Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1922, Page 4

Captain Declines Statement i and Prohibits Crew From Talking. By the Associated Press. An fiavestigation of the origin ‘lld circumstanees Aceompanying the fire which yesterday destroyed the former Army tramsport North- ern Pacific off the New Jersey coast was understoed today to have been Instituted by the government. Oficials of the Department of Justice’s Bureau of investigation, ‘‘however, weould mot discusis the inquiry further tham te say the bureau expected to receive a rve- port from its New York ofice om the five. NEWPORT NEWS. Va. Februaty $.—Survivors of the steamship North- ern Pacific, burned at 8ea curiy yes- terday morning. with a. 108§ of four lives, are not satisfied‘that tie burn- Ing 8f the steamer was.whelly ace cidental PEI Capt. Willlam Lusti. master of the Northern Pacific, declined this morn- Ing to make &ny statement. but mem- | bers of his crew. were not quite so reticent. They suspect foul play be- fore the. ship ‘left Ler berth on the in-cat. _a8¢, bui, reausing that ,they can’ grove nothing. decl.nc ::ktq any direct charge or stat nt. ‘'he Northérn Pacific's destruction teck a new turn.thls morning when an attorncy fcr the Sun Shipbuilding Company attempted to get sworn statements from the survivors. The crew, evidently having been cau- tioned by the master, had nothing Whatsoever to Say, howev Capt. Lustl has warned his men that the Shipping' Board orders .prohibit their telling anvthing of the acci- dent, and ’ho:a Wwha at one time ap- Jbearsd willing to give further details 'of the disaster now are silent. Captain Declines Statement. The mastér was asked point blank concerning reports that the ship might hatp been “fixed” by some one before she left her berth. He quickly demanded “to -know whence the report came, andso6n being told that it could not Le traced to its mource said that he must _decline to answer any and all He G i e d riot know that the Ship- ping Board has ruled that the I)III’D regarded as the property of the Charterers: or operators and mated that there wi growing situation. 11 be a litigation The ship was | to the account of the charterers but was not to be finally delivered, it sured out of .this phase of the! GIVEN MRS. HARDING ted With Bulgarian Vase Taken From Exhibit. wife of t:l P!’lfldwwt. nted with a vase N-dg Vassileft - of Sofia Bulgaria, the vase being taken from | the exhibit of. Baigarian ceramics and {embroidery now in progress at the Art Center, 1108 Connecticut The President and Mrs. IM“ been invited to attend the “| Charities visitor for i ) 1 i | Vase from the Humgariam art ex- hibit, at 1108 Comnecticut Ve preseated to Mrs, Ha hibit. which will continue through February 21, the hours dally being from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The exhibit ;mdnr auspices of the Bulgarian min ster. The work represents the national art of Bulgaria, Designs on the cera- mics and embroidery are composed of .detail taken from. .illuminated manuscripty of the twelfth century. One of the most elaborate sets on ex- I | inti- | hibit is a chocolate set, composed of | and the non +detail from an embroide: ry design on a costume of 1320. §i2 Iot,in e tnaws deilieria, 11100,000 IN IRISH ARMY was completed. Capt. Lusti now is dictating & con- fidential report to the Shipping Board, The statement is 'a lengthy one and goes into. detalls, the Shipping oard makes JL Dublic after the: receive it you will then have the fuil ll(‘)\ry‘ ;he captain sald. conference between Capt. Lusti, lhlppln& Board officlals of this Al trict, officials of the Barbour Ste ship cunrury and officials of the Admiral line will be held here this morning. “We probably will determine at that time where wé are going from hh‘.rn nn?“\.trm\l .tln;e web v'rfll’el\'e cap ssid just before goin| iato the meeting. R Tweaty-Twe Survivars Land. The > Pransportation, ‘which docl ere. early this morn- ing, brou th it twenty-two sur- vivors of rthern Pacific, picked ifeboats. Five other " of "the ill-fated steam- er's skeleton crew, except the four men believed ‘to have been lost, were taken on board by the steamship Wy- 1ie, now Iying at Old Point Comfort dock. s | One of the three boats picked up by the ‘Transportation thirteen men and in the other two ‘were distributed the remainder of those saved, including Capt. Lus Chiéf Engineer Clayton and Exec tive Officer: Clyde Smith. The rescu: ship, commanded by Capt. Seth Chase of Boston, was on her way to Hampton roads to load a cargo of coal for Boston." The Wylle, bringing five survivors from the Northern Pacific, came into Hampton _ roads. unannounced 1 night and transferred her passenge; to one of the boats of the Virginia Pllots’ Association. * The snrvivors were taken to. Sewell Point and theré went to Norfolk. Thelr mes cannot ue learned here. The Wylié, after transferring the five men, headed back to sea and out the Virginia capes early this morning. Survivors abogard the Wylie de- clared that they have not the sligh! est idea how the fire started. They also are at a loss to understand how the Sun shipyard men lost their lives. The four men were all sleeping near the place where the blaze originated, but the crew thinks they had ample time to get out unless thay were sul- focated by. sgokeé. Not Abeard Wylte. “Unless the shipyard men ‘“aox small boat all by themselves. rhe; were lost when the Northern Pacl burned, for they were not abnard the Wylle, according to mariune men wi talked with the survivors hrought in by that craft. Capt. Seth Cha#e, m r of the Transportation, was seen this morn- ing by the Assoolated Press corre- spondent while he was dressing, and described,: ih sardonic phrases, the rescue of -survivors from the proud Northern Pacific, which was on its way at the time of destruction to the Chester shipyard to be recondi- tioned. 5 " he sald, ‘but we did fot have great difficulty in picking up the three boats. An- other steamer had seen the blaze and responded, picking up one boat with five men. When we first sighted the Northern Pacific ehe w; n flames from end to end. We made haste to her assistance and found the life- boats floating about when we reached the scene.” One of the crew of the Transporta- tion, a caliin boy. who refused to give his ‘name, described the scane as “horrible * ‘and _ beautiful.” “The flames were leaping up above the masthead when we got there,” he asld. Some of the men who had left the burning ship declared the flames were first observed just aft the sec. wnd funnel. No one secemed to know how the fire started, but with the stern windward the fire spread quick- ly ‘and all’hands were forced to take t0 the boats very quickly. Listed to Starboard. ¥ a contained | NOW SEEK 40,000 JOBS (Continued from First Page.) i |for Him, introducing myself. and ask ing for information. He was defe: jential, courteous, almost talkativ We {ilked of his new job, of the re- Uef from the strain of his guerilla warfare, of what peace had brought 80 far and the possibilities of its per- id, pointing to the on and postal em- ployes, ¥ serving the Irish people, aren’t they?’ No Jobs for Fighting Men, ““Not them,” was his quick. reply. “They have be€en serving England. Now they want to change their al- i legiance that the Fri State is in. And T expect they will. - The gove ernment will-have to give them pen- [ ions to get free of them and they will stay on. The fighting men won't | get their jobs.” He elucidated his views. They were | simple enough. These men had been derving the crown. They were Irishe men and hadn't fought for Ireland. Hence, they should be turned out. But they wouldn't be because thie new government didn’t want to be paving two wages for one place, especially a8 it would need all its fuhds. There- fore, the faithful would not be re- warded, the unfaithful would. Hill I8 3 volunteer, serving witn- out pay until a_new police fo: organised. The R. I C. and civil @ ployes are drawing their salaries from the Free State. ¥ “\What we are afrald of is that the boys who fought won't get a look-in for the places,” he said. Postal Clerk’s Vi ‘Difters. Mr. Sely; the postal clerk, had an- other view of it. “Why should they turn us out?” he inquired. “We are loyal* Irish- men, and besides we know the work. If they would substitute I. boys for us learn the jo { would have to pay us beslde: the military it is different. They shot down Irishmen and burned houses, and the people won't stand for them. Give the 1. R. A. boys those jobs, but lcave us alone. Still another view was had ffom a customs man, a heavily mus- tachioed veteran, who spoke with an i English tongue. | “Can you see what the empire is )doinzr' he inquired, in a low tone. “It is turning over thg whole gov iernment of Ireland, post offices, cus- tomhouses, military and all, to the {Irish and without a ha'penny of re- turn. It's a kingly gift, indeed. ! ut all- 1, Sely and the cu: | toms man—could see the Pouiblll!io of ruptufe over the political prefer- ence question, a possibility which is ! fices are under the civil service. “I “wouldn't be surprised Valera would ~win.” said Sely, speaking of thé coming plebiscite. ‘The people mistrust the others be- cause the unionists and the papers are with them. Whoever the are for the people are against. i the republican army boys aren’t isfled yet, and they can stir up trou- ble against Griffith and Collin So it appears that out of the hot iidealism and the tong-suffering en- | durance of the republican movement jin Ireland may come early one of the concomitants of self-rule in America, the spoils system. Uhleas the faithtui are given the jobs there may be trouble. e R TN SEIZE D. C.-BOUND LIQUOR. 400 Gallons of Whisky Captured at Roanoke, Va. ROANOKE, Va., February 9.—Four hundred gallons of whisky consigned i {not minimized because the civil .of- | it_De| FAMILIES GET . AID OF CHARITIES ! Work of Assoclated *Body Shows Increase for January. That the work of the Associated Charitles continues to show a decided increass, over that of the corréspond- ing peried of it year was brought out in'reports submitted by the vis- itors of the mociety at a meeting of the board of managers yesterday aft- ernoon. The number of familles given care and service during the month of January was 488. That unemployment probiem-in a large num- familfes was shown in was a serio ber of the: the fact that 165 of the 428 families were affected thereby. In many in- stances this problem was further l.:‘l:r'n.?llclmd by the presence of {li- | "Brvatcat disability was reported as :ufin?&lc\:p(lm more thnnbhnlf of lhz nder care, or, to be exact, 24 ©Of the 428 uhder cave. Mise Hough Heard. Miss Eleanor M. Hou, Associated th district, her ' work during_the In this district alone, ol Hough #aid, there were 103 families under care, and in thirty-eight of these there waa phyaical diasbility of i the famlly’s head. 1n addition there was the urual quota of feebleminded- nexs, showing constantly and repeat- | i | edly the need of an Iastitution for | the fesbleminded of the District of Columbla. There were several moth- ers of fumilies who were rated by psychiatrists #s huving an intely- gence of from five to nine vears, and the prospect, Miss Hough said, is not hopeful for their children. Desertion Grows. One problem which is ca: haps more anxiety than the d ng per- other in sixth diatrict is the question of rtion and non-support. In twen- ty-one out of the 102 families under care this problem was present. An effort has been made to analyse the cause for this large fixure for desertion. It does not seem, said Mia Hough, to be attributable to the un. employment situation, althousgh thi: is, of course, acute. One great csuse of this non-suppor{ problem at the present time is undoubtedly the difi- culty of getting prompt actlon by the courts and of properly punishing the. offenders. The recent dacision by which the juriadiction over these cases was taken away from the Juve. nile Court, on the ground that in cases wheré oconviction might mean entericé to hard labor the law re. quired that a man be first indicted by the grand jury, was shown by Miss Hough to be working great hardship upon certain families in her Gistrict because of the delay in prosecution -infliction of suitable pen- alties. ‘The board of managers \as given to understand that the conditions de. pictéd by Miss Hough were typical of thoss existing in the other soven districts of the society. ———— PLAN T0 SECURE §5.000,000 FUND Trustees Seek to Raise En- dowment for Howard . University. An_extended conferesce..in of _the: proposed e el $5,000,000 for Howard “ Univcrsity, with & program of a “millien dollar a year,” to be raised, was:tHe featur of the semi-annual meeting of th board of trustees of the universit: held in the boardroom. of Carne Library, on_the university, campu Tuesday. - The trustees con= sldered the immediate need: of rais- ing at the present timé the sum of $250,000 to meet’ the terms of the conditional gift of $250.000 by thé géneral educational board toward the endowment of the school of medicine. Methods suggested for'raising the nt | { | behalf | the British ©f | sible for tod MR. AND MRS, CH 5,000 GUARDS TURN ULSTER’S FRONTIER INTO LINE OF STEEL (Continued from First Page.) It was reported e(gany the transfer e expedited. woAullxdlI'l’uer l;vollce officer who made de & tour of the border during the said today: nl"‘r;e police arrangements are now as complete as they can be made to insure immunity from invasion. It is unlikely that rebel forces will ever again attempt to raid the bor- de If they do happen to penetrate 10 this side they certainly will not find it easy to set back. The police atrols are 2 well disciplined. trained orce, who kmow the geography of the country thoroughly, which is a sreat advantage in protective opera. tions.” Number Kiduaped Pat at 200. The number of men held captive after vesterday's raids is placed at 200 by the Northern Whig, unionist newspaper, which adda “They are being held at the mercy of men, who as the events of the last two vears have shown, are capable of atrocities as vile as any that bolsheviks or Bashibasouks ever committed. “Viscount Fitzalan is as powerless to prevent the rapld spread of anarchy in the south or to protect the peaceable people on either side Yot the boundary from the roving bandittl, who call themselves soldiers of the Irish republican army, &s youngest child in Dublin. Whether Michael Collins is in a position to vene more effectively is doubt- Irish News, nationalist organ, “"No sane man can concelve why ™ pating the executions with a foretaste of the “pflh'.l:l.l vahluh would follow them though explain- able, a1 1 plined control they could not hav: been made. They cannot hav 0! ired by friends of the free state. r James ¢ pretier of Ulster, issued a manifesto to thé people o northern Ireland yesterday, deciaring government wis respon ay's kldfll?lnl outrages, because of its demobiligation of th special constabulary foliowing the Irish truce. The kidnaping incidents, declared Sir James, would strengthen the Ul- stermen’s determination that “what Ulster has she holds.” QUIET AT ELLISKELN. Republican Army Leaders Ordered to Release Prisoners. “million a year” included the plan to | B the Associated Press. organize Gen. 0. O. Howard associa- built around Howard alumni, former students and friends of the university. Fill Board Vaeancies. Four vacancies on the board were filled by the election of Milton E. Alles of Washington, vice president of the Riggs National Barnk, Gen. John H. Sherburne of Boston, commanded a negro artillery regi- ment in France; Dr. M. O. Dumas, A well known negro physician of the District, and Dr. J. Starley Durke president of the university. The following members of the board of trusteés were present: Justice Stanton J. Peelle, Job Barnard, As- sistant Secretary of the Navy Theo- dore Roosevelt, Justice George harles! W. Vi Francis J. Grim Dr. Albert Bushn Mass.; Dr. Thom York city; James Tenn.; Dr. Marcu Newport, R. D New York cif Pierce, Dr. J. ingtown, Phllad Jones, N er, Nashvill F. Wheatland, J._ E. Moorland, y; Dr._Ulysses G. H. N. university, J. president, Dr. Emmett J. Scoft, secretary-treasurer. Justice Pee! president of the board of trustee presided. Urges Closer Comtact. A group o6f prominent alumni ap- peared before the ‘board of trustees ire o Dr. d ward alumni into more inti- undertaken. Among those who posed this group were Dr. W. H. Sutherland, f 1905, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey; Dr. A. O. Reid, class of 1907, of Baltimore, Md.; At torney William L. Fitzgerald, clas 521808, ‘of Daltimore, be: Dr. 1. M. Lawrence, class 1910, of Philadelphix, Pa.; Dr. Alfred P. Russell, jr., clas: ot 19 torne; of llh, BLAZE AT FALLS CHURCH DESTROYS EAGLE HOUSE James Wilfred Holmes, ot Pittsburgh, Pa. | man! Large Residence Structure Burns Capt. Chase said his vessel firsy|to Washligton; D. C., Wis sefzed in o | While George T. Lewis and Fam- sighted the Northern Pacific about 1 lock yesters morning ‘and " took the first ‘boat in t 2:30; The rescue work. was compieted af 3:20, and the Transportation 8:00d by uat § o'clock yesterday:m time the Northern listing about' 30 degrees starboard, was still afloat. “I think She remained in that sition, although. of course, that is just a guess. Nb-oné knows how the ‘e started; no one can imagine why l&e listed as she did, for she was 1light at the time, o one on-the Transportation this morning held out any hope for the four men of the Sun shipyard—Ma]- lett, Kruger, Beckman and Hall--who were aboard the J«ormern Paomc. *“They are ubtedly l0st.” said one S5ordent peks Dators Capt Lusti re o . Lusti re- = the men be of the ship grew sey re’ quartered near - where the l‘i’t‘bkt ut, and none £ them was. sgen afterward. NACE. icar on the Norfolk and Western rail- I way here early this morning by revenue agents. Point of origin of the ship- ment was not made public. orning. av whicn | e ———— Pacific, nace inside when the fire was discov- ered at 12:23 o'clock yesterday morn- ing.” aceording to Second Officer B. Wilson, who, with four oth: vivors, arrived in Norfolk early this morning. 8 Wilson was on watch on the'bridge at the time, -and the stiff wind which was blowigg brosdside swept a whift of smoke up to the brid The offi. cer ran to the saloon deck. As he entered the companionway leading to the lower deck flames burst forth in & seething mass. He ordered the boats manned, aroused the captain, officers and crew and sought to get fiord a? the four men from the Sun ar Was experienced in - Qreat difficulty launching the ts, it being neces- 1 | | ily Are Absent. Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., February §. | —Thé Bagle House, Stanley Durkee, | civilians from th papers| mate touoh with the University be|there would be di A com- | common ground.” 1906, of Boston, Mass., and At- |heartbreakin class| wickedn on. Washington | haps unwittingly, to undermin ELLISKELN, County Fermanagh, rce is|tions throughout the country, to be|freland, February 9.—Quiet had been restored today. The roads were close. 1y patroiled. thel ARLES W. MILLER. | MARRIED FIFTY YEARS. !Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Millar Cele- brate Golden Anniversary. | Mr. and Mre. Charles W. Millar, of | 926 North Caroling avenue, celebrated { their golden wedding anniversary Tuesday with an informal entertain- ment of a few friends. They were both born in Charles county, Marys land, but have lived in Washington for the past thirty-five years. Mr. ! Millar is seventy-nine years of age and his wife seventy. They have three sons, two of whom reside here and one in Providence, cate that he would be persona grata. |1t in feared bowever, that ihe events | of the past few days have not placed Uister in a favorable frame of mind to consider the advisability of resortin to arbitration, and it is not consider: likely that steps wiil be taken toward that end for the present. : British officials indicated today that they deplored the declaration of Michael Colllns, head of the pro- visional government in Ireland, that the kidnapings of Ulster Unionlsts were what he had feared, and ha {any sensible person would expect. They said such an attitude on behalf of ‘the provisional ‘government was not very reassuring, and implied a be- lief on the part of the Free State au- thorities that such unfortunate inci- dents might be expected to recur. EXCITEMENT IS INTENSE. i London Press Differs on Fixing Blame for New Outbreaks. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 9.—Report from Ireland indicated that up to noon to- day none of the unionists kidnaped by the raiding bands in Ulster yester- day morning had been released, or at least none had returned home. Their number was variously reported, the highest estimats being nearly two hundred, although most counts put the figure considerably lowe The -Morning Post's Belfast corre- spondent, who reports from the Ulster point of view, says “over sixty” are held. He describes northern Ireland as “geething with éxcitement at the ralds, and the loyalists ablagze wif ed by m of ‘“innumerab! polioe. : The London morning newspa; includin, endly to nationalism, kidnapings which the writers fear will prevent the pacification of Ire- land, and shatter the hopes based on the Anglo-Irish treaty. ‘The action of the imperial govern. ment In demanding that the provi- ional government of south Ireland take proper-measures for the release of the capturéd men and prevention of new outrages i commended by the Times, which uzl: u;‘We cannot hold Michael Collins and o o e ambu Tk The provisional government, it is| stated, has telegraphed instructions to the commanders of the Irish re publican army to release the prison- (:;-m; ers taken during the raids. O'DUFFY BLAMES ULSTER. Says Release of Prisoners Would Have Prevented Raids. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, February 9. — Owen . At- 1 0'Duffy, chief of staff of the Irish r cDo-n P ‘on: ublican army, ha: ued this stats ment: “That there should be spontaneous determined action in Ulster is :flf surprising. The patience of our €W | people there has been sorely tried|ghe iately by continued raids, arrests and tortures Inflicted upon them by agents of the northern government. “The majority of those in prison in Waring, Down- d Derry are suffering, be- Pa.i Dr. Willlam A. Sinclair, | Donest A0 Carried out my - orders hia, Pa.; Andrew F. Hilyer|while I was lisison officer, to protect and the administrative officers of the|the lives and £ f Catholic of Orange mobs, when those who are entrusted with law and order refuse to give ection.” pl:‘?;e statement concludes: “Let the northern government immediately re- lease our prisoners. We have shown by our actions our desire to have peace;; let the north show by similar property o ravage: that &'program for bringing|actions that they desire to have . Granted this, noge Will believe P o fliculty in finding a “Heartbreaking Acts of Folly.” feeling of concern and regret Fibrem & ig of Ulster over yei ared by says the Irish Times. “These shootings and seizureg were ot acts of folly and he situation le be saved yet, and zil good ‘Irtshmen ought to lend aid. “The provisional government must try to appreciste Ulster’s feelings of anger and resentment, and Premier Cralg must make every possible al lowance for the provi ment's difficulties. Tt y directions, but has not yet been to eatablish real authority; it has had time to replace the Britis! machinery of law &nd order with ma. chinery of its own. “These incidents pro that the provisionnal government's writ runa not among large sections of the re- publicen army, 'and maybe some .of these sactions are being u»d.e p:{; able not street, ofie of the largest residence | foundation of the Free State. structures in Falls Church, was en- tirely destroyed by a fire which was| MAY CALL ON GEN. SMUTS. discovered about 3 o’clock this morne ing. George T, one was at home last night. The cause;of the fire has not béen. deter. mined, but it is believed to have originated in a fromt room on the|some time t! lower floor. 3 The fiames had gained such head. ws‘ before they were discovered that nothing of the contents of the hou: could be saved. The local and Cher dale fire departments responded the alarm, but confined their, efforts to saving the large barn: on the prop: mary. school. ulding | The house was occupled by|Suggested by Britain to Settle Lewis and family, but noj - Irish Boundary mxpuu ”MA.;““;" ury 9.—The British INDO! ‘ebruary 9.—The Britisl mrnmu;t has been considering for he possibility of enlisting the services of Gen. Smuts, premier of the Union of South Africe, as arbi- trator in the Ulster boundary dispute should circumatances warrant the em- se nt of such & mediator, it was - !tl: fl.ln government efrcles yester- da; ringing some:of the n'umm a8 Gen. Smuts took part ‘nlr‘fl'. lm:l'lgl during the earlier L £o5 5 the Tiiati peuce Régctistions, atesmanship among them, and a real are for the welfare of the whole of Ireland, it is urgently nec these qualities be now which reflects the government view, says it cannot suppose for moment that Arthur Griffita and Mr. Collins approved the action, which it interprets as “an act of war deliberately directed against Ulster by men who wish to force the boundary question into armed con- filet, reck the treaty settle- ment. The Daily Néws, which is most sym- athetic toward the provisional gov- ernment, also approved the action of the British government and thinks provisional administration in southern Ireland ought to have fore- stalled anything of the kind. It calls upon the provisional government to punish the lawbreakers, make prompt redress and justify its freedom by { | proving its capacity and will to pre- serve order. Arthur GriMfith, president of the dail eireann, went to Downing street early today and conferred with Prime Minister Lloyd George and Austen Chamberlain, government leader in the house of commons, re- garding the kidnapings. Later the prime minister presided at a confer- ence of the cabinet officials. Mr. Griffith expects to return to | Dubiin tonight. |PUT OFF TARING RAILROADS. | Cork Strikers to Attempt Opera- tion of Lines Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. CORK, February 9.—~Theé striking rallway men at a mass m last night decided to postpone until Frj day their announced plan of taking over the way lines and operating them the! ives. Last night had Iol. n set the time for seizing the n IRENT LAW MAY COVER " BUSINESS PROPERTIES In drafting a bill for the exten- sion of the District rent act the Senate District subcommittee has in mind & return to that provision of the original law which put-the ren- tal of business as well as residen- b unaarl the supervision on. ngress, last year, passed a law extending the life of the rent act into May of this year It struck out the provisions dealing with busi- ness properties. ' Ths subcommittee recently hed called to tention cesés where ve largs ad- 'vances in rent for business properties have béen demand In one ease a small store in the 4 for $765, goflhwest. Wwhich rented in 1 50.50 & month and in 1920 was now to be rented for $250 a month, according to the demand made by the owner on the ant. In another c: it is proposed by the owner to increase the rent of a business property from $176 & month to $500 & month. Such cases, the subcommittes be- lieves, call for restrictive. logislation. therwise, Mufilu doing business | t |nave been turned do FROM THE SR Ay CONPETTIONASKED U.'S. Manufacturers Want “Chance to Sell on Even Basis. A protective tariff that ~ill enabie manufecturers in the east and mid- west to lay down their products tn New York on an equal sale basis with products manufactured in Europe is the outstanding ivish of manufac- turers in these sections, according to a consensus of opinion jathered at the meeting of the national counctl- ors of the Chamber of Commerge Of he United Btates at the Washingn otel. 3 Manutacturea products from Surope are being laid down in New York or other ports along the Atiantic coast, manufacturers’ representatives claim, ;It prices which undersell domestice { produced articies by 5 In consequence the 8 products, granted the s as well made, is Atea: and this factor is being decrepsing l‘ll‘fluelinn a; inemployment in ;l:re x:n {ho United States. l Want Chanee (o Compete, anufacturers 40 not reques ia :Ih:h ’:roucuva tariff that wili & {able them ';;cy dorsell ftion. y i‘(’;:‘ors. What they do wish, Mfiordd |ing to their representatives gatherc ‘here, 18 an even break—a chance lu Ilay down their ‘products at seaporis on the Atlantic coast at a price tl ('lL Will meet that of European competi- tion. At present. manufacturer! b :we\‘lmm:t ve raw m fo"this country manufacturea rulnous to the American r¢ AT ket for goods ma n United States. Thi exist for very lofi ufacture 001 n cannot g out some prolonge! 1t nuny‘}n ist, with- effect on the fab- nerican business. "llgo‘:'f eAxl:mpl a firm in Bridgeport, manufactures screw drivers, it sells in New York for 35 Along comes a foreign brand, Which may be Inferfor, but still selis for 15 cents at New York., How can American business succeed with such methods as these in operation, they k. z anufacturing plants in New Eng- lu‘n‘d have had various proposals made to them by representatives of com- mercial or governmentat organis tions in Uermany to transfer thef plants bodily to that country, it claimed. In every case, however, they torelgn dily decr Asing, paralleled by nd increasing t | r industtial mnulflc-’ PROBE OF MURDER NOW CENTRALIZED (Continued from First Page.) unidentified influences appeared to huve thrown up between them and | the true facts remained unpierced, #lthoy, the policé department and ] ce of the gheriff were attempt- |ing “to ‘make sepa: breaches | through it into new nelds of inquiry. Thé police continued to concentrate | { their efforts upon search for Edward | 1 F. Sands, former secretary and but- ler for Taylor, missing since Taylor made & charge oi grand larceny against him, last August. . Vvid L. Adams, head of the detecti bureau, roiterated last night that tnere Is no one else we want, and have discovered nothing that would indicatée a motive for the crime ex- cept that of averting prosecution on the grand larceny chark Late vesterday the ective bureau recelved, through the sheriff's office. a Message from the sherif at Tucson, i3, to the effect that a man re- ] olitne cands |Arl . February 4—three days after Taylor wasx glain. i zherif s oitice here, according to :he denutlem working on tlie case. up 10 last night had wound up at a "blank wall” in every step it had was seen at Lowell.; Kn: KELLER WOULD ADD 10 BUILDING RULES Writes He’d Require Proof of Stability and Sufficiency ‘ A of Designs. Senator Capper of Kansas, chairman of the Senute committee to investi- Eate the Knickerbocker Theater diraster,~ has asked Col. Keller. Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict, for suggestions regarding legis- lation to better protect the public and to provide for the erection of @|stable bulldings in the District. In a letter received by Senator Capper from Col. Keller, the latter says that he hes given this question a great deal of thought since the {nickerbocker " Theater wreck, but that he is not yet ready to make his jrecommendations. He savs, however: D 10 the present dine my owr opinion 18 that the best way to protect the public will be to requiré the owner i iiaken. Th @ Investigation, it was said, h o do with Sands. id they fne &enry Peavey, houseman for Taylor, in an effort to Py At ana TThat peasibly s 4 hins ‘o8 AN at possibly some light would be thrown on the situa- > o, !at the apartment where the slaying !uc:urred, These articles were taken, j8fter the check, to a storage ware- house under the direction of the pub- lic administrator. The police took juharge of certain articles as ) {havizg some bearing on the { but did not state what thev w Mabcl Normand and Mary Miles Minter. motion picture actresses. friends of tke slain director, whs kave Lecn questioned about the case, st_l“l;. remain in_seclusion. e reason Taylor gave for keep- ing Mabel Normand's letters was that rovertially attributed to women— beacn\lb! n made by her personal representative, Arthur McArthur. e Misg Normand was said to be il Iarguly because of her collapse at the Taylor funeral and because of the frequent questions of detectives, so McArthur spoke for her. ‘As to the pregent whereabouts of those letters, McArthur, “Miss Normand is as much mystified as any person, derpite statements by the po- lice they have been returned to her. “The last time she saw them they were in the top drawer of a dresser in Taylor's apartments. This w: following the burglary at his place, and he was showing her about the apartments and describing how they had been ransacked. ‘She then noticed the letters and telegrams she had sent him and ask- ed why he kept the: “He made a kindly remark and add- *ed, ‘Oh, just because. b] <illng, o —according to a statement | and his representatives—the architect 2nd the engineerr—to prove affirmative- ly that their p'ans are carrectly made, not only so far as concerns conformity with our building code, but also so far &8 concerns permanency, stability and sufficlency of the details of design. Hav- ing put bullders on notice that this re. quirement is to be made, they will qui 1y understand tae necessity ing competent practitioners and thereby avoiding the needless expence and delny that would be caused were improper pians presented and subsequently re- cted by our building inspector. “On the other hand. to enable the office of the building inspector to | pronounce authoritatively upon plans yTequires that it be strengthened by | the enployment of a sufficient num- ber of men having the.right kind of aualifications. We are formulating our ideas on this subject now. but in a general way it means that we must have more men In the office and more men in the fleld and that the additions to our force must be fully qualified technicians with adequate experience in the design and con- struction of important buildings. “Provisionally, my idea is that we ought to have two such. men In our office in addition to our present force, and two who would be available for constant fleld work—checking, veri- fying and inspecting details of con- struction of the more important classes of bulldings. “Licensing engineers and archi- tects would afford some additional safeguard to the public, but few, of course, know that the proposal to license éngineers and architects has been a dlsputed question in many do- calities for quite a long time, If such a situation is to develop here I am quite clear that the licensing agency should be divorced complete- 1y from the office of the building in- spector, $0 that no question of preju- dice or partiality may arise in con- nection with the work of the offi- cials of the District government.” i ! 1 i i i AVE UE First Showing of STETSON HATS for Spring 1922 Spring Stetsons are here. 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