Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in 't m‘ro ature; lowest to- night about e énded at 2 p.m. ¢ 2 pm. today; lowest, 26, at 1 Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Pagy 22- No. 28,785. —N0. &0, post _office SENATORS LAUNCH MOVE. T RETAN 1.5 DORMITORES Public Buildings and Grounds Committee Favors Continu- Ing Hotels. WILL SEEK AGREEMENT WITH PROPERTY OWNERS Searetary Davis Calls Conference to Devise Means for Saving Flostelries. Entered as The Senate committes on public ‘buildings and grounds is prepared to propose legislation which will insure <ontinuance of the operation of the government dormitories of the woman employes of the government on the Unlon station plaza, it was announced by Senator Fernald, chairman, fol- lowing a meeting of the committee today. 'rni committee had before it Rob- ert Watson, president of the United £tates Housing Corporation, which has charge of the government dormi- tories. He was instructed by the committee to confer with the attor- neys of the Baltimore and Ohlo rail- yoad, which owns part of the prop- erty on which the dormllor‘l:s o:.:: t to reach s 1‘1?;‘:2.“,‘{‘ o ontinuation of the Jease of the property. The govern- ment's lease of this property explred Jast November. The railroad com- pany is seeking the removal of the dormitorles, so that it may finally dis- ose of the property. Yo" Watson 18 to report to the Senate committee as soon as possible the result of his negotiations witl the B. & O. attorneys. Favors Retaining Buildings. Senator Fernald said today that he was strongly in favor of the re- tention of these government dorma- torles for the government women workers for at least another year or two, and that the sentiment of the committee was also in favor of con- tinuing them. He said that there were two coyrses that could be adopt- ed, one of which was to proceed to condemn the property for the use of the government and the other was to lease it. He said that he be- lioved that it would be preferable to continue the lease at present. Mr. Watson explained to the coms yuittee in detail the situation re- garding the B. & O. property. The power plant and several of the build- jnzs used by the woman workers are located on the B. & O. property and it would be impossible to op- erate the plant without these build- ings, Mr. Watson sald. Secretary Davis n Cenferemce. Secretary of Labor Davis is meeting this afternoon with Mr. Watson and other Labor Department officlals in an endeavor to devise some plan by which the government may retain use of the land on the Union Station plaza’ now occupied by the govern- ment hotels. The Baltimore and Ohlo Railroad Company, owner of part of the land occupied by the hotels, has ordered the property vacated by April 1. The Labor Department takes the attitude, the Secretary of Labor sald, that the hotels should be continued in operation for at least another vear. Removal, as suggested by the railroad company, of the buildings on the land owned by the railroad would #o cripple the enterprise, Mr. Davis added, that probably the entire proj- ect would have to be abandoned. Mr. Davis said he was not at this time consldering recommending to Congress passage of an appropria- tion to pay rental due on the prop- erty owned by the railroad company. Such & recommendation, he pointed out, could hardly be considered at the present session of Congress, in view of the involved legislative situ- stion. Back Rental Promised. The railroad company is sure to get the money due it for rental, Mr. Davis added, and the Labor Depart- ment and the raflroad company should get together and work out some plan by which the hotels might be continued in operation and the owner of the property withdraw 1ts request for relinquishment of its use. The demand for the continuance of the hotels, he sald, is shown by the fact that they are now full to capacity and have a waiting list. Secretary Davis, following the con- ference this afternoon, will write a Jetter to the agents of the railroad company outlining the views of those present at the scheduled conference, and will probably request an exten- sion of time, which the railroad com- pany had previously refused. 6 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Lehigh Valley Line Crash at Rum- merfield, Pa., Fatal. By the Associated Press. : ELMIRA, N. Y., February 20.—Six persons were killed in a train wreck this morning on the Lehigh Valley railroad at Rummerfield, Pa, about ten miles south of Tonawanda, Pa., The reported dead are Willlam Shamberger of Easton, Pa., an en- gineer; John Nodolin of Ea: g a trainman; O. lver of Athens, Pa., an engineer; 0. W. McDanlels of Athens, Pa., a tral per of Athen: & fireman, James Fox of Sayre Pa., a tra: fireman. PAUL ON D C. COMMITTEE. ling Virginia Bepresentative Won Con- |1}, test With Mr. Thomas Harrison. Representative John Paul, of Vir- ginia, recently seated in his contested glection case against Representative 80! W ‘Thomas ‘W. , Was on the House District committ ——— | ROBBERS.GET $10,000. i CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 20.— William Oberjahn, messenger for the Pearl Market Bank, this city,. was held up by three bandits todsy and a satchel containing money und checks amounting to $10,000, ‘mostly from him, n checks, was en wfl—flnfl matter D._C Horse Kills Man, Now Old Owner Is Facing Trial By the Associated Pres: CLARKSBURG, W. Va., February with the death of another who was kicked and killed by a horse was re turned today by the Gilmer county grand jury, siiting at Glenville. ‘The indictment for manslaughter and 1s against Morgan James, a Gil- mer county farmer, for the death of ‘Will Marks, another farmer, who was | almost instantly killed when kicked by a horse which he acquired in & trade with James. It is the contention of the state that James failed to warn Marks that the animal was dangerous. CASUALTY BOARD IGNORES THREAT OF NURSES' STRIKE Refuses to Reinstate Super- intendent and Leaves Walk- out Up to Employes. 120.—An indictment charging a man The executive committee of the board of Casualty Hospital today re- fused favorable action on the petl- tion of the nurses and employes to reinstate former Supt. Raymond Schultels to the hospital, in the face of a threat from nurses and employes to walk out on strike tomorrow night. The board made it optional with the em- ployes to strike or not. Announcement of this action was made following a meeting of almost H. Tucker of the committee, who said the committee could not find its way clear to reverse the actlon taken after an investigation of six hours a few days ago, when it was decided to ask for the resignation of Mr. Schultels. He sald that if the nurses desired to remain, they could do =0, and that the board would find ways and means for meeting the situation. A committee of three was named to inform attaches who had signed the petition demanding_reinstatement of ihe superintendent of the action of the committee. Seven of these had already announced thelr desire to withdraw their names. After the meeting Dr. Lewis A. Taylor, executive officer of the hos- pital, together with ‘other officials, called in all of the nurses to inform them of the action of the committee upon the petition. Many failed to put in_an appearancs. 'The " petition was circulated and signed yedterday by two dozen nurses and employes of the hospital. It is an outgrowth of the request by boand for the resignation of Schultels, after an inveetigation into reports of bootlegging . practices at the hospital a few days ago and the resultant ac- tion taken by Schultels in severing hix connection with the hospital. Petition Handed In. Dr. Lewis A. Taylor, executive offi- cer of the hospital, was handed the pe- tition vesterday on behalf of the nurses and employes. All of them had not signed it. Those who had affixed thelr signatures, however, during the early part of the petition expressed their sincere confidence in Mr. Schultels and regret for his resignation. The petition lin its last paragraph announced that those signing it would go on strike and leave the hospital unless favorable ac- tlon was forthcoming and Schulteis was restored to his office. Upon receiving this petition Dr. Taylor pointed out to, some of the nurses and employes that it was en- tirely against the ethics of the medi- cal profession to lay down a threat of deserting sick and helpless pa. tients in order to satisfy a persona desire. He showed them that if suc 2 petition remained on record those signing it would be personna -non grata in the medical profession Wherever this was known. He held out a loophole, however, by announcing that he would welcome the canceliation of the final para- graph threatening strike before noon today, and it is understood that a number of the nurses have already signified their intention of withdraw- i ing such a provision. Mrs. C. Babendrier, acting su- perintendent of the hospital and formerly supervisor of nurses at Casualty, today sald that if she were faced with a situation of shortage of nurses she felt assured that she could obtain _assistance from other hospitals in Washington by a transfer of their nurses to Casuaity Hospital. She expressed no fear of the results of any strike. Aid From Other Hospitals. Mr. Tucker, chairman of the com- mittee, takes practically the same attitude. 2 “I am sure” he said, “that other hospitals in Washington would not hesitate @ moment in sending nurses to an institution in which there was a serious shortage of attendants. I do not know what the final action of the committee will be, but I can assure you that we will continue our policy of prompt and decisive action. . “It was only at the last meeting of jthe board that Mr. Schultels was complimented for his administration of the affairs of the hospital. This unfortunate incident arose and the executive committee of the board, which for the entire board. be- tween sessions, felt that prompt ac- tion was necessary, and took it. This was about a week after the compli- mentary statement was extended to Mr. Schulteis. . Our action was taken after an . investigation consuming six ‘hours. The investigation was thorough and complete. t ocourse, if t‘e rges:and employes feel that they have additional evidence to pr. e ghould welcome such a presenta- tion of data, but under no considera- tion can we allow a threat of deser- tion of those sick and less in the hospital to go unnoticed. Fight for Seven Years. Casualty Hospital at the time of ‘this chain of incidents has been run- ning more smoothly and with greater efficiency than at any time in its his- tory. After a fight for seven year, the school for nurses at the huplu{ has fin:::y rmlv;‘; the power of con- e degree red nurse on graduates. Heretofore, although the two hours in the doctors’ residence at | Casualty Hospital by Chairman Evan | if they wished to leave the hospital | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, -1923—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. INUN USED A TRAIN LEAVING FREDERICK, OFFICERS DECLARE Probes of Kidnaping Case Halt When Documentary Evidence Is Found. RAILWAY MEN SAW HER AND MOTHER SUPERIOR GO But One Returned From Trip to Baltimore, Station Agent Asserts. Dy a Btaff Correspondent, FREDERICK, Md., February 2! The police today claim to be in pot session of documentary evidence showing that Sister Cecelia, who w. alleged to have been kidnaped from the Convent of the Notre Dame here a week ago and held captive in & house in Baltimore for some hours, journeyed to the Maryland metrop- olls on a Baltimore and Ohlo rail- road train two days before the sup- posed abduction and is known not to have returned by that route. Si- multaneously there has been a sud- den halt in the investigations the police department, States Attorney Aaron Randers and a citizens’ vig- :lu‘nce committee had been conduct- ng. On Saturday afternoon, February 10. Sister Cecella, accompanied by Slater | Nola, mother superior of the convent, 11 said to have appeared at the ticket {office of the Baltimore and Ohio rail- | road here and demanded two tickets to Baltimore at the regular reduced fare allowed members of the clergy and the sisterhoods, according to in- formation furnished the police. C. D. Ogle, station master, handed them the nrecessary application papers, which each signed, it is claimed, according to requirements, and received thelr tickets upon payment of $1.05 each, Standing directly beside the ticket window, in conversation with Mr. Ogle at the time_the two nurs ap- peared, was L. V. Moxley. a con- ductor, employed by the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad. Mr. Moxley's home is in Brentwood, Md., which is just across the line from'the District of | Columbia, near Mount Rainier, Md. He i was walting for his own train to be | made up at the time and had gone into the station to keep warm. | Mr. is asserted, also { heard the two nuns ask for the tick- ets to Baltlmore and distinctly saw Sister Cecella sign on her own slip “Sis Cecella, S. S. N. D.” Naturally a person pays little more attention when he sees 2 mem- ber of a Catholic sisterhood,” Mr. Moxley explained reluctantly, after long questioning, “and I know it was the name “Cecella” I saw her write down. At the time the two nuns appeared they were accompanied by a little girl about twelve years old. w Nuns Board Truin. “I do not know what became of the child, but T saw botn nuna stand n front of 1 _baggage room door and wait for their train to Bajt- more to made ready. A féw min- utes later both of them boarded the train, and, as it pulled out almost immediately, they must have gone to Baltimore with {t, because I stayed around until time for my run to Washington again and I never saw them after that.” Confirmation was furnished today by Mr..Ogle, who admitted he had sold Sister Cecella and Sister Nola the tickets to Baltimore and said they took a train leaving Frederick at 2 o'clock, Saturday afternoon, February 10. The conductor of the train, he added. {s P. M. Faith. As Mr. Ogle is obliged to spend most of his time around the station, meet- ing every train returning from all points along the line between Balti- more and Washington, he had ample opportunity’ to notice whether the two nuns came back to Frederick, Sister Nola, it Is asserted, here Sunday night, at 8:10 o'clock, she it is declared, used train No. 47, which _leaves Baltimore at 5 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) HOUSE BILL GIVES D.C. SURPLUS SHARE Representative Hardy Intro- duces Measure—Referred to D. C..Committee. Representative Hardy of Colorado, a member of the joint commission which recently Investigated the fiscal relations between the federal and Dis- trict governments, as provided for in the current appropriation bill, today introduced in the House a bill to carry into effect the recommeadations of the joint select committee which found a free surplus of $4,438,154.92, trict of Columbia Treasury. The Hardy bill provides that there shall be credited to.the general ac- count of the District, required under the provisions of the w%roprutlon: act of June 29, 1922, the sum of $7,674,416.90, which 1s the reported balance in the general fund of the District,'as shown on June 30, 1932. His bili places obligations and in- cumbrances- accruing subsequent to that date and amounting to § 219.93. It provides that there shall also be charged to this account the sum of $233,707.51, which the joint select committee found In its re) to be due from the District of Colum- bia to the United States, divided as follows: The Distriot's proportion of the $240 annual bonu id to certain em-. ploy: ro- portl of additional iand of the Natiol Zoological Park, $41. 50 d- one-half of the amount ap. propriated by special act of Congress for the relief of Eldred C. Dav: $317.16. The Hardy bill directs that there, shall be credited to this ao- count the sum -of $665.46, which the Joint select committee found in fits Teport as due to the District from the TUnited States. ‘The 'bill introduced today provides that in the settlement cf these items between the U. 8. and the district, no interest ‘shall be ‘charg: by either the federal or district government to in the federal nurses at Casualty had made names| the other and thaf for themselves in other inatitutions after graduation, Mr. Tucker ‘said, they had never been able to recelve the-degress, 4 made, shall be in all olaims or demands either ' way. The bill has been referred to the which should be credited to the Dla- | K! . N INDICTMENT VOTED [N CASKET CASE Nine Counts Charge Fraud in Sale of Stock in District and Purlieus. An indictment containing 111 type- written pages, and alleging use of the malls to defraud seven persons in different parts of the country in con- nection with the sale of stock of the Crvstal Glas Casket Company, was reported today by the grand jury against James W. De Camp, Edwin C. Reed, Samuel N. Acker, Anderson B. Lacey and Ralph A. Howe. The in- dictment contains nine counts, one each being devoted to thé attempt to defraud by use of the malls each of the following: Alvin A. Lorig, 605 7th street northwest; John J. Vowles, 709 8th street northwest; Everett Jenkins, 3601 Washington avenus, Newport News, Va.; J. M. Fulmer, Clifton Sta- tion, va.; W. & ms, Leonard- town, Md., and Mrs. Lorena Barham, 420 Newton street northwest, and three relating to letters sent to W. Stanley Williams, Leqnardtown, Md. According to the indigtment the d fendants- are alleged to have at- tempted to sell to these and other persons not enumerated, stock in the company which was capitalized at $1,000,000. .Tt is alleged the five de- fondants entered into a scheme to use the malls to defraud the pur- chasers of the stock by misrepresent- compeny. No Money for Land. They led their intended victims, it is stated, to belleve that the company was about to purchase a large tract of land in West Virginia on which a manufacturing plant was located, for $96.000, when it is claimed the com- pany did not have that much cash, nor was it In such. condition that it could purchase the property. It 18 also claimed in the indictment that as a part of the scheme to de- traud it was arranged that the five defendants should frequently appro. priate and convert to their own u in the form of salaries, drawing ac. counts, counsel fees, expenses and commissions a part of the money which should be paid by the perso: defrauded into purchasing the stock, instead of applying these receipts to the itimate “and .proper purposes of the company. They also intend: it is alleged, to defraud their victim: into believing that another portion of the money was to be spent in pro- moting the company, when they in- tended, it is alleged, to use the money themselves. It Is also charged that it was represented that the company had the exclusive patent for a crystal casket, when, in fact, there are other patents. ing the financial condition of lhel Other Indictments. Three Indictments reported against the same men last fall were nolle prossed today when called for trial Dbefore Justice Bailey in Criminal Di- vision 2. There were defects in the former indictments. o grand jury ignored a charge ot joy-riding against Archibald aiser. thers. indicted. and the charges t them, are: Edward Carroll, arso: Geor H. Arlidge, larceny; Edward Belt and John Monroe, hous: breaking and lucen(' Basil _Fobbs de Lanneaux, embesziement; Edward F. Burley, attempted robbery; Her- bert Green, Hobbs Gunning and Cor- nelius Wildman, ‘oyrldlnl: Robert Butler, Earl Lampkini )(i:r Millei Willlam H. Brooks d wis M! ler, non-support. |Qusted Bureau Officials Will Be Denied Old Jobs President Harding Feels No Regret Over Changes and Feels Matter Now Closed Incident. | President Harding feels no regret over the changes made at the bureau of engraving and printing, has “laid 1all his cards” before the Senate com- mittee on contingent expenses and Iprobably will make no further state- ment In the matter. In making this known at the White House today it was sald that the IPrenident feels that restoration of Jthe civil service status of the ais- \missed employes was sufficient to |satisty their claims, in the absence of 2ny specific charges against them. The President was also represented as feeling that it was “neither possi- ble nor desirable” to restore any of IBRIISH TO AVOID RUBRINTERVENTION Law Cabinet Barely Averts 1 Fall Over Move to Reply to Appeal From Throne. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, February 20.—Prime Minister Bonar Law stated in the houne of commons today that it would not be proper for Great Brit- ain to initiate a discussion with the American government as to whether the French action in the Rukr was in accordance with the treaty of Versallles, since the United States was 'not a party to the treaty. By the Associated Pres: LONDON, February 20.—Scant hope for British intervention at this time in the dispute between France and Ger- many is to be gleaned from Premie: Bonar Law's speech in the house of commons last evening. The premier concluded the debate on the joint lb- eral amendment to the address in re- ply to the speech from the throne, call- ing upon the league of nations, with the help of America, to investigate Ger- 'many’s ability to pay reparations. The amendment was lost by a vote of 305 to 196. The prime minister, answering some of the points of David Lloyd George's appeal to Great Britain and America to save France from what he termed a dangerous position, informed the house that intervention by a league commis- sion, as proposed in the amendment, would be considered by Ce as an act of hostility. He asserted that the ernment’s policy was to keep Brit- troops on the Rhine “as long as possible.” v Replies to Lloyd George. Replying to Mr. Lloyd George's con- tention that France had blundered seriously, and that America and Great Britain were called upon to act, Mr. Bonar Law said that he, too, did_not_approve of the French step, (Continued on Page 2, Column Special Rotogravure Section With ; The Evening Star ; On.George Washington’s. Birthday 1 pictures the life and vnpglnp mfiuw - work of the first ly printed. - = RICHM Mayo Shugart, the dismissed chiefs to their positions in the bureau. Whether the Senate committee be- fore which the President laid his acts, according to the statement to- day at the White House, will ever make public further details was prob- lematical. It was thought, however, in view of developments today, that no more official statements may be ex- pected on the dismissals of March 31 last year. Chairman Calder of the Senate com- mittee on contingent expenses, fol- lowing a conference with President Harding at the White House today, Indicated that the committee might make no_report of any kind on_ the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) SENATE TO GET SCHOOL REPORT Joint Committee’s Recom- mendations to Be Submit- ted Before Session Ends. The joint congressional committee on public schools, meeting in the Senate District committee room this afternoon, determined to submit its report on the investigation which it has conducted in the Washington public schools before the close of the present session. The committee had before it the re- port of Dr. Finegan, commissioner of education of Pennsylvania, which he submitted to Senator Capper, the chairman of the joint comittee, last Week. Members of the committee commented favorably upon the Fine- gan report and instructed the chair- man to draft a tentative report for submission to the committee later. Senator Capper hopes to have this report ready by Thursday, when he will call the joint committee together, and 1if it s approved it will then be submitted to the Senate and House District committees and by them to the Senate and House for printing. Bullding Program Feature. { The outstanding features of the report will be a ten-year building program .to meet the needs of the schools here, and provision for an independent ' school board, having complete contro] of the schools, in- cluding their finances. The committee feels that it should make a report at this time even though the Congress is about to end. It will have no standing in the next Congress, and, in fact, will dle with the present Congress. It has conduct- ed a very thorough Invest| ion last- ing. about a year and the members belleve that the information it has collected should be made available for the next Congress. It is unlikely that a bill will be in- troduced to carry into effect the rec- ommendations of the committee until the next Congress convenes. SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Dry Agent Probably Fatally Wounded in Still Raid. IOND, Va., February 20.—H. fode! prohibition sgent, was probably fatally wounded late last night, when a party of four j9fcers was fired upon from ambush during a rald on a whisky still in Lunenburg . county, according to ad- | vices recelved here by Prohibition Di. (rector R. A. Fulwiler. |..The officers, it was sald, swooped 'down upon alleged still shortly jbefore midnight. A single shot from ithe bushes rang out and Shugart .crumpled to the earth with a bullet l'o\lnd below the heart. I 5 HURT IN MINE BLAST. 1 _HOLDEN,' W. Va., February 20— Five men were injured, one seriously Lin an_explosion at No. 7 mine of the Island ‘eek Coal Company. Mine rescue crews are’ searching for two S 'miners that are missing. According {to .mine officials the plosion re- sulted-when . car was derailed, filling the_shaft with dust.. “From Press to' Home Within the Hour” _ The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,949. ** _ TWO CENTS. |Bandits Terrorize Town, Then Rob Bank Leisurely By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, I, February 20. —Terrorizing the inhabitants of the little town of Baston, which lies half way between Mason City and Havana, and cutting them off from appeals for help by severing all telephone wires, a gang of rob- bers, leisurely looted the Furrier State Bank at Easton last night, and escaped after firing a fusillade of shots as a farewell. This morning the little bank fs a partial wreck. The bandits, the inhabitants say, fired six charges of explosive. One shot blew the bank safe through the brick wall and landed it in the restaurant next door. About $5,000 in cash was obtained. telephone wires were cut, and Easton cut off, not only from all local communication, but also from use of its long-distance wires. The inhabitants dared not ven- ture from their homes. One woman whose window faces the bank watched them operate. Those who attempted to leave their houses went scurrying back at the sight of the watchers the robbers had placed about the bank. When the robbers in the bank were ready to go they called the watchers in by firing three shots. They left in two automobiles. NAVY YARD ROBBED 0F RADONATERAL WORTH THOLSANDS Arrest of Two Civilians Re- veals Charges of Wide- spread Stealing. Thefts of thousands of dollars’ worth of property from the Washing- ton navy yard, principally radio equipment, out of which it was said was built some of the finest amateur rece{ving sets in use in this city, have been disclosed by an investigation at the local yard, which, up to date, has resulted in the arrest of two civil- fans. Information obtained from an investigation made, it was said, dis- closed that much of the material was used in making radio sets for naval officers, both on duty at the Washing- ton navy yard and the Navy Depart- ment, and this feature of the investi- gation, it is charged, has led to ef- forts to prevent information con- cerning the investigation leaking out into public channels, Chauffeur Under Arrest. Marion R. Frasier, 236 Kentucky avenue southeast, said to be an em- ploye of the radio test shop at the navy yard, and Charles H. Southard, 45 K street northeast, a chauffeur at the navy yard, have been taken into custody by Detectives C. C. Wise and H. M. Hilidrup of police precinct No. 5, 'and are booked at that station on & charge of larceny from the United States. Both men have been released on bonds of $1.000 each, according to Assistant United States Attorney Given, to answer to the charge. Rear Admiral John H. Dayton, co mandant of the navy yard, when i formed today that information concern- ing the thefts and investigation had leaked out refused to discuss the m: ter further than to say that a report had been sent to the judge advocate general of the Navy. He would not say what the recommendations of the board were. Inventory Shows Missing Stock. It was learned from sources consid- ered reliable that when the first reports of the thefts were made known to navy yard officials they started an investiga- tion and caused an_ inventory of the stock of the yard to be made, and this, it is reported, disclosed several thou- sands of dollars worth of equipment was missing. “There followed a thorough investi- gation by naval intelligence officers, operatfves of the bureau of investi- gation of the Department of Justice and the local police, which Involved shadowing certain employes of the yard and the tapping of telephone circults leading into and out of the yard. It came to the attention of the po- lice when the arrests were made, in fact the boast was made to them, it was sald by the police, that when of- ficlals of the yard were apprised of what was declared to be a fact that high ranking officers of the Navy were using some of the missing equipment, that the matter would be suppressed. It is perhaps a coincidence, it was pointed out, that since the arrest of the two men_several continuances of the case has been requested on behalf of the navy yard officials, and the civil “prosecuting authorities are merely sitting tight, awaiting further reports from the Navy Department and the navy yard. Only Few Colls of Wire. When_the arrests were made the home of Frazer was searched in com- pliance with a search warrant, but it was stated that only a few colls of wire and a few rolls of belting were found in the home. These are being held by the government as evidence until such a time as the navy yard officials indicate they are ready to go ahead with the c: It is being handled at their direc- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) MENTION GEN. HINES FOR VETERANS' BUREAU Understood to Have Strong Back- ing as Successor to Forbes. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines of New York city, formerly chief of trans- portation for the Quartermaster Corps of the Army during the world war, has been prominently mentioned for director of the Veterans’ Bureau, it was learned today. Gen. Hines, it is understood, has the backing of the New York delega- tion in Congress, and is represented as being eminently fitted for the po- aition. If offered the place as direc- tor of the bureau, it is understood he would mccept. Resigning from the service some ago, Gen. Hines re-entered civil time life, and is now connected with the Bal- to Corporation of America, CONDVISITS RUBR ELUDING FRENCH: CITIES TOBE FINED Invaders Propose to Make Visits Less Popular by Exacting New Penalty. GERMANS IN NEW NOTE PROTEST EXPULSIONS Poincare Submits Picture of Occu- pation Before Deputies—338 High Officials Exiled. BY A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star and Copyright, ESSEN, February 20.—Chancellor Cuno and several other German sov- ernment ministers have appeared one after the other in the Ruhr territory and encouraged the local provinclal officials ‘to resist the French. Each visit has been made secretly and has lasted only a few hours, but on the following day the newspapers have carried columns of communications from these ministers. To make the visits of the Berlin statesmen less popular the French propose to fine the cities honored by ministerial calls. Saturday Herr Groener, minister of railroads, visited Essen while the minister of the in- terior, Herr Severing, visited Dort- mund. One French authority says that if the ministers are recuyxnl:gd by the French they will not be ar- rested, imprisoned and fined, but “we will politely invite them to enter automobiles and we will conduct them to unoccupied Germany.” Blockade Is Tightening. The French control of automobiles and passenger trains is not complete enough to enable them to catch the ministers, but the blockade is slowly tightening. Several border towns al- ready have passport inspection posts. Interest in the Ruhr region today is concentrated upon Gelzenkirchen Wwhere the French, forgetting to hunt for coal trains, are busy collecting the fine of 100,000,000 paper marks imposed on the city last week. Before the rathaus twelve tanks are parked under individual tarpaulins to keep off the melting snow and eleet, but the erews are nearby. There is a strong cordon of soldiers around the town, halting all traffic and searching for arms and money. Twenty million marks in cash were seized in the city treasurer's office along with 50,000,000 marks in local paper money which is still in circulation but can be declar- _ed null and void by.the eity. council. Twenty-one million marks were seiz- ed at the Reichsbank and postal savings ° office, making 91,000,000 marks collected. Soldiers Rob Passersby. Individual soldiers inspired with fine collecting spirit on their own account, held up passersby. Thus a Red Cross ‘worker was relieved of 17,000 marks, and a locomotive engineer lost 180,000 marks. Complaints were made to the French commander and the indiviqual hold-ups were stopped. A meet ng of the city council was held, at which a resolution was passed not to pay the fine because there was no assurance that the French would withdraw or that they would not exact additional fines. The French garrison was attacked by one schupo, or security policeman, who came from Essen “to get a French- man." He shot a sentinel and was himself wounded and captured. He will probably receive the extreme penalty from the war court. VINITS ARE CONTINUING. By the Amsciated Press. LONDON, February 20.—Dispatches from the Ruhr priuted here today as- sert that the German cabinet ministers continue to visit the occupied region in deflance of the recent order pro- hibiting their presence. It is asserted that Herr Severing, wiinister of the interior, and Herr Grmener, minister of transportation, were *ecent visitors. The Times learns thal the Belgians have occupied the railway stations at Holsterhausen and He:bvest, which are situated across tbe Lippe near Dorsten. One thousand striking railway em- ployes at Duesseldorf are reported by the Daily Mail's correspondent to have asked for work. The requests of 700 were granted. NEW PROTEST SENT. By the Associated Press. February 20.—The Ger- man government has sent a note to the French, British and Belgian gov- ernments and the Rhineland commi mion at Coblenz vigorously protes ing against the expulsions of Ger- Chicago Daily News. Tl protests against what is described as the brutal ‘manner in which the expul- sions have been carried out. Former Chancellor Wirth has told a meeting of center party members at Ulm that the resistance in the gotiations, Vossische says. The government, he added, must_be watchful so as not to miss the moment when negotiations will be possible. 338 OFFICIALS EXILED. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 20.—An official statistical picture of the occupation of the Ruhr was before the Fi public today in the form of a stat ment to the forelgn relations commit- tee of the chamber of deputies by Premier Poincare. Expulsion of high German officials from the ocoupled region total 338, of whom fifty-five have been Rhineland functionaries. Seventy trains a day are being operated in the Ruhr, whereas before the occupation the ‘total was 1,205, divided nearly equally between freight and passengers. The premier asser ed that the decrease was due “to dis- turbed conditions caused by orders from Berlin.” French railway workers in the oc- cupled area number 9,640, while 1,026 cars of coal have been sent to France and Belgium. The yearly production of the occupled district is estimated at 90,000,000 tons. The ailles now occupy 2,800 square kilometers of the Ru of the valley. All but 300 of the 14,500 coke ovens have been taken: over,