Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1921, Page 3

- (DWER R R-AATES D TO FARNERS White House Sées Hope in Reduced Charges on Ex- port Grain. Strong hope for better prices in the agricultural markets is justified by reductions in the railroad rates on grain for export, already in effect and proposed, according to a state- ment issued at the White House last night. Recent reductions in the export rate on grains between Chicago and New York, the statement said, will be fol- lowed by sweeping revisions of grain rates generally, including those from Mississippi river points, and on the lines to the gulf, in order that the entire agricultural interest may share fully in the benefits. “In general,” the statement con- tinued, “advances in freight costs are passed on to the consumer by adding them to the selling price. But in xrains, whose domestic price is domi- nated by the foreign price of the ex- ported surplus, the producer suffers when rates go up and benefits when they go down. Therefore, though the exports represent a minor share of the total grain production, the low- ering, of export rates affects the en- tire crop. - Justity Strong Hopes. “These reductions of rates, together with the arrangements for financial assistance to export trade and the assurance that Europe is going to need extraordinary quantities of American_foodstuffs, constitute alto- isether a justification for strong hope that the tendency in the agricultural markets will for some time be de- cidedly toward better prices.” Reduction of transportation rates on grain for export was described as “one of the most important measures the administration has initiated for the relief of agriculture and of gen- eral industrial conditions.” The re- ductlons, it was_explained, were in- sisted upon by Secretary Hoover as # concession to the agricultural in- terests when, on behalf of President Harding. he negotiated with the car- riers the basis for settlement of their claims against the government grow- ing out of federal control. Was Basis of Adjustment. “This was made the basis of the adjustment,” the statement conti ued, “the-railroads relinquishing their so-called ‘labor inefficiency’ claims and undertaking to inaugurate re- ductions in the export grain rates, while the administration undertook to assist them by securing early set- tlement of their claims against the government.” Moreover, the statement declared, it was discovered under the old condi- tions that the Canadian railways and ports were getting the lion's share of the grain movement to Europe, in- cluding large quantities of American grain. “To meet this conditiof,” it is said, “and insure that the American pro- ducer would not only get his full share of the sales in foreign markets, but would also get the highest pos- sible price, a movement for reducing export rtaes was inaugurated by the administration.” CONSTITUTION VIOLATED, IS JUDGE’S CHARGE Decides Against Government in United States Harness Company Case. In_the refusal of Judge Baker of the United States circuit court, sit- ting at Elkins, W. Va., to dismiss an injunction restraining agents of the Department of Justice and Federal troops from taking possession of the property of the United States Harness Company, an important legal setback has been encountered by the federal government in its first big alleged war-graft case. In the text of the decision received here the court held that constitutionalauthor- ity had been exceeded by the President, wken he recently canceled the War De- partment’s contract with the harness company to dispose of between $25,000,- 000 and $100,000,000 surplus Army har- ness and that Secretary of War Weeks violated the Constitution in ordering troops to invade the premises of the company. The decision averred that the government is as amenable to the law as any private citizen. New pleadings are in preparation by the government for presentation to Judge Baker on the motion to dissolve the injunction obtained by the company. The new pleadings set forth the facts under which the Presi- dent canceled the government's con- tracts with the harness company. - D. C. SUED FOR $10,000. ‘The District of Columbia is sued for $10,000 damages in the District Supreme Court by Ila A. Helves- tine for alleged _ injuries resulting from a fall on the sidewalk. The plaintiff says she was walking at 2d and C streets southeast June 20. 1919, and by reason of alleged defective construction of the walk fell and sustained serious inju She is rep- resented by Attorneys Wilton J, Lam- bert and Rudolph H. Yeatman.' —_——— Successful experiments have been made, in various forests of France, in cutting trees by means of electricity. A platinum re is made white hot by an electric current and used like a saw. In this way the tree is felled much easier and quicker than in the old way SPECIAL NOTICES. Abe Martin Says: -~ | Master Bobby Moon, age seven, fell exhausted in a sody water parade t'day. Who remembers when only gentlemen waited fer th’ ladies | t’ go first? ! (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) LIABILITY DISCLAIMED FOR SLAYING BY LUNATIC Railway Fights $10,000 Verdict Against It for Action of In- sane Employe. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., August 13.—Is & railroad liable for the acts of ap em- ploye who goes insane while on duty and commits a crime, makimg the railroad responsible in a suit at law for damages”? That is the. case that confronts the supreme court of ap- peals of this state. The facts are these, as stated in the petition for a review of the case after the circuit court for Norfolk city had returned a verdict of $10,000 against the railroad: On the night of October 11, 1919, several persons in an automobile approached the tracks of the Norfolk and Western railroad where they cross Brambleton avenue. There were seven persons in the ma- chine and it was about midnight. The horn was sounded for the gateman to allow them to pass, and the man, Brant A. Ford, came from his tower and raised the gates, muttering and murmuring something in an under- tone. He raised the gates and the car was about clearing the tracks when three shots rang out, and Claudia_Merrill, one of the party, fell dead. The shots had been fired by Ford. It is dis- closed in the record that the man had been serving the company for more than a year, never missed a day, and was a man_for his position. It is also shown that Ford had before the state went dry, been frequently in trouble with the police because of his habits. He was arrested and it transpired that Ford was a lunatic. He was sent to the hospital for the criminal insane at Marion, where he now is. Suit was brought by the girl's fam- ily to recover, and the jury awarded his family $10,000. The appeal is t determine the liability of the com- pany for the individual acts of the watchman, having no connection with his duties and when he was not re- quired to carry arms. The oecupants of the car did not say a word to arouse the watchman's ire, and it is not known if he had ever seen any of the parties before. APPOINT R. A. LUNDQUIST. Heads Electrical Machinery Divi- sion in Commerce Bureau. Appointment of R. A. Lundquist of Minneapolis, Minn., as chief of the newly created electrical machinery division of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce was announced yesterday by the Department of Com- merce. It is planned to secure the services of experts who specialize in the more important export commodi- ties to head divisions made possible by Congress through passage of the export_industries act. Mr. Lundquist is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He is an ~lectrical engineer and has had wide experience in the domestic and for- eign electrical field. The new ap- pointee has made extensive studies of possibilities for the sale of American goods and machinery in Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and South Africa, resuits of which have been published by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. BENEFIT BALL GAME. [clark Grifith Gives Grounds to Aid Veterans. A base ball game will be staged at the American League Park Saturday, August 27, for the benefit of the Di abled American Veterans of the World War, an organization numbering about | 25,000. Clark Griffith has notified the committee on arrangements that the park is theirs for the day, and every | convenience will be offered. H The all-star Masonic ball team will be one of the two competitors. All athletic goods have been furnished by Spaulding’s. Tickets will be on sale by the members of the organization. A ! band will be secured to jazz up things between innings. SPECIAL NOTICES. e ¥ WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS contracted by others than myself. F. RERNHARDT, 416 Irving n.w. . REDUCED FREIGHT AND GREATER SE- curity for household goods to Pacific coast and far west in the pool cars of the Security Stor- age Company, 1140 15th. CLAFLIN FOR EYEGLASSES. TOUR__OLD WOOD FLOORS FLAN ‘craped and repolished: no floors too bad. ADAMS. Franklin @4 bt Just Tell Casey —if ‘the roof leaked and he will put it in_first-class condition. CASEY ruonen ot 135 and 1501, Electric Wiring By Expert Mechanics; Repairing. E. R. VOGELSON, 504 H st. n.w. 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Linc, | the Spaniards ate only horse and mule 4219, The Million-Dollar Printing Plant Is equipped o do the biggest Jobs at mos. etonomical cost. The National Capital Press 1210-1212 D St. N.W. Able to Supply You '\—with Beaver Board now at an EXTRA FAVORABLE PRICE. .Let's have that order. 24°COLONIAL PORCH COLUMNS ~ Geo. M. Barker Co., Inc. BEAVER BOARD $49-651 N, ¥, ave,; 1017 7eh ot Tel M 1368, 1 pensa of buylug mew. gowsa, . _ SHIP DEFICIT BILL VOTE 15 DUE. TODAY House: Expected to' Pass De- ficiency Appropriation Measure. The House, it Is expected, will pass the Shipping Board deficiency appro- priation bill today, and then take up the Senate agricultural credits bill. During the consideralion of the de- floieney bill vesterday, which carries $48,500,000 for the expenses of the Ship- ping Board until January 1, 1922, an amendment was adapted which prohibit- ed the payment of salaries of more than $12,500 to more than three officials of the board. The.amendment was offered by Chairman Madden of the appropric tions committee, after the House had voted down an amendment by Repre- sentative Hardy of Texas, democrat, to prohibit the payment of more than $12,500 to more than two officials. An amendment by Representativ: Sweet, republican, lowa. 0 cut the amount carried in the bill to $25,000,- 000, was defeated by a vote of 69 to 52, while an amendment offered by Representative Byrns, democrat, Ten- ressee, that no funds of the Shipping Board should be used to settle elaims was ruled out on a point of order. A final vote on the bill is the first order of business for tomorrow. Repeatedly during four hours of debate Chairman Lasker of the Ship- ping Board was the subject of debate. Representative Walsh, republican, Massachusetts, wh s cha¥rman of the committee wh gated Shipping Board affairs. de he was “pretty Strong on promis. seems to be pretty weak on fact and Representative Oliver, democrat, Alabama, d that the Shipping Board chair indulged in s persistently s paper headlines. Madden ared that Mr Lasker had found things in a chaotic ondition and urged tha ¢ be given “six months™ to iu)\\' what he could do. AUGMENTS FORGES 0 MEET UPRISING Spain to Increase Army to 50,600 Men in the Melilla Zone. Assceiated Press. N. August trom the 20,000 Spanish troops in Melilla. whieh force it is expected soon,will be increased to 50.000, about 30,000 are being collected at Tetuan and Araish, in the western part of the Spanish Moroccan zone, trouble hav- ing occurred in those districts, ac- cording to a Tangier dispatch to the London Times. It is still hoped. however. that this region will cseape a general outbreak. The Spanish garrison at Menala, near Suk El Arba, in the region south of Melilla, has been compelied to re- treat. adds the dispatch difficulty and with losses. MAURA TO FORM CABINET. n 13.—Aside Proposes Parliamentary Coalition, ‘With Conservatives Leading. MADRID, August 13.—Former Premie; Antonio Maura today assumed the pre- miership of the new Spanish cabinet, which replaces that of Premier Allen: desalazar, who resigned on Thursday. Premier Maura appointed Don Manuel Gonzalez Hontoria minister of foreign affairs and Senor La Cierva minister of war. The other members of the new cabinet have not been selected. Plans for the formation of a parlia- mentary caglition government, in which the majority of the ministers will be drawn from the conservative party, are teing formulated by Antonio Maura, who was early this week asked by King Alfonso to head a new Spanish gov- ernment. Senor Maura has consulted Count de Bugallal, former minister of the interior, Juan de la Cierva, for- mer minister of public works; Indale- cio Prieto and Fernando Sanchez de Toco, relative to the situation, but it is declared he does not wish to in- clude members of the Allendesalazar cabinet or chief politicians, desiring only that each of their parties be represented in the new ministry. The Diario Universal, organ of Count Romanones, former premier, declares he is willing to support a combination selected by Senor Maura. As soon as the cabinet is formed, it is_expected the Spanish parliament will be called for an immediate ses- sion, for the purpose of passing a new | budget. Say Tribesmen Are Deserting. Reports from Melilla, Morocco, { where Moorish tribesmen have been carrying on an agressive warfare against Spanish forces, and have brought about a situation which had its sequel in the fall of the Allende- lazar ministry, would seem to in- dicate optimism on the part of the Spanish command. It 1s asserted that the tribesmen are deserting in large numbers, and that the bombardment of Spanish positions on Mount Ar- ruit, where Gen. Navarro and his troops were surrounded, was directed by Spanish prisoners, who fired upon i their comrades when threatened by the rebels, Negotiatfdns for the liberation of Spanish prisoners taken by the Moors are proceeding. Gen. Navarro's free- dom is especially sought, but the Moors are demanding a large sum for his ransom. It is said that morb than 3.000 soldiers already have been set free by the Moors, following the pay- ment of money by the Spaniards, but R et e MANY LOCAL MEN TO ATTEND . CAMP OF RESERVE OFFICERS Ten-Day Stretch at ‘Camp Meade Will Open Monday Morning—Addresses |wil Remain at White House by Prominent Men. Reserve officers of the 3d Army Corps, including Pennsylvania, Mary- land, Virginia and .the District, will go into camp Monday at Camp Meade for a ten-day stretch of instruction. This is the first organized attempt since the end of the war to impart instruction to members of the Officers® Reserve Corps. Lack of funds has prevented the War Department from giving the reserve officers the annual encampment supposed to be held for their benefit. The encampment is purely an Invitation affair. , Four hundred and twolve reserve officers Chantland, First Lieut. W. M. Coffin. Second Lieut. Howard Criswell, First Lieut. Albert H. Dodore, Maj. William Henry England, Second Lieut. Wil- liam 'C. Evans, jr. Capt. West A. Hamilton, Capt. Robert B. Handy, J |Second Lieut. Frank T. Koons, ir.: Maj. Otto M. Lawrence, Capt. John G. McGuire, Capt. William K. Peak. Sec- ond Lieut. Thomas D. Riordan. First Lieut. George Lee Rooney, Robert W. Savage, Col. A. Stephan, Second Lieut. Walter Larny Wallace, Capt. Edward York and Capt. Dewey Zitkin. . Field Artillery—Capt. Eldon P King, Capt. Alison M. Lederer, First Lieut, Hallock P. Long and Capt. T. A. Scott AUGUST 13, 1921—PART Bl with much { have already announced thelr inten: ,Thropp. ion of accepting. the Invitation and | Const' Artillery—Fi . 800 are expected at the camp. Wallace I by iaty Tasut., Atbert b e Lybrand and S ST e Mallace econd Lieut. L. ! The program includes war games! Alr Servi :nd anegerss Instruction in each ,'{"," (‘Gug. F X rench of the seryice will be given {dale, Maj J. F. Randall and Capt. Z. by 'salected cxpertd . Rallroad” fare | Moniford Smith. drvepe & and mess expenses will be borne by the officers themselves. The encampment for this area has national significance, it was £aid, be- cause it will be used as a gauge to Actermine whether a similar one will be recommended in other areas. The vrogram is as follows: Monday, organization of camp and instruction by branch of service: address by camp commander at 4.30 n.m.; reception and_smoker at night. Tuesday, ad- dress on reorganizition of the Army by Senator Wadsworth. Wednesday training; address by Col. Collins. Thursday, lecture on the organized reserves, by Col. March B. Stewart. Friday, Col. Simonds to talk on or- ganization of National Guard and or- ganized resorves in third area. Sat- address under ausnices of Mili- jtary Order of the World War, prob- {2bly by Arsistant Secretary of the| nal Corps—H-rvey DL Villiam A. King an “harles D. Reeves. i | Quartermaster Corps—First Lieut. Il.u 1 Barber, First Lieut. Bert M. Com- erfl)r]: Capt. Frank A. Frost, Capt. Allen Creeley, Capt. Berkley Inge, First Lieut. John Eastwood Kane, Capt. Watson Behan Miller, First Lieut. Clifiord C. Payton, Capt. J. B. Peat, Lieut. Col. Henry E. Robinson, Maj. rles Spence, st Lieut. Thomas Capt. Georges M. Weber and rst Lieut. Marion R. Wilkes, Engineer Corps—Capt. Roy F. Bes- sev. First Lieut. Joseph J. Bochnewich, Capt. Walter H. Dunlap, MnJ. Edwin C. Eckel, Lieut. Col. John H. Finn Lieut. Markham, First Lieut. Frank E. Scott, Capt. W. H. Sligh. Lieut. Col.’ Glenn nd Capt. Donald B. Wood. 11 Corps—Lieut. Col. A. Barnes . Kauffman, First Lieut. | Theodore Roosevelt. - Monday, ! oo and Maj. Daniel C. Mai Sun by Col. De Witt.| Medical Administration—Capt. J. T . August 24, “Organiza- | Yoder. ¢ Col. Bryant H. Wells, Ordnance Department—Lieut. Col ward’ .l picturcs will be shown, films h Hickey and Capt. James A. been selected by the signal corps pho- [ Purcell. | e tap it Tabo ats orilitary Intelligence Division—Mzj. ver Metzerott, Maj. Horace Til- Local Mea to Attend. nd’ Maj. Jacob Miller Among local men who will attend ar Section—1st Li. . Tufantry—Lieut. Col. William T.'Kerr Fulton, PRy HOLT SEES CHOICE * FACING PRESIDENT ‘COMPARATIVELY SAFE, U. S. WAR EXPLOSIVES FOR LAND CLEARING The Department of Agriculture has 12,500,000 pounds of salvaged “comparatively safe” war ex- | plosives to give to farmers for i : 3 .| land clearings. = Farmers e ad- iMust Soon Decide for Bitter- | Vi, ciarines. | Farmers are ad respect. for the records are filled th stories of men who forgot precaution in handling dynamite and other dangerous things.” Enders or League Advocates. LAKE JUNALUSKA, N. C.. August}! PLANS N SBER President Harding every opportunity to perfect the suggested association jof nations, Hamilton Holt of New { York, cne of the leaders of the pro- sue republicans, speaking here at th, laymen’s conference of the A\'i ‘)mdd.u( ;Zpim'npal Church South, declarcd that the President soon . i must choose botween ~the pro-|Attitude of Conciliation luazuel'sdln his ‘(nhlntl whom he mede and the Dltter-enders in the it Sinnte “who maste him> Forced by Opposition to IA‘I( our political leaders make no mwistake,” s Mr. Holt.” “The league lh!u]t‘ dwm not be settled until it is Semenofi. settled right. Every friend of inter- SoiiatedP, national peace and progress (here. | Mo AtedatidPres fore must withhold final judgment NGy A ety 2 S oRlessolote ficial telegrams sent by Gen. Tachi- bana of the Japan expeditionary force in Vladivostok to his superiors in Tokio indicate to some extent the interest felt in the effort of Semenoff to re-establish himself in Siberia and in the fortunes of Baron Ungern- Sternburg in Mongolia. Opposition by the consular corps at until Mr. Harding sees fit to disclose the detailcd plans of his association. But this is clear: If he wants the permancnt surport of most of the American people. his aseociation must be more than a mere group of nations agreeing to be good and peaceable and all revolving about a court.” “It is inconceivable that Mr. Hard- ing could get the world or the Senate at the present moment to consent to establish a better court with wider {y oot 3 jurisdiction than the admirable one | Vladivostok to Semenoff’s return to just created largely by the genius of | Power, coupled with antagonism to Elihu_Root and already adopted as him in the Japanese army itself, has the chief tribunal by the present league of nations. And if Mr. Hard- ing’s association is under no compul- sion to do anything except when the spirit moves, the nations would be no better off than they are now with or_without an association. “The present league with its foriy- nine members and its truly admira- ble record of things accomplished in the one short year of its existence is !¢} : well worth preserving. Indeed. it isl I petter to have the present league ntinue as it is without the United States during the term of the present administration than to emasculate the league in order to get the United States to enter it. But we cannot wait much longer. I The world is on the verge of revo- lution, famine and pestilenc~. ~ Mr. Harding must choose between the pro-leaguers in his cabinet whom he made or the bhitter-enders in the Senate who made him. The decision must be made reasomably soon. If not, all friends of the league must or- | i ganize so as to capture Congress in 11922 and the presidency in 19244 They must tread the path of the op- ponents of slavery, who continued fighting even though election after election went against them. “Nearly all the democrats and more than half the republicans—a clear majority of the American people— I want the United States to enter some kina of an association with enough teeth in it actually to lessen the probabilities of war. They can win if they unite.” anese commander declares has forced an ‘“attitude of conciliation toward the Far Kastern republic, and has caused the Japanese command to al- ter its plnns for operations in Siberia. One telegram addressed to Gen. Ouikhara, Tokio, follows: “In view of Seo's (a Japanese office: 1 the continuance of negotiations and Ataman Semenoff, I am taking an attitude of ‘expectation’ I have in- formed Seo that my attitude would change as soon as the Igroup opens general activities and {shows some actual results in the { Transbaikalia region. “The present situation, I believe, is duc to the underground work of some of the extreme radical .parties sup- perted by the whole personnel of the Vladivostok consuls, They are entire- 1y ignorant of the real Russan ques- tion and are being led by the Ameri- can_representative, who has adopted | influence in the far east. I have com- Imenced negotiations to counteract {this movement with several of the non-soclalist groups and expect to find a pedceful way out of the pres- berian expeditionary forces.” SIGNS DIVORCE DECREE. ink B. Lewis, Maj. Carl W.| ach afternoon will be devoted tojFrederie Wright. {demonstrations by infantry, c: Juage peate neral’ Depart- field artillery, engineers, men t— Robert P. Parrott and warfare service, air service, tanks and [ Capt. Lewis B. Perkin signal coryps. ach evening motion Adjutant General’s Of —Capt. Ed- created a situation which the Jap- | ] Semenoff’s staff) reports in regard | between the Merkuloff government | Mongolian | an irreconciliable attitude toward our ent situation, which is very precarious to the budget question for the Si- Justice Hitz has signed a final de- -~ PRESIDENT PLANS NO LONG VACATION During Congressional : Recess. It is President Harding's present in- tention to remain in Washington re- gardless. of the four or five week re- cess Congress proposes taking very shortly. ‘ There has been considerable specu- 'lation regarding possible summer + White Houses for the executive and | the first lady, and possible short trips during the recess, but the President has put at an end all speculation by announcing that he and Mrs. Hard- ing have no intention of leaving the White House, unless it be for a week end cruise on the Mayflower. The trip which had been planned for this week end was called off yester- lday afternoon, although no reason wig given. It Is understood that the President is anxious to clear his desk of a considerable mass of routine business, much of which needs im- mediate disposition. It is, therefore. expected that he will work at hisj Gemr late this afternoon and tonight | and that he will spend a considerable part of tomorrow in his study | Accompanied by Mrs. Harding~At- toiney General Daugherty and Senator and Mrs. Watson of Indiana, the Presi- dent occupied a box at Kelth's Theater ast night. Dixcuss Velstead Act. It was announced at the White House vesterday afternoon that yesterday's cabinet Bession was devoted principa to the discussion of domestic problems. One which occupied much time was the Volstead enforcement act. Attention was called to the great accumulation of liquor im government warehouses and the fact that these warehouses are costing vast sums in rentals and sal- aries for watchmen. An even greater économic waste would result from pour- ing seized spirits into the sewer, and {it was suggested that a way might be [fourd to extract the alcohol for com- | mercial purposes or to turn the liquor tself to some legitimate use, The law says it is to be “confiscated,” but doesn’t how to dispose of it. ‘Another prohibition enforcement question that interested the -rabinet arose from the seizure of liquor not intended for consumption in the United States but merely in transit in bond through this country. Cah- inet members asked whether there was not some way to secure release of such shipments, but were told that nothing could be done until the courts had ruled on several cases of seizure now pending. Should the seizure be held legal, it is not impossible that the Attorney Geleral may ask Con- gress to change the law. Consider Famine Relief. American relief for famine-stricken Russia also was one of the chief subjects before the cabinet session. ! Various phases of the proposed work by the American Relief Administra- tion were gone into with particular Lattention, It was understood, given to the relation of the American organi- zation to the activities of foreign charitable associations which might €ng; e in the same work. ] Tresident Harding, it was learned, {has addressed a letter to Secretary { Hoover, in his capacity as chairman {of the relief administration, on the question of the proposed distribution of supplies in Russia. The President is understood to look with disfavor upon any pooling of interests by the| various associations of different | nationalities contemplating Rus: relief and to take the position that American relief should be independ- ently administered. Mr. Hoover, in his recent cable to] { former President Ador of Switzerland | concerning the Geneva Russian relief | i conference. stated his belief that the responsibility for fighting famine in Russia_could not be delegated to a | mixed board of different nationalities. fIn his cable Mr. Hoover indicated i nis attitude was one of favoring sep- jarate fields for the different associa- I tions administering to Russian needs. TWO ARE SENTENCED. illiam J. Fay. jr. twenty-one vears old. who pleaded gullty to pass- {ing twe worthless cheoks for $75 and 1840, has been sentenced by Justice Hit {two years in the penitentiary at Lor- Iton, Va. Fay, according to Probation Criminal Division 1. to serve | ELWOOD C. GATCHELL DIES Served for Many Years as Buyer for Woodward & Lothrop. Elwood C. Gatchell died suddenly Thursday morning at his residence, 937 Massachusetts avenue. He served for many years as buyer of the men's furnishing department of Woodward & Lothrop, and held membership in the Twenty Year Club of the store. He served for forty-one years with the firm. He was also a member of La Fayette Lodge, F. A. A. M., and of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where he sang in the choir. Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed. LABORER ASKS $25,000. The J. Henry Miller Company, Inc.. is named as defendant in a suit to recover $25,000 damages nled in the District Supreme Court by Henson Simmg, a laborer. Through Attor- neys James A. O'Shea, John I. Sacks and Anna L. Cooke, the plaintiff says he was employed by the defendant in connection with the ercction of build- ings in the navy yard, and. as he was running from an impending danger, August 12, 1918, he tripped and feli over an iron beam, injuring himself permanently. A contrivance used by the company to haul mortar buckets broke, he explains, and. as he was running to escape injury therefrom, he fell. ATR SERVICE CHANGES. Maj. Leo A. Walton, air service, at Langley Field, Hampton, Va., has been crdered to this city for duty in the ofice 5f the chief of air service, War Depart lent. Capt. Horace N. Heisen, air service, in this city. has been assigned to duty at Langl-y Ficld. FOR SALE— AN ELEGANT RESIDENCE, i GRAND VIEW, i Overlooking Conn. Ave. Bridge. New and Up to Date in Every Respect. ONLY $12,600. Immediate Possession. ROOME . cold storage room: re house: tiled bath; hot-water special light fixtures. laundrs cellar: colonial front porci. jlarze double back porches, screened witi { linds: tine sleeping ‘porch: hardwood fioor { open firepluces and closets in epch room: @ Iwnings and seres | hea lavatory in coneret LIEBERMANN & HAWN, PHELAN C. HAWN, Phone Main 2021. 1421 F. PRESIDENT on account tial. Lawyers—Executives A large national corporation with its home office here requires a capable man to fill the position as money. Unlimited and interesting business. Confiden- Address Box 63-R Star Office ess Men of a vacancy. Assured big Washington—the most “Livable™ City in America OW Do You Find Business There’s only way and that vourself. ? one sure and satisfactory is to make business for We make business by plan- ning propositions for Clients who in turn make business for themselves by accept- ing them. Your Store or Office may not be located in the most desirable place for the most patronage. Change it you where you 1405 Eye St. for the better. We'll locate should be. If there’s any dif- ference in rental, it's more than covered by increase in business. win]MCKEEVER Exclusive Sales Agents Members Washington Real Estate Board =GOS Main 4752 W front Officer Steele. was under a suspended sentence in California for a similar offense. Robert Stewart, who said he was released from the Army eight months ago and was unable to find work, to- day pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with bringing two stolen canoes into Washington. Ju: tice Hitz sent him to the penitentiar: for fifteen months. Several canoes were stolen both on the Maryland and | Virginia sides of the Potomac. but |Stewart only admitted taking two of | them. | | —_— The first woman to win the Prix de Rome is Mme. Auie Mouroux, a i French artist now visiting in America. {1t was the first time that a_woman i had ever been admitted to the com- petition. The five other contestants were all men. The successful design was a classic medal, which bore th title “Fraternity on the Battlefield. The medal has been bought by the French government and presented to { Mme. Mouroux's home town of Cosne. i it is believed many more prisoners are still in the hands of tribes in the in- terior of Morocco. ‘ LIST. cree of absolute divorce in favor of ! Mary R. Rozzelle against C. Dowd | Rozzelle. An interlncutory decreé was | | go. (Arabs fired on them treacherousl; Comment on “the Crisis.” _ Commenting on_the political crisis in Spain, El Sol in an editorial says the new government of Senor Maura will come into power under great re- sponsibilities. “The country,” says the newspaper, “is asked for sacrifices which are to| be made in silence; but no soldiers can be sent to Africa without modern weapons and a reorganization of the Red Cross, so that they may go to the battlefield as a European army should The new government must. do its utmost to send more than/one contin- genf with proper equibment.” Story of Released Prisoners. Among the prisoners taken by the Moroccan tribesmen, says a dispatch from Melilla, were seventeen laborers and nine women: and children, who have arrived at Melilla. Describing the surrender of Mount Arruit, these prisoners tell stories of how when the Spanish_troops left for Melilla, after terms of surrender had been arranged, killin 3 several soldiers. Since July 27, the prisoners declare, flesh, and their drink was one boiled oats. from thirst. Gen. Navarro is said to have con- tinually attended to his duties as chief of command. —_— de of The troops suffered most A London journal says Queen Mary, i8 not spending more than $1,500 a year for her clothes’ nowa- days, and of this total about two- thirds is required for the necessary state gowns. The way in which the queen keeps down her dress bills to 80 low a figure is by having her pre- war dresses altered, and, In some cases, even dyed. to avoid the ex- GOES ON RETIRED {awarded three months ago. D. wife. fBear Admiral Snowden in.Service Forty-Six Years. ' Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden was ; ed on the .retired list of tife Navy ! operation of law on account | rty-six years { plac yesterday by Quality Plus Economy in {of age, after more than fo iactive service afloat and ashore.. He |:'as born in New York August 13, 11857, enterea the naval service in! ! June, 1875, and reached the grade of { - rear admiral in July. 1917. After many vears of cruising in all ! parts of the world and of service at various shore stations. he was made military governor of Santo Domingo | in October, 1917, and served In that! capacity for three years. For several | months past he has been stationed in this city as a_member of the general board, Navy Department. He is now enjoying a vacation in Maine. SUES FOR $10,000. Irene Richardson has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $10,000 damages from the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Campany for alleged personal injury. Through At- torneys Wilton J. Lambert and Ru- dolph H. Yeatman she says.the com- pany negligently failed to protect-.a trench which had been filled in with soft clay .adjacent to the street car tracks at 14th and Emerson streets northwest, and a3 she alighted from a car her foot sank into the clay and caused her to be thrown to the ground, inflicting painful and serious injury. ! Can Be Fou Capital 637 F St. N.W. at Our.Two Stores Shoe Findings Co.: Union Shoe Findings Co. | ——— In Place of Lemons A N | ASHER FIRE PROOFING CO, HERN BUILDING - Use Horsford's Acid Thosphate. Healthful, refreshing. better for' you—invig. orates nerves, brain und body. At druggists Attorney | Edward Clarke appeared for the be interested in (ASS Modern Store Display Windows is the time to install a new in your store. Plate Glass is half its’ former price, Copper Sash and Bars are considerably reduced and the labor situation is such that you can secure the most efficient mechanics without difficulty. Rosslyn, Va. 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