Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1922, Page 2

22 L2 ] PRESIDENT IS FIRW " NSTAND ONKLAN His Opposition to Invisible Empire Will Be Continued, Say Officials. READY TO HELP STATES Government Will Give Assistance | if Local Authority Breaks Down. BWY DAVID LAWRENCE. Conferences hetween President Hard- .z and Attorney General Daugher: have developed the policy that will he followed toward the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, democrat, asked for a presidential proclamation denouncing the Klan, but it was stated today that the President’s last expression on the subject would have to stand, namely ecretary Chri Frank L. Apple- reads the letter signed by tian and sent to Mrs. gate of Medford. Ores., which s follows: You may be ment of the Pres sure that any state- ‘nt's inte in or approval of the Ku Klux Kian is a ymplete and egregious misrepr sentation of the Presid attitude. In some quarters it h; been but the fact is ily disapproves of the repeatedly ex- pressed himself to this effect Would Ald States. So far as federal prosecutions are they will have to follow conclusive evidence that the state has broken down and that become in- Pros concerned “urhority ederal interests have velved. In other words. of the question of federal power to Zet. there is a destre here to build up 1he power of the states to depend pen themselves If. of course. this (athority should collapse or if state sent t should be averse to en- cement of law. the federal gover nt will recognize the obligation hrust upon it. The problem of stren zovernment in Americ: come to a climax. Th 1 Iy by the dema hening state has almost anti-lynching so bitter- vhich is being srats in the the repu an answer to the indiffer- many southern states to this on. The democrats claim the urconstitutional and that the se power is -d in the several states by the ‘The measure ean nnless the republicans wish fo r E rts of to pending 1 ion. The g of an extrd sion after M n le be force is insis ple of th nd stat n amend vnching bill Another exa tween federal the prohibit eral Constitution which needs the help of the states or it will become « dead letter in some regions Politics in Conl Crisin. The federal gov, would i to see state authority strengthencd .ere. too. The growth of the ku Klux movement is attributed larg o the attitude of man who decline to use « squelch the activities ¢ fact the Klan is = among its members officers in whose juri: 1y of the very iction prosecu- all “ion would naturally . In the recent coal and rail er the authorities here hoped for co- speration from the states in protect- ng those who w ment, but only a f e vs who were willing to risk their | i TOO LOW, IS CLAIM | an agsr: vold poli 1 reason for political fortun by course. The desire to ~ntanglements is the usua] e attitude of avoidance, but the Washington administration is just a determined to make the states han- dle their own problems and it is safe to assume that the policy toward the Ku Klux will be applied in other questions. namely, that federal aid will be granted only when it is ob- vious that state authority hus broken Jdown or that federal guarantees have heen violated. ¥right. 19: 2 DEAD, 38 HURT INSCHOOL FIRE. ¥ the Associated Press COVINGTON. Ga. Two dead and thirty-eight injured was the toll taken in the burning of ‘he High Point Community ouse near here vesterday afternoon hen the structure. in which ninety- nine children were engaged in studies. , was destroyed by flames. A careful heck today showed that alfl the others had been accounted for and identified. The dead were James Steele, little son of John J. Stecle, and the eight- year-old son of Charles Bachelor. These pupils were in the room of Mrs. Osear Grant, who heroically stood the window and dropped forty chil- dren to the ground before the floor of her room gave and she was en- ulfed in flames. She was unable to save the two boys who were lost in the smoke. Investigation today showed seven- teen of the children were suffering from broken limbs as the result of the twen- ry-foot drop. Four children swallowed flames and anxiety is felt over their condition. The name of Mary E. Howe. home demonstration agent, was being linked today with that of Mrs. Grant as a heroine of the tragedy. She helped re: eue children from the burning build- ing, and then without resting jumped into her automobile and dashed five miles to Covington for medical aid. —_— SENATORS FAVOR BILL TO PENSION DISTRICT MOTHERS ___(Continued from First Page.) we must go to Some government offl- cial for everything we want?” The committee decided that the $54,- 000 asked by the Commissioners for police protection and convenience sta- tions during the convention of the Mystic Shrine was excessive. The senators discussed generally the police Situation nere and then decided to fix the sum of $25.000. The committee then took up a bill to regulate the prac- tice of optometry in the District. The committee referred the bill reg- vlafing the practice of optometry to a subcommiftee consisting of Senator Ball and_Senator Stanlvy, also giving Senator Ball authority to report the measure to the Senate if he and Sena- tor Stanley finally approved it. —_— . Tn Norway there is a law .that makes girls ineligible for matrimony unless they can show certificates of «kill in cooking, knitting and spin- ning. & irrespective | November 29.—; school ; STRONG EARTH SHOCK SHAKES CENTRAL CHILE | Tremor Lasting 40 Seconds Occurs Early This Morning, But No Damage Done. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, November 29.—A strong earth shock was felt in cen- tral Chile at 3:10 o'clock this morning. The shock, which was appreciable I here in Santiago for about forty se jonds and similarly at Valparaiso, felt as far as Concebcion, 270 mil | southwest of santiago, according to {advices over the national telegraph ystem. It was not, however, felt at rena, capital of Coquimbo prov- which district was seriously af- ed by the recent earthquake. o damage was reported from to- day’s tremors. s U. S. ENVOY MEETS TURKISH DELEGATE TO DISCUSS PACT |ine | fec ntinued from Fi !elaims that the immense Ru: jterests involved give iu: the right {to discuss and sign at {agreements. Russia and Turkey have formed a united front through the an in- Augora “friendship” agreement in which Turk. sreed not to grant { extended concessions or cede terri- tory without lussia’s consent. Bargaintug Goes On. Russia claims that oil and railroad 1 ssion bound together to political influence near the Caucasian fron Having umed the role of Turkey claims that the d uld mean the hu ssia says to Turk fleet in the | Turkey is urged ix a thinly to force the m eastern Turl ver, there is no intention to start a fight. The T and bolshe- viki ar to make war tho apathetic E cussions at the o nd the n- ons, loans. Don't yield 1 the ‘cash . who wil rities.” ted we ¢ want from the from there “up; 4 Minor for the allies and, her can pay, let us call the debts Turkey ims that the arn dates from Mudania ¢ . but the claim t the 11 in effect < that th .000 pounds sterl upation. Contest for Oil Lands. Great Br to swap fthe ! ul area for oil c ssions. while the Tur a_ big loan. In ndon ffer the iStandard Company ent, but that co The ask a la than at. Both neh are losing pense of mai trations in _ Mesop incurring ser tpereent by the S ithe British heavily thre t the danger L It is iprobable that @ way to peace could ! be found if the essions W (amicably arrar L The Turks are alarmed Russians would ot sion. us frontie wted an iny The jnot communists. Th thirty Leninites and stopped the only [communist newspaper in Turkey, but they need money. Indecd, the enti confer seems 1o be pivoting round loans and not peace or war crefore, it the Russians receive a negative reply to their demand for {a place at the conference table they are not expected to leave Lausanne and start a conflagration in the near {NAVY YARD WAGES i i 1ge ) R men who to their w Mr. Price alse ened to d gave information to the navy vard m { bointed out the bonuses paid worke {in private shops. He asserted that in some shops a certain piece of worl for instance, is estimated on as a twelve-hour job. If the man put on jit does it in elght hours, he gets the il\\‘?]\'e hours® 2 i S S sher. aiso representing the { molders in the local gun factory, to {of the methods used by foundrymen in Philadelphia in fixing the wag {of emploves. He said the employers meet once a year with both a committee of the men, of whom have collected data. v take data from large firms with- radius of 200 mile: If examina- i tion of the da collec by yployves and the foundrymen ¢ hrown out. Only suc es is accepted in fixing . said. But, he continued, ge they fix is the minimum wage, !and thi. age is used oy ¥ i Wage Boards in fixing the maximum | wages for the highest ela; of me- chanics in the world. Thougn tne :molders here do work which outside firms cannot do. he ‘on the basis of th- molders. He pointed where_the local vard men had mold- !ed ordnance material which did not | require subsequent “machining. ; W. T. Probert, representing molders }at Brookiyn, said that all the mold- {ers there asked was that the govern- iment comply with the la®. which {says that the navy vard workers Ishnuld receive equal pay to that al- 1lowed by outside firms to their em- ployes. He intimated that the local iboards had not complied with the law in this respect. . been recommended for an increase in wages by the local board at Brook- lyn. he said that even with the in- i crease they would receive less money than the lowest paid molder 'in pri- vate shops ¢n that district. He pre- dicted that molders in private plants would receive another increase in ! wages in the spring of 1923, Seek Law Opinion. W. J. Gallagher, Brooklyn, N. Y., representing painters, sought from {the board an opinion on the law. He wanter to know whether the em- ployes. in gathering their data, had to confine themselves to shipyards, or i whether they could take data on wages paid painters of buildings, etc. |Both A. J. Berres and Chief Clerk Curtis, members of thé board, said they would say that they could in- ! clude data on such work. he em- { “Well, then. he said. “the local | board would not even consider such data.” He said that the local board was very unjust to the men and that the data it collected was not accurate in any way. He said that painters in the Brooklyn vard were required to | 40 all kinds of work, citing instances where they were required to do tiling and paperhanging, crafts which get a higher rate of pay than painters. A. H. Bradshaw of Norfolk made a plea for a 25 per cent increase in wages _for helpers at the Norfolk yard. He gave instances where these men,- who get $18.50 a week, were heavily in debt, and pointed out that the local board had recommended them for a decrease. A uniform wage scale for all navy yards also was urged by N. T. Alifas, president of District No. 34, Inte national Association of Machinists, who said he spoke for all the ma chinist employes at navy yards, calling for a 25 per cent increase over the base scale of 73 cents an hour, which he declared was in effect for his craft. Rear Admiral Strauss said this would be contrary to law. " Some evolutionists think that ape men began to walk on earth when forced out of the trees by the dwin- dling of forests when Asia went dry. | orientul | control ¢ allowed ! While they nad | THE EVENING STAR, \VASHINGT()N, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1922. BRTISH MINSTE HAS QU ATHENS Does Not Necessarily Mean Diplomatic Break—Possi- ble Effect on Lausanne. PRINCE’S FATE MYSTERY Andrew Believed Acquitted in Greece, But No Word Has Been Received in London. { ! { B¥ tha Ansocinted Press. 1 LAUSANNE, November 29.—Ex- | Premier Venizelos and M. Caclamanos, the Greek delegates to the near east ) conference, attended the meeting of | the .conference sub-commission on !"Turkish economic affairs today de- s 'ana]spite the international complications T which have followed the execution of {ex-P'remier Gounaris and his associ- {ates in Athens. { Although F. O. Lindley, the British {minister at Athens, has’ left Greece {as an expression of Great Britain's | |disspproval of e exccutions. ~ this does not constitute the breaking off iof diplomatic relations, it ix declared {here, and will not prevent the Brit-| fon conference tish participuting in_the with the Greek Caclamanos, who accredited London as Greek minister, said at until he received other instruc- he would conference. continue to attend tion the i TO CONFER WITH CURZON. ! i Lindley Goes to Lausanne to Meet Foreign Minister. LONDON, November 29.—A Central atch from Athens says that British minister to Greece, for e to confer with .ord Curzon. the British foreign sec- 1 i The EBritish at Athens, ! Lindley, recently informed the Greek overnment that if the prisoners were minister -xecuted. he would depart. Upon re- «eipt_of the news of the executions the foreign office ted that Mr. ndley pro 1y had left the the face ations may results to their gov- ording to otheial opinion, not on in the withdraw of moral isupport but also tne refusal of financial assistance by the great pow- Think Prince Acquitted. Whether Prince Andrew of Greece will have to stand trial on charges of disobevine ers of the Greek neral Asia Minor cam- red ques n arrested at Corfu late in October and taken to Athens. No word as o his proba- I ble rate received from Athens s dispaich of November 22, feh said that the e would e tried by couri-martiul when the trial of the former cabinet ministe leted of the Greek lega sterday t v ! information, but t inas- *h_as the prince was not in the t of condemned sterday. it that he had een acquit The retary added that others { d in the . who escaped xtren . were presuma i {no Iso quitte but i no authoritative words H General Stripped of Honors. | A dispaten to the Daily Express !from Athens asserts that before eek ministers faced the firing s {Gen. Hadjanestis was solemn! . zraded. His medals and the ir {of his rank were cut from his uniform IS nd his sword was broken. Com- ymunion was administered to all the imen before the were shot. Their tbodies later were taken to the ceme- {tery, where they were turned over to irelatives, that he had British minister. continued his ef- forts to secure clemency for the con demned men up to the I moment. iHe visited the foreign office twic {Monday evening, when it already w {an open secret that some of the ac cused men would be sentenced to !death. MHe also visited the revolution- jary chief, Col. Plastiras, at midnight { —_— DISTRIGT READY | FOR THANKSGIVING i Rich and Poor Alike to Cele- brate Day in Both Church and Home. ington and the nation tomorrow in the observance of Thanksgiving day. In church and home tomorrow the annual thansgiving will be carried out, while government departments are closed, Congress suspended and other activities ended for the observ- ance. At the White House there will be a big turkey dinner, which will be du- plicated in a smaller way in countless homes throughout the city, despite the price of the “national bird.” Rab- bits, chicken and other meats will tdke the center of many tables. Dinners for Poor. Nor will the good cheer be only for those with the money to pay for it. At Central Union Mission at noon, at the Gospel Mission at 1 o'clock and at other places dinners will be served to the poor. Among the church services in the morning will be the annual national Thanksgiving obsbrvance at the Metro- politan Memorial M. E. Church, when | Bishop Edgar Blake of Paris will speak, and the annual pan-American I mass ‘at St. Patrick's Church. s Distribudon of Thanksgiving baskets 1will be one of the features of the day. The missions and members of churches i { | will carry good cheer to scores of homes | where circumstances have prevented it entering tomorrow without such aid. Preparing Baskets. Today members of congregations were busy getting everything ready, packing i'.he baskets, with the exception of the perishables, and seeing that nothing has. been forgotten. Tomorrow the finish- ing touches will be put on and the bas- kets borne to recipients. | ““At Waiter Reed Hospital and other ! institutions in and around the city Thanksgiving will be fittingly ob- served. All today chefs at Walter Reed made mammouth preparations. It would be needless to tell of the thousands of oranges, scores of pump- kin pies, barrels of celery and other good things that will go to make that dianer. Letter carriers tomorrow will eat dinner with their families, mail deliv- eries being suspended in resident sec- tions of the city, one delivery being made early in the morning to hotels and newspaper offices. G 4. ignia | The dispatch adds that Lindley, the; President Harding will lead Wash- ! TAXICAB OV. 1 DENBY NANIES MEN FOR ACADEMY QUIZ Rear Admiral Robertson Is Understood to Head Investigators. Following a conference with Rear Admiral M. B. Wilson, ent of the Naval Academy, Navy Department yesterd noon, Secretary Denby announced he |had appointed a special board of naval lofficers to meet at the val Acad- . in Annapolis, to investigate U allexed misconduct of certain mid- shipmen at a ball in a Philadelphia hotel Saturday night. The personnel of the board not made known, but it is understood Rear Admiral A. 1L Robertson, as- sistant chief of naval operations, the senior member. No Court-Martials Expected. | In announcing his action, Secretary Denby said the investigation would be directed toward fixing responsi- bility for conditions that made pos ble the “disgraceful” incident, and was not intended to “bring to book the mudshipmen themselves.” | Court-martials of midshipmen. jindicated, were not espected to sult u. individu features not | thus far brousht to his attention were developed by the investigation. superintend- at the ter- was he {purp he was Lo previ a {repetition of the affair rather than i participan The board, ) will seek to de termine whetlier officials of the Naval Academy had been derelict in duty in connection with the affair. ames Will Continue.” The incident. it was made clear. will have no effect on continuance of the annual game between the two service academies. State Prohibition Director Davis of Pennsylvania, who has been in con- ference here with prohibition burcau ofticials, declined to comment on the iGuor allegations further than to say that apparently the stocks of con- traband beverages had been taken to he city for the o on of the Army- cy game and distributed in t Vicinity of the hotels. His conference here had no_connection with the mid- { shipmen's affair, he declared. but was ifor a discussion of “departmental | matter: | COUZENS, MAYOR OF DETROIT, APPOINTED MICHIGAN SENATOR (Continued ‘rom First Page.) ! aluable a man for Detroit to lose {4t this time is & strong reason why {his usefulness as 2 public servant ishould be extended to include all { Michigan.” ‘Appointment of ito the Senate is seen Sircles as definitely exploding the Selief previously advanced in “some quarters that the governor himself QU be a candidate for the Senate Toothe full term at the 1924 general the *Detroit mayor elections. z ¥ Souzens, it is generally accept- edMll;'e:e? Will be a candidate for the {full term. ] Born in Canada. Mayor Couzens wes born in Chat- ham, Ontario, fifty years ago. . to have a fortune of many millions, 1% started his career as a ‘mewsie on a passenger train. In 1903 he be- | eame associated with Henry Ford in | the ‘manufacture of automobiles in { Detroit, taking a position as book- | keeper. When he severed his con- i nection with the company in 1915 he Was vice president and treasurer. ‘Mr. Couzens' first public office was that of police commissioner to which he was appointed in 1916. He was first elected mayor of Detroit in 1918 Snd his re-election last year was by 80,000 votes, the largest majority ever given a mayoralty candidate here. ‘A proposal sponsored by the mayor for the purchase of the Detroit United railway lines lost by a few votes in 1919, He then obtained authority of the voters to build a municipal system and after this was well under way he negotiated the purchase of the privately owned system and consoli: i i the voters had authorized the move. Thee consolidation_went into effect in May, 1922, and Detroit became the Jargest city operating its own traction “ouzens won the reputation of {a free giver through numerous gifts to the city's institutions. ‘The com- munity fund receives from him an- nually $100,000. He has established numerous__homes and settlement houses. His largest gift was early this year when he pledged $5,000,000 to a children's hospital which is to treat crippled children from all parts of the state, without cost. e 2 TO EXPLAIN PAY BILL. Senator Thomas Sterling of South Dakota will speak on the Sterling- Lehlbach reclassification bill at the reclassification meeting of the Dis- trict of Columbia Library Association to be held at 8 o'clock Friday night. Miss Adele Powell, director of refer- ce gt the Public Library, will read a paper entitled “Life and a City Li- brarian.” Mr. s is re- i their | in political ! dated it with the new city lines after| | i i . Reputed | tion an i i CH A. KREAME Battaiion injurcd by the collixion Inst Bt at ISth and M sireets. FRANCE WILL TARRY IN MOVE TO FORCE GERMAN PAYMENT zold m of th pay moratorium corded no: rid g exzcted and a com- sns would « of Ger ss has been in- that tially " open to the products of the > control of the Fry GERMAN PRESS AGITATED. All Combine in Condemning Drastic French Plan. By the Associated Press BERLIN. November *rosp ive coercive measures to be adopted by France if the RBrusscls conference is postponed or abandoned are broadly hinted at in a in- from Paris, are provok- v agitated comment spired buile ing copious and high in the German pre Despite official denials that the Cuno government is in receipt of a note in which the French government threatens immediate appronriation of “productive securities” unless the German govern- ment submits tanzible assets for its | reparations ations, the German press is convinced that France is de- termined to use the impending post- ponement of the Brussels pourpariers as the pretext for independent action involving tho long-planned quasi-an- nexation of the Rhincland and the in- stallation of a French civil service or- ganization, and also occupation of two- thirds of the Rubr sector, including en and Bochu The German edifors appear to be un- is- impressed with the official denial sued by Wilheimstrasse and profes: see in the unobstructed French : ancy in the present international, unfailing indication that the strategic position held by Premier Poin- care suflices to enable him to dictate and carry connection out an with arbitrary French policy in aspirations. | Rarely has the press of all party shades 80 readily responded to the psychological influence of an as vet unconfirmed rumor, and it displays perfect unison in its chorus of vigorous condemnation. GRAND JURY RETURNS LIST OF INDICTMENTS ‘rench | | | | ! his driver were thr: aran- | i1 | {fight | i i | i ( ! ERTURNED IN COLLISION WITH FIRE DEPARTMENT CAR—BATTALION CHIEF INJURED FRE CHE HURT AS AUTOS CRASH # MINUTE SAFETY TALKS BY MAJOR SULLIVAN. No. 6. In operating a truck the driver should bear in mind that he has under his control a ve- NATIONTOLEARN .. SHODLNEES hicle which, if not properly | | handled, becomes an instru- | | Eqd i i ment of danger. If a truck is Educatlon week wl“ See driven b nd @ mode Drive Launched to Win Public Aid. speed, its momentum quick’ stop im hard to in_a short distance The driver should re: BT responstbility the B owner of the veh roo wlerate po jeonduet s | | HOPE TO MOVE CONGRESS lead to n accident ) ke drive at be | Leader Here Expects Campaign to Effect Passage of Sufficient Ap- propriation to Correct Ewile. tent on driving SAFETYWEEK CUTS An i pEive eamipaizn, national e tits sc will be 1 ched next wee . L ted n eck) b l papers, civ nd other or atin ,in the interest of a wodel school sye- [tem for ¥ 's capital. In v - y€cctions of the articularly . g | 1 centers, col First Three Days of Drive' Ilant tothes o . a miliar the publ Passes Without Single Death. t 5 | H afety week has borne ruit 2lre {that more than re ngton for the time and mo; i to that the first three d. inot one person has illed by ac- {cident and only slightly in-| ! Jured. + alleviate th t Before e Safe To Discuss Leg opened Washingt At the confere 1ot {sons killed every wee! 4 forty-nine | pian to bare the school « trs iinjured, sev of whom the next fis < were children, who were more ¢ t school permanently maimed. If the cit ) continues the week it began at, ! the number of persons injured will be {cut h entiry o Shan Balttanai gusSut us bill and the fro Kreamer, Battalion Leader, and Driver Injured Hur- rying to Blaze. Speeding 10 a fire on the pre { of the Doing Printing Company 4 14th street, shortly after 11 o'clock | last night, the roadster of Charles| A. Kreamer, battalion chief of the! fire department, collided with a taxi- | cab of the Daly Taxicab Company, ! 1115 1Sth street, at 1Sth and M strects Chief Kreamer, who resides at 3106 stieet, and Robert Hoover of No.| truck company, his driver, were! - injured. Both the chief and n to the road- | ¥. They were taken to Emergency Hospital in the automobile of Harry Grant, 2826 2Sth street. The chief tained a possible fracture of shoulder and was badly shocke while Hoover's collarbone was broker John H. McCreight, chauffeur of the aped injury. although his turned upsid rrested W. Casey zd with P id- bis He n Po- the basement of the ' of the printing comyp cd consideralle headwa e arrival of the riremen econd alarm summoned additional i ne. Occupants of n the three upper | floors of the doubl! building were riven from their rooms by smoke. | sut_all escaped without the need of ssistance. Flee Lightly Clad. Much excitement was Occasioned | the men. women and children, many wearing only night robes, hur- started i a companies to the ‘ elght apartments ¥ ving to the street. One man re ce « slight injury olumes of dense smoke coming from the basement made the work of | fire difficult, but firemen | scon had_ the biaze under control and | prevented it from reaching above the | second floor. The authorities were un- | able to determine the origin of the | fire. Damage to the printinb es | lishment and building was estimated | at about $12.000, and the stock in the | Galotta Ladies’ Tailoring Shop was | also badly damaged. ! Three Other Accidents. | Three other accidents were reported | at_follow: ¢ J. Lee Wilkinson. 4818 Chapel Hill! lane, lost control of his automnbile at ! 4th and E streets vesterday afterncon, chen the steering gear became locked | d was unable to prevent the car from striking a trash collection box | and fire plug. 2 Mrs. Marion J. Lee, Brunswick ! apartments, stepped on a manhole | cover in front of 700 11th street yes- terday afternoon. The cover tilted | !and Mrs. Lee received an injury to her | k Jeft leg. She refused treatment. o An automobile driven by Steven De- ! Vine, 514 12th street southeast, w damaged last night, when it was dr en into an excavation in the roadway | near Maryland avenue and 2d street! southwest. i i LABOR DEPARTMENT | RADID TALKS SAFETY| Education of the public regarding | proper care in the use of streets and | highways was recommended in a radjo message on Safety week broadcast by the Department of Labor through the naval air station at Anacostia. The de- partment outlined three major remedies for reduction of accidents: Engineering revision in industry, supervision by traf- Le Roy D. Childs has been indicted | fic officers of both vehicular and pedes- by the grand jury on a charge of! trian traffic, assault with a dangerous weapon. He is alleged to have shot Mrs. Clara May Shipley, twenty-seven years old, of 522 11th street southeast Novem- ber 21, last, as she was about to leave Washington to return to her husband at Martinsburg, W. Va. Murder the second decgree is charged against Hattie Jones, col- ored. She is sald to have stabbed to death her husband, Robert Jones, September 22, last, at their home, 300 Missouri avenue northwest. Eleven charges were ignored by the grand jurors, as follows: James T. Mills, Frank Reed, Robert Brooks, Eliza Burns and David Brown, rob- bery; Le Roy Pryor, forgery; Harry C. Atkinson, false pretenses; William H. Forest, joyriding; James W. Stans- bury, homicide; Theodore Reeves, white slavery; Charles Cash, assault with dangerous weapon, and Otto Crane, forgery. Others indicted an@ the charges against them are: Willlam B. O'Brien and William E. Madigan, housebreaking; Robert A. Ballew, James F. O'Donnell, William A. Hack- ley, larceny after trust; Anthony Sparrow, joyriding; Ella- Neal. nar- cotic law; Pauline ‘Stone, grand lar- George V. Hazel, Louis Left- v James H. Green ‘and Mary E. Pickett, _forgery, and Claude C. Brown, Peter Garnier and Vincent Vasco, non-support, L % and education of the public mind to the point where pedestrians { and children will look carefully in both ! directions before crossing streets and highways. “It is a_common sight to see pedes- trians entirely ignoring the traffic offi- cer and dodging through traffic at their imminent peril.” the radio message said. Many of the deaths of children, the radio message continued, are due to the fact that municipalities have not supplied_adequate play space. The streets become a plavground. with death the result. The public should de- mand better engineering in regard to this matter. - The department pointed out that the development of satisfac- tory traffic regulations is a matter of engineering very largely. While deaths per thousand automo- biles have somewhat decreased, the total deaths have steadily increased, the message said. In 1919 there were 9,868 fatalities. and in 1920 there were 11.067 in the United States. The department pointed out that the public has a right to demand that streets and highways be made as safe as engineering skill can make them, adding that the great engineering problem of the present time is the railway grade crossing. Records of the Interstate Commerce Commission show that with the increase of auto- mobile traffic accidents at grade crossings have mounted from year to year. | | the mes by word northeast and southwest sec- of mouth, radio of city nd fo % i From will e sions of W Carefulness Noted. Those behind the clared this morning t already attained shows t permanent educatior o person who dr it was pointed o a grateful grow of motorists and pedes Drivers are u: ularly in the districts, like bl Importance movement de- 1 the record d for a paign here. | es an wutomobiie, | ¥ Manual Item. »od that the where to occur. One fects the dr: its th are ost mo: not all drivers now e purchase of . before overtaking larged buildine wother car, which was shown Ly Wash. er improv moto: be w intention o stop of this city before the opined. One of complaints made was that took the his, two. is rapid.y & under the campaign of e Drive to Be Puxhed. Every man, woman and Pistrict of Columbia 1 in the the norti shsert nior high scho ADMITS BIGAMY CHARGE. Margaret E. Fahnestock Reweds ‘Without Absolute Divorce. . of cours - every man and wos Sorin Margaret E. Fahnestock, twen': han 8 ars old, of Alexandria. Va.. pleade. 3 ty to a_charge of bigamy - Justice Stafford in Criminal 1pr ay. The gove ' arried and w oy Fahne hout secs when ti r tion to the main council for it is ussurred that wom it to enforce sion frame it in divorce from him iage ceremon Wood nother m: B. Attorn prosec helped ted Stat ted the . while Attorne: o appeared for the that one of ate is the tru that he himself and declar caring it of his* s tol ar. he was ¢ -dos 1d other machis Rex. | Salter: ut regard for other 1ed the second > i was at Plans Drivers® & Bt Bt The council intends information. took Sohn h . iehe had beea given an ab SEREOL JE R RS vorce, when in fact only a L vehicles. As the emp men are to be members of the council , there is no doubt whether or not they been awarded by the . Virgini, Fahnestock then admitted iolation of the law ill attend. The schocl will not only | I\‘l’l~f.?',;o\¢‘; ({ ;P_m} A 'n_| ! teach them the law . < 5 referred robatin ce but will also i for investfgation and report. foaties riter is at lberty on bail know how 1o ari when emergencies LOAN OFFERED CHILE. In every schooi in the eity the les-| son of Safe eek is beinz taught ralizionsly fety wiil. hercafter, be id Re artionine P TR R :J. P. Morgan & Co. Would Aid Rail tion—public The Wasl i Project 500,000 Pounds. eep teachers supplicd Chile. Novembe i i soon cvers child ed herethat I3 reccived an offer from rules as .rith : being conduc in government de- partments also is 1o be perpetuated, so that the need for the | part of every nerson w of a loan of on of Chile-Ar Similar c nre-| It was that the governme: markable results in other cities. In|would he unable to entertain s Milwaukee the death rate per 1.060, offer because of a clause in motor vehicles was cut in half; De- | cent loan le by troit cut accidental deaths almost 30 | tional preventing th per cent: St. Louis red death per | flotation or SoNecitation of ar 1.000 automobil from 3 to 1.4, and | foreign loan prior to April 1. New York. Pittsburgh and Baltimore unless in agreement with that showed hiz cuts in accidental deaths. Bi-Sal sl Sal ool gal Sal el S ol Sl S Al S S 44 What Comes After December 1st? Twenty Selling Days and Then Christmas But ther a whole lot more than that coming after December first—the opening day of The Star’s “Christmas Gift Suggestions campaign in the Alphabetical Classified Section. pany.. Al There are more customers coming to you, and more sales, and more returns than you've ever had from so small an advertising mvest- ment. Our representative will call to explain the details of all that’s coming to you this Christ mas. 7 Phone Main 5000---Branch 64 P TR TE TR PE TR LL LR TR SR TR TR LR 5 p