Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1923, Page 2

v v, T T————— e DAY RESIGNS TASK OF UMPIRING VAST U. S. WAR CLAIMS (Continued from First Page.)” D BROSSHILE | | TOHAVEBITOA Distinguished Persons to At- 1. tend Celebration at A%, Walter Reed. The Red Cross Convalescent House at Walter Reed Hospital will cele- brate the fifth anniversary of its ex- istence with a birthday party at the} building this afternoon. Mrs. Harding, wife of Pros Harding; Gen. Pershing, Maj. Gen. W. Ireland ral of Army, and Mrs. Ireland: Maj John L. Hines, deputy chief of = and Mrs. Hines d-Gen. Frank T. Hines of the Veterans Burcau will be among the distinguished persons present at the affair. 7 Will Have Cake. A tea will be held in the hous birthday ¢ me inches acro has Mrs. Rea, first for indemnification. On that point knowledged her liability and we are met here to fix the money damages. The war with Germany is now a thing of the it is the duty of all good Germans and all good Americans to ido their part in the permanent res- | toration { eration. -~ The prompt and fair set- tlement of these claims will at once wipe out one of the most persistent cal 8 L‘f dissatisfaction and inter- in owill.” Proceedings of the commission are nt based primarily upon the treaty of Berlin, including the so-called Knox M. | indemnity ciauses, and not on the the | treaty of Versailles. The American fcwims are sald to be distinct from the general question of reparations and & scparate question between the two governments. merica will look i(l.x-cl 1o Germany for payment of claime allowed by the commission. | Plun Text Canes. Most of the 12,400 claims filed, it is |expected, will b jdecisions on test cases. sposed of through About forty classes of such cases have been pre- pared, covering the various causes ms. The United States gov- aims, however, are regard- special cluss. The others {arise from the Lusitanla sinking, other submarine warfare damage, jerman raiders’ operations, war risk miums, property scized in Ger- ¥ or occupied territory, damages A German bombs and iaines, prize ourt losses, insurance. parcei post jiosses, charter losses, losses of per- sonal 'property by Americans taken risoner by Germany, and debts of crmans to Americans. Many claims are based generally upon “c quence of war.’ Contest Claims, laims promise to be contest- The reports to the State Department disclose for the first time that already Germany has dis- claimed liability for private debts of German nationals owing to American cilizens. A test case to determine this question is soon to be presented and argued before the commission. The American agent has taken the posi tion that Germany is liable. Another American position is against final disposal of the American claims in bulk, although it is desired to es- tablish 'a body of precedents in class cases which will have a bearing on settlements in each class There can be no safe short-cut by mpting to throw in a group or an entire class of claims for general con- sideration and adjudication by the comm said Mr. Morris' repor tary Hughes. “Each clalm nd upon its own merits, and each is entitled to separate considera- {tion and study. Any policy of group- ing claims for a group decision would undoubtedly entail injustice to the individual claimant.” Oppose Bulk Award. This principle is regarded as hav- ital effect on the Lusitania The -American representa- | tives are prepared to oppose any {bulk award of damages growing out 't the Lusitania’s sinking, insisting upon an_individual award to each nterest proving actual damage or Under a bulk award the pro- cecds would have to ba divided pre irata on the amount of each claim. Jand it is believed that such proce- dure might entail sharp reductions adividual recoveries. eparation of the claims for the ion's consideration has in- volved months of work by a large staft under Agent Morris. Many of { the claims and been presented in crude form. al- though attorneys generallv have acted for larze Interests. The staf {of the Amecrican agent includes ex- jberts in international law formerly with the State Department and in- tornational lsw firms of New York and other cities. Government Clatms. The largest clalm listed in the re- port is the American government's of is 44,810.53 for costs of ghe army of occupation in Germany,' now un- der negotiatfon with the allies in ! Paris Asslstant Secretary Wads worth of the Treasury. It is under- Lowever, this claim will not be ressed in the event the Paris nego- {Uations result in an agreement. government claims are for 205.626.23, for general damages . and suring been field ional On the five the erican Reed red cross, by smaller red of the house Roses and 2 being by Mrs. Harding from the ¢ tories at the executive mans celebratio when the of emble in the the tea. T t_the An or tra from the ny Music School, as well as an Army Band. will supply the music. Open Alr Movies. in the evening the men at will be entertained at the open-air moving picture | theater. which will open tonight for the first time. The orchestra, made up of the patienis at Walter Reed will furnish the music at this oc: re. Th w'eloc wiil take of soldi Many 5 post house | oss 1918 ent ¥ was bu and chic a4 Cross conval he Red Ci through the s come equipment of the The house has a 1 music room, for entertain- rd room efforts of from Pitts the 2 roon ment, & and eleven i E mothers and relatives of sick » cannot afford to st hotels they are visit hospita Mov ave tures are ach week. On provided and every erno number of acts Th provide a pro- . nesd: from gram. Thoge wh Mre. Wi William Walter R Keith's ter ' wvill se = ca at the tea are er. wife of Col. chiet surgeon at d; Mrs. John A. Johnston Boardm 4 ONE KILLED, ONE DYING IN TWO AUTO CRASHES “Death Curve,” Near Hagerstown Claims Regular Toll, Three Others Injured. Spacial Dispateh to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md, May 21— Death curve claimed one victim ayesterday, while another is dving and hree others were hurt, ‘at the dan- erous bend the state highway etween Hagerstown and Boonsboro, here nearly a score of motorists ave lost their lives during the past 3 eew vears Joseph vder, aged twenty-three, of Kempf Mill was the victim. He was thrown from a motor cycle and | the wheels of an approaching auto- | ng out of German submarine mobile_under which he was thrown }Warfare: $37,982,000 by the Veterans' Srusired him i Bureau for war risk premiums; $5.- Austin B. Devore, prominent local | 380,000 by the Railroad Administra- lumber dealer, ia dying at the local | tion, and $40,075 for war risk pre- hospital from internal injuries as a | miums of the Shippinz Board. t of an accident at the same! A $1 clalm is presented by Emery point terday. He and his wife : Roberts for loss of property while and James K r were on their way |a German prisoner of war. rough Boonzboro when their ma-| There are a few other small claims chine skidded, turned over and pin- |of $1.50 and $2 for loss of parcel post Lewis Wiles. | property by shippers, but most of the on the motor escaped with people were of twenty-four at Death 1 on {sauds and milllons. The largest In- {dividual claims are $100.000.000, by | Roger B. McMullen, for alleged patert {infringement, and one by William J. {Quillon for $96.000,000 damages from German submarine warfare. Other rge individual claims include: chiller, $11.362,000, entitled “conse- v B guence of war"; Gedrge R Mosle, 32.- z . {000,000, submarine warfare and con- Noted Speakers Will Be Heard Thl!!sequvnce of war, and Arkell & Dou:- {1as, $6.550.000, consequence of war, The largest Lusitania claim Is $5,.- for the death of Fred §. . plus $300.000 for the death of Mahel Ward Pearson. Other large iLusitania claims include those of {heirs or estates of the following: Charles Klein, New York theatrical producer. $1.767.000; Justus Miles i neonicren ovionk In ima | Forman. $100.000: Charles Frohman, Church of Our Father, 13th L another New York theater streets northwest. insguat Alned fG: Vasmes oted speakers will lead the “ais- | Dilt. S tasolo us follow Lucy Biddle i mon ¥ SRATIRH0- AMoNLiobiths ko “The Internationsl Rack Lusitania claim. range from $10,000 ground of the W. L L Rachel to $100.060. Du Bols. “The Forward Mov of clwims. the principal of the Youth of the World" are .merican insurance, White Colton, “The Army swing and manufacturing con- izatlon Act”. Anna Garlin i ucational Aspects of b Ization -Ac \ternational Social Work."” & injured hours curve last — i PEACE ISSUE DISCUSSION. period accidents Afternoon. Consideration of our national and international peace questions, under | the auspicvs of the Washington com- mittee of the Women's International League, has been arranged for the henefit of the delegates to the Na- ifonal Conference oun Social Work an ent Ruth | Reorgan- @ Spence Ar Lathrop, ground of ~h ns. Many prominent Americans are aniong the claimants, the list includ- ing: John Wanamaker, $97,504, for war risk prewiums: Thomas A. Edi- {son, $10,422, for property in Ger- i many; Ford Motor Company, $376,000, i property in_Germany and war risk jpremiums; Herbert Hoover & Sons { Company, $100, property; {H. Marburg, Baltimore banker, for- mer minister to Belgium, $36.868, | property in Germany; Carl L. Schurz, | $35,520, property in Germany: Albert {W. Morris, $5,000,000, property in {Germany; August Belmont & Co., {40,055, property in Germany; Baruc! | & Co., $3.566, property in Germany taken to the king at Aldershot by |Charlés Edward Russell, $1,344, sub- Col. Waterhouse, the prime minister'’s | marine warfare. private secretary, and Sir Frederick Vicreon Biiles! Clalas, Sykes, his son-in-law, who motored | from London. They had a long audi- | George Sylvester Viereck, former | editor of “The Fatherland,” and ence with the king, who appeared much moved by the news of the ag- r gravated condition of Mr. Bonarprominent in prewar agitation, has Law's health. la claim filed for $13,000 property in Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the < exchequer, returned to London sud- | dermany. Charles J. Vopicka of Chi- denly from the country Saturday |cago, former.minister to the Balkans, night and returned to Chequers Court, | claims $3,000 for property in occupied the prime minister's summer resic |y oo 0" . without disclosing the object | R o eutidivcloning Ject | Among women, the largest claim is of his trip. H ‘When approached, Mr. Lloyd George |presented by Ruth S. Maguire of said he would reserve any comment |gg 000,000 for war risk premiums and until-tomorrow, when he would ad- | Lin' bl S B dress. his constituency. i~ Thousands of individual claims are { for property in Germany and in occu- FRANCE SENDS REGRETE. Eyledptn?rno’x:y. names of claimants in- | dicating_German ancestry or relation- lenip. The Assoclation of American | Holders of Foreign Securities has an 'omnibus claim of $21,000,000, based {upon depreciation of German security { values. — | Manufacturers of submarine appara. PARIS, May 21.—Premier Poincare | Sea Siatmeniy’ for bty mgflom' today telesraphed his regrets 10 |glieging patent infringement, for Primp Minister Bonar Law over the | which the Submarine Signal Company lattér's resignation. jasks $1,899,000, together with that for Sitanoe " be. Bei0; dsenly ‘_egrm(nno,ooo,ooo, by Roger B. McMullen, the determination which your state |and for $L112.000 by the Synthetle gf health obliged vou to take Shelder interests of Delaware have claims dos 0! TE b4 |for more than $425,000 for war risk tributed with all your strength to lhl! remiums and property in Germany. maintenance intact of an alliance {RIEMQTS ATC BT Y oy asks DTy O e et Ty o the 135,000,000, and the Lake Torpedo Boat world. In spite of the differences in | 35000008 AT, 0% JLER2 JESpSie DOt method followed by our two countries | COMBERY, L in the execution of the treaty of Ver- i il callles, she will remain grateful to Insurance Companles Sue. you for having understood our will that reparations be paid and for hav- lamount of claims ing 8o loyally recognized our pacific |companies, for indemnities Anfumnl.f', 5 ® risk premiums. -Included ar i Bac BALDWIN BACKE! FOR PREMIERSHIP VACATED BY LAW (Continued from First Page.) Poincare Pays Tribute to Bonar Law for Maintaining Amity. By the Associtted Press. ¢ j there is no dispute; Germany has ac- of good feeling and co-op- | much evidence has | claims run up into hundreds of thou- | Carl | Theodore | i 1 | | | i i | i ! | | lof Western | pany, ' THE STH WEEK ENTERED BY MORSE TRAL {As Much More Time Likely Before Ship Frads Case Terminates. The trial entered its before Justice Stafford in Criminal Division 1, Morse week today and a jury, and the pros cupy at least that much in presenting the multitude of checks, vouchers and other documentary evi- dence on which it relies to show that Charles W. Morse, his three sons and | | | | four others conspired to defraud the | United S tion through rious wartime trac So far xhibits have been received in evidence and read to the jury, and it is understood the go ernment expects the total number of exhibits will reach in the neighbor- hood of 700 The jurors appeared relieved by the rest since the adjournment of the trial last Friday, and paid close at- tention to the evidence. Each juror wore a yellow pansy in the button- hole of his coat Brown Called. Herbert D. Brown, treasurer of the Kearfott Engineering Company, was called as a witness for the prosccu- tion. He testified about the & transaction with the Croton Iron Works, which was carried out despite the oppoeition of counsel for the engineering _company, who, on t stand last Friday, told of his dis- approval. Mr. Brown said the com- pany received four notes of $50,000 each made by the United States Steamship _Company, adother Morse congern. The notes ‘were ail collect- ed, he said. although one did go to protest. The protested note, ever, was settled promptly, the wit- ness declared. Attorneys Nash Rock- wood and Wilton J. I defense had no questions to ask the witness except to have him repeat that the notes had been paid. Charles H. Case of Philadelphia. a certified public accountant, was the next witness. He had been a travel- ates and the Fleet Corpora- {ing auditor for the fleet corporation | in 1917 and 1918 and knew Harry F. Morse. one of the defendants. He identified a Jetter from D. H. Bender, general auditor of the fleet corpora- tion. dated October 16, 1917, inclosing a check for $361.275 to be placed the Seaboard National Bank of New York in a- restricted aécount, to be drawn_from only on joint checks of the officers of the fleet corporation and officials of the Groton iron works. He po at that the title to the money was to remain in the fleet cor- poration, and the bank was directed to ard the interest chéck direct to Washington each month. The wit- ness told how this account was dis- bursed. TO DRAFT ESTIMATES. Drafting of school estimates for the next fiscal year will be undertaken by the board of education at a special conference in the Franklin School building tonight at § o'clock. The board also will set a date for a_conference between Municipal Ar- chiteet Albert L. Harris and officials of the Home and School Association High School at_ which the merits of the two plans for the proposed addition to Western will be discussed. Mr. Harris planned to erect the annex in front of the school. The Commission of Fine Arts re- cently approved the location of the addition in the rear of the building. HONOR GOULD’S MEMORY. The second anniversary of the death of Ashley Mulgrave Gould, former justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. was com- memorated today by the placing of a wreath of red roses on the portrait of the lata justice, which adorns the wall of Criminal Division No. 1, where he presided for so many vears. The token of affection was given by the Bar Association, and a committee of the association, headed by its presi- dent, Maj. Peyton Gordon, docorated the plcture during a recess of the Morse trial. Justice Gould died May 20, 1821 P — Company, $7,500,000; Chubb & Son, 35,644,001 Atlantic, $5,106,00 Fe eral, 34,695.000; Aetna. $4.670,000; St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Com- pany, $4,154,000; Boston Insurance . $3,310,000; U. S. Lloyds, Fireman's, $2,500,000, and Equitable, $3,430,000. Shipping companies also are heavily represented among the claimants for damages from submarine warfare, war risk premiums and other conse- quences of the war. Among these are the Luckenbach Steamship Com- pany, $25,729,000; American Union Line, $2,303,000 American Trans- portation Company. $1.948,000; Barber Steamship Lines, $4.000,000; interna- tional Mercantile Marine, $1,946,000, and the Housatanic Steamship Com- $570,000. The sinking of the steamer Housatanic was one of the acts which culminated in America's participation In the war. Among oil _companies, claims are: Standard of New Jersey, $13,920,000 and $7.443,000; Standard of New York, $2,818,000; Interocean, $3,- the larger 1000,000; Vacuum, $4.794,000; Sun, $7 109,000; Huasteca Petroleum Com- pany, $10,000,000. The Guaranty Trust Company of New York has the largest bank claim, aggregating _about $9,500,000, for property in Germany. Speyer & Co. have like claims of $210 000 and the National City Bank, $410,000 Among the packers, head the list with claims of $32,400,000 from submarine warfare and war risk premiums. Edward F. Swift has claims for $20,500,000; L. F. Swift, 38’ 00; G. F. Swift, jr., $195,00 Charles H. Swift, §313,000, and the estate_of Anna M. Swift, $457,000. The Hammond Packing = Company seeks $9,176,000; Armour & Co.. $5. 775.000; Wilson & Co., 32, Plankmgton Packing Compai 636,000, Other claims include: International Harvester Company, $10,572,000 and $3.465,000; American Smeliing and Re- g:ing Company, $2,755,000; Singer wing Machine Company, ' $11,500,- 000; American Radiator Company, $3,- 350,000; United Shoe Machinery Com- pany, $3,913,000; Southern States Cot- ton ' Corporation, * $1,000,000; Corn Products Company, $1,890,00 , $95,419 for war Swift & Co. | 1 (l)n-‘ | | | | | 0,000 , how- mbert for the! { i | i | i l | ! i | 1 Metho- | resigned as Probably the largest number and|dist Foreign Missions Board. $1115,{ American mixed cla s by insurance |for war risk premiums, and the Rus-|Lewer: and_ war |sion Volunteer Fleet, Globe | risk premiuums, i U. S. ACTION VITAL TO SAVE CAPTIVES (Continued from First Page.) mission, carried by coolies on a sedan chair, but_immediately aftér their de- parture from Paotzuku, Saturday evening. a torrentlal rain fell, mak- iLg the steep descent from the moun- tuln a hazardous proje Gen. Ting. by threats and promises, induced the coolies to battle with the mud finally they reached Tsao-Chwang with the ill and exhausted senora. !There she received immediate atten- fren | Uon and revived, t left for Linchenz, where she caught the Shanghsi ex- press The Ting calty mission had great diffi- in persuading her to leave her cution bids fair to oc-; Lusband. more time} VAUDEVILLE TRUST SUITTO BE TRIED Supreme Court Finds Charges of Conspiracy Within Federal lurisdiction. The Supreme Court today held that Max Hart's charges of a vaudeville producing trust might legitimately be considered by the lower federal courts, and ordered the federal dis- trict court of New York to proceed to try the case on its meri‘s. The court held that Hart's charges of a conspiracy among producers, hooking agencies and theater pro- prietors not to book nor permit the booking of any vaudeville act not controlled by the alleged combina- tion "presen a question within the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Those named in -the charge included the Keith Vaudeville ~Exchange, Orpheum Circuit, Inc, and the Ex- celsior Collection Agency, Inc. Hart contended that he was devel- oping a lucrative booking business until the circuits named conspired to blacklist him. He alleged that he had been driven out of business through a policy which restrains interstate commerce. The district’ colirt in*New' York had dismissed the complaint on the ground of want of juriediction. holding that .the alleged conspiracy did not constitute a restraint of com- merce. Justice Holmes, it delivering today’s was asserred sole present nothing n the performance of the in- actors. but are d:pendent for success entirely upon the scenery and properties used. Such acts he de- clared, constituted interstate com- merce. dividual e MEXICAN BANK OF ISSUE GETS U. S. BANKERS AID MEXICO CITY. May 21.—The news- papers have been informed that TUnited States bankers, through Thomas W. Lamont and Mortimer Schiff. who are now in Parls, have completed arrangements for the $25.- 600,000 loan to the French bankers financing the Mexican Bank of Issue. The government announces that this institution wiil open next month. Augustin Le Gorreta, director of the National Bank of Mexico, who participated in the Paris conference, is expected to return to this city soon to complete the transfer of the funds andklo arrange for the opening of the bank. Day Quits Post; Likely Successor CLINEDINST Willlam R. Day. who today pire of the German- commission. Ju Edward B. Parker, now a member of the commission, who is expected to fill the vacancy. Uppers and | EVENING STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MAY 21, 19 DUFFY RECOVERNG FROM SHOTINHEAD Actor Who Scored Hit Here in ““Abie’s Irish Rose” Attempts Suicide. Special Dispatch 12 The Star W YORK, May 21.—Henry Dufty, head of the stock company which bears his name and was billed at the Shubert-Crescent Theater in Brook- Iyn, N. Y., last week, who on Satur- day afternoon attempted suicide in his room in the Hotel Ansonfa, Man- hattan, is recovering, and at the Knickerbocker Hospital, where he was taken Immediately after the shooting, it is said that his condition is considered favorable and that he would be discharged within a few days. Dufty not the regular leading man of the Henry Duffy productions at the Shubert-Crescent. He is the izations in three different cities, and | e travels between them, producing and rehearsing new shows weekly But he insisted on plaving the comedy lead in “Just Married.” at the Sh bert!Crescent last week, for it is a fat” part, an actor's choicest role. On Saturday, however, winding up the week’s engagement, taken on the verge of a nervous The strain of the w and He fell k ov made the attempt to the floor, rcame him at suicide. where he was hospital. He had left the Shubert- Crescent blithely Friday - night after the performance and seemed In the best of spirits. But John Doyle, manager of the hotel at which he was staying, reported that Duffy had ap- peared melancholy for several days. 3.3"5 he vas being aided. after the shooting, he said: “Le; o the way I am.” ELRORICE Admitted to Bail. He was arrested on a charge of having a pistol in his possession without a permit. and was later ad- mitted to bail by Magistrate McAn- drews. At the Shubert-Crescent tho: W have been working with him say thas he is undoubtedly suffering from ai nervous breakdown. He is a slight, high-strung yvounz man of thirty- two, but despite his youth he had throughout the greater part of this season and last been the directing mind of six important and successfl acting organizations in as many cities throughout the country. And though recently, with the approach of the season's end, he has cut that number down to three——the Henry Duffy pro- ductions in Washington, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn—he has been giving every minute of his time to them, rehearsing a company in one city and then jumping aboard a train that would take him to hard rehearsals in the next. His friends had noticed that his nerves were showing the effects of the strain, but he refused to heed their suggestions that he res The audience was gathering at the theater Saturday when news was re- ceived that he had shot himself. At a quarter to 2 o'clock the box office was closed, the audience was turned away, announcement was made that there would be a performance as usual in the evening. and Manager Tauber and Mr. Duffy’s representa- tives started a frantic search for an actor to jump into the cast at short notice. The search, however, was fruitless and the evening perform- ance also was cancelled. The incident will not interfere, it was announced, with the continued production of plays by the Duffy organization at the local house. WAS POPULAR HERE. Duffy Had Large Following Among Theatergoers. Henry Duffy began to shine in the local theatrical firmament at the Be- | 1asco approximately a year ago, when, with George Marshall and Arthur Leslie Smith, he presented a number of stoek company productions there. He himself played light comedy characters. His eclipsing stellar achievement here, however, was accomplished when he and Smith transferred their field of activities to the President Theater, which was opening its doors as a legitimate house on a site that had been known for generations as a burlesque center. Although theatrical experts were doubtful as to the successful outcome of the venture at the President—in view of the fact that transition of a theater from a burlesque type to a legitimate one—Duffy and _Smith brought record-breaking numbers of Washingtonians through the doors with “Abie’s Irish Rose” as an at- traction. This play, by the way. had been written by Ann Nichols, wife of Duffy. From the time that “Abie’s Irish Rose” started until it had taken a number of strides toward success at the President Henry Duffy played a comedy part in it. His personality impressed local theatergoers favor- ably, and news of the attempted sui- cide hit those who knew him here and those who had seen him with shock- ing force. SUGAR FUTURES GAIN. Prices Shade Higher Today—Re- fined Business Light. NEW YORK, May 21.—The raw | Sugar market was quiet early today. The undertone was firm and holders twere asking 6% for Cubas, cost and | freight, equal to 8.28 for ceéntrifugal. The raw sugar futures market opened 8 to 4 points lower under scatterad liquidation. but firmed. up on covering and buying by commis- sion houses, prompted by reports of a slight improvement in the demand for refined and at midday prices were 3 to 4 points net higher. While new business In refined sugar is still light, there is a better with- drawal demand reported and less offer- ing In second-hand quarters. Prices are unchanged at 9.50 to 9.9 for fine gran- ulated. —_— A Wichita"doctor asserts that plants have a sense of pain. In that case, believes the Fort Scott Tribune, the fllnd“sllnl can take a lot of punish-. men e . controller of three such stock organ- | hich he had | breakdown, comedy was beyond him. | found by a maid and removed to the | 23. I CATHOLIC CHILDREN HONOR VIRGIN MARY, May Day Processions Held at Churches in District—Eulogies Delivered. May day processions were held by the children of several Catholic churches yesterday afternoon in | memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary. | Five hundred boys and girls march- | ed in the procession of the Church |of the Immaculate Conception. With {the girls dressed in white and all jearrying white carnations, the tots made a splendid appearance as they marched into the church singing hymns Miss Gertrude Hunter, queen of the celebration, placed a crown upon the head of the image of the Blessed| Virgin. She was attended by the Misses Rose Maher, Agnes Hasson and Etta Talbort. Rev. F. C. Cava- naugh of St. Martin's Catholic Church delivered the sermon. In the parade with the children of Patrick’s Church “were those of St. Vincent's Orphanage and St Joseph’s Orphanage, bringing the nlimber of marchers up to 700. Miss| i Alice Wolfe was queen, attended by ! |the DMisses Alice Burke, Kathleen | Gafiney and Mary O'Brien. Monsignor C. F. Thomas preached the sermon. Another impressive pageant was staged by the children of St. Teresa's Catholic Church, in Anacostia. Seven hundred kiddies marched through ten | blocks of the town, headed by the| altar boys, dressed in white. Miss {Mary La Forest was queen. Women | |of the Soclety of the Blessed Virgin | lafd men of the Holy Name Society marched with the children. Rev. Dr. | Le6 McVay of Catholic University delivered the eulogy Many children were also in the pro- cession at St. Aloysius' Church. BI0 70 BUY 50,000 CUNS TURNEDDOWN Weeks Reveals Offer of For- eign Nation in Speech at San Diego. t Br the Associated Press. AN DIEGO, Calif, May 21 —An earnest plea to senators and repre- sentatives surrounding him to support action for suitably honoring officers and men of the Army and Navy who render conspicuous service w made by John W. Weeks, Secretary’ of War, who came here yesterday on the transport Grant with a large con- gressional party. The Secretary was making an address congratulating two such officers. Lieuts. John A. Macready and Oakley G. Kelly. of the air service, who recently piloted the great monoplane T-2 across the con- tinent to San Diego. Secretary Weeks said: “There is no other country in the world that treats its officers as we do “I wish it were possible for the War Department to promote one, two or three officers each vear for out- standing conspicuous service.” Hope for Appropriations. Secretary Weeks also voiced a hope | that there would be full co-operation between Army and Navy appropria- tions committees. and went on record | as favoring a plan of placing the| monoplane T-2 in_the American Le- gion War Memorial Museum here. Secretary Weeks declared that a( short time ago the War Department received an offer from a foreign country to purchase 500.000 rifles and 1,000 rounds of ammunition_for each. “We. knew,” said the Secretar ‘that this foreign country did not in- | tend to buy the rifles and ammunition to shoot birds. The United States is not assisting any country to prepare for war, and rather than sell the rifles and ammunition for the purpose | they evidently were intended for. 1} would rather dump them into the| sea.” 1 To Fortify Canal. The Secretary promised his audience the Panama canal would be made im- pregnable by fortification, and, dis cuseing the advantages of the in spection trip being made by a num ber of senators and representatives with him on the transport Grant, | said each was paying his own way. The Secretary and the congressmen were taken to the destrover base and there saw sixty-six de-commissioned destroyers, which Capt. H. L. Bris- mer of the Navy said were worth more than $125,000,000. ~ Several of the congressmen asked about the destroyers and one inquired of Capt. Brismer how long it would take to get one of the destroyers ready for service again. “About five days if we had the nec- essary men, id the officer. = SUBPOENA ORDERED FOR RAILROAD HEAD Rea to Be Summoned on Com- plaint of Clerk Union Official. CHICAGO, May 21.—A subpoena summoning Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, before the United States Labor Board was or- dered today by the board ta be issued on motion of J.' H. Sylvester, vice grand president of the Brotherhood of Rallway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Sta- tion Employes.: The Clerks’ Union claims the railroad company has vio- lated the transportation .act in con- nection with the election of employe representation and has refused to consult or negotiate with the unlon. It is understood the board will ‘SCHOOL FIRE DEATH - TOTAL REACHES 77 |Girls’ Names Added to List; Exact Number Probably Never Will Be Known. GANG TORTURED HIM, SAYS KIDNAPED MAN Atlanta Contractor Held Two Weeks Is Returned Home By His Abductors. By the Associated Press | ATLANTA, May . A. Maloney, a contractor of Kirkwood, a suburb, who disappeared here two weeks ago, | was returned to his home early to- day by three men In a closed car. Maloney said he had spent two weeks a prisoner in-a heavily barred base- troner o a death list in the Cleveland ment of a house in Atlanta. He Was|houge St st hhiada tortured, he said, and was given but | ,o" fire of last Thursday little food. He said he did not know | 98Y had been increased to the names of his abductors, who, he | seven persons with two m declared. lured him to a spot in the lon the doubtful list. Tracing dow: residential district and then selzed|or rymors vegterany by Sherltr ¢ resid | ors yeste v Sheriff G resluted One of his abductors told Maloney, | Welsh of Kershaw county, he said, that he had been kidnapedin the announcement that Kllen because he had “turned up the two Barues of Locknow and Fannie best friends he had and had broken | Howers of Kershaw undoubtedly per- up tkeir bootlegging business.” ished in the fire that followed falling 24 MM"[}S | S e e s KILED BY TROOPS ( Reports were current here ths Miss Blackmon and a Miss Thorn toth of the Thornehill section of thi Religious Band in Philippines Attacked Constabulary, Report to Gen. Wood. 2 By the Asso CAMDEN, S. C. May ed Press 21.—The school- county, had attended the had not been heard of is a remote and inac St the county and a more thorough scarch was planned to definitely certain their fate. Saw Girl In Fire. Ellen Barncs, according ments made to the sheriff toda to the play with h brothe. He escaped and made his w Relatives saw the girl in the tuilding but could not Fannie Bowers went to th members of the Dixo It 1ve of whom were lo | saw her in the burning build were unable to make their way j her. Her mother has been unconscic ever since the fire The list of dead g checkup on Friday a cluded only the n of known to have been in the buildi according to statements of persc who aided in th work che |up. There was no possibili checking up the names of strangers Who may have been in the room and it is probable, it was said, that some Lodies w. ¥ consumed flames. mourn _seventy-seven ©|dead today,” said C. W. Evans, Cam of |den undertaker who took care of the e ‘l\odies, “but the world will neve Akhara is a religious leader, who Carter Taylo: or of a has gathered about 300 followers. | relict for 1 soutners arvioior Sioter They recently became unusually ac-| American Red Cross, to which &) tive. Akbara seid he was a Probhet ! relief work was turned ever from Heaven and was bullet-proof. | night, today was searching Today’s dispatch did not say whether | jureq’ not heretofore listed the latter statement was borne Out.|foung a number whe wer. The fanatic alsa said he had DOWET | tnough not seripuols hurs to cause airplanes to fall. : & to By the Associated Press. MANILA, May 21.—Twenty-four Moro religious fanatics of the Island of Pata. near Jolo (Sulu), were kill- ed today by a detachment of insular constabulary, according to a dispatch recelved at the office of Gov. Gen Leonard Wood. The dispatch said that Akzara, who styles himself prophet, and his followers, attacked a constabulary detachment under Lieut. Angeles at the Village Kiput. The dispatch said there a were last in had He badly, 2 hun- the end A Governor General Wood announced | yesterady he had ordered all form of 00 lawlessness stobped and that he had [LAY OFF 300 WORKMEN sent a force to Pata to enforce the order. AT BROOKLYN NAVY YARD KITCHIN REPORTED BETTEB,‘E'unher Cuts in Force Likely as WILSON, N. C., May 20.—Physicians | i iri veserday noted slight improvement | Ship Repairing Centracts in the condition of Representative ini Claude Kitchen, former minority S inied leader in the lower house of Congress.| NEW YORK, May 21—Three who has been a patient at a local |dred workmen will be laid off Lospital for several weeks. | Brooklyn navy vard b of the week because of ls it was announced today 20 TAKEN OFF STRANDED SHIP | " e, *the hieamor SANDUSKY. 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