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PRESIDENT AVOIDS -~ HIS MAIN WORRY Hopes to Escape Perplexi- ties of Appointments Till December. FINDS QUIET IS HELPFUL Opportunity for Uninterrupted Thought to Be Used on Prob- lems of Next Congress. BY DAVID LAWREN! Special Dispatch to The Star. MELBOURNE, Fla., March ident Harding is having a good time, but {f things shouid grow monotonous all he has to do to make glad he is here is to read the front puges of Florida newspape where dis- patches rom New York and New Cngland polnts telling of storms and blizzarde are displayed under two- column heads as of equal importance with developments in the Ruhr. In this land of straw hats and bath- g suits, with the t erature often g to at mid-|{ A they slightest worries away by the P - ©d. People can always 3 { are not battling influenza, For absolute detachm | President Harding could have se- lected a better place. Th e towns i along the Indlan i et Wherol he Harding houseboat dr'fts along are sparsely populated. Grapefruit and orangs groves are the only visi- ble reminders of ind ry. It is the kind of an atmosphere in which a man can do a good a hours of ininterrupted thini day, and this is bound to be o value as the health-giving qual and houseboating. { Fliling Positions Difficult. Mr. Harding's thinking out problems h racent weeks disturbed by something which he considers the most perplex- | ing and embarrassing phase of the presidency, namely, the making of ap- | pointments to office. Picking men for | mportant tasks in the business world is acknowledged to be one of the keys ' to the financial s ny an onterprise, but selecting men for pub- | Mo office has that best a thousand ways, in the opinion of Mr. Harding Tn the first place, Co limits the salary that can be paid and sxpects the government to get for five | or ten thousand dollars a year men whose earning capacity is four or five times that much in the business world. Members of Congress them- | melves are compelled to live on $7,600 & year, and « good many of them <ould be earning several times that sum fn the practice of law or other orofessions, and they realize the sac- rifices that must bs made by those who give up lucrative opportunities to take public office, Fleld Is Limited. But there is a prejudice “back hom against “fancy salaries.” So the Pres- dent finds himself limited in his choice either to men who have made thelr fortunes and look upon govern- mental service as a diversion and vossibly an opportunity for the soclal ‘nterest of thelr families, or to men who wish to use the government as a means of educating themselves for special kinds of business or profes- 5—Pres- opportunttles for ve been in| | i {DORTMUND POLICE DISARMED {California street, a naval aviator at-|!nterest of Indian sional service later on in life, Neither of thego classes would cause any dif- ficulty {if they contained always just the right men for the right places, a thing that i{s not even easy to find 'n the business world where salary is not a factor. But more often the President is dragged into still another group and forced to take his pick. | That group conslsts of the politically active or their friends, many of whom ‘n the business world would not be apt to earn as much as the govern- ment will pay them. Political Demands Trying. The demands of politics have been particularly trying to Mr. Harding. ‘The defeat at the autumn elections of many members of Congress made it politically necessary to take care of “lame ducks.” Mr. Harding was & ‘lame duck” once himself, and knows how it feels. He has been brought up in the atmosphere of practical politics and realizes that without party workers little can be hoped for by a candidate. Nineteen twenty- four Is not far away, and even it Mr. Harding were not to be the :andidate he has such an enduring {nterest in the maintenance of party :ohesfon that he would be found ring for the “lame ducks” just the me.” The trouble s that however much one’s sympathy may be with these “lame ducks” they do not al- ways have the ablility to fill the posi- tions in which special training is re- quired. Many an administration has tried to improve the diplomatic serv- ice, but the Harding administration, \tks its predecessors of republican and democratic labels, finds places for the politicians in the embassies and legations abroad. Halts on Appointments. The adjournment of Congress has brought some rellef from the appoint- ment problem, as most all of the nominations require confirmations by the Senate, and Mr. Harding is not much of a bellever in the idea of recess appointments, because the man appointed doesn’t always get the sup- port he needs in administering the duties of his office when there is a chance Congress may not confirm him on its return. The mainspring of the whole appointment problem, of course, 1s the political enmities it makes. Few people realize how the course of leg- islation can be affected by personal differences which senators and mem- bers of the House may have with the cohief executive over appointments. Mr. Harding’s hardest job has been to appoint federal judges, the con- ®estion of work in the courts having induced Congress to create many new federal judgeships. These judges hold office for life and must be carefully selected. Mr. Harding will not fill any va- eancies during the recess of Congress 1f he can held it. He is going to try to steer clear of appointments alto- geother until next December and give his time to the broad policles of his administration and to the preparation | of measures for the December session | of Congress. That is quite enough in itself (Oopyright, 1823.) REACHES TITUSVILLE. 1 l President Faces Another Round of Gol? and Then On Again. 27 e Amociated Press. TITUSVILLE, Fla, March 8.—An- other chapter in the “cruise of the Ploneer” the story of President Hard- iag’s Florida vacation, began today at this point on the Indian river. The preceding chapter ended here 1ate yesterday when the Pioneer, the house doat carrying the presidential , tied up the night. The new s w! ba Erelbiint e 014 an- v | the right bank of the Rhine. Files Suit Against Lumber Company Head. MISS OLGA RALPH, Music atudent, of Evansvil Who charges that John H. Kirby of Houston, head of one of ti rege: lumber companies in Texas and pres. ident of the Southern Traffie Associa- lon, promised her $500 m month for life for renouncing the name of Kirby after she had adopted it at his re- quest. She sues for $4,000. SHOWDOWN IN RUHR LOOMS AS HUNGER PINCHES STRIKERS (Continued from First Page.) to settle immediately without a plebiscite the future regime of tfe Saar basin. Some French leaders de- sire that the Saar shall be returned to 1814 statue—that 18 to say, shall belong outright to France, but the majority seem to prefer thut this small territory shall be made auton- omous within the framework of the German reichs, France merely Keep- ing the ownership of the coal mines. | Force Removed to Unknown Des-|nautics here, and Aviation Machin- tination by French. By the Assont BERLI 2d Press. March A telegram nd states that the French re-entered that city today, surround- ing a echoolhiouse and disarming the yolice, who were quartered there. The force was removed to an un- own destination. The French al- ved the patrolmen to take their belongings with them, while the of- ficers were permitted to retain thelr SWOT The town hall was later oo- cupled. Units from Dorstfeld and Herten were used in the operation “BATTLE"™ OF BOCHUM. French Draw Circle Around Cen- ter of City. Dy Cadle to Tha tar and Chiesgo Dully News. Copyright, 1923. DORTMUND. March S$—The battle !of Bochum has been raging for more than ten days without either the French or the Bochumers showing any & of waning. When the French first entered the shops to make purchases the owners refused to trade with the {nvaders. The French thereupon sald, “If you refuse to sell to us we shall closo your shope.” i Drawing a circls around the center, the French pos and sent .patrols to close Since then the city’s business center has been dead. The hotels, bakers. department stores, candy shops, mea markets and banks have drawn down the shades and placed bars across the French moldiers ses that the doors are kept locked and the sentinels outside the circle examine the pass- porte of persons entering or leaving the district, sometimes casually and sometimes rigorously, One Bochumer was tco slow in drawing his papers and was plerced through the chest with a bayonet. Food Shops to Be Closed. After 7 p.m. all within the tabooed district must be off the street, for martial law reigns. This is incon- venlent, because many of the resi- dents of Bochum are miners who change shifts at night. A reques that the French permit the food shops to_open was refused today. The French are still occupying the main railroad stations and no trains run on schedule time. Interurban cars do not enter the city limits. Bochum_is also without police, for the French disarmed them and night lite within the circle is confined to thieves. So far, the French have not preyented the Bochumers 1iving with- in the circle from purchasing food on the outside and bringing it home, 8o that in this respect the situation is not worse inside than outside the clrcle. NEW ADVANCE MOVE. French Occupy More Territory East of Cologne. By the Associated Press. COLOGNE, March? 8.—Additional territory east of Cologne was occu- pled yesterday by the French troops in order to give France complete control of all the customs posts on By this move the British bridgehead at Cologne is now surrounded by French patrols and outposts. The area east of Cologne for the resent is belng patrolled by the ch. T;\‘o customs posts at the Derring- hausen railroad junction and in the town of Wipperfurth, southeast of Elberfeld, were occupled by the French Tuesday and detachments of French troops were stationed at Gra- fath and mecheid to guard the lines of communications extending from Remscheld just beyond the British area. English Coal Blockaded. By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, March 8- According _to reports from German quarters the French have forbidden further deliveries of English coal to the dye works at Hoechst. Hitherto these plants have been permitted to receive English shipments through an arrangement made by the German rallway administration.. Raflroad Track Torn Up. By the Associated Press. ESSEN, March 8.—The most serlous case of railroad sabotage yet reported was discovered yesterday south of Essen, where 150 vards of the track of the main line between Essen and Duesseldorf had been torn up during Tuesday night. Chancellor Cuno's speech in the reichstag has had a decided eoffect in stimulating the passive resistance among the hundreds of thousands of workmen in the Ruhr, as well as the heads of industry, according to Ger- man sources here. other story of a game of golf and of more cruising over quiet waters of Florida's east coast Inland waterway. It held no prospects of any thrills, but the President, as the chief ohar- acter, has indicated he desires not excitement, but quiet. The new_portion of the story served to_carry and Mrs. Harding still further from winters' ioy blast which 1ast night reached deep into the south. Here it was cool, but not uncom-~ ;- whe live THE EVENING TWO NAVY MEN DIE IN AIRPLANE CRASH Lieut. Robert M. Farrar and Mate Sullivan Killed Near Philadelphia. FORMER D. C. SCHOOLBOY Father for Many Years Was Secretary to Former Senator ' McCumber. i | i LIEUT. ROBERT M. FARRAR. ! Lieut. Robert Mores Farrar, 2138] tacked to the bureau of naval sero- list's Mate Stephen F. Sullivan of the ! {naval alr station, were killed yester- !day when the seaplans which they | were fiylng from Philadelphia to the | station here fell into a river seven | |miles trom Philadelphia. The accident {was witnesssd by a number of per- {rons, according to word racetved here, and when small boats reached the !plane, which was half submerged in | the river, the two aviators were dead, | strapped in thelr seats. Lieut. Farrar, with Machinist Sulli- van, left Washington Tuesday morn- {1ng by rail for Philadelphia for the purpose of “ferrying” back to Wash- | {and, as the oldest son, Dwight is next | {Mo,, to come east. NT. FIRST UNITED STATES - McCOOK FIELD, The first government glider, just launched at McCook Field, Dayt. J. A. Roche, a Frenchman by birth, who is acronautical engineer at the fi sliding meet to be held In this country this yeas Redskin Lad, Pining for Plains, Goes to Join His Father’s Tribe Dwight Madison, 14-Year-Old Chippewa, Disconsolate Here, Yields to Lure of Golden West. Homesick for the west and the peo-, m.x! of his way to be with h ple who understand him and whom | When he reached his e point Quentin said that in view of he understands, and unable to Accus- | the fact that his brother had walked tom himself to the congestion and re two blocks with him, he would recip- straint of the east, Dwight Madison, | Focate. When this point was reached fourteen-year-old Indian lad, “crown | YifRin said prince” of the famous tribe of Chip- | “Here pewas, left his new home, 616 Mas- | “Good-by sachusetts avenus, Monday mnrnlm:‘ Th"" Seen of Future Chief. ¢ heading west. | many His father, according to Mrs Madl- |and son, s chief of the Chippewa tribe, sem you tonight.” kel,” replied Dwight. Indian friends around 3d street Pennsylvania avenue failed to bring out "any information of his whereabouts, that if he had and his mother said | appeared there he Mr. Madison fe here in the | would have been brought home. legislation. But |, He had no money when he left, but Dwight, according to his mother, has | s SITONE desire to again be with the people he knew would not let been dissatisfi=d ever since he left his | him stop for that. Iis mother's fear home and school at Independence, in 1ine. 1s that he has bece o Ak iated with of the hobo tribe who Tide the and freights. Mind Is All Indian. | JAbrolutely no clue as to his where- S = S e he | @bouts could be given the pol! DW.EBL was, keen, bt ©had ithe | oy this disapnessantei was rans clamllke reserve of the Indlan. Mrs. |there today Mre sfadison. howe Madison said, and not even she could | informed sentative of T tell what was turning over in his|Star that he might try to reach Hai mind. He was half Indian, Mrs. Madi- | fiton, near Cincinnati, Ohio, where son informed a reporter for The Star|they had many friends and where today, and that meant that his mind | they ltved for 4 short pericd dur was all Indian. He wanted to Ko!ths war back home and to the country surroundings he knew so well. Only| e a month ago he made an effort to|,k While only fourteen years old. purchase a ticket for home and at |l 8 quite large for his age, and that tima was picked up at the Union | SESn L DO e o station Ly the police and returned to Jie e masididueed Invine long pants, green sweater his home. d Ho ‘planned his departure with a Ieq Cimmines ian clive Maeab » | Boy Scout shirt with collar attached, | brakerods o and | Active as Boy Scout. ington an aeromarine 41 fiying boat| which was to have been used as a| messenger plane between the local station and Dahlgren, Va., and Indian He feared pos- | the keenness of his Indian mind. He informed no one and tuok no one Ang ey cap Swhed ishlede into his confidence. Friday he went out to lunch with a boy friend and was late for school. sible discipline and dld not return | for " schoal He was about five-a half feet jtall and weighed about 130 pounds. { The nail of his right thumb grows in -0 Head, Md. The plane had had about| two years ef service, it is understood. Occarred on Father's Birthday. | | The accident occurred on the birth- | day of Licut. Farrar's father, Robert | | W. Farrar, for many years secretary {to Senator McCumber of North Da-! observance of the | been arranged for at the| ne. in East Clifton Terrace, | Farrar was to have taken ! dinner with the family last night. Lieut. Farrar was born in Faulton, 8. D. September 22, 1894, and spent {his early years in that state. In 1900 | {his father was chosen secretary to! {Senator MecCumber and moved to; { Washington. ~ His son came here 11508, and had lived here up to the tim he entered the United States Naval | | His teacher at the Columbla High | T'd€es. which might make identification School wrote his father, who told Dwight that he must straighten mat- | ters out on Monday. Kiased Mother Good-Bye. With his brother Quentin, nine years old, he left the house osten- 8ibly for sohool Monday, kissing his mother good-bye. Quentin went to a school fu the direction of e Union station and Dwight sald that he would walk a couple blocks WIVES’ APPEALS WIN TWO HUSBANDS PAROLE Malcolm E. Gardner and Charles E. Pensmith Released in Similar | Academy. While a pupil in the graded j#cnools “hers Robert joined the First, Presbyterian Church " He attended the { Denison School, where he was gradu- | latea in 1909. 'He entered McKinley | {Manual Training School, and in the} jspring of 1511 was appointed a mid-; {shipman to the Naval Academy by | Senator McCumber. Entered Navy in 1911 ! He took the examination fn June and | |entered the institution July 13, 1911, ' little more than sixteen years of | age. i He graduated in 1915 and In the Ithree years that followed, he served on the battleships Louisiana and Minnesota and the cruisers Birming- ham, Washington (now the Seattle) and ‘the battleship Georgia. He was | ordered abroad in the destroyer Bur- | rows In April, 1918, and In March, 1919, was transferred to the U. N.! 8. Monoghan. He then was appointed | executive officer of the destroyer Gamble and served on that ship un- til September, 1819, when he was transferred to the naval air station at Pensacola, for aviation training. {He served at Kelley Fleld, Tex., and the air station at San Diego, after| which he was detalled to the U. B. S. | Nevada, which made a trip to Rio de | Janeiro, Brazll, where he remained for several months, taking part {n the meneuvers. He won recognition in the tests conducted there by being catapuited oft a moving battleship in an air- plane. He returned to the United States In December of last year and was detailed to the bureau of naval aeronautics here. Married Miss Edna Brown. While attendihg the Dennison School, Robert met Edna B. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Brown of 3033 16th street. Their friendship became solid, and upon his return frora war Lieut. Farrar and Mise Brown were married, February 14, 1919, at the home of the latters par- ents. It was immediately after & | i Police Court Cases. Maicolm E. Gardner, charged with assaulting his wife, Marfe Gardner, last night, was tried in the Court today and placed on probation, when the wife put in a plea for his release and the defendant promised | not to assault his wife again. He was charged with striking his wife and choking her. Charles E. Pensmith, charged with assaulting his wife, Adie Pensmith, last night at their home, 1610 U street southeast, was placed on pro- bation. the wife pleaded for her husband. Friend Wife Counters. From Good Housekeeping. He was fond of playing silly jokes lon his wife, and this time ha thought he had a winner. “My dear.” he said, as they sat at dinner, “I heard such a sad story of a young girl today. They | thought she was going blind and so & surgeon operated on her found—" “Yes," gasped the wife, breathlessly. “That she had a young man in her eye,” ended the husband with a chuckle. For a moment there was silence. Then the woman remarked, slowly, “Well, it would depend on what sort of a man he was. Some of them she could see through easily enough.” His Excuse Reasonable. From the Youth's Companion. The teacher Was angry when Thomas appeared ten minutes late for school. = “Why are you late, Tommy?” he d sharply. '.!'Plelle.n!{r. replied the sinner, “it was late when I started from home. “Then why didn't you start from Police | It was another case where | easy for one who came across him. While at school in the west, he was | fond of it, never having been tardy or |missed a day. But he has been dis- fled with the conditions in the 1lflnt on his Indian brain, which seemed to have set itself for tha west. FACES JURY FOR THEFT quick to explain that his teachers had taken a personal Interest for him and had done everything to make him feel at home, bui apparently without ef- | R. C. V. Hartley, Former Tobacco Dealer, Accused of Taking Ex-Director of Mint's Car. Richard C. V. Hartley, former prom- {inent tobacco dealer at 13th ana ¥ | Streets northwest, was vlaced on trial today before Justice Bailey and a jury 1in Criminal Divisfon 2 to answer an jindictment charging the larceny of an automobile belonging to Ray Baker, former director of the mint. The car was recovered in Detroit, Mich., wherg Hartley had sold it to Arthur W. Rels- ter for $2,200. Hartley claimed that he bought the car from Senor Prada of the Peruvian legation, and exhiblted GOVERNMENT GLIDER LAUNCHED AT Ohio, s being en its ‘final test by 07" The planes will be catrred n the RISH REBEL CHIEF {3 TAKEN PRISONER {Con Maloney, Deputy Head of ' Staff, Captured by Na- tional Army. By the Assoclated Press. BELFAST, March 8.—Con Maloney, republican deputy chief of staff, has been captured in Glen Aherlow. Ma- loney was the successor of Liam Deasy, whose peace proposals, made | while he was & prisoner of the na- | tional army, were rejected by the republican leaders last month. ¢ Clergy Seek Peace. | Peace proposals signed by many of the Catholic clergy and addressed to the leader of the southern republi- cans, Commandant Gen. Tom Barry, |y Father Duggan of Cork, have been | |issued here. The immediate cessatic of hostilities is sought by halting the | activities and operations of the Irish | republican army and the dumping ot} arms and munitions by the repub- licans under charge of the battalion commandants, who will be responsi- ble that they shall not be used against the Free State government and forces. After a general election is held the arms and munitions are to be jhanded over to the elected govern- | ment. { The proposals are signed by Arch- bishop Harty of Cashel, Canon Coha. lan of Bandon, Canon Ryan of Thurles, Father O'Leary of Cork, Frank Daly, chalrman_of the Cork harbor commissioners; Dr. O'Donovan and T. P. Dowdall of Cork. Gen. Barry has replied, undertaking |to circulate the proposals for imme- diate consideration among the mem- bers of the executive of the Irish republican army. The news has been received here jovfully and there is general hope ‘that peace will be brought about. Twelve Killed by Bombs. DUBLIN, March 8.—Twelve irregu lar prisoners were killed in County Kerry yesterday through the explo-| sion of trigger mines. National troops, proceeding from | Tralee to Killorglin, encountered a tone barricade and brought prison- ers from Tralee to remove the obstruc- tion. Concealed tn the barricade was a | trigger mine, which explod: | elght of the prisoners and wounding jiemo national army officers and scl- diers. | Another barricade was found on af E bridge and prisoners were taken there |spa 1, R. Steel Service Corporation Quade to_remove it. Here there Was an- other trigger mine, which also ex- i ploded, killing four prisoners. i i | ~ IN SELF-DEFENSE | (Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth % Cordes Opens in Alex- andria. | Epecial Dispatch to The Star. Italian “Flapper Princess’”’ Arrives ToLectureinU.S. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 8.—The liner Gluseppe Verd! has arrived with a “flapper princess.” She is Princess Santa Borghese, of old Roman patriclan family, who has her hair bobbed and ‘wears the most modern of Ameri- can traveling suits. She hadn't been on board ten minutes before £he got her nickname. But the princess also is a serious young person. While studying in the public schools of Rome she be- came interested in the activitles of Italy's young intellectuals, and herself holds the degree of doctor of letters and philosophy from the University of Bologna and a diploma from the University of Rome, authorizing her to teach English in the secondary schools of Italy. Moreover, this daughter of Prince Scipione Borghese speaks two lan- guages, besides English and Ital- ian, and is a sculptor of promise. She comes to convey to this country a mewsage from Italy's youth and to describe in a series of lectures her country’s social evolution. Later this month &he will go to Oakland, Calif., to rep- resent the Itallan government at an international conference of u versity delegates. §22,000,000 STEEL ENTERPRISES FAIL Concern Goes Into Receiver- ship by Act of Federal Court. FIRST STARTED IN 1919 Promoter, When Board of Control Took Charge. By the Aseociated Press. BUFFALO, N. ., March ers were appointed in federal court here today for the L. R. Steel ent prises, fn which the pu vested about $22,000,000. the promoter, severed his c with the companies, were nearly a score, and since then direction of t: en es has been in the a board of control. The receivers were azppointed on a suft in equity brought to conser | the assets of the various corporation | The petitioner is the Natlonal To and Tinsel Manufacturing Company of | Manitowoe, Wis. Judge John R. Hazel named as re-| W. Reilley, Buffalo Da lawyer, and C of Buffalo. £ cetvers Wil umber me; New York Organiized in 1019. The parent Steel company was or- ganized in 1919 by Leonard R. Steel, who for several years had been iden- tifled with chain store companies It later became known as L. R. el, Inc., and as the business grew sub- sidiaries were formed to sell stock, to , Killng | samintster the real estate controlled | erations for by the various enterprises and many other purposes. Chief among the subsidiaries was which handled the sale of stock in all the Steel concerns in which the public was invited to invest. Elaborate i offices were opened in the larger cities ard & of the United States and Canada and dispose of stock. Fifty thousand per- sons, it is stated, put more than —_— LAlMS SHE SHUT ia large selling force was engaged to MO {$20,000,000 Into the common and pre- *°¥ ferred stock. Steel Lauded. Frequent conventions of the Steel stock salesmen were held at which The first elgn of distress, so far as the public was informed, came on {January 27 when it was announced that Leonard R. Steel had surrendered the presidency of the L. R. Steel, in corporated, the I. R. Steel Service j& bill of sale signed Senor Don Joseph | ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8.—The | Development Company and had placed | Prada. House Detective Daugherty 1and Hartley were on the porch of the ' hotel August 2 last and Hzruey asked him {f there was any one about the hotel that wanted to sell his car, The detective said he jokingly referred to the handsome car ‘of Mr. Baker, which was parked in front of the hotel, and |with Hartley walked to the machine | to examine it. He went into the hotel, |the detective stated, and a short while ilater missed Hartley and the car. Mr. Bcker told of the loss of his car and of its recovery. Mr. Relster tes- tifled to buying the car from Hartley. Unable to Hear Arnold. There was one sphere, it is said, in which Matthew Arnold was very un: fortunate, and that was in public speaking. “Matthew Arnold,” says Maj. Pond in Eccentricities of Genius, | | trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Cordes, for-, | mantraut, which took place {n this {city the afternoon of December 31, fand from the effects of which Ehr- | mantraut died in Providence Hos- | pital, Washington, January 16, was| begun this morning before a jury in the corporation court, Judge How- ard W. Smith presiding. Self-defens= will be the plea of Mrs, Cordes. The jury was chosen in less than half an hour. The testimony of Mrs. Cordes, it is stated, will be that in the scuffie for the possession of the weapon, which | took place at the home of Mrs. Cordes, | $15 Oronoco street, the dead man fired the first shot, and then she fired, but his stockholdings in these and other subsidiaries in the hands of an ex- | of | merly of Washington, charged with ' ecutive board. ang;Wardman Park Inn testified that he the fatal shooting of Bernard A. Ehr- “Broke” Upon Retirement. Steel, it was intimated, left his enterprises without a dollar except what was represented in his Steel security holdings. His city home previously had heen sold and a beautiful country residence, where he now ltves, was iIn his wife's name. Mr. Steel's health was shattered by | his three years devotion to the busi- \(iien ness, it was stated. W. M. Wilkins, general counsel for Steel corporations, was made chair- man -of the executive board. Stock selling, it was announced, would be discontinued, but it was not until the middle of February that the stock selling agency ceased to function. This_was Retired January * 27, | ollowed by announce- | RUM SEIZED HERE TAKEN IN GOTHAM Bottles Tagged “Evidence™ Found in Apartment of ! William E. Svenson. $8,500 STOCK FOUND Rare Vintage of Wine and Liquors Confiscated, With List of “Customers.” Ten cases of Bacard! rum which haf been confiscated April 17, 1922, fn g raid on the establishment of Timothy Shine, 428 Tth avenus, New York city, the police say, were among the $3,500 worth of Imported liquors, wines and |champagne seized when members o2 the vice squad and revenue officers last night ralded the apartment of Wiillam Edward Svenson, 805-308 Chateau Thierry apartments, 1920 street northwest, 5 It Is efpected that fmmediate steps for an investigation fato the mannes this confiscated liquor got W York will be instituted b+ ion enforcement offici “inds Tag on Bottle. 14 o. Davis the |squad, leader of the raiders, made the | discovery. In opening one case of the | 8enuine Bacard!, which was 1876 vin. | t28¢, he noticed a emall label pasted around the neci of the bottle. Tho label read 86 followe: “Fvie {dence in case of Timothy Shine, ars rested April 19, 1922, at 428 Tth ave- { for violating state liquor law, | by E. McGillicuddy. 488¢ H. D. , Lieut. Davis pointed out the pos | bility that these labels were spuricus | and were placed there for the beges* of gullible customers, but experts i Prohibition work attested them gen uine this morning and suggested en cases of rum were &tolen fro E York warehouse. Lieut. Davis this mor the value of the liquor $8,500. Bottles of all deseript |Tere found. Komé were works ¢ {iith epider webs and figures b nto the glass. Some wer out of | prohib = of [E ence and two fi ed to be a por that dl: from ne point all others— ot one drop of co Get Dusty Benedictine. seized consignment ne! e in the character! long-necked bottles and Green Stripe jScotch whisky sealed with lead | Musty o14 bottles of benedic | portions of cobwebs sticking to the nestled bestds Wray Nephew's ca rum. 1 police daclare tailed at $20 2 quart—bearing the iquo-Ponsaidin _labe from Rel {and Hiolland schnapps in square-ta ped, small-bottomed bottles, sealew ith red ssaling wax, were included n the seizure. Then ere was gin. believed to be srnthetic, in botties |that stood like outcasts beside the {musty old genuine containers. | As far as quality goes, Leuit. Davis !expressed the opinfon that never be- fore in the history of vice squad op ad liquor that was appa- rently so excellent and types o wide- ly_assorted turned up. The raid was staged shortly afier midnight. Lieut. Davis, Sergt. Mc- and Private Bauer of the vice | squad, Assistant Divisional Director of Prohibition Agents Ralph Ruby and Agents Fowler, Hertzig, Pack- Burrell made up party. aiding party occupled an auto e which was waiting for the arrival of Svenso. son drove up to the apartment, noticed the car, and ki going. He ran up 20th strest and doused his lights. The raiders did not_follow. Ha circled the block and came back, | figured the machine was not awaits ing him, and entered the apartment. | Then the raiders walked in. In his he ! Steel was lauded as “a wizard in chain | 1iVing apartment no liquor was found, {store management” and the force was | ! enthused to greater effort in the dis-, had been renting two apartments. { posal of stock in Steel enterprises. but next He according to Lieut. Davis, door the cache was uncovered. Wife Overcome. Mre. Svenson was o overcome by the excitement attendant upon Ithe raid that she is under a physi- lclan’'s care. A list of customers was | tound in @ book that was confiscated, ! Corporation and the 1. R. Steel Reaity ' according to the police, containing 300 names and addresses which em- brace some of the most substantial citizens of the capital. Telegrams also were found indicat- ing an exchange of messages relative | to busineks at Norfolk, Va. One of |them dated March, 1922, announced ithat the “principal” was there and | requested a meeting tomorrow, prom- |ising that a deal could be closed. It was slgned “Captain.” . "This is the first time that Svenson ihas been arrested. He was held on 142,000 bond, which was provided Svenson falked frankly with the po- Ho spoke of the manner fn ho proceeded with his work, ac |cording to the police, and begged them not to disclose the list of cus tomers. | The “up” on Svenson, leading to the rald, was obtained yesterday by {the call of a woman whose husband |was allegedly one of the customers lof the man arrested. She told about it during the middle of the day. Ar. short honeymoon that Lieut. Farrar home earlier?” entered naval aviation. “Please, sir, it was too late to start “came to America and gave 100 lec- |not at Ehrmantraut. She will rely tures. Nobody ever heard one of them,, on this statement for her defense, as nots even those sitting in the front, thers were no witnesses to the shoot- ment that the state attorney general [rangements sere made swiftly and had been investigating the financial |the raid took place within fourteen status of the Steel companies and hours. Noticing accounts of the raid Lieut. Farrar, beside his wite, is survived by his father and bother, Mr. and Mrs Robert W. Farrar; a brother, Midshipman Murvale T. Farrar of the United States Naval Academy, and a sister, Mrs. Henry B. Burnett, whose husband is a naval lieutenant, on duty now at the Naval Academy. The body of Lieut. Farrar is expected ‘to arrive here this afternoon. Funera! gervices will be held at the grave in Arlington cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. James Shera Mont- gomery will officlate. Sullivan Here Year. Machinists' Mate Sullivan has been on duty at the naval air station here since March 2, 1922, and was sald to be one of the best at the station as well as one of the most popular. He was serving his third enlistment in the Navy, having originally en- listed in 1917. He served on the.bat- tleships Georgla and Utah and was honorably discharged in August, 1919, He re-enlisted in December, and dur- ing the term of service that followed ‘'was on duty at the naval air station, San Diego, and the U. 8. S. Arostook. He recelved iInstruction at the Ad- vanced Aviation Mechanics’ School at ‘the-Great Lakes training station, and ‘when he was honorably discharged in September, 1921, he immediately re- enlisted at Chicago. Prior to his de- tationed at Phila- gue‘lphll». His home is in Roxbury, Grafton L. McGill, a patent attor- ney, was found dead {n his room, at 1804 M street, last night. The °de. ceased, Who was forty-eight yearw, old, was a native of Haymarket, Vi ‘where two sisters reside, arrangements have not been ocom-. early.” row.” In a letter to his sister Fanny, Arnold describes how Gen. Grant called at the office of the “Tribune’” ia tne| o thank that paper for its full ac- elphia clergyman is thelcount of one of his lectures. because r.&.ef'.‘,'f"f son whose habits of un- |he had “heard imperfectl What punctuality are a sore trial. Never-|Arnold did not know was that Grant, theless, the youth's ready tongue is a after a few minutes of attentive source of secret delight to the parent. |listening, was overheard to say to his Once the young man appeared at|wife, “Well, wife, we have paid to Sunday breakfast twenty minutes see the British, lion. We can’t hear after the appointed time. him roar, so we had better go home.’ “Son,” sald the minister, reproach- fully, as he held his watch so that the youth might See its acousing , “do you think this is right? Do :’o? honestly think it 1s right?’ From the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Well, father,” returned the young| ‘John, dear, did. you enjoy the man regretfully, “I wish it wers| Welsh rabbit I made? about twenty minutes fast, but as' “Darling! And the biscuits! Enjoy you ask me to say honestiy, 1 am them? Why, I couldn't sleep all night afraid it's just about right.’ for thinking about them! The News Brought Right Down to Going-Home Time The 5:30 EDITION OF THE EVENING STAR is issued to bring you the very latest reports of the world’s activities, You can read them in the “5:30 EDITION,” confident of their accuracy—sure you’ve got the last word. Financial news and Sports results are fea- tured, together with the program arranged in the Courts for tomorrow. For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city. . Just About. From the Philadelphia Bulletin. Appreciation. ing, it i» stated. Witnesses Summoned. The following witnesses have been summoned:- Charles T. Goods, chief of police; Leo Magner, member of the police force; Detectivé Sergt. Edward Kelly, Dr. Herbert Martyn, Dr. J. A. | Cowhill, Lee Outlaw, Kate Wilson, Teddy Wilson, Miss Katherine Ewald, Guy Shaw, Mra Guy Shaw, Harvey Evans, Charles Fletcher, Mrs, F. J. Garvey and F. J. Garvey. Most of the witnesses have been summoned in behalf of the common- wealth, and are from Washington. Members of Jury. Mrs. Cordes is represented by At- torneys W. S. Snow and Robert W. Stump, The prosecution i belng ¢on- ducted_by Commonwealth Attorney ‘W. P. Wolls. . The jury is composed of Carter H. 8mith, Robert W. Schneider, Fred E. Cornell, B. K. Clarkson, Boyd J. Rich- ards, David N. Hulfish, Cameron Rob- erts, Wilmer Scott, Harry W, Wade, A. M. Sherwood, Willlam J. Schuler and Harry Fedder. - —_——— CHARITY FAKE EXPOSED. Trinity Church Rector Warns Public Against Candy Sellers. Reports have reached the police that a number of persons have been soliciting residents of this city to purchase candy for the benefit of Trinity Community House, 3d and C streets, the solicitors representing that a $3 purchase will mean the feeding of one child. Rev. David R Covell, rector of Trinity Church and superintendent of _the community houge work, told the police he had authorized no persons. to sell candy for the benefit of the house l | l that the Steel executive board had entered into a stipulation not to sell more stocik. —_— At the age of twenty years, Miss vivian Cook of Mississippi is prob- ably the youngest practicing attorney in the world. in the morning papers, the anony- | mous fnformant called up Lieut. Da | vis and thanked him this morning. e e S Mrs. John W. Riddle. wife of ambaesador to Argentina, has been elected an honerary member of the Argentine Society of Architects. Put in Jail With $2 Resources; Finishes Sente Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., March 8.—Wal- ter S. Buchanan of Louisa county, who has just completed a sojourn of several months in the city jail, having been convicted in the United States district court of an infraction of the federal laws, left here last evening for Washington, where he is wanted by the federal government in connection with an allegation that he has been recely- ing pension money to which he was not entitled. Buchanan has been in trouble with the federal laws on many occasions, and he is a man who appears to be able to get along in comfort. Office in Jall. When Buchanan was brought bere he had a total of less than $2, and when he left he had accu- mulated something Iike $5,000 by strict attention to business. Bu- chanan had.a regular office in jail, had a typewriter, two assistants, and was attending to business nce With $5,000 without costs. He had his meals served from a restaurant, gave esents to the inmates and when e left distributed cigars worth $110 among the inmates. Of the money he had accumulated $2,000 was in cash in his inside pocket. Buchanan had a system of learn- ing which of the Spanish war vet- erans were injured and entitled to a pension. He would open nego- tiations_with such ex-soldier ana undertake the case for a fixed sum, and if he succeeded in getting « pension he recelved a fat fee Nothing wrong in the law rega ing the matter, so far as has been discovered, but he was convicted of misuse of the maila Enlisted After War. ‘Washington charges that tha man has received a pension for two years while claiming to be a former world war soldier, when the records show he did not enlist sccording to local reports, until after the war was over. Hé {8 to make answer to this allegation ‘in ‘Washington. His wife went with him from Richmond to Washing- ton.

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