Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1922, Page 5

T % = N HE EVENING ' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1922. 5 SNOW TO CONTINUE. Sleet or Rain Expected Tonls <. Inclement Weather Tomorrow. Today’'s snow will continue this afternoon and tonight with the prob- ability of changing into sleet or rain; a slight rise in temeprature and inclement weather tomorrow in the form of rain or sleet is the forecast for the District of Columbia issued 1by the Weather Bureau today. The change in weather is due to a storm from the Rio Grande valley, now central over Mississippi and mov- POPE TO END VAIN TRIPS T0 GONCLAVE Tells Cardinal 0’Connell All U. S. Prelates to Be Pres- FRENCH ARMY HELD/, EUROPE STABILIZER Col. Fabry Points Out Rea- sons for Maintenance of . O. P. LEADERS CALL ON THE, FRANGE WATCHING U. 3. TARIFF ACTION Already Affected by Wine SENATE CONFIRMS NAMES. Approves Secretaries Hughes and Hoover for Debt Commission. * The nominations of Secretary Hughes {of the State Department and Secretary Hoover of the Department of Com- merce to the allied debt funding com- mission were confirmed by the Senate late ‘yesterday. Previously the Senate had adopted a i resolution extending for ten days the | time in which the judiclary committee jcan report as to the constitutionality —of the nominations of Senator £moot, Prohibition, and Fears RALROAD CHANGES - EFFECTIVE TODAY Guaranty Provision Expires apd Period for Loans | ing northeastward, the weather man said. [ Also at an End. Two important changes in govern- ment policy toward the nation's rail- roads became effective today. The section of the transportation act fixing 6 per cent as the return on railroad properties which railroads are entitled to earn under Interstate ent at Next Electicn. P RouE, Febraary 28—an e NEGROES HOLD UP GROCER POLICE MAKE CAPTURE | American cardinals will be present at Neighbor Follows One of Three republican, Utah, and Representative 5 Other Losses. ; Burton, n, Ohio, to the com- BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. missio: uestion of their eligi- By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Dility has been raised under the sec- Covyrighit, 102 ~ | tion of the Constitution referring to PARIS, Mareh 1o Progress of the!the appointment of members of Con- Fordney tarift bifl in the American |5Te® to federal civil offices. Congress 1s belng watched with anx- R fety in French commercial circles.| HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Misgivings concerning American tar- Large Forces. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922. PARIS, March 1.—The long antlel- pated debate over the new army bill reducing military service to one and a half years has begun. Col Jean Fabry, formerly alde to Gen. Joffre the next conclave,” said Pope Plus during an audience of Cardinal O'Con- nell of Boston this morning. “There will be no more racing 5,000 miles in a vain endeavor to reach! Bandits and Causes His Com > issi Rataeria (lmeifer & Cortliva” the! Fe and now chalrman of the parliament- iff Intentions have been so abundant VIOLATES FIRE RULES | comtres togas. e sith tagay thers pontiff added. “The United States i ary army commission, has given the that danger still existy of rulning expired the period during which rall- !5 too important to be lgmored as| Three colored bandits held up the|writer the complete detalls of the the g-eater part of the French-Amer- S i BiE Cotolon cny the ican trade through the awkward han- dling of tariff legislation. What happens when two nations fail to arrive at an amicable tariff agreement is clearly shown in the present Franco-Spanish trade quarrel which has resulted in the virtual ces- sation of commerce between the two countries for the last three months. Leading Frenchmen do not conceal their fear that the Fordney bill will be administered in such a way as to Sprinkler System and Standpipes Required at Central, Says 1 Chief Watson. The auditorium of the new Central High School does not appear to com- ply with the regulations governing an assembly hall or a theater from a fire standpoint, Fire Chief Watson stated today. The chief stated today that the regu- lations provide that an assembly hall whlchhsflals ‘l;nore than 1,500 |)Pl’§"fih; must have the sprinkler svstem an lead to danger of a similar result. R ndnines for hove mitachment’ The Reasons for Anxiety. ! Central High School hall seats 1,900 Ny I people, he said. The - French anxiety may be ex-!" Asked what action he planned to take, the chief «aid he would address project. France before the war maintalned an army of 947,000 men, of whom 736,000 were in France and the rest is cash register. | N o |imithe colonica She has under arms Ten minutes later Crossing Police-iat pregent 800,000 men, distributed L e P yanty at Sth and | .g follows: One hundred thousand on . | the Rhine, 300,000 in the colonies and the near east, 400,000 in France. The Oh, what a wonderful country vou | newiBIIWII sadncoltl LI ve! i > X & 3 i a year to ., ), ! o have! There the church Is free. really {tajken from him. the police says jam | thousand on the Rhine, 230,000 in the At smowhera e There the | jickdon, a colored neighbor of the |colonies, 330,000 in France. About s e P | Erocer, who followed )im and pointed | half of these troops are white and all thati solleion ton mives aon t0!him out to the policeman. Not only |the other half colored. fair Rsn in give. It is algid Johnson admit participation in Strength of Other Powers. W he robbery, according to the pol Col. Fabry points out that Great grocery store of Joseph Bowredey, | 744 4th strest, about 8:45 o'clock this; jmorning. Two of them displayed re-, colvers. They took about $52 from | his h register. government during the war are en- titled to ask government loans to aid them in continuing operations after return to private management. Reasonable Return. The 6 per cent return clause, gener- ally called the guarantee provision, is superseded today by the transporta- tion act provisions, which hereafter require the Interstate Commerce Com- miesion to make rates that will give railroads a “reasonable return on the value of property used in transporta- tion.” The commission is expected, there- for jtself what earnings <onable return, and_to v, The subfect she has been. T shall see to it that what happened at the last conclave shall not occur again. i H “It was the second time t T have ! rushed across the Atlantic oc only § to be too late,” the Eoston T dinal, alluding to his failure to arrive | in time to participate. During the course of the audience, |y ‘Which lasted an hour, the Pope said: | he I3 sald by the police | admitted he was one of the; . A loaded revolver was| s a “I know. too. ho 4 | # adi £- i i : e A e bTon: e numed his accomplices, | Britain. excluding its self-governing plained thus: s 5 of the definition of reasonable retu of Anicticn ok 0 as at home when they|dominions, now ~maintaing 644,000 e L ! "'The French fear that the proposed;a lgtter fo Assistant Superintendent | R e i el e cal peaple. 't reeo: Bowredes Jwas alone in 'his store ! frontiers and no heavy colonial re- 3 : . 7k s | to the United States. They also think | board of education will take. D e S w'm:;fl:i.m(‘_.\m;;: i“-r-v:}m_'l 'fv(;:-‘\m‘r (\‘-hpn ;hv‘ thre rulur(;d mgn np‘w:lrelli sponsibility, maintains an army of Fithic A = % that France will be unable t0 buy | | j¢ j;; relation to rate reguiation. 4 LD T Ame ne of the men purchased a piece of | 202,000, ey foe 4 0 St i i = ' fea. espectally in these trying (mes | ik, Then one" ot his companions | The total cost of the French army : rig g {rom the United Sttea'IL prohibilshj nre nrjces uncertaln;andlonkiicons Applications for Loans. Pl e e j?«" ng through | asked for sweet potatoes, and it waslin 1921 was 3,900,000,000 francs s s by high tariffs from paying tracts impossible. Applications from railroads desiring Cardi !:I“r‘)?(“' pe [l"“ ) - i when the grocer turned to weigh the| (normally about $780,000,000). The % . goods for their purchases. They fully Special Agreements. the government loans have been pour- et Otonucl _then '." d_the)potatoes that two drawn Weapons |new army, although reduced, will cost e i recognize the sovereign rights of the| On the other hand, they recognize ing in to the commission in considerable holy father of the relations heiween | confronted him. They then took the almost as much, owing to the Increase A % B Beacen. ot 1t must mot be for- | that this discretion ‘makes possible|iumbers during the last few days in the roatholics and Protestants 'in|money from the cash Tegister and left|in tho technical services, However, i 7 & o nite 8, yo special commercial accords, which |the endeavor to get in before the limi- b a and how both co-operate in|the store. Search 1s being made for|¢he British army, excluding that of i s g gotten that France's purchasing pow- | they welcome. The French system |tation began. Among roads asking for monetary aid today were the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, which sought $1,000,000 for new eguipment and re- pairs,” and the Memphis, Dallas and Gult, which asked for $246,782, half of which is to be used for new equl ment and the_ balance for improv: ment to its 1 There are ulso in the flles of the commission, it is understood, applic: ¢ions which will be made public after ! being recorded. POSTMASTERS NAMED. President’s Nominations Relate to Three Nearby States. President Harding has nominated the following postmasters for Mary land, Virginia and West Virgini Maryland—Mary, W. Stewart, Ox- ford, and Morris [k Rouzer, Thurmont "irgini Anderson. Cook. the social and economic life. He #aid that no enmity existed between the members of the two faiths and that when 2 good and noble work was to be done both united for the common good. The bontiff, hearing the Boston curdinal's words, seemed deeply moved. He said: Maken for Harmony. “I like that. It is a great advan- tage. It makes for peace and har- mony everywhere. America is truly wonderful and full of hope and promise. My prayer is that the Catholics of America will_continue to be united in the bonds of brother- | 1y affection. Let the hiera stand together for all that is hest in human . Of course. there will be human defects and differenccs, but when the 8pirit is right and the principles true God will take care of the rest. No one expects perfection in this world, but what we want is good will all around.” Cardinal O'Connell sald he was deeply impressed by the pontiff: is based on high—almost prohibitiv —basic_ tariffs which are grea lowered by speclal agreements with the countries that reciprocate. l the other men. |LIQUOR BUYING AS CRIME. RICHMOND, Va., March 1.—Pur- chasers of ardent spirits sold in vio- | lation of the prohibition laws are placed in the same category with| lilicit _distillers and bootleggers by an amendment to the Mapp prohib tion bill adopted by the Virginia} | senate. the dominions, Costs even more than the French--4,500,000,000 francs (3900, 000,000), reckoning the franc at par, or nearly 8,000,000,000 francs at the present rate of exchange. The United States Army costs, ac- cording (o Fabry, 2,500,000,000 francs. France intends as European condi- tions permit to cut military service to ono year, thus still further diminish- ing the army, but is unable to do so| mediately, partly for complex tech- | nical reasons and partly for the fol- lowing political reasons: I | .|er 1s already severely crippled by Kansas, photo- | the American prohibition of wine, National Photo. | which is one of the leading French exports. Hence Frenchmen hope that Left to right, John T. Adams, chairman of the republican natlo mittee and D. W. Mulvane, mational committeeman sraphed at the White House The French do not conceal the fact that they hope for a similar accord with the United States, but they yminl‘ out that that country alr v en- jovs the position of a special fa-' vored nation. but has not vet recip- jrocated. Under these circumstances, the initiative must come from the | United States. If such an arrcement 1 the United States will not cripple them further. What especially worrles France is {the novel Xealuredin the Fordney bill i S ¢ com- maintained for aggressive purposes and {s a menae€ to world peace, Col. Fabry declares: ~ disarmed, but she still possesses the best and largest chemical and metal- lurgical works in Europe. She has a fine railroad system and will soon have a highly eficient civil aviation system. These factors, while entirely Iegiti- mate in peace times, are extremely important also in modern war. Ger- many has 100,000 soldiers in the reich- awehr under the treaty of Versailles and 150,000 militarized police, making a total of 250,050 men, who, the French consider, could effectively serve as a cover in case of mobiliza- tion. Against these the new bill leaves France only 430,000 men in France and on the Rhine. Aggressive Aim Denfed. (i B o ihe B Th: Frenc las recently rev v the Sen at the French army being bl”durlllee. namely, the power on universal military service every:president to modify the tariffs at his ;"3’;;1“;'4'&‘51" manshasitosrye in case gigcretion. The French seem to fear ar. The French people hate war ver will be excreised in- | | It only becatise they have suffered 80 | Hioirimioately aainst the low-exchange | 1% Mot made the logical rasult woul: much from it, and consequently they | cocimirs unger ihe pretext of prevent- | be that France would place the would never permit an army organi- | ing dumping of cheap gvods on the | United States under the basic tariT. zation for other than defensive pur-| American markets. It is possible that | This would destroy the mre Pt | the French also fear that this discretion | 0 & commerce which on the That far from being an element off tight be used as a political weapon— | 1913 figures, allowing ' for unrest, the French army is probably|for instance, as a threat to force would be the greatest stabilizing factor in Eu- | France to reduce her army. Since the | imports from the U rope, for if the Germans, smarting Washington conference Frenchmen | $150.000.000 export under defeat, felt that they had the|feel mystified at the American psy-| The French bel slightest chance of coping success- | chology, and distrust their own judg- fully with France they would perhaps ' ment concerning the United States. not malke war, but would almost cer-| The French fear that this discretion Protection Against Invasion. France has been invaded thrice in the last hundred years and has not the slightest intention of being in- vaded again if she can prevent it. While the majoiity of the German people are probably disgusted now at the very idea cof war, the ruling classes in industry, finance and edu- i eation, who still wield real power in iermany, are by no aenmn:esllxn;d to defeat, and are thoug! o be Vi ity to lying to arguments heard fre :l:\aailgglge;‘he i o qufifiy in the United States and Eng- It is true that Germany has been land that the French army is being AVENUE AT NINTH e v character, the holy father also had great bodily rength. Cardinal O'Connell then presented Mgr. Michal J. Splaine of Boston and Father Richard J. Haberlin and six students of the American College, [all of them from Boston, to Pope I Pius. Near the end of the audience Cardinal O'Connell presented his; valet, John Riedi, who is a Swiss, earnest and calm manner, his clear- | to the Pope. who asked him all about ness of mind and his kindly disposi- the Alps. declaring he had climbed tlon. Besides great strength of almost all of them. e it 1o the In- ! terest of both nations that the Presi- dential discretion should ba used to | make a stable agreement with France {ainly upset all of Europe with their | might be used to alter the tarifts aton a reciprocal most-favored-nation chie * basis. trigues, pressures and resistances. frequent intervals, thus making fu ) | | | | | fl | | FROM THE Just. a Few Pianos and Players Priced to Sell Quickly And Just a Word as to Prices Prices alone do not necessarily mean values. To fully appreciate the prices on new and used in- struments we are offering at this time it is absolutely necessary that you see them. The figures alone do not give you a fair idea of the real worth of these bargains. Come in and see them. You cannot obtain the value you seek in a piano or player without looking for it. 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