Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1923, Page 42

2 = 200D, . WORKERS {3125,000 IN FURS STOLEN BY BAND i Leisurely Load Three Trucks ‘Watchman Is Forced to main Silent. T0 GET PAY RAISE AVERAGING 10 PCT. Increase Under Reclassifica- tion Higher Than Any of U. S. Departments. The 2.200 employes of the DIStriet lnoyge selecting the choicest furs in the ! peXt Fovernment are to receive a MIENET igtock and lewering them to the street percentage of Increase in salaries, un- der reclassificatjon. than the workers in any of the r.-"zular departments This is provided in the schedules prepared by the ‘Personnel Classifica- tion Board, which have been used by the District Commissioners In sub- mitting their estimates to the budget bureau. Quplicate of these schedules, which it is using to check over the Commis- sioners’ estimates. with the probabil- ity that these salary increases will be included in the federal budget when it Is sent to Congress for the next fiscal year. The percentage of increase for these 2.200 District employes over what is known as “base salary” Is 42.15, and over their present total salary, in- cluding the so-cailed “$240 bonus,” fs 10.03. This has been made up on the basis of rules contained in the reclas- sification act and practically all are on appraisals at the minimum for grade Summary of Schedules. Here 1s a summary of the reclassi- fication board's schedule for the Dis- trict employes: Present base salary, $2,135781. Present salary plus the $240 bonus, $2.759,317. Predicted salary for July 1 next, or the classification board’'s appraisal— which 1s expected to be carried in the budget—$3,036,15: Amount of appra salary, $900,371 Percentage of increasé over present base salary. 42.15. Net increase of al over base appraised salary over total presen Jary. including the 5240 bonus, § 35 Percentage of net increase, 10.03. The highest percentage of Increase for any department in the regular federal establishment is 6.85- The net percentage of increa e for the de- partments proper range from 2.1 to 6.86. By way of illustration here are percentage flgures for some of the largest departments: One gets 19.7 per cent increase over present base pay and 2.1 per cent over base pay plus the bonus. Another gets 17.8 percentage over base pay and 4.97 over base pay plus the bonus. A third gets 17.7 percentage in- crease over the base pay and 4.2 over the base pay plus the bonus. One of the largest of the govern- ment establishments is to receive 13.4 over base pay and only 1.15 over base pay plus the bonus. The higher rate of Increase allowed the District employes is to effect an act of tardy justice, From the stand- point of equality of pay the employes of the District government have been notoriously underpaid. The new schedule drafted by the Personnal Classification Board brings the District workers up to the grades of pay in other departments, and this is why the percentage of increase which the next appropriation bill is expected to carry for the District employes is larger than for any of the regular dena-tments. While 2200 employes of the DIs- trict government are covered in this reclassification, there are many more employes of the District who are not included. The District Commis- sioners submitted to the personnel elassification board several hundred more employes. The schedule of the classification board does not include skilled workmen, nor does it include part-time_employes or per diem em- ployes. However, as there are a num- ber of per diem employes who work practically every day and are in effect regular annual empioyes of the District, a special study is being made which will provide a sort of reclassification for them. Plan Many Appe The Commissioners, through Bud- get Officer Donovan, will appeal to the classification board to make ad- justments in the salaries allotted to a number of individuals in the Dis- trict service, Commissioner Rudolph stated today. Commissioner Rudolph sald there is no disagreement between the local and federal authorities on the salary ratings as a whole, but only In a few cases in which the Commissioners feel the allotments are inadequate. While the tota) increase in District salaries under the grading as made by the classification board amounts to 10 or 11 per cent, Maj. Donovan ex- plained today that this does not mean a 10 or 11 per cent ralse for each em- ploye. The percentages of individual in- crease vary widely. according to the character of work 'performed. The original ratings given city em- ployes would have amounted to an increase of 18 per cent in_the total District pay roll, but adjustments made by the classification board brought the total down to 10 or 11 per cent In making these adjustments, it was learned today. the classification board reduced the grades to which a number of department heads had been allocated. ' The Commissioners, who now re- ceive $5.000 a vear, have been recom- mended for $7.500° Heads of major departments will receive $5.200 a year LAUREL ENTRIES (FOR FRIDAY.) FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,300; claiming; for maidens. all ages; six furlongs. Sextant .. 100 Silver Simon. 100 *tAntiqui ‘Bm.q Star. 3. 8. Cosden snd W. Stockton entry. OND RACE—P 1300; claiming: e, e et ot elbiong, 4 *Just Me. *iTentmaker 104 Dbottlegging drugist out of business by.| 108 108 100 [ THIRD RACE—Purse, ,300; claiming; three-year-olds; one m.le s sixtoenth, . Whalles...... 107 Erackenta ... 108 *Hucl 105 “Haldew . on 199 08 *Insulate o FOURTH RACE~—Purse, $1,800; for three. yornoits ead ay) s S0 eod ' Ceaistath ‘Thimble 108 moon 100 ” FIFTHE RACE—Columbus handicap; purse, $3,000; all ages; aix furlongs. : 3 06 108 103 08 109 o108 108 104 100 The budget bureau has a | While Re- By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, October 11.—Six thieves ear'y today trucked $125,000 worth of ba'ed furs from the warehouse of Fred- erick Huth & Co., on West 36th street. The robbery is believed to have cov- ered a period of four hours. While one man stood over the night watchman with a pistol, his companions leisurely went through several floors of the ware- entrance by elevator. Three truck loads of the furs were removed from the building. Covered Watchman. The watchman was sitting on a load- ing platform of the warehouse at 10 io'clock last night, he told police, when two men approached, covered him with pistols and said: “Remember _that Rothenberg _store Well, if you make a peep you'll go the same route, They re- ferred to a $16,000 daylight robbery {In which a messenger and a bandit were killed. The watchman was then locked in a clerks office where he could hear the truck arriving and departing with the loot. The thieves made their seiection fof furs from a stock which filled seven | figors of the bullding. | MAIDS TESTIMONY HITS MRS. STOKES Employe of Wallace Says She Saw Her in His Apart- ment. bumped off? By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 11.—Mrs, Lil- lian Payne, negress, maid in the East 35th street apartment of Edgar T. Wallace from July to December, 1917, and a visitor there on errands for six months previous, today testified at the retrial of W. E. D. Stokes' action against Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, that she had seen Mrs. Stokes in the apartment in company with Wallace, who is named as co- respondent. Mrs, Stokes, she sald, came in With Wallace through a kitchenette en- trance and accidentally came face to face with her. Supreme Court Justice Wagner to- day granted an order in a show cause proceeding directing that exami tions in connection with the divorce actlon be held tomorrow and Satur- day in Bunceton and Booneville, Mo., of A. A. Wallace, Martha Wallace, Nannle Wallace, Wilbur Waliace, Arthur Wallace and Miss Louise Har- riman. In petitioning for the order Mrs. Stokes_directly charged that Mrs. Alice Mills and Catherine Kramer years ago in Bunceton, Mo., in ¢ m- pany of Edgar T. Wallace and Clar- ence McCornick. The charge was sup- ported by Isador Shapiro of her coun- sel, who, in a corroboratory affidavit, | said he ‘interviewed McCornick, who denled he saw Mrs. Stokes nineteen vears ago and asserted he believed he had never seen her in his life. WARNED NEGROE;GIVEN PROTECTION OF POLICE Assured of Safety in Pennsylvania Township if They Abide by Laws. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, October 11.—Robert H. Braun, chief of Allegheny county are patroling Stowe township, pre- might arise in consequence of the action of a self-appointed “vigilance committee” In ordering negroes from the district. Chlef Braun was under instructions to see that no unlaivful methods were used to Intimidate negroes, and at the same time was checking up on a number of negroes the “vigilance committee” had re- ported as undesirable citizens, R. L. Vann, a negro_attorney, to- day protested to Chief Braun against the action of the “vigilance commit- tee” and was given assurance that all law-abiding negroes of the dis- trict would be protected. No figures were available as to the number of negroes who had left, but W. J. Duff, chief of the township police, reported that practically all those warned to leave departed dur- ing the day. The negroes who left were Known as “newcomers,” most of whom were employed in steel mills, The old-time negro residents, police sald, had not been molested. The situatlon arose In Stowe town. ship after the killing Saturday nigh of Thomas Rowland, Y -thcee years old, and the wounding of his eleven-year-old granddaughter by a negro who escaped. DRUGGISTS ASK CURB ON BOOTLEG DEALERS Wholesalers’ Association Demands Rigid Standards, But Opposes Ernst-Wood Bill. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND. October 11.—The Na- tional Wholesale Druggists’ Associa- tion in annual convention here di- jrected its board of control to formu legitimate wholesale druggists might be relieved of the sweeping charge | that they are responsible in large { measure for liquor law violations. Demands that the prohibition bu- reau of the government help put the setting up rigid standards for pro pective dealers was urged by dele- gat Opposition to the Ernst-Wod bill ‘conferring autocratic powers upon the prohibition commissioner,” was , urged in a report by the committee on _prohibition problems. Every member i'of the association is asked to “favor a division of the prohibition commis- soners’ authority by the appointment of a second commissioner familiar with ndustrial practices, having a technical knowledge of the use of industrial | alcohol, with the duty of supervis- ing the needs of legitimate manufac- turing concerns using alcohol.” , One of the biggest achievements of {the year, the committee pointed out, was the appointment by the commi: sioner of internal revenue of an al. cohol trades advisory comittee com. posed of representatives of the Ameri- ican Chemical Society and other na- tional associations in trades using al- cohol to confer with officials when. L ever It is proposed to issue new rul ings or to modify rnllns of interest |to manufacturers and alers hand- ling or using the liquid. G. Barrett Moxley of Indi polis, was elected preaident of the associa- tion. Vice presidents include O. C. ‘William L. Schrefllin, J. J. McNamara, New Or- leans and F. H. Garrett, Council Blufts, lowa, i hold-up yesterday, where two guys got | divoree | Louise Wallace, Nelson Leonard, Mrs. | committed perjury when they testi- ' fled that they had seen her nineteen ' detectives, and a squad of operatives | pared to meet any emergency that | seventy-three | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D, AR MAL SERVICE TOCOASTINMIARCH Plans Announced at Conven- tion of Postmasters. Visit White House. Plans are being made by the Post Office Department to open the New York- San Francisco mall route, utilizing the lighted night flying airway between Chicago and Cheyenne, about March 1 . according to announcement tod Paul Hendel ostmaster gen-ral, who addressed the {convention of the National Associ t:(m of Postmasters at the new na. It by al mu j. The physical prob'ems of the flight [having been_ solved in the recent four- lday tests, Mr. Henderson said, it is the hope of the department to make the flight regu’arly in twenty-seven or | twenty-eight hours, from coast to co The postmasters visited the White House this afternoon to be received by President Coolige. Mr., Henderson's address was the fea- | ture of the morning session, which pre- {ceded the trip to the cxecutive mansion. !Other addresses were made by Willlam Deming, .president of the Civil Serv- Commission, and by wrdener and George H. Wale: iber: of the commission. i . The significance of the successful night air mafl fiying tests, Mr. {Henderson. said, is that “we know that the air mail planes can be operated at night.” seum. mem- !second assistant continued. that mail {might be sent out of New York at 18 o'clock each night, and landed in {Chi 0o at 4 a.m., or at Omaha by 0 p.m. President Deming of the Civil Service Commission told the post- imasters that their own consclenc: {are the best guides to whether or not | |they are mixing their oflice and posi- tion into what is termed “perniclous political activitie according to civil service laws and regulations. Following an afternoon session to- day, at which service problems will be taken up, the convention will con- clude with a morning session tomor- row. | {Memorial Association to Raise $3,000,000—Presi- dent at Meeting. Plans for the inauguration in the near future of a nation-wide cam- uign to raise $3.000,000 to preserve ithe name and memory of the late President Harding were approved at the first meeting today of the trus- tees of the Harding Memorial Asso- clation. ‘The meecting was attended by Presi- dent Coolldge, Secretaries Weeks, | Mellon, Hoover, Work and Hughes, Postmaster General New, former Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Gov. Crissinger of the Federal Reserve Board. For Mausolcum and Park. The association trustees propose to utilize the memorial tuna in the erec- tion of mausoleum and co ction of a memorial park in Marion, the home of the late President; the pur- chasc and maintenance of the Hard- {ing home In Mirion and the bullding nearby of a structure to house many mementoes of Mr., Harding's life, and tl endowment of a chair for the AX('RL‘h. of political science In some te university, probably Ohlo State University, at Columbus. Headqu'rters for the campalgn will be maintained here. Organization Perfected. Organization of the association was perfected by the election nf officers as follows: Honorary president, Pres- {1dent Cool ident, Joseph S. Frelinghuysen vice president John Hayes Hammond; sacond vice president, John Barton Payne; secre- . George C. Christlan, Jr.; treas- Ancrew Mellon A 'board of trustees and an execu- tive commi‘tre were eclected. AN the members of the late President's cabinet are trustees and other mem- bers of the board are Joseph S. Fre- jlinghuysen, Gen. C. E. Sawyer, D. R. | Crissinger, C. H Dawes, E. B. McLean, {John H. Hammond, George B. Chris- |tian, jr.; Hoke Donithan and J. F. Prendergast Cuno White House Caller. Among the President’s visitors to- day was Dr. Wilhelm Cuno former chancellor of Germany, who discussed iwith the President matters relating {to shipping. Dr. Cuno, who has again ientered the shipping business, was at |one time the American representative of the Hamburg-American line. He was accompanled today by Dr. Dieck- hoff, charge d'affaires of Germany. { Who presented Dr. Cuno to the Prest ent. Senator Fletcher of Florida called on the President today to invite him to attend and to deliver an address before the Natlonal Rivers and Har- i bors Congress, which meets }ere De- {cember 5 and 6. These dates are So close to the opening of Congress when the President is expected to ad- dress that body, that he may not be able to accept the invitation. Dr. Walcott Cnlls. Dr. Charles D Walcott, secretar: the Smittsonian Institution, !ulyk:; over with the President a number of matters relating to the institution, As President of the United States, Mr. Coolidge heads the establishment of the institution. While he was Vice President le was chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution. Other visitors of the President to- day were the Secretary of War, Rob- ert W. Bonynge, Thomas Hildt, the National Association of Credit Men; jthe Harrisburg Chamber of Com. i 98 i late some plan of action by which the | merce and delegates to the annual convention of National Assoclation of | Postmasters. BARLING PLANE HOPS OFF. | Journey to Dayton Resumed After Stop at Rantoul. By the Associated Press. CHAMPAIGN, IIL, October 11.—The Barling bomber, en route from St. Louis to McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, which landed at Chanute Field, Ran- toul, 111, late yesterday afternoon, re- 0 sumed the journey eastward at 8§ o'clock this morning. STEEL MEN ELECT BURGESS. PITTSBURGH, October 11.—George Kimball Burgess of Washington, direc- tor of the United States bureau of standards, was declared elected presi- dent of the American Society of Steel Treating after ballots cast in an elec- tion conducted by mail were counted at the association’s annual convention. Other officers named were R. M. Bird, Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethichem, Pa., vice president; Zay Jeffries, Alumi- num Company of America, Cleveland, Ohio, treasurer, and J. F. Harper, Allis- Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis., director. | —_—— Miss Margaret M. Walton ls the only known Woman advance publicity agent for a circus, E ‘Mother Takes Baby to D. C. Jail ‘With Her, Unworried by Plight C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 192 Mrs. Helen | Such night fiying would mean, the | U. 5. HARDING FUND, CAMPAIGN PLANNED Mrs. Elizabeth Ward Pinnell. twen- ty-three years old, stood in the wom- en's cellroom at the District jall to- day with her thirteen-month-old baby in her arms and declared her intention of keeping “little Marion” with her as long as she would be allowed And little Marion seemed to want to stay Mrs. Pinnell is being held for the grand jury on a charge of grand lar- {ceny in taking an overcoat trom a !local store. She admits it and makes no excuses | .In a frank interview this morning | she said it was her own fault and she ! wished to take the blame for it with- { out involving any relatives or friends Mrs Pinnell sald she is twenty- three She has blue eyes, irregular {but attractive features, a clear com plexion, masses of dark brown hair tinted with auburn and a slender | form. i Baby Is Attractive. And the little girl, Marion! Light bobbed hair, with her mother's deep blue eyes, four teeth. a smile and a vocabulary of three words—“Mamma. daddy. bye-bye.” She is a semi- inervous. semi-demure little girl who I makes friends with everybody She enjoys trying to elimb un the bars at STRESEMANN’S DEMANDS | FOR DICTATORSHIP FAIL TO WIN REICH APPROVAL (Continued from First Page.) i jand communists, whose newspapers, placards and free speeches he has been throttling. Von Kahr's efforts to popularize the prices of beer and milk have tempo- rarily foundered on the rapidly s.nk- Ing mark, Iowe: Retail business is virtually at a standstill because of the money depreclation and the mounting of prices for food and other necessities and unemployment is showing an increase weekly. and Adolph Hitler, the national so: cialist leader, have cooled off, Hitler having lost much of his regular fol lowing, wlich apparen with von Kahr's program. One hears less talk about separa- | tion nowadays than was the case two i weeks azo. The soclalists are the {real malcontents in Bavaria to | They are declared to be inwardiy raging at von Kahr's suppression of them and their political aims. RUHR REAWAKENING. Industrialists Compete for Con- tracts With Invaders. By Cable to Th Star and Chicago Daily News. 23 ctition seems to be the order > honor of being first to ¢ to terms with France and Bel- {Fium, and thus secure contracts for the delivery of coal and other repara- tions matecrials. Otto Wolff of the Phoenix Konzern, said to represent 10 per cent of the total metallurgical industry of the Ruhr, has stolen a march on his rivals, but fears a comeback moment. Hugo St his heels, e “goa is the Reich government in Berlin. Who is going to pay Otto Wolf and the other industrialists for coal deliveries? Bolgium, nor the reparations com- ion. says Berlin. Yet the Reich statesmen are not so sure of that point It is dificult to see how the Stresemann government can indemni- fy anybody for anything in the pres nt state of German finances. I there are ap- Berlin does not pay, parently but two alternatives, name- ly, that the Ruhr industrialists them- svlves pay, which is extremely un- likely, or that the Franco-Belgian industrialists come tothe rescue by dvancing capital on account. on the ibrospect of obtaining a share in Westphalian industry. Latter More Probable. This latter alternative is the more probable, according to British ob- Servers at Cologne. dt is only a mat- fer of time, they claim, until 55 per cent of the choice stock of the Ruhr industries will fall into Franco-Bel- gian Lands, with the elimination of Great Britain from the metallurgical trade of Europe as a consequence. Nearly half the enormous produc- tive machinery here now is at work again, the writer is informed. This is true especially in respect to min- ing, feverish attempts being made to get out enough coal to avoid a fue famine this winter. In regard to | manufacturing, twenty large firms besides the Phoenix concern are said to have applied to their interallied committee for permission to resume work with the understanding that they are to pay coal taxes and ex- port license duties to the allies and not to Berlin. Disturbances Continue. Despite the resumption of work, however, disturbances of all sorts continue to stare the Ruhr in the face. Economically, the questions of currency, wages and reparations are bound to give trouble. Politically, there are the problems of separatist dissension between the industrialists and Berlin. Socially, there is the mat- ter of the eight-hour day, which aione is expected to cause endless bicker- ing. The employers think the pres. ent 1s a good time to win back the privileges granted labor in the past fifty years under the name of social laws, because the unions now are too poor to be able to strike back, and because the workmen themselves are weakened through years of under-!| rourishment. The labor 'leaders, on their side, are determined to hold on fo the privileges they have won. Communist _deputies have duced a motion in the reichstag de- manding that the big industrialists in Rhineland and Westphalia be brought to trial for high treason for alleged plots against the security of the German state. The workmen have won the first skirmish, thanks {o the intervention of the Prussian state government, but are bound to Do called on to fight in the future. STINNES DENIES CHARGES. Press Attempts to Refute Alleged Treasonable Actions. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. to The Star and Chicago Daily News. o Copyright, 1023. BERLIN, October 11.—The Stinnes press is attempting to refute alleg: fions of the Industrialists’ “treason- able” activities during the past week. It asserts that Stinnes and the other industrialists reported promptly to Chancellor Stresemann the results of their negotiations with Gen. Degoutte and that they did not attempt to se- | eure Degoutte's promise to repeal the cight-hour day in the occupied terri- o Yiis may_be true, although the eight-hour day certainly was men- tioned in conversation with Degoutte, and Stinnes, in effect, acted independ- ently of the German government throughout. However, the Stinnes press does not make ‘any attempt to Seny the most serious charges--that the industrialists peremptorily de- mand that the government remit their taxes; that it reimburse them for all future and past confiscations by the French; that it grant them plenipo- tentlary diplomatic powers for fur- |ther negotiations with the French, and, finally, that Stinnes actually de- ereed the repeal of the eight-hour day in the Ruhr without asking the gov- ernment. Blame Stinnes for Chaos. The recent dizzy fall of the mark is regarded by many as Stinnes’ an- swer to Stresemann's refusal to agree to his ultimatum. Wednesday night it was quoted at 7,000,000,000 to the dollar. %M severity of this crash is The relations between Dr. von Kahr | is satisfied | intro- | the end of the cellroom. She seems to be_completely happ. Mrs. Pinneil's refusal to talk of her case brought the Interview to an im- {passe. when littie Marion saved the {day She squealed through the bars and was brought out |” That mollified things. The inter- | view strenghtencd up a bit “Did you really take that coat, asked the reporter of the mother, | kolding Marion in his arms. while i she tried to chew his ear lobe with Ler four teeth “Certainly.” said Mrs. Pinnell. ‘Why did you take it?” ‘1 just took it" “Why don’t vou give me the ordi- nary story that winter was coming. that you are still nursing the baby. that you were cold that everything was against you and you did it for the _sake of the child? “That wouldn’t be true, you see. smiled back Mrs Pinnell. “No use of me lying about this thing to make it | worse, is it? “How about the baby's father” tried the correspondent. taking an- other tack “I''m not going to say anything about nim This is my own fault. got into it myself I might as well take the consequences without bring- ing_anybudy else into it." Why not notify your family?” “Never in the world." She wants to keep the baby with her. The baby seems content. As a matter of fact, the baby is having 1he time of her life. | MOTORMAN INJURED 'WHEN CAR HITS TRUCK Many Officegoers Delayed by Acci- dent on North Capitol Street. Two men were injured and Scores of officegoers delayed when a heavy jCompany overturned today in a col- lision with a one-man street car of jtric Company on North Capitol street Inear Pierce street. L. C. Hughes, motorman, of the Madrid apartments, was cut about {the hands and wrists, ! first-ald treatment at Sibley Hospital, fa stone’s throw Although !many windows of the street car were broken the motorman was the only one on the car hurt. The dr r of the teen, colored, street northwest, truck turned over brui: He refused ment. Withnesses said the street car was going south on North Capitol the time of the accident, and as it neared the intersection of Plerce street the truck driver, going west on Pierce, i Alexander 1829 Wilburger jumped as the nd received minor hospital treat- truck October 11.—Fren-{attempted to make a left-hand turn|Two Yyears ago Guy across the car tracks. ay among Ruhr industrialists, | {SHIP, CREW OF 32, l SINKING OFF FLORIDA By the Assoclated Pres: KEY WEST. Fla, October 11.—The crew of the tank steamer City of | Everett, reported sinking west of | Tortugas, has taken to lifeboats, ac- Certainly not France and | oording to wireless messages receiv- | ed here. The steamer Comal, en route | trom this port to Galveston. reports | she is nearing the sinking vessel The | coast gu rd cutter Saukee has left ?! Key West to aid the ship. The City of Everett sailed from New Orleans September 24. SHIP IS TANKER. TAMPA, Fla., October 11.—The local wireless station reported hearing the O 8" of the City of Everett at 1:30 o'clock this morning The Comal, rushing to Fescue the crew, is about seventy-five miles from the sinking vessel. Al he City ot Everett is a Standar oif anker of 1939 tons. ~According Yo 1ast reports she was bound fromn Philadeiphia to Sagua, but was re- ported n New Orieans recently Tor- Pugas is between Key West and Cuba. fhe City of Everett is of the whale-back type, having two decks | 4nd carrying o1l In bulk | & steel screw and burns fuel 0i i was built in 1894 by the Am Steel Barge Company of Wash., measures 346 feet over all 42-Toot beam and has a draft of 22 feet 9 inches She has a net tonnage of 1,939 and gross tonnage of 95 Tt is reported her crew numbers thirty-two and her port of registry is New York. GOES FREE ON BOND, SAYS ARREST ILLEGA Justice Hitz of the District Supreme Court today ordered the release on $500 bail of James R. Cox, arrested | last night at the request of the mili- | tary authorities of Maryland. Cox, describing himself as a resident of the District, sued out a writ of habens corpus, claiming he is being illegally Qetained without specific charge. Hearing on the writ was scheduled for October 17. +Through Attorney Leon Pretzfelder, the ‘petitioner says he does not know what technical charge Is against him, but it is understood he is wanted in Maryland for faflure to report for camp duty, Milton Kronheim fur- nished the bond. 1 erican | considered explainable only by some- $ody's desperate efforts. The result is that business is being brought to a tandstill. * Reckoning in gold marks does not help the situation 8o long as actual payment must be made in paner Tarks, for such paymént often loses half its value while a check is being mailed from one firm to another. The Teceiving firm may then demand a now remittance covering the loss | While the check is in transit, but the same thing happens again. The re- gult is that business now 1is only ' twenty-one teachers and a student| possible within the city, and not be- tween cities. The gravest fears are entertained concerning the attitude of the peas- ants regarding acceptances of worth- less paper for food. Thus Stinnes’ re- i turn blow appears crushing, but his | ruthless program does not meet with the approval of all his associates. Minoux, one director of his konzern, has just resigned because of political ! differences with Stinnes. U. S. AID ANNOUNCED. Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. (" Copyright, 1023. |, BERLIN, October 11—Semi-officlal statements in the local press that | American bankers were ready to loan | money for the founding of a new cur- ,Toncy bank received confirmation to- {day in_ a private conversation of { Chancellor Stresemann with friends. No details were given, but it is be- ed here that the American group is headed either by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., or the Harriman Bank. Former Chancellor Cuno, who is_a clo business associate of the Harriman Bank, now is in America. Dr. Wied- | feldt, the German ambassador to the United States, who formerly was a | Krupp_atrector, is now in Berlin, where he is presumed, to have come to lnpon pe: the loan. He returns to America ‘Tuesday. truck owned by the Hub Furniture ! the Washington Railway and Elec- | 3. YOUNG MACKENZE | LEADS GOLF FIEL 'Romps Out in Front of Select Class at Chevy Chase With 76. A sixteen-year-o!d youngster, a stu- dent at Western High School, today ! leads a field of the best golfers in the | District of Columbia in the annual competition for the District golf championshlp. i Roland R. MacKenzie of the Colum- 1bla Country Club, son @f Albert R. MacKenzle, and runner-up to his | father in the middle Atlantic cham- plonship, romped out in front of a se- lect fleld this morning, leading the fleld with a card of 76, over the course § |of the Chevy Chase Club, where the ; champlonshiv is being played. Chris 1J. Dunphy of Columbia, defending bis 'lltle as amateur champion of the Dis- ]lrlcl, is In second place. with a card lof 78, while Milier B. Stevinson of Columbia fs in third place at the be- ginning of the second round this aft- , ernoon. : Roland MacKenzie was out in 41, i three strokes worse than the out nine fof Dunphy., but the youth was back yin 35, against 40 for the District | champion ! "Other scores turned in this after- noon_follow: amuel Dalzell, Chevy Chase, 80; W. acCallum, Washington, 81; Albert { R. MacKenzie, lumbia, 81; J. F. | Brawner, Col , 84; A, F. Prescot 1 Columbi; A. Fuller, Chev Chase, §! . Hart, Columbia, 8 jr. Bannockburn, X Kellerman, jr.. Columbia, 88; Tom Moore, Indian Springs, 88; J. D. Chevy Chase, 91; R. P. idson, Chevy Chase, 91; J. A. White, Bannozkburn, 94; H.'C. Train, Co- ia, 95. The second round ithis afternoon. and {will play thirty-six morrow. Play Started by Thirty-four. Thirty-four ranking golfers of the District of Columbia—selected on a handicap basis by the District Golf Association as eligible to compete— be n play today at the Chevy Chase Club for the eighth annual district is being played the entire field holes again to- | i nd was given | golf championship, now held by Chris | {3 Dunphy of “the’ Columbia Country { Club | The entire flield will play thirty: {holes today and thirt {morrow—aseventy-two-hole test t experts agree brings out the finest golf, and is generally considered to be | the best test of the competitive game. At the {Chevy Chase Club will | the F. Oden Horstman trophy, tic' of the championship Chevy Chase Club. Th held by Samuel Dalzell, crack south paw golfer of Chevy Chase, who also a’chance to win the District title. M. Standifer, -, won both ase titles | in a high a ix ix holes to- Dble of the titla is now 1ying from Chevy Ch District and_Chevy C h a score of 321—made i pk: the prediction is that scores will be high side, for the course of the y Chase Club is well trapped, and | a ball hit too strong will find ample | trouble. Those picked as favorites for the title are Dunphy. Albert R. Mac- Kenzie, the Middle Atlantic cham- club star; Roland R. MacKenzie, juve- nile crack of Columbia; Dalzeli and R. C. McKimmie, former Bannockburn Club champion. BERLIN MADLY SEEKS | FOOD A_S_H_IIARK FALLS Currency in Day Drops to 6,500, 000,000 to Dollar, Leaving Housewives Dazed. i By the Associated Press. i LIN, October 11.—The people of Berlin awoke yesterday morning to ‘find the dollar “at two billion marks” and last night went to bed with the knowledge that the mark fell to 500.000,000 in unofiicial quotations late in the day, with little hope that itoday would bring improvement. Prices were as wild as the mark quotations and shoppers who had to She “has have food and other necessary sup- |} € B3 Dlies hurried madly from market to ocied b market in an effort to get some. price scales im various parts of the city and utter con usion. From hour to hour yesterday the prices varied and housewives were dazed by the staggering sums asked for foodstuffs. Everything Soars. | Railway rates increased 50 per cent {vesterday and will again go up 60 per cent Saturday, which will not be ian increase comparable to the decline of the paper mark in relation to the pound and the dollar. {qlm'.i'_v was quoted yesterday morning {at 150,000,000 marks for a pound of twelve ounces, but none was available in the market at any such price. The people, especially the older persons, are wholly incapable of comprehend- ing prices in billions., They stand in the shops speechless and can scarcely find_words to discuss with each other conditions which shake the financial structure of the family. A twenty-four-ounce loaf of bread sold yesterday for $0.000.000 marks, but the price today is 110.000,000. But ter was 600,000,000 marks yesterday for a twelve-ounce pound, but scarce. Potatoes brought 7,500.000 marks per pound and grapes 100,000,000 marks i per pound. WILL EXPLAIN SYSTEM. Miss Deal to Tell of Junior High Schools. An explanation of the junior high school system and its proposed ex- itension in Washington will be given iby Miss Alice Deal, principal of the | Columbia Junior High School, at the |first fall meeting of the Parent- i Teacher Association of the school to- {night at 8 o'clock. Four years ago the Columbla, the ! ploneer junior high school in the Dis- | trict, was opened with a faculty of |body of 448. There are now forty- !eight teachers at the school and an enrollment of 1,074 students, it is pointed out. Since the establishment of the Co- lumbia Junior High School three {others have been opened and two ‘new ones are under construction. | Plans have been made to extend this system of education until there is a Sunior high school serving every com- munity in the District. i Besides the Columbla the other junlor high schools now in operation are the Hine, Shaw and Randall, the latter two for colored pupils. The | Mactarland and the Langley, the new | junior high school buildings, are near- ing compietion and will be ready for ! occupancy before the beginning of the next semester on February 1. POPE GIVEN EAGLE. ROME, October 11.—The Pope has been presented with a young eagle by the archpriest Lorenzo de Carlo, wholupturad the bird on Mount Mutri. Recalling the Pope's love of moun- tain climbing in his earlier days, the priest accompanied the gift with a sonnet, which he had composed, be ginning “From dizzy heights on Al- ine summits, the plous yearn to Ronu thee, O Pius.” | me time the members of the | compete for | With a fast course and fast greens, | pion; Walter R. Tuckerman, the home | Beef for boiling of the cheapest| Harding Estate Put at $486 565, Exclusive of Star By the Awsociated Press. MARION. Ohio, October 11.— ‘The tota) value of the late Presi- dent Harding's estate according to the report of the appraisers filed in probate court here today. exclusive of the Harding Publish- ing Company. publishers of the Star. which has not yet been ap- praised. was set at $186,565.64. Personal property and chattels were appraised at $4.154.83; money, $34 895 60. securities, $400.794.91, and real estate at $46,720 Securities listed in the report were three blocks of United States £01d bonds of $64.000, $30.000 and $6.000; United States Libe: ty bonds, two blocks, of $42.000 and $40,250: federal fand bank bonds to'the value of $10,000. United States Treasury certificates of $92.250. and United States Treasury notes. three blocks. $15.000. $52,000 and $5.000 Life insurance carried by the late President, according to the re- port, totaled $34,422.41, OMEN'S MEETING Foster Western Hemisphere Amity as Model to All. Peace among the nations will be fostered by the Columbus day con- ference to be held tomorrow at the Pan American Union bullding by the United States section of the Pan- American internationa lwomen's com- mittee. Sessions will be held at 10 am., 2 pm. and 8:30 p.m. “We are coming together tomor- row nét primarily to work for peace,” said Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president of the National League of Women Voters, today, “but whenever women of dif- ferent nations come together, meeting on the ground of a common interest, a common purpose, the work they do is for peace. “If this half of the world can live in pea continued Mrs. Park, “neighbor with neighbor. and conti- nent with continent, if the rights of ,all countries on our side of the world can be kept inviolate by com- mon understanding and agreement, if the spirit of international friendliness and co-operation can keep this half of the world in peace and prosperity and content, we have a great object n to present to the countri ss the ocean.’ William Brown Malone, edi- the Delineator, will speak on the achicvements of women in the home. Mrs. Malone is secretary of the isory Council on Better Homes. Mrs. Thomas Winter, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in Washington for the Colum- bus day conference, said today, “When women are sharing in the interpr tation of vital elements of their tim they are becoming fixed luminaries in the literary heavens. Representative from the Latin American_countries will be present and Dr. Enrique Olaya, minister of Colombia. All sessions of the conference are open to the pyblic and an informa- tion and registration bureau is charge of Mrs. Glen Levin Swiggett, executive secretary of the women's auxiliary committee of the United States, in the gridiron room of the Willard Hotel. SCHEDULES HEARING IN COAL INDICTMENTS Justice Hoehling to Hear Abate- ment Plea of Merchants October 19. 2 Justice Hoehling of the District Su- preme Court today set October 19 for hearing arguments on the plea’in batement filed by the eleven coal merchants of Washington, Who were in_ April 1921 for alleged to regulate the coal in- ! dustry here. United States Attorney Everett, There was a_ great variation in the|Gordon has filed an answer to the {plea. Attorney Leon Tobriner ap- { peared for the dealers in court today. | Counsel for the merchants claim {that a member of the grand jury which reported the indictment was in the pay of the United States and so disqualified from serving on the grand jury. The prosecution admits that the grand juror in question was receiving a disability pension from | the government, but had resigned his {employment in the government serv. ice before being accepted as a grand juror. The disablility compensation ifor injury In the service does not | disqualify, Maj. Gordon contends. WOMAN, 75, MISSING SINCE TUESDAY MORNING Mrs. Emily McGee Without Rela- tives in Capital Since Death of Husband Some Years Ago. Mrs. Emily McGee, seventy-five years old, is reported missing from her home She has no relatives in this city. it is stated. Her husband died in Homeopathic Hospital several years ago and since that time she has visited his_former nurse at the hospital. During recent years she has been cared for at the home of Miss Rose Sassranek, a trained nurse. She not feeble, it is stated, but is very for- getful. Tuesday morning she left home ito visit the nurse at the hospital. She i did not reach the hospital, however, and | Miss Sassranek appealed to the police | to institute search for her. | 'BOYS SNATCH MESH BAG WITH $25 AND CHECK |Mrs. Alma Yergens Victim of Rob- i bery on 12th Street Last Night. ! more than $25 in cash and a check for 1365 was snatched from the hand of Mrs. Alma Yergens of the Chastleton | apartments by two small colored boy: ilast night while she was walking on 12th. street, between New York ‘avenue and I street, according to a !report to the police. . | "The boys were pursued by persons ! responding to Mrs. Yergens' appeal | for assistance, but escaped. Boys an- | swering the description of the youth- {ful robers have participated in sev- | ful robbers have participated in sev- weeky, according to the police. BANK PRESIDENT ILL. | George 0. Walson Operated on for Appendicitis at Midnight. George O. Walson, president of the |L|barty‘Nutlonnl Bank, was taken ill !Jast night.at his home, 3426 16th i street, with an attack of appendicitis land rushed to Emergency Hospital. An operation was performed shortly after midnight, and today his condi- ton 3 satisfactory. morning. A silver mesh bag said to contain | WILL SEEK PEACE Pan-American Committee to: at 73 New York avenue since Tuesday | GOV. WALTON LIFTS MARTIAL LAW AS LEGISLATORS MEET Executive, Denouncing Klan, Fails to Appear in Per- son at Session. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,, October 11 —Martial 1aw, effect throughout {Oklahoma since September 15, was i lifted by Gov. J. C. Walton, in a proc- lamation made public today. The proclamation returns full au- thority to all civil officers, The Oklahoma legislature, called {into extraordinary session convened today. The house was called to order {at 9:11 am. by D. A Stovall, repre- sentative from Choctaw county, who | was chosen majority floor leader at a | caucus last night. | A few minutes later the senate con- | vened, and both branches then re- cessed for a joint session to receive the message of the governo A committee of the joint i formed Gov. Walton that the legisla- jture was ready to hear him The igovernnr did not appear personally, | however, and Aldrich Blake, executive counselor. brought the message to the joint assembly and delivered it to the clerk of the senate, The clerk then began reading thé message. Attacks Klan in Address. sion In- In his address the executive charged | the Klan with responsibility for hun- | dreds of outrages and punctuated his remarks by laying before the law- makers transcripts of all testimony adduced by military courts of inquiry, vhich, under hi mation of mar- jtial law, investigated mob violence iand masked depredations in various ! parts of the state. He requested the | legislators to examine the record and { then publish it. “This all-powerful and t de- | moralizing ‘supergovernment’ is un- idermining the very corner stone and foundation of our movern 1 sapping the lifebl Gov. Waltor be killed f must fi farchy and re alt tive or middle ground.” {|" The governor reviewed at length ithe chain of events which have kept jthe state in turmoil for a month and { co uded his message with a pl that the legislature im tel ab which he h self prepa ‘that the pcople n be protected {forever in their person, property and fundamental liberties.” Conflict Must Close. “The conflict between the v and inv le government must be brought to a close with a complete victory for the visible government or Oklahoma wiil indefinite turmoil and strife, the results of which a bound to be di rous,” he said. his invisible, in- idious and terrorizing empire repre- ents in an e ed formy, fear alschood and religious hatred wiich i {fully exempiified from its operation he said. “It ought to be apparent now to all citizens that the people of this state will not craveni; ubmit to the in- tolerance, persecution and outrageous violence of a hooded anization which operates in the dark and whose mem- bership is secret. Racial and religious bigotry and mob violence are unthink- able when practiced in the open—they become _tratorously and wickedly so when hidden behind the un-American mask.” i McBee Elected Speaker. The bill submitted he referred to as ‘complete and adequate to meet every exigen ngency. This law all citizens and izations to publish erships as well W. D. McBee, democrat, was elected speaker of the house over Leslie Salter, republican. 2 SUBMARINE BLAST KILLS THREE SAILORS 1§-37, One of America’s Latest, Dam- aged $100,000 by Explosion. Five Hurt. I { i { | 1 | | ! By the Associated Press, { SAN PEDRO, Calif, October 11— An explosion on the submarine S-37 ate yesterday cost the lives of three {men and the injury of five others. An i inquiry was gotten under way today jon the mothership Beaver alongside the submarine squadron in the outer harbor here. The bodies of two of the men still | were aboard the §-37 early this morn- “tn!,'v They are Lanvil Gartner, electri~ jcian's mate, of Philadelphia and Ig- |nacio Aboza, cook, of Manila, P. L. who were trapped in che ward room when the explosion occurred in the batte: of the after compart- ment day afternoon. Vi { Dean, machinist’s mate. of Huntington, W. Vi s taken from#he submarine limbs and body shattered and hoard the Beaver. The injured nest Barnes, seaman, {of Ellington, M Y. Boaz, seaman, gasse B. Hubbell, s an, | fractured leg and hand: Hubert R. { Poynter of Eilington, Mo., gassed and fractured leg. and Boniface Leyvall, seaman, Oakland, Calif., burns. Ar- jrangements were being made to re- {move them to the naval base hos- i pital at San Diego. ! " The batterics were being charged I when the explosion occurred, and Navy men generally expressed the opinfon that a short circuit caused the ignition of hydrogen gas. The S-37 is one of the newest un- {dersea’ boats of the United States |Navy, and was built at a cost of 1$600,000. A rough estimate of the {damage last night placed the amount at $100,000, but officers said nothing | definite’ could be established until | they could open the hatches, which {were closed to smother out the flames | which followed the explosion. It was hoped that the batteries would cease discharging today, stopping the emis- slon of gas and making it possible {to recover the bodies of Gartner and Aboza. 250 MILES IN GLIDER. English Aviator Makes Unbroken Flight. LYMPE, England, October 11.—B. Hinkler made the longest unbroken flight at the motor glider trials to- day, covering 250 miles and bringing his total in the reliability test to 812 miles. Tt is taleulated that his machine, be- cause of its low fuel consumption; cou'd fiy from London to Rome with an expenditure for petrol of only 20 shillings. Capt. MacMillan broker the speed record for machines of the type, flying twenty-five miles at the rate of 76.1 miles an hour. The previous best speed was 66.5. ‘Women of all American republic: will hold simultaneously meetings in their respective capitals on October 18, imen w s ¥