Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1923, Page 2

2 *® 140D.G. MOTHERS NOW NEED PENGION Survey in D. C. by Council of Social Agencies Reveals Urgent Cases. 390 DEPENDENTS NOTED Organization Opposes Method of Raising of Welfare Funds on So-Called Percentage Basi More than 140 mothers in the Dis- trict of Columbia are in neced of mothers’ pensions, according lo a survey presented to the Council of Soclal Agencies at a meeting held vesterday afternoon at the Raleigh Hotel. These mothers have 540 children dependent upon them, Mrs. Walter S. Ufford, chairman of the family com- mittee of the council, declared, in her report. The report was not complete, and it is felt that the number of mothers in need is larger than the survey showed. An advisory council men, to co-operate with the Council «f Social Agencies, is in process of tormation under the leadership of Corcoran Thom, it was reported. Disapproves Fund-Ralsing Method. The council disapproved the raising ©of money for welfare work in the District on the so-called “percent- age” basls, The resolution, as adopt- ed, will be separately considered by the member agencies of tne coun- cil. and action reported back_to the council at the next meeting. Sending out of tickets for aftairs, and ask- ing the persons who receive them to send a check, or return the tickets, was held “open to question.” Ernest P. Bicknell, vice chairman of the American Red Cross, spoke in favor of centralization of funds in charity worl in a great city, and de- clared that he believed thut Wash- ington would ultimately have some form of the “community chest.” Instance Ts Cited. The sentiment of the members pres- ent was much against the raising of charity funds by the percentage basis. One member told of one wom- an who offered to raise the funds for an institution on the fifty-Afty basis; that is. the woman wanted half of all the money she might raise. Mrs. Whitman Cross. chairman of the children’s committee, reported that two subcommittees had been formed in her committee, one on the day nursery and another to consider the children's homes. The Gentlewomen's slected as & member of Soctal Agencies, wbold Noyes, vice president of the council, presided in the absence of Miss Mary Gwynn. president HAYNES PLYS NEW DRY WAR WEAPON (Continued from First Page.) of business League of the Council he found as a result of his cross- country observations, that the nation ® accepting prohibition with a better * he replied. “Broadly #peaking, there are only two really »ad spots left on the enforcemant map—New York and New Jersey. Lo- cal conditions. not easlly remediable, are responaible for that. Pennsyivania ueed to be a tough proposition, but with the inauguration of a governor determined to stamp out bootlegging, the Keystone statecis destined to be- come a banner prohibition common- wealth.” “Why are you ‘concentrating on puate legislatures?” the writer quer- od Concentration of Effort. “Because” said Mr. Haynes. “the mecond section of the eighteenth amendment provides that ‘the Con- gress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” Today only two states, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, are without local entorcement codes. But even in wiates which have domestic prohibi- tion laws I have found it useful to urge legislators to be unremitting in seeing_that they are enforced. Al- ways I use the law observance ar- gument. There's nothing hectoring in asking an American citizen o re- member his lovalty to the statutes under which he lives and thrives.” Mr. Haynes is persuaded that law observance will be among the fore- most issues, if not the paramount is- aue, around which the 1924 presiden- tial and congressional campaigns will be waged. He appears to be confident that whichever party espouses pro- ‘hibitlon enforoement—enforcement of the existing statutes—will win the day. The commissioner has had the experience éf nearly all observers. He finds the bigger urban communities inclined to be wet. but notes that the vastly more populous smaller communities and rural districts are overwhelmingly and incorrigibly dry. They may be depended on, Mr. Haynes thinks, to vote that way in 1924. Spirtt of Co-Operation, The prohibition unit's primary aim 1 1923, he said, “is to inculcate a sturdy law-observance and law-en- forcement spirit in municipal, county and state officials throughout the country. Tt is the plain intent of the elghteenth amendment that there should be that sort of co-operation between them and the federal au- thorities. 1f the reactions I experi- ence are any criterion. local author- ities are going to have public opin- ion behind them in an ever-increas- ing degree. The things men tell me when I'm among them point to that. The letters that reach me long after T get back to Washington reafirm it ommissioner Haynes from time to time receives striking proofs from abroad that America’s experiment in prohibitioa ttracting world-wide attention. If it succeeds there is little doubt Uncle Sam's example in clambering onto the water wagon will prove contagious. Australia is watching us with special interest. Many European countries have their eyes riveted in our direction. Drink is, in most foreign countries, the one principal branch in which the world War failed to produce drastic re- trenchment. Great Britain has stop. ed spending in & host of directions Pit drank up $1.900.000,000 in 1922. Xurope will probably never go dry, as we did. on moral grounds. but economic necessity is expected to compel her to do o sooner or later. HUSBAND ASKS DETAILS. Bays Wife’'s Charges Too General to Be Answered. Claiming that his wife's charges are too sweeping, Granville C. Brad- ford, real estate operator, today ask- ed the District Supreme Court to require Mrs. Setty Birch Brad- ford to be more specific. He wishes to know the “when, why and where', of the allegations made in her bill of complaint. Bradford declares he cannot tel! whether his With's ‘peti- tion is based on cruelty, drunkenness r desertion. The husband alfo ob- to certain statements in the petition which he characierizes as immaterial and asks the court to strike them from the fecerd He is rh?rwuc by Attorney F. B. More- U Vast Gold Hoard Of Boer Leader Reported Found By the Associated Press. LONDON, = March 13.— Séuth Africa 18 excited over the reported discovery in the Pietersburg dis- trict of a vast sum of gold which Paul Kruger, late president of the Transvaal, Is said to have buried in the course of his flight to Delagoa bay and Europe about twenty years ago to escape cap- ture by the British. The Johannesburg correspond- ent of the Times who sends the story, says that gold bars and coins. comprising part of the for- tune of Kruger, have been recov- erod and that’ the police have 8one to investigate. The legend of “the Kruger millions” ~was once a favorite tople of dimoussion here and fin South ~Africa, but it has been almost forgotten in recent years. itecovery of the fabled fortune of Paul Kruger. who left an estate valued at $2.750.000, has been the goal of adventurers and commer- cial syndicates for some time. More than $3.000,000 in gpld. rep- resenting the bulk of Krugera money, was cemented in the hold of the bark Dorothea, which sank on Tenedos reef off ihe Zululand coast about twenty y 'S Ago. This money, which has never been recovered. 8o far a is known, is sald to have been shipped by Kruger previous to 1904. STORM DEAD, 40; DAMAGE MILLIONS IN MIDDLE WEST (Continued from First Page.) reported to have been injured and es- timates of loss caused by property damage over a wide area close to the million dollar mark stood today as the toll of the violent wind storm Which swept Kentucky Sunday night and early Monday. Death rode the gale at widely sepe- rated points. Femcre Reports reaching Louisville over partially paralyzed wires told of the death of u family 'of three when a Logan county home was demolished. ‘The victims tentatively were identi- fled as Mr. and Mre. Raymond Stahl and their young son. Three Killed tn Farm House. Three persons, William Hall, thirty- eight, his four-year-old daughter, Catherine, and the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Logan Griffith, were killed when the wind lifted the Hall farm- house. in Madison county, carried it fifty yards and eplintered it around its thirteen occupants. Two persons were injured seriously at this place. Two women, Mrs. 1. C. Dossy, thirty-one, and Mrs. Margaret Cox, fitty-one. ‘were killed in Edmonson county. Mrs. Doasy's husband probably was injured fatally. The roof was blowh from the high school at South Portsmouth, Ky., faliing in the schoolvard and killing Dennis Bogge, nine. Five school chil- dren were injured, two seriously. ‘Wire Service Cut Of. Property damage resulted from damaged buildings, shattered display windows and leveled smokestacks in towns and in rural dlstricts from razed dwellings and farm buildings, felled trees and live stock killed by falling timbers. Telephons and telegraph service over a wide area in western Ken- tucky was paralyzed by prostrated lines, and Owensboro and Paducah were cut off from Loulsville until late Monday. “Federal Hill, near Bardstown, where Stephen Collins Foster wrote My Old Kentucky Home,” was partly unroofed and otherwise damaged. Reports of unusual acoldents and narrow escapes followed close on those of death and destruction. Wind Rolls Auto Into Stream. In Graves county members of an automobile party escaped with drenched clothing after they were thrown into a swollen stream when wind overturned thelr machine. A house in Nelson county was reported to have been lifted from its flooring and carrled by the wind to a point nearly a quarter of a mile away, leaving the occupants protected only by their night clothes against the accompanying rain. HEAVY DAMAGE IN OHIO. Wind Blows Child to Death Under Street Car. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 13.—Scores of Ohio’s communities today were re- covering from the high wind storm of vesterday which took a toll of two lives and did property damame esti- mated at thousands of dollars. Many persons were injured, a few aeriously. At Steubenville james Baker, four years old, was swept from the side- walk into the street and under the whee!s of a passing street car. He was decapitated. Ira Matthewson, the other victim, was killed at Maj sillon. Communication and power trans- mission lines were crippled and buildings unroofed in practically all sections of the state. Trees and poles were blown down. Interurban cars in many instances were delayed for hours. PUBLIC UTILITIES HIT. Suffer Heavy Damage as Storm Sweeps Michigan. DETROIT, Mich., March 13.—Public utilities companies were the heaviest losers in Michigan through the storm that ewept over the stats Sunday night and Monday, according to re- ports reaching here over crippled wires today. In some districts small buildings were damaged, but there apparently was no loss of life, ‘Grand Rapids wire companies re- ported damage in western Mlchlsln would amount to nearly $1,000,000. The storm in the central part of the state was severe also and Baginaw estimates damage st $500,000. Detroit escaped the brunt of the hurricane. Two Fishermen Belleved Lost. ELIZABETH CITY., N. C. March 13.—James L. Twiford. forty, and Barney C. Burrus, twenty-eight, Hyde county fishermen, are belleved to have been lost during the enty- mile gale that swept Pamlico sound on March 6, according to word re- cceived here today from the sound. A sunken boat believed to be theirs found. but there was no trace ot the bodies. — POISON RICE TOLL, 22. By the Associated Press. death list at twenty-two among the ports today from Hangchow, capital of the province of Chekiang, placed the death lat at twenty two among the scores poisoned at s supper there last Saturday of the First Provincial Nor- mal 8chool. ; The recovery of fitteen others. was held doubtful. Analysis revealed that peisoned rice had been served, but whether by acci~ dent or design was not disciosed. Five cqoks were imprisoned péndin the outcome of an {nguiry. Med! a hghal. \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. C, SWAINSON ASKS JURY IN DRY CASE Pleads Not Guilty, Following Alleged Seizures, and $1,500 Bond Is Given. William Edward Swainson of the Chateau Thierry apartments, whose sutes there,-805 and 806, yielded ap- proximately $10,000 worth of choice whiskles and liquors in a recent raid, according to the police, was arraigned in the United States branch of the YPolice Court this mornin He pleaded not guilty on charges of violations of the national prohibition law and demanded a jury trial. Judge McMahon fixed bond at $1.500, which was furnished. Lieut. Davis said this morning that among evidence taken from Swainson’s apartments 18 a long list of local men believed to be patrons. The liquor was characterized as the finest assort- ment seized in the District since the prohibition law went into effect. The property, according to the police, included benedictine, creme de mentlie, Scotch, rye and champagne. Among the other beverages were tel cases of Bacardi rum, the bottles of which bore the mark of selzed evi- dence of New York state.. Roache Pleads Not Gullty. Edward Roache, charged with sale and possession of whisky in violation of the national prohibition law, also was arraigned. He pleaded not gullty and demanded trial by jur Bond was fixed at $1,300, which was provided. Roache was & dancing master with a large patronage and an amateur pugilist of more than local fame. Kor years before the prohibition laws went into effeot he operated a saloon and restaurant at 15th and H streets northeast. The charge against Roache was selling corn whisky from his residence. Only a small quantity was taken in the raid on his home. [ — SPECIAL SENATE SESSION TO REVISE RULES ADVOCATED ____(Continued from First Page.) of the minority they are used by the minority to defeat the will of the ma- Jority, to discredit legislation and to play petty partisan politics. Worse still, the Senate is being discredited with the people by the action of the few. ‘The very structure of the gov. ernment of the fathers is being unde mined. The time has come, it seems to me, when we must change the rules of the Senate or the people will change the Senate. Extra Session Wise. “T thought it would be wiss for the President to call the Senate in extra session for the sole purpose of revis- ing its rules, so that it can transact business. and I urged him to do so, but he did not deem it best to do it. With no other ?ueu(lons to take up. with the eyes of the people centered upon us and with & strong desire to &et away on our vacation there would have been hope of speedy action. It will be hard to do it in a regular ses- slon, with all sorts of questions pre: ing. It may be that those of us who think a change should be made wiil have to use the rules at the beginning of the next session in a heroic way to correct some of the most glaring ov ‘Only thres or four changes are ally needed. No dilatory motion should be confined to the question at {ssue. Both of these matters can well be left to the president of the Senate. subject to an appeal to be passed upon without debate. We have been following a form of unanimous con- sent agreement when it could be [reached that should be embodied in a rule, the substance of which would be that after a bill has been the un- ! finished business for a certain num- ber of days speeches on the bill and amendments would be limited in num- ! ber and length. With these changes the will of the majority could be car- ried out, full and ample debate would be had and the Senate would be the really great deliberate body it was in- tended to be. Filibuster Not His Reason. “No, the filibuster on the shipping bill has had nothing to do with my reaching this conclusion. It has sim- ply confirmed the opinion I reached some time ago because of what had taken place in the Senate during the last two years. In December last I introduced a resolution to create a special committee to study the rule: and propose changes. Its considera- tion was objected to, and it went to the committee on rules. The chair- man of that committee has sought to get some action by his committee. but has been unable to do so. Be- fore this I had offered an amendment to the rules limiting debate on ap- propriation bills. “Some senators seem to have ac- cepted the self-imposed task of turn- ing everything to party advantage and to_ minimize and discredit the work of the majority, in the hope of catching any popular sentiment any- where and among any of our people. All this is encouraged under our rules. It may not be done away with by the cha: suggested, but the will of the majority anyway can be clearly expressed. “These changes are not suggested in the interest of any party. The republicans are in control now. The democrats profess to think they will got control in the next election. I do not thing so, but if they should their majority then would be at the mercy of two or three of us and the waste of time playing petty poli- tics would go on. Both "partles should seek such changes in the rules as will promote good legislation and restore the Senate in the good opin- fon of the peopl —_— 16TH STREET BUS LINE EXTENSION REQUESTED Capital Traction Company, at Hearing, Expresses Willingness to Give Necessary Service. The Capital Traction Company is willing to extend its new 16th street bus line as far north of Montague street as the Utilities Commission deems necessary, John H. Hanna, vice president, told the commission at a hearing today. The commission a few weeks ago ordered the company to establish a bus line from the end of the car tracks at 14th and Kennedy streets west to 16th street, north to Montague street, east to 14th street and back to Kennedy street. Another hearing was held today be- cause the Sixteenth Street Heights Sixtesnth Street Highlands Citize associations regarded the' bus route as too short to be of any practical service. ‘W. N. Holm spokesman for Six- teenth Street Heights, told the com- mission today the busses should run as far as Holly .street, thereby serving ‘Waltbr Reed Hospital, the new Rock Creek golf course and scores of new property_owners. -John D. Rhodes. appearing for the Sixteenth Street Highlands, joined in t that the busses go beyond Montag! street. _ Mr. Hanna then stated that the Capital Traction Com- rnny. realizing the need for some serv- ice ‘in that vicinity, is ready to rum busses to whatever paint the 0om~ TUESDAY, MARCH. 13, 1923, TRUCK LOADS OF CONFISCATED LIQUOR. g Sceme at prohibition storehouse, 1410 Pennayivania avenue, put aboard big motor vans 1o be emptie: to the Potomac river. “Poor Fishes” of Potomac Revel In Rum as 5 Who said “Poor fishes"? Whether it was in consideration of |the short life the finned inhabitants of the Potomac are accustomed to during Lent or just & scheme of the local fish dealers to raise their prices, lquors were destroyed by the pro- hibition agents today in the muddy waters of the Potomac river, just a stone's throw or, as in the case today, a bottle’s throw, from the Lincoln Memorial Sebring Is Celebrant. Frank A. Sebring. clerk of the Po- lice Court, officiated at the obsequie: and Prohibition Agents Charles Wil- iams, Ralph Ruby, George Fowler, jr.. and several colored laborers of the prohibition office acted as both hono- rary and active'palibearers. A crowd of curious sympathizers made up the mourners The order for the destruction of the liquor was signed last week by Judge John P. McMahon, Police Court magistrate. All the liquon that wa O’RYAN’S FIRST AIM TO HELP VETERANS (Continued from First Page) _ 300 gallons of the finest and worst | 00 Gallons Flow destroved and thrown into the river had been stored previously in the warehouse of the Treasury Depart- ment, on Pennsylvania avenue. — The liquor repregented some of the evi- dence and supply seized in ralds dur- | cases convictions were made. Left Trail of Rum. The 500 gallons were piled high in a large truck about 11 o'clock and were brought up to the street level by a small freight elevator. Several tin containers began to leak as they were piled up on top of one another, making quite an alcoholic atmosphere uck as 't made its way up vivania avenue left a trail of . gin and numerous other kinds of alcoholic beverages. No one, how ever, was seen trying to scoop any of it up for word had gone around that most of the consignment was unfit to drink. The liquor was mostiy corn and zin. although there were sever:l kess of red wine Included. also. were cases of rve, Scotch, mash, beer and, in a few instances, some rare lold vintages. —————————————e ARREST OF IRISH NIPS HUGE'PLOT (Continued from First Page.) { | | i tions as discovered by tlia investi- gators would be given to the public in order that the American peopie may know what is being done by the Veterans' Bureau, “both favor- able and unfavorable.’ The limitations of appropriation: available for the investigators, $20.000. it was sald by Gen. O'Ryan. necessarily piace a limit on the size of the personnel of his foroe. the aesistance. however, of part of the Veterans' Bureau outfit. the task he thought. could be thoroughly a complished. Efficlent Staft Sought. Among the members of Gen. O'Ryan’s staff, outside of any government as- sistance which he may receive. there probably will be, the general indicated. one medical man of such high stand- ing and integrity as to give, his opin- icns strong appeal to least one, and, perhaps more. legal ad- visers, and a number of reliable inves- tigators, who will be able to “get to the meat of the matter in short or- der.” A very fortunate feature whole situation was said by Gen. O'Ryan to be the fact that the di- rector, Gen. Hines, was not being in- vestigated. ‘This relieves the situa- ltion.” said Gen. O'Ryan. “of what otherwise might have been a real em- barrassment. Gen. Hines' past can- not be affected by this investigation Has No Opinions. The counsel for the Senate commit- tee indicated that he was entering the investigation “without any precon- ceived notions.” He said that his only experience with the disabled soldier had been with those of his own divi- sion, the 27th. This, he thought, would be of help. There will be developed in the progress of the work how much jue- tification there is in certain rumors, lwhich have been floating about the {country _concerning the disabled vet- eran. There was no doubt in the minds of any one, Gen. O'Ryan said, that there did exist a certain type which could be called the “grouch class,” which no ome could satisfy. This element of discontent, he indi- cated, was to be found in any organ- jzation, even in small companies, and he was of the opinion that perhaps mome of the criticism of the Veterans' Bureau emanated from such a source. Headquarters in New York. As a preliminary step, Gen. O'Ryan has been busily engaged in what he calls “getting atmosphere” on the situation. He said he had conferred with a number of persons in New York, particularly, who have been connected with the work of the past. Cornelius Wickersham, who was counsel to a previous Senate com- mittee looking into soldier affairs, was one of those with whom Gen. O'Ryan conferred. L When he completes his personnel organization_and gets the machinery to running, Gen. O'Ryan probably wiil spend much of his time in New York, e headquarters will be at his of- fices. His Washington headquarters will be at the Senate committee room the Senate office building, Efforts will be made by Gen. Hines, the director of the bureau, not only to co-operate with the investigation, it was said, but also to remedy defects in the organization as they are un- covered, or, If possible, even before the investigators reach them. Gen. Hines s21d he hoped he could “keep two or three steps ahead of the committee.” But in this connection, he indicated, he would endeavor to &vold any du- plication of effort which would in- crease the cost to the public. Hines Cuts Red Tape. Already Gen. Hines has taken steps to shorten the procedure of getting relief to veterans. He said he had ordered a report on the present Methods employed, and asked for sug- gestions as to how short cuts might De accomplished without changing 1t "hlgc'l';!‘é)'Ryn.n and his investigators probably . will make some trips into Dre fleld for. inspection of hospitals and plants, but hoped they may be able to count upon some of the bureau Dersonnel _in some _investigations. Capt. MocClintock, secretary of the Senate committee, who was also pres- ‘ent this morning at the conference at the Veterins' Bureau, indicated that the - Senste committee itself planned considerabls number of the would | With | the public; at| the communists and aiming uitimate- 1y at overthrow of the crown as well as of the free state PHREE REBELS EXECUTED. | Irregulars Raiding Bank and Free State Force Die. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, March 13.—Michael Creevy and Henry Keenan, republicans, were {executed today. They were arrested |after a raid on a bank at Oldcastle and were convicted of possessing |a as well as a large sum of Creevy was a leader of the irregulars James O'Rourke was executed this morning after conviction of taking part in an attack on national army troops in a Dublin hotel last month The Free State government has issued the names of the prisoners taken in the week end ralds in Eng- land and Scotland. and brought here on_British warships The vrisoners, who were taken into military custody on their arrival at the North Wall, are declared by the government to have been engaged in a conspiracy to supply the Irish ir- regulars with war materials and thus pport the rebel campaign of destruc- tion. Among_the names on the list was that of Charles Liamond, proprietor of the London Catholic Herald, who in 1920 was found guilty of urging the ssination of Field Marshal French. then lord lieutenant and _governor general of Treland. He was then sentenced fo six months Imprison- ment. HEALY IS EXECUTED. By the Associated Pross CORK. March 13.—William Healy was executed here this morning by the Free State authorities. He was ar- rested while in the possession of arms during the recent attack on a house in Blarney street, when an at- tempt was made to burn the home of, Mrs. Powell, sister of the late Michael Collins. James Tarle, Patrick Hogan and John Creerve were also execiled for possession of arms. They were arrest- ed in County Wexford. WALES AGAIN THROWN WHILE RIDING IN RACE By the Associated Press. TETBURY, March 13.—The Prince of Wales had another fall from his horse while riding in the Beaufort Point-to-point races near here, but is reported to have escaped injury. Wales was slightly injured while out with the Badmington hunt near Malmesbury 1last October, sprained his ankie in a fall from his horse on a slippery road on November 3, w: again thrown, but uninjured, early in December, and last month was limp- ing about due to an accident while fox hunting. On each occasion his lucky star ap- parently saved him from what might | easily have been grave injury. Unde- terred by these accidents, however, he persists in competing in races and riding to houndes. ARCHITECT FOR LIBRARY. ity i Edward L. Tilton of New York to . Plan Mt. Pleasant Branch. Edward --I. Tilton, ‘well. known architect of New York. was selected by the Distriet Commissioners today to' destgn the mew Mount Pleasant branch of the Public Library. The new appropriation act carried $25,000 to buy land for the building &nd authorized” the Commissioners 14, #c- cept -not-dess thar 3700,000 frome the Carnexia’ Cofboration: of New Ydrk o7, tis ereotiom: = r: Tilton™ also> designed tBe. ndw southeast branch of ths Public Library. 3 \ inz the past three vears and in which | | | DESTROYED TODAY, ATTRACT LARGE CROWD THEATER IN DARK DUETO DISPUTE Clash Between Manager Mc- Garry and Actor Harris Halts Billed Play. The Shubert-Garrick Theater, dark last night, will be dark tonight, prob- ably opening on Wednesday, surely on Thursday. following a misunderstand- ing between Manager Garry McGarry of the Garrick Players and Mitchell Harris, who was billed to piay the leading juvenile role in “Three Wise Foo Charges and counter charges be- tween the actor and manager flew thick and fast last night and today, Wwith the net result that Manager Mc- Garry a ounced this morning he would consider Harris as a ‘“de- serter” from the cast; had engaged another to take the juvenile role and would proceed with the show Wed- nesday night at least Claims by Harrl On the other hand, Harris clafms that his failure to act with the com- pany last night was due to Manager McGarry's breaking his contract in the payment of salary. Mr. Harris turther claimed that he had this morning received authority from the Actors’ Equlty Association of New York to withdraw from the cast with five members, to New York Manager McGarry declared that Harris had begged off from the per- formance Monday night. claiming he had .10 go to New York to answer divorce “proceedings Manager Mc- Garry furthermore charged that Har- ris did not know his lines and was unready to appear with the cast. Tom Wise, veteran of the stage, who is slated for the star role, joined the manager in the charge that Harris was not readv with his ifnes. Harris. on the other hand, declared that_the manager had_failed to pay salaries to the cast on Saturday night. according to the contract, and had thereby broken his contract Wires Are Kept Hot. The telephone wires between Was ington and New York to the office of the Actors' Equity Association were kept hot last night and today by both sides of the misunderstanding. It was indicated that the association might send an investigator from New York to look into the Washington sit- uation at the Shubert-Garrick. The first-night audience appearing last night at the Shubert-Garrick was met at the box office with the an- nouncement that the House was dark because the leading man had to go to New York to answer divorce proceed- ings. —_— PARTY PAYS RESPECTS TO PRESIDENT OF PANAMA COLON, March 13.—The United States delegation to the pan-American confer- ence at Santiago, Chile, which arrived here yesterday, will call on President Porras tcday. The delegates, who left New York on March 6, met each day aboard the Santa Teresa to consider the subjects on the conference agenda. Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the delegation, said he 'was well pleased with these preliminary meetings. TO GET PERMITS BACK. Here is a ray of hope for the scores of automobile owners whose permits to drive have been revoked by the commissioners within_ the last year for violations of the regulations. Commissioner Oyster announced to- day that he is_ considering recom- mending to his colleagues that a pumber of revoked permits be re- stored in the near future. The commissioner indicated that most of the permits restored would be ones that have been withheld for six months or more and that the most deserving cases would be given first consideration for clemency. e PLAN FOR SHAD BAKE. * Plans are already under way for the annual shad bake of the Washington Board of Trade, which will probably be held at Chesapeake Beach during the latter part of May. President Ed- ward F. Colladay has announced the 1923 shad-bake committee which will be In charge of the affair. The personnel of the committee fol- Jows: L. Pierce Boteler, chairman Harry Allmon, T. Brooke Amiss, jr. John T_Bardroff, Edwin C. Branden- burg, Thomas Bradley, Joseph A. Burkart, Thomas R. Burr, John R. Casper, Herman F. Carl, Arthur Carr, John M. Cherry, ‘Willlam Clabaugh, Warren Cochran, Edward F. Colladay, Richard L. Conner, L. Lee Combs, W. Porter Cox, Charles F. Crane, J. Harry Cunningham, Samuel M. Dar- ragh, Clarence F. Donohue, George M. Fisher, George B. Farquhar, R. K. Ferguson, Dr. Frank E. Gfbson, Mur- ray L. Gifford, Edwin C Graham, alter g Klopfer, Ernest J. Lee- anitzer, George H. Macdonald, Luther W. Lifkins, James ‘B.-Lecraft, John T. Meany. George Miller. Charies W. Morris, Edward J. Murphy, Charles ¥_ Pardoe. Charles W. Pimper, Sam- uel J. Préscott, George Plitt, L. L. Reeéves. Dr.- Joseph Rogers, Carl J. Quentell, Odell S.;.Smith, Frank R. "Strunk, ' ° Waiter Thompson, - Max ‘Walten, Charles J. Waters; ‘R. N. Wafle, Francis* “Waller, 3. ‘White . el {10 the local office seeking jobe, Germans Begin Effort to Reach . Private Funds BY GEORGE WITTE. Br Wireless to The Star aad Ohicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. BERLIN, March 13.—The Ger« man government has begun its ef- fort to reach the hidden gold and dollar treasuries of the common people. With its jssue of 6 per cent, non-taxable treasury bonds in dollar denominations it was confident that it would get at least $20,000.000 or $30,000,000 worth of glit-edged securities which until now have been so securely hidden as to escape the income tax col- lector. Subscription books for the new loan will remain open for twelve days. In its newspaper advert! ments the Reiohsbank emphasizes the point that dollars, English pounds, Japanese yen and almost every other kind of foreign money will ‘be accepted, but that German marks will not be taken. Th stipulation shows that the o ernment i3 after the foreign money. The $50,000.000 whioh the gov- ernment is trying to raise will be used to stabllize the German paper mark. U.S. BUREAU FINDS WORK FOR JOBLESS when intoxicants seized in recent raids were|Njngty-Six Applicants Obtain Employment Yesterday, 22 in Skilled Class. More persons were placed in em- vloyment yesterday by the Washing- ton bureau of the United States Em- ployment Seswice than in any week during January and up to the middle of February, according to Miss Kath- erine Smith, director of the local of- fice. Ninety-six applicants were placed in jobs by the office vesterday, of whom 22 were skilled workers in some trade or profeesion. Review of Situation Outside the clerical fleld, Miss Smith said today, there fs practically a job open for every man or woman who wants to work. With the office be- sieged with calls for skilled workers in the trades and a waiting list of employers for competent tradesmen. every so-called “white collar” worker who wants to earn his daily bread by the sweat of his brow can find employment if he has the courage and strength to do manual work. The Washington office has a standing or- der from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for unskilled labor, and every morning a few workmen are sent to the Maryland and Pennsyl- vania vards of the railroad to work ards or as track men. Many Applicants Unskilled. Many of the applicants who come Miss Smith says. are unskilled in the par- ticular line they wish to enter and will not take work of a more menial nature. The number of “floaters” in Washington has decreased since the middle of winter, the director added. /ANTI.SALOON LEAGUE MLST FLE EXPENSES New York Court Rules Organiza- tion Is Political and Comes Under Elections Law. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y. March 12.—The Anti-Saloon League of New York must file statements of expenditures in connection with political campaigns, according to a decision handed down today by Supreme Court Justice Ellis J. Staley. The order was granted upon the application of a group of residents of Trov, who contended that the Anti- Saloon League was a political organi- zation and should be compelled to comply with the provisions of the elections law. which require that statements of campaign expenditures be filed with the gecretary of state. Anderson Iy Silent. NEW YORK, March 13.—William H. Anderson, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. today declined to comment on the decision of Supreme Court Justice Staley at Albany that the Anti-Saloon League must flle statements of expenditures in connec- tion with political campaigns. $9,000,000 RUSS AID FROM HEBREWS IN U. S. Report Shows $5,700,000 of Con- tributions Were for Non- Sectarian Purposes. NEW YORK, March 13.—More than $5,700.000 has been contributed by American Jews toward non-sectarian relief in Russia, and a further $3.300,- 000, mostly for their own people, through the American Relief Admin- istration during the year 1922, accord- ing to a report of the American Jew- ish joint distribution committee. The report was made by Fellx M. Warburg, James N. Rosenberg. and Lewis L. Strauss, the three repre- sentatives of the committes who in August, 1921, concluded the agree- ment on the ‘combined work in’ Rus- sia with Secretary Hoover, chairman of the American Relief Administra- tion. About $4,000.000 of the $5.700.000 was directly contributed toward Ru sian’ relief from the organization's own funds, while the remainder was made up ‘of the 25 per cent deducted by the American Relief Administr tion for general relief from approx- imately $7,000.000 in food packages sent by American Jews to Russia. Most of the funds expended by the American Jewish Jjoint distribution Committee, according to the report, are now being used for construction rather than for relief, such as fur- nishing farmers with feed, cattle and implements and providing capital to numerous small _co-operative loan banke, The total amount contributed by the committee from its own funds during the past year for relief work in Russia was $1,500,000. HUGE COKEPLANT SEIED BY FRENCH Engineers 'Begin Task of Exacting Coal Reparations From Industrials. BUER OFFICIALS HELD French Threaten to Shoot Burgo- master if More Soldiers Are Ambushed. By the Aswociated Press. ESSEN, March 13.—The civil mis- sion of engineers headed by M. Coste, French finspector general of mines, which came into the Ruhr to exaet coal reparations from the industri: ists, has begun realization of its plans. A party of engineers, escorted by a battalion of French Infantry seized today the state coke plant near Westerhold with 1,000 tons of coke on hand. Fifty Polish and German workers in the employ of the French imme- diately began loading frelght cars with the coke under protection of the soldfers. The French announced that they expected within a few days to send at least one train load of coke daily to France. Strikers Return to Work. About 2,000 men are employed at this plant.” They went on strike when the engineers arrived, but later re- turned to work. One of the nationai- ist leaders urged the men to on strike indefinitely. o Another detachment of engineers. also_escorted by infantry. Inspected the Thyssen works at Dulsburg todas. The nationalist leaders in this case also urged the several thousand miners at the plant to strike. The miners finally agreed, but they demanded two months’ wages in ad- vance, which the directors of the plant refused to give them. After the departure of the engineers the men returned to work. The inspection of the Thyssen plant by M. Coste’s engineers was to deter ne the output of the works and learn the detalls of their operation FOUR HELD AS HOSTAGES. Face Firing Squad if More Soldiers Are Shot. By the Associated Press. ESS] March 13.— The German population of the Recklinghausen dis- trict has been warned by Gen. Laignelot, commanding the district, it was announced today, that in the event any further French troops are assassinated or ambushed the burgo master of Buer, who is held as a hostage. together with four other town officials, wil be shot at once as a _measure of retaliation. Two French officials were assassi- nated at Buer, in the Recklinghausen aistrict, Saturday night. This warning accompanied a gen- eral announcement that the French military authorities, because of the increase in acts of violence and in sabotage in various parts of the Ruhr, would take the severest meas- ures to stop these attacks. Quiet Prevalls Im Buer. Quiet now prevails in Buer after the assassination of the two French officials and the subsequent shoot- ings during which seven Germans were killed. German newepaper reports that the German officials have evidence that the French victims were shot by French chasseurs are denied by the French authorities. The French sav they have in their possession a re- volver of the type carried by the Ger man security police, found near the Bcene of the shooting. They contend that their reports tend to show the two Germans who were shot while {trying to escape from arrest in Bu were the assassins of the French off- clals. Rallroad Sections Dynamited. Two sections of railroad in the Essen reglon are reported to have been blown up by dynamite over night. One of these was near Hugel. which is the Krupp passenger station close by the Krupp villa at Hugel. The other stretch was along the main line of the railroad between Essen and Duesseldorf, near Werden. This part of the line is being operated by French civilian railroad men. Various acts of sabotage are being reported daily, and in many recent cases the work of destruction along the railroad and at the bridges was accomplished by means of dynamite or other high explosives. Tt is an- nounced in this connection that. owing to the increased use of explosives for such acts, the French are considering holding burgomasters and other town officials as hostages. and are even planning to compel these officials to ride on the locomotives in the danger zone. CUT IN RENT OPPOSED, SLASH MADE GREATER Owner of Susquehanna Appeals When Rate Is Reduced to $50. $5 More Lopped Off. A still further reduction was made in the rents of twelve apartments in the Susquehanna, 1430 W street northwest, yesterday, when the Rent Commission reconsidered the verdict it had rendered last summer. In fits decision the commission de- clared that tenants in the Susque- hanna had been charged “unfair and unreasonable”” rents; that the owners of the house had earned an “unrea- sonable” amount of interest on their net investment and that in the fu- ture the return on their money should be no more than 7 per cent above ex- penses of maintenance and service. ‘When the commission first heard tha case, it reduced rents in the Susque- hanna to a maximum of $30 for the best apartments and a minimum of $29 for the least desirable apartments, per month. Both tenants and the owners complained, with the result that the case was reopened. As a re- #ult the commission fixed the highest rents at $45 per month and the low- est at $25. Before the first hearing the rent for an rtment in the Sus- quehanna ranged up to $75 per month. month. : The commission pointed out that the value of the Susquehanna Was $70,000. It cost $5.400 for mainte- nance, repairs, service, etc With the new scale of rents fixed by the com- wmission, {t was pointed out that the net return would be 7 per cent, which the commission declared smple. To Keep Up With the News buy THE 5:30 EDITION OF THE EVENING TAR on your way home. It will give you the very latest news from all over the world—accurate and reliable—and also the financial resume and sports finals, together with the courts’ program for to- morrow. For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city.