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== * 1 “UNCLE J0E" AT 81 | ASKSFAITHINU.S. Two Cabinet Officers Among | Notables, Attending His Birthday Party. By the Assoclated Press, DANVILLE, Ill, May “Uncle Joe Cannon, who served in Congress through two generations, Wwith a record and display of personality that had made his name and black cigar as well known to school boys as to politicians, today is celebrating his eighty-seventh birthday. and his home-coming from his final session of Congress. Joseph Gurney Cannon, for years autocrat of the republican party as Speaker of the House, is going to rest for the remainder of his life. He is going to settle down in Dan- ville, sit back in an easy chair in his ome, and let a younger man take is place in politics. “Uncle Joe” on his return home from the last ses- sion, said: “I'm tired, I'm going home to rest” Since 187 two terms, Congress around Danville. He his halr turned gray, leader of the House. shot-like cruck with Uncle for the the exception of Joer 1 people in and becam before the dominant His left handed, of the gavel on the speaker's stand came to be just as much a part of “Uncle Joe” Cannon as his rakish black hat and his rak- ishiy tilted black cigar. Cabinet Officers Attend. All Danville and persons of state and national importance, including Secretary of the Navy Denby, Secre- tary of Labor Davis, Governor Small, of Tllinols, Governor McCray and Sena- or Watson of Tndana fire going to help Uncle Joe celebrate both his birthday nd his political retirement jn a just and fitting manner. To the people who gathered here and to all the people of America, Uncle Joe issued the following greet: ing and messag “Friends, t demonstration of Your affection is in itself compensa- tion for my half century of public service. The extent of my gratitude cannot be weighed or measured. To @Il my heart goes out in thankful- ress, “It is good to have lived and work- €d with you. You are my neighbors. You are ‘the people 1 have served in Congress through two generations. You are the people with whom I in- tend to pass the remainder of my days. “To you. to all the people of Amer- fea. from 'my observance of half a century, 1 bring this message: Have faith. ~Often vou will feel that vou detect a greaf uneusiness, an unrest, & threatening undercurrent in this government. This is neither new nor unusual. T have learned that America will rise to meet her prob- Jems. I have learned that good will triumph over evil “Have faith in the government of your fathers. Show vour faith by works to support that government. Have faith that right will prevail.” Today the Cannon home will see another crowd pass in review, for wvery time Uncle Joe Lome from Congress his “nelghbors culled to welcome him—the school children among them, for Uncle Joe is their friend. Today's assemblage perhaps will be the lirgest that has ever zathered to honor the veteran representative. Secretary Denby and Secretary Davis will address the crowd at Lin- coln Park. John M. Harrison, pub- lisher of the Danville Commercial News, will Introduce Secretary Dav Uncle joe, wielding the “big stick &s of old. will open the Three Lcague base ball season here. Sec- retary Denby will catch the balls pitched nele Joe” by Secretary Dav iov. Small and Gov. MeCray umpire. CONCERT AUDIENCE FILLS AUDITORIUM Thirty-Third Free Entertainment by Community Music Associa- tion Was of Pleasing Quality. while will The thirty-third free concert of the Community Music Association's series of Sunduy musicals was given last night in Central High School, before an audi- ence that completely filled the audito- rium, The Bernhaimer t {0 made its initial appearance befor community con- cert enthu: received an ova- tion for their chamber muslic contribu- tione. ~Mrs, Ethel Holtzclaw Gawler, | Washington's popular her hearers with “Morning and Spi was accompanied on the piano by Eliza- beth Gardner Coombs S. M. Bauckman, a vounz Was ton cabinet maker, demonstrated two unique musical instruments which_he has inviented, a violin and a banjo. Mr. Bauckman played selections on both in- struments and was obliged to respond to_an enthusiastic recall. The Washington Community Orches- tra, under the direction of Charles B, Banner, displayed marked fmprovement tn_its’ orchestral selections. Com- munity singing by the audience com- prised the major portion of the even- ing’s entertainment. + The thirty-fourth free community concert will be given next Sunday night at §:15 o'clock. Director Lawrence made | the announcement that a special free community concert would be given night of this week at Central mmunity Center by the Army Music School. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,300: maiden colts and geldings; two-year-olds; four and one-half furlof Meddling Seth Applate .. Fast Maol Voorgold Pathan . Altisimo Gold Mawr. Slide Rock. Blue and Red.. Slige snp HACEY [ECOND = RACE—Glenmore steeplechast purse. $2,000; cleiming handicap; four-yea: olds and up; two miles and & quarter. Crest Hill........ 150 Overmatch ..... Ireland ... 140 *Vox Popull %d.. ‘Transpero 138 Frank B. . Earlocker ... 140 Shoal . - ‘THIRD RACE—Three-year-olds; $1,300; claiming; six furlong: Kadin . cene 107 Soul Mate...... Verna . 108 *Windigo ...... *8t. Lawrence.... 116 Merry Land. *Rockpocket . . 108 *Rhinegold . *Blue Toney..... 103 Idle Toy ... 108 FOURTH RACE—Purse, $1,500; the Guil ford; two-yearolds: claiming; *Miss Dellis..... 97 Haugh odest. m Smith Aunt Jane. ... 107 FIFTH EAOE—The Pimlico Oaks; $5,000 added; three-yearold filies; one mile and & sixtesnth. Ethel Clayton.... 118 Balleys Alley. Euli I ... 113 tGadi oo 118 Lady 4 Unticy. 7000 113 Miss Smith . STxTH BACE—The Aunspolis SIXT! 0 nnapol handioap; purse, $1,600; three-year-olds and u a sizteenth, 5 _-... 113 King Albert. . 105 Pollyanna T nds claimed for_ride: for . ad i o) 413 *Hoseph Brast... 1s ¢ i 1 fast, “Apprentice u:lowange claimed of fve pounds. Waather clesr, tra s gone to} has returned | 1 | { member of the gang, they said, prob- Legation Attache | Dies by Drowning'! PAO TIEN HSIEH Of the Chinese legation staff, who lost his life while in the Magothy river mear Baltimore yeste: BAD CHECKS START WILD STOCK BREAK (Continued from First Page.) session of the stocks ordered, since the orders were placed in the names of various reputable business houses, ous traders, with a desire to ‘rig” lous traders, with a desire to "rig” the market. Opinion differed as to which side of the market was responsible. It was pointed out that it produced condi- | ticns favoring first one side and then the other. Stocks rose sharply at the outset, giving operators who might have been advised of the maneuver an opportunity to cash in on sales in anticipation of a break. Then the | break came, pushing almost the en- tiro list to a new low level and giv- ing operators on that side an op- portunity for a clean up. As the day wore on the size of the hoax grew. Rofore 1 o'clock forty houses here had turned their fake orders over to the stock exchange authorities and it was said these let- ters probably were a small part of the total number received. ‘WORK OF SAME GROUP. Bogus Checks Received by Twelve Boston Houses. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 7.—Bogus checks to support buying orders for stocks were received by at least twelve brokerage houses here today. In only | two cases were the orders executed, however. In all cass the checks pur- ported to be certified by banks for $15.000. Secretary George A. Rich of the Doston stock exchange said they were clearly the work of the same| group. 1 The checks were drawn largely on in Pittstield and North Adams, s. The orders executed here were ew York Central and China stock Other orders that were stopped when the checks were found to be fraudu- lent involved American woolen, American Telephone aund American car and foundry stocks. It was es- | timated that twelve of the older brokerage houses in the city re- ceived an aggregate of $180,000 in buying orders with fraudulent checks. THINK PITTSBURGH BASE. i i Brokers Find Gang Operating Over Very Large Area. By the Associated Pross PITTSBURGH, Pa. May New York brokerage houses with Pitts- turgh branches closely watched the bad check situation this morning. One important house caught a worthless check for $1.500 ‘from Greensburg, Pa., and another found an order from Harrisburg was equally worthless, The orders to buy stocks were mailed to New York. and the swindle de- veloped when the New York brokers usked their offices here for. con- firmation. Brokers said there were indications of widespread operations Ly the forgers, but so far as known few, if any, losses had developed. The Harrisburg order was written on a letterhead of the Harrisburg Trust Company and signed with the name of the treasuler, and said that | he wanted to buy 500 shares of Balti- | more and Ohio stock for a customer. a wholesale grocery house of that city. It was accompanied by a cashier's check ostensibly signed by the presi- dent and treasurer. of the bank. The New York broker became suspicious and wired its Pittsburgh represent- ative to confirm the order. A tele- phone call to the bank disclosed that no such letter had been written by any official of the bank and no such check had been made out. Brokers said they believed the checks were put out by a gang oper- ating with Pittsburgh as a base. One i i 1 1 | | i ably took a train for the east and at every main station along the line mailed the checks. FEW ORDERS EXECUTED. Philadelphia Brokers Protected by New York Warning. I tie Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. least two local stockbrokers' firms ived forged checks for bogus market orders, it was learned after prices began to fall on- the New York exchange. The checks, it was said. came from Altoona, Al- lentown, Harrisburg and Johnstown, in Pennsylvania, Later several other houses reported receiving_bogus orders and forged checks. Each was for $15,000. None of the Philadelphia houses, so far as i known, executed a bogus order, as 1all were warned by the experience of | New York houses earlier. The stock which seemed most or- dered Jn _this city, according to Pen- nel C. Kirkbridge, secretary-treas- urer of the Philadelphia Stock Ex- change. was New York Central, Pa., May 7.-—-At By tle Astociated Press. DETROIT, Mich., May 7.—A “tem- pest in a 'teapot” is the way Mrs. Florence Avery Barrigrand referred to her millionaire father, created in today to the furore her marriage a week ago to Francls Barrigrand, ex- gardener to her millionaire father, created in Detroit’s most exclusive social circle. Mrs. Barrigrand, who, according to her mother, has sacrificed her inheri- tance and.social position by her mar- riage to the former gardener, was found in the kitchen of a $10 a week flat in the River Rouge district, where her husband now is employed as an fron worker. A gingham apron covering her smart brown sport suit, Mrs. Barri grand was preparing a meal over a two-burner gas stove. “We are perfectly happ. she said, ! perhaps mortally hurt. T BRANCH BANK CASE IN SUPREME COURT St. Louis Institution ()pposes;I State Decision Prohibiting | | | Subsidiaries. The Supreme Court held a special session today to hear argument in a case involving the right of national banks to establish branches and the enforceablility of state laws prohibit- ing such branches. The case reached the court on an ap- peal by the First Natlonal Bank of St. Louls to have reviewed the dectsion of the Missour! courts upholding the law of that state prohibiting branch banks. Eleven states, Arkansas, Con- necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Towa, Kan- sas, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin, were permitted by the court, as friends, to intervene and file briefs. All of the states have laws prohibit- Ing branch banking, some of the Jaws also applylng to state banks. They expressed apprehension that branch banking by national banks would gradually result in the elimination of state banks. . Deny State Authority. The First National Bank Insisted in its argument that national banks are not subject to restriction in the matter of their rights and powers by state laws, but, being chartered by the federal government, are in such matters solely under the juris- diction of the federal government. It deniod that the federal statutes pro- hibited national banks from estab- lishing branches, and asserted that the acts of Congress conferring juris- diction upon state courts over actions against national banking associa- tions did not glve the state or her courts authority to Interfero in mat- ters affecting the administration of such institutions. The federal, and not state laws must govern in such matters as those presented in the pending case, the bank insisted, arguing that the con- troller of thé currency and not the attorney general of a state was the official to determine when a national bank had exceeded the authority con- ferred upon it by its federal charte The state of Missouri in its argu ment pointed out that George W Wickersham, as Attorney General of the United States, had in 1911 deliv- ered an optnion holding that natlonal banks were restricted to one building in carrying on thelr banking busi- ness. Asserting that this was the 1 official declaration by the federal government on the subject, the state declarcd that the controlier of the currency, by declining to treular, ' issued August 15, ich it announced that no tional bank would be permitted to establish branches in states which did not permit state banks to do so. had compelled it to take action in the matter. Insisting that branch bank- Ing by national banks was unauthor- ized and illexal under federal bank- ing laws, the state contended that, in as much as such practice also was prohibited under its statutes, it had the right to enforce the prohibition The eleven intervening states as serted in their brief that “branch anking is thoroughly undesirable; that from a public standpoint it is o jectionabie in every respect ¢ ¢ that it is detrimental to the best terests of the public and done away with.” CUBAN RAIL CRASH COSTS 25 LIVES Casualty List in Matanzas| Includes Many Burned in Mass of Ruins. in- should be By the Associated Press. HAVANA, May 7—Twenty-five per- sons are reported to have been killed and more than fifty injured in a head- on collision between Hershey electric railway trains near Camasi, Province of Matanzas, today. No Americans are reported as being among the casualties, The trains were rounding a curve at bigh speed when they crashed. Fire broke out immediately in the wreck- age and a_ number of tho victimsi were burned to death in the blazing coaches. Most of the injured have been sent to Matanzas on a special train. George A. Glenn and C. J. Schwingle, appraisers, of Milwaukee, two of the few Americans on the train, escaped with_slight injuries. Mr. Gleen gave the following account of the wreck: My Partner and 1 were on the way to Havana from Mantazas. Our train should have takenn the siding for the train from Havana to pass. We were traveling about forty-five miles an hour when we began to round the curve. “When the impact came 1 turned complete_somersault and my compan fon was knocked unconscious. I car- ried Schwingle to safety. We were in the rear of the last car, which was not crushed, although the front por- tion had been telescoped.” ‘When the fire broke out, according to Glenn, the woogden coaches burned like tinder. Two women and a girl were pinned beneath the wreckage and perished. The motorman of the Havana train was thrown through a window and escaped injury, while the motorman on the train bound for Havana was only slightly hurt. One conductor was killed and the other RULE ON GOLDEN & CO. Justice Siddons of the District Su- preme Court today issued a rule on Golden & Co., Inc., commission mer- chants of 922-28 Louisiana avenue northwest, to show cause May 28 why the corporation should not be ad- judged a bankrupt. The citation is based on a petition of three creditors of the company having claims in ‘excess of $21,000. They assert that the corporation is insolvent and that it consented to the appointment of receivers April 23 last. Attorneys Joseph A. Burkart and Barnard & Johnson represent the | complaining creditors. Disowned Heiress Happy in $10- Week Flat; Cooks Own Meals keéping an eye on the stove. “The publicity at first was ghastly. I raged and I cried, but now I can see the humor of it. Barrigrand, with slightly more dif- ficulty with the English language, in- terjected: “Let them have their joke.” He' expressed himself as satisfied with his work, which includes that of catching red-hot rivets flung from far below, and forcing them into cold | steel with a pneumatic hammer. His pay envelope, it develops, is turned over to his wife, the same as many other pay envelopes in the factdry district around James street, in which the couple have rented their modest apartment. Mrs. Barrigrand explained that the residence in James street is tempo- rary. Their ultimate ambition, she said, s to own a little farm some- where in the east. Meanwhile she intends to continue preparing her husband's dinner buck- et and acquire greater skill over the two-burner gas stove, | 1 H {price of $100 HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 7 Touching Tribute To Bishop Paid By Pastor Here Touching tribute was pald to the late Bishop Harding, formerly head of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this diocese, by the Rev. Dr. Robert Johnston in his sermon at St. John's Episcopal Church yesterday. “Pure, unsolled religion, in the judgment of God, mean this—to care for the orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world,” Dr. Johnston said. “This Is the word which describes Bishop Harding. B fore he became Blshop of Washington he was pastor-at-large in this city. “No man would respect parochial boundaries more than he—but like Wesley his parish of spiritual oppor- tunity was undefined. He was a man of religion, The lonely in hotels and boarding houses, the disassociated from churches, ‘found him a ready shepherd of souls. “As bishop he never changed that character. Few men put on the miter without changing their approach to men. Grimly, a scholar of our church has traced this change of front to a disease called ‘episcopitis’ Not in- frequently bishops complain of ‘the loneliness of the cpiscopate.’ How can a man become lonely who becomes the spiritual father of scores of hard-working struggling priests? “Alfred Harding, who became Bishop of Wahington by the grace and in the providence of God, remained the same kindly, simple, humble, falthtul, God-loving man that he was when he functioned us a presbyter in the church of God. He remained a lover of mankind, & simple Christian. He made no claims for himself; he as- serted no pretensfons.” T INDIANS SUE .. FOR §750, Sioux Tribe Alleges Lands and Property Taken by Government Years Ago. The lawyer's brief has been sub- stituted for the tomahawk by the great Sioux Indian nation in its fight to recover ahout $730,000,000 from the federal government as payment, with interest, for lands and property tuken from the Indians by the white men years ago. Of the total demand more than a half billion dollars repre- sents interest. The suit of the Sioux. volve the largest sum said to in- ever sought through judicial action. was filed to- | day in the Claims, ccounts. The claims date back of the gold rush in the Black Hills of South Dakota; to the days Deadwood Coach, Sitting Bull, Ge Custer and the Little Big Horn; Old Fort Laramie. Wounded Knee and other historic persons and occasions. United States Court of and specifies forty separate Indians’ Contention. The Sioux contended that the United States has left undone many things provided for in the treaties of 1851 and 1868, that millions_of acres of their tribul lands were taken from them, their game slaughtered their ponfes and tepees seized, their funds spent improperly by government. They demand $156,00 100 and interest for the and “surrounding territc that the United State area’s wealth in gold, re by armed force and th charging aware of that connived its in 1874 and 1875. The suit of the Indians specifies a an acre for the gold- bearing land. on which one mine has produced hundreds of millions of dol- lars' worth of gold. For the timbered area not included in the Black Hills forest reserve a price of $50 an acre will be asked. Demand An Accounting. The Indians also demand an counting by the United States under all the treaties with the Sioux and the acts of Congress affecting their property. the charge being made that the government has defaulted in its written promises and failed to per- form its solemn obligations. About 25.000 individual claimants are interested in the suit. according to counsel for the Indians, and it is intended through the action “to set- tle all the long-standing disputes tween the Sloux and the United States.” The attorneys estimated i would take from “five to ten vears" to try the case in the Court of Claims and the Supreme Court Maj. Ralph H. Case and Capt. C. C. Calhoun represented the Sioux nation in the petition filed with the court. Victor Fvans of this city, a friend of the Indians, has taken consider- able interest in the case. HIGH GOURT DENIES TEST OF SEARCH An effort to Court pass on have the Supreme the right of search and selzure in prohibition cases without a search warrant falled to- day when the court declined to re viow a case brought by Tony Mary Panzich of Los Angeles, Calif. They had been arrested and convict- ed in a prohibition case, despite their protest that their premises were un- lawfully entered to obtain evidence. Other Reviews Denled. Other cases in which a review was denied included the case of Moe H. Baron of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Hyman Barnett, convicted for violation of the Dprohibition act. An appeal by Baldini, convicted on the charge of maintaining a common nuisance at Reno, Nev., by keeping liquor on sale despite the fact that the convicting court found him at the same time not guilty of having in- toxicating liquor in his possession. An appeal from the indictment and conviction in New Jersey of Samuel Krivit, Barnard Cohen and Harry Titlebaum for a conspiracy to violate the prohibition enforcement law. They had contended that the possession of liquor s not of itself an unlawful act. SUN YAT SEN BLOCKS DRIVE UPON CANTON By the Associated Press. CANTON, May (Delayed) Kwangsl troops, opposed by Sun Yat- sen in their drive on Canton, have been defeated on the North river and are retreating. Northern troops are assisting the Kwangsi forces, concentrating at the junction of the West and North rivers. On the East riyer fighting continues. Since Sun Yat-sen replaced Peking’s appointee to the chief salt inspector- ate, the diplomatic corps is reported to have entered a protest. The ousted chief and the foreign supervisor have deposited their seals at Shameen (Canton). 5 to the days | of the | Black Hills | and | 1923. ADEQUATE SERVICE |Sees Past and Present Linked [AST GARD S PROMISED CITIZENS Commissioner Rudolph As- sures Randle Highlands Bus or Car Line Without Delay. As the climax to a lively hearing before the Public Utilities Commission today on the question of transporta- tion facilitles for Randle Highlands, Commissioner Rudolph, acting chair- man of the commission, declared the commission proposes to give the resi- dents of that locality adequate serv- ice without further delay. The commission heard debate for nearly two hours as to whether the East Washington Helghts Traction railroad of the Capital Traction Com- pany should operate a motor bus line into the highlands. For twenty years the first mention- ed company, headed by Col. A. E. Randle, has’ operated a single-track short_trolley line from the end of the Capital Traction line, across the Pennsylvania avenue bridge. Second Line Offered. Col. Randle petitioned to substitute busses for the present trolley line, which was followed by an offer from the Capital Traction Company to run | a more extensive bus line into Randle Highlands. Dr. B. T. Woodward, president of the Randle Highlands Citizens' As- soclation, and Dr. George C. Haven- ner, of the Anacostia Citizens' Asso- ciation, asked the commissioner to- day to grant the bus privilege to the Capital Traction Company. Affairs took an unexpected turn when Attorney Conrad H. Syme, for the Kast Washington Heights Com- pany, withdraw Col. Randle's petition to change from trolley to bus. Bus Line Not Desired. Then foliowed John . Hanna, vice president of the Capital Traction Company, with the statement that his | system did not care particularly ‘\\'Iu!her it got the bus line ! Col. Randle stated that his com- pany might later renew its applic tion for busses. It was this state- ment that drew from Commissioner Rudolph the closing announcement that the commission felt there Lad besn too much procrastination. Willlam McK. Clayton presented a petition from 300 residents of the highlands, asking that no charge be made for transfers between the Capi- tal Traction cars and any bus line that may be established, MARINE TO RENEW “SPANKING” FIGHT Col. Butler and Attorney Com‘eri in Richmond Tomorrow f on Procedure. ol. i ! Iuspateh to The Star TICO, Va.. Ma Marine Corps’ against the city of Fredericksburg, following the “spanking” of a Quantico private by a town police- man, will be renewed as the result of conference between Brig. Gen Smiedley D. Butler, commandant of the Quantico bLase, and Col. R. L. Byvd. the devil dogs’ lawyer. Gen. Butler announced this m that he would meet Col. Byrd in Richmond tomorrow. They will con- sider there the next legal step to be aken. Three courses remain open— {criminal proceedings against Deputy |Sergt. Reuben McGhee, the offend- | {inx poli uit against that | {officer. or civil suit against the town {of_Fredericksbury, { In the meantime the marine quar- antine against Fredericksburg will be rigidly enforced. ~Gen. Butler de- jclared today that the foeling of his {men was so strong against the Fred- ~The United legal battle | a rning i ericksburg police that he would not, | for the safety of the town's officers, jthink of letting any members of his command enter the town except by special permit. No further steps to- | ward a more stringent commercial {ban, however, will Le taken at this time. {CALLS COLORED WORKERS ! i | Federal Union to Have Mass Meet- i ing on Reclassification. A mass meeting of colored employes of the government in the District of Columbia has been called by Federal Emploves' Union, No. 71, for next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, at the Lincoln Theater, 1215 U stréet north- west. The purpose, as announced by the President, Dr. Benjamin A. An- derson, is to discuss the civil service reclassification act. James ®. McKeon, secretary-treas- urer, National Federation of Federal Employes: Rev. Charles E. Stewart, pastor, Metropolitan A. M. E. Church; James J. Forrester, legisiative repre- sentative of railroad and steamship clerks, and Dr. Benjamin A. Anderson, president Local, No. 71, National Fed- eration of Federal Employes, will speak. The committee in charge consists of 1. M. Pyles, Miss Elizabeth G. Cole and James L. Hawkins. Music and dancing will form part of the program. | April Circulation 95,114 District of Columbia, ss. : FLEMING NEWBOLD. Business Manager of THE EVENING and SUNDAY STAR. does solemoly swear that the actual number of coples of the paper named sold and distributed during the month of April, A.D. 1923, was as follows : DAILY. Coples Dr . 92848 1 06,020 96,316 Copies . 96,791 97,156 97,482 97,024 93,811 95,861 96313 96,027 95,841 95,853 90,446 95,324 2,383,430 5,563 Total daily net circulation. ..2,377,867 Daily average net paid circu- lation ........... 94,180 of 925 Daily average number Dalily average net circulation. ©5,114 Less adjustments............ coples for service, etc...... Less adjustments. ............ Total Sunday net circulatios Average net pald Sunday cir- culation . : Average number of service, etc. Average Sunday net circul: tion .. FLEMING NEWBOLD, Business Menager. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of May, A. D. 1923 (Seal) ELMER F. YOUNT, Notary Public. In “Home, Sweet Home > House | | Building Already Dedicated, Tribute to Author of Undying Song,“‘ Held “Great | President Asked to Substi- New meeptiqn” of American Home. | The Home Sweet Home house being erected in the park south of the Treasury combines the memory of the past and the achievements of the present, declared Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, president of the General Fed- eration of Women's Clubs here. “This 13 to be a symbol of the great new conception ~ of the American home,” she said at the close of the ceremonies in which the structure, already standing two stories high five days after the breaking of ground, was dedicated for the campaign for better homes in America the week of June 4 to 10. The plan of the house was drawn by Donn Barber, architect, from the lines of the old homestead on Long Island which inspired John Howard Payne a century ago to write the un- dying song, “Home, Sweet Home.” One Hundredth Anniversary Date. Tuesday will be the 100th anniver- ry of the first public rendition of the famous lyrie. . Mr. Barber pointed out that the old lines were so fine that this house will serve as a model of the seven-room type of house to compare with anything being devised. The construction, however, ig of con- crete blocks gtuccoed, and the plumb- ing, heating and finish will represent the' best modern standards of bulld- ng. In spite of the phenomenal speed of construction, the house will be so built as to stand being moved to an- other site where it will gerve perma- nently as a better homes exhibit un- der the auspices of the federation. Building speed records are being broken with the structure. The De- partinent of Agriculture will trans- plant vines, shrubs and trees to com- plete the spirit of antiquity. ymbiney PPast and Present. The interior will combine the past and present with rooms and library shelves plcturing the things of 1823 and a model kitchen of 1923, devised SEES SOUTH LEAD Former Prison Association Head Says Conditions Vast- ly Better There Now. BY the Assoniated Pres WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. May Prediction of a new era in which the southern states would lead the coun- try in humanitarian treatment of prisoners was made today by Dr. Hastings A. Hart. a member of the Russell Sage Foundation and former president of the American Prison As- soclation, in announcing that might accept an invitation of legls- lative committees in North and South Carolina to investigate prison condi- | ticns in those states. Dr. Hart, who has investigated prison conditions in various southern states—notably Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Florida, South Caro- lna and Virginia—declared that in a large number of these states there had come sweeping reforms. labama and South Carolina have done more in the last few vears to better conditions than any two states in the Union" he said. The recently in Florida, he said, was the result of the poverty of the southern states after the war. Slaves Better Treated. Slaves, Dr. Hart continued. were treated by their owners like valuable horses, but the attitude under the convict lease system was “if we kill one convict, we can get another.” The road cage, one of the greatest s of the lease system, Dr. Hart said, was fast disappearing. It was in this cage, he added. that convicts spent the night under conditions closely resembling those of Siberian prison_camps. Fioe Conditions _in _Mississippi _were worse than in other states he had investigated, Dr. Hart said. There, he declared, murderers, sentenced to imprisonment for life, acted as guards. and were armed with high-powered rifles. If one of these murderers killed a fellow convict who was try- ing to escape, the murlerer was granted a pardon, according to Dr. Hart. Dr. Hart said the new Kilby tentiary at Montgomery, A V. in_ better condition than Sing Sing prison, New York. ¥arms Now Paying. At Columbia, S. C, are two prison farms, a_state industrial school for whites and a negro reform school, he sald. Since he conducted an investi- gation there two vears ago they have been well supported by the state and are now beginning to pay back in results the money expended on them, he_said. : 4 Dr. Hart said the North Carolina state penitentiary and the Jail at Durham were above the average, due to the efforts of the committee of 100, which is intrusted with the man- agement of the prison system. Conditions of the Pennsylvania state penitentiary at_Philadelphia he described as bad. There are more than 2,000 prisoners confined there while there are only 800 cells for their accommodation, he said. He declared he would report these conditions next week to the Pennsylvania board of public welfare. ATTORNEY ARRESTED ON CLIENT’S CHARGE Robert L. Montague Accused of Embezzling $180 From Capitol Heights Man. Robert L. Montague, a local attor- ney, was arrested this afternoon by Detectives Waldron and Sweeney on a warrant alleging embezzlement. The warrant alleging the embezzle- ment of $180 was issued on com- plaint of Harry Wells, Capitol Helghts, Md, who charges that such a sum was withheld by Montague when the latter represented him in a claim for damages against the Wash- ington Railway and Electric Com- pany. Montague Prince Georges _county, Glendale, Md., the resides at county of which Welis also is & resi- | dent. It is charged that the railway company . sent Montague a check for $190, and the attorney charged $10, for his services. A personal check for $180 Wells is said to have re- ‘ceived from Montague, it.is charged, ‘was returned because of imsufficient funds' in the bank. he convict lease system attacked | by the home economic experts of the department, including the latest la- bor-saving ' devices and equipment There will be library shelves with books of today and of 1523, Mrs. Winter, calling attention to the tmportance of the country’s greatest | | industry—home-making—satd: “The home is the unit out of which | soctety and government are formed, |and as the center of its administra- | tion women have the greatest posi- tion possible. In their hands lies the fundamental industry of the countr |and as such their work rises to great economic importance. It has been ¢ | timated that if the work of the house- wives of America had to be paid for it | would total nearly ten billions a year. | | But, because, with all its labor, the work of the home-worker is still | more important from a spiritual point of view, it asks no payment in wages. It does, however, ask recognition, in order that it may be dignified in its own eyes and in the eyes of men, and that 1t may be glven the training and | the backing that the fundamental in- | dustry of the nation deserves.” Plea for Better Homens. Mrs, Winter has urged club women | throughout the country to participate in the better homes campaign by pre- | paring a_demonstration in their own community. Already several hun- dreds of towns and citles have joined |the movement and are preparing | houses temporarily loaned or rented | for the purpose, for demonstration | week, June 4 to 10. | Vice President Coolidge and Secre- | | taries Hoover, Davis and Wallace are | members of the National Council of | Better Homes in America; Secretary | Hoover is chafrman, and Mrs. Wil-| liam Brown Meloney secretary. | The movement has the indorsement | of President Harding, who wrote. in | a letter to Secretary Hoover: “Not| only is thers the primary considera- | tion of advanced material comfort, but the soundness of our social sy and the stability of our country are greatly enhanced by the development of love for a home and the creation of a home that can be loved.” COURT RULES WAN | INPRISON REFORM MUST BE HANGED Execution of Chinese Student Convicted in 1920 Set for May 18. ng Sun Wan, the your student convicted early in 1 murder of Ben Sen Wu, u tary at the Chinese educ | sion in Washington, must pay the penalty by hanging. The District Court of Appeals so held today in an opinion by Justice Van Orsdel, affirm- ing the conviction of murder the first degree. Two other Chinese, Dr. T. T. Wong, director of the mission. and C. H. Hsie, secretary-treasurer. were found dead with Wu in the! mission house January 30, 1919, The execution of the voung student has been postponed from time to time, and is now scheduled for May 13 The case was tried before the late Justice Ashley M. Gould, and much of the delay in getting the case to the appellate court was due to the death of the justice. Chief Justice MeCoy reviewed the evidence and signed the bill of exceptions. Disposing of the exception of At- torneys James A. OShea and Charles Fahy for the defense to the charge of Justice Gould. the appellate court after careful review, finds the charge to have been not only without error. but so expressed that no safeguard which the law throws around a per- son accused of crime for the protec- |tion of his rights was omitted. The court held, as a matter of law, that on the death of a justice any other justice of the court may review the testimony and sign the bill of ex- ceptions, and it is not necessary, as claimed by counsel. for the defense | that a new trial be granted. The appellate court affirmed the ac- tion of Justice Gould in admitting state ments made by Wan to the detectives while he was being held at a loca! hotel as guest of the police. It will be observed, the court says, that the great. est deliberation and consideration was displaved by the officers toward the de- fendant. When pressed for details the accused claimed to be tired and wanting to sleep. The police left him then until {the next day, when he accompanied | them to the mission, where he detailed the killing, but charged another Chinese as the perpetrator. CONVICT CAMP GUARD STOPS NEWS PICTURE Newspaper Men's Car Searched ‘While Near Spot Tabert Is Said to Have Been Slain the rsecre- nal mis- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 7.—Two newspaper men and a photographer, seeking photographs of scenes sur- rounding the convict camp where Martin Tabert, North Dakota youth, is alleged to have been beaten to death in Dixie county a year ago.| were held up and their automobilc | searched late Saturday by a resident of the vieniity, aided by an armed ‘guard from a nearby convict camp. according to a story published today by the Jacksonville Journal. A man who said his name was Forhees asked the newspaper men for a ride Saturday, it is stated. and as he was about to leave the machine called the camp guard, a Capt. Mills, | who approached the party after pick- ing up a revolver and placing it in a holster he wore. While the guard stood by Forhees searched the ma- chine and then permitted the party to proceed. | the validity of the law | federal INRUM WAR URGED tute Cutters.for Navy Ships in Pursuing Smugglers. President Harding has been asked 0 use the coast guard permanentl instead of the Navy in America's wa against rum. This stood forth today as the lai est development in the snarl of pro- hibition guestions now tangling gov ernment departments, federal and state authoritles as well as interna tional relatiors of the United States. The “shot heard round the world," which the coast guard cutter Seneca fired from a four-inch gun athwar the bow suspect off New York, opencd a battle royal with the rum fleet which bee so admittedly successful in severi that fleet’s contuct shore, t the President ed 1o the coast guard do it.” See Money as Main Consideration. the crux of a smuggler has with has 1 w questior rum my in The proposal is $6.000.000 o the approy $11.000,000 now used by guard, ‘and throw on t the burden of drying coustul waters inside Tin: this fiscal year, 1, will iment cat ru; L be in some doubt how to pro without knowinz how muel t will_be to count on ar. L} guard ha 1o perto ons with some sp Prosident Ha nt rum war o sura to ropriation tty prob! Enforcement. bition enforcemes chine js only getting $4,000,000 4 to dry up the nation. But there seems 10 be growing by leaps #nd bounds a dry sentiment to throw a1l the money necessary into prohibi tion to enforce the Volstead act, and uphold the integrity of the cigh teenth amendment _Wets are credited with having va riously dared the prohibitinoists to ask for $50,000,000, or any huge fig ure, and with having proposed cur of the uppropriation. ing’s avowed polics ch bids fair to end vear for Uncie Sam ance, instead of a deficit, will, he oninion of some Students of the situation, cause him 10 look Jong and hard at any request for $6,000,000 more if there i3 a pos bility of getting the Navy to do the ame work for nothing more in ap- propriations. TAX ON ORE UPHELD ope Tl chas r ceed maney for th other propriat Wi the ot uch oust g e that Congress for the w 3 ced, with tional ap $9.000,000 1 he whole proh the prese with a h BY SUPREME COURT | Highest Bench Rules Minne- sota Has Right to Assess Mine Owners. Minnesota's valuation of duced in that state w stitutional and valid Supreme Court Thirty-seven comp: nearly all of those e iror n Minnesota, occupation on tax on mined or pro- declared con today by the ies, comprising aged in mining had attacked in seven cases and had obtained from the federal dis trict court of Minnesota an order su pending its enforcement ore Baxis of Sults. The suits were based on an sumption that the siate, in the guise of taxes. was seeking to exact an nually. many millions of dollars in a way which was obnoxious to . boti the Minnesota constitution an® the Constitution, and which de prived the companics of equal pro- tection under the law Keen interest h the cases generally mercial and indust the belief that upon the outcome would depend in large measure the attitude of other states in the matter of imposing similar taxes. Deny Direct Tests. le the mining companies e zed the importance of the issue ented to the basic industrial ir sts of the country, advocates of the tax « ded that 'the sented merely questions of fact, did not tesi directly the right states to ralse revenus by taxes upo preducts of industry. 1In support this view they poinfed out that the companies depended largely for suc- cess upon the contention that under the peculiar conditions surrounding the mining of iron ore in Minnesota, the tax was a burden upon and & int of interstate commerc A decision, based on that phase of the cases, would not, it was insisted. be & controlling precedent clsewhere While the law provided an ad val orem tax on all iron mined Minnesota, the legixlature had spe fically and correctly defined the tax the state claimed, as levied upon the occupation” of mining iron ore. The rethod provided for assessing the tax did not, the state asserted, affect its validit BRITAIN EXHAUSTS EMIGRANT QUOTA By the Assrciated Press LONDON, May Britain quota of T emigrants to America for the vear ending June 30 is cx , and the consular officers to- ay ceaged issuing visas to th de- SiFing to settle in the United States Thi: is the first time since ghe American immigration law went {hto effect that the British quota has been filled so far in dvance. Many people are still waiting a chance to emigrate. Those des'ring to go to America for a brief tim are not affected by the situation. been shown in throughout com al circles, due to 7.—Great s No Matter Where the Home Team Plays —immediately after the close of the game the score by innings and all the details in the Base Bali Final—5:30 Edition @he Toening Shad For sale by Newsboys and Newsdealers throughout the city you can read