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NEWCRISISFAGED- BY LLOYD GEORGE Early Election or Resignation of Premier Expécted to Result. b 1 COALITION ABOUT TO FAIL | Prime Minister Demands Conces- sionist Leader Go or He Will Quit. By the Associated Press, LONDON, March 2.—Either an early Eeneral election or the resignation of Lrime Minister Lloyd George will be the upshot of the present political erisis, it is generally bclicved. The apparently widening breach in | the conservative party, together with the consistent gain in strength of the liberals under former Fremier the laborites, as evi- the recent bye-elections, d these alternatives on the Asquith and in denced have fo premier. Mr. Lloyd George is understood ml have served notice in his letter to J. Austen Chamberlain that Sir 'r_of the con- who recently ed the premier in the house of commons, must go or he will step down from office. Tactics Meet With Disfavor. Sir George Younger's tactics have met with disfavor among a consid- erable section of the party, expecially with Mr. Chamberlain and Lord! Chancellor Birkenhead, the latter| publicly voicing his disapproval in af recent speech. In this connection significance is attached to a re- port that Younger may resign from ihe house and be elévated to the peerage. - the government leaders much time to the prob-! an early meeting of the arty is expected. ie-hards” is that 1e to recognize Lloyd George's s they are allowed to y of their coalition, h would include restoration of the legislative veto to the house of lords and a protective tariff. { Threatened to Quit Before. The prime minister aid to have threatened to resign when he returned from Cannes, but was dissuaded by Chamberlain. " Since then, disintegration in the coalition has proceeded rapidly, a large bod\ of the conservatives showing a disposition to support the revolting element. At the same time recent bye- | elections, in wiich the government can- didates were defeated, tended to show are giving lem, and whole conservative The attitude of the they de leader: the country was compi out of sympathy with the coalition, while the an liberals, pposed to coalition, are con- stantly gaining strength Iiver since parliament reassembled the belief that_general elections were ap- proaching has overshadowed 2ll pro- ceedings of a political character, both Wwithin and outside of parliament. Leaders Consider Situation. Meetings of the government whips and the organizing leaders of the conserva- tive party have been held to consider the new situation, and. although nothing definite has been decided, it is expected that a meeting of the whole conservative party will be called at an early -date. The " contents of the letier which the | Daily Telegraph says the prime min- ister has written to Austen Chamberlain as leader of the unionists, are not known, but it is said that the premier pointed out that there was only one leader of the coalition. and taat Cham- berlain, and not Younger. was the leader of the conservative party. “SLACKER” BILL PASSED. The House, by a vote of 264 to 20, Yesterday passed the Senate bill ex- tending indefinitely the time during Which draft. evaders and deserters from the Army or Navy during the world war could be prosecuted, by continuing the military status of de- serters. The measure also extends for another three years the time dur- ing which draft dodgers can be brought to trial in civil courts, ccretary Weeks, in a letter to| Chairman Kahn of the military com- inittee, urged prompt passage of the ill. —_— It is just twenty-five vears since wire- less telegraphy was discovered by Mar- coni. 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The court took this action to prevent the valuable record from being mutilated; it al- ready is torn in places and some Pages have their edges chipped off. The old register contains the rec- ords of some notable marriages. Among these are the marriage li- censes of President James Madi on and Dolly Payne Todd, whose wed- ding was held at a colonial estate mnear here; of Gen. Danfel Morgan, oiten alluded to by historians as the “Stonewall Jackson of the revo- lution”; of numerous nieces and nephews of George Washington, and of the Lees, Carters, Burwells, Nelsons, Pages and a host repre- senting the blue blood of the Old Dominion. {SIX MEN RELEASED IN TAYLOR MYSTERY Mrs. fiupp’s Allegations Found Useless Solving Murder of Picture Director. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March The six men arrested Tuesday on in- John Rupp, their housekeeper, have no con- jnection with the murder of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture di- rector, here: February 1. it was an- nounced by Detective Sergt. Herman formation furnished by Mrs. : THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN(;‘:TON, D. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922, NEW AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE HAILED IN FRYNCE AS REAL ART DOCTORS POINT OUT D. C. WATER PERIL Menace of Possiblé Break in System Shown in Resolu- tions by Society. Washgngton physicians, as'an or- Banization, last night gave official recognition to perils menacing the health of the city in the waterworks situation, when the Medical Society of the District of Columibia “unani- mously adopted a resolution focus- ing attention on “the great danger to property, health and life” that ‘Wwould result from a break in any one of the conduits now supplying water to Washington. o The action last night at the so- clety’s regular meeting was the re- sult of cumulative cqnsideration in committee meetings and in the gen- eral meeting of the society. Intense interest in the -situation from the viewpoint of experts in guarding the health of a community was evidenced from the short addresses from the floor preceding adoption of the reso- lution. “| Dr. J. A. Gannon the presgnted resolution regarding the dangerous situation resultant from the over- worked District water supply sys- tem and included a sccond resolution With this one. The second resolufion urged upon the District Senate and House committees the urgent need of an additional aqueduct. Points Out Dangers. The first resolution called_attention to the fact that within a few hours Cline, in charge of the Investigation. | 17 < e ge o ol after a break in any one of the aque- Mrs. Rupp's tement definitely | ducts’ the city would be thrown into assorted that Rodney Calvert. oneline grip of A of the six in custody, said in her | wouly & i J presence that he would shoot Taylor if the latter carried out a purported | threat fo report the sale to him of {synthétic liquor under the guise of bonded goods. Sheriff's depu questioned Chinese motion picture actor know jonly as “Jim,” but said once to have me serious proportion: Dr. Gannon stated that the Senate had evinced its interest in the matte by replacing in the District bill tl ropriations for in ing local water facilities. The alarming con- ditions had been known for some time, he said. but action upon it was difficult to obtain. a n been employed by Taylor. They| FProponents for the betterment of stated they ‘learned nothing of im-|the local water supply tem ex- portance. i, = 1.5 jpressed gratification” today at the The police said “Jim” was not the |action of the physicians of the Dis- actor whose arrest was a possibility. _ LONG CASE GOES OVER; PROSECUTOR GIVEN ILL Charge of Blackmail Against Man Accused of Writing Letters Changed to Threats. On account of illness from a severe cold of Ralph Given, assistant United States attorney, who has been handlin the prosecution of the case George have confessed to have written day. The charge against Long was for- which the po- The charge_ has been changed to that of, threatd as there was no evidence of blackmail intent in the letters said to have been merly blackmail, lice ‘arrested him. on sent by the defendant. The information against Long bodily injury Townsend. represents the defendant. BIG DROP IN EXPORTS. Exports of anthracite coal, to Mrs. Mary against Long, in connection with the threatening letters he is said to to several prominent society women. the case has been continued until Tues- is { made out by Detective Sergt: Patrick O'Brien, stating that.Long threatened Scott Attorney James O'Shea crude petroleum, refined petroleum and raw | cotton dropped slightly in bulk durin trict. It was pointed out that the oninion of this body especially should carry great influence, inasmuch as their special lines of e.deavor in- clude the protection of tie health of the community. The members of the Hease and Senw e District committees will rec a copy of the resolutions idopted night by the society, and arrange- ments for their transmission to th Capitol -are now being made, in a cordance with the vote of the organi zation, . WILL SPIN WHALIH(_i YARN. Historian to Tell of Tong Voy- age on “Square-Rigger.” - The yarn of a 16,000-mile voyage in one of the last of the cld square- rigged whaling vessels thrt used to sail to the corners of the earth from New Bedford will be spun for mem- bers of the National Geographic So- ciety at the New Masonic Auditorium tomorrow afterncon and evening. Robert Cushman Murphy, assoctate curator of the American Museum.of Natural History, who_took the voy. age to study the ways of Sperm whales, will be the speaker. Because whaling in square-riggers is a “lost art” the pictures used in il- lustrating Mr. Murphy's lecture prob- ably never could be obtained again. AT AR & 8 January; while the value of all these ; products showed large decreases as compared with January of last year, the Department of Commerce has an- nounced. Anthracite totaling 224,040 totaling 643,913 tons. valued at $3,332, 88 peitoleum gallons, ing January value decreased from exported was of last year, lion and a half dollars. Raw cotton exported during Jan- totaled 475,910 valued at $45,233,066, against uary of this bales, 605,381 bales in January of last yea valued at $60,899,089. year Account 3 was exported. The total of crude 30,246,792 practically the same as dur- but the $2,709,408 to $1.177,088, a drop of more than a mil- UL LT tons, valude at $2,395,697, was exported dur- ing the month, while bituminous coal T, PARIS, February 12.—The praises of American architects, whose work he describes as a “new art In the truest sense of the. word,” are sung by George Wybo, a young French architect, in ‘the columns of the Intransigeant. ‘The old skyscrapers of New York, he says, “are not always the happiest examples of architectural conception,” but the newer office buildings erected within the last ten or fifteen years are described as “impeccable in execution, well proportioned, possessing harmoni- ous lines, with decorative elements of sober tuste, constructed of splendi@ materials finely fash- ioned.” The sight of these buildings . causes the Frenchman to recog- nize the existence of a new art “in the truest sense of the word, n_art capable of making us feei rong emotions similar to those RECALLS PASTURE AT ToTH AND 1 3TS. {Oldest [Inhabitants led of Time When Cows Once Fed at Busy Corner. Memor of a time when the busy corner of 15th and I streets north- Wwest was a cow pasture were brought back to members of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the Dis- trict of Columbia by John B. Me- Carthy at their meeting in Union | Engine House, 19th and H streets, last night. i | Mr. McCarthy read to the associa- tion a paper on the history of 15th and T streets, which he prepared for { the use of the Liberty National Bank, now occupying one corner of that in tersection. P. Moore presented to lh-,i ation who was connected with the hom; a portralt of Joseph A. ales, ational Intelligencer. The picture was receiv with thanks of the | members present. The story of a stormy session of the hoard of common council on No- {vember 27, 1834, written in rhyme, read by Secretary J. Eliot Wright, he council was debating a proposal » surrender the charter;” The-poetic of the debate® was signed .+ This uldl Amateur Reporte s sent to the association by Weller of 408 Seward square . widow of M. I. Weller, who for many years a.nember of the ciation. Harry L. Gessford. former su- perintendent of police, attended his irst meeting of the association last night and_was welcomed by, those :nt. Vice President George W. ans presided. The following were elected to membership: Harry Beas- ley, Robert W. Waters, Samuel M. Cuiler, John 'B. Dickman and Gist Slair. GO TO BIRMINGHAM. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, accompanied by Leander McCormick-Goodhart of the embassy ! staff, has gone to Birmingham, Ala., to participate in the ceremo; s at that place in" connection with the initiation of the Gorgas Foundation Memorial Friday. Senor Lefevre, charge of the Panama legation, alsé Ywill attend the memorial meeting. iy FURNITURE i awakened within us by the power and splendor of our cathedrals and certain monuments of the past ifi Europe.” Referring to the “tremendous temples of commerce,” M. Wybo says: “All these buildings are dif- ferent from one another, but each in its own style, in its’ construc- tion, form and architectural lines is undeniably a masterpiece. “It is regrettable that we French, 8o ready to welcome decadent art, do not even know.the names of the decorators, sculptors and archi- tects of modern New York. All these artists, working with intel- ligence and method, have pro- gressively freed themselves from worn-out conventions and, discard- ing simple elements of decoration, have succeeded rapidly in layin down the rules of an art of whicl we are seeing gow only the early manifestations and which, to our honor, is a direct emanation of our own French styles.” JURY MAY CLEAR ONEINLIQUOR CASE After 24 Hours, Judge Asked if Divided Verdict Possi- ble in Fraud Trial. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 2.—After near- 1y twenty-four hours of deliberation, the federal jury which has been con- sidéring the case of Edward Donegan and Miss Regina Sassone, charged with onspiring to defraud the gov- ernment on a wholesale scale al permits, asked Judge Webb wheth- er it could acquit one defendant and find the other guilty. The &ourt ruled that it could, as “the indictments charged conspliracy between Donegan, Miss Sassone and “others unknown.” The jurors then retired again. The government charged that Don- esgn had made more than $1.000,000 thPough liquor frauds and, character- izing the girl, formerly a clerk in the state prohibition director's office, as “an unfortunate instrument and tool,” had pointed out that the jurors could recommend mercy in her case. The defendants were alleged' to have maintained headquarters at a local hotel, where they were known | as “Mr. and Mrs. Joyce,” and to have manipulated withdrawal permits 8o that as many as 1,000 barrels of beer and 20,000 cases of liquor were taken cack week from federal warehouses. They were arrested in December, 1920, and indicted on thirteen counts. The prosecution, which termed Donegan as the Towest type of crim- inal, because he had dragged the girl down with him, strove to prove that bribes totaling $31,500 had been of- fered federal agents to free the pair and destroy the government's evi- dence. The defense charged Mrs. Mary A. Parkins, one of Miss Sassone's fellow clerks, had framed the defendants in the hope of escaping prosecution for other liquor frauds here and in Washington and Pittsburgh. ASSIGNED TO FLEET. Capt. James J. Raby has been de- tached from duty as a member of the naval examining board, Navy Depart- ment, and assigned to duty with the destroyer squadrons, Atlantic fleet. 25 O sl b regret that we could not get Charge Account 820 F Street Corner 9th “Look for the Big Clock.” - - (S < HIHInnnn 25 Come in—soon—before the curtain falls. Seventh Street M AY@R : & CO. ;é;twgené & E The Curtain Falis on Saturday On a most sticcessful sale of furniture—not an ordinary- sale, but a sale where the very best kind of furni- : ture you could wish for is priced at prices.that.are . . ' . even Jower than you would ask for the most ordi- - nary kind. - ; 7 ' . The Sale of Life Time Furniture gives you two mox‘e days to take advantage of the espe- cially low prices. Every piece of Life Time Furni- f ture in the whole store can be yours this week at a ¥ - price away below its real value. 5 ' by | trafficking in stolen liquor-withdraw- | CUT IN FUEL FUNDS WILL TIE UP NAVY Estimate Figures Reduced by Half in House Appropria- | tions Committee. Action by the House appropriations committee in cutting practically in two the original fuel estimate of the Navy, reporting a deficiency of only $6,200,000 for this fuel bill, Wil prac- tically tie up the Navy and prevent| operation of the ships, naval authori- ties claim. As drawn by the committee the bill does not provide for an additional appropriation, but merely authorizes the department to spend money it might be able to take from other cur- rent appropriations for fuel up to the limit set. 1 Orders to Shipn Expected. | | Naval officials are known to regard the situation as serious, although Secretary Denby rofus{g to aythorize the action of the committee. There were indications, | however, that orders must go ward 1o all parts of the Navy al- most immediately, under which no no ship would be permitted to operate under steam for the remainder of the fiscal year, unless administration of- ficals were successful in inducing Congress to make more liberal fuel any comment on provision. o While the Navy Department has authority under existing law to create deficiencies as an emergency matter, it is known that the policy of the administration i inst_that | practice und that Secr Denby proposes to keep expenditures of h department within limits of appro- priations, if it is humanly possible to +do so. Action of the appropriations:com- | mittee of the House is generally re-! garded as forecasting closely ultimate actiop of Congress, and until there is i some development showing that Con- gress has appreciated the situation {in which the n: would be left there are indications that no operat- ing of the fleet will be authorized which would iead to expenditures of fuel beyond the limit set. Present Situation. Destroyers on both coasts are now reduced to a maximum of eight hours ! steaming per month to save fuel and capital ships of both fleets to a max- imum of five days' steaming per month. To keep within the deficiency Iimit indicated by the appropriations | committee today, however, it is said | to be obvious that even these steam- ing allowances must be suspended and every ship, from battleships and destroyers to naval transports and tugs, be kept idle at anchor or at the dock with only sufficient steam in { the boilers to provid‘fire protection, lights, heating and other vital neces- ]sum of ship life. Training of the Navy for war service can not be con- ducted under such circumstances, of- ficers declared, and tha department is understood to be awaiting the final action of Congress on the fuel defici- ency with great anxiety. GRAVES BILL ADOPTED. Improvement on fields of honor of American military dead in France and England, including the purchase of additional lands suitable for I)urm]l purposes, is provided for in a bill adopted by the House yesterday and sent to the Senate. Under the bill 1$110,000 would be applied to the pur- | chase of land and making of im- provements at the Aisne-Marne, Surennes, Somme, St. Mihiel, O Aisne and Flanders' field cemeteries and at Brookwood, England. PRESIDENT HARDING SUED | Senator, in Advocating Aid for Ex- 13 BY KING GEORGE FOR’/ $1,079 FOR CORNED BEEF \BHIBAG“ MAY I-[]S[ his attorneys, has filed a suit i1 district court here against President Harding, asking damages of $1,079 fon alleged non-delivery by the Rock Island Raflroad of sixty four cases of corned beef. during the war. The suit was filed Tuesday, about the time of the wedding of Princess Mary, the king’s daughter. President Harding is a party to the suit because tae railroad is the defendant and the United States government had control of the rail- Toads for,a period during the war. King George was the only plaintift named in the suit. According to the suit the corn becf, which was to be shipped from iHeduction in Forces Likely to | Close Plant, Which Turned Out 100,0C0 in War. By the Associated T GREAT LAK 1, The middle west may lose its only big naval establishment, the naval training station here, as & result of #he successful conclusion of the dis- armament conference at Washingtos here to Hoboken, N. J., never was | Wreckers have nearly completed delivered. the destruction of the vast wa time camps through W % hryo scamen p LODGE URGES SALES TAX {ing 1917 and 1915, and — sult of the contemplated reduction TO RAISE SOLDIER BONUS 7 e atantcnin Snt Seainine —_— :[-nnn-lvnlrul «d on the Atlantic and Pa Expect Funds to Be Low. Naval officers here expeet the ap- Service Men, Believes Presi- propriation for the fiscal vear star dent } ing July 1 1o he considerably under ent’s Plan Sound the $400,000 provided for the pr Senator Lodge, republican leader|vear and probably only enough provide men t rd the § of the Senate, has announced that he will support the soldiers’ bonus bill. fore than a year ago,” said Sena- worth of & ent proper station. To guard the immense plant and provide officers for the two naval ., g, schoo! 2, one turi 2 ont aviation tor Lodge, “atter careful constdera-|o o, i s"5 i s other, radio. op: tion, I told the representatives of | erators, would require about 700 offi- some of our legion posts in.Massa-|cers and men, and an estimated ap- chusetts that it was my intention to|DProbriation of between $200,000 and vote for the soldiers’ adjusted com- | $230.000. pensation bill, commonly known as| Totul abandonment of great lakes is Phe Donus HINLY. opposzd by the officers here because the middle west furnishes a {part of the nations’ na {the ninth district hendquarters here has more reservists under its coutrol than any other dis ip the cou try. More men were trained at gre {lakes during the war than ut all oth training camps combined. After t armistice 000 ex-s cn in the | ninth ¢ alone were enlisted in the reserve force out of stal of 250,000 rescrvists for the entire Country. Inland Sailors Best. Salt-water states do not produce as Senator Lodge said that disbarred by age frébm any possible personal service in the war, he feit very keen- 1y the responsibility which he incurred in voting for measures which sent other younger men to venture their lives on the fleld of battle. “This fecling or sentiment,” con- tinued Senator Lodge, “if ygu chose to call it so, makes it very difficult for me now to vote against any rea sonable measure for the benefit of the soldiers in the war, especially for those who were wounded or disabled in the service, because I have such a he sharp consciousness that 1 was o ter, = of ‘those Who were dircctly responsi- (£00d sailors for modern fighiing shiy ble for sending them to serve their|4s the prair el e country and encounter the shock of | West, offic o illton dole war in France or Flanders when 1[Place on a modern forty-million-dols was unable to go myself. Guided by [lar battleship for the old-fashion these reasons, I made the promise to|Salt-water seaman, and the pics which I have just alluded, and, offluresaue tar of the past hax giver course, that promise must be kept, | Way 1o highly skilled mechunics, “I am strongly of the opinion that| Whose training el It the adjinted compensation bill o] ries fit them for o ialized ser passed must carry it the money necessary to pay the obliga- tions. The President has recommend- ed that the money be raised by the imposition of a sales tax, which would ice of an electric driven and oper- ated floating fort. The original great Jak ing station cost $5,000,000 naval train- be very fully and proportionately dis- —_— tributed and very little felt by its in-: ) cidence. It seems to me that thel N"‘“ON IS ELKS’ RULER. President’s proposition is a sound one. | 1f. in the settlement of the debts s owed to the United States by foreien Officers of Washington Lodge countries, money, whether principa jon. or interest. is recelved—and i1 seems Chopen et Edeciisn. probable that some such payment will| Daniel R. hion was elected exalted occur within a reasonable time—then s TR ruler of the Washington Lodge, No. e T e o i 15, Benevolent and Protective Order the appropriatigns for the soldiers, and the taxes made necessary by the|of Elks, at the regular meeting last obligations of the compeMation act|pight. = can be removed or reduced. Sther officers elected™ ar Ontrich, esteemed James A. derson, e MRS. BLAIR APPOINTED. - |jnignt; william A. F: g Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, demo-|lecturing knizh m S. Shelby, cCormick, 2 Al | secrteary : cratic national committeewoman from PO oy e Missouri, has been appointed to the|treasure ational headquarters staff by Chair-|V. A. Brown, m ber board of trus- :&Cordfl] ;‘iull.,s-e will be asso-|tees; Patrick J. « Il:n?. d'n legate to ciated with the bureau of organizi-|the Grand Loulf and How -r:.l M. tion, it was announced, the woman's | Peter, alternate delegate to the Grand bureau being discontinued as a sepa- | Lodge. rate unit and its activities co-ordi- The officers be installed on nated with those of other sections at| Wednesday, April in the lod_un-- headquarters. 36x31 Finest Fruit-of-Loom - PILLOW- CASES 42x36 Heavy Well Made PILLOW- New U. S. Rubber Hip BOOTS Libbey’s 1-1b. Cans of EVAP. MILK Y;=1b. Cans Hershey’s COCOA No. 2 Cans of Fine VEAL LOAF No. 3 Cans Baked BEANS S-Ib. Cans ‘White Clover HONEY 4-0z. Cans (sol.) BARRINGTON i Yellow Motor Transport ] GLOVES $1.50 Army Wool HOSE 35c- 3 for $1 Your Choice . . "Reclajmed. 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