Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1923, Page 2

'SANTIAGO CONGRESS | HEARS TRADE PLANS' 51,000,000 FRANCS TOMODERNIZENAVY France = Expending That, Amount in Overhauling Six Capital Ships. U. §. Delegate Explains Pxoposals‘ to Promote Pan-American i Relations. NTIAGO, Clile, April American congress resumed ¥ after the Baster L. Fowler of the laid bafore me rul inter-Ameri His —The | its | I wor recess. ! United | the PROGRAM IS EXPLAINED S s gation improving ationships. posals for cludes su Minister of Marine Discusses Sub- jeect—Says Government Secks to Ratify ity standardization menciature, uni aud o1 of toms comu ! formity of ship daocumentuiion tme Dolitient ance ashingten “Accords.” X = .1 i ttees will meet on WONEN WILL VOTE (NCHURCHELECTION {Wardens and Vestrymen to, Be Chosen Tonight at St. Mark’s. Arnmments Wednesduy con: and ne Al ship. Werpretation of warine, Flawi todi explained at lengih precisely what “You said ask two questions” ke old ships ratitication of 1 relative to the i Washington »the the an about naval first subject is dealt wi azzraph auth nowers to power of their Subwavine und aerial | add.tional Juteral caissons | provided the ased b than | the contracting in win uf oman menhers vote nd protec wes TonnaKe L000 tons ntitled to A8 to art change general type of that required and vestryimnen Increase Gun liery, tie t in the nun of the or recogni of France nit Catiber. ty forbids ber, caliber motrting of ainent « special Which posses: ceused 1o cor the caliber held imbia o tions ar al Monday in ni land the Dis- the However Sttuation only old Struet fized, as Ha the guns of her ded the culiber cecd sixteen inches has conformed Jese provisions, ever he treaty . arn she which consists in fuer of eievation of the guns Fer battiesh thereby © their range, and to moders methods Tt was in 1916, o . Danton. (sunk by Meditterranean ) Transtornation ¢ way. This short range p war gun mountings. We could have taken adva e of the ht give us by the Wasnington t to suy plement these ch Ly increasing he calfher. We preferrid. however, not to change anvthing from gram outlined in 1915, and we d although the Washington treaty ex- pressly recognizes our right to do so. Washington “Accords™ Discussed 1 come to the second qu sovernme asked pariiament to atify the Washington accords. [f ' erty ratification of these treaties has not ft . t been effec he govern- don < are elected annual nt's effo ons therefor | 1y tered voters the be found he development of E i t i has oceu e cham number of peliations, to discussion of ur- measures of general interest as tie rent law, and. finally, to | serious illness of the eminent re- :r of the naval treaty, M. Guer- ns are id today and being i i «li the the war—she * hurches d in seven of them | old vote. Under an bl ryland asse passed “France ounties the admiy the Chur strictly divided before to ratify- T ation of tha Pasned. ryland passed modify now in ough the d to the 1des now New N of M Vestry in 1798 the stat a naw vestry a ing the ol w force in rvi action of Congress in 1801 that part of the Distriet o eded by Maryla nment which istrict battieship arine i the we began the by the pre wes Sitiied ssi with o as it r lergyman of ureh sclusive diction he pa property and the lega are vested in the war- It is the vestry sells or i1 g to the - particu- laws of the church prop- re building in worship. Wa stratic and instance, sures r parish « vestries is i he rged reh care and to main - public Women Allowed to Register. Dur last five vears the Mary land act and the act of Con- gress making the same applicable to ihe District have both Leen amended 50 as to allow the women to register as voters under the same conditions as the men, provided the parish peti- | tioned for the privilege and the dio- conventior # It hap- in the| creek first privilege. —Chuist second St par the 1 18 vestry He fortypately is restored to good bealth now. and the govern cts (o ask that discussion of the Washington accords be put on program of the chamber as soon fotcign affairs commission sub- s ite report when parliament re- nvenes after the Easter vacatior Lut, even before ratifle France, who 1914 other nations in naval arman ation by suspending all constr tion. has applied the Washington ac cords in advance, as If she already | Savior, | had ratified then A The naval law {all in the which the Senate €hunches fof dlately after the Muryland. now inie it author veral light units, q stoppags of © five 25,000-ton battleships of the Normandie type, work on which had been suspended since 1914, and which were 60 per cent completed The French delegates sague of nations have been in- structed by the government to sup- port the plan to extend the Washing- | looe ;"f‘v- Aval accords .to it NON-Signa- 1 Senior warden, James.B. Price: junior { ory powers {warden. Samuel C. Wise; treasurer, Wil- am_W. Carney, and reglster, W fam H. Whiting Vestrymen: ear D. Hart District— St parish, built ! church to be gran and one of the next Church, in Georgetow i It does not appear that sarfly a_mark of co oldes was ge fc hurch of urch and St. Mark District. besides se the diocese gitubte enjoy the privilege of April 1 - | CHURCH OFFICERS CHOSEN. ruction iGrace Episcopal Church Elects! Wardens and Vestrymen. ; Officers of Grace Episcopal Church. of | which Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde is | rector, elected officers last night as fol- o the i Cites Evidence of Good Falth. “We have ma Just ex- plained, our 1916 modernization pro RBram in spite the n greater ] Geor ‘reedom allowed us under the treaty. | Toaber (GEOrEe But the most certain proof we have; °ePh A Nag given of our intention to ratify the 1] Washington treaty was the filing of % 5 Tuesday’s Bowie Entries e bill for France's naval program H ¢ao replace 4 in the chamber on March 8. “This measure is inter the law of 1912, which is stil] in er- : fect and which would have giyen ! EIRST RACE—Ths Advance Purse: purss, us. it the war had not interfered,|$Ls00: for twasensolds: faur furlongs. (8] | wenty-eight battieships, LWenty |13 Aunt Jane. 112: (a) Anna Horton, 1007 | boats and | (o)’ Quoen’ Charming. ~109; (d) Closework, | 112; Bamra, 116; (b) Haughty Lady, 108: | () Black Euler, 112: Chopsticks, 118; Seth’s | this bill | Dream, 118 e had been drawn within th iftaior | 1 (s) Muliay SEATH SRRty (D) R e the Washington accords, ratification | $EVF: ofc), Neveds Btock Farm eatry;. (4) of which it contemplates and whose | T X: Winey entey. . provisions It applics In advance As{y SEoR¥Da e dvor wid ghechalr furlon compared with, the law, of 1912 and | {0 Santiey, 116; Wudigo, M1y Bt. Lawrence. the fleet existing in 1814 it makes |116; Warburton, Jealous Woman, 111; considerable progress in the reduction | Madson, 116; Car n. 116: Rosa Yeta. 111 of naval armanents Coat of Aarms, 116; Bonflie, 116; Night Light. “The preamble of this bill takes i 1 H { {116; (a) The Sage. 116; Oran, 116, care to set out that, unless absolute- | i | niained, as 1 F. Gatton. E Sicklex, Arthur k. | Abendschein and cruise fifty torpedo ninety-four submarines “Intended to comply aities of the present with time for three- | 6ia) Audley Farin entry. v compelled by circumstances, we do not intend to avail ourseives of the reedom to begin replacement of our nattle fleet in 1927 Seeks Early Ratification. { America then cun see that the French government's only wish is to | obtain as soon as possible parlia- | ment's approval of the Washington accords. and thus give striking evi- dence of its appreciation of the lofty peace fdeals that inspired the gov- arnment of the United States when t took the initiative of summoning ihe conference that led to these ac- cords. “France THIRD RACE, claiming: purse, $1,200 thiee-yearolds and up: 62 Turlongs—Dellham, “Hill House, 87 *Al Stebler, *Ga: | lota. 108; *Csmoufiage, 118; lesn Gone, 114; | Surer, 114; *Mirac.e Man, 107; The Peruvian, | 112; Stock Pin, 112. FOURTH RACE, olsiming: purse, $1,300; | {ree-goaraids and up; 7 furlenge—“gerviter, | 114 Biff-Bang. 100 Mustard Seed. 111; Vi.| tamin, 112; Episode, 118; *Eulalie, 102. FIFTH RACE, Terminal purse; purse. $1,600; three-year-olds and up; 1 mile and 70 | jards—North Wales, 104; Trajanua, 104; Her- | fis Komble, 104; Ramkin, 104; Faanie Bean, 108, SIXTH RACE, ciaiming: purse. $1.200; four- catolds and 5p; 1 198 miles—s0ur Birchdny, 10 Bammy Jax. 107; 0 Events, 103 *Muize, 106; “Satane, 108 *Zennotts, 92 purse, $1,200 1 ar Viotor. 110. SEVENTH RACE, cluimiag; can in the limitation of her naval by, S . four-yearolds aad up; i1l o5 yatic, ower. She could not go further | 167. cRadicel 102 politan, 97; Doctor hout giving up havi ! . 1 1 she could not-give up having a o, Uowance claimed: weather without condemning herself to dle, Pl ‘.vr}]_ rance uo longer the little b ey of Europe made ous by the half of the 5.000.000 glory of many centurles and whose | s FONer CER, DU OF, The B0D0-000 SOl man xecenilypEancrncal Dy have claimed the victory medal au- i S A A Sl ] thorized by the government in recog- diers who fell by the side of ours for | iflon of service overseas and in this E country | “Beyond the as there has been | horn @ new France. This new | S — ! Irance covers an immense stretch of H tersitory in Asia RS bl 8 tery . {a navy as is strictly needed; that| SEas "o the France whicns made s | Is why shie has shown auch great | s o anc N & e AR he 2 ot 4 Gon of 100.000,000 and sccom. | Moferstion in her neval program b a0 ) e ACor she is getting | fygason the best efforts of | 1eaqy to ratify the Washington ac. | 3 i e | cords and_associate herself with the | Western Africa, Tunis! Algerla and ; 000 e caseattinniad. tos Morocco, composing the I'rench colo- D e Sler, and the neceseity of maintain- | the modernization of the French ing uninterrupted mmunlcation } Capital ships. it is learned from the with them 2 { technical bureaus of the ministry, is 5 jbased on the cost of the work. just Vital Role of Navs | completed on the Bretagne and Lor- “t is the ufl_rin‘:_ipxul |:~I¢.>(iwd\'iu1| ;I“";f' \::l;;‘h l_‘l_’fi:u:;‘:::o":‘fi&n(:ol role of our navy,” he continued, “to| francs each. s assure freedom of communication | ¢expected to be necessary to modern- with our colonies and protect them |ize the two vessels now being sgainst the enemy in time of war.| changed and the last two to be im- France—one and indivisible, but|proved later, e composed of parts separated by the e French naval authoritles di- immensity of the oceans—can no|rect attention t5 the fact that the more .get. along without & navy than | naval bydget is really about half fhe human body without the spinal | that before ‘the war' as the 1823 column that supports it g udget calls for 1,020,000,000 paper “But France, to show her pacific| francs as compared with 641,000,000 sentiments, wishes to have only such | gold francs for 1914. ' » has gone as far as she of proved | Catholic priests is organized | sal ING COMMUNISTS WAGE AR ON RELGION Campaign in Russia Pro- gresses Steadily, Declares Observer of Events. ATHEIST PAPERS BITTER Pleas for Condemned Priests De- clared Instigated by World Money Powers. By By Cable t News MOSCOW. April £ ous campaien by the union of « munist youth is steadily progressing Tlie Greel Ghurch, h Y the richest and Christlan national stunds with its power gome riches vanished, deprived of the own- ership of -its old buildings and with s ecclesiasticul taken by ti-veli- m- wev ars numerically church, its strongest oW mauchinery over the malcontents, The Russ ter will witness Imi present campaign. W 1t will be a mo without the ¢ stmas anti-rellgious Judging from of Issues of an athcis published the be diffieult to find This paper is wel 1 enlors tains the attacks upon has seen anywnere to popularize idea of t per tion of a Titm &th behind in- 1t caricatures smilingly and 8 the ised ver- an on Ap the ¢ on e pro that w elegant ion vulgarities the ¢ Cessions. latest ude of pro- one Lewspape heve, refinements may nted in three most virulent christianity iliustrated the writer eartoons try Christ greedy pluto. supr rding ery fo Openly Anti-Religious. e with a realiza- st ti- the commun party avowediy 4 religious can tale any church is expelled 1 the last few effort has been mad working women away from the church. labor papers pub & names and laudations of women who pledge themselves Lo abstain from re- gion. There is a strong agitation in severul country towns to turn the churches into clubs. nday news- papers report that the two churche in Minsk were taken over by the work ers for ciubhouses. All forms of religion to the same treatment however, Christlans and Jews are chiefly affected. The correspondent cannot ciscover that Mohammedan mosques have been seized or that ‘fohammedan education of children iiax been stopped No religious practices are allowed in the schools oF in public institu- tions, such as orphanages or hos- pitals, nday schools are jllegal ex- )t for persons miore than eighteen vears of age. Regarded The communist government regards religions as the main force behind re- Christianity was corrupt. anemic and often disgraceful under the patronage and wealth of czarlsm Today when it bas ceased .to be a favor its morals” have im Communisin’ has beer for it the scourge of the Lord for driving out its sins. Its faithful ‘adberents look beyond the present. Those whor know certainly have no thoughts of revolt or coynter-revolution, which ed is desirable and Russta has had blood baths enough already. They look be- ond Good Calvary to 1Ar's resurres morn, when ose who came out t tribulation; shall v tears from their eves “Hands off'” is Russia’s reply to the protesting world. “This is our af- fair: don’t Interfere.” Faced by world pleadings such as have rarely poured in on any great relig part in. Lember has bis marrics vaptized o in or children months a strong to draw the e subjected In practice » Reactionary. action [ government, Moscow declares that the | whole tion movement against the exec of the sentences against the nd Jic- world capitalism. 1t meets of the foremost Europcan tated by the plea reformers, men hitherto noted as so-, viet sympathizers, mem liko Iieriot Lansbury and Ben Turner, with the reply that they, 00, serye the god.” gold. “Servants of Capitalism.” “The guardians of capitalism.” the Pravda, “include not alone the Pope, bourgeoisie newspapers and men of sclence, its faithful servants, the proletarian reformers. Men lilke Lansbury and Turner are their hearts servants of capitalism and its most faithful servants of all.” Poland’'s plea for mercy for the priests jnet with defiance. Premier Stkorski's protest is described as a shameless interference with Hussia's nal affairs, Sikorskl threatens the soviet gov~ ernment and cha sibility for results” says the Pravda “Possibly we might be very mu rightened In 1918 when & more pow- rightened were his arms not too short We¢ were not frightened in 1918 when a more powerful man, Lord Balfour, threatened us. It is not in Sikorski's in | power to frighten us. “The international tion may shout as screams will help it.”” " The protest uttered counter it revolu- likes. No by Secretary Hughes aroused ridicule among the, communist, The Izvestia declares that poseibly orders to make univer- protests came from the Vatlcan and it reminds the Bishop of Canter- bury that his church in its time chopped off the heads of Catholics. Fighting Revolution. “The churches in general, and the Catholic church in particular,” saye this newspaper, “are the agents of the reactionary bourgeoise. We do jnot wish to fight against religion. We sre only fighting against revolution.” “A dreadful thing has happened in the Russia of .brutes,” says the Pravda in an editorfal. “A Catholic archbishop, saving the treasures of counter- his church, gathered by all kinds of | to help | rascality, from being given those dying from hunger. was con- demned to death. All the_civilized world appeals against it. Yes, ail is different in Russia. “While all other governments work with the priests of all religions In thelr work of exploiting the worker: the -Russian government takes th part of the workers.” The Pravda displays special anger sgainst - M. Herlot, the mayor of Lyon, France, for joining in the pro- teat. “This friend of soviet Russia, it says, ‘Tepresents the bocrgeoisie, who, in their time of revolution, condemned priests to the gulllotine for saving treasures - 'from the revolutionary army. Mayor Heriot prays to the God of capital in his Lyon -market and is petritied by our sentence.” ————— In the days of Benjamin Franklin postage on ietters was charged for by the ‘sheet: and- not by weight. -Ten cents was charged for the first sheet. 20 cents for two sheets and %0 on. And an additional fee was added for every fifty miles. r Ne memuer of the party | us exercises | sreati savs| rges it with respon- | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1923 MAKING THE BEST OF A CHILLY FASTER MONDAY IN WHITE|MAIL TRUCK ROBBED ie of the hupdreds of Washing- ton children who would not let the temperature interfere with | moltday pleaure. ROLLICKING YOUNGSTERS MAKE MERRY ON the | «d leal weatner and fo Keen steppin’ by the slight bite air. the litdle merrymaker rivin' with th rated eggs as eu Ly noon every n' iny began ar- itifully deco- as 9 o'clock, knoll in the keerfully grounds was literally covered to capaciy with rollickin’, light-hearted joy-breeders every ‘class and d. - Seription; and once ieft to themselves i lie-sticks was swept to the hildren of the h in the hob-nobbin® for dear lite fortunute of the com- and the le fey? ree, as per i by g permitted pasj the gates per urual, the same throng of paren brats kent White H her, h marshi the nearly Dopey Getx i th east gat hied by Nearin’ was appro freckled-faced me 10 cents to beco: “jus’ fiftee bribe money 1 indig refused the coin, but did agree to act as fond par- it until the watchful eve of the law ad been “buffaloed.” but ra 1 erred, for no sooner had slipped my charge in O. K. than 1 tmmediately started to beg me to adont his little brother! Hikin', at hix dire tien, over to the west gate, I'd cuccoeded in my nefarious work w I _was b to a sharp ha William 8. Reeves, superintendent e, o exyie ledimy eiest s Son and warned me to be keerful! It took call-down dampen wever, for once mixed innocent merry ment 1 forgot about hard-feelin messed with the yc comi ck with one darlin’ little dimp cheeked cherub that mothin' would @o but I roll down a hill! The cun- nin’ tot had 1o nce rolled all her ezzs, and acceptin’ mv proffercd iship for what it was worth wvouldn't rest content until I'd join- 1 her in the frolic—I ow 1 will feel temorrow Dopey’s Protege Starts Something. This pened over th - leery of there's 1 s0 strenuous exercise over, T hap- to notice te a commotion Executive rushin' to the scene. much chagrin. found my recently & “mon” in the center of a great crowd arguin’ his head off with Maj. Ba linger, who has charge of the police! Always a believer that a game bird Bticks vp for its own. I buried my pride and made to the side of my offspring.” only to find he had gtarted @ false rumor that President Harding would soon appear, that no amount of argument on the part ot officials could convince the little rascal that such was not the case! “Woell, if he ain't | be” snarled the latest niy family, when 1 finally p him that the G down where th yages wild. “He w ‘cause 1 seen him, and if I'd a-k he wasn't gonna show up toda have stuck around home and helped mudder with her washin':" 3 Sixteen Eggs Do the Trick. And so it went throughout the day every now and then a wee bit of ex- citement to keep the sting from the breezes, and just before I left an- other hulabaloo was occasioned by the condition of an egg-eatin’ co testant! Around this little runt, who was stretelied out on the greensward, willin' hands weré doin’ all possibie to bring the kid to! He had bit the dust after gettin' on the outside of sixteen hard-boiled eggs. while his conqueror, a red-headed “squab” from over Georgetown wav. contemptuou 1y sncered as he eyed his sick viotim How'd it come about. bub?" I ask- ed of the victor, who still remained sullen. . “Ah. that wop kid had some kind of a wild idea he could eat aigs' I bets him a nickel he don't know nothin’ about algs, we starts about a half hour ago..and here he's knocled flat cold with only sixteen aigs et! There aln’'t nothin' to him, mister, hones' there ain't!” and so sayin' he grinned! Marine Band Plays. Cnable to wait for a verdict on the Wop kid's condition T beat it from the grounds just as the Marine Band was preparin’ for its mammoth con- cert, specially arranged for this egg- rollin’ occasion. orly sorry that I couldn't make a full day one of the most unusual old-fashioned customs that is carried on yearly only here in the District! But I did have to slip out to the Zoo, where a similar demonstration was aleo under way! Time wouldn’t ermit for a definite opinion from the Phimals as to what they thought of the proceedin’s, but all seemed to be in the best of good humor, and from the chesty way a brood of hens strutted about and wiggled their Feathers, none were more dee-lighted than the cause of the excitement! 1 thank you, DOPEY DA {MARYLAND FERRY TO START. | Special Dispiteh to The Star. CENTREVILLE, Md., April 2—The ferry between Bay Shore and Queens- town will start one day this week. Work has been going on for some time on the pier at Queenstown so as, to enable the boats to land prop erly. e Mansion, to m addition to birds sing and golf wed i | to think | dopted | here, be oughta | 1aded | at White Father was | s here last vear, | ! kerson | could iing | going and the | | H lon HOUSE GROUNDS. PROUD OF HIS BASKETS. U.S. TOPUSH RAIL 2220 STRIKE INJUNCTION Efforts to Have Suit Dropped'; Fail—Daugherty Firm for Action. Also Against Ay Sergeant. BOSTON. April €5 arreste th. 11th rival_of the T San Benito, on wh Dussengers from Colon Ball was held as an a and on a the funds s post Was Charge 2.—Army auth den 'B. Ball n line ste; Havar deser of a Veterans ch he priso asurer. & held for tr He d th whi BY DAVID LAWRENCE. 1ent the govern redress ca | responsibili viewpoin t & it deral government to against shopmen have falled a d a month from the part of ice that drop suit W ederal Supremacy Set. Should the d tssue a decres permanent, railway trict making the ir the shopm would have the right of direct appe to upreme Court of the Unit States, but if labor is not anxious make too much of a of the suit, the matter ped in the lower court and case will be ar day with the Ju aner railway orders o height of the Approximat stfll technically original 400,000 strikers 1 m the though man the have found emplovment in other inechanical trades. but it is not with respeet to these men so much as to the precedent that would be estab. dustrial history upted to fight the ne means or an- its abandonthent. to_ app, volved the the hroad highest questions to court in record side Man shopmen is more favorable to n it is today American i abor is p ction and by r bring about have openly declared the federal government broke t backbone of the strike and some ha Daugherty May Afd. Zone so far as to predict But Attorney General Daugherty going through with the cases, and. | if his health permits, he lLopes to join Blackburn Esterline, special as- istant to the Attorney General. in arguing the case before Judge Wil- in the faderal district court at Chicago on May 2 | Politically. labor already raised a fuss about the Daugherty injunction, | but even the election of the opposite| The injunction ma party and the sending to Co(n)grel:éb::{mg effects upon any T hot wipe out the action of | that raliway courts in _interpreting exist- statutes as giving the govern- the power to intervene in a v strike and keep the trains nation supplied \ith necessities of life. Use Debs The entire injunction suit is based the famous Sherman anti-trust law of 1880, which makes it & crime for any t conspiracy tion, at least, trike of nation-wide character. 1s uo telling how much of an the injunction has had ions which did not parficipats the recent strike, but of the federal government ¢ organizations or. for that mit ployers' combinations, has _in judgment of government officials {last been firmly implanted. Labor Board Upheld. afle executives might federal a tiecup of transportation. ment of the controversy is z not raflw not permit the impre: reccdent. e of partisanship against Jabor. a successful fight ag i Court of the Unitad States the case persons to engage in a| to restrain interstate commerce. That nguage was broad enough to attack trusts and monopolies and capital, and the De- partment of Justice, under Mr. Daugherty, has built upon the his- torie Debs case of 1894 a legal struc- turo which he hopes will prevent any traneportation monopoly on the part of labor from tying up and paralyzing interstate commerce. There have been hints that the rallway shopmen would be willing to call off the strike formally and let bygones be bygones, but the Da- partment of Justice has already com- mitted itself So deeply in this case, especially in the record submitted of interference with transportation, that any backward step would beé im- possible. Many equity suits no doubt will grow out of the various acts occur- ring during the strike, when traing were wrecked and passengers etalled in the desert and various kinds of porishable freight ruined_and non- perishables damaged. The issue, therefore, has to be fought out, from ected it mai deal with the truly of the empioyes whei tions with § The United men. elaction conducted by new States Labor Board's position when it was to their interest. Board. and this. decision. to make the. preliminary tation act in the next Congress, {f, | both’ labor and capital brought to- book in two ases. (Copyright. 1028 ) You Can Go Home Satisfied —that you've got the last word of news—when the 5:30 Edition of THE EVENING STAR is out Financial news—Sports finals—and tomorrow’s pro- gram at the Courts are always featured. For sale by newsboys and newsdealers throughout the city 'SOLDIER HELD FOR THEFT Made mer e and his wife and cged harge of abscond- the Canal Zone. precedent out ay be drop- effort made in some other case in the future the land. possibly in a case in which the labor's of the leaders of the railway that the temporary injunction obtained by that thers will never be in the present gencra- another trarsportation There upon other the supremacy labor L em the have far-reach- v concerted action con- fceivably take which could bring about This phase being stressed, but government officials w on (o be broad- cast that they have assumed an atti- 1act. the Department of Justice waged st the Pennsyl- vania railroad carrying to the Supreme | the shopmen, who claimed that the Pennsylvania railroad dld not actually | spokesmen o certain agreements concerning working condi- States Rallroad Labor | Board took the position that neither the the American Federation of Labor nor the one car- ried on by the Pennsylvania was valid, and attempted to lay down rules for a election when the Pennsylvania carrfed the fight to the courts, a cir- cumstance that is charged by many labor leaders as having been the first really flagrant disregard of the United and caused them later to ignore the board The Supreme Court has upheld the Labor together with the outcome of the pending suit irjunection permanent, will have much to do with the problem of altering tha transpor- deed, it is amended ‘at all. now that have been important BY GANG OF BANDITS Driver and Messexiger Locked in Cage—Loss Is Being Checked. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. April Yive or six men armed with sawed off shot- guns held up a mail truck in the business section of the city, tuok a quantity of mall, including nine pouches of registered mail, locked the driver and a messenger in the cage of the truck and escaped The truck was on its way from the main poet office to a substation. The holdup occurred in the hsart of the stock brokerage district. Post cfiice inspectors said they would be unabie to estimate the value of the stolen pouches until a check had bean made It said that there was Lo big bank mail in the loo THREE INDICTED ON DOPE CHARGES cotic Law—O0thers in Re- turns by Grand Jury. Mortimer H ard Wilbur today by of conspi Reiss, Wiliiam .1 i Selig the grand jury on charges 1y and violation of the anti-narcotic laws. The alleged con- spiracy is said have been formed in June last and to have continued until the arrest of the accused per- sons, March They are charged with conspiring to import and sell opium and cocoa leaves and their de- rivatives violation of the anti- narcotic laws. The other indictment alleges’ an actual sale of drugs in violation of the law The men were arrested at the Edward Trading C 1712 14th street northw weeks nzo, Kidd were indicted o in a raid mpany. several Conspiracy to Commit Offense. Conspliracy to commit an [ against the United States is ¢ in an indictment against Silverman, Harry Silvern ward A. Rooney. The men are said approached Huver I. Brown colored, an emplove of the natiunal prohibition ageney, in ito get him to procure them a certain meriul number and forms of confirmatic needed to complete | withdrawai Ulanks which are 10 have been counterfeited in Germany Brown tipped off his emplover, it is stated, and a trap was laid for the three men accused. Edwin A" Roper. form, sker. was indicted for larce after trust. He s charged with co verting bonds deposited with him by stomers to his own use offense to have an ¥ Woman Held for Forgers. Mrs. Margaret B. Buchanan to be a law graduate and sec tative Kendal was indicted for » have indorsed the to government totaling more tian $1,000. The fr the Veterans' Bu- is alleged. wera Warfield, co her sen’ in Mrs. Bucha forging the said ctary of Penr forgery of ehack: checks were of the nar ks and payee's wat | of cashed them aft name ughter is charged in jctment reported against Wi Teaac, colored. He is alleged to have icked his wife. Willie Isanc, at their home, 123 L street southeast. Janu- ary 20, last, The woman waw taken to the ‘hospital, where she died three hours later. A total of sixty today by Stafford. the term of serv present grand jurors, and in dischars ing them, Justice Stafford expreswed appreciation of their services by the court. Wiiliam C. Money defrauding the Shipping Board, {he was employed as clerk. He s sald to have made false statements in con- nection with his expenses in Mexico. Bribery Is Alleged. Bribery of a government official is charged in an indictment against Ben Rosenbaum and Leon Rosenbaum of Loutsville, Ky. They are said to have bribed Percy A. Matthews, an auditor of the bureau of marke not to re- port a sale of won' under a contract with the government Ferdinand W. Heizel. a magazine agent of Philadélphia, Pa., was Indict- ed for an alleged frlonious as 1t Laura C. Adams, sixteen years old The attack is sald to have occurred Anacostia, where Hetzel was can- vassing. Other Indictments Returned. Others indicted and the charges against them are David Brenner. Herman Davis and George Ashton White, violating Har- rison narcotic act: Samuel Walter Silverman, Harry Silverman and ward A. Rooney, conspiracy; Edna M. Wilson. A. Blake Briggs and Ross H. Pratt, false pretenses: Frank Glas- cox, non-support; Robert L. Vannoy, using mails to defraud; Ralph D. Reeve larceny after trust (four charges): Edwin A. Roper, embezzle- ment; Frederick W. Lynch, Agnes Lec Page and James L. Cooper, violating postal la Paul Milasi and Joseph Pin, removing mortgaged property; Willlam H. Morris, forgery and utter: ing (two charges). Herbert M. Sanber, white slave act; James P. Waters, Andrew Beale and Walter Gorham, robbery: John Costello_and Sylvia Costello, badger game; Katie Gross and Elmer Frain, abortion: Paul D. Hellver, violation postal lawe: Robert Clinton, house- breaking; Harry A. Deéans and Leroy West, false pretenses; Frank E. Moten, John Chatt, alins John Young, Roy Smith and James Kelly, robbery: Elmer F. Dwyer, Charles Oliver Black, Thomas D. Young, John W. Lyles, Charles W. Nicholson, Wil- llam Wyatt, Boyd Blake, Allen Jen- kins, John Taylor, Albert Pankey, sr, William Y. Mcintosh and Lewis Ricks, non-support: Frank E. Moten, Edward French, George Johnson and Roy Smith, robbery; Benjamin Henderson, '5r. and Fred Triest, false en al ed to indictments was re- the grand jury to The t con- i3 charged with he ve et in at il in of | wife; John Howard, carnal knowl- edge: Fred G. Holland, Leonard Lay- ton, James E. Willlams, Henry Wash ington and Irvin Turdbull. non- support of minor children; Percy A. Matthews, accepting bribe. n- LINKS LABOR AND SCIENCE. Labor and science have much of common intersst in England, accord- ing to Dr. Walter Rosenhain of the Natfonal Physical Laboratory of Lon- don, who has bean giving a series of made an address before the Washing- ton Academy of Science and the Philo- sophical Society in the Interior De partment auditorium Saturday even ing. Dr. Rosenhain will speak again this afternoon at 3:30 at the bureau of standards on the work of the National Physical Laboratory. The highest price ever paid for a poem was 6,000 golden crowns. paid to Sannazaro by the citizens of Venice for his eulogy of their city—a poem of six lines @Ay i g Held for Violating Anti-Nar-1 attempt | said | stock | of the | where | on | H. Simms, | pretenses; Lee Nelson, non-support of | lectures in the United States and who | JOB PRINTERS' PAY UPHELD BY JUDGE Present Scale Continued by Arbitrator—Increase Denied. PLEA FOR RAISE LOST Standard of One Apprentice for Each Four Journeymen Also Approved in Opinion A decision | continuing important abo the present | being paid printers in book : offices, has been ia {Judge Fenton W Boo Justice of the Court of Claims, as arbitrator in wage tions between the pothetae Washington, closed shop branch the Columbia Typographical Ui No. 101, on bel the ur named Judge Booth was selected id job ded down be seale negoti o a ion wor as a trator by the union the Typothet, “A complete record convinces of th arbitratc the « present wage and observed rbitration suld Star bth asserted in his decision Typothetne Sought Cut. typothetae brought fc reasons f duction in the including the al in_t) by the par | E The seven cost antin is nevertheless casual observer not of gufficient proportio rant a reduction in the of workers, when tio scale dlgcloses that it sufficient to family in cen the Judge Booth stated tha of at least 150 people allke, “and never once o an answer that cline in the cost tngton had taken Epoke experi W edge that 1 was at all the elicited information Refuses Wage Increase. Judge Booth said that th tor wouid not en uto cussion as to the union's ubstantial iner. in se it is 5 to wr wage scaln now fixec more thar ordinan and de- decis qutrec plac wages T but for the T do not think the record war- s allowance.” Typothetae at presen n wage scales all that the should be burdened with,” e declared. “While I am f inced that the present wa 10t Levond the i of ihood, under presc am also convinced | ond peradventure that the ra at present constituted d respect warrant the estab an increased s The typothet s ca BT prentice 1o every four jc r major part there regularly ed, is fundamentally wrong Rules on Apprentices. am of the opini adopted, tes in his argument tae put in a four hours overt afternoons at the rates of pay and the union wanted Saturday afternco made lioliday and double pay decreed The arbitrator stated that he th will conviace the parti in th ro valid re uguration 1 day th oliday trator wage the pr tus of “The a the present surate with try and that it is equitable {undor present circunistances Booth concluded Would Limit nion also fon laws wages shall’ not is convince scale ¢ and Judge Rules “local u d the laws of t erna affecting { conditions bitration.” “It the propos®¥ of udxke Booth held, application to the mere local la and laws of the Internhtional Typc graphical U on having to do wit procedure and disciplinary a concerning only the internal gove ment of tha respec organizations it_is not subjec “But if it 1 brace rules egulations existence. or after may be imposed upon th by a general provision tract and which in the employme would be bound ebate heta obsery: hours ar be subject limited in it Judge Y { terms of which it knows not assuredly it ought not to be responsible for rules and regulat the making and promulgation {which it had no voice, if they to be a part and par tract with the un added held f Booth Judge Urges Conciliation. He declared that he believed tha a contract should be enter to con taining the following provisions That the parties hereto will settle any and all differcnces affeoting wages. wotking conditions and practices that may a two parties in interest terms and conditions of the by conciliation. and if conciliat fails, by arbitration The strike of union printers for forty-four-hour week Job offices which has been on throughout thia country since May 20. 1621, has cost $13,386,000. which has been con tributed working printers in newspaper and other offices to aid their fellow unionists who are on strike. This is in addition to the loss to the strikers in wages. esti- mated to run into many more millions of dollars. $6,000 LOSS IN FIRE. Five Busses Damaged in Blaze on Buchanan Street. Five busses in the Washington Rapid ! Transit Company shops at 1323 Bu {chanan street were damaged to the ex tent of approximately $6,000 by fire that sroke out about §:30 today. be- {lieved to have been caused by a sho | circuiting of electrie w on one ¢ | the busses. | | shop a.m. res The chassis of the busses wers not seriously damaged. On two of the | busses the bodies were virtually com | plete wrecks, while one other was | burned almost half off. On the remair {ing two buswes the fire damaged pa and woodwork to a considerable extent ! but the bodies are belleved in a condi: { tion to salvage. The bodies are valued at about $1.800 each All of the busses damazed were in the shops for overhauling. according 1o officials of the company, and the sched- ules therefore were not affected by tie fire. The shops adjoin the garage, in which twenty-flve busses werc stored for the night. one of these was damaged. — Mrs. Rose Reiter, who is empl in the federal passport bureau in ( cago, speaks fuently sixteen lan- guages and ix able o read several Lothers.