Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1923, Page 2

CITIZENS DISCASS - SHIFT OF STATUES Committee Instructed to Sound Public Sentiment on " Proposed Transfer. REVIVE IMPOUNDING CASEl Plan Will Be Made to Raise Reve- nue for Paying Syme. With Congress at rest and the ques- | tions of tegislation in the back, Federation of Citi- zens last night shunted ita to « more esthetic merits and proposed by officer in charge | and ground to ngton's statue to held by the statue in the center of District nd. the Association herations that of lity of ti C. 0. Sherrill buildings a subject feasi Lieut of public transfer Gen. W, the position now of Gen. Jackson Lafayette Square. A discussion on_this question was precipitated when Delegate George A, Finch of the Piney Branch Citizens' ssociation painted a vivid verbal picture of the artistic be fittingness of Col. Sherrill's plan pointed out that -all the statues | in Lafayette Park arc memorials revolutionary heroes, with the ception of Gen. Jackson's. By replacing it with Washington's statue every memorial would then be of a revo- lutionary hero, he said, and the park could appropriately be renamed In- dependence Square. Some Oppose Plan. Daniel A. Edwards, delegate the Lincoln Park took the floor and told of thing it would be to have Washing- ton’s statue in the center of Lafayette Park directly facing the White House There are several, however, who voiced objection to the plan. One did <0 on the ground that in the process of transferring the statues they may | be damaged, and cited in illustration | the historic fact that a lapel on the coat of the statue of Abraham Lincoln was broken off in its removal to and from the gateway to city hall Another delegate pictured the lone-| liness of Gen. Jackson's statue onj the site where Gen. Wifshington's mem- orial is standing in Washington Cir- | cle, and suggested that “if such a| tranefer in statues is made Gen. Jack- on’s horse should be bridled.” somewhat lengthy ‘debate trom | then | MRS. BERGDOLL VICTIM IN SWINDLING CASE Says She Paid Man $200 to Help Free Draft-Dodger. By the Assoclated Pres PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 17.— Among the witnesses who appeared in a police magistrate’s court ftoday against a young man charged by va- rious persons with petty swindling was Mre. Emma C. Bergdoll, mother of Grover C. and Edwin Bergdoll, con- victed draft dodgers, Mrs. Bergdoll complained that she pald him $200 to help obtain ffeedom for Edwin from the federal prison at Leavenworth Maurice Rapport, the prisoner, who was held In balil. sald he wag a prison inmate with Erwin at Governor's and, N. Y., according to Mrs. Berg- I She sald she paid his expenses » K0 to Washington to negotiate with his friend,” Col. Theodore Roowevelt, for Erwin's release. “No wonder he laughed coming back on the train from Washington.” Mrs. Bergdoll said. “He was laugh- ing because he had fooled me.” IENVOYS OF FRANCE ORDERED TO HALT MEDIATION MOVES high—though not exactly official— quarters that France will insist on German proposals direct to France and Belglum, which in turn will sub- mit them to England and Italy if it is so desired. The premler's idea: have been subject to change since the Brussels trip. MAY RESUME REPARATIONS. Commission Promulgates Two Ordi- nances With That View. By the Associated Press. COBLENZ, March 17.—The inter- allled Rhineland commission toda: promulgated two ordinances with view to assuring resumption of rep- arations in kind from Germany. One prescribes the seizure in the oc- cupled territories of machinery and other objects, also animals belonging to the German government and ear- marked for restitution in conformity with the treaty of Versailles The other authorizes secisure of goods and property belonging to the allied governments or their nationals in these territorfes but not in their possession. Declaration of possession of such articles must be made to the interallied commission, the ord provides. The latter ordinance alms at coun- a along these lines, the federation re- ferred thé question to its committee on highways, parkings and waterways, and instructed it to sound out public, sentiment The public utilities com of | the federation was charged with the | duty of ascertaining the proper meth- | od of procedure in raising sufficlent | revenue to retain Conrad H. Syme| to continue the defense of the Dis-| trict citizens in the $3,000,000 im- pounded_ by the Potomac Electric Power Company and now pending in a case before the United States Su- preme Court. The original motion of Thomas J. Donovan of the Central Citizens' ation to have a spe- clal comm appointed for this work was voted down. Capt. Clayton E. Emig of the Du- pont Circle Citizens' Association ob- Jected to the retention of Mr. Syme's services, expressing the belief that it would reflect on the office of the cor- poration counsel. Willlam B, West- lake, however, said in his opinion it would not be a reflection on the cor- poration counsel’s office, because Com- missionér Keller had suggested that the citizens' assoclations retain Mr. to prosecute the case to its | { By a vote of 35 to 7, the federation | approved the action of President Charles Baker in appointing Snowden Ashford, chairman of the committee on education, to represent the hody at the meeting in the Franklin Schoél Wednesday night of the citizens' cen- tral committee on school betterment. Jesse C. Suter questioned the propriety of the federation sending a delegate to_the meeting. The federation discharged its spe- 1l committee on increase in pay for statutéry employes of the District with a vote of thanks. GOMB APARTMENT OF MURDERED GIRL Detectives Continue Search for Clues in Slaying of + Artist’s Model. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK March = 17.—Chiefs of the homicide squad camped tonight in the West 37th street apartment of Dorothy “King” Keenan, Broad- way butterfly and . beauty model, whose body, druggéd and distorted, was discovered last Thursday. They had come into possession of “new and important evidence' it was disclosed, and they intended to make the most minute examination of everything remaining in the apart- ment. The Weteotives. 10cked them- selves in, guarding their 1 tion with all secrecy. Prisoner Questioned: This pursuit of a new tack in the chloroform murder was undertaken after a conference with Albert Guim- ares, one of the model's most ardent friends. He had been arrested, techiically charged with carrying concealed” weapons, and was held until this afternoon when #n anony- mous “friend” posted $10,000 bail for his release. Guimares i5 under orders to appear in supreme court Monday with his attorneys to argue an application for e writ of habeas corpus. Tonight's developments came at the end of a disheartening day for the authorities, during which several of their most promising theories in_the crime were exploded, leaving them | vith little more than a conviction ‘jm Miss Keenan had been murdered | nd robbed of $10,000 worth of jewel The “Mr. Marshall” and his secre- | tary, “Mr. Wilson,” whom an eleva- | tor operator at the 57th street ad- ! dress had seen accompany the youns | woman to her apartment the mid- night: before her body was found, vol- | untarily appeared before the district attornéy late today. s When they left the official said he | had been convinced they were inno-| centof any part in the murder. They had admitted _accompanying Miss Keenari home Wednesday night and satisfactorily explained how “Mr. Marshall” left the apartment some- | hat later than his secretary depart- | ed without being observed by eleva- | tor @ttendants. i The district attorney designated Mr. | Marshall as “John,” but would _not | reveal the secretary’'s name. Both, successfully evaded all efforts of re- porters to learn-their identit! SPECIAL TRAIN PROVIDED NEW. YORK, March 17.—Former United States Senator C. 3.’ Watson of West Virginia returned from Eu- rope today on- the - Aquitania, with his wife, who was' taken seriously il on the eastward ‘voyage. Mrt Watson was removed from the ship to & special train which left imnie- dafmtely for- FRITIIOR, Wi Van—- — nvestiga- { teracting the {now {ing. |has shown such orders fssued by the German government that its nationals refuse to deliver to the Franco-Bel- glap authorities goods contracted for on the reparations account. Ity gsescribed by the ordinance for such a refusal iy & fine of 350.- 000,000 marks imprisonment for not more than five years. The state of selge which clatmed in Coblenz has been extended to Ehrenbreitstein, where gereral traffic {s prohibited between ten o'clo at night and slx o'clock In the morn- This action, according to the Germans, 1s due to the wounding of a French” soldier by two Ehrenbreitstein boys. pena or The boys beat a woman they had just | seen with the soldier and the latter was disarmed and wounded when he hurried to her assistance. His assailants as well as two policemen, were arrested | and taken to Mayence. OUTBREAK IS PROBABLE. Newspapers Declare Situation More Acute, But Do Not Indicate Source. By the Assoclated Press. ESSEN, March 17.—The Ruhr is calm but the possibility of a sudden out- break still exists. Although the news- papers declare the situationis more acute they do not indicate any new source of trouble. Coal now is being taken from two mines by the French. One of the mines is near Essen and the other i at Bottrop. The French have arrested several men in Dusseldort on the charge of sabotage. They are accused of tam- pering with the telegraph system, the penalty for which is hard labor for life. The controversy over responsibility for the shooting of the two French- men at Buer last week Is still pro- ceeding. The Germans have pro- duced witnesses, who aver the assail- ants were French deserters, but the French state the bullets were from revolvers such as are used by the German security police. SWISS TRADE IMPROVES. Diplomatic Representations to France and Belgium Postponed. By the Assoclated Press. BERN, March 17. — Switzerland's traffic with that section of Germany occupled by the French and Belglans signs of improve- ment in recent days that the govern- ment has decided to postpone the diplomatic representations to France which Swiss commerce and industry had demanded. It was claimed that raw materials and partly manu- factured goods held to be absolutely | necessary for the operation of Bwiss railroads and factories were not coming through from the Ruhr valley. PROTEST MONEY ISSUE. French Say Germans Try to Frus- trate Effort to Stabilize Mark. By the Associated Pres BERLIN, March 17.—Referring to reports from Paris that the French section of the reparations-commis- was pro- | | | | COUPLE ARRESTED ON'BADGER'CHARGE Victims and Husband Robbed Them. of blackma! John Costello, thirty vears old, of 1343 L street northwest, wus arrested last night by Lieut. Davis and four members of the vice squad. At the same time his wite, Sylvia Costello, twenty-four, was taken into custody number of statutory charges. According to the police, Mrs. Cos- tello accosted a soldler from Walter Reed Hospital at Franklin Square Iseveral days,ago and invited him to Upon arriving there, | alleged, the husband of lwor responding to a prearra signal, walked Inte the room |felgned intense anger. After strik- |ing the soldler several times, Costello |18 alleged to have demanded $300 When the victim pleaded tHat he did |not have that much, the man took |& smaller sum and pern idier to leave. When the case was reported to Lieut. Davis he managed to “plant” two of his operatives in the woman's apartment carly last evening. Going to the neighborhood frequented by Mrs. Costello, the vice squad head and & member of his force permitted her to “plck them up.” When she escorted them into her apartment, however, the other members of the vice squad stepped forth and arrest- ed her. The husband was found in ansadjoining room. According to the police, Mrs. Costello admitted that she had been practicing this form of blackmail, known to police as the “badger gume.” with her husband for more than two years in New York, several New Jersey cities and Wash- ington. It is alleged that Mrs. Costello ad- mitted belng the accessory in at least Six men being trapped here in a single night early this week. The woman 18 a decidedly attractive bru- nette and the police say she freely admitted that she had little trouble persuading victims to come to her apartment. TO ANSWER RUM CHARGE. NEW YORK, March 17.—Samuel A. Story, who was indicted with the La Montagne brothers recently for conspiracy to violate the Voistead act, returned from Europe today on the Aquitania and announced he would _appear in federal court @robably Monday for arraignment. The La Montagne brothers, Rene, Montagu, Willlam and Morgan, are scrving jall sentences in New Jer- sey. it sion had protested against the issue by Germany of treasury bills fixed on the basis of the American dollar, the minister of finance today charac- terized the alleged protest as an at- tempt to frustrate the government in its efforts to stabilize the mark. The ministry’s statement denies the right of the reparations commission to prevent Germany from issulng loans, particularly the present $50,- 000,000 loan, the proceeds of which will be handed to the Reichsbank for the sole purpose of forming a fund to strengthen the mark. France's reported protest against the issue of these treasury bills un- der the Reichsbank's guarantee that the Lokal Anzeiger to reiterate that the Reichsbank now is an automonous institution, absolutely independent of the government. The bank Is established with pri- vate capital, the newspaper adds, and the republic has no share in it. This does not exclude the bank from doing business with the republic, such as standing guarantor for the new treasury bills, as it did for the notes issued some time ago on behalf of Belgium. The Anzeiger also notes that, as a result of the demands made in the London ultimatum of May, 1921, large German private banks indorsed the bills of exchange falling due on Aug- ust 31, authough their properties in no way fell under the stipulation of the Versailles treaty. It fails_to understand, therefore, why the Reichsbank cannot perform a _similar function for Germany voluntarily, adding that the very fact that it expressly assumes the guaran- tee for these bills shows, that the Reichsbank is not liable for the re- public’s obligations. Consumption the Menace It is usually not suspected for a long time and unless discovered early requires years to be checked, and is then hard to cure entirely. If you tire easily—or are losing weight—and have a persistent light cought or hoarseness—do not loose time. See a doctor or have yourself examined at the Health Depa 409 15th St. NW., Tuesd: at 2-4 o'clock. Friday ev free rtment Clinic ay, Thursday or Saturday enings from 7:30-9 o'clock To Prevent Consumption 1. Avoid house dust and impure or close air, day or night. 2. Get all the light and sunshine possible into your home. 3. Drink plenty of 6. Try to avoid worry. Be ! mind acts on your body. This Bulletin is pasteurized milk and cream. None 4. Eat plenty of plain, nourishing food. 5. Qet enough sleep by retiring early enough. raw. heerful. Think kindly. Your Paid for by the Association for the Prevention of Tubmulon‘u Telephone Main 992 Legal Notice 923 H Street N.W. | 2 FILTER STATION Police Claim Woman Lured| Charged with three separate counts | ted the sol- | TO BE ERECTED AT THE OF WASHIN GTON'S NEW WAT! DISTRICT LI SR CONDUIT. 'TOO LARGE HEAD NO BAR TO PRESIDENT’S SUCCESS)| ‘SALARYDATAWORK It has just come to light that Presi- dent Harding has been undergolng a tremendous natural handicap in mak- ing good as a statesman. If he had | fatled to succced in public life he | could justifiably have withdrawn his | | hat from the ring, pointed to the| | “I%" in the hatband and excused | | himself with the remar! i “Blame it on my head; it's a quar- ter kize too large The discovery way made by officials lof the Natlonal Association of Straw | Hat Manufacturers of America, Who ! have gone to some expense in tabu- iating_head and body measurements | of men in public office. By striking an average on the figures submitted. | TRAFFIC SOLUTION UP TO INDIVIDUALS, DECLARES RUDOLPH (Continued from >age.) an atmosphere of antagonism to the enforcement officers and even to the law itself is created. Rellance In Laws Costly. A very rigid set of traffic regula- tions, which if actually enforced ould make accidents practicaily im-| ipossible, might be cnacted. Such regu- lations, however, would cull for & greatly enlarged police force, entail-| ing a large expenditure of money, in| order to properly enforoe them and would jam our courts and jalls with| offende! Why? Becausq such al stringent law would cause consider- able inconvenience to the ocareful users our streets and would be funpopular with the majority, and rightly so. We should not be forced to overtax ourselves in order to force ourselves to use the streets in a safe and sane manner. “The accident problem produced by our ever-increasing trafic will not be solved until every man, woman and child within our city realizes their persoial responsibility to drive or walk in such a manner as to prevent {njury to themselves and their fel- jow-men. When such a condition has been obtained rigid traffic laws will be unnecessary, law enforce- ment will be simplified and accidents will be permanently reduced. Edueation Is Solution. “To produce such a condition a | continuous educational campaign is essentlal. The interest of the peo- ple must be aroused and maintained |by the dally press, our children must |be taught safety throughout the £chools, the mothers of the commu- nity must realize their responsibility for safeguarding the little ones and soclal circles must constantly stimu- late interest in this highly impor- tant matter. “It behooves every citizen, there- fore, for the sake of himself, his wife and children, his friends and humanity as a whole, to first realize his own personal responsibllity and then to influence his friends and acquaintances to realize theirs.” OYSTER 1S FAVORABLE. ot i Inclined to Approve 25-Mile Limit on Outlying Highways. Commissioner Oyster is giving seri- ous consideration to the recommenda. tions of the traffic committee that the automoblle speed limit be made twen- ty miles in the city proper and twenty- five miles on outlying highways. The Commissioner intimated yes- terday afternoon that he might not oppose twenty-five miles in the out- lying sections, provided it is accom- panied by a reckiess-driving regula- tion. The traffic committee included such a regulation in its recommenda- tions. | "Capt. Oyster said he 1s much con- cerned over proper speed limits for heavy commercial trucks, which, he belleves, should be restricted in speed because of their size and weight. Commissioner Rudolph sald yester- day he had not had time to do more than glance through the committee's recommendations and was not in & position to voice his views on them. The board probably will decide at its meeting Tuesday morning whether to proceed immediately with consid- eration of the report or await the re- [u 14 {turn of Commissioner Keller, who is {in California. DROP OF $200,000 IN INCOME TAXES (Continued from First Page.) taxable year 1921 were about $336,- 000,000, it wasannounced at the Tre: | ury today, while the collections in i March, 1921, for the taxable year {1920, were more than twice as large, totaling $713,861,126.1 The June, or second quarterly in- stallments, both in 1922 and 1921, were |1arger by about, $200,000,000 than the March payments, while the Septem- ber and December payments of both these years were progressively smaller. NAPLES GREETS U. 8. PARTY. NAPLES, March 17.—The steam- ship Caronla, having on board about!| 200 American delegates to the con- of the international chamber , .prrived here at noon today. icans we cordially welcomed by ibers -of - SN SRR Geparted for Rome on Including those sent in by the White ouse, gOVernors of every state, may ora. efc., the fact Waw unearthed that the average American public official wears a 7% size hat. that he is clean shaven, between forty and fifty years of age, welghs about 200 pounds and 1s five 1, cleven inches tall. President Harding, excepting his unfortunate head dimensions, Is almost perfect example of the oficial ype found in the survey. He 1is slightly taller and stouter than the average, being half an Inch higher than he should be and weighing five pounds more than is allowed as a general rule, it was found. Men who are short and thin stand a slim_ chance of getting elected at the polls, according to these stand- ards. STAGE IS BEING SET FOR NEW AIRING OF U. S. FOREIGN POLICY First Page.) posal for « world court as worked out | appointed | by Ellhu Root, who was d took part {n drafting the plan for e world court, but whose ideas were in some vital respecta dincagded when | j the council and assembly league came 10 pass upon Under the Root plan a of the real the pian. court would have been established, Senator | Borah said yesterday: he could have supported. against the entrance of the States into the court as it now stand pointing out this country has a right now to go into that court, if it de- sirew, without becoming & member through adherence to the protocol ‘Under the Root proposal,” said Senator Borah, “a nation sued by an- other would have had to go into court. Under thegpresent plan, however, a nation canhot be taken into courtun- less it assents. Both parties to the diswgreement must agree to having the difference adjudicated. The strong nations of Europe were unwilling to have the weak bring them into court. They refused to allow the Root plan to stand.” Capper Favors Plan. Senator Capper, head of the farm bloc in the Senate, belleves in the United States joining in the world court, and expressed the opinion that the proposal would receive strong backing in the middle, west. g The United States, as pointed out ¥ an agency of peace as Court. It"is his contention that the United States cannot well afford to remain outside the World Court in view of its support of plans for such a tribunal in the past and the desire of the American people for & perman- ent international tribunal looking to_world peace. The proposal of the administration that the United States take part in the World Court was made after a long period of consideration, In a measure, it may be considered a sec- ond step of the administration look- ing toward world peace, with the limitation of armaments conference as the nrst. Objects to Party Politics. The proposition has been advanced by American statesmen that partisan politics should stop at the water's edge—that the foreign policies of the country and foreign relations should not be made .the subject of party strife, and that the country should show 'a united front in dealing with foreign nations. But the forelgn policies of the country, for several years at least, have been far more in politics than out of them, and the next_national campaign is going to be filled with references to those policies. Senator David I. Walsh of Mass: chusetts, democrat, an opponent of the league of nations, sald yesterday he had found considerable sentiment in his state in favor of the United States joining in the World Court, as proposed by the President. He said that he himself had not had oppor- tunity yet to study the question closely, but that he was inclined to support any project looking to world peace; that he was strongly in favor of measures looking o peace, and that the World Court was set up, he understood, for the peaceful adjudica- tion of differences arising between nations. Senator Walsh added that he be- lleved in helping Europe, if possible. But before he supported any measure igned to give aid to Europe, he wanted the people of the United Btal to understand fully just what that particular measure committed them to, . There are some persons in this country, he sald, who are anxious to have the United States go into any group of nations or combinations ust so that this country may “get nto Europe.” They do not stop to count the cost in dollars that the taxpayers of this country may be called upon to produce, whether in the matter of loaning money to Eu- rope or in the matter of using the armed forces of the United States to settle the rows of European natlons. — e JAMES RIVER RISES 30 FEET AT RICHMOND Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., March 17.—James river is tonight some twelve feet high and the waters have covered much of the lower section of the city. The wharves of the several companies are inundated, but the companies had warning and all goods and freight were removed to places of safety. ‘This is the first serious flood in, the river here for a long time. 'he water is twenty-two feet at Columbia, fity miles above the city. Travel in country roads had been made im- possible in sections where fords cro: streams and large numbers of ma- chines are waliting for & chance to n—o.u. ‘The rainfall last-night was 3.30 inches. NEAR LITTLE FAL| the President, always has taken | A strong position in advocacy of such | the World | steamship l $ AND CONDUIT ROADS, AS PART EMPLOYES TO AID { Classification Board’s Re- “ quest for Suggestions Meets an | | Quick Response. Taking of the request of the newly created Federal Person- Inel Classification Board for sugges- | tions in working out the new ealary | scales which will affect some advantage |ation of Federal Employes has ar- ranged for its 270 constituent unions 1to assist in colleeting data desired by { the board, it was announced last i night at’ local headquarters of the | fede ion This sweeping change in the gov- ernment’s employment policy, the federal employes” body pointed out, gives “incalculable importance” to {the announced policy of the Federal Classification Board to welcome sug- ons from officials, employes and public in the drawing up of the alary schedules which are to the ‘basis of the next year's budget estimates for Congress 1 | | form all employes in Washington and the field in the task of securing the best |results in the time given,”™ said Judge Warwick, alternate chairman |of the board, in a statement to th national federation yesterday, 1024 Rates Up to Board. Abolition of all {in the federal civil service by the re- classification act puts the next year's salary rates of government employes largely in the hands of the Kederal Classification Board, created by the act, it was pointed out. Complete revision of the salary scale is pro- vided for, not only affecting the de- partmental services in this city, but fleld services as well. Cost of Living, rates of pay In cor- responding positions ployment, and standards conforming to “the principle of equal pay for equal work are expected to be con- sidered in the adjustment of the new | salary schedules which will be set up by the board in its recommendations to the next Congress. Once the salary schedules are de- termined and ployes made, advancement in salary and position will depend upon effi- ciency rating and qualification. The heads of departments will make the allocations, after consulting with the latter, and the board must then re- view the allocations before they be- come final. The board must also review all efficiency rating systems, and may revise them as it deems ad- visable. Means Square Deal. “It means an entirely new deal, and if carried out according to the rules, it means a square deal for every federal employe,” officers of the na- tional federation said last night, “The present rigld, not to say ossified, con- dition of,thé government pay scale will give ‘'way to an elastic system of compensation on the basis of work performed. Where employes can now hope for promotion only if somebody dies or resigns, there will be a pos- sibility of advancement in pay as a reward for eflicient service on the same job, as well as promotion to higher classes of work on showing of qualification. The now forbidden transfers between departments at a salary increase will become possible. The whole structure of the govern- ment_service is lifted from its old foundations and put upon springs, as it were. “With the Personnel Classification Board's announced policy of seeking the co-operation of the employes themselves, and of the public as well as the government executives, with the liberalizing and the safeguarding rovisions of the reclassification law tself, it is possible now to feel, if all hands pull together, that we shall have inaugurated a new era in the public sefvice. The reclassification act launches a new employment pol- icy for the United States govern- ment.” ACT OF 1920 UPHELD. NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—Con- stitutionality of the transportation act of 1920, was upheld in a decision here today by a court composed of federal district Judge Rufus Foster and Circuit Judges R. W Walker, and A. C. King, in the suit of the Dayton and se Creek Rallroad Company against the United States Government and the Interstate Com- merce Commissio | 200,000 | federal employes, the National Feder- | “The board is confident that it will | receive the fullest co-operation from | statutory salaries | in private em- | the allocations of em- | BAIL DENIED ACTRESS WHO SUED WHITNEY Evan Fontaine and Mother Forced to Spend Week End in Jail. By the Associated Press. NYACK, March © 17 an Burrowes Fontaine and her mother, Mrs. Florence E. Fontaine, will be forced to remain in the county jail at New City over the week end as the result of Supreme Court Justice Tompkins' refusal late tbday to ac- cept the bail offered by their attor- neys for their release pending &r- raignment on charges of perjury growing out of Miss Fontaine's $1,000.000 breach of promise suit against Cornellus Vanderbilt Whit- ney. Although no_ announcement was made, it was learned that the ac- cused dancer and her mother were held in $5,000 each and the property refused consisted of real estate. FILESST,000000SUIT AGAINST SHIP BOARD Phillip Manson Seeks Dam-| ages Charging Con- spiracy. {MANY OTHER DEFENDANTS | | Emergency Fleet Corporation and | Many Individuals Included | in Case. the Associated Press, NEW YORK, March 17.—Fhillip Manson, an official of the Pacific and ern Steamship Qompany, Inc., today filed suit in supreme court for $1,000,000 damages against the United States Shipping Board, United States| Emergency Fleet Corporation and | others, alleging that they had in- jured his name and that some of them had conspired to prevent his | llnes from getting steamships allo- | cated to him. Ha also alleged that| he had been falsely and scurrilously ! attacked, orally and in writing i Defendants named by Mr. Manson | were Edward N. Hurle Cliffora D. Mallory, the Moore and McCormack ' Company, Inc, Emmett J. McCor- mack, the Clyds Steamehip Compi H. H.. Raymond, John Barton Payne. John H. Rossiter, Thomas H. S Rogers Welles, A T ward F. ry, Fred Richard H. Bailey, Ir 1. R. Mansey, W. H. Barber and David Howard Jones, co-partners n firm of Jam W. Elw & Company. Says Ofeinls Profited. The complaint sets forth that Mr. Manson was called into consultation in 1914 with the then Secretary of | State and other heads of Govern-| ment departments. and that he ad- sed the formation of the Shipping| Board and the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration Th says Hurley, Mallory, ayne, Rogsiter, Scott, Tennant Carry, Murphy, Bailey, Cook, Massey and Barber became officlals and directors of both bodlies, and that thereafter there were “many acts of corruption, waste and extravagance, which, he alleges, “rédounded to the benefit of some of the individual de- fendante.” As a result, he says, he felt “com- pelled to prefer charges’ against these men at Washington. Blames Attagks on Protests. “Late in 191 Manson says, “the American minister at Peking reported that the Chinese government has ex- pressed a desire to organize a stean- Ship line between Chinese and Ameri- | can ports, with American and Chinese capital.” Manson says he went to Peking “with the advice and approval of the Secretary of State and en- tered into a contract with the repub- ic of China for the formation of thej c and Eastern Steamship Com- . of which_he became an office and director. He also_states in his| suit that the United States govern- ment took an active part in the nego- tiations. ooy h“ United States ly to the United S Por Wllocation of ships, Manson al- leges, the defendants conspired to prevent that allocation in order, he Charges, “to punish him for his acts in opposing the defendants and ex- posing their alleged misdemeanors as officials of the Shipping Board that connection, he aileges, there Were fabricated and placed ‘on the records of the two bodles, the .\Pfl“ ping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporatios untrue and scurrilous s"'concerning him and his siness capacity. h\{\rhn.nson complains specifically BhAiuL a letter he alleges was written by Capt. | Rogers Welles, T. director of naval intelligence, to E. F. Carry, direc- for of operations of the Shipping Board. FIND NO RECORDS. A n L. (< Cook. | Stoore. John E, | E. Jones and | became necessary to ap- government In Ship Board Officials Know of No Basis for Big Suit. rds of the Shipping Board show TS etion with ' Billip Hanson of New York which could be used by the latter as the basis of the suit| for $1,000,000 filed by ‘him, officials of the board declared last night. They asserted that Manson had made no application, so far as the files re- Vealed, for allocation of government tonnage and that his individual ability or integrity had never been brought before the board in any other way. “he only record in the board's files concerning Mr. Manson, according to | members of the board, deals with a hearing sought by him on the sub- ject of a report made by another gov- ernment bureau. As a result of this hearing a committee, composed of Commissioners Lissner, Plummer and Chamberlain, returned a finding which Was favorable to the New York ship man. ——’ Germs carried on the feet of birds and by currents of air, are sald to spread outbreaks of “foot-and-mouth’ disease among cattle. The 5:30 of The Evening Star. l If You Want to Know All About It Read The Foening Star, It brings the days news down to the " ery minute—gives the latest reports on the topics of interest—sports finals and financial gossip. The 5:30 is a “P. S.” to the re For sale by Newsboys and Newsdealers throughout the city. Edition of last gular edition { least fof | operations, POLICE PLAN SET FOR SHRINE WEEK § Maj. Sullivan Soon to An- nounce Method of Handling of Throngs in June. 200 SPECIAL OFFICERS Tentative Arrangements Aim to Keep Secret Identity of Visit- ing Detectives. Final plans for the hendling of the immense throngs expected here dur ing the four-day sessicn in Jun the Imperial Council of the M. Shrine will be announced shortly, ac cording to Maj. Sullivan, chief police. Arrangements similar to th followed by the department inaugural ceremonies will lowed, although the roping will be more extensive and the parking &paces in th restricted districts will btlv("r]r;'\(d‘(“rkb!)' less. ennsylvania avenue wil be ro off west as far 22d stre VL‘ hi{!rfl an 22 of 17th street, as is customary on inaugural occasions, while spacis police regulations for the big sessicr Will be effective for fiftcen daye, It is prol A formed to .')'\1.~! )‘n} and Inspec detectives, will have the assistanc pEinc 4 ities ea: f the Mississipy Maj. 1livan establishment o d, 5th, 7th, 9 streets, which h bulances and other eme dur! be fol or f traft 11th, avorable to : lanes on 17th and will g of vehio hospital am rgency cars Identities to Be Shielded. It is the purpose of the poiice als to al faE: 23 noa the identity of visiting detectives t{r’rhtvr that the “light-fingered gen rom other kept under urveillan bt 18° Members of the police prohibitio: force and agents of the intern enue bureau will be on hand to kec an eye on bootleggers, a that a ial patrol w on the roads leading preve well known bringing supplies in Maryland and Pe: Inspector Headle traffic all traffic James tentate, wh days in Wast ing th conv! liquor ere from Ivania. is in charge squad and will look af arrangements, McCandless, impertal p recently passed 13 igton offictally inspec arrangements, expressed t tion that the United States to witness here “the most marvelou rally and the most impressive hom coming of the people the capital « a great nation ever has staged in tr history of the world.” “Some of the triu were so spectacula preserved in history and marble Candl sa. . nphs of Ror that they ar: and on canvax all time,” Mr. M E “They were writte in the blood of Roman soldlers glory of might, and made pos Ly the power of the strong over the weak. The triumph of Washington is to be the diapason of a great people at peace, gathering about the standards of liberty, singing the songs of happiness and daneing with unshackled fe. Pligrimage to Tomb. “'As the great event will end in the of a harmonious country. he continued, “the picture that Wash ington saw, so will it begin on Mon morning of that week in a pil ot the imperial *potentate and divan to the tomb at Mount Vernon. Returning, the ceremony of dedicating the Zero Mile Stone will take place. The President, following the arrival of the potentate, will pre side. The Secretary of War will tur: the monument over to the Presid on behalf of the War Department. who will accept it on behalf of thel people.” On this day also will be held the annual meeting of the Recorders’ As ociation, an organization made up of the recorders of all Shrine temples in America. The president of this society is F. Lawrence Walker, re corder of Almas Temple, Washing ton. “The Jesters” also will hold their annual banquet that day. On Tuesday, Jume 5, the great parade of patrols, bands, chanters. oriental Bands and other Shrine units will take place, the route being from the Capitol to Washington Square. The largest number of temples, pro ably 135, ever assembled, will be in llne, Immediately following the p: rads the imperial council will ope Wwith address of welcome by th President, for the nation; by Commi sioner Rudolph, for the city of Wast ington, and Leonard P. Steuart, po tentate of Almas Temple, for the lo- cal shriners. ‘In the evening and all other evenings fireworks ~displays will be provided. Banquets, band concerts and ecores of social events and minor entertaf ments are to be scattered through the week, including elaborate entertainment for the woman visitors throughout the city. The dates for these will be an- nounced_later. On Wednesday night the great night parade and brilliant fllumination will take place, the procession passing through “The Garden of Allah” in front of the White House to Washington Square. Massed Band Concert. Thursday morning at 10 o'clock the massed band concert will take place at American League Park, when 6,000 musicians and 5,000 singers will pre- sent a program of patriotic music. In the afternoon “The Congress the Seas,” a marine spectacle unique and unprecedented in the annals of the nation, will be staged on the Potomac and reveal to the nation that Washing- ton possesses a wonderful harbor. Tha plan of Chairman Snyder is to display chronologically the development of man's triumph of the deep in the development of ships. 3 The hundreds of thousands gathered on the driveway will see passing in re- view, and mounted on barges, Neptune and ‘his court, Noah's Ark, the first craft recorded in the history of man; vikings, ancient Chiness vessels, the Indian canoes, Lief Erickson's ship, the Columbian caravels, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria; Hendrik Hudson's ship, the type of vessel which carried the Pilgrims, the ships of the period of King Tut, the Constellation, the frigate, the Mississippi packet, and concluding with modern types, the square rigger and various models of steam vessels, submarines and small naval craft will close the pageant. In the evening the pageant on Pennsylvania avenue will depict the de- velopment of the United States. This spectacle will pass through a blaze of light_and into the Garden of Allah past the White House—a dream panorama of the nation. ~ At its close, 10:30 o'clock, a great band of 200 pieces stationed in the Garden of Allah will open a_program of dance music, the strains being distributed down the Avenue as far as the Capitol through glant amplifiers. Then will open ““The Dance of the States.” Arrangements will be made to broadcast the dance music throughout the continent 8o that dancers in roof gardens or halls in all cities may dance in step with Wash- ington. —_—_— GETS 15,000-FRANC PRIZE. PARIS, March 17.—The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences "has awarded the Audiffret prize, carry- ing 15,000 francs, to the Franco- American Fraternity, created during the war to aid children whose fathers fell at the front. Americans, through this organization, supported 3000.000 orphans up to the end of last year,