Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1923, Page 2

& DECLINECOMENT [Goure Hies Men G5 WEN_ K, [0 oxsis o o s cvamocnor o onx e ol AvrstYRELESS [ONTRL AFTER STREET TOUR Representatives séy Dis(rict Bill Wilt Reflect Their Impressions. COL. KELLER DELIGHTED Tour Led Over Bumpy and Rutty Thoroughfares of Wash- ington. After having taken members of Congress on an automobile tour of | Washington's rough and unpaved Streets yesterday, the District Com- missioners today are marking time while the jury of legislators draws up Its verdict. That verdict ‘will be announced through the medium of the District appropriation bill when it is reported to the House, but the authors of that measure would give no hint fn advance of what they in- tend to recommend. “We made the trip. This bill will | speak for itself on what we deter- mined as a result of our observation,” was the answer Representative Cramton, chairman of the subcom- mittee on District appropriations, glven to a question as to the impres- sfon he got. Representatives Ben Johnson of ~Kentucky aml James Buchanan of Texas, both democratic members of the committee, were in gonference with the chairman at the e Concerned With Future. Representative Cramton was in the midst of making up the District's appropriation measure when the in- terview opened, and he closed it In a few minutes by declaring: - “We are concerned with the future and are endeavoring to report our bill to the House.” Representative Evans of Ne- braska and Tinkham of Massachu- setts, the other two republican mem- bers of the committee, were not at the meeting of that body today. Chairman Cramton and Represent- ative Johnson were the only two members of the committee to make the tour of inspection yesterday. They were accompanied by Commis- sloner Keller and Assistant Commis- sioners Besson and Wheeler. The representatives, it is sald, gave no intimation as they went along of the impressions they received, but they made a thorough inspection of more than fifty streets, including the supplemental list compiled by the Commissioners as well as the few main arteries recommended for im- rovement by the bureau of the udget. Examined School Sites. They also examined sites for a number of proposed new school build- ings and visited two playground sites that have been recommended for pur- chase. 1t is known that the Commissioners are greatly pleased with the treat- ment accorded them by the subcom- mittee and are particularly gratified by the interest in the needs of the District exhibited by Chairman Cram- ton Here are the streets the inspecting .party.covered: Recommended by the budget bureau—Canal road, Aqueduct to Foxall road, $40,000; west side of Connecticut avenue, Van Ness street morthwerd, $54.000;" Connecticut ave. nue, Porter to Tilden ts, $17,000: ck Creek Church road, 5th to Upshur streets, $30,000; Rhode Island avenue north- east, 16th street to the District line, 100,000; Bladénsburg road, from the d of asphalt northward, $210,000; Geod Hope road, Minnesota to Ala- ma avenues, $15,000; Nichols avenue from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital to Port- land street, and Massachusetts ave- fue, S street to Wisconsin avenus, Supplemental Estimates. Recommended in supplemental esti- mates of Commissioners— Twenty- seventh street, K to L streets, $14,000; Alton place, 38thi to 39th streets, $8,- 400; Woodley road, 27th to 28th streets, $4.800; Perry place, end of Pavement to 16th street, $6,000; Allen place, west of 20th strest, $4,000; Kenyon strest, Mount Pleasant, to 18th streets, $11,000; Spring road, 14th to 16th streets, '$10,800; 13th street, Spring road to Shepherd street, $18,- 200; Kansas avenue, Quincy to Shep- herd streets, $12,600; Shepherd street, west of 14th street, $5000; 13th strest, Allison street to Iowa $5.600; Buchanan street, Georgia ave- nue to 1ith street, $18,000; Gallatin street, Piney Branch road to 16th street, $5,700: 13th street, Hamlilton to Jefferson streets, $12,600: Ingraham stroet, Georgia avenue to 13th street, 34,800 Jefferson street, Georgia ave- nue to 13th street, $4,800. Ninth street, Quakenbos to Ritten- house street, $4,800; 9th, Longfellow to Madison. $4.800; 8th, Longfellow to Jfadigon, $4.800; Ingraham, 8th to 9th, 36,000; Decatur, Georgla avenue to 9th, $4,800: Crittenden, Georgia ave- nue to 8th, $4.800; 9th street, Bu- chanan to ' Crittenden, $4,800; Bu- chanan, Georgia avenue to 8th, $9,600; Sth, Buchanan to Crittenden, 34800 7th, Varnum to Webster, $4,800; Up. shur, Georgia avenue to 13th, $13,000 Varnum, Grant Circle to 4th, $3.600; 4th, Varnum to Upshur, $4,800; Ran- dolph, 8th to Georgia avenue, $4,650; Ascot, 2d to 3d northeast, $3,500: 3d, Adams to Bryant northeast, $4,800 Taylor, 10th to 12th northeast, $8,000; Sigsbee place, 10th to 12th northeast, $8,000; Shepherd. 10th to 13th north- east, $7,000; 15th street northeast, B 0 E, $40.000. The subcommittee members visited the site In Eckington, between Lin- coln road and 2d street northeast, for the proposed new McKinley High Slctmwl and a number of other school sites. The playgrounds visited were the Hoover, Delaware avenus and O street southwest, and the Rose Park, 27th and Dumbarton avenue north! west. 3,000 More Births Than Deaths in D.C. Last Year ‘There were approximately three thousand more births than deaths in ‘Washington during the calendar year ust closed, Health Officer Willlam C. 'owler announced today. The total number claimed by the grim reaper was 6,268, making a death rate of 13.80 per 1,000 of popu- lation. Dr. Fowler said the death rate among white persons was 11.78 per 1,000 and among colored, 19.94. For the calendar year 1921 the gen- eral death rate was 13.34, which is substantially lower than the records - for 1922, + Dr. Fowler called attention, how- @ver to the collapse of the Knicker- bocker Theater in January, which killed ninety-seven persons. Elimi- nating the death toll of the Kuicker- bocker, the death rate for last\year ‘would only have been 13.58 or oniy a fraction more than the rate for 1921 There were 9,121 children born here last year, of which 6,628 were white and { colore: d. ‘Washington's death rate among in- fants increased slightly last year, as compared with 1921. For the year Yust clonfll(he gun; rate among shildren of less t) ! NRI‘:‘P the prel ¥ o, for Hire, py on Women “Men who engage In the busi- nass of spying on women for hire in order to catch them -in gom- promising situations are deserved- 1y regarded with distrust and their testimony, like that of all ques- tionable witnesses, should not only be most carefully scrutinized, but recelved with great caution and reserve.” ‘Thus Justice James Francis Smith of the United Stated Court of Customs Appeals refers to the evidence of private d tectives in delivering an opinion gf the District Court of Appeals to- ay. The court goes on to say that such testimony should not be ar- bitrarily rejected if consistent with itself and the Known facts and If corroborated or uncontra- dicted by other witnesses entitled to credit. He sustained the action of the District Bupreme Court in granting an_absolute divorce to ames A. Allen from his wife, corgle C. Allen, in which the evidence of detectives figured. Judge Smith rendered the opinion of the Appellats Court reversing the action of the District Supreme Court in instructing a verdict for the Home Fire and Marine In- surance Company in a suit brought against the company by Fred M. Marks and the Hurley Motor Com- pany. The appellate tribunal held that there was question whether Marks had ever hacked his car and the decision should have been left to the jury. He afMrmed the decision of the Municipal Court in the case of Wallace Bryant against Ida M. Se- christ The landlord was held to be entitied to possession. ATTACK PROPOSED PEPCO SUBSTATION Transformer on L Street Op- posed by Property Owners. Property owners in the vicinity of 16th and L streets went before the board of Commissioners today to pro- test against the erection of a sub- station for the transforming of cur- rent by the Potomac Electric Power Company on the south side of L street between 16th and 17th streets. The contention of the protestants was that the company could have found other sites in the immediate nelghborhood without selecting land In the middle of a residential row. Asked about & number of other possible locations, L. E. Sinclair, gen- eral superintendent of the power company, stated they could not be obtained. Attorney Conrad H. Syme, represen- ting the property owners, questioned witnesses as to the amount of nois the machinery would make. L. T. Blaisdell of the General Electric Company, testified that the apparatus to be instalied in this sub- ear was 84 feet m’z’ffi@m:mm station is of the latest design and would make “far less nolse” than any other substation In Washington. He said only eight or ten sets of this particular type of machine have been put on the market thus far. Engineer Commissioner Keller ex- pressed the view that the principal question for the commission to de- termine is exactly how much noise the apparatus would make. The commission took the complaint unde; advisement. FREE STATE WINS CONSULATE FIGHT (Continued from First Page.) tective Sergt. Gegan of the bomb squad, to clear the halls. They ac- complished this by threatening to ar- rest the besiegers—mostly women— for violating the fire ordinances pro- hibiting overcrowding. At one time the crowd In the narrow hallway was estimated at 150 persons. FOUR REBELS EXECUTED. Free State Puts Convicted Men to Death, Says Report. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 2.—A dispatch from the Dublin correspondent of the Evening Standard says the four rebels recently arrested in the Tralee district were executed by the Free State today. Their names are given as Matthew Moroney, Thomas Devane, Cornelius Casey and Dermot O'Conner. This follows the ambushing, reported on Sunday, of a detachment of troops near Castle Gregory, County Kerry, in which two nationalists were killed” and one wounded. The Free State commander in the Kerry area announced last week that four irregulars had been tried and een- tenced to death, but that the executions had been stayed on condition that the attacks on troops and other outrages in that district cease. DENY OEDERING SEIZURE. Free State Officials Disclaim Move Against U. 8. Ship, By the Associated Press, DUBLIN, January 2.—The Irish Free State government today notifled the American consulate here that there had been no seizure of an American ship by & British destroyer on orders from the Dublin government, as re- cently reported. A Queenstown dispatch on Decem- ber 31 said the British torpedo boat destroyer Venomous had arrested an American steamship, which was sup- posed to be trying to land a cargo of arms and ammunition in Ireland. The ‘vessel, -ooordln1 to the , was halted off Castietown Bere and con: voyed to port by order of the Fre State government. POLICEWOMEN SEEK ATHENA CHICONAS, 15 Child Disappears Fromn Father’s Home, 35 Q Street N. E.,, Fri- day, Says Report. City-wide search was Instituted by the woman's bureau of the police de- partment today for fifteen-year-old Athena Chiconas, who disappeared from her home, 35 Q street northeast, Friday. Officials of the woman's bureau say the have visited the homes of & num- ber of friends and relatives of the girl without finding any trace of hi d are at & loss to know where sh: gone. rding to acting ILieut. of the womian's bureau the father of the child i{s fearful that something Bo far as the police have been able to learn the girl had no money and did not take her clothes, other than what she wore when she left home. The girl Is described as being four x inches tall, weighing eighty- coat, pink TOWED N SPRIG Pretty Chinese Girl Says No Force Was Being Used in Plans for Marriage. HER UNCLE IS DISGUSTED Declares Ring Has Been Returned, Although She Still Wears One. ‘Washington’s Chinese puszle gathered itself up into additional knots and jumbles again today when: Mildred Wen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wing Ling Wen, after her reap- pearance at the home of her parents, 316 Sth street, came out and sald to newspapermen that there was no force at all being used to push her into the matrimonial pond, and that the plunge was to be taken “sometime in the spring” when the waters would be less chilly. Now, Mildred disappeared first on the Friday before Christmas. She dropped out of sight while arrange- ments were being made for her mar- rlage to George Nom Lee in New York. On Christmas Day she bobbed up again at her home, nonchalantly explaining that she had just visited some friends for the short time. Disappeared Second Time. A day passed and on the afternoon of December 26, Mildred vanished again. She was with a gir] friend when she asked the other to wait while “she walked around the corner.” She didn’t come back from the walk until last night. Meantime the family issued com- muniques to the world telling of the abandonment of the plans for the wedding. They wanted Mildred's en- gagement ring back. Back came the ring the other day. Then they wanted Mildred back. ‘Back came Mildred. And now that Mildred has returned, the wedding bells are beginning to tinkle again. Mildred says that she is not being forced into a wedding, d has not been, that she did not send back the engagement ring, but only a “good luck” jade ring of her mother’s, which is believed to bring the one that sends it to the one who wears it, and that she likes Mr. Lee. Lee Believed Willing. Mr, e is also believed to be will- ing still to take his prodigal bride to the aitar. Information to that effect is had at the Wen establishment. But here a tangled skein in the ro- mance winds itself up into a knot. George Y. Wen, Mildred's uncle, and the chief of the Wen forces hereto: fore, announced today that he wi “through.” He said that he didn’t know anything about the case and was not interested any further. He was seen while taking care of the re- ceipts in the restaurant below the Wen apartment. Between his exertions of ringing up the cash register and thanking cus- tomers, he told newspapermen that the ring which was returned was diamond ring and that it really wa the engagement ring. And George seems to know what he is talkmg about. He is emphatic about the dia- mond engagement ring that was re- turned. While Mildred talked to newspaper- men_a young Americanized Chinese, speaking English as if born in Kala- mazoo, with all the idloms and plirases of the native American, but withal & good command of the -adopted lan- guage, showed up. He explained that he was a brother to Mildred. He attended New York University _and was home for the holidays. He gave the explanations smoothly and nicely until. he was asked why, If Mildred never had any th away & few times. hl wi to explain that :ufre\:rn Was 2 ioned by sympathy for her par- ents. He didn’t exphaia the'point in- uired about. s Further lnvu}ll.&lw among other | relatives. of Mildred ‘devéloped the fact that they had Bever ‘heard of any “big brother” i the family. TWO SERIQUSLY HURT IN DIXIE FLYER WRECK Seven Others Injured When Train Leaves Tracks in Georgis. By the Associated Press. MACON, Ga., January 2.—Two Der- sons were seriously injured and seven others hurt when the Dixie Fiyer, northbound Jacksonville to Chicago, ‘was derailed near Rivoll this morning at 6:43. Several of the Injured were brought to & local hospital, where their injuries were treated. The two day coaches, one sleeper and the dining car were disconnected from the other cars and plunged down a fifteen-foot embankment. The in- jured were taken to the Oglethorpe private infirmary. They were: Mrs. J. A. Kitchens, Bylvester, Ga.. Injuries serious; Jack Faulkner, learm, Ga., injuries serious; W. H. Small- wood, 381 Fairview street, Macon; J. R. Liles, Americus, Ga. rs. J. R. Liles, Americus, Ga.; Miss Elsie Liles, Americus, Gi . -¥. Payne, Griffin, Ga.; Miss Gertrude Butler, Waycross, Ga. The negeo porter was also injured, and wi brought to the Macon hos- pital. : i Cause Not Known. Leaving Macon at 6:30 o'clock, twenty-five minutes late, the train proceeded to a point about six mils from Macon, when the wreck oc- curred, The cause of the wreck has not been asoertained. Those most seriously injured were riding in the @ay coaches. sen- gers in the sleepers were severely shaken up and jostied, but medical aid was not necessary except in a few cases. Tore in Three Sections. When the cars left the track the train was separated Into three sec- tions, stopping abput 100 feet apart. The. engine and tender were in one section, the baggage car, day coach- es and diner were in another section and the sleepers remained on the Toadbed. The train crew said the train wi making about thirty miles an hour | d! when it letf the rails. There were ap- proximately 150 passengers on board the train. 2 1 FACES HEAR"IG TODAY. Special Dispateh to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, January 2.—J. Lawrence Perry, former smploye of the Alexandria National Bank, Is scheduled' to b6 given: a: preliminary hearing at’'§ o'clock thls ‘afternoon before Unitsd States Commissioner John Bartoa Phillips on a charge of an alleged violation of the national banking laws. . Attorney Albert V. Bryan will rep- resent the accused at the hearing, will take pu‘e‘-’ in vw» Judge W, Hogan of Syracuse, associate justice of the court of appeals, administering the oath of office as 1 Many .of those attending rst term as governor. G. 0. P. Obeys Farm Mandate, Tendering Aid to Old World Governor of New York state. <o Al the ceremony were ALIEN PROPERTY ACTON S ASKED Custodian Miller Presents Annual Report to President With Recommendations. Alien Property Custodian Thomas ‘W. Miller today presented in person to President Harding his annual re- port, setting forth in his letter of transmittal that legislation pending in Congress—the Winslow bill—pro- viding for return of certain alien prop- erty immediately, should be passed, and would constitute “a preliminary ep In the ultimate return of all this property, bearing in mind the time- honored principle that private prop- erty of citizens is not to be utilized for the payment of national debts. Guarantee Left. “If the legislation suggested is enacted into law,” the alien property custodian told the President, “there will be ample property left to proper- 1y suarantee the settlement of Amer- ican claims in' accordance with the terms of the peace resolution. “The return of the property in the smaller trusts will also tend to im- prove economic conditions in the former énemy countries and will be a step in the direction of a final re- sumption of peaceful and commercial relations with our late enemies.” The peace resolution referred to by Col. Miller was- section 5 of the peace resolution approved July 2, 1931, which, Col. Miller explains, “provides in effect that this property shall be retained until such time as the former qnemy governments have made_satisfactory provision for the ftlement’ ‘of claims of American citizens ageinst the former enemy rnments.” It,was these two provisions in the péade resolution, Col. Miller said in fred E. S hix letter, which led to recommen- dation by the alien property custodian gglc. that the Winslow bill be pass- Mfilions Involved. During the past year, Col. Miller ex- plained, “the legisiative status of the alien property custodian has not changed.” The Winsiow -bill, he ex. plained, if enacted into law, “will en- able the office to return all property in trusts of the value of $10,000 and under, and in those trusts which ex- ceed in value this sum the return of an. amount not to exceed $10,000 is provided. “If enacted into law,” Col. Miller continued, “this will enable the cus- todian's office to divarce itself of ap- proximately 93 per cent of the smaller trusts, handled by the office, and will not depreciate the total value of the property in excess of approximately $50,000,000.” ASK FORRULING ON JURISDICTION Humes and Wife Want Court to Settle Point in Graham Divorce Suit. Mrs. Elsa Portner Graham-Humes and her husband, A. L. Humes of New York, today asked the District Su- preme Court to hear and determine the questions of jurisdiction raised by their pleas in defense of a suit for an absolute divorce brought by Lieut. Lorimer C. Grgzham, U. 8. N,, calling for testimony. Mrs. Humes was for- merly the wife of the naval officer and obtained a divorce from him in Nevada in January, 1819. Recently the marital troubles of the Gruhams ocoupied the attention of the court for six being tried. Humes. Say Reno Diveree Is Valid. Throush Attorneys Wilton J. Lam- Rudolph H. Yeatman, the It:resulted in favor of 8. “t ‘would be a useless thing to try the Case and go th it the testimony showing cruelty om the part of Lieut. Graham, whichi took up nearly balf the time of thi ffenation sult when it can be avo d by decision on the points of law, it {8 claimed. May Be Quickly Settled. would_have to be sum monsd from New York, Nevada and Slsawhers, the defendants say, an require & _great outlay By TRy o ol e A "l‘(';uon (o'r’th. hearing has been juled for argument next Fri 20 service of potice acesp an s_ Daniel Wrigh tflmg Ershler for Graham. justai P — ) The ruby is the heaviest of precious nes.. * k. 0pRZ at the exeputive mansion, in Al esent four years ago, when Mr. Smith was sworn in for hl I removed from Agriculture, Resenting Loss of Europe Markets, Voted Resentment Against Isolation BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | High politics, as well as high-mind- | ed politics, 1s discernible in the Hard- | ing administration’s readiness to co- | operate economic chaos. Constructive Ameri- | can achievement in that direction may be the paramount Issue on which the | republican party, under Warren G. Harding’s leadership, will go to the | country in 1924. Certain inherent considerations, generally overlooked in the recent orgy of speculation over the administration’s foreign plans, | justify such a contemplation. Per- haps the most significant aspect of the President's declared willingness to help Europe is the circumstance that the American farmer backs that program, heart and soul. Therein les the real milk in the cocoanut of the administration’s new _attitude toward old world affairs. Practically for the first time on record capital and agriculture are looking at a con- troversial political issue through spectacles of the same color. Wall street and Main street are marching shoulder to shoulder in the cause of European rehabilitation. Trinity of Considerations. Idealism; American self-intersst and political self-preservation may be bracketed as the trinity of considera- tions moving the administration. with regard to European affairs. Decislons now crystallizing were directly forced by the November congressional elec- tions. As broadly viewed by republican leaders, the results, especially in the west and middle west, constituted a revolt of the discontented agricultural community. ~ Men like Henrik Ship- stead of Minnesota were sent to the Senate as a direct and concrete proe test against conditions for which the farmers held the republican party and administration responsible. The American farmer, like the aver- age citizen, votes according to the man - ner in which his “pocket nerve" i affected. That nerve, during th pul' year and a half, has been hard hit in! & variety of ways, but perhaps no more vitally than by the shutting-off of Amer- ican agriculture’s European market. Ths | cattle raiser of Wyoming and Montana knew that in 1918 America exported 502,000,000 pounds of beef and.that pork | and lard sales abroad in the same year amounted to more than 1,900,000,000 pounds. s The wheat growers of Kansas and the Dakotas knew that their old-time exportations to Europe had dwindled because old world finances were in such shape that Europe could not buy the surplus breadstuffs that Amer- ican farmers raised and were year ing to sell.” While Europe “starved, American farmers, with: bulging bins, were borrowing money to pay taxes ment thought about such conditions was exemplified at the polls on Novem- ber 7. Republieans Analyse Seives. Then, unbeknown to the country at large, began a thorough heart-search- | ing in the most exalted regions of the | republican party. While® the 'self- analysis was In progress. the .new | | eventually to -enabie in disentangling Europe's | & Policy. gram for action in Europe, designed the American cattle raiser and grain grower to ex- port regularly and profitably, The Teadiness of the farm bloo last week o vote for Senator Borah's amend- ment in favor of an international eco- nomic conference revealed the ardor of the agriculturists for European reconstruction with American ald. There is not the slightest doubt that the farm vote bulks large in republi- can calculations for 1924. The demo- crats are thinking about it no less searchingly. On a program that is Insured the support alike of the na- iof’s industrial interests, the agri cultural element and that incalculable body of citizens willing to be labeled international idealists, it is the opin ion of responsible repudfican ieade that they cannot lose next year's presidential election. They are mani- festly prepared to withstand the taunt that they are stealing democratic or Wilsonian thunder if cautfous, intel- ligent American participation in Eu- ropean affairs can in the meantime set the wheels of prosperity whirring again In the United States while giv- Ing new hope to the war-shattered old world. (Copyright, 1923.) FALL QUITS CABINET EFFECTIVE MARCH-4 2 Continued trom First Page) first ¢ definite administration state- ‘ment concerning the matter. Resignation Follows Plan. Secretary Fall's retirement, which will make the second break in the official family with which President Harding went into office, is in line with a desire Mr. Fall expressed to his friends when he agreed to take the Interior portfolio nearly two years ago. He indicated then that he did not expect to serve throughout the administration. All of those close to the Interior Secretary insisted today that no con- slderations of public policy had in- fluenced him in his decisidn to end his officlal connection with the gov- ernment. Always a man of vigorous opinions and determined will,” how- ever, he is known to have disagreed on some subjects with other members of the cabinet and to have expressed his views unhesitatingly when occa- sion offered. ! ntly he has beén particularly interested in certain changes -that are contemplated In the government reorganization plan being worked out by a special committee, and 4s under- stood ndbt to have agreed with the committee on some of the shifts in bureau administration which it is proposing. ‘Before the-present administration began Mr. Harding and Mr. Fall were clgse ‘friends and constant compan- fons_in the Senate, ‘although their opinfons on publlcvgu&xllonl did not always coincide. When the present cabinet was in the making the then Senator Fall is sald to have been considéred by the President-elect as La Follette radicai bloc swung into belligerent being. What to do to meet its challenge became the primary consideration. A number of scjutions was offered by ‘best minds.” It w. of .fc- tion, chobse the fighting ground snd 'dictate the t forward - N d-was that the country ctould be successtully-rallied against La TFolletteism by hoisting the banner of the sanctity 9f:the Su- preme - Court — by -declaring war against the project to ‘clothe ;Con- gress with authority to revoke.Su- preme-Court. decisions. All hands ad- mitted that public sentiment -might easily- ba jmobilized for .such a cru- sade, althqugh they recognized the practical difficulty of . “slogahizing the lssue in o mannér designed to make it popular. > Since the advent of the Harding ad- ministration there has been a group in‘thé cxbinet tonsistently in favor of American co-operation in: European reconstruction. Hoover was perhaps the most avowed advocate of such a policy, and Secretarit Mellon always: ranked as sup- porters of it. So did Secretary Wi 1ace, because of the farmers’ interest in foreign markets for surplus Amer- jcan agricultural produce. Members of the administration who long held such views found sudden ad! pooling came to the conclusion that if the ection had one specific lesson, it was e S. O. S. message sent to the na tion's rulers by the farmers. The farmers clamored for help. They |sheet w!ll-b:'ttnrn‘_d in to the depart: | N £1 ymething more than rural ::::I": "'l"h.r vlfil’d their old ki Euro- *Thus it came about that on Decem. ber 16 intimations emanated from White House that America, “irreco: cilables” to .the “n“‘rfu d) standing, m‘uu“ ‘lblndon disinterestedness n had arisen not_only even a more cate 3 itically, it had x‘:unl;:;lnt n;{tot. It enabled the ad- istration to ,step . for as 3 m}:u and su| ter of the most vital, ement in the radical It may turn out that - been, a possible cholce ‘for Secretary of State. . Decision Reached Today. He finally was given the interior secretaryship, however, and as soon as he took office began an, intensive study of . the multitudinons sftairs over which that department has con- trol. . The final decision. as.to the Secre- tary’s retirement on March 4 is under- stood to. have been reached at-a cabi- net confereice today. It was under- stood that the President asked. Mr. Fall to permit his name to-be sent to the Senate to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the retirement ‘of Justice Pitney, but found the proposal unacceptable. For many years. Mr. Fall has been ‘a reconized legal au- thority and he is versed particularly in international law. NEW, RULES FOR DISTRICT EMPLOYES EFFECTIVE Leave Will Be .Kept From Now On. _ The new rules of Engineer Coms migsioner Keller to discourage tardi- '..hm of ‘!.lek.luA by em- engineer department 83 eftect today. ° ot er to make the workers of that branch of the city government report promptly on time in the morn- ing, Col. Kell ordersd that a time sheet be kept.in each office. This ment head o'clock .and an em- ploye who arrives later will have to g0 to the chief and ol’fi Pu llllt uhflcll||lk ; ulating sicl &1 tion with annuai-leave. “SPECTAL” STARTS 36TH The- Florida special, equipped en- tirely with' Puliman cars, and whieh operates during the. -winter - season between New York, Philadelphia, ‘Baltimore, . Washington and Flor resorts, 1 1 o'clock this rating _the mlrav--lxth congecutive ear of ‘the Atiantle Cosst. Line's & . ‘Washington &t 12:86 [, momln‘.‘wuoby ingugu- 65,527 in 1922; . 9,698 Speeders The Washington police made 65,627 arrests for all violations of law during the calendar year 1922, “'Maj. Bullivan reported to Commi Bloner Oyster today. The prohibition law and the traf- flc regulations claimed the largest number of vluuugm for the year A total of 11,539 persons fell Into the hands of the law for trying to make & dry city damp, and 28,811 arrests ~were -made for trane- gressions of the traffic rules. O the total number of traffic viola- tions, 9,698 were for speeding. Arrests for other serious crimes were made in the following num- ber Murder, 28; manslaughte! 23; assault with intent to kill, attempt to rob, 12; assault with a dangerous weapon, 298; rape, 1 attempt to rape, 11; mayhem, ; _accessory to murder, ‘yobbery, 171; housebreaking, 64 grand larceny, 354; joy-riding, 146; arson, 1; blackmail, 2; setting up a gaming table, 19; handbook, 90; permitting gaming, 231; lottery law, 5; Harrison ant!-narcotic law, 123; white slavery, 20. —_—— MORE TROOPS SENT TO GUARD:BASTROP (Continued from First Page.) be conducted by Attorney General . V. Coco. Preparations were .going forward for the inquiry and the possible spe- clal grand jury session: to follow in its wake, but no @efinite anhounce- ment as to the plans has been made. ‘What additional arrests = will be made, and when, i8 a tarefully guard- od secret. It is understood, howeyer, that a score or more indictments will be sought, and in all likelihood a special court term for immediate trial asked. ; w{lz’ ::- nnounced ‘that the reports of Drs, Geprge W. Luvall and John A. Lanford, New Orleans pathologists, who made uumpnle: oa :m‘u‘-'.:;"w'e:: rds after Danlels and Richards after they Wers would prnhlbly‘bedm;bmntefl to the ttorney general today. S Additional secret service men ar- rived today to join the federal agents who have been here several months investigating masked mob activitie It was believed that the new arrival are to be used in making arrests or keeping informed about material wit- nesses. WILL BE MOBILE FORCE. Jennings’ Cavalry to Penetrate Parts Where Autos Cannot Go. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., January 2.— Action of the governor today in call- ing out the Jennings cavalry to en- train for Morehouse is not only for the purpose of providing additional forces, but also to facilitate means of travel over various sections of the parish, it was learned here. There are some roads in Morehouse that are impassable to automobiles, and it is expected the cavalry will be used in those sections during the present investigations being conduct- ed by the state. The troop was the first of Louislana units to go overseas during the world war and was a part of the Rainbow Division. McKOIN TO DECIDE COURSE: Attorney Carman Declares Extra- dition Papers Are Faulty. By the Associated Prees. BALTIMORE, Md., January 2.—The decision as to whether Dr. B. M. Mc- Koin, wanted in Louisiana for alleged complieity ,in the murder of Watt Daniels ahd Thomas Richards of Motehonse Parish at the hands of a hooded mob, will make a fight against extradition will be left entirely with the former mayor of Mer Rouge, Rob- ot R Carman, counsel for the 8c- cused physician, said today. .Mr. Carman made a statement to this éffect directly affer he left a con- ference with State's Attorney Leach. Mr. Taach turned over to him copies of the extradition papers sent to Gov. Ritchie by Gov. Parker of Louisiana a Tow 'daye ago, and Mr. Carman ex- { pressed the beilef that the documents were legally inadequate. Believes Papers Faulty. “I ghal] not advise Dr. McKoin to make the fight or to retuptn to Louls- Tana. continued the former United States district attorney. It is a mat- ter for him alone to.determine, but I shall tell him I believe the extradi- tion papers faulty. It is for him to decide whether he wants to go back to his home stat ind fate the results without at first making a test of the matter.” Details of the ‘afdavits were mot isclosed, but Mr. Carman-said there was ome by Gov, Parker and another Dy the sherift of Morehouse parish ac- cusing Br.. McKoin of compilcity in the murder of Watt Danlels and Thomas F. Richards by a hooded gang some time between last August and early in December. Attacks Basls of Papers. “The papers contain afidavits made only upon information and belief, and not actual knowledge,” said Mr. Car- man. “Therefore, they would not stand the test of the courts. Soon after the conferenve with State’'s Attorney Leach, Mr. Carman started for the office of Gov. Ritchie for ‘s further talk, and he ‘expected to visit Dr. McKoin in jail this after- n oon. Dr. McKoin, who has been confined to his cot at thé jall hospital for the ast few ys with an attack of bron- chitis, was reported to be much bet- ter MAIL TRUCK COLLIDES ,WITH DELIVERY VEHICLE Inv fint}\on of Accident Will Be 'Made “by Corporation Couni Jolin W, Edwarde, 1114 D street igortheast, driver of a United States mail truck, nlrrowl{ escaped injury shortly after noon today, when' the trick was struck by a 'motor delivety vehicle. driven by Thomas.B. Wine, 218 12th street southwest, at 4th and K wtreets northeast, and overturned. The' mall truck was being’ driven west on K street. polica o the ninth precinot reported, and the delivery vehicle, owned by the Elits Laundr: Company, was moving north on 4t street when the accident happened. Hughes | Closer Check on Tardiness and Sick | The overturned truck stopped again lamp post. Both vehicles were damaged, the police reported, but their drive: caped injury. A further -inve: tion of the accident will be made b the assistant cohrporation counsel in charge of traffic 1aw violations, RUSH FOR AUTO LICENSES " FAILS TO MATERIALIZE Cofitrary to expectation, there was o grand rush fof autémobile tags at » District building today. — ° ile there was a steady flow of ap- lieense . office a! the line did not lll the cor- dors..of. the buflding, -as it ‘has in revious years. Piince this 13 the last day of grace on which 1923 tags may be used, it had been expected that every one who did not get a tag last month would be on hand this morhing. Apparent- 1y, 4 large number of motorists have decided - leave their cars in the garage a day or two in order to get gs .without fighting. their . way ;.‘qmun,- crowd. siEH ere were many cars pu the ireats with, 1922 t: but midnight pe ihe dead line, 'beyond. which y,cotly for & car.owner to th on old.tags. The Ng: ‘arrests,after 12 o'clock o wi, i nights ~ BILL HEARINGS Various Changes Urged Be- fore House Merchant Ma- rine Committee. The House merchant marine com- mittes began hearings today on the Kellogg-White federal radio control bill, which would give the Depart- ment of Commerce compléte super- vision over wireless communicatfon in the Unjted States. Under. the " bill’ the ‘department would control” ‘types of apparatus, wave lengths and transmitting time periods of sending ststions and would license wperators of all radfo stations, both amateur and commercial. , Admiral Protests. Rear Admiral Ziegemeler, head of the naval communications bureau, protested against a sedvion ‘which, he sald,. would require licensing by’ the Department - of Commerce ‘of Navy operators whenever the Navy handled cGmmorcial business. Hé was jolued in the protest by Maj. L. B. Bend of the Army Stgnal Corps. H. P. Maxim of Hartferd, Conn. representing the American Radio Re- League, an organization of ama- teurs, urged several amendments de- gigned to protect the amateur, who, he said, had been ‘instfumental in the development of wireless communica- tion to its present stage of effigienty. Sees Blow to Amateurs. Mr. Makim said -the bill as framed would” give - the . Secratary of Com- ‘merce. power to abelish all. amateur Sendimg stations. Raprue:}uflve ? the Dépdttment of Agriculture and. the Post Office Department -spproyed: the Bill. TENSION IN PARIS . REFLECTED" HERE “{Continued from’First Page.)” ters overssas irs how clamoring for markets abroad so-as to hsalp boost faryy: prices - to, the American - pre- ducers. i Every effort to bring a settlement in Europe of_economic 1lis has been directed at France. As for the re- lations between Great Britain and the United States, they never were better. There 1s an fdentity of interest be- tween America and the British, Bot want to see Germany’s purchasi power restored. England wants it because her ships will carry the g00ds to and from Germany.: Amer- fea wants It go that Geemany car buy in the American market the surplus which -~ has n -~wnede - -possidle through expanded facilitfes and in- creased production in this country ever since the European war-stimu- iated manufactures and produgtion o raw materials. . French Viewpoint Limited. The French, however, see the whole situation through French eyes—not British and not American. They sée devastated areas. unrestored. They see the French capacity for produe- tion and manufacture limited by a re- duced manpower. They know the Ger- man capacity for production and manufacture. They fear Germany as an economic factor, but mostly they disbelleve the cry that Germany can- not pay her indemnity in the future. The French admit that a temporary omission of payments or moratorium may be necessary, but they will not give up future payments. They still want guarantees against invasion when Germany. is strong enough to invade. ‘Thus far the United States and Great Britain” have not been able to offer any plan_which would satisy the French: The cablegrams from abroad telling of the proposal to France by | Chancellor-Cuno_of a non-aggression pact, whereby Germany would agree not to invade France, and vice versa, is in line with American endeavor ever since President Harding pubilely suggested the four-power pact idea for Europe in his message to Congress last month, Reluctant to Aceep: But the French are reluctant to ac- cept such a treaty at this time. They |nave discouraged further negotia- tions, though everybody reslizes a revival of the plan may be brought about if the United States makes a public plea for it and promises to be- come party ta the non-aggression pact &s a sort -of guarantor-of the ®ood faith of all concerned. Would the “irreconcilables” and the farm bloc in the American Senate be will- ing to ratify such a treaty for Europe as they ratified in connéction with { American Interests in the Pacific and jtar east? At the present stage of evolution on foreign policy, the an- swer would be negative, but as it becomes increasingly. apparent- that the price of French consent to & world settlement is something like American ratification of & non-ag- gression treaty, the opinion of the Senate may change. Stability First Question. As for the economic probloms in- volved in Germany's capacity t6-pay, the French will be more easily satis- fied on that.after the stability of Eu- rape s assured through treaties than {betore. They must be persuaded first Phn they will be as well off if not better by glving up the severe penalty clauses of the Versailles treaty in ex- change for an American guarantee before they will yield. Should ‘France remain aloof from all these efforts, the United States will find herself standing with Great Britain . as against French dismember- ment of Germany. This correspond- ent has learned positively that France has been told America ‘would look with distavor on French dismember- ment -of Germany. - In_any realign- ment of powers, Great Britain would be moved to stand beside Germany and interpose her influende. against French exactions. ¥. 8. Moral Support. The moral support of the United States would be thrown on the side of Great Britain and Germany and against France. Can any French min- istry at this time take the responsibii- ity of forcing such a readjustment and especlally can it justify a definite estrangement, not ~only between France and Great Britain, but also be- tween France ‘and the Unitéd States? . If the fear of Germany is intemss to- day it would be bound to be intensi- fled - inside. France, when the moral sympathy of America and Great Brit- ain were publicly given to Germany. These are alternatives and possible developments of the day In the world crisis. Official Washington is watch- ing with deepest anxiety the outcome of the Paris conference and hoping against hope that France will give the world a cheerful message of 11923 that she will co-operate with the. rest tions in & political and eco- er 3 DIRIGIBLE C-14 REPAIRED NEWPORT NEWS, Va., January 2— Reparis to the drigible C-14, damaged recently while being taken from its hangar at-Langley Field, have been completed and a crew te take it to Aberdeen, Md., where it will bé used in ‘testing @ new bomb, is. expected here within a few days.. It is under- stood at Langley Field that the crow wijll come here in a blimp which wilt be'Jeft at Langley. Field in place pt the C-1d:"