Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1925, Page 5

ESCAPED CONVITS FOIL BLODDHOUNDS Dogs Trailing Occoquan Fu- gitives Lead Officers to Barn-Burning Suspect. Twenty-five guards and four blood- hounds took part in an all-night hunt last night for Walter 1. Bush and ¥rank Gardner, fugitives from- the District prison at Occoquan, Va. The doms did not succeed in getting close o the fugitives. it is stated, hut about midnight they did trail a young man who, it 3 Aving the vieinity Placed \der arn young man gave his name as Robert L. Rogers and said he had formerly been a resident of Morse street northeast Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent the prison, brought Rogers here d turned him over to Inspector Clif- ford 1. Grant, chief of detectiyes. Rogers’ arrest also was reported to Shertff Allison of Fairfax County, V who informed the authorities he | would come here this afternoon and | r that be surrendered to him for investigation in conneetion with the burning of the barn Larly this afterncon it was that tne fugitives women n Tako jush quest Rogers eported tf Busi by wport. Ky., and Gar was in Cincinnati < sentenced home e to serve 2or attempted housebreaking > Roma Purk store, while the latter was stmilarly ed for concealed weapon he woman members of the was from Fairmont, W. Vi REVENUE FREIGHTS MAKE RECORD IN NINE WEEKS Total of 8,070,319 Cars Loaded Since Beginning of Present Yeéar, Report Shows. One of party e freight leadings f this year that period 8,070,319 cars, ac compiled today division of the Association in the a with « ording to the car American Rail- | The total is an in- cars, or 1.8 per cent iod last | or 54 per 16 weeks ¢ set ice the cc cent over The 1 deer responding 416,131 cars, that 19 achievec loadings February weeks due ord was despite for the from the the two to the fact that anniversary did a week orresponding vears preceding Washington's birthday not fall within the latter weeks. The 52,910 cars for the week is a 4+ cars from last year s for 1923, It was 62,- than in the preceding Virtually all el tributed to the decrease other comparative figures. | SIGN ORDERED DOWN. Arlington Supervisors Say Rosslyn of Wweek this vear i Structure Is Unsightly. ARENDON, v in 1 electric sign Hngton Trust ( advert a well Mareh 10.—The roof of the Ar- Rosslyn, which known brand of | the board | monthly was ord removed by of supervisors at its regular 1t the courthouse yesterday. | characterized unsightly. | H. Duncan, secretary to the board, was instructed to notify the oil company of the board’s action Consideration of the question of | moving the county's property vard, | which, according to a ruling of the alth’s attorn must be April 1, brought forth a ten- tative offer of ground on the water front in Rosslyn. M. B. Harlow of | Alexandria. who controls the ‘site, told the board he would submit a | definite proposal for a long lease by next Friday The need of an assistant to the game warden, due to the great num- ber of unlicensed dogs in the count: was stressed, and the commonwealth's &ttorney was instructed to request an appointment of the State game warden meeting William OFFICERS NOT BLAMED. Naval Board Reports on_Flagship Grounding Near Manila. By the Amotiated Press MAN. A Marchk 10.—- board inquiry into the grounding of the flagship Huron of the Asiatic fle Malanr aya Sound, 200 miles | southeast here, on February today found the ship's officers blame. le It stated that the chart showed 14 fathoms of water over the point where the Huron was grounded The Huron departed today for Singapore, where' it will meet Admiral Washington, commander of the fleet, who is now in Java aboard the Ge al Alava The fleet prob- ably will visit Saigon, after which 1t will return to Shanghai. The naval | | and THE BLEASE IS MILD AS SENATOR; WILL FIGHT WILSONIAN IDEAS Fiery South Carolinian of Other Days Begins His Term Quietl: Isolation of U. S. From Foreign Entanglements, Dominqht Policy. BY ROBERT T. SWALL. No one ever thought that Cole L. Blease of the firo and brimstone s of South Carolina could en- ter Washington public life so qulet- Perhaps he has been unfortunate aching the Capital aftaer Gen Mitchell of the Air Service and Gen. Charley Dawes of the vice presidency. There has been so much noise and clatter under the big dome n Capitol Hill recently that “Coley” Blease just slipped ‘into his place in the Senate chamber on Inauguration day and naturally he could not cause a ripple on waters already churned into wildly lashing waves. But Senator Blease is here aml in his place every day and now and then some -visitor in the gallery suddenly remembers to ask about him. He is pointed out as a mild-appearing man, decidedly slender in stature and wear- ing & modest gray business suit. The fierce black hair and black mustache of the old days are turned to iron gray and a pair of rather mild eyes look through the horn-rimmed glasses which pinch & somewhat Nordic nose The Blease head is held back in the manner of men who wear such glasses generally wear them too far down on the nose. Grudge Against Wilsonism. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Cole Bleass used to make the welkin ring down in the old Palmetto State. His archenemy, Woodrow Wilson, has gone to his last reward, but Blease has not forgotten the ancient grudge he bore the war- time President. He has served notice quietly upon his colleagues—served it in writing as a matter of fact—that his mind will not go along with them in the furtherance of anything that is left of the Woodrow son plans for international agreements. Senator Blease is not going to be a Democratic insurgent. He is not go- ing to be a La Follette. Instead, he likes to picture himself as a sort of Democratic Borah, a man disdainful | of the party leadership which would | drag you around by the nose. make| you play dead. roll over and jump through the hoop. Senator Blease is jealous of his right of self-determina- tion. He is naturally Democratic and subscribes to all of the old Demo- cratic principles, but his is a pre- Wilson Democracy, and he wants nothing to do with new-fangled, for- eign “entanglements.” no matter what you call them. Blease is sorr THREE ARE RESCUED IN"CLARENDON FIRE J. Vernon Pagett, Ill, and Wife Absent When Flames Destroy- ed $8,000 Home. he could not have Special Dispateh to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., March 10.—Hun- dreds of volunteer firemen fought a losing battle against flames in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Vernon Pagett yesterduy afternoon. They were handicapped by lack of an ade- quate water supply. The fire, it is be- lieved, was caused by a short circuit in an electric pump in a built-in ga- rage. Damage is estimated at $8,000. The fire started a few minutes after Mrs. Pagett left her home to go to the drug store, six blocks away, to get medicine for her husband, who was ill in bed. Neighbors discovered the fire and rushed to the home, res- cuing the father and two children under 10 vears of age. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Havenner, two houses away, gave the refugees shelter. Mrs. Pagett, on her return, became hysterical, and was not calmed until she saw that her husband and chil- dren were safe. Inadequacy of the water supply for fire-fighting purposes was make evident when hundreds of gallons of chemicals were poured on the flames with Iittle or no effect. Engine Company No. 5 of Georgetown, the Cherrydale pumper and a pumper from Fort Myer relayed water from a lake in Lyon Park, half a mile away. Great delay was occasioned by the rigging up of this outfit, and the flames had about completed their work when the tream was played on the house, but a few minutes thereafter the fire had beery extinguished. Ballston, Arling- ton, Clarendon and Potomac were other departments that responded to the alarm. The efforts of men from these departments was not, however, entirely wasted. They stripped the house of everything of value in the way of household effects and clothing, and besides kept the fire from spread- iing to adjoining property. Safety razor blades made in this country and shipped abroad last year numbered nearly 7,600,000, or nearly three times-the number of 1923. SENATOR COLE I. BLEASE. ridden with the brave “battalion of death” when it was battling the League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles to their graves. It is hard to think of a man from the hills of South Carolina hunting with the ele- phants of the grand old party, but Blease would gladly have aligned himself with Borah and Lodge and Brandegee and McCorinick and John- son to kil any and all of the works of Woodrow Wilson. This would be brave indeed, for fow persons in the North realize what a Republican means in South Carolina. One hears much of the tremendous landslide which swept Calvin Cool- idge into office last November. The Coolldge vote in South Carolina was exactly 1,123. Tn 1920 something like 2,244 South Carolinians had the hardi- hood or temerity to vote for Warren Harding. Washington had heard that Sena tor Blease had grown much quleter these past seven or elght vears. When he first won the primaries last Au- tumn there arose visions of another Pitchfork” Ben Tillman, for it w felt Blease was a modern disciple of the old pitchfork school. But now- adays, as he moves about on the floor, exchanging greetings with his colleagues, the junior Senator from South Carolina conveys no impres- sion of even smoldering fires within but the man who once called a Demo- cratic Secretary of War “a pugnosed little Yankee” and a Democratic S retary of the Navy “a very small man’ still must have possibilities which the Senate will not care to overlook. (Copyright, 19: OPENS BIDS FOR BASE. Ship Board Begins Study of Three Offers for Lease at Norfolk. Bids for the lease for five years of the supply base at Norfolk, Va., for operation as a terminal for the interchange of rail and water trafic were opened by the Shipping Board today. Bids. were received from the folk Warehouse Corporation of Nor- folk, “the Atlantle §jdewater Termi- nals Co. of Philadelphia and the Ci of Norfolk, each of which was a companied by a certified check for $10,000. Officials of the board immediate began the work of digesting the b and announced they would make pub- lic their contents later in the day. Army P SR AR o EVENING STAR,. WASHINGTON, D.. CHOOSING COLORE JUDGE HERE URGED Blaine G. 0. P. Club Asks Coolidge for One of New Police Court Posts. President Coolidge has received an appeal from Francis Wells, president of the Blaine Invincible Republican CIub, of the District, to appoint a colored man to one of the two addi- tional Police Court judgeships creat- ed by the new traffic law. In his appeal to the President, Mr. ‘Wells, who has been & leader among colored Republicans here for a num- ber of years, called attention to the important part the colored men and women have taken in the advance- ment of Republicanism, and declared that the appointment of one of the race to this bench would serve as an incentive to the younger generation by glving assurance of the Presi- dent's sincerity in his reiterated as- sertion that the door of opportunity is open to all races and creeds in this country. Well Qualified for Place. Mr. Wells said there are a number of men of his race in Washington who stand high at the local bar, and who are otherwise eminently quali- fied to serve as a Police Court judge He reminded the President that his appeal was made as a result of a recent meeting of the Blaine In- vincible Club, when a resolution was adopted placing that organization on record as asking for the appointment. Mr. Wells requested the President to set a date in the near future, when a delegation, representing the Invinci- bles and other colored organizations, could appear before him and present reasons why they believe their race should have this recognition. Mr. Wells said upon leaving the White House today that his organiza- tion has not glven its support to any one colored aspirant for the place, but will make a decision before the dele- gation waits upon the President. He said he and other officers of the In- vincibles will confer with Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the special com- mittee named Saturday by the execu- tive committee of the Republican State committee of the District, to select the two men who will have the support of the united Republican or- ganizations of the District for these two judgeships. Golng to Opening President Coolidge received another reminder today that Spring is not far away. This was in the person of Ed- ward Eynon, secretary of the Wash- ington base ball club, who called at the White House and extended Mr. Coolidge a formal invitation to attend the opening game in Washington April 22. - The President gave assur- ance that he and Mrs. Coolidge would be on hand to sec the world cham- plons start the local season, unless something unforeseen turned up. iame. STARK’S SLAYER JAILED. Man Who Killed Ball Player En- ters Plea of Guilty. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 10.—H. S. Atkinson, charged with the slaying of Monroe (Dolly) Stark, former major league base ball player. and manager of several minor league clubs, entered a plea of guilty to involuntary manslaughter in criminal court here today and was sentenced to not more than 5 years in the State penitentiary. Stark was shot to death December 1 during an argument at a road- house. Atkinson's plea was made in the midst of the empaneling of a jury to try him on a charge of murder. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1925. RETIREMENT DEFEAT IS BLAMED |GANG HANGS YOUTH ON OVERZEALOUS PROPONENTS| WHO BARED ROBBERY “Deliberate Falsehoods” and Misinformation Aris- ing From Ignorance, Declared to Have Been Spread at Capitol, Irking Legislators. Assurance that a bill liberalizing the Civil Service retirement law, such as-failed at the last session of Congress, will be enacted by the next Congress was given to members of the joint conference on retirement by members of Congress at a ®get- together dinner staged by the joint conference last night in the Hotel Continental. The bill that did not get through the sixty-cighth Congress met a disas- trous end for two reasons, it was indicated; first, because of “mislead- ing propaganda” disseminated by certain annuitants who did not understand the retirement law, and, second, because of the introduction of other retirement bills, to pass all of which would have interfercd with the administration's economy program. Charges “Absolute Falschoods.” The “misleading propaganda’” was referred to and deprecated by several of the speakers. Representative Frederick Lehibach of New Jersey chairman of the Civil Service com- mittee of the House, declared that the liberalizing measure had the sup- port of a majority of members of Congress until certain persons began flooding the Capitol with “misstate- ments and absolute falsehoods” to the effect that the retirement law would not cost the Government any- thing and citing as proof that a large surplus of employes' money had accumulated in the Treasury “Anybody who knows the law knows that the Government does have to pay part of the cost, and when some of the members who were in favor of the bill began to see the sort of misrep- resentatios that was going the rounds they naturally got sore,” Rep- resentative Lehlbach declared He pointed out that the new bill would have increased the annuities of retired Federal employes by ralsing the percentage of deduction from thelr salaries from 2l to 3% per cont. Despite the larger annuities, he sald, it probably would not have in- creased the Government's obligations beyond the mmount originally esti- mated for the present law when it was first projected. Urges Proper Methods. “There are good enough reasons for passing a liberalizing bill without re- sorting to mixstatements,” Represent- ative Lehlbach asserted. “One of the best reasons is that the present an- nuities are so grossly inadequate that employes shrink from retiring. An- other is that increased annuitles will not cost the Government any more money than was anticipated under the original law. Go after it in the next Congress with good, sound reasoning and J am certain it will pass.” nator Robert N. Stanfield of Ore- gon, chairman of the Senate commit. tee on civil service during the last session, held out hope for passage of an even more liberal measure next sesgion than that which passed the Senate but failed to get to the floor of the House during the term just ended. He stated that Joseph M Coy, Government actuary, had in- formed him that to increase the maxi- mum annuities from $1,200 to $2,000, as proposed In the dead bill, would result in benefit not only to the em- ployes, but to the Government. The galn in efficiency would have profited the Government about $7,000,000, Sen- ator Stanfield said he had been in- formed. Favored by Cabinet. had the assurance of the Secre- tary of the Interior that the mem- bers of the President's cabinet all favored the larger annuities proposed, but somewhere, somehow, there arose opposition and misunderstanding that killed the measure just as it was about to win,” Senator Stanfield stated. Former Senator Thomas Sterling of T South Dakota, who was 2 member of the Senate civil service committee, confidently predicted success for the bill, or one similar to it, at the next session of Congress. He expressed the opinion that one of the principal reasons it failed of enactment during the Sixty-eighth Congress was that other retirement legislation cropped up to confuse and bewlilder those who were safeguarding the economy pro- gram of the Government. He later explained to newspaper men that this “other legislation” included the Bur- sum bill, providing for retirement in the Army and a similar bill for the Navy. He added that he understood the administration felt it would cost the Government too much to pass all the retirement bills, and since there could not reasonably be a discrimina- tion, the whole lot went by the boards. Help Is Pledged. Reprasentat Arthur M. Free of California and Representative Kugene Black of Texas both said they wera sure the bill would become a law at the next session. Representative Free criticlzed the summary dismissal of 1756 employes of the Government Printing Office without their having had advance notice. Representative Black said he had not warmed up to the retirement legislation at the out- set, but that he was now an ardent advocate and supporter of even greater annuities. He said it was not Just to ask a man or woman to retire from the Government under the pres- ent system of meager retirement pay, and he sald he would assist to his ut- most in having the present law lib- eralized. Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont, Representative Warry Hull of Iowa, Representative John E Raker of Californla and Representa- tive Louls W. Fairfield of Indiana agreed that the present law should be amended and pledged their sup- port, in or out of Congress. Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the joint conference on retirement, which is composed of representatives of all branches of the civil service, joined with the members of Congress in re- gretting that misinformation had been broadcast to the detriment of the chances of passing the liberaliz- ing bill. He criticized persons who had been responsible, but expressed the opinion that they had done § without malicious intent and due to ignorance of the retirement act. Following the speeches, the confer- ence authorized Chairman Alcorn to appoint a committeee to draw up res- olutions extending to retiring mem- bers of Congress the thanks of the employes “for the splendid efforts they have made in their behalf.” Former Senator L. Heisler Ball Representative Joe J. Manlove of Mis- souri, 'Representative Lamar Jeffers of Alabama and Representative Er- nest W. Gibson of Vermont were in- troduced as friends of the retirement law and of the Federal employes. They were not called on to make ad- dresses, Girl's Assailant to Die. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va.,, March 10.—Jesse Carter, colored, has been sentenced to die in the electric chair April 17. Two weeks ago he attacked a 15-year- old schoolgirl near Farmville. He was caught, taken to Farmville, in- dicted, tried and sentenced within an hour and a half. E. | Maryland Constable Charges Mob Action to Eight Held for Hearing. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., March 10— Because he is alleged to have ‘peached” on a gang that robbed the Davis store near Frostburg a few days ago, eight youths are held at the Frostburg lockup accused of attempt- ing to hang Walter Plummer, 18 years old. They are Benjamin Swelitzer, William Winebrenner, Harold Mecks, Herman Crowe, John Davis, John Reiney, Richard Meagher and Ora Sagle. Constable Henry . Wagus, who made the arrests last night, says the accused accosted Plummer while he was on his way home and forced him up a hill to a tree. Each member of the gang taking off his belt and form- ing a noose, Plummer was strung up to a tree, but after he lost conscious- ness the belts pulled apart and the vic- tim dropped to the ground, Constable Wagus states. Plummer revived as his assailants fled. 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