Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain or snow and warmer today; tomorrow cloudy, probably ‘rain. ‘Temperature for 22 hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, 37.6; low- est, 23.6. Full report on page 5. 98,734. 927—N0. Entered as sacond-class 'lnlluc.l' post office Washington. No. SHOWDOWNINPARIS Bonar Law Going to Parley Armed With Plan for Full Settlement. of Harding Regime, London’s View. Further Action by U. S. In Economic Crisis Believed Certain. MORATORIUM AND CUT IN AMENDS IN PROGRAM By ARTHUR S. DRAPER. By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. Copyright, 1922, LONDON, December 30.—Secretary of State Hughes' speech at New Ha- ven. declaring in favor of American participatiton in a world conference on German reparations, is regarded Britain Sees Isolation of France in Hughes Speech—Not to Block Ruhr Invasion. Ry the Associated Press. here as the m s st hopeful utterance LONDON, December 30.—Since the | magq, Tni s e by a United States cabi; - adjournment of the allied premiers’ 5 fom cabinerimin ister since Mr. Harding became Pres- ident. The Hughes suggestion is looked on as in every way prefer- able to Sénator Borah's now defunct plan for an international economic conference. France “now holds the key to the recuperation of Europe and restoration of world order, ac- cording to British officials. To say that the British are delight- meeting here on December’ 11 in order to avoid an open break between Great Britain and France on the subject of reparations there has been a flood of rumors and reports concerping the solution of the deadlock that Prime Minister Bonar Law was likely to propose when the allied representa- tives resumed their discussions in . Paris. Only today, however, was an ed with Secretary Hughes' plain inti- authoritative statement forthcoming | Mation of the United States foreign The WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1922.—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. * BRITISH T0 DEMAND BRITISH EAUD HUGHES; FINAL REPARATIONS| FRENCH 'ARE “PAINED” Most Hopeful Word|Resistance in Paris | laile St d MYSTERIOUS TIE-UP OF DRY SHIP LETS IN'$7,000,000 RUM to. Pressure Is - Near Defiance. |Chaser Tied Up When Fif- teen Liquor Runners Glide ~ Attitude of America Meets ‘Through Narrows. Criticism at Nearly, ’ All Points. = [HIDDEN WHISKY FOUND ' ON PROHIBITION CRAFT Amazed Official Commandeess More Boats to Resume New York Blockade. BY WILBUR FORREST. By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. Copyright, 1922, PARIS, December 30.—"“Pained sur- prise” is the phrase which expresses the feeling with which official France has today received the news of Secre- tary of State Hughes’ New Haven speech, declaring agalnst occupation of German territory and indicating that the United States was willihg to join in an expért commission to in- wvestigate the reparations question. Officially there was no ‘comment forthcoming on the American pro- nouncement, but throughout govern- mental circles it is taken as a full indorsement of the British position that no immediate guarantees shall be exacted from Germany in com- pensation for the proposed mora- torium, reduction of the German debt to_approximately 3}2,5004000,000 and By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 30.—With the subchaser Hansen, federal dry navy of the port of New York, tied up at the Battery with engines dis- abled, the Narrows was left ungiard- ed tonight long enough for fifteen rum runners to sMp into port with nearly. seven millign dollars’ worth of liquor for New Year, the police depart- Jpent was advised, - @ The fifteen little vessels are be- Heved by prohibition officials to have aboard at least 60,000 cases of liquor. They represent ofly a part of the from official circles. This was to the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) effect that the British premier would g0 to Paris next Monday armed with a new plan for a final and complete settlement of the whole question of Germany’s war obligations. French Drift Away. Immediately after the London breal down Downing street’'s hopes were that the French attitude would change, but the last fortnight has shown the trend of French official opinion to be away from instead of toward the British, with the result that Mr. Bonar Law yesterday presented to his cabi- net a plan which it 1s stated comprises the utmost limit of British conces- stons. In its broad principles the plan is #aid to be as follows: First. Any reparations program agreed upon in Paris must be a final one which will put a definite end to the wranglings of the last three years Total Reparations Figure Is Placed at 40,000,000,000 Gold Marks. ASKS 20-BILLION LOAN Removal of Army of Oeeupat'ion GERMAN PAYMENT |FORMER D. C. BELLE PLAN COMPLETEDDIES INDRUG FUMES (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) _ |fleet of rum-laden craft which since a few days before Christmas had been laying outside the three-mile limit, awajting opportunity to rhn the gantlet into the city. Federal Prohibifion Zone Chief Ap- pleby was amazed when he learned that the Hansen, flagship of his “dry fleet,” was tied up at her” pier. “I thought she was out patrolling the Narrows,” he explained. Mysterious Order Recelved. Appleby immediately got in touch with Capt. John H. Dysart, command- er of the Hansen. It developed that a mysterious order had been received on the Hansen to have her engines repaired, but the authority fer the order could not be learned. The rum chaser then went to her dock and her engines were taken down. All this followed discovery in the crew’s quarters on the Hansen today Mrs. Delius, Daughter of Late Chief Justice Fuller, Rich, Found in Squalor. S—— POLICE ALLEGE SUICIDE Papers Discovered in Narcotic-Sat- “From Press to Home block':nd the regular edition is ‘Washington homes as fast i | SENATEWITH ARMS LIMITATION CLAUSE No Effort Is Made to Revive Debate on Borah Proposal for Economic Parley. . e ’ ALL ATTEMPTS TO CUT PERSONNEL ARE BALKED Extraneous Speeches Bring Charge of Filibustering From Sena- tor Smoot. The Navy appropriation bill, with the House provision unchanged requesting the President to negotiate with Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan for a further limitation of naval armaments, was passed by the Senate yesterday afternoon. No effort was made to re- sume debate on the Borah sinendment seeking an nternational economic-con-* ference, which the Idaho senater with- drew Fiiday following assurances by administration leaders that the Presi- dent was giving the economic situatior abroad eerious attention. The bill car- ries approximately - $295,605,000. Threatened efforts to amend the House limitation of naval armaments provision did not materialize vesterday. Senator King of Utah, democrat, did not offe his amendment proposing a land and sea armament limitation con- ference. T. §. to Repair Navy Ships. Prior to the passage of the bjll by the Senate an amendment offered by Sena- tor Brookhart of Towa, republican, was adopted, which is designed to keep in the government navy yards work on Navy vessels, guns, etc, which, it is said, now is let out to private firms in congiderable degree. On motion of Sen- ator Brookhart the Senate struck from the bill a proviso which would permit the letting of contracts to outside con- cerns when in the opinion of the su- thorities the time and facilities at the government yards did not permit of the work being done there promptly. Senator Brookhart said that it hed WOMAN IS SOUGHT | Today’s Star |AUTO RECIPROCITY IN MAN'S SUICIDE|szz: ==-<====="~~-\ PLANGAINS FAVOR ?enl;fl News—Local, National and For. Rcvl’m. of New Books—Page 8. Robert Stover Dies From Strong Support for Curry Wound Inflicted in Capitol Amendment to Agricuture Heights House. Bill Is Developed. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 8. Schools and Colleges—Page Around the City—Page 9. Review of the Year—Page 10. World War Veterans—Page 10. D. A. R. Activities—Page 10. Seni Son of the Sahara"—Page 11. Musical Mention—Page 12. Fraternities—Page 13. Community Center Activities—Page 13. Financial News—Pages 14 and 15. Girls and Their Affairs—Page 16. PART TWO—12 Pages. Editorial and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Soclety. PART THREE—6 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- DISCRIMINATION FLAYED “MINNIE” DISAPPEARS Members- of Senate Subcommittee ¢ Express Indignation at Pres- { ent License System. Flees With Child After Tragedy. Takes Revolver With Her. Still Thrown Away. of twenty cases ofliquor, alleged to have been part of a cargo of seventy cases seized on the schooner Linnle'| Robert Stover, also known as Bob Bell several days ago. . Webster, twenty-four vears old, mys- When Appleby told Capt. Dysart|teriously shot himself in the home of that since the Hansen had docked | Frank Hubert at Capitol Helghts, under her own power, she should put | Md., at 7:15 o'clock last might and to sea at once to watch the liquor- | died at Casuaity Hospital st 12:15 smyuggling craft, he was informed the {am. The bullet entered his chest just engine was dismantled. Besides, said | below the heart and came out of the Capt. Dysart, the removal of members | right side of his back. He made & of his crew In connection with the |statement at the hospital before hfal twenty cases had left him too short- | death, saylng that he shot himself. handed to start on patrol. Hubert, who was an eyewitness to With the Hansen out of the way, |the shooting, told Sheriff Tom Gar- Appleby tonight endeavored to press|rison of Prince Georges county and every available small boat into serv- | Deputy Sheriff Kelly Harris that’a ice to head off the blockade runners.|woman who accompanied Stovér to He sald the Narrows were guarded by |the house at 7 o'clock wgg in the police patrols, and the coast guards- |room at the time of the siboting and men also were vigilant. that” she took the pefolver and d Plers Sharply Watched. small child, who s with her, and Piers in the North and East rivers | disappeared ipsiediately after the and along the Brooklyn and Staten |Shot had besff fired. Authoritics are Island water fronts were under sharp | Searching”for her. watch of customs men, he said, and, , " Cried, “U'm Shot.» while the dry navy's smaller craft| . was lying on the bed,” said Hu- would not be able to compete withipert last night, in telling of the ac- the smugglers in the outer bay, they | cident, “and he was sitting on the would be able to give a lively chase | gide of the bed opposite. There hadn't in the ha#bor. - ‘been an argument. He had the revol- Appleby sald he dld ‘not believe|yer in his hand. I saw him looking there were now more than two or (gt the gun. Then I heard a shot. I three large liquor vessels off the|heard the gun drop to the floor, and three-mile limit “within striking ‘dis- | tnen he sald: T'm shot.’ tance. There'had been ten or fifteen| «y gian't do anything for a minute. reported. between Cape May, N.. J.|y was astonished. Then I saw the ‘and Béston before the storm, but he | woman pick up the gun and she's was satisfled, he said, that some of | gone. I'v® only seen the two of them these craft had gone to the bottom | three or four times, and I have only of the sea. . 4 known him for three or four weeks. LIQUOR ON DEY SHIP. I don’t know .the woman. Her name is Minnie.” Authorities searched the cellar of the house and found a number. of bar- els, & quantity of liquid on the floor and a cookstove. Reports that a still had been thrown out of the house after the shooting led to the search- ing of the houge. Hubert admitted lay. Motorists and Motoring. PART FOUR—S Pager. Magazine Section—Fiction ln_‘—f ature PART FIVE—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. . . ROTOGRAVUBE SECTION. Eight Pages of Pisfures. Ccoyé SECTION. Four Pag Fun for Young and Oid. FOUR KILLED IN AUTD CRASH IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, Md., December 31— Four persons were killed in an auto- mobile accident early this morning. The crash occurred on the Hanover street bridge near the center of the city. The four, all men, were occupants of an automobile returning from a road house near Curtis Bay. The machine skidded into an electric light pole and upset. Charles Maurer, the driver of the car, serlously injured, was unable to reveal the identity of the dead men, been found that the large contracts were let to outside concerns on this ground. He insisted that the work should be done in the government yards. ‘Would Manufacture Guas and Parts. Senator Brookhart also had an amendmenty which provided that ail guns, gun parts, relining of guns snd general repairs to guns, torpedoes, torpedo parts and all other articlés of supplies of the Navy for the mahu- facture or production of which sny navy yard is especially equipped shall be manufactured at the government navy yards. He withheld this amend- ment, however, believing that his first amendment would largely cover the ground ‘whigh he intended to cover. He said, hdwever, that if it did net, he and Senator Jones of Washington were prepared to put it forward when the next Navy bill is under consid- eration. Ship Bill Brought Up. After passage of the paval bill the administration shipping bill, which had been laid aside temporarily, was brought up again and placed in posi- tion for resumption of debate whenm the ‘Senate meets again Wednesday, Protracted speeches yesterday on ex- traneous subjects resulted in a charge by Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, that filibustering was-in progress. The speechmaking stopped soon after Senator Smoot's statements, all sena- tors uniting in expediting the passage of the naval bill. Senator Jones, re- ‘ publican, Washington, in charge of ' the shipping bill, gave notice, how- ever, that Wednesday he would call up his resolution to create a special | committee to revise the Senate rules, with a view to checking future fili- { busters. Important changes in the naval bill ! made by the Senate included the gd- dition of $1,000,000 for naval reserve training purposes and $550.000 addi- tional for torpedo construction, the {latter designed to maintain the New- port, R. L, and other torpedo stations. The Senate, without a record vote, rejected an amendment by Senator McKellar, democrat, Tennessee, to cut the navy's enlisted personnel of 86,000 men authorized by the House to 67,000 men. The present strength is 86, men, but Senators McKellap-and King eclared it unnecessarily Mrge and out of proportion to the British navy. Other amendments rejected included proposals by Senator King to reduce the Marine Corps and also to prohibit use of marines in Haiti and Domini- can Republic after June 30 next. Sena- ; tor King was assured by republican leaders that withdrawal of the ma- rines from the two island republics at earliest opportunity was the adminis- tration’s policy. 3 and give an opportunity for the eco- nomic reconstruction of Europe. Moratoriam Held Essential. Second. A moratorium for Germany is essential for a period of from two to four yeal in which tigee. Germany. must balance her budget, stabilize the mark and qundergo genmeral financial reform under allied supervision, but not " under allied receivership. Third. Reduction of the reparations total to approximately £2,500,000,000, which, if not forthcoming after Ger- many Is given a fair chance to make good her obligations, will be obtained by an ascending scale of economic Ppenalties. British official circles discount re- ports from Paris that the French have formed definite, unchangeable plans to be enforced against the Ger- mans beginning January 15. Also Forms Part of Ber- lin Proposal. urated Apartment Indicate She Was Worth $250,000. Strong support of the Curry amend- ment to the agricultural appropria- tion bill designed to force reciprocity in the matter of motor wvehicle 1i- censes between the District and Mary. land will be found in the Senate ap- propriations subcommittee which will handle the agricultural bill, it developed last night. Senator McNary of Oregon, chair- man of the subcommittee, declared himselt in favor of the amendment proposed by Representative Curry. Mr. Curry's suggestion is that none of the money appropriated by the government t6 aid in the construction of good roads in the states should be available for use in any state which does not recognize licenses for motor vehicles granted by any other state or the District of Columbia. Thiaks Maryland Unfair. “I am in favor of Mr. Curry’'s pro- posal,” said Senator McNary. “I be- lieve that there should be reciprocity in the matter of automobile licenses among all the states and the Dis- trict of Columbia. I understand that Maryland is the only state which does not recognize a Dibtrict license, and I think it is unfair. Virginia, which Is just across the Potomac river from the District, recognizes the trict licenses, and 1 think that Mary- REPORT THREE MISSING | Jifer. o Sreposea amenament IN ATLANT'C CITY F|RE can be held in order, since it is a limitation placed upon expenditures By the Associated Press. of government funds.” Senator Jones of Washington, an- “A_TE]Z‘,:QN::S,SZY}“;:};; :): ?",':lt other member of the subcommittee, oo ‘Gbllac Baihager/at New York|®iso sl he Was strougly in tavor mr avenue and the, Boardwalk today. | CUrFY’s proposed amendment. Three persons were reported missing Sees Discrimination. tonight and three firemen were SHEN!IY | .1 pelieve that Congress should do infured. Four girls, cabaret singers something, if it can, which will bring = ,‘{.’,‘:{'S s ‘;:A‘:e‘::’l:';:!{:&ed' Were | apout reciprocity in the matter of au- ‘Lughs J. Adler, an actor, who at- | tomobile licenses. between all the tempted to rescue D'o‘l‘ly Aua}in and | states and the District of Columbia,” Ruth entertainers, from a P R o Totel, oliibel ontiontanteloc: (=210 Senator Jones_ (I ihave thought tric sign and dragged himseif over to|for a long time that automobile licenses issued by the District’should the window where the women were screaming for help. He lost his bal-|4, recognized in Maryland and that (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) The Star and New York Tribune. Copyright, 1922, BERLIN, December 30.—Germany’s new reparation proposals to the allies were completed today, and will be taken to Paris tonight by Carl Berg- man, the financial expert, who will act as special courier. These are the proposals: Germany's total reparation pay- ments to be set at 40,000,000,000 gold marks, this sum to include payments already made: Germany to receive an international loan of 20,000,000,000 gold marks, to be devoted mostly to reparation pay- ments; Germany to give the international copsortium floating this loan any glarantees demanded. As recently foreshadowed in dis- patches to The Star, Germany will also ask for gradual gemoval of the army of occupation and clearing of (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) —_— WEST POINT CHIEF SUED BY WHEELER-NICHOLSON By the Associated Press. NEW YQRK, December 30.—Mal- colm Wheeler-Nicholson, former ma- jor of cavalry, whose letter to Prosi- dent~Harding last February charg- ing “Prussianism” ruled in the United States Army was followed by his fm- prisonment at Camp Dix for insub- ordination, today served summons on Brig. Gen. Fred Sladen, superintend- ent of the Military Academy at West Point, in a $100,000 libel suit. The action was filed with Judge Learned Hand in federal district court, alleging that Brig. Gen. Sladen, under whom Wheeler-Nicholson serv- ed with the A. E. F. in Germany, had made charges reflecting on the plain- ‘umr's “honor, intesrity and effciency” |7 in an attempt to oust-him from the wervice. . Wheeler-Nicholson involuntarily ac- cepted his honorable discharge fro! the Army last Tuesday. Eh While in Germany, Wheeler-Nichol- son said tonight, he suggested to Sladen, his commander, that certain changes be made in the apportion- ment of duty, so that an excessive amount of work should not fall upon the cavalrymen in comparison with what enlisted men in other branches By Cable to By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 30.—Neigh- bors breaking down the door of & cheaply furnished three-room apart- ment today found the body of Mrs. Maude Fuller Delius, eldest daughter of the latet Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. A Washington society favorite a generation ago, Mrs. Delius, police believe, ended her life sometime dur- ing the last three weeks. She was last seen alive on December 2. The rooms still reeked of the odors | of burned oigarettes and narcotics, according to Coroner Wolf, who in- spected the body before it was re- moved to the morgue. Police base their bellef in suicide on the fact that the door had been barred with a shovel braced beneath the knob. " Beside the body was a check for $535, and a bank book showed a bal- ance of $97,000 in a local bank. She had a monthly income of $600 and owned considerable property here, but, despite that fact, had lived vir- tually a recluse since the death of her husband, who killed himself eighteen years ago. From papers found in the apartment police sald the Woman apparently was worth at least $250,000. In her youth she was a soclety favorite of the fashionable Hyde Park distefct. Following the appointment of her/| father to the Supreme Court she lived in Washington for many years. Upon her marrisge to Dellus, who! was then chief contracting agent for the Chicage and Northwestern rail- road, they moved to the neighborhdod in_.which she had lived since his death. She was about fifty-five years old. REPUTED BERGDOLL SHIP MAY SWITCH TO MOBILE & Associated Press. MOBILE, Ala., December 30.—With an detail of government officers standing by for orders, efforts of government officials here in the Berg- dolleslacker case were centered to- night around the possibility of the German steamer Jupiter coming into Mobile instead of Pensacola, as origi- nally scheduled. : Customs officials here have little to say, but it was admitted that a detail of men will search the ship should] she attempt to gnter Mobile. All ar- Surprise for Polneare. It is stated that Premijer Poincate is likely to be surprised to find Mr. Bonar Law in full sympathy with him against the German tactics of evasion and non-fulfillment of pledges, the only differences of opinton being in the method of obtaining reparations payments, the British remaining as unconvinced as ever that the French plans for control of the German sources of production will result in anything but social and economic up- heavals in the districts taken over. The speech of the American Secre- tary of State last night is taken by the British as full support of their stand, and, while his recommendation for a non-political board of experts 10 fix the reparations total is not new, the British consider that his state- ment places France in an isolated position. 4 Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, December 30.—The cutter Hansen, flagship and pride of the prohibition navy, was raided as a suspected rum Yupner early today by agents of the customs department. In the quarters of the crew a special | ypy¢ o gtil] had been in the house, but searching squad from the customs of- denied he had any liquor. He told fice, directed by C. A. Hokensen, found | ype guthorities that he knew the law tmentyjcasssfof liguoz: s against liquor and would not violate I e e (Do e LS forward crew’s quarters also were BelOn Lt Pt found. One case of liquor was found| Stover—or Webster—was a resident in a galley locker. Six bottles were|of Capitol Heights. He lived with found hidden in the messroom. Eleven | his mother, who had remarried, and bottles were found in the berth|the former name of his mother is of the chief engineer and about|confused With her present one in the fourteen cases were secreted behind minds of some of the residents' of barrels and in waste and rags. The C-nl!olB!{;whtsh on t‘:le scene last —————————————————— | night. Both mother and son had been {Continged enfEts A Comn ) rding with Bill Owens, who lives JUMPS TWO STORIES on a hill overlooking the jail.- TO ESCAPE RAIDERS |veen - brougnt there 1ast night by Stover. It contained wearing ap- In the Hubert home wa# found a Vice Squad Arrests Two in House |parel for & man, woman and child. Not Worried by Mussolinl. The absence of Premier Mussolini of Italy is not likely to affect the Paris conference, according.to the British view. It is recalled that Signor Mus- solini also announced that it would be impossible for him to attend the London meeting, but that he arrived on time. The appointment of the Mar- quis Della Torretta as Mussolint’s substitute is a more definite step m- dicating that the premier will nat appear, but, inasmuch as the real al- lied" differences lle between the French’and the English, the Itallan premier will not be needed, according to the British view, unless a final agreement is reached, when he could .be hurriedly summoned to affix his mignature. Theunis Most Needed. ance and crashed through a glass roof, but ‘was only slightly injured. John Hays Hammond Donates $5,000 for White Safety Lines designated John J. Boobar, Odell S. Smith and Earl Godwin a committee to obtain from Congress an appropri- ation of $7,900 to enable the police department to- keep the crosswalks for pedestrians marked. The council John Hays Hammond,: mining en- gineer and member of the President’s fact-finding coal commissjon, wished the people .of the District a real happy New Year yesterday, when he gave $5,000 to make the streets of suit case which Hubert declaved had As leader of the fascisti movement, Signor Mussolini presents a ple- turesque flgure and attracts popular attention, but it is pointed out that . Soon ard Wheeler- | Fangements have been made at Mobile ; - : a hope, however, to th the presence of the Belgian premier, ;l.:;nl‘;‘:‘m ree.:ltl:rd'to this, couns | b7 local custome officlals. for & com- In Ehadow,af Poline POLISH ASSASSIN TO DIE w‘::h:::;::;::;r:: :?:.u“ % ,:;:.::.:u:: S steeat gha M:f:nm:. ———— - i M. Theunis, is far more essential, for |try. and placed in class B, which |Plote search of the Jupiter if she Court. L = of the fiscal year in July, and the of- | GEORGE B. MULLIN, ILL comes ‘within the bounds of the three- mile limit. 2 . 7 Due Today or Tomorraw, PENSACOLA, Fla., December 30.— The German steamship Jupiter, on which Grover - Cleveland, Bergdoll ‘draft dodger, is reportel to be at- tempting -to enter the United States through Pensacols, with ordinary weather conditiotia was expected to ar- rive here tomorrow or Monday. The Jupiter satled from Fayal, Azores, De- cembier 18. T Bergdoll has been aboard the Jupiter for more than a month, according to J. Garrigs, her local agent, if he boarded her-at eny port in Germany. . She salled’ from Cardiff, Wales, cargo of coal November for the Axores, where his company chartered her. T oG Local customs and’ William F. Ham, president of the W a's hington fety Council, to be used e paint- ng white lines on {l ‘he streets at aill Horincipal cross- He made fer of Mr. Hammond will make it pdssible to maintain this agency for safety during the intervening six months. 5 Counecil Meets Tuesday. The safety council will meet at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the rooms of the hamber of Commerce. | Speaking of Mr. Himmond's donation, Mr. Ham said: . “The safety council hopes that ap- propriations can be made by Congress for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1923, to continue this work, as it is manifestly something' that should be done at public and not at private ex- pense. “The safety council cannot fully ex- press its appreciation of the public- spirited liberality of Mr. Hammond in making this contribution. In the judgment of experts there is nothing more, essential for the prevention of accidents than the proper.painting of traflic lines on pavements.” in Paris, as during the recent London conversations and theycopference here last August, Belgium is expected to take the role of mediator, seizing upon every point likely to ' bring France and Great Britain into accord. British officialdom is unwilling to consider the possibility of a dead- Jock at Paris, for such a result would be regarded as disastrous. The allied yepresentative must agree among themselves, for, it is pointed out, there is no hope of assistance from America. The British debt funding commis- #lon is not expedted to obtain defi- nite results which could pessibly have & beneficial effect upon the Paris ne-{, gotiations by January 15, when the temporary moratorium for Germany ends and the original reparations schedule of 1921, involving-the pay- ment of £100,000,000 annually “is 3 effective. not mentioting - th: mfifl meant, he said, that le was slated to bé, dropped from the Army. As a result of his subsequent pro- tests he was reinstated in class A. On February 7, 1923, he sent an open letter to President Harding charging ‘Prussianism” ruled the Army, and he sald the day following he was in- formed he had been returned to class B and ordered under technical arrest at Camp Dix'on charges of insubordi- nation in having written the letter. i‘hn vicg squad last n;ld,njlht raided a house in the shadow of the police >' FOR K'LL"‘G PRES'DE"T court, 410 6th street northwest, and'|p. 45 Sentence Follows Shortly arrested Georgiana Bealle, forty-two, . on a charge of operating a disorderly After Trial Opens—Old Law Invoked. hauge, and her, son, Robert' Bealle, on a charge of operating a gaming table, By the Assoclated Press. | z WARSAW, Decembgr 30.—The as- selling liquor and illegal possession of liquor. ° . The raiding party was made up of | sassin Niewadomski was sentenced to Lieut. Davis, Sergt. McQuade,, Police- | death today for the killing of Presi-|- man Bower and Revenue Agent Reed. |dent Narutowics. The trial ‘began’ ‘At the time the' officers entered thelthis morning, just two weeks after building a_white man, known to the |the assassination. | police, rammed a large. automatic| Niewadomski's trial by court-martial gun in the ribs of Lieut. Davis. Da-|opened this morning. He admitted vis knocked the gun from his hand. | breaking the laws, but declared that The man jumped from ‘the sécond-|he .was not gullty of murder; never- story window and escaped. théless, he was ready to submit to SEVERAL MONTHS, DIES Following an illness of several { months, George B. Mullin, president of George B. Mullin & Co., contrace tors, died yesterday at his home, 12! Crittenden street. Mr. Mullin directed much of the ex- cavating work on new streets in the development of Washington’s suburbs, and at the time of his death was en- saged on municipal projects. . - Born in the District fifty-seven years ago, Mr. Mullin spent his entire life here. He has been ennfec in the contracting business for thirtys five years. He Is survived by his widow, Mr Mullin, and four childre: ., jr.; Bernard J., Phillip and Mrs. Joseph Maher. 'he funeral will be fromi’ the residence at 9:15 “Tuesday morning, thence to the Church of the Nativity, where re- quiem mass will be said at 9:3Q. ‘Burial will be in Mount Olivet come~ c . f:t the city was f{{without funds to 10 forward ,with his important vork, Calls on Mr. Ham. HAMMO! The donor called o ™. on Mr. Ham and expressed the view that the broad white marks painted on the streets constitute a valuable safety measure. He, beljeyes implicitly in the Work of eouncil. s ’ JOSEPH W. FOLK VERY ILL. | 8T. LOUIS, Mo.,-December 30.—Jo- seph W. Folie; former governor of Missouri, “Who has been living in ‘Wasliington, D. C., during the past few years, has been confined to a hos- pital here for several days, it wae learned tonight. and is sald to be in|vi Lieut. Davis says that an agent of |38, Pobitica ehat ho first intendea the police department last'night pur- | to ahogt qen.h Pllng‘dlnkk 'in axt-:;es: hased ints of corn whis| de ut when sudski withdre b fee Malfpints o whisky | Oon ndidacy he selected President Narutowics as' his victim, ‘consider- 1 i ‘“the : happiness ent ‘of -of| Ats last_mee -