Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1923, Page 2

b~ L B SHALLYOOD * CALLED BY DEAT News Manager of Star Was' , Member of Staff for Eighteen Years. JOHN B. SMALLWOOD. John B The Star staff wallwood nd a valued me news manager of ber of the past fore 7 field Hos precarion vears, hut death w3 which he failed to r Mr. Nwood Wednesd this news a mor eighteen years \. His t int the i at had ing health for nediate seve operation, L at his desk last and it was thought KU first he w posed. He ever. A « Saturday nosis pital s but temporarily apidly grew nsultation failed nd he That decided upon in t his life. He came deal successiully recovery &train he had of physicians narvriving taken Wt a ding - 1 operation hope of saving throuzi this or- d strone hopes of heid b physical undergone, however, proved (oo greal. and doath came some thirty hours lat With him at the end was his wife and his father, Wilbur F. Smallwood of Buitalo, Funeral Services Wednesday. Funeral will be held at the residence siveet northwest. at Wednesday afternoon. Rev est Smiih, rector of tant ' Episcopal the officiating clerg nizk waz vere service 1915 224 o'clock Dr _active pallbearers K. Legg, Ralph ¢ Fred Cook will raves, R. M ore P. Noyes, three being colleagues of Mp Wood on The Star Honorary pallbearers representatives of the ownership and management of The Evening Star, will be Theodore W. Noves, Frank E. iph Kauffmann, Vietor n Beale R. Howard, Flem- ng Newbold and Stephen O. Ford, master. of Temple-Noyes Lodge., No. 32 F.UA AL M, and a member of the boardof managers of the Na- tional Press Club. Native of Pennsyivania. Mr. Smallwood was at Hri Pa.. September 19, 1582, His mother, now dead. was Miss Augusta Bell and his maternal grandfather was John Bell. a banker of that ci He mo €d in youth to Buffalo, ) . and e tered Cornell, graduating in the class of 1903 After a few weeks of exper- ience on the Buffalo Inquirer Mr, Smallwood moved to the National be Ed- Dudley Kauff the last small- sar Harmon, ¢ mann and The who include bo; Capital and April 4, 1903, entered the | employment of The Star as a report- er. His rise to positions of responsi- ity was a steady one. He served successively as aesistant city editor, as city editor. and as acting news rditor, and had held the important DOSt of news manager since 1918. M: Smailwood married Miss Lola ¥stberg of Waukesha, Wis., October 7, 1917. They had one child, a daughter. Their home for the past several years was at 1915 23d street northwest. Member of National Press Club. Mr. Smallwood was long an active member of the National Press Club, having served as its treasurer and as a_member of its board of directors. He was a member of the Chevy Chase <lub and had but recently resigned from the University Club after a membership of many vears. He was Master Mason. a member of Temple- oyes Lodge, No. 32, F. A. A. M.; also of the local Cornell Alumni Associa- ion, of the Board of Trade, and of The Evening Star Club. Expressions of Esteem. . Emphatic testimony as to the fine mental equipment and high ideals Mr. Smallwood brought to each suc- cessive responsible position is freely siven, not only by the owners and managers of The Star, but by fellow members of the newspaper profession throughout the National Capital. In the National Press Club he was held in the highest professional, as well as personal, esteem. Tt {s safe to say that every man who worked with Mr. Smailwood either in a superior or inferior c: pacity, was his firm friend and ad- mirer. There are today in Washin ton many reporters who “broke in" under him, and his passing is to them a matter of poignant sorrow. Like all men who had been through the mill. themselves, his appreciation of the problems of beginners was a sympathetic one and his attitude to- ward their shortcomings was ome of invariably friendly, constructive criti- cism. No man under him ever did a piece of good work without obtaining from him the verbal accolade which is one of the few great rewards of the &«nonymous newsgatherers' routine. Active far Fellow Employes. Mr. Smallwood was constantly ac- tive in the interests of his fellow- employes. Through his efforts a hedule was estabiished on The Star hich called for only half the news staff to work each Saturday night, thereby allowing the other half al- ternately to be off duty. Such a so- Jution had been sought for a long 1ime and it was the newsmanager's Jeen interest and co-operation that made it possiblue. It took effect rbout a year ago and each reporter now and in the future on the staft will remember its sponsor with kind- Jiest thoughts for this, as well as other, reasons. Mr. ‘Smallwood brought to his work what §s sometimes described as the “safe and sane point of view” es- pecially in matters connected with Tusiness and general economics. ~ He was especially a student of prob- lems in transportation and had con- ributed articles on that subject to nagazines and other publications which specialize in that fleld. In the whole fleld of Washington newspaper work, which numbers among its writers ~0 many experts on the course of leg- lation and politics, there was no man who studied the progress of events iore closely or who was better in- ‘ormed as to the trend of affairs in inatters of public national and inter- national importance. In Teuch With Public Men. Because of Mr. Smallwood's service v a number of years as the Senate <orrespondent of The Star—before he as placed in charge of managerial wuties in the offices of The Star—he 17 INDIANS IN U. S., REPORT TODAY SAYS| 59,500 of ;zese Ave Attending Schools Provided = by Government. [340,9 | | The total American Indian popula- | {tion in the United States is 340,817, | belonging to 371 varfous tribes or i remnants of tribes, according 0 a |tabulation completed today b¥ the | Interior Department. The number of tribes that originally inhabited the United States before the. white man came to thix continent has never been accurataly enumerated. although stu- dents claim there was a much great- er figure than 371, the present official | | | | | figure. The Indian population was lalvo much large At present 59,500 of these Indians being educated | neteen thou- | are attending school by the government. sand of this number are Indian children going to boarding schools, { while 35,000 attend the publ ! Fifty thousand Ind ! gaged in farming a nyg crops | their own support. while 50.000 Indiun families have abandoned their | for s. The In- tepees und live in terior Department maintains seventy- | feight hospitais and sanitariums fori the Indlan 1 POSTAL EXPENSES | WILL BE REDUCED | Conference Called Here to; | Curtail Cost of Running | ! New York Office. ’; i | i | | ! Postmaster Morgan of New York | Pwill confer with Postmaster General | {New and other officiuls of the Post| 1OMce Department here Wednesday in’ )rt 1o arrive at the best means an ef cutting expe 16 ses at the great met- i ropolitan post ofiice for the remainder | tof the fiscal vear. i | New York city faces in an extrema | {degree the situation confronting il the post offices of the country. in-| leluding the Washington eity » where overti work has bLeen ed until July 1, t her wwitl iliary helpers. l o ice e polish i of au ontal Receipts Jump. Pustmasier Chance of Wash- | ington city post office today repo {ed to the department that postal re- {ceipts here have jumped 20.82 per icent during the firat fifteen days of | the present Mare] as contrasted | | with the same period last year. Re-| {ceipts from March 1 to 15 were $195.- | 120268, as compared with $161.560 the | {previous i This the 1 i ] | ar. ness here. paralleled at the other big | officy is indicative of what the | postal service face witl limited ! {funds not sufficient to ccuduct the ! normal postal business during the remainder of the fis year. The New York city postmaster, in charge of the greatest post office in the country, will go over the entire situation 'in his city with local postal officials, including First 2 sistant Postmaster General John H Bartlett, under whose bureau the pestmasters and clerks and carriers cirectly come. Postal work during the last quarter of the fiscal vear, beginning April 1 and ending June 30, will be consider ed at the conference Wednesda: when ways and means of handling the metropolitan mail situation- will be thoroughly canvassetl. Auxiltary Help Stopped. The department contemplates mak- ing its greatest savings in cutting down the number of deliveries in New York. probably from six to five in the { business sections, and from three to two In some of the residential sec- tions. Al auxiliary help has been {laid off. and this affects more than a {thousand men, who, in normal times, would help in the delivery of mail. Now, when needed more than ever,| they must be dispensed with until the | next appropriations become available | July The Post Office Department Is now | ready to allot funds for the last| quarter. April 1 to June 30. Much | will depend upon the conference here ! Wednesday as to the exact allotment | of postal funds to the larger post offices of the country, and the result | of the conference will bhe awaited | with interest by postal workers | everywhere. | INCIDENT IN DEATH OF LINCOLN IS LESSON| Odell S. Smith Is Speaker at Mid- day Lenten Services at Keith's. Today was Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce day at the mid- day Lenten service at Keith's Theater. | Odell S. Smith, the speaker, re-, called an incident of the assassination of Lincoln. “When the news was flashed 1o New York that the Presi-| dent was dead.” he said, “an_un-! friendly crowd was assembled in Wall | street to hear the latest news. There had been much criticism of Lincoln and the conduct of the war. i When the news came that Lincoln | was dead, one man raised his voice | and cried, “It's a good thing he is dead,” but with a sudden change of {heart in the crowd the man was struck down and literally trampled to death. Seeing the emergency, a young man | of commanding presence, it was Gar- | fleld. rose on the steps of the build- “God reigns and the government at| Washington still Jives.” “That,” continued Mr. Smith, * message 1 bring to you. and our government, our great ex-] periment ‘in representative govern- ment, still lives and shall never per- ish from the earth unless its people | turn from God.” i ‘The speaker tomorrow will be Dean William A. Wilbur of George Wash- ington University. The Calvary v:hurmi i | i i i H ! | | i | i i { I { i s the God reigns quartet will sing. Today's = services { were conducted by the Rev. Maurice | S. White, and Isaac Gans presided. = | was in constant and intimate contact | with men in public life, particularly at the Capitol, and this personal ac- | quaintance with public men and their ambitions and ideals was of invaluable service to Mr. Smaliwood in his work. While the romance and what is called the “human interest” element in the news of the day were always keenly and sympathetically studied | by Mr. Smallwood, especially In matters of public Interest to the citi- zens of the District of Columbia In | connection with charitable affairs and other similar public movements, at the same time Mr. Smallwood put | into his work, as many citlzens of | Washington will testify, a conserva- tive, sound judgment in regard to the affairs of the District of Columbia frequently not met with except In men of mature age. Tribute by Associate. “He was the best loved newspaper ! man in_Washington,” said a member of the Press Club this morning when told of Mr. Smaliwood’s death. Many will echo this sentiment. ! One of the last functions attended by Mr. Smallwood was the banquet of the Evening Star Club held at the Willard & few weeks ago. As stated, he had recently been ill, but had ap- parently recovered and was the recip- ient of many congratulations on being able to resume his active membership in the organization, {problem {numbers {exciuded from { that { McAdoo went to Mexico to help the (ORIENTAL QUESTION STIRS REPUBLICS | Action to Bar Japanese May Be Taken at Santiago Conference. WILLIAM WILE. the surprise developments pan-American conference which opens in Chile on March 2§ ma be action on the oriental imt: nigration question. That subject, unbeknown to most people in the United States. is becoming a genuine in South America. The re- publies that face the Pacific ocean, both in Central and South Amert tock on it as the most serious in- tervational iscue confronting them. That is especialiy the case with Chile. Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia. Peru at the prese geged in delicat Lhe Japanese government regarding immigration of the Japanese labor | clement. The Peruvian government hus deénounced an old treaty under ich Japanese were entitled to en- Peru wi restriction. Peru srels tiemen’'s agree- with Japan, suc as thel States ofected in 1907, and will limit both the numbers 1ypes of Japanese subjects ::\-i to set fool on_ Peravian soil e now some 20,000 Japanese BY FREDERIC One of of the noment is en- zotiations with a d Fear Japanese Immigraton. i South American state feared Japanese immigr large scale ever since States barred it Latin American are already In gentina the dustries like barbering, fruit ped- dling. ice cream manufacture, lunch counters and other minor businesses which Greek and Italian immigrants invade in this country. They have aleo taken up truck farming and fruit ralsing as they have in Cali- | fcrnia If_Japanese continue to be | m the Pacific coast of | America. botia the United | men tion the nave | on al United of the republics Japanese douiciled in extensive | Brazil, Chile and dominate the In many in- Nort} Stat and Canada, many South Anzericans convinced the Nip- ponese are bound 1o turn their steps to Seuth America. Some Latin public siatesmen o so far as to if the Monroe doctrine i serious!y threatened the danger will come from “Pacific penetration™ by oriental immigrants in South Amer- fcan countries. Peru's effort agreement | | { { | i to 1imit immigration by is typical of the fears i cherished in many Latin republics. | The Japanese minister at Buenos | Aires recently returned to Tokio on | leave and clagmed in a newspaper| interview that the Argentine govern. ment Ifll»»l\'ltl Wwith favor upon Japan- ese immigration Early in President Wilson's ad- | ministration. when William Jennings | Bryan was Secretary of State, a cer tain South Ame an government pro- posed to the United States a definite | agreement for safeguarding Latin | states abutting the Pacific against| oriental exploitation. The govern- ment question said “blood” was | Latin Amerlca paramount issue. | The fatin_ civilization, it was rep. | . was in no danger fro native element. - either Tndian * oy | negro, but it did fear it migh ot be restricted Incursion of orientals. That applied. it was explained, particularly to the Japanese, who are clever, en- terprising and easily assimilable in & Latin American community. Question in Age: Mr. Bryan gave no encouragement | the project of a North-South | American understanding on the sub- | ject and the project was dropped, even though the proposing power argued that interests comprehended by the Monroe doctrine were directly invelved Py There is an Nem on the pan-Amer- fcan conference agenda at Sa can da Santiago which would permit of dlscussion of to i the oriental immigration uest! i Its official title is: “Rights o Aliens | ith in American Republics.” scence of Fare froet o oaihe &b | | national THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 2 MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1923. SCENE FROM' THE PASSION PLAY TO BE PRESENTED BY ST.|MME. CLEMENCEAU DIED | shows IHarriet Murphy Mrs. Katherine Ha ure Launching of Hafding Boom I ntended to Daugherty Says He Sought to Nip Others’ Hopes. Way Now Open for Vigorous Fight for Re-election. BY DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright. 1823, by The St MIAMI BEACH, Fla. March 19.-— Why did Attorney General Daughtery make at this time announcement of the candidacy of President Hard for renomination when the republi convention itseit does meet for wore than a Year? The writer asked the Attorney Ge eral that question today and his im mediate reply was “to let the Pres- ide friends in the republi party know what is coming and to challenge not his friends.” Tt will not those who are the Daugherty be of i t alsv 10 public to learn that Mr. did not have any conversation President Harding concern announcement which he made on Saturday. Mr. Harding know about it ‘until after the newspaper men had been in con- ference with the Attorney General This does not mean that Mr. Hard ing withholds his approval On contrary the plan to have Mr. Hard ing become a cahdidate for renomi nation was agreed upon a long time the to the did ago and this correspondent happens to know that the statement issued at Columbus by Mr. Daugherty last autumn, predicting that Mr. Hard ing would be a candidate for renom ination was made with the knowledge and approval of the President Party Interest Involved. Mr. Harding has not been giving nuch thought to politics since he arted his vacation. The Attorney General says Mr. Harding is the kind with | lhe" PATRICK PLAYERS. . asx Magdalene rinett, ay Virgin Estelle Murray, ax Challenge Foes ATTORNEY GEN SRAL DAUGHERTY, ! in the preconvention cam that significant the President expressed «nt when he learned of what had d 10 the press of the country is safe to assume he agreed with the e of the Attorney General, namely to remove all doubts and challénge any | who to nomination under the re- bel to offer their progrum herein it is better than that | iof the administration wi due time | i will also be disclosed i 'l | HULL SCORES PRESIDENT. . Declares Daugherty Announcement | Confession of Weakness. i ! 1t is ofce holders under President Harding seeking 1o suppress thos | republican party leaders who are de- | |serting the Harding cause and look- | jing for ther ¢ e who are {benind the semi-official announce- jment by Attornev General Daugherty i that President Harding will be a can conference {of & man who never has and never gigl F€0RENT TETTTE aorataz] eliminates from any consideration of | will run after an office and that hi fo @ statameot given t today r»s the problem the Latin country now |friends have usually taken the initia- {0 S W TN TG SO N0 O ihe gemo- | diplomatically at grips with it. Peru|tive in political matters. They have | orfetl (1 ¢ imittee. ! is boycotting the conference because | convinced him that it is to the best | “LRiiC TOVOTEE nt, Chairman Hull hile, its official host, continues (ac- |interest of the republican party thati . is a confession that the Har- gording to Peruvian allegations) to{he run again and he has consented to|gile o 3o ((tration has not come up | maltreat Peruvian subjects within |pe a candidate to standard, in which case Mr. Har-! hilean domain, despite the Tacna-| All this was understood and dis- |8 SHRESG. 10 W E0 Lags Al Hen | Arica agreement signed at Washing- | cussed in a series of conferences |, lination without question. He | 1. Boli \vill not confer at the |\hich occurred before the President o 0™y SO MoiCl o Ghminiciration | apital of Chile because the Chileans | oy for Florida. This correspondert €3 UP TS BIOSER Cus failure of decline to discuss at the conference|ias learned that Will Hays, Dr. |35 "Ui® MOSC SoRePIchous ToUETe of the retrocession of her “window on | Jifert Work, now Seeretary of In- (30 of the twentvinine national ao the Pacific’ which Bolivia ceded toi{crior; Secretary of War Weeks, [TIINSIIEONT , 8IS Sa¥8 TRS o the (\mle at the end of their conflict. | \STOTF 7 aqk chairman of the | ST80 ol o e of “omissions and | Mexico. some Latin American author | {}ife States Shipping Board. andiQoiSARCGAE (SROE OF [GEEHONS S ties believe, will repent of her boy-{ LRNSd TN " Fehublican national j oo} cott of Santiago und turn up there; CRATIS (L0 "Flom” New York and | T | 1“:'1‘-]‘ a delegation before it is too |t ormerly chairman of the republican Hull's Statemegnt. i Some of Mexico's friends in Wash- ington think the Obregon government | would promote its chances of Ameri- | can recognition by attending the pan- | American_conference, instead of set- ting up advance recognition as a coi- | dition for Mexican participation. H (Copyright, 1923.) i 1 STATE LOSES TAX CASE. ! Supreme Court Rules Land Bnnk; Mortgages Exempt. ates cannot tax mortgages held by | federal land banks. the Supreme Court | held today in a case brought by the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans| against Judge D. W. Crossland .of a probate court of Alabama. | The Federal Land Bank of New Or- | leans offered for recording a mort- gage on lands situated in Mont. | Alabama, and paid the reg- | cording_ fee, but protested | against an additional fee which was assessed under the state revenue act | of 1919, The federal government con- tended that the state law of 1919 was | ineflective because states could not! levy and collect taxes for revenue| purposes on the business of the fed- eral land bank. The state courts sus- tained the tax as lawful. McADOO GOES TO MEXICO | TO AID IN LAND CASE! By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., March 19.—Chihau- hua City newspapers received in Il Paso today report that William G. Palomas Land and Cattle Company keep intact its 1,960,000-acre Chihau- hua estate. The estate recently was ordered expropriated by the Mexican government. Mr. McAdoo, formerly Secretary of the Treasury and director general of j railroads, 18 accompanied on his trip to Mexico by/E, J. Marshall, president of the Palomas Land and Cattle Com- pany, according to Chihuahua news- paper: Marshall lives in Los An. geles. The company’s land comprises one of the largest estates in Mexico. Mr. McAdoo will go to Mexico Cit: and meet President Alvaro Obregon, it was said. He left El Paso last week, announcing he was going to Mexico on business for American interests, but declined to state whom he was representing. S 'SUPREME COURT RECESSES. The United States Supreme Court recessed until April 9 today. without announcing its decision in the case of the Public Utilities Commission against the Potomae Electric Power Company. | ing. igin reviving orga onal committee itself, were among those “who participated in the in- formal conferences. They did mnot decide just when the announcement of the Harding candidacy should be made, but Attorney General Daugh- erty felt that the present was the most opportune time. Sought to Nip Booms. augherty was prompted by a dilirrebmnaun e those republicans who were thinking of starting beoms for other candidates that they nee have no doubt Mr. Harding would be a candidate, There have been rumors, for instance, that the President was tired of the job and would voluntarily Witharaw. In the absence of any an- cement from him. these o ould feel justified in organiz- cans their own ing primary campaigns for v one who. starts a_boom now knows he is plainly anti-Hard- i know friends of the President e U1 be “some opposition. Mr. Daugherty sald one man who always ran would run again. He meant Sen- Rtor La Follette, who has just begun a eampaign of publicity for himself 2 Geast. So the President’s friends be- fleve—so as tot divert attention from the accomplishments of the adminis and to turn peoj : 3 uestions. Vhe ;. oA dby will reach the price of 3ia gallon is _important, but long before situation arises he r fhoughts in that direction, too. Three Are ‘Mentioned. Except for Senator La Follette, no a er didates h:ave vet appeared. {8 some talk about St,n:l"orsoflnt;r&t; some discussion abo Hiram Johnson of California, At tnis i the President’s r‘lvor\;gt"i-hether either ultimately will Pe'a candidate. Mavbe the wish is father to the thought, but the strategy of the movement is to make it clear Mr. Harding intends to ac- cept renomination and that he has mo intention of retiring from the leadership of his party. ther reason for the announce- mé\n‘;c the fact that Mr. Harding's Political advisers want to solidify ism everywhere and be- D viving nizations {hrough- the country So that the cam- Sulen 'for re-election will be syste- matically handled long before the re- publican convention has met. Kvery Sne with practical experience in politics knows that in the last two ns the party which started e Eork after the = nominating convention had met found itself very much pressed for time. But since the republican party knows who its candidates will be, according to the viewpoint of the: Harding men, there is no reason to wait till June, 1924, to begin work on the re-election campaign. Attorney General Daugherty took the responeibility of the announce- ment, but he is so close a friend of the President and ook such a prominent ‘ republi- | The Hull statement follows || | “The semi-official announcement by | Attorney General Daughtery that. | President Harding will be a candi- i date for renomination is of small in- | terest as news compared with the ireasons for making the announce- ment at this time. If President Hard- {ing had only risen to the level of an ordinary President, it would have | been taken for granted that the party iwould renominate him. The doubt | concerning his renomination has been i raised by the fact that his adminis tration to date has been the most | conspicuous failure of any in the { twenty-nine national administrations, {With this fact confronting them, the progressive element in the republican party as well as conservatives of sound political judgment, iong ago i realized that Mr. Harding could not be re-elected. and began to look for another candidate. The failure of the | Harding administration was demonstrat- | ed and emphasized by the repudiation Biven it at the polls last November. Says Democrats Ready. “The reactionary supporters of the President. largely confined to the of-| fice-holding and office-seeking classes. | ovidently realized that if Mr. Hard- | ing was to be renominated some- thing would have to bo done to re-| vive interest in him, which was fast| fwaning, and also to suppress those | ! party leaders who are rapidly de- serting the Harding cause in search of another candidate. Hence, the announcemens of the Harding can- didacy by the President's closest personal friend and most influential political adviser, Attorney General Daugherty. Hence, too, the Presi- dent’s announced purpose of making & speech-making tour of the country. “The announcement of Attorney General - Daugherty will have little or no effect upon the national politi- cal situation in either party. One of the outstanding issues in the 1924 campaign will be the record of omission and commission of the Harding administration, whether Mr. :ding heads the ticket or not, On this issue the democratic party is | ready now to go to bat.” i REISLER PLEADS GUILTY. Gets Twenty Years in Slaying of Aunt—Three Others Freed. NEW YORK, March 19.—Morris Reisler, indicted with his mother, his brother George and his uncle, George Katz, for the murder of his aunt, Miss Bertha Katz, pleaded guil- ty of second degree murder when his trial was called in the supreme court in_Brooklyn today. He was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in Sing Sing, while wie indictments against his relatives were dismissed. He Is a small man who cannot act as a subordinate. | 000 viai Alice Cuwh, asx Veromlca; Mary, and Rita Ryan, as Martha. — LETTER THREATENS LIFE OF MISSION DIRECTOR Rev. G. W. Cory Turns Missive Over to Police—“Panhandler” Is Suspected. Headquarters detectives investizating the receipt W. Cory, superintendent of the pel Mission on John Marshall place of an ononymous letter threatening his 1if The missive was embellish- ed with a skull and cross-bones, The letter, which was written fair- Iy bly in pencil on ordinary sta- tion and signed A Washing- ton was turned over + Supernten it Cory to Insp by at polic headquarters and later) was handed to Inspector Clifford Grant, chief of the detective bureau for in- “{and the Distric IN PARIS 6 MONTHS AGO Paris Reports Death of Estranged American Wife of Former Pre- mier Was Not Recent. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 19.—The death in Paris of Mme. Mary Plummer Clem- enceau, estranged American wife of the former premier, referred to in dispatches from America, occurred here six months ago, and received little public attention at the time owing to the delicate and almost for- {gotten marital questions involved. In |the divorce granted M. Clemenceau in 1891 he was given custody of the ildren, who lived with him through their school period and up to time of |marriage. ~ An annuity was later | voluntarily accorded the former wife {by M. Clemenceau. The court records |confirm the divorce granted M. Clem- enceau in 1891, with custody of the three children. FOREIGN AUTOISTS . MUST GET TAGS All Must Register On and After Tomorrow, Warns Traffic Bureau Chief. automobilists eperating in shington on foreign tags must go to the traffic bureau in the Graham building, 14th and E streets, tomor- row and obtain registration tags. This reminder was issued today by Inspector Headley. chief of the traf- fic bureau, who announced that after today he will be prepared to issue the new identification tags, which must be displayed on all cars bearing out-of-town tags only This new tag not cost the motorist- anything, and bears the | words “registered.” When the tag is issued, it will have stamped on it the length of time the owner of the jcar is entitled to remain in Washing- ton without obtaining the regular | District tags. The 7y pose of the Commissioners in requiring this new regstraton (ag -town cars, is to enable po- a'glance whether a orist is overstaying hix reciprocity {time. The real purpose of the new re quirement is to break up the practice lot local car owners operating here {throughout the vear on foreign tags instead of District tags, which is done in order to avoid obtaining Maryland tags. 1f Congress at the nex acts the gasoline tax bill and brings labout reciproc between Maryland there no longer will motive to cause a District lcar owner to buy Pennsylvania or New | York tags, because his District {will be good fn Maryland under reci- { procity session en- Texist —_— told Inspector Sheloy that | ! ; |GERMANS DENY BID i believed the cc mication was! 1. a professional “panhandler B biiliy bR e o FOR U. S. RUHR AID| whose business of soliciting money i on the streets had been seriously H terfered with by the “white ticke (Continued First Page.) svstem introduced he everal weeks { —— R — — ago by the mission head A This piar, the police were told, had {15 to pay the 40 per cent coal tax| engendered the animosity of profes- |were outstanding developments in the | Sonal Deggars and others unWOrthy | Ruhr situation over the week end. The letter. which was filled with| The soldier was shot at the Essen vile epithets directed at the mission (Tailway station. A German who en- superintendent, warned My.. Cory that |deavored to escape was wounded so Lis “time was not long” and threat- | badly that he died later. Three others | ened Iy harm unless the clergy-|were arrested on suspicion. \ man left town immediate He was | rench headquarters announces adyised to take his “white tickets” with him or suffer the consequences ORGANIZED BASE BALL SUES BOND COMPANY Seeks to Recover $1,458 in 0ld| Federal League Case of 1920. The National League of profes- s al base ball clubs. the American League of pro sionai base Dball ! clubs, the component clubs and Byron B. Johnson. John K. Tener and Au- gust Herrman, who forme prised tke national commi day filed suit in the District Court to recover $1,158.33 Fidelity and Deposit Maryland. The sum represents the alleged un- earned premium on a bond of $350.- com- n, to- Supreme from the mpany o Lo which the base ball clubs had to give in 1819 to supersede the judgment of the District Supreme Court_awarded to the Baltimore Fed- ral League club in the celebrated monopoly suit” against the which the op- tional and American Jeagues, it claimed conspired to ruin posing Federal League. The lezgues paid the agent of the bonding company $3,500 for the first year's premium. but the case wa not decided by the end of the ye and June 2, 1920 the surety compan: exacted the payment of another year's premium. The bond was only operative fo a little more than sf months because the Court of Appeals December 6, 1920, decided the case in and set aside the r favor of the clubs judgment of $264.000, which had been awarded to the Baltimore club. Through Attorneys Minor, Gatley & Rowland the leagues now ask the | surety company be required to return the portion of the premium not earned. [CLEAR FIELD SEEN FOR MR. HARDING (Continued from First P: and very active in the management of the campaign of 1920. He would ihave to resign his cabinet portfolio, it is said. Charles' D. Hilles, national commit- teeman from New York and former chairman of the national committee, will unguestionably be conspicuous in forwarding the renomination of the President,” and may be placed in charge. He is at_present business in New York. But in the long run, the politicians say, it is President Harding himself who will have to perform the lion's share of the work by presenting him- self to the people and wecounting at first hand what the republican party and his administration have achieved in the first half of his tenure of of- fice. This is to be done in a serles of addresses to be delivered during the coming spring and summer months, He will make an extended tour, and will also make some speeches before non-political gatherings. — SNOW IN MEMPHIS. Temperature Drops to 14 Degrees, Breaking Record. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 19— Memphis and the central Mississippi valley, after a week of warm weath- er, was lifted back from spring to winter today with the temperature here down to 14 degrees above zero, the coldest March weather of record. Early risers reported a light snow flurry but before noon the clouds had disappeared and a bright sun gave promise of a quick return to mormal spring-time weather, in private | | that the first of the penalties recently threatened if the mine owners failed 1to pay the coal tax had been invoked, land n some instances export !licenses were being withheld. Con- tinned failure to meet the tax obli- | gation will result in arrest and court- {martial, the Germans were warned. Minister of Public Works Le- { trocguer and Director of Mines Gui- laume &re expected in the Ruhr today {10 note the progress of the mine and coke seizures. The Germans assert that the allies now hold seven mines, cluding properties near Botirop {and Gelsenkirchen. The French state jthat they are r to send coke to {France with the assistance of {man and Polish labor, which is quar- red at the mines under the pro- tection of the military | | | | i 1 i { i Reports from Aix-La-Chapelle say !that several thousand ners, em- {ployed by a German concern. have ht a working agreement | the Belgians, requesting a sevc ihour day with wages in Belgian cur- rency. EBERT NEAR OCCUPIED ZONE. th German President Talks With Labor Leaders and Officials. By the Associated Press HAMM. Germany, March 19.—Presi- {dent Ebert ventured as close to the {French occupied zone vesterday as| !was compatible with the safety of! ithe republic’'s chief executive and! iconducted a serles of enthusiastic | |conferences with the labor lemiers.‘ linduslnall.\ls and officials of all {branches of the civil service. He !then took the night train back to] Berlin The president was lustily ¢ cheerea | ! whenever he presented himself in the | streets of Hamm, which throughout | { the day were mmed with huge | {crowds ‘of miners and steel workers | | H i who came over from ihe occupied would “see it larea and ’l‘"‘l)\lb‘.h i { vowed they Herr Ebert assured these men that government would stand by them pecially with respect to safeguard ing the food situation and profiteer- th ing. t { Dr. Becker, minister of economics, | and Dr. Braun, minister of labor: | and the Prussian ministers Severing and_Sicring, who accompanied the president, also delivered speeches, By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 19.—The governmen has sent to parliament a supple-! mental request for an appropriation {on account of Ruhr occupation éx- [ penses in which it asks for a total of 196 million francs for occupation operations during January, February, March and April. This is sald to be offset by a saving of 36,000,000 francs, due to the reduction in the expense of maintaining the decreas- ed forces in the Rhineland and in the interior. BOARD SEEKS DATA ON RECLASSIFYING (Continued from First Page.) skilled laborers, except certain classes. ‘ Seek Executives’ Opinion. | Heads of departments are asked as 1to the wisdom of having the question- I naire filled out by each employe and reviewed and ocommented upon. by his immediate superior, having the questionnaire filled out by the im- mediate superior and subject to com- ment by the employe or having it filled out by the immediate superjor without consultation with the em- ploye except to secure such infor- mation personal to the emplove as the superior may not have. Department heads are asked as to the wisdom of including in the ques- tionnaire questions as to leave of absence,, annual and sick; overtime service ‘and pay, working hours, sex i i Occupation Cost Mounts. { | i {Virginia | Central { snow, HOUSE OF DAVID "EXPOSE” BEGINS Trial Begun Which, It Is Claimed, Will Delve Into Secrets of Cult. By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, March 19 —A suit which attorneys for either side say will delve to the very foun dations of the House of David rel glous colony at Benton® Harbor wa begun in United States district cour here today is that of John W. Hansell and wife of Nas ville, Tenn., instituted to collect ti sum of $80,000 from Benjamin Pu: 1. head of the colon plain ffs claiming that due then from property turned over to the organization when they joined th House of David, for labor pe formed by Hansell. his wife and si children while they were members Hansell and his wife, the bill of complaint sets forth, were expelled from the organization. Defense at torneys say the expulsion followed alleged attempts on the part of Ha sell to organize a revolt in the colon against the leadership of Purnell Fraud Alleged. Hansell and his wife allege in ih bill of complaint that fra The action sum and ticed upon them when they joined 1 organization, declaring they were l¢ to believe the colony was of a reliz jous nature only. They assert tl discovered the House of David gaged in various comme activ ties in Henton Harbor. The defe will contend, it was announced by a torneys at opening of the trial. that the colony was solely a religious or ganization. Purnell contends 11 Hansell cuit can be decided only b the ecclesiastical court of the ation at Benton Harbor. The suit was filed a year ago Cincinnati before Federal Judge Peci Resignation of that jurist and vario: motions,delayed start of the case COLD WAVE DUE HERE TONIGHT: BLIZZARD TIES ai UP THE MIDDLE WEST wued fro Fir ntain sections will have The storm is due Maryland a: AVY SDOW. to a high pressu from the arctic regions coming ir jeontact with the low pressures tha have been prevailing in the United States for seve days. The storn early this morping was moving ra idly southeasterly over the grea lakes and New York. BLIZZARD SWEEPS WEST. Traffic Paralyzed and Four Pers Frozen to Death. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March area of the aountry in the grasp of a bitter wave despite the theoretical prox- imity of spring. From the Rocky Mountains eastward and from the far northwest to upper Florida, much the territory covered temperatures, ranging from subzero to March records were regist- ered the Mississippi Valley ant the Rocky mountain regions train service and wire cummuication werc demoralized Throughout were iszued freights trains and certain passenger 19.—The ent was a cold with of I In the northwest orders by railroads cancelling service. Some roads placed embar- goes on perishables. Trains we stalled for hours in snowdrifts. Omaha Badly Crippled. Milwauke. Wis., expecting far low zero temperatures today a Omaha.. Neb., which experienced the worst blizzard since 1888, reporte threatened milk shortages because c transportation tie-ups and sno covered streets making house d liveries almost impossible. Omaha's fuel suppy also was a matter of e cern with many of its vards virtuall inacessible until dug out of the snow drifts. The blizzard was the second with a weck to sweep over the midd west. Transportation and telephone service had just begun to show & semblance of normalcy when this storm arrived. Near Lincoln. Neb., a fast westbound Rock 1sland passenger train was dug out of the snow and another trair was stalled at Jansen, sixty-five miles east of Lincoln. The mercury dropped to 7 below zero. Three Children Die. In Iowa the blizzard established a March storm record. Trains were stalled in rifts near Boone and Mar- shaliton and railroads cancelled numi- erous trains. At Baxter, Colo., three children were frozen to death in a small Shelter a quarter of a mile from their home. Near Kutch, Colo., an aged man was found trozen to death. Subnormal temperatures prevailed throughout the state and many localities reported snow eighteen inches in depth. The blizzard struck Chicago in mid- fternoon. The mercury dropped more than 10 degrees in one hour and early today was only two de- grees above zero. The low point had {not been reached, weather reports said. Train service, freight and pas- senger, to and from Chicago was shaken badly. Incoming 4rains were curs late and embargoes weie ploced by several roads on perishable ship- ments. Westhound trains from Chi- cago were pulled by two locomotives to buck through heavy snow drifts and eastbound trains were cut in half to insure maintenance of sched- ule. Wheat Crop Benefit Rockford, 111, for the second time within a week was almost isolated by the storm. Record cold weather, one degree Dbelow zero, was reported at Kansas City, Mo, with the cold wave grip- ping Missouri, Kansas, Arkansss and Oklahoma. Weather officials sald the snow that accompanied the storm in / ¢ ’ ’ part of the region was beneficlal to - wheat, while forecasters ip Oklahoma feared great damage had been don the peach crop. Trains arriving Kansas City were reported from six 1o fifteen hours late. Frost Likely in Florida. In the southwest March tempera- ture records were shattered, Dallas recording twenty-four degrees above zero. Freezing temperatures were pre- dicted for Louisiana all the way to the Guif coast today. Frost was re- garded probable-in central Flurida tomarrow. = Rain in the southern states was expected to change to snow in_northwestern Georgia and western North Carolina. Tre weather along the California coast was reported fair and warm. and little apprehension was felt. —_— t employe and age of employe.. Such : 5 Suestions are not Imcluded on thel Difficulties are things that show tentative draft. whal men are. — [2 /