Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Cloudy and slightly colder tonight; tomorrow rain and colder. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, 73, at lowest, /7, at 4 a.m. today. ended at 2 noon toda: Full report on page 24. .m. today: — Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 10 98,796. 0. Tntered as sscond-class matter post office Washingtos, D. C. FRENCH ADVANCE AGROSS RHINE AND: | OCUPY 3 G Seize Mannheim, Darnystadt and Karlsruhe in RefAlia- tion for Sabotage Gases. WORKERS DROP TOOLS AS INVADER'S ARRIVE Operation Purely Fiscal, Explains French Foreigy Office, Con- cerning Lg'test Move. i By the Associated Press MAYENCE, Maj¢h 3.—French troops today advanced outside the Mavence vridgehead and: occupled additional small sections;of German territory. Three rallrdad repair shops were occupled by the French troops at Darmstadt, Which is just on the rim of the bridgehead. The ports of Mannheim and Karls- ruhe, resméctively forty miles and seventy miles to the south of May- ence furtler up the Rhine, also were occupied., (Karlsruhe not imme- g@iately on the Rhine, about sIX miles to the east. The little town of Maxau, on the Rhine, where other re- ports say the French crossed the river._is opposite Kai and the ‘arlsruhe fiscal dis Acovrding to information here these ports were occupied because of c S of sabotage on _the railroads and ounals in the Rhineland and the Rubr. A The opérations began at daylight and were virtually completed at noon, German Employes Strike. LONDON, March 3.—The French erossed the Rhine today, occupying Mannheim and a_part of Darmstadt, says a Central News dispatch from erlin. The wharves at Mannheim nd the workshops in Darmstadt vere taken over, whereupon the Ger- man employes left their work. MOVE ONLY FISCAL. is Advance to Stop at Mannheim, Says Foreign Office. By the Associated Press March 3.—~The French troop ast of the Hbine, south of was . an operation in purpose, the French > stated question, for the pres- advancing further than the port at Mnumhen:, it 1s stated. The foreign office pointed out, thal the ‘advance of VISP Fieaokeiraopy this morning was not connected with the German raliways control and had relation to the sanctions taken it the end of January when troops crossed the Rhine to Strasbourg, oc- cupying the rallway station at Ap- senweler and Offenburg, so as to con- irol the movement of international traine. MOROCCANS IN ADVANCE. Colored Troops Reported to Have Crossed Maxau. Ry the Associated Press. BERLIN, March A telegram from Mannheim says that French 00ps crossed the Rhine today, ap- ently with the intention of cut- ing off the harbor. Mannheim is the third largest ci on the Rhin d is the chief com mercial center of Baden. It has ex- cellent facilities for shipping. A dispatch from Karls-Ruhe says Morrocan (roops crossed the au bridge, near that city, this POLICE ARE DISARMED. Invaders Deport 282 at Gelsen- * kirchen. sociated Press. D LDORF, March French troops marched 1nto Gelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr, vesterday and disarmed the security police. They arrested twelve officers and 270 men of the force and deported them into interior Germany n motor trucks. ALLEGED BIGAMIST OF 70 IS QUIZZED IN BATHTUB GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 3.— Local authorities still were without information today as to whether J. Frank Fetterhof, seventy, former lay minister, wanted her on a bigamy charge, had been apprehended at Wol- ottville, Ind., where he is reported to be living with his third wife. Mrs, Ida Van Lieuw Fetterhof, sec- ond of the alleged trio of wives, and who caused issuance of the warrant, By the told today to the authorities for the | tirst time how she obtained informa- tion that sent her to the prosecutor's office. Fetterhof, she said, took her by the shoulders and shook her severely whenever she said anything that dis- pleased him. Therefore, she feared to ask him if he had been divorced from his first wife, despite rumors that had reached her ears. She waited until she found Fetter- hof in the bath tub, she said, then asked him whether it was he or his tirst wife who started divorce pro- ceedings. Fetterhof, she alleges, be- came 8o engraged at the question that he was unable to give her a coherent reply, and her trip to the prosecutor's m | S Sailor’s Hairless Monster Weakens AndLoseslItsJob By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, March 3.—G. C. Reynolds, a sailor, was exhibiting “the one and only hairless mon ster from South American wild to a crowd of seamen ih a cold drink stand here last night, and was profiting handsomely thereby in the way of nickels, cups of cof- fee, sandwiches and the like, when an inquiring dog entered the place. The “monster” arched its back, emitted a yowl and spat at the dog. Identification of the “wild ani- mal” as a common house cat that had been shaved from its nose to tail resulted in a rush upon Rey- nolds by the spectators, and the general fight which followed reached such proportions that the police had to take a hand. Rey- | nolds was sailed. i BIDTOMEDIATE Secretary Hughes Stays Here in Expectation of Some Action. {CHANGE HELD INEVITABLE Will Take No Steps Without In- | vitation From Some of Allied i Powers Most Interested. | BY DAVID LAWREN | nothing at the moment that might carry the United States into the Ruhr situation, the recurrence of rumors | to that effect Is not without plausible j origin. statement of what the govern- ] do can be applled only to twenty-four-hour periods, for the sit- | uation not only may change at any | minute, but there is more than a vague expectation that it will. Secretary Hughes did not abandon | his proposed trip to the pan-American { conference in South America because of any sudden crease in the activ- ities of the Department of State. All { things considered, he is in a much better position to detach himeelf now from the routine of the Department of State than he was on the occasion his previous voyage Janeiro, last year. | Mediation Inevitable. | It would, of course, have looked a | bit easy-golng if, with President { Harding bound for Florida for a month, the Secretary of State had also gone away | but the reason for the sbandonment { of Mr. Hughes' journey goes deeper {than the public impression which {of 1 ] | might be produced_ by the absence | { from the National Capital of its two ost important administrative offi- rs, especlally with both houses of | Congress adjourned for nine months. | The truth is that medlation by diplomacy is inevitable. Government officlals are no more aware of what the process will be than is the gen- eral public, but it takes no extraordi- | nary power of analysls to assume that lth Ruhr situation will not go on in- definitely and that somehow it must be composed through the friendly of- | fices of outside powers. Will Not Interfere. vresident Harding and Sacretar | Hughes have made it plain to the American ambassadors at London, {Paris and Berlin that the United | States will not intrude, will not make a move which can be construed as | undue interference, but will wait for !a propitious moment when no possible | antangonism can result from Ameri- can attempts at helpfulness. Remem- bering the bitter feeling which was engendered in America when Great Britain recognized the belligerency of the Confederacy, remembering the resentment of efforts to mediate be- | fore the United States had a chance to make effective war on Spain and re- calling the recent manifestations of hostility toward America in the allied countries during the first two years of the war every time a peace note was | sent by the Washington government, | there is no disposition to “butt into European matters. This has been the policy for several weeks, but it may be changed any day by some hint or indication from France or Great Britain that a diplo- | matic settlement would be welcomed. Officials here feel, of course, that Great Britain 18 much closer to the situation than is America and that when the proper moment for media- tion comes the British will ask the United States to co-operate. Question of Debts. | There is continually, of course, the thought in the minds of European | statesmen that accompanying any offer of mediation should be some definite expression on the part of Great Britain as well as the United States as to what will be done by these two on the subject of canceling or reducing the war debts of the con- tinental powers. Much of the talk of the formation of a “continental” bloc abroad is being attributed to the fact | | * INRUR EXPEETED to Rio de to South America, | WASHINGTON, RED AND SCCALST FORCES CLASH IN * BAVARI; 30 HURT French Foreign Office Re- ports Troops Holding Rifle Practice. REICHSWEHR RECRUITING IN SECRET PLACES Preparation for Resistance Believ- ed Result of Nationalist Agitation. By the Associated Press. BERL March 3.—Thirty persons Bavarfan national socialists and com- | munists at Augsburg, in Bavaria, thir- | tv-five miles northwest of Munich, says the Central News. Bands Reported Mobilising. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, March 3.—Bavarian troops, | notably in the vicinity of Munich, are | declared in unconfirmed reports reach- |ing the foreign office, to have been {arming and carrying on infantry target ! practice. 5 | have been wounded in a clash between ! ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. O, NEARING It 1s also reported that during the | |1ast fiftcen days bands organized by Adolph Hitler,” the Bavarian faselsii | leader, have been i nich. Secret Recruiting Bureau. !By the Assoctated Press. ! ESSEN, March 3.—A sccret recruit- |ing bureau for the German reichswehr | Although President Harding sees |has been opene@at Hagen, Just beyond | the Rubr, according to French Intelli- | gence officers. |tion has been of an extremely a character lately and the opening o bureau, the intelligence service clares, has been the outcom D. C. COAL CONTROL ctive this de- | Them Regulatory Powers. The District Commissioners are con- sidering recommending legislation to Congress to give them definite powers in controlling fuel emergen- cles. Col. Keller, chairman of the Public Utllities Commission, Indicated today. Employes of the commiesion, under Walter C. Allen, executive secretary, | are now engaged in compiling a complete report on how the coal situation was handled here this win- | ter. When these data are available the | Commissioners will determine what | legislation, it any, they should rec- ommend to Congress for future crises. | Lacked Definite Power. | While the Utilities Commission, the co-operation of the coal with | merchants, was successtul in obtain- | ing a fair distribution of the coal as | it arrived at the dumps, that success, | officials pointed out, was achieved | without definite legal powers. Col. Keller let it be known today | that the coal merchants, as a whole, | worked with the District authoriti lin an effort to meet the problem of keeping the homes of the city warm on less than 60 per cent of the amount of hard coal which came to_Washington last winter, The system hurriedly worked out and put into effect last fall was a voluntary one, however, and Dis- triot officials apparently feel that | there should be a definite legal |method for handling such an emer- | 8ency in future. Col. Ieller sald today that the principal aim of the commission in assuming control of fuel this winter was to Insure an equitable distribu- tion, and he expressed the belief that the desired result was obtained in nearly every instance. Fee Is Requested, Realizing that special clerks would be needed to classify those blanks and keep track of the deliveries to each consumer, the commission asked the dealers to defray the expenses by | the payment to the collector of taxes of a fee of b cents per ton on coal | received. - |sylvania commission had allotted | Washington only 60 per cent of the anthracite the city normally receives, ! the commission " decided the only | logical thing to do was to limit each individual consumer to 60 per cent of his_anthracite requirements. |~ This rule is still in effect, but it balmy spring weather continues the commission may remove the restric- tion within two weeks. |GLASS DECLINES PLACE ON DEBT COMMISSION mobilized near Mu- | | The nationalist agita- | LAWMAY BE URGED Commissioners Consider Re- | quest for Legislation to Give | SUTSTOCOLEET | FORSHON REMOVAL \D. C. May File Charges of, | Law Violation in 750 Cases. \TOTAL REPORTED, 3,000 | Charges Made That Residents Neg- lected or Refused to Compl, With Order. Seven hundred and fifty | proximately 3,000 sults by the Dis- ttrict against violators of the snow removal law probably will be flled in the Municipal Court Monday by Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank W. Madigan, in charge of the en- forcement of the law. The suits will be for recovery of the costs of re- moval. These cases have been certified to Corporation Counsel Francis H. Step- hens by Morris Hacker, superintend- ent of the surface division of the municipal government, under whose direction the snow was removed from the payments of owners or occupants of properties who either neglected or refused to comply with the law. It is not the intention of Mr. Madi- gan to file all of the cases simultane- ously, because they would flood the dockets of the Municipal Court. “If | I file all these suits at one time,” he | sald. “the docket of the court would be hit by an avalanche of business that to hear would consume the en- | tire time of the court for weeks and {my office would be beseiged by the | defendants, making it impossible for ! me to handle emergency cases, | May File Only Few Cnnses. “T may decide to file only a few! | cases, but at the present time it may | | be necessary for me to file all of the 750 cases in hand and provide for the filing of the additional large number that I understand are to come from Mr. Hacker’s office.” 1f the District of Columbia govern- ment had to pay the costs of filing | these 1500 suits, which it does not— | the law providing that cost of suits | filed by the District of Colurbia gov- ernment do not have to be pald—the “From P ress to Home Kithin the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is deiivered to as the papers Washington homes as fast are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 96,788 SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1923—THIRTY PAGES. THE END OF A PERFECT DAY. WickershamHits Married Women Retaining Names By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March —Women who cling to thelr maiden names after marriage are misguided, says George W. Wickersham, former Attorney General of the United States, in a letter today to the Lucy Stone League, which advo- cates the practice he condemns. “I am firmly convinced that nothing more mistaken was ever advocated,” he wrote. “Fortunately, I was born in a generation whose women thought it a glory to fake their husbands’ names when they were married.” " |REED LAYS PLANS FOR BUREAU PROBE Senator Confers With Presi- dent on Proposed Vet- erans’ Inquiry. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, head of the Senate committee appointed to investigate conferred with President Harding to- day and told him the committee would organize tomorrow. the Veterans' Bureau, For a while the committee will hold its sessions in Washington, but later may go to other citles. ) Senator Reed said that the commit- tee counsel and staff would make a preliminary investigation of matters, to determine which were of sufficient fmportance to be brought before the committee open hearings probably would be de- layed several weeks. itself. He indicated that Hines Takes Office. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, who was sworn in last night as director of the Veterans' Charles R. Forbes, resigned, issued a| formal statement today in which he declared that he hoped the congres- sional inquiry into the bureau which has been ordered “will be benefictal not only to the veteran, but to the bureau itself.” Bureau, succeeding Col. His statement follows: “The books total of the of each suit being $1.60, to which is | added 50 cents for the trial fee, mak- ing a to and records of the United States Vet- erans’ Bureau in Washington, as well as in the field, will be made available for Senator Reed's committee at all fees would be $3,150, cost 1 in each case of $2.10. In When it was learned that the Penn- ! the event that the District of Colum- bia should get judgment in these | cases the defendants would have to pay the actual expense of cleaning the snow from the pavements, plus costs |in each case, plus the penalty, which |if put at a minimum of $10 in each | case, would amount to $15,000, to { which_would be added the costs of | suits, $3.160, or a total of $18,150. Variance in Amounts Claimed. The suits to be filed run in amounts from 30 cents to $3.80, and cover | every section of the city and embrace everything from the humblest home to the palatial residences. In many of the cases the property is vacant, lunimproved lots in the residential section. The snow law, as it is known, under which these suits are to be filed, provides that within a given time after snow or sleet stops fall- ing in daylight the owner or occupant tmes. to furnish the committee full and de- tailed as possible on any and all matters the committee may desire to inquire into. Instructions have been issued information as expeditiously “Full co-operation in every way will be given, and it is to be hoped ‘that the inquiry will be beneficial, not only to the veterans, but to the bureau itself.” Gen. Hines, whose nomination was \confirmed by the Senate late yester- day, thereafter at the Veterans’ without ceremony. was sworn into office shortly Bureau U. S. MINISTER DINED. Retiring Envoy to Sweden Given Farewell Dinner. STOCKHOLM, March 3.—A farewell dinner was tendered last night to Ira Nelson Morris, minister to Sweden and Mrs. retiring American Morris. §240 BONUS BILL PASSED BY SENATE ! | [Made to Include $12,860 to’ Distribute Among Em- ployes of Parks. AFFECTS D. C. AND NATION Joint Congress Committee Provid- ed to Consider Pay Increases at Capitol. | ‘The Senate today passed the $240 bonus bill for government employes, with soine minor amendments. The bill was then sent back te the House, where either the Senate amendments will be concurred in or the bill will be sent to conferenge. In presenting the bonus bill, Sena- tor Warren, chairman of the appro- priations committes, explained that the bill applied to employes of the government outside of the District as well as inside, and that if the re- classification bill becomes a law the provisions of the bonus bill applicable to the employes covered by the re- classification bill would cease to oper- ate. 12,860 Added for Parks. The Senate added $12,860 to the bill to extend the bonus to employes of the national parks. Another amendment adopted by the of a joint committee, three senators and three members of the House, to consider salary increases for the em- ployes of the Senate and House at the Capitol. The bill as passed carries approxi- | mately $35,811.893 KING ALFONSD DENIES INTENT 0 ABDICATE Ruler of Spain Could Never De- sert to Avoid Difficulties, Says Monarch of Rumor. By the Associated Prey MADRID, March ing Alfonso, in a speech at the inauguration of the new Library of Fine Arts today, gave definite denfal to rumors of the possibility of his abdication. “It will give me much pleasure to lay the foundation stone of the new and, if possible, also the last he sald. “I say this because of the rumor recently published indi- cating that I was about to abdlcate. I {am not a dererter. “I desire to remuin at my post and 1 am always ready to do my dut and even to die If necessary in exe- cuting it. “The King of Spaln could never abdicate in order to avoid dealing with the problems and difficulties presenting themselves.” Alfonso said the Madrid newspaper which published the rumor was mis- informed and had acted in an incor- rect manner. Senate provides for the appointment | TWO CENTS. CONGRESS PREPARES TO DROP. ITS TASKS; - Much Small Grist Ground During Closing Hours. LATE NIGHT SESSION MAY CLEAR DECKS Hundreds of Nominations Still in Hopper—Day { of Farewells. { Tts major tasks all but completed, ithe Sixty-seventh Congress found time in its closing hours today to take up many of the lesser bills and resolutions such as usually die un- noticed amid the hurry and confu- |slon of a session’s final wind-up. From the opening of the last day's work in both Senate and House dis- cussion of legislative “chicken feed” |Was the order of business, with many members seeking, and in many cases| finding, an opportunity to get a vote| on this or that private or local meas- ure which they never heretofore had hoped to bring to the stage of action.! The only bfil of first magnitude to! which attention had to be given dur- ing the day was the farm scredit measure, as finally agreed o last night by the Senate and House con- ferees. “Acceptance of the conference | report by the Senate and House was more or less of a formality. Will Meet Tomorrow. H Late night sessions were expected in Loth Senate and House, with a view to finally clearing the decks ! and leaving only formalities for the | brief meeting tomorrow preceding the {final fall of the gavels Sunday noon. | To avold a technical Sabbath meeting | {and still comply with the letter of the | law for ending the Congress March | {4, the leaders planned to recess to- | night unti] an hour or so before noon |tomorrow, thus making Sunday an extension ‘of today’s “legislative’ day, | Dozens of bills and hundreds of nominatlons were In today’s legisla- tive hopper, but most of the 14.000 on the calendars were doomed, their loss conceded and no efforts at re- suscitation planned. Today also was a day of farewells and “swan songs,” of a‘scramble for accommodations on outgolng trains, of packing and clearing in Capitol offices and of preparations for the | first long vacation had by Congress fin elght years. The $156,000.000 deficiency bill, with its appropriation of $400,000 for the Federal Coal Commission, was pre- pared during the morning for trans- mission to the President. Another bill to which final approval was given was that of Senator Borah, republi- can, Idaho, extending the authority of the Coal Commissfon. Confusion in Senate. It was a busy day for Vice Presi- dent Coolidge. Confusion often reign- ed in the Senate, with a dozen mem- bers on their feet at once, in last determined efforts to get through minor_bills. Displays of tart tempers cropped out frequently, to the amusement of large crowds in ‘the galleries. A roar went up when one senator suggested that a colleague was “not only asleep, but also talking in his sleep. } The approach of the end of the ses- sion, when all pending bills will dle | automatically, did not deter members | | in both Senate and House from intro- ducing new measures for the sake of | the Record. In the House Representative Roden- | berg, republican, Illinols, rounded out | eighteen years' 'service in Congress by putting in a bill for erection in | Washington of a monument to Grover {Cleveland. Mr. Rodenberg retires, voluntarily, to private life tomorrow. Another bill put through the Sen- ate was a measure previously passed 1 by the House appropriating $37,000,000 to pay to government employes the | usual yearly bonus of $240. i Tax Laws Amendments. | The first business performed by {the House was adoption of con- ference reports on two amend- ments to the revenue laws. The amendments then were sent to the President. One would provide for| {the taxing of gains derived from the| | exchange of stocks, bonds and se- | curities, and the other would ex- |tend the time for filing claims for tax refund. ! " The House alsoagreed to the con- i ference report on a bill permitting | free re-entry of domestic animals straying across the Mexican border. | PRIEST ARRESTED IN MEXICO. | MEXICO_ CITY, March 3.—Father | Francisco Novelo has been arrested lat Merida by the Yucatan authorities |for conducting open-air religlous | services, contrary to law, it is stated |in dispatches to the Excelsior. The | priest was sentenced to pay a flne of | | Several other small D. C.BILLS ARE PUSHED Reclassifying Bill | Speeded in 11th- | Hour Effort. |TEACHER’S SALARY | MEASURE DOWNED 1 ‘Gasoline Tax Law Likel | *Car Probe Meets Snag. Determined effort fs being made to- day to rush through the reclassifica- tlon bill, if possible, before Congress adfourns. The bill as it pacsed the Senate was sent to conference by the House, with Representative Lehlbach of New Jersey, Fairfleld of Indiana and Black of Texas named as representatives of the House in the conference. Representative Lehlbach, however,, gave positive assurance to the mem- bers of the House, in response to a demand made by House Leader Mon- dell. by Chairman Madden of the ap- propriations committee and by Mi- nority Leader Garrett, that he would insist upon the original House pro- vision that this legisiation should not take effect before July 1, 1924. Status of Other Bills. Here's the situation in regard to other District legislation in the House: The Capper teachers' salary and school reorganization bill is doomed. The Commissioners’ bill for a cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline, con- ditional on Maryland granting auto- mobile tag reciprocity, will be passed late today. The bill fathered by Insurance Com- missioner Burt Miller, to set up a new }n'slura.nce code in the District, must ail. The resolution introduced by Chair- man Campbell of the rules committes at the request of the Macfarland M morial Association to erec morial fountain to Henry B. F. farland, former District ~ Commi sioner for ten years. will probably Dpass. The legislation urged by Miss Mabel T. Boardman, granting authority for the erection of a new memorial build- ing on the site now partially occupled the National Red Cross building will probably pass. This provides for a structure to cost at least $500,000, only one-half of which shall come from the Federal Treasury and the other half from popular subscription. bills for the District are likely to be passed. Fate Seema Certain. The fate of the schoolteachers' salary bill seems sealed. irman Campbell of the rules committee, who is acting Speak- er, sald today that considerable oppo- sition to this bill has developed, and, therefore, it would be a time-con sumer, he cannot yet see when he can recognize any one to call it up. 1t _develops that Chairman Madden of the House appropriations commit- | tee has warned acting Speaker Camp- bell and House Leader Mondell that it would be futile to allow an attempt to be made to pass the Senate bill with amendments made by the House District committee providing for in- creases to high school teachers. Rep- resentative Madden emphasized that the bill as it passed the Senate will mean an increased cost of approx mately $1,000,000, and that the Hous amendments would add another $500,- 000. 1f_Representative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland is recognized at all to call up the teachers’ pay bill it will be with the distinct understanding that he will move to substitute the bill which has passed the Senate for the bill recommended by the House com- mittee. This action would fmmediately p: cipitate a bitter contest. Representa- tive Thomas L. Blanton, democrat, a member of the House District com- mittee, is prepared to fight the bill as it passed the Senate, on the zround that it is not a teachers' pay bill, but one designed principally in the inter- ests of the administrative officers. This opinion also seems to prevail to a large extent among the members of the House. Attitude of Teachers. Members of the House District committee said today that they have been assured by some of the teachers that they would rather have no bill at all than the bill as it passed the Senate. If the Senate bill is called up. an effort will be made to strike from it the increase in salary for the su- perintendent of schools, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, and to weed out of {t those provisions which tend to increase Dr. Ballou's authority. Representative Zihlman received a positive assurance today from acting 200 pesos or undergo fifteen days’ im- | prisonment. | By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. March 3.—Six glant De Haviland planes, carrying twelve officers of the air service, took Speaker Campbell that he will recog- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) EGargoyled Planes Start 2,850- | Mile Flight to Porto Rico tered In black, and on the opposite side of the plane a map of the route from San Antonio to Porto Rico and back to Washington, D. C. Plane No. 2, piloted by Lieut. C. B. office followed. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. of the property must clean the snow | Capinet ministers, scientists and rep- Austin and Lieut. N. Longfellow, has Netv Rum Fleet, Armed to Repel Pirates, Anchors Off Jersey By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 3.—Preceding the ewallows that travel on wings, the Atlantic ocean off the northern New Jersey coast was visited today by a new varlety of harbinger of spring. The re-establishment of & rum fleet after several weeks of ab- sence was reported last night. Six steamers and five schooners were the visitors. % The buccaneers, however, unlike the sailors of the migratory main who made rum row what {t was around Christmas season, may ultimately be forced to subsist on their cargoes if customs efficials obtain a ruling from the Treasury Department to stop food from being ferried to them from ghore, Officials are intent upon starving oft the armade if they can arrest the food purveyors as conspirators to violate the anti-smuggling and Vol. stead laws. Several skippers have asked if the law allows them to bring food to the ships it they bring back no liquor. In the meantime, the consignees of the illicit cargoes, who have been re- furbishing their small boats and land transportation facilities while their customers consume what was deliver- ed during the holiday rush, were pre. paring to proceed as before. It was reported swift, new craft would be operated by some of them. Observers at Highland reported sighting crews of the alcohol armada practicing with ons at targets in antioipation of ralds by rum pirates who have organized. since a series of gales drove fleet away, Inated and confirmed yesterday to be jone of the three democratic members of the world war deft funding com- | mission, today declined the appoint- ment. The Virginia Senator, by letter, in- formed the President that there were circumstances that would prevent him from giving the proper attention to the work of the commission, and that rather than fail to participate to the fullest in the work of the com- mission he preferred not to accept the appointment, although recogniz- ing the honor conferred on him by the executive. y The nomination of Senator Glass along with those of Representative Crisp of Georgla, of Richard Olney of Massachusetts, all democrats, were sent to the Senate late yesterday and confirmed within two hours. The nomination of Senator Glass was orably received by democrats and republic alike, who recognized that the senator’s experience &s Sec- retary of the Tr ry would be of great benefit to the commission. Senator Glass of Virginia, nomi-|of sicet from the pavements in front resentatives of society were present. remises, and failing to do so, the |98 premiect: Golumbla Commisstoners are guthorized and directed to clean the pavements, at the expense of the | owner or occupant; that the cost of (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) i The dinner was presided over by Prof. 8vente Arrhenius, president of the Sweden’s gratitude to the “most pop- ular minister who ever visited Stock- holm.” Nobel Institute. who expressed i “Stand-by” for the 5:30 The Star’s news-gathering forces pick up'the very . i last items of importance just as the day ends—and ‘l “broadcast” them through the reliable medium of the 5:30 EDITION OF THE EVENING STAR. Fea- | turing especially stock reports, sports finals—and | . the program for the next session of the courts. For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city. VALENTINO IS “ANXIOUS.” Scans the'Papers for “News" of His Coming Marriage. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 3.—Rodolph Val- entino explained yesterday that he was anxiously watching the news- papers for news of his coming mar- riage. This ceremony will be the second wedding to Winifred Hudnut, the first having been performed before Valentino’'s interlocutory decree of divorce became In force. The year of waiting nccessary un- den the order of the court wiil ex- pire next Sunday, Valentino eaid, but California laws prohibit remarriage until the decree Is entered and be- comes a matter of record. This may delay his marriage a few days, he explained. s News aocounts of his coming mar- riage have appeared in several news. papers, some of them giving detalls, Valentino said, were surprising bits .of news to him. It was these aosounts wWhich caused his answer in regard to his marriage plans. o'clock this morning on a 2,850-mile { flight to Porto Rico. The first ship left at 8:01 o'clock, and a half min- | ute later all were in the air. After | circling over the field in close forma- tion they headed due south and turn- ed toward Houston. They were fly- ing in a twelve-mile east wind. Superstition plays an important part in the Army when a soldier on thel eve of a hazardous venture ponders over what fate has in store for hlm“ and the twelve officers had the six glant De Haviland planes embel- Tished with grotesque personal em- blems. Insignin on Planes. Each fiyer had painted on his plane his personal emblem, which gave each plane two insignias to insure success on the long trip. The individual in- signias were in addition to the flight insignia, which is a sea gull. The lead plane, oocupled by Thomas G. Lanphier and Lieut. Ivan G. Moor- loft at Kelly Fleld shortly after 8| four aces on one side and a pair of" cocked dice on the other. Comedy and tragedy are pictured on plane No. 3, occupied by Lieut. C, V. Haynes, and Lieut. James A. Woodruff. A witch riding a broomstick across the sky and a distorted black cat are the two emblems carried by Lieut. G. C. McDonald and Lieut. R. K. Stoner on their plane, No. 4. Plane No. 5 has a flying goose on, one side and on the other side the' insignia of the Pi Mu Sorority, which is in Greek letters, with two hands gripping a heart between them. They are the emblems of Lieut. Erik H. Nelson and Lieut. D. H. Dunton. An air camera with a settle- ment underneath labeled Porto Rico and an eagle surrounding a liberty bell have been adopted by Lieut. Guy Kirksey and Lieut. E. T. Selzer for plane No. 6. A share in the success or failure of the individual planes were attributed to the guiding spirit of the personal emblems carried by the ships. Route for Flight. The route chosen for the flight is ag follows: , bears the insignis of white :‘r‘rflw on which “Man o' War” {g let- San_Antonfo afr intermediate depot (Contintied ofi Page 2, Column 7.)