Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1923, Page 2

] * FEDERAL OFFGALS PUSH SUGAR PROBE Investigators Are Trying tol Discover Evidence of Sus- pected Conspiracy. — [ Quiet but persistent work upon the | Problems involved in the increased| cost of sugar to the consumer is pro- ' ceeding in the several departments of | the government concerning ther selves with it by direction of Presi dent Harding Developments na 1v are not to be expected daily, cle Sain is “on the job' possible in the circumsta The Debartment of Justice has a, staff of men &t work, pursuing two| Tines of investigation. One is directed | 1o ascertalning whether there existed | # conspiracy coming unde :levl utes of the United States. which may | Rave been responsible for the sudden ! Jump in the price of sugar. i Probe 1a Secret. { It is a certainty that any evidence Which may be found in this angle of tha case will be acted upon promptiy by the Department of Justice unds that offenders 1 face the prospect of getting the limit of prosecution. Another lina is understood to look to the possible relationship between the Deet sugar interests of this country and the cano growers of Cuba and other countries. The investigations in these subjects are being conduct- ed with secrecy. course, and the department is ve reticent in dis- cassing them ‘The Tariff Commission was learned today. is proceeding with dis- patch on the preliminary plans for what must inevitably be a prolonged and exhaustive studr of conditions which will show whether the new ‘ariff did or did not contribute to the inerease in prices.! Letters are being sent to all interests concerned in the sugar industry, producers. refiners and brokers, asking for information calculated to throw light on the sub- ect. Later. wi are located. have open bases of investigation mav ba necessary to earings, but that stage seems some distance removed. The commisaion will Investigate condi- tlons in Louisiana, the western beet- growing states and Hawa Demoerats Watchful. All conditions conferm in promis- Ing.a thorough ir-estigation and the vrobable disclosure of remedies to prevent recurrence of speculative outrages upon the public. such as the current instance is said to be. The administration, it is eaid, is thor- auzhis aroused and the opposition s watchful and willing to spur it t action upon any Sizn of flagging inter- ast. The democratic national campaign nanagement is up and dolng to tr¥ to put the blame o2 the party in power and individual senators and representa- tives of both parties animated by pat otic motives—with maybe a few polit cal considerations on the side—ara pre- paring to open up also. U. S. PUSHES CASES AGAINST OIL MEN Assistant Attorney General Goes to Fort Worth as Special Prosecutor. ! 1 As 2 part of the Department of Justice campaign against stock awindlers, begun last Novemoer, Act- ng Attorney General Seymour has sent Assistant Attorney General Crim to Fort Worth, Texas, to pre- vare for trial a large number of cases charging mail frauds In the selling of ol stocks. Mr. Crim has reported 10 the department that ‘< amount mulcted from the public at this point (Fort Worth) is not. less than $100,000 w day.” About seventy-elght cases are pending in the northern Texas di trict, and Mr. Seymour said they will he pressed. The trials will be con- ducted by District Attorney Zweifel, assisted by David V. Cahill, assistant United States attorney in New York, appointed a special asistant for pros- ecutions. The northern Tilinois district attor- ney also has been directed to bring 1o trial another allcged stock swin- dlng case in Florida everglades lands, and this has been assigned for trial n May. Mr. Seymour has conferred with District Attorney Hayward of New York, with a view to expediting trial of similar cases in that district. The department's plans, when an- , 8ald that hundreds of swin dlers had “fiched a total of nearly $150,000,000 from the public through fraudulent use of the mails,” with about 500 cases pending throughout ihe country, and 900 persons arrested or indicted DEMING TO BE SWORN AS CIVIL SERVICE HEAD Will Take Oath as President ofl Commission Monday—Position Vacant a Year. William C. Deming of Wyoming is to be sworn in Monday as president of the Civil Service Commission which position has been vacant for | more than a year, following the ves ignation of John H. Bartlett. who be- came first assistant postmaster gen- eral. John T. Doyle, secretary of the com- | mission, will administer the oath to Mr. Deming. who is expected to ar- rive here Sunday. Owing to the un- cartainty of the time of his arrival the exact hour for the ceremony has not been selected. Senator Warren, Representative Mondell and other members of Con- Eress and officlals are to attend the ceremontes. Mr. Deming is editor of tne Wyoming State Tribune-Leader of Cheyenne. SUBMITS CASE TO LEAGUE GENEVA, March 30.—The Canadian movernment, through Sir Joseph Pope, under-secretary of state for| foreign affairs, has notified the| league of nations and also the Swiss | xovernment of the recent seizure n | « Canadian port of a “quantity of| contraband druge.” The shipment in- | cluded 442 pounds of morphine. 117} pounds of heroin and sixty-five pounds of cocaine. The notification sadd the consignment was sent by a Rasle irm under a false declaration that it consisted of “cocoa powder.” 1t was the last of four shipments, the others escaping seizure. In the notification the Canadian zovernment requests an investiga-| tion. This the Swiss authorities al- veady have begun. The belief is ex- preesed in government quarters that| the contraband drugs came from Ger- many, as none such is manufactured in Switzerland. ——— SEEKING U. S. HUSBANDS. NEW YORK, March 30.—A number ©of German girls whose avowed pur- pase in coming to the ted States i3 to get married arrived at Hoboken lagt night on the steamship Seydlitz from Bremen. % Eighty-five per cent of the 637 pas- sengers_were women. Many, how cver.-said they were not seeking hus. hande, but wanted to find good jobs. | {day 39 Die in District From Pneumonia During Past Week| ‘Thirty-nine persons died from pneumonia in Washington during the past week. an increase of s.x over the preceding weels, accord- ing to a bulletin issued by the health department today, Discussing the prevals pneumonia here during tac winter, Dr. Fowler said: “It is by no means casy to estab- lish a satisfactory cause for the present prevelence of pneumonia in the District of Columbia. but the mild epidemic of influenza or grippe through which we are passing, poesibly a reflex of the e cpidemic of four years ago, is probably responsible in a meas- ure for many o the same time. we ject at this time of the year to a day or 55 of mild. pleasant weath- er. followed by a sudden fall of temperature. but cold weather in its21f does not necessarily ocause pneumonia, although in a measu recponsible for keeping the w ws closed, with the consequ lack of proper ventilation. With improper ventilation, the indoor air becomes more or less impure an made deficisnt In certain elements of healthfulness. The vi are consequently @ and the powers of the o resist disease lowered, condition created in the oruble to invasion and development of the paeumonia germ.” STINNES’ ROME VISIT REGARDED “FAILURE” of past Geiman Banker Found Every One *“Shy™ of Being Approached, Fear- ing Meeting. Dy the Assoc ated Press 1:OME. March e that the journey to Rome was a every one was shy of being ap- pro: 1 by him, fearing that a meet- ing might be misunderstood. learned authoritatively that Mussolini has not seen Herr Stinnes. and it is_ doubtful whether the visitor saw Elbert H. Gary. In ct, the only certain point is that Stinnes had @ conversation with Fred 1. Kent of the Bankers' Trust Com- pany. New York _Judge Gary is on the way to Spain Even his most intimate friends here arc unable to state whether he saw the German capitalist. PLAN TO REMOVE BARRACKS IN PARK War-Time Surplus Office Equip- ment and Buildings Must Go. 30.—The indications of Hugo Stinnes failure, As soon as space can be found in other government buildings for storing the surplus war-time office equipment now crammed into the former barracks in East Potomac Park, near the tin- can tourist camp, those o!d barracks that are now an evesore will be re- moved. It is the hope of the public buildings commission that ther can be torn down seme time this summer. This is one of the important mate ters that will be considered at a meeting of the public buildings com- mission early next week. Another important matter will be the pro- posal for the government to move out of at least one large rented building in the business center of the city. Th pro} commission fac m because just first time In many months. all of the space in government-owned buildinge is occupied, even in the temporary buildings. This is due to the fact that 2 num- ber of commissions have secured in- creased approprations and are ex- panding to wind up their work. The commission figures that space in gov. ernment buildings will be pretty well occupied all summer. Folks who are looking for the ea removal of temporary buildings will probably be disappointed. Those along the Mall, between the Capitol and the Smithsonlan grounds, will be razed one or two at a time, as the commis- slon finds that the space can be spared. But the recent purchase by the government of the tracts of land occupled by temporary buildings west of the Corcoran Art Gallery, Red Cross, D. A. R. and Pan-American buildings. on 17th street, means that those temporary buildings are likely to remain standing and in use for government offices for some years 1o me. unusual ow, for the 'WILL TRY NON-STOP FLIGHT ACROSS U. S. i Lieuts. Kelly and MacReady Pre- pare for Attempt From New York to San Diego. The Army air service announced to- t Lieuts. Oakley Kelly and John A. MacReady were preparing to attempt another transcontinental non- top flight. New York for San Diego, Calif. Lieuts. Kelly and MacReady will use the same machine, the monoplane T-2, as soon as the machine can be ove hauled and re-equipped. In this plane the two airmen attempted, s flight from San Diego to New York city last November. but were forced to land at Indianapolis, Ind., because of a cracked water jacket on the motor. The_next start be made from New York, air service officials said, be- cause 1t will be possible to take off from that point without straining the ma- chine_to reach high altitudes at the yery beginning with a lieavy suppiy of fuel aboard. It will ba possible also to shorten the distance by 400 miles by directing the flight line course to Las Vegas, N. M., and from there directly westward over the mountain peaks to San Diego., & cross- ing made possible at that distance from New York because of the lightened fuel 1oad. “Both pilots of the T-2 and officials of the engineering division at McCook Field” an air service statement sald, “‘are confident that the T-2 can be made to establish the duration record and succeed In the ocean to ocean journe: Should their hopes be fulfilled it will mark an epochal period in the annale of aeronautical achievement. It will mean that at last an engine has been developed that ‘never stope’ as long as fuel is supplied, and that the experi- mental stage of the airplane is passing into the baclkground to make way for its general acceptance as a practical, dependabie vehic! Sounded for 1,000 Years. From the Scientific American. Ripon, England, keeps up a custom 1,000 years old. Every night a “wake- man.” attired in official costume, ap- pears before the mayor's house and blows thrae golemn notes on the “horn of Ripon.” inasmuch as g starting this time from | tor the flight, which will start along a straight THE EVENING ! FOR NOEL HOUSE Center of Activities Near Old Benning Race Track to Benefit by Affair. Out on the fringes of northeast Washington, hard by the old Ben- ning race track, stands one of the most obscure, and vet most providential, settlement houses in the District of Columbia—Noel House. Vir- tually unknown to the vast majority of Washingtonians, for twenty vears it has been doing its work quietly, bringing joy and sunshine into the lives of nearly 4,000 women and children, who are its adoring benefactors. Soon, however, Noel come into its own; §iruggle are to be richly rewarded. Tuesday night it will be the sole bene- factor of a brilliant cabaret fantastique j&t the Hotel Hamilton, when the city’s {foremost men and women will give as 18enerously to Noel House as it has to its many charges for two decades. Nelghhorkood Center. Should you wish to know just { what Noel House has been doing all | iof these vears, drive out to the vicinity of 15th and H streets north- east and ask the first street urchin ou meet. The youngest can tell | ol in a flash that it is situated at 1663 Kramer stroet northeast. “three blocks out that road and on down tha: way." as your director | would exrress it with appropriate | gesticulations. | Tt comsists’ of two «omfortable | houzes at the end of a block, with 2 substantial gymnasium in the Lich. Around th House is to years of patlent ¢ three structures i centers every worth-while activity jof the meighborhood surrounding them for many blocks. In the gym- nasium boys and girls alike are made strong and healthy and tausht how to dance attractively and prop- erl; And in the two hours they e instructed {n the finer arts of domestic life—sewing, Weiving, em- broidering. stenciling and a host of other thing: Designs by Children. Starting on a tour of the premises Several guests were first ushered into a clean. quiet hallway which led di- rectly into a reception room. Neatly arranged on tables were select maga- | {zines for both adults and children. | Remarking about the attractive sten- | il deslzng on the buif-colored cur- | jtalns that swung before the doors and windows, one of the party learned with no little astonishme. all of that | work had been done by the chlidren. | From the reception room the visitors { were escorted into a quiet, well-kept library. Its numerous shelves were | filled ith literary works of all char- | 2acter, seiected for the benefit of both young and old. Tue Public Library supplies the books. and every month makes suve that later voiumes re- place older ones, so that there is al- ways plenty of wholesome reading material. A titian-haired girl of about thirteen was sittlng in the reading room perusing a book from Noel House Library. ~ Swear by Miss Marphy. H | To one side of the library 1s a well | stocied kitchen and a dining room. These are always available for com- munity affairs. Upstairs is the sewing room. There the ladies of the neigh- | borhood instruct the little girls in | sewing and embroidering. This voom ! also contains a carpet loom, where | both women and girls make beauti- | ful rugs from old carpets. And the loom, incidently, was purchased by those who use Noel House. Out in the gymnasium Miss Loretta Murphy _is the idol of boys and giris alike. To the little boys she is the reincarnation of 2 real sport—she! can show them all how to play base {ball, basket ball and swing the In- dian clubs like a veteran. To the girls she is grace itself—their patlent in- structor in both modern and esthetic |dancing. Sunday is the only da. |ZS not there to h er little ch: | Have * s Club." { If vou should ask Miss Murphy jabout her program she would an- swer, casua'ly, something like this: |~ “Monday the ‘Buddies’ Club’ meet | That is an organization for our boy {between’the ages of eight and ten. 1 After a business meeting there are {games. stories and lessons in basket jmaking. Tuesday we have dancing class for girls and women of all ages | and a meeting of the Polly Anna Club, for girls between the ages of eight to fourteen. The same evening | girls from fourteen to eighteen have i either a game of basket ball or prac- itice. Wednesday the Buddies' Club mieets again and the Girl Scouts have thelr turn “Thursday the kindergarten pupils lcome finto the gym and the Polly {Anna Club meets, too. The latter |has & business session, are taught thow to make imitation flowers. tell stories and play games. Friday is athletic day for boys from eleven to {fourteen vears old. The girle stencil class also meets. we are lopen both morning and atternoon. In |the morning we tecach dancing to| { boys and girls from four to fourteen | ! vears old." Athlctic Teams Score. i Miss Murphy has “some” base ball | {team. Frequently she takes it to one {of the playgrounds for & match game | with a team composed of boys of that i section. The older boys' basket ball team is a real quintet and has met {such strong fives as Quantico, St. loysius and the famous Yankees, Noel House gym was used for all of jthese games. Every second Friday !ihere is a community dance open to all. A sinall fee is charged and the {da have proved So popular that {those in charge generally clear 330 {above expenses to help keep Noel House going. Mrs. Helen Hines has charge of the older women. Monday she is busy | with the ladies’ stencil class, chil- faren’s sewing class and study hours | in_the evening. Tuesday is for the {ladies’ reading and the Rosedale Women's_Club. ursday the ladies’ stencil class meets again. Friday Is literary day. Outside of this, Mrs. Hines has nothing to do but take care of a family of her own. i Seek $6,000 Fand. | Noel House is, at the same time, the {social center and second home to {every woman. bov and girl in that section of Washington. It is the neighborhood sun around which everything revolves and upon which | it sheds joy and sunshine every day in the year. Its benefactors are proud that thev can and do help main- tain it financially. But now it needs | more money The governing board | has set out fo raise $6,000 and_ the Cabaret Fantastique at the Hotel | { Hamilton next Tuesday night will do {much toward filling iix more than | worthy chest. ! Financial donations from private sources will also be gladly received. Any person who wishes to contribute to Nael House may send elther checks, money orders or cash to Mis, {Helen S. Jones, at 1622 Rhode Island iavenue northwest. Receipt of such presents will be gratefully acknow: edged and those in charge will mal sure that the money is used for the | greatest benefit of all concerned. N POPE’S ENVOY IN RUHR. BERLIN, March 30.—Special dis- patches from Essen to the Berlin newspapess report the arrival in the! Ruhr city of Monsignor Testa, as the representative of Pope Plus. i | i A Rome dispatch to the Times of London last week declared that, fol- lowing receipt of a letter from the Catholic bishops of the Rhin ltnd,] Mgr. Testa was (o be sent to the oc- cupied regions of Germany as the! Pope's special envoy. It was under- | stood, howaver, that the \'MIQWI no intention of interfering in the cal aspects of the situation. { |cleared from the doc STAR, Tpper right—>rx. eal director and supe HANDBOOK TRIALS START WEDNESDAY Helen Hines, Eleven Defendants to Be Anmgnfi ed—Some Cases Date Back to 1920. The quick prosecution of all hand- book cases in the file docket of the CUnited States branch of Police Court, which has been determined upon United States District Attorney Pe ton Gorden. will begin Wednesday next with the arraignment of eleven defendants, some of whose cases date back to 1920. Special Assistant United States District Attorney David A Hart has been assignad from the main office of the district attorney to the Police Court to prosecute these cases In addition to the arraignments, there will be one or more defendants called for trial Wednesday and every Wed nesday thereafter until all the hand- book cases have been tried and et. There are probably sixty such cases in the files. The eleven defendants who will be arraigned Wednesda: the d%l!& of their alleged offenses follow: Nor- man S. Bowles, February 17, 1 Henry David Turner, February 24 and March 1. 1322: Charles B. Kallis, July 1, 2 and 3, 1920; David B. Cohen, October 15 and 16. 1922: Phillip B. Anderson, July 11, 13, 14 and 15, 192 Peter Pappas, September 14, 19 COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF ALASKAN RAILROAD {Steel Bridge, Just Finished. Lastcour Link in System Built by Government. The building program of the Alaskan railroad has been practically finished by completion of a large steel bridge 2 few days ago over the Tanana river at Nenana, Alaska. the Interior De- rtment announced today Do oth passenger and freight trafic are now running over the bridge. and the only work remaining to be done involves minor construction in connection with standardization of the roadbed above the bridge to Fairbanks. The Alaskan railroad is the first raiiroad of any size ever built by the sovernment, other railroad ventures having been the Panama railroad and several short lines on irrigation projects in the W The Alaskan railroad is 467 miles in length, run. ning from Seward. on the coast of Alaska, to Fairbanks, where it pene- trates the heart of the territory. Work was begun in 1915 FAMED ARMY FLYER. LIEUT. MAITLAND. WASHINGTON, PI.AN HEABARE'I'H ‘ONE BENEFCOR AND TWO WORKERS endent of children D. ., FRIDAY i3 director of the women's aection. department. At left—A Noel H. LIEUT. MAITLAND FLIES 243 MILES PER HOUR AND ! WINS WORLD RECORD irst Page.) | across the course the aviators ascend- ied to an altitude of several thousand {feet. Coming out of the in almost perpendicular dive they level | off about fifty feet above the groun | maintaining " this altitude for the {length of the course. By zooming they soon gain altitude and prepare for another dive and dash across the tapes. Both aviators experienced dif- ficulty in landing their planes vester- dax | Maitlas is from Bolling Field and | will remain in Dayton until next week, when he will attempt to estab- lish records over a three-kilometer course. The one-kilometer i becomes obsolete under F. A. 1 | April 1 In the future nothing I than hree Lilometers will be flown | for records. it was said OFFICERS HERE ELATED. an | _An exuberant welcome awaits Lie | Lester J. Maitland at Bolling Field | when he returns to Lis station here on | completion of his speed trials at Day- ton. His brother officers at the fleld today evinced unbounded joy on learning that he had flown faster than any human being up to this time and that the one-kilometer airplang| in the hands speed record was safely of the Bolling Field pilot Unless Sadi Lacointe, the vivacious little Frenchman, who has been the only dangerous 'competitor to the | United States Air Service in the mat- | ter of speed. today or tomorrow sur- | passes Lieut. Maitland's speed of ap- | proximately 243 miles an hour, that |record will forever remain in the hands of the United States, for after ! tomorrow the one-kilometer course, |as an official distance over which all speed tests must be flown. is void. | From April 1 on the three-kilometer is the distance established by the F tionale, and both Lieut. Maitland and Lieut. Russel L. Maughan will estab- 'lish records under these new rules, as there will not have been any attempts | up to this time. Second im Palitzer Race. | Confidence in his ability to beat all previous records for speed was ex- i pressed by other pilots at the fleld aside from Limself, prior to his de- | parture for Dayton two weeks ago. | At the time of the Pulitzer race it | was the unanimous opinion at the fleld that Boliing's pilot would carry | oft the prize, but. owing to a mi hap to his gasoline pump, the b leut. Maitland could accomplish was | second place, with a speed of 198.8 | miles per hour. During this flight he | was forced to operate the pump with | one hand and pilot the ship with the | other. | “Lieut. Mait!and has been on duty at { Bolling Field for more .than two years. He is twenty-five years oid and was born in Milwaukee, Wis. En- | tering the -air service In the latter ' part of 1917, he completed his fying FASTEST PLANE. i MARCH 30, { eration Aeronautique Interna- 1923. OF NOEL HOUSE INVADERS T U. S. TRADE IN RUHR (Continued from First Page.) bought and paid for previous to Feb- ruary 1. However, it is necessary for him to ask Brussels or Paris for 2 license. At the Goldsmith Chemical Works, which is an American plant, several hundred thousand dollars worth of zinc chloride shipped to the United States each year in ordina but that the blockade license is preventing business at present. Dusseldorf company has $2,000,080 worth of machinery ordered by an American firm. There are many cases in which English agents purchase for the Americens. Imports Less Disturbed. Tmports are less disturbed because beginning March 26 the French re- moved the formality of 2 10 per cent duty, which was never collected, and reverted to the German tariff.” Thursday the French occupied sev- eral stations at the eastern extremity of the Ruhr area southeast of Dort- mund, {ncluding Aplerbeck, Hoerde and Hoettringhausen, thus breaking the heavy traffic between Dortmund, Schwerte and Cologne. The Freneh rTemoved freight cars containing coal, iron and beer. The idea of militar{zing the eastern sta. tlons seems to be to prepare rapidly {or, organizing a practical customs In Sharnhorst the French are con- structing a village of wooden build- ings for customs examination. The permanent character of these bar- racks seems to indicate a prolonged stay in the Ruhr valley. . SAYS U. S. WILL ACT. Louis Loucheur Reiterates View on Debt to America. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to Tte Star and Chicago Daily News. Coprright, 10 PARIS, March 30.—Louis Loucheur, former cabinet minister, leader of one of France's strongest financial groups and considered one of France's ablest statesmen with a brilllant political career ahead of him, belleves that the United States can and ehould in due course intervene in the repara- tions problem. This problem in its His /| three ‘connected phases of German Lower right—Miss Loretts Murphy, physi- ouse study. \NEGRO, 102 YEARS, OLDEST PENSIONER Former Slave, Born In 1820, Being Carried on Government Rolls. | Mak sh of Roseville, Ga. a negro 102 years of age, is the oldest employe on the pension rolls of the ament, the Interior Department an- nounced today. Tarash, who was born in Louisa ! county, Va., was retired last year as a | 1aborer in the Chickamauga and Chatta- | nooga National Military Park at Chatta- | nooga, Tenn. He is a former slave, and ember 15, 1820, Hiis early life carried him into many ! states of the Union. For more than ty years, as a slave, Thrash was | the " porperty of — Dr. Christopher | Thrash of Virginta, who bought a | tract of land in_Meriwether county, Ga., and sent him there with other | slaves to clear the land. After the civil war the slave ran away to Arkansas, becoming a refu. gee, and finally returning to Chatta- {nooga about the time the Central | Rallroad of Georgia was being con- | structed. He worked on the rallroad | and later became & night watchman {in a hotel in Chickamauga. He then joined the government service as a laborer and was carried on the gov- ernment pay roll for twenty-e{ght years before his retirement with an annuity for life. | zove —_——————— training at the School of Military Aeronautics, Austin, Tex., and was commissioned a second lieutenant in May, 1918. He then attended the aerial gunnery school at Taliaferro Field, Waco, Tex.. and, after graduation, served six months in_test work at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton. Has Long Flying Record. A two-vear tour of duty in the Hawai- ian Islands followed and after he had | carried out several other assignments, he was sent to the station here. He has more than 1,000 hours of fiying to his credit in various machines, includ- euport, Spad, Sopwith-Camel, orse. de Haviland 4, 8. E. Fokker and XBIA. Each of theése planes has a peculiarity of its own and the pilot must be ever on the alert in the application of his knowledge of aero- nautics. Licut. Maughan, who vesterday also surpassed Lacointe's record of 233. |is attached to Crissy Field, San Fra cisco, according to air service records here. He celebrated his thirtieth birth- day Mondas. Lieut. Maughan entered the air service in 1917 and after train- ing overseas, went into action. He is officially credited with destroying four enemy airplanes and wears the Dis- tinguished Service Cross as a symbol of exceptional gallantry in action. He has about 800 hours in the air to his credit, mostly in de Haviland and Spad ma- chines. He won first prize in the Pulit- zer races at Detroit last October, with & speed of 305.8 miles per hour. WITH WORLD'S reparations, inter-allied debts and French security, is probably the most serious fssue of international rel tions today and upon its satisfactory solution perhaps nange the future peace of the world. Reiterates Debt Views. When asked what the United States might helpfully do in thess circum- stances, M. Loucheur declared to the correspondent: “My views regarding the French debt to the United States are alrexdy known. 1 have stated them several times. If the United States is unable to consider a full remission of these debts, even in connection with the general settlement of reparations. a reasonable solution might be, as sev- eral American financiers, notably La- mont and Baruch, have proposed, that at least discrimination should be es- tablished between debts contracted by France before the United States entered the war and those contracted afterward. | Final Settlement Vital “But what chiefly matters is a final settlement of Franco-German relations, without which peace can hardly reign in the world. As regards the past the reparations question must be settled. On lthis point the United States can very well intervene, because on the one hand the United States holds almest all of the world's gold and on the other Germany has nothing but the product of its fu- ture labor. ' This future labor should be | made the object of a discount eperation by means of the world's gold supply to enable France and its allies to solve the reparations problem. Question of Security. “Franco-German relations depend also on the question of security. France does not want to undergo any more attacks like that of 1914. What should be done? Let us talk no more of a pact, because the United States does not want it. But what can be substituted? Here is what I should favor: “There should be, from a military point of view, a kind of neutral zone between France and Germany. The necessity would be to make of the Rhineland a state like Wurtem- berg, Bavaria and Saxony. But, con- trary to what has been said, there would be no attempt to separate this tate from Germany. The latter would remain a federal country as it is now, and would, of course, in- clude the Rhineland. Overfiew of Prussia. “At present these Rhenish provinces are the overflow of Prussia upon the west bank of the Rhine, and the Prus- sian official, schoolmaster or engineer who rules in the Rhineland brings with him the spirit of milltarism. We {absolutely do not want any more of thie. However, mere neutralization would be insufficient. No military operation must remain possible in thig region. To attain this end it would be necessary to put the railwavs un- der international control—under the league of nations. for example. Also, as rd Robert Cecil nas indicated. the peace of the world should be in- sured by an international gendar- which would keep watch on the FLYER HITS AUTO, WRECKED; SIX DEAD (Continued from First Page.) doctor was rushed to tha scene of the wreck and soon the injured were being recaived at the hospitall List of Injured. Among those reported injured were: Andrew Green, Cleveland. engineer, scalded; Miss Mary Catherine John- gon, Columbus: C. L. Siebert, fireman, of Cincinnati, scalded; Dorothy Cop. pack, Greenfield, Ohio, arm injured; S. L. Nelson, Bowdoinham, Me., brulsed; Helen Wheeler, Mount Pleasant, Robert Henderson, negro, oogs. Temn. fatally_ injured: wound: president 1 president of Toledo and Ohio Central railroad: Venita Quackenbusch of Schenectady, and Mary O'Hara of Syracusi Another Health Crank. From the Boston Tranecript. “I wish to get a cocatnul.’ “Yes, ma'am. Here's one that's full 1k." ° !“\‘l‘t\ it sterilized?” UTOR; NS LFE and Exposures. Shooting in New York Office Follows Ten-Year Courtship By the Assoc.ated Press. W YORK, March 30.—Fred W. Burnham, forty-four, contractor socially, financially and professionally prominent, died early today, the vic- tim of & gun in the hands of Mise Heléne Ziegler, twenty-six, daughte: of a well-to-do Riverside drive fam ily, who killed herself after having wounded Burmham in offices late yesterday The tragedy was believed to I followed the girl's discovery, afte ten-year friendship with Burnham that the contractor was marri Miss Ziegler called at Burnhar office in the Grand Central termi yesterday, but he was too busy to see her. She returned two hours late: and gained access to the office, while a ftriend who accompanied her, Mis: 1da Murphy, waited outside. Miss Ziegler was fuside fiftcen min utes when H. §. Coxe, the emplove who had admitted her, and Miss Murphy heard two shots. Miss Mur phy ran away and disappeared. Coze summoned E. Ames of Yonkers one of Burnham's superintendents who bad left the office @ short time before. They found Miss Zeigler dead pistol wound in her right temp! Burnham wvas shot in the right t | ple, but was still breathing. He died ! at Bellevue Hospital at 1 o'clock this morning without having regained | consclousness. Mrs. Burnham, a civic leader a Dobbs' Ferry, where she and her hus band lived on their estate, Riverview | manor, and an active member of the Christian Science Church there, and the girls’ parents, were notified The story of the tragedy was re lated by scquaintances of both fam lies. Burnham, they said, met Ziegler about the time of his m riage, ten years ago. Neither she nor her family knew of the marriage Burnham frequently remained at one of his Manhattan clubs for several days at a time and they accepted h:s tale that he was a bachelor. PREMIER LENIN DYING, IS MOSCOW REPORT Message Adds Military Dictator- ship, Headed by Trotsky, Will Follow His Demise. is dying., says a dispatch Exchange Telegraph Compan Stockholm today. quoting Helsingfors correspondent of Svenska Dagbladet as telegraphi that the soviet legation in Helsingfors has recelved a confidential m from Moscow to that effect paralysis in his right arm i ing, according to the dispatch After his death. the quoted r sage adds. a military dictatorship will be establisihed, headed by Minis- ter of War Trotzky, with four or five assoclates. ‘The Moscow official bulletin o March 29 said Premier Lenin's cor dition was unchanged, except f« slight improvement in temperatu FRANCE CHANGING WARSHIPS’ SIGHTS Minister of Marine Making No Se- cret of Extensive Alterations Under Way. By the Associated Press PARIS, March 30.—The ministr martne is making no secret of tie sight _changes on the battleships of the French navy, and it is through this channel that many details of the alterations have become avallable. It is explained that the old obser- vation posts on each of the two masts are being altered and converted in such a manner that the director o the warship's fire stationed there control the fire of all the guns. This is done by a well known system of mechanical devices, with sight-con trol wires running to the guns through hollow masts attached to the mainmast Increased range for the guns is be- ing obtained by enmlarging the tur- rets so as to raise the angle of ele- vation of the guns. It is pointed out that this involves the cutting away of a certain amount of steel in each turret, thus increasing the risk of the enemy planting shells in the in | terior of the turr POLICE STILL SEEKING ASSAILANT OF WOMAN Absence of mts Hampers Search for Intruder at O'Brien Home. ~ 9 Identity of the woman sssailant o Mrs. Elizabeth E. O'Brien, wife of At torney Matthew E. O'Brien. early Mo day morning during the absence frou liome of her husband, has 1ot vet bee established by the police. Absence of fingerprints, it is admitted by the polic is & serious handicap to them in thet efforts to solve the mystery. Inepector Grant, chief of today =zaid Detectives Sprin, Darnall, who are investigating the fair, have abandoned the theory robbery was the motive. Tt was sald at police headquart v that the detectives are que tioning persons who may be in position to tell something that ma: Sr ve valuable in the investigation everal theories have been suggent ed, Inspector Grant said, and it i one of them may resul ing the investigation to a 'yl couclusion. Mre. Q'Brien’s condition continues to improve, it way said at Emergenc, Hospita! this morning, and the de tectives hope she may be able to further st them in the investiga- tion whe he regains her strength. that You'll Rel-d the First Reports of the Latest News—in here and abroad. sports finals. ' The 5:30 Edition of The Evening Star We hold the presses until the last moment to catch every detail—that you may go home with ALL the news— Always featuring financial news and For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city. ot e ARLKILLS WEDDED ‘ 4