Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 2

- FOR ENSUING YEAR Conterence &1 M. E. Chureh South Makes:Announcement. { Local Appointments.- Assignments of pastors to various churches of the Byltimore Confesence of the Nethodist Episcopat Church Hen Lays 9-Inch Egg With a Double Shell And Dies Soon After Special Dispatch to The Star. LAUREL, Del, March 27—A hen belouging to Haudy Culver mear Delmar, recently Iaid an PEE measuring over mine hes in Mr. Cutver show dayx. broken eopen, lnrge shell was anether hmrd- shelled egg covered with the Yenierday the esg wan and within the white meat of the larger «; The smaller ezg wax in pe \fect condition. The hen died within a few minutes nfter laying this massive ogs. Peo- Wwho saw the exp waid it T 53 ROTARY CLUBS OPEN CONVENTION| Presidént Semmes Welcomes Delegates and Guests in _ Continental Hafl. Honobed by the presence of its in- ternational president, and with repre- sentatives present.from all of the RESCUE HE EVENING STAR,‘ WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1922. ESCAPING WOMAN INMATE OF ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL "CLIMBED TREE AND DEFIED RS.FOR - HOURS. Chicken Thief Is Sent To Jail Till the Moon Shines Brightly Again By the Associated Press. "JACKSONVILLE, ¥in., March 27~Declaring chicken ' thieves »ly their trade only on_ nights ‘when thore is no moon, Mumécl- pal Judge Beekham today went John Adnms, meventy-three- year-old mnegro. to jail to rr- “wuntil the moon wxhines ? and the jaflor ix gening the almanac to ascertal Just when ke ean ieleanc the prisomer. When arvested laxt might Adams had in Wis pos- | sesafon n sack containing two live chiekens and one dead DEPARTMENT FUND CUTBY COMMITTEE Millions Shaved Frotn State and Justice Appropritions * in House. Appropriations totaling $174" for the Department of Justice, Mnclud ing the judiciary, and $9.445,776 for t fh s In 4 i ) South, were arnounced today at (he | Wwas larger than any meoxs et | | Afty-three clubs in the territory, the ORGANJZERS WORK i the State Department for the comins session of the conference. at thel | SO0T SRl R o r e of by m | |annual conferonge of the fitth dis- cal year ar ded 3 Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church Whit = hyie trict NON UNION MINES | 22021 year are recommended im a ju 2 e mule, either. ric of Rotary convened &t I | o ionben kony: by W% NibNe bppa South, They are as foltows: . Washington disssict—J. H. Wells, presiding eider. Washington ecity—Eaivary, W. Aq Lynch; Bmery, E. A, Lambert, Pet- worth, John Paul Tyler. (J. T. Myers. pastor in Japan): Marvin, C Pleasant, « M. He Mou K. Ra ser; & Mount Verr 27 Chappell |ULSTER TO SEND ENVOYS TO {RISH PARLEY IN LONDON __ (Continued from First Page) _ Memorial Continental Hall today. Following an hour devoted.to the tegistration of guests, John Poole, { past international president of the organization, called the conference to order at 9:45 o'cloc! Rev. Charles T. Warner of St. Alban's Church then invocation, This | pronounced the was followed by Impressive flag rais- ing ceremonies conducted by Col. £T0Y V. Herron and the'singing of t (Continued from First Page.) and Illinois union officiale were (o hold wage negotiations with opera- tors. Only « chauge of the uuion's policy might permit a settlement, and the union men here asserted that they would not begin a retreat be- fore beginning their fight. However. some union men were doubtful that priations committee. The amount proposed for mee Department of Justice cxpenses S less than the total appro d for the current year and $1. 5 less than budget estimate chile the sum recommended for t State Department is $7.405.609 und. the current year appropriations and $1.137,665 less than estimates. xplaining the shrinkage 1 | (M. L. Rippy t. Paul's. “America” by the 1ds outside the cen-| al 53 Ringer: Woodmont, E. H. Davis. | to breal up a pro-treaty meeting at|led by Harry 8. Bvane. . oo nvie8e: he SoTt o e field, comprising |tce’s report said that appropriat Supbly: conference missionary secre: | Charleville A e ivania, Ohio, Indiana | for the current fiscal year includer tary, E. L. Blakemore; secretary for Southern Co-operative League for Bd-~ ucation and Social Service, J. E. Mc- Cutioch. and missionary to Cuba, G. D. Naylor. Other Assignments. Beltsville and Branchville. R. Whitting: Brunswick., Wendell Alia Chesapeake. R. 5 oft- e, W. B. Dorsey; Fred- Lee Barrett; Gaithersburg, . 3 own: Goshen. R. M Hyattsville and Brentwood. « nnon; Laurel, F. F. .and Indian He « =upp! L. H. Q. Burr: Claude jupior preache M. York; Patuxent. ille, E. W. Aaro; Brubaker; Prin Rockville, jr., preache Discu: a te general s in May, consumed the greater part of the sessio The session opened with prayer by Bishop T. V. W. Darlington of West Virginia. and after several minor reports, Rev. William Stevens, chair- man of the committee on memorials, read tke various papers as passed on *by members of the conference preach- ers. Memerials Approved. The following memorials were con- curred in by the general assembly That on recommendation of the ge: eral board of finance, the latter part of the mext quadrennial be devoted to the raising of $10,000,000 for the support of the superannuate. That women be admitted to mem- bership in the quarterly comference and the district conference. That the church be districted into episcopal districts, a bishop be ap- pointed to each district. and that he be provided with an episcopal res dence in that district. That a commission be appointed to survey and correlate the work among in order to prevent gether for pastors and presiding eld- ers, likewise to consolidate the Bible board with the board of Christian literature. Other Propesals Comeurred In. Memoriall posing the admission of the president of the Woman's Mis- sionary Society to membership in the y conference, and the reduc- " | mandeercd by ssions at Hot Springs, Ark.. |’ The Freeman's Journal adds that while it makes no demand ‘for spe ial privileges for the press, it con- siders the arrest' part ot a scheme by reaty wreckers” to stifle free expression” of public opinion and to lintimidate individual journalists. Forty men Saturday night ook pos- session of the Orange party’'s head- quarters on Parnell streer, «quieuy conducted the rightful occupants to the street and then.closed the doors of the building. One report Sunday was that the building had been com- the Irish republican arm During the night, Fowler Memorial Hall and the fish market also were seize D The taking over of Orange Hall was the first instance of such an at- tack on southern Orangemen as Te- taliation for the treatment §o which nationalists have been subfected in Belfast. GUARDING BLOODY PASS. Republican Army at Clones Ready to Meet Ulster Defenders. BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN, By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1025 > CLONES, Ireland, March 27.—Clones is the storm center of the northern {border troubles. It commands strate- gic points and is garriSoned by a |strong body of republican army troops under the command of Gen. Hogan. once a clerk in a local rail- office, then in jail for his Sinn Fein opinions, and now responsibie gyery day for peace or war ig this sa- ent. This was the point choskn for the army council and the correspondent ihas seen ten Ulster Tepublican com- jmandants, including the famous Dean McKeown, assemble to debate fhe anticipated aggression by the north- ern government. Republican troops were on the March Friday evening, sallying out to meet the Ulster forces coming from County Fermanagh. The point of the expected comflict shows!pa, that history is repeating itself, for it has been known as the “bloody pass’ ince it figured in the Wliliamite wars. But the attack was not made. The whole conflict on the border centers on the possession of bridges. The border is the river Blackwater and about a dozen bridges span it. The northern parliament men desire to Semmes Welcomes Guents. In & brief but most cordial address Charles W. Semmes, president of the lvcal Rotary club, welcomed the dele- gates and guests, after which Edward Stock. governor of the fifth dis- trict. convened the conference. Local men prominent in Rotary af- faire, including Mr. Poole, John Dolph, Fred Lincoln, .Charles J. O'Neill. Roland Robbins, Daniel J. Callahan, George W. Harris and Guy Gundak Philadelphia, were {called to the stage by Gov. Stock, and { Nr. Lincoln was requested to read a lexter of greetinga from President Emer- Lt;:’o( Rotary Paul E. Harris of Chi- Mr. Harris expressed his regret being unable to nttend the. comter- ence, but outlined.in his communi- cation the wonderful growth of the organization of which he was the l'n&mdelé. % ov. Scovel of the fourth district Rotary was then presented and a:f tailed the amount of boys' work that had been accomplizhed by the district he represented. New Clubs Predicted. An address by the district governor {followed, in which Mr. Stock gave figures to show that the territory he represented has at present flty-three clubs, with prospects in the immediate future for sixty-six, or six more than {ras prophesied at’the beginning of i Mr. Stock sald further that during his incumbency he had made sixty- | district, and ‘had found that all had s;‘mrala Rotary publications of their own. President McCullough, amidst pro- longed cheering, was then inlrodu‘(ted. and, speaking on “International Ro- tary,” ‘gave ‘a2 most comprehensive talk on the ideals and aims of the in- ternational organization. He said that no assoclation, body: or society was doing more to cement the friendly feelings of all peoples than Roti and predicted that within a few years Lhere not de a niche or corner of the earin that could not boast of a Rotery Club. Frank M. Barker of Wilkes-Barre, . EP on the 1922 convention to be held at Los Angeles in June, after which recess was taken and the en- tire assembly adjourned to the Wil- lard Hotel, where a regular Rotary lunchéon was served. President McCullough spoke again here, as did many of the present-and past officials of the organization. Women Lunch at Hotel. three visitations to other clubs in the | Fyabsi) £ Attendants at St. Elizabeth's Hospital found it necessary to build a temporary scaffolding i prder 2 nty-five-foot-high tree on the side of a deep ravine. The woman |ceding the date was 10.784.000 tons, Mrx. Annie Lymboropolos from the top of encaped from the howpital last nizht, a by threateniag te jw VETERANS' BUREAU GETS 60 HOSPITALS when taken down today by T. W. Southall, after a tussle in the air, she had béen in her perch for nimeteen hours, defying amy to the rocks below. |INSANE WOMAN, HIGH | IN TREETOP, DEFIES RESCUERS FOR 19 HOURS " ATRICKARD TRIAL (Continued from First Page.) (National Photo.) | had started running toward the | | - REXBEACH WITNESS ttendant at the axylum, | against 11,115,000 tons me to attempt to climb wp | previous week. southwe Missguri. and and Miinois, and the district, Inciuding Kansas. Jowa, ~Oklahoma, ~ Arkansas Texas, would indefinite suspension. Ready for Long Strike. Operators here deciared that they were ready for a long cessation of work, | but some predicted that miners in some localitizs would be ready to make sepa- rate wage agreements in thirty to sixiy days. ) District union officials, however, as- serted that the men would stand solid indefinitly, declaring that their unity would in time force the operators to begin wage negotiatiors on the basis of an_interstate contract. { ‘While some district officiais were cen- tering attention today on winning the non-union workers to the walkout, plar were being completed in all fzed coal flelds for permitting me! remain at work protecting the property. Officials of each district unio ‘were to Wesignate the men to be left in the mines, determining the number as well as the general classification of thess workers, such as engineers, fire- men, pumpers and others. Ten thou- sand workers throughout the country were expected to be left at work under this part of the suspension program. SOFT COAL OUTPUT DROPS IN WEEK ENDING MARCH 18 In the face of the coal strike pend- ing In the union coal fields April 1. bituminous ceal production dropped off a trifie during the week ended March 18, the last full week reported by the geological survey. Total out- put during the seven-day period fre- mine | during the tne decrease.” survey statement said. “the output S0 far exceeded estimated consump- tion as to provide nearly 2,500,000 tons for consumers’ stockpiles.” It that preliminary graphic returns for the first days of the week, ending March 25, showed a tendency toward a return to recent heavy production. Previous weekly reports have shown bituminous coal production mounting steadily since last December, because of consumers’ anticipation of the April 1 suspension of work in the union fields, though consumption has The result indicated “In spite of ern | be able to maintain an | all tae union- | n 10 ion ! iy the | $5.000,000 for a pay $1,060,000 for participation Brazil's international exposition and $200,000 for arms conference penses. Tie subcommittee headed by Tep sentative Husted., republican, N York, which framed the biil, deni the request of the Department Justice for a special appr $150,000 for the enforcement of hibjtion. It authorized the Att General, however. to allot such emount’ for the purpose from otn appropriations applicable to law forcement. The bill also allocates the cmployment of special attorneys to prosecute prohibition cases The totzl carried in the bill the Nationz] Training is $60,736, of which $40. ies and $20,000 for support o ution. or the Pan-American Union bill carries $100.000 and provides L the public printer is authorized print an edition of the monthly bu letin not to exceed 6,000 copies D month for distribution by the uni during the next fiscal year. SECOND “SON” WITNESS DOES NOT KNOW WILD MAN Iaentity of Prisoner Accused of Slaying Man Twenty-Two Years Ago Still Up in Air. OYLESTOWN, Pa, March = liam Weaver, the second son Adam Weaver, wanted for the kil of a constable in the Haycock moui- tains twenty-two Yyears &go0, V. e the Quakeriown “wild man” in ! cell here today. but failed to identif him as his father. Unlike his old:r brother James, who yesterday looks through the bars at the red-beardc: {man, he was not certain that he | ever before seen the prisoner. Jam:« Weaver was positive in his identific. tion. At the end of the scrutiny toda: unkempt prisoner lay back on bunk apparently unperturbed. “I do not know any of these peoy for DI W California. quarterl. tion of the amount- of TOBEY.: O The visiting ladjes of Rota: | ravine, probably fifty feet away from been subnormal. 3;avidd‘r:gng;"gmn;;g‘j:flq;‘m:1'.33&'." oy “ine ‘soutnéraora. Thels | entertained at luncheon In Waraman |President to Transfer Plants | te buildins. |Novelist Testifies of GoOd|is» surpius of coal Fariousts estimat | oguiiS Sai Kacper Axncr sald Smount ‘required o one-nalt, were | BOLCE: IMerelore, UMDY (0 br s | Rotary ‘women. s Mctuliosen.| From Public H S [ . SetsOutien Line for Tree. { prox a ‘len-weeic supply for|TiEhL showed that Adam Weaver wu~ alsg concurred in. o it was | 287 1hey have Taid hait the cost of | Wife of the international president, rom Public Health Serv- | Whether she previously had spotted | Character of Sport {the entire countrs. 1 orty years old when he siew the particular tree which she after- | j SR apracitEgroucton foF Sup Marh the erection and maintenange of these | Was the guest of honor. Many suit- bridges and refuse to permit: their | able souvemrs were @istributed to the destruction. They are_ irritated at|Visitors by Mrs. Philip Herrmann, the claim of tha northérners.that|chalrman of tie wemen's committee. they have the right-to destroy tgeif | An elaborate program has been ar- own half of 2 bridge, for half a|ranged for ‘Yonight @t Keith's The- bridge is no bridge. ater by William Radcliffe, chairman Snipers are posted on the southern|Of the enfertainment committee, side to prevent individuals of the | Aside from ‘the regulfr Dbill appear- northern police, day or night, from|ing at the house, the full Marine placing dynamite charges under the|Band will furnish tHe music, and bridges, and the commanders are in | many stunts, dear to the hearts of all readiness to repel by force any com- | Rotarians, will be injected into the bined attack. Commandant Hogan | program. uffet supper and gen- told the correspondent today that he | eral dancing will follaw in the lounge thinks the danger of a serious con-| of the house. M otw ‘3_5.3?23‘.;?;; % the _prevailing 2 wendon S T PSS | AMERICAN. CITIZENS. BECOMING ANXIOUS OVER GERMAN DEBT side of the boundary liv (Continued from First Page.) {18 week, however. was “weil main- | tained.” the survey said, With-a total of 1,907,000 tons, compared with l’."m Associated Press. 1,687,000 tons produced in the samte XEW YORK, March 27.—Rex Beach {Week a vear 8go. testifiell todey that Tex Rickard was known in Alaska as being on the| V1Ll MEET OPERATQRS. square. The novelist was called as a char- |F8ITington Wires Agreement to Il- acter witness by lawyers defending linofs Association. the sport promoter at his trial on & |py the Associated Press. charge of raping fifteen-year-old| SPRINGFIELD, Iil. March Ac Sarah Schoenfeld of the East Side ing upon his promise to coal opera- tors, President Frank Farrington of Beach said that he had known Rick. oreal ard for twenty-four years and that|the Llinois union miners this morn- ing wired presidents of three coal| they had driven pikes togeth < ing the Klondike gold. roeh - Laier |operators associations of Iilinois that he would meet them in conference &t Rickard ran a gambling house i Alaska, in which the no\'e‘lllt said h:' $@9 o'clock Wednesday morning in When as this confer- never had heard of anythi a vihing crooked | O o ght result in a separate wage e le for Iilinois mi Afr. Farri; Asked some hypothetical questions |Scale for Iilinois miners Jir. Farring- fihg RonT |ton said: “Not at this time, I belleve. on whether he thought gambiing hon ,RENEW WAGE PARLEY. alive today, more than eixi old,” sald Mixner. “The man they have arrested is not more than fort three, the age given by him. It isn for meé to say, but those who know circumstances at the time of the mur- der are sure that this is only another wild gpose chase of the many that have been made for Weaver.’ No further word was received by the authorities today from Mrs. A D. Long of Santa Barbara, Calif., who yesterduy telegraphed Sheriff Huu- sicker that she had a son named Roy Hecox. the name given by the strangs prisoner. finally voted to concur in the memo- rial,_seiting the fiest’ Wednesday im Apsl as tha time for the next meet- ing" o! It ice Control at Once. Promoter. President Harding;" it was learned unofficially today, hiis decided to is- sue an executive orden transferring | wards climbed is not known, but at | any rate, she set out on a direct line to lthe tree, a gnarled chestnut ozk a| in diameter, which leans atf a sharp angle over the ravine. Climbing £ the- Baltimore Conference. was voted to hold the sessions of the conference next year at the West End M. E. Church South, Roa- noke, Va. Rev. Dr. H. H. Sherman gave op- timistic reports of the educational work being done, and said that at present there were 1,668 woman stu- dents_in- the. Randolph-Macon Wom- en’s College. He said that more than $400.000 had Been subscribed at the Baltimore Con- ference for general educational work. Intense intdrest was manifested re- garding the appointments to be made for 1922:23, but owing to the neces- sity of fhe cabinet of eiders having to meet once before final assignments were compieted. these anouncements will not be made until later today. AGAINST FT. DAVIS SITE FOR SCHOOL . Commissioners Report:™ to Senate Reasons for. PR —— GIRL FORGETS ENGLISH, FATHER IS HEARTBROKEN rfect peace with their Catholic neighbors and that the acute sec- tarian bitterness prevalent in Belfast 18 unknown here. JOIN FIGHT ON TREATY, Tragic Situation Religved by Inte:r- preter When Daughter Ar- rives From France. orable, Eeach said that at that time gambline in the far north was not against the law and whether or not the busincss was honorable depended on wheiker it was run on the level. sixty hospitals for the treatment of Te|aEilly to the top of the tree, the-ex- v b1 disabled veterans from the ‘QUBLIC| y.q patient frustrated any attempt !health service to the Veterans' Bu-|{o et her. If any one attempted .to reau. climb the iree she indicated that she The order is expected to be issued |Would jump to destruction below. e - Her husband was immediately sent within a few days, and will effect &} r5r Jaqt night, but when he arrived ichange in authority supervising mnreluna begged her to descend she than 80 per cent of the wounded vn-,;:fi‘::rcu!!y re!‘uh!ed- ;r']'l:{r:mn xn;i % 2 > men were then called to assist, jotany of the,world war. Whereasjyyt tney could do nothing last night, thie hospitals in question have been|Throughout the night nurses and ’under direction of the public health | Ofiicials of the hospital kept a con- service and manned by health :‘ervmelnllnl vigil beneath the tree. personnel, they will be brought en- = firely under direction of the Veterans | Carpenters Work Cowrmgeomsly. Bureau, which will take over the pay The construction of the scaffold was roll and authority. begun shortly after 9 o'clock this T B e e mo‘;nlng. Son T e ToRis BoE 1on Wew York Irish Pledge $8,500. 2 meeting at the White House be- tween President Harding. Director] ber were required for the job. The Stack Talks of Civil War. carpenters and engineers in charge ju@icate the claims, and, as usual in Buch cases, extravagant estimates are materially cut down. Forbes of the .Veterans' Buresu, DI- rector of the Hudget Dawes, and. rep- Miners and Hard Coal Operators in : But | there's frequently were in danger of their By the Associated Press. enough German property in Amer: esentatives of the gmerican Legion,} ™ The next character witness was ’ NEW TYORK. March 27.—Josenh NPV YORE, March 27.—Austin Stack, | o oset the Amerions claims sooricy | 15 believed by all concerned to bring { lives, us they Worked courageously|Charles E. Herron, who deteribed Tast BRort to Avert Burike | | spence. ot Ualonsiiie) Pa, andl bis a great benefit to the wounded sol- dier. By the Associated Press. W YORK, March 27.—Labor members of the anthracite wage scale subcommittee returned from Cleveland today to renew megotiations with the operators in an effort to avert the strike called for April 1. Both operators and miners ex- on the steep slope. The scaffold was made in four tlers and during the construction the fugitive atop the tree derided the workmen for at- tempting to reach her. The scaffold when completed, reached to within about ten feet of the limb on which the woman stood. A short fire ladder was brought into play to reach this distance and ome of the three delegates of the ‘risa republic”’ sent to the United States by Eamonn De Valera, declared at a mass meeting here that if the treaty establishing the Irish Free State were A very effective campaign has been forced op the Irish people under du- |instituted by Germans in America to ress, the young men of Ireland might | persuade Congress to’ give back the be prom io. take action against|property to the lawful owners. Om- P the “west-British forces,” which he termed “the army of the provisional cials concede that if Congress.were to Germany. Campaign en Congress. seventeen-year-old daughter, Mary Louise Spence, whom he had not see: for eight years, couldn’t understand a word tach said 1o the other yesterduy when they met after the steamship Kroonland Gocked. The daughte: spoke only French, although born the United States, and her attempts to converse wiih her father were sovann lisher of the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily Times. He also stated that Rickard had a good reputation in the northland. As to the ethics of gam- bling the witness said he now ab- horred it, but that when the a rush was on every one did it and no ogp thought anything about it Ne Change in Persommel. At the hospitals no change of per- sonnel need be expected, it was learned, and the superintendents and medical personnel whlch‘hllr_: been in charge will continue under the new management. Heretofore the fit— Opposition. A suggestion that the health school £6r tubercular children be erected on the Fort Davis site at Alabama and Pennsylvania avenues southeast, in- “stead of at 1ith and Upshur streets morthwest, was rejected by the Com- missioners today. In two reports sent to the Senate District committee the Commission- ers stand pat in their belief that the school should go on’ the District- owned land near the Tuberculosis governiment.” It would be a terrible thing for the Irish to take up arms against the Irish,” he added,: “but every young man whe shouldered a gun in Ireland fought for complete independence, and they will fight the ‘west Eritish’ orces and the British if they come The audience pledged $6,500 toward the campaign of the Irish republicans t6 defeat the treaty. - - OUTBOUND COAL SHIP SINKS AT NEWPORT NEWS vote on the issue today the property ‘would be returned by an overwhelm- ing vote, as there is no disposition to hold the individual Germans respons- ible for acts of war. There is no tendency on the part of American claimants against Germany to inflict hardship on German owners of property in America but the people whose relatives lost their lives on the Lusitania are insisting that since the American government cannot even col. lect morniey from Germany or the allies for sums.paid out since the armistice to maintain the American army of oc- cupation, the only chance of satisfying American claimants is either to ap- erans’ Bureau has had very little con- trol over the hospitals in which the veterans, for whose wekh e it was esponsible, were quartered. 7 The total number of veterans being treated in hospitals at the expense of the Weterans' Bureau, acgcording to the report of March 1, Wwas 30,890. Of thess about 23,000 are in the sixty hospitals to be -transferred to the eterans’ Bureau. vNot only will the sixty hospitals under question be affedted by the| executive prder expects but several of the new h under construction under direction of the Treasury Departs t will given into the control bf the Vet- erans’ Bureau, when completed. Southall, carrying an inch rope, slip- ped up the ladder unnoticed by the woman. ‘Tied Rope Around Amkle. efore strenuously, around one ankle and, slipping his arm around the struggling woman, he began his dizzy descent. hall before the scaffold was erected had asked permission to climb the tree alone and carry her ground. the top of the scaffold, numerous at- tendants were ready to assist in low- ghe had time to fight he had tied the rope Sout- to the After the woman reached OF MINE OWNERS S statement issued yosterday, that owners of coal mining pi both anthracite and bitumi forcing a general strike mines by their “autocratic tude can be found in “domi the coal industry by fina: “AUTOCRATIC ATTITUDE” Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a CORED pressed a desire to end the general discussions which marked the open- ing dsys of the conference last week and to confine future sessions to con- stderation of the nineteen demands of the workers. almost tragic until a woman inter- preter fo: the Travelers’ Aid Society came to the rescue. At the age of nine Miss Spence went to France with her mother, who died during the war, and her father charged roperties, nous, are in union attitude, and that the reason for their atti- ation of neial in- The operators indicated that today, for the first time since discussion of a new contract was undertaken, they would make known the percentage of wage cuts they advocate in counter proposal to the nineteen demands of the miners. Asserting that they will ot consider a wage increase, the op- erators say that costs of mining and transporting coal have not decreased and that the market for coal has suf- fered because of the public's inability who is manager of Mrs. W. P, Stew- art’s farm, at Unionville, Pa., recently decided to bring her here 1o live with him and her older brother, a student at Williams Trade School. Other ‘passengers were Countess Helene Goblet d'Alviella of Belgium and_Miss Chariotte Niven of E land, both of whom will attend the annua! congress of the Young Wom en’s Christian Association, at Ho Springs, Ark., April 20. The countess has established several Y. W. C. A propriate from the Treasury or to use the German. property. indefinitely as collateral for the issuance of bonds to pay the American claims. It is one of the most complicated legal problems that has arisen in the aftermath of war and the question hes been slumb- ering while our government investi- gated the practice of other countries. Now the incident over the American Hospital, against which nearby resi- dents are vigorously objecting. i erasts.’ ! centers in Belgian cities since w Miss Niven is general secretary of .the world’s committee, interna- tional Y. W. C. A, - Signorina Linetta P. De Castelvec- chio, one of the four woman univer sity professors in England, arrived on the Celtic today to lecture in several colleges for women. Number of Disabled Men. ‘he number of disabled veterans being treated at various hospitals over the country, the nature of their disability and the kind of hospitals in which they are quartered are shown in the following figures of the most recent tabulation: Types of Disabilities. ering her to the ground. She at first started to put up a strong fight, but, breaking down, she wept coplously and was taken down another ladder without much difficulty. Mrs. Lymboropolos is of a stout ‘build and is about twenty-seven years old. Attaches say that she suffers from hallucinations to the effect that persons are trying to steal her baby ‘Maria Borges, Clearing for Costa Rica, Goes Down in Fairway. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March 27.— The Panaman bark ,Maria’ Borges, . charges with statistics which showed. he declared, that real ownership of many bituminous coal properties lay in the hands of the steel industry, while anthracite mi ‘were sald to be “largely adjuncts to railrosd op- erations.” Control of the mines was thus'taken dent of the international organization, as head of the four labor delegates on the arbitration committee. D. Warriner, president of the Lehig] Coal and Navigation Company, will continue as spokesman for the opera- tors. , in part: ““This tract was acquired by con- demnation proceedings in 1914 under & law which provided that it should be a public park and that assessments therefor should be levied against abutting and surrounding property |loaded with coal, mysteriously sank | ATmy claim‘is emphasizing a growing “ “to an effective degree from Mr. Lewis has announced that he owners. These assessments were | in fairway here last night. Several of | relationship between the claims for Generat News: Tuber-|and that she Is being pursued by ene- | nanag of actunl operatiny 'mbn o084 | will remain at Indianapolis, head- ENTES PARDO widely distributed. The Commission- | her crew who were aboard in | American 1ives and property destroyed | o . ,i; and Medical. 'atric. sls. | TIeS ¢ | Diaced In the hands of Hoamciat ot | quarters of the United Mine Work.| GOVERNOR D N. ers do not believe that this site should | small boats, reporting that the crafc | by 'Germany and the assets of Ger-|, UWPHC iy and Escaped Several Months Ago. terests,” he stated, adding coal mines | ers’ to direct the strike of both a: ALBANY, N. Y. March 27.—Gov be used even in part for a public | filled rapidly and went down In a shor: | I8 citizens held by the United States crans’ Buresu. 490 2787 8940 have merely become “wheels in a |thracite and bituminous workers.| yfiller has denied the application for school building without proportion- | time. government. B - TR | | 1,033| She escaped from the hospital sev-|great profit-making muachine” op- |Nearly forty members of the anthra-| ; nardon for Jim Larkin. the Irish ately abating these assessments, and! The bark, formerly the Norwegian (Copyriaht, 1923) c = o | eral months ago during bitterly cold | éTated by men for whom “all things |cite workers' scule committee returned | ygitator, comvicted of criminal an- ~ the bill should, if enacted, be modi-|sailing ship Sierra Miranda. recently e s 4 clad no better thah she|MUst Kive way to profits. *%1to. New York togay to keep their | 2EUUCH Ty sentence at Clin- fled accordingly. was purchased by Browne Willis and = weather anticintino OF AR Congressional investigations and fed- [local and district organizations ad-| 3/ "Sison . “The Commissioners do not know |yesterday compléted loading a cargo BURSTING BOILER KILLS 4> 5491 12,912 was today, but she returned the 42y |eral pjoceedings had- disclbsed that | Vised of the ‘progress of wage neg tiations. £ WILL CLOSE 550 MINES. of any other land of the United States in the District suitable for the loca- tion of this proposed school. Since the Commissioners announced their decision to put the school near 14th and Upshur streets redidents of | before she went down. He says she that locality have obtained an in-{had a slight list. when she left the junction in the District Supreme |coal piers and that every one thought of coal for Costa Rica. C. F. Coutavas, port engineer, was aboard the bark last night and barely escaped with his life, he going back aboard the ship for her papers shortly following of her own accord, saying that ‘the weather was too cold to stay out. Supt. White explained that she was not the type of patlent usu- ally considered dangerous. “I have been connacted with this work for many years"” said Dr. White this | l | i ‘FOUR, HALTS FUNERAL, . WRECKS NEARBY HOME By the Associated Press. ; PORT HURON, Mich.,, March 27. —Four men were killed and prop- MISS STONE ON TRIAL FOR KILLING E. G. KINKEAD Ec:e interests, mpany, - Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, New York, Ontario and Western an the es of the Lehign Coal and Naviga as cause of the of the scale commit! tees Ce Court. rimmi 7 A : X bill has been introduced in the aet 'x?{:h':‘;;: ltl'-‘::::;: r::r':‘;lrtg: erty g"‘““g‘b;":"‘;;fid "“’ill"';"’: Selection of Jury /for Nurse Who mfi.v':“:‘ ? ‘éé..?t”.é‘i—»‘;‘i‘ :milt:n‘::t.ox} tion d@nm;ny '!II': result is. he as- |4 vfifinv‘.mu District 17, Senate to give the Commissioners ce nd about mid: ‘was er 080! 3 - fserted, that “profits from coal SS0C) > e suthority 'to Dot ihe sehoot | mas diesovered Douring imts the Ao | On board the ferryboat Omar D. Shot Alleged Husband such a8 BB es,after she haa(ions are Tot found in the cval mine |MiB7 Workers of America, looking A number .o climbed the ‘tree Mrs. lflmboroxolot exclaimed that she would come down if some one would give her ive crezm. A plate of ioe cream was immediately brought to the tree, but the woman refused to come down, laughing heartily at the “joke” on the hoapital attendants Climbed Back to High Perch. On first climbing the tree she estab- lished herseif on the 'uppermost branches, but this moraing she climb- ed down about half way and sat on a weak limb, She was in this posi- tion, when construction of the scaf- new wage agreement, the oper- ors decided to close down all the 350 mines in their association for the duration of the general miners’ strike set for April 1. . This action was taken at a special meeting of the board of directors of the association here erday. - A. Lisle Wh‘::,'gn iQ:.!‘:f the as- tion, urg e operators not to Poeie fatmed guards at the mines in order to avold giving the miners any reason - to think the operators are hostile. “Jt the strike is inevitable” said t us do our utmost to peaceable one. We no quarrel with district 17, or with us. This strike is forced the international Conger yesterday.. The explosion -ahook the entire downtown dis- trict. The boiler was thrown 250 feet into a dwelling. ‘The dead: Ranson A. Campbell, chief engineer of the ferry; Tom ner and Kenneth Crandall, khands, and Clifford Althouse, ‘fireman. The dead men were at work on the ferry. No one else was aboard the boat at the time of the explosion. Six Yuun- ‘were injured, non seriously. The dawelling: into which the boiler was threwn caught fire and was burned te the ground. The reports, but in dividend .reports 0 as to appear moderat Towe To OIer fat Falnery webes may Dor od at the Begins. NEW YORK, March 27.—In a court- room crowded to the doors selection of a jury to try Miss Olivia M. P. Stone on & charge of murdering Ellis Guy Kinkead, former corporation counsel of Cincinnatl, began today be- fora Supreme Court Justice Aspinall in Brooklyn. She was the first wom- an to be tried in Kings county on an indictment for first degree murder in ‘many years. Clad entirely in black, with a heavy vell obscuring her face, Ml | specil on the Upshur street site. They told | through a loosened plate. the Serate today they believe this bill ftoNah i ould be enacted speedily in the ublie interest. :?"7;’“"“" :t(:inllonhto‘(he fact that RITES FOR S. M. Louls. 160,000 for this school was appro- last year and that much fime| Samuel M. Louls,manager of the already hau! hbe::l! lost in the contro- | Family Shoe Store, died suddenly Fri- Versy over the site. “The Commissioners do hot think,~ [ 127 DIEht as a result of shock and reads the report. ~that real injury fo| oxcitement incidental to a fire in the the ":'::ietl‘ent’l of the Pill;eyt Branch firm's store. He had been in the n Thood could result from the|employ of the store for more than construction of this schodl NS ekee S PR Y Mr. Louis entered the employ of FIRE ON AUSTRIAN PATROL |the firm 28 a clerk when twenty-three years of age and advanced to the posi- ST tion of manager. He was fifty-six have they iss Stone by policy-of | § By the Associated Press, i | years of age at the time of his death | a movi a) to have benefited by her|fold was begun, but after the first upon us by Tk “ VIENNA, ~March A bahd or|2and was apparently in the best -of A steam radiator was thrown. |lomg confinement in jail.\ i two tlers had been erected she the United Mine Workers of America." | Hungarians fired upon an - Austri henlth. He is survived by Kis wife 1,000 feet into the chapel of Albert Miss Stone, & luate nurse, shot|climbed back to her former pilace 5 . P A Auatrlan |and two sons. Max and Henry Louls,| . A Falk, where & funeral was in .[xcinkesd last August on a Brooklyn |above AY times she would sit down | Newberry and T, Fo e ORDERED TO GARY, IND. v jo. T, T L) ess. urners wi - ear her me. le claim n a rk of e 'y 0 Wi icers, W murder ia con n ing one of the Austrians. Tt | D tinters. | Giass was brokon fa | that rise and stand for awhile. in order | @ Sergt. James M. Meehan, Engineer nectiol He was a member of the Odd F' she had been married to him, but with the shooting bf P. Barwick last Hungarian irregulars are reported | lows, the Maccabees, B'nai Brith and :l'ar‘ fronts two blocks away.. :::‘.: ater he had married another |to streich 1limbs, and in this way | Wedn: in l:gfibmer purl:l ':.t School d ment, Camp Humphreys, n ordered to Gary, Ind.. to be reassembdling in several dis-|Washington Hebrew Congregation. The on was dus to scar- - weman. After'brooding over the af-|she kept up her h. How she | Emanuel county, were Vs, has triots and Austrian .troops are being | Funeral services were held ypaterday | aity of water in the boiler, it is [fair for several months, she asserted. zvu nge to remein in her cramped | hands of the Sheriff here today, and |f8r duty as sergeant-instructor eof reinforced as precautionary measure | afternoon at his late residence, 47 believed. The boat was tied at | she followed him from his office-and } position for so long a time was a immediately Drake was arrested and|éngineers, with the National Guard of against renewed terrorism. Quincy place northeast, the dock in Black ers ¥ fired as he noar>d his home, puzzle to . the esuthorities. llodced in the Truetlen county jall. JIndiana. 5 = ! ft b ; ) i