Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1922, Page 11

Field Heiress Changes Mind About U. S. Men; only American home was in Halifax, and that it was fom North Car- appointed an officer can Navy, and not from Vi time history will place this will b¥; side the Magna Charta and the Decr laration of Independence and rate the three as the world's greatest publi documents dealing with human lib; WRITES OF WASHINGTON, White and Allen ‘GREAT AMERICAN MASON’ earthing many new facts and pre senting them, as well as -om: not orce- UNEMPLOYMENT IS SPY, LOVE TORN, MENACE N BRITAIN Will Wed Englishman ToT TELLS WHY HE FLLD High Court Direct ake Row to s, in clear, ‘Whil Dr. Jobn J. Lanier, Fredericksburg, |t Ya., Issuss Book Giving Many will which shows fhh‘n 0 have been the his former biographers ha . ly stated. There is published in full the last of Washington, a document erty. ——— and in | o ,,,"" B e : New Facts. ‘Washington's Masonic _career worl eeing m happt 3. with| L Dipsted o The i, tally retm‘ d .'.miI supported By auo: appine s 5 i emen s been reached W FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Novem.|tations from original sources, and: More Than Million Now Out German Writes to Canadian Willlam A110n|ber 18— "Washington, the Great | Domty eireas Smerson ‘Masons. Con temporary With Washington. of Work, Latest Fig- ures Show. BY ALICE M. ARCHER. Br Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1922, LONDON. England, Noyember 18.—. 7The numiber of persons-recorded on October the emp! Britain as wholly 1.332,500. Tnder the unemployment fnsurancy acts practically all unem- ployed’work .people are registered at the emiployiment exchanges, and every detail of the numbers unemployed and the duration of their unemployment can be ascertained. survey of unemployment and the con- ditions actually _prevailing in the areas of Bethnal Green, Poplar, Shore- ditch and Stepney has just been made. and the results have been nublished in & report by the warden of Toynbee Hall. This report states that the “present condition is. quite unprecedented. Un- employfment is not only more severe than ever befor is nearly tw serious 8s in the ‘had vear' of 1809. more than twice as bad as in 1908 more than four times any other year before Notwithstanding this deplorable atate of things, distress among the people has mnot yet come acute! True, they are forced to live meagerly, must stint and deny themselv but thanks—in some cases—to savings put by from the generous wages of th war perlod. the liberal scales of a Jowances adopted by boards of guar dians and the funds derivable from the unemployment benefits, they need Dot dread or suffer starvation. Selling Furniture. Nevertheless health visitors report great deal of selling of furniture—one Thing disappears after another—usuall %o pay the rent. Stocks of clothing have a decided tendency to diminish. A large addition to the number of verminous dwellings is reported. Overcrowding is on the increase, and families of seven or cight are found living in one room. Inquiries made of property owners (covering thousands of tenants) brought forth responses that were ¥ mous. Half of them, inc r that payments were According to the re- ment had well maintaine: mainder, howe: caused substantial incre: One firm which deals with more than 1.200 tenements -says .arrears of rent have increased verv elightly, and are very smgall.- This is attributed to the help recelved from rellef measures. A number of grocers’ stores, butchers, bakers and dairies stated there was a marked decrease in the quantity of goods they sold. This decrease applied 1o all goods. but was much less marked in the ¢ of bread than in other things, particularly luxuries. S ;l’:ldl‘l;“:: prison, have been unable to Yo R et in o7 Necessity. Search is also being made for seven- Sensible. out_the- district report reductions of staff and short time due to bad trade. Trade depression is attributed to & va- ety of causes—the fluctuation of for- eign exchange rates and the loss of foreign markets. Government interfer- ence. unduly high wages, excessive tax- 6-on the live registers of sment exchanges in Great unemployed was As regards East London. however, & 3 would “prol can.” Now comesn from London the mouncement of her engagement to aries Edmonstene, son of Sir Arch- ibald Edmonstone of G Miss Field, who nly twe London with her uncle and aun and Co Beatty. She has spent most of her time In Europe, getting in 1920 her firnt glimpse of Chicago ce enrly childhood. SPANISH OFFICERS HELD _ GUILTY OF MORO_CCO ROUT Report of Investigation Suggests Charges Be Made Against Those Responsible. By the Ansoclated Press. MADRID, November 18.—Suggestion that charges be preferred against a large number of the army officers who | had part in the Moroccan debacle of last vear is contained in the report of the stute's attorney relative to th disaster published in part here tod. The report recommended that the officers, ranging in rank from Gens. Berengu.r, Navarro and Silvestre t second lleutenants, be called to ac- count for their alleged errors of omission and commission, to which me‘l catastrophe in Morocco has been ‘gener- ally attributed. From the New York Sun. Man in need—Lend me $20. I have to go to Boston. Friend—Why must you go there? Man In need—Just received a cOn- tract to dellver a series of lectures | that before his marriage he Wife Admitting Life of Deception. By the Associated Pres WINDSOR, Ont., Echoes of the war, spies November 18.— when German ened today with the receipt of a let- ter from Alexander Harvey May, who wrote from Germany fo his wife whom he abandoned here two months ago_following his disappearance from his post-as- works -engineer of the Canadlan Products Company at Wal- kerville. The purport of the letter was that he had been o German spy, but_had been obliged to flee because he feared: detection. Life of Deception. “ have led a life of deception.” he wrote his wife, whom he married in St. Louis, Mo., nine years ago. ‘“‘and you have been too good a wife for me. You are my only love, and know- ing how vou hate a deceiver and realizing that this deception would be revealed to you eventbally. T de-| cided to resort to this way of leav- | ing.” May was described as a devoted husband. and fold his wife and others had e an adventurous life. He claimed to have served in the British army in Indla_under Kitchener and in Japan and China. He lald claim to havin recetved at least one militury decora- tion. Served in U. 8. Army, During the world war he wi the United States Army fof nineteen months, he said, and claimed he had been an intelligence agent during part of that time, discovering a Ger- man wireless station in America and then going into Germany on & dan- gerous mission. May was well known here and his disappearance caused a stir. WEALTHY RED, ORDERED T0 JAIL, HARD T0 FIND By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, November 18.—Thomas Freeman, chief balliff of the criminal court, today announced he had re- crived “sami-official Information™ that | Willlam Bross Lloyd. wealthy com-| munist laborite ordered to the Joliet penitentiary ns a result of his con- viction in 1920 of conspiracy to advo- cate overthrow of the government, vill surrender on Monday. Bailiffts who have been looking for Lloyd, sentenced to erve one to five teen others convicted with Lioyd, four of whom are to spend one to five years in prison. Sleven are to go to jail for a year and two must pay fines. Lioyd's attorneys safd t their client will surrender as soon as were credited with uncanny | subtlety and,efficiency, .were awak- | ‘Wm, Allm White. order issued by the attorney yesterd: :{,fim.y at Emporia to dismiss the MEXICO WEATHERS FINANGIAL CRISIS iOne Bank Fails and Several Strained When Closing Lessens Tension. ‘White, Emporia author ‘and edi- tors, that the case charging him with violation of the industrial court act in plac- ing a strike syme pathy card in his office window shall be. carried into the supreme court direct un- der an agreed statement of facts, Gov. H. ‘J, Allen said today. Mr. White pro- tested against the for the county By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, November 18.—A gen- flurry. Alberto Steln was caught in the fail- ure early In the week of the Banque Francaise de Mexique and closed to liquidate his assets. It was asserted at the bank that depositors would be pald in full eral lessening of the financial tension ‘was noted today when the banks closed over Sunday after a week of hectic operations that at times approached something of & panic. Several fnstitu- tions which had been reported unsafe and on the verge of collapse weathered slight runs, and aside from the suspen- sion of operations by the private bank- ing house of Alberto Stein, which closed its doors this morning, the day's busi- ness was conducted with but a slight Secretary Huerta -this afternoon denied rumors current in the fi cral of the large of the Treasury De La clal distict that sev- commercial house of Mexico City were about to close do because of the heavy losses they suse { tained in the Banque Francaise failure. He reiterated that the general economic situation presented no cause for appre- hension. 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