Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1922, Page 4

{OFFERS THEATER SEATS TO GIVERS OF CLOTHES TO POOR OF DISTRICT At the suggestjon of one of the local charitable organisations, L. SOMLE GALE HTS [ sent to any one who turns in a serv- iceab.e, cust-off xweater, overcoat or woman's warm coul, at tae theater, an orchestra seat free for the Sun- day evening performance of Walter Scanlan, in “lrish Eyes” at the Shu- bert-Garrick. Much Damage Reported as Wind Plays Pranks on Pedestrians. ‘roper winter clothing is essential for many out of wok in order to By the Associated Press seck empioyment,” u _ pio.ninent a1tab e ‘ker to'd Taylor. ae cothing donated wil: be dis uted through regular charlty or- ation channels. NEW YORK. January 12.—This sec- tion of the country was lashed yes- terday by the worst gale of the win- | ter—a gale that at 2 p.m. reached a| velocity of ninety miles an hour oif Sandy Hook. !ing oil here, broke adrift from moor- ered in with i1iks and ran aground. but wus Auat- ned. to (hail and Jed without duwage 3 d to 8 | buffeted New Yorkel CArrying many acre i that later the storm hout merey.; FERRY DRIVEN AGROUND. < slippery side snow rain AGRIG ~ walks and plunging them fuce doND-igern 0309 on Reef Ten Hours Near Swinee ward in slushy stre Uinbretlas | % ; were torn ont of many a hand. win-{ Baltimere—Arrives Safely. ' dow glass fell tinkiing into the street.d d Tons ¢ mail package boxes were blown o.¢ri A 2. Md.. Januaiy 12.—The i and trafic generally hompered. Many e et Dedestrians were injured. between here and lLove Point. tall stucks fell hefore the wind. One. eighty feet high, toppled in Trenton. N. 1. falling on feed wire that supplied triction lines and tying for nearly two hour . limped into port after ying on a reei in Chesapeake hay for ten hours. The vesse! iejt Love Foint at 8 o'ciocis day morning for her two-hour run Several 1 | yester up service jdcross the bay, and wnen | chimney 123 fect tall crashed in}aud sne had not arrived, se: | Brooklvn G jiasttuted. ¥ whie it was beileved | rbor trofic was hard hit. Ay, io:t. pas-eagers and crew | number of small boats were blown { o7 iy were aboa d. g from their moorings and ineoming Wworst sioi tin storm in many were toquorantine bY i enns vsited this reson. Tie w &h winds v aade it impossibie D ygiean baron st fe | to 2 health on to board them. The | Rolne: rcord burecu sent out (he first full i o Saventiol gale warning in many vears. 4 ephoe 5 virtuai Several hundred mon. women ard e to th-.u durgronnt i ehildren. storm struc 4 taf-oo ph o we e re-! the municipul lodg ng hovs - for suc- | ot in L porte cor. Preparations were nuade to sup- | g0 LIS = PIy focd and ciothing to t e needy. | Ll aioes hers blizzard conditions | Many Freak Incidents. H Many freak ineidents waraed ttei ORDERED TO AID VESSEL. | storm | i Vot S EETEC TN = At Garden City. Lo L. Pilot €. B, D. 1 Colver. flying a mail plane from Cleve- !Coast Guard Service Instructed to | land and_ Chicago. reported had been unable to land. even though he, Help Western Ocean. | zuve his plane the gas and nosed | gyl oo o ORI | | 5 A fonas guard service has issued her down almost perpendicutariy. En- | oo 08 COUSE & usaEyl a ued cout ng freak winds that swi |>d|;:r':""r te give any gsgistance neceg- up from the carth. tle machine, nose |y down. seemed to hang for svveral me St the Shipping Bourd steamer | 4 Ocean, © ported in d'stross | of Cape Leolout. near Beufert, | H Then the e na i Dy THe vessel wax reported ws heing | Jashing it to a motor truck. T in A heavy w d. with no ballast, her) —— — £ B : 1=ine~ *oppod and having difficulty Tom Breen. twenty-three. despite | : g s 3 : s best effo w > > yin Keeping off shore. Late reporty, - i et e Wl BN o ) e e ot wers ;|1 Emperature in Capital Ex - o o 1ing. door open. Tie machine took him to l ted to Drop t0 22 De- a hospital. where he was ticated for i pec rop 1. severe contusions. SHIPS WASHED ASHORE. | ) Wind-horne. missilex of various | —_— | grees Tonlght. Kinds hnocked se pedesirians i, - = : down tme, Anne La Cart, fourteen, |“Mountainous -Seas” Halt Coast| = . 0 . h. winter storm was Kkilled by a wor m a limb of s i . D! a tree which had been wrenched mfG““d Cutter at Wilmington. N. G. | wnich yesterday wrapped the north- by the gale Iy e Asoened Press | castarn section of the United States WILMINGTON. N. C.. January 12— iy jx jey blanket and buffeted the At- number of small ships IVIng at)jantie coust with gales ranging in ve- hoi at Southport. below here on ! 0/ miles an hour, Wash- the Cape Fear river. were washed up{ """} % A BRAVE STORM IN SEARCH. up to 7 Tank Corps Members Buck Gale jon shore by heavy seas. No great;ington must now prepare fo face & 2 % damage was reported, Two cargo|cold wave. and Drifts in Hunt for Man. boats which iled fron; Wilmington “raveling fast on the heels of the s i i e Jiwe days ugo are being held at South- { yorn, i 4 coid wave which will bring Thla ary 12— Aft port by 2 S . asts tonight probably as far south SDULUTH, Minn, denuars L rour | Beas described by Capt. Addison of | {20010 [NLEG ording to the A A enine Targe smowdrifis, | (e coasts guard cutter Seminole as | (e Yuceau. The temperature in Bl A K B¢ the Duluth | Mountainous forced the cutter to put | Wikhingten fonight ix expected to Lo e AN A ot | National | PACK o Wilmington ‘this afternoon | £ LU 1o (wenty-two degreex. or s, were” e te Cremch Grand When she depurted for u trip up coast.| flur desrces lower than last night. Portage, 130 miles northeast, today to! he weather bureau announced that FISHING FLEET WRECKED. [the gales on the Atluntic coust huve subsided with (he passage of (he {storm. which has increased in inten- Piled Up }:u’;r"-‘nd is now centered over south- leas ern Maine. Heavy xnowrall within ascist in the hunt for James Maher. | issing ("0ook county commissioner. 2 The detachment left here last night ! i and will establish a base for an air- | Erovincetown Ray Miller of | Boats lane, piloted by M o) The ‘National Guard, who expected to Ashor ne Man Drowned. {he past twenty-four hours was re- Jeave Duluih today. He will fly over | By the Associated Press. Iported "from New Englund and the the vicinity of Cloud Hay. Lake Su-| BOSTON. January 12..-The storm |DOTth Atluntic stutes. The xnow wus perior, where Maher was last reported | which rushed up the Atlantic e Acvompunied hy a fall of temperatyre senerally east of the Mississippl river seen more than two weeks ago, when and in the west gulf states. he left Girand Portage in an open motor beat. CLARKSBURG IS ISOLATED. brought the heaviest gale of the win- ter to New England, accompanied by | rain. sleet and snow. In its course ! Unsettled Weather Tonight. it smashed into the Provincetow Unsettled weather ix forevast for fishing flcet and plled up two fishing | Washington tonight, but no snow is schooners on the shores of Cape (‘od. [expected. Bnow Aurries, however, are besides sinking two power dories. One | predicted for the mountain districts man was drowned. of the middle Atlantic states. Yesterday's storm brought to Wash- LIGHTER 1S SUNK. {ington the heaviest snowfall of the Communications Broken in Section of West Virginia. y iyear und left in its wake a toll of e P Sy B {property damage which ran into LARKSBURG. W. Va.. January 1% |crew Rescued as Boat Crashes Into i hundreds of dollars. The joint fall of —Thix section of West Virginia of g s o e which Clarksburg is the center, was isolated throughout vesterday and until 9 o'clock last night owing to a blizzard which swept over the north- ern portion of the state. More than six inches of snow fell and wire com- munication was at a standstill until an Associated Press wire was cut through at % p.m. Fairmont. thirty miles from Clarks- burg. ix still cut off. the only com- munication to be had with it being through amateur radio operators here and at Fairmont. who at | o'clack this morning managed to establish com- munication. : ROOFS BLOWN OFF. Lake Breakwater at Conneaut, Ohio |reached 1.03 inch { The gale which®accompanied the By the Associated Press. | storm_attained @ velodty of fortye CONNEAUT. Ohio. January 12.--|six miles an heur. It uprooted trees, Seven men were rescued from the ! toppled ever telephone and telegraph lighter Newman when the lighter, b>- 1 poles, broke window glaszes, tore ing towed from Buffalo to Cleveland | roofs from private homex and - bY & tug. crashed against the break-!ed chimneys. One of the. biz iron water here and sank. eagles was hlown off a lamp post on | the Connecticut avenue bridge. STATUE IS WRECKED. 1 Telephone poles and wires between gton and northern and north- s were thrown down by the storm and caused a delay communication. Gangs of workmen are now repairing the damage at points in Maryland and Virginia, and officials of the telephone company said today that It will be at least two days before normal seivice is re- sumed. Chieago Service Hampered. Oniy oue circuit is open 10 Calcago “Angel of Peace,” 40 Years oni Ocean Grove Beach. in Ruins. By the Associated Press. | JASBURY PARK. N. [.. January 12 The Angel of Peace statue, which had stood on the Ocean Grove beach front for forty vears. was in ruins today as a result of the five-minute raking | this city received from yesterday's| Property in Wilmington, Del., Suf- fers From Stiff Gale. By the Associated Press. igale. The statue was toppled from!and points west of that city, and the WILMINGTON, Del. January 12.— |its base by a 72-mile gust and shat-! trafic is being handied with an hour's Delaware was swept by strong | tered. idelay. But two of the five circuits eastern gale, which lifted the roofs ———— ito Pittsburgh are in operation, i All_of the circuits to New York REPUBLICAN GAINS. | are open. but ofticials of the telephane { company said it is impossible to get { connections north of the metropolis. { Except for one to Frederick, all the icircuits to western Maryland ‘are out ' from several houses, smashed Win- dows, felled trees, tore a vessel here { SEES loose from ifs moorings and drove the craft against a bridge spanning | Christiania river. i No fatalities were reported. Southern Tariff Association Scores Free Material Doctrine. Trolley. telephone and telegraph ! i of operation. According to reports to - s B s city Dby the wind and sutomobiles | Jarge gains in the south in the Rext:jingg in this part of the country has ! {becn lost. due to the heavy snow e he doctrine of | Which reached eight feet in certain qemacystaabanden |t ctrine of | B les. The lost gang of workmen s tu the vicinity of Cedar Grove, Md, free raw material as applicd in the Underwood tariff act, John H. Kil‘by‘;fi.d roads are hampering the wor { repairing the lines. president of the Southern Tariff As- i o! o ing che | 5 | Althoygh the wiippery streets made Wwere veered out of their courses. KILLED AS AUTOS SXID. Pedestrian in Philadelphia Pinned congressional campaign unless the socjation, declared after adjournment i H Between Two uars, | of a two-day session here of that or- | tpavel extremely hazardous, few ace | ganisation yesterday. jcidents were reperted to the police. By the Associgted Press, I~ *“As the head of an organisation that i The number, it wasg said. was below PHILADELPHIA, January | was formed as a protest against the ! thy average. death ~and damage estima % | parnicicus dootrine of free raw ma-| While crossing at 1st strest and thousands of dollars. resulted from | terlals,” sald Mr. Kirby. “I feel com- | Rhade Island avenue northeast Mar- he storm that swept through uu-lmisul ed to warn the demoeratic 140 U street, was | i i i i igaret O'Neal, leaders and members of the Sflale;finocked down by an automobile and that unless they repudiate the tariff ner head cut. George Pappas. 626 4% policy announced by Minority Leader | atreet, slinned on the ice and fell in n Pennsylvania, southern New Jer- sey and Delaware today. A pedes- trian was killed here when twe auto- mobiles skidded and crashed together, | Kitchin on the floor of the House |ront of 205 John Marshall place, in- pinning the man between them. | April 14. 1921, and accepted by a large jring his face. Miss Marle E. Kent,| Telephone and telegraph companies | majority of the democratic membsrs 1513 Rosedale street northeast, was reported the heaviest damage from | cf the House, then the solid south!ihocked down by an automobile at broken wires The Jersev coast was whipped by a gale, reports from that section said, Wil be broke : . iobRe 5 Quoting Mr. Kitehin's address to the | Joth and I strecte northeast e effect that ‘o senalble protectionist |MOILINE (NS BGEErCE I that at times reachad a velocity of | will go to the party that has tayght | seventy miles an hour. % and practiced ‘protection for ffty, . T R Many places in ennsylvania east! years. and not to the party whieh of the Allegheny mo : I TALKS TO REALTORS. ntains reported the heaviest snowfall of the season, | the depth ranging from eight inches | in the northern part of the state to'| two inches in Philadelphia. Trans- | portation lines in the northern part | of the state were interrupted and a has aiways opposed it,” Mr. Kirby de-; clared that’ “againt 'this announee- | ment we place the demands of every | John Barrett Also Shows Pictures productive industry in the south fer of Pan-American Building. a protective tariff on raw material | and the signature of 80 per cent of | the bankers of our leading southern! John Barrett, former director number of anthracite mines were | states.” | general of the Pan-American Union, closed ) ave ‘an illustrated lecture on the H { Pan-American building before mem- SHIPS HALTED AT NORFOLK. | ibars of the Washington Real Estate i BIG JUMP IN TRADE. { Board at their luncheon this atternoon : {in the La Fayette Hotel, 16th an ! Total value of United States trade ! girccts northwest, Bdmund D. Rheem, i with Eurepean countries probably ap- | chairman of the luncheon committee, | proximated $3.380.000,000 in 1921 presided. iagalnst $1,499,573,363 in 1913, accord- | *Mr. Barrett recently gave a similar {ing to a statement today by the De- | lecture before the Rotary Club and 12.—The | partment of Commerce. The United | pafore the Georgetown Citizens' Asso- Shipping Board steamer Western !Kin'_doné is still America’s best custo- | ciation. Interesting points in connec- Ocean, reported in distress earlier |mer in urope and in the world, the tion with the erection of the byilding vesterday, was riding easily at anchor ! statement sald. while Germany has|and its history were given,and its ap- off Cape Lookout last night. As soon . risen to seeond place in Europe as:propripteness as a meeting place for as the storm subsides ‘he Western|a consumer of American goods. Ex-|the conference on limitation of arma- Ocean will proceed to Charleston forports from this country to Germany | ment was explained. bunkers. Bad weather and engine during 1921 exceeded by about §25,-; A rising vote of thanks was offered trouble were the cause of the steflm-.flooADOD exports to that country in;Mr. Barrett at the conclusion of his Vessels in Danger, But Escape Se- rious Damage. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK. Va. January era plight. 1913. talk Indi emon; dnre thadt mehworst n!islmpm:s ‘lrnn:s%urope to the L'nllodl ——— the storm had passed nosthward to- |States during were approxima ward New 'England. A few vessels |ly $760.000,000 against ssed,ss6.103 in| JUSTICE HOEHLING TO SIT. saileld from Hampton roads but mouluu. American imports from France | e of those scheduled tn leave rem-~ined in port awaiting the passing of the storm. The submarine O-9 which started from the Hampton roads naval base for A Guantanamo, met such heavy weather off the Virginia capes that it returned. Though there was no ap- parent damage from the rough buf- Teting the O-9 will be placed in dry dock for examination. The Shipping Board tank steamer atert; from Tampico, discharg- slightly exceeded those of 1918, Im-| Justice Hoehling will not go inte Criminal Division 2 next Menday, as expected, but will remain on the hench of Circuit Division 3. Counsel in the will caser in which Justice Hoehling is disqualified are not ready for tral next Monday. The justice will hear cases on the regular law cglendar, beginning with No. 400. This and fourteen other ouses hava been -:s!gned for trial Monday, Jan ary ports from the United Kingdom were slightly less than in 1913, while im- ports from Germany were less thap half the pre-war figures. : ——— Mrs. Joseph Wodeszki of Lincoln, T, who has just celebrated her ninety-second birthday, is ene of the t(wo original Daughters of the An;erleln Revolution residing in Illi- neis. GEO.B BROWN BY W. H. CLAGLT i i Dear Folks:- | Kvery once and so often some wak | or witty speaker takes a shot at tae BMUg. extra couservatism of our av- | erage. up-to-snufft busine:s wen and Imanuges to get away with it. but never have I saw this highly resp led class « Citizenry {jolt as Harry Houdin | slipperest eel, handed the memi {of the Rotaiy Club up to th Willard Hotel yesterday afte As the gues: of our o and Robbins. Harr, was called ci by William Knowles Cooper. pineh-hii- | tin® for President Charlie Semmes. to Poualkeo @ few Fee-maris and by 1e. he made ‘e Skiddin® briefly over vears of his truly ree-ma iraer, the man nuught. | made every crowned nead of lurope. Asia. Afl and Yap think they had the “willies,” wax expostulutin® to the Rotarigns on what mers babes in swuddlin’ cloihes the great majority | fof actors, artis d general perforin- Pers were when i Iness! You coulda heard a pin drop in the big hull as the “wizgler” told of | his struggie ag'in adversity. his suc- !cess in overcomin® all barriers and finally how he'd accumuiated a fair. I size fartune and then lost it all in a | year! I O’ course. there wasn't & man in the | inclosure who wouldn’t have gambled his last “herry” that Harry was gonna ]v-xl how he'd inv in's in some oil coucern or old apple jorchard. but they had another guess! i “It's u short sfory, friends.” conti used the “escaper. ar tistic temperment in the che h started out to meet the legitimute | business world face to face 1 met it —and in twelve months I didn't have @ cent!” Quicker'n # flasi: he foilowed up his tale 0" woe Iy 4471, “Hut. gentle- L : {HOUDINI ESCAPES IN AIR. Frees Himself From Strait- Jacket Before Thousands. Suspended by his feet 109 feet in the air. Houdini. “the handcuff king.” who is appearing this week at a local theater. extracted himself from wtraitizeket in 3% minutes today. The demonstration by thousands of Washingtonians who occupied practically every advants- geous peint within the vicinity of the Albee building, 15th 3nd G streets. Police reserves of the first precir were kept busy in handling the crowd. . Houdini Femaved his cort and col- lar and then a txip of attendants from the Walter Reed Hospital placed the straitjacket on him. shackled and fastdned to a block and ' and he was hois'edinto the head downward. While a score a j of cameramen took snapshots he wig- { gled above until he managed to get 1 his hands, which were incased in the | jacket over his head. and within 31 I’ mijnutes he had removed the jacket and was lowered to the sidewalk be- low. . HOUDINIS SEE PRESIDENT. | After the cabinet meeting at the 1 i r B 4 Ster can i Harry Houdini, the “handcuff king,” | and Mrs. Houdini were introduced to i President Harding by Joseph Mitchell | Ghapple, editor of the National Maga- Zine and & friend of the chief excou- ' tive. The Houdinis said they were de- lighted py the dempcracy and cor- 1 afality of the President. el e |TRAIN CONTROL ORDERED. | Forty-Nine of Larger Roads Must “Show Cause” to I. C. C. The Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered forty-nine of the larger raliroads of the United States, sorving practically all sections of the_ country, to show cause on or before March 13 ‘ext why they shouid not be required to install cemplete systems of automatic train coptrol davices on their lines. The commission included with the order u tentative decision wmaking 1t mandatory upon the railroads concerned to instal | | ! the.zlvicn by July 1, next, which will be adopted by it unless the hearings or- dered cause a reversal. TPrain-control devices, the decision suid, have long passed the experimentsl stAge necessary to demonstrate their efficiency, and exhaustive tests of thejr operation have been made under the commission’s observation on a number of lines. The roads made subject (o the installation required are those >m which traffic conditions and ather con- slda;-uon- make safegyards most de- sivable. The action is taken under a section of the interstate commerce act paswed in 1306, which gives the com- misglan autherity to prescribe the trafn-control systems if these are found to be mecessary after an investigation. | DOPEY DAN TABS A FEW BEATS FROM THE HEART OF THE NATION ome down to busi-! sted his life's sav- | was wilnessed | His feet were | | i D. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY. 12, 1822. GETS DRINKING WATER FROM HUMAN BREATH TO SAVE LIVES AT SEA An apparatus which its inventor, C. W. Amhurst, Albany, Y., said would transform vapor from the huraen breath into water was shown today to members of the House merchant marine commit- tee. who were told that ship- wrecked saliors never would be short of drinking water if they had one of the vapor trunsformers with them. Mr, Armhurst declared his inven- tion was as necessary on shipboard as life beits. and urged that the government adopt the contrivance for use on iis vessels. ONES HEADS TEAM Will Be Among Leaders Who Raise Funds 1o Erect Con- vention Building. Col. E. Lester Jones of the coast and geodetic survey, a resident of Washington for many years, and one lup as chairman of one of the 100 committees tiat wiil raise a mini- imun: of $3,000 for the new $500 000 !convention ha'l. the cbnstruction o iwhich s being pronioted by the Cham iber of Conun e d Marchavts and {Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Har- per is chairman of the joint commit o i« every reason-in the world LEON S. ULMAN citizens i ouid :g.r'npdmmly : active part in bringing el on convention hall to an im S fruition,” said Col. Jones, « of us who have had sion 0 endesvor to bring national conven- tio:s and nutional headguarters to Wasbington :calize only too well the impos<ible sityation that Washington finds itself in by the lack of a cen- lon nall |FGISLATORS PUSH MORAL MEASURES Essential FOR HALL PROJECT (COL HAMTELLS OF SOLDIERS' HANGING Only Two Executions at !s- Sur-Tille While He Com- manded. Only two soldiers were,”{pnud at Ts-Sur-Tille while he was i command | there. from March to July. 1919, Col. !Samuel V. Ham testified today before 4 Senate committee investigating {charges thut xoldlers had Been put to |death in France without trial by i court-martial 3 M Explaining how the orders to éxe- cute the men had been curried out Col. Ham said they caused him such personal regret that he kept them ifrom the knowledge of his staff for a day. The post chaplain was directed to confer with the condemned men while the gallows was being éreeted and to remain with them constantl The militury police were directed “to throw a cordon around the scaffold, he maid. and the mayor and town authorities were asked to attend. Col Ham added. however that nearly all the French women and children in the neighborhood were present. “How many American soldiers were of the organizers of the American!D ent?” Col. Ham was asked. Ve, 500, i Lesion. national and Jocal, cailed on ., 104 OYer 400 or 5000 he replied Robert X. Harper today and signed |lows so that it would not be in public ew more th “How many Fi “About 406, Watson Questions. i Serator Watson, democrat. Georgia. jgquestioned the officer regarding the {ficet man hunged. a uegro, at Is-Sur- tTille for murder and raps could be heiped.” Vi | ch there? i i “The oniy thing | was concerned in {was the mandaie fiom the high com- {mand.” said Col. Ham. was not resent at the trial. { The second soldicr. # white man was put Lo death a wonth luter, he suid. Therc were 20,000 men at camp lat the time, and by Col. Hum's direc- jtion the cuuse of each hanging wax publicly stated from t foid. ax warning that ticre must be law and order Convicted of Rape. “The man Langed was convicted of | ack One Great i cue City. the seene of .ne lastiihe vape of a mnine-yesr-old girl. e on wonvention, i« ad-|#¢id Cal. Him. “There was no other ¢ equipped in the nullu of ‘.‘|_f"_‘-l=)v’u;11' ‘|' “l_\!n':l!-ln;:;»: ul Is-Sur- there are many oiher cities: ) 5 thes ¢ : l T kK G bli d Li Fat 1 mention. but nnn(lr;!' h&;.‘ | nul‘r”:.."‘.'y'lrm"\ ;l\-”lr;;[;:ull‘\‘-' .Al’mr:r‘i. rack Gambling and Liguor inay: i =ress, sirccomuimida o | o drms . P our mut onal and civic beauties and | mariul y speaking with Come to Front Quickly in | Uihts" X G el " et emmranis, ueciure: — {sentiai fo nveniion hu LR That is not pos<ib] = = T anay “ iuituble place to house| Col. Ham also denicd previous tes Maryland. teh to The Star. APOLIS, January the committeer «f both Ma legislature ERNEST E.HERRELL the commisice in o comnleied by the he weeli. Mr. Harper of tie mittee announced last nigit n commitier ha that two weeks bLranch mpleted, the tand c e mony that “here were more than two { hangings at @' post | o Withessex have claimed they were fouid 1o repert what thex regarded as shooting of soldiers without cuuse. Is that true arked Chairman §trandesce, there was an adjournment until next will br'nz subserip- h a thing is incomprehensible Tuesday evening. It is probuble .000. 3fen nn: wimen] tbnes be seplied addin basallithe at m‘.r- ould have bee more {10y that is being car-|~ery 1ix without fear of punish- jdctermined and successful cffort to!je | ment Harry e siart the business of the session ex- | — men Ryl ol cept for the illness of Gov. Ritchie. - went of tie [NEW AIR LINE PLANNED; ..u-, (\mn-kv«.mn; I?n-.';um,,r leaders hesitated to launch nel B,J.ki ‘Au;lhblv\\cm -4 v before 1 stuke, and after| " 2 e sizn up for the sales cam- | = ; waiting until | Fd beeome better | ihe real mattess of importanc: un nvention hall i TO INCLUDZ WASHINGTOK a'qu witih imate busine il the chief executive can be con- | am on y 100 - lud to do my share | T made another dash. and todzy Tam {oyica {in this rreat woik™ Mr. lvuns advised | = happy to say that I'm the ‘s:e me i z Mr. Harper depatiment of fonr separite ang dis- | Uheering nows came from the gov. | e Gesiring 10 hewd con mittees {RoUNd Trip Weekly Proposed . tinet porations, £31.000 income O U % S s 10 raine the requisite sum of 90 mry : ! S i o = ut the da nou- ) | tween v ¥ t tax to Uncle Sym every aanum. and | Staling that G SRRECE W RIS ik up with either Chairman it N.| tween New Tork and Chiongs iu what's more. I've naver checkod out | RN 08 N03%,, the announcement |Harper or Secretary Charle: J. Coluni- 34-Passcnger Plane. iny artigtic temprement Iimd nothing wore is promised than 9is. #t the office of the audi‘orium | T oA ANl i i n i Lhet B can be seon Tor Brict poriods |cOMMitiee room 400, Star buiding. Jitishment of an air I'me to | And by the w idini paid w {theE he can b Seon e Loroviced Lpplic mt mersures up | ciude Washington. [hitadelphis. ¢ ! zlowin® tr own ‘gres: | > 1o the requirements of the commit.ee | cinnati ind Doints touth, ¢ % | heart-of-the-n He said | Favers Bosiness Matters. irnion Harper aid | New York and Boston s plannes | t was here that he broke into! (;,y Ritehie was par icularly ety Columbus. i the Riue Bird Auto and Aero Nersi the limelight. and told how. some! .y jqus to keep the pu-ely business ompany. Inc. of New tork, wceor i thirty-two vears hack. he took the old | piyte.ry of logiglation to the front. | = fing to an ar n nt today. T [ e siorm by wigglin® himselfig,q 1o prevent a spiit on the “moral (HUNDRED WOMEN TO ACT ! airvtane corporation at pres ni ;uut, u:"l:t‘ ,iuv:l- < i at '_'v" !!'hs“':;';)lsfluc.‘ until after.the more im léi linex extending over New York it wat had enee heid ar . H i uds | d ant matters of the former kind ha udjucent tervitory on Lon slan { Guiteau, the slaver of President Gar- {peen transacted. To that end. m! AS TRAFFIC OFFICERSi T wer part of New 'XganI‘.Tn‘Z ge) 3 . lotade e mention at ati of such sub- | Sty s R “Mast neople thought me 4 PUE [jerte ax probibition orcement ot | "The plun proposed includes a reuns said Hary when 1 mad DOAST | oy Such i i i 9 i race track gumbling. Such is the tr'p weekly hotween New York and fiihatinofcell in voub Ualihouse ';"'L',“huing. luowever. that (hege izsyes Will Not Have Police Authority, ! Wreiily peiyveen mew passenger hotd 1 X d”me out. how- ! 2 : 5 . Tris s ! k inre oceupying the minds of 1 gisla But Will Protect School Remington-Benelli. which will carry ever, and somothinz hzppened that |t Gng the nubile to the exc-ugion | BEest ot two pllots and other asistants, For |y rve T fosgotie Arriving [ o0 (he o 3 { Children. the Cincnnati_or southern ronte # Pal the jail Headkeeper Fisher. 170 ngiyv yrged by ' tuew Jl-metal Fokher wil be used. it think his name was placed ine in -~ The bill tn prevent ruce track = Appresiniately one hundrad Washing: | War said {ulteau’s cell, boited the door and ipling has been introduced in ti fton women within the rext two weels) An fdew of . distances |llete me falone: -1 hag o idea N waslyiel by igenator Brrae ior Dorchy {55 assume the task o° b ote-ting chil. | *oEulationg unc rges is givem in {in the death row! 1 wue out of th unty. and in the heyse by Delegaie don in crossine streets neur wschoo ; D following schedule. now in effect 1 in less than five minutes. wnd | pyi) of Bultimore Cily. A KUFONE CON- | noy ex, Cupt. A bert J. Headey. chie he lasger sia fons owar New York Just to ehaw that me heart was in i courent onforcement act (0 aid i ox ! oP%NE (rufhe Dursa. winoune | today aw York fo A ARl thelcig ht place 1 weni to erary other | wuting the cighteenth amendment i qmey Wil not have poice wutaority. | 7, les: time. one hour; cost. £25; New s ek, cpane M L tale, roady. a~d active friends wre onipye wil wear white bands on th ] York to Wathington. 230 miles. two | Rearty threw seven kinds of fits st |hand to force action s 2on 48 PUB- | arms. They will station th: Vurk (o Phiadcionie. 150 ol n yphirew se g § sible. iintersections where schools are located 5.2 e i o one ISa arennaihe andemned men ream- | Opponents of race track Eambling {quring the hours when the children ure Boup and hinty . 3305 New time of their lives! The ~(nryg wat|have already won two great tacticaligoing to and coming from their e | aoek e Beaiu: ea . twe hours Never nubliahed. but if there are ans | advantages.” Stephen Gambrill the! At present. Capt. Heudlex pointsd out. ! Pitud, Iphia 10 Atlanii Ratr, o at the juil today who were there then, | OB VIEOTOUS 200 & oot the | teores of mothers accompany their it | milas, thirty-five minutes, 320, Pus- I recl certain they will vouch for | the LOUEs, sl & b ee o aelect: | L€ ones to und from ool becau:e of | sengir bagguee is limited to iwenty avi 3 i o a fear that they i i g & what 1 am e ve me to remind | 20, 48 Aor-teuter of (he ‘:;"“";’fi'{fi;ny ar ey will he knovked down | pounds per passenser. . oy Pl SRS N9 | majerity. while the n the sena o - 1, 550 o iz them who are forever fryin' to_eage IERIOPIR W LG (G ina committee Mre. Wllie Logan, will endeavor to re-| TR R nut of somethin' that there is not a | has besn TLEIISE, (0, ive w majerity | lieve parents of that apprehension. K POSTAL RATE CUT Houdini in-every nackage; 1ef ity members in its favor. A favor-: T —— DOP! 1 thank you. DAN, sble revort wlill give it a big in:lla!; SUES FOR ALIMONY. Tmpetus. CHARGED WITH BURGLARY Senate President's Attitude, H Incidentally. President Norris of the i | Mrs. Anna Levin Charges Husband nate has been claimed by the ene- | i i3 ‘, et taae gambling. His| Nurse. | Befuses to Pay Hospital Bill. | refercnce of the bill o the finance! James Alossios Monroe. formerl s ¢ . {committee may be a straw. WaS ! emploved as an orderly in Emergen Jrlustice Bailes of the District Su-!{TEUENE hat it would o tu the com- | Hogpital: Jx the idividusl who Wik e irty as iasued u rule o0 'mittee on judicial proceedings, the|discovered in w room in the nurses’ niijarity of which is in favor of tie|bhome near the hospiial early yvoster- tracks. At any rate. it is known thit{gay. He was arrested last night by the Senate's prosiding ofiicer i o | Toliceman O. H. Hunt of the third catisfied with the present regulation |precinct and charged with house- of the tracks. breaking and assault. Proponents of the anti-race track | Monroe said he came gambling bill clagim that it will eusi- { Baltimore Tuesday night. Ile denied iy pass the hoyse of delegates, and jthat he had any intention of ha are beginning o be more confident|ing Miss Ina Jackson a nurse who e st v ,about the senate. Recent claims are|occupied the room, when he threat- e Or 3000, bnd re. | (Al twelve of the Lwenty-seven |ened her life if she' made an outery. fures to pay her hospital bills, will ; members of the latter body ave fof| e L) not send her trunk of clothing to her . the L and insisted that she pawn hir rings it. Seven are doubtful, byt the help CORPORATION IS SUED. to pay the bills, The wife says she of dml.\' “l“:;;r?"y lh%the';:";he;o \;f:‘:“d‘ ih bheen i make a . s 8- aikee 13.1'"5:91‘:"“3:::] "fphae:‘mflz': tion at all null the friends of m:!Govzrnmcnt Accuses Cement Se- married January 30, 1921. Attorneys , tracks and povlrooms are very muycl i Ui actied a8 (o the sityation. curities Company of Law Violation Attorney General Daugherty has an- nounced inatitution of a syil in Den- i ver. under th | against the ment Secyrities Com- Alvin L. Newmyer and Milton W., King appear for the wife. i e ny. its six sybsidisry manufactur- ng companies and their officers. fled by Mra: Kana isemaro paamst| INCORPORATION ASKED. The defendants, Mr. Daugherty =aid. Henry L. Misamore, now a resident: of Finley. Ohio. They were married! were charged with having entercd into a combination to restrain and uary 20 why he should not pay ali mony to his wife, Anna Levin, who, | Nled suit for maintenance. The wife 15 the court that har husband is in' cherge of a gasoline station at 16th land "M streets and mukes Letween 1875 and $100 per week; that he {showed her a bankbook showing $4,600 on deposit and said he owned Women’s Overseas League Mem- bers Before House Committee. at Riverhead. N. Y. March 2, 1919, and have na “ehildren, The \v"l’ charges that her husband. deserted i her in May, 1920. Miseonduct With: yfigg [J2len J. Duy of the Wyoming | ; w1 8 v - H inter om. an unknown co-respondent is alSo ' aiurtment. who Wes an overseas can. | monopoliae lnterstute trade ung eom. alloged. Attornevs” Newmyer and teen worker during the war, and Miss | H states comprising the Rogky moun- region of the United States. The suit is directed againgt the Cement King represent the wife. e Margaret Lambie, president of the | Washingtan. Unit of the Women's| 1 Uverseus League, appeared before the | o ties Company of Denver, the 175 DELEGATES ATTEND, House sudicfury *commitios *todny. | 3650rUSE pGRIG oinent” Compans e urging that the Tlesgue be Incor- ;"% 10" ‘Pertland Cement Company, ! perated. "'Both of these women told jof the wark done overseas by the women of the United Statex during the world war and impressed upen the committee the advantages of al- | lowing the leagye to be incorporated. ‘Three Washington wemen _are among the incorporgtors—Mrs. Hor- {ace Anderson, Miss Day and Miss | Dorothea Denys. ————— COLORED ASK JOBS. A meeting to enlist aid in securing | mployment for 200 colored wemen Three Forks Portland Cement Compa- ny. the United States Portland Ce- ment Company. Oklahoma Portland Cement Company and Nebraska Ce- ment Company, having mills for the | manufactyre of Portland cement in { the states_of Calorado, Utah, Okla- { homa and Nebras R AP {CANAL BILL INTRODUCED. ;would Develop Channel From Lake Erie to the Sea. Claiming that the new Welland canal. between Lake. Erie and Leke Y. W. C. A. Holds Annual Meeting at Grace Dodge Hotel, One hundred and seventy-five dele- gates of the Yoeung Women's Chris- tian Association, representing local ci:apters, were in- atténdance at the! annual meeting of the association held jn the Grace Dodge Hotel ye terday afternoon. Mrs. Chester D.| Swope, president of the chapter coun- | |cil. presided and Miss Gertrude Mac- | i Arthur, general secretary, delivered! i the principal address. ! eports wete read from chapter| niesidents.as follow /,|and many men is to be held at Cos- | Mrs. ¥. R Davies, representing the B ReTitEn Bantin G and at Oos- { Princeton chapter; Mrs. Lewis Jack-{between Sth and 10th streets, under)Ontario, has been recommended as a O neanderwerken: Mrs. B hup)the auspices of the White Cross Free|link in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Ferkins, P g oy, s, ATIMUT|Labor Bureau of America, Monday at|waterway to the sea by the inter- ‘,‘.“‘0"'3‘ ‘“:h',"dm “"'J“h"' T avr|8 e natienal joint commission that has Piney 'Branch; Mra._ Jonn lImirle,| Tev.Simon P. W. Drew pastor of|beon in conference here for a month, evy chase; Miss [lda Johneon|the chyrch and head of the bureau,| Ropresentative Chalmers of Ohlp in: Mount Pleasunt; Miss Bhode Martini!stated today many colored men and|eroquced & bill in the House yas: g{?:nrrnlllns ale, an rs. F. H. Pclouze, Ivone:u'!:::a O’D’IJM to him for aid|ierdsy calling for im n‘w-‘me‘m o T i n_ae employment, while stu- rway by the United tates. Mrs. obert Lansing asuisted in re-| gonts of the colored high schooie and | ''This m aure calls for developme ceiving_and Mrs. Hoodbury Pulaifer,) Howard Unjversity also desire em-{of a thirty-foot channel from Lake Mlssd 'lfl-b;;h e Fll“;- John | pioyment after schoo! hours. Frie to the sea by a bond isaue, Manan G ;?‘ Viacs) 20 kel | guaranteed by the United States and A v i ol omD Eanada; which can be paid off by saio given by Mrs. Davien und- Mrs. Ed- ERED TO HONOLULU. |of hydroelectric mower made avail- Lieut. Col. William H. Tebin, Quar- termaster Carps, in the office 'of the mund O'Brien. able for commercial uses by the jm- At the age of thirty-eight, Mrs. Wil- | quartermaster gendral. War Depart- i e LD The report of the commisslan has lam Wallace of Columbus, Ind. is|ment. has besn ordered to Honolyly | becn submitted to the State Depurt- the mother of aseventegn chiidren, |for duty as -!;rtmnm uartermuss~ | ment. but has not yeL been mude aine of them living. = ter, iwaiian Departmen publie. - {Man Denies He Intended to Harm | here from | Sherman anti-trust act. | i International Labor Chiefs Call on i President. { A group of presidents of inter national lubor bodics. headed by orge 1. Berry., president of the nternational I'rescmen’s Union, were presented to President Hardin yves- iterday Ly Frank Morrison. secretary of the American Federation of Labor. ¢ requected the I'rasident to give ncideraiion 1o u reduction in the econd-cluss poxtal rules us a meas- ure (o aid the unemployment situa- tion. Spokesmen for the delegation point- €d out that the present second {hostal rate was 378 per cent greater jthan thit of 1916 wad that ax a result {muny nagazines and periodicals were {being placed in jeopurdy and some ihad been forced o discontinue pub- lication. Thousands of members nf ‘the printing trade and associated workers had been rendered jobless (s @ result, they sald, and thes urged {the President's support of measures «to_redyce the postul rate { The delegation suid the Preside |had evidenced sympathy with their ‘ propousal. ! —_— | POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN. fiV.v-slain;t:m Office Figures Com- ! pared With Those of 1930. Poxtal reesipts of the Washington ¢y post office during,December, 1921. toaled $460,181.37. us compyred wit 1$410.117.68 dyring December. 1920, an { increass of more than 12 per cent. | Receipts at the ffty lurgest poxt { offices of the country. in which st { Washington stands sixteenth. totaied 1$26,677.570 the past TDecember, u= i compared with $25,001.347 In Dep , ber, 1920. Receints of the syne officcs ’;n‘g)l;scembcr. 19147 totaled $14,251,- 1934.90. —— FOOD PRICES DROP. {Decrease »f 2 Per Cent in Wasi.- ; ingten in Month. Cost of fand at retsil in Weshingion decreased ¥ per cent in the month fron November 15 to December 13, 1921, the ‘bureay of labor statistics announced Lo- day. At the same time it was nounced food at retail cost 57 per cent mere on December 15 than the averag- cost in the yoar 1913, During the month period there was » decreas? in the cost of food in twelve cities and an increase in two. In two .| dther cities there was no change in food prices. ORDERED TO FORT DUPONT. Staff Sergt., Maurice A. Splaine, jr. Coast Artillery Corps, on duty in the office of the chief of coast artillery. War Depariment, has been ordered to Fort Dupont, D for duty. Staff Korgt. Robert W. O'Donnell, Coast Ar- tillery Corps, naw st Vort Dupaent. will take his place in the office of the chief of ceast artillery, this eity.