Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1922, Page 2

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1922 MMERSED IN CLAY, . CLOTHES RUINED Women Risk Broken Bones, | Also, as They Wade Over | Slippery Crosswalks. Many dollars’ worth of wearing ap- parel of women has been spoiled on acount of the serious condition of the streets in the vicinity of the new Eastern High School, at 17th and East Capitol streets, it was learned by The Star man who has been making an investigation of the bad streets. This section of the city is well built up, and there are many apartments there, but the women have found it almost impossible to cross the streets ‘without risking a broken bone, on ac- count of the slippery, dangerous con- dition of the mud. Many of those who have risked wading through the clay have fallen and have ruined their clothes, it was asserted by people who live in that section. The streets there are even difficult for vehicular traffic to negotiate. Fol- lowing & number of protests to the District authorities regarding the conditions there, several truck loads of cinders were sent out to be placed on the street crossings. Taken by Werkmen. However, when they came in sight, the men working on the new Eastern High School directed the drivers to dump them in & roadway leading up to the school in an effort to prevent trucks bringing materials from be- coming mired. Now the citizens are making further efforts to get just cinder crosswalks there. But as the conditions are hecoming ‘worse on account of the recent heavy rains, several citizens there have gathered up bricks for squares around and have laid them at the crosswalks. The bad condition of streets amnd roadways in the District even affects the cost of construction of buildings, according to Col. Keller, Engineer Commissioner of the District. Raises Bids for Schools. “Over in the Benning section,” Col. Keller told Congress, “the deficlency Dill last year gave us an appropria- tion for the construction of a four- room school building to replace the Smothers School. We had a larre number of proposals for that school and then were forced to reject them because they were too high. One reason they were high is that the roadways in that neighborhood were very rough. Now, a small amount of grading over there would reflect it- self immediately in the ultimate cost of that school.” This condition, it has been found, is not peculiar to the cost of school buildings. for many merchants have abandoned deliveries in certain sec- tions of the city where bad streets are found, because it is too expensive 1o tie up their trucks for many hours and saddle themselves with the heavy cost of getting them out of the mud. D. C. HEADS TO PICK CITIZENS TO STUDY HOUSING SHORTAGE (Continued from First Page.) country over second mortgages. Some cities have arranged a form of guar- antee of second mortgages that has reduced their cost. “Definite results in relfeving the housing situation have only been ob- tained where there has been com- munity action. This is not a matter of law, and I have no doubt the peo- ple of the District of Columbia can sclve this problem by having your own chamber of commerce, mer- chents associations, banks and labor leaders co-operate with the Commi: sioners. If any will not co-operate there is a lack of community spirit that the District should not tolerate. Secretary Hoover told Commissioner Rudolph all of the data and statistics gathered by the government on the housing problem are at the disposal of the Washington committee when ap- pointed. ‘When Secretary Hoover had finish- ed and Commissioner Rudolph had announced that the suggestion for & committee on housing would be ca ried out. Senator King again too the floor and said: “I am in hearty accord with what the Secretary of Commerce has told you. Take this problem out of the hands of Congress and transfer it to the people. Senator King began his address by ‘stating that he did not support either the Saulsbury resolution or the Ball rent law, because he did not believe in paternalism in government. The situation in Washington has not been materially improved, he declared, and he has been forced to the conclusion that the strong arm of the govern- ment may have to do something to effect a cure. The senator said that he and others who opposed the Ball Jaw have been disappointed in what has taken place. Senator King said he realized that prosperity cannot be forced by legislation, but that if trusts, whether in real estate or other business, are permitted to flourish “an irresistible demand will be made by the people for government regu- lation of business, which I would re- gard as a calamity.” The senator said he wanted to make it clear that selfishness mani- fests itself in every department of life as well as in the handling of real estate. Government May Take Ha “The question to decide is ‘What can we do here? "™ he continued. “I don’t want legislation from Congress. Bat If the situation doesn’t improve I belleve some law will be passed and that the government will get into the housing business. And I dont ‘want that.” One means of stimulating home ‘bullding, the senator suggested, would be to exempt from taxation for a reasonable time residences built by_individuals for their own homes. ‘The senator from Utah said he also would consider the Pittsburgh plan of levying heavier taxes on vacant property than on improved land to force the owners to put it into use for building. Pastor Presents Views. Rev. J. Milton Waldron, who ha: ‘been active in the movement to close the alley dwellings in Washington, at- tended the meeting and left with the Commissioners a statement supple- menting the views which he express- ed to the city heads at a previous hearing several weeks ago. Dr. Wal tatement read, in part, as fol- “The law requires that the alley dwellings of Washington be closed on or about the 1st of July, but nobody sesms to think that that law will be enforced. Congress has temporized so much with the closing up of the alleys until the alley dwellers them- selves have come to feel that nothing is going to be done along this line, and even a few among these people who might have gotten out of the alleys have failed to do so, because of the postponement of the time when the alley-closing law is to g0 into ef- fect. As we see it, it will do no good o extend the time of the closing of the alleys for two years fonger, for ‘when the two years have passed we still will have the alleys on our hands as dwelling places and with nothing provide residences for these Salome An Acrobat Not a Modern Dancer, " Archeologists Told | By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 10—Snlome ‘was am aerobatic tumbler—not & dancer of the modern ballet type—according to _evidence Iald before the Royal Archeo- logieal inmtitute by Geerge C. Druce of Oxford. If his evidence fs corrobo- rated, theologians, historians and others have long bored Al the old illuminated parch- ments and carviags shew her pesing as an acrobat and mot as a dameer, Mr. Druce declares. SCHOOL THESPIANS SEE BAN LIFTNG Spring Plays May Be Given in Auditoriums Following To- day’s Conference. The spring plays of the high school students probably will be held in the high school auditoriums, it was irdicated today following a confer- ence between the Commissioners and the board of education at the Dis- trict building. Engineer Commissioner Keller stat- €d following the meeting that the extent to which the school audito- riums should be used penZing the changes needed to bring them within the fire regulations has not been fina )y settled. " stated that after an inspection by himself, the municipal architect and the fire marshal, he saw no rea- son why any school activities should not be held in them. This was taken to mean that the dramatic entertain- ments scheduled for the next few weeks could be held in the schools. E. C. Graham of the board of edu- cation said when he left the con- ference that satisfactory progress was made in working out with the Commissioners the question of the use of the auditoriums. Municipal Architect Harris attended the meeting with & report, which he compiled, showing the results of the inspection _made of all school audi- toriums. This report will be gent to the Franklin School in time for a meeting of the board of education scheduled for 3:30 o'clock, at Which the board will go into the school auditorium question. Col. Keller stated before the con- ference that no serious conditions were found in the auditoriums and that he had no desire to place any unnecessary restrictions on their use. After the school board had departed Col. Keller conferred in his office with Maj. Brown, in charge of school con- struction work, and Architect Harris. PEOPLE PROTEST NEGRO DYING FOR CRIME WHITE FOLKS PLANNED (Continued from First Page.) where oratory is taken into the sys- tem with mother's milk. Three respites have been given the condemned man, but unless the gov- ernor intervenes again, Rouse will go to the electric chair during the week of March 26. “Equality of Injustice.” At the outset of the agitation to save Rouse Gov. Morrison was obdu- rate, holding that the demand was not, as it purported to be, for an “equality of justice,” but for “equality of injustice.” The governor believes in capital punishment. He conceded that all three persons involved in Rouse's crime deserved the death pen- alty, and @ppeared determined to see that the one to whom the court had allotted that sentence was made to sufter it. But he granted a respite for thirty days. Then the letters urging com- mutation really began to come in. This was at the New Year, for Rouse was to have died January 3. A few days before the mew time limit had expired the governor granted a sec- ond respite, and then at the end of February granted a third. Now he is giving serious consideration to the pleas for amelloration. The crime for which Rouse was convicted was naturally a sordid one. The persons involved were of no consequence. There was nothing colorful in the case. One night while Will Whitley lay sleeping in his barn Rouse crept up to him and shot at close range. At first he said four strange white men had compelled him to shoot “toward” the body of another white mah the quartet al- ready had killed. Of course, no one believed the aged negro's stumbling, mumbling tale. Then the truth began to come out. Sarah Whitley, wife of the murdered man, was in love with Tom Hays. Whitley was in the way. Old Wright Rouse had a local repu- tation as a “conjure doctor.” That probably accounts for his employ- moant by the woman and her lover to kill the husband. Wright can't “con- jure.” He says so himself. But h could and did treat ‘“rheumatiz, “cramps” and “sich like,” being some- what of a herb, or, “yarb” healer. The trial was held in the superior court of Greene county at Snow Hill. Twelve white men on the jury re- turned & verdict of murder in the first degree against the negro and second degree as to Sarah Whitley | and Tom Hays—one of the few times on record that & negro was ever given precedence over white folks in Greene county. Couple Get Thirty Years The court was able to give the white woman and the white man only the maximum penalty of thirty years In prison. There was nothing for the negro save death in the elec- tric chalr. Sentence was imposed and the date for electrocution set. Unquestionably it was Mrs. Whit- ley’s sex which saved her, and in- directly saved Hays. No woman has ever yet sat in North Carolina’s death chair. It is said none ever will. One woman was sentenced' to death in recent years—also for the murder of her husband—but she was commuted to life imprisonment by a governor who offered no other reason than that she had been a girl once and was stiil feminine. Before Rouse could be brought to the state prison, sentiment for the commutation of 'his sentence began to manifest itself, and recently the governor has been fairly inundated. It was Gov. Morrison, who last week was defeated in his efforts to secure the extradition from Canada of 2 negro said to have been Impli- cated in the Norlina riots. After a omewhat heated correspondence with the State Department at Wash- ington Gov. Morrison refused to send witnesses to Canada for a pre- liminary hearing on the ground that it was not in keeping with the dig- nity of a sovereign American state to be compelled to appear before a forelgn magistrate. One of the possibly “mitigating circumstances”’ in the Rouse case is the fact that although the negro was promised $500 for his crime, he never got a cent. (Copyright, 1922.) —_— ‘The phrase *‘a baker’s dozen,” mean- ing thirteen obfects instead of twelve, is said to have originated in England, ‘when the statutes against giving less than the amount paid for were unusu- ally severe, sometimes involving the death penalty. In order to make sure NATL P daughter of Commander daughter of aTo rine Corps and Mrs. John A. Lejeune, dnughter of- Surgeom General and Mra. E. R. Stitt; Miss Patricia Afnsa, niece of Capt. and Mra. Luke Mrs. Harry Kimmell; Miss Helen Grifin, danghter of Rear Admiral and Mrs. R. S. Grifl WASHINGTON d Miss Laura Lejeune, DELAY FOR TREA FOUGHT BY LODGE Democratic Leader Under- wood Tomorrow Will Urge 4-Power Pact Ratification. Request to lay aside temporarily the four-power Pacific treaty in the Senate today was blocked for the time being by administration leaders, who insisted that the ratification debate continue and that the ‘“irreconcili- ables” opposing the treaty present their case or else allow voting to be- gin on proposed reservations. Several senators on both sides of the chamber had prepared addresses on a bill to reorganize the federal judiciary, but Senator Lodge of Mas- sachusetts, the republican leader, de- clined to let the bill have right of way. Awaiting Underwood Speech. The “irreconcilables” indicated that they were not anxious to keep up the active offensive they began yester- day, several of them saying they pre- ferred to postpone further discussion until they had heard the speech in support of the treaty to be made to- morrow by Senator Underwood of Alabama, the democratic leader. Senator Johnson, republican, Califor- inia, is expected to reply to him on Monday. Although the treaty remained the actual businees before the Senate, dis- cussion at the beginning of today’'s 8session took little cognizance of it, ranging over a variety of subjects from Muscle Shoals to postmasters’ nominations. Charges by Opponents. Charging that the four-power Pa- cific treaty resulted from a Japanese- British plan to offset the embarassing effect of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, opponents of the pact sought with- out success in the Senate vesterday to learn exactly by whom the orig- inal draft of the document was pre- pared. Both of the Senate’s representatives on the arms conference .delegation, Senators Lodge of Massachusetts and Underwood of Alabama, declared in reply to direct questions that the delegation head, Secretary Hughes, had conducted most of the negotia- tions leading up to the treaty. Mr. Lodge said “many hands” had helped in the drafting and redrafting and that he did not know Who made the first suggestion. serted that the first draft he saw was the final one, 1aid before him by Sec- retary Hughes. Reply to Robinson Queries. The statements of the two Senate leaders were made in reply to a series of questions by Senator Robinson, democrat, Arkansas, who told the Sen- ate when the cross-questioning was over that although “we don’'t know and will never find out from any authentic source who wrote the first draft,” he was inclined to believe that the finished product resulted from the joint labors of Arthur J. Balfour for Great Britain and Prince Tokugawa for Japan. He assailed the treaty as an “alliance,” and predicted it would do more harm than good. Senator Underwood plans to take the floor with a prepared address ex- plaining the purposes and results of the pact tomorrow. CHRIST GREAT ECONOMIST, LENTEN SPEAKER SAYS Declares Success of U. S. Business Man Due to Adhering to Ten Commandments. “If Christ were elected prasident of one of our great raiiroads and the twelve apostles composed the board of directors there would be very much less change in the management than the average person suspects,” said Homer G. Denison of the Roger Bab- son Statistical Bureau, in an address at the midday Lenten services at Kelth’s Theater today. “Christ is the greatest economist who ever lived,” he said. “The su- premacy of the American business man over the rest of the world is due to the fact that he makes his busi- ness policy more nearly in line with the Ten Commandments.” He {llustrated his talk with charts showing business conditions today and the steady improvement in busi- ness. : There will be no meeting tomorrow. IDLE’S WORST EMERGENCY BELIEVED TO BE PAST Chairman Arthur Woods Says Next Few Weeks Will Be Found Trying. There is every reason to hope that the worst of the unemployment emer- gency is over, Arthur Woods, chair- man of the emergency committee of the President's conference on unem- ployment, said today. At no time during the last few months has the situation been as bad as all indica- tions pointed last autumn. Gratifying response‘of so many mu- nicipalities to the appeal to their sense_ of community responsibility, Col. Woods said, has solved many & local problem. Anything which cities and towns can do to advance public Pprojects to give even temporary em- ployment, he added, will be of double advantage and assistance right now. The next few weeks, Col. Woods said, will be trying in the present unemployment emergeéncy, from re- ports to him. As winter nears its end, the number of families and in- dividuals who reach the end of their resources is bound to increase, no matter how hopeful the prospect of seasonal employment after spring is fairly under way, Col. Woods sald. Now is the time when every passibie ‘measure that is at all practicabls relieve the situation should be adopt- ed, he added Notwithstanding visible evidences of recovery in the past three weeks, officials of the unemployment con- ference say that, even if the peak of unemployment . h: been passed, the peak of relief must yet be faced. Experience has shown, they say, that the small wage earner is the last one bakers would sell thirteen loaves to|needy family is the last to feel the the dozen, ihus being on the safe side. benefits of the revival of industry. g SRt Mr. Underwood as- | w of mnot giving short quantity thejto get back: his job, and that the YALE ATHLETE WEDS CHORUS GIRL WHO WON RACE ON POGO STICK By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 10.—Robert S. Savage, twenty years old, a Yale undergraduate and foot ball player, who writes poetry, today was walting word from his mother as to her attitude toward his mar- riage to Geneva Mitchell, seven- teen, Broadway chorus girl. It Mrs. Savage, who js the widow of John A. Savage, steel manu- facturer of Duluth, Minn., decides it 1s all right, he will return to his school work and his athletics. and the youthful Mrs. Savage will return to her footlight capers. If Mrs. Savage the elder, decides it's all wrong, young Mr. Savage doesn’t exactly know just what he will do. The boy and girl romance be- came known last night when the college youth and his girl wife were found at a hotel, after their marriage at Milford, Conn., Sun- day. Young Savage was not reti- cent. “I first saw my wife in a pogo ENDED ATHEARING Was Divorce Witness. Special Dispatci to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. Marth 10. Judge Robinson Moncure of the cor- poration court this morning com- pleted his testimony in the divorce probe. by Attorney Randall Caton, a member of the committee of the bar association engaged in the inquiry, relative to the number of persons liv- ing at the residence of Mrs. Mary L. Baggett, a rooming-house keeper. and aiso regarding his activity in poiitics. Mr. Caton declared that the record showed for eight months in the year 1919 an average of twenty-four per- sons were living at Mrs. Baggetts, these being clients of Judge Moncure before he became judge of the court. number of divorce cases, he declared that the examination of titles was gaged in the practice of law. He also told the committee that he did not particularly notice the number of cases in which Mrs. Baggett testified. The judge admitted a few people | seeking divorces were brought to his ! office by Mrs. Baggett, but a majority came directly to his office. Attorney Frank Stuart took the stand in rebuttal. He opened by de- | claring that he was not the man who originated the divorce probe here, and stated that he hoped the com’ | mittee would understand his position | One of his charges, he said, is laxness !in enforcing the divorce laws. | 1t is expected that the committee will complete its investigation late this afternoon, and it will be ready to submit its report to the bar assocla- tion of the city for action early next week. = HAYNES GIVES WARNING AGAINST “WET” VESSEL Commissioner Declares if Present Laws Are Inadequate He Will Ask Legislation. Prospects for the operation of a “wet ship” on the Atlantic, about twenty minutes’ vovage from a new York dock, just across the three-mile limit, turned from shining and bril- liant to dark and cloudy today, when Prohibition Commissioner "R. A. ‘Haynes came out with an announce- Iment that the proposed “recreation” vessel, which was to be anchored there, will be protested against with all possible vigor by his bureau. The whole thing started with a neat little letter from James V. Martin of the Recreation Ticket Corporation of New York city, announcing the plans for the establishment of a ‘recreation vessel” outside the three-mile limit. Mr. Martin made it clear that drinks were not yet considered as the pri- mary_ recreational attraction, but stated that in event consideration re- sulted in the decision to make drinks one of the attractions, the corpora- tion would guarantee the prohibition department that all possible steps would be taken to prevent infringe- ment of the prohibition law in allow- ing alcoholic beverages to reach the coast. Mr. Haynes wrote 'a very definite reply to Mr. Martin, which was made public today. » In his first paragraph he announced that he noted that the “booze” ship's primary attention would not be de- voted to_liquor.. Next he politely informed Mr. Martin that the prohibition office feels that it cannot do otherwise than oppose the operation of such a vessel, with intoxicants served on board, by all lawful means. He followed up with the statement that if the bureau did not have suf- ficient authority under the present law, or if such was found to be the case, he would immediately apply to Congress for legislation to cover it. His closing words were something like the following: “This office vigorously protests against any such mercenary attempts to evade and violate the spirit of the law in this country, and takes this occasion to go on record as intending to do everything which it lawfully can to frustrate such efforts.” —_——— PRINCESS OFF FOR ITALY. Mary and Husband Leave Paris for Florence. PARIS, March 10.—Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles, who came to Paris yesterday and were overnight guests of Lord Hardinge, British ambassador to France, left for Florence this morning. They will y. While the judge admitted he had a |Refuses 1 his biggest business when he Was en- | By tha Acsociated Pre 1 stick race in the show she was then playing in,” he said. “She won the race, I was enthusiasti Friends introduced her and 1 was at the show next time. Geneva lost the race this time, but I didn't weaken. This was last fall."” Savage was at Yale at the time, captaining the foot ball team of ineligible freshmen, and playing fullback. He is at Milford School now, for he was unable success- fully to mix studies and athletics at Yale, so dropped out to catch up in his classes. It is to Milford he intends to return if the maternal blessing s forthcoming. He intends to play base ball at Milford this spring, provided there is anything left of the team, for he {8 the fourth of a quartet of Milford roommates to have been married recently, all of them valuable base ball assets. Savage comes from a football famtiy. A brother, Edward, was fullback on Ted Coy's famous Yale team, and William D. Savage played quarter- back on another Yale varsity. “My brothers have agreed this was all right,” Savage sald, speak- ing of his marriage, “but I'm wait- ing to hear from mother now.” MMONCURE EVIDENCE LIMERICK TRADERS ANXIOUS FOR PEACE Judge Failed to Note How |Report “Rebellion” Seriously Many Times Mrs. Baggett | Affecting Business—City Quiet Today. B the Associated Press. LIMERICK, March 10.—The situation in Limerick today was quiet, but still critical. Business has suffered since the advent of the hostile forces and the He was afterward questioned | traders express themselves as anxious for peace. Quartermaster Hurley was released from Tipperary yesterday after four days' hunger strike Capt. O'Shaugh- nessy, the liaison officer, who was ar- rested on Monday. has started a hunger strike and his early liberation is ex- pected. DE VALERA IS SILENT. to Discuss Griffith’s Charges on Limerick Situation. _DUBLIN, March 10.—~Eamonn’ De Valera, the former republican presi- dent, declared today he would issue no statement {n answer to that of Arthur Griffith, president of the dail eireann, on the Limerick situation, until such time as the controversy Tould not embarrass the difficult po- sition. Mr. Griflith's statement, {ssued last night, declared the situation in Lim- erick was largely the outcome of incitement to indiscipline, indulged in or connived at by some of Eamonn De Valera's supporters. He added: “If Mr. De Valera will even now condemn the mutiny in the army the danger of the situation in Limerick will be considerably lessened.” LORDS ACT ON IRISH BILL. Free State Measure Passes First Reading After Debate. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 10.—The Irish Free State bill formally passed its first reading in the house of lords yester- day. The debate showed a dissension by Lord Carson, the Marquis of Salis- bury and the Marquis of Landsdowne to endeavor to amend the treaty be- tween Great Britain and Ireland. The Marquis of Lansdowne com- plained that the treaty had been thrown at the heads of the lords to take or to leave, but with a plain in- dication of what might happen in the latter event. The belief prevaHs that the bill will pass the house of lords without seri- ous difficulty. BLIND MAN SHOT DEAD. Sniping Reported in Streets of Belfast. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, March 10.—There was a continuation last evening of the shoot- ing which has been prevalent in the city for some time. There was considerable sniping in the Stanhope street area. A blind man, who was groping his way along the ‘streets, and a youth were shot e Further —_— RUSSIAN PARENTS GIVE AWAY ROYAL CHILDREN FOR FOREIGN ADOPTION MOSCOW, March 10.—Little princes and princesses by the score are val- uable in Russia for adoption by wealthy foreigners. The parents, where there are any, are willing, and, even anxious, to let their chil- dren go because of their own pov- erty and inability properly to care for and educate them. The mother of little Chafi Khan, Prince Kadjar, a near pretender to the throne of Persia, is one of the many who are willing to part with their sons. Prince Kadjar's great- grandfather was one of two brothers who disputed the Persian- throne. ‘When he failed he fled to Russia, where the family became of some political consequence. The correspondent has been told by many such mothers that, unless they find some mreans of getting their children abroad, the careers of the little ones will be ruined. If ever private property is returned to the original owners these children will recover vast estates. LAND TRANSFER ORDERED. An executive order issued to day uthorizes Secretary Denby to turn bver to the United States publi health service the land at the Greal Lakes, 111, training station, compris- 20 of Camp Lawrence. | INNE } Without warrant of law and that the | URited States are inescapable. xnund an extended honeymoon fn|ing “regimental units, Nos. 19 and tal; INJUNCTION GIVEN W SCHOOL CASE Bonds Required of Three Complainants Against Building for Tubercular. May Wed in France Without Consent of . Parents, at Age of 25 By the Associated Press, PARIS, March 10.—Citizens of France, upon reaching the age passed by the French chamber. Heretofore, French men and women under thirty couid not wed without the authorization of thelr purea: Eloping is unkmowsn in France. GENOA NOTE AINIED AT FOREIGN GROUPS U. S. Interested in Economic MeNamees mian ataa| Situation as Whole, Not Any Nationalities. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. America meant no threat to Eng- lapd and France in her note about the Genoa conference, but if warning ‘words are found therein they must be applied to the groups, particularly those headed by Hugo Stinnes in Germany, which seek the exploitation of Russia. ‘This interpretation of the Hug! note came from official quarters to- day, following the spread of rumors to the effect that America, in the note declining Italy’'s invitation to the eco- nomic conference at Genoa, had warned France and Great Britain that exploitation of Russian resources by Justice Bailey of the District Su-|their respective nationals was not preme Court today granted a tem-|likely to bring funds in lieu of Ger- porary injunction against the Dis-|man reparation payments, triat Commissioners from proceedinz with thelr plan to erect a school bullding for tubercular pupils at 14th and Upshur streets. The injunction Significant Sentence. The truth is the United States did not alm its note at any ‘particular ties the hands of the municipal au-|2ation, but expressed itself on the thorities until a final hearing of the| “1ole economic situation in Burope case. Bond of $1,000 was required | Without regard to nationalities. Thers of Charles E. Hunt, Sallle E. Shock |!3 4e°P significance, however, in one and Clarence 1. Gessford, property |2entence of the American note, which owners in the vicinity, who brought | PFobably will cause Europe to ponder. the fnjunction proceedings for ther- |1t Feads thus: selves and their neighbors, who ob- “It s also the view of this govern- Jected to the location of the hospital, {ent—and it trusts that view is Through Attorneys Darr, Whitetord | $hared by the governments who have & Darr, the citizens claimed that called the conferen:e—that while the Commissioners had no authority | 2Waiting the establishment of the es- of law for erecting the gchool on the sential basis of productivity in Rus: sia * * * pothing should be done Upshur street site and pointed out|looking to the obtaining of economic that Congress had specifically named | 2dvantages in Russia the portions of the site for a tuber- cular hospital and for a junior high school, but had made no designation of any portion of the tract when pro- viding for_the school for tubercular children. They claimed the Commis- sioners were aboul to expend $150,000 to locate the school on an unauthoriz- ed site. The claim was also made that the placing of the school there v injure seriously the proper of the plaintiffs and other members : h would impair the just opportunities of oth- ers, but that the resources of the Rus- sian people should be free from such exploitation, and that fair and equal obportunity in their interest, as well as in the interest of all the powers, should be preserved.” Even if the United States had de- cided to attend the Genoa conference, nothing more expressive of the Amer- ican viewpoint on Russia would have been spoken. America gives as her of the Piney Branch Citizens’ Associa- | [¢4S0N for staying away from Genoa tion, The Commissioners through Cor- poration Counsel Stephens and As- sistant Corporation Counsel Williams denied that they were proceeding | location of the school would injure surrounding property. be conducted so as to constitute a|Dave the same v: the fact that political entanglements in Europe are involved, but there is recognition in executive quarters here, nevertheless, that certain eco- nomic developments affecting the Be- cause America believes it is to the If it should | interest of the allied governments to the American nuisance, they ®aid, the owners of |nOte deals pubiicly with one phase of property had their remedy at law.|the Genoa problem. The Commissioners claim™ the site is ideal for the purpose, and that there is no other available site owned Prepared to Speak Plainly. For, while it is true that the United by the District on which the school | States will be physically abseat from may be located with the exception of { the Genoa conference, there is no the grounds about the jail and asy- lum hospital. 5 % —_— SHOALS NEGOTIATIONS DETAILED AT HEARING Col. tween Power Company and War Department. Negotiations between the War De- partment and the Alabama Power (;nmnlny with respect to the Muscle Shoals, Ala., properties were detailed to the House military affairs com- mittee today by Col. John Joyes of the ordnance bureau of the depart- ment. The negotiations began in' No- vember, 1917, and were terminated in November, 1918, with the execution of a contract for extending the Warrior steam plant facilities, owned by the power company, to provide power for e operation of nitrate plan No. at Muscle Shoals. e e contract was carefully analyze: by the witness because of the pro: vision it contains giving the power company an option to purchase the Bovernment'’s interest in the plant ex- tension and which now threatens to block the possible acceptance by Con-. gress of Henry Ford's offer for pur- chase and lease of the Warrior plant as a part of the Muscle Shoals prop- erties. Thomas W. Martin, president of the power company, whose attorneys have notified the committee that his com- pany will execute the option and con- test in the courts any action which tended to dispossess it of the plant, in the event Congress accepted the Ford proposal, attended today’s hearing. —_— ONLY DOCTOR IN JAIL. Alarmed Residents Rush Pardon Plea to State Governor. OTTUMWA, Towa, March 10.—A hurry call for the doctor at Fair- fleld, Jowa, where a number of per- sons are sald to be ill, would find Dr. P. J. Shorlock, the only physician of ‘the village, at the county jail to- day. He was sentenced b; - trate D. B. Wilson to serve Homs months for intoxication. Residents of Fairfield, alarmed be- cause of the prevalence of disease, are preparing petitions to Gov. Ken: dall for Dr. Shorlock’s release. Sheriff Walter Harris _yesterday telephoned the governor, who said 4 recommendation from four county of- als for release of the be acted upon. dostoriwcuid T T T T Ty NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES | B. F. KEITH'S THEATER “12:30 to 1 o’clock T Speaker Monday Dr. Thomas E. Green - Conducted by Rev. Charles E. Stech T G Every One Invited—No - Collection intention of keeping quiet if the occasion should demand plain speak- ing. The United States can talk to the other governments and their peo- ples through public statements. as well as diplomatic notes. The Genoa conference developments will be closely watched. The eco- Joyes Tells of Dealings Be-| nomic policies adopted there are ad- mitted here to be of paramount im portance to America. The phrase “tactful pressure,” which was coined in State Department circles to ex- press the trend of American policy toward Europe, has some analogy to the “moral suasion” of the last ad- ministration, but it is being employed as a result of an entirely different set of circumstances. The Congress of the United States has issued a warning against en- tanglement in European affairs, and while the executive branch of the government is sympathetic with t theory, it nevertheless feels too c cumscribed and tied down by con- gressional limitations and would go much further toward co-operation with Europe if it dared. That's be- cause the economic phases of the Eu- ropean situation are so close America’s opportunities to get pay- ments of interest and principal on ten billions of war debt, nothing of the desire for European trade to stimulate American agricul- tural and manufacturing industries. Fundamental Laws. The United States government feels that on economic questions there are certain fundamental laws and prob- lems which the allled governments must follow if they want to restore Russia and the remainder of Europe. America will for the present confine herself to emphasis on those funda- mentals; but expects Europe to rec- ognize them first and put them into operation. The Genoa note may mean “hands off” so far as participation in the ac- tual conversations is concerned, but officials say it has been entirely mis- construed if it has been accepted as isolation from instead of co-operation with Europe. When the fundamentals of Europe’ economic trouble are straightened out, America will gladly help. And by that time the treaties signed at the Washington arms con- ference will have been rejected or ratified as the case may be—and American spokesmen will be more certain of what they can say and do. (Copyright, 1022.) JURY ACCUSES THREE OF 1ST-DEGREE MURDER Indicts Joseph Parker, William Frederick and J. A. Frye. * Other True Bills Found. Indictments charging murder in the first degree were reported today by the grand jury against Joseph Par- ker, William Frederick and James A. Frye, all colored. Frye is alleged to have shot and killed Dr. Robert Wade Brown at the physician's home, 1737 1ith street northwest, November 28, 1920. Fred- erick, twenty years old, is said to have instantly killed Benjamin F. Brown, a special policeman, February 5 last. Parker is charged with the death of Wesley King, November 23 last. All the victims were colored. Two charges of sending objection- able matter through the malls are made by the grand jury against Miss Alice Lee Robertson, a former clerk of the Shipping Board. It is charged that after Miss Robertson had lost her position she wrote letters in Oc- tober and November last to two of- ficials of the board containing scur- rilous matter. Others indicted and the charges against them are: Charles Emery and Philip Bundy, housebreaking and larceny; William H. Degges, John F. Riondel De Pauperon, Earl I Enni; Earl C._ Higdon, Fred Jackson, Samuel Harvey, John Smith and Avoid Jackson, non-support. R GEN. SLOAT DIES OF AUTO INJURIES Was Firance Officer at U. S. Patent Office for Twenty- Nine Years. Gen. Frank D. Sloat, civil war vet- eran and finance officer of the United States patent ofiice for twenty-nine vears. died this morning shortly after 6 o'clock at Emergency Hospital from a fractured skull. He was in- jured Marck 2 when struck by an au- tomobile at 13th and L streets, and since that time has been in a state of coma and has been fed through a tube. He was elghty-six years old Frank O'Hara, 1301 Monroe strect northeast, a professor at Catholic University, operator of the machi which is said to have struck the an, notified by the police today to appear at the second pre- cinct station. O'Hara was arrested at the time of the accident, but was re- leased on Lis own recognizance. He will be held pending the outcome of the coroner's inquest this afternoon at 3 o'elock. Born at Peekakil . Sloat was born September 28, at Peekskill, Y. He later moved to Connecticut and at the out- break of the war in 1861 was com- missioned captain in the New Hav Grays. He served throughout the w in the majority of the campigns, and was confined for a long time in Libby prison. Following the war he was made controller of the state of Con- necticut and also was made one of the original commissioners of the Gettysburg battlefield. Later he was appointed adjutant general of the state and served on the staff of three different governors in that capacity. He came to Wash ington thirty vears ago and receive an appointment as finance officer « the patent office. He served there for twenty-nine vears and was re- tired August 24, 1920. Member of Loyal Leglon. He residell since that time at 1214 L street northwest. He was a member of the Loval Legion and at the time of his death was the oldest living cap- tair of the New Haven Grays. He was a past commander of a Grand Arm post in Connecticut and was prom. nent in the Masonic Order, being a Knight Templar. Upon his arrival here he kept up his interest in Ma onic activities and joined Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He leaves no immediate relatives, his wife and children having d many years ago. Funeral scrvi will_be held tomorrow afiernson 5 oclock at Speare’s undertakit establishment, following whic body will be taken to Croton N. Y., for interment. REALTORS ATTACK BALL RENT LAW __(Continued from First Page.) vestor today Is coming to the rescue of the man of small means? Concern for Alley Dwellers. “The legislators seem to be v much concerned about the alley dwellers of this city, and it is sug- gested that honds be issued for the erection of homes for these persons. If it were mot for the Ball act the alley situation of Washington would have been solved long ago, but if the Ball act continues the govern- ment will not only have to look after the alley dwellers of Washington, but after t ploy Today. where there are ) homes avails apartmenyts. is going to be the final Do mot the powers that be see that so long as the Ball act is on the statute books there i8 go- ing to be less production of mod- erately priced homes? Do I not rcad between the lineg that there may be a group of persons who know the government will have to produce the homes if this condition keeps up® Do the powers that be want the same conditions in this country as exist in London today? The housing sit- uation there is costing English tax- payers $60,000,000 a vear—$300 per home annually—and the government collector of rents is often stoned when he attempts to perform his duties. _ “This picture is not overpainted. 1 know that when I was assocfated with the bureau of housing there wis a strong group of men who believed in government control of the home 1s this not a step in that direction— toward government control of homes and business properties throughout the country? Who can tell but what this unwise legislation may spread to other cities? Some Rents Would Go Up. “To be sure, some of our legisla tors, in case the Ball act is discon- tinued, would have to pay, in some apartments, a few dollars more, but what is that compared with the way in which the man on the street is being crucified because of lack of production of rented homes. The Ball act of this city and the rent control act of New York have made a great many realtors wealthy, but this result was discounted when predicted. “If the suggestions and recommen- dations of the realtors had been car- ried out by the legislators, Washing- ton would not have the deplorable housing condition under which it is laboring today. It is the Ball act which permits a speculator to take an apartment house worth one million dollars and say it is worth two mil- lions. I predict that if the act is ex- tended conditions in this eity will grow worse, and if store and office buildings are included in the opera- tion of the law, it wil be only a ques- tion of time when they will double in rental value. “The President of the United States, in one of his addresses, stated he was in favor of “more business in gov- ernment and less government in busi- ness.” Certainly the thinking man of the country, when he heard this, was of the opinfon that American initiative and productive power would be left alone; yet Congress says to the man who owns two houses that he may live in one but cannot con- trol the other; to the man who owns an apartment house and Wwishes to tear it down for the purpose of erect- ing a store or office building, that he cannot do_so unless he provides an equal number of apartments or places of abode, permitting one tenant in such an_ apartment house to post- pone indefinitely the proposed im- provements. Predicts Worse Conditions. “The law has never overcome one economic fact: Washington bas 1,000 places in which to live and 1,200 persons to occupy them. This condi- tion will grow worse, in spite of all laws of the land, until production has furnished 1,001 places of abode for 1,000 persons. “Phe Ball law will not retard ‘Washington In its growth. As sure as the nation grows, its capital will grow. Continuation, however, of the Ball act will make it very uncom- fortable kere for the man of average means and less, reserving the city for rich residents solely. “If this legislation was designed to reduce the American tenant to the level of the European tenant, it i fast accomplishing its purpose. Study jias shown that every city in the United States which enacted rent control legislation is in just as de- plorable condition as to housing as is the nation’s capital. “Every city which refused to enact rent control legislation is well out of the woods to housing its familles” answer l