Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1922, Page 1

| cloudiness; little change | ture. Temperature for | hours ended at 2 p.m. tod: | 3 t 4 p.m. yesterday; a.m. today. Full report on page T. at WEATHER. Fair tonight: tomorrow increasing in tempera- twenty-four ay: Highest, lowest, 61 | | Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 20 No. 28,513. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. ~ @he g Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g | Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1922—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. The Associated paper and also All rights of publication of speetal dispatches berein Member of the Associated Prm-] Press fa exclusively ectitled to || fhe use for republication of all news dispatches | credited o it or not otherwise credited o thls | | the local news published hereis. ; | also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 89,893 TWO CENTS. | FINGER PRIT ALL 0 WORKERS PLAN TODUST ROBBERS Di;covery of 49 Crooks in $2,000,000 N. Y. Robbery Inspires Changes. PRESIDENT ADVISED OF EFFICIENCY MOVE Acting Postmaster General Bart- lett Urges Need of Safe- guarding Mails. Extension of finger printing to the entire postal service of the coun- v 1t of day tha registry is u With Wife and Daugh- ter Sailed for Min- doro Saturday. Governor -May Have Reached Port In Storm. By the Associated Press, MANILA, Philippine Islands, May 23.—Wireless queries to the yacht Apo, on which Governor sGeneral Leonard Wood and his wife and daughter sailed Saturday for Min- doro, have not been answered and the typhoon which raged yesterday | is believed responsible for the delay in_their return, | The Apo is bel refuge in ed to have sought ome port of Mindoro. DAYLIGHT-SAVING division post office had criminal records, ough certified by the Civil Ser- vice Comm 2 Acting Postmaster General lett reported to President vpon th the com ¥ photographing of the 15.000 em s of the postal serv- ice in New York o All of the rty-nine emplc far discov- criminal records have been Mr. Bart- d with X dropped from the service, lett stated, it is 'n that the acting post- master general feels as if the re- Its obtained with finger printing ew York are but additional arg for the character examination: part of regular clvil service aminations which dvocated hen president of the Service Commission. at ment; as Discovery in Arrests. Mr. Bartlett told the President that the discovery luring his inquiry into the arre: ast week of en employes of the office at New York, the arrest clearinz up postal rob- L nding over half a yearand involving almost $2.000.000. The ar- rests aiso thwarted a_ gigantic rob- bery planned for last Friday night Mr. Bartlett stated that the men arrested had admitted that they had secured employment division at the New York office for the soie purpose uf robbing the mails, and declared that he feels it neces- sary to have the entire 15,000 em- ployes there finger-printed. Mr. Bartlett said that both he and Postmaster Morgan of New York sub- mitted to being finger-printed, and that they hoth believe that the step 11 be of the greatest benefit to the tending to eliminate untrust- thy employes and protecting the great bulk of honest employes. Would Cover Employes. 1f consideration now under way by high officials of the Post Office’ De- partment develops, 1 the wholesale finger= ng dn; tuted in New York city will be ex- tended to all large city post offices, where already new employes are finger-printed. Under the wholesale arrangement all employes of such offices would be finger-printed, and perhaps also photographed. The Post Office Department is leav- inz nothing undone, it was intimated, to absolutely rid the postal service of poor quality employes, many of whom were taken on during the war because the service could secure no other kind. In the future a clerk will have to look like an honest man, it was intimated, as wcll as be able to pass a certain mental test Acting Postmaster Ceneral Bartlett will return to New York later in the week to continue his personal investigation. He stated today that the work being done there has the entire support of Postmaster Generat Work, now in the middle west. Mr. Bartlétt will later visit the Chicago office, where conditions similar to #aid to reign. BAGK COMMISSIONS FOR 400 MIDDIES Commissions for all of the approxi- mately 400 midshipmen in this year's graduating class at the United States Naval Academy virtually were assur- ed today, when the Senate naval com- mittee voted unanimously to recom- mend confirmation of their nomina- tions for ensigns, sent to the Senate yesterday by President Harding. The Senate committee’s decision nullifies the provision placed by the| House in the naval appropriation bill | which would give commissions to only 200 of the class. As the Senate: cannot act on the appropriation meas- wre until after_graduation of the class next month, the provision will fail. The question before the Senate com- mittee was whether, in view of the House expression, to proceed with confirmation of the nominations. Sentiment in the Senate was said 10 be overwhelming in favor of giv- ing commissions to all graduates who complete their course. Admiral Wil- son, commandant of Annapolis, has advised senators, however, that 100 or Tiore midshipmen plan to Tesign after securing their commissions. Senators today said that this number probably wouid be reduced after the commis- sions are finally granted and uncer- Rainty removed. MORE GALLONS in the registry| ailing in New York, are| PLAN OPPOSED, 8- 1 First Returns of Star Poll Show 104 of 168 Against Any Change. Régister Your Opinion ‘ About Daylight-Saving | | Rexginter DAYLIGHT your opini on SAVING TODAY i on the cou printed on Page 2 of today's Issue of The Star and wend it immediately to the i Daylight-Saving Editor, Prompt ! | voting will aid in determining the local public opinion on the | matter, to the end that a move- | ment may be started to get what the majority of the people here want. | l Opposition to the daylight-saving plan now in force in this city, in the ratio of eight to one, was expressed by the votes received by The Star to- day. However, a little less than 50 per cent of those who voted against the présent plan on the coupon-print- ed in The Star vesterday and reprint- ed today express a desire for setting the clocks ahead one Nour. Letters poured into The Star office today from those who wished to ex- press themselves on the proposition, but all of them have net yet been tabulated. had been tabulated up to the time this was written, 150 were against the present plan and eighteen for it. Of the 159 agalnst the present arrange- ment, 104 voted against any Kind of daylight-saving by setting the clocks ahead, while forty-six voted for the advancement of the hands of the clock one hour. Of the eighteen for the present plan, ten were in favor of setting the clocks ahead and seven opposed, it. It is desirable that the people ex- press their opinions on the proposi- tion as quickly as possible, to the end that public opinion on the whole mat- ter may be determined, to show Con- gress and government officials just what the people here want. There has been so much difference of opin- ion expressed by people of the city in letters to The Star that it was be- lieved that the only fair way to de- termine the real sentiment was by taking a test vote, and therefore there is printed on page 2 of today's paper a coupon on which readers are urged to express their opinions. DEMAND RECLAMATION AS PLEDGED BY G. 0. P. | Northwestern Editors’ Meeting Threatens Party Bolt if Smith- McNary Bill Fails. YAKIMA, Wash, May 23.—Eleven republican editors of Yakima valley newspapers at a conference here yes- terday decided to telegraph President Harding " and the Washington con- gressional delegation that unless the Smith-McNary bill is passed “they will no longer consider themselves, either by reason of past affiliations or the party’s future promises, to be bound to continue support of the national republican party.” The message declares that the re- publican party pledged itself to “a speeded-up and enlarged program of reclamation” and that the Smith-Mc- Nary bill was “framed as a fulfill- ment of that pledge.” “Failure of the republican majority in Congress to pass the Smith-Mc- Nary bill will be regarded by us as an inexcusable breach of the faith on the part of the national republican party,” the editors declare. Jemremoved Ry Oe o om et STILL VAPOR TO YIELD MILLIONS GASOLINE A YEAR More complete distillation of still vapors at petroleum refineries will result in addition of 120,000,000 gallons of gasoline to the yearly national output, the bureau of mines announced today. As a result of a detailed Investi- gation, D. B. Dow, petroleum en- gineer of the bureau, estimates that 50,000,000 gallons of gasoline were recovered from uncondensed still vapors at refineries in 1931. Application of this system to all refineries would give a possible gasoline recovery by this method of 430,000,000 gallons annually, the bureau announced. With the cost of gasoline to the consumer steadily mounting the bureau has interested itself in the roblem of adding to the nation's 1 production. Calculations of the are based on results obe —_— . tained in refineries whose general methods are more efficient than those employed in hundreds of smaller skimming plants that have no_recovery systems. Unless preventive measures are adopted, the bureau says, losses of gasoline from failure to condense still vapors will increase in the future, because crude oils are being handled in the fleld with increas- ing care to avold evaporation, and will, therefore, contain much lighter and more volatile fractions than at present. “Still vapors,” as defined by the bureau, are pors containing quantities of gasoline in vapor form, oyer and above the gasoline vapors, which pass through the condensing process. In other words, more complete distillation would involve the “still vapors” as well as the heavier vapors, which are now utilized to form commer- cial gasoline. The majority of re- fineries in this country now allow the “still vapors” used. Of the total of 168 which | n. Wood planned a brief visit of | inspection on the island. No serious damage from the typhoon has been reported. VARONTERRORSTS N GEORGA NEARS |Columbus Citizens Raise Funds to Hunt Bombers of Mayor’s Home. By the Assoclated Press, COLUMBUS, Ga., May 23.—Action t terrorism is to be taken to- . according to the committee in |charge, at the biggest mass meeting | | ever held in the history of Columbus. | following the bombing of the home of Mavor J. Homer Dimon early Sun- day orning. | The meeting was called by.a steer- ing committee appointed by Presi-| | dent McClatchey of the chamber of | commerce late yesterday afternoon. | A committee was named by the head |of the trade body from the city and | | county commission and the local pa- | vers to handle the affair, and plans had practically all been completed | at an early hour today. Since Sunday the only topic of con- versation on the streets has been the explosion, the newspapers have taken a strong hand in the ma and | GEN. WOOD'’S YACHT SILENT P ANTO ENFORCE AFTER FIERCE TYPHOON NEW RENTAL LAW Preparing Maghinery to Put Into Effect Ball Act, Just Passed. IMPROVEMENTS ARE SEEN Speculation on Commissioners to Be Named—President May Not Reappoint Two. Members of the District Rent Com- mission today expressed the opinion that the terms of the rent law passed last night “provide improvements over the old Ball act, which will re- sult in an expeditious adjustment of rental and possession contro- versies in the District of Columbia, eliminating much of the delay in hearing and determining cases that have been complained of from time to time in the past. The transfer of all possession dis- putes from the jurisdiction of the nt commission to the Munlclpal ourt and the appointment of a larg- er commission which is empowered to have a number of hearings under way at once before individual mem- bers of the commission are the two changes, which will do most to quick- en the work of the commission, it was pointed out. Benefit to Both Parties. This facility on the part of the com- mission will redound greatly to the benefit of the tenants and the land- lords. who always are desirous of early decision of cases filed with the commission. In addition, tenants and landlords will be benefited, it is stat- ed, by the provision requiring appeals to be taken directly to the District Supreme Court and thence to the United States Supreme Court, as this procedure will result in reduced dura- tion of legal fights in the courts The commissioners, all of whom were In their offices early this morn- ing, were busy discussing the differ- ences of procedure involved in the new law and the adjustments neces- sary to accommodate the work of the commission to the changes. Changes Brought About. Their discussion today brought out the fact that there are half a dozen | changes, as follows: 1. The new law creates a commis- sion of five members ,to be nominated by the President. The old law pro- vided for but three members. 2. The new law empowers the com- missioners to hear cases as individ- editorials written in the strongest language possible have appeared| daily. Condemned by Clubs. During Monday the chamber ot commerce, American Legion and the Benevolent and Protective Order of | Elks passed resolutions condemning the bombing. The employes of the National Show Case Company, of which Mayor Dimon is president, went |further than any of the others, with the exception of the Ku Klux Klan, who offered a reward of $1,000, and [made up $500 to add to the rewards already announced. Two more missives warning the mayor and city manager that their lives were still in danger, and “this Is our last warning,” were recelved late yesterday by the mayor. The first Warning was Issued on April 24, a few days after an attack on City Manager H. Gordon Hinkle, which he managed to escape with a slight cut on the head, from which he soon recovered. One of the missives was a_post- card, which was signed K. K. K., while the other, a letter, was un- signed. They were mailed in Colum- bus Menday morning. Called Last Warning. The text of the communications are as follows, the first being the postcard: “This was only a warning. We will ‘get you next time. Damn your $50,000. You may offer a million dollars and still not get us. You and Hinkle must go and go at once. This is your last warning. “(Signed) K. K. K" The text of the letter: Mr. Homer Dimon: “We asked you to fire that blue- bellied Yankée and you did not do it. You See_what we are going to do to you. We will get you both if ou don't fire him at once. “This is our last warning. It will be too late for you when you find out who we are.” Act at once.” Klansmen Join Hunt. Asserting that the “Ku Klux Klan of Columbus did not send the post- card signed K. K. K.,” Dr. W. F. Whitehead, reputed local leader of the order, said: “The Ku Klux Klan stand ready to aid the authorities in any way pos- sible to run down the lawless ele- ment. “We are ready to do anything we can toward the mpprehension of the bombers and assailants of the city manager. Our organization does not stand for any acts of lawlessness, and we would be glad for the city and {county police and sheriff officials to {call on us for any assistance we may ibe able to render in bringing these acts of lawlessness to a head in Co- lumbus.” In addition to the rewards offered for the person or persons responsible for the placing of the bomb on the porch of the mayor's home, the city commission has announced that it wiil give $1,000 for the assailants of the city manager, and other civic and business institutinos have offered ad- ditional rewards that will run the regate near $12,000. e CONFER ON D. C. TAX. Two-Payment Plan’s Seemed Probable. The tax prdvisions of the District appropriation bill weré. the subject of another conference today, in which Senator Phipps of Colorado, In charge of the District bill; Senator Jones of ‘Washington and Edward F. Colladay, republican national committeeman of the Duzlrlct. took part. After 'the conference it was sald that the prospects for bringing about an amendment of the tax rider, 50 as to ‘provide fof payments of real es- tate twice & year, instead’of in} order 1o h o p;t.' Kp gt on &) Success enabling the hearing of as many ve cases at one time, the deter- mination, however, to be concurred in by all five. The old law provided for hearing#Wefore the commission as a whole. 3. The new law transfers posses- sfon cases from the Rent Commission to th; courts. 4. The new law provides that an owner may regain possession of his property from a tenant for purposes of occupancy by himself or family, or for the purpose of materially re- modeling the property for any use, or for tearing down the building either to erect a new building of any description or for turning the prop- erty over to some public or quasi- public use. The old law provided that the owners could only regain possession of their property for—thelr own use of for the use of their fam- flies or for the purpose of erecting new rental property. Question of Appeals. 5. The new law directs that ap- peals from the decisions of the Rent| Commission must be taken to the District Supreme Court, and, if ap- pealed from that court, to the United States Supreme Court by writ of certeora. The old law provided that appeals be taken to the Court of Appeals. 6. The new law provides that, pend- ing an appeal from the determination of the rent commission, a tenant whose rent has been increased by tne commis- sion shall continue to pay his old rent to the owner and shall pay to the com- mission the amount of the increase, | there to be impounded awaiting court action. The old law compelied the ten- ant to pay the increased rent fixed by the commission and provided for a re- fundment by the owner in the event of a reversal of decision by the court. Numerous other provisions are in- cluded In the newly-enacted legislation that will serve to clear up vague points of the previous law and tend to expe- dite action all along the line. Rent Commissfoners Act. ‘' When navs of the passage of the act and of its enactment into law reached the rent commissioners last night they immediately issued an order continuing in office pro tempore.all present em- ployes of the commission. The commis- sion has before It, awalting hearing, about 1,000 petitions. Some of these involve possession disputes, and these will be turned over to the municipal court in accordance with provisions of the law. Several cases which had been heard but on which there was no time left to render decision, will be de- termined at once and dated May 22, it is_understood. Employes in the office of the commis- slon expect to Teceive a flood of new complaints this week, and preparations are being made to take care of the rush of work. Commissioners to Be Named. President Harding will lose very little time in making ‘his selections of those to serve on the rent commis- sion. In making this known at the ‘White House today it was explained that the President wishes first to make a suitable Inquiry into the eli- gibility of the several candidates whose names have been placed before him for consideration, It is understood that the executive will confer late today or tomorrow with Senator Ball, author of the rent law and Edward F. Colladay, repub- lican national committeeman for the District of Columbia, when the mat. ter of- selecting the five rent commis- sioners will be gone into very thor- ughly. “Ig is known that the two latter sev: eral weeks ago placed in the hands of the President the names of five persons whom they approved for ap- pointment. s May Not Be Reappolinted. The concensus among those who are in & position to know Is that A. Leftwich Sinclalr and Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, who were appointed to the commission by President Wilson, will not be rn.f.polnua by President e g R | PRESIDENT HOPING * FORGUTSINRATES But Executive Fully Realizes Obstacles Railroads Face in Taking Step. President Harding was repre- sented at the White House today as merely hopeful that voluntary reduction in transportation rates would result from last Saturday night's White House dinner con- ference attended by nineteen of the leading railroad executives of the country. Obstacles in the way of obtain- ing voluntary action by the rail- roads in the way of rate reductions on the thoroughgoing basis de- sired by the administration were described at the White House as somewhat formidable. while the Interstate Commerce Com- mission is completely empowered to | official put it, a “long drawn-out proc- | ess” to get substantial decreases by The major alterations necessary in rallroad rate structure would come about very quickly, in the administra- tion view, if the railroad managers would go Into conference with the | Interstate Commerce Commission, and take the steps in a whole-hearted and expeditious fashion Many Dificulties Seen. about voluntary agreements as to reductions officials pointed out that some railroads have more traffic in | basic commodities than in the clas- | sified frelght shipments, and accord- coal reduction,” railroads with more of other freights to-handle might consent. more at present than they have earn- ed for many years, while in the west low, comparatively. particular care in 2 rates which would not intensify the discrepancies in the territorial earn- ings already indicated. Steel Changes More Likely. his intervention into the transporta- in the same fashion, namely, White House dinner table. Railroad presidents who to recount, it was said. as one barrier to rate reduction. ‘While no changes in the transpor- tation act will be advocated by the administration as a result of the dis- cussion, President Harding is said to feel that the Labor Board, now sta- tioned in _Chicago, ‘“ought to be brought to Washington, so that there can be some contact between those who fix rates and those who fix wage costs of transportation. POSTPONE WEDDING DATE. nd Marriage of King Alexander ™ Princess Marie June 8. By the Associated Press, BELGRADE, May 23.—The marriage of Kimg Alexander of Jugoslavia to Princess Marie of Rumania, which was set for June 1, has been post- poned until June 8, it was announced today. The postponement was at the re- quest of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Rumania, because of the poor health of their eldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth, wife of Crown Prince George of Greece. Princess Elizabeth has been ill several weeks and for a time was in a grave con- dition. Slow improvement has been noted within the last few days, how- ever. MINE HOME DYNAMITED. Family of Small Owner Thrown From Beds in Early Blast.’ UNIONTOWN, Pa, May 23.—The family of Emmett Diamond, living in Masontown, near here, was thrown out of bed early today by a blast of dyna- mite which wrecked part of the house. Diamond, his wife and two children ‘were In the house at the time. Diamond Is the owner of & small coal mine near his home. It had- idle riionn, last Mo sen one_ oars be. 2 The President was said to feel that { reduce rates, it would take, as one detailed commerce commission orders. ! In stating difficulties in bringing ingly “a coal railroad could not be expected to shout itself hoarse for| even though other Another difficulty was eited in that| some eastern railroads are earning railroad earnings continue to be very This requires a | the making of President Harding was said to feel that he does not have as much hope of securing immediate results from tion field as he does from his urging of abandonment of the twelve-hour day in the steel industry, which was| taken up almost simultaneously and with men chiefly concerned invited to the talked with the President had many troubles The wage situation, which is controlled largely by the Railroad Labor Board, was frequently cited by the railroad men Lost $12,500 In Dice Game, Alleges Sui® Against J. D. Dodge DETROIT, Mich., May 23.— John Daval Dodge loxt $12,500 in a dice game in 1921, accord- ing to the complaint in a wuit brought in circult court here by Al Day, boxing bout referee. Day weeks to collect $10,000, pasment of a cheek for that amount having been stopped by Dodge. Another cheek for $2,500 was | clafms the dice uned “londed.” and that was arranged to “al n. Day declarex the game ax played with Dodge’s gold ‘bones.” PARIS CLEARS DECK | FOR REPARATIONS By the Associated Press PARIS, May 23—The chamber of | deputies at its opening today was so | anxjous to get to work upon the! problems raised by the Genoa con-.! ference and impending through the reparations eituatfon that it ad- journed for only forty-five minutes! in honor of the late President Des- chanel instead of until Friday, as was | expected. Raoul Peret, president of the cham- ber, delivered a memorial oration for the late president, describing him “as one of the men who loved France best and served her with the great-| est fervor. Premier Poincare, in the] name of the government, also spoke in culogy of the man who suc- ceeded him in the palace of the Elysee. BANKERS TO MEET. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1822, PARIS, May 23—Beginning Wed nesday morning, Mr. J. P. Morgan of | New York and M. Vissering of Hol- |1and, representing enormous €nancial | {interests outside the sphere of allied { control, will put their heads togethe: jand with other bankers will talk over the problem of giving the allied reparations commission sound busi ness advice on the floating of an in- | ternational loan for Germany. The meeting ought io be important on| account of its business basis and the exclusion of politics. This is the first time the neutrals have had an official opportunity to ex- press their views on reparations. The findings may startle the irreconcilables, Although called for a limited purpose | Wednesday's assemblage of bankers | will hardly be able to avoid plunging deep into the heart of the indemnity deadlock because eacR aspect of that | complex question is inextricably bound up with others. The program the financlers are to deal with is sald to include the amount of the loan, the collateral to secure it and the administration of | the revenues or assets assigned as collateral. If any loan to suc- ceed it must have securities of the most unimpeachable sort behind it. The collapse of the mark has made the world suspicious of German sol- vency and nobody will lend Germany any‘money save on bonds of a water- tight character. But the reparations commission already has a first-lien mortgage on all the resources of the German reich, and the question is whether it will surrender its claims to the bankers' committee. Sharp discussioris between the neu- trals and France may take place on this point. The writer has reason to believe that the bankers will de- mand tobacco and alcohol monopolies from the German government. The Germans drink, the Germans smoke and the Germans pay out large sums of money in taxes on these two items. U. S. Expected to Take Burden. Any international loan floated at the present time presumes major par- ticipation by the United States. No- body seems to know exactly what percentage Mr. Morgan thinks his country can swallow, but assuming that the German loan is placed at $1,000,000,000, it is safe to assume that the United States would be expected to subscribe for at least half of that sum. What conditions will the Amer- fcan bankers stipulate for such par- ticipation? Probably a reduction of the indemnity bill, the payment of & high rate of interest and an assur- ance from the allies that they will not disarrange German finances by invading the domains of the reich. The greatest bone of contention, however, promises to be the partition of the loan. France will demand 50 per cent because she has the right o that share of the reparations. Ger- many will want 25 per cent to stabil- ize the value of the mark to buy raw materials. Britain, Belgium and Italy are sure to call for their shares. Squabbles and disputes on this point are sure to arise. If France learns that her share will amount to a dis- proj nstols b;;.im she may | prefer tfjreject the bankers' recom- 1 ForMeR Kaiser. MAY GET ForRTY SEVEN MilLion Six HUNDRED - THouSAND DoLLaRS From BERUN. WOMEN T0 DEMAND STHT PLATFORNS New Voters Lean to Pro- gressive Wing—Oppose “Professional Politician.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Political phrases are bandied about but the indications are that aigning hereafter will require a more accurate definition of what's a “progressive” and what's & ‘“reac- tionary,” or “conservative. The consensus of opinion here is that the women are leaning toward the progressive side in each of the big parties. But what is the progressive side? Is it still what it was in 1912— a revolt against party organizations and the comservative policy of let well enough alone? Is it & protest against machine control or is it an affirmative activity, a course of po- litical action with a well defined ob- jective? Means Something Definite. Well, whatever it may have been in the past, whatever personal fond- ness for the Rooseveitian philosopny or doctrine it may have meant to re- publicars, or whatever affinity it may have denoted in the democratic party for Wilsonism, it is going to mean something definite this year. _ Politicians have already ensed some of the tendencles of the woman voter and are beginning to analyze and study them further. The first and most decided charac- teristic which has yet appeared is the judgment of the individual—his men- tal and moral value to the conimunity. The women have shown a remarkable inclination toward the candidates whose personal reputation is devoid of the taint of professional politics. A man who has been “playing pol tics” all his life and is part and par- cel of the old-time political organiza- tions has much less chance nowadays as opposed_to new blood. Feeling More Intense. Second, organization and previous methods of party canvass is growing more intense every day. The solicitation of votes through "the hiring of professional ward workers may have worked all right In the past, but from, what lit- tle can be gathered from close ob- servation of the woman vote, the cus- tom is bound to hurt the political candidates who use it rather than help them. In short, the women are inclined to be rather resentful of at- tempts to influence their Yotes—they want 1o be left free to make up their own minds. Third, the women are anxious to quiz the candidates and get them on record on definite queries of interest to them and the community. This is getting to be more noticeable in state and local elections where women have organized and the candidates are showing much more regard for these questionnaires than ever be fore. And what's more, the women are beginning to check up after elec- tion and see whether the candidates have sincerely kept their promises. Far From Radicals. Is the woman voter a radical? Far from it. Candidates of proved worth to the Congress and state legislatures who are conservative in their policies but who work hard at their jobs and attend to busipess have received the support of woman voters. It isn't so much the particular trend of a candidate’s_thought on public_ques. the feeling against party | (Centinued on Page 2, Column 1.) SOSANFEINERS CALEHT B ULSTER LEADERSINRADS Swarms of Police Sweep Down on Homes of Officers. All to Be Interned. BRITISH CABINET TAKES UP NEW IRISH CRISIS Dublin Amazed by Big Belfast Round-Up—Ard Fheis Adopts Peace Pact. By the Associated Press BELFAST, May 22 was officially stated at 4 o'clock this afternoon that 300 Sinn Feiners had been taken p oner by the Ulster authorities and that they would be interned. The greatest raid in the recent his- tory of Ireland was carried out early today, when swarms of police s through Ulster, rounding up sinn Feiners, the majority of whom were Irish republican army The northern gover: was taken, it was state fort to suppress not only republican and the Irish r brotrerhood, but all other S organ in the x areas. officers. ent's action in un et- Irish publican nn Fein n the ations Ralds Follow Twaddell Marder. The government's move swiftly upon Irish reputl raids and burnings of bu counties of Down and A intensified hostilities cently, culminas yesterday of W. | ber of the Ulster pa Nearly every tow Ulster was visited, the prisoners w: try districts, from f; paratively few capiure 1in Belfast and most sh re {publican army m.en £ in the Sinn Fein districts of Belfast, an- ! ticipating action by the police as a 1reuult of the Twaddell assassination, had gone “on the run.” The captures include Capal Healy member of the Fermanash county council and prominent ~ leader in that district; Thc rigan, accountant for the F. county council; Sheridan, chairman of the recently dissolve Newry boards of guardians, and Eu- gene ~ McGllligan. county enuneilor, who was the Sinn Fefp candidate in !\;o:& Derry at the general elec- tioft. Early Estimates Too High. The early estimates of the number of prisoners taken ran as high as 1,500, but these proved to be greatly exaggerated, and officlals expressed belief that up to this noon the total had not exceeded 200. in Belfast par- ticularly. the number of Irish repub- lican army men caught fell far below the early estimate. The big encircling movement was begun at about 4 o'clock, and the work of visiting the various houses, town and county, was rapldly carried out. Several hundred members of the constabulary and a large staff of of- ficers were on duty from midnight completing the arrangements. Most of those wanted®were completely sur- prised and in nearly every instance were aroused from sleep. As a part of the comprehensiv scheme embracing all of Ulster, t special police were active in Fe: managh during the night and early morning, arresting every Sinn Feiner known to’be an officer or to have au- thority in the ranks of the Irish re- publican army. Only about sixty Irish republichn army officers were cap- tured in Fermanagh, but it is learned the authorities are making a fairly clean sweep of the men who exercised influence in the ranks of the army fp that part of Ulster. Fifty-Two Arrests in Belfast. Among those arrested in Enniskil len were Capal Healy, a member of the Fermanagh county council and well known leader of the Sinn Fein party in that district; W. J. Nethercot, a member of the Enniskillen urban i council, and Thomas Corrigan, | ac- ‘| countant for the Fermanagh cofinty counel. While the raids were proceeding, tenders were busy conveving the spe- cial police and their prisoners from {the outlying districts. In Belfast fifty-two were arrested. but these did not include any well known party leaders, while the Falls road section, with its big republican population, was entirely unrepresented. Absence of the republicans from their homes is ascribed to anticipation of reprisal for the assassination of W J. Twaddell, member of the Ulster parliament. In County Londonderry fourteen ar- rests were made, those taken includ- ing several members of the irregular forces operating in the eastern part of County Donegal. Ulster Outrages Continue. Garron Tower, the County Antrim | mansion of Lord Londongerry. recent- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) HOW FAR CAN MAN “JOLLY” GIRL ANSWER ASKED IN DIVORCE CASE Special Dispatch to The Star. LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 23.— The extent to which a man may practice deception in the wooing and winning of & maid, when such misrepresentations chiefly concern his virtues, graces, accomplish- ments and social standing, is the fine line which Judge Hahn has been asked to draw in the suit for aennulment of marriage brought by Laura 8. Fowle against Charles A. G. Blossom. Ministers, welfare workers and clubwomen at once pounced upon the suit as raising a question of vital importance to the whole country, already agitated over the question of uniform divorce laws, to make stronger the bonds of wedlock. The majority opinfon the imaginative wanderings of the male wooer and to grant the wife rellef if she can prove that her husband has transgressed the limit in his roseate dreams of past and future in the course of his ‘woolng. Weat va. New England. Judge Hahn, however, hes found another angle to this particular case that largely is geographical. It 80 happens that Laura S. Fowle, before her marriage to Blossom, was a prim and pretty maid of Boston, schooled in the precepts of New England manners, while Blossom, of Los Angeles, was a product of the great west, the glo- rious and boundless west of free- dom of action and vision—a man wof. a big -country, who saw things Jin & big way, to put it politely. definite 'mnnnlnut of the marriage is