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Evening star., 1923-05-07
SEES SOUTH LEAD
IN PRISON REFORM
Former Prison Association
Head Says Conditions Vast
" Better There Now.
By the Associated Press.


WHITE PLAINS. N Y. May =
Prediction Of a. new era in which the
southern states would lead the coun-
try in humanitarian treatment OF
prisoners was made today by DR..
Hastings a. Hart. a member Of the
Russell Sage Foundation and former
president of the American Prison AS
ISOLATION. in announcing that he
might accept an invitation Of legis-
lative committees in North and South
Carolina to investigate prison condi-
tiGns in those states
DR.. Hart, who has investigated
prison conditions in various southern
states-notably Alabama, Mississippi,
West Virginia, Florida, South Caro-
lima and Eirginia-declared that in a
large number Of these states there
had come sweeping reforms.
Alabama and South Carolina have
done more in the last few years to
better conditions than any two states
in the Union" he said.
The convict lease system attacked
recently in Florida, he said, was the
result of the poverty Of the southern
states after the war
slaves Better Treated.
Slaves, DIR. Hart continued. were
treated by their owners like valuable
horses, but the attitude under the
convict lease system was "if we kill
one convict, we can get another"
The road cage, one of the greatest
evils of the lease system, DR.. Hart
said was fast disappearing. 1t was
in this cage. he added. that convicts
spent the night under conditions
closely resembling those of Siberian
prison camps.
Conditions in Mississippi were
worse than in other states he had
investigated, DR.. Hart said. There.
he declared, murderers, sentenced to
Imprisonment for life. acted as guards
and were armed with high-powered
killed a fellow convict who was try
ing to escape, the murderer was
granted a pardon, according to DR..
Hart.
DR.. Hart said the new Kilby peni-
tentiary at Montgomery, Ala, was
in better condition than Sing Sing
prison, New York.
Farms Now Paying.
At Columbia, s. c.. are two prison
whites and a negro reform school, he
said. Since he conducted an investi-
cation there two years ago they have
been we'll supported by the state and
are now beginning to pay back in
results the money expended on them,
he said.
DR.. Hart said the North Carolina
state penitentiary and the Jail at
Durham were above the average. due
to the efforts of the committee of
100. which Is intrusted with the man.
agement Of the prison system.
Conditions Of the Pennsylvania
state penitentiary at Philadelphia he
described as bad There are more
than 1000 prisoners confined there
while there are only 500 cells for their
accommodation, he said. He declared
he would report these conditions next
week to the Pennsylvania board of
public welfare.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
Diso,oned Heiress Happy in $40
Week Fiat; Cooks O,vn Meals

an eye on the stove. The
publicity at first was CHASTITY. I ragged
and I cried. but now I can see the
humor Of It,"
Barrigrand, with slightly more diff
ficulty with the English language. in
terjected: Let them have their joke"
He expressed himself as satisfied
with his work, which includes that of
catching red-hot rivets flung from
far below, and forcing them into cold
steel with a pneumatic hammer. His
pay envelope, 1t develops, is turned
over to his wife. the same as many
other pay envelopes in the factory
district around James street, in
which the couple have rented their
modest apartment.
Mrs. Barrigrand explained that the
residence in James street is tempo
rary. Their ultimate ambition. she
said, is to own a little farm some
where in the east.
Meanwhile she intends to continue
preparing her husbands dinner buck
ct and acquire greater skill over the
two-burner gas stove. 4
Evening star., 1923-05-07
ATTORNEY ARRESTED
ON CLIENTS CHARGE
Robert L. Montague Accused of
Embezzling $3.50 From Capitol
Heights Man.

Robert l.. Montague. local attor-
ney, was arrested this afternoon by
Detectives waldron and Sweeney on
a warrant alleging embezzlement
The warrant alleging the embezzle-
ment Of $3.50 was issued on com
plant Of Harry Wells, Capitol
Heights, Md, who charges that such
sum was withheld by Montague
when the latter represented him In a
claim for damages against the WASH
inston Railway and Electric Com
pany.
Montague resides at Glendale,
Prince Georges county, Nd. the
county of which Wells also Is resi-
dent. 1t is charged that, the railway
company sent Montague check for
$3.50, and the attorney charged $40
for his services. A personal check
Tor $3.50 Wells is said to have re-
-ceivod from Montague, 1t is charged,
was returned because OF insufncient
funds in the bank.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
HIGH COURT DENIES
TEST OF SEARCH

An effort to have the Supreme
Court pass on the right of search
and seizure in prohibition cases
without a search warrant failed to-
day when the court declined to re-
view a case brought by Tony and
Mary Panzich of Los Angeles, Calf.
They had been arrested and convict
ed in prohibition case, despite their
protest that their premises were un-
lawfully entered to obtain evidence.
Other Reviews Denied.
Other cases in which a review was
denied included the case of Moe III.
Baron of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Hyman
Barnett, convicted for violation of the
prohibition act.
An appeal by Baldini. convicted on
the charge Of maintaining a common
nuisance at Reno, New, by keeping
liquor on sale despite the fact that
the convicting court found him at the
same time not guilty of having in
toxicating liquor in his possession.
An appeal from the Indictment and
conviction in New Jersey of Samuel
Krivit, Barnard Cohen and Harry
Tftlebaum for conspiracy to violate
the prohibition enforcement law. They
had contended that the possession Of
liquor is not of itself an unlawful act.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
CONVICT CAMP GUARD
STOPS NEWS PICTURE
Newspaper Mems Car Searched
While Near Spot Tabert Is Said
to Have Been Slain

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. May Two
newspaper men and a photographer,
seeking photographs Of scenes sur
rounding the convict camp where
Martin Tabert, North Dakota youth.
is alleged to have been beaten to
death in Dixie county a year ago,
were held up and their automobile
searched late Saturday by a resident
Of the vicinity. aided by an armed
guard from a. nearby convict camp.
according to a story published today
by the Jacksonville Journal.
A man who said his name was
Forhees asked the newspaper men
for a ride Saturday. it is stated. and
as he was about to leave the machine
called the camp guard, a Capt. Mills,
who approached the party after pick
ing up a revolver and placing 1t in
a holster he wore. While the guard
stood by Forhees searched the ma
chine and then permitted the party
to proceed.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
COAST GUARD USE
IN RUM WAR URGED
President Asked to Substi-
tute Cutters for Navy Ships
in Pursuing SmuggIers.

President Harding has been asked
to use the coast guard permanently
instead of the Navy in Americas war
against rum.
This stood forth today as the LAT
est development in the snarI of pro
hibition questions now tangling gov
ernment departments, federal and
state authorities as we'll as interna-
tional relations of the United States.
The shot heard round the world.
which the coast guard cutter Seneca
fired from four-inch gun athwar;
the bows of a smuggler suspect off
New York, opened a battle royal
with the rum feet which has beer
so admittedly successful in severing
that fleets contact with shore, thai
the President has been asked to ''lef
the coast guard do it
See Money as Main COnSidera ton.
Money is the crux Of the question
Just now the coast guard will be able
TO continue it's operations against the
rum fleet until the end of tho fiscal
year, June 80. on account of past econo-
my in its regular work.
The proposal is this: Add another
$6.o0O.000 TO the appropriation "
sl1.0O0,000 now used by the coaSt
guard. and throw on the coast guard
the burden of drying up American
coastal waters inside the three-mie
limit.
The fiscal year, July l. will open
win Congress in adjournment. This
cofnplicates matters. The rum chas
ers vii be in some doubt how TO pro
ceed without knowing how 1nuch
money they will be able TO count OH
TOT the year. The coast guard ha>
other Jobs to perform. eating UP ar-
preparations with some speed.
VIII President Harding cousidet
tit current rum war Of such good
erect as to authorize. the coast guar,
I" proceed. with assurance that h.
VIII recommend to Congress ad
oltonal appropriation for the work
MS is knotty problem.
Ss.O00.0OO for Enforcement.
The whole prohibition enforcement
machine is only getting S9,000,000
annually TO dry up the nation. But
there seems to be growing by leaps
ana bounds a dry sentiment to throw
ali the money necessary into prohibi-
ton TO enforce the Eolstead act and
uphold the integrity of the eigh-
teenth amendment.
Vets are credited with having va
riously dared the prohibitinoists I"
ask for 5000 900, or any huge fig
ure. and with having proposed cur
tailment of the appropriation.
President Harding's avowed policy
or economy, which bids fair to end
the present fiscal year for Uncle Sam
with a huge balance, instea Of a
deficit. will. in the opinion Of some
students Of the situation, cause hIm
! 10 look long and hard at any request
Tor s6,00O,000 more if there Is a pos
sibility of getting the Navy to do the
same work for nothing more in an
preparations.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
BRANCH BANK CASE
IN SUPREME COURT
st. Louis Institution Opposes
State Decision Prohibiting
Subsidiaries.

The Supreme Court held a special
session today to hear argument in Il
case involving the right Of national
banks to establish branches and the
enforceability Of state laws prohibit
ing such branches.
The case reached the court on an ap-
peal by the First National Bank of St.
Louis to have reviewed the decision
of the Missouri courts upholding the
banks. Eleven states. Arkansas, Con-
necticut. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas. Minnesota, North Dakota South
Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin,
were permitted by the court, as
friends, to intervene and file briefs.
Ing branch banking. some Of the laws
also applying to state banks. They
expressed apprehension that branch
banking by national banks would
gradually result in the elimination of
state banks.
Deny State Authority.
The First National Bank insisted
In its argument that national banks
are not subject to restriction in the
matter of their rights and powers
oy state laws. but, being chartered
py the federal government, are in
such matters solely under the juris-
diction OF the federal government 1t
denied that the federal statutes pro-
hibited national banks from estab-
lishing branches. and asserted that
the acts of Congress comforting juris-
dlct1on upon state courts over actions
against national banking associa-
tions did not give the state or her
courts authority to interfere In mat
ters affecting the administration of
such Institutions
The federal, and not state laws
must govern in such matters as those
presented in the pending case, the
oank insisted. arguing that the con-
troller of the currency and not the
attorney general of state was the
oHlclal to determine when a national
bank had exceeded the authority con-
1erred upon it by its federal charter
The state of Missouri in its argu-
ment pointed out that George w.
Wickersham. as Attorney General of
the United States, had In 1911 deliy-
cred an opinion holding that national
banks were restricted to one building
in carrying on their banking bust
ness. Asserting that this was the la ST
official declaration by the federal
government on the subject. the state
declared that the controller Of the
currency, by declining to enforce his
circular, issued August Is, 1922, in
which 1t was announced that no ma
tionAl bank would be permitted 10
establish branches in states which
did not permit state banks to do so
had compelled 1t to take action in the
matter. Insisting that branch bank
ing by national banks was unauthor-
lied and illegal under federal bank
ing laws, the state contended that
in as much as such practice also was
prohibited under it's statutes, il had
the right to enforce the prohibition
The eleven intervening states as
serted in their brief that "branch
banking is thoroughly undesirable
that from a public standpoint it is OBJ
jectionable in every respect Z
that it is detrimental to the best in
terests Of the public and should bt
done away with
Evening star., 1923-05-07
ADEQUATE SERVICE
PROMISED CITIZENS
Commissioner Rudolph AS
sures Randle Highlands Bus
or Car Line Without Delay.

AS the climax to a lively hearing
before the Public Utilities Commission
today on the question of transporta-
Commissioner Rudolph, acting chair
man of the commission, declared the
commission proposes to give the resi-
dents of that locality adequate serv-
ice without further delay.
The commission heard debate for
nearly two hours as to whether the
East Washington Heights Traction
pany should operate a motor bus line
into the highlands.
For twenty years the first mention
ed company, headed by Col. A. f.
Randle, has operated single-track
short trolley line from the end of
the Capital Traction line, across the
Pennsylvania avenue bridge.
Second Line Offered.
Col. Randle petitioned to substitute
busses for the present trolley line,
which was followed by an offer from
the Capital Traction Company to run
a more extensive bus line into Randle
Highlands.
Dr. b. T. Woodward. president of
the Randle Highlands Citizens AZ
sociation. and DR.. George c. Haven
ner, of the Anacostia Citizens ASso-
citation, asked the commissioner to-
day to grant the bus privilege to the
Capital Traction Company.
Affairs took an unexpected turn
when Attorney Conrad H. Syme. for
the East Washington Heights Com
pany, withdraw Col. Randle's petition
10 change from trolley to bus.
Bus Line Not Desired.
Then followed John II. Hanna. vice
president of the Capital Traction
Company, with the statement that his
system did not care particularly
whether it got the bus line.
Col. Randle stated that his com
pany might later renew its applica-
tion for busses. 1t was this state
ment that drew from Commissioner
Rudolph the closing announcement
that the commission felt there had
been too much procrastination.
William Nick. Clayton presented a
petition from 800 residents of the
highlands, asking that no charge be
made for transfers between the Capt.
tai Traction cars and any bus line
that may be established.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
INDIANS SUE j. s.
FOR S750,0DQ,0DO
Sioux Tribe Alleges Lands
and Property Taken by
Government Years Ago.

The lawyers brief has been sub
stituted for the tomahawk by the
great Sioux Indian nation in its fight
to recover about s750.000,00O from
the federal government as payment,
with interest, for lands and property
taken from the Indians by the white
men years ago. OF the total demand
more than a half billion dollars repre-
sents interest.
The suit of the Sioux, said to in
volve the largest sum ever sought
through judicial action. was filed to-
day in the United States Court of
Claims, and specifies forty separate
ccounts.
The claims date back TO the days
of the gold rush in the Black Hills of
South Dakota; to the days of the
Deadwood Coach. Sitting Bull, Gen.
Custer and the Little Big Horn; Old
Fort Laramie. Wounded Knee and
other historic persons and occasions.
Indians Contention.
The Sioux contended that the
United States has left undone many
things provided for in the treaties of
1851 and 1868. that millions Of acres
of their tribal lands were taken from
them. their game slaughtered and
their ponies and tepees seized and
their funds spent improperly by the
government. They demand sl56. .QO0.-
200 and interest for the Black Hills
and surrounding territory. charging
that the United States. aware of that
areas wealth in gold. connived its
seizure by armed force in 1874 and
1875.
The suit of the Indians specifies a
price of 800 an acre for the gold
bearing land. on which one mine has
produced hundreds of millions of doll
lars worth of gold. For the timbered d
area not included in the Black Hills
forest reserve price of $50 an acre
will be asked
Demand An Accounting.
The Indians also demand an ac-
counting by the United States under
ali the treaties with the Sioux and
the acts of Congress affecting their
property. the charge being made that
the government has defaulted in its
written promises and failed to per-
form its solemn obligations.
About $4,000 individual claimants
are interested in the suit. according
intended through the action ito set
tie all the long standing disputes be-
tween the Sioux and the United
States" The attorneys estimated it
would take from five to ten years
to try the case in the Court of Claims
and the Supreme Court
Maj Ralph H. Case and Capt c. c.
Calhoun represented the Sioux nation
in the petition filed with the court
Victor Evans of this city, a friend
Of the Indians. has taken consider
able interest in the case.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
Sees Past and Present Linked
In ''HOnne, Sweet HOme'' House
Building already Dedicated, Tribute to
Author of Undying Song,> Held "Great
Ne,O Conception" of american Home.

The Home Sweet Home house being
erected in the park south OF the
Treasury combines the memory Of the
past and the achievements of the
present, declared Mrs. Thomas G..
Winter. president Of the General Fed
Grafton OF Women's Clubs here.
This is to be symbol Of the great
new conception of the American
home" she said at the close Of the
ceremonies in which the structure,
already standing two stories high five
days after the breaking OF ground,
was dedicated for the campaign for
better homes in America the week Of
June to 10.
The plan of the house was drawn
by Dom Barber, architect, from the
lines Of the old homestead on Long
Island which inspired John Howard
Payne century ago to write the un-
dying song, Home, Sweet Home"
One Hundredth Anniversary Date.
Tuesday will be the Tooth anniver-
sary Of the first public rendition Of
the famous lyric. Mr.. Barber pointed
out that the old lines were so fine
that this house will serve as model
OF the seven room type of house to
compare Win anything DelnS devised.
The construction, however, Is Of con-
crete blocks succeed. and the plumb
ing, heating and finish will represent
the best modern standards Of build
ing.
In spite of the phenomenal speed Of
construction, the house will be so
built as to stand being moved to an
other site where 1t will serve perma-
nently as a better homes exhibit un-
der the auspices Of the federation.
Building speed records are being
broken with the structure. The De-
partnent Of Agriculture will trans
plant vines. shrubs and trees to COM
plete the spirit of antiquity.
Combines Past and Present.
The interior will combine the past
and present with rooms and library
shelves picturing the things of 1923
and a model kitchen of 1923, devised
Evening star., 1923-05-07
CALLS COLORED WORKERS
Federal Union to Have Mass Meet
ing on Reclassif1cation.

A mass meeting OF colored employees
of the government in the District of
Columbia has been called by Federal
Employees Union. No. n. for next
Thursday evening at o'clock, at the
Lincoln Theater. 1915 L street north
west. The purpose, as announced by
the President, DR.. Benjamin A An
derson. Is to discuss the civil service
act.
James p. McKeon, secretary treas
urer, National Federation of Federal
Employees; Rev. Charles E. Stewart,
pastor, Metropolitan A. M. e. Church
James J. Forester. legislative repre-
sentative of railroad and steamship
clerks. and DR.. Benjamin A. Anderson,
president Local, No. II. National Fed
era ton Of Federal Employees, will speak
The committee in charge consists of
L. NJ. Pyles, Miss Elizabeth G. Cole and
James l.. Hawkins. Music and dancing
will form part Of the program.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
BRITAIN ExHAUSTS
EMIGRANT QUOTA

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 7.-Great Britain's
quota Of 77,342 emigrants to America
for the year ending June 80 is ex-
haus;ted. and the consular officers to-
day ceased issuing visas to those de-
string to settle in the United States.
This is the first time since the
American immigration law went Into
effect that the British quota has been
filled SO far in advance.
Many people are still waiting a
chance to emigrate. Those desiring
to go to America for a brief time
are not affected by the situation.
Evening star., 1923-05-07
WORK OF SAME GROUP.
Bogus Checks Received by Twelve
Boston Houses.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. May 7.-Bogus checks to
support buying orders for stocks
were received by at least twelve
brokerage houses here today. In only
two cases were the orders executed
however. In all cass the checks pur-
ported to be certified by banks for
$4,000. Secretary George A. Rich of
the Boston stock exchange said they
We're clearly the work OF the same
group.
The checks were drawn largely on
banks in Pittstield and North Adams
Mass. The orders executed here were
in New York Central and China stock
Other orders that were stopped when
the checks were found to be fraudu-
lent involved American woolen.
American Telephone and American
car and foundry stocks. 1t was es-
timated that twelve of the older
brokerage houses in the city re-
ceived an aggregate of $1s0.000 in
buying orders with fraudulent
checks.
Evening star., 1923-05-07

by the home economic experts Of the
department, including the latest la
bor-saving devices and equipment.
There will be library shelves with
books Of today and of 1923.
Mrs. Winter, calling attention to the
Importance Of the country's greatest
industry-home- -making-said:
"The home Is the unit out of which
society and government are formed.
and as the center Of it's administra-
ton women have the greatest posi-
tion possible. In their hands lies the
fundamental industry of the country,
and as such their work rises to great
economic Importance. 1t has been es-
timated that IL the work Of the house
wives Of America had to be paid for 1t
would total nearly ten billions year.
But, because, with all its labor, the
work Of the home-worker is still
more important from a spiritual point
of view, 1t asks no payment in wages.
1t does. however, ask recognition, in
order that 1t may be dignified in it's
own eyes and in the eyes of men, and
that 1t may be given the training and
the backing that the fundamental in
dustry Of the nation deserves"
Plea for better Homes.
Mrs. Winter has urged club women
throughout the country to participate
in the better homes campaign by pre-
pairing a demonstration I'm their own
community Already several hun
dreds Of towns and cities have joined
the movement and are preparing
houses temporarily loaned or rented
for the purpose, for demonstration
week, June to TO-
Vice President Coolidge and Secre-
taries Hoover. Davis and Wallace are
members Of the National Council Of
Better Homes in America; Secretary
Hoover is chairman, and Mrs. Will
liam Brown Meloney secretary.
The movement has the Endorsement
Of President Harding, who wrote. in
a. letter to Secretary Hoover: Not
only Is there the primary considera-
tion of advanced material comfort, but
the soundness of our social system
and the stability of our country are
greatly enhanced by the development
Of love for a home and the creation
of a home that can be loved"
Evening star., 1923-05-07
By tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mich, May IA tenn
pest in teapot" is the way Mrs
Florence Avery Barrigrand referred
to her millionaire father, created in
today to the furore her marriage a
week ago to Francis Barrigrand, ex
gardener to her millionaire father,
created in Detroit's most exclusive
social circle.
Mrs. Barrigrand, who. according to
her mother, has sacrificed her inheri-
tance and social position by her mar
rage to the former gardener, was
found in the kitchen of a $40 q week
fiat in the River Rouge district.
where her husband now is employed
as an iron worker.
A gingham apron covering her
smart brown sport suit, Mrs. Barri-
grand was preparing a meal over
two-burner gas stove.
We are perfectly happy" she said,