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Today Motor War Coming? Our Hopeful President Fast Funerals. Biting Its Own Hand. -By ARTHUR BRISBANE. I (Copyright. IMS.) A biff automobile war is com ing, apparently. Ford's program "to make things so cheap that people come and take them away from me," does not suit competitors. The International Harvester Company, which manufactures tractors, and General Motors, owners of the Sampson tractor, in addition to cutting tractor ^prices, are giving away plow* and harrows with the tractor. Ford's purchase of the Lin coln Company, which producea a very expensive car, is said to mean violent competition in an other direction. Such competition did not seem to be Henry Ford's idea a few weeks ago when he talked to the writer, mentioning his inten tion to bid eight millions for the Lincoln company to save Mr. Leland from failure and hi<s workers from idleness. Ford ?aid then that if it were neces sary to help the automobile business generally, he would cut down his own production of cars in order to compel the purchase of competitive But sometimes verbsjriendly beginnings end in a fight. President Harding, always hopeful, as a good American ahould be, says of the Wash ington conference: "The torches of understanding have been lighted; they ought to glow ?nd encircle the globe." So they are. But the late Cxar of Russia thought the ?ame after he had started the great peace enterprise at The Hague. Where is that czar BOW? Yon cannot change the char acters of wild animals or of I man by calling them together. Yon must change their natures before you can change anything Important. Barnum showed a lion and a lamb living peacefully in the \ aame cage. But he was careful (to keep that lion fall of meat And that particular exhibition made no difference to lions ^ and lambs in general. \v At French funerals horses at tached to hearse and carriages -move always at a very slow walk. Passers-by raise their bats?it ia very solemn. Frenchmen that came to America were amazed to see funerals trotting briskly through the streets, out to the cemetery, and said: "These people live fast?they are even in a hurry to get to the grave." What would the French say of the Denver chauffeur fined for driving his hears-; thirty miles an hour through crowded city streets? The excus? was: "Jud;'e, I had t*> make two funerals, and I was trying to get to the second on time." Perhaps if we reallv kiyaw what iappens after death, we shou'd all be in a great hurry to gut to the grave, and reach the other side and whatever awaits ua there. Perhaps NOT. In Berlin because of a great strike, streets are dark at night, theaters close, five hun dred thousand walk to their work through snow and slush every day. When the machinery we call civilization breaks down in one place, it breaks down all over?like an automobile. Dissatisfied workers found no way of solving their problems except by attacking and incon ( yeniencing other workers. The prosperous do not suffer. They ride and eat a3 usual. One working group on strike makes other groups walk or d0 with out work. Our combined intelligence has Dot carried us very far and la bor, enraged, acts like the asy lum idiot that bites his own hand. The ancient American Bible Society in existence for a hun dred years, yields to the high cost of production, and will Bibles no more. Here after it will distribute Bibles, but manufacture Bibles no more. If fathers and mothers knew the value of the Bible to their children the American Bible factory would go on. Regardless of belief there is no book more important than j ill6, ^P^ally to chil dren. The original King James ?ersion, not doctored or im proved edition, is the best pos sible education in the English language. Failure to read the Bible is responsible for much of the ?hemin>hlw Lngliah Med today. gjbflhtePflftWgg mumM ?? < ' ??? WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1922. THREE CENTS EVERYWHERE. # Divorce Ring Tries Camouflage Experts Who Declare Theater Defective First Picture of Army And Navy Engineers Who Reported Disaster DAPPER DAN" IN MOVE SLAYING, NOW IN MIAMI LOVE NOTES TO TAYLOR ARE FOUND Mabel Normand Wrote Letters. Actress Still Prostrated After Collapse at Funeral. Bjr International Xnri gervlrc. NKW YORK. Ft*. fc?"Dapper Uiu" CuMins, whose uiiic wiw mentioned in ronnetcl.xi \rttb William Desmond Taylor murder in Lam AiutIm, In under surveli lanrr today In Miami, Ha., afford ing to a telegram received by the i detective bureau here. Collin*, an ex-convict, wan nought by New York police on a charge of ?hooting John H. Keid, a silk manu facturer, on May 15 liyjf. He is with Miss I.lla Wiley, detained for a while an a witness in the Keid shooting. MIAMI, Ha., Feb. 8.?Authori ties here today said they had been asked to watch for "Dapper Dan" , Collins, alleged gambler, who is wanted In Los Angeles for ?|ue* tioning in connatclon with the mur der there of William Desmond Tay lor. Police declared Collins has not been placed under arrest, but inti mated they had received Informa tion that Collins is here now. By International News flervlre. LOS ANGELES. Feb. 8.?While the attention of officers working on the William Desmond Taylor murder mystery today was cen tered on unearthing hitherto veiled secrets in the life of the slain director and women widely known in the film world, there was still great activity at police headquarters regarding the search for Edward I<. Sands, former sec retary-valet of the victim. Clues On Sands Kept Secret. Reports were current that officers detailed to investigate the Sands angle of the mystery made progress during the night by developing clues tending to show that the missing man may have had business rela tions with two and possibly three women of the cinema world. No hint was given to newspapermen what these relations were. It was suld officials or tne district attorney's office are taking an ac-1 tive interest in the investigation today. This was regarded as indi cating an early grand Jury probe of the case, together with possibly a direct charge against Sands by the district attorney. ? ? A soiled handkerchief, Bearing the initial "S", was found near Taylor's body when it was picked up last Thursday morning, according to a statement from detectives today. Po lice believe the handkerchief was dropped by the murderer, either be fore the fatal shot was fired or dur-' Ing the assassin's hasty exit from the house. Mabel Normand's Letters Returned. A new mystifying fact was thrown into the case when detectives re ported that the letters written by Mabel Normand to Taylor liad been returned to the actress after being missing for several days. Report was made to the police the day after the director's body was found that a bundle of letters, penned to the mur dered man by the popular star, had mysteriously disappeared from the Taylor home. Actress Prostrated After Collapse. While Miss Normand protested to officers that there was nothing of importance In the missives, the police were eager to obtain possession of the missing letters and to solve the mystery of their disappearance from the home of Ihe murdered man. The actress stated that she desired them only because of certain endear'ng terms contained In them, which she feared might be misconstrued in the light of developments In the sensa tional murder. At the Normand residence today denial was made by representatives | (OontiniMd on P*g? t. Column I) Dr. Hubert Work To Succeed Hays in Cabinet Dr. Hubert Work, of Colo rado, will succeed Will H. Hays, as Postmaster General after March 4, when the latter re tires to go into the movies, ac cording to word circulated to day amont Republican political leaders. Dr. Work is now First Assistant Posmaster General. President Harding is said to have decided upon Dr. Work as a mark of recognition for his services as Hays' assistant. During much of the time that Hay\ has been absent from WasMbigton, Dr. Work has car ried ok the work of the depart ment And is thoroughly familiar with its problems. Republican leaders in close tovch with the White House said today the ^election was npt "final," hot. that unless something unforeseen turns up between now and March 4, Dr. Work's nomination will go to the Senate as soon as the resig nation of Hays is received at the White House. CORN LIQUOR IS SEIZED IN NORTHWEST APARTMENT The apartment of- Louis H. Jeff ries, colored Janitor at the Kenvon apartments. 1317 Kenyon street northwest, was raided last night by police and internal revenue agents, who seised three gallons of corn liquor. Jeffries is charged with il legal possession. He was released under |1.500 bond. While Sergeant McCormlck and Policeman Wheeler, of the Tenth precinct, were busy raiding tlw place much excitement prevailed among the tenants of the apartment house. MOTHER OF TEN IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HUSBAND CLEVELAND, Ohio. Feb. 8.?Mrs. Mary Brezlna, mother of ten chil dren, was shot four times and killed in her home here shortly before noon today. Her husband, James Brezlna, is held by pol.ee charged with the murder. "I had an argument with my wife and fired one shot," Brezina told po lice officers, who found him in a highly excited state near his home, where the body of his wife was later found. SEC. HUGHES MAY SEEK VACATION IN BERMUDAS Secretary of State Hughes prob ably will take a two weeks' vaca tion to rest up from his arduous three months' labors during the arms conference. It was stated at the State Department today. Secretary Hughes mav go to Bermuda for a short rest and visit with members of ffls family who are wintering there, although his plans are at present unsettled. f Divorce Kings Try Concealing Activities by Filing Sui^s In That County. By HARVEY L COBB. iCopyright nil. by Th* VMklutoi Tlmas fompu; ) . Attempts to cover up the whole Kale divorce operations of the Little , Reno of the East are being made by members of the divorce ring through the filing of divorce suits | outside of Alexandria. Previous to and following The ; Times expose hundreds of divorce I cases have been filed in Arlington | county court house by Little Reno | lawyers. I Members of the ring, it is charged, were warned by the Alex andria Bar Association, more than a year ago that the divorce busi ness in that city was growing: to alarming proportions. Filed in Arlington. Rather than give up the lucrative practice which ha* netted them hun dreds of thousands of dollars, the di vorce lawyers began filing a portion of their cases in Arlington county, which it was expected would "cover up" to a certain extent the magni tude of the.r operations. Cases have also been filed in other nearby counties in the Slate, it is declared, by members of the ring in an effort to scatter their activities. Whether the suits for divorce are filed in Alexandra, Arlington county or any other jurisdiction in Virginia is immaterial to members of the ring, insofar as the fee they receive is concerned. Approximately 450 suits for di vorces were filed in Arlington county last year, of which considerable more than half were filed by members of the divorce ring of Little Reno of the East. I taxed on the per capita divorce rate of the I'nited State*, compiled by the United States Government, Arllntgon county ranks third in the nnmher of divorces secured, when compared with other counties of the country. A total of 480 cases were filed In Arlington county from February 7, 1920, to yesterday?a period of one year?and of this number all but thirty were for divorce actions, show ing that little of the court's business ?s devoted to any kind of litigation other than divorce practice. During the previous year approxl (Contlnued on Page 2, Column 6.) "How Ireland Will. Be Governed" BY MICHAEL COLLINS Youthful Idol of the Emerald Isle IN SheTBgghlifttgngrimeii Sunday Morning In this article, the second of a series he is writing for The Washington Times, Michael Collins tells of the secret negotiation* between the emissaries of Ireland and Lloyd George. He reveals for the first time just exactly how Ireland was made a free state and discusses the plans for keeping his country free for all tine. ? ?Photo by Time* Staff Photographer First photograph of the committee of army and navy engineer* who, after an investigation of the Knickerbocker disaster, told the coroner's jury yesterday that tfiey found the theater was poorly constructed in twenty-one points. In the picture, left to right, bottom row, Col. William Kelly, chief engineer of the Federal Parks Commission, who read the committee's report to the jury, and Commander George A. McKay, of the civil engineer corps of the Navjr. *^op row, left to right, R. F. Bessey, civil engineering aid in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, and Major Lunsford E. Oliver, corps of engineers, T T?? UaJ 'A ran V TYRONE RAIDED Blf ARMED MEN; MANYARE SHOT Nine Prominent Unionists Kid naped During Fight Between Police and Civilians. By New* Serrice. LONDON, Feb. 8. ? Spectacular raid* by armed men In the Irish counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh, during which nine prominent Union ists were kidnaped, followed by a fight between police and civilians, in which many were shot, were reported in a Central News dispatch from Bel fast this afternoon. Disorder* In I'lster. These were the most serious dis-i orders in Ireland since the armistice. It was pointed out that they took place in Ulster and not upon the territory of the Irish Free State. The armed bands of raiders came from County Longford. Among the prisoners taken by them were Anketell Moutray, grand master of the Tyrone Lodge of Orangemen, and Ivan Carson, former sheriff of Fermanagh, who was badly wounded. When the raiders started on their return Journey they were chased by the police. After a running battle, eleven of the armed men were cap tured, as well as three automobiles laden with bombs and rifles. Police Party Ambushed. A police party was ambushed near Newton-Butler, on the Great North ern railway, in County Fermanagh. There was heavy firing and the casualties are said to have been se vere. A number of houses were raided by republicans, who carried off Orange residents as prisoners. (The Dublin government contends that the Ulster counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh, as well as other northern territory, should be an nexed t6 the Irish Free State on the ground that the people are Catho lics in religion and Sinn Fein In their political sympathies.) FORBES ASKS $17,000,000 FOR CARE OF DISABLED Appropriation of $17,000,000 to carry out the Government's program of hospitalisation for disabled world war veterans was urged today before the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds by Col. Charles F. Forbes, director of the Veterans' Bureau. Forbes told the committee that In addition to the $17,000,000 appropri ation proposed In the pending Lang ley bill an additional appropriation probably would be required to build a hnegltal fee Inaane veterana. Course of Balloting for Pope Given by Rome Paper Bj Intetjjiatlonal >rm RerrlM. ROME, Feb. 8.?The course of the voting in seven ballots that led to the election of Pope Pius XI was outlined as follows by the newspaper II Tempore: "This must be taken with reserve, but it is reported in Vatican circles that Cardinals Gasparri and Vanutelli on the first four ballots concentrated the votes of the Italian groups upon Cardinal Maffi, despite j sharp opposition from the op j position group,' led by Cardinal ! Merry del Val. , "After the fourth ballot j (Saturday evening), Cardinals j Gasparri, Vanutelli, and Maffi held a conference and decided on the fifth ballot to swing all their strength to Cardinal i Ratti. "The sixth ballot, on Sunday | afternoon, while not enough to I elect, assured Cardinal Ratti's I j selection. He was elected by j the necessary two-third's major ity on the seventh ballot, Mon day morning." CAPTURED GERMAN SPIES NOT SHOT, SAYS CAPTAIN German spleii, caught in American lines during the world war, were not summarily executed because they "were worth more alive than dend," 'it was testified today by Capt. F. E. Edwards, Ft. Sill, Okla., appear ing before the Watson investigating committee of the Senate. "They were treated with great care, said Edwards, who appeared as a cha^cter witness for George Yar borough, an ex-soldier of Koanoke, Ala., who had previously testified he saw an American soldier shot with out trial in France. Yarborough was a soldier of "splendid character," Edwards said. Similar testimony as to Yarborough'* character was given by Howard A Marsh, of Winchester, Conn., and Joseph O'Kane, of El Paso, Tex. MARINES WITHDRAWAL FROM HAITI REQUESTED A loan of $14,000,000 which he charged New York banking Inter ests were seeking to force upon Haiti would Wopper rivet" Ameri can occupation of the West Indian Republic, Dr. Pierre Hudicourt, a llult.an lawyer testified today be fore the Senate Committee Investi gating <4>nditlons (n Haiti and ^anto Domingo. Hudlcoffrt, shaking alternately In English and French. protested vehemently against the continued presence of American Marinas in Haiti. U. S.TRANSPORT REPORTER AFIRE AND ABANDONED Northern Pacific Has Third Mishap in Two Years?Four Men Missing. NEW YORK, Feb. 8.?The for mer United States Army trans^ port Northern Pacific. which nailed from Hoboken last night with a crew of seventy men, IS burning to day 100 miles south of Sandy Hook. Her crew has aliandortod her. All her crew except four wore ac counted for In late dispatches to naval officials here. The four inen who have not been picked up by other vessels are re ported to be drifting in a life boat. "Twenty-two members ship's com pany on board Transportation, five others on board Herbert G. Wylie, accounting for all hands in crew," read a wireless message from the t vessel Transportation at 9:15 a. m. "Four Sun shipyard people still miss ing. Transportation now standing by. "Vessel burning throughout her length and impossible to board at this time." The message also said the North ern Pacific was drifting in a south easterly direction. The report that the twenty-two members of the crew saved accounted for the entire crew was denied by an official of the Admiral Line, who said there were seventy aboard. Another official said the estimate of the num ber in the crew was pure "guess work" and that no one knew the exact number. Known as "Hoodoo Ship." The army transport Northern Pacific, burning at sea 100 miles south of Sandy Hook, is known in army and navy circles as the "hoo doo ship" of the government serv ice. The Northern Pacific was put in Government service In the war. Her Virst accident occurred wheft as a ?aval transport she was returning fKom Brest on January 1, 1919. 8he ?<?ot ashore off Fire Island, and her passengers were removed with diffi culty. The navy experienced other minor mishaps with the vessel, and during the summer of 1919 she was turned over to the army for service In bring ing home soldiers from France On May 10, 1920, she went ashore In San Juan hay, Cuba, with (Jon. John J. Pershing aboard. Again sha was gotten off with considerable difficulty Today's accident is the third serious mishap in two years. Dispatches to the Navy T>epart ment Indicated that this mishap may be her last, as the fire is reported I to have gained considerable head TiEIT TO HILT WORK MADE BY INSPECTOR Maj. E. G. Curtis Knew of Subtle Revision of Plans After City O. IC.'d Them. A threat was made by Major E. G. Curtis, former building inspec tor, to stop work on the construc tion of the Knickerbocker Theatci because the builders were not pro ceeding according to plans submit ted to the building office, it wa: brought out today at the corner' inquiry into the collapse of t^> roof of the theater. D. C. Made Threats. Major Curtis, now dead, rpade th> following report to the building in spector on November 27. 1916. "Concrete base dimensions per plan. Notified foreman that if step* were not taken at once to notify office 9t change in plans, work would be stopped." This report waa presented to ?*?' Coroner's Jury by John RKehie, chlrt clerk of the building Inspector s of fice. In ir number of reports pre ceding this one, there is no hint of any orders to notify the building i office of a change in plans. The reports presented by Ritchie did not I bring out the causes for Curtis' threat to stop building. Ritchie had with him all papers in the building office with reference | to the Knickerbocker. The papers disclosed that A. K. Selden and Major E. G. Curtia were the inspectors as signed to the building. Ritchie presented to (he jury a number of written reports, which he said Curtis filed daily after his in spection of the progress of the Knickerbocker. In some instance* Ritchie could not read Curtis' writ ing, and in some instances many words were eliminated. Watched Builders. Here la the way Ritchie read some I of the reports of Curtis: "November IS, 1916,. Notified foreman as to building. ? ? ? Will be on the alert. ? ? ? Musi take precedence of all other work." "October 19, 1916 (This report made by Selden). Grading lot and building shed. "October 25 (Selden). Excavating." Admitting that while he was com putlng engineer of the District he had approved the plans and specif ications for the construction of the. Knickerbocker. Thomas L?. Costigan, now superintendent of street clean ing, declared that in doing so he had found that the plans met with the building regukitions of the Dis trict. ? Approved Materials Also. Costigan also declared on the wit ness stand that he had approved the materials used In the construction work, such as cement, brick, steel, and iron. "The plans were in accordance with the building regulations," said Mr. Costigan, "If they were changed or if materials different from those called for in the specifi cations were usi-d, the inspectors from the building Inspector's office should have discovered the dis crepancies. That was his business, and in making dally reports to the chief inspector of the building In spector's office, any such alleged dis crepanciea In construction of the i theater should have been reported." To Call Inspectors. After Costigan had left the stand, District Attorney Peyton Gordon and Dr. J. Itamsey Nevitt, District coroner, who ia in charge of the In quest, sent Detectives Pratt and Mullin in search of the inspectors who daily kept In contact with the work of construction of the theater. Costigan stated that a gencril layout of till the plans and speci fications were handed to him for computation by the then building Inspector. He said he founl that all the building regulations had been reasoned with, and that he found no reason for disapproving them. A permit for the construc tion of the theater, he naid, was then given. "Who represented the District Building Inspector's office in see ing that the contractors and build ers constructed the theater in ac cordance with the specifications and plans that you had approved?" asked District Attorney Gordon. "At that time, ax far as I re call, 'the Inspectors were Mr. Sel den. Major Curtis, Mr. Proctor. Mr. Hunt, Mr. Kern and Mr. Neldo maskl. Which one of two of thnae Inspectors were detailed to the Knickerbocker .lob I do not know." "What computation of the plans did you make?" asked Mr. Gordon. "I checked on the structural (m turea. U?e general ajrangwaeat of