Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1923, Page 26

) G * -THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, JANUARY 14, 1923—PART 1. SEE GUAL |N PI-EN‘[Y REASON WHY THE PEOPLE OF COBLENZ ARE IN TEAR SHOW TO AID CHURCH. {W.C.T.U.TO CELEBRATE | SMOOT TO BE SPEAKER. *FUNIONS CURBED West Virginia Operators De- clare’ Bituminous Supply *Could Be Adequate. Non-Union Associations Outline Fight Against Rivals and United Mine Workers. The American public assured bituminous coal quate quantity and at fair pr United States Coal told yesterday by owners of principal in West Virginia ion can “ar- the union always be in ade- L the was of Commission non-union mines territory, 1f the commi ran, to prevent, forever, from calling a nation-wide Seven operators' ations West Virginia whose mines have kept continuously at work during Trecent labor controversies joined in the me- morial, which erted unqualifiedly that union activities were the chief cause of disturbances in coal supply and market prices. “If you feel that consumers should continue to pay present or higher prices for coal,” the memorial con- cluded, “the miners’ union should be encouraged by new concessions. If You feel that the people are payving prices which arc too high. an_effe tive curb should be put upon its a tivities by removing exceptions to the anti-conspiracy law nd by prot ing all American ci ns in the right to work unmo under such . conditions as they ¢ Overcome Many Obstacles. An historic account both of the de- velopment of the non-union mining territory and of recent events in the coal industry, fromsthe viewpoint of the producers who presented the pe- tition, w. given the comm Coal 3 n the non-union ng been opened date than those in unlon f their operators having been from the beginning by severe tition of older fields, the me serted, a community of intefe developed between emplovers a ploves, and has been welfare work, and mining assoc in st ect.” comp poral as- d Mine Workers of Amertea to organize the men Operators in the union fieids, com- peting with the non-union producers the memorial continuéd, had joined the union in its endeavors to bring about extension of the _union. control of workers in West Virginia. Further, the union, itself was d 4 to have proceeded (o its or the state with against persons and propert v parallel.” A record of ing of mine entries. of killings, and of mass attacks in non-union territory, along with the aftermath of I prosecutions was given the commiss Bitterly Fought by Unlonx. “The United Mine Workers America is frankly and fully co mitted to the theory of a monopoly of mine labor in all of the coal mines of the United States,” the non-union ope- rators said in completing the survey, “and has never omitted any act, lawfui or unlawful, within its power to bring about that 'situation. So tremendous and menacing is its power, by reason of the very 1 reentage of coal States it now dom- it arbitrarily calls appro: tely 60 per cent o production of the country antly, and nothing but the production of coal in the non-union flelds has saved the country from national calamity. Pay and working condition: non-union territory. and enterprises fostered by owners were declared to be assure satisfied nd contented employes.” All the facts, the memorial said, led to the conclusion that the forces of supply and demand, if al- lowed to operate free from the in- fluence of natural strikes, would put coal prices and supply on a reasonably stable ba: Betterment of transportation fa- cilities was declared to be the only other alteration in present ditions necessal in the public interests. Signers of the memorial were members of operators’ associations of Smokeless. Pocahontas, Winding Gulf, Tug River, Logan and Williamson coal mining fields. 'ILLIONS IN LIQUOR + THREATENED BY FIRE 150 Men Working in Tunnel Under High Air Pressure Rushed to Safety. series of crimes without dynamit- that the coal stops ins in the community the mine By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January lion dollars’ at internal revenue bonded warehouse No. 2, was threatened tonight, when a fire swept through the seven stories of the Miller & Thompkins Paper Company’s bag plant adjoining the warehouse, near the Manhattan end of the New York-New Jersey ve- hicular tunnel. Five alarms were 13. mil- nization efforts in | of | ch as to-f worth of liquor stored Occupation. Thix photo, Just recejved. shows SCHOOL ON MIND . DISEASES TO OPEN { President Invited to Cere- | monies Tomorrow Afternoon at St. Elizabeth’s. The Veter s' Bureau will open its training school in neurops St. Elizabeth’s Hospital tomo i ernoon, at formal e to which !l'?‘- sident Harding, Brig. Gen. Sawyer nd prominent physicians have been invited. The planned | Veterans' ists in school b Forbes of Bureau to prepare speci so-called postgraduate course, further fitted to treat world was veterans afflicted with nervous and mental diseas The school | charge of Dr. training by Directc been il ¥ be under direct ank F. Hutchins, | clinical irector of neuropsychiatry | of the Veterans' Bureau, and profes {sor of mental and nervous diseases, University of Indtana. Nationall: prominent lecturer: who are expert in the subject, ha been obtained by the bureau. which last night made public a long list of trists, physiclans and profes- S0 from leading institutions and government services all over the country The class is composed of fifty grad uate physicians carefully selecte from hundreds of qualified appli | The: physic 1S upon satisfs | graduation from the course, nteed to give at least two years continuous profess 1 service to the iaries of the United States Vet- erans'« Bureau. The entire course will extend over 2 period of about four months and will of 176 lectures and Appro 500 hou of luboratory work | with practical | experience in the care and treatment £ neuropsychiatric cases. = “Since the greater part of the course is to be given at St. Elizabeth's Hos pital, a government institution. those In attendance will have at hand near- |1y 4,000 patients and the case histo- ‘of more than"20,000 discharged pa- tien! Changes in Stations of Army and Navy Officers Of Interest to Capital ARMY. Capt. J. M. Russell, Quartermaster Corpe. recenily was_ordered to duty on the transport St. Mihiel to arrange for the transportation of Gen. Allen forces from Antwerp to ports in the United States. Capt. Douglas I. Crane, Quarter- master Corps, in the office of the chief of st 3d Corps Area, Baltimore, Md.; has been assigned to duty at Carhp Meade, Md. i Capt, Walier I. Richards, Medical Corps in_ the Philipp has been ordered to the United States for duty. Maj. Livingston Watrous, adjutant general, on duty at the War Depart- ment, has_been ordered to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., for du i First Lieut. Ross F. Cole, air serv ce at Crissy Field, San Francisco, nd Second Lieut. Charles L. Willlams;, air service at Kelly Field, Texal have been ordered to Langley Field, Va., for duty. Maj. Fred T. Cruse, fleld artillery, has been relieved from duty at the War Department and ordered to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for duty. Col. John N. Straat, infantry. under treatment at Walter Reed General Hospital, has been ordered to exami- . hax descended on people er the departure of the 1,200 soldiers of the Sth United States Infantry—Ilant of the American Army of the nstruction and actual | DOUGHBOYS END THE WATCH ON THE RHINE. one of the reasons—the generoxity of CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Columbin Historieal Society hold its annu: eting Tuesd; R Tub. Allen €. muel Nicolls Sn nd Mayor.” will 8015 ark all- rican Bacteriolo- -xday, S D, at . Wil peakers, C. nd W. D. Bigelow. will meet H street. . J. R. Esty Ham The Monroe Home and School Axxo- clation will meet In Monrue School Tuesda 45 pm . Ward will | speak of his experie n Alaska. | The Kalorama Citizens’ Association will_meet Tuesday. S p.m. at the Highlands. Telephone demonstratio i _Anthropological Society will meet Tuesday, 8:15 p.m., in room $2-43, new { building, National Museum.' Assoclation of School will Parents and Parent-Teachers® {Daniel A, Pay Tuesday. interested Ladies® 3¢ Hibers card party Catholic street. Auxiliary, Divixion No. n i ent Order a4 benefit pm.. at | House, 601 will be given Saturday, | Hotel Roosevelt, 3 1439 Newton street, in charg 30 pm.. a Buell, | Columbia Cam, Woodmen of Ameri. ficers Thursday. 11923, will install of- Anacostin Couneil, |Order American Mec lopen meeting Tues Congress Heights Baptist Auditorium. 16, Junior The Wanderlusters will hold an open meeting tomorrow in Public L brary. All interested In outdoor ac- tivities invited, Women’s City Club—The Bible class directed by Dr. Josephine Baird will be resumed Thursday, 7 to § p.m A 500 card party for benefit of Amer- fcan Legion Auxillary, Department of District of Columbia, wil' be given to- morrow, 8 p.m., at home of Mrs Wil- liam F. Franklin, 1743 Church street. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected by the Tennessee State So- ciety at its annual meeting in the Raleigh Hotel Saturday night at 8 o'clock. The Connmecticut Soelety is to meet at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow night at the Y. W. C._ A, 1333 F street northwest. Henry M. Camp, recently elected president, will preside. Committees will be selected society Distriet of Columbia Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher tions will meet, 2 p.m. Tuesd: |bitt Hotel, to make final ments for Movie week. A meeting of the Washington will be held at the Ar- lington Hotel, Tuesday, at 12:30 p.m. An interesting program is being ar- ranged by Bertram G. Lennon, presi- ent. The West Virginia Society of the District of Columbia will hold its eighth annual cider and apple party Thursday evening, at Pythian Temple, been arran D ed by Col. J. William De Grange. Dancing. The free lobby concert at the Y. M. C. A., 1736 G street northwes morrow night, will include Mabel Bewie. Miss Evelyn Beasle: Miss Grace Bromley, Miss Mabel M Calip, Mrs. Elsie Harvey Miss M. G. Davis and Schaefer. Fred ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. Red Triangle Outing Club will meet at Cabin John bridge at 2:30 o'clock. Back early. C. R. Barnett, leader. Wanderlusters' will leave from 14th and Colorado avenue at 2:30 o’clock. Route: Rock creek, Joaquin Miller's cabin and upper section of park to Chevy Chase Circle. Walter W. Paige l Tuesday. | Community The P. E. 0. Founders' day hanquet | Modern | 1 hold | Development of the surance Club of | A special entertainment program has | Weaver, | ildren, even men, are in tears, 1he American soldiers, who gave every needy German child a bag of food, a warm woolen union suit and two pairs of warm stockings. i DOCTORS CROWD CITES | AS FARM FOLK SUFFER, Columbia University Dean Tells of Unequal Distribution of Medical Men. | By ¢ | N Assacinted Press v YORK, J lcounty districts of the |are endang ! practitioners, | with docto ry 15.—While United s the cities are flovded | Dean Willian Darrach | of Physicians and Sur- { i eons of Columbia University declar- | ed today in his annual report, whizh | pointed out that the medical turning out enough do the needs of the country schools | at| I e | 01 ¢ e in | | “There v |rural dgi . but than _equa by {the cities, Dar: opportunities in cts are as {youn Inot be schools Increased Appreciation. Dr. Darrach asserted that the gr rease in applicants for adr !to medical schools had forced th stitutions to devise some means of determining voung men fit for the udy of m al la this lack in to attract this proble by enlarg in Academ te relied on, i must be ta declared, duty to his patient un the indivigual's relatic commun standing alone and oth to the | as well as port said :mportant | s being carried on study | Dr. Darrach’ research work w * connection w ctions of periments were made, L s: show the relation of common to_more serious ailments velop a method of prophylactic munization = IFIVED. S. C.’S AWARDE FOR HEROISM IN WAR | Two of Number Honored by Presi- | dent Dead—Two Others Re- ceive Medals. Distinguished service crosees for traordinary heroism in action in France in the world war have been awarded by the President in the cases of five en- sted men of the Army, as follows: H Frank J. Williams, jr., of Buf v of the 301st Bat- talion, Tank.Corps: Corp. Thomas F. Bailey of Lewistown, Mo., formerly of d., th Bennett of vate Arthur C. Jones of Baltimore, of the 313th Infantry, ion: Corp. Charles S Okla. (deceased), formerly of the 16th_Infantry, lst Division, andj Private Harmon Hunt of Chaunce W. Va. (deceased), formerly of the 112th Infantry, 28th Division. Distinguished service medals for ex- ceptionally meritorious services during the war have been awarded Lieut. Col. chofield _Andrews of Philadelphia, | formerly of the General Staff Corps, and Lieut. Col. Alfred ¥. Foote of Boston, Mass., for v of the 104th Infantry, 6th_Division: S A5 DOCTOR ANSWERS CALL, 15 ATTACKED WITH AXE Assailant offers No Explamtionl and Goes to Sleep When Taken to Police Station. WALTHAM, Mass,, January 13.—Dr, Samuel day by telephone P. Strickland, summoned to- to the home of Ernest C. Richardson, where a girl of twelve was reported to be ill, was met by Richardson at the door and invited upstairs to At sec the patient. the head of the stairs Richardson picked up a pair of fleld glasses and said: “Look at the view from here. he ing to s yeiclan adjusted the lenses turned and suw Richardson com- at him with an axe, he reported the police later. The two men closed and struggled, but axe landed | soveral he ailant. in his automobile went to bed taken in hiy head and fa times on before he ov The ph Dr. Strickland's powered iy ax- ian drove home notified the polic had forty stitches He will d and recover. Richardson offered no resiytun when the police arrived and gave no explanation to went a child in the house, of police to sleep. the incident. Taken station,” he promiptly There was actually the police said. the Kappa Tau Phi Players Will Pre- sent ‘A Regular Girl” Tomorrow. For the benefit of the rebuilding fund of Our Lady of Victory Church, on Conduit road, destroyed by fire last October, the Kappa Tau Phi Plavers will revive tomorrow and Tuesday nights their musical play, “A Regular Girl” which will be presented at 8:15 o'clock on those evenings at Immac- ulate Conception Hall, 8th and N strects northwest. Among the vaudeville entertainers will be Harvey and Tommy Murray in bits of everything; the Misses St. John in an Apache song and dance; Norris P. Roland and Carl Rathmund in “O'Charlie,” a4 musical satire; Annie Loria and Louise Colton, ballet danc- ers; Miss Mildred Bromwell and Mrs. Cecilé Ruppert Quigley in songs, and | Mixs Pauline Loria and her synco- puted jazz orchestra. The vaudeville numbers will be fol- lowed by “A Regular Girl” a musi- cal gomedy in (wo acts and three scenks, the book of which was re- vised by Norris P. Roland, who also directs\the entire performance. The musical arrangement was made by John J. Campbell. The cast includes Miss Mary St John, leading -Jady, and James P. Quigley as leuding man; Miss Zora Green, Anna Higdon, Miss Mary | Burke and Miss Pauline Lormg. The omedy will be furnished by Herman dfray, rris P. Roland, mund «nd Spotty Harvey. The cho will include Beckett, Mary Conner, Emily ‘wnlmv. Rouse Brooks, Friede- Alice Gibson, Ivy Gibson, Betty Kathryn Henderson, ' Jessie Pippin, Mildred Tucker and Irene | Williams. Mary arl Rath- | | tional pr Con- | DRY LAW ANNIVERSARY . The Woman's Christian Temperance Unfon will celebrate the third anniver- sary of national constitutional prohibi- tion Tuesday by an all-day meeting at the First Congregational Church, Mrs, Emma Sanford Sheiton will open the morning session at 10 o'clock. The ! address of. welcome will be made by Rev. Dr. jason Noble Pierce. One of the special features of the morning ses- sion will be a pageant which will be in- troduced by Mrs. Ellis Logan. Kach speaker, in costume, will present the work of prohibitionists in a foreign | country, and each will give the report | of the country she represents as it was presented at the World's Woman's | Christian Union convention held in Phil- | adelphia in November. | Mrs. Zela Farmer will represent Scot- land; Mrs, Charles P. Grandfield, Mex- ico; Mrs. Raymond, Manila; Mrs. . C. | Stanton, Germany; M -nnett, | Ireland; Mrs. Eva Crl wlound land; Mrs. Burma; | Miss May lund; Mrs. terling, China; Mrs, Sweden; Miss Claire Lusby, Korea; Mrs. Leo W, Solbach, India; Mrs. L. Taylor, Austraiia; Mrs. A. 8.’ Hitchcock, Mrs. R. A. Dellett, Mrs. T. Bideman, Miss ch and Mrs. O. E. Lz Denmar} Miss Helen Harmon, olson, Kgypt; Mrs b ; 5 lark, | pa Riddick, England Juila A. Mrs. Nic Boyd, Cul Mrs. A. B. 0 3 A. Winklehaus, Ca Mrs, Wirt Taylor, Australia. Miss Anna A. Gordon, world and na- sident of tie Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union, will make address in the afternoon. Rev William 8. Abernethy, Re Dr Chappell and Rev. Dr. J. Stanley Durke will conduct a special service of prayer. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheele 1 di- rector. Dr. Carl | vis | On Program of Bankers and Stock Brokers’ Joint Dinner, Senator Smoot of Utah will he the principal speaker at the joint dinner of the Distriet of Columbia Bankers' sociation and the Washingt o ock xchange at the New Willard Hotel, aturday, it was announced 1 night by Joshua Evans, Jr., chairman of the dinner committee, ptances.received by the com mittee so far indicate that there will be an attendance of 500, Mr. Lvan sald, with many bankers and brokers from out of the city, The entertainment program cret, but accordin to the commiite will be *“above p in « The committee consists of Joshua Evans jr., Corcoran T W. Whits Harry V. Hayne and Fra ' Addison for the Bankers' Assc and Thompson, Spaid, . Walson, Thilman Sxchange. wWoow John 1. . Hendri for the Stock TWO GET TEN YEARS EACH. Geor, Hams and Blias Car- | penter, both colored, were ntenced sterday by Justice tafford to serve {ten vears cach in the penitentiars | Williams d of robhin: | Lloyd W. Gains, @ cripple, of nd $35 November L s | at the point of a pistol, took $1% fr llsworth W. Jones in the grounds of | st betl’s Hospital last De- | cember. JYdward Beckley, colored, was given |a term of three years for stealing from an express company's wag lmm Mary Hebron. also colore celved a sim cntence for la re dJoin the Growds Thronging to Qur January T vros w— — A ) N )10 )73 [T Furniture Sale You'll Have to urry If You Wt o Benefi by the B Only the most astonishing furniture values in years could pos- sibly draw such large and enormous crowds of busy buyers to the store during this great sale event! 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One fireman is reported to have been serfously injured, and calls for addi- tional ambulances were seut out. One hundred and fifty men, working under ground 110 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, were ordered out as a safety precaution, when officials feared that the contents of the ware- house or the paper plant might ex- plode and wreck high-pressure air lines strung opposite the buildings, =nd supplying air for the human “sand hogs” working behind the ahleld in the tunnel. Evacuation of the shaft progressed as swiftly as possible, considering that the men had to be brought gradually from the high-pressure at- mosphere to normal above ground. Owing to the congestion of tunnel material in the streets fire engines could not get near the burning struc- ture, and the work the firemen was therefore greatly hampered. Seven other firemen .were injured, one seriously, by a back-draft explo- sion, bringing the number of casual- ties to elght. FIRESWEPT IN STORM. Novia Scotia Town Suffers Damage as Blizzard Rages. HALIFAX, N. §, January 13.—At the height of a blizzard that has swept the coast of Nova Scotia since last night, fire started today at Lockeport, a town.on the south shore. Two stores and two dwellings were destroyed before the fire burned tselt out. The /stortn_raged throughout last night and continued all ap- in_/violence to- paren inare % u'A fifty-mils ‘gale piled the oo lfi rifts many feet deop, block- ing ral gogq. tracks..and . highw: * for duty. NAVY. Lieut. William .S. Cooper, Naval Supply Corps, has been detailed as commissary officer, U. §. 8. Ortolan. Lieut. John L. MecCarthy, Dental Corps, at the naval station, Tutuila, Samoa, has been ordered to the re- ceiving ship at San Francisco Ensign John M. Thornton has been ordered to the battleship Arkansas. Ensign Charles G. Shone at the air station, San Diego, has been assigned to the battleship Idaho. Lieut. Walter D. Whitehead attached to the U. S. S. Delphy, has been re- lieved from all activa duty. The ‘resignation of Lieut. Eric M. Grimsley, commanding U. 8. §. K-1, has been accepted to take effect February 15, 1923. HUNDREDS OF POLICE TO LEAVE WHITE WAY New York Police Commissioner Or- ders Men From Wet Res- taurants and Cabarets. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, January 13.—Police Commissioner Enright issued orders tonight for the removal to other posts of hundreds of patrolmen and plain clothes men, who for months have stood guard inside of known rum-dens and wet restaurants, cafes and caba- rets along the white way and through- out Greenwich village. Department heads intimated the com- missioner . was actuated by chagrin over the refusal of the board of esti- mate yesterday to grant him an appropriation for 759 patrolmen. The board held that Enright had been “wasting” his men by assigning them to. prevent liquor law violations, at 4:30 o'clock. General public in- vited. Dr. George M. Kober of George- town University medical department will lecture before the Woman's Wei- fare Association in auditorium of New National Museum at 3:30 o'clock. Subject: “Progress in Health Con- servation In Past Fifty Years.” Open to public. No admission charge. The Men’s Club of Ascension parish will hold a get-together meeting at 8 o'clock in Sunday school room of the Church of the Ascension. Charles W. Berry will speak of “Uncle Sam, the Samaritan.’ Kevin Barry Council, American As- sociation for Recognition of Irish Re- public, will meet, § o'clock, 1006 B street. MAJOR CRIMES REDUCED, SAYS CHICAGO OFFICIAL P, Past- Four Years Indicate Change for Better—Fewer Mur- ders Reported. By the Associated Press. 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