Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1922, Page 14

FLOOD FROM SNOW THOUGHT UNLIKELY Sanitary Engineer Expects Sewers to Function With No Serious Results. ‘Washington is not in much danger of flooding from backed-up sewers, even in the event of rain, J. Blake Gordon, Dis- trict sanitary, engineer, announced to- da l Tardy Pupils Offer Excuse by Governor and Other Officials BATH. Me., February 1—Six Morse High School CATHEDRAL GVEN . $160,500 PAST YEAR !Bishop Tells of Many Leg- 1 acies—Plan Resuming | Work in Spring. | |CONVENTION OF DIOCESE ‘Scheme for Social Service Work ! at Trinity Church ! Formulated. Gifts and legacles amounting to 160,000 have been received for the Washington Cathedral during the ast year, Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, {Bishop of Washington, announced In his annual address at the twenty- Feventh annual convention of the Piocese of Washington at Trinity will find ird to follow. when ‘they recently presented to their principal an excuse for tardi- ness signed by Gov. Percival P. Baxter, State Superintendent of Schools Augustus O. Thomas and Adjt. Gen. J A. Hadl The note, “by order of tl atate of Maine,” gave the pupils “permission to sleep late” the |- morning after they had assisted in entertaining the state ofi- cinls during the interim be- tween a dinner and the depar- ture of the 11:30 p.m. train for Augusta. The excuse was writ- l ten on the governor's letter- In the list of winners of The Star's $1,000 prize essay contest on the sub- ject, “The Arms Conference and Its\ Significance,” Mrs. Beulah P. Ald- ridge, teacher of the seventh grade at the Henry Night School, expects to find the names of some of her pupils. Despite numerous handicaps, Mrs. Aldridge said her night school puplls have devoted much time to studying the conference developments and she is certain that they are familiar with the various important questions set- tled at this historical parley, and will write meritorious compositions. Daily newspapers have been relied upon to supply virtually all the ine formation for the seventh grafe pupils at the Henry during their study of the conference proceedings, head. While tiere may be a backing up | of water at some street intersections when a general thaw sets in, we do not | expget the situation to become serious,” Mr. Gordon sald. ° It a warm rain should fall in the vicinity of Cumberfand, Mr. Gordon said, it undoubtedly wili cause a rise in the Potomac river. KEven this, how- ever, should not prevent the District sewer department from carrying off the sewer load, in the opinion of the sani- tary engineer. “We have at the New Jersey avenue BOY AIDS MAN IN ACCIDENT AND IS SHOT FOR TROUBLE PO N A R. Repollo, Hit by Street Car, ‘Wounds Lad Assisting Him Home. Saved from serious injury when Struck by a street car at 1 according, to Mrs. Aldrig j Sl ! : according, to Mrs. Aldridge. They hureh, 3d and C strects northwest, | streots shortly before 6 o'clock yes. | o vikns Storm pamDS I reserver Mr, | have, however, on' several ‘occasions oday. He declared the cathedral has | terday afternoon, Rocco Repollo, Aty | Gorasn. continted. - ~We have never |been supplemented with ~current magazines and other publications. years old, 120 B street, is alleged to havy drawn a revolver and Shot An‘;!’n‘::)" egretti, fifteen years old, who was been called upon to use more than three of them, so' that we have five ck upon_in the present ntered upon a new and hopeful era nd that, with the gradual stabliiz- ng of cxpenses of building, it is|assisting him home. One shot tec 'é?ne?é‘e‘“,h planned to resume building opera- frflf;ctt in the boy's arm, but did net| “At the present time we are di- ions the coming spring. flict a dangerous wound. recting our efforts toward opening { hen Repollo reached the sixth| the gutters that lead to the large i “We are grateful for the rccent |precinct polic L eceipt of a number of legacies, show- | up on & cher ation and was i interest in (his great undertaking ) dangerous or the church and mation, and for | by Precinct Dotectivg o he indication it affords that our peo- | was belines dD“b-yec!tl;:z Guy Rone. Io are beginning (o recognize that!Repollo had pursoses (st %t his is an object worthy to be remem- [ in front of the e pei gr . hims pered in their wills.” said the bishob. | refused to discuss the question ~O"C" Conversion of Church. Motorman Humphries and Conductor cateh basins at street intersections. 1f we can keep the entrances to.these catch basins open, the sewers should carry off the flow. Txtra shifts of street cleaners and sewer men worked all night on F and G streets downtown, dumping snow into twenty-four manholes. The snow thus shoveled into tha sewers wa ked charge of assault with a weapon, he was questioned It TOREMOVESHON Plans for converting Trinity Church | Sanders went to the assista carried off by turning on fire hy- f X R shoal Ceanter, nder the direc- | man who had been knecied doun he | drants and using hose lines. ]Appeals Made for Aid to Mu ion of the dim'fese.h were brou|ght ;o ;{leer;;xfir. :nd the l;oy. who resides in i icinal Authorities in he attention of the convention by s house, volunte ssis| He said in his ad- [ him home. It was just ;‘l;?grlsol(:"iin): HAT'ON’S MANUFACTURERS nicipal uthor! ishop Harding. ress that this church, “with its long Ind illustrious history, eventually be- ame so enfeebled through serious osses by death and removals from he section of the city in which it} jrands that it could not support its; ect nor defray its necessary ex- ens nor maintaih its array of dings. nder these circumstances in 1918, ith the consent of the vestry and th the generous help of one of its arishioners, I took over the care of he whole parish for a period of five ars. It was my intention to try hether there could be drawn such a from the scene of the accident, the polico reporied, that the man drew a pistol from his pocl smaliied pocket and fired Policeman Sincawitz of the sixth précinct pursued Repollo into a near- by apartment house and arrested him. The wounded boy was taken to Emergency Hospital, while Repollo received treatment at Casualfy Hos- pital for slight injuries. —_— BANKER IS ARRAIGNED. BOSTON, February 1.—Max Mitchell, Clearing Gutters. Appeals to the people of Washing- ton to aid the municipal authorities in removing the snow from sewers and gutters in their respective neigh- borhoods were made today by a com- mittee* of public-spirited citizens. Members of this committee, whose names were not given out for publica- tion, have made a survey In certain residential sections of the northwest and found snow in the gutters and DEMAND TARIFF CHANGE Call on Senate Finance Committee to Urge Revising of Ford- ney Bill. Heading a delegation of manufa turers, J. E. Edgerton of Nashville, Tenn.. president of the National A sociation of Manufacturers, presented today to the majority members of the Senate finance committee a memorial T e 0N %0 | president of the defunct Cosmopolitan | adopted by the assoclation in con- i o Selr Subboct, and.also to “sel'rmsx Company, was arraigned today | vention here this week, urgnig im-|around the sewers as deep as five 3 on five secret indictments in which | mediate revision of the tariff and|feet, making it virtually impossible ts parish house and fine facilities for he was charged with larcenies ag- |adoption of the American valuation he nausuration of community and| gregating 31,500,000, fraudulent loans | Plan incorporated in the Fordney bill, | fOF water to ruz off in the: Evant-ot) nown as city missionary work.” jand conversions, false reports and| Chairman McCumber ruled thatja thaw. ) S L entries and with altering a promis- | there could be no argument, as the: It was pointed out that while gangs Would Organize Work. sory note. hearings had been closed, but assured: Of municipal employes are busy re- moving snow from the streets and gutters, they are confining their ac- tivities solely to the business section. Consequently, the residential areas of the city will be exposed to possible floods if warm weather causes a thaw in the snow-bound gutters and sewers. In an effort to warn the people of the seriousness of the failure to re- the manufacturers that the commit- | tee would do the very best it could in drafting a measure designed to protect American industry. After the manufacturers departed the republican committeemen went into executive session to resume con- sideration of the various valuation Dr. David R.| He pleaded not guilty and was ad- mitted to bail in the sum of $50,000, supplied by relatives. He expiained that ovell and Mrs. Covell had been se-; ured by him to carry out these plans; nd outlined the work carried on by hem during the war and since thati ! diocese where parishes could be estab- lished to advantage, and referred to several “il propose that this work be organized nder the direction of a committee to e called ‘committee on Trinity dio- changes in rectorships of | plans pro) d. esan church and .city missionary ! There were 1,396 confir- | > ProPOse move the snow from the sewers and vork,” to con: of one member of the :\!_l:::lns in the diocese, the bishop | s.\:ltl:‘o!:: alhceanC\t_w:l:"ll;;:yn:’(}mh?;:sa;'fi service board of managers of | Stal | mi s n5: 1o be selected by the presic = . SUES FOR COMMISSION. *| e fortnwest section. *They ak i nve X i e i have requested Postmaster Merritt O. ent of the convention, with the bishop ! s chairman—said committee to report ance and police captains in the: ts to aid them in their work by ving the men in their charge appeal to the residents on their respective routes to clear the e convention was opencd with the| Ralph Ingalls, magazine writer on o . g : by Bishop Harding. " ""”"‘““““’“{ has filed suit in the District Supreme The matter of changing the title of | Court to recover $30,159.70 from Mor- the praver book will be brought be.|ton J. Lawrence for commission. al- ¢ three months and finally to the an convention,” Bishop Harding id i 3 ¢ ok g - fore the convention by the committee | 1€8ed to be due him for the sale to | g a ver: (The bishop said that inasmuch as|of canons. Rev. Dr. Enoch M. Thomp. | Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas of e A b enefaction heretofore given| go rA0gA% o FEY, DF, Enoch M. Thomp | ot ok 'in the Lawrence Publishing hrough him, for the rector's salary.| convention to make the change in ths | Company. MEN CHOKED BY SMOKE. eases this vear, by the limitation of | fije < Ton 2 pt . . r. | ! 4 question of making a sep.| . Mr. Ingalls, through Attorney W. C. he offer. and as the church cannot | arate parish of St Davits B nd ot | Sullivan, says he was employed Jan- e made self-supporting, he proposed | pa(rick's Missions, on the Conduit road, | Uary 16, 1922, by Mr. Lawrence to| PITTSBURGH, February 1.—Nearly at e board of missions provide|frem St Alban's parisn will also be | Sell the stock, and after much effort |a score of firemen were overcome by from its allotment of the nation-wide for taken up by the convention. and solicitation procured Senator!smoke in fighting a blaze in the build- ampaign fund a sufficient sum There will be a service at the|Capper as a purchaser for 5170 |ing of the National Biscuit Company, he full maintenance and gradual de- | church tonight conducted by the so-|shares of the stock at $115 per share, |in the downtown district this ‘morn- %DD"‘(’"‘ of the work. > cial service committee of the dio-|making a total of $594,550. ing. Although all were removed to e also referred to the Phillips foun- | ceses. Rev. Dr. Charles P. Tinker, for| Mr. Lawrence had agreed to pay a|hospitals none was said to be in a serious condition. Half a dozen alarms in the business section of the city kept the dennrl-' fiation fund and what iteshould ac- Fampllsh in the way of extending the commission of 5 per cent, it is stated, which with necessary expenses makes $30,159.70, the plaintiff asserts. Al- many years head of the City Mis- sionary Society of the Dioceses of Work of the church in the diocese. He) New York, will make the principal nade an appeal for gssistance of the | address. 3 though requested to pay, he states, [ments busy late last night and this hapel of the Good Shepherd. and|{ The convention will continue|Mr. Lawrence has refused and neg- morning. The entire loss, however, pointed out several sections of thel through tomorrow. lected to do so. will be approximately $100,000. | Donce BROTHERS announce a substantial reduction in the prices of their cars effective January I¢,1922 - . SEMMES MOTOR COMPANY 5 4 1132-34 Connecticut Avenue. % Td_fll- Main 6660. HENRYNIGHT SCHOOLPUPILS SHOW GREAT INTEREST IN STAR CONTEST Seventh-Grade Students Determined tol "] BUST M"-UUN Be Amqng Winners in Essay Coni- petition, Teacher Reports. jmanent improvements thereon, stock Mrs. Aldridge, who also teaches the fifth grade at the Fairbrother Schoul, has been drilling her puplls at this school intensively on the conference developments. Although the fifth grade pupils under the rules are not eligible to enter The Star's contest, Mrs. Aldridge believes they are well qualified to write compositions on the toplc chosen by this paper. Her Fairbrother =chool pupils, Miss Aldridge said, have collected all pos- sible information relating to the arms parley and have made scrap ‘books with “newspaper clippings and pic- tures of the delegates at the confer-. ence. These scrapbooks, she pointed | out, are material aid to the pupils when studylng the conference pro* ceedings. The date for the closing of the con- test will be announced lafer, as it will depend upon the adjournment of the conference. Meantime contestants are urged to continue their study of the parley developments by following closely the newspaper reports. VETERANS SETTLED ONLAND IN CANADA Dominion Government Has Provided for 27,371 Former Service Men. .OTTAWA, February 1.—Exactly 27,- 371 Canadian war veterans have been | | | | | settled on the land under the provis- fons of the soldier settl 3 ement act, says an official re y in” | iugrgovernmenl. port by the domin- these, 21,246 have be&r government loans totaling s;firs%"s‘le; an average of more than $4,000 per settler, for the purchase of land, per- and equipment. The remainin; 25 were settled on 1and forming Savi af the public domain without financial ?lses::xz{.co.d Tl;le report adds 467 set- reas a i ans inT{’\l‘L y Ve repaid their loans e work of getting the retur: soldier back to the land is still nfl:,&_l gressing. There have been 62,436 ap- plications for the privileges of the act, the report states, and 44,122 of | the applicants have qualified. There are 520 men in training in agricul- tural schools and 3,110 have completed training and are awaiting allocation to farms. The province of Alberta leads in the number of soldier-settlers with 6,203, to whom the government has loaned $25:291,095. Saskatchewan has 5315 settlers, who received in loans $21, 332.444." Other provinces rank: Mani toba. 3,383 settlers, $14,383,199 loans British Columbia, 3,052 settlers, $13,- 604,929; Ontario, 1,682 settlers, $6.502 9_48; Quebec, 415 settlers, $2,075.108 New Brunswick, 563 settlers, $1.738,- 611; Nova Scotia, 398 settlers, $1,343.- $68; Prince Edward Island, 335 set- tlers, $923,583. e T ALL BUT U. S. ACCEPT. Nations Expect to Meet at Genoa on March 8. LONDON, January 31.—All the coun= tries invited to the Genoa economic conference have definitely accepted except the United States, Reuter's,| Ltd., learns. So far as British and Italian circles are concerned, it is believed the conference will meet as fixed, on March 8. — BT TELEPHONE WORK {Company to Provide Large Extensions This Year for | Its Growing Business. More than a million dollars w i Pours Drinks for Two; On His Way to Prison i | [ Within Two Hours | | NEW YORK, January 31— | | The wheels of gustice whirled | | xo fast in Brooklyn today that | Louis Mauro was om his way to | | the Esxex county, N. J.. jail to | | begin n thirty-day wentence | | only two hours after he had poured out drinks for two | | strangers in hix brother's sn- | | loon. 1 The xneedy nction; Chrix man, chief of the prohibit field forces, declared, wax due hix desire (o eliminnte d together with Federal | Howe's nnnoun de- il be spent in the District of Columbia termination to {rs severnl hun- this year by the Chesapeake and dred lliuor canex In (he Brook- | | Potomag Telephone Company for ex- ymiconrCithin: meek i tensions to its property, according to e | a forecast of telephone growth pre- i by engineers of the com t, from present pared They figure th at least 5,100 telephones in the 2 trict during the vear. bringing the |[Lest We Forget Committee Being! total well above 100,600. Much new plant must be instailed| Formed Here—Summer Vaca- and erected to supply the demand for 2 % : oW Gerdioe, acrording to ¢ (lag-| tions for Those in Hospitals. ott, division manager of the company. 7 SR S Washington is adding new telephones | The “Lest We Forget Committee dnity, and the number now. tands | is being formed in Washington under at 95,600, or more than one telephone | the direction of its chairman, M for every five persons in the Dis-|John Allen Dougherty. The object of trict, : : committee it to wecure second- 8 and new hing for the. ex- Detalls of Work. H men secking employment, More than half a million dollars|believing that a good suit oft is estimated as the cost of installing | stands between a man and his j the telephones, protectors, inside wire| Other branches of the committ and all the other equipn. at the ) will provide summer vacations of two | subscribers’ premises, ¢ e of | ch for Sho Mave had outside cable and wire. In addition ms in hos andiwlio mee to this, it will he necessiry to ap- nge to country it is the propriate large amounts to add that this will benefit them switchboard cquipment, construct 21y, if not ph new unde; ound bhle ymduits and nch of th erect new ole line: The total of | will co-operate with prof i the proposed expenditures is $1,1 business men of the city to obt 000. employment for discharged soldie In certain of the residential central | sailors and marines who d aid oflice districts, requests for new con-| IRoland Robbins of Keith's Th Heotions. Hav prictically ter, treasurcr. has con to al- the availa low his ) to be a per- board plant. manent collection center for dona- ropriati Vi e yrovided tions of clothing. A man w he O a0 bt anditionat o duty in the foyer at all t to re- relief, so that the additional applic service can be ha In Columbia and Cle! §121,000 will b tions for promptly. for instance, during the vear for the of aerial and underground cible Coat ‘1 “Two Districts to the American Legion for distribu- It is estimated that switchboard | tion. % B | equipment for 1,300 new lines in| The Lest We Forget Committee will Lincoln and the tside | work in co-operation with the Red plant will cost $5 Cross and American Legion and % cable, with the conduit construction |the hearty indorsement of these or- 1o go with it, and central office equip- | ganizations. 5 ment for 300 additiona! lines, will be| A public drive for clothing is to he Iheld February 14, Valentine day,i put in the west district at a cost of $36,000. i : About $15.000 is to be spent in to aid ex-service men in this; finishing the addition to the North| contributions to Keith's buildi which is to provide space About February 3 for the Garfield unit, to be put in| Douglas Robinson and Jrs. Arthur service later. Terry of New York will be here to speak on the formation of the I We Forget Committee. They a NEW AIRPLANE COMPASS PROVES SATISFACTORY | Bureau of Standards Experts Work | Out Design, Using Revolving i Coiled Wire. Experts of the bureau of stan have invented what is believed the first completely satisfa of airplane compass. of Commerce announcement gave credit for the invention t T. R. Heyl and Dr. L. J. Briggs it was said, have d which is now being suc ull out by the Army air service, by the principle of the “revolving wire” instead of the magnetic n It was said to be the first application of this principle to the aircraft pass, which had made the device de- pendable under the severe cond of flight. The instrument to weight only thirteen against a welght limit of twent pounds fixed by the air service. The value of the tions of a plane, something whi previous design has been able to do' said would add and which it w greatly to the safety of flving. cations, there will be a net gain of installation ctory A Department igned a compas was said pounds, instrument was said to be its ability to respond in. stantly to the quick turns or evolu- WILL PROVIDE CLOTHING AND JOBS FOR SOLDIERS par indi- Dis- It A4 that ceive packages. d | ersonal attention tol ! | ndled donors give wrapping of packages in order that | the clothing be received in good condition. Clothing will be repaircd and cleaned before it is turned over all hen it will be askdd that rs and founders of the New branches. orzan g ! York state and New Je REPLIES TO MORSE. | U. S. Attorney Withholds Comment on Shipbuilder’s Request. United States Attorney Gordon stated today that he had sent an answer to the dards | joyjer of Charles W. Morse, the New to be York shipbuilder, who asked permiss type | 10 £0 to Italy a physi YP€{ his presence would not he required . which is iny s with the States Shipping Bo Maj. Gordon de- clined to make public his reply or to state whether or not he would recom- fore the grand today o Dr. who. tried mend to the Department of Justice using that Morse be permitted to leave coiled | America. eedle. Atiorney General Daugherty, discuss- ing the request of Morse to be permitted | 1o consvlt _this specialist, is reportcd as declaring he would not be inclined “to be cold-blooded” in deciding the matter. if it were shown that the attendance of a particular physician is absolutely nec- essary and that the life of Morse is in 4‘ danger. | com- i ons y-five —_— Under the Napoleonic code, still in| force in the province of Quebec, a woman can take no legal action, can- not make a gift of property or go into trade without the consent of her hus- band. ch no \MAXWELL Ry S ) STARVING RUSSANS EAT EVEN CORPSS Destitution Vividly Described by Quaker Relief Worker. DEAD LIE IN HUGE .PILES Cannibalism in the Outlying Dis- tricts Reported—Many Natives Frozen to Death. PHILADELPHIA “ebru 1 Graphic p s of light-heartedness amid tragedy—the cheering smile of America amid the starving hordes of Russia—are drawn by Beulah A. Hur- ley of New Hope, Pa., now a member of the Quaker relief unit. lett in from the Volga district to the head- quarters of the unit here. After deseribing the utter desola- tion in her own immediate dist wh the bodies of the dead “piled up in trenches like so much W quarter tells other cordwood, the piles visible of a mile’ away,” Miss Hurle ed al - from rker. 1 W i ri; filesrom a railroud i for more help.” t asked that they Miss W Miss Hurl 1d some that out- and an old woman and have followed the already have been s Hurley reached the famine area « e Volga in the middle of Decem- ber, and is taking arge of the dis- ribution of Quaker relief among H00.000 hur people in the Bazuluk d Car Frozen 1o the Rails. “We were pulled Bazuluk in the small hours of the morning o week 2 ar hitched to the ta of a and we are still 1 in our h boat on rails” the letter begins. We had fro S0 fast to the rails that a locomotive could not move us and it off and wive us a I t the soup, but it hit seat and the side of u fur nt the tea water «lso upset and i the soup off the fur hat and : all tidy agair n relief workers cook, eat S a small box car. Miss es. Five of them also same car. vet their 11 P to th of life w 1l arournd u Many Frozen to Death. type 2 day by that do not see a dead body Iving alo the road or in the market pl and three da 0 a_fathe and two dren droppe 1n hear the cr rowds at the station a bit of warmth, and e frozen bodies must from the entrance ry itself is a ghastly pla are piled up in trenches & of the s0 much cordwood. The eloth- < stripped _from the is too precious to be 30 FIRMS FACE TRIAL. Cincinnati Cement Dealers Accused of Price Conspiracy. NNATI, O February 1.—1r criminal court today representatives of thirty corporations and firms, well as individuals, appeared for {ria on_charges of conspiring to maintai prices illegally. Thédse accused are cement dealers and manufacture who, through a common interest in the Cincinnati Purchasing Compan the state contends. combined to keep up the prices. They were indicted by ti a several months ago. Ilifiinih I ko777 707000 THERE is still no precedent, and no equal, for the great value of the New Series of the good Maxwell. The automobile shows, and ‘recent price developments have made that plainer than ever before. Cordtires, non-akid front andrear; disc steel wheels; drum type lamps; Alemite lubrication; motor driven electrio horn; unusually long springs; deep, wide, roomy seats; new type water-tight windshield Touring Car, $885 . Roadster, $885 Coupe, $1385 F. O. B. Detroit, revenue tax to be added Telepho! ne Main'4105 “The Good - Sedan, 31485 'H.B.LEARY, JR., 1321-23 14th Street