Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1923, Page 2

' PRESIDENT OBTAINS SHIP POLICY DATA Thief Executive Considers Plans for Aiding U. S. Merchant Marine. DECISION EXPECTED SOON Definite Announcement May Be Made Following Conferences ‘With Lasker. By the Adboclated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla., March 12.—As the houseboat Pioneer, carrying President and Mrs. Harding and their vacation companions, steamed slow- 1y southward today, indications in- creased that the stay of the chief executive in the southern Florida city would not be all play and no work. Although the President has been devoting himself mostly to rest and recreation since he left Washington | a week ago today, it has been learn- ed that definite periods each day have been utilized in attending to officlal business. Telegraphic correspondence has been maintained with the White House, and at each of the important stops, such as that made here Satur- day and yesterday, a considerable volume of official mail has been sent aboard the houseboat. Expects Two Cabinet Members. The President, on arriving at Miami, probably tomorrow, will be joined by two members of his cabinet, Attorney General Daugherty and Secretary Davis. The former, although still unable to resume full charge of the affairs of his department, owing to the weakened condition resulting from his recent fliness, is understood to have given some attention within the past week to the more urgent matters, Including the war frauds in- quirfes. It is considered probable that Mr. Daugherty will have several matters to take up with his chief. May Decide Ship Policy. Intimations have come from the Ploneer, as the party has cruised southward, that an announcement of the administration merchant marine policy might be made while the Pres- ident is in Miami. Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board is a member of the vacation party, and announced on arrival at Ormond last Tuesday that he soon expected to discuss with the President ways and means of meeting the problem created by the defeat of the administration shipping bill. The President, Mr. Lasker said, wanted certain detailed information on the subject, and, as orders for its preparation were given prior to the departure from Washington, it is presume that some of it has reached the hands of the executive. Politics Likely Subject. The possibility of political discus- siins In Miaml also has appeared. Two late republican leaders, Joseph Kealing of Indiana and Dan Mul- vanex of Kansas, are spending sev- eral days iIn that city and undoubt- edly will see the President. Mr. Daugherty also can be counted on whenever and wherever there are Dolitics. in the winds. The time of the president’s arrival in Miami still was uncertain today, although it appeared reasonably sure he would get there tomorrow. The Pioneer was due to arrive at Fort Lauderdale sometime afternoon today. Although pllots acquainted with the inland waterways south of here said schedules were useless, as much of the sailing of any boat as large as the Ploneer would be dependent on the tides and wind. ‘Boat Escapes Sand Bars. The sailing of the boat so far has been fortunate to have escaped the sand bars scattered along the east coast waterways. Members of the party ascribe it not to luck, how- ever, but to ‘Capt. George” big negro whose head threatens to punch a hole through the roof of the pilot house every time he stralghtens up. At a little white church with green shutters and a shingled roof, ex- ternally not greatly unlike thousands of sugch little places of worship scat- tered’ throughout the small towns of America, President Harding vyes- terday attended services. The President joined heartily in the singing, which consisted of the “Dox- ology,” “Rock of Ages” and “Just as I Am, Without One Plea” After the benedictlon the congregation re- mained seated until the presidential party had passed out. KLAN WILL REWARD FIRE NOTE ARREST (Continued from First Page.) sehool more than a year ago. Father Hannan was informed after the barn fire that it was undoubtedly of in- cendiary origin. ‘WL Interview Sullivan. In view of the letter, Father Han- man said that while he had not ask- ed for additional police protection, he would communicate with Maj. Sul- ltvan and request additional precau- tionary measures as a protection against incendlarism. Father Han- nan pointed out that Trinity College, with more than 450 students and sisters, is but a short distance from | St. Martin's, and that a fire in thel school at night, might concetvably result in great loss of life. A few blocks from Trinity College, he add- ed, are the buildings of the Catholic University, where great property damage and possible loss of life might result in case of fire, Father Hannan, at church services yesterday, denounced persons who hide behind anonymous masks. Jus- tice, he said, can be meted out by the properly organized processes of law, without the interference of private organizations. —_— STATUTORY CHARGE MADE Man and Woman Arrested at Hotel in This City. Mrs. Alice Jane Wharton, twenty- fine years old of Elizabeth, N. J., and = men giving his name as Willlam Hartley Schindler, thirty-two, were @rrested last night in a hotel on Massachusetts avenue, on a statutory «charge, following the visit of the husband of the woman to police hieadquarters. Detectives Darnall and Springmen, {th Mr. Wharton entered the room, t was stated, and found the man and ‘woman about to leave. Wharton de- xclared his wife deserted him about four weeks ago, taking with her a five-year-old son. The woman and ohild were sent to the house of de- tention last night, and the couple in Police Court today entered a plea of not guilty and demanded a jury trial. fThey were held in $300 bonds' each. Wharton sald he was office manager ‘ the m N. J., it of To Take Summer Course in Banking Representative Clarence MacGregor of Buffalo, N. 1s planning to take & summer course at the University of Pennsylvania, spe- clalizing in bank- ing and currency, he said today. He is a member of the banking and currency commit- tee and wants to fit himself to bet- ter represent his district in Con- gress, Mr. MacGregor sald today that he had not taken the final steps to enter the summer classes, but that REP, EGOR. he planned at this E.JAORN, time to go, and if nothing unforseen turned up to pre- vent him he would enter the classes in July. 300 IRISH SEIZED IN RAIDS IN BRITAIN (Continued from First Page.) lMember of House ganization, the alm of which was to do all possible in co-operation with the irregulars in Ireland to overturn the Free State government. In cer- tain contingencles they were prepared to resort to acts of violence in this country in pursuance of their object. John Jores, laborite, challenged the government's’ action, = claiming that some of the persons deported were English. Raid Swift and Silent. The swift and silent raid upon Irish suspects in Great Britaln has created something of a sensation here and developments are awaited with much curiosity. Judging from the customary retl- cence of the Free State government, however, it seems unlikely that much information will be given out now that the prisoners are safly lodged in Irish jails. Total Captured, Ninely-Eight. Officlal announcement both here and in Ireland put the total number of prizoners at ninety-eight, but some of the press reports suggest a larger number. One of the features of the roundup was its widespread character. London, Glasgow, and Liverpool, all of which have large Irish communities, were the main jcenters of the raids, but places very far from these cities furnished their quota of captives. Prisoners were taken in towns on the east coast of England and Scotland as far north as| Aberdeen Sean Mahoney, a member of the dall, is said to be among the prison- ers, Put Aboard Cruiser. A dispatch to the Daily Express from Liverpool, describing the em- barkation of the prisoners on board the cruiser Castor, says they were lamong the Liverpool contingent of about twenty-five women and girls, &ome of the younger of them elghteen years old, and others motherly-look- ing women of from thirty-five to for- ty years. One was an elderly, gray- haired woman. When the prisoners saw the war- ships some of them laughed heartily, while others looked startled. One girl clenched her fists and waved her arms wild She seemed to be on the verge of hysteria. All the women were well dressed and carried hand baggage. After they had been placed aboard the crulser the men were brought along. BEach was held on either side by two policemen as they marched to the ship between a double line of soldiers with fixed bayonets. Shortly afterward came a proces- sion of the London captives—boys, girls, women and men Clatm Lenders All Taken. They were followed by another con. tingent comprising groups of pr oners from various provincial towns. The later arrivals were greeted with ringing cheers from their predeces- sors. A lively exchange of greetings followed. A dispatch to the Daily Express from Glasgow quotes a prominent Irish republican who escaped cap- ture as saying all the republican leaders were taken, and that the number arrested was nearer fifty than thirty. Those who wers not apprehended held a meeting Sunday night to discuss reprisals. Mrs, Erskine Childers, wife of the Irish novelist, who was executed by | the Free State authorities last No- vember, says her house In Dublin has been raided by Free State police, who also arrested four women and selzed a number of documents, ac- cording to a dispatch to the eWst- minster Gazette from Dublin, TRADES OUTLOOK SLIM. Research Bureau Sees Little For- eign Buying in Prospect. Outlook for foreign trade during 1923 is not favorable to any decided expansion in export trade. European markets are not recovering as rapldly from the effects of the war as had been anticipated and their purchases must be confined to sheer necessitles, according to a statement today from the bureau of research of the Ship- ping Board. Conditions in the United States are not favorable at present to a heavy export movement of coal, as stocks are low and a serious car shortage has curtailed the pler totals to such an extent that it is only possible to care for current business. France needs coal suitable for cok- ing purposes to maintain her steel industries in the Lorraine. A tendency toward more stable internal economic conditions abroad, except in Germany and the near east, is noted. This tendency, the bureau says, marks the first advance of our commerce toward & resumption of business in keeping With our produc- tive powers. Says Even Jailed WomenFeel Need Oi Powder Puffs By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 12.—MaJj. Margaret Duffy, ninety-nine-pound Salvation Army idol of Detroit, who has been placed in charge of welfare work among woman pris- oners in the east, has f{ssued an appeal to New York's clubwomen to rally around her with powder puffs, mirrors, curling irons and other alds to beauty. Such implements, she said, were among the best friends and com- forters women have—in jail or out. “A woman does not lose her de- sire to be attractive just because she 18 in jail and there are no men to look at her,” said Maj. Dufty. “The state, of course, does not provide powder puffs and curling irons, and seldom provides mir- rors. 1 do not believe in the ‘paint- and-powder’ road to beauty, but I do know that a girl can invariably testify and take care of herseif with. more composure if she. is equipped with a powder puff.” Maj. Duffy also believes suitable clothing shiould ‘be given women on their release from prison, and that they should be furnished im- medlate _transportation to their homes, if they have homes, “A nice new hat, for instance,” she =aid, “will do Wwonders toward making a girl ‘spru and take o ndsreet Jo LtaF A ! argument with the dealers over the CLUE OF FOUL PLA T0 MISSING PRIEST Searchers for Clergyman Who Mysteriously Disap- peared Have New Evidence. GARAGE OWNER’S STORY Police Find Automobile Believed to Be That Operated by Virden, IIl, Pastor. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 13.—The theory that the Rev. John A. Vraniak, pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at Virden, I1l, who mysterfous- ly aisappeared in St. Louis last Mon- day, met foul play was expressed last night by local police, who are con- ducting a widespread search for the missing clergyman. One of several clues unearthed today led the authorities to belleve that if there was any foul play it took place in Illinols, as A. C. Harness, a garage owner at Venice, 111, reported to the police he had repaired Father Vraniak's automoblie last Monday arternoon, and that the churchman told him he was returning to Virden from St. Louis. Police Find Automoblle, What the police belleve is the priest’s automobile was found here vesterday and Harness volunteered to come to this city tomorrow and try to identify the machine. The author- ities accepted Harness' story as the most authentic clue in the case, be- cause Harness suid he was sure the man who stopped at his garage was a priest and his description of the man corresponds with that of Father Vraniak. Venice is on the road from St. Louis to Virden. Several other reports that the priest was Seen on the streets here during the early hours of Monday afternoon were discounted by the officials, who daclared :hat it the clergyman had fallen a victim of foul play his auto- mobile was brought to this city to cover up the crime. Father Vraniak's mother is con- fident that her son is alive and will return home. According to advices recelved here from Virden, the priest lived with his mother and last night she kept a candlelight burning in the window of their Aittle home, which adjoins the church, hoping that it would serve as a beacon to guide her son homeward. THOUSANDS IN DRUGS AND FIVE MEN SEIZED IN SPECTACULAR RAID (Continued from First Page.) alleged, immediately offered him a list of narcotic drugs for $2,100 on which they are saild to have told him he could easily clean up about $40,000 in three weeks. Col. Nutt estimated that the drugs in the list at bootleg prices might casily bring $50,000. Curiously enough, the list alleged to have been presented by the dealers to Pacetta corresponded in every detall with the list furnished previously by the “tip” to_the federal authorities. This list was as follows: One thousand, seven hundred and | sixty-five tubes’ morphine sulphate | hypodermic tablets, one-eighth grain (20 in tube); 17 bottles morphine sul- phate tablets (500 in a bottle); 620 tubes cocaine, one-sixth grain tab- lets (20 in tube 46 tubes cocalne 2- grain tablets (10 in_ tube); 5 tubes cocaine, 4l;-grain tablets (10 in tube); 4 tubes cocaine crystals, one- fourth ounce in bottle; 8 tins heroin, one-twelfth * tablets (500 {n tin); 2 ounces codine crystal (1 ounce in bottle); 20 bottles codine sulphate tablets, one-half grain (500 in bot- tle); 4 ounces opium powder. Returns With Ralders. Pacetta agreed at this conference turday, when he was offered the entire outfit, that he would return this morning at 8 o'clock to make a deal, Col. Nutt said. When he ap- peared this morning with narcotic squad agents of the local police, the entire order. the Edwards people said, had not arrived but was expected at 9 o'clock. Without walting for the 9 o'clock arrival, made their rald. One clever trick was employed by Pacetta in co-operation with Col. Nutt ! to further establish himself in co-i operation with the dealers. A flkei telegram was sent from the Washing- | ton office to a Kansas City representa- | tive of the narcotic division, from where it was wired back to Pacetta under the assumed name of Antonio Paparo. The telegram was worded in the lingo of a dope peddler and camouflaged in their code. This tele- gram from Kansas City, signed by the name of a certain drug concern in Kansas City, when presented to the dealers here, firmly established the narcotic agent with his dealers as the real thing. Argues Over Price. The fake telegram read as follows: “Your wire eighth right on manu- facture, send six hats and one or two pleces of black cloth without delay, | no question price.” (Signed) “DE MAYO.” The fact that Pacetta had had an however, agents | price of some dope he was to buy further contributed to the plot be- cause when the dealers saw his fake telegram from Kansas City which sald “no question price,” they ap- parently were more than pleased with their prospective customer. - An actual purchase of ah amount of narcotic drugs was made last Sat- urday, when he bought from the Ed- wards Trading Company 500 tablets of Dovers powder, comprising five- grain tablets, in which there were two grains of smoking opium. Pa- cetta was to have purchased this morning at least 25,000 Dovers tab- lets. Suffcient. Declares Eviden The prisoners, according to Col. Nutt, have participated in enough {llegal dealing with ,the narcotic agent who caught thei to make a! good case before the courts under the Harrison anti-narcotic act, and perhaps in addition under the Jones- Miller act. ¥ The Edwards Trading Company, in the first place, Col. Nutt pointed out, ‘wae selling narcotic drugs without a license. This is in itself against the law, the colonel said. In the second place, they sold nar- cotics to the agents without the necessary government order form, which he said places _the deal on a boot-legging - basis. Every duly N- censed and qualified dealers who are authorized by the government to sell narcotics, it was pointed out, must sell only under restrictions and according to orders on forms obtained from the narcotic division and on which a tax must be paid. Smoking Opium Prohibited. Furthermore, Col. Nutt pointed out, these men had in their possession smoking oplum, which is prohibited for import, sale or consumption an where in the United States. It is under their possession of smokin opium that there is a possibility, Col. Nutt sald, of prosecution under the Jones-Miller act. ‘The city of Washington Col. Nutt oclassified as a “clean city” as to its rank among the narcotic cities of the nation. The raid today was not only the greatest in the history.of the city, he said, but the fii one of any considerable size in a long time. Courts throughout the country have been giving heavy sentences to vio- lators of the anti-narcotic laws, it said, .and penitentiary sentences Eommunnmdb MEN IN CHARGE OF 250000 FEDERAL EMPLOYES. GUY F. ALLEN, Temporary executive officer. GUY MOFFETT, From Civil Service Commission. From United St RECLASSIFICATION How Negrb OF Filibuster 40 Years Ago Echoed in Congress Fight Elected to Seat Blocked Liquor Legislation Recalled as Senators ' Seek Change in Obstructive Rules. Senators Pepper of Pennsylvania and Curtis of Kansas are quoted as determined to try to secure an amend- dle-colored negro. was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in the Forty- seventh Congress. The committee on I believe that x' Iment to the rules of the Senate, at|elections is of the same opinion. All W. W. WARWICK, From budget burea HAROLD N. GRAVES, es Bureau of Efi- cleney. Alternates named by officials designated in act, who will have actual charge of the work. SEESKNELL OF EUGENICS INLURE OF ROSY CHEEKS Dr. White Declares Race Never Will Improve Under Present- Day Method of Mating. Eugenics, as a prescription for improving the human race, has given way to the pretty face and rosy checks, and as long as the latter continue to be the attraction, it will be hard to carry out the doctrine of better mating, declared Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in a lecture !yesterday at the New National Mu- seum, under the auspices of the Woman's Welfare Association. Dr. White stated that pretty faces and rosy cheeks alone “might be all right it they did not often belong to im- beciles.” Dr. White's talk was devoted to the problem of Improving the race and effectively dealing with the de- | pendent, detective classes ‘of humanity, clared to be “almost entirely” mental problem. Recent researches have shown a great deal more than ever before was known of the extent and nature of mental conditions of the masses, he stated. By any test that Is generally believed to be accurate—not the fine, hair splitting variety—all will agree that 50 per cent of the criminals and women of the underworld are feeble- minded, Dr. White pointed out. These classes, he continued. repre- sent a liabllity to the roclal structure of the world and can best be ap- proached and attacked from the mental angle. An institution for the feeble-minded should be established in Washington to care for this type of person, he declared, adding that the city is in great need of one. Dr. White said the Juvénile Court “has shown us that the problem of the criminally inclined should be dealth with by standying the indivi- dual and not by endeavoring to de- termine the exact penalty for each violator. It has proven that the prob- lem is not one of ‘orginal sin,’ but one of mental hygiene.” The Woman's Welfare Association has arranged for three more after- noon lectures to be held on alter- nate Sundays. SEEK GIRL AND MAN. Police Here Ask Force in Phila- delphia to Be on Lookout for Pair. Police last night telegraphed Phila- delphia to keep a look-out for Mamle Redmond, fourteen years old, of 916 R street, reported to be en route to the Quaker city in company with a man of twenty-five vears of age, in a sev- en-passenger touring car. The report to the police was made by Willlam Redmond, father of the girl. Miss Redmond was described as being five feet four inches in height, weighing 124 pounds, with light hair, dark eyes and attired in a long black coat, a blue hat and brown shoes and stockings. —_—— Y. W. C. A. TOTAL $18,145. A total of $18,145 was reported raigsed at the meeting of the teams working in the flnance campaign for the Young Women's Christian Asso- clation Saturday evening. All teams reported steady progress for the last lmnddlyl. Mrs. Harry E. Hull pre- sided. . s The initial gifts team, composed of Mrs. Herbert E. Day, Mrs. H. E. Hull, Miss Elizabeth Eastman, Mrs. Thomas E. Brown, jr.,, and Mrs. J. B. Hird, was the winning team. Miss Bertha Pabst, captain of a team of six girls, was second. Mrs. Hull announced that the next meeting of the teams will be held Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. and delinquent which he de- a “Follow Up in the 5:30 Edition” ‘Every week-day evening the last reports of what interests—at home and abroad—are printed in the 5:30 EDITION OF THE STAR. Complete—com- prehensive—accurate, - Special features are made of the financial news—the sports finals—and the pro- gram as given out for.consideration by the Courts on the morrow. For sale by n newsdealers throughout the city LIEUT. ). 0. DONALDSON IS AWARDED D. S. €. Destroyed Four Enemy Planes, Drove Three Others Down, Citation Declares. Lieut. John O. Donaldson of 1825 Wyoming avenue, this city, former- ly of the United States Army alr service, has been awarded the dis- tinguished service cross “for ex- traordinary heroism in action near Mont-Notre Dame, France, July 22, 1918, while attached to the 32d Squadron, Royal air forces, British expeditionary forces. “When on patrol” says the citation, “Lieut. Donaldson attacked a for- mation of twenty Foxker enemy bi- planes. Singling out one of the hos- tile machines he éngaged it from be- hind, firing a short burst at close range, the plane bursting into flames and crashing to the ground. On August §, 1918, he engaged five enemy | scout planes over Licourt, France; singling out one and diving on it, he opened fire at close range, causing it to crash to the ground. On Septem- ber 8. 1915, over Licourt, France, ob- serving a’ British plane being at- tacked by three enemy scout planes he immediately engaged one of the enemy, firing a long burst at very close Tange, the enemy plane burst- ing into flames and crashing to the ground. On August 25, 1918, over Hancourt, France, he attacked four Fokker enemy —planes, diving_into their midst and firing a short burst at one of them from short range, de- stroying the plane, the pilot of which descended_to safety in a parachute. On July 25, 1918, over Fignes, France, he drove ‘down out of control an enemy plane. On August 10, over Perrene, France, one Fokker bi- plane, and on August 29, over Cam- bral, France, one Fokker biplane. In 1l these engagements he displayed the greatest devotion to duty and gallantry in the face of the enemy.” POLICE SEEK YOUNG WIFE. Mrs. Ola Jean McCauley and Babe Disappeared Thursday. Henry J. McCauley today asked po- lice to search for his nineteen-year-old wife, Mrs. Ola Jean McCauley, who disappeared. with her six-month-old daughter Efleen in a tax! cab from her home, at Radnor Heights, Va., last Thursday afternoon, McCauley sald he had no idea as to the reason for his wife's disappear- ance. He was accompanied to head- quarters by H. H. Smith, father of the young wife. He sald a neighbor re- ported she had seen a suit case and a hatbox loaded Into the taxicab by Mrs. McCauley the day she left. McCauley is a world war veteran, having seen service in France, and was married on January b, 1921. He is em- ployed as a lumber checker by the Murphy & Ames Company of Ross- Iyn, Va. ——— ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEA. Colin H. Livingstone Answers to Indictment on Conspiracy Charge. Colin H. Livingstone, Washington banker and vice president of the Boy Scouts of America, was arraigned to- day before Justice Stafford in Crimi- nal Division 1 on an indictment for alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States. He entered a ploa of not gullty. Mr. Livingstone was at one time president of the Virginia Shipbuilding Company_and was in- dicted_with Charles W. Morse, the three sons of Moi and seven nthers in connection with alleged illegal ‘War contracts. . The case is scheduled for trial next Monday. Attorneya Charles A, Doug- las and Willlam E. Leahy sppeared | for Mr. Livingstone. ewsboys and the beginning of the next gesslon, to prevent filibusteririg. This ls the re- sult of the successful efforts of Sena- tor Heflin of Alabama, and a few others on the minority. side of the Senate, to prevent a vote on the ship subsidy bill. The program, as now outlined, contemplates an amend- ment to the rules which will require a senator, in addressing the Senate, to confine his remarks to the:subject ‘inder discussicn. In other words, should he attempt to insert the Ten Commandments or a section of the Book of Buddha into a speech ontth: reorganization of the Department o Agriculture, & point of order would take that senator off the floor. ' There have been some notable fffl- busters” in the past. Senator Alle of Nebraska once held the floor for threo days in his effort to defea legisiation inimical to the silver mining industry. On another occaston Senator Tom Carter of Montana Suc- cossfully talked the river and bor bill to death. House Scene Forty Years Ago. he Forty years ago this month, at U close )of‘ the second session of the Forty-seventh Consress, J. Warren Keifer of Ohlo Speaker, the commit- tee on elections brought In_a reso- lution_which declared that Bichar son of South Carolina was not duly elected a_member from the first dis trict of that state and, therefore, was not entitled to the seat which he oc- cupied. This resolution was adopted by a strict party vote. Then another was offered from the sama committeo to the effect that Samuel D. Lee had been legally elected a member of the House from the first district of South Carolina. Richardson was a white man. Lee was a negro. The repub. lican majority in the House was very small and it was impossible to keep a quorum of republicans pres- ent during the last days of the ses- sion. None of the party leaders had discovered the method of counting a quorum, which was invented by Lieut. Gov. Hill in the New York state senate a year or two later, and as the democrats in the House refused to vote on the rseolution which would have given the seat to Lee, there was no apparent way of securing_ the declsion of a majority of the House, although more than four-fitths of the membership was The fillbuster continued vs, and as the question of the right of a member to a seat was of the highest privilege, no other business could be transacted. The House leaders gave way only to the consideration of reports from con- ference committees. Nothing else could be brought up. Blocks Whisky Measure. Benjamin Butterworth of Ohio had a bill for which consideration was earnestly desired. It was a measure which would have extended the pe- riod during which distilled spirits might remain in bond, without the payment of the tax of ninety cents per gallon, for two years. There were millions of gallons of such spir- its in the bonded warehouses upon which the taxes must be paid by the first of the following July, unless this bill could be enacted into law. To force the withdrawal of this vast quantity of spirits and to exact im- mediate payment of the tax would, it was declared, mean financial ruin not only to the distiller but to the banke throughout the “whisky districts” which had advanced money on ware- house certificates. But the Lee election case blocked the way for consideration of the “whisky bonded period” bill. During the early hours of the morning of March 3, 1883, the writer of this, then an assistant to the cor- respondent of several metropolitan papers, was “interviewing” Sam Lee in the malin corridor of the House. A gentleman approached and asked Lee for a private interview. Lee replied that anvthing which the stranger had to say might be said right then and there, whereupon the following colloquy occurred: (Forty vears have passed since then and the writer is not prepared to swear that the exact conversation Is here repro- duced, but the substance is exact.) Distillers Facing Rain. “Mr. Lee,” said the stronger, “We are in desperate straits. We have hundreds of thousands of barrels of whisky in bonded warehouses. The period during which this liquor may remain In bond is sbout to expire, “Unless we can secure legislation to extend that bonded period it will be necessary to pay the tax of 90 cents on each gallon of that whisky and there is no market for it. To force the payment of this enormous sum will mean ruin to the entire dis- tilling interests, as well as to the banks which hold the certificates of deposit as collateral for loans to _the distillers. Mr. Butterworth of Cin- cinnati has a bill, favorably reported from the committee on ways and means, which will glve us a respite. But that bill cannot be considered un- til your case {s decided, unless you will consent to allow that bill to dis- place your ¢ase. We realize that if You give vour consent you may be a heavy financial loser. ~ Therefore, 1 am authorized to offer you $10,000," or the salary for two years to which you will be entitled It seated, if you will consent to the abandonment of your laim to the seat. ©lo this Lee responded: “I decline the_proposition, absolutely.” ” The stranger went away, but within ten minutes he returned and, again addressing Lee, said: “Mr. Lee, we are desperate and that fact is my excuse for again addressing you. Your salary for two years together with your mileage, stationery allow- ance and so forth will approximate $16,000—if this resolution {s adopted. Here I offer you $15,000 in currency. All I ask is'that you ask your friends on the floor to permit Mr. Butterd worth to call up his bill for & vote. When that is disposed of your resolution can again be called up and if it is adopted and you are seated you may return this fund, otherwise keep | offtr Again Rejected. «I don’t know your name, sir.” re- plied Lee, “but in South 'Carolina, Where I was born, I am called a sad- |Rhine Pay Plan, Before Hughes, Has Two Phases By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, March 12.—Seecretary of State Hughes has before him today the allled plan to pay the costs of American military occupation of the Rhineland, as telegraphed to him by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wadsworth, who is co ducting the negotiations with the allied financial experts here. ‘The essential features of the an are, first, to reduce the total vy the amounts received by the American government foom the sale of German ships and the ap- raised value of those retained by Phe United States and, second, to pay the remainder in twelve an- nual installments out of the future receipts from Germany on the reparations &ccount. Secretary reply is expected in time the republican members of the House who are here today acquiesce in that opinion. If the resolution now pend- ing is adopted and I am seated I shall be entitled to something less than $15,000. But If I receive $15.000 or $15 or 16 cents I will draw it from the Treasury of the United States, and from no other source. Please don't say anything further on this subject, as otherwise I shall be compelled to leave you. “Lee,” sald the stranger, “you may be ‘a saddle-colored negro,’ as you say —on the outside—but you are whiter jinside than any other man In this house. You have a big sight more moral courage than I would show un- der similar circumstanes. 1 want to &rip your hand and T'l say to you that every drop of whisky may be dumped Into the Ohio river before I will insult you again by repeating the offer of which T am ashamed. Lee was not seated. The- whisky bonded perfod bill did not pass, but Walter Evans (now a federal judge in Louisville) succeeded Green B. Raum as_commissioner of internal revenue, and he amended the regulations whereby the distillers were relieved. The new regulations permitted the withdrawal of whisky from bond for export. Milllons of gallons were ex- ported and sent to the four corners of the earth through the Seven seas, as ballast. The taxes were pald when the liquor returned. There are still in existence a few barrels of that liquos It is known as “Over and } Back,” and none of the gods on Mount Olympus ever quaffed nectar which had “anything on" that booze of 1883. PLEA ON CRONKHITE CASE IS REIECTED Supreme Court Refuses Re- view and Declines to Rule on Jurisdiction. Rejecting a petition for review, the Supreme Court annouced today that it would not determine at this time whether the federal courts have jurisdictlon to try Roland R. Pothier, indicted for the murder of Maj. Alex- ander P. Cronkhite at Camp Lewls, Washington, in 1918. The court held that the appeal should have been to the circuit court of appeals, and the case was referred to the first circuit court of appeals. The controversy was given pub- licity recently by the circulation of | a pamphlet by the friends of Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, father of the deceased officer, charging that he had improperly been forced upon the retired list because he was not con- sidered avallable for active duty owing to the amount of time he gave to efforts to bring to trial ethos charged with the murder of his son. Confession Recalled. Pothier, arrested in Rhode Island, made a contesston In which he stated that he had fired the shot which kill- ed the major, and he was taken be- fore Judge Brown of the federal district court for that state, who held him without bond, asserting jurisdic- tion on the ground that the alleged crime was committed on a federal reservation and should therefore be tried before federal courts, Efforts to obtain Pothler's release on bail failed, notwithstanding the ‘nited States’ commission in New York city and the Departments of Justice and War had reached the conclusion that the federal courts did not have jurisdiction because the reservation had not fully passed into the hands of the government at the time of the majoi's death Question of Jurisdiection. Counsel for Pothier asked the Su- preme Court to bring the case before it on writ of habeas corpus, and de- termine whether Pothier should be taken by the government to Wash- ington for trial in the federal courts or whether the federal court in Rhoda Island should exercise any further control over him. ISSUES RED RIVER EDICT. Supreme Court Gives Effect to Decisions on Texas Boundary. The Supreme Court {ssued its decree today in the Red River case, giving cffect to several decisions by which the southern cut bank of the river was made the boundary between Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma was denfed title to the bed of the river | except to the middle of the channel | in front of certain land granted the state_formerly comprising a part of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian reservation. Arthur D. Kidder and Arthur L. Stiles were designated by the court as commissioners to locate and mark the boundary. Held as Kidnaper Of Judge's Child| ANGELINA TAVANO, Allas Mary Conklin, who is held as the kidnaper of three-year- old Leo Minkin, son City Judge and Mrs. Leopold Minki of Albany, N. Angelina, newly hired as = nursemald under the alias of Mary Conklin, was left in charge of little Leo Thursday afternoon. Sat- urday Leo was found in a theater in Newburgh, N. Y, to which Anxelina had sent him with a lodger in the honge where ahe was roomins. She says & drugged drink was the of her it BISHOP CONFIRMS 2 AT JAIL SERVICES Condemned Slayer and Sus- pected Forger Are Re- cipients of Rite. COMMISSIONERS ATTEND Inspection of Jail Follows Impres- sive Ceremony in Which Music Is Feature. Edward Perrygo, sentenced to hang Friday for the murder of Emily Faithful, and Wilson O. Tolford. awaiting action of the grand jury on the charge of forgery, were today confirmed in the District jall by Bishop Alfred Harding of the Eplsco- pal dlocese of Washington. Bishop Harding was assisted by Rev. E. H. Stevens, penal chaplain and con- nected with the Trinity Episcopal Church. ’ Confirmation services were hald shortly after 11 o'clock and were at- tended by Commissioners Rudolph and Oyster. Maj. Peake, superintend- ent of the Washington Asylum and Jall; Mrs. Perrygo, mother of the condemned boy, and members of the Ladies' Auxiliary of Episcopal Mis- sions, headed by Rev. David Ransome Covell of the Trinity Community House and his wife, Mrs. Covell. Flowers for the altar were fur- nished by the ladles’ auxillary, and music by A. Ralon, leader of the Almas Temple orchestra; Mrs. A. Ral- on and Mrs. George B. Selden. The two confirmation candidates were permitted to take their seats unattended and sat in the front row. Following the eervice they were greeted by members of the ladies’ auxiliary and Mrs. Perrygo and a few close friends. The musical selections were en- hanced by some hundred inmates of the jail, who crowded close to the tront of their cages, on the sides, and blended their voices in the singing of the hymn, “I Need Thee Every Hour.” Owing to lack of time holy communion jon was not celebrated. Commissioners Oyster and Rudolpl: made an inspection of the jall prior to the services. “We were very much pleased with the conditions here” Mr. Oyster stated upon the conclusion of his tour. verything seems to be well looked after, and I feel sure that the prisoners are given every considera tion as to their comfort.” CALIFORNIA’S VOLCANO HAS CEASED ERUPTION Vulcan’s Pipe Out After Two-Hour Outpouring of Steam and Mud. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 12 —Vulcan's Pipe was out agaln, and Lassen Peak, after spouting smoke and steam for more than two hours, had resumed the same peaceful ex- terior it has borne for many months. ents in the vicinity of Call- a's only active volcano watched the crater for signs of a resumption of eruptions. Although the day was clear, not a wisp of smoke or steam was_seen, and local historlans set down Satur- day’'s disturbance as merely one of the nearly 200 witnessed since early in 1914, when Lassen Peak begau spouting steam and mud. Saturday's outpourings were less violent than most of the crater's ef- fusions. The only significance at- tached to them was they seemed to have been emitted from a new fissure east of the main crater. Whether the volcano has broken in a new place or whether wind played a part in the direction taken by the smoke and steam remained to be determined. LOSS TO NAVY HEAVY. Separations 1,000 Monthly With Morale Suffering. Serious loss to the Navy from the continued high percentage of *turn over of enlisted personnel” has been called to the attention of all officers in a formal department circular. Separations from the service, addl- tional to those represented by expir- ing enlistments, are almost 1,000 per month and represent an annual loss of about 16 per cent of the total forces, according to the announce- ment. 3 Holding the opinion that lowered morale is largely to blame for the situation, naval officers were re- quested 'to seriously consider the question of how this might be im- proved and to forward any sugges- tions to the department Greater care in selection of recruits has beem urged upon the enlistment agencies. During the month of February, 964 “avoidable separations” were listed. including 211 as undesirable, 67 bad conduct, 125 dishonorable and 561 deserted. _— POSTAL SAVINGS RISE. D. C. Deposits Show Increass of $2,363 in February. Postal savings deposits at the Washington city post office Increased by $2,363 during February, plecing the National Capital thirty-second among the cities. Total deposits here were $358,165. A For the first time in more than two years postal savings deposits throughout the country show an in- crease over withdrawals, according ot the figures compiled at the Post Office Department today. Total deposits January 31 amount ed to $131,666,000. On February 28 they were $132,072,000, an increase of $506,000. The largest increase, $199,000, was reported by New York city. VALENTINO GETS DIVORCE. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 12.- A final decree of divorce for Rodolph Valentino, motion picture actor, was entered in the Los Angeles county superior court today. Sleuths Shadow Cops,WhoMayBe Banned Kluxers By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 12.—Fifteen members of the New York police force are being shadowed by plain- clothes men night and day, just as if they were suspected of being e deepest dyed criminals, the g‘venmgv\vofld declared today on what is characterized as unques- tionable authority. The cause for the step was said to be discovery that the fifteen were members of the Ku Klux Klan, which Mayor Hylan has or- dered driven from the city. The newspaper sald a report had been forwarded to Mayor Hylan detafling the results of an Investi- gation of the entire department to sece if there were any Klansmen on the force. At Mayor Hylan's office it was said that no such Kepors 2iad been SRS L