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WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight; tomor- row cloudy and warmer. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, 48, at ended at p.m. today: 4 p.m. yesterday; am. today. Full report on page 7. lowest, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 Enter post _of No. 29,057. 28, at 6:30 as second-class matter ce Washington, D. C. BRITISH DELAY VIEW "~ ONNOTE TOBERUN, DEFERRING COUNCIL “Press of Business” in Lon- don Is Responsible, Lord Crewe Tells Ambassadors. QUALIFIED "OPTIMISM EXHIBITED BY ALLIES Believed, However, Germans Still Seek Loophole to Avoid Payments. By tie Associated Press. TARIS, November 20.—The meeting of the council of ambassadors called for 5 o'clock this afternoon will not! be held, it was announced shortly after 4 pm. Lord Crewe, the British | ambassador, notified the secretariat that his government, owing to stress of business, was unable to communi- cate his instructions in time for to- day's meeting. The instructions are expected to arrive in season for a 1neeting tomorrow. After six days of negotiations, four meetings and five adjournments, the ambassadory’ council has hit on a compromise formula for dealing with Germany, which, even if it only post- pones the evil hour of decislon, as many mantain, at least also postpones 8 break in the allied front. The feeling here today was just as optimistic as it was pessimisitc yes- terday, for the agreement to send a Note to Germany has been fully in- dorsed by the French and Belgian | cabinete, and, judging from the tone London, #ill be indorsed by the British, it was believed here this morning that the agreement on the proposed | wote, in which the allies will demand | that their military officers | shall be allowed to function under adequate protection, would com- pleted before the end of the aiter- nosr. The qualified optimism whicn pre- | control | ready, ALLIES' PAYMENT At Veterans’ Bureau Inquiry Chairman Reed Agrees, However, to @b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1923 _THIRTY-SIX PAGES. Mrs. Mortimer Denied Hearing Make Public Testimony Given in Pri- vate—Seeks to End Probe Today. Mrs. Katherine Mortimer of Phila- delphia, wife of Ellas H. Mortimer, star witness against former Director Charles R. Forbes, tried unsucces fully to testify today before the Senate veterans committee in effort, she sald, to vindicate publicly her “character and good name.” Responding to the formal request of her counsel, Daniel T. Wright, Chairman Reed sald Mrs. Mortimer |had been heard at her own request in private, and that if she desired the | committee would release her testi- mony publicly. He added that the committee also would propound to Mrs. Mortimer in public such ques- tlons as her counsel might prepare, and as the committee might regard as relevant and necessary. “There has been too much irrele- vant testimony in this matter al- Chairman Reed sald. “The principal offender in this respect wa: Mrs. Mortimer's own attorney in her dlvorce proceeding (S. D. Timberlake OF DEBTS DUEL. 3. WOULD AID BONUS Favorable Action by Congress Seen if Obligations Were Met. BY DAVID LAWRENC Colncident with the demand of the ex-service men that they be glven Valled in official circles this morning “s to the o ome of the council meet- | ing was fortified by news from Lon- don received in diplomatic quarters ! and held to Indicate there w no | longer doubt that the ambassadors| would agree_on a text for the note to ! Germany Which will momentarily | save the entente. There is marked skepticism, however, as to th ct of the note on the German government. The most im- vortant eiement of the situation which | would remain unchanged by agree- | ment among the entente powers, and | concerning which the government | ojcials observe cat discretion, is tiat the gulf between France and | Great Britain is considered to re- main unbridged and that CGermany! is still able to count upon disagree- | nts_among the allles and, in the| French view, to speculate on encour- agement from London to resfst the payment of reparations. BRITISH MORE OPTIMISTIC. Developments in Paris Cause Hope- | ful Attitude in London. ! By the Assoclated Preas. ! LONDON, November 20.—Press ref- | erences to Anglo-French relations| took a more hopeful tone today in | view of the compromise reached by | the council of ambassadors. 5 The Times expresses satlsfactlon | that the ambassadors found a for- | mula which at least has avertel very serfous danger, aithough it | admits it would be premature to talk | of a ocmplete agreement. Although commending France for displaving i the only adjusted compensation, there is be- ginning to develop a sentiment for a frank understanding with the allles as to the payment of their war debts. The commission created to arrange teams with the European debtors is responsible to Congress. The settle- ment made with Great Britaln Is outstanding achievement of the commission. It has nothing to report concerning the probable pay- ments by France and Italy. Diplomatic nicetles have prevented the presentation thus far of a re- quest for payment. Gestures have Leen made by France and Italy in the last three vears indlcating that they were studying the subject, but no concrete proposals to pay have been furnished the American gov- ernment. No Interest Betng Pald. Meanwhile, with the exception of Great Britain, no interest is being paid. 1f the European debtors would arrange to pay that interest, the TUnited States government could prob- ably to begin to pay a bonus to fts satiors and soldiers. As it is,the United States Treasury is paying that inter- est to the hoiders of liberty bonds whose money was orlginally” lent to the allies. To obtain the sums needed for interest yments on liberty bonds the Treasury Department col- lects income taxes from seven and a half million American citizens. If the interest payments on liberty bonds were not on the list of government obligations there could be an even greater reduction in taxes than Sec- retary Melion has proposed. But ir- the into as an of Staunten, Va.). He dragged the record matters which he attorney must have known was irrel- nt . ev do_not recall anything in the an | record reflecting on the character of Mrs. Mortimer. Where she was re- ferred to it was merely for the pur- pose of fixing dates and times and the names of persons present when | Veterans' Bureau matters were under | discussion.” | Mr. Wright told the committee h {@a not have in mind Timberlake’ testimony. but that of Mortimer and Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Willlams of Phila- | delphia, uncie and aunt of Mrs. Mor- | timer. "He sald he would be glad to | submit questions to the committee nd that Mrs. Mortimer had asked him | to request the committee that her ilrsllmcn)‘ given in secret session be made public. Mrs. Mortimer, who was accom- {panied by a woman friend, then left the committee room with her counsel. In presenting the plea_of his client, Mr. Wright sald Mrs. Mortimer had s | come asking for an opportunity to re- | fute the insinuations made before the committee and declared thut a spirit (Continued on Page 2, Column 4 C oolidge Gives Up Army-Navy Game ToFinishMessage President Coolidge has dectded definitely that he will be unable to attend the Army-Navy foot ball game Saturday in New York. De- sire to complete work on his mes- sage to Congress by the middle of next week was sald at the White House today to be a prominent factor in bringing about the de- ciston. Mrs. Coolldge, who attended the Navy-Princeton game in Baltimore a few weeks ago, had planned to £0 to New York Saturday in com- pany with some friends, but this likewise has been given up, and the White House wiil be represent- ed at the Army-Navy contest by i | C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the | President. WALTON REMOVED; Denied Retrial, Will Ask u.s. Supreme Court for Writ of Supersedeas. | | By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. November . 20—J. C. Walton’s gubernatorial ca- reer, as spectacular as it was brief, Is ended. Deposed by the verdict of a senate court of impeachment, which late yes- terday found him guilty of charges of moral turpitude, corruption in office, neglect of duty and incompetence, his term of office as Oklahoma's fifth gov- ernor was broken off after little more than ten months, sensational to the last. But as his successor prepared for- mally to take over the reins of gov- ernment today, Walton girded for a last desperate effort to retain the of- 10 CONTINUE FIGHT The Star’ as fast as t “From Press to Home Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes he papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,044. TWO CENTS ONE-WAY STREETS ESSENTIALIND.C., EXPERT TESTIFIES Former Detroit Police Head Tells Senators Plan Pro- motes Safety. URGES POUNDING LAW AND BOULEVARD STOPS | A. A. A. Officials Describe Ways to Relieve Traffic Needed { in Capital. { Strongly advocating one-way streets | #s a valuable contribution to the| solution of the congested traffic | problem in any city, Dr. James| W. Inches, for four years po-| llce commissioner of Detroit, told the | Senate investigating committee today | that permanent establishment of this type highway was necessary In Washington. “There is no question of the value of these streets,” sald Dr. Inches. “In Detroit we had interference when we attempted to establish these highways, but there are no politiclans here and nothing should be allowed to interfere with putting them into permanent effect in the District of Columbia.” Others who testified at the morn- ing session were Thomas Henry, president of the American Automo- bile Assoclation, and Col. Sidney D. Waldon of Detroit. All those ~who testified today presented their testi- mony representing the A. A. A Detroit Safety Fentures, Dr. Inches told in detail of the vari- ous safety features used in Detroit for the benefit of automobile traffic. The boulevard stop system, which | has been advocated for Washington by many witnesses appearing before the committee, has worked well in Detroit, according to Dr. Inches. | The application of such a system in Washington, he asserted, would do zuch to assist in the frictionless run- | ning of trattic. That the public generally observes the regulation to come to a dead stop before entering one of these boule- ards, and that there was a decided decrease in minor and fatal acciden Dr. Inches sald, was one of the fea’ tures of this plan. Education of Childr The witness strongly advocated the thorough education on traffic matters {of all school children. He said that 1in Detroit several policemen tere assigned to traffic lectures for chil- dren, that a band was furnished to make the lectures attractive and that the results had been highly satisfac- tory. He gave explanation impounding which has heenl‘ urged strongly for Washington by | Inspector Albert J. Headley, head of | the trafiic bureau. Only automobiles which flagrantly violated parking regulations and | which were a menace to traffic, hoy explained, were taken to the pound. | Others, minor violators, merely were | H notified by the card system that they | WIth the check transactions, and re- had broken the law. The pound, he|Peated his denial when confronted ok g s With his brother's alleged confession S5y took in from 3200 to 3500 per| (o' morning. . In his alleged cone | In regard to safety zones to protect: [o38ion to the detectives, John| the street-car riding public, Dr. Inches | Mitchell 1 sald to have told the po- | : JInches | i e he obtalned signatures of bank | | sald that in his opinion they were he obta 4 Mecessary on wide streets. but thas | Ae€positors when they signed siips when on narrow streets they “gummed np | takIng subscriptions. traffic” He strongly urged, however, 100 Checkn Involved. that any zones established should be 2 HELD FOR 20,000 CHECK OPERATIONS Brothers Accused of Frauds| Covering Period of Two Years. i Representatives of virtually every | banking institution in this city were at police headquarters today to co- operate in an investigation Detect- ives O'Brien, Thompson and Living- | ston were conducting in connection | with scores of fraudulent check | transactions here during the past two | vears and which, Inspector Grant,| chief of detectives, estimated, had | caused losses of approximately $20,- | 000. i ‘The investigation was conducted in connection with the arrest of two brothers, John Ashurst Mitchell, Two | Pines, Chevy Chase, Md., and James | Walter Mitchell, 224 H street morth- west, who had been employed as so- lcitors for numerous publications. Both Men Identified. Both men were identifled as having been involved in fraudulent check | transactions, according to Inspector Grant. John Mitchell, the police =aid, admitted his guilt when arrested Sat- urday on a charge of presenting a| forged check for $280 at Lincoln Na- tional Bank, and Is sald to have im- plicated his brother, Last night the brother was arrested. He denied having any connection i i the committee a delallrd[ of the workings of the| | | 2 //}LEASE'“ IT ! REP. STUART F. ASCLOTHES BURN Sigter Seeks in Vain to Save Child Who Ignited Garments With Matches. Climbing upon a dining table upon which lay two boxes of matches, two- REED LIKELY HEAD OF D. C. COMMITTEE West Virginian Practically Certain to Fill Vacant Congress Post. Strong indication that Representative Stuart F. Reed of West Virginia will be the next chairman of the House Dis trict committee was found at the Capitol today. It was learned that some of the effects of Representative Reed have been moved to the rooms of the District committee and that he| transiently uses the office formerly occupied by Representative Ben K. Foche of Pennsylvania while the lat- ter was District chairman. Representative Merrill Moores of committee on committees, believes that the old senlority rule will be followed in filling vacancies in com- mittee chairmanships. He anticipates that some effort will be made to up- set the senfority rule, but that it will be unsuccessful. He outlined the course followed by the committee un der the seniority rule, as allowing the ranking member on’ any committee who might be in line to succecd to the chalrmanship of several commit- tees to choose of which one he preferred to be chairman. Reed Himself Silent. While Representative Reed declines to state in advance of the action of the committee on committees whether he expects to be chalrman of the District committee or of the war claims committee to which he is in lifte to succeed, It is known that per- who are residents of the District are strongly urging him to decide to take the District committee chairmanship rather than that of war claims. Indiana, secretary of the republican ! sonal friends both in Congress and | BONDISSUE PLAN FOR D. C. DROPPED BY COMMISSIONERS Increase of $2,000,000 in Budget Thought One Reason for Decision. CITIZENS NOT UNITED IN VIEWS ON BIG LOAN Data Collected on Proposal to Be Held for Possible Future Use by City. The District Commissioners todu: decided to lay aside for the present the proposal to ask for a bond lssuc to meet accumulated munielpal proj- ects. | Although no formal announcemen jto this effect was made, it is under stood that the three members of | the board went thoroughly over thr !entire question at their regular meeting this morning and dectded to let the proposition rest for th time being. For several months the Commission ers have been contemplating a bond issue as one means of catching un jon urgent work and the auditors | office has collected data from a num | ber of large American cities as how they float bonds for municipa work. Citizens Divide on Tssue. The fact that consideration was giv | €n to the fssuance of bonds led to thr | discussion of the question in citizens organizations, which discussions vealed a divided sentiment in | community.. Whether this division of sentiment hud anything to do with the deter- mination of the Commissioners not to { ush the bond bill at this tine s not | known, | Any proposed legislation involving | the éxpenditure of funds must first jbe submitted to the budget buresu before going to Congress. It is pos {sible that the Commissioners took |into consideration the fact that the budget Lureau granted an in- re- the | crease of nearly two million dollars in the reguiar annual estimates the District government, of Data for Future Use. data aiready collected to in framing the bond bill prob- {ably will be kept on file should it be decided at any future time to take the question up again. Edward Scheer, general manager of | the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, to- lday told the District Commissioners {at a conference at the District butld- ing that he would submit to them in the next few weeks a plan for the afeguarding of all grade crossings |along the tracks of his company in | Washington. Mr. Scheer came to the Baltimore following a lette | Commissioners, in which | the attention to the necessity for pro- | viding ample protection to motorists lat the several points where District {highways still cross the railroad tracks. SOSBOSASKE FORDRYENFORCIG | The | usea city from from the hey called year-old John Loretto, son of John and | Mary Loretto, 115 Schott alley north- | cast, lgnited his respective of that, conservative estimates as to the cost of the bonus are about cquivalent to the sums that 1 fice by Invoking the aid of the United wi Detectives O'Brien, Thompson and | States courts, clinging tenaciously to Livingston say their investigation ! thoroughly lighted and marked so that there would be no possibility of a motorist running Into them. “in_one specific and critical instance | & spirit of reasonable compromise,” the Times contends that the Euro- that event Representative Strong of | clothing and was | Kansas, who is a close friend of Rep- | pean situation fundamentally is still | full of danger and that “nothing can ~(Continu 2, Column 3) | 71 STRIKING CONVICTS ‘ ON BREAD AND WATER Curtailed Diet and Solitary Con-| finement Given to Syndicalists in San Quentin. By the Associated Press H SAN QUENTIN, Calif., November 20. —As a result of their refusal to work after they had demanded the release of J. B. Childs, their reputed leader confined to the dungeon fo: striking Saturday, seventy-one convicts, sen- tenced to San Quentin prison for criminal syndicalism, are in solitary confinement on a diet of bread ond water. All the prisoners are said to be members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Recently Childs and more than fifty fellow convicts were released from solitary confinement after Childs had voluntarily announced to Warden James A. Johnston that he was ready to cease the strike which he had started several weeks befors and which resulted in the imposition of the drastic punishmen-. Yesterday, shortly after breakfast, the seventy-one prisoners are said to have marched mn a body to Warden Johnston's office and issued their ul- timatum. Only twenty could be ac- commodated in the Jdunzeon, but the others were put on reatricted dint in_solitary cells. Warden Johnston attributes the re- curring strikes among the convicts to @ desire to martyr themselves. BODY OF KIDNAPED BOY DISCOVERED IN CELLAR Youth Who Disappeared October 26 Is Found Dead in Tene- ment District. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK . November 20.—The body of Irving Pickelny, four and one-half years old, who was kid- naped from in front of his Grand street home October 26, today was found in the cellar of a Suffolk street tenement house. First reports to the police indicated that the body had been slased, but that the marks were scars of an \Medical Examiner Norris later found ..-.gvslon performed on the boy short- bef his disappearance are due annually from the European allles for their war debt. In the collection of money from France, the United States faces a dif- ficult siiuation, for the French are nelined to consider the debt to Amer- ica as “a political debt,” and they have not even made provision In any of their annual budgets since 1918 for the payment of the Interest due to the | United States. France Seeks Reduction, Thus far the claim of the French has been that they could not begin to pay America until money was forthcoming from Germany, and they have tried to persuade the United| States to agree to a reduction in the debt due America, or at least a post- ponement until money begins to come in from Germany on reparations. With this viewpoint there has been no official sympathy here, but it has been realized nevertheless that the German reparation question makes difficult the funding of the French debt. What has aggravated the situ- ation lately, however, is that the French government has begun to lend money to some of the smaller coun- tries in central Europe to equip their | armies and make them fast and firm eleven of the allies of the French. The amounts sent to central Europe would go a long way toward paying the interest charges now being defaulted annual- ly by France on her debt to the United States. The American Legion, which has the plea that he has not been given a fair trial, with the promise of more dramatics yet to come. His next move will be made tomor- row, when his legal staff appears be- fore a federal judge here for a re- hearing of his application for a retro- active injunction to annul the action of the court of impeachment. That | falling, an appeal would be taken, as a last Tesort, to the United States Su- preme Court, accompanied by a peti- tlon for a writ of supersedeas to de- clare him the incumbent until the case is thrashed out before the tribunal. Original Application Denfed. The deposed executive’s original ap- plication was denled the day before the impeachment trial opened, and ob- servers see scant likellhood that the decision will be reversed after the re- hearing. Nelther s it probable, they say, that the United States Supreme Court will intervene should the local federal court affirm its previous rul- ing on grounds that it has no jurls- diction in the case. Walton's removal was decreed by unanimous vote of the senate court after he had been convicted upon sixteen impeachment jarticles upon which he was prose- |cuted and his application had been |denied for a new trial. The record showed verdicts for ac- |quittal on five of the charges. The votes on two of the articles were unanimous for convictton and the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Have You Outside Radio Aerial? Then You Must All persons having radios with out- | side aerials must get a permit from the District government. This edict went forth today in a bulletin from Maj. Daniel Sullivan, superintendent of police, to precinct captains. The bulletin also calls the atten- tion of the police to the fact that it 1s unlawful for any private individual to string wires across a public street, but, even though the aerial is con- U Get D. C. Perm ] “It is also in violation of law for any person to install radio sets where an outside aerial is used, without first ob- taining the permit therefor from the electrical engineer of the District, and such permit cannot be issued in case it is proposed that any part of the aerfal or wires connected therewith are to be on or over any public space.” It is estimated that there are 50,000 radlo sets in use in Washington. Since @ permit under the present regulations costs §2, & striet enforcement of the rule would net the city approximatel, $100,000 in_revenue. =~ 0¥ 1 It is understood, fined to private property, a permit However, that the of the alleged unlawful transactions of the DMitchells involved approxi- mately 100 checks. James Walter Mitchell has a wife and three chil- dren, while the brother's family con- sists of his wife and seven children. Recently, it is stated, the brothers were engaged In the business of selling lavender from houyse to house, the police learned, and checks were accepted from some purchasers. Detectives recalled several instances the past two years in which persons whose names were forged were asked to take their telephone re- ceivers from the hooks for a period of ten_or more minutes while tests were made, making it impossible for bank officials to immediately get such per- sons on the telephone. Face Charges of Forgery. Such was the scheme resorted to Sat- urday, it is charged, by John Mitchell, § when he appeared at Lincoln National Bank with a check alleged to bear the forged signature of Mrs. Walter Lea- man, 3351 Mount Pleasant street, $250 belng the amount of the check. Mr. Leaman soon succeeded in getting his wife on the telephone, however, and John Mitchell was arrested. When the detectives arrested James Mitchell last night he was suffering from nervousness, they stated, and this morning when taken to head- quarters for questioning his right { eye was terribly discolored and prac- tically closed. He had received the tnjury in a fall from a bench in a Allows 25 Miles an Hour. Taking up the speed regulations, Dr. H Inches sald that in Detroit the limit was fifteen miles an hour, but that| motorists were not bothered for speeds under twenty-five miles per hour. Senator Ball asked If it would be more effective if the speed limit was! set at twenty-five miles, because with the admitted lax enforcement motor- ists were breaking the law. | Dr. Inches replied that the police (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) WOMEN T0 FIGHT EQUALITY WITH MEN Members of 11 Organizations See Step Backward in Legal Changes. | H Represcntatives of eleven women's organizations having membershlp in {the women's jolnt congressional com- mittee announced here today that | conclusion of maneuvers with .the is required to erect it, the order states. The text of Maj. Sulllvan’s order follows: ‘You will invite the attention of the members of your command to the fact that it Is In violalon of law for any private individual to string wires in, along or across any street, avenue, alley or public thoroughfare or pub- lic property of any description enforcement of the permit regulation is not being insisted upon for the pur- pose of raising revenue, but to give the electrical department a ‘means of check- ing up on the manner in which aerlals are erected. It is belleved that the orders fust issued to the police are a result of the death last weekt of Park Policeman Allen, who was electrocuted while help- ing to erect a radio when the radio wire came in contact with a high_ ten- sion wire of the Potomac Electric Pow- er Company. i | i !they had organized to oppose the | police cell, it was said. |campaign of the National Women's| Charges of forgery were flled | party for a constitutional amend- |38ainst bo 7 | ment, placing men and women on a e [ footing of absolute legal equallty. {FORTY NAVAL PLANES Such an amendment, it was declared | | by spokesmen for the group, should | TO CRUISE OVER U. S. i be looked upon by the women of the | | country as a step backward, since it |Spectacular Flights Planned After {would operate to nullify the special | | recognition iven to women in such | Fleet Maneuvers Next | legislation as the Sheppard-Towner April. maternity act. |"™The organizations -sald to be!py the Assoclated Press. i pledged to t;nx;pm‘}:aufl;nzr;fl“};:ear,gy SAN DIEGO, Calif., November 20.—| General Fe n's | : | e the Nationtl League of Women | Forty airplanes, including some tor- | Voters, the American_ University of | pedo planes, all manned by naval air- | Women, the National Councll of Jew- | men, will undertake a long and spec- | ‘Women, e National ‘onsumer: o e the American Home. Beo. | tacular flight immediately after the | nomics Association, the Young Wom- | en’s Christian Association, the Wom- en's Trade League, the Girls' Friend- ly Soclety, the National Council of Women and the National Federation | of Teachers, Recently, when a delegation of the National Woman's Party called on President Coolidge, he told them he was certain, if they would present to Congress “as you have to me your reasons why you want this constitu- tional amendment that you will find it very responsive to your request.” United States battle fleet, in Carib- bean waters, next April, it Is announc- | ed by Capt. Albert Marshall, com-| mander of_the aircraft squadrons of the battle fleet. Plans approved by the commander- in-chief of the battle fleet call for the Navy aircraft to fly from Culebra bay to several of the islands of the West Indies, and, after reaching Miami, Fla., to split Into three groups for an aerfal tour of virtually every impor- tant city In the United States. i ! burnd to death today before aid could reach him. Rosa Loretto, fifteen-year- old_sister, left in charge of the baby while the father was at work and the mother in a hospital, was badly burned on the hands when she endeavored to save her little brother’s life. Rosa, eldest of seven children “mother” _temporarily, by right of senfority, had absented herself only a few moments from the room in which Baby John piaying when she heard him ery - out. Returning, she found John atop the table, his body enveloped in_flames. Grabbing the baby to her breast in an effort to smother the blaze, Rosa shrieked for aid, and neighbors quick- 1y extinguished the flames. Firemen and policemen responded to an alarm sounded from a nearby box. but thefr summons was received too late to ac- complish any good. A physician from Casualty Hospital who examined the tody pronounced the child dead. Coroner Nevitt issued a verdict of accidental death. ACTRESS DAUGHTER BALKS AT SPANKING Barbara Bennett, 17, Leaves Father, Who Demanded She Get Home Nights by Twelve. and By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, November 20.—Bar- bara Bennett, seventeen-vear-old ac- tress, refuses to be spanked and has left her father, Richard, the actor, for the shelter of her mother's home, Mr. Bennett revealed today. The father is the star in a new Broadway production. The daughter is in the supporting cast. Mr. Ben- nett and Mrs. Bennett recently agreed to a “friendly” separation, the father taking Barbara to live with him and the mother taking Constance, an old- er daughter. Father Bennett lald down a rul for Barbara that she must be home promptly at midnight unless she in-| formed him where she went and with whom. One night Barbara, after the show, went out with Pat Somerset, the actor, and his wife, Edith Day She left a note for her father, but he did not get it. Along toward dawn Mr. Bennett, as he tells the story, worrled, phoned his wife and together they waited on the front step for Barbara's return. Soon & taxi, and Barbara steppéd out. Bennett declared he would chastise her. She objected. The mother ob- jected. A policeman objected. Ben- nett hit the policeman on the nose. The whole party went to a_police station and the sergeant told them to forget it. Barbara went home with her mother. A resentative Reed, probably will be chairman of war claims. Representative Fred N. Zihlman of Maryland, who entered Congress at the same time as Representative Reed, but who is listed under him in the senior- ity ranking, already is chairman of the House iabor committee, but inti- mate friendy of his have let it be known that he easily could be per- suaded to relinquish labor In favor of the District of Columbia pos Zihlman will not make any contest against Representative Reed if the latter really wants to be chairman of the District committee. Lampert in Line. Next below Representative Zihlman ranks Representative Florian Lam- pert of Wisconsin, who is now chair- man of the House patents committee, and who has taken a strong inter- est in District legislation. The Cen- tral Citizens' Assoclation has urged that Representative Lampert be mad chairman of the District committee. It is known that Representative Lam- pert, on_ account of his Interest fn District legislation, would be glad to assume the duties of chairman, if Representatives Reed and Zihlman preferred to accept the chairmanship of war clalms or labor in preference to_the District committee. It seems almost certain today that Representative Reed will be the chairman. |SHERIFF MURDERED BEFORE OHIO JAIL Shot When Called Out in Ruse. Speeding Automobile Sought. By the Associated Pres: MARIETTA, Ohio, November 20.— Sherift Charles Moore, fifty-five, of Noble county was shot and instantly kflled shortly before 3 o'clock this morning, when summoned from his ome in the county jail building at | Caldwell, thirty-six miles north of here, to Investigate an alleged auto- mobile accident. Four shots were fired, but only one took effect, strik- | ing him squarely between the eyes. An_ automobile standing in the Increase of $1,500,000 Over Last Year Sought to Curb Liguor and Drug Sales. | An appropriation of more than $10.- 500,000 for the enforcement of the prohibition and narcotic laws during the next fis sald by pro- Libition offi s today to have been [included fn Treasury estimates sub- | mitted to the director of the budget. The estimates include $1,250,000, an increase of $£500,000 over this allotment, for enforcement of the Harrlson act, which is administered the narcotle division of the pro- hibition unit. If these figures agreed to by Congress, they will represent an in- of approximately $1.500.000 jover the appropriations granted for | the fiscal vear ending June 30 next. 1[ With Treasury plans for a supple- | mental appropriation of $28,500,000 {for additional coast guard ecutters {and personnel approved by the Presi | dent, together with the $10,000,000 {included in Tre; ury estimates for ordinary coast guard maintenance, it jwas esiimated by officials foday that more than $40,000,000 would be asked )or Congress at the coming session for enforcement of the prohibition {and tilicit drug laws and for the pre- tvention of rum smuggling | Pronibition officiala would not dis- close today for just what purposes the Increase in appropriations would Ibe used. A force of 1 prohibition | enforcement agents now is operating | throughout the country, but whether lit is desired to augment this force | could not be learned officially. 1\ "The campaign againt the filicit ldrug traffic is handled by 175 fleld |men and Prohibition Commissioner | Haynes has said repeatedly that pre- | Vious narcotic appropriations have |been entirely inadequate. | —_ |LIQUOR BLAST KILLS MAN. | Lock-Up Keeper Burned to Death When Moonshine Explodes. CHICAGO, November 20.—John Mec- | vear's are | crease street on the front of the jail build- { Donigal, sixty-two, a lock-up keeper ing, with motor r;l"‘“fl""“ d"’l‘;fl "l“"“‘)"nt a police station, was burned to as the shots were fired, and this fnci- g |dent furnishes the basic clue upon |death last night when eight barrels | Which officlals are working to iden- ] of moonshine that had been stored in tify the murderers. A broken bottle | 5 “solitary confinement” room of the {of bootleg whisky was hurled from |\ ooy oiodeq ithe automobile as it sped away, and |1° E {officers hold the bellef that liquor | A prisoner in a cell next to that runners were responsible for the|where the moonshine was stored sald crime. the explosion occurred immediately There were no eyewitnesses to the [after McDonigal went {nto the room shooting. Police in all surrounding [The police said they believed the cities were notified to be on the look- | keeper had attempted to light his pipe out for the murder car and iznited the fumes from the liquor