Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tonight, probably clearing to- morrow morning; warmer tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 49, at 6 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 42, at 6 a.m. * Morrison demanding that the negro’s today. Full report on page 7. Closing New York Stocks, Page 29 No. 28439. CITIZENS TO STUDY HOUSING SHORTAGE Commissioners Act, Follow- i@ Conference of Prominent Washington Business Men. MR. HOOVER OUTLINES NEEDS OF THIS CITY Senator King Makes Scathing De- nunciation of Rent Profiteers, Threatening Probe. A committee of representative citi- zens will be appointed by the Com- missioners to make a survey of the housing shortage in Washington and take definite steps to relieve it. This was announced by Commis- sioner Rudolph as the climax to & meeting in the board room of the District building this morning, at which Senator King of Utah and Sec- retary of Commerce Hcover appealed to the real estate men, bankers, builders and labor leaders of the city 10 get together with the Commis- sioners and settle the housing ques- tion. Week to Select Committee. At the close of the meeting Mr. Rudolph said the Commissioners probably would spend a week in se- lecting the committee to get the best personnel available. The members will be selected with a view to get- ting real work done. 2 Senator King made a scathing de- nunciation of those who profiteer in rents and in building and asserted that unless the well meaning men ot the city take some action to stimulate heme building he will ask for a Senate investigation into the books of builde| ers, real estate men and of labor. “There are hundreds of landlords and real estate owners here who are fair. just and wholly unselfish.” the sefator declared. “But there are oth- ers whose selfishness and greed is so great I don't care to characterize it.” Hoover Outlines Course. Secretary Hoover told the gather- ing, which included many of the rep- resentative business men of the city, that Washington has done little in comparison with other cities to meet| its housing shortage, and he gave an outline of what a committee appoint- ed by the Commissioners could do to solve the question without paternal- istic legislation by Congress. “The first step,” the Secretary of Commerce began, “is to determine the facts. Make an accurate survey. Find out what seotions of the city a: short of homes and how many. De- termine what are the comstruction needs. “Second, go into cost. Com prewar prices of m compare it with costs i neighborng cities. What are the profits on ma- terials between the manufacturer and the retail distributor. What are the labor costs as compared with neigh- boring cities. “Third, the financing of home build- ing. There is ample capital in this country for first mortgage loans. In- quiries in other cities have revealed that some banks and insurance com- panies had been loaning less in pro- portion to the value of the property than before the war. In some cases these loans were found to be only 30 per cent, and were raised to 50 and even 60 per cent of the value of the property. Second Mortgage Problem. “The second mortgage is the real problem in home building. There has been a great deal of plunder in the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Today’s.News In Brief ‘Women ruin clothes in falls on slip- pery cross-walks. Page 2 Judge Moncure concluded his testi- mony at divorce inquiry. Page 2 Spring plays likely to be given in high school auditoriums atter con- ference held today. Page 2 Gen. Frank B. Sloat succumbs to injuries received when run down by an auto. Page 2 U. S. note on Genoa aimed at foreign groups, not nations. Page 2 Business in Limerick anxious for peace in city. Page 2 Fordney declares soldier bonus will be passed quickly. Page 3 $50,000,000 for roads added to P. O. bill by Senate committee. ~ Page 3 200,000 estimate dead in Russian fam- ine districts. Page 10 Charges fly thick at Rail Labor Board hearing. Page 12 Former Gov. Cox denounces adminis- tration’s stand on Genoa parley. Page 15 Chairman Capper of joint congres- sional committee of inquiry predicts early report on D. C. school situa- tion. Page 17 Italy agrees to settle Fiume question, says Jugoslavia minister. Page 19 Buying of coal urged to avert possible strike shortage. Page 22 Schurman says imperialism would en- gulf free Philippines. Page 23 Officials probe charge Princess Fa- tima's forty-four-carat diamond was smuggled into United States. Page 26 Maryland-District labor asks modified Volstead law. Page 27 Kiwanls clubs demand ratification of all armament treatie Page 32 e it to Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, ~ D.C.HEADSTOPICK D.~C. U. S: DEMAN By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 10.—A demand from the United States that $241,000,000 for its”expenses in connection with the occupation of the Rhineland be paid | before any reparations were paid was | presented to the allied finance min- isters at their meeting this morning. | The question of extending the| scope of the Wiesbaden reparations agreement between France and Ger- many so as to make Germany's pay- | ments in kind applicable to all the' allies, occupied much of today’s ses- sion of the meeting of the ministers. Some such alteration of the Wies- baden accord, signed last year by Louis Loucheur and Dr. Walter Rathenau, was originally proposed at | the recent meeting of the supreme council at Cannes. ’ l The point at issue is the amount of deliveries Germany should make to France for the devastated regions, some of the allies desiring to limit the | amount to 900,000,000 gold marks’| worth of material, so as to leave part| ( REALTORS ATTACK BALL RENT LAW, Deciare Legislation Has Left Poor in District “Worse Off Than Ever.” Rent legislation in Washington has operated to stop production of rental | quarters for persons of moderate | means, complicating rather than im- proving the housing situation here, in the opinion of William E. Shannon, war director of the United States Housing Corporation, Department of | Labor, and of Henry R. Brigham. chairman of the housing committee of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. The attitude of these men is said to be shared unofficially by the national association, whose executive commit- tee has just concluded its winter ses- sion in this city. Mr. Shannon was the local delegate to the meeting. | Declaring that the Ball rent act has not hurt the rich man, but has left the man of moderate salary and the poor | “worse off than ever,” the realtors joined in summing up what they state are the actual accomplishments of the act, as follows: Realtors Seore Rent Law.. “wThere have been more marble halls, mirrored bathrooms and gilded elevators erected in Washington since the enactment of the Ball act than ever before in the history of the city, but there has not been one single apartment house erected for the man of moderate means. There has not been one single house erected for the purpose of being rented to the man of moderate means or to. the poor man since the law took effect.” Mr. Shannon asserted that the realtors of Washington and through- out the nation told the legislators what would happen under rent control | legislation and that the prediction has come true, although at the time some persons scoffed at the possibility of the law reacting to the injury of the public. “The Ball rent act was enacted un- der the guise of helping the govern- ment employe and keeping the man of moderate means from being gouged by the. grasping landlord,” said Mr. Shannon. “This sounds fine, but, as a matter of fact, the law has done the government employe and the private clerical forces a tremendous injury. Small Homes Out of Market. “Literally hundreds of small homes| that were renting at from $25 to $45 a month have been taken out of the renting market and sold. In addition to this, the Ball law is eliminating the | old-fashioned landlord, who took a pride in his property and who knew his tenant personally, because this lold gentleman, being a self-respect- ing citizen, objects to being referred {to as a ‘profiteer,” ‘thief’ or ‘highway- man. In his stead is coming the man who has no consideration for his tenant. “We have witnessed the sight of the rent commission soliciting the tenants of a million-dollar apartment ! house with a view to reducing_ their rent, bat who is soliciting -the $1,200, $1,500 or $1,800 clerk? Who has helped, or attempted to help, this body of men? Certainly the Ball ac has not helped them, because the rg-l | sults show that there is nothing be- ing produced for_their shelter. “We have in Washington today ai number of moderately priced houses being built to be sold as homes. but who can point to one house being built for the purpose of beins rented? It was only a short time agn when hundreds of such homes were being! built and sold to investors for rental | purposes. The tenant was happy unger these conditions and the in- veslor was !3115@4 But what in- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) eople Protest Negro Dying For Crime White Folks Planned Special Dispatch to The Star. RALEIGH, N. C., March 10.—A one- armed, broken framed black man—a “conjure doctor"—sentenced to dle in the electric chair during the last week in March, has suddenly become an issue involving the self-respect of the Old North state. Hired by a white man and woman to kill the woman’s husband, decrepit 2'd Wright Rouse, twisted by rheu- matism and maimed by a cotfon gin, has been condemned to die, while the white Instigators of the capital crime have escaped with a penitentiary term. Letters from all parts of the state are pouring in uvon Gov. Cameron death sentence be commuted. All of the letter are from white people. North Carolina does not lay claim to the distinction of being overly fond of some members of the colored race: A majority of the letters reaching the governor admit this, but they add: “Save the self-respect of the white people of the commonwealth. The most powerful appeal in behalf of the condemned mnegro has come from the commonwealth’s attorney, or solicitor, who prosecuted the three de- He admitted the probable e of justice in the jury's verdict against the woman and her sweetheart, but he cannot endure the idea of seeing the mentally deficient negro suffer more severely than his vicious white associates. The attor- ney said all this in a burst of type- written oratory such as one seldom meets _even in_a section like this (Continued on Page 2; Column 2.) WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all pews dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ANl rights of publication of speeial dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,989 ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1922—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. S PAYMENT OF RHINE ARMY COSTS| Allied Finance Ministers Are Told That| $241,000,000 Is Desired Prior to Reparations. \ ’ of Germany's capacity for payments in kind available for the other allies, Belgium, ltaly and Grest Britain. French concession on payment for the Saar coal mines out of the first sums due here from Germany, it was | understood today, may be compensated by = slight increase in this amount. The finance ministers were under- stood to have agreed to limit the fu- ture demands on Germany for the ex- penses of military occupation to 220,- |, #60,000 gold marks annually. MR. HUGHES IS SILENT. Refuses Comment on Report of De- mand for Payment. By the Associated Press. Secretary Hughes refused today to comment on the news from Paris that representatives of the United States government had presented a demand to the allied finance ministers that expenses _aggregating _$241,000,000 sustained by the United States in the occupation of the Rhineland be paid before any reparations. There was nothing that could be said on the sub- ject at this time, Mr. Hughes de- clared. LIKES 0. 3. CITIZEN' BETTER THAN TITLE Lawye\r Who Has Fought Way Alone Hears He Is Heir to Earldom. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 10—Cyril Wood- ward Clubley Armstrong, self-made Chicago lawyer, whose struggle for a living has been only moderately suc- cessful, today was informed that he is heir to an English earldom, but the news had little effect on him, for he calmly informed newspaper reporters that he already possessed the greatest title in the world—that of an Ameri- can citizen—and desired no other. Mr. Armstrong received a communi- cation which had been sent to friends of his by the consular department in Washington in response to queries from relatives in India asking that he be located. He produced many let- ters and documents to prove that he was the man sought, but said he knew nothing of the title he is supposed to have inherited, for he became sepa- rated from his family when a child and had worked his Way up to mem- bership in the bar through night schools. Previousty he sold newspa- per subscriptions for a living, Works >n Canadian farms and finally a reporter on the Quincy, Ill, Whig Journal. Ask He Be Traced. The Ietter asking that Mr. Arm- strong be traced was written by Or- ran Phoneson, British vice consul in charge of Nairobi, East Africa, to-the State Department at Washington. It stated that the Armstrongs recently PRESIDENT MOTORS ONFLORIDA COAST \Vlacation‘ Party Will Board Houseboat Tonight for Cruise South. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March 10— President Harding planned to make an early start on the second day of his vacation. Another game of golf was scheduled to begin immediately after breakfast and the President and his party expected to motor down the i coast to Ormond, sixty-seven miles distant, leaving here about 2 o'clock. There the party plans to go - aboard the houseboat Nahmeoka of E. B. Mc- Lean, publisher of the Washington Post, and cruise as far south as Rock ledge. Secretary Weeks is not expected to | 8o on the houseboat trip. He came here vesterday from Miami t6 join the President. President and Mrs. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. McLean, Speak- er Gillett, Undersecretary of State Jetcher, Gen. Sawyer and Secretary istian Are« expected fo comprise the party. q s Devotes Time to Business. The President is devoting a part of each day attending to the necessary official correspondence, and he and Secretary Christian plan to devote several hours to busiriess after board- ing the houseboat. President Harding lost no time in jwell, had fallen heir to an earldom; that|going to the links upon arriving here Cyril wes the immediate heir, and that | yesterday afternoon. Immediately his younger brother, Capt. St. John|after reaching his hotel from the sta- g tion he donned his golfing clothes, Shelverton, was- seeking Cyril. The|,ng accompanied by Speaker Gillett, letter was forwarded from Washing-| Undersecretary of State Fletcher and jton to Mayor P. J. O'Brien of Quincy, | Mr. McLean, played eighteen holes on who located Armstrong in Chicago. '{the St. Augustine links. “I know nothing of the title,” said| The President and Mrs. Harding Mr. Armstrong today. “but I do know|were greeted enthusiastically .upon that I am the Armstrong sought. If{their arrival by special train ~from the reports of a title prove correct—| Washington. For several hours be- T'll_cross that bridge when I|fore reaching here the President come to it. I came to this country, lworked on official busines®, disposing became an American citizen, fought|among other things of fifty pardon my way up to a position of respect in|applications which had been received this community, and it will always|from the Attorney General, who is be foremost in my mind that I hold|one of the presidential party. No. de- the greatest title in the world—that|cision was announced in any of the of American citizen. This is a bad|cases, except that of John McHenry, day for any other title and I have no|who is under sentence to be hanged at desire to change. Washington soon. The President de- “My father’s name was, I think,|clined to interfere in this case, it was William George Armstrong. He died | stated. 3 when I was so young that I don't re WA N iR iirasa: member it. 1 had two younger brothers—William Lawrence and Capt.| Announcement was made during the day that the President would accept St John Shelverton. My mother re: i L. s ep- i arried audBe Johngtoo P~ | no invitations to deliver addrésses o attend public functions while in Flor- father's name. ida, as he desired to gain the utmost Leaves India When Nine. “When I was about nine years old |y ot orom the vacation by complete my uncle, Lawrence Hennesy Clubley | 1o otion, Armstrong, noted civil engineer, took | “mpe president and Mrs. Harding me to England from India, where I{had the other members of the party as was born about 1880, I went to school | guests last night at dinner in the ks, Windsor, England, and | main diniag room of the hotel where _at St Ma y$ Quernmore House, at Bromley. {|the¥ 8re stopping. didn't make much progress in my studies, so my uncle sent- me to| FARMER SLAIN IN OWN DOOR. Canads when 1 was sixteen, Iworked| BATAVIA, N. Y. March 10.—Five for William and James Johnson on 2 |armed men in an automoblle drove up farm near Norwlich. Ont, for two|to the farmhouse of Stanley Luczak, at years, Then I went to a farm near 1 I Street Bridge. | | Stratford, and later became subscrip- tion solicitor for the Stratford Beacon. 1 came to the United States then, go- ing to work as a cub reporter in Quincy, when I was about 21. , “I determined to do better and went Bethany Center, today, called Luczak to the door and shot him to death. Po- lice were unable to discover any mo- tive for the murder. Luczak appar- ently expected trouble, as he carried a shotgun when he went to the door. He was shot before he had a chance to to night school, finally being admitted to the bar in 1908. I came to Chicago in 1913 and have been practicing law here since.” Mr. Armstrong Jearned of his second brother's death in France in the war through the communications recetved today. Mr. Armstrong tried twice to enlist in the American Army in the was and-once in the Canadian Army, but was rejected. He showed certifi- | cates in support of these statements. | He has not heard from any member | of his family for about ten years, he said, his uncle's last address being Edinborough, Scotland. “I am making no investigation,” he | said. “I am satisfied to be an Ameri- can. If they really have a title and a big estate for me, as it is reported— I don't know what T'll do. I claim no title now.” —_—————— LARGER HOSPITAL FUND. President Sends Supplemental Es- timate for Indigent Children. President Harding today, -sent to the Senate a supplemental estimate f $7,000 for the care and treatment indigent patients at the Children’s {‘l’t;lz'plu.l for the year ending June 30, The appropriation in-the current law was for $13,000. It now appears that, a total of $20,000 will be needed. The appropriation several years ago was $17,000, but this was reduc- ed during the years of the war, when “there was much prosperity and few- er persons asked for free attendance and care of their children. S fire. REINRAEERNZNERERN) i EEDSNESERINGE) ; The’ Sun broug| Tl;e Wbdding of Princess Mary . and Lord Lascelles IN THE ROTOGRAVURE SECTION OF Fine photographs, copyright by Van ht ovet by International, of this historic event, beautifully printed, features of this finest - - rotogravure section in America today. : In The Sunday Star ‘Order ‘Your Copy From Ne{fiadea]er Today Now MR PRESIDENT DONT LET IN FLORIDA | Member of French Cabinet to Don Togs And Play Fullback { By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 10.—Gaston | Vidal, a member of the Poincare cabine, an undersecretary of wtate for physieal edu- eation, will don foot ball togs tomorrow and play fullback on a Rugby team componed of vet- erans against one of the best 1 i | Paris teams. idal wan formerly an in- er. He in old and | | ternational Rugby p | thirts-cight - years welghs 220 pounds. MORE FUNDS ADDED Senate Committee Includes .$26,000 for Calvert For repairs and improvements to the Calvert street bridge, the Senate {is belleved in some quarters, will be | ithe denouement to the publication of | i | Montagu's resignation is the subject | TWO CENTS. INDIAN CRISISMAY INVOLVE PREMIER Dismissal of Secretary Likely | to Hasten Lloyd George Resignation. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 10.—Removal of Lord Reading as viceroy of India, it N the Indian government’s note. There is nothing tangible on which to base this belief, but it is not improbable as | FIRNEEDSOFD.C 52 a sequel to the virtual dismissal of ‘Edwln S. Montagu as secretary forj The probable effect in India of Mr. of much curiosity, and there are some misgivings le#t the removal of the| champion of Indian political reform !have a dangerous repercussion there. The Earl of Derby, former secretary for, war, s been offered the secre- taryship for India, according to re- perts in the parliamentary lobbies to- day. In the event of Lord Derby's re- fusal the Duke of Devonshire is men- appropriations committee has added |tioned as the likely appointee. $26,000 to the deficiency appropri tion bill which was ordered reported today. Other items added to the bill by the Senate committec for the District were as follows: Other Items Inserted. Executive office, $3.000; contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $4,000; | public convenience stations, $2,300; electrical department. $3,000; public schools, for fuel, $9,300; Police Court, compensation of jurors, $2,000; chari- ties, Children’s Hospital, §7,000; East- ern dispensary, Casualty Hospital, $3.300; Municipal lodging house, 1 $1.000; heating offices and watchman's lodges, $500; National Zoological Park, $3,250; judgments, $2,436.26. The total increases for the District were $67,- 086.26. The amount of the to the Senate was increase over the $28,358,466.49. The principal item of increase was $27,468 for refunding taxes illegally collected. bill as reported $136,895,753, an House bill of Funds for Hospital Land. The committee inserted an item of $97,703.44 for the adjudication of awards for land for Walter Reed Hospital. Ar;other Senate committee amend- ment provides $166,671.16 to pay the salaries of the officers and employes of the patent office from February 18, 1922, the daté of the passage of the act to increase the force and salaries in the patent office, to June 30, 1922, at the rate authorized by that act, in Rddition to the amount appropriat- ed under the old law. For the Washington Monument an. item of $1,000 is included. I N day Star” ke of London and e o8 May Aftéet Lloyd George. Equally momentous from the do- | mestic political point of view is the effect that the whole affair may have on the fortunes of the government, ®specially as to the position of Prime PAPAL DECREE TO SET | 15 DAYS BETWEEN DEATH | OF POPE AND CONCLAVE By the Associated Press. ROME, March 10.—A papal de- cree will be made public shortly, extending to fifteen days the in- 17 terval between the death of a sacred conclave to elect his suc- « cessor, Cardinal O'Connell, arch- bishop of Boston, told the Asso- clated Press today. The decree, the cardinal added, also will grant the sacred college the power to extend this period if necessary. \ | 0., CHENISTFALS TOGETPIRELIGOR iDeclares All Samples Coming ! to Him Are Doped | Whisky. “I have not had any pure whisky | come into my laboratory for analysis after police raids, although the times {have been numerous when samples | have been presented for analysis.” ! This statement made today by Dr. T. ‘f.\i. Price, chief chemist of the District | i health department, backs up facts | about faking by bootleggers printed | by The Star. Dr. Price added: “All of the samples have been doc- | tored.” 1 Which is exactly what The Star has| been showing. Pope and the beginning of the ‘ ©Odor No True Guide. Dr. Price said in addition that he | has reason to believe some bootles- gers keep on hand a moderate supply | of real whisky, a small quantity ot which they pour into each quart of [ the manufactured stuff to give it the| | odor of pure goods. Those who tempt fate by drinking the product of booze peddlers there- fore, it is pointed out by reliable au-! | thorities, should not rely upon the| | odor which emanates from the bottle las proof that they are not buying poison. { The chemical analyses *of bootleg iwhisky by the prohibition enforce- ment chemists show that not only the poisons contained in_ the bootleg whisky are dangerous. but germs and bacteria creep into the liquid when | manufactured in the filthy cellar or den of the bootlegger. No Sanitary Precautions. | An official report of the prohibition bureau regarding manufacture of bootleg liquor declares: “In no instance is there precaution |as to sterilization of mash or air with | which it should have been aerated, which is absolutely necessary in the manufacture of liquor fit to drink. | “Fusel oil is found in large quanti- { ties in moonshine and is poisonous in {nature. Aldehydes such as furfural and a large excess of acids are also found. Aldehydes, when digested. produce a condition known as alde- | hydesismus, with a thickening of the {adventitia of the vessels and an in- | i crease of connective tissue between ' the lobes of the liver.” All of which means that the drinker | lof bootleg whisky is in danger of ' serious kidney or liver trouble, since | these poison Vents of the system be- come so clogged that the poison slowly is forced to back up into the] o | May, Minister Lloyd George. the chances that the premier will make good his threatened resigna- tion have been considerably inereased, and if he also takes the view that American abstenticn from the Genoa conference lessens the pros- pect of success there, the country may soon learn of his definite ar- rangement, It is still unknown whether he in- tends to begin his holiday today, but in view of the threatened lockout in the engineering and shipbuildin: trades it is thought likel genius which prevented his attend- ance at the Washington conference will again upset his arrangements. The successor to Secretary Montagu must be appointed soon, in view of the dangerous situation in India, but the post is difficult to fill. The opinlon in the lobbies overnight was that Winston Spencer Churchill, who was first mentioned as likely to be ap- pointed, is too intimately concerned in the l"l!h settlement to allow his re- moval from his present office as sec- retary for the colonies. Other Names Mentioned. Talk is mostly centering about the Duke of Devonshire, former governor general of Canada, although other names are mentioned. The duke is a conservative, and-should he be chosen it would make the third replacement of a liberal minister by a conserva- tive within ten days. This would give the cabinet an emphatically conserva- tive complexion, which would become still more pronounced if the rank and file of that party brings about the re- tirement of H. A. L. Fisher as min- ister of education and the appoint- ment of a canservative in his place, for. which there s now some agita- on. All the newspapers give prominence to the"Montagu incident and comment on his retirement. As might have been expected, the conservative press raises paeans of joy, but it is noteworthy that the liberal newspapers agree that his continuance in the India office was made impossible by recent events. The Daily News, one of his warmest pporters, while expressing sorrow at the retirement as “one of the bes| secretaries of state India ever had, says> “The difficulty of the Moslem prob- lem’ in India hardly justified wanton complication of the ao less difficult situation In the near east and cannot justify the formal announcement to France that our policy in Asia Minor is determined by the exigencies of of our position in India. In this criticism jthe News -includes Lord Reading.”, - The Wektminster Gazette, formerly another cordial supporter of Mr. Mon- tagu, condemns him on similar grounds. The Times, while approv- ing his removal, 3ay! The circumstances which led to his resignation reveal a deplorable lack of co-ordination in the government, which must now give proof of its power to deal coherently and firmly with the greht issues of the imperial policy.” GANDHI TO BE ARRESTED. By the Associated Press. 5 DELHI, India, March 10.—The gov- ernment has definitely decided to ar- rest Mohandas K. Gandhi, the non- He is now in teader. f{;"}'fl:’,‘afim (apout 320 miles southw, Some believe | system, causing a derangement of | | | the general constitution. . ! Afraid of Own Product. | Another typical ! bootleg manufac- turer was called to mind today by Commissioner Haynes to illustrate to | Washingtonians the kind of men who | are manufacturing liquor which is] being bought by unsuspecting per- | sons. Although the instance cited is! not here in Washington, he said, it! s tvpical of many of the bootleg whisky manufacturers here. This, then, is the story of a man who drinks, by his own confession, | jamaica ginger and extracts, rather | than touch his own product: “During a raid on a moonshiner in Saline county, Ark., the manufacturer ! and his plant were captured. In his confession the prisoner stated that he-had been engaged in the business about eighteen months, had manofae- tured and marketed about 1.400 gal- lons of whisky and sold the entire output to citizens of Little Rock, Hot Springs and Eldorado. “The fellow swore that he had never drunk one drop of whisky that he had made himself and that |he would not drink a pint of his| own mamufactured whisky for a thousand dollars; that it was poison and he was afraid it would Kill him. While he was a drinking man him- self and was drunk a good part of the time during which he was manu- facturing, he said he used extracts and Jamaica ginger as a beverage instead of his own product.” 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. LA PORTE, Ind., March 10.—John Mollick, sixteen-year-old orphan, to- day is wearing his first long pants. He has realized every boy's ambition to don the raiment of a man. | But his ;new suit is that of a con- vict and he has been sentenced tol | wear it for life. John arrived at the Indiana state prison at Michigan City, La Porte county, late yesterday. When the gates swung open to receive him the prison officials, hardened as they are by their everyday contact with mis- ery, received a distinct shock. The boy was in knee pants. Young Mollick was weary and for- lorn as he stumbled into the was den’s office, Already his face wore the prison llor, which there is no ‘mistaking. Already his eyes, never very bright, had become lack-luster. { Warden Edward J. Fogarty's stern face beamed sympathy as he took the youngster in charge. Never in the history of the prison had a boy in knickerbockers crossed its corri- dor of sighs. Mollick had been convicted of shoot- and killing his. foster mother, Mrs. Robert Stolts. His first day of life jin the prison is one of routine, no whit different from the first days of mature prisoners. He has been bathed, measured and provided with prison garments, though difficulty was en- countered in finding any small enough for his frame. Last night he was provided with a bird like cage of a Cell in among the “lifers” who peered | 1. 000ATNAVY YARD MAY LOSE OUT ON RETIREMENT ACT Believed Barred From Bene- ~ fits by Decision of At- torney.General. APPOINTED IN 1912 UNDER BLANKET ORDER OF TAFT 45 Per Cent of Employes Named Prior to Establishing of Com- petitive Examinations. More than 1.000 employes left at the Washington navy yard, after the re- cent lay-offs, are believed not entitled to the benefits of the retirement act, under the recent decision of the At- torney General declaring eligible only those who took competitive examina- tions for entrance into the civil serv- ice. This number of emploves at the yard were blanketed into the service Ly executive order of President Taft, dated December 7, 1912, and it is be- lieved that all these men are auta- matically deprived of the benefits of retirement, although they have been paving into the retirement fund regu- larly. The local navy yard was not under the civil service until the date named, and after the order, owing to difficul- ties incident to putting the order into effect, the yard continued to emplos men under non-competitive rules unw ¥, 1913. ‘About 15 per cent of the employes now at the yard, or approximatels 1,000 men or more, are “old line” em- ployes, Frank W. Dyer, recorder of the navy yard, stated today, and, ac- cording 10 the undefstanding preva lent at the yard. are ineligible for the benefits of the retirement act, unless remedial legisiation is pushed through by Congress at once. Cleveland Appointees Included. During the administration of Pres- ident Cleveland, it is understood, quite a number of clerks and draftsfhen at the yard were “blanketed” into the classified civil service, and these, t00, will be deprived of retirement rights, despite their long service. William D. Bergman, chief of the appointment division of the Navy De- partmens, declared today that he has received no official orders in regard to the decision of the Attorney General, and therefore had taken no action in the matter to date. \ 1t is the belief in official circles that the ruling really invalidates all “blanket orders.”- and that persons covered into the service by such orders lose -the rights which they thought they had under the retire- ment act. Owing to the recent heavy lay-offs of men atethe pavy yard, the large number of men hit by the retirement decision is regarded as unfortunate, adding to the general sense of doubt in which the employes left there find themselves. Will Consider Decision. Postmaster General Work and other officials of the Post Office Depart-’ ment today took up the retirement |issue at the weekly conference, hear- ing a report upon the matter from Appointment Clerk Reager. The mat- ter was given consideration in most of .the departments. The joint conference on retirement, one of the oldest organizations in Washington, which worked for the passage of the present retirement law, will meet witkin a few days to consider the Attorney General's de- cision, Dr. C. Eder Reed, secretary of the conference, stated. Dr. Reed has received telegrams from civil service employes and re- tired employes in New York and Philadelphia. asking if they are to lose their rétirement rights, and, in the case Jf those already retired, if deprived of their they are to be | monthly~annuity checks. Dr. Reed said that, lacking any official communications upon the subject, he had gone argund the neighborhood and gathered copies of The Star of Wed- nesday and Thursday, containing news of the decision, and mailed them to the senders of the telegrams. Officials throughout the government are generally optimistic that Congress will at once enact into law the bill to correct the evil effects incident to the decision, submitted by. Secretary Fall of the Interior Department to Senator Sterling and Representative, Lehlbach, who introduced it. It is the prevailing belief that the Interior Department should be left free to interpret the retirement law as the plain intent of the law demands, which is to benefit, not to harm. While it is realized that making decisions upon test cases may be necessary, it is felt, according to the expression of officials today. that such matter should be looked upon in the broadest manner, so that the gen- eral confusion and “pow-wowing” in- cident to the recent decision might be avoided through co-operation and conference before such decisions are rendered. FIRST LONG PANTS A PRISON GARB YOUNG BOY WILL WEAR FOR LIFE with wondering eyes at the strip of a 1ad brought in from the outside world to share their fate. Prison attendants and trusties gulped a cheerful “go0od- night.” ‘Warden Fogarty today had no com- ment to make regarding his youthful life-termer. The sentence meted out to the orphan called for “hard labor,” but the warden has not yet decided how hard that labor is to be. He said the particular employment, to be given Mollick will probably “not be made public. Mollick was dealt his heavy tence by Judge Loring, in the paraiso circuit court, after a that lasted parts of three days. aunt, Mrs. Catherine Maree of cago, employed one of the lawyers who defended the y Their insanity plea was quickly over- thrown. Taken from an orphan's home at Plymouth, Ind., four years previously, Mollick had been utilized as chore boy on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stoltz, near Valparaiso. The state board of charities supervised' the deal. No evidence was offered at the trial_ that th~ %oy was badly treated. Finding Mrs. Stoli."+. home ulore a sudden impulee seized the boy and he killed her with her husband's shotgun. “I dom't know why I did it,” he moaned when he surrendered. Ob- servers say it was clearly a case for alienists, but Mollick was penniless, The jury ®f hard-heart farmers put no stock in the insanify plea. The evidence was quickly in. The state's attorney asked the death chair, but the jury demurred a point and made it life imprisonment. - (Capyright, 1822) - i