Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1923, Page 1

Fair tonight and | ’ 26 degrees, Temperature for H esterday: p.m. a.m, today. ]} ended at 2 p.m. today | s | WEATHER. tomorrow; tonight, with lowest temperature about twenty-four lowest, Full report on page 12. ! colder ighest, 65, at 38, at 7 | i {1 hours h!’ i Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 h Entered No. 28,821. s second-class matter WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star, ‘The Star’s delivered to city block and the regular edition is as the papers are printed. “From Press to Home I Within the Hour” carrier system covers every Washington homes as fast | Yeitenhy': Net Circulation, 96,123 WASHINGTON, D. C, post_oflice Washington, D, C. MILAN PARLEY MAY BRING RUHR OFFER Stinnes and Belgian Foreign Minister Expected to Dis- cuss New Plan. ON GROUND MUSSOLINI Von Rosenburg Tells Reichstag Committee Hughes Plan Would Effect Settlement. By the Asxociated 1" LONDON, March 28.—in connection with the visits to Milan of Hugo Stinnes and M. Jaspar, the Belglan forcign minister, the diplomatic cor- respondent of the Telegraph says to- day that Premicr Mussolini last weck made ropresentations to the rman goverament through ambas- orial channels urging the reich make a concrete offer to the wllies. The correspondent suggests at Herr Stinnes and M. Jaspar are n Milan in such a connection, for ¥ 'remier Mussolini went to that city erday for what was announced «#s a series of conferences bearing on international affairs. The Daily Mail's Milan correspond- ent learns that Stinnes has a politi- sal_mis with__Mussolini_which %ime at persuading the premigr to ake move for mediation in the Rubr FAVORS HUGHES PLAN. on Von Rosenburg Sees International Commission as Only Hope. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 28.—The Germ; Eovernment is willing to do every- thing possible to insure payment of f1s reparation « s as they ght be determined by an interna- tional business men's commission, Foreign Minister von Rosenburg has informed the foreign relations com- mittee of the reichsta The minister s &. that the govern- nt had communicated to the Kuro- An powers, with the exception of ©ose directy interested in the Ruhr upation. fts belief that the pr Is contained in Secretary Hughes' Haven speech constituted a feas- e means of settling the reparations roblem. He reiterated, however, that e occupied region must be uncon- tionally evacuated before there uld be any negotiations for gettle- nt of the controversy. me Would Start to Pay. Submission of the reparation an issue group. on which equal representation, German government to Ger international Lad the would find international loan, Baron von Ro- smburg said. The proceeds would bty given to the allies immediately as & advance cavh pa ent. Speaking br Chancellor Cuno, who 1+ =iill conflned to his bed by an at- k of pleurisy, Baron von Rosen- burg said the government's attitude &nd its program had not been changed i th face of the stubborn deadlock ove the Ruhr and Rhineland situa- ns In the debate following the forefgn ! inister's statement. unanimity of m was revealed among all the arties in the reichstag, the ited socialists in particular indicat- ink their approval of the govern- Tent's course SECURITY IN QUESTION. Allied Note on German Currency Loan Brings Up Priorities. Is the Associated Press PARIS, March —While various | interpretations may be put upon the 1ote the reparation commission 1s sending to Germany in connection Wwith her foreign currency loan issue, the correct one, according to some best informed circles is t it holds in substance that there is no question f the German governments right to er the loan, but that there does exist a question as to the security it amay give The text of the note. prepared by Sir John Bradbury of England, and M Delacroix of Belgium, calls attention 1o article 248 of the treaty of Ver xiilles defining priority rights in 1eparation and continues: Rights of Priority. *The commission makes express Teserve, as against subscribers to the loan of its right of priority @gainst any funds which may be as- wigned by the German government to 1he payment of interest or the repay- ment of capital to the loan in ques- tion, more particularly if the receipt 1iself is not applied to the discharge ©f reparation annuitie It is apparent that there was con- siderable discussion befors *he text ©f the note was drafted and the dis- fon made it first necessarr to itain _interpretation placed upon article 248 the legal section of the «ommission. The Irench contended this article applied virtually to any assets of Germany unless her repara- tion ob ns were first satisfied. 1t d_that the original in- Tcation of the I'rench was to prevent 1he launching of the loan with a guarantee by the Reichsbank, but now that the loan is said to be but 60 per cent subscribed, the original {Continued on Page 7, Column 5. dy to take steps toward obtaining | lOutrage to Kill Priests,U.S .May l Inform Soviet Decision of the soviet govern- ment to execute Archbishop Zep- liak and Mgr. Butchkaviteh of the Catholic Church, in Moscow, was characterized today by State De- partment officlals as constituting an outrage against humanity which could not fail to create the deepest feeling of resentment and horror in the United States. | Appeals to the department pro- testing against the execution were received from the Catholle Club of New York City. Depart- ment spokesmen declined to say what steps they would take offi- cially, but It was Intimated that a4 manifestation exprossing the | ©opinion of this government and people regarding the soviet au- thoritles would find _u way to Ru and leave the Moscow au- | thorities in no doubt as to the American idea of them and their actions. PROBE BLACKMAIL | | i | | { i i i Maj. Daugherty’s Allegation Gives New Turn to Search % for Slayer. NEW YORK, March 28.—Draper M. Daugherty, son of the Attorney General of the United States, peared at District Attorney Pe- corn’s office today and was gques- tioned nt length concerning any infor: tion he might have about blackmail plots in which Dorothy Keenan, slain model, igured as de- e By the Associuted Tress NEW YORK. Ma of the alleged by Maj. Draper M. Daugherty, only son of the At- torney General of the United States, {to have attempted to blackmail him because of his acquaintanceship with —The name man model, was understood to be in the possession of Assistant District Attor- ney Pecora today. A morning news- | Pecora believed the information might [1ink with that he has of the projected 1$100,000 blackmall attempt on John | Keursley Mitchell, son-in-law of E. T. Stotesbury, who was the “Mr. Mar- | shall” of the case. Letter to Daugherty. “l do not say Maj. Daugherty's o coming forward with greater frank- ness than most witnesses.,” Mr. Pecora last night addressed a letter to Maj. Draper M. Daugherty requesting that he lay betore New | York authorities all the information he possessed. The district aftorney declined to reveal where he addresse the letter to Daugherty, saying he had been given to understand the young man wished to keep his where- abouts secret Mr. Pecora reiterated his belief that Miss Keenan had been slain by a pe: son or persons Involved in the plot to blackmail Mitchell. The robbery mo- {tive. he sald, had not been entirely discarded. The police, it was sald, thefir efforts to trace had turned a negro who house and had left the day after the murder. Two detectives were sent to ! New Brunswick. N. J., in the search. DAUGHERTY IS SILENT. Refuses to Discuss Mention of His Son’s Case. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 28§.- The announcement was made on be- half of Attorney (General Daughert on his arrival here today to Jjoin President Harding's vacation part; that he would have no statement any kind to make in connection with | the injection of the name of his son, ! Maj. Draper M. Daugherty, Keenan murder mystery. STOTESBURYS GUARDED. PHILADELPHI paper reporter: outside the city o Stotesbury nearly all night in the |hope of obtaining a statement from hom or his son-in-law, John Kearsley Mitchell, who was revealed as the mysterious “Mr. Marshall” in the Dorothy Keenan murder case, had all their trouble for nothing. When they were relived by other reporters early today they had not even learned iwhether the two men had spent the night there or at Mr. Stotesbury’s country home at White- marsh. Servants at the town house said early in the night that the Stotes- bury family, including Mr. Mitchell, wero_there, but later denled they had | left Whitemarsh. Unusual precautions were taken to protect the Stotesburys from inter- viewers upon their arrival here from | Palm Beach, and these were in no | wise relaxed throughout the night. Eftorts to confirm the report that Mr. Stotesbury planned to offer a large reward for the apprehension of the slayer of Dorothy Keenan and that he was preparing to go to New | York to discuss the case with Acting District Attorney Pecora were un- availing. reh 25— News had camped who residence of 15 SUICIDES AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE DOUBLED SINCE WAR, IS REPORT B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 28.—The nufh- %er of suicides among young people Yias almost doubled since the world war, Dr. Harry M. Warren, president of the Save-A-Life League, declared dn his report for 1922, made public 10day. i'rom 477 juvenile suicldes listed in 1619, the known total had jumped to 200 in 1922, the report declared, with & probability that for every known suicidle there was <one self-inflicted death not so listed. The total number of sujcldes tabulated for the year wwas 13.580. Boy suicides averaged in age six- 1-rn years. while the girle who died 1. thelr own hand averaged fifteen | One boy left a note that he was kill- ing himself, “Just for the fuy of 1" A girl wrote she was taking her own CHARGE IN MURDER ! Miss Dorothy Keenan. the murdered | worked a short time at the apartment | into the ! PITCHED BATTLE | - STAGEDOVERRUM | ! ‘Bootleggers Hold Up Whisky Runners at Laurel, Md. Shooting Brings Police. THREE ARE ARRESTED Exchange of Shots in Main, Street;' of Town Throws Populace i Into Ferment. Margland state police answered a riot call sent out from Laurel early | this afterncou and were forced. to use automatics in putting an end to one of the most spectacular and dar- ing shooting affrays between boot- leggers and the authoritics ever staged in that section of the state. The battle did not start bhetween the hootleggers aund the police. Lut among the former themselves, when unidentified liquor-runners staged i |daring hold-up of a large touring car, containing three colored men and eighty gallons of whisky | ing, which took place within the town | |limits, near the Laurel drug store, attracted the attention of the whole | populace, who at first started for the scene, but scattered for shelter in| the rain of bullets. 1 Sherift Joins Affray. ! Sheriff Scaggs ventured forth {ed with a gun, and after firing eight ishots, exhausting his ammunition, he | was forced to iwithdraw and seek more unition. Meanwhile word had been flashed |10 the state police headquarters of | j the ‘battle on the Baltimore-Wash- | ington boulevard and & corps of | mounted_ officers hurricd to the i | am scene. The occupants of the two cers meanwhile had begun to realize that th were being sur- rounded by oflicers and the fight be- tween their respective groups ceased. The hcld-up men succeeaed in get- | ting away, but the two automobiles, the three vietims of the unusval hold-up And the liquor were con- fiscated when state policemen rived . Detalls of how the hold-up men ! managed to escape were not available | jat a late hour this afternoon. | Capital Men Held. | The men arrested were Muriel Tay- [1or, William Caay Joseph Nally, | all of this city and paper published X (n"[ al\n‘r‘\un;-,men( : the Laurel jail. Among the effects of ehat ¢ had farmished it to 3r. Pecora. | 008 I COREE (LTINS i . e eite 15| DA1K book heating the mame of district attorney hoped to learn the iy, pingion bank and showing entries |tdentity of tne man and the details || , A £ of his attempted intimidation. Mr,|ih money as high in amount as 320,- 000 per item ' | The lighor. which was in glass con- | tainers,” was poured out by state policermen, after x quantity had been | retained for evidence. pparently none of the men in the | original shooting fray and none of the officers were injured in the free-| | for-all fight, which lasted for nearly formation will lead to the diSCOVery | nhaif an hour. ! of the murderer of Dorothy Keenan,| A report of the affair was sent to but T do say it Js of great impor-,gtate police headquarters in Balti-| tance,” sald Mr. Pecora. “And I want | more this afternoon o compliment Maj. Daugherty in 'HARD GOAL PRICE ~ GUTISUNLIKELY The price of hard coal is not to go down April 1. mccording to re- liable information obtained today from imen in close touch with the local fuel situation. At the same time it was learned that nearly all of the retail dealers are receiving many orders from cus- tomers to begin putting next winter's ely | soon after April 1 as possible Larze wholesalers, who supply the i retailers, said today they had not re- ceived definite word from the Pennsyl- {vania mines as to what anthracite | prices will be after April 1, but the | consensus of opinion was that there Would be no change. Definite informa- tion is expected before the end of the | week. | Price Varfes Somewha The prevailing prices for hard coal in Washington range from $15.25 to $16.50, with remote instances of $17. The varlation in retail price coal men say, is due to the fact that dif- { ferent prices prevail at the mines on association and independent anthra- cite. The former mines, local wholesalers ay. are charging approximately $5.30 r the mines, while other | mines are getting approximately $10.50 per ton. It was explained that nearly all retailers get a part of their requirements from the different mines. { The retail price at which they sell to | the consumer, it was said, depends on | the average price they pay on all of their anthracite. « From information obtainable today t is apparent that householders who ad difficulty in getting coal this; winter, and who can possibly afford to do so, will lay in coal for next! vear during the spring and summer. “In considering the difference be- tween the mine price and the retail | price, it was pointed out today, the | frelght rate of $3.28 per ton and the | a: ton at The shoot- { ar- i They were lodged in | | dential party in | | supply of anthracite in their cellars ! WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1923—FORTY PAGES. " ONE PROBLEM LR AP ANOTHER. PRESIDENT GRITIC OF 1224 PREDICTION Believed to Consider Daugh- erty’s Statement to Be In- opportune and Bad Form. By the Associated Press. ST. AUGUSTIN President Hardi known, did not the recent statement Attorney General Daugherty predicting that the chief executive would be a candi- date for renomination that the statement opportune or good form. It s Fla it March has beco necessar consider Ly or was presumed the President will | discuss the subject with the Attorney General, who arrived here early to- Miami, wiiere he has been recuperating from a recent illness The President and Mr. Daugherty have not met xince the latter issued his statement, and thers naturally was the keenest curiosity whether there will he further developments before the President returns to Washington. Daugherty Rests. 'he Attorney General arrived on an !early morning train and went later to the rooms reserved for him in the Hotel Ponce de Leon. where the pres- opping. He spent {the morning resting from the all- night train ride, which, it was_said, he stood very well The President went out to the St Augustine links about 9 o'clock for a round of golf, and the possibility of a conference between them was remov- ed untll afternoon. LANCASTER LAKE TO BE DRAINED OFF | Unsightly Pond Will Be Out of water which settled on the property of Charles C. Lancaster betweerr { Georgia avenue. Sth street, Sheridan drained out of existence before East- and Tuckerman streets, will be er Sunday. L R. Gabrill, superintendent of suburban roads, today is digging a trench In the alley in the rear of corgia avenue through which the ake” will swiftly flow from Mr. Lancaster's property to a pipe near 9th street | While this will clear the land im- mediately it will nat prevent another | “lake” from forming unless a perma- nent drain pipe #s laid in the trench in_the alley. ‘Engineer department officials say this will have to be done because the tpench be feft open indefinitefy. Mr. Grabill ¢ould not state definitely this afterngbn what arrangements would be made with Mr. Lancaster to cover the sost of the work. What is now beinz done will not cost as much as it was originally thought for the reason, that Mr. Grabill found buried cannot margin needed by the dealer to meet operating expenses should be borne | ‘in mind. | GETS $2,500 VERDIET 4 Because she was bitten on,‘the arm {by 2 horse drawing a Disyrict trash { wagon Mrs. Eulalia Joiper of 3603 13th street northwest -was today awarded a verdict for #2500 damages j against the District o Columbia by a {jury in Circult Divigfon 1 before Jus- | tice Hitz. The Dfstrict authorities | claimed the colleg¥ion of trash is a | governmental fugetion and relieves them of Habilit; ‘but Justice Hitz re- | life “just to get a new thrill.” An- | fused”to ®o iystruct the jury. The other took poison because she’ dldn’t | District will zppeal. like the way she looked with her hafr( _According: to the testimony, Mrs bobbed. Jolner was passing through the pub- Existence of at least one “sulcfde | lic alley fn rear of her home March club” of girls was disclosed, while |16, 1922¢ and when she reached the numerous suicide pacts were re-|horse, sfhich, with the wagon, was in ported. the miidle of the alley, she attempted Discussing child suicide, Dr. War-|to Dgss. The animal snapped at her ren listed as the ‘three principal |ang bit her on the arm above the el- causes, intolerable home conditions, |b®®%. The defendant claimed the faulty schaol system and tempera- | fwrse was not viclous and that it had mental disorders. Zno knowledge of its having the incli- “Child marriage” he continued. “j# | nation to bite. It also relled on the another serious cause. In 1920 th doctrine of governmental function. were 1,600 boys and 12,000 girle fif. ! Mrs. Joiner was represented by At- | teen Years of age in the ted | torneys Daniel W. O'Donoghue and States listed as married. Near)y 500 | Prederick Stohlman, while Assistant of them were recorded as dfvorced Corporation Counsel |or widowed. 5, sented the District. Williams repre- a | near the Sth street front an old drain pipe, formerly used to help carry sur- fuot water from that vicinity. BITTEN BY HORSE !MEDICINAL LIQUOR . ORDER QUESTIONED i Assistant Secretary Moss today |called on Collector Steuart of the | customs house at New York for a full |explanation of the order issued |March 19 by Thomas W. Whittle, |surveyor of that post, permitting { passengers on incoming steamships Ito land with one quart of liquor for { medicinal purposes. Mr. Moss indi- |cated that the order probably later | would be materially altered. | Mr. Moss said the Treasury De- | partment's information indicated the |order was intended to permit pas- |sengers who were ill to bring alcholic | stimulants_ashore with them when | necessary, but that on the face it ap- | peared to be in direct violation of |the Volstead act and of customs | regulations prohibiting the inclusion | of liquor as a part of a passenger's | baggage. In the view of Treasury and custom officials, the order was ¢apable of be- ing stretched for use in illegitimate ways., Mr. Moss said he expected to have the report before him tomorrow. Existence by Easter Sunday. ‘x 3 | The so-called Lancaster: “lakel| ‘l\'un.‘u!ung of a pond of surfacel | Lenin Death Hint Seen in Bulletin i ny A. MACKENZIE. Ey Cable to The Star and Chicago Copyright, 1923 MOSCOW, March 28 —The |bulletin concerning Premier Lenin's bealth causes much here. The foregoi MacKenzie i m { 1ts brevity is that it was closely censored by the |soviet authorities, or that Mr. Mac- I Ken led to intimate what he | did o outright—that Lenin w ther d or that the lend was near. WOULD HOLD SHIPS §0perators Advise U. S. Board } to Restrict Sale to Ameri- i cans and Bar Aliens. | ) The United States Ship wrs' ion, second of the organiza- tions representing intevests identified with the American merchant marine to respond to the Shipping Board re- | quest for co-operation in formulating | a policy, recommended today that the | boara p all unseryiceable ton- I nage. sell its good tonnage to Ameri- operators and strictly withhold age from alfens sociation sibmitted i in a letter from #s president, ( !" Potier. 1D, Mallory of C. D. Mallory & | conferred today with the policy com- mittee of the Shipping Board in order to present their opinion in more de- tail Oper i | Asso can views rarles Would Await Good Market. The operators’ recommenda- tizns fcllowed closely those submit- fed Monday by the American Steam- }ship Owners' Association. The oper- ators wera positive that no buvers could be found for government ton- nage in the present situation of the | market and suggested that while awaiting a more responsive market the board carefully survey and clas- sify its fleet with the object of weed- ing out and scrapping every vessel unsuited for economical operation. No possibility w seen of raising capital at this time for financing private purchasers of ships and Troutes, although “every ship oper- ator hopes to become an owner.” “We must, however, face the eco- nomic fact,” the association’s views continued, “that capital will not in- | vest in ship securities until the profits are equal to and as reasonably sure as those in other lines of business. “Therefore it is not what we wish to do, but the impossibility of rais- ing capital that now controls us. For, it is the plain truth that under pres- ent world shipping conditions and With our existing laws. American ship owners can operate only at a loss in foreign trades. Question One of Operation. “In conclusion, we feel that pending legislation which will put American shipping on an equality with our for- eign competitors and an economic readjustment of the world’s com- merce, it will be an impossibility to advantageously sell the Shipping Board’s tonnage. t appears that the immediate question is one of operation, provided it Is_the board’s opinion that it is to the best interests of the public that | the trade routes established for the promotion, development, expansion and maintenance of foreign trade be continued, and while the members of the United States Ship Operators’ As- sociation are committed to no definite policy, our committee is prepared to discuss with you any plan which in- volves increased responsibility of op- erators and curtailment of the Ship- ping Board's overhead expense and supervision.” The committes included, besides {Mr. Mallory, Capt. W. H. Stayton of Baitimore, Joseph P. Lykes, N. O. Pedrick and Winchester Noyes of New York. A similar committee from the |Steamship Buflders' Assoclation 1s | scheduled to appear tomorrow. ASK BIG SUM FOR THEATER By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 28.—Negotia- tions are pending whereby the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation would sell its theater in Los Angeles for approxi- mately $2000,000 cash, but would re- tain its lease on the building, thus Keeping its outlet for flms. ship ‘:From Red Capital FORBETTERMARKET A committee headed by C. | Co..| | | | | tion raised by the demurrer is that the | | owner some time before the accident, | go)1,: l | for COURT UPHOLDS THEATER SUITS; Justice Hoehling Against Motions to Dismiss in Knickerbocker Cases. Justice Hoehling of the District Supreme Court today overruled the motions of Reginald W. Geare, John H. Ford and the Union lron Works to dismiss the fifty or more suits brought by legal represcntatives of victims of the Knickerbocker Thea- ter disaster. not only the theater company, but also tha architect, the iron fab- ricator and the District of Columbia jointly responsible for the collapse of the roof of the theater, which caused the death of nearly 100 per- and _injured many others. The court heid that the declarations state a cause of action to which all the defendants must plead. Geare, the architect. and Ford and the Unlon Works, metal fabricators, asked th dismissal of the suits because of mi: Joinder of parties and causes of a tion. They claimed there was no joint Tesponsibility in the erection of the building. Demurrer Is Filed. Attorneys Charles A. Douglas. Jo- h W. Cox and Conrad H. Syme, for the victims, maintained there was a continuing ' and successive liability among the architect, iron man and bullding inspector, and that all con- tributed to the defective which coll and injuries. Attorneys Daniel Thew Wright and Philip Ershler for Architect Geare today filed a demurrer to the several declarations. The new legal proposi- declarations on_their face show that the Knickerbocker Theater had been completed and turned over to the and that the negligence, if any, wa in the maintenance of a defective building and the inviting of the pub- lic to enter it. The proximate cause of the injuries could not, therefore, have been’ the original negligence, if any, of construction, which could only be (he remote cause. The victims can- not look to the builders as responsibie the collapse of the roof, it Is claimed, but can only recover from the theater company which operated the playhouse. . INCREASES TROLLEY TRANSFER PRIVILEGE Utilities Commission Extends Ex- changes at Points in Northwest. The Public Utilities Commission this afternoon issued an order In- creasing transfer privileges between the two street railway companies in the northwest section of the city. The order is in the form of an amend- ment to the permit under which the Washington Railway and Electric Company operates motor buses on Park road and reads as follows “That the Washington Railway and Electric Company shall sell inter- company transfers, good for passage on northbound cars of the Capital Traction Company at 18th and Co- lumbia road, to passengers present- ing the said transfers from the Park road bls line to the Mount Pleasant line of the said Washington Rallway and_Electric Compan: “That the Washington Rallway and Klectric Company shall sell cent transfers to its Park Road bus line to passengers presenting inter- company transfers from south-bound Capital Traction cars at 18th street and Columbia road to the Mount Pleasant line of the Washington Railway and_Electric Compan; The order is effective April 1. Willlam McK. Clayton, acting as attorney for residents of Randall Highlands .today wrote the Public Utllities Commission requesting that it the East Washington Helghts Rallroad Company is given perml slon to substitute busses for street cars on the Pennsylvanla avenue bridge southeast, that no charge be made for transfers between the Cap- ital Traction Company and the busses of the other company. He also requested a hearing. $1,000,000 FIRE IN OIL REFINERY By the Associated Press NEW ORLEANS, March 28.—The refining plant of the Sinclair Oil Com- pany at Merreaux, about eight miles south of here, on the Mississippt river, was badly damaged early today by fire. sald to have been destroyed. 4 i | Rules | | | | | building | mann, while psed and caused the deaths | getectives i | TWO CENTS. Flyer Discovers He Wed in Mind Lapse After Fall By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md, March 28— Suffering a lapse of memory, caused by hurts received in an airplane accident at Pensacola, Fla., in the spring of 1918, Edward Yake, for- mer Army aviator, awoke from his state of oblivion a year ago to find himself the husband of woman he “never knew or saw.” That is what he told Equity Examiner A. De Russey Sap- pington, taking testimony yester- day in the former flyer's plea for annullment of his marriage to Rose Harris here a year after his accident. Upon his recovery last ar, Yake told the examiner, he “was introduced to a stunning gir ‘Your wife, that is what I was told. 1 had never known the woman, and 1 did not want to be married—indeed, I never had any such intention.” 2ut, the complaining fiyer de- clared, certificates were produced to prove authentically that he had - been united in marriage with Rose just w rri; on atter April 6, 1919, his accldent. revailed upon 1o live with hride” of three years, he but “it was not to my liking. ROW MARKS PROBE OF HAMMER CASE M. E. O’Brien, Hushand of Woman Attacked, Has Ver- bal Passage With Detective. Hi He his d, Spurred by a controversy which oc- curred in the anteroom of Inspector Grant's private room at police head- quarters today between Detective Jim” Springmann and Matthew E. O'Brien, husband of Mrs. Elizabeth E. O'Brien, who was murderously as- saulted with a hammer ir her home, 1229 Euclid street, early Monday morning, while she slept, detectives started out today determined to go to the very bottom of the whole af- fair, and seek a real motive for the crime. They frankly state that they do not believe robbery to have been the mo- tive, despite Attorney O'Brien's sistence that this was the case. Mr. O'Brien stated to the police tod that a bureau drawer had been tam- in- The suits seek to hold | pered with and something was stolen. Pressed by reporters as to what had been taken he said, “a piece of jewelry.” : Maid Is Released. Following the row at headquarters today, detectives complained to Mr. O'Brien that he was not helping them in the work. Mr. O'Brieu, they said, sought to turn suspicion on the color- ed maid, but the police relcased her this afternoon. The disturbance at headquarters occurred when Attorney O'Brien came to Inspector Grant's office today and charged Detective Springmann with being a “sneak,” because he had gone to the house last night to make further examination of the room v»lh-re the murderous assault took place. ,“1 do not want any of this Nick Carter stuff.” O'Brien told Spring- a score of reporters and stood around the ante- room. Springmann resented this, and told O'Brien that he (Springmann) knew what he was doing. It looked for a moment as if thers would be a fight, but xome one slipped into Grant's office and told him what was going on on the outside. Detective Springmann. entered the door, As the latter O'Brien started to when the detective turned on him and sald: Detective Had Key. “The inspector called me.” Springmann obtained the:key to the O'Brien house in the course of his in- vestigation, and both O'Brien and his son knew that he had it, it was stated. Detective Springmann said that he was In the neighborhood about 9 o'clock last night, with his working partner, Detective Darnall. They decided to go into the house to determine whether the light from a He called | 1.5, STARTS PROBE - OF SUGAR PRICES President Orders Inquiry to Determine Effect of Pres- ent Tariff. NO TIME TO BE LOST Effort Also to Be Made to Deter- mine Whether Rates Are | Equitable. Acting under direction of Pre Harding, contained in a telegram to Chalrman Thomas 0. Mar of the | Tariff Commission, the commission to- |day began an investigation to dete: {mine what effect !"I’ ff or [spectacular in £ any, the presen: sugar has had on tie recer in the price of suga to consumers in this count Chairman Marvin said that this in would be proceeded with as ¢ as possible President’s Telegram. ‘he ¥ M Marvin “Hav esident’s follows: Tariff Commission make an immediate inquiry into the relation of the sugar tariff to the curre prices on that commodity. It is dif ficult to believ that the duty on sugar can have any part in making the abnormal prices which prevail, but if the commission finds there is any ground for belleving the duty to be even partially responsible. T shall be ready to p m a reduc- tion in duty, as provided by the law. { It was pointed out that the Presi- dent’s message relates to two sub- jects—the first ca ng for an inquiry as to the effect the tariff may have liad o rease in sugar prices in rec months, and the other the determination of the costs of produc- telegram (o tion of sugar in this country anc abroad to ascertain whether the ex- isting rates are equitable. Sxecutive Authority Under Law. The President, under the flexible tarift provisions of the Fordney- | Cumber tarift act, | reduce or increase tariff duties wi a radius of 50 per cent if afte of the costs of pro- is given power to investigation dnction hers and abroad by the Tariff Commission he deems it neces- sary to reduce or increase the | aut It is under this provision of the law that the President is empowered to proclaim a reduction or increase in the tariff rate on a given commodi | The investigation into the costs of production here and abroad necessa- rily requires some time. Further pro- vision is made for public hearings | Sugar, the commodity now in ques- tion, is produced in many countr, After its investigation into the costs of production the Tariff Commissio must make a report to the Presiedn with Its recommendations. = Thir: !days after the proclamation of the President changing a tariff rate the new rate goes into effect. Paragraph 815 of the tariff act, which is the flexible tariff provisior, idoes not permit, therefore, of very |speedy action. It may be six months before the commission can make it report. But on the other hand an inquiry to determine the relation of the duty on sugar to the rapid in- crease in the prices of sugar in the last two months, may be made promptly by the commission. it was caid today flect of the Order. The President's telegram calling | for an immediate report by the tariff commission on the relation of the tariff to the increases sugar prices is expected to put an end to: | 1. Any claims made by the sugar gamblers that the tariff is responsible for the increases in gugar prices, claims made to becloud the issue and to cover their own tracks. | 2 Any claims made by the demo- crats that the new republican tariff law has been responsible for increas in the sugar bill of the American people Attention was called today to the fact that the Tariff Commission, act ing under the flexible provision of the tarlff act, had already begun an in- estigation of the sugar schedule. ugar was included in the list of seventeen articles which the commis- slon announced more than a week ago would be investigated. The ap- plication made for an investigation nearby street lamp was bright [0f the sugar tariff, under which the enough to throw a beam into the |cOmmission began thig investigation, room where the assault took place, | Was submitted by interests owning which would enable any one to de- termine whether a figure In the un- lighted room was white or colored Before going into the house they went to the door of a neighbor, next door, and asked himi to accompany them, which he did. Springmann said that was all that was done In the house, and he found that, while the room was light, it might have been | impossible for one who had been at- tacked to have made out whether the assailant was white or colored. So far as could be learned, the de- tactives have not yet been able to determine the identity of the O'Brien cllent, described by him as a “harm- less old woman.” "It is believed that the detectives, following the release of the colored maid, will seek to question this woman. There is no name in the city directory which cor- responds to that given out by M O'Brien’s secretary as the woman who has been coming to his office for months. However, the description of the woman and the clothes she wore, her builld and figure, is almost identical with the description of the woman Cuban sugar. Forecast of Report. |1, 1n well informed quarters the opir fon was expressed today that the Tariff's Commission’s report on tha relation of the sugar duties to the recent increases in price of sugar | hold that the tariff rate was not re- sponsible; that it could not be re- sponsible. Tt was pointed out that the effective duty on sugar under the Underwood or democratic tariff law Which is the duty charged on Cuban Sugar. was one cent a pound. The effective duty on sugar under the fepublican emergency tariff law was ncreased to 1.6 cents per pound, and under the Fordney-McCumber tarift law the effective duty on sugar fs 176 cents per pound. But sugar wae sel¥ing for 6 cents & pound under the emergency tariif act a month before the Fordney-McCumber tariff act be- came effective. Tt is incredible, it was said, an increase in the duty of that teen o (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) (Continued on Page umn U. S. BRANDS A4S WHO SAVES 60 PE “TIGHTWAD” HIM R CENT OF WAGES All these vears you may have been calling yourself thrifty, but today you will find the government calls you a “tightwad.” And in the same breath the government lets it be known what it calls a spendthrift and how it designates a thrifty person. As to the first classification: For the sake of fllustration, the subject's sal- ary i placed at $100 a month, He is & “tightwad” if he saves $50, spends $37 for living expenses and sets aside $1 each for education, rec- reation and giving. Now, the spendthrift is that person who, drawing $100 a month, spends $58 on living expenses, $40 on recrea- tion, and $1 each for education and glving, while the Thrifty man saves $20 of his month- 1y stipend, spends $50 on living and $10 each on education, giving and At least four oil tanks were | recreation. Take your pick. The government. which sets forth these startling facts in & little book |entitled “How Other People Get Ahead,” failed to classify the pretty well known man who has to spend 3101 out of his $100 salary monthly for living expenses, saves nothin, and has nothing left for educatio recreation or giving. Shows Necessity for Care. In the foreword of the little book. the government says its aim is to show the necessity for exercising care and prudence in the management of resources, the beneficial effects of saving, how to differentiate between good and bad investments, the danger signs of fradulent schemes and the essentials of sound investment. Final- 1y, as a constructive means of putting good advice into effects, its presents the advantages of Treasury savin certificates and recommends inves ment in them as a step in thrift and saving, which, it savs, are the habits essential to individual success and in- ‘dependence,