Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1923, Page 1

‘WEATHER. A Raln today; tomorrow fair; Bo in tture. . Temperature for 22 10 p.m. last night: Hi est; 34, Full report on page 5. hours ende ighest, 40; 1 d at ow~ No. 931.—No. 28,762. Entered as sacond-class matt post office Washington, D, lat. he & WASHINGTON, D. ‘C., SUNDAY MORNIN SPORADIC VIOLENCE(MEDIATE OR SEE WAR, MARKS FULL TIE-UP OF RUHR RAILROADS Frenéh Ignorance of German Block System Causes De- railments and Wrecks. DUESSELDORF OUTBREAK QUELLED BY CAVALRY Sentries Fired On in Duisburg and Ratingen—Dr. Gruetzer to Be Held Responsible. Er tie Associated Press. After three da; of comparative auiet, the Ruhr valley for a time Saturday evening was-threatened with disorder, when a demonstration was started by crowds of young men in Duesseldorff, ! ut French cavalry prompt- ly dispersed the youths. Other disorders of a more or less minor character in various parts of the occupied zone were quelled with little difficulty. Railroad traffic in the occupied region has virually ceased. The strike of rail- tway workers has been carried into the Coblenz bridgehead area almost coinci- dentally with the taking over of the territory by the French after the de- parture of the American forces. The Ruhr coal output Friday was ectimated at about 145,000 toms, com- pared with the normal daily figure of approximately 220,000 tons. A tour of inspection of the occupied territory has just been concluded by Gen. Wevgand, Marshal Foch’s chief of staff. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January Complete disorganization prevails on the rail- way system in the occupled area, ac- cording to advices from. Essen, as a result of the iIntervention of the French and the resultant walkout of the German rallway employes. Most of the regularly scheduled trains already lrave.ceased running, while the others continue to arrive several hours late. As the French do rot understand the German block signal and switching system, the dispatches say, they freely resort to the use of crowbars, with which the awltches are forcibly pried open, thus ruining the trackage and causing frequent derallments. Strikers to Be Patd. The German railway employes who ate not working will be guaran- teed regular wages by tho German government, which also, it is under- atood, agrees to Indemnify all Ger- man cltizens in the civil service for damages or injuries suffered because of the French occupation. Orders issued by the French mili- tary authorities directing local re- tail merchants to serve the occu- pational forces are being generally ignored. it is satd, and shopkeepers tn all lines of trade have virtually agreed to boycott French and Bel- glan nationals. SENTRIES FIRED ON. No Casualties Reported in Several kd Disorders. By the Associated Press. DUESSELDORF, January 27.—Spor- adic disorders of a minor nature oc- rred this evening in the Rubr val- French sentries in Duisburg and Tatingen were fired upon. French cavalry broke up an attempted dem- onstration by a few hundred young men in DuesSeldorf. None of the in- cidents resulted in casualties. The French authorities, taking cog- nizance of these signs of efferves- cence, informed Dr. Gruetzner, presi- dent of Rhenish Prussia, that he would be held responsible for such manifestations. Dr. Gruetzner re- plied that ho had issudd orders for the Germans to refrain from using in- sulting language to the French troops, but that he was in favor of manifestations, as such, provided they were limited to street parades and the singing of patriotic hymns. Coal Goes Into Germany. As a result the situation is sgain strained botween Gruetzner and the french occupational authorities. Fri- day's total outturn of coal in the Ruhr was about two-thirds of nor- mal, it was learned today. Ten-ton cars to the number of 14,534 were loaded, as axainst the normal number of 22,000. The French permitted® the shipment into unoccupled Germany of 18,006 loaded cars. The miners, hesitating bstween their desire to continue at werk, so us to earn a Iiving, or to obey Berlin's strike orders, are represented as placing little credence in the mag- nates’ promise to.continue thelr sal- aries In tho event of cessation of work. The rallroad strike s fully ef- tective, and passenger service is ab- solutely at & standstill, except for trains manned by French crews, one of which left for Paris and another ror Mayence teday. 1,000'Rejocted as Soldiers. It is reported Here that young men to the number of 1,000 who recently Joft tifs Rubr for the purpose of en- listing. in the roichswehr were re- jected by the German Cargmander at Muenster, and -that they" thereupon Jyecame -po unruly that the Muenster :.uthorities -placed” them. on special ccpain_mn on Page \!ohm §.), 3 iy ) French and Teutons Anxious for Move, It Is Reported. England Declared Ready to Give Assistance When Invited. BY ROBERT F. SMALL. Tntervention by the United States or another thirty years war in Europe! That is the situation today, as viewed in Washington by informed students of the Turopean siuation. | New word has come to the State De- jpartment that despite some public ut- { terances to the contrary, both France and Germany would welcome & move of | intervention by this country These ad- vices have not come through regular diplomatic channels, but it is known they have reached the President and Secretary Hughes. If the United States stand aslde and maintains her present policy of com- plete_silence, it s declared in confi- IS TIP REACHING U. S. Idea of Intervention| Revived by Debate | in Senate. Owen Says People Would Approve Action by Washington. By the Associated Press. The storm centering about the situation in Europe and Amerlca’s relations to it, which is expected to break in the Senate early this week, was foreshadowed yesterday by an hour of debate, in which the French invasion of Gern 1y was both eriti- | cisgd and defende: H leaders in the movement to bring about a rene of the discussion | of Turopean affairs and the attitude Qf the American government allowed yesterday's discussion to go by with- out their participation in it. Sena- tor McCormick, republican, Iilinois, was prepared to address the Senate! on_the ¥uropean. situation as as- i { | i | (Continusd on Page 4, Column 3.) LEAGUETOALTER FAMOUSARTICLE X Parliamentary Approval of All War Engagements to Be Provided For. WILL TALK REPARATIONS Mosul Question Also on Program for Meeting of Council Monday. BY WARRE B. WELLS. By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune. Copyright, 1923, PARIS, January 27.—The two out- standing questioris to be taken up when the council of the |league of nations assembles hers Monday will be reparations and Mosul._ This will be the firat session.of the councll since it was enlarged to tnclude rep- resentatives of ten nations instead of eight. The session opening Monday will also raise the important point in con- nection with the constitution of the league of nations. The council of ten_will be called on to decide the | detalled steps to be taken in order to have a report ready for the mext assembly on the Canadlan proposal looking toward the amendments to article X, to which the original op- position of the United States to the league pact was chiefly due. The Canadian proposal submitted to the last assembly calls for amend- ments in article X in two directione. Amendments Proposed. First, it is proposed that any recommendations from the council re- garding the preservation of the ter- ritorial integrity or the political in- dependence of any state should take into account political and geographi- cal clrcumstances if a state is in- vited to give ald. The second of these vital amendments is that, while any recommendation from the coun- cil should be considered of the high- est importance among members of the league, at the same time no mem- ber should be under obligation to cngage In any act of war without consent of its parliament. In accordance with the decision taken at the last Geneva assembly on the ini- tiative of the British and French rep- resentatives, the number of non-per- manent members has been increased from four to six. In addition to the big four permanently represented, England, Fraunce, Italy and Japan, and the four states which served last year as non-permanent members, Belglum, Brazil, China and Spain, the two new members, Sweden and Uru- | guay, which were elected by the last assembly, will now appear for the first time. This introduces to the stage, as the colleague of Balfour, Viviani, Salandra and Adatcl, the in- teresting personality of Branting, the Swedish premier. Reparations Question. Owing to the motion of the Septem- ber session, backed by De Jouvenel and Lord Robert Cecil, the French and British representatives at the assembly, there {s a standing Instruc- tion that the league of nations should watch along on the reparations que: tions, but Branting is oredited with the inténtion of raising the question here in a more positive form. It is thought that he will take the Inftiative along the lines of & standing instruction that the league of nations examine the: reparations question, with the participation of all interested nations. In view of the fact that.France already has turned down the British reparations plan put forward at the premiers’ conference in Paris, one feature of which was the reforming of the reparasions commission into an organisations, with the participation of Germany and neutrals as waell as the United States, it may be taken for ‘granted that a preposal such ag that credited to Branting will e up| agaffist the irm opposition of France. Unanimous Decision Needed. The decisions of the council must be unanimous to be effective, so that France's veto would rule out Brant- ing's plan. The coundil, however, generally itries to work along the (Continued on Page 4, Column 4) Ottoman Delegation Puts Ban (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) U.S. POLICY BRINGS TURKISH OPEN DOOR 1 | i | on Any Form of Reparations. RUSSIANS ARE ADMITTED | { Soviets Promise to Establish Na- tional Home for Armenians. By the Associated Press. LAUSANNE, January 27.—The pol- icy of the open door In Turkey as advocated by the United States at the near eastern conference was rat- ified by the allles tonight in the form of & declarstion Tead by M. Bompard to the conference, declaring that Turkey was obliged to. follow the advice of the council on the Otto- man debt in the matter of conces- slons in Turkey. This declaration, the American which satisfied representatives and which goes on the official records, was made at the last hour of an amazing session, which only served to bring out the large number of points on which the allies and the Turks are divided. Turks Ban Reparations. The open-door question arose in connection with the démand of the allies that Turkey pay to the allles 15.000,000 Turkish pounds of gold as reparation to allied cltizens for dam- ages sustained during the war. When the allled draft of the protocol pro- viding for the details of this pay- ment, which, by the way, Turkey today abeolutely refused to make in any form, reached Ambassador Child yesterday, he found in ft a clause that the Turkish government should ask the opinion of the coun- cil on the Ottoman debt with refer- ence to all contracts for new con- cessions or the extension of old con- | cesslons. Ambassador Child immediately con- ferred with the allied leaders and pointed out that this provision col- lided with the open door. In con- sequence M. Bompard tonight read a declaration that it was far from the allles’ intention to strike any| | New Hampshire Representa- | SQUASH CEN Star. JANUARY 28, 1923—EIGHTY-SIX PAGES. ¢ ER DISCUSSES THE RUE IR INVASIO; S.EBURROUGHS ~ ™OPAY™ STAR PROVIDE INCREASE DEAD OF CRIPPE | | PART ONE—24 Pages. General News—Local, Natlonal, Schools and Colleges—Page 22. Financial News—Pages 26 and 27. Cl;sllfiad Advertisements—Pages 28 to Foreign. PART TWO0—16 Pages. Editorials and Editorlal Featur | Washington and Other Soclety. tive Succumbs Suddenly at Home Here. | { REPRESENTATIVE BURROUGHS. Representative Sherman E. Bur- roughs of the first New Hampshire distriot, died suddenly late tonight at his home, 1847 Kalorama road, here after an {llness with the grippe. The immediate cause of death was sald to be congestion of the lungs. He had been a member of Congress since 1917 and was fifty-two years of age. For several days Mr. Burroughs had been improving, but he suffered a relapse and the end came quickly. Mrs. Bur- roughs and two sons were at the bed- side. ! Mr. Barroughs was elected as a republican from Manchester to suc- ceed the late Cyrys A. Sulloway. He previously had been a member of the ‘ontinued on Page 3, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 7, Column §.) Bandits Rob Gracery, Pursuing Detective “Holds Up” Street Car Two highwaymen held three clerk and three customers at bay whflo[ they rifled the cash register of $120 in bllls in the Sanitary Grocery at 20th and H streets shortly after 8 o'clock last night. But the real hold-up was no more thrilling than a dramatic anti-climax staged by Detective Donald Murphy of the third precinct when, with drawn revolver, he boarded a street car on which it was thought the hold- up men wers making their escape But that's getting ahead of the story. When the bandits entered the gro- cery store one of them. strolled over to a counter where Clerk Willlam'J. Fisher of Cherrydale, Va., was doling out groceries to the customers. He pushed his way to the front, Angers Woman Customer. “T'm first,” snapped a woman, indig- nant at the man taking a positio ahead of her. The clerk looked up. Out snapped a revolver. It was in the hands of the sscond bandit, & large man, with a light overcoat and & dark gray cap. “Hands up,” he yelled. *“No meove or I " _ He spoke with & for- elgn accent. His partner—who had Just been reprimanded by the woman customer—whisked -around to the cash register and took out $120. Then hé robbed the woman cus tomer of $2.10. The robbers' atten- tion wandered to the safe.. They wanted it opened up. “Why, I haven't the ke; tered the two—" “Hey, there comes Mr. Miller In the door now,” said Brooks. The hold-up men didn't wait. They left with speed and Brooke' strategy had sayed $25 in the safe and the personal funds in the clerks’ and the customers’ pockets. There had been a false alarm at 20th and I streets, nearby. A crowd had gathered, and Precinot Detective Donald Murphy of Neo. 3 precinct was among those present. Up to him rushed & woman and a man. They told the story of the hold-up; they had seen the hold-up men get on a street car; they were heading east on Pennsylvania avenue. 'Into an automobile hopped Murphy, - accom- panied by Fisher, the clerk. They sped down Pennsylvania avenue, passed one street car and scanned the passengers from the windows. The crooks were not among those present. They reached a second” car. ' Fisher thought he saw the men en board. At 15th street, Just north of the Treasury, the street car stopped. Tnto the car rushed’ Murphy with revolver drawn. He held up the can Passengers thought him a bandit and began feeling for their wallets. One dropped his to the ground and put his foot on it. Another secrsted his on the window sill and put his arm ov- er ft. largest - robder. “One, men were not aboard, Two men whe looked like them had esused the mis- Girls and Their Affalrs—Page 13. Serlal Story, “The Scarlet Tanager'— Page 13. D. A. R. Activities—Page 13. Community Center Events—Page 14. Radlo News and Gossip—Page 14. Avlation Activities—Page 14. Musical Mention—Page 15. PART THREE—12 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Motors and Motoring. Fraternities—Page 5. Book Reviews—Page 6. World and Spanish War Veterans-- Page-7, PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. ROTOGRAVURE—S Pages. World Events in Pictures. - COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mr. and Mrs. PHYSICIAN ORDERS DAUGHERTY TOBED Says Heavy Cold Not Serious if Rest, Probably for Three Weeks, Is Taken. Attorney General Daugherty, who has been suffering from a heavy cold, ‘has been ordered to bed by his physician for a “rest,” which may keep him away from his office for two or thres weeks. He sald that a high blood pressure had developed, although he did not | | consider his condition serious, if proper precautions are taken. Until some of his present symptoms @isappear, the Attorney General will be permitted to attend to only the most pressing business and will not leave his apartment at the hotel which has been his home since he came to Washington. Recently Mr. Daugherty had a short vacation at French Lick, Ind, but after his return to Washington two weeks ago he contracted a cold and since then has been kept away from his desk intermittently. Until yester- day, however, he had been able to spend & part of each day in his office, and his physicians said last night that the de- cision to keep him in bed had been due rather to his general condition than to any sudden change for the worse. Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the White House physician, is attendiig Mr. Daugherty and it 1s undérstood to have been in re- sponse to his insistent order that the Attorney General finally agreed to give up for a time the attention he has given to detalls of the work of his office. - Dr. Sawyer sald last night that he could not predict how long a rest might be re- danger in the situation. /IND.C. GUARD UNIT 2,219 Is Peace-Time Figure Set by Committee of Officers. | | ! | 1 Increase in the peace-time quota {of the National Guard of the District of Columbia will result from the rec- ommendations of & committes of Na- |tional Guard and general staft om- {cers who have been studylng the whole guanl problem from a national | standpoint for more than & year. The i“m" was made public last night, The board recommended for the en- tifs country a minimum peace | Strength of 250,000 troops ‘and the {reoommendulon' have beén approved i by Becretary Weeks of the Wa#é De- 1 partment. In the distribution of troops the District of Columbia will be allowed |to recruit a peace strength of 2,219 {men, Organizations now allotted to thig city call for approximately 1,200 |men and consist of seven infantry jcompanies, six of which are organ- ized now; five are artillery organiza- tions, two coast artillery companies, one military police company and one machine gun platoon. Detalls under the proposed new organization have not vet been made public. 22 Divisions Planned. The plan outlined by the commit- tec was based on an efficlent organi- zation of eighteen infantry and four cavalry divisions and, for the coun- try; would mean & reduction from the present authorized paper strength of the National Guard, which is 435, 000 men. In addition to the Infantry and cavalry divisions, the guard, un- der the plan submitted, would con- sist of 130 companies of harbor defense troops, twelve infantry regi- ments to be allotted, and other units necessary to a well balanced force, such as tanks, anti-alr forces and |artillery unita The committee recommended that the strength of the guard be appor- tioned, so far as practicable, among the states in proportion to the num- ber of members of the House of Representatives, and that provision should be made to maintain all or- ganizations heretofore recognized, and for the completion of organiza- tions in process of formation. ‘War Department plans for organ- ization of the guard, under the mill- tary bureau were approved by the committes &8 “sound in principle” and “proceeding satisfactorily subfect to the limitations imposed” by the funds appropriated. Effective Force Sought. “Sound principles of organisation and plans for the employment of the National Guard on mobilization in the event of a national emergency,” said the report, “demand that what- ever strength is maintained be or- ganized and developed into homogeneous, well balanced and ef- fective force, to the end that upon mobilization it. may be employed as such = without reorganisation er changes in character of units. | Quired, although he esw mo immediate | Hxscution of the program, tnclud- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.} The Late News From Everywhere —hém.ne home and uhn:d—mem in 5:30 Edition For -sale “and Mmmmfl. Woman Demands 31,500,000 for Keeping Secret By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 27.—The per- ennial question: “Do women keep so- crets?” bobbed up today in surrogate's court in litigation over the §2,990,968 estate of Mrs. Roxy M. Smith, when 2 granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice Pro- vost - Nugent, asked approximately $1,600,000 for keeping one. Mrs. Nugent has sued Willam B. Smith, her uncle and son of the tes- tatrix, for half of the estate, alleging it was promised her if she would keep secret from Smith’s mother his mar- riage to Miss Claire Staley, a member of the Chicago Opera Company. Smith has denled the validity of the alleged agreement and has claimed that his mother did know of his marriage be- fore her death. Mrs. Smith was the widow of the late Willlam Van Rensse- {laer Smith, a pertner in the firm of Arbuckle Brothers. CLASSIFYING BILL . NEARFINAL DRAFT Senator Sterling Calls Meet- ing of Committee to Dis- cuss Amendments. P {BONUS ACTION DELAYED| Measure Held Up Pending Possible Vote on Salary | Legislation. Agreement on a reclassification bill | for the government emploves is be- lieved to be near. Senator Sterling, chairman of the civil service com- | mittee, £aid yesterday afternoon that | conferences on the measure have | progressed to such an extent that it | now appears likely a bill would be | whipped into shape and put through. A meeting of the subcommittee of the Senate appropriations committee, |now considering the Sterling-Lehl- | bach reclassification bill, will be ask- |ed by Senator Sterling to be held {not later than Tuesday. At that meeting, it is expected, changes in the bill will be discussed, with the understanding that they sre to be offered later in the Senate as amend- ments recommended by the civil committee. The appropria- t committee deals with the sal- ary allowances, and ‘not with the legislative features of the reclass- ification measure, under the rules of the Senate. The legisiative fea- tures are the province of the civil service committee. Slight Salary Changes. It .is understood that in the bill which will be agreed upon the “un- derlying principles of the Sterling- | Lehlbach bill will be retained, and | that the salaries proposed will, for the most part, be retained also. Undor the Sterling-Lehlbach bill | the classifying agency is the Civil | Service Commission. It s likely that thie will be changed so that a com- mittee consisting of a representative of the Clvil Service Commission, the bureau of the budget and the bureau of efficiency will do the classifying. The contention has been made in some quarters that a reclassification of the government employes has practically been completed by the bureau of efficiency under the execu- tive order issued by the President October 24, 1921. It is understood that the work of reclassification per- formed by the bureau of efficiency |under this order, so far as it is practicable, and 5o far as it conforms with the provisions of the proposed reclassification law, will be made use of when the new law is passed. In fact, & provision may be inserted in the bill to this effect. Another provision will provide that the classifying agency shall make use as far as possible of the work accomplished by the joint commis- slon ‘on reclassification. So confident are some mambers of the Senate that a reclassification law is to be put through at the present sesslon that when the legislative ap- propriation bill, carrying the pay of thelr clerks was before the Sen- ate they did not offer amendments to that bill which they otherwise would have presented. They believe that after the passage of the reclas- sification bill there will b o de- ficlency bill, and that then they will have an opportunity to propose in- creases in pay for Senate cmployes ocommensurate with increases pro- posed in the reclassification measure. Bomus Measure Delayed. 1f the reclassification measure goes through, providing, as it will, for in- creases in salaries of many of the employes, it will be necessary to pass legislation appropriating the money to pay ‘these increases. So far Congress has not put through any measure providing the $240 bonus for the government employes— the bdonus which they are now re- celving and have received for several yours. ‘It has been the contention TChalyman Madden of the House cemmittes, that no ‘bonus. legislation ‘sheuld be enacted unless it was assured there would be no reclassification law. put on the statute books, (He will not bring in the benus legislation, therefors, until all hepe of the reclassification m ure at the present session has been abandoned. The desire of senators and mem- bers of the Hemse is to get the re- olassification matter olesed up before Mayoh ¢, 2 peasidle, and to put an end - to herisontal benuses. Every oftort is new being made to get the rostassifiention msasury concluded. “From Press to Home P Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers every cl':{ block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast | as the papers are printed. | 'FIVE CENTS. TWO DEAD, 5 HURT, INSTREET CRASHES; TWOMORE MAY DIE Sister-in-Law of Representa« tive Succumbs Shortly After Accident. CAR SKIDDING ON WET PAVEMENT KILLS MAN Woman Is Injured, When Auto Collides With Parked Fire Truck. Two persons were killed and five Jured in traffic accidents yesterday atters noon and last night. Two of the ine Jured may die. The dead are : Mrs. Emily Keith, about sixty years of age, 1135 Park place, a visitor in the city, and a sister-tn-law of Representative Fuller of Iilinois, who was knocked down by an automobile at 13th and B etreets northeast, shortly after 3 o'clock, and Frank V. Capers, fifty-five years old, of 1225 Girard street, killed almost instantly, when struck by an automobile at 14th and Girard streets at 7:15 p.m. James Crowley, colored, fourteen vyears old, of 1831 T street, is at Emer- gency Hospital in a serious condifion, as the result of a traffic jumble in front of 51 K street northeast, at 6:30 last night. He 1s reported suffering from concussion of the brain and a fracture of the skull. Caesaro Compagnoll, fifty years old. of 204 G street northeast, was knocked down by an automobile while crossing Florida avenue between North Capitol and 1st street northwest, at 7:30 last night Ho was reported early this morning to be dylng at Casualty Hos- pital. Crashes in Pire Truck. Mrs. May Wolf, 714 Virginia avenue southeast, is at Emergency Hospital suffering injurles received when the au- tomobile in which she was a passenger crashed into a parked fire truck at 20th street and Pennsylvania avenue last night. She probably will recover. Daniel Gallatin, eighty-one years old, of 69 R street northwest, while crossing Florida avenue at 1st street northwest at 10 minutes to 8 o'clock last night was knocked down by an automobile operated by D. Carlton Dorsey of 1536 Swann street. He re- fused hospital treatment and was taken to his home, In an automobile collision at $:30 o'clock last night between a machine operated_by Claude Bradfield, 1708 34th street northwest, and a malil truck from the Post Office Depart- ment, operated by Thomas Hartley of No. 3 Canal road, which was parkéd at the time of the accident, Hartley received a broken left arm and bruises about the body. He was taken to Georgetown University Hos- pital and later taken home. Slippery Streets Cause. Capers was crossing the intersec- tion at 14th and Glrard streets when struck by an automobile operated by Raymond Wood of 823 Allison street. The paving was wet at the time of the accident, making brakes almost useless for a quick stop, according to polics. At Garfield Hospital, whers he was taken in Wood's ma- chine, he was pronounced dead on arrival by Dr. G. W. Davis. Frac- ture of the skull is believed to have caused death. Wood is being held at the tenth precinct, pending the coroner’s inquest. Capers was recently retired from the government printing office. A native of Columbia, S. C., he came here twenty-three years ago and re- sided in Washington virtually con- tinuously since that time. The body will be sent to Prosperity, S. C., for burlal. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Carrie Capers, and four sisters, all of whom reside here: Mre. Percy Richmond, Miss Eleanor Capers, Miss Ruth Capers and Miss Mary Capers. Mrs. Kelth was knocked down by an automobile operated by Samuel King, colored, thirty-eight years of age, 746 12% street southeast, while crossing B street at 13th street north- east. She was taken to Casualty Ho pital in an automobile operated by W. E. Wood, 201 Tennesses avenue, who was passing at the time. She dled ten minutes after arriving at the hospital. Driver Surrenders. King went to the ninth precinet after the accldent, where he 18 being held pending the action of the coro- ner. Mrs. Keith was a member of a prominent Chicago_ family and was spending the winter in Washington at the address mentioned above. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Fuller, wife of the Illinols representative: Mrs. Mary E. Hussey of this city, a sister, and another sister living in Chicago. James Crowley's Injury, according to one witness, was the result of & trafic mix-up midway in the block of K strest northeast between North Capitol and 1st' streets. Willlam K. ‘Watkins of 811 K street northeast, son of former Representative Wa kins of Louisiana, was driving east in his machine when a horse and ‘wagon driven by Henry Tibbs of 1831 T street, believed to be a relative of the boy, backed into the street. An- other automobile, whose operator is not known to the police, was going east at the same time. Watkins swerved his car so that the fender knocked off the rear wheel of the - wagon. The boy was standing near the wagon and the wheel hit him, knecking him to the ground. He was first taken te G|ll!% Hospitsl and (Continued on Pags 3, Cei -