Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, with freezing t emperature. Temperature for twenty-four hnu{s ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 43, at 2 pm. yesterday; a.m. today. Full report on page 7. lowest, 35, at 8 Closing N. Y. Stocks n_n_d Bonds, Page 24 p——— Entcred as gecol No. 28,750. post office Washington, nd-class matter D. C. Occupation of Ruhr Basin Now Complete~Tax Put on Coal to Germany--Reserves Rushed. SOLDIERS DROP “SOFT METHODS”; TEUTONS TO FEEL HEEL OF FOE Tanks Outside Windows of Parley Rooms Where Coal Barons Have Been Summoned to Hear Terms. By the Associated Press. DORTMUND, January 16.—French general headquarters has fnformation that 25,000 men of the German reichswehr are con- centrated south of Muenster, less than twenty-five miles north of Luenen, to the north of Dortmund. The French have advanced to both Dortmund and Luenen, and the outposts of the French and German forces at some points are only from eight to ten miles apart. The French, by advancing to Dortmund and Luenen, passed out of the reutral zone fixed by the Versailles treaty, from which German regular troops are barred, into the territory where the reichswehr holds sway. The French are continuing to send up reserves, which are tak- ing up positions behind the River Lippe. The occupation of the Ruhr French declare that not a single basin is now complete, and the pound of coal can get out of the Ruhr into the unoccupied territory without their checking it up for the coal tax. FRENCH CONTROL EVERY OUTLET. By the Assocated Press. DUSSELDORF, January 16.—The French now control every outlet from the Ruhr into Germany, wheth: er by rail or water. The lines were extended today through Dortmund ten kilometers northeast to Luenen on the Lippe, and thence to Witten, which is ten kilometers south of Dortmund. French tfoops were under orders today to occupy the entire mneutral zone, halting on the outskirts of Dortmund. This movement will bring the military beyond the Hattingen- Castrop-Recklinghausen line estab- lished vesterday. entered the Ruhr last evening, mov- ing toward Hattingen. Occupation Starts at Noon. By the Associated Press. DORTMUND, January 16.—French cavalry appeared on the outskirts of this city at noon today. It is ex- pected that the occupation of the city will be completed by 4 o'clock this afternoon. PARIS, January 16—An official communique today on the French troops in the Ruhr said that an ad- vanced line had been established cov- ering the western borders of Dort- mund and Hoerde, southeast of Dort- mund. (The advance of the French to Hoerde marks their furthest east- ward penetration since the beginning of the Ruhr operation. Hoerde is about thirty-seven miles northeast of Dusseldorf, whence the occupation movement started.) Requisition Delayed 24 Hours. An order requisitioning the Ruhr val- Tey mir‘l‘s has been suspended for twen- ty-four® hours, This was taken here as an indication that the mine owners are ready to adopt a more reasonable atti- tude toward the coal deliveries which have been forbidden by the Berlin gov- ernment. Only this modification in Premier Poincare’s plans for going ahead with his_policy ‘of seizing guarantees was evident this morning. It was thought here that the negative policy of Chancellor Cuno might involve the fall of his cabinet, ‘nasmuch as the application of progressive pressure is in opposition to the immediate needs of the_manufacturers. The meeting of the reparations com- mission today, it was expected, would result in a declaration that Germany had willfully defaulted on all deliveries in kind for 1922, FRENCH DETERMINED, The 40th French infantry nLvmmI Ready to Give Germans Taste of Own Methods. By the Associated Press, B ESSEN, January 16.—Whatever the outcome of the conference set for today at Duesseldorf between the German industrial magnates and the French economic mission, the Ruhr valley appeared this morning to be in line for an uncompromising mili- tal occupation. We've tried soft methods ai Germans refused to co-operate.” correspondent was told at the French military - headquarters. “If they don’t come to terms mow they will get a taste of what they gave Belgium and northern France. We will give them something to whine for. Today’s meeting, to which the Ger- man_ industrial leaders had been in- vited under the threat that if they failed to appear they would be sent for, was to be presided over by Gen. De’ Goutte. From the windows of the conference room in the Duessel- dorf city hall the French tanks, armored cars and infantry were di cernible they moved forward to strengthen the Mold of the French upon Germany's rich coal field Stinnes on Way to Berlin. There was great interest as to twhether the Stinnes holdings would vomply with the summons to send & Fepresentative to the conference. orr Stinkes himself was reported to ave left his villa between Bochum and Dortmund last evening, bound for Berlin. French economic experts appear somewhat less sanguine than the mil- itary leaders over the prospects of obtaining practical results from the occupation. They came here, it is ad- mitted, unprepared for\an operation of this magnitude, and the turn of events has caused M. Coste, head of the mission, to look rather depressed, although he wolced the -opinion that today’s conference would straighten out the situation, ‘The about-face position of the Ger- man_Industrialists took the French by surprise, They were quite con- vinced Sunday night that the Ge: the | the mans had agreed in principle to the coal deliveries; hence yesterday's breakdown in the economic negotia- tions came as a bombshell. Gen. de Goutte has issued a proc- lamation in wkich he declares that if the local authorities, either by thelr actions or by passive resistance, cause any impediment whatsoever to 4he.normal progress of business, all the penalties deemed necessary will be immediately enforced. The Ruhr valley mine operators, forbidden by the German coal com- missioner to make deliveries to the entente, have decided to wait and see what France will do, their spokesmen said today. As one director put it, the owners did not expect the occupation in the first place, and now that it has come about it only remains for them to await further action by the economic commission. The operators regard the occupation a breach of the Ver- sailles treaty and declare that any conflscation of private property, such as the mines, will constitute a fur- ther violation of that agreement. Cannot Make Horse Drink. In these quarters passive resist- ance is summed up by the expression: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” If con- fiscation is actually effected it will still remain for the allies to produce engineers capable of properly operat- ing the mine, the mine owners point out, and they are highly confident that a technical personnel of suffici- ently high caliber cannot be pro- duced. Even should the requisite capacity in the directive machine be supplied there would be the question of man- ual labor to deal with, and the coal leaders point to the probability that if the miners balk of working under French administration, and French and ‘Belglan soldiers e to stand over the mines with bayonets fixed, the new administrators still may not be able to get the desired results. After yesterday's conference August Thyssen, the German metal Industry magnate, indicated that the suspicion was hovering in his mind that the French were contemplating arrests and confiscations, but he had little to add- to the statement he made at the meeting on behalf of the miners that the German laws' prevailed in the Ruhr. German Defiance More Open he £ enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0 "“From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers d!yblot.klnd!hcre‘\lhredimz delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 93,604. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1923—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. 25,000 GERMAN TROOPS MASSED BEFORE ADVANCING FRENCH ARMY; INVADERS PUSH UP TO DORTMUND By the Assoclated Press, French occupation of the Ruhr wa: factories here yesterday after c |4 knecht and Rosa Luxemburg. revolution!” many of the banners Although the communists ho, Germany, the correspondent is in known communist asserted that tion. maintaining to remain neutral.” SIVIT PERILADDS TO WAR SPECTER Suspected Russo - German! Military Alliance Is Loom- | ing Up. 5 HUGE ARMY IN RESERVE | Union of Forces Would Find French Facing Almost Equal Numbers. | BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Now that the guns have begun to g0 off in the Ruhr, the specter of war between France and Germany ad- vances with a roar into the realm of immediate possibilities. It centers the consideration of both statesmen and military authorities on a question that has been at the back of their minds since the new French occupa- tion. That question is whether or not Germany and soviet Russia are in secret alliance for war against France, or, as it once was put by a Russian diplomatist in Washington, for war “against the treaty of Ver- saflles.” There are many authorities who belleve that German resistance to extreme French demands such as France 1s now imposing always had Russian military support in view. They believe the hour is not far dis. tant when Berlin and Moscow in dra, matic fashion will reveal “solidarity’ against the “armed imperlalism” now making & fresh thrust into eastern Europe. s German ambassador to Russia, Count von Brockdorft Rantzau, has just arrived in Berlin for conmsulta- tion with the Cuno government. Already in Alliance. In the presence of such a con- tingency, it needs to be recalled that Germany and Russia already are in alliance. It is true that the treaty Rapallo, which they jointly sprang ?l;on Phe world with sensational sud- denness at the Genoa conference in April, 1922, is on the surface merely an economic pact. But international diplomacy thought then, and to a considerable extent remained con- vinced, that, supplementing their commercial and financial agreement, Germany and Russia had sealed a mutual treaty of defensive and of- fensive alllance. Rathenau, for Ger- many, and Tchitcherin, for Russia, both ~vehemently denled at Genoa that the treaty of Rapallo camou- flaged a military understanding. 'Genoa remained skeptical on that (Continued on Page 2, Column §. With Each French Advance BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Star and_Chicage Daily ews. Copyright, 1023. BERLIN, January 16.—The farther the French march into the Ruhr Vi ley the more stubborn the Germans 8row in their determination to regard the treaty of Versailles as a scrap of paper, Unoccupled Germany will do nothing to carry out the provisions of the treaty, although the occupied territory cannot help yielding to the French demands backed up with bay- onets and machine guns. ‘Even if the French keep on march- ing and occupy not only the rest of the Ruhr basin but the whole of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial dis- trict and then Bremen and Hamburg and finally also Berlin, they will get far less than they would have re- ceived had they keépt their hands off the Ruhr region,” is the sentiment in government and industrial circles in Berlin today,_following the receipt of almost hourly reports of new French troop movements in the Ruhr district. Showing Open . Defiance. For the first time since the signing of the treaty of Versailles the gov- ernment and whole people are show- Ing open- defiance of France. It is really believed here that it will be a question of only & few months be- fore the French will discontinue their shotless invasion of Germany under some pretext or other. Control of Germany’'s two most important sea- ports is considered a logical step G‘:r France to take in order to mak many pay th nuntlogg At ,r-.-n; 13 Germany is making another feeble attempt to pay up the instaliment of 500,000,000 gold marks due on Janu- ary 31. The fallure of her attempts in” the past to get money abroad ows that odds against her being successful this time are .heavy. If she defaults France will put other sanctions into effect, possibly occu- pying more German territory, as pre- dicted here. Landslide of Publie Opinfon. The effects of the present French policy may be summed up as follows: 1. Landslide of public opinion in fa- vor of open opposition to the treaty of Versailles. This change of senti- ment has a strong reactionary and monarchistic undercurrent -~ because the socialists are in favor of an hon- est attempt to carry out the terms of the treaty. 2. Scramble among the wealthier people to invest and secure all their capital abroad so as not to becaught if the French tighten the thumb- screws on the German people. This money, it must be remembered, will be available and in many cases be gladly given over for a “war of re- venge” which has suddenly loomed up again as a possibility which can- not:Ea ignored by the rest of the wor] 3. Inauguration of an indirect trade war on France into which Germany will to lure the United States, Gre: tain and other countrics friendly to France by opening her markets to them while barring French goods. The negotlations which Stinnes, Thyssen and other in- dustrial leaders have ajready started in the United States and’Great Brit- ain for the delivery of coal indicate the ';‘l:n- Germany has for the future ‘Down With French! Russians Cry, Urging German Revolt MOSCOW, January 16—A demonstration against war and the s staged by the workmen of many eremonies in observance of the fourth anniversary of the assassination in Berlin -of Dr. Karl Lieb- “Down with the French imperialists; long live the German carried in the procession read. pe for an ultimate revolution in formed that Russian government circles prefer tranquillity in that country at this time. One widely if a workmen’s revolution took place in Germany now, Russia would probably be obliged not only to aid the German communists with arms, but to feed the popula- “With Russia short of food herself this would be difficult,” he continued. “But the world remembers that we were in worse shape in 1918 than now, yet nevertheless we sent food to aid the German spartacists, which they refused. If any other sort of European war should develop either from the Ruhr situation or the Lausanne con- ference, it is extremely possible that Russia would be the onl great country of Europe sufficiently isolated and sufficiently self- President Takes Rest, Suffering A Severe Col President Harding for the past week has been suffering with a severe cold, and soon after today's cabinet meeting he went to the ‘White House proper to lie down and rest. The President met the newspaper correspondents as usual for his after- cabinet interview, but indicated that he felt indisposed and did r.o: desire to answer other than the most im- portant questions. It was sald there was nothing at all alarming over his condition. GERMANY IS HELD INDEFAULT IN KIND Reparations Commission Acts on Refusal to Make Certain Deliveries. By the Associated Press. ) PARIS, January 16.—The reparations commission, In a session lasting le than half an hour, today rushed through a decision declaring Germany in wiliful default in certain deliveries in kind for the year 1923. The reparations bloc—France, Bel- glum and Italy—voted In favor of de- claring the default, and Kembal Cook, the British delegate, acting in place of Sir John Bradbury, who was indis- Dosed, abstained from voting. Declared “Open Defiance.” The hurried decision. followed Ger- many’'s refusal to make any more de- liveries in kind, including coal, wood, cattle, dyes and bullding materials, so long as the French remained in the Ruhr. President Barthou said Germany's refusal was “an open deflance of the allies,” which must be met with in- stant action. The_American representatives, Ro- land W. Boyden and Col. James A. Logan, were present, but had noth- ing to say. Immediate Enforcement Expected. The default, it was explained by Louls Barthou, president of the com- mission, resulted from the refusal of the German government to make de- liveries in kind while the French were in the Ruhr. The French high commissioners were anxious to obtain the vote of ‘the reparations commission declaring this default as an authorization for the French policy of requisitions, which it is believed will be enforced immediately. 100 MARKS FOR .60 CENT SET NEW LOW RECORD NEW YORK, January 16.—German marks dropped to gnother extreme low record today, being quoted at 60-100ths of 1 cent a hundred or ap- proximately 16,666 to the dollar. LONDON, January 16.—The German mark "~ exhibited another sharp drop in the exchange market today, falling to 72,600 to the pound sterling on the possibilities of further drastic action by the French in the Ruhr. The French franc was slightly: bet- ter, being quoted at 69.05 to the pound. 13 BUILDINGS BURNED AT CAMP MORRISON NEWPORT NEWS, Va., January 16. —Thirteen buildings' were destroyed and ten others damaged before a fire at Camp Morrison, near here, was brought under control, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The flames were fanned by a heavy wind and firemen from Newport News, Hilton and the camp force were handicapped by fack/of water. The fire was checked, it was thought, in time to save several warehouses containing much valuable equipment. JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER MARRIED IN NEW YORK NEW_ YORK, January 18.—Judge Alton B. ker, democratic candi- date_for sident in 1904, and Mr: Amelia Day Clmgboll were married at the Hotel Berkley this afternoon b; y. John Roach Stratton, pastor ngflnry -Bapgist Church.. - .~ .-~ CITIZENS IN RAIDS, HANG RAIL STRIKER Enraged by Bridge Burnings, Arkansas Crowd Starts “Housecleaning.” CAPITALIST IS WHIPPED Man Who Signed Bond for Prison- er Accused of Incendiarism Pub- licly Beaten. By the Associated Press. HARRISON, Ark., January 16— Mayor J. L. Clute of Harrison this afterncon announced he had asked Gov. McRae for troops, and had re- ceived n reply that troops were not available. Reports were current that the citizens’ committea would leave Harrison tonight. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., January 16.— The body of E. C. Cregor, 4 Missouri and North Arkansas striker, was found hanging from a bridge near the railroad yards at Harrison, Ark., this morning, according to the Harrison correspondent of the Arkansas Sun. Cregor is the man who opened fire on officers and citizens who searched his home yesterday afternoon, the corre- spondent said. It is sald at Harrison that he was called before the vigilance committee last night and that he defled the avowing that “a day of reckonin ‘would come. A coroner’s jury is being impannel- ed to investigate the Killing. Several hundred armed _citizens, who began ‘“housecleaning” yvesterday, still _were walking .the streets this morning searching for strikers, whom they were “grilling” before a committee, it is sald, in an effort to find clues as to who is responsible for the destruction “of railroad property. A well known capitalist and hotel owner at Harrison, the Arkansas Democrat's correspondent states, was publicly whipped on the street this morning and then taken before the citizens' committee. He is sald to have signed the bond of A. P. Ste- phens, accused of the bridge burning. The circuit court adjourned today un- til January 29. ENRAGED CITIZENS RAID. HARRISON, Ark., January 16.—A citizens' committee today was ques- tioning about twenty-five alleged strikers on the Missouri and North (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) VISIT HERE OF McADOO MAKES TONGUES WAG “Bunk,” Says Former Secretary of Treasury, Questioned on Presidential Boom. ‘WILLIAM G. McADOO. . William G. McAdoo, who is' in Washington for a few days on legal business, today denied there was any political significance to his presence here. - ‘When infornied that rumors were afloat in the capital that while here a boom would .be launched for Me- Adoo. for President, the former Sec: etary of the Treasury exclaimed ‘Bunk!” Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo while here are ests at the home of former President and.Mrs. Woadrow .Wilson. ST0P | STOP | JBN 15. 1923 ILLED <4 BY AUTOS 1 BY STREETCAR < HORT When, under the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, I found myself |bombarded with questions by a score | of newspaper representatives who bad come aboard the Majestic spe- cially to meet my humble person, 1 | began to have a faint idea of the in- |terest awakened over here by the announcement of my lecture tour. {When I found myself escorted soon afterward by stalwart American po- licemen from the ship to the auto- mobile walting t6 convey me to MYy temporary home with friends, and when I caught sight of the crowds gathered to welcome me, I was in- expressibly surprised and touched that I should be considered worthy of such a reception. Shall I be ac- cused of lack of modesty if I say that I am prcud and gratified to have been greeted thus? I think not, be- cause 1 know that all this sympathy and intercst mubt be attributed to the characterisffc keenness of Americans to learn and probe to a deeper degree the methods of autosuggestion asso- clated with my name. Since my arrival at New York, the memory of which will never be ef- faced, I have not ceased to marvel at all I have seen and heard and read. Of my general impressions I shall have a lot to say later on. For the moment I am stiil dominated by that feeling of surprise which seized me at my first contact with the American people. In fact, my wonderment has Erown every day with the realization of ideas which many people seem to have formed of me and my powers. Is Not “Healer.” 1 do not want people to have a sort of fanatical beflef in me. It is true, of course, that blind faith is always an asset in favor of a sick person’s chances of getting well. People who | ‘Coue, in Jolly “Don’t Make It a A jolly, healthy little man came to of the National Capital how to get better day by day. He is Emile Coue, French exponent of autosuggestion, who arrived at Union station at 11:37 o'clock this morning, preparatory to giving two lectures here tomorrow. At noon, at the National Press Club, the apostle of autosuggestion issued a warning to the people here that they must not allow his famous sen- tence, “Day by day, in every way, I am_getting better and better,” to be- come an obsession. M. Coue issued this warning while seated on a circular divan in the press club, surrounded by a group.of newspaper men, who gathered so close to the small Frenchman, attired in a plain. black suit, that they almost icut off’the air from him. " The warning not to allow his fa. mous formula to become an obses- sion® came when a newspaper man asked M. Coue.if it was. all right to repeat the ‘formula at any time of day one wished, in addition to saying it “twenty times each .morning and twenty times each night. €s,”; smiled . Prof. Coue, “but it must not become an obsession. Good for the Head. . “M.: Coue,, what shall I do for this lack of hair on .top of my. head” asked “Avery Marks, local newspaper ‘Again the bubbling little figure in black hunched forward on the divan, Xis; face glowing with the infectious smile ‘Which.seems to be a part of hi - hat you must do,” M. Coue said, sgmerely to repeat each day my )h’u ‘Day. by in every way I am getting better and better. M.. Coue,” when asked by someone ‘| present, if smoking hurt one, declar- ed.it'depended upon the person smok- 1 ng. “I have been smoking for fifty- threeryears myself,” he sald, and pro- ceeded therewith to roll himself another clgarette, taking the tobac- co from a’ small silver tobacco re- ceptacle such as one seldom sees In this_country. ‘When asked what effect his system of autosuggestion would have on germs, M. Coue declared that the practice —of his method would .nnnmxl the whole body and sys: £\ ‘Washington today to tell the people | AMER:CAN IMPRESSIONS By EMILE COUE ARTICLE L |come to me with the belief already established in their minds that they |are going to be cured are more than | half-way on the road to recovery be- |fore they see me. But the number |of persons who can come into direct contact with me must of necessity be | infinitely small. and even if 1 pos- |sessed ‘any extraordinary magnetic | power to heal—which I emphatically | declare I do not—the results of such | power would be limited, for obvious |Teasons; whereas, there are no limi- itations 'to the potentlalities of the system I teach. 1 mean that I can- not reach every one, but every one can practice autosuggestion. My aim, therefore, is solely to show you how to cure yourselves. Rid yourselves of the utterly wrong idea that I can cure. I am not a healer. I had a first inkling of the mistake America was making when news- paper reporters on the Majestic ad- dressed me as “doctor” and “prores- sor” and I was obliged to correct them with reminders that “I am not a doctor, 1 am not a professor.” The papers continue to talk of the cures I have effected In my “clinics”—a bad word, by the way, for the little gath- erings at which ‘I meet a selected number of patlents in order to en- deavor to convince them that by fol- lowing my methods of autosuggestion they can cure themselves, or at least gain appreciable improvement. Contact Unnecessary. Yes, it has been my joy to see many of these poor sufferers benefit from my teaching, but my joy will be still greater if I succeed in spreading faith in those methods to hundreds of thou- sands of others and instill in them the knowledge that they can cure themselves without seeing me at all. And it will be impossible to attain that goal if the impression be allow- ed to persist that it is decessary lo come into personal contact with me in_order to obtain results. Unfortunately. it is very difficult to (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Mood, Arrives With Warning for D. C. Folks n Obsession,” Says French Apostle of Autosuggestion, Giv- ing Boys of Press Club Interview. tem and thus conduce to better sistance against germs. A veteran member of the press club then stepped forward and showed Prof. Coue his stiff right hand, which he said he had not been able to close since his shoulder was _dislocated, about six months ago. The French apostle of autosuggestion did not make any attempt to put into prac- tice his methods. upon this news- paper man, contenting himself with a general statement that one must understand the theory of his method before it was possible for him to help any one help themselves. Cured Self of Lumbago. An amusing incident came when M. Coue told of how he cured a case of lumbago in himself m 1914, “I was down in my wine cellar,” he said, “and had stooped to pick up a Pottle of wine when I felt a twinge in the small of my back. I recog- nized it as the first symptom of lum- bago, but immediately told myself that the pain was passing off.” Here M. Coue arose from the couch and proceeded to give the surround- ing newspaper men a brief demon- stration of just how he cured his lumbago. Rubbing his back with his right hand rapldly, he repeated his phrase, “Sa passe,”’ whieh he repeat- ed so rapidly that it sounded like the buzzing of a great swarm of insects. M. Coue declared that if the poli- ticians and statesmen of Europe would adopt his method at their con- ferences he was sure that Europe and the whole world would get “better and better” day by day. Prof. Coue made a great aj the newspaper men at the P; Club, who have been accustomed: t9Pgreet- ing clever men of all nationalities. Here was a man who came before them with but one idea, and that to help mankind itself thfough getting control of the unconscious mind. It was plain to all that he has nothing to “put over” or to sell. His answers to questions were direct, without any attempt at evasion. No Quarrel With Doctors. He Jeft the Press Club after stating that he had no quarrel with doctors, in- deed was their friend and worked with them.” He said he hoped to see the day when courses in auto-suggestion would be part of the cirriculum of all medical schools, ~ After his stay at the Press Club he was taken to the home of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Putnam Birnie, at 1711 19th street nerthwest, Who-are his hosts while in this city. - M. Coue was to vigit the Senate at 2:15° o'clock this afternoon. Later in the afternoon he was to be the guest re- eal to TWO CENTS. - FIVE STREET CRASH VIGTIMS DIE IN DAY; FIVE OTHERS HURT Mrs. David Jayne Hill, Wife of Ex-Envoy to Germany, Succumbs. MAN SLAIN; WOMAN HURT; AUTOIST FAILS TO STOP L M. Armstrong Miss Annie 0"“Brien and Negro Child Com- plete List of Dead. Five Washingtonians died during | the past twenty-four hours as a re- sult of injurles in trafic accidents during the past week. Four of the dead wers injured yesterd: Mrs. David Jayne Hill, wife of the former ambassador to Germany, died at Emergency Hospital this morning at 5:30 o’'clock from injuries recetved when she was hit by an automobile at 9:35 o'clock yesterday morning on Rhode Island avenue near St. Matthew's alley.” The coroner will hold an inquest tomorrow. Paul Bonavaries, a barber, of 61 H street, died at Casualty Hospital at 7:17 o'clock last night, after being hit by an automobile on Bladensburg road yesterday near Fort Lincoln cemetery about 6 o'clock. ‘Wilhelmina Wallace, seven-year-old colored girl, of 506 7th street south- west, was killed instantly about 3 - o'clock yesterday when she fell under a moving Capital Traction Company car at Tth and E streets southwest. There will be an inquest at the morgue this afternoon. Sixteen-Year-Old Lad Killed. Lyman Maurice Armstrong, sixteen years old, of 2120 H street, quickly succumbed to injuries received when knocked down and dragged by an automobile owned by Cornell Robin- son, colored, of 2419 H street, and operated by Edward Lomav, colored, 118 Pierce street, on I street between 20th and 21st streets, last night at 8:45 o'clock. Miss Annie O'Brien, fify years old. 1003 K street, died last night at 6 o'clock at Emergency Hospital from injuries complicated with pneumonia. She was struck during the latter part of the past week by an auto- mobile operated by Byron S. Adams, 1801 Park road, when crossing the street in front of her -home.™An in- quest will be held this afternoon at the morgue. Mrs. Margaret Cauthers of 922 New York avenue was brought last night to Casualty Hospital, suffering from injuries received at the same time that Bonavaries was injured fatally on Bladensburg road near the Fort Lincoln cemetery. Her injuries were not serious. Mrs. Hill was struck by an auto- mobile operated by Guy Carl Lee. chauffeur of a delivery car for the Dulin & Martin Company, on Rhode Island avenue near Connecticut ave- nue, shortly after she had left her home. She was taken to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobilé and treated by Dr. James Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell found her injuries to be sev- eral broken ribs and internal in- juries. Shock Hastened Death. Shock attendant upon the accident is believed to be in a great measure re- sponsible for the death. She rested | quietly when first brought to the hospital, although it was announced at the time that her condition was “extremely critical.” Lee, operator of the automobile, who gave his address as 1219 S street, id being held at the third precinct to await the inquest of Coroner Nevitt, which is expected to be held today. - Bonavaries was north of the Dis- trict line, walking with Mrs. Cauthers, when hit by an automobile which failed to stop. Both were taken to Casualty Hospital in the machine of George W. Cox of Lenox, Md., where Dr. Donohue treated them. Bona- varies' neck was broken, it was deter- mined, dying from the injury, while Mrs. Cauthers was injured internally. She left Casualty HospitaPto go home today. Later last night police located the automobile in which Bonavaries and | Mrs. Cauthers had come to the Dis- trict line. They had left their machine to take a walk shortly before the fatal accident. Bonavaries was thirty- five years of age, while Mrs. Cauthers is approximately thirty-three, accord- ing to the police. Not Living With Husband. When Detective Sergt. Fred Corn- well, in charge of detectives, sent to notify relatives of Mrs. Cauthers of the injury it was found that her four- teen-year-old son was the only one at home. The father and husband was not living with the family, according to the police. An inquest into the death of Bonavaries is expected to be held tomorrow. Wilhelmina Wallace. the seven- year-old colored girl who was killed yesterday afternoon, according to the police was in the rear of a wagon | going south on 7th street at 7th and 1 streets southwest. The wagon ran into a street car. The girl fell off and _under a street car, meeting death instantaneously. She was taken to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile and pronounced _dead when viewed by Dr. W. W. Sager. The inquest will be held this after- noon at 2:30 o'clock. Police list the names of the street car crew as John B. Burton, motorman, and Edward Burton, conductor. Dragged Several Feet. Armstrong was knocked down and dragged several feet by an automobile operated by Lomax. The car was go- ing east on I street, after passing 30th street, when it struck Armstrong. After the machine was brought to a stop Policeman McNale and Moaler of the third precinct, running to the scene, pulled the young man from be- neath the automobile and took him to Emergency Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by Dr. R. J. Tattone, max and Robinson were held at the third precinct for the inquest this afternoon at the District morgue. Miss O'Brien's death last night at Emergency Hospital is not ascribed exclusively to the injuries she re- celved last week, when hit by the au- tomobile of Adams. Pneumonia, which later developed, is cited as a con- tributing cause and the principal (Continued on Page 2, Column H