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Evening star., 1923-04-02
WOMEN RESTORED
TOU S. CITIZENSHIP
Two Married Foreigners
Get Back Rights-Nine
7 Petitioners Rejected.

Two women who lost their Amerl-
can citizenship by marriage to- for
eigners were restored to their rights
as American citizens by Chief Justice
McC,ov of the District Supreme Court
today. Another woman. born In can
ada and married to an American since
the passage of the new naturaliza-
tion law, was made an American clll-
zen.
The chief Justice dismissed petitions
of nine persons who claimed eNeinp-
tion under the draft and OF anotnea
who failed to make out and ME ms
Mrs, Enid NJ. Smith. born in Amer
lea, lost her citizenship by marriage
TO an Englishman. She applleo Io'
the return of her rights and was re-
admitted to citizenship. Mrs: 6lancne
A Henderson, a native of this coun-
try married James Henderson, ma
tive of ireland, a teacher al 81. Al
bans She recovered her Amen can
citizenship today and her husoaho
also was naturalized.
Mrs Gladys Hotchkiss, born IN
Canada, was married to Harry G.
Hotchkiss last December. Although
her husband is an American citizen,
the passage of the new law last oc-
tober prevented Mrs. Hotchklss from
taking the nationality Of her hus-
band. She had to apply in her own
name.
DR.. Louis Kunzelmann's petition for
NATURALIZATION was dismissed by the
chief justice The physician. under
the exclusion order of President VII
son. was obliged to leave the ins.
trict of Columbia. He claimed that
because of his enforced absence, he
did not receive the Questionuaire. so
failed to make response Ihe
court held that it was his business
to see that he got the questionnaiT e:
Tie doctor may make new appn-
cation after the expiration of five
years from Armistice day. according
TO Examiner Jesse Thomas. who con-
Quoted the proceedings today.
TIL" others whose petitions were
dismissed, and who will also have
TO make new applications. are: Ma
than Berkowitz. Frank Seidel, Morris
Isis Carl V. DahlStedt, stephen A.
Chumbris, Angel Docoff, Nathan
Perry. Joseph c. Eieth and Nyer
Herson.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
CHARGE POISON PEN
TO EX-U. S. EMPLOYE
Letters Rejecting on Interior De.
partment Workers Are Being
Investigated.

Charges that a former division
head of the Department of the In
terror, who also has held highly
responsible position in the office of
a former cabinet head, has written
anonymous letters attacking the
character and efficiency Of certain
employees of the Interior Department
are being investigated by the postal
inspection service, 1t was learned to-
day.
Although the charge is not being
officially tnvestiga ted, it is also de-
clared that this former official has
involved himself in cases of petty
thievery and that by other acts he
has cast a reflection on his predeces.
sors in office and other employees OF
the Interior Department.
Ohicials of the Interior Department
are reticent to talk about the mat.
ter They assert the case is only
that Of transfer of a clerk. for the
good of the service"
They admit. however, that the
Post ONCE Department has beer
asked 10 investigate the author OF
anonymous letters that have beer
circulated in the department durine
the past few months and that they
have been laid at the door of the
transferred employe. At the Post OF.
fee Department the chief of the pos.
tai inspection service declined tc
comment on the scope or results OF
the investigation.
Acting Secretary Finney did not Sc,
the papers in the case, he said TODAY
although he had heard rumors of tht
matter for some time. Secretary Work
is out Of the city on a trip of inspec.
ton to Indian reservations in the
southwest
Evening star., 1923-04-02
MARYLAND PLANS
FIGHT FOR OYSTER
Merchants and Manufacturers
Alarmed by Diminishing
Industry.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE. April "A special
group of the members OF the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associ-
alton is preparing to make sys-
tematic and extensive study of the
oyster situation in Maryland, with a
view of determining what measures
should be taken to regain for Balti-
more and the state the supreme posi-
tion once held.
The Chesapeake bay yield for the
past several years has shown such an
alarming decrease that the industry
is threatened. The natural condi-
tions Of the Chesapeake bay are
such that Maryland should be the
dominant factor in the oyster market
of the United States, according to
\. S. Goldsborough, secretary OF the
association.
This industry, in its various rami-
: ficatOns, represents an annual total
of between $4,000, 600 and s25. 200, 600.
1t is worthy of positive and deter
mined action in order to save IL from
| further shrinkage and ultimately to
put it back on its old-time pre-
eminent basis.
That is why a special group In
side the Merchants and Manufacture
erS' Association, which has practical
knowledge OF the real facts, is pre-
pairing TO study the problem and out
line a campaign for the good of the
state"
Evening star., 1923-04-02
WALSH CAN'T SEE
NORMALCY RETURN
Massachusetts, Senator Says Demo.
Gratis Will Gladly Meet Issue
If G. o. P. Proposes 1t.

The democratic national committee
ator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts.
chairman of the democratic senatorial
committee, in which he says the
democratic party will be glad TO meet
the issue Of return to normalcy" If
the republicans set II up in 1924. The
statement says in part:
IF there has been any appreciable
return TO normally 1t is not reflected
nomic or political affairs. Amy one who
travels extensively viii find no state
of normalcy in the public mind any,
where; in fact. dissatisfaction ana
unrest is greater than ever.
Business is still groaning under
war taxation, and the cost of produc-
tion is higher than ever. due TO the
prof1teers' tariff on raw materials.
revival, as any student of business
affairs knows. is due to depleted
stocks in nearly all lines OF business;
it Is only the filling of empty shelves:
European trade, first. because moth
ing has been done to restore IT. and,
secondly, because new trade barriers
have been erected by republican
"The consuming public still finds
the cost of living steadily rising, the
level of wholesale prices being Ills
per cent higher than year ago.
arnounting to between I5 and 20 per
cent increase in retail prices.
Certainly, the people who are now
being gouged on sugar by reason,
first, OF the high tariff secondly, by
profteering, and lastly, by stock
iobbing, are not experiencing nor
nalcy; the people who passed
through the recent coal famine with
its personal suffering and eXtortlon-
ate prices due to inaction on the part
Of the administration, are not enjoy
ing much normalcy.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
WELCOME AWAITS
SIX ARMY FLYERS
U. S. Air Chief Plans Recep.
ton Here for Men Who
Flew 5000 Miles.

Six De Haviland Army airplanes
carrying twelve officers OF the Air
Service. will complete their 6.000-nile
flight from San Antonio, Tex, to
Washington, by way Of Porto Rico, at
Boiling Field tomorrow noon.
The Porto Rican flyers will be met
and welcomed in the air by Maj. Gen.
Mason NJ. Patrick, chief of the Air
Service; Brig. Gen. William Mitchell
and formation Of Ave airplanes from
the local post.
On the ground to meet the pilots
when their last landing is made will
be either Secretary Of War Weeks or
Assistant Secretary Davis. Brig. Gen.
BandholtZ, commanding officer OF the
district OF Washington. and his staff
and numerous Army and Air Service
officials.
The officers who will arrive tomor-
row are Capt. Thomas G. Lanphier,
commanding officer of the expedition;
Lieuts. Erik II. Nelson. Edgar T.
Seller. George G. Mcdonald. Ivan q.
Moorman, Delmar IL Dunton, James
A. Woodruff, Newton Longfellow. Guy
Austin and Rex K. Stoner. They will
remain in Washington a few days
prior to returning to their home sta
tons In various parts of the country
The six airplanes. especially prepared
for the trip. will eventually be allo-
Gated to various fields.
Tomorrow night at the Army and
Navy Club the officers will be guests
at an informal smoker.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
TAKES UP RENTALS
ON OWN Initiative
d. C. Commission Begins Investi
CATION of Rates in Bradford
Apartment House.

Taking advantage of it's preroga-
tive afforded by the revised rent act,
the District Rent Commission today
began an investigation on its own
initiative of rental values in the
Bradford apartment house, 1900 x
street northwest. Rents will he fixed
by the commission on the sixty-on"
apartments in the building.
Starting with a public hearing to-
day, the commission heard testimony
of real estate experts regarding the
value of the apartment property,
which is owned by AZreal Eurr. ES-
Inmates of the present value of the
building and ground varied from
$425, 900 to S450,000. Later today the
tenants will be asked to testify.
The commission decided TO conduct
hearing or all of the apartments
after eight of the tenants had. ask ed
for rental reductions, whereas. the
owner had asked for increases on
fourteen of the apartments. Tenants
who filed complaints were: Charles
H. st. John, Everett Sanders, Kieran
j. Lowry, Ella B. Bolenius. A NJ
Burgoyne, Russell T. Edwards. Harry
E. Radcliffe and Allen X. Slower.
1t is likely that the hearing will
not be concluded today, because OF
the large number OF tenants to
testify.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
CARNIVAL OPENS TONIGHT.
Address by Commissioner Rudolph
to Inaugurate Grotto Festival.

Addresses by District Commissioners
Rudolph and L. Craige Pelouze of
Richmond. Va. grand monarch OF the
Mystic Order of Yelled Prophets
of the Enchanted Realm, will for
mally open the two-week carnival OF
the kallipolis Grotto at 1880 o'clock
this evening in the Central Coliseum
at 9th street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. A number of invited guests, in
cluding men prominent in Masonic,
civic and business circles, will be
present.
The sensational King Tut Mummy
Strut" will be presented in Wash
ington for the first time at the car
nival by Gypsy Rohmouje, Egyptian
dancer, who headlines the vaudeville
attractions. Other vaudeville num-
bers include the Dixie Minstrel
Troupe and Jerry Ripp. an original
jazz dancer. Dancing and novelty
games will he feature Of the
amusements. There also will be
merchants and manufacturers ex-
hibit.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
DENY SUGAR TARIFF
INCREASED PRICES
Republicans Seek to Refute
Democratic Charges.
! Draw Parallel.

Sugar prices and the sugar tariff
are the subjects of a lively duel now
going on between the republican and
democratic national Arrangements,
whose headquarters are IN this city,
and between individual democratic
and republican statesmen. The demo-
Gratis are aggressive in putting the
blame for high sugar on the new
tariff law and the republicans deny
the allegation.
Replying to a recent direct charge
national committee that the republi-
can tariff is responsible, the republi-
can national committee, through its
news bureau, today gave out the fol-
lowing:
The advance in the price Of sugar.
Rs we'll the advance in the price
OF countless other commodities since
last September Is no more due TO. the
tariff than the present price of bread
is due to the tariff on wheat. Figures
just made public by the bureau of la
Dor statistics show that while the
price OF -four has decreased TO where
it is only IS per cent above the level
of 1913, the price of bread remains 56
per cent above the 1918 level. 1t
shows that in Omaha, Eeb., the cen
ter of the wheat and grain growing
district, people are paying more for
bread than are the people of any
other city In the country, with the ex-
ception of New York.
Democratic politicians and repre-
sentatives of importing interests cam
not play the demagogue in connec-
tton with the relative price of wheat.
flour and bread by charging the price
of bread up to the tariff on wheat,
because the vast majority OF people
are too familiar with this problem
TO be buncoed by any specious argu-
ment. Yet the underlying reasons for
the high price of bread are exactly
the same as the underlying reason
for the advance in the price of other
necessities and countless commodi-
ties. none of which reasons have
anything at all to do with the tariff"
Evening star., 1923-04-02
CONDUIT ROAD OPEN
FOR BUSINESS ONLY
Present Restrictions on Travel Will
Not Be Augmented Unless
Necessary.

Recent restrictions placed on auto
mobile travel on the Conduit road
north of the District line because of
work on the new water conduit be-
ing built for the District Of Columbia
will not be augmented unless abso-
lutely necessary. 1t was stated at the
office of Maj. NJ c. Taylor, assist
ant engineer commissioner of the
District today.
Residents of the Cabin John section
were said to have been informed that
would be stopped except for purely
business purposes within a few
weeks or shortly after work on the
new conduit had recommended after
the tie-up in work during the winter;
Cabin 5 John residents side ~ d. deolargd eaaI,ld
be necessary to use the road after
the work had begun, and that all au-
tomobile travel other than for buSt-
ness would be stopped.
Notices have been posted for sew
eral months along the road north of
Cabin John bridg that the road is
not to be used for pleasure driving.
The road Is passable, but not in the
best of condition. from a point about
two miles north of Cabin John
! along the west side of the road from
the bridge north about a half mile
has made passage by automobile dam
gerouS.
Within the last week work of the
Arundal Corpora tion of Baltimore, con-
tractors in charge of the work, was
again begun, and the condition of the
road will probably become worse, al
though no further restrictions are
planned Immediately.
Eighty feet of the steel conduit
along the road north of Cabin John
bridge were laid last week, and prep
aratioEs are now being made south
Of the bridge for excavation work
,, Great piles of gravel and sand have
been dumped south of the bridge, mar
rowing the road considerably.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
TALKS ON CITIZENSHIP.
Chief Justice Mccoy Gives Advice
to Prospective Americans.

The Importance of citizenship was
the topic of a short talk given today
by Chief Justice Mccoy of the District
Supreme Court to many alien appli-
cants for the honor and those who
had come with them as sponsors and
witnesses.
The court spoke Of the Importance
of the function to be performed by
the witness in sponsoring the ad-
mission to citizenship of friends and
said that if they were aware even in
the slightest that the motive of the
candidate in seeking citizenship, was
anything but that of sound patriot
ism, to so inform the court.
Chief Justice Mccoy referred to the
trial of certain agitators in Mich
igan and said that unless this sort
of thing is stopped, it won't be long
before they would go through the
streets of Washington with the bomb
and the torch. Our forefathers were
right when they said that eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty" the
court declared.
Evening star., 1923-04-02

LIE Roy Finagin. past president Of
the Business High School Alumni
| Association, and a student at George
Washington University, died Satur-
day night of pneumonia. following an
illness of only few days duration.
He was twenty-three years old.
the District of Columbia, was widely
known in local high school circles.
He graduated from Business High in
1918. During the war he served in
the Marine Corps. undergoing train
ing At Paris Island S. C., and being
later sent to Quantico. Va, for over
seas assignment at the signing of the
armiStiCc.
He served as president of the
Alumni Association in 1891 and 1922,
He was engaged in the study of law
at George Washington University.
MIR. Finagin was Il member of the
Costello Post of the American Legion
and of the Congress Heights Metho-
dist Church.
He is survived by his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Joshua B. Finagin: two sis
ters, Mrs. Walter NARROW and Mrs.
Raymond Hunt, and by two brothers,
Archie and Walter Finagin, all of this
city.
Funeral services will be held at the
home, 1902 Savannah street, Congress
Heights, tomorrow afternoon at >
o'clock.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
$500, 900 HAGERsToWN FIRE.

HAGERSTOwN, Md. April 2.-Fire
believed to have been OF incendiary
origin, which destroyed a two-story
brick building housing the offices OF
the mecanicaI department and the
storehouse Of the Western Maryland
railroad, in this, city, caused a loss
conservatively estimated at 100000
The principal loss was in the store
house. which was gutted. Three ada
cent buildings were damaged. The
loss in partially covered by insurance.
Nine hundred men have been out
on strike at the plant of the railroad
company here since March %, 1922.
Strike Anniversary.
The first anniversary OF the strike
was celebrated here last Monday
night, with big parade and mass
meeting. AS there was no FIRE about
the building. which had been locked
up following the days work on Sat-
urday, there being no one employed
there at night, authorities are led
to believe that some one set the
building on fire.
Railroad officials expressed the be
lief that former shopworkers in the
recent strike started the fire, as there
was nothing combustible in the
building. which was heated by pipes
from another building. All of The
valuable records of the company al
this place were destroyed.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
Geese on Flight
Sidetracked by
Crook in Riuer
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERIIAND,M Nd, April wild
geese and dpcks have begun to make
their appearance in this city and
vicinity on their annual flight north
ward. On Friday night a flock of
about twenty-five wild geese, flying
in their customery v shaped forma-
tion and Thonking" loudly. became
confused at Pearre, about forty miles
east of here, because of the bend In
the Potomac river
The foWtls. which apparently were
following the river course, going
northward! circled the bend, got off
their course and flew toward the
south from whence they came. Wild
ducks have appeared on the Potomac
river just off Riverside Park here
each day this week. They come from
up the river, stay several hours div
ing for Fl al. at their chosen spot and
disappear again in the same direc-
tion.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
COLD PLAYS HAVOC
IN MANY ORCHARDS
Maryland Fruit in Some Sec
tions Suffers Loss as High
as 35 Per Cent.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star
CCNBERLAEr. Nd, April Great
damage has been done fruit in many
sections by the drop in temperature
the past three or four nights. Where
there had been no warm spells the
budding was backward and the
crops were not hurt. but in other
sections. particularly Pinto, along the
Potomac, west of here, the freeze OF
the night of March % caused heavy
loss, according to orchardists.
The Farris Orchard Company lest
from 10 to Is per cent of its crop
that night, while the Chert-Land
Orchard Company in the same section,
places its loss at 35 per cent. Satur-
day night the drop in temperature
was st!ll lower and the extent of the
damage from the freeze has not yet
been ascertained.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
HANDBOOK CASES PUSHED
Federal Attorney Dockets First Ac-
tions for Wednesday.

The first of the handbook cases to
be tried under the plan of Maj. Pey-
ton Gordon, United States district at
torney, to clean up the fifty or more
old cases that have been on the
docket of the Police Court, running
back for several years, were docketed
today by Assistant District Attorney
David A. Hart for Wednesday next,
The defendants are Robert l.. Pitts,
Joseph Passero, Charles Lombardi.
Mike Lombardi. George. .De1aphne. Lee
Cohen (two charges), and Frank Z.
Lambkin.
Mr.. Hart will start these trials
Wednesday morning, just as soon as
the docket is cleared of the defend
ants on the docket that day who are
locked up. From time to time for
each Wednesday six or more hand
book defendants will be put on the
docket for trial until all of the cases
now in the office of Mr.. Hart have
been disposed of.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
HIT BY GIANT WAVES.

HALIFAX, n. s.. April 2.-Her
bridge and officers quarters a mass
of splinters, the White Star liner
Pittsburg, docked today with a re-
port of having been struck by two
giant waves, which rising out of a
moderate sea smashed down on both
bows simultaneously.
The damage was done on Good Fris
day 600 miles off Sable Island. The
third officer was knocked unconscious
and every man on the bridge was
tumbled about roughly.
The bridge and quarters will have
to be rebuilt, and the telegraph sys-
tenn repaired Everything movable
that was struck by the waves was
carried away.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
WHISKY AND RUM VANISH

Several gallons of eggnog, fifty
two pints of whisky and ten pints Of
rum disappeared from the drug store
OF DR.. w. A. Boyd, Georgia avenue
and Kenyon street, last night En-
trance was gained to the store by
breaking a pane Of glass from a rear
door. the police were told. and the
brands OF whisky taken, the police
say, would net bootleggers approxi-
mately 5000.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
AUTO VICTIM SUCCUMBS.
Richard T.. Hook Injured Wednes
day and Driver Arrested.

Richard 1. Hook. thirty years old.
1141 18th street. who was knocked
down by an automobile last Wednes-
day night, died at F'reedmen's Hos
pital last night. Joseph Smoot, alias
Richard Herd, colored. 2236 llth
street, driver Of the automobile that
inflicted the injury, was arrested
shortly after the accident. He will
appear at an inquest scheduled to be
held at the morgue this afternoon.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
NEW HEAD AT FORT MYER,
Col. Hawkins Assumes Command
of Sd Calvary.

Col Hamilton S. Hawkins, a dis
tinguished cavalry officer, today as
sumed command of the cavalry and
artillery post at Fort MYer, Va. He
assistant commandant of the< Cavalry
School. at Fort Riley, Kan, and has
been assigned to command of the Sd
Cavalry, recently relinquished by Col.
william c. Rivers, who has been
transferred to the inspector generals
department.
Col. Hawkins is a native of South
Dakota and was graduated from the
Military Academy in June, 1894. With
the exception of a single detail In
the inspector generals department,
his entire service has been in the
cavalry arm.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
ACTRESS SEEKS TRIAL,
Stella Adler Would Clear Name of
Farrar's Charges.

NEW YORK. April 2.-Attorneys for
Stella Adler-Stella Larrimore on the
stage-a correspondent in Geraldine
Farrar's suit for divorce from Lou
Tellegen today petitioned the supreme
court for trial by jury in order that
she might refute testimony recently in
troduced by the prima donna.
Miss Adler wanted to clear her name,
her counsel told Justice O'Malley.
Argument on the petition will be made
during the day.
Evening star., 1923-04-02
Sends Regards
From Greece to
Alleged Victims
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, April 2.-Pierre
F. Cross. a caterer here five years
ago. alleged to have decamped with
funds put into his buesiness, is in
Patras. Greece. lie disappeared whei,
the sheriff closed his place, it Is al
legged, and the first heard of him since
was a letter recently extending his
regards ito Richmond" There is
no treaty with Greece by which his
return to face charges could be eff
fectuated!
Evening star., 1923-04-02
FLAMES ARE SEEN
TEN MILES AWAY
600 Acres of Timber De-
stroyed in Black Rock Dis
trict of Maryland.
By the Associated Press.


HAGERSTOWN. Nd, April "A
fierce mountain fire which has been
raging in the Black Rock district,
the scene, several months ago of the
worst forest fire in years, destroyed
600 acres Of timber before 1t was final
ly extinguished last night by large
number OF volunteer fighters. A high
wind famed the blaze. which could
be seen for ten miles
The fire was discovered at the
base of the mountain. Winds sweep
ing il upward. hampered the work OF
the fighting force which was in
charge of Deputy Fire Marshal
Faulders. II was not checked until
It reached the top OF the mountain.
Most of the timber destroyed was
young oak, pine and chestnut.