Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1922, Page 2

CHARLES W SOONBS 1S EMPLOYE DEAD ssistant Department Mes- enger Had Served at Cap- itol Forty-Six Years. i R, i Prise Ring Graduate, After College Honor, Travels 2,000 Miles CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Janu- ary 17-—Frederick R. Wedge, sraduate of the prise ring and of the Unmiversity of Arisona, seekiug to get a post-graduate degree from Harvard Usiver- sity in his fortieth yéar, may have made =n trip half-way scroas the-continent in freight ear aud caboese for nothiag. “Kid” Wedge, ‘as he was i in Wiseonsin lumber eamps and in hoxing circles two decades ago, dropped off a train yesterday after .a 3,-000-mile journey frem Arisoma to emter the Harvard Graduate School of was learmed that Harvard authevities had been trying to reaek him for so: time, by mail snd -telegrap! with word that his qualtfica- tions were net ¢omsidered anfl- efent for admission at this time. Won by Boston Artist Wiih Painting “Girl Arranging Flowers.” Wiiliam M. Paxton of Boston, by reason of his picture entitled “Girl Arranging Flowers,”” has won the pop- ular prize of $200 offered by the Cor- coran Gallery of Art and open to all the entrants in the 8th biennial exhi- bition of cotemporary American oil paintings now in progress Representatives of the American Federation of Arts opened the ballot boxes and counted the thousands of votes cast last’ week by gallery vi tors for their favorite picture. Mr. Paxton's painting, No. 77, in the eata- logue, received 459 vetes. The same artist won the popular prize at the PRZE IS AWARDED: Awarded Firet Prize in the Popular Referendum On the Biennial Exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery S Tl TUESDAY, J. A e e TS LA ARHANENTS HAY B DISCUSSED Intimated That Subject May Be Taken Up at Genoa Conference. Suggestion that the question of land armaments, although not on the pub- lished agenda for the forthcoming economic conference at Genoa, may vet be taken up at that meeting, be-| cause of its close Interrelationship with economic problems of Europe, emanated from the Italian delegation to the Washington coriference today. spokesman for the delegation re- iterated denial of statements made in | the United States Senace that Italy's army numbers 400,000. This state- ment was made in connection with the i McCormick resolution asking the State ! Department to give the Senate infor- VERNON E. WEST MADE ASSISTANT ATTORNEY Succeeds Charles W. Arth in Units ed States Service in District of Columbia. CRCUNETONINE ADORESSON RUSSI Conditions Existing Today in That Country Will Be Out- lined at Embassy. Conditions as they actually exist in Russia today will be outlined by Charles R. Crane of Chicago, former minister to China, in an address at noon Friday at the Russian embasey, 1125 16th street, under auspices of the ‘Washington Chapter of the American Central Committee for Russian Relief, Inc. Mrs. Robert Lansing, chairman of the local chapter of the organization, which is non-political, and extends afd to the refugees outside of Russia, will preside at the meeting, to which all interested are invited. Mrs. Lansing’s Report. ALEXANDRIA JUDGE iast exhibition two years ago, with mation regarding the financial posi- CHARLES WILLIAM COOMBS. rles William Coombs, assistant @ppartment messenger, and oldest Capitol employe, having served con- tinuously for forty-six years, dled yes- terday at his residence at Congress Hall Hotel, following a short illness. He was eighty-four years old. {Col. Coombs, as he was familiarly known, was regarded by all in the House of Representatlves, where he hid been employed since 1875, as an authority on information regarding [ngussional documents and publica- ons. In‘ the words of William Tyler fage, clerk of the House, who has cotemporaneously with Col. vgars, “he was a walking index ys ready and will- ing to give out information to any one. His regular salutation after meeting some one was ‘Can 1 do any- thing for you” Col. Coombs made a pracfice during the early years of his career here to find out things and to remember them. He did this well and throughout his long career made many intimate friends. Held “Valuable Employe.” “He was an old landmark, and those acquainted with him know that we lost a_worthy friend and Con- gre: valuable employe. I intend. as I at one time told him in case I should survive, to have placed upon his tomly the epitaph, ‘Can I do any- thing for you? " Col. Coombs came to this city and went to work at the Capitol when Representative Samuel J. Randall was speaker of the House. He was ot the old school and full of Kkind- and courtesy. From the time ame here he wore a Henry Clay. collar, a wide black tie knotted in a bow and an immaculate white stiff shirt. His position was created for him by a resolution of the House and he never feared any political changes after that. He in a recent interview that “I used to go back to Missouri at election time.to vote, but since the resolution was adopted by re- publicans and democrats alike, I won't vote against either party. F used to be a good democrat, so goed in fact that in_1856 I voted for Buchanan for President before: I was quite twenty-one years old. It was in Louis and a friend of mine said, ‘Come on, let's go and vote for Buchanan and Breckin- ridge. ‘I am afraid I can’t’ said I ‘m not twenty-one for a few weeks yet” ‘Oh, what do you care,’ he said “ome on. Buchanan needs the votes. So we went and no questions were asker Stirring Peried Reealled. The stirring times of the Hayes- Tilden _electoral _commission came soon_after Col. Coombs arrived in Washington, and he stated that it was one of the most exciting periods of his entire experience at the Capitol, T was younger then and things im- pressed me more,” he said in this in- terview. “Maybe they have as in- tonse times in these days of the war, but they don’t stir me as those times did. There were great men on that commission and . in Congress these days.” R The title of assistant department messenger in no way indicated Col. Coombs’ real duties. He could tell members offhand where to find any ©one of the tens of thousands of docu- ments that had been printed and he could quickly find out whether & giv- en topic ever had been made the sub- Ject of a document. It was the fifty- fourth Congress that passed the reso- lution making his position perma- nent. Col. Coombs was Dro?lnanl in Ma- sonry. With his son, Charles Cyrus Coombs, also of thi city; present Dis- triot grand master of Masons, he took all hif degrees. He was a mem- ber of the New Jerusalem Lodge, No. 9, F. A. A. M.; Columbia Chapter, No. 1, R. A M; Almas Temple, Mystic Shrine, and Columbia Commandery, No. 2. Knights Templar. He attend. ed for more than forty years the Mount Vernon M. E. Church South. Born in Ohfo in 1837. Col. Coombs was born October 23. 1837, at Mount Vernon, Ohio. After receiving his education he moved to Missouri, where, during the civil war, e was employed in the ratiroad service. Later he became general clerk of the house of representatives of the Missouri state legislature. It was in this capacity that he came heir to the proud Missour! title of 1 X served Goombs for fort UPHELD BY BAR Lawyers Decide to Probe Di- vorce Evil Charges, How- ever. ALEX DRIA, Va, January 17.— Resolutions providing for a thorough investigation by a special committee of charges that there has been laxity in the administration of divorce laws in Alexandria, and of the source of these charges, and reafirming in- dorsement of Judge Robinson Mon- cure to succeed himself as judge of the corporation court, were adopted yesterday afternoon at a largely at- tended meeting of members of the Alexandria bar in the corporation court room. ‘The resolutions set forth that no one has been authorized to speak for the bar of the city or its members or to make any charges in its behalf against Judge Moncure, and that the persons found to be responsible for the publication of the allegations, following full investigation by the committee, shall be recommended for punishment. Twenty-Six Lawyers Present. James R. Caton was chosen perma- nent chairman of the meeting on mo- tion of \Uudge Barley. William P. Wells was chosen secretary, and H. Noel Garner. atenographer. Attend- ing the meeting were twenty-six members of the local bar. Chairman Caton explained that he had called the meeting at the request of Attor- ney Gardner L. Boothe and other members of the bar, prompted by the publication of a news article in which he said there is a reflection upon the entire bar of the city. Mr. Caton declared that as a mat- ter of fact there is no bar associa- tion of the city, but added there ::'ouhl be. Comtinuing, Mr. Caton 'We are- confronted with a situ: tion which requires action. If there is evidence to support the charges made, It should be produced before a cemmittee of the bar, and if con- ditions as charged ‘exist no man :Lm‘”i‘ I;e e:cu!efl. We owe it to rselves and to the pes - ‘“‘a‘.‘- people of Alex. “We should spare no one for per- sonal feeling or friendship.” P _Resolution In Adepted. Attorney: Howard W. Smith then offered a resolution, which was adopted, ealling on lorney Frank Sthart o > Explain by‘v‘r‘u t authority name of Alexandria Bar Association with a so-called petition and charges contained (ha‘raln relative to an alleged divorce evil. Judge L. C. Barley made an address to thie gathering expressing confidence in the members of the bar here. Attorney Boothe said he would like to see the so-called petition. According to Mr. Caton, sinee 1909 there have been 2,030 equity cases of all descriptions in the corporation court of the city and 855 equity suits in the circuit eourt. There are now pending 810 equity suits of all kinds. A resolution was presented by Attorney C. Keith Carlin that a com- mittee of three be appointed investigate the conditions alleged with respect to divorce articles, and that Frank Stuart appear before the committee forthwith to present such proof as he man have to substantiate any charges that he has made or may desire to make concerning divorce conditions in this jurisdiction. On motion of Judge Norton the committee was enlarged to seven, and the following were named mem- bers of the committee: Howard W. Smith, Gardner L. Boothe, James R. ?I;on. CJr. .’v\-:dc‘- JJ'd K. LflhNnflnn. udge C. Nicol, Judge Barle; and M. rter Hall. i Stuart Owtlimes Plans. Attorney Stuart addressed the meeting and sald that it was his i tention to present the petition at t! proper time. It was not his purpos he ‘added, to touch on any particular attorney, and he sald & petition would be presented to the legislature flling charges against Judge Moncure. At the conclusion of the meeting Chairman Caton announced that at the next meeting he would arrange for the organization of & ciation of the city, and a committee was named to draft by-laws and s code of ethics. : bar asso- PRESIDENT GETS BOOK. Dedicated to Mr. Harding. Marion Realtors Send Yearbook | President Harding has received a to! & pleture called “Girl Sewing.” On that oocasion his pioture received 238 votes, so it would appear that this artist's delicate and appealing work 18 rising rapidly in popular. esteem. Veotes Cast for Others. Although but one prize is given as the result of this popular referendum, the pictures recelving high totals of votes are also announced. The “Por- trait of Barbara,” by, Lilian Westcott Hale of Boston, No. 60, got 212 votes, or almost as many as the first prize- winner two vears ago. Arthur P. Spear's picture, “T! 3 received 185 votes, while No. terior With Figure,” by Burt of this city, came In fourth with 98 votes. Mr. Spear is also from Bos- ton, while Mr. Baker used to lve there. New England, therefore, almost a clean sweep. Mr. Baker, with another picture, won_ the second of the William A. Clark prizes, given just before the opening of the exhibition by the pro- fessional jury of award This evi- dences the fact that his work not only carries a strong popular appeal, but also displays technical qualities of high order. He is considered a painter of national reputation apd is an unusually skillful draughtsman. The good judgment of the local vot- ing ublic is further confirmed by the fact trat this particular picture has been invited to be hung. in the ap- proachinz exhibit of the Pennsylvania Academ of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia. It has been made apparent in the thice popular referendums already held in this city in connection with, the Corcoran blennials that the art- loving public, while it may not agree with the verdict of the jury of pro- fessional painters, invariably selects a good picture for its first cholce. On all three occasions the popular ver- dict and its attendant prize to the work of an artist of high pro- tessional standing. | Many Attend Exhibit. No fewer than 3,600 visitors attend~ ed the exhibit Sunday afternoon, which was the last opportunity for | voting, although the exhibit will re- main open until next Sunday after- noon. Most of these visitors voted, al- though a number of them took their artistic franchise so seriously that. after careful consideration, they could not come to a decision. . C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the gallery., had 10.000 ballots printed for the occasion. In spite of the bad weather which, this year, particularly affected the attendance, nearly all of these votes were cast. Mr. Minnigerode and gallery officials generally express themselves as highly pleased with the interest in the referendum and in its result. This process of indication of popular choice, initiated in Wash- ington in 1917, has been copied in other art center: William M. Paxton was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1869. He was a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris_under Gerome, and also a pupil of Dennis M. Bunker of Boston. He Is a member of the Copley So. ciety, of the Guild of Boston Artists, of the St. Botolph Club and of the Philadelphia Art Club. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1917. He has won a number of prises at various important exhibitions throughout the United | States. EXPOSITION BUILDING TO BE U. S. EMBASSY Rio De Janeiro Structure Will Be Made Permanent,"Is Plan. The exposition building the United States is to erect in Rio de Janeiro to house the exhibit from this coun- try at the Brazilian exposition, which is to open in that city next June, will be used after the exposition s the permanent embassy for this ountry's diplomatic representative in_Brasil. ) This was learned today at the ants House, following_a conference - tween President Harding and Frank L. Packard, an architect, of Colurh- bus, Ohfo, who has been selected By the former to plan this building aad superintend its construction. ' " Mr. Packard, who will leave for Brasil next week in company with L. D. Matthews, a civil _engineer, and George E. Sweeney, both of Colum bus, Ohio, stated today that the Presi- dent has Instructed him to make Pro 'vision in completing the plans for this building for fts permanent construe- tion and its usefulness as an em- bassy’s home and office. D. C. Collier of California, who -directed the San Diego expositien, and who recently was appointed chief of the United States commission to represent this country at the Brazil- ian exposition, will not leave for Bra- zil for several week: 1 Arranging Flowers,” by Will ™| QUSTED PRINCIPAL WINS CITIZEN SUPPORT WITH RIVAL SCHOOL Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va, January 17— Woman voters will settle a factional fight which has broken out in Brook- neal. Campbell county, in which a| majority of the pupils of the town school have been withdrawn and are | now attending a rump subscription | high school. | Several men. not scenting a fight | and overlooking the fact that the! town council is to be elected next, June, failed to pay their poll taxcs| last December. and now they are on | the registration books, but not on the poll tax list. and are. therefore. | disqualified for the franchise. But| the women, those who wanted to vote and those who were forced to do 80, | have qualified in much larger num- bers than the men. and they will elect the ecouncil. which mav prove big, enough to solve the present factional | differences of the municipality. Tt all started over an efort {o oust TRUSTEES APPOINTED | | TO'SELL M. E. CHURCH, Justice Bailey Names Those to Dis- pose of Wesley 2 Property. Justice. Bailey of the District Su- preme Court today appointed William T. Galliher, Charles E. Galliher, D. Olin Leech, John, H. A. Fowler, John 8. Barker and George R Linkins as trustees to sell the Wesley Methodist | Episcopal Church property at 5th and F streets northwest. A petition was filed with the court recently by Willlam T. Galllher ask- ing permission to sell the: chapel, which Mas stood for nearly a century, | because business expansion has vir- tually crgwded the chapel out of ex- istence. ¥ It was set forth in the petition that ithe congregation has so_diminshed and the expenses of the ‘chapel in- ‘creased to such an extent that it is deemed advisable to sell the property {and invest the proceeds in a building {in_some residential neighborhood. {. The property was deeded to the { Methodist church in 1828 by Jobm P. Van Ness and his wife, and under the laws in effect at the time of the tranafer it was necessary for the petitioners to be represented by the! United States attorney. BIDS MADE ON WARSHIPS. Largest Amount Is $51,265 for Cruiser Columbia. Sixteen bids i1ave been recieved by the board of survey at the Washingtn navy yard for the purchase of three battle- ships, two cruisers and four monitors. The vessels offered for sale and the hightest bids follow : Battleships—By J. G. Hitner & Sons, Philadelphia, who offered $48.556 each for the Maine, Missouri and Wis- consin. . Cruisers—Mempais, $6.000, by the A. H. Radetsky Iron and Metal Company, Denver; Columbia, $51,265, by the Bos- ton Iron and Metai Company, Baltimore. Monitors—Puritan, $10.05, by J 4. Hitner & Sons; Ozark, $i5,560, by_J. G. Hitner & Sons; Miantonomok 36,180, by the Boston Iron and Metal Tompany of Baltimore: Tonopah, $15,568. by J. G. Hitner & Sons. NAVY MEDICAL CHANGES. Lieut. Lincoln Humphreys, Naval| Medical Corps, at the W'nlhlnttonl navy yard, has been assigned to duty) at the naval station, Tutuila, Samoa. He will relieve Lieut. Ammi L. John- son, Naval Medical Corps, who is or- dered to San Francisco, Principal Tingler of the high school. ‘The principal was made the brunt of an attack, it is said, from the teach- Ing corps, on what many patrons thought were trivial charges, but the school board viewed it otherwise and ousted the head of the school. An appeal to the county electoral board saw the school board sustained. Then the citizens got busy and estab- lished a little school of their own, only it happens to have about sixty more students than the regular public school So Brookneal support the public school and scriptions to take care of a private venture over which one faction has placed the deposed principal. During the last day or two there has been an avalanche of efforts by male voters to pay their last year poll taxes, but County Treasurer Callahan Is advising these that it iz too late; that the door closed last December, and now the women will have a chance to get together, if they can, and run things. is’ paying .taxes to ub- _—nm COMPULSORY INSURANCE BILL MAY BE REPORTED House District Committee Favors Fitzgerald's Plan of Workmen’s Compensation. Chairman Focht of the House Dis- trict committee has called a meeting Friday to consider reporting the Fitz- gerald workmen's compensation bill, the committee yesterday having de cided by a vote of 6 to 5 in favor of the principle of the Fitzgerald as against the Underhill bill. The Fitz- gerald bill provides for compulsory insurance. the fund to be administered by an existing government agency so that all the money contributed in as- sessments by the emplovers will go for the benefit of the employe. The fight against the Fitzgerald measure was on the ground that it would ex- clude from the District independent accident insurance companies. _————— ARBUCKLE TRIAL HALTS. Prosecutor Asks Time to Study Phases of Case. SAN FRANCISCO, January 17.— There was no session of the Roscoe E. Ar- buckle manslaughter trial in superior court this morning, Matthew Brady, district attorney. having asked time to study certain phases of the case more fhoroughly. The court set the first of & series of extended sessions for 2 p.m. Taking of testimony was expected to begin at this session. The long ses- slons, from 2 to 6 o'clock each after- noon, are to render night sittings of the court unnecessary, it was announced. Both prosecution and defense have ex- pressed a desire to expedite the hearing. Morning sessions are as usual from 10 to 12 o'clock. DOUBLE MURDER SHOWN. Husband’s Body Found Two Weeks After That of Wife. WILSON, N. C., January 17.—Deeper mystery is attached to the murder nearly two weeks ago of Mrs. Miles Pearsall, whose body. with a bullet through the hedrt, was found In the back yard of her home Friday night, with the finding of the body of Mile Pearsall hidden in a clump of bushes saventy-five feet from the spot where his wife's body was discovered. Pear- sall had been shot in the back. The body of Pearsall was found late Sun- day night by Sheriff Howard. Search for an_unidentified man and woman who had lived at the Pearsall home is belng made. The shooting took place about ten days ago, ac- cording to the coroner. tion of the various powers. It has| been announced on several occasions since this conference -started that Italy had reduced her army to 200,000 and was prepared to reduce it another It is to the interest of both.the United States and Italy that the lat- ter shall have direct cable communi- cation with America. This was ex-. plained in elaboration of the state- ment emanating late yesterday after- noon from Italian headquarters that the Rome government is not disposed to give its consent in regard to the treaty for allocation of former Ger- man i cables until there had been some agreement as to seized German cables in the Atlantic. Hith erto it had not been the purpose of conference leaders to take up the Atlantic questions here. but in the light of the Italian declaration they have refrained from discussion of the matter. The Italian delegation feels that Italy must be done justice in this re- spect. Italy has suffered in many ways in the past from the lack of Atlantic cable communication, stated, and is insistent on a di means of communication Wwith the United States and, thereby, with South America, where a third of the population of Argentina is Italian. A part of central Europe and the Balkan states would help in providing ample traffic for such means of com- munication, it is polnted out. Italy will not agree to the allocation of the | Pacific cables until some assurance, at least, is given her in regard to the allocation of Atlantic cables. Tentative Arrangement. The international cable conference, which preceded the Washington con- ference, tentatively arranged for dis- position of the former German-Atlan- tic cables so that a branch of the Azores cable would go to Italy. But the international conference at that suspended its work on the ground; that it was necessary first to find some satisfactory plan for the dispo- sition of the Pacific cables so that the whole general subject might be treated in one. convention. ROGUES PLYING TRADE. | Burglars Get Furs, Jewelry and | Cash—Hold-Up Reported. Burglars entered the’ apartment of Col. Weston P. Chamberlain, U. 8. A..{ 1835 16th street, between 8 and 10 o'clock last night, through an unlocked window. Examingtion or the premises later disclosed the theft of furs, jewel ry. a revolver and suitcase, valued in all at $1.045 Leith W. Thompson, 1421 29th street. was held up in an alley near his home 11773 Columbia road, told police of the shortly after 9 o'clock last night, and robbed of $138. He furnished descrip- tions of the robbers. Mrs. Flizabeth Meyer. 3526 13th £treet, ! *of a lunchroom ati Park 1§h street, was passing | in front :of §453¢ Monroe streét. “on her | way home, SKortly after 9 o'clock last night, when a colored man trled to snatch her pocketbook. Her screams | trightened him off before he could rob | He suc VERNON E. WEST. Vernon E. West, son of Henry L. West, former District Commissioner, has been appointed by Maj. Peyten Gordon as first assistant United Statex attorney for the District of Columbia. ceds Charles W. Arth, who re- signed December 1 last. Mr. West is a native of Washington and is thirty-five years old. For some years he has been secretary to Justice Van Orsdel of the Court of Appeals, and his familiarity with the decisions of that tribunal will be of material ald to the district attorney’s office. Mr. West opposed the Borland amendment, and, as counsel for Mr Knox, won the decision of Justice Stafford that the act did not attach to improvements in sparsely settled suburban sections. He was also asso- ciated with Attorney A. S. Worthing- ton in the suit agalnst the validity of the intangible tax law, which 1s now pending on appeal in the United States 8upreme Court The new chicf assistant to United States Attorney Gordon reccived his education in the public schools. and took his law degree at Georgetown University in 1908. in which year he was admitted to the bar. He took a post-graduate course in 1909, and is now a professor at the National Uni versity Law School. Mr. West is a member of the University Club and the Sons of the American Revolution. He resides just across the District line in Chevy Chase, Md. U. S. DOES ALL POSSIBLE i FOR DISABLED VETERANS tee ¢f American Asso- ciation. It can be said with authority that the UsJted States government is do- {ing everything possible for the bene- of disabled veterans fit and comfort of the world war and that it will con- tinue to do so. This explanation was made at the White House today in answer to a memorial left with the President yes- terday by a committee of the dis- abled American Veterans' Association complaining of unfair treatment of veterans in various sections of the country. The high officials of the government who, answering this charge, stated thav while it is understood that there are scattered cases where the govern ment has not met its obligations, or where disabied veterans have gone n want, it is a known fact which can be proved by figures that the govern- ment has done much in the matter of bringing relief to the disabled men. it her. G. C. Plerce, manager of a cafe at tenth precinct that a burglar entered the cafe Sunday night through an un- fastened window and stole $20 from the cash registér. An unidentified colored man made an unauccessful attempt to rob the tailor- ing establishment of A. Selinger, 711 |1 street, adout 4 o'clock this morning. {He was frightened away before he had an opportunity to enter the establish- ment. Report of the theft of records rela- tive to government contracts from the office of the American Clip Company was reported to the police by Joseph Strauss. MINES OF GERMANY IN FAR EAST CAUSE PARLEY DISCUSSION (Continued from First Page.) east committee. It is understood that the various delegations will approve the .resolution, though it may lead to some discussion. Great Britain has already announced her willingness to relinquish spheres of influence in China. Japan's attitude n regard to this matter is vet to be_ueveloped: Recent events in Japan and an agi- fation there against further conces- sions in regard to the Shantung rail- road and the defenses of islands in the Pacific (in connection with_the naval limitation treaty) have not been helpful to a solution of the conference problems, it was sald today. The Japanese delegation here, if not ham- pered by instructions and advices from Toklo, would be able to reach agreements much more readily, it was was stated that investigation of some alleged abuses of disabled men proved that the facts as alleged were entirely untrue and in error. Jt was explaiped that the hospital development would be done by the government and is progressing in a highly satisfactory manner. It was i however, that the ques- andling the cases of the mental patients is giving the govern- ment much concern, although it is of the opinion that the use of the vari ous state institutions has proved sat- isfactory and will be continued, at least, to some extent. Of course, it realizes that friegds and relatives of disabled men suffering from mental disorders are opposed to their con- finement in state institutions, but the government believes this is necessary as an emergency solution. $250,000 AID FOR HUNGRY. Australian Supplies to Be Given to Feed Starving in Europe. MELBOURNE, January 16.—Aid to the extent of $250.000 in Australlan supplies, principally wheat to be shipped from Australian stores al- ready in Great Britain, is to be ex- tended to thestarving peoples of Eu- rope by the commonwealth govern- ment. | BOY STOWAWAY CAUGHT. Headed for Italy to See His Grandmother. NEW YORK, January 17.—Nicholas Clementi Di Schotte, who is several inches shorter than his name and only seven years old, today ‘ended a High Officials Reply to Commit- ! Since January, 1921, $9,500 has been contributed, and §,350 garments have been sent from Washington and dis- tributed among the refugees, accord- Ing to Mrs. Lansing's report. Contri- butions of new or second-hand cloth- ing may be delivered to the doorman at the embassy. Checks are to be sent 1o the treasurer, Miss Mary Sheridan, 2211 Massachusetts avenue. Princess Cantacuzene, chalrman of #ae board of directors of the American cantral committee, will meet members of she Women's Press Club and other women’ writers of tne National Capi- tal ay 5 o'clock this afternoon at the national headquarters, 532 17th street northwyst Werk by Refugees. There am: now on exhibition at the headquartex s specimens of work dona by the Russ\in refugees, who are liv- ing in Constaxitinople and along other borders of Rassia, men and women often of the fhuest birth and educa- tion. Coples of old Russian peasant lacquer work =nd boxes depitcing many Russian falry tales are to be seen in the exhibi!. There are many specimens of typiyal Russian em- broidery. — THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL OF OKUNA Several Hours Required for Procession to Pass at Tokio Ceremony. i By the Amsociated Press TOKIO, January 17.—Many thousand Japanese today paid tribute to the memory of Marquis Shigenobu Okuma, Japan's noted statesman, who died here last week. Before the funeral services were held today, thousands of admirers filed past the body as it lay in state in a specially constructed pavilion in the Hibiva Park. Most of the members of the im- perial household, as well as numerous government officials and diplomats, visited the Okuma residence yester- da. to pay tribute to his memory and to offer condolences to the family. This morning a private religious service was held in the home, after | which' the body was removed to the park. It was escorted by a special detachment of cavalry. It required several hours for the procession to move soberly past the decorated | building in which the funeral was conducted. During the ceremony salute of nineteen guns was fired in front of the Department of Justice building. The interment ceremonies were pri- vate, and the body was buried beside that of his mother. _— U. S. HOSPITAL HEADS TO HOLD CONFERENCES Efficient Means of Taking Care of Former Service Men Will Be ‘Worked Out Here. ! Officers in charge of all government {Lospitals serving veterans of the world war began a five-day series of conferences here today. called by Brig. Gen. Sawyer, president of the board of hospitalization, to work out co-operatively the most efficient means of caring for Service patients. Nearly a hundred officers were or- dered to report, including the heads of all public health hospitals, soldiers’ homes, officers of the medi- cal departments of the Army and Navy, and the Veterans' Bureau. The opening session wae to be called to order by Gen. Sawyer in an address on the present status of fed- ! eral hospitalization, covering methods {and facilities in use in different parts { of the country in the care of veteran patients. {7 On Friday. President Harding is to address the conference. { DISCUSS RAIL RETURN. Daniel Willard Urges Continuation of 6 Per Cent Rate. Question of what capital return will be allowed railroads after March 1, when the rate of 6 per cent, fixed by the transportation act, goes out of ef- fect, was discussed today before the Interstate Commerce Commission’ rate investigation. prospective. Stowaway voyage to Italy in a Staten Island police station wait- ing for his daddy to come and claim him. Protesting. bitterly. Nicholas was hauled from beneath a forecastle bunk of the steamship Constantinople yesterday just in time to be sent ashore with a pilot who left the ves- sel at Sandy Hook. He protested he had wanted to go to see his grandma who lives in Italy. Police sgid the youngster alresidy has sever@l runaway trips to ‘his credit, but-\is furthest goal hereto fore was Philadelphia. MRDICAL COURSE. (J. &) _F. X._ Banvard, E. cm—fi Robert E. Duncan, Lyle J. Millan, Mrank M. Moxon and James J. O'Conmor, Naval Medical Corps, have been ardered to this cjty to take a course of instruction at the ages of a reported value of $25,000Naval Medical Schowl, at thefoot of were taken. 24th street. e et et i e e ) BRIEFLY TOLD STORY : " OF ARMS CONFERENCE of control in the operatior of these mines. y The committes of the fir east will meet at 3:30 o'clock th\s aft- ernoon and resume consideAition of the “open door” in China, Which was taken up at'a megting yester- day afternoon. \ The committee on the far eaat has agreed to a final draft of reso~ lutions embodying _tae Chinrse: customs decisions reacied sonLie time ago. The naval limitation sreaty still awaits for action upon the article relating to fortifications in the Pa- cifie A said. Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- timore and Ohio,; urged a continuation of the 6 per cent rate as a reasonable basls for estimating decisions by the commission on transportation charges. He was opposed by Clifford Thorne, shipper’s representative. President Willard insisted that the trend of money rates could not be clearly de- termined now, and added that the eastern railroads in the near futurs would be forced to finance expansion, extensions or improvements by stock issues rather than bond issues because the ratio of bonds to stocks in their capitalization had already grown too high for financial security. ‘These stock issues, he said, might have to bear a dividend rate of 8 per cent or better, if the railroads were to find a market for them. —_— LEAVES GEN. PERSHING. Maj. Quekemeyer, Personal Aide, Ordered to Fort Riley. Maj. John G. Quekemeyer, United States cavalry, who served as per- sonal aide to Gen. Pershing during the world war and since then in the United States, has been ordered to Fort Riley, Kan., to take a course in equitation at the cavalry school at that post. Tt is understood that the detail was made at the request of Maj. Queke. meyer, who desired service with troops instead of remaining on office work in Washington. He will leav ‘Washington next Monday. ~ “colonel,” ana his friends have since called him by that title. He came to Washington in December, 1875, and at once entered the employ of the government. which he most studi- ously served up to the time of his death. He married Miss Mary Cat! erine Belford of Pennsylvania, who dfed here in_ 1888. Surviving him are his_son, Charles Cyrus, and grandson, Willlam Leslie Cpombs, both of this city. Funeral services will be held tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock at the Mount Ver- non Place Methodist Episcopal Church South. Rev. J. Howard Wells will officlate. Interment will be in Glenwood cemetery. Pallbearers will be Willlam Tyler Page, Wilbur H. Estey, Burt W. Ken- nedy, Martin McKee, John Herndon and T. C. Nalle. ——— *POLICE GET HELL. Arrest Follows Operating of “Bo- lita” Game. TAMPA, Fla., January 17.—Hell has been confined by Tampa police. Caught running an alleged gambling house, a Cuban was arrested and taken to headquarters. When the desk sergeant asked his name he replied, ‘Hell.” The sergeant. startled, coun- tered with an appropriate answer. The prisoner, with a grin, assured the ser- geant it was all right, and the entry appears on the slate, “Jose Hell, charge, :lp‘kr:!.(l,."“ a bolita game. gelling bolita ] 5 - HELD FOR GRAND JURY. NASHVILLE. Tenn., January 17. Following arraignment here of Con- stables Roy Cockrill and Ben Sharp of Davidson county, charged with prom- ising to protect a “moonshiner” upon the latter's payment of “hush” money, the officers were bound over to the session of the federal ner e $ gl Lngkn-ued. States Comm! specially prepared copy of the omIMRS. McDONALD EXPIRES. realtors’ year book from the real| ¢ estate board of Marion, Ohio. It was | Funeral Services Held at St. Pat- learned today. The presentation was ! 1 rick’s Church. made through the Washington Real state Boare office. This being the first issue of such a | Afrs. Robert McDonald.: widow. qf volume by the Ohlo State Associa-; Serst. Robert McDonald and a resident tion of Real Estate Boards, it was |of Washington for fifty years, died at dedicated to the President, and his | her nome, 3014 Dent place northwest, photograph was inserted next to the | =\ 10 g title page. On the first page appears | S&turday. Mrs. McDonald was born 8 personal Inscription of George B |in Ireland about seventy-six years TApD, president ol = rion |ago. Funeral services were held board. conveying to President Hard- ; ing the best wishes of the Marion | YeSterday at St. Patrick's Church, realtor where requiem mass was said by Rev. Francis Hurney, assisted by Rev. Gilbert McDonuld of Catesville, Md. Mre. McDonald is survived by seven children: Hugh, Howard, @ilbert J. ARMED GUARDS AT TRIAL. Attempt to Prevent Rescue of Al- leged Mail Robbers. DETROIT, Mich., January Armed guards were on duty in the federal court here today to prevent any attempt at rescue when four men went on trial on charges of com- plicity in the robbery of a mail truck October 7 last. The accused men are Alexander Mc- Clean, James Logan, Gaspar Man- garicin and Richard Lambrecht. Before the trial opened it was rumored two of the men had agreed to_turn state’s evidence. The truck the men are accused of robbing was carrying Canadian mail from Windsor, Opt. Registered pack- ; i \ The year book isia publication cus- tomarily put out by realtors’ asso- clations around January 1 of each year. It is in the form of a dlary, and contains valuable and useful in- | Mrs. Wilson F. McCray. all of Wash. formation relative to real estate law | ington. and Mrs. Charles F. Scates of and practice, as well as a directory | Phoenix, Ariz; Francis McDonald, of realtors operating in the state. i Los Angeles; Henry McDonald of the INavy and two sisters, Mrs. M. Ma- {loney of Olean, N. Y. and Mrs, Wil- {liam Kellum of Washington. COMMERCE MEN CALLED. _ Bepresentatives of Thirty Citiesto| COLLEGE GIVEN RELIC, Meet With Secretary Hoover. = {Plate on Which North Carolina District representatives of the Com- merce Department in some thirty Currency Was Printed. Special Dispatch to The Star. cities throughout the country have Dbeen called here for a three-day con- ference with Secretary Hoover, §t| DURHAM, N. C. January 17.—The was announced today at the depart-| Only plate in existence from w! ment. North Carolina currency was printed Reorganization changes made in the|in the revolutionary days has been given to the Trinity College histori- cal museum by W. T. Nicholson of department, it is sald, will be dis- cussed with the district representa- Statesville, it was announced here. Mr. Nieholson found the plate on his tives with a view to working out plans for providing the most efficlent service to American business through | father’s farm in Iredell county forty the co-operation of the district offices | years ago. with the newly established divisions The engraving, which read: “North Carolina currency by authority of the Hallifax 2d Discussing of the Shantung ques- tion was continued today by the Japanese and Chinese delegates. They had under consideration the transfer to China of the coal and iron mines formerly held by the Germans and now in possesson of the Jagpnese. No decision was T and the delegates will . meet tomorrow morning. The Jap- in the department. L