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NE ] THE b et Attorney’s Ashes - To Be Scattered At Midocean NEW YORK, January 30.—Miss Anna Bolchf, adopted daughter of the late Park Benjamin, patent attorney, announced todauy that she would go to sea on March 17 with the ashes of Mr, Benjamin and that when she reached mid- ocean, on March 21, she would Sscatter them to the winds in com- pliance with his dying wish. Miss Holchi, who recently set- tled with Mre. Enrico Caruso and HAS REMARKABLE ESCAPE! other children of Mr. Benfamin a .' Sult to break his will, bequeuthing | rRct 11 V' thi: to her, i | : S B smin bad iven per-'a |Companion Flyers Follow Craft ‘xr, B«n)mrln hud given h r o ast commission t ecute for 5 'O the wa Down Expecting Crash—Tem- perature in Air 20 Below Zero. DIPLOMA AWARDS | 11022 GRADUATES Columbia Junior High School s Class Recipient of Honors Today. IFALLS 19000 FE WITH EYES FROZEN {Aviator, Unconscious, Re- covers Short Distance From Ground and Rights Plane. PROGRAM OF EXERCISESE Comemncement Is Held, With Ste- | phen E. Kramer, Assistant Su- perintendent, Presiding. him in Italy. On the way over, at latitude 38, longitude 35, he di- rected that his ashes be consigned to the sea. She completed arrangements for the ceremony with a steamship company Diplomas were presented o fifty- two graduates of the Columbia Junfor High Schovl by Mrs. Howard L. Hodg- kins, member of the board of educa- the midvear con &chool this afternoon. mer, at aseist cation was by Rev. The, cluded a sol addresses b. wram is Runedell a Mclane, A selecti #chool orciestra principal of tb that the f i vith honor Roberta per cent: Wilbur Rosenbere nt, Adam Offenbache Kathryn Mcla man Eisenbersg Richards. 90 per Knapp, 90 p t Lint of the Graduates. graduates Madeli Iso was Miss Declared at Work in Penn- ' sylvania Fields for New Union. Alice annou lowing itators are at work hitumincus coal lds endeavoring to stir up sentt for The Brewer, “lowers, Beutrice January, Hazel Jauvi Ruth Kidwell, Virg tense McBride. Flora McKay. Kathryn Mclane ris, Julia O'Bear. Jun Richards, Loretta NI are: Gi Rurlelgh, H Roberta la Jensen. nia’ Knapp, Hor- *Donuld. Alice Lenora Mor- | Vivian ®aret Wisne Boys—Har Avres, Wuldemar bacher, Millard . Stuart Colvin, * Joxeph KFought, | Uriel Hays, Nel- Holmead, John ancis Landis, ster Lipphard, Petfer, Fred- Sherburne Y. Georg iph Reml. Waidman and RY vere cold, ¥First Lleut. James D. Sum- {fect of the ground here Saturday att- | jernoon, -u drop of nearly four miles. | |before he recovered his senses, right- | i Field. but has been offictally related. nted a height of | Summers was but halt consclous | had been frozen, causing temporary recoived in Washington today |Summers said: “At 19.000 feet my and other officers. fs doing every. {4€NIY everything began to met hazy but about 400 feet ahove the earth. the hope that the organization in| Others aviators with the group in unable to coun - Potent. These agitators are likely to | den Fhtin ¢ oo il T | The fiyers had followed Lieut. Sum- L W. W.a Hinted. et ! brought carth, That it had not interests. in order to weaken the in- . { By the Aswociated Press § Satepdey: ! MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., January —_— neonsclous because of the se- group at Selfridge Field, fell from an | altitude of 19.000 feet to within 400 jod his plane and made & safe landing. ! {Announcement of his experience was | kept secret by aviators at Selfridge | Summers had been ordered to take s by Brig. Gen. Wil- | With several other ometers on | pPlanes registered 20 degrees be- W ZeTO, | when other aviators reached him aft- er his descent Examiniug physiclans nnpunced vital nerves over both eyes @ new coal miners’ union |blindness. He practically had recov. | to split the United Mine Workers of | ered today. it was announced. America, according to offictal advidee | . Pesciibing his experience, Lieut. | jmotor was running smoothly, but the The mine workers' organization, |cold seemed to chill me. I was make through John Lewls, its president, |!N& about 175 miles an hour. Sud- tand 1 started to work the controls. thing possitle to stop the inrouds of { Then everything went black. . \Whes he agitators at work in the Con- |l revived I was dropping badly and {oeisiiie fand Cambcla | regioniiiin | LR SEHLMO0NIa: Mhoys) thoen s SRe |ship under control and mads a safe ' ennsylvania may remain intact and |landing.” that “boring from within” tactics of the agitatory may be rendered tm. | ¥hich Licut. Summers was fiying also i rightiug of the plane, having use unrest and disturbances in the | Considered it impossible to make & flolds 1f uot curbed, the govern. |SAf6 lunding from suck a low aititude. has been advised. {mers plane in its descent, expecting 3 | to eee it crash, but Instead they saw ams P timation was ive the | It miraculously righted and safely ——— agiators at wor pnnis , LW, Wrs ettempiing oivania are| i ohicd itscié wasshown: the Gviktovs 7 W s union” idea wmong the | declare, by the fuct thal Lieut. Sum- E ine workers. That the radicaly |Mers found it out of control and lire being supporfed by the big coal | SAFeening - when he regained con- | ifluence of the United Mine Workers of America, was ecouted by officials | today. ROVANCE ENDED Mme. Matzenauer. Opera Star, Granted Divorce From Chauffeur Husband. Abandonment by the union of sup- port of the strike in the coke region of Pennsvivania was declared to have | caused dissatisfactlon in the ranks of | strikers, and it is among these men that the radical elements were id to be working. The strikers ars reing taken back to work, but with| the status of new employes, and they ! feel that withdrawal of support of the 3. { Mine “‘ugkler;' Union le.n'e; lh’rrg out in the cold. In thie state of mind, re- . . " ports said, they are willing to 1sten | WOrker in Polish Catholic to the agitation of radicals who point | O e e e o “withintne| Church Parish House Shot | Three Times in Heart. POLICE HOLD PRIEST, Caiif.. January Margaret Matzenauer mine union have been consistently | opposed by union officers, who, dur-| g 8 ing the great strike last summer. | srand opera star, whom her husband (1€ ‘*h7 SRt SLT e At N alled an orchid, was free today of | tne clement which favored militant | the bonds of matrimony she contract- | action, including flooding of the a4 with Fioyd Glotzbach, who de.|Mines Pennsylvania is one of the| “ypyp ™ py ' January 30.—gophia : 2 - | strongholds of the mine union, and | _ : e seribed himeelf as “wild mustard.” |fn View of the large membership in | Szymanowskl, a servant in the parish | Glotzbach, before he met the prima|the United Mine Workers within that | house of St. Cusimer's Polish Catholic donna and after Le separated from | By the Asociated Press. porch. Immediately, she said, three shots were fired. | The police deciared they had found | | state, little prokress for the new |cpyrch, was shot and killed as she her, was a chauffe He sald an| {er John Dambinski is being ‘held in from Glotzbach yesterday in superior aruelty on him. She, in turn, alleged Father Dambineki was taken into| ing, he afterward told them the girl| Among Glotzbach’s specifications of 4 and Department of Justice the front door wide open. They en- | “he man'" and would rather be a chauf- | d came cle a court day, { - : R s s, Co%e Of, & ourt ey, | Company in_ settiement of the gov. a pistol in a desk near Father Dam- | uaion Isfexpootad. {approached the building in company —— < orchid and wild mustard would | |with Mary Wofewock, the house- thrive under iike conditions. | keeper, last midnight, and Rev. Fath- Mme. Matzenauer was awarded an tnterlocutory decree of divorce i aniice atation awalthe o v s Us y y po & court here.on a cross-complaint she [suit of an investigation. The girl fled some time ago. after Glotzbach {was shot three times through the had sought marital freedom Noase. on the ground that she practiced tly after the shooting. sruety and asserted (lotzbach had | %‘;’fle}":o’h;"::y Ay g o g menceinetl ale I tlon st D)y van and that while he at first was unable | OthEF RFoman, wiom tahs uamed. TS : to give a clear version of the shoot- | Refuses to Be “Lady's Mafd. Lincoln Motor Co. Receiver had been killed by acoident. . with According to the housekeeper, she | oruelts were allegations that his wif land her assistant, returning to the | desired him to have breakfast in bed | fonm ahotily ot miias e and to hook up her gowns. In pub- 3 . P } | Reach Compromise. ~|inefwont souy wige, oher, They on.| lshed statements he declared he was a | fona the datkensd allmeyinad ey | them from the nearest room. She | feur in California than remain With| mp. anount agreed upon by the |Screamed, “Burglars® and ran to the her and act as a_ “lady's maid.” | Department of Justice and the re- Yesterday's trial of the cuse was brief | cejver for the Lincoln Motor Car after, it had been expected. there would | ernment's claim for alleged over- ° be no opportunity for hearing it until | payments on war contracts is $1.650,- | BINEKIS bed. Two empty shells were | today. But the preceding case termi-; 000, acoording to Willlam D. Riter, |found in the front room on the first nated suddenly and the Matzenauer- | ugsistant attorney general, who said | 100T- i Glotzbach action was called up hur-|today, however, that this figure was —— { mly o 1e88, (lotzbach -1 ftormes, Wi CCaiiae by e Mita: | S ok it deeEr Lo bt Uik | TRAFFIC EXPERTS ! OFFER RULES TO for several thousand liberty airplane | cnauer's counsel, but a quantity of | Detroft. motors during the war. CURBD. C. PERILS | documentary evidence was offered, in-| The company, after the war, went —_— i The government first had claimed a ! cluding depokitions from both parties, in into a receivership; its assets and lia- (Continued from First Page.) { eI N Lk, { settlement against the company, charging overpayments on contracts which each reiterated published state- ments; checks drawn by Mme. Matz- anauer to Glotzbach and bearing the purported indorsement of the woman with whom the cross-complaint alleged Glotsbach had maintained relations; a| bilities were taken over by a new etter declared to be from that woman | company incorporated in Delaware, which afterward sold to Henry Ford. During the processes of settlements of creditors’ demands the Department. of Justice investigation resulted in decreasing the government's claim to Glotzbach, accusing Glotzbach of | unfaithfulness to the writer, and a tele- until the one announced today was agreed upon. gram which was asserted to be from Glotsbach to Mme. Matzenauer's New Increased Quarter Million. The receiver for the company last | York attorneys saying the sender would Zive to the newspapers a story of “their ntimate relations” unless satisfactory arrangements were made. 1 December offered $1,300,000, but re- cently increased that amount by $250,- 600, and the offer was approved last Saturday by Attorney General Daugh- Reconclliation Hinted. | Two other exhibits offered in evi- erty. The government originally claimed $9,188,561. last De- dence were clippings from St. Louis newspapers from which, Mme. Matz- The company’s receiver cember offered to settle, according enauer deposed, she first had learned | hat Glotzbach had made public the fact | that she had appealed to him to effect « reconcillation because she was in a {to Mr. Riter, for $1,300,000, recently delicate condition. {increasing_the amount to $1.500,000. Attorney General Daugherty last Sat {urday approved settlement at this figure. he sald. the compromise fig- No evidence was offered in Glotz- bach's behalf. The singer wus given Settlement a ure, it was stated, would benefit up- boiled” rules for persistent violators and have them supported by a “hard- | bolled” traffic court. The cry for jail | sentences as the surest cure is grow- | ing rapidl “No Enforcement Too Stroms.” “You cannot ‘make your traffic en- | forcement too strong for me,” sald Senator Jones of Washington, a mem- ber of the District committee. |“Some- | thing must be done to put an end to | reckless driving in the National Capl- | tal, and I think the courts should fm- | PO jail sentences, even upon first oftenders, if the evidence proves in- | jury resulted from reckless driving.” | Senator Caraway blamed flagrant . violations of the trafic regulations Rere, rather than speeding, for 'in- | creased collisions and fatalities. He particularly attacked truck driver who presums to take the right of-way | unlawfully because they know their heavy vehicles will prevent them from being injured. “Any person arrested for the second time of a traffic violation that might have endangered life or limb of any per- son should be deprived of his or her operator's permit for aix months at least,” Senator Caraway declared. *“If when the permit is restored the driver again violates the law he should be forever forbidden the right to drive a motor vehicle in the District of Co- lumbia. “Business firms employing chauf- feurs whom they have been officially told are reckless should be denied the right to operate machines. If the District Commissioners have not the right to_ enforce regulations they should have it, and L will be glad| to introduce-a bill giving them such authority, if necessary. “Motorists who run down and kill | children should be held in jail with- out bail until theé law has deéided their responaibility. Furthermore, the law should be changed to lay the burden of proof on the defendant if his car has injured any person.” —_— FLU DEATH SUDDEN. Florgnoe Scofield _Catanach, a-fé:m oF Jonn" & Seoficid, - ohigt olerk of the War Department, died suddenly yesterday afternoon after a short iliness with Influense, ay t;h; family residence, lumbla rot !‘u:an.\nhrviou U1 be held to-| morrow afternoon at the n and had maay frimds in this ity the right to resume her maiden name, which she always has used on the stage and there was no question of property involved. Glotzbach was said to be €omewhere in the southwest and the singer wus understood to be in New York. STEPHAN RE-ELECTED BY VETERAN OFFICERS Honor Conferred on Militia Com- mander Third Time by 3d District Infantry. Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan, com- | ward of 800 creditors of the Lincoin iCompany, whose claims are belng held up’ pending disposition of the government's claim. In the event Judge Tuttle should Ireject the compromise, the clalm, Mr. Riter sald, will be left to the courts | for adjustment. Judge Tuttle, it Is understood, will pass o the settlement proposed today. — LOCALE 174 JO ELECT. {Branch of La' Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux Plans Meet. manding the District of Columbia| Voiture Locale 174, La Soclete des 40 Militia, has been elected president of | Hommes et § Chevaux, Grand Voiture the Society of Veteran Officers of the ' of the District of Columbia, will hold its 3@ District of Columbla Infantry for |annual meeting and election of officers the third consecutive term. Other re. | tomorrow night in the National Guard election were Lieut. Col' George L.|Armory, 473 L street northwest. Fol- Talt, vice president; Maj. W. Lau- lowing is the list of nomifges for the rence Hazard, Secretary-treasurer, | various offices: ot and Maj. Alex Summers, historian, all | - For chef de gare, E. W. (" Tim*') Jor- for the third term. dan and ‘Wiliem F. (“Bil") Franklin; The organization went on recerd |chef de train, Dr. B. C. MacNeill; con- @B protesting against “the apparent |ducteur, Austin S. Imirle; commissaire aiscrimination against Maj. Gen. Har. | intendents, H. L. Wilson; correspond- bord, in attempting to deny him re-|ant, William Wolfe Smith; garde de la trement pay. It indorsed the bureau | porte, Frank L. Peckham. ®ill for the retifement of disabled | For the cheminets, or executive com- emernncf officers, mittee, there are eight nominations for The society is composed of officers ! four places. The nominees are Thacker of the formar {d mutact °=.h (;‘e'l::- (v ‘Walker, wx‘vm B, Miller, Geri. An-' bla Infantry who served on = | ton Stephan, ‘Norman Martindale;, Paul ican border and later in the werld | Tucker, Paul J. mwm wan - g 3 A. Draia and Thomas Dy o | obtained a SAAC PEARSON IS DEAD AT-83 Veteran ex-Captain of Po- lice Served on Force Forme who was one of t Police Peaisor : hest known mem- Mere of the force for nearly forty vears, died yesterday at his home, 520 Randolph street. at the age of eighty- three years For more than fifteen years Cap i Pearson served as night inspector, in | —_— {which position it was his duty to see | ! i r ! proceed to the frontler of the oc- b i | upled territory at points where the that patrolmen were on their beats Men who are now seasoned veterans of the department remember well how In- spector Pearson kept them “on their toes” in the early days Undaunted by Weather. It is said of him or wet to keep Night Inspector Pear- son off the job. Born in Prince William county, V, on February 4. 1840, Capt. Pearsol spent his boyhood there and in Lou- doun county. At the outbreak of the vil war he enlisted in the Union Army and served throughout the war. Upon the restoration of peace he came to Washington and worked in the quartermaster department for a short time before seeking appoint- ment to the police force in ebru- ary. 1867 Inapector Six Years. After thirtcen years as a private Pearson was made a sergeant, and three years later he was advanced to leutenant. His detall as night in- spector began August 1, 15885, and con. tinued untli May 10, 1901, when he was elevated to the rank of captain Four years later, on October 1, 1905, he was placed on the retired list, Having lived so actively, Capt. Pearson did not relish retirement, and position in .the patent office. He remained in the Interior Department until recently, when he was forced by infirmities to remain at home. Funeral Services Tomorrow. Capt. Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, Hiram Lodge, No. 10, F. A A. M.; Washing- ton Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templars; Friendship Lodige,. No. 12. L 0. 0. F.. and the Grand Army of the Repubiic. RV Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow at 2 o'clock, with Rev. John P. Tyler officiating. Burial will be in Arlington cemetery. Capt. Pearson Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eliza E. Pearson. WIFE SUES FOR LIMITED _ DIVORCE, WITH ALIMONY i Mrs. Betty Birch Bradford Accuses Husband, Real Estate Broker, of Cruelty and Drunkenness. Mrs. Betty Birch Bradford has filed suit for a limited divorce and ali- mony from Granville C. Bradford, a real estate broker, who is said to be pursuing a law course at a local uni- versity. Cruelty and drunkenness ac- { companying an alleged wild party at| { her “home In_her absence cember are alleged by the wife. last De- other women, the_wife asserts. At- torneys Archer, Chamberlin & Smith and Godfrey L. Munter appear for the wife. Mrs. Bradford tells the court that, while drunk last Novémber, her hus- band assaulted her and wrecked the plano. On her return from a visit in New York, in December, she states, her residence indicated ‘that a wild party had been staged there, the floors being strewn, she says, with empty liquor bottles and cigar butts. | Some of ‘the woman guests at the party had been induced by her hus- band, she avers, to don her best clothes. She had to call on the police when her husband came to her hame Janu- ary 5 and attempted. to wreck the furniture, Mrs. Bradford declares. She also charges that Bradford took som of her jewelry and presented it another woman. They were married in New York October 8, 1919, and have no child E Embassy Liquor Congress Job, iSays White House| Any {Imitation on the supply 5 diplomatic liquor in Washington would not be a problem. for the executive branch of the. govern- ment, it was sald at the White House today, but for Congress. The administrative end of the government has its hands_full al iready in enforcing the- Wolstesd , act, and _recent complications which_involve the alleged leakage of embassy liquor raised the deli- cate international problem which has not yet been: brought to a head. ! e S s - Just “what Kind of legislation ‘would be required or how -Con- gress might be expected to an- ! proach the question, was not in- - dioated. Bol 2o High officials of ‘the’ administr: tion evinced &' hesitancy to expri any kind of an-opinion on wh would. be'a " - BUPPLY lquoz, t In police circles ] 1 that there never was a night too cold | Pearson was a memb. bt | with the outsife warld is ata stand- | Her | husband also seeks the company of | ESSEN IS ISOLATED BY POSTAL STRIKE: 11 OFFICIALS JAILED (Continued from First Page.) | minister left for Brussels to ask the ! Belzian . government's | the decisions reached The greatest secrecy was main- tained a® to the results of the con- ference, but the indications point to \the establishment of a customs ring wround the occupled Ruhr valley and the complete stoppage of coal ship- nents into the interfor of Germany {which have thus far been permitted \by the French. It s believed tha these measures will be put into ef- fect on February 1, coincident with Germany’s failure to meet the | rent falling due on January Ordered to Proceed. Customs officers who stationed «t Duesseldorf and Essen lf several days have received orders have been to | rallroads entered Germany. | have also been ordered to the locks and canals on the rivers Lippe and Rhine. | The arrest and expulsion of German offictals have not yet been completed, but already number thirteen for this, city alone. Among. the deported offi- cers are Dr. Sweitzer, who replaced | Dr. Schlutius as president of the state finance department and the director of the Duesseldorf post office. More Expulsions Scheduled. | More expulsions are scheduled for | Essen, while the cities of Dortmund, ! Bochum. = Gelsenkirchen, Dulsburg, Hamborn and Ruhrort will be pen- { alized in the same manner in propor- ’uon to their sizes. | i | 1 | “These functionarles decided to obey | Berlin's instructions _ rather than ours.” un occupation official satd. “We are simply giving them the oppor- | tunity to obey Berlin ig the territory ruled by Berlin.” The telephone strike is not quite as effective as the telegraph tie-up. Any French conversation is immediately cut off. English i¢ tolerated or sup- | pressed, according to the moods and | sympathies of the telephone girls. i Posts at Standstill. | Germans may talk in their native | | language as usual: Postal service | stiln. & > The gas and electrical workers, by La vote of two to one, have decided not ! to strike. { - The. miners continue to turn out ! about two-thirds of the normal pro- i duction of. coal, but. the stoppage of | the railroad traffic and the shortage of empty cars is causing congestion } at the pitheads, and it is thought that | the mines must close in a few days unless some remedy is found. CRISIS DRAWING NEAR. H | Germans Feel Stern Measures Will | Bring Showdown. By the Assoclated Press, { BERLIN, January 30.—Germans be- yond the Ruhr today had the as- surance of their hero Fritz Thyssen that their brothers in the all but iso- |lated oocupted zone do not intend to | ¥leld to Franco-Belgian pressu | stead, they constitute a “compact unit {in thelr determination to resist French encroachments.” This statement, made public at a {time when all attempts to communi- |cate with Essen were failing, declared ,that the Ruhr was united in support- ing the government's policy. Herr Thyssen questioned whether French could effect a customs ring that would serve their purpose, and {said that strangers could hardly hope | to operate the mines or raliways sue- cesstully. . Government ' spokesmen feel that the stern measures of the French are | bringing on an acute situation, es- | pecially as regards the mines, which {are hampered by the car shortage. ‘PARIS DENIES REPORT 20 GERMANS KILLED By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 30.—The French foreign office declared today there was 10 truth In the report (printed this-morning by a Paris newspaper) that twenty Germans had been killed in'a clash with- French troops at Boppard, near Bingen. Therg had been no such trouble at Boppard as re- ported, it was stated; the burgomaster was arrested for resisting the orders {ot the Erench’ military authorities, but there was no rioting. ' The forelgn office, in complaining that a great deal of incorrect news was still in circulation regarding events in the Ruhr ‘and on the left bank of the Rhine, s: the reports of the strikes were greatly exaggerated and that the situation Had improved. Coblenz, Bonn and Treves were the only pojnts to the west of the Rhine where the railroad employes were still out, it was stated. The Boppard incldent was reported by the Echo de Paris which asserted that the firing resulted from a dem ontration by nationalists in against the arrést.ofithe &ity's ‘master, para- | They | i JVENING STAR, WASHING’fON,_D O, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1923 ISTRT AFARS TOHAVEATIENTION approval of |Hoyse Committee to Con- |- sider Important Legislation at Meeting Tomorrow. The_House District committee will | meet tomorrow. One of the important pieces of legislation which & favorable report to the House Is ex- pected is the Zihlman | which provides for opening the parks i for use by Shriners for camping dur- | ing the big Shrine convention here i next June. This measure has already passed the Senate. Representative Zihiman also will | endeavor to get a favorable report from the House committee on his bill which provides for changing the name of Keokuk street to Military rcad and authority when this matter comes up in the House next Monday {to substitute for the House bill the {bill which already has passed the Sen- {ate. It is probable that an effort will be made at the meeting tomorrow to re- vive the District delegate bill which was tabled at the last meeting of the |committee. Representative Blanton of Texas, democrat, has been working at the request, he says, of Representative Reed of West Virginia, republican, to have all those in favor of such legis- lation agree upon an amended Dis- trict delegate bill. on | 'ROCKEFELLERS DROP - ANTI-SALOON SUPPORT Stop Contributing to New York League After Charges of Split- ting Commissions. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 30.—The finan- | cial support of John D. Rockefeller, sr., Anti-Saloon League of New York state, |1t is learned, after the appearance of Raymond D. Fosdick, representative of the Rockefellers, at the district at- torney’s inquiry “into the financial af- fairs of Willam H. Anderson, state superintendent of the league. Both the Rockefellers ceased contribu- ting to the league sevaral months ago, it was asserted, after their gepresent: tives were Informed league officlals were splitting _commissions on contributions. Mr. Fosdick and Miss Maude Odell, assistant to Anderson, were the only two persons questioned by Assistant District Attorney Pecora. The ques- tioning of the state superintendent was postponed, at his request, until tomorrow. “1 granted the extension,” sald Mr. Pecora, “only after an urgent appeal and on Mr. Anderson’s promise to bring with ‘him on Wednesday all books of the league that would be | necessary for the inquiry —_— {LITTLE CONGRESS TO GIVE resentative Lanham and Others to Speak. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant sec- retary of the Navy, Representative Fritz G. Lanham. of Texas and Wil- |lidm Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, will address the fourth annual banquet of the Little Congress Wednesday evening, Feb- ruary 21, at the Raleigh. | Lowell Fess, son of Senator-elect Fess of Ohio, il act as toastmaster. ‘Numeruul burlesques patterned after those of the Gridiron Club and pro- fessional talent from the local the- aters will feature the program of en- tértainment. The committee in charge of. the affair are Kenneth Romney of Montana, P. F. Snyder of Washington, E. J. Waterfield of Ohlo, Victor Rus- 56l Gf Texas and Marx Lewls of New The Little Congress is an organiza- tion of secretaries to members of the House of Representatives and United States genators as well as Capitol at- taches. It was organized nearly four years ago and has grown from a charter membership of less than twenty until it embraces 200 mem- bers. It meets every Saturday night in the caucus room of the House office bullding for the discussion of public questions, and numbers among its members college debaters from ai- most every state in the Union. = Al most every election some of its mem- 'han pass on into the halls of Con- gress. . . Heretotore the annual banquets of the Little Congress have been con- fined to. members, but this year the plan of the committee in charge Is to ‘make it a big get-together T for the éntite employe personnel of Cap- itol HIIL The reflector of the huge teléscope at the Mount Wilson observatory is & great disc of perfect glass, weigh- ing four and e half tons it is so sensitive man comes wi three.feet of it E of his body causes it to be resolution, | and jr, has been withdrawn from the | BANQUET FEBRUARY 21 | e | Assistant Secretary Roosevelt. Rep- ! i |8-Hour Day Held | Business Benefit By Standard Oil Tnauguration of the cight-hour day by the Standard Ofl Company of California has proved an eco- nomic benefit, K. R. Kingsbury, vresident of the company, assert- ed today at the Senate oil inquiry. Mr. Kingsbury described his company as the pioneer in estab- lishment of the eight-hour day in the ‘ofl Industry, having aban- donec_ the twelve-hour "shift in 1917, “What chang asked. “It has heen eminently benefi- clal,” the witness replied. “It has added to the efficlency, the esprit de corps and the morale of the men. Mr. Kingabury added that in the case of drillers, although the change added 50 per cent to the total pay roll, It was found that the average cost of drilling wells decreased during the first six months the new scale was in REFUSAL T0 MAIL was the effect of the the committee attorney LIQUDRBRIGS ROW |Winchester Postmaster De- | clines to Send Moonshine to State Chemist. ES IT ILLEGAL \DECLAR | Sheriff Appeals to Dr. Work—Says ; Conviction of Bootleggers ! Is Hampered. Dispateh to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., January 30.— | Refusal of Postmaster J. W. Sibert to |accept samples of moonshine liquor | for transmission through the malls to the state chemist at Richmond for iofficlal analysis as to alcoholic con- tent, has resulted in Sheriff Pannett FLETCHER T0 HEAD .. DELEGATION Ambassador.to Belgium List- ed for Pan-American Congress in Chile. [SENATORS ARE INCLUDED | White House Announces Names of i Representatives to March Con- ference at Santiago. The American delegation to the pan American congress to be held at San tiago, Chile, in March, will be. headed jPy Henry P. Fletcher. American am ssador to Belgium, and will includs | Senators Kellogg of Minneso! Pomereno of Ohio, former Senato Delaware, George ¥ | Vincent, president of the Rockefelle: {Foundation of New York; Frank ¢ Partridge of Vermont, Willlam Eric anc Saulsbury ¢ {Fowler of Washington and Dr, L. & |Rowe. director of the Pan-America: announced today at the te House, where offictals Indicates |that every facility would be afforde the Amer! group to take to Sout America, with it ompetent d complete data regar the important subjects to be ais cussed at the conference. i Toples for Discussion. { Among tho toplcs of the confer jence program are several proposai: | by the United States looking to bette: commerclal relations in the wester hemisphere, besides various plana t- vromote international peace. Secretary Hughes e expected visit Santlago while the conferenc 1s 1 session and may deliver an ad dress to the delegates, but he prob. fably will take little part in the | negotiations. He is planning to leave Washington soon after the first o | March f¢ a visit to several South | America countries and has téhtative iy accepted an invitation from thr r *hile to include erary. wdvisers |appealing to the Postmaster General| in Washington for a ruling on the ‘quemlnn The sheriff's office sald to- day similar shipments had been made | before, "but Postmuster Sibert held {that while that may have been true {1t was nevertheless a violation of | postal regulations, and this specific | Instance was the first to come under his notice. i Blow to Enforcement. A serious blow to enforcem: the state prohibition law ha: struck, according to local officials, the post office refuses to accept sam- ples of confiscated lisuor for mailing to Richmond. If the local case is taken as a precedent, andethe Win- chester postmaster is upheld by the department in Washington, it would apply, it was said, with equal force to the whole country, with a result that before violators of prohibition laws could be punished, radical changes in postal regulations would . have to be effected, or the criminale set loose on account of lack of evi- dence of violation. The Virginia law, it was eald, re- | quires all conflscated liquor to be ana- 1lyzed and the statement of the state | chemist sworn to before a conviction | {can be had in the prosecution of boot- leggers and moonshiners. The sampie that was offered for mailing at the local post office consisted of a two-ounce ‘dottle of the liquid. The postmaster held it was unlawful to ship liquor, or a liquid offered as liquor, in any quan- tity, and declined to receive the package. | Trial Interfered With. ! _Sherift Pannett sald the evidence of the state chemist was to be used by the commonwealth In a pending court case, but with the inability of the state to prove that the seized liquid is, in fact | of alcoholic content. a conviction hard ly could be expected. Tt was held to ibe a physical impossibility to have the { state chemist, the official designated by {law to make the analysis, come in person to the trial, as this would neces- [ sitate his attendarce at virtually every | court held in the state. {OLD AQUEDUCT BRIDGE TO BE RAZED THIS YEAR Piers and Abutments to Be Dyna- mited, According to U. S. Engineers’ Plan. The southern abutment of the old aqueduct bridge and all the river plers of that structure. except the north abutment at Georgetown, will be destroyed by the use of dynamite in the summer or fall, in the event that the War Department approves plans prepared in the office of Maj. Tyler, the United States engineer in {charge. Removal of the old bridge was provided for by Congress, when it authorized the construction of the new Georgetown bridge. The old bridge already has been closed to traffic. except by the cars of the Old Dominion railway. in order to | expedite the work of widening and | improving the Virginia aproach to the inew Georgetown bridge. The addi- tional space i required for the instal. { 1ation of the loop of the Capital Trac- i al stations. Y The proposed retention of the north abutment, extending over the Chesa- peake and Ohlo canal, from M street {to the rivers edge. is With & view of utilizing that section of the old struc- ture, as a recreation pier. in accord- ance with the request of the George- town Citizens’ Association. morning that it is not settled when the demolition of the Aqueduct bridge will be started, but it is expected that the entire structure will be removed during the present year. DELAY HENDERSON BILL. Senate Committee Lacks Quorum in Taking Up Offer of Home. The public buildings and grounds committee of the Senate, called io meet today by its chairman, Senator | Fernald, to consider the bill intro- | duced by Senator Warren, authorizing the government to accept the home on 16th street offered by Mrs. John | Presidents of the United States while flice, | iTE o the fact that members o {the committee were out of the city or engaged on other business. | “senator Fernald will call a meeting of the committee at an early date, when he hopes to get action on the bill. A e LEW DOCKSTADER DYING. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J,, January 30.—Lew Dockstader, veteran min- strel, today s dying in a local hotel virtually paralyzed. Mr. Dockstader, who is sixty-two veurs old and weighs - 200 pound: slipped on the ice and fell last nigh! while returning to his hotel after a performance at a local theater. He m%hll ‘way to the hotel and went to z v Physicians said that his spine was injured .and his condition serious. tion Company and the new railroad | It was said at Maj. Tyler's office, this | B. Henderson as a residence for Vice | failed ‘to get a quorum, | her, a former dersecretary of state, has been ord home from his post at Brussels, and {expected to reach Washington in ifor a conference with the other m bers of t legation before they {leave for Santiago. Both Senators Ke! logg and Pomerene, who are member- of the Senat foreign relations com mittee, retire from Congress o March 4. The conference meet: | Marc : QUESTIONS GO FATH N PROPOSED COAL DEA Attorney General to Investigate | Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Stock Sale to Syndicate. By the Asencinted Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 30.—A {torney General Daugherty flled in t federal district court today a petitiv raising the question whether the pro ! posed sale of the stock of the Lehig and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company the Jackson E. Revnolds syndicaie o New York was made in good faith | The stotk of the 1 compa !which is owned by the Cantral ! | road Company of N Jersey, was or dered sold under the I'nited State: Supreme Court decrec for the diss: {tion of the Reading's interests. The Jersey Central is controlled by the Reading Company The petition asks that any and « evidence earing upon proposec sal be heard in urt When the federal court was asked to confirm the sale to the Reynold: syndicate objections were raised by various parties on the ground that a id by the Franklin Securities Cor i poration of Philadelphia was a better one. All objections were withdrawn with the exception of that entered by Isaac T. and Mary T. W. Starr, mi- nority stockholders in the Jersey Central. One of the principal objec- tions of the Starrs has been that Jack son E. Reynolds, head of the syndi- cate and who was officially connected with the Jersey Central and the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Com pany, was given “inside Information’ jand that many members of his synd cate were disqualified from purchas ing_the coal stock Hearing on the Starr objection< were postponed several times. — GOV. TRINKLE CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTING ROADS Senator Byrd Also Scored at Meet- ing of Virginia Good Roads Association. By the Associated Press. ROANOKE , January 30. {address by George P. Coleman, f | mer state highway commissioner, which he charged Gov. E. Lee Trinkl» and State Senator Harry F. Byrd with ‘seeking to obstruct” the good roads rogram of Virginia featured th« opening sessions here of the annua! convention of the Virginia Good Roads’ Assoclation. Mr. Coleman enumerated four points upon which he declared the state i should bulld “a program of high iw improvement that will go hand i with the education of the children of Virginia.” ‘These points wer 1. A comprehensive construction | program that will assure completion of the highway system in from five to siX years. " Tse of 200 to 300 men of the state road force in the preparation of road 1s. 3. Development of a financial plan which will increase the state's ald to unties. co"nTo make immediately available $500,000, to be used by the state high commission in the maintenancs of county or feeder roads. — WILLING TO MINGLE. Real Reporter-Men Invite Ordinary Editors to Meeting. Jowered its standards to ;,.H,-;Xi"‘oow readers, editors, city { editors, news editors and managing editors of Washington daily news- papers to mingle saclally ‘with real Teporter-newspapermen, the Deadline Club today made reservations to care |for a 100 per cent increase in mt- { tendance at its regular meeting { the Ebbitt Hotel Dutch room tonigh lat 6:30 o'clock | “Initlation ceremonies are expecte to be @ feature. Those gaining ud- mittance will be put through a qu! '¢ing to determine their capabi)ity for membershtp, and If they succeed they ‘-m be admitted t6 full homors of adtive memberss ? .t