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DON’T PATCH OLD SHIPS; BUILD PLANES AND “SUBS,” FULLAM SAM
ADVOCATES
STRONG
NAVY
Day of Dreadnaughts Almost
Gone, Writes Rear Admiral.
Cites World War.
By REAR ADMIRAL
W. F. FULLAM, U. S. N„ Retired,
One of the foremost naval
authorities. t
In the following exclusive ar
ticle for The Washington Times,
Rear Admiral W. F. Fullam,
U. S. N., retired, criticizes Sec
retary of the Navy Denby's.re
quest for $6,500,000 to modern
ize some of the old naval vessels,
pointing out that it would be far
wiser to spend the money for
airplanes and submarines.
The proposition to expend
$30,000,000 or more to increase
the gun-range and to improve
the above-water and under-water
protection of our present battle
ships in order that they may the
better resist torpedoes, mines, and
bombs, presents many interesting
and serious problems. This policy
should not be approved until it. is
thoroughly analyzed and its
soundhess demonstrated beyond
question. Let us briefly ex
amine it.
Futility of Patching.
In the first place the plan to
spend so much money on the ships
that have been declared to be the
• back-bone” of our navy is tanta
mount to an admission of the fol
lowing facts:
I—That the dreadnaught is very
vulnerable to air and submarine
3—That the air-plane, used in
controlling gun fire, has in
creased the practicable range of
Mg guns.
3 That the upper decks are
too week to resist heavy bombs
and the plunging fire of heavy
guns.
4 That the under-water hull
cannot, at present, resist modern
torpedoes, heavy mines, and heavy
bombs that explode as depth bombs
below water.
.s—That these weaknesses in the
Dreadnaught force us to the un
fortunate expedients of loading
the ships down with more deck .
armor, and adding “blisters” and
“bulges” under water, as a pro
tection for the ship’s hull.
ft—As a result of these changes,
the ships will sink deeper in the
water and their speed will be re
duced by the defensive projecting
“blisters" attached below the
water line.
Battleships Weaknesses.
All these weaknesses in the Dread
naught have been known for years.
Attention has been called to them
repeatedly by progressive officers at
home and abroad. It was demon
strated in testimony before the
Naval Committees of Congress two
years ago. and verified by the bomb
ing of the German ships, that the
dreadnaught as now designed is so
weak that its years, if not its days,
are numbered. That submarines
and mines in the world war had
circumscribed the battleship’s use
fulness and that air forces, as re
cently developed, had jeopardized its
very existence.
Despite these powerful arraign
ments, the political and official
forces that blocked the 1916 build
ing program turned a deaf ’ ear,
pooh-poohed submarines and air
forces, and would have pushed the
battleships and battle cruisers to
completion had it not been, most
fortunately, for the decrees of the
Washington conference that happily
stopped the battleship race.
It is not enough to say that some
of these ships, had they been com
pleted, would have been provided
with these new offensive and de
fensive features. The best naval
minds in the world today are of
the opinion that, before these ships
are patched up. and before the new
British dreadnaughts can be built,
the power of the torpedo; the mine,
the bomb, and the attacking skill
of the submarine and airplane will
be so increased as to wreck the
new construction as it has the old
model! The attack will again
overpower the defense.
Nullifying the Conference.
No sooner had the Washington
conference adjourned than we be
gan to hear the meanings and
groanings and calamity predictions
of the 1916» six-year-old-out-of-date
building-program advocates. They
were silenced, within limits, by the
fact that the present Administra
tion very properly considers the
treaties to be both righteous and
wise.
But their conservative behind-the
times mental processes which blind
them to the inevitable future
domination of air and submarine
forces tn naval warfare still act
to shackle their minds. It may be
said, therefore, that this project
to attempt to patch up our battle
ships in a vain effort to resuscitate
the defunct 1916 program by some
kind of naval blood transfusion.
To be sure there has been some
gain in the discussion. Conservative
minds have been forced, against
their will, to admit the value of
submarine and air forces. The
Navy Department and Secretary
Hughes also have stressed our need
of sea going, long range submarines,
light cruisers, airplane carriers and
airplanes. This is most fortunate,
for the navy is sadly in need of
these types. Without them the
even w ith a hundred battle
ships, would be powerless. It
would be a weak navy.
What Is a Strong Navy?
The writer believes in a strong
Bavy. The United States must
have a strong navy. But_ what is
a strong navy? That is the ques-
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tlon. Patching up the slow
moving-ice-wagon elements will not
make it strong. We do not make
it strong by first making it
weaker! We must keep the battle
ships we now have, but we must
add the new weapons that we now
lack swift, powerful, deadly
weapons that have put the dread
nought between two such danger
ous fires that its proponents now
propose to root it over and armor
its bottom!
The fact that Eangland may pur
sue this patching policy is no
reason for our doing so. We must
lead, not follow, in naval develop
ment. Admiral Sir Percy Scott
once said that Sir John Fisher led
the German admiralty, previous to
tfie world war, into a vain and
foolish battleship race— and that
this blind • blunder by the Germans
won the war for the allies! And
this fact is admitted today.
Had Germany refused to enter
the dreadnought race, and de
veloped and built a large submarine
fleet, as well as a powerful air
force in 1910 to 1914, she would
have won the war hands down de
spite the battleship- fleets of Eng
land, France, Italy, Japan, and the
United States. Suppose Germany
had had 100 submarines Instead qf
thirty in 1914?
Ask Jellicoe and Shns what they
think about it! Remember the first
statement Jellicoe made to Sims in
the spring of 1917, when Sims
reached London! We can’t go on
like this much longer.”
The United States must not be led
by the nose as stupidly as was
Germany, and with the same re
sult—to lose the next war! We
must think and act for ourselves —
and we must think and act right.
We must look ahead not back.
An Up-to-Date Navy.
There is one more impprtant
point—the financial. Will Congress
and the people give us more mil
lions to put patches on weak bat
tleships and at the same time give
us the millions we really need for
cruisers, submarines and air forces?
Will they do both? If not. which
will they most likely do? Will they
readily agree to spend money on
the dying naval gladiajors of the
past, or will they prefer to add to
the modern and powerful elements
of a 1923 fighting navy?
We may perhaps add three or
four miles to the range of the bat
tleship guns, making it fifteen
miles, or we may develop the air
plane carrier, whose gup, the air
plane, will have a range of 100
miles, four times as great as the
sixteen-inch gun! And the carrier
can have a speed from five to .ten
miles greater than the patched
battleships! Which?
MARY PICKFORD ABANDONS
PLANS TO FILM “FAUST”
NEW YORK, Feb. 10—For, the
second time in two months, after
making elaborate preparations for
■ filming important works of litera
ture, Mary Pickford has called a
halt to production activities and
given up the subject.
The version of “Faust,” which
she announced she would make
after dropping plans for “Dorothy
Vernon of Haddon Hall” a month
ago, will not be made.
By casting aside “Faust,” Miss
Pickford forfeits thousands of dol
lars in expense to which she has
gone in concentrating her directing
and casting forces in her California
plant. Miss Pickford’s reasons for
leaving off with “Faust” is under
stood to concern the scenario pos
sibilities, or rather requirements, of
the play's plot.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES * • The National Daily • • SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1923.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Purnell,
the former being high priest of
the House of David. Two Detroit
girls have sued him for SBOO,OOO,
alleging immoral practices under
guise of religion.
■LETO
15 SENSATION
INPARIS
“Forbidden Fruit” Deals With
Ages-old Discussion of
Social Issues.
By ALICE LANGELIER,
International News Service.
PARIS, Feb. 10. “forbidden
Fruit,” now being given at the
Odeon Theater under the direction
of Gemier, is probably the most
talked-of play of the season.
Gustave Tery, the ’ author, and
the editor of L’Ouvre, has had the
courage to discuss in public the
problem of illegitimate maternity.
He attempts to t'jll all those who
are preaching the repopulation of
France that their efforts are ut
terly useless so long as they hold
up to shame and public scorn the
child-mother.
He lays special stress upon the
fact that France needs children,
and then pleads for the respect of
the mother, even if she is not mar
ried. One must hold the child sa
cred, whether it be natural or not.
“On the tree of life,” he says,
“there is no forbidden fruit.”
Scene of the Action.
The action takes place in 1934,
after the country, already short of
men, has been swept by another
great war.
On the Cote d’Azur, a well-to-do
gentleman learns that his daughter,
a graduate of the university, in a
moment of folly, has abandoned
herself to a major In the medical
corps and is about to become a
mother. Faithful to his theories,
th» father proudly supports the
right of his daughter to dispose of
her own life, while the girl’s aunt
is shocked and ashamed.
The father hurries to the priest
of the parish, who lends an ear to
the story, but not his sanction.
However, all trouble is avoided, for
the young doctor, who was believed
lost in battle, returns, and all ends
well.
With the scene laid in 1934 in
the course of a. new war, the au
thor takes his opportunity to com
pare the morals of the French
bourgoisle with those of the primi
tive peoples who are fighting un
der the French flag.
Attacked and Defeuded.
Ther§ Is an aristocratic officer
from Madagascar, a childish Sene
galese, who seduces the servant of
the he usehold in question, together
with a Chinese with exquisite po
liteness, all of whom bring forth
novel ideas attacking some and fa
voring others, not sparing the
press.
It is essentially a problem play,
but gay and full of humor. “The
work of an intellectual anarchist,
who defends the rights of nature
and the individual,” says Noziere
in L’Avenlr.
During the entre’actes there are
lively discussions, sometimes a bit
spirited, but full of good fun. ”It’s
an obsc©pe idea which means the
destruction of the family,” say
some, "and it means also the disap
pearance of the honest woman.”
Others criticize lightly or approve,
but all is done in good spirit, for it
is M good play .which sets one to
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BOYS DRUNK AT
SCHOOL; ODIZ
IS BEGUN
Philadelphia Teachers Chase
Student With Bottle on
Hip Through Halls.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9 —Direc
tor Davis, of the prohibition en
forcement bureau, has ordered a
force of investigators to probe re
ports of Intoxication in three Phila
delphia public schools.
Declarations by principals that
it is not unusual to find ten or
twelve-year-old boys and girls
coming to classes half stupeified
by liquor,* brought action by*
Davis.
Efforts will be made by the pro
hibition agents to clean up ‘moon
shining” in homes near the schools.
It is “home brew,” the school teach
ers declared, that is responsible
for the use of liquor by youngsters.
According to the principal of the
Nebinger school, an average of
two children a term report for
classes “stupidly drunk.”
“If it were not tnat narcotic
drugs are too expensive,” said a
teacher at the Campbell school, “I
would say that dope is being sold
to some of the children. I cannot
prove this, but I have my suspi
cions.”
On January 19 a boy was found
at the Nebinger school entertaining
a group of playmates In the school
yard with strange antics. He was
taken into the building, where he
promptly went to sleep.
When he awoke he would not
admit having been drinking and
told his teacher that he ate a “big
apple,” which made him “sick and
dizzy.” Further questioning re
vealed that he had stopped in at
his grandmother's on the way to
school and thst she had given him
a drink of red wine.
About the same date another boy
reported to the same school in what
the teachers say was a highly in
toxicated condition. He capered
through the hall until he. was cor
nered by teachers, who found a
bottle of liquor in his hip pocket.
He said he had got it at his sis
ter’s wedding the night before. His
condition was such that he missed
two days’ attendance.
At the Campbell school at one
time Intoxication was so common,
it is said, that it was “hardly no
ticed.” In the rear of the school
were several shacks, into which the
children were seen to go during
the noon recess. The principal no
tified the police, who raided the
places and sent one whiskey vendor
to prison.
“The trouble with the whole af
fair is the lack of co-operation on
the part of the parents.” said a
teacher at this school. “They see
no harm In making and drinking
wine, and the children are allowed
to sample it along with their par
ents. If we can get them 'to
drink milk perhaps they won’t
wgnt the wine. The liquor made in
this district isn’t all light wine by
any means. Often a father, a
mother and ten children and a still
are huddled in two rooms, and
what can the school authorities do
to counteract such environment?
The teachers do the best they can
to instruct the children in the
advantages of sobriety and decent
living, but often the work of
months is destroyed by one family
row.”
SONG WRITER’S WIDOW
DENIES NEGLECTING HIM
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Paul
Barnes, widow of Paul Barnes, song
writer, who arrived on the President
Adams, of the United States line
yesterday, denied reports that she
had neglected her husband after he
became blind.
Barnes died in the State Insane
Asylum at Middletown, N. Y. Mrs.
Barnes said she cared for him in the
asylum, and before he went there,
and that he was buried with her two
sons in New Hampshire, not in pot
ters field, as some newspapers had
said.
The President Adams, with 130
passengers, was two days late in
docking, because of continued heavy
gales on the voyage.
HANGS FROM WINDOW
TO ESCAPE RAIDERS
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.—In an
effort to escape Arrest by Govern
ment narcotic agents, Joseph Kelly
hung by his finger tips from a win
dow on the second floor of his home.
More than SI,OOO worth of* drugs
were seized in the house.
Agents traced several addicts to
Kelly’s home and broke in when the
addicts went away. They found Mrs.
Kelly in bed and apparently the only
person at home. However, they
searched the house, and finally
Agent Roberts saw fingers on the
window sill in the front room. He
opened the window and pulled Kelly
Inside. After that Roberts discovered
a panel in the wall, forced it and the
drugs fell at his feet.
Kelly and his wife were arrested.
SLEEPING SICKNESS IS
FATAL TO GIRL PUPIL
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10—After
an illness of eight weeks of sleep
ing sickness, Miss Alice L. Dudley,
eighteen, daughter of John C. Dud
ley, Moorestown, N. J., died yester
day.
Miss Dudley, who was a student
at Swarthmore College, had been in
the University Hospital since De
cember 8. Her death followed one
of the most baffling sleeping sick
ness cases Philadelphia physicians
have treated.
SLAYER BATTLE LOSES
FIGHT TO AVOID CHAIR
NEW YORK. Feb. 10.—After a
two-day inquiry Into his sanity.
Judge Stickel, at. Newark, yesterday
held that William Battle, negro
slayer of Mrs. Elinor Brigham, In her
home at Orange, was sane at the
time of the murder.
Battle has been sentenced to die
next week at Trenton. He must now
yay the penalty.
America Yet An Ideal, McLafferty
Says; To Be Attained By Work
California Congressman Points
Out Jhat the United States
Is Not a Democracy, as Gen
erally Conceived, But a Re
public, the Constitution of
Which, Framed Behind Clos
ed Doors, Still Is the Highest
Expression of Government
Achieved to Date.
By GEORGE FRANKLIN.
Declaring himself to be pro
gressive but not “a progressive,”
James Henry MacLafferty, Repre
sentative from the Sixth District
of California, today sounded a
warning against prevailing ten
dencies while discussing the prob
lems confronting the American
people.
A business man in Congress,
who never participated in politics
previous to his election to fill the
unexpired term of the late Repre
sentative John A. Elston, Repre
sentative MacLafferty has won
the position of being as able a
debater and as gifted an orator
as can be found among the Rep
resentatives.
Not a Democracy Here.
Pointing to the general impres
sion that we are living under a
democracy, Representative MacLaf
ferty said.
“We are living not under a
democracy but a democracy within
the limits of a republic. They are
two very- different conditions. It
is not generally understood, but the
American Constitution was not a
popularly constructed document. It
was devised and framed by a body
of men who may truthfully be
likened to an economic conference.
After it was promulgated it had to
be adopted by each of the subscrib
ing. or confederated, States. The
work was done behind closed doors
and it is known that so brilliant a
patriot as Patrick Henry was placed
in the position of being forced to
announce his determination to ac
cept and stand by it when it was
attacked by certain factions.
“Today we are facing one of the
most serious periods in the coun
try’s history. This exists in the
ignorance of the Constitution by
many men and women, accepted as
true blooded Americans. America
1h by no means a material expres
sion, as they assume. It is purely
an ideal and the highest that the
human mind has been able of con
ceiving in the world’s history. Illit
eracy is bad enough, but there is
an .ignorance more dangerbus than
illiteracy, and that is what I am
indicating. You see it on the floor
of the House many times. There
you can find men whose patriotism
cannot be challenged, fighting to
gjecure the very things which must
ipevitably result in tearing down
our Constitution and setting up in
place of it the ideals reflected by
the bolshevists. They simply do
not understand what America really
means, and what is guaranteed
under the safeguards provided by
the Constitution.” •
Emphasizes Gravity.
Emphasizing the gravity of the
situation developing as a result of
the tendency of the influence in
dicated by him. Representative Mac-
Lafferty declared that meeting the
demands created by the European
war was easy as compared with the
educational campaign which must
be conducted vigorously to prevent
the disaster he foresaw in a no
distant future.
“I decided to enter the Con
gressional race when I realized that
the House of Representatives was
top heavy with lawyers. Out of the
entire body there were but fifty
members who could be rated as
business men. On a business-man
in-Congress campaign I won but
with the largest majority ever given
any candidate in my district. I car
ried all but three or foub districts
and tied In two of them. During
the campaign I averaged sortie six
speeches each week. They were all
devoted to business conditions and
not to politics. The result at the
polls showed how the Sixth Cali
fornia district stood on the principle
that business men were needed
in Congress.”
Turning to the issues constantly
coming up for consideration in Con
gress and often receiving the sup
port of ardent adherents. Represen
tative MacLafferty stated that many
of them were old issues, settled long
ago, hut revived and presented In
a new guise. Many of them, he
said, were of internal origin.
Quotes Lincoln.
“When Lincoln was running for
tho legislative In Illinois he stated
that the combined armies of Europe
under the leadership of a Napoleon
could never penetrate far enough
into America for the soldiers’ to
drink the waters of the Ohio river,
but that still greater dangers were
to be feared, arising from within,
and that is just what is taking
place,” declared Representative Mac-
Lafferty. “Do not mistake me. This
results from the presence here of
thousands of foreigners who have
never been able to understand the
American idea, and are continually
urging the adoption of some inno
vation they brought over with them,
and have been nursing ever since.
There is where the danger lies. It
means that a nation-wide educa
tional campaign is needed, devoted
to the single aim of teaching the
ignorant American what America
really is.
“America is purely an ideal, an
ideal form of Government, and were
a colony of Americans to settle in
Africa they would take the Amer
ican ideal with them, if they prop
erly understand it.
“There is another misapprehen
sion which acts like a drag and
that is that America has already
attained her destiny. America has
not ceased to be progressive and
can never cease to be such and re
tain a vistage of the underlying
principle for which she stood when
she came into existence.”
Previous to enuring Congress
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California
W Congressman
j who believes
America is
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W situation and
4 W. Xj urges an
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(ONG. JAMES HENRY MacLAFFERTY.
TIMBER WOLF'S
CRIES WIN HIS
FREEDOM
Boys Stoning Makes Savage
of Animal Captured In
Wilds And Tamed.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 10—‘Tyke,’
a full-blooded and superb specimen ’
iof the monarch of the snow-covered
plains, regardless of the distance or
change in Uving, is going back to
his home in Manitoba.
After dreary days and months
spent in a pen which has been his
city home six months, this gray
coated nomad of the out-of-doors is
soon to be shipped to the un
bounded fields of the northland by
his owner, Dr. Ralph Flint.
A hunting party in the Canadian
northwest last winter captured
“Tyke” when he was still but a
few days old. For many weeks the
party was beyond the reach of
civilization, and the young timber
wolf was petted and fondled until it
.became tame, and lost, apparently,
all trace of a fondness for freedom.
Six months ago “Tyke” arrived in
this city. For a time, and because
of his gentleness, the timber wolf
was the pet of the neighborhood;
Four weeks ago, according to Dr.
Flint, he was compelled to leave
the city, and during his absence
the even tenor of the wolf’s animal
ways was disturbed by boys living
in the neighborhood.
Stones and e sticks were hurled,'
said Dr. Flint,* and soon Came the
dismal howl in the stillness of the
.night, the cry of a dumb animal for
the life of his kind.
Back to that life he returns to
day, in a crate in a baggage car,
but with the knowledge, perhaps,
that he soon will be free.
LOUISIANA EDUCATOR
WARNS OF KU KLUX KLAN
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 10.—
T. H. Harris. State superintendent
of public education, yesterday ad
dressed to parish school boards and
parish superintendents a letter call
ing upon them to do everything in
their power to prevent occurrences
similar to those of recent date in
Jackson and Winn parishes.
The fleeing of the principal of a
Jackson parish high school after
the Ku Klux Klan had ordered him
to leave, has just brought to light
a similar incident in Winn parish,
where a teacher was driven out by
the klan.
WOMAN AND GRANDSON, 5,
KILLED BY COAL TRUCK
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10.—Mrs.
Marie Walters, a widow, and her
grandson, John Walters, five years
old, were crushed to death by a
loaded five-ton coal truck as they
were crossing a street on their way
to a grocery.
George J. Sima, driver of the
truck, was arrested on a charge of
reckless driving. He had no driver’s
license, though he told the police
he had been granted one, but neg
lected to carry it with him.
following his election in California,
Representative MacLarfferty was for
years actively engaged in business.
He is interested largely in the lead
ing paper houses of the Pacific
coast and is the owner of the larg
est automobile insurance business
in California. He is accepted as an
authority on the Japanese situa
tion. As a fraternity man he is
actively identified with the masonic
order, the Elks, the Moose, the
Lions, the Native Sons of the
Golden West and Is a member of
the United Commercial Travelers
and of the Travelers’ Protective
Association. .
HUPUUB’S PtU
BfItNGSHINI
Ml
Colorado Legislature Believed
He Painted Picture of
World Too Black.
DENVER, Feb. 10.—The Colorado
' house of representatives .yesterday
adopted a resolution of censure, ex
t pressing displeasure and disagree
ment with the sentiments expressed
yesterday in the opening prayer of
Chaplain J. R. Kader.
Parts of the prayer that drew
direct fire recited:
“Our courts are corrupt; God has
been expelled from our churches;
our pulpits are filled with essayists;
our boys and girls are golnff to the
dogs; our laboring men are going to
work with empty pails while our
farmers starve and the middlemen
wax fat on exorbitant prices; • * •
our banks are bursting with money.**
The chaplain began with the ex
clamation: “Oh, Lord, how long is
this condition to endure?” and end
ing with the supplication that God
guide the lawmakers to the end that
“greed might be overcome, and jus
tice done among men.”
Members of the house voiced dis
agreement with the burden of the
prayer soon after its conclusion, and
after a period of heated debate, ruled
that the subject be considered in ex
ecutive session. Several hours* con
sideration o* the plea, with specta
tors and nßvspaper men excluded,
resulted in the resolution, which was
ordered printed in the house journal.
A committee was appointed to in
form the chaplain of the action.
Representative Cook, one-time
clergyman, opened debate on the
prayer with the statement that he
was amazed at the wording.
“I do not believe the Almighty is
especially concerned by these little
verbal wireless bulletins with which
our chaplain is annoying Him,” he
said.
ACTRESS ASKS $200,000 .
IN HEART BALM SUIT
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Through
papers filed in the Supreme Court
it was learned that John R. Dewar,
a member of a well-known New
Jersey family, is being sued by
Miss Mary R. Slagel, an actress,
for $200,000 damages for alleged
breach of promise to marry her.
The defendant has entered a de
nial of the charges. In her com
plaint Miss Slagel states that she
met Dewar in 1914 when both were
students at Pennsburg, Pa., that in
December of that year the defend
ant made his first proposal, which
was repeated at various times dur
ing the following years.
Miss Slagel states that after De
war returned from the war in 1919
she received a letter from his
mother telling her he was engaged
to another girl, whom he later mar
ried. '
WEALTHY MAN IS HELD
ON BURGLARY CHARGES
BALTIMORE, Feb. 10.—Said to be
the owner of several apartment
houses in New York and to have
over $25,000 in banks in various
cities, Albert Humphries, alias John
Perkins, sixty-five, showman, was
held in $2,000 bail today on charges
of stealing mirrors and electrical
fixtures from a vacant house. The
stolen articles, according to detec
tives, were found where Humphries
has been living.
Humphries, with a Government
mail pouch slung across his back,
was arrested near the National Ex
change Bank. A miscellaneous as
sortment of articles, from tulip
bulbs to an overcoat, were found tn
the bag. The overcoat was iden
tified as the property of Sidney
S. Weik | ,
SHIP BILL Fl
MENACE fl
DEBT PL®
—■ - -
pected to Use Ft® /
For Filibuster
By KENNETH C. ®
International News H
Into the bewildering rjs
imbroglio of the Sena®
thrust the Anglo-Ar®
agreement, passed b®
yesterday by a sul®
jority.
Hear Mellon ®
The measure imrr < ®
to the Finance
had been considering®
posal for two days ®
® '
tive meeting today ®
to hear Secretary o®
Mellon, who has been®
full details of the deb®
Senator Smoot (Rep.) ®
her of the commissi®
testify.
Because of the Adn®
vocable majority j n cf
believed the debt an®
be reported out short®
today, but no move ■
bring it up for di®
Senate floor until f ‘T
progress has been tefe - I.
shipping bill. ®
Ship Suhsid®
If it is found by fl
tains no headwa®
against the • omt® ■
■ -■ mW a®
measure, it was r® '
to call up the re®
about the middle o®
virtually signing t'O
f'
lative bill, which 1®
last message to Co »
From a reliable®
learned today, a 1 ‘
ment” had boon ef®
publican and Dem®
to allow the debt ® ' •<.'/
dofinitel sidet ®
While many Derg '
Republicans, will &
fight against the ®
a. matter of for«
else, there is not® •
onism to the bill ®
it comes up for |
to a poll announc® cfjw
tion lieutenants. ®
more than twenty®
against the refund®
The perplexing®
inained however. ■ - SW
hill could be force®
- ■
than three weeks, | ‘
subsidy are expet®
Smoot-Burton hill ® .
their announced fl®
to death" the mere®
If, for instance, ®
is laid aside next t®
the debt measure,®
sidered a likely de'®
was every indieftti®
lieve opponents w®
refunding amendm® / ■?',
adequately” for po®
or two weeks, thu®
to a minimum the ®
for considering s®
course, then, woul®
evident the filibust®
subsidy, in the o®
Democratic leaders. ■
Whatever efforts ®
amend the debt p®
lieved. are doomed ■
the start. The A®
opposed to any cha®
enough strength to ®
sition in this res® -
lieved.
"BIC SISTERS” |
SIX LOTS IN I
Through the will efl f/S
stine Cotheal Smith,®
who directed that t -yy
of her estate shoul® <
charity, the Big Si® ,®|
tion of this city, car®
sion of square 800, s® 1
ington, consisting of® -
street, adjoining t® y
School. A deed was® *
Sarah V. Gantly, e® 'J®
tary, for that prop® CkJ
The Big Sisters ex®
land and use the /Si
to purchase land .. Li
home for delinquei®
value of the proper!®
at $3,200. I
‘‘DAREDEVIIFoM
CONVICTED C®
NEW YORK. Fe® ,
Carone. of Mt.
have twice jumped <® yl
lyn Bridge for the ®
convicted of assault 1® .T
county court yesterda® -V
It was charged he ® ®
Glascone, the inventor® i
during an altercation. 1
Gold S®
Used Cal
ARE SAFES
They Are Certain
It is cheaper to fl
certain than sorry®
See Them T<xfay ■
Sterrett & Fleming, Ini
Champlairt It
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