Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1923, Page 2

SIUSPECT SERVANT | INLEGAIONL.EAK Dry Agents to Treat: Direct, as Diplomatic Status Does Not Enter In. - AID CHARGE WILLING TO Declares 80 Cases-of Liquor Im- ported Since Fu'nt of -Year. 15 Left. Because the Cuban legation liquor *leak believed to have been a ci- vilian, not an official employve—a ser- enforcement of- treat direct vant ficials are with the prohibition planning to legation and not through the State Department, it was an- nounged today by James E. Jones, acting prohibition <commissioner Mr. Jones said that the. affidavit sworn to by John J. Lynch, who was arrested in aid Méfttay. named a house servant of the Cuban legation us a source of supply. This placed the suspect outside the diplomatic #tatus, Mr. Jones pointed out, and ob- Viated the necessity of treating through the State Department Hope to Work Out a Plan. Records of the case thus far com- piled will be thrown open to credited officials of the Cuban legation at any they desire, Mr. Jones added, d he was convinced of their in withing to get to the he case. He said that he thelr co-operation intimated that liquor Seized is was possible officials and prohibition officials could swork out m of the manner of dealing case between them, in a nner mutually satisfactery to all rned thing_that time claring cerity hottom o welcome on s of today” it sould in and is holding up de- its in the case at préesent, Mr. Jones continuad, was the imposSibil- ity to complete the report of the men ually engaged raid when Lynch was arrested. This report first Eoes through the hands of Edgar Read, in charge of the local division of prohibition agents, and thence up the line to Mr. Jones. This forms the Lasis of action. When that is re- ved the machinery of prohibition reement will start to move. The yeport must include anaysis of the liquor seized t analysis is being made tc Much Hangs on Anayisis. he 1 this analysis is completed. Mr. Jones said certainty that the liquer did ‘come from the Cuban the atfi of Lynch charges, without entire’ backing. is found to be bogus liquor, it muddled-up. condition Un absolute legation, - as is a ieard of n embas- sies around town,” Jones de- clared. “1 fail to . however, that any one with diplomatic im- munity was ever located in investi- gating such leaks. We are continu- ing on our check-up on liquor re- ipts in the establishments of for- gn governments in Washington. “The permits granted for the tran: portation of the liquor to the emba: Sies. of course, furnish our basis for S S R T however, of ascertaining officially— unless, perhaps, through an act of courtesy on the party of a foreign remresentative—what becomes of the liquor after it reaches an embassy. I do know. however., that much of the Jiquor mamed us ‘embassy liquor’ is really faked.” Eighty Cases Recelved So Far. Willingness to co-operate with pro- hibition authorities, aS far as his pe- culiar limitations as a diplomat would permit, was expressed today by Dr. Arturo Padro y Almelda. charge d'af- faires of the Cuban legation. Dr. Al- meida sald that he would welcome a fhrmal invitation from the prohibition authorities to discuss the case, and in Such event stood ready to lend any aid in his power in order to clear up the case, He volunteered the information that during the past vear only 300 cases of liquor came o the legation and said t cighty cases had been im- vorted since the first of this year, of which fifteen were left. He also an- nounced the prosecution of an inves- tigation in the legation, which thus far has been fruitless. In event that «ould be shown him that there was a leak at the embassy through a house servant or one not of the officlal fam- ily of employes at the legation, he said. an immediate discharge result Specific Complaint Lodged. Specific complaint against a diplo- Tatic establishment here alleged irregularities in of liquor supplies was lodged with 3igh oflicials of the Treasury more than a week ago. This came to light today during consideration of activ- ities of the prohibition unit, which is making a drive against illicit liquor in the District suspected of “leaking” from embassies or legations. Whether the complaint of alleged ir- Tegulari in disposal of diplomatic liquor of more than a week ago had any connection with the alleged charges against an employe at the Cuban lega- tion was not revealed. Neither was the name of the establishment first men- tioned specifically in the formal com- Pplaint made public. No. Although there was no doubt about specific charges having been made against a certain diplomatic establish- ment in the official report, this could by no means be taken, it was empha- sized by high Treasury officials, as a #eneral condemnation of the diplomatic establishments in the city. The com- plaint was not general, i was declared, but specific, and the public mind, there- sore, should not suspect all the diplo- matic corps, their establishments, mervants, attiches, because of charges made against one or two. Discussing the embassy liquor situ- ation generally, American officials de- clared today there was no doubt but that resal of liquor from oflicial stocks of a diplomatic establishme:.t, by a servant or other persons to an American bootlegger or the Ameri- «an public constituted a violation of the national prohibition act. Some Criticixm of Stock. On the other hand. it was explained that the only way to reach such vio- Jators was not through seizurcs and arrests by the prohibition arm of the American government, but through Tepresentations by the State Depart- ment. A sensational rumor of the huge £tock of whisky alleged to have been 1ald in by a legation here during the Christmas holiday was informally brought to the attention of high American officials today. These offi- ials, when informed that one lega- tion 'was charged by the rumor with having stored 2,000 cases of whisky just before Christmas for use as “presents” to Americans, rejoined with the statement that no reports cf «o large a stock had been recelved. There has been some criticism, how- cver, it was admitted, of the large amount of liquor brought in by certain ‘iplomatic establishments. neral Condemnation. A i sentences {orty ever, it was'admitted, of the Jarge amount of liquor bréught in by cer- tain diplomatic establishments. - 3 a U. S. DRIVE ON LIQUOR TRADE SHOWS RESULT Jail Sentences Act as Check on Violations Throughout the Country. 3 Attorney. General Daugherty's re- cent circular letter to United States attorneys throughout the country urging them to push all cases of li- quor law violations and to secure jail wherever possible is al- 1eady bringing results, according to reports received at the Department of Justice. and made public today. The districts that Jead in the number of Jail sehtences imposed, as compared with fines, are eastérn Arkansas, Idaho, western Miohigan and eastern Virgini. In the fifgeen months prior to De- cember 1, 1922, the reports show th ty of the eighty-eight judicia tricts fmr the United states imposed no jail sentences for violations of the national prohibition law, and it was after studying and analyzing these figures that Attorney General Daugh- issued ‘his “prodding” letter to the United States attorneys, FOWLER T0 FIGHT FOR VACCINE LAW Health Officer Fowler will oppose unalterably .any effort to repeal the act of Congress requiring the cination of public school children in Washington. Dr. Fowler made known his inten- tion today when he learned that let- ters were being sent to members of Congres§ by an out-of-iown organi- zation urging the repeal of the law and giving fourteen reasons why it should be taken off the statute books, “It would be nothing short of crimi- nal to abolish the ion law,” said the health officer. T have al- ways opposed vigorously any effort along this line, and will continue to oppose it to the last ditch.” Danger in Repenl. Dr. Fowler said that the wisdom of vaccinating the school children has been demonstrated by an increase in smallpox in_ certain' western cities that have repealed the law. Dr. Fowler further called attention to the fact that the United Court has upheld the cination laws similar in the District as states, Here are some of the vanced by opponents of in thelr letter to members of Congress: “The law is discriminatory. It ap- plies to school children but not to children or adults attending theaters or_other public gutherings “The requirement is cowardly. takes an unfair advantage of fact that the child must receive an education, It also applies to an age sroup when persons are less able 10 protect their rights than adults would be. vacei validity of vac- to that in effect entorced in Tt Rights Issue Ralsed. convincing proot | would | involving | the disposal | “The law does not exempt children in poor heaith, otwithstanding that many leading physicians have warned against the danger of vaccinating such persons “The law is un invasion of personal rights. It indirectly compels parents to subject their hildren to the diseased vaccinia at a_time when there Is no smallpox. The law creates a condition of un- re. among the peopl: The parent who does not beifeve in vaccination instinctively rebels against having pressure brought to bear on him to submit his children to what he re- gards as an unnecessary and danger- out procedure.” Dr. Fowler believes that it w difficult for any one to convince Con- gress that this law should be repealed. BELGIANS PRAISE DEPARTING YANKS Continued from First Page.) therefore, refrain from expressing her gratitude at this moment of de- parture. “The valiant American troops. numerous nd_disciplined, came to con tribute efficiently to re-establish the integrity and independence of Bel- giun With them on the battlefleld our own soldiers fought victoriously for the liberty of the world. The Belglans will keep memory those American fell upon Belgium's soil. We shall derive from our common souvenirs and our common bereavements a con- fiding and reciprocal affection that distance can never weaken.” The minister recalled the generous aid accorded by America to the civil population of Belgium, and said conclusion “We wish you bon voyage toward your America which in hours we felt to be so near us in thought and heart.” The first of the two special trains carrving American troops arrived here at 6:20 o'clock this morning, fol- lowed an_ hour later by the second train. The cars were switched at once to the dock where the St. Mihiel was tied up, and the men began to Loard the stéamer immediately. SAVANNAH PLANS FETE. ATLANTA, January 25.—Savannah is planning a tremendous ovation for the American soldiers, members of the Rhine Army of occupation, ex- pected to arrive at the Georgla port about February 7, according to a telegram received 'by Gov. Harwick from Paul E. Seabrook, mayor of Savannah. The message requested the chief executive to take part, and Gov. Hardwick indicated that he probably would accept. GOOD-BYE TO FRAULEINS. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1928. COBLENZ, January 25.—The greater part of the population of Coblenz gath- ered at the railroad station late Wed- nesday afternoon to see the American troops. leave. There was much weeping by young women and many forced jokes from glum-looking Yanks hanging out compartment windows and holding the girl [ left behind me” on the running board until the last moment. Then the station master tooted his horn and the trains of two sections started to the strains of “The Star Spangled Banner,” played by a French military bAnd, and disappeared amid the waving of hand- kerchiefs, the clicking of cameras, shouts of “auf wiedersehen,” good-bye, “come again,” and stiff salutes, Thus' the American zone of occupa- tion was virtually vacated by United States forces, and it only remains for Maj. Gen. Allen to write a letter to Gen. Degoutte formally announc- ing the departure of his command. The trains carried to Antwerp nearly 1,000 officers and men, leaving a few members of the staff and about fifty men in Coblenz to “mop up.” The Americans departed with a clean slate, all courts-martial cases having been disposed of. Officers tell the correspondent that the German attitude has been correct, and that the local authorities always respond- ed to American requests for supplies or marks.. To the end of December, 1922, the expense of the American occupation was about $292,250,000, of which the Germans paid, in marks or supplies and services, about 900,- in pious heroes who 1 000,000 marks, or 16 per cent. Directions to Maj. Gen. Allen, com- manding American. forces in Germany, to return all personnel not able to find accommodations on the transport St. Mihiel on the Shipping Board steamer America were canceled today by the War Department. Under the new order all personnel not returning on the . St jel will await ine structions from the department. dis- | States Supreme | other | the | | cupied | the German reparations {declares that immediate danger from ! 1 be | squares. Honds | other produc | and ! will win in this desperate struggle. the darkest | 1060 T0 SENATE Commissioners Recommend Auto Reciprocity and Al- ley Dwellings Measures. Senator Ball, chairman of the Dis- trict committee, will introduce two bills drafted by the District Commis- sioners and sent to him today. One provides for a tax on gasoline of 2 cents a gallon, with a registration fee of $1, which Is designed to bring about reciprocity In the matter of automobile licenses with Maryland. A similar bill was introduced in the House yesterday by Chairmian Focht of the District committee. The Mary- {land authorities have announced that | {it the is established in the Dis will agree to full reci- tax trict they procity in the matter of automobile licenses - The other bill would time in which the alley dwellings may be occupled in the District. Un- der existing law the alley dwellers are required to vacate by June 1. 1923, The bill proposes to extend time until November 14, 192 letter accompanying this District Commissioners say ing of alley houses at the time set would work unmeasurable hardship Senator Ball also received from the Commissioners & favorable report on & bill regently Introduced providing for the comprehenSive development of the park and playkrounds system of the National Capital. The bill calls for a compreh. tem for the District including parts of Maryland ginia. Tho Comm they are heartily in favor of the purpose of the bill POINCARE UNDER FIRE FOR HIS MILD MOVES (Continued from First Page.) extend the 4. In & bill. the “The clos- must hold to the end. have passed many trials and will one also. In the end we s torious from the world France's financial must be exploited neighbor is really financial situation we Our, in an One impossible an even say sition than is Franc TROOPS GO TO FRONTIER. Soldiers Being Withdrawn From Ruhr Cities. BY GEORGE WITTE By Wireless to The Star and Chi News. BERLIN, January troops are gradually drawn from the big cities in th Ruhr territory and concentrated along the frontier of the newly oc zone which is to rve as s gudranty for her share of payments. A correspondent of the Berl who has just made a trip centers in the Ruhr, there has been u re- markable change in the attitude of the French in the last few days. rarcely ngle soldier seen in the streets of Essen, Dort- nund, or the other cities,” telegraphs the correspondent, in describing the situation as_seen through German eyes. “The French troops are being kept in their billets all day and night, and apparently are under orders to avoid public gathering places such as cafes, restaurants, main streets and Even in their the German officials they have much more polite and modest demands But this does Although 16.000 car- and 5,000 carloads of went out of the Ruhr not a_single car left in the ion of France or Belglum. Trains Not Stopped. “But the French have made no at- tempt thus far to seize freight trains, or even to stop them. Within the g0 Daily being with- Fran special Tageblatt to the mining with become in making not_help them. of coal toda; dir | next few days this situation, in all probability, will have changed. It is v & question of a short time be- | fore the French will try to shut the | Ruhr basin off from the rest of Ger- many. If they succeed hard times will begin for the Ruhr population and also for the invaders, for then the Workingmen will carry out their threat and call a general strike. The masses wiil surge out into the stree soon the world will know who So far the French have lost the rst part of the battle et paral resistance offered by the Westphallan population. The second part of the battle begins tomorrow or the next day, and then the French L1 il find out that it is easy to torture in}one man, | that they cannot torture 4,000,000 peo- or even several men, ple and succeed, Deliberate Sabotage. * The spirit of ruthless dbflance which | characterizes the government's orders {to officials and mine owners in the Ruhr district to disobey the French | reached th instructions has now stage of deliberate sabotage. safely in their swivel chairs many Jong miles away from the scene of action, the Berlin officials are calmly Stirring up feelings against the reports published in the nation- alists’ newspapers show only too Clearly that the seed sown by the government is already bearing fruit. “Full restitution will be made for every cent of damage suffered as the result of compliance with official orders by owners and employes,” reads an official announcement signed by Chancellor Cuno. Spoiling Sympathy. In neutral circles here and even among the British in Berlin it is thought that the German government | not only | is going a little too far, in encouraging but also in assisting the population of the newly occupied areas in open resistance to the French and in attempting to harrass | them by sabotage. It is said in diplomatic circles here that should serious trouble break out as the re- sult of these tactics the German gov- ernment will be largely to blame. “The worst part of it is” said a member of the British mission in Berlin today ' “that Germany _is spoiling what sympathy was felt abroad for her cause by her present policy.” RUHR TRAINS PARALYZED; FRENCH DECIDE ON STEPS (Continued from First Page.) circumstances. They were also grant- ed an “occupation” indemnity of 9,000 marks each for January. POLES MAY RUN TRAINS. Ex-Soldiers Reported Ordered to Hold Selves Ready. LONDON, January 25—A semi- official news agency in Berlin is in receipt of information from Warsaw that the Polish war ministry has ordered men of the the Polish and former German armies, whose service time has expired and who are familar Wwith the operation of railways, mines, smelting works and postal services, to hold themselves at the disposal of the French government says a Reut- er's dispatch. The men will be shipped from Danzig to the Ruhr, the dispach re- Yports. They must be fully acquainted this | {With the 1 emerge | today. war. | tween embarrassment | western | Paris {not again that financially we are in a better po- | inx { the jone — French | but | the London government gives it is to he conferences {territory (from the rest of German {the on account of | {ston. ithe Sing | period of instruction of limited dura- It is generally expected that the | French, and the triumphant tone of | WEALTHY POTTER GIVES $4.000.000 BUSINESS TO HIS 'OLD EMPLOYES SUSTAV tu Inborers. German language and are guaranteed high wages. British Reach Understanding. A calmer view of Great Britan's this { position in the occupied zone is taken A friendly conversation be- Lord Crewe, the ambassador France, and Premier Poincare, at has’resulted in an understand- is said, that the British will placed in the embarrass- of seeming to indorse French policy, as was the case the Lazenaur incident at Cologr Nevertheless the morning newspa- pers remard the situation as a delicate and believe that avoidance of difficulties depends almost entirely upon the and discretion of the to ing, it in imen on the spot Avold Occastona. The British government has made no statement to allay public anxiety, it is understood that it will not nsent to British co application within the Cplogne area f any “sanctions” to which the French and Belgians agree, unless as- French to sent It now seems most that the French probable henceforth will _avoid awakening British feeling in this matter, and thus it is expected that the excitement occasioned by the ar rest of Herr Lazenaur is not likely to recur. SECOND PHASE OPENS. French Ready to Change Methods in Ruhr. By the Ansociated Press PARIS, January 25.—The departure of Gen, Weygand and M. Le Trocquer, minfster of public works, for the | Ruhr late last night marks the open- ing of the second phase of the oc- it is believed here. When the French entered the Ruhr the Paris government assumed that cupation, {the Germans would acgept the move as inevitable, but events have proved | the contrary. Therefore. the French, it is declared, are about to change their methods. In the first place. the will be put on a systematic basis. Ac will be practically cut it is understood that M. C occupying mission, plained to the go Degout does not collaborate satis- factorily with him. Lastly, it is point- ed out that the Rhineland commission acts independently of M. Coste and Gen. Degoutte. Weygand to Take Command. is to obtain a report on these that M. Le Trocquer and Gen. has com- nment that Gen 1t points Weygand have undertaken their mis- nothing definite but | will be decided until they return, but Consequently, generally assumes that occupation as a whole. M Loucher, the former minister of li erated regions, said to have de- clined to undertake the task. That France contemplates immedi- ate steps to strengthen her hand in the occupied area is seen in the an- rouncement that 3.750 railway men have been sent to the Ruhr “for a tion.” the services of other technical groups will be utilized when Gen. Weygand and the minister of public works have looked the ground over. Millerand Reafiirms Stand. France's determination to ‘“carry on" in her undertaking is reaffirmed | in the address by President Millerand to a deputation from the League of Patriots. “Victorious France demands from the conquered respect and the appli- cation of the treaties, nothing more,” the president said. “She has decided to obtain that. Her tenacity and calm will overcome every resistance.” President Millerand assured the dclegation of his confidence “in the firmness and coolness of the govern- ment” and exhorted them to have con- fidence in themselves. PINEY BRANCH CITIZENS REVIEW WORK OF YEAR The prevention of the erection of & tuberculosis school opposite the Macfarland Junior High School, re- moval of the tuberculosis Hospital on Upshur street, and the erection of schools and other buildings on the Upshur street tract, were three things toward which the school committe= of the Piney Branch Citizens' Assoia- tion had chiefly directed its endeavors in the last eighteen months, accord- ing to a report, read by C. R. Thomp- son, chairman of the commitiee, be- fore the association, at a short busi- ness session in the lowa Avenue Church, last night. {HARBORD RESIGNATION AGAIN UP IN HOUSE Discussion of the recent retirement from the Army of Maj, Gen. Harbord to accept the presidency of a radio corporation was renewed in the House yesterddy. Representative Dickinson, republican, Towa, declared that if Gen. Harbord felt he should get out of the Army “at the height of his efi- ciency” he should have resigned. Mr. Dickinson insisted “that his amendmeny to the Army, bill denying pay to retired officers 'engaged by corporations selling to the govern- ment was not “a direct slap” at Gen. Harbord. Numerous officers of the Army, he said, were employed by cor- porations manufacturing materials to be sold to the War Department and & pperation in the | occupation | ‘ording to some reports, the occupied T Seconaly. ste, head of gand will take command of HOTTIN President of the Northwestern Terra Cotta D. C. FINANCIAL BILL, CARRYING $24,469,985, PASSED BY SENATE ontinued fr which would give them a fair return on their investment. and by that law 1 repealed the old contracts of the for five-cent fares, Senator | MeKel aid: “We have a Public Utilities Com- mission which is virtually a part of the street car company. It does not represent the people, but the car com- panies. ,When the law was passed, it was supposed that the commission would reduce fares it has boosted them. This article |says that the Public Utilities Co mission announces that it is will ! to resign and let somebody else tac | this question. They ought to resign. They have no place there. They owe it 10 themselves and the people to re- sign.” | ‘Wadsworth Appeal Senator Wadsworth appealed from the n of the chair. He said that he knew nothing labout the merits of the controversy over the street rail fares, but the decision of the cl should stand it would create « bad precedent. Sen- ator Smoot of Utah agreed with Sen or Wadsworth, as did Senator Len- root of Wisconsin Senator Ashurst of Arizona upheld the McKellar amendment and de- jclared that “we should not permit the people of the National Capital to be exploited. In no other city are | the people 8o expioited as here, where { exorbitant prices are charged for gas, electricity and telephones.” Senator McKellar modified his lamendment by striking out the part which said that after February 1923, the street car companies shall Ruling. of New dect York 5 cents a passenger, shall be sold for 25 cents. Vice President Overruled. At 1 o'clock, in accordance with the agreement to end debate on the Dis- trict bill and ail amendments, a vote was taken on the appeal of Senator Wadsworth, from the decision of the Vice President holding the McKellar amendment in order. The Senute, by a vote of 36 to 32, overruled t { President, and the McKellar ment was lost, through being held out of order. The next for vote wa ment provic seventy terson tract was adopted The McK ing to amendment to come up the committee amend- ng for the purchase of es in the so-called Pat- for on a viva-voce vote. lar amendment propos- ger automobiles for the use of Dis- trict officials and employes was then taken up. to be voted on en bloc. Senator McKellar has contended that automobiles are being used in the District by federal officials as w as District officials in a wasterul ARd extravagant way. a record vote on his amendment. Without a dissenting vote, the Senate yesterday afternoon added an amend- ment offered by the appropriations com- public school buildings and sites $760,- 000. The House appropriation carried $700,- 000, which, with the additional $760,000 made by the Senate yvesterday, brings the total addition to $1,460,000. An amendment proposed by the com- mittee, providihg for a new $300,000 building in Judiciary Square to house the recorder of deeds office, the Munici- pal Court and the Juvenile Court, was also adopted. The committee amendment providing $25,000 for the purchase of a site for the brench of the. free public library in Mount Pleasant was adopted. ! Girl®’ Training School. ! Another amendment adopted repeals existing law placing the proposed home of the feeble-minded at Blue Plairs, D. C. and authorizes its location some other site, either in the District, Virginia or Maryland. Another amendment, adopted, au- thorizes the board of trustees of the National Training School for Girls to purchase a tract of land of not more than 160 acres in the District, Maryland or Virginia, and to erect thereon two buildings’ for that Insti- tution. The sum of $62,000 is appro- priated. The amendment providing for new school buildings and sites adopted by the Senate is as follows: “For the purchase of a site for |a sixteen-room building between { Georgia avenue and 16th street north- west, north of Park road. $60.000. “For the erection of an eight-room extensible building on a site to be purchased In the vicinity of Georgla avenue and 16th street northwest, north of Park road, $130,000. New Building Provided. “For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including _com- bination assembly hall and gymnasi- lum on a site to be purchased in the vicinity of and to relieve the Tenley School, $160,000. “For beginning the erection of a lllxleen-room building_to replace the | old John M. Cook School, $100,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contracts for building at a cost not $250,000, “For the purchase of a new site on which to locate a junior high school, between 20th street and Rock Creek and K and O streets northwest, or vicinity, $50,000. “For the purchase of land adjoin- ing_the Ludiow School, $15.000. “For the purchase of a site on which nor such to exceed to locate a junior high school, of Lincoln Park, $50,000. “For the purchase of land adjoining the Dunbar High School, $100,000. King Favors Program. I nish pany, largest in the world, will | over the company to thirty-six axsistants, xome of whom were once duy |beyond Buchanan street. Instead of that| | the it A |receive a rate of fare not exceeding and six tickets ark purposes. This rike from the bill items for | purchase and maintenance of passen- | He demanded | mittee increasing the appropriation for on | BUS LINE OFFERED [ANT-SKLOON LEAGUE _ | SANFORDIS NANED TOWALTER REED Capital Traction Assures Service, if Desired, Until Tracks Are Extended. "The Capital Traction Company to- day made an offer to the Public Util- ities Commission to establish motor bus service from the end of the 14th street car line, west to 16th street pital. This proposition was advanced by John H. Hanna, vice president of the company, at & hearing called by the commission to consider an application of 16th street citizens for an exten- sion of bus service on that thorough- fare beyond Buchanan street. At present the Washingtdn Rapld Transit Company runs busses to 16th and Buchanan streets. Mr. Hanna made it clear, however, that the company would withdraw such bus service as soon as 14th street is extended northward and the existing ariine is extended. Ready for Car Tracks. The Cagfital Traction Company, he said, stands ready to ‘begin laying car s northward as soon as Congress enacts the legislation for the opening {of idth street. “But if the commission believes ad- ditional service is needed immediately,” said the traction official, “‘we will fur- the bus service with the under- standing that it would be withdrawn when car tracks are lald.” Mr. Hanna also stated that his com- | pany is considering running busses from 14th and Kennedy streets into Rock Creck Park to the proposed new public golf course. n this connection president of the Wa and Electric Company, reminded the commission that his system already operates motor busses into the park on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, and that is has also considered running these busses to the vicinity of the proposed golf links. Asks Bus Extension. John D. Rhodes and E. R. Woodson appeared in behalf of the Sixteenth Street Highlands Citizens’ Assoclation to ask for bus service on 16th street Mr. Rhodes said he was not particular about who should operate the busses as long as the service is furnished. W. F. Holmes also appeared from the Sixteenth Street Heights Asso- tion to ask for the bus line, eiting reasons why better transportation fa- cilities should be afforded the new residences west of Georgla avenue and north of Buchanan street William MecK. Clayton, representing Brightwood association, supported the bus line. He said the failure of the commission to grant transfer privi- leges between the two car companies at Georgla avenue and Kennedy street was an added reason for the bus service on_16th street. The commission took the matter un- der advisement. William F. Ham, hington Railway erect a new school to replace the Brightwood School, $20.000. “For the purchase of a site near Rittenhouse and 5th streets north- west, $30,000. For the purchase of a site ‘north of Webster street and east of Georgia avenue, $45,000." When these school items came up | for consideration Senator King of | Utah, 2 member of the joint congres- sional committee on public schools, said that he regretted the committee { had not made its report. He said that {he believed a comprehensive school building program should be adopted for the District, costing perhaps six ior eight or ten millions of dollars, to | be expended in the next few vears. | He said he feared that the buildings jnow proposed might not be in accord- rance with the recommendations of the Joint committee. Senator Ball pointed out that it would be unwise to delay appropri- ations for school buildings now, =o much needed, when the joint commit- tee has not yet made its report, and there is no telling how soon it will make it. He said that he had urged {the joint committee to make a report was taken up. Senator Phipps, in charge of the District bill, pointed out that all the |buildings now proposed were “ex- tensible.” and could be made larger to meet the requirments of the report of the joint committee, if that report calls for larger school buildings Senator McKeller, Tennessee, want- ed to know whether, when the build- ings now proposed had been erected there will be enough school build- ings in the District of Columbia. garrhere will not” replied Senator ted during the war and it will take several years to catch up with the needs of the school system here." “It is a remarkable situation,” re- piied Senator McKellar, “that in the capital of the greatest nation of the world there should not be enough school buildings for the children.” Other committee amendments of- {fered from the floor of the Senate, which were adopted, follow 1 Making it possible to pay the trav- eling expenses necessary for / the proper inspection of dairy farms. Other Amendments. Authorizing the admission of pa- tients to the tuberculosis hospital for care treatment at such ratés as may be established by the District of Columbia Commissioners. the money So received to be paid into the Treasury. Authorizing the admission of pa- tients to the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, at rates to be fixed by the | District ' Commissioners, the money s0 received to be paid into the Treas- {ury. i Directing the board of engineers to submit before the first of the next regular session of Congress a report | recommending such medifications in the existing _project for Anacostia Park above Behning bridge as now may appear desirable and in the in- terest of economy. Excluding some of the property not now desired from the total area to be acquired for Potomac Park-Rock Creek parkway. Authorizing the purchase of Klingle valley park tract and the Piney Branch valley park tract. A separate vote will be taken on the proposed purchase of the Patterson tract. i | JAuthorizing the District Commission- ers to make a complete restudy of the highway system of the District outside of the built-up portions. —_— 3 MORE SUITS ARE FILED { IN KNICKERBOCKER CASE Additional Claims Growing Out of Disaster Total $30,000—Thirty- One Actions Started. Legal representatives of three more victims of the Knickerbocker Theater |dlu!ter today filed suits of $10,000 damages each. Henry M. Hagelbar- ger, executor of the estate of Louls W. Strayer; Irene P. Jackson, ad- ministratrix of her husband, Danlel K. Jackson, and William Musser, ad- ministrator of Gertrude E. Taylor, are the plaintiffs. The defendants are Knickerbocker Theater fi?mvlny, Harry M. Crandall, John . Ford, Union Iron Works and the. District of Columbia. Attorneys Charles A. Joseph W. Cox and Conrad Douglas, H. Syme, and trence north to Walter Reed Hos-, before the present appropriations bill | “There were no school buildings, | OPPOSES LONGWORTH The Anti-Saloon League apparently i8 taking a hand in the contest over the selection of republican House leader in the next Congress. Several republican representatives-elect to the next House have received letters i from the Rev. Dr. Homer T. Pope,| president of the Pennsylvania Anti- | Saloon League, suggesting that Nich- | olas Longworth in his service In the | Ohlo legisiature and the national | House of Representatives has voted | against legislation which would in- | terfere ' with the liquor trafc. It was added that the drys of Pennsyl- vania would not want him elected to the House leadership Friends of Mr. Longworth, to whose | attention this letter was called, said today that the answer to it is that two of the most radical drys in Ohio, Senator Willis and Senator-elect Fess, were favorable to his candidacy for the House leadership and that only two members of the entire Ohio re- publican delegation in Congress were opposed to it. KU KLUX HEARING ENDSAT BASTROP Defense Mtornéy Charges None of Testimony Adduced Is Legal. By the Associated Press. BASTROP, La., January :5.—The state’s open hearing here into the so- called “Morehouse hooded atrocities,” investigating floggings, deportations, kidnapings and the death of two men, was concluded today, after having Dbeen in progress since January 5 Judge William Barnette, counsel for Dr. B. M. McKoin, T. Jeff Burnett and “Newt" Gray, identified by nu- merous witnesses as having been members of various masked parties, also issued a statement attacking the legality of the hearing and the testi- mony given by those summoned to the stand Leon Jones*of Moselle. Miss., the last and only witness today, told of having seen two cars with masked men near Lake la Fourche the night Watt Daniel and T. F. Richards were kidnaped near Bastrop. Two bodies, identified as those of Daniel and Richards were found floating in the lake on December Before adjourning of the hearing Attorney General Coco made a state- to the court concerning out- in _the Parish, charging the Kiux Klan with responsibilfty for them. Judge Barnette’s Statement. Judge Barnette's statement, the first formal comment from the defense, follows, in part “The statute does not provide that witneeses may be drawn before a court and grilled and cros examined but in order that their depositions may be taken. * ¢ ¢ “None of this has been done in this case; therefore, this whole pracecding. in my judgment, is a nullity, and the testimony adduced c: nat be legally used in any proceed s whatsoever. It cannot even be used legally before a grand jury. It would be hearsay. and any bill of indictment predicated upon this testimony would be quashed by the court. * * ¢ Attacks “Corpus Delictl.” “The corpus delicti has not been es- tablished to a reasonable certainty, to | sar nothing of the rule that it must be { established beyond a reasonable doubt Two bodies were found in Lake La Fourche, the coroner of the parish, Dr. 0. M. Patterson, a man of unquestion- {able Integrity and standing both as a icitizen and as a physician, was not permitted to make any them. He never got closer than forty feet to the bodies while they were yet in the water, and he was told that he couid not make further examination . | while at the same time two pathologists | seemed to have already been arranged with, even prior to the finding of the bodies, who were to come and make an examination which would disclose great { brutality, etc., as to the manner in which the bodies found came to their !death. And it might be said here that i their testimony was not at all disap- pointing in this regard. “There i1s more than a douli as to the identity of these bodies which is ,emerlamed in the minds of the people generally. Those who heard the tes- { timony without exception entertained {=uch doubt, and after the pathologists {had made their full report ‘on the matter there was a general unbelief | left upon the minds of all fair-minded people. = & o “Many nesses were called to con- nect various and sundry persons with ithe mob that kidnaped and carried laway Danfel and Richard, and the test produced shows every earmark jof having been worked up by agents of the Department of Justice and was so contlicting that it destroyed itself. It was manifest from the very begin- ning that the real wotive behind the prosecution was to convict the Ku Klux Klan in the forum of public opinion. without regard as to wheth- er or not the perpetrators of the crime will be uncovered. “Without exception there was no{ material or vital point against any individual establishment, except by the most partisan testimony, and tes- {timony which could not stand the {fire of cross-examination or the tes- timony of character necessary to give it verity { Klan Activities Probed. “The activities of the Ku Klux Klan were gone into with great pain, and {in my judgment, the evidence does {not sustain the charge that they are responsible for this crime or had Znything to do with it. There are other activities of minor importance in which immorality and lawlessness were being practiced, that they per- haps did take some part, but in no case 15 a_crime or misdemeanor dis- | Closed where it is definitely shown that the Ku Klux Klan took any {part and in no instance has any 1tually been shown, except in further- “As a lawyer, having had a good {many years' experience in the prac- tice, and several years' experience as a district attorney and as a district judge, T am of the opinion that this proceeding, as it has been carried on, is an abuse of the law. I do not mean that in every instance and with every witness there was an abuse of the law or the machinery of the court, but in a number of instances during this proceeding methods were adopted which cannot be sanctioned by either the judicial or the lay mind. * * ¢ Great Harm to State. “The state of Louisiana, and espe- clally Morehouse parish, has been done incalculable harm by the pub- llicity of sensational matter, 90 per cent of which has been without any substantial foundation whatever; and from all of the evidence of the hear- ing and the manner by which it was conducted it Impresses the reason- able mind that a great stage play has been given the public, with other mo- tives behind it rather than the desirs on the part of the governor to really | Kno examination of | ance of the enforcement of morality. | fand would continue bring the guilty parties to trial. “I have one other thing to say, and that is that the persons who have been named as having been connected “Fof the purchase of a site near|who filed the twenty-eight suits yes- | with this kidnaping affair will prove law was needed to cover the subject. the Brightwood School on Which to |terday, appear for the plaintiffs. their unqualified innocence when we FOR HIGH COURT Tennessee Jurist’s Nomina- tion Is Sent to Senate by the President. EDWARD TERRY SANFORD. Edward T. Sanford, United States district judge for the eastern and mid- die districts of Tennessee since 190% was nominated yesterday by Presid Harding to be associate justice of Supreme Court to fill the caused by the retirement of Pitney. Judge Sanford is a recognized au thority in the legal profession, whic he entered in 1838, after receiving de grees at the University of Tennesses and Harvard. He is a former vice president of the American Bar Asso- ciation, and served as an assistant attorney general of the United State« under President Roosevelt. He is republican and is fifty-seven old. vac Justice ve Fourth Nominee. The nomination, if confirmed. give Tennessee two members of thas highest court and will restore th political balance of six republican and three democrats which obtained when President Harding took office The other member from Tennessee is Justice McReynolds, a democrat, ap pointed by President Wilson. Judge Sanford, who is a native of ille, where he now lives, is the member of the court to be named by President Harding. Justice Pitney’s “retirement, authorized by a special act of Congress, because of phy- sical disability, became effective Janu- ary 1. and it was indicated today that “nate leaders would seek action at once on the nomination of Judge San- ford so that the court can proceed to important pending cases with a ful bench. fourth Wide Public Serviee. connection with his long in the legal profession, Judge In vice ser- {Sanford has devoted much attention to education and to public affairs. He lwas for ten years a lecturer in law at the University of Tennessee, and now is a trustee of that institution. He has served as president of the board of trustees of the George Peabody College for Teachers, and was one of the founders of the Knoxville Gen- eral Hospital. A number of papers of note on lega! and other subjects have been writte by him, and he has delivered man lectures in various parts of the country. TURKS TO BE GVIEN ULTIMATUM PACT _(Continued from First Page.) | peril the success of the conferencc and endanger allied agreement Lord Curzon told Marquis di Gar- roni of Italy and M. Bompard of France that it was impossible for him to remain indefinitely at Lausanne: that he was in duty bound to return to London, resume hia work at the foreign office and be present for the parliament session. Moreover, Lord Curzon pointed out all the questions bearing upon the proposed treaty have been discussed to the full limit at Lausanne If by February 2 the Turks have not signed the treaty but ask for more time the allied delegations will leave Lausanne just the same, the British say, but Wiil return at a later date in case the Turks express the wish to affix their signatures to the document Great Britain's proposed appeal to the league of nations aguinst Turkey was the subject of a long conference between Lord Curzon and Sir Erfo Drummond, secretary general of the league. Agree on Exchanges. Complete AgRreement has been reached the problem of the ex- change of populations, whereby the Turk in Greece will be moved to Turkey, and the Greeks in Turke: who are Ottoman subjects, will be sent back to Greece. The Turks have consented not to insist upon the ex- pulsion of the Greeks who retain their Hellenic nationality, and have on |also withdrawn their claim that the western boundary of Western Thrace | should be the Struma instead of the Mesta. tinople, exchange. Another clash occurred between the British and Turks over the men burled in Gallipoli. The Turks announced that the cemeteries of the British dead must be made smaller; they were willing, they said, to discuss the lay- ing out of new cemeteries elsewhere than in Gallipoli. The British delegates characterized this demand as an Insult, saying that British forces now occupied Gallipoli to occupy it whatever happened, until assurances were received that their soldier dead would remain undisturbed. The allies have abandoned their de- mand for the expenses of the occupa- tion of Turkey, and have reduced the reparation bill to £15,000,000. Western Thrace, excluded from like Constan- the general have an opportunity of speaking be- fore a court of justice.” Coco Insues Statement. The attorney general, who ad- dressed the court immediately before adjournment, declared that since the advent of the Klan in the parish, there had arisen a “condition of dis- order and lawlessness, which has ripened into a suprecession of con- stituted authorities by the Ku Klux Klan and the establishment of a government of its own.” The parish. he added, “was on the brink of riot and bloodshed” when Gov. Parker sent troops here and initiated the in- vestigation. p Mr. Coco declared that while it might be conceded many Klansmen did not actually participate in acts of lawlessness, “they nevertheless may be deemed responsible therefor by reason of their silence and inaction]