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Fafr and colder tonight row; lowest about 26 degrees. Temperature lor‘ twenty. m. ended at 2 p. at 2 pm. toda: ; lowest, today. Full report on page WEATHER. temperatu: 5 and tomor- tonight ~four hours Highest, 45, 3 am G New York Stock Market Closed Today No. 28414 IGGrie Washineion BE ENGINEER BLAMES ROOF DESIGNER FOR THEATER COLLAPSE E. E. Ruebsam, at Inquest, Says Plans and Work- manship Defective. SCORES ANY ATTEMPT TO PASS RESPONSIBILITY .Says Man Planning Siructure Should Personally See That Work Is Properly Done. After finding many faults, such as de- fective designing and erection of the steel roof framing of the Knickerbocker Theater, Ernest C. Ruebsam, for a num- ber of years engineer in charge of struc- tural steel work of all federal buildings erected, told the jury at the inquest in the boardroom of the District building today that the designer of the framing which collapsed should be blamed. Mr. Ruebsam frankly told the jury that the engineer who degigned the plans should have seen that they were strong enough, and should have seen that materials were properly erected. He scored any effort to hide behind a building department, adding that in this particular case the building department had nothing to indicate on the plans as to size of materials. He undertook to showthe jury how materials could be changed when the plans did not carry dimensions. Trusses and beams did not have sufficient wall bearinge, he said: trusses were not properly built—they had no connecting plates to throw any local strain throughout the truss. ‘The failure of the main truss. known as T-12, was blamed directly for the initial failure, due to the fact, he said, that it was improperly built and ‘was overstressed. ‘This was a matter of inspection, which the designing engineer, he said, should have looked after. He scouted the suggestion of the architect. Geare. that the break in the main truss caused the failure. That break, he said, was due to impact with the ground. Steel Reinforcing Inspected. Harry J. Freeman, foreman in charge of the tile and concrete work, testified that J. R. Downman, District building inspector, inspected the steel reinforcement perzonally before the concrete_was poured on_the roof. . Downman, the Distriet con- crete inspector, was recalled to the stand, and was testifying when. at 12:30 o'clock, a recess was ordered until 2 o'clock, when he ‘will resume his testimony. ok Corcner Nevitt, during the recess. said that he did not believe the case would $0 to the jury until tomorrow morning, (r the entire afterrioon and part of the morning will be given over to the taking of more testimony. Harry J. Freeman, 121 U -street streét northeast. foreman for the Hammett Firéproofing Company and who superintended the masonry work in the Knickerbocker Theater, wa: the first witness called. “Did_you inspect it each day?” asked Maj. Gordon. ‘Yes, sir,” the witness answered. - “Was it your duty to see that the tile was fill:’fl with concrete?” Maj. “Yes. sii ut it was not suppored to be filled except under thé twenty- ‘beam bearing for the main tru ““Was it your duty to see that the hollow. tile under theé bearing plate were filled?” ‘We weren't supposed to fill them. The only one. as I said, was nmler’ the main girder.” ““Have vou any recollection that the .tile under the main girder was filled 7" Tapped Into Place. “Yes, sir; the mortar was made up | and passed up. It was tapped down | by “sticks,” the witness responded. Showing him two photos. Mal. Gordon asked if ke could tell| whether the tile was filled with con- | crete. | He answered in the affirmative as to_the tile under the main beam. p He ldentifled photographs of th bearing for the beam under the main truss. He said it.showed the tiles filled solid with concrete. “We didn't do that anywhere else.” witness volunteered. Time ot Filling Optional. “Were you supposed to put the; cement in before the beam was put | in place™” } 0. sir; that_is optional.” ! ow did you get it in afterward?” “Oh, I mean the concrete was put_in.” “Did you put the concrete in with-| each layer as it went up?" “I can't recollect. As the wall went 1p Mr. Wallace came fo the conclusion that owing to the vibration the tile had better be filled. Tt vibrated more than any building I have ever worked on. It was then that we decided that we had better put the concrete band | on_ the top of the wall to strengthen | 1 o “Was that in the specifications?” asksd Maj. Gordon. “I don’t think so.” .“Do you know anything about the| concrete in the roof?" “Yes, sir. The reinforcement was, laid on; the bullding department was notified and they came up and in- spected that. aad then the concrete was poured.” I “Who inspected the reinforcement?” Inspected Downman. “Mr. Downman. I remember it well.” Witness was_excused and v Frankhauser, 632 11th street. prac- tical bridge and structural iron work- er, now in the insurance businees, next was called. He made an inspec- tion of the ruins with Inspector of Detectives Grant. One of the most essential things in such a job is to see that columns and trusses are plumb. with steel cables | and turnbuckles, he said. “This is absolutely necessary, I couldn’t say whether this was done there,” the witness said. “I found some of the connections very poorly fitted up. That may be due to the men. You send ‘a man up i to do a certain thing. He says it is dionl\ei ,but he may not have domne it rigl 3 Nothing to Keep Bolts Tight. “There. was nothing on the bolts|Ch to keep them. from coming loose,” Ape_witness continued. “We always take equal the bolts with the wrench.” He said the beams were bolted.- - He was excused, and Ernest C. ‘Ruebsam, 10 T street northwest, grad- uate civil engineer with thirty. years' practice and formerly in charge of rain on | I“Unclé Joe” Cannon Will Retire From Politics at End of Term feo, | gound | “Uncle Joe" Cannon, oldest member of the House, announced today he | would not be a candidate for re-elec- jtion as representative from the eighteenth Illinois district. The former Speaker announced his |intention to retire from politics in an eleven-word statement, which read: “I am not a candidate for election to the Sixty-eighth Congress.” Reports had been current for some time that he would seek another term, but In reply to inquiries Mr. Cannon always declared he had not made up his mind as to his plans. The Illinois representative, one of the most picturesque and widely known figyres in Congress, will be cighty-six years old next May 7. He is serving his twenty-third term as a member of the House, during elght years of which he was Speaker. While Mr. Cannon in his stetement gave no reason for his announced in- | tention of retiring from public life, |close friends declared that he had made the decision in the belief that his health and age made a less strenu- ous life advisable. to retire to his home in Danville, Ill., | after serving out his present term. with a heavy overcoat closely around his throat, Uncle Joe sat in the House chamber today while COL WOODS TOAD NAVY YARD N Will Try to Obtain Work From Other Departments of Government. Officials of the office of Col. Arthur ‘Woods, in charge of the government's day gave assurances that considera- tion would be given by that office Lo |ways and means of alleviating the Isituation created by the lay-off of 1,392 employes of the Washington navy yard. Col. Woods, who is chairman of the standing committee on emergency measures for unemployment, is slight- 1y ilI, but is expected at his office late today. When he gets there. Maj. Foster, his assistant, id t would present the detalls of the navy yard situation to him for considera- tion together with other items of the government's newly organized cam- paign to keep as many as possible at wifll’k through the hard months of winter. This campaign started with a letter from President Harding to the various ranged for immediately. by. the govern- ment departments. Surveys of the needs rl various d»-nm:‘x‘ were fequested n order that a dchédule of such work might be drawn up. The navy yard project, it is under- stood, will include cronsideration of the work of other départments which { might be turned over to the navy yards throughout the country for completion. Protest Reaches White Heuse. The White House today was in re- celpt of a letter from President Wil- Ham H. tional Association of Machinists pro- testing -against the action of the Navy Department in discharging “without an hour’'s warning” em- loyes of the principal navy yards of the country. “At the yards pfoper.,” the letter stated, “the reason for these whole- sale reductions were hardly known. But the newspapers indicate that they are the direct outcome of your orders te suspend work on the capital ships referred to. “We, therefore,'protest most em- phatically this' carelessness and this indifference: on the part ofsthe gov- ernment to the welfare of the navy vard employes as well as to the wel- fare of the milligns of workers al- ready unemployed. We construct the action of the government. in dis- cbarging overnight thousands of ita most competent, faithful employes, under the clgcumstances prevailing. as extremely ‘inconsiderate, heartless and inhuman. We consider that the government has broken faith with its own workers as well as the un- | employed. We fully believed” the letter add- “that _your administration. 8> deeply concerned about unemploy- ment as to call a national conference on the subject, would sureiy give due consideration to preventing a further aggravation of the situation as a result of necessary changes In the naval armament program grow- !ing out of the conference on limita- tion of armaments.” Four Special Requests. The four fellowing requests are outlined in the letter: all armament work of any nature Whatscever. whether building of new war equipment or the conversion or scrapping of existing equipment, be done forthwith in government plants. We maintain that this is not only nomically from the govern- (Contipted on Page 2, Column 3.) Today’s News In Brief Officials £ay senators occupied proper place in funeral procession of un- known dead soldier. Page 2 U_S. gathers 150 undesirgble allens at Eliis Island for deportation. Page 2 Jéwish relief drive for $100,000 ends next Wednesday. Page 2 Utilities board sets datés for three important public rate heagings. Page British suspend rcmpval of _troops from Ireland. S Page New move started to secure work for navy yard. age 1 “Uncle Joe’” Cannon will retire from polities at end of present Congress term. Page 50,000 textile workers on strike in New England states. * Page 1 House committee hears experts on Muscle Shoals sale proposal. Page 4 Chinese throughont' west in_hiding through fear of tong war. Page 6 icago “wizard” lays $4.500,000 loss to lacky deal with friend's $260, - . Pagel3 Public Utllities Commission not ex- pected to change phone rates at this * time. *° Page 13 Theater vs. churcl) subject of heated debate In New York church. Page 13 Drive launched . for new historical all structural work under the ury Department, next was call made an investigation of the erbocker. £ led. He Knick- He said the primary cause of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) - museum in Washingtan. Page 13 Vice President Coolidge and Gen. Pershing pay tribute to Lincoln. o : Page 14 Rsil 6r Board opens-door hour &'} b 2 22 e He _is expected | Wearing_an old siouch hat, and|I wrapped | campaign agalnst unemployment, to-. that he | depertmenty on Japuary 26, in which A7 *which ,might pos~ ,'!'é‘w s wbich b o Johnston of the Interna-| |~they get it in the deficiéncy appro-. , JOSEPH G. CANNON. Representative Green, _republican, lowa, was dellvering a Lincoin day address. The hat came off at the close of the speech and the veteran legislator applauded with the re 50000 ON STRIKE AT COTTON MILLS; :Nearly Whole of New England Affected—Big Factories Shut Down. By the Associated Press. ¥ BOSTON, February 13.—Half of the 00,000 cotton mill operatives of New | England were on reduced wage scales jtoday, and nearly one-quarter of | them, or between 40,000 and 50,000, ‘Wwere .on strike in protest. As a result many plants were forced to shut down. In New Hampshire, where the wage cut and an increase in hours from forty-eight to fifty-four weekly was statewide, the strikes we-e almost | jequally general. The big plant of the | {Amoskeag mills at Manchester, the ilargest cotton mill in the world, and the Nashua and Jackson mills .at Nashua were among the several that, bad to shut down. Only Few Remain. i There, as at other plants, the strike orders were carried out by all but L3 |few of thie workers. Some 30,000 per- {8cns are employed in the eotton mills of New Hampshire, of whom only & few hundreds remained at looms and benches today. 4 } 'Lowell, Mass., was the other prin- | cipal center of the fresh strikes, with the Hamilton mills closed in the face | of & vote to strike by many of its 1,600 workers. The Bay State cotton 1 mills there were operated with some- | what reduced forces. The situation in Rhode Island. where strikes began two weeks ago, was still developing today. The plant of the Jenckes Spinning Company at Pawtucket, which had been kept go- ing notwithstanding daily. defections of 100 to 200 persons, was obliged to close when the strikers gained fur- ther additions from its workers. The .llle'nckes mills employed 2,000 opera- es. Many Out in Rhode Island. In all, more than 20,000 persons are ton strike or without work as a re- sult of strikes in Rhode Island, thirty plants of various textile processes be- ing involved. In that state, where disorders last week caused the calling of troops to armories, and in all other places | where walkouts occurred today the new changes in tne industrial siu ation were effected without disturb- ance. LABOR DEPARTMENT READY. | Agents Already in Touch With New England Situation. Department of Labor agents are already In touch with the situation in the New England textile manu- facturing districts, where wage cuts have led to the calling of several strikes, it was said today by Secre- tary of Labor Davis. Two commissioners of conciliation were asked to investigate the situs tion some time ago when the possi- bility of disruption in Rhode Island “First and foremost, we request that)gnq other states began to appear. So far no steps bave been taken by the department officially to interveme in the matter other than to tender the services to both the emplovers and the employss. |$240 BONUS TO CLERKS ASSURED, SAYS MONDELL Means of Providing Uncertain, But Congress Intends to Vote It, Republican Leader States. “The government clerks are going to get the $240 bonus. There need be no uneasiness on that point. There is no intention in Congress to cut them off from the bonus. Whether priation’ bill or through special le; islation has not yet been determined.” Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming, republican leader, made this positive statement today when nfled if the second deficiency appro- priation bill, on which hearings start tomorrow, will contain a provisien for cnnunulngolh‘ bonus, which has been omitted m -the appropriation. bills for the fiscal year 1928~ i EATY-TO SENATE. 0o ¥ I BRITISH SUSPEND - REMOVING TRODPS FROM RISH S01L Ulster Crisis Causes Sudden Halt in Carrying Out of Evacuation Qrders. EIGHT MORE PERSONS ARE DEAD IN BELFAST Many New Street Clashes—Curfzw | Law Reimposed—Republicans Stil! Hold Prisoners. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, February 13.—The evact- ation of the British troops and other military forces from Dublin was un- expectedly suspended today. The sail- ing of the steamers due to leave for Holyhead and Liverpool with con- tingents on board was canceled. It was thought the suspension might be due to the events in Ulster. Officials at military general head- quarters' said they were unable to give any information on the subject, while Dublin Castle officials stated that they had nothing to do with the evacuation. EIGHT KILLED IN BELFAST. Deaths Since Saturday Night Cause Curfew Law. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, February 13.—Beginning tonight, the curfew, extending from 9 o'clock in the evening until & o'clock in the morning, will be reim- posed. This action was decided upon today in a conference between the lord mayor, the military commander and the police commissioner, as a re- sult of renewed disorders yesterday, which continued sporadically today. Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon a total of eight persons had been killed since Saturday. Shot Dead in,Street. A gang entered the saloon of Pat- rick Lamb, on York street, here, at noon today and attempted to hold him up. Lamb resisted and was shot and killed. About the same time 3 bartender in a- neighboring =aloon was shot and badly wounded. hile a dance of the Ancleat Order of Hibernians was In progress in a hall near Cookstown, East Tyrone, last night. an attack by a party or! armad mep _was made upon the hal The HiNernlans saliicd owk sed ras plied with stones. Twog persons were wotnded by bultets. Local unionist special cohstables who were sum- oned drove away the attackini arty, which the constables declares ‘was composed@®f Sinn Feiners. er men from Bel- tast who were arrested in the terior last week reappeared in Be was obtalned through the interp tion of Owen O'Duffy. the republican army chief of staff. Although the re-! porters had been moved from point to point while held prisoner th Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING znmong WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1922—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. P, 4 o $EL 3194 FORD.C. INDEFICIENCY BILL $50,000 Asked to Extend Dis- | tributing System of Water Department. The second deficiency appropria- ticn bill for the tiscal year 1922 and years prior thereto, on which hear- a total of $452,319.34 for the District of Columbia. Of this $50,000 is for the water department for cxtension necessary service mains under the as- sessment systen:. Other items in the District budget includes authority for the recorder of deeds to purchase book typewriter For contingent and miscel- laneous expenses a total of $5.000 is proposed. For géneral advertising, as required by law, a deficlency of $8 for 1920 and $1,746 for 1921 s sked. For operation and mainte- ice, $18,000 is asked. For assessment and permit work for the sewers, $32.000; for the clectrical department. $5,500. For the public schools as an_ al- lowance to principals of grade sshool never once came into contact withpyildings for servicés in addition to the kidnaped unionists. Woman Is Murdered. There was sharp rifle and revolver firing in Belfast Sunday afternoon. These mingled with the rattle of the machine guns on the armored cars. David Boyd, nineteen years old, was shot dead in the Old Lodge Road dis- trict. While Mrs. Page was serving cus- tomers in her bakeshop, in North Queen street, Saturday night, a man entered the place and deliberately shot and killed her. District Inspector Michael Keany of Cork City was shot dead by a gang of men at midnight Saturday while on a week end visit to his family at Clonakilty. His son, who was with him, was severely wounded. Owen O'Duffy. chief of staff of the Irish_republican army, who went to Clones yesterday to investigate Sat- urday night's disorders there, said in an interview today he found feeling very tense throughout Monaghan county because of the unlawful ar- rests and detention of the entire di- visional staff of the republican army at Dromore, County Tyrone. This probably has reference to a number of Gaelic foot ball players, wearing Irish republican -army uni- forms, who were arrested on Janu- ary 15 while-on their way from Mon- aghan to Londonderry. Several of them were declared by the royal Irish constabulary to have carried loaded revolvers, and arms were al- leged to have been found in the au- tomobiles in which the foot ball play- ers were riding. “In this area,” said Chief O'Duffy, “1 succeeded in allaying the feeling somewhat. If the army officers are not released I cannot promise or guarantee peace in this part of the country. I cannot conceive that the British (government, who cannot be relieved of responsibility: in this mat- ter, will continue to hold these men. If they do I am full of the gravest fear for what may happen in the north.” CRAIG APPEALS TO BRITISH. Says Belfast Government Has Other Action to Fall Back On. By the Assoctated Prebs. BELFAST, February 13.—S8ir James Cralg, the Ulster premier, has issued the following statement: “The government of northern Ire- land have been in constant communi- cation with Downing street (the offi- cial residence of Premier Lloyd George) during the week end and have received information that Ar- thur Grifith has dispatched emis- saries to County Monaghan with in- structions to arrange for the release of the kidnaped loyalists. “The mnorthern. government have proposed the following plan in case the present negotiations of the Brit- ish government prove ineffective: “*‘They telegraphed Saturday .night to the British cabinet urging that Monaghan and other danger points beyond the boundary of northern Ire- land should be occupied by British lroops, with a free hand to take ito $10,000. to ten- Page 16 "ing. [ YAP. TR President Forwards U. 8. and Japa- g nese Agreement. The treaty between -the United States and Japan fixitig the status of the Isfand of Yap and covering the allocation of wireless and cable rights on and from that island was sent to whatever steps they considered nec- essqry to secure the release of the loyalists and to prevent further in- cursions across the border. Such troops should be able to prevent any recurrence of such cowardly and bru- tal outrages as that perpetrated Sat- urday at Clones, when forces of the crown, praceeding on duty through territory admitted by Mr. Churchill (British secretary for the colonies) their_grade salaries a deficiency of 591.75 for 1921 and $699 for the fiscal year 1922 is asked. It is proposed the sum of $24,176 of the unex- pended balance of the appropriation for salaries of publia school teachers for the fiscal year 1921 be made available for payment of claims of certain teachers for additional salary covering detail service. These claims have arisen under the decision of the Court of Appeals, November 12, 1917, It is also proposed that the sum of $1,500 of the uncxpended balance of of public school teachers for the fiscal year 1921 be made available to pay the balance due Marietta Stockard @lbion. formerly employed as 2 teacher in the public schools. ‘839,812 for Heat, Power and Light. For fuel, gas, electric light and power for the fiscal year, 1921, $10,- 512 is asked, and for the fiscal year 1922, $29,300. ‘The fire department asks $20.91 for repairs and improvements of the fire boat for the fiscal year 1921. The forcement of the act covering drain- age of lots. For the maintenance of a dispen- verculosis and social diseases for the compensation of jurors in the Ju- nevile Court, $400, and for compensa- tion of jurors in the Municipal Court, $1,000. “Contingent expenses for the Municipal Court for the fiscal year 1922, For expenses attendant upon execution of writs of lunacy, $217.20. For the' Sypreme Court of the Dis- trict, witness fees, totaling $3,500 are asked, and jurors' fees amounting For the pay of bailiffs, $1,000, with a provision that the coi pensation of each jury commissioner shall not exceed $250. Miscellaneous dxpenses for the Supreme Court of the District during the fiscal year 1921, $1,000. For the support of con- victs, $50,000 is asked. Under ihe headiug of charities and correction, the Washington asylum and jail asks a deficiency of $1,307.35 for the fiscal year 1920 and §1,244.61 for the fiscal year 1921. For the sup- port of prisoners for the fiscal year For-care and maintenance of - t! National Training School for Boys, a (Contitiued on Page 2, Column &) e APPROPRIATION BILL UP. Senate Subcommittee Working on District Bill. The subcommittee of the Senate committee on appropriations having Jurisdiction of the District.of Colum- bia appropriation bill, which passed the house recently, began work on|' that measure this morning. The Dis- trict Commissioners appeared before the subcommittee to explain in detail their estimates submitted and their reasons for recommending the appro- priations. The Commissioners pointed out the items omitted from the bill by .the House and ¢alled attention to the fact that the budget had reduced their es- timates. They took the bill up from the first item and will go through with it, sage by page, explaining to 5 the Senats subcommitt the - the Senate today by President Hard.{in the house of commons stil to_be, propriations rocommented houid e o A e et iR T (Continued on Page 4, Colamn 3) " have been m: ithrcugh her attorneys, declaring that ings are to start tomorrow, includes: of the distribution system, laying of | machlnes or parts not to exceed|l} | 36.540. nance of the sewage pumping serv-| the appropriation for longevity pay| hcalth department asks $1,000 for en-] sary for persons suffering from tu-| flacal year 1921, §146.94 is asked. For, 1921, $44.78, and for the fiscal “year, 1921 a doficieney of $277.97 is shown. | o¢ service main'extensions made dur- e fp. The Associated dispatches Press s exclusively entitied to the use for republication of sil mews dispatches credited to it or mot otberwise credited in this paper and also the local news published bereln. Al rights of publication of special berein are alse reserved. Saturday’s Net Circulation, 91,999 Sunday’s’ Net Circulation, 93,130 SURE SIGNS OF SPRING. Told All She Knew of Taylor, Insists Mary Miles Minter | [ 5y the Assoctated reis. | his advice and aid were invaluable LOS ANGELES, Calif., February 13.|It_would be nothing less than veri- —Mary Miles Minter, motion picture (able ingratitude if I did not, now that he is dead, raise my voice to actress, issued a statement here today proclaim what he was and to re- pudiate thore who would besmirch his character. “I have told the authorities all that I know of both his life here and in the east. That, 1 fear, has been of little aid to them. “I cannot coneeive the character of a person who would voluntarily wrong Mr. Taylor or cause his | death.” “There is a grave and serious doubt at present as to whether the wurderer ,f William Desmond Tay- &lm_'. film director, “will ever be ap- she had told investigatcrs “tll that she knew” of the life of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, slain mysteriously twelve days ago. it said | she could not conceive how any per- | son could voluntarily wrong Taylor. The statement follow; “There is no personal or financlal | sacrifice that 1 would not gladiy make to bring the slayer of William Des- | mond Taylor to justice. prehended,” declared Thomas Lee e, Tayior W one of my best | Woolwine, district attorney, late last itriends. His death was a great shock | "EBt- to me. I met Mr. Taylor first in 1919, Terms Interviews Fake. when he became my director. 1 was | | then seventeen vears of age. and his | {inspiration, his unfailing courtesy and consideration, not only to me, but to all with whom he came in contact, | mmediately Wop my highest admira- Mr. Woolwine made this declaration in a statement he issued, deploring interviews” on the case, and par- ticularly one purporting to have come from him. His statement follows: “In- the eafly edition of the Examiner for Monday morning there appeared on the first page thereof an interview purporting to come from me which was never in effect given. “This _interview never took place, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) HEARINGS ARE SET - SEES LAW EVASION - BYUTILITIES BODY N DIVORGE EVILS ‘Electric Light and Transfer |Alexandria Pastor Promises | Charges and Extension of Outburst of Public Car Tracks to Come Up. Condemnatibn. The Public Utilities Commission to- | From a Staff Correspondent. day announced dates for three public| ALENANDRIA. Va. February 13— hearings to be held in the near fu-|Rev. E. B. Jackson, pastor of the ture, as follows: First Baptist Church, declared today To comsider the rates of the Po-|that there is not the slightest doubt tomac Electric Power Company. 10:30 o'clock Wednesday, March 1; to con- sider rates of the Union Transfer Company, 10:30 o'clock Monday, March 20; to consider an extension of Capitol street line of the n Railway and Electric o 19th streeis March 6. {tion. Symbol of Manliness. “From 1819 until the day of his death Mr. Taylor was to me the symbol of honor and manliness, an| | inspiration, friend, wuide and coun- selor—the symbol of all a girl ad- mires in a man. “His friendship was uplifting and! cause. Rev. Mr. Jackson made this state- ment today when asked for his opin- ion regarding the local situation, and he supplemented his remarks by say- ing that the law probably may need strengthening, but the principal trou- ble has been the evasion of it. He #aid the law probably had made it possible for irregular practice, but it, in his opinion, is not the real cause for what he termed a “horrible™ and “gross” condition, which he ex- plained had developed gradually but surely into sinister proportions. Speaks as Citizen. Without wishing to criticise any one individual and making it plain that he was speaking as a citizen and not for the local ministerial associa- tion, of which he a prominent mem- ber, Rev. Mr. Jackson said the stand- ards in Alexandria have not been of the highest and that the time has ar- rived when the city should be saved from the unenviable position it now occupies. “In my opinion,” said Rev. Jack- Son. “the average person living here | the East Washingto! Company from 15th t east, 10:30 o'clock. Monday, Purpose of Track Extension. - The purpose of the vrovl?nzd East Capitol street track extension would ibe to furnish eervice to the new Eastern High School, which will be completed in about ten or twelve e directed the The commission has directes Union Transter Company to prepare statistics showing the average num- ber of pieces of baggage of each kind and at each rate handled during 1921. In announcing the hearing on elec- tric 1ight rates. the commission made public the following questions, which | the power company will be expected to answer at the hearing: “gtatistics saowing the amount of electricity generated during the cal- ender year 1971; the number of cus- tomers, the amount of electricity sold. the revenue received and the amount of money impounded under each schedule of rates. : Other Facts Desired. “The length in feet and the nuriber i ! ing the year 1921 for which deposits have been made by consumers, to- gether with the number of consumers and the amount deposited therefor; also the number of consumers to whom refunds of deposits were made and the amount of such refunds; to be accompanied by a statement of the average cost per foot of such ex- tensions, both underground and over- - 1 that year. - e U S tome made to and other| WINDSOR, Conn., February 13— improvements in power generatingi Charged with having attempted to stations.and the work of such char-|take his wife's life by holding her actér at present in progress, upon the trolley tracks before an ap- i t: flmTh h.n ':n;l:;“n'\a:ll: aa?-:{:; “5:;6:;15 proaching car, Joseph Stroff was held endar J:ar 1921 and the estimated economies for the coming year. “The reductions or_increases 'in salaries and wages of officials and CHARGED WITH HOLDING WIFE ON TROLLEY TRACK Husband Jumps Whel; Car Nears. ‘Woman in Critical Condition Fronp Mangled Leg. ! woman’s right leg was crushed by the trolley car and subsequently am- what he termed “faked and fraudulent } about the existence here of divorce | evils and that in his opinion the law | or the lack of it is not the principal | (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) | ! additional 3,600 gnlisted men could | be cut off, he added, in contemplated { economies at shore stations. at the Windsor Jail here today. The,for protection and to discha | many missions unconnected witl employes that have been made during the calender year 1921*and the con- templated changes therein for the coming year. “The results of actual operations during the full calendar year 1921, showing separately the revenues from the sale of current in the Dis- !rlc‘t of Columbia, Maryland and Vir- a. qstimated 'results of opera- ns for the calendar year 1922 at -gutes 8xed by the 1ast order.” G - 3 K2 putated at” the Hartford Hospital, w&here she is now in a serious condi- tion. : Stroff was seen bending over the trolley tracks by Motorman Moran last night, who attempted to stop car. The man held his position until the car was nearly upon him. ‘When the car w: i TWO CENTS. 10,000 CUTIN NAVY, LAYINGUPTO0SHIPS, ADVISED BY DENBY Secretary Asks ‘House Com- mittee to Fix Personnel for Fiscal Year at 96,000. SAVING OF $70,000,000 TO RESULT, HE THINKS Recommends Reducing Annapolis Appointments, But Would Keep All Present Line Officers. Secretary Denby appeared before the House naval committee today to recommend that the Navy personnel for the next fiscal year be fixed at 90.000 men and 6,000 apprentices, as compared with the 100,000 men and 6,000 apprentices now authorized. Mr. Denby recommended that there be no reduction in the existing strength of line officers of the Navy; that the first class at Annapolis be graduated 2nd commissioned, but that appointments to the academy be reduced to three for each member of Congress, instead of five. The naval Secretary recommended that 100 destroyers be placed out of commission. He estimated that the program he outlined would effect saving.of $70,000,000 in next years budget. America’s Future Navy. “By the terms of the treaty,” he said, “the United States will have remaining. eighteen battleships, 315 destrovers, thirty-three cruisers, 147 nuxiliaries and 152 It is clear that no defi- nite conclusions as to the future strength of the United States Navy should be reached until ratification by the Senate of the pendipg treaty Lecause we shall not know absolutely until then that the treaty will be- come effective. This complicates the question of personnel.” » Mr. Denby described thé status of the fleet in commission today, show- ing that battleships carry about 84 per cent complemens, destrovers from 50 1o 30 per cent and submarines from 40 per cent up. Undermanned Now, He Says. “It is quite clear that the Navy, in enlisted and commissioned personnel both, is undermanned today,” he said. “It is clear in your mind, undoubt- edly, that the rule applied in appor- tioning of vessels in the different navies (under the treaty) was what was called the navies needed for na- tional safety, and the results were ar- rived at after & most careful study of small vesscls. the governments treaty as the hecessary quota for the safety of the United States.” Navy Has No Scouts. Mr. Denby pointed out that until the thirty-four-knot scout cruisers now under comstruction were completed the Navy would have “no vessel other than the destroyer capable of making even twenty-five knots an hour,” since the battle cruisers were not to be completed. “In other words,” he said, “we shall Lave no scouts, I take it there is no question as to the completion of these ten scout cruisers, and that the work will proceed upon them with rapidity until they are finished.” The Secretary said figures on per- sonnel he presented were based on that assumption and his belief that the Navy could not “dispense with any of its present personnel” with the exception of the reduction in en- listed strength of 10,000 men he rec- ommended. Not sn Easy Task. Secretary Denby’'s statement point- ed out that since 1919 the war-time naval establishment had been re- Guced from 1,362 vessels in commis- sion to 900, the commissioned person- nel from 32,208 to 6.163 and the en- listed force from 480,723 to 100.999. “It is not easy,” he said, “to get back to normalcy from such vast ex- pansion.” Mr. Denby said the net resylt of the naval limitation conference today is that Great Britain is to have twenty- two capital stips, the United States eighteen and Japan ten, there being no limitation on auxillary combat craft except as to the size and arma- ment of future vesscls. ‘When the conference opened, Mr. Denby said, the United States- had 46 battluships, 35 cruisers, 317 de- stroyers, 148 submarines, 197 auxil- iary craft and 164 “mosquito fleet” vessels. Says Officers Co-Operated. Mr. Denby said Navy officers had “loyally and earnestly” co-operated in the efforts at national retrenchment. Since he took office, he added, 246 naval ships had been sold and the money turned into the Treasury, and as a_ further retrenchment step the naval revolving fund of $250,000,000 would be retivned to $150.000,000, the lowest figure to which it appeared sae to cut it. The $100,000, cut off the fund, he said. would be turned into the Treasury in cash. . Mr. Denby said that by placing 100 destroyers out of commission he would release 6,400 enlisted men and effect a saving of $13.400,000. An “I need scarcely add that if it I found at any time that we can dis. pense with more men with due re- gzard to the proper insurance of the | United States against that pocsible attack from which even treaties do not absolutely guarantee us” Mr. Denby said, “the men will be with- drawn and the ships disposed of. Beliet Is Earnest. “I make these recommendations in the most earnest belief that the Unit- ed States needs the protection that the Navy as above indicated will glve under present world conditions. It is not in any sense a navy for aggres- won that s asked for; it is a navy e the war and required by our government at all time Mr. Denby said/ estimated with- drawals from the Treasury for the Navy for the fiscal year 1922 were $478,000,000. With the economies we planned, the reduction in the build- ing program and the placing out of commission of tke 100 destroyers, he added, he felt confident the 1923 fiscal year estimates could be reduced to found that Stroff’s the wheels. When searched at the police station, Stroft son a heavy hammer, a large wrench and a short length of heavy chain. Indications of considerable tion_to the recommendation $350,000,00 _ (Coptinued on Page 2, Column 3) ' -