Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 17

FORBIDS SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO GHINA President, by Proclamatior, Recognizes Conditions of Violence There. ACTION UNDER NEW LAW Penalty for Violation May Be Fine TUp to $10,000, Term Up to Two Years, or Both. President Harding, by official proc- lamation yesterday, prohibited ship- ment of arms from the United States to China, in accordance with joint resolution of Congress, January 31, 1922, providing for such action by the President when he found “conditions of domestic violence” which might be promoted “by the use of arms or mu- nitions of war procured from the United States.” Punishment for violation of the ex- ecutive order is provided by the joint resolution as “a fine not exceeding $10.000" or “imprisonment not ex- ceeding two vears, or both.” Calling attention to this, the Presi dent in his proclamation declared, “I do hereby warn them that all viola- tions of such provisions will be rig- orously prosecuted The President delegated to the Scc- retary of State the power of “pre- scribing exceptions and limitations to the application of the joint reso- lution. Text of Proclamation. The text of the President" 4 lamation follows: e “Whereas section 1 of joint reso- lution of Congress, entitled a ‘Joint resolution to Dprohibit the exporta- tion of arms or munitions of war from the United States to certain countries, and for other purposes,’ approved January 31, 1922, provides as follows: “‘That whenever the President finds that in any American country, or in any country In which the United States exercises extraterri- torial jurisdiction, conditions of do- mestic” violence exist which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or ‘munitions of war procured from the United States, and makes proc- lamation thereof, it shall be unlaw- ful to export, except under such lim- itations and exceptions as the Presi- dent prescribes. any arms or muni- tions of war from any place in the United States to such country until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress “And whereas, it is provided by section 2 of the said joint resolu- tion that ‘whoever exports any arms or munitions of war in violation of section 1 shall. on conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding £10,000 or ky imprisonment not ex- ceeding twn vears, or_both': Now, therefore, . Warren G. Hard- ing. President of the United States of America. acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred in and by the said joint resolution of Congress, do hereby declare and proclaim that I have found that theré exist in China such conditions of domestic violence which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war pro- cured from the United States as con- templated by the sald joint resolution; 2nd 1 do hereby admonish all citizens of the United States and every person to abstain from violation of the pro- visions of the joint resolution above set forth, hereby made applicable to China. and I do hereby warn them that all violation of such provisions will be rigorously prosecuted. Urgen Diligent Action. “And I do hereby enjoin 'upon all officers of the United States, charged with the execution of the laws there- of, the utmost diligence in presenting violations of the said joint resolution and this, my proclamation, Issued thereunder, and in bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same. . “And I do hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the power of pre- seribing exceptions and limitations to the application of the sald joint reso- lution of January 31, 1922, as made ef- fective by this, my prociamation, is- sued thereunde; EXODUS OF MENNONITES INTO MEXICO IS BEGUN All Members of Sect to Move From Canada Because of Interference ‘With Schools. EL PASO, Tex., March 7.—One hun- dred and fifteen Mennonite men, wom- en and children en route from Can- ada, together with household goods, cows, poultry, farm implements and general suppiies, crossed the boundary here yesterday and started for their new homes in Mexico. Another special | train carrying about the same number of immigrants is due this afternoon, contingent will arrive in two or three days, according to an announcement made at the Mexican consulate. The arrivals are in charge of Elder J. C. Hildebrand, who said the sect Dlans to move the entire Mennonite population of Canada into Mexico. The movement probably will take two or three years. Two hundred thousand acres have | been purchased in southern Chihuahua and northern Durango as a nucleus of the colony’s holdings. The Menuonites are moving into Mexico, the elder sald, under the Promise of the government that they will in no way be interfered with in their religious customs and educa- tional system nor subject to military service. The Mennonites' complaint in Can- ada was over the public school system of that country, the sect maintaining that the Menncnite children' should not be required to attend Dominion schools, he Another complaint was over military service. The sect refuses to contribute to warfare in arny manner. Elder Hildebrand said his people are a simple_folk, practicing the virtues praised by poets of the Gray and Golgsmith type, living on farms and devoting their labors to production as much as possible and to trading as little as possible. “TRILLION” CLAIM VALID. Claimant to All Money in World Cannot Collect It. SAN JOSE, Calif, March 7.—Henry B. Stuart has a vaiid claim to all the money there is In the world, and some besides, but he never will collect It. Judge. J. R. Welch in superior court entered a formal decree making record of the judgment he granted Stuart against George Jones last week for $304,840,332,912,685.16. The sum represents $100, the prin- cipal of a_promissory note executed by Jones in 1897, with interest at 10 per cent compounded monthly. The court also allowed Stuart 7 per cent on the sum named until Jones pays it. Stuart admits he would be wiil- ing to settle the judgment for one year's interest. BANK HEAD SENT TO JAIL. OMAHA, Neb., March 7—W. V. Mathews. formerly president of the mow defunct Pioneer State Bank of Omaha, was sentenced to serve from one to ten vears in the state prisen today by District Judge Leslie, be- fore whom he recently pleaded guilty tc a charge of embezzling $200,000 of the bank’'s funds. —_— Every year the number of women ¢ In New York city is increasing more gnpld\y than the number of men. and a thirdi TREASURE ISLAND IS AGAIN THE GOAL OF GOLD SEEKERS DBy the Associated Press. SAN SALVADOR, March 7.—A party of American treasure seek- ers has reached San Jose, Costa Rica, and applied to the govern- ment for permission to search for gold that is supposed to have been buried on Cocos Island. This island, 545 miles west-southwest of Pan- ama, Is the locale of Robert Louis Stevenson's “Treasure Island.” Adventurers have at one time and another visited this uninhabit- ed spot in search of Spanish gold which Capt. W. L. Morgan and his pirate crcw are supposed to have stolen from Spamsh churches in Peru in 1320. They invariably re- turn empty-handed. FIGHT ON FORESTRY BILL WAXESBITTER Secretary Fall Flayed by Gif- ford Pinchot for Alaskan Policy. Reflections of the controversy be- tween Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United States forest service under President Taft, and former Secretary of the Interior Ballinger came to light within the past week In the course of conversation by mail be- tween the present Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, and a mem- ber of Congress, concerning proposed legislation for administration of the forest preserves of Alaska. Secretary Fall's stand on forest ad- ministrition in the newest territory has brought down upen his head the wrath of Mr. Pinchot, according to Mr. Fail. Results of the difference between the two men have become ap- parent, the Interior Secretary points out, in issuance recently of a bulle- tin’ by the American Forestry Asso- ciation in which the whole proposed policy of administration of the forest reserves in Alaska is attacked. The Secretary of the Interior has publicly announced that he approves passage by Congress either of the bill authorizing the President to allocate and co-ordinate the duties of the dif- ferent bureaus now having jur.sdic- tion over actlvities and property of the national government in Alaska, or a bill of similar character vesting in the Interior Secretary the authority over most of such activities, by trans- ferring to the Interior Department of- fices of such bureaus operating in Alaska. Wants Work Co-Ordinated. ~ Among these activities was admin- istration of the forests in Alaska, to the end that the work of the Interior Department might be co-ordinated, by transfer of the forests to the In terior Department, administration of the mining laws, the agricuitural en- try laws, consiruction of roads and other methods of transportation. On the press sheet purported to be issued by the American Forestry As- sociation appeared an interview quot- ing from Col. Greeley, chief of the forest service, headed “Who Chal- lenges Plan to Get Control Over Alaska’s Forests”” The article went on to state that “Secretary of the Interior A. B. Fall is apparently chief sponsor of this movement, as he was the chief spensor for the so-called Curry bill. This bill is against continued public control of the great natural resources of Alaska. A more daring piece of legislation has not been attempted in our time. The vast wealth of the great empire of Alaska was to be turned over to an absolutely irrespotsible from which the people of Alaska and the people of the United States would have no appeal whatsoever.” Secretary Fall says he was absent when this sheet was sent out, but wasg advised of it by telegraph. “The chiefs of several of the 'bureaus of this department whose efforts to ad- minister the public laws are 8o fre- quently hampered by activities of the forestry bureau and of Mr. Pinchot.” he added, vicious and unwarranted attack on the head of a co-ordinate department of the government.” The matter was brought to the al tention of President Harding and a public statement issued bearing on the matter, which put up to Congress est domain, Insofar as regards legis- lation. Secretary Fall sald he was opposed to selling timber from the public domain to China and Japan, that he would not permit any of the timber thus cut to be taken out of the United States and that he would not permit the cutting of timber at the head waters of rivers. He added that he did not charge that the forest service was cutting timber for the purpose of selling it to China and Japan, but that this was the ultimate disposi- tion of a great deal of timber which had been cut for commercial purposes in_this country. The Interlor Secretary points out that, in his opinion, what Alaska needs for its development is the brain and strength of the ‘“virile young American manhood, so conspicuously irepresented by the veterans of the world war." “A national policy which will make available the undeveloped resources of Alaska will enable them to gratify thelr.desire to intermingle again with civilians and permit them to follow the course pursued by their fathers,” he adds. “It was the ancestors of these men who placed more than seven billions of dollars of accumulated in- destructible wealth in the Treasury of the United States and converted it into taxable property, together with ten times seven billlons in developing the resources and in building up the Rocky mountain states. Need of Private Capital. “It is my firm conviction that in deep prospecting in Alaska it will be necessary for Congress either to lib- eralize the laws, to the end that pri- vate capital may be invited, with an opportunity to earn sufficient rewards to justify taking the gambler's chance, or in lieu thereof provide a revolving fund to be used by some department of this government in the sinking of experimental oll wells and in -pros- pecting for non-metalliferous mineral deposits. “A small revolving fund would do the work. The same policy should be pursued upon the public lands of the United States. Right develop- ment in Alaska should be pursued upon the comprehensive plan re- ported long since by the Alaskan engineering commission and the Alaskan road commission, that freight for the now completed government road may be delivered to it from the wonderful mineral deposits of the Kantishna, Mount McKinley and other mineral districts.” Secretary Fall adds that Congress should provide a proper working or- ganization and adopt a comprehensive plan of development embracing trans- portation by railroads, boat, dirt, road, dog road, trail, etc, the best utilization of non-metalliferous min- eral deposists and other resources in mineral lands and water. Senator Capper, chairman of the farm bloc of the Senate, predicted to- day that the agricultural group in Congress would oppose strongly the proposal to take the forest service from the Department of Agriculture and place ii under the Interior De- partment, as advocated by Secretary Fall of the Department of the In- terior. Senator Capper said that he himself was strongly opposed to such a plan. He indicated that the farm bloc would fight any such legislation, even If it were proposed by the administration. GETS ROYAL FLUSH AND DIES. NEWARK, N. J., March 7.—Max ‘Witkofski drew a pat royal flush in a midnight game at the home of Mi- chael Eisenburg. Before he could open the pot he pitched forward on the table, dead. A physician sald heart failure was the cause. directed | body, | “were outraged at this| the matter of dealing with the for-| MINE OPERATORS " (PPOSE PARLEY Secretary Davis Not?.fleady to Report, But Opposition Is Encountered. The Secretary of Labor i3 “not pre- pared to make public ‘the, progress made” in the negotiations of the Labor Department with soft coal mine operators in the central com- petitive field, Secretary Davis de- clared today. The Labor Dekartmenl is acting at the request of President Harding in arranging a conterence | between mine workers and mine own- iers before April 1, when a hational strike in union fields 1s threafened. It was understood today |that a considerable number of mine| opera- tors, especially in Pennsylvania, have indicated their refusal to enter a na- tional conference with the union on the ground that they do not intend again to join in national wage-fixing agreements. They have, in some!cases, proposed the alternative of making state or district wage agreements to replace wage contracts which expire April 1 7 Production Jumps 40 Per Cent. “The telegraphic correspondence be- tween the international president of the United Mino Workers, John L. Lewis, and Prosident Farrington of the Illinois miners,” Secretary Davis said In a statement on the question of local adjustment, “regarding separate state conferences indicates theré will be no move to secure separate state agreements In the central competitive old."” In the bituminous fleld, he added, “coal production has jumped about 40 per cent during the last seven weeks, or an increase of about 500,000 tons daily, the bulk of which goes into storage and indicates a further ma- terial increase in coal surplus.” Fleld Contract Basis. The central competitive field in- cludes the states of Pennsylvania, In- diana, Ohlo, Illinols and part of West Virginia, where under previous at- rangements in the industry a practi- cally uniform scale of wages has been adopted under contracts between the unions and mine operators. The cen- tral fleld contract has been used as a basis for wage contracts in all the outlying flelds in the United States. James Lord, head of the mining seC- tlon of the American Federation of Labor, issued a review of recemt cot mine wage negotiations, in which he said that “operators up to this time are in violation of the agreement” contained in the national wage con- tracts which cxpire April 1, because they have not entered a conference 0 consider renewal. Rely on Non-Union Mines. Government officials observing de- velopments in the situation ~that threatenes to bring on a national coal strike at the end of the coal year, on April 1, were inclined today to agree with Secretary of Labor Davis and J. D. A. Morrow, vice president of the National Coal Assocfation, that non- union mines may be pushed to a maxi- mum production of about 7,000,000 tens weekly—enough to meet current consumption. Secretary of Labor Davis will not speak of the developments that have taken place since he sent out over- tures to the miners and operators at the suggestion of President Harding. The Labor Secretary, however, be! {lieves that non-union mines, now pro- ducing about 6,000,000 tons of coal a week, may be pushed to produce nearly 10,000,000 tons—an amount sufficlent to save railroads and public utilities from suffering from lack of fuel. Mr. Morrow has presented the In- terstate Commerce Commission with figures showing production at non- {union mines, which are believed to be valuable in arriving at an estimate of the tonnage that may be produced in in the non-union flelds in the event of a strike. UNION EXECUTIVES MEET. Strike Vote Indicates Big Majority for Walkout. INDIANAPOLIS. March 7.—Facing many problems arising particularly jfrom the threatened coal strike on I April 1, the executive board of the {United Mine Workers of America met here today with members, expecting to center attention on conditions pre- vailing in various coal fields through- out the United States and Canada. No decisions aftecting the strike i possibilities were expected to be made | by the board, whose members said all {such matters were to be referred to the union’'s policy committee, which is now being formed by various district |organizations of the union selecting their committeemen. A meeting of the committee before April 1 will probably be called, according to board members. The strike vote, which is to be completed by the miners next Fri- day, indicates a heavy vote favoring a walkout unless a new wage agree- ment is reached, according to reports ibrought to union headquarters by early arrivals for the board meeting. No figures, however, were available, but the board members referred to what they termed the general senti- ment among the workers. Aside from the strike vote the board members indicated their session would be largely devoted to exchange of re- ports on the condition of the union in various flelds. JOINT RECITAL GIVEN FOR SERVICE STARS Proceeds of $2,500 Result of Bene- fit at Home of Mrs. H. F. Dimock. Ernest Schelling, piano virtuso, and Mrs. Logan Feland, soprano, of Wash; ington, gave a joint recital last night at the home of Mrs. H. F. Dimock, 1301 16th street, for the benefit of the Wal- ter Reed service stars in the Victory Memorial builaing. Proceeds of the evening amounted Mr. Schelling, who is described as “America’s master planist,” played thl_: o g Minor,” “Prelude, B t Minor,” and +Organ Fugue in C Minor,"” all by Bach; *Valencienne,” “‘Serenata,” Albjeux, and 1ade in A Flat,” all by Chopin. Mrs. Feland rendered the following “Carnival,” Thanksgiving.” Allitsen; “Alone Upon the Houge Top.” Galloway; “The “Lest We Forge! INFORMATION ON TAXES. ‘Taxpayers desiring to change their accounting period from the calendar year to fiscal year basis should make application to the collector of the District for forwarding to the com- missioner of internal revenue, Com- missioner Blair announced today. Instructions issued Dby the com- missioner designate six items which should be covered fully, it was ex- are furnished before forwarding to on may be expedited.” Persons who had been reporting on desire to change to the fiscal year, the instructions state, “must show other competent records in which is accurately reflected all income from the intention to maintain and | close such books on the fiscal year The changes in accounting periods will be granted only through the col- to about $2,500, it was said. following,_program: ‘antasy in “Au Jardin de Vieux" and “Etude, F €lude, “Waltz in F Sharp,” and “Bal- P arniv Schumann; “Song of Danza,” Chadwick, and as an ‘encore, plained, so that “the necessary data this office, in ordef that action there: a_calendar year basis and this year that they keep books of account or xhntever sources derived, and that basis proposed.” lectors of the districts, it was said. Yo% : THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C HANDIWORK OF FOREIGN i35 'TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922. CHILDREN ON EXHIBIT. Toys and clothes made by junior Red Cross members in Cxzechoslovakia, Belgium and Ttaly, whick have heen went to the school children clothing materinls. They will be ot exhibit, SLAIN MISSIONARY “BLOOD BROTHER” TO NOTED BANDIT CHIEF IN TIBET Dr. A. Lfl Shelton, medical mis- sionary to Tibet, news of whose death at the hands of bandits, near Batang, has just been cabled to America, was in daily contact for nearly seventeen years with all manner of types among the bar- barians who surrounded his home and hospital. Dr. Shelton lectured in Washington December 3, 1920, before the National Geographfc Soctety. In a recent article in the Na- tional Geographic Magazine he told of earning the blood-brother- hood of one of the notoricus bri- gand chiefs of the eastern border of Tibet, an_alliance which may well mean that his death at the hands of other bandits may have a sequel. | The bandit chief was Lozong, who came to offer his services to the Tibetan governor in Gartok, Tibet, at the time that Dr. Shelton was the governor's guest. Bandit Makes Proposal. ‘“During_our stay. wrote Dr. Shelton, “Lozong and 1 became quite good friends, often visiting each other. One day he proposed to me that we should be brothérs. According to this custom among the people of Kham, when two parsons like each other very much they- draw up an agreement de- ! claring that they are brothers and that they will help and stand by each other through all things. “When Lozong made the proposal I told him that 1 could not ac- it. vhy not? said he. ‘We are 1 replied, ‘I know we are friends, but you occasionally kill people. and you rob, and you drink whisky, and I cannot 8o these things.” “He did not like that at all. He went away, but two or three days later he came back again. Makes Inquiry. “*Well,’ he said, ‘if your religion will not allow you °to become brother with me, since you say you came here to help people and not to kill them, what will your re- ligion allow you to do? “I told him something of our purpose and of our faith, and he went away again. Two or three days later he came back, all smiles. “‘I've got things all fixed up now, Le said. ‘We can be broth- ers, all right. 1 went up to the high priest this morning and took an oath that I will not kill any- body, that I will not rob and that 1 will not drink whisky.’ “T assured him that I was great- 1y pleased. “‘Then,’ he said, as he reached inside his gown and pulled out a paper, ‘How Is this?' “He had It all written out and proceeded to read the paper to me. It ran somewhat {n this fashion: Warned to Keep Hands Off. “‘In view of the fact that Gen. Lozong (he called himself general) and Dr. Shelton have both taken an oath that they will not kill any- body, they will not rob any one, they “He enumerated several other conditions, and, in closing, said: ‘And, furthermore, this is to give notice to any one that if you ever molest Dr. Shelton in any way I will bring a ttousand men and wipe u off the face of the earth. COMMISSIONER OYSTER GETS 6,000 ‘CALLING CARDS IN ELEVEN MO. NTHS Commissioner James F. Oyster has started a new type of survey for the District. It is on the topic of visitors to the office of the Commisbioners. To date exactly 6,000 callers have laid their cards before him during the past eleven months. Counting days off, Sun- days and holidays, the number of visitors has hit a general average of about' twenty or twenty-five per day. It the average caller takes up approximately ten minutes of the Commissioner’s time, it would ap- pear that during this period ap- RAILROAD WORKERS OVERPAID GHARGED Board Hears Most Employes in Similar Trades Get Lower Wages. By the Assoclated Prézs. CHICAGO, March 7.—The men en- gaged In work cdmparable to that done on railroads,. employed in 5,327 industries in twenty-eight of the west- ern states, are receiving wages much lower than those paid to employes of . the railroad according to a state- ment read today by J. W. Higgins, ex- ecutive secretary of the Association of Western Rallways, before the United States Railroad Labor Board, at its hearing concerning wage dlsputes be- tween employes and the roads. According to the statement, pre- pared after an exhaustive survey, of the 318,893 employes of all classes studied in other industries, 247,866, or 77.15 per cent, were getting wages in December, 1921, lower than those paid by railroads for similar services. The statement sald that in Arkansas. Ari- zona, Kentucky Michigan, Mississippi and Tennessee, more than 90 per cent of employes in other industries are paid less than railroad wages. Mr. Higgins said that while the roads wish the wages paid to be fair and adequate, it was not believed that the transportation act intended a flat rate to prevail throughout the coun- try, and, in addition to citing statis- tics showing the difference in wages paid common labor in principal cities of the west, presented data to show that 89.5 per cent of the men in the metal crafts in other industries re- ceive lower wages than men doing the same work for railroads. BEATEN BY KIDNAPERS. I proximately three or four hours a day at the least are being used to take care of callers having busi- ness with the Commissioner. This is entirely outside the time used by the Commissioner in in- terviewing officials of the District government. It is also without the pale of the Public Utilities Com- misston. And also the zoning com- mission_does not infringe on this time. Give the Commissioner an average of only an hour a day for each of these commission duties, and he has about two hours, or one-quarter of an eight-hour day, left for the transaction of routine business and to take care of new matters which are arising constantly for his consideration. 52,000 PLANNED FOR SHOALS EXPENSES House Resolution Limited to Military Committee Only. A resolution authorizing an appro- priation of $2,000 to defray expenses of members of the military committee who will visit the government' projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., Was| clined to estimate the loss, but it wa: hington in gratitude for their former contributions of playthings and ed in all of the Distriet public schools by Mixs A. May Atlee. ANOTHER DEGLARES HE KILLED TAYLOR Writing From Atlantic City, Says He and Wife Planned Murder. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 7.— Police detectives and agents of the distriot attorney planned further in- vestigation today of the letter re- ceived from Atlantic City, N. J., pur- porting to be a confession to the murder here February 1 of William Desmond Taylor, film director. “We South Americans always take care of our women,” read a part of the letter which the police made pu lic, and the name signed to it was said to be that of a man prominently connected with the motion picture in- dustry here, whose wife was believed to be a native of South America. The man left Los Angeles about the time of the murder, it was said, and the police previously had considered him in_their investigation. . The letter was said to detail the wife's confession to her husband of an “affair” with the director, who later had gast her aside, whereupon she told her husband and the two of :hem planned and executed the slay- ng. SUICIDE BELIEVED SANDS. Body Said to Resemble That of Tay- lor’s Secretary. HARTFORD, Conn., March 7.—The Connecticut state police have renewed their investigation Into the mystery of the sulcide of a man at Warehouse Point, Conn., whose body was found February 19 with a bullet hole in the head. It is understood the state police telieve the body may be that of Ed- ward F. Sands, missing secretary of ‘William D. Taylor, slain film director. In its account of the state police ac- tivities, the Hartford Courant this morning deecribed the similarity be- tween the description of Sands and the description of the body found at Warehouse Point. The body is de- scribed as being that of a man about | twenty-seven years old, five feet nine inches tall, weight about 170 pounds, ight complexion and heavy brown I bair. The body was found on the shore of the Connecticut river and a pistol was nearby. The clothing was of good quality and_ there was $235 in the pockets. All labels and laundry marks had been cut out of the man's eloth- ing. After several futile attempts to identify the body, it was buried a few days ago in Windsor Locks. Coroner Calhoun of Hartford county had expressed the opinion that it was a case of suicide. | “Reports that Sands has been in Connecticut have been published here. It is sald that under the name of Pete Snyder he served in the navy at New. London during the war and deserted In January, 1919. It Is de- clared that before the United States entered the war he served a sen- tence of one year in the naval prison at Portsmouth, N. H., for embezzle- ment. _— ARMY BARRACKS BURN. Eight Buildings at Plattsburg De- stroyed by Fire. PLATTSBURG, N. Y. March 7.— | Eight long wooden buildings at the | Plattsburg barracks used for quarter- war | master's supplies were destroyed by fire early today. Army officers de- introduced today in the House by [known that it would be many thou- Chafrman Kahn. The resolution included only au thorization for the committeemen to make the trip and did not open the invitation to House members gener- ally. In announcing the introduction of the resolution Mr. Kahn informed the committeemen that he had received 2 telegram from Gen. Pershing, re- questing them to include Camp Ben- ning, Ga.,.in this trip. The commit- teo took the general's invitation un- der advisement, awaiting action by sands of dollars. The buildings were erected for the reserve officers train- ing camp and the contents of all but three were destroyed. Soldlers saved the property in others. The fire, which was discovered few minutes after midnight, under control two hours later. TEST 2,000,000 EYES. New York School Authorities Are Observing Health Day. NEW YORK, March 7.—Nearly a million boys and girls of New York's 1 i “C-7; NOT SEA SERPENT!” CONGRESSMAN EXPLAINS IN CORRECTING ERROR The legislative grind in the House was halted yesterday to cor- rect an error in the Congressional Record, which krought a recol- lection of summer resort advertis- ing in tke dull seasons. “On page so0 and so of the Record,” sald Representative Lan- ham, democrat, Texas, the com- plainant, holding aloft a bound volume of the Congressional Daily, “I am made to say that they have not lost any of the helium out of the sea serpent in any of its flights. 1 did not say sea Ser- pent; 1 sald C-7, which is some different.” OR. PRI STARTS ONTRAL OFGHLS New York Scientist May Be- gin His Inquiry With Cross-Examination. Br the Associated Press. HALIFAX, N. 8, March 7.—Dr. Wal- ter Franklin Prince, director of the American Institute of Scientific Re- search of New York, started yester- day for Caledonia Mills to investigate the pranks of the reputed Antigonish ghost that caused the family of Alex- ander McDonald to flee the “haunted” McDonald home several weeks ago. A photographer and an artist ac- companied the scientist, Dr. Prince declaring he expected to photograph the eerie tenant of the McDonald Pomestead. The trip will,take two ays. W Refuses Large Offer. Dr. Prince said he had refused sev- eral lariz: money offers from Amer- ican newspapers for stories of his ex- periences. Before leaving for the ghost's re- puted lair, Dr. Prince intimated he might begin his investigation by cross-examining Mary Ellen McDon- ald, the farmer's foster daughter, and her sweetheart. This, he suggested, might be expected to provide him with a starting place from which to trace the mystery to Its origin. In outlining his plan of investiga- tion, Dr. Prince sald he hoped to per- suade McDonald to move his effects backs to the “haunted” house, par- ticularly the articles reported to have caught fire mysteriously while farm fclk of the neighborhood were watch- ing. He said it was his intention to spend his first night fn the house in a room by himself. adding that_he ex pected to be very tired, and had al- ways found ghosts considerate enough not to interfere with the sleep’of a weary man. ‘arries Set of Bells. The scientist had with him a mys- terious looking contrivance, including a set of bells. the function of which he did not explain, He admitted, how- ever, that he would have them near him ‘on his first night In the realm of spooks. At Caledonia Mills, the physician said, he would be joined by an archi- tect who would take accurate meas- urements of the house. HOME INTEREST CLUB TO GIVE STYLE EXHIBIT Show Will Be to Teach How to] Dress Stylishly But Con- servatively. To show women how to dress styl- ishly but conservatively, the Home Interest Club of Takoma Park will give an educational style exhibit in the Takoma Park Library Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. R. A. Ramsey, president of the club, who has been instrumental in arranging the affair, has invited members of the Friendship Club and the Civic Study Club of Takoma Park to wit- ness the exhibit. Four women of various types will be models in the show. One will be tall and stately, another with aubu.n hair, the third with hoary hair, and the fourth short and stout. Miss Alice T. Buchanan will talk on “Clothes and How to Wear Them.” The style show also will be given at the Wilson Normal Community Center Friday night, under the direc- tion of Mrs. Ida E. Kebler, commu- nity secretary. It was Mrs. Kebler who first started interest in the edu- cational style shows a year ago, and since then the idea has spread to schools, clubs and community cen- ters throughout the city. The Wi son Normal School wiil join with the community center in giving the show. One of the four models at the com- munity center show will be a Wilson Normal School student. Miss Buch- anan also will speak on clothes at this show. NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING JAPANESE TO BE PUPILS Those in Yakima Valley to Attend School—Adopt Other Means of Meeting Criticism. By the Associated Press. YAKIMA, Wash., March 7.—All Japanese in the Yakima valley who | {do not speak English readily will be- gin at once to go to school as a re- sult of a meeting of Japanese which considered the recent ruling of Sec- retary of Interior Fall that only citi- zens be allowed to lease lands on Indian reservations in the future. The Japanese decided that one of the reasons for the opposition to them in the Wapato_district is that they do not speak English readily. No member of the Japanese associa- tion henceforth is to trade anywhere except _with Wapato merchants, was| though formerly many of them dealt with fellow countrymen at Yakima and Seattle. ‘The thirty-two Japanese whose leases expire this vear are to be given employment on the reservation by other Japanese, with permission in most cases to work on shares. UNDER WATER 3 DAYS. the House on its passage bufore de-| puplic schools will have their eyes|Diver With “Bends” Submerged as ciding upon an itinerary. y. B. Mayo, representing Henry Ford, described to the committee to- day the alterations which he recently. announced Mr. Ford had agreed to make .in his proposal for purchase and lease of the Muscle Shoals proj- ects. One of these contemplated in- sertions of a clayse fixing a pald capitalization “of not less than $10,- 000,000” for the company, Mr. Ford would create to operate Muscle Shoals. Inclusion of such a provision in the terms of the offer Whs recommended by Secretary Weeks when he sent it to Congress In order that the government's interest might be safe- guarded against possible failure of the company to executa the contract in_good faith. The second alteration presented by Man Seized Second Victim at Ports- | Mr. Ford's spokesman involved. the mouth in Few Days. PORTSMOUTH, Va., March 7.—Po- lice today are .searching for unknown occupants of two automoblles who last night kidnapped Otto Notting- ham, young married man of this city, from his home, took him beyond the city limits and administered-= severe beating. Nottingham is not serioysly injured, his captora contenting themselves with beating him with their fists. ‘This is the second time within a week that a resident of this vicinity has been attacked by beaten. in either case. ngs and | M: No motive has been ascribed | wall inclusion of a definite guarantee for the company to manufacture ‘com- ercial ~fertilizers.” The original froposal only bound the company to manufacture “nlt;ux‘en and other tilizer compounds.” fe';na witness said Mr. Ford had not agreed to reduce the lease period for the Muscle Shoals properiies from 100 to 50 years. tested before today is over. This is health day in the schools, and the Eyesight " Conservation Association | of America is co-operating with the Wwholesale eye testing. In addition, the organization will distribute 250,000 copies of a pam- phlet on the care of the eyes. Teachers In the schools will co- operate in the examinations for de- fects of vislon. Ears, teeth, nutri- tion and nasal | tested. WINS DIVORCE SUIT. Mrs. Mary B. Spencer Freed From Major on Non-Support Plea. NEWPORT, R. I, March 7—A di- vorce was granted yesterday to Mrs. Mary R. Spencer, wife of Maj. Loril- lard Spencer, jr. of New York and this city, by Judge Capotosto of the school authorities in arranging the |his sion tank” aboard the naval repair; breathing will be | down, Paralysis Cure. NEW YORK, March 7.—Lying in rubber diving suit in a “depres- ship Falcon, Torres Olson, deep sea diver, is gradually recovering from an attack of the “bends” with which he was stricken Saturday while working on a_sunken barge, eighty-five feet at New London, Conn. The tank is so constructed that 2 deep sea pressure can be leszened gradually. As the pressure goes down, Olson Is regalning use of the lower part of his body, which was paralyzed. BLINDS MAN WITH $15,000. ‘Dressed as a Woman, Yegg Shoots Pistol of Ammonia. PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 7.— Dressed as & woman and armed with superios court, The suit was brought | D7esseq 83,5 TPTMZ 800 With ammo- { on_grounds of non-support. Mrs. Spencer, daughter Frederic P. Sands of Newport, was “oThen,” said Representative Greene, | married to Maj, Spencer here in Sep- republican, Vermont, “We understand | tember, 1905. They have one minor that e WAAGE PAL IOk (ALY child, now in the custody of Mrs. T T Spencer, for whom no provlllon was Miss Florence Milligan and Dr. arjorie O'Connell of New York ar« cisco. king from New York to San Fran- made in the divorce decree. Philadelphia has clans and ‘:flne female clergymen. of Mrs.|Di% a bandit today fired at Charles Lazaro, & bank messenger carrying $15,000, as he alighted from a street car at Liberty and 6th avenues, a busy business district. Lazaro, al- though blinded, held to his satchel and grappled with the bandit. Po- liceman Clarence Timmons saw the struggle and, rescuing Lazaro. arrest- 263 woman physi- | ed the bandit. who gave his name as Joseph Lindsay. 17 PLANSKEPT SECRET BY LLOYD GEORGE Defers Resignation, But Gives His Colleagues No Pledge for Future. WANTS TO GO TO GENOA Expected to Retain Leadership Un- til Irish Legislation Has Been Completed. By the Asnoclated Press. LONDON, March 7.—Prime Minister Lloyd George has deferred his resiz- nation without giving his colleagues any pledge as to future action re- garding the premiership, according to the most reliable sources of in- formation reaching the Associated Press today. It is commonly accepted that he will retain leadership of the govern- ment until Irish legislation has been completed and possibly until the Genoa conference. He is credited with an earnest desire to go to Genoa and will devote all of his time to preparations for the trip during con- valescence at his country home In Wales. Not Diplomatic Iliness. Nowhere has it been reliably sug- gested that his iliness is assumed for diplomatic purposes and it is gen- erally agreed by his friends that he needs a complete rest. His supporters attribute his complaints as to lack of loyalty by conservative coalitionists essentlally to nervous exhaustion. The prime minister has held care-laden ministerial offices for sixteen consec- utive years, including the period of his prime ministership. He stood up during the most trying years of the war and period of peace settlement and his admirers declare that any man of less hardy physique would bave collapsed long ago. They now hope that for a time at least he will be permitted to enjoy undisturbed quiet. Six Colleagues United. Westminster Gazette's political cor- respondent draws a picture of the pressure exerted on him at Sunday night’s dinner to prevent Lis retire ment and keep him within the coali- tion fold. This newspaper further says that six unionist colleagues united in efforts to bind him “safely in the prison house of coalitio: “When the prison gate was closed,” the writer continues, “the prime min- ister went home and to bed exhayst- ed, and, If the truth be known, a thoroughly beaten man, for he lacked at the last moment courage to stake all upon his freedom. He returned to his jailers’ keeping, striving to put the best complexion to it all, but at heart he was sick and sore.” Present Crisis Belleved Passed. Today’'s political observers vary a great deal in their speculations as to future attitude of the conservative Some deciare that their position is improved and that there is a distinct movement among the more sober con- servatives to rally in defense to the coalition and prime minister. Others assert just as confidently that the conservatives are quite out of hand and are eager to turn against Austen Chamberlain for his efforts to pro- mote harmony. The political crisis is over—until it breaks out again—is the assertion of one newspaper, and this statement in some quarters is believed accurately to describe the situation. Sir Arthur Balfour's speech was eagerly awaited today further to clarify a critical Juncture. WOULD KIDNAP SLAYER. Sheriff Learns of Move Against Ed- gar C. Frady. {IAMIL Fla, March 7.—Acting on a p” he said he considered reliable, that Edgar C. Frady, Chicago auto- niobile man, who shot and killed his wife here, was to be kidnaped from the hospital and taken to Cuba aboard a yacht waiting outside the harbor, Sheriff Allen had Frady removed to the county jail and a special thrown about. the building. The sheriff received information, he id, that Chicago gunmen had been ilnported, and that the plan only awaited nightfall to be put into opera- tion. Frady's guards were to be over- powered, he was told, the sheriff de- Clared, and Frady was to be rushed to a speed boat lying in the Miami river. Thie boat was to transfer the accused slayer to another larger boat well at sea, which was to whisk Frady be- yond the jurisdiction of the United States. The sheriff declared that when he went to remove Frady the latter begged to be permitted to spend one more night in the hospital. HAYS IN NEW JOB. Assumes Duties as Head of Motion - Picture Industry. NEW YORK, March 7.—Will H. Hays, former Postmaster General, took up his duties yesterday as exec- utive president of the Motion Picture Manufacturers and Distributors of America. [ He spent most of the first day in his sumptuous new offices receiving best wishes of leading motion picture producers, reading sheafs of congratu- latory telegrams and admiring bou- quets sent in by friengs. Mr. Hays denied he had been em- ployed to bolster the industry against attacks on its morality, asserting the following two clauses from his con- tract told the whole story of his duties: “To obtaln and then to maintain the highest possible standards of moving picture production. “To develop to the highest possible degree the moral and educational character of the industry.” SCHEDULE MEETING HERE. Prince Georges Citizens to Discuss School” Budget. Special Dispatch to The Star. BRANCHVILLE, March 7.—An- nouncement was made at a meeting of the Woman's Community Club that on Friday, March 10, at 1 p.m.. at the Carnegie Public Library, Washington, the Prince Georges county school budget, recently submitted to the icounty commissioners, will be dis- cussed in open meeting by Supt. Orem. The county commissioners and the members of the county school board ure expected to be present. All per- sons interested in Prince Georges county schools have been invited to attend. The meeting has been arranged by the education committee of the Coun- ty Federation of Women's Clubs. At the March meeting of the Branch- ville Citizens' Association, to be held at the school Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, the annual electios &2 of- ficers will take place. DRUNKEN SHERIFF WINS. Arkansas Supreme Court Overrules in Case of Inebriety. LITTLE ‘ROCK, Ark., March 7.— The supreme court has held that drunkenness was not sufficient cause Cor removal from office and 18- Sued a writ of prohibition forbidding Circuit Judge Sorrells of Pine Bluft from removing . from office Sherift John G. McLain of Lincoln oounty as part of a punishment under a re- cent conviction on a charge of im- ebriety.