Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1924, Page 2

$300,000 PLEDGED | 6.W:UL.BY ALUNNI Campaign for $1,000,000 .. Fund Given Impetus at & New York Dinner. $400,000 RAISED TO DATE Next Report of Workers to Be Made February 23. New York alumni of the George ‘Washington University have pledged themselves to raise not less than 3$300,000 for the million-dollar endow- ment fund for the institution. ! This was the word that reached Washington today, following the din- ner of New York alumni held last night at the Hotel Astor, when®Pres- ident William Mather Lewls, John B. Larner and Mrs. James Carroll Fra- Zer spoke. Word was carried to the New alumni that exactly $400,000 h raised to date in the National « and that the campaign worl are to remain “in harn March. The mext report meeting of local workers will be at 12:30 o'clock F Tuary 23, at the New Willard Hotel. Gift For $1,000, Gifts reported vesterday $1,000 from L. L. Jonk from Wade H. Cooper, Mi Freeman, Mr: ork been apital hero until included $300 each contribution and me was received from the council Paul's English Luthcran Chure Delta Phi and Phi Alpha Delt fraternities, have cach cont $250. A memorial sift was m terday in memory of the E. 0. Schreiber of the Speaking on the religious the university, Dean H. 1. Hodzkins sald that Georze Washington is a Christian, but non-denominational in- stitution. “The university is working under a c'ause identical with & clause in the orizinal charter of 1 stating that no distinctions shall made as to the re faculties or trus sald. He explair was in operation until 1% gress modified the cha that the president of and two-thirds of the tru be_Baptists. Five vears late from a board of tr of whom were again put the oris eration, which it h making the university non-de national and non-se tarian Hodgking exi the apprec of the universi + Luther Rice, tl ini Baptists have pla) th lishment of the institution. Drive Breaks Record. William Bruc aking the meeting yos fact that durin has already be single Washington Univers (x the campaign has university in the of the District of its fricnds is President Lowis York last nie it “Five hund leaders in the profe ness life of New Yorl education at George W versity. There are United S more uates and former studenis o versity, which has zrown up fn the Capital city, and now. century of development, enrc than 5,000 students “George Washir spoke of his desire f the capital, ‘to which the youth fortune and talents from all | might be sent for the comnict their education.’ “Although the sto for the founding of became value ried out memory. bill granti sity in 1 a bill giving a 1 institution,- aRd John Quinc contributed moncys to it “Their fajth in an institution in Capital _is Justificd hy the fact that it is offering’ opportunitios to thousands df younz peapl employed in the governme and who now - cduca vantages which otherwise not obtain. Natlonal Advantages. “George Washinzton Univ also of national service to fuli-time undergrdauate and graduate stud:nts, who are here enabled to tap the tre- mendous resources o/ the government departments, scientif] independent . foundatic Washington, - “The university, w fered because of i and overcrowdcd conditio: erecting the first uni plant which will be a d 0 the architectu tures of ington and a pride tc “Plans are also unde velopmeht of a dep service, in which will be jectur by distinguished stat Jomats. The camp lion dollars, wk securing ample cndowinent funds, is now assured of succes: “The organization of the > Alumni Club will be followed by organization of sim ubs in Cl Boston, St. Louis nneapoli LECTURE SERIES OPENS. tatus of this clause ees should under petition ition other ton in his w ra university ch ver Ada dings now foreis: cours < the first the Prof. C. 8. Collier Gives First at G. W. U. Law School. The first of a series of free lecture by the faculty of the George Washing- ton Law ‘hool wa held at the law building, 14 K street northwest, last night. Prof. C. S. Collier lecturcd on “Judi- ;clal Suprem The other will be as follows: + marcial Paper,’ “Wednesday, March 2 and Their Resuits,” Prof. H. \ nd April 9, “Imagination Justice Wendell P, Admission is by t may be obtained by making app o the secretary of the "VETERAN, 97, SLAIN '\ BY FRIEND, AGED 91 ; Roommates in Soldiers’ Home Quar- rel Over Zeaving Window in Room Open. ul Acts Edge in the By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 16.— G. W. Hamby, aged ninety-seven, of Petersburg, Tenn. an inmate of the Tennessce Confederate Soldiers’ Home, i dead and Lis roommate, Dr. G. T. Bracking, aged nincty-one, is con- fined to the hospital ward in the homn suffering from severe injuries as the result of a fight at the home, about fifteen miles from Nashville, on the Lebanon pike, yesterday. ‘The fight, according to officials who made an investigation of the affair, arose over an argument as to whether the window in the room occupied by the two aged men should be opened or_left closed. Hamby was stabbed during the bat- tle, Bracking using a pocket Knife. The fight took piace about 3 p.m., and Hamby died within a half hour. No Tests had been made late last night. now | estab- nd building | D. C. MAN HARVARD BOARD CANDIDATE Charles Moore Among Six Candi- dates Announced for Nine Vacancies. NINE ALUMNI NOMINEES List for Directors of Association Is Made Public. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 16.— Candidates for the six places on the {Harvard board cf overseers which will {become vacant in June were an- nounced by the nominating com- mittee last night. Additional nomi- nations may be made up to April 1 by certificate signed by at least 200 -graduates el- igible to vote. Nine men also were nominated for the coming the board of di- rectors of the Harvard alumni Assoctation. OHARLES MOORE, _ Those nominated for overseers are Charles Moore, Washington, D. C., author and editor; Judge Willlam Andrew yracuge, N. Y.; Howard Elliatt, York. chalrman of the | Northern Pacific Railway; Dr. Per 1 J. Baton, Pittsburgh, Pa. ree R, Agassiz, Nowport, R. L Roland W. Boyden, Beverly, former unoflicial delegate to the reparations commission; Judge Frederick P Cabot, Boston; Bishop _Coadutor Charles L. Slattery of the Frotestant Episcopal diocese” of Massachusetts; Alexander M. White, New York; Fred- erick Roy Martin, New York, general {manager of the Assoclated Press; Georg Moore, Louls, director of the Missouri” Botanical Garden Iivan Hollister, Buffalo, lawyer: l¢ A. Morison, Milwaukee, man- | ufacturer; Joseph G. Bradley, Dundon, iy ., lawyer and coal operator: i Perkins, Burlington, lowa, {banker; Chester C.' Bolton, Cleveland, manufacturer, and Rupert E. L. Kit- tredge, Toronto, cducator. Alumni Nominees. nominees for alumni assocla- rectors are: Roswell P, Angler, v_Ha George F. Baker, e rd Mallinckrodt, Lot Taft, Boston: Cincinnati Dedham, Mass.; Wendell,' New York; W ner, Augu Me:, Middendorf, Baltimore. BRITAIN WILL GIVE LABOR FAIR TRIAL (Continuec tion ¢ ir., Nichols, Charles Wid 2, William G liam T, Henry S, rom First Page) than at any moment since the close the conference nearly The message which vincare following iefdent of a week ¥ 100k the French premicr b but it in- sincerity and di- interesting, it superfiiul con- Paris p nt point is, i s to least to make with her Ly outside nations, t He I8 s = of all Anglo-F but seeking to frank. friendiy c London believes, e ch sentiment, Mr. Macdonald v to translate into action. 1 think, work that Mac- with France a sincere effort than to on_ with forn to sok \ther at on r ar ich differ- ive at this 3 Lerwis Full Chance. ent the outstand- Britain has settled characteristic deliberate- iabor a full, free chance ate its capacity, only re- it grip upon the new party the fact that this govern- always a minority. There is cone on on all sides that i1; there is gqual- n that what is be- of the great experi- history, but now niversal appreciation of the the experiment will be tried in trhditional fasfion. (eihL e motent the new prime min- ster come from a political from his cwn ¢ party a group of they are only Wit reliance To Have Riit op fact down the m ing is that with ness tn give to dentonst taininz through ment is frank labor | enemy, but up. He has in his Xtremists who, as moderately satisfied upon constitutional methods, are patently impatient of delay. In political experience and tem- per they suggest Johnson. i The dona'd has presently to make is whether the extreme he resists and controls, may endure for a consid- time: if he resists, it will still for " some months, but if he s he is not only doomed, but the labor movement will be discred- { coercion. hie min | erable remain whol ited Enrns Right to Trial. But this is still in the future. Labor hsa begun well; it has made Its cab- | inet, confronted its parliament, without ! jany cerious break or failure. It has |earned for itself. in the view of the {man in the street, the right to a full, {fair trial. In the forcign fleld it has | begun to express a policy which is not {only national but generally approved by | the country which has felt profound humiliation over the manner in which the preceding governments have failed to maintain British prestige and influ- ence abroad. In doing this, however, Macdonald has mnot angered or even irritated France. Indeed, he has In a {measure placated suspicious Paris. | I the { Russia, too, labor has unmistakably | expressed the sentiment of the cou. try; liberals and laborites advocated Jit” "1f there 1s tory disapprobation in principle, in practice the opposition recognizeéd that it was not a matter in which” effective protest could be jmade. Exactly in the same llshlnnl the new prime minister's purpose to give full British strength to the effcctive extension of the scope and value of the league of nations finds nation-yvide approval. Indeed, the leagueAs to be the corner stone of the new Bfitish foreign policy. : Most cautious observers now give labor at least six months in power. e most outspoken critics expect little dangerous radicalism. _Such panic as there may have been at the outset has not only vanished, but is forgotten. England in 4 revolution Ihas™ once more adopted the old! formula, “business as usual” The | national sporting sense, the sense of fair play, has asserted itself. Labor s safe until it has had a real chance and has succeeded or falled by and of itself. , Copyright, 1924, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, SEEKS $10,000 DAMAGES. The Stone Mercantile Agency has been sued for $10,000 damages in the District Supreme Court by J. M. San- nes on a charge of libel, The plaintift ceclares his reputation was injured by a statement issued July 16 last by the agency as to his financial rating. He is represented by Attor- neys Mandry & Hornbach, three vacancies in | ition with it. most obvious danger does notiCoolidge was to determine whether men like Magnus | upreme decision which Mac- | matter of recognition of THE EVEN 'SEPARATISM ENDS INRHINE COUNTRY Accord Reached Between Al- lied Officers—Bavarians to Rule Palatinate. BY WILLIAM E. NASH. By Radio to The Star and the hicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924, SPEYER, February 16.—Rhineland separatism apparently has been defi- nitely ended. The accord reached be- tween French, Belglan and British officers on the spot has been officially confirmed and a proclamation an- nouncing its terms will be posted Sunday. The Bavarian administration will be { restored throughout the Palatinate. {Armed separatists will be kept in bar- racks by French troops a few days and then conducted away under guard to prevent them from possible as- saults, Not only the French government, which has persistently declared its neutrality throughout the separatist venture, but French ofiic Fground, have apparently a all_intérest in. the moveme movement, which represent small minority of the inhabitan seems destined to disappear complete- ly from the Palatinate as it has al- ready disappeared from the remainder of the Rhineland. The wiiter s informed on the best authority that the accord contains three big principles: (1) Dissolution of the separatist regime; (2) Nomination of kreistag or local parliamentary commit- tee s a temporary government pending the return of the avarian administra- tion, and (3) Reparation for all offi- ciws expelied by the separatists, Just who is going to disarm the sep. aratists is hard to see. If the German police try it there may be fighting, for after the Pirmassens massacre, the sep- aratists are in an ugly mood. i Armed bands have been streaming nto Speyer for days past until there were said to be $00 gathered here. 1 nobody undertaics the task, the separ tists may Dbecome stubborn and refuse to disarm at all. They have been car rying matters with a high hand 1 ¥ | I the scparatists are not disarmed, the | allied accord may collapse. FEAR DELAY FATAL TO ARCTIC FLIGHT (Continued from_First Page.) | » SN - in favor of the flight, but opposed to any congressional action in connec- | He said last night that | sition that oper departmental disc urface ships k the navi of ft ja matter as operation of the at Cong = should 1t interfere. have the noney now,” it was ! d at the bureau today. “it will cost about §1 V00 to carry the plar 1d we don't expect to But millions h and years have been lost | to the north and the re- Isnit A in no wise measure up to what the Shenandoah c - plish. There is no need for & sp jappropriation.” The naval bill to ture the fiscal voted by m tached it mittee had_diseussed the pe {plan with Secretary Denb [ officers, but wouid not_in It in any woy in the suppl [ | sinc nditures for the expedition | Lwere made from funds already | tay nd not from those pro- | + the 1925 supply measure, i Cost $200,000 Per Ship. * Sxpenditures for the expedition ;\v suld be chlefly those to be made in | equipping two fuel ships to act as floating bases for the Shenandoah, ne to be stationed at Nome and the jother at Spitzbergen. The cost of installing mooring masts and th ditional equipment necessary maintenance of six seaplanes and the dirigible has been placed at about £200,000 per ship. One of the two ships, however, the toka, now en route to the Norfolk rd, has been designated z {fleet bare for the Shenandoah, was to have been equipped The other ship, the Ramabo, Islard, Calif, was to have b tioned at No ! been altered 1 flight project. Work on installation | of her mooring mast was authorized by Secretary Denby three days ago. The object of the polar flisht as originally approved by President nd been spent in t cover year pendi- sax that the com- b [Bs inavy v a and or not land existed in_the million Isquare miles of unexplored Arctic territory over which the Shenandoah would have passed in her explora- tions. 1If land should be discovered in this region, it has been contended, it would afford a base for establish- ment of air denots to be uscd ting up commercial alr routes be- tween Europe and Asia by way of the polar region. ACTOR'S CONDITION SAME. Theodore Roberts Not Sinking as Reported, It Is Said. PITTSBURGH, February 16.—The condition of Theodore Roberts, the actor, who has been confined for the last several weeks at the Willlam Penn Hotgt here by lliness, was said to be umChanged. It Ated that he w about the same 4s he has beeti for the last ten days.” Stories to the effect that he has been sinking all day and was in grave danger were denied, Henry Bacon, Received High Honor for Design Fi rom, U. S. i i Institute. !Preaentalion Made by Harding as Qfficials Hold Torches. By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, February 16.—Henry Bacon, designer of the Lincoln Me- morial in Washington, dled early to- day at the Post Graduate Hospital Mr. Bacon, an architect of interna- tional reputation, was born In Watseka, 1lL, in 1866. He was a gra- uate of the University of Illinois. Mr. Bacon was awarded the gold medal of the American Institute of| Architects last May at the hands of | the late President Harding. It was bestowed as a tribute to his genius in the design and construction of the Lincoln Memorial. The presentation | was made in an unusual setting, after nightfall, at the base of his creation. Justice Taft presided at the cere- mony, wheh wis lighted by torches carried by men prominent in the na- tion’s affairs. fter his graduation from the Unl- versity of Iliinois in 1888, Mr. Bacon was a Rotch traveling scholar in 1 te | short | untit NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Police hendquarters detectives with allcged bootlegging car, with xtill in back. WARREN BELIEVED GOING TOMEXICO Acceptance of Appointment as Ambassador Looked For in Few Days. Charles ambass Coolidge has induced of Detroit, for to Japan, serve ambassador to Mexi At least this is the understanding in official circi he It was intimated at the White House today that an announcen the effcet that Mr. Warren b yiclded will be made in a few President conferred Warren for a long ti afternoon and earlier in day Mr. W W closeted Secretary of State Hughes hwing talk with Mr. W admitted that the ment Mexico was discuss- that did not c: furth an to nent the 1er to days olldge with My terday the en with his the Prest- dent, appoin re he re to dis- that uld be Hous He wma he did o was _either report that place and Whit thin Pl th in, it he flirming the d the denying L had weuld 4 White House while Mr. War- is desirous of remadning in pri- vate life and was not enthusiasti over ente the diplomatic service zain, that his ptance will be with the crstan that he to rem Mexico City only for year or have Mr. Wash- which one or eoretary of t ur been satisfactorily Warren expects t ington until Monday, me he s expected more conferences with State Hughes and to with Mr. ¢ also that an answer EON Eovernment respecting its atti- tude toward the appointment of Mr. Warren will have been received at the White Hi within a day or so. Favorable to Mexico. 0 doubt ts In official _circle . ) feeling of Mexie n's appointment. He ds among the offi- government as well as of the country during his ay there with John Barton s representative of the United ates in bringing about a relation- ship between the two countries that 2| recognition from the expected the Obre- the citizens recent known that the White has eived word informally Mr. Warren is weil liked b, it Ohregon and that the latter most happy to see him sent s this country's repre- that Pre would b to Mex ntative. T TWO BANKS ARE RAIDED BY MICHIGAN BANDITS Men Escape With $4,400, Pursued by Posses, Following Spec- tacular Robberies. By the Associated Press, DETROIT, February 16.—Bandits obtained $4,400 from two banks in this vicinity vesterday. In the first robbery three men held up a branch of the Continental Bank here, and, forcing three employes and a woman customer to lie flat on the floor, re- d $1,400 from the cash drawer. overlooked $3,500 in currency in the vault. An hour later four men robhed the New Haven State Bank at New Haven, Mich., about twenty miles northw of ‘here, obtaining $3,000 after forcing the cashier and his sistant into the vault. The . ped in an automobile, with po: ‘om New Haven and Mount Clemens mn pursuit. men Architect of Lincoln Memorial, Claimed by Deat HENRY BACON. Europe for two years. He was mary ried to Laura Florence Calvert of Dardanelles, Turkey, in 1893. He was & member of a firm of Boston archi- tects for some years and later be- came affiliated with a New York firm. For the past twenty years he had|He immediately called his chief in| Commissioner Haynes' office and was { practiced alone. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. Js | ed two group i | | i i | I “LYRIC WASHINGTON” GIVEN BY SHURE First Public Performance Features Concert at St. Stephen's Parish Hall. An interesting concert was given last night at St. Stephen’s Parish Hall, which was featured by the first public performance of a piano suite, “Lyric Washington,” written by I Deane Shure, director of music at the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church outh, and played by the composer. This suite js composed of tone poems, in Rock Park,” danc T'ou ment port com, lov was' torn tween the Tosse seven nd somber mo uffering of Lin- men. whose heart nflict be- anese Cherry r all [ k blossoms Park Love S, f instant on Tenth Stro wandoned. rollicking negro danc ping with the traditions of 14 southern days: “Arlington,” stirring dirge with 2 well pro- nounced beat, that contains a nified tribute to those who have Eiven their lives to their countr: and “Mount Vernon,” a combination of three themes into what will no doubt ered the gem of the in the movement that melts minuet followed by portraying the birds, for whic mous in the th turn to th The progr of songs Ly D. D., which sty Luquer has into an excellent melodious theme songs of the mocking Mount Vernon is fa- cliets, und then a re- nal themns 1 epened v ey g0 Were sung Lynch, vio with fine p ence Steffi ho hias o voice nd ample power, and lico, baritone, who was exceptiona ®ood in his Ttalian songs, gave th Alane £ the progra prelude n ¥ in @ group Dudley, excellent tist, pl: < and s Seott, so f fine qualit Harry Ang neer Fi dig- | ately | SENATOR FRANK Who wax shot in while passing alley on Pe 3 stree during n du and tor wax hit. District of cloudiness toniuzht, perature tonight {moderate north Maryland—Inc night. followed by sleet in rain on the rain in_ the RIGID DRY INQUIRY. TO RESULT FROM GREENE SHOOTING | (Continued from First Page.) nator Greene cried, fell to the pavement. He was n to Emergency Hospital and made as comfortable possible until this morning, when the X-ray re- vealed t the wound was not as crious ad first been feared hope to have Senator t of the hospital in a week or S0 ut the most. am_shot. as Clty-Wide Search Begun. In the meantime, the car with the still had disappeared and a city-wide search was begun. Early this morn- ing James R. Beavers, twenty old, Silver Hill, Md., and Benjamin Chesivoir, twenty-one, of 318 York avenue northwest, were arre at the home of Henry Smith, 48 street northeast, charged with befng the occupants of the supposed boot- lezzers” car. Chesivoir made a clean breast of the case, but emphatically denled ither he” or his companion had fired @ shot or even had any pistol with Which they mixht have fired. He said he was at the whecl and Beavers on the running board. Soon after clear- ing the alley, Heavers jumped off and ran while “Chesivoir continucd out into Virginia Driving about eight miles in dircetion of Bull Run, Chesivoir said he dumped the still, With a capacity of several hundred ‘zallons of mash, down an embankment and drove his ack to the home of his brother Alexandria. £xp had ad a breakdo 1o young man left in Alexandria and returned ton by raxicab. the ¢ Fisher Returned Fire, Clesivoir went immediately to the me of Mr. Smith, where he met avers. T arrest was_effected s Sweeney, Waldron, rty and King, Hoth de ing " firearms and the mpanying Fieh ot Their 1§ atements, hav ols ther dence of = been cently. Tho policemen, howe r, in their reports scemed to verify the claim of Wisher, that he had “return- ed” fire from the fleeing car. Fisher s being held under the tech- al charge of “investigation” at the Xxth precinct station. jeavers and Chesivoir are at the first precinct un- der similar charges. What additional charge might be lodged the police did not know today and it was intimated that they might have difficulty find- ing a complaint, since no liquor was found in the car. l-m‘-v out showing fired re- n. r also denied they | temy, Records for Thermomete 12 midnight, 2 noon, 30. Barometer—i pm 12 midnight, 30 Highest tempers 1:15 p.m., ture, 19, Temper Highest, Condition Temps ture water at § am.: Gr perature, 33; condition, shed b; & Today—Low 1:43 am morrow- m.; (Furn U'ni stic s tide, and ow tide, high tide, od 5:46 Moon ris Automobile i half hour after s Columbia - t Increasing Howed b sleet or rain tomorrow; about slowly rising temperature west tem- degree morrow fting to e tonizht, west Tide Tablex. 1tes coast and 6:59 a.m.; sun 8 pm., am., 8 oceurred at C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, .1924 1 between suxpected otlegzers and revenue agents, The auto shown above ix xafd to b from the alley shortly after the sena- « npy THE WEATHER sno probab! portion; and snow, t wi fre Ia t temper alls—Tem- ery muddy. The Sun and Moon. € 7:00 am.; sun sets ighted one- tods f the Water. and . condi ) high m. a a 4a Weather in Varfous Citles. Foot Caught, Firemen Called to Rescue of Carpenter in Elevator The fire department was called out to extricage the left foot of J. W. Greene, house carpenter at the Grafton Klotel, Connecticut avenue” and De Sales street, to- day when it was jammed between an elevator's fiooring and the framwork of the elevator entrance. Before the fire spparatus arrived, however, & crowbar had been util- ized to open a gap wide enough for the foot to withdraw. The injury was not serious. The house physician had treated Greene before the Emergeney Hos- pital ambulance arrived. The accident occurred when the carpenter was about to leave elevator. The machine was being worked into position, when he ad- vanced his foot nd the toe of the left shoe w jammed into such a position that it caused great pain and he could not be moved with- out widening the erack into which it had been squeezod Greene smilingly mors that be had been BARS EX-OFFICIALS AS CLAIN AGENTS Mellon Tightens Rules Relat- ing to Practice in Treas- ury Department. enied the ru- Kille Secretary Mellon took steps today to curtail the practice under which former Treasur ials have acted in some cases as attorneys for claim- ants before the department in cases which were pending while they w in government service. Under a new regulation sued th Secretyry, ar behalf of such a claim within a period of two years after he leaves govern- ment employ. The new validate any tween agent and cl ia proviso allowing for spe under specific conditions A¢ present former employes of the internal revenue bureau handling cases involving hundreds of millions of dollars. To a T xtent th order will °t customs lawyers, The Tre vear ago issued ru 1l agents and attor- neys befor it various bu: ster and to obtain ap- proval of the department. In in where the agent wo tingent which payment 1o he made tions, appare Iy vigid to prohibit s which the Treasury is opposed SEEK COMPROMISE ON SURTAX RATES (Continusd from F by no one can app regulations will not in- existing contract be= nt, and there ed w w, rat, rat nee a maximum surtax nt w the income reached for amendment slightly higher progressively votes is th than the 44 per cent maximun d_in the d. e in th however, in the n ome g +d in the mends ary Mello; % to the r o « program Wisconsin, r mber of the means committer, Representative Fr publican insur committee, propnse ) pér cent cut fin the normal income tax rates and increased perso exemptions, The income r chedules will he read opened for amendments er an agreement reached the House. General de- s Monday. OPEN FOR LEASES. ind nd nd | Work Ready to Dispose of Alaska Coal Property. Interior Dey to lease any {Alaska to any interest or group {interests which will develop . the Yands at terms advantageous to the ‘Eovernment and in consonance with the general leasing laws, Secretary ment stands coal land The | ready 1 of m, | | P Stations, e aaarioan e gopams Atlantie Ciry Taltimore Birmingham. 3 itismarck . Chicago ....0 3050 Cincinnati. Cleveland ", Denver Detroit El nsus City. Los & 30,20 T Pittsburgh Portinud. orttand, Ore 30, Raleig) 8. Lake City 30,04 San Antonio, 30, San_Diego... 3012 8. Franciscs Dumped Still Found. Chesivoir_led policemen to the spot where he dumped the copper still. It, together with the car, w h was s at the home of Chesivolr's brother, were brought back to Washingston today. Harry T. Whelan, counsel fu the boys, said he was about to taks them to detective as operatives from that office found them. They promptly surrendered, he declared, Immediately after hearing official details of the shooting, officers of the | Treasury Department ordered mem- bers of the special intelligence bu- reau to begin a thorough investiga- tion. Simultaneously a movement was on foot both in Congress and among officials of the District govern- ment to begin similar probes. “Unfortunnte” Says Haynes. At the office of Prohibition Commis- sfoner Haynes, from which Fisher op- erates, no statement was forthcoming ! except the commissioner's announce- ment that the incident was “a ver: unfortunate one” and that he had ex- pressed his “distress” to Mrs. Greene by telephone. The lips of all officials there were sealed, including those of Fisher. ‘When seen at the sixth precinct, Fisher was asked for a statement. instructed to refrain from discussing the case with any one. Fisher, in the meantime, is detained at the station St. Louls St. Paul, Temperature. i Clondy Clear Clonr Clear Clouds Cloudy Clondy Clear’ I Work declared today. Discussing char { terests” were = trol of the Ma Alaska, Mr. W Chickaloon mine dent tn that “big in- ing to secure con- uska coal rk, who visited the t summer with party, said the sent difficulty lay in securing one to lease and develop the ources of Alaska, which are i | i H s i somc { coal not_u Althoush coal ing washed 15 s efficient a Cirginia Pocahontas coal, ac H. I director of burcau of mine tity production the coal wi ot be economicall act on account of the cost getting the coal out uf the ground ansporting it to points of con- ickaloon mine was closed in Secretary Work said, on account cost factor in sending { coal to consumution points, and be< |cause the end of the vein had been reached and could not be relocated. Februa four years 1 aMramn P 16.—David H. Knott, for sheriff of [ New York county, announced his can- | digacy for mayor of New York ci in an intérview with the News Met- repolis today at the Hotel Nautilus, following a conference he had with Mayor John F. Hylan of New York, {in P’alm Beach. al consent | inf flelds in | 'KNOTT WOULD BE MAYOR.| [000DOCKMEN STRIKE IN BRITAIN Walkout Feared Will Check Seriously Food Supply for United Kingdom. Associated Press. DON, February 16.—The strike dock workers, affecting 120,000 men, & ve at noon today in all ports of the United Kingdom. he strike cannot become fully fective before Monday, and meanwhile peacemakers will be busy, but should their efforts fail the country next week will have to prepare to tighten its belt. Not only will all the ports closed, but railroad traf! will cease, the National Union tailway Men having promised to 1 out its men, while all other trans- | gort employes handling business 1o ind from the docks will aleo quit. Will Hlurt Food Supply. Such action will have u serious ef- fect on the counts food supply un- the government makes alterna- arrangements. Those industri ending upon importations of raw materials also will he hampered and numbers of thelr employes thrown into idieness Dockers the strike | the Transport Union to which ated with half which may m thus involve warehou firemen, s ers Among a rise in less | tive de of Ived in 000, but they bl a doen ke common sailors and cmen, ship curmen ner unons cause and waterne | rds, ship | na oth- - first results predicted is od prices which will hit d as anybody. It elieved e well supplied with funds, however, and will be able to hold out long enough to cause Ereat damage Peace Negotintions Fail. sutiations between employ upun refusal o make any advance offered last Monday, in increase of one shilling wages and promising an in- into the question of casuval The dockmen insist upon an of 2 shillings and abc casual labor, so as (o g dock wo. 1 the over Eiving men co former terms dock day quiry i advance ment of | antee rators sa able to maint the ocean- hut feared t frelght t schedules with T ships, ha and Kingdom (e to from ports would he inestimal shippe ous port Ly with ssible of will be ves the or the entirely out docknien, it 10 bring ocean-going ir docks, and all of the TI Merscy. By the use of gers, mail and carried to and from liners, but this sy r be used to load and endous sos of brought wrricd from the British Isies Tughont Men May Follow. The tes 1 Ply nien would the lend Liverp. bank the their ent wireless ¢ msh | Ply 10 forming would hs Clyde and the | tenders the 3 baggage could | tem ‘coula ne unl tr to and ¢ nes, n boilers, eaptain due in oelock ton his the th > ment supply ines to help bring the shore London offices outh to handle which will the liner ar- s tonizht riy The W ine announced that et the big Olmmple n schedule Wednesday. 'ATTORNEY ARRESTED ' AS BEING UNLICENSED T. Morris Wampler Charged With Practicing Illegally in Alexandria. Special Dispatel to The § ALEXANDRIA, Va., Morris Wampler, | torney, was arrested | this morning on warrant cha: him with practicing in Alexandria courts illegally and without a city license. The warrant was sworn out on complaint of City Manager Rich and Director of Publ Safety Morton, | Wampter defended Dan Kirg of Arlington county, whe was sent to the grand jury for allesed violation of the state prohibition nd fired $100 and costs y days in jail on a charge of speeding whi operating an automobile while under the influence of liq Wampler, who comb street, Wa lington county, hotly irrest, declaring he thou license procured in Arl gave him right to practice in ail within the state. He was re- od on §$160 bond, pending a hear- ing next Saturday. In defending his action, City Man- ager Rich sald that as the city coun- | cit had pted an ordinance com- | pelling lawyers practicing here to have licen: he intended to en- | force it | ~Attorney Wampler that he would note an app King was released under two bonds of $500 eacii. February 16. - Washington ut in police court i 3216 Ma- nd in Ar- nted 1t it a s Eton county ngton, said COTTON MAN FOUND DEAD. SALISBURY, N 16 bruary - mani id s found dend in his room late vesterday with a bullet wound in his temple, Bvi- denees of suicide were so ar, ac- cording to_of s, that inquest wis deemed necessar: no it headquarters just | | house, although he is hllowed the | unrestricted run _of the building while awaiting further developments. | Rigid Probe Foreeast. I As a result of the shooting of | epator Greene the three-cornered fight between enforcement agencies— | opratives - of the prohibition unit, agents of the intelligence bureau of the Treasury Department and oflicers of the District police’ force—undoubt= | ealy will be bured pitilessly to public sqrutiny. Recently Washington was stirred by charges of irregularities against cach other by federal enforcement {agents and members of the police d | partment’s vice squad. In the mear time, reports of high government ofli- cials and Important citizens being “regular” patrons of bootleggers have been on the increase. 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