Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1923, Page 2

2 LT.GOLCOOK NAMED DIVISION ADJUTANT Chosén by Mai. Gen. Stephan, Commander of 29th Na- tional Guard Division. Proceeding with the organization of the new 29th National Guard Divis- ion, a part of the 3d Corps Area of the Army of the United States, under the natlonal defense act, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding, last eve- ning, at the ‘weekly assembly of the District National Guard, designated Lleut. Col. C. Fred Cook to be the division adjutant of the new divislon. The division chief of staff will be ap- pointed from Richmond and other staff officers from Virginia and Mary- lanc. The 29th Division comprises all Na- tional Guard troops of Maryland, Vir- ginfa and the District. This is sai 10 be the first time In history that the District of Columblia, through representatives, has exercised control in time of peace over the troops of any state or territory. With the di- sion commander and his “mouth " “the .divislon adjutant. both Washingtonians and veterans in serv- ice in the District Natlonal Guard, the local ecitizen soldiery feels that it now occupies a.place on the mil- ftary map, Recelves Commission. Although holding commission as leutenant colonel, infantry section, Officers’ Reserve ' Corps, since the close of the world war, Lieut. Col. Cook has occupied a dual capacity, being major, adjutant general's de. partment, in the local organization. In hi office of brigadier general, commanding the District of Columbia militia, Gen. Stephan recently nom- inated Lieut. Col. Cook for promotion to lleutenant colonel in the guard, preliminary to appointment as di- Yvislon adjutant of the 29th Division. The commission was received from the War Department yesterday after- noon and was formally presented last evening. Leaving the High School Cadets as | first Heutenant of the prize company, Lieut. Col. Cook entered the National juard July 27, 1893, the records at headquarters show, as captain of Company B, 2d Battalion—the Mor- ton Cadetsenlater the “champion m itary company of the United States" in interstate competitive drill. He served through the Santlago cam- paign, war with Spain, as an officer of the 1st District of Columbia In- Tantrg United States Volunteers. In thé WA “war he-was brigade adju- tant of the 160th Infantry Brigade, 80th Division, at Camp Lee: proceed- ed to France in command of the 205th Ammunition Train of the 80th Division and completed service over- seas as base adjutant of base section No. 5, American expeditionary force, under Gen. George H. Harries, and, later, Maj. Gen. Eli A. Helmick. Chief of Publicity. Returning to the United States, he was assigned as chlef of the section of general publicity, office of the sur- geon general of the Army, and, in- cidentally, served as editor-in-chief of the Come-Back, the soldier news- paper at Walter Reed Hospital, su. bervised the publication of forty-two other Army hospital newspapers, and the official souvenir programs of the 1st Division parades here and in New S easing tha Avmy ving the Army in January, 1920, Lieut, Cal. Cook returned to the fold of these .engaged in the effort to re- orgar‘il e and upbufld the National Guard, and Gen. Stephan sald last evening the promotion and appoint- ment to be the first division adjutant of the new division were in recogni- tion of such service. OBJECT TO LICENSE FOR POWER COMPANY Railroads and Public Utilities Pro- test Privilege Granted for New River Project. Rallroads and several public util- fties operating 1In the territory contiguous to the V irginia-West Virginia border have joined in a pro- test to the Federa: Power Commis- sion against issuance of a license to the West Virginla Power Company for a project on the New river, five miles from Hinton. The commission has granted a pre- liminary permit with the statement that final action:will depend upon & careful survey of the development to determine the effect upon the topog- raphy of adjacent land. Plans fled by the power company include con- struction of a dam 140 feet high, which would form a lake extending several miles into the state of Vir- ginta. The Norfolk' and. Western, hesapeake and Ohio and Virginian railroads have asserted _this lak wpuld overflow and irreparably dam- age their rights of way, and power companies already in existence assert thelir sites would be submerged. NEW D. C. BUILDINGS ACCOMMODATE 18,600 Eighty Apar'tment Houses . and 2'?500 Homes Erected in Last Fiscal Year. New buildings erected in Washing- ton during the 1ast fiscal year provid ed housing accommodations for 18,600 persons, Assessor William P. Richards announced today. This is double: normal butlding in- erease and indicates, in the' opinton of the assessor, that Washington is rap- 1dly catching up to its need for living quarters, The figures compiled by Mr. Rich- ards show that for the twelve months ending July 1 there. were -erected ©eighty apartment houses, containing a total of 2,200 suites. Bstimating three persons o an apartment, these bulld~ ings will house 6,600 individuals. There were 2,500 dwellings erected, and allowing five persons to a family, these: homes will provide for 12,000 e “apartment ouses alone repre: e apartment house: - sent an Tissessed value of 38,702,000, which is one-third of the total sum added to the assessment k during SCHOONER AFIRE; 6 SAVED By the Associated Press. HIGHLANDS, N. J., October 20.— The British tank steamer San Manuel, from Cardiff, Wales, for New York, reported by wireless today that the schooner Willlam S. McDonald was on fire sixteen miles east of Ambrose lightship and that she had rescued the crew. Later advices said the McDonald had anchored and was a menace to navigation. Her crew numbered six. The McDonald is listed by Lloyds as a wooden three-master of 252 tons, under British registry, bullt in 1920. Her home port is La Have, N. 8. - Bh.u'lg:ad from l;lllvlnn August 10 ;E“g::l;i trom Mosners head on Oor House Member to Address Printers REPRESENTATIVE C. A. WOODRUM, Sixth district of Virginia, who will| ddrexs the members of the United | "ypothetae of Amerien at Mount | Vernon today when they make a pligrimage to George Washington's home as guests of the Typothetue of this city. NEW BOARD TOTRY DRY CASES URGED, Sullivan Recommends Special Group to Hear Charges Against Policemen. Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of police, today recommended to Com- missinoer Oyster that a special trial board be appointed to hear the charges preferred against four police- men by agents of the prohibition | unit. Maj. Sullivan suggested that the board be composed of Assistant Corporation Counsel Willlam H. Wahly, Capt. C. L. Plemmons of the | elghth precinct, and Capt. W. E. San- ford of the fifth precinct. The present trial board is composed of Mr Wahly, Capt. C. P. M. Lord of | No. 10 and Capt. L. J. Stoll of No. 9. The men will go on trial Saturday morning, and, unless other arrange- ments are made, the sixth precinct station will be the scene of the hear- ng. Maj. Sullivan sald there was no significance attached to his recom- mendation for a new board. He said | the other police trials would have to | go on while these charges were being | heard i DECLARES FORBES TOOK $5,000 LOAN FROM FIRM SEEKING CONTRACT FOR NEW VETERANS’ HOSPITAL (Continued from First [ which, he sald, Hurley had arranged for use in exchanging telegrams be- tween the members of the party. This code was read to the committee and there was a general laugh in the room when Mortimer stated that Forbes' code name was *“McAdoo.” Says Forbes Saw Clean-U Mortimer testified concerning visits to other places on the Pacific coast and_said that while the party was at the Coronado Beach Hotel Forbes told them, in the presence of Al Lind- ley, whom he describes as a California politician, that he was to be ap- pointed Secretary of the Interior upon the resignation of Albert B. Fall. Forbes added, according to the | witness, that the program of the Interior Department contemplated a large amount of reclamatfon work in the west, with expenditures of vast sums of money on contracts, and that if he got the job “we will all make a big clean-up.’ The witness added that this was an expression frequently used by Forbes in connection with contracts. Asked by members of the committee as to papers and documents in con- nection with some of his_testimony, Mortimer said he was unable to pro- duce_them, because his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel here had been broken into on three different occasions between September, 192: and November, 1922. He added tha after September 31 he had had no dealings with Forbes and indicated that there had been a split between them. He tol@ the committee he had no proof that anybody connected with the Veterans' Bureau had been respon- sible for the thefts from his apart- ment, The inquiry has been turned into the purchase of the site for the pro- jected government tuberculosis hos- pital at Livermore, Calif, and also into alleged frauds practiced by some dentists over the country in operation { of the now practically abandoned pol- icy of having dental work for former service men done outside of govern- ment clinics. Investigators for the committee have gone into many other matters upon which they plan to of- fer testimony. B Investigation Into the purchase of the Livermore eite still is incomplete, but Maj. Gen O'Ryan, general counsel for the commlittee, has read into the record extracts from a report from A. E.| Graupner, chairman of -the California district rehabilitation committee, regard- ing it. He also has told the committee that there will be witnesses who. will i be called in relation to the matter. The Graupner report, as read by Gen. O'Ryan, asserts that in June, 1922, charges were made directly to Charles R. Forbes, then director of | the bureau, by American Legion offi- cers that the purchase of the Liver more property was “surrounded by graft” and that the circumstances were such “as to lead the American Legion to believe that Col. Forbes either was participating or openly winking at the corrupt transaction, The report added that Mr. Forbes { made no denial of the allegations at the time of their presentation to him in San Francisco, and that “his whole as the property had been acquired and was suited to the purpose of a { tubercular hospital it was no con. cern of the American Leglon wha was paid for the property or how the money was disposed of.” RITES FOR MRS. MEAD. ‘Woman Who Died Here Buried in New York. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha A. Mead, who dled here Saturday, were_held Monday at the First Bap- tist Church, Jamestown, N. Y., where the body wag interred. Mrs. Mead was the widow of Rev. Lynn Mead of Hutchison, Kan. She is survived by Mrs. Willlam Knowles Cooper of this city, a sister, and by a brother, Frank E. Shaver of Denver, ‘olo. $40,000 GEMS IN HAUL. KANSAS CITY, Mo., October 24.—Two bandits held up the Diamant Jewelry Company here today and escaped with fifteen trays of diamonds valued by Pt Ote it S 0 O e et THE EVENING STAR, e i s B ettt TELLS TYPOTHETAE | OF WAR DEBT PLAN Philadelphian Suggests First Mortgage Paper, With U. S. Bond Issue to Follow. A plan for the securlng of European debts to the United States in a man- ner that would be of benefit to the debtor natlons was outlined by E. J. Cattel of the chamber of commerce Philadelphia, today in an address be- fore the members of the United Ty- pothetae of America attending the thirty-seventh annual convention of the organization at the Willard Hotel. Dwelling upon the fact that the European countries owe the United States $10,500,000,000, Mr. Cattel sug- gested that first mortgage bonds be obtained by this country as security. These bonds, which, he explained, would prevent the nations from rais- Ing money for other wars because no one would lend on second mortgage should be for a period of fifty yvear: and non-interest bearing for flve years, he added. The mortgage bonds, he declared, should be brought to America and on them a three-billion bond issue drawing 3 per cent should be sold to the American people, and the money used for the distribution of raw materfal and machinery on a ten-year time payment to the Euro- Pean nations. Nominntions Delayed. Speaking of Washington, Mr. Cat- tell declared that when he crossed Pennsylvania avenue in the “60's” he thought the city the ugliest in the | world. “Now,” he declared, “I think 1t the most beautiful.” He spoke op- timistically of high wages in the country, declaring .that in one cii alone half as many workers today own government bonds as owned them In the entire country before the war. Owing to the stress of business the nominating committee was unable to complete its work yesterday in order to report today, and, according to Wil- llam J., Eynon of the Typothetae of Washington, chairman of the com- mittee, a special meeting_will be held tomorrow morning. J. Clarke Acton of Toronto, first vice president of the U. T. A, who was dlated for advance- ment to a higher office in the organi- zation, has resigned, and has thus { caused some complication in the nam ing of the successor to J. Linton En- gle of Philadelphia, the present presi- dent. Other speakers on today's program were W. J. Philllps, Boston Ty- pothetae Board of Trade; Adam Bede, former represertative from Minnesota, and A. S. Goldsborough. general secretary, Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, Balti- { more, Md. Viaiting Mount Vernon. The delegates are making a’ pil- grimage to Mount Vernon this after- noon as guests of the local typothetae, and tonight they wil be guests at an entertalnment and dance at Harding Hall in the government printing _office, as the guests of George H. Carter, public printer, and the Typothetae of Washington. Albert W. Findlay of Boston was elected to head the open shop divi- sion of the organization. Ernest F. Eilert of New York city was elected head of the closed shop division, and N. H. Anspach of Chicggo was re- elected head of the Tafiff Printers Society of America, affiliated with the U, T. A. The U. T. A. has also decided to help the federal government fh a nation-wide survey of the print shops | to help in bettering the health con- {ditions among the printers, many of lead | whom suffer from eye strain, poisoning and other diseases. Last night the U. T. A. and the local typothetae gave an informal reception and dance for the members and guests. . Principles to Be Framed. A definite organization of employ- ing printers to work out with repre- sentatives of natlonal unions broad jprinciples to form the basis of local agreements was formed yesterday at ia meeting of the closed shop division | of the United Typothetae of America. The new Printers’ League of Amer- ica, it was decided. will attempt, in co-operation with the unions, to de- vise standard forms of contrac's. general principles of arbitration aid conciliation, uniform programs for training apprentices and other mu- tual problems. The closed shop dlvislon, in addi- tion to effecting organization of the Printers League, decided to continue participation in the joint conference councils which have beon operated by commercial employing printers and unions. Its efforts also will be continued to have vocational schools establish ' pre-vocational courses to give students and apprentices better groundwork before they begin defi- nita training for their trados. The shortage of apprentices in the industry was discussed by both the open .and closed shon divisions, speakers at the latter declaring the lack was as much the fault of the employers as of the unions. Open shop emplovers were urged to give more attention to the training of workmen to supply future needs, de- spita the disadvantages and addl- tional costs attending such efforts. LAUREL ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. FIRST RACE—Purss, $1.300; maidens, two-yesrolds; o alf, cleiming; for furlongs and !I’I)A.“ne; Tady. 12 E. B. McLean éntry. Rudiey, Farm entry. SECOND RACE—Purse, three-year-olds and up; slx The Peruvisn Chief Barth ian Obas. J. Craigmiie 110 *Feodor Hobey Baker. 10 *Mumbo Jam T. J. Pendergast. 110 Ray L Jocose ... 110 Sea Tig. It THIRD RACE—Purse, . $1, e (hiooponr-oids 458 upy Slx Tuvisnes. IRIBES 15 3 1 $1,300 Turl 103 Justification seemed to be that as 1ong | gair FIFTH RACE—Consolstion handi $9.000; hreeyoar-oida 43d wp; Pt | 118 Thimble 110 OCantelups .."0000 1 upe 104 SIXTH BACE—Purie, $1,300; olaiming: fireyesnalds e w; e T Kaight of Heather 115 *Bonfire .. 110 U. 8. to Tell Lloyd George Hour |{{|/L] Here for Europe to Use Its P;an BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. David Lloyd George, former pre- migr of Great Brifaln, comes to Washington at the most criticat Juncture of the Franco-German reparations struggle. 1In his con- tacts with the Coolidge administra- tion, Mr. Lloyd George will be in- formed, this writer learns, that the United States considers the hour has. finally arrived for adoption of a ‘financlal plan” to end the repara- itions snarl. The - British etatesman will hear, moreover, that America believes the {acceptance of such an arrangement I8 imminent on the part of the French government. The anticl- Ppated acccptance will not be the re- sult of any renewed overtures or' jPressure from the United States re- | igarding ‘the Hughes proposal of! {December, 1922. France, it is felt .in Washington, will act wholly {from the inexorable logic of tho situation. She s expected to recog: nize that unless France agrees to| !a “workable scheme for collecting |repatations neither she nor her al- | {lies will find any Germany left to pay them. Sees Burden Washington is _confident France, too, will weigh well onsideration—that if the dismember- {ment of Germany now ensues, leaving France the creator and master of {a new Alsace-Lorralne in: the Ruhr, a revolution of American sentimen jagainst her is likely to be prompt and widespread. M. Poincare has valued highly the popular support bis Ruhr policy hitherto has com- manded in the United States. Mr. Lloyd- George will not gather in Washington that the Coolidge ad- ministration is ready to take the lead in bringing . anybody in Europe to his senses. Our position in that re- {gard has not altered a whit during ithe ten months since Secretary Hughes first outlined it at New Ha- ven. The United States, besides be- leving the time has come for a rep- arations “financial plan,” thinks that sooner or later the Interested Euro- pean powers will get around to the Hughes commission of inquiry scheme as the shortest route to a plan. Must Act for Selves. But the point is that the allles must reach that conclusion of their own accord. We shall not prod them in that_direction. The essence of U Hughes proposal remains what it was—that there shall be common agreement with regard to it When there is, and If American co-opera- tion is desired, our helpfulness will be_available. The reason Washington frcis the reparation chaos may be within sight of settiement is that France stands an unqualified_victor, She has “won out” in the Ruhr. Passive resist ance, at least officially, has ceased. on France. that this | HOWLING GALE PLAYS HAVOC ALONG SEABOARD (Continued from First Page.) 3:45 pm. yesterday and 11:45 o'clock last night, many of them due to the storm, were recorded by the police. Miss Florence Palmer, thirty-seven, ! 943 O street northwest, was the victim of the only fatal accident.: She was killed at Rhode Island | avenue and 14th street by the auto- mobile of J. Martin Finney, jr., 64 Rhode Icland avenue. Miss Palmer, trying to shield her- self from the rain, is said to have stépped from the curb Wirectly in! front. of the automobile, i ‘Finney stopped almost immediately | and heiped remove Miss Palmer to a nearby drug store. She died before |Dr. Cudney, member of Emergency Hospital staff, reached her. Finney | was paroled to appear at an inquest toda Miss Palmer, a native of England, {conducted a rooming house at 943 O istreet. Her only near relative in this’ country, it is stated, is Mrs. M. W.| Heritage, San Pedro, Calif. A coroner's jury this afternoon ren- dered a verdict of agcidental death in Miss Palmer’s case Three Persons Injured. Three persons were injured in two ! accldents at Georgla and New Hamp- | shire avenues. Catherine C. Cullen, thirty-five years old, 3820 New Hamp- shire avenue, was injured so seriously {that surgeons at Garileld Hospital said her right hand must be amputated. Aloysius Ryan, 2001 16th street, was | driver of the car. { Miss Annie Fields, nineteen years of | age, 3606 Rock Creek Church road, and | F. H. Miller, 4117 8§th street, were struck by the automobile of Ludwig Szonbathy, 4009 4th street. Miss | Fields was treated at Garfleld Hospital | for slight injurles. i E. W. Brown, 1120 B street north-| east, drove an automobile that hit a! post at the safety zone at 14th and F, streets last night. The automobile ! was slightly damaged. Brown re- ceived a cut on his chin. | A short time later the automobile | of Marshall Johnson, 1709 5th street, struck the same unlighted post. The | windshield was broken and Johnson's | eye cut. { Edward Braxton, colored, fifty, 823 21st street, was knocked down by the automobile of E. L. Koenig, 2140 street, in front of 2109 Pennsylvania | avenue, and badly shaken up. : Daniel James, ~ fifty-five, 1437 N| street, was knocked down by the au-! tomobile of John Kidwell, 641 Mor- ' ton street, at Rhode Island avenua| and 14th street, last night and slightly hurt. Kidwell took him home. Albert Klein, Seventeen years, 617 Kenyon street, sustained injuries to both legs and his right arm last night in a collision between his bi- e and a motor delivery vehicle driven by Raymond T. King, 1624 B street northeast, at Vermont avenue and L street. C. P. Gardner, 1916 H street, recelved cuts on his face and hands last night in a collision between his automo- bile and a motor bus, near 13th and L_streets. Robert Lee, colored, Shott alley northeast, last night was knocked down at '4th and G streets by the automobile of Milton Wanneli, 302 H street northeast, and his head and hip hurt. He was treated at Cas- ualty Hospital by Dr. Fitzgerald. An automobile belonging to Ralph Smith, 712 G street northeast, driven by Frank L. Gauthier, 2124 Pennsyl- vania avenue, early today hit a tree at 12th and H streets. The machine was damaged, but Gauthier escaped injury. He was arrested and charged with reckless driving, . Elizabeth Ford, colored, thirty years, was slightly hurt today when struck by an automobile owned by H. C. Fuchs, 2 17th street southeast, at Delawareavenue and M streets south- west, Sherefused hospital treatment. FEAR SHIP IS LOST. By the Assiciated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., October 24, —Ship movements at Hampton roads were resumed this morning, the storm ‘which’; kept vessels in harbor for the past two days bhaving abated. The wind shifted around to the west last night and the seas are smaller this morning. No_word has yet been heard from the British steamer Westmoreland, which_called for help off the Dela- ware Breakwater Monday night, with her crew of eighty officers and men. Norton Lilly Company, American agents for the ship, have wirelessed all craft to keep a lookout for the craft of her survivors, Newport News and vicinity day ‘were visited by the highest tides in A heavy toll of property ge was taken along the shores of the Chesapeake bay, Hampton roads and James river, all plers, breakwaters and boats belng washed ‘out to sea. The water came up over some -of the streets leading to the water front for the first time in many years. DAMAGE IN NEW YORK. By the Associated Press. s NEW YORK, October 2: 4.—The Afty- | Ruhr. !{likened to Washington and Lincoln. I be The French occupation has accom- plished its purpose. The objections Frange at first raised to the Hughes scheme have ceased to have any foundation. The French hold the No outside power dreams of sending an army to dislodge them. Germany is helpless @nd breaking up. If the allies in general, and France in particular, are sincere in thelr desire for German reparations and do not in reality seelk Germany’s economic and territorial life-blood, it is Washington’s opinion they must lose no time in_ acting accordingly. Such action could only take the form | of ascertaining without delay what| there is left in Germany to pay and | adopting ways and means for collect- | ing It. U. S. Position Stated. It is that—or the disruption and| dismemberment of Germany, Wash- ington says. The responsibility for such a development France, it is be- lleved, will be reluctant to shoulder. Her statesmen have declared, time after time, that they were not bent upon the destruction of Germany or nnexation of uny part of it. Yet if that is now the result it will be difficult to convince the world that it was not at French behest. { American statesmen, if they were| liberty to intrude Wwith counsel 1d argue today along these lines futters in Germany have now gone about as far as they can with- out an utter collapse. Is there not statesmanship enough left at Paris and Brussels, and in London and Rome, to banish hatred, passion and resentment over righteous grievances, nd to come to grips with the sit tion before the clock strikes 127 Alternative Is War. If there is no such statesmanship, the world may prepare without| further delay for another sanguinary ‘slru:gle in Europe, however long de- Washington recognizes that M. Poincare to date has enjoyed amaz- ingly unanimous public “support in France for his Ruhr policies. But it would not surprise our authorities if he were doomed for a terrible reciioning in case the reparations crisis drifts into the perilous stage of permanent French domination of the Rhineland and the Ruhr. (Capyright, 1923.) PARTIES WATCHING FORD MOVEMENT (Continued from First Page.) at w the platform of the proposed Ford party. It was analyzed as being! clearly an appeal to class prejudice, | and was couched in language which often has been heard from extreme radicals, It was construed as indi- cating the lines along which support will be Invoked for Mr. Ford if he should take the field as a candidate for the nomination. The proclamation declared that the country has reached an economic crisis, and is fast declining Into a land of exploiters and the explolited. Both the democrats and republican partles, it was asserted, are control- ed by the “Interests.” No hope can be expected from them by the friends of true democracy. Mr. Ford was ( ! | The safety of the nation dependsupon his election, it was said. Described as “Man of Heart.” Mr. Ford was described as “a man of heart, of experience, of vision, of courage, & master, of big things.” If elected he woulfl not only proteet business, but the farmer and labor as well. “The dne man in this coun- try,” the proclamation said, “who has vision and courage and conviction, that the people can safely trust as President of the United States is Henry Ford." There was some speculation among the politicians as to whether the calling of this convention may not intended to Influence sentiment among democrats in favor of their selecting Mr. Ford as their own can- | didate. It is known that the old-line democratic leaders have had to fight Ford sentiment in their camp. Sentiment Divided. Seme democrats of importance in the party have counseled taking up Mr. Ford on the ground that he would | draw support of republicans. And, | moreover, the possession of that cam- paign barrel was not to be consid- ered as negligible by any means, Other democrats have contended that the spectable of the richest man in the world running for the presi- dency on the radical platform he would adopt and the outline of which is furnished in the proclamation is- sued vesterday, would not comport with democratic principles. mile northeaster that raged yester- day and last night along the coast from Newfoundland to Cape Hat- teras damaged property and injured more than a score of persons in New York and vicinity. The forty-five-foot ketch Harpoon, owned by Willlam Washburn Nutting, which was to have raced across the Atlantic, next spring, a boat of equal size belonging to the Duke of Lein- ster, was cast upon the rocks of Fort Totfen, Long Island. An unidentified three-masted schooner was in dis- tress off Fire Island. Many Small boats were smashed. Coney Island’s boardwalk was damaged. Automobiie and street car accidents Injured scores. SNOW RECORD BROKEN. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C., October 24 Asheville last night was covered in a blanket of snow and, despite the pre- dictions of the local weather bureau, the - temperature is descending. The heavy snowfall breaks all previous records for this time of the year, al- though traces of snow have been re- ported here earlier in October. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., October 24. —£Yesterday's snow, five inches dee; is the first October snowfall in thi region in many years and is said to be the largest occurring sof early in the season for the past quarter cen- tury. Killed in Traffic Mishap Yesterday' | | attend the foot ball game between ,_ WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1923. RAZEFORTS ON MEXICAN LINE Bishop Tells President They Are Constant Irritation to Friendly Nation. Dismantling of all the United States forts along the Mexican border was recommended to President Coolidge today by Bishop Wilbur P. Thirkleld, formerly president of Howard Uni- versity, and now directing the worpk of the Methodist churches in Mexico. The bishop pointed out this move would be a means of establish- ing a better feeling among the people of Mexico and assisting that republic in its present period of reconstruc- tion. Bishop Thirkield has spent a num- ber of years in Mexico. He stated that there {s now an opportunity for the nited States to adopt a program of “peaceful penetration,” and to make the Mexican border of 1,800 miles one of confidence and peace, as is the Canadian border, which is without a fort or a soldier. He said that there are now eleven forts on the Mexican border, manned by more than 8,000 men and 450 offi- cers. He suggested that the money required to maintain these forts could be used in establishing schol- arships to bring young men and women from Mexico to American universities. ay Open to Help. “The way to help Mexico Is to glve evidence that the United States is sympathetic” Bishop Thirkield sald. “The removal of these guns along the border will do more to establish peace between the two countries than any actlve recogni- tion. There is no reason to dis- trust the Mexicans, either as a na- tion or a people, and if the intimi- dating and provoking Influences of the military and the guns are re- moved from the border there is good reason to belleve that the moral ef- fect would be a valuable balm of popular amity.” Before his conference with the President, Bishop Thirkield laid_his proposition before Secretary of War Weeks, and, according to the bishop, the latter impressed him as being sympathetic. The bishop also co fer today with Dr. L. S. Rowe, | director of the Pan-American Union, | turn from France he became a vic- who assured him that he was hearty accord with the plan. Need of Strong Eavoy. Bishop Thirkield holds firmly to the conviction that our relations to Mexico are of first international im- portance and that the ambassador to that neighboring _country, now emerged strongly and hopefully from years of revolution, should in char- acter and ability, statesmanship and | diplomatic skill rank with_ any | representative of the United States | as ambassador to any country of the world. The recognition of Mexico came | threugh the superb service of the commission appointed by the Secre- tary of State—statesmen and diplo- mats of recognized experience and | abllity—who won the respect and confidence of Mexico. They allayed prevalling distruct and froned out | misunderstandings of many years. Now s the strategic time to bind these republics in close and enduring | relations of peace, co-operation and good will. From a more -economic point of view, this should be done for Mexico is_the richest ungeveloped | rripry of 1ts size in the avorid and { offers . unmeasured possibilities of trade with the United States ~ Aside rom this, it is time the United States was showing Itself the big brother to our sister republic next door. Bishop Thirkild sald: “The United States should be big and broad enough to show generos ty and the hand of help to Mexico, Let the cost, say, of a single fort be turned into scholarships. Let three hundred or four hundred of the most alert, capable and promising Mexi- can youth be placed in the colleges of the United States to be trained in breadth of vision and statesman- like views. Let them catch the spirit of altruism and of unselfish gervices. | This is the outstanding need bf Mex- ico at this hour, trained men of character_and capacity, who can be trusted. Thus we should uplift and| ennoble the life of a people and bind to us Mexico, our neighbor next| door, with hooks of steel. The best | investment this country has made in a generation was the return of the Chinese Boxer indemnity and the transmuting of this money into scholarships for Chinese students. “I'am convinced after careful study that if the United States had estab- lished and endowed one modern, progressive university in Mexico forty years ago the last revolution might have been averted. Such would have been our relations that we would have saved the $130,000,000, the consequent betterness and loss of trade in the three years of watchful waiting. May Visit Hampten. If President Coolidge can find time to leave Washington for a day or so in the near future, he probably will visit Hampton Institute, at Hampton, Va., which is one of the leading col- ored educational institutions of the country. A formal invitation to visit this school was tendered the Presi dent today by James E. Gregg, prin- cipal. A committee representing the Theo- dore Roosevelt Memorial Veteran's Association. called on the President today and invited him to participate in the services to be held next Sat- urday night in the Metropolitan Me- morial Church in honor of the annf- versary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt and also as a formal ob- servance of Navy day. The President took the matter under advisement. Those with the delegation were: Gen, Anton Stephan, commanding the Dis: trict of Columbia Natlonal Guard; Capt. John McElroy, representing the G. A. R; E. W. Denny, past depart- ment comander of the Massachusetts G. A, R.; Mrs. Isabel W. Ball, represent. ing the Women's Relief, Corps of the G. A, R.; Paul Schneider of the Army and Navy Union; Willlam A. Hickey of the Theodore Roosevelt Post, Army and Navy Union, and Rev. Harry Mitchell, pastor of Metropolitan Me- morial Chyrch. > Rear Admiral McCully, U. S. Navy, commander of the naval scouting fleet, today invited the President to in | the 34 Army Corps and the scouting fleet in Baltimore, Md., November 10. Others who saw the President today were Willlam M. Hoppin, assistant attorney general in charge of cus- toms; Michacl Gallagher, coal opera- tor of Ohio; W. A. Harriman of New York; George W. Bean, republican natlonal committeeman from Florida. Joe. Mitchell Chappell, publisher T heatrical Man Reported Missing I | R. E. POLICE JOIN HUNT FOR R. E. FORBES Theatrical Man Believed Victim o Amnesia Since Return From France. Jams Forbes, playwright, has ap- pealed to the local police to assist in a search that is being made for his | brother, Robert E. Forbes, fitty-six years old, who disappeared October 4 from Ten Eyeck Hotel, Albany, N. Y. It 1s the second time Mr. Forbes has | disappeared since his return from overseas at the close of the world | war. Letters received from Wash {ngtonians, who believed they had| seen the missing man on the streets here, led the brother to make the ap- peal. The missing man, for many years, was manager of the Hudson Theater, New York, and during the world war he had charge of entertainment | for United States troops in cities in | northern France. Following his re-| tim of amnesia and disappeared. It} was believed he had fully recovered. | and friends were surprised at his| sccond disappearance. H Tllustrated circulars broadcast by relatives contain the following de- scription of him: “Age, fifty-six years; height, five feet, six inches; weight, 160 pounds: eyes, gray, heavy lashes—wore gold spectacles with tortoise shell rims; hair, gray and black; complexion, sal- | low: teeth, fairly good; wore a dark | medium-weight overcoat, oxford gray | sack sult with hair line stripe, black derby hat, black shoes from shoe | store In Aibany. Probably victim of | amnesia. Might be found at ferries, | theaters. Last| yck Hotel, LORDTONAKEFINAL ESTIMATE DECISON Determination of Increases Probably Will Be Withheld Until December. The .bureau of the budget con- tinues to study the District ot Co-! lumbla estimates, with the prospect, | it was said today, that final decision | will not be made until just before, the budget goes to President Coolidge and Congress, early in December. It was intimated thgt no department will get as large an estimate as it wishes. As to the total, Gen. Lord himself will be the final arbiter, it is under- stood. He will make his final decision after the bureau has not only gone| over each one of the various depart- | ments and establishments independ- ently, but has brought them again | into review as a whole, comparative- 1y. At the present time, budget officials are crowded with conferences and hearings. Not all of the departments | have as yet been considered in hear- ings for the first time since the final estimates were submitted. Today budget officials were engaged in two separate conferences, going over the estimates from the Interior | and War Departments. According to the latest information the bureau limited the District Com- missioners to $25,000,000 rcgular esti- | mates, with another list held in addi- tion as possibilities, containing about $7,000,000. The $25,000,000 at first in- cluded $700,000 increase in salaries for police and firemen, which later | was ordered removed by the bureau. | This left $700,000 within the allow- | ance, to be substituted for streets schools, sewers or other needed cit improvements. DENIES ILL-FEELING 1 CAUSED RESIGNATION! Scottish Rite Supreme Council ‘ _Head Says Judge Moore Sought Emeriti List. John H. Cowles, grand commander of the Supreme.Council of Scottish Rite Masons for the Southern Juris- diction of the United States, in a Jetter to The Evening Star, points out that the statement that Judge George F. Moore resigned his membership in the council because of a heated dis- cussion concérning the attitude of his paper, the Fellowship Forum, to- Ralph D. Redfern, secretary of_ the Fitchburg, Mass., Chamber of Com- merce: B. B. James, president of the Panama Celebration Assoclation; Wil- liam Noble of Oklahoma; the execu- tive board of the American Automo- bile Association, and J. C. Shaffer of Chicago. Apartment Taken By Mrs. Harding For Winter Here Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, now in Marion, Ohlo, will come to Washington about the first of December and has taken an apart- ment at the New Willard Hotel for her home during the coming winter, apa is directly above T *Papied" by Promdant. and Mrs. Coolidge until they took up their residence at the White House, ward the Ku Klux Klan, published | in the issue of The Star for October | 19, is not correct. He add: n the interest of fairness, I state that there was no discussion whatever over Brother Moore!' resignation, and was no discussion at any time thern “the "lan, o =+ “Under our statutes, an inspector general who has served ten years, or who has re- moved from his jurisdiction, can be transferred to the emeriti list, which relleves him of his active duties, yet he retains his membership In the council, but without right to vote. When Brother Moore, who had served the council thirty-five years, and {aate TALKS and TALES With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS “I am here in the interest of those little ones who don't belong.” “Who don’t belong! Pray, medam, where are such children to be found?* “In the damp, cold, deserted barracks of Germany. Little Russian refugee children taken to that unhappy country to escape the terrors of their home- land. Pale, emacfated, half-starved creatures, who keep body and soul to- gether only through the generosity of your warm-hearted people,” and Mme Bronislava Lamprecht von Petschenko, chairman of the Russtan rellef com- mittee in Berlin, rummaged through Some papers in her apartments at the Hotel Roosevelt and brought forth photographs of her charges that would touch the soul of any man. The Russfan woman, whose first hus- band, Dr. Boro von Petschenko, profes- sor of bacterfology at the University of Petrograd, died a victim of the bol- shevik revolution, has been a tireless worker both In Germapy and the United States for the relief of the homeless waifs of Rus: years past, and through her ceasel florts essfuily estabiished t educational plan for the orphaned when the death dance of the mark started and Germany became impov- erished Overcoming countless reverses, this entlewoman of the great white lana finally succeeded in_ est: hing a branch committee of her organization in New York ecity, at 21 Park Row, and through assistance of such wel- fare workers as Secretary Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Willard Stralght and others, has managed to e tem- porary relief in the way of funds and clothing to keep the wolf from_ the throats of her more than 3,000 dependants. “Are you here to see Secretary Hoover?” "she was asked, as she finished a phone conversation with Dr. L. S. Rowe, director of the Pan- American Union. “I saw him this very day,” she ré- lied with joy in her eyes. “And such is! God alone knows what > has done for my poor Russi work does not come under h n, but has done wonders in having people send supplies to our v York office. When questioned further, Mme Petschenko emphatic 'In her declaration that only through un- stinted co-operation and the exten- on of credit by all countries to the 1 workers” of Russia, especially those in the Ukraine area, could the “havoc raised by the Soviet govern- ment be offset.” “We of the Ukraine do not fear the soviet. Already there are eighty-two private corporations functioning for the benefit of our toi and with the slightest assistance in the way of credit they would survive. Our peo-~ ple have heedeq the advice given by Premier Lloyd George that the only way to overcome evil is by honest work and noble sacrifice.’ ! My direc- If, as the good book says, due credit will be given those who help lighten the burden of others, then much Is in store for the cartoonist and etrip artists who daily bring laughter, a bright thought and pleasant moment to the thousands who have ceased in their quest for enjoyment Nor is life of these workers one long pro m of golf, pink teas, pub- llc speaking, etc., for none have to keep more abreast of the times or closer to their tasks than originators of funny pictures and more ser.ous cartoons. Since way bacy in 1902, first started in with the Cleveland Press, Lec Stanley, father of “The Old Home Town,” a humorous strip that has appealed greatly to thou- sands of Americans 1y those in the smaller tow at the job, and when s the Lee House with his would do but a word be had with The originator of such we phrases as “Hold ‘er, a-rearin’.” “Git “What's the fu into town becau down out Rockvi causing the cartoonist to break a con- tinuous motor trip from his_home town, Cleveland, to Anniston, Ala. Lee will start out bright and early today. He will stop over at Peters- burg, Va. where former Commissioner Louis Brownlow is manager, some trepidation, for his well know character, “Otey Walker," reside there in the flesh, but, as Stanley has never met him, he is wondering just how he will be received by Maj. John Otey Walker. The cartoonist when he reports conditions generally in rosperous pe atid says the roads between Cleveland and ashington, especially the National highway, could not be better. ! Beaming with joy over the success of the recent world series, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, “czar” of rganized base ba arried long enough at the New Willard Hotel to hold a little private talk with his old friend, Gen. Charles E. S phy- sician to the late Presldent, and shake hands all around with the staff’ of the hotel. Judge Landis stopped off {n Balti- more yesterd to witness the game between the Kansas City and Balti- more teams and scemed highly elated over the brand of ball displayed by both clubs. Referring to the big serles, Judge andis sald that the high spots of had been reached in and t er had such tific exhibit ed, almost _immediately Chicago he said. everything was going along as smoothly ‘as could be ex- pecte € Those contemplating witnessing tha foot ball game between the Atlantic Fleet and 3rd Army Corps. November 10. will be pleased to learn that the huge stadium at Baltimore, where the match will be staged, accommo- more than 45,000 people. The blg grounds are located in Venable Park at 33d street, and according to R. E. Stephens, southern representa- tive for John Duer & Sons, Inc., cab- inet, hardware and upholstéring goods fucturers, when seen at the are unequaled in modern_improvements by any in the land. There will be fifty warships e harbor on the day of the game. . Stephens said further that Ba timore was in the midst of a gr building boom. “Factories are spring- ing up like mushrooms down in th Curtis Bay and Brooklyn sections, said the Baltimorean. “The huge plant of the American Sugar Refining Company, erected during the past ear, started the ball rolling and now hundreds are following. He said that the city was increas- ing rapidly in population, now boast- ing more than §00,000, and that busi- ness in general was easily normal if not a little better. Steel and cotton have long since been standby barometers for many business experts, and according to their condis tions prosperity was gauged, but of lats years another basic factor to test tha economical pulse of the nation has Sprung into its own and this is the tele- phone, and the installation of same. ‘When_seen at the Shoreham Hotel, C. D. M. Cole, vice president of ths American Telephone ~and _Telegraph Company of New York, was most op- timistic over conditions of his company “We are going along at a rapld pace, sald the official. “In Greater New York, Where we fell way behind during the war, we have practically caught up with all orders, and the work has been igantic scale.” onyf Ehie is on his way back to the Brother Plumley, who had served sixteen years, preferred their re- quests Yo be placed on the emeriti list a motion that the requests be grante was put and carried without discus- fon or remarks. .Tha information published in The Star, and which now is repudiated by Grand Commander Cowles, was fur- nished to a reporter for The Star by the oficial director of publicity for the Supreme Council. * £l olis, after attending a meeting e Farmers Alllance at Kansas Qity, and said that judged by what he heard In that section the Country In general was enjoying a decided ity. Pr R heat has been a little oft,” added the telephone man, “but aside from that no one seemed to have reason for complaint. 1 think, too; this state i1 continue rather % D THE MIXER.