Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1922, Page 1

" - PLAYSITE T0 OPEN .~ INMONTROSE PARK = &4 thefts amounting to $25,000 by the | showers tonight and tomo Temperature for twenty. | ended at 2 p.m. toda: 2 p.m. toda: day. Full report on page 7. WEATHER. ~ Cloudy and warmer, with probably y: Highest, 57, at lowest, 43, at 2 a.m. to- TTOW. -four hours Entered as seco No. 28.467. Closing New York Stocks, Page 28 ¢ nd-class matter post office Washington, .D. C. Zh * WASHINGTCN, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL ~ ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION v Star, Yesterday’s P ‘1 1922 —_FORTY-TWO DPAGES. The Associated the use for rep paper and slso dispatches Member of the Associated Preu’ Press is exclusively entitled to | | ublication of all news dispatches | credited to it or ot otherwise credited in this | the local news published herein. | Al rights of publication of special herein are also reserved. Net Circulation, 92,928 - TWO CENTS. NEW GEORGETOWN Space at 30th and R Streets Will Be Turned Over to Children. GIFT OF $1,000 EXPECTED TO PURCHASE EQUIPMENT Keen Interest Being Aroused | Among Citizens, Who Are Anx- | ious to Make Bonations. Another playzround is to be added to the inadequate number which the | Tvistrict now has for its ehildren. One | corner of Montrose Park. at 30th and R streets, Georgetown, has been set aside for the use of the children of the vicinity, particularly those at- tending the Jackson School, and the werk of preparing it has been started. 1 Col. Charles O. Sherrill, of- fic charge of public buildings and zrounds, who controls this park, and Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, director of| municipal playgrounds, were on the Proposed playground site today. They discussed the proposed section to be| allotted for play pur and Col.! Sherrill eed on the necessary | amount of d to-be given over for this purpose. $1,000 Gift Expected. With authority obtained for the| use of the plot, efforts to put it in| pe quickly for use by the children | will be ounds super- And the equipment will soon he provided Nearly $1.000, it was learned, ma come from a-local orsanization for the equipment of the piaygrounds, and t will make it unnecessary to toush the District funds for th cquipment. Mrs. L. D. Smoot. pres dent of the Jackson School Parent. id today that i able to make the but at this time was unable to divulge the name of the| Teacher Association, she probably would be an announcement of next Monday. donation | organization, as the negotiations were still_going on. In addition to this donation, W. K. Reeves has informed the association that he would furnish loads of sand for the children’s sand piles. These will be delivered as soon as the boxes are erected. i The permit for the use of the park | @s a playground is_the culmination of nearly a year's efforts on the part | of the Parent.Teacher Association of | the Jackson School. The children of this schosi-have no play space witat- ever, and the park is just across the street. It will be known as the Jack- | #on School playgrounds. although | that name does not confine its use to the pupils of this particular school. Howgver, as the plot to Te turned ofer to these children is comparatively small, its use will be resiricted to the use of children twelve years of age and under. It will not be large enough for laying out base ball diamonds and plots for other games that take a large amount of spac Park Beauty to Be Preserved. svery effort will be made by those in charge of the work of equipping the playgrounds to retain the beauty of the park and make the play- grounds a beauty site, while serving as a play spot for the children. In- stead of the group swings on stands, the swings will be hung from the limbs of big trees in the plot. and the little children will be able to have that freedom of swinging whicir they usually have only when they go to the country on a vacation. Associations in various parts of the city are beginning to take an uctive interest in the movement to obtain more playzrounds for the children. as the crowded condi and inadequacy of District pl rounds, as pointed out in the series of articles which have been appear- ing in The Star. The fact that sev- eral of them are beginning to raise funds for the equipment of pl grounds for their, children and that| people are contributing is a concrate indication that the population is will- | ing to pay the bill in order to gat the | children off the crowded streets. Georgetown is badly in need of laygrounds. The report of the the children’s bu- reau expert of this section: 8,643 Children in Georgetown. | “This is a very large district. The child population of Georgetown is| §.643. of which 7,211 are white and| 1.432 colored. This is a section, how ever, of comparatively low density in | the main. In the most thickly settled part there are 27.1 persons per acre. “Land is relatively inexpensive on the outskirts of this district so that full-fiedged playgrounds should be de- veloped. Broken bits of land here and there do not serve as areas large enough to give to children the whole sweep of a playground program. The $.643 children should be provided for by allotting to this section at least ten acres of ground for the white, to be converted into a playground and athletic field combined. “The Rose Park playground, for the colored, is not large enough. One quar- ter of an acre is cramped and un- satisfactory. Further, this park is Joaned, not owned by the District. Two or three acres, therefore, should | be set aside to meet the play and ath- letic needs of the colored.” —_— ADMITS $25,000 THEFTS. Chicagoan Confesses Collecting Let- ters as Postman Left Them. CHICAGO, April 7.—Confession of a result simple plan of following the postman “rough fashionable districts and collecting letters he left, was made today * by Geerge Stearn, twenty- xeven, to the police. His arrest end- ed a three-month search by postal inspectors. SERMONS BY RADIO. WHEELING, W. Va, April 7.—On account of the continuéd 1l health of Dr. C. E. Lockhart, pastor of Wheeling Baptist Temple, a radio- phone has been installed in the <hurch and sermons will be recelved every Sunday morning from Pttts- burzh. In the event of Dr. Lockhart’s recovery, physicians say, he will be unable to resume his work in the pulpit until after the summer vaca _dion, HOPESTOAID CV | ferences with members of the com- | who have been separated from the TWO EXPRESS PLANES COLLIDE IN MIDAIR; ALL KILLED IN CRASH By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 7.—The Paris-and- London aerial express collided in midair ¢his afternoon over the village of Thieulloy, seventy miles north ‘of Paris. The pilots of both airplanes, three passengers and one mechanic were killed in the wreckage, that fell flaming to the sround. The French airplane, piloted by Aviator Mire, aided by a mechanic, was carrying three passengers. It left Lebourdet, in the environs of Paris, at noon for London. The British airplane, which left Croydon, in the London area, this morning, carried mail and was manned only by a pilot. — | *SERVEEVETERANS Mr. Fairfield Seeks Annui- ties for Those Losing Jobs Under Retiring Age. For the relief particularly of vet- eran employes of the Washington navy yard ~who were indefinitely separated from the service without| pay, but in general to apply to all veteran employes who mizht be sim- | ilarly disconnected from the govern | ment pay roll, Representative Fair-} field of Indiana today introduced a| bill to amend the civil service retire- ment act. . This bill is a revision of the bill re- cently introduced by Representative Fairfleld. on which hearings have been held by the House committee on reform in the civil Service. It de- veloped at these hearings and in con- mittee that no bill which would in-; crease the amount of costs of the; civil service retirement act to the government or to the government employes contributing their quota to the fund would have any chance of | being passed at this time. Therefore, | in conference with Robert H. Alcorn. chairman of the joint conference on retirement representing United States civil service employes, Representative Fairfield revised his bill. Members of the civil service committee today indicated that they believe this re- vised bill has a chance to be passed. Provisions in Bill. It provides that any employe fifty years of age or over, to whom the retirement act of May 22, 1920, ap- plies, who shall have served for a|bitterness now exieting,” asserted Mr. total of not less than fifteen years. and who, before reaching the retire- ment age as fixed in the retirement |t act. shall become involuntarily sepa- rated from the service, shall be grant- ed an annuity certificate by the com- missioner of pensions, which shall entitle this employe, upon reaching retirement age, to an annuity as pro- vided in the law. It provides that the deductions made under the provisions of the retire- ment act from any employe's salary, pay or compensation prior to sepa- ration from the service shall remain in the civil service retirement and disability fund. subject to the pro- visions governing the return of de- duction in the case of death. * The new Fairfield bill also provides that any employe coming within the provisions of the retirement act shall have the right to apply for an imme- diate annuity in lieu of deferred an- nuity at the age-of retirement, and, if found entitled, such immediate an- nuity shall be granted under condi- tions which are set out in the Fair- field bill. 3 Employes Included In Bill. These are shown in tables prepared by actuaries, showing by age and class the amount that each annuitant would receive under 2 fractional ap- portionment with deductions for each year such employe is under the re- tirement age. The Fairfield bill would include for- mer employes coming within the visions of the act of May 22, 1 20, service subseduent to August 21, 1920, under conditions now in the retirement act. In the case of an employe who has withdrawn from the retirement and disability fund his deductions, such employe shall be re- quired to return the amount thus withdrawn, with interest at 4 per cent, before he shall be entitled to the benefits of the act. STILL WAS HEIRLOOM. In Family for 100 Years—Seized by Officers. ANDERSON, S. C., April 7.—An un- usual heirloom was destroyed yester- day when a smill copper still, seized by county officers, was broken up. Ward Huckabee, against whom.a charge of distilling was entered, told officers he was “just making a little nip for grandma,” the grandmother being eighty-four years old. Hucka- bee told officers that the still had be- longed to his father ahd grandfather, and that it had been in his family for more than one hundred years. The well worn copper of the outfit bore out the man’s statement. theaded by Ben Clark. T'the Senate this afternoon disposes of LEWIS PUTS BLAME FOR STRIKE ONMEN ‘SUCH AS WATKINS Attitude Destructive and Agds to Bitterness, Says Miners’ Chief. SOFT COAL FAMINE SEEN WITHIN NEXT SIX WEEKS | Murray Predicts Non-Union Pro- | duction Will Give Only Few Days’ Supply—769,000 Pledge Aid. | By the Assaciated Press. NEW YORK, April 7.—Statements defending bituminous coal operators in refusing to negotiate a cent al agreement with the miners’ union, made by T. H. Watkins, a bituminous mine operator of Pennsylvania, be- fore the House labor committee at Washington yesterday, were attacked here today by John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Lewis said Mr. Wat- kins' declaration “served merely 15 intensify the confusion and bitierness now existing.” Mr. Watkins was quoted as having aid that it would be “financial sui cide” for operators to enter any agreement with the miners not hased on conditions in each district; that “consumers have grown disgusted liveries from unionized, mines"; that Mr. Lewis' testimony before the House committee had been “yery mis- leading,” and that, in the anthracite fields, “these labor lords have been guilty of an abuse of power in call- ing a strike when the mine owners were meeting their every cail for meeting and negotiation. To these charges Mr. Lewis replied: ‘Statements of Mr. Watkins were characteristic and typical of a policy which he has followed for some time. He is engaged in a factional quarrel with the other operators of central Pennsylvania, the other faction being The loss of tonnage of which Mr. Watkins so bit- terly complains is largely due to a fierce competitive warfare with his competing rivals.” “Selfish Personal Interests.” The miners’ chief declared that Mr. Watkins for,some time “has been en- gaged in a frantic effort to destroy the relationship between operators and mriners in central Pennsylvania. His utterances are dictated solely by kis selfish personal interests.” ‘His testimony and his attitude are | of a destructive nature, and serve merely to intensify the confusion and Lewis. “The reactionary attitude of such men ig largely responsible for the arbitrary attitude of coal opera- s In refusing to meet representa- s of the mine workers and causing them to assume their indefensible policy of repudfating -their contract obligations.” Mr. Lewis answered Mr. Watkins' plea for negotiation of separate wage (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) BALL WILL PRESS RENT BILL ACTION Senator Will Urge Measure Taken Up as Unfinished Business. Chairman Ball of the Senate District committee said today that he would seek to have the bill extending the District rept act taken up and made the unfinished business as soon as the judges bill. He indicated that the appropriations committee is anx- lous to have the agricultural appro- priation bill taken up and that this might prevent the rent bill becoming the unfinished business. However, Senator Ball expressed the opinion that even if the agricul- tural bill was given the right of way there would be opportunities to take with the constant failure to get de- | | | up the rent bill during the “morning hour” each day until it was acted upon. " May Offer Amendment. Opposition to the proposal to place business properties under the juris- diction of the District Rent Com- mission is so strong, according to Senator Ball, that it may be neces- sary to strike out that feature of the bill- -After the bill has been under consideration for a reasonable time, and if , the “opposition to including business properties has shown jtself as strong as supposed, Senator Ball indicated that an amendment would be offered by the District committee to eliminate that feature of the PYIL Senator Ball, who was injured by a fall when stepping into an elevater yesterday, was not feeling well to- day. He said that if he would be un- able to be on the floor this afternoon he belleves that Senator Pomerene of Ohio, who reported the rent bill to the Senate, would try to have the meas- ure taken up. ¥ GIFT OF RARE CARILLON BELLS 70 WASHINGTON 1S PROPOSED |consscation ot Liquor on U. 8. Ship BY WILLIAM E. NASH. ‘Wireless to The Sta PARIS, April A—From the belfry of-the quaint old Cathedral of St. Bavon rang out the strains of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Peasants in, the fields pricked up their ea: and listened. Had thes United States come to Ghent once more? The last time the American repub- e had been represented there was in 1814 at the signing of the treaty which closed the war-of 1812 with England. It .was not a government delegate who played the national anthem this time. but Miss Henrietta M. Rees of Springfield, Ill. As a mark { of courtesy to the fair sex the local Belgian authorities gave her a privelege rarely accorded to for- {l‘nem Miss Rees has been travel- Ing in Eurepe for some time. With her uncle, the publisher of the Il- linois State Register, and her aunt, Mrs. Thomas Rees, she has just a: rived in Paris from Belgium. The whole family is interested in bells. Teflz}hl,v! ‘:ldledsthe subject th oughly in ent, Bru Antwi lnud Rl({tlfl':lm. i \ ks r. Rees has considered a project of endowing Washington, D." 5 with a set of carillon bells, run- lfln&over fifty octaves, to be placed at i ¢ top of a tower. “Bells form a fleld of study more- complicated than most . people imagine,” sald Mr. Rees to the . writer. “They offer a beantiful form of music which heretofore /as been much neglected.” =2 sis lp;l‘xorN TS & News Note—Thousands of Coal Mine Mules A re Enjoying the Birst Daylight in Years—Due to the Coal Strike. SHFE BLOWERS GET SS0IN RNERDALE Take $40,000 in Securities | Which Are Non-Negotiable. j Foiled at Post Office. Special Dispatch to The Star. I RIVERDALE, Md., April 7.—Bur- glars some time last night blew oDenI the safe of ghe Riverdale Park Com- pany here, obtaining $500 in cash and checks, and $40,000 worth of non-ne- gotiable stocks and bonds; and also entered the post office, across the street, but failed to reap much re- ward there, due to the foresight of Mrs. Agnes C. Klinger, postmistress, in taking several thousand dollars’ worth6f stamps &nd monéy " orders to her home at the close of business yesterday. Constable Tom Garrison of Hyatts- ville, is conducting an investigation of the robberies, and_a finger-print | expert from police headquarters in Washington, has been sent for. Ap- parently no clues were left by the thieves, who it is believed, were not amateurs. Finds Shattered Safe. The shattered safe of the Riverdale Park Company, which does @ general real estate, coal and wood business here, was discovered this morning by L. L. Grdy, secretary and treasurer of the firm, when he came to open the office. The front door of the safe had been torn open by the force of the explosion, and a burned fuse was hurled into the front show window of the office. Furniture and other equip- ment of the firm lay scattered about. It was found that all the valuable records of thé company had been taken, in addition to the stocks and bonds, of no value to the robbers. E. ‘W. Reibetanz is president of the con- cern. The burglars were no doubt dis- i 1 mayed when they entered the pdst office and found the safo wide open and empty. Six attempts at robbery in the past several years of her term of office had convinced Mrs. Klinger that the safest place for the govern- ment's money and stamps was in a safe in her home, some distance away, so she carried home with her last evening $1,5600 in stamps, $50 in money orders and ten money order books, each for $100. So far as a cursory examination of the post office this morning could disclose, the thieves got away with about 50 or 75 pennies and a small parcel post package, thought to have been a book. Other parcels had been handled and examined, but were not taken. Entered Last December. The last time the post office was entered was December 26 last, when the lock of the safe was blown off by unknown Wurglars, who discovered that their work had been for nothing, Mrs. Klinger having on that occi sion also taken its contents to her home. E Five years ago the same postmis- tress was knocked over the head with a stone slingshot as she left the office with a satchel, but the as- sailant escaped without Tobbing her. A suspect was arrested and tried, but Teleased. Four years ago a colored man from Berwyn attempted to rob the post office, and more recently the frame building, in which the post office was housed, was burned to the ground by alleged thieves. The present fireproof post office | was erected by Mrs. Klinger. 2 | RECOMMENDS $8,000 FINE. Also Urged at Havana. HAVANA, April 6.—Chief of the Customs' Service Bryon recommended the confiscation of liquor found on board the small American steamer Yankton, which 'ved here last week. The report also asked~the tm- position of a fine of 3§,000. . Senor %ryon said the vessel had been declared “in ballast” when shé arrived in port on the way from Nas- sau to Mexico, but that the list of the | ships’ stores showed she had on board 1,000 cases of whisky and gin. Capt. A. Tanos is alleged to have asserted the liquor was the property of three passengers on their way to Mexico, who were being carried as members of the crew of the Yankton. ‘The Yankton, a vessel of 232 tons, i3 last reported in available shipping records as leaving New York Febru- | provide that any ralroad company D. C. WOULD BE BANKRUPT Youngstown Will Give Prizes for Holes in Street. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 7.—Any one who finds a hole in any Youngs- | | town street paving six week fro. | now will be given a prize of one bulldog or one canary. Mayor George L. Oles announced today. Bulldogs for men, canaries for women. i It was Oles’ way of saying that he hzd put a force of men at work to repair the streets. ! COMMITTEE WOULD CUT SWITCH CHARGE Zihiman Files Report on Bill Intended to Reduce Coal - Price in Washington. Representative Fred N. Zihlman ofl Maryland today filed a favorable re- port from the House District commit- tee on the bill which nominally seeks to provide additional terminalfacili- ties in the District, but the real pur- pose of which is.to reduce the price of coal and other necessary commodities through forcing a reduction of the alleged excessive switching charges between the Potomac yvards and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad unloading sheds in the northeast section. In his report Representative Zirl- man says the purpose of the bill is to having tracks in the District of Co- lumbia shall have the right to have freight delivered from one locality in the local switching system to enother upon the payment of a reasonable switching charge, and if the parties are unable to agree upon such charges, then the-same shall be pre- scribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. He submits charges sug- gested by the commission which, he says, have been adopted in drafting the present measure. s These run from 123 cents per hun- dred weight on'all full cargo lots, to 25 cents per hundred weight, on boots, clothing and glasswate. Recalls 1003 Legislati In his report Representative Zihl- man recalls that in 1903 Congress passed an act providing for the con- struction of a union station and other terminal facilities, and that a section of this act permitted the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to con- struct and maintain a freight track, running _south of Florida avenue, within_the city of Washington, and authorized the delivery of ‘freight cars in certain squares. The. Balti- more and Ohio railroad bought one of these squares in its entirety and erected coal dumps, which it has leased to a number of coal dealers, from whom the small dealer and in- dividual buyer must purchase or pay a rental for the use of one of the trestles in the city, o that there are no trestle dump facilities for the de- livery of carload lots of coal to con- sumers and small dealers desiring to purchase coal direct from the mines. The report says that the grand jurors for the District of Columbia last year made a report to the Su- preme Court in reference to this mat- ter, which concluded: “We believe that such conduct of the railroad business is exceedingly detrimental to the consuming public, in that it of necessity increases the: price of coal to_consumers and small dealérs.” The report shows that the freight| rate on coal'is $2.50 a ton and that a; car of fifty tons would have to pay a freight rate of $125 to ha switched from ‘one railroad to another. Coal coming ipto Washington over the. Pennsylvahia and other systems must pay these excessive charges if eon- signees desire B. & O. delivery. On the other hand, the Pennsylvania| Railroad, which controls the tracks in the Washington navy yard, accepts freight from the B. & Q. for a reason- able switching charge, ‘which switch- ing charge is absorbed by the B. & O. Railroad Company. Charges in Other Cities. p Representative - Zihlman- reports that the commite® made an investi- gation of switching. charges in other cities in the vicinity of Washington and finds_that' the usual switching charge frém one railroad to another| within- the city limits is $7, whide in ‘Washington, on a car of fifty tons of coal, the rate is $125. A similar bill was introduced dur- ing the last Congress by ' formler Speaker Clark of Missouri, which was the last bill introduced in the House. At that time, the chairman of the House_ District committee was ad-] vised by the District Commissioners that the matter came within the grtldlellon of the Interstate Com- erce Commission, but the 1. C-C..ad- vised:that it was a matter upon which Com“hole- might with entire propriety leal e, % MANDATE RIGHTS 0F U HLDEQUAL England Rules American In- terests Shall Not Be Dis- criminated ‘Against. VICTORY FOR MR. HARVEY Success Crowns Efforts of Ambassa- dor toGain Satisfactory Posi- tion for This Country. BY JUNIUS B, WOOD. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1922, LONXDON, April 7.—American inter- ests in the mandated territories are recognized to have equal rights with the interests of the nations signing the treaty of Versailles, according to an announcement”of the British for- eign office formally communicated to Ambassador Harvey today. Though the decision applies specif- ically only to the claim of the Stan- dard Oil Company to the right te op- erate in Palestine, it establishes a policy, which Britain agrees to follow with regard to this or any other Amer- ican concern desiring to compete. in British mandated territory on equal terms with British concerns. In of- ficial clrcles it is considered certain that a similar policy will be accepted by the French and other governments holding mandates under the treaty of Versailles. Success for Mr. Harvey. The announcement crowns with suc- cess the negotiations carried on un- remittingly at the British foreign of- fice ever since the arrival in London of Ambassador Harvey. The decision also tends toward as- surange that the eptire mooted man- date guestion will be settled satisfac- torily to the United States. It nulli- fies completely the contention in cer- tain quarters that the refusal of the United States to sign the treaty of Versailles and the negotiations of a separate treaty with Germany barred American interests from operating on the same terms with the nationals of other _countries within the former German territories now under alliea mandates. The decision is also in accord with e concession made by Japan in this respect on the occasion of the settle- meht of the Yap controversy at the time of the Washington conference and with the granting by Great Brit- ain of full rights to the United States in Mesopotamia. FLAPPERS’ REVOLUTION BREAKS INTO ACTION AT TRENTON STATEHOUSE By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., April T—A flappers’ revolution has broken out in tha statehouse. Maxwell G. Rockhill, director of the division of paroles of the department of institutions and agencies, heads the anti-revolu- tionist forces, and today prom to restore order. The first overt act was com- mitted yesterday, when a new stenographer appeared with a pair of red glass earrings dangling un- der a crop of bobbed hair. Mr. Rockhill, who. upon taking éffice, announced himself opposed 10 women carrying cosmetic maga- zines, promptly issued orders to his chief clerk to inform all girls that they were to pay more at- tention to typing, and less to per- sonal appearance. Little, if an: powder or rouge was to be used, Mr. Rockhill di- rected. Bobbed hair, barbaric jewelry, knee-length skirts and | rolied socks were bevond the pale, | he saia. This morning girls from other ! departments rallied to the support of the revolutionists and an- nounced that they would dress as they pleased. BUREAU REMOVALS ACAINSTIRSENATE Three Democratic Members . Charge Administration With Hypocrisy. The controversy over the dismissal of former = Director Wilmeth and twenty-seven other employes of the bureau of engraving and printing broke out again on the floor of the Senate today. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, Senator Caraway of Ar- kansas and Senator Stanley of Ken- tucky, all democrats, took turns in hurling charges of unfairness and hypocrfsy at the republican adminis- tration. Senator New of Indiana and Senator Moses of New Hampshire replied to these charges, declaring that the democrats in making their attack were actuated only by a desire to place the President in an embarrass- ing position for political reasons, and not for any love of the civil service. Senator Sterling, chairman of the committee on civil service, to which the Caraway resolutions asking the President for information and provid- ing for a special committee to inves- tigate regarding the dismissal of the bureau employes were referred. said today that he would ask his commit- tee to consider those resolutions, though it might be several days be- fore the committee could meet. He did not indicate what action would be taken by the committee in regard to the resolutions. Attacks Administration. Senator Harrison started the ball rolling in the Senafé today with a general attack upon the republican adm‘uistration’s attitude toward the civil service. Senator Stanley referred to the re- publican administration of the civil service as a “wolf in sheep’s cloth- ing.” and said “the sheep’s clothing is growing mangy and the wolf is stick- ing out at both ends.” Senator Stanley referred to the President’s defenders on the ffoor, ; Senators New and Moses, as “'spoils- men,” and Senator Harrison assumed that the view of Senator New and Senator Moses in regard to the civil service must necessarily ,coincide with that of the President. “He sug- gested that former Gov. Bartlett of New Hampshire had been appofnted chairman of the Civil Service Com- mission by the President on the so- Jicitation of Senator Moses, and the President had known the views of the New Hampshire senator in regard to the civil service when he placed Mr: ,Bartlett in that high position. | ““Mr. Bartlett learned all the ropes of the civil service,” sald Senator Har- rison, “and then was put in as first assistant postmaster general, who se- lects the appointees as postmasters the country over." Referring to the executive order dismissing the bureau of engraving employes, Senator Harrison said he had believed the President would of- fer some excuse for that unprecedent- ed order. At this point Senator Stanley said that President Harding had come to the defense of Boss Cox in Ohio when the political boss had been de- nounced by the present chief justice, and asserted that the President was now running true to form. Reads Woman's Letter. A letter was read by Senator Cara- way, which, he said, had been ad- dressed to him by an Indiana woman working in the War Department. He (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) AFTER 25 YEARS OF 30-DAY TERMS IN JAIL, “BILL” JOINS POLICE FORCE Special Dispatch to The Sta SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 7.— “Bill” Lambert, able-bodiedseaman, came ashore from a windjammer twenty-five years ago in this harbor of opportunity and immediately resolved' himself into_ the munici- pal'problem. Red liquor was flow- ing freely along the water front. This fact was made the most of by “BilL” 5 Long before prohikition closed his favorite haunts hé hung up a fecord for non-stop, consecutive ‘jail sentences unapproached in local history. It is estimated that he’has served more than 200 sepa- rate terms. In one perlod of 217 days he drew seven sentences of . thirty days each, all on-pleas of gulilty of intoxication. Arresting “Bill” Lambert grew monotonous to the police. He got #o that all an officer had to do, in aijor’s rare days of liberty, was to’shake him ‘until he could ‘walk and tell him to report at the station house. Thereupon. “Bill" would lead himself over to Lis friend, the desk sergeant, and gravely recite "the charge under “which he wanted %6 be locked up. ~In his early days efforts were made to sober him up. Time and again a kindly magisfrate has asked what he thought ought to be done to him. +'Bill's” invariable reply was that “thirty days seemed enough.” = . _Lambert has been in the city jail, the county_jail, in hospitals time and again, on the county farm, and sometimes farmed out to individu- als or. societies that made a spes_ clalty of reforming erring brothers. All this was of no avail. He was good-hearted. and there was no crime in_ his make-up. But ‘he would get drunk. Then came prohibition. “Bill” rang the changes on moonshine, flavoring extract, hair tonic, ja- maica ginger, shoe polish and once —wood_alcohol. Lately Municipal Judge Davirm has been sentencing him to thirty days out of each thirty-one. At the time of his last arrest “Bill” opined that sixty days might be better as bootleg stu The judge him into a took his advice. Today Judge Davin opened his court. He looked at his desk cal- enddr. Turning to Ballift Collins he demanded: “Where's ‘Bill?” His sentence expired yesterday. Go down and see whether they forgot to turn him loose.” Collins left and returned with “Bill” and Chief of Police James Patrick. But it wasn’ the “Bill” that his honor was elucllnf. Alongside - of the chief proudly stalked William Lambert, offider of the law, properly uniformed, wllt: regulation shield, belt and club, 5 The chief explained that he had been utilizing “Bill” as an officer. “When he reported for his last ‘stretch” he failed to mention that it was for Sixty instead of thirty days. The chief took Kim in tow at the end of the month, made him a probationary policeman and sad- dled him with some authority. “It worked,” said the chief. “ ‘Bill’ is sober and a good officer. I ap- P to have solved our long- standing municipal problem.” (Courricht. 1022.) ! IMEANING OF ORDER TOMRS. VAN WINKLE BIG ISSUE IN TRIAL Head of Women’s Bureau of Police Department Ar- raigned by Board. SULLIVAN AND EVANS ARE CROSS-EXAMINED Both Pay Tribute to Work of Ac- cused Officer—Grant May Go on Stand Today. The answer to the question, “What was the exact meaning of the order issued by Maj. Sullivan, superintend- ent of police, on February 25, giving the woman's bureau jurisdiction over missing children and women who are unable to give a proper account of thegselves?” probably will prove the deciding factor in the trial of Lieut Mina Van Winkle, head of the woman's bureau, on a charge of hav- ing disobeyed orders, which opened in the boardroom of the District build- ing this morning. Assistant Supt. Charles Evans. who swore 10 the charges of disobedience contended in his testimony today tha the two voung girls whose detentio by the woman's bureau on March : led to the charge of disobedience had given a proper account of themselves and therefore did not come under Ui order of February 5. Are Cross-Examined. Attorney Roger J. Whiteford, coun sel for Mrs, Van Winkle, led Inspector Evans and Maj. Sullivan through severe cross-examination in an effort to show that the order of February gave the woman's bureau “exclu- ive” jurisdiction over female pris- oners. The first surprise of the trial was the announcement by Inspector Evans that A. W. Pell, a business man of Brookiyn, N. Y. and father of one of sthe girls detained by Mrs. Van Winkle, had come to Washington this morning, voluntarily to testify as to what occurred on the morning of March 23, when he endeavored to obtsin the release of his daughter, Gw~ndolyn, aged sixteen years, and hes companion, JBane Evans, aged fouween years, both of Brooklyn, N ¥ Boardroom Crowded. Tne boardroom of the District building was crowded to the doors and the aisles jammed by women active in sociul and civic work in the District. The morning session was taken up entirely by the testimony of Detec- tive Sergt. Cornwell, Assistant Supt. Evans, Maj. Sullivan and Mrs. Kdna Johneton, acting superintendent of the house of detention. It is possible that the trial board, which is com- posed of Assistant Corporation Coun- sel Wahly, Capt. C. P. M. Lord and Capt. L. J. Stoll, will be unable to complete the case in one day. Interesting _developments are ex- pected this afternoon when Inspector C. L. Grant, chief of detectives, takes the stand. Order Under Di The text of the order, inte: of which may decide the io £ “From &nd after March 1, all matters relating to cases of lost chil- dren and cases of females of what- ever age found wandering abroad and unable to give proper account of themselves and against whom no {charge is to be placed. will be han- dled by the women's bureau exclu- sively and not by the detective bu- reau, as hevetofore. “Such persons will be convered to the house of detention and full report of all facts and circumstances =ur- rounding ea¢h case made to the lieu- tenant in charge thereof, who will di- rect all efforts and conduct all cor- respondence, telegraphic or other- wise, in connection with the case, and upon delivery of such person or per- sons to parents or friends said lieu- tenant shall av once notify the pre- cinct originally in contact with the case of its final disposition and shall make such other record as the cir- cumstances may justify.” Detective Sergt. Fred Cornwell, in charge of the detective office from midnight until 8 am, was the first witness called. He testified that about midnight March 22 he received a telephone message at headquarters from a Mrs. Pell of Brooklyn. N. Y.. stating that her daughter and a girl named Evans had run away from home the previous Monday and that they had telephoned home from, the Union station in Washington. According to the witness, Mrs. Pell told him the girls were in bovs' clothing and would answer to the names of Paul and Donald Evans. The mother requested that they be detained until their fathers could come for them. “I called Detectives O'Brien and Livingston, who were on office duty, and sent them to Union station,” said Cornwell. “They returned in a few minutes with the girls. About the same time I received a telegram from William J. Leahy of the New York police department, asking tifat the girls be detained, but not placed in a cell if possible. Their names were taken and they were sent to the House of Detention.” Continuing his story, Cornwell said that about ten minutes to 7_o'clock the morning of March 23 Mr. Pell and Mr. Evans arrived at headgquarters. The witness said they stated they were anxious to return to New York as soon as possible, that they were business men. Cornwell testified he called De- tective O'Brien to go to the houst of detention with the fathers and get the girls. The witness said he then telephoned the house of detention and told E. J Shippel, clerk, to re- lease the girls. Order Is Refused. A few minutes later O'Brien re- turned to headquarters and told Cornwell the girls would not be turned over to their parents. Corporation Counsel Wahly, chair- man of the trial board, interrupted to ask Cornwell if O'Brien said whose order that was. “No. he did not say on whose or- der,” Cornwell answered. The witness testified he then called Mrs. Edna Johnston, matron at the house of detention, explaining to her that the fathers wanted to hurry back to New York. e ‘According to Cornwell's testimony, Mrs. Johnston said she could not re- lease them, that Mrs. Van Winkle had instructed her not to. Cornwell said he then called Asst Supt. Charles Evans and explained the situation to him. “He (Evans) told me to tell the kouse of detention to turn the girls »(Conun‘lta on Page 2, Column 4.3 19 l 1