Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 2

BILL WOULB REACK “INFLUENCE SALES” Senator Seeks Law to Pun- ish Employes Giving Aid to Legislation. The or attempted sale of fluence or information by any loye of the Government in connec- ion with legislation would be punish- <ble by law under a bill which nator sterling South Dakota, chairman of the Senate commit on post iffices, is considering introducing. L. JL McDermot, assistant clerk of ¢ post office committes, “for the rod of the servic was recently dis iissed by Senator Sterling, after] harges had been under investigation by Department of Justice alleging | that McDermot receivid some §$ for seeking to bring about favor wction on the postal pay bill. The Department of Justice h wampered in proceeding with the cas t is understood, because there seeme, to be no statute which exactly cover- | a it Tt is to remedy this situation hat Senato: Sterling 1s now prepar- | to go ahead with the bill. He sald oday that he would study the existing| statutes carefully before drafting his L | Insufcient. ‘There is on the statute books a law which is fixed prohibit sale of in- by Government officers in 4ses pending before Government de- | partments. But is doubtful, it ald, that such a statute can reach ! the case of an stant clerk of a| committee pwho seeks | influence o sale Law it is a as ng sion; either tion, Senator Sterling does not wish it to | understood that he belfeves clerks | assistant clerks of committees | ake a practice of obtaining money for information or influence with re- | =ard to legislation pending before | Congress. But he feels that some- | thing should be done to make impos- | ble, or at least to make xvuufsla.hla“ cases of that kind. Fail to Name Payors. Nothing has vet been made public to show 1 whom McDermot is al- zed to have received money in con- nection with the postal pay bill. It Dbeen stated by the Department Justice, however, that apparently re was no doubt about money ving passed. In some quarters it is said that the exact amount was 2,100 ini $2.600. | copies of letters show- | at an E. H. McDermot was gen- eral manager of the postal shippers i federal service bureau at the| rapitol. One of these letters apparent- | sent to secdmen urged them to be- | come members at $100 per member. | The nen, it was explained, are Interested in parced post rates, par- { feularly in having rates as low as sible. CAPITAL MAN PRESENTS | MILLIONS AS GIFT | TO FRIENDS AND AIDES | inued from First Page.) be | | | from his gift a genuine help. To Zive his faithful household retainers and 16yal Business employes a start| n life, he neglected close and dear friends whom he knew were already rich enough to enjoy the better things is life. Among the beneficiaries three live in Washington, Dr. Robert Oden of the Monterey apartments, who has served as Mr. Ritter's family physi- ciani for vears, and Willlam Kapara kis and Clifford Napper, both serv ants in the Massachusetts avenue home. Paul, a son of Mr. Ritter, also received a share. The amounts esch will receive have mnot been made known. Ninety-four are Employes. ty-four of the beneficlaries are business employes, and the remainder distant relatives and former family retainers. Their service in Mr. Rit- ter's employ ranges from 4 to 20 vears. Napper has served the lumber merchant for two decades and Kap- arakis for 8 years. The entire list of 124 is scattered over 12 States, exclusiveof those living in Wash< ingten. Pressed for an explanation of the reasons that prompted him to make his gifts so unconditional, Mr. Ritter smilingly refused at first, but finally cxplained that he believed if men )£ wealth distributed their wiches imong less fortunate but worthy ramilies, without attempting to im- pose their ideals upon them as a provision for enjoying the bequests, American ideals would be assured a firmer foundation. Has Plenty Left, He gave assurance that he still had “plerity- left” for his own neéds and declarcd that the very joy of giving had already returned him more inter- est in pure delight than the stock with which he has parted would ever vield in dollars and cents. Mr. Rittes hopes his money will instill anew American ideals in at least 124 homds gnd that those {deals will ex- pafid with ‘the families thus bene- fited. Although the stock is to be held under u trust agreement for the bene- ficiarfes, not a single restriction was imposed upon how they should use it oremaking it possible for the donor | to reclaim it through some overt act | on the part of the beneficlary. Mr. | Ritter has no lofty hopes that his experiment will yield a 100 per cent success, but he declared he believes the great majority of the families efited will vindicate his trust in them. The trust is to be executed when tho beneficiaries meet in elght re- gional gatherings tomorrow in New York, Philadelphia, Columbus, Blue- 1d, W. Va.; Hughesville, Pa.; Wash- ngton, Colleton, S. C., and Asheville, | N. C. The announcement of the gift, issued from the executive offices of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Co., in Co- lumbus, and sent to Washington by the Associated Press, sald: “For some time Mr.. Ritter bas made it plain to those working with Lim that he is not In sympathy with the modern practice of men of wealth in leaving their fortunes to be ad- ininistered in the promotion of indi- vidual views respecting political phi- losophy, economic theory, Industrial policy and similar issues.” It was nis intense desire, the statement said, to leave those benefited complete freedom. of action. Mr. Ritter was born ville, * Pa., during the closing years of the Civil War. As a.young man he recognized the possibilities that lay in the undeveloped forests of West Virginia, then a veritable empire of latent timber wealth. He formally organized the W. M. Ritter Lumber Co. in 1900, and the company now has noldings In ‘Southwest Virginia, Southern West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and Western North Caro- lina. . Those included in the list of bene- ficiaries who reside in West Virginia and Virginia: Clyde Shipman, Oliver Pryor, Ed- ward R. Pryor, John Gwinn, H. F. Hartley and John Reagan of Maben, W. Va.; Daniel B. Gortner, MoClure, Va.; Pearl Stevenson, Fremont, Va.; Lens Kopp, Huntington, W. Va.; Ada Azee, Williamson, W. Va.; Lilllan St. Clair and James French Strother of in Hughes- | was prospective heir to soi jer's lCoolidg‘e Thanked i By Churches for Anti-War Stand thanking President Hughes A Cool memorial dge and Secretary [ for “emphatic denlal of malevo- ient rumors” in regard to the Natlon's relations with Japan was received at the White House to- day from the Federal Council of Churches, prepared on behalf of the Commissi>n of International Justice and Good Will and the Na- tional Committee on American- Japanese relation The resolution also indorsed the announcement of President Cool- idge in opposition to a competitive race In naval armaments. MRS, RHINELANDER SEEKING ALIMONY Young Millionaire’s Counsel Objects to Plea for $350 a Month. By the Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., December 26.-—Counsel for Alice Jones Rhine- lander today sought before Supreme Court Justice Tompkins $350 & month temporary allmony for their client, pending trlal of the suit brought by her husband, Leonard Kip Rhineland- er, to annul thelr marriage of last October 14 The annulment based or suit is orma- | charges that young Mrs. Rhinelander | and her parents fraudulently sented her to be of white whereas she was part negro. The voung wife's attorneys said that although Rhinelander already Possessed $580,000 in property and millions, a year, of repre- blood, his Income was only $18,00 which he spent $3,000. Protest Sum Sought. Counsel for Rhinelander protested that 3200 a month would be ample alimony. They said, however, that their client had “every desire to give Mrs. Rhinelander everything neces- sary to support her comfortably’ that “all bills presented by her credi- tors or by ‘her father were paid promptlys’: and that Rhinelander wanted “to make everything right.” During the hearing, which closed with a decision reserved, Rhineland- attorney declared he lived with his wife since November 20. Neither had he vlied with nor seen his own parents or any other members of the Rhinelander family, and his present whereabouts were known only to his attorneys, the latter told the court Counsel disclosed that In seeking evidence in corroboration of charges contained in the annulment suit the ancestry of Mrs. Rhinelander was be- ing traced to England, where her father was born, and to the British West Indies, where Ethioplan blood 1s alleged to have been mingled with the family stoc! S 33 DEAD IN SCHOOL BLAZE IDENTIFIED; BURIAL RITES TODAY (Continued from First Page.) Cotton and wheat are the The population 1s Hobart. principal products. about 250. The list of identified dead, as re- vised, follows: T. C. Coffey, Mrs. T. C. Maudie Coffey, Audrey Coffey, Coffey and Ethel Coffey. Mrs. Florence Perry Hill, teacher at the school, in charge of the enter- tainment; Vesta Jackson, Juanita Clemments and her infant daughter, Mary Juanita. J."T. Goforth, Bud Biggers, Perry Biggers, Dowell Bolding. John Duke, jr.; Paul Peck, Opal Peck, Willlam Curtls, 34; Mrs. William Curtls, 33; two Curtis children, 8 and 10; Mary Elizabeth Eden, child; John Hetzen- berger, Curtis Peterson, Cyril Peck, child; Lila Reville, Lynn Reville, Gladys Clemments, 22; Mary Lois Clements, 21; Mrs. Cofre: Orley Rhoda Bradshaw 37; Mattie Bolding. 13; Edward Bold- ing, 10, and Mattle May Bryan, 1908 BLAZE RECALLED. By the Associated Pre CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 26.— The Hobart tragedy recalls the Col- linwood School fire March 4, 1908, in which 172 pupils between 6 and 14 years old and two teachgrs lost their lives fn 20 minutes. The Collinwood fire, caused by overheated pipes igniting timbers in the three-story brick building, start- ed soon after the day’s studies began. The pipes, it was clalmed, were. too to the wood, making its tinder The children, after starting an or- derly exit when the alarm was sounded, became panicky at sight of the flames and in the ensuing rush for an exit one child stumbled at the foot of a narrow stair. Soon a mass of children six feet high were piled at the door, which opened inward. Rescuers, unable to break down the Qoor, broke its glass, but so tightly were the victims wedged that none could be pulled out, Noted Sculptor Di;u. SIENNA, Italy, December 26.—Emilo Gallori, the noted sculptor, died sud- denly yesterday. His most noted works include a monument to Garibaldi, re- cently erected in the gardens of the Janiculum at Rome, and a monument to King Victor Emmanuel 2d, dedicated In 1911 at Rome. Welch, W. Va.; Spencer D. Shipman, Fitzpatrick, W. Va.; R. L. Hooker, Fremont, Va.; W. J. Osborne, Blu field, Va; A. T. Crockett, Oxley, W Va.; B. H. Morrison, McClure, Va. A. 'A. Kopp, Huntington, W. Va.; H. J. H. Reed, McClure, Va.; Giles Caldwell, Princeton, W. Va; L. O. Bailey, Oxley, W. Va.: H. W. Shaw han, Beckley, W. Va.: C. W. McCoy, Grundy, Va.; Dan E, Tickle, Fremont, Va.; A. W. Agee, Bluefield, W. Vi William N. Cummins, Red Jacket, W Va.; E. L. Mosby, Fitzpatrick, W. Va.; Joseph T. Hays, McClure, Va.; Wil- Ham B. Ross, Hurley, Va.; Mrs, Dollle Arnn Price, O'Keefe, W. Va.; Charles F. Gortner, Oxley, W. Va. Those residing in Pennsylvania: Florence Marie Denfus, Dubolstows Elizabeth Pryor Ritter, Weatherly Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ritter, Elizabeth Ritter, Verus Ritter and Bert Ritter of Opp; Ida Smith Colabine, Lillian Russell, Harley M. Shipman, Mrs. Della Hill and Mrs. Della Russell of Hughesville; James Ritter, Ethel Rit- ter Spotts and Margaret Ritter of Muncy; Harry Ritter of Johnstown, Mrs. Lulu Heiry of Harrisburg' and Curtis Ritter of Hughesvill Other beneficiaries ar Pryor, Southington, Conn. Pryor, New Hartford, N. Y.; Pearl L. Hill, W. M. Perry and Eugene Burr of New York City; Charles Allan Pryor and A. J. Willlams of Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. Robert Oden, Paul D. Ritter, Mrs, Carolina L. Boak, Willlam Ka- parakls and Clifford Napper of Wash- ington, D. C.; Florence Landen Wil- liams of Akron, Ohio; C. W. Metzger of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Gertrude Gort- ner of Hughesville, Pa. had not | THE EV IPOSTAL HEARINGS " ARE BEING PUSHED Publishers’ Agent Advocates | Increased Rates for Parcel | Post Matter. Pressing ahead with its hearings| on the administration’s postal rate | increase bill wWith & view to complet Ing them this week, the joint post- office subcommittee of the Senate and | House allotted further time to repre- sentatives of publishing interests today to present arguments on the measure. | The hLearings have developed op- position from these Interests‘to rate increase provisions of the bill ap- plying to second-class mail, embrac- Ing newspapers and magazines as bated on postal cost figures. which they contend apportion too much of the general cxpense on this class of mall. The committee plans to report the bill to the Senate immediately after the Christmas recess and before the President's veto of the postal salary | increase bill s called up by unani- mous consent on January 5. Would Raise Parcel Rates George C. Lucas, director of trans- portation for the National Publish- Assoctation, told the committee that second-class mail matter, consisting of newspapers and period- fcals, had been charged with unjust! i cost " allocations in the Post Office Department cost ascertainment re- port. He suggested that instead of mak- 1ing a general increase in postal rates the Government assess the bulk of the revenue for postal salary in- |creases against the parcel post. He! proposed a S-cent service charge on | each parcel post package. | This service, he sald, had been es- | |tablished under the guise of a service | to the farmers, but less than 10 per {cent of it really was for the farmer. ! Speed Is Deplored. | | The speed with which the postal {Tate increase bill is being put through | Congress “is unprecedented, except in the case of war emergency legls- lation,” Jesse H. Neal, spokesman for | the Associated Business Papers, told | the committee. | 'Such epeedy action, he said, can! iresult only in ‘“disarrangement of {the service and unfair distribution {of any necessary increas: He de- clared combination of the salary In- |crease and the postal rate advance| {In one measure was like “a little boy hanging on to a man's coattails going through the crowd.” “I's an attempt to have a strong measure pull a weak measure through,” sald he. |MRS. SWEETIN WEEPS | AT GRAVE OF HUSBAND Casts Self in Snow When Sheriff | | i Permits Visit as She Goes to Jail. i By the Aswociated Press MOUNT VERNON, IlI, December | 26.—Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, who was| found guilty by a jury Wednesday of poisoning her husband, Wilford, threw herself in the snow upon her husband's grave Christmas Sheriff Grant Holcomb said today. | after returning from the Benton jail | where he took the prisoner pendfng | disposition of a motion for a new trial. As the sherift's automobile reached | the cemetery at Ina, Mrs. Sweetin pleaded to vislt her husband’s grave. The sheriff finally consented gnd when the snow-covered mound wag reached Mrs. Sweetin threw herself ross it, sobbing and crying that he was tnnocent. : The sherlff was forced to carry her back to the car. Mrs. Sweetin was sentenced to 35 years in prison, while Lawrence M. Hight, her alleged pastor-lover, was given a life sentence. — CHAPLAIN IS REMOVED | FROM PRISON BY BISHOP | Prelate Says Priest’s Usefulness at Atlanta Is Ended by Inquiry. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, December 26.—Father Thomas P. Hayden, chaplain at the Atlanta penitentiary, was withdrawn by Rt. Rev. M. K. Keyes, Bishop of Savannah, because of his connection with the grand jury investigation of graft and bribery charges against former officlals of the institution, & | statement received here disclosed to- day. B The statement of Bishop Keyes says that “as soon as I had authoritative information from press reports that Father Hayden was in any way con- nected with the grand jury investi- gation I realized that his usefulness at the penitentiary had come to an end. I therefors withdrew his ap- pointment as chaplain.” eve, | SALARY CUT LOOMS FOR U. S. WORKERS IN ; SCORES OF POSITIONS (Continued from First Page.) propriation units who would euffer because they are the only persons al- loc’x:ted to & particular grade in their unit. The survey of the budget revealed a mch larger number of persons than was at first thought would come within the range of the new restric- tion, which Congress seems about to tack upon all the appropriation bills for 1926. Just how many Government em- ployes would suffer reductions under the new average provisions has not &S yet been worked out, as figures have not been tabulated in detall for the entire service. Ome Relfef Found. On the other hand, another change in the average provision, which has been proposed in all the appropria- tion bills, is being halled as a reliet from a former decision of Controller General McCarl. This change would provide that where a person is pro- moted from one grade to another, where the average salary has been exceeded, it will not be necessary for him to enter the lowest grade of the higher grade, and take a cut in alary. This provision was Inserted as the Controller General had ruled that in such ca the person pro- moted must enter the highest grade at the lowest possible rate. It would have caused cuts in salaries where persons wers promoted to higher positions and greater responsibility. ‘The hope has been expressed in cer- tain circles that Congress might see fit to include this latter change in the | the | noke and vicinity wi average provision in the defleiency bill to make it effective when the bill 1s enacted. Such 6 enactment would relieve the presentlsituation, it was pointed out today,fwhereby ft hus been. impossible to PRomote some persons without cutting'@®heir pay, isaldy L hotograph raken at Nuvsl Air Statio by Santa Claus, gave a varty for 150 have had one but for the thonghtful: 3 DEAD, LIQUOR' TOLLINNEW YORK 31 1l in Bellevue, 50 in Ac- cident Ward, Story of Christmas Hooch. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 26.—Three men are dead, others are Il in Bellevue Hospital and the Police Court { calendars are crowded as a result of the liquor drinking yesterday in this city in celebration of Christmas. In addition to the dead and sick, between 40 and 50 persons are in the accident ward of Bellevue from Injuries sustained in fights or falls due to liquor. Yesterday's fatalities increased to 34 the number of deaths in the city from poison liquor during the month. Equals Pre-Volstead Record. The number of drunks yesterday and on Christmas eve was as great as at_any time prior to prohibition, according to the police. Officials at Bellevue Hospital sald the tide of deaths and suffering from poison iquor had been steadily rising since first prohibition Christmas In | 1920, In an- open letter to Gov. Smith asking his support in the passage of a State enforcement act, Arthur J. Davis, State superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, quoted the city health department’s figures as show- ing 439 deaths from alcohollsm in New York City during the present vear, as compared with 307 deaths last year. “This number,” sald Mr. Davis in his letter, “Is greater than that of any year since prohibition and almos as large as in pre-prohibition days. Deaths this month in the metro- politan district, including some near- by suburbs outside the city, reached a total of 38 with yesterday's fa- talities. ROANOKE FEELS TREMOR. Earth Shocks in Virginia Rock Buildings During Night. | By the Assoclated Pres: December 36.—Roa- startled shortly before midnight by severe earth tremors. Pictures were shaken from walls, vases crashed from tables and buildings rocked. A watchman at the Viscose Silk Mill reported that the floor of the brick building he was patrolling trembled and that the fur- niture bumped up and down. ROANOKE, Va. No earth shocks were rexlnere% on the seismograph at Georgetown Uni- versity during the night, Father Ton- dorf, in charge of the instrument, said today. . COLD WAVE MOVES TO EASTERN REGION; EXTENDS TO PACIFIC (Continued from First Page.) {48 below zero, and Huntsville, nea: Ogden, Utah, 49 below. New York Has Coldest Day. NEW YORK, December 26.—This was the coldest morning of the win- ter in New York City. The tempera- ture at 7:30 o'clock was 11 above zero. A new cold wave of greater severe intensity was predicted to- morrow night. DAMAGE AT $100,000. California Fruits Suffer in Low Temperature. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., December 26—A temperature of 33 degrees above zero, the lowest in the history of the Santa Barbara Weather Bureau, accompanied by & heavy frost, which did considerable damage to citrus groves and flower gardens, was re- corded here yesterday. Farm Adviser D. T. Batchelder estimated the dam- are roughly at $100,000, or 10 per cent of the citrus crop. MERCURY GOES UP. Northwest Gets Some Relief From Cold. ST. PAUL, Minn, December 26.— Northwest temperatures bounded up- ward today, after below zero weather of yesterday, showing an average rise of about 16 degrees in 24 hours. The lowest temperature recorded in this section this morning was 4 above zero at Mimot, N. Dak. 48 BELOW IN NEVADA. Air Mail Radio Station Put Out of Commission. RENO, Nev.,, December 26.—The temperature.registered 48 degrees be- low zero yesterday at Elko and put the air mail radio statidn out of com- mission. The pump and radio aro were frozem, Reno air mail officials boys a ness of the personnel of the station. Good Samaritan, | Lured Into Alley, Is Robbed and Beaten | Samuel S. Price’s willingness to be a good samaritan last night about 8:30 o'clock, resulted in his being beaten and robbed of $52. Price, who resides at 2903 Ninth street, was on Massachusetts avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets, near No. 6 engine com- pany, when two men, one white and the other colored, told of auto- mobile trouble in a nearby alley. Responding to their request for assistance, Price accompanied the pair to the alley, and the men at- tacked and beat him instead of leading him to an automoblle. They stole his cash and deserted him. He was treated at Casualty Hospital for wounds his assailants inflicted CLINTOCK HER TOUNDERGO QUIZ Shepherd Leaves for Chi- cago—nPreliminary Necrop- sy Report Due Today. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, December 26.—Further Investigation of the death of William |Nelson McClintock, “millionaire or- |phan,” waited today for the report ot pathologists who examined his ex- humed body for possible discovery of poison traces and the arrival here |from Albuquerque, N. Mex., of Wil- |llam Shepherd, lawyer-chemist, chief |heir to his estate. epherd, at whose home McClin- tock died, December 4, and whose wife was McClintock's guardian until he became of age last Spring, left Al- buquerque yesterday. He will be questioned at the State's attorney's office as soon as he reaches here. Through his law partner, Robert H. Stoll, he has agreed to submit to ex- amination, and to afd the inquiry in- stigated by Harry Olsen, Municipal Court chief justice and friend of the McClintock family, after certain um- named persons expressed dissatisfac. tion with the physicians' report of death from typhold fever. One Report Due Today. The four pathologists, one of whom represented the Shepherds, were ready to make a preliminary report of the necropsy to Coroner Oscar Wolft today, with a complete analysis before a coroner's jury January 20. The State's attorney planned today to question the doctors who signed McClintock’s death certificate and Miss Mary Gartner, a maid In the Shepherd home. She witnessed the signing of the will, which bequeathed his estate to Shepherd, with the pro- vision that an $8,000 annuity be paid Miss Isabelle Pope, his fiancee, who obtained a marriaged license and waited at his bedside to marry him had he recovered consclousness. TRAFFIC OFFENSES GROW. | Fourteen Arrests in 48 Hours for Driving While Intoxicated. Fourteen arrests for driving while intoxicated were made by the police during the 48 hours ended at 8 o'clock this morning, swelling the already heavy record for the past few day There were seven arrests of drivers of automobiles for falling to make known their identity after their auto- mobiles had figured in accidents. Among other arrests included in a total of 298 during the two-day perfod were the followin, Sell- ing intoxicants, §; illegal possession of Intoxicants, 11; transporting liquor, 4; intoxication, 53; failing to make identity known after colliding, speeding, 10, and violation of minor traffic regulations, 83. Mother Keeps Vow To Kill Self for Son Saved in War By Cable to The tar and New York World. MADRID, December 26.—Senora Leonora Grau, one of the leading women of the town of Teruel, Wednesday fulfilled her vow to ki1l herself if her son, fighting the Riffians in Morocco, was returned to her alive. ‘While the son was with his regi- ment Senora Grau’s husband died and she feared for the younger Grau's life, too. She vowed to th Virgin that if he were spared she ‘would sacrifice herself. Tuesday he came back and dined with his overjoyed mother. As he was going to bed she re- marked: “Now I must fulfill my vow.” He knew mothing of it and paid no attention, but the next day her body was found in the Tiver. = = L gt SR girls who had longed for a Merry Christmas and perhaps wouldn't NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1924. s e |A|BANIAN REBELS THIGHBROW HOBOES CAPTURE TIRANA - FIGHT FOR LUKURY | LABOR OUTBREAK INMEXICO FEARED Reinstating of Maritime| League Workers Threatens | Clash Unless Calles Acts. By the Aswociated Press. ! MEXICO CITY, December 26.—An- other serfous labor situation has de- | veloped at Vera Cruz and it was be- | lleved today that only orders from | President Calles for the military pro- | tection of members of the maritime league desiring to work could prevent | 2 clash between this labor body and| members of the Railway Men's Con- federation. A recent decision of Minister of | Labor Morones held that the league workers should be reinstated in their employment, and a representative of | the department of labor notified the Vera Cruz Terminal Co., that the rail- | way men, atevedores and other league | workers who were let out last year in | accordance with the pact settling the | long-standing labor conflict would re- turn to their employment This decision meant that more than | 500 of the confederation workers would lose their jobs, and a strike was decided upon, the confederation's exeoutive committee closing the ware- houses and offices and seizing the tele- graph and railroad equipment late last night, according to press dis patches received here. The league memberd, however, declared their in- tention of going to the shops, break- ing down the doors and etart worl ing. 1 The labor department representa- | tive in Vera Cruz appealed to Gen. | Almazon, the military commandant | there, for protection for the league | workers. but Gen. Almazon declared he would not mix up his troop in the #onflict unless he received orders from President Calles, WINS COMPENSATION | FOR LOSS OF BLIND EYE| Optic, Useless Since Infancy, Nets Injured Workman $18 a Week for 102 Weeks. By the Associated Pre, ST. PAUL, Minn, Decomber 26.—A ‘workman-who loses an eye through an industrial accident, even though he is blind in that eye, is entitled to com- pensation under the workmen's com- pensation law, the Minnesota Supreme Court held today in affirming the State Industrial Commission. The decision was made In the case of N. C. Mosgard of Minneapolis, who was denied compensation for the loss of an eye in which he had been blind since {nfancy. He appealed to the in- dustrial commission, which- awarded him $18 & week for 102 weeks. JUSSERAND IS USING ? “NEW DIPLOMACY” IN DISCUSSING DEBT (Continued from First Page.) clsely what Ambassador Jusserand re- cently chose In Washington—a large audlence of representative citizens. Harvey talked to men and Jusserand to women. But Jusserand's hearers consisted largely of wives of mem- bers of Congress, forelgn diplomats | and high Government officlals, than whom there is probably no mors in- fluential and opinion-making group | in Washington. Then Hughes Spoke Out. The White House, in denying that| it Intended to “rebuke” Ambassador | Jusserand, may have had in mind| Secretary Hughes' famous New | Haven speech in December, 1922, when he made the first suggestion of the Dawes reparations plan. By all the rules of the old diplomacy, the American foreign ministers should | have submitted his historic proposal | through official channels to the Eu- ropean governments. What he actual- 1y did was to make it in an address before the American Historical As- soctation. It had all the effects of a great officlal pronouncement, yet en- tirely lacked that character. It com- mitted the United States Government to nothing even though it enunciated our attitude of the reparations prob- lem. The French envoy was at pains to explain to his recent audience that what he was telling them, in essence, was the whole why and wherefore of his “‘conversations” with Secretary Mellon, the chairman of the World War Debt Commission. As a matter of fact, Representative Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, one of three Democratic members of the debt commission, in a not very wide- 1y noted speech in the House a couple of weeks ago, revealed that Jus- serand had said to Mellon abodt a moratorfum, etc. T Except th a little more picturesque detall, justified by the circumstances, the French Ambassador apparently only sald publicly on December 23 what he had already said “diplo- matically” and “officlally” to Sec- {line of Kuklus-Ilfouncloula-Bitsans. {them, but as they reappear with ar- | { June 30, where they will remain for Government Charges Revolu-i tion Is Fostered by ! Jugoslavians. | By the Assoclated Press. | BELGRADE, December 26.—The oc- | cupation of Tirana, Albania, by Ahmed Zogu's troops is offclally confirmed by the latest dispatches received here. | Advices from Prizrend report that| government forces commanded by | Bayram Tsour have made some head- | way to the north, reoccupying the The advance, however, it not con- sidered likely to compromise the de-| cisive successes of Ahmed Zoguy,| whose partisans control the whole of Central Alabania and the principal | is rushing reinforcements to recover | the ground lost in the northeast. { The premier, Fan Noli, states that there are three Serblans among the prisoners. That statement is con- sidered incerrect, for the government | counfs as prisoners some deserters| from the Jugoslav army whom the legation has been vainly trying to repatriate. SEES BALKAN INTRIGUE. BY HIRAM KELLY MODERW By Radio to The Star and Cb ROME, December 26.—The prese; attack on Albania was deliberately ordered by Jugoslavia to prevent the consolidation of Albania and to keep the “Albanian question” always acut and unsettled, according to a st ment made to the corresponden by | Suleiman Delvina, Albanian minister | of foreign affairs. According to Del- vina’s statement, the attack is evi- dence of a Balian Intrigue, which tends to threaten war in the future, as it has for decades in the past. “I was informed that Ahmed Bey Zogu, the feudal ex-premier, was preparing to attack Albania with the help of Serbfan and Montenegrin mercenarles and the interned soldiers | of Gen. Wrangel's Russian white| army. I so Informed the legation of | the United States and other nations| represented in Albania before the at- tack. Our Information has been proved exact by simultaneous at- | tacks on our northern, eastern and | mouthern borders. The bands attack- ing from the East are well equipped | with machine guns and cannon. Such attacks we have Invarlably vepulsed in the past, but the attackers when| driven back across the border almost| always take refuge in Jugoslavia and | later resume their operations. “It is Jugosiavia's duty to disarm | 4g0 Daily News. | tillery we must conclude that the Jugoslavian government is permit- ting them to organize on Jugoslavian | soil. This is all the more surprising because we recently expelled Mace- donian comitadji as evidence of good faith toward Jugoslavia. Not Internal Revolution. “We now have several thousand troops concentrated around Tirana. ready to go in any direction to defend the fatherland, and more are arriving | dally. We hoDe to have the affair| iquidated in 10 days. This is not an [ internal revolution, but external at- tacks. Its leaders are Ahmed Bey Zozu and Mufit Libova, premier and | finance minister of the deposed gov- | ernment. Previously they had adher- ents in Albania, but now they see that | these men are nothing but traitors to their own country and have turn- ed against them.” The situation on the Grecian border 1s not considered serious unless the invaders succeed in the north. A launch laden with men from the Mon- tenegrin side of Lake Scutari was| captured while attempting to land | on Albanian sofl. Albania expeots a | formal protest by Italy against the | alleged violation of neutrality. Mean- while Albania is drawing up a for- mal protest to the League of Nations (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) ANNAPOLIS MIDDIES’ | CRUISE IS PLANNED Embryo Officers to Sail Aboard Three Battleships From June 6 to August 30. Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis will take their annual practice cruise this year aboard the battleships New York, Ar- kaneas and Utah, according to orders issued today by Admiral E. W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, to the com- manding officer of the United States scouting fleet. While on this annual cruise the embryo naval officers will crutse a distance of 12,060 miles, will spend 52 days at sea and 39 days In port. The three vessels will arrive off Annapolis May 30 to embark the mid- shipmen. June 6 the squadron will leave for Panama, where it is due to | arrive June 14, remaining until June 17. The vessels will reach San Pedro eight days, for any necessary over- haul work. They are due at San Francisco July 10, whers they will re- main until July 18, during which pe- riod they will fuel. Arriving at Seat- tle, Wash., July 22, the ships will re- main until July 30, when they will | leave for San Diego, arriving August | 4, when more fuel will be taken. Leaving this port August 8, they will | proceed to Panama on the return trip, | arriving August 20, and leave August 2. The flest is due to disembark the midshipmen August 30. FIREMEN KEPT BUSY. Sixteen Calls Answered Yesterday by Various Units. Sixteen calls, two of them false, were received by the Fire Depart- ment yesterday. Most of them were for fires resulting from overheated furnaces, stoves and chimneys or au- | tomobiles. A lighted candle on a Christmas | tree in the home of Willlam Stack- | house, 36 II street, started a fire| about’ 5 o'clock in the afternoon. | The fire did $100 damage. | Sparks from a fireplace started a | fire in the house of John W, Meln- tyre, 1419 Thirty-third street, about 830" oclgck last night Damage amounted to § 100, Study Pilgrims’ Transportation. GENEVA, December 26.—Transpor- tation of the Holy Year pilgrims to Rome is & problem which has necessi- tated the assembling of an interna- tional conference of rallroad men here. It has been found necessary to schedule from 150 to 200 special traine. L Marines Go to Cuba. The 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment of Marines, at Quantico, Va., command- ed by Maj. A. J. White, will sail Jan- uary B, on the naval transport Hen- derson, for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for special temporary duty at the Cuban naval station. On arrival of the 1st Battalion at Guantanamo the 3rd Battalion, 6th Regiment, which has vetary Mellon. Lior uapsgortation to Quentics, . served there, will board the Henderson | when LReserve, Refuse to Be Ousted From Hotel With Free Food and Hot Baths. By Cousolidated Press. CHICAGO, December 26.—Battlinz grimly for their first honest-to-gooc ness heaven, 300 firet-class graduat hoboes are still on top of the fig! that's being made to drive them c of the paradise they've cornered the really swell Grandville Hotel ir | a cold, cold world. It's a struggle of first magnitud this attempt of the determined Wear Willies to hold the ground they gair ed when two magnanimous “lord: turned over to them the Grandvi {lines of communication. Ahmed Zogu|one of the South Side’s up-to-dat hostelries, with all its luxuries. An now the courts, and only the cour stand between them and their negr adversaries, who have spent most « two weeks trying to make their live miserable Three hundred hobo inhabitan even if every single one is & holder o the A. B. H—hobo bachelor of arts degree from the Chicago Hobe Coi lege, are too much fur negro G1Emit: especially since the ndville planted conspicuousl 3800 Gra boulevard, right in the very ce aristocratic negro str Hoboes Determined. “We don't wan race riot ning like that, we are dete d to maintain the quarters for the ho who hold d grees from our college and are in (1 cago” Dr. Ben L. Reitman, preslder of the hobo institution and leader the group seeking aid for migra declared today. “It isn't our inte to move, just because these peor feel that what they call ‘White tras is not good enough for their distric “Every hobo we put on the stand in this case they've brought to ev us by having the negro owner c the hotel foreclose on the mortgage in an accredited university graduate We are ready to let them take tes timony In Latin if they want. O hoboes come from Harvard, Yale an other leading colleges. They'll sho what type of men are among (i migrations. The 'boes have at to be a part or any somsthing to fig! for, too. They've found Utopla the Grandville, where, free of charg they've had steam-heated rooms wi bath, maid service, bell boys, e tors, tasty cuisine and everyth that goes with the modern hotel Garb Strange Contrast. Every night for thres week graduate hoboes class ‘boes by me requir ments of riding the blinds, foragi in distress and general r sourcefulness, have found nightl lodging at the hotel. Four deep the have cuddled under the beaut! linen covers of the hotel, after the evening bath and a satisfying repast Early each afternoon, singly and Eroups, they can be seen saunterir up grand boulevards to the loungtr rooms of their richly furnished pa ace. Their rags for ma strar jtrast to their surroundings, “These neigh trouble,” Dr. 20 minutes some the police. Then s call the fire department. They hav health department out hera tw a day. build £ department trying to make us build escapes and they kick about having 300 men in hotel built for 100. Besides all this I've been discharged from the pos tion 1 held for years in the health de partment of Chicago becauss of activity on behalf of these men. O top of that a negro paper is | the colored people in the black be The situation is threatening. “Of course, the courts may evict v but the boys will fight the 1la ditch to keep their heaven—the be place they have ever imagix run into.” MISSING MAN’S BODY FOUND BESIDE RIVER George W. Towles, Gone Since Wednesday, Believed Vic- tim of Exposure. rs ca Reltman id. of t cal else w flaming to A small boy playing on the ba: of the Anacostia River near the fe of G street southeast this morni about 19:30 o'clock found the bod of George W. Towles, vears old a former contractor, who disappeared from his home Wednesd Towles a native of Culpeper, Va. had beer a resident of this cily for 30 years He received an Injury two years agc and had been unable to work. The past three years he had lived the home of his sister, Mrs. Geor W. Upton, 1630 Eckington northea Detective Scrivener and police o the fifth precinct conducted an invest! gation and found footprints, canceled checks, hat and glasses of the de man in the marsh and undergrowt along the river bank, suggesting tha he had probably become lost and wa unable to make his way out of tl soft ground. The body moreue, where removed to th was examined b Coroner Nevitt. It is belleved h death resulted from exposure. The deceased survived by his widow and ona child. Funeral services wil be held at his sister's homs Monda afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interme wlill be at Glenwood Cemetory o DOLLS FOR SICK GIRLS. minary Students Civic 38 Little Patients Happy Christmas. Yesterday, 38 little girls of poor far illes, lying sick in the city hospitals were made happy by as many doli which were bougiit and dressed by stu dents of the Martha Washington Ser a girls' school, on Sixteent was it idea of playlng Santa C to the little unfortunates who w otherwise be slighted arose indireot! through a class in home hygiene an care of the sick which the Distric of Columbia Chapter of the America Red_Cross has been conducting ir the Y. W. C. A. Through this agency the girls wers interested in home nursing, and this in turn, with the hollday nearing, suggested the fdea of brightening the Christmas of sicl children. The 38 dolls, which were distribute through the Y. W. C. A, are all com pletely outfitted by the seminar girls, and represent every variety o doll and material. OIL SUIT DELAYED. Teapot Dome Case Continued Un- til March 9. CHEYENNE, Wyo., December 2 Judge T. Blake Kennedy this morn ing granted a continuance untii March 9 of the-trial of the Govern ment’s suit in equity for annulmen: of the Mammoth Oil Company’s lease on the Teapot Dome Naval Ofl