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Evening star., 1922-12-25

A dark and rather gloomy Christ
mas for Wing Ling Wen frightened
up suddenly today when Mildred
Wen, his seventeen-year-o daugh-
ter. reappeared at his apartment. at
316 9th street, after mysteriously
vanishing last Friday night. when
preparations were being made for a
trip to New York. where she was to
marry a wealthy young Chinaman
today.
She walked into the restaurant be-
meath the living quarters of her par
ents and sat down at a table. Her
father saw her as she entered the
door. The woman's bureau of the po-
lice department, is declared to be re-
sponsible for her return. A police
woman located a woman, formerly an
employe of Wen's restaurant, who
knew of friends of the girl.
Rumors had come to the ears of the
policewomen that the girl was stay
ing with these friends in the north
west section of the city. One of the
policewomen convinced the woman
formerly employed at the restaurant
that it would be to the best interests
of all concerned II the girl should re-
turn home Immediately.
PoIicewoman's Duty Done.
When the policewoman entered the
restaurant she witnessed a scene which
would have made a crackerjack plot
for a Dickens Christmas Carol. There
was the girl, crying. Her father was
Evening star., 1922-12-25
ALASKA TRIP AGAIN
AIM OF PRESIDENT
Tentative Plans Made for
Tour to Include North
west Country.

President Harding, it is understood
on good authority. is again laying
plans for his long delayed trip to
Alaska, which he hopes to make some
time next summer, unless prevented
by Mrs. Harding's health or by ad-
ministrative exigencies.
The plans for this journey are only
in very tentative form at present. and
it is not expected they will be put
into definite shape before spring.
The President feels now that he
cannot definitely make a decision re-
garding the Alaska trip until the en-
tire administration program has been
cleared up and until it is certain that
the possibility Of an extra session in
terfering with his plans is out of the
question.
Last summer and the summer be-
fore President Harding expressed
keen desire to visit Alaska, but on
each occasion duties of his office would
not permit him to leave Washington
for any length of time.
Would Visit Farms.
It is believed that if he does make
the trip this summer he will visit
also the farming communities of/the
middle and far northwest, in which he
has expressed on various occasions an
especial interest. He has not had a
real vacation since he has been in
the White House.
He is known to be deeply interested
in the development of the rich. natu-
raj resources of the Alaskan territory
and for q long period he has studied
conditions there as they have been
brought to him from time to time for
personal investigation.
He is anxious to see the great do
main Of Alaska and to personally in
vestigate conditions there SO he may
be in a better position to plan for tho
development Of that territory.
It. Is hoped by the President that
he will be able to make a short trip with
Mrs. Harding to Florida in March. In
fact, March has been tentatively set by
him to leave Washington for two or
three weeks stay in the southern
climate.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
L1sciNeLaVarreHad
Boa Constructor
for Pet.
Vent With Brother
on Exploration
for Science.
Special Dispatch TO The Star

Special Dispatch TO The Star
NEW YORK, December 25-A tale
of 3O0-mile trip into the British
Guiana "bush." where a great many
men have dared not to venture, to get
diamond. is just one of the many
appealing stories of the far Mazaruni
river jungles brought back to New
York by eighteen-year-old Lucille La
Varre, a student of George Washing
ton University. With her brother,
William J. La Varre Of New York
and Washington. supervisor of research
expeditions in the South American
jungles. Miss La Varre has just re-
turned aboard the liner Van Dyke.
As she reminisced about her trip
from the luxury of the Biltmore Hotel
today, it was not of the diamond that
she talked. but of her pet boa con-
strictor. of the jungle wonders,
moonlight nights on the South Amer
lean rivers and of the friendly black
people. many of whom had never seen
white woman before.
"Loved Whole Thing"
st loved the whole thing" she said.
IT was frightened a good many times,
but it was worth it. 1 carried
pistol, because I don't know how to
use a gun. With the pistol I shot
snake, sloth, a number of birds,
several big iguanas and couple Of
monkeys.~and I never would kill an
other They groan just like human
beings. 1 hate to kill things.
"One of the Indians killed a mother
baboon and they brought the baby to
me. l tried to take care of 1t. but
didn't know what monkeys eat. l
Evening star., 1922-12-25
CHRISTMAS DELAYS
MURDER WARRANTS
LuII Occurs in Probe of Out
rage by Masked Men in
Louisiana.
ONE SUSPECT IN JAIL.
Military Keep Close Watch for
Threatened Outbreak of
Factions.
ONE SUSPECT IN JAIL.

RASTROP, La, December 25. -
Christmas brought lull in the ac-
tivities of the state in its efforts to
solve the Morehouse kidnapping and
murder mystery.
All Indications were additional muir
der warrants would not be issued on
the day Of peace on earth"
Two companies Of state troops ate
their holiday dinners from mess kits
in the shadow Of the parish jail,
which now contains solitary suspect
in connection with the murder OF
Watt Danie.s and Thomas Richards.
Eight miles distant, at Mer Rouge,
another company of troops relaxed
from a week of strenuous activity.
The military men were retained at
Mer Rouge by the governor of the
state, who feared to leave the cltl-
zens to themselves.
Reports that bloodshed was fmmi-
nent between factions of the towns
people, who have been quietly armlns
themselves since the depredations OF
the masked and white-robed men on
the Bastrop-Mer Rouge highway last
August, when five men were KIDNAPPED,
caused a cancellation of the orcef
for the troops to join those at Bastrop
Christmas eve, featured by the
funerals Of the men whose decapi-
tated bodies were cast up by Lake
La Fourche Friday, passed qu1efiy.
The throngs of farmers and townsfoik
who attended the burial ceremonies
at the Daniels plantation returned
home without outward expression.
The casket bearing the body OF
Daniels, a world-war veteran, with
American flag. A military escort
conducted the bodies to the graves
and taps was sounded and salute
fired as the two caskets were lowered
in their final resting places.
Former Deputy Sheriff Burnett,
occupying the solitary cell, main
tains his innocence of the crime the
state has charged to him. He bears
a reputation here as being substan-
tial citizen.
The dragnet for suspects is ex-
pected to be thrown out tomorrow.
Department of Justice investigators.
who for several months have been
making efforts to ferret out those
responsible for the kidnapping. have
the names, it is said, of practically
band and their movements are said
to be carefully watched. The sus-
poets will face the open hearing or
dered for January 5.
Several men wanted as witnesses
or accomplices. it is said, have gone
to towns in Arkansas and Mississippi,
but can be apprehended whenever the
Attorney General 50 directs, the fed
eral detectives declared.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
Woman Braves
Death by Fire
To Save Turkey

With smudgy face and hands
badly blistered. but still clutching
tight a luscious, well cooked fat
turkey, Mrs. A. Shuppes of 1877 d
street southeast smiled benign]y
on firemen from three engine COM
panies as they rushed to her
apartment shortly before noon to-
day to extinguish a fire caused
by grease overfowing onto the stove
from the pan which held the tasty
bird.
Thank you. but have not time
today to go to a hospital" she
laughed, in response to proffered
assistance, as she carefully placed
her Christmas dinner on a platter
in the room.
The flames were quickly extin-
guished and the loss from water
was estimated at about $50. But
what is more" added the occupant
of the place, "the turkey wasn't
spoiled"
Evening star., 1922-12-25
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Christmas Day has come
again with its message Of peace
and good will to all mankind.
Today we remember, after
weeks of preparation, those
who are nearest and dearest to
us.
1t is with the hope of adding
to the days satisfaction that I,
as president Of the Associated
Charities, make a last-minute
appeal for those remaining
Christmas Opportunities whose
homes are still hanging il the
balance.
I trust that many more will
find It in. their hearts today to
remember these neighbors Of
ours with their gifts.
Up to this morning, approx
mately $4,000 had been received.
leaving fully $1,000 still needed
to save these homes for the
coming year.
In the midst Of the citys joy
and prosperity let it not hap
pen that any Of these-the fifty
three children in these fourteen
familieS-need be separated
from their own mothers the
coming year because there were
not enough folks in Washing
ton who cared!
Contributions may be sent to
John Joy Edison, treasurer, As
ISOLATED Charities, 933 n street
northwest.
.tSigned) Cuno H. Rudolph.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
SON RESCUES SIX
NGAS-F|LLEDH HOME
Returning From Midnight
Mass, AIexandrian Finds
Whole Family Unconscious.
LETS IN AIR, CALLS AID
Quick Work of Roy Goods Source
of Christmas Gratitude at
Hospital.
LET'S IN AIR, CALLS AID
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ALEXANDRIA,, Va, December 25.-
If Roy Goods. 1901 King street, had
gone to bed at the usual hour last
night, instead of attending a mid
night church service. he and six other
occupants of his home might have
been found dead from gas this Christ
mas day.
For when young Goods returned at
2 o'clock this morning from mass at
st. Mary's Church he was just in time
to save the entire household from the
fumes, believed to have escaped from
leaky hot-water heater in the cellar
Entering the front door, light
heartedly thinking of the approaching
dawn of the happiest day of the year,
Roy suddenly detected the nauseating
odor Of gas. 1t permeated the house
SO strongly that he found it difficult
to advance.
Opens House to Air.
Realizing that those nearest and
dearest to him were sleeping, Goods
threw open the windows and hurried
from room to room, fighting off the
effects Of the gas until he had rescued
them.
He summoned aid and removed
them all to the hospital. where DR..
Llewellyn Powell worked feverishly
until he had revived them. Although
they are spending Christmas day in
the hospital, their Yuletide festivities
marred, they are thankful that their
plight was discovered in time.
Those overcome were: Mrs. Eliza
beth Goods. Roy's mother: Mrs.
Genevieve Mooney, his sister; George
Mooney. the sisters husband; Dorothy,
the fourteen-month-ol baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mooney; Miss Margaret Goods,
also sister Of Roy, and Lucille
Davis, ten years old.
Benjamin Goods, the young mans
father, is a passenger conductor on
the Southern railway, and was out on
his run last night. He will not re-
turn home until late today.
Although young Goods is not a Cath
olic, it is not unusual for those not of
that faith to attend the midnight
Christmas service.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
PRE-WAR ZEST MARKS
FESTIVITIES IN PARIS
Prevailing High Prices No Damper
on Christmas Eve Parties in
Homes and Cafes.

PARIS, December 25.-Christmas
eve festivities in Paris were carried
out with pre-war zest. despite the
prevailing high prices. Even folks in
moderate circumstances disdained the
traditional blood pudding for more
aristocratic menus. The prices in
restaurants were slightly lower than
last year, with the result that the
cafes drew capacity crowds, the rev.
elers dining, dancing and singing un-
til morning.
Large congregations attended mid
lIUht mass at the churches, where
m!Yiant musical programs were con-
~, ,fpt.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
new ORLEANS ADMITS
CHRISTMAS IS "WET"
Hundred "Boisterous Drunks''
Jailed, Others Sent to Their
Homes by Police.

NEW ORLEANS. December 25-
With the parish Jail holding more
than 100 boisterous Christmas
"drunks'' and hundreds Of others sent
to their homes by the police. the holi-
day is otherwise passing quietly.
with all business suspended.
That "a wet" Christmas prevails
here was admitted by the Rev. A. H
Zeimer of the Antf-Saloon League,
who said:
81 believe liquor can be purchased
in almost all restaurants in New Or
leans. We have excellent work from
the federal officers. but they are so
few in number they cannot hope to
cope with the situation
Evening star., 1922-12-25
PoLIsHJAPANEsE PACT.
Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
TOXIC, December GA new Polish
Japanese treaty Of cqmmercs and
navigation will be signed shortly, the
draft of the text having already been
completed. Similar treaties, accord
ing to the Japanese authorities, also
will be concluded with the Czecho-
slovakian government Rumania and
Finland.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
WOULD REVIVE TREATY.
japanese Anxious to Renew Com.
merce Pact With Spain.

Nv the Associated Press.
TOXIC, December 6.-The Spanish
Japanese treaty Of commerce and
navigation will expire on October 30
next year and will be abolished, in
accordance with a notice to that ef-
feet recently received by the govern
ment. Investigations are being made
with the hope OF reviving the old
treaty. Pending the conclusion Of
a new pact, a protocol In all probable
ity will be concluded to meet the i'm
mediate needs of the two powers.
Evening star., 1922-12-25
d. C.. GIRL TELLS OF TRIP
IN SOUTH AMERICAN BUSH
gave it milk and crackers and
bananas. but one morning l went out
and found the little thing dead.
Had Baby Constructor.

Had Baby Constructor.
Another Indian brought me
baby constructor. I kept that in a
box. 1t was only about two-and-a-
half inches in diameter. but 1t ate
whole lizard every day."
The Indians are not wild. Miss La
Varre said, though they are thor
oughly primitive.
II didn't tell the folks that I was
going to take her into the jungles,
her brother interrupted guiltily. fhey
thought she was only going as far as
Georgetown. A great many men have
heen afraid to take the trip she dio.
She really faced danger"
La varre announced an important
shipment of mineral, botanical ana
life specimens for Harvard Unlversit!
and the American Museum of Natural
History which will arrive in April He
is to go to Washington soon where ne
will inspect rare animals and birdS
he sent to the National Geological,
Park, which are just being released to
public view from their hidden. cages
The new acquisitions to the Zoo. ac-
cording to La Varre. include two capa-
bara. the largest type of rodent in the
world, large as a dog, three feet long
with a two-foot tail. Another prize
is mata -mata, an ancient species OF
turtle with a long SnOut SuTHiouHteu
by great horn. associated by natur-
alists with prehistoric reptiles.
new variety of monkey with short
woody tail is contained in the ship
ment.
Diamond Rush Under Way.
La Varre said that diamond rush
is under way at Georgetown as a re-
suit of discoveries of alluvial dia-
monds washed down the Mazoruni
valley from volcanic craters. He de-
clared he had 1000 Indians and 5000
blacks at work in development work
both in the diamond field and in tim
ber. Besides supervising the re-
search expeditions. he also is engaged
in mining and timber prospecting.
Aborigines in the South American
jungles, according to the explorer and
prospector. were all but wiped out in
the last epidemic of Spanish FLU"
They were reduced, he said, to one
tenth by the scourge.
These aborigines are not the fight
ing. warlike type sometimes described.
La Varre said. Unlike the picturesque
North American Indian, they are
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do. extras % score Ssh; do. jirsts IS
to 81 score 33Q3S; packing stock cur
rent make No. . q.
EGGS-Unsettled: receipts 1872
cases; fresh gathered extra tirsts 439
Al: do. firstS II q AZ; nearby and near
by western hennerY whites tirSts to
extras Asa 30; do henncry browns cN-
and mixed coIors firsts to extras 42Q
46: refrigcra tors tirsts o1M 30.
OTATOES-Stcady; Maine $50 lbs.
425m460: states $50 lbs. 5000 i4o:
Long Island bbl. 525Gl l7J; sweets,
Jersey basket 115 4250; southern Dbl
325 $50.
per bag; red Dbl. 425 q 800.
The raw sugar market was firm and
were nominally unchanged at Lilo
cents for Cubas cost and freight, equal
to 3.G7 for centrifugal. 1t was rumor-
Cd that sales had been made TO op-
orators for February shipment at =
cents cost and freight, equal to S.13
Tor centrifugal.
Raw sugar futures were frmer on
covering and scattered buying by
Wall street interests prompted by the
8 cader tone to the spot market. FL
nal prices were to II points net
HIGHER. March 2.27, May 2.41, July
266 September 2.7s.
The market for refined was unchang-
81 to 10 points lower. one refner hav.
ing reduced list prices to the basis Lf
) 90 cents for fine graduated with
~ at $40. The demand was made.
1.itn refirers still behind on deliveries
Refined futures were without tram
sactions. CLOSING unchanged to 10
raiate net lower with March at o.5o,
R:,s,sf5 GO and july $40.
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might, and I believe that henceforth
this spirit will likewise be potent in
composing some of our domestic
troubles.
II am friendly to the aspirations of
laboring men for the betterment of
their condition, and am a
firm believer in their right to Or
ganize and to function as or
CARNATIONS. cannot, however,
sympathize with the idea that
the right of the railway employees to
strike outweighs the right of the men.
women and children of this nation to
be protected against the disastrous
results of railway strikes. This sim
ply means that some remedy other
than the strike should be found for
obtaining justice for the railway
worker, without, at the same time,
destroying the public.
1.-THE question remains. could the
railway employees get justice under
such n system? Their suspicion of
courts and tribunals may be based, to
a limited extent, upon occasional acts
of judicial oppression, but largely
they arise from the incendiary litera-
ture that is continually fed to labor
ing men by demagogical aspirants for
leadership, who sweepingly condemn
all government agencies and officials
their motives and conduct as well as
the motives and conduct Of all con-
servatiVe labor leaders.
eff the Congress of the United
States would confer upon the Rail
road Labor Board the power to en-
force its decisions, there is not a
railroad in the United States that
would not be brought into prompt
compliance with the rulings of the
Board.
"But the employees do not desire
ar enforceable law. They mistakenly
apprehend that IL would work a
hardship on them. It would work no
hardship on them or anybody else
1t would stabilize railroad labor con-
ditions. and benefit everybody con-
cerned. 1t would be a blessing to
every employe ard to his wife and
children"
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latter was here inspecting topO-
graphical work, over the prospect OF
federal aid in developing irrigation
for the settlement farms on Molokai.
the leper island. where the initial
steps toward rchabilita.ip will Ice
taken.
The cost of the irrigation system
is estimated at not less lhan $1,000
600 by Jorgen JorgCnscn, commits
sion engineer. 1t Will ncccssitatr
100000 feet OF tunneling through the
volcanic structure of Molokai amt
presents an additional problem 10
the commission. for Jorg"nscn stated
that the work could oe done only
by japanese, and the employment o.
alien labor by the commission Is
forbidden By the homes act. He
recommended that the commission
should take measures 10 obtain per
mission to employ japanese lalor
but the commission mas taken no
action, as yet.
Members OF the faculty of the
University of Hawaii are engaged ~
making a survey Of marketing and
food conditions in the territory for
the benefit of the commission and its
wards The survey results will b"
used as a guide to indicate What
crops should be raised by the set
tiers.
Professor Elwood Mead, head of
the College of Agriculture of the
University of California. has consert
ed to come to Hawaii in MAY 10 ad-
wise the commission. Cooke an
nounced. DIR. Mead has acted as The
head of the California state farm
development board and Cooke said
that he would be able to render val
liable assistance in the Hawaiian re-
Mobilization project.
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Wants Tribunal
to Govern Rail
Labor and Employers

New York, Jan. 3G--The only prac-
ticable, effective and Just method
that the government can set up for
the adjustment of railroad labor con-
trOversies is adjudication by q COM
petent tribunal, whose decisions shall
be enforceable by suitable penalties,
Ben w. Hooper, public member of
the United States Railroad Labor
Board, told the Civic Federation in an
address here today.
This was added by Mr. Hooper to
his other five propositions looking
toward equitable settlement of rail-
road disputes. These were:
THAT efficient and uninterrupted
transportation is indispensable to the
public welfare.
THAT the carriers and their en-
ployes jointly owe such transporta-
ton to the public.
THAT the Federal Government has
the right. as matter of contract,
public policy and police power. and
owes to the people the duty to in
sure such transportation.
"That the Governments duty and
tHe people riEpts are Flolated by
permitting railroad labor contro-
tersies to be settled by economic
warfare.
THAT. If railway employees are de-
prived, for the promotion of the COM
mon good of the legal right to strike,
some other remedy of equal or su-
perior efficacy must be provided"
Speaking in general terms. only
two plans have ever been devised for
the settlement of railway labor con-
troversies," continues Mr. Hoop
er. These are: By econom-
ic wharf.-the strike and by ad-
Publication. / purposely omit men,
ton of such expedients as media
ton, voluntary arbitration, etc, in
their varying forms. The difference
between the strike and adjudication
is the difference between force and
law
"Just now the nations are endea-
voring at Washington to curtaii the
ancient doctrine of the supremacy Of
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Boston Produce Market

Boston, Jan. 30.
EFEF-ChoiCe whole cattle la 49,.
BUTTER-E,xtras 37iQSS; firsts "a
036. ~
firsts lSM19.
CORN-No. 2 yellow 69M 20.
EGGS-Nearby hcnnery 81 q %;
western extras 47M4S.
FLOITR-Srring special patent 1876
H. sacks, short S35@S7o; standard 100
HAY-No. . timothy o7G2s.
thanksgiving 25G27.
OATS-Fancy 40 pounds So u 81.
PoRk-Medium backs 2475 a 2515.
POTATOES-Green Mountains go O
$50 per 400 pounds.
SGGAR-American Sugar Refinery
quotes $40 cents in 100-barrel lots
less 2 per cent. for cash.
VEAI-1SG
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Stock Markets
NEW YORK MARKET
satIres Of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks

3.,. Jan. 30-The buoyan'
|.IrlEn exchanges. which
| b., based mainly on the i'm
.Nuwu by European eco
ua. was the outstanding
II'N's financial markets.
UI.v uu London made n
..H.r ~ 81 cents 70 Sl.N.
tl..IJttou in over two years.
.'rilu. Italian. Dutch and
.I. u,utral rates rose 10 10
Ufu German nAtks were
.,u, showing 10 pcrcepJi-
.turre was unusually
iI,uaaytIons 81 about 900
nc tho sma Hest for any
Iu.s YEAR. Price changes
..ufusing, popular shares
motors. minor steel ana
display occasional
v... limited 10 some 81 the
aUscialties comprising
.'.rr issues. but the move
'... stocks seemed largely
nal origin.
Is .,r cont. opening rate for call
mtl the final half hour.
If.i demands forced the rate
..tnt Time funds were ~len-
NOR. at ~ 30 ~ per cent,
.fho let 9Th OF maturity.
Industrial conditions were
|f fHr lower prices quoted Tor
.umodlties. PARTICULAR j"
f.l'.g refined sugar ana sag.
Tendency - coppcrs and allied
TORN and southwestern ter
'H .rted only moderate IN
"lge movements.
bonds were responsive to
.r'n ~ International remi
'.. majority - that group. N
.r.i Kingdoms OF 1912,
NI' various Europ an mu-
ruuNug appreciable gains.
bonds notably Liberty issues'
.IHfI.pI section. were IL -
Total sales. par value,
f.CI $50 OpO