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ONDON 1S DAZE BY NEW ISH PACT CraigJCollins'Aoreement on Bountlary Called Miracle and Object Lesson. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 23.—The London Tiorning newspapers express aston- ishment at the swift agreement be- tween Sir James Craig and Michael Collins. The Daily News regards it as a miracie and such an object lesson to British statesmanship as history only rarely offers. Lord Carson, it declares, will rub his eyves with bewilderment. “Unless Sir James Craig is disowned by Ulster, which is extremely im- ‘probable.”’ adds the News, “it means that the historic enmity between-the north and the south is in happy peril.” The Westminster Gazette thinks the agreement proves that the main diffi- culty of the Ulster problem is its artificial connection with English party politics, and that ence England was able to wash her hands of the whole dispute Irishmen would soon settle it. This newspaper is surprised at the remarkable comprehensiveness of the agreement, and expresses the belief that if the Ulster premier can S0 soon have gone so far it will not “be long before Belfast is included within the boundaties of the Irish Free State. Long Step Toward Unity. The Daily Chronicie regards the agreement as a very considerable ad- vance in the direction of unity, which will further justify to Irishmen the policy of the Griffith-Collins party and “show in its true light the policy of De Valera, because the price which the latter would have had to pay for his terms—if he had extracted them —wWould have been perpetual discord with Ulster.” The Daily Telegraph is of the opin- jon that the agreement gives fuller promise for the attainment of real peace in Ireland than agything which has vet passed between: the leaders of the north and south. The Times says it will arouse feel- ings of profound thankfulness and re- lief: it points definitely and hopefully to the strencth of the mutual desire for unity. Sir James Craig and Mr. Collins have each done genuine serv- ice to the other’s government and to the peace and prosperity of the people. Confer on Transfer Details. Conferences were held throughout Sunday at the colonial office between | the Irish committee of the British{ cabinet and the ministers of the Irish provisional government who came to Tondon to confer over details con- cerning the assumption of the. provisional regime pending the organization of the Irish Free State government under the Anglo- Irish treaty, the colonial office an- nounced today. ‘Winston Churchill, secretary for the colonies, presided over the "sessions, says the announcement, and officials representing the various departments concerned attended the meetings. Measures necessary for the transfer of the executive responsibility to the new Irish ministry were explored in detail and good progress was made. The Irish representatives were Michael Collins, Eamon J. Duggan and Kevin O'Higgins. Mr. Collins returned to Ireland last night, but the confer- ences are being continued with his ministerial colleagues, who are re- maining in London for the present. | | | D. C. SCHOOL GRADUATE WINS DE WOLFF PRIZE P Gains Scholarship to Study In\uflor Decorating at Paris and Cash Prize of $200. DAN COOPER. Dan Cooper, twenty years old, Western High School_graduate and a student in the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, has just been awarded the Elsie de Wolff Paris scholarship, according to word re- ceived here. This is said to be the first time the prize has been given to a freshman of the school. In addition Cooper was awarded a $200 cash prize for excellence in his work. He will leave for Paris to take advantage of the scholarship on the 18th of February and complete his study of interior decorating. Cooper_is_the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Cooper of Dominion Heights Arlington county, Va. He graduated from Western in 1919 and attended the University of Virginla for two years before going to the New York school. The scholarship is awarded annually by Elsie de Wolff, former actress, who left her professional work on the stage to take up the art of interior decorat- ing. It is understood that Miss de Wolff, who lives in Paris, will personally aid Mr. Cooper in arranging his studies. BOLSHEVIKS TO ASK GIGANTIC SUMS OF EUROPEANS AND U. S. (Continued from First Page.) to succeed. Open Negotiation Necessary. Replying to the question how soviet Russia stood on public negotiations at Genoa and open diplomacy gen- erally, M. Chitcherin replied that in his oplnion open diplomacy was nec- essary, and that no government “should have aims which cannot be avowed to its people.” The foreign minister David Lloyd George, the British prime nnnister, high He sald the Genoa conference plan largely was a work of the “Welsh wizard,” who had the foresight to distinguish the impossibility of Europe being recon- structed until universal peace was commended RUSH AFTER BUSINESS. made. He also expressed the hope and i ‘lhpl belief that America would participate. - Traveling Men Take to Road as| “The imerican concessionalre. Irish Boycott Ends. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, Janyary 23.—While the ‘ Northern Whig. unionist orgen, de- clines to regard as highly important in itself the statement Issued by Michael Collins gnd Sir James Craig relative to their agreement regarding the Ulster boundary and other ques- tions at issue between north and south TIreland, it expresses the hope that the agreement is a harbinger of peace for Ireland and says the lifting of the boycott of northern Ireland by the Siun Feiners will be a step in that Washington B. Vanderlip, said Chitcherin. “told when he was Russia seeking a concession that the Americans were dollar chasers. We don’t believe the American leaders are dollar chasers, and hope that Secretary Hughes, with his high ideals, will support the movement for universal peace.” M. Chitcherin declared that he be- lieved the generous help of the Unit- ed States to Russia through the American Relief Administration would contribute to the removal of the prejudices which sincere Ameri- can statesmen might have against soviet Russia. He said Nikolai Lenin, direction. bolshevik premier, desired to at- { _“The bitterness engendered by the|tend the economic’ conference. but past three vears will not disappear|that the central executive committee in a da the newspaper says, “but it should be the earnest endeavor of every one desirous of peace and good will "to work toward such an end. Real peace is worth winning, end must be won. Commenting upon the agreement, the Irish News says: “The attempt to dissect Ireland has failed, and wise men who have recognized that fact are laying the foundations of reunion. The ' agreement plainly has been framed to lead to better things and should clarify the situation for all nationalists in the six counties of Ulster. Tt is their duty to devise a more suitable method of preserving and advancing their material interests than the curiously ineffective method of doing nothing. News of the raising of the boycott By the Irish Free State against Ulster © eaused a rush of commercial travelers today to various railway stations. en Foute to various points in south Ire- land, anxious to resume the business which the boycott had checked. DUBLIN SEES UNION. By the Associated Press. of the soviet had not yet decided positively the personnel ot the Rus- sian delegation. CALLS EDWARDS MARTYR “OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP” Thomas J. Donovan Believes For- mer President of Education Board ‘Was Victim of Injustice. “Prof. Edwards stands before the people of Washington a martyr of good citizenship,” declared Thomas J. Donovan, president of the Central Citizens' Association, in an address before the members of the associa- tion at the North Capitol Methodist Episcopal Church Friday night. Mr. Donovan, in speaking of the former head of the school board said that he considered him a victim of men in high places and authority who had { DUBLI January 23. — Satisfaction failed to inquire fully into matters with the agreement reached between |before rendering their opinons and Michael Collins and Sir James Cralig, | 2Cting. and in thus doing were unable the premier of Ulster, relative to the | t0 recall their decisions, with the re- boundry between north and south Ire- (SUlt that a great injustice had been 1and was expressed today by the Dub- | G0Re to Mr. Edwards. Nn Independent. _Charles A. Baker, president of the L *It'is a mreat and decided advance | Federation of Citizens’ Associations, Yoward Irish union,” the newspaper | SPeaking as an individual, told his feclared, “and this advance is all the | 8udience that he favored Representa- greater because an agreement was|tive Fitzgerald's bill before the House scarcely hoped for at this early stage | District committee providing for .a of the negotlations. Since so mueh | Sunday rest law in the District of has been accomplished, is it too much | Columbia, and that he hoped all the 1o hope that greater and more vital | delegates composing the .federation ] ents will follow tuture con-|would approve Mr. Fitzgerald's bill. Zerences?" Mr. Baker said it had been charged IRISH CONVENTION BARS Thach itention 1o he matier of Diss ~RELIGION AND POLITICS trict franchise, but, he declared, “I do By the Associated Press. not mind that, for we have been pay- ing a great deal of attention to this matter, and we still propose to do so, for we are entitled to take a part in PARIS, January 23.—Delegates|OUr government’s affairs, and any- Tepresenting twenty-two countries,| (NIAE elfe is contrary to American including the United States and South| Other speakers were Robert Mc- America, were present at the opening semsions of the world,conference of the Irish race here today. The pur- D080 of the meeting waa to promote The economio interests of Ireland and Mackin, Rev. E. A. Spielman and Daniel A. Edwards. Mr. Edwards the interest in Irish art thro RS it ore ughout | gave a brief sketch of the life of Na- poleon Bonaparte. The children of the community took part in a pro- gram consisting of music and recita- _Informal sessions were held on aturday, but the first business meet- ‘was fixed for this forenoon. ics and religion were barred tions. from the program. ‘The delegates to the Irish congress | yesterday visited spots assoclated . ‘with the history of Ireland. Eamonn De Valera delivered a speech at the Trish college, founded in the sixteenth | century, and received a tumultous| =feel.ln§d rm}:n thsu student body when 6 asked the college authorities to| The deceased was a native of grant the students a holiday. city. Her husband, the late Bv‘:rl; Some of the delegates went to the! Custer, came to this country from Bastile, where one of the Irish heroes' Switzerland in 1849 and was an en- of the battle of Fontenoy was im-|gineer on the Northern Pacifio prisoned. They also saw the Avenue|road. He died mbout ten years ago. ‘Hoche, named after the general who Mrs. Custer served in a clerical ca- :14:!: nhlgs and guns to Ireland in!pacity in the government about 1 thers visited the Latin| thirty:five years, most of the time in quarter, where houses in which Irish|the pension office. Her father, the r:q';ou once lived were pointed out h]te xv:ul;;n sP. !'lsherty. Was_em- em. oyed in the State Departme: - The first session, presided over by Emn years. o :at S Prof. John MacNeill, speaker of the| Mra.” Custer was identified with dall eireann, was devoted largely to | numerous charitable and patriotic aducation and literature, after the|organizations. 57 X adoption of the resolution whereby| She is survived by three nieces, the delegates from fourteen countries | Mra. Lath: wife of Charles Latham, edged themsel to lllp?ort nnx United States consul at ston, e _of action the people of Ireland | Jamalca; Mrs. Willlam ha might decids upon to dbring about the | Mendota apartments, and Miss Sallie reledse of prisoners in England and | Mathews. 'Arrangements for the aorth Ireland. funeral bave not beep made, ° IS FATALLY STRICKEN. Mrs. Margaret Custer Dies at Grace Dodge Hotel. & Mrs. Margaret A. Custer. seventy- seven years old, died suddenly ye: terday morning in her room in Grace Dodge Hotel, North Capitol and E streets. Her death resulted from a cerebral hemorrhage. NORFOLK CARS RN *NEARLY NORMAL Seventy-Four Cafs Out of Eighty-Four Are Now Said to Be'Operating. NORFOLK, Va., January 23.—Street car service in Norfolk today had re- turned almost to normial, with seventy- four cars out of about eighty-four in operation. The city council was in session to determine whether it would act as an arbitration board. as sug- | gested in the company’s reply to the couneil’s “ultimatum.”” Union car men were awaiting the outcome of the coun- cll meeting before taking a vote to de- termine whether they would return to work pending arbitration. Company officials were claiming that they had 176 men working on the cars, 35 'in training and that the strikers might find all vacancies filled if they did come back to work today. These officials also claimed that many of the union men were. being taken back at their jobs. Union leaders were inclined to view the company’s reply “ultimatum” as a “freeze out” of the men who remained on strike after last | Friday, the last day on which the com~ pany agreed to hold their jobs open for them. Phe company reported that a rock was thrown through a window of |a car in the suburbs last night. MEN FIRM AT RICHMOND. I l Common Council Holding Meeting in an Effort to Settle the Strike. RICHMOND, Va., January 23.—Un- der the recommendations belng con- sidored at a special meeting of the common council today the street car strikers here are to return to work under the scale of wages prevailing before the walkout Sunday night, January 15, if the proposal is accepted by the traction company, Mayor Ains- lie announced shortly before noon to- day. The proposal before the council asks the traction company to re-employ all men now on strike at the scale of wages prevailing before the reduc- tion, pending arbitration to fix upon a reasonable scale. Because they wanted to work in pairs, the fifty men brought here from Baltimore, Washington and other cities Saturday to take the places of a similar_number of the men have been discharged, the company an- nounced today. The fifty men were expected a8 motormen, and they have been dismissed for refusing to obey orders. according to the company. The company desired that they work with former employes who have re- turned as conductors. Seventy-four f power by |existing in the world for the league | men are at work aboard street cars in Ireland | of nations or any similar organization | here today, fifteen of the number hav- ing been among the 500 who walked out in this city at the time the strike order became effective, officers of the company stated. Union leaders deny that as many as fifteen from the strike ranks have returned to the street cars. Strikers are increasing the number of their jitneys almost daily and report that they are meet- ing with much success in operating them. ——— {HEARTY BID TO U. S. t IN LONDON SPEECH (Continued from First Page.) ranting, however, the cautious policy being pursued of waiting for addi- tional details of the agenda and for indications of the limitations as well as the scope of the meeting. Tndeed, there is enough division in sentiment in high quarters here—im the cabinet, in the advisory council. in Congress—to vindicate hesitation and caution. B It is recognized that it might be argued that the administration is committed to the broad idea of inter- national conferences. Carrying this thought to the last analysis. it might be said that 'the more important the subject to the welfare of the world, the greater the necessity for-dealing with it in this advanced way. Traditional Policy Bars. And vet it can be advanced with equal logic that there are some acts |wmch the traditional policy of tHis i government bar—notably, taking part in the politics of Europe. The Genoa conterence is heralded as an économic meeting, to stabilize finance, credit and industry of Europe. As the TUnited States has‘vested interests in Europe, growing out of 'the world war, it is deemed to have in equity a seat at the council board. But what an important element in this country wants to be first assured of is that the Unlited States, having entered upon the discussion of a spe- {cific topic, will not find itself drawn into another. which is taboo. It is recalled that when Japan was invited to the Washington confer- ence she hesitated until inquiry could be made as to the scope of the meeting. = No objection was made to that display of caution, regarded ‘as natural. If the Washington confer- ence ends soon, as NOW seems proba- ble, its record of success will be pointed to, it is said, as & powerful argument in behalf of the United States sending delegates to Genoa. Maybe by that time the promoters of the new undertaking will be con- vinced that they will have to agree to bew to the mark of strict economics if they desire the United States to take | part. - —_— CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. Woman Enocked Down by Auto. Vehicles in Collision. Mrs. Agnes Clements, 2512 22nd street northeast, was knocked down by an automobile owned by the Wash- ington Railway and Electric Company at Bladensburg road and Hickey lane |1ast ‘night. She was not serlously urt. o Walter Humminghofer, twelve years old, 145 Thomas street, received injuries to his body yesterday after- noon as a result of a collision between his bicycle and the automobile of Douglas B. Home, 407 Rock Creek Church road. He was taken home. A collision between the sixth precinct policé patrol wagon and a motor ambulance belonging'-to Martin ‘W. Hysong, 1300 N streot, occurred at New Jersey avenue mnd D street yesterday morning. Both vehicles were damaged. The motor truck of the police, traffic squad aad an automobile driven by Samuel B. Tilton, 917 French street, collided near 5th and O sireets yesterday afternoon. The automobile skidded and struck Charles Mills, colored, 1319 Sth street, slightly in- |juring him. He was taken to.Freed- men’s Hospital. James Brown, colored, 2102 L street, received Injuries yesterday afternoon, as a result of an automobile :oms!on' at 24th and P streets. He was treated' at/Emergency Hospital for injuries’to; hié head and back. H In an effort to avold.s collision with another vehicle, Earl Brown, 3 K street, last night drove his motor cycle against the curb at 4th and I streets, damagin the machine. David Streeks, SI {( street, occupant of the sidecar, received an injury to his head. He received treatment at Emergency Hospital. FIREMEN LOSE LIVES. MONTREAL, - January - 23.—Two firemen lost their lives fighzing a ‘re which swept a block of apartment houses on Sherbrooke strest West. Driven before & high wind, the flames spread rapidly, taxing the resources of ‘the city fire department’to the vy 5% to the council's [\ | thousands of J CONNECTICUT AVENUE REALTY SOLD. = i G o e g Y whieh Lower—0id Austrian-Hungarian embassy building, R residence, 1327 Comnecticut avenue northwest, be remodeied for business purposes by an investor. 1305 Connecticut avenue northwest, to be torn dowm to make way for modern stores. BRIEFLY TOLD STORY OF ARMS CONFERENCE (The Star is publishing daily a summar- ized story of the developments of the arm: ment conference. By reading it each day you will keep in touch with the outstand- ing events of the historic meeting.) The committee on the far east to- day had pending before it a proposal relating to the prohibitiin of the exportation of arms to China which might be used to make conditions worse in that country, and also & report of a subcommittee of experts on the Chinese Eastern railway which was understood to recommend a continuation of the present inter- national control of the road until its owners were able to take it ove The tement of Count Uchida, foreign minister of Japan, to the Japanese diet that Japan would not withdraw her troops until a stable government, capable of protecting Japanese nationals n Siberia, had been established was taken to in- dicate that about ail that could be expected from the Wasaington con- ference in regard te Siberia was a reaffimation by the Japanese that eventually they would remove their troopd. The question of Siberia, it is expected, would be reached soon on the conference zgsnda, perhaps today. The Japanese and Chinese dele- gates this afternoon will hold their tairty-first meeting an Shantung. The naval limitation treaty still is waiting decision of article 19, which provides for the status quo of forti- fications in Pacifi islands. AIMED AT DISPUTE OVER |MISS S. E. WHITE, RETIRED COLLECTION OF CHECKS| SCHOOL TEACHER, DIES Chairman of House Banking Com—JFormer Principal Had Been in mittee Introduces Bill Relat- ing to Exchange Charges. Chairman McFadden of the House banking and currency committes to- day introduced a bill which he de- clared was designed to dispose of “the fight between country banks and the federal reserve banks pertaining to par collection of checks.” The measure provides that a bank not a member of the federal reserve service may elect whether it will make an exchange charge when re- mitting for checks drawn upon it, but if thé bank decides to do so it will be required to pay a similar charge for the service rendered by the federal reserve banks in the collection of such checks. £ Non-member banks which are not remitting or paying to the federal re- serve banks at par are obtaining the full benefit of the federal reserve check clearing facilities, Mr. McFad- den sald, by sending checks deposited with them to correspondent member banks, which in turn clear the checks at par through the federal reserve banks. SAILS FOR JEWISH RELIEF. Dr. Frank Rosenblatt to Partici- pate in European’ Councils. Dr. Frank Rosenblatt, former eco- nomic expert of the United States tariff commission and of the New York State department of labor, and now executive director of the joint distribution committee which has handled $47,000,000 in funds from: America for relief and rehabilitation ! work among the Jews of eastern and souchesstern Kutope, Sailed Saiuiday from New York for Europe to par- ticipate in discussions of the Euro- executive council of the joint di fbution committee at Paris. In a brief survey of conditions in the famine area of Europe, Dr. Rosen- blatt said that the Jewish popula- tion of the drought districts along the Volga, where the American Ke- lief Administration is workiug. is comparatively smell, but in other arts of Russia, and especially in the kraine, the condition of the Jews 18 worse than that of the non-Jews. Pogroms were included in every in- surrection in the Ukraine, no matter what ufiu%n was rtn t:: mp:l:; I;g the result wi e s ewish families are ss, shelterless, ragged wan- ith nothing but !luflerlng and 0. homele: W/ 3:'.’:'&":« look forward ESTATE VALUATION FILED. « Jeremiah J. Brosnan of th Washington, who died January 5, left an estate valued in excess of $70,000, according to a petition of his four sons for letters of administration on his estate. He left no will. The per- nal estate, conpisting of cash and urities, totals $23,632.42. He also owned sevgral ‘houses in Southwest ‘Washingtor®of an assessed value of 8“.161. ._The sons are Jobn -J., ce' J., Edward J. and Francis Brosnan, who are the sole helys, the Bioented Daving been a Widpwer, A R ! { {NARROW Service of District for Forty- Two Years. Miss Sarah Eskridge White, former principal of the Gales School, who was retired from the District public school system after forty-two years of almost continuous teaching, died last night at 11:30 o'clock at 2659 Connecticut avenue, where she lived with her sister, Mrs. Henry L. West. She was In her sixty-second year. At the tizie of her retirement, which was on_account of a lingering illness, Miss White had been away from her classroom since early last August. She was one of the most popular teachers in the schools and in point of service was probably the oldes Before her death, which she real- ized was imminent, Miss White se- lected her pallbearers, who - will be as follows: Willlam W. Everett, Perry B. Turpin, Selden M. Ely, Miles M. Shand, H. H. Trimball and N. S. || ! Faucett. Funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock Wednesday after- 300:\ éanl&vnryDBupllst Church, con- ucted by Rev. Dr. Abgrnethy, pastor. The body will be E:ken to l}‘or?!r- mouth, Va., her birthplace, for burial. A large number gf school officials and associates, in addition to former pu- pils, are expected to attend the fu- neral services. Miss. White began teaching in 1879 and until her recent retirement had stopped only once, which was for a period of eighteen months. She came to Washington whén a young girl and entered the public schools as a student in the fifth grade of the old second division, in which division she later taught for many years. She was a member of the first local class to take a high school class, attend- ing the Advanced Grammar School for Girls, as the higher course was called in those days. 3 In 1877 she left this school and en- tered the Normal School, ing a year’s course of study preparatory to starting her career as a teacher. She had been principal of the Gales gchool u!or lbgut elxhtdyn&!‘l before er retirement, succeeding tl 1 Miss Katherine Brown. Ejneate Miss White was actively interested in the Calvary Baptist Church, for a number of years having taught in the Sunday school of the church. She selected her pallbearers from officials and members of the church and of the school system. LY ESCAPE DEATH Mr. and Mra T. T. ler, former residents of this city, wl’fl{ their three small children narrowly escape ‘dfluthl ll:l g‘::k wher‘:‘tl‘?lr home in leveland, o, caug! re, trapping the family in theim bedrooms, accord- ing to a dispatch received here today from that city. They were carried to safety in the arms of firemen, after being partially overcome by suffocat- ing fumes from th# b % Mr, Tyler formerly lived at 32 Rhode Island avenue mnortheast. He gradu- ated from McKinley Manual Training School in 1911 and was employed by the District water department for uumuyun He i a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, - \ u d|land avenue northeast, QUESTION POWER TOSANCTION BUS Right of Utilities' Commission to Grant Request of W. R. & E. Co. Discussed. The question of whether the Public Utilities Commission has power to authorize a street railway gompany to engage in the motor bus business was raised today at the hearing on the application of the Washington Rallway and ‘Electric Company for permission to operate a bus route on Park road from Mount Pleasant street to Georgia avenue. William McK. Clayton of the Fed- eratlon of Citizens' Associations, told the commission that he was not there to contend that the commission is :v'jlhl(;,ul such authority, but suggest- Samiat it would be 'well for the Semmission to constder the legal side (i application before granting it. . Bowen, attorney for the com- admitted, in answer to Mr. that the charters of the ar lines had to be amended to change to cable cai o LG electrio railway cars. A eaerio = Buve- Implied Power. T- Bowen argued that the utilities law gives the commission an implied Dower to permit the company to oper- ate a bus route as an auxiliary to existing street car lines, just as the &as company operates an appliance store to sell implements used in the consumption of gas. The company contended, however, that the com- mission would be Without authority r‘;u(l‘gfnlu‘l it to operate a motor bus William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway and Electric, testified that the company believes the proposed bus route would prove @ great convenience to the patrons of the Mount Pleasant, 11th and 9th street car lines. Letters were read from several of the citizens' associations in the terri- tory of the proposed route, approv- ing the application, but objecting to the intention of the company to charge 2 cents for transfers to the street railway lines. Would Transfer to Owa Line. The Mount Pleasant association in- dorsed the proposition without ob- jecting to the transfer charge. Answering a question of Mr. Clay ton, Mr. Ham said the Washington Railway and Eleciric would not con- sent to issue transfers to the 14th street dine of the Capital ‘lracaon Company. unfair to the W. R. & E. which desires to establish the bus route for the benefit of its own patrons on the Mount Pleasant, 11th and 9th street lines. “If the public does not feel that thi auxiliary cross-town bus service would be worth 2 cents to them, we want them to object now before the company spends a considerable sumof money to try out the plan,” Mr. Ham said. Walter C. Allen, secretary to the commission. called attention to the fact that Park road is the running line of two fire engine companies. Necessary to Prohibit Parking. Mr. Ham said it would probably be necessary to prohibit parking ofauto- mobiles on one side of Park road to make room for the buses. William G. Henderson of the North Capitol and Eckington Citizens’ Asso- ciation urged the company to extend the bus route from Georgia avenue to North Capitol and Michigan avenue to give the residents of Brookland and Bloomingdale a more direct route across town. Mr. Ham pointed out that such an extension would take the buses through a long stretch of unprofitable territory, bordered on one side by the Soldiers’ Home and on the other side by the filtration plant. He said the company has consid, ability of running tH® bus Georgia avenue as far as Home gate. The commission announced it would render a decision as soon as possible. A. 0. H. NATIONAL BOARD OPENS SESSIONS HERE of The =emi-annual \meeting the National Board of the Ancient Order | of Hibernians in America, composed of thirteen officers of the order from various parts of the United States, cpened Saturday in the Raleigh Hotel. The subjects discussed and acted upon at the meeting. whieh will close today, include the membership drive. now in progress throughout the United States and Canada; the Irish Free State and conditions in Ireland generally, the proposed pil- grimage to Ireland in July or August next under the auspices of the Hi bernians, a national insurance fea- ture to take the place of the many state and county insurance tems now in operation, juvenile divisions, the Irish history propagunda, a movement carried on in America for many years by the order; ‘St. Pat- xick's day celebration this year, the Nuns of the Battlefield monument, and the publication and_circulation of the history of the order. a work of 2,000 pages by John O'Dea, na- tional secretary, now in typewritten manuscript. Members of the board are as fol- lows: Rt Rev. Michael J. Gal- lagher, Bishop of Detroit, national chaplain; Judge James E. Deery, In- dianapolis, Ind., national president; Richard Dwyer, Boston, Mass. na- tional vice president; Patrick Keane, Montreal, Canadian ' vice president; John O'Dea, Philadelphia, national secretary -and national historian: John Sheehy, Montgomery, Minn. tional treasurer; Dr. Joseph Dunn, 'who fills the Gaelic chair in the Catholic_University, Washington, D. C., national chairman .of the A. O. H. Irish history movement; Representa- tive at Large Joseph McLaughlin, Philadelphia, Pa., past national presi- dent, Mich.; John 8. McCarthy, New Haven, Conn.; Capt. Michael W. Delaney, Ch cago, 11l.; Martin L. Sweeney, Cleve- land, Ohio, and John T. Doyle, Balti- more, Md. , FIVE THEFTS REPORTED. Two Purses Snatched, Homes and Laundry Robbed. Miss Mildred " Shannon, 228 14th street, was robbed of her pocketbook early last night while walking east on North Carolina avenue between 13th and 14th streets northeast. A tall men snatched her pocketbook containing $4 in cash and $2 worth of street car tokens. She struggled to retain her pocketbook, she stated, and during the struggle her coat was torn from her and she fell to the pavement. na- Mrs. Carrie Thornton, colored, 1406 6th street, was robbed by an uni- dentified colored man on 8th street between Q and R streets last night. Her pocketbook containing $2 and several street car tokens was taken from her. 5 A pear-shaped diamond pin valued at $500 was taken from the apart- ment of Joseph Tenschert, Saratoga apartments, 653 East Capitol street, Friday night. Irving Carpenter, 1217 Rhode Is- reported a visit paid home by a “jimmy” burglar. His front door was “jim- mied,” he stated, and his home rob- bed of forty pleces of silver, several articles of jewelry .and a revolver. ?‘.” valued the stolen property at Two youn Palace Laundry, 915 E street, one of them asking for change for a quarter and the other for a nuklfa of laun- (52" packags, the Dolice. were told, A ‘wers one of°the men robbed the ocash ~of $7 and“a key, colored men visited Such a concession, he said. would be d the advis- | and Patrick J. Murphy, Detroit, ; l Y. W. C. A. CALENDAR. Toda—Glee Club, 7 pm. F street: ooklovers' hour, Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, § p.m., street; swAmming pool, el and dips day and evenings, 614 E streeta Tuesday-—1\ siness Girls' Club, 6:15 p.m.,, F ayrect; beginners’ soclal dancing ylass, 7 pia., street; lecture o business law, Mr. Frank H. Sm\th, 7 p.m., 614 E street; sw g pool, classes and dips aN day, 614 E street. Wednesday—Reducg class in gymnasium, 10:3¢' a.m. F street; inspirational 1V Be 12-1 p.m., F strect Corps, Girl Reserv 614 E stree! intensive study class, 5 p.m., F stae recreational program, 7 Dyl 614 E street; talk on Chri social service, Mrs. Votaw, 8 p.m., F street; ming pool, classes and dips all day, 614 E street. 2 Thursday—Bon Secour Girls’ Reserves, 3:30 p.m., F_street; chool Girl Re- p.m.. E street; Bu ris'’ Clubs, 6:15 p.m Employed Girls” T 6:30 p.m., F strec ing of the Women’s Christian Association of the District of Columbia, § p.m., F street. Business High serves, } I | -t Friday—Reducing class in | gymnasium, 10:30 am., F street: lecture on foreign topies, Mr. A. H. Putney, 7 pm., F street; swimming pool, classes and dips | ! p | all day and evenings, 614 B street. y Suturday—Children's dancing | | classes 10-12. I sureet; swim, ming pool, classes and dips all | | day and evenings, 614 I street. P>RESIDENT, URGING FARM CREDITS, GIVEN OVATION (Continued from ¥ cultural industry. 1 believe that ad- vancement in farm organization, If not a preliminary to, at least must go hund the dis- ntry. power in hand with, improvement i tributive mac of e cov farmer must delegate of seliing b i of putting it in shape for m 1 of performing all of the services necessary 1o its delivery o in quality, quantity, time and p some organization which he con Government Must Help. “The government must remove the obstacles which retard, if they do not prevent, combinatic {the purposes of sorting, grad: ack- ing or proc: ing their products. The ates must give legal zations of th definitely the tus to organi- will powers i and obli- “Readjus of frejght v self to leg said. brought about b the second, by on the ment, s controiling i management .of iiroads 4 {wiil bring the ¢ cost cluded in 1 on 2 of 1 in_the com- 1y orgun- aker said tion of t ne by output h . modities con ized industrics here is ability to anization the dairy i was probe of irai industry to controi greater of r part of there- and > to the declir its products than an agriculture, and i fore, declined les: “Prices #f agr have at no time in tl 3 vears returned the farmer a profit upon investment p:us a reward for {1abor, risk and management cqual to the average w gese Teceived by the personus employed in other industries,” Mr. Anderson declared. Twenty-Six Woman Delegates. Five days have alioted to the conference which is to cor the emergency facing the country’s ducers, and then take up the m of a permanent icultural been ider More than half of the the conference is composed « fagrmers,” another third of r {tatives of icultural agricultural e ag ultural dependent women. der_of agriculture. n. will fol- eastern states, and, i low James V for the cotton b H. Hagan of Deering. N. D., the wheat regions: A Sykes of lda Grove . the corn nd Fred Bix! ng Beach, X the rang Ten-minute disc: of the agricultu { other industri jliam Bl senting James F. Bell of Minneapoli: | the milling industry: Thomas Wils [0! Chicago. the packing indust iC. . McDowell of Chicago. the fer- '(l zer industry The matter will then {be thrown open for discussions from the floor. The conference is expected to pro- I vide for the threshing out.of the vari problen through committees. named on the broad 1 of productions, financing, transportation and marketing. Thesa, in turn, prob- ably will provide for the appointment of subcommittees on various agricul- tural commodities. Beginning tomor- i row, the mornings will be devoted to ! general nteetings of the conference and the afternoons given over to com- mittee work. T N LOVE CAUSES GARLAND TO ACCEPT HERITAGE Reconsiders Rejected Million After Separation With Wife Over i Mother's\§ecretary. |'By the Associated Press. BOSTON, Janvary 23.—Another woman is a factor in the separation of Charles Garland and his wife, it was established today. Garland is the man who recently reconsidered a decision mot to accept a heritage of a million dollars. After publica- tfon of interviews with Garland and with Miss Lillian Conrad, a former secretary to Garland’s mother. a member of the family of Mrs, Gar- land confirmed a report that this was “one phase of an extraordinary and fmpossible situation” which caused Garland’s wife to leave him. In the interviews with Gariand and with Miss Conrad they were quoted as saying they loved each other. Mrs. Garland has accepted a defi- nite and final settlement from Gar- land’s heritage for the benefit of his children. HEAR PREMIER TO RESIGN By the Associated Press. PEKING, January 23.— Rumors were circulated today among Chinese cabinet officials that Premiér Liang Shih-Yi was prepared to offer his resignation tonight and that Presi- dent Hsu-Shih-Chang intended to ac- cept the task of forming a new gov- ernment. ‘ect that the premier would the eff: n.roty. s ask f" a leave of absence. stablish | eral of whom ¢ and operate the i!'] own farms, are inc ed in the list of delegates The present agricultiral situation and suggested remedic ¢ being placed before the confe ce at the I-_m. noon session today through | ports~by representati from the leading farm regions the United States. E. B. Cornwall of Middlebury, Vt, will lead speak. nort had | There also were counter rumors to|gal CONGRESS PLANS * 10 SPEED BUSINESS Senate and House Leaders Hope to End Session by June 1. Plans for speeding up the legisia- tive program wHll be discussed Wed- nesday at a conference between the Senate and House steering commit- tees, composed of republican leaders in each body. The meeting wag re- quested by Representative Mondeil. republican leader in the House, wh it is understood, intends to insist t important measures be disposed of A7 time for adjournment of the pres- eyt session by June 1. House Lenders Amzious. 1iduse leaders were concerned today las to (he situation, Most of the House membia=hip will stand for re-election in the %'ll, and members are assurancw that they will be afford tunity to get back to t fa¢ the primary and elec campaigns, Confidence was expressed that the Honse, which is expected to nd all of e annual appropriation lls to the senate before April will be in shagh: to get away by J 1, but leaders i therc w siderable apprehension that Se Sfilibusters” might prolong the session lindefinitel; it is understood that at rence Wednesdayy House leaders il empha particllarly the nec cxsity of the Senate pa SSing the tarif bill before adjournmenit. They al 11 insist, it is said, et considera- enate of the treatics at the armament confer- not to preclude action on 1 {turitf or delay until thé adjourn- ment of this session. —_— BAPTIST CHURCH CLASS URGES DIVORCE PROBE the i i | {Alexandria Organization Encour- ages a Thorough Investigation of the Alleged Local Evil. Specia) Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Januars - 1The 31 Curtin Memorial Baraca | Ciass o fthe First Baptist Church yes- { terday morning adopted resolutions i & forth that it desi a thor- gation on the of the dividuall committee of in- aring no guilty ms should be allowed hment. rs of churches of this city ssed charges o proceedings practiced here. LesoMitions were adopted setting { forth thyq the pastors greatly deplore j the notoryty o which the city has {heen brought by the assertions pub- lished in « . ceriain newspaper as adminisgration of the divoree the pastors have reproac n the columns of th Daper for their alleged silenc irges made,” the resoluti . “it is decmed by us wise ‘1o pronounke 0 ¥ o it ek charges shall i tigatad and facts fully i the ! “Whe nd vour assured {judg | h ascertain L. “That we are confidently axd hope- fully depending upon thy bar of the city, through its chosen commitl to make a full and thorough investi- zation, without fear or favor, Wil maintaining the dignit and promoting the wel- of our city, the state, and coun- should’ also in fairness be t whereas the charges made involve a few persons, who { i ! not be muilty, thexe are | both lawyers and $ouse- Who have consistently re- 1 it by opportunities to #n- elve in the manner SO&- The resolutions adopted were gned by the foilowing ministers 3. W R ter. pastor of the n Methodist Church; Rev. Bd- rpenter, rector of Grace Epis- Rev. Robert Browne. the Methodist Protestant liam J. Morton, rec- Chur Re . pastor of the Pres- n Church; Itev. Owen P. Llovd, v, W 1 v ond Baptist Church; Rev. D. H pastor of the M. I Church; T Samuel A. Wallis. rec- tor of Immanuel iscopal Church; Euge! B. Jackson, pastor of ptist Church: Rev. Percy 11. rector of St. Paul's Epis- ittee of seven attorneys ptly by the Alexandria jation to_inquire into t il here met Saturday com e {al afternoon in the corporation court- room uand organized, with the elec- Howard W. Smith as chair- {tion of { man. ttee will r i - in This comin ternoon before the Bar A v the purpose of receiving s to their plan of action ;| HEBREW HOME FOR AGED NAMES LIST OF OFFICERS Discuss Erection of Hospital and Home at Annual Meet- ing. | Erection of a joint bospital and {home. to replace the present Hebrew { Home for the Aged, 415 M strect, was |the subject of the seventh annual { meeting_of the home in the Sixth Street Synagogue Yesterday after- A committee to formulate i noon. {plans for a building fund campaign {and to select for the proposed | home appointed as follows: Mrs {Charles A. Goldsmith. chairman: Dr. J. Kotz, Abe Stern, M. H. Friedman. Dodek, Maurice A. Rosenbers Kaufman. Sherby was elected president of the home for the coming ves and Maurice Garfinkle, who was t head of the erganization in 1915, 11919 and 1920, was elected first vies !]lr sident. The board of directors presented Mr. Garfinkle with a silver Joving cup as a token of apprecia- tion for his services while in the chair. Other officers elected for the com- ing year are: Vice presidents, M. Gar- finkie, B. Haymen and J. Myrowitz; treasurer, M. Reichgut; -recording secretary, Samuel L. Raboy; financiil secretary, Rev. A. Shefferman; house chairman, Miss A. Backenheimer; vice irman, Mrs. A. Shefferman Mayer E. Dodek, B. Dan- Atlas;; board of di- Cohen, B. Dan- . M. H. Friedman, B. Garfinkle, J. Goldstein, L. 8. Gott- { lieb. James W. Heller, D. Herzmark, B. tz, Dr. J. Kotz, Dr. Harry S Lewis, A. Lichtenberg, A. Mustos, Ed- vard Ostrow, R. Rosenberg, H. Schrot, Abe Stern, Mrs. M.' B. Dodek, Mrs. M. H. Friedman, Charles Goldsmith, Mrs. Joseph King, Mrs. Sadie Levy and Mrs. H. Sherby. 4 Dr. Abram Simon, speaking prior to the business meeting, urged early ac- tion on the porposed home. “Those who have come near the end of the journey,” he said, “need all the kind ness and comfort we can give them.” NEW STORAGE ASSOCIATION. The Washington Van and Storage As- sociation was organized at a meetihg held Saturday night at Smith's Trans- fer and Storage Company warehouse. 1313 U street. Officers will be elected at a_meeting to be held February 3 at the Big-4 Transfer Company. The or- nizers are Charles Morris of the Fidelity Storage and J. H. Gaszner of the Smith company.