Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1923, Page 2

‘Father of Golf Head of Senate District Com- ;. mittee Plans Inquiry Into B Growing Problem. !Plans are going rapidly ahead for| an intensive investigation of trafic conditions in. Washington by a sub- epmmittee of the Senate District committee. according to Senator K. L. Heisler Ball, chairman. “We intend to go over the whole proposition, from beginning to end.” sald Senator Ball today. “In order| to get first-hand information on all | matters having to do with trafiic in} Washington we expect to have the| head of the local trafic squad, In- | epector. Albert J. Headley, before the committee. “I have just returned to Washing- ton and will appoint in the next few days a subcommlttee to handle the matter. We intend to start the hear- ings at an early date and as soon as I} can find out what senators are in| town we will get right to work.” Questioned on his opiniion of one- way streets as a measure to promote | frictionless tratfic in large cities, Sen- | ator Ball sald that he believed that they were the only solution of con- gested traffic. i Touching briefly on the prospect of | getting reciproeity with Maryland immediately Congress convenes, the :enator said that every effort would | be made to take action on this im- portant matter “I have talked with the Commis- sioners since 1 returned to Washing- ton."” he said, “and they have told me that they will have the bill author- izing a gas tax in Washington ready for the first da 1 we | are not tied up by the | rate. as we were before | of Congress end ¥ see no re 1 &on why there should be any trouble | in getting the bill passed.” I In France, Once D.C.Player,Dead By the Assoclated Pres: PARIS, October 22.—Plerre De- schamps, who dhl more than any other man to introduce golf in France, died recently. He learned the game in Washington when secretary of the French embassy, and upon his retirement from dip- lomatic service not long afterward he founded La Boulle Golf Club near Versaliles, the first in France, Deschamps himself was not skillful at the game, but was very enthusiastic for it, and his talent for organization ‘soon made the sport soclally popular throughout France. The course at La Boulie was closed on the day of the funeral and a tournament in progress at the time of his death. was post- poned as a mark of respect. LIVING COSTS HERE UP 38 PER CENT General Decrease Shown for Country During Three Years. Living costs in Washington in- creased. -3.8- per cent in. the year period between September, 1922, and September, 1923, the bureau of labor statistics announced today. An in- crease of 1.2 per cent in the three months between June and September of this year was shown in figures mado public by the bureau. Cost ct living In the Capital decreased 19.1 per cent from June, 1920, to Septem- ber, 1923, according to the bureau. | i CONVENTION Y MEETIG OV, G. 0. P. National Committee to Gather Here to Se- lect Site. | l The republican national committee subcommittec appointed to conside; sltes for the 1924 national convention | will meet in Washington, November 15, to hear representatives of various cities. No definite plans have been made yet by the Chamber of Commerce and | the Board of Trade of Washington to have representatives attend the meet- Ing. However, according to Richard Connor, assistant secretary of the Board of Trade, and Arthur E. Sey- mour, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, representatives probably will_be named, and plans for thelr number and instructions arranged at an _early meeting of each of the eivic bodies. D. W. Mulvane, national committee- man from Kansas, chairman of the subcommittee, has sent out notices that all invitations be forwarded to him by November 10. They must con- tain information as to the capacity of the building fn which the conven- tion would be held, approximate hotel capacity and rates, with assurance | that the rates will not be raised dur- ing the convention period, and pro- posals as to defraying the expenses of the convention. ‘The subcommittee, after the hearing, will formulate a report to be pre- gented at the meeting of the full na- tional committee fn December, when the convention city will be selected Fred W. Upham. treasurer of the| national committee, and Willlam R. Wrigley of Chicago arrived in Wash ington today for a series of confer ences dealing largely with the party's finances. They will be guests at the White House during their stay. | ture, For the whole country figures given for the period from Jjune, 1820, to last Soptember showed a decrease of 20.5 per cent. There was an in- {erease, however, of 1.4 per cent from | {the period from June to September. For the past year, ending in Septem~ ber, the increase was 3.5 per cent, For the one-year period, 7 per cent at Cleveland was the greatest in- crease, while other cities above the average included Detroit, 5.6 per cent; Phiiadelphia, 5.3 per cent; Baltimore, 4.5 per cent; Chicago, 4.6 per cent; Boston and Indlanapolis, 4.4 per cent; Scranton, 4.2 per cent, and Pittsburgh, average 14 per cent. Cost of living in September was 72.1 per cent higher for the country than the average in 1913. Food was 49.3 per cent higher; clothing, 76.5 per | cent; furni- housing, 4.4 per and 122.4 per cent, luneous, 1011 per cent. excluding electricity, wa$ 813 per cent higher. Cost of electricity was shown to have decreased 6.1 per cent. DISTRICT BAPTISTS® TO MEET TOMORROW cent; miscel- 'Ihirteentl; Annual General Con- ventioin to Be Held at Church 5th and Q Streets. The General Baptist Cenvention of the District, Rev. Dr. William H. Jernagin, president, will open its thirteenth annual session at the Third Baptist Church, Gth and,_Q streets| northwest, tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. A “more constructive program" will be introduced by the Sunday school union at the opening sesslon, and again in the evening at § o'clock. At the evening session Rev. James W. Pace, chairman of the propaganda committee of the convention, will de- Jiver an_address. on “The Organiza- tion and Operation of the Modern Sunday School.” This will be follow- ed by a round-table discussion and n address by Mrs. Salem Wepps _on The Place of Teacher Training.” The Y. P. U. will share the program. while the president of the Sunday school union will give a lecture out- lining the general scope of work done and results accomplished by this de- Fuel and light, { E. B. DEAN DENIES ASSAULT ON GIRL Rich Property Owner Says He Only Discussed Job With Plaintiff. | | A verdict in faver of Edward Beecher Dean, wealthy real tate opermtor, who was sued by Mixs Emily J. Howlett for £10,000 for alleged assault, was returned by a jury in Circuit Division this afternoon. Edward Beecher Dean, sixty-eight; years old, wealthy real estate owner, today denied on the witness stand | ! before Chief Justice McCoy and a; {Jury in Circuit Division that he| 1had attempted to assault Miss Dmily J. Howlett at his office, 1344 G street, {July 7 last, when she answered an {advertisement for a female com- | ipanion.for Mrs. Dean. Miss Howlett | jasks $10,000 damages for the alleged | assault. Mr. Dean denied that his interview with ‘the young woman took place in| the rear office as outlined by her in her | testimony last Thursday and said he ! {talked with, her in the front office, | The defendant said that Miss How- | {lett appeared more excited when she | entered his office than when she | iwent out. She explained this, he | stated. by saying she had hurried to! his office for fear it might be closed The witness denied that_he made any | improper advances to Miss Howlett | jor discussed any matter except the acceptance of the position for which he had applied. The young woman left the office | and then returned, he told the juror to remind him that he had forgotten | jto take her address. He gave her| |a piece of paper on which she wrote | ithe address and then left, the wit- | iness declared. : The case will probably be sub- imitted to the jury late this afternoon. i After showing by records of the assessor's office that Dean owns real tate worth $300.000, Attorney Ralph A. | Cusici today rested ‘the plalntifi's case in the sult for $10,000 damages brought against the wealthy real estate operator by Miss Emily J.” Howlett for alleged sault. Attorney T. Morris Wampler. for the defendant, called Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alienist and Gragin Donaldson who occupies a room in the office of the defendant. According to the assessor's records Mr. Dean owns several pleces of prop- erty in Washington. including prem- ises 1344 G street northwest, where he has his offices and which is the scene of the alleged assauit. He also owns an apartment house at 1669 Columbia | road, according to the evidence. The | tostimony was received in order to show that Mr. Dean could pay puni- tive damages should the jury see fit luvi“llean' them. 1 [ Miss Howlett. had told of Dbein made sick by the alleged assault ang to have been Incapacitated for several days. Her physician testified to her iliness, which in his cpinion was the Tesult “of the alleged attack. Dr. Hickling was called by the defense to offset this evidence. Mr. Wampler read a hypothetical question in which was Involved the evidence given by {the plaintiff and was asked whether jsuch an adventure would have re- sulted as claimed. He declared it to be his opinion that such illness would not have been so caused. Mr. Donaldson declared he wae in the rear office of 1344 G street north- west during the time when Miss How- lett testified Mr. Dean had attempted the assault on her. Dean did not bring any one back to that room, the | witness said, and he heard no outery. Miss Howlett had placed the alleged assault In the rear room SEES NO INCREASE IN DRUG ADDICTS Report on Narcotics, How- ever, Suggests Changes in D. C. Code on Subject. i i | The District of Columbia had no! {increase in the number of drug ad- dicts during -the past federal fiscal| jof Harry V. __THE EVENITNlG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTGBER 22, 1923 1t was only through the use of gax masks that firemen were able to get to the seat of the fire in the home Bouie, 2007 Massachu of water. RHINELAND REPUBLIC MOVE IS STRONGLY | RESISTED IN BERLIN, irst_Page.) (Continued from i that Coblenz would be the| of the new republi { Raineland forces, he said, were' organized into military formations but re unarmed. Nevertheless, they know where to find weapons if necessary, he added REVOLT IS BLOODLESS. Separatists Move to Other Towns After Aix-la-Chappelle. Coup. By the Asso: AIX- tober 22 Deckers and Dr. a Rhineland republic here Not a drop of blood was she although the separatists took posses- | sion of the city hall and various; public bt police | | ed Pross. HAPELLE, 'Prussia. Oc- | The separatists, led by Leo | uthardt, proclaimed o, regular poli finally ranged themselves on the siae of the republfc. Having experienced no opposiiion here, the separatist leaders dectded to proce with the taki over of other towns, leaving Alx-ia-Chapelle In charge of a few picked men to} watch that the polico kept their| promise to support the republic. As an additional precaution, how- ever, the police, who were allowed to retain their arms upon promising al- legiance to the republic eariy in the day, were disarmed yesterday, but were allowed to remain on duty. Move on Other Towns. Separatist night riders left aboard a fleet of touring cars and trucks for Munchen-Gladbach, After proclaim- | ing a republic there they were to continue on to Crefeld and Bonn, and then go farther up to unfurl their flag at Coblenz, Mayence and other cities. Two proclamations were p The first of these said: “To the people of the Rhineland: The hour of liberty has struck. Ber- lin has plunged us in distress and misery. We come to our own as: ance. A “We proclaim today a Rhineland republic. Free and independent, we wish to live in peace and friendship with our neighbors and to work In an effective manmer with them for the reconstruction of Europe. : “Workers, every man to his post! Immediate care will be taken to as- sure peace, work and bread. lacarded. i i i tts avenue, today, varia, has hoisted his colors and noti- fied the central government that he i | no longer disposed to obey Berlin’ orders, Chancellor Stresemann and the | members of his ministry realize that | they are confronted with a situation threatening as never before the dis- ruption of Germany. ‘There seems, however, to be a cer- { tain relaxation in the tension, and it | is understood that the cabinet council decided to refer the difference be- weon Berlin and Munich to the reichsrath in order to seek any sible reconciliation of the conflicting interests. fio questioniot the T¢h Bavarten Dick sion taking a new oath of allegiance. Loath to Begin Fight. is_obvious that there are only alternatives before the rei government: one is negotlation with Eavaria, the other. resort to forc thus letting loose the horrors of civil war, And it is certain that Berlin will move heaven and earth to avoid the batter alernative. The government yesterday Tt two issued {a proclamation to the German people | warning them against what is termed |Bavaria’s open breach of the consti- tution. The proclamation declares that Havaria has thought fit to bring and. control of the |about internal disputes in the reich | ings 9 1desplite the intolerable distress in the | Rhineland and the Rhur, and that the question is whether military disci- pline is to prevail. AGGUSED OFFICERS RIDICULE CHARGES Maj. Sullivan _Withho|d§ Statements of Prohibition Agents Against Police. Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of police, today refused to make public the charges that have been made against four members of the police torce by prohibition agents. The task of drawing up the specifi- eations was completed today and are ready to be served on the accused officers—Llcut. O. T. Davis, Sergt. James E. McQuade, Private Harry pos- | It is declared that there is | extinguishing it without resorting to the usual deluge | TEAPOT DOME OIL NOW | FOUR-FIFTHS DEPLETED, GEOLOGISTS DISCLOSE (Continued from First Page.) | | | | . Of the government's lease to the Sinclair interests, Mr. Lewis said: 'he special conditions now known to occur made the leasing of the re- Serve as a unit even more desirable than 14 have been anticipated when the lease was executed. The risk of damage was not so urgent in itself ag to necessitate the immediate {leasing of the reserve, which could i have ¥ me months {if eno |to compen for probable losses, but that question leads into import- fant considerations not ithin the {scope of my instructions. | Leasing } On the same points Mr. Clapp re- orted as follows: “Some_sort of leasing was neces- sary, Possible alternatives to the present lease exist, but physical &n- itions are such that the present one appears to offer as many points of { Wisdom, if not more, than would the jsuggested substitutes with one pos- sible exception. This exception, he added, was the lease of the 70 per cent he found sub- ject to drainage and retention of the 30_per cent he believes immune. In agreeing that it was impossible {for the government to hold the Teapot { Dome, without development, indefinite- 1P i two geologlsis said the certainty of drainage and reduction of gas pressure, reducing ofl ylelds, precluded such a policy. “By 1922 it had become questionablo whether even a part of the reserve could be safely held for many years longer,” said Mr. Lewis. “The ultra- conservative viewpoint had to be the gulding policy. No reliance could be placed ‘on Teapot Dome as a reserve until the existence of oll in some- thing like the desired quantitfes had been demonstrated by test wells. The conditiohs known of in 1922, but not in 1915 (when the reserve was set aslde) demonstrated that the original conception of a reserve to be held in the ground indefinitely was not feasible: | that important parts of the reserve {would soon be subject to loss by drainage, and that no part could be counted on as sufficlently protected to be held for more than a few years. “It was questionable whether the underlying policy was as practicable | as_the policy of storing fuel in oil at strategic points. The reserve will produce but a fraction of the oil ex- pected.” { led ly and unimpaired by drainage, the | WOMAN VOTERS SEE PRESIDENT TODAY Present Plea for U. S. Partic- ipation in World Court on Harding’s Terms. President Coolldge received in his office today a delegation from the Natlonal League of Women Voters, who recommended. with ather things, entrance of ghe United States in the Permauent Court of International Justice on the terms proposed by President Harding. In advocating this course, this dele- gation, composed of members of the commission which the league appoint- conditions as they affect European women and the prospects of better international understanding, explain- ed to the President that the United States should enter the world court, because the court is the best existing appilcation of the principle of law as proposed to force the scttlement of international disputes. The delegation alse recommended that all opportunities for co-opera- world betterment be welcomed; that children and young persons be train- ed to understand the importance of peace as an essential basis for civil- {zation; and that individuals and or- ganizations of all kinds take ad- vantage of opportunities for inter- national intercourse in meetings for common purposes. Members of Delegation. Maud Wood Park, president of the National League of Women Voters, headed the delegation and acted as spokesman. Those who ac- companied her were Mrs. James Mor-. rison of Chicago. Mrs. James Paige of Minneapolis, Minn., member of the Minnesota legislature; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsyivania; Mrs. Ann Webster of New Mexico, chalrman of the league’s committee on social hygiene, and Miss Adele Clark of Richmond, Va. president of the Virginia League of Women Voters. In a summary of Mrs, its observations mendations it was set forth that en- during peace cannot be expected until a means and of lessening possible causes of friction before they reach the stage of active dispute. pham of Chicago, treasurer of the republican national committee, who, with William R. Wrigley of Chi- guest at the White House, conferred briefly with the Presi- dent in his office this morning. Follo ing this audience Mr. Upham said the subcommittee of the national committee appointed by Chairman John Adams to consider invitations from cities asking for the next republican national conven- tion will meet in this city November 15. D. W. Mulvane, national committee- man from Kansas, chalrman of this sub- committee, has sent out notices to the effect that all invitations for the con- vention be forwarded to him before No- vember 10 and that these bids contain such information as will enlighten the subcommittee as to the ability of each bidder to handle the convention. HUGHES BACKS DRIVE Believes Place in Capital Will Be of Great Benefit. Secretary of State Hughes has written a letter to those in charge of the campaign to erect in the Na- tional Capital a Jewish community center. “The Jewish community centor,” Sccretary Hughes states in the letter to Dr. Abram Simon, “will give prac- tical expression to Jewish ideals and will Increase the opportunitl of young men and women. 1 si trust the enterprise will be success- ful.” Justice Irving Lehman, president of the Jewish Welfare Board, reminds it will be a purpose of the com- munity center to promate tho ideais thought always foremost tha: “frem the community center will come the American Jew." The campaign will open Novem- ber 1. —_— lagt summer to study post-war | tion with other nations in efforts for | in Europe and containing its recom- | is found of settling inter- | national disputes by peaceful methods | FOR JEWISH CENTER| Community Gathering | cerely | of Judaism and Americanism, with the | TALKS and TALES |- With and-About CAPITAL’S GUESTS Then there came another week! And with it many new faces and different settings, for no sooher had adfourn- ment been voted by the visiting opthalmologists, electragists, Scottish Rite Masons and state executives than the scene shifted and out strutted the United Typothetae of America, with its 1,500 delegates from every corner of these United States and not a few onlookers from Canada and Merrio England, for their annual five-day sessfon, Which convenes this day at {the New Willard Hotel. You know every t.ne a convention | oY any size is staged 11 San Francisco, |Los Angeles, Chic: Atlanta and jother conference-n 1unities jbusy chambers of commerce imme- {diately dispatch broadcast tons of at- {tractive literature announcing the event and in consequence folks begin {to regard such cities as the natural gathering places of all worthwhila iorganizations, but if the truth wers {known, taking it day in and day | there are probably more conv iheld right here in the heart of t |nation than in any ltke arca throus: out our fair land. And in mentioning the Typothetae |1t might be in order to expl: {the many who havn't the faintest |idea what the name stands for that it is an organization of {printers. The name {two Greek words, janything to do “theta,”” which signifies tion, 'gathering, mixing-it-up, The “e" at the tail end of the wo, is probably placed there just to it more intricat, 1 “typo.” with Anyhow, the Typothetae is here and {every hotel in the city is housing iits quota. J. Linton Lngle of Phil- |adelphi: president of the hug |ganization. is registered at the lard and when seen stroiling throug Peacock alley in com with F ward T. Millc , secreta and Frank P. Howard, chairman W t {the local convention committec beaming with enthusiasm ov 1 utlook of the present conference. “From advance reports.” smiled genial official, “this probably wi {the most successful convention iheld by our organization. It is a {pleasure to know that Canada and | England have sent so many visitois | to learn how American p {duct their affairs, and 1 feel certa'n {they will be well repaid for their | trip. i Whether due to pressing busincss at home or just a natural longing for thelr gubernatorial chairs, the | visiting governors who slipped into town to discuss with President Coolidge the enforcement act and other important matters didn’t tarry jvery long, for no sconer had they completed thelr business than hurr rushes were made 1l out-go excer 7 yesterday d all had left the city be afternoon. A_rear-end_view of W. Bryan of Nebraska ¥ however, just as he, ac his famous brother, W Bryan, dashed from Fayette for Union station fast did the Bryan brothe {that it was tmpossible to whether Char W. or_ Willlam was_leaving the city. brothers, the Bryan ™ in arm. Charles the Hc That the characteristics of the two peoples were plainly di the actions of Zev s racing cracks of A land, before their { Belmont _ Park re 5 learned from Edmond C. Fieicher of Kansas City, now special as Attorney General Daugherty, went to New York to witness the event, When seen at the return to Washington Mr. ho was a roommate at K versity in 1599 with H owner of the winner, said th | the horses went to the post he visi {the paddock; where he found the son |of The Finn and Miss Keurney in a Lee House on his ctche H {nigh state of nerveus anticipati inostrils dilated, eves fiery ing and siiken coat dripping w | perspiration, while on the other hand {the English Derby winner was as | stolid and unconcerned as {had been run several {he was just waiting ldaily exercise. “This difference in continued as the two b led before the g {way to the pos upon by many in the vast thro fcontinued Mr. Fleteher. “It was | magnificent spectacle - and the best horse won. 1 was the first to grasp the hand of my old college mate IT tell you he was nervous himself. The Kansas man said thdt Senator temperament uties parad on t s rema When the Sinclair lease was made, Mr. Clapp said, it was demonstrable that 43 per cent of the oil bearing field was subject to dralnage, and he added that the drilling of the Sin- clair wells had rendered this fact even clearer. |year, but there “is a slight increase | reported of drugs in ilifelt channels,” jand the entire situation needs changes {in the District code dealing with nar- cotles. * Bauer and Private Willlam H. Ver- million of the tenth precinct. Maj. Sullivan took the position to- day that the charges should not be disclosed until the men are placed partment during the current year. — VETERANS’ BUREAU PROBE Curtis of the Sun Flower state, Will Hays, former Repres ive Camp- bell and Col. Zeveley. of the Sinclair Oil Company., for whom the great racer was named, were guests in the box of Mr. Sinclair. « d) e A THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. “Leo Deckers and Dr. Guthardt. Issue Second Proclamation. The second proclamation read as { tollows: WO0O0DS TO RETURN. Envoy Seeks Medical Aid for WALTON CHARGES “EXPECTED TODAY i Belief Is That House Will Be- gin Voting This Afternoon or Tonight. By the Associnted Press. ! OKLAMOMA CITY. Okla,, October | 22—The investigating committee of the lower house of the Oklahoma leg. islature today will report twelve a ticles of impeachment against Gov. Jack C. Walton. The articles will al- lege corruption in office, incompe- tency and offenses involving moral | turpitude, the committee announced, | with additional indictments to be re- turned within two days in a supple mental il It-is believed that with the House meeting this afternoon balloting on | the accusations will begin by tonight or_tomorrow morning. Members of the committee say if any one of the charges is sustained M. E. Trapp, licutenant governor. willshecome acting governor by mid- night tomorrow night. o senate will be prepared to take up the impeachment. should any | charge bo sustained. within two days, senate leaders say, with the final vers | digt to be reached within ten days. ov. Walton will face the accusa- tion® through to the end, he declared last night. “There is nothing to the report,” he told the Assoclated Press when informed of rumors that he in- tended to resign today. “Such ru- mors are merely to weaken my friends and supporters and stampede them. I have no iIntentlon of resign- ing—have never even contemplated such a thing. i Thus Gov. Walton's declaration of & ‘war on the Ku Klux Klan approaches | 2 climax through the maze of precinct | martial law, etate-wide military gov- | ernment, a defeated attempt of the! lower house of the legislature to con- | vene and, finally, the enactment at a | special election of a constittuional | amendment which permits the legis- lature to convene without call of the governor. —————— STATE FLAG DISPLAYED. i The state flag of New Hampshire | flew in the court of the Post Office Department today for the first time. The flag s the gift of the first and second class postmasters of the state to the department, made through John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general, who Is from New Hampshire, The presentation of the flag is re garded by officlals as a compliment 10 the first assistant. It follows the Tecent convention of the Natlonal As. siclation of Postmasters held here, that | i | | { | | BEGUN, HINES TESTIFYING (Continued from First Page.) tunity to explain or to contradict any evidence.” Gen. O'Ryan declared that despite expenditures by Congress for the vet- erans “on a scale never before known for any such purpose,” there existed during 1922 a growing feeling of dis- satisfaction among the disabled which was shared by veterans generally and by their organizations as well. Tt was here that he was interrupted. He added that all complained of “delays in giving rellef, of arbitrary and un- | reasonable rulings denying rellef, of the insufficiency of hospital facilities, of the ineffective organization of the bureau itself and of the method of con- ducting its affairs.” Gen. Hines, who assumed office after the charges were made, was questioned in detail as to conditions in the Veterans’ Bureau when he be- said that a three-week survey of the central office in Washington had dis- closed to him that there was a con- siderable duplication of effort with a resultant delay in accomplishment. He added that the work of reorgani- zation in the bureau still was in prog- ress. Conclusions Reached. The witness sald it had seemed to him that the total oxpenditures for | 1 division had | reached the point where it was func- | operating the bureau was large, par- ticularly with reference to overhead costs. Other conclusions reached, he said, included: That the - insurance tioning Flronerly. That higher salaries and higher grade of employes throughout the whole organization would be neces- sary to the accomplishment of the best possible results. That the hospital construction pro- ram had been very much delayed with a number of projects hangifig fire, and with some of those under way not progressing as rapldly as should be. That the time had come when the rehabilitation program should be put on_the road to completion, Gen. Hines said he had found more than 90.000 men In training, many of them for more than three and one- half years. It was his {dea that there was only one form of rehabllitation, and that was re-employment. Since March, 1, he added, 23.000 men had compfleted work in the rehabilitation divisfon, and productive employment for 99 per cent of them had been found through co-operation of prace tically all the large corporations and { civic organizations over the country. PLAN NEW COURSE. A course In educational measure- ments which will be of special inter- est to District public schoal. teachers i scheduled to begin at the Knights of Columbus Evening Schodl tomor- row. A. C. Monahan,. for several years a specialist on the staff of the federal bureau of education and for three years an officer in the educa- tienal service of the Army, will*give the new course, ireporlafl. 88 cases tried, 67 of which came director on last March 1. Hej These are the features of a report on narcotics, made by the prohibition unit, in connection with the gov- ernors’ conference “here, copies of l which were sent out today to each| | state capital in the union. The District of Columbla situation was described in the course of the! ! voluminous report compiled in the! {office of Col. L. G. Nutt, in charge of | {the narcotic section, a summary of! which Col. Nutt presented to the governors Saturday. | Sttuntion Throughout U. . Generally speaking for the nation, | Commissioner Haynes declured he is | “thoroughly convinced that there is ‘no great increase In the use of nar- cotics in America.” A summary of results in narcotic enforcement In 1923 for the District says there were “1,448 narcotic regis- trants, 125 eriminal and 283 civil cases | | i sulted ' in convictions. Total sen- tences Imposed 194 vears. Fined and | forfeitures imposed for the year, ! $900.” It was explained that thern: are two narcotic officers assigned to the District. Suggested Changes in Code. Concerning suggested changes of the District narcotic code, the report continues: “There is nothing in the act mak- ing possession of the drug (i. e., by drug peddlers or unauthorized per- sons) unlawful; in other words, it is{ necessary to prove an unlawful dis- pensing within the specified provis- jons of the act as indicated above. The law’ should restrict possession and sale of hypodermic syringes and needles and provide for the commit- ment of addiets. “There should be a provision pro- nibiting the purchasing or obtaining by doctor-addicts of narcotic drugs to gratify their personal addiction. There should be a provision limiting | the sale of exempt preparations as defined In section 6 of the Harrison act. — DEFRAUDNIG U. S. FIRM HELD FEDERAL OFFENSE Defrauding a corporation in which the Unitea States is a stockholder | constitutes a federal offense, over| . which Congress has jurisdiction and| to punish which it may legislate, the Supreme Court held today in a caso| by the government against Leroy W. ‘Walter to have reversed the decision of the federaldistrict court in south- tern Florida. Walter was prosecuted under a fed- eral statute for having with others presented a claim egainst the United! States Shipping Board Emergency | Fleet Corporation which was alleged to have been fraudulent. The lower | ‘court. dismissed the case on the {ground that tire act of Congress under which it was brought .was unon- stitutional because - it ‘was broad enough to make it a federal offeuse to incitde mny corporation In which the United States was a stockholder. ibe crushed pitilessly. | serve.” “The Rhineland republio ls an ac; S ct. Any resistan complished fact ¥ EEE disturbers of public order will be punished with the severest of pen- #1iWe shall apply all our care to the Qquestion of food supply and work and Will preserve order and peace. This proclamation was signed the same way as the first. i Deckers nformed the Associated Press correspondent that he planned to have all the cities in the-French and Belgian areas, plus Elberfeld and Rarmen, in the unoccupled territory, in the hands of the republicans with- five days. I o oday.” he said, “German pa- per marks will be considered foreign Mmoney. We plan within the next few days to issue a new currency, to be called the Rhenish janc, on a par with the French gold franc and se- cured by mortgages on all public bulldings occupied, at least until we can establish a permanent gold re- in Deckers said that the new franos would probably be printed in Brus- ols or Paris. Asked about Cologne, ho sald he advised a delegation from Cologns to do nothing yet, but to walit and see how things went in the French and Belgian areas. After the republic began functioning normally ho expected All the towns in the British zone would apply for admis- sion. Deckers_declared that he had no thought of stealing a march on Jo- soph Matthes in order to get glory for himself. They all had the same alms, he explained, and personally he wanted to get back to business without delay. He declared that he had worked for a republic as the only thing that could create stable conditions for his business. Speaking of future plans, 'the eoparatist leader said that for the time being a local executive council would administer government affairs in each town occupied. It was rec- ognized that the leaders would as. sume a sort of dictaterial position, ut as soon as the machinery of the government was olled free elections no doubt would be held for president and other officlals. The government system would be modeled somewhat along American lines. Separatist for Years, Leo Deckers is a native of Alx-la- Chapelle, about sixty years of age. He 1s a prosperous cloth and chemi. ¢al manufacturer and has been as soclated with the ratist move- ment for four and.a Half years, but has always worked in the back round. ¥l he Belglan authoritles outwardly are taking the attitude of interested observers, but in reality are acting as a sort of godfather to the re- (blle. So far there has been no need of military Interference, but the Bel- glan officials left no 'doubt where | their sympathies lay as soon as the separatists ~ occupied police " head- Quarters and asked for troops to help eject the Intruders, but the assistance was not forthcoming. ' SEE DISRUPTION NEAR. By the Amociated Pross. " BERLIN, October 22.—Now that Dr. von Kahr, military dictator of Ba- on trial. Deep Interest Shown. TUnless some special arrangements are made, the men will go on trial at the sixth precinct Saturday morn- ing, but, because of the deep interest that {s being shown in the Investiga- tion and the large number of per- sons who probably will attend the hearing. it 15 possible that the hear- ing will be held in the boardroom of the District buflding instead of in cramped quarters in the police sta- tion. Lieut. Davis and Sergt. MoQuade expresseil themselves as being more than anxious for an early hearing of what they termed ridiculous charges. “They are 80 ridlculous,” sald Lieut. Davis. “that they must necessarily fall of their own weight.” Asked when the case heard, both men said, the better.” Walve Rights as to Time. “If we receive the o'clock this afternoon.” .eaid Lieut. Davis, “we would waive all rights as to time and be willing to have a speclal session of the trial hoard tonight; we certainly would like to have it not later than tomorrow. “We want a public trial,” he added, “so our friends and the general pul lic may be able to know of the ridicu- lousness of the charges.” It is understood there are more than twenty specifications against the accuged _ policemen, many. more against Lieut. Davis, head of the squad, than the others. HISTORIC TAPESTRIES STOLEN FROM PALACE Art Objects Valued at Million Francs Each Taken at Versailles. By the Associated Press, PARIS, October 22.—Two great Gobelin tapestries, each valued at would be “the sooner, 1,000,000 francs, were stolen during| the night from the walls of the Ver- salllés Palace. The tapestries were made In 1674 and formed part of Louis XIV’s col- lection. One of them represented the slege of Doual and the other the entry of the king into Dunkirk The guards are certain the tapes- tries wére hanging on the walls last eveuing when the palace was closed, but they were gone this morning. "The .police_ found- traces indicating the thieves had climbed a lightning rod to a ‘window, breaking thé glass and _t releasing the latch into the Salon de Mercure. They took the tapestries ‘off the wooden stretching frames and carrled them to an auto- mobile waiting in-the garden. Another valuable tapestry in the same room was left untouched. The stolen" tapestries weighed seventy-five pounds each and meas- ured nine by sixteen feet, harges at 4| “An estimated area of 2,300 acres Mr. Clapp reported, “will prove ofl bearing and 1,400 gas bearing, while | the balance, amounting to about 5,600 acres, will be barren of oil or gas in every known producing forma- | tio . Lewis estimated that “2430| acres only will be oil bearing instead | of 5,670 acres estimated by the bu- reau of mines.’ Both reports agreed that not only in oil but gas pressure as well, the Teapot Dome fleld was subject to' partial de- pletion by private operators in the .ad- Joining Salt Creek field. “I estimate that 1,600 acres, or 70 per cent of the estimated oil-bearing area,” said Mr. Clapp's report, “are suceptible to imminent drainage or the reduction of percentage or recoverable {0il by wells drilled in the adjolning edge of Salt Creek fleld and that about 30 per cent of the oil-bearing area i3 in- susceptible of such drainage or reduc- tion to any commercial degree.” Mr. Lewis did not estimate the per- | | centage subject to drainage, but said | i that a few rows of “protection” wells, drilled along the Salt Creek border | would have given partial protection against drainage. BINDERS EXHIBIT Registration of delegates to the fourth annual convention of the em- ploying bookbinders was held today in the Hamilton Hotel. The first reg- ular session is convening this after- noon. The otganization is composed of employing bookbinders throughout the United States and Canada. ! Many rare manuscripts and works of | bookbinding art have been placed on | exhibit on:the second floor of the | hotel. Outstanding among these are | charts used as guides for singing | chants in churches before movable type was invented, nearly 500 years ago. There is a Douai Bible with Dore| illustrations bound in fancy leather and finished with a brass design which was made by hand. This book is said | 1to be worth over $2,000. There are also bookbinding exhibits of work by school children. The lost art of hand illumination, used by the monks in the dark ages to give the first letters of a chapter a bright. golden appearance, is also exhibited. The program during this afternoon includes_an address of welcome by George H. Carter, United States pub- lic printer, and addresses by United States Commissioner of Education J. J.'Tigert and Henry P. Conkey, presis ent of the organization. ' ART OF DARK AGES &= Mother. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, October 22—Cyrus E. Woods, United States ambassador to Japan, is leaving for America the first of next month with his wife and her mother. The trip has been made necessary in order that expert medical atten- tion can be given Mrs, Woods' mother, who was injured in the Japanese earthquake in September. The am- bassador and his family will be ab- sent about sixty days. LAUREL ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1,800; claiming; for maidens, two-year-olds; six furlongs, let.. 117 Dunoon e 18 §Bramton i [Lady *mmn '§Antiquity , B, W, Stockton entry. Audley Farm entry, for throe-year-olds and up; two miles. Pirate Gold. Etheral Blue. * ns . Hy Morourious - 2 PP ekl Echhd 1A, C. Bos THIRD RACE~Purse, $1,300; for two-year. olds; five furlongs. 13 108 108 v Yankee Princess A Relentles . Dvu-lli . Time Exposure. Batsman Tropical Wate imson .- for_three. l:x'fllll“. ‘Whallen. g/ 108 Hucklebersy Fina 104 = 108 FIFTH RACE—Wood Les handioap; purse, $2,000; for all ages; one mile. 186 Bun Thistle. e 118 *Struc Miss Lizzie 91 SIXTH RACE—Cloverdale claiming handi. e 000 for all agea; six Jurlongs. 107 *Noel . *Majority . Ethel Clayto Lady B *Romping Ho: Glentil SEVENTH RA( for _three-year-olds ai sixteenth. nd upj one Ettabe R A g‘llh Gear. 2 . W. Osmpbell and J. M. Collias entry. 1 prcatios allowanoe oisimed, " Weather clear} track f ) SECOND RACE—Steepléchase; purse, §2,000; | And now a word from little Rhody! Not much has been heard from the ancient and honorabie New England | commonwealth for quite some time, but, according to George A. Freeman of the old Merchants National Bank of Providence, who, with Mrs. Free- man, is making a short stay at the Hotel Shoreham, conditions are fair- 1y good up in his section of the coun- try. “Of course.” said the banker, “wo in_Rhode Island, as well as those in other New England industrial cen- ters, are having our troubles over the labor quesion. Tho forty-eigi hour lIssue is the burning question with most of our people. who find It almost impossible to compete with the unfair basis upon which labor is employed in some of the southern states. We can't compete with the | cheap wages patd by many manufac turers in that section of the countr Mr. Freeman said that the state was naturally proud of the fact that a New Englander wks in-the White { House, and that it could be consid- ered a certainty that the republicans of Rhode Island would support Prest- dent Coolidge for the nomination to succeed himself. i “Personally, I think him one of the most_efficient officials that ever oc- cupled the high seat. Iis speech to the governors was a jewel, to the point and was the stand any right- minded man_would take under the conditions,” he said. “Prohibition is jthe law of the land, and it is up to all law-abiding citiZzens to stand by the Constitution.” While -there are those in Irelana who never will take the oath of al- legiance to England and always will continue their fight for absolute in- dependence, different methods tk | physical force will be the rule for some time to come, according to Mrs. Laurence Ginnell, widow of Laurence Ginnell, a lifelong advocate of free- dom for Ireland, who returned to America, and is at the Hotel La Fayette, after the burial of he husband at Delvin, County Wes meath, recently. The Irishwoman said that economic conditions in the little green {sle were 108 | in a deplorable state, due in no small part at present to the great dock strike, -which-affects most seriously the agricultural interests. “And you know Ireland depends entirely upon her agricultural products,” added the visitor as she looked through some papers. “Then, t00, it is costing the governs {ment untold wealth to support its military, which at present numbers more than 50,000 men. These soldiers recelve 30. shillings .a week, while thetr wives are _given ‘separation’ expenses of 29 shillings for the same time." Mrs. Ginnell refused to comment on what ultimately would be done witlt Eamonn De Valera, the republican leader, now in jail. but said his fol- {lowers are still strong, and number thousands throughout the Island The widow of the former member of - parliament will return to New York shortly, where she expects to re- main for some time. ~ THE MIXER.