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Evening star., 1923-06-03

journey from the Golden State, how
ever
All of She other California cars
turned back after trying in vain to
struggle through the mud of Kansas
and other states west of the Misss-
sippi Advance scouts declared it had
rained in that part of the country for
three solid weeks and turned every
road into Quagmire. Those who did
persevere and continue were obliged
finally to freight their machines to
st. Louis and resume the march there
From that point the caravan began to
grow in numbers and at Indianapolis
last Thursday it was said to have
reached the half a thousand mark.
Hundreds of Cars Parked.
Hundreds of motorists have already
parked their cars here and thousands
more are almost knocking at the
gates of the city. The largest num-
ber is expected in by late tomorrow
or early Tuesday. just in time for the
| first parade. A vast majority of the
guests and not Shrine representa-
tives. Many of them it will be i'm
possible to tabulate. as their passen-
gers are merely en- route. taking ad-
vantage of the Shrine convention to
visit the National Capital
The advance scouts of most of the
temples, charged with the duty of
| nj tiDO
| housing of the main body, dealt
knockout blow to those skeptics who
| are beginning to express doubt over
the number of visitors due here with
| in the next three days. The case
of Tripoli Temple of Milwaukee was
] sited as an example. 1t engaged
the entire Capitol Park Hotel, esti-
| mating the number of pilgrims it
would send at about 900. When its
| advance scout arrived yesterday he
announced the official assignment
| was exactly 296 persons, with the
probability that another half dozen
| would decide to make the trip at the
last minute.
No Idle Moments.
Washington Is today like a huge
circus ground. with the center of the
city as the big top" in which the
main show will be held, surrounded
on every side by the lesser side
shows. Were it possible for every
citizen to make an airplane fight
slowly over the city he would see
camps, new buildings, groups of at
fractions and side features by the
score covering the hills and dales
bordering the heart of Washington
Every branch of the nations fight
ing arm is to demonstrate it's prowess.
The Navy will stage a sea battle, the
coast guard will demonstrate its
efficiency, the air service has scores
of planes-many of them having fig
ured in recent history-to show the
visitors, and the Army has reared a
tented city, where MANNED or in
jured Shriners may receive the best
medical attention with the least loss
of time.
Not a minute of Washington's time
will be idle from today until next
Friday. Every tick of the clock will
witness some thrills = from the
strangest parades historic Pennsyl-
vania avenue has ever gazed upon to
merry antics by the Shriners or dare
devil stunts by the scores of enter
tainers brought here to make this the
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Welcome Awaits McCandIess.

At 8 o'clock this morning Imperial
Potentate James S. McCandless, COM
pleting a journey that started in
balmy Honolulu, will lead his own
most illustrious caravan into the holy
meeting place Of 1923. Thousands of
| Shriners. dressed in the full regalia
of their fraternity. will do obeisance
before the omnipotent one, and the
! convention will actually start when
| he orders every faithful heart to an
swer the call from the minarets of
| Washington, announcing the hour for
Sunday prayer.
The official program today will be
devoted exclusively 20 religious scrv-
| ices. The city's churches will throw
open their doors to the Shrine hosts
and every member of the order will
| be expected to pay homage to the
| Master of all. In the afternoon 4
| special mass service will be held on
the SUBMITS of Temple Heights
where is to be raised the worlds
greatest Masonic temple. Tonight
the visitors may travel their own
| paths, but nearly every delega ton
has prepared a special evening pro-
| gram Of it's own
! Thirty Special Trains Today.
By midnight thirty special trains,
| coming from the four corners O: the
nation. will have reached Union sta
! IL 1r -f.,;
tors. Tomorrow nearly 100 other
solid Pullman trains, chartered by
various temples. will arrive and the
! remainder of the 200 scheduled to
come to Washington will report at
| their respective terminals by Tuesday
morning, when the first session of the
Imperial Council will be called to on
| der in the presence of President
Harding, a noble of Aladdin Temple,
! of Columbus, Ohio.
The temples due here by special
| trains today are Aahmes of Oakland,
| Calf; Abdallah of Leavenworth,
Kan; Abu Bekr of Siouz City, Iowa;
| Akdar Of Tulsa, Okla; Alcazar of
Montgomery, Ala; AL kader of Port
| land, Ore; AL Koran of Cleveland,
Ohio; AL Menah of Nashville, Tenn.
Aloha of Honolulu; Bedouin of Musk
ogee, Okla; Damascus of Rochester,
N. Y: Ell Riad of Sioux Falls, S. D.:
;. Hadi of Evansville, Ind; Islam of
| San Francisco; KAREN of Waco, Tex. !;
| Luxor of ST. Johns, N. B.; Melha of
| Springfield, Mass; Mizpah of Fort
Wayne, Ind; Moolah of st. Louis, Mo-;
Mt. Sinai of Montpelier. VT; Murat of
/ Indianapolis; Nemesis of Parkers-
burg. w. Va; Orak of Hammond. Ind;
| Osman of st. Paul, Mimi; Palestine
| of Providence, r. l.; Sahara of Pine
Bluff. Ark; Saladin of Grand Rapids,
! Mich; Tangier of Omaha. Neb.
yelduz of Aberdeen, S. D.: Za-Ga-Zig
of Des Moines. Iowa; Zenobia of To-
/ ,edo. Ohio; Zorah of Terre Haute,
Ind Zuhrah of Minneapolis, MINI.
| Frustrated by Mud.
| The road to Mecca has been a
rough and rugged one for many of the
| nilerims travelling in motor caravans.
The largest of these will reach Wash
ington at noon tomorrow when the
| caravan that started from California
will be escorted into the city and par
| ticipate in the dedication of the Zero
Mile Stone on the Ellipse by President
Harding. Latest reports stated that
1t consisted of about 500 cars, only
| fifteen of which completed the long
Evening star., 1923-06-03

The Stars carrier system covers every
city block and the regular edition Is
delivered to Washington homes as fast
as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
MEDICINAL LIQUOR
ORDER QUESTIONED

Assistant Secretary Moss today
called on Collector Steuart of the
customs house at New York for full
explanation of the order issued
March 10 by Thomas W. Whlttle.
surveyor of that post, permitting
passengers on incoming steamships
to land with one quart of liquor for
medicinal purposes. Mr.. Moss indi-
Gated that the order probably later
would be materially altered.
Mr.. Moss said the Treasury De-
partment's information indicated the
order was intended to permit pas
sengers who were i'll to bring alcoholic
stimulants ashore with them when
necessary, but that on the face it ap-
peared to be in direct violation of
the Volstead act and of customs
regulations prohibiting the inclusion
of liquor as a part Of passenger s
baggage.
In the view of Treasury and custom
officials, the order was capable of be-
ing stretched for use in illegitimate e
ways. Mr. Moss said he expected to
have the report before him tomorrow.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
SToTESBURYS GUARDED.

PHILADELPHIA, March 2S.-News-
paper reporters, who had camped
outside the city residence Of L. T
Stotesbury nearly all night In the
hope of obtaining a statement from
hom or his son-in-law, John Kearsley
Mitchell. who was revealed as the
mysterious "Mr. Marshall" in the
Dorothy Keenan, murder case, had
all their trouble for nothing.
When they were relived by other
reporters early today they had not
even learned whether the two men
had spent the night there or at Mr..
Stotesbury's country home at White
marsh.
Servants at the town house said
early in the night that the Stotes-
bury family, including Mr.. Mitchell,
were there, but later denied they had
left Whitemarsh.
Unusual precautions were taken to
protect the Stotesburys from inter
viewers upon their arrival here from
Palm Beach. and these were in no
wise relaxed throughout the night
Efforts to confirm the report that
Mr.. Stotesbury planned to ofYer a
large reward for the apprehension
OF the slayer Of Dorothy keenan, and
that he was preparing to go to New
York to discuss the case with Acting
District Attorney Pecora were un-
ayailing
Evening star., 1923-03-28
INCREASES TROLLEY
TRANSFER PRIVILEGE
Utilities Commission Extends Ex.
changes at Points in
Northwest.

The Public Utilities Commission
this afternoon issued an order in
creasing transfer privileges between
the two street railway companies in
the northwest section of the city
The order is in the form of an amend
ment to the permit under which the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company operates motor buses on
Park road and reads as follows:
THAT the Washington Railway and
Electric Company shall sell inter-
company transfers. good for passage
Traction Company at 18th and Co
lumbia road, to passengers present
ing the said transfers from the Park
road bus line to the Mount Plea SAINT
line of the said Washington Railway
and Electric Company.
That the Washington Railway
and Electric Company shall sell 2
line to passengers presenting inter-
company transfers from south bound
Capital Traction cars at 18th street
and Columbia road to the Mount
Pleasant line of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company"
William NICK. Clayton. acting as
Highlands today. wrote the Public
Utilities Commission requesting that
il the East Washington Heights
Railroad Company is given permis-
sion to substitute busses for street
cars on the Pennsylvania avenue
made for transfers between the Cap
ital Traction Company and the
buses of the other company. He
also requested a hearing.
Evening star., 1923-03-28

=, The government. which sets forth
.nese startling facts in a little book
entitled How Other People Get
Ahead" failed to classify the pretty
well known man who has to spend
$lOl out of his 500 salary monthly
Tor living expenses, saves nothing,
and has nothing left for education.
recreation or giving
Shows Necessity for Care.
In the foreword Of the little book.
the government says its aim is to
show the necessity for exercising care
and prudence in the management Of
resources, the beneficial effects Of
saving, how to differentiate between
good and bad investments, the danger
signs of fraudulent schemes and the
essentials of sound investment. Final
ly, as constructive means of putting
good advice into effects, its presents
the advantages of Treasury savings
certificates and recommends invest
ment in them as a step in thrift and
saving, which, il says, are the habits
essential to individual success and in
dependence,
Evening star., 1923-03-28
Flyer Discovers
He Wed in Mind
Lapse After Fall
BY the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, March IS
Suffering a lapse of memory, caused
by hurts received in an airplane
accident at Pensacola, Fla, in the
spring Of 1918, Edward Yake, for
mer Army aviator, awoke from
his state of oblivion a year ago to
find himself the husband Of d
woman he never knew or saw"
That is what he told Equity
Examiner A. De Russey Sap
pington. taking testimony yester-
day in the former flyers plea for
annullment of his marriage to
Rose Harris here year after his
accident
Upon his recovery last year,
fake told the examiner, he was
introduced to stunning girl
Your wife that is what l was
told. / had never known the
woman, and / did not want to be
married-indeed, l never had any
such Intention
But, the complaining flyer de-
clared, certificates were produced
TO prove automatically that he had
been united in marriage with Rose
Harris, on April 6. 1919, just a
year after his accident. He was
prevailed upon to live with his
bride" of three years, he said,
but 1T was not to my liking"
Evening star., 1923-03-28
u. S. BRANDS AS "TIGHTW4D'' HIM
WHO SAVES 90 PER CENT OF WAGES

All these years you may have been
calling yourself thrifty, but today
you will find the government calls
you a "tightwad" And in the same
breath the government let's it be
known what it calls spendthrift and
how it designates thrifty person.
AS to the first classification: For the
sake of illustration. the subjects SAL
ary is placed at 500 month. He
is q "tightwad" If he saves $50,
spends s37 for living expenses and
sets aside 81 each for education, rec
reation and giving.
Now, the spendthrift Is that person
who, drawing 500 a month, spends
$5S on living expenses, $40 on recrea-
ton, and 81 each for education and
giving, while the
Thrifty man saves $40 of his month
ly stipend, spends $50 on living and
$40 each on education. giving and
recreation.
Take your pick.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
LANCASTER LAKE
TO BE DRAINED OFF
Unsightly Pond Will Be Out of
Existence by Easter
Sunday.

The socalled Lancaster lake..
consisting of pond of surface
water which settled on the property
of Charles c. Lancaster between
Georgia avenue. Sth street, Sheridan
drained out of existence before East
and Tuckerman streets, will be
er Sunday.
l. r. GabriIl, superintendent of
suburban roads, today is digging a
trench in the alley in the rear of
Georgia avenue through which the
lake" will swiftly flow from Mr.
I.ancaster's property to- a pipe near
9Th street
While this will clear the land i'm
mediately 1t will not prevent another
lake" from forming unless perma :
nent drain pipe Is laid in the trench
in the alley. Engineer department
officials say this will have to be done
because the trench cannot be left
open indefinitely.
Mr.. Grabill could not state definitely
this afternoon what arrangements
would be made with Mr. Lancaster to
cover the cost of the work. What is
now being done will not cost as much
as it was originally thought for the
reason that Mr.. Grabill found buried
near the 9Th street front an old drain
pipe. formerly used to help carry sur
fSpe water from that vicinity.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
COURT UPHOLDS
THEATER SUITS
Justice HoehIing Rules
Against Motions to Dismiss
in KniCkerbocker Cases.

Justice Hoehling Of the District
Supreme Court today overruled the
motions of Reginald W. Geare, John
II. Ford and the Union Iron Works
10 dismiss the fifty or more suits
brought by legal representatives of
victims OF the Knickerbocker Thea
ter disaster. The suits seek to hold
not only the theater company, but
also the architect, the iron fab
ricator and the District of Columbia
jointly responsible for the collapse
Of the roof of the theater, which
caused the death of nearly 100 per-
sons and injured many others.
The court held that the declarations
state cause of ACTION to which all
the defendants must plead. Geare
the architect. and Ford and the Union
Works. metal fabricators, asked the
dismissal Of the suits because of mis-
joinder Of parties and causes of ac-
tion. They claimed there was no joint
responsibility in the erection of the
building.
Demurrer Is Filed.
Attorneys Charles A. Douglas. 10,
seph w. Cox and Conrad II. Syme. for
the victims. maintained there was a
continuing and successive liza bility
among the architect. iron man and
DulIQlnS inspector, ana tndt all con-
tributed to the defective building
which collapsed and caused the deaths
and injuries.
Attorneys Daniel Thew Wright an6
Philip Ershler for Architect Geare
today filed a demurrer to the severa
declarations. The new legal PROPOSE
tion raised by the demurrer is that the
declarations on their face show thai
the Knickerbocker Theater had beer
completed and turned over to thu
owner some time before the accident
and that the negligence, if any. wa:
in the maintenance of a defectiv,
building and the inviting of the pub
lie to enter it. The proximate caus,
of the injuries could not, therefore
have been the original negligence. 1.
any, of construction, which could only
be the remote cause. The victims can
not look to the builders as responsible,
for the collapse of the roof. 1t |:
claimed. but can only recover from
the theater company which operated
the playhouse.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
Outrage to Kill
Priests, s,U.S.May
Inform SoUiet

Decision OF the soviet govern
ment to execute Archbishop Yep
1iak and Mgr. Butchkavitch of the
Catholic Church. in Moscow, was
characterized today by State De-
partment officials as constituting
an outrage against humanity
which could not fail TO create the
deepest feeling of resentment
and horror in the United States.
Appeals to the department pro-
testing against the execution
were received from the Catholic
Club of New York City. Depart
ment spokesmen declined to say
what steps they would take Off
cially, but 1t was intimated that
IA manifestation expressing the
opinion of this government and
people regarding the soviet au-
thorities would find u way to
Russia and leave the Moscow au-
thorities in no doubt az to the
American idea of them and their
actions.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
BITTEN BY HORSE
GETS $2,5OO VERDICT

Because she was bitten on the arm
by a horse drawing a District trash
wagon Mrs. Eulalia Joiper of S60o
18th street northwest was today
awarded a verdict for 1880 damages
against the District o. Columbia by n
jury in Circuit Division l before Jus
tfce Hitz. The District authorities
claimed the collection of trash Is a
governmental fW/ction and relieves
them of liability, but Justice Hitz re
fused to so Instruct the jury. The
District will appeal.
According to the testimony, Mrs.
Joiner was passing through the pub
lie alley In rear of her home March
Is. 1922 and when she reached the
horse. Vhich. with the wagon. was in
the middle Of the alley, she attempted
to plss. The animal snapped at her
an& bit her on the arm above the ell
bHw. The defendant claimed the
horse was not vicious and that it had
no knowledge Of it's having the incli-
nation to bite. 1t also relied on the
doctrine of governmental function.
Mrs. Joiner was represented by At
torneys Daniel w. O'Donoghue and
Frederick Stohlman, while Assistant
Corporation Counsel Williams repre-
sented the District.
Evening star., 1923-03-28
SECURITY IN QUESTION.
Allied Note on German Currency
Loan Brings Up Priorities.

Ev the Associated Press.
PARIS. March 2S.-Whfle various
interpretations may be put upon the
Isote the reparation commission Is
sending to Germany in connection
with her foreign currency loan issue,
the correct one, according to some
best informed circles is that it holds
! in substance that there is no question
'of the German governments right to
offer the loan, but that there does
exist question as TO the security 1T
may give.
The text of the note. prepared by
Sir John Bradbury of England. and NJ.
Delacroix of Belgium. calls attention
to article 24S of the treaty of Yer
sailles defining priority rights in
1eparation and continues:
Rights of Priority.
The commission makes express
reserve, as against subscribers to
the loan OF its right of priority
against any funds which may be as
signed by the German government to
The payment of interest or the repay
ment of capital to the loan in ques-
tion, more particularly If the receipt
itself is not applied to the discharge
of reparation annuities.'
It is apparent that there was con-
siderable discussion before the text
cf the note was drafted and the dis
Tussion made il first necessary tc
obtain Interpretation placed upon
article 24S by the legal section of the
commission. The French contendeG
this article applied virtually to any
assets OF Germany unless her repara-
tion obligations were first satisfied.
II is affirmed that the original in
rention of the French was to prevent
the launching of the loan with g
guarantee by the Reichs bank, but
now that the loan is said to be but
so per cent subscribed, the origina
~ ,ouTInI1ad ON Pace Column &
Evening star., 1923-03-28
SUICIDES AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE
DOUBLED SINCE VAR, is REPORT

one boy left a note that he was kill
ing himself Just for the fun of II {"
A girl wrote she was taking her own
life Just to get a new thrill" An
other took poison because she dIdn't
like the way she looked with her hair
bobbed.
Existence of at least one "suicfde a
club Of girls was disclosed, while
numerous suicide pacts were re-
ported.
Discussing child suicide, DIR. War
rem listed as the three PRINCIPAL
causes, intolerable home conditions
faulty school system and tempera-
mental disorders.
Child marriage" he continued. "it
another serious cause. In 1920 there
were 1900 boys and $4,000 girls At
teen years of age In the UEited
States listed as married. Nearly 500
Of them were recorded as divorced
or widowed"
Evening star., 1923-03-28
PITCHED BATTLE
STACED0VERRUM
BootIeggers Hold Up Whisky
Runners at Laurel, Md.
Shooting Brings Police.
THREE ARE ARRESTED
Exchange of Shots in Main Street
of Town Throws Populace
Into Ferment.

Maryland state police answered a
this afternoon and were forced. to
use automatics in putting an end to
one of the most spectacular and dar-
ing shooting affrays between boot
leggers and the authorities ever
staged in that section Of the state.
The battle did not start between
the bootleggerS and the police. but
among the former themselves, when
unidentified liquorrunners staged a
daring hold-up of a large touring
car. containing three colored men and
eighty gallons of whisky. The shoot
ing, which took place within the tow n
limits, near the Laurel drug store,
attracted the attention of the whole
populace. who at first started for the
scene, but scattered for shelter in
the rain of bullets.
Sheriff Joins ARRAY.
Sheriff Scaggs ventured forth. arm
ed with a gun. and after firing eight
shots, exhausting his ammunition, he
was forced 10 withdraw and seek
more ammunition.
Meanwhile word had been flashed
to the state police headquarters OF
the battle on the Baltimore ash
ington boulevard and corps of
mounted officers hurried to the
scene. The occupants of the two
cars meanwhile had begun TO
realize that they were being sur
rounded by officers and the fight be-
tween their respective groups ceased
The hcld-up men succeeded In get
ting away, but the two automobiles,
the three victims of the unusual
hold-up and the liquor were con-
fscated when state policemen ar
rived
Details of how the hold-up men
managed to escape were not available
at a late hour this afternoon.
Capital Men Held.
The men arrested were Muriel Tay-
lor, William Cady and Joseph Naily.
all Of this city. They were lodged in
the Laurel Jail. Among the effects of
Taylor, it is reported. was found a
bank book bearing the name OF a
Washington bank and showing entries
in money as high in amount as SEQ
600 per item.
The liquor. which was in glass con-
tainers, was poured out by state
policemen. after IA quantity had been
retained for evidence.
Apparently none of the men in the
original shooting fray and none of
the officers were injured in the free
for-all fight, which lasted for nearly
half an hour.
A report of the affair was sent to
state police headquarters in Balti-
more this afternoon.
Evening star., 1923-03-28

Rr the Associated Press
NEW YORK. March 2S.-The num-
her Of suicides among young people
has almost doubled since the world
war. DR.. Harry M. Warren. president
of the Save-A-Life League. declared
i'm his report for 1922, made public
today.
From AIT Juvenile suicides listed in
1919. the known total had jumped to
600 in 1922, the report declared, with
a probability that for every known
suicide there was one self-inflicted
death not so listed. The total number
of suicides tabulated for the year
WAS 1880.
Boy suicides averaged in age six
teen years. while the girls who died
~ their own hand averaged hfteen.