Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1923, Page 1

' WEATHER. Generally fair and mid tomorrow: gentle soyth Temperature for twenty: ended at 2 p.m. todax at noon today. today. Fuil report on page 7. Lowes, 39 at tonight and erly winds. -four hours Highest, 68 5 am, £ Entcred as post_office No. 28851. WASHINGTON, 12 DEAD, 20 HURT WHEN FIRE SWEEPS GOTHAM TENEMENT Aerial Ladders Aid Rescue of Men and Women From Windows. GIRL PERISHES TRYING ‘ TO SAVE HER TROUSSEAU; Seven in One Family Lost as Man and Boy Escape—Taxi Landing Place. | | | { | e | Tr tim Acsoated Tress NEW YORK, April 2 terinus origin, starting in a pilé of rubhish on the second floor of a five- brick nemen East 108th sireet ea tod mushroemed lirough the building and caused: the deaths of twelve persons, members of two famlies living on the top floor. wenty persons were injured :and " firomen made spectacular rescucs of many of the 200 living in tle baild- ing = Seven of the dead were members of the family of David Mandelbaum. inter, who had planged to mové tg- a little farm upstate which had recently purchased. They ¥ere Mandelbaum, and her childres, S hose ages ranged from one -1 Gen vears | rhe other c. their enty-one: their . and a relative, Mrs, Isaac who was visiting them. Father and Boy Saved. v N a Irs were Kixis daughter. Bertha, David. eight- Brewn- dea Aaron was d by he had made to save his idelbaum. who rescu | | firznien and police afte | desperate attempts fam- © i1y said ke was and when he upe bedroom he was met flarge. His little aisc had been his - hands Maniel smoke | nis | awakened by A the with Hyw door of a son akened knees craw and bel ! im placed ihe yvoungster on scane and told him 1o climb | wait for the firemen. He W occupied | the Mandel- | baunis. was trapped. Mrs. Brownstein | wus pulled out of the room unco tiremen and taken to a hos- pitaliwhere she died Fha Kuxis, who warricd June he went back her weddin landing escaped \aron: who lives saw her charred the building. He grief family. w opposite Kuvic cpartment was apart- | ne had Wi ~ould | Hanee David | 1 neighborhood, | body carried from was pyvercome With| to Tasi Used s Landing. | 1 Ma would havé heen i more ped by persons the flames, according 1o thel police 1 Leen for | Michael Kaufman. a city employe. livs ing across from the burned tenenient, wiho discovered the fire Seeink smoke and flames f10m a Fourth-floor window, Kaufinar: slephofied a fire alarm. rushed across stréet into the burning building : through the halls of the five lowing a police whistle be- outs of “fire.” : at the street continued to blow his pol until hes had attracted th ilo Magatta, a his car ben ding at the fi terror-stricken dropped 3o the cab's roof. Danzle From Window Sills. o arrival of the fire depart-j L had been called by three ¢ half dozen men and women ! d 1o be hanging from win-: 1 were brought to safety A number of | windows, thelr <t the flame it not shooting | | Kaufman | « whistle. attention: xi_driver ath the fire st tloor, from tenants With tf ment. w ) dow sills fter thriJling r es. reons who stoud at wrms sildouetted aga behind them. were only prevented from jungping from the fourth and nfth Moors by the encouraging shou b of fire who hastily ran up acrial | ladders wnd carried them to the! strects t The firespread with lightning-like | 1apidity. chtting off exits to the third fourth and fifth floor tenants before many of them could make their way to the streets by the wooden stair ways U, ORDERS PROBE OF KLLING SALOR Consul at Vancouver In- structed to Investigate Patrol Boat Shot. | | i | | i | | : ver, was instructed by | Thighes today to investi-j pate the firing on the American| schooner Siloam by a Canadian fish- f patrol. avhich resulted in the| dcath of 1. N. Yorke, a member ot the Siloam's crew. Consul dér telegraphed the de- ient confirming reports that the| r had been fired upon and said | was “ssid to be an American ¥rederick 3. Ryder, American con- £yl at Vancod Secretary sclioone Yorke itize According reports, the Siloam ' led to stop the first signals from he patrol vessel, which then fired a | ~elid shot into éhe craft. The Siloam | was accused of :poaching on prohibit- | #d fishing waters, but until Consul | tyder definitely tablishes the facts| 1he State Department will not decide ! what action, if &ny should be taken. | ARREST SHIP CAPTAIN. NCOUVER, B. C., April 27.—Capt. ouragem of the American fishing | schooner Siloam.:which was fired on | l'uegday by a Canadian fisheries pa- trol, has been ciptured st Kyuquot | harbor, according: to advices received liere. Three members of the schooner's rew, who escaped with the captain, vere believed to ke still at large. I. M. Yorke, who avas wounded when | he ptarol fired at the vessel, died | ster. The shooting was the resuit «f the schooner's failure to stop when rdered to do so, the patrol holding inat the fishermen were poaching. t {near h My gun was loaded with buckshot, {sald at the hospital. | lines and contortions suggested the |brought memories t Held Wife Under Water Until She Drowned, He Says By the Assoclated Pre NEW BRITAIN, Conn., April ~~Having confessed that he sat on his wife in a shallow pond so that she was drowned, John A. Carl- son. a plumbing contractor, was held without bond today. He said he deliberately drove his automobile over an embankment. The machine overturned and both were thrown into the pond. Then Carlson placed a cushion on his wife's head and chest and sat on it. holding her beneath the surface. He sat there until her struggles ceased. according to his state- ment, and then went to the high- way and obtained assistance. He rode to & hospital in an ambulance with his wife’s body and told offi- cers that the ident oce i when his wi control of the car. Carlson and his wife were mar- ried twenty-four vears ago. Two sons. aged nineteen and fifteen. live in this city. Carlson gave his age as forty-four. The drowning occurred a month | H ago. The police said Carlson oon- Five! fossed last night when confronted | with evidence they had obtained. |SeParate bomb explosions on the| He said he lad quarreled on the | Rubir raflroads durlng the night cut motor trip with Mrs. Carlson be- |raflway. telegraph o he purchased for her a fur |, B et g v Cont conting srancd for hor a fur | communications, temporarily disor- | ed one costing $300. | ®anizing trafic. French headquar- | ters said the explosions had caused | the most serious damage since the ! BY TWO HORSEMEN I made a series of efforts to run the | Mysterious Riders Gallop customs barrier into interior Ger- | many, but large quantities of goods | Away From Oklahoma Farm After Murders. | which the Germans were trying to| EXPLODING BOMBS | WRECK RAILROADS AND WIRES N RUR | Traffic Tied Up by Most Se- rious Outbreak of Sabotage Since Occupation. FRENCH NIP PLOT TO RUN | BY CUSTOMS BLOCKADE | | | | . Trainloads of Coal and Merchan- | dise Consigned for Interior of Germany Are Seized. zet through were seized by the French. Troops Narrowly Escape. The explosions tore up sections of track and blew down the wires along- side in each Instance. In one case} near Bomanu a Freuch troop train {heavily loaded had a narrow escape. The explosions cut the line from the ! eastern Ruhr to Duesseldorf, whic | much used for troap m. ! the carriage of supplies lines were cut in the Hattingen, The destruction wil vortation for several damage is being r Besides these violence the French authorities report that an at- tempt was made to wreck a passenger train near Mayence by placing huge j pieces of iron and steel on the tracks. | i | vements and | Four other vieinity of S the Assnciated Press HAWORTH. Okla. Thomas Hammill. a and their daughter, the latter's ten-vear-old shot to death when they were called of the Hammill home, . early today and fired on by | who rode up to the house on horseback A five-year-old Tope was probably The identity of the determined, All of the persons <hot were sleep- ng in a front ro, of the house when the horsemen called them to the door. Two boys in another room es- | caped injury. Neighbors declared today they saw two men on horseback ride rapidiy away after they heard the shooting They said X her hu: band were e she had come to her father's home to live. Mr. and Mre. Tope resided in Red River county, Tex. until three weeks ago, they said. GUARD SHOOTS SIX° IN PRISON RIOTING Lone Man Stands 0ff 18 With Iron Bars and Ciubs Who Try Escape. Aprit 27 — planter: his wife a Mrs. Tope, and | delay trans- son were e days while the toor, two men. daughter of Mrs. | fatally wounded men has not been Much Verchandise Seized. Gernmin efforts the ! customs barrier into unoccu- iermany resulted in the largest of merchandise made since the upation. The French seized six motor trucks loaded with bolts of silk valued at’15.000.000.000 had just the silk Vowinkel. The Fre pied v run hau marks mills that t near he Germans claim a trap had been for them in this case. They as- serted Frenchmen came to them and offered for a consideration to show Low the customs blockade could be run along a certain road left un- | guarded at night. but that when the silk caravan they arranged to send arrived at this road a detachment of French <oldiers surrounded the Ger- mans and confiscated the entire outfit Two Trainloads Captured. A truckload of scissors, knives and other cutlery from Solingen likewise | was seized in the same manner in this district. This consignment was ' valued at 700,000,000 marks Two trainloads of goods also wers seized last night while trying to run the gantlet The French at Aplerbeck got nine- teen cars loaded with coal and mer- chandise consigned to Berlin. while the PRelgians at Glapbech seized a trainload of manufactured articles, Free Tra COBLEN: Apr —The interal- lied high commission in the Rhine- land closed the door to free travel be- tween Germany and the occupied ter- ritory today by adopting limited pas | sage back and forth to those posse: ing a permit issued by the aillied thorities. . | Thix measure was laken. French ! officials said. to block the entry of German agitators and encouragers of | passive resistance into the Ruhr and | Rhineland. =2l R i MARINE LEADS DANCERS. | = T | BALTIMORE, April 27.—Dancers in | the inter city endurance contest | passed the sixty-two hour mark at| 10 a.m., with twelve survivors of the fifty persons who started. Included | in these was Warren Milly of Colum- bia, S. C. Aubrey Gilbert. a marine, of Wash- ington, seemed to be the freshest of the group, and announced that he in- tended to dance 150 hours. SHIP PLAN APPROVED. Conditions under which the Ship- ping Board will offer for sale all its| ships, and practically all going| routes, were approved by Chairman jLasker today and will be announced publicly within the next twenty-four | hours, The board will announce at the same time completion of its con- solidation plan, which will reduce the number of routes and eliminate duplication of service. Ragged, Dirty, Unkempt, Wins Freedom With Beautiful Voice Cloxed By ST he Assoriated Pross 1oCc1 A Eighteen prisoners. armed with iron bars and clubs, who sttempted to escape from the city workhouse today were over- come by a single guard. As a result «ix are at the city hospital, suffering trom buckshot wounds in the legs, and the remai g twelve are in soli- tary confinement pending investiga- tion of the dash for liberty. Fred Giese. fifty years old. was on | duty at the fouth end of the work- Qouse grounds when he saw the prisoners lowering themselves from a window about 150 feet away. “When I saw the crowd running to- ward me 1 barely had time to rush 1to the house and get my repeating | shotgun. when the leader. Jack Mur- ray, approached and pointed an imi- tation revolver at me. “I knew it was no time to parley, so 1 opened fire. I aimed at their legs. and Murray was the first to fall. The pthers ran. five dropping as they fled 1 did not know until later that Mur- ray’s ‘pistol’ was made of wood. “The men dropped their weapons as they ran, and the twelve who were not wounded hid behind a stack of tools and supply boxes. “Other guards rushed to riy assist- ance and the men then came {rom be- nd their barricade with their hands and surrendered. The wounded will recover, it was - Investigation disclosed an outsider had assisted in the attempted deliv- ery, it was said. By the Associated Press. | the smiles disappeared quickly and NEW ORLEANS, April 27.—"Tt” wag 8aVe way to expressions oquurprue and in -night court last night. He was|T2Pt attention. ariested on Canal street because he | 'l ohhodoNe yihe dear silver that| wak acting in a manner which a po- | And the brow that's 8o furrowed and | licéman regarded as suspiclous, and | . Wrinkled with care.” icgman e . ragged clothe - 1t} was a sorry figure that 8t00d |pearance were forgotien. Boriiiin before Recorder Leonard. He waw|too, was the fact that the seeme was | dirty, his clothing was shabby, his| in a court of justice. It was only | hair was uncombed, and certain facial realized that a magnificent Volre was litted Ine & song ‘eu.“:‘t- 0 every one within hearing, memories made dearer by the passing of years. T Kiss the dear fingers that toiled fone SYor me. God keep you and ble: | The song ended. For a moment narcotic addict. “What's vour occupation?” Leongrd queried, “I'm a singer,” was the reply. The - spectators who attended the night ‘court for the sake of amuse- ment_tittered, The judge looked skep- tical,_&nd it was plain he didn't be- lieve “the man. “Lef's hear you sing,” the court de- manded. in sarcastic tone. And. the prisoner sang. The first note was greeted with smiles, but Judge Mother Machree.” orl there was absolute silence, A roar of applause shattered the dignity of | the place—and there way no attempt ' to stop it. ! On the bench Judge Leonard hastily brushed & handkerchief across his ey You're discharged,” he sajd, | petroleum {%0 as to satisfy | Commission to Discuss Action ! night April 30 to midnight Ma: -Fhenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION every city tion is deliv as fast as t 4 The Star's block and the regular edi- “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier s system covers ered to Washington homes he papers are printed. Sta Yesterday’s D. C. FRIDAY, MEXICO MODIFIES DISPUTED OIL LAW U. S. Optimism Over Yielding Policy Continues in Face of Parley. A 10 od Press T law of the ME April A designed to develop federal constitution objections raiseéd by foreign oil interests against the al- leged confiscatory interpretation of that article, was passed by the cham- of deputies last The vote was 169 to 2 deputies new article ber evening. he approved a provision granting federal government ex- clusive control of the oil industry bur refused to adopt a clause giving individual states the right par- ticipate in the proceeds of oil taxes. to Concessions Confirmed. 1 i | important provision of | law confirms petroleum con- | legally obtained prior to I when the present con- ution bes effective. This ar- ticle. which had previously been ap- | proved by chamber, provides that uch concessions must be revalidated | The most the new fons 19 me {within three years from the date of | the promulgation of the statute. The closing debate was heated. The meas- ure now goes to the senate OIL LAW TO BE TOPIC. at Coming Session. By the Associated Press. Despite the unwillingness of Amer- ican oficials to comment on the nes ©0il concession law under considera- tion at Mexico City. it is known that the subject well to the front in the preliminary discussions in prog- ress here reiative to the forthcoming sessions of the new Mexican-Amer- ican commission. All along the State Department has watched closely every move on the! part of Mexican officials designed tol give positive guarantees against| confiscatory application of article 2 Whether the statute which passed| the Mexican chamber of deputies last | night is regarded here as containing these guarantees in adequate torm. officials will not say, but the reports from the Mexican capital appear at least to have had no depressing in- fluence on the general feeling of op- timism here over Mexican-American relations. Com ion to Depart. was announced today that ar- rangements would be completed at once for the departure for Mexico City of the two American members of the commission, Charles B. Warren and John Barton Payne, who will be ac- companied by Matthew Hanna, chief of the Mexican affairs bureau of the State Department. They already have gone over th whole ground with Secretary Hughes, and probably will be ready to leave Washington within a few days. Dispatches from the Mexico City government have been received at The State Department asking when the American representatives would be ready to begin the negotiations. A reply will be made this week, of- ficially advising the Mexican authori- ties of the time of the expected ar- rival of the American delegation in Mexico City and stating that the: will be prepared upon arrival to im mediately start discussions. MEXICO PAPERS SUSPEND. MEXICO CITY, April 27.—For the | first time in the history of Mexican journalism the newspapers of - the capital will not publish on May The press syndicates decided last evening to suspend work from mid- 1. 1t APRIL i sentation on the board fat a board meeting todav. Net Circulation, 95,841 o7 “igoa; = FORTY-SIX PAGES. \§ Bergdoll Hiding In North Mexico, Tourists Report LOS ANGELES, Calif. April 27.—-Re- ports that Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. sought by federal authorities fq vears as a draft dodger, is in the northern part of Lower California spends his between En- senada and Tia Juana were brought today to Angeles by in- dtviduals MITCHELL LEAVES RESERVE BOARD St. Paul Man Resigns, Leav- ing Two Vacancies to Be Filled. a and time, Los private The resignation of Joh of St. Paul from the Federal Resers was presented to President Harding today by Secretary Mellon The resignation of Mr. Mitchell which was due to a desire to return to his private business, created a sec- ond vacancy the place held by the Campbell, the “dirt” not yet being filled. The President is expected to announce appointments to both vacancies early next week The place made vacant by Mr. Mitchell's resignation. it was said, would be filled by a representative of the south. which now has no repre- Mr. Mitchell has served about two years, having been appointed by President Hard ard on late Milo D. farmer member, GONCRETE SAFETY ISLESATIGTHAND U Plans to Rebuild Platforms Announced by Com- missioners. The temporary safety islands at the intersection of 16th and U streets | and New Hampshire avenue are to be made permanent and rebuilt of concrete, the Commissioners decided At pres- ent the islands are meriy. wooden platforms. which become unsightly as the wood deteriorates. They were installed to simplify handling traffic at this congested point. where a stream of vehicles is constantly passing in three direc- tions. The new islands will be attractive- 1y lighted and will cost $1.200. The city heads authorized purchase of ten thousand square feet of ground |near 27th and O streets northwest for the proposed Rose Park colored playground. Congress appropriated $5,000 in the mew act for this proj- ect. There is an additional $3,000 to buy more land adjoining the site. A $25,000 storm water sewer will be constructed, the Commissioners announced, in the area bordered by River road, Davenport street, Wis- | consin avemue and Fessenden street. Maj. Raymond Wheeler, engineer commissioner, reported to the Commissioners today that he would have a complete report before them on May 15 of the number of alley houses that will have to be closed June 1 under an act of Con- gress. assistant Immediately After the Ball Game —the 5:30 EDITION of THE EVENING STAR is on the street with the result. Take it along home with you. Contains all the late news from every- where. e e e M e Bt o B . o Mitchell | the Reserve Board, | g in 19:1. | TWO CENTS. ‘ !Rum Runners Use '‘Smoke Screen to _Bouemw MERICAN LEAGVE SEASON /N WASHING TON OPENED YESTER DAY - —tr— Pre sfden‘/‘ Herdrne fo'.r:es out- FIRST BALL ! l Use of a smoke screen is the lat- est move of bootleggers to out- wit revenue agents and members of the police dry law enforcement squad. It by using such screen early this morning that two supposed bootleggers succeeded in getting out of sight jof Agent Fowler and Policeman Bauer. Fowler and up the pursuit of two machines near Good Hope, Md. Near the foot of a_hill one of them turned north into Min- nesota_avenue, the officers keep- ing behind the car that continued toward the city, The chase was along nia avenue at a sevent gait, the revenue agent man reported. when tic legging was a Revenue auer took Pennsyl- ~five-mile 1 poiice- sugpeeted » emit <uch oflicers he ere Al comy ot a unable to used _in sereen. D.C. MAY GET POWER . FRON VAST PLANT {Great Area to Be Covered by Project on Susquehanna River. mater making the “smol ADMITS ‘FRAME-UP AGAINST BABE RUTH A power district Baltimor Wilmington project adequate to cover including Washington, Philadelphia, Trenton to be 1cted anna between nd Conowingo. Md sclosed today with the filing®of an appli the Susquehanna Power with federal proposed | A cons it was {power The plant will develop 360,000 horsepower, and be to cities towns 1 {Woman Plaintiff in Damage Suit. Who Charged Attack, Withdraws Accusation. commission its power wil <oid and indust centers within a radius of 100 miles To Build Great Dam. Associated Press. NEW YORK. April {lores Dixon, who recently |suit for $30.000 damages against| | “Babe” Ruth. the New York Yan- kees' “home run king," alleging s¢- duction and assault, withdrew Ler case today. The withdrawal was made just as the case of Robert Mc- Chesney, who was to have bcen ex- amined in supreme court as to the record of Miss Dixon. was sbout to be called. McChesney did not appear when called, and Hyman Bushell, Ruth's attorney, asked that the case be dis- !missed. He produced a stipulation. | signed by Miss Dixon. her guardian ad litem, Barbara V. Escoe, and her lattorney. George Feinberg, withdraw- ing the suit. Says He Obtained Confession. The company is a of the United Gas and Electrle Corpor: tion of Baltimore, and § been secured to finance « and operation. A across the Susquehanna | tidewater to be 103 feet high furnish the head of water 1o generate 360.000 horsepower. The project will be located in e and Harford counties. in Maryland. and in Lancaster county, Pa. The dam site s to be located ubout seventy- five miles from Washington. near Havre de Grace. Md., and water for the project will be drawn from a drainage a in Pennsylvania of 040 square miles. FIRE SWEEPS SHIPS IN SPANISH HARBOR Flames Start in 0il Vessel Spread to Sailing Craft. By the Associated Press. GLJON, Spain, April -A | fire broke out in the harbor of {this morning. It originated on sailing vessel Rapido, with a cargo of fuel oil and spread to the sailing crafi. Basillos and Maria Teresa. and ialso to the steamer Antonchu. lving at anchor. As this dispateh was sent it red 1s would be \iiss Do sabsidiary brought a dam is to be built at nd to rived., Bushell announced he also had ob- tained confession. signed Miss Dixon. in which she admitted the | suit was the result of a frame-up in ons were involved lined to give out ng he would show Boston today. He it over to the dis- for investigation, and by j which several per: Ruth’s attorney d the document. say’ it to “Babe” at then would turn trict attorney Bushel said. The stipulation serious sijon the igned by the plain- | ] tiffs which Ruth's attorney submitted to the court was in the form of an {agreement, by which the suit was to ibe withdrawn “without costs to etiher | party against the other, an order to | brobable that all the ve that effect to be entered without no- | destroyed. ice by either party to the other. | | VET-CHARGED WITH 20 | WEDDINGS GOES TO JAIL Attorney Refused to Sign. | Bushel said he had refused to sign ithe stipulation. Although he kept secret the contents of Miss Dixon's | alleged confession. he showed re- porters a signature which caid waw hers. affixed to the documents uth was training in the south {when the suit was announced, and he at once vigorously denied that he! ever knew or had seen Miss Dixon. fe was joined bY Mrs. Ruth in de- I nouncing the as a blackmail I scheme. Miss Dixon. according to ver. is an expectant mother. /BEDROOM THIEVES SAID TO USE DRUGS Alexandria Victims Declare Some- thing Was Administered to Induce Sound Sleep. Charles W. Davis. 74. Pleaded Guilty to Stealing From Woman He Married in 1922. Br the Associated Press WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Charles W. Davis, the seventy-four- year-oid civil war veteran, who is al- leged to have married twenty or more women in nearly as many states in the last two vears and then disappeared | with their valuables. was sentenced vesterday to from two and ten months {o three vears in the eastern peniten tiary. Davis pleaded gwity to the lar valuable securities from Mrs. Seeger of this city, whom he at Cleveland, Ohio. 'in October, Davis told the | he { i April her law- | eny of married 19; ourt he was born in 1849, and that the name Taylor he used an alias was that of his stepfather. | He declared that he was not a higamist and that the stories of other wives than Mrs, Seeger were untrue. IN PRESIDENT’S NAME. Ambassador Herrick Presents Hon- ors to Army Officers. PARIS, April American Am- bassador Herrick today presented, in the name of President Harding, the distinguished service cross to Col. Special Dispatei to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. April 7.—Sev-| eral of the persons living on the out- skirts of the city whose houses re- cently were entered during the night and robbed and not any of the occu- pants aroused from their slumbers. although the burglars entered the bed chambers, now are convinced that the burglars used some sort of drug, which_put them into a sound slum- ber. They point to the fact that the next day they felt drowsy all day long. as if they were in a stupor. Efforts to Prevent Class Dance, Rouse Tech High School Seniors reparation commission, and the dis tinguished service medal upon Col. Nelson Dean Ja Indignation has been aroused among | Suggestion was then made ihat the Tech High School seniors over efforts | dance be canceled and a dinner or of Principal Frank C, Daniel and sev- | some other form of entertainment be v - | substituted. eral members of the faculty to pre- | gy "rliiners of the senior class vent them from holding the class| . ihey Would rather dance than eat. “prom,” a feature of the pre-gradua- |They turned deaf ears to such a sug- tion exercises. gestion, pointing out that the “prom” The senior class momentarily ex-| committee had gone to considerable | expense to arrange the dance and it P o3 office definitely forbidding the dance, {In their determination to have the - - 95, |dance called off, it was reported bv Wwhich had been scheduled for May 25. | {1 o students, the principal and After a ballroom in the Washing-|(he teachers have circulated ques- ton Hotel had been engaged for the | tionnaires among the members of the & ¢ = raduating class designed. v show Doy Sndb AIN otner snacessary = 1 Fhat & majority of the students do mot rangements completed, it wag Y€ |dance and would- not attend the | ported that Principal Daniel appeared | “prom™ and would prefer the banquect | before the senior class at its mcel- Meantime, tickets for the dance are ing the other day and procecded to[still being sold, and the question is read a newspaper story to the effect ar- being bandied in Tech's corrigors: that scientists have proven that dane- | “Will we dance or will we eat? If ing is barbarous. 20, when?" |Elude Dry A gents, truction | sufficient | Emma | Blanton Winship. now attached to the | ects an order from the principal's|was too late for a “pinch-hit” dinner. | SALARY OF $8,000 FOR POSTMASTER IND.C. IS SOUGHT |Present Pay of $6.000 Un- just, Is View of Friends | of Official. |PAY BASED ON VOLUME OF BUSINESS IN YEAR ‘But Local Office Handles Vastly More Franked Than Paid Matter. | ress will be asked next fail of the postmaster shington £6.000) $8.000 year. as a matter of simple justice The change cf postmasters to tahe place here May 1 William M. Mooney succeeds Merritt Chance. brings for to the atten- tion of Post Office Department off cials what is considered injusti in the existing The Washir all the free were paid T w not les: sntit lary o from to « when ibly situation ton city government for at uld show than § the local 1Ty now enjoved master New York, ¢ other leading cities It is not generally actual receipts of | Conn.; vt ¥, and Norfo and masters one re Dost mail postage receipts of which would ter to the the post ricago off exist vearly 060,000, Postn tos, known that t the Washington jast vear wers bined receip of Bridgepo Portland, Me vet the post of these citic i 5 {3 In addition past ofn f governn pay a mately free the every ngton andles a ni mail, which does which' would appro jump its receipts. if the sa. matter were paid for. from $1 193.24 to the aforementioned $13 1t is to remedy 1 s condition that be made whep Congre nex 1 to hake existi law changed so that the Washingt. City postmaster may be entitled $8.000 A city post office does not enter 11 $5.000-a-vear « of salary_for Postmaster un does a $7.000.01 business a vear. Asa matter of fact the post office at the National Cap is handiing mail far in excess of tiu amount without cost to the govern ment But and that t is handled. just the sa s the “joker” that official st_Office Department point New deiphia Mo., are United & paid the m ven were $13.061 $10.251.610. ojcials passing throug post_office we York Chicago. Boston Louis and today the only es whose postm aximum salary Phit o in il gk of 85,000 for Boston last Those for St believed by posta if_all the mati. the Washington ¢ » paid for the local receipts would equal those of Bostor and far exceed those of St. Louis. 11 is believed that Washington wouli show receipts nearly double those of Kansas City Provides Seale. a5 provided in the the salaries of postmasters anc employes, approved 1920, that the salaries « shall be graded in even hundre | dollars and based on the gross postal ipts. Offices of the first elass e from receipts of £40.000, with of 0. to $7. $7.000,000 and up with @ salary of $8.000. The Provides that offices having zr eipts of S600.000 per annum ess than $7.000.600 shall have a post master The rece el out ter veur Louis It ere tha 1 act rec fying postal Hlaw i s Jump between the 15 it takes to get into the $6,000 s and the receipts it ta to get of it one matter. The mat of handling the entire great goy- ent mail. giving it the same < is given paid matter, and credit for it, de it hehi of mail hay revenue-producing than the quantity of postage is paid. it is and any caleulation { based upon postal receipts, therefore Lis a_just way of arriving at the > the local postmaster or the supervisory officials. Handles Vast Mail. Not only does the local oflice hin- dle the official correspondence printed matter of the government but it also transports supplies. such < internal revenue StAmps, POStage mps and stamped envelopes, draw ings, maps and great quantities of matter sent ont by members of Con- gress under the franking privilege. Recognizing the wrong of basing the salary of the Washington city postmaster on the gross receipts of an office where the majority of the work “does not count in the records Congress enacted a special law in 1853 fixing the salary of the post- er_here at $5,000. 1t had been no othe tity nos led here . | qua | is | much greater {mail on which | pointed out and when the reccipts of the i, those that count in the eached a sufficient size, the salary of the postmaster ecame $6.000 a vear. And there it will main. ualess something is done about it, until the receipts, minus govern- { ment mail. total $7.000,000. LIGHTER WITH 16,000 CASES LIQUOR SEIZED | Coast Guardsmen Capture Boat En | Route From Rum Fleet to ! Jersey Shore. | By the Associated Press. | HIGHLANDS, N | guardsmen today seized motor | lighter Napogue, with an estima.cd cargo of nearly 16,000 cases of liquor The lighter was en route from th {rum fleet to the New Jersey shore | when captured off Sandy Hook 1 BISHOP LITTLE BETTER. The condition of Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of Washington, who has been ill for weeks, was still reported serious today. His attending physician issued a statement saying: “Bishop Harding's condition is still serious and the cause of great anxiety, but is less critical than it was. His heart's action has gradually improved. Coa the