Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1923, Page 1

WORK NOMINATED \ WEATHER. cloudy somewhat colder to- Cloudy to and tomorrow night, lowest temperature Temperature for 24 ho 2 pam. today: Highest, vesterday: lowest, 39 at Full report on page 12. artly tonight bout freezing. urs ended at 43 at 2 pam. $ a.m. today. | | Closing N. Y. Stocks gl_ul Bonds, Page 24 Che Foeni N ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as secon post office Was| No. 28,792. nd-class matter hington, D. C. WASHING' O 1 ! 10 SUCGEED FALL; NEWPOSTAL CHIEF President Names Brig. Gen. | Frank T. Hines as Veterans’ | Bureau Director. SENATOR ORIGINAL CHOICE FOR CABINET PORTFOLIO Named for Cabinet In Changes March 4 i | | Postmaster General Has Been Steady Contender for In- terior Post. President Ha ing today sent t Senate the nominations of master General Hubert Work, to be Secretary of the Interior; Senator “ Harry S. New of Indiana, to be Post- master General, and Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, to be director of the Veter- wns' Bureau. Senator New's nomination was con- firmed immediately by the Senate in open session, following precedenis of courtesy to sitting members. Postmaster General Work of Colo- | the first to fill a vacancy in nt Harding's cab ppointed T'ostma ved Will H. Hays r General ator New of Tnd who will re from the Senat h 4, an. med to be Postn Generd, cceeding Dr. Work, has been in | public life Washington for years He was defeated in the maries by Albert J. Beveridge of In- diana. who won the nomination for Kenator, but was defeated In the elec- tion by Gov Gen.” Hines, the Vet Tow Indiana p; Bureau, 1ef of transps ster Corps during Hines entered the Army Guard from Utah and zinning of the world w . climl through the He is fort a New had been offered a Place in the original Harding cabi- net, but declined because he thought he could render the administration sreater servic aining in th Senate. In I = primaries he mination, how- ever, and when it beeame known that he was under conslderation cabinet an element of the Indiana re- ,n;r.n'!-;.ln organization began a deter- mined but losing fight to prev : appuintment. B Work Steady Contender, The sclection of Dr. Work to take the Interior portfolio has been fore- cast ever since President Harding began to turn over in_his mind the nam of ‘available candidates. resident of Colorado an demonstrated ability in on, Dr. Work man of ernmental President as fulfilling all the ations for an Interior Secre- New Long in Public Life. ator New has been in publi nearly twenty-five vears and former newspaper man. He is ing his first term in the United tes Senate, to which he was elect- 116, Senator New .was”born in Indian- “polls, in 1858, was educated at Butler University, and entered newspaper work @ reporter with the Indian- apolis Journal, later coming t owner and publisher. He served as captain and adjutant in the zade, 2d Division, 7th the Spanish-American turning to Indian cted to the state sen Army from 1900 to 1912 as the republican nation He was chairman of in 1907 and 1908 and v delegate to several national conventions. Cloxe Friend of ¥ For many years esident. friend and | © of the Presid hile the tter was in_the U < Sen- | ate, Senator New is rega as one | of ‘the best known adv of the administration was closely Hardinz while the ator amd has aciation since been President. Wil Wood. an Indiana ative, who is chairm, tional republican congi mittee, told the although he had supported in the campaign fof renomina felt that since he had been by a majority of his own should “take his medicine. Other Indiana republicans came to the sup- head New | ident | = the! Harding M has | repre- 1 of the na- sional com- | that. | President Mr, port of the senator, however, with the | result that for the past two weeks Mr. Harding is said to have been re- coiving daily conflicting advice on | the subject Mad Charge of Speakers, During the 1920 campaign New was in charge of the republ speakers’ burcau at Chicago, and fre quent! led to Marion for con- | sultation about vital guestions of | party policy. In view of the close ties between him and Mr, Harding, it was sald today, by those in adminis- tration circles that the attacks mad on the senator had only confirm_the President in (Continued on Page Write Nine Years, Meet First Time and DecidetoWed By the Associated Press. BOSTON, February —A ro- mance that had its beginnings on the Labrador coast and resulted in & meeting and engagement at the fashionable summer colony at Prides Crossing, on the north ghore, became known today. Miss Rosamond Bradley, Back Bay so- clety member and heiress, filed at ity hall notice of her intention to marry Charles A. Rheault, former officer of the Canadian royal mounted police and now a sales- man at Cobourg, Ont. Miss Bradley gave her age as thirty-four, Rheault is thirty-five. As a volunteer nurse connected with the Grenfell medical mis- sionary activities in Labrador in 1914, Miss Bradley had occasion to correspond with Rheault, on duty in_another part of the peninsula. She returned to her home here without meeting the officer. After a few months she went to France as a Red Cross nurse. Rheault went across with the Canadian foroes and they corresponded, but did not meet. Late last summ gRheault called on the Bradleyss went back to Canada with a’ mise of mar- s inc Column i l when he | for the | A1 regarded | i bers of th port upon the existing contracts or | charters between Congress and the strect railway compani The reso- | railway |poration Counsel Wilii ehadr maneoLihadriahd { { Upper: DR. HUBERT WORK. ENATOR HARRY | | RESOLUTION ASKS STREET CAR PROBE. | {2 | | ISenator McKellar Introduces | | Measure Aimed at Fare Rate in Capital. 1 Senator Mok to- | | day introduced a resolution providing amount recommended in the bill ! B as follows: Wholly f { lthe general ‘Treasury. $2; | i trom the pos tana | For ST TSBONS BL IS REPORTED | INHOUSE FOR 1524 Total $2,935,420 Below | That for Current Year, But | Terms Pragtically Same. DISTRICT AFFECTED 60-40 BY $1,795,000 OF TOTAL i Madden Says Reclassification { Would Be Too Late to Alter Need of $240 This Year. The $240 bonus bill tal of § 9, was reported to the House today by Chdirman Madden of the appropriations committee. The es- timates for the legislative branch of thé government, the exccutive office, the ten executive departments,’ the judiciary, thirteen independent execu- tive agencies and the municipal gov- ernment of the District, totaled $38,421,993. so that the bill as reported 15 $2,622,240 less than the amount re- | quested and $2.935,420 less than the | amount appropriated for the current | carrying a io- | s | revenues. 331 per cent from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per cent from the Treasury. $1.795.067. Congress, commencing with the| iscal vear 1915, has provided addi-! | tional ~ temporary compensation at varying rates to civilian emploves in the lower pay gra - provision nnual b 1 in on al 19 up approp uding tie fiscal yea i 4 the f addi in covering all serv-| specific appropriation made | for each department in lieu of the indefinite appropriations that had theretofore been made in the annuall appropriation bills Nexult of War Conditons. ] The policy adopted by Congress fnx" the fiscal year 1918 grew out of Iht: need of relief of the government em- | ployes on account of conditions aris- | ing in the cost of living shortly after | the declaration of war by this coun- | try against Germany. Regarding the reclassification lexin-! ation, which Is intended to establish two permanent grades and salarles | for government employes. Chairman Madden safd: “A general reclassifi- he 3 tional compensation was provide single measur and | cation of sularies of civilian employes | Ping | has been passed by the House 0 s | now pending in the Senate. Even if this legislation should be passed at | the present session, the temporary relief granted in the bill reported m.‘ day will be necessary for the fiscal vear 1924 for some portion, if not all, | | | for the appointment of a special nate committee to investigate and | {rn';mr( to the Senate at fts meeting {in December on all matters relating | {to street railways and th ares | { char, i ged in the Disirict of Columbia resolution. at the suggestion of | oot of Utah, wus referred | 10 the Senate committee on conting- ient exn Senator Ithat he h nses MeKella d already id or consulted mem- | committee on contingent -xpenses and that they approved of the resplution. Ie said also that Senator Ball, chairman of the District comittee, had agreed to the reports adoption. Under the terms of the resolution! the investigation would be made dur- ing the recess of Congress after | Miarch 1. | Couzens May Be Member. The members of the proposed com- mittee are espected to be Senator Eall of Del Senator Couzens of or MecKellar of Ten-| Simmons of North | rolix and Hampshire. should there be a session rlier than next December the com- ¢ the resolution on the is the which he b weeks to compelling 4 resto- tion of ent car re in the rict. 1f his resolution is adopted, s understood that he will not seek tach i S-cent fare amend- nent to the District bills which may me up for consideration in the Sen- te between now and March 4. nator Keves of New special by tion of the making for legislation "robable Scope of Inquiry. The proposed committee would be authorized to examine into and re- lution goes into great detail, speci- fying the matters which tho com- miittee is directed to consider. The committee is directed to report also upon the action of the Public tilities pmmission aising street fares and _whether or now ment fuel | ing the fuel yards is charged into the of the employes until the allocation | of positions can be made under pro- | visions of the new law.” The terms of the $240 bonus bill re- | ported today are practically the same | as those of the law for the current | fiscal year. The House appropriations | committee has incorporated a provi- n. acquiesced in by the oflice of the | chief of engineers. eliminating the application of the provisions of the ct to persons employed in the prose- ution of river and harbor work and | flood contro Wages of this char-| acter are fixed in accordance with the | prevailing rates in the community in which the work is performed. The elimination of the additional com- pensation will not mean a correspond- ing reduction in wage of this class of emploves, but will have the effect of ! making their total pay a charge upon | the appropriations from which the | work originates, instead of partly upen those appropriations and the ap- | propriations for the additional com- | i The amount thus omitted | Fuel Yard Additional Pay. The appropriations committee also | recommends that the amount required | for the payment of additional com- | to emploves of the govern- 1ds here in the District, which is $23,000, shall be paid from the funds provided for the operation | of the yard instead of from the spe- cial appropriations carried in this act. Under the law the cost of operat- pensation sale price of fuel furnished, and the appropriations commitice feels that this charge should be met in the same manner. The amount involved is ap- proximately $23,000, and will average 7 cents on cach ton of coal. ! Referring again to reclassification, | Chalrman Madden points out that pend- | ing reclassification bills make no nmvl-l sion for employes of the legislative branch of the government. Temporary increase has been made, applicable to employes of the Senatd and House. When reclassification is enacted and the | temporary reliéf abandoned the salaries { of the great bulk of emploves of the leg- islative branch will revert to pre-war igures. Therefore, the appropriations committee recommends an additional | section in the bill reported today pro- viding for the creation of a joint com- mittee, consisting of three senators and | three representatives, to report to Con-- gress on the first day of the next regu- Jar session upon such adjustments as they may deem necessary to be put into Column 1) (Continued on Try Fire Captain and Sergeant For Fadilure to Halt at Plug| fis to be paid to the railroad com- A sealed verdict is in the hands of Acting Fire Chief Sullivan today in the case of Capt. James.T. Rossiter and Sergt. Thomas Inscoe, tried yes- terday on charges of failing'to show proper judgment in fightihg a blaze in a frame dwelling At 53d and Clay streets northeast-on February 4. According ~fo the testimony, the burning house was a consideraple distancé from the mnearest fire hy- drgnf. Under the rules of the de- partment, When the first company to arrive is without sufficient hose to reach the blaze it should stop at the nearest plugs and lay out all the line it_has. ™ The second company to reach the scene is supposed to take up a posi- tion where the first left off and carry the line on to the fire. Assistant Cor- iam H. Wahly, 0Azde.Ea¥0 the s I (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) following outline of the testimony to- | day: Engine company No. 27. in charge | of Sergt. Inscoe, arrived first. Find- ing the fire a long distance from the hydrant, the sergeant kept on to the building and began to fight the blaze with chemicals. Capt. Rossiter reached the scene a few moments later on engine No. 10 and, observing that Inscoe had not stopped at the hydrant, he kept on to the building. Charles W. Darr, attorney for Ros- siter, stated today that as soon as the captain reached the house he told Sergt. Inscoe they should drop the chemicals and get a_ hose line into service. Battalion Chief Gill, who arrived at the fire about that time, preferred the charges. Sergt. Inscoe entered a plea of guilty yesterday, but_Capt. Rossiter pleaded not guilty. Both men have been in the department for many years. According to Attorney Darr, the hydrant in question was abol 2,600 et Zrom-¥hehouse’ D. C., TUESDAY, ) LY FEBRUARY Star. 27, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. NONEW SHIPBILL ATNEXT SESSION Administration Will Abandon All Efforts if Present Move Fails. {GOVERNMENT AID TO STOP Present Discussion I« Now Hing- ing About Proposals Made by. Lasker. The administration Wil ‘abaridon efforts to obtain government aid for the American merchant marine with the faflure at this session of the ship- bill. it was indicated at White House. when it was said that no effort would be made at the nest ses- | sion of Congress to have such a bill passed. President Harding has decided upon a policy of “liquidation” of the go ernment merchant fleet, it was said, 50 as to achieve the establishment of an American merchant marine in pri- vate hands. This policy will be operation long before the next Con- gress convenes, it was declared, and every -effort will be made by the ad inistration to establish the new cately owned plant on 2 perm nt, firm and healthy basi When debate on the ship hill was renewed today in the Senate, the fili- buster conducted last weeli by the opponents of the measure was de- nounced by Senator Pepper, repub- lican, Pennsylvania. as havinz wor ed “an injury to the morale and dig- nity of the Senate.” Senator Pepper, who has been in the Senate little more than a year, severely criticized the existing Senate'rules, de- claring his brief experience had been sufficient to demonstrate that they were “creaking with antiquity.” He added that “if the future is to be more worthy than the past there must be a chang in_the rul m are,” he continued, “protracted and ir- relegant talk will continue to be sub stituted for the acid test of the vote Senator Hitchcock, democrat. Ne- braska. interrupted to predict that the Pennsylvania senator, before he left the ; Senate. would be found participating in some filibuster. Senator Pepper re- plied he was certain that he never would. COMMITTEE 0.K°S PLAZA HOTEL RENT Favorable Report Made by Senators to Pay B. & 0. Back Money. The Senate committee on public buildings and grounds at a ‘meeting today authorized’ Chairman Fernald to report to the Senate a resolution providing for the payment to the Baltimore and Ohio rallroad of a fair and reasonable rental for the use of its property now -occupied by the dormitories for women employes of the government. Up to, President. Under the terms of the resolution the President is authorized to deter- mine the amount of the rental which pany. The adoption of this resolution, it is believed, will permit the continued operation of the government hotels and prevent the eviction of nearly 2,000 women workers of. the govern- ment, who reside at the hotels. Senator Fernald is expected to re- port the resolution today and to seek to have it adopted with the least pos- sible delay. It is believed that the measure will.encounter no opposition, and that it will be passed before the expiration of the present session :of Congress. Stmilar Resolution in House. Representative John W. Langley, chairman of the House committee on public buildings and grounds, attend- ed the meeting of the Senate commit- tee today. He expects to present a similar resolution to his committee for consideration Thursday morning. Mr. Langley is co-operating with Sen- ator. Fernald In the effort to bring gabout a settlement Of this matter so as to give a further lease of life to the ! 7 | &rou in | s long as our rules stand as thew| gver. Credit For A dripping vigorously Lwielded by of Ar- fLansas. put to flight an unidentified | {little man of considerable girth when | the two set out to settle a debate | {today in front of the dignified Shore- {ham Hotel. - Several hundred aston- hed onlookers gave the senator leredit for technical *“knockout” jafter he had made his diminutive op- fnbnent howl “enough!” in. the firet “&Lud { PThe impromptu debate started, Sen- | {ator Caraway is quoted 2s saying I\\hcn a fellow passenger on a Capi- jtol-bound Mount Pleasant street car ersisted in shoving the senator's hat down over his eves. The morning was & crowded and “stuffy antest tod however, umb Senator Caraway | v and the car | In_ his pleas- | the senator | i hegged the person to desist, only to, be | met with gruff advice not to be about it" and to “shut up,” | nyhow Senator Replies Fervently. With the ready repartee that has al- ! ready won him such fame on the floor {of the Senate, the now thoroughly n senator invited his opponent to | exch ge cards and meet for a gen- lemanly settlement. In response the {littie man turned on his heel and !ctarted to leave the car. But Senator « away was right his he As "t just how the former gentleman jalig] d is a debated question. | “'Senator Caraway declares his oppo- inent stepped o tha street, squared off and hooked a short right to the Sena- { torial jaw. Mr. Caraway promptly brought up his reserve and returned | tre S ompliment with o resounding whack with his umbrella upon his opponent’s now uncovered pate. A veritable tattoo of blows with the i same weapon. upon the same Spot. {8oon brought cries of “Enough” from he little fellow, according to the senator's version. and the fight was W | CIRLAND MAN SHOT | IN BOATHOUSE FIRE lViola Staley Dead, Escort, | Wounded, Says He Tried , Suicide to Escape Blame. ! I i 1 By tha Associated Press. WOODBURY, N. J.. February Viola Staley of Philadelphia was found dead with a bullet in her tem- ple, and, Harry Moll, also of that city, was. found -unconsclous early today near a burned boathouse at Clarks- boro, a short distance from here. Moll also had‘a bullet wound in the head. He was brought here and has a chance of recovery. Near the bodies were found two notes, one signed with the namo of | the girl, in which it was stated that{ she intended to kill herself. ‘because of a quarrel with Moll. The other, signed by Moll, said that he, finding the girl a sulcide, feared he would be considered her slayer, and, therefore, he intended to kill himself. The police sald they question the gen- uineness of the girl's note and are work- ing on the theory that Moll shot the girl and then tried to commit suicide. Both death notes were inthe same handwriting, according to the coroner. ‘The bullet in the girl's head was fired at such an angle she could: not have held the pistol herself, the coroner sald he believed. \ > Pistol Near Man's Body. The pistol was found near Moll, who was lying a short distance from the boathouse, to which Clarksboro resi- dents were attracted.at 4:30:a.m. by flames. The neighborhood is not' thickly settled. According to the Dolice,:no one occupled the boathouse except Moil and the girl: He represented to those who saw them that the girl was his wife, authorities said. “We quarreled,” Moll said, when he recovered consciousness at the hos- pital. _‘She asked me to go out and get a bucket of water. When I came back the boathouse was on fire and she wae lying on the bed. There was a bullet in her head. I did not know whether she was dead or not. I car- ried her outside. I .went back and X 6.y Senator Caraway, Insulted, Beats Tatoo on Foe’s Head, Told to “Shut Up” on Street Car, Senator| Bids Opponent Do Battle and Gets Knockout Caraway is described as retrieving the vanquished’s hat from a handy pool of water, handed it to himm and then walked briskly toward the Treasury The falien “white hope” also disa peared, but without making his iden- tity known. An eyewitness. however. happened to be standing at the corner of 15th and H streets when the car bearing the belligerents hove-to, and he tells another story. Here it is. in his own language: Eyswitaesses’ Verslon. “A street car headed for the Capitol came to-a dead stop before the Shore. ham Hetel. Suddenly a figure wal precipitated from the rear end of the car, followed immedlately by that of the senator. The latter immediately set about beating a lusty tattoo with his umbrella upon the head of his diminuitive opponent, who gradually gave way before the fury of the at- tack. “The senatorial weapon was finally | demolished, but its wielder, undeterred | as usual, made a rush for his victim. Grabbing him about the waist, he rolled him into a serles of flower pots that _reposed peacefully in front of the Union Trust Company. Here cries of ‘help, help, he's killing me' rent the air. but the venerable senator kept pushing his mitts into the now battered face of the unidentified ban- tam Senator Stalks Away. “Finally, discretion whispered some- thing into 'the senator's ear. He &rose, and, though somewhat hurriedly, walked majestically off toward the Treasury. Onlookers were unanimous in awarding the decision to the sena- tor."” But one thing is certain—that popu- lar theory about “a good little man” being “better than a good big man” was preved wrong. Senator Caraway's opponent was small, fat and forty. Al- though he did not have any second to toss a sponge in the ring for him, everybody agreed that he did not for- get what to vell when the crucial mo- ment arrived WKENZIE MOSS NAMED ASSISTANT TOMELLON McKenzie Moss of Kentucky was nominated today to be assistant sec- retary of-the’ Treasury. Mr. Moss, who takes the place va- | cated by Elmer Dover, about nine months ago, now is head of the estate tax unit of the internal revenue bu- reau. In his new position he will have charge of the internal revenue and customs bureaus, work now under the jurisdiction of ' Assistant Secretary Clifford. Prior to his appointment in the in- ternal revenue.bureau Mr. Moss was one -of the staff of counsel for the alien property custodian. EVENING STAR CLUB DINNER. The anuual dinner of The Evening Star ‘Club will be held at the New villard Hotel tomorrow evening at 7 clock sharp. “Anti-Flirt” Club to Launch Drive Against Auto Oglers -A passive - offensive against the curbstone ‘loafer ~ and - flirtatious motorist will be launched.in Wash- ington by the: Anti-Flirt Club the week of :March' 4, that period to be (known as “Anti-Flirt week.” The:Anti-Flirt ‘Club was organized & short time g0, according to Miss Helen "Brown, #29° Longfellow street, secretary, by a.group of young wom- en and girls who have been‘“em- barrassed by men in automobiles and on" street corners.” o The club plans.to bring before every woman’s and’ girls' organizatien in the city the facts regarding flirting as they have found. them and to re- quest these bodles to give over the week of March 4 to serlous discus- sion and consideration of all phases of the subject. Pertinent display cards and buttons are to be printed and dis- tributed, Miss Brown added. The club has adopted a set of “ten don’ts” which are to be sent to other women's organizations with the re- que z';z b -adopted. The ten ad- l | : t | i as the papers “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,802, Daugherty Aid Forfeits $10 in Trattic Court rs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, one of the assistant United States attorneys general of the Depart- ment of Justice, charged with vio- lating the speed regulations, for- feited $10 collateral in the Traffic Court today. ! Mrs, Willebrandt was stopped at | 16th street and Scott Circle the rening of February 21 by Motor ie Policeman R. H. Mansfield of the headquarters traffic squad and cherged by the officer with having exceeded the speed limit, and given a card requesting her to appear in court the next morning. The officer stated that Mrs. Wil- lebrandt falled to do this, and it was necessary for the issuance of & warrant for her arrest. The war- rant was served at her home, 3602 Albemarle street northwest, and Mrs. Willebrandt. put up $10 col- jateral for her appearance in court and was released. She forfeited the collateral when the collateral list w called today in the Traf- fic Court. e RUHR RESISTANGE GROWING STRONGER More Sabotage Reported. Germans Cut Rhine Cable of 125 Wires. By the Associated Pre H | ESSEN, February —German re | sistance in the Ruhr valley is in-| {creasing as a result of renewed ef forts by the Berlin government to| keep in touch with the Ruhr workers and assure them as far as possible | | that it is continuing to stand behind them. French intelligence officers have seized sets of books and booklets giving detailed instructions to the workers, encouraging them to stick to the fight against the occupa- tion and bidding them obey no orders of the French The latest propaganda move by the Berlin government is believed here to have resulted in increased determina- tion to maintain resistance and to have stimulated vidual sabotage. As an example 1 res of the Rhine telegraph and teiephone service were cut today at Duesseldorf. These wires were in a cable which had just been repaired after its gutting a fortnight ago. The cable runs up and down the Rhine and has an extension to Berlin. PEOPLE GROWING TIRED. | | ny | i Governmental Policy Forcing Showdown in Reichstag. reless_to The Star and Chicago Daily we. Copyright. 1923, BERLIN, February Despite all official denials of the inclination on the part of the German government to mediate with France. it Is getting more obvious daily that people here are gradually growing tired of Chan- cellor Cunp's policy of passive re-| sistance. { Six weeks of eternal declarations | by the government that it would not; vield on the reparations question | jhave exhausted the patience of the 1 public, since no real results have been | i obtained, and it is generally believed that the French will stay in the| Ruhr for many months and possibl. | many vears, regardless of the Berlin government's policy. For that reason the demand that | { the United States or England should be asked o intervene is being heard | among wide circles of the populace, and it is expgeted that the question | of intervention will come up before the reichstag soon. It is especially | the soclalistic party which demands | a change of the government's present policy, or if necessary, a change of the cabinet itself. GIVE UP MARKS. | {Br Wi | | i | i French Agree to Surrender British Rhine Pay Roll. { | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, February 27.—The French |have agreed to surrender that part! of the German money seized at Co- | logne last Saturday which was in- | tended for use in paying British troops. it was said here today. The {tenslon caused by the incident has| been relieved, although the position is still delicate, The Cologne correspondent of the | {Times reports that the British au-| | thorities firmly demanded the return | of the money intended for the army. | British authorities in the Rhineland | have been instructed to investigate reports of alleged holding up on British-owned goods on the Rhine by the French and Belgiars, according to Ronald F. McNeill, undersecretary of foreign affairs. Replying to a question in the house of commens, Mr. McNeill stated that the British officlals had been instruct- ed to take such action as may be possible to protect the interests’ of British firm: # Don’t flirt! Those who flirt in haste repent in leisure. . Don’t accept rides from motor- ists. They don't all invite you in to save you a walk. . Don’t use your eyes for ogling —they were made for worthier pur- poses. . Don't” go out with men you don't ‘know—they may - be married and you may be in for a hair-pulling match. “5. Don't wink. A flutter of one eye may cause a tear in the othel know. “7. Don’t annex all the men you can get, and by flirting with many you may lose out on the one. “6. Don't smile at flirtatious stra: Don’t fall for the slick dandy- 'oh! & real man s worth more than “9. Don't let elderly men, with an save them for people you sized cake-eater; the unpolished gold glass of a lounge lisard. sge to a flirtation, pat you on the shoulder and take a fatherly interest in you. Those are thé kind that usually want to forget they are fathers. “10. Don't ignore the man you are sure of while you flirt with anoth ‘When you return to the firatone you may. find-him gond™ ' by > TWO CENTS. AACTION ON WORLD COURT POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT TERM Members of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ask President for Data. SENATOR LODGE TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE TOMORROW Formal Action to Defer Move Not Taken, But Sentiment Is Almost Unanimous. Postponement of action until the next session of Congress upon Presi- dent Harding’s request for authority to enter the international court set up by the league of nations virtually was decided on today by the Senate for- eign relations committee. No vote was taken, but senators representing all views, said the con- sensus of opinion was that the matter could not be brought before the Sen- ate in the time remaining before the present session ends. Asks Farther Information. The committee decided. however. tn ask for further information. Sen tor Lodge of Massachusetts, chair- man, said he expected to confer to morrow with President Harding. Information deemed necessary by the committes relates especially to the powers and jurisdiction of the {international court and the form of adhesion of other nations to it, in- cluding what reservations they had adopted. The extent to which_the bor section of the treaty of Ver- sailles may be associated with the court is another point upon which information will be sought Senator Borah. republican, of Tdaho. presented the committee reso- lution calling upon the President for further information. It was adopted without a record vote, but with Sen- ator Kellogg. republican. Minne- sota. expreesing his disapproval. It provides: Text of Resolution. “That the President be requested to advise the committee whether he favors an agreement obligating ail powers or governments who ere signers of the protocol creating the court to submit all questions about which there is dispute and which cannot be settled by diplomatic ef- forts, relative to: “(a) The interpretation of treaties “(b) Any question of internation: law. “(c) The existence of any fact which. it established. would consti- tute a breach of an international gation. d) The nature or extent of repara- tion to be made for the breach of an international obligation. ‘“(e) The interpretation of a sen- tence passed by the court. Want State Secretary’s Views. ‘Secondly, if the Secretary of State favors such an agreement, does he deem it advisable to communicate with the other powers to ascertain | whether they are willing to obligate themselves as aforesaid. In other words, are those who are signers of the protocol creating the court willing to obligate themselves agreement to submit such qu | tions as aforesaid, or are they to in- sist that such questions shall only be submitted in case both, or all. parties interestcd agree to the submission after the controversy arises.” 5 It was reiterated at the White House today that President Harding would not call a speclal session of the Sen- ate to consider the proposal of Ameri- | can participation in the international court. Referring to criticism of the delay in laying the plan before the Senate until the closing days of the present ssion. White House spokesmen said the cxecutive had carefully taken into consideration the attitude of the Sen- ate toward American participation. and had awaited a moment when after careful and diplomatic feelers had been put out he could act. In view of the administration's determination that it could only adhere to the in- ternational court with reservations. it had to be informed beforehand as to the acceptabllity of such reservations, it was sald, by the other powers. HAS LONG FAVORED PLAN. President Advocated World Court From “Front Porch.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding has not repu- diated his previous position or taken an attitude inconsistent with previous utterances when he advocates Ameri-g. can participation in the world court * of international justice. The White House does not feel that the criticism of a change of policy is right when in Mr. Harding's own cam- paign speeches are to be found ex- plicit references to the very thing which the Harding administration has proposed to the Semate. It was on August 28, 1920, in a speech to a dele- ) {gation of Indiana citizens that Mr. Harding, after referring to the ad- vantages for world conference in The Hague tribunal, made this statement: Spoke to Hooslers. “If, in the failed league of Ver- sailles there can be found machinery Fhlch the tribunal can use properly nd advantageously, by all means let it be appropriated. I would even g0 further. I would take and combine all that is good and excise all that is bad from both organizations. This (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) CALIFORNIAN NAMED MINISTER TO HOLLAND President Appoints Richard M. Tobin as Successor to Wil- liam Phillips, Richard M. Tobin of Califarnia was nominated by President Harding to- day to be minister of the Néther- lands, filling the vacancy caused by the appointment of Willlam Phillips a8 undersecretary of State. Mr. Tobin is president of the Hiber- nian Natlonal Bank of San Francisco and comes from a family dating back in California history to the days ot “the forty-niners.” ° §