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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-05-26
GETS l9-YEAR SENTENCE.

Seven years in the Federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga, on each of counts
OF raising 81 notes to twentics an(
passing them in Maryland, was the
sentence imposed on Marshall Jones
cUlcred. by Judge John c. Rose, il
the United States Court
Dsmay spread over the Jones' fac;
when he counted up and realized tina
tbs meant 40 wears i'll prison. Later
however. Judge Rose explained tina
! e -enten2es were to run concurrent
ly and Jones had only seven years
to serve.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-05-26

and taken in consideration with the
numerous ether advantages which
Lieut. Masin, The Commanding Oil
Ger of Company n, First Infantry
Mary land National Guard, viii be glad
t. discuss, is one OF the reasons why
many men are glad to give part Of
their spare time to the military SER
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-05-26

II the Genoa Conference wants any
expert advice on finance, Jack Demp-
8 v and his manager, who are now in
Europe. could tell them few things.
New York Evening Post.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
VETS SHARE IN CASH
Of BIG SERIES TIE
Lands Says Part Of the Proceeds
Went to War 0rgani-
cations.
pr tho Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 20.-Base Ball
Commissioner K. NJ. Lands today an
nounced that part of the proceeds
of the world series tie game at New
York. October 5. last, had been dis
trtbuted to three national organi-
cations.
The American Legion. Veterans OF
Fo, eign Wars of the United States
and Disabled American Veterans of
the World War. each got $20.352.1o.
The remainder was distributed by
Joint action of the two New York
clubs to New York charitable organi-
cations.
The remainder Of the proceeds Of the
game. which amounted to $12l .056.30.
including per cent interest allowed
by New York banks to Christmas day,
was distributed among twelve New
York charities as follows: Federation
$12.500: United Hospital fund. $500:
Founding Asylum, $7.500; Bronx Char
tiles, $7.500; New York tuberculosis
Association. $500; Catholic Guardian
Society. $1,000: Mrs. Hearst's milk fund,
$1,000; Visiting Nurses Society, Henry
street, $4,000; Manhattan Day Nursery,
$500; Association for Improvement Of
the Poor. $1,000: Newsboys' clubs,
Evening Globe. $1,000; Institute for
Crippled and Disabled Men. $1,000.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
ARBUCKLE IS PROMISED
CHANCE TO COME BACK
Movie Chief Says He May Appear
on Screen Again-Comedian
Grateful.
By the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Calf, December 20.
Will II. Hays. chairman of the Mo-
ton Picture Industries. said today
that Roscoe c. (Fatty) Arbuckle
might have his chance to come back
in the motion pictures.
Roscoe Arbuckle said:
Il want to say that am very CRATE
full to all those who are helping me.
and l will prove myself worthy Of
their faith In me-"
Joseph Schenck, producer. said:
Roscoe will go to work for me. l
am glad to help give him his chance"
Jesse L. Lasky. vice president OF
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation,
said:
I'VE are sure Arbuckle will prove
worthy of the trust. No thought has
been given to the matter of releasing
the pictures already made and we have
no plans in this connection"
The statement of the ease as given
out from the headquarters Of Mr..
HAYS said
Roscoe Arbuckle is to have another
chance to go to work and make good
Sc he can. After the first of the year
he will be given this new opportunity
HE has gone straight since he was
barred from the films last April and
ne has pledged his word that he will
has satisfied Will H. Hays, adviser
to the motion picture industry; Jo-
scph NJ. Schenck, who will employ
him, and the Paramount Company,
represented by Jesse l.. Lasky. which
concern formerly distributed the COM
edies in which the fat fun-maker ap-
peared."
Evening star., 1922-12-20
GOVERNORS ON MAIL TRUCKS
HOLD SPEED TO 18 MILES AN HOUR

Governors. holding; the speed
down to eighteen miles an hour,
have been placed upon the 140
trucks of the Washington city post
office, .busily engaged this week in
delivering thousands of Christmas
parcels to the people of the Ma
tionaI Capital.
The governors choke the supply
of gasoline to the carburetors.
making it impossible for the postal
chauffeurs here to run parcel post
trucks or collection trucks faster
than eighteen miles an hour.
1.-THE governors are working
fine" declared Postmaster Chance
today. Our trucks cannot get up
the hills"
Governors Set and Sealed.
Trucks are having some difficulty.
It developed. making some of the
sleeper grades. notably 18th street
hill, as a result of the move Of the
Post Office Department in equip
ping the 4,447 motor vehicles of the
postal service with speed gov
ernors.
The governors are fixed at the
Evening star., 1922-12-20
DENIES SHE IS ssDOLLAR PRINCESSo
AND CREEK THRONE is HER GOAL

"the tin plate king" to help the cause
Of Constantine or of any political fac
tion in Greece.
Neutral in Politics.
She declared herself a neutral in
Greek politics. asserting that aside
from purely family sympathies--
which naturally followed the for
tunes of the royal family into which
she had marrled-she had no interest in
politics whatever.
Constantine, who has abdicated, has
not the slightest wish to return to
the throne, she said. She added that
she had no wish and no expectation
of ascending the throne with Christo-
pher.
Prince Christopher backed his wife
up in her statement that their aspi-
rations did not tend toward the
throne.
II have no ambition to be king"
he declared. Moreover. am eight or
nine removed from the succession and
there is little likelihood Of my ever
ascending the throne"
Evening star., 1922-12-20
CLAIM
TOBE FILED BY j. s.
Proposed Suit Against
Wright Martin Co. Revealed
in Daugherty Hearing.

The Department Of Justice is pre-
pairing to file suit against the Wright
Martin Aircraft Corporation for re-
$3,601.715. the House judiciary COM
mittee was told today by Assistant
Attorney General Seymour at the
hearing on impeachment charges
against Attorney General Daugherty.
Mr.. Seymour said there had been a
wide difference of opinion among law
yers in the war claims section Of the
Justice Department as to the case,
but that decision had been reached
recently to begin action. He did not
go into detail nor indicate how soon
the government would be ready to go
into court.
Letter IL Sought.
The activities of the government in
its past investigation of the Wright
Martin contract were aired in some
detail at the hearing, however. the
case holding the center of the stage
during most OF the morning session
Of the committee.
Representative Woodruff republican,
Michigan, appearing in connection
with charges he has made regarding
war frauds prosecutions, declared he
was prepared to show that a year ago
Guy D. Goff. then assistant attorney
general, inquired into the airplaue
company's contract and recommended
action.
Mr.. Woodruff asked the committee
to obtain a letter which he said had
been written to Secretary Weeks of
the War Department by Charles Hay
Corporation. in relation to the claim.
This letter the Michigan representa-
tive said. might shed some light on
whether influence" had been brought
to bear to hold up filing of the suit.
Representative Thomas. democrat.
Secretary be summoned and ques-
toned as to whether Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty had been informed of
the contents of the letter. but the
committee took no action on the re-
quest.
letters which he said showed that the
Wright Martin case had been sent to
the Justice Department by the War
Department on October IS. 1921, and
that the federal district attorney at
New York was directed on November
Is Of the same year by Assistant
Attorney General Lovett to take such
action as in his opinion might be
necessary to recover the amount of
the governments claim.
Tells Of Hearing.
The committee was told by former
Assistant Attorney General Goff that
after the case had been sent to the
New York district attorney, hearing
was granted the Wright Martin
Company and additional audits found
necessary.
He added that recently, however, q
final decision was made and that the
Representative Woodruff told the
committee that his criticism of the
Attorney General was that he had
failed to act before last June in or.
ganizing war contract section of the
Justice Department.! and thus getting
into shape with the necessary ma.
chinery for prompt prosecution Of va
rious war claims. He added that he
had no complaint about any delay
since that section was organized.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
PARIS IS ADAMANT
0NREPARAT|ONCUT
Insists Allied Debts Must Be
Reduced at Same
o..
Time.
BRITAIN BACKS BALFOUR
Wave of Recrimination Against
United States Sweeps Great
Britain.
BRITAIN BACKS BALFOUR
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

(By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927
PARIS. December 20.-Any plan,
even If American. which contempiates
reduction of German reparations
without a corresponding reduction of
allied war debts will be resolutely
rejected by France. according to this
correspondents Information.
The American scheme. which, as
now described here, is first to reduce
the German debt and then to make a
loan to Germany. isStherefore certain
to be rejected unless its form is so
modified as to spare French opinion
and to create the impression that the
sacrifices demanded are general and
are not to be laid exclusively on the
shoulders of France.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
WOULD PUNISH AMERICA.
BY HAL O'FLAHERTY.

(By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1872
LONDON, December 20-During the
extraordinary furry here over the pos
sible Intervention of the United States
in European politics and finance re-
peated references nave been made to
the Balfour note in which the part
played by the American government in
wartime finance was compared to that
Of Shylock demanding the pound of
flesh.
Those references have made it pain
fully evident to Americans in Europe
that Lord Balfour's terrible miscon-
ception of the nature of the American
loans to the allies not only persists in
England and in France. but is made
the basis of new efforts to persuade
the Washington government, Indirect
nations.
"Make America Pay"
Back of the recent reports of an
American change of policy lies
deep-rooted desire to make the United
States pay for not entering the war
two years earlier than it did. No
amount of reasoning or argument can
remove the impression eXtant in Eng
land and France that the United
States loaned lavishly of its wealth
with the idea of gaining world su-
premacy in finance, and that Great
Britain borrowed only to reloan
American dollars to it's allies.
In virtually all the articles pub
Iished regarding the reported Ameri-
can loan to Germany appears the
basic idea that since the United States
refused to accept any plan of war
debt cancellation the government at
Washington should underwrite these
lah 6Ny lsn tr fn no
money with which to pay war repara-
tions to the allies.
If this impression of Americas
financial arrangements with the allies
were confined to inconsequential jour
nails and anti-American publications
it might be ignored as unworthy of
denial, but such liberal newspapers as
the Manchester Guardian refer to the
Balfour hypothesis as basically sound
and insist that the United States must
change it's policy Of isolat ton because
it cannot further maintain that posi-
tion without flagrantly violating in
ternatinoal morals.
AS result of denials of any change
in policy in Washington, another
wave of pessimistic criticism is get
ably will be blamed for every obstacle
that arises in the efforts to settle the
reparations question and every diff
ficulty besetting the Paris conference
on January z.
Because Europe wants the United
States to shoulder the financial bur
den every straw in the wind is
watched with intense interest and
produces columns OF speculation. Now
that denials of any real plans for
loan to Germany are published, the
United States must expect the custo-
mary pessimistic reaction with
further references to the pound of
fiesh." and further reflections upon
the moral density of money-lending
nations.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
DC. C.M|N|MUMW WAGE
AGAIN HELD INVALID
Justice HoehIing's Ruling
Speeds Case Toward U. S.
High Court for Test.
BOARD Is RESTRAINED
Members Temporarily Enjoined
From Enforcing Orders Un-
der the Law.
BOARD is RESTRAINED

There is now no minimum wage law
in the District of Columbia. Justice
Hoehlirg of the District Supreme Court
today signed a final order declaring
invalid the act Of Congress which at
tempted to protect the lives. health
and morals of women and minor chill.
dren by establishing a minimum wage
board to regulate the wages to be paid
them. The court order is in conformity
with the recent decision of the Dis
trict Court of Appeals holding the law
unconstitutional.
Corporation Counsel Stephens, for
the members of the board. noted an
appeal from the order. The case will
go formally to the Court Of Appeals.
where v,im sa the ,s.n order OF Justice Hoehling
the court, 1t is expected. and the case
expedited to hearing before the
United States Supreme Court.
Mr. stephens said the effect of the
order today would be to put the min
mum wage board temporarily out of
commission, as the order permanently
enjoined the members and their sue
ceSsors in Office from enforcing anv
orders based on the minimum wape
law. which is declared unconstitu-
tional.
Two Orders Signed.
court in which orders were signed.
One is brought by the Children's Hos
pital, which claimed it could not pay
| the high rate fixed by the board to
it's female employees, and the other by
Willis A. Lyons, a female elevator
operator at Congress Hall Hotel, who
asserted her means Of livelihood was
Ellis & Ferguson appeared for the
plaintiffs.
The order signed today by Justice
Hoehling reads:
"This cause came on to be heard at
this term. pursuant to the mandate of
the Court of Appeals of the District
Of Columbia. heretofore filed herein, and
plant. answer to rule to show cause
and other pleadings. and motion to dis
miss the bill Of complaint, the parties
not desiring to plead further or to
adduce facts or evidence. and the mat
ter having been presented to the court
day Of December, 1922, adjudged, or
dered and decreed as follows:
Conflict With Constitution.
81. That the act of Congress en-
titled, An act to protect the lives
and health and morals of women and
minor workers in the District of CO.
lumbia, and to establish a minimpm
wage board. and to define its powers
and duties, and to provide for the
fixing Of minimum wages for such
workers. and for other purposes,
1Continued on Page Q, Column l.
Evening star., 1922-12-20

speed limit, in the case of wash
ington. at eighteen miles, and then
sealed. Every morning the gov
ernors are inspected before the
machines go out on duty. so as to
detect possible tampering by chauf-
feurs. who might chafe at the
slower gait.
Act for Safety.
Local post Office officials declared
today that the slower speed has
not affected the delivery of Christ
mas parcels in any adverse way.
but that for little time the chauf-
feurs had difficulty in getting the
right amount of gas adjusted cor
rectly.
The step is taken by the postal
service to help make safety a year
round affair in every city in so far
as the postal establishment has
any say-so in the matter.
They cite statistics compiled by
the Philadelphia police bureau
showing comparatively small
number of accidents caused by
mail trucks during the eleven
months ended November 80, and
declaring that the small per cent
will be reduced materially by the
use of the speed governors.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
s1,ODO,0|)O Theft
FROM NAVY YARD
|SCHARGED TO23
Twenty-Five Are Arrested in
New York by Federal
Agents.
CLOTHING AND MATERIAL
TAKEN BY TRUCK LOAD
Detectives Pose as Thieves, Are Ac-
! cepted by Men, and Get
Evidence.
Ey the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 2o.-Twenty-
Two civilian employees at the Brook
Iyn navy base were arrested today
on indictments returned se- eral
months ago by a federal grand jury.
harging that government property
20 the value Of more than $1,oo0,ooo
jrad been stolen since the war.
The arrests were made by agents
~ the Department of Justice.
The grand jurors indicted twenty
three men after its investigation Of
the alleged wholesale thefts which
the authorities said included clothing.
oil and various other materials used
at the navy yard The twenty-third
man under indictment was not found
today. The investigation has been
under way for months.
Yard Detectives Fail.
Navy intelligence officers under
took to find out the cause for the
discrepancies between the inventories
and the stock supposed to be on, hand,
out the thieves were too cunning for
the regular naval detective force. the
members of which were apparently
we'll known to those who were doing
the stealing.
William ]. Burns. chief of the bu-
feau of investigation of the Depart
lnent of Justice, then was asked for
help. and ordered Edward J. Brennan,
lead of the bureaus New York office.
To assign operatives.
Brennan consulted Police Commits
sioner Enright and borrowed the
services Of Detective Francis Trainor;;
Agents Robert Walsh and Ralph
Navarro and Detective Trainor men
were put into the warehouses as
checkers. laborers, watchmen and
bookkeepers.
Were Watched Closely.
These detectives found themselves
watched narrowly until they took ad-
vantage Of opportunities obviously
put in their way of stealing small
articles such as wrist watches and
marine glasses. Not until they ac-
tually concealed these articles and
pretended to steal them were they
able to get any evidence against the
men now in custody.
They then learned that govern
the truck load, including great boxes
of clothing, paint by the barrel,
crates of glass and commercial alco-
bol by the gallon. Instances were
found in which waste and salvage
bought by contractors was substitute
ed by new goods. or by other mer-
chandise than that mentioned in the
contract: in other cases twice the
quantity of actual salvaged stuff con-
tracted for was delivered.
Start of Wide Clean-Up.
1t was indicated by prosecuting Of
fcials that today's arrests were but
the start of a general cleanup in
~olving Navy warehouse laborers,
elevator operators, clerks, chauffeurs.
watchmen and packers. as we'll as
fences, junkmen and other accom-
piices on the outside.
Some of the missing material was
said to have been located in ware
houses in Brooklyn and Manhattan
and 1t was announced the United
States attorney would be asked to
take steps for it's recovery.
Government operators and detec-
rives reported to Washington shortly
after they began operations that
Leads of some of the departments in
the buildings were the ring leaders in
The conspiracy.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
Policeman in Air
Detects Speeder,
Drops Summons
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JOSE, Calf, December 20.
Bad luck literally rained on
Dominic Biflore yesterday when
John Doe" summons charging him
with speeding fell in front of his
automobile on a highway near
here. Looking up he saw an air
plane circling above.
1t developed that Robert Byers.
traffic officer. was taking the air"
with an aviator friend when he
saw Biflore speeding. Pulling
summons from his pocket, Byers
had the airplane swoop down and
dropped the paper in front of the
automobile. Bifiore stopped and
picked 1t up.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
Plans Law to
Make Alin1ony
Dodgers Work
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 20.-Dr.
Anna w. Hockfelder. lawyer and re-
cent candidate for state senatorship,
aims to disrupt the "Alimony Club"
at the Ludlow Street Jail, where ex-
husbands, unwilling or unable to
contribute to their ex-wives, live In
idleness.
Her plan, as she outlined it. is
simple.
Put 'em to work." she said.
That's the remedy"
So. she asserts, she will ask the
next legislature to amend the all
mony laws. making 1t compulsory
for jailed ex-husbands to work. the
proceeds from their labors to be
turned over to the ex-wives.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
HEARINGS NEARING
END ON D. c. BILL
Probably Will Be Closed To-
morrow or Next Day at
Latest.
MAY INCREASE ITEMS
Chairman Cramton Explains Fail
ure to Receive Committee
of Citizens.
| MAY INCREASE ITEMS

Hearings on tho District appropria-
ton bill for the next fiscal year prob
ably will be closed tomorrow or the
next day. Although the general pol
icy of the subcommittee conducting
these hearings Is not to go beyond
the District budget. as recommended
by the budget bureau, there Is strong
proba bility that in some particular
items, such as schools. streets and
sewers, some increases may be writ
ten into the bill.
Chairman Cramton of the subcom-
mittee, who has been severely criti-
cized because he denied a hearing
to Henry H. Classic. chair
man of the citizens school improve
ment committee, and Milton Fair
child, a member of the committee
explained today that he could not
grant hearing when he
had already refused to allow repre-
from Other organizations
directly opposite views
in some instances from appearing be-
fore the committee.
Two Members Absent.
The subcommittee. which is holding
hearings on the District budget. con-
sists of Representative cramton OF
Michigan, a. acting chairman: Rep
resentative Evans of Nebraska and
Representative Johnson Of Kentucky.
The other two members OF tho sub
committee are unavoidably absent
Tinkham Of Massa-
chusetts is out Of the city and Rep
resentative Buchanan of Texas is en-
gagged on another subcommittee. but
probably will sit In with the District
subcommittee when the bill reaches
its final stages.
This District subcommittee yester-
day completed hearings on the
schools and streets and some of the
work on sewers. Today II finished
0Confinued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1922-12-20
.en1al Permits
Americans to
Reopen Schools

By the Associated Press.
LAUSANNE, December 20.-Ismet
Pasha received message from
Mustapha Kemal today announcing
that the American College at Smyr-
ma. which was closed during the
fighting there. may reopen and that
the nationalist government has no
objection to the American schools
carrying on their work in any part
of Turkey.
Ismet Pasha Immediately advised
the American correspondents at the
near east conference of this official
action by the Angora government.
Evening star., 1922-12-20

(llo OAy AARA
for a visit to her
native land, at
once set about the
business Of scotch
ing the "Ameri-
can dollar prin-
cess" legend which
has followed her
since she married
Prince Christo-
pher. brother of
King Constantine
Of Greece.
Standing beside
her royal spouse,
who came along
for q sightseeing
tour, Prin C e 8 s
AnastasiA declaf.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
RECLUsE DROPS DEAD.

ANACORTES, Wash, December 90
Weldron Griffith, for many years q
recluse. dropped dead yesterday at
his home, on an island near here. His
son said Griffith had once been secre-
rtry to the late Roscoe Conklin, sena-
Tor from New York
Evening star., 1922-12-20
SABBATH WINS CONTEST.
House Committee Decides Against
Republican Contestant.

The House elections committee held
in an unanimous report today that
Joseph Gartenstein, republican con-
testant, was not entitled to the seat
of Representative A. ]. SABBATH. demo-
crat, Of the fifth Illinois district.
Evening star., 1922-12-20
ELECT WOJCIECHOWSKI
PRESIDENT OF POLAND
Voters Choose Him to Succeed Or.
Gabriel Narutowicx, Who Was
Slain Saturday.
By the Associat ted Press.

By the Associated Press. .--t .-
WARSAW, December 2o.-Stanislas
Wojciechowski was elected President
Of Poland today to succeed DR.. Ga
briel Narutowicz. who was assas-
sinated last Saturday. s'-t...,
Evening star., 1922-12-20
NEW SOLICITOR NAMED.

Stephen B. Davis of New Mexico
was nominated by the President to-
day to be solicitor Of the Department
of Commerce.
Evening star., 1922-12-20

ed that, reports to the contrary not
withstanding. she had not expended
one penny of the fortune left her by
her late husband, William b. Leeds.
Evening star., 1922-12-20

By the Associate ted Press.
NEW YORK. December 20.-Prln-
cess Anatasia of Greece, arriving on