Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Falr tonight and probably tomor- row; colder temperature. Tempe! ded at 50 p.m. am. toda tonight, > p. today: erday: lowest, ull report on page 10. with " freezing ature for twenty-four hours | Highest, 50, at | | 40, at 9 Closing N. 5 Y Stocks agd Bonds, Page 24 ] e e et The Star’s delivered to benin From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. . L 4 ’ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No: ~ 28763, .. pist aines ntered ns second-class matter ‘Washington, D. C. WA SHINGTON D. O, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, TWO CENTS. GERMANS TIE UP TRAINS IN RUHR AS FRENCH SEIZE MINES, BANKS AND TAXES N Coal Industry Managers and Arrested--Rhine Cus- toms Posts Also Taken Over. NERAL STRIKE ON RAILWAYS iIN OCCUPIED AREA IS ORDERED Threaten to Quit if French Enter| Pits—Removal of Money to Interior Halted by Soldiers. STER. January 19.—Dr. Andreas Hermes, former minister of finance, has arrived here to assume su- preme command of the German economic and financial de- fensive campaign against the French occupation of the Ruhr. 'R, January 19.—The state mines near here were seized today when a company ne quns at the gates. nanager of the mines, Herr Ahrens, was arrested. workmgen declared they would not work under French bayonets v by the seizure of sever: of French infantry appeared They demanded the release of the mana- the trocp: arations payments by confisca- al state mines ank branches. were airested in some cases. 'French at Banks | Seize Ruhr Autos From Depositors By the Assoctated Press. DUSSELDORF, January 19.— The French authorities today ap- propriated the money in the Dus seldorf branch of the Reichsbank They also rounded up the auto- mobiles of depositors who had come to the bank to draw money from the institution, seized the money withdrawn and retained possession of the automobiles. A demand was made by the oc- cupation authorities for a detail of forty police to close the streets adjoining the bank, but the mu- nicipality refused to supply the men a MAYENCE, January 19.—The French have succeeded in prevent- ing remo to the interior of Germany of the funds in the local branch of t!e Reichsbank, which was closed yesterday by the mans o ninstructions from Berlin The funds were confiscated by the occupational authoritie HUNGER SPECTER THREATENS RilsR | Here Convinced | Starvation Is First Prob- | | lem of French. ! Officials i o pits threatencd to quit if the French REAL SUFFERING EXISTS | their funds to unoc I to Fren IEssen distr efforts to ship coal ct railway adminis- the these d the “rench, who claim the Germans nilc MS-TAKEN OVER. ation between the allies and Germany | ma Rhineland. nounced intention to take They took possecssion 1e state forests also were discounted in Paris, where 1t ot consent to such a step until ccome apparent of Mines e Bottrop. 1t of the a1 at Reckling- n invitation to miiitary ori- turned up to ti lieved he was state re aut a not It h is by ed that when the French tives attempted to the mines that were scized workers became greatly agitated, itening that all the miners would of the pits if the French resent entered. Germans See Hope. The announcement at French gen- headquarters that the cus control to be inaugul in zated shortly oms ed promu in the Rhur, | i of administering the Ruhr valley in- ppear in rer he this was an a Dr. _Gruetzner warned d Fre IN BOYDEN PROBE Senate Committee Seeks Light on U. 8. Participation in Reparations Parley. A part of the story of America »licial the in- articipation in ions commission was h ¥ by t Senate foreign rela com- tee, but it decided to ask for fur- ther information from the State De- partment before acting on the resolu- tion nator Robinson, democrat, Arkansas, authorizing official Ameri- repara- ons retary Hughes, responding to enter | Previous request from the committee, j sent’ to Chairman Lodge a paraphrase the Rhineland would : ought forth the comment in German | that the ~French were reluctant reles 1t horitles military to apply | h penalties in the newly occupied | a Delay i enforcement of the meas- ore is regarded by the Germans sign of weakness.” They declare t the Rhinelande: ng sub- ted without a murmur to four of occupation, are now the first thus punished. No Resixtance Offered. As the Frenchy Italian and Belgian ctoms experts completed their ins for controlling the export busi- <8 of the Rhineland, which includes per cent of Germany's dye trade as Il as the products of the Krupp int at Aix-le-Chapelle, the Ruhr offered neither resistance nor to the requisitioning of pments. The amount thus taken over o far is small. Warns of Famine. nere was great rejoicing today cr the letter written to Gen. Den- ne by Dr. Gruetzner, president of enish Prussia, in which he declared the French have béen responsi- r the increased living costs in Rubr and that they are ipcapa- v reasom of their inexperience, of the statement recently made to the commission by Roland W. Boyden, the unofficial American observer, but ! said it was impossible to submit any complete summary of the work of the American staff of observers, because their activities had covered suca @ wide range of topics. - Dinsatisied With Report. Some members express dissatisfac- tion with the Secretary's response, and asked that he be called before the committee for questioning. No decision on that proposal was reach- { ed. however, pending another confer- {and complete se ence between Mr. Hughes and Senator Lodge. There were indications of a stiffening of opposition to the Robinson proposal among administration leaders after the committee adjourned, and it was pre- dicted in some quarters that a counter move, having for its purpose the re- call of Mr. Boyden and_his associates erance of relations with the reparations commission, would come soon from some quarter in the Senate. Parapirase Placed in Record. Senator Lodge placed in the Con- gressional Record the paraphrase of Mr, Boyden's speech of January 9, already published, in which it was declared that provisions of the Ver- sailles treaty ‘were “impossible” in their application to Germany. , The committee chairman did not, however, make public the letter from Secretary Hughes, in which the latte} is under- stood, with other things, to have highly commended the manner in which Mr. Boyden and the staff of American observers had conducted themseives in the reparations discus- stons. | Transportation i Brings District Face to Face With Disaster. Breakdown in the Ass Econon cupation f the hie held in al a econc problem Freach is noth- £ hew to the the now confront the ng less than a prevent the several mi val starv ons of ation a nhabita ong € Ofticial disp: food short hecame {the F. ed i tehes indicated that a it s us proportions nt immediate! litar; he ge evid neh .mi , and declared { ing now exists suppli 1\ many pi | saild, have seldom exceeded one weck Alarmed by Situation. who have knowledge of the topog- Tho. i raphy { the conditions and 1 it the cupply view situation the on out tion. it is expecied 1it =0 far as vho pre it the part of alrea = ts on save the fact, | reachied officia T nsportation Tied Up. gress and egress to the | | vai are sa2id to {limited. German tra { bad ws dispatches that traiiic in food must virtually sasperded French took charze. s view, there was at least 1 report show at the | railway facilities entermg the | were burdencd with the French ltary movement. Officials Jicre Pessimistic. With the Ruhr in- dnstrial are not op- | timisti ability of the eductions ditions are from officials decl. been ! made n in support one | small the of wreckin ine, oflicial concerning the sjcan representation on the commis-lp. i ¢o restore transportation suffi- ar- | sion. i immediate needs. sides, the question is being asked in go ernment circies where focd ¢ { be obtained quickly if it could bs moved | Vthrough the traffic lanes. Apparently Iboth France und internal Germany are ing_their nds .full with de- |mands ot home without sending food | linto the Ruhr. ], Attention alo was c: ! polshevistic uprising 1took pla in 1920, $ which ever filter 3 side world. Just ngth bolshe- | {vistic sentiments ve in the i ‘egion is not known nere. | {cient to meet 20 Tod ¢ o the | the Ruhr, which | and litide news of | the on 'HOUSE RAISES RIVERS ITEM 70 856,585,000 | 1 | Routing all opposition, including | the House leadership, the rivers and | harbors bloc today overrode both the | budget estimate and the appropri-| ations committee and Increased the| waterways item in the Army bill from $37,000,000 to 5,000, | The vote was taken after one of the | stormiest sessions of the present . House. Unable to agree on a time for | debating the item, the House became | impatient for a vote and the speakers, | including Representative Mondell, re- publican leader, and Chairman Mad- den of the appropriations commitiee. were interrupted by demands for a vote from all over the House. The motion for the increase, made by Chairman Dempsey of the rivers and harbors committee, was adopted, 152 to 44, after the bloc had forced the House to shut off debate. l Coal Commission All Defendants In Herrin Riots Freed By Jury MARION, 1 defendants in acquitted. The jury in the Herrin riots trial ealled Judge D. T. Hartwell into eourt at 1:30, The courtrpom filled rapidly and there was some delay while tie attorneys and defend- ants were summoned. NEW RETIRENENT BILL INTRODUGED Measure in House Incor- porates 0ld Provisions, With Amendments. 19.—Al triai Jumuary rrin riots G {SMOOTHS OUT MISTAKES Automatically Repeals Old Act. Increases Annuity Up to $1,200. A brand-new civil service retire- ment act which covers all of those employes included by the original civil service retirement law of 1920 and all those brought in under s !sequent amendments, and incorpe Inner Chamber of Egyptian [iwe oo T . the board of actuaries in their King’s Tomb Soon to Be O pened| : ond annual report to introduced in the i by Representative | diana 2 The new bill A STREET SAFETY WAITU. 5. ADVIGE IN GOAL PARLEYS rerators and Miners Nego- tiating Wage Scale Wary of Anti-Trust Law. DEVICE IN DARKEST WASHINGTON. Evidence of Robbery-Cause 0 ulation as to What Wi ill Be Found When Fnr Veil of Centuries Is Torn Aside. provisions so that it can be readily rinitered wit reference 1o numer- | ous am arnuity ve of all the orig it fixe for BY ARTHIR E. P (Former Inspector tquitiex for the ernment). B. WEIGALL nerzl of An- Egyptian Gov- chosen, apparently was upsuspect- . I thi Carn i\ Pi of tho COMMISS!ON'S VIEW NEED . ik in the present case Lord on may expect to find a wooden coffin “covered with gold « leaf and havine the name of the |letter carriers 19.—As & ard hi: d in hiero- |others ‘n the classified civil ser it will i | _The uew bill auto 11 e i s v be two coffins, |the original act an wen fE pasaUle o aven : : other, and the | There is every prohab 9 a0 sher of the tomb of th will be wrapped {House committee on e in the ptian King Tut-Enkha-| 0 sheets of gold—unless these |eivil o och wek o e been taken. ere prob- Te will not recently discovered by Lord Iy will be four canopic va session o rnarvon and Howard Carter, the h lids in the form of portra:t |sount of tho American Eg¥¢ptologist. there is ds of the king, some eymbolic |ciosing weeks of the present lation as to what will in wood, and other reli- |the'House civil service committ in it. Presumably the ter inner chamber is the a8 objects { practically decided not to 1w \khamen will perhans be |further effort to put thre burial chamber in which the great Pharaoh 1 but of this we 1 in the coffin under a | tion. not he absclutely certain. nopy .or within a siwne sarcophagus. ~Sarcophagi in the The now farmous tomb, it must be u stood, is not Intact. It tombs of his predecessors gen- erglly have been made of quartzite sandstone, but that whica we found In'the tomb of Horembeb Pharaoh, wha died a few -vears shows evident signs of having iatgr, is of pink granite, am also been entered by thieves and then is lh;;fltnf Ay, 'rut}i::m::sm«; g - immediate successor. On the sealed up again by officials of the hand we found the body of AKhne. ropolis at a Inter da ton, Tut-Tkhamen's father-in- robbery must have taken | J}aw, resting In its coffin on th soon after the funeral— mains of a wooden bier and )—for n generation or the tomh seems to ve to sight beneath many gravel, and when the rge tomb of Ramesis the Sixth as prepared, about B. ., 1150, the arcophagus, and this ma. the case in the new discove existence of Tut-Enkhamen's sep- ulcher few feet below the site lerks Ey Cable to T LUXOR, ¥ January the time ws near when Tristate Contracts Covering 180,- | star. 000,000 Tons Annual Production Near Signing. zy Dt s titl inside ~ ummy probabl orm sneets of this Press NEW YORK, Januar the Sherman anti-try ful of indictments Indiana court of United Judge A. B. Anderson, al operators their conference woul Cor of| e d- the District ol much be found s union ¢ s ue on day here indicated they wait for advice from the Federal mriission before proceeding to | negotiaste a new wage scale, based on th field t O Chance to Study. L, can- Representative Fairfield introduce this bill at this time simpl committee and all those [m this legislation {chance to study its | see how a retiremer e tristaie competitive mapped out vesterday Thuse ntly indictments loomed big and, , Were the only obstacles to nture of basic contracts 00,000 tons Indiana a to control wages thro A % will ed thus far co-ordinatec an er aceepiad and perle 0g 180, luction in Ohic enough t - 6% D mines in the natior v nual cutput is 320,000,000 tons Ar contro versy, fiva months of which was a ke rs and workers had reed vesterday, in one short s sion, upon_the tristate competitive field base. Wages were not « ed | cover annual pro- 3 Tlinots a Nlinois not 18 be two late lost ns of stone were intimatioc Iofficials of organizat {ment employ«s that th s drafted to conform mendations ot s toaay govern- field bill with bo: _very unlikely that the mum- _of the queen will be found | ide that of the king, for she i1s | known to have arranged another | through Congre mflrr'r 1ge ‘flvr h 1f. entirely satisfactory to cer (Copyright, 1923, by h American News- | of goern mployes piper Alliance.) | Lt » hecome a bone of contentic nee U WALLY REID DIES, NEWWAR ONRUM, e ICTIMEOF DRUGS, DRY AGENTS LAY FARM CREDTS B Half of the farm crediis progr was compleied by the Senate today when it passed the Capper bill, pr. viding for co-operative credi ciations and other measures for los time loans to farmers. There was no record bill, which now zoes to the House, while the Senate, before takine up { the administrative shipping bill again, proceeds with the other farm credits measure, the Lenroot-Anderson hill | CHARGE L.OBBY IS TRYING TO BEAT SHIP LINE BILL Merchants and Business Men Ac- cused of Plan to Defeat State Measure. © T cen ous ar miore 1 a year of onne the Contract Length Question. whether the remained in doubt was United Mine Workers of America would be able to win its demand that the new pact extend over two years, With the operators insist- ing on a one n the cpected {Film Star’s Fight Against | Narcotics Results in Con- ! gestion of Lungs. Secret Conference Held to Curb Activities of Boot- leggers on Coast. - contract meantime ihe conferces had hear from the National at Washington. Ap- 1'would be taken to mean that | ioned to vote on the prov the administration san com- d agreern operator gre indicty in not nts between the | LOS ANGELES, Calif, January 19.— | : that the | Filmdom toda: mourned the passing Judge An-|of Wallace motion picture star, | secrecy was thrown about a confer- :'fi.x.t'.-r.:'r:u;! whose death terday ended his long | ence today at the customs house be- be released | battle for health after abandoning the | tween customs officials and prohibi- | 1se of habit-forming drug I tion enfarcersent authorities. His death came as he lay in the arm: It was assumed that the chief topic of his wife, known in the screen World | for discussion would be hos as Dorothy Davenport, and Just after j with the he had mumbled in semi-delirium, | coast, but Acting Collector of thy| “God— phh» d ! Port Stuart announced that the ses He had been unconsclous for many | sion would be executive and thut mo | hours, but In his last talk With his Wife { gtatement would be fortheoming. | when his mind was clear he seemed| Only six casualties have beoy s : s : i ¥ sualties heen ra- i nmlllr: ald, that death | ported in the rum fleet, which, al. = 2 | though varying from day to V. | | At that time he said: “Tell them, | mainiatns an average s:’reng:hdasr" i {mamma, I have won my fight—that I|about twenty vessels. ~Five eraft| il | yere captured by coast guards the, vy, nrescnt the reasih of | first night of extensive rum-running, specches I s of and a trawler belleved to have been | 2d, Shocchies by wsepresentatives of Tornit of the fleet burned to the wa- | from ‘various points In the state da s edge yesterday. | veloped here s yesterday at th joint session ci the house and sena lcommittees on water co merce, which had before them the ship li b Virginia lobby fund charges we made by Y. Chambliss, secrets of the & Assoclation of Co cial ctaries 1 tha Chamber of » of Rocky Mount Morrison, in addressing the said the Dill is intended to ac- complish two things—the develop- meunt of port cilities and the devel- opment of a steamship line. He want- ed the legislature to look into the | whole subject for the state of North Carolina, he asserted, and decide what ought to be done about it —— SHIP STILL MiSSING. petitiv union anti-trust derson s cutea; dollars m chancer: For the commission to disapprove | woulc reted adversely—new indictmer tion of the dormant So, the negotiators, c laborer. today were from Washington. By the Associated Press 2 NEW YORK; January 8.—A veil Reid fx to cope apitalist and rum fleet off the Jersey | o hear And it was gen- ally understood that, until the Fed- eral Coal Commission indicated its attitude by some sign, the c erence would proceed fo the point of signing contracts and then | would mark time By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., January harges that merchants and men in the state of Virgi raising a hundred-thous, fund to combut the ad line proposal, ex °s by Gov. Cameron M a wel nd-doilar Miners to Present Demands. o on bill the The operators particularly have em- phasized their wariness of a second experience Wwith the Sherman law. Througiout the congressional coal strike hearings of last summer th onately called his wife nce the birth of their son, vears ago. entatives of all phases of work _offercd _thei olumn hey ¢ Dry Navy Reports. Dry agents have constantly declined | to state the strength of their navy in { this district, and today even more doubt arose concerning its strength. Several customs officials frankly ad- mitted that the announcement made last week that the cruiser Lexington had been armed with machine guns was propaganda intended to throw fear Into the smugglers. A vessel bearing tha name Lexington has been lying for more than a week at the Battery, cov- ered with.rust and showing no machine guns or other weapons. Boats seized as rum runners last week were pressed into government service, customs officials admitted. A |launch, with five men and s case of 1 Scotch whisky aboard, was captured aft- er a chase through the crafc on North | river yesterday, in which a dozen shots were fired. The men were hound for a christening in New Jersey, they said. They ‘were held in $5,000 bail each. The withdrawal of submarine chas- ers, the nucleus of the dry navy, cause of the exhaustion of the fed eral appropriation, resulted in the pressure into service of cutters used by customs officials in boarding ves- sels, and these are said to be the only craft now_available to check rum running. /The cutters are op- ,erated by the coast guard service, {Which has no direct instructions to!guard headquarters here in a tele- {enforce prohibition, but only to lend |gram . from Richard . Snow of such co-operation 'to those engaged | Charleston, managing owner. in the work as they may deem neces- | The search was being continued to- sary. s dRY. @he Toening Star, —giving the —latest stock news— —Ilatest sports news— —Ilatest world news— —together with the court dockets for the fol- lowing day— That’s the mission of the 5:30 Edition For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city NORFOLK, Va., January 19.-—Coast guard headquarters today still waus ‘without official information as to the whereabouts of the schooner Helvetia, for whieh search by the coast guard cutter Manning since Monday has proved unavailini. A derelict reported floating off Win- ter Quarter, which some belicved might be the missing hoat, had_not been found, officers =eid. The Hei- vetia sailed from ifeow Twes Sr Charleston, S. C. December 13, &% failure to~arrive at her port of destination was reporied at cozst PRl |SENATE PASSES CAPPER’» ARLINGTON BRIDGE PLANS THREATENED BY FIGHT FOR DRAW Georgetown Citizens Make i Vigorous Protest Against Stoppage of River Traffic. |SHERRILL SAYS PLANS WILL NOT BE ALTERED No Draw or No Bridge Is His Ul l timatum at Hearing on | Memorial. i Bither ill the proposed Arlington m. bridge, or there will be no bridge. Agitation by certain local commer clal civic interests for inclusion of draw span in the proposed Arlington memorial bridge. to -onnect the 1 coin memorial with Arlington tional cemoter; threatening t entire bridge proposal, according statements made today by Col. Sher rill, executive head of the Ariingte Memorial Bridge Commission, at « hearing of arguments for and agains: the plans for a draw before M Urnited States distrie in m r ther: Arlingtos must be no brid errili, follow embers of m tives re tum, ap chair fwith s there has been st year, he pnir vessels took pas sage inte . the great m jority of wh welying or: not aecte thirts Trade the fut front innuai de ed out, sev ronosed represent position th the develor mination of > made at 1 nd Fdward M river and $is | mitree ’ e wii! ihe Eoa st Wa Samuel Transportation fch operates sea-going n Com Argumen Arguments irav made by Col. Sherrill and John L. Na gle, designing of the Ar lington Memorial Bridge Commissior Following tation resolu tions by the locat {ine a draw in “We app on which the pi founded. My ¢ {that it is o be | tion’s herote de j conflict with {80 to honer il think that the Azainst Dra w engineer | of and favor memorial ic the bridge tien recogniz ba namorial briage not sacrifice commercial li:terests !a time when the nation pendi every effort to open up all navigable waters in the coun in the { transportation proble Effect on Canal. Leetch pointed ke an | wtinued or Column . . SURPLUS REPORTS ~+ COME UP TOMORROW . The Congress Joint Committee Will Hear Maj. Donovan and Other Officials. he joint investiga the Distr tomorrow { chairman. | The will have before {it the report submitted by Maj. Dono- van, auditor for the District of Colum- bia; Bayard F. Colladay, chairman of citizens’ committee; Mr. Gallo- representing the Department of Justice, and Mr. Taggart re sent - ing tne Treasury Department, on the audit recently completed by the ex- pert accountants employed by the Jjoint comimittee to examine the ac- counts of the I rict of Columbia, It is expected that the joint com- (mitlee at tomorrow's session will give ccnsideration to these various reperts, and will dceide upon what the cedure of the committee shall Under the act creating the committee L is directed to report to Cong - ess in regard to the District sugplus on or before the first Monday in Felruarse | congresstonal committee he surplus revenue: to meet at 10 o'clo: of Senator Phipy t is on call committee