Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1922, Page 1

J . 4 . b N Cloudy, showers tonight and tomorrow;. no "~ change In temperature. ‘Temperature for tw ended at 2 p.m. toda; 5 p.m. yesterday; o Full report New York Stock Murke 28,474, No. WEATHER. with probably occasional enty-four hours : nghe t, 86, at lowest, 59, at 7 am. on page 23. Closed Today Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1922—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. Member of The Associated the Associated Press || Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all. mews dispatches | | credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this I Daper and also the local news pablished herein. All rights dispatches of publication of special herein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 91,328 he Foening Star. = WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TWO CENTS. SPLIT OVER RUSSIA MARKS ‘BIG FOUR'S PARLEY AT GENOA Various Allied Governments Fail to Indorse London Decisions. SOVIET DEMAND FOR INDEMNITY AIDED Financial Tangle of Continent Taken Up by Committee With Hope of Clearing It Up. By the Associated Press. GENOA. April 14.—Divergencies of * .opinion over Russia are reported-to Thave developed at the meeting this morning of the economic conference's “big four” for discussion of the Rus- sian problems. The participants were Prime Min- #ster Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vice Premier Barthou of France, Forelgn Minister Schanzer of Italy and Foreign- Minister Jaspar of ‘Belgium. The Italian delegation afterward confirmed the report that the document drawn up by the allied experts in London dealing with the question of Russia, which has been the center of so much discussion, had not been indorsed by the various allied governments. The Italian ex- pert, indeed, had disapproved of those clauses of the report which if put into effect would humiliate Russia, it was declared. Mr. Lloyd George, it was asserted. after the morning session had favored ‘the Russian proposal to grant Russia indemnity for damages she had sus- tained as the result of military opera- tions against the soviet regime. Europe's financial tangle also was brought to the front for consideration at today's sessions of the Genoa con- ference. Sir Basil Blackett, controller of the British treasury., called his special consultative committee of financial perts together, hoping to evolve the basis for z preliminary report to the financial commission of the confer- ence tomorrow. Leading Financial Experts. This special committee, which was appointed yesterday, comprises repre- sentatives of virtually every Euro- Pean country, except Russia, and its ‘members are reputed to be the lead- ing financial experts of the continent. They are expected to devise practi- cable plans for straightening out Eu- Tope's economic m@chinery. ™ Louis Barthou’s address before the English and American newspaper cor- respondents yesterday, the report of ‘which spread through conferemce cir- cles, was widely cammented upon this morning as indicating tbat France, while persistently conciliatory, is de- termined to play no ddle at Genoa. On the contrary, the Impres- sion is gtrong that France will Insist to the bitter end to her ‘right to live.” as the Frénch put it colloquially. The head of the French delegation, ‘who is one of his country’s most per- suasive orators, was never in better| form than when he stored those whom he charged with unjustifiably indicating France as & militaristic na- tion. After sketching France's con- tribution to civilization in the arts, literature and sclence, he added: “It is _the very existence of intel- lectual France which is at stake, and ‘we are vain enough to believe that the world still needs France. Weare not excited; we are calm and reason- able and ready to work in the great task of saving Europe, for work, not words, is the great need of the hour. France wishes to be judged by her &cts, not words. After the meeting of the consulta- tive committee of financial experts a communique was issued saying the pession had been devoted to a full explanation by various member: the principles underlying the world curréncy situation. The members also put forward suggestions for flealing with the needs of the various countries. This committee will hold two meetings daily, so as to expedite its investigations. Vanderlip Plan Interests. The conference subcommittee on | economics today appointed two sub- committees, one to consider customs and the other to study general eco- nomic questions, particularly from their legal aspects. Delegates from Spain, Austria, Finland, Rumania and Denmark were given membership in the latter body. .Many of the delegates are mani- Jesting considerable interest in Frank A. Vanderlip's idea of establishing {,n central Eurof. a European reserve ank, similar in its system fo the American reserve banks, which would ssue special currency gradually to re- lace the currencies of the countries n which the bank would operate. Genoa is gradually developing as the seat of a great, unnamed institu- tion of economic and financlal re- scarch which Is tackling the greatest problems of economics the world ever produced. Mr. Vanderlip szems to be in accord with Senator Schanzer and 1he other Italian leaders in the idea that the conference may be merely an introductory to salve Europe's woes, and that it seems almost certain that at this juncture only.a beginning can be made at the task of puttinz Xurope in order. Without help later from America, the best opinion is that durable things cannot be accom- plished. POINCARE WATCHES GENOA. Possible Disarmament and Repara- tions,Steps of Greatest Concern. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 14—Premier Poincare mnd his cabinet are closely following the proceedings at Genoa, in view of circumstances which .are taken in official circles here as indicating that the soviet delegates are determined to introduce the idea of disarmament mi every opportunity, and that the Germans are seeking a chance to link the question of reparations with the economic reconstruction of Europe. The situation at Genoa, as under- #lood by the foreign office, is that e allied delegations are seeking to a basis for a practical start in the cconomic upbuilding of Russia. separate from all political issues, avhile it is felt that the Germans and Russians are more and more aiming 8o mingle politics with economics. Therefore several meetings of the French cabinet have been held in the past few days to consider the dis- tches from M. hou, head of he French delegation at the confer- nce. ’H. Barthou’s attitude thus far has ued on U lumn S FAIR EASTER WEATHER, OFFICIALS’ PREDICTION FOR'EASTERN SECTION Prospects for Easter Sunday being fair were held out today by the weather bureau, which stated that generally fair weather might be expected for that portion of the country east of the Mississippi river and probably for the south- ‘Wwestern states. Unsettled conditions, however, may prevail from the great lakes 'eI;t to the Pacific coast, it was said. Home weather prophets here are hoping for a clear day Sunday, on the ground that weather this spring cannot remain the same for more than two d. straight, and that if it rains Friday and Satur- day, it must be sunshiny Sunday. LAWYER IS JAILED BY JUDGE MONCURE Attorney Stuart, Prominent in Divorce Probe, Rebuked in Pending Case. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 torney Frank Stuart. who Ww: leader in pushing a probe of the leged divorce evil here, today was fined $25 and ordered to serve five days in jail by Judge Robinson Mon- cure in corporation court. Judge Mon- cure presides over the court in Which divorce cases are tried. Attorney Stuart, according to Judge i Moncure, endeavored to argue a case before him when the court objected to the case being argued. The court claims that when Stuart insisted the penalty was imposed. Attorney Stuart states that he will begin his sentence tomorrow morning. The case was heard before Judge Moncure in chamber, in the judge's private office in the corporation court- house, and was in the suit of Helen Reed Landeck against Frank Lan- deck. ‘The question up was the hear- ing of a rule to show cause why the defendant, who was represented by Attorney Stuart, should not be pun- lished for contempt for his alleged failure to comply with a former de- cree of the court to pay alimony for the support of his wife and 'child and court fees. The court also fined Frank Lan- deck 325 and ordered him to jail for five days for his alleged failure to pay alimony. Among those present were Attor- ney Richard B. Washington and City Sergt. R. H. Cox. Attorney Stuart stated today that he would have gone to jail this morn- ing were it not for the fact that Le had some urgent business to attend to. WARIS DECLARED ONDISTRICT RATS Commissioners Are Backing Health Officer Fowler in His Campaign. Acting with the support and co- | operation of the Commissioners, Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler to- day declared war on rats in Wash- ington. It has been said that there Is one rat in the United States for, each per- son. Dr. Fqwler has no means of knowing just what proportion of the rodent population of the country has settled in the homes, business places and stables of the District, but he is proceeding on the theory that this city has its share of them. Commissioner James F. Oyster, who supervises the health department, gave his indorsement today to the suggestion that Cleansup week be fol- lowed by a general campaign against rats, and instructed the health depart- ment to do all that it can in further- ing the drive. Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman of the board, said he agreed with Commissioner.Oyster that there is no more beneficial educational work the health department could take up than to impress upon the residents of the District the advisability of ex- terminating the rat. Outstanding Weapons. There are three outstanding wea- pons that may be used: To keep about the house a cat or a dog that will regard the rat as its natural enemy and kill it at every opportunity. To_ place ordinary wire traps near the holes from which the rats emerge or where they make their runways. ‘To distribute bait, seasoned with barium carbonate, where the rats will be most likely to find it. 2 Dr. Fowler is of the opinion that S e Sl D R T D L R B e s 2D DI SCOUTS HUNT PLAY | SPACES FOR YOUNG - FOLKSINCAPITAL| Playground wbrkers Also Show Children Many Games- and Supply Equipment. YOUNGSTERS HELP FIND SEVERAL NEW LOCATIONS Montrose Park and Iowa Avenue Plots Opened for First Time Today. Scouts of the playgrounds depart- ment of the District are scouring the city for playgrounds for the children. These workers are in various sections watching the little children and thelir places of congregation. Finding of a little group of children on a lot is unusually the means of starting a real playground. All children want a place to play, %o that they can have plenty of free- dom without the danger of being run over by vehicles, which is ever pres- ent when they have to play in the :tree:ln Here's just a little inside tip or the children o {0/ play. Fina 2 5008 Jot et the vicns ity of your home and, 4f there is no objection from the owner, get your gang and get on it. Start playing. Playground Scouts Busy. Pretty soon one of the playgrounds scouts will find you, have a talk with you, and show you a lot of games. These scouts‘are real playleaders and they want the children to have a place to play just as much as the chil- dren and their parents. From these little beginnings have started some of the big playgrounds. Sometimes the playleader or scout will direct the play for a few hours, then as the crowd enlarges, the number of hours Is increased, and pretty soon there is a full-fledged playground. When the Playleader first comes he brings a lit- tle equipment, such as balls, bats, croquet games, etc. These are usual- 1y left in the neighborhood, for there is always some youngster willing to show appreciation by taking care of the property. ¥ While a number of the local play- grounds were obtained in this way, they have been lost to'the children finally for the reason that Congress would mot appropriate money with :;:Ie:ht’o buy’ ;ha property and make 'Srounds pe: Petmansnt; the city. Games for Small Greunds, Further shootings, although Wot be- There are a number of games which | lieved to have been in the nature of can be played on small lots, apd for | reprisals, occurred today at the ter- Which the playgrounds depagtment|mination of the curfew period. All Wil furnish the equipment through |took place in Crumlin road, two miles the playgrounds leader, depending on | from the scene of last night's affair. one or more of the children to take EASTER WAR OPENS; 3 DEAD IN BELFAST Two Protestants and One Catholic Shot Down in City Streets. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, April 14.—A stormy Eas- tertide in Belfast is predicted by those who have watched the sequence of disorders here, as the result of a con- certed attack on a patrol of special constables in Joy street last night. The members of the patrol were making their rounds after the curfew hour when a burst of heavy firing from windows and roofs wounded four of the officers. The scene of the attack is in the Sinn Fein section of care of the property. children. there are quoits, ropes for jumping, tennis ra net, a volley ball net, basket ball equipment, Indian clubs and wooden potatoes -for use in potato races. For tne kindergarten children the play leader carries scissors, paper, sewing cards, checkers, dominoes and bean bags. As a part of the general movement cquets, balls and a | &r, Cat The first victim was a Protestant For the Jarger | baker named Carmichael, who was assassinated while returning from ork; the second a corporation clean- holic, who was shot and is re- ported dying in the hospital, and the third, a baker named Slcan, Prot- estant, who died in the street after being shot. Rebels Seize Courts Building. Two hundred and fifty men of the for new playgrounds in the District, | insurgent section of the Irish repub- the municipal playgrounds depart- |lican army, ment took formal possession of a section of Montrose Park as a play- grounds site today. While some op- position has been developed t use of the park, the playgrounds de- partment, having obtained the per- mit from Col. Charles O. Sherrill, offi- under the direction of the néwly formed republican army execu- tive, or army council, sefzed at mid- 0 the | night the Four Courts building, in Dub- { Program for bringing about the neces- lin, which, until the passing of the Irish acts, was the seat of the na- cer in charge of public bulldings and | tional courts of justice, it is announced grounds, decided to formally estab- lish the playground today, on the first day of the Easter holidays. Miss Stevens Director. Miss C. Stevens was appointed di- rector and took charge of the grounds today. placed, and this included a kinder- garten set of tables and benches for the little children. Other equipment | th which the playgrounds department has | Publican army. on hand will be sent out as quickly as |y possible. croquet and some of the small equip- ment mentioned above. The Iowa avenue playground, on the old nursery property on Iowa avenue | yesterday to May 16. northwest between Upshur and Allison streets, also was formally established today. Miss Jacqueline Whiting was in Dublin dispatches. The men who seized the building intend to utilize it as a permanent headquarters, it is stated. They have barricaded the windows with sand- bags, law books and bundles of docu- ments and also have commandeered The first equipment also was | the adjoining Four Courts Hotel. A large body of Sinn Feiners en- tered the post office at Sligo today and took possession of all departments of office in the name of the Irish re- ‘They gave instruc- tions that business was to proceed as sual and left a party to see that these This will include volley balls, | orders. were carried out. Ulster Parliament Adjourns. The Ulster parliament adjourned a Finance Minis- ter Pollock, on making the motion to adjourn, expressed pleasure that the appointed director and formally took | recent agreement reached in London charge of the playgrounds. Th of providing the equipment will begin immediately, with the idea of permitting the childrén of the Piney Bra e work | between the northern and southern leaders had brought about compara- nch and | tive peace. He added, however, that Petworth sections to obtain the fullest | the Ulster government had taken the use of the property at this they are on a vacation from schools. The scouts of the playgrounds de- partment are looking over the northeast | = The section of the city with a view to ob- | has ' lo taining & playground to take the place | Dublin of that at 8th and L streets no use of which has been withdrawn. Ef- forts were made to have Congress pur- (Continued on Page 20, Column 3.) By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, April 14.—Mrs. Maud Fancher, ' who swallowed poison yesterday after slaying her baby son Cecil Raymond, hoped to suide her husband te happiness as an_emancipated spirit. She is at death’s door in the city hospital ‘The story of her belief in spirit- ualism was told in the three let- ters—one of twenty pages—writ- ten defore she took the poison, one after the baby’s death and the third as she was half-conscious herself. Mr. Fancher said today that soon after they were married in Detroit three years ago he and his wife attended a seance at a private home ia that city, and both talked to their dead parents. Since that time, he said, Mrs. Fancher had taken a great interest in spiritual, ism. Holds Seance Respomsible. “That seance,” he said, “put ‘the whole idea into her head. She thought she could do better for.me A she were dead, and would gulde me from heaven.” Mrs. Fancher’s health had been very poor since the birth of their $om, and she Lelt,. her Wtters indls (Continued on Page 16, Column 1.) WIFE KILLS BABY AND TAKES POISON TO GUIDE HUSBAND FROM HEAVEN cated, that her death would relieve her husband of a severe handicap. She took the baby’'s life because she could xllol b‘l‘r tg think of some one else caring for th “ahe said. v o “Dear, my heart is breaking at leaving you anad you love the baby 80, too,” she wrote, ‘but remember you are to get yofirself another son and a sweet one, too, for I am going to guide you until you do.” ” Says Mind Is Clear. “Darling beloved husband,” another letter started, “I am writ- ing you a line on this queer sui- cide and I know what every one will say—'Oh, she has lost her mind’—but I haven't by a long ways. I know just what I am do- ing. I want you to get married again if you wish. You know about spiritualism and I want you to go where you can talk with me.” She directed that she and the baby be burled in the same casket and said’ she did not want the bod- ies shipped home to Detroit. She suggested that the husband dis- go-e of all of their household ef- ‘ects and other property and re- turn to Detroit to live. ‘While physicians say there is little chance for the woman's re- covery, she stated today that if she did get well she. would try sui- cide said, in.and “next . *lv b:“h l_ -‘:od%‘!?:'oflnltt: time when | necessary precautions to meet any emergency that might.arisealong the e Dunville a1stil unville stillery of this cit; dged with the town clerk 0,! a claim for $5,000,000 as its loss in_the recent raid on the Dublih customhouse’s. bonded- stores. PLAN FINE FOR EACH DEATH. “Anti-Pogromist” Army Officers Is- sue Proclamation. By.the Assoclated Press. MULLINGAR, County Westmeath, Ireland, April 14—A proclamation threatening reprisals for outrages in Belfast was issued by army officers here today. The proclamation, which was signed “Anti-Pogromists,” says: “We have decided that for every turther casualty in Belfast which is the direct outcome of a pogrom every £ the pogrom in the M fsu”‘:-"::e: will "be fined £60, w will be personally collected by us. This order is operative from Monday next.’” : ¥ — . . Today’s News in Brief. Methodibt Church organisation: test proposed extension of railway tracks to area occupied by Sibley Hospital. ‘Page 2 U. S.-every cent of war Brd‘et:tl:, 'I?m‘:zzn Spectator declares. - ‘- Page 3 ti-saloon League sees plot to ge! Aflquox-rnen in Congress. Page 10 al " architect discusses plans “&nrlcxiagw Eastern- High. Page 17 yment declared to be saving G:‘a’.'o%.ouo daaily. Page 17 asm likened »to “first matter” E:}".’::clont alchemists. Page 21 Delegates arriving for annual D. A. R. congress. Page 21 s pro- Motion pigture theater owners invite Pres! ident to address convention here in May. Page 22 ‘Wilsen disavows-gending message to Jackson S Pagedd ul-, hich! CcO SIDEN IREK:a “CRUSADERS” COMING TO ASK PARDONS FOR FATHERS AND HUSBANDS By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, April 14.—The van- guard of the “Woman's and Chil- dren's Arm; which will leave here Monday on a pilgrimage to Washington to ask presidential pardons for husbands and fathers serving prison sentences for al- leged violations of war-time acts, arrived today. Yesterday's arrival from the south- west consisted of six women and seventeen children. Several scores of “crusaders” are expected for the start of the pilgrimage and others will be picked up on the way to the capiti ‘The “crusade” was organized by Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare of this city, socialist leader. DAYLIGHT SAVING EFFORTS INTED [Trade Bodies Combine in Campaign to Move Clocks Ahead. United effort to bring about qny-l ving in the District of Colnm-‘ bia is to be made by the three princi- pal trade bodies of the District—the Board of Trade, Chamber of (_:om-! merce and Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association. Representatives of these bodies will,meet next Tues- | day for th2 purpose of laying out a | | sary legislation. i The joining of the forces was in-, | augurated by the latter association, following the meeting af the board of governors”earlier in the Tnonth. At that meeting the board unanimously voted in favor of a daylight saving law for this city, and directed the sec- retary to communicate with the other trade bodies, with a view to joining their efforts. Arrange for Meeting. Charles J. Columbus, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation, was in conference yesterday with William P. Johnson, chairman of the daylight saving committee of the Board of Trade, and also with E. C. Graham, chairman of the daylight saving committee of the merchants’ body, with a view to promptly get- ting together to make a joint fight to obtain the law. ‘While the Chamber of Commerce does not have a daylight saving com- mittee, it was said today by Mr. Co- lumbus that it will have one in the near future. However, the board of directors of the Chamber of Com- merce has issued instructions to the! secretary of the body to write to! President Harding and ask him to is- sue an exeoutive order for daylight ing in this city. “l;au‘use he has been assured that the business men of the District and the employes in the mercantile estab- lishments and a great army of gov- ernment ' employes in Uncle Sam’s workshop are eager for daylight sav- AMAZED ATWILSON REBUKING TUMULTY Politicians ~ See Break in Repudiation of Harmless Remarks. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Woodrow Wilson's public repudia- tion of a brief and innocuously word- ed message conveyed to a New York political dinner by the man, who for ten years has been his private secre- tary, none other than Joseph P. Tumuity, who lately has published a most laudatory biography of his former chief, has brought dismay to democrats and republicans alike in the National Capital. What does it mean? Is it another break between Woodrow Wilson and an intimate friend, another chapter in the series of personal differences with his supparters which began first with the break between Mr. Wilson ‘Wilson and Col. House and now be- tween Mr. Wilson and his own private secretary of official days? The former President lives in se- clusion. Nothing was said on his be- half today by anybody. And Mr. Tumulty maintained a melanéholy silence. It is net a happy moment for the man who battled faithfully for his chieftain only to be publicly repudiated on a relatively inconse- quential matter, for all political folks brought to the New York dinner was especial _significance triends of Mr. Gox own reasons seen as an indorsement governor. Easily Passed Off. In other days Woodrow Wilson would have written to a New York newspaper in a different vein. would have admitted having discus- sed the matter of a message to the New York dinner with Mr. Tumulty and would have said in a public state- ment that he did not intend his re- marks to be constrifed for or against any candidate now or in the future. This would have confirmed Mr. Tumulty's own statement of his con- versation with Mr. Wilson and would have disclosed exactly how the misunderstanding arose between the two men. The fact that Mr. Wilson, without consulting Joseph P. Tumulty, wrote a letter to a New York newspaser, stating that the message read =t the dinner was not “authorized” and did not see fit to confirm the conversation in which- the remarks attributed to him were voiced is accepted on its face as an evidence of pique on the part of thie former President, and a desire to show the public that Mr. Tumulty 18 not his spokesman. Incidentally political Washington has been buzzing for months with the reports of visits made to the Wilson shrine by worshipers of the former President, who are understood to ‘have criticized severely some of the chapters in Mr. Tumulty’s book. They are said to have urged ‘Wilson to say something publicly or write something which would offset the im- pressions created by certain Tumulty writings. Many of these visitors are known to have been influenced by the surprisingly unfriendly twist which even though may have for their fit to interpret it of the former Ohio ings in the District, and because he believes that the administrative of- ficers of the federal amd District gov- ernments are ready to support such legislation, Representative Ernest R. Ackerman is arranging for a hearing next Wednesday before the House District committee. ~ Representative Ackerman has re- ceived many pledges of support from his associates in Congress on his bill to establish daylight saving within thie District of Columbia, by advanc- ing the standard time one hour at 2 a.m. of the last Sunday in April 8ach l’e!l‘. -and retarding the clock ' one yhour at 2 a.m. of the first Sunday in ; Octobe: | Representative ‘Ackerman figures I'that there.would thus be saved one { additional hour a day for five months rposes to the pe i for recreational pu B. & O.ple in the District, and has computed | s that this. would allow a total of 45,- 1500,000 hours of, daylight that the people of the National Capital could spend out in the air and sunshine. He also calls atténtion to the fact that it i would mean fivé innings. of base ball { without any loss of time from work | to_devotees of that sport. . Representative Ackerman ‘points out that the administration has already been urged by the business ‘men of vashington to support such legislation a direct saving ‘to the federal gov- ernment {n getting its work done bet- ter and fnore expeditiously. He pro- poses to lay before the House District committee reports showing that the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce has written to President Harding solici! his support of day-| - t ek ving, and that the. ta| rocous light saving, and that the Merchanty i critics gave excerpts from the Tumulty volume. Visits Become Rare. Everybody who knows Mr. Tumulty is aware that he had no idea of writ- ing anything that would reflect un- (Oontinued on_Page 20, Column 2.) ship. I didn’t have time to think. It MAN, ASLEEP DURING WORLD WAR, DIES, STILL A MYSTERY TO SCIENCE Special Dispatch to The Star. FORT SMITH, Ark., April 14 Asleep for seven years and a half, with only two brief waking inter- vals, “Jim” Eashlinger, a modern Rip Van Winkle, died here la yesterday. Admitted to a local hospital in 1914, Eashlinger died in ignorance of the world war. Through all the madness of that long conflict he slumbered on, with scarcely a mur- mur from his half-parted lips. . A mystery to physicians and noted . scientists of both America and Europe, the sleeper passed .away, with only a faint sigh. The _murses said he seemed glad to give up the long fight for a conmscious being. Eashlinger and four children came here.in February, 1914, suf- from peliagra. The children A S o Torsig s1d 1n Jupé-of 1914 he sud- and George Harvey, then between Mr. are agreed that what Mr. Tumulty so generally phrased as to be of no; He | Mother and F TO TOP OF MAST UNTIL RESCUED FIVE DROWN AS SHIP. CAPSIZES IN SQUALL ON POTOMAC RIVER our Children Trapped in Cabin When Sud- den Gale Hits Schooner. FATHER AND ELDEST SON CLING Master’s Family Had Just Come Aboard to Sail for New Home near Colonial Beach. " Four children and the wife of Capt. William Lawrence, an eastern shore sailor, were drowned when his schooner, the S. C. Kemble, capsized in a squall about 5:30 o’clock this morning in the Potomac river between Jones’ point lighthouse and Fort Foote, about a mile below Alexan Capt. Law j folk and Washington Steamboat masthead of the sunken craft for The dead are Mrs. Gertrude Another | mother of the following children: Lillian, sixteen ye: fourteen years old; Calvin, ten ye: old. Capt. Lawrence was on the deck of the schooner preparing to set sail for | Machodic, Westmoreland county, Va., | where he was moving his family and household effects from New Alexan- jdria, Va. when the northwest squall istruck the small boat on the star- | board side. capsizing it almost imme- !diately. His wife and children we! |asleep in the cabin, and it is believ- ed that the four drowned children went down with the ship ignorant | of their fate. | Mrs. Lawrence, awakened by the | |cries of her husband, made a vain jeffort to scramble to the deck, but {the craft went under just as she reached the door. Carroll succeeded in getting on the deck of the schooner before she sank and clung to a life | boat. His father, who had been wash- led overboard, grabbed him just as {he was about 1o go under with the {lifeboat and swam with him to the | mast of the schooner, a few feet of which protruded out of the water. The rigging at the top of the mast furnished them with improviced seats, and here they remained until the crew from the passing steamer rescued and brought them to Wash- ington. i Drag for Bodies. Lieut. Russell Dean, in command of the harbor police precinct, and the crew of the police boat Vigilant are dragging the river today in the vicin- ity of the sunken schooner in an ef- | fort to recover any of the bodies that | may have been washed out of the| cabin. Lieut. Dean believes the body of Mrs. Lawrence probably is in the river, because she had reached the door of the cabin when the craft cap- sized. The bodies of the children, in his opinion, are still in the cabin, and the vessel will have to be raised to recover them. The point where the Kemble sank is on the edge of the channel of the river on the Maryland side, where water is about thirty-two feet deep. Some difficulty, it is feared, will be experienced in’ raising the craft be- cause of the depth of the water. According to the story told a Star reporter by Capt. Lawrence, he had just gone to the deck of the boat to hoist the sails, which were furled, when a strong northwest squall came down the river. The schooner was at an- chor with the stern upstream. When the squall struck it, he said, the boat was carried downstream with such force that when it reached the end of the anchor line it upset almost immediately. If the ship had not been anchored, Capt. Lawrence said. probably would have weathered | | | i | { e gale: As the squall neared his craft, Capt. Lawrence said, he velled to his wife and children to come on deck, but only his wife and his eldest son’ Car- roll, apparently heard him. He sai he saw his wife make a fruitless ef- fort to crawl from the cabin just as the craft upset. Cling to Mast. After rescuing his son Carroll, Capt. Lawrence swam with him to the mast of the vessel, which was rest- ing on its side on the bottom, and there they clung until they were picked up by the crew of the Norfolk steamer. Nervously walking to end fro in front of the harbor precinct, and vainly endeavoring to brush back tears that wounld come, Capt. Law- rence told the story of how he and his wife and children had long made plans to move to their new home at Machodoe, Va., a few miles above! Colonial Beach. Frequently he would | break his talk, throw his hands into the air and exclaim: “Oh, my, God. I am a criminal for not trying to get jmy wife and children out of that 1 | denly closed his eyes and sank into a lethargy which the doctors said ‘would prove fatal. But he lingered on and on, his heart action strong and respiration regular and nat- ural. Though he failed to open his eyes or speak for many months, he took food regularly when it was given to him by another hand. The physicians said he did not wake while eating, but an instinct of the body calling for food and Dpourishment was obeyed. Apparently the sleeper suffered no pain or anguish. He seldom changed his position. This first sleep lasted until 1921. March 28 of that year Eashlingér began to show signs of awakening. Doc- tors from three states hurried to the city, - Shortly after 4 o'clock in_.the afternoon Eashlinger's eyelids flick- ered and a slight frown wrinkled his face. Slowly the eyes opened 3 look at the made no_ effort to move or speak. After a few minut closed his eyes n, the left his | and household belongings | Alexandria. | to the top of the ma. | | rlu dria, Va. vrence and his eldest son, Carroll, nineteen years old, were saved by a boat crew from the steamer Northland of the Company, after clinging to the about three-quarters of an hour. Lawrence, forty-five years old, ars old ; Archie, ars old, and Merrill, seven years . T wish T were a the river with them.” For days, Capt. Lawrence said, he and his wife and children looked for- ward to moving to their new home. which they had rented in the coun- try because the rent was cheap: than that he had been paying in N was all so quick. the bottom w Alexandria, where he and his family had lived for the last eleven months Yesterday afternoon they complet- ed the task of moving their furniture on the craft, which had been anchored in the spot where it sank for several days, and vacated their home in New They went to sleep on the vessel last night with visions of setting sail early today for Machodoc, when the northwest squall wiped out. with the exception of his son, his entire familyy Sighted From Stea __The Steamer Northland was plow- ing its way toward Washington in a heavy rain, when Capt. Frederick Posey, in the pilot house, noticed something in fhe water close by the big river steamer. The ship was stopped immediately, and a quick ex- amination showed two men clinging of the sunken Kemble. Capt. Pos ordered the lifeboat manned, and George Eurc, quartermaster, and J. C. Howe, who was on the lookout, with three mem- bers of the grew of the Northland, set out in the boat and rescued them The rescue was effected in eight minutes. When Capt. Lawrence and his =en werc brought aboard the Northland they were fed and ziven dry clothing. After reaching Washington they wer aken to the harbor precinct and later went down the river on the police boat with Lieut. Dean to aid in the search for the bodies. Members of the crew of the North- land who rescued the sole survivors in the disaster, undoubtediy one of the worst_in the annals of the Poto river in recent years, said that only miracle prevented the Northland from striking the mast of the ill-fated schooner and probably killing C: Lawrence and his son. The big river steamer passed within ten feet of Capt. Lawrence and his son befor: Capt. Posey discovered the men in the water, struggling to hold tight to the mast of the sunken craft. When the boat was stopped it was several hundred vards beyond the survivors, and the rescuing crew ex- perienced some difficulty in reaching them due to the high waves. After describing his narrow cscape from death Carroll Lawrence said his mother “was always afraid on the water,” and she had hesitated before agreeing to make the trip down the river. His sister and brothers, he said, loved the water and had no fear whatever of the long-planned trip. Capt. Lawrence, his wife and chil- dren are all natives of Somerset county, Eastern Shore, Md. EXPECT RENT BILL WILL PASS TODAY When the Senate met today it was with the expectation that the bill extending the District rent act for two years from May 22 would be under consideration and perhaps would be passed before adjournment. The bill was made the unfinished business of the Senate on motion of Senator Ball of Delaware, chairman of the District committee. late terday afternoon, following the pas- sage of the agricultural appropria- tion bill. At the suggestion of Senator Fer- nald of Maine, Senator Ball agreed to give way during the morning hour today for the: consideration of the $17,000,000 hospitalization bill _for veterans of the world war. But at 2 o'clock the rent bill, as the unfin- ished business, was due to come up automatically, provided it was not reached in ghe Senate business prior to that hour. Senator Jones of Washington has offered the following amendment to the bill, for the purpose of excluding from the operation of the measure strictly business properties: “The term ‘rental property’ means any bullding or part thereof or land t thereto in the District rented or hired, and the service agreed or required by law or by determination of the commission to be furnished in connection there- with; but does not include (a) any portion of an apartment building, (b) a garage or warehouse, or (c) any other bullding or part thereof or land appurtenant thereto used by the ten- ant exclusively for a business pur- poss other than the subleasing or otherwise subcontracting for use for living accommodations.” While sentiment in the ‘Senate is divided on the Jones amendment, it is considered likely that the amendment will be adopted, 8o as to expedite the passage of the bill. Otherwise, it has been said, a long fight woyld develop which might jeopexdizes the entire re. 2 P pt. y