vital importance, even on this account alone, to say mothing of the advantages and satisfaction to be derived from all being able to read the Scriptures and other works, both of a religious and moral nature, for them- selves. “For my part. T desire to see the time when education—and by its means morality, sobriety, enterprise and in- dustry—shall become much more gen- eral than®at ‘present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advance- ment of any measures which might have a tendency to accelerate that happy period.” Labor and Education. The close relationship between free labor and universal education was emphasized by Lincoln September 30, 1859, when he gave the annual ad- dress before the State Agricultural Socicty of Wisconsin. “The old general rule was that edu- cated people did not perform manual labor,” he said. “They managed to cat their bread, leaving the toil of roducing it to the uneducated. Thi was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, 80 long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, specially in these free states, nearly all-are educated—quite too nearly. all to have thé labor of the uneducated in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. “It follows from this that hence- forth educated people must labor. Otherwise education itself would b come a positive and intolerable evil. country can sustain in idleness more than a' small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. From these premises the problem springs, ‘How can labor and education be the most satisfactorily combined “By the ‘mud-sill' theory, it is as- gumed that labor and education are incompatible, and any practical com. bination of them impossible. * & » “But free labor says: ‘No’ Free labor argues that as the author of man makes every individual with one head and one pair of hands, it was probably ‘intended that heads and hands should co-operate as friends, and that the. particular head should direct and.control that pair of hands. As each man Has one mouth to be fed, and one pair of hands to furnish food, it was probably. infended that that particular pair of hands should feed that particular modth—that each head is the natural guardian, director and protector of the hands and mouth in- scparably connected with it; and that being 80, every head should be cultl- vated and improved by whatever will add to its capacity for performing its charge. In one word, free labor in- sists on universal education. Train Bearing President-Elect. “This train will be entitled to the vhich each year endear him still fur-; and incidents | road and all other trains must be kept lout of the way.” So runs the first footnote appended to a long-ago schedule of a special train run by the Great Western railroad Mon- day, February 11, 1861, sixty years and |one day ago, from Springfield, TIL, to y the eastern boundary of that state, bear- ing “his excellency, Abraham Lincoln, President-elect,” on the first lap of his journey to Washington for his first in- auguration. Several copies of the schedule issued | to all_employes of the road concerned | were preserved by the engineer of the {train, from whom F. L. Harvey of this city obtained it. The special, according {10 modern standards, was pretty slow. {It left Springfield, the state capital, at 8 a.m., got to Danvill the home of Uncle Joe Cannon, at twelve minutes after noon, and reached the state line at 12:30, four and a half hours after #ts start. All trains to be met and passed had to be on a side track at least ten min- utes before the arrival of the special, {according to the instructions issued by |F. W. Bowen, superintendent of the Iroad. ~ Agents ‘and telegraph operators lat all stations had to be on duty and Teport the train’s time back to Spring- fleld. Al foremen and their crews had to be on the track and “know positive- ly that all was righ Linecln’s Belief in Prayer. That Abraham Lincoln believed thoroughly in the efficacy of prayer is evidenced by an anecdote related by the late Gen. Daniel E. Sickles during the latter’s lifetime, and called to the attention of The Star by Mrs. W. B. i Deseribing Mr. Schwab as th {to the He Is s n.le1 now famous nsl i SAYS CLEMENGEA ~PRAISED SCHWAB E. N. Hurley, Before House Committee, Defends Work . of Shipping Board. ¥. N. Hurley of Chicago. hairman of the Shipping Board, testi- | fied today before a House committee | that he had been told by Clemenceau | at the Paris peace conference that the | appointment of Charles M. Sch | dircetor general of the Emerzency Fleet Corporation had frightened the | Germans, heartened, the French and enthused the British. Mr. Jurley appeared before the com- mittee, which js investigating opera- tions of the Shipping Board, to de- scribe the difficultes encountered in the rapid creation of the government merchant fleet during the war. Chair- man Walsh questioned him at length former | i as to the services rendered by Mr. Schwab, Praises Service to Country. “fore- -in_the coun- | Mr. Hurley praised his services government during the war and | told the committee that he had been | instrumental in getting Mr. Schwab to serves with the fleet corporation. He had donc 8o, he sald, kecause he realized that “satisfactory progress | Wwas not being made in the building of new vards and in the construction | of wooden ships.” i Reviewing the board's work gener- ally durink the war, Mr. Hurley said | mistakes had been made, but that they were inherent in the maguitude of the job of expanding many fold the | {ship construction facilitiés of the country. He declared that, in spite of the many difficulties encountered, the board was able to turn out ships in great gnough numbers to help turn the tide at the most critical period of the war. Work Appreciated Abroad. The Shipping Board's efforts were appreciated abroad, Mr.-Hurley said: “Why, the English, French and Ital- ians—and even the Germans—were astounded at what we did,” he de- clared. Outlining the rush job which the board faced, Mr. Hurley asked: “In the circumstances which then existed is there any man of affairsi who would contend that the job could be done with that high degree of ef- ficiency that would commend itself to competent business men in ‘times of peace, or that there could be exercised that rigid economy which might have been possible had the ships been con- structed when peace prevailed?” Conditions When U. S. Entered War. When the United States entered the war, Mr. Hurley said, there were| thirty-seven stecl and twenty-four | wooden shipyards in the country, em- ploying 44,000 men. At the peak of activities this force was increased to 381,000, with 200.000 others in indus- trics providing ship materials. __The witness defended the account- ing system of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. A modern business method was adopted, he said, but its operations was intgrfered with by the 1053 of skilled accountants who were lured away to better jobs in private industry. g gRh most captain of indust try, —_— SENATORS DISPUTE OVER COAL INVESTIGATIONS Committee at Odds During Consid- eration of Calder Regu- lation. _Senators engaged in commitlee con- sideration_ of thn Calder coal regulation -allegatlons that the National Coa! Asso- ciation of mine operations constituted a combination to maintain coal prices. Foster of Mount Rainier, Md. It seems that Sickles lay wounded in a Wash- ington hospital, with one chance of re- covery in 500, according to his sur- {geons. A bullet at Gettysburg had shattered his knee and severe com- plications had ensued. The President drove out to see him. “I never prayed so fervently for anything in my life as for success for our arms at Gttysburg,” Lincoln told the wounded Union general. “As I me, and I knew that God had an- us on the field. Now. I am in a prophetic mood.” the President continued, according to Gen. Sickles. “The doctors say you have one chance in 500. I say you will get over this trouble, outllve the war and be able to serve your coun- try in years to come.” ———— | l0ne Beaten by Classmates for 0b- | je}:tionuble Remarks. A student at George Washington University, said to be imbued with radical opinions, was beaten by sev- eral of his classmates yesterday aft- erncon, following derogatory remarks he is alleged to have made during a i discussion in an ancient history class. | The student in question is said to {have taken issue with statements made by Charles C. Swisher, profes- sor of the history. class, and made an effort to expound his doctrines { against the wishes of the Instructor and members of the class. He was quieted, but after the close of class, it is said, several students stopped ! him in the street in front of the uni~ versity at 2023 G strect and beat him. Prof. Swisher declined to discuss the affair today. He admitted that one of the students made disparag- ing remarks while he was discussing | medieval history, which caused some disturbance. He denied knowledge of the street fight. TIME TAKEN FROM LEAVE. Veterans Excused From Duty for Exercises at Arlington. There is considerable objection in} the various departments of the gov- ernment today brought about by the issuance of an order yesterday that! veterans desiring to attend the cere- | monies at Arlington national ceme- | tery Tuesday, February 15, to com- niemorate the sinking of the battle- | I ship Maine, may be excused at 12| o'clock on that day. A 1t was stated today that the variois | bureau chiefs of each division were ! told that the time absent would be | charged to the annual leave of the voterans. This is the cause of the objection. { The naval program of our and paper.” dollars’ In the Magazine Section of the new craft, their tonnage an What About That Big U. S. Navy? The ships are under construction—millions of worth of them—and when they are completed the United States will have a sea-fighting force second to nome. Order Your Copy of Tomorrow’s Star Toda; country is not a thing of “ink Tomorrow’s Star is a detailed article on the great project. lists and names of d fighting power, together with designs and photographs of all the new classes, from “subs” to the monster warriors of the deep. prayed a feeling of peace came over|and impartiality of my conduct of this swered ‘Yes':to me and would be with ; clared. S'[UDENTS IN CLASH. ’ iofllces seeking such evidence. {303 10th street. He also had a jimmy, | Officers and attorneys of the associa- tion joined derfals of the charge after Senafor Reed, democrat, Missouri, re- ferring to alleged transcripts of organ, { zatlon meetings produced by Representa- tive Huddleston, democrat, Alabama, { said that “even a coal man i .presymption of innocence until guilt is proven,” and asserted “innuendo” evi- dence was being recorded. “I am perfectly willing to let the record stand as to the entire fairness hearing,” Chairman La Follette de- ‘Every member will form his | own judgment.” Senator Reed replied that he was not “criticising the chairman,” but did name Mr. Huddleston. He asked that | all of the directors of the association | “‘be brought here and then we can go to the bottom. Fletcher Lewis, attorney for the as- sociation, said the Calder Senate com- mittee had ransacked the association | Sena- tor Calder was immediately called in, though Chairman La Folleite remark- ed that the “Calder committee is not on trial.” | Senator Reed remarked that “some- body did some pretty coarse wdrk at those offices, if my reports are cor- o H Senator Calder said that some of the committee agents might have been “overzealous,” but that the coal asso- ciation could protect itself. ADMITS GUILT, POLICE SAY Colored Man Said to Have Broken Into 303 10th Street. | A young colored man, who said he is | George James Williams, twenty-two | years old, of 437 I street, was arrested | in an alley near 10th and C streets| about 12:15 o’clock this morning by | Doliceman Draeger and Special Po- liceman William Young. ! Williams is alleged to- have had in | his possession an expensive coat and | other property taken from a store at the police say. corresponding with an | instrument that had been used to| force open a rear door of the 10th | street establishment. bill today got into serious differcree nv"l entitled to | GTON, D, C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 121—PART T.° ADMINISTRATION SEEKS FACTS ABOUT REPORTED VLADIVOSTOK SHOOTING ‘ toda commanding invest! American naval Secretary cabled to Admiral Strauss, the Asiatic fleet, 1o reports that f ,sallors had been fired upon Vladivostok, presumably by officers, and one of nde Daniels ate them The Navy Department has ceived no advices reg incident, and Secretary Danie corporated in his message to mirai Strauss a copy of press patches from Tokio telling of ck - Sta Ame « Department also cabled jcan cousul at Viadiv stok for a report on the shootin The embassy at Tokio forwar 10 the department a press acoou published there, which said 1} two former Russian officers been arrested. e e U. S. SAILORS FIRED AT IN VLADIVOSTOK STREETS Believed Red Plot Americans to Action Against to Arouse Japanese. TOKIO, February 11.—Five Ameri- bluejackets were fired at known persons in Viadivostok o'clock Tuesday night, one of the being wounded, says the Asabi Sh bun's Viadivostok corresponden day The Americans, an policemen. arrested three Rus- sian officers formerly under the lat Gen. Kappel, once commander of the western armies of the On ment, the correspondent add: The impression in Vladivostol, cording to the correspondent. is the attack was arranged by can by un- to- reinforced B - jsuffered - | the sk govern- that | com- munists with the object of strainirg WARD CANDIATE MENACED BY BOVB Explosion at Political Meeting in Chicago Injured Six Men. e Associated Press CHICAC | | | | ! ebruary A bomb h ward dem- night at the nimeter head eadq rters injured six to p @Andrea, ez that ward, 1 It w by for city ad Lay Anthe council from who 4 narrow s him = hol wail of speak- Just fin- of about had wd who for has represented city council and a candidate for couneil at 1 Powers, 2 and lection 10 city February » would nance such and that the el an action b he had agr Saturday to o cut campaign. Wo of d'Andrea’s precinet captatns ken legs, one had his leg and several others were which police assert ~d from the roof it was exploded flue to the bomb Woman in a red speeding aw ediately afte explosion. but from a n to halt them. For several years d'Andrea has con |tested political honors in the I w ed with nduct a Iblown o hurt. A i to vicinity ith lic nine relations between Japan and the|teenth ward with Dowers but Pow e United States. s been regularly re-cleeted, until —_—— now he is the dean of the city counc, ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA, February 12.—Prop- erty sales just recorded in the of of the clerk of the court: Mrs. Stella Link to O. Ashby Reardon, house and Rosemont: | Judge L. C. Barley and wife to Judge iot 9, block 16, section 2, CALLS LIQUOR INTERESTS IN CONFERENCE MONDAY Dry Commissioner to Meet Divi- sion Heads and Others in J. K. M. Norton, one-half interest in two squares of ground bounded by Unusual Parley. Montgomery, Fayette, 1st and West | Fa s streets; Carroll ® Pierce, trustee, to LOUISVILLE, Ky.. February 12— Jennie Bennett, house and lot 15, |COmMMittee repgesenting liquor many. block 2. scction 1, Rosemont; Annie | fACtUrers and exporters has been call- 3. Cranford to Milton C. Moor. lot on | ¢d to meet in Washington Monda. the east side of St. Asaph street be- | With Prohibition Comm = John, tween Princess and Oronoco streets. { F. Kramer, Internal Revenue (om . In the police court today the case | Missioner William M. Williame, a gy against the driver of a truck and his helper from Washington, of extracts alleged to be in viola- tion of the law, furnished a bail bond in the sum of $100 for their appear- ance before the grand jury. did not appear in person, a repre- sentative of the firm being present, together with Attorney Charles H. Smith for them. The bond of $2.600 for the truck still stands, the trial. The court has sent a sam- ple of the extracts to Richmond to be tested. hearing. A white man and a_white woman, also charged with dispensing ex- tracts, also were held for the grand jury. and furnished bond in the sum of $100 each. An cntertainment was given night in the Young People’s Building by Lone Star Camp, Junior Guard, Improved Order of Red Men. Rev. Dr. John Lee Allison, Second Presbyterian Church here, will deliver an address at reys tomorrow. lain Perry C. They waived a preliminary Wilcox will preside. BERWYN. Md., February 12. Branch: points restored. the recent change in schedule h. been flled with the Macyland public service commission wi a hearing by the Berw Park associations. A ‘resolution w. adopted urging the couaiy sioners to include in their to be made next month a {sum to guarantee the continuation of the county social service work und the work of the county school nurse. | The motion was made by Dr. A. O Etienne. The association voted (o be- come a member of the couniy com.- munity council. The matisr of the erection of a town hall wes discussed H. Smith pre The Club Unive: will giv ‘of Marylang Gle- a concort Tuesday Church. —_——— . RIVERDALE. RIVERDALE. Md.. February Ernest Edwards McNey, ear-old son of Mr. 22, and Mrs. Ed. car-old son of Mr. and Mrs. David C. Buscall. have been bitten within the last few days by a dog here. Mr. McNey and Mr. Buscall believe that their sons were bitten by the sam dogz. At Rivere first sale of proper! on which taxes have not been paid sixty-eight pieces were- sold lic auction to the highest bidder, is announced by Hector C. town treasurer. The sale sufficient to satisfy the tax it MoKnew, br about YATTSVILLE. ‘When taken to the first precinct po- lice station, the police reported, the | i prisoner admitted having entered the ! | store and other places, and named an accomplice. A second colored man seen by the police this morning made | his escape. i WILL AID CAPITOL GUARD. Marines and Mounted Police Will Be at Capitol March 4. ! United States marines and mounted | police of the District of Columbia will | | assist the Capitol police in handling| the crowds at the Capitol during the | inaugural ceremonies for President- elect Harding March 4. it has been an- nounced by David & Barry, sergeant- at-arms of the Senate. The work on the stand for the Pres dent-elect from which he will make his inaugural address on the east| front of the Capitol is progressing! rapidly. A roof over the stand has| been constructed so that the voice- amplifiers may be used, carrying the speech to the farthermost persons in ! the crowd that is expected to assemble | on the Capitol plaza. i JUSTICE OFFICIAL RESIGNS Special Assistant to Attorney Gen- eral Will Join Law Firm. Charles H. Bradley, for the past five ' years special assistant to the Attorney General, has tendered his resignation from the Department of Justice and on February 15 will join the law firm of Carlisle, Howe & Swayze. During his service with the department Mr. Bradley has been in charge of the trlal of cases before the.Court of Claims. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 12— Mrs. Alfred D. Bailey of Bladensburg, | chairman of the law enforcement committee of the Prince Georges Coun- ty Federation of Women's Clubs, denicd that she is a candidate for sheriff of Prince Georges county. “The sheriff’s job is a_man's declared Mrs. Bailey. “A woman place is at home with her children. She declared that she was more inter- in seeing that the “right kind of was_elected. “HOLD-OVER” TOMCAT WILL FEEL ‘AT HOME WITH REPUBLICANS Tom, the Post Office Department cat, is waiting to welcome the next Postmaster General. Appointed official rat catcher and mouser of the department in 1909 under Postmaster General Hitch- cock, old Tom is still on tne job. Changes of administration mean nothing in nis nine lives. His twelve years have Seen 'em come and go. Saucers of milk may come and saucers of milk may go—down his throat—but Tom holds his place in the civil service unmolested. ts are excepted from the usual civil service examinations,” said_an old biography of Tom. Democratic cats got after his hide, but Postmaster General /Burleson upheld the civil service policy, and Tom found himself safe. So he still catches vats and mics, and expects 1o Jdo it ior a while yet. One of Tom's most ardent friends ani protoctors 1. the de- partment is 1saac £. hing. v who {are employes of a wholesale house, who had aboard the truck a quantity They pending last pastor of at Camp Humph- evening. Camp Chap- Judge J. H. Shepherd addressed the Febru- ary meeting of the Berwyn Citizens' Association. It was announced that a | ;. ioint committee from the Berwyn and | which cares for the Washington s lle associations would wait | cestral upon oflicials of the Washington Rail- way and Electric Company in a few days in the hope of having the oid schedule from Washington to these | A protest against | by Stephen Reid h 4 request for ‘n and College s | evening in the Berwyn Presbyterian | thirteen- | McNey, and George Buscall, twelve- | at pub- | ght | resentative of the Attorn nera office, and five chiefs of prohibition enforcement divisions to redraft regu. lations governing the liquor trafh: The committee is composed of Thoma« S. Jones, Louisville, liquor expert, rop- resenting the Kentucky distillers. A L. Cummin, Baltimore, cast ry tillers; Henry M. Naylo, Roches ¥., rectifiers: Alphons V: importers; Granville Whittlesey, Ni York, gin distillers, and John H. Finn of Cincinnati, brokers’ representative. At the time Attorney General Palmer issued his ruling that the authority of the government to per- mit withdrawal of liquor from ware- houses was limited to manufacturers and wholesale druggists alone, it w. announced in Washington that since under the law permits to wholesale liquor interests as distinguished from wholesale druggists could not legally be issued, it was necessary to rc- draft the regulations. Calling of liquor interests before prohibition enforcement officials has l)lo—\'vr before been known, the callin » of the conference for Monday e« tablishing a precedent, it is under stood. —_— GIFT TO ENVOY DAVIS. Mrs. Davis Also Receives Memento of S\{lgrnve Manor. LONDON, February 11.—The British anch of the Suigrave institution home in England, made a today to John Davis, the retiring American am- ador, of an oil painting of the shington manor house at Sulgrave It presented Mrs. Davis with an album of photographs |showing the recent restoration of the manor house. and also with a silver {Georgian teapot dating from 1787 Because the ambassador is indi {posed at present, the ceremony took iplace at his private house, where many distinguished persons gathered {for the occasion. {farewell presentation = w | BISHOP FARRELLY DYING. Hope for Catholic Bishop of Cleve- and action deferred. Viliam M. Dwyer entertained with stories and land Is Abandoned. jokes. Ice cream and cake was sorv- | KNOXVILLE, Tenn. February 12. ed by the ladies. President Herbert | Hope for the recovery of Bishop John I, Farrelly, head of the Catholic diocese of Cleveiand, was abandoned today. The bishop has_been ill from pneumonia since last Sunday. His case was con- sidered serious but not hopeless until late yesterday, when he suffered a col- lapse of the heart. Dr. W. E. Merrick, the bishop's Cleve- {land physician, arrived in Knoxville last {nicht and a consultation between him- self and Knoxville doctors was held. { The bishop has been in Knoxville since last week. | WAGE CASE TO BE HEARD. Appeals From Minimum Pay Be- fore Court Monday. The District Court of Appeals Mond: will hear arguments of counsel on the appeals of the Children's Hospital and Willie A. Lyons, an elevator operator at the Congress Hall Hotel, from the deci- i i { sion of Justice Bailey of the District Su- | preme Court upholding the validity of the minimum wage law | The hospital claims that it cannot be foperated if required to pay its woman employes the minimum rate of $16.50 per jweek, and the operator at the hotel claims that the law infringes her right to contract for her services as she sees fit. Attorney C. B. Ellis appears for the appellants, while Corporation Counsel Stephens will defend the law. A brief of about 400 pages has been filed by the supporters of the law, in which are set forth the average wages paid female | workers in various industries and the {amount needed for their maintenance. ROCKVILE The recently completed high school building at Fairland was dedicated yesterday afternoon. The exercises {were in charge of the Fairland High School Improvement Association, and were presided over by Odorian W. Roby. chairman of the board of school trustees. Addresses were delivered by Dr. A. F. Woods, president of the Univer- sity of Maryland, who discussed “What the School Means to the Com- munity”; John A. Garrett of the Rockville bar, whose topic was, “Schools Versus Taxes” and Prof. Edwin W. Broome, county superin- tendent of schools. who talked about “Student Life.” Col. Charles W. Con- ley also spoke briefly. In the early afternoon luncheon was served by young ladies of the community. .The new building is a pebble-dash structure, contains four rooms and cost about $14,000. The principal is Elmer R. Schwab. A license has been Issued for the marriage of Miss Helen Converse Browne of Waupaca, Wis., and Mar- cus H. Hobart of Evanston, Ill. -, his fol- .