Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1924, Page 2

§2.500000 DAMAGE | IN GOLD SNAP FIRES, St. Louis and Ocean Park, Calif., Chief Sufferers—Four CHINESE BANDITS SLAY BRITISH SH!P OWNER Attack Craft Anchored in Yangtze. Throw Body Overboard. SHANGHAL January 7.—Capt. F. J. Brandt, Britsh resident of Shanghal, wus slain by Chluese bandits Satur- day and his body thrown {on the Yangtze river between Chung- Die in Store Blaze. —————t { { B the Assoclated Iress. d ST. LOUIS, Junuary T.—A spectac- ular fire in the bustness district of this city early vesterday caosed an estimated damage of slightly more than $1.500,000, destro thies bulldings and damaging several ad- | jacent buildings. The firemien fo i the flames for fourteen ho g tically all losses arn said to be cov- The fire sty the first floor of Company. - The stock of company proved iy flames' and_soon a blazs w ered in tiu Company b from the rubber company. For elst hours forty-taree companies fou the flames. Two other adjucent caught fire and stack In a pany was d mated by walet, was reported seriously injured . cause of the fire has not been detef- mined. At the same time the 8ire depart- ment was fichting the flames in the business éistrict a call wa from the Dausghters an institution or - working Thirty-five girls were forced fro: their beds carrying only a few cloth with them into the biting c The fire was caused by au hoated stove, It Is believad. was injure A of the perso effects of Eirls were lost. damage 15 estimated at §35,000, FOUR MEN DIE IN FIRE. the ovar- No on2 3 Wall of Store Palls After Explo- sion In Rushville, Iil. PEORIA, M., January shon lost their ives fu Rushville, IIl., early ¥ destroved' five bulldings town's square. The men kllled w: Ravmond Briggs, M Elmo Byrnes. They met thelr deaths when they entered the George L. Purcell cloih- ing storc to assist in carrying out merchandise. An explosion followed | the fire. causing a brick wall to fall Qver upon them: AMUSEMENT ZONE BURNS. Ocean Park, Calif., Loss Dstimated Un to $1,000,0C0. N PARK, Calit, Januar Fire, zald to have originated in a s72ll Ash market on oceun front alk here. vesterday virtually wiped out the entire Ocean Park = ;ent zone and caused damage official- estimated at 3759.000 to $1 600, tely 00 ‘was ce. wag sustained in the destruction of the Pickering mi! lion-doliar pier, the Fraser amu. ment pler and Licks Dume pier. Flames threatened the whole con thousands of = ar:nr.g the re Joh McFeeters and o covered by 1 Most of the los cesslon district before pleasure seekers stroll ocean nt realized w pened ne of the first 5 H 80 down in the path of ihe conflagra. tion was the glant dipp ment devi cently co cost of $10 A strong piling on which the greater the amusement zone was c fanned the flames to_uagovernable heights, and soon the Dome Theater, the Rose Mary Theater, Lick pler, the Bon Ton_balircom, the Fraser ' pler and the Pickering pler were blazing. The large municipal auditorium, con- structed about two years ago At a cost of $350,000, was partly destroyed, and numerous smail concessions val- ued injthe aggregate at imore than 500,000 were reduced to ashes or adly damaged. - No lives were veported lost, but se eral firemen were injured. The exact cause of the fire is undetermined. Animals in pig slides, monkey races and similar concessions were burned to death. 125 DRIVEN INTO STREETS. | Home and Two Apartment Houses in Cleveland Fires. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, January T.— Close to 125 persous, many of them women and children, were driven into | snow-covered streets with the ther | ometer hovering below zaro, early terday, when fire destroyed a home and damaged two spartment bouses. Six adults and five children, driven from their beds by fire resulting from an explosion in a coal furnace, ahivered in their night clothing and barefooted In four inches of snow, with the thermometer eight degrees below zero, while neighbors rescued them - from' the porch of their home in Woburn avenue. This was the iowest temperature here since 1918, when twelve below zero was regis- tered. A blaze routed twenty-five families trem_ the Jl-Dar apartment house in Cleveland Helghts. Six of the thirty-six suites in the building were badly damaged. Eleven persons.. seven of them women and children, wers driven from thelr quarters when fire swopt an apartment. house -on Carnegie avenue. ATLANTA S€HOOL GUTTED. | Roof of City Auditorium Damaged and Two Houses Destroyed. ATLANTA, Ga., January Flame¥ of undetermined origin early Sunday morning gutted the Boys' High School bullding of this city, inflicting a loss #stimated at between $60,000 and 375.000. Sparks from -the burning building started a fire on the roof of the cit: auditorfum, causing considerable damage. Two houses located nearby, jdst south of the school buildini ‘were destroyed by flying sparks. TEN FAMILIES HOMELESS. | WINDSOR, N. 8. January Handicapped by the worst blizzard | of the winter, the fire department worked ten hours yesterday before extinguishing & 3$100,000 fire th: started in Koppel's variety store, and spread to nelghboring residences, leaving ten familles homeless. ANTI-LYNCHING BILL - URGED BY ROOSEVELT Former Envoy and Representative Dyer Also Back Proposed Legislation. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, January 7.—Enact- ment of the Dyer anti-lynching bill was urged by Theodore Roosevelt, asslstant secretary of the Nav: James Weldou Johnson, former con- 3ul in Nicaragua and Venezeuls. and | Re tative L. C. Dyer of mmurs.i i \ at the annual meeting yestarday of the National Association for the Ad- Van ent of Colored People. r. Roosevelt denounced the Ku Klux Klan, urged that every educs tional opportunity be given negroes and complimented the association for m" ing on Americanism of a high order. Mr. Dyer said the bill would come up. e the House judiciary com- mittes on Thursday, PN | froze over tac that the offic: the r g and Ichang. N bandits sitecked the steamer owned by Capt. brandt wiile it was auehored fo Fung- “ahien. nea Chine: ssengoers were wounded in the nphitug. the same ap® where the cap a Japan year. ARMER WEATHER PROMISED DISTRIGT 20, Weather Man Says. Firemen Busy. tain of weather, than cast with a temperature twenty degrees, Is the today for the next broughbt to Washington a mperature of 9.4 degrees "Winlcht Saturday, and was re- to an extent for numersus Ehout the clty - yesterday, the New England states. fr. the west also reflecting pool at the ial t0 such a thickness of public buildings and cunced today that skat- be permitted unul thi ening. however, Viast m Lincoln 3 nds wor tock This, 6 tidn! Lastn, creek Soldiers’ Howe com- under the ban. nd furnaces created demages through the and many home The largest out of gallons of lower floors and o two homes abers of No. 4 2d the building uch diMeculty in of wat They unde to the cause of troubl: Firemen ided as Rescue Two. the cornice on tl 1013 T street cntered tha ed the man and woman terest before ludders could be d from the trucka The build- rendered unfii for habitation, heugh u destroyed. Damuge s estimated at about $2,000. Sparks fro a chimne: the house of D. Samp- et, Che Chas 3 ng Considera- wus mada br the flames the arrival of No. 28 engine Quick work on the part of the firemen saved the house from destruction. The damagze wa at something less than et fire to son, yesterday morning de- stroyed the home of J. Detweller, 2404 Douglas road. Anacostia.. The fire was caused by an overheated stove, police reporied, and members of the family had to seek shelter.in the home f nelghbors. Pra Tothing was saved from the b house. ~ Police estimated the at 3500, Market Catches Fire, Two companics of firemen last night rezponded to a call for fire in the basement of Fr Kidwell's market, Penna; Origin of the fire w. not determined, according to a police réport, and the damage wi - mated at 3760. o s An overheated furnace was blamed amage {for a fire that occurred {n the base- ment..of the house of A. L. Dayhoft, 1008 Pennsylvafila avenue sogthassr, esterday afternoon. The fire did $100 damnage No. gine compeny last night re- sponded to & call for a small Hre on the first floor of the home of Blanche Grove, 3401 N atreet northwest. Origin of the fire was not determined, ac- cording to the police, and the damage amounted to $80. ire in an unoccupled hbuse at 120: 26th street northweat clalmed the sts tention of two companies of firomen late vesierdsy afternoon. The fire was {n a frame partition on the first floor. g An poverheated “furnace was umed. Damage to ti amounted to $30. 78 houes Damaga to the amount of $150 was caused by firs In_the hotuse of George S. Gfibert, 125 D street northwes! esterday ' afternoon. Origla of the fire was not determined. MHouse Burns Twice. Two companies of firemen re: ed to a call from Woodley road an Connecticut avenue northwest last night. It was reported that there was a fire on the roof of an apart- ment house in that vicinity, but fire- men were unablo to find it Slight damage resulted from a in the basement of the homes of W Green, 2328 Georgia avenue nort west, vesterday afternioon. An ove: heated flue was reported to have caused the fire. A small fire in the basement of an unoccupled house at 3600 P; avenue northwest claimed the atte; tion of the fire d ment yesterd, A quantity of trash in a basement room wus burned, but the house was not damaged. Burning paper to thaw a frozen pipe in a frame dwelling at 1403 Mon- tello avenue northeast yesterday afternoon refulted in starting a fire that = was extlnguished by firemen, Damage to the house amounted to $33. An hour later sparks from the fire started another blaze in the house, but no additional damage resulted. A blaze in the chimney at 1108 Columbia _road northwest caused a fire scarelate yesterday afternoon. o damage resulted. THREE DIE OF EXPOSURE. Two Other Sufferers Rescued From Barge in Lake Borgne. NEW ORLEANS, January 7.—Three members of the crew of the towboat Anule, bound from Mobile for Ne Orleans with a_barge, died of e: posure in Lake Borgne while the maining two, including William Har- vey, fifty-seven, of Moblle, are the of the vessel, and Howara Clement, twenty-five, also of Moblle, are in a hospital here. The dead are Charles Alkman, forty-six, and Gustave K. Huff, thirty-six, New Orleans, end F. E. Dubarry of Demopolis, Als. The two men and the bodies of thelr three comrades were rescued from the towboat, whif lodged on a sandbar and sank, by & passing boat. DEMAND JURY TRIAL. Roy Edelin and Worth McCormack of 643 Lexington place northeast, who were arrested Saturasy Iu_con- nection with the finding of, a large still_and 200 gallons of mash pleaded not guilty to ail ch today when they were arraigned in Police Court ana aemanded jury tria The defendants were charged with manufacuring, illegal possession and transporting of liguor,'- . / s sluying happened t | ose steamer was klled last | overboard | GRAFT, CONSPIRACY, WASTE CHARGED TO FORBES BY O'RYAN ntinued from Fitst Page) pany of Boston “caused this transac- tion to resemble more the work of buccaneers in the lootir and scut- tling of a ship than the mere negli- gence of trusted government offi- cluls,” the O'Ryan report declares. Instance of Favoritinm. As an illustration of how favorit- fem In contract letting, as uncovered by the Investigation, “caused serious delay in providing hospital facilities for the disubled,” the O'Ryan report points to persistent efforts by Forbes to give the contract for the bullding of 2 500-bed haspital for nervous and mental cases at Northampton, Mass., to & compauy he favored “Dishonesty and neglect in man- egement” {a thus discussed in the O'Ryan report: he above heading opeas up a very disagrecable chupter in the his- tory of the Veterans' Burcau o American can read it without feeling of dlsgust for the manner in which the great work of alding the disabled was prostituted for self-aggrandize- ment and greed. No soldier familiar with the cleun and splendid respon- siveness of the Amerlean troops in battle can consider {t without feelinga of rage and shame that the disabled among them should have been so callously explolte: “Qur "preparedness for the relief was In keaping with our preparedness for battle.” e Woerk of "Vultures.” “It was expected that human vul- tures would seck profit and graft® when the great task of preparing to ald the disabled was started, , O'Ryan points out because “thie cancerous element is in every great population,” but he argues that this Wwas all the more reagon for integrity and ability in the management of this great humanitarian work. Here is what really existed under Director Forbes. the O'Ryan report says “Unparalleled waste, réckiessness and misconduct, lack of high purpose and disregard of -officlal obligation. What followed was to be expécted.” There was experience to draw on when Forbes assumed ofilce, Ger. O’'Ryan emphasizes, for the work of organising and beginning govern- ment ald for disabled veterans had been going on for two vears. “An able and induatrious man, the report says, “would soon have fnaugurated radical and effective re- forms. Col. Forbes was neither able nor honorable. The evidence is not only convincing, but no other con- clusion can bo reached.” Gen. O'Ryan aeks the committee to Keep this in mind because of the tendency to cure ills by legielation, which, he says, “cannot supply char. mcter.” Regnriless of izws, the Vetel ans' Bureau could not 'have func- under ,Forbes, Helds Meve Criminal. “Criminal” is the term applied by Gen. O'Ryan in his rcport to the transaction at the Veterans' Bureau's {supply depot at Perryville, Md., ;where he finds that about $3,000,000 {worth of goods, including many new ipackages, were sold to a Boston firm for cents on the dollar. He de- jclares this showed “criminal negli- c (" It was this transaction that led to the forced resignation of Forbes {when he failed to comply. with orders {trom the late President Harding to top sales to the Boston company. “It {s impossible to Delieve "that { tho transaction was the result.of other than conspiracy to defraud the Gen. O'Ryan says, with- out mentloning any hames in this connection, aithough i continuing hie says in effeci: That the the previous recor O'Leary, then in charge of the supply section of the bureau; the practically | secret sale: the padded inventory af | the property to be sold; the speed with which 'representati of the contractors loaded on cars property not inciuded {n the sale and aiso new. 1y purchased proporty just arriving: the attempt Harding and the misrepresentations to the public health service, which was attempting to get some of the property—these and othor circum- stances, says O'Ryan, cause this transaction (o resemble the work of buccaneers.” Cost of Hospitals. Hospitals bullt under the Forbes administratfon averaged a cost of $3,957 a bed, as compared with an average cost of $2.972 per bed, or $985 lowm ‘before the Forbes regime, and during a period when the work of bullding hospitaly w: jurisdiotion of tha supervising archi- E’acl of the 'l‘rauu.h ry Department, the 'Ryan report snows. Hospital construction under Forbes, Gen. O'Ryan finds, was delayed iu part by the desire of Forbes to award construction contracts ' to favored contractors, and speed was made the excuso for irregular awarés. —The Northampton Hospital mentioned above {8 cited as an example. The story of that transaction i3 told in the O'Ryan report, and the following is & summary: Ellas H. Mortimer of Philjadelphia testified before the committee that he was Washington representative of J. W. Thompson and J. W. Black, who controlled building construction com- enies in Bt. Louts, Chicago and l‘f(lch that he . became Ve friendly with Forbes, accompani him on {nlroctlon tripe, J‘ld some of his hotel bills and loaned him money. and that he.obtalned in return ad ‘vance information on the plans of the ‘bureau of building hospitals and an understanding _that his clients, Thompson and Black, would get thie Northampton ital job. “It {a {mpo: to believe Forb conduct was the result of guileless- ness—that it was other than secret offe tion In their the associa: ‘Thomp- son, Black and Hurley, president of & Pacific coast construction cempany tor which Forbes was working when appointed to the Veterans' Bureau. * o of the companies controlled by govern the Thompson-Black interests was| the Pontiac company. This company- first sought the contract for excevat- ing the site for the Northampton Hospital. It did not sudmit Its bid untll after the Lhour for opening the bids and then its bld wi in {rregu- Jar férm. But all bids wers rejected d a contract negotiated with the Tontisc company This company got | the work althau, Dr. Rogers, an : n. Carson of the Quartermarter Corps and Forbes advisory of ptanning board on hospitad matters roconunended that | it be given to the Northeastern Con- struction Company, & lower bidder. Forbes telegraphed Charles C then generai counsel for the bureau, | and since a sulclde. to award it to' the Pontisc compeny. The excuse was that the Pontlac company ag: d mhda the work In less time than IiIYI other. The Pontiac company, according to| O'Ryan, al*o sought the contract for | huilding the hospital But its bid was very high and all bids were re- jected, on the ground they were too | high. O'Ryan points cut that this happened before September 20, 1922, when Forbes had a break with Morti. mer, but that {n October, 1622, after | the break, Forbes awarded the con- tract to the Fuller Constructiof Com- pany, the lowest bidder, the first| Ume. Tt is not the function 6f the special | Senate committee to prosecute. Gen. O'Ryan declares in his report, b stresses that the committes h ' velaped evidence that fraud and cor- ruption existed” and that Forbes was a “leading actor” in a conspiracy to defraud the government ! Mortimer's testimony “as to Forbes' | part in the consplracy” has been established, Gen. O'Ryan seys, and he expresses conviction that further | investigation by the Department of | Justice will show other instances of corruption and negle by Forbes and othera in the bureau.” A epecial section of the Department of Justice, he saye, has all the svidence in these matters uncovered by Gen. O'Ryan and the Senate committee. WEEKS AND DENBY HIT PROPOSAL TO-ESTABLISH DEFENSE DEPARTMENT (Continued from First Page.) from are more apparent than real Where such duplication und expendi- ture exists corrective messures can be tgrl!gd through means now availabla. “6. That unity of policies and plans and effective co-operstion in joint operations of the Army and Navy is essential. Present Methods U “7. That in the joint Army board, the jolnt Army and ning committes, the joint zeronautical| board, the Army and Navy munitions | board, the local joint planning com- mittees, and the bureau of the budget, as now established, effactive meons exist to accomplish the results indi- cated in (6) above, and” that ex- perience and what has already been accomplished demonstrates that with the support of the Sscretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, the means are adequate to the ends in view. S._That the proposal to consolidate eld. to decelve President | under the | the War and Navy departments into a singte department of national de- fenze should not be favorably con- sidered at the present time, {n that such action will not scoomplish 't objects claimed for it by ita aponsor! will adversely affect the efficiency of the Army and Navy and will serve to tmpose an additional agency be tween these two agencles of the commande 1, the Pre cretary Weeks opened his state- y pointing out that nation as seen in ‘the light of the world war, involves the entire peo- ple of a country and the entire activi- ties of the country, and declared that England rejected a plan for consoli- dation of its army and navy adminis- trations. All Forelgn Examples. He pointed out that France has re- rejected such =z proposal several times. All great powers today, he continued, except Germany and Rus. sia, have separate navies, and neither of these countries has a navy amount- ing to much at this time Mr. Weoks, remarking that the re- port of the Congressional committee gave but little detall as to the inner organization of the proposed depart- ment of defense, should it become ef- foctive, was answered by Chairman Brown, who sald that It was thought best to feave such inner organization until later. Mr. Weeks said that the War and {Navy Deptrtments are full of tradl- tions which have been bullt up. He sald that any plan which ‘fails t take into account the is un- sound in principle and should be re- Jected. Hits “Gemeralities.” Answering the claim that there is lack of economical administration, Searetary Weeks polnted to the bud- get bureau, and sald that the saving of money at the expense of eMclency is unsound. He declared.that the War and Navy departments are not at | economic war with one another, and branded the charge of waste as “gen- !(';“‘WMKI said that thero 18 a 1imited amount of duplication, which aannot be avolded, “and would not be if the two depariments wete ocon- solidated.” The ~amount of harm- ful duplication is practically negll- gible, he continued. -No-finai conclu- !gltl.l of an overdose of poison. Upper: Getting ready for the aport. wer: Al and Gerald Phipps, sons of Senator L. C. Phipps, don’t let a little thing Ifke a apill worry them. tion of the varlous boards previously mcntioned, and #aid that since the or< ganization of the joint Army and Nuvy -board in 1919, ‘more than three hundred subjects have been cousid- ered, and harmonjously worked out; with only one disagreement, and this | one was submitted to the President, who solved the problem. TUnity Possible Now. In the joint Army and Navy board, Mr. Weeks declared, adequate and efficient machinery exists to prevent duplication, and give unity of action. In the bureau of the budget, he sald, there lies the machinery for economical purchase of supplics. The Secratary sald the proposed consolidation appears vory attractive, and theorsticaliy might seam the thing to do, 3 amined by non-technical plan has never been fav tinued. by Army and Navy “It seems to. me that lsan on inchnical advieers” Ee Weeks said, ers has adopted while that is not conciusive evidence, it does cast doubt on the proposition.’ Chairman Brown asked Mr. Weeks if there were any legal reason why the two departments could not go back to “their old ways before the world war taught its lessons of co- operation and teamwork. Hopeful of Future. and “Sueh a thing simply wouldn't be| tolerated any Weeks said. “We have the lessons of the world war fresh in our minds,” Mr. Brown replied. “But such conditions were tolerated for a long time” He asked how the efficiency of the national de- fense could be lessened by consolida- tion. Secretary Weeks replied by stating that he couldn’t say it would be eas: more, Secretary to point out, for it has ncver been tried out. “I think the change would be a trying period” he continued. Mr. Brown wanted to know If the Army and Nl\’{ “would fight anx less Vigorously if there was only half a secretary for each sitting at the cabi- net table.” T never sald snything like that” Eecretary with replying. Noesevelt Hits Change. Assistant Becretary of the y Theodore Roosevelt, following the reading of a short pencil manuscript bfi Secretary Denby, spoke from a chair at the side of the hearing room, and said that he wanted to point out that wherever a nation had consoli- dated its Army and Navy adminis- tration, one or the other had suffered. He refused to make any formal state- ment, and the first hearing was ad- journed at 11:30 a.m., subject to the call of the chairman. Beside Mr. Brown, the commiltee on reorganization cousists of Senator Reed, moot of Utah, Senator James W. Wadaworth of N Senator, Pat Herrison of:Mi ippl, Representsgtives Mapes of Michigan, | Representative Temple of: Pennsyl- R. Walton BURIAL. Manufacturer - ‘Rescues - Former ‘Wife From Pauper Grave. NEW, -YORK, January Brown, & manufacturer, e announced. he would claim for burial in - Kensi¢e cemetery tomorrow . the body of his formier wife, Mrs. June Diamond Brown, which had been un- claimed in the horgue sinés Christmas dayv Mrs. Brown'dled in le:g Buh.d- e een divorced from Mr. Brown in 1919, Mr. Brown declared he would n rmit the burial in potter's fleld,.th city common burial ound‘ of the vahia and_ Representat! Moore of Virginta. - CLAIMS BODY FOR ve ion as to poesible duplicstion of ef- :m 1s justified. the Secretary of War stated, without an exhaustive inves- tigation. “We learned s great deal during the great war,* Mr. Weeks sald. “We are lfll“"'l“f mml‘t‘l"’l““‘“lfi :tu- lons. Tesults of ar. g:‘ ?nfl‘nno-d g .uu national defense t a3 & samp! “Att‘:cklnl the charge that under the present system it is_impossible to secure unity of plah and eperation, ‘Secretary Weeks told of the formas body of the mother er. aughter, Dudley, who died some time ag: SWEDISH, SENATOR DEAD. l:m;nmzna{nn 'OCKH!¢ Sweden, January 7.— m&:ud ‘Wavrinsky, former n‘:!rnber of the Swedish senafe, chief of the ‘World’s Good Templars from 1905 to 1921, and famous in Europe as & porker for permunent peace and dlsy armamen age ).VOIMLE at at first glanee | ‘Nona of the grsat pow- | Weeks contented himself; \MEXICAN UPRISING SEEN |LOSING.GROUND STEADILY | (Continued from First FPage.y crably. It has'aiso been reported ' from the' Jalisco front within the last: few days that the rebel general, Manuel Dicgues, fs heaing a column into the state of Guanajuato, wifh the intention {of interrupting rallway trafic between |Mexico City and the border. | Gen. Caraveo has been in command lof ihe operations against Diegues, Wwho thus far bas succeeded onlv in causing a panic among the inhabit- ants of Leon,' stale of Guanajuato, cutting the Central rallroud at rito, forcing trains from Juares t. Mexico City to detour from Celay via San Luls Potosi and Aguas Caii- tle information is available the situation in Pueblo and i Cruz, including the Tehuantepee region and Yucatan, although It is known from official statements that the federal n under Gen. V- cente Conzeles {s sl holding Villa Hermosa, capital of Tabasco, Tfirouxh- j out the ‘northern states nothing Ras occurred -to dispute the governme ennouncemant that the entite north s { tranquil and remaining loyal to the {administration. The only disturb. anuces reported, except. for wandering bandits, have been confined to th. Vera Cruz, Jalisco, Guerrero and Oaxaca fronts. Move Against Estrada. Departure of Gen. Jaquin Amaro chief in command of the Jalisco front, from Mexico City after a con- ferenco with President Obregon is taken as presaging a federsl advance agalinst Gen. Estrada. Numerous at- tempts by the Estradistas to entice Gen. Amaro into leading his. troops into ambush bave fafled so far. The policy adopted by the admin- istration a® to publicity given mili- {tary operations is gradually taking eftsct, being chiefly noticeable in the refusal of the public to become ex- cited over extravagant claims of victories apread from revolutionary headquarters and by their sympa- thizers. Official bulletins. by the govarnment are held up, -however. until confirmation“has been received from the fleld commander. No effort is made to conceal government re- verses, except in to {ar as they con- cern the movement of troops. Mexico - City has apparently re- turned to normal life with the ex- ! ception of the increased cost in liv- Ing necossities o government Is taking steps t remedy this, however, threugh con. trol of prices by a special food com- mission, which " is_"also _{mportin iprime necessities from the Unite: {Btates and northern Mexico. Except in ithe districts controlled by the rebels, railroad, postal and telegraph com- munications have remained normal. Few ermanent foreign residents have abandoned Mexico City. Pglicy on Ofl Taxes. According to the treasury. the pe- troleum reglons, except for a small dlstrict in the vicloity of Tuxpam, sre controlled by the government. The government is determined to have ofl taxes due January 10. paid in Mexico City,-according to the an- 1 - {noancement. The following war - bulletin was issued by the secretary of war; »A communication recelved ' frem Gen. Abuara, EOVernor of Hidulgo, gives comp! o the defeat of the rebel foroes Gen.- Cavazos by federal troops com- manded by Gen. Gabay, Gen. Azuara states he has taken horses and sad dles. belonging to Gen. Cavazos and that rebel dead found on the fleld of battle numbered over 100. Gen. Azuara also states that the reb. offivers Flores and Villegas refused to fight with Cavazos and are now on the way to Mexico City to ‘present their arms to the government. ‘With all sursty, the troope undar command of Gen, Eugenio Martines will ‘advance this coming week with- out any interférence on the clty of Vera Crus., without makin lly:: hl:.i;\ll’ free Tout and quality of/ troo Martines i3 guarantes on this: solems rtion is made) vith | " | Tinots, under, (SEVEN.ON WARSHIP - LOST DURING STORM Cutters and Tugs Comb Sea in Vain Search for Dismantled Louisiana. ON WAY To SCRAP HEAP Vessel Breaks Anchor When Left on Voyage to Baltimore. NORFOLK, Va. Januery The old battleship Louisiana, which broke her moorings at sea during Saturday night's gale and which has gince been adrift with a skeleton crew, was sighted at 10:50 am. today by the comst guard outter Manning, according to wireless advices at cosst guard headquarters here: - ¥ the Associated Pross. NORFOLK, Va. January The €. 8. battleship Loulsana, in tow from Philadeiphia to Baltimore, where it was to be scrapped, was reported lost in a strong northwest gale that swept tho coast Saturday night. The huge ship was being towed by the two tugs, Wood and Plerless, of the Wood Towing and Wrecking Com- pany. When the tugs were about sixteen miles southwest of Assateagus they were overtaken by the gale and were - forced to leave their charge and run for shelter. Missing on Return. The battleshlp was anchored. When the tugs returned yeeterday morning in search of the ship it could not be located. The local coast guard was notified and the cutters Manning and | Mascoutin, accompanicd by the mine sweeper Owl, which was anchored in “Hlnlplull roads, went to the assist- {ance of the two small tugs. Al da. {ihey searched for the battlesiip, but {when dark overtook them their {efforts to locate the battlesbip had been frujtless. There are seven men aboard the battleship. -A warning to i navigatior has been hroadeast by the local coast guard. SIGHTED BY STEAMER. Message Says Louisiana Seen Drift- | ing Barly Today. | - The Navy Department was wotified tonight that the old battleship Louisi- ana had been sighted adrift early this morning by the steamship Her- {bert L. Pratt. { A message from the munder at Norfolk sai | “Steamship Herbert “at1 passed i naval com- the battleship Loulsiana agrift, luti- de §7.14 north, longitide 74.55 west ‘oast guard and commardant fifth "nll\n\l district notified Louisiana had !broken adrift from tugs Wood and | Peerless. Sixtv.five fathoms of thains ihad _been let go, aud Louislana | |anchored - off “Winter Quarter Hgh {vessel for the night. At 12:56 coast guard cutter M ning was ordered to locate and sist her. At 30 U. -8 8. Owl and Mascoutin were dispatched to aid in locating he: At 6 P.] no word received regarding location of ship. Scarching vessels silll irying to lo-! cate Louisiana The Louisiana, wh s _placed out of commission in October, 1920, had n sold lo private enterprises for junk value. She had b largely stripped before leaving Philadelphia, and the men aboard clvilian orkers. No wireless. facllities were ailable (o them. The coast gusrd: cutters Manning and. Mescoutin and the mine sweeper Owl had failed early today in_their seurch for the Loulsians SIX FROM BALTIMORE. Men, Employed to Tend Lights and | Help Guide Vessel. BALTIMORE, Md.. Januery: 7—Sis emploves of the Boston Iron and | Metal Company, Baitimoreans, are | among thoss on the derelict Louis-| lana. They are: Capt. Charles Sher- man, Harry Spicer, Roy Blake. negro: E. Smaiiwood. nogro: J, Cohen, ne- gro, and an unidentified negro. The men were employed to keep the lights burning on the vessel and help steer her. {JOHNSON OUTLINES CAMPAIGN PROGRAM {Spesking Tour Covering Tilinois | Arnl}ged, to Begin in Two Weeks. { . By the Associated Pross. | CHICAGO, January 7.—A speaking { tour which will open Senator Hiram i Johngon's presidential campaign in | the middie west is being arranged for according to plans made pub- Mlc at Senator Johnson's headquarters {here. The tour is expected to begin in about two weeks. From Illinols Senator Johnson will &0 to South Dakota for a stump. cam- paign there and will return by way | of Michigan. 5 Criticises Admigistration. Senator Johnson in & statement yesterday. eriticized the- -adminletra- tion and its policy In selling arms to the Obregon government for use against the de Ia Huerta revolution- ! 1 ing one side or the other,” he de- clared. “It is backing either in a { war of which we know-nothing and | is none of our comcern. The statement prepared by Sen: tor Johnson in his presidential head- arters here after a conference . Cleveland spsech. The Coolidge po! ioy, Senator Johnson- beljeves. co tains potential danger to the nsatfon fature trade in Central and South use it may alienate Latin Amerlcan peoples. = o States U. 8. Poattion. Our nation in advance_ takes its position against any and all revolu- | tions, no matter what the merits, and undertakes with its mighty power to sustain as against febellion or revo- lution uny existing. government of whatever character, “If gny such rule had obtained dur- ing our own revolution, the United | States would still be a dependency of Great'Britain, Beyond this, it nega- tives all our protestations of peace ! and at onca ‘makes us indiroctly & party of Iittle local wars, - ‘The cry ‘has been inéessant that peace could come to a war-torn world only. through the example and |sader- ship of the United States. We've de- manded dissrmament to ‘make war less likely, and internationalists in- tereated i taking- us. nto Europe | have insisted on our. participation in i European conferences, and even in a u; ith Frank I Hitcheock, his campalgn | manager, ie an enlargement upon hie | | moath of IN BALL ACT GASE Judge Decides “Immediately” Means Time and Not De- gree of Necessity. Holding that the word “immediates 1y used in the Bali rent act in refer. ence to the Jandlord's need of his property for his own use applies to the time whben the naceseity exists snd not to the degres of necessity, the District Court of Appeals in un opinion by Justice Van Orsdel today reversed a decision of the Municipal Court, which had denied Michael A. Mess the right to take possession of premises 1418 M strect morthwest, which was occupled by Mrs. L. M. Mosteller as tenant. The court sug- gests that it is difficult to conceive a stronger case of the establishment of @ necessity on the part of.the Jand- ord. Mess and his wife are both over seventy years ¢ld and Novem- ber 14, 1922, served notice on thcir tenant for pogsession, explaining that the quarte then occupied by the owner are located in Chevy Chase, Md., at a remote distance from ths car’ line, making difficult the going and returning of Mr. Mess {rom his office. The Municipal Court found as & fact the exjstence of the condi- tjons set forth in the notice to qui hut held that the word “immediately is synonyinous with “indispensab and * “imperatively,” ou the theory that the act was primarily for the rotectfon of tenants and that the nconvenience to the tenant must be considered. t matters not.” says Justice Van Orsdel, “that the owaer may have had other 'properties equally available the choice of which e wiil cupy is with the owner, and not the tenunt. The right is reserved to the owner, and when asserted in the terms of the statute he should uot Le deprived gf that right by the courts.” The court also sustained the right of the owner to poseession Of prem- ises 3200 M street: northwest, of which Walter T. Weaver and Wililam Britt are tenants. Randolph F. Kosster purchased the property and —gave notice to the temants. The Municipal Court upheld the oontentibn of ‘the owner and the tenants appealed. Jus- tice Van Orséel affirmed the finding of the Municipal Court im fayor of the owner. DRY HEAD TO PROBE MYSTERY OF LETTER Yellowly Determined to Find How * Lynch Got Paper From Legation. : Throwing a veil of” secrecy about their plans, prohibition officials today begen a searching investigation Lo nravel the mystery of a letter dated January, 1920, to the Hondurun le tion from a former prohib - ficial which was found Friday night in the possession of an slieged booi- Tegger. What method of approach to the problem would be taken by the iz- vestigators of the prohibition unit were kept under cover by E.C. Yellow- lev, chief of general prohibition agents, who. it ie understood, will be, in per- sonal charge of the probe. “The iavestigation ~will be made” sald Mr. Yellowley today. we mre putting or. what cluss we “How many age! on it, how they wo! follow, I canpat. of course, revea] but jwe intend to obtain all possible clues an very scrap of evidence possi- o Eery dead: 4T e foltowed and nothing will be left undone to get to the bottem of this thingm” The letter from the Honduran legs tion concerning three ~barrels of whisky which was confiscated in (i possession-of John J. Lyaeh, 1323 G street yorthwest, is {n o safe at pro- hibition hesdquarters, together with what la understood to be other evi- dence whigh wifl be followed by the, prohibition unit. Tonch, on whose person the letter was found, will appear before United States Commigsiongr George G. Mac- !donald January 24, when his case will be heard. GASOLINE TAX TOPIC FOR BOARD OF TRADE The proposed gasoline tax in the District of Golumbia will be_one of the principal subjects to be dlscuss- od at the meeting of the Washington Board of Trade to be held in the New Willard Hotel. Thursday, beginning at 8 o'clock. A report will-be re- ceived from W. Pierce Raynet, ohair- man of the special traffi committee on gasoline tax, snd it is expected that it will provoke a lengthy dis- cusslon. . “Rulmn also will be received ‘from' David M. Lea, chalrman of the n- surance and fire proteotion commit- tee. and Fred G. Coldrem, chairman of the parks and reservations com- mittee. Congrens Members Guasts. The board will have as its guects during the evening Senator L. Hej Jer Ball, chairman of the Senate Dis- teict committee; Senator lawrence C. Phipps, chalrman of the commj tee on appropriations of the Eena Repaesentative Stuart F. Reed, chals man of the House Distriot commit- tee: Representative George FHolden Tinkham d _President William Mather Lewls of George Weshing- ton University. J. Harry Cunnlfinol’htm. sacond vice president of tl Hi‘ will praside. December Circulation 93,400 m NOYES, President of THR a STNDAY STAR. does solemnty wear (bat the actual number of copies of the Daper samed. wcld 334 distribated during the lows: December, A.D. 1923, was a3 Yol carstoLstnsmaseans ERRNSrRERSew ta] daily net circulation ’l:g'u. I'erlla net paid circu- tion .. o s Go. il verage numbar . of D ien for service. ete. Dally average net circulation, | futile league court—ail in tho sacred name of peace. How can these good people justify our present attitude, an attituda utterly inconsistent with @isarmament and peace?’, —_— WILL DISCUSS FLATS. Committee ou Anacostia Improv ¢ ament to Meet: Tmprovements of the Anacostia flats will be discussed by the tommittee of the chamber ofi commerce having that matter in charge at.a meeting 1o be held at the chamber's quarters, Homer bullding,| 13th and G stre norths West, toniorrow night.at 3 o'olock. Coples. 100,133 00,618 563 Total Sunday net Average net pald age Sunday pet’ AYe i 0] 2 X ot fgbacrined’ ind ki Beyreoigonl o iy 1924, s Seal) ELMER ¥ !o% b R e il LANDLORD UPHELD