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PARLEY SHELVES HEROIN PROBLEM Surgeon General Blue’s Fight Fails in Geneva—Bishop Hits Results. Axsociated Press. EVA. December 8.—The al to have the heroin problem at a special plenary session international opium confer was sidetracked at today's plen- despite the plea of for- Surg. Gen. Blue of the American delegation for a full consideration of the question Although Gen. Blue's proposal was supported by Delegate Dr. H. S. Be- land of Canada, a motion to refer the question to the experts’ committee was made by the Belgium delega- tion. This motlon was seconded by s0 many delegafes that Gen. Blue ac- quiesced, reserving, however, the right to made a minority report if the committee shaved down the American proposal for the outlawry of heroin. The Cuban, Spanish and Gorman supporting the move matter to the experts. pro- cussed of the ence a me session, to reier tion. moved article Reviews Legis! Gen. Blue had the American proposals to the com- ference to the effect that “the cof tracting parties shall enact effective laws or regulations prohibiting the manufacture and distribution heroin.” He reviewed the prohibitive Jegislation in force in the United Ktates and declared that “heroin cuts £hort the sense of moral responsibil- ity much quicker than morphine. He called it the most toxic and most pernicious of all drugs. An attempt by Sir Malcolm Dele- wingne, head of the British delegation, to hasten the conclusion of the con- ference and force an adjournment by December 20 met a rebuff. Stephen G. Porter of the American delegation came out flatly against hurrying the work. He said: “It is true we are ell anxious to spend Christmas with our families, but we are engaged here in a work of world-wide im- portance for human cause of their charges on the world. I think ‘t would be a very serious mistake to fix the time of adjournment so that 1t will put us in a position of being unable to complete our work." Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Metho- @ist Episcopal Church, who waging a fight against the oplum evil for 20 vears, announced last night that he was disgusted with the proceed- ings and the results of the first in- ternational opium conference. On the eve of his departure for Paris and London the bishop said This is the last time I shall take a ehare in any international gathering en_this great problem.” The bishop in a statement sald the Arst opium conference, which was confined to the opium-producing na tions, had reached no agreement thus and that the second conference, which will meet today, had nothing before it. The first conference's sgrecment was of a character “that requires us reluctantly, but under a 9 of helplessnes: are SPECIAL KOTICES NCING AUTO AND OTHER INSTALL- ment . one to tweive months. 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Nader, 27, of 1523 Seventeenth street northwest is to wed Miss Julla Aed, 22, of 1121 Monroe street northwest. James N. Nader, 24, who resides at 1818 Eighteenth street, will marry Miss Wadia Aed, 19, stern sensé of duty, to fall back on “lthe American reservations and raise the question of what the second con- ference should do in the circum- stances.” Opposes U. S. Signing. “To keep silence and acquiesce in the agreement,”. the bishop's state- ment continues, “would make us de- linquents in our responsibilities as slgnatories to The Hague convention, which charges us, equally, with the nations represented at the first con- ference with taking progressive and effective measures for suppression of the use of prepared opium. X 1 possible, we hope at this eleventh hour to save both ourselves and the signatories of the first conference agreement from the just reproach which is sure to be measured out with unsparing hand to all who have made or may make themselves re- sponsible for its provision Reviewing the work of the first con- ference, the bishop says Americans took it for granted that its results would be submitted to a second con- ference in which American were participating, instead of the results merely being reported to the league council, as was decided on Saturday. Real Problem Untouched. The bishop then takes up the first conference’s agreement article by article and says the proposal to estab- lish a government monopoly to regu- late opium selling “proposes a new administrative measure, leaving the substance of the problem untouched.” “It is not compulsory, and at best it is a hesitating step,” the state- ment says. “In my judgment a gov- ernment monopoly can never be other than a hazardous experiment, except as a temporary expedient for a speci fled purpose and for a limited period, The bishop particularly condemns the first conference’s articles of agreement relative to the prohibition of the sale of opium to minors, saying: “Presumably the protection of chil- dren and limitation of shops and ‘divans’ was the earliest step taken a decade ago toward suppression of the opium abuse. At the last mo- ment an effort was made to en- large article 1T by considering the welfare of adults as well as minors It was defeated, although the act- ticle was lengthened to read, ‘The sale of opium to minors shall be prohibited; all possible steps shall be taken by the contracting powers to prevent the spread of the habit of opilum smoking among minors.’ A bystander suggested the further addition of the words ‘Unless they al- ready have learned in the kinder- garten.’ Objects to Word ‘Divan.’ The only reason for refusing a pledge to prevent the spread of the habit among adults suggesting it- self to the ordinary man, the Bishop continues, is that the parties con- cerned do not wish such a restric- tion He then notes that the word “divan” was substituted for the word “den.” as used in The Hague con-| vention, and sa. “I cannot see that anything has been done to oplum dens or (l\'fll‘ entitling them to the honorific or| euphonious title of divans.” i Referring to charges that he had | been ungenerous in his allusions to vested interests during the second conference’s deliberations, Bishop | Brent says: “Such protestations are empty, so long as the fact abides that revenues large or small are received and not immediately ex-: pended on prevention treatments of | adicts or other such measures.” While commending the article in| the agreement which says “the con- | tracting_ powers shall use their ut- most_efforts by suitable instruction in schools, the dissemination of lit- erature and otherwise to discourage | the use of prepared opium within | their respective territories,” the state- | ment says: i i Raps Hedging on Article. “It would take a sophist, or even | a Mephistopheles, to explain why so simple and honest a plan should have been marred and defeated by having tacked upon it the words ‘except | when the government considers such | measures undesirable under the con- ditions existing in its territory,’ " the bishop declares. “The article begins with ‘Utmost efforts’ and closes with as fine a piece of hedging as any gambler ever employed in a horse race. It is the trifling principle of playing with language in a solemn | covenant If it were children of our own body and homes we would not tolerate it. “Why then should we tolerate it for the children of the Orient?” Recalling that legisiative machin- ery had been brought into being for the creation of the first comference’s report and the result of it, the bishop remarks that it was like building a steam hammer and then using it to crack a walnut “The document.” says the bishop, is a bundle of compromises, reduc- ing the whole great enterprise to the lowest common denominator. The best 1.can hope is that it will not be ratified as it stands.” Bishop Brent concludes with an appeal to the second conference to walve all matters of competence. “Un- less something is done,” he declares, “color will be given the charge that Western nations having Eastern possessions are callous as regards | the vital interests of the very people upon whom the welfare of such pos- sessions depends and to the further charge that we, of the West, have a law of self-protection for ourselves and a law of exploitation for those who are our friends when not our wards.” BATHING BEACH CREATED FOR COLORED RESIDENTS Deficiency Bill, Signed by President Saturday, Carries $72,000 Fund for Purpose. The deficiency bill signed by the President Saturday carries an appro- priation of $72,000 with which. to construct and equip a second bathing beach for the District of Columbla, which will be for the use of colored citizens. Col. C. O. Sherrill, U.S. A., officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, after discussing the matter briefly with the President to- day, sad afterward that work would at once be started on this beach., He said it will be located on the north- west shore of the tidal basin, at a point almost directly opposite the present bathing beach. At least $15000 of the total appropriation will be used in obtaining the sand and making the beach itself, he sald. The remalinder will be for the con- struction and equipment of the build- ings. coaslapE el Arab women of Palestine are keen not only on social emancipation but on_ participation in politics, THE EVENING BRYAN QUTLINES PLAN FOR PEACE Submits Method in Address Before Federal Council of Churches. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., December 8-— Methods to outlaw war were outlined to the Federal Council of Churches in addresses prepared for delivery to- day by Willlam Jennings Bryan and Dr. James T. Shotwell, diractor of the Carnegle endowment for International peace. “To avoid war, It is necessary first to cultivate a sentiment against war and, second, to devise a machinery for the settlement of disputes that have heretofore led to war,” said Mr. Bryan. “The ‘will to peace’ s one of the happiest phrases so far coined in the interest of peace. The more intense that will, the greater the re- luctance to resort to the sword and the more intelligent and serious will be the effort to find substitutes for war. Says Court In Needed. “We need a world court for the settlement of all questions that can be submitted to arbitration, but these are comparatively few and not of the first importance. All arbitration treaties contain exceptions, and these exceptions cover the really vital questions, such as honor, independ- ence, vital interests and interests of third parties. “It is necessary, therefore, to create another tribunal which will have power to investigate all disputes, but will not have power to decree or to enforce decrees. Investigations that are not binding may be really more effective in the promotion of peace than bind- Ing decrees: first, because they cover the largest questions, and, second, be- cause resting upon their merits rather than upon force, they are more apt to be just. Our natfon can afford to join in any and every investigation, pro- vided it reserves the right of inde- pendent action when the investigation w completed. Arms Rivalry Big Factor. “The abolition of war is impossible 80 long as there is rivalry in the mat- ter of armament and preparedness for war. The Church should, therefore, urge an international agreement for the reduction of armament until the armed forces shall be only sufficient for police service.” A referendum on war also would be an effective means of preserving peace. he asserted. Dr. Shotwell, who, with Gen. Bliss, Gen. Harbord and others, drew up a plan for the reduction of armament and for national security, used large- Iy as the basis for the Geneva proto- col. declared President Coolidge had taken the lead In the matter of arma- ment and preparedness for war. The church should. therefore, urge an in- ternational agreement for the reduc- tion of armament until the armed forces shall only be sufficient for police service. A referendum on war also would be an effective means of preserving peace, he asserted “President Coolidge has placed him- self at the head of one of the great- est movements in history, which will have accomplished a revolution human affairs greater than any other since soclety began.” he said. “His declaration pledging the United States to policies looking toward the outlawry of war Is certainiy the most notable utterance of a States- man since the days of the World War. Sermons and moral exhortations are not enough to prevent war, Dr. Shot- well stated. “War -aaiot be done away with unless there are adequate substitutes for 1t." he said. 4 D. C. BILLS PASS HOUSE; HOLIDAY MEASURE TAKEN UP (Continued from First Page.) 7 tries. He argued that if opponents of the measure were right in saying that such legislation would not honor Lincoln, then, to be consistent, they would have to withdraw Washing- ton's birthday as a holiday and say that Washington was not honored on that day. Representative Henry R. Ratn- bone, Republican, Iilinois, stanchly defended the bill against the attack by Representative Blanton and flatly denied many of Mr. Blanton's state- ments. He said those legislating for the National Capital could not stand out against the roster of 28 States which had passed similar legislation and say they were all wrong. He described _scenes throughout the States on Lincoln's birthday and the impressive services held. “The thousands who work for the Govern- ment ought to have an opportunity given them fo attend such services and pay honor to the memory of Lin- coln instead of being forced to stick to the grindstone,” sald Representa- tive Rathbone. He denied that this legislation is urged in response to propaganda by Government emploves. 1f the bill specifically authorizing the purchase of the Klingle Valley tract, Piney Branch and part of the Patterson tract for park purposes, which is on the program for consider- ation in the House today, is not called up and passed, Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont, chairman of the subcommittes on parks of the House District committee, will go be- fore the House appropriations com- mittee urging that funds be provided in the regular District appropriation bill for acquisition of these parcels of land by the National Capital Park Commission. Representative Gibson says that the money should have been appropriated last year and that the act creating the Park Commission has given suffi- clent authority for the purchase of such land in the discretion of the commission as soon as Congress ac- tually makes the appropriation. He emphasizes that it was the clear Intent of Congress in passing this legis- lation to give the Park Commission $1,000,000 a year to acquire the need- ed parcels of land for extension of the park system, especially at this timefi when some of the most desirable tracts are threatened with despolia- tion. Instead of that, the Budget Bu- reau cut the recommended appropria- tion to $600,000 for the fiscal year be- ginning July 1 next, which is really only $300,000 & year, as the commis- sion was appointed last year. PR R o AT PRESIDENT’S SON GUEST. Among 150 Amherst Freshmen at Jolly Banquet. HARTFORD, Conn., December 8.— John Coolidge, son of President Cool- idge, was one of the 150 students in the freshman class of Amherst Col- lege who attended a class -banquet here last night. Sitting among his fellow class- mates, young Coolidge entered into the entire program with enthut and while not one of the speake: listened intently to all that was said, and joined heartily in the college songs.- Wells Engles of Kirkwood, ’Dy was toastmaster. R in{ STAR, WASHINGTON, 'D. C., |GENE STRATTON PORTER | RITES AWAIT HUSBAND Reports Indicate Crash Fatal to Novelist and Short-Story Writer ‘Was Unavoidable. By the Associated Press. 1.0S ANGELES, December 8.—Upon the arrival of her husband, Charles D. Porter, en route here from Indi- ana, llkely will depend completion of funeral arrangements for Gene Strat- ton Porter, novellst and short-story writer, who died Saturday night of injuries received when her automo- bile collided with a street car. Meanwhile Coroner F. A. Nance planned to hold an inquest, though the reports of detectives indicated that the crash was unavoldable. Should the inquest be completed to- morrow and Mr. Porter arrive, as ex- pected, on Wednesday, services prob- ably will be held here Thursday, relatives announced. ol ABATEMENT PLEAS FILED BY HOLLER College Head Declares Papers Were Seized From Home TIllegally. Helmuth P. Holler, Oriental University, In two Indlctments with using the mails to defraud in connection with his school, today filed pleas in abate- ment against both indictments. Hol- ler charges that the evidence sub- mitted to the grand jury on which the Indictments are based were papers and other documents lllegaily seized at his home by post office Inspectors and deputy marshals in his absence and without search warrants. His daughter, Miss Evangeline J. M. Holler, was taken into custody, he says, with the papers and de- tained for more than an hour at the office of the United States attorney. She was later required to appear as a witness before the grand jury and identified the boxes containing the papers but could not identify the papers. Her name, it is pointed out, does not appear among the witnesses on the indictment, as required by law, it Is asserted. Attached {s an afidavit of the daughter in which she states that one of the inspectors after announcing they were officers demanded admit- tance to her home in the absence of her father December 18, 1923, and wfter ransacking her father's flles selected certain letters of which they took possession and also lists of students and graduates of the univer- sity. One of the deputy marshals, she states, declined to take posses- sion of any of the papers, and after his refusal the inspector ordering a taxicab took her to the office of the United States attorney. Although he rromised to stop by the office of counsel, Miss Holler says, he later refused to do so. Attorneys O'Brien & O'Brien appear for the accused. president of the who is accused DRASTIC CONTROL OF TRAFFIC PLANNED BY HOUSE MEMBER (Continued from First Page.) from a possible fracture of the skull, as a result of a collision yesterday afternoon at Pennsylvania avenue and Branch road southeast, between the car in which he was a passenger and another car operated by Clarence Price, 1212 1 street southeast Leonard Gray, 24, of 1110 Fifth street northeast, operator of the' auto- mobile in which Coats was riding, was arrested by eleventh precinct police on charges of reckless driving and having no permit Mary Black, colored, 63. of 320 V street, received a fractured skull last night when she was knocked down, | at Sixth and O streets, police say, by an automobile driven by Miss Gladys M. Waterbury of 1409 Twenty-first street. The injured woman was re- moved to Freedmen's Hospital by Miss Waterbury. Say He Had No Permit. Emmett Blackston, 5507 Grant street southeast, after being injured yesterday afternoon in a collision be- tween the automobile he was driving and a street car of the Washington Railway and Electric Company at Fifty-eighth and Dix streets north- east, was arrested by police of the eleventh precinct on a charge of hav- ing no permit. Blackston was driv- ing south on Fifty-eighth street when a west-bound street car struck his machine. badly damaging it Blackston received cuts and bruises to the head. His condition was re- | ported by the police as being not serious. Police are looking for the driver of the car that failed to stop after| it knocked down Sidney Crow, color- ed, 50 vears old, and Hester Crow, also colored, 50 years old, both of 5213 Grant street northeast, while they were In the roadway on Grant street near Division avenue north- east last night. Neither was badly hurt, police were informed. Witnesses reported a peculiar al- cident involving a driver who sped his car away from Twenty-seventh and Q street last night after it had collided with a parked car on Twenty- seventh strect near the corner, start- it on a wild driverless dash down the street until it came to a halt against the show window of a store at 2624 P street. Chane Proves Futile. The owner of the parked car is then said to have run out of an apartment house, and climbing into his partially wrecked machine, back- ed it away from the window and started after the fugitive operator. Police have not been able to establish the ldentity of either driver. Mrs. Ray Barrows, 35, of 905 Fourth street southeast recelved a sprained back yesterday afternoon when the motor cycle in which she was a sidecar passenger collided with an automobile operated by, Frank McGonigal of 211,Tenth street south- west, as it was driving away from the curb in front of 945 Maryland avenue southwest. The motor cycle was operated by Frank Lamanten of 22 Florida avenue northeast. Street Cars Collide. Tn a collision at Calvert and CIff- bourne streets, between street cars of the Capital Traction Company last night R. B. Carpenter, conductor of the Seventh street line car, was cut by fiving glass and Mamie Elmore, col- ored, 2717 Sherman avenue, was bruised on the right leg. Carpenter was treated at Garfield Hospital. Arthur P. Kiefe, a Quantico marine, |afrairs are being debated. was hit by an automobile operated by Frank Hill, 202 E street northeast, while walking on Pennsylvania ave- nue near Third street. Hill carried the marine to Emergency Hospital, where it was found his condition was not serious. . —— o J. Warren Kerrigan Hurt. DIXON, Iil, December §.~+J. Warren Kerrigan, moving picture actor, was injured in an automobile crash near here early today. He was thrown through a glass window of the car, MONDAY, BRITISH DOMINIONS SEEKING EQUALITY Resentment Felt at Colonial Treatment by Social Clique in London. Correspondence of The Star and ‘ork World. LONDON, November 25.—Are the British Dominfons to be treated by London as poor relations, excepting when thelr help is needed in an emergency that threatens the mother country? " Canada, Australia and South ~ Africa, promised complete equality during the war and allowed to sign the peace treaty as independ- ent nations, now find themselves again_Colonials in their Intercourse with Whitehall. And since the Con- servative government came into power, urgent voices have been raised both here and in the do- minions protesting against the way the children are treated by their parent. There are signs that these objec- tions are destined to grow more powerful until some solution fis found, or until the problem Is deemed insoluble and the ties of empire dis- solved. Sir Auckland Geddes, in his page lecture here, which conveyed the warning that Canada If persist- ently snubbed in London would look to Washington, brought the subject of interimperial relations into the limelight, no less than Austen Chamberlain's emphatic pronounce- ment in his first public utterances as forelgn minister: the New Speaks for Dominions. “The first thought of any English- man on appointment to the office of foreign secretary must be that he speaks in the name, not of Great Britain only, but of the British do- minions begond the seas, and that it is his fmperative duty to preserve in word and act the diplomatic unity of the British Empire. Our interests are one; our intercourse must be intimate and constant, and we must speak with one voice in the counsels of the world. This seems clear and definite enough. But no speech-making will take the power of directing British foreign policy out of the hands of the “public school boys” from Eton and Harrow and Winchester. The little aristocratic clique that has directed British policy from time immemorial is entitled to point with pride to th results which it has achieved, and it | Pproposes to go on directing, whatever | rude colonials may think about it, or | whatever resolutions may be passed in imperlal conferences or whatever promises may be made by British ministers. To be a member of the clique that rules foreign policy you must be a public school boy first, with all that this implies of correct family background. So much is es- sential. System Succeas. But the English system succeeds where the Austrian, for example, col- lapsed, because here the merit sys- tem prevails, always within the lim- its of the governing class, and out- side its own class the governing clique adopts talent wherever it can find it, and employs it in subordinate but highly important positions. It will be difficult, indeed, for the poor Domvinions to assault the aristocratic fortress of the British soclal system | in an attempt to give Canada, for example, a voice as decisive as Eng- land’s in determining the empire's policy in the Pacific. The Dominions are a long way off. Thelr chance of success may be measured by consid- ering what happened to Labor here at home when Labor came squarely up against the same thing. Finds Office Unchanged. Foreign office policy went on as before under Labor. The same men remained In the same offices and pur- sued the same ends, open and secret. Ramsay MacDonald was flattered and smiled upon by his social superiors and became as popular with them as they were with him until the un- fortunate little mix-up about the Zinoviev letter, which “misunder-| standing in the foreign office, or | folly of the foreign secretary, as vou wish. probably cost Labor 30 seats ‘When the Tory Austin Chamberlain entered the sanctum in Downing street, vacated by the arch-Tory Lord Curzon nine months before, there was only one serious new face to consider in the mechanism of diplomacy after a Socialist had been in charge of it in the interval. A new filing system had been introduced. Whether to keep the new filing system or go back to Lord Curzon’s was being hotly de- bated the other day. Correspondents Kept Out. The poor Dominion correspondents, too, fare almost as badly as foreign- ers when it comes to facilities for re- porting debates in Parliament. After | years of agitation, a handful of Do- minion reporters representing the big agencies and a few newspapers are given seats in the public gallery of the House of Commons when imperial It some little matter, such as the fall of the | cabinet, is taking place ‘in the house, | however, they are kept out, as are forelgn correspondents, and colonial and foreigner alike, whatever their newspaper status, are threatened with arrest if they seek, by using some- body else's ticket, or by any dodge, to obtain ingress to the “public” gal- leries on great occasions. After which pertinent digression, 1 return to Austen Chamberlain's sur- prising statement: “We must speak with one voice in the counsels of the world.” Dominfons Not Consulted. Setting aside such minor matters as the treatment of dominion corre- spondents, which are, however, symp- tomatic, the fact remains that since the Washington conference the Do- minion governments have not been consulted in any important decision taken by the British government in any such fashion as to give them a real influence. Panel System Joke. During the London conference last Summer the dominion issue was again sharply rafsed. At the first sessions, attended by plenipotentiaries of Brit- | ain, France, Belgium, the United States and the smallest allies, the Do- minion representatives here were ex- cluded. Later they were admitted under a “panel” system by which an Australian had a vote one day, a Canadian the next, an Indian the next. This was farcial and in prac- tice, as the Dominion representatives made no bones in saying, none of them took any part at all in the London conference. Their efforts were confined entirely to saving thelir faces. COLLEGE IS CLOSED. Disturbances Lead Stringent Action. BELGRADE, December §.—Fresh disturbances at Agram University have resulted in & decision by the rector to close the institution for three days. The trouble, which ended with the arrest of 50 students, arose, like the previous, from the students’ objections to measures taken against Student to receiving & deep gash over the left eye and numerous minor cuts and bruises. Miss Alma Rockwood, .an occupant of the car that collided with the Kerrigan machine, sustained seri- ous injuties. . thres members of the faculty by the DECEMBER 8, 1924. MORTIMER CLAIMS FORBES TOLD HIS WIFE T0 RUN'UP HER BILLS (Continued from First Page.) Initial, stood fof Harvey and that early this year he had used the name of “Harvey F. Schoeder to avold agentv of Col. Forbes.” Mo:timer sald also he used the name of G. J Allegra, a .Department of Justice agent, who acts as Mortimer's body- guard. Chaxed Away Two. Mortimer said Allegra chased away two suspicious persons In New York last May, whom Mortimer supposed were “agents of Forbes. Mortimer went on to say that Mrs. Mortimer assumed the name of J. C. Martin _on trips to New York and Philadelphia to_meet Col. Forbes. “I was in Forbes' apartment at Washington when Mrs. Mortimer call- ed up for her ‘papa’,” said Mortimer. “I also found out that Mrs. Morti- mer, on the advice of Forbes, was running up bills as large as possible on me just before she left me.” “Have you ever brought out any calumny against your wife in this Veterans' Bureau matter before?” asked Col. Easby-Smith. “No,” Mortimer said, with emphasis, “and 1 wouldn’t now if you had not started it “Did T refer to Mrs. asked Col. Easby-Smith. “No, but you were going into that J. C. Martin alias,” Mortimer said. | Col. Easby-Smith then had Mortimer sign him name as Elias H. Mortimer and Elias Harvey Mortimer. Judge Cautions Lawyer. Judge Carpenter cautioned sby-Smith to desist from a series of questions about Mortimer's lease of an apartment on West End avenue occupied by “Mrs. Schroder” of Chi- cago. Mortimer said he lived there part of the time, but his residence, last July and for several months after, was at 325 West Ninety-third street, New York. Mortimer said he was put on the Department of Justice pay roll last Spring at $11 a day and traveling ex- penses by Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant” attorney general. He was a witness in the Langiey and Zihlman liquor conspiracy trial and their hearing before the House of Representatives, and then he said, he came back here last June to testify before the second Forbes grand jury. “All this was caused by Mrs. Morti- mer giving Col. Forbes by private papers,” said Mortimer. The testimony he gave in the trial of Representative Langley of Ken- tucky was based partly on this inci- dent, Mortimer said. Mortimer sald he was stockholder in the Herbert Stevedoring Company of 30 Broadway, New York. Col Easby-Smith sought to develop whether the stevedoring company got any United States Shipping Board contracts. Judge Carpenter shut off that line of inquiry, although Col. Easby-Smith said he was trying to show that while Mortimer was on the Department of Justice payroll he was getting or trying to get Government contracts. Mortimer sald he first went to Washington from his home in Minne- apolis In the Fall of 1918. He was then representing the Richards-Wil- cox Co. of Aurora, 1ll. Later he sald he entered some waste paper busi- ness with George W. Bean, Republi- can natlonal committeeman from Florida and Sidney Beaver. He sald he was associated with Bean in liquor deals, and in the “Pittsburgh deal” previously testified to in the Senate committee inquiry, he got not $100,000, but $33,333.33. FRENCH REDS DEFY | REPRESSIVE POLICY OF HERRIOT REGIME (Continued from First Page.) Mortimer?” Col. dress at the cathedral told his audi- tors that “when human law is in contradiction with divine law, it is to the Divine law that we owe| obedience.” RED PROPAGANDA ACTIVE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. LONDON, December 8.—Propa- ganda for the Soviet or Third Inter- nationale is now being actively dis- seminated through the following regions accerding to the foreign office Esthonia, Eastern Galicia, Bessarabia, Croatia, Macedonia, India, Egypt, Arabia, Persia and Tunis. Tn the Christian lands it takes the form of inciting the people to revolt against the existing govern- ment. In Moslem lands it takes form of nationalism. Bernard Shaw, apparently in the rame of England's Socialists, has written a letter to Moscow saying | that the Soviet conceptions of Social- ism are far behind the times, that Karl Marx is as antiquated as Moses and that the Russian rP\'olu‘(onar,\j leaders are novices. He advises the Soviets to rid them- selves of the Third Internationale. whose written constitution betrays “bourgeois idealism and childish in- experience of men and affair: The Soviets should “tell Zinoviev plainly that he must choose between serious statesmanship and cinematographic, Domestic Flare.Up Brings Fire Alarm; Police Summoned Things were waxing extremely warm at 1013 C street southwest last evening, s0 nelghbors rnoti- fled the Fire Department. Four fire engines immediately swung Into action and dashed madly to the station. Police also responded, all the rescuers arriv- ing breathlessly about the same time. Their arrival cooled the atmos- phere atuomatically. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bonar had lost their tempers and the smoke of battle en'ivened by the flourishing of Improviged weapons had given to worricd neighbors the impression that a genuine confla- gration was taking place. The firemen mechanically folded up their hose and ladders while policemen arrested the couple on the charge of disorderly conduct. KIRBY’S ARMY LEAVE WILL EXPIRE MONDAY Acting Head of Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing Must Quit Post Unless Congress Acts. Unless Congress extends the six- month assignment of Maj. Wallace W. Kirby, as director of the Bureau of ngraving and Printing, this week, his authority in that office will expire next | Monday. What will be done with the office in case Congress fails to extend the act authorizing Maj. Kirby to leave active service in the Army and direct the bureau has not been announced by the Treasury. It is known, however, :hxl officials are working on the prob- em. One of the complicating factors is the salary, since Maj. Kirby is now receiving the pay and allowances of a major in the Army, which are not only smaller than that of the director of the burau, but smaller even than the sal- arles of each of the three assistant directors. Maj. Kirby is known to de- sire to return to his old position at the engineer reproduction plant at Washington Barracks, next Tuesday, under an Army order already signed, unless some rearrangement of salary at the bureau is made. Mission Honors Unknown Hero. The Arabian mission, now in the United States for the purpose of or- ganizing the Syrian Church, vester- day placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. A brief address was made by Mgr. Joury, the mission. ~ Prior to the exerc at Arlington services of the Syr Church were conducted by special permission in the Greek Orthodox Church of Constantine and Helen at Sixth and C streets southwest Gill Full Autornatic OIL BURNER For Household Use * SHIPPING BOARD INQUIRY RESUMED House Committee Plans to Complete Questioning of Witnesses This Month. Investigation of the Shipping Board by the special committee of the House entered Its final phase with the call of the committee to resume today Washington hearings which were journed last June after a lengths session of inquiry The committee plarisco get through its list of witnesses before the end of this month and report Its conclu~ sions and recommendations to the House as soon thereafter as possible. ‘There appears little probability, how- ever, of any final legislative action on the recommendations at this session. Since adjournment of its sessions here last June, after exhaustive hear- ings that dealt with the whole range ot Shipping Board actlvities in an ef- fort to determine necessary measures to lay a more secure basis for the Nation’s merchant marine, the com- mittee transferred its Inquiry to Eu- rope Marine Policy Urged. A tour of European ports, permitting a Arst-hand study of competitive To ditions as to cargoes, rates and do ing facilities, emphasized in the opi ion of committee members, expressed on their return in August. the neces- sity of adopting a permanent and s tled policy for the American marine. The first witness, James M. Boring, advertising manager of the Eme gency Fleet Corporation., was ques- tloned regarding the plicing of the corporation’s advertisements with publications which had carried fa- vorable editorial comment on the ship subsidy bill. He sald editorial co ment “had never been taken in consideration” in buying advertising spage. SN Wife Charges Cruelty. Edna M. Sanford today filed suit for maintenance in the District Supreme Court against Vernon N Sanford, charging cruelty and inade- quate support. They were married November 28, 1923 and have no chil- dren. Attorney J. N. Halper appears for the wife Mrs. Davis on Way to North Africa. MADRID, December §—John W. Davis and Mrs. Davis after a day's sojourn in Madrid as the guests of Alexander P. Moore, the American Ambassador, left vesterda for iras, Tangier and other points orth Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Davis Wireless apparatus made in_this $ country last year was valued at $530,- 000,000, —will give years of service because it is quality built. Investigate Today MUTUAL SERVICE, Inc. The Pioneers of Oil Heating in Washington 1411 N. Y. Ave. N.\W.—Phone Main 3883 RS RZ SIS IR With Our High Standards of Quality and Service WOOD OAK—Sound and Seasoned, Cut to Suit, Also KINDLING WOOD, at $18 Per Cord ‘FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 FL LEETH BROTHERS Service Charge Never Over $1.00 811 E St. N.W. Why Rent When $450 —cash payment and extra low monthly payments buy s a new six-room brick home? A. M. I. Large lot. One block of the car line. No finance charge. No second trust. No settlement charges. No title expenses. Price, $6,950 Cyrus Simmons ministry of education. SRR TRLT ‘When a woman neglects her hus- band's shirt it may be said that she | is no longer the wife of his bosom. 1410 H Street N.W. ELEN must be protected from life until she was safely married. She must not go near the water until she had learned to swim. Her parents were concerned that her mind remain like a virgin piece of white paper, unsullied by knowledge or expe- rience. They didn't want her to be so- phisticated and chaste; they wanted her to be ignorant and innocent. The Marlow Coal Co. Main 311 REVOLT o MODERN YOUTH A " Series of Astounding Revelations by Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the JUVENIL 'COURT OF DENVER Read what happened to Helen. Physical in December Culture On Sale at All Newsstands