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* WILL HAYS SCORES TALKIE CENSORSHIP Development Is Definitely Re- tarded by Practice, Film v “Czar” Says. By the Assoclated Press LOS ANGELES, January 1 ‘Hays, head of the motion pi try, said that censorship of talking pic- tures was a curtailment of free speech and “un-American in its conception,” when interviewed upon his arrival here from New York yesterday. “Educators and leaders of thought {are realizing what censorship of pic- tures really is now that censor boards are presuming act- ually to censor speech.” Hays said. “News as heard from the screen, f the speeches of the greatest public “b\e“: v on the greates! WHLHL Bays. - ecasions, are all subject to some of the sorship laws, end the great development which is im- minent of ng films for educational purposes is definitely retarded because of the ridiculous possibility of their being | cut to pieces by censors said the motion picture indus- | Y ade no great effort to reduce ! censo ip. but had spent its effort | rather to “so improve the pictures that | no reasonable person couldclaim that | there was any need for censorship.” Hays said censorship is confined to | Btates which “established it as a part of war psychology and a phase of the de- sire of some to regulate everything.” —_— Driver Arrested by Reporter. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON, Va, January 14— Jack Nevin, reporter on a Washington newspaper, Saturday night arrested thanial Lee, colored, after Lee's sutomobile struck two other cars on ‘Wilson boulevard in Clarendon. 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R-O-OF-S Send for us when the roof goss wrong Work. m | way was officially announced today. jone of the most brautiful of European [DIVERSION OF LAKE S A watching the home run king at one of ¢ burned to death at Watertown, Mass., THE EVENING DIAMOND STAR’S WIFE WHO PERISHED \ Mrs. George Herman Ruth, wife of “Babe” Rath, and their daughter Dorothy he world Friday night. games, Mrs. Ruth was TO NORWEGIAN Date for Marriage of Martha and Olaf Is Not An- nounced. Fiancee of Intrepid Yachts-| man Is Considered Prize Beauty of Royalty. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, January 14.—The| engagement of Princess Martha of Sweden to Crown Prince Olaf of Nor-| Princess = Martha, who was born March 28, 1901, is the daughter o1 Prince Charles, brother of King Gustav | of Sweden. . The. Crown Prince. was | born an July 2, 1903. Prirfce Olaf arrived here early and the betrothal ceremony.took place later. The prince, his flancee and her parents, Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg, called upon King Gustay before noon and later visited ‘the Crown Prince and Princess Lowse at Ulriksdal ~Castle. Subsequently they had lunch with Prince Eugen at his castle, Valvemar- sudde. ‘The date of the wedding has et yet been fixed. Princess Martha is a sister of Princess Astrid. wife of the Belgian Crown Prince. The princess 1s generally considered princesses. Tall and slender, with dark | hair and a pale complexion, she is of a retiring disposition and a great lover of music., Crown Prince Olaf is the son of King Haakon and Queen. Maude, who is a sister of King George of England. He is known as one of-the most intrepid yachtsmen amnni the young royalty of Europe. His yacht Oslo, guided by his own hand, won the international race for six-meter yachts at the Cowes regatta in 1926. Prince Olaf studied for two years at Balliol College, Oxford. COUPLE CONGRATULATED. orwegian Cabinet ' Council Greets Engagement Annourcement. OSLO, Norway, January 14 (P).— King Haakon today informod the cabi- net council of the engagement of Crown Prince "Olaf to Princess Martha of Sweden. ‘The premier in behalf of the govern- ment offered hearty congratulations after which congratulatory telegrams were s'nt to the princess, The King of Sweden and the Swedish govern- ment. The president of the Storthing read the King's message announcing the en- gagement in the Storthing, and after eulogistic references to the couple tele- graphed congratulations to Prince Olaf. After reading the King’s announce- SWEDISH PRINCESS BETROTHED CROWN PRINCE! INGERWOO. CROWN PRINCE OLAF. ment the president expressed the hope that the betrothal would bring happi- ness and blessing to the Crown Prince and the Royal House. “The sympathy and joy with which th> whole country will greet th> en- gaged couple will be doubly warm,” he said, “because the choice of their hearts is confirmed by the people’s wishes, and that assurance will bind more closely togather in sympathy two peoples who are standing so near each other and understand one another’s speech anrd thoughts.” WATER BY CHICAGO UPHELD BY COURT (Continued from P ond or more on the plea of preserving the_health of the district. “Putting this plea forward has tend- ed materially to hamper and obstruct the remedy to which the complainants are entitled in vindication of their | rights, riparfan and other.” “In wcreasing the diversion from 4,167 cubic feet a second to 8.500,” the opinion said, “the drainage district de- fied the authority of the National Gov- ernment resting in the Secretary of War. And in so far as the prior di- version was not for the purpose OIJ maintaining navigation in the Chicago{ River it was without any legal basis, . bzcause made for an inadmissible pur- | pose. Compels Reduction. “It, therefore, is the duty of this court by an appropriate decree to com- | pel the reduction of the diversion to a' point where it rests on a legal basis and thus to restore the navigable ca- pacity of Lake Michigan to its proper level. The Sanitary District authorities, relying on the argument with reference to the health of its people, have much | too long delayed the needed substitu- tion of suitable sewage plants as a means of avoiding the diversion in the | future, “Therefore they cannot now complain [if an immediately heavy burden isi placed upon the district because of ! their attitude and course. The situation | requires the district to devise proper methods for providing sufficient money and to construct and put in operation with all reasonable expedition adequate plants for the disposition of the sewage through other means than the lake restoration of just rights to the complainants will be is essential to an effective project. + * '+ For this reason the cas> Wil be again referred to the master for a indicated. Will Hear Witnesses. “He will be authorized and directed to hear witnesses presented by each of the parties, and to call witnesses of his own szlection, should he deem it neces- sary to do so, and then with all con- venient speed to make report of his conclusions and of a form of decree.” Mr. Hughes was in court as the opin- ion was read, awaiting the beginning of argum~nt in the New York Rapid Tran- sit fare case, in which he is represent- ing the Interborough company. Other prominent spectators included Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs, Charles G. Dawes and Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, wife of Asssciate Justice Brandeis. AUTO TAG RUSH FAILS Police Check Up Virginia Autoists Operating on District of Columbia Licenses, Special Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON, Va, January 14— Although but two days are left in which to obtain Virginia automobile license tags, J. V. Turner of Falls Church an- nounced today that but a little more than half of his tags have been distributed. ‘Turner has heen stationed at the courthouse since December 15. The ex- pected rush failed to materialize today. Turner announced that he will close the Arlington office tomorrow at 4 p.m. I-lne, will then be at his Falls Church cffice, Virginla motorigts operating on District of Columbia tags will be subject to arrest after 12 p.m. tomorrow. State gradual instead cf immediate, it must airs our specialty. ©Call us uj 119 3rd 8t 8 W KOONS Eistar ™ 22 o1 Company be continuous aad as s as practi- cable and must include everything that - highway rfclmmw have been stationed at the bridgss leading into Washington to check wp. furthor rxamination into the questions ! IN ARLINGTON COUNTY |z STAR, WASHINGTON. WIFE OF BABE RUTH PERISHES IN BLAZE Mate of Homer King Burned to Death Living at Home of Boston Dentist. By the Associated Press. WATERTOWN, Mass., January 14.— |Babe Ruth, home-run king, today i mourned his wife, while police sought | for questioning Dr. Edward H. Kinder, Boston dentist, in whose home here Mrs. Ruth, known to neighbors for the last year and a halt as Mrs. Helen | Kinder, was burned to death last Fri- day night. The New York Yankee star arrived {in Boston from New York City yester- day just in time to halt the burial of the supposed Mrs. Kinder, for whom a cieath certificate had been issued on in- | formation supplied by the dentist. While State Detective Edward O'Neil, who investigated the fire at ti instance of District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell of Middlesex County, declared that there was no evidence that a crime had been committed, the district attor- ney ordered an autopsy performed and a search instituted for Kinder. Ruth Grieves Over Wife's Fate. | Ruth was prostrated by grief when |he arrived in Boston from Scranton, Pa. From his hotel suite he gave a brief statement to newsnaper men: My wife and I have not lived to- gether for the last three years. During that time I have seldom met her. I have done all that 1 can to comply | with her wishes. Her death is a great | shock to me; that is all I can say now But Ruth, through his friend and | legal adviser, John P. Feeney of Boston, | immediately took steps to see that a | new certificate was issued that the dead | woman might be buried as Mrs. Ruth rather than as Mrs. Kinder. The discovery that the supposed dentist’s wife was Mrs. Ruth came with the publication last week of a picture of the woman found in the house. A friend of the Ruths identified it. Mrs. Ruth’s sisters, the Misses Catherine and | | { | tion. Kinder, who was attending a boxing exhibition last Friday when his house caught fire, was paged at the show and returned to identify the dead woman as his wife and to make funeralear- rangements. His whereabouts since then constituted a mystery today. The dentist's father, Willlam F. Kinder, and. a brother, Willlam F. Kinder, jr., said they believed the about two years ago. The dentist had long_been regarded as a close friend of the Ruths. His family and that of Mrs. Ruth lived in South Boston and, ac- cording to his father, he had known her before her marriage. Ruth first met Helen Woodford short- 1y after_he became a member of the Boston Red Sox in 1915. The girl had been a waitress and was employed at the time in a Back Bay restaurant near the ball park. Wedding Takes Place in 1916. Late in 1915 or early in 1916 th were married and in September, 1922, they announced that 16 months pre- (viously a daughter, Dorothy, now 9, ‘had been born, but they had decided Inot to announce it earlier. That the path of their marital life has not bejn a smooth one in the past few years Lis been generally known to their friends. Kinder about a year and a half ago moved into the house where the fire |occurred. The child. Dorothy Ruth, was known to the neighbors as Dorothy Kinder and.was frequently seen about the place with her mother. Fire officials - announced that the cause of the blaze probably was an overloading’ of ‘the” wires in the living oo‘m. coupled with badly worn insu- ation. Although Medical Examiner West, who made an examination of Mrs. Ruth's body after the fire, reported | that there were no evidences of alcohol, drugs or foul play, Thomas P. Wood- ford, a brother of Mrs. Ruth, said that he was “not at all satisfied with th» | police explanation of the circumstances” ! attending the death of his sister. | Both he and his brother, Willlam J. Woodford, demanded a thorough in- vestigation, expressing the belief that | the police had not learned all the facts {behind the tragedy. 'WIFE OF RETIRED GENERAL SUCCUMBS Funeral Services for Mrs. Kather- ine Erwin Jervey to Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon. 1 | Mrs. Katherine Erwin Jervey, 56 years old, wife of Brig. Gen. Henry Jer- vey, United States Army, retired, died at her home, at 218 rrospect street, Friendship Heights, Md., yesterday. Fu- neral services will be held at the Tab- ler chapel, 928 M street, at 2 o'clock | tomorrow. Interment will be in Arling- | ton National Cemetery at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Jervey was born in Middletown, Ohio, and had lived in Washington for 15 years. She was prominent in social and military circles here and had lived in Priendship Heights for five years. | She is survived by her husband: a i son, Lieut. W. W. Jervey, and a sister, ‘,;\/{!‘sh Cornelia E. Bailey of Charlevoix, | Mich. M. CARY McNAB BURIED. Upper Marlboro Man Former Pro- hibition Legal Adviser in D. C. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, January 14.—Funeral services for M. Cary Mc- | Nab, 78 years old, a former banker and legal adviser of the Prohibition En- forcement Department, who died Fri- day at the home of his daughter, Mrs. | W. C. Euwer, here, were held yesterday at Trinity Episcopal Church. Inter- {ment was jn the church cemetery. . | . Mr. McNab, a native of Ohio, former- ly was head of the Marlboro branch of the Southern Maryland Trust Co. here. He resigned that post to become legai adviser to the Prohibition Department in Washington. Shortly after making that connection he was transferred to New York and held a position there until last April, when failing - eyesight forced him to resign. He was a past master of the Upper Marlboro Masonic !n‘:dfltlon to Mrs. Euwer, Mr. McNab leaves another daughter, Mrs, Frank Brainard of Glenrich, N. J. Will Rogers Says: 1 see where we sent a delegation up to Canada to ask them if they wouldn’t prohibit liquor from being sent out of their country, but our committee_is coming back empty handed, with the exception of just what litlle they can carry. Canada told them: “If it is against your law to bring it in and then you can't stop it from coming in, how are we - going to ‘keep it from going out wheu it's not even against our law?” We will have to get into the League of Nations after awhile, just to get other nations to help us take care of our own business, y couple had been married in Montreal | SIX PEDESTRIANS INJURED BY AUTOS | Driver Is Held Pending Out- come of Injuries Suffered by Maryland Man. | | | | Six pedestrians were finjured, one seriously, when struck by automobiles | hore yesterday. | While repairing a car on Bladens- jburg road near the District line last night, George Wadsworth, 26, of 2914 | Bladensburg road northeast was stmck; {and seriously injured by an automobile | |driven by Lloyd Peter Shank, 25, of | Middleton, Md. i Wadsworth was taken to Casualty | Hospital in a passing automobile and ' treated by Dr. L. Jimal for possible’ fracture of the skull and left leg and severe lacerations of the body. Shank is being held at the twelfth precinct pending the outcome of Wadsworth's injures. Police say the car Wadsworth was re- pairing was parked far enough from the | curb to permit another machine to| |pass. The accident occurred when | | Shank drove by on the right. Man and Woman Knocked Down. As Miss Florence May Hammond, 65. of Baltimore, was crossing the street ! | with Daniel T. Shreve, 56, in front of | the latter's home, 4907 Illinois avenue, | the couple were knocked down and in- | jured by an automobile operated by | George W. Chase, 54, of 700 Butternut ! street. Chase carried them into Shreve home, where they were treated by phy- | sicians for injuries to the hips, legs and ! | feet. Neither was seriously hurt. \ Mrs. Emma L. Moorman, 55, and Mrs. | | B. Edgerton, 32, both of the Chastleton, | | were struck by an automobile operated | | by Emlen Bell, 50, of 2000 Hamlin street, i northeast, as they were crossing Twelfth | and F streets yesterday afternoon. Imth | women were taken to their home by Bell. Mrs. Moorman has a possible | fracture of the left hip and foot, Mrs. Edgerton suffered from shock and n{ sprained left hip. | Hit by an automobile operated by Joe | Nora Woodford of South Boston, were | Curtin, 608 Kenyon street, while playing | held at 11 am. summoned and established identifica- | at Warder street and Columbia road.|shrine of the Sacred Heart, with Mer. | Richard Rauzie, 10, of 413 Columbia road, was bruised about the forehead. His iInjuries were treated by Dr. R. W. Wilkinsen at Garfield Hospital. Removed to Emergency Hospital after eing injured in a collision at Twenty- second and K streets, Edmond Botts, colored, 26, of the 2300 block of L street, was placed under arrest on charges of driving while intoxicated and opcrating without a District permit. His car struck one operated by Mrs. F. Imo- gene Karns, 30, of 3220 Connscticut avenue. Woman Thrown From Car. Thrown from ths automobile of her husband, Harold M. Dowling, 2026 Lawrence street northeast, when it col- lided with a machine driven by Howard F. Burchell, 1401 Trinidad avenue northeast, Mrs. Mary E. Dowling was bruised about the legs. receiving treat- ment at Emergency Hospital. An automobile operated by William Reese, 31, of 54 V street, overturned | following a collision with a car driven | by Mrs. Mary L. Rgdford, 36. of 1534 Thirty-first street, ‘at Broad Branch | road and McKinley street. Reese was taken to Emergency Hospital in the | fourteen precinct’s patrol, where it was | | found he had lacerations of the scalp | and bruises. He returned home after treatment, ! Harry Tartur, 3212 Georgia avenue, | suffered head and stomach injuries in | a collision with a car operated by Joseph H. Rogers of Hyattsville, Md., at North Capitol street and Rhode Island ave- nue. Tartur was given first aid at Sibley Hospital. i et L Y “MAGIC” OF REPORTER DECREASES FEARS OF WITCH-RIDDEN FAMILY | (Continued from First Page.) | | | one approaching on_tiptoe. Another moment of silence. Then the door was | pulled opsn suddenly. “If you're out come in said the girl, invisible behind the door. The old woman breathed a sigh of relief when she recognized the reporter she knew. The other was introduced as a famous witch doctor from Ger- many attending the York witcheraft trials, who was eager to try th2 potency of his magic on the demons that were pursuing the family from one house to anather in this time-forsaken island of mill tenements. “Oh, sir, if you can only help us” said the old woman. “They're going to get us. Theyre going to kil Johnnie. He just had a spell with his face tonight. I can't live with it.” Johnnie is about 60 years old, a Ger- man emigrant, who earns his living by salvaging merchandisable trash from the city dump. His face, with jts livid scars and patches of black beard, is the face of a Mephistopheles burning in hel fire. Jealous of Girl, 16. It all started, the woman said, about A year ago, when some neighbors be- come jealous of the 16-year-old daugh- ter pecause of the good-looking gentle- man who was calling on her. At first the witches had confined themselves to pestering. There would be mysterious knocks at the doors and windows. When some member of the family answered, the vistor would be gone, but always there would be a sinister black cat seated a few feet away. Tims after time this had happened. Then one evening old Johnnie was seated alone in the house with two cats. He heard a scratching at the kitchen door. He saw nothing, but one of the cats arched its back, growled and start- ed in frantic pursuit of some invisible object. The other cat was asleep., Three times the cat tore through the house, obviously chasing something, although. the old man is positive, there wasn't a thing to be seen. Early the next evening the cat died. for no known reason. Johnie threw it into the back yard, intending to bury it in the morning. This, the old woman thinks, was a fatal mistake. A bright Summer moon- light followed the dusk. About mid- night she and her daughter looked out the window and saw, sitting on the dead cat’s body, a strange black animal with eyes of fire and a long bushy tail. It looked more like a cat tham any other creature—and yet it wasn't a cat. The next morning the cat’s body had disappeared. The strange black ahima in the moonlight, the old lady says, was 'a vampire of some sort which was en- abled. in some mystical hellish way, to establish a contact with the family through this pet cat. Almost imme- diately Johnie's face began to get worse. For hours at a time it' would be twisted in paroxysms of pain. ‘The doctors could do nothing for him. There were weeks when he couldn't work in the dump. The rent of $8 a month began to run behind. Then she says she saw one of the neighbors shake her apron toward the open bedroom window. covering was agitated as if by rats moving underneath it. The neighbor, she said, had thrown in an apronfuf of . hexes—Ilittle invisible rats. She wouldn't go to bed that night. She warned old Johnnie, but he was tired with his long labors in the dump and disregarded the warning. That night one of the hexes got in his throat and was choking him. They had to call & doctor, or he would have died. They could hear hexes running around in the walls all night. | Gets Infallible Recipe. 8o she consulted a witch doztor., g:‘ve her what was suppcsad to be an allible recipe. She twisted a white ) ENGINEEREAOER, FR WELLER DS At once the | D. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1929 Engineer Is Dead FRANCIS R. WELLLR. Formed Number of Utility| Companies, Also Active in Charity Work. Francis R. Weller, 49 years old, guid- | Ing spirit behind many important | power projects in the South, died yes- terday at his residence, 1500 Farra- gut street. Funeral services will be tomorrow, at the | P. C. Gavan officiating. Burial will be in Mount, Olivet Cemetery. Mr. Weller was recognized as a lead- | er in civil and electrical engineering | circles here and through the South. He had organized a number of utility com- panies and at the time of his death was president of the Allied Utilities Co., North Alabama Utilities Co.. Mississippi Gas Co. and the Consumers’ Gas Co. Active in Charity Work. He also took an active part in chari- | table work, serving as a member of the Board of Catholic Charities, of which he was recently president; as a trustee of the St. Joseph Home and School, and as vice president of the Community Chest of Washington. He was among the directors of the Washington Board of Trade, the Federal-American Bank, | the East Washington Savings Bank | and the Washington Wimsett Co. He | was also a lieutenant commander of the | Naval Reserves. Mr. Weller held memberships in the Rotary Club, the Columbia Club, the City Club, Congressional Country Club. Chain and Sprocket Club, Knights of | Columbus, Columbia Historical Society, American Institute of Electrical En- gineers, American Society of Civil En- gineers and the Washington Society of Engineers, of which he was a charter member. Mr. Weller was born February 16, 1880, a son of M. I and Rita Weller. He was educated at Mount -St Mary's College and at George Washington Uni- versity. Ir 1911, he was married to Miss Sallle A. Harlow of Alexandria, Va. Pall’ Bearers Selected. He is survived by his widow, four children, Frances H., Sallie Rita, Rich- ard Hartman and George Harlow Wel- ler: two brothers. Joseph I. and M. A. Weller, and a sister, Mrs. Charles A. McCarthy. The pall bearers at the services to- morrow will be M. X. Wilberding, Ches- ter A. Blinston, Bernard P. Hessler, Charles E. Edwards. jr., Daniel N. Man- dell and Otto J. Hauck. The following have been announced | as honorary pall bearers: B. F. Saul and F. W. Seibold of the Rotary Club, Arthur May and Allen Pope of the Cathoilc Charities, John Poole and Ralph W. Lee of the Federal American Bank, W. W. Everett and J. Philip Herrmann of the Board of Trade and Charles L. Hutchinson and Royal E. glm‘\‘r‘::hun of the Chain and Sprocket —_— handkerchief in the form of a cross, put some salt in it and burned it on a coal fire. The next day one of her neighbors appeared with a bandage around her face. She said she had been burned over the Kkitchen fire. The old woman knows better. The hatchet-faced woman with the baby told of an experience of her own. She had felt for weeks that she was bewitched. One day a black pig ap- peared in the kitchen door. She threw a butcherknife at it and hit it in- the snout. The next day a neighbor wom- an -appeared with her face bound up. | She said she had had a fight with her husband. The hatchet-faced woman knows better. The victim's nose was almost. cut off. The girl with the red petticoat has been through grammar school. Folks have told her that this “bewitching” is all nonsense and they may be right. But she is taking no chances. She herself saw the black creature sitting on the cat's body in the back yard in the moonlight, and she remembers the terrible time they had the night the hex got into her father’s throat. The family- has consulted - the best witch doctors in York. They are so poor that they can not afford to pay the fees any longer and the witch doctors will not pow-wow for nothing. Thos® who cannot pay can stay bewitched. The { witches realize this. | The old woman does not know exactly how one goes about becoming a witch. She hesitates to voice her suspicions, but she whispers them: “You know I think they sell them- selves to the old fellow.” She understands that anybody who sells her soul to the devil dies a terri- ble death, but that does not help this family. Their witch tormentors still are very much alive, She felt better, however, after telling her story to a famous witch doctor, who was willing to work for nothing. Dur- ing the conversation one of the report- ers had gons boldly into the darkness of the kitchen apd brought back the kerosene can. The famous witch doc- tor wrote some nonsense words on a slip of paper and told the woman these were an infallible protection against the demons. She sald she would be able to sleep for the first time in weeks. Even in the depths of the York tene- ment district there hardly can be many homes like this. Perhaps this is the only one where the terror has stricken so eeply. ‘The femily in the next house was de- cidedly up-to-date. It was that of an Italian muking a batch of wine for the next day's trade. He, his wife and his daughters are entirely free from any belief in witcheraft. ‘We visited some of the former neigh- bors who, the old lady said, had be witched her. They, old women them- selves, bowed down with years of work in the factories, denied it indignantly. Personally, they sald, they didn’t exact- ly believe in witcheraft, although queer | thoroughly into the State Road Com- iCoffee BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Staft Correspondent of The Star: STATE HOUSE. ANNAPOLIS, Md. January 14.—When the General As sembly of Maryland convenes at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, the House of Delegates will be prepared for any kind of fight which the insurgent Demo- | crats, under leadership of Daniel C. Jo- | | seph of the Baltimore City delegation, | may see fit to fling onto the floor. After the sharp rebuffs handed out to them by ths regulars by overwhelming votes at the iwo sessions of last week, the in- surgen's, most of whom are from Balti- more City, have had several days to prepare for the current veek. Regu'-r Democratic leaders admit that they do not know just what objec~ tive the insurgents will seek tomorrow night, but they admit that there prob- ably will be a bomb of some kind thrown. The regulars are mustering their forces to promptly trample out any sparks from the insurgent camp seeking to start a conflagration in the regular camp or at the Ritchie administration. None of the numerous bills which ave been introduced during the current sion to date have gone to the State printer, it was said, so that committees | cannot bring in favorable reports for consideration of the measures. These bills must be printed and on the mem- | bers’ decks before they can have con- sideration on the floor. It is very likely that the committee on rules will report back favorably the insurgent bill, intro- duced by Joseph, which would require committee chairmen to explain on the! floor each bill which it is sought to have the House of Delegates pass. Inquest Committee to Form. The grand inquest committee probab!; will effect its organization Wednesday. Ths is a committee to which the State constitution gives authority to in-| vestigate almost anything within the | State, and the insurgents were expected | to use it as a means of conducting an- | other investigation of the State Roads Commission. The commission matter already has been before the grand jury. and several employes are serving terms in the penitentiary. A new com- mission is being appointed. and regular Democrats will point to the fact that Gov. Ritchie has done everything pos- sible to bring order out of chaos, and took prompt steps to correct ths irreg- ularities as soon as.they were brought to his attention. However, this i= not expected to stem the insurgents in their anti-administration fight. They have already made the charge that the grand inquest committee has & majority of the regulars and that any efforts of the insurgents to get in a real investigation will be overruled byi the mere power of numbers. However, | Speaker E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring | has said that the insurgents would be given every opportunity to air anything | they wanted to, and could go just as mission scandal as they desired. Speaker Lee said that the administration has nothing to hide, as it promptly handled the matter when it came to a head. Coalition Drive Expected. There is a coalition between the in- surgent Democrats and some of the Republicans, particularly in the Balti- more City delegation, and these to- gether are expected to make a drive on the administration and the regulars in the lower house. The first effort, how- ever, was squelched, when efforts were made to force Speaker Lee to fell all he knew about an alleged financial lobby behind the insurgent and coalition ele- ment. There is a strong " probability that they will get the details of this later in the session, but there is one thing quite certain in the minds of the regulars and that is they will not get it by force, but will get it when the coalitionists make some direct attack in the lower body, and they will get it as a broadside in a counter attack. The House of Delegates Wednesday will get the proposed law putting a State-wide anti-liquor law in the State. This is a bill sponsored, in fact pre- pared, by the Maryland Anti-Sal League. Its success is doubtful, al- though the regular leaders say that they do not know what they will do with it, because they have no knowledge of its provisions. As & matter of fact many counties in the State have their individual liquor laws. The bill is designed to make use of the State police machinery for prohibition, a decision of the State at- torney general some years ago having ruled that the State officers could not be used for the enforcement of the na- tional prohibition act, The proposed additional bond issus | for the Rockville Courthouse Jail is | to come before the present lature | but at this time the proposed measure has the opposition of Senator Jones of Kensington. He is the sole opponent of | the measure and his objections are based on the fear of an increase in the tax rate. However, the members of the lower house are for it, and they predict that the measure will bs passed because the people are for it, and the new building should be erected and addi- | tional ground obtained because it is de- manded by the progress of the times. SPEEDING CASE DELAYED.! Second Defendant in Arlington, Court Is Fined $15. Special Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON, Va,, January 14—R. W. 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