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TIMEREEPER BACK; " HELD UNDER BON Harold Teegerstrom Says He . Was Not Kidnaped, But § Left of Own Volition. Py the Assoctated Press. MONROE, La., January 30.—Harold ‘Teegerstrom, timekceper at the Southern Carbon Company plant at Spyker, La, for whom a countrywide search was instituted by federal agents and state authorities follow- ing his disappearance on the night of December was back on his old Jjob today. He was arrested late yes- verd, nd released on $500 bond for his appearance as a material witness at the grand jury investigation at Bastrop. in March, into Morehouse parish kidnaping activities, which re- sulted last August in the death of Watt Dantel and Thomas F. Richard, Mer Rouge citizens. Reappears Suddenly. Teegerstrom was taken into custody &t Spyker after he had suddenly ap- peared in Monroe earlier in the day in almost as mysterious a manner as he had departed from his bunkhouse at the carbon plant shortly before the beginning of the open hearings at B When he arrived here rom told of having visited | Ark. Alexandria, on | Rouge and other places in Loulsiana which he would not name. He de- clared that he was not hidnaped and uot forced to leave Spyker, but left ‘because I felt I doing the right thing. 1 did it for my friend He said that about 11 o K the night of December 29 a number of fersons came to see him at his sleep- g quarters at the plant in an auto- mobile. Wandered in Woods. “They said they would give me al the time I wanted to get my clothes and go with them,” Teegerstrom said. “I did not go 'to the men, but wandered around in the woods all night. I do not know what became of the party. T was not interested in them after T made my getaway.” He said the following morning he caught a train out of the Monroe gas flelds for Eldorado, Ark The timekeeper was wanted by the State at the open hearings which closed last Thursday to testify as to the whereabouts or T. Jeff Burnett, employed at the Southern Carbon Company plant as foreman, on the night of August the date Danfel and Richard were kidnaped. Burnett was released on $5,000 bond ‘recently on a charge of murder in connection Wwith the death of the two men. LAWTO CURB LYNCHING ARKANSAS QUIZ TOPIC Legislative Committee Discusses Possible Changes During Lull in Testimony. By the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK. Ark., January 30.— Whether the findings of the Arkansas legislative committee, conducting an inquiry into the recent disorders on the Missouri and North Arkansds Tailroad during which one man was lynched and other striking employes expelled, would result in the enact- ment of a state anti-lynching law is a topic members of the committee are discussing during the lull in taking of testimony. No witnesses were cxamified at last Dight's hearing of the committes. Testerday, however, Gov. T. C. Mec- Rae, in a message to the legislature, Teviewing the disorders and touch. ing on the lynching of E. C. Gregor, one of the striking employes, de- clared: “When you have completed the in- tigatton, I suggest that additional legislation " is needed to prevent a repetition of such occurrences. Let me urge You to enact some anti- lynching legislation before you ad- Journ.” The governor also urged the legls- 1ature to recompense Gregor's family for his death. The legislators stiil were undecided today when they would transfer the inquiry to Harri- son, center of the disturbances, —_—_— MISS B. E. NABERS DIES. Prominent Mississippian in Affairs of Capital. Miss Bennie E. Nabers Spring, Miss., died today at the home of her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth M. qhennwnlh. 1350 Meridian place. Miss Nabers was one of the most promi- ment Mississipplans residing here, and was secretary in the Mississippi State Society for twenty ars. When she of Holly Tetired from this office, November last, uhe was elected honorary secretary for ife. She was the daughter of the late Representative B. D. Nabers, who rep- ented the second district of Missis- pi in the House. She was a promi- nent member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, regent of Martha Washington Chap- ter, and at the present time a mem ber of the Manor House Chapter. Funeral services will be conducted at the home of Mrs. Chenoweth to- morrow evening. after which her re- mains will be taken to Holly Springs und interred in the family lot. Pall- bearers will be Representatives B. J. Humphreys and Percy E. Qui “hariton M. Clark, Willlam R. Willlam Murray and G. W. Potter., ASKS $25,000 DAMAGES. Mrs. Edna F. Anderson has filed suit in the District Supreme Court o recover $25,000 damages from J. Edward Chapman, local coal dealer, and William A. Collis, his manager. She charges malicious prosecution led to the filing of a criminal charge against her, which was decided in her favor in Police Court. She is represented by Attornevs Thomas M. Baker and H. H. Benjamin. being an_ ex-{ |Plea to President .Sick Wife Warm By the Associsted Press. KEYPORT. N..J, January 30.— Dr. Walker B. Allen today received word from Washington that as the, result of an appeal to President Harding he would get a load of coal to keep his Invalid wifewarm. When Dr. Allen ran out of coal a week ago and was unable to get more he wrote the President, as follows: t 18 with regret that I learn of your illness, also Mrs. Harding's. 1 have had an invalid wife for the past eight years and have no coal in my bin. Kindly wire if you can relieve me of this condition.” A telegram today. signed by Fed- era]l Fuel Administrator Wadleigh, said the plea to the President had been forwarded to him and that action had been taken for imme- dfate shipment of coal to Matawan depot, near Keyport. — RUSSIANS PLAVG HAND N 0L GRANT Far East Developments Seen in Sinclair Company Concessions. SOVIET CONTROL SPREADS Propaganda Being Disseminated Through Trade Channels Getting Grip on Chinese. BY F. A. MACKENZIE. By Cabie to The Star and Chicage Daily News. Copyright, 1923. | Moscow. “January 30.-Confirma- tion of the grant of an oll concession of 1,000 square versts in northern Saghallen to the American Sinclair Oll Company of the United States, which originally negotlated with the Far Eastern Republic, and the de- parture of M. Joffe, the soviet special representative in China, for Japan are coupled together here as indicat- ing the coming of big developments in the far east. Russia, having regained her place as a Pacific ocean power by the recccu. i pation of Viadivostok, is going to play her hand there once more and bid for political recognition, forgetting old enmities in making her position se- cure. Soviet Faces Eastward. For more than a year communist political propaganda has been es- pecially directed toward the far east, where it has obtained remarkable success. Large numbers of young Chinese etudents have adopted Karl Marx’s materialistic economics, and a considerable section of the Korean malcontents have turned completely from their own republican movement to communism, belleving that it is their only hope of regaining national independence. There are many evidences here of the success of the propaganda among ‘Chinese workmen. There are mare | Chinese students under communist instruction in Moscow than there are [from any other land. The Chinese fear that Russia, disgusted by the weakness of their government, may form a practical working alliance with Japan.. They read with especial in- terest M. Joffe’s recent interview with Sun Yat €en before leaving China. Japan wants fishing and mineral rights in Kamchatka and elsewhere and she can supply cheap goods, whioh Siberla needs urgently. S beria could give Japanese industry a fresh burst of prosperity U. S. Ald Soughs High Russian officlals with whom the correspondent has discussed the matter make no secret of the fact that they prefer American co-opera- tion above all ments, but this they maintain is im- possible in full without political rec- ognition. Hence the Sinclair con- cession has a proviso declaring it I able to cancellation unless formal of- ficial relations are established b tween the United States and Russia within five years. CHILD WELFARE 1S AIM. Big Brothers and Big Sisters to Form Federation Tonight. Organization of a federation of Big Brothers and Big Sisters In Washing- ton in the interest of the children who come before the Police and Juvenile courts will be undertaken at a_meet- ing in the Trinity Community House, 3d and C streets northwest, tonigni at 8 o'clock. Among the speakers will be ILio- land_Sheldon, executive secretary of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, who will explain the aims of the organization; Rev. William S. Abernathy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church; Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court; Judge Robert 1. Har- dison of Police Court, and ®liver Hoyem, secretary of the National As- sociation of Prison Labor. The meet- ing will be under the auspices of the Prisoners’ Aid Assoclation. PLEA OF NOT GUILTY. Colored Man Accused of Starting Blaze at Catholic University. { Charles A, Johnson, colored, plead- { ed not gulity to a charge of arson to- day in Police Court before Judge McMahon, and upon waiving a prelim- inary hearing was held under a bond of $5,000 to await action of the grand Jury. It was charged that the defendant had set fire to Caldwell Hall, one of the buildings surrounding Catholic University, in order to wipe out the evidence of a small theft he was al- leged to have committed. He was arrested January 28, the same day of the fire, ‘by Policemen D. W. Combs and H. C. Hurton, both of the tenth precinct. The fire fortunately was discovered before it did much damage. “WAVING GIRL” WILL BE FIRST TO GREET RETURNING RHINE ARMY Spacial Dispatch to The Star. SAVANNAH, Ga., January 30.— When the transport St. Mihiel, with the “army of occupation” from Ger- many on board, swings up the Sa- vannah river about a week from to- day the first American greeting to the returning doughboys will originate . with the “waving girl” From her unique home on the island near the mouth of the river she will wave a ‘grecting to the officers and men-of the $th Infantry, just as she has been waving similar welcomes to vessels orthirty-six years. T uring that perlod she has greeted vessels in deference to a promise made t6 a lover Who sailed away to the “port of missing men.” Then o seventeen. Today she is fleyThree. - Her name is Florence Martus, and she lives with her ‘rother, alone on this solitary island near the sea. They. have no neighbors. They see nothing but. the ships that ome and go—ships from all parts of the world. Should the transport head- into the river by daylight, the “waving girl" will greet it with a white handker- chief. If at night she will have a lantern. Today she told the skipper “ of a river boat that she was looking for with deep interest to the ar- rl;:.l! of the glt‘.) Mihlel. - lormen from *every quarter the world know and love her. Curious and beautiful things from all corners of the earth are to be found In her little home, the gift of friendly mari- ners. At one time she had a menag- erle of queer animals brought to her by sailors and ships’ officers, Men of the sea have come to look upon her as their patroness who brings them good luck. .There have been sailors who have deserted their ships just because she had failed to wave good-bye as they cléared. And every saluté she gives is answered by the passing craft. 3 (Copyright, 1923.) in Siberian develop- | |WinsCoal toKeep [ i ! | 1 i | i [ was released. PERSECUTES KLAN Ku Kiux Official . Assails Judge for Denouncing Or-* der From Bench v By the Associated Press. < Y, NEW YORK, January ‘&%Pml B. Etheridge, imperial counsel' of the Ku Klux Klan, charged, in a statement, that attendants in the Gates avenue court in Brooklyn had staged a fake riot out- side the cell of ‘eight alleged. klansmen, arrested Thursday night, in order to intimidate them. Frank ‘Bufke, a court ‘attendant,’ dnd other officials flatly denled the charged of Mr. Etheridge, who asserted that members of the order were being perse- cuted in New York city, and that Magis- trate Dale had no right to denounce the klan at the arraignment of the prison- ers on charges of having blackjacks and whisky in the automobile in which they were arrested. Deacribes Allexed Riot. Describing the riot alleged to have been faked, Mr. Etheridge said: “The treatment of the men from the time they were locked in their cells in police headquarters was not that which is ordinarily accorded convicted crim- inals. “The attenda its at the Gates avenue court endeavored o scare or intimidate {the men by staging a fake riot outside their cell, throwing bottles and cans down the -corridor in front of the cell, one attendant even faking a telephone call to police headquarters for reserves in order to quell ‘a mob of 2.000 people outside the court who are trying to get at these ku kluxers’' another attend- ant in negro dialect, shouting. “Let me gct to these ku kluxers: I'll tear them jto plece Assafls Judge's Action. “The action of Magistrate Dale is regarded by the klan as one of the most astonishing evidences of official bias and prejudice against the organization that have ever come to its notice. When the eight men wers first arraigned the actual charges against them. the charges constituting only misdemeanors, were not the subject of the maglistrate’s speech, for Judge Dale, instead of de- livering any opinion concerning ‘the charges themselves, launched into a ve- hemeny denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan, ‘simply because it was inferred that the cight men had earller in the evening attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting.” . ELAN MEETING RAIDED. Lieut. Gegan Heads Squad That Breaks Up Conclave. NEW YORK, January 30.—Seventy- two ‘men rushed pell-mell from a con- clave at Young's Hall, Brooklyn, and fled through nearby streets and alley- ways when they were “tipped” last night that a bomb squad frenf head- quarters police station was surround- ing the place. The detectives, two automobile loads of them, were in command of Lieut. James Gegan, who last week captured eight men and confiscated a Ku Klux uniform, a bottle of whisky and two blackjacks after 'a mysteri- ously conducted meeting in & trafic court. - Two men were caught, one of whom told the police the meeting was held by th “Turtle Club’ while the other said it was the “Brooklyn branch of the American Society.” ENENY 1S SOUGHT INDOUBLE TRAGEDY Robbery, However, Still Strongly Hinted.in Ten: nessee Killing. . By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. January 30.—Al- though inclined more strongly than ever to the belief that robbery was the motive which prompted the shooting to death of Mrs. Ruth Mc- Elwain Tucker, aged twenty, and Duncan Waller, nineteen, a salesman of Mayfield, Ky.. whose bodies were found on a country Poad near Mem- {phis early Sunday morning, officials today awaited word from Mayfield as to whether any one in that city could have felt an enmity toward Waller that might have led to- the tragedy. Ofcials Stlent. Officlals refused to disclose the particular angle on which they were basing their investigation at May- field, but declared that they were skeptical of the result. d Locally the.officials, baffled at every turn, declared they based their prin- cipal hope for a solution in the sift- ing of the robbery theory. When last seen aMve in public, at a suburban candy store late Safur- day night, Waller is said to have pro- duced a large roll of bills in paying for refreshments. The couple then drove away in an automobile. Valuables Missing. The money they carried and jew- elry Mrs. Tucker was known to have had in her possession were missing when the bodies were found by a milk man ‘Sunday morning. Each had been shot In the back of the head. Waller's body was in the automobile, while that of the young woman was discovered in a field twenty feet from the car. A discharged cartridge was found in the tonneau of the automo- bile and is being held as the most important clue. A negro employe of the store, where acquaintances of couple last saw them alive questioned late yesterday, but tablished a satistactory .alibi. candy the was es- He No other suspects have’ been taken into custody. ELKS T0 HONOR MASTERS. the reception and banquet in honor of J. Edgar Masters, grand exalted ruler of “Elks, at the Wijllard Hotel next Tuesday evening. ' Reservations have been made for 600 guests, Howard E. Peter, past exalted-ruler,is in charge of arrangements. URGE! S ELECTRIC VOTING SYSTEM FOR HQUSE Providing for the purcitase and in- stallation of an, electro-mechanical voting system in ile House of Repre- sentatives, a resolution introduced yes- terday by Representative M. Clyde Kelly of 'Pennsylvania was referred to the Ires Arrangements are being made ror! LEARN OWN ERRORS ' Senator McCormick Declares War Has Left Deep-Scars ' . on Nations. i The of Europe were passed in revie once again in the {Senate yesterday, when Senator McCor- mick, republican, Illinois, who re- [ cently Teturned from a trip abroad, problems gave his collfagues some of his im- re Fecommended that the old wotld be permitted to “learn by painful fail- ure” the error of its ways. The [llinpls senator i farm credits legistation, telling the Sen- . root-Anderson and to restore of other economic influences at home and abroad.. Breadstufls Needed. “The markets of Europe,” sald Sena- tor McCormick, “‘are dominated by fac- tors largely beyond our control or in- fluence. 4Europe today needs breadstuffs more than she can buy. She needs §500,- 000,000 worth of American wheat and corn.'” s “But *her economic restoration, the toration of her buying power. the cstablishment of true and enduring peacé are blocked at the moment by the bitterness, bud faith and bickering at Lausanne. in Memel, the break between Britain {and her continéntal allies. the pres- jence of the battalions of French in the Ruhr.” As usual. in hard times. Mr. Mc- Cormick said. “some meun are tempt- ed to prescribe panaceas.” He called om those who are advocating action in the present European crisis to set forth precisely what they want done, and, referring to predictions that the Jeague of nations would restore sta- bility to the world, he continued: ‘The league has proven a poor peace maker or peacekeeper, Justice and mercy are still too little known, too lit- tle understood, to0 weak to carry weight in the councils of Europe, unless they can invoke the aid of forces strong enough to compel for them a rever- ence and regard which they do not themselves inspire. Decline of Currencies. “We know how perilous is the state of Europe’s civilization today, how fee- ble its life. From the Aegean and the Adriatic to the Baltic, Europe has been broken-up—Balkanized. “Where for the principal purposes| He said he applied his brakes, which trade there were formerly three, | were there are now a dozen governments, | delay, but that his foot slippe of a dozen tariffs and dezen rotten cur- rencles. of revolution and the waste of war, it is attributable,, in_part, too, the Increase in the number of states, jto v |the wretched finunce, to the incon ‘unenl extravagance and to the un- restrained profligacy of parliaments and governments. "By what charm or what force are they to be led to disarm and to put aside the hates which have animated | them for a hyndred years? Time.and labor are the prime requisites for the restoration of FEurope. Unhappily she must learn by painful failure the road to recover: BALDWINASSALLED IN SENATE SPEECH cKellar Attacks Statements of British Chancellor as Unfair and “Uncouth.” An interview with Stanley Bald- win, chancellor of the exchequer of Great Britain, eriticizing the Ameri- can people, and particularly the members of Congress from the west- ern states, in connection with his recent visit to this country to settle the refunding of the British debt to the .United States. was vigorously assailed in the Senate vesterday after. noon by Senator McKellar of Tennessee, democrat. In the published interview given out by Mr. Baldwin when he returned to England Saturday, Congress was described as the root of the dificulty with, which the British are now faced in funding the debt. Senator McKel- lar sald that Mr. Baldwin described Americans as “a country not an urban people.” He also said that Mr. Bald- win asserted “the great difference be- t¥een America and this country is that settlement of the debt in Amer. ica is in the hands of politicians.” vidently,” said Senator McKellar, “according to Mr. Baldwin, he had no trouble with the debt funding com- mission or the administration. It would have been all plain sailing if it had not been for what he evidently {looked upon as the ignorant Con- gress with which he had indirectly to deal. I need not speak of the un- couthness of these charzes against the American Congress by a man in high position in Great Britain. “I need only say that If he exhibited the same element of sordid parsimony and uttered the same crude attacks upon the American people and the American Congress while he was her then the American debt funding com. mission would have not have treated with him at all. “What a different note did our Brit- ish friends utter in May, 1917, when they came over here to borrow this very money in_ order to save their nation, When our British friends wanted to borrow the $4,700.000 they went befors both branches of Congress with com- pliments and flattery.” T hree Big Bills .Will Be Pushed | By Republicans With only five weeks intervening be- fore final adjournment of Congress, re- publican leaders-of the Senate yesterday. determined to utilize every possible means to bring about passage of three principal pieces of legislation, the Lenroot-Anderson rural credits bill, the Army appropriation measure and the pending shipping legislation. The first step in the development of this program was taken at vesterday's session, when Senator Lenroot, republi- can, Wisconsin, gave notice that he would propose a - unanimous consent ofreemem to vote on the rural credits bill tomorrow. Should the agreement fail, it was said, the republican leaders would, if necessary, resort to night sessions. A second step was the action of the appropriations committee in ‘repor! ing the Army supply bill, and no to the Senate by Senator Wadsworfh, republican. New York, in charge of it, that he would call it up soon a8 possible and endeavor to obtain its ruula’wllhout any undue delay. It |Ta the last of the big appropriation measures. The program as outlined by the committee on accounts. the breach of the peace | dellvered - his| throat while he assiulted her. ropinions in the course of a speech on|face was cut in two places. It the terrible condition of | ping wa Europe be attributable to the ruin) wearing boots inatead of shoes to | witnesses, heir rivalries and ambitions, to|the moving automobile because of it i majority leaders in conference among _This resolution specifies that the cost shall not exceed $300 per mem- ber and that the sum of $130,500, or as much thereof as may be necessary, would be authorized to be appro- priated from the contingent fund of the House. The resolution provides for a com- mission of nine persofs. composed of zaven members of e appointed by the Speaker. to-act w! the clerk of the, House"agd ‘the srehi- tect of the Capitel,-in aelg a tracting for and causin voting | device to be installed. == P r themselves was understood to have been communicated to President Harding and to have received the executive's approval. MRS. HILL'S WILL FILED. The will of Mrs. Jullet L. P. Hill, ‘who died January 16, has been filed for probate. She names her husband, David Jayne Hill, foarmer ambassador to Germany, 38 e beneficiary of hre estate. . Mrs. Hill was Siron by an sutomobile and m'}..'.." fatal injury. P TR e ifourteen miles an hour when it struck Mrs. ON CHARGE OF RAPE “We agree as to his gullt, but can- not agree as to the penalty,” said the foreman of the jury in Criminal Division 1 yesterday afternoon, when re- porting on the.case of Samuel Max Brown, colored, charged with raping Mrs. Florence F. Wilson, white, De- cember § last, near 8th and I streets southwest. “A verdict of guilty will be record- ed,” sald Justice Stafford. The verdict, as accepted by the court, saves the life of Brown, as the law requires that the jury must add the words “with the death penalty” to its verdict. The maximum sentence now faced by Brown is thirty years in lons of Furopean conditions and | the penitentiary:’ Brown, it is charged, robbed Mrs. ‘Wilson and dragging her, to a se- cluded spot held’a knife at her er Assistant United States 'Attorney ate that although he favored the Len-| mmerson conducted thg prosecution, 3 Norbeck bills, such | while Attorney measurfs alone should not be expected | ;3" Jackson defended the prisoner by gricultural prices in view | gppointment of the court. ‘Thona8 Béckett and AUTO DRIVER HELD INWOMAN'S DEATH Samuel A. King. colored, 746 1215 street southeast, driver of a touring car that knocked down and killed Mra. Emily- J. Keith, sister-in-law of Representative Fuller of Illinois, near 13th and. B streets northeast, Saturday | afternoon, was held for the action of the . grand ury yesterday, at an in- quest held at the morgue. Assistant United States Attorney A. N. Cres- mont appeared for the government, while Attorney Tracey L. Jeffords ap- peared as representative of relatives of the deceased. King. who was warned that any- thing he might say to the jury might be used against him in a sub- sequent proceedings, told the jury his car was making a speed of about thirteen miles an hour when the ac- cident happened. Ten Witnesses Texstlfy. He said he sounded his horn; that Mrs. Kelth stopped and turned back. in tperfect condition, without off the He explained that the slip- s due to the fact that he was brake: The jury heard the testimony of ten some of whom testified that their attention was drawn to terrific speed, and Dr. Herbert E. Martin, deputy coroner, testified that Mrs. Keith's death resulted from a crushed chest, hemorrhage and shock. He said she received a number of Injuries. Park Policeman James A. Moran told the jury he made measurements and found the macine skidded thirty paces after striking Mrs. Kelth. Donald R. Messenger, 1213 C street northeast, gave similar testimo He said he heard the driver sound the horn about the time Mrs. Keith appeared. She seemed to pay no at- tention to the biowing of the horn, he stated, and added that the driver of the machive tried to pass in front of her. Witness said he thought the driver was pot going to stop, and he ob- tained his license number. Later he boarded a car and accompanied King to_the police station.., Frank Chew, colored, 748 1215 street southeast, who was an occupant of the car at the time the accident hap- pened, said he thought the machine was making only about thirteen or Keith, He told the jury of the blowing of the horn, and said the pedestrian jumped back. The car struck her and knocked her down. H. O. C. Crose, 203 13th street north- cast, testified_he reached the scene before Mrs. Keith had been picked | up. The automobile, he testified, | stopped thirty-one paces from the ! point where Mrs. Keith was atruck, | Marks on the street, he added, in- | dicated that the car skidded fifteen | paces before striking h | JURY HOLDS GAPERS DEATH AN AGCIDENT A verdict of accidental death was returned by a coroner's jury at the District morgue yesterday afternoon in the case of Frank V. Capers, fifty-five years old, 1225 Girard street, who was killed Saturday night by an automobile of Raymond C. Wood, 8§23 Allisofstreet, on 14th street between Girard and Harvard streets, Mr Wood was exonerated by the jury. Dr. Herbert Martyn, deputy coroner, | told the jury that Mr. Capers' skull { was fractured, his left ear almost torn ! off, his right leg broken and his chest | crushed. i William Donald Goodman, 1317 Dela- street. testified he was one of | fitan Persons ‘Gecupyink the front seat of the automobile when the accident { He thought the car was| twenty appened. R Pne between ' fifteen - and miles an hour, He said he saw a| pedestrian leaving the sidewalk and | Shouted a warning to Wood. The wind- | shield was down, he explained to the ! Jury, but he was able to see through it. | James H. Kelly, 4419 Iowa avenye, { the third occupant of the front seat | of the automobile, said the car was| properly lighted and running at a speed of about fifteen miles an hour when the accident happened. Wood testified that he was on his | way ' home with the two friends! when one of his companions called | look out. He stated he saw the pedestrian_ahead of the car carrying an umbrella. He stopped his’ car immediately, saw it had cleared the man, who had been knocked down, and he steered to the curb side and Stopped the car. He judged the car was making a speed of about fifteen or seventeen miles an hour. He was unable to tell the exact speed, how- ever, because his speedometer ,was out of order. He said his car wis in perfect working order and was prop- erly lighted. —_— FOUR ESCAPE INJURIES AS AUTO STRIKES POLE Four employes of the highway di- vision of the District government escaped serious inuiry yesterday after- noon when thefr fleld truck struck a trolley pole on Rhode Island avenue near 4th street northeast. ; The men Who wére in the maching believe something went wrong with the steering apparatus. They said the machine was not traveling fast i the time, but had just turned out to pass a wagon. 5 Those in the car who received ‘cuty and bruises are: Willlam Mackle; driver; Phil Darling, assistant engi- neer, living at Silver Spring, Md., and J. Nelson Anderson and Thomas M Lattimer., ‘THe only ‘monument in the ‘wem ted “to the memory of ‘Adam,- ;mt ull(?' 18 to be seen In Baltimore. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, T923. DECLARES GOTHAM SAYS EUROPE MUSTICOLORED MAN GULTY BILL PERMITS D. C. {U. S ANKIOUS TOSETTLE |BLISS IS NOMINATED RAILWAY MERGER! PORTO RCAN TROUBLE| - MINSTER T0 SWEDEN e { Officials Wish to End Dispute | Third Assistant Secretary of State Measure Allows One Com- pany to Own Stock in Another. Merger of certain street railway corporations in the District of Co- lumbia Wwould be authorized under a bill introduced in the House yesterday by Representative llammer, demo- crat, of North Carolina, a member of the House District committee. His bill proposes that “any corpora- tion having a franchise to operate street cars In the District of Colum- bia may acquire and hold the shares of the capital stock of any cther cor- poration having a franchise to oper- ate street cars in the District, and may issue shares of preferred capital stock or bonds for the purpose of ac- quiring any such shares, provided that preferred shares or bonds issued un- der authority of the act shall not be sold for less than their par value.” The bill provides also that in cases where bonds or shares of preferred caplital stock issued under the author- ity of thiy act are exchangel for other shares of preferred stock, the bonds or shares so exchanged shall not bear a greater amount of annual interest than the shares for which they were exchanged. This bill was referred to the House District committee. SENATOR'S SON WEDS; SURPRISE T0 PARENT. ‘Without the knowledge of his par- ents, Ernest C. Smoot, twenty-one- year-old son of Senator and Mrs. Smoot of Utah, was married yesterday afternoon at Rockville, Md., to Miss Martha C. Gearing of this city, The ceremony, which was performed by Rev. Philip R. Wagner, Baptist clergyman, culminated a romance which is said to have had its in-| ception when the young couple were attending George Washington Unt- versity more than a yvear ago. The bride’s mother, Mrs. W. C. Gearing, accompanied the couple to Rockville and witnessed the ceremony. When informed of the marriage of her son Mrs. Smoot manifested great surprise, declaring she knew that he s engaged to the Gearing girl, but was unaware that they had been wed. Friends of the couple at the Capitol, where they had been seen often to- gether, likewise were surprised when they heard of the marriage. Young Smoot was a former student 4t Western High School and later at- tended George Washington Univer- sity, where he met Miss Gearing, who | is twenty years old. After the cere- mony they returned to the city. COAL EMBARGO FAVORED. Massachusetts House of Represent- atives Votes Action. BOSTON, January 30.—The house of representatives yesterday unmlmoual,\'l adopted a resolution favoring passage | by Congress of the bill proposed by Representative John J. Rogers of Lowell | for an embargo on coal. The resolution declared that the measure would relieve | distress in New England. | i Between the Governor and the People. By the Associated Press. Anxiety of administration officials to bring about a betterment of con- ditlons in Porto Rico, particularly be- tween the island government and the people, and to assign that task as the first responsibility of the governor of Porto Rico, was revealed yesterday a5 one of the subjects under considera- tion in connection with existing dis- satisfaction, on the part of some island residents over the adminis- tration of Gov. E. Mont Relly. Gov. Relly called upon Secretary Wecks yesterday, but declined to make any statement regarding the confer- ence or to indicate whether he would resign his post and remain in the United States or return to Porto Rico. It was bearned, however, that Mr. Reily would confer with Presi- dent Harding in the immediate future, and that no announcement as to the Porto Rican governorship would be made prior to that conference, The President has been given a complete report as to conditions on the island, which, in the opinion of some of his advisers, require s attention in connection with cigion as to whether Gov. Reily retain his post —_— KILLED IN PLANE CRASH. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, January 30.—First Lieut. Rupert Julian, an aviator attached to Schofleld barracks, was killed and an enlisted man accompanying him was probably fatally injured here when their airplane went into a tall spin at an alti- tude of about 700 feet and crashed. ‘The accident occurred about a half mile from the Schofleld fiylng fleld. Jullan was born fn Indiana in 1899, and has been here but a short tim purpose. real value. TABLE LAMPS FLOOR LAMPS 607 14th St. S /1271701127 1212 A1 A O AE LI THE MANS STORES OF WASHINGTON Almost to Cost —a high class stock that includes every size and every style for every For this extraordinary clearance we have marked the prices at almost half the READING LAMPS DESK LAMPS No Exchanges or Refunds Potomac Electric Appliance Co. Branch Store, Wash. Railway & Electric Bidg. - 14th & C Sts. N.W, LI LI AL LA AR Named to Succeed Morris. Robert Woods. Bliss of New Yc third assistant secretary of state, wist nominated by President Harding yeste:- day to be minister to Sweden, sucs ceeding Ira Nelson Morris, who re+ cently resigned. J. Butler Wright of Wyoming, who has been in the diplomatic serv for a number of years, was nominated third assistant secretary to succeed Mr. Bliss. Mr. Bliss has been third assistar secretary since March, 1921, and virtue of that office has welcomed for the State Department a number of distinguished forelgn visitors on their arrival in the United States. Born {n St. Louis in 1875, Mr. B attended Harvard Univer: going to Porto Rico after his graduation n 1900 as private secretary to the gov- ernor. In 1903 he was appointed consul at Vienna, and the following year went to Petrograd as second sec- retary of embassy. Later diplomatie assignments took him to Brussels and Buenos Aires. From 1912 to 1920 he was stationed at Parfs, first as eecrr tary and later as counselor of e bassy. On his.return to the Unitec State. April, 1 Mr. Bliss wan made chief of the State Department division of western European affa Mr. Wright is now serving ac member of the Brazilian Exposit Commission, having gone to Rio neiro after serving during the Was ington arms conference as an expert adviser to the American commissjon- ers. He is fortv-five years old, and a graduate of Princeton. He has been stationed at various foreign capitals since entering the diplomatic service. and returned from London, where hs was counselor at the American em- bassy, to gct as an adviser during the. arms conference. —_— China has 225 inhabitants to each of territo: LIPS BOUDOIR LAMPS JUNIOR FLOOR LAMPS LTI I L RO A P L PO I A Phone Main 955 We’'re Collaring the Town With Our Famous ' COLLAR SALE Pay the Regular Price (15c) for One Collar and get the Second Collar for 1 Cent We started out with 50,000—but they're going fast. TODAY. Sold in half-dozen lots only—48c for 6—at both stores. 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