Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Rain and warmer tonight and tomor- row; increasing southwest winds. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 48, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 31, at 3:30 ' a.m. today “From Press to Home Within the Hour” _The Star’s carrier system cover: every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington lomes as fast Full report on page 12, as the papers are printed. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 28808. @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. NEW BERLINPEACE PLAN REPORTED T0 OFFER GUARANTEES Germany Declaring Keeping Terms Secret While Sound- ing Out Allies. INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF FINANCES PROPOSED French Charge Nationalists, in Their Uniforms, Are Commit- ing Ruhr Crimes. ssociated Pre mv;:'er?sslzl.uonr. March 15— Three Germans were shot and killed by French nentries today while trying to break into a ma- chinery warehouse at Reckling- hausen. According to the French announcement, the shooting took place after the Germans had dis- regarded the usual challenges. Associated Pre hl':’:s‘mx . March 15.—The Informa- tion printed by the diplomatic corre- epondent of the Daily Telegraph to the effect that Germany has up her gleeve a peace plan that includes zuarantees to Franca as well a national supervision of her finances attracted considerable attention here today. The article, based on advices which the newspaper says are thoroughly iahle, asserts that Germany is not Febared to bring the plan into the Ight until she is assured that {t will recelve more attention than did the broposals ghe had ready for the Lon- Qon ami Paris premiers’ conferences. Tnofficial overtures were recently made to the British cabinet by Ger- many, the correspondent continucs 4s to whether Great Britain would enter the opening wedge in peace ne- gotiations by suggesting openly that & definite German offer would be con- sidered in London. These advances The artiele asserts, did not draw out the British authorities, and conse- quently Germany is reluctant to dis- « hand. ] e “riter declares that the Ger- man _industrialists are prepared to contribute & material guarantee. He Jearns that Germany is ready to ac ecpt international financtal control to &n inportant extent and that she is v{lling to be a Darty to an interna tional guarautee of the French fron- tiers as cstablished by the treaty. PLAN UNENOWN HERE. peace Germany Ready to Offer One Since 1918, Says Embassy. State Department and German em- passy officials here declared today they knew nothing of a mew German plan | ettlement of the reparations ques- Lo etered 1o In Dress dlspatches yes- London. e mbassy the view was held that the Berlin government had been willing and ready since 1918 to submit a2 plan if the allied governments would give it attention, but, so far as known here at this time, there was no new proposal under consideration in Beritn. LAY CRIMES TO REDS. French Says Perpetrators Posed as Soldiers. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, March i tionalists, wearlng ¥rench uniforms | and posing as French soldiers are de- clared in French official advices from the Ruhr to have been committing robberfes’ and other outrages with their own countrymen as the victims. | Their purpose, as interpreted here, is to excite the public against the troops of occupation and stiffen the German | resistance. | The French authoritics are investi- zating thoroughly into the extent of this and other new features of the opposition to the Franco-Belglan re- gime in the Ruhr. Among these new developments, the French declare, are the circulation by word of mouth and by publication | of accounts of imaginary attacks on | Gierman women and of highway rob- beries, . When these stories first came to the knowledge of the French authorities they invited those who had been in- jured and attacked to complain. They received numerous letters, they state, : but were unable to trace the author- | ship of the letters or to obtain wit- nesses. SEES GERMAN REVOLT. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 15.—A s iter- | | Interests WASHINGTON, D. S Jey ARTS COMMISSION 0. K.S BEAUTIFUL WATER FRONT| Letter to Rudolph Favors River Improve- ment Scheme of Assistant Engineer Commissioner Wood. The Commissioners’ plan for the commerelal development and beautifi- cation of the Washington channel river front was given impetus today Wwhen the Fine Arts Commission ap- proved the project. In an extremely favorable letter to Commissioner Rudolph, chairman of the board,. the arts commission out- lined its views on the scheme as pre- pared by Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner John E. Wood. Tt also was learned at the District building today that the engineer de- partment has begun the preparation of estimates for carrying out the im- provement. The project may eventu- ally cost several millions, it was in- timated. In view of the cost. it is probable that the work will have to be spread out over a perfod of years. The letter of Charles Moore, chair- man of the arts commission, to Mr. Rudolph follows “The Commission of Fine Arts, to whom was submitted, through Capt. John E. Wood, assistant to the Engi- neer Commissioner, at the meeting of the commission on February 23, 192 A tentative plan for the develop: ment of Water street, desire to ex- press approval of the general princi- ples lald down in the plan as sub- d. commission believes that Water street sould be developed for a combined commercial and boule- vard purpose very much as the water- front of Budapest has been de- veloped. Lying opposite East Potomac Park, Witer street may be treated in such manner as to give added interest to the outlook as seen from the long drive along the Washington channel. Utilitarian structures of an obtru- sive and dominating nature should not be permitted along Water street. The type of permissible building is well expressed in the fish market. “Again, Water strect is adjacent to a combined residence nad commercial area. The commercial area includes freight storage yards, adjacent to the railroads, which shouid be amply pro- PRESIDENT START ONSWING OVER .S, AFTERVACATION Lays Plans to Visit Many States on Journey To and From Alaska. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, (Copsright, 1918, by The Star.) MIAMI BEACH, Fla. March 15— President Harding will go out to meet the people of the United States within a month or two after he returns to Washington from his vacation trip in Florida. The President is not merely cuperating from the effects of his winter battles with Congress, but he is building up reserve strength for one of the most strenuous tours he ever will have taken. Mr. Harding will journey across the continent. not alone to emphasize and reiterate | the fundamentals of administration policy and answer the critics of his first two years of effort in the White House, but to get the views of the people—to ascertain their wishes. The President believes in the idea of con- ference. As he travels across the country he will use the opportunity to_interview representatives of agri- cultural, manufacturing and Jaboring to get at first hand their viewpoints on public questions. Overeomes “Stump” Objection. It s true that the 1924 cdmpaign is already on the horizon, but Mr. Harding shares the view of his predecessors that the chief executive shouldn’t go on a stumping tour in his own behalf against the candidate of the rival party. To go during 1923, however, overcomes that ob- Jection, because other Presidents have similarly made a “swing around the circle” at the end of the sec- ond or third year of their respec- tive administrations. Mr. Harding has been kept con- re- i i I | vided for. There is at the same time a large population of residents who need quick uccess to East Potomac Park, with its golf links, base ball foot ball, tennis and other sport flelds, and also its picnic grounds. These people will be served in part by ferries, but there should also be a second bridge to the east of the raflroad tracks, connecting Water street directly with East Potomac Park through the Krounds now occu- pled in part by the engineer corp: Also Water street should be widened | at the terly end, so as to give a clear, uniforn tomac Par land owner wes This can be done the government. Favors Combined Purpose. When Water street is developed with asphult paving, as it should be at the earliest possible moment, it will form the great driveway be- tween Potomac Park and the War College, and thence to the Cap grounds and to the Anacostia Park The travel along Water street by light vehicles is now prohibited by the character of the paving. Even a narrow stretch of asphalt and the consolidation of the rafllway tracks would quickly produce an extension of the park drives of Washington, “The commission susgests that this paving_bhe done immediately as the first step in the proposed develop- ment he commission recornizc that the Yian submitted Is tentative and that many adjustments will be necessary before a final plan shall be arrived at. but the commission b lieves that the project submitted con tains the necessary elements for a successful and attractive develop- ment of Water street.” % ) The first step in the Commissioners’ scheme would be to construct a quay along the entire water front from the engraving bureau to the War College for the docking of ships. There would be a bhoulevard driv above the quay, with all commercial buildings setting back a considerable distance from the boulevard in such a_way as not to mat the uppearanc of the water front It is understood to be the plan of District officlals to have the build new commercial warehouses and rent them to business concerns, as the municipal fish markets on Water street are now handled. Junior Goulds Divorced; Mother Gets Children By the Assoctatad Press. W YORK. March 15.—3r. and Mrs. George J. Gould, jr. have been divorced at . France, friends here Yeariea “today. The two children have been awarded to the mother, The marriage took place at Phil- adelphia in 1917. when both were twenty-one years old, soon after Gould had been graduated from olumbia University. Mrs. Gould a8 Laura Carter. a dancer. Th marriage caused a temporary es trangement between Gould and his parents. Instead of entering the Gould companies, as was ex- pected, he went into the bond busines with his brother-in-law, Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. For a time he worked for an oil company at Oil City, Pa. where their first child, a son, was born. The second son was born here. Mr. Gould now i said to be in Egypt. His wife and children went to France some months ago. REFUSING AMNESTY b7 IRISH EXECUTED Resumption of Free State’s Drastic Policy Brings Death to Many. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, March 1 of cxecutions by the Free State govern- ment is in pursuance of the policy an- nounced when amnesty was offered. During the amnesty period all execu- tions were suspended, and the presumip- tion was that all refusing amnesty were irreconcilables and must take the con- sequences. The executions which have since taken place are for the most part not con- cerned with old offenses, but are pun- ishments for offenses subsequent to the amnesty offer. A notable feature has W thoroughtare to Po- | capltol | city | 1 —The resumption | i the rec. inamed. “The valuation found by the {of | hundred }utilities | insteud of the comm FIGHTS TO SAVE 000 IN RATES T0PEPCOPATRONS Citizens’ Federation Objectsi to Income Tax as Charge Against Operating Costs. ALSO WOULD DEDUCT PROFERTY DEPRECIATION Two Accounts Aggregate $3,000,- CCO, Lawyer Declares, in Statement. Payment of federal income tax hy the Potomac Electric Power Company out of its current re operating expense is opposed by the Federation of Citizens’ Assoclations in a brief filed with the utilities com- mission today by William McK. Clayton. The federation also advances the argument that “the depreclation should always be deducted from the valuation found and allowed as al base upon which to compute « rate of return.” “These two accounts—income tax and depreciation — aggrega close to $3,000,000, and their treatment by the mmission means a loss or gain to the consumer of over §200,000 yearly,” Mr. Clayton declared. Questions Company’s Right. Walter €. Allen, executive gecre- tary to the commission, said today the commission has questioned in the past the right of the company of taking income tax out of current revenu, He also declared that hearing a few weeks ago the com- mission brought up the question of what should be the proper treatment of the depreciation account, especial- J¥ when ‘money is taken from fund and put back into the p It was indicated that the c sion will have something to say about both these matters in its rate de- ion to be issued early next week. in the rate Clayton Clayton es Statement. was unable to attend | nt electric rate hearing, and for that reason asked permission to file hix written st t today. it! + t: ' federation again enters against the continued practice | commission of the allowance in full and their addition to the val- uation base established In 1916, at book value, of all property additions made by the company since the com- mission’s valuation of the year Mr. of th commission of the company ar of 1916 was twelve million ($12,000,000) dol- lar Preaent Valuation, $19,400,000. “The valuation now claimed by the company and used by the comm: as a base upon which to figure a return is nineteen thousand ($19,400.000) lars, so that seven million of the claimed property assets of the o rany has never been appraised, valued rate; dol- | or passed upon in review by the com- mission—but mitted to book cost base. “This, we contend, s contrary to the intent "and purpose of the public act and cannot but work great damage and hardship to the purchasing and consuming public. Had the commission similars d and ruled in 1916 when it ap- sed the then property of the com- pany, as it has since and is now do- ing, it might then easily have allowed the book value claimed by the com- viz. $23,000,000, ssion’s valuation the company is per- add_ all additions at full to the original valuation pany of its property, million four | Prosperity ¢ Foening Sftar. i Xefluhy;; Net Circulation, '96.905 '"HURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1923—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. \PROSPERITY TO BE KEYNOTETOG. 0.P. New’s Speech to Hoosiers: Seen as Outline of Platform | in 1924 Campaign. {DEMOCRATS TO DISPUTE] They Will Point Out Increased Cost; of Living Under Fordney Tariff Bill. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Willtam ssion | the present-day dential election. MoKinley President in 1896 as “the advance | agent of prosperity.” Harry S. New. | Postmaster General and new political | generalissimo of the administration, | announces that Warren G. Harding | —_— i will fight for re-election in 1924 as| i “advance agent » Incidentall claims that “prosperity ! OW | paramount issue on which the repub- | ™2 Jlican party will seek the nation's vote | of confidence at next years presi-! | { was ot New pro- will be the Aesertions and indications to the in fact because if of seneral above mentioned effect were made to a gathering of Indlana republicans by Mr. New, in Washington this week, in the course of his first utterance as a member of the Harding cabinet. | It was, G. O. P. keynoté speech. cdge that the President wanted the former Hoosler senator at the cabinet table sagacity lends im to the Postmaster not by ‘intent, a The know!- New's political ortant significance statement. Will “Star” Arms Parley. elected | 000,000. Decrease in Real Estate. “The commission, of course, ably since electric now the that the rates the commission still further decline. “The Potomac Electric Power Com- in the pany is without competition District of Columbia. “The commission should take two vears. “Should the commission find tha the rate of return has been largely in excess of a fair or normal rate for a | considerable period of time, the pub- lic should be recouped for excessive payments of one period by the rate fixed for the successive period. Higher Rates Claimed. “The public utilities companies them jand appraisal of that property at $12.- will take judicial notice, without the pro- duction of direct testimony, that the rate of interest asked in commercia) and real estate circles in the District of Columbia has decreased consider- light rates in force were last fixed by the { commission. and be it further noted now fix In this case will extend into and | through a future period of time, dur- | ing which period interest charges will into { consideration. in fixing the rates for the coming year, the rates of return enjoved by the company for the past According to the New keynote, Mr. Harding's supporters will seek a sec- ond term for him on a platform of constructive achievement In both the foreign and domestic fields. In the realm of foreign aftairs they will arms conference and the American debt settiement. British- They will ment by agreement as having re- by which the United States 1was threatened. They will underline the debt bargain with Great Britain as a master feat in international a new spirit of amity between the two English-speaking nations and stabilizing world economic conditions. It is unmistakably in the domain of domestic politics, however,, that the G. O. P. intends making its ‘strongest play for popular support. Those who heard Postmaster General New's key- Inote were struck by its failure to {mention the Harding-Hughes world- Icourt proposal. Some iInterpreted ! New's silence on that score as a sign | that the republican management may not be intending to lay much stress on that project as once was intended. “star” the results of the Washington ! depict the limitation of naval arma- | moved the one menace of a new war finance, | establishing at one and the same time | 'U. S. Pensioners { Now in Germany | Rich Over Night American civil war pensioners and their widows who happen to be living in Germany are bLecom- ing millionaires over night, by drawing thelr accrued pensions from the United States govern- ment. it was learned today at the vension buresu of the Interior Department Just before this country entered the war in 1917, payments of pen- slons of civil war veterans and their widows who had moved to | Germany and had taken up perma- { nent residence there were sus pended. The suspension was con- tinued until August 1%, 1918, when payments were resumed. Accumu- | lated pensions of the two apd one- Lalf year perivd are paid also upon | presentution of the properly exe- cuteh vouchers Since the recent decline value of the German has been & rush of th, to the pension bureau, sume of the payments running -high as $2.800, with the result that when this money is changed into Ger- man marks it becomes practically w fortune. . ine in the wark there ese vouchcrs {Seven Women and Two Men Perish When Explosion Starts Blaze. i By the Associated Press. i ANGELICA, N. Y., March 15.—Seven | women and two men perished when ‘llle Allegany county almshouse, on the outskirts of this village, was burned early today. The fire started | from a gas explosion in the basement jof the two-story wooden structure where twenty-four woman patients were quartered, and quickly spread | to the administration building. The building where the women were quartered was 250 fect long and | Joined a concrete structure where the twenty -nine . man inmates were housed. Charles Sanborn, head stable- man at_the- institution, lost his life in an effort to rescue the woman in- mates. The night fireman. whose i name has not been learned, was Lill ed by the explosion. Six’ women were cremated in their {beds and another was killed when i she leaped from the upper window of {the blazing bullding. The structure was bullt forty-five years ago. The right wing burned five years ago, and a concrete addition was then erected. This resisted the fire, but the rest of the long structure was burned to the ground . Sanborn made his way Into the blaz- ing structure three times and each time ! carried out one of the women. O | fourth oo TWO CENTS. POST OFFICE CUTS Carriers Put on Strict Eight-Hour Basis to Save Money. STOP AUXILIARY SERVICE i Employes Clerks “Double Up” When or Carriers Go on Sick List. j The Washington city post office h begun to “tighten up” its service and i methads to do its part in helping the {postal system of unprecedented condition arising from lack of funds to carry on the increas- jed postal business until July 1. Curtallment of work by “two trip- per” carriers. stoppage of overtime jwork and “doubling up” are the out- standing steps taken at the local city ipost office, fn line with similar steps 1taken at large post offices throughout |the country. Deliveries Shortened. Officials refused to discuss the sit- uation today, but it is known that al- ;rcafly mail carriers who make two de- |liveries of mall here cach day. in the | suburbs, and, in some cases, in the! {center of the city. have been ordered to discontinue delivery in the after- noon as soon as their cight hours of !service 1s up. | This step |interest of economy. As explaine last week in The star, the great question now facing the postal serv- jice i how to make the propriations now available out to cover the daily jbusiness of the service until more |funds are available July 1 next, the Ibeginning of the fiscal year. , Until recently, local letter carriers who made two trips a day, were al- ilowed to complete their delivery of mail on the second or last trip of the day, even if it took them nine or ten hours. as many or these routes cover a large amount of iground. The men were pald “over jtime” for the extra hour or so, kee ing at the work until the last letter 'was delivered Under the curtailment methods, the carrier must stop his afternoon’ trip las soon as he has used up the eight {hours paid for by his regular salary. He must stop delivering as soon as his “time” is up, and return to the of- fice with the mail that remains in his bag, this residue to be delivered along {with new mail on the next morning delivery. The object of this economy, which, it is understood, does not affect de- {livery as much as it might seem from iz tal tretch telling, is to save DOWN “OVERTIME" the country meet the | en in the general postal ap- | increasmg | outlying | PAY $450 INCREASE ORHOTELS CL0SE - EDET FORPLAZA I;lenning Puts Fate of Build- | ings Squarely Up to the Occupants. {ACTION FOLLOWS REPORT OF STRIKE ON INCREASE Sixty Leave in Protest and 300 Others of 1,780 Are Declared Preparing to Depart. ] Continuation of al: {Government Hote jtlon plaza was jthe guests tod acting Secretars Decl simply gue holishment of the on the Union sta- Put squarely up to E. J. Henning, bor. 4ring that the notels were run for the convenience of the €, and that the government was In the hotel business simply for the lconvenicnce and comfort of the |woman government employes who live in the hotels, Mr. Henning said it j the Bucsts refuse to pay the increased jrental of £4.50 e tomorrow, the | Labor Department will vrobably pere mit the to cease functioning. hotels May Refame to Pay. Henning was Informed ally that members of the Plaza Council were preparing to ady £Uests to refuse to pay the additional {charke of $450 a month ordered by i the Labor Department to become ef- i fective tomorrow for the last half of { March. Th $43.50 & month. , The increased charge, according t) the order is bor Depart. ment ten ago, will provide enough money to pay rental on the property from November 14, 1922, un- Congress authorized payment of { the money to the Baltimore and Ohio Iroad, bwner of part of the jand on which the hotels were constructed {_Secrctary Henning conferred today with Robert Watson, director of the United States Housing Corporation, managing age of the Lotels, re- garding reports that the girle misht refuse Pay the increascd rental iHe told Mr. Watson that he thousl the increased rates would bring in €ROURh money to guarantee payment of the rental to the rail;oad company, but that if the hotels were not full up to or nearly up to capacity, n enough money would be raised to jus- tify their continucd operation. Sixty Leave | Sixty of the guests have aiready ileft the hotels in protest against the increased rental charges, it was learned toduy, and 300 more out of a total of about 1.780 were reported to jbe prepuring to leave to seek homes elsewnere, “Our fi of the L | “While 1 operation Mz, unoffi- {ei in Protes St interest i= for the guests 15" Mr. Henning declared, do not favor government of a private enterprise or {competition by the government with private enterprises, we have always believed we were doing the woman Boverrment workers a good turn in I providing accommodations for them at a relatively low rental. 1f the want to turn down this privilege t is_thelr own affair. { “Nevertheless, we not |the hotels to pass out of existence funtil we cen shown that they { 4 1 belicve the Balti- {more und Okio Railroad Company has | faith in its government and would Dot undertake legal measures design- force the government to vacate ] Up to Woman Guests. Henning added that the matter was strictly up to the woman guest. who had in their own hands the que: tion of continuance of the hotel project. Mass meetings of indignation in pro- test against the increpsed prices were held at the hotels last night. At each of the meetings, held in the various buildings. resolutions were passed, which were to be forwarded this after- noon to Robert Watson, director of tho housing corporation. protesting againgt the increase. 1f the housing corpora- tion er, could show that the f crease was justified, it was said in t resolutions that the girls were an “in- telligent and thinking body of women who want to pay their own way and do not desire to become objects of govern- ment charity." Threaten B. & 0. Boycott. A movement was also started, ac- cording to one of the guests, to boy- cott the Baltimore and Ohio Rallroad by all the girls, with a proposal that other government employes also re- fuse to ride on a railroad which has will permit howe: | the the postal |service the “overtime” pay which the men formerly got whea ‘it was necessary to work overtime to com- pletc the second delivery. stantly at his desk in Washington ever since he was Inaugurated. Again and again he has accepted lnvilullcn;! to speak only to cancel them because trip into the building the floor cayed in and he was burned to death. Several of the rescued women were badly burned, but all ure expected to ow that Hiram Johnson's hostility | insures a bitter party cleavage if the | world court is pushed to the front as | cardinal {ssue. been their promptitude, some of them following within a few days of the of- fense. taken such an attitude as the Balti- more and Ohio has taken in connec- {tion with its property on the Capitol { plaza. . revglution for the restoration of the Prufsian monarchy, including the rein- statement of the Hohenzollerns, Is tm- pending In Germany under von Hin- selves or some of them have claimed I before the commission the right of | higher than normal or fair tolls and hargey over a set period of time to recover. denburg’s leadership, in the opinion of Garland W. Powell, national director of the Americanism commission of the American Leglon, who yesterday issued a warning to ali Americanism officers of the leglon to be on guard against German propaganda. of a pressure of public business, But Congress has adjourned now, and Mrs. Harding has almost entirely re- Covered her health, so that the rPes- ident can make plans for his most important trip. Presidents as a rule (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Throngs Flock to Potomac To View Whale Washed Ashore Northumberland county, Va., is today well represented on the beach of Wal- nut Point, an area of land projecting into the Potomac river at the junction of the Coan river, about ninety miles south of Washington, where a corps of workmen from the Smithsonian Insti- tutlon are striving to haul ashore a twenty-elght foot whale, preparatory to stripping it of its flesh and bringing the skeleton back to Washington. Since Thursday that quiet section of the county has been' the mecca for tundreds, masbe thousands, who have cone there to feast their eves on the largest fish ever seen in those parts. Dadly Mautilated. Yesterday the whale lay on its back, bout fifty feet from the shore of the | soint, three-fourths ‘' submerged. Al- 1hough badly mutilated by its brother | aguatic animals and an unknown man who sliced off much of its black flesh several nights ago, it looked like a whale and from all reports was one. Mra. J. H. Beatley, who lives about a mile inland from the spot where the glant fish came to its final rest- ing place, told a Star reporter yes- terday that she first noticed it about 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning. “I saw gomething big and white floating in toward shore,” she said, “and got my binoculars to determine exactly what it was. It proved to be a whale.” Stack on Sand Bar. It was dead when Mrs. Beatley and her husband reached the shore ine opposite the place it had come to rest, and probably-had been dead for a long time. Yesterday it ap- peared to have been stuck upon®a sand ‘bar as deep water surrounded it. It has moved with the tide and sometimes has been very close to shore—close enough for one of the ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 2) : 3 The executions have been mostly con- fined to those who had made direct at- tacks on the government, but some were inflicted for robbery of banks, which has been frequent. The total number of executions to date is sixty- seven. Soldier Saves Train. The bravery of a national soldter | averted a rallway accident between Thomastown and Athlone county, Westmeath, yesterday. A band of irregulars, seizing an ! An; engine, sent it down the trac ofticer of the railway protection corps notified troops at a blockhouse along ' the track, duty in promptly. and volunteer Brady, on the little cabin, acted He took of his shoes and socks and awaited the arrival of the | locomotive, which appeared making between twenty and thirty miles an hour, Brady caught a hold on the engine and swinging himself aboard succeeded in reaching the control and bringing the runaway to a halt #carcely 500 yards from an approach. ing passenger train. De Valera Seeks Funds. The Free State government has made public captured letters from Eamon de Valera addressed to Joe McGarity of Philadelphia and J. J. Kelly and Laurence Ginnell, members of De Valera’s party, who are now in the United States. were written last February. The purport of the letters is that a critical stage had arrived when more money was necessary to enable the (Contlat on Page - The letters. | jc mal rate earned by them through a preceding period—and in one case at least the commission allowed the claim of the company, “The federation asks its application now by the commission in the present case. What Is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. “The commisslon is respectfully re- quested to ' ompensate them for a less than nor- | { incorporate in its order |indicate {what it says the rate of return was|be attacked hip and thigh next year Insints U. 8. Is Prosperous. Postmaster General New, with an that the unerring political eye, discerns that the democrats are going to loud-pedal the international note in 1924. nouncements such as have just ema- nated from James M. Cox, in Florida, republicans will. Pro- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) {Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ———— e Official and Exclusive picturcs Of Trcasurcs From Tomb of King Tutankhamen IN' THE ROTOGRAVURE SECTION OF Next Sunday’s Star A full page of these remarkable photo- graphs appearing only in Washington in NEXT SUNDAY'S STAR “| ings is estimated at $1 The 10ss to the burned build- 00,000. GIRL SWALLOWS POISON IN F STREET SHOP Cecila Barkley, elghteen years cid, of 729 10th street southeast, swallow- ed two pofson tablets about 11:36 Shop, at 1110 F street, where she is ‘employed as a cashier. | After first-aid treatment, adminis- | tered by B. T. Lalham of the O'Don- nell's drug sore, at 12th and . F | streets, she was faken to the Emer- 1 8ency Hospital. Her condition is not serlous. The girl gave no reason for {her act. WOMAN TAKES OWN LIFE I IN NIAGARA FALLS LEAP | NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., March.15. —A woman leaped into the river about thirty feet above the brink of the American falls today and was swept to death over the cataract. She was . apparently about twenty-five ears old and well dressed, wearing 2 brown tailored sult, gray stockings and chinchilla dolman. She engaged ian _automobile at the Imperial Hotel earlier in the day to make a tour of the points of interest In the car she left a small handbag containing $18 in moncy, a rallroad check issued at Albany and a strin of spar beads. She did not register &t the hotel as she only atc breakfast there, : : e o'clock this morning in the Betty Way | 84 ! ! “Doubling Up" System. | The other step toward curtailment {taken at the Washington city post office is “doubling up” by employes. In the past auxiliary help was av. able at the local post office, as it was to help take care of a sudden rush of mail. ~ This auxiliary help has been stopped, and when an emplove is jaway sick now some associate has to (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Decause it could not get an O. K. on a bill for $3.70, the District Rent Commisslon®is deprived of the use of its lock box, No. 133, at the Pennsyl- vania avenue branch postal station, located in the Post Office Department building. The rent for the quarter ending March 31 not being forthcoming, the ‘Washington city post office a month ago cut off the Rent Commission from the use of the box until the $3.70 bill “is paid. Rent for all lock boxes | 1s due in advance. The auditor for the District, Danlel {J. Donovan, Tefused to Q. K. the bill, despite the protest of the members and secretary of the rent body, who declared that the box was of great use to the commission in its work. The_postmaster treated ‘the commi: at all the larger offices of the country, ! The small surplus of mouey a credited to the account of the hotels, | Mr. Henning said, will hardly pay the rental charges 'on the land owned by the railroad, from November 14, 1322, to March 4, 1823. Therefore, ha said, in order to make good its prom- ise to the railroad, the Labor De- partment must continue with the at- {tempt to ralse money to pay the icharges from March 4 of this year until’ Congress authorizes the pay- ment of rental Rent Commission’s P. O. Box . Cut Off When Rent Falls Behind sion as any person or body treated. After much argument, Secretary Chapman of the rent commisslon induced the District auditor to sign up for the voucher for $3.70, and it is the hope of the commission that it will regain the use of its lock box shortly, As s0on as the check for $3.70 is | received by the city post office it is | _ understood that the Rent Commission I will be given the right to the use of the box. The case is believed to be the first of its kind here. in which a government body or quasi-govern- ment body has been deprived of the use of a mail box through failure to pay the rent. The troubls experlenced In getting such a =mall bill paid is pointed to 4s among the troubles of the Rent Commission and by some as an ex- cellent example of governmental “red tap would be