Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1923, Page 2

* WHITE SUPREMACY VITAL, SAYS BRYAN Hoists Banner in Speech Be- fore Southern Society Annual Dinner. | | NORTH “DOESN’'T KNOW” The Commoner Declares “If Mas- sachusetts Faced Southern Issues She'd Meet Them” in Same Way. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILI Wiiliam Youthful tribune forth in a new high the banner premacy. Ten ¥ south has taught other solution. 11 southland is confronted tion, and not a political that there is no remedy . the undisputed dominunce of superlor civilization” Norther who _hold rviews. Bryan simply “don’t kuow." The Commoner adjures the nation to “beware of what they tell you in Massac and adds: “If Massachusetts fa issues the south fac wouid do exactly what the (" and the Virginias do to me The former Neb ward Dixie pa electrified the ann Southern Society in Washingt night. Though 1t was nded fore and for the direct benefit of mer and women who hail \ the side of the Mason and Dixor Bryan's admonitions were in fact rended for northe ton stood before th thought, a convert view B T4 veyed to theni the imyre i3 ready to bLecome ar propagating it north, Bryan Follows “Star. Bryan &s an improf lowed the John W. Davi ican Bar Associatior in the guise of None the prev ventured upon the race issue. But ribute to Thonis “equality” doctrine he Declaration of Indes Bryan u test on which to deliver a ring To h ther assort = as a cor ton that er: an, eternally £ the people, steps He has hoisted white-r Jennings Br of ars’ residence in the m there no finds that the by a condi- reory, and e su “the ors them e 1our ul dinner t consun ppeared Virg W us thi Davis the wave r led neement Aryal Ltive ception of Dixi proposition had been radic by ten vears of domic Though _arterward Bryan had held th twenty vew that never tion, had he 1ifted b erfully and_frarles that the Jefferson “all men” belng “created free and equal” could not be lit int preted or enforced wher manifest inferiority as het anothe: superior tion, he sald and must ascendant factor. As suc ancy has prevailed in the south, Brya pointed out, it had mads for the black under laws even if fashioned by whites tected blacks and thelr rights i measure. Backs Dixle's Methods, For a decads Bryan told how had seen those laws at work. had convinced him no other was possible. Men and women o north, who lightly held tha way of meeting its race probl reprehensible, speedily the unwisdom of such c they had, as ha had had tact with “the real thin clared Dixie's method is ably preferable to the “theoristic do. trines of Massachusetts or the e: periment of Iilinois. The distinguished grated from Nebr: a long-time apostlc pendence. t w rap at Americans who withhold from the Philippine 1s- lands the beneficent laws under which o colo race in the U ves. He described sucl untenable indefensiole intimated that, his beller Sam could not consistently e pate the blacks in the United without conferring Boon ot atne lberty upon Philippines (Copy BANQUET IS COLORFUL. iy alte in" Flo ded san b s voies He argued trine about w pro- full e They system the Fiorid the natlves of Chesterficldian famed southern tmpressive and colorrul annual banquet of the Southern So- clety last night at the Willard Hotel. It was a not: gathering of mem bers of th school and s ounger generations of tive southlanc Special interest centered in ture of the evening, the after address of John W. Davis of Virginia, former ambasszador to Eug- land and now general counsel for the Associated Press. The other speakers were Dr. Willlam E. Dodd of the chair of history, I'niversity of Chicago; Col. John Temple Graves and William Jennings Bryan Danied C. Roper, president of the society, presided, with Claude N. Ben- nett as toastmaster. There were only four specially invited puests. They were Mr. Davis, New York; | liam E. Dodd, Mr. Bry W. Moore. Other pron women present not members guests of the individual memb the society President Roper sketched the purposes and aims of the and reviewed have marked ganization speaker, bilizing century. Libeled, Says Col. Graves. Col. Graves, speaking on “The Lit- erature of the South,” said the south had been libeled in the statement that prior to the sixties the south had no place in literature. He re- viewed interestingly the long roll of southern authors whose work, he sald, stood out in brilliant compari- son with that of the authors of.other eections or nations. Mr. Davis, speaking extempor: declared that the nation one of the most dangerous periods, and that other grave conditions must be fuced by the statesmen and peo- ple of the natfon, “I do not fear the future,” he con- tinued, “I know that the solemn duty that faces the people will be met by the people of the south, and that they Il so shape their course upon the old government chart of the futhers %a 0 happy &nd successful solution of all the problems of state, and that the old ship of state will again ride tri- umphantly upon the peaceful waters, a nation the envy of the world. The evening's program was opened ith the diners standing singing “America,” with Miss May Little, in costume, color bearer, holding, in tab- leau, a large American flag. Rev. J. Henning_Nelms asked the blessing. George O'Connor, with Matt Horne at the piano as accompanist. sang comic and southern songs. Miss Dorothy Tarwater and Miss Josephine Huston sang selections from = Grieg and Rogers'’ “Swanee River” and “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia,” Mr. King- Smith, accompanist, and Miss Hou- ston sang, In solo, “Lo, Here the Gen- tle Lark,” by Bishop., The diners jolned in the singing of the chorus of the songs. “Dixie” was sung as the benediction, all standing. ‘The banquet committee of arrange- ments was made up of Q. B. Newman, chairman; Charles P. Light, Horace 3. Bmithy, George F. Mitchell, Charles ‘W, Cairnes, Aaron H. Ulm and James & Mabena, : i Kave touch to the ty un the briefly society omplishments that the history of the or- Dr. Dodd was the first aving for his theme sta- influences the uineteenth neously, now faced \ for it except | ored * § health |Holland Protests Stopping of Ruhr l Coal Deliveries| [ I By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 21.—A protest from Holland against the inter- ruption of coal deliveries from the Ruhr district is to come before the reparation commission next Wed- nesday. The Dutdh had contracts which the Germans failed to fulfill or filled irregulurly after the occupa- tion of the Ruhr by the French and Belglams, and in some cases it is assertad, deliveries destined for Holland were seized hy the Germans outside the Ruhr and ai verted to the interior of Germaiy PRINCE BRAGANZA DIES IN NEW YORK ssoviated Press, YORK, Fedruary Frince de Braganzu, eldest son of el Rragnnza, pretender to of Portugal, died here to- heutio who to this country re- to earn a lving by selling in- for the tirm controlled by relatives of his wife, who was Miss Anita Stewart of New York. His marriage to Miss Stewart was wniz Scotland in 1909 after nplication had been £moothed {over by the late mperor Franeis Jo- s«eph of Austrix, who raised the bride to { the title of pi | | | i | v Miguel {Don ™M 1 the throne double prince, i | B | ta was old, cameo jeently surance ol 3 in | royal reported that the bride re cetved a gift of $2.000,000 from nother. Mrs. Jam n who had been divorced from: | Rhinelander Stewart. Had Three Children. Th liren were horn Princess Elizabeth, twelve ten ¥ to them. years old; Miguel. nee Jean, and « ever wa at Relchenau, reled the titie of Duke him Dur- prit s Lorn stria, u. whic o was glver her, who is stiil allv H w f Portugs 1o 1834 the ian arm andson of King Mi fed from 1828 the murriage Stewart, & petition a bankrupt ' eported his ma A for $1.000.000 by a svndica! itors and his furniture and house- | were seized Francis Joseph dis- his debts. nwhile the went to London, and for a wus employed in brokers wits rince CASUALTY HOSPITAL Jar R superintendan tormer riivid | Mrs. Mays, istant of ¢ Hospltal, arrived this perintendent er vesterd £ Casualty to take The positl { tendered by Dr. A. Taylor, execut off ing a mesting of the executiv mittes. Acceptance of Mrs, Ma, announced today Other Resignations Due. The arrival of the new superin- | tendent followed the resignation of iss (i. Finks, superintendent of the ating room, last night, which has been accepted. Two other resig- nations are to be dered, it was learned officially t One of these is fr morning zo m was 1 follow- i Wi ve offi cor 1. it was said, it has no connection with the recent dis closures that resulted in the resig- nation of Raymond Schultels, former superintendent. Mrs. Clara A. Baben superintendent during the |again becomes superintendent of |nurses and Ruth Smith, acting 1in the latter eapacit; returns to her {post us assistant superintendent of { nurses. Mrs. to resign, in reier, acting Mays has been in the District department under Dr. W. C. Fowler for the past year. Her hus. band was superintendent of Gartield Hospital for 2 number of years, and Mrs. Mays cted «s his assistant. St recently was offered & oSt in a Boston hospital, but declined. It is believed the most recent change will mark the end of the dis- closures of the past few days. The action of the committee making Mrs. Mavs superintendent is regarded by officials as the clean-up move in the campaign of readjustment inaugurat- {ud by the request for the resignation {of Mr. Schulteis. MORE LIGHT SHED ON KIDNAPING (Continued from First Page.) i { { prevented Mrs. Doll from keeping her ! promise and Dorsey and his wife are said to have taken her place. Chief Burns of the Baltimore detec- tive bureau said today that the only tep which would induce him to assign more men to the case would be Sister Cecilia's willilngness to come there and help in the searoh for the house in which she is alleged to have been held | a captive. Since the nun Is well ac- quainted ‘with Baltimore and is sup- posed to have been held in & house near the Camden station, Capt. Burns. said he does not believe there would be much difficulty in finding the improvised prison if the police received Sister Ce- celia’s active co-operation. Has Dropped Case. “As things now stahd,” sald Chief Burns, “1 have dropped the case un. less new developments are presented. On the other hand, Dr. Willlam Smith, Sister Cecelia’s physician, said she would be of no help to the Balti- more police because of her extremely nervous condition. The nun is said to be suffering from nightmare. Dr, Smith said she passes the day in com. fort, but night brings her terror. Analysis of the contents of the bot- tle of fluid found in the music room of the convent, from which Sister Cecelia sald she was kidnaped, shows it to be a “popular medicine to re- leve a common complaint” and could not possibly have been used to pro- duce coma as a drug, the report of the analyist employed showed. The fluld was analyzed by Penniman & Browns of Baltimore. Their report to Dr. Willlam M. Smith, the Frederick physiclan who has been attending Sister Cecelia, follows: “Analysis: Reaction, acid: alcohol, 11 per cent; sugar, 62.1 per cent. Aro- matics present in quantity; purga- ‘tive, vegetable extract, b5 per cent: strychnine, trace. The amount of sample was too smail to permit of more detailed analysis. It is evident. ly one of the more common popular proprietary medicines. The material does not contain any anodynes’ who has besn planning for some time | intertm, | ifirst floor. but were i large pane of glass. i br. the firemen was Hos- ipens and erasers { fore {propriation of $50,000 for additional {supp! an attache of the hospital, j ar THE EVENING: S8TAR, WASHINGTON, D. SCHOOL SUPPLIES DAMAGED $20,000 Four Firemen Hurt and Warehouse in Northeast Suffers $12,000 Loss. SMOKE HAMPERS WORK Holes Cut i:x Walls for Hose as Flames Are Checked Below First Floor. Twelve engine and four truck com-{ panies responded to a four-alarm fire | in the warehouse of the publi schogls at Ist and K streets north- east shortly before 7 o'clock last night. The fire started in the furnace | room of the cellar and probably had been burning an hour or more before it was discovered. Firemen succeeded in the flames from getting above the unable to avold, damage to the school The first floor over t room fell in. The fire did front portion of that floor. Damage to the bullding was esti- mated by Fire Marshal 1. V. Seib at about $12,000, and to the stock al L $20,000, Much of the of the manual training schools the upper floors, the fire said. can be salvaged preventing water and supplies. furnace not reach | tir | | | on Foar Firemen Injured. o. to Lieut company, when Morris Murphy. * engine received cuts to his hand ream of water smashed a| Charles C. Ach- stetter, deputy fire marshal, who was | working near the licutenant, narrow- | escaped injut i P. J. Crimm A { \pany, received Injuries to his face | and hands, as ¢id Private Jullan C. Sydnor of No. 16 cngine company. | g volice and fire suz pir wounds the f su ing tirough ed finor. S Eix injuries dress of dense smoke the wor diffieult. and becume neeesgary to cut holes in the | order to get hose lnes to the | oom in which the ti ginated. The building. three-ste bric structur Gw orage Company District woverni Appenl (o Congress. Lo made to ¢ s to rual 10 engine Fire Marshal L. V. ember of the del leg in the bur: urth n dil d a through | e the fire, theoming, n th to purchase their o the remainder of hecause the schools available to meet to betore ien Unless special funds s suid today, m¥r graded schovls will be n supplies ue current have througl ~emeste no mone gencs Rayr i o hegan a sur f h ertain what materials were in! use _at the time of the) School officlaly will not k Lis investigation is com € amount of money n SBATY ce the iplies which went ames. hey included b | { Wiimarth. chie | system, | s records | oks. peneils, sewing, art and do domestic aterinls t for the special Shortage Already struction of ti be felt severe raining, ¥ by the schools ¥ to the fuct that a shortage al- -ady exists and Congress has, b it an item_for a deficiency ap- the storeiouss In daliversy of second | and many of the cived thelr quota schools who of furnishing xs Congress The fire the midst of semester suppiies schools had not re; i pils in these expense suppiles ur »re March 3 es of the jurisdiction of education, it is likel make an inves! to determine the cause of the This auestion probably will be sldered by the board at Its 1 this afternoon caug warehouse of the 1y that gation blaze con- ceting hoard this hody may { CITIZENS URGE BAN | i ON ONE-MAN CARS | i (Continued from First Page.) H eration of Labor, nad fiied -written protest agalnst one-man cars. DEFENDS ONE-MAN CAR. Trafic Engineer Says Survey Shows They Save Time. A statement was sent today to Chairman Keller on one-man cars, compiled by R. G. Klotz, traffic en- gineer of the commission, which read, in part, as follows: “Reports for January, 1923, show 5,300 one-man safety cars in opera- tion throughout thé country. This does not Include cars which are operated with one man but which are not equipped with safety devices. Estimating _these conservatively at operated with one man, but which total of one-man operated cars close to 7,000. These figures show & con- slderable growth in the use of such cars, and indications are that, al- | within {she were {ride with him, and yet | automobit ‘the respect and c not though originally conceived as a war-time measure, the advantages of one-man operation have but recently received full recognition. “Two falr sized cities that I know of have now standardized on one- man operation for city work—Boston, Mass., and Albany, N.Y. The Brook- lyn City rallway has recently re- ported that i has 431 cars equipped for _one-man operation. “The cars in use here are all equip- ped with complete safety devices, that is, interlocks to prevent operat ing cars with doors open, to prevent opening of doors until brakes are ap plied and to cut off power, sand tracke, apply brakes and release front and rear door mechanisms in case the operator fails to hold down controller handle. “The reports of collisions and in- juries for the three years during Which one-man cars have been op- erated here show that the number of one-man cars in use was 6.50 per cent of the total cars used by the Wash- ington Rallway and Electric 'Com- pany. The percentage of pedestrian, vehicle and car collisions in which one-man cars were concerned was 10.83, and the percentage of total in- Jjuries, 5.10. It would, therefore, appear that while the one-man cars have been involved in more than thelr fair share of collisions, the injuries they have caused are less In proportion to the total than those caused by cars of other types. “Observations on the relative aver- age loading time per passenger with one-man and two-man cars on the same line showed that the average time consumed by .each of 2,535 passengers in boarding or alighting on two-man cars was 1.68 seconds, while the average time. for each of 2,893 passengers bearding or alight- ing on one-man cars was 2.33 seconds. This represents a difference of 0.65 second per passenger, under which a difference of one minute per trip in running time will provide for the {oul.\ng and unloading of ninety- o passengers.” C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1923. DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY FLAMES IN PUBLI SCHOOL WAREHOUSE |BILL TO PAY D. C. gl Overseas Veteran Held Fredericksburg Pending Outcome of Wound. in cial Iispateh to The Star. Va., February ar-old Louise Per- ry and death in thr infl is linger he ugh her ted by Henry K s veteran, Ing th of the The shooting took pi to Mis suburh, chest ave been an over wutcome girl's wound ce at the gate Perry’s home, in Elwood while she wus talking uslow. She was wa eny h Claude about t ed 1 pistol Rose take the v The polics before the the house wi was who sunded girl to the hospit declare that w few moments shooting Rose was seen a block of the Perry home. talklig to a friend. when suddenly pulied out a pistol and fired into air “to frighten a girl™ SAYS PRESIDENT FAQES LIBEL SUIT a4 from the First Page.y t they ccioing.” Hill of the hu- was appoint meth, Senator Hin 1 his wif, and living apart A order which » for an automobi uipment to which I ntion were not that Mr rated v oy Attucks Order for 1} have here Hill) ga certain t Yot je (Mr witn wish d the follow ing made this for an automobile which hed the government to buy for four-door, s equipped with bar cap. requisition h him. sedan, L—— ask who who is to the vanity case was separated from his wife: not using the car with him. He had heater up his duughter, as though a slave, and she would no: the Jady is " Hil she was « equipped with a lady’s “I do not w wh representations were made to the President to induce him to do this thinkable thing of striking down the reputations of twenty- sight men and women who heretofore have lived lives that entitled them to fidence of those who sald Mr. Caraway. “I do what representations were made im, but T shall always belleve, whatever the denials may be, that It was a_political doling out of patronage to which the President yvielded. T have said let them take the offices. T do not complain about that. Let them have the offices, but let them take them like #poilsmen that they are, and let the administration doie them out as the spoils broker that it is and not take them by robbing the men of their rep- utations. “This afternoon the President gave out an interview that I shall read. It appears .in The Evening Star of this date, and s headed: ‘Ousted Bureau Officials Will Be Denied Old Jobs, Presi- dent Harding Feels No Regret Over Changes and Feels Matter Now Closed Incident.” Deplores President’s Action. “I do not think he feels any re- gret over the incident, because he belongs to that school of politicians who think, if a place is to be had, his friends should get it, whatever the means, and have no regret. He wanted those places for people, some of them, I fear, here in the Senate, who were demanding the jobs for their henchmen, and he now says, ‘Why, of course, we got the offices. What regret should I feel?' “Recently the President issued an order restoring to the civil service status_the remaining people whom he had stricken from the rolls, with two exceptions, one, Dr. Beach, who had been killed by this unjusti- fiable charge, the other, the former director, Mr. Wilmeth, whom he seeks to punish because Wilmeth comes from my state. He has such little respect for other men’s reputations that he is willing to damn for all time to come the reputation of Mr. Wilmeth because he imagines thus he is punishing me. Oh, Mr. Presi- dent, if he wanted to strike me, why did he not strike me and not attempt to do so through a helpless individual who can not strike back?’ —_— SHANDS GRANTED RESPITE est Shands, colored, will not be h::;:ed at the District jail next Fri- day. Justice Stafford today granted a plea of Attorney John H., Wilson for the accused that the condemned man be granted additional time to prepare, spiritually, for death. The court postponed the execution until Friday, March 9. The court stated that the pendency of the appeal in the Price case, in which the question is raised that there is no official hangman in the District, had nothing to do with the Postponement - of the execution. It ‘was the plea of counsel that the man was not prepared to dle that actu- ated him in acceding to the request, Justice Stafford declared. Shands attacked his wife with & hatchet, inflicting injuries which caused her death September. new them, Know Rose is being held pend- | 45,600,000,000 Gold Marks Paid by Germany in 4 Years By the Associated Press. BERL tween February 21. 1918, ovember, -Germany’s payments and September, Versaflles peace treaty and gupplementary agreemen to the allies be- fulfillment of the amounted to 1922, in 45.600,000,000 gold marks according to an official compllation made public here. If German losses in the execution of the treaty terms are taken into account, it is declared that the total payments have been 56,300,000,000 gold marks. Inclusion of the value of Alsace-Lorraine and the former German colonles brings the grand total to more than 100,000,000,000 gold marks. The 5,600,000 gold territory; marks deliveries and pavments are classified as follows: for imperial and stats property in ceded arks for the Sarre raines; 1,900,000.000 60,000,01 for ocean-going 100.000.000 1.7 5.609.000.000 for i | 2.760,000,600 500,600,000 ‘his makes a total of 45.500. "o this s is to be added erms of the peace tre for for other | | [ Seapa Flow fleet. | 100,000 for i ,000 for { makes 90 506,00 | This a total sum value of Alsace T these figures. 100,000,000,000 old marks. | [ | GERMANY T0 OFFER BONDS T0 SAVE MARK ‘Will Offer for Public Subscription Paper Totaling 200,000,000 Gold Marks. BY G Wireless to SORGE WITTE. The Star and Chicugo Daily News. Copyright, 1923. BERLIN, February 21.—The German government is continuing its efforts to keep the (ierman paper mark from dropping far be the 20,000 to the dollar point. 1t was announced today that, foilowing Austria’'s example, Ger- many in a short time will offer for pub- lic subseription gold bonds to the amount of 200,000,000 marks. The announce- ment says that bonds of denominations “as low as one dollar’ will be offered, and that the subscribers will be able to make as much as 152 per cent in paper marks annually. It is significant that even in this official announcement the dollar and not the gold mark is accepted as the basic unit of the loan. According to an understanding just reached the big banks have guaranteed only on half of this loan, the other half being accepted on commission and if not taken up may be returned to the reichbank, although the latter's gold reserve more than covers this loan. The official circular states that it is chiefly to stabilize the mark abroad that this gold loan is being floated. RAM'S HEAD PLAYERS OPEN PLAY CONTEST Competition Starts Immediately and Will Close on March 10. { i i | | By | i The Ram's Head Players are to con- duct a competitive contest for one- act plays, to begin immediately and closs March 10. - The results will be announced by the judges about March 17, following which the successful ones will be rehearsed for production, under the direction of Robert Bell, about April 1, Following are the rules for the con- test: Only one-act plays will be accepted. No propaganda manuscripts will be considered. Settings may be period, though modern comedies and dramas are pre- farred. All scripts must be adaptable to production on the miniature stage, which precludes any massive or mag- nificent scenes. No scripts will be accepted unleas typewritten, ‘bound in flexible heavy blue paper, with stage action prop- erly inciosed In brackets and under- lined {n red ink. Carbon coples, if submitted, must be clear enou to facilitate reading. Contestants are required to send with their plays a sealed envelope in which the name of the author and bis address are written. yers, care playwriting _contes! 13281, 18th street, befors Saturday, March 10. H riis for non-military property b for rolling (railroad) and fnlan »r coal and coke at world market prices; 04,000,000 for German property abroad: transferred claims of Germany 1,400,000,000 gold marks for surrendered warships, ex | | left on the German materials and Rhine water vessels bridges; against ash payments paymen and deliveries 00,000 gold marks rman losses in the execution of uding the 5.300.000,000 for other military disarmament industrial disarmament ernal expenditures. of 56,500,000,000 gold marks 100,000,000 paper marks at the dollar rate of 20,000, Lorraine and the colonies is not included in Including them the total payments would be more than equaling The figures do not include the costs of occupation MES. M. . QUCKSAL DES AT HERHOME HER ‘Was Descended From Noted Family and Traced Aacestry Back to George Washington. MRS. M. D. QUICKSALL, Mrs. Mary Dallas Quicksall, a long- time resident of Washington, dled vesterday at her home, 2029 F street northwest. The funeral will be from St. Stephen’s Church tomorrow morn- ing at 9 o'clock. Mrs. Quicksall was the widow, first, of Chase M. Strong, and then| of Willlam Francls Quicksall, a dis- tinguished lawyer and life dong resi- dent of Washington, who died several years ago. She was the daughter of Commodore Alexander James Dallas, U. 8. N, who, as a young lieutenant, fired the gun in the engagement between the President and the British frigate Little Belt that helped precipitate the war of 1812. She was a granddaughter of Alex- ander James Dallas, who was Secre- tary of the Treasury and acting Sec- retary of War during the adminis- tration of President Madison, and a niece of George M. Dallas, who was successively United States minister to Russia and to Great Britain, and was Vice President of the United States with President Polk. ‘Washington Descendant. Mrs. Quicksall's mother was Mary Byrd Willis of Fredericksburg, Va. She was doubly related to Presidént ‘Washington, one of her great-great- grandmothers . being_Mildred Wash- ington, known in Virginia as the ‘Widow Gregory, who was the third wife of Col. Henry Willis of Freder- icksburg and an aunt and godmother of President Washington. Another great-great-grandmother was Betty ‘Washington, President Washington's sister. Another coincidence of her family relations was the marriage of her aunt, Mrs. Catherine, '?.3""""” Gray (nee Willls) "to e Prince Charles Louis Napaleon.Acbille Mu- rat, som of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, and Caroline Bonaparte Murat, a sister of the great emperor, ‘The latest craze among some fash- fonable women in London is to dye cats so that they match a favorite . costume or the furniture, SURPLUS REPORTED OUT BY COMMITTEE (Continued from First Page.) SLAYER CONFESSES: “|JFER" T0 GO FREE they could {f given more police offi- cers. Representative Walters said that! the legislation is on the hooks, but not enforced. He was opposed to temporizing and having regular post- ponements, thereby allowing the own- ers to continue collecting rents. He thought that the best course would be to let the law stand calling for ex- pulsion of the alley dwellers on June 1 next and demand its enforcement. “Conditions cannot be worse than they are.” he sald. Personal investi- gatlon had shown him that the alley conditions in Washington are the worst anywhere in this country, he sald, Representative Sproul said he was unwilling to tear the roof off any body’s head until some place was provided for the outcast to go. E. W. Oyster sald that for twenty years he had been looking into alley oo excerpts of his testimony before the Senate committee. Johu Ihlder, president of the Mon- day Evening Club, questioned whether by taking action the committee would not be creatigg a worse condition. He rald that his club could not find any place where these people could &0 for another habitation. He favored ! postponing any action for at least one year. Actlon Prevented. Auy action on the alley bill was prevented when Kepresentative Wal- ters notified the committee, in a friendly way, that unless there was a quorum present there was no use in_attempting a vote. Representative Zihlman presented resolutions signed by all members of the committeo expressing regret that Chairmun Focht is temporarily -aving Congress after fourteen vears of wervice. Thess resolutions {declared that the residents of the National Cupital ure losing a broud- ous for development of the nation's capital. The resolutions wera unanimously adoptad. Representative Focht re- sponded, complimenting the members of the pleasant ¢o-operation and pointed cut that although running up against many legislative obstacles, the com- mittes has had twenty-six bills passed, as against seventeen in the previous Congress and ten in the Congress before that. He deplored the fact that the National Capital, which is becoming a worid center of fin commerca and education, has a model insura tem or a model system of ed and regretted hat he is ngress befor thege measures ha passed. be D.C.FINEARTSHEAD Telis Columbia Historical So- ciety of Development Projects for City. i ; Pictures Ceremony at Laying of Corner Stone of Capitol—New Members Elected. the growth of 1 plans for making more beauts es Moo, irman of the Com of Fine Arts, in address The City of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln” th { Columbia Historical | District of Columbia, {club, 1ast night jaddress with nany old views and drawings of the plans for the future, i Mr. Moore told of tentative plans { to erect @ huge Department of Justice building on Pennsylvania avenue, be- tween 14th and h streets, opposite the Washington Hotel, also plaus for making Arlington a part of trict park stem, and the proposed making of improvements in the grounds of the national cemetery, in order to make It fit bettei with the general future plans for the develop- ment of the city. Iie cxplained how the Commission of Fine Arts, using the White House and Lincoln Memo- rial and « tentatively planned road- way and park connecting the two. as a centralization mark, will make other plans for the general scheme balanced on this imaginary axis. Allen C. clety, pald tribute to the memory of Washington and Lincoln, "describing the character of these two as being “ideal in the minds He also gave an interesting descrip i w {to e {eve: re re { Charl ch | mlssion an jon 1 before Society of the Dis- of the Capitol, telling of the proces- sion,- which was led up Old Ferr: road by the “Father of the Country, and also related other events in con- nection with that historic occaslon. The following new members were elected: Judge William Hitz of the District Supreme Court, Alexander E. Laskey, former United States attor- ney for the District; James B. Archer, president of the Bar Association; A. M. Nevius, vice president of the Riggs Bank; Willlam S. Torbert, author of Mullowny, J. L. Tepper, John Me- Lachlen and John A. Massie. 1t was announced that the member- ship drive had brought in fifty in the last two weeks, bringing the total to nearly 450. The next meeting will be devoted to the life of Lincoln. FOSTER TO GO ON TRIAL. ‘Will Be First of 22 to Face Court on Communist Charge. ST. JOSEPH, Mich., February 21— ‘William Z. Foster, a leader of the 1919 steel strike and active in radical cir- cles, will be the first of the twenty- two alleged communists to go to trial under the Michigan anti-syndicalist laws, it was announced by Prosecut- {ing Attorney Charles W. Gore. In setting the trial date for March 12 Judge Charles White announced no future delays would be permitte conditlons and read to the commit- | visioned friend, enthusiastically zeal- | committee on the able and | - DESCRIBESPLANS {A. C. CLARK GIVES HISTORY | Clark, president of the so- | of Americans.” | tion of the laying of the corner stone | R. Shepherd, G. Percy McGlue, John | Torbert's Digest; William N. Payne, | Miss Josephine H. Croggon, Judge A, R Boastful Youth to Bring ‘Vin- dication to Clarence Mc- Kinney, No. 51,210, TO GET FORMAL RETRIAL Innocent Man Has Spent Five Months Behind Walls of Ohio Penitentiary. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 21 { Threo fatoful words. “I am gullty. | from tha lips of another man and a: indefinite number of years behind the ibleak gray walls of the Ohlo peni- tentiary had dwindled into hours to |day for Clarence LeRoy McKinney (conviet £1,210), who five months ago began a life sentence for murder. The court, backed by a jury of twelve men, chosen in Clinton county stald Quaker communi which scn tenced McKinney, expects to right the injustice through a formal retrial at which tho 1ife sentence will be an nuled. Judge F. H. Clevenger, telephone, said he would struct ithe presecuting attorney of Wilmingtor to a motion in the state court of jappeals in Cincinnati today to grax | the request of McKinney for a mne trial. Immediately this is granted JudgegClevenger will consider a mo tion in his court for the annulment of McKinney's sentene: Mrs. MoKinney left Cincinnati v Wilmington to meer husbund. She expected to returr to Cincinnati with him tomorrow. pite his protests ef nurder of Speefal McCreight at Wil mington February 14, 19:2, McKin ney, & huckster, was unabis in the fes of the jurors to furnish & con clus 1ibi Youth Confesses Gullt. over the In the same courtroom at Wilming ton where McKinncy was sentenced with the same judge presiding, a bo {in his early twenties, Louis Vand | voort, son of a wealthy fruit grower of near Jamestown, first arrested o charges of robbery, vesterday pleade: guilty to the murder of MoCreight He was sentenced to life imprise ment_in ntiary. Walt { Bangham, un wecomplice to manslaughter a: as given to twenty vears' scr nee in the Mansficld reformatory . whic bec investigatior made by boy friends of that he shot and killed tthews in Xe Vandervoort wi reight murd: by ; declared he had boasted of his prowess with a I olver, clalming that two notches cut \ the butt of hi9 pistol represente ad policemen. after he had b arrested for robber: 5 Summoned by Warden P. I. Thoma to his office from the penitentiar. jlcom mill late vesterday afternoo MoKinney recefved philosophicail the announcement that he was to b freed. More Sorry for Mother. wel Le sald fosling fele so v | wasn't guilty for my wife and m | Vandervoort Policeman F {in Dec implic: wa all have our troubles calmly. “I've always had T'd get out. T haven' ry Lad, because I knew I've felt mors Sorr: - mother than for ation was hard or o McKinney said his parents, Mr. ana Mrs. Charles McKinney, reside on a arm near Bluftton, Ind His wife, whom he was married to a short tinie hefors he was sentenced has been working in a Chr | restaurant, obtaining funds pended in an efort to free band James W. Reno, arrested with Mc Kinney as an_accomplice, but neve: brought to_trial, wil release | from the Clinton county he has heon Incarcerated to Judge Clevenger REST STRENGTHENS GOES OF SHIP BILL ed_from First Page.) be Jail tween leaders of the Senate factions he was allowed to proceed. All other business, however, wa | blocked, Senator McKellur, democrat | Tennessee. objecting injection b {even the most mir irs, althous: Senator Jon wus willing | to be reasonul ut allowing mat ters to come before the Senate if thev would not cause controversy. Senato: Reed said he also was willing to be reasonable “When [ was a boy we used to have a rule not to gouge eves, and it seems to me the United States Senate might have some similar rule,” said he, but Senator McKellar insisted upon bar ring all other matters. Deny Minor Bill Report. The decision of the ship bill oppor ents to make the filibuster air-tigh was demonstrated later when Sena- tors McKellar and Hitchcock, demo crats, Nebraska, refused to allow | Chairman Page of the naval commit | tee to report a minor bill. The filibuster today was watched trom the private gallery by a veteran | alibusterer, former Senator Moses Clapp of Minnesota, who w prom! nent in the 1917 filibuster of the “twelve willful men” against forme President Wilson's armed ehip bill. New negotlations for an agreemen! to vote Friday on vital amendments to the bill and also on the motion to supplant it with the “flled” milk bill were undertaken by republican lead- ers after today's session got under way, and the opposition managers agreed to sound out thelr faction dur ing the day. The proposal involved a vote on the Madden amendment, which would make payment of government ald to ship gperators cotingent on appro- priation by Congress. Administratior leaders said that if the amendment were adopted it would destroy the bill's effectiveness. —_— Lions and tigers are too weak i lung power to run more than half u mile, ! i i Brought Down —that’s the pu: to the Minute ose of the 5.30 EDITION of THE EVENING STAR—to give you the very lzst word concerning all the interest but from all over the cou: ing news—not ¢nly locally, ntry and from all over the world. Special effort is made to give the latest from the money market, and the sports finals. Another feature is tomorrow. 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