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perature ny row fair. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest 2 p.m. today; lowest, 26, at 2: today. Full report on page 7. Bonds, Page 22 ended at 2 p.m. today: Closing N. Y. Stocks and 34, at 5 a.m. e No. 28,758. Thyssen Given Smallest of Penalties. COURT-MARTIAL ACTS QUICKLY Court Competency Is Upheld by the French. | By the Assoclated Press. MAYENCE, January 24.—Fritz Thyssen and the five other German industrialists, charged by the French with refusing to co-operate with the French plans for delivery of repara- tions coal from the Ruhr valley, were all found gullty by a court-martial here today. Fines were inflicted. Herr Thyssen was fined 5,100 francs, ¥err Olfe, 224,300 francs, and Herr Spindler. 47,752 francs. Herr Kesten was fined 15,632 francs, Herr Wuestenhoeffer of the Essen ) Mine Association 8,640 francs and lierr Tengelmann of the Essen An- tiracite Coal Company 6.020 francs. The prosecutor suggested he was inclined to lenciency because of the patriotic motives of the Germlns_. Dr. Frederick Grimm. the Essen wyer retained by Herr Thyssen, was assisted by Counselors Wallack of Essen, Alfred Friedmann and Herr Neumann of Mayence. and M. Le Clerc of Naney, the French attorney as- signed by the French army as tech- mnical adviser to the Germans. Col. Debeugni, the ranking provost marshal of the French Rhine army. in opening court, cautioned the spec- tators to refrain from demonstrations. Court Competency Attacked. The trial began immediately upon the arrival of Herren Thyssen, Kes- | ten, Wuestenhoefer, Tengelmann, Olfe | and Spindler. When the defendants bad stated their ages, their business and answered other specifications the Charge was read and Dr. Grimm be- Fan his argument to establish the illegality of the arrests and the trial. 1io concluded with a demand that the court declare itself incompetent, bas- ing his argument on The Hague con- ! \ention of 1899 and 1917, as well as the Rhineland convention Capt. Bodin, the prosecutor, replled | and the court, after consufting in private for fifieen minutes, declared jts competency and ordered the trial to_proceed. Thyesen, under questioning, ad- mitterl having refused on January | 15, at Bredeny, to obey an order given by the occupation authorities for the delivery of coal. “1 am a German and my duty com- pels me to obey the orders of my country and to serve my country,” he said. “The entry of troops into the Ruhr was not justified by any- thing. That is why I will remain faithful to my fatherland.” _~ Obey Own Government. Thyssen - told how the industrial lcaders informed M. Coste, head of the French inspector general of mines, that they would supply coal it paid for it, provided the German govern- ment did not order otherwise. He sald orders were given afterward to| the mines to continue deliverifig coal, | but that the Berlin govarnment tele- zraphed instructions forbidding de- livery and the industriglists then in-| formed M. Coste that they must cbzy their government. The other- prisoners gave thelr as- sent to Thyssen's statemert. The prosecution called Lieut.- Pories of the gendarmerie, who testified to the refusal to obey orders to deliver coal. The thirty-year-old son of Herr Wuestenhoefer testified that his father was ill and asked permission to take his father's place as a de- fendant. The testimony submitted for 1he father showed that his mines had sent twenty tons of coal to France and Belgium on January 15 and the son added that he had sent 24214 tons 1o _the same consignees. Five other witnesses supported the testimony that the industrialists had really delivered some coal until the morning of January 15. Prosecutor Sums Up. Prosecutor Bodin then summed up for the prosecution. He referred to article 42 of the annex to The Hague convention of 1907, which says: ~“Ter- ritory is considered occupied when jt is actually placed under the au- thority of the hostlle army.” He contended such a condition existed in the present case. Capt. Bodin also cited article 43 of the same convention, reading: “The authority of the legitimate power having in fact passed Into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all the measures in his power to re- store and insure, as far as possible public order and safety, while respeat- ing, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country The prosecutor contended the ¥ranco-Belgian forces had complied with this article. Captain Bodin llkewise cited ar- ticles 2 and 9 of Gen. Degoutte's regulations of January 11 and pro- visions of the French penal code and military code. He demanded that the court impose sentence. but said he appreciated the defendants’ motives and was inclined to lenlency. The chamber of the court of justice, where the trial was held, was packed to overflowing. Journalists repre- senting_newspapers in all parts of the world took up most of the room. French troops stood guard inside and outside the court. LIFE TERM FOR CRAZED MAN WHO RAN AMUCK CLEVELAND, Ohlo, January 24.— Carl Harrls, booze-crazed ex-convict who terrsrized a score of east side familles during three days that lfe ran amuck recently with gur’ and knife, was sentenced to a.lffe term o penitentiary by Common Pleas Fudge Walther In criminal court to- day. he specific L?‘ffo on which Judge Wealther nistered the limit penalty #flc Harrls was house- breaking of an inhabited dwelling at night, though there were eighteen other sharges of shooting and Knlfing: of and women against Harris. s insisted on acting as his own attorney. = “Poison booze was ihe cause of my acts,” he argued. “1 wouldn't have done those things bad [ been in.-my right mind. Entered as second-class matier post otfice Washington, D. GERMAN LEADERS FINED; RUHR TO BE ISOLATED; ITALIAN OFFER SPURNED| C. German Troop Movement On, French Claim BY A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright. 1923.) ESSEN, January 24—The French report military prepara- tions in Germany and troop movements of German troopw. They alxo say that the move- ments of French troops In the Rubr valley have no other significance than the changing of camps. It is not thought that this means the formation of fronts, but it may be a pre- lude to more energetic meas. ures on the part of the Fri There was in_ Essen wh curlous persons the occupled postal and tele- graph bullding where n e gun was installed. the German security police cleared the square before the Post_office. Selgian troops occupled the signal towers along a stretch between Melderich and Ober- hausen, whereupon the rail- Toad employes left the towers. The Germans still say that no coal is leaving the Rubr for France. They clalm that only trains and boats which left be- fore the occupation succeeded in reaching France. Two train: that reached the frontler of Germany wére brought back by the German crews. GERMANY REJECTS [TALIAN OFFER 10 MEDIATE ON RUHR “We Shall Not Negotiate Till Last French Soldier Leaves,” Says Berlin. BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Btar and Chicago Daily ews. Copyright, 19; BERLIN, January 24.—The German government politely but firmly has declined the Italian offer of mediation between Germany and France in the Ruhr situation. Wnen Count Bostari, the new Italian ambassador visited the forelgn offic on instructions from Premier Mussolini to offer Italy's services if Germany should be willing to accept suggestions as to how the present differences could be arbitrat- | ed he had a cool reception. Rome dispatches had already hint- ed at Muesolini's move. M. Bostarl was told that the time had not yet come when Wilhelmstrasse felt in- clined to get Into direct or indirect communication with the Quay d'Orsay regarding the Ruhr question. “We shall not negotiate with France until the last .¥rench soldier has been withdrawn from the Ruhr district,” the Italian ambassador was told. Massolini Is Thanked. The reason given for Germany's re- fusal to encourage intervention on the part of any allied power is that this country only stands to lose by such out- side interference instead of galning its point of showing the allles and the rest of the world that the French occupa- tion 'of the Ruhr area was an open breach of the treaty of peace and that it would eventually prove a failure, as even by military force France could not get more out of Germany than Chan- cellor Cuno offered in his_proposals to the Paris conference. M. Bostari, how- ever, was instructed to convey the Ge man government's “most sincere thank: to Premier Mussolini for offering his good offices. Chancellor Cuno has promised labor leaders here that the Ruhr working- men will recelve the government's full support, financially and other- wise, in their opposition- to the French occupation. At the same time it is pointed out here that the govern- ment, which has been hard up for funds for several years, i3 shaking billlons of marks—baper marks, of course—out of its sleeves as if it were nothing. _The socialists; who are not repre- sented in the present cabinet, are most bitter toward the government's sudden liberality after their many futtle appeals for increases in the pensions granted war invalids and veterans who are still getting what they received when the mark was still worth a few American cents, whereas now a few thousand marks will buy very little in the way of food. RENUNCIATION IS SOUGHT. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 24.—Renuncia- tion of the policy of sanctlons and pledges by Germany's creditors s essential to any successful repara- tions negotiations, In the opinion of the German government, as set forth in a semi-officlal statement. Germany should also be allowed to develop freely her own plans for solving the problem and should be permitted to discuss them on 2n equal footing with her opponents, the statement asserts. Taking note of what are termed varfous external attempts toend the Ruhr occupation, the statement de- 11 these quarters are informed that Germany, as ever, is ready to negotiate for a reasonable solution of the reparations question. For technic: reasdns, however, such negotlations a.: impossible while ‘Franco-Belgian trou;:. are illegally occupying a vital eco- nomic center of Germany. 'obody knows what a heap of ruins Germany will be when the French enterprise is terminated, and it is therefore impossible to estimate what will then remain of Germany's capacity.” Negotiations proceeding under mili- tary pressure, it is added, can never lead to results economically sound and acceptable to Germany or cal- culated to bring appeasement to Eu- rope. [ £ WASHINGTON, ] e—— Part of Strikers Back, Berlin Reports. ESSEN FIGURES {200,000 ARE IDLE Sentence of Chiefs May Call Out Half Million. By the Assoclated Press. ESSEN, January 24—It is stated on French authority that the occupied territory of the Ruhr will be completely isolated from unoccupied Germany to- morrow. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 24.—After a twenty-four-hour protest strike the workers in the Thyssen and Stinnes mines In the Rubr resumed work to- day “in order to continue the produc- tion of coal for unoccupied Germany,” it was announced. 200,000 on Strike. By the Associated Pres ESSEN, January 24.—It was stated here today that tlie number of indus- trial workers and miners now on strike approximated 200,000, in addi- tion to the personnel at the railroad stations which are occupled by troops. If the French court-martial passes | sentence on Fritz Tryssen and other ! mine directors it is declared that 550,- 000 miners will consider strike action. The workers who left their jobs in- cluded, it is sald, 100,000 miners from the Stinnes pits and 65,000 steel work- ers from the Thyssen plants. The mines owned by the Thyssen interests, emploving 50,000 men. have not yet ‘ceased to operate. All the state mines ave working as well. The French authorities have given an Essen priest 15,000,000 marks with which to buy food for poor children. It is announced that 500 cases of food, valued at 75,000.000 marks, gre bein shipped here from the central relie committee in New York city. The Ruhr Echo, published in Essen, has been suspended for three weeks, by the Berlin gaverimant becauss a recent articia declaring that o Cuno cabinet “had recourse to sabo- tage and provocation in order to shield its incompetency and incapac- iy The Ruhr coal miners today re- ceived a wage increase of about 80 per cent over the January scale, ef- fective February 1. The extra allow- ance for the increased cost of living will be almost doubled. The first news of the court-martial verdict will be awaited with keen anxiety: on it may hang the imme- diate fate of Germany's richest in- dustrial and mining section. an area of about 2,500 square kilometers, which last year produced approx- imately 100.000,000 tons of anthracite coal, besides supporting inestimable weaith in industrial plants. 5 It is widely belleved in German quarters that if the mine directors are sentenced to imprisonment the mining implements in the Ruhr's two hundred or more mines will be imme- diately dropped and hundreds of thou- sands of miners will swarm out of the pits in a protest strike. People Unified. One prominent civic leader in Essen | went 80 far as to say that France had actually done Germany a service by occupying the Ruhr, adding that it would never before have been be- lieved that such unity could be achieved among the people. Political competition bad vanished, he said, and the Ruhrians wers co- operating virtually to a man in ob- structing the “common enemy.” He cited a manifesto issued today by representatives of all the mines in the Ruhr—private, as well as state- owned—in which hearty indorsement was _ecxpressed for the stand taken by the arrested directors. The statement declared the signa- tories hold the same loyalty to the federal government's orders as do the daccused magnates and that, even if further arrests were made, it would not change their attitude or “Induce us to negotiate against the father- and.” “Even if all the present heads of the Ruhr mines are robbed of their liberty,” continues the manifesto, “we know the individuals who will then take their places will not negotiate other than we have done. If the occupational authorities be- lieve we can be made amenable through attempted intimidation they shall find they are biting on granite” HOPE IN RAIL STRIKE. By the Associated Press. 3 DUESSELDORF, January Germans are mal = 2‘:.—-1‘}15 ng every effort to enforce the raflroad strike, for they believe its success will mean the closing down of all the mines in the district within five days. . One thing they are consldering is the possibility of making the strike effective only in the Cologne bridgehead. thus cutting off French communication between the Ruhr and France by way of the railroads and the Rhine. The functioning of the Im- mense railroad yards at Cologne in which practically all the lines from (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) NEWPORT COUPLE SLAIN BY MANIAC, IS BELIEF By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, R. L, January 24.—Inves- tigators of the Killing of James A. Fraser McLeish and his wife, sfadeiine, in their cottage on the estate of Paul Fitz- simmons last Sunday were working to- day on the theory that the murder and 'ater burning of the home might have Jeen done by a maniac. A possible connection was seen be- tween this case and the unexplained in- jury sustained by lssbel Latimer, a mald employed by Mr. and Mrs. Marion Eppley of New York at their Beacon Rock estate here last fall. The Fitze simons and Eppley estates adjoln. The maid's skull was fractured while she was in her bedroom. Members of the Eppley family ex- pressed the belief that she had fal- len and struck her head on some ob- Ject while D;T-uuu. and at the time no re; of the matter was made to the police (1 enino WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, OLD GLORY HAULED DOWN IN GERMANY Gen. Allen and Four Ser- geants Officiate at - Last Retreat. WEDNESDAY, FOREIGN OFFICIALS CALL Rhine Troops Will Sail From Ant- werp Tomorrow on Transport St. Mihiel. By the Assoclated Press. EHRENBREITSTEIN, January 24.— The American troops were withdrawn from the Rhine today, ending Amer- ican military participation in the oc- cupational area. The withdrawal was signalised by the hauling down at noon of the Stars and Stfiges from the Castle of Ehrén- breitsteln, which has been the Amer- ican military” headquarters since the beginning of the occupation. Mean- while the first trains of the expedi- tionary force were leaving Coblenz for Antwerp to board the transport St. Mihlel, which will take them back to the United States. The flag came floating gently down from the staff on the picturesque cas- tle walls overlooking the Rhine as the signal w given for striking the colors. Not a shot was fired in salute, for it was not a martial occasion. There were many moist eyes among the Americans who watched the spec- tacle and their long-time assoclates among the allied forces in the region. The British and Belgian high commis- sloners for the Rhineland kept their word and remained away, because they could not bear to witness the lowering flag that meant the break- ing of so many close ties. Remove Washington's Portrait. Inside the fort at the same time there was taken from the white- washed walls the portrait of Wash- ington, the Americans had bung there on thelr coming. The dawning of the day that saw the American garrison march down the stesp slops of Ehrenbrelt- stein, across the Rhine into Coblenz and thence, in company with the other units of the 8th Infantry, to the Antwerp trains, found the Stars and Stripes hoisted to its accustomed place at revellle, while doughboy sentinels still mounted guard at the sally ports. Their packs were as ready as at any moment during the great war, but today the final “fall in" meant home—ths place where, as many a private put it—a dollar is one hundred cents and not several thousand marks. Day of Simple Ceremony. It was a day of simple ceremony. Four sergeants, picked from among the veterans of the 7th Machine Gun Battallon, 3d Division, who fought at the last battle of the Marne, were accorded the honor of assisting Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen in lowering the colors at the last retreat this noon. These non-commissioned officers were Sergts. De Wey Kitner, Lester Kel- baugh, Charles Long and Frank Ehley. Together with their comrades t Company D and M, the veteran sern..m- walted with full pack be- B onimaed on Fags T Cotm B PRESIDENT MUCH BETTER, BUT IS KEPT FROM DESK Gen. Sawyer Says Executive Has Practically Recovered From Grip. President Harding would have been at his desk at the White House to- day had the weather been clear, ac- cording to Brig. Gen. Charles E. Saw- yer, the White House physician. In describing the Executive's con- dition today, Gen. Sawyer sald he had virtually recovered from the attack of grip which he contracted more than a week ago, and that he fully intended to have his patient at his office today, but thought it advisable to keep him in his room ‘for another day because of the inclement weath- er. It was necessary to call off the usual cabinet meeting yesterday ‘well as the bi-weekly conference witl newspaper correspondents, and, . al- though It is expected that the Presi- dent will be at his desk tomorrew, ao engagements have been made for m. JANUARY U. S.TO CHECK UP ON DRY AGENTS, TOO PROSPEROUS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 24—De- partment of Justice agents have begun an investigation of the pri- vate lives of prohibition enforce- ment officers to determine whether they are spending more money than their government salaries. The inquiry, directed by Assistant United States District Attorney John Holley Clark, Jr., is one re- sult of the discovery recently of a “shakedown ring.” which since Oc- tober has fleeced hundreds of saloon men out! of thousands of dollars for promised protection. CASE IS DELAY Doubt Exists As to Jurisdic- tion of Supreme Court in Matter. Serious doubt as to the jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court over the rate case of the Public Utilities Commission against the Po- tomac Electric Power Company led Chief Justice Taft to announce today that the case would be passed at present On February 19, he announced, the court will hear counsel on the ques- tion of jurisdiction and whether Con- gress has power to vest in the Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court what seems to be an administrative valuation of the power company's property. Chief Justice Taft's announcement followed opening arguments this morning before court. After the hearing on the 19th, if the question of jurisdiction is settled, the case would be heard later in the term upon its merits. This action halted all proceedings in the case and the counsel withdrew. FOREIGN CREDIT BILL GIVEN COMMITTEE 0. K. The bill of Senator Norbeck, re- publican, North Dakota, proposing an appropriation of $250,000,000 to fur- nish credits in Europe for purchase of American agricultural products was reported favorably today by the Sen- ate agricultural committee. The committee vote was unanimous and Senator Norbeck was authorized to offer his bill as a rider to any measure befors the Senate upon which it appeared action might be secured. It was expected that the bill would be offered to the adminis. tration shipping bill. Under the Norbeck bill, which sev- eral farm organizations have in- dorsed, the government would provide the War Finance Corporation with a revolving fund of $260,000,000 to loan to European buyers, ,upon se- curity to be accepted by the corpora- tion to enable it to buy American agricultural products. The object, Chairman Norris said, was the same as his bill which recently was re- Jected as a rider to the shipping bill 24, 1923—-THIRTY PAGES. | 28 SUTS ARE FILED AGAINST THEATER Knickerbocker, Crandall, Architect, Steel Company and D. C. Are Defendants. $280,000 SUM ASKED Time Limit Expires Saturday. Legal representatives of twenty- cight persons who lost their lives as the result of the collapse of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater Janu. a7y 28 last today flled suits in the Supreme Ca: the District of Co- Tumbia 6 recover WAMAEes Hggreat- ing $380,000. Each plaintiff asks the maximum damage of $10,000 fixed by the District code for an injury re- sulting in death. Named as defendants in all the suits are the Knickerbocker Theater Com- pany, owner of the property at the time of the disaster; Harry M. Cran- dall, president of the company, and its controlling stockholder; Reginald W. Gears, * architect who planned the building; John H. Ford and the Union Iron Works, which he represented, by Whom the steel and iron work of building was fabricated and deulgn‘ehde. and the District of Columbla, which is alleged to have negligently and carelessly supervised and inspected the plans for the structure and to have permitted it to be erected so that it was unsafe and insecure. First Civil Proceedings. These are the first civil proceedings by which it is sought to hold any one outside the theater company and its officials responsible in damages for the loss of life resulting from the catastrophe. Mr. Geare and Mr. Ford were held by the coroner’s jury and indicted by the grand jury as responsible, but have not been before mentioned in the damage suits. While Jullan R. Downman, an employe and Inspector of the building department of the local government was joined in the indictment, no attempt had been made to hold the District of Columbla, his employer, legally re- sponsible for alleged careless i - tion.. The name of the Unlon Tren Works is also mentioned as a de. fefii'u\t fgr t:e' first time. rou torneys Charl, . Douglas, Joseph W. Cox and (e?';’nl‘:d H. Syme, the plaintiffs in their dec- larations set forth the duties which they clalm were improperly ' per- formed by each of the defendant and as a result of which alleged neg: ligence, the roof of the building collapsed. 1t is alleged that Mr. Crandall should have seen that the bullding was constructed safely, and should have malntained it so that patrons would not be injured. Mr, Geare was negligent, it is alleged. in designing the building and in super- vising its construction. Mr. Ford failed in his duty. it is claimed, to %0 design, fabricate and construct the steel and iron work connected with the eupports of the roof that they would not fall. List of Plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are: Medford P. Can- by, sdministrator of William M. Can- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Scandal vs. News Now that scandalous news is temporarily slack in the newspapers and important news is breaking, every day, The Star’s circulation is naturally on the up grade. When The Star éou to fpress every afternoon st 15 8 o'clock in London and Parys, and all of today's foreign news is in today's Star. 7Yesterday's Net Ci;cfilltion. .94,638 Same day last year..........91,973 GAIN 2,665 {in Other Claims Will Be Filed Before | D.G. ELEGTRICRATE | [and his wite, police stated. “From Press to- Home Within the Hour” msmmumm«-z city block and the regular edition delivered to Washington bomes as fast as the papens are printed. ‘Ewd.y‘. Net Circalation, 94,638 Coast Guard Has Admiral; He Is Capt. Reynolds The United States Coast Guard now has a rear admiral. Capt. Willlam E. Reynolds, com- mandant of the guard and digcov- erer of Wrangel Island, today was handed his commission as i rear admiral by Assistant Secretary Clifford of the Treasury, who act- ed under the provisions of the re- cently enacted law creating the new title for the guard cammand- ant. 2 Rear Admiral Re: served with the Coast polds has rd since 1878, when he was appofuted from Marylapd. 0 UBAN LEGATION PROMISES PROBE OF RUM CHARGES Charge d’Affaires Calls at| State Department Over Published Reports. A thorough investigation of print- ed reports that liquor for sale was being obtained through the Cuban legation was promised today by Dr. Arturo Padro y Almeida, charge d'af- faires of Cuba. Dr. Almeida called at the State De- | partment today and conferred with Undersecretary of State Phillips, fol- lowing fhich' he issued this formal | | statement: “The charge went this morning to the State Department and had an inter- view with Undersecretary Phillips in reference to the publication in the papers of the story of alleged seiling of liquor at the Cuban legation. The charge expressed surprise at the news, of which he has entire ignorance, but he is proceeding to make & thorough in- vestigation of the matter. He does not Suspect any one at the legation.” The first formal protest to the State Department from the prohibition unit connection with alleged liquor leaks from diplomatic channels into bootleg circles in Washington may 80 _forward within a few days. This action may be taken. it was indicated today at prohibition head- quarters, as a result of evidence in the form of an affidavit in the hands of the government, obtained in co nection with the arrest by police and prohibition agents of John J. Lynch, about forty-five years old. at the Vivian apartments, 1723 G street northwest. Further investigation into the mat- ter. which presents an international problem of some delicacy, must be made, it was said: ovidenwy collected if the case is to be present- ed in the form of an official commu- nication through the State Seym- ment . . The affidavit of Lynch, which is ad- mittedly being held by the prohibition enforcement officials, implicates em- ployes of the Cuban legation with al- lowing imported liquor to leak into illicit channels of Washington. So important and “ticklish” has the case become, inasmuch as it involves international procedure, that a quiet has been clamped upon both the police and the prohibition agents. The af- davit and papers in the case are locked up in a safe. Scarcely one of the men on the job will admit or deny anything. Servants Suspected. If booze is leaking from some le- gation in Washington, prohibition of- ficials said, {t is expected In official quarters that the persons found to be involved, will not' be any one with diplomatic status, but rather a minor attache or servant. Tt was further explained as the atti- tude of prohibition officials that if such a charge were establishel, it would in all probability be found that the diplomatic officials were ig- norant o[ the bootlegging from their officlal stocks, In the case of a person being charged with theft of diplomatic liquor, it was pointed out that pro- hibition agents of the American gov- ernment.have no authority to proceed into a legation or embassy to arrest an alleged guilty person. Such prop- erty is, under the law, considered forelgn territory, over which the American government exercises no authority. Protests against any liquor leaks, if the proof of such leaks should be established, would necessarily, therefore, have to go through the State Department. At the apartment of Lynch, accord- ing to the police, there was located a cholce amount of wines and whiskies, as well as champagne. The raid was conducted’ by Lieut. Davis, in charge of the vice squad; Sert. McQuade and Revenue Agents Ruby, Packard and Fowler. Taxedo Rald Recalled. Some weeks ago, in a raid on the Tuxedo apartments, it is believed, the first hint and definite track of embassy or legation liquor finding its way into bootleg_channels was uncovered. The finest Scotch liquor was found then, and a man who gave his engraved card, with the legend “minister plenipoten- tiary”” of a South American republic on it, was arrested in connection with an. other angle of the case. He was found in_the apartment which was raided. Since that time the prohibition agents and the police have worke: to find the trickle from embassies or legations. But it's ticklish work, as they say, and precedents undoubtedly will be set by activities in the case, wherefore they don’t want to tell too much to the public until a clean-up And the clean-up in one case may come late this afternoon. { {LIST OF AX ASSAULTS IN BIRMINGHAM GROWS BIRMINGHAM, Ala., January 24.— Birmingham's long list of ax mur- ders and assaults was added to this morning when Luigl Gitellaro and his wife were found with skulis crushed and in an unconecious con- dition in their little shop. stated they probably would not re- cover. An ax was the weapon used, according to investigating officers. The ax assault list reached twenty feur with the attack upon Gitellaro Nine ot the twenty-four dled from effects from injuries. These crimes, so simi- lar in nature as to be classed by au- thorities as “ax murders” and “ax assaults,” cover a period since the summer of 1921, with the exception that two persons were slain in 1919. In 1921 there were assaults and three deaths, in 1922 there were re- corded eight attacks and three deaths, while so far this year there have been four assaults and one death. In ail but three cases the victims have been foreigners or persons of It was | TWO CENTS. SENATE ACCEPTS - AMENDMENTS T0 D. C. FISCAL BILL New Ones Involving $2,200,- 000 To Be Taken Up as Offered From Floor. |MT. PLEASANT BRANCH LIBRARY SUM AGREED TO $500,000 for Fireproof Addition to Courthouse Adopted ; School Building Considered. The Senate this afternoon com- |pleted consideration of the committes amendments reported in the District appropriation bill, agreeing to them all. The Senate then began considera- jtion of the amendments recommended by the appropriations committes, which Senator Phipps Is authorized to {offer from the floor. These amend- m_erms total approximately $2,200,000. he amendment proposing - quisition for a branch of fn;hptubafic library in Mount Pleasant, at a cost not to exceed $25,000, was adopted, Senator Phipps then called up the amendment authorlzing the expendi- ture of $500.000 for the erection of a fireproof addition to the courthouse of the District for the use of the recorder of deeds and such other ac- | tivities of the District government as the Commissioners may deslgnate, _Senator Phipps explained that it was proposed to house in this new | building not only the office of the recorder of deeds, but the Municipal Court and Lthe Juvenile Court ng of Utah su, ted that it should be possible to house the recorder of deeds in the building of the Court of Appeals of the Dis- trict. Senator Phipps replied, how- ever, that the committee had looked into that proposition carefully and found there was not available space in the Court of Appeals building. Recorder of Deeds Building. The Senate finally adopted the amendment for the erection of a new building for the recorder of deeds. The next amendment offered by Senator Phipps on behalf of the com- mittee was for the purchase of two new playgrounds sites, one occupied by the Hoover playground, to cost 317,000, and the other a site at 27th and O streets northwest, for $8,000. This amendment also was adopted The Senate then took up the com- mittee amendments providing $760.000 for the purchase of sites and erection of new school bulldings. Earlier consideration of the District appropriation bill in the Senate today brought out an attack on the street ‘car fares eharged hers. Senator Me- Kellat of Tennessee, declated that the Publie Utilitles Comission and Congress, too, had been lax in the matter of compelling the etreet rail- way companies to live up to their contract to provide transportation for a 5-cent fare. Senator McKellar declared that as a war measure the street car companics had been authorized to increase their fares. He said that he had examined the reports of the companies showing their earnings, and that it was time that the District Commissioners and Congress should insist that the pre- war fares be again charged. He said that he hoped the District committee would report out a bill to force the street car companies to live up to their old contracts. King Criticizes Rallways. Senator King of Utah, a member of the District committee, also criticized the street railways and declared that he i thought the District committee had not {been as diligent as it ehould be in | gealing with the transportation question | here. The hope of Senator Phipps, in charge of the District bill, when the Senate assembled today, was that it would be possible to compiete the consideration of | the bill before the adjournment this evening. Police Items Approved. The bill was taken up for considera- { tion immediately after the Senate met | today. Amendments offered by the com- | mittee relating to the metropolitan po- ice were quickly adopted., one M- reasing the item for fuel from $7,000 |to $10,000, and another increasing the {item for maintenance of motor | hicles from $25,000 to $35.000. Sti {another amendment adopted provides 182,500 for marking traffic lines for cross walks at street interesections. i The item for fuel for the harbor pa- trol was increased from $3,000 to | $3.500. The minor amendments for the fire department _and the health office re- ! ported by the committe were adopted without discussion. Under the head of charities and i correction, committes amendments | were adopted as follows: For maintenance, custody, clothing and care of inmates of the'reforma- tory, the appropriation was increased from $52,000 to $60.000. | The item for the Casualty Hospital | was increased from $5,000 to $15.000. The item for repairs to buildings at | the Gallinger Municipal Hospital was increased from $3.000 to $5,000. When the provisions for child-car- {ing institutions were taken up com- mittee amendments increasing the {number of employes for the board of | children’s guardians by two additional |investigating officers at $1,000 each | were adopted. Public Buildings. | An amendment offered by the com- | mittee increasing the amount for the { erection of a cottage for boys at the { Industrial Home School for Colored { Children from $5,000 to $7.000 was agreed to. Under another amendment adopted an additional assistant cook was provided for the Home for the | Aged and Infirm. |~ Committee amendments for the na- tional lbrary for the blind, $5,000, and for the Columbia Polytechnic In- stitute for the Blind, $1.500, were adopted. The Senate committee in reporting the District bill lumped together in one item a number of appropriations contained in the House bill in sepa- rate ftems for the office of public buildings and grounds. This led to some debate between Senator Phipps. in charge of the bill, and Senators Caraway of Arkansas and McKellar of Tennessee, who were opposed. to | lumping these items. Senator McKellar declared that for a number of years Congress has been trying to get away from lump sum appropriations. He asked _therefors for a record vote on the prdPosal of the committee to strike out many of the House provisions for public buildings and grounds and to lump them together. Senator McKellar's motlon was defeated 43 to 1 |