Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1923, Page 2

- - 2 * % AVERT COAL STRIKE. ATGOTHAM PARLEY vOperators and Mine Chiefs in Tristate Field Reach an Agreement." Ry the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 23—The sub- = _committee of bit us conl ‘oper- ators and labor union chiefs, consid- cring & mew wage agreement to re- place that expiring on the tri-state competitive field April 1, reached an agreement today The new agreement will be submit- ted tomorrow to the whole confer- ce for ratification. If this is forth- uing the probability of a strike be definitely removed. Michael Gallagher, am Ohio operator and joint chairman of the subeommit- tee, declined to make public details of the new agrec say that it involved no vital changes in the terms of the present contract. w By the Associated Pross. NEW of song in which union , coal operators room been conferring ver new wage contracts in the tri- state cempetitive field indicated that an n have been would be agreement ched the Was on the Settlement mean the sig yointed out 3 signaure a ane. would not necessarily nature of a contract, they But agreement on wages nd working conditions and on dura ion of contract was in sight, thes declared, When it actually was reached. The al-strike bogey” mere formality, even ghough, days or weeis before names were affixed. As the elapsed conference, now hanging upon the recommendations of a sub- comm of seventeen, began its sixth day, it was generally coneeded that the miners had withdrawn their demand L two-year contract, and were ready to sign for one vear, dat- ing from the expiration of their pres- agreement, next April 1. ee Concessions Secret. They had been won qver, it said, despite indications from W. ington that the administration favor- d & two-vear deal. But what the oper- | ators had to concede to win this point | was sh- {of masked GET 400 CASES OF LIQUOR| - Armed Bandits Gag Watchman and Drill Through Vault. CHICAGO, ' January 23.—Twelve armed liquor thieves raided a West Randolph street building early today, bound and gagged a watchman and a newsboy, drilled through a vault and stole cases of whisky, according to police reports. i Albert Short, the newsboy, told the rolice he was walking through the alley at the rear of the building and ; saw the men loading the whisky on' to a covered truck. They demanded | to know what he was doing there. He told them he was on his way to work. | They then bound him and took him to the basement to join John Gsveng, | the watchman. One of the bandits gave Short a $2 bill, explaining it was to recompense him for absenc: from work. The whisky was the property of the Sunnybrook Distilling Company. The manager said the vault contained 461 cases, valued at $14,752, ulthough the bootleg value would probably be five times that figure. (OAYS TIMEKEEPER WILL TELL TRUTH Clarence Teegerstrom Be- lieves Brother in Vicinity [ of Bastrop. ! PUT ON WAITING LIST Declares Harold Intends to Return and Testify for Jeff Burnett. | La., January 23.-—Clar- ence Téegerstrom, brother of Harold | Teegerstrom, missing timekeeper of | the Southern Carby\n Company at Spyker, who disappeared December {29, and for whom the state of Louis!- {anan has been searching in connec- | tion with its investigation Into activities men in Morehouse parish, took the stand this forenoon at the open hearing here. “Do you know where your brother, Harold, is?” he was asked “I do not “When did you last hear from him?" received a letter January 10.” Where ig the letter: “1 destroyed it.” remained a zeulously guarded secret-of- ¢h They m J have granted any one | of the several demands made by the | miners last Saturday: The six-hour day, five-day week, with double time | 1 . to include Saturday and iversal application of the ystern llceting union from employers; adjust- | local differs s and settle- | of dispates by arbitration in | districts where they originate; opera- n of certain machines; payment for and explosives used by the s 1 vital point both ontinued ment, ension of the pres- §1.08 a ton for contract miners and $7.50 per eight-hour shift for day laborers. Althou, hio known as the parties Indiana and Hiinols, tri-state competitive iield, are the only coal states in the 1egotiations, they represent 180,000 600 of the nation’s 500,000,000 tons an- nual bituminous production. Man: operators from outlying states ai ieve as “observers,” and the con- erecs belicve the contract they sign | will be adopted oughout the in- dustry, with only such differentials | in wages local mining conditions and markets warrant 5 000 TONS RECORD HARD COAL RECERT, More than 5r00 tons of real, shiny | hard coal rolled into the freight vards of Washington yesterday, the largest twenty-four-hour shipment this winter: * These tidings brightened the coun- tenance of Walter C. Allen, secretary to the Public Utilities Commission, who recently appealed to the federal | fuel distributor to speed up ship- ments to the District. Yesterday's receipts totaled 110 aining about fifty tons per ‘ashington's quota for the 10 tons of anthracite . 0 that the coal that ar- sterday is equivalent to a three or four day allotment. It_should be borne in mind, how ever, that on January 1, this city was| 5,000 tons short of the amount it| should have received up to that time So, while vesterday's large ship- ment will helb to wipe out the deficit it_will not euable consumer to get more than 60 per cent of his nor- mal requirements. \ The Pennsylvania fuel commission has decided that the city as a_whole shall not receive more than 60 per cent of the amount of hard coal it burned last winter. Hence, the same proportion must be allottéd to each consumer. - This means that if the same amount of fuel is needed this year as was consumed last winter, forty per cent of {t must be made of coke, soft coal or briquettes QUARANTINE 14 PUPILS IN DIPHTHERIA FIGHT ¥ourteen pupils of the Petworth School, on Shepherd street between Sth and 9th streets, have been quar- antined either as sufferers from diph- theria or carriers of the disease. Seven of the cases were recorded to- day as a result of cultures taken yes- winter per we rived v ectors from the District health department, hqaded by Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, sup: ising medi- cal inspector, today fumigated one room in the building, and are taking cultures from all other children in the school in order to Isolate as quick- 1y possible any that may be found carrying the germ. It is understood that as soon as the children have been examined steps will be taken to fumigate the entire building. All of the cases, it is said, are In the lower grades, principally the kin- dergarten and first grade classes. The first case was discovered Friday, and the medical inspectors immediately began tuking cultures, which revealed the additional cases. The health department is averse to closing the building, belidving that Ly keeping the children in school the medical inspecto: will be able to keep them under observation, while if atlowed te run rampant in the streets they would be more likely to spread the disease. —_—_— MOTHER OF 8 CHILDREN SUES. Mrs. Pleasant owa Virginia Kerns has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce from Wal- ter H. Kerns. She charges drunken- ness, cruelty and _desertion, Mrs. Kerns has been married twenty-four years and has six children.. She ls tepresented by Attorney J. Ridley - Shields, Teegerstrom was given ter by Dean Ashcraft, the Southern Carbon Company, at Spyker, who said Supt. S. L. Bennett had found it in the company’'s mail box. The envelope bore a two-cent stamp but no postmark. WIll Ald ‘Mr. Jem.” Harold's letter, Teegerstrom testi- fied, declared he was safe and sound and in comfortuble quarters and he would be ready to return about the | 20th, when the state wanted him, and | uid “testify for Mr. Jefr.” r. Jeff” he understood to be T. J. Burnett, former Morehouse parish icputy ~heriff, an employe of the Car bon Company, and now at liberty un der $5,000 bail. Burnett was arrested last month on a murder charge, in connection with the kidnaping of Watt Daniel and T. F. Richard, near Bastrop, whose bodies were found in Lake La Fourche December 22. 'What did Dean Ashcraft say the let- an employe of 4 A General view of French tgool cnmped in n wood on the outsl Exxen, of 1t 165,000 RUHR WORKERS NOW OUT ON STRIKE cupled zone If there is & general| strike. It is admitted in_industrial circles here that hundreds of fac- tories will have to shut down and | hundreds of thousands of men will | be thrown out of employment if the | French succeed in cutting off the | Ruhr coal shipments for more than | ten days, It is only one step from | Wwholesalé unemployment to endless | bread lines. and then bolshevism will | hold the reins, according to belief in | official circles here. 3 So precarious is the situation at! present and so adverse are the gen- | eral conditions that many Germans | are willing to listen to anybody in any country or of any political creed who promises them fuel and food. DELAY THYSSEN TRIAL. By the Associated Press. MAYENCE, January 23.—The trial of Fritz Thyssen and the five other industrial magnates arrested in the Ruhr, set for today, has been post- poned until 9 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. It is understood that Dr. Fred- erick Grimm, attorney for the men accused of refusing to obey the orders of the French, has pleaded lack of jurisdiction and incompetence of the French court Dr. Grimm is reported to have asked that the case be referred to the permanent court of International justice at The Hague. Believe Strike Will Result. By the Assoclated Press DUSSELDORF, January 23.—French eneral headquarters believe that conviction and imprisonment of the industrial magnates may mean the calling of a general strike through- out the Ruhr. Workers in the Thys- sen plants at Essen and Muelheim, who recently declared that they would strike if Fritz Thyssen was not released, have held up their action for the result of the trial, #nd it is thought that the general temper FIRST PHO TOGRAPHS ERR ST | 3 » Gen. Degontte, in charge of French occupation of the Ruhkr. (in center), on arrival at Essen. SENATORS BOOST OF FR ENCH OCCU L i Swiss Decline ou when he handed you the letter?: | among the working population of the “He merely said here was a letter | valley may find expression in a strike which Mr. Bennett found in the com- | if the industrialists receive a jail sen- FUNDS FOR DISTRICT To Ask League {#s you gentlemen are and I want to {he is hiding out with where the com- pany’s box that looked like Harold's | handwriting.” { “You are sure his disappearance is | voluntary and he has not been sent | or hidden away by any one?” g “I am sure, or at least I feel cer-| tain it is voluntary.” { “Did Harold say anything about | Burnett since his arrest?’ 1 “He said he was going to testify for Mr. Jefr.” “You have said your brother is likely to turn up here at any time, tut this hearing is likely to be over shortly. You cannot suggest a way in jwhich he can be communicated with?" Anxious to Find Him. “I do not, but if he does testify he will tell the truth regardless of who it hits. He's that kind of a boy. I am just as anxious to communicate i ure you that you will have my co-opertajon.” ‘Have you got any idea as to how the letter got into the company’s box without having pagsed thro regular post office channel 1t ugh the | T suppose he told who ever pany’s box was located. It convinces me he is in this vicinity.” “Did government agents call you after you received the letter? “Yes; one came to see me and me had I heard from my brother. told him no, because I did not think it was any of his busines The witness then was put through a hand-writing test. A letter from | his brother was dictated to him and | he was requested to write a series of | numerals and fractions. The result was filed. Are you a member of the klun?” ‘When did_you join it?” The 18t of this month.” Hearing Nears Conelusion. The hearing s nearing its conclu- sion and attaches of the office of the state attornev general have said that the few remalning sessions might de- velop sensational testimony. Rumor was rife here late last night that Teegerstrom had been located at Swartz, a station on the Iron Moun- tain railroad, about ten miles south of+ here, and that he had been in conceal- | ment there since he disappeared from | Spyker. A detachment of cavalry, ac- | companied by T. Semmes Walmsley, | assistant attorney general, left here | late last night for Swartz, in an ef- fort to locate Teegerstrom, but re- turned early today without having found any trace of him. Associates of the attorney general said they expected the hearing to be concluded by Wednesday night un less something unlooked for d veloped. The transcript of the testi- mony, which will not be completed for several days after adjournment, will ‘be taken to New Orleans, an order that a brief may be prepar for the grand jury. That, it wai stated, would consume ten days or two weeks. It was not known whether the case would be, presented to the present grand jury or given to the new grand jury the first week in March. Officials conducting the hearing de- clared they expected to spring a sur- prise at the opening of the Wednes- day afternoon session and intimated that it would eclipse anything pre- viously brought out. In some quarters it was believed that Harold Teegerstrom would be the surprise witness. Reports persist that he is being held under_ cover to bo brought here to testify despite official denial. The line of question- ing has indicated that the state be 1ieves the dynamite used to bring th bodies of Daniel and Richard to the surface of Lake La. Fourche was astolen from a aupply at the carbon lant. 4 P has been established that the gal- vanized wire with which the bodies were attached to weights ~when they were cast into the lake was similar 'to . wire used at the plant, and a bunch of keys found near the scene of the explosion contains one ident|- filed as identical with those used at the plant to lock the -meter houses. Assistant Attorney General Guion assured Teegerstrom’s father yester- day while he-4vas on the stand that the state had no evidence whatever that connected his son with a crime. { | gone for naught” tence. Ready With Amswer. The French are ready to reply to & general strike ‘with the complete iso- lation of the Ruhr and the Rhineland from the rest of Germany. The con-| trol commission, it was sald, will| bend every effort toward getting coal ;| out of the basin and shipping it to! France, where it is already needed, leaving the Germans to operate rail- roads and feed the miners and the population. Starvation Up to Berl: “If Berlin wants the Ruhr to starve, it's her own business,” one official of French headquarters told the new: paper correspondents last evening. “If anyone starves in the Ruhr, it will not be the French. The Germans have chosen their battlefleld; we will fight them to the finish.” Gen. Devingnes expressed the opin- fon that the Ruhr valley was the scene of the last battle of the war. *“If we win thi he said, “We shall have peace for fifty or 100 years. If we lose, all of our sacrifices of men and money during the war will have Communists Turn te French. The communists and the organized nationalist syndicates are finding 1lit- tle in common, and around Bochum the former are gradually turning to the French. They have twice asked French protection ainst the na- tionalists in the face of incipient riots at Gelsenkirchen. The French have seized approxi- mately 200,000 tons of coal in the Ruhr and declare that an extension of the miners’ strike would not pre- vent one-fourth of the basin’s normal output from going to Frange. PROTEST ON SEIZURES. Berlin Orders Complaints at Paris, Londorn and Brussels. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 23.—The German government has instruicted its diplo- matic representatives at Paris, Lon- don and Brussels to protest the re- cent decrees of the interallied Rhin land commission regarding the 4l tribution of coal and the confiscation of the coal tax and customs duti The ‘note declares that distribu- tion decree is designed solely to ex- tend to the Rhineland the competence and activities of the new interallied commission at Essen, while the other decrees seek to divert German reve- nues from legitimate creditors to allied powers which are outside the jurisdiction of the Rhineland com- mission. The note adds that through it3 decrees the commission places it- self at the disposal of the French and Belgian military authoritie REPRIEVE FOR SLAYER. Chief Justice McCoy today pos! poned the execution of Rufus Gordonm, colored, who was convioted of murder in ‘the first degree in connection with the death of Simon Miller, a grocer of 1001 Lamont street northwest, in September, 1919. Gordon was scheduled to be hanged next Saturday, but, because his case has not yet been presen to the Court of Appeals, the date of the hanging was changed to April 19. Attorneys Irving Willlamson and Samuel D. Truitt are preparing the appeal .of Gordon. TAXATION CLOSES THEATERS. MADRID, January 23.—All the thea- ters in Madrid will be closed from tomorrow, it was announced today by the managers, who declared it im- ossible to continue operations under he existing heavy taxation. Efforts are going forward for an agreement by which the playhauses can Bé s8- opened within & short timey" Ty 1 committee had IN FISCAL MEASURE (Continued from First Page.) were en up Senator Robinson -of Arkansas wanted to know why the inserted an amend- ment providing that the expenses of the playgrounds and the bathing beach should be paid for on the forty plan, instead of being paid for! wholly out of the revenues of the District, as provided in the House bill. Senator Phipps called attention to the fact that the 60-40 plan of making appropriations for the District had been made permanent law in the last appropriation act for the District and that the Senate committee had felt that these appropriations should be made on that plan. . He called atten- tion also to the fact that government employes and the children of govern- ment employes, many of them not taxpayers in the District, but coming to Washington from the states, used the playgrounds and the bathing beach. The amendment was finally agreed to. Agree to Lighting Increase. An item Increasing the appropriation for lighting of streets from $450,000 to $472,000 was agreed to. Senator Caraway of Arkansas, when the public school appropriations were reached, asked: “Is some colored high school here to have face powder and lip- sticks provided by appropriations in this bill?" Senator Phipps replied that if there was anything about face powder and lipsticks in the bill it was so concgaled that the committee could not find The first amendment for the schools provided for three assistant superintendents, Instead of two, one of the superintendents to have charge of the business affairs of the schools. Senator McKellar of Tennessee made a point of order against this amendment on the ground that it was new legislation in an appropria- tion bill enator Phipps replied that the additional superintendents had been estimated for by the budget bureau and recommended by the Sen- ate committee and therefore was in order. The int of order made by Senator Mcl&lhr was overruled by the chair and the_amendment was adopted. U. S. PROBES BLAST. Within a few days the Interstate Commerce Commission will make ublic a rt from its bureau of Focomotive inspection on the freight engine boiler explosion Sunday after- noon at Inlet, Va. killing three men. A. G. Pack, chief of the bureau of locomotive inspection, made a per- sonal investigation yesterday as it lay in the yards at Alexandria; Two of his men today are investigating it. A_separate investigation is being conducted by the Southern Rallway Company. Action in Ruh ction in Kuhr By the Associated Press. BERN, Switzerland, January 23. —The Swiss federal council, after discussing the possibility of ask- ing the council of the league of nations to attempt to mediate be- tween France and Germany, de- clded today that such actlon would be inopportune at present. The council reserved the right to reconsider this decision if circum- stances later seemed to justify the step proposed. bfnspaet L LEAGUE INTERVENTION IN RUHR AGAIN TOPIC London Newspapers Discuss It With Hope Rather Than ‘Expectancy. By the Assoclated Press, LONDON, January 23.—The possi- bility that the league of nations will endeavor to-end the strained situation in the Rubr is agaln discussed by a section of the press today, although rather with the hope that with the expectation that such intervention will materialize. It now is declared that Hjalmar Branting, the Swedish representa- tive on the league council, will cer- tainly ralse the question of the Ruhr at the meeting of that body in Paris, on January 29, but fear is expressed that developments in the meantime may put the matter beyond the reach of any influence that, the league might expect. ——e POLICING SUM FAVORED. Senate Agrees to House Amend- ment to Joint Resolution. The Senate today agreed to ths House amendments to the joint reso- lution providing funds for policing Washington and providing for the comfort of the visitors at the time of the annual convention of the Mys- tic Shrine, which is to be held here next June. Senator Ball, chairman of the D! trict committee, called up the reso- lution and asked that the House amendments be agreed to. As finally passed it provides $50,000 for looking after the safety of the visitors and 34,000 for convenience stations and other necessities. l I —And as a climax to the day—comes The 5:30 Edition of . Foening S, ng the final authentic meusg;l from the money market; the field of Athletics and Sports; the very last word of News—and in addition the court programs 3y Jaid down for the morrow. For _Sale - by newsboys and * mewsdealers throughout the city’ House Puts Ban On Poker Chips 2 N The miniature department store in the House office building, through which members heretofore were able to buy poker chips and almost anything they wanted out of the allotment for stationery, went on_the rocks yesterday. Before passing the legisiative ap- propriatfon bill the House adopted an amendment by Representative Wingo, democrat, Arkansas, which stipu- lated that a member should get through the little store, at gov- ernment expense, only paper and articles needed for the proper con- duct of his office. The bill also wag changed, under the Wingo amendment, to prevent use of gov- ernment money for keeping a fember's motor car out of the wet. Mr. Wingo declared the activi- ties of the store had been brought up in every campalgn, and others recalled the report that a mem- her's wife had sent her shoes there to be patched qut of her husband's stationery accdunt, while another had ordered a ton of coal. In a recent debate in the House it was charged that pocket liquor flasks were sold under the same roof that covers the offices of the men who made the éountry dry. INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR WOMEN URGED iCrim Stresses Necessity for [ Place-to Send Prisoners | Guilty of Federal Crime. PaciFic & ATLANTIC . ol I { | | Alarming conditions of drug and : nagcotic addiction which exist in ! the United States was emphasized {by Assistant Attorney General Crim !at a hearing today before the House {Judiciary committee. i He was urging immediate favorable ction upon the Goodykoontz bill i which provides for the establishment jof an industrial fat Mt. Weather, Bluemont, where ! women convicted of any federal crimes and sentenced to one year or wuld be placed “Everything Is Filled.” In his contention on the necessity for such an cstablishment Assistant | Attorney Geheral Crim said that in { four months from now there will not be an institution in the United States jmore | where such women can be placed. | verything is filled, he said, and the | | E: ! Department of Justice is having re- { quests from th institutions now ito_take the women out Most of the women who are now | being incarcerated, he said, are nar- | cotic addlcts. Describing the condi- | tions throughout the country, Mr. {Crim said that the situation is gro ng worse rapidi The & |is making “a game effor {to _meet the conditions. The world must 100k to the medical | profession, Mr. Crim said, for a s lution of the problem. Says Problem Enormous. Mr, Crim told the committee that ihe did not see why the problem of iproviding proper ~institutions in {which to incarcerate these girls and women was notlconsidered sooner. PRCIFG B ATLANTIS . s he said, conversing with members of m-t-t! . RUSS ARMIES READY ‘ FOR LAUSANNE, BREAK | : ¢Continued from First Pag “It has now become an enormit; said, “and an adjustment mus made immediately.” Speaking particularly of Weather, Mr. Crim advised that this | government property:could be turned ish clash will have excuse sufficient | Infto an ";fifi:‘:‘:"fl"o"‘::‘;‘;mw"’:‘:t‘j for acting militarily, they being able | Without & B dcled 5 to refer to the Turko-Russian of-|!ng building cou remodeled for ensiy v c 0- | Suctr use. _ A LR B O e H, H. Votaw. superintendent of ARl O M e e e e e S e bedn working ‘consistently to under- and ¢ o e o = mipe Great Britain in the near east|t&bility of the Mount Weather prop- d India, and as a consequence may | efty as &n industrial home for con- be expected to use every expedient |Victed women as ‘a solution of the in furthering Turkish resistance to|preblem which now is being face the allies in order that there may be | bY federal and state prisons through- conflict or complete disorganization. |out the country. TOMEET DEFICIT tion of the Angora assembly to such a point that Mustapha Kemal lives practically in exile, under heavy No Prospects at Present of Total Elimination, However, Declares Gen. Lord. be guard. Though he intended to sus- tain nationalistic principles and re- deem Turkey for the Turks, it never- theless is a fact that In the past year | Kemal has shown an increasing de- sire to negotiate with the allies to bring about a period in which Turkey might gain desired economic and financial advance, But Kemal's hands, according to advices which have reached the allies, are being tied by the Turkish army clique, which is oviet-inspired. There are nearly 50,000 officers in the Turkish army at the moment, and these have lived mainly by loot. Taxes are being raised to prohibitive figures, property seized and in many other respects the regime is living upon exploitation of the Turkish peoples themselves. The fires of resistance to any of the allied proposals have been kindled by the army officers themselves, who have seen in peace curtailment of their Dresent pelvileges, nefarious as they| Brig. Gen. Lord, director for the Y e Hime army clique Is talking | pyreau of the budget, estimgted yester- Srkion fors. making. Amanme, R gay that the deficit had been reduced Jumping-off place for an invasion and fat the present oufix;n‘;) < lamefl;‘l‘n: reconquering wester: race and | pelow the $273,000,000 figuré whicl view of dierupting the whole Meso- |ted to Congress with the budget. botamian regime and placing Bagdad | There were no prospects, however, at ithi; The View Bt parpocaniiation, all With|ine present time, the general empha- Incidentally, it is this knowledge |sized, for entire elimination of the of Turkish pirpose that has caused | deficit. es to e allies ¢ so insistent upon the ik A T protection ot their own nationals by e ol system o 'urkish capitula- tions, which Will be one of the chief |, 9°7: Lord explained that the income rocks on which the Lausanne confer- | from collection of back taxes had ex- ceeded expectations, according to re- port submitted by the Secretary of the ence is expected to split. Though it has been intimated that Treasury. The estimated income this year, however, from the sale of surplus the Turks and the allies will agree War materials, he said, had been sharp- to a status quo in regard to near| eastern affairs, if it is seen that no Iy reduced from an expected $97,500,000 to $86,000,000. Efforts are.being made binding treaty can be effected it is believed that a breakdown in the to have additional materials declared surplus, it was indicated. parley will be the immediate signal One of the heavy and unjustified for immediate aggression on the part of the Turks in every quarter. The places where they are expected td strike are Thrace and the Irak re- burdens on current expenditures this year, Gen. Lord pointed out, was the $125,000,000 interest on war savings stamps, dus January 1, 1923, which gions of Mesopotamia. It is declared that the Turks al- have been entirely charged to cur- rent expenditures. In a strict sense, ready have 650,000 men in eastern Gen. Lord said, not more than $12,- Thrac who will move westward 500,000 of this amount could really The government is fighting hard to reduce its quarter of a billion deficit for the present fiscal year, is pleased with the unexpectedly large income from collection of back taxes, but | disappointed over the decreasing rev- {enue from sale of surplus war ma |terials by the War and Navy De | partments and Shipping Board. % order, with the idea of reclaiming all ter- be charged against this year. But, ritories lost to Turkey in Europe. The Greeks are said td have 100,000 because no sinking fund had been es- tablished for the amortization of the men on the Mawitza river awaiting any such move. In case Greece is drawn into the melee it is believed that Jugoslavia and Rumania will be amount, the whole $125,000,000 fell in a lump on this year. Deficit Is Large. The deficit against which the forced into the struggl budget and the spirit of economy in Offensive and defensive alllances of the little entente are sufficient to the administration has been fighting this year, as a consequence, Gen. bring about support of the other powers, in which case it may be ex- Lord said, had been in reality $896,- 000,000. pected that the Hungarians, taking Officials of the Treasury today were advai of the disordered situay tion, will strive to re@eem territories pleased at the showing made by back tax collections, pointing to the fact lost under the treaties of peace, but now held by Rumania, Czechoslovakia that more than the estimated $25,- 000,000 & month had been realized. In and Jugosiavia. The Russians, not fact, 1t was sald that 337,000,000 had content with severance of Bessarabla from the Ukral will strike at Ru- been eollected for the quarter end- ing December 31. mania. Poland will be drawn into the struggle, either when the Rus- sians move against the Rumanta; ar. should the Rhssians attempt in cursions in Lithuania or attempt to eftect union with the Germans in any general plan of resistance to French ose. - lita) preparatiol are bein; made in practisally every eapital o the old world for any eventuality, and all paths now seemingly lead to war, instead of peace settled ‘At Its Own Store home for women vernment | he | Mount | ING STARZ. WASfiIfiGTQN! D. c.!' TUESDAY!' JANUARY 25 1923 > s : PATION .OF RUHR. HASTY MARRIAGE CURB IS PROPOSED Capper Measure Also Seeks to Make Divorce More Difficult. SPONSORED BY WOMEN Constitutional Amendment Sought to Legalize Federal Laws on Marital Question. A bill designed “to prevent hasty and foolish marriages and to make divorce more dificult,” sponsored by the General Federation of Women's Clubs; was introduced today by Sen- ator Capper, republican, Kansas, to- gether with a ‘resolution proposing constitutional amendment to legalize federal marriage and divorce laws. Marriage licenses would have to be pplied for and posted in courts two weeks ahead of the ceremony, under the bill, and applicants would have to present certificates of health and normal mentality. Girls under six teen and boys under eighteen would be prohibited from marriage without parental consent, and the marriage of feeble-minded persons or of those closely related or of ifferent { would be barred. Divorces under the biil could be obtained only for misconduct, physi jcal or mental cruelty, abandonment { or non-support for one year, incura- { ble Insanity or commission of felony No divorce would be effective for o rac The idea is not to make divore easier,” maid Senator Capper in e plaining his bill, “but to make ma riage safer for the young. to insur: children of the future better healtl and heredity, and to prevent hast: and ill-considered marriages.” JUniformity of marriage and divore laws also is an object of the bill which would not become effective u til after adoption of the accompans ng constitutional amendment. This Senator Capper said, is o be presse in the various states by woman organizations. Submission to states of | tional amendment which wou | Congress the right to enact a | divorce law House, Representative Fairfield, repub lican, offering a resolution, which wa sent ta the judiciary committee. Leac ers said there was no chance of its co: | sideration at this session, even if t committee should report it forthwiti D.C. LEGISLATION GETS CLEAR PATH Passage of Underhill Bill in Place of Fitzgerald Meas- ure Removes Barrier. { The way Is now cleared for Distric legislatfon ini the House. The Fitzgers me-kmen'a compensation bill, which has been unfinished business, blocking al other District bills since last June, wa |removed as a barrler late yesterda: | When the House substituted the Under hill industrial insurance DBil after bitter all-day fight, and then passe: { the Underhill bill without a record vot« This measure affects 108,000 employ In the District outside of the gove ment employment. Those excepted fr the provisions of the bill are domesti |servants, farm laborers, those engage: ‘1 n commerce between the District an, 1any of the states, persons in casual en { ployment or thoke engaged in any o upation not carried on by their e | ployer for pecuniary gain, and those i | eleemosynary work. Employer May Choone. Compensation is compulsory for dic ability. either total or partial, und. this bill, but it is left to the option « jthe employer whether he will insur: his employes with an insurance com; 3 or carry the risk himself. The ule of compensation is as follow: In case of death, not over $5,000, to be paid monthly at a rate equal te two-thirds of the average salary. ! In cases of permanent total disa- [bility " two-thirds of the averag: i weekly wage shall be paid to the em iploye. not to exceed 325 a week, and {not to be less than $7 & week, unles: the emplove's established weeki: { wages are less than $7 a week at th. ‘time of the injury, in which event he jshall receive compensation in ar {amount equal to his average weekls | wages, but not to exceed a total o | $5,000. { { Others Provided For. For 1oss of an arm, compensatio: for 200 weeks; loss of a leg, 17 veeks; loss of a foot or hand, 150 weeks; loss of an eye or hearing of both ears, 100 weeks; loss of hearing of one ear, fifty weeks; loss of & thumb, fifty weeks; loss of fingers from fifteen to thirty weeks, and los: of toes, from ten to twenty-five weeks. For mutilations and disfgurements not provided for in the act, compen sation would be allowed in the dls- cretion of the compensation commis sjoner for not less than ten nor more than 100 weeks. ASKS $25,000 FUND FOR PARK STUDY (Continued from First Page.) Commissioners say they belleve the Engineer Commissioner of the Dis trict should be the executive officer. The Commissioners further believe that it is unnecessary to burden the President with the duty of approv ing the designation of land for park purposes, as provided for in the bill Referring to the portion of the legis- lation dealing with the amount of money to be spent, the Commissioners ay: % The bill proposes to authorize and di- rect the commission to acquire land, and authorizes an appropriation each year in the District appropriation act of a sum not exceeding 1 cent for eaeh in- habitant of the continental United States. “It is provided that three-fourths of all funds appropriated shall be used for the acquisition of land with- in the District of Columbia. The terms of the measure would author- ize a possible appropriation of about $1,000,000 a year, of which three- fourths would be spent in the Dis- trict, and of this sum 60 per cent would be paid from the revenues of the District derived from taxation and 40 per cent from the United States easury- T‘:‘Thiu );Axle sum would be author- jzed without any definite plan being before Congress indicating the land to be acquired and the cost thereof: The Commissioners venture to sug- gest that before emberking upon such a large project it might be ad- wvisable in this bill to provide for the preparation of a plan which might be submitted to Congress not later than one year from the passage of the Jegislation, and an appropriation of $25.000 for the employment af services in making surveys and mave.