Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 2

THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGT ,-. i o 2 O, 8 h "FEBRUARY N 1o B . EA P RO R e o D '!' , SATURDAY, 17 : : PROSPEROUS ERA ) NEAR, SAYSFAL Retiring Interior Secretary Sees Industrial Activity Just Around Corner. GLAD TO LEAVE OFFICE Also Observes That Court of Pub- lic Opinion, Though Harsh, Mostly Is Just. Speaking at the American Electric Railway Assocla- tion at the New Willard Hotel last night, Secrtary of the Interior Kall guve what was regarded as his swan song, in view his approaching re- tirement from the cabinet on Mareh | 4. Mr. Fall took the opportunity to make some observations on public life and of conditions confronting the United States, emphasizing that Le was making the observations from the advantageous position of vne who was retiring voluntarily At the samc time he read a message from President Harding conveylng to ization the chief executive's! of personal regards and | urance of ntin- the | ented | banquet of the uing int great indus repre by the i ddress re- (ly Christian martyrs antering the arena to make s Roman | toliday and their greeting to the| emperor and said Happy at Prospec 1te ts ‘Desy some s as tol whether a peliu entitled to! clas Limseif with the meek and | lowly Christians or with the rough necked -barbarians of the gladia-! torial arena, I shall venture, here on' the eve of my political iution, to adopt the same greeting: 'We whoare ! about to die, salute vou’ 1 have read | that the Christian s frequently | were so reconciled their fate, 5o | assured of the happiness awalting them that they w to the | singing of fol T the grim greeting to I that ancient tale o v el Receptad. the o clas- | By myes for 1§ atis- | “p- able share ot € Fer- | ho ,\‘ the fo-} { | | Confidence in Public. “A good many y less philosophical < ublic life has that your to be appreciatac 15 ho deserves, siderably less he thinks he de- serves. On the whole, I huve conaider- | in the rough just and their careers. vhilosoph actor commu going back y suspect also that ‘Thumbs down’ often 1 ctly unfavorable impre performers there. “Whether in our in others, there ne: ¢ when the pub ting in fts attitude vants, as it is tcday was a time when looking in than he can Today the to criticlze a pu any act of omission or of commis- sion, but to charge him personally th being actuated by ulterior mo- tives of personal or pure- 1y selfish interest Life Now More Complex. “The problems of nowadays more com than they . we m; 1 Tiot s i be completely and lugubri- ? ducks. But, to the Roman arena, we verdict of | de a dis- fon on the own country or T s been a Was 50 exact- toward its ser- ‘’here never the critic on the found more to find in_ these tende: is not lic servant for have ever been. irly €ay. no local problems. Everything erything elme, eve: the war, we all con-| ced ourselves that the worid would r again Le as it was before; and { guess we were right to that extent. But more than four years have passed since the war's end, and wa| 2aven't yet a notlon what sort of | world we are going to have, know one ¢ ment, that h simple 4 last | ears; ts people and ! its plant back to work; trying to in-| orease its ingome and reduce its| outgo; secking to insure itgelf! againgt wars and menace of wara; endeavori umulate real <apital instead of flat mon trying i0 lessen the burden of armament Anding tasks—useful, worth-while sasks—for people who formerly were | dle; encouraging trade and industry, | seeking to open new markets, refus- | ng to get entangled with others who have not et found that the war is over. rosperity at Hand. “That cou: of America, mighty good drum, safe .uud it has been setting a | xample of quiet, hum- | nsible management Nothing _spec- i but taxes are acular has been d a lower, the danger of a war in the. Pacific has been removed, four or five million workers who two years ago were out of jobs are now in jobe, and more labor is needed than can be found; the cost of living hasn't been much ' reduced, but the number of people who can pay that cost has been increased powerf: the huge government debt has not been reduced much, but its increase has been stop- ped and we can sce ahead the time when its progressive reduction will be a fixed part of the national pro- gram; the labor question has not heen permanently settled and, thank God, it never will be—this side of the millenium, but it has been changed to a question of finding enough work to keep the people busy and fed, and, finally, everybody knows that right now the country is facing a period of great industrial activity and uni- versal prosperit | { CONTROLLEQ KRAM QuITS. | Resigns From Post Office Depart- ment to Take Another Post. Charles A. Kram today resigned as controller of the Post Office Depart- ment, to take effect immediately. He nas been considering it for two months. After a short vacation, Mr. Kram expects to accept a position with the bureau of the budget. Starting thirty-three years ago a a low-salaried clerk in the census bureau, when he came to Washington trom Milton, Pa., to work upon the decennial census of 1890, Mr. Kram won his way up to a prominent place in the government service. —eme SAYS HE MADE BAD LOANS. ST. LOUIS, February 17.—Charles B. Dover, cashier of the Citizens’ Bank of Sikeston, Mo., has admitted, ac- cording to the Post-Dispatch, that he was responsible for aparent discrep- anel; ald to total $114,000, which resulted in the closing of ‘the bank (ast Tuesday. 3 Dover is quoted as telling a Post: Dispateh correspondent that he made bad loans to a grain speculators i | i i {promptly ordered, at the point of the {B. & 0. DEMANDS CIRCOLO ITALIANO PAYS TRIBUTE TO CARDUCCI Commemorate Death of Leader Amongst Modern Poets Who Expired in 1907. The regular meeting of the Circolo Italiano held last night at the resi- dence of its president, Signor Vin- cenzo dio Girolamo, 3764 Patterson street northwest, was commemora- tive of the death of Carduccl, one of the leaders among modern Italian poets, who dled in 1907, and Whose writings deal particularly with the civic and historical aspects of his country. In sbite of the inclement weather there were in attendance about sixty members of this organiza- tlon, which has for its object the study and furtherance of various phases of Italian national life—art, music, literature, history, etc. The life and work of Carducct were touched upon by Avv. M. Striz- zl, principal speaker of the evenin, who spoke in Itallan. Italian music 1s always a feature of these gathar- ings and Marchese San Germano tributed a group of Neapolitan songs n‘"d ulso sang & number of “Stornellf ‘Toscani,” little songs characteristic of Tuscany. Miss Amores als) con- tributed to the program. Refresh- ments were served. Prince Gelasio Caetan!, new Itallun ambassador to the United States, hus accepted an Invitation to becoms an Fonorary president of the organiza- tion, which Includes both resident Italians and Americans in sympathy with Italian idea! "AINTMUCH," SAYS THIEF, BUT TAKES IT Holds Up Grocery Store Early Today, Getting Only $20 Loot. HUNTS FOR HIDDEN SUM Robber Doubts Manager's Word, But Search Yields No More Money. ! | t | “This ain't much; hardly worth the| trouble, but T'll take it,” observed a young hold-up man after he had forced C. A. Downs, manager of a Sanitary Grocery Store at 4% and K strests southwest, ea today to hand over the contents of the cash register. amounting to $20. Mr. Downs was waiting on & woman tomer shortly after 7 o’clock, when the bandit entered the store. There several other women In the the time, he sald, but they | “iland over the cash,” he demanded. behind his handkerchief mask. Mr. Downs emptied the cash register and turned it over to the thief. “This {sn't all" the robber sald, after receiving the $20. “T want last night's recelp They don't come around to collect it until 8 o'clock. Doubting the managers word that the money in the cash register was! all that was {n the store, the bandit procesded to look into some boxes | and cans behind the counter. | Woman Enters Store. | 8Shortly after Le began his Mrs. M. Hope of 1115 414 street south. west entered the store. She was pistol, to stand over in & corner and say or do nothing. She complied with his demand. When he left the store, Mrs. Hope sald, he immedluon} changed a brown slouch hat for a! 1ight colored cap and disappeared. The hold-up man was desoribed to police of the fourth precinct by Mr. Downs as being about eighteen or nineteen years old, five feet nine inches tall, light hair and wearing a brown overcoat and light trousers. U. S. VACATE PLAZA HOTEL BUILDINGS i hat we have possession of this prop- erty at the earliest possible moment, and, therefore, respectively reiterate | the request that the property be va- cated by April 1, 1923 Action Net Certain. Labor Department officials did not would transmit to Congress a request | of the hotels. The correspondence does not indicate whether the rail- road company would at this time con- sider extension of the agreement or whether the government, on payment of back rental, could keep and main- tain the bulldings erected on the leaced property. The present situation is another chapter in the tangled history of the government hotels, which have been the cause of disagreements extending over some months. A disagreement between the Plaza councll, the resident organization pre- siding over the hotels in co-operation with the management, several months ago, resulted in the resignation of the ' president of the Plasza council, after -much correspondence between Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the woman's bureau of the Labor Depart- ment, and the Plaza council. This disagreement resulted in a summary declaration by Assistant Secretary Henning that if the qu rels_did not cease ihe govornment would immediately cease operation of the hotels and the government em- ployes living there would have to find lodging elsewhere. The. manager cf the hotels was exonerated by Mr. Henning and was retained, —_— TIGHTEN RUHR GRIP ’MID BOMB HURLING (Continued from First Page. plant, have been punished by court- martial for violating French orders. Havenstein, sentenced to three years' lmgrllonm nt -qn charge of cutting off ‘the supplies of gas an electricity upon the arrival ef .t ¥rench {n “Oberhausén, cortended that he had carried out the instruc- tions of his superiors. . Schaafer tes- tified that it had been impossible for him to carry out technically the French orders which imposed upon him the task of furnishing transportation and fuel. a two-year jafl sen fined 10,000,000 marks. Buszmann was fined 5,000,000 mark: on char of interfering with the supply o tricity in the Kaiserhof Hotel, the French headquarters. Five hundred thousand children are to be sent out of the occupled. terri~ tory by the Bridendurg peoples al- lance COLD SPELL BRINGS OUT SKATING ENTHUSIASTS. WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FIRST FREEZING| OF LINCOLN MEMORIAL REFLECTING . Gorman of 3017 Cambridge place northwest and Miss Katherine Fleming of 1352 Spring road finding they expected it to be. | the going a little more slippery than POOL, & Marion an Upper: General view of the pool, with its merry gliders, and the Lincolu Memorlal In background. {Gems and Gold Dazzle When | | | Pharaoh Tomb Is Penetrated' (Continuad from Firs: Page.) tomb, which shows the resting plac of the sarcophagus to be inside serles of concentric boxes, or nacle, painted to indleate wood. clsely such as was found today. The historical interest of the covery Is, therefore, enormous. Will Not See Body for Time. What aleéo may. be taken as rea- sonably certain is that the conmstruc- tion of the suc ve tabernaciez, which successfully -baffled ~the an- clent robbers, makes the immediate opening of them lmpossible. The ac- tual sight of King Putankhamen where he lles will have to be post- poned to some time indefinite. The period of his long and lonely watch s not yet ended. Hoard of Jewels. Each of those who entered today is enthusiastic, {f rather incoherent, in admiration of the nej hoard of articles lying in the further cham- ber. This is merely & room hewn out of rock, never havix built in it. So it has alw open to access from the chamber containing the tabernacles.’ The view, therefore, of its contents is unob- cted. U Vhat espectally struck all who saw it was the shrine spoken of above with the four guardian god- desses, all with their faces turned to the entrance, as if pleading not to be disturbed. The workmanship of this is mbst beautiful. The greatest admiration also is expressed for some alabaster vases, said to be much loveller even than the lovely ones formerly discovered. They are. ap- parently white, not having become Jellow by age. The statuettes and %0 forth seen are undoubtedly of the greatest beauty and value, While the Rumber of unopened boxes With their seals unbroken give promise of an unprecedented harvest of preclous things. Problem Faces Discoverer. With the contents of the annex to the outer chamber still awaiting at- die- ry is the United States | know today whether Secretary Davis |tention added to this new and amaz- ing Btore of wonders, the mere em- !for a specific appropriation for rental ! parragsment of riches contronts Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Carter with a seri- ous problem, even though no attempt is made to touch for awhile the tabernacle of the king, The immen- sity of the whole thing makes one &P actual ceremony of breaking through the sealed door started at 1:45 p.m. Luncheon was over a little after 1 and the party, led by Lord Carnarvon and Sir Willlam Garstin, made their way from the staff dining room in & cache to the tomb, into the well of which' all descended. A short interval elapsed for the ar- rival of M. Lacau with Abdul Harmid Pasha Soliman, undersecretary for public works. 3 "After various introductions Mr. Cal- lender removed the grille and de- scended ‘the passage in order to un- lock the steel gate. All present then proceeded to take oft their coats, for not only was the opening a process likely to be lengthy, but the atmos- phere was certain to be sultry, to say the least of it. Eleetrie Current Fails. There was a slight hitch, owing to the failure of the electric curpent. A few moments were full of tense sus- pense, and even those watching from the parapet could sense the sup- pressed excitement which possessed each of those standing below at the top of the steps, on the lookout for the signal when they were to de- scend to experience the moment for which they had waited three months, when, before their eyes, the crum- bling wall would reveal the mystery that had lain behind it for 3,000 years. - At last Mr. Callender sent up word that the light was on, and Mr. Carter -.n%‘thon rd Carnarvon, with Lady Evelyn Herbert close at hand, fol- lowed by 8ir Willlam Garstin, Abdel HMamid Pasha Soliman, Mr. Lacu, Mr. Engelbach, Prof. Breasted, Dr. Gardi- nér, Mr. Lythgoe and others, descend- ed into the ante-chamber. There were twenty in all, to whom must be added the laborers who carried down huge t vs for reception of seals, etc. Carter Eulpgises Carmarvon. Before the actual work started Mr. Carter made a little speech in which he-stated that sil that had been done and anything that the wall might re- wveal was eatirely dua to Lord Car- narvon. He thanked every one for| coming to the ceremony and express- | ed his gratitude to the Metropolitan | Museum for the great assistance it had given, and also the Egyptian government. They had still most im- portunt work to do, he said, and much | might be damaged 1f improperly han- | | dled. ~ He hoped that they would be | allowed to carry it to completion in | peace. for after all, they wero -all working for the.sake of scignce. Lord Carnarvon followed with | few words. likewlise expressing than {to those present, to the KEgyptian government, and ‘particularly to Mr. Lythgoe and the trustees of the Met. ropolitan Museum ‘for their ready as- sistance and sympathy and the loan which they made of their experts, Wwho were probably the best experts in the world for carrying out & very important and delicate wark and dealing in a properly and in a scien- tific manner with the treasures of this tomb. Carter Given Credt Lord Carnarvon concluded by say- ing that it was entirely due to Mr. {Carter that they made this scientific | jdiscovery, for Mr. Carter, by his un- {quenchable faith and indomitable {perseverance, had “bucked him up” in the face of the many previous dis- appointments they had experienced. Mr. Carter then turned to the sealed wall and began breaking It with a ichisel and mallet. In a short time he had removed a large plece, which revealed the wooden lintel of the door. By about 3 o'clock sufficient had been removed to enable Mr. Car- ter to enter, and shortly afterward a large portion of the wall came away, revealing to the dazzled and spelibound gaze of the spectators the wonderful spectacle described above. ueen of Belgians Arrives. The Queen of the Belgians and Prince Leopold, traveling incognito |as the Countess de Retny and Count |de Rethy, and accompanied by Prof. i Cappart, arrived by special train this morning, having come through di- | | | rect from Alexandria without chang- ing, and with but a fow minutes’ halt at Cairo, She was met at the station by Abdel Azez Bey Yeha, governor of | the province, with the ' subgovermor and other officials and Col. J. X, Wat- son. The queen is staying at the AVin- ter Palace Hotel. This is the queen’s second visit, the first being in 1911, when_she camé with the king and stayed about two months, while he went to the Sudan on a shooting ex- pedition. | ored hieroglyphs. EMOTIONS ARE STIRRED AS IF RESURRECTION DAY HAD COME TO PHARAOH BY ARTHUR WEIGALL. (Copyright, 1023, by North American News- paper Alliuice and London Dutly Mail) LUXOR, Egypt. February 17.—The inner chamber of the tomb of P’harach Tutankhamen was opened vesterday for the first time since shortly after hts burlal, 1350 B.C. The chamber was found 1o contain one room. in which were the sarcophagus believed o be that of the Pharaoh and many wonderful articles of furniture. The first hammeéring occurfed at 1359 p,m.. and at 3:45 the party still was in the inner chamber. The walls of the burial chamber were inscribed in col- There was a beau- tiful alabaster vase with lotus flow- ers on either side, The great golden canopy has inlaid precious stones and a blue enamel base. Sightseers Come Up. In the morping a.few sightseers came up to the valley, but, as it was definitely stated that no objects would | be removed from the tomb, the usual crowd was absent. Dr. Alan Gardi- ner, greatest English authority on ancient Egyptian language, and Prof. J. H. Breasted, director of the ori- ental institute of the University of Chicago, however, spent some hours trying to decipher the sealings in- scribed on the doorway into the inner chamber, and when the tomb was closed at midday, I felt pretty cer- tain, from various indications, that the great hour wag upon us. It came with great suddenness. Just before half past one. when the deserted valley was ablaze with the midday sun, and the police sentry yawned at his post, a party of men appeared. as from nowhere, and si- lently filed down into the hollow in which is the mouth of the tomb. There were about twenty of them, all of the excavating party, with Gar- diner, Breasted, Mr. Lythgoe, director of the Egyptological section of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; Plerre Lacau, director general of 'the department of antiquities, Calro; Capt. Engelbach, chief in- spector of antiquities for the depart- ment of upper Egypt; Sir William Garstin, director of the Suez Canal Company, and Abdul Hamid Pasha, Egyptian’ undersecretary of = public Wworks. ! Deeply Impressed. Presently came Lady Evelyn Her- bert,' Carnarvon's daughter. Down they went into the pool of blue shade, and silently removed their coats and hats in preparation for their adven- ture. T don’t know why their going down into the tomb seemed so eerie to me; maybe it was the silence of the valley, or maybe I had been think- ing-too much about the pharaoh who lie down there on the hillside; but as 1 watched these men gathering on the steps of the tomib’1 was over- Edwin Denby, children of the Secretary of the Navy and | ° | Mre. Denby, were among the first to appear on the pond today. ! whelmed with a consclousness of the | deep pathos of it ail. There seemed something tragic on the awakening of this once great king now when his empire is fallen to pieces and its glory departed, and as I took my place at the mouth of the tomb, I felt a deep sadness weigh- j ing upon me. | The wind suddenly freshened and jblew the hot white sand about as | they descended. One might almost have thought it was connected in some way with the spirit of the dead pharoh-petulant at being dfsturbed or perhaps anoved at the jokes and laughter of the men who suddenly abandoned their aflence and became jocular as they went down into the sepulcher, The ante-chamber was the objects found there royal statues, boxed up. A number of cane chairs had been taken down #0 the party could watch while the sealsd wall was being broken dows. Work of Opening Begun. empty of all except tw i speech by Howard Carter, who, w Lord ‘Carnarvon, discovered the tarb last November.' At the end of this there was some nervous applause and then a hammer and chisel were pro- duced and that wall, which has tan- talized us all for so long, was cau- tiously attacked. This was at 1:50 p.m, and as the first blow reverberated through the hot chamber where the party “sat in the giare of the arc lamps a thrill shot through me like something that burnt in my veine and I seemed to see Pharaoh in the dark ness on the other side of the door- way suddenly wake from ll;.lmber and listen. t was the ancient Egyptian belief that the sleep of the dead lasted 3,000 jears. and thus the time was up and t might well have seemed to him that the day of resurrection was come and that Anubls had arrived at last to carry his soul to the judg- ment hal) of Osiris. Tap, tap, went the hammer and down came the first there must be some message to givi to the Fharaoh, some word of come fort to fortify him at this great mo- ment of his resurrection. I wanted to tell him that the world still went {ts appointed way un- changed and that God still reigned in his heaven and on earth. Perhaps it was because I deem him to be the Pharaoh of the oppression, or per- haps it was the strange event of bis disentombing which directed my thoughts, but somehow at this mo- ment I felt that the message to be glven to the awakening dead was that “Ancient of Days” was still Lord of men’s lives and ‘that the passage of the years which had changed so much had left Him the still un- chapged hope and comfort "of the world. Religious Texts Found. It was at 3:30 that the doorway was suffciently cleared to permit entrance and Lord Carnarvon, Mr. Carteer, Mr. Lacau and Lady Evelyn Herbert passed into the burial chamber, into which the electric light was directed, casting their shadow upon the oppo- site wall. The room was about twelve or fourteen feet squai the walls being inscribed with religious texts. In the middle there was an immense wooden structure covered with gold—a sort of huge canopy such as we found in the tomb of Queen By-and-Akhnaton. At one end of it were golden doors, fastened with a bolt, and on the top was a design in the form of a serpent, Mr. Carter opened these doors, and inside he could ses the golden sar- cophagus of the king, but it could not be touched. We shall not know for | some days whether this canopy actu- ally holds the body, but there is . little doubt that it does. i | | * 'KING TUTANKHAMEN, Wearing e "crown ‘and . Foyal vestments, as he appéared o' his From a multi-colored decoration on the walls of the: Huy, The amazed discoverers now turned to gnze at a huge statue of a goddess in the form .of a lioness, which is described as a superb work of art, and from this their eyes passed to a little chamber on the right leading from this burjal room. Chariots of Gold. ‘This was seen to be full of glorious objects—superb_ chariots of gold, a marvelous box of ivory and ebony | and many chests, vases and statuettes. 11t was a sight which took the breath iaway, and the eyes of the discoverers : turned. in-bewilderment from one side ito another. It is too early ‘to give ‘any proper account of the contents of these chambers, and the fact that the sarcophagas and its inclosing shrine or canopy,are still undisturbed makes 1 the discovery somewhat inconclusive. At th Sfflqlfl opening Sunday we shall 1 more. B { * While thesd‘ wonders were being | revealed below we sat in the sunlight |eagerly awaiting fcr news to .be brought up. No répreséntative of any newspaper was allowed in the tomb and the correspondents of the London newspaper to which the information has been exclusively sold were actually not even in the valley. I could, not expect to receive any in- formation, but on an occasion such as this men forgot their vows of silence and when the party climbed out of: the .tomb, just the .sun behind the hil e¥e Was 80 25 much excitement that the secret was Ris viceroy, discovered seme years ago near the tomb of the king.|seon out. (Fvom New York Times, theough sourtesy Motropolitan Musenm of Art.) Lord Carnacvon and the other mem- The proceedings were opened by &l his long | of the stones which blocked the door- | way, and as they did 5o I felt as though | IN SECOND 40 SEIZED BY POLICE: ROUND-UP OF LIQUOR SELLERS (Continued from First Page.) derground” work to get a basis to stage raids. Another angle coming to the top is the revelation that @ ‘“phantom worker” getting instructions exclu- sively from Lieut. Davis has been working here for some timé only in check-up work. He fiits from one place to another and acted as a sort of a sightseeing guide for the raid- ors in the various houses. Lieut. Davis admitted his existence. But he refused to divulge his identity. “We've got him working here and we don’t want any publicity about him,” Lieut. Davis sald. “I'm not go- ing to tell who 18 or what he does, but he deserves & lot of the credit in the work today. Among Those Arrested. mong the early arrests at the sec- ord o e were: Curtis MeDowell, 72 Fenton street northeast, thirty- elght, colored, with titree charges of selling against him. Frances Anderson, same address as above, thirty-nine, colored, one charge of seliing against her. Robert” McDowell, 220 D strest northwest, twenty, colored, a chauf- feur, charged with illegal possession SR 49 Fenton street Annie Mercer, northeast, forty-nine, colored, charged filegal possession and selling. M Rnymond. Forreat, 126 Stanton road noutheast, thirty-five. colored. charged fllegal: possession. ™ tace “Coleman, G Fenton street northeast, _thirty - thres, _colored, charged with fllegal possession. Malinda Crawford, No. .1 Fenton street northeast, thirty-five, colored, charged with selling. Walter Burton, 23 l. street morth- west, colored, charged with manufu turing whisky and illegal possession. sam Deliss, twenty-three, 1031 North Capitol street, & shoemaier, charged twics with selling and once with fllegal -possession. Elize Tunle, 65 Fenton street north- east, twenty-nine, colored, a huckster, charged with selilng. : George Johnson, 1525 Marfon street, colored, a chauffeur, charged with selling and illegal possession. Ernest Winfleld, 405 Franklin street, colored, charged with selling and fllegal possessio Mary Cardone, 23 L street north- east, thirty-nine years old, charged with selling ana iilegal possession. Louise Randall, 240 Parker street northeast, twenty-nine, colored, a laundress, charged with selling and illegal possession. The third precinct this morning wag working with whirlwind speed to 4 l n up the lquor cases assigned to! it in this raid. The patrol wagon left the garags at 8:30 this morning a had not stopped making trips earl is afternoon. Among the early arrests on charges of violatfon of the prohibition act { there were: 820 24 Beatrrice Pajton, street. Wilifam Henry Blackwell. colored, 800 26th street. Lavrence Hall, 829 21st £00. 28th colored, colored, stree Edward K. etreet. Edward K. Blackwell, 26th street. Silas Jefferson, street Joseph Jones, stree A street. Pear! Feils, colored, 621 New Hamp- shire avenue. Elsia M 421 26th street. Elizabeth Mitchell, also colored, of the same address. Arthur Mason, colored, 2127 L northwest. Willlam H.”Handy, 1255 © Plans Made Last Plans for the raids were drawn last night at the vice squadl roomn of the second precinct. Lieut O. T. Davig of the vice squad, who was in charge of the raids, presided at the meeting of the ratders. Edgar N.‘Read, ‘divisional director of prohibition agents, was present to aid in arranging the details. Ralph Ruby, assistant divisional dir | the ~'prohibition for and lagents besiaged the |States Commissioner George H. Mac- donald fo obtain the warrants. Sergt. McQuade acted as liaison officer for |Davis and Ruby. Start Out With Fifty Warrants. With everything set, the police #nd agents started out between 9 and 10 Blackwell colored, 909 %02 colored, colored, Jackson, colored, 16 colored, street eet. first group. Almost fifty warrants were in their possession. Seven of these warrants called for action by police of the third precinct and nine of them were assigned the eighth precinct. All others were —being handled at the second precinct 4 | Southwest, northeast and sectlons of northwest Washington are the scenes of the operations of the ralding squads. It is expected that hundreds of gallons of liquor will be seized before the end of the day. Harry Buuer, private of the vice squad, used these raids today as the vehicle to climb_ to a perch beside 8. L. Asher as a sleuth. Posed as Fish Peddlers. Bauer and Asher worked hand in hand obtaining the evidence. They went around as fish and oyster peddlers yesterday. They combed the southwest and northwest section: giving indications of a terrible thirst wherever they encountered suspicious looking dwellings. Their role as fish men galned them easy access to “°X:’.’.;,, they acted as Greek sales- men of plaster of paris statues, making sure to go into neighborhoods where they would encounter no Greeks who might wish to converse with them in the native tongue. $1,200 Spemt for Evidence. During more than a week of preparation for these raids, during which evidence was bought and col- for hire of wagons and horses. They used a different colored horse every day to make disguise complete. To test his disguise as a huckster, Lieut. Davis sent Bauer to his own neighborhood in southeast, where, on the corner of 12th and E streets, the de:ecuve #o0ld his own mother apples without her recognizing him. In Role of Italiam Hucksters. On another occasion Asher and Bauer donned the disguise of Italtan huck- sters to obtain evidence that Tesulted in other cases made In these raids. Again they traveled around Washing- ton as wandering minstrels,’ one with a violin and the other with.a harp. e ————————— bers of party looked very pale as they | from the tomb, and it was evident that they had been through much emotional stress. The story, however, has but begun and the.in- terest. will be drawn out’ until the Pharaoh is removed from his golden prison. 1 hear that the excavatqrs believe the body of Tutankhamen Will prove to be that of & young man, and 1t ted that he reiged only four years at tost. This is another mis take, for- he is definitely known have reigned at least six years, and actually 1 believe hie will prove: to be an elderly man. But at\the moment such minor points seem hardly to matter in the great thrill of discovery and as I rode down the long desert road back to Luxor in the dim light of fading day my thoughts were: all of that long sleep which has bgen disturbed, -and, of - the 1; eness of man’s life and of the mightiness of that power in whose eyes 10,000 ages are &s the twinkling of an eys. came up o'clock this morning to round up the | lected, approximately $1,200 was ex- | pended for the purchase of evldence,f Other cases were made by the evidency collectors in disguise of organ grinderm They worked quietly and smoothly during the Iptter part of last week. Each evening’s setting sun noted them straggling home to the second precinoi bearing with them under crates o oranges or baskets of apples, or among kale and heads of cabbage in theis huckster wagon, the corn whisky sau ples on which the cases are based. True and Tried of Masa. Bauer 1s tall and thin. He appeared in his disguise with & collar but ne necktie, & tanned face, & wids smile, shrugging shoulders and tattered clothes. Asher wore mackinaw and leggings. His face was unshaven and the bristling beard and shaggy eye. brows comued torwardly for effect— gave the appearance of a true and tried member of the smafia. As a result of their tours, final the =pecial vice squad room at the second precinct was literally littered with samples and evidence. Last night plans wers drawn up for the sweeping series of raids. Each | polios precinct was assigned its quota of suspects to handle. program worked perfectly. Slenths Pass Unrecognized. Strangley, only a few of the vic |tims of the disgutshea Asher und Bauer recognized them when broughi Into the precinct. Instead of dirty- looking hucksters, they saw clean- sbaven, neatly dressed, pl men. During evidence-gath campaign, now €. 3 d | . had Dintiy ot roabis Al bacAShe: In the downtown section, while thev Wwere posing as hucksters, an ltalia member of the facistt approached a started handing out propagand: ll"l:nl and policeman ‘(h“n IE:A“.K;.*'., i3t the only thing they had negleot: 3 about thin disguise was to learn toanbeak Italian. All they could o was o stand and shrug shoulder. 03 Jook agreeable. It was quite 4 lableau. A crowd collected. . Asher fast his oye over the huckster wagor v Bich the samples and evidenoc Jere hidden under oranges and can- 4%es. He didn’t know but that the [1 HEQ"E&'O getting ready to mob him. belt ;[ climbed to the driver's sea arted off, yelling to the crowd Ingitars g forelgners, youl No wp L ) 0 understaj Ve him and me from Athens, Proat Saves the Situation. 1 It was a ter stroke. It the situation. But both thanked thets lucky stars that po Greeks steppe t(orward 0 take uUp the debate. Again, down toward the southe ,end of the cf the two of then: |walked into the parlor of colorer svendor of ‘illjcit apirits. They hac a pint of corn. Edgar, the as gone to ‘g i thing looked Jovely. thaByeey Then Mrs. Edgar walked in was wrapping {1 op 0 Mrs. Edgur Suspiefous. ve bettuh sense the: don’ know nuff: she lispec ain clothe ' i Edga: Asher thought of poison and car non, but smiled sweety. , Gawn, woman. Don’ go inter: Un' me with that foliishment. I know. what I'se doin'. Gawn,” spouse, handing the Asher. Asher sighed, | “How yo' {this Ashur, | about? Edgar. dgar laughed long and heas Asher arnd Bauer felt a bit health: “Don’ ‘mind women Is, W Asher. “Huh? Aln revenoo man i “He's & hell ¢ h—but do cat? murmured Edgars spouse. Shortly after ti departed with the evidence, Sdgar counted the marked mon | Wandering Minstrels Best. | “As far as the disguises go, though | dectared Asher today, in his first in ter on' this raid, “the wande minstrels had all other disguise: beat. They are regular open sesame to hooch houses. The man who sin, disarms susplelon naturally, Th chology of this is apparent. And ye: the singer is the man who likes & iittle nip. That's where we had the: Doors new open before our harp an violin. Its lucky we knew how play 4 few pieces. Anvhow, !them their money’s wort m | i | her-—-you know Edgar apologized. dis here As how ' askeo ¥o' heard about th , countered Edgar look like the hel Asher, looking As Hand-Organ Men. Regarding, the hand-organ and t monkey, which was Bauer's cr the inventor declared: “I convinced Asher that this woulc work because I think that folks wii {flop in real real life for the sam { things they fall for in fiction. Tak a detective story, with disguiees and all that bunk. They are regarded as never happening in real life, Yot folks can write convincingly abou such things and make you: believe ! while you're reading it. How abo living such things and making peo ple believe what they see? It worked out all right with the monkey and hand organ. We collected all the evi dence we wanted with almost cr inal ease on the job.” Deceived Desk Sergeant. Sg well were Bauer afid ‘Asher dis guised during the evidence gathering {that when the two returnéd. witr | Sergt. McQuade oue afternoon las: | week after collecting .about a score {of samples of evidence that he led them to the desk at the sécond pre- cinct and told the station clerk t | got their names. “What's your name,” barked Cler! { Hendricks, ‘motioning with upraised pen to Bauer, with whom he worked for vears. % ilavonetti Lorenzo = Calvarocett ‘na” replied Bauer. * “Huh?" came back the clerk. The by-play was broken up by Mc Quade when the sergeant announcod that before “booking” the Italians they would be taken upstairs for a bit of quizzing. During the quizzing the Itallans disappeared and Asher and ‘Bauer assumed thelr everyday jroles. < | Feared Call as Witnesses. Police and revenue men planning the ralds were kept on pins and nee- dles, however, during the past few days, for fear, that defendants in the 1ast serles of raids might demand the presente of-the complainant Asher in the cases in Police Court before this Iatest series was ready to crack and by letting all the bootleggers in Wash- ington flock into court'and &o iden- tity him that his latest victims would take to cover and unload their prod- ucts:before the raids. Luckily, this didn't work out detrimentally to the enforcement officlals. Sympathizes With Vietim. Asher also - tells of ‘sympathizing with & colored woman regarding the wiles of prohibition agents while ho was pursuing his avocation 6f huck- ster, 2 “Dese’ yere revenoo men I8 getting too smart for us poor folks,' =whe sald., “Jest think of that guy gdin’ and workin' ilke & regular i y. to, get his cases. Dey {s to smart and dat's all dey is-to it 0¥ “Dées fella oughta be shoot.” agreed Ashe: 1da lak to meet dees man Ashurr.’