Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1923, Page 2

2 SENATOR DECLARES CLERK BEGAN FEHT Caraway, in Answer to Suit, Says He Was Assaulted Without Cause. CHARGES THREAT TO KILL/ Other Man Followed Him From Car, He Declares, in De- fense Plea. ! Thaddeus H.. Caraway, United States senator from Arkansas, today #led pleas of not guilty and justifica- tion to the suit for $20,000° dumages recently brought against him In the District Supreme Court by Harry A Wallerstein, a clerk in-the Veterans' Bureau, for an alleged assault follow ing a difficulty on & street car. Thaj senator tells an entirely different ac- count of the altercation from that contained in the declaration of thej plaintift. Attorneys R. Walton Moore | and John S. Barbour appear for the senator. Senator Caraway tells the c he was sented in @ strest o the plaintiff, & totul stranger to and of whose proxi v he was w aware, without provo saulted | him by violeatly ushing the sen- tor's hat over his head, sitting on; and leaning on his shoulders and neck. ! When respectfully remonstrated with ! the plaintiff applied, it is stated, offen- | sfve and opprobrious terms to Senator | Caraway in a loud and offensive man- ner. On leaving the car, according to the senator, Wallerstein assumed an at- titude of offense and. thinking he was about to be assaulted, Senator Cara- way says he struck Wallersteln with an open palm, and after an exchange of blows picked up his own hat and the hat of his adversary to whom he w. about to restore it° when, he asserts. i IWallerstein threatened to kill him the ! next time he saw him and deliberately struck the senator in the fuce with b fist, bruising his face and eye. In re- talfation for this blow, Senal (.;lmh':.)" ftates, he “lightly struck the plaintift en in his hands.” informs the vourti used only such force as was to repel the alleged unpre voked assault, and any injury sustiined | by Wallerstein was the result of his own language, conduct and blows. — e PROSPERITY TO BE KEYNOTE TO G. 0. P.; First T rt that ! when | m | that he necessary for not “helping Europe,” and there- by “helping America.” The repub- | lican strategy 1s to combat this theory | tooth and nail. New's Kevnote ad- | dress to his fellow Hoosiers waxed : hottest when he adjured them— pounding the table with clenched fist o emphasize tha admonition—to “fight” hard and “fight confidently" along the prosperity line. “A demo crat who tells you the country isn't prosperous.” he ‘sail, “ig either a lar | or & fool.” That. manifestly, 1s to! be republican#® paramount talking- | point in the campaign to perpetuate : Warren G. Harding in the White House. Democrats Ready for Fray. The democrats are.prepared gle fully to take up the republican pros perity challenge. Postmaster Gen- | eral New, for Instance, cited the rec- {driven into the coa THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15 1923, THRONGS FLOCK TO POTOMAC TO VIEW WHALE WASHED ASHORE (Continued from First Page.) Wwitnesses to measure it. No attempt had been made up until today to re- move it and nobody claimed it as his Ppersonal propert; With the arrivel from the Smithsonian Institution, the exact type of whale probably Wwill he determined. No one up to this time has been able to classify it because whales are uncommon sights in the Potomac river. Mr. Beatley, husband of the woman who first discovered the huge fish, de- clared it to be the largeat “over seen in this gection” In the forty-five years he has lived around Walnut Point. “Whaling Expedition” Departs. Dr. Leonhard Btejneger, head cu- rator of blology of the National Mu- seum, who dispatched the “whaling expedition” yesterda afternoon from | Washington, belicves the whale was | st or up the river | by enemies or In search of food be»i fore it dled. He is anxious to obtain | the body, as he stated the knowledge of whales that frequent the coast is not as extensive as could be desired, and that the specimen, if a good one will help in the study of these mam mals. Without word from the expe- dition as to wkat kind of whale it was, Dr. Stejneger said it could be a finback or a bottle-nosed whale, but if it should turn out to be a Eperm whale it would be a comparatively Young one | de from proving to be one of the test sources of {nterest North-| umberiand county has experi d in many years, the whale, by Its report- ed prexence gt the mouth of the Coan er, originated a new sport st the naval air station, Anacostia, 1. i whaie hunting in a seaplane. Goes Whale Hunting in Plane. today of experts BT DEATHS OF TWO SISTERS Belfeving the whale to be high and dry on the shore, a Star reporter was requested by Dr. jneger of the museum to secure a picture of the| fmal If possible. So taking with | o . o ‘Phyncmn Declares He Was Order- him & camera of intricate manipula- on, and having enlisted a4 of | . tion, and having enlisted the auid of ed From Home of Dying Girl. : the naval air service, through Lieut. Rutlidge Irvine, executive officer of the air station here, the reporter lef! the Washington bas ui !li(lh o‘i}u in an “HN" seaplane, piloted by eut. N R L ~7 “This the Awociated Press whaler” was n tiny little ship, prob- . CHICA March 15.—The sudden ably the smallest and most dellcate |death of Migs Ellen Cummings brought piece of construction that ever WeBt| oy o police inquiry toduy, concerning earch hal H In gearch of o Whille @ tude of 2000 |not only her demise but that of u stster who died a month ago feet, Lieut. Reuschel headed south-! | stances rald to be similar. ward and the little siiver-colored sh 0 ced around in the air a ;‘A[{xy" Enete an Nour until Colonial; Dr. Jullus Mandel reported to the Benoh, Vi, was reached. And thenpolice last night he had been called to the search began, because there Was the girl's home to administer emergency nothing on the maps of the alr Sta- | o iment und found her dying. D tion here to Indicate where Coan| 3 foung’ Jer VS T Hon Rt e, Information was in' Mandel sald when he questioned the hand that 1t perhaps was several|girl's relatives about the medicine she the By ow Colonfal Beach, so Lieut. | }Qé‘&‘;h:f “whu’ !,n:r‘ll lrm'n\er d 1,000 |had taken he was ordereq from feet after dropping low over Dahl-|housc. e Al then dived to & couple hun- | Police yald that James Davis, a Ao feet, edged over to the shore iine ! brother-in-law of the dead girl, refused and looked for & whole or Cuan Tiver | to admit them or allow them to que- | St |Uon him. - Another physiclan then | the Davis % Searches Each Inlet. IJ\: k;;’;’ ':“N;"“‘ That section of the Potomac below | Contents of a bottle of medicine were Colonial Beach is bordered by a "“"]u‘:\:."l;;l:‘" to the coroner & chemist for ged ehoreline, numerous (nxlu.«, n‘u!-‘ lets, bays, lakes and peninsulas be nk: REFUSING AMNESTY 67 IRISH EXECUTED in evidence for many m Into each of these Lieut. Reuschel no ed his _(Gontinued from F at said he arrived after ittle plane and carefully around the. edges he searched. A landing was| finally decided upen in a little bay, wherein was a boat containing two colored men. The site of u Scaplane close at hand and heading right for. t Page.) {Irregulars to smash thelr opponents. The government's comment on the | their boat had considerable effect on |letlers in that they whow the irregu- lurs are divided and that their cam- paign for financlal ald in Ireland has | tatlea. oth the occupants, for they either knew nothing about a whgle or Coan river or were too scared tu ;nlk.‘ 0 ]élt‘:( Reuschel again took the air. an €y £ filght was continued until Reedvllle, | Mourning In Ordered. & on"the Great Wicomico river. was| A proclamation by the “government reached. An_ excellent landing was; . hatite ke . in the sough water of the|Of the republic of Ireland” has been CALSEPRUBE BY POLCE under circum- | ————+———\ accept_some of the numerous invita ented to him by Commissioner Oyste: of the department as a mark of Chiet Kreamer. PRESIDENT STARTS ON SWING OVER U. S. | AFTER VACATION | (Continued from First Page.) I | campalgning when they venture |forth on long wpeaking trigs, and the ostensible reason for the Harding excursion will be the long deferred | |Journey to Alaska. Like Mr. Taft, | Ithe present incumbent belleyes in | visiting all parts of the United $ fand its possi ions and were it | for the long ocean voyage the Presi dent would llke to include the Phil- lippines and Hawall. Just before he | ,was Inaugurated Mr. Harding went to Panama and he has on more than one occasion since wished he could | vislt Porto Rico and get firat hand | impressions of some of the problems encountered in ndministering the ter- {ritorial form of government | Can Vialt Many Statew. 1 In order to visit Alaska, where the ! federal government's interests ha {RTown o complex in the last two | Harding has had to | yeurs that M Iron out friction between hls own| cabinet secretaries, the President will naturally leave from Seattle. He ean, | | theretore, go out to the nortk | through Wisconsin, Minnes | Dakotas, Montans and W land return through Oregon, fornia, Nevada, Uiah, Colorado. | sas, Towa and Missour! | i The middie weatern states such as Ohlfo, Indiana and Illinols can be vis- |Am1 on efther the outward journey or the return trip to Washington. | _As for New York and the New !land states, the President can alwa tions he is constantly getting from! cities In that kection and he need not | take them all on one trip but can make frequent excursions out of | Washington. Mr. Harding does not! i1lke to make extemporaneous speech- | | és. though in the Secnate debates he frequently made them, but since his ! mccessin to the presidency. har al-| | ways prepared public address advance. Mr. Taft did likewise. their esteem. HONOR CHEF KREANER, DUETORETRENAREH 3 have some other object than political | Leader of Second Battalion of Fire Department Is Given Shotgun by Men. Two hundred members and officérs | athered in the building ond Bat- Kreamer, who 1, after thirty-three of the fire department boardroom of the District today to pay tribute to talion Chief Charles A retites on March years of continuous service. On behalf of the men who have fol- lowed Chief Kreamer through smok tnd flames to save iife and property Commissloner Oyster presented the v eran officer with a handsome shotgun. The Commissioner best men in the Kreame In reply the chlef thanked his comrades and Commisgioners for their tributes. Fire Chief Watson and a number of depart- Ru- | other higher officers of the ment attended. Commissioner dolph, chaiiman of the ¥ missioners, also was pr. MEETING ON HOMES ard of Com nt Congress Should Have Made Proper Provision. How to provide for the thousandas! in Of alley dwellers who will be evicted | ojJune 1 under the terms of the alley the boardroom at the District | Front, left to right: i 1id he felt thit} the department was losing one of its | etirement of Chief | battalion FOR ALEY DWELLERS Call for Joint Consideration Says| RETIRING BATTALION CHIEF HONORED BY FELLOW FIREMEN|Scientists Clash With Oldest Inhabitants on D. C. Deposits STATE ENCROACHES ON CHURCH, SAYS COLER ! Declare Find on Connecticut Avenue of |New York Public Weltare Hel Notwithstanding a declaration by members of the Association of Oldest |Inhabitants that the swamp deposits found on the site of the Walker | Hotel, at Connectfcut avenue and De | Sales street, instead of being of great {antiquity, antedating the appearance of man on this continent, are only the remains of a stream that flowed | through downtown Washington near- 1y a century ago, sclentists refuse to abandon their assertion of the an- jtiquity of the deposits, and throw the burden of proof back upon those who declare them to be of recent date. Mazes of theory and fact, assertion and counter assertion, backed up by indisputable scientific proof &s to the ake of the deposit were put for- ward last night at a joint meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Biological Soclety of Washington jand the Botanical Society of Wash- | ington at the Intesior Department. Sclentinty Agree. Selentists representing the Interior Department, the Agricultural Depart- ment, the Carnegi Institution and Johns Hopkins University agreed that the deposits of plant life found on the Walker xite were of great antiquity, and were doubtless relics of the plant 1ife of the late Pleistocene age, ful-| lowing the receding of the grent ice sheet which lay over & large part of North America about 30,000 Years Ago. The age of the deposita were not defi- nitely fixed, however, the estimate of thelr age varying from 20,000 to 200.- 000 yeurs. Rut one dissenting note disturbed this scientific Utopia—that of a mem- ber of the Association of Oldest In- habitants, who rose after the dome- hrowed gentlemen of the selentific world had attempted to prove the age of the specimens found in modern Washington, and declared that while their deductions might have been| i founded on fact, he knew op the exact s$pot where the flora had bten unco ered Washington boys seventy years —— POST OFFICE CUTS DOWN “OVERTIME” (ontinued from First Page) do hiv work, If possible, it is under- stood For the present the mail service to i the ple of Washington may be sald to have suffered practically none at all from the methods put into effect. but it is not known what ef- fect the curtailment may have ulti- mately. The postal service is like a ! rreat pipe line—the mail must keep flowing, minute by minute, or u great n will occur. The Post Office Department is faced | ith handling i3 per cent more mail throughout the country than last |y with only 3 per cent larger . whereas at least a 10 per cent | larger force Is necessary, it is claimed. The local situation is a reflection o conditions existing at larger po: offices throughout the country, o conditions here are better than such cities as New York, for i 1f the worst comes t. n8tul busines 3 per cent o p ergency appropriation gives out uly 1. the service may have to 1ose shop”—an almost unthinkable | ntingency-—or ask clerks and car- | riers to serve for a time without pay | a prospect that is not looked upon | with favor either by employes o at | if d the | { was built Age 100,000 Years Ago—Only Old Swimming Hole, Say Residents. ago used to swim, fish and hunt in a small creek that flowed through that part of downtown Washington. His assertion amused the audience, which filled the hall, inasmuch as the scien- tists agreed as to the antiquity of the dopostt Antedated Four-toed Horne. Plant life found, in the ancient swamp antedated the four-toed horse of carly history, according to Prof. E. W. Berry of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. Prof. Berry sald he had ex- amined about 100 pounds of the swamp muck and had found in it evi- dences of plant life that seemed to in- dicate the swamp existed in a slightly warmer climate than Washington en- Joys today. Prof. Berry argued that hin research work had developed con- clusive proof that the deposits are of the Plelstocene age, and probabiy were from a stream that was much nearer sea level than Washington now Is. He denied that the tree trunks are the remains of cypress trees which were cut down to furnish wood for use by the early white settlers on the eastern seaboard, and that they were shipped from B! a port, before the Ana came filled with sfit The bulk of the seeds found In |the deposit, according to Prof Covell of the Depirtment of Agriculture, are aceds of the ball cypress, living {rees of which are growing today within thirty miles of Washington. Other sceds found include those of the Krape, raspberry and blackberry. Mr. Covell sald that the deposits of floral life indicated a climate slightly warmer than that of Washington at present Seventy-six different kinds of dia- toms—a emall silicon-incased species of plant life— were found in the swamp muck, according to Prof. Al- bert Mann of ‘the Carnegie Institution, #ome of which were entirely new to botany, and one of which colncided with diatoms found {n Africa and in the dlatom deposits of Montgomery, Ala. Prof. Mann said his studies had proven the uge of these deposits, and declared that any one who would as- t the recent character of the de- posits would have to shoulder the burden of proof. The arguments, he :&«5? are all on the side of the an- ¥ of the deposits and vArme; St n nd u warmer ’resenting the physiographic side of the depogits, Prot L Forge the materiul found was undoub from the late pleistocene age. sald a coneervative estimate place ite age at 100,000 years. Prob- ably before the time of the develop- ment of the ancient swamp, he sald, the site of Washington was covered Wwith inundations of the sea. Receding, the waters left a flat plain. through ch flowed small streams, the bed of one of which has just been uncovered. Sclence has found. he said, that the swamp location was at one time covered with fce. Probably much of the present location of Washington, 2outh of M street, he added, & above sea level S0 the controversy rages, with scien all on the side of the antlquity of the depo: and with old residents of the city declaring their recent character. SHIP SINKS; 12 LOST. By the Assoclated Precs FLUSHING, Holland, March The British steamer Merville ha #one down neaf Steenbank with t loss of twelve liv The Merville, of 1,035 fons gross, in 1902 in" Dund owned in Golle, Englund. e and is ‘Warns Against “Socialistic” . Trend of Legislation. Bird F. Coler, commissioner of pub- lic welfare of New York, startied thu audience at the midday Lenten serv- ice at Keith's Theater today by de- claring it his belief that the present- day trend and legislative remedies for smocial troubles tended towsrd state soclallsm, and that if we did not stop our present march forward in the direction in which we travel we might expect to end as Russiy has ended. In the beginning,” said Mr. Coler. “welfare work started with man search for God. Thus the chur &rew up to be the father and mother. not only of religion but of soclal help of education of the schools and char- ity and_of assistance to all in di tresa. hen our government in i constitution forbade the spending of public funds for sectarian purposes. it _meant the establishment of the public &chool, the public hospital, the public clinié, the public welfare te is now doing much of work, #nd, as Moat peo- see_only more legielation and more as remedy for social ills, the to do more of until, if we a the state will Such work as maternfty ongs not to the state, but to the church, as I see plainly, who am in .position to see much of the height d depth of human nature, handling: 0.000.000 of welfare expends every yewr.! The speaker was Thomas Roblinson, vocation by Re K. Stauffer. To morrow's speaker will be W. W, Mi! lan, Willlam T. Galliher wiil preside Rev. R. L. Wolven will ask the bles: ing and R g solo. introduced following —_— RESIGNATION OF CHILE CABINET IS HELD UP By the Assaciated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 15.—The Chilean cabinet recigned last nigl The Chilean senate, on March 7, re fused a vote of confidence to the m! istry of Francisco Garges Gana, b the chamber of deputies, on the sam day, sustained the resolution. Tk resignation he cubinet was the held in abey President Ales- gandri, who asserted that only ahout senators were present a* the ses: which refused the vote The ministry was formed on January 10. % Special for Three Days Only ' Genuine Stone Martens $16.50 Iceland Foxes, Platinum and Beige $14.95 VPR effected ord customs receipts at New York on ! February 22 last—the highest in the d:d Mr. Rnln«;‘v-dll. l;mulh |lho latter | closing law, will be considered at a always sprinkled a few extemporan- i L eous sentences in his speeches which MA4S meeting in the board room of harbor, and after being blown around | issued, decreeing an indefinite period official i T eNe’ wind hither and thither word | of national mourning, during which S he truth is that the volume of | business which haz heen committed ! history of the port. He trotted them out as evidence of the satisfactory working of the new Fordney tariff from a revenue standpoint. i was finally gotten to him that he had | passed Coan river. Fishermen Give Clue. Back up the bank of the Potoma sports and amusements are to be su: ‘pended and theaters and moving pic i ture houses clowed, and. in particu- | coursing | lar, horse-racing, hunting. The democrats will go further than 'he again proceeded, and. secing noth- |and all outdoor sports dlscontinued. the republicans in pursuing thut argu- ment and show that the cost of living has gone up with the Fordney tariff along with customs receipts. Dearer | clothes and dearer Sugar are going to | be some of the items charged 4gainst | the 1924 “advance agent of prospei ity” by the political foe. i Banks on Farm Vote. The G. O. P. affects not to be per- turbed by existing conditions. They belleve both the fall in the President's popularity and the general “grouch’ of the country will right themselve by the end of 1923. They particularly expect the farmer to be In better mood and to have balances in the ank instead of a succession of fore- osed mortga Farm prosperity always has been the sheet-anchor of the republican party in presidential vears. President Harding's friends expect It to be 50 omnipresent and ob- vious In 1924 that the agriculturali vote will take its accustomed piace in the G. O. P. columz. Democrats retort | that the wish is father to the repub- | lican thought, thouzh they admit in the same breath that If prosperity has unmistakably struck the country the party in power, as of yore, will reap the greater benefit. (Copyright, 1923.1 FIGHTS TO SAVE $200,000 IN RATES TO PEPCO PATRONS (Continued from First Page.) t8 this company in 1921 and 1922, The commission knows the context of the contract subsisting between the ashington Ratlway and Electric Company and the Potomac Electric wer mpany, and, therefore, ows that all electric current is fur. nished at cost to the Washington :;‘\.flwn)' and Electric Company by the Fotomac Electric Power Company. “Renell Current at Profit,” ‘It has been claimed that a consid- erable perceniage of this current fur- | shed to the raflway company by the electric company at no profit to the electric company s resold by the ilway company to various corpora- tlons, municipalities and business firms operating outaide of the District Columbia at a considerable profit to | the railway company. “If this be true, and we put the hpnorable commission upon inquiry as to this, then the federation claims that any resulting profit earned by the railway company from such sales should go to the Potomac Electric Power Company and not to the Wash- ington Railway pany.” 1 and Elcctric Com- | —_— FRENCH CURIOUS AS TO SENATOR JOHNSON’S VISIT By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 15.—There is much ouriosity in French political circles over the European trip of United States Senator Hiram Johnson. The American embassy is taking steps to arrange for his reception by Premier Poincare and other officials. The foreign office also is keeping track of the plana of several Amer: ican senators and representatives who are contemplating a tour of in- vestigation here. M. Polncare and his colleagues in the cabinet have ex- pressed tho desire that the senator be given the fullest possible facilities for an Impartial survey of the eco- nomlo and political relationships of Franco .with the .other European countries. : fot a “group of houses.” ing more than had been observed on rough river, near some fishermen on | the shore. Here some definite news was received—the whale had been seen and It was about fifteen miles up the river, "at the next group of houses.” to be exact. In taking off into the “high sea” was doused with the surf, and time- out was called until all hands wiped the water off their goggles und fuces. In the air once more, Lieut. Reu- ache] throttled down the motor and notified the reporter in the front seat the gas was getting low. “We'll go back to Dahlgren,” he said, “gas up and come down here after that whal it we have to go to Hampton roads, he declared. That step determined upon and with minds made up the plans were suddenly upset by the ap- pearance on the left bank of the river The plane 1anded, raced up to the shore and was met by the community was Lew{setta, and right across the mouth of the river, which, too, was the Coan, lay the whale, the commu- nity sald. Tukes Off in Running Sen. “We'll give the natives a treat,” said Lieut. Reuschel, as he took off into the “running sea;"” and he did. The fifth landing was affected, pictures of the whale were taken, Mrs. Beatley and others were interviewed, and fearing the engine would get too cold, the re- turn trip waw started. Up the river at ninety knots an hour and at an alti- tude of 1,000 feet, the little “HN" sped. At Dahigren, when the concrete “‘apron’ was reached, it was dizcovered that the plane was just out of gas. Lieut. Reuschel had been flying about three hours and five minutes on a three-hour supply. Thirty-one gallons of fuel were put in the tank, which is located on the upper wing and after a delay of half an hour, the return trip—into the teeth of a heavy wind, was completed at 4:55 p.m. The pictures, however, were the only things that suffered on the trip, The camera, a large one, waw in the front cockpit with the reporter, and right behind the twelve-cylinder Wright motor, which, in turning over the propeller at many hundred revo- lutions a minute, jarred the plates to the little plane! The place | ' 'l [ the extent that one was broken and| spoiled the entire lot. Although he has been in the Naval air service for a considerable perio Lieut. Reuschel had never gone hun! ing whales in a seaplane. He got “kick” out of the expedition and ex- pressed the hope that another whale would soon afford an opportunity to scan_the Potomac river or any other nearby body of water. i l | the This action is taken, it is déclared, | the way down, he landed again In the | “in view of the present riutional | tragedy caused by Great the usages publican tion for relatives.” One big sporting event in Ireland set for the near future Is the “Bat- thing" Siki-Mike McTigue fight. This is due to take place in Dublin next Saturday, St. Patrick’s day. Whether proclamation will prevent the fight remains to be seen. POLICE STOP “CRUISING” prisoners and in considera- OF TAXIS DOWNTOWN The police today began strict en- forcement of the regulation prohibit- ing hackers from ‘“crulsing” slowly around a few biocks In the congested section in quest of passengers. Inspector Headley, In charge of the trafic bureau, stated this afternoon that he stationed men at various places downtown to see that the reg- ulation was obeyed and that the hackers were Kept Informed of the olghty-one locations where they are permitted to remain while awaiting customers, The police have been desirous of stopping the practice of driving slow- ly around a small area, belleving that It had a tendency to increase traffic congestion. Today's action is being taken as & result of a court decision favorable-to the District in a guit brought by a hacker. FILES SUIT FOR $14,584, Hazlitt Cuppy Presses Claim Against Alien Estate. Hazlitt A. Cuppy of Litits, Pa., ad- ministrator of Elizabeth 0. Cuppy, today filed suit in the District Su- preme Court to compel Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian, and Frank H. White, treasurer of the United States, to pay him §14,684, for which he holds a judgment of & New York court againat Gebrueder Stoll- werck, Aktien-gesellschaft. Mr. Cup- py_ says the alien property cus- todian has funds of the Gefman cor- poration sufficlent to pay his claim, but retused to do so. He is repre- sented by Attorney A. B. Duvall, on your way home. The Last Word Is in the “5:30” To keep Washington informed right down to the day’s close of what has taken pl ! world over—the 5:30 Edition of The Evening Star is issued every week day just as you are ace—the Special features are made of stock news, sports finals and what the courts will have under consideration tomorrow. . For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city. Britain's | threat of war, the daily violation of | of war by the torture, ill- | treatment and the execution of re- | the bereaved familles and; often caused more comment than his prepared copy. May Avold Polities. “ Mr. Wilson rarely prepared speeches | !in advance, he even spoke extempor- | aneously in the formal sessiona of the | | Parts peace conference. He liked the stimulus of his audlence but Mr. Harding takes the view that presi-| ential speeches are not intended as a rule for the few who can hear a. chief executive’s voice but for the| milifons who read those speeches and | | base thetr criticlam on printed words. | An advantage that President Harding | Wil enjoy on his speaking tour will | e the non-partisan character of th , wrrangements, as President he cani |afford to eschew republicAn mass | moetings which he would attend if he were to speak after the national | party conventions have been held Inatead he now can accept invitations from chambers of commerce and oth. er clvic institutions and take on lhr: problema of the federal Rovernment | And_explain his own attitude toward | public questions without referring es- Deciaily o politics or his party’s! achievements. i Likely to Start The points to be made by the Presi- dent in varlous sections of the country and the program he shall advocate for the future will no doubt be carefully gone over by the party leaders with thelr chieftain before the trip starts be- cause they all will appreciate the pub- lielty value of the series of specches, made at & time when the fires of the partisanship spring of 1924 have not been kindled. To make such a coast to coast trip will require many weeks of preparation. President Harding is already training physically for the big tour of the year. No date has been set for the start, but If the international situation does not s0_complicated a8 to require the President’s presence in Washington in June or July that is the time when It is most advantageous to make a trip to Alaska and the tour may be begun then. While Mr. Harding has no intention of calling a special session of Congress in the immediate future, he may want to convene that body & month or 8o be- fore the regular date in December so as to get a flying start before the 193¢ primary campaign begins to interfere with the legislative program. In that event the presidential tour would prob- ably be finished before the middle .of September. _ PLANS FISHING TRIP. June. By the Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March 15.— Indication cf clearing weather today was expected to see President Hard- ing and his companions out for the ! course, which was to be followed by ia fishing party down the coast of | Cocolobo bay. Tentative plans pre- cluded any opportunity for political or other conferences with the Presi- dent today, as had been forecast. President Harding and his vacation arty arrived here yesterday, Mrs. arding remaining aboard the house- boat Ploneer, while the President |came ashore to be entertained at iluncheon by Carl G. Fisher, formerly j of Indianapolis. It was one of the quietest days spent by the party since the cruise began. The only conference the President participated in was when he visited Attorney General Daugh- erty, who is recuperating from a re- cent illness. Mr. Daugherty, a mem- ber of the party, was forced to forego Ixo [ing the two the District building at 4:30 tomor- row afternoon The call for the meeting was sent out jointly today by the Emergency Housing Assoclation, Inc, and the Inter-Raclal League. The notice went clergymen, business men and others, In a circular announcing the meet- organizations criticize Congress for fts failure to take some action on the alley situation before adjournment. The circular reads as follows: Jongress should have made provi- sion for erecting houses for these peo- iple through authorizing a municipal | ond lssue, which wus proposed in a bill by this association, failing to do this, it should have either complied with the Commissioners’ suggestion to postpone the operation of the law until November, 1 or have adopted ur compromise bill. which passed the Senate District of Columbla commit- tee by unanimous vote, and which provided for a zoning plan for closing one-third of the alleys per year, be- ginning June 1, 1923.” _ Cincinnat! has opened a clinic to find out how bad children get that way. 1 to the Post Office Department during | the last few weeks has Increased | with such unheard-of rapidity that| the department has been taxed to the | limit, and-even beyond its capacity, to meet’ the unprecedented need.” Post- ;master General New sald, In Ktate- ment issued last night, discussing the genera] situation. | Great Mail Increase. “There Is nothing remarkable about | Ithe fact that neither the Post Office Department. the appropriations com- mittees of Congress nor the officers | of the budget anticipated any such| growth, for it is without precedent! in the commercfal history of the| country. ! “In this situation the Post Office Department finds itself called upon to | all but perform the impossible. It has | had to do the best it could to meet t: {demands of a great emergency. 1 | may be necessary to forego some | | things the department would greatly like to do until the next years ap- | propriations are available, July 1, but there will be no material curtaiiment of service and no more hardship vorked upon employes than Is un- avoidable in any great business in times of extraordinary business de- mand. There has been no reduction in rates of pay, although we have had to discontinue overtime to a great extent.” d’s 15,000 mile writtenguaranteeis not a real guaran- tee, try to get a simi- lar one elsewhere. Space 4, Auto Show usual round on the Flamingo golf; the cruise through the Florida canal| and remain here until he could rejoin the President. The conference is understood to have been relatively, mainly, to the health of the Attorney General, who is not yet recovered ‘fi:‘lllh te take active oharge of his | 1315 N. Y. Ave. Through to 1330 H St. FRANK P. FENWICK, Prop. Announcing New Hours For Sundays Beginning March 18 12:30 to 3 P.M. 5t08PM. Music, 5:45 to 7:45 Faultless Food Reasonable Prices —is the name for the new- est shade of the sand- colors for spring. Plain Silk, 225 Clocked Silk, 3.00 Bright as Spring Flowers are the colors of the new Sports Hose for women. Silk-and-wool, finely wov- en; very thin yet durable, 2.75; The Hosiery Shop Arthur Burt Co., 1343 F Easter Cards Don’t forget that you are golng to need Easter Cards and that the best place to purchase them is here. You will find that we have the largest assortment of Fine Cards in the city and our prices are unusually reasonable. We will be glad to help you make your selections and If you wish you may secure the stamps here at the same time. The National Remembrance Shop (M. Foster's Bhop.) 14t . oo 2o o B Squirrel Chokers Very Special— $7.50 “Stone Marten Oppossum™ Chokers $5.50 Also a large and choice selection of Ties and Stoles Paul Leibel Furs and Millinery 1215 G Street N.W. 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