Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Light rain this afternoon or tonig! tomorrow, fair and colder; Temperature for 2 today: 2 pm. Fuil report on page 32. perature tonight. above fre 24 hours ended at Highest, 60, yesterday; lowest, 38, at 5:30 a:m. today. lowest tem: ezing. gt 3 pan. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28,704 PROGRESSIVE BLOC FORMS AT GAPITOL: PLATFORM DRAWN Thirteen Senators, Twenty- One House Members in New Political Group. 110 THIRD PARTY MOVE, LA FOLLETTE ANNOUNCES Program Includes Legislation for| Benefit of Farmers and Other Workers. Organization of a progressive bloc fn Congress was effected today at a meeting attended by senators and rep- resentatives of both republican and democratio parties. That the organization of this bloc is for the purpose ot drafting and push- ing progressive legislative measures, and not for the purpose of organizing a third political party, was empha- sized by Senator La Follette of Wis- consin, who called the meeting; Sena- tor Norris of Nebraska, who acted as chalrman of the meeting today. and Senator Borah of Idaho and others who made addresses. Thirteen senators and twenty. n rs of the House and Go lli‘le;l“:: ot Wisconsin attended today’ neeting. The senators were: McNary Sheppard of Texas, France Owen of Oklahoma, Norris of Nebraska. Ladd of North irakota. Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. art of lowa, Borah of Idah Senators-elect ipstead of Minnesota, Frazier of North Dakota and Wheeler of Montana. The representatives present Wwere: Burke, tolins, Huddleston, i.ogan, Nead.” . Frear, Ward. Beck, Lampert. Schneid Keller, Volgt. Reid. Nelson. Swain, Sinclair, Cooper. King, Huck and Mansfield. Resolution Adopted. The meeting unani the following Tesolution: : Resolved. TI the progressive- nd representatives to meet from to time and co-operate whole- leartedly in order to accomplish the jundamental purposc upon which we all united, namel. "o drive special privilege out of rol the government and re- o it to’the prople, and to this end un; adopted will oppe unceasingly special nterest legislation. and in order to entifically to meet the riticai situation that confronts the ation we propese to create special ymmittecs, composed of members of nate and the House; @e-operat- men of affairs and experts prepare and submit to this group ¢ consideration from time to time uring this and the next Congress ractical and econstructive plans for aling with the following great sub- cts griculture, abor, “Railroads, hipping. tural resources, dits, axation. nd a special committee to amend- ments 1c the Constitution looking to the abolishment of the electoral col- leze and tha earlier meetings of newly clected congresses. In order to restore and perpetuate the control of the peo- Ple over their government, we propose | he institution of a nation-wide cam- paign in the various states for direct, open primaries for all elective office, ineluding the presidency, and for ef- ective federal and state corrupt prac- ices acts. A committee on committees was ap- pointed as follows: Representative Huddleston of Alabama, chairman, and isconsin; Collins, M and Senators Owen, McNary and Brookhart. Another Meeting Planned. The meeting of the progressives to- day occupied a little more than two hours. -losed doors. Thera was frequent ap- plause greeting the statements made by the speakers. Senator Borah of Idaho emphatically told the meeting that if it was pro- posed to draft and advocate progres- sissippl, Sheppard sive legislative measures he was with | ihem, but that if it was proposed to @o into the political field and political canvasses and presidential candidates he would have nothing to do with it. All of the speakers, it was said, put the soft pedal on the idea that the present meeting was for the purpose of organizing a new political party. “The progressives will hold another ing this afternoon. The meeting was in the Senate committee ilture. and telegrams received by Senater La Follette from eight rep- resentatives and representatives- elect, expressing their whole-hearted support of the conference and their intention of co-operating directly in the carrying forward of the program agreed upon. were presented to the meeting, among those heard being haffer. Crosser, Thomas, Wefald, Kvale and Knight. People’s Service VMeeting. A meeting of progressives under the spices of the Peoples’ Legislative of which Senator La Follette Senato: 'a Follette of Wisconsin I8 chairman, epresentative Huddleston of Ala- ama secretary. and Basil Manly, xecutive officer. ‘The mémbers of the ational council of the People’s Legi: ative Service, which includes pra ically_all of the progressive bloc ‘ormed today in Congress, and many other progressive men and women, including governors of states, hava heen invited to attend. A dinner will he given tomorrow night at the City ub, at which Samual Untermeyer of New York will be one of ths principal speakers. R — TOWN FIRED BY BANDITS BEFORE STAGING ROBBERY 35 the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex., December 1. “irst setting fire to the business di ct, bandits robbed the post office Brownfleld, Terry county, of cur- cy. silver and stamps Thanksgiv- 7 noon, according to information seived here today. While the fire spread the bandits -ered their way into the post office, ashed the cash drawer and then fl-d as citizens assembled to fight the fiames. Imter a posse overtook the bandits and captured two of them. M.ich of the money was recovered. This is the second time recently in which the business district of the town has been set on fire by bandits. _The fire loss will be small. The meeting was held behind | 3 Entered as sscond-class matter post office Washington, D. C. Long Held Position as Leader in the House. Gained Reputation by Courage and Independence. Death last lative night ended the legis- ver of Representative Jame: { R. Manu of the second Illinois d. {trict. lonz rated as a giant of the | House, in his apartment at the High- | lands The national House of Representa- | tives was thrown into deepest mourn- | ing today by the death of the vet- eran member. { The House arranged for a special | service toniorrow. at which the Pres- ident, Vice President, members of the cabinet, the Supreme Court, the Sen- ate and the diplomatic corps will be invited to attend. The offi announcement of the death of Representative Mann was made to the House by Representative Martin B. Madden of Ilinois, dean of the Illinois delegation, who, after a brief tribute to the public service of Representative Mann, offered a reso- lution, which was atcepted by the ; House, adjourning out of respect for {Mr. Mann's memory until 1:30° p.m. tomorrow. when the special services will be held. Representative Madden announced that a day will be sei apart in the House on which Mr. | Mann's colleagues will deliver eulo- gies. Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House, made refe 1BKILLED, 21 HURT . AS MEXICAN MOB - ANDPOLICE BATTLE {Municipal Building Nearly Wrecked in Water Short- age Protest. E | By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 1.—Fed- eral troops guarded a badly battered municipal building today while the | ity counted the casualties of a pitch- | ed- battle between the police and a mob which attempted to storm the building last night. The death list as | a result of the fighting stood at sev- enteen early today, while eighteen persons are known to have been seri- { ously injured and three slightly hurt. { The list of those less seriously in- |jured was augmented early this morn- | ing when a group of manifestants, at- tempting & demonstration before the residence of Alonso Romero, presi- dent of the city council, clashed with who_fired several ]mountnd polic i | rounds. Eight injured persons were !taken into the Romero nome for i treatment. i ‘The city, afier a night of wild ex- | citement. found its main plaza before | the municipal building a shambles of | broken glass, timbers and stone, evi- ! dence of the anger of the mo!). which | forced its way iInto the building half an hour after the police rifles had taken their toll. Cause of Trouble. The trouble, which lasted for more than six hours, started when a crowd marched to the city hall to protest against the aldermen, who are held { responsible for conditions leading to : the water famine. The demonstration was intended by the labor unions that organized it as a peaceful protest, and several hundred persons paraded the downtown Streets before proceeding to the hall to voice their adverse sen- timents against the city government. These protestants were reinforced {along the route, and when the mu- | nicipal building was reached the | crowd numbered more than 2,000 per- sons. Yelling Invectives against the al- dermen. the mob gave emphasis to its words by hurling stones and other missiles. When one leader suggested that the hall be entered, the demon- strators made a concerted rush for- ward. The police guards met thei advance by firing their rifles over the heads of the crowd, which, how- ever, did not check its course. When it became apparent that the mob ! would enter the building despite the police_the latter aimed their rifles point blank and fired, with deadly ef- fect. Staggered by the bullets, the dem- onstrators retired_carrying with them their dead and injure: Val o Records Lost. But in half an hour they returned, and several of their number, break- ing windows, entered the hall and be- gan to set fire to its contents. +Valuable documents, some of which dated back several centuries, were tossed imto the streets and the city records were glven to the winds. By this time the federal troops had arrived, but the intruders were not ejected before the building had been wrecked. A line of hose, which the fire department was able to bring into play despite the water shortage, was successful in holding back the crowds outside. Several sporadic attempts to con- tinue the demonstration were made in the succeeding hours, but when the | demonstrants returned to the attack they found a cordon of several hun- dred soldiers about the building, and contented themselves with jeering and hooting officials in general, in- cluding some of the members of the federal government. Thus baffled in their attempts to re- enter the hall, several small groups of citizens marched, through the streets committing minor depreda- tions. They called on all the news- | paper offices and hooted and yelled Ihrflore the residences of the city offi- | cials. Deputies Adjourn. The chamber of deputi€s adjourned when it received news of the sanguin- ary encounter in the main plaza, and a heavy gyard wasg thrown around the building. The residences of all aldermen were alio under the pro- tection of federal troops throughout the night. c WASHINGTON, Representative Mann Dies; In Congress for 26 Years fired in many places and the furniture ; | | JAMES R. MANN, ehce in his prayer to the death of Representative Mann, saying: “Our Father, who art in heaven, wilt Thou hear us? Our hearts are sore and heavy and there is no ade- Qquate speech for the deep emotions of the soul. Out of a strong right Thou has taken the staff and the left is cold and smitten. Next to his fireside Ttar, this place was In his loving re ard and sollcitude. Here the asso- ciations of the years cluster, and here {he consecrated his powers with the sacrament of uns A 'Hoover Predicts \Mr.Harding Will RunAgainin’24 By tie Associated Press. PALO ALTA, Calif., December 1. —The republican presidential can- didate in 1924 “obviously will be Warren (. Harding.” Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover said in an interview at his home here today. “Moreover, by that time (1924) Mr. Hoover said. “the public be highly appreciative of the san- ity and progressive character of the pollcies that will have brought this country through the recon- struction period.” FARMERS” AID BILL 1S 0. P. PROGRAM Administration Takes Wind From Sails of New Pro- gressive Faction. 5 | ! LIBERALS MEETING TODAY .Demn'd for Rural Credits Is Strong Point in Their Platform. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. In the formulation of a legislative cattlemen through the extension of credits the adminigtration is said to have stolen a march on the progres- sive bloc in Congress, now in course of being organized through a pro- posed coalition of democrats and re- !nuhllcanm And it was done on the!| very eve of the first assembling of the promoters of the new bloc, as if to make the thing more impressive. Yesterday's conference between President Harding and the Secretary of Agriculture and twelve republican senators, including the leader of the farmers' bloc in the Senate, Mr. Cap- per, at which the legislation was de- termined upon, is regarded as taking the wind out of the sails of the coali- tionlsts at their meeting today, and probably rendering much of their reso- lution and confabulation work of supererogation. G. 0. P. Can Pass Bill. There are enough republicans of all shades of progressivism in the Sen- ate and House to put through a bill with the stamp of the republican party upon it and the administration’s hall-mark. The aid of democrats will be welcomed. of course, but the op- position of a radical group, if inter- posed, will be futile. Republicans in Congress— those stanch in their support of the ad- ministration—have resented the mbve- ment to take out of the hands of the majority partylin Congress legislation for the rellef of the farmers, as if it had to be left to democrats and some republican senators and representa- tives claiming superior interest in the welfare of the grangers and the cat- tlemen. It was this administration, it is pointed out, which initiated relief measures for the agricultural inter- ests in the first session of Congress after the republicans came into power. It was also the administration and | the republican.party which continued ithe life of the farmers’ emergency bill through the period of the enact- ment of the new tariff law, supporting American_agricultural products with adequate tariff rates meanwhile. Friction May Develop. Supporters of the administration say that the farmers now have a tariff to protect them, for which the republican party, with the ald of a few demo- crats, is responsible, and now the farmers are to be offered financial re- lief by the bill which is to be pushed with all the force at the command of | to the Washington Railwa program for the relief of farmers and | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, REFUSES 10 CUT FARE. ON' CAPITAL ~ TRACTION LINES Utilities Commission Favors Uniform Rates on Both Systems. CITES FORMER ATTITUDE SUPPORTED BY CLAYTON Citizens' Federation Petition De- nied, Leaving Six Tokens for 40 Cents. ‘The petition of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations for a reduction iin fare on the lines of the CIDIQIJ‘ Traction Company was denied by the Public Utilitles Commission toda: This means that the present rate of six tokens for 40 cents, or 8 cents cash, will remain in effect on both street railway systerhs. Willlam McK. Clayton, counsel for contention that it is discrimination, in | violation of the utilities law, to con- tinue the same rate of fare on both systems when that rate nets the Capi- tal Traction Company a greater in- come than it gives the Washington Rallway and Electric Company. In its decision handed down today the commission quotes testimony from the street car rate cases of 1918 and 1919, in an effort to show that Mr. Clayton's present position is out of harmony with the views he held at | that time. Earliér Testimony Shown. The commission has written into its verdict passages from the earlier rate cases, showing that a few years ago Mr. sioners would be guilty of discrimina- tion if they fixed different rates of fare for each company. The commission also incorporated in fts decision the legal opinion of Corporation Counsel Stephens, print- ed in The Star last week, in which he advised the Commissioners they were entirely within the law in maintain- ing_a uniform rate of fare. not assume an important spect.” states the commission, “until the Washington Railway and Electric Company applied to_the commission in February. 1919, for a further in- creage in rates, in which petition the Capital Traction and other smaller companies did not joln. During the consideration of that case, the direct question was asked of Mr. Clayton if it would be discrimination under ti law to grant the Washington Railway and Electric Company one rate of fare and the Capital Traction Com- pany a lower rate. ‘Mr. Clayton said: could not do it." ‘Commissioner Brownlow: ‘In your iew, if We grant an increase of rates y and Elec- tric Company on this petition, are we bound by the law to grant a similar increase ‘to the Capltal Traction Com- ‘In my view you ny? PAMr. Clayton—T belfeve you are. That is my position. and T cannot avold it after reading the law as I understand it." “Commissioner Brownlow—'In other | words_ the discrimination would not apply to different customers of the | same company, but of two companies rendering similar service?' “Mr. Clayton—'I so read the law.’ “When this question again came be- | fore the commission in October, 1919, |on the application of the Washington Railway and Electric Company for further increases in the rate of fare, Mr. Clayton reiterated his position that it would be discrimination under i the law to authorize different rates of | fare on these companies. “Chairman Kutz—'We understand | that you are opposed to granting an |increase to the Washington Railway and Electric Company, and at the same time granting it to the Caplital Traction Company?’ or pardon 3 “Mr. Clayton—1I course, if you will he law you could 1 be- don’t believe under tl |do anything else but grant it. lieve it would be discriminatory oth- erwise.” Reasons of 1910 Restated. The commission then restates the reasons it gave in 1919 for keeping ithe rate of fare the same on both | systems. Briefly, those reasons were that different fares would so congest traffic on Capital Traction cars as to make it impossible for that company to render good service. At the same time, the higher fare on the Wash- ington Railway and Electric ‘lines would drive so many passengers to the lower-priced Capital Traction cars as to nullify the effect of the in- crease granted the Washington Rail- way and Electric. In conclusion, the commission says: “After carefully reviewing the evi- dence and giving full welght to the legal arguments presented by coun- gel, the commission is of the opinion that no sufficient reason has been shown to justify the change In its policy. This pelicy is based upon the interest of the entire public in the preservation of efficient and de- pendable street railway transporta- tion in all parts of the Districts “It is therefore ordered that the petition of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations for a reduction in the rate of fare on the lines of the Cap- ital Traction Company be, and the same is hereby, denied.” MEETING 10 DISCUSS D. C. SURPLUS REVENUE A meeting of the joint congression- al committee on the surplus revenues of the District will be held this after- noon, Chairman Phipps sald today. He has been in touch ‘with the expert accountants who are auditing the ex- penditures and ceceipts of the District government »nd will report to the don't say. the leaders in Congress and the ad- ministration. The only friction expected in this ef- fort is the possible attempt to propose extremist admendments to the bill, covering phases other than the credit to be extended by the administration bill. The administration’s measure is described as a clear-cut, definite prop- o-mon' which is calculated to receive | the the full approval of the country. committee to/lay the progress made. He sald that the accountants, while they have not completed the work, have made satistactory progress, and should be able to make a final rt n time. The joint committee has until February to file its report T enster Bhipps. heain said tod tor pps that until his committee has received e report of the auditors there is nothing for the committee to review. the citizens, based his case on the! Clayton contradicted him- | self by testifying that the Commlu-l “The question of a uniform rate of | fare did VETERANS' BUREA TO RELEASE 150 | Between 250 and 300 D. C. Employes Are Affected by Order. LISTS HAVE BEEN MADE Cut in Force to Be Completed Be- fore First of the Year. Sixteen hundred local and “field employes of the Veterans' Bureau are to be dropped from the rolly before the 1st of next year. P also to the field service of the bureau. Statements from officials bureau today gave estimates that be- tween 250 and 300 of the local force of the bureau would be dropped, while between 1,300 and 1,350 em- ployes in field work outside of Wash- ington would be included in the re- duction. The order for the cut already has been prepared, but the work of prun- ! the bureau without the impairment of the efficiency of the organization has not yvet been completed. It Is rapldly reaching its final stages, how- ever, according to Dr. T. H. Scott, executive officer. Cut to Be Gradual The cut is expected to be gradual. extending through the latter part of December and to the early part of January. Simultaneously with the arrange- ments for a cut in personnel, but in- dependent from this project, Col. E. A. Shepherd, formerly of the Shipping Board, an industrial engineer, is plan- ning a closer knit mechanical opera- tien of the various divisions of the bureau, with co-ordination of the work of various divisions and elimina- tion of duplicated work as his primary aims. He has already started a sur- vey of the bureau work. Col. Shepherd today is organizing a committee of eighteen composed of two representatives of each of the nine divisions of the bureau, with whom to consult on the co-ordination of work and elimination of unneces- sary overlapping effort. To accomplish his objects. a com- prehensive survey of the work of the various divisions of the bureau is being made. The work of each divi- sion is being gone over carefully and, according to Col. Shepherd, survey ex- perts are always working with the aim of concentrating the energies ofl the divisions, so that they may be operated at the highest efficlency with the least number of employes. He refused to admit that this survey was the proposition on which the cut | in force was contingent. On the other hand, it was learned from other sources at the bureae that the cut had to be made as a result of a prelim- inary survey made by Col. Forbes and & resultant order for a 5 per cent cut in force throughout the country. Throughout the country, accord- ing to statistics, there are about 32,000 employes of the Veterans’ Bureau. Five thousand, or a bit less than one- sixth of this number, are in the Vet- erans’ Bureau In Washington. The & per cent cut is to be practically equal In every section of the country, which !'oulfl’n‘lfiks !helloc;l‘:educthn a mat- er of dismissal of betw: 800 employes. SSaastiand Efficency Is Aim. “Uppermost in our mind at all times,” declared Dr. Scott, today, “is the efficlent but economic operation of the Veterans® Bureau. We are con- stantly taking in slack and keeping the bureau operating at the highest point of effictency. There will be noth- ing done to impair the efficlent opera- tion of the bureau, but on the other hand we cannot consent to being par- ties to an unnecessary outlay of tax- payers’ funds, In the maintenance of jemployes in positions which- are be- :l‘:{g'd to be unnecessary or inessen- Assurance was given that the cut in‘ force would be made with full recognition of the priority privileges of veterans of the world war, and that the preferred status of former service men would continue to be fore- most in the policies of the bureau. This cut in ing out the employes least needed by | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1922 -FORTY-SIX PAGES. THE TEAMWORK FLOAT. | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system city block and the delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers ‘covers every are print ¢ Foening Star. =2 Yesterday’s i - S\ By Georges Clemenceau. [Copyright, 1922 Company).” Ali rights rcserved. | { | i | | of peace. The United States the torch of right and of an ideal. insuring a peace of reason. league of nations. The allies seated themselves at the conference table firmly resolved | . United States, Great Britain. Canada and Soutk America. by North American Ncwapaper Alliance and New York World (Press Publishing Unlicensed veproduction czpressly forbidden.] appearcd at Versailles holding aloit Right: The fourteen points, inspired by the war aims of the allies of 1917, imposing limits on victory and | The ideal: The magnificient dream of the| | to substitute the rule of right for the rule of force. And once the treaty i'had been signed. none among the allies sought to alter its character by | Rather the contrary occurred. GERMANY LOOKS TO FORCE. Two years had not elapsed.from the armistice before the allic ersonnel is the result of an order getting what they had suffcred and the common danger, and thoroughly of Director Forbes of the bureau for ! absorbed in their work of peace and of reconstruction, permitted Germany | a 5 per cent reduction in force, ap- i to go back upon her signature, to pull herself together and to prepare new plicable not only to Washington but| schemes directed against the peace of the world. For imperialist Ger- | going after additional advantages. for- oy thei many, born of force and counting upon force to perfect her work uf\ | hegemony—Germany in peace and defeat had remained a nation of force, The war taught her nothing. | | i found their surest roots. ! (b) Germany's mi : the Elbe and the Weser. jof her war schools. (d) i (e) | ! H for her own ends collapsed. Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, had railroad. herself beside the allies. ) v's military frontier was fixed fifty kilometers cast o the Rhine, rendering it impossible for her to mobilize other than between | cle: The treaty of Versailles deprived Germany of its means of figlning‘; (a) Those provinces where her military and industrial strength! f (c) The treaty deprived Germany of her army, of her general staff, ALLIES GIVEN MILITARY CONTROL. Germany's effectives were reduced to 100,000 men and military | Street for help.” the boy went on, service was abolished; the allics, furthermore, had the right to exer- cise a military control in the empire. The German navy had ceased to exist; it reposed at the bottom of Scapa Flow or had been incorporated in the navies of the victorious | nd h powers. The war aviation service was suppressed. Finally, able ring of alliances which Germany had established round herself and Prior to 1914 Germany had constituted that Mitteleuropa which ; hims from the Baltic to the Mediterrancan, by the exploitation of Austria- placed 000,000 men under Hohen- zollern authority. The gateway to the east was opened via the Bagdad Even Italy followed along. In 1919, Germany found herself alone. Italy had heroically ranged! Austria-Hungary had collapsed. From this (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) YOUTHFUL ELOPERS SEIZED BY POLICE |Millionaire Takes Daughter Home Despite Marriage, But D. C. Boy Is Held. Special Dispatch to The Star. CINCINNATI, December 1.—Thanks- giving day saw a decided hitch put !into the romance of Frederick Calvin | Will, nineteen years old, of Wash- ington, D. C., and Mattle Jean Lilly, fifteen-year-old daughter of T. H. Lilly, millionaire lumberman of Hin- ton, W. Va.,, when the latter took his daughter back home today. Married at Newport, Ky., across the river, on Thanksgiving eve, after an elopement from Hinton, the couple was arrested at a hotel here yester- day. Young Will was held for the United States authorities and later in the day yesterday taken back to Hinton. . The bride of a day was taken home by her father. Will is a clerk in the Chesapeake and Obio offices at Hinton. Young Will, who left Washington last August to work at Hinton, is the son of Fred D. Will of 624% 4th street northeast, an employe of the government printing office. Notified Jast night by a morning newspaper that his son was held at Cincinnati on charges of having .violated the Mann white slave act, Mr. Will entered: an ' automobile after midnight to go to the office. Taken to Hospital When passing Union station the automobile in which he was riding BOUNCED OFF SEAT, . FIREMAN IS DYING: Engine, With Driver Gone, Crashes Into Truck at 12th and E Streets. | Speeding across the car tracks at [ the intersection of 12th and E streets | northwest, while responding to an alarm of fire, A."H. Wernig, driver iof No. 7 engine, was perhaps fatally njured this morning when he was bounced from his seat, lost control lot his machine and crashed into a itruck parked in front of an oyster | nouse several doors from the Raleigh { Hotel. A Wernlg was responding to a third jalarm from the fire at the plumbing | plant of E: G. Schafer, 13th and Little B streets northwest, a few minutes before 8 o'clock. He had brought his big. engine safely down the sharp grade on 12th street between E and F streets and started across the car tracks at high speed. = Tracks Blamed for Aceident. According to the police, Wernig hit the car tracks sharp and at fast pace. The tracks at that crossing are ex- ceedingly “bumpy” and the fireman wae thrown from his seat, landing across his steering wheel. Out of control, the engine shot down 12th street, skidded several times and smashed into the big truck with such force that it turned the truck com- pletely around, shoved it over the curbstone and forced it across the pavement. The rear wheel of the (Contmued on Page 2, Column 4.) ~ (Continued on Bage 2, Column §.) the formid- | Net Circulation, 75,486 TWO CENTS. BOY. 13, FIGHTS OFF FATHER WHO CUTS MOTHER'S THROAT Charles 1. Glauback Slashes Attack on Wife. PLUCKY SON LOCKS HIM UP IN STORE BEDROOM Mother Expected to Recover From Assault Enacted in Shop at 27 H Northeast. A long butcher knife from the mea® block of a little general store at 27 1l street northeast early this mornin: carved a trall of blood and tragedy. As a result, Charles J. Glaubach. forty-three vears old. lies in Emer- gency Hospital with his throat cut by his own hand, in a “very critical con ditfon,” with physicians' holding o little hope of recovery; Mrs. Glaubac is at Casualty Hospital with her throat cut and right hand badly Sliged. but no 1 2 serlous condition, while thelr son Nathan Glaubach, aged, thirteen years is thanking his lucky stars caped by a hair's lyeadth f.:nln the same knife. e o . ol S Asked Wife to Support Him, | According to Nathaws® story, lis | father had Veen quarreling with his mother, asking her to support hi {had entered the store about 7:30 loclock, cut his mother's throat, {started after their son, missed the {®on. and later slashed his own throat. i Glaubach told the police that he | cuarreled with his wife, had been a1- | tacked by her, and in wresting the HE peace of Versailles was intended to be a peace of justice.|knife from her, had accidentally cut Neither France nor Great Britain demanded other than repara- tion for the wrong done by Germany during fifty vears of war or Nathan flatly denied his father's on of the story Police reported they had a warrant for the arrest of Glauback, charged with having threatened his wife. Records at police headquarters show - #d the warrant had been sworn to by = his wife, on November 24. and the rrant ‘sent to precinct No. 2. At 1 2 police said they had not seen | the warrant. No charges had been filed against iauback up to noon today in con- nection with the cutting. Boy Tells Story. It was a grim but thrilling story Nathan told of his escape from the knife. The boy was still jn his nightclothes according to his version of the tragedy. Through the glass window of the door separating the bedrooms from the little store, which beloneed to his Nathan saw his father enter, « mother, and ensage in a controversy. . _“1 couldn’t hear all that they said.’ Nathan told a representative of The Star. “but I understood my father to tell mother she ought to support him. hen there was an argument, and he took the butcher knife and cut her | throat.: The 1ad then stepped to the little counter, where still lay the meat v and saw. and enacted the ~ between his father amd { mother. “He held her like this” the iboy said holding his hand over his { mouth and chin. | Father Pushed Door Open. “Mother ran | tragic screaming into the and through the windowpane Icould see father make a dive for me behind the door. T held the door as tight as I could. but he pushed too hard for me. 1 jumped ba all of a sudden e stumbled and fell through the door.” Here the boy indicated a |deep step from the store into the |living quarters in the rear. When the father fell into the bed- | room. with the knife, Nathan said he f dodged back to one side, and | then quickly sprang through the door into the store and slipped the lock in Iplace. With his mother outside screaming for help, and the neighbors igathering. the bor in _his might- {clothes held the door while his fa- ther, he said, frantically tried to get out ' of the bedroom. Bloodstains { trailing through the hedroom nd out linto a back room fuil of trash indi- | cated, police said. that the enraged | man had evidently tried to escape by the back door and failed. He re- | turned 1o the bedroom. the boy said, and. as the crowd gathered, leaned up the door and cut his own | agains throat. Little Sister Safe. The injured were taken to the Emer- | gency and Casualty hospitals. The | boy was escorted to station No. 6, where he awaited the arrival of i friends, H. Goodman and family, who operate a grocery at 2639 1 street. Nathan's little sister Frida was safe at the Goodman home last night and was spared the harrowing experience at the H street store this morning. The ioodmans today indicated they would shelter the two children and care for them, at least for the pres- ent. The Glaubachs had come from J. i Newark, Nathan said. a few i weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Glaubach | were natives of Austria. their chil- dren were born in this country. They first lived here with the Goodmans, al 2639 1 street. Police revealed that friends of Mrs Glaubach had some time ago com: plained of the actions of Glaubach The hushand, who had left his wife, friends said, had been walking back and forth by the hour in front of ths house, and at times had parked s automobile there, to sit in it and glower across the street. Continued complaints resuited in the warrant being issued, but it was never served, — OCEAN RECORD BROKEN. NEW YORK. December 1.—The Majestic, world's largest steamship, also became the world's fastest liner today, according to the White Star line, when she completed her trip to Cherbourg breakwater in five days, six hours, thirteen minutes, breaking the former record held by the Mau. retania of five days, eight hours, ten minutes. The Mauretania made her best speed to Cherbourg on June 12 but on November 3, of this year inade the voyage to New York from Cher- bourg in five days, seven hours #nd thirty-three minutes. The Majestic was recently cleaned in dry dock at Boston and equipped with new propellers. She left Am- brose Light November 25, at 12:57 p.m.. and_keeping an average speed of 24.59 knots an hour, arrived s .Cherbourg at 12:10 this morning.