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Evening star., 1922-03-27
PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL
RESTORING RIGHTS TO
10000 u. S. WORKERS

President Harding today signed
the bill. recently passed by Senate
and House. restoring the rights of
retirement to $4,000 government
employees recently denied them by
decision of the Attorney General,
who held that those covered" into
the classified service by executive
order were not eligible for retire.
ment.
The bill makes it possible for
those administering the retire.
ment law to SO construe it's Ian
guage as to include in the benefits
of the law the approximately
$4,000 employees who did not take
regular examinations for the serv-
ice. but were given classified status
by executive order.
Signing of the bill by the Presi-
dent today set at rest fears that
approximately 5000 retired en-
ployes. of whom nearly 1000 live
here. would be deprived of their
April ] annuity checks.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
Cabinet Decides to Take
Part in Efforts to Check
Present Border Crisis.
REPUBLICANS AND FREE
STATERS IN RIFLE CLASH
Death Toll in Belfast Disorders
Reaches Fifty-Six-Snipers
Shoot Farmer Dead.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 27.-Ihe Irish
Free State bill passed its third and
I. final reading I'm the house OF lords
today.
BELFAST. March 27.-The Ulster
cabinet today accepted the invitation
extended by Colonial Secretary
Churchill to a conference in London
of Irish leaders, called in view of the
disturbed conditions in Ireland.
Premier Sir James Craig, tele-
graphing acceptance in behalf of the
Ulster cabinet, said members of the
northern government will arrive in
London Wednesday.
Promise Death for Death.
A notice posted near the town hall
in Dundalk, County Louth, a strong
Sim Fein center, near the northern
border of the free state territory.
calls attention to the absence of any
resolution by the non-Catholic body
Of County Louth against murderous
acts. and calls upon the Protestants
to "act Immediately. failing which
we are determined to use the same
means as they in Belfast used to our
fellow Catholics"
''On and after March 2s." adds the
notice. for every Catholic man.
or maltreated, SO also shall the same
quantity Of helpers of the systematic
murder OF our fellow Catholics meet
the same fate"
The notice concludes; "Signed by
order of the silent but sure mes
sensers."
Seven Week-End Murders.
Deaths in the hospitals of two
wounded persons late last night brought
the total of fatalities in the disorders
of the week end to seven
Up to O'Clock Sunday evening the
total number of persons killed thus
far In March in the disorders here was
hfty-six. They included fifty civilians.
three regular policemen, two special
constahles and military officer.
Two men and girl were killed at
midnight Saturday night. The gIrl
was struck by stray shot fired by the
military during a panic caused by a
woman shouting murder" while in an
alteration with her husband. The
people in the neighborhood. fearing an
attack was being carried out, screamed
and blew whistles. Military and de-
tense corps contingents Immediately
appeared and opened fire. the military
using machine guns. Two men were
shot by unknown persons in other parts
of the city during the night
There were two more deaths Sun
day in the hospitals of persons
wounded in ARRAYS last week.
First Death ON Border,
The first fatality along the disput-
ed border between the north and
south occurred yesterday, when a
man feeding cattle near Callendon
was shot by a sniper from the Free
State side and died later in the Ar
magh 1nfirmary. Firing along the
border continued yesterday and two
bridges were blown 6p at Carrick-
more, Tyrone.
The funeral of Owen MacMahon,
the saloonkeeper, and the members OF
his family who We're murdered in
their home early Friday morning
were held yesterday. Large crowds
attended. Joseph Devlin, irish ma
tionalist member of parliament for
Belfast was among the mourners.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
Insane Woman, High in Heetop
DetGes Rescuers for 10 Hours

After defying hospital authorities,
members of the police and Are depart
ments and officials Of the Army and
Navy for about nineteen hours. Mrs.
Annie Lymboropolos. IN inmate of St.
Eiizabeths Hospital. was rescued
from her perilous perch in a tree,
leaning over the edge of a ravine
seventy-fve feet deep. in the hospital
grounds. at 1880 o'clock today by T.
w. Southall. an attendant of the hos
pital. who climbed fire ladder placed
on top of a fifty-foot improvised scaf-
fold. and carried the protesting wom-
an to safety
The rescue was rendered exceeding
ly difficult because of the determine
ton of the woman to remain in the
tree, and she used all her strength
and energy to prevent Southail from
carrying her down the ladder. Several
hundred officials and attaches of the
hospital held their breaths while sn,
was subdued.
Fire Nets Spread Below.
The fire department, under the direc-
tion of Chief Watson. previously had
placed about the foot of the ravine
several wide fire nets in anticipation
that the patient would carry out
threats to leap the distance of some
hundred feet to the rocks below.
The peculiar situation brought
about by the woman's escape COM
pletely stopped the routine work of
the Government Hospital for the In
sane, and Supt. White. Red Cross OFF,
cials and Army and Navy officers at
tached to the Medical Corps had
studied for hours as to how best to
effect the rescue.
Even the strategy of having her
husband bring their baby to the foot
of the tree and appeal for the bsby's
sake that she come down, failed. Mrs.
Lymboropolos shouted loudly that the
baby was not hers. explaining that
her baby did not wear that kind of
a hat.
Keeps Up a Harransue.
You can't fool me-" she said. The
baby. a fifteen-month-o -old boy. looked
Evening star., 1922-03-27
WILLIAM PHILLIPS NAMED
TO SUCCEED FLETCHER
Massachusetts, Man Appointed by
President Harding as Under
secretary of State.

President Harding today named
William Phillips of Massachusetts,
to be undersecretary of state. to
succeed William p. Fletcher, who
has been appointed ambassador to
Belgium.
At the same time the President
named Leland Harrison, of Illinois,
to be assistant secretary of state TO
succeed Frederick M. Dearing.
These nominations were sent to the
Senate by the President this after
noon and it is expected at the White
House that they will be readily con-
firmed. 1t is understood that each of
the Presidents selections were made
upon the recommendation of Secre-
tary of State Hughes.
The newly selected undersecretary
OF state has been In the diplomatic
service for a number of years and is
at present the United States minister
to The Hague. Mr.. Harrison has
been in the diplomatic service a num-
Der of years, and was appointed as
sfstant to Mr.. Fletcher shortly after
he was appointed undersecretary.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
LIGHT RATE CUT
LIKELY THIS WEEK
Five Per Cent Reduction Be-
cause of Injunction Net
to Affect Consumer.

A reduction in electric light rates
is expected to be made by the Public
Utilities Commission this week. it was
reported at the District building
today.
1t was reliably indicated today
that the commission would order a
per cent cut from present household
rate of the Potomac Electric Power
Company. effective April 1.
Any lowering of the rate will not
be felt by the users Of current i'm
mediately. however, in view of the
injunction obtained by the Potomac
Electric Power Company In 1sl7
which permits them to collect the old
rate of 10 cents per kilowAtt hour
until the United States Supreme Court
settles the question Of whether the
valuation placed on the company
property by the commission is fair.
Company Would Feel Cut.
A reduction would be felt by the
company. for the reason that under
the terms of the injunction the COM
pany is only permitted to keep the
amount allowed by the commission
setting aside the balance to be re.
turned to consumers il the commits.
sions valuation is sustained.
should the company finally win in
the valuation case it would get the
money impounded since 1917, now
amounting to more than 100000 .
At the present time the company
collects from all households 10 cents
per kilowatt hour. but only keeps a
fraction above s cents.
1t is understood the cut to be or.
dered by the commission at this time
" i'll bring down to slightly less thar
s cents the amount the company may
keep.
Rate Reduced Last Year.
For several years after the iniunc-
ton was obtained the commission's
rate was cents even and the com.
pany impounded 2 cents. Then the
commission allowed an increase te
Sh cents and the company set aside
IL cents.
Last summer the commission or.
iered a per cent reduction from the
Sh cents rate, which made the rate
a fraction above cents.
Whatever change in the present
rate is ordered by the commission al
this time will have to be approved
by the District Supreme Court before
it becomes effective. because of th'
1917 injunction. which remains in eff
feet until the litigation is settled.
The immediate effect of s pei
cent cut in the rate would be to in
crease the amount the company mus
impound.
Evening star., 1922-03-27

sleepily upward. apparently enjoying
the situation. The woman previous
ly had disowned her husband, but she
recognized him when he brought the
baby this morning. Throughout the
night and all this morning she kept
up continuous harangue concerning
her baby. her family, her husband
declared. has been full Of trouble.
When 1t was seen that Mrs. Lynn
boropolos would not yield to persua :
sion, she having steadfastly refused
since o'clock yesterday evening TO
allow any one to come near her. by
screaming her threat to jump from
her perch in the tree, Supt. White this
morning directed the construction de-
partment Of the hospital to erect a
scaffold on the side of the ravine. ad-
mfttedly a precarious task, and the
department worked franticaly Tor
more than three hours building the
scaffold to a sufficient height to frus-
trate any attempts of the woman to
leap into the ravine and at the same
time close enough to her to enable
the setting up of q ladder.
Exhausted by Exposure.
The woman was taken in charge by
nurses of the hospital and was car
ried back to her ward In q state OF
frenzy.
She did not put up the fight. how
over. that had been expected, due,
probably to the fact that she was
nearly exhausted from her long ex-
poseure in the topmost limb of the
tree. -,
Mrs. Lymboropolos displayed what
attaches of the hospital described as
vitality and endurance found only In
one of her condition. Clad only in
white skirt and waist, when she
climbed the tree her bare feet and
limbs bled profusely at times
throughout the night.
The woman was in a special room
Of the @ ward last evening when she
suddenly broke the pane of glass IN
the window and without warning
leaped some ten feet to the ground.
Nurses ran through the doorway af-
ter the patient who in the meantime
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Evening star., 1922-03-27
ORGANIZERS WORK
|NNON-UN|ONM|NES
Carrying on Campaign to
Gain Support for Com
ing Strike.
By the Ass0cia ted Press.

BY the Ass0cia ted Press.
- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 81
With plans complete for the nation
wide coal strike. union leaders here
today awaited developments in their
program for complete tie-up of the
country's coal industry through their
call to 100000 non-union miners to
join the half million union workers
in the suspension Of work next Fri
day midnight.
No action, however, was contem-
plated to be taken from the unions
International headquarters here to-
day, but district union onscials, bor-
'dering the non-union fields. were ex-
pected to make formal calls for action
on the part of the non-union work
ers The nature of the activities
among the non-union workers had
been left to the discretion OF the dis
trict leaders, but within each field II
was understood the union already
had many organizers who had been
enrolled some time ago as non-union
employees.
Interest in the program of striking
the non-union fields centered largely
country's non-union men are en-
ployed West Virginia, too. was a
center of union attention, for many
stubborn battles have been fought
there with the operators. Other
states with non-union workers whom
the union hoped to draw into the
strike were Alabama. Kentucky
Tennessee. Colorado and Maryland.
Omcials at Homes. :
International President John l.
Lewis was not at headquarters here
today, having advised his office tina,
he expected to return here from
Springfield, ILL.,, his home. on Wednes.
day. Other of the unions executive
officers we're also absent, Secretary
William Green being at his home
in Coshocton, Ohio, and Vice Presi-
dent Philip Murray in New York, to
take Mr.. Lewis place as head of the
miners subcommittee in conference
with anthracite operators over a new
wage contract
While developments in the New
York conference this week were ex-
pected to clarity the stand of the
operators, union men here held out
no hope that the walkout in the
anthracite districts would be averted
On the contrary they expected the
negotiations would continue some
time after April 1, and that hard
coal fields would be tied up pending
the settlement.
For the soft coal fields, no settle.
ment was ih sight for any field al
though both northern West Virgins
7ConfiniIed nn Pspe CoiIInn ( -
Evening star., 1922-03-27
D. C. DAY SlDETRAcKED.
Chairman Focht Protests Forfeitur,
OF Committee Rights.

: 2
District day was again set aside in
the House. and the Army appropria-
tion bill, which was unfinished busi-
ness. was under consideration today.
Chairman Focht OF the House Dis
trict committee protested against the
forfeiture Of the rights Of his COM
mittee at time when there is con-
siderable legislation. Of Importance to
the District pending He said. how
ever, that in view of the fact that
there appears to be greater interest
in the Army appropriation bill. and in
view of the fact that the House lead
ers have promised to give extra; time
In the House for consideration Of I'M
portant District business. he had con-
sented to step aside. The so-called
pawnbrokers' bill 10 undnished busi-
ness on the District calendar, and
was expected to come up today.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
PHIPPs BILL HEARING.
Proponents and. Opponents
School for Tubercular Heard.

The Senate District committee this
Afternoon gave hearing to the pro-
ponents and opponents Of the Phipps
bill directing the District Commission
ers to, erect the new school for tuber-
cular children on the Upshur street
tract owned by the government
Col. Keller, the Engineer Commits
sioner; Senator Phipps, and represen-
tatives Of the Piney Branch Citizens'
Association were among those hoard.
The association has been fighting the
plan to erect the school on this tract.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
Il 1|NJURED|NPA PANIC
IN Street CAR FIRE
Men Push Aside Women to
Get to Entrance Of 0ne-Man
Car-SM at Hospital.

A panic caused slight injury and
shock to a score OF passengers on .
one-man street car of the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company.
between 18th and 18th streets on G
street. this morning. when the con-
troller box caught fire. Several pas
sengers jumped through the windows.
Motorman-Cond R. Carter, in
charge Of the car. attempted to pacify
the passengers. without result. Men
pushed back women in their effort
to get to an exit and the emergency
door-opening lever in the rear Of the
car was utterly disregarded when the
cry of fire" went up and smoke
started swirling through the car.
Six Taken to Hospital.
Six of those injured were taken to
Emergency Hospital, where none of
the cases was pronounced serious.
They were: 49,.
Olga Maresglia, twenty years old.
of 1920 5th street. suffering from
shock. ,
Miss Glidden sanderson, thirty, coi-
ored. of 1851 Sd street northeast;
shock.
= Sallie Shipworth, thirty, colored,
472 3rd street northwest, shock; Anna
Ross, thirty-six, colored. Of 20S r
street, shock and injured ankle; Lii
liam Bardt. seventeen. s622 nth
street, sprained ankle; Edward
Crockett, thirty, colored, AIS Q street,
cuts on hands and knees.
Five Refuse Treatment
Five others refused hospital treat
ment, according to the police. They
were: DR.. U. C. Johnston, colored, of
507 U street, left hand cut; Mrs. j.
H. Gallbreath, twenty, of 20 X street,
shock; Mrs. Grace Davis, thirty-five,
of 20 X street, bruises to face. and
Miss C. A. Buckley of 1873 Bryant
street, shock.
Miss Gladys E. Renneberger, en-
ployed by the Washington Railway
and Electric Company in the trans
portation department, who knew of
the emergency equipment on the
rear of the car. which by the throw
ing of a lever would open a door
at the rear end. reported that she
attempted to reach the lever, but was
unable to do so.
Unable to Reach Rear.
In the scramble for windows and the
front exit, she said, she was unable
to reach the rear. She got as far as
the rear platform, and was yelling to
men there to pull the lever. when two
men, one on each side Of her pushed
her one way and another, in their
scramble for a window. After the
crush she was pulled out of the, car
by q bystander. who took her into a
nearby shop until she recovered from
the tostling to which she had been
subjected.
President William +. Ham of the
railway company today stated that
the flash fire of controller box was
a possibility on any car. whether of
one man or two men operation. The
car on which the accident occurred
this morning had been out Of the
shops only three days, he said. and
its cause was unaccountable. sThe
presence of mind Of some person. he
said, to turn the emergency lever
would have allevisted the situation
greatly.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
WANTS oNE-MoNTH PERIOD.
Proposed Armistice \Conditionally
Approved by the Sublime Porte.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
COESTANTINOPLE. March 25.-rhe
sublime porte considers the armfstice
proposal Of the allied foreign min
listers acceptable II the period of
three months as the duration of the
cessation in hostilities Is reduced To
one month. The government has ad-
vised the Angora government not to
reject the proposal.
while the Angora government ac
ce.ats the armistice in principle. its
repls to the allies IL not expected to
be nude in less than ten DAYS. The
principal condition in Angora's coun-
ter PROPOSAL viii be the evacuation bv
the Grefks Of Thrace, with allied
guarantees. -
Evening star., 1922-03-27
$4,000 70 STRIKE.
By the Associated Press.

LIVERPOOL. March 27.-Twenty-
five thousand men in the engineering
and shipbuilding. trades here have de-
scided to go on strike tomorrow as a
result of sudden announcement by
the employers putting national wage
reductions into force. The Newcastle
and Southampton unions have voted
to take similar action.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
ALLIESFORMULATE
GREEK-TURK PEACE
Foreign Ministers Forward
Memorandum to Nations
to Settle Difficulties:
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press
PARIS. March 81. Turkey Is con-
ceded nearly all her claims. except
those to Adrianople and part of east
ern Thrace, in the memorandum
which the allied foreign ministers to-
day forwarded to Athens. Angora and
constantfnopie. with a view to ita
acceptance as preliminary peace
settlement, revising the treaty Of
Seyrex tts--
The Enos-Midia line Ii Thrace is
modified so as to give Turkey more
territory on the Bulgarian frontier.
but the old Turkish capital OF
Adrianople is excluded.
League Of Nations Protection.
Constantinople remains Turkeys,
and she retains Armenia, with the
population under league Of nations
protection. but she loses the Gallipoli
peninsula and Mesopotamia.
The foreign ministers give the
Greek and Turkish belligerents three
weeks in which to reply to the pro-
posed terms.
Dealing with Armenia, the' docu-
ment says:
"The situation of the Armenians
has received special consideration as
much on account Of the obligation
contracted by the allied powers dur
ing the war as on account Of the cruel
suffering endured by that people. Com
sequently the aid Of the league Of ma
visions made for the protection of
minorities, with q view to satisfying
the traditional aspirations of the A-
menfan people and the establishment
Of national home for them"
Under Turkish Sovereignty.
The document does not mention any
particular territory where the ma
tional home may eventually be fixed,
but it specifies that the territory now
inhabited by the Armenians shall be
under Turkish sovereignty.
With regard to the Dardanelles the
communication reads:
"The Turks are allowed again on the
Asiatic shore Of the Dardanelles, but
the interests Of peace and security
for the future require that Europe
shall never again be exposed to the
rerils and sacrifices imposed upon II
In 1914 by the closing of the Dar-
danelles, and the condition for the re-
turn of the Turks to the proximity
Of the straits is the establishment OF
wide demilitarized zone. making any
military projects in that region i'm
possible.
IAN allied force of occupation must
be placed and remain on the Galiipoli
peninsula, however, to assure free-
dom of navigation of the straits,
which shall be supervised by an in
ternational commission, with . TurL
as president. comprising representa-
tives Of all the principal powers In.
terested, including Greece"
WA NTs oNE.Mourrr pr,,on
Evening star., 1922-03-27
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, March 27.-A coroner's
jury. which held an inquest over the
body OF Gertrude Yates. otherwise
Olive Young. whose body was found
some time ago in the bathroom of her
nat in Kensington. today returned a
verdict of willful murder against Maj.
Ronald True, an English aviator. who
lived some time in the United States.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
IRISH TROOPS CLASH,
Republicans and Free Saters in
Three-Hour Rifle Duel.

By The Associated Press
LONDONDERRY. March 27.-A
force of republicans attacked the
police barracks at Eewtown Cunning
ham, occupied by Free State troops.
early Sunday. After rifle duel of
three hours duration, the attacking
party retired, leaving six prisoners
and several wounded.
Oriel House. near Omeath, close to
the County Louth-A rmagh border, the
residence Of J. z. Bentley, which was
about to be taken over for the Ulster
police, was burned to the ground
with its contents Saturday night.
Evening star., 1922-03-27
ARMY DEMANDS REPUBLIC.
Free Staters Condemn Action at Re-
publican Convention.

By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, March 27.-The convention
Of Irish republican army members.
which had been forbidden by the dali
eireann cabinet, ended its lengthy ses-
sion late last night without exciting
any outward demonstrations or ruffling
the usual Sunday life of the city.
The provisional Free State government
made no attempt to interfere with the
proceedings and has not definitely stated
il will take any action, although il is
generally supposed that those who at
tended will be treated as having sepa-
rated themselves from the rest of the
army. and their names may possibly
be stricken from the army rolls.
The action of the convention in unani-
mously adopting resolution reaffirm-
ing the delegates allegiance to the Irish
republic met with strong condemnation
among the supporters of the Free State.
The Irish Independent today said:
Division IL DepIored.
MANY times in the past have our
people become divided in a crisis. when
unity was essential Today we wit
ness the same modifying. deplorable
spectacle. Disunion has been forced on
the country. The resolution passed by
the sectional convention amounts in ef-
feet to reputation of the dali eireann,
yet Eamonn De Valera insists that the
dahl is the. supreme authority in Ire
land.
'In all democratically governed coup-
tries, including republics like France
and America, the army is strictly sub
ject to the control of civil authority, or
the government for the time being.
Wherever departures from that consti-
tutional system have taken place. grave
events, sometimes amounting to estab-
lishment of military dictatorship. have
followed"
News Writer Arrested.
The correspondent of the Free
mans Journal at Charleville, County
Cork. has been arrested. Apparent
ly. says 1.-THE newspaper. the Irish re-
publican army authorities there were
offended by his report of an ctternpt
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