Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1923, Page 1

\VEATHER. Fair tonight; lowest tem: freczing. Tomorrow incre: nd warmer. Temperature for twent: ended at 2 pm. today: Hi 2 pam. yesterday; lowest, w.m. today. [ull report on perature near asing cloud!- y-four hours ighest, 45, at 18, at 9:30 page 21. _ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 () - 08t ntered us oflice 28,822, o ond-class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, 15,000 ON STRIKE IN TNES OF RUHR Germans Quit as Fast as In- vading Troops Occupy Workings. GOLD LOAN IS FAILURE| Fourth Debate in British Commons Leaves Ruhr Policy Still in Dark. 1 Pross ELSENKIRCHL 1 thous the mincs ud miners are distriet troops, in work us a protest at according senkircher 1 tmates made The 1aen quit inst the occupation thousund men ure out at the Westerholt properties, 4,000 at Rhein- baden, 4.006 at the Concordia mines and 2,000 at the Blumenthal plants. They bhave served notico that they will not return to work until the last soldier lea oecupi rman 2 qua Five Threaten to Shoot. From Rheinbaden comes the report that sirens blew so long in pro- st that the Belgians threatened to unless the noise was stopped. Germans ssert semi-oflictally the occupying forees are having ulty in eperating the loading waratus at the: and tha have succeeded in load three small trains « mines far the four secupation, of reparatic ten minu the only daily Jetor it e tramload Tued rolled out every The G to wive d, @ un Letween Vudwigshafen and Lawterbers, al- Ways using the same carloads of coul. GOLD LOAN FAILURE. Total Subscription Only From 60 to 80 Per Cent of Amount. 4 Chieago Duily disap- the BLERL] pointment suilure $50,000 000 definite 1t is learned (r total subseriptis tween 80 and 80 per cent rount re red, whereas the I and grain 1 were Subscribed within a few days The failure of the gold lown 16-TE tributed to the capitalists, who clung to their foreign holdings despite the irgent appeals of the Relchs! \ ding to the sociullsts the capl- tulists did not think e \ sufii- ciently secure, as the Rel hank an- nounced that untecd the loan in dollars )t offer the sold reserves The Rote Fahne says the bank has just sent another 100.600.000 in gold mark witzeriand to keen the German marks from®falling in value ub W' proposed Though no published, s that only be: of recent over- figgur cen as oad. NEW DEBATE FAILS. British Policy for Ruhr Is Still in Dark. By Cable to The Star and Chicagy Daily News. e Copyright, 1923 LONDON. March 29.—Creat Britain's Lifort to find a satisfactory pelic in Rubr conflict has failed com- The fourth debate on the subject in the house of commons aves the country as much in the dark regarding possivle developments Dbetween Great Britaln and France as when Frar decided upon seizing the Ruhr district. Most politiclans feel that this, the most trying of al ope's problems. must drag its aggravating cow through rtainly no settlement during the East Nidays Keeping In Touch. Speakers representing the \"\n_inn!' n the house of commons gave a falr- v clear indication that Great Britain was striving to keep in close touch th both France and Germany. Al- st daily definite statements of Brit- sh opinion are sent to 1’ crafer I'oin- some starting chunge should t Britain will insist on in Lringing about pletely e )& settlement. g Ouly the libe JAVXV‘) o places tion of iefal cx tio: Not to Tolerate Exclusion. elements in PBritain realize that such a method would be useless against the stub- born resistance of France, where pub- lic opinfon seems determined to foree the occupation to a point where it will break Germany's passive tactics In the minds of all those who hieard the statements in the house mons It ix certain that Gr awill not under any eircums erate a movement on the tending to esclude h rom ment by @ Separatc agrecment a yween the continental allies an many Conservative reat ritain co 3 o settle be- Debate Lacks Interest. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 2§.—The debute the | Reichs- several | is} of comi- | Soviet to Take 80 Per Cent of Pay Above $100 By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, March 29.—Unier so- viet Russia’s new income tax law & man receiving more tham $100 month salary will pay S0 per cent of the surplus to the government. below 0,000,000 rubles, or about $ month at present rate of exchange are not subject to taxation, but from that sumi on the tax ranges from 6 to 80 per cent. No allowances are made for wives of cunildren, as in America, and rations of quarters furnished by the government are counted as income and lgo sub- Ject to this taxation. During February the maximum salary for government officials 2.600.000.000 _rubles mont $52, which w mier Lenine, War Ky and other im There are thou Russian merchunts who now i al trillion ruble usands of dollas monthly and the tax is particularly aimed at this cluss, The tax is, in theory at least, ap- plicable to foreigners as well as | Russlans, and business me: cor- | respondents und others now liv- | ing in Moscow in government hotels, where they are charged New York prices for all accommo- dations are anxiously walting to learn whut the tax collectors want | to do to them. { | | | | | PRESDENTSPARTY " UPSETBY RUNOR Reported Harding Disapprov- | al Over Candidacy Forecast Declared Mistake. Incomes 1 by | il received Minister Tortant 1s speculators, 4 much as many th ety | | | BY DAVID LAWRENC i ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla March {The entire presidential party w {visibly t © by the publics jtlon of a story t President Hi tng in effect disapproved of 1l | ment ade by his clo { polttical ntor, Attorney General I Daugherty, anuouncing that | Frestdent would be a candidate { renomination tn 1924, | The story was published cofncident ith the arrival of the Attorney ¢ here and ers of the part | begun asking other what was lits tuspiration, for they realized that !1t might be looked upon e itorney General as a reflaction on b Judgment. ’ 1 upset state- end and for n- ¥ | eral mem each s | resident Distressed. Mr. Daugherty is a sick man and }the relationship between him and tlie President 1s 3o close that even if Mr. Harding we to feel t the is- [fuance of the statement w a nls- takc he would be the la world to let that fact et publie.t The President is sald to:have been distressed by the impression of dis- iagreement between him and Mr | Daugherty, which some publizhed re- ports gave, and it would not be sur- | prising {f in some way without com- | menting on the Miam! statement about | his canaidacy he gave puble evidence | of hs continued confidence in the At- torney General. The President’s viewpoint on the wisdom of the statement about his candidacy has not been intentlonal disclosed. It {s true that a few callers outside of the presidential party have talked politics with him, and at least one is sald to have commented on the Iimprn fon the Daugherty announce- ment had created. Mr. Harding, of | course, realizes that any statement iconcerning his candidacy, no matter how carefully phrased, would be the lsumm of differing opinions, for no | two strategis . question of whether the announcement {was or was not inopportune. Faith in Daugherty. It is safe to say that had the | President been consulted in advance, {he probably would have argued agalnst it. But he has so long been ccustgmed to leaning on the advice of Harry Daugherty, and the political | strategy of the latter has so often | proved in the end to have been wise | that the Prestdent isn't likely to largue the merits of the question, now that the die has been cast. Politics have in fact crept into the | prestdential ,vacation a little more !than anybody intended. Iiven the Attorney General himself did not look !for prolonged discussion and had he had any idea of the stir the Miami | statement would have, he might have withheld it for a time at least. Mr. Daugherty thought the announcement would be taken as his own personal {prediction for he wurned the news {paper men he wasn't tzlking for the President. Lenders Pledge Ald. Jut the press. far and twide, ha: up znd the wheels of the imvention campaign uppear to be | moving. judging the letters and | telegrams from republican leaders of- fering to begin work at once. | Something may have to be done to { check this activity or it may prove too great a tax on the time of the President’s assoclates. and_may even | {Continued on Page 2, Coivmn 1.) J(CommueTon Prge % Covmn ) o o e o Y LIBERTY PASSE, SAYS MUSSOLINI, (Continued on Page 2, lumn 5.) SEEING “CONTROL” AS NECESSITY LONDON, March 29.—"The truth is evident to all who are unblinded by dogmatism that men nowadays are Hlirea of liberty,” says Premier Mus- solini of Italy, in an article con- tributed to the April number of the rascisti review, Gerarchia. The Rome corrsepondent of pimes, who sends extracts of the urticle, says it was written to con- fute recent expression of liberallsm in Corriere Della Sera. The premier contends that liberalism is not the the last, word in or of government and (hat if it was good for the people of ihe last century it does not follow ihat it is equally convenient for those of the-present. The great experiences of the ‘after- &ne-war period mark the defeat of beralism,” Mussolini writes. “Both in Russia and Italy it has been dem- onstrated that it is possible to gov- pra-outslde, above and agalnst all liberal ideas. Neither communism nor facism has anything to do with lib- erty.” “Must Be Controlled.” The premier thinks liberty is not an end, but a means, and_therefore must Le controlled and dominated. Contending that no government ever cxisted solely by the consent of the people without the employment of force, he says. “If any government is deprived of force and left with only its principle, it_will be at the mercy of the first group crganized and determined to overthrow it. * ¢ ¢ “Liberty ‘is no longer a chaste, severe malden for whom generations in the first half of the last century fought and died. For the intrepid, restless youths who are now in the dawn of a new history, other words exercise a greater fascinution, namely, order, hierarchy and discipline. * o ¢ “Fasclsmo is not afraid to declare itself flliberal or anti-liberal. 1t has already passed, and if necessary will again pai without the slightest esitation gver the hody.more or less decomposed, of the goddess of 1i cow are apt to agree on the | TWO UNITY SNAGS MET AT SANTIAGO Closer Association of Ameri- cas and Possible Aggres- sion. Parley Problems. i’mvows MONROE PLAN Chile Delegates May Urge Prin- ciple of Standing Together Against Europe. 5 tlie Assviated Press SAN >, March cal amittee of the mference not yet 9.—The politi- | pan-American sen the who wil s ¢ retury hundle toplc 9 of the ugenda, dealing { With plans for association with the Amerlcan nations, and tople . which conslders questions arising from possible aggression by a non- American nation. This delay is taken as an indlca- | tion of the delicacy with which the | congress is approaching the subject [ matter of these two topics. The com- | a closer a mittee appears to consider it wise to hold the discussion in abeyance for the time bLeing, although it has been expected that the Uruguayan dele- | Bate, as the originator of both, would !be chosen to present them to the | comniittee. Need of Momroe Doctrine. Not only is it belleved that both ‘these toples involve the Monroe doc- | trine. but it is held, further, that con- slderation of “sixteen” would cially imply a d of tions us the usefulness and ne- sity of the ductrix id the atti- tude of the Americ: ations to- ward it | | | erpe- | scussion such In view of the deluy in the prepara- | for bringing these toples for- there is a strong impressior among the ates that they may be allowed to die in committee. It is belleved that Uruguay’ drawal of her scheme for an Amer! can assoctation of natlons 1s not Iik. to be followed Ly any other plan der thix head a suggestion placing the organization of the «n American Unlon on the basts of 1 Internutional convention, is lkely be the nearest approach to a closer assoctation, which will be discussed s plan ix deemed likely to with opposition, for some of the | delegations are known to oppose mal fng the union subject to a trew | asTeement, preferring the prese | The session has taken an earl fcess. Festivities were { Vina del Mar. MAY URGE ALLIANCE. | | arranged at| | | . Uruguayan Delegates Expected to! Urge Principle at Santlago. BY CLAUDE 0. PIKE. y Cable to The Star and (‘hicago Daily News. “prright, 1928, SANTIAGO, March 29.—The prinet- ¢ of ull the American nations stand- | | Ing together in case of Buropean at- | tack, advocated by the Secretary of | State, Robert Lansing, at the time of | the world wa probably will be brought up zt the pan-American cos ference by the Uruguayan delegation. | Tt i hoved to enlist the support of the United States for the perfection !of a defensive alllance of .American | vepublies. | The proposal, which is on the con- ference agenda, was offered by Uru- | guay, and the delegates from that coun- | try have announced unofficially that they | are nrepared to take the initlative in Iresenting the plan and secking its | adoption. i Lansaing Messange on File. It is said the officlal files in the capital of Urnguay contain official documents und also cable messages tinued on rage 2, Column 5.1 FOUR DIE IN BATILE WITH MOONSHINERS Five Children Safe in Riddled Home, But Mother Is Slain in Posse Raid. HARLAN, Ky. March 29.—County |oficers and possemen had returned | today from the mouth of Beech creek, in the hills of Leslie county with an ccount of the desperate last stand of “the Strongs,” a battle in which three |men and a woman were kilied Wed- | nesaay. | Kelly Walker, deputy sher!ff of Te- {Jay, Ky.: Isaac and George Strong and Mrs. Isaac Strong were killed. Carrying 2 warrant for the arrest of 1saac on charges of liquor law vio- !lations twenty-two possemen arrived at the Strong home and surrounded Ilhe house. Deputy Walker advanced toward the house with the warrant. | A htdden marksman fired and Walk- ler staggered with a wound in the | breast. As he ran for cover a second bullet pierced his head. Companions of the slain officer con- {centrated a withering fire from high- | powered rifies on the house from van- |tageous polnts behind trees iand| |ledges. As the steel-jucketed slugs | {were sent ripping through the walls |of the building the fire of the defend- ers became desultory and finally ceased. v | | i 1 Three Dead in House. When the officers entered the house the two men and Mrs. Strong were dead, the woman, according to the of- ficers, was found with a repeating rifle clutched in her fast-stiffening fingers. ¥rom their hiding place under a bed | the five children of Mr. and Mrs. Strong crawled out after they had been reassured by the officers. They had escaped unharmed from the hail of bullets which killed thelr parents. | *'Two stills were found In. a strongly barricaded position back of the house. They were destroyed, together with 700 gallons of still beer. The Strong brothers, according to officers, long had been regarded as desperate characters and members of an extensive moonshining band. l D. C. THURSDAY, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. | delivered to as the paper: “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition Washington homes as fatt s are printed. MARCH 29, 1923—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. BRITISH SEE NO BA ONELEVATING GUNS |Real Difficulty Arises Overi Heavy Expenditures and Expediency of Alterations. FIGHT LOOMS IN FRANCE: Actual Denunciation of Treaty at Stake in Row Over Curb on Battleships. BY HAL By Cable to The c O'FLAHERTY. © aud Caicago Dal ¥right, 1923 arch 29.—Careiul News INDON, in- quiry into the clause of the Washing- | ton treaty regarding alterations in the slde armor and general type of mountings in the main armament of capital ships reveals the fact that {n- creused range s attulnable ny violation of the provisions. Nava experts express the opinfon that the | turrets can be <o altered as to allow greater elevation without changing the “general type” of the gun mount- ings British Position Vague. This n become clear b article 3, ction 1, part treaty. The question arising discusslon brought about by 1 Hughes’ statcment Secre- rece { whether Great Britain or the United States is willing to make the permit- ted alterations. . Thus far all state- ments appearing In the British news- papers on this delicate matter have been extremely vague, leading the average rcader to believe fted s has been guilty of pur- sulng a tricky policy in interpreting the Washington treaty. As a matter of fact, experts on both sides of the Atlantic agree upon the interpretation tions that would increase the of the big guns. It is qui car, they say. that both navies are free to do whatever they please to make their existing armament more ef- fective If they do not change the fber or the general type of mounting. rang the xpediency Real Dificulty The reul difficulty arises over the Question of the present expediency of such alterations. The British naval poliey today rests upon the assump- tion of ten years of peace from 1919, and during that perfod the British government intends to reduce its ex- penditure on naval armament to the lowest possible minimum. Any alter- ations to Increase the gun. range mean a very heavy expenditure, be- cause the whole system of ammuni- tion carriage and machinery for ele- vating the guns and strengthening carriage and machinery for clevating | the mountings must be torns downs and rebullt. No Disagreement on Treaty. The impression is general that the British government does not dieagree with the Washington government upon the interpretation of the treaty, but would object if the United States carried out this costly alteration, whith Great Britain would have to meet in order to maintain her rela- tive strength. 2 Since Secretary Hughes has cou- rageously admitted his_error in ‘be- lleving that -the Britlsh navy Jad altered the range of its guns and has announced the intention of the Amerlcan Navy to- discontinue any work on increasing the gun ranges, {he matter seems to Have Teached a satisfactory conclusion. It is hoped that - when the question comes up in_the house of commons the first lord of the admiralty wil dissipate some unfair impressions- created re- garding the American naval plans, SAME VIEW IN PARIS. Ships May Be Modernized, Naval Circles. Believe. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 28.—The discussion in the United States concerning the modernizing of all naval ships fs being followed with much Interest in French naval circles. The points of the Washington treaty have been closely studled, and it is the opinion that the signatories may carry out the modernization of ships if they - so wish. It is contended that the word- Ing of the treaty is unmistakable and | turbance over Alberta moving rap-!jarc without | iu the . is | that the | allowIng altera- | | MISS VOLSTEAD FORFEITS $2 TRAFFIC COURT Miss Laura Volstead. daughter of Representative Andrew J. Vol- stead, author of the Volstead act, s technically arrested yester- day afterncon on New York nue between 13th and 14th streets northwest by Traflie Otficer F. B. Knapp, charged with blocking a watering trough ping the driver of a hor: vehicle from getting to trough water his team Miss Volstead was ving sedan automobile, the property of her father. us Indicaied by the tags, Officer Knapp gave Volsteud a curd directing h ) to the first police precinct eta- tion_and leave collateral for her ap- pearance in: Trattic Court today. She put up the collateral, $2, and Wwent to her home in the Brighton Iotel apartments, 2123 California street. When the collateral list was called in the Traffic Court to- day, Miss Volstead failed to answer 10 her pame and the collateral was automatically forfelted. j ave- the 'RECORD COLD HERE; MORE ON THE WAY 1 Entire Northern Part o Country Suffers From Most Unseasonable Spring. Another weather record w asin- ! sent to Washington the cold wave of sterday and early today, setting those who had formally grested spring to running for alcohol for their radlators, | secking the old heavy coat and scraping in the. coal bin for a few shovelfu | The temperature of 18 degrees here { early. this morning was three degrees {lower than had ever been recorded tn | this section at this time. But walt. Easter fineries 1 :r be covered up with heavy coats, or it least they should be kept nearby. For therc is another cold wave traveling over the same route as the one which arrived yesterday |and which was centered over Wash- iington today. The first one started in Alberta and traveled at a rapid pace in a south {east direction, and soon will be out {to sea. But the morring reports to jthe weather burcau sald that another |one had started in the eame place land was coming in' the same direc- tion, and {f its schedule was not up- {set ‘it probably would be here on April 1. Helng All Fools' day, persons had better be ready for 'most an thing. £ d bet. Ontario Hax 30 Below. Some of the thermometer readings {telegraphed in today, all of them marking new low points, besldes Washington, were: Harrisburg, Pitt. burgh and Philadelphis, 14; Erte, ¢ Albany, N. Y., zero; Buffalo, 6; Fort {Wayne, Ina, 14; Greenville, Me., 18 below, and White River, Ontario, 3 below. | Weather bureau offictals said the !shifts had Been so rapid this month that they had been kept “on thelr toes” In many Instances it had been necessary to predict cold and warm weather for the same twenty-fou: hours, due- to lightninglike This ‘was _Illustrated in a report of conditions now existing in the atmos- phere. A disturbance mnow central , over Minnesota will move rapidly eastward, the weather experts sald, preceded by a marked rise In temperature in th lower lake region, the Qhlo valley, Tennessee, ahd the middle Atlantic and north’ Atlantic states, and slowly rising temperature in the south At- lantic and east gulf regions. After this disturbance has passed, however, colder weather again will overspread the Ohlo and middle Mississippl val- leys and the, lower lake reglon to- morrow night and the mldm% g‘mmw and north Atlantic states tomorrow night or Saturday. Cold and More Cold. Another disturbance has moved east- ward from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to New.Foundland with Increased in- tensity. It has been attended by northeast gales in the northeastern states, and has been followed by the area. of high pressure and abnormally cold _weatlier from coust. In addition. to these troubles, weather bureau has found a the ‘(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 4 T (Continueu on ruge 2, Columnn 4. ed by Old Mother Nature when she | Tnies | the northwest | which now has reached the A!llnflu' ! | { 1 WATER SHORTAGE IN JUNE FEARED Arrival of Shriners May Over- tax Capacity of District i i | | 1 ng Washington's water s to prove adequate to £ the community ccording to reliuble ¢ will be at least 360,000 visitors in Washington for the Shrine conven- j tion? { This question being seriously constdered by offictals of the District ater department, who, 7ot a number of years, have been reminding Con- | ress of tie fact that the city is rap- | 1d13 approaching the maximum capa- icztr of the present_condult system, | pir go- meet the tn June, tmnates, J. 8. Garland, superintendent of the ater department, and Capt. John E. Wood, assistant enginecr commis- {sioner with supervision over the | water depurtment, belleves that the ! water worla will be able to meet the {strain that is bound to be put upon them by the presence of so many visitors. 72,000,000 Gallons Maximum. | Mr. Garland pointed out, how that the extent to which the reser- | voirs will be taxed will depend large- |1y upon weather conditions during the convention, which s to be held {in the eurly part of Jun Tt s cstimated at building that 00,000 gailons ,about the safe maximum dafly capac- ity of.the present system. Records {of the water department show during_the first w |the “daily consumption ranged from 62,000,000 to This, 1t_must be remembered, was | with 2 population of 435.000. If pres- | ene forecasts prove corréct the cit population during the convention Will | be close to 700,000. Will Seek Comservatfon. Mr. Garland pointed out that per- ¥s used water freely on hot jcays and if the period of the conven- {tton should find the mercury ascend- | iing to summer heat, the water pumps | | sons aly {the demunds. Itis L 1y that the city authorities between now and the convention will give serous thought to wuys of con- Serving water during the convention by urging the regular fnhabitants of the District not to use this necessity for non-essential purposes. May Let Lawns Go. Even without a large throng of strangers, the water department, for a number of years pust has waged a fight against the wasting of water guring the summer months, and with 300,000 strangers in town, this cam- patgn will have to be carried on with even more vigor this year. It may even be considered wise by | | 1 { owners_to let their jawns-go un watered during the week in whic the largest proportion of the conven- tion crowd will be in the city. The water department max be able to find other non-essentlal sources of water Consumption that might be cu during the convention. |JURY IS SUMMONED TO TELL OF BRIBES | Convicted Twenty Men of Confi- dence Game—Efforts Were Made to Influence Verdict. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, Col., March 29.—The en- | tire jury which yesterday convicted {twenty_alleged members of a nation- wide confidence ring after a ten-week trial, toddy was summoned to appear before the county grand jury, in con- nection ‘with, it was thought, leged' attempts to influence jurors during the trial. Subpoenas were serv: ed on the bunco-trial jurors imme- diptely after they had returned thelir F&raice and been dlsmissed last night. The twenty men found gullty after the jurors’ 150 ballots and a record breaking-session of four nights and five days in the juryroom, received the verdict calmly.. The wives of three, however, burst into hysterical weeping, the onl$ sound that broke !the silence of the crowded court- room. They face penitentiary terms rang- /ing from one to ten years, They were convicted on three counts, conspiracy to commit fraud through the opera- tion of u confidence game; general conspiracy or committing or attempt- |ing to commit crime through. the toperation of a confidence game and in connection with & con- fiden L T, | the authorities to call upon property | rtailed | &l Private Dalzell | Granted Diploma | Forsworn in ’64 | i By the Assoclated Press. WASHINGTON, Pa., March 29.— Private Dalzell, known.to Grand Army of the Republic nien all over the country, is to get hls diploma from Washington and Jefferson College sixty years after he left his studles to enter the northern Army in the civil war. The story came out today wh announcemient was made that thc trustees, on recommendation of the faculty, had voted to confer the degree of bachelor of arts on J. M. Dalzell, aked elghty-five, of, the United States Soldiers’ Home, at Washington, D. C. He will be present, it he is physically able. 1, receive his diploma at this year's commencement exercises. P'rivate Dalzell entered Wash- ington and Jefferson from Hira barg, Ohio, as a member of the class of 1864, but in his junior year he enlisted in the Armi. o dfd not return, and now, three-score vears, h 1 granted by unanimous of the faculty. —_— BEATEN, ROBBED, | i | IRiggs Market Dealer Attack- | ed in Garage and Large Sum of Money Taken. | Rubin Ogus of 1212 Kenyon street, | proprietor of a vegetable stand in the Riggs niarket, was attacked, choked and robbed just after he entered the W. A. Volland garage at the rear of 1019 Columbia road shortly after 4 o'clock this morning. The assaflant was a colored man, whom Ogus fs not able to identify. Ogus, in a daze, re- imained in the garage, sitting on the running board of his automobile truck until 8:30 o'clock, when Joseph S er of 3001 Sherman avenue, who keeps his machine in the same garage, found him and took him home. Dr. B. A. Cafritz, who was called to | the house, found tha vietim suffering | from iacerations of the scalp and the {effect o the fnjuries to his head and throat, When Detective Ira Keclk ar- ed to futerview him Ogus was un- |able to talic lucidly, and the exact eum of which Ogus waus robbed could not be ‘!enrr:rd. The only description of the | assallant obtained was that-he was a | lurge colored man. | | i Had Muck Money. Ogus was preparing to take the au- | tomobile truck out for early morning provisioning of his stand. He left his |home shortly before 4 o'clock, as usual. Members of his family stated that he had a large amount of money in lis possession, which he generally |carrted to make his moraing pur- chases Marks of his choking were apparent on the neck of the victim. On the back of were abrasions. the head caused by a blow or when Ogus fell ;n the ground. | the man came from the alley ti | fords entrance to th {tacked him. As soon as Ogus is in a | condition to talk clearly Detective Keck will interview him. 14TH STREET CARS DELAYED FOR HOURS | A.pulled plow in front of the De- |catur street barn on the 14th street |line of the Capitol Traction Company |early today interrupted service on 14th street and made necessary, the use of shuttle cars north and sguth {from Colerado gvenue. Officials of {the company at noon today sald the t af- garage and at- are bound to be taxed heavily to meet |trouble was being rap!dly repaired! {and thut nermal service would be re {sumed within a short time ! A car entering the Decatur stree; ! barn pulled a plow at 1:47 o'clock this ! morning, tying up southbound service {almost completely. To carry |sengers down town the company ran southbound cars on the northbound track for several hours. For hours following the accident there was. no car service north from Park road, on account of thé necessity for using the north bound track for southbound cars. A switch is located at Park roard Shuttle cars were being operated this morning from Colorado avenue to Park road on the northbound | track, while shuttle cars wére being {operated on the Takoma Park line from Colorado avenue to the termi- nus in Takoma Park. —_— IDENIES BUYING SERMONS. WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 29.— Charging that he was slandered by a tement that he bought his sermons instead of writing them. Rev. Harold W. Tilllnghast has brought suit for 1$10,000 damages against Archibald W. | Buchanan, Sunday school superin- | tendent of the Mansfleld Center Con- gregational Church. |~ Mr. Tillinghast charges that the cir- | culation of the statement, first made to a Sunday school class, has com- pelled him to resign the pastorates of the Mansfield Church and of the Spring Hill Baptist Church, which he held jointly. | | {NEW ORLEANS W1 By the Associatad Preas. NEW ORLEANS, March 29.—Mar- ried men cmployed by the city gov- ernment were thrown into consterna- tion today with the announcement by | Commissioner Murphy that hereafter ! thetr pay checks would be mailed to !their home address instead of being | handed to them in person. Long arguments counted for naught. " “Every city employe from mayor down is going to gét his check at home,” Commissioner Murphy sald. Every member of the commission councll {s in the same flx as the street laborer on this move. The money belongs in the-home, and I am going to do my best to put it there, and ki e BY UNSEEN BANDIT! 1t is belleved he was | cranking the automobile when | pas- | and ob.lecllons\] TWO CENTS. ONE-WAY STREETS MAY BE INCREASED Commissioner Oyster Confers With Headley on Plan to End Traffic Jam. |PARKING LIMIT LIKELY Officials Discuss Ban on Madison Place Stops—Klotz Advice i | : | Awaited. Commiesioner considering the establishm number of additional one-way in the downtown section of improving traffic conditions The Commissioner conferred en [ this subject with Inspector leadles- chlef of the traffic bureau, today and it 16 understood that the inspector j Wil recommend the streets within a few dayas Would Relieve Jam The Commissioner also With the inspector improving conditions i the vicinity of Lafayette square, whero he hus observed traffic jams during the | morning rush nour. | It is possible thut parking will be i prohibited on Madison place betwe Pennsylvania avenue and H | sincy this street 15 used by majority | the by [ west. Inspector Headiey told the Commis- sioner that some of the congestion rc- jcently on Madlson place and H wtrect {was “due to the fact that Jacksor 1Dluce was being excavated for c dult repuirs, 5 Commissioner Ovster helteves }‘ ashington’s traffic problem Itng a point where more ]‘(r!*’.‘ls are essential to expedite | movement” of vehicles. Oyster i 15 of streets 2 means took up the question of Btreet, a large " of motorists in going from siness sectlon to the nor! Klotz Return Awaited Just what streets Inspector Hea has in mind are not known, but !t probabie t he will consider north and south thoroughfares which there are no car tracks ! _With the return to Washington ne {Monday of R. G. Kliotz, traffic gineer of the Public Ttilitles miksion, the Commissioners wi ready to take up for action rec mendations of the traffic commi including new speed ulatio. reckless driving law and a new he: light regulation. Mr. Klotz is vis ing a number of large citics to see h they handle traffic. WOULD AMEND LAW. An amendment to the police rag: tions to permit owners of public ve- hicles to park their machine: of bulldings In which they ma an office has been urged upon '(‘ommlsrlonbrs by e Ye! Company in a letter to Co: Oyster, The cab company 4S8 prompted make the recommendation because ¢ forcement of the regulation in present form has forced the compan; to abandon a number of stations from which it dispatched cabs promptiy upon call Asks Rewritten Rule. The regulation in !reads as follows “A driver of a public vehicle for shall not stop or lofiter pon th street, except at a public hack stand or while actually taking on or dis- | charging a passenger.” The cab compa has asked that the regu fon be rewritten to read as follows: “A driver of a public vehicle for hire shall not stop or loiter upon the street, except at a public 1 stand or adjacent to premises where the owner or operator of cle maintalns an oflice or ot ities for the transaction of h business, or while actually taking ou or discharging a p enger.” Cuts Out Dead Mileage. Offic of the cab company believe they have rendered a service of con- venience to the public by maintain- ing small offices with telephone con- nections in various parts of the city in order to dispatch cabs more ¢ peditiously when they are called, They furthér point out that th | substations make cheap taxi | possible by increasing the vol {business and cutting out the “dead mileuge” that would occur if all caba | its presc had to go to the four corners of the city from a central garage. i In his letter to Commissioner Oys ter, G. Thomas Dunlop, president of the cab company, stated the wording of the proposed regulation is merely a statement of the common law a plicable to the situation as laid dov Dy the District Court of Appeals the Wlllard Hotel case. Applicable to Any “wWhile that case applied the specifically to a hotel company.” wrote Mr. Dunlop. “the deciston Is ap- plicable to any business. including the business of a cab company The court in that case said: “'The hotel company has the right to station and maintain its own car riages on the street in front of fits own premises for the transaction of fta own business * * * without Violation of any existing law or mu- niclpal ordinance.” “All we are asking is that we be permitted, as the court says, to main- tain our own cabs on the street in front of our own premises for the transaction of our own business.” Business. | | hed o LL SEND THE PAY OF MARRIED MEN TO THEIR HOMES then if some of the wives cannot keep |1t there that is their fault.” One of the men affected tried to substitute the address of u police sta- tion for his residence address; others hurried to the post office and rented boxes, but when the pay rolls werc made up the commissloner checked them with the old pay rolls and changed the new addresses back to the old ones. One man called on Mr. Murphy and told him he had received an increase in salary & year ago and had not told the | his wife of the happy cvent. | I ask, commissioner, how {n th | world can I explain this thing to her +when she sees that check?" he i pleaded. One city employe's wife called the commissioner by telephone and an- nounced that she bad heard “the good ews,” dnd was sending -him a box ! of ‘candy. [