Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1923, Page 2

Q 2 . RUPERT HUGHES WIFE ADS LIFE China to Despondency Over Long lliness. By the Associated Pre: - LOS ANGELES, December 15.—Mrs. Adelaide Manola Hughes was report- ed a sulcide at Haiphong, Indo-China, in a brief cablegram received by her husband, Maj. Rupert Hughes, author, playwright and motion picture direc- tor, here, late last night. The message stated mercly that Mrs. Hughes had committed suicide. and asked instructions as to the dis- position of her body. In commenting on the brief dispatch, Maj. Hughes sald his wife had long been battling disease and shattered nerves and “No one clse knew the battles she had with storms of gloom which swept over her T let her go to China" he added, ecause she thought she could re- in her health and courage there, I thought that she. had regained them until the cable came announcing her death. It is my greatest ageny that after a life of such close and devoted unlon she should die alone and far caped Tokio Quakg, Death came to Mre. Hughes at the close of a journey menaced by earth- quake and typhoon. She left here last August on the advice of physi- clans, several months aftér undergo- ing an operation for cancer. A nursg accompanied her. En route to Yoko- hama she experienced the terrors of a typhoon, and when earth shock shattered Japan it was féared for a time that she had perished. Word that she was safe reached here several days after the quake, but the catas- trophe is belleved to have left its im- pression on her already weakened nerves. From Peking she wrote home in a cheerful vein, describing the “Man- chu prince’s paper palace” she had rented by the month: thence on to French Indo-China, and then to Hai- phong, where, according to last night's message, she took leave of life. Appeared on Stage. Mrs. Hughes was a Cleveiand girl, daughter of the actress, Marion Ma- nola. In her teens she played in her mother's company. and later ap- peared in her husband's plays. In 1908, as Mrs. Adelaide Mould. wid- owed mother of two children, she was married to Mr. Hughes at Jersey City. She was a clever writer. "“whose lack of self-confidence alome.” ac- cording to her husband, “nrevented her from being known to the world ag 1 knew h the auth of “Diantha’ and oria’s Romancs and collaborated with Maj. Hughes on the scenario of one of his motion pictures Bestdes Maj. Hughes dren, Mrs. John York and Rush geles, survive her. H browzht to ihe United burial at Westchestef, X ing to present plans. her two chil- ders of New s of Loy An- Tongking is a French y ssion in the northeastern part of French Indo- China, southeastern Asia. Haiphong. or Haifong, as it known, is the principal seaport Tongking. It hav w populution approximately 20.000. WOMAN 1S SOUGHT INHUGE OIL FRAUD Believed to Have Posed as Wife of Leo Koretz, In- dicted for Larceny. is also of By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 15.—A woman with whom Leo Koretz, escaped al- leged promoter of a $5,000,000 Pana- ma_“oil bubble.” is thought by in- vestigators to have posed as “Mr. and Mrs. Al Bronson” for the past four years, is being sought. The janitor and residents of an apartment building has identified a photograph of Koretz as that of a man Known to him as Bronson, who frequently met a woman in the day- time In a suite he had rented, ac- cording to state's attorneys. The jan- itor also identified some of the fur- niture found in Koretz's offices as from the Bronson apartment. The wife of a wealthy theater own- er, sald to have Jost $35.000 in invest- ments in the alleged fake project. was called for questioning by state's at- torneys at 1 o'clock this morning, but what the inquiry was expected to de- velop was not disclosed. DOG GIVES LIFE TO SAVE MISTRESS FROM SNAKE | (Continued from First Page.) heels one morning recently when started down the steps leading from the house to the poultry yard. A copperhead lay on the bottom step #nd the dog was upon him in a flash. The snake rolled to the ground and Scotty was forced to crawl uhder the steps and finish the fight in a cramped position. In doing this, 1 am confi- dent he realized the danger it in- volved, but fell that the menace must Le removed at any cost. 1 have ‘had many pets, but never wne in which love, Joyalty and telligence were 20 satisfactorily hlended as they were in this little | hrown spaniel ~ that companion for many years at the lock, It was easy to teach him things because it seemed he tried to con- centrate on the task and catch the human point of view. Onoe he learn- ‘ed a lesson he never forgot it, and he never disobeyed. It was easy to teach him the art of fishing, and many & fine' bass was added to our larder through his patience in watch- ing the baited line set out for him and barking when the float showed signs of life One Peplexing Thing. There was one.problem that Scotty never quite solved. The intimate con- tact he enjoyed with neople outdoors #topped abruptly at the threshold of the Speakers’ home. Mrs. Speaker's ideas of housekeeping precluded rais Ving a dog in the house. When the fishermen would gather in the little jockhouse for a sumptuois Scotty would take a position under ile dining room window anfl, stretch- ing to Lis full height, gaze long and intently at the diners, in evident search of an explanation as to why he had been barred from the merri- ment within. Everything that could be done for & dog's comfort was done for Scotty in his last hours. Unable to walk, wat or drink, he turned kind eyes upon his benefactors, which were ex- yressive of a gratitude that one would not have expected to find beyond the pale of human emotions, He died as he had lived, ind were his friends to write his epitaph they yrobably would inscribe this simple t-ibute which best _described__hi ~cmper fidelis = had been our she | in- | dinner { ' I SUICIDE IN CHINA l | MRS. RUPERT HUGHES. SEAL SALE $0 FAR - INCITY IS $15,000 {Department Will Be Continued During Coming Week. Within' ten of Christmas, the than $15,000 worth of Christmas seals, jor more than half of the quota allot- ington Tuberculo- sis Association to enable it to carry on for another year its prevent- ative and educa- tional health cam- palgn among the children a n d adults. and today the ales in the spe- cial booths in de- partment stores and made large gains, the volunteer teams of women being allowed by the stores to use small bells to attract the at- tention of shoppers. Some of these booths and one or two new ones will be continued for the convenjence of the public the coming week, ing those at Woodward & Lothrop's, Kann's and the Commerclal National Bank. One new booth is to be opened on Monday in the store of Dulin & Martin, on F street between 12th and 13th. . Th Dodge Hotel and the Y. W. A will continue to operate their booths during the com- ing week. A matter of vital importance to the health of the people of Wash- ington is brought to public attention today in the following letter received by the Washington Tuberculosis As- soclation: “Dear Sirs: Inclosed please find a check for $5 to pay for the $2 worth of Christmas seals sent to me and “addres “I read with interest the money collected in 1922 was spent to fight tuberculosis. I would like to suggest that more effort be made to educate the general public by a vig- jorous campaign against spitting in |the streets or. in fact, anywhere ex- H in one's own handkerchief. 5 against this harm- custom, we all know that it is }done every’ minute of the day, that our sidewalks are slimy with sputum. This dries and blows into the mouths and nostrils of healthy people. There can be no complete conquest of the disease of tubercuiosis and its pre liminary distresses of colds and in- fluenza while every one is exposed as soon as he goes into the open air out of his own hom “‘Something has been done along thi line with the school children, but feel a far more vigorous presentation through posters and signs and litera- ture is necessary. This is a dirty personal habit which has survived in public after others common to olden times have been banished by public opinion. 1 hope that you will give this suggestion consideration, as tifis can only be done by a powerful or- { ganization such as yours, and it i one of the most necessary reforms 2mong the lines of health that can be made.” Ungquestionably this habit of spit- ting in public places is one of the most dangerous and difficult barriers confronting the tuberculosis associa- tion in its battle for public health, it is stated. It is a practice of which thousands of people are more or less thoughtlessly guilty, many of whom this very season are generously 1g Christmas seals with the com- mendable idea of aiding the work of this association in its fight for the health of the children and adults of the city, says a statement from the association. “It is a matter on which the public as a whole is still badly in need of education, notwithstanding that the police regulations specifically deal with the question ALBEMARLE STREET ‘EXTENSION URGED Northwest Suburban Citizens De- cide to Petition Congress for Work. . ay the Congress will be petitioned by the prthwest Suburban Citizens' Asso- clation to authorize the cutting through of Albemarle street from Wisconsin . avenne to Murdock Mill road, according to a decision arrived jat last night at the meeting of the {association. {__In order for the new school in the Friendship Heights section to face lon this street, such a change will have to be undertaken, it was ar- gued. The statement was made that the municipal architect’s office of the District had refused to consider such an improvement. The ‘association also agreed to in- itinte a campaign for through street tcar service from the District line to 15th apd F streets northwest, and shortly will eirculate a petition in {the community to this effect. A dele- gation also will attend a hearing be- fore the Public Utllities Commission on_the subject. Protests against the allotment of only $11,000 for the community out fof the $700.000 asked for street im- provement in the city was registered at the meeting. President Luther L. Derrick presided. ICREAGER REFUSES POST AS ENVOY TO MEXICO Col R. B. Creager of Brownsville, Tex., republican national committee- man’ from that state, has declined the appointment tenderéd him by Presi- dent Coolidge as ambassador to Mex- ico. # o In making this known at the. White House today it was explained that Mr.-Creager, since the death of Presi- dent Harding, who was a close per- sonal friend, and who also tendered him the ambassadorship to Mexico, has been made national committee-' man, and has become the head of the republican party organization in that state and a very influential party leader in the southwest, and he is un- willing to give up this work, which iz, fellow, cltisena. bave. intyusted, Lo Store Booths | people of this city have bought more | ted to the Wash- | Yesterday | bank lobbies ! includ- | for $3 worth more to be sent to this | In; TH |OPERA MAY BREAK " CAPITAL RECORD All-American Cast in “Mme. Butterfly” Praised by Director. | | One of the greatest, if not the greate-t performances of ‘‘Madame Butterfly" ever produced in Wash- ington will be given by the Washing- ton Opera Company at the President Theater Monday night, Edouard Al- bion, general director of the com- pany, declared today. “The cast is all-American.” he said. “The artistic excellence of our sing. ers forever gives the retort courteous to those who have preached at us for 80 long that America produces noth- ing but money-grabbers. “We have struggled along since our inception toward better productions always with the thought that Wash- ington should be the artistic and cul- tural center of our nation and that it was our task to focus attention on { American genius. Continuous Improvement. “It fs conceded, 1 believe, that each succeeding productibn of the Wash- ington Opera Company has been bet- {ter than the last. Monday we pro- | duce one of the most famous of all | operas, and every member of the cast is an American, and that cast is the greatest ever assembled in Washing- ton to sing “Butterfly. idith Mason, Chicago Opera Com- ny prano, will sing Cho-Cho- San, the leading role of the opera, aml Paul Althouse, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera’ Company, will sing Pinkerton. Other. who will #ing leading roles include Fred Patton and Elizabeth Bonner. Greatest Madame Butterfly, The daughter of Puceini, following one of Miss Mason's appearances in the role in Europe, described the Amgrican soprano_as the greatest “Madam Butterfiy” lving. Miss on has won high aise from European and American critics wher- ever she has appeared. Tour of the south will follow the close of the Washington season of the company under present plans, Mr. Albion said. Plans to take the {company on tour were hastened by @ request from Birmingham, Ala., that it be brought there at the ex- piration of its Washington s on. The company will give three operas here this season, “Madame” Butter- fly” on Monday night, “Tales of Hofr- {man” ‘on January 2i and “Carmen jon March 10, Each of the th operas will be produced an only one night. ICOOLIDGE WRITES THANKS TO ELROD| | (Continued from First Page.) principaily in the west and in middle western states, and for that reason the Chicago headquarters to be opened next week under the direction of former Representative Good of {Iowa will be a hotbea of activity from now on Bascom® Slemp. the President's sec- retury, who, because of his long ex- perience in national politics, serving as one of his chief's political field morshals, said today that personal | managers will be sclected to direct the fizht in each state. The first of these selected is Hoke Donithan of Marion. Ohio, an old friend of Presi- dent Harding, who has devoted time in an effort to capture the delegation of ‘the Buckeye state for Mr. Cool- idge. His appointment was made on | the advice of Senator Willis and A torney General Daugherty, and h assistants in the Ohio campaign will be Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, who was defeated for governor last year, and Willlam C. Proctor of Cincinnati, who was in charge of the Wood cam- paign in 1920. Won't Wicld Big Stick. Callers on the President feel sured that he has no intention of using the so-called “big stick” to force Congress to perform in strict accordance to his wishes. He has made it clear he would be perfectly willing to have Congress determine which legislation it will take up first —bonus or tax reduction. It i{s nat- ural to suppose from the expressions of the President in Lis recent mes- sage that his preference would be for tax reduction and that bonus leg- islation be not considered, but he has made it very clear that he is per- fectly willing to let Congress deter- mine this point Party politics in Oklahoma and Mis- sourl were discussed with the Presi- dent today, and in each case the se- lection of ‘a federal judge was the prineipal bone of contention. Spendér of Missouri and E. {Relly, former Governor of Porto Rico. who are supporting separate candi- dates for judge in that section, dis- cussed the general Missouri situatian with Mr. Coolidge. Senator Harreld of Oklahoma saw the President for a short time, dur- ing_which he urged the appointment of John B. Messerve for appointment {to the bench in Oklahoma, and im- { mediately behind him came three prominent party leaders of the state io enter. their protest against the Harreld candidate. They were: . A. Harrie, republican national com {mitteeman; State Senator Fry, chief {of the Cherokee Tribe in that state, and L. G. Disney, a member of the Oklahoma republican state committee. Colored G, O. P. Leader Cal Walter L. Coheh, colored, of Baton Rouge, La., one of the republican lead- { ers of that state, whom the President nominated several days ago to be col- _ector of customs in New Orleans, ac- Companied by Emile Kunts, republican national committeeman from Louisiana, and Dr. D. A, Lines of the republican state committee, were at the White House yesterday for & briet conference regarding the fight being made on Mr. Cohen's_confirmation. The Louisianian, on leaving the White House, expressed himself as feeling very hopeful of the outcome in the Senate as a result of the favorable attitude of the commerce committee of that body, to whom the matter was referre Mf. Cohen failed of confirmation when his nom- ination was sent to the Senate last winter Dby President Harding, but after the adjournment he received a Tecess appointment. Rail OMcial Introduced. Senator Willis of Ohlo introduced to the President yesterday Bert Acker- man of Ohlo, a rallroad official, whom he is endeavoring to land as one of the more important executivés under the Interstate Commerce Commission. Philip R. Fowle of Atlanta, Ga., personally invited President Coolidge yesterday to make an address before the meeting of the Georgia branéh Amer- {ican Institute of Banking that will be in session In that city at the time of the dedication of the Stone Moun- | tain Confederate memorial, which President Coolidge has been invited to attend and which he has not yet declined. The President told Mr. Fowle that he would take his in- vitation under advisement if he found it possible for him to attend the | 11924 nomination will be carried on i | as- | i { i | repre memorial dedication. : TAX PERIOD TO EXPIRE. The period for payment of the last installment of the income tax for the year 1922 expires at midnight tonight. Many residents of the District have paid the tax at the office of the loc: deputy collector of internal revenue, 1422 Pennsylvania avenue. Payments sent to Collector Galen L. Tait of Baltimore, in whose colleetion district the Districe of Columbla is located, should _be postmarked before .mid: m:fit. T %as inounced o & E EVENING BTAR WASHINGTON, D. C, Lead in Washi $ SATURDAY, DE ngton Opera Company’s Production of “Madame Butterfly” Company, who will sing Pinkertos who will xing title role of M e, leading §enor of Metropolitan Opera and Edith Maxon of Chicago Opera me Butterfly. r. left to right: Fred Patton, who will be heard in the role of and Jacquex Samoxsoud, co: LAWLER MURDERER ADJUDGED INSANE Barry Declared {rresponsible in Slaying of Street Car Conductor. Paul DuVernal Barry, thirty years old, was declared today by a jury in Criminal Division 2 to have been in- sane when he shot and killed Tyler B. Lawler, a street car conductor, at North Capitol street and Michigan avenue February 20, 1922. The jury, therefore, held him not guilty of the charge of murder In the first degree, for which he had been indicted. On motion of United States Attor-| ney Gordon, Justice Hoehling re- manded Barry to jail to await cer- tification by the Secretary of the In- terior to the accused admitted to the Government Hospital for the Insane. Besides a noticeable twitching of his hands the prisoner gave no signs of emotion when the foreman an- nounced the verdict that saved him from the gallows. He accompanied the deputy marshal to the celiroom below the court at once and was re- turned to jail after he had bid his father an affectionate farewell. The jury reccived the case about 5:30 oclock yesterday afternoon and delfberated until 11 o'clock with- out reaching an agreement. The jurors were then permitted to retire for the night. They were astir early this morning and the deliberation was resumed. An agreement was reached about 7 o'clock. The trial has occupied about three weeks, much of the time being taken with testimony relating to the streak of Insanity throughout the famil® of the accused. Alienists * were ~ex- amined on both sides, some holding the defendant irresponsible and the others declaring that he was able to distinguish between right and wrong. Attorneys James B. Archer, liam E. Leahy and Harry A. Hegarty ted the prisoner. while the prosecution was conducted by As- sistant United States Attorneys Em- jerson and Presmont. BRAZILIAN STATE SIGNS PACT WITH REBEL FORCE By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, December 15.— Vewspaper dispat from Porto Alegre report the signing of a peace agreement between the revolution- aries in Rio Grande do Sul and the state authorities. The signature took place at Bage, where conferences have been in progress for more than ' a month between leaders of the re- volt and representatives of the gov- ernment. Unconfirmed advices say that the state made concessions which will ! democratize elections and give ai more liberal representation to the minority: Amnesty is sald to have been granted to the rebels, The revolt in Rio Grande do Sul started last January upon the r election of Dr. Borges de Medeiros to the state presidency. Supporters of the defeated candidate alleged that Medeiros had been chosen il- legally. News of the peace agreement was recelved here with great satisfaction, especially in financial and business cir- cles. | AND ONLY ! wil- | BUNCH LIQUOR CASE ARGUMENTS START District Fighting Demand for Return of Liquor Taken in Raid. | | | | Arguments were begun today on a motion for a rule against Commis- sioners Oyster, Rudolph and Bell, Maj. Sullivan, superintendent of po- lice, and Edwin B. Hesse, property clerk of the police department, to show cause why a large lot of whisky taken from the premises of Alonzo E. Bunch should not be returned to him. Judge McMahon heard the pleas. Assistant Corporation Counsel Frank ‘W. Madigan and Edward Thomas filed an answer to the rule, setting forth, with other reasons, that none of the respondents, cept Edward B. Hesse, property clerk, now 0cCupying. the positions of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and superintend. ent of police, were in office at the date of the alleged seizure of more than 100 cases of whisky, and that none of the respondents have now or did have In their possession the con- | fiscated whisky. The argument made by former Judge Hardison presented many legal tech- nicalities and the case was contin- ued to enable the attorneys on both sides to submit authorities. Bunch says that when his place was raided the officers took more than 100 cases of bottled-in-bond whisky, which is now of large monetary value. HOUSE DEADLOCK TO END First Page.) the “broad fssue” involved in the fight over the chairmanship of the Senate interstate commerce commit- mittee, Senator La Follette, repub- {lican, Wisconsin, leader of the in- surgent group, declared today in a statement outlining his position. “In the last election,” his statement said, “the progressive voters of the country overwhelmingly declared for the drastie revision or repeal of the Esch-Cummins railroad law. In every state where that act was an issue the senators who voted for it were {retired to private life and men elect- cd who are pledged for its repeal or drastic amendment. Freight rates on goal, agricultural products and all other commodities are too burden- some to be longer borne by either producers or consumers, “The progressives regard the last election as a clear mandate from the people of the United States to this Congress to enact without delay new and just railroad legislation. Would Mean Surrender. “To have stood for Senator Cum- mins as chairman of the interstate commerce committee would have been ‘a surrender to the special interests concerned in the maintenance of the Esch-Cummins railroad law in i present form. During the past (wo years Senator Cummins has used his chairmanship of the interstate com- merce committee to prevent . the | amendment of this repudiated law. | "“His re-clection as chairman would have sanctioned a continuation of this policy of secret committee control to bury legislation which the people de- mand. ‘This the progressives could not agree to. “Senator Howell and Senator Couz- ens are vigorous champions of pub- lic ownership of public utilities. The election of either one of these sena- tors to the chairmanship of the in- terstate commerce committee would be a clear and distinct victory for the progressives in the Senate and the country.” “Should the old guard refuse to ac- | cept either Senator Couzens or El‘lllll(“" Howell, the election of Senator Smith, | former chairman of the interstate | commerce committee, and a man Who | voted against the Esch-Cummins law, would also be & clear-cut victory.” | | TWO OVERCOME: BY GAS. | (Continued from ‘Workmen in Garage Collapse, But Are Found Soon After. Clifton- Walker and Walter Alex- ander, both colored, the former re- lsiding at 1623 New Jersey avenue | northwest and the latter at 75 D catur street mnortheast, were ove! come by carbon monoxide gas while working _in Liberty Gatage, 18th strect and Florida avenue northwest, e tnd“’l"'e found, fore danger- T y e r tre) ="-’ taken to thel: i PROGRESSIVES WIN POINT:' 1B, CEMBER 15, 1923. IWEALTHY YOUTH'S | DEATH IS MYSTERY . { Two Held in Philadelphian’s | Fatal P}unge From Ho- tel Window. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., December 15 An all-night investigation falled to ‘clear up to the satisfaction of the po- lice some of ‘the circumstances con- nected with the death of Charles W. Nevin, 24, who plunged to his death last night from a ninth-story window of the St. James Hotel in view of scores | of homeward-bound workers and shop- pers. Two companions, Frank P. Nicholson of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Wil- liam F. Fotterall, jr., of Port Kennedy, Pa., who admitted having been in the room drinking with Nevin and who were arrested shortly after his fatal plunge, were still in custody today. Nicholson was held on the technical charge of manslaughter and Fotterall a8 a material witness and accessory. Constant questioning failed to shake their story that they had fallen asleep in the room with Nevin: that when they awoke the window was open and Nevin was missing. Nevin, until yesterday afternoon, was & stranger to Nicholson and Fotterall. According to Nicholson he met the young man in a saloon, and they be- came acquainted over their drinks. They then decided to go to Nicholson's room in the hotel and on the way met Fotter- all. Upon reaching the room the men had several more drinks, and in a little while all went to.sleep, Fotterall sald. Nevin, who was twenty-nine years old and 'a member of a socially promi- nent Philadelphia family, was gradu- ated from Princeton in 1917.. He served in the Regular Army in France and dur- ing the world war and was twice wounded. NURSEINFOX CASE HELD IN TENNESSEE Atlanta Detective Leaves to Take Her Back to Testify | and Face Trial. | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., December 15.—Mrs. Margaret Weaver, a trained nurse, whose home is said to be in Cleve- {1and, Ohio, under indictment on a icharge of accessory before the fact |in connection with the slaying of | William 8. Coburn by Philip E. Fox, is under arrest in Johnson City, Tenn., it was announced by a member of pros- ecution counsel at the trial here today. Solicitor General John A. Boykin | would not discuss Mrs. Weaver's case, but from associate counsel it was as- |certained that the woman had been taken fnto custody. City Detective Hunt at the same thime announced that he was entraining this morning for the Tennessee city to bring Mrs. Weaver back to Atlanta, where she is expected to testify during the trial. Mrs. Weaver is charged in the in- dictment with having accompanied Fox in an automobile to the building in_which Coburn’s office was located a few moments before the Klan editor whot and killed the Klan attorney. The state has Indicated that Mrs. Weaver walted for Fox to return, but that he was arrested as he attempted to escape from the building. She left Atlanta immediately after the shoot-« ing, it was charged. { The indirect charge by Boykin, that Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard, and Fox fought in a St. Louis hotel be- cause of a woman, was expbcted to figure prominently in today's session of the_trial of Fox. | _Mr. Bovkin referred to the alleged ifight yesterday in questioning a de- ifense witness. In preceding questions he indicated that the difficulty oc- curred while Evans and Fox were re- turning from a Klan celebration at Dallas, Tex., last summer. M. E. PASTOR DENOUNCES KU KLUX KLAN AS EVIL i (Continued from First Page.) [ises under cover of darkness and un- { willing to give his name becomes the object of the honest old farmer's shotgun.” { The speaker declared that he too was | “against all that I think is bad in! Roman Catholicism and do not hesitate | {to say so, but this opposition is at all | times, arid in every instance, in the open.” { ®The conference heard with interest a plea by Dr. A. C. Millar of Arkansas, for unification of the Methodist churches. Dr. Millar said, discussing the present proposed plan, that it was “fair to all Parties, sensible, practical and work- Able, and that it is desirable that Meth- odists in American form a stronger alliance to promote the kingdom of God. Unification is feasible and from the Christlan standpoint desirable. It Should not be forced, but should be i ailigently and honorably sought. H Dr. J. M. Rowland discussed “doc- | itrinal controversy.” In which he {urged that in so far as ‘possible con- | troversial subjects be avoided in| church papers and a constructive | poliey adopted for the development | and cultivation of peace. Dr. Cockrell of Baltimore dis- cussed special church-wide mev ments. ‘A committee in charge has designat- led January 27 as “Good Literature i Sunday” in_the interests of the con- | ference and general organs. Satterfield Is Elected. R. S, Satterfield of Nashville, Tenn,, {was today elected president of the | assoclation at their annual convention at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Bpiscopal Church. Other officers {numed _were: W. Piyler, Greens- boro: . vice prestdent; J. M. Rowland Richmond, Va, secretary- treasurer. At the conclusion of the morning soxsion the convention adjourned to the White House, where the editors Were greeted by President Coolidge, Tonight they will be entertained at the City Club at a banquet by the board of stewards of the Mount Vernon Place Church, Manys of the | visiting editors wil occupy pulpits | here tomMOrrow, —ee—— OBJECTS TO BOARDERS. Thomas H. Warnock Sues for Di- i voree. Thomas W Warnock complains of his home conditions in & suit for a limited divorce from hix wife, Kate Warnoek. e ohfeots to his wite keeping boarders and to the presence 50 frequently of the daughters of his wife by u former martiage and their children, who wake mueh noise about the house, he =ays, He declares his wife has refused to clean his room oF chak his breakrast and declines to Ei¥e up the boarders and live alone with him. This al- leged retusal, he olaims, constitutes legal desertion of hiwm and entitles him to a limited divoree, —_— Miss Mary Jones, Aged elghty-five years, of Toronto, Can., h taught Eundu #chool fQr seventy consecutive years. | | I i | | maintenance of the public school s 1 D. C. SCHOOL COSTS ARE UP 92 PER CENT Outlay for Permanent Improve- ments Since 1917 Increase 223 Per Cent. Expenditures for operation and tem of Washington increased 92 per cent in the five-year period—1917 to | 1922 inclusive—while outlaws for permanent improvements for the schools of the capital increased 223 per cent in the five-year period, the | Department of Commerce announced today through the cemsus bureau. Schools of Washington during that period consumed 81 per cent of the money expended by the District of Columbia, school appropriations mounting from $2,821.600 in 1917 to $5,425.000 in 1922, while the per capita | expenditure of each resident of Wash- ington for schools advanced from $6.97 In 1017 to $12.40 in 1922, Outlays for permanent improve- ments in the school system totaling $641,000 in 1917 had risen to $2.069,- 000 'in 1922, an increase of 223 per cent, or an increase per capita of from $1.58 to $4.73. Forty per cent of the outlay for ail general depart- ments of the schools was spent in the program of permanent improve- ments. Nothwithstanding these increases in expenditures for schools, the educa- tional systems in other cities compar- able in population with Washington showed larger increases. The great- est advances were reported for New Orleans, which increased its expendi- tures for maintenance and operation 204, per cent over 1917 and 1,620 per cent for permanent improvements. The per capita cost to New Orleans, however, was the lowest of any of the cit listed. Milwaukee wag listed as increasing its expenditures 104 per cent for oper- ation and 124 per cent for improve- ment; Newark, J.. 104 and 207; Cincinnati, 100 and 125; Minneapolis, 74 and 635; Kansas City, 131 and 882 napolis, 149 and 87: attle, 103 ; Rochester. N. Y., 194 and 947, v, § 11 per cent, GARRETT GULTY INPASTOR SLAYING Sentenced to Four Years. Brother Was Given Five Years’ Imprisonment. By the Assaciated Press CUMBERLAND COURT HOUSE, Va., December 15.—Larkin C. Garrett was found guilty of voluntary manslaugh- ter and his punishment fixed at four years' imprisonment by a jury today for his part in the killing last June 5 of Rev. S. Pierce. His brother, Robert jointly indicted with slaying, recently was second degree murder and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Robert O. Garrett now has pending a motion for a new trial and a deci- sion in this matter was expected to- day. However, Judge B. D. White, presiding, announced he would con- tinue Robert's case until the next term of court. This decision was reacued In view of a similar motion made in the Larkin C. Garrett case immediately after the verdict was re- turned. 0. him for the Attorneys Clash. The case went to the jury, composed of Surry o’clock last night, and th mained up until shortly before mid- night to_carry on their deliberations Judge White then instructed the jurors that if they reached a verdict to hold it until this morning. How. ever. it was 10:33 wday before the verdict was agreed upon. The session last night, in which At- torney R. was the -only speaker before the jury, developed several tense clashes between counsel. At one time Mr. Byrd and Harry M. Smith, jr., of de- fense counsel, engaged in such a heat- ed colloquy that Judge White threat- ened to fine both attorneys. Tonslitis Stirs Up Row. Mr. Byrd's address lasted more than an hour and a half and he was fre- quently interrupted by _objections from Mr. Smith or Mr. Wendenburg of the defense. The defense attorneys declared Mr. Byrd was discussing theorfes and not the facts and e dence in the case. They previously had engaged in a war of words over | the fact that Acting Commonwealth Attorney Bonifant would not address the jury in the final argument, and that instead Mr. Byrd would close. Mr. Bonifant explained that he was | suffering from tonsilitis. Formal protest was made by the defense to outside counsel” closing the case when “the law provided that this should be done by the common- wealth's attorney. Judge White overruled the protest and an excep- tion was noted. Exceptions also were noted to several portions of Mr. Byrd's speech. MINNESOTA SENATOR ADDRESSES MASONS Magnus Johnson Tells Caravan Club Farmer Will Fight Own Battles. Senator Magnus Johnson of Minne- sota was the speaker and guest of honor of the Caravan Club at its weekly luncheon in the City Club yesterday. The new senator did not g0 into the field of national disputes, but laid emphasis on the activities of the Mystic Shrine in Minneapolis. which recently dedicated a hospital. The senator, however, is not a Shriner. Shriner. Since his arrival Senator Johnson declared he has becn entertained so much that, aside from his duties at the Capitol, he sees very little of his family. “I think I'il have to send them back to Minnesota.” enator Johnson corrected the gen- cral impre. that he was born on born in a town and twenty years of his life there, Soing onto a farm. The farm added, are tired of depending on others to aid them, so they are going ! to organize and do some things them- | selves. ! President Henry C. Stein presided. He announced that next Friday, which will be “Ladies’ day,” Thurston, the magician, who is a Shriner. wiil be present and give an entertainment for the club. Scenic motion pictures of the Canadian northwest also will be shown. SEEKS NEW CODE. Legislation to set up a rew insurance code for the District of Columbia is proposed in a bill introduced by Repre- sentative George W. Edmonds of Penn- sylvania_yesterday. This legislation is sought by the insurance commissioner | of the District, and the Edmonds bill is | similar to the one that failed for con- sideration in the House at the close of the last Congress because of conges- tion. 2 It has been favorably reported by the House District committee and is ex- pected to be one of the first measures Dbrought out of committee for passage. farm. pent th He w first Garrett, | convicted of | E. Byrd of the prosecution ! in Washington, | ion which he said existed | A SHOT AS POLICE BATTLE BANDITS Pistol Fight in Street Ends in Capture of One of Band of Four. Dy the Associnted Pross MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., December 17 orman “Red” Ryan, alias Slade, es- caped Canadian convict, was shot and captured and four other persons werc wounded in & gun fight between the police and five alleged bandits in front of the Minneapolis post office last night. Four of the bandits are sald to have penitentiary September three of whom broken out of th at Kingston, Ontari 10 last, with n, caped after exchanging with the officers. One of them is believed to have been wounded. The pistol fight, carried on while ti police tried to hold back curlous crowds, came at the end of a day when extra police of the Twin cities had been stationed in all banks, in an effort to round up the desperadoes. The convict bandits were traced to Minneapolis through Michigan, Iili- nois, South Dakotu and Wiscon Canadian officials. A squad of tives wus statfoned in the post office when it was learned they were recelving mail through the general delivery window Bandit Openx Fire. Last night Ryan entered and wa seized, being shot and slightly wound ed in the struggle. Shackled to detectives. he was Jed from the po office, and upon reaching the stree: called to a compan in an aut mobile across the str That bandit opened fire, as did three others, whe swung down the street in amnothe motor car. The bandit in the first cargeaped out and ran down an alley pursued by the firing policemen. He escaped, but is believed to have been hit. The three in the also escaped. Norman Schaaf, shot through thi bullets stlightly Erickson of St. Paul and his sixteen- year-old son. Ryan confessed, the police that he had escaped from that on November 5 Grand Avenue State Bank in St. Paul and obtained $5,000 and that with other gunmen he had been operatiug in various parts of the United States since their escape from Kingston. The Canadian officers nearly cap- tured “the gang recently in Detroit, Mich., but the men eluded a trap set for them in the Detroit post office U. S. MARINE BAND TO FEATURE SALE | will Play for Mothers and Par- ent-Teachers at Ebbitt Hotel. R shots second machine a patrolman, lung, and stray wounded Gustav wa said. Kingston, he heid up the A concert by the Marine be given at the Ebbitt Hotel this af ernoon at 3:30 o'clock as a feature of the Christmas being conducted at the hotel by the Congress of Moth- ers and Parent-Teacher Assoc of the District of Columbia for the purpose of raising funds for the pur- chase of a building to serve as head- quarters and to further child welfare work. The sales fo opened {erystal room yesterday at 1 in the afternoon and will {until 11 o'clock tonight. Vocal solos by Mrs. Ralph Wilson, fancy and social dancing will feature the program for tonight. A Chinese i tea garden, where t¢ 1 he served by girls dressed in Chinese costumes, will be open until the hour for clos- ing. A lecture on “Fivsical Development for Health,” by Mrs. Eva Dell Myers s one of the features earlier in the Iy the o'clock continue in _Among the special articles on sale to- are beautlfully decorated cakes of many_colors, which were donated b the Washington, Shoreham and Raleig hotels, respectively: large boxes of Cali- {fornia’ figs and raisins stuffed with alnuts, which h ere donated Shriner from that state; various { kinds of candies, fruits, books and other things. A book, “The First Biography of Cal- vin Coolidge,” by R. M. Washburn, con- taining the signature of President Cool- idge, and Mrs. Coolidge’s signature as “Grace Coolidge,” is among the articles for sale, ?GERMANY LAYS PLEA ! FOR PARLEY ON RUHR { BEFORE PARIS PREMIER (Continued from First Page.) party to the agreement and the in- will become subordinate dustrialists to the reich. At the same time Germany will ask acknowledgment of German author- ity in the Rhineland and the Rubr, admission of its currencies those districts and permission for the local police to resume normal func | tions, Thus the reich hopes to »r establish _its authority in civil ters in the invaded districts and to counter the separatist movement led by Hagen and Adenauer, which is be- | lievea to be more dangérous to Ger- ‘ man unity than the Matthes-Dorten { movement. Second, the T |any reparation new expert ¢ sible, and will ask that it be permit- jted to pledge certain revenues for payment of the money loaned for th { founding of the gold currency ba | for feeding the starving and for ment of necessary government ex- penses during the transition period Under the Versailles treaty all Ge iman revenues and resources are ‘[pl.».lum for reparations. Hence Ger- many cannot offer security for a loan permission of the new in ich will offer to make payments which the s po without the expr entente. A similar p in Austria. n was successfully ap- The German charge t K as well her interest to s oration of normal economi Which would permit even tual resumption ¢ ments. CONFERENCE IN BELGIUM. then | he i German Envoy Presents Plan for Parley on Ruhr. By tho Assoctated Press LS, December 15.—The Ger- I Herr Boediger, pr Forcign Minister Jaspas today a request for conversatio ith the Belgian government regar ing the occupation of the Ruhr and questions relating to the Rhineland i The request was parallel to. that | made by Herr von Hoesch, the Ger- man charge, to Premier Poincare in Paris. | Herr Roediger sald Germany was willing to facilitate the task of the expert committees to be named by the reparation commission, but con- sidered that the governments in the meantime should discuss various pending problems., He suggested the Belgian technical reparation reports to be used as a basis for the con versations. M. Jaspar replied that he would give his answer later after discussing the subject with M. Poincare. |