Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1923, Page 2

POST OFFICE FACING 'DEFICIT IN FUNDS MNew Confronted by Serious & Situation as He Takes Up Reins. SERVICE IS THREATENED Curtailment May Result if Busi- ness Shows Big Gain Before July 1. Postmaster General New will face oné of the most difficuit problems ever encountered by a head of the postal service, when he takes up the duties of his position tomorrow, following his re- turn from Indiana. How to make the postal appropria- ‘tlons now available stretch out to cover the daily increasing business of the service until more funds are available July 1 next, is the problem facing Mr. New., Fear Fun@s Will Run Out. T2 the increased postal business con- ®inues until that time, as it Is expected ¥t will, high postal officials are fearing ‘the money will run out before the 1924 tiscal year appropriations become avail- @ble, and two alternatives will face the service: Either to stop the service, or ask carriers and clerks throughout the <ountry to work without pay. Postmaster General New, fully ap- Drised of the situation, made espe- oial study while in Indianapolls dur- ing the past few days of the condi- tlons at the new parcel post depot at that city, as probably this branch of the postal service will suffer first if the funds run out. At present the postal service Is bandling an average of 16 per cent more work with an average of only 8 per cent larger force than last year, whereas at least 10 per cent more clerks and carriers are needed, mocording to the best postal expert ©opinion. Economy Move Is Made. The $3,500,000 granted the postal mervice by Congress on the eve of its adjournment will keep the postal system of the country from break- ing down completely, but is mot enough to carry the service clear through to July 1, under present ex- Dectations. Postal inspectors are now stationed mt Indianapolis, San Francisco, De- troit, Boston, ¢ go, St. Louls and other great cities to see to it that the offices are run with a mintmum of expense, against the possible day when the emergency appropriation will run out Stringent orders to “cut to the bone’” on all work were sent out by the Post Office Department to these and other citles, but have been some- ‘what curtailed as the result of the se- curing of the deficency appropriation. The situation remains, however, very bad, and officials make no pre- tense to min!mize the threatened lack ©f funds. For if the money does run out, it may mean real breakdown of the service. By the word “break- down” they mean just that. The pos- service is like a great pipe line— [t must be kept flowing with letters &nd parcels. Parcel Post Curtailment. %2 one such great post office, Chi- @ago for instance, should be forced @0 shut down for a week, there would #esult such & clog of mail that every @ity and town in the country would foel 1t. To think of the entire service #2 the country as shut down for a Wweek is to picture an indescribable eonfusion, & tangle that might take $ponths and years to straighten out. Already the curtailment by postmas- Rers has extended to the parcel post, th that in some of the larger cities t offices no longer send_trucks to offices of big mallers. Such firms fust send their own packages to the post offices. If the funds do run out, the Post ©Office Department neither wants to ©lose down the service or ask carriers and clerks to work for nothing. At present the post office clerks of the ountry are being paid $2,000,000 every week. The carriers receive $1,500,000 in salaries every week. The patriotism of the men and women of the postal service is mo at that {f Postmaster General New, uring some week in june, is forced o ask them to give their service for mothing, there is littie doubt of the result. They would do so. " But it may be sald that no official of the department wants to make any such vequest &s that ‘Work Grows Steadily. Besldes, the work of the servios is growing by leaps and bounds, and the Dersonnel ought to grow to handle Ihe work. Tho department could wasily place 1,000 letter carriers at Joba throughout the country where “hey are sorely needed if it had the nde. But now it must even curtail hat force it has and this fn the Race of the fact that the postal busi- iness of the country is on an average ©f 15 per cent heavior so far this ear than during the same months last oar. If the postal recelpts jump to a W0 per cent increase and stick there, then increase a bit during May, whe service will be in a real dilemma It is this problem which the new {Postmaster General faces. WILL COMPLETE PACKER - MERGER WITHIN WEEK Chicago Dispatch Says by That Tims Value of Armour Stock Will Be Fixed. $7 the Asmociated Press. CHICAGO, March 8.—The merger #¢ Armour & Co. and Morris & Co. il ‘be consummated within a week, At was learned today from an au- #noritative source, Within that time the valuation of the Armour & Co, Btock to be exchanged as part of the purchase price will be fixed by #rbitration, it was made known. NEW POTATO CHAMPION. STATE COLLEGE. Pa., March 8.— champion potato grower of mnsylvania is F. H. Dickerager of lonesta, Forest county, according to $n announcement today of the Agri- tural extensfon service of the ylvania State College. He 497 bushels of potatoes to an ore last season, which is more than four times as much as the state av- E:u::!o last season, College rep- ntatives witnessed digging in t! n of records. AWARD HEAT CONTRACT. -Auln: lu:tn:r tNho l’n1 :4“ ?: i n No. engind oul g b SR P.Y‘. Y the 2'. 1n board ssion, $18,821,000U.8S. Funds Allocated THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, hecnd AT, WILLNOT EXTEND For Farm Work - R{JHR OCCUPATION There was allocated for co-oper- ative agricultural extension work throughout the country in 1922-23 approximately $18,821,000, of which the federal government contributed $5,880,000 under the provisions of the Smith-Lever act. Congress by direct appropriation to the De- partment _of Agriculture made avallable $1,028,000 in addition for farmers’ co-operative demonstra- tion work and $45,000 for extension work, making a total from federal sources of $6,963,000. The remain- ing $11,868,000 was derived from sources within the states, includ- ing $5,241,000 appropriated by state legislatures and funds under con trol of the atate agricultural col- leges. 35,664,000 provided by the different counties, and $1,973,000 from other sources, mostly local. FEELERS 0T AGAI FORGERMANLOAN BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Star and Chieago Daily News. Copyright, 1023, BERLIN. March 9.—Germany is putting out feelers to discover whether now, following the steady tmprovement of the German mark abroad, there is a better chance for raising &n International loan. Finance Minister Hermes is work- ing on new plans which are intended o convince forelgn financial circles that Germany does not offer such bad investment opportunities after all, Conversation With Banker, A few days ago the following con- versation is sald to have taken place between Herr Hermes and a leading English banker: Hermes: “What are the objections of Great Britain and the United States to giving a reasonable loan at a reasonable interest, so that we can catch our breath again, and not only satisfy France temporarily, but straighten out our owa financial trou- les? English Banker: “The situation has changed very lttle since the Cannes_conference a year ago, whon Lioyd George pointed out to you that the financlal interests of the world would not consider loaning money to Germany so long as her printing presses kept on turning out hundreds of millions—I believe that It is bil- lions now—of paper marks weekly, no eound banker in the world could possibly regard Germany as & safe investment while the world was being swamped with German paper marks having no security back of them. Pledges Stopping Presses. Hermes: “But we are prepared to stop the printing presses the minute We get an international loan.” Banker: “But how can Germany ex- plain her present manipulations on the money market? She still keeps the printing going day and night and at the same time she is buying up marks abroad. The mark is going up and has been fairly stable despite the adverse situation in the Ruhr region. But does Germany realls need to keep the presses going just now and until she gets the international loan she is hoping for? Foreign bankers cannot quite un- derstand Germany’s present policy in this_respect.” ‘What reply Herr Hermes mads could not be learned by the correspondent, but the whole conversation Is said to have made a deep impression on the finance minister. FRENCH EVACUATE DORTMUND AFTER EXPELLING POLICE (Continped from First Page.) cratic News Agency to have notified the Danish government that France can hardly regard the admission of German children to Denmark for re- cuperation as a sign of neutrality. This statement s made public In connection with a report that the Dan- ish socfalists had decided to care for 10,000 children from the Ruhr for :hree months instead of 1,000, as originally planned BRITISH: RESENTFUL By the Awsociated Press. LONDON, March 9.—The outcry raised by British merchants in Co- logne against the Franco-Belglan customs barrier around that area gathers strength daily. The chief complaint is that British trade with Germany 18 being strangled and ie almost_at a standstill. The British chairman of commerce in Cologne has renewed its protests to the London lovernr‘ent. agalinst what it regards s an® attempt to blockade the zone. It seems, how- ever, that there are also is some re- sentment over the action of the French and Belglan troops in com- pletely surrounding the British bridgehead, which has made it im- possible for the English- to move eastward without obtaining permis- slon of the military posts. There are reports that the relations between these posts and the British are none ‘oo friendly. Withdrawal Talk Revived Some of the newspapers have revived the discussion of the possible withdrawal of Gen, Godley’s troops. t is said that the German population in the Cologne district believes this step to be Imminent. On the other hand, the Cologne cor- respondent of the Daily Mall, which is practically the only London news- paper supporting the French, say that German propagandists are seek: ing to create dissensions betwee: the' British and the Ruhr allies. Hi assorts that the British traders are overdoing their complaint Gen. Godley's business in London 18 said to be in no way confined to the question of rallroads. The Te graph's diplomatic expert writes: “A most momentous development has oc- ourred In_connection with the nego- tiations bstween Gen. Godley and Gen. Payot regarding the use of the rallways,” but the writer does not divuige the nature of the develop- ment. : Meanwhile, it s understood that an active interchange of views ia pro. ceeding among the British ministertel of war, foreign affairs and trade wit] regard to the tangied situation. It is jearned authoritatively that verbal Tepresentation has been made to France through diplomatic channels, pointing out the difficulties forced upon the British authorities in the Rhineland. Some reports say that the London government has made a for- mal protest on legal grounds against the occupation of territory between the Rhine bridgeheads. NO COAL SHORTAGE. BERLIN, March 9—The German coal commission informed a ref committee today that the country’s %k‘m‘ on the whola“llt =3 o o large supplies of repara- tions fuel which were divertsd to un- occupied Germany instead of to France and Belgium during the first few weeks of the omn;rluon and to large tions of British coal last year, ‘mission said, public utilities and consumers were well take care of. ‘Thers has also been an increase in the jction of the mines outside the Ruhr, for the miners have been working overtime. ‘The blatt says that the Ruhr re- now exceeded ten biilion marks. It is semi-officially stated that $,500,000,000 paper marks have been recetved ?tlfll.m ot Mioien o Busouieniss Mo grade and Athenx, 6 com- ite l 1 Gen. Degoutte Expects In- vasion of Area Soon to Bear Fruit. POINCARE MAKES REPLY| ! Declares It Is Absurd for Cuno to| Pretend Allies Could Demand Only Cash. | By tie Associated Press. | DUESSELDORF, March 9.—France will not increase her present hold on the Ruhr. This was the reply of Gen. Degoutte, the French com- mander, made in a statement to the newspapermen {n answer to Chan- cellor Cuno's address before the relchstag on Monday. German resist- ance, Gen. Degoutte declared, had only fortified France in her struggle in the Ruhr, and he predicted that soon the French and Belgian economic blockade would begin to bear fryit “The object and resolve of France's policy in the Ruhr has not changed,” sald Gen. Degoutte. “We entered the Ruhr to compel (Germany to honor her obligations, as the Cuno government had come into open revolt. The strug- gle this account has assumed a charucter we have not desired, a we cannot be held responsible for the outcome.” We could not mildly over: look acts of rebellion and open de- fiance, for our security was at stake. However, we have not molested nor ill treated anybody here. POINCARE ANSWERS CUNO. Absurb to Say Allies Can Demand Only Cash, He Declares. By the Associated Press. PAR March 9.—Premier Poin- care, replying to a memorandum dis- tilbuted to the diplomatic corps by Germany on February 15, last night issued a long statement in which he | says it {s absurd for the Germans to pretend that the allies could only demand additional cash as penaity for the non-delivery of lumbeer and coal, since Germany at the same time was declaring to the repara- tions commission that she could pay mo cash at ail. As to the German contention, that in any case, the allies were not warrant- ed’in occupying more German terri- tory, M. Polncare recalls that the! protocol of Spa, in which is recorded | the agreement with the Germans re- garding coal deliveries, contained a Statement to the effect that if the quantities provided for were not de- livered within the dates mentioned the allies could proceed to the occu- pation of & new part of German ter- ritory, either in the Ruhr or else- where. M. Poincare observes that the Germans did not protest against this provision. To the German contention that the word “respective” in Article XVIII of the treaty of Versaiiles does not mean that any one of tha allies has the right to act Independently In the ap- plication of penaities, M. Poincare says the Germans already have profit- od from an interpretation of that clause which was contrary to their own interpretation. He refers to the case of Great Britain's separate ac- tion in _renouncing rights under Ar- ticle XVIII in so far as they con- cerned property of German natlonals seized. KMCKERBOCKER CASE ARGUMENTS HEARD Decision on Whether Litigants Have Right to Joint Action May Be Reserved. Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Court today beard argu- ments of counsel on the question of the right of the legal representative of victims of the Knickerbocker Theater disaster to join in the same suit for damages against the theater company, the architect, the fron fabricator, the cement man and th bullding inspector. Deciston will probably be reserved. Attorney Daniel Thew Wright, for Reginald W. Geare, the architect, at- tacked the fifty declarations asking damages of $500,000, on the ground that there had been a misjoinder of both parties and causes of action. He claimed there was no joined la- bility between these meveral persons engaged In constructing the bullding, because on thelr fac the declaration: state each had a separate duty and & #eparate cause for action should lie for the negligence, if any, of each of the parties sued. Attorney Charles A. Douglas for the victims of the catastrophe defended the declarations as drawn. He as- serted that in & civil actin there can be joint and several liabilities as long as the actions of the several parties relate to the one cause of the disaster. The rule in such cases is not as drastic as in a criminal charge, he claims, where intent would havi to be shown. PRESIDENT SHAKES OFF CARES OF OFFICE WITH THE AID OF A GOLF CLUB AT ORMOND Photograph, just received from Florid: shows President Harding enjoying the first game of golf of his vacation trip. Trom the 8:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star. Coast Guards Rescue Freezing Crew From Wrecked Schooner By the Associated Press. ANTUCKETT, Masa, March 8.— The crew of seven men of the Can dian schooner E. M. Roberts, after i | Through the night the coast guard stood by on the wintry shore, a fire which they kindled as a sign of en- couragement to the ship-wrecked mariners serving also to Keep them a night of suffering in a cabin flooded | Warm. by water that was freezing slowly, This morning Capt. Bohdin headed his hearties out agaln and this time while their vessel was wrecked by |they pushed their dory through the of the Coskata coast guard station today. | grent seas were rescued by the crew | surf and reaced the stricken schooner. Clambering aboard 5 cult, as the Roberts was covered with fce. Capt. Bohdin said that The_seooner, laden with coal from | when he and his men had broken New York for St. John, B, lost through the ice to get to the cabin her anchors in the storm off Great |door, he found Capt. Willlam Kelson Polnt last night, was driven ashore and lay broadside on the beach. Capt. Adolph A. Bohdin and his men of the | of St. John and his six men inside. They were almost frozen. The Roberts' men were taken off Coskata station tried unsuccessfully | with some difficulty, as the schooner to launch their surf boat through the | was being beaten constantly by ibreakers. Then they se. up the rig- ' seas, but ging for rescue by breeches buoy, but | jury to any. two attempts the line|guard quarters today under treat on each of fell short of the schoone: the were landed without in They were at the coa ment for frost bites. BALFOUR IS CONDEMNED I’troum-, first, to the difference of FOR CENSURE OF HARVEY (Continued from First Page.) papers today. Some of the writers re- gard the address as politely censorious. The Westminster Gazette, for example, refers to it as a “lecture in international morality.” Repeating Col. Harvey's quotation of the contentious clause in the note— “Under the arrangement _arrived at, the United States insisted, in substance, if not in form, though our allles were to spend the money, it was only on our (Britain's) security that they were prepared to lend it"— Lord Balfour sald he could find noth- ing obscure or misleading in this pas- sage. Speech Prepared With Care. The Earl of Balfour yesterday de- livered his reply to the strictures Ambassador Harvey passed on his famous note to the allies on the sub- Ject of Inter-allied debts. Lord Bal- four spoke in the calm and almost unmoved atmospheres customary In the house of lords, which was not even crowded to hear his explana- tions, and when his statement ended none of the peers offered any com- ment, and the house straightway ad- Journed. Abandoning his custom of speaking extempore, Lord Balfour took his usual care In the explanation, forti- fying himself with copious notes and thus _signalizing his recognition of the delicacy of the task confronting him, and, as is also usual with him, he dealt gracefully and tactfully with the subject, in order to leave no rankling behind. Reminding the house that when the note was originally prepared it was dealing with “the most difficult, the most dangerous and the most anx- fous question of international indebt- edness,” he quoted the passage Am- bassador Harvey objected to as fol- lo! “The United States, Insisted, in substance, if not In form, that though our allies were to spend the money it was only on our security that they were prepared to lend it Finds Nothing Misleading. He declared that he could find noth- ing either misleading or obsoure in the passage. He attributed the whole view between America and England regarding how far financing the war should be a great co-operative ef- fort, and, second, to the fact that the United States government, when it came into the war did not see its way to adopt the British suggestion that “as we had borne the main burden of financing the European allies du ing the early years of the war, Amer- ica, who came fresh into the great struggle, might relieve us of that part of our difficulties. Balfour pointed out that had Amer- ica adopted this suggestion there would have been no American loan to Great Britain, and many controver- sies would have been avoided and in- ternational arrangements would have followed another course. He repudi- ated any i{dea of questioning the Amerlcan “decision, but sald 1t In. volved Great Britain in continuing to bear a double burden. Thus reviewing the whole circum- stances of the case in order to justify the tenor of his note, Lord Balfour admitted that the transactions in question were not i though it must be confessed were most imperfectly summarized fn the phrasge to which objection was taken. i Seeks Reason for Criticlam. He then passed to what was perhaps the most fmportant part of his ex~ planation, which seemed to seek to find some extenuation or justification for Ambassador Harvey's criticism in the Qifference of view held on the two sides of the Atlantlo—the American view that financfal arrangements be- tween the partners in the great war were isolated undertakings which he assumed Mr. Harvey regarded as nec- essary “if the sanctity of contracts was to be maintained,” and which, in the ambassador's view, “will confer actual benefits on the debtor himself by improving his general credit.” Lord Balfour concluded with an ex- pression of his own “less commercial” view and final tribute to the fact that America had given effect to her own view {n a manner least likely to injure the happy relations between the two peoples. —— Prof. Breasted and other oriental- ists say the Babylonian hanging gar- dens were roof gardens. They were on temples, palaces and dwellings. Egypt had them centuries before Babylon. The half barbarian Greeks who first saw them called them hang- ing gardens and put them down as one of the wonders of the anclent world. OST LIFE NEW HECHT STORE PLANS ANNOUNGED Structure Will Cost $2,000, 000 and Building Is Due to Start Next Fall. Detailed plans for the crection by !the Hecht Company of a seven-story buflding at the southeast corner of 7th and F streets northwest were made known yesterday afternoon fol- lowing a hearing before the zoning icommission on the petition of the {company to be allowed to carry its proposed home to a height of 110 {feet. The elghty-five-foot height limit formerly imposed at this corner {was raised 1o comply with the com- pany’'s request | The new structure, |{will cost in the neighborhood of 182,000,000, Construction will start !next fall and compietion is expected by the following January. Bulldings now on the site, including the Fed- iemx, Baum and Pacific buildings and the Shubert-Garrick Theater, will b-, 1 | it is understood, razed at that time. ld Store to Be Anne cording to plans drawn by Jarvis| the structure will have a front- n F street of about 185 feet and approximately 1l increase the firny's 7th cet frontage to 225 feet. The pres- tore will be used as an annex upon completion of the new home. The exterior of the Hecht home wi of semi-glazed terra cotta, wi polychroma decorations. There be an abundance of show window space on both street fronts. Two en- trances will be incorporated on each front. Fireproof construction will be used, with steel stalrways, Varfous sales departments of the Store wil] occupy the floors up to the #ixth, on which the offices will be lo- cated. The seventh floor will Include { restrooms, clubrooms, a lunchroom and gymnasium and similar comforts for employes. A roof garden will be installed. : C. A. Wheeler, Inc, of Chicago Will design the fixtures. —— BIG DAY OF GOLF BEFORE PRESIDENT (Continued from First Page.) | ¥un {ame tion of Harry M. Daugherty, United States Attorney General, was report- ed very much improved today, the | fourth day of his vacation here after {a severe illness. The Attorney Gen- | eral came south with President Hard- ing_and Mrs. Harding, leaving the party at Daytona. He was accom- panied here by Dr. J. T. Boone and a nurse. PRESIDENT MINUS MAIL. All Communications Held Up to Insure Absolute Rest. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, (Copyright, 1923, by Tbe Star.) VERO, Fla, March 9.—President Harding has experienced the unique sen- sation In the Iast three days of not re- ceiving a single official communication either by mall or telegraph or messen- ger. Just befors Mr. Harding left the White House for his southern trip, he cleared his desk. He has told friends that his one disappointment with him- Self in the last two years had been his inability to catch up with his mail. He has sometimes felt that it {8 almost im- possible to get ahead of his correspond- ence no matter how lard he tries. The fact that Mr. Harding fsn't get- ting any mail doesn't mean, however, that the wheels of government have stopped, but that tho White House etaff is fulfiiling instructions in withholding everything that can possibly wait for the President’s return to St. Augustine, Fla, from the trip Sown the Indlan river inlet. This probatly will be within a fortnight. Health All Important. Some people may look askance at this abrupt detachment of a Presi- dent of a United States from his official duties. They may see in the movies pictures of the houseboat party attired in the summer garb of Florida’s winter ecolony and may associate the Hardings with leisure folks who spend all the seasons in the sunshine of Newport or Palm Beach, but if there ever was a time when ‘the health of a President was important, it _is today. Woodrow Wilson's tragio break- down through over-work has left a definite impression on the minds of public men, but curiously enough they have not all heeded the warn ing. Attorney General Daugherty is 2 case in point. He is recuperating in Florida from what threatened to be a serious breakdown. Mr. Daugh- erty told the writer that he had learned his lesson. He had never known what it was to be sick and had never hesitated to work eighteen hours a day without interruption. He scoffed at the idea that he might over-work, Justice Department Busy. It is true that the Department of Justice today is a busier department than it ever has been, and the man at the head of it must take the responsi- bility for most of the acts done in his name. The enforcement of prohibition, the war frauds cases, the handling of claims growing out of the war and a thousand and one problems develop- ing_constantly through other phases of the war have made the job of an Attorney General almost as active as that of the chief executive. Mrs. Harding's collapse was indi- rectly due to the strain of entertain- ment. She overtaxed her strength in an attempt to bo as democratic as | possible. She succeeded in the latter, but her health paid the penalty. Secretary Hughes has been strug. gling with grip, and Becretary Dav who {8 now in Florida resting, ha: also been working too hard. Col. Forbes resigned from the Veterans Bureau because of {1l health. Lasker’s Strength Sapped. Chairman Lasker of the Shippi Board has been burning the. candly at both ends, and is in Florida with the President as much to regain his strength after a recent experience with_influenza as to be the chum of the President. Public officials nowadaye ‘are still working at the same feverish pace they developed in wartime. Their vitality is sapped, and they are nat- ural victims of colds and grip. The government has this winter beer more handicapped by the iliness of its personnel than at any tjme since the fateful “flu” epidemic of 1918. Presi- dent Harding was weakened by his recent cold, Whatever the critics may say, Mr. Harding has learned enough about the presidency to con- vince himself that without a rest in winter and summer no human being can survive its terrible drain on mind and body. FARM RELIEF AVAILABLE. Secretary Work Announces Aid for U. 8. Irrigated Districts. Immediate rellef for thousands of farmers located on federal irriga. tion projects in the west wlll be made avallable under a policy announced today by Secretary Work of the In- terior Department. The farmers in many ca had been threatened with ruin” through their fallure to raise | sufficlent crops to pay charges due the government for supplying water, and these charges under the new policy will be deferred. tranatusion, -first -performed “in’ 1667, is referred tz’ll Sam- s duary for November 31 and t year, MAIL CARRIER SLAYS TWO ARRESTING OFFICERS Shoots Down Marshal and Police- man in Streets of Gaines- ville, G: By the Assoclated Press. GAINESVILL] T Robert Hope, a mail carrler, was In Jall here today, charged with killing Vilas Martin, marshal, and Jack Bryant, policeman of Lula. a town in the north Georgia mountains. ficers were killed yesterday when they attempted to lock Hope in the city Jall. The mayor of Lula ordered Hope ar- rested after he had given a personal check in payment of a fine after con- viction on 2 miror charge and then stopped payment on the check. As the officers led Hope along the street he was sald to hav a pistol and started shooting. and Bryant were killed instant A teacher and her class . Ga Martin The of- | erked out | . FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1923. WILL EMPTY RUM - INAVENUE GUTTER | Death Warrant for $25,000 { Worth of Liguors Is Signed by Judge McMahon. iTUESDAY EXECU TION DAY | | Police Will Guard Alcoholic Rivulet Against Dippers in “Gallery.” | school | néar the fall saw the shooting. Hope | surrenderad brou he POLIGE SEEK TRAIL OF VISTING WIDOW Woman Told Story of $21,- 000 Legacy at Many Homes Here. to the s rift a n about sixty years of age, who, according to her story, s a re- cent widow with an estate of $21,000, and whose former husbands died in Boston, Grand Rapids, Wilmington and Denver, and who has affillations with the Lutheran, Christadelphian, Nazarene and other churches, is being sought by the police today as the| “professional widow,” to clear up a few points that have cropped up since she vanished some days ago. At the boms of Rev. C. N. Jarrett, | 1430 B street southeast, rhe known as Mrs. Mary Holden. he left last Tuesday to g0 to the Riggs Bank and see about $10,000 or o to' take care of a house-buying deal she was flguring on. seen or heard of since by the police. But Mrs. Jarrett has informed the po- lice that she has compared notes with four other persons who describs w wayfaring visitor similar to Mrs. Holden. Stopped at Many Homes. At five Washington homes, it was learned today, the woman told a ory that was in one detail the same, and in half a dozen others she told different stories altogethe: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 4. Ca n, 129 V street, it was reported, had entertainde a lady with sharp fea- tures, a string of imitation pearls or beads about her neck and a Boston ! bag, who was a Christian Endeavor worker. The lady told Mrs. Carison that she had been recently bereaved and that her husband left his estate of 321,000, accumulated in the drug business, to her. She was in Washington looking for a home. She was going to pay $1il.- 000 cash for it She stopped with the Carlsons for one night Now there were two or three dia- mond rings in the house which could easily have been taken, according to members of the family, but they were not touched by the visitor. She did say that her son needed $10.00, and that she had only $7 in change, but Mrs. Carlson was not responsive. Later, the visitor had a coin holder that needed two dimes to be filled up, and the two dimes were provided. Went House Hunting. When the wayfarer stopped at the home of John S. Allison, at 1212 Morse street northeast, she said she was a Lutheran. Her husband had just died, she said, and left an estate valued at something like $21,000. He had been in the drug business, etc. She was looking for a home, etc. Her furni- ture was on its way from Boston, etc. week and the Allisons reported noth- ing missing. She also called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Farley, 3542 1lth street. Here the visitor 'was an ar- dent Christadelphian denominational worker. The husband in this story had been a resident of Denver. The furniture was on the way. Fariey, being with a local real estate firm, showed the woman a number of houses. No purchase is recorded. Mrs. B. W. Brookbank at her home. 115 4th street northeast. also ente ained the visitor one day. She was Nasarene Church enthustasts here. But Mrs. Brookbank could not accommo- date her. The lady was affronted, the police were told, at the inability of the selected hostess to provide accom- modations and left abruptly. The last stop was at the home of Rev. C. N. Jarrett, pastor of the Fif- teenth Street Christian Church, at 1430 | B street southeast. There the lady shared the same denomination. The soene of her bereavement was Grand Rapids, Mich. Furniture, on the way, etc, ad infinitum. She mentioned a son who was coming to Washington as a draftsman in the Navy Depart- ment, taking the job next Wednesday. Incidentally, the Navy Department knows nothing of & man with such a name as Holden, which was the one ured by the visitor. She took out an unsealed letter and $10 and asked Mre. Jarrett for change. There was no change and Mra Jar- rett advanced $5. The lady started for the Riggs Bank and has not been heard of since. —_— AMUNDSEN TO HOP OFF JUNE 21 IN POLE FLIGHT SEATTLE, Wash, March 9.—Capt. Roald Amundsen, head of an Arctic exploration expedition that left Seat- tle June 3 last in the schooner Maud. oft June 21 from Wainwright. i hor O 4 flight over the north pole, @ccording to a letter received from him by Capt. John Backland, owner and master of the sohooner M. 8 Holmes. The sun at that time, ox- piained the letter, will be diffusing perpetual day over the region within the Arctio circle. The letter gave the present position of the Maud as_200 miles north by northeast from Wrangell Island and aritting slowly with the ice toward the pole. She has not been | This was on Thursday of last| FRANK A. SEBRING, Liquor is going to flow freely ag: Antis, give your ear to this. St back, bootleggers: don't get excite Your business is not going to b wrecked. On the 13th, next Tuesday, liquor, aged among cobweb | racks of dark cellars; colored con, tions with a good kick born since tl entry of the Volstead law statute books, and even the corn,” 1s to flow down Pennsylvani avenue to the first sewer near 14 street. Never mind bringi dippers and tin c few ‘“fingers,” for guard the littl u bLlende: liquors, which will flow from wreck ied bottles and cans. will not object to mourners watching at these proceeding contraband 1! Bl government N liquor raids mad the city McMahon Signs Warrant. have been ansporting and_the gov hem. Bt presiding of the Polic famo: g along the scoop up police wili to the of legal serviTer of destroyir vi for h selling these proc ernment has been today Judge McManc the United S Court, signed 1 warrant, a assigned Clerk ik Sebring to of clate at the obsequies over the hig and low of the liquor world. next Tuesda in front of 1418 Pennsylvania avenue, the United States Internal revenue store- house, the cr: and gurgle will so and _ befor estimated that 000 will g upon the pu prohibitic through it lued at $25 te, depending for or against ses Listed in Order. The d in the order of destr | Alfred B | Brown, Albe: kin, Wiliiam shaw, Lo Franklin, itams, Robert { Bamuel _Speer, Sachs, Robert E ton, Eleanor Jo! Earl 8. Brad Benjamin _J Taylor, John Wi imer, John Hunter rge’ Juson, George as, Clarence Bol. Abraham Levitt, { Russell Dicke: Joseph Tucker, | Percy E. Shorter, J. W. Johnson, Mabei M. Wallbethic, Melvin T. Barnes, Jerry Sullivan, Joseph Risinski, Henry Fe !ter, John Foster, Jonas Pratt, Frank Newton, James Meredith, Mamle Pey ton, Santo Sterling. Emmett Diggs Richard_Robinson, Willlam_Courtney. Lillian_Washin John Perry, W. Hipk Fannie ~ Chisholm Howard A King John H. Hill rence Blackwel Char Z William H. Edward Blackwell, C Benjamin F. Morrls, George H. Shleu ter,” John Fairfax, Willlam Pascow. Henry Narlin, Cleveland R. Plummer Albert Boone, llenry P. Robbins and George Shaw The contents of the forty-six con fiscated packages of contraband liquors fruns from half a dozen quarts to dozens of cases of real whisky, and in ather cases small quantities of whisky in bulk of from one to many gallons Most of the bulk stuff is of the co: type or super-bootlegger stock MURDER CASEDELAY IS HUNGER STRHER | ! By tie Associated Press. | BEDHAM, Mass., March 9.—Hearing of motlons for a new trial in the case i of Nicola Saaco and Bartolomeo Van ] zett!, convicted of the killing of & { paymaster and his guard threo years { ago, was postponed today until next ]F‘rmay at the request of counsel for the defense. I Judge Webster Thayer had refusec to rule on the admissibility of a1 , afidavit by John J. McAnarney of { defense counsel, explaining the cour | was witholt adequate information and asked counsel to proceed on other points. The defense attorneys, how { ever, said they were not prepared t | 80 ahead and asked a weel's de When Judge Thaver asked for the {p ner® views on the request fo: {delay, Vanzett! agreed promptly, but Baaco protested. The latter is now , on his twenty-third day of a hunge: strike, which he said was {ntendeq to expedite the proceedings “I want to eat,’ he explained. Vanzettl and defense counsel, after & long talk. prevailed on him to comsent to post- ponement. 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