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WOULD-BE THIEF ISFATALLYSHoT John Walters, Now Dead, and | Two Others Attempt to Rob l Read's Drug Store. John Walters, twenty-nine vears 1 1314 14th strect, was shot to; fn a pistol battle | in which he and two companions and Yoliceman John Scriola of the ninta precinet, aided by two others, partici- pated following the discovery of an attempted burglary of Dr. Charles C. Read’s drug store, at 1lith end B strects northeast. Wilters was killed while attempting to speed away ‘“i an automobile after the initlal ex- change of shots. Arthur Lee Bernett, wha lived with Walters, is held for investigation at the ninta precinct. He was arrested | when he attempted to take Walters | luce at the steering wheel of the in an eflort to get away. The third man of the party escaped by jumping from the mchine. Auto Believed to Have Been Stolen. At adout 3:40 a.m. an automobile— believed incidentally by the police to have becn stolen from Charles Turner, 21 6th street noriheast, on March 14—stopped at the side of (hel coz_ur drug store and three menj stepped out. Light from a nearby lamppost be- { | trayved their attempt to break into the store. A jimmy haq already; } broken the sidé rom 13| Maring entry was beinz made. | < Into fastenings a it is believed, wh scream interrupted the men from a window across the s lieved to have been fired by John H. | Grove, at 204 11th street, foilowed. | e juncture Policeman Officer Patrick | e e = fun on opposite sides| NEW ORLEANS, May 23—The en- | VO the duties ("h“"{‘“n?Jmi; oL In- | sistance, they mow consiitute rigldly of the street. The machine swe‘rvr(d} tire crew of the Shipping Board |in respect to our insular dependen- regrt-'.‘:uded‘un-"czh xdq mmu!»:r :xx::- R ‘ e men in it, and at- | o . ] Fn3 e on the dutics of the dinlomatic serv- ,f‘,l‘p‘:(.'(‘l" ::o g::&[‘d m"):s:'“ ddenly | Steamer Hadnot, enchorcd n the \cies and of the Interior Department ;.. are primartly. it not exclusively e e from his drivers | local harbor. was forcibly removed | il respect to the supervision of thepoyitical, and those of the consuli e (he flaos of the car, shot in| from the chip by alleged union ma- ““;g‘)“;g;'c_e on of a bureau of in. | SPTVice ‘commercial and administra- the mouth. rine strikers today and severely |tornatioral organizations to have in|live: This is a mistake. To a very Hennett hopped to the seat and took " S ~ Eess ciefone orpenliaaoss ave inllarge degree the duties of diplomatic charge of the car. The third m-mjbeaten. € trme the crew Is mencral charselthaliintezents of Jtho lioMicersihave tol doiwithipurely, trade Sumped fo the street and took to his!in a dangerous condition. accorging Tnited States in the ssveral Interna-|p;iters while the responsibilities of pronounced dead. Them on Shore. THE EVENING STAR, WASH 23. 19217 NGTON, -D. ., MONDAY. MAY house PROPOSED IN RESEARCH REPORTZ Creation of Bureau of Territories to Take| Over Duties of Bureau of Insular ! Affairs Among Ideas Advanced. Board Board Chesy being at v here = 3 T 13 a eerles of astic'en The Brar Ig preecnting the detalls of ent ~ould re * and Interior denart In ne way sgarme throw u bur tion beinta ot the yment ‘e an Retivs | pariioh - | ore wtivo braneh of ¢ e JOHN WALTERS. era! government urgel pnon ths lo'nt | cantrol o canTaasota & oo cummit Loadad hy tves thore bodlca a=e ertreme e g PR iregontative of Presi- S e enbralibayiiing i | . by the Instlinte fordur tho Juradction of (4 617 ioa. | Proeia overnmeut Iloascarch, @ an in-|Dartment. due to ths fact tha! the il | tonalve sludy uf the problem for fve tatione mado for the Amert- | yearn, tho fallow!n: xep in re- tho mert part mad e of the are rocom- | demfred by t Elousliuniaralanioos 1 | ferences mud th penelve tlon of wo in regurd o (1) The reau of tof a rce 1ot pesformed to th dint e Inw nosgihle cntic and it em- <o by BADLY BEATE Strikers Force Men Launch and Attagk forfen s | phamizco thet jrhonld he elven to the pows atvabillty of combinink two fi Abllshments into a pingle eors” Notwithstanding the fact tha two services Are operatine same fleld, have jurisdiction w overlaps in a number of pluca: have constant necd of orch other's n z wn of forclen 221 doment of Com- of forelen markets, of Agri- N\ (2) The creation of a bureau of! torritorfes and dependencies to takel| tional unions, conferences and other the diplomatic and con: n affairs_com- member of tie fore heels. Scriola. in the meantime. had ] to ph: ans attending them, all are nior 0 consular officers In respect to po- oaried the automobile and. standing | painfully injured. bodies of which the national govern-|jjtica] matters are by no means slight. o] uning board. pointed his pistol| _The alleged strikers boarded the |ment !s & member and toward the Provided For 15 Bl O Hemmett's head. The car sped from | Hadnot, which was anchored in mid- | Support of which it makes financial ) ed For € street to H street before stopping. siream, from a launch. Members of | contributio; _.‘\ bin )'ro_v‘dnlx: for such consolid | Bennett was ordered to v\;ocefd to! ll;u‘no‘n-‘:mw'n Ceeschcen recruit- | Forelsn Relations Service. ;!""({'h ‘V‘::NILQLFK:GII"’-;? in ml"‘w mi\fi\»l | v ¢ g Walters was' ed to tuke charge of the vessel were . e ¢ cress by ativ Crematty Moy al. wiens roundcd up and removed (o 4 point on |, (4), The possible consolidatio John J. Rogers of Massachusetis, al s i shore wh Two Revolvers Found in Car. | In looking over the machine after, the shooting two .35 reioivers were | found. one of them an automatic and | 2nother the old style. ram-rod ejector | type. On the floor of the rear seat| were ammunition for the pisiol. four | caps of various colors, bar irons and Virginia tags for the machine. ‘The Incident early today ls be- ! lleved by the police to have furnished a clue to other recent robberies. The | store of Awrach & Perl. near 18thj| the ships Nine hu a week ago Sunday morning about | 1 o'clock by men answering the de-! seription of the principals of this| case. Several similar robberies are now being investigated for possible connection with the present case. Probing for Evidence. inclusive, by 165 saile i thirteen Mrs. Alma Waters, wife of the man | figures showed, appea who was killed. was questioned_at|effective the ninth precinct this morning. She ! gulf and married Walters two yvears ago, and, it is believed by the police, was not aware of the full scope of his activi- ties. Andrew Frankiin Lewis, nine- teen vears old. of 1461 Broadway. Brooklyn, stopping. with the Walters, | also was questioned tod The eight-month-old baby of Wal- ters died exactly one W!el@ ago. While a policeman Tas arriving at they were warned to keep away from STRIKE TIES UP 190 SHIPS. |Secretafy Hoover Reports 938 Others Have Seiled. . street and Columbia road. was held | ican steamers left United up and robbed of approximately $760 ' during the period May 1 to- the marine strike, Commerce Hoover annou | From Portland, { sailed, while tiree were detained, and Atulantic. / —_— RITES FOR COUPLE. Puneral Services for Man and Wife Drowned in Canal. wccording to the report 5 men, they afier which ! into a singie foreign relations service. Ony The proposed creztion of the bureau of foreign commerce was out- lined in an article on the editorial pase of The Sunday Star, under the c: tion, “fo Weld Trade and Diplomacy Two: In rezard to the creation of a mittee. Careful consideration of that bill is urged in the re lof the Institute ommendatio and released. The skeleton of the various offices which it is sed to co- i bureau of territories and dependencies, | under the State. 1):.1;.3':(,,,:,.‘:"‘&"“;,‘ it is pointed out that at the pr | follows the national government exercises| (1) diction over the following depend- | tary, ies: The District of Coium- <4 and Ho neral administration—Sccre- under secretar ndred and thirty second X Amer- es of Al s ports | waii, the insular dependencies of the' ay Fhilippines. Porto Rico, the Virgin Isl- ands, Tuttilao or American Samoa, Guam and a few other smaller islands, | ich as Wake Isla . and the Panama canal and Canai | Important as {s this territory, it | is not sufficiently extensive to warrant the setting up of a colonial department such as is possessed by other govern- ents having important colonfal inter- It is desirable, however, that the administration of the affairs of this territory, in so far as it s exercised . by ic over its agencies, the local go einments should be concantrated in a simgle service. Position In Program. The position taken by the institute in its reorzanization program is (1) That there is need for a service | that will have general charge of the | service Chief of appointments and | unts. Institutional — :. burean bureau of a (3) Frnc bureau of index reau of rolls and library. law clerks, translators, diplomatic bLureau. con- sular bureau. division of passnorg control, division of foreign intelll ~ence, i Mexican affairs, division affa‘rs. divi ion of Russian division NN 190 were detained ecretary of nced today. 134 steamers | while 7 Me.. d detained. from Boston, as against The strike, the d 1o be more in detaining sailings on the Pacific coasts than on the A ropean affairs information. bure ce. bureau of torritories and dependencies, and bureau of interna- tional agencies. Other Changes Proposed. Under the bureau of foreign com- 7 the house to notify Mrs. Walters she | Funeral services for Corp. Ed-|ifat Will have sens ; N 24 s 2 g S a territories and de- | merce would come the foreign trade | R was _wanted for ‘information as ward Gorney and wife, who met their | pendencies of the United States, With ! aaviser and the bureau of foreign § her husband's movements 2 messen- ger also was arriving with flowers from her parents out of town in memory of the death of the child. death Sat. apeake a o’clock. Fire Department Turns Hose on | ices. | h of Granite—Window Smashed. | doah, | doah, Pa. Heavy streams of water were play- | ¢ ed on the State, War and Na ing this morninz by the District fire | department with great benefit to the} general appearance of the big gran-| jte structure. 1t was its annual bath. The only untoward inc'dent was the | breaking of a window on tne second floor of the east wing and the con- sequent soaking of some ancient rec- |} ords in the passport division. The room invaded by the water was oc- cupied by Admiral Bemson w o Wwas chief of naval operations during | King the world war, and since transferred jtitles to the State Department. g Umbrella: SPECIAL NOTICES. =i = e e TOST,_MISTATD OR STOLEN {IPTY Certificate ‘No. 11, dated October 28. 1801. | and grass for eizht shares of stock and certificate No 200 “dated Juiy 31, 1918. for one share of atock. issned by Knights _of Pythias Hall Association t Faval Telge. No. 17, 2 ; iy ef Ssrac X KB Sirtue of the consolid Lodge, No. with Ssracustans 70."'All peraons are hereby warned | THE porchase et said siock, o fuplicate lseue aDpl ASEhOBGE. No. 10, K. OF T. CROUSE, Chancellor Commander. Two The Gorney's Tntil co! umbrella f against the G. TTTONS MADE. | PICOTING YOU_WAIT. | 1224 GIR. 4 at this offier Mondas. June 6. Tolls opza from 12 m. fo 1 pm. Books | for irapsfer of atock will he claxed from May 23rd to dnne fth. 1921, incinsive FREDERICK K. MEUPEL, Sccretars. YOUR ~ OLD HoD FIOHORS ~ PLAN seraped and refinished: smail closet done o femenctrate my work. Call anv tim Ha and Tronc! | canoe capsized, were held today ft 2 Pumphrey & STATE BUILDING WASHED. | Reckvitie ‘Bap(lsl Church. condu The bodies will be sent to the 3¥- | aged nine months and the other four build- i yeare are at the home of Mre. Min- with Mrs. stayed during her short vis! hildren will be cared for by ben he|monarchs ‘Lor I SPECIAL NOTICES. (WANTSEOEREREDS i 4«:1l Tl':nlla great improvement would CLEANED, result by having concentrated In on T b jservice all functions of a gencral s BLOCKED, | pervigory and.control character over BLEACHED From Keading. RIG 4 TRA 1125 14th «t. 0% "UMBRELLAS pairing. | cASEY IRONCLAD the exception of those small islands ' valuable chiefly as naval, cable and ! lwireless stations. { (2) That the services should be an- | |alagous to the colonial departments of foseign governments, but should | {be a bureau rather than an independ- | jent department, due to the relatively | small importance of those depend- | {encies and the character of the policy jof the United States government to-. iward their government. (3) That such a bureau finds fts imost logical place in the Department | §09 Sin sirect. oblivious of |0f State whica has dutics prost nexri| el . ureau and’ g ofiitheict wazents NICkvAS Im"k" use of a personnel whose gen. | tional commission of public and pri- eral qualifications are similar to t | vate international law: international here. hose | burcau at Brussels for repression of the African slave trade; international joint commission, United States and reat Britain: international boundary ommission, United States and Can international boundary commis- -d States and Mexico; pi s arbitration commis- ritain_and the United DANAMAS % urday morning, in the Ches- | i nd domestic e e, nd Ohio canal en their and domestic commerce. Department of Commerc Under the burcau of territories and dependencies would come the bureau of insular affairs and supervie.an of territories, now vested in the Inturior | artment. | Under the bureau of international agencies would come the Pan-Ameri- can Union: the United States section. inter-American high comm ion; bu- reau of interparliamentary union for | promotion of international arbit tion: international bureau of the per- manent court of arbitration; interna- now in the R. at napel of W undertakers, at the Son: Rowland Wagner of the cted the serv- at Shenan- the couple ung sons of the couple. one i |required of territorial and dependency ! {officials. (4) That there is no juetification whatsoever for having in the Wari mparatively recent years the ! Department a bureau of insular { was a distinctive badge of i fairs, which 18 now a purely civil' nd nobles, and today the agency and has no duties of a mili- Siam bears as:one of hie{ta character. of the Tent House and! (3) Tha® the arrangement under ' { which the Department of the Interior {now has a jurisdiction over the ter- | l1itories as distinguished from the de. | ipendencies is'an unsatisfactory one. | i relatives in Pennsylvania. | dependent territory of ali kinds. Woul Relleve Department That an equally important BACHRACH Jat Renovator t. N.W.—Phone M. 4194 S |CHANGES IN STATE DEPARTMENT | stz ot i dotemarye: | {ence of the American national bure customs ta SHADBAKE IN MOVIES. Eappened | saverniont leation de- | e G i 2 9 1artitnte for v Il he noted that the aet cer teszareh. The gen- commended does not e of ths p'an were | lan addition to 1he nnmher el vreeented in the first Article, g eervices but en i | wrintod In yeaterdas's fitar. To- reduction throuzh the tratian | SHOWINZ day's prtlele deala wiih the Ktate | n one mervies of ael Department. Another depart- | | @ree | me zcd tomor- Thriot eau for the public iffs, and ceneral cleari and other inter I ional agencies. of Trade Outing Views Caught by Cameraman. i enfoy cal busi heater this Jese oo motty at he n on the scr ed undor he fulowine eoptions il'e2 and frienda of many who caught Ly ndi Tag, ton 1104 e et Ton Oyetar, Fortune Did o und tae Stufl “nt Arrive, oonist “and * While appr talong in th' middie o' i noon, one day thiz w Jud h ' upon investigation it proved * be hi if TALKS ON IRELAND. Capt. C. W. Wyatt Denies Report of Religious Differences. Denving that any serious differences Catholies and Abe Martin Says: exeted between the P'rotestants of Ire 1. Cept. Conwi \ . Wya't of New Y add: ease the Tadraie 11, Tearse Conne!l of thel American oclation for the recogR- tton of the Irish Ilepubile at Gon- ! zaga Uall last nlght Gapt. 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