Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1924, Page 2

re — % 30 INDICTED AS DRY ACT VIOLATORS Officers of Law, Women, | Pullman Porters, Caterer K. Are Among Accused. Naming thirty-six defendants in in- tments, the grand jury yesterday | paved the agatnst three spectacular and couspiracy to violat amendment in the hi sngton While numerically the cases are fewer than those in the Savannah Yquor conspiracy which focused the nation’s attention on the Georgia city, the local cases have an out- standing importance because of the extent and ramifications of the al- Jeged mechanism systematic ganized for nullifying the prohibition laws. way for court batehes of sensational cases of action Officers Are Ineluded. In the list of three dozen names are those of federal and local officers of the law, as well as one Army man. The three batches include the Searborough - Morris - Lampson cases that brought the Capitol Hill liquor list, that was never found into th limelight, and had Washington gus ing for months who would next have the finger of suspicion pointed at them In the Scarborot Young women and fourte indicted for conspi . offenses against the Un through alleged illegal tlon and sale of whisky. Caterer Is Accused. The second group contains indict- fments against a local caterer to so- ciety functions, his wife, a waiter, and two others, while in the other Eroup three deputy. United States marshals, a lieutenant of police, a Eergeant of marin two colored Pullman _porters and seven others are listed as defendants. All of the cases were made Agents Golding and Cox of the tran: porta- by Spe cial intelligence unit of the internal | Tevenue burcau, co-operating with jocal police and members of the vVice squad. The depu H. Barteman, John B. Newma ¢ marshals are Patrick Charles Marshail who, with Ernest Weaver and John J. Clarkson. were suspended from office some weeks ago by United States Ma: Snyder, pending an inquiry charges. The indictment docs mention Weaver and_Clarkson. Lieut. Joshua L. Sprinkle of the eleventh previnct is named as one of the alleged conspirators der suspension pending action by the rand Jury Willian politan not mber of the m assigned to Tnion station from the sixth pre- cinct, who is sald to have been working with the allezed gang of boot- leggers, and Ralph McCullough, said to be the sergeant of marines involved in the alleged illegal transactions named rators with €eph . Boudwin, his son. Joseph Boudwin, j John Hick: Wil Barcsdale, Clauc Bromley Hunter, Jam Emil Krause Holler, m police force the Arthur Wil- and John J. Porters Central Figures. The alleged conspiracy was oper- ated, it is charged, by the Puliman porters bringing suit cases full of liquor from points in Florida to the Union station, wher were met by others of the all ang.” who Fansported ¢ to the plac £ business of James Hunter at D street northwest and elsewhere whence it was distributed to pur- cha: & quantities, alleged that Dup- nd_ Marshall sported thirty-six quarts of liquor from Union stat the home of James Hunter, in F Heights. No overt act in eonne Wwith the alieged conspiracy to be charged in_the indictment sgainst Deputy Marshal Newman and Lieut Sprinkle, although both are named as among the alleged conspir- ators. John J. Hickey is said to have sold James Hunter thirty-six quarts of whisky October 13 last. Hickey t tified before the grand jury, it is un- derstood, but that did not prevent him being named in the indictment. Three Girls Indicted. Benjamin Morris, Milton Scarbor- ough and H. Curtis Lamson, who are said to have conducted a Jarge busi- ness in the sale of intoxicants and to have had a mysterious list of promi nent people for customers, were in- dicted today with other men and their three young girl telephone operators on a charge of conspiracy 1o commit 100 offen against the United States in connection with the sale and possession of whisky Youns woman employes arc M Adams, Naomi Middleton and P’ Bryant. Others Bill Murphy. the wh it uty Marshal May 1, 192 oxall eleven ion b arl named 1 conspirators are P Joe Marks; Jokn €. Mack. 5 William Schellenbery; Allen €. Witherite, Louis DeLane John Foley, Roland Pennell, Lioyd, alias Jesse Lloyd; Herman Yates, Harvey 'css, John € berg and John Warwick Various places of business and apartment houses, where the alleged consplrators had offices and rooms are set forth in the indictment. and would-be purc are declared have been furnished with code num- bers to he used instead of their names in ordering. The young women would receive tie orders over the telephone, it 1- leged. and would give them to some of the alleged conspirators, who would deliver the whisk Wililam H. Simpson, caterer, 1815 M street morthwest: his Mrs. Helen Simpron; Ben Harr Jiam Swainson and Mrnest are named in the third conspiracy _indictment. It is claimed Simpson would recelve orders to furnish “w. £oods” at dinners and other society Tunctiof and _Swainson and Al would furnish him with -the into cants. Harris was a waiter in_th mpson establishment and Mrs Simpson is said to have received $202 from a prohibition agent as final payment for a supposed dinner at which wet refreshments were to be furnished According to States Attorney Presmont vestigated the case, a friend hibition arranged with Simpson to meet him at a local hotel to disct plans for a dinner. A secret service man was hidden in the closet of th hotel room. The friend made all rangements and gave Simpson $10 on wccount, Presmont says., and stated he would send his secrétary to the impson establishment to finish the An agent and is of Wil Abt Assistant United who in- of pro- impe: aid to have paid Mrs. Simpson the balance of the price and received a receipt from her to furnish the dinner with “wet trim- mings.” The alleged dinner was to take place early in January. When the receipt had been obtained the prohibition agents secured a searcn warrant and raided Simpson's place. His arrest followed In an article yesterday The Star stat- ed Holler was a member of the Wash- ington Terminal police force. This was not the case, as he was assigned to plain-clothes duty at the Terminal from the sixth precinct. ZIHLMAN IS EXONERATED. Cleared of Charges of Part Liquor Conspiracy. Prederick L. Zihlman, representa- tive from the sixth Maryland district, was exonerated yesterday by the United States grand jury of charges said to have been made against him in con- mection with an alleged conspiracy to in the most | the prohibition | ory of Wash-} and | He has been un- | tro- | were | MeNeill, James Hunt- | nto| The | Jaie | to | sonated the | ‘I shot Senator Frank L. REPORTS FUND BILL OF FOUR DEPARTMENTS (Continued from First Page.) ployes in the District of Columbia should be submitted in conformity with the rates of salary in the com- pensation schedules set forth in the act and that ths rate in the new act should not become effective until July 1, 1924. The ‘appropriations made in the bill reported to the House today for per- sonal services in the District are there- fore recommended on the basis of the new law in accordance with allocations established by the personnel classifica- tion bonrd. . The House appropriations committee in the preparation of this bill has fol- lowed the precedent it set in the other {appropriation bills, and has appropri- ated in lump sum, as recommended in the budget, for the bureaus and offices that have heretofore been on a stat- jutory basis. While this change in method of appropriation is a marked deviation from the former practice in {connection with statutory salary ap- | {propriations, it is necessary and fully | warranted, ' Representative Shreve, irman of the subcommittee, em- phasizes in his report In connection with the putting into_effect of |Classification act by which duties are made the basis of pay. Actual Size of Increase. He points out that the classifica- tion act provides in determining the classification to be established ini- tially for employes under the act that the existing pay shall be the base pay plus any bonus the em- ploye is recelving. In the case of several appropriations in the bill re- ed today the amount recommend- for, the flscal year 1925 shows a | considérable increase over the like {sum appropriated in the annual ap- propriation act for the fiseal year 1924, This is attributabie to the | fact that the $240 additiona! compen- ation or so-called bonu: in one sum for e {departments in a separate 1924 and is allotted for the respective partment heads to the several bureaus and offices. crease, therefore, cation act, is not the differer tween the base pay for 1924 lamount recommended for the difference between the combined amounts for base pay and bonus and the amount recommended The committee had drafting this bill statem by bureaus and offic the Distriet for th { separated accordi { bonus, compared -with the fixed for the fiscal year cordance with the classification act phasizing one large bureau which hows an actual decrease in Junt of ¢ fication, Representative Shreve's report calls attention that the commitee has granted the est n the of foreign which is an i appropriatic to the elassif bonus, the tions _involved amounts of the current appropriation | plus the $240 bonus is $267.310 and ated by the budget nended in the bill is §26 at classification in the cas »f foreign and domestic | has resulted in an actual | of $833. Payment to Colombia. Included in appropriations 000,000 for a payment to Colombia in | settlement of construction of the $182,140 for the mixed clalms commission 4 $ Ly the $£500.000 for $2,628.177 i | i , { | f { ro | due entirely nd the $240 | additional p | | dec | | { Panama German-American 1z the for v Departr rosccution of for the bureau and domestic commerce, the census bureau, $1 ) for carrying on and investigs by the bureau of standards, 00 for the coast and geodetic $1.310.965 for the bureau of $3.491.840° for enforeement iigration law, and $670,450 the bureau of naturalization The report of the appropriations commit aid that during the vears | 0 to 1923, inclusive, 120,410 crim- | frosccttions wera hesiit unaer] prohibition law, with convictions | | i $336, ts in civil n collected, In additi & realized from judgn prohibition cas The report a said the population f federal prisons is “still on the in- 1 January 8 last there be inmates “or 623 more th. normal capacity. n the PEACEMAKING FATAL. |St. Lonis Man Killed Trying to i Stop Row. | ST LOUIS, April 1.—The slaying of | Gerard B, Cleary, thirty-nine-ye |01 president of the Guarantes Servica | {Company, in a saloon and dance hall | jearly vesterday was the outcome of ary’s efforts to act as peacemaker {in a fight over u young woman, wit- Ine told ~last night. Cleary and a party of friends were seated at a table in the hall when Arthur Hartman, twenty-seven, a @ car driver, entered and start- rument with Oliver Senti twenty-four, over a woman. Whe | the altercat became heated, Clear. |a rormer policeman_ is said to have jadvanced upon Hartman, and two {shots were fired, one of which wound- ed Cleary. He died several minutes later. Hartman fled. 1 2.000 STRIKE IN CHINA. | Dock Workers Protest Demolition | i of Homes. | April 1.—Aboat | Chin, employed in all departm {of the Kowloon dockyard quit y {terday in protest against beginning | jof demolition of a block of dwellings | lin which the workmen are housed. | | Destruction of the houses was plan- | ned in connection with the projected | |development and extension of the | |dockyards. 7To guard agalnst po: | sible trouble police are patrolling Ithe vicinity of the dockyards. DENY HUERTA LOST. ¥ the Asscinted Pross FRONTERA, Ta dio via the Dallas Nows).—Rumors that Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican | | rebel leader, had met death in a ship- | {wreek or as the result of counter- | revolutionary plot were denied last { night in a statement to the Associat- {ed Press by Onesimo Gonzales and { Mariano Montero Villar., revolution- | TIONGK ONi | seo. April 1 (by ary ax d, howey | abouts. | withdraw warchous whisky from government for sale by bootleggers. Mr. Zihlman's name was to {have been mentioned with that of |Representative John W. Langley, who was indicted last week in the testi- {money submitted to a grand jury 4o in connection with the invest !gation of the Veterans' Bureau. The | lgrand jury, m making its report to | iJustice’ Hitz in Criminal Div. this afternoon, ignored the ev {recently submitted to it by Elias H. {Mortimer in connection with the al leged conspiracy. The grand jury also ignored a charge of an aksault with a danger- ous weapon which had been preferred against Ous B. Fisher, the young pro- hibition agent, who is said to have Greene of Ver- mont on the night of February 13 last. enator Greene was passing along Pennsylvania avenue on the way to his home near the Capitol and when he reached the entrance to an alley between 3d and John Marshall place was struck in the forehead by a stray bullet during an allegod battle be- tween the proh‘hluun agent and the police on one side and alleged boot- eggers on the othem | in THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. COOLIDGE DEPLORES to { that if the { had been ps tin a pr { congressional whom pos DELAY IN TAX CUT elieves Business Would Be Booming Now if New Rates Applied. President Coolidge was represented day officially as being convinced ax reduction legislation ed by Congress by this me the nation would be witnessing very pronounced-business stimula- ! tion throughout the land. The President is known to have ex- essed this opinion to several of his callers today with he conferred regarding the ssibility of speeding up administra- tlon legislation. er by thoritatively as being falrly good | promising, there is a noticable ten- | dency | While the President is not showing an | matter up for disci {net meeting to ne { Hoover | Boad for the c 164 {ise of bre While he understands that the gen- al business situation is looked upon to speak au- nd those in a position in Some businesses to slow up. y g£reat concern he brought the ussion at the cabi- During the discussion of the busi- ss situation, Secretary of Commerce said that prospects are very ming summer, explain- at he based his judgment upon the tion of the steel industry at this which always is looked upon as reliable barometer. in that connection he cited the at the building industry, which ached its peak last year, glves prom- akinz more records this com- ing summer, Students of { slowing u to an ALF icial).—Entering through a back win- do last jthought secure at fdruggists, {than 1 tie b me The | closed T |Latsios from his 1 this home, | holding him da; me they could expl Lwh v canal, {bile parked in front of watched wh ifor started business economics, the informed, attribute the of certain lines of business failure of Congre binet was the ted by the administration, d above all by the failure thus far to urovide a reduction in taxe: 1 ALEXANDR KANDRIA, Va, April 1 (Spe- w_which was forced open, burgla night stole $35, which e store of H. D. shton & 1028 King street $%, which had been register, was untou olice, who were no bhers carly today, as not committed by who have terrori for the past month, but rather Some one who knew where the ¥ was hidden when the store was sed last night wo Who was the 4 Co., More in the h 1o ed of the believe that it the same par- 1 the commu- o men sllowed Angelus nchroom toward pparent intentions of when they reached a being sought this ce, who believe that in’the other robbery, lich was evidently committed ear- rin the Latsios with up pol rk street, rning by 2 to on King street at he was being watched twWo men who were | automo- the He he had procured to be sufficient in- h to identify ther his money behin hom. them unti; he thought nation by wh then, icaving toward his nat a The car followed and passed him. Tt ing alighted, he Iy dre jstreet |before police could Le ciation di tie of 3 April the The meetings held in the Fi tis than 100 delegates ch |ciation ciation still lacks appro fw 50 rried only one man, the other hay- followed on foot. As ched his home he stepped quick- his doorway as another car W up on the opposite side of Foval The supposed bandits escaped called. und Drive. f Potomac were asked in resolutions 4 here yesterday to lay par- r stress on the early completion the s tion's quota to the 5,000,000 paign. The month of was aside as special mis- month among the churches of association. T Mission ptist ministers Asso- opt set n t Bap- nere two t Church, were attended by from the sixty urches which make up th ames R. Mansfield presided. to reports which were erday. Potomac Asso- imately $50.- having filled its quota of $218,- It is hoped that this money raised before the general as- 1 meets, although pledges are ill be ciati not payable until the end of the year. one 1a tei Tda ve w clean up the he Clue to Robberies. Police e not vet arrested in_connection with the robbery st week of the homes of A, W. Pe- rsilin_and J. W. Kirkham, Mount although the finding of a quan- of the goods in u vacant ga ssterduy furnished several clues hich, they belicve, may ultimately mystery surrounding the goods taken from the two ymes was found, with the exception diamond ring valued at $100 and dozen banan, The loot recovered sted of several pairs of pants, a se, children’s school books and various other articles of little value. en th, with 1o de fa 00p | delegation a token of their good will, em- of the gurface printing depart- t of the burean of printing and graving Sunday night presented eir former chief, George C. a handsome ‘gold watch, gned his position March ving received Cole 15 after reinstatement fol- wing his dismissal by executive or- r two vears ago. Cole was at home, 318 Sonth Fair- x street. with his family, when the of twenty, representing e 400 employes of the department, ppenrcd and tendered him their gift education sl le made a short speech of thanks. In recognition of his attainment in id of education, Richard n, principal of the Alexandria has been taken into the Delta Kappa Fraternity of the of ~ Virginia, his alma er. The requirments for the fra- | are ments special and note-worthy in the field of pragtical well as excellent holarship while at school SURVEYS INDIAN LANDS. Interior Department Locating Boundaries in Red River Section. th The Supreme Court having decided at the title to lands touching the north shore of the Red river extends to v In th Ti title the terior center of the river bed, the Department has begun sur- ys to determine the boundaries of dian allotments in five sections of e area in southern Oklahoma. The lands being surveyed are in llman county and contain oil, the to which, under the court’s ¢ cision, belongs to the Indians owni th allotment NOON-DAY LENTEN SERVICES B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 0’Clock SPEAKER TOMORROW Senator Simeon D. Fess CONDUCTED BY Hon. Thos. E. Robertson Every One Invited No Collection f Collapse of Potomac River Bank Added to Cumberland Flood Menace Breaking of Embankment Allowed Raging W aters to C., TUESDAY, APRIL T 1924 SHOWS ROOSEVELT s to adopt ! |certain policies of governmental econ- | - {omy advoc ed in a drawer | Cole, | Overflow Into Wills Cr Into Business Section. By a Staff Correspondent CUMBERLAND, Md., April 1.—While Cumberland continued with its task of digging its main business section out of the layer of mud and water which lay over this eity all day urday and through part of old residents of the city marveled at the speed with which the waters of the Potomac and Wills creek rose to |inundate the city and cause damage estimated between $2,000,000 and $3,- 000,000 Beginning early Saturday the | water rose fifteen feet, reaching its crest about 10 o'clock Saturday night, when the entire downtown section was covered to a depth of four feet. {Breaking of the embankment between Wills creek and the Potomac allowing |the waters of the main river to flow through the channel of Wills creek was the main contributing factor in the flood. Tearing away the wall which separated the two bodies of water, the river carried away an en- tire lumber yard with damage esti- mated at $50,000 Flncid Stream Normally. Normally a placid stream with relatively small flow of wa the industrial section of flanked by manufacturing plants tween it ‘and the F'otomac, and with the business section of the city on the east, Wills creek, burdened by the downpour from the mourtains which in this city on all sides, became which backed up into trict. H: that fift feet of emb ent between the river and the creek not given way before the onrushing Potomac, only a smal tion, and that the lowest art of city, would have be flooded. sistent reports that three lost their lives when the brid E. and 0. conn Maryland into West Vir wn before the rushing P'otomac conld not be verified. Iiye witne: declared they had en thre men out on the twin Spans thab went down the river about 4 o'clock Satur- lduy afternoon, carrying with them five loided coal cars and a loaded tank car. These cars and the two bridge spans toaay a h: -mile down the turgid BLIZZARD’S FURY ADDS TO SUFFERING OF FLOOD VICTIMS (Continued from First Page.) a er through the city the men o the estern nia went ers of the {is going until provided. ped and to pipe water to other means of supply Few fanulies in s The town is in has a volunteer Rid can be tidiely diark- armed patrol The big Footer dye works today, withough it is a heav ferer. sumed Heavy Freight Loss. of frei nd railway the flood, and thou- nds of dollars’ worth of expres {freight shipments stored and n the the Americar n the b Maryiand pas- troyed tation w ¥ post office started {mail delivery today. A force ione men. many working t {hours without halt, have leared mud and debris from the baseme the main building and the annex, with nine pum throwing twenty three- water has been reduc sement of Fort Hotel at the a foc It is as a great reservoir The situation at county, where fifteen houses swept away entirely and |1y damaged, s serlous, and {i= being made to g + truckload of prov. ns over the st impass: able county road from Oakland Family Saved. The family of J. Divelbliss, at M- Coole, consisting of the parents and two children, reported drowned, was rescued by boatmen Divelbliss tracted attention from his marooned home by firing shots from an up- rs window ats were then pro- i €. Nicolson, of regular of sixty- th b score an effort Washington, Towage ope: the Che Ohio canal, is here surveving dam- {age and looking to starting repairs {The waterway suffered heavily |, Added to the complication low gas pressure here due largely to the new snowfall. Many nearby places without natural gas entirely, th mains having been washed out and those who depended upon it entirsly for fuei and light are great suffercrs The police department has issued lan ovder permitting no loitering { the streets after 10:30 p.m., and move- [ments of peopla in their own build {ing will be under .surveillance. This follows a suspected incendiary at- mpt in the business quarters last { night. presi- Company, wpeake and ent which is the Years to Repair Damage. Prominent residents of “the Tri- | Towns"—FPiedmont, W. Va., and West- ernport and Luke, Md—say it wiil itake years for the places to recover |from the flood, so hard were t hit Piedmont flat was under ght feet of water all day, filling every hous and ruining every store. The Luke flat was all flooded, and this struck the great plant of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. which has jsuffered half a million dollars’ dam- tage. Poth the county and th rall- iroad bridges over the Potomac are {one, and these represent a cost of $225,000. Georges creck was diverted {down its old_bed in front of St | Peter’s Catholic Chu and there were four fect of water in the puro- chial school The shutting off of power has seriously affected conditions In the Georges Cree region, which depends upon the Edison iplant in Cumberiand, which was deluged iby the flood. Mines have been obliged to suspend, and the towns have been in idarkness. The Utility glass works at { Lonaconing was forced to shut down when the gas service was shut off. Ow ling to the fact that the pots in which the glass is melted must be kept ci stantly heated, coal and ofl were us in the emergency | The Baltimore and Ohio railroad re- ports that its damage will not be heav, Ite worst trouble was from.inundated THE EVENING -d “THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT” By Frederic J. Haskin. o tive and understandable account of the working side of the Federal Government that has ever been written. The Book That Shows Sam At Work ty-four | | Kitzmiller, Garrett at- | OPPOSED OIL LEASE Wadsworth Reads Private | Letter of Denby’s Aide Out- lining His Stand. eek, Which Backed Up stream, great masses of twisted steel and iron. The waters flooding into Cumber- Iand rose at the rate of two fe hour between early Saturday 10 o'clock Saturday night, whi tima every business house and indus- | Assistant Secretary Roosevelt of the trial plant down town was flooded. iy, o oW oW Was fooded. {Navy opposed vigorously the transter T T e wontimuonaly from Sat- (0f the naval ofl reserves to the De- urday morning assisting in the work [partment of the Interior and their of reseue, o - ang |Subsequent leasing, Senator Wads- Chicf of Police Oscar Eyreman | e ¥ hin entire force performed guard duty |Worth of New York, republican, said continuously through the period of [in the Senate yesterday, defending high water, drafting 100 citizens and [Roosevelt against a renewed demand e e o ety Bpring. {foF his resignation contained in the flold tire plant, constructed here six jresolution introduced by Senator Dill. years ago, has suffered 4 loss of sev- |Senator Wadsworth described the Dill eral hundred thousand dollars; the iragolution as a “bare attempt to be- ot dison Company, the eit B ot lunt, e snffered enor. [smirch his (Mr. Roosevelt's) character [}, fase inuendo.” mous damage, while the individuzl loss to storekeepers and residen <Anbther snlpes Has Fa{vd) is) Hean of the downtown section is stagier- | = 3 ing. Mr. Eyreman declared it was re- i""'“ the political trenches to take a markable that none of the brick [shot at a member of the administra- ructure, which house the busin: tion,” the New York senator said, be- e lome And tumbled Into |Eimning an analysis of the resolution. IThe purpose of the Dill resolution, he the muddy waters. ended, “obviously is to create the in- Streets Torn ference that Col. Roosevelt was actu- : ated by improper or corrupt motive So great was the force of g {and uch iferenc waters backing into the city when [PAr 5 inference is absolutely the Wills creek embankment broke als that the downtown Streets, pave with wooden blocks, were torn up, leaving great gaping holes many feet | yion wae declared by some of the acroxs. ©Autgmobiles are not per-| yOn WAS clared by sor h mitted west of Liberty street on ac- |democratic senators, speaking pri- punt of the condition of the pave- |vately, as untimely. It was classed mente, |as a “mistake” by at leagt one of the Stocks of n were | o tog T e otTeS Wi ldemocrats who has been very active washed out and downstream wher i pon e yemy molive ! 3 i th the waters, breaking throuxh plate |ijon ‘which has resulted in the resig. glass windows, tore out displays and |45, of bers of the cabin JEeeaEt g phe L nton He then r letter by Mr. Roose- i e e jvelt to a member of the New York merchandise from tobaceo I legislature, showing that the dren's dresse assista, had gone to See- Automobiles, caught on the crest of | pupuitf e LR the flood, were turned over and,iranster of the oil-leasing power, and ruined. One large scven-passenger | when Denby sald it was oo Tates car was carried aFainst the facade of [Nt nbiated oaon tn e enie atern the Fort Cumberiand Hotel and de- | the executive. lonnerer meporment, to posited in the strect, a ruined. twist- the Navy' fan " Supervicion: ot i ed_ mass of stee e Water was still pouring out of the cments of the city hall and the rgine house this morning, while basements were: covered inche with mud Classed ax Mistake. The introduction of the Dill resolu- ny of the stores to chil- Letter to Senator. letier from Mr. Roosevelt to State Senator Campbell, under date of February 15, follow: “My Dear Senator “I have just received y February “11. Thank {for it. | “My conne lis brie | President Hardi fic of e | fer 1 T ba fire th The and west late. are so much but i gineer Ralph L. Rizer informed sncil that the work of re ects would be pushed wit 0il leases ollows: Shortly after s induction into of- Secretary Denby sent me a copy proposed Executive order trans- ni the naval oil re tment of the Inter v ree. He sent at the same tim to the bureau of cngineering, | r getting my copy of the order [ sked Admiral Griffin, who was then chief of that bureau wnd who had the 0il under his particular care, to talk | t over with me. [ knew very little | of the matter very | 'r would be ! v | of Keyser, W, on_ opposite s put their The Keys U0 worth of yarn OHIO IS RECOVERING. irsted mills Jost I A I i i | Ten Deaths. Property Damage and | | [ \ i Joblessness Is Toll. w5 00 ) Press LAND, Ohio, April Hocking and Sandusky riv- ding, flood danger hio ap- ared over_ after causing ten deaths and property Thou- ands from were | preparing Industr decided he probably | L f 1y grounds for col m were that | partment has as its { the development he Unite States, lands belohging e would be ent to the the lands be or Dy y 1.—With g to the In this con- rior De- honvs dama their nes to should | case of srefore | 1 ho return nd that ict of ideas. nd urged that not transferred to the rtment. He informed protest in the matter w the agreed t ous in the flooded th 2 standst £ work tem workers are virty ¥, but most steel Nk 1o work tod H #s and steel works in Belmont Jefferson counties were tied up, | ot . ary Min ries in{ 600 men. | at Yorkviil 5 sta water in the to re aire H 1 i 1 went s e situation with Griffin and cer- fficers, d to me that if w ndment to the origin rtran making it neces Interior Department te Liverpool, housnad were idic part of a pumpi utting off th |Two thousand miners unahle of in reached f. and Marating has passed x nex ded at Liverp reported 1 and resc FIGHT OVER DROWNING. t oceur could ry gain Yorkville first time der- lands | A end | we could guard H mproper exploitation of amendments with thi in W submitted 1o took them to the Secretary cussed th with him. Af 1o dis agreed to a me them. He told n ¢ Fall, and that | him to agree to this! would be all right| 1 the amendment to | all. who _agreed to it. I it to the White House for | This amendment reads s] the flood | 912, ¥ Steubenvill ty-five Linst numbe fall of trhe | from the crest ) mld et it Spevial Dispatel HARRISONE to the Jack Con evening in the Island Ford, Va. high waters, drowned Shenandoah river n has not been located ffort has been made to | body, due to the raging | Text of Amendment. *‘But no general policy as to drill- ing or reserving lands located in a| naval reserve shall L hanged or | adopted except upon consultation and | in co-operation with t ecretary or cting Secretary of the Navy." You 1 see that this reserves to the Navy supervision over the oll re- serves It was on account of this! | amendment that all of the leases un- | der dis jon by the Senate commit- | teo time were countersigned ! by Denby. They could not hav, complished without the O, K. of this department. “At th point my active part tion in ire matter ce: ! so happened that 1 was not consulted ' fon any of the oil lea 1 did not I know they wer contemplation | {until aftér the: signed. With srence to the Teapot Dome lease | 1 did not know there on foot to lease Teapot d not know Sinclair was | inter in any of the leases, 1 ard them only after they had n made to t cral public. “In o far as tion with the nelair Company goes, it is as - lows: I was among the group of bankers who were interested in its| original formation. T was a directur | of the company until the cutbreak of the war in 1917, when | resigned. My last stock in the company was scld during the war, not later than 918, . {1 am inclined to think in 1917. My of Cumberland, quickly passed both | wife bought one thousand shares of houses, but should Cumberland later | Sinclair stock, however. ia 1920, but | decide to get along w 0 o | 80ld them at a loss some short time temporars relter Tung, the eeterihe | before the Jeases with the Navy Dec will be asked to veto the measure, | PArtment were signed Prompt steps to replace the roads| 'Merely parenthetically, I have en- and bridges destroved by the flood |828ed in no business of any kind also were faken by Ritchie. the war. and my entrance into Investigation by John N. Mackall, | Politics, and have, therefore, made no chairman of the state’s road commis- | money of any kind in business. n. made at the governor's request,| “All of ‘the above is in the hearings disclosed t. the bridzes over the rhaps not quite in such ample Potomac. at Hancock und Park Head |form as I have given it to you, and are damaged badly. The stone bridge | fairly well scattered over a couple at Cumberland iS reported to have,of da resisted the high waters. The gov.| “You may show this letter to any ernor announced that the repairs will [one you wish to show it to, but do not | be made from the $900.000 state|let it get into the press, because 1 bridge loan passed yesterday. |don't want at this time to look as if STAR COUPON Conley. a ingham and | was drowned | which a party the riv 10 sw able nk of well known Fast Rock- cen county character, | when the rowhoat in | of fuur were cross The other thr . but Conley wa his Wway 1o the shd beneath the surface before his companions could assist | Sheriff C. W. the neighborhood vesterday to que used by ang sidents’ coming ) “make trouble, effort was made to drowning. There was a gen. turbance, which ended in one men being brought to jail here STATE GIVES AID. Dove € was called to ! the drowning a_ disturbance of ne coun ver the mountain charging that no ave Conley from was a plan Dome | Special Dispateh to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 1.—For the aid of Cumberland and other sections | of western Maryland stricken by the | Potorm flood, the legislature | in its closing hours last night passed a bill appropriating $75,000. The bill, introduced by Senator David A. Robb ¢ river | Denby in his time of trouble. lieve ‘me, yours very truly, (Signed) HEODORE ROOSEVELT."” PARADE FOR THEATER. More Than 150 Vehicles and Floats Are Entered. Columbia Heights will demonstrate its business prowess Friday night in | the pageant that will mark the for- {mal opening of the Tivoli Theater, the latest plavhouse to be erected by Harry Crandall, at 14th street |and Park road. Final arrangements for the parade { were completed last night at a meeting of the celebration committee Present this coupon and $1.00 at the Business Office of The Evening Star and secure your copy of the book, a 5-color map of the United States, 28x22 inches, and a 32-page booklet con- taining the Constitution of the United States. Pair Held in New York as Sus- Corporation, returni sioner fixed bond at States Nalley, the last alleged member of the | IN the mat- |h 'YALE PRESS FILMS T0 BE SHOWN TONIGHT | /-* Historical Movies Will Be Present- vy Department | produced lCoolidge to S—tayA | i Here This Summers;, 'Finds Weather 0. K.! President Coolidge has no fnten- tion now’ of leaving Washington this summer. In making this known at the ‘White House today, a ®pokesman for the President stated that the latter wants it to be known that he likes the city; is satisfied that he and his family will be com- fortable here, and that he i tain that the gover operated far more s the Capital, despite any gre that might arise, than from so remote point. This means that the President will not accept any of the several offers that have been ,made to establish a ummer White House” outside of Wash- ington. While discussing the subject, it was said the President expressed himself that it is far cooler living in the White House, surrounded by the wide grounds than in th city proper, and that he and Mrs. Coolidie found it very comfortable during the late summer months DS FIXED IN PIGGLY ROBBERY PROBE TAX REFUND TO WELLON IR Senate Committee to Con- tinue Inguiry in Gulf Cor- poration Case Today. The the {day lquiry {corp 10n Ing the Gulf Co |ups betwes lican, Mich (vestizati {publican, jthat it ic tee wa Senate committec reven plans stigatmg t its in- nternal with nto the rations, oration is a ir: ureau met to- to continue refunding of taxes to neluding the Gulf Oil n which Secretary Mel- minority stockholder to int tax affairs of led to flare- 1ir- enator Te- has deciared Kentue ed as “after Me Senator Couzens ye jed the retary 1 ! commit a list of al in e i S terday request - to the companies h sted, but r the ply has not b has tse and the suEzests from rembers if pi Durir oftict, $25,000 BON sition £on pects May Resist Re- turn Here. NALLY NOT YET LOCATED) wh The Mr. M allowances 1 alonz smoothly in the until mmis- bt Claim Store Loss Is Now Esti- mated at $13,980. {554 {eall { war | nad been Dennis J. Reidy and Rarl Christy | fechin! Blundon, under arrest in New York | for alleged participation in the hold- up of M. L. Cleaton and John Starnes representatives of the Piggly Wigs! eight d: ago, will learn tomorrow if they will have to | ft! return here for trial 15 Detectives Ira and Joseph Waldron had them before United States Commissioner Hitchcock in New York vesterday on an applica- | obje tion for their removal to this city,{W¢ and the United States atto ad- | vised them,to retury without putting {1 ap a legal fight o sel for th % volu 5.000 b ny hal- the Mel Ke srney 000 and The : would for tomorrow. ttorney said hearing nereas o | WARRANTS FOR MEANS AND JARNECKE VACATED New York i‘e;l!—r 1 Judge Orders Forfeited Bail of $15,000 * Remitted. Tracers went out for Joseph handit party, have not ught re- ved that| ew York, but detectives | him. Check- the grocery bandits obtained aceoun the ng up of t irm showed 480 —Federal t vacated E sterday E to appear for tri ed Before Educators by Alumni Here. | OKLAHOMA OIL MAN HELD ON SHOOTING CHARGE | Tells New York Police Pedestrian Was Hit Accidentally in Dance Hall Melee. d Press April Three can of the “Chronicle; Pictures” —"Jamestown," and “Wolfe M by the Yale University| Press, will be p d private arge group of educators, in the tral High chool tonight at elock the auspices of ale Club of Washington The “Chronicles of America” depi outstanding events i h tory from the discovery to the surrender of Grant. ‘The pictures tonight will show th settlement Dale and t hontas and John title of “Jamestown George Rogers Clark i Indian outpost and the states of higan, Tllinois cennes” and tealn 8:1 th. under Ame; said e was n. Le to be rst permaner under romance Rol was with in ca alo of P under expl capturing ihe adding to t Ohio, Indiar eproduction Abra- and Monte: the strug, i The plains of of the i te, Joseph E. E. Kar- committee in charge ation here is comp t Knaebel, Arthur E. F Fairbanks, Dr. Paul Kaufman, Berney, D. D. Lambert. David rick, JAhn Dryden, Thoms man and Newbold Noye CHICAGO VOTERS SHOT AND BEATEN AT POLLS Beer Runners Are Blamed Ruthless Violence at Cicero Election. ne declared. HENRY GOUCHER DEAD. d during the ‘Weather Bureau Official Succumbs to Pneumonia. weather bureau t home, 41 1 weather bu- By the Associated Fress. CHICAGO, April 1L.—Two democrati workers in suburb, were shot and another beaten near voting precincts in the election today, democratic declaring that the violence to be under the dire cently named in the in Chicago. One closed. Bullets first started to fly as the campaign closed Cicero, a . vil workers appearcd tion of men re- | r-running war | w poiling place’ was | 1550, He | in that § United He entered bureau, J 1891 ,he { proper an illness in imtry States whe the bor re voun Corps On last night STROMBOLI VOLCANO ROCKED BY EXPLOSION {ire | Kansas Many Windows Broken in Heavy | .. Blast on Coast of angement Sicily. By the Associated Press ROME, April 1—A violent explo- | sion occurred in the erater of the voleano of Stromboli, on the coast of Sicily, on March 8, it was announced in a communique from the Roy. Meteorological Burcau here today. Windows in the vicinity were shat- tered by the shock and fifteen per- sons were injured. i Goucher ARREST FOLLOWS CHASE. | Detective Pursues Fleeing Auto for Ten Squares. automo) ternoon Claude them tio After souare: yesterday yons and an Posses aleoholic_be released on $1,000 stumbled onto the While he was passing 126 Mouthwest. He saw a colored e ith a five-gallon tin cAn start from the house and then run for cov- O hen the detective approached. continued on his few minutes Detective Ogle | street Bridge Regulations. Seoretary Weeks has approved reg- | ulations for the government of traflic on the Virginia approach of the Fran- | (&1 c0f i time the Arcade. More than 150 ve- cles, including several floats, | been entered. | At the suggestion of police officials {the route of the parade has been | changed slightly. Instead of turning linto F street from Pennsylvania ave- inue via 9th street, the procession !will use 10th street. The horse- {drawn vehicles, instead of falling in {line at 17th street and Pennsylvamia lavenue, will take their places behind | the automobiles at 14th and Fairmont I streets. In the event of heavy and continued rain, the parade will be held Monday night instead of Friday. e Mail Orders—Add for postage up to 150 miles, 8c; 300 miies, Sc) greater distances, ask postmase ter rate for 2 pounds. have This Is the book that is generally onceded to be the most authorita- §06 Whike sHonmm cis Scott Key bridge, deslxned to pre- | (0ol B vent congestion at that peint repre- (1% S€G L sented to have reached the danger | ool point. Parking of vehicles near the| terminals of the Old Dominlon and} the Washington-Virginia railroads is Paris Plans Tax on Aliens. prohibited and all trafic will be kept moving. PARIS, April 1—The city Capt. William A. Snow, the engl- |has referred to a committee a plan neer in charge of the bridge, hus ar- | 1, tax foreigners staying in Paris ranged for the laying of concrete sl z sidewalks and curbing on the Vir-|longer than forty-cight hours. It ] ginia_approach, and the work will be | estimated that Paris hus about 400, compleced in a few weeks. The con- | 000 foreign residents, and that fully tract was awarded to Corson & Gru- | 700,000 tourists visit the capital an- man of this clty at $3,000. nually. and followe council