Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain tonight and probably tomor- not much change in row morning; temvperature. T emperature for twenty-four hou eniled at 3 p.m. today: Highest, 73, at ? 73.m. yesterday; lowest, te.day. g 67, at 6 am. - d ‘second- No. 28,436. Ererehis Waminens tter OBEL EQUIPMENT OF 0. C. PLAY SITES HINDERED BY SPACE Washington Can Boast of Only One Ground That Is Model. DIFFICULTY IN ABS‘ENCEF . . -OF WELL LAID PROGRAM Advisory Council Expected to Be Appointed to Survey Possibility of Enlarging Work. Insane Woman, High in Treetop, After’ defying hospital a members of the police and fire depart- ments and officlals of the Army and Navy for about ‘nineteen hours, Mrs. Annle Lymboropolos, an inmate of St. Elizabeths Hospital, was rescued from her perflous perch in a tree, leaning over the edge of a ravine seventy-five feet deep, in the hospital 8rounds, at 12:30 o'clock today by T. W. Southall, an attendant of the hos- | pital, who climbed a fire ladder placed on top of a fifty-foot improvised scaf- fold, and carried the protesting wom- an to safety. The rescue was rendered exceeding- ly difficult because of the determina- tion of the woman to remain in the tree, and she used all_her strength! and energy to prevent Southall from carrying her dawn the ladder. Several hundred officials and attaches of the nospital held their breaths while sns was subdued. Fire Nets Spread Below. The fire department, under the direc+ | Cramped in various corners and | lots of the city as they are, there is| little opportunity for the planning | and erection of equipment for what | tion of Chief Watson, previously had | placed about the foot of the ravine several wide fire nets in anticipation that is considered a model, modern play- g&round for city children. Of the twenty-five municipal playgrounds there is cnly one that can be con- sidered a model. It is the Rosedale ground at 17th and Kramer streets northeast. However, when the pro- posed new plaza playground is com- pleted, the municipal piaygrounds department will have another model added, but this will be on loaned grounds. One of the chief difficulties which have stood in the way of developing ©of model playgrounds in the District of Columbla is the lack of any well laid program for the purchase of playground space. While plans have been mapped out and those who have been interested have appealed to the appropriating authority, the only an- swer is & small appropriation now and then which permits of the pur- chase of some isolated piece of ground—isolated so far as its fitting in Wwith a general scheme of playgrounds to suit all parts of the city is con- cerned, it was pointed out. Survey of New Sites. In an effort to bring some orderly arrangement looking to the care of all the children of the city on some playground space, it is expected that the Commissioners will consider this week, at a board meeting, the ques- tion of the appointment of an advis- ory council to survey the city and map out pafcels of land which shquld be purchased In order to give the kiddies of the capital city a place to play near their homes. A number of names are to be suggested tor them, and it is expected that they will lect an active committee to begin work in a short time. The rapidity with which the city is growing makes it imperative that Guick action be taken on this recom- mendation of the childr bureau taat such an advisory councfi should be appninted. Unless purch.ves are made quickly there is a great pos- eibility that the future generations of youug District of Columblia will be in' a worse condition from the stand- point of playgrounds than the little kiddies of today. Strong efforts are to be made tal year to have all of the school pla; grounds kept open during the coming summer in. order to provide play space for the children in the sections in which they are located. Under the present arrangement the school playgrounds are only open for a short period during the summer while the schopls are in session for-those puplls who have cer- tain studies to make-up before they are promo! Clesing Declared Handieap. The closing of, the school playgrounds for any part of the summer at a time when the children are roaming the streets and in great need of having some supervised play space fs declared to be a serious handicap to the playground movement. This; of course, is no criti- cism of the school officials. It is a mat- ter of law, as the fundslare provided to keep them open and supervised for the ‘winter school period and the short sum- mer achool period. However, last year the Commis- sioners le an appeal to the emunuflfor a f-n:id to keep lo;nt ;r these laygrounds open, and the result was that the Grover Cleveland, Fum%mleflemg:. ll-:marl);.‘ Arthu Bryan, ngs, Phelps, Langsto Slater and Garflel school grounds were kept open. Returning. to the point of tne modéel playground and wkat it should have, experts say that every play- ground should be equipped for the little children with sand boxes and such small apparatus as slides, teeters and swings. A space must be left for circular and singing games and for simple folk dances and dramatic play. Equipment for Older Children. For the older children there should be slides, swings,- giant astrides, traveling rings, ocean waves, parallel bars and horizontal bark. The larger grounds should contain| all the things mentioned above, and in aadition have base ball diamonds, tennis courts, schlag flelds, soccer flelds and basket ball courts. Howevey, Washington has but one playground now which boasts of al these privileges considered =o neces- sary to meet the play demands of children of all ages. Ome of the prin- cipal needs of the city right now is playground space for youns boys and girls of the city who do not finish their school courses here. but leave for various reasons and go %o work. Consideration of the playground needs of the Capital city, it was pointed out, should not fail to take into con- sideration this large portion of the child population. The need for playgrounds for these little workers also brings up the ne- cessity in Washington of having the playgrounds lighted until about 9:30 o'clock each night, in order to per- mit these people to obtain the fullest enjoyment out of the playgrounds. At the present time there fs no pro- vision for lighting the local play- grounds, and they ar® closed with the arrival of darkness each night. The necessity for closing them at dusk does not permit of their full use, and robs the children, particularly the working children, of much outdoor recreation which they much need. CHARGED WITH MURDER. By the Associated Press. play- | the patient would carry out threats to Teap the distance of some hundred fect to the rocks below. The peculiar situation brought about by the woman's escape com- pletely stopped the routine work of the Government Hospital for the In sane, and Supt. White, Red Cross offi- cials and Army and Navy officers at- tached to the Medical Corps had studled for hours as to how best to effect the rescue. Even the strategy of having her husband bring their baby to the foot jof the jree and appeal for the baby's isake that she come down, fajled. Mrs. Lymboropolos shouted loudly that the baby was not hers, explaining that l'xel;l baby did not wear that kind of a hat. Keeps Up a Harrangue. “You can’t fool me,” she said. The baby, a fifteen-month-old boy, looked 11 INJURED INPANIC /INSTREET GAR FIRE Men Push A§ide Women to Get to Entrance of One-Man Car—Six at Hospital. A pdnic caused slight injury and shock to a acore of passengers on & one-man street car of the Washing- ton Railway and Electric Company, between 12th and 13th streets on G street, this morning, when the con- troller box’ caught fire. Several pas- agngers jumped through the windaws. Motorman-Condmctor | R. Carter, in clarge of the car, attempted to pacify the pastengers, without result. Men pushed back women in their effort to get to an exit and the emergency door-opening lever in the rear of the car was utterly disregarded when the cry of “fire” went up and smoke started swirling through the car. Six Takem to Heapital. Six of those injured were taken to Emergency Hospital, where none of the cases was pronounced serious. They were: Olga Maresglia, twenty years old, of 1120 5th street, suffering from shock. x ’ Miss Glidden Sanderson, tirty, col~ ored, of 1851 3d ‘street northekst; shock. Sallie Shipworth, thirty, 472 3rd street northwest, shock; Anna Ross, thirty-six, colored, of 208 R street, shock and injured ankle; Lil- |lian Bardt, seventeen, 3632 1lth street, sprained ankle; Edward Crocket, thirty, colored, 415 Q street, cuts on hands and knees. Five Refuse Treatment. Five others refused hospital treat- ment, according to the police. They were: Dr. U. C. Johnston, colored, of 507 U street, left hand cut; Mrs. J. H. Gallbreath, twenty, of 20 X street, i shock; Mrs. Grace Davis, tlflrty-nve.! colored, ! Miss C. A. Buckley of 133 Bryant street, shock. Miss Gladys E. Renneberger, em- ployed by the Washington Railway and Electric Company in the trans- | portation department, who knew of the emergency equipment on, the | rear of the car, which by the throw- ing of a lever would open a door iat the rear end, reported that she i attempted to reach the lever, but was unable to do so. 0 Unable to Reach Rear. In the scramble for windows and the to reach the rear. She got as far as| the rear platform, and was yelling to { men there to pull the lever, when'two men, one on each side of her pushed her one way and another, in their scramble for a window. After the crush she was pulled out of the:car by & bystander, who took her into a nearhy shop until she recovered from the jostling to which she had been subjected. President William ¥F. Ham of the railway company today stated that the flash fire of a controller box was a possibility on any car, whether of one man or two men operation. The car on which the accident occurred this morning'\had been out of the shops only three days, he said. and its cause ‘was unaccountable. ‘The presence of mind of some person, said, to turn the emergency lever would have allevicted the situation; greatly. | —_— PHIPPS BILL HEARING. | Proponents and- Opponents of School for Tubercular Heard: {the window and without warn! front exit, she sald, she was unable Possible Defies Rescuers for 19 Hours leepily upward. apparently enjoying the situation. The woman previous- 1y had disowned her husband, but she recognized him when he brought the baby this morning. Throughout the night and all this morning she kept up a continuous harangue concerning her baby, her family, her husband ard her past life, most of which, she declared, has been full of trouble. When it was seen that Mrs. Lym- boropolos would net yleld to persua- slon, she having steadfastly refused since 6 o'clock yesterday evening to allow any one to gome near her, by screaming her thréat to jump from her perch in the tree, Supt. White this morning directed the construction de- partment of the hospital to erect a scaffold on the side of the ravine, ad- mittedly a precarious task, and the department worked frantically TYor more than three hours building the scaffold to a sufficient height to frus- trate any attempts of the woman to leap into the ravine and at the same time close ermough to her to enable the setting up of a ladder. Exhaasted by Exposure. The woman was taken In charge by nurses of the hospital and was ecar- ried back to her ward In a state of frenzy. She dld not put up the fight, how- ever, that had been expected, due, probably to the fact that she was|the Rline now has drawn attention nearly éxhausted from her long ex- poseure in the topmost limb of the tree. ; Mrs. Lymboropolos displayed what attaches of the hospital described as vitality and endurance found only in one of her condition. Clad only in a white skirt and waist, when she climbed the tree her bare feet and limbs _bled profusely at times throughout the night. The woman was in a special room of the Q ward last evening when she suddenly broke the pane of glass in leaped some ten feet to the ground. Nurses ran through the doorway af- ter the patient who in the meantime (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) ALLIES FORMULATE GREEK-TURK PEAGE Foreién Ministers Forward Memorandum to Nations to Settle Difficulties: By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, March 27. — Turkey is con- ceded nearly all her claims, except those to Adrianople and part of east- ern Thrace, In the memorandum which the allied foreign ministers to- | day forwarded to Athens, Angora and Constantinople, with a view to its acceptance as a preliminary pesce settlement, revising the tresty of vres. ¥ ) g The Enos-Midia line in Thrace is modified so as to 'give Turkey more territory on the Bulgarian frontier, but the old Turkish .capital of Adrianople is excluded. League of Nations Protection. Constantinople remai Turkey's, and she retains Armen};. with the population under leagué of nations protection, but she loses the Gallipoll peninsula and Mesopotamia. The forelgn ministers give the Greek and Turkish belligerents three weeks in which to reply to the pro- posed terms. Dealing ‘with Armenia, the! docu- ment say: “The situation of the Armenians |hu recelved special consideration as much on account of the obligation contracted by the allled powers dur- the war as on account of the cruel ering endured by that people. Con+ sequently the aid of the league of na- tions is sought, in addition to the pro- visions made for the protection of minerities, with a view to satisfying the traditional aspirations of the - menian people and the establishm@nt of a national home for them.” Under Turkish Sovereignty. The document does not mention any particular territory where the na- tional home may eventually be fixed, but it specifies that the territory now in under Turkish sovereignty. With regard to the Dardanelles the communication reads: 3 “The Turks are allowed again on the Asiatic shore of the Dardanelles, but, the interests of peace and security' for the future require that Europe shall never again be exposed to the perlls and sacrifices imposed wpon it in 1914 by the closing 'of the Dar- danelles, and the condition for the re- turn” of the Turks to the -proximity of the straits is the establishment of 2 wide demllitarized zone, making any military projects in that region im- WASHINGTON, D. C, e S MONDAY, MARCH AMERICAN CITIZENS BECOMING ANXIOUS, OVER GERMAN DEBT {Individuals With Claims for Lives or Property See Hopes. Dwindling.. BONDS MAY BE ISSUED ON ALIEN HOLDINGS HERE i Special Methods Seem Needed / When Berlin Balks. on Amy Bill. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. America’s difficulties In collecting sums due her from Germany are growing. The effort to obtain the| $241,000,000 for the expenses of the United States army of -occupation on to a complication with respect to an- other claim of approximately $300,- 000,000 due American citizens whose relatives lost their llves in the Lusitania disaster and Americans whose property was seized or destyoy- ed by Germany during the war. American claimants have been pa- tiently waiting for the German gov- ernment to pay them. But it is apparent now that all Germany's assets are mortgaged to the allies, and even the United States govern- ment seemingly cannot get & priority on money spent since the armistice in maintaing its Army. The legal representative: of the host of Amer-l mants, who inelude the fcan stoekholders of such big concerns as the American Radlator Company, Standard Oll Company, Nationa] Cash Register Company, Singer Sewing Machine Company and International Harvester Company, are beginning to get anxious about their ciaim: Most of these companies had proper- ties in Germany which were seized or Mguidated by the German custodian of alien property. Allfes’ Claims First. 1f the German government cannot, pay American claims becauss all funds must first go to satisfy the] claims of the allied governments, then the American ciaimants must look to rthe United States government for satistaction. The Harding adminis- tration has been trying to evolve & policy which would be in harmony with American tradition. It has not feit kindly toward the idea of con- fiscating German property as a means of raising the money to pay American claimants against the German gov- :fnrnmh The feeling of President arding and Secretary Hughes has been that the individual owners of German property in America were ndt responsible for the dcts of their govarnmént.. The American l:nrm ment does not care to conflscats ior- man property. 4 But how are the American claim- ants to be paid? There are two ways proposed. One is that the Vnited States government shall directly re- imbyrse the claimants and collect in | other is that the German property now held by the alien property cus- todian here be retained indefinitely and that bonds be issued against it and these bonds turned over to the American claimants, who colld sell them. and realize cash value. Thus the German property would be held intact for many years and as soon the German government redeemed t! bonds the property would go back to the lawful owners. Such a scheme is in effact in South Africa and has the sanction of the British government. Cleariag House Fuad. The British central government, as well as the Australian and other co- lonial governments, are applying a somewhat diflerent system. All the British claims against Germany are satisfled out of a clearing house fund. This fund is accumulated from the proceeds of liquidation of German roperty, which, by tlw terms of the ‘ersailles treaty, can be retained or sold ag the case may be, and the German owners are in turn récom pensed by the German governmen clearing house for debts of this kind. of 20 K .street, bruises to face, and)inhabited by the Armenians shall be | The policy of the allies has by no| York conference this week were ex- means been definitely evoived, but the allies can apply the German property | reparations If they like. American policy depends entirely on the wishes of Congress, by whose authority the German property in America was originally seized. While it Is true that American élaims against Germany are estimated at $300,000,000, a mixed claims commi: sion is about to be set up by Ge: many and the United States to ad the far off future from Germany. The | h, L4 .77, H i News t\'ote—'Painted tree in Cleveland Ohio, lures birds. aginary tree, the birds broke the; o Star. ir necks. 1922 _TWENTY-SIX PAGES. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this Paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publicatioa of special dispatches berein are also reserved. Saturday’'s Net Circulation, 91,176 Sunday's Net Circulation, 94,186 TWO CENTS. ULSTER T0 SEND ENVOYS 10 IRISH - PARLEY IN LONDON iCabinet Decides to Take Part in Efforts to Check Present Border Crisis. {REPUBLICANS AND FREE STATERS IN RIFLE CLASH Death " Toll in Belfast Disorders Reaches Fifty-Six—Snipers Shoot Farmer Dead. By tlie Associated Press, While trying to alight in this im- DRGANLZERS WOR INNON-UNIONMINES Carrying on Campaign to Gain Support for Com- ing Strike. ‘ By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 27. ‘With plans complete for the nation- wide coal strike, union leaders here today awaited developments in their program for a complete tie-up of the country's coal industry through their call to 200,000 non-union miners to join the half million union workers in the suspension of work next Fri. day midnight. : No action, however, was contem plated to b :aken from the union's international -headquarters here to. day, but district uniom dfficials, bor< dering the non-union fields, were ex- pectéd to make formal calls for action on the part of the non-union wogks ! ers. The nature of the activiues| among the non-union workers had been left to the discretion of the dis- trict leaders, but within each field it was understood the union already many organizers who had been rolied some time ago as non-union employe: . Interest in the program of striking the non-union fields centered largely in’ Pennsylvania, where half of the | country’s non-union men are em- ployed. West Virginia, too, was a center of union attention, for many | stubborn battles have been foughti there with the operators. Other | states with non-union workers whom the union hoped to draw into the strike were ~Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Colorada and Maryland. Ofiicials at Homes. P International President John L. Lewis was not at headquarters here today, having advised his office that!| he expected to: return here from Springfield, T1L, his home, on Wednes- day. Other of the union's executive officers were also absent, Secretary William Green being at his_ home in Coshocton, Ohio, and Vice Presi- dent Philip Murray in New York, to take Mr. Lewls' place us head of the minérs subcommittee in conference with anthracite operators over a new | wage contract. i While developments in the New pected to clarify the stand of the operators, unfon men here held out no hope that the walkout in the anthracite districts would be averted. ‘On the contrary they expected the negotlations would continue some time after April 1, and that hard coal fields would be tied up pending the settlement, For the seft coal fields, no_ settle- ment was ip sight for any field al- though both' northern West Virginia I (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) “An allied force of occupation m be placed and remain on the Gulln“:l: peninsula, however, to assure free- dom of navigation of the straits, which shall be supervised by an in- ternational commission, with a Turk as president, comprising representa- tives of all the principal powers in- terested, including Greece.” - WANTS ONE-MONTH PERIOD. Proposed Armistice \Condlflonslly’ Approved by the Subline Porte, By the Associated Press, "Efl"“‘“'f mofif. March 25. sublime porte considers the armistice proposal of the allled foreign min. isters acceptable If the period of three months as the duration of the cessation in hostilities is reduced to one mon The government has ad- vised the Angora government not to reject the pr.xoul. \ \While the Angora government ac- ce)Ms the armistice in principle, its repl;” to the allles is not expected to be mude in lufl than ten days. The principal condition in Angora’s coun- ter proposal will be. the evacuation b; the Gn\l:: of Thrace, with lflllfl by —The | guarante REEES ACCEPT PROPOSAL, The Senate District committes this b Lol ! afterncon gave & hearing to thq pro- Willing for Cjesation of Hostilities ponents and opponents of the Phipps bill girecting the Distritt Commission- LONDON, March 37.—A coroner’s | ers to erect the new school for tuber- jury, which held an inquest over the | cular children on the Upsaur street body of Gertrude Yates, otherwise [tract owned by the government. Olive Young, whose body was found some time ago in the bathroom of her | sioner; Senator Col. Keller, the Engineer Commis- Phipps, and represen- fiat in Kensington, today returned a |tatives of the Piney Branch Citizens' verdict of willful murder against Maj. | Association were among those heard. { ministers, Ronald True, an English aviator, who | The association has been fight! lived some tii ime in the United States. | plan to erect the school on uu‘-nfnct. dr‘l.;jlonl P { Greece and the ‘With Tu¥k Nationalists, ' By the Assoclated P! . 1 PARIS, March'26.—The Graek gov- led the 1 ernment has ac: P lnudo "k""' alli .tol"e't n '.an] t a8t W for an | armi ween “a rkish nationalists. The reply to thy DProposal of the however,'| containa techni- reservations on the military co BY JANE COMPTON. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 27.—“Don’® take the Shifter seriously, or the joke's on you.” This statement made today by Mrs, Helen R. Bradley, director of the Service Club of the Girls' Pro- bation and Protective Society, epitomizes the more sensible view of this freak cult which has swept the country frém Atlantic to Pa- cific in the past two weeks and has set educators, clergy, wome: clubs and parents’ associations seething. . “To gensible, well balanced girls, the thing is a joke pure and sim- ple,” said Mrs. Bradley. “To scat- . ter-brained girls it may conceiv- ably be the beginning of evil. In either case it is a aymptom of that desire to startle people which the new freedom has jmplanted in ti young people of today. se- quently the more people that are startled the more fters there will be. I suggest as’'a cure the humoreus attitude and the some- ‘what ironic smile, “The modern girk likes to be a bit dangerous. She has more free- dom and gains it ‘younger than the girl of any other phase in his- tory. That is one reason why the Shifter’s idea has spread so fast and far. Modern girls like to shock thelr eiders. ‘Oh, why do you wear so much powder and rouge? I ask one of my girls. use it gets such a rise out of mother,’ she answered. Another girl who went in for sunset effects in rouge told |~ ime she did it to horrity her work- SHIFTER CL"/B FEARED AS IMMORAL IS CALLED JUST A STARTLING FAD (Contnued on Page 2, Column 7. | ing girl friends, ‘It's more fun,’ she sald. “So it seems to me that the best way to treat the Shifters is to say. as little as possible about them. And what you do say, say it with smiles. “I have a daughter in Barfard, ‘where the Shifters, of course, are numerous. get excited about it, she told me; ‘you wouldn’t if you could hear the girls kiding' one another. 1It's all a big joke.' " But city authorities here and elsewhere are fi‘hrlng ‘whether the Shifters, organized first in fun, have ‘not gone. too far. Shifter “initiation” fees have grown to the point where “graft” is suggested, and six separatd times within the past forty-eight hours men have stepped up to_strange girls and kissed them because each wore a Shifter pin. These pins are selling at 8 cents each on every down- town street corner. The Shifter being - writhed at every nd private dance’ You | k down Broadway with- out someone blandly asking it you are a Shifter and trying to pin a badge or snap a clip on you. Such o nization as Vacation Soclety and other g associations see in the . fad breaking down of girls’ morals as grave as that effected by the war and jasz. Officials of girls’ clubs argue that for a girl to accost a strange man on the street, even in Jést; for her to accept & présent from him, even of candy; and for her to run the risk of being kis- sed by a passer-by merely becau; both wear the meta) Shifter. cl indicates a 1’.‘311 ot"‘-‘m respéct. (mf._l‘,’ 3 the rls” PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL RESTORING RIGHTS TO 80,000 U. S. W(‘JRKERSi President Harding .today signed the bill, recently passed by Senate and House, restoring the rights of retirement to 80,000 government employes recently denied them by a decision of the Attorney General, who held that those “covered” into the classified service by executive order were not eligible for retire- ment. \ The bill makes it possible for those administering the retire- ment law to so construe its lan- guage as to include in the benefits of the law the approximately 80,000 employes who did not take regular examinations for the serv- ice, but were given classified status by executive order. Signing of the bill by the Presi- dent today set at rest fears that approximately 6,000 retired em- ployes, of whom nearly 1,000 live here, would be deprived of their April 1 annuity checks. PRESIDENT LIKELY Expected to Turn First Spadeful at Beginning of Meade Memorial. It is Harding will turn the first spadeful of earth at the exercises tomorrow afternoon’ at 2:30 o'clock incident to the commencement of the construc- tion of the Meade Memorial. to be crected near the northwest corner of the Botanic Garden at a point near the intersection of 3d street and Pennsylvania avenue. Besldes the President, who will be accompanied by Mrs. Harding, a dis- tinguished gathering will be present, including the Secretary of War, who will open the ceremonies as chairman of the National Meade Memorial Commission; Gov. Sproul of Pennsyl- vania, which state is providing the funds for the construction of the memorial; Chief Justice Taft of the Supreme Court of the United States and Mrs. Taft; Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, former chief of staff, U. S. A.; a number of Pennsylvania state officials. and prominent citizens of that commonwealth, and nearly a score of relatives and de: e scendants of Ceremonies Begin at 2. The arrangements have been made under the direction of Col. C. O. Sher- rill, superintendent of public build- ings and grounds and executive sec- retary of the National Meade Memo- rial Commission. The ceremonies are scheduled to commence at 2 o'clock. The official opening will be made by Secretary Weeks. After a brief ad- dress he will introduce Gov. Sproul, who will preside during the re- mainder of the program. The only other address will be made by Gen. Miles. Army band from Washington bar- racks, under the direction of Maj. Ed L. Dyer, in_charge of the music school at the Washington barracks. Representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Army of the Po- tomae, the Loyal Legion and other veteran and patriotic . organizations and a delegation of the Pennsylvania National Guard will participate in the ceremonies. The actual construction work will | Electric Power Company TOBREAK GROUND expected that President| 4 Music will be supplied by the| LUGHT RATE T LKELY THS WEEK Five Per Cent Reduction Be- cause of Injunction Not to Affect Consumer. A reduction in electric light rates is expected to be made by the Public Utilities Commission this week, it was reported at the District building| today. It was reliably indicated today, that the commission would order a 5| per cent cut from present household rate of the Potomac Electric Power ,Company, effective April 1. Any lowering of the rate will not; be felt by the users of current im-; mediately, however, in view of the injgnction obtained by thé Potomac in 1927, which permits them to collect the old rate of 10 cents per kilowatt hour settles the question of whether the valuation placed on the company'’ property by the commission is fair. Company Would Feel Cut. A reduction would be felt by the company, for the reason that under the terms of the injunction the com- | pany is only permitted to keep the amount’ allowed by the commission, setting aside the balance to be re- turned to consumers if the commis- slon’s valuation is sustained. Should the company finally win in the valuation case it would get the money impounded since 1917. now amounting to more than $2,000,000. 7 At the present time the company collects from all households 10 cents per kilowatt hour, but only keeps a fraction above 8 cents. It is understood the cut to be or- dered by the commission at this time will bring down to slightly less than | 8 cents the amount the company may keep. Rate Reduced Last Year. For several years after the injunc- tion was obtained the commission’s rate was 8 cents even and the com- pany impounded 2 cents. Then the commission allowed an increase to 815 cents and the company set aside 1% cents. Last summer the commission or- 33 cents rate, which made the rate a fraction above 8 cents. ‘Whatev change In the present rate is ordered by the commission at this time will have to be approved by the District Supreme Court before it _becomes effective, becaure of the 1917 injunction, which remains in ef- fect until the litigation is settled. The immediate effect of a 5 per cent cut in the rate would be to in- | crease the amount the company must impound. WILLIAM PHILLIPS NAMED TO SUCCEED FLETCHER Massachusetts Man Appointed by President Harding as Under- secretary of State.’ President Harding today named William Phillips of Massachusetts to be undersecretary of state, to succeed William P. Fletcher, who jnas been appointed ambassador to] Belgium. At the same time the President named Leland Harrison, of lllinois, commence immediately at the con-[to be assistant secretary of state to clusion of these ceremonies. D. C. DAY SIDETRACKED. Chairman Focht Protests Forfeiture of Committee Rights. District day was again set aside in the House, and the Army appropria- tion bill, which was unfinished busi- ness, was under consideration today. Chairman Focht of the House Dis trict committee protested against the forfeiture pf the rights'of his com- mittee at'a time when there is con- siderable legislation g¥ importance to the District pending.” He said, how- ever, that in view of the fact that there appears to be greater interest in the Army appropriation bill, and in view_of the fact that the House lead- ers have promised to give extra time in the House for consideration of im- partant District business, he had con- sented to step eside. The eo-called pawnbrokers’ bill is unfinished busi- ness ‘on . the District calendar,; and ‘was expected to come up % succeed ,Frederick M. Dearing. These nominations were sent to the Senate by the President this after- noon and it is expected at the White | House that they will be readily con- firmed. the President's selections were made upon the recommendation of Secre- tary of State Hughes. The newly selected vndersecretary of, state has been in the diplomatic vice for a number of years and is at present the United States minister to The Hague. Mr. been in the diplomatic service a num- ber of years, and was appointed as- sistant to Mr. Fletcher shortly after he was appointed undersecretary. 25,000 TO STRIKE. St et By the Assoclated Press. L& LIVERPOOL, March - 27 —Twenty- five thousand men in the engineéring and shipbuilding.trades here have de- cided to'go on strike tomorrow as a result of a sudden announcement by | the employers putting national wage reductions into force. The Newcastie Southampton unions have voted to take similar action. until the United States Supreme Court ; ered a 5 per cent reduction from the | It is understood that each of | Harrison has LONDON, March 27.—The Irish Free State bill paswed its third and final reading in the house of lords today. BELBPAST, March ‘The Ulster cabinet today accepted the invitation |extended by Colonial Secretury | Churchill to a conference in London | of Irish leaders, calied in view of the idlslurb&d conditions in Ireland Premier Sir James Craig, tele- :graphing acceptance in behalf of the Ulster cabinet, said members of the i morthern government will arrive London Wednesday. Promise Death for Death, A notice posted near the town hal in Dundalk, County Louth, a strong | Sinn Fein center, near the northern border of the free state territory. | calls attention to the absence of any | resolution by the non-Catholic bods | of County Louth against murderous acts, and calls upon the Protestants to “act immediately, failing which | we are determined to use the same means as they in Belfast used to our fellow Catholics.” “On and after March 29,” adds the notice, “for every Catholic man woman, boy, girl or child murdered or maltreated, so also shall the same quantity of helpers of the systematic murder of our fellow Catholics meet the same fate.” The notice concludes; |order of the silent but | sengers.” Seven Week-End Murders. Deaths _in the hospitals of two wounded persons late last night brought | the total of fatalities in the disorders of the week end to seven. Up to 6 o'clock Sunday 2vening the "total number of persons killed thus far 10 March in the disorders here was fifty-six. They included fifty civilians, three regular policemen, two special constables and a military officer. Two men and a girl were killed at midnight Saturday night. The girl was struck by a stray shot fired by the military during a panic caused by & woman shouting “murder” .while in an altercation with her husband. The ple in the neighborhood, fearing an ttack was being carried out, screamed and blew whistles. Military and de- fense corps contingents immediately appeared and opened fire, the military using machine guns. Two men were shot by unknown persons la other parts of the city during the night. There were two more deaths Sun- day in_ the hospitals of persons wounded in affrays last,week. First Death on Border. The first fatality along the disput- ed border between the ndbin and south occurred yesterday, when a man feeding cattle near Callendon was shot by a suiper irom the Free | State side and died later in the Ar- | magh Infirmary. Firing along the border continued yesterday and two bridges were blown 8p at Currick- | more, Tyrone. { The funeral of Owen MacMahon, the saloonkeeper, and the members of {his family who were murdered in itheir home early Friday morning were held yesterday. Large crowds |attended. Joseph Devlin, irish na- tionalist member of parliament for | Belfast, was among the mourners. IRISH TROOPS CLASH. [ [ | igned by sure mes i i Republicans and Free Saters in Three-Hour Rifle Duel. By the Associated Press. , LONDONDERRY, March . —A force of republicans attacked the police barracks at Newtown Cunning- | ham, occupied by Free State troops, early Sunday. After a rifie duel of three hours’ duration, the attacking party retired, leaving six prisoners and several wounded. Oriel House, near Omeath, close to the County Louth-Armagh border, the | residence of J. C. Bentley, which was { about to be taken over for the Ulster police, was burned to the ground with its contents Saturday night. ARMY DEMANDS REPUBLIC. Free Staters Condemn Action at Re- publican Convention. By the Associated Pre DUBLIN, March 27.—The convention of Irish republican army members, | which had been forbidden by the dail eireann cabinel, ended its lengthy ses- sion late last night without exciting any outward demonstrations or ruffling the usual Sunday life of the city. - The provisional Free State government made no attempt to interfere with the proceedings and has not definitely stated it will take uny action, although it is generally supposed that those who at- lended will be treated as having sepa- rated themselves from the rest of the {army. and their names may possibly | | be _stricken from the army rolls. | The action of the convention in unani- { mously adopting & resolutjon reaffirm- ing the delegates’ allegiance to the Irish | republic met with strong condemnation | among the supporters of the Free State. | The Irish Independent today said: Division Is Deplored. “Many times in the past have our people become divided in a crisis. when unity was essential. Today we wit- ness the same unedifying, deplorable spectacle. Disunion has been forced on the country. The resolution pussed by the sectional convention amounts in ef- fect to repudiation of the dail eireann, yet Bamonn De Valera insists that the dail is the supreme authority in Ire- land. “In all democratically governed coun- tries, including republics like France and America, the army is strictly sub- ject to the control of civil autharity, or the government for the time being. Wherever departures from that consti- tutional system have taken place, grave events, sometimes amounting to estab- lishment of a military dictatorship, have followed.” . News Writer Arrested. The corrcspondent of the Free- man's Journal at Charleville, County Cork. has been arrested. Apparent- ly, says{the newspaper, the h re- publican army authorities theie wers offended by his report of an o'tempt i ued on Page 2, Column Z.J