Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Increasin, lowed by light snow lats tomorrow morning; Temperature for twent onded at 2 p.m 2 pan. toduy. i lowest, | Il bt cloudiness, probably fol. e tonight or much warmer. four hours v: Highest, 28, at 13, at 7 am, ull report-on page 4. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 10 No. 28/789. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C > FEDERAL WORKERS | HIT “COMPRONISE ON RECLASSIFYING Federation Calls Mass Meet-E ing to Protest to Meet Next Monday. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY RATING PLAN ASSAILED Pay Reduced in Low-Salary Grades, Statement Declares—Re- i jected Bill Backed. against | seeks to sub- of Tfiiciency sys- A double-barreled tack the compromise wh stitute th Bureau tem of efliciency ratings for the Ster- ling-Lehlbach reclass ion bill was begun today by the National Federa- tion of Federal Employe A mass meeting of protest was an- nounced for Monday night at the New Masonic Temple, and letters of pro- test were sent to all members of the Senate. Called Notoriously Unjust. Branding the Bu u of Efficienc | plan as “notoriou unjust, incon- | sistent and unscientific fede tion called upon all cd em- ployes of the government here to at- tend the w u Monday night. Dr. obert Muses of New York and other speakers will outline the superiority of the Sterhing-Lehlbach bill Dhas the support of the federation the sgme time, in le of the Senat eward of the cderal 12 Burcau as the ted in the ng by organ | i 1 | National es de- | ficiency | Smoot-Wood Hou the a vote of that the plan, introduc bill, was defe Lehlbach bill 247 to 65. Urge Sterling-Leh “We urge the bil." the lette and we be- apeaic v pport especially for the following essential provisions: “An efficieney stern to be established by the classifying agency We protes ainst the bureau of ef ficiency system of efficiency ratings as i notorfously unjust, incensistent and unscientific “Compensation schedules as contain- ed tn the Steriing bill. We protest against (he salary rates proposed by the bureau of ctficiency. becuuse the reduce present pay of the lowest paid emplo Rules for applic sification on the for cqual work, clared ling-Lehlbach | ur 1 | ion of the re- basis of irrespee | al | of c q pay Bex. ] “If o th party board be proposed as a classifying agency, we ask that there be provided a director who shall zive all his time to the work and who shall qualify by competitive eivil service examination.” Mass Meeting A Arrangements for the 1 meet which 18 to begin at § o'c ek : ht, were made at a conferenc Salled By President Steward, and held last night, with presidenis of local unions in attendance. It is in the lowest federation points nged. o | 13 | salary grades, | out, that the plan reduces the Sharwomen and la- 0 to $360 below crling il and pra iigAo their | rate without the Injustic obta « pred applicaiion of | iency ratings thus already causing | dissatistaction | employes’ bore re T the scale of would return present base so-called bonus. sistencies aiready sult of the atte the Bureau of far. it is stated, a much confusion and 1n various departments PLAN SO0 FARM LOAN FUND Composite Bill to Be Report- | ed to House on Monday. A composite farm credits bill, em- bracing the principal features of the Lenroot-Anderson, Capper and Strong measures, was completed today by the House banking committee. Chair- man McFadden said it would be for- mally reported to the House Monday, and taken up for passage probably Tuesday. The measure, Chairman McFadden said, would set up a $60.000,000 inter- mediate credit organization as an ad- Junct to the federal farm loan bank- ing system, but with its assets en- tirely independent of the parent body. Paper of the intermediate credit system would be eligible for redis- count at federal reserve banks. The chairman said a bill had been worked out which he believed would pass the House with little opposition. The committee will meet again to harmonize any differences remaining 50 as to present, if possible, a unani- mous report to the House. BODY OF SOCIETY WOMAN * FOUND IN BALTIMORE Miss Mary Ward, Missing From Home Since Yesterday, Be- lieved Suicide. By therAssociated Pre BALTIMORE, Md., February 24.— The body of Miss Mary Wilson Ward of the Latrobe apartments was found today, in Jones Falls, under the North Avenue bridie, thus solving the mystery of her disappearance ves- terday morning, en route from her home to the office of her bankers, down- town. : No marks of violence indicating foul play were evident. and police believe she committed suicide. After her disappearance was re- ported to the authorities last evening a citywide search was begun, which continued without intermission until her body was found today. Miss Ward, who was forty-five years ©id, was the daughter of Mrs. Hen- Tetta E. Ward and tne late Henry ‘Ward. e was prominent in soclety |. m but had of .late retired it, to:be dlose to-her mother, whoge-health is poor. i fast | that the lad MOTHERS PRAISE len of Washington will go in a body the Jif ton, WASHINGTO DIG FEVERISHLY TO SAVE MAN IN WELL 24 HOURS Maynard Easton, 22, Smokes and Drinks Black Coffee in Freezing Sand 35 Feet Below Ground at Savage, Md. By a Stalf Correspondent SAVAGE. Md., February 24.—Held for twenty-four hours in a | tomb at the bottom of a i five - foot well, Maynard Easton, twenty-two years old, is today alter- nately drinking black coffee and smoking cigarettes, while a corps of farmers arc digging frantically to release him before a slow death com- pletes its work. Buried Yesterday Noon. nee yesterday moon Kaston has n buried in a’ well on the farm of 1 Bassford. and phy ns, who ve been adminis tmulate his icreing cold | Ked sand that pe to vicld its prison Twenty tors of earth have alrea been removed from the well and young Easton still remains buried from the waist down. Although faced | by a slow death and .felly realizing | that he cannot hope to be neleased alive unless the rescuers are able to work faster, the boy converses freeiy with the workers and even directs them and shows them where | to dig to prevent their picks striking | his body. Body Numb With Cold. Tis only complaint is of the cold that is slowly creeping through his | 26w numb body. Tell papa I'm up his fight of the “water-sq sistently refus | d all right and tha | | PRESIDENT'S STAND Score or More Call at White House in Interest of the Teachers’ Pay Bill. A score or more of women. repre- senting themselves as mothers of sehool children in the District. called in a body at the White House today to express their appreciation of the interest shown by President Harding in the teachers' salary bill and to leave with him a copy of an editorial in The Evening Star of February 21. explaining the urgent need for this legislation. The group, which was headed by Mrs. Joseph Goldberger, president of the Cleveland Park Mothers' Club, who acted as spokeswoman, was re- ceived at the White House by Charles Hard, one of the assistant secretaries to the President. After praising the | executlve for his expressed interest | in this legislation, Mrs. Goldberger arranged for the formal filing Mon- day of resolutions signed by mothers of the District commending the ex- ecutive and urging him to use the in- fluence of his office with a view to getting some action on the bill be- fore Congr adjourns. One Thousand Women Expected. Mrs. Goldberger sald that it is vi- tally important to the National Capi- tal that this bill be passed and said that arrangements are now being| made for large demonstrations of pro- test at the House next Monday. She anticipates that more than 1.000 wom- to the Capitol to demand of the House rules committee permission for Chairman Focht of the House District committee to get the teachers’ pay bill on the floor without delay. President Harding was represented yesterday as favoring passage of im- portant District legislation at_this session. although he was unable to take steps to bring it about. FAVORS MEMORIAL | 10, DARLINGTON Favorable report was made to the House today by Representative Simeon D. Fess of Ohio for the library com- mittee on a Senate joint resolution authorizing the erection on public ground in the District of a memorial to the late Joseph J. Darlington, & leader of the Washington bar, as @ gift of the people of the city of ‘Washington. Similar action is expected to be taken today providing for the erec- tion without cost to the government of a statue to the late Henry B. F. Macfarland, former District Commis- sioner. Assurances are said to have been glven that both of these reso- lutions will be passed under suspen- slons of rules before Congress ad- journs. To Be Fountal In his report Representative Fess says that the Fine Arts Commission has approved the memorial to Mr. Darlington which is to be a public drinking fountain surmounted by a group consisting of a maiden and a fawn, It has been designed by one of the foremost sculptors in the Uhited States. 1t {s intended to place this memorial In Judiciary Square, opposite the law office occupied by Mr. Darlington for more than a third of a century. Precedents for the erection of such memorials as quoted by Representa- tive Fess in_his report follow: Maj. Butt Memorial on the White Lot, the Hahnemann Memorial at Scott Circle, the statue to Gen. Albert Pike at Indiana avenue, 3rd and D streets; the Longfellow Memorial on Connect- icut avenue, and-the monument to Edmund Burke at Massachusetts avenue and 11th street. Money Is Raised. The project involves no expense either by Congress or by the District of Columbia. All financial require- ments have been met by residents of Washington, who were Mr. Darling- ton's associates, friends and clients. Appended to the report are letters from Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds; Maj. D. L. Weart, executive assistant in the office of public build- ings and grounds, and Milton E. Alles of the Riggs National Bank and Julius Garfinkle - and eevéral editorikls .on and character of Mr. Darling- you fellows will soon have me out,” < the message Maynard sent to his ather, William ISaston, shortly fore noon today. Mr. E on refuses to leave the brink of the well, but sits on a small board, With tears streaming down his tanned cheeks, murmuring prayers for his boy’s re- lease. Had_the accident occurred an hour later it would have been the father and not the son who was trapped in the well. Wooden Walls Collapse. Young Kaston. Tiobert White and red White the Bassford well shortly yesterdsy ard o'clock had were engaged in deepen- | before | * ik WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION N, Do, VOTE ON SHP BL FXEDFORMONDAY DEFEATCONCEDED Senate Takes Up Measure and Motion Is Made for Recommittal. | | SENATOR JONES ADMITS- LEGISLATION IS DOOMED | Final Action as Defeat Seems Unavoidable. been working at the bottom of ihe | shaft and had just signaled his friends above to haul him out for lunch. As they started to turn the windlass which would have dragged him to safety the wooden walls of the shaft suddenly bulged and col- lapsed beneath the weight of twenty- five tons of wet sand, trapping the boy alost at the bottom of the shaft. Fortune favored him, however, to the extent of causing some of the boards to buckle together and thus form u pyramid over his head and shoulders. Ouly this tiny air pocket aved him from being smothered to ath instantaneously. A str; and rather ghastly coin- ce was that the boy's father on Pa; Column 4. Senator’s White Tie Draws Jest In Ship Bill Fight Final and formal notice of the armistice in the ship bill fightwas seen by colleagues of Senator Jones. republican, Washington, in charge of the measure, in his ap- pearance today wearing a con- spicuous white tie. Since the bill first was taken up. Mr. Jones has displayed daily @ tie of flaming. belligerent red. The change today led to many good- natured gibes from both sides of the chamber. COAL COMMISSION MAY QUIT MARCH 4 Experts’ Work Menaced by Lack of Appropriation From Congress. The United States Coal Commission will go out of existence and will cease to function as a body on March 4, unless Congress finds it expedient to authorize an additional special ap- propriation of 400,000 to continue the work of the commission, it was an- nounced today. House leaders have been informed of the attitude of the commission regarding the appropria- tion, # was said, although the atti- tude of those in charge of the bill carrying the appropriation is said to be favorable and members of the com- mission are hopeful of its enactment before the close of the present Con- gress on March 4. . Although approximately $80,000 would be left by March 4 out of the original appropriation of $200,000 to enable the commission to carry on its work, members of the commission feel that the results arrived at would be inconclusive and that the investiga- tion into the facts of the coal indus try could not be carried out in the proper manner without the additional money. Attitude of Commission. The attitude of the commission may be summed up in the following state- ment by a member today: “We have had enough inconclusive investiga- tions into the coal industry of the United States. Let us not have an- other such investigation. The United States Coal Commission feels that if the appropriation asked for is not forthcoming its conclusions would, by their limitation, be inconclusive, and, while the commission does not re- gard itself as an ideal body, it wants to do a thorough job. The work would be fruitless unless the $400,000 appropriation is granted.” The commission could not under- take an investigation of the anthra- cite industry, which has not yet be- gun, without the additional money and could not extend its investiga- tions. already begun, into the bitu- minous industry, unless more money is forthcoming, members declared. In audition, some subjects in -the in- dustry believed to be of importance have ‘not yet been touched upon in the investigatory work thus far. ‘Has Dome Good Work. The United States Coal Commis- sion would expire by limitation next fall, but if the requested appropria- tion is forthcoming, it is considered probable an extension will be granted. The commission is said by those in touch with the bituminous situation to have already done notable work in averting a possible strike in the bituminous industry April 1. - Five members of the federal body are planning personal trips of inspec- tion of coal-mining projects in the south and southwest within the next ten days. Dr. Charles P. Neill and '‘BE. T. Devine are to leave for Texas and Oklahoma within a few days, while Chairman John Hays Hammond, for- mer Vice President Marshall and Clark Howell expect to go to Al bama. Commissioner George Otis Smith will remain in Washington. B S S RECLASSIFYING BILL UP. A meeting of the Senate appropria- tions committee on the reclassifica- tion bill has been called for 3 o’clock this afternoon, provided that in the meantime Senator Sterling and Sena- tor Smoot are able to complete théir survey of the redratted bill. The o n_ was expressed . {ons committeq At the full ‘tho-hour set afternoon, \ | The again today death blow to it on Monday. The Senate by a vote of 46 to 38 decided to take up the measure, which had been laid aside during the week for conference reports, but imme- diately it was put befors the Senate its opponents, through Senator Robin- of Arkansas, the acting demo- cratic leader, moved to kill it through recommital. This motion, under a unanimous | consent agreement proposed by Sen- ator Curtis of Kansas, the assistant republican leader, will remain pend- |ing for a vote on Monday, with all factions 'in the bitter fight contend- ing that it will carry. Senator Jones, republican, Washing- who has been in charge of the ire, sald he proposed in event of a defeat Monday to make no further ef- forts in its behalf. administration shipping bill was brought before the Senate son Jomes Admits Defeat. ceded openly ator Jones. “I recognize when I am beaten.” he said, in promising co-operation to reach a decisive vote not later than Monday. After the agreement between lead- ers had Dbeen reached informally. Senator Curtis of Kansas, the as- sistant republican leader, proposed a unanimous consent agreement that tho Senate adjourn not later than & p.m. today until 11 a.m. Monday, and that after two hours had bren de- voted “to calendar business on Mon- day the Senate would proceed to con- sideration of the pending motion to take up the ship bill, unless the mo tion has been acted on in the mean- time. Senator Robinson of Arkansas. the acting democratic leader, announced that minority senators had no objec- tion to the agreement and it was en- tered into. in the Senate by Sen- Called a “Corpae.” Some republican senators said they preferred to wait until Monday before the “final obsequies,” as they termed them, should be held. Others wanted it over as soon as possible, saying that there was “no use having the corpse lie around any longer. It appeared for a time that the final vote might be reached today, but there was disagreement as to whether the death blow should be on the pending motion to proceed with the bill or on a motion to recommit. Senator Jones objected to the latter, stating that further committee con- sideration would be useless. “1 am ready to close the matter and vote now,” said Senator Jones. I | recognize that the matter is ended and I hate to see useless talk, after everybody knows what the result is.” ROBBED OF $100,000 INGEMS, HE REPORTS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 24.—Henry C. Hart, a New York diamond salesman. who gave his address as 87 Nassau street, reported to the police today that he had been robbed by two armed men of $100,000 worth of dia- monds in a downtown bullding. The robbers threw the elevator operator from the cage at the sixth floor, he told the police, and with Hart a prisoner, mounted several floors highen in the building, at 130 North State street. They stopped the elevator and, mendcing him with ‘their revolvers, took his pouch of diamonds, Hart said, and left him on an upper floor. Harding Works Upon Important President Harding was engaged today in writing what was de- scribed as “An important com- munication to Congress.” White House officials declined to indicate the subject, and beyond saying it would be an important document and would be forwarded late today all information was withheld. Police Dogs to Trailing Cri Following .out: a previously an- nounced plan of testing police dogs for detective work in Washington, Charles. W. Rose, dog handler of Ithaca, N. Y., is in Washington to conduct an exhibftion in scent-trail- ing for the police department next Tuesday, and while here will give a demonstration under the auspices of The Evening Stan at 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon in the. adaptibility of such dogs for guard work and dis- play @f courage. Demonstration at Star Building. The demonstration will be held on| 1th street side of The Star build- frk st above Pennsylvania avenue. o will climb a ladder to a win- w several stories above the groundi| sect which he is guarding. do | demonsatrating his. obedience to com. This is regarded mm. ‘because :BA ave erally climbs. to no ¢ N SATURDAY, Proponents of Bill Anxious for preparatory to the dealing of | Defeat of the bill later was con- | Note to Congress m:;!urfl | "helent "afove “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carricr 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, 95,935 FEBRUARY 24, 1 | l} News Note UNDERWOOD GIVES EAR T0 1924 TALK Says Suggestions Will Get Consideration on His Re- turn From Europe. tor Oscar W. Underwood of Ala- democratic floor leader in the | Senate, may again be a candidate for the democratic presidential nomina- tion. He has informed frienda that after his réturn from Europe he will give “very careful and thorough con- | slderation” to many suggestions to enter the race for the 1924 nomina- tion of his party. The position of Senator Underwood, who sailed last night from New York for Europe, was outlined in a letter of February 2 to W. M. Coleman of the Alabama house of representatives. After adoption by the Alabama legis- lature of a resolution urging that Senator Underwood permit his name to go before the democratic national convention next year, Senator TUnder- wood wrote: Reecalls 1912 Honor. “The home papers advised me of tlie great compliment you and your col- | leagues paid me fn the resolution passed, on your motion, suggesting my name for consideration in con- nection with the next democratic nomination for the presidency. L have always felt that there is no honor that has ever come to me in my public career that was greater than the honor given me by my home peo- ple in 1912, when the Alabama delega- tion to the Baltimore convention voted for me for the presidential nomination through forty-five ballots. “None of us i3 wise enough to look far into the future and I do not think we should reach a hasty conclusion in regard to Alabama's attitude before the next democratic national convention. T am going away when Congress adjourns for a few months' rest. When I return I shall glve very careful and thorough con- sideration to the friendly suggestions that are being made in reference to the advisability of my entering the fight for the presidential nomination of our party.” % Senator Underwood will not return from Europe until the middle of June. In the 1912 campaign the Alabama senator was a prominent candidate at the Baltimore convention for the nomination won by Woodrow Wilson. He had a large block of votes which held solidly throughout the balloting. 1923 — Michigan democratic e e MAY APPOINT D. F. DAVIS President Considering Choice of As- sistant War Secretary’s Successor. Dwight F. Davis of St. Louls, now a member of the War Finance Corpora- tion, is understood to be one of those prominently under consideration by President Harding for appointment as assistant secretary of war to succeed J. Mayhew Wflnwrlxht when the lat- ter takes his seat 4. Mr. Davis is a former Natlonal Guard officer. The President also has before him recommendations on behalf of several other candidates, including Repre- sentative Crago, republican, Pennsyl- vania, and it was Indicated today that he had reached no final decision: " Demonstrate which he cannot safely jump to, the ground. Again on the roof of the Star build- ing, nine stories above the street,;Mr, Rose will demonstrate the courage of. the dog in having him crawl along &' narrow ledge only a few inches from a drop to the street more than a hun- dred feet below. He will command the dog only by motions of the hands. Dog Calls Help. A platform will be erected to form a stage for a.display of the guard n Congress March |. work of the dog. A number of novel features will be included in this ex- hibition by Mr. Rose, among them be- ing an invitation to the crowd to have any one ascend the platform and in any manner take from the dog the ob- Em work will ;be ‘apoth vanture. - For - instince, ¢ will*be = (Coutinued on Page 3, Column 63 TWENTY-SIX LOOKS LIKE I'LL ate convention refuses to star One Stolen Kiss Worth $20,000; Nurse Wins Suit By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 24.—Miss Mathilde Benkhardt, formerly a student nurse, was awarded $20,- 000 for a kiss in a verdict re- turned in court last night and opened this morning. This is $5,000 short of the amount asked by Miss Benkhardt against Dr. Ju tin L. Mitchell, staff physician in the ‘hospital in which she was a nurse. She charged Dr. Mitchell kissed her, and asserted that because she accused the physician the hospital discharged her. In the first trial of the case the jury disagreed. BANDITS GAG GUARD AND TAKE $10,000 Six Robbers Break Into Petersburg Factory and Get Pay Roll. | | | By the Associated Pre: PETERSBURG, Va., February 24.— Six masked bandits forced an en-| trance into the Seward Trunk and Bag Factory here early today, bound and gugged the watshman, broke open the vault and escaped with $10,000. The money was in small envelopes, ready to be paid employes at the factory today. The robbers, officials believe, entered the building by a side door. The lock on none of the doors was tampered with and it is thought a key was used in gaining admission” Tells of Attack. According to Night Watchman Ritts’ statement to the police, he| was attacked as he approached the High street door to the building. He sald several men jumped on him from behind as he passed a pile of trunks, bound him with wire and placed a gag in his mouth., The watchman said four men watched over him while two others made a round of the building, returning in a short time and helping in taking him to the second floor of the factory. He declared he was later returned to the first floor and one of the masked men placed over him as a guard. Two others were sent to watch the front office entrance, Ritt stated, while three went into the office and pried open the safe. An iron bar, a punch and a wrench were found in the office. The combination of the safe was broken. Officials at the plant eald $10,103 was in the small envelopes, and all of this was missing when they examined the safe. Watchman Frees Self. “The robbers are thought to have left the building by the same door through . which it is believed fhey ‘gained admission. Ritt said he was attacked: shortly after 1 o'clock, and he thought the men took an hour and a half in their task of rifling the sale. The watchman ‘declared he succeeded in freeing himself about 3 o'clock, when he called the police. He said the building was too dark for him to get an accurate description of the ban- dits, .but that they were small in jarch PAGES. o TWO CENTS. t a hoom for Ford for President. KEMALIS WINNING TURKS TO PEACE Lines Up Cabinet and 100 Members of Angora As- sembly for Treaty. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Copyright. 1923 CONSTANTINOPLI ebruary 24.— The latest reports from Angora in- dicate that although the treaty has not been submitted to the national as- sembly the prospects of peace are quite favorable. Since the arrival of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who now fayors the early signing of the treaty, he has been able to win his side, be- sides virtually all the members of the cabinet, a majority of the members of parliament. The situation up to the present may be summed as follow 110 Favor Treaty. Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the mem- bers of the cabinet and 110 members of the assembly favor the acceptance of the treaty of Lausanne, with the addition of the following conditions: 1. The British must agree to the rectification of the Mosul frontier, leaving the question of the city to be settled a year after the signature of peace. 2. Turkey should hav right to appoint legal natfonally who wil * con- trol and obey the orders of the Turk- ish government like other Turkish offictals, 3. A mixed commission of and Turks should be appoir draw up a protocol to r capitulations and to regulate the economic and financial relations be- tween the Turks and foreigners, Insist on These Points, The majority of the the assembly who do Mustapha Kemal Pasha blindly, and who frequently oppose the leader's p_olk , favor the acceptance of the Strai agreement as arranged at Lausanne but they insist on the fol- lowing points: 1. The powers of the Greek patri- in Constantinople should be merely spiritual and restricted to Greeks within Ottoman territory. 2. No other concessions hre- gard to capitulations c made. Ismet Pasha's conce; t Laus- anne should be considered final. 3. The war indemnity should be paid only for the allied navies for the period extending from the date of the signature of the Mudros armis- tice until March 16, 1920, the date of the illegal occupation of Constanti- nople by the allied troops. 4. Greece must pay for the recon- struction of the devastated areas in Asia Minor a sum to be determined by an _international commission which will be asked to investigate the damages on the spot. 5. The Mosul question settled at once. Fifty Take Russian View. The extremist element, mumbering 50 members of the assembly, who are believed to be in sympathy with the Russians, consider the Lausanne con- ditions as unacceptable. They insist that the straits cannot be opened for foreign warships, and demand the un- conditional surrender to Turkey of the towns of Karagatch and Mosul. In order to continue the peace nego- tiations, they demand that Ismet Pasha shall undertake to obtain from Great Britain a written guaranty that all these conditions will be ac- cepted. Otherwise, the peace negotia- tions are not to be resumed. This party_{s strongly supported by Mar- shal Fexi Pasha, who, in a private interview with Kemal Pusha, de- manded that as the Lausanne confer- ence had falled, he should order the immediate resumption of hostilities on all_fronts, The commander-in- e the absolute visers of any members in not follow must be stature and apparently young men. " What- Was You'll find all ;bout it For sale by newsd ¢ £y chief refused. the Result? in the 5:30 Edition of The Evening Star—financial news, sports finals—and the last word about everything from all over the world. THE EVENING STAR 5:30 EDITION is on the street in time for you to take home to dinner. newsboys and ealers throughout the city. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, | BILLIONS OF MARKS SEIZED BY FRENCH ON WAY TO RUHR Plates From Reichshank Also Confiscated When Express Train Is Boarded. THOUSAND AT FUNERAL TARGET OF BAYONETS Several Wounded by Soldiers. New Moves Bring Resistance Into Sharper Stage. By the Associatedl Pross. BERLI February forces have boarded the Berlin-Co- logne expre near Hengstey and confiscated a consignment of 12,000,- 000,000 marks and plates belonging to the reichsbank, it was announced 24.—French Hengsley is thirty miles northeast of Duesseldorf and seven miles south of Dortmund, on the edge of the Ruhr occupied area. (Previous dispatches have declared that the Ruhr magnates, meeting i Berlin, decided to pledge 500,000 marks monthly to each striker as long as he would remain out. It is believed that it was for the pur- o rrying out this pledge that this large s t of marks left Berlin for t ir. Shipment of the plates appa ated intention of the Germ to set up money- printing presses in the occupled area or nearby.) FRENCH USE BAYONETS. Several Wounded Thousand at Funeral. in Dispersing LONDON, Februs 24.—Contrary to military regulations, about a thou- sand persons formed in procession at the funeral of a boy killed by ma- chine gun fire at the Prince Regent mine, near Bochum. The Times Co- logne correspondent s the crowds were dispersed by a detachment of French with fixed bay and several persons were The trade unions which ors procession have sent a prote: Degoutte. All persons over fifteen years of age, according to orders just issued by Gen. Degoutte, henceforth must carry identification pap The postal and telegraph offices in Mayence still are in the hands of troops. Strikes have resulted from the occupation of these offices and the city is cut off from telephonic and telegraphic communication with the outside world, MOVES SHARPEN CONFLICT: troops T to Gun Dismissal of German Customs Of ficers Shifts Frontier. BY A, R. By Cabje to The Star been taken in B ing to sharpen The French today they intend to expel the German customs employes in the Rhineland and the Rubr district and replace them by French cmploye who will collect the customs for France and Belgium. The order will affect ong the west banik of the Rhine, the Duesseldorf bridgehead and Ruhr area. It virtually me: moving the G frontierseastward, for th will ba compelled to organize ano er customs line. Blockade Includes Tmports. the conflic that Ruhr ismiss or Lousanas in the n In response to the move government issued an order a payment of taxes or customs to French, and declaring that if it was done it would be considered void, and the German government would make a second collection. This affects food, as was illustrated L case in_Duisburg, where a barge loaded with beans and was held by the French for the ment of customs duties. The owners ed to pay for fear that the Ger- p government would exact a second payment. Thus the blockade is extend- ed _to import Further. it is reported that the French and Belgians have resolved to assume the administration of all the railroads on the west bank of the Rhine and in the Rubr arca. Successive Steps Taken. the The successive steps taken by the French and Belgians have been these 1. Entry into the Ruhr district of an armed force. 2. Selzure of public buildings. 3. Militarization of certain railroads 4. Seizure of central bonded ware- houses and the establishment of a blockade of all Ruhr products. 5. Inauguration of a system of ex- port_permit fees. 7 . Replacement of German customs officials by French. 7. Seizure of the Rhine and Ruhr railroads. Police Being Disarmed. Meanwhile all the German govern- ment officials are being expelled and the police are being rapidly disarmed and dispersed. With the exception of the invasion by French troops the Germans have found a way of resist- ing each move. They removed the archives before the public buildings were seized. They made the rail seizure inoperative by passive resist- ance and by striking. They refused to pass goods through the French customs for fear of a double tax. They changed the form of production when the blockade be- came effective by piling coal and fin- ishing metal. If the French and Bel- gilans take all tHe rallroads in the Rhino and Ruhr areas the German railroad men will strike, but will continue to get pay from Berlin, xnd it the blockade” forces general unem- ployment the government and big industrialists will pay those out of work. The Germans say that the French oxpedition is costing France cnough to make the outcome of the struggle as favorable for Germany as for France. The French ultimatum to the rallroad men to return to work or be ejected from their homes has not _shaken their resolution not to work for the French, and hence the list of nearly 500 employes already expelled will be swelled by rafiroad and customs officials, | B