Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1922, Page 1

w { ~ WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, followed by showers tomorrow afternoon or night. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 56, at “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers cvery city block and the regular edition is 2 p.m. today; lowest, 33, at Fuli report on page 7. a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 _— e No. SULTAN IN FLIGHT FROM TURKEY ON BRITISH WARSHIP Mohammed VI Flees for Malta to Save Himself, But Refuses to Abd_icate. 28,690. ANGORA ORDERED TRIAL WITH HIS MINISTERS Curzon Leaves for Paris for Pre- Lausanne Parley—Moslem News- papers Criticize U. S. Br the Assoclated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, vember 17. —Mohammed VI, the Turkish sultan, has fled from Constantinople on a British warship bound for Maita. Upon embarking the sultan empha- sized that he was not abdicating, but merely removing himself from imme- diate danger. The sultan wrote to Lieut. Haring- ton, the British commander-in-chief. on Wednesday evening, stating he considered his life in danger, and would like British protection. The national assembly at Angora had adopted a resolution, submitted by Kemal Pasha, to place the sultan and his ministers on trial. Slips Out of Palace. The sultan did not propose to leave the palace before Friday and ar- rangements were made accordingly. This morning a car, in which were the acting dragoman of the British embassy and Gen. Harrington's aide, drew up at the side entrance of the sultan's palace. Shortly afterward, while the guard was being changed, the sultan, with his son, Prince Eblogruleffendi, and six members of the palace staff, slip- ped quietly into the car and drove to the British naval base. where Gen. Harrington and Neville Hen- derson, acting British high commis- sioner, received him. Embarks on Barge. The sultan immediately emarked on_the admiral's barge. Without incident, he was rowed out to the British dreadnaught Malaya, where he was received by miral Brock. Commissioner Hender- son gave the sultan a welcome in the name of King George, upon the Turk- ish monarch's setting his foot on Brit- sh territory. The sultan replied that he felt safe under the protection of Great Britain, adding that he was not abdlicating, but was merely re- moving himself from the danger which was immediately threatening. Steams Off for Malta. The Malaya steamed off immedi- ately for Malta, where instructions will be received as to the eventual destination of the sultan. It s too early as yet to get any tangible idea to what effect the sultan's flight 1 have on the local situation. The Kemalists, it is generally thought, will endeavor to make it appear that the sultan fled "under British pres- sure. It is declared in British quar- ters. however, that there is not the slightest foundation for such an alle- szation. and they point out that Brit- ish troops had not even been guard- ing him. Exereised Over Status. The sultan has been greatly exer- cised over his status since the action of the Turkish®nationalist assembly at Angora this montn voting to de- prive him of his civil authority and declaring the caliph or retigious head of Islam would hereafter be selected from the imperial house by vote of the grand national assembly. In the face of the filtration of na- tionalist military elements into Con- stantinople and the knowledge that the Angora authorities would even- “tually be in full conrtlo in the Turk- ish capital the sultan and his ad- visers®.have been frankly at sea as to the proper course for him to pur- sue. The bulk of his guard went over the proper course for him to pur- tinople dispatches have pictured him virtually at the mercy of the Kemal- ists should they decide to make a descent dn force on his palace. There have been rumors that he had abdicated or was about to do 80, but there has been no official confirmation of any such action on his part. There were_ strong intimations, however, that he would ask the allies for pro- tection if the need arose. Motive in Rush to British. Political motives may be read in some quarters into the fligat of the sultan ‘on a British warship. Great Britain concededly has strong mo- tives for Seeing that no harm comes to’ the caliph, in view of the many millions of Mussulman subjects with- in her domain, many of whom have given indications of disag-eement with the action of the Turkish na- tionalists, disputing the power of the Turks alone to take action affecting all Islam. The question of the sul- tan's status. too, s likely to come up at the Lausanne conference about to open, and it now appears probable that when this question is being de- bated the caliph himself will be under British protection—a refugee at Great Britain's naval base in the Mediter- ranean. CURZON GOES TO PARIS, Britain to Send Great Delegation to Lausanne. B+ the Associnted Press. LONDON, November 17.—Foreign Secretary Curzon.léaves for Paris to- day to consult Premier Poincare on the policles to be.pursued by the allles at the Lausanne peace conference. Lord Curzon plans to proceed to Lau- sanpe, possibly accompanied. by M. Pofncare, in time to-hold another pre- _liminary conversation on Sunday with Premier Mussolini. of Italy. The size of the British delegation to Lausanne will be- the largest and probably the most important confer. ence since Versaflles. ~ Although offi- cials afe reticent concerning the per- sonnel of the British delegation, it is said Lord Curzon will be supported by a retinue of at least fifty persons. Socialist Leader Slaln. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Noveimber 17.—Hussien | recount returns today Hilmid Bey, président of the Turkish |355 cities and tow: sssassinated hange socialist party. has been in _Constantinople, xays ap, Excl Telegraph dispatch from that day. The crime is’asdribed to Vice Ad-| Entered as scond-class matter post office Washington, D. C. . Turkish Attempt To Slip Warship By Horn Foiled By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 17. —An attempt by the Kemalists to Tun the interned Turkish destroyer Akhissar, disguised as a merchant- man, out of the Golden Horn, past the allied control, was frustrated last night. The Kemalists succeeded in get- ting up steam on the Akhissar, on Wwhich they had bullt a superstruc- ture, and started from -the slip Wwhere the destroyer had been in- terned since the great war. Be- fore proceeding far the Akhissar was hailed by the allied control | forces. The Kemalists on board replied; declaring their craft a | merchantman, but the disguise | was too faulty to deceive the pa- trols. one of which boarded the craft and ordered her to return to her anchorage. HUSBAND BRANDED WITH THREE “K'S" Hagerstown Man Marked on Each Cheek and Forehead. |KLANSMEN ARE BLAMED | Wife Denies That Spouse Had Been Unfaithful to Her, as Charged by Assailants. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., November 17. —With her husband in a serious con- dition as the result of being branded on_both cheeks and forehead with the letter K. supposedly by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Mgs. Edward Fisher of this city today loyally de- fended him and denied that he had | been unfaithful to her, for which al- | Ileged misconduct, it is declared, | | Fisher was kidnaped Tuesday night. Residents here are showing con- siderable feeling over the treatment | of Fisher, coming as it does only| several months after the branding of William Hollingsworth, who was de-| clared to * have abused his aged| mother. i Probe Under Way. Every official channel is being used today to Investigate the assault on Fisher. The authorities are reported to have definitely established that the four men who seized Fisher mev- eral blocks from his home and car- ried him away In an automobile were from Waynesboro, Pa. about ten miles from here. The men were not masked. and a fair | description of them has been obtained. | They carrled Fisher to a field outside | | this city, and, after beating him, seared | ithe letter K on hig flesh with acid. | After this treatment he was deserted | {and crawled home part of the way, be- | icause of his weakened condition. Little Quarrel Admitted. i \ The assaijants are said to have told | i Fisher that they were punishing him | | for infidelity toward his wife. He de- nied this, as did his wife, the latter | declaring that since a little quarrel about nine months ago they have lived together peacefully. Hollingsworth, who was similarly branded several months ago, is a resi- | dent of Waynesboro, and his mistreat- ment is alleged to have been the work of klansmen from Hagerstown. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL i | WASHINGTON, D. C, FACING LOSS OF NAVY YARB 0BS N FURTHER CUTS Resumption of Six-Day Week Schedule Will Affect Many. EMPLOYES TO PROTEST PLANS FOR REDUCTIONS | Sweeping Curtailment of Present Schedule Will Extend to Many Sections of Country. Further sweeping reductions will be made in the forces at the Wash- ington navy yard and navy yards and stations ~throughout the country when the six-day ‘week Is resumed on December 1, it was learned today. Capt. J. H. Dayton, commandant. of the naval gun factory here, said that he is working out now the plans for the reduction at the local plant. These reductions will be in addition to those taking place No- vember 23. It was learned at the same time that employes of the local yard are preparing a_ general protest against the resumption of the six-day week. on the ground that it will throw many employes out of work at a time when the industrial stiuation is slowly getting back tq normal. Pro- tests in_behalf of the other yards will be filed by N. P. Allfas,'president of District No. 44. International As- sociation of Machinists, which takes in the employes of all navy yards and arsenals throughout the country. Telegrams of protest against the resumption of the six-day schedule were received at the union headquar- ters here today from the employes at the Puget Sound, Washington; Mare Island, California, and League Island, Philadelphia, yards. 800 May Lose Out. While Capt. Dayton has not worked out the figures indicating the number of men who will be discharged from the local navy yard. it was said todav that it probably will be about o sixth of the local force, or approxi mately 800 employes. The planncd reduction will take place on Dscem- ber 1. Union officlals base their estimates on the fact that each yard has a cer- tain allotment of money for the year and their forces are now right down to the bone to keep within that ap- propriation. If the yards add an- other day of work, in order to keep | within this allotment of appropria- tions, a corresponding cut must be made in the number of employes. The forty-hour or five-day. week was put in force. it was pointed out, in order not to throw a large number of employes on the already saturated unemployment market. 1t was poiat- ed out by union officials that the or- der of the Navy Department directing a resumption of the six-day or forty- eight-hour week at navy ds_and | stations is contrary to the last wage award. While the addition of another work. ing day at the yards will increase the pay which can be earned by the men, nevertheless the unions take the po- sition tkat in view of the present con- dition ~ of unemployment mnothing should be done which would throw more men on the market. The em- | ploves would rather work five days in order to give theif fellow empioyes work. Protests at Hearing. Vigorous protests will be entered by representatives of the employes of lall the navy yards and stations when they appear at the public hearings on wages which will be conducted by the general wage board of-the Navy De- partment, beginning at 10 o'clock on the morning of November 27. At that time the general wage board of re- view, headed by Rear Admiral Joseph Sthauss, a member of the general board, will listen to the evidence to be adduced by the employes' repre- sentatives to show the condicions warrant an Increase in pay. At that time the representatives of the Wash- ington navy yard emplo.es will enter their protest against the resumption of the six-day week. - T WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION = e T e e e S - IN FORMER DIPLOMAT ~ ‘' CALLED BY DEATH v THE SPOTLIGHT. FORMER. 3. ENVOY 10 FRANCE IS DEAD William Graves Sharp Served | in Paris During the i World War. | TOOK TRIP FOR HEALTH| Visit to Eurove Last Summer Was | Van Effort ‘o Qvo: come Illness. By the Associated Press. 3 ELYRIA, Ohfo, November 17.—Wil- liam Graves Sharp, “former ambas- sador to Prance. died at his home here shortly before noon todsy. Mr. Sharp, who was sixty-three, spent several months in Europe last simmer in the interest of his health and, according to friends, had not been very well since. All of the five Sharp children were { summoned to his bedside late vester- day. when his condition became seri- ous. Mr. Sharp was American am- bassador to France five years. serving in Paris during the world war. He resigned his post about a year after the armistice was signed. Family at Bedside. § Mr. Sharp's condition became worse this morning and a Cleveland spe- ciallst was summoned for consulta- tion by the attending physicians. Death_came an hour later, however. Mr. Sharp was born at Mount Gilead. Ohio. His parents were George and Mahala Graves Sharp. His childhood was spent in Mount Gilead. When he became of school age, Sharp moved to Elyria with his grandparents and en- tered the public schools here. After he was graduated from high school he decided to take up law and entered the University of Michigan. In 1881 he was graduated from the law de- partment of that institution and was admitted to the bar of Ohio. Served in Congress. Mr. Sharp was elected to Congress in’ 1909 from the fourteenth Ohio district and twice re-elected. He re- signed July 23, 1914, and was ap- pointed ambassador to France Decem- WILLIAM GRAVES SHARP. REVEALSYNDIATE NBEW.RE DEAL North American Company 0f- ficials Buy Block of 27,- 500 Shares. OWN MANY UTILITIES Leaders in $30,000,000 Firm Said to Have Been Influenced By Promising Future Here. | | BY L A. FLEMING. F. L. Dame, James F. Fogarty. Ed- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1922—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ACKS FIGHT iB " SAVEROGK REEK {Col. Sherrill Sponsors Pro- posal to Purchase Tracts Bordering Stream. ESTIMATES TO CONGRESS Budget Bureau Approves Plan to Preserve Washington Beauty Spots. Estimates for the purchase of two tracts of land surrounding Klingle Ford and Piney Branch tributaries ta Rock Creek—have been approved by thip burean of the budgét and will be sent to'the next session of Congress, Col. E. O, Sherrill, officer in charge.of public bulldings and grounds, an- nounced today. His statement con- lcerned steps taken Uy his office in its campaign to save Rock creek, one of the nation’s beauty spots, which is admittedly drying up. Col. Sherrill, it was further stated, ialong with the engineer officers of {the District government, has approved {a_probosed bill drawn by the Board jof Trade, which would provide for a |permanent commission in' charge. of the purchase of suitable parks and xplny‘ruundu for the District of Col- inmbia. Col. Sherrill has put iforce of his influence behind the bill, las 8 most practicable means tecting the parks already in use, in- cluding Rock Creek, and the procur- ing of additional land. Creek Growing Smaller. The park commission bill would provide the authority and permanent H working body to look after the in- |tion on which to build its new terminal. | Ment. terests of Rock creek, in the opinion of Col. Sherrill and would be the most practicable step in the direction of preserving the stream. “I have started a survey of the problem of saving Rock creek,” said Col. Sherrill. “There is no doubt that delivered to Washington homes as fast VOTE DUE NOV. 28 Mouse Leaders Agree to Take Up Measure Next Thursday. WAR FRAUD GRAND JURY ENDS INQUIRY Find Plot in Bosch Magneto Agreement was reached by House ber 2, 1944. He served until April 14, 1919. Mr. Sharp was the first American ambassador to become dean of the diplomatic corps at Paris. A life-long student of astronomy, he was elected a foundation member of the Societe Astromomique-de France. FREE STATE EXECUTES the stream is constantly decreasing in volume. We have no exact figures | available as to the percentage of the | decrease, but, in the personal opinion | win Gruhl, L. E. Kilmarx and Robert Sealy, all of them identified prom- inently with the North American Com- pany, operating exclusively in public utilities, are members of the syndi- cate which KEugene E. Thompson, senior member of the firm of Crane, Parris & Co., represented when he closed the transaction for the pur- chase of 27,500 shares of the common stock of the Washington Rallway and Electric Company on November 4. Many guesses have been made as to the buyers since that time, but this nd a_number of old residents who | ive known the stream for years there has been a material lessening of the flow.” o Col. Sherrill said that building oper- ations . about the tributaries of the stream were increasing. and were diverting the surface water, which formerly flowed into the creek, into sewers. The first potnt of attack at protect- ing the stream, Col. Sherrill said, had been decided as the Klingle ford and as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s IncomeT axMakes ‘Nations of Liars,’| Professor Avers By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, November 17.—Methods used by autherities in collecting the federal income tax have made the American people a nation of liars, according to Prof. Charles J. Bullock of Harvard University. Elaborating on this statement in an address at the New Englard tax conference yesterday, he said that' the morale of the people hat been lowered through the efforts of federal authorities to collect faxes on a 100 per cent efficlency s. —_— (OAR LINE CAUSES BRIDGE PLAN MIXUP War Department Denies Old Dominion Company Use of Reservation. CHANGES MAY BE MADE| Sudden Hitch Develops in Build- ing of Terminal Facilities at Rosslyn. Railroad authorities and Army en- | gineers have been suddenly called on to i remedy a serious block in the plans for raliroad transportation between the { District of Columbia and Virginia over the new Georgétown bridge, resulting from the refusal of the War Department to permit the Washington and Old Dominion Railway Company to erect a | terminal station on the government res- lervation at the south or Virginia end |of the bridge. . { Provision of Act. | The act authorizing the construction {of the bridge provided that the Wash jington and Old Dominion railway might extend its tracks over the bridge to | Georgetown. The company relinquished that right. ! however, on account of the expense of !laying tracks on the bridge. There. | vpon the War Department authorize the Capital Traction Company to ex { tend its tracks over the bridge from | M street and build a loop on the gov- ernment reservation at Rosslyn. The approved plan contemplated clore {of the Washingion-Virginia and the Washington and Old Dominion rail- ways. the Old Dominion planned to locate its terminal there. It was arranged with the Army en- gineers that until the Old Dominion’s new terminal was estabiished, pre- {sumably next summer. the cars of that line should continue to use the { old Aqueduct bridge to reach its pres- ent terminal at 36th and M streets, Georgetown. That arrangement was made with Maj. Tyler. United States on the assumption that the new | Georgetown bridge would be opened to general traffic by New Year d land that the Aqueduct bridge woul. {then be closed to all vehicular traffic | except the Old Dominion cars. Plans May Be Changed. | The present action of the War De partment in refusing to permit the Old Dominion Company to build a new at Rosslyn may require a rearrangement of present railroad plans. Tt is possible, however, that Congress may authorize the use of the reservation or that the Old Dominion Company may-be able to acquire land just outside the reserva- | Though the new Georgetown bridge may be opened for general traffic by the first jof the year, the cars of the Capital | Traction Company will not be able to operate over the bridge until the high | earth embankment at the Virginia ap- | proach has settled enough to justify the j construction of the track loop. That | will not exist until next spring at the | earliest, according to the railroad engineers. * i Plans of Rail Company. | In its application the Old Dominion | of the forester of Rock Creek Park Company said it planned to erect a | Prohibitio brick, concrete and ‘sfeel building for | ! use as a terminal, 130 by 45 feet in! , dimensions, between the loop to be 1 constructed by the Capital Traction | Company on the same rescrvation as | the terminus of its line across th bridge, and to relocate its tracks ac- cordingly. i The application of the company was approved by Gen. Beach. chief connections at the loop with the lires | The first-named line already | has a small station at that point and | District engineer. several weeks ago Net Circulation, 91,166 — TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT'S VIEW ON' PROHIBITION HAS NOT CHANGED For Amendment and En- forcement, But Sees Is- sue More Acute. WETS MAY TAKE FIGHT BEFORE EXTRA SESSION {Country Stirred by Question of Modifying the Vol- stead Law. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding hasn't changed i his views on the prohibition question. | He voted, as a member of the Sen- ate. for the eighteenth amendment, and also for the Volstead act. What- jever letters he has written before and after the election discussing pro- hibition in its relation to the vote in eastern states were not intended las a forecast of what he himself might favor, but an interpretation lof what might be forthcoming in ;Congrux and in the several statee. | That's the position of the chief ex- | ecutive as it was outlined to this | correspondent today. Mr. Harding hagn't any idea of initiating any change in the Volstead law by recom- { mendation to Congress. He has re- ceived several letters from prominent republicans in eastern states telling him the wet sentiment must be reck- oned with. Mr. Harding has courte- ously acknowledged these communi- cations and has given it as his per- onal opinion that there was a shifi- | ing of views going on in the country | today. He dldn’t attempt to say in what direction the shift would lead oncretely, but he did hint that he hought it would be in the matter f regulation. namely, changes in tie Volstead law. Speaking as Observer. In this respect Mr. Harding w: simply availing himself of the san privilege of any observer in sizinz up what the last elections meant ai. what the effect would be on Congress The President isn't saying what hi own views would be if Congress pu- up to him to sign a blil, which modi- fled the Volstead act. He wonld have 10 consider whether he believed the | modification was in direct violation of the elghteenth amendment or wheth- er 1 merely removed some of the ob- noxious features of the enforcement law without destroying the funda- mental purpose of the prohibition amendment. There s every reason to believe Mr Harding’'s prognostications have not | gone any further than that. Signifi- cance nevertheless can be attached (o the fact that Mr. Harding did write &ome letters on the subject to party associates, that he does belicve the ssue is so acute that it will not be | abandoned. and that there has been a shifting of views among some voters on the subject. Even the most ardent champions of ! prohibition will concede that there !has been a “shiftung of views.” but | they will argue that it is incidental {to the discussion of so widespread a {reform and that in many places the { reaction against prohibition was in- evitable because of the miserable ni- | | i of pro- | terminal on the government reservation | tempts at law enforcement made by | those mot in sympathy with the eight- | eenth amendment. Cause of Resentment. | The growth of the “bootiegger” has. of course, helped to stir up resent- for there are people in the icountry who think conditions are much worse today tham they were |in the old “wet” days. The prohibi- | tionists can marshal arguments show - ing that the morality of America is i better and that the damage which | prohibition used o do has been ma- | Terially reduced, and some concrete | benefits given 1o the American house- hold, but that doesn't destroy the fact that in popylous states. like Ml.ssfl- chusetts, NeW Jersey and New York. n was a live issue this year and that prominent republicans took the wet end of the argument. Mr. Harding is merely referring in his letters to the movement for modi- fication of the Volstead law and he predicts it will come up for serious fonsideration. He doesn't prophesy it will be successful. Nobody can tell { what any Congress will do after the Anti-Saloon League begins its man- to-man canvas and lolds senators and representatives to a strict ac- countability for their acts. that can be said now is that the o leaders today to take up the ship| subsidy bill next Thursday under a rule providing for three days of gen- eral debate and unlimited oppor-; tunity for amendments, with a final vote on November 29. The plan of procedure was suggest- ed by Chairman Campbell of the rules comnmiittee at a confererice attended by Speaker Gillett, Representative Mondell, the republican leader; mem- bers of the merchant marine commit- | tee, which framed the blill, and mem- bers of the steering committee. Mr. Campbell declared that the pur- pose of their arrangement was to give the House an opportunity to frame the law to its liking and at the same time to prevent a filibuster. There was said to be sharp opposi- tion_ in the republican ranks to a pro- posal to give the bill right of way under an airtight rule which would prevent any but committee amend- ments. The open rule, Mr. Campbell said, met every objection so far raised to the manner of the bill's consideration. : General debate will begin Thursday and run until Saturday night. On the Monday. folloWing the Meastre will be taken up for consideration, item by item, with three full days to pre- sent and fight over amendments. The rule provides for a vote Wednesday night, atter which the House will ad- journ over Thanksgiving. By fixing'a date for a vote there would be no' chance, Mr. -Campbell said, for filibustering under the fiver minute cule. i GASTON SHOWING GAINS. Becount to Date in Massachusetts Reduces Lodge Majority. BOSTON, November 17.—Senatorial from 255 out of ns in Massachusetts gave Wiliam A. Gaston, democrat, a of 1,187 votes” - Senator Liodge,: repablican, had 425. 7 S plurality of | thgt Gen Wright,-whose lifs has'been returns from : the wh‘:vl- t,m:o despaiged -of, 'v.q‘nd " M: Sale, But Overt Act Com- mitted Outside D. C. . The special war fraud grand jury, which has been investigating the sale of the Bosch Magneta Company by the former alien property custodian. to- day reported to Justice Stafford, in Criminal Division No. 1, that, while the evidence disclosed a conspiracy in connection with the sale, no overt act was shown to have been committed within the District of Columbia. The grand jurors were therefore com- pelled, they say, to cease the investi- gation. Headed by forcman Daniel J. Callahan, the special grand jurors filed in‘o court and handed to Justice Stafford «the brief statement. . The statement repds: “We, the grand jurors of the United States in and for the District of Co- lumbia, do find that from the evidence presented a conspiracy existed:in the case of the sale of the Bosch Mag- neto Company, but the overt act or acts having been comimitted outside of dhe District of Columbia and there- fore, upon.advice of the attorney rep- resenting the government, the grand Jury is compelled to cease further in- vestigation.” Assistant Attorney General H. J. Galloway and ‘Willlam M. Offley, who presented the testimony to the grand jurors, declined to say where the De- partment of Justice would seek next to secure an indictment. Any state- ment in reference to the case, they said, would have to come from Attor- ney General Daugherty. The special grand jury recessed un-: til No vember 27. GEN. WRIGHT SINKING. MEMPHIS, Tenn., November 17.— The condition 'of Gen. Luke E. Wright, formes Secrotery of War, iil at hig home, was reported to ‘be extremely critical: this' morning. It was FOUR FOR OWNING GUNS By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, November 17.—Four civil- fans, James Fisher, Peter Cassidy, Richard Tulhy and John Gaffney, all residents of the Free State, following a trial by a military ‘court, charged with unlawful possession of revolvers, were executed at 7 o'clock this morn- ing. Erskine Childers, the Irish republ- Dame 1s Prestdeat. e oo o oo on s | F. L. Dame is president of this cor- before a military tribunal today on|poration, Edwin Gruhl s its vice presi- charges of treason. e proceedings | gent and general manager, Robert hich Wi vrinue over the week end, | 5oy is assistant-treasurer, while the Government officials Indicated their|{name of L. B. Kilmarx-is the only fteRtioniag ,‘,‘°‘\":' Miss Mary Mac-|one of the syndicate that does not Swiney and denied reports that they intended to release her. :::::“‘I’;fi thefomolaliros terfoCitbie ‘While it is evident that the buyers are men who know all about utilities, it is stated that they have purchased the stock of the local corporation purely as an investment, which might prove a profitable one, even if turned {over in a few months to the big hold- ing company. . Fhe North American Company con- trols and alds in financing a number of important street railway, electric light, heat and power companies,:in- cluding the electric light and street companies * of Milwaukee, and s\lrrsunldlnsl territory; trest railway and electric light an > wer company of St. Louis, etc., and controls or is interested .in the Wis- consins Edison Company, Union Elec- tric Light and Heat Company_ and }is the first authentic information in the matter. e ¥ The North' American Company, which was organized under the laws of New Jersey. Junc 14, 1890, oper- ates extensively in public utilities, largely around St. Louis and Mil- waukee, as well as in other sections. Armistice Day Pictures A special ‘display of these photographs, takén in- Washington, are contained in the Kentucky Coal Company, Wisconsin Power Company, North American Edison and Cleveland Illuminating Company and Milwaukee Northern rail- Rotogravure Section The Sunday Star.. Order_your copy from v « Capital Stock, $30,000,000. - The capftal stock of the company (par. value, 350 & share) is $30,000,- 000 authorized; issued $17,387,950; pre- ferred (par valuey 3$50), 6 por cent cumulative, 330,000,000 authorized, is suéd ¥18,832,360, - ' > For-the' twelve A on months - ended-Au- 7 n United Railways of St: Louis; West Piney branch tracts. Protection Plans. Along Piney branch, for which’ an item In the budget has been approved, there Temained only a tract be- tween- 10th and 14th streets. This plece of land would protect the tribu- :{tary there, and, in addition, it was explained, would provide an east en- trance to Rock Creek Park. - The -Klingle Ford tract, which is also being rapidly encroached upon by building operations in the vicinity of Woodley road and Cleveland Park, would provide an excellent west en- trance to the park. Thus, the two tracts which have been recommended " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) of engineers of the Army. He rec- ommended that a revocable license be glven the company to occupy a cer- tain indicated portion of the reserva- tion with a terminal station, track: and appurtenances. In denying the application the Secretary of War, however, followed the recommendation of Gen. Hull, acting judge advocate general of the Army, whnh;vu ask on the subject. In his report th judge advocate general peviewed th provisions of the law authorizing the construction of railroad tracks on the bridge and the action of the War Department in_authorizing the Capital Traction Company to lay .‘et:, track instead of the Old Do- minion Company, which relinquis its right to do so. g e e Woman of 100\ Takes Care of Hef * 70-Year-Old ‘Baby,’ She Tells Court| ' Carrie Tompkins, colored, who said she was over a hundred years old— 'couldn’t remember just how much— took the stand in Police Court today to defend her boy against a charge of vagrancy. Her wayward son. whom' she bathes, dresses and cares for like a baby, is something over seventy, she. told the court and de- pends on her for a living, “an’ if he'd Jes stay home, everything would be 27lopg story short, Carrie's dismissed and Mill, the m who. thankfully acknowl- édged receipt on'the way to the door of spveral> orie dollar bills, contrib- i:ed by court attaches moved by her story. not gullty when e stand. Carrie, the quiverisg Itps, toid of |her troubles in trying to get enough to eat for herself and son. ‘The police officer pressing the charge against the man, said that he had found him on se 1 eE8Ing on the gtreets and' making house to house canvass for funds in’ Harvard street northwest, a mile or more from the- home of his mother at 2011 Conners court. The mother said that her son was as helpless ‘as a child, that she had but littie to offer him aside from shel- ter, but that she cared for him; that he would stray away daily and ask those he met for funds. The old woman said she had been a slave of the Borum family of Newbern, N. C., but had lived In this city for many years earning a living as a cook, laundress and housekeeper. She said her son, lore he became helpless, from paralysis, followed his trade of - painter. * Now she is_helpless, but glad to give her helpless son care. 'While not knowing her exact age, she she was twenty-five-years-old ‘I‘h-l“lfd was born “long befo’ ey it} wh ae ed for an opinion | its 3 [ana All { reaction against prohibition in the E""" elections has affected political Washington and Mr. Harding tells the truth when he writes that it is a sub- | ject not going to be ignored here, even hough he is unwilling to hazard an opinion as to the outcome. Of one | thing the public can be certain, the President will not engage in the figh but will maintain strict neutr waiting for Congress to express itself. Whatever the Senate and House do { especially under republican control will influence Mr. Harding's course. | As to his own views, he. still stands !'on his record, namely, enforcement of | the existing constitutional amendment and enforcement of the laws now on the statute books., {(Copyright, 1922.) _ DRY ISSUE CAUSES STIR. | Fight for Modification May Go to Extra Session of Congress. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. No feature of the recent elections Las attracted more attention in all walks of life than the impetus given the move- ment for light wines and beer by the voters in New York, New Jersey and Missouri. It is certainly the talk of this town. How many times a day do | you hear, “It looks as If they were com- ing back,” and the question, “When do you think we will get wines and beer?" Now comes the report that the ad- vocates of modification of the Volstead act intend to lay the foundation for their efforts at once: in fact, in the extraordinary session of Congress. which begins next Monday. This will be pre- | liminary, 1t is said, to the big “drive” { which will be directed at the two politi- ical parties in their national conven- tions one year next summer, in efforts ta get one of them on record in platform in favor of modificution; with the fond hope that they might get both to squint that way. Politiclans realize that the ment for modification ove- san.