Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. tonight and tomorrow, warmer “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,810 ure for twenty-four hou p.m. toda Highest, 51, vesterday., Lowest, § at 3:15 pm. £ .. today. Hull report on page Foenit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he WASHINGTON, Senate Adjourns U FALS AGHN Szte Adieerne ALTD REGPROGITY TOFLECTSPEARER e Fraver N ASSRED S DENANDS RENE day. lmmediately after the chap- i AFTER 4 BALLOTS i e | Kansas, vice chairman of the re- | |Col. Baughman After Confer- Curtis of publican conference, asked unani- consent to dispemse with ence Here Wires Gov- ernor Approval. able o and : the journal, and almost in \ | | | | breath that the PROCLAMATION GIVING L crsaiie Theonnusber TRUCE ALONE LACKING n Star. % 'Octopus Is Killed' ‘And Diver Freed ‘A fter Hard Fight Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 27 29,071, as second-class matter Washington, D. C. Entered TWO CENTS. BILL GIVING BALLOT T0D.C, OFFEREDIN HOUSE BY LAMPERT 1Provides Representation in Both Branches and Voting in National Elections. D. g (., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. By he Associated Pross TOULON, F r working on the subm a | wreck the French battleship | | Al [ | i Libe: was attacked yesterday by | i December 2 di of a huge octopus. which did not linquish its manifold emrbrace un- til the man’s comrades had eut it to pieces The diver, desperately with mous readi the Senate row WISCONSIN 6. 0.P. ASKS COOLIDGE AID Zresident May Be Forced to Aban- = -8 | Gov. Ritchie Expected to Act as don Plan to Present Message Regulars Urge President to City Heads and Congressmen : ines. Sitisaene. | Throw Stpport to Them to Give Promises . : : v S : HCDC 1IDUL — S oo ey T S T R : between Muryland and the District of \ b | : IN SALARY ISSUE \ #nd reintroduced in th Columbia. for the months of January Heading and February be e virtually & cer- 'Board of Education Approves Practically Every Demand in | i insurgents Stand *hy Guns| oven and Adjournment Taken With Deadlock. sam; fought ot H Jean Neg mons o Hix n stion was adopted S an- der was fing some time free vater for | Iy one arm TALK OF COMPROMISE | BY TOMORROW GROWS | held gave the When writhing fast gnal LANGLEY MEASURE URGES BUILDING PROGRAM HERE i oL hanled compa saw monster emerg: werc panie-stricken, but plight of their comrade appear $0 serious that they went to nd freed him with th to up his on the the Blanton Moves to Force Five-Cent Car Fare on City's knives portance to the ntroduce e House today list in importanc . four s the House adjourned t deadlock clection aker unbroken roughout the session t vepublicans stood by their H four roll calls w exiet repetition of the taken yesterday T was much talk of a day with — — oves a5 HY DAVID LAWRENCE e n Wiscon- Pro from to licans word idze that only way to insurgen which has broken in the House of Representativel to throw the support of the ad- ministration to their wing of the re- { publican party in the Badger state. Holding up the organization of the | mptomtof what is on of Congres Follette republicans, who elected by winning the the primaries, have o Regular repu ut the fon by Wisco: representation Congress spresentativ providing in both nation: ident cure = Following a District Comn | tin Baughman, motor vehicle commis- sloner of Maryland. telegraphed Gov | Ritchie of Maryland recommendinz |that the governor agree for two | months, Col. Baughman and his assistant, D. Marshall Shroeder, agreed to make fa vorable recommendations to the gov- | ernor after he had been assured at the jeenference by Representative Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland that every ef l;_l‘l ’\\nuld be mude to expedite passag . 3o not obey |Of the gasoline tax bill early at the it they do not obey ! .qant Session of Congress. of their| ™ When he emerged from the confer- been doing | ence Representatfve Ziiman saia Uit o or. |the only thing now needed to make House OF-| eciprocity certain for sixty days is be repeated | the formal proclamation of the fov- legislation, | ernor. % sin have conference w “ | tn out ng branches of and for residents of the Distr rough a constitutional amendmen: A bill by Representative Fairfiel: of Indiana, ranking member of the House committee on reform in civil , ser covering retirement « employes the classified civil nos tion to- ) definite be successful lection is 1 arrow, but the in- dication wheth tions would May Delay W Should the leaders in organization and of the insu t mroup fail to come to terms. exident Coolidge will be obliged to nden his plan for addressing a n tomorrow and the who am of the new O main at a hait four ballots taken Speaker Gillett, the candfdate ropublican conferen wnd itative Garrett of Tenness inated the democrats, ran and neck, ea than yotes short of the majos elect. The seventeen republicins whe voted for Representative Coope of Wisconsin vesterdas d solidly hehind him on every lallot toda while a handful ve sentative Maudden Senate Adjourns Ag: Proposed Bill. th but a this repub- | House is coming in the La have been party label demonstrated t the the party they Every substantial demand of the n been met in the final leted and serviee teachers has draft the ary bill, which by the hoard o will first Commissionérs d then t Sev s introduced by Kentuch extensiv program for the Nationa wnd for a developme ot's parkway Fairfield's bill oy repeal the act « and all amendments Vb at sal- RAZaGh o was com tod teley. jof FRENCH REARRANGE (Gz¢ters Pt to.Sea () FAGE SUITS RUR RECION ARNY orte e Seicide Fop SNOW REMOVAL YORK guard cutters Semin === Gresham put posthast day, under orders to stay the Ton helieved t ren toward an public ress wi F educa 1eas- referred to the Dis- their infor- smitted will of What simple question of tion is likely fmportant matte todnd majority of th Repre- nom- neck dozen 1y necded trict have a b on gan on mation system Eress o to Con-| s of by ve would ) December Texs = coast outstanding chan made in al draft of the bill in order ommendations of the of teachers and of- | Bill Ix Introduced. Coincidentally with the C. i onference today, the gasoline tax | | bi, cary provs >resident | ganized and are ready not Epill S ot e ssoxal (06 R estdent | t contesting delegagions for the [ 100 Ev “‘L‘_ ‘f‘;‘_ Fnov (of ‘Muryland, | xt republican national convention, | ¥aryand officials and the District 4 | Commissioners, was introduced in the are p ed to carry the fight| . % | House by Representative Stuart Reed the congressional primaries so | (OX28 PY e - | gt el t Virginia, prospective chairman s, in | OF.the House District conimittee. | PARIS, December 4 ans who will be republicans in Senator L. Heisler Ball of Delaware, | ing of the milita ¥ come to Washington. |chairman of the Senate District com- | tion in the Itubr is an alr of confidence about t mittee has received from the Distriet | - 1 Commissioners a copy of the same |4iminishing ionaries from the regular re- | TS 4 copy of the sume ! They that in- Regular Delegates Sought. told have only the to mect the rec groups ori Poincare and Barthou Revise Definition of Powers of Reparations Inquiry. He explained that measure he i in_ more ffec th oduced Congress forn tha or- mmission- is the same the last ned to p legislatic has been il 1+ Wisconsin esident hand L Twenty Actioné Brought To- «wn \ day by District to Recover for Cleaning Walks. of dlor for _a licaded death A to various aési all It g end of thirty ves compen 10 the ired vous new group rs who qualifications, $1,600 and $100 for « mysterious the tel headquarters hessage sent o phone but into st guard + their Homan of Meantime maintain it can rn until the Ho ed its organization, ! at whic ment i tters ¢ mission en has perfect- a brief se was 1o attempt Adjournment taken immediately after the operfing prayer without a roil call to develop whether @ quorum wa yresent Senate leaders on both the majority and minority sides. however, were busy with assignments of senators to standing committees and _with s f [ r Senate n, is to come a sident ize has delive irst annual message to Con- | G ther "hes” President arry out his plan of appearing a_joint session tomorrow ngent on w break in the in the House The leaders of the republican House organization have taken the position | that they cannot consistently discus « compromise with the insurgent bic ws wuch, although they said they willing to listen to Individual Quests for changes in_committee a Signments and in rules—the tw points on which the insurgents ha focused their attack. First meet + basic By the Assoctated T Brookiyn 1 the ot as mgevity increa The forces o with = contact regroup- aceupa- w for the apen sea K634 the tel nmit suicide left his ) r - t guard the name got the it delay in X mak said uxiliary over there fact when t vigw 1o phone it there E e ling the firgt men of cut- to husin the wias transact ng basic ary Cotumn 8y also > milk bill health office wou rent comm heir with the pr twenty in the (Continued ¢ SUES FOR RETURN ters under way with suits will led every da now on' until | the entire list is completed, Mr. Mad- sald today. The -deelaration NE RAU u tates that the plaintifi, the ‘VI!‘lrifl‘ ¢ Columbia, ms o recover the i G”RBS URIENIAI_ U, e emarts s, ine e neeiz | Bunch Asks Court to Order| Ying the ow tn cach e | City Officials to Give Up & Whisky Taken in 1917. been pursued, it { today hus begun = Municipal Court of ten lumbia by Frank W, tant ion coun- L Column s hete Lok unced | | their informant. bur h the recent pation migh line the Ruh reduced to fore- xervatory Urged. tepresent. 1 an appropriation 800,000 i atiGn: of s @ o an “inv £ forty r the which n 5 igan his. i additio; propert. in the of Columbia for nec “ry 1ditional buildings for th Gardens. toward the comprehensive ment of the park and pinv m of the National Capi- csentative Langley intro- bill which he says will not only give a constructive program for the future. but will forever save the governn b & held up by unserupu speculators in land cing unreasonable prices on Spe- reas as soon as they learn t are being discussed iv for park purposes. Representative Langley m sure providing for the the Potomac river bank nt jand from Wa with . vie is con- deadlock pation and those condemned to prison | for offenses ngainst the Fr : | glan regime also have been taken, it ! Jg announced. and further measures | | will be taken Decembar 10, when the | convention signed yesterday at May- ence rezarding the working of th Tailroads will have gone intn effect Gen. Degoutte, the French command- | | £2 in the arca, considers that passive {resistance then will really have | ceased i the i lease to the Teapot Dome naval ol DEFINITION IS REVISED. | reserve, was recalled today by the Senate public lands committee to tes- | tify regarding shipments of blooded stock from his New Jersey farm tol Albert B. Fall, who, as’ Secretary of the Interior, signed the leases From the account book of Rancoc farm G. D. Waldberg, Mr. Sinclair's auditor, testified that a check for $1.100 was received from Mr. Fall's business partner on May 24, 1922, in 3 full payment for six hogs at $50 each, | Investizate nany’s resources an one registered bull at $200 and .\\;‘1“"‘{"""" assistance was agts e $100 each. The|This text is wordec w regtstered o reparation eircles hope will stock had been shipped Februz ¥ 16 [ come the objections raised by 1922, Waldberg said. to the Fall!tary of State Hughes to the partici- {others, by selegoaph teleptione, | cuted ranch at Three Rivers, L d In | pation of the United States. M. Bar- : ¥ 1 5 ‘iLhn\l planned to submit this text to | banks and express companies, at the answer to uestions by enator | the reparation commission this afte P P 7 - ave e 9 jal 1 old address, 170 gon avenue Walsh, democrat, Montan said [ noon and no doubt was expressed | omrop i deolared a .« cireular lete | there was no record in his office of |that it would be approved. In r sent out to prospects from Pop- e | correspondence upon the subject, and | the approval is voted, the L respects Crum rop that he attached no significance to the | government probably will forward an ayment. to the United States to bill, which he sald he will introduce | population, 3 jon the first day that the Senate is 1s being progressively ator La Follette him- | — (Continusd on Tage 2 = i will not be running, his col- et leagues will be deprived of much of il the strength which naturally went hat ; year ago to the veteran Wisconsin | be sible” status enator, whose hold on the people is owing to the encouraging reports of | more personal than political. | e e LA R e For several weeks prior to the open- | 4 tad nz of Congress there bave been ru- &ior | mors that the administration was | Gortain mensires 1o fhsor ot ie tbting WD Tt e digHORE, ERDR Germans expelled from the Ruhr dur- When it was announced, for instance. n e rigorous beriod of the occu- that Mr. Coolidge had invited Senator ing the rigorous heriod of the oceu | La Follette to confer with bim, e - regulars saw in that move an effort se. But Mr. La Follette jted the White House in- Blooded Cows Sent to New vitation, pleading illness. Meanwhile y ; he has dire the fght against the e b aimly st s e Mexico Sold in Regular his home Order, He Says. Would Use Patronage. to comprd snow has not ac cents to $2 tn each case | es from Holler Accused of Changing Name to Prexerana Com- snpow last munity and Moving. attempts to h» w:’in'l:iinb: that it ould 1 to ecis resid d Test Case. bring suit a failed to remove | was reached after one who would test o of pointed ovt hat any cne to the The cach n to nt who winter gainst Alonzo Bunch today filed a peti- | tion with Judge MeMahon of the! Volice Court to a rule éalling on |the three Distr Commissioners, Chief of Police Daniel Sullivan and E. B. Hesse, property clerk of the po- lice department, to show cause they return to him more |than a hundred cases of whisl that were taken from him in 1917 under the Sheppard act. In 1917 the liguor, sald to have con- sisted of about 108 cases of whisky and | five of beer, was confiscated | from Buneh at the time that he was sted and arraigned for fllegal pos- on, according to the members of | the corporation counsel's office, and | when the trial took place the case was dismissed because of a hung Jjur | Later on the was nolle prossed. The belief at the time was that th was done both because witnesses were unobtainable and evidence lacking, extension of the par! URobert Lo Hardisey, ‘e, at- | District of Columbla. This bill ex i b Lcony ot 1 to include what is known as the A The a good deal of patronage to | ihe distributed from time to time, and the administrati confronted with th of recognizing either the regulars, who are seeking to gain | strength out of that very recognition, or the Tollette republicans who re already in office. The latter have shown their hostility, and the chances are the administration will abandon its plan of compromising with them. the rebellion is attrib- to rules. but the insurgent knows very well that nobody them of a revision of the t & majority of the mem- House of Representatives, and that neither Mr. Gillett nor Mr. Longworth has the authority to make pledges. Without stating what te forms they want, the Insurgents have | used the rules issue a for their warfare. A fusion of democrats with repub- licans_would i the present situation ible the p sage of legislation, but democrats loath to take the itiative until the olive branch is d some 4 Ballot. Congress the were Harry F. Sinclair, who holds to make Mr. Madizan was unlikely willing carrying the of App are the result of an a making it unlawfui or alks than e roduced surves s and adja hington to Great of possible ex- park systen - Potomac o1 from Wash- ng the Grea beauty of ke a beant ative Langle on Gillett given ntingent continued i- \lthough lost 4 mo: republican to President H. P. Holler his Oriental University, ag: the Post Office Department fraud order 3 Md.. renamed it rana Community and put Mrs. L. Vest Holler in charge But the Post Office Department to- day declared that this move man- ifestly an atiempt to evade the ef- fect” of the fraud order previously ued, and issued @ supplemental fraud order against Prexerana Com- 1 upon, | MUNity and Mrs. Holler. Poplars, Md. [more sheets. On the lists are the whieh | “We have still the -full rights of fnames of s r® of of embassi ove our two excellent charters, and we s Secre- | oan do business with visitors, through | foreign officials has st which e necessity { votes H Poincare and Barthou Move to to Overcome Objection of Hughes. mall « r Representative M den of Illinoi. who has nounced he does not want to he Speaker, and - own vote was cast consistently illett. On the first ballot in the House to- day—the fifth since yesterday—Rep- resentative Gillett and Representative | Garrett, democrat, were tied, receiv- | ng 1 votes each. Representative | Henry Alien Cooper of Wisconsin, candidate the republican insur- gents, received the same votes which he was given on the four bal- lots yvesterd; Representative Martin B. Madden of II received the | same 5 votes he received on the four ballots yesterday. The total number | oting 4156 Three members— | Gillatt, rrett and Cooper—voted present. £o small Is. The t of Congress to snow in front of eight ex- o the a adjace: ides ington up Falls possesses scenic high order and would ful park. Repres a Would Enlarge Capitol Grounds. Another Langley measure is for the enlargement of the grounds sur- rounding the Canitol: another is for the acquirement of land in the Dis trict of Columbia as sites for public buildings. __The purpose of these two last S to beautify the grounds surround- ing the Capitol building and utflize them for iing purpos Another ure fathered by resentative Langley wnday to vote so0 why Tin, pvember = should mot Court By the Associated Press Brex PARIS, December 4-—At a ence between Premier Poincare and Louis Barthou, president of the rep- aration commission. held last evening, a revised text defining the powers of the expert committee, which confer- leave o ice on sid n property longer after davbr The lists of those held culpable in not removing the snow were com- piled last year by the building in- spectol office and cover fifty or hoy The cause ¢ ited group can assure rules exce, bers or th the ca are t was is n a of cows at bills will not he prose- 1s @ basis b Suits Filed Today. n Those whose suits were flled toda: are as follows Herbert A. Gill, 191 12th street; John Dixon, 1334 F street; Moy Shing, 1330 i2th ti Mrs, ois Or svstem in tl was is b lelay in p county, Md 0 s charge On the sixth presentative Finis 1. ( nnessee, the democraiic candidal led Hepresentative Gillett by w Totes, 187 to 185 Representative Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin : progressive-republican candidat 1 held hi venteen vot Represent Martin B. Madden Nlinois, republican. wha announced that he is not a candidate, stil re ceived the votes of five lovil friends who voted for him persistently on the four ballots vester and two lots today. There were 414 votes three members recording them- tiie third enth cast aker, Rep ballot for speaker. arrett of of allot today, which in the effort to eled ntative Finis rrett, democrat, continued to 1 sdntative Frederick H._ Gill by two v 195 to 1 ive Henry Allen Cooper Wisconsin, the progre an candidate, still h otes, while five member is 17 continued Martin B Mad nent he it presentatives Gillett, Garrett g prded themselves as “pre. ent” Representative Madden voted for Representative Gillett. The total number of votes cast seventh ballot was 4 No choice having b a ‘majority of the votes cast, the proceeded to call the roll for eighth-ballot, which, it is und Wil be the last ballot taken toda On the eighth and final ballot Rep- resentative Finiv J. Garrett received 195 votes, against 197 cast for Rep- resentative Frederick H. Gillett, the regular republican candidate. = On the eighth _ball Repre. ive Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, the prog republican candidate, re- ceived 17 vates, ax he has on ever Wlots taken. On each o ots tofay Representativ Madden of Illinois received and on each of the ballots ves Gillett, Garrett and e “present.’ diately upon i ¢ Longwo swing statement: of members rest in cert rules of the interest it nd of on the de through lerl the too en ma adjournment hoiss fol have ex- n modi- fieations of the Hou nd in view of the o me proper to state in advance the pgram already agreed upon o the House ays ago before Congress ultation with a number of the last Congress, a raso prepared which will be of- cd by Mr Snell, the prospectiv chairman of the committee on rule: (Continued on Page of leaders ution was Cotum! out to them the ority Also the d feel that republican party cannot function the country should know it, and should tinued on Page 2, Column 5.) SLAIN FOR IGNORING “BLACK HAND” NOTE .. Brooklyn Man’s Wife and Three Children Chloroform- ed by Murderers. ated Pross. YORK. December 4 0. who laughed —Dom- three iweeks ago when he received a letter | ued the | igned with a smeary black hand and demanding money or his life, was hot dead today in his home after his wife, three children himself had been chloroformed. masks, the empty chloroform the murder gun and two empty cartridges were left by the slayers beside their vietims' bed. Maggio was shot twice. His wife, only semi-conscious from the fumes of the drug that had been sprayed with an atomizer. heard the shot and made feeble attempt to aid him, but she was felled by a blow on the head. With her children she taken to a hospital. After Mrs. Maggio had been revived and Gas bottle, a was | she told a story of her husband's ene- eems | | |but_ Maggio and his wife were only dazed. 4| fired an mies that suspects. other held. Mrs. Maggio said there nen in the murder party. led to the arrest of two One was released and the were three They enter- for | ed through a rear window of the apart- ment and began spraying the drug. It took immediate effect on the children, Maggio, who was a cobbler, leaped from h bed after the first shot was attempted 1o protect himself, but the second bullet finished him. His wife screamed, bringing policemen. Brooklyn | Offered Milk Cows. Sinclalr then told the t while visiting the F January. 1922, he not of milk co sugges the Secretary that be per to send_some from the New farm. Mr. Fall demurred, he fied, declaring he could not such expensive stoe i “I told him they would not be ex- | pensive unless he insisted upon show | attle,” Mr. Sinclair said. “And after| ome further conversation he agreed 0 my proposal. Later I telephoned | |the farm manager to get together a \bunch fit for milk cows and send [ them with a horse, which T had given to_Johnson. Mr. Fall's foreman.” | The delay in collection, Mr. Sin-| ir suld, was entirely his'own fault, | since he had mentioned no price to Mr. Fall or to the farm manager and | |the latter was unuble to bill the, hipments. In May, he continued, | ‘Mr. Fall's partner, Eberhart.” | ame to his office in ) York and sked for a statement. The prices !'were then fixed, he said, a check ten- | dered and the account closed | “I recently made a similar ship- | ment to the Whitney hunting farm | in Georgia.” Mr. Sinclair saids “and | 1 do not believe that vet Deen paid.” Senator Smoot asked if salss of Istock from Rancocas were frequent. Never Held Sale. “Not at all" replied the owner. ‘We show our best stuff and pesple e them sometimes come in and ut I have never held a sala. you made other gifts of rses than that to Johnson? Oh. ves,” sald Mr. Sinclair. “When ace horse is broken down h= is {good for nothing except the stud. These are usually given to some stu- tion of the Army remount service, :n order that they may be us:d to im- prove the national strain.” | In answer to a_question from Sen- |ator Walsh, Mr. Sinclair said he had | paid the freight on the shipment, |amounting to between $370 £nq $900. “Leaving you between $200 and $300 | net on the sale?” asked Mr. Walsh. “That’s right. Mr, Sinclair said he would order {the men in charge of the farm to re- port to the committee with all docu- ments, memoranda_and other infor- mation they might have bearing upon the_transaction. Kenner Taylor, stockman of Frank- fort, Ky. testified regarding the shipment of four registered Hereford bulls to the Three Rivers farm in May, 1822 Mr. Fall made an initial inquiry in January of that vear, he said, as to sire stock to improve his herds and finally ordered the four animals at $750 each. commit- | ranch | i an ab- ed to pitted Jersey testi- afford M. | tee th in sence | Far oy itation take part in the projected investiga- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) WOMAN AUTO DRIVER STARTS 5-YEAR TERM Mrs. Anna Schultz Convicted of | Manslaughter in Death of Man by Motor Car. v the Associated Press. WINONA, Minh., December 4.—Mrs. Anna Schultz, ferty-one, of this city, id to be the first woman automobile | driver convicted of manslaughter: in Minnesota, will be taken to the state reformatory for women at Shakopee today to begin serving a sentence of not to exceed five years at hard labor. Mre. Schultz was convicted by a jury in district court of second degree manslaughter in connection with the death of Herman Koch, who was a passenger in an automo- bile struck by a car driven by Mrs. Schultz. Zvidence was submitted at the trial alleging Mrs. Schultz was intoxicated at the time of the accident. MEXICANS DRIVE REBEL FORCES FROM IGUALA Men Under Gen. Figueroa Desert ‘When Repulsed at Ciudadbravos by Federalistas. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, December 4.—Fed-; eral forces commanded by Gen. Fran- cisco Urbalejo yesterday captured the city of Iguala, which Gen. Romulo Figueroa had occupied. Not a shot was fired, and the town was aban- doned by the rebels, who thereupon marched to Ciudadbravos. Here they met with strong resistance by the loyal troops and the inhabitants of the town and were forced to with- draw. The war department reports that Gen. Figueroa, unable to reach Chil- pancingo, has established his head- quarters in a small village midway between that town and Iguala. The men under his command are sald to be deserting. sixty-two, | Planned Community. o Post Office Department, lissuing the new fraud order, receipt of eyidence showing that un- | der date of November 12, 1923, seven days after the issuance of the first | fraua ora ar letter was issued at Owings, Md., headed with {the name Oriental University, 1702 | Oregon avenue, and the name, “Bish- op Dr. H. P. Holler” ! The letter stated that “Our courses | may be taken by correspondence. also those for degrees,” and that “we are now making arrangements to jerect the necessary buildings for residence work in ail departments on | the tract of land acquired by us and named ‘Prexerana Community.’ “In addressing us at present,” con- tinues the letter, “please omit the name of the univérs nd the name of President Holler. A document inclosed with the letter jwas headed: s of Oriental With By was in University Post Office Fraud Asks for Patience. The document went on to declare that competitors “who are using the money of the United States govern- ment to fight our university suec- ceded, without any legal court trial, in having a fraud order issued, so to the Oriental University at its Washington main office or the sum- mer office at North Beach, Md.” The circular letter mailed from Owings asked that all payments be made to Mrs. L. Vest Holler, “our treasurer. The letter ended as fol- lows: “Hoping to have the pleasure of re- ceiving your early application, docu- ments and fee £,r any courses you may desire, and for which you are qualified, and assaring you of our very best attention. we weculd ask your indulgence in being a little patient, as we are at present over- loaded with work, But wa take up every applfation and every letter in its proper course, according to the Jate received by ‘us. “Sincerely yours. ‘THE REGISTRAR.” The trial of Dr. Holler before the | District Supreme Court, on charges Gontained in the original fraud order was to have come up last Saturday, but was postponed until this weelk, and is expected to come up shortly. that at present no mail is deliveress| Mary K . Haz Tribby, las, street; Istreet; i ot Maggie Action | of the { ! post. White tee, nected mer. Mr. Factic Maxwell, apshaw, en Lewn 1641 Vermont pman, Reese. James B, h stree: Fi Lucien Mary J Se on Recently Negotiated | Claims Convention Desired at Early Date by Coolidge. Appointment Mexico will await 1104 1302 R 1200 T 1221 L ass [ street; flat Lewi Philip nces Barney, Clove, chardson, 1 anlon, street; treet; street; 1301 Safford, 1208 R stree 37 12th street; K_street; N. Samaha, 12 Massachusetts avenue, | and George Malus, 703 4th street Joseph | Coleman Abraham Charles E. Marie Doug- | avenue, and J 18 12th street and Mdry Woolfork, 1909 1520 Ed- |only on him,'but on the 12th Corcoran of an ambassador Samim ! PICK MEXICAN ENVOY | AFTER SENATE ACTS | i | to Senate ratification | two claims conventions aris- with by ing from the at Mexico Gity. Tlhis statement [ White House today coincident with | revival Creager @ Brownsville, would be named to the Mexico City | N- J.. today after Mr. Creager is a guest at the House and {conference with Chairman Lodge of | the Senate foreign relations commit- as a result of an made by the President. Mr. Creager’s name has been con- the appointment since the agreement for resumption of relations was reached last sum- Coolidge was of reports which will the-Sexicans, that Tex., yesterday he The made at R negotiations recently the | By the Assoc B. soon | had a appointment | ever is desirous that the| Senate act expeditiously on the two | conventions, that body this week. senate adjourns December 31, and it is the view of officials here that rati- | fication here would tend to expeditej was had abroad the crusic sent to Mexican tio | the ed on any he has just claim fi alould, normally come: wnder!|{0® B 3T NS AFORTL B PR onsibility for it would rest "l‘ ed on this property a memorial it bt nolies | the motherhood of America and ot and the District Commissioners. memorial bulldings, constituting It is understood that the general | 2CTOPOLS upon this beautiful tract .of practice insuchcases at ihit time :;m:l. which fs the last of tho hillsid:. A Customs Agents Seize Boat Hand-to-Hand Battle—Say Liquor Was Jettisoned. 4 over such confiscated pr ; to Department of Justice hitopthe { covernment purposes, Representative cedure was carried out is not known, | ANEleY explains. | ut it was understood at the time |, Representative Thomas Blanton o f Bunch's trial that the confiscated | porre' panine democrat on the liquor was then in the hands of offi- | House District commit Introdu cials of the Department of Jucical | legislation designed to give a f Last year Mr. Bunch. throwsh G| Cent fare in the District ov annutling attorney, Judge Daniel T. Wright, ' & acts of the Public Ttilities brought’ the o Before the ERL | Commission. This measure is in jury, but no NeTeathe BTand | fect the same as urged in the Sen time. t the \‘\(;‘K‘i: the :II\!X r,x*]t;"x contir i be as : i Senator McKellar, which challe case L e Bsked in the | the right of the Public Utilities Con on Coun- | ission to grant a higher e said today fa than the fiv ent far PR e S { for in the charter to the s f | way eompan Represontative RUM CRUISER HALTED | iiheon i Hiierea 'S eaie |Eive school children. transportat {6n the street cars for three-quarte AFTER RUNNING FlGHT of the standard rate of fare Bills Would Relieve Police, | Representative Blanton introduc | a bill for the relief of the police and iremen of the ~District, commonl: { known as the police and fire pay { cre: Repregentative O'Con nell of New York also introduced 2 hill fof the relief of police and fire men lepresentative Blanton also intro- a P duced a_bill to ilitate and Hox s cd Press pedite the transaction of congres NEW YORK, December —The | tional busin: with the departments motor cruiser Herreshoff was seized |of government ;n the |Dl.‘|l;:<‘t n’( tl-n, by customs agénts off Py teadinge, | lumbi Tie also reintroduced his y - S .1,"" ling. | Tti-picketing bill to prevent attle with riot | freqehes of the peace. guns and revolvers. Six men on the! Representative Raker of California cruiser were arrested !introduced a l\‘illl_ -un\mr»zxm: and d‘w Patrolling in a speedhoat the cys. |recting the public printer to provide tome agents hailed the Treme s | "bulp and paper mill for the manu- i & the Herreshoff, | ryoeure of print paper for the Zov- suspected of rum running and ordered nment Representative Raker also her to heave to. The cruiser’s nose [proposes the creation (;‘f nl?;ur au fc ¢ rned seaward and sh- :howeq |deaf und dumb in the District of D . o L 1o thowed | 600 mbia. This legislation is of par- i yInE Irom interest on account of the the guns in the hands of her erew, HTAGHE Niase) of the: Golumbiy the agents said |Institution for the Deaf. Returning the fire the govecnment| Representative Louis C. Cramton boat overhauled the cruiser. drew |Of, Michisan who was chaieman of Stongside and placed a boarding par | Lhe subcommitice’ which drafted the ty on her as she ran at full :peed, { District appropriation. ast year R overnment aments waid i1 | today reintroduced hix bill to fix the Ao Gargo, had b jouid the ! gmount to be contributed by th. and dvas floating alongs £ Tnited States to defray the expenses & Short hand-to-hand of the District of Columbia a Mr. Cramton also introduced a bill (Continued on Page 2, Colum engagement ing to the agents' report,