Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1924, Page 11

FLAYS W00D REPORT ON FILIPINO FREEDOM Roxas Declares General's Opposi- tion Has Prompted Struggle for Full Independence. By the Associated Press. MANILA, August 22.—Addressing 2 Rotary Club luncheon yester Manuel Roxas, speaker of the Phi Pine House of Representatives, de- clared that the Filipinos before and during 1921 were aspiring only for the independence of the Philippines under the protection of the United States. It was only after the publi- cation of the report of the.Woods- Forbes mission, sent to the islands by President Harding in 1921 to re- Dort on the progress of government authorized by the Jones bill, that the Filipinos adopted the slogan of com- plete, Immediate and absolute inde- pendence, said the speaker. He urged harmony and co-operation between Americans and Filipinos in the is- lands. \ “'The spirit of - separation ' from America among,the Filipinos has in- creased and been growing in pro- portion to the opposition condu: by some Americans in the island said Roxas. “Only when the cam- ign against independence was in- ‘tensified two ‘or three years ago after the publication of the report of the Woods-Forbes misslon did the the Filipinos commit themselves with determination to the idea of absolute independence. “Before that time Philippine in- dependence under the protection of the United States was desired. Very fter the result of the American sction is known the Philippine stion will again find its way to the American Congress. The time is ripe for harmony and co-operation be- tween the Americans in the islands and the Filipinos.” e ot “State of the reproach which Federal neglect, bootlegging and corrupt poli- tics have combined to bring upon it. I ask your co-operatio: “first, to secure speedy trial and pun- ishment. That the greatest deter- rent of crime, and it explains why England has, in proportion to popu- lation, about 2 per cent of the mur- ders we have in America. “Second, to secure prison sentences. instead of fines. To a bootlegger or a , @& fine is merely a kind of to keep on breaking the law. Nine times out of ten he writes it off profit and loss and goes right ahead with his law-breaking. “Third, to make full use of the in- Jjunction to close up places where the lay is violated.” - RUM-RUNNING SUSPECT SLAIN BY COAST GUARD Boat, 500 Cases of Liquor and Five Men Taken in Gun Fight. By the Assoclated Press. ASBURY PARK, N. J,, August 22.— Antonio Piepro of Astoria, N. Y., an alleged rum-runner, was killed early today during a running gun battle west of the Roamer Shoals lightship between six Coast Guards and six men in the speedboat Lynx I The boat was captured and 500 cases of whisky found aboard her. The Coast Guards fought with ma- chine guns and revolvers, whjle the crew of the Lynx II returned their fire with revolvers. None of the guards was injured, although bullet after bullet found its way into the GoVern- ment boat. The remaining five members of the Lynx II crew were arrested. Piepro was the third alleged rum- runner shot in this vicinity during the last two weeks. Polished Floors of Hard Woad THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C; FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1894 MRS. PRAEGER DIES. Rites Held Today for Wife of For- mer Postal Official. Mrs. Annie Hardesty Praeger, wife. of Otto Praeger, former Washin, postmaster and later Second Assist- ant Postmaster General, died at her home, 3151 Mount Pleasant street, yesterday.’ Mrs. Praeger was born in Wi ington, La., November 28, 1871. was the daughter of Mr. . Hardesty. She was married to Mr. eger in 1897 and came to this city in 1905. She was a well known stu- dent of literature and was a member of the Emerson Club here. Besides her husband she is_sus- vived by three sons, Lieat. Otto Prae- ger, jr., Engineer Corps, U. S. tionea at Baltimore; Frank H. Pr: ger, Philadelphia, and Herman Praeger of the Bureau of Rallway Economics, here, and two sisters, Mrs. Ernest Foster of Sebastian, Fla., and Mrs. L. €. Stqwart of Prescott, Ariz. * Funeral services were conducted in the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Bpiscopal Church South this after- noon at 1:30 o'clock. Rev. M. Leo Rippy officiated.. Interment was in Glenwqod Cemete; She nd Mrs. B. MRS. J. BOORMAN EXPIRES Native of England, But Resident Here 17 Years. ' Mrs. Joseph Boorman, a resident of this city for the last 17 years, died It’s Easy to Pay fora at the George Washington University Hospita] yesterday, following an ill- ness of about three week: Funeral services will be conducted at Wright's uhdertaking establish- ment, 1337 TentH street, this event at 8 o'clock, Interment will be at Manassas, Va., tomorrow. Mrs. Boorman was born in Sussex County, England, in 1860. As a child, she became.a protege of the late Marchioness of Abergavenny, whose son, Lord Richard Nevill, visited Washington severa] years ago in the ‘nterest of blind British soldiers. rs. rman was married at Tunbridge, England, and immediately thereafter moved to Manassas, Va., where she and her husband resided for several years before moving to Washington. Mr. Boorman died in 1916. Mrs. Boorman is survived by a sis- ter in England and by a son, Fred- erick S. Boorman, an employe of The Evening _Star. and _three _daughters, CHEVROLET You should purchase your Chevrolet from us, because we Miss Kathryn C. Boorman and Mrs. Erskine D. Willlams, all of this city, and Mrs. A. N. Pratt of Miiton, Del. She was a member of the Central Presbyterian Church of this city. AL R EDISON ENGINE SAVED. SUNBURY, Pa., August 22.—The old Arlington-Somme ationary engine used by Thomas A. 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