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Evening star., 1923-02-20
SHACK MURDER TRIAL.
Case to Come Up in Arlington
Court March 1.

A special meeting of the Arlington
County Civic Federation will be
held this evening at the courthouse
to consider a report Of a special
committee handling the proposal to
Incorporate the county m a city. It
Is expected that the committee will
present a draft of q charter Of In
corporation which. II approved. will
oe submitted to the special session
OF the legislature.
The Arlington county circuit
court convened Yesterday for its
Eebruary term, with Judge Samuel
q. Brent on the bench. The out
sstanoinE case Of Importance on the
docket Is that OF Thomas Brennan,
charged with the murder Of Mrs.
Else Copperthite in a shack on
Little river last September Bren-
mans trial has been set for March i.
;, Inc grand Jury returned 4 true
nilI against Henry Turner (colored)
TOT murder. and his trial has been
set Tor next Monday. Four indict-
mens for violation Of the prohibi-
ito sion amendment also were presented
Igy the Jury as follows: Charles
lyons, Harrison Murray, James
Heckwith and Isaac jackson.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
VETERAN DIES SUDDENLY.

William Smith, seventy-five years
the civil war, and was pensioned, died
suddenly yesterday afternoon in the
Office Of the Howard House at Penn
sylvania avenue and 9Th street,
prlor 20 tWo I%s w weeks s,rsat ago ine veteran
q sufferer from Bright's disease, Il 10
stated, and yesterday he felt so sick
that he entered the hotel to seek ass
sistance. dying shortly after being
seated.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
Russ Disapproue
OfPoles Entry II,
Disputed Zone
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 20.-The Rus
sian soviet government has expressed
disapproval Of the entry Of the Poles
into the neutral zone between Poland
and Lithuania, a note to this effect
having been received by the Lith-
uanian government at Kovko, ac-
cording to dispatches received by
the French foreign ofIice today.
The league of nations council re-
Gently allotted to Poles and Lithua-
mans the joint task Of policing the
old neutral zone established along
the line Of disputed territory between
the two nations in the Wilma region.
Poland sent guards into that part Of
the strip allotted to her. The Lth-
uanians objected to the leagues ac-
tlon and threatened force IL the
Poles entered the neutral strip and
there has been sporadic fighting be-
tween Poles and Lithuanians in the
area the last few days. Russia is
interested In through the proximity
Of the territory to her own boundary.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
Illegal TOREC|STER
VISITING TOURISTS
Corporation Counsel Passes
on Plan of Requiring Tags
for Autos Here.
NO FEE TO BE EXACTED
Traffic Bureau, However, Would
Limit Time to That Allowed
by Reciprocity.
NO FEE TO BE ExACTED

The Commissioners have the legal
right to require out-of-town motorists
to register at the traffic bureau within
three days after arrival and to display
on their cars a special tag bearing the
word Registered" Corporation Counsel
Stephens declared today.
In letter to The Star yesterday
Lewis l. Young advanced the argument
that an act Of Congress. dated March 8,
1917. prohibits the District authorities
from requiring nonresident motorists to
register.
Mr.. Stephens said It might be viola
ton OF that law. which was intended to
bring about reciprocity with the states.
II the District required the visiting tour
lists to pay for tag here.
The system which the traffic bureau
will put into effect March /. however.
does not call for the collection Of fee.
his name and address at the bureau.
where he will be given, without charge,
small metal tag.
Tramc Bureau Record.
When the motorist registers the traf-
fic bureau will find out how long he
Is entitled to remain in Washington
under the reciprocity agreement with
state from which the man comes allows
District motorists ninety days, for in
stance. the District will allow the VI sitor
that period OF time. And the date on
which the ninety days expires will be
stamped plainly on the register tag.
Thus, a policeman on the street will
be able to tell when a visitor overstays
his time.
According to officials Of the traffic
bureau the regulation requiring out-o of :
town cars to carry a special tag will
lave two good effects: First, It win
enable the police to find out immediate
in case he should ride away from the
scene Of an accident, and second, 1t
will enable the police to "spot" car
owners who remain in washington from
year to year on a foreign tag, thereby
defrauding the District out Of rightful
revenues.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
M0NDELL TO SPEAK.
VIII Address Washington STUDY
Club on LEGISLATION.

Representative Frank W. Monde1, a,
Wyoming. majority leader in tbe
house. Will speak on THE Legislative
Branch Of Government" tomorrn,.,
morning at the Highlands. Mr. Mon.
dell 10 the third speaker to address
the Washington Study Clubs mem
bers and friends in q series Of public
lectures for the women Of Washing-
lows Introductory lectures on "Form,
OF Government" and Sources and
Makers of Our Constitution" deiiv-
cred by Representative Luce of Mas
sachusetts and Gaillard Hunt of the
state department., respectively. There
will be no lecture on Thursday this
week. because Of tho holiday.
Next week "The judiciary and His
torical Review of the Supreme
Court" will be the topic for Wednes-
day and Thursday mornings.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
EAST EUROPE FIGHT
CAUSE OF ANXIETY.
Premier Poincare Holds Pol
ish-Lithuanian Question
Extremely Serious One.
POLES IN new MOVE
Will Ask That Frontier Skirting
Russia Be Fixed-Vilna
Threatened.
POLES IN new MOVE
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

AoL SSo1A NOSt hEHs
By Cable to The Star and Chicaeo Daily News
Copyright, 1923.
PARIS. February 20. - Premier
Poincare has informed the foreign
anArs commission OF the chamber
OF deputies, in the strictest conf
oence, that the situation in Memel
ana on the Polish from
tier Is extremely serious and the
subject for grave anxiety.
The French minister in Koyno has
teiegraphed to Paris that Lithuania
Is dissatisfied with the decision Of
ene council OF ambassadors regarding
the future regime in Mernel, and
that Lithuanian sentiment is decided
ly warlike.
From Warsaw the French minister
is said to have reported considerable
movements of Polish troops, and It
is declared that the sound Of can
ward W '1io Hoi III
The Lithuanians' known friendl;-
ness 20 Russia and Germany further
comphcates the situation.
WOULD FIX FRONTIERS
Evening star., 1923-02-20

arising. Until yesterday 1t had been
announced Sister Cecilia would help
the police find the house she described
Immediately after she regained her
strength Until the authorities know
definitely, therefore. whether they
may expect more help from Sister
Cecilia they are marking time.
The two checks bearing the sigma
lures OF the nuns Cecilia and Nola
will be kept in the files OF the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company,
but will always be accessible to the
police and the state attorneys Office
should the case be reopened in the
future,
Evening star., 1923-02-20
DEAD OF BURNS.

Mrs. Leona Morrissette, twenty
seven years old. 1904 Marion street,
who was severely burned about the
died at Freedmen's Hospital Monday
afternoon. She was in the kitchen
near the gas stove when her cloth
ing ignited. Two small children fol-
lowed her to the street, but were
unable to save her. A certificate of
accidental death was given by the
coroner
Evening star., 1923-02-20
DROPS DEAD ON SIDEWALK.

Mary Ellis. colored, tb:rty-nine
years old, 2624hS I street. dropped
dead on the sidewalk at 26th and I
streets about 1880 o'clock this morn
ing. Coroner Neyitt gave a certificate
of death from natural causes.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
NUN USED A TRAIN
LEAVING FREDERICK,
OFFICERS DECLARE

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Evening star., 1923-02-20
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Evening star., 1923-02-20
NAVY YARD ROBBED
OF RADIO MATERIAL
WORTH THOUSANDS

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Evening star., 1923-02-20
BRITISH TO AVOID
RUHR Intervention

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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21
FATHER KAZINCY
SPEAK NPA. FREE
SPEECH RALLIES
Heroic SIavish Priest Will Defend
Right of Workers to Organize in
Western Pa. says Civil Liberties
Union.

Father Adelbert Kazincy of Brad
dock, Pa, the heroic Slavish priest
who distinguished himself in the steel
strike of 1919 by throwing open his
church to the strikers when they were
not permitted to hold meetings else
where, will speak in Pittsburgh and
McKeespOrt, Pa, Sunday, September,
9Th, in defense of free speech and the
right of the workers to organize, the
American Civil Liberties Union an
nounced today.
Father KaZincy not only allowed the
steel strikers to hold meetings in his
church. He turned his services into
strike meetings. and bent all efforts to
make the men hold fast. The strik-
ing steel workers came to his church
from miles around, Protestants as
we'll as Catholics. He was the center
of the solid opposition the workers Of
fered to the notorious Pennsylvania
Cossacks and Steel Trust gunner.
Father Kazincy will be one of a fly
ing squadron of speakers who will
proceed from the one Pennsylvania
town to the other Sunday calling on
the workers there to put an end to
the gag rule of steel and coal bosses
working through the local authorities
and Department of Justice agents., ac-
cording to the Civil Liberties Union.
He will be accompanied by Jay Love
stone, member of the National Execu-
tive Committee of the Workers Party,
Fred Merrick, of the Labor Defense
and Free Speech Council of Western
Pa, and Robert w. Dunn, associate
director of the Union.
Mayor Lyle of McKeesport has a
record dating back to the Steel Strike
for suppression of free speech in his
city" Dunn stated today. "He is a
large stakeholder in the McKeesport
Tin Plate mill and has interests in the
National Tube Company. Recently,
we are informed, he told a union or
ganizer: No man is coming here to
start a union organization campaign.
/ will put them in Jail as fast as they
come in. If there is no law for it,
will throw them in Jail anyhow and
argue about it afterwards"
Sundays meeting will be a test of
Mayor Lyle's right to break up work
ers' meetings. He will be advised by
Governor Pinchot to keep hands off.
If he proceeds, in his usual style, to
break up the meeting, the fight will
be taken into the courts, where Mayor
Lyle will have his chance to argue"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21
THE FRENCH
OCCUPATION
OF GERMANY
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

Dusseldorf, Germany.-The trade
unions of every color have protested
against the arbitrary closing of the
occupied zone to all traffic and COM
munication with the rest of Germany.
l quote from their protest:
"At the beginning of the Ruhr &C
ton the freedom of labor was sol
emily promised. Today thousands of
workers and tradesmen on both sides
of the artificial frontier are suffering,
bcaus they are hindered by the en-
barge from going to work and earn
ing bread for themselves and their
families. Children are prevented from
going to their parents, parents from
seeing their children. The occupying
authorities have promised that there
shall not be any interruption in the
flow of foOdstuffs. In reality the en-
barge is making it impossible for the
coOperatives and merchants to secure
supplies"
Here is an illustration of how peo-
pie even in the unoccupied area are
suffering from the embargo. When !
arrived at the city of Schwerte, just
outside the occupied area, a thin
youngster Of seemingly, 13 years Git
developed later that he was III came
hurrying up to me and asked to carry
my satchel. / consented as an excuse
to give him money. He told me his
story:
Until July Is, when the frontier was
closed, he worked in the metal indus
try of Westhofen, a few miles away.
WesthOfen has now been seized by
the French and he is no longer per-
mitted to enter the town, so he is out
of job.
"Are there many like you?" I asked
him
He replied emphatically, ''Take my
home town Of Schwerte. Fifteen
thousand men and boys are walking
the streets because they cannot go to
their places of work in Westhofen,
Dortmund, Hagen, etc. This is true
of every town and city along the bor-
der"
There are others besides native in
habitants who are walking the streets
of the border towns in distress. These
towns are simply deluged with refu-
gees from the occupied area-men,
women, and children who have either
been elected by the French or Bel
gians, or who have found conditions
unbearable. A sorry lot they are, as
they roam about aimlessly. The only
bright spot about it all is the warm
comradeship that is developing among
the people in distress. Nowhere in
Germany have l seen the people more
sympathetic toward each other than in
this borderland of sorrow.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21
OKLA. NONPARTISAN
TACTIC FAILS
By EARNEST R. CHAMBERLAIN
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

Oklahoma City.-Events in Okla
homa are rapidly drifting toward the
formation of a third party. The one
obstacle is the present state election
law which makes no provision for q
third party ticket except as it should
run independent with other independ-
ent candidates.
The nonpartisan tactics pursued by
the Reconstruction League, while sue
cessful in electing officers, has been
unsuccessful in getting control of the
election machine.
The Oklahoma Leader, league organ,
in an editorial entitled: "Never
Again" declares: ''The fact is we
have about decided to let the devil re-
form the Democratic party of Okla
hOma. For it is our firm belief that
if the angels and saints of heaven
would undertake the job they would
come out of it as boOtleggers, hi-jack-
erS and street walkers. Nav the good
Lord protect us from ever again fish
ing for goldfish in the Democratic
sewer of Oklahoma"
A fair election law has been pre-
pared for initiation and submitted to
Governor j. G. Walton by the commit
tee which he himself appointed prior
to his break with the Reconstruction
League. It was his campaign pledge
that the "first thing he would do would
be to enact a fair election law. He
has already called one special election
for October and his critics declare
he did it to avoid calling another cleo
ton for the fair election law. They
hope, however, that he may call an
other election. If not the law must
be voted on at the next general cleo
ton, which would force a third party
ticket to run as independent" in 1924.
On the other hand, the Democrats NAV
fear that a refusal to permit a third
party ticket would force the Socialists
and Leaguers into the Republican par
ty, and may wink at the law and per
init the third party a place on the
ticket.
The proposed election law provides
numerous checks against current
practices of stealing elections. It
also provides for the open primary
and does away with registration out
side OF cities of the first class.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21
S226 900 CASH
BEQUEATHED IN
HARDING'S WILL
WIDOW IS LEFT 100000 AND
MUCH PROPERTY; GIFTS ARE
MANY.

Marion, Ohio Sept. 10.-Bequests to-
falling $4,000 in cash were made to
relatives, lifelong friends, churches
and the Marion Park association by
the late President Harding, under the
terms of his will, filed for probate here
Friday.
Mrs. Florence King Harding, widow
of the president, was left a life estate
of 100000 in government bonds, the
east half of the building now occupied
by the Marion Star, the Harding home
on Mount Vernon avenue, with all per-
sOnal property contained there, with
the request that Mrs. Harding give to
each of the three sons of DR.. George
T. Harding, Jr., of Columbus, brother
Of the president, a finger ring and
watch.
FATHER $4,000 AND HOME
DR.. George T. Harding, father of
the president, was left life estate of
$4,000 in government bonds and the
home where he now resides. At DR..
Harding's death the home is to revert
to DR.. Harding's son and three daugh-
ters.
The president made a stipulation
that mo part of my estate will be ex-
pended for a monument other than a
simple marker for my grave"
The will, short, concise document
covering two and a half pages of small
parchment, was executed at Washing
ton June 20, 1923, and was witnessed
by George B. Christian, Jr., the pres
ident's secretary; Charles E. Hard, an
old friend of the president and a form
er employe at the White House, under
Mr.. Harding, and Attorney General
Daugherty. The instrument was
drawn by Mr.. Daugherty just before
Mr.. Harding left for his Alaskan trip.
No value of the estate can be est
mated until the will is admitted to
probate and appraisers named, Judge
L. B. McNeal said Friday night. Much
wealth is understood to be in stocks
and bonds, the value of which is un-
known, until the appraisers make their
report.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21
. COAL STRIKE
SETTLEMENT
IS PROBABLE

! Harrisburg, Pa.-Following accent
ance of Governor Pinchot's compron-
Use proposals for settling the anthra-
cite strike by the full scale committee
of the miners, the sub-scale committee
here is drawing up with the operators
provisional contract. The contract
embOdying the Pinchot proposals, in
Guiding a fiat 10 per cent wage in
crease, will, then be submitted to a
tri-district convention for ratification
by delegates from the miners locals.
1t is expected here that the conven-
ton, which will meet within a few
days, will accept the contract.
The contract represents vital con-
cessions on the part of the miners,
and victory for the operators who
have announced they will pass on much
if not all of the increase to the public
by raising the price of coal-this de-
spite official figures of the u. S. coal
commission originally quoted by Pin
chot which show that the entire in
crease can be absorbed by the oper-
ators and their interlOcking transpor-
tation and distributing companies and
leave "a fair profit. approximately
two-thirds of the $4,000 miners, the
low paid day men, will get only about
40 or 40 cents day more, leaving the
daily wage of most of them under SIS.
But the fact of five and a half months
of unemployment during the strike
last year, inadequate wages since. and
the high cost of living, leave the an
thracite miners with no choice but to
accept this unsatisfactory contract,
union officials here explain.
The four points of the Pinchot set
Element accepted by the miners and
operators Representatives are:
1. Recognition of the basic 8-hour
day for all employees; longer hours
are necessary at certain times, or in
certain occupations, but the overtime
is to be paid for at the 8-hour rate;
2. A uniform increase Of 10 per cent
to all employees effective Sept. 1; 8.
Full recognition of the union by OBJ
orators without the check-off, but with
the right to have a union representa-
tive present when the men are. paid;
4. Complete recognition of the prin-
ciples of collective bargaining.
Pres. John L. Lewis make sthe fol-
lowing statement: "The mine workers
were prepared to fight to finish with
the anthracite operators. We have,
however, the natural desire that goes
with good citizenship, to obviate pub
lie embarrassment and discomfort and
to prevent, if possible, the suffering
that would accompany a conflict be-
tween forces of such magnitude.
eve do not feel that the wage pro-
pOsals are sufficient to compensate
the mine workers for the particular
service they render in producing the
anthracite commodity under the most
adverse of conditions. Neither do we
believe that a 10 per cent increase is
sufficient toemeet their family needs
and other requirements. We feel that
our action in this instance in volun-
tarily agreeing to the public spirited
proposals of Governor Pinchot will
meet with the recommendation of the
American people and insurance for
the mine workers in the future a
greater degree of consideration for the
ills which they undeniably suffer-"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21
RUSSIAN YOUTH
MOVEM 7
By ANISE
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.

Moscow. woods around Moscow
are full of thenl-the Young Pioneers
ont on their summer camping trips.
There are nearly 100000 of them in
Russia, practically all organized dur
ing the last couple of years. Only this
year has there been much camp life
among them. Last year they were
too hungry.
Now they are doing all the stunts
that well organized groups of boys
and girls clubs do anywhere. | saw
a bunch of two or three hundred last
week, in a pine forest outside Moscow.
Each of them pulled off a different
stunt in the line of gymnastics. One
favorite trick is to spell letters of
some favOTite organization by means
Of acrobatic groupings, two or three
boys twinging themselves together to
make each letter.
The games We're full of energy, tho
knowledge of rules and accuracy of
play is scanty. A book of rules for
American games, and the Y. NJ. c. A.
army handbook, with lists of mass
games, were eagerly grabbed by the
leaders, who intend to translate ex-
cerpts for use all over Russia. There
is a real craze for sport, but a great
ignorance of techniue. Russians new
er used to play much before the rev.
olution.
The camps l visited consisted of a
dozen or more summer cottages, scat
tered in different parts of the woods.
Each was occupied by some twenty
or thirty boys or girls. A patrol of
10 youngsters would occupy a single
room, sleeping on long, deep "bunks"
all lying in a row. Four or five such
patrols made up a cottage.
Boys and girls are separated in the
patrols, but in the regiment made up
of eight or ten patrols, there are mix
ed sexes. Russia is, think, the first
country to try this coeducation not
only in school, but even in club organ
iZation. 1t SENS to work we'll and with
a total absence of Stiffness or sex con-
| seriousness.
The Young Pioneers of Russia are
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21
CHICAGO BUSI-
NESS SENTIMENT

ChicagO.-Deaf ears are turned by
the spokesman of Chicago business to
the appeal by the officialdom of I'm
tied Mine Workers for an alliance with
the union leadership against the rad
icals in America. The appeal was
made in series of six articles re-
leased by the international office of
the U. M. w. A. in which the Her1in
mine war is blamed on the communists.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce
says editOriallly: "The United Mine
Workers of America has made a mess
of its alibi"
The business section of the Chicago
Tribune has one of its staff writers
comment on the international office re-
leases as follows: "Alibi stuff is the
general tone of operator comment on
the exposure of red tactics in the coal
fields"
These papers are using the six ar
ticles in an endeavor to discredit the
union through its own spokesman.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21

Who will be Princess of Sheridan
County? Get busy and help your
fayOrite candidate.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-09-21

in gold coin, speculation grew today as
to whether the money is that buried
by Grover c. Bergdoll, draft dOdger,
before his flight to Germany.
Complaining the situation was the
assertion of c. S. Wheeler, farmer,
that he would lay claim TO the fortune
Wheeler said his 1O-year old son How
ard is entitled to the money, since he
was the first to find it. Wheeler said
his son was seated on a bank beside
the road when Houser's pick exposed
the box containing the money.
Wheeler says Houser tore the box
from the boys hands and made off
with it.