Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1923, Page 1

\ escape, kidnapped him, brought him \ ) WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow, colder tomorrow and tomorrow night. Tem- perature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 68 at 2 pm. yesterday; lowest, 32 at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 @b ¢ T nin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s catrier system zovers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s fiet i:ircnl;lic;n, 95,903. No. 28,820. pos omee Was Entered as second-cluss matter hington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1923—THIRTY-EIGHT DAUGHERTYSOLEHT N EENAN INQURY Pecora Wants to Question Attorney General’s Son in Blackmail Clue. BLOCKED EXTORTION PLAN Threatened to Thrash Mysterioous Telephone Caller, Who Sought Job as U. S. Agent. Ty the Assoctated Press NEW YORK, March 27.—Assistant District Attorney Pecora and Police Inspector Coughlin today joined in an active search for Draper M. Daugher- ty, only son of the Attorney General of the United States, to question him concerning reports that he was a friend of Dorothy Keenan, murdered model, and that he might know of a black-mailing ring using her as a decoy. Detective Inspector Coughlin, charge of the investigation of murder today sought further light on & story published in a morning news- | paper to the effect that Daugherty, was a close acquaintance of the slain girl and might be able to put him on the trail of the blackmallers thought to have used her as a pawn. Once Loaned Her Money. 1t wae pointed out that Daugherty 1f he is as reported, at Atlantic City, could not be compelled to come here to tell his story, but the inspector declared he would be “glad to listen to"” Daugherty's story. Daugherty, who served for two Years with the British army before America entered the war, and then became a major in the American ex- peditionary forces, was -quoted by the newspaper as saying that he knew Miss Keenan well, had visited her apartment several times and on one occasion had given her a check to pay a bill she told him was pressing. Believed Marked by Blackmailer. He began to suspect last Thurs: day, after receiving a telephone call | at a New York club, that he, like | the mysterious “Mr. Marshall tifled Saturday John Mitchell, wealthy and socially promi- nent Philadelphian, was marked for a plucking by blackmallers, he was Quoted as saying. This call, he said, came from a| man who had been close to Miss Keenan. The speaker, he sald, asked him how about the job he had prom- ised to get for him in the United States Department of Justice. which Attorney General Daugherty, his| father, controlied. Admitting he earlier promised this| man to see what could be done for | him, Daugherty was quoted a8 saying | he told the caller he had spoken | to a Mr. at Washington in his behalf. The caller, he sald. told him | nothing had developed and added| that Mr. Daugherty had to get the| job for him, inquiring menacingly | if he wanted his acquaintance with | Miss Keenan to come out. Invited lim to Take Thrashing. Daugherty was quoted as inviting the caller to come up and take a thrashing. The man called again on Baturday, he was quoted saying, asking again about the job in a more conclliatory tone, but getting the same response from him. | Daugherty declared he had no fear | that blackmailers could fasten any-| thing discreditable upon him, as his | relations with the siain model had been most casual. He added that his only ftegret was that his father's name should have besn drawn nto the Keenan case, particularly in view of the fact that both his father and his mother are ill. Acquainted With Brothers. Daugherty was said to have been acquainted with both of Miss Kee- | nan's brothers, John and Frank, and to have employed one of them for a time in his automoblle insurance business here. | He laughed at reports that his ap- | peal to Miss Keenan had been so strong that he had supplanted both Mr. Mitchell and Alfred Guimare: her younger admirer, in her affec tions. Two theories formed the background of today's police investigation of the murder. The first was that a man_intent on blackmalling _chloroformed Miss Kee- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) CONVICTS SAW BARS AND GAIN FREEDOM! Escape Hospital and Compel Rail- road Man to Ride With Them to Atlanta. in the | | as By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, March 27.—Two prison- ers confined in the hospital at the federal prison near here sawed their way to freedom early today, stopped at the home of W. H. Edwards, & rallroad man in Lakewood Heights, and when he refused to ald in their| on a street car to the city, where they left the car and made good their | escape. The names of the escaped prisoners were given as Frank Grey, serving five years for forgery, and Gerald Chapman, under sentence of twenty- five yeares for mail robbery. According to reports to the police, the men sawed thelr way out of the hospital while the guard was in the basement, between 5 and 6 o'clock this morning. They proceeded to the home of Kdwards, in Lakewood Helghts, not far distant from the prison, where they Sought to com- mandeer his services in aiding In their . O Edwards told the police the men, who were dressed in the blue uniform of the prison, offered him $1,000 to drive them out of the county, and when he refused they seized him, took off his coat and forced him to accom- pany them on a street car bound for Aglanta. Edwards managed to get away from them and jumped from the street car after proceeding a few blocks, but the risoners were reported by the car crew to have left the car at Crumley and Washington streets, on the South Side, and disappeared. City and federal authorities are en- gaged in & hunt for the men. | sponding to an urgent summons to |Just a few minutes late. | the sharp advance | reportea, Mitchell Greets His Wife Here; Drawn Blinds Conceal Meeting Slain Model’s Aristocratic Friend Boards Stotesbury Private ference May Be Held in Baltimore. John Kearsiey Mitchell, the aris- tocratic friend of pretty Dorothy | Keenan, the murdered New York | cloak model, and his wife. a daugh- | ter of Edward T. Stotesbury, mulu-‘ millionaire banker of Philadelphia, | met’ in Unlon station shortly after| noon today for the first time since | the husband's name was dragged into Broadway's latest sensation. Mrs. Mitchell came here in a private car from the Florida home of her wealthy parents. She wi ac- companied only by her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Stotesbury, and several servants. Her husband, re- meet the train here, arrived Washington sometime yesterday. Detectives Block Photographers. Mr. Mitchell. his secretary and Mrs. Stdney T. Hutchison, a younger sister of Mrs Mitchell, were on the lower level of the Union station when the Havana special pulled in_at 12:35, | For a mo- | ment no sign of life appeared from | within the private Stotesbury car. WILL SEEK TOBAN GAMBLING IN FOOD, Stirred by Sugar Price Boost, | Legislators Will Push New Laws. in Legislation to curb gambling in sugar and other food stuffs will be pressed at the next session of Con- gress, it was Indicated today. The progressives of both the re- publican and democratic parties will get behind such legislation, it was | sald. The suggestion contained in the statement f{ssued by the republican national committee on the sugar sit- uation—to the effect that legislation to prevent gambling in sugar—met with quick response apparently. Hoover Withholds Comment. Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce, who Is co-operating with Assistant Attorney General Sey- mour in the present Investigation of in sugar prices, indicated today that the question of legislation to curb sugar gambling was one he could not comment upon at present. It was pointed out that Congress would not meet for another eight months. Senator Curtis of Kansas. republi- can whip of the Senate, gave it as his opinifon that the Attorney Gen- eral should proceéd as rapidly as pos- sible to run down the alleged con- spiracy to boost sugar prices. | He said that he believed there was | ample law to deal with any conspir- | acy to boost sugar prices now. He lafd emphasis on the need of speed in dealing with the matter, however. Further, the Kansas senator suggest- | ed that 1t would be advisable for the Federal Trade Commission to make an investigation of the sugar busi- ness. Probe Is Ordered. The Department of Justice, it was has called upon United| States District Attorney Hayward in | New York to take steps in the alleg- | ed sugar conspiracy. The progressive bloc in Congress, it is said, wlill lay great stress In its pronosed legislative program on the need of further laws to prevent gam- bling in foodstuffs and necessities of lite. An effort may be made to Strengthen the present law to pre- vent gambling in grain as well as to enact laws relating to other food- stuffs and oil and coal. CHINESE STUDENTS STAGE BIG PROTEST | newspaper photographers, | a Baltimore and Ohlo train and taken Car—Family Con- Then Mr. Stotesbury himsel? came out on the observation platform. Hatless and coatless, he motioned for the guards to open the platform gate and permit the party on the sta- tlon runway to enter befofe several who were already leveling their cameras, could “shoot.” Three or four rallroad de- tectives leaped between the photogra- phers and their objects before the pictures could be snapped. Greeted by Father-in-Law In the meantime Mr. Stotesbury grasped his son-in-law by the hand and helped him up the car steps. Mrs. Mitchell did not make her appear- ance on the platform, but she was ! seen to step close to the door and | extend both hands to Mr. Mitchell as he entered the car. All blinds were carefully drawn and concealed the meeting that occurred inside the car. The Stotesbury car was attached to to Baltimore Whether or not they | will leave their car and go to the Green Spring valley home of Mra Douglas MacArthur, another daugh- {Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) Believe Missing | ManWasGround | With Fertilizer By the Associated Presn DETROIT, Mich, March Acting on the theory that Joseph A. Campbell, superintendent of a construction company, who disap- | peared February 10, was slain and his body destroyed by running it through machinery used in the manufacture of fertilizer, county authorities today detained George Reynolds, night fireman at the plant. Investigation is sald to | have disclosed that the grinding | machinery in the plant was in operation from 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. on the night of February 10, con- trary to custom It is declared Campbell and | Reynolds were alone in the plant that night, and that no evidence can be found that the superinten- dent ever left the place. Deputy Sheriff Frank C. Long- man, investigating the case, ex- pressed the belief Campbell was slain because he possessed Infor- mation that machinery is alleged to have been stolen from the plant. TIGERT AND DAVIS QUITLITERARY CLUB Ballou Agrees to Serve if Name Is Not Used for Pub- licity Purposes. Resignation of Federal Commis- siorer of Education John J. Tigert from the board of trustees of the Na- tional Literary Soclety was followed today by the withdrawals of Secre- tary of Labor James J. Davis and Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent nll schools. Dr. Ballou, however, agreed to serve tentatively as a trustee until he is able to examine further the pro- gram of the soclety, providing his name is not used in any way for pub- licity purposes. Secretary Davis re- | quested that his letter of indorsement be withdrawn. Mr. Davis previously had been ask- ed to accept a position on the board of trustees, but declined, owing to pressure of work. Commissioner Tigert resigned yes- | terday when his attention was called to the fact that a letter of indorse- ment from him was being used in con- | nection with a campaign for raising funds. He said today the rules of the | i | Shanghai Merchants Urge Boycott on Japan for Refusal to Abrogate Treaty. By the Associated Press. PEKING, March 27.—Several hundred students, merchants and laborers, de- spite heavy showers, last night held open-air meetings and marched through the streets as a protest against the re- fusal of Japan to abrogate the 1915 treaty concerning the leasehold of Kwangtung peninsula. Dispatches from Shanghal report that the Chinese merchants met there and proposed a Japanese boycott in retala- tion for Japan'g attitude in the retro- cession of the Chinese territory. A number of the members of the Chi- nese parliament last weelc telegraphed the various provinces urging the people to organize manifestations for March 26, the day on which the old leases of Dai- ren and Port Arthur, Kwangtung pen- insula, expired. Mass meetings were recommended to afford an opportunity for lectures of protest against Japan's insistence on continuing the 1915 treaty based on the famous “‘twenty-one de- mands."” The treaty in question renewed. the Japanese leases on the peninsula for fifty years. ‘ GOULD NEAR DEATH AFTER BAD NIGHT Condition of Millionaire at Villa in France Is Reported Today as “Very Serious.” By the Associsted Press. MENTONE, France, March 27.—The condition of George J. Gould, sr.,-of New York, {1l at the Villa Zoralde at Cap Martin, near here, was reported today to be very serious. Mr. Gould passed a very bad night and. it was stated this morning that hisdeath might.ocour &t any moment, - * ¥ Interior Department prohibit bureau heads from lending their names in their official capacity to any campaign for raising funds. He Is Invited Frequently. He added that he has frequently been urged to indorse educational projects and has always been careful to Indorse only those which appeared saitsfactory to him. Investigation of the National Literary Soclety, he said, had convinced him that his indorse- ment was being given to a worthy cause, and on this basis he wrote a letter indorsing the project. Mr. Tigert sald today he hoped his Indorsement of the soclety had not misled Secretary Davis, who, under date of February 17, wrote a letter of indorsement guoting the education commissioner’s letter. Raymond F. Crist, United States commissioner of naturalization, who is named as a member of the board of trustees of the soclety, declined to com- ment today on the withdrawals of Sec- retary Davis and Mr. Tigert. Soclety to Start Drive. The soclety, which was organized to erect a national literary hall of fame bullding, and to establish a national student loan fund, is about to em- bark on a money raising campalgn (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) AERIAL POLICE FLY | TO FIGHT OUTLAW Al Spencer, Wounded, Heads Five in Pitched Battle With Posse. By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla, March 27.—The chief of the Tulsa aerfal police, With & news- paper man, left here today in an air- plane for the wooded hilis near Teriton, Okla., where Al Spencer, long sought as the leader of a notorious band of out- laws, was reported early today to be wounded but still at the head of fiv members of his band now fighting & pitched battle with -a large posse, { will be taken shortly, | da; MOONEY IS CHOSEN D. C. POSTMASTER Appointment to Be Made Ef- fective May 1, as Presi- dent Approves. 30 YEARS IN DEPARTMENT Robert 8. Regar to Succeed as Chief Clerk—Both Are Members of Shrine. Postmaster General New today nounced that Witllam M. Mooney, chief clerk of the Post Office will be appointed postmaster of Wash- ington, effective May 1. to succeed Merritt O. Chance, resigned. Robert S. Regar, appointment clerk of the de- partment, will be made chief clerk President Harding has authorized the Posiunies General to appoint Mr. Mooney, by promotion, to the postmas- tership of Washington. Such action fter which the formally g Mr sston President will Mooney his com Appointment Expected. The announcement by Mr. day set at rest all the postmastership. Commission will investigate the can- didate and formally report to the Postmaster General that he is quali- fied for the promotion The appointment by promotion ob- viates throwing the local postmaster- ship open to the general pubiic, would be done in caxe the position were not fllled by promotion Mr. Mooney had been conceded the position, and the announcement to- merely sets at rest speculation over the matter. Mr. Mooney, who has been in the postal service for nearly thirty years. wsa born at Steubenviile, Ohio, having been cash- ler in his father's bank there before he came to Washington. In 1895 he came to the Post Office Department. During the Cleveland admtnistration he was appointed a clerk in the division of finance, later belng made chief clerk of the reg- istry section. During the Roosevelt administra- tion Mr. Mooney was made superin- tendent of the division of supplies, nd then disbursing clerk of the Post Office Department. He held the latter ew to- speculation over The Civil Service WILLIAM M. MOONEY. position for ten years. On March 10, 1921, he was appointed chief clerk of the department. Mr. Mooney.. who is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Shriner, is a well known sportsman having been a boxing companion of Theodore Roosevelt when the latter was President. There is a precedent for the ap- pointment by promotion of Mr. Mooney from chief clerk of the Post Office Department to Washington city postmaster, as Mr. Chance was chief clerk of the department when he was appointed postmaster here eight years ago. President Gi Postmaster General New last week wrote to the President in Florida telling of the situation. A telegram was received today from George Christfan, secretary of the President, placing the President's approval on the promotion of Mr. Mooney. He will have to be confirmed by the Sen- ate later. 3 Mr. Regar. who will assume the duties left vacant by Mr. Mooney's promotion, has been in the postal service since 1909, entering April 20 of that year on his duties as stenog- rapher and typist in the office of the solicitor. He was born at Swartz- ville, Pa.. Januagy 15, 1882. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Business College of Lancaster. While occupying his first position in the department he attended Georgetown University Law School, from which he was graduated in 1912. Mr. Regar passed through every clericai grade and on June 1, 1918, was promoted to the position of BBDOH’llmcnl clerk of the Post Office Department. He fs senlor warden of New Jerusalem Lodge of the Masonic fratérnity and a member of the Shrine. He is su- Perintendent of the Sunday school of the First Reformed Church. s Approval. { an- Department, | as | AALL PARIS HONORS - DEAD BERNHARDT {France Puts Tragedienne on Pedestal With Hugo—Fu- neral to Be Impressive. { By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 27.—All France mourns today, for her well beloved daughter, Sarah Bernhardt, is dead. | Paris is stunned, scarcely believing | that she who was regarded as almost jimmortal, in more than one sense of | the word, has passed away. It seems not too much to say that not since the | death of Victor Hugo has France been {stirred so deeply Ambassador of Art. As the Academician de Flers ob- serves in Figaro, Bernhardt probably |shares with Hugo and Pasteur the distinction of being the most illus- trious person in the last hundred years of French history. “Diviné Sarah” was undoubtedly one of the greatest ambassadors of French art and literature who ever lived. It was thus befitting that the pub- Mc, which idolized her and which she, in turn, held so close to her heart, should have lingered reverently in the soft spring night outside the ! house in the Boulevard Pereire, where | she lived for thirty-eight years, shar- ing the vigil with the family within. After midnight, when the theaters were closed, came the people of the ge to pay tribute to their illustri- ous comrade. Among them were Sacha Guitry, the playwright, who had a filial respect for Bernhardt; Cecile Sorel, Rachel Boyer and a host of other stars. Included in the number also was James Hackett, who, according to L’Eclair, cabled President Harding, re- questing him to announce officially to the people of the United States the death of “the greatest artist in the world.” Lies on Bed of Flowers. Bernhardt lies on her bed covered by the flowers she loved so well. Tall can- dles burn at either side, and at the foot of her couch, and in accordance with French custom, a crucifix and a bow! of holy water stand on a little table nearby. ‘The family this morning was still too overcome with grief to discuss the fu- neral arrangements. Bernhardt occa- sionally expressed the desire to be buried within the grounds of her house at Belle Isle, a romantic spot atop storm-torn cliffs that overlook the At- lantic. However, it has not yvet been } decided whether she will be laid to rest there or in the family tomb in Pere La Chaise cemetery, Paris. Entitled to Military Barial. In any event there will be an im- pressive ceremony In Paris on either Thursday or Friday, and there is a strong sentiment in favor of holding this at the expense of the nation. As an iofficer of the Leglon of Honor, Mme. Bernhardt is entitled to burial with military honors, but the public feels that she should be interred with the pomp befitting her incalculable services to French art. The newspapers print columns about her. Many of the articles are signed with well known names. The chamber in which Bernhardt's body lles is already fllled with the \flowers brought by hundreds of her admirers. The first bunch of lilies was placed on the bier in the early morning hours by her granddaughter. Abbe Loutil, the great actress’ close friend for many years, remarked that (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) SARAH’S HALF-BROTHER REFUSES TO SHED A TEAR By the Assoctated Press. McALESTER, Okla., March 27.—A story that delves back into the mists that obscure the early life of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is told by old Joseph Berahardt, who has mended McAles- ter's stoves and furniture for the last quarter century. Joseph Bernhardt says the famous actress was his half-sister. They were estranged many years ago—he tells it—and, pottering about his little shop today, he vowed he felt no sorrow at the news of the passing of the “Divine Sarah.” The Bernhardts are a strong-tem- pered people, says old Joseph, and he declared he cannot forgive Sarah for er treatment of him as a youth when she -could - have-extended to_him &}~ (Continued on Xage 4, Column 5.),. Jears ago AT DEATH NEWS helping hand, but refused. “She had an opportunity to make something out of me, but she turned me down,” the aged Frenchman said with bitterness. “I have no pity, no sorrow.” Joseph Bernhardt told the story of his blood relationship to the famous actress when he came to McAlester twenty-five years 2go and it has stood unrefuted. Sarah Bernhardt was the second daughter of Pierre Bernhardt, born of his first wife, according to Joseph. He gives the history of the Bern- hardt family as follows: “The father, Plerre Bernhardt, was of Swiss descent. There were two daughters, Jeanne and Sarah, born of his first wife, and Rachel and myself were born of his second wife. “My mother died when I was born. Rachel was two years older than I and Sarah was thirteen years older THE DEMOCRATIC llness Is Fatal | | ToD.C .Financier | rAfRS. Ewie THOMAS BRADLEY | Who passed away today in George- | town University Hospital. | CAPITAL TRACTION - CUTS WAGE SCALE New Men After April 1 to Start With 50 Cents Hour and Get 56 After 3 Years. Without disturbing the pay of present employes the Capital Traction Company will adopt a lower scale for new train- men on April 1, John H. Hanna, vice president, announced today. The existing contract, which expires March 31, carries the following scale: For the first three months, 51 cents an hour; for the next nine months, 54 cents, and thereafter, 56 cents. Starts at 50 Cents. Under the new contract a man em- ployed after April 1 will be paid as follows: For the first year, 50 cents; for the second year, 52 cents; for the third year, 54 cents, and thereafter, 56 cents. Under the new scale it will take a man three years to reach the maximum wage, whereas at present he gets the maximum at the end of twelve months. The Washington Railway and Elec- tric Company has no contract with the trainmen's unfon, but has made it a practice to maintain the same wage scale agreed to between the Capital Traction Company and the union, W. R. & E. to Act Immediately. William F. Ham, president of the Washington ~Raflway and Electric Company, is out of the city today. but it is understood on reliable au- thority that that system will take up the wage question immediately. It is practically certain that the Washington Railway and Electric Company will adopt the reduced scale for new men. This step toward lower wages by requiring new men to wait longer for the maximum rate was taken by the Capital Traction Company at the sugges.don of the Public Utilities Commission. 3 Engineer Commissioner Keller wrote to both companies last December, stating that while he did not wish to see a cut in the pay of present mo- tormen and conductors, e believed a reduction should be applied to fu- ture employes. Not So Low as Suggested. The new scale of the Capital Trac- tion Company, however, Is not as low as ‘that suggested by Col. Keller in his letter to the companies. Final agreement between the Cap- ital Traction Company and its men was reached at a conference yes- terday afternoon between Mr. Hanna and a committee from the union, headed by John H. Cookman, business agent. The mew contract is similar to the existing one in al! other respects and is for a term of three years, with a proviso that either side may reopen it at the end of each year by giving the other party thirty days’ notice. Announcement that the company and the union have agreed came as a source of gratification, since it re- moves all possibllity of a recurrence of the wage troubles which involved Washington in sirikes flve or six ¢ SITUATIO) TWO CENTS. N. THOMAS BRADLEY, CIVIC LEADER, DIES Prominent Financier and Civic Worker Succumbs to Appendicitis. Thomas Bradley, vice president and real estate officer of the ‘Washington Loan and Trust Company, past presi- dent of the Washington Board of Trade and one of Washington's outstanding leaders beterment, died at 11 oclock today at Georgetown University Hospital, following an operation for ap- pendicitis more than a week ago. Mrs. Bradiey and the four children were at the deathbed in Second Operation. Mr. Bradley, who was forty-nine years old, was taken to the hospital Saturday night a week ago and was operated upon the following Monday. Complications set in, & consultation of physicians was held the past Sun- day, and a second operation was per formed by Dr. Strine of the hospital staff. Mr. Bradley failed to rally from this operation, however, sink- ing steadily until his death today. Funeral arrangements had not been completed this afternoon. News of the financier's death came as a shock to most of his friends in banking, real estate and business circles and in civic organizations, where the seriousness of his condi- tion was not generally known. Rapid Rise to Prominence. “Tom" Bradley, as he was widely known in the National an exa -ple of what aggressiveness, naturai ability and personality will accompiish in the business world. He entered the Washington Loan & Trust Company as a clerk a few months after its organization and was promoted rapidly through all the positions up to the office which he occupied at the time of his death, Today he was recognized as one of his home town's foremost citizens, whose death will be a distinct loss to_the community. Mr. Bradley became an employe of the trust company in January, 1890, at the age of seventeen years, being as- signed clerical duties at the former temporary headquarters of the bank at 10th and F streets. Upon the open- ing of the institution in its present location at th and F streets, in 1891, Mr. Bradley was made note teller, holding that office until the real es- tate department of the bank was or- ganized, when he went with the new department, becoming in 1599 real es- tate office, in charge. On Taxation Committee. He was elected vice president and real estate officer in 1916, continuing to_occupy that office until his death One of Mr. Bradley's most valued services to the community was rendered when he was vice chairman Capital, was | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) FOILS PRISONER’S DASH FOR LIBERTY Deputy U. S. Marshal Hurls Ralph Lambath to Floor in Scuffle at Courthouse. Ralph Sterling Lambath, twenty- one years old, formerly of 1111 1ith street northwest, today attempted to escape from a deputy United States marshal at the courthouse. Lambath, while on probation, was arrested last month on another charge and was taken from jail for an interview with Amos A, Steele, probation officer. As the prisoner, his young wife and Deputy Ernest J. Weaver were de- scending the steps from the office of the probation officer to the cellroom, Lambath, who had his overcoat on his arm, threw the garment suddenly over the head of Weaver and started to run out a nearby door. Weaver quickly extricated himself and grabbed the prisoner and threw him to the floor. Lambath was placed on probation by Justice Bailey last December un- der a suspended sentence of three years for receiving stolen property. The police say the young man did not change his mode of life, and March 11 last was again arrested. He was awaliting action by the grand jury on the latter charge. Probation OfMicer Steele had decided to revoke the pro- bation and take action which would send Lambath to the penitentiary for three years, J ® S 0.C.ASWORLD PORT 1S OBJECT OF MOVE {Citizens Would Establish Great Industrial Territory on Virginia Side. HARNESS GREAT FALLS 'Luding Business and Financial Interests Will Meet Here Thursday. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. For the purpose of setting up a permanent organization to make Washington a world port capable of accomodating the largest merchant and war vessels, for establishing a great industrial territory south of | the National Capital, with the best | water and rail facilities anywhere in | the country, and for harnessing the | Great Falls of the Potomac to &upply | light, heat and power for this gigan- | tic project, a meeting of the leading | business and financial interests of this | territory 1s to be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Wash- ington City Club. The plan before this proposed per- manent organization is to have a survey of the industrial possibilitd of this region made by one of the best concerns in the country, experts in this line of work. Then to have la chart made showing the available {properties for factories and ware- {houses with special attention to the |rail and water transportation faci {ties. Finally to have a great con- istruction plan prepared which the commercial and financial interests of this region can folilow ear after |Year in covering this ideal located territory with manufacturing and in- dustrial plants of a wide diversifica- ‘llun in character. Will Employ Skilled Men. Carrying out of this program will {furnish a constant demand for the best skilled artisans, such as are now |being discharged fro the naval tor- | pedo plant in Alexandria and from |the Washington navy yard. who ean now find no place of employment near Washington | The meeting Thursday is the cul- {mination of three years' constant work by M. B. Harlow, vice presi- |dent of the First National Bank, Alexandria, a member of the cham- bers of commerce of Washington and | Alexandria, and for more than forty | years conspicuous in the business life | of this community. This great industrial zone was urg- |ed first at a meeting of the Kiwanis {Club ef Alexandria in September, 1922, after Mr. Harlow had made a { personal tour of industrial New Eng- |1and, getting first-hand data on how | that'industrial territory was bullt up. | Then he went before the board of su- | pervisors of Arlington county and | cured enthusfastic support For eral months he has been conferring with the business and financial or- | ganizations in Alexandria and Wash- | ington, each of which promptly n- | dorsed’ the proposition and appointed |a committee to actively co-operats ‘lnd attend the general conference on Thursday. ‘ Evans Appoints Committee. Joshua Evans, president of the | Washington Bankers' Association, has appointed a committee to co-op- | erate. Especial help has been given |by John W. Weaver, recently presi- | dent of the National Real Estate As- | sociation. | Mr. Harlow also has interested the industrial departments of the ra | roads entering this territory, whi | includes all the great trunk lines. He | has also secured the earnest co- | operation of the interurban electric | lines. | _The territory which it is intended to take Into this industrial and business zone includes: Such sections of the District of Co- lumbia as may be found suitable without interfering with or detract- ing from the plan to make Washing- ton city the most beautiful and de- sirable Tesidential city in the country It would include the former great port of Georgetown, with the desira- ble industrial territory at Rosslvn and Analostan Island The whole of the countries known as ‘northern Virginia” that trade with Washington and Alexandria It would include the city of Alexan- dria, with from twenty-two to twen- ty-eight feet of water, and two miles below. | | | | | Southside of Potom | On the south side of the Potomac |river all the trunk lines, with the Potomac freight yards, which are the largest east of Chicago. | Representative men familiar with | the Potomac river and its interests | have also been tnvited to this con- | terence on Thursday. It is the purpose also of those who are fathering this project to interest | the federal government in making a { survey of the Potomac river for the { purpose of widening and deepening | the channel from twenty-four feet at |low tide and twenty-eight feet at | high tide, to thirty feet at low tide |and thirfy-four to thirty-six feet at high tide. This would make it possi- |ble for the largest freight and war | vessels to come up to the harbor of |'Washington and make Washington a | world port ! "1t is pointed out by these leading | business and filnancial men that there lare nine miles of river frontage be- [tween the cities of Washington and | Alexandria, and two miles south of | Alexandria, where all the great trunk iline raliroads are now operating and | where the largest factories and ware- | houses can be erected. The harbor at Washington is now very much congested, and the whar?- age {8 practically all owned by the | tederal government. With the develop- ment of this nine-mile reach of water | front it would be possible to have the | finest kind of wharves sufficient to ac- commodate an increasing demand from the new industries that, it is said, are | eager to locate in this proposed busi- | ness zone for Washington. R e FRENCH NAVAL BILL UP. Cabinet Approves Construction of Program’s Second Section. | By the Assoctated Prees. | PARIS, March 27.—The draft of a naval bill for the construction of the second sectlon of the naval program was approved by the cabinet today. The first section of the program was voted by the parliament last April. The present bill covered the construc- tion of vessels of light tonnage during the period 1925-30. The cabinet also approved a bill for coast defenses and will shortly send it to parliament, 3