Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1922, Page 1

Falr tonight and tomo! what cooler tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 91, at 8 p.m. vesterday; lowest, am. today. Full report on page 7. WEATHER. rTow; some- 69, at 2:30 s, Page 19 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bond: f——— No. 28533, Towthes Nasnington D © @he WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 12, benin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION v Sar 1922 —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Member of eredited to it or AN righte dispatches LeRn are also reserved. the Associated Press The Associated Press fs exclosively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches met otherwise credited in this vaper and also the local news published beres. of publication of specisl * Saturday” * Sunday’s Net Circulation, 88,553 Net Circulation, 83326 TWO CENTS. HURRIGANE DEATH TOLL LEAPS T0 B0 IN NEW YORK 18 More Bodies Swept Ashore Today by In- _coming Tide. HYSTERICAL RELATIVES KEEP ALL NIGHT VIGIL _!eacfi Resort Hardest Hit; Ferris Wheel Loaded With Children Crushed by Wind. thie Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, June 12.—The death foll of the briet but terrific hurri- cane that swooped down on the metropolitan area late yesterday passed the sixty mark today, with Indications that the total number of fiead might go much higher. The death list leaped ahead when #n incoming tide returned eighteen $iore bodies that had been swept out 10 sea last night. Four more bodies were recovered at Hunters 1sland and two were reported to have heen picked up at Travers Island. City Island—haven for Sunday Pleasure-seekers and amateur fisher- znen—was the hardest-hit point in the Yuetropolitan area, but casualties, amostly by drowning, were reported from many other points. The beach «t City Island today presented a deso- late spectacle. Severa} hundred per€ons -—relatives of the missing—worn by hysteria, waited in little groups among the wreckage on the sand for some word of the fate of their loved ines. Marine squad police, exhausted B their all-night vigil, continued their cruise, keeping a sharp look- wut for additional bodies. 46 Boats Missing. The full toll of the storm may not be known for days. The crowds that thronged City Island yesterday were drawn from parts of the metro- politan district and probably num- bered many persons from distant voints, who had gone to the island 10 escape the broiling heat of a Sun- tay in New York. The list of mis the police sons ng. being complled bureau of missing per- ew steadily. on fourteen persons had been missing. Police said many crs probably were missing who iad 1ot heen reported. Boxt men at City Island said there re fortr-six small boats as yet un- unted for. Occupants of many these undoubtedly were by iled States coast guards and by 1 yembers of yacht clubs about the jsiand. who put out as scon as the terrific blow had subsided. But the police believe many more were lost. There were at least 250 small boats and canoes out when the squall atruck. More Than 100 Hurt. More than 100 were injured in the tempest, which roared out of the hills of northern New Jersey, beat the Hudson In foam capped breakers, awept across New York city and then seemed to center its wild energy on City Island and its vicinity. Thousands of rowboats and launches dotted the sound off City Island just before the breaking of the storm:; when it had passed. the water was strewn with overturned craft, and the buildings on shore re- sembled a battle-torn village in No Man's Land. Many parties hurrying for safety saw people struggling in the water, but dared not stop for ' fear of capsizing their own craft. The rescue work started immediately, but darkness and _the panic-stricken crowds hindered the labors of the volunteer life-savers. Damage Totals $1,000,000. Property damage estimated at from $1,000,000 to several times that amount was done by the tornado. The storm followed a day of intense heat and was as sudden as it was violent. Low hanging clouds across the Hudson river were observed, but they seemed to be far away, and dan- ger unforeseen. Then, like magic, the western heavens took on a sinister the clouds seemed to dip to- aspe ward the earth, and before the fright- wned people exposed to the elements, could reach places of safety the wind came. (lasons Point, a recreation place near City Island, was in the direct path the hurricane. A Ferris wheel, heavily freighted with chil- dren and youug people, had just be- gun to revolve with its passengers awhen the wind struck it. So sudden was the transition from a bright June sky to inky clouds that the men §n charge of the wheel could not stop ji and discharge the persons in the cars before the top of the wheel was forn away and the remainder crash- ©d to the ground. a tungled skein of stecl, Dozens were buried in the wreck. Six bodies were later taken out, and more than two score were attended by ambulance surgeons. A seventh victim died this morning. Frail Buildings Crushed. Frail buildings were crushed by the mighty weight of the wind; electric Jight wires were torn away, and in the darkness torrential rain - the and rescuers could do little until the storm had subsided. Hysterical men and women, tearing blindly at the wreckage, hindered rather than help- ed the workers engaged in lifting the yains of the wheel Police reserves yumbering 200 were rushed to the .ne wnd they restored order. "Ihe gale, which swept entire metropolitan district, was ac- Companied by rain, which stung like : lash from the force of the wind. S1uge trees in Central Park were up- Tuoted and tossed across the drive- ways. Five people were hurt when the wind blew out great plateglass fronts of stores along Broadway and scattered haberdashery and clothing along the street. in Brooklyn lightning struck a sireet car and knocked six passen- gers unconscious. Electric signs atong the white way seemed spe- cia) targets of the cyclonic wind. A huge sign extolling the virtues of an automobile tire, was torn loose from its moorings, toppled over onto skylight, carried a smaller sign \ith it, in its plunge and started a fire trom disconnected wiring. The foree of the crash set off an auto- jnatic burglar alarm and fire alarm. Thousands in Boats Hit by Storm. Twenty -thousand holiday makers t to City lIsland yesterday and (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) across the | SLAYER OF PREMIER HARA | IS JAILED INDEFINITELY Sentence Passed on Korean Lad. Another Acquitted on Charge of Instigating Murder. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 12.—Imprisonment for an indefinite period was the sen- tence Imposed today on Ryichl Naka- oka, the Korean lad of nineteen, who assassinated Premier Takashi Hara, in a rallway station here last Novem- ber 4. Hashimoto, who was charged with An;llgatlng the murdér, was acquit- ted. DEMAND ENDING OF DAYLIGHT PLAN Senators Urge President to Issue Order Favoring 0id System. President Harding was urged to put an end to the present daylight-saving order in the District in a speech to- day in the Scnate by Senator Dial of South Carolina. Senator Watson of Georgla also argued for the old order. Mr. Dial suggested that the Presi- dent shoulg let the old time in the departments go back into operation June 15. He sal, e Public Awalting Action. “The public has been walting very patiently for the President to modify the order in regard to this so-called daylight-saving. A short time ago The Star told us that by a vote of 10 to 1, I believe, the people who had voted did not approve present ar- rangements, and recently we have read in the News that the employes u; the government, or a great many o the them, voted ‘most strenuously against this new scheme that is in effect. was in hopes that the par who imposed upon the Pre telling him that this was would have the manhood to go bacl and ask him to revoke the order.” Disregarded by Big Men. Senator Watson said that the day- light-saving' plan was working for the smaller men and women government service, but was disre- garded by the big men. He said that a young woman who worked in the State Deartment told him that she had been assigned to three different offices of the big men to take short- hand and not a single one of those men was on duty when the office opened. ticularly interested in the schools, and that, while it is true that the .Wl will soon be closed, he did nol ant such a precedent estab- lished here. AT WANTS A AS NEXGAN CHEF ! Provisional Cabinet List In- ; cludes Gen. Palaez as | War Secretary. | By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., June 12.—Manifes- tos issued today in El Paso over the name of Felix Diaz, now in New York, for a conference with leaders of alleged Mexican revolutionary fac- tions, set forth the names of the president and members of the-cabinet of the provisional government, which, it was said, he proposes to establish. Francisco Leon de la Barra would be provisional president. Other ex- ecutives would be: Secretary of exc terior relations, Lic Don Emilio Ra- basa; secretary of the interior, Lic Rodolfo Reyes, now in Madrid, Spain; secretary of war and navy, Gen. Man- uel Palaez, residence in Los Angeles; secretary of treasury, Toribio Esqui- zel Obregon, now in New York; sec- retary of communications, Manuel | Calero, now in New York; secretary of agriculture, Dr. Francisco Vazquez Gomes, now in Los Angeles; secretary of industry and commerce, Manuel Garza Aldape, now in New York: sec- retary of public instruction, Loises Lopez. FIRST MOVE BY PALAEZ. EL PASO, Tex., June 12.—Gen. Man- uel Palaez, who resigned from the| Mexican army tPree weeks ago after controlling the, Tampico ol several years, is in New York, ac- cording to reports in revolutionary circles here, for a conference with | revolutionary leaders, including Feliz | | Dlaz, Gen. Francisco Murguia of San | Barra, former foreign minister in | Mexico, who has been residing in Paris. - 1t the reports are correct this Is | the first move made by Gen. Palaez, which, it was said, would directly cgnnect him with the anti-Obregon activities. BLANCO’S MOTHER IN PLEA, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 12.—Urg- ing President Harding to take action and punish those responsible for the “kidnaping and murder” of Gen. Lucio Blanco, whose body was drag- ged from the Rio Grande at Laredo Thursday, handcuffed to that of his triend, Col. Auelio Martines, a tele- gram, it was learned today. has been sent by Maria Flentes Uda de Blanco, mother of Blanco. It also requested President Harding to extend guar- antees for the protection of lives of her other sons, who are political ref- ugees in the United States. —_— TWO FLYERS INJURED. AUGUSTA, Ga., June 12.—Maj. C. J. Brainerd, United States Marine Corps, and Lieut. R. T. Aldsworth, United States air service, both of Ellington Field, Texas, were injured here ye: terday afterioon when the airplane in which they were traveling crashed to the ground at the landing fleld at ' failure” a the Cawp Hancock site. < Delegates, in the | Senator Dial said that he was nnr»{ Mr. Gompers. | what P fields | Antonlo and Francisco Leon de 1a|ing the child labor act. MANY VITAL ISSUES AWAIT SOLUTION AS A.F.OF L CONVENES Open Shop, Wage Cuts, Russ Recognition and Court Decisions on Agenda. PRESIDENT, CONGRESS AND JURISTS ATTACKED Gompers Declares Service to! Masses, Freedom and Progress to Guide Deliberations. By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 12—The open shop, unemployment, wage Te- | ductions, recognition of soviet Rus-| | sia, the one big union, court decisions | |and injunctions affecting labor, and other subjects formed the major is- | sues that confronted the American | Federation of Labor, which convened | here. The report of the executive coun- cil on many of these issues was ready | for presentation to the delegates. | No debate was on the program for | the opening sessions because of the | preliminary routine and introduction | | of resolutions, some of these possibly presenting new issues. Delegates | here for the opening were elected to! number 500, forming what Samuel | | Gompers, the federation president, | described as the ‘“parliament of labor.” | “Our consideration of industry and {industrial problems.” said a formal | | statement by Mr. Gompers, forecast- ! ins the convention’s work, “will be ! from the point of view of service to | the masses of our people. Our con- | sideration of political problems will i be from the point of view of freedom and progress for humanity.” i The big National Guard armory far removed from the city's business | district, is the seat of the convention. | forming in parade down- | marched to it for the opening | on at 10 o'clock. A thousand zs formed the decorations and a nd of 100 pieces played the ac- | ompaniment for delegates singing “America” as the first item on the program. After prayer by the Rev. Father eter Dietz, the program centered bout a series of welcome addreésses by Mayor George P. Carrel, Secre- tary T. J. Donnelly of the Ohio State | | Federation of Labor, and others, end- | {ing with Adelf Kummer, the tem- | porary chairman, presenting a gavel, | made by Clncinnati carpenters, to/ i | tow Addressing _ the convention, ~ Mr. Gompers sald that organized labor was “not in a mood to have constitu- tional rights and privileges taken from us by any subtle reasaning or assumption of power, no matter whence it emanates. Labor demands, Mr. Gompers con- tinued. employers meet in conference for settlement of disputes, but, he said. genuine conference was Impos- | sible unless both sides meet on equal- ity Asserting that labor was confronted by foes, Mr. Gompers added that “we do not becloud our minds now and fool ourselves into any fancled se- curity.” Discussing the disarmament confer- ence, Mr. Gompers said that not much had been accomplished compared with 50 much that needs to be done, but he added, that a_beginning had been made toward ending war. He advo- cated the abolishment of submarine chasers as well as dreadnaughts, as- | | serting that ‘“the little fellows can put up about as good a fight as the i big ones.” Organized labor throughout the world, he concluded, had made “the greatest contribution’ toward limiting armament.” Year of Strife. The record of organized labor's a complishment in “a year of unusual strife and unusual industrial depres- sion” was lald before the convention in the report of the federation's ex-! ecutive council. The report declared that American labor during the year not only suf- fered from the widespread unemploy- ment that existed but was beset “by opponents more active and deter- | mined than ever.” | The report explicitly and pointedly criticized Congress and of some state gislative bodies. Fault was found | ith the action of some courts, in- cluding the Supreme Court, =nd with was described as President | Harding's “proposal to regulate trade unions.” The report declared that in the direct labor field, “workers in a num- ber of industries have been compelled to resort to cessation of work,” be-| ause “organized. employers” were unwilling to meet workers in con- | ference.” ‘The most: important in stance was declared to be the cause of the existing coal mine strike, al- though troubles in the textile, gar- ment, printing, granite, and packing house industries also were cited. “We submit that it is vital that| there be a return of good faith in| industry. If it is impossible to have faith in pledges, then the industrial structure will be undermined.” Turning next to courts, the coyncil protested “most emphatically against | such unjust and inhumane decisions” as that of the Supreme Court void- Instances of “most flagrant abuses | of ‘equity power" were declared to be contzined in Federal Judge Ander- | scn’s order at Indianapolis, enjoining { continuance of the “check-off” system | of collecting miners union dues, and |in Federal Judge McClintic's. decis- |ion in West Virginia against strikers | of the same union in that state. This |Tatter decision the report character- ized as “conclusive evidence that the | injunction, as used, is devoid of all i sense of fairness and decency. {"'The executive council described fts | irenewal of non-partisan political | | cambaign organizing In advance of [ the fall elections and expressed “sat- !isfaction over the wonderful enthu- | siasm expressed” by every local or- | ganization of labor. “The campagin | effort will be to focus votes behind a program of “opposition to compulsory {1abor law,” and “opposition to injunc- !tions and contempt proceedings as | substitute for trial by Jjury,” the | council sad. Congress Is Attacked. “Congress has proved that only those who are well-to-do or control great interests can induce it to lis- ten,” the council said. ‘Unless there is a change in the personnel (of the ouse and Senate), people can pre- pare themselves for still greater suf- fering @nd injustice.” State legislative bodies also were taken to task in some cases, chiefly in the matter of compulsory arbitra- tion laws. The XKansas industrial .described as n utter similar legislation in T L0 LR Uil 4 vge - Ol | | through private loans is remote. | either through postponement or actual PsHaw’ (T 1 MayBE NIY KEPT HERES® - ALL_SU A ¥ Two L) Stranded Aviator Kept Up a Tree Entire Night by a Panther. MORGAN BEARSOUT GOVERNMENT VIEW Reasons for Calling German Loan Impracticable Give Satisfaction. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although J. P. Morgan attended the bankers' conference at Paris purely as a private citizen and possessed of no official connection with the Unite: States government, the statement he issued in France, setting forth the | reasons why a loan to Germany was at present impracticable, was re- ceived here with the fullest satistac- tion. Mr. Morgan's 'insistence that the reparations problem must first be settled, and that there must be| unanimity among the allies on this| question, is reflection of the views held in"dMetal quarters here. The eftort of certain semi-official newspapers in France to blame the United States for the failure of the bankers' conference on the ground that German reparations cannot be reduced because America will not re- duce the allied war debt. was met today by informal statements on the part of high officials here to the effect that German reparations and the allied debt payments to America were two separate and distinct things. This was the position of the Wilson administration whenever the subject was broached abroad, and officials today emphasized that the Harding administration felt the same way about it. Try to Shift Burden. The French stood 8o positively against reducing German reparation | payments that the effort of the in- ternational bankers to arrange for a loan to Germany wherewith to pay her debt gradually was doomed. France, however, is unwilling again to be placed in the position of block- ing world reconstruction and the French press is, therefore, trying to shift the burden to America. This kind of tactics hardly increases the affection of one country for the other and admittedly makes a settlement in the future much harder, but so long as those in authority in France stand adamant on the reparation question the chance of American co-operation Since the American government took { its stand firmly against the lending of any more government funds to Eu- rope the only opportunity European governments have had to adjust their finances has been through loans floated by the private bankers of the United States and other countries where the war did not materially af- fect Investment resources. Mr. Mor- gan's trip to Europe was undertaken with the belief that the French would consent to a modification of the scale of reparation payments, and with the expectation that a loan to Germany would start the ball of reconstruction rolling in Europe. France owes large sums to Great Britain and has been insisting from the start that her pay- ments to England will depend on her receipts from Germany. She now is trying to get the United States to ac- cept the same line of reasoning with respect to the war debt due this country. The policy *will fail, and France's opportunity to raise funds for any purpose will be diminighed because of governmental disfavor here. Sooner or later a ministry will arise | in France which will handle the ques- | tion more adroitly for which the gov- ernment here refuses to admit thatj there i8 a relationship between Tepara- tions and the funding of the allied war deft, the connection is too obvious to escape. The only difficulty Is in getting out of a vicious circle. At present neither side will recede. Eventually, however, #f Germany's reparation obligations are eased reduction in the scale, the American commission which was created to fund the allied debt will have to take into consideration the avaliable sources of income and assets of the allied countries and ease their burden too. But America will not take the initiative or offer active help until Europe does something for itself. ‘Economie reconstruction is being de- layed by the uncertainty which sur- rougds the reparation problem—the threat of coercion constantly made by France, the tendency toward dissolu- tion of the existing order in Germany if pressed too far and the indifference of France toward the balancing of her internal budget due to the alleged necessity of keeping a large army to enforce the treaty of Versailles, which means in the main the collection of Te) fons. | r. Morgan's statement advances the case a step or two further and gratifies officiale here because it may have the effect of making France see that hope of American aid cannot be entertained until the German repara- tion proplem fs viewed, not from a sentimertal or nationglistic. but from a precti=il and econdmic “ndpointl J (Cowa b, 20add 7 WALES ON LAST LAP. Prince Sails Aboard Cruiser Re- nown on Way Home. PORT SAID, June 12—The British battle cruiser Renown, bearing the Prince of Wales, sailed from here to- day on the last lap of the prince's eastern tour. Only short visits at Malta and Gi- braitar will break the remainder of the voyage. SCHOOL BUILDINGS NEAR COMPLETION Seven Ready in September With Eastern High As- sured Within Year. Seven new school buildings, now under construction, will be ready for occupancy In September, with the new Eastern High School, two junior high schools and another grade school scheduled to be completed during the next school year. This encouraging report was ob- tained today from Maj. Cary H. Brown, assistant engineer commis- sioner in charge of school construc- tlon. Maj. Brown returned to the District buflding today from a con- ference on city planning at Soring- fleld, Mass. Progress on Eastern. Work on the Eastern High School is going forward rapidly and the bullding should be ready for use in February. Maj. Brown said today he expects work to begin in August on the two junior high schools and they will be completed in April. The grade schools now nearing completion, and which will be ready to open their doors in the fall, ar Four rooms at the Deanwood, twelv rooms at the Wheatley, eight rooms at the Mott, eight rooms at the John Eaton, the new Richard Kingsman School, mnear Lincoln Park; four rooms at the Monroe and eight rooms al the Buchanan. The new school which is to replace the Bell will be ready In January, and the four-room addition to the Smothers will be completed in March. ARMY POST GIRL CLERK MURDERED Body With Skull Crushed Found in Woods at Camp Eustis. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va, June 12.— Miss Rose Brady, formerly of Brook- lyn, N. Y., was found dead early Sun- day morning in a small copse within Camp Eustis, her skull having been crushed in with a heavy gas pipe, which was abandoned by the mur- derer. Miss Brady had no money or valua- bles with her and the investigation be- ing made by the Army and civilian authorjties is based on the theory of :t;em ted crm‘l’lnle 'f:"“"' there be- ng evidence that Miss Brady @ desperate fight. B The body was discovered in the small clump of trees about midnight Saturday. Miss Brady, who was em- ployed in one of the offices at the camp, was on her way home, having left the office about 9 o'clock. When she did not return when expected a search was instituted. Every gate on the post was closed immediately and a strong cordon of guards thrown around the camp. Squads of soldiers visited every house on the post, whether occupled by soldier or civilian, and made careful inquiries, many people being aroused from their slumbers with news of the murder and reqeusts for information concerning suspicious characters, Iif any had been seen. The search was continued all day Sunday, but with- out result. BEES Miss- Brady made her home with Sergt. and Mrs. Chauber, the latter being her sister. - o —_— CRIPPLED STEAMER IN PORT. NEW YORK, June 12—The United States Shipping Board steamer East- O ah el e yage m ntw r Piriladelphis, arcived here 104ny 1 tow a8 IRISH CONSTITUTION DRAFT IS APPROVED Six Points Raised by British| Adjusted—Incendiarism in Ulster Spreads. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 12.—Winston Church- ill, the colonial secretary, announced | in the house of commons this after- noon that it would be .more con- venient and in the general public in-| terest if he deferred his statement on Ireland, which, it had been expected, he would deliver today, until Tues- day or possibly Thursday. factorily, the Evening Star asserts to- day, that Arthur Griffith will return to Dublin with them tonight. The whole six points raised by the British signatories to-the Anglo-Irish treaty in connection Wwith the framing of the constitution have been adjust- ed, the newspaper declares, and the problem of the immediate future is & settlement between Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera. The adjustment, the newspaper adds, is believed to be largely due to the skill and dexterity of Lord Hewart, the lord chief justice, who has been playing a prominent part in the ne- gotiations here. Fire Terror Extended. A Central News dispatch from Bel- fast today reports the extension of incendiarism over the week end into West Meath, in which several coun- i 1 in reprisal for happenings in Belfast. houses destroved were occupied by Protestants. Tore House, &n Eliza- bethan mansion owned by Col. Pilk- ington, was one of the buildings de- stroyed. When messengers were sent fire brigade there they were told to g0 to Belfast, the dispatch states, and most of the people in the district re- fused help to save the building. In Mullingar several shops of Protestants were smashed. Terror is prevalent there, adds the message, leave town. British Leaders Guarded. Several members of the British cabinet are being closely guarded by special detectives from Scotland Yard, as a presumed result of renewed ac- tivity on the part of Irish extremists, said the Illustrated Sunday Herald. ‘Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary of state for the colonies, was declared to be one placed on the “protection list.” Some ministers, the newspaper as- serted, have received anonymous let- ters making_ serious threats against them if the Irish negotiations do not result favorably. PREPARE FOR BATTLE. By the Assoclated Press. \ LONDONDERRY, June 12.—Military activity continues on both sides of the border. A battery of artillery has arrived to support the four regi- ments stationed at Derry City. It is reported that irregulars at Donegal, anticipating an early clash with the British troops, are establishing a hos- pital behind their lines. Trains fgom Derry to Strabane continue to be held up on free state territory. Passen- gers are taken to the platforms and searched. East Donegal farmers are moving across .the border because they say they have found living conditions in- tolerable. They report that the ir- regulars are conscripting labor in- discriminately for the cultivation of | farms which have been seized. DE VALERA IN VOTE PLEA. | By the Associated Pres DUBLIN, June 12—This week will be one of speechmaking in southern Ireland; preparatory to the parlia- mentary elections on Friday. Many meetings were held yesterday, includ- ing one at Cork, where Eamonn.De Valera opened the campaign on be- half of the Sinn Fein panel of can- didates. He sald it was necessary to elect those who during the last four or five years had brought the Irish people along the straight road toward freedom and progress. As there were recently rumors that ‘Michael Collins was abandoning the treaty. and throwing himself on the De Valera side, so now there are rumors, equally 'unconfirmable, that H De Valera and his supporters o Cgealsts 0 wloning their stamd for & o wunite § The articles of the new Irish con- | stitution have been revised so satis-; try houses were burned, supposedly | Iu every case, says the message, the | to Mullingar to summon the asylum | and many persons are preparing to | LAWYER IN ALEXANDRIA “DIVORCE MILL” PROBE MUST SERVE JAIL TERM | By the Associated Pre RICHMOND, Va., June 12—De- nied a pardon by Gov. E. Lee Trinkle, Frank Stuart, a member of the Alexandria, Va. bar, who recently figured prominently In connection with an investigation of divorces in Alexandria, tomor- row will begin to serve a sentence of five days in jail for contempt of court. The jail sentence and a fine of $25 was Imposed on Stuart by Judge Robinson Moncure of the Alexandria corporation court, ‘whose acts in connection with di- vorce proceedjngs recently were investigated by a committee of the Alexapdria bar. The date of the sentence first was set for April 14, but Mr. Stuart was granted a stay of sixty days with- in which to file a petition to the governor. JONES RESOLUTION NOT BROUGHT UP Not Within Authority of Dis- trict Committee to Call It in House. Contrary to announcement by Chalr- | man Campbell of the rules committee that the Jones resolution for Investi- gation by Congress of the fiscal affairs of the District of Columbia would be called up on District day in the House, | and contrary to the action of the Hous | District committee in instructing Chalr- | | man Focht to call up this measure, | { the Jones resolution is not up for con- | sideration today because it is not wi {in the authority | | | up the Jones| | mittee to Lring it ap. This developed at the opening of the | Mapes of Michigan, former chairman | of the District committee, raised the man Focht if he intended, as had _been reported in the newspapers, to cfil up | ocht | replied that Le has no intention ofjcall- | ing the measure up today. | tee of the whole for consideration of the Fitzgerald bill to establish com- | the District, Chairman Focht made a statement explaining the misunder- that as chairman of the District com- | mittee he had no intention of assum- | did not belong to his committee. He | sald that if the parliamentary sit- Campbell of the rules committee, he was prepared to call Focht Reviews History. { Chairman Focht review?d the his- | |000.000 surplus to the credit of the trict in the federal Treasury. | “¢hat the surplus has been accumu- lated from the District taxpayers.” {'tentions advanced on the subject. He {outlined the new fiscal plan emb | bill. | Chairman Focht next explained the resolution for the appointment of a joint congressional committee to in- { expenditure of this fund, saying that until such an inquiry is conducted ,barrassment will arise. Queries Regarding Andit. Chairman Focht regarding an audit of the District books made while | was chairman of the District com- | mittee, and a previous investigation | cal affairs. He asked Representative Focht: “Do You think a new investi- does not already know on this sub- jeet?” explained | that Congress knew i things, but failed to act. Repre- | Congress would act any quicker fol- lowing a new investigation. Chair- gress is now actuated by a higher sense of justice than ever before and of the District com- | | session tod. When Representative question of jurisdiction, asking Chair- the Jones resolution. Chairman When the house went into commit- pulsory and industrial insurance in standing that had aris He said ing authority or jurisdiction which uation was as described by Chairman resolution. tory of the accumulation of the $5.- | “The fact s undeniable,” he eaid, |He then explained the various con- jin the pending District appropriation ipurpose of the Jones concurrent |quire into the status and proposed | controversy will continue and em- Representative Mapes questioned | | Representative Johnson of Kentuc { by a joint committee on District gation can tell Congress anything it | Representative Focht a great_many | | sentative Mapes asked if he thought man Focht said he heHeved that Con- is ready to do_what is right toward | the District. Then Mr. Mapes asked | if he meant to imply that earlier| Congresses were not zctuated by a| sense of justice. Chairman Focht re- plied that politics might have some- | thing to do with the situation. He| {said that now both houses of Con- | { gress and the executive office were | republican and that he believed the present administration is now ready | to clean up the entire situation and | do full justice toward the District taxpayer. Not Myth, He Contends. Representative Reed of West Vir-| ginia contended that the $5.000,000/ surplus is not myth; that it repre-| sents money actually Taised by taxes. | Chairman Focht agreed with him. | Representative Roy C. Fitzgerald of Ohio, father of the workmen's compensation act for the District of | Columbia, explained the purposes of | this legislation. All of the employes| {of the government are already cov ered by the federal compensation act, lhe explained. All of the states, ex- | cept five, have passed legislation for industrial insurance, and the purpose of this bill is to take a foreward step so that emploves outside of the go |ernment service may recelve such | compensation. All of the opposition to the bill, he said, has come from the organized opposition of Insurance companies. |In pointing out that conditions in | the District of Columbia make an insurance fund desirable, Representa- |tive Fitzgerald sald that for the {comparative small area and the lim- | fted number of employes, about 108 000 to be covered by this legislation in the District, the exclusive fund is A competi- in especially recommended. tive fund, such as those which some larger areas share the bh iness with private agencies might | not, with so limited & numover 0. .- | ployes to be protected, have sufficient | coverage to make it a sound propo- | sition. This fund, he said, would be in effect a mutual organization for the purpose of meeting a newly created insurance obligation in the most secure and economic way. The government, he explained, will not subsidize «the insurance fund by paying its administrative expenses. The bill_provides that all the ex- penses of administering the fund is ultimately to be paid out of premium income. In other wordé, the fund is to be entirely self-supporting. He emphasized that representatives of the American Federation of Labor and of labor organizations in the Dis- trict appeared before the House Dis- trict committee in support of his bill ! »nd in denunciation of ARLH ich v | Inspector’s | engineers to | project jof all building authorized was $2,27 BUILDING SAFETY RESTS ON §20000 D.C. APPROPRIATION Office Faces Crippled Condition Unless Congress Acts. LACK OF FUNDS TO FORCE SEVEN EMPLOYES TO QUIT | Only Three Men Would Remain After July 1 Unless Money Is Provided. With the Knickerbocker disaster a fresh and painful memory in Waeh- ington, the District building insper tor's office faces the prospect of los ing the services of seven inspectors and engineers and operating with thres men unless before July 1 Co gress grants a deficlency appropria tion of 20,600, requested by the Com- missioners The building inspector's office is a1- ready heavily overtaxed with work and unless the appropriation is made the Commissioners must dispense, with the services of seven men now employed on a temporary fund Employes Affected. The employes for whom no mones is now in sight after July 1 include one concrete inspector, one engineer ing computer and five field men. This will leave the office with thred smpute and check ali plans submitted—and there are scores of blueprints being filed every day Only one man will be left for the inspection of all concrete and etruc- tural steel work The building office today has on file plans for ninety-threc buildings. which must be gone over thoroughly before permits can be issued. Of this number thirty-six are large projects involving many details. Permits Face Delay. If more help is not made availabie the result will be indefinite delay in the issuance of permits. Some idea of the volume of work now being thrust upon the building inspector’s office may be gained from the records, which show that in May of this year permits were issued for amounting _ to $5,086.000, in May of 1821 the total v: Wher 000 District officials are confident, how - ev that Congress will realize the importance of allowing the special fund which they have requested SHOOT UP PASTOR'S OME INHILLFEUD Wholesale Arrests Expected in Virginia Following Tar- ring and Feathering. By the Associated Press, RICHMOND, Va., June 12 —Herberg Buckley, a lumber worker, is in jail and warrants are out for many other men who will be arrested within the next few days as the result of what authorities have described a rious feud near Pendleton, in Louisa county, Va., after Buckley was tarred and feathered by a band of masked men last Thursday and the subs: quent shooting up of the hidme of preacher named Glenn, said by tha authorities to represent the faction opposing Buckley and his friends. Intense feeling is said 1o have arisen and more trouble is looked for, authorit v, according to newg the s reaching here to to the cused b Louisa_ police, certain meme with condu house. Thursday ked men took hir According Buckley was bers of his commur ing a disorderly night a band of ma to a secluded pot in some woods nea his home and liberally daubed him with tar and rolled him in a bed of feathe Friends of Buckley, ac the police, believing that Glenn had something to do with the in dent, pald a visit to the preacherd Lome and fired 100 shots into the house. Mrs. Glenn, the authoritic say, extinguished all the lights in i house, seized a rifie. and from a win- dow on the second floor saw the hea of & member of the attacking mola She drew a bead on_the head ans pulled the trigger. To her dismay she found the.rifle was unloadec After firing a few more shots the at- tackers are said to have moved off. MAURETANIA MAKES TWO NEW SPEED RECORDS Steamship Crosses to Cherbourg and Southampton in Re- markable Time. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 12.—The stewi:- ship Maurefania, which arrived day at Southampton, set two new world records for speed on her latest voyage, said a cablegram re- ceived today by the Cunard line. The Mauretania, which left New York on June 6, arrived at Cherbourg at 3 a.m. today, with a crossing to to- i her credit of five days, eight hours and ten minutes. The Kaiser Wil- helm der Grosse in January, 1900, set & record of five days and sixteen hours for the New York to Cherbourg trip. The Mauretania docked at South ampton at 11 a.m. today. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, making a direct trip from New York to Southampton in November 1897, set up & mark of five days, seventeen hours and eighs minutes. PREACHES BACCALAUREATE. ASHLAND, Va., June 12—The bac: calaureate sermon before the graduat- ing class of Randolph-Macon College was delivéred yesterday in Duncan Me- morial Church by Rev. Dr. James V. Moore, pastor of Epworth Methodist Church, Norfolk. The seniors attend in n boty in cap and gown. Dr. Moor: dched ai the cvening service.