Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1924, Page 5

\ J.R. YOUNG RITES TOBETOMORROW Newspaper Associates to Serve as Pallbearers—Dr. Radcliffe to Officiate. Funeral services for James Rankin Young, Civil War veteran, former representative from Pennsylvania, and well known newspaper man, who died at his home, 3445 Ordway street vesterday, will be held at the resi- dence tomorrow afternoon, with Rev. Dr. Wallace Radclifte, pastor emeri- tus of the New York Avenue Presby- terlan Church, officlating. Honorary pallbearers, selected from Mr. Young's wide circle of friends in the newspaper world, are J. Fred Essary, president of the Gridiron Club: Francis A. Richardson, Rudolph Kauffmann, Alfred J. Stofer, David Barry, Arthur Dunn, J. Harry Cun- ningham and George White. Inter- ment will be in Glenwood cemetery. The Gridiron quartet, composed of Jack Bowie, Fred East, Willlam Cla- baugh and M. Harry Stevens, will sing at the serv Mr. Young died eighth year, from the effects of pneu- monia, which weakened his heart. He was the second son of the late George Rankin Young and brother of the late John Russell Young, and was born March 10, 1847, in Philadel- phia. His brother was at one time president of the Union League and Minister to China. Mr. Young's edu- tion was obtained in the Livingston Grammar and Central High School of Philadelphia Ran Away to Join Army. 1t was during his school life that the invasion of Pennsylvania Wwa made by Gen. Lee, and he, with a number of fellow students, ran away and enlisted in the regiment of Gri Reserves, the 32d Pennsylvania I fantry. Later Mr. Young became clerk to Col. James B. Sheridan, pay- master of the Army. This took him to the Army of the Potomac, and finally to the concluding scenes at Appromattox Court House, after which he returned to New York with Col. Sheridan, where he aided him in pa ing off the mustered-out soldiers While serving as assistant paymaster he was frequently under fire, as often the pay train was attacked by Con- federate scouts and raiding partles In 1865, Mr. Young, under the guidance of his brother, entered the field of journalism, for a time, he served He then, In 1865-1866, made a tour of the South, writing letters from that section to the New York Tribune. On his return he became one of the founders of the Philadelphia Evening Star, which lasted till the beginning of the twentieth century. In June, 1866, he was appointed Washingto correspondent of the New York Trib- une, succeeding Gen. Carl Schurz. Mr. Young remained In that position years and was complimented v times by Horace Greeley. The offices of the Tribune were then lo- ted on famous Newspaper Row, Fourteenth street, south of F street. Meantime the Philadelphia paper began to grow and Mr. Young was obliged to withdraw from the Tribune and devote all his time to his own journal, beginning for it that serie of letters over the signature of S M. which he continued for many years. in his seventy- Gets Senate Post. In December, 1873, Mr. Young was elected chief executive clerk of the United States Senate, a position he held until 1879, Shortly afterward he was made chief clerk of the De- partment of Justice, under Attorn eneral Brewster, and In 1883, his party having again gotten control of the Senate, he was unanimously elected to fill his old position, which he held until the office was abolished, in 1892 Mr. Young was elected to the Fifty- fifth, the Fifty-sixth and the Fifty- seventh Congresses from Pennsylva- nia, during which service he was ac- tive as a member of the merchant marine and fiisherles committees. He was appointed superintendent of the Dead Letter Office of the Post Office Department, serving from 1905 to 1913. He was then appointed su- perintendent of the postal savings depository in Philadelphia, where he served until 1915, when he was re- tired and came back to Washington to live Mr. Young attended all the national conventions from 1864 to 1908. He dent of the commission ate the position of the Penn- sylvania troops in the battles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga and Look- Jut Mountain. He was one of the or- ganizers of the Gridiron Club, and at the time of his death was one of the two surviving charter members, Per- ry S. Heath being the other. He was a member of the National Press Club, the Mozart Club of Masons, the Pen and Pencil Club, the Stylus Club, the Clover Club and the Harrison Association. In 1574, Mr. Young married Miss Mary Barelay of > city. Their golden wedding an- niversary was celebrated last June Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary B. Young: two sons, J. Russell Young, White House representative of The Evening Star, and James B. Young, United States consul at Venice; two daughters, Miss Nan B. Young and Miss Julla C. Young, both of this city, and two grandchildren, Miss Mary Young and Russell Young, also of Washington, WHOLESALE*SLAYER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERS OF 26 (Continued from First Page.) “How I got into this condition I don’t know. I simply saw that in the morning there was a corpse next 1o me, but not in all cases.” He declared a large proportion of his potential victims escaped. “I never acted with premeditation, and “I don’t understand why my vi tims did not offer resistance” were other declarations the prisoner made in the course of his plea. Assralt Rumor False. There was a great rush of specta- tors for places in the courtroom when the court opened, but no one was ad- mitted until a search had revealed the absence of concealed weapons. Rumors that an assault would be made on Haarmann in case he was not sentenced to death prompted the court officials to place a squad of armed police in front of the pris- oner's dock. Both Haarmann and Grans appeared unconcerned when the death sentence was imposed, the former declaring he was satisfled with the judgment and accepted It without protest. The court ruled that Haarmann was in full possession of his mental fac- ulties and that he had committed wholesale murder in full consciou: ness of his acts. It also excluded the presence of abnormal pathological traits and declared Haarmann had murdered with complete premedita- tion, in support of which the court cited his method of procedure. U IR Tea consumption in England shows an increase of over 10,000,000 pounds this year compared with last year. Amerfca's increase is double that quantity. Assailed as a pacifist, Frederick J Libby, executive secretary of the tional’ Council for Prevention of War, coolly replied to the charges of his crit- ics at a public hearing conducted by special committee of the Board of Edu- cation last night at the Franklin School | The committee was appointed to in- vestigate the charges against Mr. Libby and determine his fitness to ad- dress children in the District public schools. Voluminous evidence, verbal and documentary, to support their accusa- tions was filed” with the board com- mittee by Mr. Libby's opponents, a majority of whom are prominently connected with patriotic organiza- tions. Mr. Libby and his friends also submitted to the committee evidence to refute the charges. The hearing lasted from 8:10 to 11:30 o'clock, and Edwin C. Graham, chairman of the investigating committee, announced at the close that each side would be allowed another week to file addl- tional briefs, counter charges, creden- tials'and communications. Forces in Opposition. Arrayed against Mr. Libby were Charles L. Frailey, Capt. Clayton Emig, Col. Francis P. B. Sands, all of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion: Maj. Gen. George Barnett, re- tired, former commandant of the Marine Corps; Thomas J. Fralley, rep- resenting the Sergt. Jasper Post of the American Legion; Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, representing the U. 8 Daughters of 1812; Theodore Back- strom, Lieut. Col. J. M. Kenyon, Com- mander Peckham of the ~American Leglon, James A. Purcell and Rev. George F. Dudley, pastor of St Stephen's Episcopal Church. Support- ing Mr. Libby were Thomas J. Sid- well, principal of the Friends School; [Maury S. Kenworthy, former secre- tary of the Friends relief and re- construction units in Europe; Miss Emily G. Balch of the Woman's In- ternational League for Peace and Freedom and Mrs. Raymond B. Mor- gan, former member of the school board. Disarmament in Nursery. Mr. Frailey, who opened the attack on Mr. Libby, declared that the Na- tional Council for Prevention of War was opposed to the national defense act, and was endeavoring to disarm the nursery of toy pistols, toy sol- diers, etc., as a means of Inculcating in the impressionable minds of chil- dren to hate war and the uniforms of America’s military. “That's unpa- triotic,” he asserted. Libby was described by Capt. Emig as “an unfit person to spegk in the public schools of Washington.” “He attempts to obstruct and has obstruct- ed the carryfg out of the national defense act,” he added. Col. Sands read extracts from a mass of written evidence he had collected, designed to show that Mr. Libby is an agent of Soviet Russia. Gen. Barnett was most bitter in his denunciation of Libby. “I strongly object to Mr. Libby or any other man speaking to our school children who speaks of treason,” he asserted.” “All T ask is that the laws of this country be enforced. I¢ the laws had been enforced all members of the league would have been deported after the convention of pacifists here last Spring. Why teach our children to be white-livered slackers? Shall our children be taught to be worthless imbeciles?” Libby admitted that he was a pacifist, he said, and Gen. Bar- nett asserted that any man who would not fight for his country in time of war is a “white-livered imbecile.” Would Fight Speeches, “If you permit Libby to speak in our schools, I will use all my influ- quality of every ton of R.J.&M.C ence to have your decision overruled,” Mr. Purcell” admonished the board's investigating committee. “If you take that as a threat, in the words of our great co-militarist, Patrick Henry ‘make the most of {t"" Col. Kenyon asked the board com- mittee why should it waste its time and the time of the school children listening to Libby ‘when there “are so many pure-minded patriots who will come and talk to the school chil- dren” Dr. Dudley, speaking as a representative of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, said the organi- zation had no objection to Mr. Libby's accent on peace, but to his efforts to influence adversely the minds of school children regarding the military and naval heroes of the past. “That would be a dangerous thing to have happen,” he concluded. Libby Defends Course. Speaking In his own defense, Libby emphatically denfed that he was an agent of Soviet Russia or approved of that form of government, and | pointed out that it was his patriotic duty as an American citizen, regard- less of persecution, to prevent an- other war which will be the “grave- vard of civilization.” “I am willing to give my life for my own country in my own way,” he said, “and this is my way. In reply to volleys of questions fired at him by his critics, Mr. Libby admitted he is a pacifist; that he opposes preparedness because, he says, it provides a sense of false se- curity and causes rather than pre- vents war”; that he opposes enlarg- ing the Army and Navy, but does noty approve of. their abolition, and that he does not belleve in the national defense act, adding that many citi- zens of the United States do not be- lieve in the Volstead act. Wants to Promote Peace. The program of the Natfonal Coun- cil for Prevention of War, Mr. Libby explained, {s to build up machinery by which disputes might be settled without war, to create a public good will that will permit the machinery to work, and provide a sort of inter- national town meeting, for which he advocated a league of nations with reservations. The World Court with the Hughes reservations, he said, wouid be the machinery for settling disputes without war, while the pub- lic good will to permit that machin- ery to function could be created in the churches and schools as well as else- where. Mr. Sidwell told the committee that Libby is not the man his enemies would have the public to belleve. He said he had found no connection be- tween the pacifist and Soviet govern- ment of Russia. “If Mr. Libby is act- ing within his rights as an American citizen,” he declared, “he should not be subjected to further persecution.” $763,180,522 FUND BILL MAKES RECORD FOR PEACE PERIODS (Continued from First Page.) sum is $1,325,855 more than tHe cur- rent appropriation and $108,900 less than the estimates. The estimates call for 192,742,300 sheets of delivered currency, of which 14,000,000 sheets were for national bank currency and 178,742,300 for United States currency. The committee recommends a total we advise on the fuel for your particular plant you are assured of the limit of efficiency from your heating appliance. Clean Coal—Quality Coal—Fairest Price E of 180,242,300 sheets, composed of 14,000,000 for national bank currency and 176,242,300 for United States cur- rency, which is a reduction of 2,500,- 000 sheets in the amount of United States currency. This reduction . i BREFERERERERERERERE ¥ COAL Of Greatest Efficiency We are interested in the satisfaction-giving coal we sell—and when 4th and F N.E. Linc. 233 Linc. 234 | | The plan provides 375 ndditional offices %0 that every member of the House of Representatives can have 2 rooms. LIBBY, AT HEARING, 1S ASSAILED FOR HIS PACIFIST UTTERANCES Prevention of War Society Official Defends Right to Speak in Public Schools—Before Education Board Committee. due to the elimination of practically that number of sheets on account of the gold reserve and which in the opinion of the Treasury Department was the least important item In the money printing program. Money Demand Increases. The appropriations for the Bureau | of Engraving and Printing for the current fiscal year provide for 150,- 000,000 delivered sheets of United States and national bank currency. The demands for new money through money coming In for redemption and increased demand, particularly for $1 bills, has necessitated the printing by the bureau at a greater rate during the first few months of this fiscal year than the 160,000,000 sheets would provide. It will be necessary, if the present rate of production continues, to authorize for this fiscal year, by de- ficlency appropriation, additional sheets, which will carry the total number of sheets for 1925 to & num- ber at least equal, If not in excess, of the recommended program for 1926. A program is being prepared in the Treasury Department for bullding up a reserve stock of paper money, which will permit the new notes to become properly aged and seasoned before be- ing issued, and will provide a safety stock of money, which can be issued as the need arise, — e Rather than have his home go up in the air many a man puts a heavy mortgage on it to hold it dow: 1005 Pa. Ave. B I Kot MEMBERS OF HOUSE SEEK MORE ROOM Plans for Enlarding Office Building to Meet Needs Are Under Inspection. Architects' plans for enlarging the House Office Building so as to provide 375 additional rooms, thus permitting each member of Congress to have two office rooms, were placed on exhibi- tion for study by members of the House In the Speaker's lobby today. In response to repeated complaints trom practically 'half the membership of the House cfring the last session of Congress at the suggestion of the House office bullding commission, David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, haq these plans drawn by Carrere & Hastings, who were the architects for the present House Office Building. Addition to Bullding Planned. In order to provide maximum room space at the least possible cost it is proposed to build an addition In the form of a T in the large court within the present office buflding structure. When the plans were originally drawn this large court was left to be used for the very purpose that is now contemplated. Ample light and ventilation is provided, as at no place will the proposed addition be within 65 feet of the existing structure, which, it 18 explained, {8 wider than most streets, and in some places the distance between windows will be more than 100 feet. These plans have been considered by the public buildings commission. which today authorized submittal to the members as a suggestion of what can be done to provide more adequate quarters. These two new wings are to be nine stories high, where the present bullding only six stories on the court side. Much of this ad- ditional floor space is provided by not having the cellings as high in the proposed annex as in the original building. Row of Rooms Contemplated. It also is proposed to bulld & row of new rooms on the outer side of the sixth floor on the B and C streets sides of the present building. Al- ready there are rooms on the court side of the sixth floor, and storage rooms with slanting roof on the front side. The roof, the same as was done Treasury Building. Architect Lynn emphasizes that this elevation will not detract from the beauty of the building as seen from the street because the angle of vision do not allow this new helght to be visible. The estimated cost of this exten- sion of the House Office Bullding is between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000, whereas if a:new site was acquired and a complete new bullding erected as an annex, it would cost at least $10,000,000, while not being as con- venient for the intended use. Two Rooms For Each Possible. The present building was put up with such an extension in mind and it will be very easy to give each | member two connecting rooms, be- cause the doorways between the rooms were bullt and plastered over s0 that all that is necessary is to break through the doorways, without disturbing the structural strength in any way. The annex would be of steel frame construction with outer surfacing to match the present bullding. in the e Every man keeps a large stock of advice on hand to give away. 1724 Pa. Ave. Inc. One Day Only! Tomorrow (Saturday) 243 OVercoats »(and Topcoats)' 2175 Sizes 36 to 46 in. Big Warm Comfy All-Wool Overcoats. All this season’s styles and models. This price will prevail tomor- row only—8 AM. to 6 PM. No charges. Therell be no All salcs cash. time to lose— Hurry! Money'q Worth or Money Back " D. J. Kaufman 1005 Pa. Ave. 1724 Pa. Ave. intention i to raise the | C0LD WAVE TOHIT CAPTAL TONGAT Skating Next Week Forecast. Low Temperature Expected to Break Records. (Continued from First Page.) western Missouri and temperatures were dropping In Oklahoma, Arkan- sas and Texas. Telegraph communication was badly handicapped in Illinois as lowering temperatures heralded the zero blasts moving eastward. Springfield, Bloom- ington and Jacksonville were com pletely cut off from the outside world by wire, and the Associated Press was compelled to resort to radiocasting its news dispatches to newspapers in the cities so affected. ey sidewalks and streets caused two deaths and more than a score of skull fractures or other serious in- juries in Chicago. The hazard was not expected to be reduced in today’s continued cold. ‘WIRES DOWN IN STORM. Communication Disrupted Heavy Sleet Fall. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 19.—Siect storms in the Ohio Valley States seri- ously impaired wire communication between New York and Chicago to- day. Telephone and telegraph lines including those used by press asso- clations and brokers, suffered se- verely from the storms, which have been prevalent over the district for the last two days. by the time It gets here, having been held back for two days by the low | pressures th: are now dissolving be- fore it, he says Washington must pre- pare for unusual conditions, lasting at least until the middle of next week. The tog that descended upon Wash- ington llke a heavy blanket this morning was as dense as weather ex- perts have seen for years. At times & person standing on one side of Pennsylvania avenue could not dis- tingujsh bulldings on the opposite side. Traffic, both vehlcular and pe- destrian, moved with the utmost cau- tion. Shortly before noon, however, the sun broke through and dispersed most of the mist. MIDWEST HARD HIT. Havoc Wrought Generally—Merc- ury Fall Sets Record. By the Associated Press. i CHICAGO, December 19. — The | Middle West today was added to the domain of the storm and cold that | for five days have held the Northwest and Rocky Mountaln .region in an | ioy grip. Snow and sleet was gen- | erally forecast for the Great Lakes | region, the upper Mississippi Valley | and portions of the Southwest, while temperatures, already hovering near | the zero mark, were expected to sink still lower. | Death stalked n the wake of the | cold as it extended its scope, wire | communication in many sections was interrupted and trains were delayed. Three Dead Rockies. | Three dled in the Rocky Mountain | region, one was reported in Oklahoma and two were dead In Chicago from | causes attributable to the cold and | attendant ice and snow. Injurles| were numerous, due to falls on the | ice, In fires or accidents. Thousands | of deer north of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, which refused to be herded to grener pastures on the south side |ot the canyon, were reported perish- | ing as vegetation failed. | The extreme cold in Montana, where the mercury dropped as low as 34/ below zero at Miles City, caused the derailment _of three pullmans of a Northern Pacific train near Bear | Mouth, 35 miles from Missoula, due to a broken rail. No injuries resulted, reports sald. | Wire communication in the Plains | States was most seriously affected More than 2,000 telephone and tele- graph poles were reported down in | Oklahoma. Companies reported about 135 towns were cut off. Jefferson City, Missouri’s capltal was virtually isolated and wires be tween St. Louls and Kansas City were crippled. All central Missouri was similarly affected. 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