Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1923, Page 4

ECKLESS DRIVING. PENALTY [SLIKELY Traffic Committee Expected to Include Clause in Reg- | ulations for Motorists. NEW SECTION. PROPOSED Improved Headlight Law Discuss- ed at Meeting—Bill Imposing Jail Sentences, Approved. A reckless driving regu'ation will be recommended to the Commissioners by their traflic committee, which discussed the dangers of the streets for three lours at the District building yesterday afternoon. The proposed new section has not yet been drafted, but the purport of it will be that motorists shall drive thelr cars 1 such a way ax to be safe under the prevailing circumstances. 1t is understood to be the view of the committee that fixed speed limits should be retained, even with therecklessclause. Whether these fixed limits should be tnereased or lowered has not been de- cided As one member of the committee ex plained U idea today, a person might permitied, by the speed section, to =0 cighteen miles an hour between in- orscctions, but If he were caught driving rough up of children en route to e could be held for reckless ven though his car was making han cighteen miles at the time of the headlight rules District also was dsicussed us decided delegat Eldridge of the Ameri- can Automobile Association to go to the bureau of standards and get the best available data on safe head- lights The the | | committec heartily approved proposed law, sent to Congress Yesterday by the Commissloners, giv- ing them the right to prescribe a Jail sentence for certain violations of | e At the present time the court only impose a jail sentence for second or third offenses. peed on Bridges Considered. . Hunt, engineer of highways for the District, was owered to tudy the guestion speed over wouden bridges probubie that at the hext meet- | the committ, Monday, con-{ ration will be given to whether present speed lhnit of elghteen 1iles shou be increased slightly, etaining, however, the recommenda- tion for a reck s driving clause. ral membe of the Board of traflic. committee, including Smlth and W. Pearce with the Commission c ster, nd outlined the view the board for improving itions JEWISH WAR SUFFERERS’ FUND DECLARED LOW Joint Distribution Committee An- Odell sat tee of i traflic | { | 1 | nounces Reports of Big Access of Cash Are Wrong. tribution committee of rican funds for Jewlsh war with he-adauarters in wounced today that it raeh the end of its re- sources, und that published reports to the effect that $1,500.000 hus been contributed to the committee in honor of the enty-fifth birthday Nathan incorrect. “It would have béen a fine trib 10 a preat citizen the comn announcemen . though e fort was made in wany communities 10 collect unpaia yledges fn honor o Mr. Straus' birthday, there fg. un-j srtunately. basis’ for any state- | ent that any additional funds have been contributed, and it cemed important to make this correction inj order to avold misunderstanding both here and abroad. “Our funds arc getting uncomforta- bly low. and we do not wish the idea | Zo forth that we have unlimited amounts at our disposal or that it i8 an easy matter to secure contribu- tions. We arc trying to bring_in every p i ribution, but meanwhile pidly reaching | the end of ou 4 | SUES ON OIL LEASE. Taxpaper Contract. Names Fall and Denby. F is J. Carman of New York, in the cupacity of u taxpayer, filed suit for injunction in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia yesterday against the Pan-American Oil and Transport Company. a corporation of . and Albert T Fall, Secre- Intertor, and Edwin Denby ary of the Navy. Mr. Carmen sesks to prevent the corrying out of an alleged illegal con- tract made by the two cabinet offi- with the oil company by which the latter is given a perpetual lease of 39.0000 acres of petroleum-laden land in Kern v. California. The lcase was entered into last December, ind the plaintiff claims was made without legal authority and is detri- 21l the taxpayers of the tates. e is represented by Edmund Burke, SALESMEN HOLD MEETING. Washington Local Starts Drive for New Members. ashington Local Assembly of International Association of Spe- v Salesmen met last night at the ington Board of Trade and took steps to open the membership to all the salesmen, le organizations and ributing firms in tie District of Co- Tumbia. The Washington local is in process of organization and was formed with War- ren Dean, manager of the Natlonal Salesman’s Training Association, president. and J. Sterling Moran of the Alexander Hamilton Institute as secre- tary and treasurer. A publicity and entertainment committee was appointed and steps taken for a supper, to be held gome time in March. The object of the association is *a square deal in business,” with means to protect the firm, salesman and con- sumer from imposition or misleading | methods of business getting. The next meetng of the association was fixed for M at the Washington Board of Trade rooms. Temporary headquarters have been established at Room 338, Star building. of | 1 | BAND CONCERT. Concert by the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra at Stanley Hall this evening, beginning at 5:50 o'clock, John S. M. Zimmermann, director. March, “The Rookies”..Drumm Overture ~reminiscent, “Sounds ¥rom the Sunny South,” Isenman ntracte— (a) “A Japanese Sunset” - Deppen (b) “Dainty Daffodils”..Mliles ms from the musical comedy “The Half Moon”...Jacobi trot special, “Romany Love” (requested). Zamecnik Waltz suite, “A Summer Eve- ning" ... Waldteufel Finale, “Virginia Blues,” Meinken “The Star Spangled Banner.” Fox | tended the National University Law |lowing taking the degre of L. M. 1$20.000,000 annually | packag { tion | Bosto Capt. Doyle, 52, 32 Years as D. C. Policema Veteran Spends Day on Job at 6th Precinct. Father Gave His Life in City’s Service in 1871. Capt. Robert Emmet Doyle, com- manding the sixth precinct of the metropolitan police department, to- day s fifty-two years old, and is rounding oud thirty-two vears of service in the local police department, seventeen of which have been as cap- tain. He is passing the day qulietly. Capt. Doyles was present long before the 8 o'clock roll call this morning, and is working as usual, reminiscing, perhaps, over the progress of the city since he first entered the service as a station clerk at No. 9 when much of that section was suburban terri- tory. Capt. Doyle wag born in this city February 24, 1871, the son of a police- man, Michael Francis Doyle, who was killed in line of duty while detailed in No. 4 precinct, in the southwest, in 1871. He was shot by a female pris- oner. Capt. Doyle then was only nine months old. Educated in the local public schools, Capt. Doyle later at- tended and graduated from the Spen- cerian Bustness College, He also at- School, graduating in 1809 with the degree of LL. B., and the year fol- 1le entered the police department June 9, 1891, as station keeper, the job now known as desk sergeant, and nine months later went on the street. PLANS 2000000 P.0.BUILDING FUND Annual Program Proposes Federal-Owned Structures for All Principal Offices. | I 1 | Appropriation of approximately | for a govern ment-owned post oflice building pro gram to inciude all of the principal | post offices in the United States was recommended to Congress late yes- terday by the joint commission on postal service. Under these recom- mendations the individual citles would be -d for in order of the pressing character of their necds and their importance to the postal sys- tem The commission that as soon as determined by the Post Office D partment legislation be enacted to better apportion among the different classes of mail the cost of the service, s0 that each will bear its falr share, | and that the legislation contain pro- | vicion for increasing the fco charged | for special delivery of parcel post ca also recommended | the facts can be Other Recommendations. Other recommendations includs further decentralization of the work of the Post Office Department, trans- ferring to one or two offices in cach ! state the work of going over the! postal accounts of third and fourth | class offices; and establishing more | dead-letter offices; glving to local { postmasters jurisdiction over rafl- way m vice terminals; resump- tube service in York, Chicago, i Brooklyn and Philadelphia; conducting of experiments to deter- mine whether electric vehicles are more economical than gasoline-pro- pelled machines, and legislation pro- viding that in the case of work | performed in post offices between the | hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. fifty min- | utes be counted as an hour. i Individual Offices Considered. { With respect to individual, post of- tices the commission’ recommended: ! Appropriation of $2,000,000 for the, purchase in New York of a site im- medlately west of the present main office, and the appropriation of $600,- 000 additional for the erection there of a new post-ofiice building. Appropriation of $1,500,000 for ex- tensfon, remodeling and improvement of the Brooklyn post office. Appropriation of $550,000 for the purchase of a site for and erection in Detroit of a new station or terminal in the vicinity of the Michigan Cen- tral ratlroad. Appropriation of $5.000,000 for ac- quisition of a site for and construc- tion of a bullding to be used as a new main post office in Philadelphia. ‘Appropriation of $600,000 for en largement and extension of the fed- eral building In Boston. $2,000,000 for Pittsburgh. Enactment of pending legislation providing for an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the construction of a new post office building in Pittsburgh, where the government has an option on a site. The commission, ¥Which was created in 1920, also asks Congress to extend its life beyond next July 1, when under present law It would expire. Such an extension, the report said, would permit_the making of surveys to increase efliciency in the post of- fices in such cities as St. Louis, Typ such as New { trians m. ’ Completes - n CAPT. ROBERT E. DOYLE. He was promoted to sergeant in 1901, lieutenant In 1906, and captain July 1, 1906 For the past three_years he has been in command of No. 6 pre- c'nct, but at various times has com- manded Nos. He is @ member of the Odd Fellow: Knights of Pythias, Masons and Al- mas Temple. Mystic Shrine. He is a communicant at_the Mount FPleasant. Congregational Church. Capt. Doyle was married in 1892 to Miss Rosalie Culver Doyle. and they have three children, Mrs. William A. Kettlewell, jr., now of Oakland, Calif. Miss Roberta Doyle and Robert Em met_ Doyle, jr. of this city. Capt. Doyle resides at the Fontanet Courts, 1400 Fairmont street, where there probably will be a celebration to- night. Omaha, St. Paul, San Francisco, New Orleans and Dallas. The commission consists of the three ranking repub- lican wmembers and two ranking democratic members of the Senate and Jouse post office commlittees, with Senator Townseud of Michigan as chairman. AUTOIST GETS 7 YEARS FOR FATAL ACCIDENT S. A. King, Who Ran Mrs. Keith Down at Crosswalk, Convicted of Manslaughter. King, colored, thirty- cight years old, convicted last Wednes- day of manslaughter in causing the deuth of ning at today wn with ing, was afford, obile ntenced in Crim- an auto a street by Just ion cros 5 penitentiary. The court & the cvidence pointed out that King had driven the machine over the intersection of three streets at the rate of thirty miles an hour and willingly risked the lives of pedes- Iy to ride at a rate to himself. The court had instructed the jury they should not .convict unless were satisfled that King was of criminal negligence,and by their verdict the jurors had found that he was, the court suggested. Mrs. Keith was crossiug at 13th and B streets northeast January 27, last when the car struck her and dragged her several feet. She died before reaching_the hospital. Jameg Hawkins, colored, was given a term of eighteen months in_the penitentiary for housebreaking. One- vear terms at Occoquan were | on Henry Miller, Hen: ward Hopkins and Harr. all colored. — e PERUVIAN ARBITRATOR AND AIDES ARRIVE HERE Dr. Meliton F. Porras Likely to Be Joined Here Next Week by E. B. Jarpa of Chile. Dr. Meliton F. Porras, Peruvian agent in the Tacna-Arica arbitration between Peru and Chile, arrived here yesterday to start preparation of the Peruvian case. He I8 accompanied by Dr. Solon Polo, as Peruvian legal adviser; by Prof. Edwin Borchard of Yale, as American legal adviser, and by Gonzalo Aramburu and Jaun Mendoza, as secretarie The Chilean agent, Ernesto Barros Jarpa, who is already in New York, is expected here early next weel when he will hold an informal con forence with Dr. Porras and possibly Secretary Hughes, in order to fix a time for presentation of evidence and arguments to President Harding, as arbitrator. It is believed generally that the term for presentation of the case will cover about six months, although in some quarters it was sald today that June 1 had been tentatively proposed as the closing date. A second term of possibly three months will 'be fixed for the presentation of replies from each party, and a final term of trom three to six months for drawing up the award by the arbitrator. pleasc Ld- Easton, Getting up on a cold morning is not half as unpleasant as lying in bed, dreading to get up—Toledo Blade. ewritten Poem Gives Clue To Name of World War Victim Nothing is left undone which might reduce the number of America’s un- known dead of the world war. The machinery of the graves registration service of the Army s working slow- Iy and surely step by step to find a right name for some soldier who flle the grave of an unknown. After a long Investigation the number of unknown dead has been reduced by one; this time it was a typewritten poem found on the body of an Amer- ican soldier killed near Binarville, France. It was identified as the body of Thomas O'Keefe, Company D, 306tk Machine Gun Battalion, 77th Divislon. By tracing the poem to its author and checking over the lists of the 27th and 77th Divisions searchers ultimately found the widow of the missing ~ soldier, ~who positively identified other articles found on the body. Find Several Articles. Records of the graves registration service show that when the body was taken from its battlefleld rest- ing place to be placed with fallen comrades in the rmanent Ameri- can cemeteries in noce, it was be- Hleved to be that of Corp. Logan Wheeler, Company D, 364th Infantry, known to have been Killed near the spot. There were found, however. in ad. dition to the typewritten poem, a l l l few coins, a book with the penciled notations, “Nevada Conml\datr;d Cop~ per Company” and “Stillwater Ga- zette”; also a ring engraved, “T.0. All these articles were preserved and the Army machinery for identifica- tion of the unknown dead in France began its work. Inquiries showed no record of any men named Wheeler or O’Keéfe em- ployed by the copper company or the newspaper and known to have been in France. The poem, however, bore the name of the author, Charles Scott, and he was located in New York city. He had written it, he said, while with the New York Na- tional Guard on the Mexican horder in 1916, but did not know how a copy might have reached France. Articles Are Identified. Still_the searchers saw a clue i what he said. They began P‘;rln: over records of the 27th Division (New York Natlonal Guard) for inl- tials corresponding to those on the ring. The search was frultless, As the 77th (National Army) Division also was a New York unit, how- ever, its records were explored and disclosed that Thomas O'Keefe was “missing in ¥France. From the devision records the trail led to Mrs. O'Keefe who identified the handful of keepsakes carefully gathered from the battlefleld grave in France and one more was stricken from the roll of those who lle un- known overseas Emily J. Keith by run-) 1, to serve seven vears | FIVE-GENT CAR FARE URGED BY CITIZENS Brightwood Association Ap- proves McKellar Bill—Criti- cizes Proposed Merger. The Brightwood Citizens' Assocla- tion last night declared in favor of a five-cent street car fare, or six tickets for a quarter, as provided In the bill introduced by Senator Mec- Kellar. The adoption of a resolution on the subject was followed by an- other resolution criticizing the method in which the Ball measure, providing for the merger of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Company and the Wash- ington Rallway and Electric Company, was reported out of the commlittee. John C. Proctor stated that under the provision of the Senate bill the Public Utilities Commission of the District would not hereafter exercise the power to fix rates of fare for street raflway companies in the D trict at a rate in excess of the fixed in existing charters. Sees Release From Taxation. Willlam McK. Clayton introduced the resolutfon, which was unanimous ly adopted, denouncing the mean: method and mauner by which the Ball merger bill was favorably re- ported by the District committee, ex- plaining that the bill provided for the merger of the Potomae Rlectric Power Comparfy #nd the Washington Railway and Electric Company and that If the measure was adopted it would mean the company would be relleved of all local taxation, now amounting to about $230.000 a year, without &ny reduction fare. The association went opposing the bill of Representative Crampton stipulating that the Dis- trict shall pay the sum of $%,000,000 annually toward defraying the ex- penses of the District as may be a appropriated by law. Asks for Additional Police Judge. The present eongested condition of the police courts resulted in the adop- tion of a resolution petitioning Con- gress.for @ division of the courts and tlie appointment of an additional judge. L. F. Randolph presented o resolu- tion, which was that steps be taken to require all theaters, hotels and public halls and other places of « tablet at the entrance thereto, stat- ing by whom the property is owned and by whom the enterprise Is con- ducted and the financial responsibil- ities of each., and what, if any, liability is carried by the owners of the property und proprietors of the enterprise and in what company. The association voted to meet the fourth Friday night in each month hereafter. At the conclusion of the regular business of the meeting the Chesa- peake and Potomac Telephone Com- pany gave a demonstration of the {modern telephone service. | DESCRIBES PALESTINE i CONSTRUCTION WORK | Lecturer Before Archacological So- ciety Gives Pictures and Ex- planation of Activities. C. R. Ashbee, on record as re- | ic adviser the city of Jerusalem, and a fellow of the Royal Institution of British Archi- tects, gave an illustrated lecture on “British Constructive Work in Pales- tine” before the Archaeological So- cletr of Washington late yesterday afternoon in Whitby Hall of the tional Cathedral School In explaining the pictures which he threw upon the screen. Mr. Ashbee indicated the possibilities of great archaeological interest now open in Palestine. Mr. Ashbee said the plan Tof the city of Jerusalem was now be- ting worked upon, showing the me- i(ll\\hl city within the enceinte and outside, the modern town, which had | straggled upon the old city insthe Llast fifty years under Turkish rule, nd which it was the work of Eng- lish town planners and the British military administration to get into order. Dr. A. Mitchell Carroll. as tary, announced the election of the {following new members: John W. Belt, Miss Anna Gertrude Blauvelt, Mrs. Harley Calvin Gage, Miss Mar- {garet Gage. Judge and Mrs. Le Roy t Hight, H. Garrett Pitts, Sidney { Taliaferro. F. Harold Sasscer Miss Catherine L. Pitcher. A meeting of the society will be held in the hall of the nations in the -American Union building. Mon- March 19, when Prof. shall H. Saville will give an illustrated lec- ture on “The Fine Arts of Middle America. HONORS TO CONGRESSMEN Utah Society Reception to State’s Senators and Representatives. The Utah Stalte Society gave a re- ception and dance last night in honor of the Utah congressional delega- tion, at the Lafayette Hotel. Among the guests of honor were Senator and Mrs. Smooth, Senator and Mrs. King, Representative and Mrs. Colton, Rep- resentative and Mrs Leatherwood, Mr. Justice and Mrs. Sutherland, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Bryant H. Wells, Com missioner and Mrs. Willlam Spry, Mr. and Mrs. William D. Riter, Mr. and Mrs. Heber M. Wells, Mr. E. M. Alli- and son, jr., Mr. G. Atherton Marr, Deputy Commissioner and Mrs. Francis O. Matson. Czecho Legation Says Nothing Happening on Bavarian Front. Official denial of reports published in the American press that Czecho- slovakia is_preparing to war against Bavaria and that detachments already have crossed the Bavarian frontier was made here yesterday by the Czechoslovak legation. “All these re- ports are mystifications and nothing happened that could serve the slight- est pretense for such statements,” said the legation's statement. rute | street car| adopted, providing | 1ssemblage to display . secre- | GROCERY NOT RAIDED. {BANNS PUBLISHED IN PARIS FOR WEDDING OF " “SONNY" WHITNEY AND MISS Arrests in Néarby Shoemaker Shop Cause Misapprehension. In the amccount of the raids of tho revenue agents and vice squads, Sat- urday, February 17, The Star de- cnibed one rald as being on a corner grocery at North Capitel and L streets. The rald took place at that corner, but was in a shoemaker's shap opp site the grocery store. The shop is on the southeast corner and the grocery store is on the southwest corner. The grocery store, operated by M. Vigderhouse has no conneection whatever with the ralds. —_— SENATOR WILLIAMS . SEEKS HIS ARCADIA Bids Farewell to Politics, Spurns $30,000 Job, Longs for Flow- ers and Birds. Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, who voluntarily retires from the Senate after long service in both houses of Congress, was ten- jdered a farewell last night by a spe- lcial meeting of the Mississippi So- clety, at which glowing tributes were paid by several speakers. Senator Pat Farrison of Mississippi hailed his retiring colleague as “fore- i most statesman, most popular Missis- | 8ippian and oufstanding figure of his 1y Senator Harrison also referred offer he understood Senator ! Willlams had received from a news- paper syndicate of $30,000 ananally ilu write one article a week on public even | Senator Willlams in responding pressed his love for his native state, which, he said, could now be tendered without his being accused of having an ax to grind. Going home to Mis- slssippl. - the veteran senator an- | nounce 1, he would rise when the cock jerows, gather flowers while the dew is upon them, read his books, eat din- ner in the middle of the day, return to books and letter writing in the after- noon, eat “supper, not dinner, in the evening.” listen to the sweet serenade 1of his band of mocking birds in the twilight and live out a happy old age surrounded by troops of friends, and at last be carried out of his own {home by his neighbors and he buried | With his people. “Now some will say senator, ful thing honest tha. | declared the that is not 4 very wonder- to do—but it's a lot more n being a senator!” The speaker regaled his audience | With humorous stories, and in closing | begged Indulgence for having “turned most of ‘my speech into persifinge.” He could not sing a swan song. he said, although he would later write o letter of farewell, but he dared not speak too serjos 41y on a subject lu"'hl:::‘lnucl}e;i him so deeply. -1 ) You with g y & > o thank all my heart,” he con Other speakers of the evgning were Representative Benjamin B, Hum- phreys. who paid tribute to Senator Williams. and retiring Representative T Sisson, whom he_introduced. fusic was furnished by Maj. Charles { Trowbridge Tittmann, and there were {refreshm nts and dancing. | In the reception line with the guests of honor were Mrs. Percy E. Quin, president of the society: Senator and Pat Harrison, TRepresentative | Humphreys, Representative Will S. { Collier, Dr. and Mrs. Clifton Clark, Harry ‘Peyton and Charlton M. and Mrs. Clark, —— SCHOOLS ASKS $20,000 AS RESULT OF FIRE quest for Deficiency Appropria- tion to Replace Supplies Sent to Commissioners. The District Commissioners today re ceived from Dr. Abram_ Simon, presi- dent of the board of education, a re- quest for a special deficiency appropria- tion of $20,000 to replace the school supplies desrtoyed in the recent fire in the public school warehouse at 1st and K streets northeast. granted by Congress. school authori- ties said, many graded school pupil will be forced to purchase their own supplies throughout the remainder of the current school yea | "The work of repairing the store- jhouse is progressing rapidly and it is believed the heating plant will be com- pletely repaired by Monday and the jdrying out of the water-souked buid- [ing will begin. When the structure is | sufficiently dry to permit employes to j{work within it an inventory will be taken to ascertain what matcrials can 1 |Be j | bessalvaged for use. —_—— fBEATEN BY SIX NEGROES, Northeast Resident Victim of At- tack—Miss McClellan’s Purse Snatched in Northwest. Alexander Lewis, thirty-three vears old, 1016 1st street northeast, was held up on the street near his home last night about 7:30 o'clock by six negro men and beaten with a black- jack. Lewis shouted for assistance and frightened off his assallants be- fore they robbed him. The wounded man was treated at Sibley Hospital. A colored man snatched a handbag from Miss Oleana McClellan, Wood- ward apartments, at Columbla road and 20th street, last night about 8:30 o'clock. The bag contained visiting cards. but no cash. Miss McClellan described the robber as being about twenty-five vears old and slender. His tight-fitting overcoat attracted her attention, Mrs. Edith Hill and Miss Helen Towson, 1521 Webster street, report- ed thefts committed in their rooms yesterday. The former was robbed of $30, while the latter told of the loss of $20. Entrance was galned through the basement. g LIEUTENANT GETS MEDAL. The President has awarded the dis- tinguished service medal to Second Lieut. Mellus A. Rhodes of Meadville, i Pa., formerly attached to the 112th Infantry, 28th Division, for extraordi- | nary herolsm in action near Fismette, France, August 9, 1818. Evening & Sunday Star Oc a Month Delivered by Regular Carrier CALL MAIN 5000 and the service will start AT ONCE Unless the money | | CRIES PREVENT ROBBERY | | | i Formal ani tney, only won Norton, daughter of Mr. an prominent in xociety, will be made xoon. published in Paris. e nouncement of the wedding plans of Cornelius Vanderbilt t Mr, ai ne Whitney, and Mins Marie Norton of New York, The official bannx have been According to the banus, the wedding will take place on March 5 at the Marie of the First Arrondissement, Paris. Whitney, who in twenty-four years oid, was a ¥ THE WEATHER District ture el ate much_ war tonight at to fresh winds. Maryland and south and southwest winds. —Increasing claudiness, fol- ght Virgini lowed by snow or rain in south portion late to- night fresh W tomorrow; or tomo souther t Virgin of Columbia — Increasi cloudiness, probably followed by light | snow late tonight ght snow late tonight le oarsma: o Co | Sometimes, when T have discases | circulating through my frame, and the prospect dark displeases, and I'm weary of the game, I indulge in gloomy wheezes, to my everlasting shame. But my grouch is never asting, and I cheer up pretty soon, cutting out the rude dodgasting, to ; put up a cheerful tune; from my Warmer: heart the sorrow casting, sipping and much | bitters from a spoon. For my iil- 5 mforting Thoughts T out 35 degrees: mod- south nd southwest uch warmer; fresh snow in north and rrow; much winds. —Snow warier tonight; tomorrow rain or |ness is a blessing to a lot of worthy b Th 12 m ow and varmer. Records for Twent. ermometer- nidhight, 17 noon, 27. Ba 30.42 8 a.i Highest t vesterday; lowest temperature. 2 p 135 C rometer—{ 12 midnig 0.54: no. mpe m. securred at Temperature Higl Lest, 60 Condition of the Water. Temperature water perature, 32 Today pm. 11 To: at 8 an geode: Low t high tide, 1 Tomorrow—Low 10:17 pm.: hig pm, The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 6:49 a.mw p.m. morrow—Su: sets, 5:55 p.m. Moon rose midnight. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset Weather in Various Cities. lowest, ; condition slightly muddy. | Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coasta 11:45 | guys; there's the druggist, who is | messing with his pills of noble size; in his heart he is confessing that me his safety lies. And the doc seven nieces he must dress in oper style; his expense no doubt increases, doubles every little while; as I rub my limbs with greases I reflect on this and smile. Scores of carnest, honest critters, gather | yarbs on plains and hills, to com- pound my wholesome bitters, and my death defying pills, and 1 seem to hear their twitters when I pay { my monthly bills. And when death, the grisly raker, rakes me to my d]last repose, and I go to yonderacre where the weeping willow grows, then the weeping undertaker will be richer, T suppose. If I help th learned physician, and the druggist | wise and true, if I aid the tired mortician and the yarb assembling crew, it idle my condition to lament with loud boo-hoo. (Copyright.) WALT MASON. RITES FOR MRS. J. A. LOGAN Services at 'Metropolitan M. E. Church Largely Attended. r Hours. S pm., $ am., 28 3 13; t pm., 2 4am; i pm 048 on. 30,45, cratur 1 28, occurred at today date last 7 a.m ame vear— of the Tem- and_condition Great Fall survey 8:3 (! i 1:18 tide, tide nd 9:19 16 p.m. and | am. h sun sets n rises 6:48 a.m.; sun| am.; sets 12:22 Al Chical Aibany . g0 Cineiun, Cievel as Deaver . Detroit El Pi Galve o, ton Helena Huron, §, Jacksonville. Kanss 1 i Tos Ange [ | i ===l ==1n=0 Louis Miami, ew New Okla il Fla Orleans York City. Omaha Philadelph Phoenix. At Pitteh P Take hurgh C ity n Antouio. Diego.. sta London, Paris, a.m., tions. England. France.. Vienga, Austria. Copenbagen, Stock! Gibra Havana, Colon holm, Ewede itar, 'Spal) Cuba. Canal I l U B2 Denmari Zone..... pressive fternoy semi-military cere- marked the funeral this n of Mrs. John Logan, widow of Gen. John A. 1 who died Thursday held at jropolitan Me 1 Methodist E: copal Church. in John Marshall place {The interment was in_the: family private vault, at the United State oldiers' Home, where the bod {Gen. Logan is placed The services were conducted by | Rev. Harry D. Mitchell, pastor of the {church, a ted by Bishop Willi S. McDowell, Bishop John W. Hamil- ton and Rev. James Shera Mont- |gomery, former pastor of the church and n chaplain of the House of | Representative The Department of the Potomac, ( A. R. sent an honorary in_addition there were in attendance delegations from the Woman's Relief « and other patriotic organiza- and a large body of represe: citizens from official and civic u oudy oudy ar Cloudy udy Cloudy Olear| Cle Cle Ruin Clen rt Clear, Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Clondy | | tive life | ¥ —_— {DECLARED TO BE INSANE jJury Decides Mrs. A. M. Griffith to Be Mentally Unbalanced. Testimony concerning the mental condition of Mrs, Anna Griffith, widow of an Army officer. was h yesterday by a jury in Crim on before Judge Bailey. s iffith was indicted on the charge of nding objectionable matte mails. She w leged to hav a_post card to Lieut. Min n Winkle of the woman b of the police department in which day.) ! she asserted that the house of de- ture. Weather. { tention was conducted as a disorderly house, A number of other letters tending to show mental unbalanc were read to the jury The juror: late vesterda: afternoon returned verdict of insanity. Attorney Camp- bell Howard defended the accused, le Assistant United States Attor- Arthur N. Plesmont conducted iment. Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Pt.clondy Cloudy s u n. a Clondy S Clear oth | of | bodyguard. | through | ALIEN BILL PASSES HOUSE BY 3007011 Directs Return of Former Enemy Property Up to $10,- 000 of Each Estate. AMENDMENTS Measure Sent to Senate Would Pay All Income Accruing After Law Is Effective. [3 LOST By a vote of 200 to 11, the House last night passed the administratio | bill, directing the return of up t $10,000 of cach estate of former enemy aliens held by the allen property This measure now gzoes to the Senate This vote cume after rejection amendments proposing restoration of jall of the property; return of all of the proper Austrian and Hun garian nationals, 1d the declaratior of policy by Congrees that all of th |property would be restored ult mately. Return all Austrian and garian property, proposed amendment by Representative Ha democrat, of Missouri, was voted down, 7610 55. Oppoxing the amend ment by Representative Hoch, reputb lican, Kans which would have written @ declaration of policy int the measuro, Representative Fes | Ohio, und Graham, Illinois, repub licans, declared there was no inter tion to confiscate the property of fo mere enemy aliens and that iz was unnecessary for the United States to make any declaration on the subject “Certificate” of Pollcy. Representative Fess said the Hocl mendment would mean that the “nited States would be giving a “cer- tificate” of its policy, which would be unprecedentéd. Representatives Ravburn, Hawes and Garrett, Tennessee, the demo cratic leader, led the fight for retu at this time of all the property. It was argued that the passage of the bill in the form proposed would b notice to the world that the Amer: can government had forsaken itstra- ditions of international morality anc was prepared to “confiscate” the pr erty for the payment of claims of citizens against Germany, if the Ger man government failed to pay them Renewing before the final vote his effort to provide for the restoratiorn of all of the property held by the cus {odian, Representative Rayburn, dem rat, Texas, moved to recommit th bill with instructions to the inter- state commerce committee to add av amendment that would have that ef fect, but his motion was voted down 181 to 124, Income to Be Paid. Aside fron return of all trusts of $10.000 o i a like amour of trusts whos ue exceeds this mount, the b 1ld_provide tha |all income accruing from the vario trusts after the measure became et { fective should be repaid to the orig nal owners of the property. Thomas W. Miller, alien prop ustodia estimates that thi mea: r enacted into law, would {divorce his office from custody over { approximatel 3 per cent of the in dividuals, whose property has beer i geized. There would be returned. how- ever, only about $45000,000 out of the '§347,000,000 estimated value of the property heid. This total does not take into account the value of the erman ships seized after America’s declaration of war and now held by he government. l‘!'z\lt‘nh to be returned under the bill would include only such as were not in litigation and not held by the War and_Navy Departments. Thi would exclude the thousands of pa ents =old to the Chemical Foundtaio ! for the recovery of which the gov | ernment has instituted court actior CARRIED WILL FOR YEARS. Paper Left by Mrs. M. S. Nelson Nearly Worn Out. The will of Mrs. Mir S. Nels cighty-one years old, who died Jar uary 31 was filed ve erday for pro bate. _According to a letter from h { son, - Justus G y now custodian I | 1 i { | | v | Nelson, transmitt the document to the register of wills Mrs. Nelson had carried the paper ith her in a_small handbag for sev eral years and its torn and worn cor { dition bears out the statement. {"The will is dated October 17, 191 land provides bequests of $10 each t | her daughters, Clara R. Nelson and { Miranda S. Allen, a son, Hal G. Nelsor jis given property at Colonial Beach {Va., and Del Ray, Va. The docume: | concludes “In the event my son docs |not marry Laura S. Graham, the rest jof the estate is to go to Justus | Neteon. FUNERAL OF P. T. MORAN. { Services in His Memory to Be Held Monday Morning. Funeral services for Patrick T. Mo ran, who died yesterday in a Balti more anitarium, ged fifty-nine ears, will be held at the residence of Jam O'Donnell, 1710 New Hamp shi avenue northwest, Monda: {morning at 9:30 o'clock. Following » services at the home solem!: sm_mass will be sung at St ‘The interment will be t cemetery. Mr. Mo- at 1869 Mintwood i | in Mount Olive ran's home was place northwest District National Bank 1406 G Street Do a Little Figuring for Yourself— Compute you will have at the end of a given period Savings Account a stipulated amount each week or month. You’ll have And to that President H. L. Offutt, Jr. Cashier W. P. Lipscomb C. J. Gockeler N. L. Sansbury Viece Presidents savi The “Friendly” Bank gin the Our facilities are at your service. ,., b 4 accruing interest we will pay you at the rate of 3% per year. When you contemplate now how you are needlessly spend- ing that money—surely you'll want to stop the waste and be- fast when “planted” in a Sav. ings Account. lol———o|c———]o]c——=lal—0=2lal—Kx1m] . ile——lal—— ol Jol——ojol——x]a] how much money if you deposit in a a gratifying total. should be added the ing. Dollars grow