Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1922, Page 2

ILSTERTOFGHT TOKE Orangemen will Ignbre Boundary Commission, Par- liament Is Told. B the Associabed Prese. BELFAST, March 17—Not an inch of Ulster territory will be yielded to southern Ireland, speakers at the Kil- keel Orange meeting last evening de- clared. Harry Mulholland. member of the Vlster parliament, son of Lord Dun- leath, told the meeting the Orange- men-had decided to have nothing to do with the boundary commission es- tablished by the Anglo-Irish treaty. . “Before we yield an inch of our Titory to the rebels they will have to kill ~ twenty or thirty _thousand CGrangemen,” he declared. “If such a thing. js attempted thousands of Ovangemen in the colonies will flock to Ulster's aid. Lady Cralg. wife of the Ulster pre- mier, also spoke, saying the premier's recent tour had resulted in a deter- Thination on his part never to allow an-inch of territory “to be filched from Ulster.” Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, who is formulating plans_ for maintaining order in Ulster. arrived in_Belfast today from England. He} will leave for a tour of the border after ¢ Iting Home Secretary Bates, The men sentenced recently at En- niskillen to long terms of penal s vitude in connection with the kidn: ping raid have begun a hunger strike in the Londonderry jail. In Belfast the Sinn Fein prisoness, &s a protest against confinement, are refusing to exercise. BORDER TENSION INCREASES. Five Hundred More Troops Arrive. Hundreds of Shots Fired. By the Ansociated Prase. BEIFAST, March 17.—Tension along the ‘"yrone-Monaghan border is in- creasing daily, and the population of these affeéted districts fis filled with anxiety. Reports received in Belfast today from Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, stated that 500 additional members of the Irish republican army had mo- tored to the irontier and taken up goll!u)n between that town and Cale- on. . Flax mills and farmhouses in that Tocality.are being commandeered, and bridges and roads are made practical- Jy impassable. Traffic is possible only through the fields and lanes. Muclk' firing went on during last night. Hundreds of shots were heard by the sentry at the Aughnacloy spe- cial barracks. It was surmised that the republican troops. fearing an at- tack, had fired at a group of men seen in the moonlight. Special constables from-Aughnacloy and Caledon were on_patrol duty in lorries all night. FOUR WOUNDED IN CORK. Republican Police. Clash With Crowd Following Brass Band. By the Adsociated Press. March 17.—Feur persons were wounded in a clash early tod: between republican police and pe =ons following a bra band. Th members of the procession ignored orders to disperse and shots were exchanged. One of the wounded was a policeman. CARSON FLAYS COALITION. Irish Bill Passes Second xeadingf in House of Lords. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 17.—During the debate yesterday on the Irish free state bill in the house of lords Lord Carson bitterly attacked the coalition government, declaring it had abolish- ed constitutional government and had laid down the principle that by exec- utive action could be brought about net merely constitutional changes but revolution. Y Lord Carson declared that, in ef- fact, the government had told south and west Ireland: “You have known hiow to bring the British government to its knees. surely .you edn do the same with Ulster.” Lord Carson depounced the policy of the government and the free state bill in most uncémpromising terms. but admitted that the mischlef had been done and said he was not going to argue that the lords ought to re- ject the bill, but he hoped they would ! not be o powerless and feeble and lacking in coursge as not to inaist- that they should never allow, wit] out consent, one acre of land to be taken from Ulster. After Lord- Garson's speech the Douse passed -the. second reading of the bill without division. / CONVENTION IS FORBIDDEN. By the Associsded Press.. DUBLIN. Masch 1 fith, h Arthur. Grif- president of the dail eireann advised the following note to the istry of defemse: = Tt is quite evident to the unanl- mous dail cabinet that at the -army convention ® contemplated for March 1§ it is groposed to endeavor to re- move the army from the control of the governmant elected by the people, | Which is the dail eireann. Such pur- pose is illegal and you are hereby ! igstructed that the holding of the! g@nvention is forbidden.” {Eamon De Valera addressed a pablic meeting yesterday at Dungar- n. He repeated his usual argu- nts against the Anglo-Irish treaty. told the people that if they ac-| obpted | the treaty they would geti eir independence only through | jwil war. | PE VALERA IS REPUDIATED. | Ry the Associated Prese. |BOSTON, March 17.—The leadership De Valera was repudiated and his licy of external association with the British empire was condemned in & resolution pi d at a meeting of Friends of Irish Freedom at their Patrick’s day dlnnn;. a | peared convinced that nothing an hn Sharp Willlams of Mississippi his recent speech on the Irish estion. R | NOONDAY {LENTEN SERVICES B.F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 o’clock : Speaker Monday vJudge James T. Lloyd Conducted by Rev. J. C. Nicholson , " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MAKCH 17, 1922 POPE MOVES INTO HIS NEWLY |NEW TRAFFIC REGULATIONS WIDEN TERRITORY DESIGNATED AS CONGESTED AREA. By the Associated Prese. ROME, March 16.—Pope Pius at last occupies the private apartment in which, since the death of Pope Bene- dict, workmen have been making changes suggested by him. The reno- vation was necessitated by the usage of several years, and the Pope’s quar- ters now have been restored to what they were under Pius X, The room in the corner of the apos- tolic palace, looking out on one side upon St. Peter's square and on the other side upon the castle of St. An- gelo, which Pope Benedict transform- ed into a private chapel, again is the pontiff's bedroom. Pius X used it as his sleeping quarters. It is a middle- sized room with a high cefllng, and its two large windows permit of full light and sunshine. Tt has a south- CAR LINE 0PPOSES NEW BUS SERVICE ' RENOVATED APARTMENTS IN VATICAN EP TERRITORY easterly exposure. The room is sim- ply furnished. Near the modest bed is a wooden prie dieu with a large crucifix on top of it The adjolning room, where Benedict died. has been retransformed into & chapel, the same as it was when, Piux X was alive. A corridor leads from the bedroom to the dining ropm, which adjoins the chapel. Then follow the study and private sitting room of the pontiff. The latter room opens into a large ante-chamber. ¥rom the win- dow or:e may look out upon St. Peter's square. There is a bathroom and also three rooms for the Pope's personal attendants, his valet, Malvestiti, and two =secretaries, Mgr. Confaloni and | Mgr. Eri Veninl, The carpets, furniture and draperies all were chosen for their simplicity. { Persons who have visited the apart- ment gay there is no cardinal in Rome who is living in more modest quar- ers. W.R &E. Charges Unfair|Transfers More Nearly Cen- Competition in Proposed Additional Lines. The Washington Railway and Elec- tralized Office Work About Treasury Building. Transfer of parts of ‘hie general tric Company today protested to the|accounting office to new locations, Public Utilities Commission against|more nearly centralizing the work of the proposal of the Washington Rapid [ the controller general, is going on, Transit Company to operate two new |and plans are afoot for further bus lines west from North Capitol!changes, which will bring much of street and Rhode Island avenue. the personnel and equipment into the Permission to operate these two|Walker Johnson bullding, 1734 New new routes was granted the bus com- | York avenue; the Winder bullding, at pany some months ago, but the lines | 17th and F, and the former ordnance have not yet been put into service. bullding, at 1800 E street. Ywould constitute unfair competition The street railway company asks the commission to suspend its former approval and to hold a public hear- ing to consider the question. The company bases its protest on the ground that such bus lines would constitute unfair competition with the street car lines. Text of Protest. The company’s protest follows: “We desire to enter our protest against the proposed operation of busses by the Washington Rapid Tran- sit company along the following de- scribed routes: From Rhode Ixland avenue and North Capitol street west on Rhode Island avenue to 12th street, south en 12th street to Pennsylvania avenue, and then to §th street and Pennsvi- vania avenue and return. “From Rhode Island avenue and North Capitol street. west on Rhode Island avenue to Scott Circle, then over present 16th street route to Po- tomac Park and return. 3 “We think such proposed operation in territory now adequately served by street railway lines, and would tend to increase the tharges to the general street car rider. “It is. therefore, requested that a hearing be called and notice given such contemplated by the public utility act to determine the necessity for any such bus lines. and in the meanwhile t any action hereto- fore taken by the commission rela- tive thereto be suspended awaiting such _notice. public hearing and order by the. commission sed pursuant to the said utility act. The Treasury Department division of the office is being transferred f!'om the Graham bullding, 14th and E streets, to 1800 E street, where it will occupy the first six floors. This building was recently vacated by the War Department. The Interior De- partment division {s heing moved from the Walker Johnson building to the top three floors of 1800 E street. Into the space vacated in the Wal- ker Johnson building by the Interior Depgrtment_division will be trans- ferred the Veterans’ Bureau sectlon, now located in Treasury annex No. at 14th street and Ohlio avenue. This transfer will be made as soon as possible after the others are com- pleted. From the Poli Theater building & huge amount of files belonging to the general accounting office will be taken to the old Graham building. The files were considered by inspec- tors at the theater as being too great a fire hazard. These transfers more nearly cen- tralize the work of the general ac counting office. placing it closer to headquarters in the Treasury build- ing. In the Walker Johnson building 'ill be located the War Department division: in the Winder building, Navy Department division, and in 1800 E street, the Treasury and Interior Department _divisions. This leaves the Post Office Department division in the Post Office Department build- ing and the “State and_other de- partments” in the old Land Office building, at 7th and F streets. Old files of the general accounting office are still scattered about the city in approximately fifteen buildings. The work of transfer is being done | by the navy yard and, it is estimated. at a great saving. ¥ Bus Company to Fight. Teon Arnold. president of the bus company, stated today that six new machines are being bullt now at York, Pa. to be used on the routes against_which the car company pro- tests. Mr. Arnold said the bus com- pany would oppose revocation of the former approval. —_— MINE OPERATORS UNITED IN REPLY (Continued from First Page.) steam anthracite had been stored up, it was found. k In the bituminous districts the con- sumers prospects, in the event of a strike, would be even better. Secre- tary of Labor Davis has declared. Besides considerable stocks of coal on hand, it was pointed out that a large percentage of the bituminous mines were mnon-union and could almost keep pace with the current demands of consumers. GOMPERS BACKS MINERS. “Come What May, A. F. of L. Is With Them,” He Declares. “Come what may, the American Fed- eration of Labor, the American labor movement, i with the mine workers of America in their struggle against the mine owners,” stated President Samuel Gompers, - President Gompers followed up wita the statement that ‘“no group of em- ployers in any industrial controversy in this countvy has ever placed itself in a more_indefensible position than that occupied by the mine owners at this time. Coal mine owners, “bound by a sol- emn agreement to confer with the workers upon the terms of a new wage agreement, have refused to abide by the terms of their own pledge,” he said. Puts Profits First. ‘Profits and power with the mine owners come first. The United Mine GRIEF-STRICKEN D.’C. GIRL TAKES LIFE IN NEW YORK Brooding Over Death of Fiance, Gladys Runkle Takes Both Pofson and Gas. Special Dispatch tb The Star. NEW YORK, March 17.—Miss Gladys Runkle, a twenty-four-year- Columbia road, was found dead in her room here yesterday at a boarding house on 824 street. with her eyes riveted upon a picture of her sweet- heart, who dicd Monday after an operation. A certificate of suicide was issued after an examination showed the girl had inhaled gas and taken poison. Photographs of Jean De Bacourt. son of an assistant professor at Co- lumbia University, to whom she was engaged to be married soon, lay be- side her. A Bible was on a table nearby. opened at the marked passage where Ruth says to Naomi, “Whither thou goest, I will go. A note lay near one of the photo- graphs. Tt read: “Cherle, 1 do not know where you are, but I shall try to_find you.” Mr. Bacourt died last Monday after an operation for appendicitis. During the time he was in the hospital Miss Runkle was a daily visitor. When she went to see him last Monday she told he was dead. From that time on she brooded over death and spent some time with his parents, whose grief for the loss of the son was eclipsed by her sorrow and despair. It was only a few weeks hence that the marriage was to have taken place. Miss Runkle was the daughter of George P. Runkle, an attache of the ‘Western Union Company at the Wash- ington terminal. She had lived in this city at the Columbia road ad- dress until two years ago, when she went to New. York. There she became active in Junior League work and { republican, Nebraska, Weinberg sai ] j.'n ] i J ]\ conge: street and from Pennsyl regulations, will includ mew regulat! bec parking in 1t area t reservations within the are: will be allowed. AGCOUNTING OFFICE MOVED IN PARTS E3 ania avenue D sted area from 7th street and Pemnsylvania avenue to 17th to K PLANINSPECTION OF MUSCLE SHOALS Senators and House Mem- bers, 2,000 Worth’ Each, | to Make Trip. ‘ The Senate agricultural committee decided today to start its trip of in- spection of the Muscle Shoals water power and nitrate project March 25. The tour, Chairman Norris said, would occupy probably five or six days. It was not ascertained by Mr. Nor- ris how many senators would make the trip, but David Barry, sergeant- rms of the Senate, who has charge the arrangements, stated that 2,000 worth of senators” would go, there having been that amount of money set aside for the expenses. The Kahn resolution asking au- thority and an appropriation of $2,000 for members of the House military committea to visit Muscle Shoals, Ala., was favorably reported to the House today by Chairman Ireland of the accounts committee. Mr. Treland said he would ask for immediate consideration of the meas- ure by the House, probably today, so the committeemen who have been in vestigating offers from private inter- ests for completion, purchaze, lease and operation of the government's Alabama projects could plan their trip without delay in the event the resolution was adopted. Chairman Kahn of the military committee announced today that he expected Secretary Mellon of ~the Treasury and a representative of the Department of Justice, possibly A torney Gneral Daugherty. to appear before the committee early next week. As soon as those two witnesses have been heard, Mr. Kahn said, the committee will begin preparation of its report to the House on the offers it has been investigating, and it was hoped that a report could be com- pleted in time for its presentation to at of JURY 1§ CHARGED IN DIVORCE TANGLE Report of Bar Association to Be Made Next Week. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRI . March 17.—In reference to the divorce situation here Judge Robinson Moncure teday delivered a chargo to the grand jury, whick will later take up the matter atter disposing of the twenty-eight criminal cases presented today. The i Judge told the jury that the divorce: situation will be presented to them rext week, following a complete and final report of the bar association en- gaged In the task of investigating di- vorce conditions. He informed the grand jury that it has full power to have witnesses sum- moned. and that the powers of the court were at its disposal to compel answers except insofar as it gested among the most valuable wit- ness were the members of the sub- committee of the bar association, namely Maj. J. Randall Caton, How- ’iirfl ‘W. Smith and Capt. C. Keith Car- n. 5 The court directed attention to the distinction between residence and domicile and called their attention to the Virginia cases of Steckel against Steckel, Towson against Towson and the tax case 6f Cooper and Williams affecting the right to a seat in the city councll. The judge called the attention of the grand jury to the fact that libel is an indictable crime in Virgini as s perjury, and that {n connectio with the divorce situation within their power to consider if the crime libel had been committed by aay one, and, if so, by whom. Tn conclusion the judge said that it was their prerogative to file a report upon the situation and make recom- the House some time during the week beginning March 27. —_— CLASH AT HEARING. Tilt Before Houss Committee on Amnesty Issue. Two verbal clashes enliventd the hearing yesterday before the House foreign affairs committee, when spokesmen for certain liberal organi- old Washington girl, formerly of 1110 | zations pleaded that Congress should | direct the President to grant imme- diate amnesty to 113 political prison- ors serving long terms for violations of the espionage act. The committee made it plain that favorable action on the resolution fathered by Repre- sentative London, sociallst, was not at all likely. Representative Yates, republican, Illinois, charged that Representative London, who declared he would free men convicted of violence if they did 80 because of a deep religious feeling, was advocating violence, which Mr. London was quick to deny. Harry Weinberg, a New York lawyer, one time counsel for Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft dod added that he had ever to do with Berg In a tilt with Representative Reav. d he would express his “opinion on political and economic questions at any time and In any place despite the Supreme Court of the United States.” Frequent references were made to the pardon of Eugene V. Debs, and on this point some of the witnesses expre conflicting views. Many agreed, however, that President Harding's list of Christmas pardons contained the names of persons who should have served theijr terms, which, they insisted, were for of- fenses more serious than those mendations, and that he thought that body was the most proper tribunal for the purpose, and he would be pleased to have any recommend tions. might | incriminate & witness. The judge sug- | On this day 1,527 years ago, “or thereabouts, there died in Downs, Ul- ster, Ireland, according to historical authoritles, the man who took Chris- tianity, to Ireland. He did his work so well that this day was made his feast day, St. Patrick's day. As a result, the emerald hue of his land is being seen in this country, thousands of miles from the scens of his labor, after fifteen centuries have passed, in neckties,” on lapels, in the sham: 8 pinned to coats, and in the ribbons Maunted from finery. » ‘Waen a boy of sixteen Patrick, as he was afterward called, was kidnaped by marauders and taken to Ireland. It was the great event of his life, al- though he did not know it. As a mat- ter of fact, he resented the action to such an extent that he escaped at the Prua opportunity and returned to Scot- an Marauders again took him in tow. Back to Ireland he was taken. -And this time, he decided that the Jand to which he was brought, though thriv- ing with kings and palaces, needed Christianizing. Returned in 433 A.D. Years later, after constant study in Scotland, where he afterward return- ed, he reached the pdint where he was consecrated bishop. In 432, A.D., he returned to the island. In short time he had baptized the kings of Munster and Dublin and had estab- lished his seut at Armagh. |, The vears passed on and he died. | The Irish imagination, working In its proverbial well grooved channels, built up 8o many tales about its hero that today it is difficult to tell the fact from the legend. He is said by some to have rid the land of snakes, and to have put such a curse on the Teptiles that they never revisited the island. Anecdotes grew up in countless throngs. Irishmen stood by—accord- ing to one of these—who were always WOMAN OPERATOR LEAVES MILLIONS Mrs. Sarah J. Wykoff Bent Called Shrewdest of Sex in Wall Street. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 1i.—More evidence that Mrs. Sarah J. Wykoff Bent, who died a few months ago at iher home in the Bronx, well earned | her title of “the shrewdest woman operator in Wall street,” was un- earthed today. Temporary administrators of her estate, going to one of several safe deposit boxes rented by her, di covered more than a million dolla: worth of jewels and securities which no one knew about. This discovery, plus_a statement from the bank- ing house of J. Morgan & Co.. through which she traded. that she led the administrators to estimate her entire fortune at more than $3.500,000. Of this sum her second husband, Thomas C. Bent, will receive $1.500.- 000, while other relatives will get the rest. Her will will be offered for probate next week. Although she was credited with being wealthy, even her most inti- mate friends did not know the amount she had piled up during her years on the street. The late J. Morgan was quoted as having termed her the cleverest woman on the market. and this reputation led many of her vounger friends to come to her for tips. During the panic of 1807, when steel dropped almost out of sight, Mrs. Bent bought ! had left an $2,000 cash deposit there, | P.l Seized by Marauders, Boy . Became Erin’s Patron Saint ready to strike down the man touch- l:: t};u hair of a_head of one of thr!r royalty of those days, and watched his staff sharp shod, cut an nnw.lltlng wound into the foot of a king's son who was being baptized by Patrick. And they never uttered a protest, but iike the red-headed prince who was being baptised, accepted the unknow- ing_wound art of the ceremony. Had another done this, it is believed, ‘would not have lived to complete the ceremony, because the body of a king or a prince was inviolate and sacred. Catholic Feast Day. the day in churches of Washington. The Catholic Church makes special observance of the feast day ln‘lll masses celebrated. During this even- ing _services of various types will be held at the Catholic church HOUSE MARKS TIVE ONBONUS QUESTION Awaits Speaker’s Decision on Passage Monday Under Suspension of Rules. Both proponents and opponents off the plan to put the soldiers’ bonus bill through the House Monday under & * Special services will commemorate | suspension of the rules marked time today, awaiting the return hers late today of Speaker Gillett, with whom rests the decision on this question Republican House leaders were un- Up on Capitol Hill the day Is being |decided whether they would confer honored in a novel way. each Irishman of the Congress with a pot of shamrooks, grown from seeds imported from Ireland. Every one of them has a _pot on his desk. This in- cludes the Walshes, Burke and Bren- an, Cockran and Caughlin, Griffin, nd Maloney and all of the ‘Os” an Brien, O'Connor, den, McLaughlin and McSwain. % A'unique celebration of St. Patrick’s day will be presented at Bethany Baptist Church, 2d street and Rhode \Island avenue, tonight, with a pro- gram of music, by an orchestra made up of members of the music school of ; the War College. The celebration will be followed by a social hour. Invitations have been . sent out in a green back with the suggestion that all gifts of .green-; backs will be used for the new church | bullding, which is planned for the near future. s The event will be under the auspices of the Ladies’ Aid Society. who will gerve refreshments during the social hour. The program will start at § o'clock. EXPLAINS STAND N PAWNBROKERS Representative Focht’s Side of Controversy Given in House Speech. Representative Focht, chairman of the House District committee, reply- ing to a statement yesterday by the! citizens’ committee on remedial loan legislation regarding Mr. Focht's bill known as H. R. 6309, designed “to regulate and encourage the pawn- broking business,” referred to his statements in the House Monday. in Director | with the Spcaker tonight or Hess of the Botanic Garden presented ' . .. tomor- Mr. Gillett was expected to re- main here until tomorrow night, when he will go to Springfield, Mass., where he is to speak Sunday. He will return in time to preside over the House Monday. Leaders said they had had no direct word from the Speaker as to his views on procedure other than tha: given them before he left for Florida with President Harding. They were expected to inform him at the conference here that a large majority of the House membership desired the biil taken up Monday un- der a plan that would cut off all amendments and_even a motion to recommit. The Spekacr is known to look upon this plan with disfavor but those having charge of the bonu< legislation apparently had not aban- doned hope of such consideration No Minoriiy Report. Representative Garner of Texas ranking democrat on the ways and means committee, said today that neither he nor Representative Colller, democrat, Mississippl, would present a minority report on the bonus meas- ure. It still was undetermined whether Representative Kitchin of North Carolina, the third democrat on the committee who voted against reporting the bill favorably, would submit minority vie: Chairman Fordney of the House ways and means committee, Wh favors the rules suspension program. said that if the Speaker held it _he would proceed with plans te bring the measure up under a gpecial rule Tuesday, if such a rule could be_obtained. Upon the outcome of the confer= ence between the Speaker and House leaders depended whether those mem= bers who want the bill open to amendment when brought up would ask for a conference of House r publicans to consider the whole ques- tion of procedure. How Estimate Is Based. The estimate of the majority mem- bers of the ways and means commit- tee, in the report from which Repre- sentatives Treadway of Massachusetts which he explained his bill. Yes- terday's statement pointed out that the District Commissioners opposed the Focht bill. In support of his bill, which he asked the House to consider Monday. b, Focht sald, during the course of speech. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in presenting a bill o this character, bringing it from the committee, there might be such 2 thing as an apology offered if it were not for the fact that the sys- tem of charging rates of interest for the use of money has obtained throughout the history of the world, even from the time when the Master drove the originators of the scheme out of the temple. That seems to have met the whole matter, anything aside from what is duly prescribed by law, and assumes that dignity of what they call a banking system. ‘Unfortunately, in the District of Columbia the loaning of money has and Tilson of Connecticut disagreed. that the total cost of the bonus would be $4.098.719,350, was bascd upon the assumption that 70 per cent of the 4,458,199 veterans who would be el- igible for compensation would accept adjusted service certificates: 213 per cent vocational training aid; 10 per cent farm and home aid. and 73 per cent land settlement aid. The remaining 10 per cent would be paid in cash after passage of the bill under a pro- vislon requiring veterans whose ad {justed compensation would not ex- ceed $50, to accept cash ; Total costs under the various op- tions of the bill were estimated as sh payments, $16,000,000 on_account of deaths. and on accouut of ma- 23,350 voeational train- 00: faym and home aid. $186,000,000, and land settlement. $112.000,000. The greatest cost in any single year was estimated at $3.154.823 in the ° fiscal year 1943, when the certificates then outstanding would mature. The costs under all other options except The jury afterward repaired to the jury room and began the investiga- tion of the twenty-elght criminal cases presented, among which is one for murder, ons for involuntary mu slaughter, twenty-five for alleged i fractions of the state prohibition law and two for grand larceny. The charge of murder is against Ernest Lloyd, alias ‘Mutt” Grooms, colored, charged with shooting He: bert McCrav. colored, the morning of December 29. ‘The jury is composed of Mayor J. M. Duncan, Kenneth W. Ogden, Wil- liam Desmond. Frank T. King. George K. Brawner, Walter C. Drury, Elliott F. Hoffman, Samuel W. Pitts and Ben- jamin Abramson. Final arguments will be made to- morrow morning beginning at 10 o'clock. in the corporation court, be- fore the special committee of seven of the Alexandria Bar Asscciation en- gaged in probing the divorce situation here. Arguments on behalf of Judge Attorney John 8. Barbour of Fairfax, and Frank Stuart will present his views. It is not thought that the commit- tee will make its report before Mon- day. The report of the committee will be submitted to the bar associa- tion for ratification, and this will end concerned. — 27TH VENDETTA VICTIM. CHICAGO, March 17.—The Italian vendetta which followed the murder several months ago of Paul Labriola. municipal court bailiff and nineteenth ward leader, last night claimed twenty-seventh victim. He was Paul charged against “the poiitical pris. oners.” It was contended that no overt acts were committed by the latte was a secretary for one of the branches. She was also employed as a Workers of America have an honor- able record of agreements honorably kept during twenty years of negotia tion and joint agreement. The cause of the miners is just and In that just swerving support. * No action was taken yesterday by the government affecting the proba- ble break in the industry, and officials conversant with the situation ap- more could be done to adjust the disagree- ment in advance of its final develop- ment. J. D. A. Morrow, vice president of the ‘National Coal Association, made public last night coples of a letter he has addressed to John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, complaining that the union had “sent broadcast” erroneous versions of tes- timony given by the coal witnesses geeking rallroad rate reductions be- fore the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. Mr. Morrow: declared he had never ) testTfied that average selling prices of bituminous coal were $10.50 during 1921, out of which miners received $1.97 as labor cost, but. had fixed the total cost of mining bituminous coal during October as nvanslnf $2:59 per ton against an avérage selling price ;;c_fxlved by the mine operators of CLARENDON CASE ARGUED Incorporation Matter Before Vir- ginia Appeals Court. Special Dispatch to The Star. 2 RICHMOND, March 17.—The se of Bennett against Garrett, the Clarendon incorporation ter, is being argued by counsel today before the supreme court of appeals. A. P. Payne-and Charles F. Harri- son are representing the appellants, while William_C._-Gloth, R. pear for stenographer for the firm of Tamblyn & Brown, in the National City Bank building. Funeral services will be held at the W. W. Deal & Co. undertaking I cause they will have united and un-|chapel here tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Interment will be in Rock Creek cemeter: M’HENRY HANGED FOR DUAL MURDER; BOLDLY FACES END (@ontinued from First Page.) be unable to comply with the re- quest officially. ‘He stated, however, according to Mrs. Hendley, that he was “bitterly opposed to capital punishment” and expressed a desire to have the case o}t McHenry transferred to the hos- pital. John McHenry was the stepson of George Rice, an ex-pugilist of New Haven, Conn., and Mra. Mary Rice of the same city, who has been in Wash- ington for some time in the interest of her son. At the trial it brought out that the boy had an incorrigible most all of his life, and witnesses from many different sections of the country testified to his all-round criminal record. was b COALITION CANDIDATE WINS. By the Associated Press. LONDO! M‘_l'l’h .—The coalition unionists won by a plurality of 3,943 in the recent Cambridge bye-election against a divided oppositi tion -was for a successor to Sir Eric Notte, saloon owner. Angelo Genna, after & murder tr! hot him, police recently acquitted Robinson Moncure will be made by the investigation so far as the bar is He identified as the man who heavily and made half a million dollars. —_— MARK PATRONAL FEAST. Celebration Was Held at St. Pat- rick’s Today. The patronal feast was celebrated with solemn high mass today at 10 o'clock at St. Patrick's Church, with Mgr. George A. Dougherty. vice rectsr of Catholic University, as celebrant. ‘The sermon was preached by Rev. John E. Graham of St. Patrick's. Mgr. Bon- sano, apostolic delegate, and Rt. Rev. Bishop Shahan of Catholic University attended the mass. The two choirs sang and an orchestra rendered the music. Following the mass Mgr. Thomas of St. Patrick's Church_entertained the visiting clergy at luncheon.” The Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the A. O. The Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Ladles' Auxiliary to the A. O. H. attended the mass. U. S. COMMISSION ASKED A resolution authorizing the Presi. dent to name a commission of seven ito visit Liberfa for the purpose of furthering friendly relations with the United States was introduced yester- day by Senator France. republican, Maryland. The commission would be instructed to discuss with the Liberian government methods which would serve to promote co-operation in state and commercial relations and to ascertain the economic needs of that nation. VIEW, OF THE $5,000.000 CHICAGO FIRE WHICH DESTROYED S. descended to a point where it is characterized and denominated as a species of graft operated and con ducted by loan sharks, or whatever they are. There are two kinds of systems or two divisions of this money-lending business throughout the United States. I recognized and sanctioned by law in every state in the Union. a flourishing business in the District of Columbia up until February 4, 1913, when there was enacted a law here governing pawnbrokers and what they called loan sharks, holding the rate of interest allowable to 1 per cent a month. As a consequence o that law, T am advised that not one loan under its restrictive provisions has been made since that time, hence the demand has come to Congress through the committee on the Dis- trict of Columbia, the agency or the ters are presanted to the Congress, and we find here in the report sub- mitted May 18, 1921, an appeal for relief from this 1 per cent, makes it prohibitive to secure loans from pawnbrokers. There at least thirty different associations who ha: ked for the essential fea- tures of this legislation, as follow: The Central Labor Union of Wash- ington, D. : the Chamber of Com- merce of Washington, D. C.: the Cen- tral Union Mission of Washington, D. C.; the Private Soldiers amd Sailors’ Legion, the Benning Citizéns' Asso- clation, the Central Citizens' Associa- tion, the Bradbury Heights Citizens’ Association, the Citizens’ Northwest Suburban Association, the West End Citizens’ Association, the Howard Park Citizens’ Association, the ‘South Washington Civie ociation, the Capitol Heights Citisens’ Association, the Brightwood Citizens’ Association, the Seat Pleasant Citizens’ Associa- tion, the Civic Betterment Associa- tion, the Northwest Washington Citi- zens' Association, the Deanwood Citi- zens' Association, the Chillum Costle- Woodburn Citizens’ Association. the Randle Highlands Citizens' Associa- tion, the Prince Georges County Citi- zens' Association, the Southeast Citi- zens' ~Aggociation, the Southwest WashingtOn Citizens' Association, the Hillside Citizens' Aesociation, the East End Suburban Citizens' Asso- clation, the Georgetown Citizens' As- sociation,. the Langdon-Woodridge Citizens’ jociation, the East Wash- Association and the 80! whence comes the lmgorlnnlty to re- store some method by which more loans can be made. The rate charged by the different states runs all the per cent to 10 per cent, and in most of the states there is an added fee. Explains Interest Rate. In support of his bill. H. R. 6309, whiclr. he had asked the House to consider Monday, Mr, Focht explained that the interest rate for the bfll (fixed at 2 per cedt per month on loans over $35 and 3 per cent on loans less than $35) had the advan- ge of precedent, a5 Other states had flarly Hxed on loaning mon he different states,” he said, “runs all the way from 3 per cent to 10 per cent, and in most of the states there is an added fee. d “Now,” continued Mr..Focht, “what is known as the Sage Foundation was very much interested orl:lntuy in measures of this kind, and they thought that 1 per cent would be 3 but I find here, in & bulletin of . the National Federation of Remedial Loan Aessociations, where they appeal for rates of in- terest and claim that money cannot be profitably loaned for less than 3 per cent. I find also here that in the étate of Ohio. i anact * * * it says: ‘No licenses shall e)llr{‘ re- ceive or demand in excess of 6 pe: cent per month Interest on any loans, or discount on any conditional pur- chase,-up to and nclul’l the su: “Now, t There was at one time ; medium through which these mat- | which | rate charged by the|M m | M. | the certificate, would cease. the report eaid, in 1927. The last pavments un- der ‘vocational training would be in under farm and home aid in 26, and under land settlement in 1927, After that timo the only cost each year until the vear of the matur- ity of the certificates would ba pay- ments on account of deuths of holders iof certificated First Year's Cost. The cost in the fiscal Year 1927 first vear after the bill came into operation. would be 374.279.000, the eport said, and the costs for ecach succeeding vear up to. but cxclusive of 1943, would be: 1924, $124.440,000 1825, $121,370.000; 1926, $136.82 192 19 1929, 1931, the i $28.600. $29,145,000 $30.593.000 1939, $32.114,000; 1941, $33,108/000. and 54.251,000 The report said no provision had been made for raising revenue to meet the first year's cost because a majority of the committee was satis- fled that “no .new taxation nor &pe- ! cial provisions are needed until afte ime expiration of that fiscal year. It added that any estimate of gov- ernment expenditures for 1924 and the amount of revenue needed on ac- count of the bonu ould neces- sarily be very inaccurate at this time. ———— URGE MINE CONFERENCE. Churches Unite in Appeal Asking That Agreement Be Kept. Appealing to the mine workers and operators to settle their differences through conference, the social servios idepartments of the Federal Couneil of {the Churches of Christ in America and the National Catholic Welfare { Courcil yesterday jssucd Jjointly a strik ing_statement. It calis upon them to keep their agreement inade {wo years ago o meet together in a seri- ous effort to avert strife by negotiat- ing & new agreement. The paper, regarded as of utmos! importance by church leaders, de clares that a strike in the ocoal in- dustry -at this time of widespread industrial depression would add greatly to the hardships of miliions of persons. It asks both partles to supply all facts, that a decision may be based upon justice rather than eco- nomio advantage, and states that the establishment of right, human rela- tions between the two groups takes precedence over any economic issue rerequisite to a permanent P! P solution of the {ndustrial problem. fore the House and to present facts in the brief time that we have here, that we have gathered. Condemns Usury. 1 condemn all ‘kind. ::u“.t‘:)‘;{" for t how :‘a’ t?fi-':‘.‘. “7 This is the basis: off which it is done.” : : ferred during. debate td Mr. Focht refe: ng dabate 19 e awnbrokers fore entering bus! I'Igl:. in addition to a bond, to “taks out a policy of policies of insurance against loss by fire and theft.” Penn- sylvania also provided. Mr. Focht said, that no loans shouid be made to 5. m"r‘;?ar citizens’ committee on remedial loan legislation which critized Mr. Focht and H. R: 6309 is compbsed of the “followin; %,ha hyi n, John B. C swyll Archibaid- Hopkins, - M xone Evan 9.& ‘Tuoker, Kober, 3 DP. vrg Uftord, Rev. Johy_ V. o, Sty - R 3. Eyuon, W. T. Galiiher B ; B m%‘ ng R Thom and