Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1925, Page 2

WHEELER LAUNGHED ON NEW VOCATION “Dodging Indictments” Now His Life Work, Mild-Manner- ed Senator Says. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. When Gaston B. Means was appear- ing almost daily at the Wheeler in- vestigation into the conduct of the Department of Justice, he testified that his chief occupation in life w facing indictments. Senator Wheeler joined in the general laughter. To- day this same Senator, Burton K Wheeler, of Montana, declared that it looked as if answering indictments would be his avocation, if not his life’s vocation, for the Department of Justice is on its prowl and Senator Wheeler is the prey it wants to bas Washington is withholding its judgment in the various cases brought against Senator Wheeler, for there is an atmosphere or background of p sible political prejudice which his friends have beon prompt to seize upon and exploit. It is felt here that| trial by jury, first in Montana and later in the District of Columbia, will settle the issue once and for all and place the blame where it belongs. The left-over friends of Harry Daugherty in the Capiial, and he still has a few, were jubilant today, de- claring that now two succeeding At- torney Generals of the United States have passed upon the Wheeler case and have permitted indictments to be brought Is Mi¥d-Mannred Man. Meantime the people of the country are asking what manner of man is Senator Wheeler. For one who has been accused of so many high crimes and misdemeanors, including the in- formal charge of being a sort of “parlor pink” at heart, he is a very mild sort of person—in manner all of the time, and in speech when not on the stump. Tall, somewhat angular, clean shaven, rather rugged of featurs and with a jaw that is square when he faces you but softens on side view, Senator Wheeler is more or less typi- cal of the man born in Massachusetts but adopted by the West—If there is such a type. He Is genlal in com- panionship, and perhaps that is why when he came back from the political | wars of last year, the Democrats in. the Senate just grinned at his discomfiture and made no move to oust him from the party conferences. Wheeler's chief in the campaign, Battling Bob| La Follette, was thrown neck and | crop out of the Republican counsels he had graced for so many years, but not a single Democrat said “boo” to Senator Wheeler. Maybe it was be- cause Wheeler is not the same sort of | fighter as La Follette, is not so much | be feared on the flioor or in com- mittees, has not the popular follow- ing. And, anyway, Senator Wheeler claimed that for everything but vice | presidential purposes he was still a Democrats all through the campaign, | supporting his colleague, Senator Tom Walsh, for re-election out in Mon- tana. Accused of “Red” Leanings. Senator Wheeler always has been con- sidered something of a bear on evi- | dence and indictments and all those sort of things. For five vears he served as United States District At- torney in Montana under appoint- ment by President Wilson. His poli- tical enemies always have claimed that as a prosecuting attorney he was too lenfent on the “reds,” or near- reads, or alleged reds. He had owned up to being a sort of radical even| before he accepted second place on the La Follette ticket. Few Senators ever have had such a rapid flight as Wheeler. He had not been in .the Senmate two years when the famous Daugherty jnvesti- gation started, with Wheeler; gcting as prosecuting” member of the coni- mittee presided over by ‘Senator Brookhart. That committee went far and wide. Frank Vanderlip supplied it with needed money to conduct its far-flung investigations. But gruff as | he was with witnesses on the stand, | Senator Wheeler will never be known to his friends as “Battling Burton.” He is altogether too mild mannered for that. And he loves golf. FREEDOM OF DANCER WON BY GOLF STICKS British Officer Tells of Fight With' Armed Natives to Save Nautch Girl. By the Associated Prees. BOMBAY, March 28.—A graphic atory told in court’ today of a desperate fight on Malabar Hill on January 12 in which four British of- ficers armed only with golf clubs routed nine alleged kidnapers equip- ped with knives and pistols, and res- cued Mumtaz Begum, the young In- dian dancing. girl, who since has be- come famous as the former favorite of the powerful Maharaja of-Indore, from whom she is said to have run away. Mumtaz was rescued from kidnap- ers, but not before -a wealthy - Indian merchant with whom she was motor ing was killed. Lieut. Batley of the Gurha Rifles testified that with three brother officers he was motoring back to Bomba from his golf club when they encountered the armed party attempting to abduct: Mumtaz from the motor car. The four British of- flcers ran to the rescue and & flerce conflict followed in Which the natives used their knives and revolvers, while the ofiicers depended upon their phys- jcal strength and theri-dexterity in wielding their heavy-headed . golf clubs. Lieut. Batley attempted to . relate the story with modesty, But the facts | spoke for themselyes and were lis-| tened to in tense silence. Heads were cracked as the golf clubs drove against native skulls, hand-to-hand bouts were staged, and by quickness and much luck the British officers es- caped death from native knives and guns. Mumtaz was the center of the weird melee, from which she finally escaped to the officers’ automobile after her beautiful face was marred by a deep knife wound. W Ships Damaged in Crash. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 2 The British steamer Lady Breuda, in- ward bound with sugar from Cuba, was today in collision with the steamer Sabine Sun, outward bound in ballast for Sabine, Tex., ¢ Four- teen Fathom Bank, in Delaware Bay near the Delaware Capes. Both ves- sels were slightly damaged. The Sabine Sun proceeded out to sea. The Lady Brenda anchored off Marcus Hook. Preacher 80 Inches Tall. NEWARK, N. J, March 28—A giant of Methodism will be ordained next Sunday. The Newark Methodist Eplscopal Conference today approved the ‘qualifications of Noel. Palmer of FOLKS—MEET Speaker Longworth holding the market basket which contains, among other things, the already famous Pau- lina Longworth. The other picture gives a more intimate view of the baby. (Nat TWO LISTS SEIZED BY LIQUOR RAIDERS One Found in Sixteenth Street Apartment May Fur- nish Important Evidence. nal Photo.) hionable Sixteenth street canie the scene of operations of dry raiders today, when Capt. Doyle of the- eighth precinct and Prohibition Agent Asher, accompanied by police 2nd other agents, raided the apart- ment of Chris Evans, at 1915 Six- teenth street. They failed to find Evans at home, but confiscated about a dozen bottles of alleged sherry wine, & quantity of gin and alcohol, and discovered two The first list contained names which. could not be identified immediately and was evidently a list of debtors, the debts exceeding $5,000. The sec- ond list furnished the raiders some- thing to puzzle over. They believe the figures refer to money, but the doller sign was missing. If correct in, their deductions, Asher declared, it was felt that evidence of impors tance wus discovered This second list was as follows: “Malts. : 500 cases pieked malt, 35, “Carload ‘Old Dependable, “Independent Cork, 3,000. “Flavors, 12,000, ubing, 500. 000 00" ? Cider Is Seized. This was “hard cider day" in the second and _eighth precincts, where Asher and police, prior to the Sixteenth street foray, conducted seven raids, | which netted eight arrests and the seiz- | ure of apprximately 120 gallons of the | alleged aleohalic apple Jjuice. | Arrest Samuel Markowitz at | his near beer establishment, 1327 Seventh street, on charges of illegal possession of 50 gallons of hard cider and three illegal sales of the same | product; arrest of Isaac Jacobs, at| 1139 Seventh street, charged with six sales of alleged hard cider, and arrest of Irving Eisenberg, at 1125 Seventh street, charged with illegal posses- sion and six sales. Woman Taken Iil. Policemen Barbee, Bremmerman and | Salkeld participated in the second pre- | cinct raid at Jacobs’ place. Mrs. Jacobs was takn severely ill from the excitement. She recovered before the raids had been completed. | The elghth precinct raids, in which | Capt. Doyle, Lieut. Sullivan and Po- | licemen Tramell and Smith partici- pated, resulted as follows: Arrest of Benjamin Acker of 709 | Florida avenue, charged with sale and possession of hard cider; at the,same address, James Drake, colored, an em- ploye of Acker, of 419 O street, was arrested on the same charges; arrest of Fred D. Church, colored; at 792 Ber- ry place, on charges of illegal posses- ion: of hard cider, and the arrest of | David Kaplan of 1834 Seventh street | 00. 4,000, las; “Still: sale of hard cider. Berth Wertlab was arrested at her delicatessen store, 1766 Florida ave-| nue, charged with illegal possession of 20 gallons of alleged hard cider | and about 3 pints of alleged whisky, the intoxicants being found, accord- ing to police, behind wainscoting in the walls. Corn Liquor Siemed. While Asher and = others were staging raids in the northwest sec- ion Policemen Helmuth and Ogle of the fourth precinct were making a haul of 78 gallons’ of corn whisky in South Washington. They were strolling through an alley near First and K streets when they-noticed two colored men, each carrying a carton on_his shoulder. Sight of the policemen was all the signal the men needed to suggest a flight, and, dropping their cartons, they ran to the mouth of the alley. Helmuth and Ogle cornered them in a yard and arrested them. They re-| turned to the alley and took posses- slon of the cartons, éach containing’ a dozen half-gallon jars of liquor. Sixty-six more gallons were re- covered from a shed. The prisoners were booked at the police station as Napoleon Moore, 22, 1005 First street, and Clarence Woods, 24, 336 H street. They were charged with illegal pos- session and transporting. —_— Seek Woman Bank Thieves. GRENADA, Miss, March 28.—Two Indian women, thought to be members of the Cherokee tribe, are being sought for the robbery yesterday of a bank at Duckhill, near here. It is | alleged that one of the women took $700 from the cashier's desk while the other engaged the banker in con- versation. The women escaped dn an automobile. Spanish Premier Bars Assembly. MADRID, March 28.—Premier Primo de Rivera is declared by La Epoca to have refused a request from Count Romanones for permission to convoké a Liberal party assembly. The pre- Lake Hopatcong, who is an Oxford sraduate, six feet eight inches tall. He was formerly a lieutenant in the British army. ! % mier is quoted as stating that his. action would serve as a precedent in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, MISS PAULINA COUZENS DECLARES MELLON I WRONG Denies Other Ford Stock- holders Had Waived Dis- puted Tax Matters. Senator Couzens, Republican, Michigan, in announcing yesterd: that he had filed a claim for abate- ment of an additional tax of $10,909, 598.08, assessed against him in cpn- nection with the sale of his minonity stock holdings in the Ford Motor Co., characterized as absolutely un- true a statement credited in press re- ports to Secretary Mellon that walvers had already been obtaimed from other minority stockholders. Senator Couzens said he did not charge that Mr. Mellon knew this to be an untrue statement. “But L do know,” he continued “that Commis- sioner Blair said on March 7 they had no waivers from the other minority stockholders except the Dodge Brothers, and this was a waiver of all disputed matters. “This I think important as indi- cating that no consideration hud been given to this subject up te March 7, because, in fact, I am informed by the minority stockholders that they had not been asked for a waiver. Tells of Memorandum. “Further, Mr. Mellon is quoted on March 10 as saying, ‘Last week the Treasury received by mail from a responsible person a memorandum, copy of which s attached, from which it appeared that the valuation of Ford stock used by the minority stockholders who sold out to Mr. Ford in 1913 was not correct und that ad- ditional tax was due from these stockholders.” I do not charge that the Treasury Department did not re- celve the memorandum at the time stated by Mr. Mellon, but I do want to charge, and charge most emphati- cally, that they also received sub- stantially the same memorandum about the middle of 1922, and that said memorandum was prepared by a man by the name of Thompson; and that, further, Mr. Blair, commissioner lon charges of illegal possession and |Of internal revenue, saw it in 1922. I also wish to pomt out that no ac- tion was taken at that time,.and that action was not taken until March 7, 1925. or two or three days after the information secured by the commit- tee investigating the Internal Rev- enue Bureau had been presented to the Senate and thereafter became pubHle. Questions Late Action. “No denial has been made by the Treasury of the statement I made in the Senate, and In view of this it is quite proper to believe that the state- ments are correct, even :though Mr. Mellon himself may not have known of these facts. I do not charge Mr. Mellon did know of them, because I do not know. However, why was this information in the Treasury De- partment nearly two .and one-half years—in fact, months before 1 be- came Senator—and not acted upon un- til March 17, 1925, a few days after the committee’s report was filed? Mr. Winston, Assistant Secretary, perhaps can tell, and if so, he should.” MRS. LAURA HARING DIES. Widow of Alexandria Man Suc- cumbs in Home Here. Mrs. Laura Biscoe Haring, widow of John T. Haring of Alexandria, Va., and a resident of this city for the last 14 years, died at her residence, 1492 Newton street, early today, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Haring was formerly Mrs. Laura B. Jones of Leonardtown, Md. She is survived by six children, Al- bert S. Jones of Kinsale, Va.; Harry M. and Milton W. Jones of Leonard- town, Md.; Mrs. Fletcher G. Watson of Pomona, Calif.; Mrs. A. Edgar Spielman and Mrs. J. Ezra Troth of this city, and two sisters, Mrs. Wil- liam H. Proctor and Mrs. David Proc- tor, both living in Washington. Funeral services will be conducted at the reridenae Monday morning at 11 o'clock. Interment will be in Leonardtown, Md., Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. More than twenty-five thousand dealing with any similar requests in the future, women -are employed in the United States postal services o 1 1 {FORD CO. SU Pin Swallowed. By Baby Passes Stomach. Safely By the Assoclated Press, DETROIT, Mich, March 28,—The pagsage of a scarfpin through the. body of a 23-year-old child is. be~ ing watched by receiving hospital physiclans using a fluoroscope, an instrument that will show foreign objects and substances in the body. The boy, Lawrence George, swal- lowed the pin February 25, “When we X-rayed the child next sald Dr. hewis Gerapy, chief surgeon at the hospital, today, “we located the pin in the stomach. We have been watching the movement of the pin twice dally through the fluoroscope. “The pin passed gradually from the throat to the stomach. Then it went through the upper intes- tine, and it now is in. the lower intestine. The. child is out ofdan- ger, and we are hoping that the pin’ will be eliminated naturally.” FEDERAL WORKERS COUNGIL ADIOURNS Steward Instructed to Lay Program Before Congress Committees. legislative. program, Luther C. Steward, Completing its and instructing president of the federation, to- interview | chairmen of the Senate and House. com- mittees on civil service as oon as pos- sible, the executive councll meeting of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes adjourned today after outlining a complete plan for standardization of working conditions in the Government employ, recommending & pereonnel man- ager for the Government and urging transfer of the administration of classi- fication from the Personnel Classifica- tion Bureau to the Civil Service Com- mission, Mr. Steward will talk with Senator Couzens and Representative Lehlbach, the chairmen of the two civil eervice committees in Congress, as soon as he into shape the material outlined g the four-day council meeting. ‘While the ceuncil took no action on the matter, it developed today that a considerable part of the sessions were devoted to discussion of a pro- posed interdepartmental ruling favor- ing an increased and standardized ex- pense account system for Government employes, MeCarl Ruling Clted. The discussion arose When mem- bers of the council called attention to a recent ruling by Cotroller General McCanl, in which he laid down the principle that Government employes may not go outside the set rules of Drecedure in their expense accounts, while traveling. The decision Was re- troactive, even back a number of s, the council was informed, and many Government employes are now faced with the prospect of paying back to the Government money in- curred in traveling expenses approved several years ago by thelr superior, but not found by the controller gen- eral to be outside the, regulations prescribed for traveling expenses. ° Government empioyes who travel on the “niggardly allowance” of 34 a day. a figure based on pre-war prices, Mr Steward told the council, are lterally torn between the desire to do their duty and the impossibility of traveling orf the small expense account allowed by the Government without spending their own money. Human Eloment Ignored. “If the employe exceeds the travel allowance, he is violating the law, and if he declines to go out on a job and spend his own money, he is guiity of insubordination,” Mr. Steward said “No other employer would disregard the human element and abide by the set rules of procedure in case where the employe frequently has to pay traveling expenses out of his own pocket. Referring to the statement of the Clvil Service Commiseion yesterday, favoring establishment of a Govern- ment pefsonnel bureau, Mr. Steward said when the council two days ago suggested a personnel manager for the Government, it favored the gen- eral plan of such management and wished only to see administration of personnel matters placed in the hands | of a competent bureau or manager. Discussion of further standardiza- tion of conditions in the field service of the Government concluded the work of the council. RPLUS GAINS $100,400,000 Statement of Condition Shows Huge Increase in 1924; Total Excess $542,476.496. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 28.—An increase of more than $100,400,000 in the surplus of the Ford Motor Company in the year ending this month is shown in a statement of condition flled by the company with the secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The statement places the present surplus at $542,476,496.39, as against $442,- 041,081.12 in March, 1924. The total assets show an increase of $76,522,828, the ngures jumplng from $568,101,639 In March, 1924, to $644,624,463 as of this month. Capital stock remains the same at $17,264,500, as does the good-will fig- ure, $20,517,985. The company still hds no notes pavable and the figures for the funded debt remain the same, $145,000. The total capital stock au- thorized stands the same, at $100,000,- 000, consisting of 1,000,600 shares of common, each with a par value of $100. The number of shares out- standing Is 172,645 and the total amount pald in thereon fs $17,264,500. CROATS YIELD POINT. Peasant Party Accepts Kara- Georgevitch Dynasty Domination. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, March 28. —Paul Raditch, vice president of the Croat peasant party and nephew of the opposition leader, Stefan Raditch, announced in the Chamber, of Depu- ties yesterday that the Croat peasant party .accepted the constitution and the Kara-Georgevitch dynasty. Deputy Chouperine’ of the same party has declared that Republican propaganda in Jugoslavia was out of place. 1t now is expected that treason pro- ceedings against Stefan Raditch will be dropped. Haitian Killed in Clash. D. C, SATURDAY, Sees Imagination: OfU.S. gaught by Oratory Coniest Senator Curtis Says Event, Is Bringing Study of Constitution. ““The National Oratorical Contest on the Constitution is a splendid project and well worthy of repetition,” says Senator Curtis of Kansas. “We need Just such a widespread and intensive study of our in- stitutions. ~ The fact that it is be- ing conducted by such & strong group of newspa pers will add greatly to its ef- fectiveness, “In the past we have had numer- ous smaller efforts in this . general direction. ‘While many of them did good, they falled to catch the im- agination of the country as. this SENATOR CURTIS, project has done. Part of the suc cess of the National Oratorical Con- test can be attributed to the gigantic scope of the movement, reaching as it does from ocean to ocean. “However, what sets the contest apart from all others of the same] general type is that it is the most ambitious co-operative patriotic edu- cational program in which the press has ever engaged. “It represents a splendid working program of newspapers and schools. In this work the newspapers are making vouthful patriotism vocal- and are magnifying the effect of the movement by giving it adequate and !su!llll\ed publicity.” BANK DEALS AIRED IN ENGLISH PROBE Witnesses Say Judge Used Bankruptey Funds to Aid Son. By the Associatod Prese., ST. LOUIS, March 28.—Testimony that Federal Judge English offered to place funds of bankrupcies in two banks to further the interests of his son, Faris, and that such funds were placed in two | other banks in which the judge was | Interested, was heard vesterday be- | fore the House judiclary subcommit- ee of seven investigating the offi- Cial acts of the jurist to determine | whether his impeachment shall be | recommended to Congress. | The committee wiil meet tomorrow |in East St. Louis, I, to examine | bakruptey records in the office of | the Federal district clerk. Judge English wanted his son Faris to have a remunerative position in the Union Trust Co. of East St. Louis, { and to obtain the place for him, men- tioned “bankruptey accounts and | things of that kind, which we can make it of advantage,” testified Ed- ward Eckerman, bond salesman and deposit solicitor for the Union Trust. Contract Introduced. That Farls be made cashier of the Drovers' National Bank of East St Louis was provided in a contract for the purchase of 600 shares of that bank’s stock intreduced in evidenc In a letter abrogating that contract, also put into the record, C. D. Thomas, former referee in bankruptcy under Judge English stated that in negotia- ting the contract he was interesting his friends to “accommodete Judge English _and myself, and the judge and all friends were depending abso- lutely on me to see that they did not get in wrong * * ¢ e e It was brought out that the con- tract resulted in Thomas buying 40 shares of Drovers' tional stock, | Faris English, 10, and 10 shares being purchased for Judge English. Whether Judge English knew of the purchase for his account, directed it, or permitted it, were points his defense fought for, although P. R. Karaker, receiver for the now defunct Drovers' National Bank, later testified he had not sued Judge English on a 100 per cent assessment against stockholders because the judge had paid the assessment. Judge English told him Thomas bought the stock in his name, said Karaker. William M. Acton of Judge English's defense, objected to state- ments that the judge had ratified ownership of the stock. Attorney Testifies. P. K. Johnson, a Belleville, 111, at- torney, told the committee that Judge English directed that $400,000 of the funds of the Southern Traction Com- pany, which was in process of liqui- dation through action brought in Judge English's Pederal court, be placed in the Belleville Savings Bank at 4% per cent interest. Instead $300,000 was so placed and $100,000 was put in the Merchants' State Bank without interest pay- ments, Johnson testified. K After Faris English left the Drov- ers Natlonal Bank to work for the rival bank, the Union Trust Company, testified H. R. Dooley, former presi- dent of the Drovers, bankruptey d posits there dwindled from approxi- mately $100,000 to $28,000. Except for the defense's contention that the case had not reached the actual bankruptcy stage when Thomas participated in it, another accusation against Judge English, that he permitted his referee in bankruptey to practice law, virtually ‘was disposed of today. The judge's defense admitted that Thomas appeared for the Hawkins Mortgage Company when Judge Eng- lish sat instead of Judge Anderson in a step of the case at Indianapolis. It was contended the case was then not one of bankruptey, but rather the Hawkins Company was seeking an injunction te prevent dissipation of funds of various State receiverships. MRS. K. E. EICHNER DIES. Active Church Worker Succumbs After Lingering Illness. Mrs. Katherine B. Eichner, active church worker and a resident of this city for the last 14 years, died at her MARCH | the Geneva protocol was dead. 28, 1925. SHERRIL 10 TAKE UPSTOGKING BASIY Fears Funds Are Not ‘Avail aple to Place Nets to Keep Fish From Escaping. Further steps looking toward stock- Ing the Tidal Basin with edible. fish will be taken'thls afternoon, when G, C. Leach will discuss the matter. with Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, officer. in charge of public buildings and public parks of tha Natlonal Capltal, who has superviston over the Tidal Basin Col. Sherrill is quite in favor of/the proposal to stock the Tidal Basin with these fish, which is made pos- sibla at this time hecause, of the removal of the bathing beaches and the consequent stopping of the chlonination of the waters there. He is having the matter of financ- ing looked into to'ascertaln whether there are sufficlent funds with which to construct necessary nets to ‘pre- vent the fish from getting info. the Potomac River and, Washingten Hare bor when the flood gates are apenad: to allow the water to flow in or out of the basin, He s fully cognizant of the necessity of acting promptly |‘n urder that the fish may be put |in by the Bureau of Fisheries before the, usual spawning season, However, 50 far as he has been able to find, there are no funds available at this time with which to build the neces- sary nets, which involve an engineer- ing problem. He estimates offhand that it will take approximately $1,000 to build these nets, according to pre- liminary plans diseussed with him by engineers of his office. However, Col, Sherrill let it be known that he fs quite anxious to do everything within his power to in- rease the park facilities of tha Di trict of Columbia, and particularly in this case to provide sport for the anglers. W. C. Leach is having prepared for ol. Sherrill a model “automatic fish stop,” which he claims will be all that is necessary to stop the fish from leaving the Basin, and which he says, can be placed Inside the flood Rates at a very small expenditure, i much less than the estimate given Col. Sherrill by the Army engineers. MUSSOLINIPLEDG ITALY T0 AID PEA Declares Nation Will Be Front Rank of Those Working for Amity. in Byithe Associatod Press, ROME, March 28 —Premier Mus- solfni yesterday, in the upper cham- ber of Parliament, made his first speach since his iliness. He said Italy was in the front ranks in the nego- tiations In progress between the Eu- ropean chancelleries for the promo- tion of security and peace mew that He characterized the protocol as a docu- ment which, although intended to promwte peace, really would bave meand preparing for war. Sigmor Mussolinl stigmatized recent “deplorable reports about catas trophic conditions in Italy.” Most of these reports were circulated by “rencgnde Italians who, baving in- vented for me illness which never existed, now are quite capable of in venting the story that I never was ill at all” The premier concluded by saving: T feel that I am now—as I alway: have been and always will be—the devoted servant of the nation.” The premier described the present political situation as “extraordinarily interesting.” and declared: “At Geneva a first, or rather third, class funeral was held over the League of Nations' protocol, which 1 had considered a marvelous ma- chinery designed to unchain universal war in ordew to attain peace. This is not the first time that the pacifists have shown themselves to be the in- stigators of war. “After having buried the protocol with a flower and a tear, in the words of Austen Chamberlain, all the prob- lems of security and European peace are again on the table, and Italy has already assumed a sure and precise course.” e |4-YEAR PRISON TERM | FOR VICIOUS ASSAULT Court Sentences Colored Man for Attacking Storekeeper He Had Robbed. William Martin, colored, was sen- tenced today by Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Division 2 to serve four years in the penitentiary. The court told Martin he was “lucky not to be on trial for murder.” Martin pleaded guilty to an indictment charging bim with robbery and assault on Aaron Aronstein, a storekeeper, November 24 last. The accused attacked Aron- stein with a hatchet and wrench after taking $10 from him and rifling the store. 4 Grant Lee, colored, indicted on two cases of housebreaking, was given one year in each case at Occoquan. The terms are to run consecutively. Oscar Rossger, white, will serve one year at OQccoquan, having received twa terms of six months each, to run censecutively. He was charged with forgery and housebreaking. Probation for one year was extend- od Sherman W. Barlew, white, and Preston A. Whiteside, colored. Work- ing_together, the two men are said to have appropriated 100 pounds of white lead, worth 15 cents per peund. -Long Career Ends BRIG. GEN. FRANK H. PHIPPS, BRIG. GEN. PHIPPS U. 5. NAVY OFFIGERS BOOKED FOR TRIAL Court-Martial to-Probe Dis- covery of Liquor Aboard Transport When-Raided. veral officers attached' to tho Jnited States naval traneport Beau- fort, February 24, when she wa raided upon her arrival at Nerfolk and liquor found aboard, will face = court-martial, agcording to Secretary Wilbur of the Navy Department. The papers now are being prepared a the Navy Department. Although Sec- retary Wilbur would not make pub- lic the names of the officers who will face the court, it was indicated that there will be five or six. Rald Made by Marines. The raid on the Beaufort wag con- ducted by a marine detachment un- der orders of the commandant of the naval district, and, it was reported to the Navy Department at the ‘approximately 40 cases of assorted intoxicating liquors were found or board and seized.” At Norfolk the liquor was said to have been found in staterooms of variou Mc ranging in rank fron y clerks lieutenants. Comdr. /. Fuller time, LAIMED BY DEATH etired Ordnance Officer, 81 Years 0ld, Dies of Linger- ing lliness. Brig. Gen, Frank H. PRipps, U, S. A, retired, veteran of the Civil War, with a4 long and enviable record in the United States Army, died at his resi dence in the Parkwood apartments, 1746 K street, early today after a 1i goring iliness, Gen. Phipps, who was 81 years old, had lived in this city for the last four years and was a member of the Army and Navy Club here. Gen. Phipps was born in Northamp- ton, Mass., August 9, 1843, and was a descendant of an oid and prominent New England family He was appointed to West Point in 1859 at the age of 16; was graduated and promoted to first licutenant of ordnance June 11, 1863 Later he served as an assistant ordnance ficer at Fort Monroe, Va time of the war between the North and South. Later he was transferred to St. Louis arsenal, where he re- mained until January 8, 1865, From January 10 of that year to July he served as chief of ordnance of the Department of the Missis- sippi, his command embracing the ordnance depots from Columbus, K to Natches, Miss, For meritorious and faithful ice he was brevetted a captain 13, | serv- March | sistant ordnance officer at Louis Arsenal. He was later cn de- tached service with Gen. Pupe, and after being stationed for awhile at the Watertown Arsenal in Massa- chusetts was stationed at the arsenal at Washington until 1871, except for a short while, in which he was in command of the arsemal at Au- | gusta, Ga. the Served in Many Arsenals. He was promoted as a captain ordnance in 1574 and in 1375 was made chief ordnance officer of the Department of the Gulf. Subsequent- ly he served as chief ordnance officer of the Department of Texas and com- manded the San Antonio Arsenal Gen. Phipps also served at various other arsenals and became chief ord- nance officer of the Department of Missouri and a member of the staff of Gen, Miles and served in command of the New York Arsenal at Govern- ors Island, N. Y. In May, 1894, he was a member of tions, and finally he was in command {of the Springfield Armory from 1599 untit his retirement in 1907, during which time the present Springfield rifle was manufactured and perfected Prior to his retirement he had reached the grade of colonel, and was placed on the retired list with the rank of brigadier general. Rites at Fort Myer. Gen. Phipps’ first wife was Miss Louisa De Hart Patterson of St. Louis. Later he was married to Miss Anna Lally, who survives him, and who is the daughter of Maj. Folliott Thorn- ton Lally, who rengered distinguished service in the Mexlcan War. Mrs. Phipps’ mother was Mrs, Ellen Evan. Senater George Jovans, who was a co- temporary of Webster and Clay. Besides his widow, Gen. Phipps i survived by two sons, Henry Patter- son Phipps and Maj. Frank Hunting- ton Phipps of the Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A, and a daughter, Miss Anita Evans Phipps. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 o'clock, and interment will be in Arlington Cemetery. BAKERHELPERS ASK Base Pay Now Is $3.50—Re- jection of Demand Is De- clared Likely. A new wage scale calling for an increase of 31 a day in the pay of bakers' helpers has been submitted |to the employing bakers of the Dis- triet by C. A. Kann, business agent of the Bakers' and Confectioners’ Union, Loeal 118, it was learned to- day. The rate of pay for the journey- men bakers, it is understood, has not been changed in the new schedule, which is recommended to become ef- fective at the expiration of the pres- e H. C. ENGLAND DIES. Retired Maryland Farmer Expires in Hospital Here. residence, 630 Lexington place north- east, yesterday after a lingering ill- ness. Mrs. Eichner was a native of Balti- more. She is survived by four sons, William H. Lester, Herbert C. and Clarence L. Bichner, all of this city, and a brother, Willlam H. Schaefer of Baltimore. Mrs. Eichner was a member of the Keller Memorial Lutheran Church. Funeral services will be conducted at her late residence Monday. after- noon at 12:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Western Cemetery, Baltimore, Monday afternoon. HAVANA, Cuba, March 28.—One Haitian was killed and two soldiers wounded in-a clash between workers and rural guards yesterday at Las| Mulas, near Jatibonico. At the inte. rior department here it was said that the guards arrested 12 men on a charge of playing forbidden games and creating a dlitur Sweden Files Pact With U. §. GENEVA, March 28.—Sweden ha; deposited With the secretariat of the League of’ Nations for registration and- publicktion the arbitration con- vention wifh the United States signed! at Howard C. England, 66 years old, a retired Maryland farmer, died at the Homeopathic Hospital yesterday. He had gone to the hospital to under- g0 an operation but physicians de- cided against it. Mr. England is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Gorton C. Hinckley, Mrs. Willlam G. England, Mrs. Lucille Smith and Mrs. T. W. Higgins: Howard H. England, manager for the ‘Washington Rapid Transit Company and Bernard England; a brother, Wil- liam G. England, sh., all of this eity, and twe sisters, Miss Mary England ]‘:: Mrs. Lilly Steele of Mount Airy, Funeral services will be conducted at the residence of the daughter, Mrs. Hinckley, 814 Buchanan morrow morning at 10 o'clock. terment will be in Waterville, Md. —_— Wrestling 18 believed te bhe the oldest competitive sport, ent wage agreement, on May 1. Under the present scale the bakers’ helpers are receiving $3.50 a day, with a 10 per cent increase for night work. The journeymen are paid $1 an hour for day work' and $1.10 an hour for night work. Conference Is Planned. A conference will be held between representatives of the employing bakers and the union officials in the near future, Mr. Kann said, to dis- cuss the new wage agreement. Although the employers have not yet indicated what action they will take, it was pointed out by am offi- clal of one of Washington's large bakeries today that they likely ‘would oppose any increase in the pay for bakers or helpers at this time. According to this official, it is cost- ing the bakers more to produce bread and other wheat-flour productions than last year, when the prevailing wage agreement was put into effect. Flour alone, he sald, is bringing from 33 te §4.50 more a barrel than last year. — The British Mission to Lepers So- ciety has just completed 50 years of relisf work in China, India and other Aslatie m-‘}q 1865, and later served as an as- | st | the Board of Ordnance and Fortifica- | Lally, a_daughter of forher| at Fort Myer Chapel Monday movning | 51 DALY INGREASE ng had wand of the transport sequently exonerated as ha no knowledge of preser liquor on board Held Vlegal Under Dry Law. Under | the the prohibit bring liquor and under nto pt to N egulat wat In ases made by Navy court-martia) stood tr Yy a perm liquor 1 ay be k wh the officers the tria although Federal under Navy court inqu immediately after conducted extensive who appeared before | wers Comdr. D, W. Fuller, Lie | D. Hill, Lieut. F. M. Rohow {C. W. Baker, Machinist F. Al dricks, Chief Pay Clerk J. P. gher and Chief Pharmasist's Kelf. CITY TO SET OUT TREES NEXT WEEK Annual was ca rajd and Thos: time hearings. t at that Her during the | Lining of Streets in Various Sections to Be Started. | Following the example set by & dreds of its citizens in getting | the ade and hoe to greet the arrival lot Spring. the City of Washington will |begin doing a little shrubbery and seed pl g itself next week, Under Lanh: | park Clifford ees and will start he supervision superintendent gangs of workmen k lining scores of streets and avenues with v s kinds of |trees. No partiality will be shown an | particular va of tree the lis | includes orway maples, lindens and sycamores elms, pin Streets Amnounced. The streets to be Northwest—Ohio Thirteenth: Kennedy to Rock Creek Park to New Hamps Third to Fourth; aven to Séventh Alli Allison th, F to I X decorated follow Twelfth place, Sixteenth Webster, Fourth avenue; Webster Webster, Illinols We cond avenue to Sev Thi to nth Jefte corgia avenue; Princeton, W TEia avenue: Princ Hampshire avenue Church road; Otis, Park rder; Wyoming avenue |third to Twenty-fourth; Wvyoming Twenty-fourth to Kalorama 1 Twenty-fourth, Tracy p! Twenty-fourth, Cali place; Tracy place, Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fourth to Kalorama road: Kalorama road, ) place to W; Cleveland avenue Cathedral avenue Thirty-fourth: Irving, Warder to Georgia av Forty-second, Nebraska avenue Van Ness; Van Ness, Nebr. Forty-third; Yuma, Thirty-c | Thirty-ninth; Warder, Quebe | Creek Church road: Webste | to Elgnth; Woodley place Woodley road; Woodley | ticut avenue to Twenty | versity place, Euclid Taylc eventh to | Twenty-ninth - t, | Sherman avenue, Shepherd, Fifth road, Holmead dolph, New | i | | nth to to Rock Seventh vert to Connec- 1 eventh to F. Eighth; Connecticut Irving to_Seventh to Fourteenth Hampshire avenue to | Georgia avenue; Rock Cr Charch road, Warder to Georgla avenue and { Park place to Warder: Sherman ave nue, Second to Third; Upshur, Fourth | to Ilinois avenue. Northeast lden Kenvon: Spring Ran to Sectlon. ortheast—D, Thir#kenth to Ten- | nessee avenue; Minnesota, Quarles to | Eastern avenue; Pwenty-sixth, Franklin to Hamlin; Michigan aver Twelfth to epherd; Twenty-sixt, Hamlin to Irving: Twelfth, Michigan avenue te Shepherd: Tennessee, D to | Fourteenth and Fourteenth 1p X; Fourteenth, D"to Tennessee avenue and Tennessee avenue to E Faur- teenth to Tennessee avenue. Southeast. ast Capitol, Fifteenth to Eighteenth: Sixteenth, East Cap- itol to A and D to E; Potomac avenue, Kentucky to Sixteenth; Eighteenth, { BEast Capitol to A; A, Fifteenth to Sixteengh; Massachusetts, Fifteenth | to Sixteenth and B to South Carolina javenue; Kentucky avenue, G to H; { Thirteenth, K to L and Potoma¢ to K: Potomac avenue, Twelfth (o Thirteenth. SPEAKERS AT MEMORIAL 70 DR. BARRETT NAMED ‘A memorial service for the late Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, who at the t of -her death was national preside of the Florence Crittenton Founda- tion, will be held in the Church of the Epiphany, under the auspices of the board of managers of the lacal Flor ence Crittenton Home, tomorrow aft- ernoon at 3 o'clock. Addresses are to be delivered at the services by Rev Samuel A. Wallls, Senator - Carter Glass of Virginia and Dr. Howard Kelly of Baltimore, all long personal friends of Dr. Barrett. Mrs. A. B. McManus is chalrman and in charge of the program, wit Mrs, John Boyle, jr.; Mrs. John Ha Wood and Mrs. W. H. Howard on the committee. Rev. Z. B. Phillips ector of the Church of the Epiphany. i1l preside, assisted by Rev. Percy Foster Hall of Alexandria, Va. Spe- cial music will be rendered by the uartet Chl‘;;.cunm. who died at her home in Alexandrip February 23, besides being national president of the Florencs Crit- tenton Foundation, had served on sev. eral missions for the United States Gay- ernment in Europe, and was a member of the Commission on Training Camp Activities during the World War. Dr. Barrett had also at various times served as president of the National Council of Women. national chairman of the National Congress of Mothers and -Parent-Teacher Association and a delegate to the peace conference at Zurich in 1919, and had held other posi- tions which brought her international » preminence, ¥