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temperature; tomorrow fa ing temperature. twent today: Highest, terday; lowest, 31, at 5:10 a. Full report on page 7. | WEATHER. Fair and colder tonight; Temperature for -fotir hours ended at 2 3, at 5:30 p.m. freezing ir, with ris- p.m. ves- .m, toda; Closing N. . Stocks and Bonds, Page 2 4 ‘The No. 28744, post Intered as second:-class matter officeWashington, nic ening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. U. S. TROOPS ON RHINE RECALLED BY HARDING; RUHR SEIZURE AT HAND American Army Is to Start at Once for Port. NO EXPLANATION GIVENFORORDER Inference Is Drawn That Step Comes as a Protest. The American troops were ordered home from the Rhine today by Presi- dent Harding. No official explanation of the order was forthcoming. but it was under- stood to have followed notification from France that she intended to proceed with ogcupation of the Ruhr valley despite definite knowledge that withdrawal of the Amerian troops would be ordered if she did so. The order immediate movement of the troops to Bremen or Antwerp for embarkation. The trans- port St. Mihiel will New York within a day w0 to pick them up. Whatever addit ansportation may be necessary Mlow The remain tached service contemplates leave will units to be those at- registration only erican Army in e will ws Conference. Mihiel will Juropean port finally se- lec the embarkation within eight days of b Movement of the Americ Army from the Rhine to the port will be male in the meantime by rail to Maj « Allen to begin evacuation forward today. The de to withdraw forces wa after a co ence bet lent Har cretary Hughes and Secreta Werks at the White House. Secre- tary Hughes would make nent but 1t was assumed 1o the conference adv Vrance showing the determ the French reparations program: In the absence of any officlal ex- plunation, the inference immediately was drawn in many quarters that the withdrawal was to be rather as a_protest than as an_ at- tempt to avoid any trouble with which the American forces might be threat- cned as @ result of the French ad- vance. Although the French forces going into the Ruhr are passing near ters at Coblenz, fear in military z, Column 7.) Decls the St. Tt reach expected the r sailing. n - selected n. the went sision s announced een Pr he took from ation of T DEMANDS RECALL OF U. 3. OBSERVER Senator Reed Says Boyden Is Capable of Doing as Much Harm as Good. of Roland W. Boyden, the J American representative the reparations commission, was manded today in the Senate by S tor Reed, democrat, Missouri. “An unofficial representative is an unoflicial meddler,” declared Senator Reed. who added that such a repre- sentativ capable of doing as much hatm as an official spokesman. Senator Reed's discussion of the activities of Mr. Boyden, who yester- day made an the reparations commission regarding the proposal to declare Germany in default in coal deliveries, was a part of a speech in which the Missouri genator coneratulated the administra- tion on its decision to recall the American troops from the Rhine. During the debate which preceded adoption of his resolution favoring\ the troops’ withdrawal last _ week, Senator Reed saidl, it was officially asserted, apparently on behalf of the administration, that the American forces should remain in Germany. un- on de- | ena- “Occupation n Menace.” “But events have moved rapidly he added, “and within a few hours it has been decided to bring the troops home. I congratulate the country upon the fact ihat our troops are being withdrawn from a posi- tion which every thoughtful man has recoguized for two years was, or rather is, a menace to the peace and good will which should mark our jons with Europe. The order of the President should be extended. He should order thk unoflicial representative of the United States on the reparations commission to return with the troops. The un- official representative is only an un- official meddler. He is capable, of doing as ‘much harm as an official representative, es- pecially as it appears that our repre- sentative is given to making speeches on every possible occasion. Spirit of Law Violated. The senator declared further that “the truth is the President is every moment violating the spirit of the Jaw, that there should be no represent- ative on this commission except by act of Congress. “To seek to avoid the plain purpose of the law, to do or to seek to do the very thing that may not be done without an act of Congress,” he said, “is unworthy of the President of a great republic.” “Either we are there or we are not there.” added Senator Reed. referring to the unofficial nature of "Mr. Boy- det’s mission, which he declared a moment_later to be “a piece of po- litical chicanery.” “I hope, in this conversion *of the President relative to the withdrawal of the troops” he continued, “the change of heart will go far enough to recall this unofficial international meddler.” Orders | no state- | government to carry out: interpreted | extended statement to | ’Much Excitement Among U. S.' l Men at Coblenz By the Associated Press. COBLENZ, January 10.—The or- ders for the withdrawal of the American troops from the Rhine, the news of which became known through a dispatch from the As- sociated Press off at Paris, i caused much excitement it | as spread among the men of the American Army here. | Many of the men were depressed by the decision, as it meant the end of the pleasant army life here, with Incomes of something like 3,000,000 marks annually and up- ward, for the men. The withdrawal order had not been received by American head- quarters here up to the later aft- ernoon, but recent events had braced every one for the news, which is for the most part re- ceived regretfully from a personal viewpoint, for both officers and men enjoy the Rhineland life. By the Awsoclated Press LONDON, January 10. President Harding's order for with- drawal of the American troops from the Rhine furnished something of a sensation in diplomatic and offi- cial circles here. While officials were disinclined to comment to any extent in ad- vance of the official notification from Washington, it was stated in authoritative circles that the American move unlikely to affect Great Britain's policy. French Volce Regret. B the Associated Press. PARIS, January 10.— ficial circles expressed great gret this afternoon over the an- nouncement that President Hard- ing had ordered the withdrawal of the American forces in Ger- many, the news of which was given them by the Associated Press. The foreign office could furnish no expression for the government as neither the American govern- ment nor Ambassador Jusserand had yet communicated the news. U.S. WITHDRAWAL MEANS “PROTEST” Hughes, However, Allows Public to Place Own In- terpretation on Act. of re- rench RELATIONS ARE STRAINED American Step ‘Regarded as Dra- matic in View of Well Known Attitude. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The Star and Stripes were today ordered home from the Rhine. The last vestige of American mili- tary support remaining in Europe | since the armistiee of 1918 has been withdrawn. Only 1,200 soldiers of the American army -of have been on the Rhine for many months, but they meant much more than their numbers as an evidence of the moral esupport which the | United States has been giving France and the allies in the carrying out of the terms of the armistice and the treaties of peace. Although no comment accompanied the announcement of the United States government's sudden decision to withdraw the troops, there is no doubt that the government here wants it to ring 'round the world as the protest of a disinterested nation against the mistaken tneory of France that Gegmany must be penalized by force for her inmability to pay her reparation debt. The abrupt statement of government policy came somewhat of a surprise even though the Senate by overwhelm- ing vote had passed last week a resolu- tion expressing its opinion that the troops should be withdrawn by President. March of Fremeh Troops. ‘When the resolution was passed, there was a feeling in executive quarters that it might prove embarrassing, as the ad- ministration had not yet made up Its mind. But overnight there came a change. For one thing”the news dis- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 10.—Raids were made by the authorities in Paris to. who have recently been in the Ruhr valley and are charged with having excited the population to revolt against the entry of the French troops. In a short while five leading communists—Monmousson, Maranne, Pietri, Sourdot and Treint—were ar- rested. men with having attempted to violate the internal and external security of the state. Gaston Monmousson, most widely known of the arresting men, had been expelled from Essen, it was wtated, by the German police, occupation | the | day in search of communist leaders The warrant charged the accused | French Reveal How Invasion Will Go On. GERMANS TO GET FORMAL NOTICE Poincare Indicates Action Assured by Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, January 10.—The exact time for lifting the curtain in the latect act of the post-war drama—the French inva- sion of the Ruhr—was still a secret to- 1day, although the actors were in their places with their parts well learned un- der the tutelage cf the French military | command. preparation for the { final order to “go ahead™ has been made with clockiike nrecision. The nsus of opinion here that the advance would not begin un- til midnight tonight or early tomor- row. Various were offered { in support of this belief. chief among | them being the fact that the foreign loffice had not received this morning Premier Mussolini's reply to M. Poin- care’s proposal that Italy join France jand Belgium in formally notifying |Germany” of their intention to im- | pose penaltics. Await Italian Reply. Notice that the t would leave their concentration point for { Bssen tonight or in the morning was expected to be forthcoming as soon as the Ttailan answer w received The last formalities regarded as necessary before the French troops enter the Ruhr valley to apply pen- alties for default in deliveries in kind by Germany under the treaty of Ver- sallles were set this afternoon It was arranged that Premier Poin- care would inform the German gov- ernment, through Dr. Wilhelm Mayer. the German ambassador in Paris, and through the French ambassador at Berlin of the measures he purposes taking, beginning tomorrow. Belgium Joins In. ' Simuitaneously with the giving of these' notifications it was arranged for orders to go forward to Gen, De- goutte to send to Essen a sufficient con reasons i bops | premier’s force to assure the protection of the | allied engineers and agents who have been intrusted with applying the measures decided upon by the French government and which are disclosed fully, it is stated. in the notification to the German government. { Belgium will simultaneously send to Germany _notifications identical with | those of Fran Italy, although par- ticipating in the economic measures to | be applied, notification to Germany, because she will not send troops to Essen and the | neighboring territory. The not ation by ¥ ce and Bel- | gium to Germany, it was forecast, would linform the German government that, owing to defaults duly reported to the {allied_governm by the reparations | commission, they had found it necessary ito apply the penalties provided for by { the treaty of Versailles and had decided to control the production of certain dis- tricts, heretofore wnoccupied, with a view to collecting the coal and customs | duties, and that they would take over the state forests in the Rhineland. i Military to Stay Outside. | 1t was generally understood that the plan, as it stood today, called first of all for sending engineers into the | Ruhr to take . over certain mines. These experts will be adequately but not ostentatiously escorted by the military. It is thought that the dis- traint will be increased in proportion to Germany’s failure to give satisfac- tion The military escorts will be quar- tered on the outskirts of any towns so occupied, and the soldiers will be kept from contact with the inhab- (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) i ! | EMUSSDLINI INSISTENT | ON GERMANY PAYING | In Close Touch With France and Belgium, Though Working | Strenuously for Peace. | By the Assoclated Press. | Europe. He/is working strenuously | for peace, but insists that Germany be obliged in any possible ‘legal’ way | to fulfill the sacred obligations sanc- tioned by the treatle: says the Giornale D'Italia the attitude of the Italian government toward the reparations question. The newspaper adds: “Italy in no way can renounce her |share of the reparations. France and Belgium are in closest touch with the government in Rome during this acute phase of the international situation. Hold Communists ‘as Inciters Of German Revolt in the Ruhr A man named Gaston Rene, a car- penter, also was arrested, and the palice searched the officés’ of Hu- manite, the communist organ, and seized severa] documents. Communist circles expect the arrest to be fol- lowed by the demand for the suspen- sion of the parliamentary immunity of Deputy Marcel Cachin, who also has been active in the Ruhr propa- ganda, so as to admit of his appre- hension. - Monmousson organized the railroad strike of 1921, Pietri belongs to the union of non-state teachers.' Sour- dot is & member of the Postal,-Tele- graph and Telephone Union. Trein| has been one of the directors of Hu- manite since the last schism, when those who were not 100 per cent communists in the eyes of Moscow were expelied, . is explained, will not give | | ROME, January 10.—“Premier Mus- | solini is against any fresh conflict in | oday in explaining | | sober to show themselves 3 WOMAN SAYS KLAN ORDERED HER EXILE McKoin and Kirkpatrick as Deporters. {IMMORAL LIFE ALLEGED Declares She Recognized Ex-Mayor, Although Admitting He Wore Mask. | By the Assoctated Press. BASTROP, La., January | May ‘Hamilton, kiown as “daughter | |Addie May Hamilton Names 10.—Addie of the klan,” declared on the witness | {stand in the open hearing investiga- tion today in the slaying of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards, she was forced to leave her home near Mer Rouge and was deported from the state by the “Ku Klux.” ! | 1 i | mer mayor of Mer Rouge, and “Pink” Kirkpatrick as two of the party of men who, she testified, came to her mother's home one night, away and put her aboard a train for Little Rock, Ark., the home of her sister. The young woman gave her age as seventeen. Says She Recognized McKoin. “How sent you to Little Rock?’ George Guion, who began the questioning of the young woman, asked. “Because Dr. McKoin and ‘Pink’ Kirkpatrick and about six others came to my mothers house about 10:30 o'clock at night and told me they were going to send me away. “Do you know positively it was Dr. McKoin and Kirkpatrick ™" “Yes, sir, I recognized Dr. McKoin who was masked, but he was the only one doing any talking. Thex came to the house and pulled theii guns and told my mother that ‘Addie May will have to leave town tonight’ My mother asked them what for. ‘Be- cause,’ Dr. McKoin said, ‘Addie has been leading an immoral life’ My mother said, ‘Why_ don't you send others away? Dr. McKoin said, ‘We are going to’ My mother got down on her knees and pleaded, but they made me leave. They told us if any- body showed their heads out of the door they would ‘blow 'em off." They made me leave without a hat. Dr. McKolin struck my mother when she made a final plea for me to be allow- ed to remaln. My mother attempted %o shove them out of the room. She begged them to let her go to the depot. They refused. They put me in an automobile, and Dr. McKoin gave me 37 for my fare to Little fock. He told me if I did not catch the train I would be tarred and feathered the next day. Charges Indignities. T was put on the back seat on the automoblle and ‘Pink’ . Kirkpatrick threw his legs across my lap.”* «“Wwhat did he do that for?” “I don’t know. “Where was your father?” “About ten miles away in the coun- ou had no baggag ‘No.” (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) —_— NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION RUMOR INCREASES ARMY Newspapers Print Story of Political Outbreak at San_Salvador’ Christmas. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 10. -~ _The Nicaraguan army has™ been materially increased. within the last few days as a result of the govern- ment's alarm over reports that a revolutionary force is being formed in Honduras by political refugees from this country. News of o\lb!- i in Salvador engendered by e from Guatemala and Honduras also has reached here. Local newspapers pfinted for ‘the first time yesterday reports of & olitical outbreak in San Salvador at Christmas ttme. The dispatches-say that troops, armed with machine guns, fired upon the mob- which had “attacked city officials. g = She named Dr. B. M. McKoin, for- | took her | do you know the Ku Klux News of Harding Order Is Flashed Lightning Speed The Associated Press din- ratch from Coblenz, reflecting the effect of the troop with- drawal order upon the Ameri- can Army men at headquarters on the Rhine, nffords a remark- able instance of speed in news transmission. A message was ment from the Assucinted Press office in New York to the Paris bureau at 10:49 a.m. for transmission to Coblenz, carrying the news of Piesident Harding's withdraw order. Thix news was prom, 1y telephoned from Paris to Coblens, dixpatch quickly telephoned Paris in vej and the message shot over the cable to New York. The Coblenz dispateh w. xent out in New. York to the Associcted Press wires for im. mediate transmission all over the United States at 1149 am., or In exactly one hour after the news machinery for ing the Cob rices wai in motion. HOSTS 70 BE TORN FROM THEIR HOMES Population Exchange Plan Furthered by Allied-Turk Agreement at Lausanne. BY A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copsright, 1923. LAUSANNE, January 10.—The full | commission today accepted the prin- i ciple of the exchange of populations. The Greeks in Anatolia and Euro- pean Turkey, except those in the prefecture of Constantinople, are to { be exchanged for the Turks in Greece, except western Thrace. Thus, if the plan is carried out, more than half a million people will be torn from their homes and social and ‘economic life. In the barter Ismet Pasha agreed to leave the Greek patriarchate in Constantinople if the present patriarch leave and the patriarchate is shorn of political power. Lord Curzon assumes the credit for maintaining the patriarchate, but no one assumes the responsibility for accepting the exchange of popula- tions. The conference has taken a long step toward peace. The three in- viting powers have conceded several points to the Turks, who are also in a conciliatory frame of mind. Minorities End Labors. Today the minorities commission virtually completed its lgbors. The inviting powers made concesslons on the minorities question in exchange for the granting of a general ampesty by the Turks. Turkey and Greece have agreed to grant. amnesty to troops accused of illegal acts in Anatolia and Smyrna. The inviting Dowers gave in on the question of a refuge for the Armenians, military exemption for minorities, the league of nations commissionership and the return of Bulgarian refugees from the time of the old Balkan war. The Turks ylelded on the question of the return of exiled women and WILL HE EVER SOBER UP? ‘ News Note: A western judge decides to have all drunks photographed and when they get ! s others see them, DEBT BODY T0 ASK BROADER POWERS !Smoot Tells Senate Finance Committee of Difficulty in Making Terms. {ON DEMOCRATIC | lNew Personnel Might Be Misun- [ derstood, Explains Re- i publican. PLEA Congress will be asked. probably within a week, to broaden the powers of the American debt commission in dealing with all of the war debts owed to the United States, the Sen- ate finance committee was told |day by Senator Smoot, republican | Utah, | the commission. Senator Smoot was understood to have made clear to the committee lat an executive session the belief of the commission that it would be im- possible to reach a settlement with any of the allied countries within | the terms 1as quiring payment of the principal in full within twenty-five years with a minimum interest rate at 41 per cent. Members of the committee said the Utah senator had not suggested what modification would be requested and some of them were inclined to the view that this would be governed gely by developments at the nego tiations with the British debt com- | mission, which were resumed today at the Treasury. ¢ Follows White House View. Senator Smoot": announcement, |which was in_line with that made ivesterday at the White House, came during committee consideration of the amendment to the debt refunding law proposed by Senator Harris, democrat, | Georgia, proposing an increase in the membership of the debt rommission so as to include three democrats, This amendment was referred to a sub- comittee, composed of Chairman M Cumber and Senators McLean, repub- lican, Connecticut, and Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, which is to report tomorrow. Committee members declared there was no objection to democratic repre- sentation oh the commission, which now is composed of three cabinet of- ficers, one republican senator and one republican representative was not regarded as adv crease the' membership in the midst of the pending negotiation with the British delegation. that a change in personnel at such a time might lead to a misunderstand- ing on the part of the British commis- sion. Second Formal Session. The” second formal session of the for 8 o'clock this afternoon, with the expectation that the British would lay on the table a mass of statistics set- ting forth Great Britain's ability to pay. With assurances from the American administration, House spokesmen yesterday, and indi- cations at the Capitol, that there might be modification of the terms of the American debt commission act, it was thought the conference would proceed toward an eventual agree- ment between the two countries whether or not within the bounds of the act. President Harding, it was indicated (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Like a Postscript to an Interesting Letter The 5:30 Edition of The Star —prints the important happenings of the closing hours “of the day—the Court Calendar up for latest Stock News; the tomorrow; the Sporting activities—the final budget of news, ete. For sale by newsboys and newsdealers all over town. to- | the Senate representative on | down by Congress, re- | but that it | {sable to in- | It was explained | Anglo-American debt parley was set | set forth by White | The Star’s delivered to “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier systemn covers every city block and the regular ecition is Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,212 Report on D. C. Surplus Revenue Due T his-Week Senator Phipps, chairman of the Joint’congressional committee in- vestigating the surplus revenues of the District, said today he had been informed by the expert ac- countants auditing the accounts of the District that they would send their report to him before the end of this week. Senator Phipps said he intended to call his committee together to consider its report as soon as it was received from the accountants. He indicated that the report will not be made public until after the Jjoint committee had examined it. Senator Phipps is chairman also” of the subcommittee of the appro- priations committee which will handle the District appropriation bill. He expressed the hope today that the subcommittce would be able to begin hearings on the Dis- trict bill later this wee ENATORS EXPRESS [School and Playgrounds Items May Be Restored, Say Ball and Capper. {REPORT IN SHORT TIME | Measure Giving Commissioners Power to Revoke Auto Per- | mits Favored. Confidence that restore the school items cut out of the Senate and playground the District appro- | priation bill in the House on points of order was expressed today during a meeting of the Senate District com- and by Sena- mittee by Chairman Ball of the tor Capper, | committee public schools of the { District. Senator @Capper said he { thought there would be no opposition whatever in the Senate to these items. It was indicated that the senators in- tended to deal gencrously the | District schools. | Senator Capper told the committee { that he hoped to be able to lay before i it s00n the report of the joint com | mittee on schools. The oniy th | now delaying the report, he said, was a report which the joint committee j had asked Dr. Finegan of Harrisbura, jcommissioner of education for Pel isylvania, and other well | educators to draft on the public schools of the District. Senator Capper said that he expected this r. port from Dr. Finegan aimost an ay would chairman joint n with g known Favor Auto Permit Bill The District committee today au- thorized a favorable report on a bill | introduced by Senator Ball at the re- { quest of the District Commissioners, giving the Commissioners further | authority in the matter of revoking | permits to drive automobiles. Senator Ball explained the bill was made necessary by the fact that the Com- missioners were powerless to revoke, 80 far as the District of Columbia is | concerned, a license to operate a car that might be granted by any of the states. = | He said that not long ago an auto- | mobile driver, with a District license, {drove his car while under the Infit i ence of liquor and injured a child His license was revoked. A few days |later he went into Virginia and ob- tained an operator's permit there, and | was arrested driving in the Distriot } of Columbia again under the influence of liquor. The court held that the District Commissioners were power- less to prevent the man's driving his {car in the District with the Virginia { license | Senator\Capper also was authorized to report favorabiy a bill introduced by himself to incorporate In the Bis- trict of Columbia the Supreme Lodge | of the Loyal Order of Moose. { Tomorrow the District committee i8 to hold a hearing on the bill estab- lishing a new insurance code of law for' the District, recently drafted by | the commissioner of insurance of the | District. | 'GERMANS IN BRITSH and English Troops Ex- pressed at Cologne. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Januars 10.—A Reuter dispatch from Cologne this afternoon says: “The attitude of the Germans in the British area is venomously anti- French. A large irresponsible sec- tion of the population favors active | resistance, and the wildest rumors are abroad. Fears are expressed lest the British and American troops should be withdrawn.” The British government has granted { France permission to move troops through the British occupied territory {along the Rhine, in pursuance of the | French plan for occupation of the { Rubr. {MRS. MARSHALL CHOSEN. |Wite of Former Vice President Named on Children’s Board, Mrs. Lois Kinsey Marshall, wife of the former Vice President of the United States, has been appointed a { member of the Board of Children's | Guagdians by Justice Stafford and i Judges Hardison and McMahon, who | nave charge of naming the members | of the board. Mrs. Marshall will serve out the un- expired term of Former Judge J. Wil- mer Latimer of the Municipal Court, which ends January 10, 1925. The judges have also designated Michael M. Doyle, former judge of the Mu- nicipal Court, as a member of the board to succeed Lee Baumgarten. Judge Doyle's term expires November HOPE FOR D. C. BILL AREA WOULD RESIST! Fear of Withdrawal of American | b TWO « CENTS. HOUSE COMMITTEE REPORTS THREED.C. BILLS FAVORABLY Fourteenth Street Extension and Firgmen-Police Pen- sion Measures Included. | PROBE OF RECORDER’S { OFFICE ALSO APPROVED Opening of Thoroughfare | Maryland Held Relief in | Housing. Into The House district com: today ordered a favorable report on three Dis- trict bills. They are: A bill for the extension of 14th street through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds, order to provide a more adequate approach to the National Cap- ital from Maryland, thereby relieving housing congestion here and affording better facilities for residents n that section. A bill to equalize pensions of re- tired police and firemen in the District. | A concurrent resolution providing for Ithe creation of a commission of three | senators and members of the | House to investigate the necaw of the | office of recorder of deeds for fhe Dis- j trict. three { Prompt Action on Bl ! The committe prompt | the bill, which R | 14th street through the Walter Thecd Hospital Aithoug |ttan a scorc of representatives from acted on propos to rounds muore ass ons and residents of territory the e benefited appeared committee, only one speect Charte. Lancaster that the Secretary etary of the Interior strict committee and the unanimous action have ap this It carries the high- s s C rointed t War. the enate I > by | the s { provea | proposition unanin suppo; ¥ commission. Mr. Lancaster explained questions from Repr that all of the la the right-of-way has been except about 10 per cent, an acre. which must be con- He explained that not one | cent of cost wil lie upon the Unitea | es or the District on account of this extension | The committee report of Senator i ate District e osit which requires that cert | streets’ and_alleys within the area {known as the Walter Reed General Hospital shall be vacated and which authorizes ihe extension and widen- ing of 14th street from Montague street to its southern terminus south of Dahlia street, Nicholson street from 13th street to 16th street, Col- orado avenue from Montague street | to 13th street. Concord avenue from ! 16th street its western terminus { west of Sth street, 13th street from | Nicholson street to Piner Branch {road and Finey Branch road from { 13th street to Blair road. Letters in Approval. w answer sentative d neces- to | not over demned had before it tha all from the Sen- tee-on this prop ! also considered Ie | ters from the Secretary of War. from Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach ber of the highway commis: the District, and from the I Commission 1 of which app: {the proposit and urged prompt | 1egistati { In connection with its favorable re- | port ordered on the bill fathered in {the House by Representative Zihimar | gt Maryiand ar the Senate hy Senator Shortridge, which proposes to equalize the pensions of retired police d firemen of the District The report of the Senate committes was considered by the committee, and although there was not a quorum of the committee present. the hill was reported out when Representative nderhill of Massachusetts said he would not raise a point of order. but |wished to be recorded as resorving the right to oppose the bill It was pointed out to the commit- tee that the reason this bill had failed previously in the House was because it contained no provision for payment to a widow. An amendment will be prepared covering this point. Rep entative Zihlman was authorized to write the report. DECLARES MRS. FRANCE ONLY CAN RELEASE HOME Attachment Levied on Residence Depends Upon Wife's Acceptance of Service in Suit. i mittee a mem- trict al ed n e actior. Senator's 1 | | By the Associated Press, BALTIMORE. Md. January 10 Senator Joseph 1. France's fashion- able home In Mount Vernon here will remain attached until Mrs. Evelyn . France accepts service in the $1.500 {breach of agreement suit instituted against her by Mrs. Mary V. Turner, it was announced last night by the | deputy sheriff serving the attachment |7 "Attachment of the residence was |authorized by Judge Eli Frank in the feity court, in which jurisdiction the {action was entered. it was obtained |by Mrs. Turner through her counsel {after officials made unsuccessful at |tempts to locate Mrs. France. It was said by servants that Mrs. France is in Washington for the winters | _ Mrs. Turner alleges in her suit that iMrs. France refused to pay her a monthly allowance of $100. in accord- ance with an agreement entered into October 25, 1899, for “service ren- dered.” Mrs. Turner declined to make |public the nature of the “servi rendered.” ALLEGED WASHINGTON IMPOSTOR SENTENCED Bruce Meeker Given Eleven Months on Check Charge by Chicago Court. Ry the Associated Presy. CHICAGO, January Meeker, who posed as a relative of Arthur Meeker of Armour & Co while in Washington some time ago, today was givea the minimum sen- tence ' of eleven months for 2essing worthless checks aggregating $400, here, and offered his choice of two enal institutions in which to serve t. He chose Pontiac reformatory. | 10. — Bruce