Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1922, Page 1

Rain late tonight and rising temperature; lowest tempera- ture tonight above freezing. day. Full report on page 7 No. 28438. CRISSINGER WILL BAN CERTIFICATES FOR SOLDIER BONUS Controller to Advise BanksI Not to Accept Notes as Se- curity on Loans. “WORST\KIND OF FROZEN CREDIT,” HE DECLARES Adjusted Service Certificates Would Be “Non-Negotiable Paper,” Official Explains. Controller of the Currency C: singer announced today that in ithe event of the enactment of soldiers’ bonus legislation providing for payments by adjusted service certificates he would, advise national banks to decline to accept the cer- tificates as security for loans. Mr. Crissinger described the pro- pesed plan of issuing adjusted serv-| ice certificates for use by the soldiers, if desired, as collateral for loans to 80 per cent of their face value as “the worst kind of frozen credit, and declared while he would be with- cut authority to order national banks to refuse security, against their acceptance. The certificates would be “non-ne- gotiable paper,” Mr. Crissinger ex- plained. and loans upon them would load the banks up for a three-year term which they cover, with an un- movable mass of security. i The certificates would be similar to rcal estate loans which are not re- discountable at federal reserve banks, he said, and far from the liquid se- curity best for the banks. $200,000,000 BILL MAY NOT BE URGED U. S. Charges Against Ger- many Will Be Discussed by Ministers in Paris. BY WILLIAM E. NASH. By Cable to The Star and Chieago Dally News. Copyright, 1822, PARIS, March 9.—The granting or refusal of a moratorium to Germany is probably contingent on the meet- ing between the finance ministers of | Great Britain, France, Italy and Bel- ! gium, which is now in progress here. | The problem will not be -considered i by the ministers, but will be left to! the reparations commission to decide as part of the larger problem of “how much can Germany pay in 19227" | But before the thorny subject can be broached in public at all the Bril—l ish cabinet insists, there ure cecrtain other indemnity details which must be cleared up. The present meeting. therefore, may be considered as pre- liminary to greater things. U. S. to Have Observer. Roland W. Boyden will “sit in” at! the conference as an unofficial ob- | server for the United States. One| item scheduled for discussion inter- ests the United States greatly, name- ly, the payment of the costs of the allied armies of occupation In Ger- many. The United States has a bill of $200,000,000 against Germany for the upkeep of the American troops at Coblenz. Although it has not yet made a claim for any such sum, nev- ertheless under the treaty with Ber- lin it has a right to collect it, and | if the other aliies receive reimburse- | ment the United States has a right | to_know about it. | On August 13, 1921, it was agreed | in Paris to partition the first billion- | mark indemnity instaliment between | Great Britain and Belgium to pay the Rhineland military expenses up to May 21, 1921. France was to receive nothing on the assumption that her revenue from the Saar coal flelds made up more than a just equivalent. The French parliament refused to ratify this accord. Later, an agree- ment_was concluded at Cannes giv- ing Great Britain 500,000,000 marks, France 140,000,000 marks, Italy 30, 000,000 marks ‘and Belgium the re mainder of the first annual jnetall- ment. Probably this arrangement will hold intact, “although . France and Italy may propose amendments. Furthermore. the finance ministers will discuss the dfstribution among the allles of the German reparations payments in 1922. No one knows how large they will be because the repara- tions commssion has not et fixed definite figures, but that ‘does not prevent the allies from working up a keen iuterest in the matter. Belgium has a priority ciaim, ac- cording to the treaty of Versailles. The cash receipts are likely to be small. so the debate may be expected fo center largely on the payments in kind. The British insist that the capital value of the Sarre coal fields must be charged up against the French snare of the indemnity. The French in dignantly contest this. The Brit seem to be afraid that the Wiesbaden agreement concluded between Loucheur and Walter Rathenau lead to camouflaged priority and may ask fer further explanations on this point. . I Commission Gains Power. 1t appears that the reparations problem remains within the com- petence of the indemnity commission. That body seems to have grown stronger in every respect and its pre- rogatives under the treaty of Ver- sailles have apparently been . left in- tact. The commission has just pub- lished a summary of the indemnity payments up to December 31, 1921 The total reaches the respectable fig- ure of 11.400,000,000 gold marks, dis- proving the old argument that Ger- many never could and nsver would pay anything at all. the allies on Germany's amount to 8,500,000.000 gold marks’ The balance, translated into dollar: $682.000.000, represents immovable wealth in the form of property be- longing to the German state in terr! tories ceded under the treaty of Ver- sallles. The net balance, therefore,. leaves nothing, or next to nothing, to be divided as reparations. to accept them as| ‘ 1 vise | he would strongly advise| ., coure that he was called up late {Anthony League, ' ‘WEATHER. tomorrow;e ) | Temperature for twenty-four hours P : i ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 45, at || Zpm. togay: lowest, 26, at ¢ am. “to- A ; | | Closing New York Stocks, Page 24 Enteréd as gecond-class fratter post office Washington, D. C. ! New Use for ‘Flivver’ Found by Farmer, Who Converts It Into Still | By the Associated Press. WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Mareh | | %=—A “fiivver” converted into a atil] has been discovered in the of Frank Nivakas, farme a rald by federal prohibition agents. The gas tnnk, radiator, feed pipe and hood were fea- turen of the apparatus. Sufficient liquor was found to order Nivakas' appearance In court || todny. NHENRY GRANTED RESPITE OF A WEEK Justice McCoy Yields to Last- Minute Appeal to Prepare Youth for Death. John McHenry, twenty-four-year- old slayer of Detective Sergt. Arm- strong, will { District jail tomorrow. A last-minute appeal to United States Attorney Gor- {don and Chief Justice McCoy by At- i torney S. McComas Hawken, counsel I for the prisoner, today secured him a ]PQHPRQ of one week. The plea was based on the youth's lack of prepara- tion for eternity. Shortly before the noon recess of into court and Attorney | Hawkén made the formal motion for the delay in the hanging. He told last night by Rev. P. J. O'Callaghan, who with Rev. W. J. Kerby of the Catholic University, has shown much interest in the condemned youth. Father O'Callaghan pleaded for a short respite that he might complete the spiritual instruction of the pris- oner, pointing out that the youth's whole career had been in criminal environment and he was woefully un- informed of religious matters. Re- cently the prisoner had snown a dis- position to take more interest in his soul's salvation, the priest had stated, and, although he had been baptised, the priest wished a little more time for him to complete his preparation for death. Could Not Be Refused. United States Attorney Gordon, in consenting to the postponement of the execution for another week, declared that an appeal so based could not be refused by him, and Chief Justice Mc- Coy granted the respite. Mrs. Mary Rice, the condemned boy's mother, who has been here seeking a reprieve, appeared at the Department of Justice this morning to bring word thdt she was recelving this afternoon new evidence, which she hoped would arrive in time for consideration by the authorities before {t was too late. Accompanied by a member of the Mrs. Rice sought audience with the pardon attorney, and ‘was given appointment for this after- ing from Connecticut—and, it was learn- ed, bears upon the plea of insanity, by which the mother hopes to save her son. The evidence, it was said, weuld relate to the family history of the boy, and she hoped it would be of sufficient authenticity to obtain serious consid- eration. Mother Desperate in Appeal. Though apparently weighed down by her sorrow, Mrs. Rice, when called upon to present her case directly to the authorities, spoke out with force and clarity, full not only of mother love, but a desperate and intelligent resolu- tion to do the best her quavering strength would stand. She was attired !in black. Her eyes were red from tears. , Another, and perhaps one of the mosi striking attempts ta save the life of the youthful slayer, came in the form of a petition this morning from 340 fellow prisoners at the District jail to President Harding. The petition de- clared McHenry’'s prison mates had “deep regret” for the “not wholly ‘in- evitable ceremony indicated for the 10th instant,” explaining they believed that McHenry was ‘“neither average nor normal.” Petition by Prisoners. “His youth and his child's mind appeal to us,” they said. The peti- tion follows: “The undersigned prisoners of the not be hanged at the| Criminal Division 1 the prisoner was | i brought noon. The evidence, she sald, was cflm-l WASHINGTO 00 IN HOSPITALS THROUGH DRINKING POISONOUS WHISKY Year’s Record Shows Many | Serious Cases From Boot- leg Concoctions. FIVE DEATHS RESULT, | WITH MANY IMPAIRED iWhere Vile Liquor Does Nbt Kill It Has Been Found to Shat- ! ter Health. i Mare than 500 Washingtonians were | treated at three local hospitals dur- ing the year 121 after drinking bad liquor, including bootleg whisky. This year's record will be even) higher, judging from reports from the Washington Asylum Hospital, where already 107 cases have been ! | registered and diagnosed for the first | two months and a fraction of this| year. The remarkable thing about it all appears to be, according to health | department records, that only five| | died from the effects of alcoholic pm.g | soning. It is pointed out that the { low death rate for this cause speaks well for the hospitals treating the cases. But the cases of serious im-! pairment of health, causing ultimate | deaths from causes other than alco- holic poisoning, cannot be estimated without individual investigation of each case. Varlous Hospital Cases. At the Emergency Hospital during | {the past year, according to official rec- | ords there, 120 were entered as suffer- | ling from the effects of the bootleg products being retailed in Washing- jton. ~This year the number has been lighter, only eleven cases having been admitted thus far. The Emergency is the exceptional hospital this year in | this regard. Both of the others show | !higher ratios than last year. The rec- ords for the alcoholic cases were searched by Assistant to tiie Super- intendent Dalton today and the above | estimates were the result. Casualty Hospital is having its hands fuil also with the alcoholic poi- | ning cases. The alcoholic patients | admitted thus far this year were esti- mated at thirty by Mrs. Robert R. Loy, superintendent, {n charge of the re ords and office, while last vear's num- | ber was fixed at seventy-five. It is Washington Asylum Hospital. however, which is Washington's barometer of the effects of fake and i poison liquor. According to officials there, the vast majority of cases be- ing treated there for alcoholism are due to the effects of imbibing adul- terated, synthetlc and manutactured whisky and liquors. Last_year thess cases numbered 250. This year they have become the prime factor of attention at the hos- pital, according to physicians, and the psychopathic ward is constantly filled to capacity. The new year |opened with a ratio of almost fifty per month, or almost two cases per | day. Typical Case Cited. | Here's a typical case from the Wash- |ington Asylum Hospital. The ndm !is on the records there, but is with: ‘held from publication. The authority is the physician in charge of the hos- , pltal: 1”On January 6 a Washington baj was unconscious. Some time afterward |he regained consciousness, but re- mained in a comatic state. He knew vaguely where he was and what the hospital was, but he scarcely had a ! definlte idea as to what any one around him was doing. It was eight weeks before he recovered sufficiently to be itaken from the hospital and sent i home. Before leaving he explained to physicians that he had taken only “didn’t know a. thing after ‘that sec- ond drink” until he woke up some few weeks later in the hospital. Physiclans at the hospital do not hesitate to place the blame on the injurious quality of the whisky that is now being sold. At Washington Asylum Hospital a certain class of imbibers has come to be known as i ber was brought to the hospital. He| { two drinks of bootleg whisky and he| WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION N, D. C., THURSDAY, 9 N - §1 GAS RATE NOS SEEMS PROBABLE Order to Cut Charge, March 18, Expected Soon. | May Be $1.05. A recuction in the price of gas, be- ginning with the reading of meters on March 18, seemed certain at the Dis- trict building today. ! The present nrice of gas used in pri- | vate households is $1.19 per thousand cubic feet. Indications are that the| price will be cut to $1. although it is Possible that a rate of $1.05 finally may | be decided upon. i 1 i The decislon of the commission is ex- pected to be made public tomorrow or Saturday. The probabilities are that in | the gas case the commission will follow the course taken. on telephone and street ! car rates, of making the new order in- | definite. Under this arrangement the! rates fixed may be reconsidered when-{ |ever. in the commission's opinion. | changes In operating costs justify such | action. i | At the hearing the Washington Gas | Light Company argued for a return ! | of 8 per cent on its valuation, which } would not permit of a reduction in'! the present rates. In support of! | this_contention the company called jattention to the testimony submitted by the telephone company to show that it costs utllities 8 per cent Lo borrow money. ( It 1s not expected. however, that| the commission will fix rates to yield | higher than a 7 per cent return on the fair value of the company’s prop- | {erty. i i 1. as now indicated, the commis-, cuts the present price of gas, it ' be the third reduction from the | | war peak of $1.32 per 1,000 cubic( | feet. 'The first reduction was to $1.23, | ! then to £1.10. ! | “The Ctilities Commission probably | | will meet tomorrow afternoon or! | Saturday_morning to take final ac-| | tion on the gas decision. i | At the same meeting the commis-| sion will consider the several re-; quests that have been received from | | citizens' organizatioi® asking that| | the street car companies be required | ito sell three tokens for 20 cents. | i APPEAL TO MINERS. sion | will “Secretary Davis Urges Them to Set- | {and relaxation. . MARCH 9, 1922—TH $20,000 LEGACY MYTH, SHOOTS SELF TO BEAR OUT TALE TOLD BRIDE By the Asso CISCO, Calif. March aig, twenty-two years bridegroom of four months, before his marriage told his sweet- heart he soon was to become heir to $20.000. Recently he told of an approach- ing payment of $2,250 on the e Tuesday afternoon he staggered into his Mill Valley home. There was a ragged bullet wound in his right shoulder. He said that he had been shot by a highwayman, who look from him a $575 dia- moud ring and $1.500 in ca Wednesday night he told Sheriff J. J. Keating of Marin_county, according to that officer, that the ho'd-up was a myth and that with his own hand and his own revolver he had inflicted tie wound to make the story stronger. He told the sheriff his wife had become increasingly curious abous the " since their marriage. Craig is a_cle Mra. Cralg said the deception was not necessary lo Keep her it “It doesn’t matter, Harold.” she soothed him. “But why didn't you tell me the truth in the first place?” PRESIDENT'S TRAIN - SPEEDING T0 SOUTH Special Scheduled to Arrive at St. Augustine, Fla., at 2 P.M. Today. By the Associated Press. ON BOARD PRESIDL: ING'S SPECIAL TRAIN, Refreshed by a President Harding was looking fc NT March HARD- 9. — ward enthusiastically to the first day | of his vacation when morning aboard the special which is carrying the cxecutive and { his party to-Florida for a week's rest.qa of the Genou conference before its 10, which would | Since leaving Wash- ington late vesterday the special had Z00d night's rest, | he arose this| train | { “thirty-day repeaters.” They show | p every month or 50 to be treated| District of Columbia jail, in re- 1 or a condition resulting from bad | sponse to the promptings of our bet- ter selves and under the influence of | i made good time and early today was bening Star. IRTY-SIX PAGES. The Amoclated Press Is exclumively eatitied to | | the use for republication of all news dispatches | | credited to it or not otherwise credited in thfs || paper and siso the local news publihed berein. | | All rights of publication of special | dispatches herein are also reserved. | 1 | ’Member of the Associated Pr Circulation, 94,850 TWO CENTS. Yesterday’s Net * TAGTFUL PRESSURE i | | | |COMMITTEE FAIL TO GET | 2n opportunity to call up the Jones | amendment. SEMATEENBIL RESTORNG PEASO * RGHTS T0 8000 Proposes Amending Act to In- clude All Persons With Competitive Status. TO JONES-CARAWAY PLAN Adjournment Is Taken Before Amendment Is Reached by Congressmen. Chalrman Focht of the House Dis- trict committee had intended today 0 get a vote of his committee on the Jones-Caraway legislative amend- ment which was put on the District appropriation bill in the Senate, changing the fiscal relations between the federal and District govern- ments. The time of the committee meeting. however, was entirely taken up with consideration of the Raker bill for control and regulation of social dis- ase in Washington. The meeting ad- journed before Chairman Focht had SENATOR STERLING HOPES TO OBTAIN EARLY ACTION The general feeling expressed in dividually by members of the com-| mittee, however, showed that the| House District committee is opposed to the Jones amendment and wishes, to have the fiscal relutions continued on u definite proportion of contribu- tion from the federal Treasury o supplement the payments from the taxes collected from District resi- dents. Measure Forwarded by Secretary Fall—Referred to Civil Service Committee. For the relief of about 80,000 per- The Senate, on motion of Senator Phipps of Colorado, just before ad- journment yesterday, voted to insist upon its amendmentts to the District appropriation bill and to accepl the scns, heretofore supposed to be in the classified civil service, of whom 6400 are actually receiving retire- ment annuities to which they are not | conference proposed by SEENINGENDANOTE the House. The conferees on the part of the Sen- ate, appointed by the Vice President, are Senator Phipps, Senator Jones of Washington and Senator Glass of Virginia. The conferees on the part of the House are Representatives Davis of Minnesota, Evans and Johnson of Kentucky. BOATS IN GELLARS entitied under the law, according to a ruling by the Attorney General, Congress today was asked to pass legislation which will establish the rights of these government employes in law to receive retirement pen- sions. { Chairman Steriing of the Senate j civil service committee and Chairman Lehlbach of the same committee in |the House today reccived letters from Secretary Fall of the Interior Department, under whose jurisdic- tion the administration of the retire- bill which he urged the two commit- |tees to bring up for action in their | bodies. Introduced by Sterling. This bill was introdfced today by 'Should Not Be Regarded as ‘ U. S. Desire to Hold Aloof, | Says Official. | Refusal of the United States to par- !ticipate in the Genoa conference may Ibe viewed as the first step in a cam- ipaign of “tactful pressure” to pro- imote economic rehabilitation of | Europe, it was said today by a high jofiicial of the American government. |1t should not be regarded, this of- ificial said, as an indication of the | United States' desire to hold aloof }from the grave problems confronting | European nations. Secretary Hughes' note to Italy | conveying the decHnation of the {United States of the invitation to° participate .n‘ the Genog meeting lshould be interpreted, it was sald, rather as an expression of America's willingfiess to aid whenever it was felt that its aid could be rendered ef- ! fectively. The United States cannot afford to enter into a situation where the help jes pected from it cannot be given, of- ificials explained, adding that the American government must be viewed as holding its support in abevance ‘loxs “get down to brass tacks” in {the matter of setting their houses in | order. Mus( Balance Budgets. Economic problems, regarded by this country as of supreme importance !in the consideration of :methods of | world rehabilitation, include princi- reparations and balancing of budgets by certsin foreign nations. Without consideration of these {Questions in the view of the United States, it was said, there could be no practical attempt at world-wide economic readjustment. While it is thought improbable that { there would be a change in the agen- | { meeting on _April permit the United States to be repre- sented officially, officials said American ambassador at Rome might {Resident Tells of Neighbor Buried in Muddy Street Senator Sterling, chairman of the | Senate civil service committee. It Up to Ears.” provides: - “That in the administration of the Residents in the vicinity of 39th | civil service retirement act, approved {and Fessenden streets daily have to|May 22, 1920, the expression ‘all em- | plow through a muddy Sea to get to|ployes in the classified civil service {#nd from their homes, The Star man | of the United States’ as used in sec- was told today. The mud out there|tion 1 thereof shall be construed to is 8o saturated with water that the|irclude all persons ho have hereto- heavy ralns will not run off. The|fore or who may hereafter be given water cften runs down into the cel- |2 competitive status in the classified | S jcivil service, with or without com- | lars of the homes. | petitive examination, by legislative | Just by way of illustrating the real | enactment, or under the civil service conditions prevailing in that terri- rules promulgated by the President, : . lor by exccutive ordere, covering jtory Lee R. Downs, 3961 Fessenden | ot 0¥ ($XeCilVe, Ofdere,, covering { street, gave to The Stay man a little | tions into the competitive classifiefid istory which he believes describes | civil service, or authorizing the ap- {until such time as the European ma-| pzlly the rearrangement of German! the | better the conditions there, espe- cially in view of the fact that they have beer ginable to get any coal agors of, trucks up to their doors with coal. Here it Is: In Mud Up to Eara. “A man was walking along the | ‘street when he noticed a fairly good hat out in a muddy rut. He reached out with his cane and gave it a sharp cut, and was dumfounded to hear a voice from under the hat ex- claim: “‘Hey. there! What the heck are you trying to do? “Then he made the alarming dis- covery that the owner was up to 1 his ears in mud. “‘Great heavens! he exclaimed. ‘Is the mud that deep over there” *‘Deep,’ answered the victim. ‘Wh: man, alive, I'm standing on a loa of coal’ Use Canoes In Cellar. “Two years ago,” Mr. Downs said, “all the property holders on Fessenden i street east of Belt road were ordered |to move their houses back, so the | street could be widened and extended. We complied with the order and have been in a sea of mud and water ever proved, and as the permanent sewer to go canoeing in our own cellars, as we cannot establish g drain in our areaways.” This section of the city is in a par- i ticularly bad condition, owing to the strects. It adjoins the — Armsleigh | since, without getting our street im- | main has not been run, we are forced | | pointment of individuals to positions i witnin such service.” | Referred to Committee. ! The bill was referred to the com- { mittee on civil service. Senator Ster- {1ing hopes to have it considered .t jan early date. | Secretary Fall in his letter pointed |out to the committee that the opinion |of the Attorney General affects ap- ipmxlmalely 20 per cent of the em- | ployes of the government heretofore { regarded in the classified civil service, | or about 80,000 persons. He emphasiz- | ed algo that a careful estimate shows | that about S0 per cent of the appli- | cants for the benefit of the retirement {act to date did not enter the classi- | fled service by competitive examina- {tion, but did enter under classifi- | cation by executive order. He points {out that 56 per cent or approximately 2,100, of all those who have been con- tinued in the service beyond the re- tirement age by certification. did not | enter through "competitive examina- tions, but through classification, and { that four-fifths of all persons who { have thus far been retired under the | provisions of this ct are not entitled ito the annuity they are now receiv- ing. 6,400 Paid lllegally. Secretary Fall's letter tells the two {committees that about 8,000 are re- ceiving annuity, and hence about 6.400 of these are, according to the i Attorney General's opinion, receiving this annuity withovt warrant of law. Thus largely the class intended to be retired under this act, Secretary Fall explained, is now heid to be Park section, where the men and without its scope and not entitled to tle Differences. H Coal mine owners and mine operators | skirting the lower South Carolina coast. It is scheduled to arrive at St. the abiding sadness of tne occasjon, “umbly pelition you in behalf of a fellow human-being in the travail of impending dissolution. Recognizing the majesty of th® law and bowing, as we do, to its wise mandates which have made prisoners of us all; and because of our daily contact with him and our deep regret for the not wholiy inevitable cere- mony indicated for the 10th instant, WeWeg to petition you for the life of John McHenry, now under sentence of death within' twenty-four hours. Knowing that only from your merci ‘Wood Alcohol Drinkers. The same authorities made the statement that a number of the pa- tients of this type were known to be wood alcohol drinkers. “They will take a few drinks of bootleg,” one physician said,” and will continue drinking until their money gives out. Then they will go to a garage and obtain denatured alcohol. After mixing up a little with lemon juice, sugar and water, they drink this concoction themselves and the next thing they are back here again. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Special Dispatch to The Star, KANSAS CITY. Kan., March 9.—In a campaign speech here last night be- fore the Young, Men's Republican Club Miss Helen Pettigrew, twenty- one and pretty, formerly a depart- ment store clerk, but now Kansas' first woman aspirant’ for governor, announced further planks in the re- markable platform upon iwhich she is seeking the republican nomination. Here, in Kansas, one of the original dry states of the Union, Miss Petti- grew has declared for light wines and beer, and says she is opposed to “all sorts of blte laws.”” She favors short shirts for women, bobbed halr, cos- metics and anything els: that will meke a woman more attractive, or make her think she is more attrac- tive. Look Pretty, First Right. | —(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) _— “FOR BEER, WINE, PRETTY WOMEN,” |SAYS GIRL GOVERNOR CANDIDATE right of the woman to look her best at all times. . Bobbed Hair Convenient. “Short skirts are sanitary. Bobbeb | than long hair. haven't much time to waste mornings in combing halr. “Cosmatics ' help. some women ‘wonderfully, and if the result justifies the act, she should not be criticised. whisky. | hair is convenient and easier to comb ‘Women in business were urged today by Secretary of Labor Augustine, whi Davis “in the interest of common sense | dent’s vacation headquarters, at lto get together and save the countryjo'clock this afternoon. The run from the costly results of a strike.” i through Mr. Davis recounted the progress of {pnas 5o far been without incident. the endeavor which he is making at All Enjoying Trip. President Harding’s instigation to bring about an Qs ary in a formal| President Harding and the members | statement said_that with the approvaliof his party, which, in addition to of Preslde‘m ledl!‘u l!112 hl;‘lmer,l_l;rrrd | Mrs. Harding, Secretary Christian and rect communication with repre- sl > I atives of ‘the coal operators of the DTIE. Gen. Sawyer, his personal physi- central competitive field, with a view cian, includes Atlorney General 1o a joint meeting of the operators and | Daugherty, Speaker Gillett of the miners prior to March 31, when the!louce and Undersecretary of State present working agreement expires. Fletcher, all appeared to be enjoying —_————— ‘the trip’ immensely. The President intended to_go out for a round of SCREENS FOR MIXED JURY. i | While his vacation plans for the week ST. PAUL, Minn,, March 9-—Heavy |, ot been announced early today, it screens hereafter will be used to Par- | was understood Mr. Harding might take tition off the Jury room in the county {4 trip down the Florida coast ot several ere when both men and women | davs as the guest of lward B. Mc- {-o‘rlng-‘ase @ jury forced to spend a Lean, publisher of the Washington night there, Sheriff Johu Wagener POst, on the latter's housgboat. said today. Pilot Train Running Ahead. is announcement came after com- | o pxfl.‘\:fis et becn made by members of | Elaborate precautions are being taken by the Atlantic Coast Line railroad a mixed jury, who spent two nights in ;officials to protect the special train on the jury room last week with only bastily ‘improvised curtalns eparat- | Ghich the President is traveling. Every yard of track is being inspected by a ing the cots occupied by the five men pilgt train running ahead of the Spe- this afternoon. from those used by the seven women. ! from R “I have been asked about my stand {cial, with the general road master of on jazz music. { harmful. | is very pretty.” Miss Pettigrew, tall and dressed in a plain blue frock, seriously expounded her beliefs and her platform. Her statements were Jest, but with not made in a spirit of a spirit of convictiop. ‘WIIl Give Women Share. | I do mot think it is i I think some so-called jazz | scarcely flve feet! “The country needs more women the line riding on the rear of the pilot to make the inspection. No train 1 permitted to be operated on any switch turned in the track between the special and pilot trains. A picked crew of con- ductors and trainmen is operating the special and the general road foreman of engineers is riding in the engine cab. Arrives at- Jacksonville. The special traln reached Jackson ville flhgnly after noon and after a briet stop to change engines started THE SEISMOGRAPH Another Great Detective Story BEGINS IN | which will be the Presi-| Virginia and the Carolinas | 2olf when he reached St. Augustine in politics,” ‘she declared, “and 'if I Th S ny's " account | be allowed our personal freedom. 3 “We hear much of woman's rights,” she declared. “Her first right is to {look as pretty as she can. “people of the United States will welcome the return of light wines and beer with all proper restrictions. 1 am opposed to the retufn of the old saloon system, but think we shoulad “If T am nominated and elected gov- ernor of this state I will do all I can to obtain the repeal of the old Kan- sas ‘bone-dry’ law. “So-called reformers are protesting against the present style in women's dress. I do not believe in extremes, but I do bdlieve in the inalienable 1 7 am elected 1 Intend to see that my sex has more recognition than men have ever dared to give it hefore.” « Miss Pettigrew is the.daughter of i Sherman Pettigrew, a contractor of this city. She gave up her depart- | ment stord work to devote all her time to: the primary fight now on. She first announced her candidacy about a month ago. It was noti belleved at the time she would make | a serious campaign, but with last night's opening gun she says she pro- poses to carry her standard of ad- vanced thought into every county of the state. i 5 i I Today's Star {This is one of the week end fiction series by i Arthur B. Reeve, the “Conan Doyle of Ameri- can fiction,” complete 4n i three installments, the last appearing in Sat- urday’s Star. on the last lap of the trip to St ‘Augustine, where it was due at 2 o'clock. The President did not leave his car during the few minutes the special was here. ‘i’reuldent Harding arose this morn- ing at 8:30 o'clock and after break- fast talked for a short while with Attorney General Daugherty and then ‘disposed of some work Wwith Secre- tary Christian. The President went over some fifty retommendations for which had préviously been passed on by the Attorney General, but no decision was apnounced. The case of John McHenry, under sentence to be hanged Friday, was again brought to the attention of the | President today, but after going over the 'documents ear-!l:ly the - Preai- det u i of the court.. 3 pardons, jes t interfere attend the conference to report lts proceedings to this government. Secretary Hughes' Note. Secretary Hughes' note, made pub- |lic last night, emphasized the desire |of the American people suitably to assist in the economic recovery of Europe, but stated the United States government could not be unmindful of their “clear conviction” that they “should not unnecessarily becomeé in- volved in European political ques- tions.” The note added that “ques- tions appear to have been excluded isfactory determination of which the chief causes of economic disturbance ;musl continue to operate.’ { _Without the establishment in Rus- sia of the essential bases of produc- tivity, the note stated, the United |States government believes “all con- 1siderations of economic revival to be futile.” The conviction was expressed that this could not be secured “until ‘uiequ“e action is taken by those (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) trom consideration without the ut-‘l women are getting up petitions beg- iging for better streets, so that they will not have to use the sidewalks for vehicles. The only stre>t in that section for I which an appropriation has been al- lowed in the District bill by both the House and the Senate |is Yuma strcet from 38th to 39th streets. The appropriation calls for a paved strect thirty feet wide, and $9,000 is allowed for this work. | Senate conferees on the Districtap- propriation bilT are expected to make Senate amendments, which were in- serted to provide for improvement of a few more streets than the House provided for. The senators made a personal survey of many of the streets and know their condition. REPARATIONS GOLD READY. PARIS, March 8.—The German gov- ernment today notified the zllied repa- rations commission that it had placed on deposit Germany's sixth ten-day reparations payment, amounting to 31,- 1 000,090 gold marks. v | OR IT MAY BE PLA By the Associated Press. CALEDONIA MILLS, Nova Scotia, | March 9.—Antigonish folk are be- | sinning to belleve the notorious } shost that used to scare people in | this valley must have given up noisemaking during Lent. Again last night nothing hap- peged in the home that Alex Mac- Donald and his family deserted be- _cause they thought it haunted. All night Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, New York scientist, who came here to investigate the ghost story, 1ay with one eye open walting for the spook to try to get fumny With him. He didn't hear a jound- or feel or see anything peculiar. Tonight—the third one since Dr. Prince arrived in search of the ghost—everything possible will be done to make the eerie feel per- fectly at home fn the hope that it will not be able to resist the temptation ‘to have a little fun. MacDonald and his wife and their adopted daught Ellen, are i R GHOST MAY BE OBSERVING LENT YFUL LITTLE GIRL away from. Other conditions un- der which the manifestations are said to have occurred also will be reproduced. Dr. Prince hasn’t said anything about it, but there are reasons for urmising that he intends to keep n eye on little Mary Ellen to- night. Not long ago the doctor let be known that In all his ex- perience In trekking ghosts the strange pranks that had fright- ened others always turned out to have had their cause in some hu- man being, which more often than not was a little boy or girl with appropriation | a strong fight in conference for thej benefits therefrom. He points out further that one of the main pur- poses of the act is nullified by reu- dering it impossible to retire the | large number of superannuated em- ployes with annuity. “In this connection I have directed that no further annuity certificates {be issued to persons affectel there- by,” Secretary Fall wroté. 950 LOSE CHECES HERE. Officials of Pension Office Confer on Situation. Nine hundred afid fifty retired em- ployes of the government living in | the District are affected by the deci- | sion of the Attorney General, and will Ioge their monthly pay checks, begin- | ning April 1, unless remedial legisla- tion is passed shortly. These figures were aled todav {by the retirement division of the ! pension office, officials of which met in conference to §o over the entire situation and take steps to follow the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Today’s News In Brief Genoa note may be viewed as first step in “tactful pressure” to Dl’amul(’. economic rehabilitation in Europe’ Page 1 Controller Crissinger to put ban on certificates for soldier bonus. Page 1 United States may not present $2,000.- 000,000 bill against Germany. T ge 1 Senate gets bill restoring pensions to 80.000. Page 1 | president speeding southward to St. Augustine. Page 1 McHenry granted respite of week. Page 1 Residents must use boats in water- filled cellars. Page 1 500 in hospitals as result of drinking bootleg whisky. : Page 1 Irish Free Staters to plead cause in United States. ’ Page 3 Railroads declared to have lost good will by high fares. iy Page 4 Montagu, secretary for India, quits office. Page 5 Archbishop Curley upholds rights of organized labor. Page 13 ‘Women protest equal rights bill be- fore Maryland legislature. Page 13 Judge Moncure testifies in Alexandria divorce probe. page 13 Army head in India demands loyalty before forces are reduced. Puge 147 playful tendencies. Dr. Prince had a long chat with Mary Ellen yesterday, during which he persuaded her to spend tonight in the house. MacDonald dropped around during the day to feed the cattle, as is his custom, and he, too, agreed to make an- other attempt to sleep in the place. The cattle spent a peaceful night and calmly chewed their cuds this morning. When the ghostly alarms and excursions used to make the night hideous for the MacDonalds often were found