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L THE SUNDAY Lo ko) STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 5, 1922—PART 1. ‘w — 3 NEW-PARTY LOOMS . IN ENGLISH CRISIS Lloyd George’s Intention Un-| certain as Supporters Plan Coalition Changes. EARLY RESIGNATION SEEN Friends Appeal to Sense of’Public Duty to Have Premier Retain Post. sociated Press. TLONDON political crisis is unchanged. Winston Churchill's speech at Oxford yester- | the largest number rejected in any | day, like the speeches of Austen Chamberlain and Sir Laming Worth- ington Evans, was chiefly remarkable for its omission of any direct refer- ence to Sir George Younger. leader of the conservative secessionists, and apparently there is intention no among the premier’s conservative col- leagues to emulate Lord Birkenhead in reading a public lesson to the of- fending conservative organizer. Mr. Churchill's speech at Lough- borough today. so far as it may be supposed to reflect the premier's mind, clearly looked to the formation of a new national party out of the present cealition whenever a political battle is joined, but when this may be he gave not the slightest indication. His words conveyed what is regard- ed in political circles here as seem- ingly a clean intimation of the early resignation of the prime minister. Crisis May Pass. There are tonight. however, Some slight signs thag the immediate crisis may be smoothed over temporarily. A curious incident happened today. AIl the morning papers announced that the premier would on Sunday hold a conference with the members of the inner cabinet at Chequers Court. This must have been com- municated to the papers from some authoritative quarter. but the story was today ostentatiously denied. and it was announced that Mr. Lloyd George would spend a quiet week end at Chequers Court, without political guests. No explanation has been of- fered. but evidently there has been a sudden change in the plans. At the same time a provincial pa- per published a statement to the ef- fect that Sir George Younger had expressed regret that his recent speeches had been interpreted as a challenge to the premier's authority, and declaring for a continuance of the coalition until the general elec- tions. Appe: to Premier. The speculation is hazarded in po- litical quarters tonight that these two incidents are not unconnected, and that the premier, on the urgent adyice of his colleagues in the min- istry, may be ifiduced to accept some such semi-retraction from the recal- citrant conservative organizer and consent to an indefinite postponement of his threatened resignation. One strong reason has been urged upon the premier for this cause—that he alone among British statesmen pos- sesses sufficient authority to carry through the British policy at the Ge- noa conference and that his disap- pearance from the government might mean disaster for that conference. It also is urged that he should stay to see the Irish settlement through. Appeals on these grounds are being made to theé premier's strong sense ©f public duty. -~ Confusion Would Re: t. Other factors weighing with the co- alition ministers in persuading Mr. Lloyd George to remain at the head of affairs include the inextricable confusion into which his resignation would throw the' whole political world. Should he resign it is be- lieved that all the liberal members of the government, among them nine cabinet isters and more than a dozen minor ministers, would resign with him, precipitating a small gen- 1,540 AUTOISTS ARRESTED | IN D. C. DURING FEBRUARY Only Three Deaths From Traffic Accidents — Six Persons Seripusly Hurt. Only three deaths occurred in the District last month from trafic ac- [ fldents, as compared with five dur. | ing February of 1921 snd six in the same month of 1920. This is shown by a monthly report Submitted to Maj. Sullivan last night [by Inspector Headley of the traffic bureau. The report shows that during the past month six persons were seriously injured, while ninety sus- tained minof hurts. 1In 220 other collisions property damage alone re- sulted. Inspector Headley also reported to Maj. Sullivan that there were 1540 arrests for violation of the traffic regulations during February. Of that | humber 368 were charged with speed- {ing and 129 with failure to comply ! with the light regulations. That it is no easy matter to obtain jan automobile operating permit in | the District was demonstrated during March 4—Outwardly the'the month, when the traffic bureau | isaued 611 permits and rejected the | | applications of 235 others. This wi month since November. eral election In the country. as all conservatives appointed to fill their places would be obliged to present themselves for re-election. The business interests of ‘the coun- try are against elections of that type at the present time. Continuance of the crisis is having a bad effect on the proceedings in pa ment, and it is said that unless a solution is ! speedily found the opposition leaders lin the house of commons will de- imand a public debate on the rel tions between the premicr and hi supporte; SEES POLITICAL BATTLE. | Churchill Defends Lloyd George and Coalition Government. Special Dispatch to The Star. LOUGHBORO, England. March 4.— Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary for the colonies, in an address here this afternoon in support of Prime Minister Lloyd George and the coali- { tion government, declared there was certain to be a political battle in Eng- !land in the near future. “1 look forward to the day when | out of the coalition there shall arise tional partv,” he declared. Alluding to the coming political conflict, he said: “I think we shall go into ac- tion when the time comes under our | trusted leader with good comradeship |and discipline.” ceived a mixed reception of groans and cheers. His address was a strong Jjustification of the coalition policy, only referring indirectly to outside crises. He asked whether they were to enter the great political battle with skillful leaders, a good organization and combined armies or without plan, unity or organization, and with their generals engaged in quelling insub- ordination - at headquarters. H hoped that when the time came wis- dom would prevail and they would enter the struggle with good com- radeship and discipline. He warned his audience that if the; battle divided, they would let in party whose policies will be injurious to the interests of the nation and to the cohesion of the empire." | McDOWELL JURY LET GO. l 1 Hangs-Fire on Charge of Million- aire Using Mail to Defraud. TOLEDO, Ohlo, March 4.—After de- liberating more than twenty-four hours, the jury in the gase of Jesse C. McDowell, Pittsburgh millionaire oil operagor. charged with using the mails to® defraud, was unable to reach a verdict and was discharged by Judge Killits in federal court here late this afternoon. The case took eight weeks for trial. o McDowell was specifically charged with having accepted large secret commissions on several transactions which he handled for the Henry L. Doherty Company and the Cities Service Company whi® acting as purchasing’ agent for the two con- cerns. The case was set for retrial April 4. NEW A. L. POST AUXILIARY. SAN JOSE, Calif.,, March 4.—Plans for the formation of what is believed to be the first organization of its kind | in the United States—a fathers’ aux- iliary of the American Legion—have been laid by San Jose Post, No. 89, American Legion. e s SPECIAL NOTICES. SSTY TEN DAYS LEFT To MAKE A file your income tax return. Warkk ‘s In- come Tax Burean, 1423 F st, n.w.. branch office, 1421 Penn. avenne. 0N AND AFTER THIS DATE, MARCH 3. 1922, 1 will not be responsible for any debts tracted by myself personaliy. nnless ot \RTIN LUTHER, MARTZ, 412 K af. n.w. 2 CNDERSIGNED, — HAVI PUR- Thaced the Dusiness of Antonio Vieino, 4701 persons baving any claims Georzia ave pie ntonio Vicino shail present the against said same at once to JOHN KARIBIN, 4701 Georgia_ave. n.w. 1 BOARDING CHILDREN—FATHER® AND others can earn double salaries by board- 3og their children for $5 a week In the coun- try. For further information write to Ars. A’ J. 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The statement came 1 of the Unite s 'an answer Mine Workers of Amer- ica to the recent assertion of the anthracite operators that the cost of coal to the cosumer is too high and must ecome down through a deflation of the scale paid to mine employes. It was sigmed by Thomas Kennedy of Hazelton; C. J. Colden of Shamokin and W. J. Brennan of Scranton. The operators were charged with | AVOIding any reference to reduction of a substantial nature in their own profits. profits of the railroads, of the jcoal sales companics, royalty-takers jand distributing agents in the con- jtroversy. “it is therefore obvious.” {he statement said “that there must be sc connection between the joperators and all those who handle '(‘llhl etween the operators and the jeon umers,” | On the question of the labor cost of anthracite the siatement said: “The operators fix the labor cost of @ ton of anthracite coal at $3.92, and they receive, wholesale, f.o.b. mines, $6.15 for pea coal, $7.85 for stove - $7.90 for nut coal and $7.60 for eks coal. People in New York, Phil- adelphia and elsewhereé in the an- thracite consuming territory pay as high as $16 a_ton for coal, which is more than -$12 more than the labor cost of $3.92. Therefore, a more sub- staptial reduction can be made in the' cost of coal by a cut in the profits made above the labor cost, quoted by the operators.” At the convention of the anthracite miners in Shamokin in January, the union asked for an increase of ap- proximately 20 per cent in wages. ording to the statement issued to- the miners are not seeking a “bare living wage,” but insisting upon a “saving wage” and,a wage commensurate with the hazard of the industry. The statement pointed out that more than 500 employes are killed in and about the collieries every year. DIM HOPE TO AVERT STRIKE. |Union Leaders Look to General Conferenec in Central Field. { B the Associated Pres INDIANAPOLIS, March 4.—Opposi- tion of the United Mine Workers of jAmerica to the negotiation of single stale wage agreements between union {miners and coal operators, which was jannounced last night by President John L. Lewis, was regarded by union offi- |cials here today as leaving only a con- ference between the union and the ope- Tators of the entire central competitive fleld as a possibility for averting the threatened strike April 1. While ths strike decision awaits the outcome of {the referendum now being taken among !the miners. officials here ndicated they believed the miners would favor a sus- {pension If no new wage agreement was imade by April 1. Meanwhile, officials said they were marking time since most of the cen- {tral competitive field operators hal twice declined to meet with union i officials. President Lewis said he had mot been officially informed of efforts being made by Secretary of Labor Davis to get the operators of the central competitive field, which com- prises 1llinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, to meet with the miners. A decision to hold a conference rested with the operators, he said. indicating that the union was ready to enter into negotiations. The international aspects of a pos- sible strike also were emphasized to- day by the receipt of a message from Robert Livett of Calgary, Alberta, who reported that the operators in western Canada refused to negotiate new agreements except on their own demands. WILL PROBE EXPULSION OF 3 CHURGH MEMBERS ‘Dropped !'rom’New York Congrega- tion for Preferring Charges of Immorality Against Pastor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March 4.—The Rev. Dr. Frank M. Goodchild of the Cen- tral Baptist Church, chairman of a committee of five appointed by the president of the Southern New York Baptist Association, today summoned the committee to meet on March 13 to inquire into the expulsion of three members of the Madison Avenue Bap- tist Church who had preferred charges of moral misconduct against their pastor, the Rey. Dr. Geosge Caleb Mool N s Wehile the matter of the expulsion iis the formal subject of inquiry, it was stated, it probably would be nec- essary to Inquire into the truth or falsity of the accusation -against Dr. Moor before it- could be decided whether the expulsions were justified. Dr. Moor's. congregation, after vot- ing to expel his three accusers, gave him a vote of confidence. Those expelled were Mrs. Jessie V. Day, Dr. C. £ Hall, an ordained Bap- tist tlergyman, and W. S. Foster, for many years one of the church’s most influential members. PRINCE AT PESAHWAR. Wales Given Ovation at Extreme Northern Point in Tour. By the Associated Pres PESHAWAR, British India. March 4. ——After a delightful jourpey through the beautiful hill country, the Prince of Wales arrived at Peshawar this morning, reaching the extreme north- ern point of his Indiay tour. His route was crowded with a picturesque variety of types, including Ghilzais, Afridis, Mohamadanis and Afghgns, as well n.; u‘;h"(?l tg;.lelbe;: who had come throu e Khyl from central Asia. . Tes The prince received a warm wel- come here. Tomorrow he will motor up the Khyber pass to the Landi Kotal fort, where he will inspect trgops. 1 —_—— P. 0. CLERK REINSTATED. Hays Aids Union Supporter as One of- Last Official Acts. Issuance of an order reinstating Pierce D. Butler, a clerk in &he Ch! cago post office, who had been re- moved by Postmaster General Burle-, ;ini-‘l:yu :n'e of "hfi :ut acts odf.wm 8 before retiring yesterday as Postmaster General. e o Butler, it was sald at_the d ment, wi the last of eleven at Chicago and several In the St. Louis oflice removed by Mr. Burle- son ‘in September., 1920, on a charge of soliciting funds from the public for a post office clerks’ union, to be reinstated. ENTERS MEXICO’S CABINET. MEXICO _CITY, March 4—Gen. Francisco Serrano was sworn in as secretary of war in the Mexican cabinet at noon today. His appoint- ment to that post was -amnounced &gbruary 3. P Clerks according to the residents. built-up section of the suburb. MOTHERS IN VIGIL OVER MUD PERILS (Continued from First Page.) The Star man went out Brookland way to look at the streets there, and announced his entrance by bumping his way along Michigan avenue, Mon- roe street and 12th street. These streets are narrow, with a car line in the center, and are full of ruts and mud puddles. dangerous to any kind of traffic. The road for traffic is so narrow that the traveler by vehicle has no choice of a way, but must bounce through the puddles. On’ Otis street, west of 12th street, The Star man found a street of soft mud, impassable to vehicles and lined on one side by fine new bun- galows. Driving on down 12th street, at Michigan avenue, Policeman Stro- man, who has bean on duty for years, was picked up and acted as an escort during the inspection. North of Michigan avenue and on either side of 12th street are a number qf new streets, lined on both sides by new bungalows, not long occupied, but the streets are of the usual mixture of cinders and clay. Mud and cinders furnish the roadbed in the center of 12th street running through this sec- of mud roadway on either side of the cinder bed, between it and the of miniature lakes. fic stops in the center, because to venture off the center bed of cinders is to court trouble and a few hours’ work. 2 = Continuing, 12th street runs Bates road, which, though there are necessary to close this several days ago, Policeman Stroman informed loads of ashes could be dumped into the deep holes to provide , some measure of safety for the venture- some traveler who elected to reach the college by auto. Asks Name of the “Lake.” Turning about, the Star man drove over as many of the streets of the popular suburb as it was safe to ‘\enlure on. On 10th street, between [Irving and Jackson streets, the Star man asked Policeman Stroman the name of the lake. He was informed that it was a street, which but a few days ago had been the scene of mired trucks, and where more recently a horse had sunk up to his body. On the roadside at the corner there were several big piles of cinders waiting o be thrown into the holes in the order to dump them. Laborers will have to be sent out to carry them in cans to the holes. Hopeful faces appeared at the windows of several of the houses as the people watched The Star camera man snap a few pic- tures of the water-filled roadway. On Lawrence street, near 11th street, The Star man found evidences of the street repair men having dpne ‘s rush job to fill up the holes, and inquiry developed the fact that the dangerous condition of the street had begn re- ported by the police several days ago. At that time holes had developed so deep that they were dangerous to life and limb, and it had been necessary to put up beacons at night to steer the populace clear of the dangers. Lone Delivery Service. The residents In the vicinity of $th street northeast, Brookland, are to be without the delivery service of at least one firm, as a result of an ex- perience_yesterday afternogn. A big truck of M. E. Horton, Inc. san deep in the mud of Sth street,shortl before 5 o'clock, necessitating .th sending out of an S O § call. which brought three additional men and two additional trucks. V The rescue par hours, for shortly beforé 10 “o'clock | non _Curtis; Mr. Horton called up The Star street | funds _“for investigator and informed him that | vate property he had finally got loose and moved | others unknow the truck to hard ground. “It is the last time that I will ever iver in any sectiom of the city | kept tw aerethe streets are not paved, ha| treasurer's office, said. “This i8 an expensive gperation and ties up a lot of equipment, to say nothing of the salaries of men. This is not the first experience, but it will be the last. Only a few days ago I had a truck stuck on 15th street southeast, Affacostia. People who havé delivery trucks cannot afford the ex- pense involved in having them strand- ed on the mired streets of the city.” —_—— “Flowers Via Telegraph.” Give your order to Gude—he'll at- tend to the details. 1214 F.—Adver- tisement. 4 % —_— SPAIN TO AID DISABLED.. Crippled Workers to- Bé Given Re- habilitation Training. MADRID, March 4.—The Spanish government has decided to found an institute for the re-education of dis- abled workers where, while unde treatment by the most experien doctors and surgeons, invalids will be enabled to acquire new trades in spe- clally constructed workshaps. By this method tHfRauthorities hope to reduce n':: n‘imber of mendicants fn.the city Btree! 3 % 2 the Star man, until a number of] squares. The trucks which had con- | veyed them did not even venture to| the place where the holes were in! MADE IMPAS 'Nation-Wide Attention At-! i | 1 into 1| Edwards, | ty worked for five | brother and business partner ot Ver: LENSHALL TR OPENSTONORRDH tracted Because of Charges " of Embezzlement. By the Associated Preas, WAUKEGAN, IIL. March 4.—For the first time in the history of Illinois its chief executive will go on trial dur- ing his term of office in the court- house here Monday. Not since the fmpcachment and re- moval of William Sulzer from the governosship of New York in 1913 has the governor state faced charges o serious or which have attracted the widespread at- tention as those pending against Len Small, twenty-eighth Governor of Illi- nois, and his fellow defendants, Lieut- Gov. Fred E. Sterling and Vernon | Curtis, a banker of Grant Park, Il Two Others Indicted. In Illinois’ 104 years of statehood only two other governors have ever heen indicted while in office, and in each of the previous cases the court{ed leave of absence W i 5 | dismsised the charges without trial; tion, with a -fifteen-foot-wide space because of their trivial nature. Although Gov. Small and Messrs. Sterling and Curtis are charged joint- Iy with conspiracy to defraud the curb. Deep ruts were present in !hillllkte through embezzlement of funds street, and there was an abundance!from the sta te treasury during the terms of Mr. Small and Mr. Curtis as Vehlcular traf-jgigte treasurer, only the governor Il go on trial here Monday. Mr. Curtis, whose case was brought to Lake county from Sangamon county with that of the governor. was grant- ed a separate trial by Judge Claire C. presiding in circuit court here. Lieut-Gov. Sterling did not ask ifor a change of venue and his case no houses, furnishes a thotoughfare | & to the Catholic Sisters’ College. 1t was is still pending in the Sagamon coun- ty_clreuit court at Springfield. Originally there were four indict- ments against Messrs. Small, -Ster- ling and Curtis, three of which In- volved the governor, hut only one— the conspiracy case—remains. ‘harged With Embessling.. One, indictment, charging the three jefendants with embezzling $100,000, as .quashed by Judge Edwards be- cause of technical errors. The court also quashed several counts in the conspiracy indictment, which remains to. be tried, and a charge of op- erating a confidence game. The judge then ordered the governor to trial on an indictment charging em- bezzlement of $300,000 during his term as state treasurer, but the state objected to trying this case first, and when the Judge insisted C. Fred Mor- timer, state’'s attorney of Sangamon county, dismissed the indictment. The fourth indictment, which was never brought to Waukegan, charged Mr. Sterling with embezzling $700,000. The conspiracy indictment charges the two former treasurers with en- tering into a conspiracy with Mr, Curtis to defraud the state out of large sums due it as interest. Curtis owned thc charter of the Grant Park Bank. a former private banking in- stitution, which,- the state alleges, “abeolutely ceased to function as a bank Rf-er 1906.” Grant Park is a town of 600 populaiion in Kankakee county, a few miles from Gov. Small's home. To this private bank, the state claimg, Mr. .Small and Mr. Curtis— the former as state treasurer in 1917- 18 and the the latter in 1819-20— lent millions of state funds with no other security than Mr. Curtis’ cer- tificate of deposit. . The money was then loaned to four Chicago packing companies, Armours, Swifts, Morris and the Cudahy Packing Company, on short-term notes paying from 5 to 8 per cent interest. of 4vhich, it is claimed, “not more than 2 per cent” was turned into the state treasury. Amount Invelved Unknown. The bill of particulars filed by the state claims the total profits in the alleged conspiracy are.unknown, be- cause Gov. Small carried away part k| of the records of the treasurer’s v | office *when his terms expired and be- e [ cause part of the books or Swift & Co. “have not yet been found.” The state charges the three defendants, with the late Senator Edward Curtis, kept $535,000 of _stat: their ,personal and . pri- and the property of in addition to the of interest retained. dinall and Licut, Gov. Sterling ets of books while in the M ocatiea Svault accounting for a so-calle fund, which was lent to banks throughout the state, and the other, known as the “safe fund” covering money placed in the Grant Park Bank. During Mr. Small's term, the bill of particulars alleges, the funds in the Grant Park Bank alone earned $924,- 06628 in -interest, while the "total amount of Interest, discounts and profits accounted rfor by Mr. Small from all funds in his charge was only $450,010.13, The earnings on the Grant Park.transactions alone exceeded the total of all interest accounted for by the gowernor*by -$474,056.16, the bill ‘!;'!h‘c‘:uu estimated the earnings of fands in the Grgnt Park Bank during Mr. Sterling's.term at ‘Jargely. in ex- cess of $843,788.21,” claiming the ex- act total i unknown because the Swift & Co. books have not been found. The bill claims Mr. Sterling falled to turn over to the state at least $345,634.15 of the iftterest earned op the packer's loaus. ‘of Millions. ‘Bagk Had Use of M Dur! -+ Small's term as treas- urer :’r::'?}‘r:ntnl‘urk Bank 18 said to have had :r‘li..“d :'l' 17;%_.;:::1;‘ ‘a“lh . Sterling’s tw L= oo s-{u-p,lu;ed‘ in'the “pretended “fictitious ‘bank - > ‘When Edward .A. Miller, present s of any American & l 'THIS THOROUGHFARE OF BROOKLAND HAS' BEEN SABLE BY RECENT SNOWS AND RAINS Deep holes, the acene of mired trucks and automobiles, were found on_ this street, once a fair roadway, It s 10th street northeast, Brookland, between Irving and Jacksom wstreets, in a Last week a horse sank up to its body in one of e holes In t |ANGLO-JAPAN PACT | LEFT IF U. S. KILLS FOUR-POWER TREATY _(Continued from First Page.) _ street. | will cast slurs upon the Versallles treaty and league of nations in their ur%umenls for the fuor-power treaty. {If Ythey do, there is likelihood of arcusing democratic resentment, which will jeopardize the four-power treaty Absente m is giving e ause for concern. They =h to be caught on a vote when some of the senators relied upon to vote for the treaty are out of the city. At present Senator Crow of Pennsylvania, republican, is ill in a hospital, and it is doubtful that he can be here at all for a vote on the treaty. Senator Owen, democrat, who has announced his support of the Washington treaties. is in Eu- {rope, and Senator TrammeH. demo- crat, who alse is counted upon to | vote for the four-power treaty, is away in Florida. cailed there by ili- ness in his family —_— {GEN. HARRIS GETS LEAVE; GENERAL CHANGE, RUMOR Maj. Gen. Peter C. Nar: jgeneral of the Army. h been grant- to g0 abroad and that fact has started | rumors that a general change Is to be i1made in the conduct of the adjutant I general's department. Gen. Harris was appointed adjutant . general September 1, 1918, and his reg- { ular four:vears' term will expire Sep- tember 1 next. He may be reappointed adjutant general for another term or some other officer may receive the ap- pointment. At the War Department it is said that no action has been taken in the matter and that there !15 no occasion for any for soms time to come. It appears that Mre. Harris, wife of the adjutant general, is not in the best of health and it has been | suggested that a few months sojou in southern Europe would be of great | benefit to her. Accompanied by Gen. Farris, she will sail from New York April § on the Army transport sailing on_that date for Antwerp. One of the rumors afloat Prig. Gen. James H. McRae. sistant chief of s partment, is to succeed Gen. Harris as adjutant general. HIS OWN MONEY A TRAP. NEW YORK, March 4.—Donato Dallucci today discovered that all is not gold that glitters—not even a pair of silver-plated handcuffs. He went to a Mulberry street bank ex- pecting to draw some money due him from an Allentown, Pa.. gas com- pany. As he stuck his hand through the cashier’s bars to get the coin he felt something snap over his_wrist and looked up to see Detective Trezza of the bomb squad where he thought j the cashier had been. At the door stood the watchman, Detective Dardiz, who had directed him to the proper window to get his money. Dallucci is held for the po- lice at_Allentown. He is alleged to have fatally shot Luigi Caroscia there last January 14. OTIS H. CUTLER DIES. N MIAMI, Fla, March 4.—Otis H Cutler, chairman of the board of directors of the American Brakeshoe and Foundry Company and identified with several of the J. P. Morgan in- terests, dled suddenly here foday aboard the yacht Seramia. Mr. Cutler, who had chaftered the yacht for the season, had been in ill health several years, but his death at noon from heart faflure was en- tirely unexpected. Mrs. Cutler was with him at the end and will leave tonight for the north with the body. e ISTARTS HUNT FOR GHOST. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 4.— Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, director of the American Institute for Scientific York today to investigate the widely Berdlded ghost of Antigonish. He will g0 to the supposedly haunt- ed house of Alex MacDonald, near Caledonia Mills, probably tomorrow. MacDonald left the place several months ago, asserting some occult power had started two fires, killed oft several head of farm stock and thoroughly frightened his family. A detective and a newspaper re- porter. who recently spent a night in the: house reported they had been Sapped by an unseen hand state treasurer, took office in‘January, Bank still had $10,000,000 of state funds, and the defendants delivered to-the new treasurer “twenty false, bogus and alleged certificates of de- posit of moneys and funds in the false, pretended and fictitious bank called the Grant Park Bank.” Mr. Sterling, the bill adds, “unlawfully endeavored” to have Mr. Miller permit the $10,000,000 to remain in the Grant Park Bank, but the latter refused and demanded production of the sum. January 15, 191, the state says. Gov. Smafl and Mr. Curtis turned over to the treasurer various notes totaling $10,012,500 and 490 shares f stock in a downstate bank, issued n the name of the late Senator Ed ward C. Curtis. The case is expected to last from TonEor: Sopending apon, the time taken longer, depending upon e wngot s ?l:ry‘ Enlml!ea by lawyers indicate it will take from a month to six,weeks to find twelve fen to hear the case, because of-the wide pub- licity it has recelved. l treaty | adjutant | h permission | Research, arrived here from New, 1921, the state claims. the Grant Park’ HISTORIC FRIGATE Bugler Sounds Taps in New ~ York as Granite State Is Towed Away. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 4.—The charred hulk of the historic frigate Granite State, whose keel was laid for the debutante American Navy more than a century ago, was towed toward the junk pile today from the spot in the Hudson at 96th street where she went up in flames and down in the mud last May. tugs pulled her across the river. On the Jersey bank the 200 tons of copper in the ship will be salvaged and her | hardwood removed and sold to coffin manufacturers. Never Fired at Enemy. The Granite State never fired a gun at an enemy nor was fired upon in her long years of service. Her weight and combersome line—she looked al most like a bulky houseboat—kept her out of action—or that, at least, the explanation given by those familiar with the old ship’s_history. When her keel was laid in 1814, the signated (. S. S. Al nd she bore that name unti when siie was rebuilt and_re- christened, this time as the New Hampshire, a name which stuck u til the Navy turned the frigate over to the militia, vears afterward. Then she became the Granite State. It was {not until 1855 that the frigate re- turned out to sea. Gold Spikes In Beams. Three gold spikes are supposed to be incased by the aged wooden beams somewhere within the old ship. Each is reputed to weigh two pounds, and to have been driven by a state gov- ernor. These spikes will be sought during the salvaging operations. President and Mrs. Harding were among the last persons to look upon the Granite State before she burned last May 23. The presidential yacht ; was agchored in midstream just op- | posite the Granite State that spring | morning. A launch that landed Mr. Harding and his party | foot of 96th street passed within a few feet of the Granite State. from | Whose portholes bluejackets cheered. { That night when the President re- turned to the Mayflower, the Granit: t a pier at the | State was down in the mud. She was raised only a few weeks ago. Her | place as a training ship has been taken by the U. Ilinois. —_— CLAIMS FAITH BROKEN WITH SOLDIERS IN WAR enator Mapp, in Legislature of Virginia, Alleged Scrapping of Memorial. Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va.. March 4.—Senator G. Walter Mapp of Accomac, one of | the members of the war memoriali commission, today made a statement in the senate in connection with the alleged “scrapping” of the memorial sterqay, when the senate passed a substitute bill. He challenged the action of the senate in passing the . bill. He declared that he would have | voted and fought the measure; that the state of Virginia had made a pledge to the men who went over- seas, and that this action was break- ing faith. The members of the American Legion had never expressed their sentiments in the matter, and he semanded that they had a right to_be heard. { He said that the senate either hasl been misinformed or had not been !informed at all regarding the matter. | He entered his protest and vote against the procedure of vesterday.| It is believed that friends of the| American Legion will get busy and kill the measure when it reaches the floor of the house. Senator Mapp was {1l in bed vesterday, and did not know that the bill wouhi be} { jcalled up. i {INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS i H { | PLANNING CLOSER UNION| | Protests Meeting of Institute Forwarding Harmony Western Hemisphere. HAVAN March 4.—Plans of the| American Institute of International } Law to draw closer the republi H the western hemisphere, a work in of in- terrupted by the world war, are be- ing revived and revised by the coun- cil of direction of that organization lat a series_of meetings now being held in Havana. A meeting of dele- gates from all the twenty-one re- | publics represented in the institute, according to its president, James Brown Scott of Washington. will be held this fall in one of the Latin Amer- ican countries. The members of the council ar?l nferring with the president of th Cuban Society of International La: Dr. Antonio Sanchez de Bustamente, member of the international court of Justice, relative to a quarterly re- view of the institute to be published in Spanish. The only institute pub- lication hitherto available to the eighteen Spanish language societies of the institute had been translated from the English review issued at ‘Washington. . PARLIAMENT GETS PACT. Swedish-Russian Treaty Submitted for Approval. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, March 4.—The trade agreement between Sweden and soviet Russia, signed last Saturday. was submitted to the Swedish parliament | today for approval. i It follows the general lines of the agreements between Russia and Eng- land and between Russia and Italy, leaving unsolved. the questions of recognition of the soviet, government and compensation for damages. It provides for the admission of of- fcial delegations from each country to the other and recognizes the soviet| delegation as the sole representative of Russia in Sweden. It also permits Swedish subjects freely to enter Rus- i £1%; unless they are persona non grata, and exemp{s them from enlistmen and from sequestration of their prop- erty. i AMUSEMENTS. -Public Organ Recital UNDER AUSPICES OF District of Columbia Chapter of American G}\lfld of Organists G St. Between 13th and 14th Tues. Eve., Mar. 7, at 8:30 HARRY B. JEPSON, Professor of Organ, Yale University . Subscribers’ weats will be held wntil 8:20 p.m. Rz ‘Bocisty of the Fine Arts STPONED 115 JAPANESE anese, died or fled. of interpreting all proce ancse. { conclus NVICTED N HAWAIF OF BOMB PLO Conspiracy Charge Followed Dyna- miting of House of Man Who Opposed Strike. HONOLULU, March 4.—Fifteen Jap- including seven labor leaders, were convicted of criminal conspiracy today in connection with the dynamiting ©of the house of J. Sakamaki. & Japanese, at Olaa Island of Hawaii, in June, 1920. The dynamiting was an outgrowth of a strike of sugar plantation workers which Sakamaki opposed. The cxplo- sion destroyed Sakamaki's house, but nobody was injured. Indictments were returned against twenty-one persons suspected of com- plicity in the conspiracy, but only fifteen the oth: were brought to trial The t but was prolonged _T. Murakami. formerly an off val militia, which | EWa Cahu Labor Union, was charged A bugler ofjthe naval militia “"l . |v th being one of three men who placed used the frigate as a training shiD [Jng’ fred the dynamite {during recent years, sounded taps as Soorimmies | | BELIEVE FATHER HOLDS CHILDREN FOR RANSOM Detroit Police Abandon Theory That Man and Two Boys Were Drowned. By the Assorinted Pross DETROIT, March 4.-—The theory that ¥ who disap- peared with h i day. had taken their 1roit river ws nde by police toni vest on. . helic igati < y 8 children wers ther and wers in th for id 3 their being held somewhe ransom. The this tent . - fuct Besse and his small boys were last seen wall - ing toward the river and foot pr of a man and two children were found near the water's edge Mrs. Besse, who reported the dis- appearance to the horities. wi the statement her husband _ had threatened to “do away with the boy to make her su ted Lt was rep in a serious condition tonight. Her phy- sician said there was a possibility she would not survive the ¥ The family lived in Toledo before they moved here six years azo. Read all_the Newest Books —for 25 cents by joining our eircu- ating library Pearlman’s Book Shop G. David_ Pearlman 933 G St. N.W. “Any Books Sup) Health Candies 40, 60 & 80c Ib. ANY BOOK SUPPLIED PEARLMAN’S BOOK SHOP G. 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