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7 =x THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, .D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1922.° Prince of Wales' Aide. Who Will Wed Of Briti FOUND 3 BODIES ROPES UPON NECKS Statement of Witness at Hearing on Alleged Army Cruelties Overseas. Rufus P. Hubbard of New York, employed by the American graves registration service in preparing bodies of American soldiers to be sent from France, told a Senate commit- tee today that on three bodies dis- interred he found a rope around the neck .¢ each and a black cap over each face. Called as the first witness at the hearing today of the committee in vestigating charges by Senator Wat- son, democrat, Georgia, that Amerl- can soldiers were hanged without trial in France, Hubbard declared there was nothing in the coffins by which the bodies could be identified. “The bodies were identified by the cross on the outside of the coffin, and Heiresses Richeet IVHERAN flF IHRE ' | possessor of seven honorabie dis- DE VALERA TO GIVE OUT HIS SUBSTITUTE - PROPOSALS AT ONCE FLAGS TAKES EASE Matias Wenger, Aged 81, En- ters Soldiers’ Home After Varied Miutary Career. Matias Wenger, who served at dif- ferent times under the French, Brit- ish and American flags, and proud (Continued from First Page.) the hands of the delegates before the motion was moved. Mr. De Valera, after sharp exchanges with Arthur Grifiith and Michael Col- lins over the much-mooted “document No. 2,” announced that he would move his alternative proposals tomorrow as an amendment to the Griffith motion for ratification of the treaty. The question was raised whether Mr. De Valera, under the rules of the de- bate, would be permitted to make an- other speech. The first speaker at today's session was Donald Buckley of Kildare, who opposed the treaty. “The people of this country have been stampeded into acceptance of the treaty by the rotten press of Ireland,” he sald.” “I shall vote against it. Rebufts Miss MacSwiney. Alexander MacCabe of- Sligo fol- lowed with a plea for acceptance. While he was picturing the disap- pointment he sald milllons of Irish women and children would feel if the treaty were rejected Miss Mary Mac- charges, four of whnich are from the United States government, arrived yesterday at the Soldiers’ Home, form- ing one of the most notable additions to the 1,000 already being cared for there. Mr. Wenger is eighty-one years old and in good healih. Mr. Wenger was born February 24 1838, in a small village in Alsace-Lor- raine, France. He ' was educated in the schools of that section, and, upon reaching the age of twenty-one, en- tered a term of seven years in the army, as required by the French mili- tary system. Napoleon III was then emperor of the French. The seven years of. service took Mr. Wenger the black caps were not removed be- fore the bodies were shipped to the United States for burial,” Hubbard testified. Ready to Enter Formal Denial. Maj. Hierame Opie of Staunton, Va., commander of the 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry, accused by Henry L. Scott of Kenmore, Ohlo, of having shot and killed two soldiers in France, was on hand with counsel to enter formal de- nial of the charge. Because some of the ‘witnesses were anxious to testify and return home there was no early refer- ence of the Opie case. Describing his work in the fleld as an assistant embalmer, Hubbard went into great detail while Chairman Brandegee was attempting to find out what he knew about charges of illegal hangings. “You've written a long letter, now teil ws in your own way what you know about the hanging charges,” Chalrman Brandegee insisted. “While at a cemetery in France. helping to get the bodies resd{ Tor shipment home,” the witness sald, "I saw three bodies brought up with the rope and black cap just as they were when the men were hanged. I think two were negroes and one a White man. Regards It as “Disgrace.” “ think it was a disgrace to the Army that the bodies went to the parents without the black caps being removed.” The witness gave the n. eral persons who were present al cemetery with him. “There was too much hurry in th~ registration service,” he continued “and many sad mistakes in identifi- ion were made.” O nere were no tags on the bodies of the three soldiers?” Senator Over- man, democrat, North Carolina asked. “I' dia not see one” Hubbard re- d. Pl ere bodies that were not prop- entified shipped home as iden- * Senator Brandegee asked. “They were,” Hubbard replied. Mothers of Lost Sons Present. Many women in the crowded com- mittee room who lost sons overseas Jeaned forward and listened closely to Hubbard's long recital of “care- Jessness,” some with tears in their ® 5o you know if those three men executed in accordance with the *"the chairman asked. “do not. “Have you any evidence that men were hanged without trial?” No, sir. Know anything of knowledge of %ru.lty'!" yes,” he said. 1t developed that what he wanted to as hearsay. u“"s:’fl;ehh out, the: said the chair- man. Several Hundred Bodies Exhumed. Examined by Col. Walter A. Bethel, acting judge advocate general of the Army, Hubbard said several hundred bodies were taken up at the French cemetery where he found three with ropes hooked around the neck. “The three bodies were taken up in different parts of the cemetery on the same day,” he said. “The rope was about three feet long; I took off the ames of sev- t the wer own “How many other men saw it Bethel asked. o don't know,” adding that he dia report the éase. B T the first report of it was made u to Senator Watson?" s sir.” wThat's all”_exclaimed Col. Bethel, while Hubbard was still trying to get along with his story “What prompted you to write me asked Senator Watson taking the witness. 7 fy duty as a former service man, 1ed. P he “tag had_been there would you have ‘{ulund n'."‘; 4 “I certainly woul Hlubhslrd insisted that the bodies of the three soldlers “hanged’ were identified by the cross on each grave, and he presumed they went to the ight parents. Willing to Swear There Was No Tax. “are you prepared to swear there was no tag in_any of the three cof- Senator Watson asked. am " Hubbard said the protested to Maj. Gunner against allowing the bodies in question to lie on the ground over night in the rain. 3 “How did vou get the noose off?” Senator Watson inquired. “It slipped off over the head. “If you took off the ropes why di you not remove the black cap Chairman Brandegee asked. 2 “] wasn't ordered to take oft the cap. 1 was ordered to remove the rope.” “Why were you oft_the cap?” “1 don’t kno D. L. Jacobson Testifles. Don ‘L. Jacobson, formerly of New Haven, Conn. but now -living -at Guthrie, Okla., was called next. wEver see a soldier hanged without trial?” Chairman Brandegee asked. “1 did not.” “Do you know anything about il- legal hangings at Glevres?" Jacobson then told how he had put the noose around the neck of a negro soldier hanged after court-martial conviction. -After the hanging the body was cut down and a short stretch of rope left around the neck, he sald. “It ‘was customary to bury a man hanged with the rope and black cap in place” he declared. Jacobson testified that the soldier at whode execution he assisted was buried In the cemetery at Bazoilles, wher$ Hubbard previously had testi- fled that three bodies were dug up. not ordered to take Answering Senator Watson, the wit- nessBala the man hanged was a ne.|minister, Who s a graduate of gro, Bonvicted of rape, and who died proclgiming his innocence. . %Polk Golden Questioned. Polk Golden, a young farmer of Newghan, Ga., who was living in ‘Arizépa when drafted and sent over- Seas,: was questioned concerning a lettefh he recently wrote Senator Wat- son shot'by orders of a major because he daughter-in-Taw, went to a spring to get a canteen of ) Carr. water. The men, he said, ordered to remain under cover and a soldier, disobeying, started toward the spring and was shot. A battle'also is named as executor. was raging nearby and guards, he said’ were trying to conceal .the position of the squad. “How far was the man out when shot?” “Fifty yards. He was told to halt and refuse Everybody knew we were not to approach the spring.” Saw Man Shot in Argomn Golden then testified that he saw an officer shoot a private in the Argonne sector. The man killed, ho sald, was an Itallan from New York. “Any talk about it in your company or any complaint made?” I didn’t hear any.” “After you saw the man fall dead you_got out, did you?” ‘es.’ by dida’t you make am inquiry the effect that a soldier was and antique furniture be given to his were | Mrs. W. B. Grove of Summit Point, LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATEN, Alde to the Prince of Wales on his present trip to India, is to marry Miss Edwina Ashley, the wealthiest girl in the British Isles. Her fortune, in: herited from her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassell, in estimated at $100,- 000,000. Lord Louis is of the Batten- berg tamily, which, when the war db..flnl‘td the family name to 1o ARMY OFFICERS TO MAKE 7,000-MILE INSPECTION Col. Wainwright and Gen. Harbord to Get First-Hand Personnel Information. Col. Wainright, assistant secretary of war, and Maj. Gen. J. G. Harbord, dep- uty chief of staff of the Army, will leave here Saturday on a 17,000-mile trip of inspection of military posts and stations, one purpose of which 18 to establish closer relations and better understand- ing between officials and officers at Wash- ington and those at other stations and in the fleld. It is desired also to obtain first-hand information concerning tae Regular Army personnel, the N Guard forces and members of the or- ganized reserves and to ald the depart- ment in its task components into one harmonious struc- ture. Need has been felt on the part of some officials, despite the progress made during the year just ended, of developing the three forces of the peace-time es- tablishment into a single efficient ma- caine, able in time of national emergency to function quickly for defensive pur- poses and, at the same time, to expand sapidly in’size. Assistant Secretary Wainwright and Gen. Harbord will leave here Saturday for Camp Knox. Ky., and then visit At- lanta and_Columbus, Ga., and New Or- eans and Houston, Tex. Galveston, Hrownsville, Ringgold and Laredo, Tex., will be visited between the 15th and 18th, and be followed by visits to_McAllen, Sam Fordyce, Har- lingen, San Antonio, Fort C.arke, Del Rio, Il Paso and Fort Worth, Tex., after which the itinerary will lead them to Fort Sill, Okla.; Kansas City, Forts Leavenworth and Riley, where the officials will remain abou four days. They will go to Chicago next and return here about February 6. —_— HOLD ANNUAL ‘ELECTION. Martin W. Hysong New President of Undertakers’ Society. The annual election of officers of the Undertakers' Assoclation was held last night at the Old Colony Club. Raleigh Hotel. Martin W. Hysong, recently elected at San Antonio, Tex. third vice president of the Natioual Funeral Directors’ Association and during the past year vice president of the District branch, was advan=>d %o the presidency. Almus R. Speare was chosen vice president and Alfred B. Gawler was re-elected secretary- treasurer. - In the report of committees the pre- posed undertakers' and embalmers’ law, soon to be introduced in Con- gress, again was discussed. It was urged that a standard be set for nothing less than a high school educa- tion, besides the usual requir2ments ot _proficiency. The insignia of a blue cross, marked with the word funeral, to be placed on the windshield of each car in a funeral cortege was adopted and will from now be given precedence by the crossing police. The idea originated ith Alfred B. Gawler, of Joseph Gawler's Sons. The condition of the city morgue and its inadequate facilities and loca- tlon were discussed and the hope expressed to see some material bet- terment in the near future. REGULAR MEETING OFF. Board of Education to Hold Spe- cial Session Wednesday. Indefinite postponement of the regu- lar meeting of the board of education scheduled for this afternoon at the Franklin School was ordered by Danfel A. Edwards, president of the school governing body. Mr. Edwards called a special meeting of the board next Wednesday. The regular meeting was deferred because Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent of schools, and other authori- ties, are scheduled to appear before the District subcommittee on appro- priations of the House this afternoon. DR. FARRAND HERE. Cornell President to Be,K Honored by Reception. Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell University, will be guest of honor at an informal reception to be given In the University Club this aft- ernoon at 5 o'clock. It will be Dr. Farrand's first trip to ‘Washington since his inauguration as president of the university. He was formerly the chairman of the central committee of the American Red Cross. After the reception he will attend a dinner at the Chinese legation as the guest of Dr. Alfred Sze, the Chinese Mo. Ka DR. W. P. CARR'S WILL FILED. The will of Dr. Willlam_P. Carr, noted surgeon, who died December 27, last. has been filed for probate.' The document is dated January 2, 1921, and directs that his silverware | Mrs. Willlam B. A piano is left to a cousin, | W. Va. The remaining estate is de- vised to his son, Edward R. Carr, who —_— to find out why the man was shot?” the chairman persisted. “I didn’t think about it.” The officer, the witne added, stated that he had orders to shoot the man. “Can you read or write?" Watson asked Golden. L “No, sir.” : Could Not Give Officer’s Name. The witness further said the shoot-' ing was in 1919, but changed to 1918 when reminded when the armistice igned. He couldn’t give the of- ficer’s namu at month was the shooting at the PRt know. I.dldn't k 5 3 ., L:dldn’t kee) with ‘the montha Pop oy onal | of welding these threethat vessel and re-enlisted, this time lanybody for so long that I guess they tarough different parts of France and Algiers. During this time he became & musician and was placed in various iregimental bands. While in Africa his seven-year enlistment term ex- ired, and after receiving his first onorable discharge, he re-enlisted voluntarily. While in Algiers he re- iceived a pair of cuff buttons bearing {two gold French coins stamped with the portrait of Napoleon III. He still possesses them. Receiving a dis- lcharge in 1871, he returned home with his wife, Madeleine Feasser, French subject, whom he married in Alglers. later he went to Paris, where he iserved for two years as a gendarme, or policeman. He later worked in a raflroad shop. Emigrated From France. In 1873, Mr. Wenger and his wife emigrated to Canada. He enlisted in a Canadian regiment under the Brit- ish flag and served for a year in a militia band. The climate being too cold for Mr. Wenger after his serv- ice in Africa, he come to the United ates after receiving his discharge and entered the Marine Band in this city. He played here for about three years, going to the Centennial exposition in Philadeiphia, in 1876, playing through- out tae entire engagement. In the band at that time were fifty-five men. Receiving a discharge, Mr. Wenger entered the United States Navy, serving as a bugler on the receiving ship sta- tioned at the navy yard here. He later was discharged from the service on serving on the old Powhatan. After recelving his discharge he went to New York city, where he for the last time enlisted, this time in the Army, joining the band of the 3d Artillery at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. In 1880 he received his discharge from the Army and went to Meridian, Conn., where he worked for torty years in shop. Asks Admission to Home. His eyesight becoming slightly im- paired & few weeks ago, a friend in the hop told him that he was_eligible for the Soidiers’ Home where he would be taken care of. Alfter applying for _admission, which was granted, Mr. Wenger arrived here yes- terday after an absence of more than forty years. . In an interview this morning Mr. Wenger expressed his surprise at the growth of the nation's capital and volce his delight with the conditions at the home. “It is better than I expectes he said, “and I know that an old soldier like me will be taken care of and given ever) omfort. Why, even the food is good,” he chuckled. Mr. Wenger stated that as far as he! knew all his relatives were dead. His wife dled in 1913. “I haven’t heard from have all died. Even if I got a letter now 1 couldn’t read it. I am sorry that I couldn’t get in the last war, but my, 1 am glad to see Alsace back with the French again.” The call for dinner then sounded at the home and the vete- | ran follower of the tri-color, the union jack and the Stars and Stripes slowly made his way sto the mess hall, eager to participate in Army chow. Births Reported. The following births have been reported to the health department within tle last twenty four uours: “Robert 1. and Marion C. Nevitt, boy twins. William D. and Ida A. Hennessy, girl. Robert L. and Marion F. Dewalt,’ boy. George B. and lda Edw girl. Joseph E. and_Lillian D. Mellw; boy. l Harry A. and Katherine M. Newman, boy. Harry A. and Anole M. Suiliva; Raleigh F. and Blanche A. Harmon, girl. Joseplh N. and Kathlyn E. Purks, boy. Frank_and Elizabeth Williams, girl. John E. and Jessie Bowers John T. and Susanna Kee Joseph A. and Nora M. Mayhew, Antonio and_Ann‘e Kogok, "boy. William B. and Ethel S. in Washington, | Swiney interrupted him, saying the women were not in favor of the treaty. To this MacCabe retorted: “l know what the women of land want as well as you.” Mrs. Pearse, mother of Patrick H. Pearse. the first president of the Irish republic, who was executed after the Dublin uprising in 1916, spoke against the treaty. She de- clared she knew that her son, if he were alive, would vote for re- Jection, Deputy Buckley, in his argument against ‘the treaty, took the ground that the only mandate he had from his constituents was for a republic. The Irish delegates had taken from Ireland to London the minimum de- mands of Ireland, he declared, and the delegates under threat, had accepted something less than Irish indepen- dence. The union jack, a symbol of slavery, would continue to float in Ireland der the treaty. said Buckley. The ‘rotten press” which had stampeded the country was trying to stampede its representatives, but he would not yleld. The country needed a tonic, in his view. Rejection “National Suicide.” In his argument in support of the treaty Deputy MacCabe of Sligo re- grettedthe disagreement with Eamonn De Valera, whom the dail members, he said, regarded with admiration. As for the provisions of the treaty, they represented goods delivered and not promises. He did not like some things about the treaty, but he ac- cepted it as a step toward more, and he regarded the opponents of the treaty as guilty of “criminal incite- ment to national suicide.” They would sacrifice the whole population of Ireland on the altar of so-calied prin- ciples He criticised De Valera's “doc- ument N the alternative propos- al, saying there would be a governor general even under it. This last declaration provoked a Ire- TURNSTILE GUARDIAN - OF SUBWAY NICKELS HAS HOBBY FOR SLUGS NEW YORK, January 4.—The featherwelght pressure gate, famed guardian turnstile and subterranean economist of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, has a hobby. It has been discovered as a. prodigious collector of old, curious and fre- quently rare coins. Superficial - observers of the new device, installed a few weeks ago, characterized its peculiarity In one word—nolsy—but it remained for the company treasurers to exploit its ec- centricity. Aside from ordinary lead or other metal slugs, the company has re- ported, the automatic boxes have a tracted a variety of objects of i terest to the studious numismatist- such as 20-centime pleces, welfare checks from Sing Sing prison and flattened pennies. CHILDREN TO BE SOUGHT IN HIS APARTMENT HOUSE By the Asnociated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 4.— Fallure of H. G. Roskind to find an apartment house where he could bring his little daughter caused him to de- cide upon constructing such a bulld- ing here and renting only to tenants with children. Mr. Roskind, who has spent several weeks hunting a suitable place for himself, his wife and little Margar- etta, was told that children's destruc- tive tendency made them undesirable as tenants. Finally, he resolved that Margaretta should live in an apart- ment all her own, the “Margaretta,” a sort of florifled home, where other children ¥will be required and where they will share with her a ma)’zrbundi and wading pool in connection with the apartment. The walls of the “Margaretta” are to be finished with a speclally pre- vared plaster, which is durable and| practically impervious to the kicks of ! the most irrepressible small boy. The floors and woodwork, too, without sac- rificing beauty of finish, will be forti- fled against the wheels of “chu chu trains” ‘and the imprints of dirty hands. Six families will occupy the new apartment house. POLITICAL PRISONERS | DYING FROM FAMINE | KHOLMOGORI, near Archangel, Russia, December 6.—Famine and pri- vation are Killing oft the 6,000 or 7,000 man and woman political pris- oners hére, mostly sent from Baku, Tiflis and other points of the Caucas- us republics. Unless released under the clauses of the conditional amnes- L published November 7. it is belicv- ed all will perish of hu | the winter. © RS durine Many of the 1500 who came here | i heated scene, De Valera said the doc- ument should not be referred to in the dail until he moved it as an amendment. Fierce Attack on De Valera. Arthur Griffith sald it was most un- fair to the public to suppress this locument. De Valera said he was prepared to bring it forward at any time, but that the other side, desiring a direct vote on the treaty, would not allow it to be put forward as an amendment. Griffith sald he had asked the pres- ident at the beginning to make the document public, and that he had re- fused. “Do you object to my bringing it forward_as an amendment?’ asked Mr. De Valera. 5 “It this a debate or ah old woman's wrangle?’ exclaimed Collins, “This document is being referred to piecemeal,” ccontinued De. Valera, “and an attempt is being made to prejudice my right to bring it for- ward as an amendment, while the only thing preventing it is that the other side wants a direct vote. I formally give notice that I will move tomorrow that this document be brought forward as an amendment.” “Why does not the president give (he document to the press, as I asked him_a fortnight ago inquired Grifith. “I insist on my rights as a member to put it forward as an amendment,” responded Mr. De Valera. Waliops Latin Republies. Deputy MacCabe then resumed his speech, comparing what he alluded to as the, American brand .of freedom in the Central American .republics | | Harry B. and Margaret nd Virginia H nd Eleanor Benjamin Eric and Al William J. and Anna James W. and Edith A. T} Joseph G. and Laura L. Granger, girl. P. Frank and Wilhelmina 0'Connell, boy. John F. and Thelma Burgess, girl. Solomon and Sarah Spigel, boy. Harry W. and Margaret J. J. Fristoe, girl. Lionel M. and Ella M. Fiedier, boy. tertha L. Miller, boy. John C. and Norma E. Morris, boy. Samuel B. and Anua E. Milburn, girl. Lorenzo and Helen T. Roulerson, bo; James and Florence V. Kettner, gi Richard L. aud_Willa' Builes, boy. Harry C. and Gladys Taft, girl. ‘Adam and Katherine Souki Roger F. and ZyIphia M. Si Allen J."and Margaret W. Alexander and Elvira Hunt, boy. Robert J. and Jessie Jones, girl. Arthur C. and Mabel Bryant, boy. William H. and Pauline Watson, boy. Ernest and Nanofe Blakey, boy. James H. and Nannie Lewi: . Louis H. and Susie K. Bond, girl. Aloysius and Maude Siorter, girl. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the following: Theodore Ross and Edna Jones. George W. Henderson and Nannie See. Dorrell G. Dickerson and Winifred S. Justus. Edward Evans and Genevieve Aliar, both of Culpeper, Va. Glyde C. Rice and Bather M. Pearson. he eorge D. Edwards of this city and e M. Jones of Richardsville, Va. s John Terrell and Maggie E. Thomas, Nathan Dufty and Grace Jones Edward M. Oolling and Amy F. Terry, both Swan. of_Baltimore, Ma. Ernest R. Thompson and Ma; I Lom Comweil of Purcellville, V., and NA¥iifim 1 Shepherd of Daversity, ¥ m R. Shej “Uni ., Va., d Marion L.dO;:’wlg: of "',"uf""'m SR ‘mond H. Morris sfi“ oot Hm.'yo-é is city asd Effe L. S euy Fo Persy of Brooklsn, N. Y., Emily L. Woir of Miamic T T T 424 Charles M. Reid and Gatharine A, Hall. J. Glenn Corbitt of Osar] nd Nadine B bert 6. Truseelk ad Ada M. Shryock, both obert G. Trussell a z 5 of Stephens City, Va. John Condator and Angeline V. Codelin. mard A. Alves a & uara V. Fate of Tusedor Md, o on® e Giynn A. Huddleston and Alice B. Miller. Charlie Broaddus and Susie Jobnson. Clarence Green and Viola Butler. Jerome Goldsmith and Miriam O. Peat, both of Baltimore, Md. ‘Charlie Jones and Trene Mills. James R. McCortor of this city and Lula R._ Nichols of Frederick. Md. ‘William H. Stewart and Mary V. Thomas. HEE g . Constable of this B. West of Richmond, Va. & - Tooomes S Elreor of Sumolk. Ve ana Nettte 3 ufolk, Va., and Ne ©O. Spanier of this city. ALFONZO NOT COMING HERE. King Alfonzo of Spain does not cqntemplate a trip to the western hemisphere, including the United with that in the treaty. He thought most Irishmen would prefer the treaty form. MacCabe said Cuba had been the ideal of some opposition members. “Another misrepresentation,” inter- Jected Mr. De Valera. Deputy MacCabe, his speech, said: “Give us even dominion home rule, or any rule that stamps us us a people, but for heaven's sak2 don't give us a Central American republi Mrs. Pearse in her speech against the treaty said that even the black and tans annoyed her less than the treaty, which her son would not have accepted. But 2 in 35,000 Against Pact. Owen O'Dufty of Monaghan, Sinn Fein laison officer for Ulster, spoke in favor of the treaty on its merits. He said only one or two individuals out of 35,000 people he represented were against the treaty. The dail eireann should not take the re- sponsibility of flouting the almost unanimous will of a sovereign people. The principal parts of the treaty that appealed to him, he said, were the provisions for the evacuation of Ireland by the British forces, civil and military, and the setting up of an Irish army, trained and fully equipped. No. small nation in_the world, he declared, had_ secured so much as the treaty gave Ireland. He did not like the Ulster clauses in the treaty, but there was unanimity in the view that Ulster should not be co-erced. He was convinced that the bulk of the Ulster men would not cut themselves off from a prosperous Ire- land, and such men approved the treaty. It was only the “armed us- sassins” who were against it. 'O'Dufty remarked that he had said at Armagh he was prepared to use lead against Ulster. He did not mean then or now that he would use lead for the purpose of bringing Ulster in with the rest of Ireland. What he said then, and still says, was that if the Orangemen continued to murder Catholics in cold blood they should get lead in return. If this treaty Bere rejected there would be many ailous murders by Orangemen of Catholics in Ulster, he predicted. Not Signed Under War Threat. He argued that it could not be said the treaty was signed under threat of war. No threat of war was needed, he insisted, as Ireland was at present at war with England, with hostili- ties suspended by the truce. Liam Mellowes, who led the revo- lution in_ Galway iIn Easter week, 1916, and afterward escaped to America, spoke against- the treaty. The treaty, Mellowes insisted, was not resuming supported by the will of the people, | w: but by the fears of the people. The treaty meant, not separatio but States, according fo & statement is- |y pion. It made Irishmen British sub- sued by the Spanish ambassador here, referring to press reports on that subject. —_—— DETAILED TO PHILIPPINES. Lieut. Edo 'S. Carfolite, duty at the Washington m\v; y:.rd?nhn: gaa‘n‘ detailed to duty in the sixteanth naval district, Philippine Islands.~ - rs jects and_ citizens. The question in his view, was not how to get a re- public, but how to maintain the one already in existence. .- In a passionate denunclation of the British empire Mellowes asked if Ire- land was “to participate in the cruci- fixion of India and the degradation of| t. g % might enter ‘the league- of March have been robbed of. their clothes and valuables, and their hun- 8o I’l’; su(‘h( that they are now in the swelling stage of famin - cedes death. e They are confined in a monastry, with red pickets posted several mile’l distant so no one can approach the place. Of a group of ninety sent here from Baku, many of whom were com panions of the English prisoners | there, all but one have been executed. | This little town, the site of the! first English trading settlement in Russia, has been long noted as a prison. Anna Leopoldovna, who was regent of Russla in 1746-47, acting for her infant son, Ivan VI, dled a pri oner here In 1746. —— nations as & member of the Bi empire, he remarked, but of what was was the league of nations to Ireland, he asked. He termed the league of nations a “league of robbers.” DAIL SPLIT MORE BITTER. By the Associated Pres LONDON, ‘January 4.—Continuance | of the sharp antagonism between ad- vocates and opponents of the Irish Deace treaty was what mainly im- pressed English newspaper corres- )):ndenls watching the proceeding in | the dail eireann yesterday. The writ- ers agreed that the recess had done nothing to alter the respective atti- tudes of the members, and said it was | evident as soon as the session began | that h.d‘;)ndlly’s rumors of some Pos- | e surprise making for had no foundation in fact. Sl e 1ong succession of speeches helped nothing and revealed nothing, | according to these observers, several of whom were convinced that the balance eventually would be turned, n y votes but by ab: ! vosllng. y abstentions from ome of the newspaper men de- clared there §ad been an increase in the bitterness between the contend- ing factions, and that the new news- paper. the Republic of Ireland, through the contemptuous tone of its articles direct against the ratifica- tionists, had made the feeling worse. The opinion was expressed, that whatever happened in the dail, the opposition to the treaty would not | gease, notwithstanding lndicaliunsl e great majorit; - tion wanted it. Lperitneing SIX KILLED IN BELFAST. By the Aswociated Press, BELFAST, January 4.—Six deaths have resulted from the present series of disorders in Belfast, one of the fatalities being that of a child, who was shot while in its mother's arms. Firing continued last night, the fleroest being In the York street area, which comes under the 8 o'clock cur- few law. A heavy snow and frost did not dz;lersxthe rlotera n the Sinn Fein's Carrick hil - trict late” yesterday the pollol: d;‘:- rested two men who fired on them. One had a rifle and the other a num- ber of bombs. DE VALERA CHANGES MANNER | BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN. By Cable to The Star and Chi 7 Cooer,ghd Chicago Dally News. Ireland, January 4.—The recess has not improved the prospects of Irish peace. It was evident immediately when the dail resumed its sessions that tempers had been sharpened. Speaker after speak- er gets up and admits that he believes that at the moment the people by a large majority favor peace. They at- tribute this to war weariness and de- clare their intention of ignoring it. No single member of the dail opposed to the treaty will admit that his con- stituents have any right to override his views. Quotations from the ad- dress of Edmund Burke to the elec- tors of Bristol the right of a rep- resentative to independent judgment are made and newspaper. articles and resolutions of public bodies in favor of the treaty are resented as attempts to stampede the.country away from n:;buunlnm. from doctrines freely made. There was a marked change in the manner and even the appearance of Eamonn De Valera. In the sittings be- fore Christmas he seemed feverisn, irritable and not sure of himself. constantly on his feet protésting against misinterpretation. Now, he has becomeé far quieter, more self- confident and behaves like & man who has taken a resolution of which he has counted the cost. His restlessness has disap and he never inter- venes unless it is essential. His chief oolleagues have taken the cue from ‘him and remain equally impassive. On the othey side Arthur Griffith and; Michael Collins are easily provoked and Collins is especially impetudods.in his retorts.” RUSSIAN-FINNISH ~ TENSION S HIGH Troops Gather on Frontiers, But War Is Expected to Be Averted. By the Assoclated Press, RIGA, Latvia, January 3.—Exten- sive military preparations along the frontier between Russia and Finland are known to be under way by both the Russians and Finns and diplo- matic tension is high. Both the bol- shevik and Baltic missions at Riga, however, expressed bellef that there would be no war. A Helsingfors dispatch to the Riga Cevodna today said the Finnish gov- ernment had prepared an answer to soviet Russia’s last sharp note on the Karelian question, in which Fin- land reiterates her previous position that the Karelian question was one for the league of nations to consider. A wireless dispatch from Moscow | declared that Finnish rolling stock had been concentrated at junction points and that the Finnish reserve officers had been warned to be in readiness for war. According to official Letvian sources the bolsheviki have an army of about 150.000 in Karelia and guarding Petrograd. It is under command of Gen. Sergius Kameneff, the com- mander-in-chief of the bolshevik armies. While prepared to expel mutineers from Karelia, the army of Kameneff, according to the bolsheviki, would not cross into Finland unless attacked by the Finnish forces. A wireless dispatch to the Rosta Agency, the official bolshevik news {disseminator, declares that M. Chitch- erin, the boishevik foreign minister, has handed a note to the Letvian minister in _Moscow protesting against Letvia joining Finland in an appeal to the league of nation Chitcherin terms this unfriendly in terference in purely Russian affairs. and hints that Letvian commercial {interests will be jeopardized. Mobilf: on Order Issued. LONDON, January 3.—A Reuter dis- patch from Riga quotes a Moscow wireless dispatch received there say- ing that the central committee of the communist party has ordered the mobilization of all communists throughout Russia who were born in the years 1899 and 1900. WAR VETERANS PROTEST LOSS OF COMMISSIONS Letter Sent President Condemns Gen. Sawyer's Plan to Cut Pay in Public Health Service. Protest against a plan of Brig. Gen. sawyer for relief from duty as officers and reductions of salarles of former service men now holding reserve com- missions in the public health service wag filed with the President today in a letter from Edwin §. Bettelheim. ir., chairman of the legislative committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. According to Mr. Bettelheim, who was in conference with Surgeon General Cumming of the public health service this morning, the proposal of Brig. Gen. Sawyer, which has been placed hefore both the President and the Secretary of Treasury, would affect 1000 former service men of the Medical Corps now holding commis- sions as reserves in the public health ervice. Surgeon General Cumming, Mr. Bet- telheim sald. is opposed to the plan, and believes it would disrupt the medical arm of his service. The plan. according to Mr. Bettel- Feim, contemnlates a reduct’on of sal- ary of approvimately 20 per cent and The taking away of commissions from ! the reserve medical officers, many of whom served overseas. In case a va- cancy results from refusal to accent this prorosition on the part of the medical attaches of the public health cervice. Mr. Bettalheim said. it is con- templated to fill the ranks with phy sictans from civil life. The letter to President Harding, In part, stated: “I'am sure that this is oute con- trary to the administration’s avowed policy in respect to miving the dis- abled former service men the best of treatment. With this thought In mind. we are taking the liberty of addressing you. urging that no such order be approved or be permitted to be nut into effect Mr. Rettelheim, as renresentative of the organization. signed the letter. MARTIN McQUADE*NAMED FOREMAN OF GRAND JURY Body Will Investigate Criminal Conditions in District for En- suing Three Months. Martin McQuade of the Washington | Gas Light Company was aelected to- day by Chief Justice McCoy as fore- men of the new grand jury. which ~rill investigate criminal conditions in Washington for the ensuing three months. It is expected that United States Attorney Gordon will present to this body the result of the go ernment’s investigation into the deal- ings of Charles W. Morse, shipbuilder. of New York, and others with the Shipping Board. Morse is under $50.- 000 bail to await action by the grand jury. The other members of the grand jury are Herbert Herchberger, Wil- ilam E. McReynolds, Edward W. Minte, Snowden Keys, Paul B. Lum, George C. Duvall, J. Henry Hender- <on, Sol Minster. John Millard. James H. Conroy. R. W. Ballard, Henry E. Stringer, J. C. Ferguson, George Harper. L. S. Lipscomb, J. M. Phil- lips. William D. Leetch. Fred W. Kneessi, C. E. Langley, W. B. Miller, John T. Jones and Joha Donnelly. —_— CANNOT FIX PRICES. Trade Associations Denied Right to Limit Production. Trade assoclations cannot fix prices, divide territory or limit production by contract, Attorney General Daugherty said yesterday, defining illegal activities of these associations under the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in the. Hardwood Lumber Asso- ciation case. . Mr. Daugherty said He would confer in a day or two with Secretary Hoover on the question -of publication by the Commerce Department of trade statistics gathered by the various associations. Many of these associations, he added. are anxious to know just how they may proceed in the gathering of information and the Attorney General decl that procuring information was not in vio- Jation of tae law, the only question be- ing whether the associations use the trade information when collected for il- legal purposes, such as fixing prices. di- viding territory or limiting production. BARS “RAH, RAH” HAIR CUT Uncle Sam's “sea dogs” no longer will be permitted to Induige in the “rah, rah” hair cut, in which the head is denuded of hair exeept for the crown where it remains long and heavy. An edict to that effect has been issued by Maj. Gen. Lejeune, commandant of the rine rps. Declaring that marines’ hair at all times must be neatly and closely trimmed in uniform style, Gen. Lejeune : “The hair ma; 2adE: T e the aides chBP3S 2t E June 1896, from the School of t Dbut must be trimmed so as to present [Line in 1915 nd from the Army War, an.evenly graduated appéarance; and | College in 1916. His .entire servici must. not fmore ¢ 1 inoh in|wasjn the infantry, in ‘which arm h&} Tength on:.the ‘top of " hbad and [reached the grade. of colongl ia . e ] above the forehead.”" - ust 1917 . Vs 2 |New U. S. Ambassador to HENRY P. FLETCHER. ISECRETARY HOOVER HEAD OF NEW COUNTRY CLUB Elected President of Association Planning Playground of Officialdom. Herbert C. Hoover, Commerce, was today eiected presi- dent of the newly organized Con-| gressional Country Club, which mmi purchased a tract of 406 acres Secretary of | in Maryland, just off the Potomac river, with a view to making it the “play- ground of officialdom.” Lieut. Col. C. Q. Sherrill, aide to President Harding ‘and superinten- dent of public buildings and grounds, was made vice president, while Rep- resentaive Oscar R. Luhring of In- diana was elected chairman of the board of governors. Among the incorporators of the club are Col. Sherrill Representa- tive Luhring, Representative R. Clint Cole of Ohio. Itepresentative Oscar E. Bland of Indiana. Robert H. McNeill | and Thomas P. Littlepage, local at-| torneys, and G. Logan Payne, news- paper publisher. It is planned to have two eighteen- hole golf courses and one nine-hole course, in addition to plenty of ten- nis_courts and other facilities for athletics and outdoor sports. The plans also contemplate a lake of two | or three acres which will be made by damming a spring-fed brook ! | which flows~ through the property. Hunting and riding will be provided for, this form of sport being popular | to_Washingtonians. The membership of the club will be | [limited to fifteen hundred. including ' {membera of the cabinet, senators. representatives, Armyy and Navy of- i ficers, departmental officials and busi- | {mess and professional men in Wash- | ington. } Organization of the club will be | completed within the next weck or| {ten days. Meanwhile the officers are! speeding up the work of making the prospective playground available for ; members next Spring. i {ASSIST ALLEY DWELLERS.% Housing Leaders to Confer Frlday] ‘With Commissioners. How to provide homes for the thou- sands of persons who now dwell in} the alleys of the city when those by- | Iways areclosed by act of Congress will be discussed by a committee of | the Emergency Housing Association, | Inc.. with the District Commissioners at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning. The law closing alley dwellings is slated to become effective one year after the proclamation of peace with Germany, but the city heads, realiz- ing other homes could not be pro- vided in so short a time, have asked Congress to extend the period to two years. EIGHT NEW CLASSES OPEN | Business High School Asks Appli- cants for Entrance Be Prompt. Eight new classes will be started | tonight at the Business High evening schools. They are shorthand. type- writing, English, bookkeeping. Span- | ish, gymnasium, calculating_ machine | and bookkeeping machine. Those de- siring to enter these classes should report at the school promptly at 7 o'clock this evening. e | $2,000 BOND STOLEN. | Seven Other Thefts Also Reported to District Police. Burglars yesterday used a dupli- {cate key to gain entrance to the apartment of Miss Eva B. Vasburgh, 1721 21st Street. They stole a $2,000 bond of the Marietta Bank of Geor- gia and jewelry valued at $60. At the apartment of George M. Fisher, 1332 15th street, a jimmy was used to force open a window. Fisher told the police that a Masonic jewel, valued at $100, and a revolver were stolen. Clothing valued at $67.50 and a razor were stolen from the room of Malcolm Fletcher, 331 Missouri ave- nue, yesterday. Theft of two cameras and one kodak from a drug store at 2200{ 14th street was reported by John J. | Reitz, manager of the store. Ten sacks of potatoes, valued at $35, were stolen from the stable of . {F. A. Denison, 711 6th street south- east, in rear of 926 North Carolina avenue, during_the past three days. Henry B. Boyd, 1013 H street northeast, reported the taking of an overcoat from the Y. W. C. A., 311 C street, Monday night. Paul W. Burk, 1322 5th street, asked the police to recover his ove coat that was stolen from the hall- way at 2027 G street last night. Charles D. Matthews, Ralelgh, N. C., told of the taking of his over- coat from a restaurant last night. |He valued the garment at $40. MAY HEAR MERCHANTS. Associations Likely to Give Ver- sion in Price Probe. ' Attorney General Daugherty said yesterday that associations of retail merchants may be given hearings before the Department of Justice in connection with the government's in- Vestigation of retail prices for nece: Isarlel in various parts of the country.’ ‘Requests have been received from many of these associations for a hearing, Mr. Daugherty said, adding that he would probably ve the representatives of them an oppor- |° tunity to be heard. Preparation of the schedules showing the price levels in the different communities will be: completed within a week or ten days,. when they will be made public, it was said. TE e \PLACED ON RETIRED LIST, Col. Herschel Tupes, an infantry; officer, who has been under treat: ent 'at Walter Reed Hospital for several weeks, has en placed on the retired list of the Army on ac- thunt of disability Incident to the service. He is from Ohio and wulnrlum. raduated from the Military Academy {husband has numerous rel Gov. Morgan vlnforms Sena- tor Sutherlgnd W. Va. Con- ditions Are Exaggerated. By the Associated! Press, . CHARLESTON, W. anuary 4. —Gov. E. F. MogZan, answering a re- quest of United States Senator How- ard Sutherland for information “con- cerning reports that men, wamen and children in certain «West Virginia mining communities were destitute and in a starving comditio today denied that the reports were true. Frankly, let me say, that these re- ports,” wrote Gov. Morgaxn to Senator Sutherland, “in so far as ) have been able to determine from invastigations which I caused to be initLated, are grossly exaggerated and are, seem- ingly, the product of imainative minds of interested propagandists who are desirous of distorting cond tions that exist in mining communi- ties as a result of u depression kn the coal industry and difficulties amsing from the maintenance of contract between employers and employes. Scattering Cases of Poverty. “It is true,” continued Gov. Morgaw, “that scattering cases’ of poverty have been discovered, but the welfare agencies find these cases even in times of general prosperity. And it is equally true that there has beens” no suffering in this state during the present depression which the local authorities or local welfare agencies ® have been unable to alleviate.” Morgan detailed investigations George F. Daugherty, state labor b commissioner, in Fayette and Raleigh counties, which, he id, disclosed that the “reports of distrexsing con- ditions were not of a serfous nature and that the county authorities and Red Cross were prepared to give aid in any case of distress or suffering.” No Dire Necessity Anywhere. A Raleigh county committee was. quoted by the governor as reporting to him that “in no instance did we' find a family starving and in every case we found they had food enough to last for several days. To be sure, Christmas was not perhaps as bright as it might have been had the men been working, but there was no dire necessity anywhere.” The committee distributed candies and other things for Christmas among fifty-seven families, with a- total of 251" individuals, the repert added. _——— (HELD FOR LOOTING MAIL. Three Colored Boys Under ‘Arrest for Mail Box Thefts. Detectives Eradley and Keck “last night appeared in the role of letter carriers, and delivered to eight per- sons letters to whom they were ad- dressed. They had been taken from Lewis D. Matthews, colored, seven- teen years old, 2453 P street. who was {under arrest on charges of robbing mail boxes in apartment houses. Two other colored boys, James Thornton and James Armstrong, thir- teen years old, the former residing at 2132 13th street and the latter at 1312 W street, also were under arrest in connection with the thefts. The three boys zdmitted participa- tion in a number of thefts from mail boxes the past month, the detectiv stated, and said they obtained only about $25 in cash. Checks some o the letters contained, they” are report ed to have stated, were deytroved. Charges of violations of the postal laws hove been preferred against th boys. Matthews will be giveny a hear ing in Police Court, while the case of the younger boys will ‘be taken 1« Juvenile Court. SEEK MISSING HUSBANE Wanted on Charge of Murdering Wife in Year’s First Homicide. A _country-wide search for Benjamin Herbert Young. husband of Mrs. Gen:- vieve Young, colored, 1520 T street, whe was shot to death in front of 1440 T street early yesterday morning, victim of the first homicide of the new ysar, has been instituted by the police. He is wanted on a charge of. murder, accord- ing to the message sent broadcast by | the police. Mrs. Young was a danghter of a min- ister residing in Decatur, Ohio, and was a member of the choir of John Wesley Church, 14th and Corcoran streets. Her tives in sev- eral sections of Tennes: It was learned by. the police that Mrs Young visited friends Monday night and { telephoned her husband she would. re- main with them overnight. The hus- band, it was learncd. called at the friend’s house about 2 o'clock vesterday morning and insisted that his wife ac- company him home. Mrs. Young told her friends she would go with him, fearing he would create a scene if she refused. No trace of the Lusband has been found by the police. ARRESTED IN BALTIMORE. Michael Bernstein Wanted Here in Connection With Alcohol Theft. Michael Bernstein, a Baltimorean, is under arrest in that city for the local authorities. It is alleged that he was implicated in the thert of two barrels of alcohol from the -Jaboratory of Saul Marguleis, 313 H street. It is claimed also that Bernstein was implicated in the disappearance of two barrels of “alcohol withdrawn from Fleischman's plant at Langdon on Mar- guleis’ permit. Another resident of Baltimore named as co-defendant in the larceny charge. Bernstein will be brought here late today. —_— WOULD CLOSE BATHS. Mr. Blanton Also After Office Building Barber Shop. On the theory that the pay of a mem- ber of Congress is sufficient to provide a home with a bath, Representative Blanton, democrat, Texas, introduced bills yesterday to close the free baths establishments, Turkixh and domestic. in the House office building. The ‘measure would drop from the govern- ment pay roll what tae Texan described in his measure as “body rubbers.” Other bills introduced by the Texan would eliminate the House barber shop, where a member may have his hair cut at 25 cents, half the city price, and the House restaurant, run on a service-at-cost basis. HAS NEW BONUS PLAN. Representative Would Divide 11 Billion Among Allied Soldiers. Division of the $11,000,000.000 for- oign debt due the United States amang_the ‘mem Who served in the Americkn and allled armies on a hal and-half basis wa® proposed in a bi introduced" wflm! Representa- tive Husted, reépu ., New York, 2 member of the house appropriations ‘committee.. The gflqu ct Congress to hold one-half of the total sum col- ¥ including principal and in- ‘terest, for use of soldiers and sailors on the American forces and their de- pendents, while the President would be directed to, turn over the other half to the governments of Great France, Italy, Belgium and 1 for the exclusive use of al- is Portugal ¥ ISTORY OF STARVING MINERS IS DENIED