Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 4

> 4 * GARTER DEMANDS EGYPT'SAPOLOGY Only Condition Under Which He Will Resume Work on Tomb. By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, February plylng to the telegram Egyptian minister of public tving him forty-eight hours in which 10 resume work in the tomb of Tut- ankh-Amen, Howard Carter wired the minister that he was ready to take up the work again, provided he received an apology from the director of an- tiquities and an understanding from from the the minister of public works that no | vexatious interference would occur and no difficulties be placed in the way of the further progress of the task. Otherwise he ings against the READY T0 COMPLETE WORK. would take proceed- government Government to Take Hold if Carter Quits. LONDON, February 19.—The Egyp- tian government has made all prepa- xations to take over the tomb of Tut- ankh-Amen and complete the research work under the direction of its own staff of trained archaeologists, which is almost entirely British, if Howard Carter should fail to bow to the de- mand of the government regarding | the reapening of the tomb, according 10 Aziz Izzet Pasha, the newly ap- pointed Egyptian minister to London. Universal Indignation has been aroused in Egypt over Mr. Carter's closing of the tomb on so trivial a pretext as the non-admission of the wives of the foreign excavators be- fore even the newspaper men had been admitted to see Tut-ankh- Amen’s golden mummy case, the min- 3ster declared today. - Throughout the ~controversy with Mr. Carter. according to the minister. the Egyptian government has carried out to the fullest detail the signed mgreement which permitted Mr. Carter 10 admit whom he pleased as 11 as vesting him with the exclusive rights to the photographs and descriptive natter concerning the buried cham- ber and its contents. The minister described Mr, Carter’s action in clos- ing the tomb as high-handed and his attitude toward the Egyptian govern- ment as discourteous, expressing t View that it was the British expert's temperament which was the whole cause of the tomb controversy. Under the new terms laid down to Mr. Carter, which the Egxptian gov- ernment will insist be carried out, the press of the world will be given free access to the mortuary chamber, as well as to the fullest reports and pho- tographs through the Egyptian press bureau. Iazet expressed himself as much concerned as to American opin- fon regarding the action of his gov- ernment and as anxious to get the Egyptian case clearly before the peo- ple of the United States. THREE SAVED FROM DEATH IN BLIZZARD OFF COAST Pishing Party Drifts in Launch Four Days Before Rescue—Reach Norfolk Aboard Steamer. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., February 19— Rescued Sunday afternoon after they had been adrift In a disabled ga 1ine launch in a blizzard off the New Jersey coast for four days, Joseph Sawyer, Frank Corneth and Andrew Thompson of Freeport, L. L, reached here last night in the steamship Ply- mouth. The three men had suffered verely- from exposure, and Thomp- son's feet had been frozen. They told officers of the Plymouth that they were fishing when thelr launch be- came disabled and floated out to sea. The rescued men said that they had but a gallon of drinking water in a bottle when their boat developed trouble. This soon froze and the only drinking er available was what could be drawn from the engine of the boat. This, too, froze and they were without food or water. They said that for four days their only food was garbage salvaged from the surface of the sea. ‘When the Plymouth sighted the helpless launch at dusk Sunday blankets that had been converted into. improvised salls were frozen stiff. It was snowing and sleeting and the waves were breaking over the little boat. The clothing of the three men in the launch was frozen and they were nearly dead from ex- posure. The men were picked up by the Piymouth twenty miles south- west of Fire Island lightship. ALASKA FEDERAL ROAD TO HAVE FAST TRAIN #McKinley Park Limited” to Be Inaugurated During Com- ing Summer. By the Assoclated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, February 19. ~The government's Alaska railroad next summer will operate a train faster than the regular ones, calling it the “McKinley Park Limifed,” the management announces, The train will run from Seward, the tidewater rerminal, to McKinley Station, where Mount McKinley may be viewed. Extra sleeping cars are to be at- tached to all through trains on the rallroad, which has been designated “The McKinley Park Route.” Sto| overs will be optional instead of com- pulsory, as heretofore. CASES NOT DISMISSED. Rate Issues Before Supreme Court Wrongly Reported Out. Petitions for advance of the hear- ings on apbeal of the Home and the Pacific telegraph and telephone com- panies in rate cases as recorded in the Suprense Court led to the discovery today that the announcement yester- day of the dismissal of these cases was erroneous, ‘The cases appeared yesterday upon the official list of the cases which had been dismissed, and the verbal ex- planation was made in the clerk’s of- floe that the dismissal had been at the Tequest of the telephone companies. —_—— HEART DISEASE FATAL. Jennie Joel, colored, thirty-six, 2142 New York avenue northwest, employed As charwoman in the new Navy bui'd- ing, 19th and B streets northwest, was waken suddenly ill early today while at her place of employment. She died at Emergency Hospital shortly afterward. Death resulted from an attack of heart disease. — SUES FOR LIMITED DIVORCE. Mrs. Sallie B. Lucas has filed sult in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce from Ernest E. Lu- cas, an employe of the Pullman Com- pany, who makes $200 a month, she states. She declares her husband kept two loaded revolvers in the house and on several occasions threat- oned her life. He also has failed to support her and the children proper- the wife avers. They were mar- 'une 9, 1913, and have two chil Attorneys ' Nowmyer .and “King & the ‘wife, 18.—Re- | works, | ore Committees lerl(i Any Other “Let George Do It Atti- tude Geétting to Be Habit With Colleagues. 1 {Runs Restaurant and Is to Manage Campaign for G. O. P. Members. or George H. Moses 3 umpehire ‘a and addi- ticnal job is getting to be almost a jdaily habit with the Serate. This et eorge do i attitude has re- ;eulted in making the senator {from New tlampshire chairman of beommittees of his col- bly any sen- new committees and than and prok the past e first place, chairmun of the s {tee on printing and chai {Joint congr nal committee on iprinting. In these positions Senator | Mosos has led in revamping the and make-up of the Congre | Record Alxo Studies Propagnnda. Next, Senator the “propaganda com nittee of the Ser Ate propangands. wh o the Bok. [ expected t pagands for and agalnst the honus and into propaganda Mellon tax-reduction ator Moses ate . commit- rman of the Moses is cha inquire soldlers in favor of th [P5R 1o cinivens of the sub- mittee of the committee on_ post s and post roads, which will in- te alleged land frauds in Texas under the Heflin resolution, in- TRANSEER F SHP CONTROLISASKED | Bill Places U. S. Merchant- men Under Emergency _ Fleet Corporation. | col offic Operation of the governiment owned merchant fleet would be transferred by law .from the Shipping Board to the Emeérgenicy Fleet Corporation, un- der.the terms of a bill introduced to- day by Senator Edge of New Jersey. The bill wis referred to the commit- tee on comiherce. Senator. Edge undertakes to do by law what President Coolidge several weeks ago sought to* accomplish through a resolution adopted by the Shipping Board. In a statement is- sued by Senator Edge today, he said: A: cotporation with one man execu- | tive responsibility isthe ordinary agency jfor the conduct of business enterpri WHile ‘the Shipping Board, under-exist- ing ‘alithority of law, has turned tha operation. of its vessels over to the Fleet Corporation, the Shipping Board by rea- Son of its control of the board of trus- tees of the’cprporation, its power to ap- point and. remove the officers of th Senator in Chamber SENATOR MOSE35, volving TRepublican National Com- mitteeman Creager, and is alse act- ing chairman of the committee on post offices and post roads. Named Campaign Leader. The republicans of the Senate have d_Senator Mo: chairman _of puign committee in the ontes Senator Moses has been given the task also of running the Senate res- tauraht, us chairman of subcommittee in charg hermore. he i ubcommitte slgns rooms to th ators in the oftice building. In fact, he can arise any morning and feel that he has a full day ahead of him. chairman which as- Gospel Mission’s Plea For $13,071.98 Needed To Carry on Its Work The ospel Mission needs -$13,071.95. immedfately to provide additional equipment, carry on work of the mission unhampered and meet immediate immediate obligations, according to an an- nouncement today by the board of trustees’ of ‘the mission. The amount sought has been di- ¥ided into 1,308 shares of $§10 each, aud, continues the announcement by the board “we are sincerely hoping, praying and trusting that every one of our friends will take at least one of these shares and s many more as possible.” . THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Snow, sleet or train, probably heavy, tonight and to- | morrow; slowly rising temperature; {lowest tonight about 24 degrees; fresh to “strong northeast and east ! winds. 5 Maryland—Snow, ~ sleet or raim, |probably” heavy, tonight and tomor- row, with slowly rising temperature; northeast and. east winds. Virginia—Rain on the coast, and jrain, sleet or snow, probably heavy, in the interior tonight and tomorrow: slowly rising temperature; northeast and east winds on the coast. West Virginia—Rain, sleet or snow tonight and tomorrow: colder in the WeSL portion tomOrrow &fternoon. Tide Tablea. IRENT REGULATION IND. C. THEME Mrs. C. S. Taylor Upholds Ac- tion Before Monday Even- ing Club. Rent regulation ‘in the District was discussed by Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, member of the Rent Commisifon, and Hugh Roland before the Monday Evening Club, at a meeting held last [night at the Cosmos Club. The pre- |cise question considered was: “Is Rent Regulation Justified in the Ab- sence of & War Emergency?" Mrs. Taylor said it was, and Mr. Roland said it was not, and there the matter was allowed to rest by the \ club, which did not vote to decide the | winner as between the affirmative and the negative. Declaring that there is no doubt that the District Rent Commission should be continued, Mrs. Taylor said it took a great war to bring to the attention of the world at large that housing is a real public necessity. House Rated am Necessity. “You may go without food, you may go without shoes, but you may not go without a house over your head, Mrs. Taylor sald. New York and Washington had the greatest need for legislative help, she con- tinued and explained the two types of legislation in force in these citles. Mrs. Taylor sald the National Capl- tal is y A city of government workers, whose average salary 1s $1.500 a year, with the average salary of the ‘woman workers placed at $1,123. She explained how Increase in’ rents means taking in boarders and how this pushes cafldren into the streets. [ “So we raise the rents, and fill the prizons and the hospitals,” the speak- er declared. “Where we ralse the rent we create cake-eaters and the objec- tionable type of flappers.” Extortion in rent-raising is just as great a crime, Mrs. Taylor asserted, as holding up a man on a dark street, and it was this that made it nece sary ive the people “police pro- tection” 1 ‘the form of the Rent Cnm-' mission, she sald. i Charging that there are a great many empty apartments in Washing- ton now, Mrs. Taylor said that thou- sands will suffer here unless relief is| found in legislation continuing the Rent Commission. She said such re- lef is necessary for the public health and morals Mr Rol Mr. Roland declared that Mrs. lor's sympathy “has warped judgment.” He sald the rent com- missioner would not admit that people of small earning capacity have been confronted with the problem of adjusting themselves to a change in the cost of living and the ‘cost of high livin There is a class of tenants, he continued, who feel that the land- lord should accept what they can afford to pay. He asserted that the continued regulation of rents here, as proposed in the bills pending before Congress, is not desirable In jtself. The problem, Mr. Roland said, is one arising from the increase in the cost of living. Rent legislation, he sald, is llke glving morphine to a patient who now ought to be taken off the morphine “and given a liberal treatment of the law of supply and demand.” Condemns Pending Billa. The bills' proposing to extend the rent law, he continued, are drawn on the theory that “every property hold- d Repli Tay her i ! B vy T Here Ix the fi They were snapped todsy at the Roberts and right, former COOLIDGE CONVINCED U.S. CONDITIONS GOOD President Anxious People Should Realize Prosperity and Safe- guarding of Interests. WARNS AGAINST RUMORS Declares Nation Should Give Little Credence to Daily Crop. President Coolidge was represented today as being satisfied that pros- perity prevails generally throughout the United States and that the inter- ests of the public and of the Amer can government are being thoroughly protected. In making this known at the White House today & spokesman for the President made it very plain that the latter is anxious to ease the minds of many of those throughout the coun- try who have become aroused lately and because that there seems to be a prevalence of suspicion everywhere in the air. +The President is anxious to lessen this feeling on the part of the public and to inject a greater feeling of con- fidence snd trust. He is known to have told callers today that the peo- ple should be more careful in giving A Bit of the Past By Star’s Former Carriers. From 1886 to 1591 Willlam A. Fra- ser delivered Stars on a route on 'th street southeast. He states that ward Smith, who is still a route igent for The Star, would remember him as he usually delivered the pa- Ipers to the boys of the Wallach | School, Tth and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. "I always nourish & friendly feeling for carriers,” says Mr. Fraser, “especially when T re- lmeml.er inserting supplements on a windy afternoon in pre a route of 194 subscribe. W. A. Stein, Sth and Water streets eouthwest, an employe of the District property vard, writes that twenty- nine years ago he carried a r route, getting his papers at Offen- teins old blacksmith shop, 2nd and B streets northeast. “l sold The Star when at was sometime ago, too, ilverberg, proprietor of the verberg Electric Company, 1009 street northwest. Louis E. Schmidt, 1001 C street northwest, sold as far back as 1594, and has been a reader of this newspaper ever since. “I was a route boy under J. F. Livingstone,” writes H. C. Knapp, 1228 Fairmont street northwest, now assistant foreman of the composing room of the Washington Times. *I remember one afternoon when it had been snowing for about ten hours when I was serving near near 13th and U streets,” says Mr. aration for 4 boy, and th ING Ew t and excusive picture of Uncle Sam’'s prosecutors in the naval oli leaxe xcandal made together. ew Willard Hotel, where they held their first conference. At the left is Owen J. r Atlee Pomeren DRY RAIDERS SEEK PERSONS HIGH UP Individuals: of ‘“Prominence” In- volved in Disclosures Through $5,000 Seizure. DRAGNET BEING EMPLOYED Police Capture Intoxicants Apartment House. at persons “of prominence” sought by the police as viola- tors of the prohibition law, following { & fruitful raid last night at the River- ton apartment house, 1312 Corcoran | street northwest, where $5,000 worth |of pre-Volstead intoxicants were seized in a basement room. } A dragnet for the persons wanted { was thrown out today by Lieut. Davis McQuade of the vice squad and Revent nes L. sr. who 1 ticipated in th raid. Ev at that ti is the basis of the search toda was said, : rty-three brands of whisk: and other intox ns before the Tehteentn ure t night p: Asher, | SAYS G, 0. P. CHIEFS DEFENDOILLEASES Senator Harrison Also Scores President on Denby Resignation. Charges that Chairman Adams of the republican national committee, George B. Lockwood, its secretar {ana other republi leaders are “de- fendiug” the Doheny and Sinclair oil leases were made in the Senate to- day by Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi. Acceptance of S tary Denby's resig- nation by Fresident Coolidge also wus “(‘rlnciz-d by enator Har | said. it conflicted with the Preside: New York specch promising that no i nocent person in the oil scandal’ would on, who Power by ate In adopting the resolution calling for Denby’s resignation, lie permitted Denby to resign. Did he stand by you? Not one of you think he did.” Th Mis¢issippl senator sald that the Natlonal Republican, which he ae- scribed as the “officlal organ” of the republic cently contained lan editor ended” the oil { leases, declared a fusion of “demo- | rats and demagogues” supported the "r(u\ulutlon calling for the Denby resignation and asserted that 85 _per cent of the evidence befora the Sen- at oil committee was “bunk.” ASKS PROTECTION FOR STREET CAR MEN Cn.amton Insists That All Here Be in Inclosed Vesti- bules. | | The Public Utilities Commission has been called upon by -Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan to en- force the law in the District of Co- lumbia requiring protection for the men operating street cars through in- closed vestibules. In a letter today to the Pub Utilities on, Representati Cra: [ . | l 1ast few weeks that the Washington Railway and Electric Company s not conforming to this law. I have rid den on geveral car- which have ope {sides in the vestibules at either end of the car. It is my information that cars of this kind are operated at all hours of the day and night and in all kinds of weather throughout the vear. This is a manifest cruelty to motormen and conductors. In_ addi- tion, it involves increased hazard to passengers ridlng upon such cars |in_times of storm and cold. | 1 have previously had tr with the commiscion and had u stood that a prograni was under w which would do away with all caus- for complaint from this source. 1f 1 m correct in my understanding t *|the law forbids the present practl . |your commission should see that the If_th, sent law Tegis weitl st enforced. Mcient, that for Haw i adopted catment Knapp, “I could get only as far as|Were included in the selzure Fleet, Gorporation, its contral of its ap- | hed- by United States coast er is a robbey and every tenant is a|credence to the many rumors that are victim,” he sald. The tendency is to propriations and other monevs and its ingistance upon direct and detailed par- ticipation in the conduct of the activi- ties of the corporation, prevents a busi- like ‘conduct of the corporation’s af- fairs. Some of the resulting evils could be remedied without the neces: for legislation, but the board, under its res- olution of January 10, 1924, has failed to afford any of the possible remedies. * Agencies Separated. i “The proposed bill, therefore, sepa- rates control of the Shipping Board, places the stock of the corporation in the hands of the President of the United States. gives the President of the Tnited es the power to appoint the board of trustees and then gives the president of the Fleet Corpora- tion'full and unhampered control over its operations. “The Fleet Corporatjon thus be- comes directly responsible fo the President of the United States Instead of to the Shipping Board. The ves- sels, docks, piers and housing and other properties of the board are transferred to the Fleet Corporation. ‘The fleet corporation is, under the restric*ions provided by existing law, to maintain and dispose of such prop. erties, All sales of property are, how- ever, to be subject to the approval of the President of the United States. The fleet corporation is given control of the marine insurance fund and the construction loan fund. “For the purpose of operating the merchant marine in smaller units, teresting local communities in the various government lines, and, in gen- eral, to facilitate the operation of the flset under more economical condi- tions, the fleet corporation is author- ized to avail itself of subsidiavy cor- porations. - Such subsidiary corporations may be employed to operate whatever lines the fleet corporations may select. The corporation may dispose of Ishares in the subsidiary corporations at a fair value, but in no case is the fleet corporation to become a miacrity stotckholder in any subsidiary. Ship Board to Continue. “The Shipping Board is continucd in_existence as a body with regula. tory and judicial functions only, bear- ing somewhat the same relation to water commerce as the Interstate Commerce Commission does to rail I commerce “The Department of Commerce is {now the existing agency.of the gov-] ernment which has general authority to ‘investigate and develop foreign markets for the United States. The Department of Commerce prior to the shipping act in 1916 was also an agency of the government that super- vised vessel navigation. The pro- posed Dbill, therefore, transfers to the Department of Commerce the powers granted by the shipping act in re- spect of the investigation at home and abroad of the cost of vessel op- eration from marine Insurance, and trade and terminal facilitles,, the codi- fication of the navigation laws, and the ascertainment of discrimination by forelgn governments.” — D. M. GOODACRE;.COURT. CRIER 30 YEARS, DIES Passes Away From Heart Trouble at Age of 82—Veteran of Civil War, Daniel M. Goodacre, eighty-two years old, crier of the District Su- preme Court for thirty. years, dled at 2 o'clock this morning ‘at his home, 2616 ' University place, from heart trouble. He had been Il for about 2 month. The funeral probably will be held Thursday, with burial in Rock Creek cemetery. Mr. Goodacre had been crier of the ccurt under Judges Anderson, Gould and Hoehling. : Mr. Goodacre was ‘twice married, his first wife, Isabel Murray of Bal- timore, having passed away June 10, 1894, Of this marriage there survives one daughter, the wife of E. C. Bran- denburg of this city. There also sur- vive his widow, Mrs. Alice. H. Good- acre, and_two sons, Millson“B. Good- acre and Willlam Goodacre. A veteran of naval service in the civil war, Mr. Goodacre was a_mem- ber of the. Gi A.R., the Oldest Inhab- {tants' ‘Assoctation and Hirah Lodge, No. 10, of Masons, 1 i i the Fieet Corporation from the and-geadetic surve: y—Low tide high tide, Tomorrow—Low tide, 25 p.n.; high tide, i:11 am. and 16 am. and 4 am. and The Sun and Moon, Today—Sun rose, 6:57 a.m.; sun sets, 5:48 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises, 6:55 a.m.; sun |sets, 5:49 Moon rises, 4:59 p.m.; sets, 6:10 a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Record for Twenty-four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 36; 8 p.m. 12 midnight, 31; 4 a.m., 27} 8 am noon, 25. Barometer—4 p.m., 30.49; 8 pm., 30.56; 12 midnight, 30.60; 4 a.m., 30.59; 8 a.m.. 30.59; noon, 30.59. Hignest temperature, 38, occurred at 5 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 25, occurred at 9 a.m. today. Temperatire same date last year— Highest, 34; lowest, 18. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at 8 am.: Great Falls—Tem- perature, 32; condition, slightly muddy. B Weather in Various Citles. 33: 26; & Température. Stations. Weather. L Womo] & 2 Abilene, Tex. Albany 2 Atianta 0, Atlantic Uity 30. Baltimore .. 30.64 Birmingham, 50,00 Bismarck . | Roston | Buffalo 3 Charleston... 30.24 Chicago 308 » ¥ sasosea Seataaza Helena . { Huron, §. D’ 0.4 Indianapolis. 30.18 Jacksonville, 5018 Kansas City. 30.26 Los Angeles. 30.10 Loulsville Miami, Fl 30.18 w Orleans 20,92 New York.. 30.72 Okla; City... 3020 Omaha ... ] 8084 Philadelphia. 80.70 Phoentx " ..... 30,08 2! 2! P EEERE e e P Ban Diego... 80.08 8. Franclsco 30. 8t. Lous.... 80. St. Paul 3 FOREIGN. : (8 a.m,, Greenwich time, today.) . . Temperature. Weather. 34 Snowing Part clopdy Bart cloudy art o Hl-{:ln‘ ¥; Cloudy Cloudy Ralning Cabs. Colon, Canal Zoe. g};;fi, SITE BERNHARDT ASKED FOR GRAVE DESTROYED _n‘.och’ _Bm@ by Storm Along Island Off Coast of Brittany, _Paris Learns. By the Associated Press. PARIS, hardt desired her remains to be taken to her summer home, on an island off London, England. Paris, France. Copenhagen, Denmarik. Btockholm, ‘Bweden, . Gibraitar,” Spain, Horta (Fayal), As | Hamitton create’ a “tenant's commission,” the speiker declared. “The people are not golng to sur- render the right to control their own property until they have to,” Mr. Roland_concluded, Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, president of the club, introduced Arthur D. Call, who_ presided during the dis- cussion. The annual banquet of the Monday Evening Club is scheduled for March 17. OFFICER IS A.RRAIGNED ON CHARGE MADE BY GIRL Training School Disciplinarian Bonded for Action of Grand Jury. Denies Accusation. Claborne Sherman Close, forty-| three years old and married, discip- linarian of the National Training School for Boys on the Bladensburg road northeast, was defendant today in a preliminary hearing in the United States branch of police court befors Judge Gus A. Schuldt on charges of mistreating Ruby Reid, a sixteen-year-old girl. The girl is a daughter of Mrs. Rhoda C. Reid residing at 2912 Bladensburg road northeast. The girl lives with her mother, Close was held for the action of the grand jury and the bond of 61.000 on which he had been released, when arrested some days ago, was raised to $2,000, which he will give and bé released. Miss Reid left her home February 3 last, and placed a note in her room indicating that she intended to com- mit suicide by drowning in the Po- tomac river. Later she was found with friends in Cleveland, Ohio. The girl said Close made the arrange- ments for her to go to the Ohio city. The girl asserted that Close provided her with clothing. Close denfes every charge made against him. He {s rep- resented by Attorney John J. Murphy. Close {s prominently identified with & number of fraternal organizations, includihg the’ United Spanish War Veterans and Veterans of the Philip- pine Insurrection. He has a son near- ing his majority. -— MOTOR CYCLE ABANDONED. A motor cycle and one-half gallon of corn whisky were abandoned at Maryland avenue and 4% street southwest several nights ago by a colored man who was pursued by Policemen Talley, Ogle and Varney of the fourth precinct. Yesterday George W. Meade, 922 3d street north- west, alleged owner of the motor cycle, appeared and gave bond on charges of transporting and possession of intoxicants. THE EVENING. | rising almost daily which under no mal conditions would attract no at- tention. A The facts showing the prosperous condition throughout the country were presented at the cabinet ses- sion at the White House today. These showed that the business conditions are reported to be fairly good, that there does not seem to be any unem- ployment and that while commercial orders are not as large as they gen- erally are, this is understood to be the result of a policy on the part of buyers to put off larger orders and not to buy so far in the future. However, commodities are finding a ready market. As for the building trades, these figures showed that there will be much activity during the coming building season, and that this optimism will apply also to textilé industries. The boot and shoe industry is able to dispose of its products as fast as they can be sent out, and steel and iron are moving. e " ARRESTED IN HOLD-UP. Negro Alleged to Have Stolen Over- coat. Charles Edmond Pride, twenty-two- year-old colored resident of Nauck, Va., was arrested last night by De- tectives Scrivener and Kelly about thirty minutes after his alleged hold- up of Abrakam Brisker, a clothing dealer, 3322 M street. The prisoner will be arralgned in Police Court to- morrow on a charge of robbery. According to the merchant, Pride entered the clothing store last night and asked to try on an overcoat. Upon_putting the coat on, Brisker stated, the colored man drew & re- volver from his pocket and after flashing it at the dealer. hurriedly left the store. He was later found by the detec- tives and the merchant in Rosslyn, where he was hiding behind a freight car. “JACK” HAMPEL JAILED. Fails to Give Bond on False Af- fidavit Charge. “Jack” Hampel, Milwaukee, poet, artist and clubman, who, accompanied by a pretty young stenographer, was refused admission to England recent- 1y at Plymouth and surrendered to Department of Justice operatives at New York on charges of obtaining passports under false affidavits, and who was brought to this ci lodged in jail, was before United States Commissioner Macdonald yes- terday, when his bond was fixed at $5,000. In default of bond he was re- committed to the District of Columbia jall. It is understood that Hampel will be given a preliminary hearing here March 5. STAR COUPON “THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT” By Frederick J. 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I had to drop the rest of the papers in the snow and apologize to my subscribers next dav, eve about the matter. JUSTICE REFUSES ACQUITTAL ORDER Hitz Denies Motion for Instructed Verdict in Glass Casket Case. Justice Hitz in Criminal Division 1 today denled the motion of the de- fendants for an instructed verdict of acquittal in the Crystal Glass Casket Company case, in which James W. De Camp, Edwin C. Reed and Ralph A. Howe, officers of the company, are charged with a conspiracy to defraud in connection with the sale of the stock of the corporation. The mo- tion was argued for two days and was submitted to the court late ves- terday afternoon. Stock to the extent ©of $165,000 is said to have been sold. Attorneys T. Morris Wampler and Harry A. Hegarty for the accused asked a postponement of the trial until Thursday morning for the pur- pose of a conference as to the steps to be taken by the defendants in refer- ence to thé introduction of testimony in " thelr behalf. Assistant United States Attorney Bilbrey made no ob- Jection to the delay. Counsel for the defendants claimed in their argument that the proof of- fered by the government failed to sustain any of the averments of the indictment, and showed no_ evidence of fraudulent intent or the formation of a conspiracy. Guns are used to harfbon whales now, and there is little danger to whalers. one of whom proved good natured | Asher Obtains Evidence. Asher, “lone wolf" of the revenue enforcement bureau, whose vecord ers operations in various parts of the United Stat jon which warrants bootleg operators were based, a surprising part of the raid was the failure to find only two pe hand. One was Philip Parnell Adams, thirty-four, 1724 T street northwest, and, Henry White, colored ja T. Having obtained evidence of alleged possession and sale, Lieut. et McQuade and Revenue Agent Asher last night about 11:15 o'clock visited the Riverton and renewed the acquaint- ance of Adams, the I ¥ £ heen arrested there two years Goldsmith, called by officers, “queen of the bootleggers, the pair were tried one year iater Disclaim Ownership. Adams and the colored j; claimed ownership of the $5,000 worth of liquer, but were arrested just the same. They were charged with ille- gal possession and conspiracy and re- leased on hond. The seized liquor was turned over to the internal reve- nue bureau. for the cers surprised Harry Litoff, thirty- nine, 712 2d street northwest, and charged him with a violation of the Volstead act. Seizure of a small quantity of whisky was reported. o DROPS DEAD IN LIBRARY. Man Believed to Be John H. Mc- EKay, 605 H Street. A_man, believed to be John McKay, formerly emploved as an cl vator operator in the Colorado building, dropped dead today in the Library of Congress The name John H. McKay was on papers taken from the body of the man. Other papers contained his former address and the name of un occupant of rooms in the Colorado building and the letter informed the police that a man named John H. McKay had been employed as ecle vator conductor there some time ago. ‘His wife resides at 605 H street northwest i 11 Earlier in the night the three offi- | | ploy |th | triet, safety of passengers i , as has been so uni other ocitics throughout country. 3 trust-that, your commissio take such actlon as - will mak: unnecessary for any 1 to undertake to bring inal proceeding against pany ENDS LIFE FOR FAILURE T0 SLAY BROTHER'S FOES Frenchman Fails to Obtain Ven- geance on Two Accused of Betrayal in War. CaMle to The Star and Philadelphia Piic fager. 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