Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1921, Page 2

JEOR COALITION RULE ‘fled Leader Said to Have § Opened Negotiations With RS ¢ - c { Social Revolutionaries. My the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, March 21.—Negoti- ations looking to the formation of a cvalition government for soviet Rus- sia have been opened by Nikolai Lenin, bolshevik premier, with lead- ers of the mensheviki and social} revolutionaries. says a dispateh from Reval to the Berlingske Tidenie. Reds Now Govern Georgi: BATUM, Georgia, March 20.—The Turks who recently occupied Batum bave left, and a soviet Georgian gov- ernment has been established. Rus- | sian and Georgian ships in the har- bor have been declared state prop- erty. The Turks are shelling Batum, doing damage to residences Rebels Advance on Chita. PEKING, March 19. crsistent reports from Harbin state en. Baton Michel Unmgern-Sternberg. leader of a ferce of Russian revolutionaries and Mongolians, is advancing toward the | Lake Baikal region. evidently intent on cutting off the Russian soviet forces at 'Chita. The soviet leaders are report=d (o be comducting a hasty mobilization. ¢ but to be meeting with considerable opposition owing to the popularitv of | Ungern-Sternbers. who commands a large force of Buriat cavairy Warsaw Rejoices Over Peace. WARSAW. March 19.— Premier; ‘Witos. standing on the stage of the | Grand Opera Houss last night. iniomi- | ed the audience that peace had been i { signed in Riga between soviet Rus- |, sia and Poland, 4 The premier's speech, which had tbeen intended for delivery in the diet. | { which l-d to uncovering of the mys- 1920 Cotton Crop Greatest Since 1914, Figures Disclose The largest cotton crop since 1914 and the sixth Iargest in the Ristory of the country was Erown lust year. Gimming wta- tinticx for the 1920-21 season, announced today by the cenm hurenw, shew a tetal of 13,365,- 54 equivafent 300-pound bales comprise_the 1920 crop. That i about 2,769,000 cquivalent 500- pound balcs less than the reeord crop of 1914, and ix slightly smatler tham the 1904 crop. The censux bureau's figures of cotton actually gimmed, which are accepted as the final pro- duetion statintics, show the cTop to be 78,351 bales more than estimated by the Department of Agriculture last December in itn final forecast of the year. | | | MISSING VIRGIE ALBROOK IS FOUND AT HOSPITAL Search Made Since Saturday for Her Results in Discovery After Treatment for Illness. Miss Virgie Albrook, sixteen-year- old visitor from Georgia, who nad been missing from the residence of S. Veirs, 1414 Massachusetts nce Saturday afternoon, found this afternoon at Emer- ney Hospital, where she had been %en Saturday by partiex unidenti- w ' A Star reporter took Mrs. McMillim, sister of the girl. to the hospital to- duy about 30 o'clock. ldentification was established and reunion cele- brated. The girl was in a semi-conscious condition when taken to the hospital turday, but attendants heard her the address “1414 Massachu- rvenue.” This furnished the clue | tery.,She is on the road to recovery. wae received with chéers by the gathering, among whom was Hugh S. Gibson, United States minister to-Po- | land, the diet having adjourned be-| fore mews of the signing of peace bad been received. z The treaty with the soviets, Premier ‘Witos said, brought peace not onmly to Poland, but to the whole of Kurope. Poland’s energy, he added, which for ‘ the past seven years had been de-! voted to war, would now be directed toward peace and bringing Poland to Der proper place in the world LENIN RAPS COMMUNISM. BY PAUL S(OTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Copyright. 1821. PARIS. France, March 21.—Almost ! simultaneously with the signing of al peace treaty or so-called commercial | agreement between Britain and Rus- sia, dispatches from Reval anunounce that Lenin has persuaded hisx asso- cistes that Russia must abandon com- mumism for the next ten years at| lesst and invite foreign bourgeois | states to assist in Russia’s ecomomic vided here as to Whether these important events will Wesken or strengthen the boishevist dietatorship. French leaders say that | Lioyd George personally believes that | Bolshevism is about to fall and that he | Signed the Russian agreement merely | s0p to the British radicals, who! are angry because Britain joined with | Frauce in extending the occupation of territory. - RUSSIA UNABLE TO EXPORT. ‘American trade with Russia is far more a political question than an egonomic one so long as Russia is in of the bolsheviki. Secretary 4 of the Department of Com- Jmevce said today in a statement. . There can be no real return to pro: duction in Russia under the soviet -@€omemic system. no matter how | much they moderate it in name. and | therefore Russia will have no con-| siderable commodities to export and! consequently Do great ability to ob- | tain imports, Mr. Hoover said. He continued: “There are no export commodities fa Russia today worth consideration except gold. platinum and jewelry in | the hands of the bolshevik govern- ment. The peopie are starving. cold, underclad. I they had any consum- able commodities they would have | used them long since. { “No better indication of the destruc- | tion of production under the bolshevik | System exists than in the case of | flax. Pre-war Russia produced 500,000 tons of flax per annum and herself | comsumed 120.600 tons. The produ tion in 1920 was about 46.000 tons— with mills and lande at least capable | of spinning 000 tons and the: population underclad. In any event o consequential exvort flax able, nor ever will be availabie under this ecomomic system. “Nor can trade with Russia. under & government that repudiates private property. be based on credit. Thus the whole guestion from a trade point of wiew develops into furnishing com- modities equal to the gold. platinum snd jewelry, variously estimated from | $00,000.000 to $200.660.000. in the hands of the bolshevik government. and | After that has been expended there | ea® be little expectation of continued | trade. There has been no prohibition | @n trade for a long time. so far as| exchange of commodities is coneerned. | Trade is open through the Balti states. and Italy has been trading in the south. The real blockade ha Deen the failure of the Russians to preduce anything except gold and platinum to trade with has been but for zold because its title has been ealled into question by the French government and by threats of private actions im the courts on the ground l little trade A little after 1 o'clock Saturday aft- ernoon the young girl left her home to go to a drug store at Scott Cirale According to information furnished eye-witnesses the girl. became ill. f to the pavement apparently in a faint, and was vicked up by two young men. who supported her and carried her a short distance. She was puf in a passing automobile and taken to the hospital. SIX RENTALS REDUCED BY DISTRICT COMMISSION Decisions Allow Present Rates in Three Cases and Increases in Two. Six rentals were reduced by the Dis- trict rent commission in determina- tions handed down today. Three rentals as now in effect were ap-| proved. while two were increased by | the com follows: Joseph F. Smother. 1516 26th street northwest: present remtal of $19.40 a month apprcved. R. W. Keyser, de-| tendant. John Zanelli, first floor apartment, 05 19th street northeast: rent reduced | from $13 tc $12 a month. Annal Worthington. 2d floor apartment, same address; rent increased from $11 to $16 a month. Thomas F. McCor- mick, owner of the apartment house, complainant in both cases. i Melville G. Curry, 1727 9th street northwest; rent increased fror: $28.50 to §: a month, Notice to vacate | served by William S. Phillips declared insufficient. George F. Henderson. 201 Tennessee avenue northeast: rent reduced from $37.350 to 332.50 a month. Richard | ‘Wagner, defendant. 1 H. R. Aunson. apartment 7., the' <mithfleld, 1115 9th street northwest; rent reduced from $60 to $47.50 = month. Walter D. Roney, apartment ! | | Engineers. sion. The list of decisions PACKERS DISPTE OPENED BY INON Secretary Davis Hears First Argument in Initial At- tempt to Mediate. Spokesmen for the pacRers’ em- ployes presented their side of the dis- pute with their employers over wages and working conditions at a confer- ence shortly before noon today with Secretary Davis at the Department of Labor. Secretary Davis met both sides fo the controversy and them an- nounced he would call the conference for 2 o'clock this afternoon. He saw the representatives of the packers' employes separately. Seeretaries Hoover of the Departmemt of Com- merce and Wallace of the Department of Agriculture were invited to sit with the Labor Secretary at the conferonce this afternoon. Thé representatives of the packers were heard by Mr. Davis last week, and before .going formally into the matter in an effort to arrive at some satisfactory adjustment, Mr. Davis gave the workers' spokesmen an op- Portunity to present their case. Secretary Davis said he planned to call freely upon Secretaries Hoover and Wallace for advice. “If a question arises that relates to conditions in Europe.” he sald. “I will call upon Secretary Hoover's knowledge of those conditions. On questions regarding the stock indus- try 1 will ask Secretary Wallace's advice.” Others at Comference. Besides the three cabinet officer: | those attending the conference were James L. Condon and €arl Meyer. for the packers; Dennis Lame and R. S. Erennon, for the employes, and Hugh L. Kerwin, F. P. Marsh and Howell Davis, members division of the Department of Labor, 1919 of the Alschuler agreement of 1917. Representatives of allied nmions 2iso attended the conference, among them being J. J. Brennan of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, George Orris of the Inter- national Carpenters’ Union, James P. Noonan, International Brotherhood of 1 Electrical Workers; F. C. Bolan, Inter- national Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers; Harry J. Carr, International Association of Ma- | chinists, and James A. Coolye, Interna- tional Union of Steam and Operating Dennis Lane, seccetary of the Amal- gamated Order of Meat Cutters and Butchers'” ‘Workmen of North America, and R. 8. Bremnan, attorney for the order. who arrived in Washington Yesterday, conferred with Samuel fompers, president of the Ameri Federation of Labor, last night. Vi Gompers Backs Empleyes. Before going into econference Mr. Sompers said: “It goes without say- ing that the packing unioss will have the moral support of the Americas Federation of Labor. The fact that | the representatives bring with them @ vote showing the zimost unanimous support of their rank and file is an added reason for their eounting on our support.” the federation would go further than to lend its moral sepport. Any fur- ther action, it was said, would require the vote of the executive counell of the federation, which could be takem v_telegraph. Neither Mr. Gompers nor any mem- ber of the delegation conferring with him last night would make a formal statement regardi the ~ situation. This would have to wait, they agreed, until after the meeting with Secretary Davis. Result of the meeting was awaited with unusual interest im of- ficial circles as the first attempt of the ‘new administration at mediation in a labor dispute. 9. same address; rent reduced from 365 to $47.50 a month. The F. H. Smith Company, defendant. John D. Hunter, 1521 Tth street! northwest: present rental of $30 a | month approved. The F. H. Smith' Company, defendant. Jonn W. Transue, apartment 302, the Saratoga. 653 East Capitol street; pres- 'enl rental of $20 a month approved.| Harry E. Gladman, defendant. Robert Adams, apartment 402, 2109 F_street northwest: rent reduced from | > to $60 a month. J. C. Weedon & o.. defendant. Albert W. Krebs, apartment 2, 12 Massachusetts avenue northwest: rent reduced from $100 to $30 a month. Mrs. A. B. Byrne, defendant. EDITORS WIN STRIKE. Binghamton Papers Beat Printers After Two-Week Suspension. BINGHAMTO! N. Y., March 21 Binghamion newspapers under an open-shop policy today published dis- play -advertising after nearly two weeks' suspension, due fto 2 strike of unicu printers seeking to enforce de- mands. The striking printers expressed con- fidence that they would be able to break into the ranks of the non-union men when the publishers attempt to replace strikebreakers with men seek- ing permanent positions. [ SEEKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE Ethelbert B. Frey, member of the bar, was cited today by Justice Staf- ford to show cause Thursday why he hould mot pay temporary alimony to s wife. Gertrude L. Frey. The court also enjoined the husband from meo- lesting or interfering with his wife or echildren. The order of the court is based on a muit for an absolute divorce Sled by the wife. She tells of the mar- riage September 11, 1905, and that they have two children. Attorneys Le Roy Pumphrey and J. D. Eason, ir., appear for the wife. ROBBED ON STREET CAR. Edward L Hoever, avenue, Clarendon. Va., was rebbed of his pocketboek, comtaiming $13, While on'a Sth street car last night. Abraham Mallinoff, 1555 Sth. street, reported the taking of two suits valued at $120, from his home Satur- day night. William Wyman, 2415 “20th street reported his apartment ‘was robbed last weejs of $50 worth of jewelry. John 'D. Huater, 1521 7th street, told of burglars entering his store and stealing an overcoat valued at $40, Entrance was gained to the busi- ness house of M. A. Leese, 614 Stk street, by breaking a glass in a side window. The cash register was rob- bed of 330. 22 Sherman THE EVENING STAR of the conciliation | who participated in the extension in | Mr. Gompers did not indicate whether | SILESIA NOW PART OF GERMANY AFTER PLEBISCITE YESTERDAY MAP SHOWING TERRITORY POLAND LOST AT POLLS. (From s Map Copyrighted by Nationsl Geographic Soctety) CARDINAL TAKES FRENGHFOREGAST TITOLAR CHUREH LS. Philadelphian at Ceremony in f}Viviani Mission Seen as Pav- Impressive Setting at ing Way to Evolve Ameri- Ancient Altar. can Acquiescence. Bt A e B By the Ansociuted Press. ROME, March 20:—Cardinal Demnis| PARIS, March 20.—The Petit Pa- J. Dougherty of Philadeiphia took |Fisien deciares today that the mis- sion of former Premier Viviani to the vosscssion of his titular Church of Sts. Noreus and Achilieus here this afternoon with impressive cere- monies. The church, which was beau-| tifully decorated with red damask |paving gold fringes, magnificent | hanging lamps and flowers. crowded with diplomatic representa- | tives, prelates and members of the { American colony. including the four- teen clergymen who accompanied Mgr. Dougherty from America. A portrait|2rable frglr? e l;l_:‘e‘d}-seg:’rz:‘;: of Cardinal Dougherty and his coat|io modify the pact in accordance with of arms hung opposite the portrait of | President Harding’s ideas 1ts pro- Pope Benedict. {posals will naturally be examined Father Lais, rector of the Church of.! with the most friendly attention. the Oratorlans, which has jurisdic- | “Nothing, for example, prevents the tion over the Church of Sts. Nereum| members of the league of nmations from and Archileus, recelved Cardinal |being grouped by conmtinents, as the Dowgherty, who wore his crimson |republicans in Ameriea seem to wish, robes The mew American prince of (but it is essential that a commence. the church was welcomed by Mgr.| ment should be made by common ratifi- | Corretti. _papal undersecretary of | cation of this diplomatic work of Ver- state, who acted as assistant bishop, | sailles on which France's very future haviug Mgr. Michael J. Crane of{depends. Philadclphia and the Rt. Rev. Mgr.| ¥Nothing is more legitimate than that Patrick J. Supple of Roxbury, Mass. | America should keep aloof for the time as assistant prelates. while Bishop |being. But the day she is willing to | Baward P. Allen of Mobile, Ala., rep- {come to our side she can do it, only rescated the American . hierirchy. |in ane vz:—jhy ratifying, with the reser- Bishop Allen. on the special request ' vations judges necessary. the treaty of the pontilf, had deiayed his de-|of Versailies with the pact of the league parture from Rome in order to par-|of nations. The writer then predicts ticipate in today's ceremonmy. how such a line of action Is likely to be Cardinal Dougherty ascended the |received, saying that recent comversa- throme and was greeted with an ad- | tions which the French ambassador has dress of welcome by Pather Lais, after |had at Washington seem to show the which Mgr. Spolverini, apostolic pro- | new administration is keenly desirous themotary, read the papal bill con- iof taking a stand beside France. ferring _ the church on Cardinal| “President personaily.” he Dougherty. The latter replied in a | deelares, “seems to be favorable to im- speech in which he expressed grai-|mediate ratification of the Versailles tude to the Pope for assigningjtreaty, and Mr. Hughes manifestly him as titular of a church of such [shares this feeling. aneient history, “thus bringing me| In conclusion, the Petit Parisien says into closer touch with this religious|the Viviani mission “can have only a body dear to the English-speaking |Deneficial effect on the evolution of the world, especially because it numbered | American people toward the French in its ranks the profound and original | Views. thinker. that master of stately styl the great-souled Cardinal Newman. The choir of the American College, conducted by Mgr. Rella, vice director of the Sistine Choir, sang the Te Deum, after which Cardinal Dougherty imparted the benediction. JAMES D. SABINE DEAD. Civil War Veteran Succumbs to Heart Disease. James D. Sabine, an oid residesat of this city, died in his apartments, on H street near 15th, Saturday after- noon, from heart disease. Funeral services were held at Gawler’s chapel, 1730 Pennsylvania avenue, this aft- ernoon, and burial was made at the Ariington national cemetery. Mr. Sabjne was a veteran of the civil war., having served as a pay- master's clerk in the Navy from No- vember, 1862, until September, 1863. Ia November, 1863, he was appointed a general service clerk in the adju- tant general's office, War Depart- ment, and served there until 1398, when he resigned to emgage in pri- vate pursuits in this city. At one time he served private secretary to Adjt. Gen. Townsend and afi erward was closely associated with Adjt. Gen. Drum. He reached the higheat clerical grade in the adju- tant gemeral's office and for many years was 'in charge of the miscel- laneous division. United States must be purely a mat- ter of courtesy, as no expert, fimancial or otherwise, accompanies him. The newspaper forecasts the line M. Vivi- ani will take if President Harding should question him concerning the was | league of. nations. “He will set forth that France can- not coneeive of any future agreement {that does not take the Versailles treaty as its base, and the pact of the league of nations, which is insep- | WOMAN DIES IN THEATER. Mrs. Pauline Wassung, Forty, Vic- tim of Heart Disease. Mrs. Pauline Wassung, forty years old, wife of Henry Wassung, 1513 Bu- chanan street, died suddenly last night while attending a show at a local thester. Two physicians reached Mrs. Wassung shortly after she was stricken, but were unable to do any- thing for her. Coroner Nevitt viewed the body and gave a certificate of death from heart disease. ‘Funeral services for Mrs Wassung were conducted in Hines' funeral parlor .at 9:3¢ o'clock this morning, and the body was taken to Paterson, N. J., for interment. SHOOTS MAN DEAD. SCOTTSBORO, Ala., March 21.—While on his way home from church service last night, D. I. Ambrester, well known planter of this county, shot and killed Guy Odel, who, acording to Ambres- ter's report to authorities, renewed a long-standing feud. The killing took place at I'izgah, in the Sand mountain section. Ambres- ter came here and surrendered. FIRST DAY OF SPRING FINDS JAPANESE CHERRY TREES IN POTOMAC PARK DRESSED IN COLORFUL GARB. . iz stolen or subject to for- eign liems. It is apparently the in- tention under the British trade agree- ment to allow this matter to be thrashed out, so far ax England is comeerneg, in the British courts. The tesms of the German agreement in this particular are unknown. If any eme European nation accepts the gold, mp_doubt all of them will “Europe cannot recover its eco- momic stability until Russia returns to_production. Trading for this par- | el of goid would not effect this rem- | edy—nor would the gomls obtained | by the bolsheviki in return for it re- Store their production. That requires the abandonment of their present | ecenomic system Secretary Hoover did not indicate what possible action is contemplated | P¥ the administration on the Russian | trade question, but said that it was | a matter for the State Department. nd his discussion was purely an eco- | | | | nomic one. SUBURBAN ROAD OILING CURTAILED THIS SEASON Shortage of funds will make it nec- essary for the engineer department to curtail the oiling of suburban ' ®omds this spring, Maj. F. S. Besson, | aswistant engineer commissioner, | stated today. Last year the Commissioners ob- | tained from Congress iwo deficiency | Sppropriations for suburban roads, from which the oiling cost was paid, | but deficiencies are not likely to be | Sought at the special session of Con- gress, which means that the superin. | b tendent of suburban roads, L. R. Gra. b#fl, will have to manage with what | money he has until July 1, when the Dew appropriations become available. The covering of suburban roads with s thick coating of tarvia not only serves to keep down cust dur- ing the warm months. but heips pre- Serve the surface from developing rute and holes. Street gangs of the enxineer de- partment are now repairing Park between Park road and Rock Church road. The surface of $4th_street from N to Q streets s being patched, Repairs 2i95 are being made to Bemning road, avenue to the District line. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH DINING LEAGUE. | 21, 1921 ROBS GOVERNMENT James Nauck, When Arrest- ed. Says He Took Apparatus From Bureau of. Standards. While four watchmen were en- i deavoring to guard the nine main buildings of the bureau of standards. housing millions of dollars’ worth of government equipment and experi- mental apparatus, the radio baild- ing yesterday morning was riffed of several thousand dollars’ worth of wireless paraphernalia, which was ioaded on a truck in a nearby vacant lot and taken away. James Nauck, twenty years old., a radio operator, and former employe of the burgau, was arrested yesterday { morning’ while awaiting a service ear to repair the “stalled” engine of his {auto truck, in which was placed the wireless eq@ipmerst. Admits Taking Equipment. Acting Sergt. Belt and Motor Cycle Policeman VXarren of the Tenleytown i police district arrested Nauck at Con- necticut avenuw and Tilden streets a short distance Oom the entrance to the bureau. Nangk's shabby appear- ance attracted thd attention of the policemen. As they: neared the patrol box they relieved the\youth of a flash- light, mask, key paded revolver and implements which n\ight easily be used to effect entrance t rooms. The two policemen fourhi the motor fruck and the wireless apnaratus in jthe woods not far from the bureau | buildings. During the time M* was at {Rolice headquarters. the polica stated. Nauck admitted to Inspector Grant that he had taken the wirelesmsquip- Tient from the bureau for the puipose of making experiments. being waadle to purchase materials. Nauck's fathar, who resides at 5809 Georgia avenué, scarcely recognized the shabbil dressed youth when he glanced at him after his arrest. ] Rearrested on Awto Charge. {, Nauok was oharged with larceny from the United States and released on a $1,500 bond. The case against Nauck was con- tinued in Police Court today. As he emerged from the court building he ‘was arrested bby Detectives Hughlett OF WIRELESS QUTFIT| = Laymen’s Midday Lenten Services B. F. Keith’s Theater Daily, Except Saturdays,. 12:30 to«1-Q’Clock * Tomorrow: 2 Speaker— Rev.:John Brittan Clar Unity Lenten * Services St. John’s Church (Lafayette Square), '{'mday, March 22 Penitential Service, 12 M Address by + Rev.,E. S, Dunlap 4:45 PM. Address by Rev.\Canon Walden My Seats Free Holy Week Services Church of Epiphany # 12:25 O’Clock "\ Address by RevyDr. Freeman .5 PM. Addresses by 3 & » and Connors on a charge of stealing an automobile some months ago. Director S. W. Stratton of the bu- reau of standards said today that the buildings “were not guarded properly and not fenced in” on account of the limited appropriations which set so low a rate of pay for watchmen. At present there are but four watchmen there, he said. Besides nine large buildings, there are a number of small ones at the bureau. Investigation Is S 'arted. An investigation is being mads xs to the inadequate guarding facilities at the bureau today. Some time ago thousands of dollars worth of radium was stolen from the bureau. The building from which the radio appa- ratus was stolen yesterday is am out- building, detached from others. NET FAILS TO CATCH FLORIDA WIRE-TAPPERS Eu Klux Klan Given Credit for Daring Raid on Gambling House in South. DAYTONA, Fla, March 21.—The au- thorities today continued their gearch for members of a gang of wire-tap- | pers whose headquarters here was raided early Sunday by 150 armed, masked men and later riddled with bullets. Ome man, apparently left in the 'house as a guard, escaped by jumping from a second-floor window. The others are believed to have been warned of the impending raid, as no trace of them was discovered. No one seems to know the identity. of the raiding party, but there were. intimations today that the affair was arranged and carried out by the local Ku Kluox Klan. When W. D. Young, town marshal, attracted by the firing, arrived at the scene he was confront- ed by two men with rifles, who blind- folded him and placed him in an au- tomobile and drove about the country for four houfs, finally setting him at liberty at Daytona Beach. The marshal immediately returmed to the place confiscated a touring car and all the gambling paraphernalia left in the building. The floor was strewn with bogus money, stacks of newspapers cut the size of currency. bogus checks and pictures of rac horses. (OYSTER OPENS WAR ON BOOTLEGGERS Commissioner Works for Co- Operation Between Police and Local Judges. District Commissioner James F. Oyster began the week’s work at the Municipal building today with a bang. As he stepped from the elevator on the way to his office he was ap- proached by a2 man who had lost his automobile operator’s permit because of having been convicted in Police Court on a charge of intoxication. He sought the Commissioner's aid in having the permit restored. “Will you agree that the penalty shall be tHirty days in Occoquan. if you are again convicted on a similar charge”’ the Commissioner asked. The man said he would. “1 will look into your case, but I won't promise that' I am going to restore your license,” continued the District ‘official, who then proceeded to give & vigorous expression of his views on whisky drinking. i “Persons who violate the prohibi- tion law or any other law need not expect_any leniency from -me.” he said. “I am going to make life as hard as I can for the bootlegger and the man who drives automobiles while under the influence of liquor.” Capt. ter was also at the Police Court today, where he conferred with the judges on more co-operation be- tween the Police Court and the police department. especially on cases of i ¢! int fo O OO T T T violation of the prohibition act. LT T T DRY LAW ATTAGKED lidity of tte prohibktion amendmsent. based upon the requirement that it be ratified within seven years, ‘'was made today im the Bupieme Courk. by cosusel for J./J. Dillon of :San Fmncisco, changed” with violation of:| the prohibition leaforcement act. ‘Dil- | 0rd of the United States owing Fram.. lonyis seskingas writeof habeas: pus. The provision :a ed was offlered.| asserts. spec cally vivimtes articks five of the Con. stitution, which gives Congress power te impose a Mmit on ratificatio: or to otherwise mitempt to control: Jegisiatumes shall do in.thefr ‘M‘ tions.” Ralph T. Meyer, former cashier of the North Penn Bank. 2 state insti- tution, was today reffused an appeal by the state supreme) court and must | the city. entuiling a loss estimat. surrender within forty-eight hours to | at $200,000. ‘The exchange of the Sid begin serving aa 1 tence of from twelwe tos fifteen years | pletely destroved, with $100.000 los< for his commection in the wrecking | The of the bank two years ago. demonstration of. power lerevester- day and this morning, is «due to be nipped in‘the bud this sfternoon and night, the weather buream spredicting showers cooler® weather tonight and tomor- row. here umtil 10:51 p.m. last night, ar- and flower shades houxs ahead of soared to 81 degrees vesterday after- noon, the hot ever - Spring bad really arrived. gra: d the dogwood and the other $rocs and ‘flowers knew it, too. Be- tween 9 p.m. Saturday and da; wus“nlmyr bureau registered 56 degrees, Questioning9Malidity -of Prohibition. ‘ An entiraly new alkitack on the fva- ‘ H The attack was made in @ briefifiled i, of the stats MOYER MUST G0 TO JAIL. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March 21. terminate sen- PRESIDENT VISITS | VETERANS OF WAR ;Attends Church Service on Sunday Before Going to Waliter Reed Hospital. Prosident Harding’s third Sabbath day in the White House was featured by working for more than two hours in his office, attendance at the morn- ing service at the First Baptist Church. 16th and O strects, where the 119th anniversary of the found ing of the church was being observed a visit to Walter Reed Hospital where he paid high tribute to the i wounded veterans and praised th | women's work in war, and an automo bile drive through Potomac Park Although the day was a full ons for him, the President found occasion to get the necessary rest to enabin him to meet the heavy official duties ahead of him this week = alter Reed Visit. e was greatly impressed during his visit to the Walter Reed wounded. It gives him an opportunity to shake the handa of these uncomplaining and maimed heroes, and personally to ex tend the nation's gratitude for their batriotic services and assure them that the government would ever be mindful of their future comfort. He also combined this errand of mercy with a first-hand study of one of the 2dministration's greatest problems. The visit to Walter Reed was made after dinner at the White House, and With the President were Mrs. Harding and Brig. Gen. C. E. Sawyer, the Harding family physician, recentiy commissioned in the Army to per | sonally investigate the general prob. lems of public health and welfare, and Mrs. Sawyer. The President made | | i Before leaving the party called at the Red Cross where the President made dress, in which he paid a pliment to the Red Cross and to women who, he declared, did toward winning the war. mered silver jewel case. It was.give: to her by Private Joseph !urk\lnlk: who made it. Mrs. Harding and Gen. and Mrs Sawyer also accompanied the Presi. dent to church, the party being sea:. :;l in med:;r which was yesterday rmally icated to Presi for his future use. e e U. S. SEARCHES RECORDS FOR OLD FRENCH CLAIM ‘Treasury officials dug through mus ty records of revolutionary days to- day and announced afterward that they had been unable to find any rec- any money on account of loans ad vanced during the revolutionary war Their activity resulted from th. publication yesterday by the Paris Eclair of statement by Jean Ber nard setting up a counterclaim for 90,000,000,000 francs, alleged to be d France on account of aid given by iFrance in the revolutionary war lagainst the $3,000,000,000 owed th. United States«by France on world wa: loans. M. Bernard also claimed that Amer ica mever had paid 50,000,000 francs o the purchase price of Louisiana. Offi cials said references to the Louisian: purchase and payments on that d were few in the Treasury files. bu that none indicated unpaid balances FIRE RAZES CITY BLOCK. SIDNEY. Ohio. March Fire o unknown origin early today destroye the Thompson block, in the heart om- ney Telephome Company was Piqua fire called in. department was {CHILLS TO ROLLOW SPRING ZEPHYRS AFTER NEW MARCH HEAT RECORD Lovely sSpring. after givingra real this afternoon with much Sprimg. who was not,officially due ved yeeterday in full glory of green hedule, alter having givemmore or less timate glmpses of herilovely self r days past. When ¢he thermometer official est March 20 weather lhere, people knew that Cherry Blossoms Hail Spring. The Japanese cherry trees and the am. the thermometer at the reaching 64 degrees at 8 a.m. yester day morning: Today at 8 am. the official ther mometer stood at 68 degrees. reach- ing 83 degrees, yesterday’s high mark at 11 am. today. Unless the pre- dicted showers arrive very early i was regarded as oertain that the mark set yesterday would be beaten The highest temperature ever re corded here in March occurred March 23, 1907, when 93 degrees was reached Blissard of 1888 Recalled. One of the heaviest snows in the history of the country occurred at the end of March. 158S. it was recalled today as a contrast to the weather which has prevailed here this March Certainly, it is held, the ground hog never had his ability as a weather prophet more strikingly refuted than during the February just past and the first weeks of March. He saw his shadow. all right, but the six weeks of bad weather did not mate- rialize. 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