Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1923, Page 10

10 & WOMEN RESTORE T0U.S. CITZENSHIP Two Married Foreigners Get Back Rights—Nine Petitioners Rejected. Two women who lost their Ameri- ean citizenship by marriage to. for-| were restored to their rights | eigners as American citizens by Chief Just McCoy of the District Supreme Court today. Another woman, born in Can- ada and married to an American since the passage of the new naturaliza- tion law, was made an American citi- zen a petitions the draft and of another 1 to make out and fille his are. nid M. Smith, born in Amer- citizenship by marriage hman. She applied for r -r rights and was re- admitted to citizenehip. Mrs. Blanche A. Henderson, a native of this coun- try, married mes Henderson, & na- tive of Ireland, a teacher at St. Al- She recovered her America citizenship today and her husband also was naturalized K Mrs Hotchkiss, Cunada, married to Harry ( Hotehkiss 1 December. Although her husband is an American citizen, the passage of the new law last Oc- tober prevented Mrs. Hotchkiss from {aking the nationality of her hus- band. She had to apply in her own name Dr. Louis Kunzelman: born 's petition for ssed by the | physician, under i- | Dis- | He claimed that nforced al e questic re, o The business ionnaire: v appli- of tive according who con- e doctor nake cation_afte expiratic years from Armistice day to Lxaminer Je: ducted the pr cthers petitio! will_also ed exemp- | THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, At the Bottom of the Ladder. LD \\ - HENDV C.WALL BOV IN IOVA- issed, and E cations, are: Nath Vieth end DENY SUGAR TARIF INCREASED PRICES Republicans Seek to Refute Democratic Charges. Draw Parallel. i | E the sugar are the subjects of a lively duel now going on between the republican and democratic national minagements, ar prices and { chair tarift { nomic or political affairs % \WALSH CAN'T SEE | NORMALCY RETURN Massachusetts Senator Says Demo- | crats Will Gladly Meet Issue If G. 0. P. Proposes It. The demoeratic natiof has sent out an intervies ator David L. Walsh of Massachu n of the democra enato ee, in which he democratic party will be glad t the issue of “return to normal the republicans set it up in 1924 tatement says in part “If there has been any apprecial return to normaley reflected elther in financial, industrial, ec Any one who travels extensively will find no sta of normalcy in the public mind an where; in_fact, dissatisfaction and unrest is greater than ever “Business is still groaning under al com al com the whose headquarters gre in this city, and between ndividual and republican statesmen. The demo- | ¢ aggressiv in putting the | for high sugar on the new tariff law and the republicans deny Hegation. | ng to a recent direct charge | national committee that the republi-} s responsible, the republi- | committee, through fts bureau, today gave out the fol- he price of sugar, | ance in the price | commodities since | 1o no more due to. the | T price of bread tariff on wheat, Figures + public by the bureau of la- show that while the 2 decre ed to where cent above the level price of bread rer 56 th 1913 level aha, N the ud grain growing | are payiug more for th people of any ¥, with the ex- the above tin O wheat people district, politiclans and repre- riing interests can in connec- | of wheat, | 18 the price | turiff on wheat, majority of people this problem any specious argu- ment. Yet the underiying reasons for the high price of bread are ctly | th as the underlying reason for the advance in the of other neeessitles and count commodi- { tics, ne of which reasons have anything at all to do with the tariff.” CHARGE POISON PEN T0 EX-U. S. EMPLOYE, | Letters Reflecting on Interior De-! partment Workers Are Being Investigated. emocr sentatives not play th tion with the flou b are to be buncoed by i Charges that a former division head of the Department of the In- terior. who also hasheld a highly responsible position in the office of | o former cabinet head, has written | anonymous letters attacking the character and efliclency of certain employes of the Interior Department are being investigated by the postal inspection service, it was learned to- a; Ithough the charge is not being officlally investigated, it is also de- clared that this former officlal has | involved himself in cases of petty thievery and that by other acts he has cast a reflection on his predeces- sors in office and other employes of the Interior Department. Officials of the Interior Department are reticent to talk about the mat- | ter. They assert the case is only| that of transfer of a clerk, “for the good of the service.” They admit, however, that the. Post Office Department has been asked to Investigate the author of anomymous letters that have been ) circulated in the department during the past few months and that they have been lald at the door of the transferred employe. At the Post Of- fice Department the chief of the pos- tal {nspection service declined to comment on the scope or results of e Investigation. Acting Secretary Finney did not sen the papers in the case, he said today, although he had heard rumors of the matter for some time. Secretary Work is out of the city on & trip of inspec- tion to Tndian reservations in the southwest. WHISKY AND RUM VANISH. Several gullons of eggnog, fifty- two pints of whisky and ten pints of rum disappeared from the drug store | of Dr. W. A. Boyd, Georgia avenue and Kenyon street, last night, Ln- trance was gained to the store by , breaking a pane of glass from a rear democratic | tion is higher than ever, due !ing has been dune “hairman Hull of the democratic | qetonaly, because new trade barr republican | war taxation, and the cost of produc- to the raw materials slight b of bus profiteers’ tarlft The temporar: revival, as any student s ftairs knows. is due to depleted stocks in nearly all lines of business; it ts only the filling of empty shelve The country still suffers the loss of Luropean trade, first, becaus to’ restors on and and, rs it, have been erected by legislation. The consuming public still finds & cost of llving steadily rising, the el of wholesale prices being 11.3 r cent higher than u year ago, amounting to between 15 and 20 per | cent increase in retail prices Certainly, the people who are now | gouged on sugar by reasom, | of the high tariff, secondly, 1 eering, and lastly, by stock- are not experiencing mnor- the people who passed through the recent coal famine with its personal suffering and extortion- ate prices due to inaction on the pa )t the administration, are not enjoy ing much normaley.” { be CONDUIT ROAD OPEN FOR BUSINESS ONLY/ Present Restrictions on Travel Willi Not Be Augmented Unless | Necessary. i | Recent restrictions placed on auto- | mobile travel on the Conduit road | north of the District line because of | work on the new water conduit be-1{ ing built for the District of Columbia | {will not be augmented unless abso- | lutely necessary, it was stated at the; office of Maj. M. C. Taylor, assist- ant englneer commissioner of the | District today. Residents of the Cabin John section were gald to have been informed that all automobile travel on the road Would be stopped except for purely business purpcses within a few . weeks or shortly after work on the new conduit had recommenced after the tle-up in work during the winter. Cabin = John residents declared , that thev had been told a pass would be necessary 1o use the road after the work had begun, and that all au- tomoblle travel other than for busi- ness would be stopped. Notices have been posted for sev- eral months along the road north of Cabin John bridge that the road is not to be used for pleasure driving. The road is passable, but not in the best of condition, from a point about two miles north of Cabin John bridge, and the excavation work along the west side of the road from tho bridge north about a half mile has made passage by automobile dan- gerous. Within the last week work of- the Arundal Corporation of Balilmore, con- tractors in charge of the work, was again begun, and the condition of the road will probably become worse, al- though no further restrictions are vlanned immediately. Eighty feet of the steel conduit along the road north of Cabln John bridge were lald last week, and prep- | ratiors are now being made south of the bridge for excavation work. Great plles of gravel and sand have been dumped south of the bridge, nar- rowing the road considerably. e NEW HEAD AT FORT MYER. Col. Hawkins Assumes Command of 3d Calvary. Col. Hamilton S. Hawkins, a dis- tingulshed cavalry officer, today as. sumed command of the iry and artillery post at Fort Myer, Va. He has just completed & tour of duty as assistant commandant of they Cavalry School, at Fort Riley, Kan., and has been assigned to command of the 3d Cuvalry, recently relinquished by Col. William C. Rivers, who has been transferred to the inspector general's department, Col. Hawkins is a native of South Dakota and was graduated from the Military Academy in June, 1894. With 2= S = AQE , SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, RECEIVED WIS PRACTICAL FARM EXPERICNCE A? A with Sen- | noth- | {docket of the Police Court, % back for several vears, were docketed —By Kessler. | LE ROY FINAGIN DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Past President of Business High School Alumni Victim of Pneumonia. LE ROY FINAGIN. » Roy ¥ t Business Associatior Washington day night of pneumonia, followi illness of only a few days’ dur Hc was twenty-three years Mr. Finagir, who was a 1 the District of Columbia known in local high He graduated from i 1918, Durin the Marine ing at Paris Is later sent to @ seas assignment 4 armistice He served Alumni Association in He was engaged in the at_Geor, Mr. F Costello Po and of the dist Church. survived by T Josbua B. I ters, Mrs. Walter Marlow and Raymond Hunt, and by two brotl Archic and Walter Finagin, all of this city. Funer home, 1 Heights, o'clock eside Alumn George Satur- n High and a st Univers School dent a died a4 member of the 1 American Legion ress Helghts Metho- parents, He is and Mrs. agin: two will be held B nnah street, ¢ tomorrow afterncon the {JUROR IS INDICTED IN SMALL INQUIRY/ Two Others Named in Grand Jury Investigation of Jury Tampering. By the Assaciated Press WAUKEGAN, II1., tal of Gov. Len Small ward Kaufman and Edward Courtney both of Chicago, were named in in- dictments returned today as a result of the grand jury charges of tampering with the Small Jury. ] All three men were charged with conspiracy in a true bill containing fourteen counts. Seven of these counts violations of charged state statutes and the other seven viola- tions of the common law. —— HANDBOOK CASES PUSHED Federal Attorney Dockets First Ac- tions for Wednesday. The first of the handbook cases to be tried under the plan of Maj. Pey- | ton Gordon, United States district at- torney, to clean up the fifty or more. have been on the running. old cases that today by Assistant District Attorney David A. Hart for Wednes next The defendants Robert L. Pitts, Joseph . Passero, Charles Lombardi, Mike Lombardi rge Delaphne. Lea Cohen (two charges), and Frank E. Lambkin. Mr. Hart will start these trials Wednesday morning, just as soon as {the docket is cleared of the defend- ants on the docket that day who are locked up. From time to time for each book defendants will be put on the docket for trial until all of the cases now in the office of “Mr. Hart have been disposed of. ———— Bulgaria has a compulsory labor law which provides that all persons of both sexes—namely, men of twenty or over and girls of sixteen or over— door, the police were told, and the|the exception of a single detail in,shall be liable to compulsory labor * brands of whisky taken, the police|the inspector general's department,|service, lasting a lot:l of ytwelve say, would net bootleggers approxi- mately §200, ¥ hie entire service has been in the cavalry arm, e g months In the case of men and six months for girls, . investigation of | Wednesday six or more hand-! 'MARYLAND PLANS FIGHT FOR OYSTER | Merchanuts and | Alarmed by Diminishing Industry. Manufacturers | Spectal Dispaten to The star. BALTIMORE. April group members of and Manufactur |ation is preparing to make a sy t and extensive study of the oyster situation in Maryland. with a view of determining what measures uld be taken to regain for Balti- and the state the supreme posi- 2—A special the Mer- Assoct- of the chants is atic peake bay vield for the as shown such an hat the industry natural condi- :sapeake bay &re land should be the sinant factor in the oyster market the United Stat ccording to soldsborough, secretary of the {ation total ).000,000 and $25,000,000. 1t is hy of positive and deter- mined ion in order to save It from | further shrinkage and ultimately to iput it back on its old-time pre- pininent basis. is why a spectal group In- Merchants and Manufactur- seiation, which has a practical the real facts, is pre- paring to the problem and out- {line a campaign for the good of the | state.” ECARNIVAL OPENS TONIGHT. : Address by Commissioner Rudolph of betwee; to Inaugurate Grotto Festival.. by District Commissioner Craige Pelouze of narch of the Prophets will for- arnival of 7:30 o'clock Coliseum ylvania ave- Re open the two-w Kallipolis Grott { evening in the at 9th-street and 1e. A number of invited guests, in- cluding men prominent in Masonic, civic and business circles, will be present {__The sensational “King Tut Mummy Strut” will be presented in Wash- ington for the first time at the car- nival by Gypsy Rohmouje, Egyptian dancer, who headlines the vaudeville attractions. Other vaudeville num- bers include the Dixie Minstrel Troupe and Jerry Ripp, an original jazz dancer. Dancing and novelty | games will be a feature of the amusements iere also will be a merchants manufacturers’ ex- hibit at Cent *en and —_— TALKS ON CITIZENSHIP. | Chief Justice McCoy Gives Advice to Prospective Americans. { _The importance of citizenship was the topic of a short talk given today by Chief Justice McCoy of the District Supreme Cdurt to many alien appli- cants for the honor and those whg had come with them as sponsors and | witnesses. The court spoke of the importance of the function to be performed by |the witness in sponsoring the ad- mission to citizenship of frlends and | said that if they were aware even in jthe slightest that the motive of the | cundidate in seeking citizenship, was | anything but that of sound patriot- ism, to so inform the court. Chief Justice McCoy referred to the trial of certain agitators in Mich- igan and said that “unless this sort ! of thing is stopped, it won't be long | before they would go through the | streets of Washington with the bomb land the torch. Our forefathers were right when they said that ‘el { vizilance is the price of liberty, | court declared. - ACTRESS SEEKS TRIAL. Stella Adler Would Clear Name of | Farrar’s Charges. | NEW YORK, April 2.—Attorneys for Stella Adler—Stella Larrimore on the age- corespondent in Geraldine Farrar's suit for divorce from Lou Tellegen, today petitioned the supreme court for a trial by jury in order that she might refute testimony recently in- troduced by the prima donna. 1 Miss Adler wanted to clear her name, her counsel told Justice O'Malley. Argument on the petition will be made during the day. HIT BY GIANT WAVES. HALIFAX, N. S, April 2.—Her bridge and officers’ quarters a mass of splinters, the White Star liner Pittsburg, docked today with a re- port of having been struck by two . gilant waves, which rising out of a moderate sea smashed down on both bows simultaneously. The damage was done on Good Fris day 600 miles off Sable Island. The third officer was knocked unconscious and_every man on the bridge was tumbled about roughly. The bridge and quarters will have to be Tebuiit, and the telegraph s: tem repaired. Everything movable, that was struck by the waves was carried away. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1923. Sends Regards ELGINE AVATS K ARMY FLYERS Alleged Victims U. S. Air Chief Plans Recep- Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va. April —Pierre tion Here for Men Who Flew 6,000 Miles. F. Cross, a caterer here five years lago, alleged to have decamped with {funds put Into his buesiness, is In Patras, Greece. He disappeared whe: the sheriff closed his place, it is al leged, and the first heard of him since was a letter recently extending his regards “to Richmond.” There is no treaty with Greece by which his return to face charges could be ef- fectuated. TAKES UP RENTALS ON OWN INITIATIVE D. C. Commission Begins Investi- gation of Rates in Bradford Apartment House. Six De Haviland Army airplanes, carrying twelve officers of the Air Service. will complete their 6,000-mile flight from San Antonlo, Tex., to Washington, by way of Porto Rico, at Bolling Field tomorrow noon. The Porto Rican fiyers will be met and welcomed fn the air by Maj. Gen. Magon M. Patrick, chief of the Air Service; Brig. Gen, Willlam Mitchell and a formation of flve airplanes from the local post. On the ground to meet the pilots when their last landing is made will be either Secretary of War Weekq or Assistant Secretary Davis, Brig. Gen. Bandholtz, commanding officer of the district of Washington, and his staff and numerous Army and Air Service officlals. The officers who will arrive tomor- row are Capt. Thomas G. Lanphier, commanding officer of the ex‘pedlllon, Lieuts. Erik H. Nelson, Edgar T. Selzer, George C. McDonald, Ivan G. Moorman, Delmar . Dunton, James A. Woodruff, Newton Longfellow, Guy Kirksey, Caleb V. Haynes, Charles B. Austin and Rex K. Stoner. They will remain in Washington a few days prior to returning to their home sta- tions in various parts of the country. The six airplanes, especially prepared for the trip, will eventually be allo- cated to various fields. Tomorrow night at the Army and vy Club the officers will be guests at an informal smoker. AUTO VICTIM SUCCUMBS. Richard I Hook Injured Wednes- day and Driver Arrested. Richard 1. Hook, thirty years old, 1141 12th street, who was knocked down by an automobile last Wednes- day night, dled at Freedmen's Hos- pital last night. Joseph Smoot, alias Richard Herd, colored, 2236 1lth street, driver of the automobile that inflicted the injury, was arrested shortly after the accident. He will appear at an inquest scheduled to be held the morgue this afternoon Taking advantage of its preroga- tive afforded by the revised rent act, the District Rent Commission todiy {began an Investigation on its own |initiative of rental values in the {Bradford apartment house, 1800 X | street northwest. Rents will by {by the commission on the apartments in the building. Starting with a public day, the co |of real estate experts regarding the value of the apartment property, which s owned by Azreal Furr. E timates of the present value of the building and_ ground varied from $425,000 to $450,000. Later today the tenants will be asked to testify. The commission decided to conduct a_hearing on all of the apartments after elght of the tenants had, asked for rental reductions, whereas, the lowner had asked on | fourteen of the ap enants {who filed complaints Charles erett Sanders, Kieran J. Lowry A M. Burgoyn ., Harry E. Radc d Allen R. Stover. It is likely that the hearing will not be concluded today, becatise of the large number of tenants to testify. —_— Mica mining in the United States started early in the nineteenth cen- tury in New Hampshire, which state supplied all the domestic production juntil about 1868, when mining was | started in North (arolina and other | state Geese on Flight Sidetracked by Crook in River Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERIJAND, Md., April 2.—Wild geese and ducks have begun to make théir appeerance in this city and vicinity on itheir annuai flight north- ward. On | Friday night a flock of about twemty-five wild geese, flying In their culstomery V shaped forma- tion and fThonking” loudly, became confused ag Pearre, about forty miles cast of hege, because of the bend In | gy ¢he A the Potomgac river. | HaG The fowels, which apparently were | following the river course, going | northwardy circled the bend, got off | their cougse and flew toward the south from whence they came, Wild ucks haye appeared on the Potomac s o it o e i R Ml caAe parn hen:f“” acres of timber before it was final each day khis week. They come from | 1y extinguished last night by a large up the Fiver, stay xeveral hoursdiv. | number of voluntecr fighters. A high | ing for figh, ‘at their chosen spot and 4 v could | & Tor . At their chosen spot and | wind fanned the blase, which cou be seen for ten mlles. | | tion. { The fire was discovered at the —_— | base of the mountain. Winds sweep | ing it upward, hampered the work of N ANY ORCHARDS Faulders. It was not checked unt! it reached the top of the mountain Most of the timber destroyed was Maryland Fruit in Some Sec- tions Suffers Loss as High as 35 Per Cent. FLAMES ARE SEEN TEN MILES AWAY 600 Acres of Timber De- stroyed in Black Rock Dis- trict of Maryland. fated Press. RSTOWN, Md, April A |flerce mountain fire which has beer raging in the Black Rock district, the scene, several months ago, of the | worst forest fire in years, destroyed young oak, pine and chestnut. | $300,000 HAGERSTOWN FIRE. HAGERSTOWN, Md., April 2.—Fire | belteved to have been of incendlary | origin, which destroyed a two-story brick bullding housing the offices of the mecanical department and the storehouse of the Western Maryland raflroad, in this, city, caused a loss conservatively estimated at "$300,000. | The principal loss was in the store | house, which was gutted. Three adja- | cent bulldings were damaged. Th. loss in partially covered by Insuranc Md.. April 2.—Great | o, Vine hundred men have been out Md., April 2.—Great | on strike at the plant of the railroad done fruit in many |company here since March 23, 1922 sections by the drop in temperature | Strike Anniversary. the past three or four nights. Where | The first anniversary of the stri there had been no warm epells the | was celebrated here last Mond: budding was backward and the|night, with a big parade and m crops were not hurt, but in other | meeting. As there was no fire about sections, particulariy Pinto, along the | the bullding, which had been locked Potomac, west of here, the freeze of | up following the day's work on Sat- the night of March 25 caused heavy |urday, there being no one employed s facsiralug lalorcnaaiss there 'at night, authorities are led ¢ to believe that some one set the ‘The Farris Orchard Cempany lcst| busding on fire. from 10 to per cent of its crop| Rallroad officials expressed the be that night, wiile the Chert-Land|llef that former shopworkers in the Orcliard Company in the same section, | recent strike started the fire, as there places its loss at 35 per cent. Satur- | Was mnothing combustible in the day night the drop in temperature | building, which was heated by pipes still 1o r and the extent of the from ancther building. All of the damage from the freeze has not yet|valuable records of the company a been ascertal | this place were destroyed. W. & J. SLOANE 1508 H STREET, N. W. (Opposite the Shoreham) Why Our Business Has Grown and Prospered Our parent house in New York, established eighty years ago, has grown until it is now the lead- scientiously recommend, presented entirely upon BED ROOM FURNITURE . $350 395 410 500 525 625 Mahogany Suite (9 pieces) - Hand-Decorated Suite (11 pieces) Mahogany Suite (9 pieces) . . . Hand-Decorated Suite (11 pieces) . Walnut Suite (8 pieces) e e s Mahogany Suite (9 pieces) « « .« ing institution of its kind, favorably known for the high standard and merit of its merchandise. It has been built upon the constructive policy of selling only such merchandise as we can con- its merits, with no attempt to create, by sensa- ‘tional methods, an exaggerated impression of value, which the article may not inherently possess. Note the prices quoted on the various articles enumerated—Make a critical comparison of the merchandise with-that elsewhere, and reach your own conclusion—We are confident of the result, for ability to meet competition is a fundamental of any successful business. MODERATELY PRICED FURNITURE We list below but a few pieces in the wide selection offered. DINING ROOM FURNITURE Walnut Suite (10 pieces) . . . . . $455 Mahogany Inlaid Suite (10 pieces) 525 Walnut Suite (10 pieces) . . . . 600 Chestnut Suite (10 pieces) . . . 985 OCCASIONAL PIECES $30 up 20 up 15 up 110 up . 15up . 55 up ‘Tea Wagons Prints.c o o« Mirrors . . Windsor Chairs DayBeds . . . . . .o SMALL ORIENTAL RUGS Our stock of Small Oriental Rugs has been largely ‘made to our own order in the best weaving districts of Persia. There are no torn, patched or damaged pieces in the collection. Sizes range from 4.0x3.6 to 6.0x3.6 Persian Mossouls . $25.00 to Persian Nobarans 35.00 to Joww: 25.00 to Iran Dozars 85.00 to Turkomens . . . 25.00 to Bokharas . . . . 25.00 to Small Hamadan Mats - 14.00 ROOM SIZE ORIENTAL RUGS at equally attractive prices and each one unquali- fiedelgen o:tedbyuo. ™ o $50.00 85.00 35.00 100.00 35.00 35.00 The store will remain open Desks . . End Tables . . Sewing Tables . Console Tables Nests of Tables Centre Tables Upholstered Chairs (denim) . . . . $55 up DOMESTIC RUGS We offer an exceptionally large stock in a wide variety cf designs and sizes of all the desirable weaves. Prices are quoted on the 9 x 12 ft. size—Other sizes at proportionate prices. $26.00 36.00 ) 40.00 to 70.00 44.75 to 82.50 . 110.00 80.00 to 95.00 100.00 to 135.00 Apgar . Reversible Wool Brussels . . Velvets . . Axminsters Chenille . . Wiltons Wool . Wiltons Worsted frem 8 A. M. to 5.30 P.M. Freight' paid to all shipping points in the United States.