Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1923, Page 5

HELD FOR DELIVERING RUSS RECOGHTIN "2 s otvenwe Precede Arrest of Lawrence Turner, Colored. 3,798 . ‘Washingtonians have to date contributed to the s of the Associated Charities. Are you one of these? If you are not, and if the thought of a hungry Washington baby or a deserted Washington mother reaching for your hand means more to you than a gesture, fill out the blank below and swell the total. Urge your friends to do likewise. Washjngton cannot turn away from its helpless ones. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES (Including Citizens’ Relief Association). Howard S. Reeside, Treasurer, 923 H street northwest: Disregard of U. S. Plea for Condemned Prelate Alien- ates Public Opinion. Lawrence Turner, colored, twenty-six |{ years old, who gave his address as 1530 B street northeast, was arrested today by Detectives Howard and Brodle. The ST arrest was preceded by a scuffle in| CHURCHES AGAINST [T |front of 1145 10t street northwest, in which three shots were fired into the R Turner was declared by the de- es to be delivering liquor to a | ' Sentiment in Great Britain AlSo|woman at the 10th street address. He| Und‘:rgoes Chflnge and Mission was locked up, charged with Hlefllll possession and transportation. Tn the May Be Sent Home. Rug Section Sixth Floor ¢he driver of the automobile got | Inclosed please find $...ccvuuireiiniiiecieness..@s but the police have two half-gal- | whisky which Turner s tempted to destroy be- | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. h et od. el Police say they have been watching Recognition of the present govern- |alleged delivery of liquor to the address | \ment of Russia by the United States [ for some weeks. Today the detectives i S Y s | were waiting when Turner stopped in maygbe saidito remote today as |,y uyutomobile in front of the 10th @ venture on Amer! part into com- As he got out with the SntRism tasie 5, Brodie reached for him. He made Fo) 10:00 ot of V Ge 3 A threatening motion toward his hip : .00 . Execution of Vicar General Butch- |nocket and Brodie fired three ehots in | v 100.00 of pro- |t} air. As he did so Turner dropped the pavement, and he was casily se- | of his person at the! payment in full first quarterly payment Pt P A (or contribution) for the current year. MEMBERSHIPS. Associate ... $2.00 Name .. Address For Your Home and Every Floor Everywhere No part of your home is used as much as the floors. The importance of fine, durable floor coverings in the furnishings of a well appointed home cannot be overestimated. 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(Payment can be made in four quarterly installments.) recognition of the soviets will become | trained to discount such official state- . an- veek” 1 April 2 to 7, ive, and the secretary was di- ected to notify all the churches and schools of the suburb and ask their co-operation Mr. Hoffman appointed Mrs. Claudie | Tdylor Trivers delegate and Mrs. Zita Phillips alternate to the citi- now accepted that the viear general ! ! question arises Police Court Need Cited by Citi-| the British government can | | s wanton persecution of the i faith to pass without some even if other circum- and the e future were to p i = zens’ Association. of a friendiier o the adopti ward the ' Appointment of an additional Police ward the Mo L Court judge for the Distriot of Co.|zens central committee, meeting at tration of the nations’|lumbia was urged in_a resol | the Franklin School this afternoon. e adopted by the Barry Farm Playground needs were commented on delegation today ' Association at a meeting la: t|by John H. Chinn and Grant Green- most complete 1lib of ac- ut the home of President Hoffman. flald. The attention of the engineer n the British Isles, dealing The association unanimously in-|department of the District will be without raint in all commodities dorsed the proclamation issued by the | called to a dangerous washout on while the British delegation in Mos- District Commissioners declaring a | Pomeroy street, near Morris road. cow is limited in action and harass- ng the active oppo; I definite den ican Catholles re | sense of ng up of a similar gnition of the so- anticipated as a ratural development Recelved in Time. Although the Department of State did not go into d in its com- Tunication to th ets on the pos- sibls effects of an execution of so Catholic dignitary as Mgr. ch, the government here n of its pointing out that the Ameri- would be shocked to see neral executed. rent disclosed to- ed by governmental restrictions on every hand. This, accord t ¥ public men {n this country. c a grave breach of faith jsoviet's part and offers a good op- portunity for Great Britain to rebuke the Soviet government for its un- fairness, and at the same time im- pon them the horror of Chris- at the extreme sentence im- o ipon Polish church dignitaries either expelling the soviet trade ing its fleld of to the s status e British delegation in Will Not Forget Protest. that the soviet's frun- ; agatnst religion will not | sink into the unremem- - | bered past although as the Times de- e on Ameri ? the death sentence ts | British government stro, {its representative is Moscow. who will i was onal morality in Cause of U. S. Stand. refusal of the United States ment, for instance, to recognize as not been based. as . upon a policy ssia’s internal af- but upon Russia’s apparent in- to furnish satisfactory evi- reigners would be protected of private co 2 | shot. ! clares cditorially the protest in Great Britain thus far has been so faint that lone might infer that the government d accepted the theory that belief in was a disputable question of Moscow’s reply to the British pro- | he executlons also contains mediate previous British rth redoubled resen backing up enter a_dignified reply, but it with action expressing ance of the Christian world. | EXECUTION DENIED. Message From Riza States Delay Has Been Granted. April 4—A dispateh to| “The soviet government denies that | Vicar General Butchkaviteh has been It says the execution has been s | suspended.” er breac se there is noth Catholic a fair trial . ere would en less justification for the that now will pile up be-|o » defendant is robbed of his The Times prints the foregoing be {neath the announcement from Ma s|cow that the prelate was executed | es_alludes to s Riga corre- 1t and_expresses the hope that | of Vicar General Butchka- | {viteh will not long remain a question | doubt as that of Arch- of Petrograd, re- | garding whom It says no definite in- v | formation has been received since he | s in v there has been American citize . were Igno it is safe to assume e Moscow authorities from one end of the country to the other by Catholic clergymen. Besides this number. there iy certain b taken by large numb f Pro * tants, of whom the st are approximatel members. Alto, the soviety may not ha d it, but they have ab unded the death knell of their for American recognition for a long time to come (Copyright, 1023.) BRITISH IRE AROUSED. . Penial of Execution Given Little Credence in London. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 4—Confirmation of the execution by the soviet au- thorities of Constantine Butchka- vitch, vicar general of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, i con- tained in a dispatch received today from the Rosta Agency, the official bolshevik news organization. BY HAL O’FLAHERTY. . By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Coprright, 1023. TLONDON, April 4.—Soviet Russla has denied the reported execution of Vicar Gieneral Butchkavitch, but this finds little credence in Great Britain because public opinfon has been NN i Save Your Eyes They are your most valuable possession. Let us examine them and make and fit your glasses. Our thirty-one years of perfect service is your guar- antee. 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