Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Prob- ably light rain tomorrow afternoon or night. Lowest temperature about 36 degrees. Temperature—Highest, 46, at The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news 4:30 p.m. y am. today. F terda; il report on page lowest, 35, at 8 #Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 @b No. 380,276. [iifomle “Wa Entered as second class matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, WEDNESDAY, ¢ Foening Star. MARCH 23, 1927—FOR TY-TWO PAGES. ¥ service. Yesterday's Circulation, 104,501 TWO CENTS. () Means Associated Press. . MRS, HOUCK'S BODY 1S FOUND IN RIVER; HUSBAND ORDERED SHZED IN OREGON Long Missing Wife of Capital Psychiatrist Identified by Cards in Pockethook Still Fastened to Her Arm. DISCOVERED FLOATING | NEAR ANACOSTIA BRIDGE| Authorities in La Crosse In-l structed to Apprehend Physician There—Wife Vanished Last De- cember After Violent Quarrel With St. Elizabeth’s Doctor. Mrs. Gladys Walter Houck's hody; has been found The long search for the wife of Dr. Knutt Houck, former St. Elizabeth’s Hospital psychiatrist, who disap- peared from her Congress Heights home last December following a vio- lent quarrel with her husband, ended shortly before noon today in the waters of the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River, almost directly be- low the Anacostia Bridge. Policeman L. C. Thorne, who every | day since the mystery came to light | has watched the river as he crossed the bridge going to and from the eleventh precinct station, saw an ob- ject floating on the water today.| Less than hali an hour later, as-| sisted by four seamen from the Navy Yard, he had recovered the body of the long-sought Mrs. Houck. Body Is Identified. Identification was first _established by some cards found in the woman's | pocketbook, which some strange work- ing ‘of fate had preserved from de- struction by its long submersion, and | remained tightly clutched in her | grasp. It was later made definite by the- inscription within her wedding ring, engraved there the day she married Dr. Houck—'K. H. H. to Gladys.” % lately after these facts were established, Capt. Walter E. Emmer- | son, acting chief of detectives, wired | the police of La Wis., where | Figure in Mystery Above: Nirs. Gladys W. Houck, whose disappearance has been a mystery for months. Below: Dr. Knutt H. Houck, who has been ordered returned to Wash- ington for investigation. FRANCE OBDURATE ON DISARMAMENT Statement to League on Naval Limitation Combats U. S. and British View. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, March 23.— France insists that naval strength in any plan for limitation of armaments shall be based on total tonnage. This is contrary to the British and Ameri- can view that tonmage should be measured by categories of ships. The French draft of a general treaty for limitation of armaments, Dr. Houck had returned, asking them |as submitted to a commission of the to hold the young psychiatrist for the United States district attorney here. | Dr. Houck disappeared the day after | his wife, and was found two da: later wandering around the streets of Hornell, N. Y., clothed only in his underwear and babbling incoherencies to Allah. Identification was confirmed at the | morgue this afternoon by Dr. Marjorie { Stewart of Gallinger Hospital, "for- | merly connected with St. Elizabeth's, | and Drs. P. 8. Graven and John M. G. Damgaard of the St. Elizabeth’s staff, all of whom were well acquainted with Dr. and Mrs. Houck. Dr. Houck is at the home of a cousin, Dr. Dean Crowell, at Albany, Oreg., having arrived there three days ago, Dr. Crowell told the Asso-| clated Press today. “Dr. Houck c mother on @ ing following a #aid Dr. Crow “The family has been convinced all | along that his wife ended her own life. | The circumstances of the finding the bod; s reported in dispatches to- day, would seem to bear out this theory."” Disappeared After Quarrel. Mrs. Houck disappeared from her home at 3127 Nichols avenue south- cast following a violent quarrel with { her husband. Dr. Houck, too, left the apartment, rting their ear old son, after attempting to destroy some of wife's torn clothing. Since that day the search for the missing young wife has become nation wide, but without avail until Police- man L. C. Thorne of the el precinct chanced to notice the fluating in the water of the Branch this morning. He cross- | Eleventh s from when he glanced down at the river and saw the body almost within the shadows of the bridge Ordering the c stopped at the nearest point to the Navy Yard, he called for assistance, and four seamen were dispatched in a boat to bring the body ashore. C. B. Lee, T. W. Dil- lingham, W. R. Margelot and M. W. 8tanficld manned the boat. Because of the current towed the body ashore on the side. Al h in 1d condition, from long th body wiz recogniz- immediately that of | 1 me West with his | ion trip, recuperat- nervous breakdown,” of | i i nost as Houck clothed in a dark brown coat. only garment of Mrs hat could not be located in runent after her disappear- aside from the clothing she was to have worn the night before red. the long and v s had k wearir i the fication held most I 5 th cout 5 browr mark of iden to be recog Through fate the Houck alws destroyed by of pocketbook Mrs d had not on of the Bills Roll Out. Wint ht water or months, to the dead the lded the identificatio out was $6.10 in t the long first thing 1 and broug They were the issued by & doctor this inscription One of Mrs. Houck h Dr. Alexs Island avenue . 23rd, An Wednesday, 19th, was ille al g% wis was northwest wther w 3200, e, * though tk deciphered discernibl be dec In the had be ived for harbor precinet t ar M | weakness been | police | not | League of Nations now in session preparing for a disarmament confer- ence, emphasizes that it should be left to the various powers to make up their tonnage by the style of warships best suited to their own in- {terests as regards defense and se- curity. In limitation of land effectives, the French draft also differs from the British draft. The British stipulated that such limitation should include reservists, while under the French plan reservists would be excluded. Demands Advance Statement. One of the French provisions calls upon the powers to make known in advance what their annual armament expenditures will be. It suggests that members of the League council, with representatives of the United States and Russia added, shall constitute a permanent disarmament commission to see that the treaty terms are car- ried out. On this point the French | araft_is virtually in agreement with {the British, except that France has added Russia. France would have added to the treaty a special naval clause stipulat ing that. the treaty does not interfere with pacts previously signed by sep- arate nations. This is commented on as a friendly allusion to the three- power conference on limitation of armaments proposed by President Coolidge. View of German Delegate. The present inequality of ments, the German delegate, Count von Bernstorff, told the commission vesterday, was bad for the mainte. ance of peace. He pointed to the in armaments of his own country and called for reductions by the powerful states, together with general cut. arma- NOM?&E}S AIR LINE. Trip From Fairbanks to Main City Takes Seven Hours. NOME. March 23.—Afr- pla ervice has been ex- tende Pilot Joe Cros ved from Fair anks yesterday started the re- turn trip with Alfred Lomen, Nome reindeer exporte; a passenger, | Crosson made the 550-mile journey { from Fairbanks in less than 7 hours, It takes 3 weeks by dog team | " Lomen, en route to New York on ess. hopes to set ord by the trip in 15 days. He will weeed from Fairbanks to the coast sattle by steamer. | bus m Pershing Sails to Europe. NEW YORK, N 23 (). John J. Pershing sailed for Europe to day on the liner George Washington. While abroad he will be active in con | nection with the Battle Monuments Commission, of which he is chairman. rch i ‘ “What Do You | | Know About Your Own Locality?” An entirely new angle of the latest mental test fe tures beg on Page of today's Star. Test vour | knowledge of Washington | and vicinity A series of questions and rs each day In The Star REVOLT IN ALBANIA STILL SMOLDERS; Z0GU 1S AGCUSED Dictator Charged With Sell- ing Country to Mussolini for Gold. TRIBES ARE RESENTFUL AT TREATY OF TIRANA Great Powers Assist Frank Discus- sion Over Pact Between Rome and Belgrade. BY PAUL Cable to The OTT MOWRER. ar_and_Chicago Daily ews. Copyright, 1027. PARIS, "March ~The interior situation in Albania is extrémely dis- turbing, according to reports received here. Revolutions are brewing against the President-dictator, Ahmed Zogu who is accused of having sold h country to TItaly by the treaty of na for gold and the ptomise of a own. The Albanian tribes are said to have been slow to understand that the Tirana treaty means the loss of Al-{ banian independence, which has been so fiercely maintained throughout the centuries, but the agitation by revo- lutionary clubs now is growing inces- santly under the slogan, “Albania to the Albanians By Italian Invasion Seen. The secret landing of fodr Italian ships near Durazzo with arms and military suppli being told in a the mountain villages, as is also the arrival of a hundred Italian officers in civilian garb, said to be topographers, but suspected of other aims. Zogu's dictatorship is growing con- tinually more severe. A dozen politi- cal opponents are said to have been executed. Man; others have fled across the Jugoslav frontier. The malls are strictly censored and infor- mation concerning the latest develop- ments is difficult to obtain. Zogu Is Opposed. What seems certain is that the ma- Jjority of Albanians, including all the northern Christians and many Mos- lems, are now against Zogu. The latter's treasury is said to be empty and the state employes have not been paid in the last five months. From two sources it is declared that Zogu on March 10 ordered a general mobilization, but that the majority of the conscripts fled to the mountains, where they are still in hiding awaiting developments. LEAGUE 18 AVOIDED. Paris and London Believe Council Will Not Be Needed. LONDON, March 23 (#).—Both the London and Paris governments now believe that the dispute between Italy and Jugoslavia, which has arisen over mutual charges of military concen- trations near the frontiers, can be | settled without summoning a special | session of the council of the League of Nations to consider it. Forelgn Minister Chamberlain told | did not think the league would have | to be called in and advices from Parls | indicate that. the French government holds the same belief. Mussolini Wants Peace. 1t was announced that Premier Mussolini of Italy has notified both Paris and London that he desires the maintenance of peace in the Balkans. Nevertheless, the foreign offices are somewhat puzzled over what pro- cedure to adopt in solving the con- troversy. It is not known here whether Italy would accept an inquiry by the| League of Nations into the disposi- | tion of the Jugoslav troops, but it is understood that Foreign Minlsters | Briand and Chamberlain are urging | the Rome and Belgrade governments to make an amicable settlement with- out the necessity of mediation by a | third party. Tt is felt that the friction has been momentarily relieved, but it the two greement may be renewed at any time by | some border incident. X SETTLEMENT F T NEAR. Frank Exchange Over Treaty Tirana Is Favored. PARIS, March 23 (#).—The Italo- Jugoslav clash—the second of the kind to set Europe atremble within a few months ppeared today to all intents and purposes to be on the way to_settlement. It is felt in diplomatic quarters that the moment now is ripe to seek to| remove the cause of the trouble in | the Balkans by a thorough examina- tion of the situation created by the | treaty of The Jugoslav gov- ernment has expressed willingness to accept such procedure, and it is un- derstood that France and Great Eritain are disposed to use their good offices with the Itallan government in favor of having a frank exch: views between Italy and the B government. Without such an exchange, Foreign Minister Briand observed during de- { bate in the Chamber of Deputies, “one cannot be altogether optimisti of Jugoslavs Deny Charges. | The latest nea n the Balkans | State. I bile reciprocity | could | that the District provide an inc ®lown, “dtv\l‘ltr\u-ll over egations by Italy | that Jugoslavia was mobilizing troops | along the Albanian frontier. Jugoslav government has vehemently denied the charges t v ing to bring about a (The treaty of Tirana last November between the Ital ania and the Albanian eign minister. It was described as a “treaty of amity and security,” but it arouse ferment in the Balkans when reports spread that it contained secret military clauses, These were | promptly deniea by Itaiy.) | 43 PEASANTS DROWN. ORENBURG, Russia, March 23 (), Forty-three peasants’ were drowned | vesterday when an overloaded ferry boat capsized. The passengers were |en route to church services in a neighboring town and were overtaken by a storm. The small craft sank within a few minutes within sight of terrified relatives on the opposite shore. Most of the victims were women and children. News Note: and lands at Para, Brazil. Ger Some! E )77 POINTER S\l 58 FROM THAT[#2F P SUCCESSFULL L AVIATOR,| Comdr. De Pinedo, the Ttalian aviator, successiully erosses the Brazilian jungle AUTO RECIPROCITY ISNOTINDANGER Ritchie Insists New Gas Tax in Maryland Will Not Affect District. BY WILLIAM J. WHEAT! Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 23— Auto- mobile reciprocity hetween the Dis- trict of Columbia and Maryland is not in jeopardy as the result of the act of the Maryland Legislature in putting an additional tax of 1% cents on gasoline sold within the It was made emphatic here today by Gov Albert C. Ritchie, Maj. E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring, speaker of the” Fotse of Delegates, and John N. Mackall, chairman of the State Road Commission. Gov Ritchie said that the automo- between Maryland and the District was assured for all time and that the passage of the bill providing an increase in the gas tax has no relation to automobile reci- procity with the District of Columbia. Purely State Measure. Tt will not affect the existing ami- cable relations between the two po- litical entitles in any way, he de- Y. the House of Commons today that he | clared, and added that the District of Columbia was not even considered when the matter was under dis- cusslon. Gov. Ritchie sald that it is purely a State measure to provide needed funds for lateral highways. There will be no effort on the part of State officials to have the National Legislators put over an additional tax for District gasoline users in order to protect the distributors near the border line, for it is his infor- mation that the gasoline producing companies will take care of this dif- ferential as a phase of the law of supply and demand. All ‘three officials emphasized that no question of reciprocity was in- volved and said they did not desire to see the District get an increase in taxes purely for the purpose of meeting the Maryland raise. Both Gov Ritchie and Mr. Mackall said they doubted whether they impose on the District under the reciprocity law another condition cased if they de: 80, tax, even red to do Reciprocity to Stay. Mackall said the law under which reciprocity was granted would not permit the imposition of any additional conditions now or in the future, and that when reciprocity came originally it came to stay. The: were no strings tied to it in any way, he added. 1t is_prepostero set down the Ma an excuse for forcing the the people of the District of Colum- bia, Gov. Ritchie declared. It is useless, he said, for any one to argue that the District will have to add a Mr. y one to | tax under the guise that reciproci requires it. The governor was v anxlous for the people of Washin ton, particularly the motorists, to know that Maryland was not even considering cutting off reciprocity be- tween the State and the District 1f the authorities of the District of Columbia want to incre: e the tax on gasoline for purposes of their Gov Ritchie said, they could but it is not made necessary gisla- do it, by the act of the Maryland Ls ture. CANADIANS ASK RETURN OF IMPOUNDED CARGO Legation Presents Claim to Wood Pulp Found Aboard Seized Rum-Running Steamer. By the Associated Press. Return of the wood pulp cargo im- pounded by the United States Govern- ment when the Canadian ‘kamas was seized on 2 ning charge has been forr by the Canadinn legation here. It is understood the State Depart- ment has been urged to recognize the principle that the owners of the go in this case were mot respon- sible for any illegal actions of the captain_and ‘the crew of the vessel. The Clackamas sailed from Halifax in February with a shipment of wood pulp from the Pictou Pulp and Paper Co. consigned to Philadelphia. She was refused papers pending investi- gation of a charge that she picked up a cargo of liquor on the high seas and delivered it at Newark, N. J. The case i3 now before the American courts. FATHER SAYS BOY, 11, WAS SLAIN BY BROTHER Declares They Were Always Quar-| reling and Believes Son Was | Deliberately Drowned. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, March | Skubelek, father of Andrew 11 years old, whose body w off Lake Front Park, 5 mil Gary, vesterday, believes his s , | deliberately drowned by another son. The body of the boy was identified vesterday by the father. The be- lief was expressed that the boy had come to his death through foul play. The boy disappeared March 45, with his brother John and another com- panion. Both sonms, said the father, were always quarreling. The three boys were last seen in a boat on the Little Calumet River, March 17. allanty | elek, found | AREA BILL PASSED County Government Now Goes to Senate. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star ANNAPOLIS, Ma. March 23.— Improvement and development of that part of Montgomery County adjacent to the District of Columbia line in ac- cordance with the plans for expand- ing the National Capital %re provided for in a bill which passed the House of Delegates of the Maryalnd Gen- eral Assembly here last night with- out a dissenting vote. The measure, which was introduced and fostered by the Montgomery County dele; i in the lower house, cr ' tax area in the county and des it as “the Montgomery County Subu ban District.” It now goes to the Sen- ate, where it is not expected to meet with any opposition, as it is a dis- tinetly local bill The bill, in effg stamp of approv N nd on the development of the area which is de- fined in the bill and which, in large measure, follows the lines of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Dis- trict. It marks the beginning of the county on its era of urk elop- ment forced on it by the sion of the District of Columbia across the boundary line. Increases Commissioners’ Powers. The legislation designates the Mont gomery County Commissioners as the legislative body and district councils of the proposed district and empower them to make regulations in regard to building; authorizes them to construct and light streets, roads and sidewalk gutters and buildings; to permit, under restrictions, the construction and maintenance of telegraph, telephone nd electric lines as well as gas mains; also the laying of railroad and street .ar tracks and the operation of cars gives authority to contract for all municipal purposes, to inspect, license for regulation or revenue, regulate or prohibit pla of amusement or other public places, sanatoriums, hospital homes for the aged, orphan asylum homes for children and convalescer home ! It » authorizes them to_ enact ordinances for the protection of health, safely, comfort or morals of the dis-| | trict, and to attach penalties for the| violation of such ordinances to estab- lish and regulate markets; to provide by ordinance for condemning, opening closing, widening, improving streets and alleys; to regulate and control ali offensive trades, manufacture or traf- fic and to prohibit hogpens, stables, cowyards and slaughter houses and control the manner for the disposal of | waste products except sewage, gar- | buge, refuse and ashes; to enter upon | private property and designate re- straint or injury to such entry as a misdeameanor; to fix the duties of the county commissioners of the fourth! and fifth commissioners' districts, Authority for Road Bonds. They also would be empowered to authorize and direct the issue and sale of county bonds for the construc- tion of roads within the district and provide for the payment of interest and for retirement; to levy and collect the tax of 30 cents on each $100 of assessed property and to allocate the funds for certain purposes; to grade, construct, reconsruct, pave and other- wise improve streets, sidewalks, alleys highways and assess the cost thereof against the abutting property {Continued on Page 4, Column 4, t, puts the official | 1" of the State of | broad plans for the | | to the magnificent new bridge," | be carried out “just as soon a STATEMAY SELECT OWN BRIDGE ROUTE Virginia Highway Commis- sion Surveying Rights of Way to New Span. BY REX COLLIER. Staft Correspondent of The Star, RICHMOND, Va., March 23.—Pos- sibility of the State Highway Commi sion selecting its own route for a high- way through Arlington County to the new Memorial Bridge was predicted in an interview here today by Henry G. Shirley, chairman of the commis- sion. Such a step might deprive both the Lee Highway XAs lon’s - go-catled “southerly route” for the Lee Boule- vard and the Straight-to-the-Bridge Organization’s proposed direct ap- proach of any State aid in construc- tion of these important roads The State Highway Commission, it was pointed out, reserves the right of having the final say as to where State funds shall be expended, and if a sur- vey now under way by commission engineers discloses that neither the southerly nor the direct road warrants State aid, a third route to the bridge will be laid out by the State, Mr. Shirley declared. Survey Southerly Route. State engineers have just completed surveying the Lee Highway Associa- tion’s right-of-way, Mr. Shirley said, and the straight route is to be gone over in the same way. Until both surveys are completed. he explained, no decision can be made as to neces- sity for a third survey if such a special surve advisable, he remarked, ably traverse territory intermediate between the southerly and direct routes. He admitted that such a move on the part of the State Highway Com- mission might satisfy neither the Lee Highway Association nor the Straight- to-the-Bridge body, but he stressed the point that the State must decide vhere it shall spend r s i Arlington Countyrs | e Favors Building One Highway. “We are convinced that the s 2 e Sta should build an appropriate highwa. were found would prob- e, M 41 Shirley sald “but to ask it 1o bl two is out of the question. Virginia has an obligation to fulfill, now that the Federal Government is laying beautiful span across the Potomac to our doors. That obligation is to pro- | vide suitable access (o the bridge, We certatnly intend to do that, and we are going to do it in such a way ag | to l'ednuln;: to the benefit of the com monwealth in the bes . | momy best manner pos- The highway chairman referr the recent action of the Virginte iy and Planning Commission In recom. mending construction of both the southerly and the straight roads to the bridge, and said any suggestion that the State would aid both roads was without fouration in fact, Would Hit Both Projects. The Lee Highway clatio s been besceching the Scave s ls Commission to take strip of the which it projected through el veloped territory from the llfrid;:vx::'dwi Falls Church. So have proponents of the route through Clarendon, Ballston and other thickly populated sections. A decision by the commis. sion to build its own road in neither of these locations would be a severe | blow to both parties. Chairman_ Shirle. that the widenin of the present Lee Cherrydale and the Ke: announced iightening v between Bridge will money ts available.” He said that engineery now are working on plans for this work, which he regards as highly es. sential to public safety. The plans call for reconstruction of the highway 80 as to permit of the convenient passage of three cars abreast. WILD TRUCK KILLS SIX. Eight Others Among 70 Workers Injured in Prussian Silesia, GLATZ, Prussian Silesia, March 23 ().—At least six persons were killed and eight seriously injured in an au- tomobile aceident this morning when | government, | sulted, | ropoli Reno Sets Record With One Divorce | Suit an Hour Filed | MARINE AND TWO OTHER AMERICANS HURT IN SHANGHA By the Assoclat ed F \ 23— Reno in to tarch on the gilded fro rush’” of its own the attention now being given Nevada. In the last divorce have been fil rts. The rush has developed as the result of the new three months residence law, which was passed ¥ the recent Legislature E: when Reno, under vantages of the six mo: dence law, was famous as center, the filing of separation suits never reached such numbers as now. rty-eight suits in a month was a comparatively high record then DISTRICT MAY BUY 5150000 BULDIG | e [ IStructure Near Capitol Will | Co-ordinate Welfare Groups Under Plan. o share 48 hours 48 suits for 1in the Reno {U. S. Detachment Holds Northern Approach to Inter- national Settlement. W th hs ALL FOREIGN RESIDENTS EVACUATING NANKING | Cantonese Commander, in Mani- | festo, Says Shanghai Will Be Base for World “Revolution,” | | | ited Pr Injury of three Americans in Shang hai was reported today to the Navy by Admiral Willlams, wder of the Asiatic fleet. > of them, a Marine, was slightly bullet The identit of the injuries of tk o were not disclosed, the ac saying two other Ameri. cans had been reported as injures Foreigners Leaving Nanking. of foreigners from the ing is proceeding, Admi Williams reported in another dis teh. He have Americ ton | By the i i i | | { BY WILL P. KENNEDY. i 1 ¢ modern build ol. now used by at a 2 ol Evacuation City of | ral Pu . ing nmear the Capl important “going” concern, of approximately $1,500,000, for welfare building for the Distr of Columbia is being seriously con sidered. Private parties are said to be willing to contribute a million dollars toward the project if Congress will sanction it and make an appropriation § for the remainder from District rev enues. an 75 Americans already 145 on board the a and Pres g down the river ips. Twe refused to le ave added that reinforce lantungese are cross anking and that been evacuated by all en troops. MARINES GUARDING BRIDGE. | Plans for Building. | It is proposed that in this & | would be co-ordin t | existing, and new is hoped may be created to rou the welfare system ! The new Public Welfare Depart-i | ment, including the Board of Chil-| {dren’s Guardians, the Board of Chari | ties and Corrections, the Bureau of | shoulder with the famous British | Mothers’ Allowance and the Indus-! Coldstream Guards on the northern trial Home Scho | boundary of the international settle- The Health Department, including { ment today, charged with preventing social hygiene, tuber.| any attempted invasions by the de- diseases, dental and | feated Shantungese such as were re- iene, psychiatric | pelled with bloodshed yesterday. Sent to the boundary at the request ¢ the British commander, the Amer- ans—a detachment of 40—are help- ing to hold the Markham Road Bridge across Soochow Creek, connecting the settlement with the Chapei district, which yesterday was the scene of wild disorders, looting and killings. Near the AnglasAnierican position are little hills of bomb& and ammuni- tion, taken by the sentries in disarm- | ing ‘the Shantungese troops seeking | refuge in the settlement. Hundreds | of disarmed Shantungese soldiers are penned in a bamboo “bird cage” not | far avay Easier in Native Districts. The situation appears much easier | in all the native distri with the | victorious Cantonese army gradus | taking matters in hand. A small bods of Shantungese were still holding out the | jn the Chapei district today, and there Public = Buildings Commission, di-|\as some firing. The Chinese shop: rected Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, lieu- | which usually constitute a good bi tenant in charge of the Women’s Bu- | rometer of prevailing conditions, were {reau, under which the House of Cor-| reopening. rection Is operated. to find other suit-| my yarines spent an uneventful day fole gluarters, and when they were |, he cold rain watching the opposite |found to tell the District Commission- |}, nic"of the creek .which separates the fers that he had authorized this hunt. | 505l onal “Setilement from the | | b Agreed on Purchase. i district, where fighting The welfare organizations interested | Gi® "ot “Nationalist have agreed upon the building which | {oops pass, ing a machine it is proposed to pur hase, and the{guyn, = matter is now pending, with recom-(*'rj ee hundred demonstrators, some | mendations, before the District Com-{of whom were armed, approached the | missioners, who are expected to trans- | oreck during the day from Chappei. mit it to Congress. but did not threaten the Anglo-Amer- |, The Public’ Buildings Commission |jean guard, who saw no action. To in the closing days of the Si night details of Punjabi troops were | Congress, after ‘a hearing, strengthening the positions with barb- | the District Commissioners to prepare | oq svire. |a definite and detailed plan for a g model municipal plant, to take care | of all of the needs of the District | outside of the triangle | south of Penn: vania avenue to the! Mall, which is to be used for the new | Federal buildings, i This was done because there is not | adequate room for expansion of the District activities adjacent to the pre ment Stands With British to Prevent New Invasions. SHANGHAI, China, March 23 (). ~American Marines stood shoulder to | {a general clinic { culosis, children oral, and mental h; jand psychological. The Juvenile Court, a new Women" Court, the House of Detention. the Women’s Bureau, the Playground Di-| vision and a central office of records, ! for the intake, transferring and refer- | ring of cases from one group to an- other. ‘Matter Is Acute. For more than five years social welfare agencies in the National Cap- ital have been advocating such a pub- Hc welfare building. The matter has jcome to a head by the imperative {need for larger housing for the en- tire District government, and by the {fact that some eight or more District | |agencies, including the House of De.| tention and the Women'’s Bureau, are soon to have their present quarters torn down to make way for the new | Department of Cemmerce Building. | Senator Smoot, speaking for one car Last Foreign Residents Leave. Continued firing in the districts north of the international settlement, known as Dixwell road and Hongkew used the last of the foreign res dents of those sections to withdraw today to the international settlement. | There were few Americans among this ent District Building, which would e | Tumber, but it is stated that several turned over to some othe hey of | American missionaries have ted the Federal Government. | their homes, some of which were fre- jquently struck by bullets. ~Among | those withdsawing were 11 who previ- {ously had returned here from inland ¢ mu- | posts on account of disorders. side of John| Under the direction of the municipal \ hall place between Judiciary | author 456 foreigners were brought Square and Pennsylvania avenue, to|in tod m these outlying sections take in all of the site between Third |on board motor trucks, some of which and Sixth streets, Pennsylvania ave. | were fired on by snipers. nue and Louisiana avenue. The con. | g jon.” templated Public Welfare Buildine 1| Base for “World Revolution. in this same general area and would; Shanghal is to becom fit in with other important develop-ia world revolutior ments in that section of the city. = |{o jssued by Gen. Pai Tsung-Hsi, Can r\mmll:'mllhr‘s’--)\\ho have been con- | tonese er, to the Chinese i ho are said to be sup- ! people t put’ foreigners must not porting the proposal for > P it % ultail o thely Teoh Welfare Building are Hdwin 5 sl LU bt o e o major and superintendent of the ars New Municipal Ary _The proposed site for the new al group is on eith e fr the “base for a_manifes de For 80 ¥ the Imperialists of unequal tr it | China to a state ** the manifesto reads, under the protection ities, have reduced of vassalage n Police; leaders in the n.".:\(w‘ and Senate, the Disirict deration | of Women's Clubs. which has made a prime function of a particular group | fter the revolution of 1911, the ta see that l{;x\ir::tsx;{lznl.n is passed; | foreign Imperialists continually sup- DUt the ey weming Club, which has | plied Chinese Imperialists with rifles L vellare building on its {and guns, with which they have waged e, ad made Mrs. Van Winkle { war for the last 15 vears. m;l")rni:xl_lml;ghtnunz:mmu]m:, and it is| " “On' the one hand, the foreign Im Yaden of the: Fenesoon bY President | perialists have checked the develop Yaden of the | ation of Citi {ment of Chinese education and indus sociations, by the Council of So-|tries, and on the other have secured (:;(n! Agents and by all of the women's | for themselves special privileges. clubs of the District | “But the Chinese now have awak The new agencies which it is pro-|ened and Shanghai, the greatest com posed to create as part of the public |mercial center in the Far East, will welfare system are a. Women's Court, | become not on! strong base for a general clinic and a menta s ] se Nationali: b1 8 | Githie. and @ central Fecoras oo, 1¢ | vexelusion. T DUt for & world also s proposed to bring into coop-|’ “The people must distinguish, how- _em.;ufi:en;;-uwgu\uslén;n‘ll Home School | ever, between attacking imperialism and au of Mothers' Allow-!and foreigners. They must not in | sult the foreigners and destroy theit | property.” Dep Gen. Pai urges arbitration in ordet to avoid strikes, and deprecates ex- orbitant demands which would result in closing the factories altogether. The manifesto says the Chinese must understand that the Nationalists m, Tmperative Reasons. The imperative reasons for some | such building are that the Juvenile | Court is now in a “paper” building ¢ which must soon be torn down; that | the House of Detention is now seri- ously overerowded in a building <oon | to be torn down; that the Industrial | Home School is now occupying a shack that was formerly an alms- do not intend to create a general house and not considered a fit habi- |anti-foreisn movement, but seck to tation for old people, much less for|abolish “all institutions and systems cates General Strike. a truck, carrying 70 workers to a factory mear here, got out of control and dashed down a steep incline. It is feared the death list will grow as the removal of the debris advances. Rédio P orams~Page 12 young children; that the Board of|of imperialist character.” Children’s Guardians is crowded with | They will not attempt to gain their no proper place to care for children|!purposes by military force, but wiil temporarily or for consultation with|use propaganda. The aims of the parents of others; that the new Wel- | Nationalists are given as abolition of fare' Board is in an impossible slum-lum‘quul treaties,. alteration of the ‘(_on, having neither money nor per-!status of the Shanghal international (Continued on_ ontin on Page 3, Column 5. b (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.