Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1921, Page 17

X “DRY" AGENTS FLAYED BY LEAGUE National Civil Service Reform Association Charges Criminal Records. i g CIVIL SERVICE ADVOCATED Issue Taken With Anti-Saloon Or- ganization—Postmasters and Vet- - eran Preference Reported On. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, April 14.—Activities of the National Civil Service Reform League in combating appointment of *“loose and inefficient” prohibition en- forcement agents are reviewed in the report of the council of the league read at the annual meeting here today. Reiterating charges that the en- forcement personnel includes many dishonest men and women, some with criminal records, the report urges support of a bill before Congress re- quiring that all dry agents be placed under civil service regulation and subjected to the customdry examina- tions. It also takes sharp issue with provisions in the measure insisted upon by the Anti-Saloon League which would permit appointment of persons without previous experience in criminal investigation. Civil Service Urgent. ‘The anti-saloon organization, the report alleges, “prefers to let these places continue as political spoils rather than agree to the normal meth- od of providing for their competitive classification under the civil service law.” Until the latter method is un- dertaken. it continues, the enforce- ment o fthe prohibition law will not be freed from the odium in which it is now held. The league's long opposition to the system of appointing postmasters “which retains in office permanently, or until removed on charges, purely political appointees,” is set forth in the report, which proposes an open competitive examination for such in- cumbents in order to continue in office. These views, the report as- serts, have been concurred in by the President and Attorney General. Veteran Preference Unfair. Commenting on the federal civil service provision giving absolute preference to soldiers and sailors and ‘widows of former service men, the Teport asserts: “As time goes on the manifest un- fairness of veteran preference is be- coming more and more apparent to the members of Congress. The ef- fects in the efficiency of the service will be carefully noted by the league and the evidence secured will be placed before the appropriate com- mittees of Congress, with the request that this vicious legislation be re- pealed.” —_— LAST SING OF SEASON. Attractive Program Features Fi- nance Division Function. An unusually attractive program was given yesterday afternoon at the last “finance sing” of the season, when Mrs. Florence Howard, soprano, and Miss Margaret Mansfield, violin- ist, were the soloists. Mrs. Howard is the director and soloist at the First Baptist Church. Miss Mansfleld, who Mansield of Texas. is 1n sccomplisns eld of Texas, is an acco: ed musician. ““The " accompaniments for the vocaltsofps Wwere played by Mrs. Mary C. D. Johnson, and for the violin solos by Mrs. J. J. Mansfleld, mother of Miss Mansfield. The intro- ductions were made by Brig. Gen. H. M. Lord, chief of finance. A silver- mounted umbrella' was presented to ;:'.‘d& w;evgen_l...l who lhu been the er of e ing,” in appreciati ©of his services. s s BUY SITE FOR SCHOOL. Commissioners Pay $9,100 for Cooke Plot Addition." ‘The Commissioners, in board ses- sion yesterday, voted to p for $9.100 a piece of ground adjoining the Henry D. Cboke School, 17th street between Euclid and Fuller streets. Plans are now being prepared in the office of the municipal architect for an addition to this school, which may be completed before the end of the next school year. Superintendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou conferred today with Engi- neer Commissioner Charles W. Kutz, presumably in reference to the emer- Dog Attacks Cars | Trying to Avenge Death of His Pal By the Associated Press. e pal was Lilled recently by a street car Scotch collie dog stands guard at a certain corner here each dny, leaps high as cars speed by and often manages to Erasp the trolley pole rope with fts teeth, pulling the pole off the wire and stopping the car. Efforts of the dog’s master | and car crews to persuade the doz to ceawe the practice have been to no : The animal probably will be shot, it is said. HAS TWO WIVES UNDER ONE ROOF H.-T. Andrews, New York Broker, Also Has Two Children. By the Associated Press. o JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 14—The strikingly strange case of a man who lived with two wives in the same apartment was revealed here. The man is Herbert Thornton Andrews. thirty-year-old stock broker. The women are Mrs. Maud Augusta Haynes Andrews, forty-five, whom he married in Portland, Me, June 17, 1912, and by whom he has two boys—John. eight, and Harley, six—and Mrs. Esther Marie Tatnall Andrews, twen- ty-five. who went through a marriage ceremony with_him in Greenwich, Conn., January 26, 1921. Mr. Andrews is head of the stock brokerage firm of H. T. Andrews & Co., with principal offices at 20 Broad street, New York, and branches in New London, Conn.; Philadeiphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Cleveland. The second Mrs. Andrews is reported to be a member of a reputable Pitts- burgh family. Second Wife Comes. The first Mrs. Andrews declared to- night that the younger woman was brought to the broker’s home here on the day of the Greenwich ceremony and formally introduced to her by Mr. Andrews as his “wife.”” She told friends that she continued to live in the same apartment, occupying an al- cove bedroom, “for the sake of my boys,” and because she felt confident that her husband would soon tire of the younger woman. “I was married to Mr. Andrews in Portland, Me.. nine years ago,” Mrs. Maud Andrews said last night, we lived happily together until Jan- uary of this year. We have two children. “In January my husband went to Greenwich, Conn., and was married to this girl—Esther Marle Tatnall. I don’t know much about her, except that he brought her home one day and calmly told me that he had mar- ried her and I could either stay or leave, just as I pleased. All Live Together. “Since that day we have all three lived here under the same roof. You can't understand it? Well, the only reason I have been able to tolerate it is that I have two little children to support, and ome of them has been an invalid and a cripple all his life. “You can be sure that I wouldn't put up_with it except for the chil- dren. If I left he would spend all his money on that girl, When he should spend it for the children, es- pecially for the poor little one whose only chance of being brought back to normal depends on receiving the best possible medical treatment.” Mr. Andrews could not be reached, but his friends state that he makes no attempt to conceal his peculiar domestic_situation. He has told his friends that when the time comes he will be able to show that his first marriage was invalid, presuma- bly on the ground that he was a minor when it took place. First Wife a Divorcee. Mrs, Maud Andrews was divorced from her first husband, Albert Laplant of St. Albans, Vt, and her decree became final one month be- fore she and Andrews were married in Portland. ‘She was boarding then in the home of Andrews’ parents in Quincy, Mass. Mr. Andrews was a bookkeeper in a Boston bank at that time. Friends of Mr. Andrews point out that there is nothing illegal in his action. No prosecution for bigamy may be brought in the state of Con- necticut, they said, unless it be ac- companied by evidence of the actual consummation of the marriage within ncy school building program, which | the boundaries of the state. Mr. An- is soon to be laid before Congress. drews and Mrs. Esther Marie An- — = Seventh and Eye Streets - It is rugs to You're Spring Clean With e HOOVER il We have chosen the Hoovel; Va.culmz Cleaner | for every reason that contributes to satisfaction cheaper to buy a HOOVER than sending your $6.20 a Month Pays for THE HOOVER i Only $625 down and $6.20 a month for a short peri il 21c a day—pays for THE HOOVER while you use it. Tomorrow and Saturday we are going to give demonstrations of exactly what the Hoover will do and how it does it—conducted by a factory represen- tative. Drop in and see it. THE EVENING \ STAR, WASHINGTON SENATE SWAMPED WITH BILLS AGAIN Old and New Measures In- troduced Yesterday Nearly Reach Tuesday Record. VICE PRESIDENTIAL HOME‘ Disarmament, Live Stock, Aero- nautic Bureau and Farm Loans Among Legislation Proposed. Bills, and more bills, was the order of the Senate yesterday when anogher mass of proposed legislation was in- troduced by senators. Senator Elkins of West Virginia reintroduced his bill to authorize the appropriation of $350.000 to purchase or erect a home in Washington for the Vice President of the United States. Chairman Norris of the Senate agri- culture committee formally Tro- duced the “packer” bill, for the estab- lishment of a federal livestock com- mission and general regulation of the {meat industry, in exactly the !form in which it passed the Senate last session. Other new and old legis- Itxon file in almost as great number as i lative proposals came into introduc- Tuesday. Two Disarmament Bills. Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, folldwed up his campaign for naval disarmament by reintroduction of two resolutions, one of which authorizes the President to open negotiations with Great Britain and Japan, and | the other of which authorizes calling a conference with the United and the other two powers which be impressed with the duty” of bring- ing about “a substantial reduction in building_annually for the next five years.” "Mr. Borah likewise resubmit- ted a bill penalizing by imprisonment and fines law officers who prevent citizens from exercising constitutional rights. Special Atr Bureau. Senator Keyes, republican, New Hampshire, proposed the creation of a bureau of aeronautics in the Navy Department, which was mentioned in President Harding’s message, and Sen- ator Fletcher, democrat, introduced a. bill to make farm loan banks eligible for federal reserve rediscount privi- leges. Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, on the same topic, pro- posed a measure requiring the Tre ury Department to purchase $100,- 000,000 worth of the farm bonds. Another of the attempts to r constitutional amendments was spon- sored by Senator Wadsworth, repub- lican, New York, under which amend- ments could be subjected to popular vote, and could not be ratified by leg- islatures In which members of at cast one house had not been el since the submission. s f - e drews, they added, came here direct- ly after the coremony and have since lived in Mr. Andrews’ home here. Second Wife Confident. The second Mrs. Andrews is con- fident that the matrimonial tangle can be straightened o atis- facgon A5 a?l, ut to the satis. “Herb is going to straight all this” she said, “and I am content to wait until he has done so. His fisst marriage was nothing but the infatuation of a boy for a woman half again as old as himself. Why, of | course, it is just as unpleasant for ‘me, the way things aré now, as 1t can be for her. ol % > “I love Herb, though, and when he asked me to marry. 1 was vhly too! glad to do so. 1 was working in a ! brokers’ office in Pittsburgh when we mefi." “Esther is my only true and re: wife, Mr. Andrews is raporled"i; have told his friends. “I have nothing | whatever against Maud. She is a good woman and the mother of my | dear boys. I shall always look after her and them. . “She is free to take any steps she sees fit. I gave her $200 Tuesday and I believe she hired a New York law- yer. She is welcome to do anything she wants with the money I give her. I am not worried by the prdspect of prosecution on a bigamy charge.” Eriobacher Jwelve-Ten F St. Where Styles Originate and Emanate Invited THE VERY NEWEST STYLES IN WRAPPY COATS AND CAPES, EMBROIDERED AND PLAIN, SOME WITH SASHES AND STRING BELTS AND NECK THROWS. 33 ‘Wrap of Black Satin, $50.50 D. C, ) EXPANDING SERVICE HOSPITALS STRONGLY URGED BY CITY CLUB }Health Group Scores “Polluted” Bathing Places and Hears Solution for Basin Problem. Strongly indorsing the recommenda- tions of Brig. Gen. Sawyer, President Harding's physician, for the expansion of hospital facilities in Washington, the public health group of the City Club met last night at the clubhouse. Dr. D. Percy Hickling introduced the resolution expressing the hearty ap- proval of the expansion plans for the present Army, Navy and public service h pitals. Walter Reed Hospital will be develop- ed into a permanent 2,000-bed hospital in the new plan, according to Dr. Hick- ling, whereas under the existing plans it would revert to a hospital of over 200 or_300 beds. Bathing places in and near the Dis- came in for further condemnation ¢ the group which has been waging war on the alleged “polluted” streams and rivers for bathing purpose Rock creck is characterized ically an open sewer, od by members of the com- mittee that park authorities have erect- ed a bathhouse and built a bridge to a wimming hole in the park. Basin Water “Fair Sewage.” “Government investigators some zo reported that the water in tidal basin could be classed only as pretty good sewage.” said Dr. Hickling. “The water is badly polluted, the bacterial count being arge. The superintendent of the tidal basin bathing beach is planning xtend the bathing grounds, so as prevent congestion and thus de- crease contamination somewhat, but 1 do not think this move will help the situation.” As a solution of the contamination m, Dr. Hickling urged that all water supplied to the basin be pumped from the Potomac and passed through a rapid sand filtration sys- tem, which would not be expensive. Dr. Hickling said that the health committee of the Board of Trade had sent questionnaires to every phy- sician in the city asking them to re- port all cases of disease traceable to polluted bathing places. Answers will bo tabulated and are expected to throw interesting light on the ques- tion of contamination. Presence of “Quacks” Deplored. The group discussed lack of proper enforcement of the medical practice act. It was pointed out that the city was full of medical quacks. Members of the group explained that in the enforcement of the law the police regard as physiclans only those practitioners who prescribe drugs. Others, it was explained, can practi without holding a diploma or a medi- cal license. It was the nsus of the groyp that every practitioner who made a pretension of diagnosing and curing disease and of accepting com- pensatiqn for such services be com- pelled to submit to a medical exami- nation and obtain a license. A de- tailed report on the situation will be presented at the next meeting of the group. Dr. Hunter and Philip Herman were appointed delegates from the group to meetings of the executive commit- tee of the Social Hygiene Society, which is supporting legislatlon for dealing with the red plague as a contagious and reportable disease. Members engaged in an extended de- ‘bate as to whether red plague pro- phylactic information, as well as birth control informagfon, should be dis- tributed freely. Emile Berliner, chairman of the group, who presided, will report at the next meeting on efforts to have Sunday deliveries of ice.this summer for the convenience of the public, and particularly to prevent sickness and suffering among the city’s poor. Nomination of Officers Tonight. Nomination of officers and governors will be the principal business at the annual meetinz of the City Club, to be held at 8 o'clock tonight, at Rauscher’s. Nominations will be in order for president, vice president, second vice president, treasurer and secretary, to serve one year each, and for seven governors, to serve two years each. J. A. Whitfield, the president, who will preside, will not be a candidate for re-election. He will consent, how- ever, to run for governor. Another prominent member mentioned in con- nection with the governorships is Wil- Coat of Marvello, $59.50 ~=="1 An Extraordinary Event —is presented in this timely Specially Priced for Friday and Saturday $59.50 ~ » Erlebacher-Originated SPRING WRAPS 1im Knowles Cooper, secretary of the Y.M.C. A The seven retiring governors are D. J. Callhan, E. L. Stock, T. C. Dulin, Henry E. Stringer, H. K. Cornwell, C. T. Clagett and John Brewer. Ii is be- lieved that practically all of these gov- ernors would consent to serve another term. The seven governors whose terms run for another year are Milt E. Ailes, William John Eynon, E. C. Graham, Thomas Bones, Eugene G. Adams, James Sharp and Maurice D. Rosenberg. Amang the prominent members men- tioned as possible candidates for president are E. C. Graham, John Dolph, Thomas Bones, Roy L. Neu- hauser, John J. Boobar, Claude H. Woodward and Francis R. Weller. R. J. Murphy, the secretary, will not be a candidate for re-election. Roy L Neuhauser is being mentioned as his possible successor. Charles W. Semmes, vice president; John Dolph, second vice president, and T. Lincoln Townsend, treasurer, will be candi- dates for re-election, it is believed. The annual election will be held Thursday, April 28. The judges of election will be named at the meeting tonight. LEGISLATION FAVORED TO MAKE PUPILS PAY Connecticut Avenue Citizens Say 3,000 Attend From Maryland and Virginia. Legislation requiring non-residents of the District of Columbia to pay tuition for their children attending schools within the District was favor- ed in a resolution adopted at a meet- ing of the Connecticut Avenue Citi- zens' Association last night at All Souls’ Parish Hall. Members of the association said about 3,000 students from Maryland and Virginia now at- tend District schools at the expense of the District. The association indorsed raising of @ fund, to approximate $10,000 year- ly, with which to pay experts to rep- resent residents of the District at pub- lic .utilities hearings. Proposal was made that each member be taxed 25 cep!s annually. Service of the Capital Traction Company on_Connecticut avenue was attacked by the association. A reso- lution favoring reconstruction of the | Klingle Valley bridge to carry the increasing heavy trafic on Connecti- cut avenue was indorsed by the as- sociz\uon.v Maj. F. S. Besson, assist- ant engineer commissioner ~of the District, addressed the meeting. FACILITIES TO HEAR CHOIR Special Cars to Run to Catholic University for Concert. Special arrangements have been made with the Washington Railway and Electric Company for additional street car service on the Brookland line tonight to care for the crowd ex- pected to attend the concert at 8:20 o'clock of the Paulist Choristers of New York, in the gymnasium of Cath. olic University. The concert is being given for the benefit of the National Catholic Com- munity House, 606 E street northwest. The organization, known as “the choir incomparable.” is composed of sev- enty_voices. There are fifty boys in! the cholr, thirty-five of them being around fifteen or sixteen years old. The choir arrived here this after- noon from a tour of Virginia cities. Father Finn is in charge. —_— APPLIES FOR SEA DUTY. | Commander Percy W.- Foote, who ! was naval aid for Secretary Daniels, | and who has served Secretary Denby in a similar capacity, has applied for | sea duty. His application has been approved by his detail to the,command of the scout cruiser Salem of the Pacific reserve fleet, to take effect May 1. His successor at the Navy Depart- ment has not vet been selected by Secretary Denby. i i Wrap of Evors, $69.50 offering of BLACK SATIN, NAVY [ AND BLACK TRICO- TINES AND POIRET TWILLS, EVORA AND MARVELLA IN BROWN, CARAMEL, ZINC, TAN AND NAVY. OF SPECIAL MENTION A CONTINUANCE OF THE CUSTOM MADE SUIT OFFERING AT $55.00 THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1921. SCRUTINIZES U.§. MANDATE NOTE Earl Cuyzon, British Cabinet Officer, Subjects Document to Careful Study. REPLY TO BE FORMULATED Allied Governments Resolved That No Friction Shall Arise in Dis- cussion of Issues. BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. LONDON, England, April 14.—Earl Curzon, secretary of state for foreign affairs, is engaged in a careful study of the note of the American govern- ment concerning mandates. In the first instance the British government will decide upon its reply. Then it will confer with the governments of the allies, because the note is ad- dressed to Britain, France, Italy and Japan. Meanwhile. nothing can be said as to the position the allies will finally take. Will Avold Friction. The British government and appar- ently the governments of all its asso- ciates are resolved that no_friction shall arise in this matter if it can be avoided. Earl Curzon. himself will act as the mediatory influence. He earnestly desires: to settle the Yap controversy without impairment of good relations with Japan and the United States. Americans who wish to understand | the action of the European govern- ments since the withdrawal of the United States from the supreme coun- cil - should give some attention to the European constitutional practice touching treaties. While the Ameri- can Senate has killed many proposed treaties, there are few, if any ples of the British execut stance, being overruled in manner. similar New View Obtained. Most Britons, therefore, assumed that President Wilson's signature as plenipotentiary meant that the Unit- ed States would back him up. Strange to say, even some of the first states- men ‘in_Britain took a like casual view. Everybody is now discovering that President Wilson had no power whatever to commit the United States and that the Harding administration inends to keep strictly to tradiional American i methods. en Britons—at least many of them —prefer the Amfrican way in these things. Lord Bryce and Baron ISling- ton have condemned the practice of national commitments without parlia- mentary sanction. D —— MEDAL FOR RISKING LIFE. President to Bestow Honor Won Seventeen Years Ago. Chief Gunner Robert E. Cox, United States Navy, will receive a congres- sional medal of honor from President Harding at the White House for “ex- traordinary heroism” displayed by him seventeen vears ago on the battleship Missouri while engaged in target prac- tice off Pensacola, Fla. With two companions, Cox not only . risked his life in deadly fumes and blazing powder, but extinguished a fire that threatened to reach a magazine con- taining a ton of powder. Pennsylvania Cow Kicks Tail Lights, i Ouwner’s Defense | PITTSBURG April 14— fire-producing co o dynamite-eating d the mythical moon =t animal a v without a rear light burning. told Magistrate B. L. Succop that after purchaxing cow he roped it to the back of a truck and started home. Soon afterward the animal kicked out the light, nccording to the | | buyer. Ten dollars was i 10 the cot of the cow | magistrate imposed a fine. i | | | WAR GAME PLAYED BY CADET OFFICERS Utilize Maps Similar to Those Used in the Regular Army Maneuvers. ‘War map games which have been en- School Cadet Corps since February will end Tuesday. it was announced tod: by Lieut. Richard R. Day, U. 8. M. C., military instructor. The winners wiil play an exhibition game at the Frank- lin School Friday evening, April 7:30 o'clock, which parents and frier of the cadets are invited to witness. Twenty-thrée picked teams, compr of from five to seven men each, k been participating_ in_the war The elimination games of Central, B of Business and Western the victors. The first of th final games will be played tomorrow aft- ernoon and the last on Tuesday, when the winning team will be determined ved on war maps similar to those used in the Regular Army maneuvers and give the cadets an|exceptional opportunity to give prac- tical expression to the tactical princi- ples taught by their instructor. The unit in the map maneuvers is a twenty- four-squad company, not the smaller six-squad cadet company. Members of the winning team will be awarded special insignia to be placed on the sleeve of their uniform. Field S#nitary Unit. Plans are now being made by Lieut. Day for organizing a field sanitary unit in the cadet corps soon after the begining of the new school terms next September. instructed by Wallace M. Yeater, colonel of the cadet corps in 1914, and ntly appointed by the board of education as an assistant military instructor. The proposed field sanitary unit will have a personnel of from 125 to 150 men. and after an intensive course of first aid treatment, Lieut. Day believes it will be capable of coping with any emergency arising in the cadet corps during any of its ceremonies or maneuvers. Many of the men for this unit will be reeruited at Tech High School, while others will be drawn from the four other senior in- stitutions. Practicing on Rifie Range. Members of the cadet rifle team are now practicing at the range at Camp Simms, Congress Heights, for the sched- uked match with the regular rifle team of the United States Naval Academ: Annapolis April 30. Rifle instruction is being given by Walter R. Stokes, rifle practice instructor. The cadets, ac- cording to Lieut. Day, have been mak grossing officers of the Washington High | It will be organized and! B CAR MERGER BILL S REINTRODUCED Would Induce Voluntary Com: bination of Traction Com- panies in District. FAILED LAST CONGRESS | Measure to Regulate Practice of Osteopathy Here Again Brought Up by Representative Smith. R entative James P. Woods of Virginia. democrat, reintroduced yes- terday his bill, which failed of con- sideration in the last Congress, de- -pre signed to induce a voluntary gerger Washe of the street car companies in rton by removing th pla 1 Ly Congress against solidat f the Potomac Electric Power € with the Washington cotric Company. District committee, by & to 1 against the then chair- ative Mapes of Michi- bill reported in the the ground that it two street car com- nearly equal grounds stiate a voluntary merger. By th vote the committee in- struc subcommittee to draft a bill designed to force a merger if the companies did not take such action voluntaril Method of Compulsi | Compulsion would be exercised {through a heavy excess profits tax upon tKe more successful corporation pital Traction Company—al- Railway The House ot 1 . Re 1to ne terms of the bill would p any Street car coms n to be mak- s The latter measure introduced in the r District bill which fai en the last reintroduced vesterday e Smith of {Idaho. 1t gulate the practice of o thy in the District, The measure would create a board of osteopathic examiners, consisting of five members, to be selected by the District Commi®sioners from ten prac- ticing osteopathist $1,000 REWARD OFFERED. Seeking to Clear Mystery of Rock Creek Church Fire. $1.000 has been offered of St. Paul's Epis k) Church, whi fire about a week ago, for ion leading to the origin, of the Joseph Fletcher, rector of the said today the action of the not taken because there icion that the flames were v origin. “We believe the fire resulted from an accident.” he said. i “but it was felt that everything should be_done to clear up the mystery ing re: res during the pracs tice matches of the last’several weeks, and he believes the midshipmen will have to make a score of more than 186 ble 200 to defeat the high The non-commissioned officers in the cadet corps who will be candidates for commissions next fall will begin_their ten-day encampment at Camp Simms aboutglune 25. Arrangements for opens ing the camp for the cadets are near- - ing completion. 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