Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1922, Page 2

STATE WILL WATCH DIVORCE ACTIONS Judge Moncure Appoints Guardian Ad Litem to Serve in Alexandria. From a Staff Correspondent. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February In compliance with the rule adopted ' by him in the handling of divorce cases in his court in the future Judge Robinson Moncure of the lo- cal corporation court today appoint- ed Aylett B. Nicol, a local attorney, gunardian ad litem, to represent the commonwealth in the divorce pro- | ceedings started today by Mrs. Irene | H. Havelick agalnst her husband, Francis J. Havelick. This suit is the first one insti- tuted since Judge Moncure, ten days ago, at the request of the local bar associatien, adopted the ruling in the effort to check the alleged di- vorce evil by requiring attorneys filing suits to swear to the truth- fulness of the statements contained in the suits and also requiring the appointment of a lawyer to repre- sent the commonwealth (o be known as the “guardian ad litem. The suit | today w filed by Attornmey Morris Wampler of Washington, and, accord- ing to the petition, Mr. Havelick is charged with desertion. The hus- band and wife are known to be re: dents of Virginia. When the committee hearings March 3 John Barbour, of Fairfax. who is repre- senting Judge Moncure, will cross- examine witnesses who have made charges of a detrimental mnature! agrinst his client. this city will also be at this hearing to represent Oscar Thomas, and Wil son Farr of Fairfax will represent| the law firm of Davis & Budweskey. The latter firm and Attorney Thomas have been mentioned prominently in connection with the divorce practices here. s resumes its Satinfied of Evils Frank Stuart. a member of the local bar, stated during cross-examination by Howard W. Smith, chairman of the investigating committee, that he is satisfled that the facts show there| have been many false affidavits conmection with divorce suits; that there has been frequent collusion; that wrong addresses have been given frequently by applicants for | divorce so as to prevent the defend- ts obtaining notice of the filing of the suit, and that Judge Moncure | who preside: over the corporation | court, has failed to properly enforce the law. Mr. Stuart said he knew of one or two forged signatures to papers in suits, mentioning the case of Thomas Wright of Washington, whose for- mer wife obtained a divorce from him last year and who claims his name was forged to the answer In tte suit. Mr. Wright, when examined. said that “his wifé obtained her divorce without _his knowledge. declared he could prove that she Beves eatabe lished a legal residence within the ate, and that the affidavit regard- ing her residence was falsely sworn to. Attorney Stuart presented two wit- nesses, Mrs. Deborah Lyon and Mrs. Nathan D. Boothe, both of Alexan- aria, in an effort to prove his claims that Judge Moncure had used his powers as a judge to encourage di- vorces rather than discourage them. Six Papers Missing. J. Randall Caton, secretary of the | committee, reported that upon in- quiry he had recovered thirteen di- vorce papers which had been missing from the files of the court. He said six unrecovered papers were handled by Davis & Budwesky and one by Charles Henry Smith, local attorneys. Keith Carlin, a member of the com- mittee, reported that the two cases sought by him stilk were missing. Chairman Smith reported that all five of the missing papers assigned to him had been recovered. Rev. E. V. Regester and Rev. W. J. Morton, members of the Alexamdria Ministerial Association, told the com- mittee they had been named as a committee of the mimisters to inves- tigate the divorce situation, but they preferred to await the outcome of the probe being conducted under the 3us- pices of the bar association. Both asserted they had every confidence in the honesty and integrity of the members of the investigating com- mittee and they were convinced that the committee was conducting its probe in a thorough and fair man- Der. FRYS Ireen Rose Bailey, twenty-six years old, a typist, reslding at 613 B street northeast, was arrested this aftarnoon by Detectives Messer and Sweeney and taken to Alexandria, Va., where the police were informed she is al leged to have sworn falsely in a di. vorce proceeding. The police were told that her husband charged that she had sworn falsely with reference to period during which she claimed to reside in Alexandria prior to the institution of divorce proceedings. —_— UNITED STATES AND ITALY ] RIVALS FOR CABLE LINE Allocation of the former ‘German cable running from Brest to New York and now operated by France is the chief problem to be considered by the international communications conference at its next meeting to- morrow." The line is one of two which were taken over from Germany by France under the provisions of the treaty of Versailles, and it is sought by both the Unifed States and Italy. The conference made “some Prog- ress” at its meeting yesterday, the first since it adjourned last April, according to Acting Secretary of State Fletcher, who has 0 in- trusted with the duty of drawing up a plan for consideration at the next meeting. Discussing the ‘matter of the cable line from Brest, officials intimated to- day that disposition of all cables owned by Germany prior to the war, both in_ the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, hinge on settlement of the claims of Italy and the United States to the line operated from Brest. DEATH OF W. S. SWINGLE. Member of Association of Oldest Inhabitants Survived by Father. ‘Walter S. Swingle. a lifelong resident of this city and a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabi- fants. died suddenly this morning at his home. 1678 Irving street north- west, after a short illness. Mr. Swingle, who was sixty-two years old, had been confined to his bed since Wednesaday. Besides the Association of Oldest Inhabitants he was a member of the ‘Junior Order of Mechanics, a past moble grand of Columbia iodge of Oddfellows. He was educated in the public schools of this city. Mr. Swingle is survived by his father, J. M. Swingle, who is ninety- Qn. ars .old and the oldest living r of the Odd Fellows; his wife, sons, Edwin A, Ernest A.. l.a-b M.; one daughter, Mra. Ada M. Taylor, and five grandchildren. * 'llfi!'l{ uflmll tb.l held at his late home at 11 o'clock. “Enterment will be In Glenwood tery. WILL GO TO MADEIRA. 3 1 w the Associated Press. Bl e et 2 e of son > mhpmr cnrhr and Empress d m!ul& has com- time " | sponsibility for the collapse of the R. W. Stump ol‘ in] | Secretary Weeks added that, m mflm |INCOMING AND_OUTGOING IOWA SENATORS the office of the District assessor, sald | that he had given the alley situation much attention. He declared that| conditions today in these alleys are just as bad as they were ten or RED CROSS VOTES $1,000. ] Acts Quickly to Aid Families of| Roma Victims. National headquarters of the i American Red Cross, at the request of the Langley Field Chapter, has |made an appropriation of $1,000, ’ sufficient to render such temporary ;\n-mm relief as nao-u“y l:?’r the amilies of some of the enlisted men SR Uerianed Tn the urming of the Rev. J. M. Waldron Advocates ! Roma. Col. Arthur G. Fisher of the 8end Is: Provide lighter-than-air service of the ;;nfi issue to and chairman of the Langley Fiel Red Cross Chapter, found thaf the New Homes. families of some of the victims re- 3 | Quired tomporary financlal asslatance | Declaring that It js the duty of 0 cover e expense o N8P in and burying Ho. bodles. ] o need Congress to make same provision for 'was indicated by Col. Fi to housing the thousands of alley awell- élner! G. Thomas, fllro;lnr ;f Red 'ers in Washington, whom Congress ross camp service at Fort Monroe. |ig to [EeommionmD suion (Rt i€l Mo turn out of their alley homes By Ao o !next July under the terms of existing law. Rev. J. Milton Waldron, prasident | = of the Emergency Housing Associa- tion, today urged aga'n upon the Sen- iala District committee the need of putting through a bill authorising a | bond 1asue to ereat sanitarv dwellings | for these people, “The alley peopte are mot an idie |class,” said Mr. Waldron. “They work ievery day they can get work. They { cannot afford to lay ff a dav for Teat. zTh:)lv cannot lay by money to pay for " : edical attention Lecause cheir wages iGrand Jury Will Continue to [ 750" ama X 2 Z Many D. C. Rmplgyes. Hear Kelly’s Testimony in | “But these people are needed in the j District. _ The Distriotgovernment_em- . ployes many ef them. If they were not Knickerbocker Case. needed here they would not ba here. The - police census shows there are 9,000 of The grand jury probe into the re-|these alley dwellers, but I know that there are at least 14,000 of them. The i - ipolice census was made during, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater |BOVCC tensus was made during, the | will be continued next Monday. The |ley people were away at work.” | grand jurofs ‘were winding up-other (Discussing conditions in the alleys 1 1 of ashington, Mr. Waldron said: {matters today and aid not take up the | . NESRREIO, e Waldron pelds, disaster investigation. re @ cancer, where live in squalor, Col. William Kelly, U. S. A., was still | poverty, disease and crime—not who b 5 y of their own making—between 12 tealifyingiwhenitna bour ot “’“:i“;';s 1000 and 14.000 citizens of this repub- {ment was reached yesterday, an lic. The hovels in which most of these | testimony will be resumed Monday | people live are not as good..in many i 4 i Nowed by |Tespects. as the stables in which are maraing BELre Swill :’ M“’K"“"v S, |housed the horses of the rich. The Commander George A. McKay, U. S.|rent charged for these small dwell- IN. who, with Col. Kelly and three |ings is exorbitant. The alley shacks | other government engineers, examined |are seldom repaired. They are almost the theater shortly after the disaster [all of them without running water, and made @ report to United States | inside toilets, baths and hallways. The | Attorney Gordon, setting forth twen- |rooms are small and usually have but | ty-one defects in the work of con-|OfNe window: many of them none at |ty fhe Bunatae all. The back yards are small, al- | *“The probe in expected to oocupy the [most beyond belief. ~ There aré no | attention of the grand jury through- |sidewalks and shade trees in these | Bt mext week. Maj, Gordon is con- |alleys, and along the center of many sidering the advisability of taking the | them dirty water and other filth | grand jurors into court after all the |flow continually. Many of these a testimony is concluded and having |leys are what are known as ‘blind | the court outline the law of involun- alleys'—that is, they do not open out | tary manslaughter before the grand |upon a wide street. jurors vote on the matter of a pre- Duty to Provide Homes. Sentment. 4. oald some or all of the nine per- | ' If Congress has the right to turn the | sons held by the coroners jury be alley people out of thelr miserable considered culpable by the grand jury | dwelllngs, it also has the right to see T pecten Tt will tale several | to it that proper houses are provided days to prepare an indictment, and |that may be rented to these people at Until the indictment, If any, Is re- |® rental within their reach, and if ported to, the court the result of the | COngress has the sense of fairness we Erand jury's deliberation will not be | think it has and is worthy the name iy naltia of law-maker for the greatest Chris- tian nation under the sun, it will pro- ceed at once to Md Washington of its MAJ PEcK NOMINATION slum districts and make it possible . for the alley people to move into sanitary, durable and convenient GETS FAVORABLE REPORT | nouses. Xfl| reply !: l});o-e"‘-hchnay ‘turn the 2 ~ people out of the alley houses and let Officer Who Criticised Missouri|them go into Maryland and Virginia and find work on the farms,’ we would and Kansas Guard Troops say this would be a case of cutting off the nose to spite the face, for the Faces More Opposition. Tork which the alley people In_this T city are doing must be done by some The renomination of Maj. Robert G.|ong and if the alley population is Peck of Chicago to be a lieutenant|turned out then an equal number of colonel was ordered reported favor- | men. women and dg";"‘n e s f e o take their ably today by the Senate military|jigces and the question arises, ‘where committee by a vote of 11 to 3.|are these people to live? In short it Last year the Senate refused to con- :';‘el:!“?_!wndwlnx of ‘the :}tch {or . e de and no moral problem has firm his first nomination, following|,ver been solved this way. The honest investigation of charges that he had|and fair thing to do is to close up the spoken in disparagement of the Mis-|alley dwellings as rapidiy as possible souri and Kansas National Guard|and to authorize the District of Co. troops in the A. E. F. lumbia to provide suitable places!: The fight to prevent promotion of | “All this can be done without. in- Maj. Peck is to be continued, Senator | creasing the taxes of the District of “apper, republican, Kansas, said after [ Columbia a single penny and without today's committee meeting. Ameri- | violating any law of God or man, and can Legion and other service men's.if it is done it will rid our fair capital | oreanizations are urging defeat of|of the only plague spot now left.” the nomination, Senator Capper sald. In today's committee action Sena- Other Witnesses Heard. tors Capper, Spencer, republican, Mis Other witnesses appearing before souri, and Bursum, republican, New |the Senate committee today were E. Mexico, voted against reporting Maj. | W. Oyster, Willlam V. Mahoney, sec- Peck’s nomniation. retary of the Emergency Housing A: Secretary Weeks, in a letter to|sociation; Mrs. Julia Mason Layton Chairman Wadsworth of the military |and S. E. Bomar. committee, stated that since rejection of Maj. Peck's first nomination eighty- two majors to whom he was senior have been promoted over his head. under the law requiring promotion of senior officers, it . was obligatory upon|tWenty years ago, although there has President Harding to send in Maj. |been agitation for years to do away Peck’s name again when it was|With the alley dweliings here. reached on the list, as he was the| “A condition confronts us. It ought Sentor major it pressat: to be wiped out,” sald Mr. Oyster. “It is only just to the people who live ———— in these alleys, however, that some GREEK PRESS BACKS provision should be made for housing them. If not they will scattef and FRENCH SHIP SEIZURE cause congestion in other parts of the city. “Won't that relieve the situation it - %};eyhl‘cnlter?" asked Senator Jones of Declare: v salngton S Government Had Right Declared Up to Congress. to Take Espoir—Action to jayes” admitted Mr. Oyater, “but the ust way of meeting the situation is. Aid Greek Troops. for Congress to make provision for By the Associated Press. these people. They, will have to have 7 shelter somewhere.” ATHENS, Greece, February 24. Pressed by Senator Jones. as to Most of the Greek newspapers sup- | whether the alleys should be closed, gost {he Creck @o¥ernment n ite| WHNCHSE Whe, DA s DL vere passed of not, Mr. Oyster replied: action mEselzlinl' recently the French | PARECC O 1O, B0 C Oyt eve. steamer Espoir, which was interned | shacks in them ought to be burned. in Salamina harbor, on the ground | Senator Jones said that he agreed that it carried contraband of war for | that, the most important thing was the Turkish nationalists in Asia|sogen - o 2 cY® for dwelling pur- Minor. Mr. Oyster said that {f there exists The press here generally takes the | any opposition te closing the alleys view that the Greek government was | for dwelling purposes it is secret apd within its rights in seizing the ship, | comes from men who reap big profits which, the newspapers declare, was|from renting these alley dwellings known beforehand to have been | and have not the courage to admit it, carrying contraband of war destined | Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, who said for the port of Mersina, the Turkish | that for. thirty-five years she has nationalist base of provisions. been a volunteer charity worker Despite , Greece’s sincere desire | among the alley people, also strongl not to ‘“act disagreeably toward | urged that the housing bill be passed. France,” the newspapers argue that | She said that conditions in the alleys the Greek governnient could not| were a disgrace, that house rent w. have proceeded otherwise in a case | ridiculously high, and that the wa, affecting as it did the Greek army | of the laborers who live in the alley: at the front, particularly in the ! were low. Afion-Karahissar sector, where it was{ Senator Ball, chairman of thé eom- especially necessary_to ‘take action for | mittee, asked why the alley dwellers, {he legitimate defense of Greek troops. . | Guring the war period, when' wages The French government has ad-| meywhore, had mot. sot . out ot dressed two notes to the Greek gov- | the alleys. He suggested that if ernment, the first merely demanding.|they could not make a living in those the release of the ship and its cargo, | days such as would enable them to which, the French —government |jive outside the alleys they never claimed, consisted only of coal for | would be able to do so. Anatolian railroads, and the second d of G " threatening to take retaliatory meas- Afeaid o8 Giving AM. ures against Greek shipping, if the| “What I am afraid of is,” said Sen- }wn d‘lnfle‘?l?O v(v}erraknot released | ator Ball, “that Jf these people get immediately. eek governm answered the first note, saying j¢ |\0to their heads that Congress is would release the _ship, ' but would [ going to take care of them they hold its cargo, but* }nu lm;: answered | won't make an effort to help them- second communication, so f selves. Ehown: Ar 28| Selte. Layton declared that the war. She said, too, that many vomn laborers living in Washington alleys never had received the very hi h wages paid elsewhere during ti H. V. WYLIE SUCCUMBS. were the heads of families in the Government Employe for alleys, particularly when the men S5 e vlarz"ox at war. The bulk of the Than Half a Century. \ dwellers, she said, were women. ‘he alleys ought to be closed. Henry V. Wylie, civil war Ve(erln said Mrs. uywn. "‘Iul fl no provision and En::rnme:;t Qm:'l.oaya t:r mor made for housing ropla who than half a century, yesterday n nn of them will his residence, 317 A strest southeaat. | Com® 00t Of thet, 20 He was eighty-three years old. Mr. Wylie was born at Pittsfleld, Mass., September 27, 1838. He served in the 43th during the- civil the war'he eunn “to ‘Washington, | .- later became attache 1920. He was a member of Lodge, A.c:‘l. snd A M Mr. Oyster, formerly connected wlthl pitol today, Just uccexnor. twenty-five years the houses would be pa'd fcr aicd the beads retired, with only a moderate rental charge, ient to meet interest snd provide sinking fund. - | Mr Mahcney sald that European | countries hud Leen far more progres- sive in caring scr the pour in their | jei ies than had the United States. Mr. Waldron insisted that the alley people would not be able to pay $20 2 month rent for houses. They cculd pay $10 to $13 a month, which, he said, ! | ®as contemplated for the houses pro- | d to be erected through the bond issue SEEK HIGHER PAY FOR U. S. LAWYERS (Continued from First Page.) General said, adding: “I shudder when | I think of the problem confronting S Discussing the subject befoce the conference—the raising of educational requirements for bar admission—Mr. Wickersham said there was an In- creasing number of undereducated men crowding into the legal ranks in every city in the country, and that conditions perhaps were worse in New York city than elsewhere. Mr. McAdeo Supperts. William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, presiding, declared that he had been unable to go to law school, but was obiiged 10 get out into the world and make his own living at eighteen years of axe, but that he believed the recommand: tions of the American Bar Assoc tion in regard to” higher educational gualification were worthy of support by all those interested in the improve- ment of legal standards. ‘A conference of delegates repre- senting the Ameriean, state and local |bar assoclations of the country to | consider the vital guestion of admis- ision to the bar ls a significant and dramatic eveat in the history of the profession,” Mr. McAdoo smald. He Dointed _out the various viewpolnts Iwhlch lawyers might ha.. upon the question at issue. Mr. McAdoo declared that the value of the highest moral and ethical stand- lards could not be overestimat { when the responsibility of the lawyer 80 grave and the functions he per- former | was forms so vital to the interest of the client. Such responsibilities make it necessary that professional educa- ‘Would Streagthen Character. A plan to strengthen the moral character of future members of the legal profession was presented Il Draper Lewis, former dean of tl he University of Pennsyivania —De- (claring that present conditions are you realize”—the speaker said that many students lack conscience and will to maintain high standards of “The problem of introducing into our legal educational system the ele- ment of personal contact between law students and members of the bar of high professional ideals, while it canmot be solved by attempt- ing to return in whole or in part to (he old office system, or by throw- on the schools, can be solved, I be- of bar associations and law facul- tles,” Mr. Lewis said. He then submitted the following six “State or local courts or state or articular conditions, to appoint r:‘n'lp educational committees: In ber of the members of the committee e average number of registered law :{‘ud‘nu in the territory. for, which “No person of whoSe moral char- acter the committee is not reasonably l sured to be allowed to register or tion be of the highest standa ‘ this morning’'s session by Will serious—"more serious than m of conduct, which are essential. ing the responsibility for solving it lieve, by a united effort on the part Submits Suggestions. definite suggestions: local bar assoclations, as may best large centers of population, the num. to be about one-tenth or one-fifteenth the committee is appointed. continue to be registered as a law student or to be given the right to take a final examination for admis- sion to the bar. ‘A1l applications for registration as a Jaw_student to be made to the com. mittee, no applicant to be registered until a report has htm made-to the committee concerning Mim by a mem- ber of the committee especially ap- pointed to become personally ac- quainted with him. On registration each student to be assigned to a member of the com- mittee, a substantially equal num- ber of students being assigned to} each member, the duty of the mem- ber to whom a student is assigned | being. to keep in touch with him, be- come acquainted with him, obtain re- ports concerning him from the facul- ty of the law school he attends, and make annually a report concerning him to the committee. “The committee from time to time to arrange for receptions, dinners, or ( other joint meetings of the members of the’ committee, the registered law students and such members of the bench and bar as may be invited, such ineetings as far as practicable to b: arranged at Christmas or other law school vacation perfod, so that they may be attended by the students without” interference with their stu 2 “The committee to take any other steps they may deem advisable to promote a real acquaintance with and .a correct professional feeling among those studying for the ad- mission to bai Dr. Welch Speaks. Dr. William H. Welch, director of the school of hygiene and public health, | Johns Hopkins University, addressed & meeting of the conference held in the ballroém at the New Willard Hotel last night. His subject was: “Some of the Influences Determining Recent Ad- vances in Medical Education.” Hamp- ton L. Carson presided. In an address before the conference yesterday afternoon, Chief Justice Wil- liam Howard Taft of the United States Supreme Court declared that the coun- try now has about all the lawyers it needs, and_approved the plan of the American Bar Association for a two- year college education as preilminary | to a legal education. A complete college course, he said, would be even better. Southern delegates registered some protest against the proposed plan in the course of discussion yesterday aft- ernoon. J. Nelson Frierson, dean of the law school of the University of South Carolina; John Bell Keeble of Nashville, Tenn., and others opposed the two-year college education plan. PALLBEARERS MAY QUIT. Florida Negroes Plan Union and Walk Out, if Pay Is Lacking. ‘ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Februa 24—A strike of negro pallbearers, furnished here by undertakers to serve at funerals for members of thejr race, was threatened today. A com- mittee which asked the chief of po- lice if they could legally organize.a pallbearers’ unior declared they wanted pay for their services, and that they proposed to strike if they did not get it. The police head told them to go ahead. WALKOVER FOR ORELLANA. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, February 23.—Final figures on the presidential elections in Guatemala, which closed yesterday, as received here, show the race to have been vir- tually a walkover for Gen. Orellana, the provisional president, who took office after the overthrow of the Her- rera government last December. Gen. Orellana, who was the liberal candi: received 149,277 votes, as against 189 votes for Jorge Ubico, the com- servative candidate, with 171 scatter~ ing. Previous Guatemalan advices have stated that the conservatives general- 1y abstained from voting. SRS WEDDING IN MAY [But Young Girl Has Yet to Get -0. K. From Granddaddy, John D. By the Associated Press. ZURICH, Switzerland, February 24. ~—The weddjng of Miss Mathilde Mc- ‘Cormick, the sixteen-year-old daugh- ter of Harold F. McCormick, presi- dent of the International Harvester Company, to Max Oser, a riding mas- ter of Zurich, will take placa in May at the McCormick country seat near Chicago, according to present plans. Oser, who s still absent from Zurich, has accepted to conditions un- der which the McCormick family gave their ‘concent to the match, which were that he take up his residence in the United States and become a cit- izen of that country. Oser's futher was a cavalry riding master of Basle, who lost most of his fortune by 2dventurous expedi- tion intn Af) Later he founded the Kasle University Riding School. The mother Leloaged to a good old Liasle family numed Mongold, which Wwils not of German origin. Oser hus & married sister in South Africa and a Lrother wac is farming in Argentina, AWAITS GRANDDADDY'S 0. K. it John D. Rockefeller to Entertain Mathilde in Florida. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 24.—Miss Ma- thilde McCormick, sixteen-year-old daughter of HaroM F. McCormick, president of the International Har- vester Company, and Mrs. Edith Rock- efeller McCormick, has not received the consent of her grandfather, John with Max Oser, aged forty, a riding master of Bern, Switzerland. A close friend of the family denfed that Mr. Rockefeller had given his approval to the match, and added that such approval has not as yet been sought. Miss McCormick and her father are g0ing to Florida the latter part of next week, the friend said. “but not with the idea of getting Mr. Rocke- feller's permission for the marriage to_take place.” Mrs. McCormick, who obtained a di- vorce two months ago, has so far de- clined to comment on her daughter's engagement. It was explained that recent re- ports that Mr. Rockefeller has ap- proved the match were due to a mis- understandin; A telegram signed “Uncle John,” expressing congratula- tions, was received and it was gen- erally supposed that it came from John D. Rockefeller, sr.. but instead it was from John D. Rockefeller, ir. {JOINT CONCERT GIVEN BY TWO ORGANIZATIONS Almas Glee Club and Rubinstein Club Present Program Which Arouses Enthusiasm. A joint concert, one of the largest in this city, was given in the New Ma- sonic Temple last night by the Almas Glee Club and the Rubinstein Club. As an added feature of the evening. the club presented Miss Gloria Perles, soprano, of New York, who entertain- ed the capacity audience with eight delightful songs. Charles R. Bartlett directed the Almas club and Claude Robeson wa¥ In charge of the Rubin- stein organization. The opening number of the program, “The Weeping Willo by Rhein- berger, was sung jointly by the two clubs—making a chorus of 160 voices. 80 men/and 80 women. The clubs, to- gether likewise, sang the closing number, “Wynken, Blynken and Nod,” by Nevin. This well trained, well bai- anced and mighty chorus scored tr mendous successes in both these pres- entations, and individually, as the other numbers were produced, they also brought forth prolonged expres- sions of approval. Last night was the first time both musical organizations have united in one concert. Each, however, has per- formed separately to the delight of the public, and the result of their union last night is obvious. It is the plan of the directors to repeat the performance at an early date. The program follows: “The Weeping -Willow” (Rheinber- ger), Rubinstein Club and Almas Glee Club; “The' Dew, It Shines” (Rubin- stein), “The Brass Band” (Passmore) Rubinstein _ Club; ewel Song.” “Faust” (Gounod). Miss Perles; “Landsighting,” with solo by Harry Mott Forker (Greig); “Coppah Moon" (Shelley), Almas Giee Club; Bergere legere. Jeunes fillettes and Venez, agreable printemps (Wekerlin), Miss Perles; “Sleep, My Darling” (Zucca): “By the Waters of Minnetonka” and “The Rose” (Lieurance), “The Big Brown Be (Zucca), Rubinstein Clul Would Weave a Song for You” (O'Hara), “There Is a Garden” (Proctor), “The Cunnin’ Little Thing” (Hageman), “Ma Little Sunflower, Good-Night” ~ (Vanderpool), Miss Perles; “The March of Prince Rupert's Man” (Thayer), Almas Glee Club, and “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” (Nevin), by the Rubinstein Club and the Almas Glee Club. —_— FIND LIQUOR IN SHINGLES. CALAIS, Me., February 24—Two hundred cases of Canadian whisky, valued at $10,000, were seized yester- day by United States customs inspec- tors in & Maine Central freight car at Holway siding, near Dennysville. The liguor was hidden under bundles of shingles. PROMINENT MEMBERS FROM BAR ASSOCIATIONS WHO ARE IN|associaic ) OONFERENCE IN THIS CITY. Rockefeller, sr., to her marriage | and most spectacular ever witnessed | “CANNOT TELL A'LIE,” SAYS GEORGIE, IN COURT, ACCUSED AS FIREBUG By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 24. 'Twas the day after Washington’ birthday, and visions of hatchets and hacked cherty trees still flit- ted through the head of twelve- Yyear-old George Benning, colored, When he went before Assistant Fire Marshal Tierney to talk about the eight fires that have occurred at George's house in the last two weeks. "Georgle, do you know what George Washington was famous for?’ queried the marshal “George Washington was the father of his country and he could not tell a lie,” George de- claimed in his best public school manner. “And would you like to be fa- mous like George Washington?” “Yes, sir; I sure would.” “Then tell us who started the fires in your house.” T “I cannot tell a lie, sir; I did, said George. Whereupon the reporters all dashed away to spread George's fame. MORSE CONTRACT Grand Jury May Report Today on Agreements Wit_h Ship- ping Board. The investigation begun last month by the grand jury into contracts made by Charles W. Morse and others with the United States Shipping Board was completed today. The grand jurors noon or tomorrow morning. { News that the Shipping Board would eek Indictments from the local grand jury against Morse and others for con- spiracy and embezzlement leaked out November 30, last, when the Depart- ment of Justice notified the author- ities in France to prevent the landing of Morse from the French liner Paris, on which he was sailing to Europe. Morse was detained on the dock and agreed to return to America after eral Daugherty seeking delay that he might consult a physician at Rome. Morse returned within a_short time and came at once to Washington, where he gave bail, December 13, in the sum of $50,000 for his appearance to answer any indictment which might be returned against him. Mr. Daugherty had refused the delay and requested immediate return, Great Mass of Evidence. Fletcher Dobyns and Robert T. Donehoo, special assistants to the At- torney General States Attorney Gordon in presenting | to the grand jury a greal mass of documentary and other evidence re- lating to contracts made with the which are said to have totaled $40,- 000,000. A number of expert account- ants under Mr. Dobyns have been working for weeks o e books of corporations in whicih Morse is iuter- ested in an effort to unearth tEu- larities. These books were brought to Washington from New York and clse- where under subpoena from the grand jury. Attorney Wiiton J. Lambert counsel for Morse, at% vent thé books of Two being ssbmitted to ine View of the | | grana jurors, but later withdrew his opposition and the books were pre sented. B Mr. Dobyns as assistant to the At- torney General under Roosevelt con- ducted the government's case against John R. Walsh, president of the flar capacity under Taft prosecuted and cashier of the ldaho National Bank at Lewiston. —_— UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE BILL DEFEATED IN JAPAN Vote of Diet Was 288 to 158. Monster Demonstrations Threaten Trouble. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, February 23.—The Jap- | anese universal suffrage measure was defeated in the diet, 288|to 159, ac- cording to a cablegram from Tokio today to the Nippu Jiji, a Japanese language newspaper her: The occasion for today's monster demonstration before the diet bulld- ings was afforded by the announce- ment that discussion of the universal suffrage bill was scheduled to take place in the lower house. Elaborate police precautions had been taken to prevenl the crowds from rushing into the deit precincts and to keep the demonstrators moving. Several thou- sand police had been distributed strategical locations. —_— UNIVERSITY’S HOT DEBATE Graduating Class Elects Officers After Hours of Oratory After four hours of flery oratory and debates replete with parlia- Mmentary tactics, members of the graduating class of the National Ufi- Versity early this morning succeeded in”electing class officer The meet- ing convened at 8:30 o'clock last night and it was 12:45 o'clock this morning when adjournment was tak- en. Electric lights were cut off at one Stage of the debate in an effort to preciud> a ballot for the officers. The officers elected are: Marvin F. Bischoff, president; J. C. Kramar, vice president; Thomas J. Ahern, (reas- Brar; P, J. Urbina, secretary; Mi |Donna M. Davis, "historian; 'J. °T. vd, sergeant-at-arms; L. O. Car- Ver. class prophet; T. Howard. editor 3¢ the year book, and C. A. Kephart, editor of the year book. BOASTS OF DRINKING. Young Man Is Arrested, But Gets Free in Court. The spirit of boasting almost got James D. Hartley in trouble when he was brought into Police Court to- day charged with drinking in public. According to the testimony of Po- n E. J. Ball, who made the ar- lrl::cml:at night, Hartley was standing with~a friend outside’ of a near-beer saloon near Sth and L streets. The friend pulled-a bottle out of his hip pocket and handed it to Hl.r(ley H-.rl'ley took a hl‘ drink apd gave ;ha bottle back the friend, who ted. o{lumm Ball then stepped up and asked Hartley what it was he had been drinking.” “Ligquo Hart- jey replied. Whereupon the polic man put the young man under ar- rest and directed him to the second inct. w;:x'r\uly in oourt today admitted all the )nllc-nu.n sald except that he only had been fooling the officer as to t ‘he- had been drinking. “It was only lemon pop,” he told the court. As the bottle in question was | not at hand, and the plausibility of the story created a doubt in’ the mind of the judge, the case was dis- mi . — LONG FILES PAPERS. Takes First Step in Race for Seat 7 in United States Senate. JEFFERSON CITY, 24 —Breckenrid, Lo sarides Lone ol WORK ON LIBRARY INQUIRY IS ENDED : are expected to report late this after- | sending a cablegram to Attorney Gen- | have aided United | Shipping Board during the war and | Chicago National Bank, and in a sim- | Koester and Kettenbach, president | BUILDING BEGUN Southeastern Branch to Be Erected at 7th and D, Just Off Avenue. Work on the erection of the build- ing for the southeastern branch of the Public Library at 7th and D streets southeast, just off from Pennsylvania avenue, has been started by the con- tractors, Arthur L. Smith & Co. The Carnegie Corporation has allotted $67,000 for the building. This sum s to cover the furniture, fixtures and architect's fee. The architect of the building is Edward L. Tilton of New York, who specializes in library build- ngs. The contract for the erection of the building originally called for its com- pletion by July 1. Owing to the neces- sary delays in securing from the Car- negle Corporation an increase in the amount needed to erect a thoroughly satisfactory building, the contractor ! will be granted a corresponding e tension of time. Completion of the building is now expected by August 5. 1t should therefore be possible to open tae branch library for service to the public by September 1 or short- ly thereafter. The District of Columbia ap- propriation bill as it passed the Mouse carried no appro- priation_for the maintenance of this branch Bbrary. The president of the | library beard and the public librarian | recently appeared before the District subcommitiee of the Senate commit- tee on appropriations and ask-1 that ems fox running thiz oranch li- | brary, approved by the budget, be in- |cluded in the District appropriation {bill. Unless such appropriations are | granted, it is pointed out that the | completion of the building as called for by the contrast would mean thit | the branch library would stand emj.tv and idle for a large part of the nest fiscal year. (CABINET DISCUSSES | ROMA DESTRUCTION; | NEW AIR PLAN SEEN | | « from Page.) {John's Church, whose ancient throat cracked vears ago, after a century of death knells, spoke again the sorrow of the town, whose people felt most keenly the pall of the disaster. Meanwhile the Army board pressed its invesfigation into the cause of th v, hearing more wit- nesses behind closed doors, and was expected to be ready to report its conclusions to the War Department within a few days. urvivors who have beén inter- viewed by the board of inquiry have ispoken in glowing terms of the con- spicuous bravery of Master Sergt A. Chapman of St. Joseph, Mo., who is now in a serious condition at the Public Health Hospital here. It is understood that he will be given honorable mention in the official re- port to be filed with the War Depart- | ment at the conclusion of the inves- Sergt. Chapman was in a compart- ment with Several of his comrades, isurvivors say, when the Roma |plunged 1o her doom. He had the nce of mind to cut an opening {with his pocket knife in the canops {of flaming canvas that enveloped the ruins, and after he hag torn a hole through the compartmént, he is said to have stood to one side and yelled to his companions to climb through to safety. It was not until four men had crawled from the seething in- ferno that Sergt. Chapman himself escaped. In saving the lives of four of his comrades, Sergt. Chapman sustaired |such severe burns that for two days little hope was entertained by at- tending physicians for his recovery. It is now believed that he will re- cover. The condition of Charles W. Dworack, superintendent of air craft construction at McCook Field, Ohio who was severely burned, continue 1to improve and today physicians at the Public Health Service Hospital are hopeful of his recovery Maj. John D. Reardan of Washington and Master Sergt. Waiter A. McNair of the bureau of standards in Washing- iton, who were also badly burned in the wreck, are much improved today. All are rapidly recovering. WAS NATIVE OF WARRENTON. Sergt. Hilliard One of Victims of Roma Disaster. WARRENTON, Va, February 24— Sergt. Louls Hiiliard, one of the wic tims of the Roma disaster, was a na- tive of this city. He was the son of Mrs. Anna Holderby and grandson of Mrs. B. B. Turner. also of Warrento | Sergt. Hilliard, who was about thirty two vears old, married Miss Juliet White of Warrenton last year. His mother left for the scene of the geeident, accompanied by her sister. A.'W. Stgother, and Mrs. W. H. Smith, mother Be Mre. Hilliard, RAPS SOLDIER BONUS. Builders Would Devote All Funds to Aid Disabled. ' MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 24.— i Adoption of resolutions strongly op- posing the payment of @ cash bonus to able-bodied soldiers who served in the world war, but favoring “most liberal treatment” for relief of dis- abled soldiers and the widows and children of those who gave their lives in their country's service; commend- ing the efforts under way for the re duction of governmental expenditures: recommending that steps be taken for the adoption of a uniform mechanics lien law in all states, and urging legislative action by Congress which { would remove the exemptions on tax- action of incomes from state, county and municipal bonds, and the selec- tion of Des Moines, Iowa as the next convention city, were the principal matters taken up at the closing busi ness session of the convention of the National Association of Builders’ Ex- changes here. WANTS EASTER DATE SET. ST. LOUIS, February 24.—The moon is too inconsistent a planct to govern the date of Easter, {n the opinibn of Rev. M. S. Brennan, astronomer- priest of this city, who has expressed hope that the council of astronomers called by the late Pope Benedict XV for a meeting in Roma next April wm decide to eliminate the moon esans of determining the date of the paschal_feast Mr. Brennan recently suggested that a certain date be fixed or a cer- tain Sunday and suggested that either April § or tHe second Sunday in April be designated the day on Wwhich the churches celebrate Easter. The pres- ent method of fixing the first Sunday following the finst full moon after the vernal equinox, Father Brennan | points out, leaves & range of thirty- four days for the Easter feast, and by fixing a certain day or certain Sunday, he believed, much confusion could be avoided. L S RULE AGAINST WIFE. Justice-Bailey today, in the case of Rosamond W. Glover against her hu band, Charles Porter Glover, for main tenance, held that a wife is not enti- tled to compel her husband to support her when she leaves his home without just cause. In Mrs. Glover's bill of