Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1922, Page 2

) % IN NEED OF FUNDS | FOR SAFETY WORK Leaders of Movement Say; _Shortage May Defeat Con- l k. templated Program. The Star’s Safety, Platform Stop Reckless Driving | Stop Jay Walking MINUTE SAFETY TALKS BY MAJOR SULLIVAN. More Police to Reg- ulate Traffic No. Statistics prepared b police department show that two-thirds of all auto accidents in Washington occur at street interseciions and that corner- cutting is responsible for a large per cent of these. Drivers cut corners to save time and avoid checking speed: but is it good sense to risk an accident to save x minute? You may take a thousand chances and et aw but you never can tell when that coilision is going to_occur. When & corners: (1) 3 signal distinet- ra to the right of the ter of the intersection. Time saved may be lost in court. Tt is easier to turn properly than it is to pay for an accident. Think of the other fellow the Save the Children ASK MEETING S0 OFD.C.COMMITTEE Members of the House District com- mittee. impatient to get important legisiation for the District, pa:Wicu- | Safety week and the important ob- jeetive it is to ultimately reach— |larly for District schools, passed in! making Washington T lthe = present Congress, used their live in—are tremb 1~ brink of | Strongest influence today to have the mplete failure because the city's | House District committee meet to- b ud citizens “have | MOFTOW Sohe Chairman Focht. who has been in talked d coutributed little. |, onital recovering frem an opera- nt declared to- | ti to reach Washington leaders of the movel expects o ate this afternoon. He notified his ! Y iless S15.000 15 subseribed to | Oflice today, however, that he has not | o TR ananacs or the Washings | iuconenyCRl RIanEameetingand ton Safety Council the permanent|comething needing immediate atten- organization that has grown out of Ition when he has conferred informal- the big ideal behind Safety week {1y with other committes members. the National Capital can only look Representative Fred N. Zihiman of forward n already dangerous |Marvland, a leader in urging the that is bound to grow |necessity for prompt action on school month. it was stated. the police and firemen's re- afety weck. it must be remembared, ent adjusted pay bill. the street fs but the gesture—a movement to!car situation, extension of 14th street, show the trend of the world and what | the bill for a traffic court with di really be done by careful edu-!tinet jurisdiction and other pro- ion properly applied. o readily | ve legislation in the National VB the hest element of Washington's|Capital. is in conference this after- ens take (o the idea that some.of inoon with Representative Stuart | prominent men and!Reed of West Virginia, the ranking | the city's m women conceived the idea of making,republican who is expected to suc that le ient. and the Wash-: ceed Representative Focht in the, fngton “ouncil is the result. next Congress as chairman of the House District committee. Both | Representative Zihlman and Repre- entative Reed are impatient for con- the great- est field of ende he counciligideration of pending legislation so to work. Every n_able to beiyiu]l to the welfare of the District.; about som i the cons sweeps along ev Few persons reali 2 necessity fucn ran. The the Safery Floods of Liquor PouringIntoU.S. ngs are now & objeciive of ! to have enactad | ~afe *laws, whieh will ; make it possible for a pedestrian to! O E t C i cross a sties <king his life. | Srasmangsn it On Eastern Coast Pleasant for abomatite: delvers by | Brthe Amciated Press. e ] getting r the reckless driver and] NEW YORK. November 28.—New York and New Jersey cities are | e’ g flooded with liquor from the that he is| some farm. | s to be considered. for not « (< the retention of an ape| Bahamas, Scotland and England, o represent the council at| according to Frank J. Hale, an inquests over t bodies of accident | jnvestigator for the prohibition de- NGt He will Le there for two{ partment. He declared that a purpe to study the ca fl!i steamship had clezred from Scot- the ac 1 report back to thel jand last week with 24.000 cases of Sl il _have eliminat-{ \hisky, bound for the ‘“whisky SO s wmonantl A gepaiiion of| armada camping ground” four | L 2 econd. (o sec that| piiles off the American coast. H St and iern prosecution is hegun, A New York syMdicate.” he as- ¢ criminal negligence on tho part off serted. “is importing its liquor sup- the person causing the death isproved. | 3¢ from Seotland, because the Will Probe AUl Accidents. i stuff from the Bahamas is being G { mixed with grain alcohol and col- | cident | oring fiuidsg Whisky manufactur- ‘ 1 ers in Nassau are finding it more profitable to dilute the whisky they send to America and are man- ufacturing the same grade of stuff and worker. things quire money. John | : Foole rer of the Safety week | that, 18 pelusfuiadaibyiiccaiitals enmmities. roporied fhat less than " . _ $1.000 ha< be ihoted tor date | jolosc hARII0 sesxcls ane sngar ed in transporting contraband liquor to this country. Hale says. There a just exactly four more Gays to raise 311.060 and make the ! n and millions of dollars change | Tovement n suceese Failure. it i Hiozs clatmed. wilk Hold Washiistlow up fo T205 cachiweek um hagilcpdeals. the rid e of oth cities of Jess e wealth, which had no difficulty n obt the necessary funds. i D.C. BUYS TEN LOTS. | oyl e Ldn a erowd packed Keitn's | BBty | eater at the Safety week mass meet- | Lot Tk Mans in the crowd were busmess | Site Adjoining School to Be Used | men. and prominent speakers. including ! Commissioner Rudo'ph, Willlam F. Ham | as Playground. i and John J. Boobar. appealed to them ! o istri . t i fo help maie the movemant a success| 1° District Commissioners in both physicalls and financially. Follow- | board session (oday purchased ten ! ing the address a_spe. ety week | lots adjoining the Phillips School on | ’fl,m of motion pictures taken in Wash- N street. between 27th and 28th ngton was shown streets, for playground purposes. The What the Fiim Depicted. {amount paid for the lots was $8.900. Tt depicted first the dangers a little TWO DETECTIVESS RETIRED. | ®irl experiences going to school. Time and again the audience was almost| Central Office Detectives George W. Taised from the seats s the child was'Bovd and (‘harles H. Bradley ‘wers menaced first by an automobile. then by Placed on the retirec 1st afier long, & street car and finally by her own care. | Deriode of service by the Commission. | g S ers today. Boyd is sixty-two years tions. aches s ! i s reaches School satels. | old and Bradley fifty-six. Both serv- Divine Providemn, (t eomarcesmon 1of | ed for more than thirty years. Pri- : Pic- | vate H. M. Smith also was retired. ture showed clearly how every one—pe- | destrian and vehicle driver - alike— | e meeds to be educated up to the safety Tequirements of the times. ‘The lesson of Safe week is being | carried into every homse, business: house and institution in the city. Speakers are carrving the message direct and _public-spirited institutions are sending it by mail or messenger. | Some Unique Warnlugs. One of the most unique of these warnings was sent out today by the Board of Trade Safely week com- mittee. It Is a warning, printed on | time song. ness office in Washington, and they commanded immediate attention and commendation. School. children are hearing the “Safety-first” message through speak- | crs, songs. slogans and class orators. | | At the Johnson-Powell Scheol the | | Scholars ‘got up an interesting song entitled “Always Be Careful.” It is sung to the tune of the catchy war- “K-K-K-Katy,” and the a blank of the Postal Telegraph | words follo . reading as follows: “C-c-c-careful, Always be careful, body. That's the m-m-m-motto you should Evervphere: obey. - | Whether you're hiking, Skating or biking, You should always be c-c-c-careful every day.” “Don’t get hurt! Walk right! Don't Kurt! Drive right" Postal Telegraph messengérs car- fied these telegrams into every busi- PRLEDVEDEVLDRVEVRVEVRVIVEYS " Who'll Put the “Rusl;” in Your Christmas-Rush? There’s ONE salesman you can’t do without. : You hire a sales force to wait on cus- tomers in your store—but you hire HIM to bring ‘em in! He's a little ad in The Star’s “*Christ- mas Gift Suggestions” columns. in the Alphabetical Classifed Section. He'll, put the rush in your Christmas. ' He's waiting to go to work for you December first—and stick at it till Christ- mas Eve. Phone Main 5000 Branch 64 And our representative will call COERGED TOWED, { indifference and seemed to be annoved | was stopped somewh | braided her for laughing and remarked ‘THE - EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. C., TU OB purch stiached (@ the north mide of the houne of Lewix Medley, — 2 ) AUTO RUNS ‘WILD, TEARING PORCH FROM HOME. ESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 28, 1922. 528 New Jersey avenue; the automobile of James S. Murphy, 753 Sth streef southeast, and a bicycle, belonging to John Gray, 1510 5th street, were damaged last night about 7 o’clock, when fhe autemobile left the rondway and hit the porch and bicyele. struck the porch. Simme and Albert Thomas, the latter residing at 465 Ridge street, were the only occupants of the car. The police did net give the cause of the accident. port. Photo by Pridgeon. SAYS MRS HUMES Declares Graham and His| Brother Urged Her to Marry to Save Reputation. The defense sprang a surprise at the trial of the $500,000 heart-balm suit of Lieut. Lorimer C. Graham, U. 8. N, against Augustus L. Humes, wealthy lawyer of New York, when Mrs. Elsa Portner Graham Humes, the loss of whose affections caused the suit, was called to the witness stand. Mrs. Humes did not testify at the former trial of the case last De- cember, which resulted in a disagree- ment of the jury Mrs. Humer said she was coerced into marrying Graham in Baltimore in 1911 when she was only nineteen vears old and had been out of school less than a year. She had been at- tending a dance at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and had with her a suit case containing some of her wearing apparel. This fact was used by Graham. she said, in his insistence on the mar- riage ceremony He told her if re- porters got hold of it her reputation | would be blighted, the witness said. Threw Ring te Floor. All this importunity occurred while they were at lunch in the Belvi- dere Hotel, Mrs. Humes said, and her husband's efforts were seconded by his brother and a friend, whom he had summoned by telephone for wit- nesses. Lorimer went after a license over her objections, she sald. telling her she might change her mind after- ward if she wished. During the ab- sence of Lorimer the brother and friend remained with her, and finally advised a taxi ride. They @rove about awhile and then went to the resi- dence of Rev. P. C. Gavan, now pastor of Sacred Heart Church, then located in Baltimore. After the ceremony- she cried. Mrs. Humes told the jury, and stripping the wedaing ring from her finger threw it to the floor. She then went into de- tail concerning her wedded life with Graham. Lieut. Graham treated his wife with by the affection of his children, accord- ing to_testimony given today by Mrs. Mary D. Portner, wife of Oscar Port- ner,” brother of Mrs. Humes. The naval officer did not protect his wife from insults in Europe, the witness asserted. Tells of European Trip. JMrs. Portner told of meeting Lieut. Graham and his wife at Atlantic City after their return from Europe in 1914 and was told by Mrs. Graham that her European trip had been “perfectly aw- ful.”” The witness narrated the descrip- tion of her experiences given her by her sister-in-law. The war had broken out while they were in Europe and the train on which the Grahams were traveling in Germany or Austria, the witne: said, and the passengers weré taken off and placed in separate péns according to sex. When the train was again made up Graham rushed to secure a place for himself and paid no attention to his wife's accom- modztion. ‘While at Dijon, France, im the rail- road station, a French soldier dragged Mrs. Graham by the arm to the bar and insisted that 'she drink with him. Gra- ham did not interfere, the wife com- plained, according %o her sister, but up- that she was bringing it all on hérself. PLANBALLINHONO OF WOMAN VICTORS To Be Given in Post Office Corridor for Winners in Contest. The four most representative wom- en in the Post OfMds Department are Mrs. I V. Johnson, Miss Sarah B. Thrift, Miss Elizabeth Voigt and Miss Alice A. Murphy, according to the results of the contest announced te- day by Postal Spirit, welfare maga- zine of the department, under whose auspices the contest was carried out. Four divisions of the Post Office Department shared in the honors, for Mrs. Johnson is an employe of the general accounting ofRce; Miss Thrift of the office of equipment and sup- plies, Miss Voight of the office of rural mails and Miss Murphy of the di- vision of classification. In honor of the four “representa- tive women” & ball is to be given on the night of January 13, next. in the main corridor 6f the Washington city post aflh:qtil;lldhl‘. This will be first time that the city post office corridor has Deen used for such a purpose. The ball is ex- pected to be unlmui in that business will be done as usual at the post office while the ball is in progress. ‘Thus, any one with letter or parcel to mail may walk in among the dancers and mafl his letter or parcel, despite the merriment going on around him. The ball will not begin untit § o’clock, however, and it 1s not expect- ed that patrons of the office will come in such numbers as to interfere with the movements of the dancers. The “popularity” contest conducted by the weifare magasine has been in progress for two months, much ia- terest being manifested among em- Dployes over the outcome. } ' Lett to right: Miss | “BRIDE” MAY WRECK TIERNAN HARMONY Blanch Hawn-Rash-Brimmer, back here today from DMarshalitown, lowa, an- nounced that her daughter legally was entitled to wed Prof. John P. Tiernan, in their Crown Foint, Ind, ceremony last Saturday. “My daughter never intended to marry Ticrnan when she went to Chi- cago last Thursday night.” the mother said.f ried at Christmas time, but Tiernan, 1 believe, got excited and the hasty marrlage at Crown Point was the re- sult. “My daughter never has been a very calm_thinker, acting frequently on the impulse of the moment. and this, together with Tiernan's insistence, no doubt easily won her over. prove to the world that she is the legal \wife of Prof. Tilernan, Mrs. Hawn said. Looking toward that end, two motion picture offers have been refused, she said The daughter plans 1o spend several days at the home of her first husband, Floyd Rash, In Marshalltown. Her parents live there and her four-year- old son Kenneth is with them. CLAIMS MARRIAGE LEGAL. By the Assoclated Press. ~ MARSHALLTOWN. Towa.. November 28.—Mrs. Blanche Hawn-Rash-Brim- mer-Tiernan, here to establish the fact that she had a legal right to be- come Mrs. John P. Tiernan at Crown Point Saturday, expects the South Bend professor to arrive here tomor- row, she announced “I had 3 long-distance call from Mr. Tlernan yesterday afternoon,” Mr. Brimmer-Tiernah informed an Asso- ciated Press correspondent. “He told me he would be here tomorrow morn- ing." _“I am Tiernan's wife, and 1 am go- ing to live with him,” she declared “There is no personal enmity betwee: Mr. Tiernan and myself. He can't go back to his first wife, under the In- diana law, and I am’going to fight any action to set aside the divorce 1f such action has been taken.” Mrs. Brimmer-Tiernan sald she did not believe the reports that Prof. Tiernan and his first wife have set- tled their differences and agreed (o live together again. She said she planned to stay in Iowa until “this thing is sertled. Prof. Tiernan's second wife, who was in seclusion most of the day. said she was getting tired of being pestered by reporters. County Attorney Hoover. who acted as Mrs” Brimmer's attoraey in ob- taining a dlvorce from Brimmer, says that her status in Towa is legal. He said, however. that hie does not consider that Mrs. Brim- mer-Tiernan's status under the Iowa law has any bearing in the case, as her latest marriage was performed in Indiana. Mrs. Tiernan says that she and Arthur H. Brimmer were married at Oskaloosa, Towa, September 22, 191 The divorce record here shows that Mrs. Jennie May Brimmer was grant- ed a decree of divorce from Arthur H. Brimmer on March 22, 1920. Mrs. Tiernan says that her marriage to Brimmer was illegal, hence there was no bar to her marriage to Tiernan. NO MAIL DELIVERIES. There will be no delivery of mail here to residences Thanksgiving day, the Washington city post office an- nounced today. Stations throughout the city will cloze and carriers will eat turkey at their homes. One early delivery will be made in the down- town business section. Sarak . RAILWAY LEGISLATION i ““They had expected to be mur-l rthur H., WINNERS OF POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT POPULARITY CONTEST. DROPS PLANS FOR EARLY! Senator Cummins Not to Introduce Bill to Amend Transportation Act Present Winter. i i | Chairman Cummins of the Senate interstate commerce committee said ‘md.y he had abandoned plans for railroad legislation this winter and | would not introduce his proposed bill | for amendment of the Esch-Cummins | transportation act until the next! Congress. Improbability of securlng action in v of the congestion of business in Congress was given by Senator Cum- Imins as the reason for postponing jany move for railroad legislation. With the shipping. appropriation, | farm credit and other bills awaliting action the legislative program al- ready is developing prospects of a serious fam Other” senators having bills for amendment of the transportation act 80 as to restore powers of state rall- { way commiseions and reduce frelght rates are expected to press for some {=ort of action Defore the new Con- gress convenes, but the leaders do! ll'lo! expect any of these measures to g0 through. Dealers said the shipments were much lighter than usual Tt was suggested that many of the turkey raisers may be holding back thelr king fowls for the Christmas trade, but haulers said the number raised in nearby Maryiand and Virginia is not as great as in former years. Chickens and ducks seemed fairly plentiful. They were not in demand, how- ever. buyers seeming anxious to get turkeys or nothing. Tomorrow It is ex- {pécted there will be larger numbers of buyers in the markets, and dealers i frankly admitted they thought the sup- plies would ot meet the demandy {DRIVER EXONERATED IN FATAL ACCIDENT Leigh Not to Blame for Death of Colored Man, Coroner’s Verdict. William Ranning Injured. A coroneg’s jury, at an inquest held at the morgue yesterday afternoon in the case of Willlam Preston Williams, colored, 2138 Florida avenue, who was fatally hurt by an automobile near his home Saturday night, exonerated The daughter's main idea now fs to|vle ! 1 ALLU. S. OFFICES IN OWN BUILDINGS, AlM (Continued from First Page.) the business was being conducted un- der tents in the streets without any adequate protection from inclement weather: that in many instances, par- ticularly in the larger eit! the de- | partment was losing at least 40 per cent of the efficlency of its force by reason of the insanitary and crowded | conditions of the space occupied by the { employes, and that their movements in{over to one lawyer. with whom he the rooms occupled were handicaped by this crowded condition, including the unavoidable necessity of piling sacks of mail and parcel-post packages in the same room. joint postal commission has been urg- ing, to enter into contracts with private concerns to construct suitable bufld- ings in the large cities, paying the con- tractors an agreed annual rental df 10 per cent, which would reimburse the parties of the second part in a given period of time, at the end of which period the bufidings would revert to | the builders uniess the government would ply them a fixed amount for the building as provided in the contract for construction. He cited one instance in which the total cost to the government under this method, including the option given by the government for the pur- cbase of the building when the cost af it had been reimbursed. would be in the neighborhood of $30,000.000, while the same site and the me building could be purchased and con- structed by the government for about $7.000,000, and that the government could borrow the money at less than one-half the rate of interest which it ‘was proposed to pay the private con- tractors. “T am very positively of the opinion that it is our imperative duty to pro- ceed to prepare and report an omni- bus public buildings bill to the House and urge its prompt enactment, and that this bill could take care of all sections of the country where the business of the government—postal or otherwise—is of sufficient volume to warrant the construction of a bu!lding. For Bulldiags Program. “1 am also of the opinion that we should proceed as rapidly as is prac- ticable to adopt and carry out a gen- eral public buildings program, both in and out of the District of Colum- bia, which will ultimately, and as s00m a8 the revenues of the govern- ment will permit, house all federal functions in government-owned build- ings. thus diepensing with the Tental of buildings, which is oftentimes ex- orbitant, many of which are non- fireproof, motwithstanding the fact that they contain records that are in- valuable to the government. In pur- suance of that policy. I think we C. E. Leigh, 786 Columbi2 road, driver of the truck. ments, recei foot and ankle yesterday afternoon Willlam Banning. Dresden apart- | d injuries to his left| +solute protection for the enormous should have in Washington a sub- stantial fireproof hall of records, or archives building, In which these pa- pers shall be deposited, and also a Treasury vault which will afford ab- {when struck by the automobile of [amount of cash and negotiable se- | Russell L. Gilbert. 1464 14th street road, at 14th and F streets. He was {taken home in the automobile that .injured him. A broken rod on the automobile of | willlam Breerwood, Beltsville, Md., was blamed for the automobile mak- ing a sharp turn and striking a trol- |ley pole in front of 1780 Bladensburg 'rold about 7:30 o'clock last night. Kenneth Breerwood, an_occupant of [the machine, was cut by pleces of the broken windshield. = Policeman Lllttle took him to Casualty Hospi- tal. | Three dozen eggs were broken last inight when a motor truck of J. N. {Tannerhill, 1354 C street northeast lcame in contact with a pile of bricks |near Florida avenue and 7th street northeast. a& curities now in the possession of that department. “T am not in favor of the construc- tion of colossal. monumental or orna- mental public buildings anywhere. I think. on the contrary. that they should be of a plain, substantial type. such as are comstructed for the use of commercial enterprises, and ti there should be a standardization of thoss buildings, 8o as to eliminate as much as possible the duplication of work in preparing plans and specifi- cations, and that our bill should con- tain a provision for ample facilities for the prompt execution of the work therein authprized, so that the bulld- ings now needed may be promptly constructed by the government, which ought to do the work In approxi- mately the same length of time as it can be done by private parti “I am addressing this letter to each member of the committee instead of calling a maeting. which could not at this particular time bring the entire membership of the committee to- gether, as it is most desirable that each member of the committee be consulted as to whether he thinks there should be at the coming regular session of Congress an_omnibus bill reported to the House. Kindly advise me of your views on the question as early as practicable. If a majority of | Mvro.luumm-mmlhvouu as & mem! A [ Thrift. the committee is in favor of such action T shall then address a letter to the membership of the House explain. ing the purpose of the committee and suggesting that each member intro- duce a bill—if he has not slready done so—covering any Droposition that he desires the committee to con- sider; that he will at once proceed to gather from departmental and other sources all available information that the committee will need. and right after the holidays proceed with such hearings as may be necessary.” NAVY YARDS FACE EXODUS IF WAGES ARE NOT RAISED ___(Continued trom First Page.) wages nearly equal to those paid by the outside firms. J. H. Pressler of New York corrob- orated the statements of Mr. Higgins regarding the payments by the large hipbuilding firms in New York, par- ticularly the payment of bonuses above the hourly scale. Firms employing carpenters and joiners in this city pay $1.26 an hour, according to data collected from twen- ty-five firms, J. 8. Jaesche of the Washington navy yard testified. He said that these employes in the Wash- ington yard should be raised to 90 cents an hour as against a feduction recommended by the local wags board. J. A. Farlow, Washington yard, said that sixty-six carpenters and joiners had left the Washington yard to go on the outside, and that the local yard was making fruitiess efforts to get competent men to fill their places. Zeisen e, L 30,000. IPOLICE ACCUSED | AS BOND CAPPERS Clique Operating in Various Frecincts, Report—Court Orders Probe. Charges that a clique of lawyers, operating with policemen of the sev- eral precincts who act as “cappers’ have virtually monopolized the bond- ing business among prisoners tried in the Police Court were made in the United States branch of Police Court today by Royal A. Hughes, a repre- sentative colored member of the bai As a result of the charges Judge Rob- ert Hardison ordered a special hear- ing in the coupt next Tuesday, at which time they will be thoroughly Investigated before him and Judge John P. McMahon. After the recess of the court toda: Judge Hardison sald that he ha held several conferences with Com- misstoner Oyster, in charge of the | i I ! police department, in connection with | this matter; that Commissioner Oys- ter had shown a keen interest and desired to uncover and punish the Ernest Simms, clored, 1601 Cosksey court, was driving the car east on Franklin street, when it suddenly turned to the right, crossed the sidewalk and | (500 (10 DACOTC, S0 Bn Mo aged They exeaped Injury, aceording to a police re- to be responsible for the reported condition: Wants Proof Preduced. Judge Hardison further said that if these conditions exist he hoped that proof would be submitted and thus enable the Police Court judges to put a stop to these practices. There are said to be half a dozen or more bondsmen taking bonds for persons arrested in all of the pre- cincts. It has been openly charged that one bondsman in particular has a policeman as a “capper” in each of the police stations, day and night. and that as soon as a prisoner is landed in the stationhouse this bonds- man is notified, and either he or one of his employes goes to the station- house and furnishes the bond and the prisoner 1s reléased on a $300, $1.000. 32.000 or larger bond, as the case may be. It is then alleged that this bondsman turns all of the business has some kind of ‘financlal arrange- ment, and thus the business that would otherwise be distributed among all the members of the bar practcing in the Police Court goes to one or a ! !the reports. Big Profits Invelved. The bonding business for the police courts is sald to be a mint. The fee is 35 on every $160. On a 1$1.000 bond the prisoner has to put lup $50; 1f the bond is $2.000 the fee |is $100: if 35,000 the fee is 3250. One bonds- man, with property valued at $50,000, in 1920 did over $25.000 worth of business on his capital. Tt was a turnover so/ rapid that it was out of jpercentage. There are three bonds- men who handle practically ail of the business, which in a vear in fees approximates, it is said, $75.000 to $106,000. URGES PRESIDENT TOBREAK UPKLAN The President and the Attorney General are called upon to take stéps to break up the Ku Klux Klan, in & letter addressed to the Attorney Geén- eral by Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts. President Grant, in 1871. by procla mation and by the indictment and punishment of leaders of the old kian, broke up the organization, and there is sufficient law on the statute books for President Harding to do the same today, the letter points out. Senator Walsh quoted at length from lesiers he had received, one from a former assistant district attorney in & western state, and another from |an attorney in Texas |gutrages which. it i» chargel b klansmen are perpetrating. He did not give the names of his correspond- ents, but said that he had satisfied himself of their credibility. Cites Graat’s Action. ‘The letter from the former a district attorney insisted there is suf- 1f it is $3,000 it s $150 fee: | setting forth | U.S. SEA TRADE HIT BYDELAYINDATA Government Statistics Held “Up as Cabinet Is Split on Reorganization. While the administrative progra: for reorganization of government de partments is held up by Cabinet dis- agreement, American business is suf’ ering because certain shifts betwery departments have not been made. Th - greatly delayed overseas trade eta tistics, of vital interest to American manufacturers. exports and import ers. has emphasized this fact. Recently, as a result of severa! years' correspondence aud confer ences, the Treasury Departmen: agreed that its bureau of custom: tistics, which carriers on the wor compiling thege overseas trade tistics, should be transferred to Commerce Department. The Depa:’ ment of Commerce wo: then a position to ask Congress for = . clent money to keep the stat reports up to date and io br: service up 1o the standard dema by business interests for whose he fit these statistics are pub A Vill to tha: effect (8. 2 before Congress. It passed the ate during last session. It jorably repo the w {means committee and i€ now aw iing action on the House calendar { The Department of Commerce that because of its close contaer w business it = in a better position prepare and distribute the figures the best interests of efficient trade d- velopment. Appropriation Too Swmall. Meanwhile the House appropriations committee, now preparing the Treasu:y appropriation bill, which will be first of the big supply measures come up in the regular (short) session starting Monday next, has had foreibs presented to it the fact that an inade he hed “He further stated to me that he i8| faw men who have an arrangement | quate appropriation for clerical «i- opposed to the proposition which the | rith the bondsman so singled out in | ployes has materally de aration of these statisti, tant to American business. In answer to urgent inquiries from business houses and the press regard ing the value of goods imported the United States since the new tarif’ law_became effective, the Departmen: of Commerce stated it is in receipt of ja letter from New York. w i statixtics are compiled. predi jinability to furnish the figures u i between December 20 and Januar: | These statistics cover imports from the day the law became effective, Se; | tember 22, up to and including Octo- ber 31. { Lack of help and proper equip unfamiliarity of clerks with the important classification and defective entries are given by the Treasury Da- partment as the re. ns for the del, Preseat Delay Serlous. According to the Department Commerce, more or less delay in th {statistical reports has always f {lowed tariff revisions, but the del was never as serious as it is at t! {time. Under ordinary conditions. {fgures as compiled by the Treasu Department are furnished to the De i partment of Commerce in time to be {made public between the loth and :15th of the month following the oue [ to which the statistics relate 5 The House appropriatinns commit- tee has had its attention called to this fact—that. anticipating increased work as a result of the new tariff, the i Department of Commerce some { months ago urged that more clerks {and equipment be made available. As 12 result forty additional clerks an: {extra mechanical equipment ting 1$50,240 were authorized by the Treas- ury Department. Limited appropria |tions mecessitated “the reduction ot this sum to $35.000. None of the ad- ! gitional clerks authorized has vet {been emploved. as space In the offic ioccupied by the bureau of custo: statistics is lacking. RUSSIA PERPLEXES LAUSANNE ENVOYS ed the prep- S0 impo:- i i ficient law on the books today for the y federal government to break up the klan. He said the same statute which gives the government the power to deal with the I. W. W. can be in- voked. He also made the suggestion that President Harding follow the| precedent set by President Grant in dealing with the Ku ux Klan. The letter from the Texas attorney declares that “within the last eigh- teen months in Texas there have been 500 tar and feather parties and whip- ping bees, not to menti~i a number of homicides, assaults :.nd other of- fenses directed against the person; threatening letters by the score have been given to the victims of thls huge criminal conspiracy. ordsring them in many Instances to leave their homes and seek other placea of abode; helpless women have been carred and feathered and old men have not been spared their vengeancrs; young girls in their teens havo been the victims | of these letters, and in many in- stances they have been forced to leave their homes on account of the slander and jgaominy heaped on them. All this in (ree America™ “So far as I know, not one of these cciminals has been brought to justice. At Waco, Tex., the home of the Governor of Texas. police offi- cers arrested three masked and hood- ed men, with their victims, covered with hot tar and feathers, in their possession. The grand jury of Mc- Lennan county voted No BilL’"” “I sincerely hope,” said Senator ‘Walsh, in his letter to the Attorney General, “that you or some govern- mental agency, under Yyour direction, will make a thorough investigation of the outlawry that is daily depicted in the press of the country. It is un- believable that such a condition could exist: and, If it be exaggerated or un- founded, some public authority should proclaim this fact; if it exists, then this menace to constitutional govern- ment should be vigorously attacked through' judiclal channels. Sees Amerfea at Stake. “Unchecked this thing will create a wave of hatred and intolerance which will destroy our most preclous and sacred American heritage. When groups organize to destroy our courts, revoke trial by jury, deny the right of citizens to worship God as they see fit, and support a policy of accusing and punishing men and women without trial other than a se- cret meeting In some lone pasture or nighway, they are championing the very form of tyranny to which our government i® opposed, undermining everything we hold dear in our na- tional life and infeéting the body politic with poison. “I have investigated the standing and reputation of the writer of the Jetters from which T have quoted, and I find their credibility to be of the highest. In your considerstion of, these letters may I suggest that you give special consideration to the recommendation that the President of the United States issue & - tion against the activities of such or- sganizations ; By the Assnciated Press LAUSANNE, November and Turkey, working togeth expected to make a strong pair at Lausanne, and other delegates to the near east conference are wondering what effect the combination will have. English and French circles siow a disposition to reject the deman 'fur"arfled by the Russladg delegation. {insisting that Russia be heard no ‘only in the Dardanelles ission but in all questions on the conference jagenda. It is pointcd out that Rus- {sla has signed a peace treaty with |Turkey and that, therefore, there i= ino reasonable basis for her demand that she participate In the gen.ra! {deliberations to determine the tern:s of a settlement between Greece and Turkey on one hand and Turkey and the allies on the other. Nevertheless, whatever may be the decision of the conference on tha stand :aken by the Russians. it is a parent that there will be no d sition to shutout Russia. It is recos nized that so many problems are pati and parcel to a settlement of i straits controversy that Russian par ticipation in this angle of the confer ence will inevitably mean the ass- clation of the Moscow delegates with other important questions on the con- ference program. BRITISH REPLY CLEARLY. are { By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 28.—The Havas correspondent at Lausanne has pre- sented a number of questions to the British delegation, to which the Brii- ith representatives responded, as fol- low: First. “Is It true that the British government regards the tripartite agreement of 1920 as non-existent?” Answer. “The British govermment has always been hostile to the tri- partite agreement because the United States was not a party thereto. The United States having formally con- demned this agreement by its last note, we have no reason not to re- nounce it. For us the agreement of 1920 is dead.” Second. “Is it true that Lord Cur- zon visited the secretary general of the league of nations at Geneva Sun- day. and with what object?” Answer. . “Lord Curzon did indeed 80 to Geneva Sunday, where he met Sir Eric Drummond (the secretary general). Lord Curzon's object was to acquaint himself with the head- quarters of the league. which he did not know. It is possible that he may have had occasion to talk of the eve tuality of submitting certain litigous questions pending before the peace conference.” Third. “What answer do vou think the conference will make to the move of the Russians asking to participate in all the work of the conference?” Answer. *Their request is not ac- ceptable. We stand by the mote of the 14th of November last.” .