Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1923, Page 2

-~ ST PATRKS DAY " IBSERVEDIND. Solemn High Mass Is Fea- ture of Celebration—Hi- bernians Attend. RECALLS IRISH HISTORY Father Callaghan Pays High Trib- ute to People of Emerald. Isle. Wit Dl cises patron brated in scendants converted by this tur, Celebrations emn high Church this morning, wt of the t Order ittende 1 body and impressive of exer- Patrick, is being today by 0 the feast day st w of Treland cele- de- were ianity cen- shington . gan Cel to Chri fifth ation missionary in the the Patrick's ch membe Hibernians ther with The s in strik- centered about sol- mass at St toge men Tadies auxiliary & comt rast widespread ex this @ century lined lers today ogher thing has b nd Irishme ust the s Priext Tells Irish History. Those h Irish blood w Patr Chur bee wi attended ver did cription tory 1 bernians He in eriticized the par for n. eurly Irish ctire have tture He d who m of nd been Ireld iss without turn the ey the shield would it be y to have held u educated stat h v could Christianity fi main unshaker tents the sod to r centuries Hibernians I ht. Archbishop Fum Bionc apostolic delegite, attended the Mer. Gava the Shrin Sacred Heart was the Bishop Shahan of Catholi also was in the high dignitaries E efty wer atts The wil by the Hibernians wit the Catholic Wor 601 E street. Dr. I the speaker and Joseph A. Daly will Miss Ethel Roddy. Mr lie B, Ambrose Durkin and Miss 1 the program entertainment. Miss Christopk f & M chur niversity ny other h of this board tha board of the president of ‘ h, Miss Catherine Bresn Keane Counc ights bus, will have its regular St fay dance and cele Club tonight. Spa same order, will Knights of street of Patrick’s the City on disy dispiay for coat lape! Shamrocks in Evidenca. In the stores of florists were on sale man Postmaster Chance ported delivery of many letters post- marked by the Iris tate, in which might be seen the three-leaved plant that St. Patrick used to illus trate the doctrine of the Trinity And, as usual. George W. Hess, di- rector of the 1 tes Botanic Garde sont g officials, particularly those extrac- tion, pots of sha s grown from the “old sod.” seed imported Representative George Holden Tink ham of Boston got as large a quota of these plants as possible to ship to favored ones from Erin in his home district DR. KOORN,NEW YORK MAN, IS REPORTED MISSING Disappears From Local Hotel and Wife Asks Police Aid in Search of Him. Dr. Aiphonzo Koorn, forty-nine years old, of New York city, disap- peared from Harris Hotel. North Cap- itol street and Massachusetts avenue, vesterday morning. Mrs. Koorn visited the sixth pre- cinct police station today and asked the investigative agencies of the de- partment he set in motion to locate the missing man. It is stated that the physician and his_wife reached this city Thursday night, and registered at the hotel The husband came here to attend a Ve tvpes 1do of symbols creen ar the carna- of t shops. nmen clinfo, it is stated, and left the hotel | vesterday morning physician, promising Junch about 11 o'clock. “He did not return,” the wife said, “nor have I heard from him since he left the hotel.” The wife was unable to account for the strange duct of her husband. nor was she Ible to say what sum of money he ¢ husband had in h possession when he left her yester- day. He had some money, she said, but she was unable to state the amount. THEATER HISSES BANNED. Rome Director of Police Forbids Noisy “Signs of Disapproval.” ‘ROME, March 17.—Hisses and other noisy signs of disapproval in thea- ters are banned in a circular just is- sued to the prefects of the various tricts by Signor de Bono, director general of police. The circular says those who pay for tickets have a right to enjoy the performance and that there are ways of “showing dis- approval without disturbing others.” with another to return for | far | of | e {iliness of several Colum- | pointed ’Washington Monument FREDERICK L. HARVEY. (Photo by Bachrach.) COLD BRINGS DEATH {Monument Society Secretary Was Regarded as Greatest Authority on Shaft. SIXty-sever Was) the ng Monur and rded the » Monument ed ye Florida aven contracted held the Febru! Harvey's death as greatest its late sterday e, at the at base 3 lust which ca patriotic ty. res radio to the transm afte e, and wil memb: A s rnoo Mr ation of whic Intermen Harvey which private member i s to be President Heads Soclety. sident 5 ¢ Harding president o National Monumer Socie Other ers are Van Devanter. first vice pi Charles C. Glover nd vice (nd Theod, W ves, ove the various states c-0ff presidents ne Washington see pre ro s of s death is a for the friends that he a4 kit weather alwa Monument ributed great sha Washingtor was he in he simple h would the chill of at the [ni ¥ to th the ot ervics precaution have the fron 1id toda He was Fle probably knew more about Washington Monument than any an living. He was familiar with {incidents that attended its construction Much of this knowiedge passes away { with him, because o one else knew it During the Harvey wa Monument on his part zen i other it of state stones It was with sincere that the ninetieth meeting of the Washinston National Monument Society, which was held at noon February t at his own home ihad to he postponed on account of the oicers regret annual our Stones Unpinced. int Th out Dakota rview with a representa Star, Secretar that Tdaho, North and New Mexjco had ot placed stones in the shaft. Hav. ing followed the placing of the other state stones, and having done more than any other man to get the com- {memorative stones in place, Mr. Har- \vey had a peculiar interest in secur- ing the placement of th four stones. It was his expressed hope that he would live to see the last of th es placed in the shait 1 attended the exercises when the South Dakota stone was un veiled in th iment. At the time of his deatt Harvey s working with the legisiature jof the re et them 1to place their stones the Monu- ment. The Governor of North Da- !kota had taken up the matter with Mr. Harvey, who hoped that the ex- {ample of the sister state would in- duce North Dakota to hasten actlon. { The Washington National Monu- { ment Society, next to the Washington Monument ifself, held first place in {the interests of its secret Having i worked with the society since 1874, 1and in the interests of the shaft, he Arizona, w | knew things about both that no other | {man did. With Rudoiph {now managing editor of IMr. Harvey shaft before the capstone was put in place, both of the men kicking their feet over the sides. Wrote Monument History. Kauffmann, The Mr. Harvey was the author of the | “History of the Washington National {Monument and Washington National | Monument Society,” printed in 1903 by the government printing office. This volume { formation about the topics concerned {ana gives in detail the history of the various plans to erect the Monumen' and the history of the society, which visory and co-operative capacity with the Secretary of War,” in whose care and custody the Monument is by law placed. Mr. Harvey was born May 6. 1856, the son in this city of Frederick He studied at the College of the City af New York, then returned to Wash- ington, taking his LL. B. degree from Columbian College, now the George Washington University, in 1879. He received the degree of LL. M. from this institution a vear later. Mr. Har- vey married Pamela Dean, daughter of Representative W. S. Holman of Indiana, April S, 1889. He was ad- mitted to the District bar in 1879, He acted as secretary of the joint commission for the completion of the { Washington Natlonal Monument un- der_the act of August 2, 1876, from 1877 to 1878. He was principal ex- aminer of land claims and contests for the general land office, 1888 to 1896. He had been law examiner for the forest service since 1906. Society Since 1874. He had been assistant secretary and secretary of the Washington National Monument Society since 1874. He also was a_member of the Columbia Historical Society. Besides the _authoritative docu- mentary history of the Washington Monument and its society, already In TOFRED. L HARVEY fol- Harvey ' remaining | Star, | climbed to the top of the | is a standard source of in-| was chartered by Congress in “an ad- | Loviad Harvey and Helen Mary Ford. | PRESIDENT STARTS NORTHBOUND TRIP Leaves Miami for Palm Beach Tonight—Plans to Attend Church. |WILL CRUISE TO GEORGIA i Fishing Trip Proves Futile as Heavy Sea Spoils Sport. Holds No Conferences. By the Associnted Pross. MIAMI. Fla, March 17.—Living up to the plans, which included only rest. | relaxation and recreation, President and Mrs. Harding and their vacation party today prepared to leave Miami jon thefr trip northward. The Presi- ident returned yesterday from his fish- | ling trip without having caught any fish. owing to rough seas, and. after | la round of golf. he assisted Mrs Harding in a reception for a delega- tion of American Legion members, The houseboat Pioneer, on which the President cruised southward from | Palm Beach. left ahead of the I'resi-{ dent for that city, where it will be ready o take the party aboard at the conclusion of the stay in Palm Beach. I'resident Harding and his upanions will leave here by train. Will Cruise to Augusta, Ga. Tentative plans call for a cruise northward from Palm Beach to St Augustine, thence to Augusta, Ga., with intefmediate stops for the pur- pose of the usual golf. The much heralded political con- ferences which the President was ex- pected to have during his stay here, ive never developed and little likeli- § {hood ‘now exists that the vacatlon | ill be broken into by anything earing upon important matters of | te or politics. \ Conferences Were Forecast. { to his arrival at Miami Beach Wednesday it had been thought that | ion might be interrupted i of the number of political and public men living or cation in this vicinity. | of those who indicated they like to confer with the Presi- dent were seen by Sceretary Christian, while oth Jen- | nings t the great Harding during to obtain 4 | a full-!} called late cottage joined Mrs. | ~turning from his | trip. | Lenven H | i Pric ! { desire stay s ami, vesterday ¥ Wher Harding overnight fryan adesire st Mr sing down at the time had driven away before he knew the eall. He viously had left card at the partments of ey al Daugh and to cwspaper men maid there was noth- he could say that would v s to talk re Card. t his card, to break in Harding wa and Mr. Bry p : news too early yet voli- | Catehes The fishing W, from wh turned this roduced ne Aps prevented the presidant \& party from even dropping a 1 u £h an attempt was made under the icadership of Capt O Thompson, deseribed by Miami pec “the world's greatest fisherma express cruiser Seahorse, on the trip to Cocolobo was made, about ummercifully the minute it got outside the kevs and the attempt was given up. During Uresident’s absence 'r. on whic from Or ach 8o as to b presidential pa rrow nisht northwar i Hurding, with ot ibers of the party, will leave here by train late t for Palm Beach. The President will | attend church at Palm B tome {row morning and the cruise north- ward will be started late tomorrow COCO T0 CONTINUE LAKE MURDERS FIGHT State Will File Bills of Informa- tion Against Those Suspected at Bastrop. No Fish. trip down to ' the President on prod ugh The which was the he made there tome P t and Mrs. { | By NE e Associated Press W ORLEANS, It is the present state of Louisiana to flle bills of | information and proceed with the| prosecution of those against whom | it has evidence in the Morehouse | parish outrages,” was the announce- |ment of Attorney General A. V. Coco {on his arrival here from Bastrop| | where he went on March 5 ana pre- | {sented to the grand jury the testi- {mony obtained at the open hearing {there in January concerning masked band activities in that parish. The {jury reported to Judge Fred M. Odum that the evidence submitted w: not sufticient to find indictments against any ticular individuals, ‘We are naturally disappointed be- lcause T believed and was confident that the state had cases” the attorney general de- jclared. “Rut this action by the. grand jury does not end the matter 1Dy any means.” Mr. Coco said he would issue no further statement until after a con- | ference here. probably next Tuesday, | with his assistants and State Senator | H. E. Warren of Shreveport, special counsel of the state In the case, to determine their future course. Gov. John M. Parker, when reached by telephone at Baton Rouge, de- clined to have anything to say con- cerning the report of the grand jury or future action contemplated by ! the state’s legal forces “Attorney General Coco Will make any statements that are to be made,” he said. i La.. March intention of the | 17— i | It was generally believed that any | . trial of the masked band cases re- sulting from information filed by the state authorities would be shifted out of Moorehouse parish on a change of venue to one of the nearby ju- dicial dlstricts, possibly Monroe, in Ouachita parish. FIRE WIPES OUT FAMILY. Four Dead and Another Suffers From Smoke and Prostration. EVERETT, Wash., March 17.—Four | |persons are dead and one is suffering from smoke and prostration as a re- sult of a disastrous fire that wiped out a whole family early today in rooms in the rear of a bakery here. —_— mentioned, Mr. Harvey wrote a mono- graph on the same subject in 1885. He was an indefatigable collector of relics, photographs and documents relating to George Washington. Mr. Harvey is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pamela Harvey; a som, Frederick Harvey, and a daughter, Mrs. Eugen V. Villaret. ) rev made out good | b; NEW INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL AT HIS DESK. i o Special Assistant Secretary or yenterday., Mr. Davis wax for two te the Weste reclamation problems of the western statex, Interior D, n States Reclumation Axsocintion D. Davis, who took office ‘mx Governor of ldaho, ix president of and isx fumiliar with the which he hax made a life study. Legal War Over Scales Patent Brings Clash of Court Rulings An extraordinary conflict of juri diction between federal courts was disclosed yesterday in argument be- fore the Supreme Court. Intermingled with suggestions of unwise exercise of authority by a federal judge were charges of fraud and the suppression evidence. In the midst of it all the plea of parties caught tween two courts and threatened with being held in contempt whichever way they turn. k2 unusual & of computing sca scriptions which brought into the courtroom hibits, the case being one of patent infringement Instituted 1t was instituted in district court at Chicago Computing Scale Com . _Ohio. seeking to the Tol o Scale Company for the alteged nart its computing scale Davton company obtained a $450.000, the seve ment for euit _court of appeals affirr arose be- staged of vari- e scene was in 4 setti us Chicago. the in 1910, th iny of Day damages The judg " When W C by refused to the case »any that urt ? he Supreme C rtain phases the To concern obtained from Judge Killits. in the federal district court for northern Ohio, an order which had the effect of suspending the mandate of the federal courts in the seventh circuit. Attacked and Defended. action of Judge Killits, not directly before the preme Court today. was both tacked and defen The Toledo ¥ asserted through counsel that it had disclosed to him new eviden aud which warranted | hin Juriadic- tion. while couns, company, with " de- clared that Judge Killits had nothing him A himself gition ¢ reviewing the de- seventh circuit court ad not been be- The though al- Su- ai- distr compan m the decision of use of u device as |t in an ned with ¥ the circu uting warded u doing andate and ale Company it, and by they violate damages Kil his orders by so. BIG LIOUOR EXPOSE KIDNAPED LOVER INVOLVES PICKFORD: STORY T0 BE AIRED Jack and Lottie on List Tak en in Bootleg Round-Up in Los Angeles. By the Associated Press, LOS ANGELES Revelations of Calif, March one of the biggest earthed in the west” were fore federal prohibition officers today they reviewed evidence which they stated indicated a number of proml-|sex county, N. J., nent persons were patrons of {illegal liquor combinations ever un-|tached to Washi: t by | as | Monday !X | ing kidnaped Detective Charged With Blasting Romance Involv- ing Senator’s Daughter. Speci NE Dispatch to The Star. EWARK. N. J., March 17.—john F. Zllis. private operative, formerly at- ngton bureau of Burns detective agency, will be placed on trial before Judge Fred G. Stickell, in court of quarter sessions, Es- on a charge of hav- Alex E. Rebertson, Ir., alleged bootleggers caught in raids|former British soldier, who saw service here Thursday night. H. H. Dolle: California federal prohibition enforce- ment bureau, said the names included | arrested at at least twenty prominent persons in Los Angeles, including a number of | ¢ motion picture actors. Both men and women were included in a list taken ‘(rom two of the alleged bootleggers. but he made public only those of Jack Pickford and Mrs. Alan Forrest, known professionally as Lottle Pick- ford, brother and sister of Mary Pick- ford, wife of Douglas Fairbanks. Alleged Plckford Check. Two checks said to have been given by Pickford were found In the pos- session of the used men, one of whom was alleged to have admitted he had made two sales of liquor to the actor. Dolley summoned Pickford to his office to question him concerning “certain matters,” the officer sald, but when the actor arrived with his attorneys, the interview failed. Pickford later announced he was wiling to give the officer or the federal grand jury, which is expected to take charge of the matter within two weeks, a statement whenever it was desired. The six accused men, taken into cus- tody at thrae different parts of the city, were held in bail of $10,000 each. Joo Burke, United States district at- torney. stated the evidence obtained v the dry agents would be guarded closely until it could be given to the grand jury. MRS. FISKE ADOPTS BABY Says 13-Month-Old Boy to Be Brought Up in Theatrical Circles. NEW YORK, March 17.—Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, the actress, announced at a meeting of the Child Adoption League that she had adopted a thirteen-month-old baby boy. She has no children of her own. Mrs. Fiske intimated that the child will be brought up in a theatrical atmosphere and said he had made his debut a few weeks hgo as an “Italian walf.” to which she was stage other. | | | | | | in France in the Light Horse Artillery , head of the southern | Brigade. Robertson, it is claimed, had Ellis a hotel here April 27 He alleged that Ellis was in- tructed to get him out of the coun- try so as to break up a romance be- tween him and Miss Mary Culhertson, daughter of former Senator Culbert- son of Texas. Robertson became ac- quainted with Miss Culbertson at the University of Texas, where he took up an engineering course following the war. When the romance became known Miss Culbertson was taken from the university by her parents and sent to a school in Washington. Appeals to Embassy. On April 20, 1922, Robertson in an affidavit on which the warrant for arrest was based, Ellis and another man came to the home of his aunt, Mrs. Mary A. Andrews. 162 Ashland avenue, Bloomfield, a suburb of New- ark, and by subterfuge induced him to accompany them to a hotel. In & room there. Rohertson alleges, Ellls and his companio accused him of a theft in New York and threatened to Lturn him up to fase a ten-year prison sentence if he did not accompany them to Bogton. According to Robert- son, Ellis intended to ship him from Boston to Argentina, Mrs. Andrews thwarted the scheme by appealing to the British embassy at Washington. Calle on Senator Culberson. Robertson is sald to have then gone to Washington and apprised Senator Culberson and his wife of his affec- tion for their daughter. He said be realized at once that they did not relish his_friendship with Miss Culberson. Chesley W. Jurney, secretary to the former sena- tor, told him later, Robertson said, that Mr. and Mrs. Culberson were shocked beyond words when in- formed of the situation by Miss Cul- berson. TURKS NAME U. S. ENVOY. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 17.—Dr. Nihad Rechad Bey, former Kemalist minister at London, has been ap- pointed Turkish minister to the United States. He wlll sail to take up his post in a few weeks. 1922, When The 5:30 Edition of @he Foening Star —is issued you’ve got the very last word of news for the day. Authentic news—gathered from all over the world and accurately printed. Financial news and Sports finals are both featured. For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city said INVENTOR S SUED | FORSSINO00BY AL Miss Bessie Brennan Ac- cuses Pennsylvania Million- aire of Felonious Assault. CHARGES ARE DENIED, | 24-Year-0ld Telephone Operator | Plaintiff in Damage Proceed- | ings Against P. J. Clifford. J. Clifford of Scranton, Pa., ! of the Clifford is named as Patrick | millionatre inventor automatic tri control, defendant in a suit to recover $500 000 damages filed today in the Distri | Supreme Court by Miss Bessic L | Brennan, twenty-four-year-old tele | phone operator. Miss Brennan charges j(hal Clifford, February 13 last, on a lonely road near the Marlboro pike, in | Maryland, committed a felonious a ! sault on her. t Hearing Next Monday. the | plaint of the young woman Ma and was released on §5,000 bail, 1 ing a hearing before United States Commisgioner Macdonald next Mon- day. He denies the cha According to the d filed [through Attorneys Henry M. Fowler land Fred ¢, Geiger, the young won lsays that while out automobiling [ with the defendant February 13, last, fon or near the Marlboro road, Clif ford made a felonious ass: on her. causing her physical pain and mental angulsh. She has been humiliated and disgraced, she says, and has lost I her reputation and social position |She has spent large sums for med |ical attention and in the future will | be obliged to spend more for medical care | Clifford was arrested on Hearing Next Monday. The declaration is in three counts. One chargea the commission of the criminal assault. Another charger an assault with Intent to rape and ti third alleges a simpl sault RULING WITHHOLDS ARSHAL' SALARY Department of Justice De-| clares Recess Appointee | Not Entitled to Pay. i i | Tiie recess appomtmen ’l‘rfFf(lt'nt Harding after the adjou { ment of Congress to Joseph W. Toi- | bert to be United States marshal for [ the western South Carolina district | will not carry salary for Mr. Tol- | bert, under a ruling of the Depart- ment of Justice, uniess Mr. | nomina should be confirmed the next Senate. This information given T Tolbert's on by it was said today at the department, has been given Mr. Tolbert, who is republ tional committeeman for South Caro- lina, and also to the South Carolina | senators who, §o far, e waged successful fight against Mr. Rolbert confirmation. The department been advised whether Mr. T: will accept -the non-salaried appointment and take the ch: serving for almost a year w possibility of losing salary time. Department of Justice officials were | said to sustain the legal right of President Harding to make the recess | {appointment of Mr. Tolbert. overrul- ing the contention of Senator Dial democrat, South Carol ., leading op- ponent of Mr, Tolbert, that the recess appointment was unconstitutional The question said to be involved wa: whether a vacancy existed in the post | of_marshal. During the fight in the last Con- gress against confirmation of Mr. Tol- bert, the pregiding judge for the west- ern district filled the vacancy by tem- porary appointment of an acting mar- shal. This, the department hold does not constitute a legal “filling of the vacancy which debars the re- cess appointment given Mr. Tolbert, but the department has ruled that until the Senate confirms the appoint- ment no salary is attached. If Mr. Tolbert should accept the post and later be contirmed, he woull receive all salary arrears. i | LABOR BANK TO OPEN. | Ibe recess e of | th the for the | Brotherhood Institution at Pitts- burgh Will Open May 1. ‘ PITTSBURGH. Mareh 17 The | Brotherhood Savings and Trust Com- | $137.500, with local labor unions and| their members as_stockholders, will | open for business here May 1, W. W.! Edinger, secretary of the organiza- | tion commitiee, announced last night. | Charter for the new bank already has been granted. Mr. Edinger said. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, { Order of Railway Conductors and, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers | are among the orders having repre- | sentation on the committee in charge | of organization. The Pittshurgh bank | will not be directly affliated with| labor banks in other cities, Mr. Edin- | ger said, i { { IDENTIFY MAIMED BODY. Chicago Police Say Eddie McBride Is Handless Murder Victim. CHICAGO, March 17.—The handles disfigured body found near Genev: 111., February 13, was {dentifled ]flsl' night by William L. Stapleton, police | lleutenant. as that of Eddie McBride, | who had been arrested many times in Chicago on charges running from minor_ misdemeanors to murder and | who last was reported as having escaped from the California state prison at San Quentin. The body has been reported recog- nized many times, but each partial dentification later was denied. The | hands were cut off and the face burned 8o that recognition was near- | ly impossible. ° —_— TURK FLAG IN JERUSALEM. Emblem Used by Arabs in Elec- | tion Strike. JERUSALEM, March 17 (Jewish Telegraph Agency).—The Turkish flag was flown here Thursday during a procession held in connection with a strike called by the Arab leaders to celebrate the success of the recent Arab boycott of the legislative coun- cil elections. Arab students and Boy Scouts carried only Arab-Turkish ban- ners in the parade. During the demonstration disorder | broke out and British troops dispersed the paraders, but not before several Arabs and a few native policemen were wounded. Six ringleaders In the demonstration were arrested. Reports from all sections of the country are to the effect that outside Jerusalem there was Do response to the strike. 1 | I NEW PEACE URGED lers « ion the | showing that tt { sted pany, with a capital and surpius of | THROU { public, Newark Preacher Scores Present-Day Fiction UNDERWQOOD REV. DR Of Newark, N WARREN W, GILES J.. who, in hix speech | en's Republican Club | at Plazu, e tain works of fiction having more or v at present and eriticized m severely. He alxo criticized the ed States. BY WOMAN'S BODY International League Says Reparation Demand Is 43 | Per Cent of Germany. REVISION™ AS ESSENTIAL Statement Pledges Efforts for Re- peal of Law “Imposing Cit- izens’ Army” on U. §. | i .| Aged Prelate Has Been mbined owe th ted States it was satd in the for Peace an off ement of Inter gue as a‘summary of the ention, whigh closed { was stat nothing else » signed th ties ¢ 1t _coming year ational and ling league with prev deplores Episcopal { | Japsed SEES DIVORCE EVIL INU. 3. 'APPALLING Bishop Manning Declares Condition Is Almost Legal- ized Free Love. |UNDERMINING THE HOME Church Head Urges Drive Against Easy Breaking of Sacred Vows. Associated Press XEW YORK, March 17 upon all religious Catholic, Protestant unite for concerted ai easy divorce, Bishop Willlam T. M ning of the Episcopal Church that the s monogamous marriage was rapid being abandoned in the United States, and that the nation had almost react ed a condition of legalized free love His remarks were part of a 1 sermon he Present Crisis W Regard to Marriage in the Home To allow women and men to together for a time. and then legal sanction on trivial and ous ground, to separate and forr alliances s they please,” he sald 1 principle to abolish marriag to adopt a system of legalized love. This is the system wh have now almost rcached.” Divorces Appalling. He then cited divorce statistics several states, adding that “the pro portion of divorces to marriages appalling. In our country as a whole there is now one divorce for everw eight marriages, and in some of our states there is one divorce for ever: two or thres marriages.” He declared that the influence of religion against divorce and remar riage is weakened by varying stand- ards of different churches, “and even of different ministers of the same church.” Thos to marry ~Calling organizations and Jewish—to action stem of whom one church refuses immediately go to another and are married without question.” he added. “Think what the effect would be if the whole united influenca of religion should be exerted in this great common ca 2 {BISHOP TUTTLE’S DEATH EXPECTED MOMENTARILY in State of Coma Since Yes- terday. By the Associated P T. LOUIS, tending _the Tuttle, eighty Bishop of the United States, may come at & prelate, who week o lirium the citing whole a Attending could not last March_17.—Physicia:s Rt. Rev. Daniel six years old, preslding Episcopal Church in the ay announced death moment to the aged been suffering fror for more tha some moments of the ged churman has been re gTip a physicians asserted the more than twen y-four hours. He has been uncor scious aince yesterday morning, and into this state as he read his book of prayers The dving churchman has crated S0 of the 234 bishops church consa- of the {RAILWAY CENTENNIAL URGED BY ENGINEERS | Pioneer Efforts in Transportation the repeal a women of | school age up to | i country. sixty years.” Hughes Congratulated. At vesterday's sessi was adopted « tary Hughes on American partici Court of at the Hagu sure was pledged A general demand for of the Versailles treaty by the league. It was brought out ing discussion, the summary stated, that | the demand “for a new peace was ba d acts which have been disclosed | has been a false as- | sumption that rmany and her allies | were ‘solely responsible for the war.’ ™ The followin ected | to the league, | United he coming | vear: Mr . national airman Hanny Cloth- ier Hull, Leach, Mrs. Harriett C . George T. | O'Dell. Mrs. Louis_Post, Mrs. Robert lLa Follette, Mr: Mildred Scott Oim- Mrs. Jaffe, Miss Ella Boynto Miss Ellen Winsor, Mrs. Atkinson, M John Lee and Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead | of Bos The board met immediately after adjournment of the conference to put the program mto action n a resolution ternational ipport to his mea- the revision was favored by members dur- | Sophia irs. Henry or Brown, M GH ‘PUSSYFOOTING,'| DECLARES OWSLEY Legion Head Says He's Going to Be Frank About Veterans' Bureau Hereafter. NEW ORLEANS. March 17.—Alvin M. Owsley, commander of the Ameri- can Legion, in an address here last night declared he through “pussyfooting” as to conduct of the Veterans' Bureau I am through pussyfooting.” said | Commander Owsley. “I am not run- ning for any office, and L intend to just what T think as long as I am commander of the American Le- gion. 1 intend to put several legion- aires In Washington to watch the administration of the Veterans' Bu- reau “The minute an attempt is made to fill the Veterans’ Bureau with polit- ical favorites 1 intend to tell the whole country until they are let out.” ¢ Commander Owsley will leave today for Havana and Panama. He will re- turn to New Orleans April 1. REACH SANTO DOMINGO. Six Army Crews on Test Flight Arrive From Haiti. was the say By thie Associated Preas. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Re- March 17.—The six United States Army airplanes engaged in aj test flight from San Antonio to Porto Rico, arrived here this morning from Port au Prince, Haiti FORD BACKS DEAL FOR SHIPS SUPERIOR, Wis., March 17.—Re- ports that the Ford Motor Company of Detroit is behind the purchase of the steamers Sonora and Sultana, which changed hands last week, are current in local marine circles here. It is understood that the vessels will be remodeled and used for the trans- portation of automobiles from Detroit to other lake ports. | railwa | constructed |begun the collection of data and Recalled at Annual Con- vention. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March centennial, the 100th anniversar; railroads, was Sugi erican Railway sociation in a resolution its twenty-fourth annual here. The first 0ad States was completed in 1827 and ran from the granite quarries near Quinoy, Mass., to the Neponset river a distance of three miles. Shortly after the Mauch Chunk raiiroad was to_haul coal from mines near Carbondale nine miles to the Lehigh river. Both used horses as motive power. The first railroad designed for general transportation business wa the Baltimore and Ohio, the first rail being laid on this line on July 4, 1828 PUSHES COSTA RICA CLAIM Former President Prepares Argu- ment in Dispute With Britain SAN JOSE, Costa Rica. March 17. Former President Gonztiles Flores has is drawing up the argument for Costa Rica in the controversy with Great Britain, Chlef Justice Taft of the United ' States having accepted the task of arbitrator. The dispute is an outgrowth of the Amory oil concessions granted to a British company in 1910 by the un recognized Tinoco government, but since repudiated by the Costa Rican congress. MAKES REPLY TO CHARGES Players-Lasky Corporation Meets 17.—A na commemorati of American ested by gineering adopted ar convention the Tnited a Trade Commission Complaint. The Famous Players-Lasky Cor poration, Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky, today filed thelr answers to the Federal Trade Commission’s com plaint alleging that in conspirs with others they were using unf: methods of competition in the mov ing picture industry in violation of the Federal Trade Commission act The answers declare that insfficient facts are contained in the complaint that the commission fails to make any charges within the meaning of the act and that the act itself is “in definite. uncertain and in violation o the Constitution of the United States The commission will hold hearings on the complaint some time next month J. C. SHEEDY DIES AT SEA. Brother of Shipping Board Official Succumbs During Voyage. John C. Sheedy, fourth engineer of the steamship Algic, and a brother of Joseph E. Sheedy, vice president of the Shipping Board, died on board the steamship, while it was eight days out from New York, according to a wireless message received in Wash- ington today. The body was buried at sea. The vessel was homeward bound from India after a six-month voyage. Mr. Sheedy was born in Somerville. Mass., thirty-five ‘vears ago. He is survived by his brother and a sister. Mary A. Sheedy of Malden, Mass. BISHOP NEAR DEATH. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., March 17.—Bishop Maurice F. Burke, seventy-seven years old, said to be one of two oldest Cath- olic bishops in the United States in point of service, is seriously ill here. His physician said death was only a matter of hours. 7l